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From: gouvea@zariski.harvard.edu (Fernando Gouvea)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: OS/2 Boot Disk
Date: 16 Oct 92 03:13:55 GMT
Article-I.D.: husc3.1992Oct15.231355.16434
Distribution: na
Organization: Colby College Dept. of Math/CS

In article <67804@cup.portal.com> Lynlee@cup.portal.com (Linda Stefny Baum) writes:
>
>It sounds like so much trouble.. Why cant 2 floppies be used.. One 1.2meg
>in A: and a 1.44meg in B: drive.. Put both flops in your system and boot..
>Once A: flop is full, cant it look to B: for the rest of the needed files
>as well as chkdsk and TinyEd... 
>
>This thought came from the keyboard of a True Blue 'End User', so dont
>laugh if there is a very obvious reason you techie types know about
>that I dont.. ;)

Well, I hope there isn't, because that's how I've been doing it... It
requires a little tinkering: putting the b: drive on your path and libpath,
for example. But it works fine. I've suggested to the author os se20boot
that he add this option to his program, in fact.




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From: feustel@netcom.com (David Feustel)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: XGA-2 vs XGA - Programming Extensions?
Date: 13 Oct 92 23:53:55 GMT
Organization: DAFCO: OS/2 Software Support & Consulting

What are the programming extensions to XGA to get to XGA2?
-- 
Dave Feustel N9MYI <feustel@netcom.com>
 
[.sig on vacation]
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: parry@yoyo.cc.monash.edu.au (Tom J Parry)
Subject: Re: GCC PM Programming docs
Originator: parry@yoyo.cc.monash.edu.au
Organization: Monash University, Melb., Australia.
Date: Sun, 11 Oct 1992 09:07:02 GMT

lruppert@rodan.acs.syr.edu (Your worst nightmare...) writes:
: Does anyone know if documentation on making PM applications with GCC for OS/2
: exists?  Particularly hints in converting from X display to PM display.  
: Eventually, years and years ahead, when I know a decent amount of C, I'd like
: to have xv for OS/2 2.0.  I figured I could get a start on attempting to do it
: now.
: 
: Thanks,
: Louis Ruppert
: lruppert@rodan.acs.syr.edu

Ha - stop dreaming ! The only PD info you'll get on this are the PM header 
files that come with the GCC distribution. For API Information,you could try
te IBM OS/2 Technical Reference Library (provided you're reasonably rich),
or just wait until some third party release a "Building OS/2 Apps" style book.

Personally, I'm hoping Borland4OS2 will come with an online (if no paper)
API reference.


-- 
Tom J Parry.
Your reality is a figment of my imagination.
From: reisert@sttng.mlo.dec.com (Jim Reisert)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: DCF/2 ship date posponed to ??
Date: 7 Oct 92 17:10:06 GMT
Article-I.D.: nntpd.1992Oct7.171006.11279
Reply-To: reisert@sttng.mlo.dec.com (Jim Reisert)
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation -- Maynard, MA


Did you see this notice?

From: "robert eidswick" <robert.eidswick@execnet.com>
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2
Subject: os/2 disk compression
Date: 4 Oct 92 16:06:27 EST
Organization: Executive Networks Information

Update of information    Wednesday, September 30, 1992

We will begin shipping to our backlog of overnight orders
on Monday, October 5, 1992. New orders will take not more
than 2 (two) weeks to ship at first, due to the backlog.
Afterwards, we will be able to ship the same day.

Thank you for your patience and understanding.

Proportional Software Corporation has released the DCF/2
Disk Compression Facility for IBM's' OS/2 Version 2.0.

  In response to the needs of IBM OS/2 users, Proportional
Software has introduced the first dynamic disk compression
technology for OS/2 Version 2.0. The DCF/2, or Disk
Compression Facility/2 allows users to increase their disk
storage without affecting applications software or system
behaviour.

  On-the-fly disk compression using the DCF/2 results in 35%
to 70% additional disk space, depending on the types of
information on the disk and the level of compression selected.

  The Proportional Software DCF/2 uses native OS/2 file
structures to compress standard file information into less
physical space -- resulting in making a hard disk appear
bigger than it really is!

  DCF/2 compression compares favourably with the other
programs, like Stacker(TM), Superstor(TM), and Doubledisk(TM)
that do similiar disk compression for DOS.

  Proportional Software is introducing the DCF/2 at $99.95
through December 31, 1992. The U. S. list price is $129.95.
We have a special price of $64.98 (50% of list for IBM
employees(for personal use, only) if they fax the order with a
copy of their IBM badge.

  Contact Herb Smith at 1-800-666-4672 or by
FAX at 1-800-955-4672, for further information. Callers from
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  If you prefer to write, our address is---

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  Also, please mention my name when you call, as I get credit
  for each sale that has it or Herb Smith On it.  thank you.
                Robert Eidswick.
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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: des@inmos.co.uk (David Shepherd)
Subject: Re: Windows NT for about $500...
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL5
Date: Thu, 8 Oct 92 12:00:31 BST

Linus Kan (lkan@uhunix.uhcc.Hawaii.Edu) wrote:
: I don't think so--it's just a gimmick!  That was the estimated price
: range so that tempted users like me would eventually buy OS/2.
: Microsoft says that--do you think they'll actually sell NT for
: that price?  Think about it--if you were a sales strategist at 
: Microsoft, how much would you suggest NT sell for so as to 
: maintain total monopoly on Intel based systems?  $500 for NT is
: quite ridiculous--it's all just a (brillant) gimmick and a false
: 'add'.

if it is quite ridiculous then MicroSoft are going to great lengths
to perpetuate the idea that NT is *NOT* for everyone.

in an extended interview with david cutler (NT chief designer) in
the current (UK) PCW magazine we cites an advantage of NT over
OS/2 as being the fact that NT does not need to address the
market handled by Windows and can just concentrate on the high end
market while OS/2 has to address both. he goes on to make it clear
that in his view the future for general PCs is DOS+Windows and
*NOT* NT.

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From: dmatiske@larson.helios.nd.edu (David Matiskella)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: CEG, XGA, ATI
Date: 15 Oct 92 04:33:58 GMT
Followup-To: comp.os.os2.misc
Organization: University of Notre Dame

In article <61157@mimsy.umd.edu>, pr@umiacs.umd.edu (Jesus Rodriguez)
wrote:
> 
> 
> Since I have been seeing a lot about video (XGA-2, etc) lately I figure I'd go
> ahead and post one of my own questions.
> 
> 1)	Have any of you heard of or know anything about Continuous Edge Graphics(CEG)?
> 
> 2)	Do you know where it is today or where it is going?
> 
> 3)	Does XGA-2 do any anti-aliasing (smoothes out jaggies) like the ATI does?
> 
> Jesus M. Rodriguez
> pr@umiacs.umd.edu
	If you are refering to the chip everybody thought was great about a year
and a half ago, it is all but dead. It did produce nice images but it
wasn't compatible with high resoultion displays. Also the Hicolor chips are
much easier to program.
	On XGA, how programable is the coprocessor?
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: goyal@utdallas.edu (Mohit K. Goyal)
Subject: Re: Why XGA-2?
Organization: Univ. of Texas at Dallas
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1992 18:26:29 GMT

>>I'm curious:  why all the big fuss about XGA-2?  I agree that IBM should be 
>>commended for once more introducing a new standard, this time with real
>>functionality, bu the specs of the board just don't excite me.  Given that
>>ATI will be shipping its Ultra Plus and Pro series, which do 800x600 in 24
>>bits, 1024x768 in 65K and 1280x1024 in 256, what are the real advantages of
>>XGA?  As a current owner of an ATI Ultra, I find 1024x768x256 too limiting
>>for OS/2, especially since IBM still has not implemented dynamic pallette
>>adjustment [it's pretty sad when my WIN-OS2 session has a much prettier
>>background than OS/2, not to mention file viewing and such].  To my 
>>knowledge, the ATI boards won't be that terribly more expensive than the XGA,
>>and give you putatively faster performance with more colors.
>
>Why is XGA-2 important?
>(1) Support for up to eight adapters/monitors in a single system.
>(2) An IBM standard, just like VGA.  Meaning you won't have to muck
>about trying to find a driver.
>(3) Bus mastering.  Apparently even on the AT bus.
>(4) Fully extensible.  It is the "last" graphics standard -- vendors
>are free to add additional modes as hardware advances.  Even the
>coprocessor can be replaced.  All without breaking the standard.
>(5) Intelligent querying of monitor/adapter capabilities.  The
>software can respond depending on what modes are available on a given
>machine.
>(6) A VESA standard, meaning it has widespread industry support.
>(7) It is actually _less_ expensive than the ATI cards.
>(8) Much faster than XGA(1).  (We need to wait on the benchmarks -- it
>isn't clear ATI will be faster now.)
>(9) Full (and standard) customization for your monitor.
>
As far as OS/2 2.0 is concerned:

(1) IBM is going to release 32-bit XGA-2 drivers for OS/2 2.0 in a week
or so.  They might even be included in the Service Pack.
(2) ATI has no plans to create 32-bit OS/2 2.0 drivers that make use of
the Mach32 chip in their 2 new cards.  They are more than happy that the
16-bit drivers they have created will run perfectly under the 32-bit GRE.
(of course, they won't be as fast as 32-bit drivers)

Also, since *IBM* is making the XGA-2 drivers, *I* feel confident that the
drivers will be high-quality, and well...be high-quality...

All the drivers I have seen so far are not that good.  They don't have the
same font selection, they don't have the same "look" as the OS/2 VGA
driver.

IBM is also making 32-bit ATI Wonder, Paradise, 8514/A, Cirrus, Western
Digital drivers...

I just don't think we'll see 32-bit drivers for the Mach32 chip for a
loooong time.

Finally, about colors, I don't know of any "normal" user who needs more
than 256 colors at any resolution.  The only thing I would do with more
than 256 colors is look at cool .gifs, that is if I could find a .gif
with more than 256 colors!

I don't know of any program that supports more than 256 colors, of course
I don't do any serious DTP or anything like that...



Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: thomasr@cpqhou.compaq.com (Thomas Rush)
Subject: Re: OS/2 Security
Reply-To: thomasr@cpqhou.UUCP (Thomas Rush)
Organization: Compaq Computer Corporation
Date: Wed, 07 Oct 92 13:51:37 GMT

In article <JFXwRB1w164w@uuisis.isis.org> evanc@uuisis.isis.org (Evan Champion) writes:
>Is there something to make it so that without a password (or login/password) 
>you can't do anything on a machine?  I know that you can do it with Lan 
>Server if you set local security on, but I don't want to use Lan Server.  
>Any ideas?

Check the vendor when you buy -- most Compaq desktops have a power-on
password option that would seem to meet your needs.  Other vendors
may offer a similar feature.




thomas rush				uunet!cpqhou!thomasr
compaq computer corporation		their employee,
deep in the hearth of texas		not their opinions.
From: v099nlxv@ubvmsb.cc.buffalo.edu (PHYPAPA)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Archie - Where is it?
Date: 12 Oct 92 20:03:00 GMT
Organization: University at Buffalo
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41

to use Archie, but have not been able to get through. Does anybody know
of another site that I can Telnet to, to usrchie for looking up
files?
thanks

Jerry
From: mrice@mozart.ColumbiaSC.NCR.COM (Mark W. Rice)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: Information about video drivers for OS/2 2.0...
Date: 15 Oct 92 20:45:08 GMT
Organization: Your Organization Here

In article <719058360.F00126@monly.wlink.nl.wlink.nl>, Luca.Polo@f1.n100.z60.wlink.nl (Luca Polo) writes:
|> Organization: Universita' di Padova, Italia
|> 
|> I agree, too. I get my PC in May, and I was quite happy when I saw trident
|> drivers for OS/2 2.0. But now it seems that nobody has interest in developing
|> new releases, and I'm stuck of slow 16 colors screens (I make a heavy use
|> of seamless, since switching from a full-screen session to another is
|> annoying; moreover, 256-color drivers have some bugs that leave garbage on
|> screen when you switch from OS/2 to WINOS2 - this is under 800x600).
|> If Trident won't release new drivers within a reasonable amount of time, I
|> think I'll change my video board... how about that 65536-color, 2 MB NCR
|> board ? :-)
|> 					Luca Polo

Is there support for NCR boards?  I'd like one.  I happen to be very
bias to them.  :-)

-- 
-----
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From: jammin@hogbbs.scol.pa.us (Ben Barrett)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: WPS Lockup
Keywords: lockup, password
Date: Fri, 09 Oct 92 22:40:37 EDT
Organization: The Heart of Gold BBS, Lemont PA

sangercd@nextnet.csus.edu (Carl D. Sanger) writes:

> In article <woRcsB2w165w@hogbbs.scol.pa.us> jammin@hogbbs.scol.pa.us (Ben Bar
> >wmammel@hoss.unl.edu (Bill Mammel) writes:
> >
> >> Does any one know how to change the password that is associated with
> >> Lockup Now?  I tried Lockup when I got my GA, forgot the password, install
> >> the beta over the existing system.  I have tried looking through the
> >> INI files but can't find it.
> >> 
> >> Any ideas are appreciated.
> >> 
> >> --
> >> Bill Mammel
> >> Department of Chemical Engineering
> >> University of Nebraska-Lincoln
> >
> >
> >but it's cool, it saves my screen - i set the screen blank to 1 min, the 
> >least amt possible, so now when i leave my comp, i just lockup....
> >
> >                                        Ben Barrett
> 
> The only problem is if you incorrectly type the password, you have to wait
> for the timeout period (just 1 minute in the above case) before OS/2 will
> accept another password attempt.  So if you plan to the Lockup as a screen
> blanker only, pick a simple password.  I use the space bar.
> 
> 
> -- 
> Carl Sanger				|| sangercd@csus.edu
> California State University, Sacramento

dunno whatcha talkin about - if i lockup, then leave for more than 1 min:
i type in my pw say incorrectly, so then immediately, i can retype it.
as soon as the screen is cleared, to black with the floating lock icon, 
whenever you first press a key, it goes to your lockup bmp (default 
lighthouse).
so the only reason i'd have to wait a full minute to try to crrect my pw 
mistake would be if i was so neurotic i wanted to type my first character 
when the screen was blanked.
What i mean is this:
you can type the password ANYTIME the system is "lockup"ed, whether it's 
when the screen  displaying the bitmap, or when it is blanked (it will go 
to the picture immediately anyway!!!!!!!!)

sorry, but what you said makes NO sense to me.
maybe you system is infected with some new OS/2 HPFS viri.
who knows.
i know, however, that what i explained works fer me :-)
jammin@hogbbs.scol.pa.us
        Ben Barrett
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: ekl@fics.uucp
Subject: Re: Service Pack Update from IBM (LONG)
Organization: Kvam data as
Date: Sat, 10 Oct 1992 16:55:39 GMT

In article <1992Oct9.154307.17622@njitgw.njit.edu> dic5340@hertz.njit.edu (David Charlap) writes:
>
>Someone decided to flame me on this, so I'm asking now:  Are there any
>new features in the 32-bit GRE, or is it just a 32-bit version of the
>16-bit GRE.  I was under the impression that no new APIs will be added
>with this package.
>-- 
>David Charlap         |"there aren't 50,000 things for which it's worth writing
>dic5340@hertz.njit.edu| software; and the computer industry doesn't have enough
>----------------------+ programmers to create that much good software.
>Therefore, most of it must be worthless" -- Boris Beizer "The Frozen Keyboard"

I am pretty sure that the 32-bit GRE will implement palette management,
whereas the 16-bit GRE does not.

Eirik
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Organization: University of Maryland at Baltimore
Date: Wednesday, 14 Oct 1992 14:29:04 EST
From: Thomas Permutt <TPERMUTT@UMAB.BITNET>
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject:    Win-OS2 in specific DOS session

Does anyone know for a fact that Win-OS2 will or will not run in a specific
DOS session?  I have been unable to make it do so.  Should I tweak more
settings or give up?  The point is to be able to run Windows software with
nonstandard hardware (like CD-ROM).

Tom Permutt
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: jdolske@andy.bgsu.edu (justin dolske)
Subject: Re: Soundcard's and OS/2 2.0
Organization: Bowling Green State University B.G., Oh.
Distribution: usa
Date: Fri, 16 Oct 1992 02:45:07 GMT

dic5340@hertz.njit.edu (David Charlap) writes:

> I attempted to install it and its demo programs.  None worked.  First,
> I had to install emx version 0.8e, since it only wants to run on the
> latest version of emx.dll.  Once I did that, the apps all terminated

   What's so wrong with requiring the latest version of something? Are there
known incompatabilities with 0.8e?

> with an "unable to open device number" error.  Did the author remember
> that OS/2 SB users will probably have their card set to IRQ-5 instead
> of IRQ-7?
> 
> Anyhow, I'm going to try a few more things, but right now it appears
> to be quite useless.

   Like, perhaps, reading the author's docs? :) Take a look at SBOS2.DOC,
included in the same archive as the driver. The driver can take some options:

...SBOS2.SYS IRQx ADDRxxx [SBREG]

  I'm using it right now [386/40 with SB 1.5], and it's quite nice. The Tracker
program is really nice. No flashy graphics, but very clean. I'd even say one of
the best .MOD player's I've heard!
 
Justin
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From: parry@yoyo.cc.monash.edu.au (Tom J Parry)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: What is in the Technical Reference Library?
Date: 12 Oct 92 11:33:12 GMT
Organization: Monash University, Melb., Australia.
Originator: parry@yoyo.cc.monash.edu.au

David Charlap (dic5340@hertz.njit.edu) wrote:
> 
> It contains 17 volumes of stuff on how to program OS/2.  Included is a
> complete CP reference, a complete PM reference, a complete SOM
> reference, a complete REXX reference, CodePage templates, and other
> books on programming OS/2. 
> 
> Many of these are included (in electronic form) in the OS/2 2.0
> toolkit in the form of information (*.INF) files that you can use with
> the VIEW.EXE utility.

How much overlap is there between the Technical Library and the Developers
Toolkit? I am considering buying the Developers Workbench (10G4333) which
is the Toolkit and Workframe [I don't need a C compiler, got GNU] and also
the Technical Library. 

I don't want to spend a fortune on the Library to find it's all in the
Toolkit in .INF format and the expense is the paper!

-- 
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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: hafting@Lise.Unit.NO (Helge Hafting)
Subject: Re: Multiple Desktops
Organization: Norwegian Institute of Technology
Date: Wed, 7 Oct 92 19:36:43 GMT

In article <FAGER.32.718389000@gribb.hsr.no>, FAGER@gribb.hsr.no (Fagerland, Svein      94/96) writes:
 > I have read earlier about muliple desktops, but cant seem to remember how 
 > this was done....
 > 
 > Im running the OS/2 2.01 beta.
 > 
 > Cant one change between the different desktops by clikking icons ?
 > This wouls be great since we are two people using the same machine !
 > 
 > Svein Fagerland
 > Leder INFO
 > Informatikk Ingenirenes interesse-organisasjon
 > Hyskolesenteret i Rogaland
 > NORWAY

You can come close to having two (or more) desktops.
Just make two folders that covers the entire screen.  Open the settings for
each folder and check the checkbox marked "workspace". ("Arbeidsomrde"  if
you are using the norwegian version.)
Each user should put a shadow of any desktop object they ever will use
in their personal folder.  When someone want to use the machine, he will
bring up his folder, and use it as a desktop.  If the other user needs to do
something quick, the first one may minimize his folder.  This will hide all his 
running programs.  When user two is finished, number one can bring up his folder 
again and continue with all his programs exactly where he left them. 
If user two is taking over the machine for a longer period of time, it is better
to close the programs before closing the workspace folder.
The open/closed state of folders inside a workspace folder will be preserved
even if the machine is booted.
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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: Questions about OS/2 beta
From: Steve.Withers@bbs.actrix.gen.nz
Date: Fri, 9 Oct 1992 11:29:00 GMT
Organization: Actrix Information Exchange

In article <15980@umd5.umd.edu> adhir@cygnus.umd.edu (Alok Dhir) writes:
> My OS/2 setup is working great now.  I was able to use my third floppy drive
> under it (and can't under DOS :-> ) and everything works.  I am running the
> beta.  I am having one problem though, I can't say for sure when it started
> (although I'd venture to guess that it started with the installation of the
> beta with the 32bit GRE and Win3.1).  The problem is that my system crashes
> with some sort of miscellaneous crash anytime I try to access a floppy drive.
> Sometimes Trap 0002 (yes yes, I know, that's a memory problem), sometimes
> Trap 0008, sometimes 000d.  This only happens after some sort of prolonged
> floppy access...reading a dir or copying a file or two can usually be
> completed without problems.  I have yet to complete a format operation.  This
> NEVER used to happen before the beta (of course, I rarely use floppies).  I
> am reluctant to accept the possibility that I have memory errors because
> EVERYTHING is working perfectly in OS/2.  I never crash unless I try to
> use the floppy drives...and even then, I have a 50/50 chance of surviving
> the access.  I tried reducing the speed of my memory access through my
> Ami EISA bios from 'Slower' to 'Slowest', but this did not correct the
> problem.  (I have a 486/50...you must use 'Slower' or 'Slowest' or you can't
> boot).  
> 
> Any suggestions?  This is really frustrating...
> 

I crashed this evening for the first time while using TE/2 for comms at the
same time I was doing some diskcopying. It was also formatting the flopppies
as they were new. The system just locked solid - the keyboard was dead. This
is the first time in 2 weeks of running the beta - on three machines - that i
have had this problem. 
 
It may have been something completely unrelated. I have no reason for assuming
that it was OS/2's fault........
 
I copy/format a dozen diskettes - minimum - each day for customers. I usually
use the OS/2 machines because the can do two disks at once and do it in a
single pass. I have never had any problems before - GA or beta.  
 
Steve
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