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From: GILBERT@YaleVM.YCC.Yale.Edu (Howard Gilbert)
Subject: Delete SVGADATA before Beta 2.1 install
Organization: Yale University
Date: Wed, 06 Jan 93 09:58:44 EST

There seems to be an install problem with 2.1 beta if you put it
on top of an old system with SVGA ON.  I have a big disk, and
two copies of OS/2.  The beta went on flawlessly on a vanilla
PDK (Win31 old beta) system.  However, applying the same process
to my production system the install process failed at the end
when internally running DSPINSTL.  The problem is that the new
DSPINSTL runs "SVGA ON" in a DOS fullscreen session during the
install.  However, if the old system had an old format SVGADATA.PMI
file then the beta install cannot properly create the fullscreen
DOS session.  Ultimately, it pops up a message asking for the first
display driver diskette to be mounted on the F: (CD-ROM) drive.
Needless to say, the diskette does not fit in the CDROM drive, and
it would not take the installed CD volume as a response.
 
I cannot recreate the experiment, so I cannot verify that SVGADATA
is absolutely the problem, but since the failure occured about
the time that the install internally runs SVGA ON, I have
high confidence this is the problem.  I strongly recommend deleting
the old SVGADATA before install if you are not going to format the
partition.
From: miesfeld@cs.arizona.edu (Mark Miesfeld)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Which printer driver for Okidata OL830
Date: 9 Jan 93 19:24:44 GMT
Organization: U of Arizona CS Dept, Tucson

I have long had minor annoyances printing in postscript mode on my 
Okidata OL830.  I suspected it was the printer driver.  I just recently
had time to install the OS/2 beta and Win-Os2 3.1 off the PDK.  The 
Win-Os2 3.1 beta had a specific driver for the OL830, and this driver
works flawlessly as far as I can tell.

This makes me think even more that my trouble with OS/2 GA + SP is the 
driver.

The annoyances have been slow printing, printscreens either take, literally,
tens of minutes to print, or get dropped altogether.  In EPM 5.51 selecting
print in draft mode sends data to the printer (the data light comes on,)
then after 20 seconds the job disappears with nothing printed.  In the 
WorkFrame, if I select the option to print one of the logs, the same thing
happens.  The data light comes on then after a while it goes out, with
nothing printed.

If I switch the printer to HP emulation and use the HP II driver none of 
these problems occur.  Now in Win-Os2 3.1 I don't seem to have any prob-
lems in postscript mode.

Which is a round about way of asking if others with the OL830 have problems
in postscript mode, and if not, what drivers are you using?  I have tried
both the Apple Laserwriter II and the generic postscript.

--
Mark
miesfeld@caslon.cs.arizona.edu
From: sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu (Timothy F. Sipples)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: Enhanced Mode???
Date: 6 Jan 93 03:50:12 GMT
Reply-To: sip1@midway.uchicago.edu
Organization: Dept. of Econ., Univ. of Chicago

In article <1993Jan4.194707.3242@lmt.mn.org> elliott@lmt.mn.org (David Elliott  MIS x 363) writes:
>> >I was just wondering how OS/2 now support 386 Enhanced mode Windows 
>> >apps if this compromises system integrity like so many people have 
>> >said in the past.  
>> An excellent question, one which I'm still investigating.
>> All I know is that Mathematica for Windows now works.  :-)
>The critical distinction, I'm told, is that OS/2 does not "run Windows
>in enhanced mode", but rather "runs programs that require enhanced mode".
>It does this by supplying a DLL containing the necessary Enhanced mode
>entry points and mapping them into nice, wholesome OS/2 calls.  :-)
>(This info is only what I've been told; I have not verified it personally.
>However, it was an IBMer who made the distinction for me.)

I didn't think it was possible, but I'm mighty impressed.  Chalk one
up for OS/2 here, folks -- NT can't do enhanced mode.

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From: russa@carson.u.washington.edu (E.Russell Alexander)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: SONY CD-ROM, non SCSI
Keywords: SONY CD-ROM, non SCSI
Date: 9 Jan 93 04:54:57 GMT
Article-I.D.: shelley.1illr1INN9gc
Organization: University of Washington, Seattle
NNTP-Posting-Host: carson.u.washington.edu

They took my name and address and said they'd put my name on a list.
Not sure what this means, but maybe they'll notify me? Dunno.  The
guy said that the drivers were traditionally no charge.  I'll get
the phone # and post if others want to call to "get on the waiting
list.

Jim Hogan (on account of boss)
From: cwolff@slowboy.intellistor.com (Clint Wolff)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: CDROM, Sound card questions
Date: 8 Jan 93 23:43:13 GMT
Followup-To: comp.os.os2.misc
Organization: Intellistor, Longmont, CO


I am new to OS/2 land and have several hardware questions...

The system it will be installed in is:

   Gateway 2000 486/33E (good system, terrible monitor)
   Nec 4DS monitor (i told you it came with a terrible monitor)
   486/33
   8Mb ram (soon to be upgraded - what is the most OS/2 can deal with <64Mb?>)
   EISA
   Adaptec 174x SCSI controller
   340Mb Maxtor drive
   1.2Gb Fujitsu drive 
   Infotel V.everything modem
   misc serial,paralle,etc

1) Does any one recommend a CDROM drive that:
   a) Does NOT require a carrier to insert a CD
   b) Is supported by IBM in a standard OS/2 release (I don't have good
      ftp access)
   c) Is reasonably fast (>64Kb buffer)
   d) Is reasonably cheap (for home use)

2) What is good in sound cards... I recently sold my sound blaster because
   the Creative Labs MM starter kit was only slightly more than the upgrade
   kit
   a) Sound blaster functional - MIDI not required

I guess what I am really looking for is a good MM kit with CDROM, Sound card,
that is easy to install and use with OS/2...


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| Clint Wolff                                                                 |
| Staff Engineer                                                              |
| Fujitsu Computer Products of America - Intellistor Research and Development |
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|          They pay me to think... As long as I keep my mouth shut.           |
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From: rcmerrit@apgea.army.mil (Robert C. Merritt <rcmerrit>)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: Problems switching to/from Full screen DOS VDM
Date: 6 Jan 93 19:04:25 GMT
Organization: APG-Edgewood

In article <1993Jan6.104040.14883@miavx1.acs.muohio.edu> mgjones@apsvax.aps.muohio.edu (Mike Jones) writes:
>Hello.  I've been having a problem that I have not been able to figure
>out how to fix, so before I bend IBM's ear, I figured I would check here
>to see if anyone else has had this problem and found a way around it.
>
>Anways, I am running OS/2 2.0 GA with the CSD patches.  The problem
>I am having is with the COMM port.  I have 2 comports, my mouse on COM1,
>and a 14,400 Supra modem on COM2.  I run a DOS BBS in a VDM (the standard
>OS/2 DOS, not a real copy of DOS).  The BBS runs in a window.  The problem
>I am having is that whenever I open up a fullscreen DOS session, a signal
>is sent to my modem (happens when I switch _out_ of a full screen session
>also).  This has the result of hanging up on anyone who would happen to
>be online at the time.  Also, if no one is online, it screws up the modem
>so that no one can call in until I reset the BBS.  Therefore, I am stuck
>having to use the VDM in a window all the time, and having to temporaly
>take down the BBS if I have to do anything full screen.  I have used the
>original COMM drivers, switch to a newer set I got from hobbes ftp site,
>and now am running the SIO v0.20 comm drivers, and ALL had the same result.
>I have also even tried disabling access to COM2 in a DOS VDM that I wanted
>to make full screen (through DOS Settings...), but it still sends something.
>
>Has anyone experienced this problem, and is there a way to fix it?  Should 
>I try loading up a real copy of DOS in a VDM?  Could someone with the OS/2
>2.1 Beta tell me if it has the same problem? (I am considering getting it).
>
>BTW, OS/2 full screen command line does not have this problem.
>
>Thanks, and *PLEASE* EMAIL ME, I cannot keep up with the traffic in this
>group very well.
>
>---
>Mike "Felix" Jones
>mgjones@apsvax.aps.muohio.edu 
>
>              "There are three kinds of lies:  Lies, damned lies,
>               and benchmarks." - adapted from Benjamin Disraeli


Wellm I'm about to runa BBS on OS/2. (I've been running one in dos for 4 years,
I'm just going to transfer my Telegard package two the os/2 machine)
Anyways, I have ran Qmodem, downloading, uploading and just hanging on line
while I played games such as willy beamish and Incredtable machine in full,
screen for some time now with no problem. I just make sure that the game
has a lower sensitivity and has no hold on comm ports. I hope it'll work
just as good for my bbs at 9600 but your saying it might not  ??
Rob Merritt
 
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: nic@cypress14.cray.com (Nic Catrambone)
Subject: RE: UNEXPECTED DOS ERROR 4
Originator: nic@cypress14
Organization: Cray Research, Inc.
Date: 6 Jan 93 09:42:07 CST



Rergarding:

start up a bunch of migrated DOS apps. He kept getting the error
message mentioned in the Subject for this post. I've seen this before,

Yes, I had this problem.  Some kind soul on this news group
recommended that I run a chkdsk /f against the c: drive .  
(Note that this must be done after booting OS/2 from the floppys
and then copying the chkdsk command to a floppy for execution
against the hard drive: "a:>chkdsk c: /f" )


Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: sorourke@lonestar.utsa.edu (Sean J. Orourke)
Subject: Lost Command Prompts folder
Followup-To: comp.os.os2.misc
Summary: Need settings for Dual Boot, WIN-OS2, boot from drive a
Keywords: help command prompts folder
Organization: University of Texas at San Antonio
Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 23:28:02 GMT

I somehow managed to delete my Command Prompts folder.  Can someone please
send me the settings for the Dual Boot, WIN-OS2, and "DOS from Drive A:" (I
don't know if that last one's right, but you know what I mean) objects?  Any
help would be much appreciated.

Thanks,
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: Will my OS800.DLL for OS/2 1.1 work with os/2 2.0?
From: cvetp036@vmsb.is.csupomona.edu
Date: 7 Jan 93 15:05:27 PST
Organization: California State Polytechnic University, Pomona
Nntp-Posting-User: cvalj001

> I thought everyone was saying (and confirmed, at least on most SVGA cards)
> that the generic SVGA drivers needed a full 1 meg even for 800x600x256.

No, I'm using the generic 800x600x256 on my ATI Integra 512K and it works fine.
Except that the setting in the notebooks are "black out" and so's the file
dialogue box.


Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: hannes@finwpc12.tu-graz.ac.at
Subject: OS/2 & 2 color monitors
News-Software: IBM OS/2 PM RN (NR/2) v0.14 by O. Vishnepolsky and R. Rogers
Reply-To: hannes@finwpc12.tu-graz.ac.at
Organization: Technical University of Graz, Austria
Date: Mon, 4 Jan 93 16:00:21 GMT


I am looking for a system configuration with two color monitors and two graphic cards
under OS/2. One card+monitor with high resolution (1280 x 1024) and very high
performance (e.g. with an i860 processor or similar), and one card+monitor with
normal SVGA performance.
Please mail me, if anybody has experience with this or a similar configuration using
OS/2.


Thanks,
--- Hannes ---
From: frigo@psl.wisc.edu (Sean P. Frigo UW-Madison SRC (608)877-2332,-2001(FAX))
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: OPINION:  IBM get video kit out soon!
Date: 8 Jan 93 01:36:37 GMT
Reply-To: frigo@psl.wisc.edu
Organization: University of Wisconsin - Physical Science Lab

Here's to a new year.  My own $0.02 worth says that the OS/2 video
development kit (32 bit) should have been out with the service pack.
How Trident put out 32 bit drivers without it is beyond me.  Not having
the VDK is ATI's excuse for not providing 2.x 32 bit drivers.

Well, a guy at work has WIN NT BETA and it has many high res drivers
provided with it.   Hmmm...

Final muse it that the 8514/A seamless driver should have been provided, in
the least a long time ago.  Let's hope that we see that soon!


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From: lauer@mpi-sb.mpg.de (Thomas Lauer)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: German Service Pack !?!?
Date: 7 Jan 93 14:40:48 GMT
Reply-To: lauer@mpi-sb.mpg.de
Organization: Max-Planck Institut fuer Informatik


 It semm's to me that there isn't any German service pack.

 Who knows wheter IBM released a German service pack or not ?

-thomas

Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu (Timothy F. Sipples)
Subject: Re: ATI Graphics Ultra + / Orchid Prodesigner II ????
Reply-To: sip1@midway.uchicago.edu
Organization: Dept. of Econ., Univ. of Chicago
Date: Sat, 9 Jan 1993 17:02:17 GMT

In article <1993Jan9.053608.26435@lynx.dac.northeastern.edu> mpearson@lynx.dac.northeastern.edu (Matthew Pearson) writes:
>Ok.. I have the OS2 2.1 beta...
>HOW do you get it to install the 256 color drivers??? Mine is only
>loading the 16 color ones at ANY resolution...
>I have an Orchid Prodesigner ][ (tseng et4000)
>and am getting and ATI Graphics Ultra + card...
>How in the blazes do you get these setup right?

Open the Master Help Index, and follow the instructions contained in
there for installing SuperVGA support.  (Hint: use Selective Install.)

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Organization: Penn State University
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 17:25:28 EST
From: darren karns <DWK110@psuvm.psu.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: drivers for creative labs cd-rom

anyone know if there are os2 drivers available for the creative labs cd-rom ?
if there are, where might they be found?  any help by e-mail or posting would
be greatly appreciated.

                       thanks
                      -- Darren Karns--
From: mig@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Meir I Green)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: Detach command.
Date: 11 Jan 93 04:02:16 GMT
Reply-To: mig@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Meir I Green)
Organization: Columbia University, New York

In article <1993Jan08.075225.9277@kub.nl> hoppie@kub.nl (Jeroen Hoppenbrouwers) writes:
>Eh? I always thought that being able to push a running UNIX process in the background
>with Ctrl-Z and call it back later with FG, together with the BG and JOBS commands,
>were UNIX *shell* commands, and thus implemented by the shell, not by the UNIX
>kernel?!? If I'm wrong, please tell me.
>
>In this case, just get an OS/2 port of a csh of some kind that has job control built-in.

:-)
OK.  Which ones do I choose from?  preferably ksh, and preferably under $100.

Thank you.
Meir

>I know that OS/2 has more types of sessions than UNIX, but without job control in the
>shell, it wouldn't work anyway. If you just run OS/2 text mode aps, I can imagine the
>shell arbitrating console access easily. And running other (PM) jobs from a shell
>does not need BG/FG switching -- being an PM app.
>
>
>Jeroen
>
>-- 
>Jeroen Hoppenbrouwers, research engineer at     |  Stop connecting computers;
>Infolab, Tilburg University, The Netherlands    |  start connecting people!


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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu (Timothy F. Sipples)
Subject: Re: Gtak100.zip
Reply-To: sip1@midway.uchicago.edu
Organization: Dept. of Econ., Univ. of Chicago
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 04:10:37 GMT

In article <1993Jan11.055857.28586@netcom.com> gasman1@netcom.com (David A. Silva) writes:
>I have downloaded gtak100.zip from 2 different sites, and neither my
>pkunzip(dos) nor the local unix unzip can read the files. Are they using a
>special zip-er, or is ther someone who knows were I can ftp a known good
>copy of the file? Thanx - David

First off, that's not the latest version of GNU tar.  You can get 2.01
from ftp-os2.nmsu.edu via anonymous ftp.  They also have Info-Zip's
UnZip 5.0, which you'll also need.  Check the file /pub/os2/00Index at
that site for location.

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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu (Timothy F. Sipples)
Subject: Re: Good SVGA card? 
Reply-To: sip1@midway.uchicago.edu
Organization: Dept. of Econ., Univ. of Chicago
Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1993 03:11:06 GMT

In article <1993Jan02.080446.8648@eng.umd.edu> lindor@eng.umd.edu (Lindor Eric Henrickson) writes:
>While we're on the subject of SVGA drivers...
>I'm currently using a low-end Trident 8900C-based video card, and I'd
>like to upgrade to something a little zippier.  Based on reading this
>newsgroup, it seems that many SVGA cards have problems under OS/2 2.0.
>(or maybe I should just say "many don't have drivers/support for OS/2")
>Does anyone have a suggestion of a not too expensive,i.e. less than
>US$350, SVGA card which has good support and works well under OS/2 2.0
>(or 2.1 of course)? 

I would stay put for now until things settle a bit.

If you absolutely must get something pronto, I'd go with an ATI
Graphics Ultra.  It is 8514/A hardware compatible.  However, I'm not
thrilled with their support at the moment.

I plan on adding some more video information in the FAQ List -- a list
of vendors with OS/2 2.x support.  The list is getting fairly long,
but there are some caveats.

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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: s_fuller@iastate.edu (Steve Fuller)
Subject: Starting REAL DOS from command line
Organization: Iowa State University, Ames IA
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 06:56:52 GMT

I have taken the advice of a couple of posters on here and have
gotten rid of PM and replaced it using cmd.exe as my shell. I
don't have NC 1.0 for OS/2 and here is my problem.

I would like to be able to start a DOS session from a disk image
file by invoking it from the OS/2 command line somehow. Is this
possible, or am I living a pipe dream?

Any answers appreciated....

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s_fuller@iastate.edu =   No witty quote here yet...
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From: rwyble@schunix.uucp (Richard J. Wyble)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: Which modem - internal or external ?
Date: 11 Jan 93 15:17:20 GMT
Organization: SCHUNIX Public Access Unix for Worcester County, MA, USA
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL4

geiri@PROBLEM_WITH_INEWS_GATEWAY_FILE (Geir Inge Jensen) writes:
: I am planning to buy a USR Sportster modem in the near future. But should I 
: buy a internal or external one ?

My preference is always for the external modem. One has visual
feedback to modem status, and one can always reach for the switch.
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 schunix!rwyble@transfer.stratus.com         Worcester, Massachusetts
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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu (Timothy F. Sipples)
Subject: Re: How to change icons
Reply-To: sip1@midway.uchicago.edu
Organization: Dept. of Econ., Univ. of Chicago
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 04:17:02 GMT

In article <1993Jan11.140333.2854@arbi.Informatik.Uni-Oldenburg.DE> Volkmar.Stegmann@arbi.informatik.uni-oldenburg.de (Volkmar Stegmann) writes:
>Is there a easier way to change an object-icon than to go to the settings,
>general and than change it. Is it possible to change some kinds of icons
>totally (for example the folders).

Here's the complete rundown on icons.

(1) You can now attach any icon file (.ICO) to any arbitrary set of
files (like all your .DOC files, for example).  To do so, use the
AddIcon utility, available via anonymous ftp from ftp-os2.nmsu.edu.

(2) OS/2 2.1 introduces parent inheritance of icons.  Data files take
on the icons of their parents, automatically, assuming the
associations have been made.  This release of OS/2 should be available
in the near future.

(3) Someone has written an icon utility that I'm still trying to track
down.  It allows you to drag icons to arbitrary objects and change
those objects.  Stay tuned -- I'll post when (if) I find it.

(4) You should be able to create templates with your preferred icons
for new objects.

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From: sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu (Timothy F. Sipples)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: Thank You SIP1
Date: 6 Jan 93 03:31:12 GMT
Reply-To: sip1@midway.uchicago.edu
Distribution: usa
Organization: Dept. of Econ., Univ. of Chicago

In article <20721@ucdavis.ucdavis.edu> ez003045@hamlet.ucdavis.edu (James E. Lee) writes:
>Yeah, thanks a lot Timothy!  I really appreciate your knowledge and
>willingness to help, and your efforts _do_ deserve to be noted and
>applauded.

This thread is much appreciated; thanks.

OK, now, back to OS/2...

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