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From: nickw@syma.sussex.ac.uk (Nick Watkins)
Subject: Re: Bernoulli drives and OS/2.
Organization: University of Sussex
Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 15:34:34 GMT

From article <1992Dec18.190816.546@mksol.dseg.ti.com>, by mccall@mksol.dseg.ti.com (fred j mccall 575-3539):
> In <1992Dec18.002215.21333@netcom.com> feustel@netcom.com (David Feustel) writes:
> 
>>I don't understand the comment that Bernoulli drives don't work with
>>os/2 without drivers. I read/wrote Bernoulli drives in an MS DOS
>>session for quite a while before I got the Iomega drivers for os/2 and
>>was able to use the drives in os/2 sessions. 
> 
> I think the trick to this is that you have to use AFDISK to format the
> Bernoullis under DOS instead of the Iomega software.  It formats them
> slightly smaller (42 vice 44 MB), but on my system they seem to access
> a LOT faster.  That could just be the difference in the I/O speed of
> the adapter, though.
However the ASPIDISK s/w driver will only read above format and not 
the Bernoilli format. Anybody got the Bernoulli shareware library on
an AFDISK Bernoulli 44 ?

Nick
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> Fred.McCall@dseg.ti.com - I don't speak for others and they don't speak for me.
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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: dwl@watson.ibm.com (David W. Levine)
Subject: Re: 8514 seamless windows
Date: Sat, 26 Dec 1992 00:37:43 GMT
Distribution: comp.os.os2.misc
Reply-To: dwl@watson.ibm.com 
Disclaimer: This posting represents the poster's views, not necessarily those of IBM
Organization: IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center

In article <SCASTILL.92Dec24094545@tesla.nmsu.edu>, scastill@nmsu.edu
(Steve Castillo) writes:
|> 
|> I follow this newsgroup regularly and have not seen anything recently
|> on 8514 seamless windows drivers.  Does anybody know when and if IBM
|> is going to provide 8514 seamless windows drivers?  I have an ATI
|> Graphics Ultra.  Since it appears that ATI is dragging their heels
|> about writing drivers for the Ultra card it appears that the next best
|> hope is for 8514 drivers.  I have now come to the conclusion that my
|> purchase of the (expensive) ATI card was a big mistake.  The Trident
|> is much cheaper and has good OS/2 seamless windows drivers written for it.
|> --
|> *****************************************************************
|> Steve Castillo
|> New Mexico State University
|> Las Cruces, NM
|> 
|> scastill@nmsu.edu
|> (505)646-3214

Yes, IBM is working on 8514/A drivers. These should be full 32 bit
seamless drivers. As to when, I don't have a date I can give you yet,
but they are moving along. 

David W. Levine --  dwl@watson.ibm.com  -- IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center
                   -- My Opinions, IBM's hardware. -- 
"Fanaticism consists in redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your
aim" - George Santayana
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: Why not standard VESA
From: <BJT105@psuvm.psu.edu>
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 14:40:07 EST
Distribution: world
Organization: Penn State University

The two seperate issues with VESA are:

1.  Can OS/2 provide virtual VESA services to DOS apps?
2.  Can OS/2 use VESA real-mode calls to implement a PM driver or BVHSVGA?

The answer to #1 is yes, as Bert Tyler points out.  It hasn't been done yet,
but it is possible.  What has held it up is the fact that most boards provide
BIOS support or a TSR which can be used under OS/2 anyway.  So, to have OS/2
provide the service is not a must-have.  But it might be done anyway.

Issue #2 is what my previous post was about .. where I make the case that
it doesn't sound feasible (but I don't know enough to be certain).

Bernie
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: triley@orac.holonet.net (Mr. Thomas A.D. Riley)
Subject: GA+SP WPS Bug -- Help! --
Organization: HoloNet National Internet Access BBS: 510-704-1058/modem
Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1993 00:31:02 GMT

The problem first arose in a recently downloaded GIF,
then after some aborted attempts at increasing Video
resolution it occured on all objects. I reinstalled
the service pack hoping this may help but it didn't.

Any one have any better ideas?
From: kbeal@amber (Ken Beal)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: leave OS/2 running - the monitor too?
Date: 23 Dec 92 18:03:59 GMT
Organization: Harris CSD, Ft. Lauderdale, FL
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X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]

Brent S Noorda (bsn@world.std.com) wrote:
: TURN IT OFF.  If you're not making smogulous smog you can see then you're
: making smogulous smog you can't see, and if you're not making smogulous
: smog then you're flooding people from their homelands and poisoning the
: waterways.
: 
: If you were designing a computer, wouldn't you design it so that it could
: withstand the tremendous pressures of being turned on and off once a day
: for a few years?

You're absolutely right.  However, the computers we've got were >already<
designed, and economics dictate that we've gotta work with them for a year
or so (perhaps more).  Turning it off is a great idea if it's just a client,
and it won't be in use at all overnight.  However, if your PC (or computer)
is also a server, and you have to leave it on, perhaps an investment in one
of those screen-saving/energy-saving monitors would be worthwhile (it detects
inactivity and shuts off the monitor -- much better than those silly software
screensavers).

Now if only hardware designers would put on the desktop what we've had in
portables for years -- hard drives that shut off after X seconds of inactivity,
3v CPUs, perhaps even a keyboard that closes its circuit only when you type
a key (so that, say, 70% of the time the keyboard isn't drawing any power
at all), etc...
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From: heiser@acs.bu.edu (William Heiser)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: OS/2 Error Code List
Date: 3 Jan 93 18:15:09 GMT
Organization: Boston University, Boston, MA, USA
Originator: heiser@acs.bu.edu

Is there available a list of the error codes for OS/2?
One of the things I've always hated about IBM is the way they 
report things like "sys01475" with absolutely no clue what that
really means.  Even a short string like "invalid boot block" or
something would be useful.

For example, this morning my machine wouldn't boot - at the point where
the boot manager usually takes over, the machine simply said:

OS/2 !! Sys01475
OS/2 !! Sys02027

How useful!  (NOT!)

I was about to start a re-install, and in the process discovered that
a non-bootable floppy was in drive A:.  Why didn't OS/2 boot manager
just SAY that???

In any case, a list of errors and at least a terse explanation of their
meaning would be very useful.

Thanks,
Bill
From: twong@civil.ubc.ca (Thomas Wong)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: OS/2 and Logitech mice?
Date: 31 Dec 1992 08:25:44 GMT
Organization: Dept. of Civil Engineering, U.B.C., Vancouver, B.C., Canada
NNTP-Posting-Host: sam.civil.ubc.ca
Keywords: Logitech, mouse


Logitech mouse are not directly supported. And by that I mean there is
no mouse driver for OS/2. Sure I have my Mouseman working under OS/2.
But I don't have a Mouse Icon under "control panel" like I do under
Windows where I can redefine all sorts of stuff including the middle
button. It sees my Mouseman as a generic bus mouse. Now of course this
is not a problem and I have my left and right button working fine. And
what I describe above are just additional features I can get under
Windows that's not available under OS/2 yet. But aha. For me, this is a
problem. I actually have DOS programs that uses the middle button! And
my problem is I can't use them under OS/2 cause OS/2 doesn't have a real
Logitech driver hence doesn't know about the middle button. Even under a
DOS window, full screen or otherwise. I can't even load my DOS Mouse driver
in my DOS window where my mouse doesn't work at all.

But for most people, all you need is the left and right button for OS/2
and the generic drivers will work with Logitech mices just fine.

Thomas.

Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: skagos@hercules.cs.uregina.ca (P. Takis Skagos)
Subject: Icon problem .... again!
Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 19:12:28 GMT
Organization: University of Regina, SK, Canada

Hello,

  I just re-installed OS/2 and the Service Pack and I am experiencing a
bloody annoying problem.  I've created a shadow of the OS/2 Window icon
and then I went into SETTINGS and created another icon.  The new icon
is displayed nicely, but when I double-click on the icon to open an OS/2
windowed session and then minimize the windowed session, it doesn't use
my new icon ... it uses the default OS/2 windowed session Icon.  Just
two days ago, everything worked fine ... it used my own icon, not the 
OS/2 default.  Any information on what's going wrong would be *greatly*
appreciated.  Thank!

  P. Takis Skagos
  (skagos@cs.uregina.ca)

Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: orville%weyrich@uunet.uu.net (Orville R. Weyrich)
Subject: Re: Internet is too big....CI$ is much smaller.
Reply-To: uunet.uu.net!weyrich!orville
Organization: Weyrich Computer Consulting
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 92 07:24:13 GMT

In article <1992Dec18.201846.9126@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> ekarabin@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Eric B Karabin) writes:
>
>     I think IBM is just trying to concentrate on strengthening their
>Forums on CompuServe.  (They have several, by the way.)
>
>Does this make any sense?  Probably not.  :)
>
>                    Eric, CompuServe Inc.

An important question then is WHY? I have heard from a VERY RELIABLE source
(the executive director of another organization) that some forums give a 
kick-back to the organizer of the forum related to the amount of traffic fees
generated by the forum. Could IBM be trying to MAKE money from the forum?

If they were being so petty, then why instead would they not try to strengthen
Prodigy instead?

I still can't see any good reason fr all this ...


orville

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From: tytgat@esat.kuleuven.ac.be
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: viruses in OS/2-environment
Date: 21 Dec 92 11:52:23 GMT
Organization: K.U.LEUVEN, Belgium

I'm looking for information (books, articles, news-items...) about the
spread of virusses in an OS/2-environment : have any infections (DOS or
OS/2 viruses) been reported yet ; what's the impact of compartmentalisation
on the infection power of DOS-viruses ; how is this compartmentalisation
actually realised within OS/2, etc. ...
Thanks.
							Pedro Tytgat
From: qazia@JSP.UMontreal.CA (Qazi Ahmad)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: ATM fonts for OS/2
Date: 31 Dec 92 17:50:56 GMT
Organization: Universite de Montreal

Hello,

  I just d/l a ATM font file from HOBBES and really have no idea how to
use the font! I do not know how to install it in OS/2. ANy ideas?

Ahmad



A

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From: sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu (Timothy F. Sipples)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: How to disable WPS
Date: 2 Jan 93 18:24:34 GMT
Reply-To: sip1@midway.uchicago.edu
Organization: Dept. of Econ., Univ. of Chicago

In article <19921229.004822.251@almaden.ibm.com> HHSIAO@TAIVM1.vnet.ibm.com writes:
>Is there any way to disable the OS/2 WPS when booting OS/2?

Yes.  In your CONFIG.SYS, change the SET RUNWORKPLACE line in your
CONFIG.SYS to read:

SET RUNWORKPLACE=C:\OS2\CMD.EXE

changing the drive letter, if necessary.

See the OS/2 FAQ List for details.  At IBM you may obtain it
internally -- contact cnadler@vnet.ibm.com if you need instructions.

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From: stewarta@netcom.com (Alex Stewart)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc,comp.os.os2.advocacy
Subject: Re: Future of OS/2 and IBM????????????
Date: 29 Dec 92 15:04:48 GMT
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  (408 241-9760 guest)

People, PLEASE!!  I've just read through 20 messages in comp.os.os2.misc 
that have absolutely nothing to do with OS/2, or even OSes in general.  While 
the information contained within was mildly interesting, my time allottment
for reading newsgroups is rather limited, and I don't really have time to 
slog through tons of stuff that has nothing to do with what I came here to
read.  In short, MOVE IT.

Now, for those who ask why I didn't just skip the messages, I should have, but
at the same time, I shouldn't have to.

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From: dab6@po.CWRU.Edu (Douglas A. Bell)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Opinion:  What IBM should change in OS/2
Date: 29 Dec 1992 17:45:15 GMT
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio (USA)
Reply-To: dab6@po.CWRU.Edu (Douglas A. Bell)
NNTP-Posting-Host: slc12.ins.cwru.edu



While I like OS/2 very much, I was mulling over some of the things that
annoy me as I was installing the early December beta and came up with
a list of things that need to be changed or fixed that show no sign of
improving.

First are the scary strange little bugs.  The shifting windows, the
disapearing chracters on the top left corner of the screen when booting
fram a FAT partition.  Even though these things don't hurt anything,
it worries me when I see them happen.

OS/2 needs to do something about the applets.  They are not good programs
and they take up large chunks of disk space.  They have prograssed past 
applets into ugly twisted behemoths that are difficult to use.  I am bothered 
by the fact that I have to shuffle disks that contain lots of code that add
very little value.  Applets should be simple, quick, and almost self 
explainitory.  Just try to configure the pm terminal program.  Ug.
And all of this extra fat makes os/2 look like even more of a resource
hog.  42 meg for the beta is awful when it could be just 35 megs.
Maybe IBM could include coupons for the applets to get them for $5 
or something.

OS/2 should have a quick and easy feature to make a bootable disk.

I really hate all the archane error messages with the practically useless
error numbers in front of the messages.  The message numbers have not
helped me once.  Whenever I don't know what the error is, OS/2 can never find
the appropriate help files.  But those messages are reasonable compared
to the messages that accompany a trap.  I am afraid to recommend os/2
to my department because of the error messages alone.


I'd like to see an istall option that allows os/2 run without the workplace 
shell but with pm.  Just include a few utilities such as 'vdmstart' to
start virtual dos machines, and you could have a slim, dos multi-tasker
that runs pm apps.

I almost hate to mention this, because it has improved so much, but the 
install program could be better.  Why do I have to shuffle 10+ disks
for every selective install?

-----
Doug-








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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: how to print from word to remote lpd server?
From: #410APOLLO1  800-227-6556 <MADJK@rohvm1.rohmhaas.com>
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 12:15:56 EST
Organization: Rohm and Haas Company

For printing from Word for Windows to a remote UNIX printer:

1)  In OS/2 install a printer that corresponds to the type of printer you will
    target on the UNIX system, ie postscript.  Target this printer to one of
    the LPTn ports such as LPT2.
2)  Assuming you have the IBM TCP/IP for OS/2 package, set environment
    variables specifying the Unix system and printer names as directed in the
    documentation for LPR.  Change your TCPSTART.CMD file to issue "DETACH
    LPRMON LPTn" where LPTn is the same as the one chosen in 1) above.  Add
    this line after all of the other daemons are started.
3)  Install the same printer in WINOS2 that you installed for OS/2.  Using the
    Windows printer setup dialog assign the printer to port "LPTn.OS2" where
    LPTn is the same as the one chosen in 1) above.
4)  Print your document.

John Kinker                madjk@rohmhaas.com             madjk@rohvm1.bitnet
Computer Systems Associate                                       215-785-8752
Rohm and Haas Company -- Research Division -- PO Box 219 -- Bristol, PA 19007
=============================================================================
The opinions expressed are mine and not those of the Rohm and Haas Company
From: jks4675@ritvax.isc.rit.edu
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: 14,400 on TE/2?
Date: 21 Dec 92 20:50:51 GMT
Reply-To: jks4675@ritvax.isc.rit.edu
Organization: Rochester Institute of Technology

I am wondering how to get 14,400 going on my system...I got one of those
Gateway 14,400 / 9600 FAX modems. Specifically, CONFIG.SYS commands,
how to set up TE/2, etc.

Thanks,
Jeff
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: "andrew makiejewski" <andrew.makiejewski@canrem.com>
Subject: opti chipset and os/2
Reply-To: "andrew makiejewski" <andrew.makiejewski@canrem.com>
Organization: Canada Remote Systems
Distribution: comp
Date: 29 Dec 92 00:39:11 EST



SUBJ: OPTI chipset and OS/2: Any problems??

LH> I'm thinking of upgrading to a 486DX/33 motherboard and I wanted to know if
LH> there are any known problems with the OPTI chipset and OS/2 compatibility?

LH> I believe it was in the PC hardware newsgroup that I saw a mention of this, so
LH> I thought I'd better ask here and not in the hardware newsgroup.

My mother board has the OPTi set. It is a 486DX-33 and was running OS/2
1.3 last year and 2.0 since May. I have not run into any problems at all.
I know that a number of IBM employees bought systems with the OPTi chipset
for their home use with OS/2.


Andrew.                      Andrew.Makiejewski@canrem.com 
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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: th9708@meibm8.cen.uiuc.edu (Todd Lee Henderson)
Subject: Re: Disk Interleave?? What the general rule of thumb??
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Sat, 26 Dec 1992 16:06:46 GMT

charlie@elektro.cmhnet.org (Charlie Smith) writes:

>In article <BzMu6G.L4p@news.cso.uiuc.edu> th9708@meibm8.cen.uiuc.edu (Todd Lee Henderson) writes:
>>
>>
>>
>>I posted about this several days ago and got very little reponse.
>>
>>Some time ago there was a discussion of the proper interleave for disk
>>under OS/2.  I only got part of the discussion and seem to remember that
>>the appropriate interleave was 1 greater than the bios recommended as the
>>optimum.  Any better facts on the subject??
>>
>>The disk to be used specifically is the WD 2200 214 meg IDE drive with
>>at least 512k HPFS Cache(unless someone wants to let me in on the 'best' size
>>cache for 16 meg systme memory??)
>>

I would like to thank everyone who has responded and corrected my misguided
ways.  It seems that the talk of best interleave was about ESDI/mfm/some other
disk than an IDE, so that question is leave the thing a lone!

However, I've seen very few recomendations for Cache size for a 16 meg system.

What do you folks use, I know a lot of you have 16 meg systems.

Thanks,

Todd

Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu (Timothy F. Sipples)
Subject: Re: Ultrastor "34F" SCSI Controller?
Reply-To: sip1@midway.uchicago.edu
Organization: Dept. of Econ., Univ. of Chicago
Date: Sat, 2 Jan 1993 18:30:41 GMT

In article <30DEC199209484766@lims01.lerc.nasa.gov> smbrush@lims01.lerc.nasa.gov (Andy Brush @Sverdrup) writes:
>Gateway has quoted on a new 486 system which will use the Ultrastor 34F 
>SCSI controller on the VESA bus.
>Does anyone have experience with this set-up?  Will I be able to get 
>os/2 drivers?
>Gateway will swap for a Adaptec 1542 on the ISA bus.  Should I go for this, 
>instead (trading speed away for compatibility with OS/2)?

I think I'd opt for the Adaptec, yes, unless you can contact Ultrastor
directly and verify that they have properly functioning OS/2 drivers
(they've been working on them).

Another adapter worth investigating is the Buslogic.  They have native
OS/2 drivers.

I suspect you won't experience too much of a speed penalty, but your
mileage may vary.

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From: gottlieb@umbc8.umbc.edu (Robert Gottlieb)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Making a hardcard, the boot drive for OS/2
Date: 2 Jan 1993 06:15:08 GMT
Organization: University of Maryland, Baltimore County Campus
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: umbc8.umbc.edu


Hi all,

I just installed OS/2 and unfortunately couldn't figure out how
to get it to install to my hardcard.  I'm using a Quantum Hardcard
XL 105.  I got the new drivers from their BBS, so at least OS/2
will recognize it now.  But what I'd really like to do is have
OS/2 run off of my hardcard vs my internal hard drive, reason being
my hardcard is 9 ms access and my had drive is 28 ms.  Anyway, I
tried copying all of the files from my c drive (hard disk) to
my d drive (hard card) and changing all references to C: in my
config.sys and autoexec.bat to d:.  This is how I had windows 3.1 running
before.  This completly hung OS/2.  Anyway, my guess is it has to
do with the fact that it has to find the driver for the hard card
first.  Am I on the right track, any ideas?  

Any responses will be greatly appreciated.

Robert
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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: mhunter@ho13.eng.ua.edu (Mark W. Hunter)
Subject: Odd OS/2 happenings
Organization: The University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa
Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1992 03:52:19 GMT


I just noticed something strange about the keyboard character "|" under OS/2.
When I first installed OS/2 this character was a solid line just as it is 
under Unix. Now all of a sudden it has regressed (so to speak) back to the
broken line like it looks under DOS. What has made this happen? Just curious.

Mark
  
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