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From: graham@cs.utexas.edu (Ralph Arnold Graham)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Procomm Plus for Windows under OS/2?
Date: 28 Sep 1992 02:00:42 -0500
Organization: CS Dept, University of Texas at Austin
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Someone mentioned that they got Procomm Plus for Windows working under OS/2.
I am wondering how?  I have tried installing it from winos2 twice now, with
no success.  Can it be installed without going to winos2, or should it be?
Any help would be appreciated...


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From: d9mikael@dtek.chalmers.se (Mikael Wahlgren)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: Can you recommend a SCSI and CD-ROM?
Date: 29 Sep 92 22:14:20 GMT
Organization: Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg Sweden

shurr@cbnews.cb.att.com (larry.a.shurr) writes:

>}A CD-ROM typically supply data at 150 kb/sek and
>}any cheap SCSI board handles these extremely low transfer rates.  But
>}you should ensure that the board you select, have drivers for OS/2 2.0
>}(Future Domain or Adaptec).  But if you want to use the SCSI card with
>}something else, like a hard disk, you should look at the high end adapters.

>He's probably not joking, but I know I'm not.  I'm interested in CDROM
>solutions which will work with OS/2 and I would like to know what works
>and what it costs.  I certainly agree that fast SCSI disks should be
>complemented with a fast SCSI interface, but if I'm looking for an
>affordable CDROM solution, what are my alternatives?

The only CD-ROM solutions I know of that work with OS/2 at all, is SCSI
based CD-ROMs (I have heard rumours about SoundBlaster Pro drivers for
CD-ROM, but not seen them).  Among the SCSI CD-ROMs that work is Toshiba,
IBM, Sony, Hitachi and NEC.  They will work with most SCSI cards supported
by OS/2, and a cheap solution could be a low-end Adaptec or Future Domain
controller.  The NEC drive bundled with a Trantor SCSI controller is also
supported by drivers available separately.

Mikael Wahlgren
From: glenw@remus.rutgers.edu (Glenn Wasserman)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: IBM1S506.ADD
Date: 26 Sep 92 06:08:29 GMT
Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J.

I had the same problem with the IBM1S506.ADD. I renamed to .AD! and copied the
generic int13 driver to the same filename didn't change config.sys) and now
the beta runs great. I really haven't seen any other problems with it. Cool.

Anyway, my question is, should I leave it this way? Am I losing performance
with the int13 driver (I have 2 IDE drives - C is HPFS and D is FAT - each is
a 100 meg drive). 

Actually, there is one funny thing that happens... when the system boots, it
sits at the OS/2 logo screen for literally 30 seconds doing NOTHING, and then
says "Oh yeah, I have to boot!", and then zooms its way into the desktop 
faster than the GA ever did from that screen onward. What gives? Is this the
int13 driver "finding" itself or something? 

Also - Checkit (latest version - I forget the number) refuses to run. It tells
me the program requested the LPT1: port, which is already in use (it never is
in use)... is there a new setting for this? Something I could try? I couldn't
seem to find anything.

Otherwise, my preliminary impressions are excellent. Scrolling is turbocharged,
and bitmapped graphics in a window clearly run faster than before. I'm getting
up the nerve to try a 256-color hires driver (I have an ATI Wonder/1 Meg). Any
one else try this successfully? 

Well, that's it for now...

Glenn

Glenw@remus.rutgers.edu - Glenw@gandalf.rutgers.edu - gwasserman@cancer.rutger
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: PM Terminal at 19200
From: ghdai@vax1.umkc.edu
Date: Fri, 2 Oct 1992 05:51:22 GMT
Organization: University of Missouri - Kansas City

Yes, this is the second system I installed OS/2 2.0 on it.  It's in my
laboratory.  Its COM2 is connected to a line with 19200 baud speed towards
the VAX mainframe in my university.  However, at the speed the PM/Terminal
does not run smoothly, compared to at 2400 baud and/or a normal terminal at
19200.

What could be the problem?  Any settings need to be changed, e.g., the
DISK_IO_PRIORITY (in CONFIG.SYS)?
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: hafting@solan.unit.no (Helge Hafting)
Subject: Re:  DOS Game too fast!! how to slow down?
Organization: Norwegian Institute of Technology
Date: Fri, 2 Oct 92 10:47:07 GMT

In article <1992Sep24.200818.21875@news.cs.brandeis.edu>, lau@hydra.rose.brandeis.edu () writes:
 > Hi
 > 	I have a game dated back to 8088 dark-age.
 > 	It's good but it runs too fast, perhaps too fast
 > even on an AT!  Now it just flashed in 486/33.. can't play.
 > 
 > 	Is there any trick or any program that can slow
 > down the game.  Yes, you're right, it is a DOS program.
 > 
 > 	I will try but doubt HW_TIMER will help because it
 > runs too fast in AT.
 > 
 > 
 > -Frankie

Set idle_seconds and idle_sensitivity to 0.
Turn off ROM emulation and shadowing.  
Dont't run fullscreen, but in a scaled window.  (If it doesn't get too jumpy.)
If you have a turbo switch, turn it off.

You may also try to keep the processor busy with background tasks.
Make a batch file with an infinite loop, and detach it in an os/2 window.
Keep detatching infinite loops until your game is slow enough.  If you count
the number of tasks needed, you can set up another .cmd file that detaches
all the loops needed in one operation.
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From: djs6015@ultb.isc.rit.edu (Don Smith)
Subject: Re: vi editor for OS/2
Originator: djs6015@ultb
Keywords: vi, editor, shareware, OS/2, help
Organization: R.I.T.
Distribution: na
Date: Sun, 27 Sep 1992 00:16:43 GMT

In article <1992Sep24.055218.21954@gmuvax2.gmu.edu> 3583inst@gmuvax2.gmu.edu ( ) writes:
}Hello,
}	I was wondering if someone has ever heard of a vi editor for
}OS/2.  If you have, could you please direct me to the source (or a copy)
}of this editor?	Please send you replies to:
}		3583inst@gmuvax2.gmu.edu
}
}Thank you.
}
}Srinivas

I use elvis. Its really nice, I have tried a few other... and elvis
seems to work the best.

FTP to ftp-os2.nmsu.edu and get (/pub/os2/all/editors) elv15bin.zoo.

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From: yuk@hpopd.pwd.hp.com (Yuk Lun Chan)
Date: Thu, 24 Sep 1992 09:26:13 GMT
Subject: FDISK failed -- not easy
Organization: Hewlett-Packard ISG-SBU-PWD, UK.
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc

I just try to install OS/2 in my home machine (no name clone, MFM HD, AMI BIOS
1989). I expected every thing goes wrong. First, of course, ibm1s506.add gives
me error. Then I put the patches in. FDISK fail (disk 1 before welcome 
message). rem out that line in config.sys, same again. replace controller,
no change. Any idea? Change ROM BIOS? Change HD (a NEC)? or better, change to
other format like IDE?

Don't jump into conclusion. I have tried to install OS/2 1.0, 1.1, 1.21 into
this machine before. All failed in FDISK. I did managed to install 1.1 from
lan manager 1.0 in it manaully (let the installation build the system area.
Exit, then copy all files across to HD and unpack, edit config.sys and
startup.cmd manually). Can I do the same with 2.0 if I copy the disk structure
and configuration from my work machine?

Any help welcome.

Yuk






Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: oylonen@tnclus.tele.nokia.fi (Otso Yl|nen (OSY))
Subject: Program Objects and Menues
Organization: Nokia Telecommunications.
Date: Thu, 1 Oct 1992 06:52:24 GMT

I  wonder if it's possible to add items to the pop-up menu of a program ob-
ject.  There's  no  such  tag as "Menu" as I open the settings of a program
object (for a physical program file, there's one).

Basically,  what  I'd  like  to  do is to make a program object with a menu
that  contains  selections  for parameters to be passed for the program. It
seems  this  is  not supported as the menu items have to be associated with
programs,  not  parameters. 

I've  implemented  this  by  associating cmd's (that start the program with
different  parameters  each)  with  menu  selections  of a physical program
file. This is, however, a bit too complicated.
  
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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: Traps at 0160: fff645yy: bug and others
From: slam@desire.wright.edu
Date: 3 Oct 92 00:54:48 EST
Organization: Wright State University 

In article <6444@taurus.cs.nps.navy.mil>, rovero@attu.oc.nps.navy.mil (Josh Rovero) writes:
> In article <1992Sep29.191632.29693@bilver.uucp> dandrews@bilver.uucp (Dave Andrews) writes:
>>In article <310@zam103.zam.kfa-juelich.de> kiehl@ibt013.ibt.kfa-juelich.de (Horst Kiehl) writes:
>>><...+....1....+....2....+....3....+....4....+....5....+....6....+....7.>
>>>Recently some postings (including by me) reported OS/2 crashes
>>>having in common occurring on 486 machines and:
>>>
>>>   TRAP 000x ...
>>>   ...
>>>   ... ##0160:fff645yy - 000d:a5yy
>>>   60000, 9084
>>>
> 
> I experienced some of these errors today after upgrading from 4 Meg RAM
> to 8 Meg.  I assumed it was from some sort of memory incompatibility
> between the two types of 1M SIMMs.  A number of DOS programs began
> failing with exactly the same error numbers.
> 
> 
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I could recreate this error when installing the 32-bit GRE BETA.
It occurs on Disk #2 after the HD format is completed and files
are being copied. I replaced the IBM1S506.ADD with the GA version
and that cleared the problem.

In addition, whenever I run WIN-OS/2, I get file execution errors.
I figured out that WIN-OS/2 is unable to find the executables
assoicated with the "!gopm" and "!ddeagent" variables found in
the SAVDMAPPS and MAVDMAPPS line in the WIN-OS/2 SYSTEM.INI.
This occurs despite having reinstalled the BETA 6 times!

Could someone perhaps email me a copy of those files?


SC Lam - slam@eve.wright.edu

Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc,comp.os.os2.apps
From: hundt@samadams.princeton.edu (Thomas M. Hundt)
Subject: ESD (Electronic s/w dist.) systems WANTED
Organization: Princeton University, Computer Science
Distribution: usa
Date: Tue, 29 Sep 1992 01:51:08 GMT

I'm researching what ESD (Electronic Software Distribution)
systems are available for the OS/2 environment.

Basically, what I'd expect such a system to do is to distribute,
say, a new version of an application to users' machines, and
perhaps allow me to collect certain files off of their machines
(and/or allow them to send files to me at the server). 

Anybody who knows of such things, would you please drop me a
line (vendor & product and a phone number would be ideal!)
(Also, non-OS/2 ones would be of interest; maybe their creators
are working on OS/2 versions!)

Thanks,

-Tom Hundt        hundt@samadams.princeton.edu   212 755-6386

Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: shurr@cbnews.cb.att.com (larry.a.shurr)
Subject: Re: PM Terminal at 19200
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Columbus, OH
Date: Fri, 2 Oct 1992 17:01:05 GMT

In article <1992Oct1.235122.1@vax1.umkc.edu> ghdai@vax1.umkc.edu writes:
}Yes, this is the second system I installed OS/2 2.0 on it.  It's in my
}laboratory.  Its COM2 is connected to a line with 19200 baud speed towards
}the VAX mainframe in my university.  However, at the speed the PM/Terminal
}does not run smoothly, compared to at 2400 baud and/or a normal terminal at
}19200.

I have found PM/Terminal to be an amazingly slow and nearly useless 
program.  I have been using TE/2 for data communications.

Larry
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From: hamish@waikato.ac.nz
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Patch for icon size (et4000 1024 pls)
Date: 7 Oct 92 10:34:28 +1300
Organization: University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand


Can somebody please post the patch to make the icons under the 1024x768
display.dll for the et4000 drivers? I saw them, and of course didn't need them
at the time, but now I have a display that can handle it (20" Mitac), and have
decided that 800x600 is just too coarse for it.

TIA.

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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: ochealth@unixg.ubc.ca (ochealth)
Subject: Re: VSVGA.SYS nonsense
Organization: University of British Columbia, Vancouver, B.C., Canada
Date: Mon, 5 Oct 1992 03:55:15 GMT

In article <1973@acf5.NYU.EDU> checker@acf5.NYU.EDU (checker) writes:
>
>I'm getting a little sick of not being able to switch back to full
>(non-garbled) screen OS/2 and DOS sessions from my nice high resolution
>WPS (using the Trident drivers).  Certainly others are having the same
>problem; I've seen many articles on the matter.  I've tried the newest
>vsvga.sys from software.watson, but it didn't help at all.  IBM support
>seems to indicate that ET4000 users are having the same problems.
>
>My question is:
>
>Is anyone out there using the Trident 8900C/1MB with the 1024x768x256
>color drivers that is able to switch to an from non-garbled full screen
>text sessions?


Yes, I can (usually). The Trident OS/2 PM drivers are OK, but the DOS
stuff acts WEIRD.

You should download:
the vsvga.sys patch
the os2ldr replacement
etc. EVERYTHING.

delete your \os2\svgadata.pmi, and go to a full screen DOS session.
type SVGA ON. exit, reboot, and repeat procedure until it works.

try using the Trident modetest.exe to set the full screen DOS
video mode to 1024x768x256, before typing SVGA ON once or twice.

make sure config.sys has IOPL=YES and SET VIO_VGA=DEVICE(BHVHVGA,BVHSVGA)
in it.

You might also try this (IBM said to try this, and it solved a couple problems)

reinstall the OS/2 vga drivers, delete the SVGADATA.PMI file. reboot
with old VGA drivers. 

use the TVGACRTC program to adjust the monitor parameters. It creates a
tvgacrtc.sys file. Put this in your OS/2 config.sys file ie
device=x:\path\tvgacrtc.sys

reboot. install SVGA drivers for Trident. reboot. go to a fullscreen DOS.
delete svgadata.pmi (in case you forgot). run SVGA ON. (backup the new
svgadata.pmi file). You can remove the device=... statement.

keep trying. The Trident card works...sorta
>
>Chris


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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: feustel@netcom.com (David Feustel)
Subject: Where is Rexxtacy?
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 92 00:06:10 GMT
Organization: DAFCO: OS/2 Software Support & Consulting

Could someone post exactly where Rexxstacy is to be found and what
the program does? Thanks.

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From: lclarke@gandalf.rutgers.edu (Lee Clarke)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: Tape Drives
Date: 6 Oct 92 10:13:08 GMT
Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J.

mjn@sbmiclr.cs.sunysb.edu (The Sixth Replicant) writes:

I have an Archive cheapo that is now only partly useful to me. I can't find
software that will recognize my C: drive, which is HPFS, so I must boot
native DOS from the A: drive to backup by D: drive, which is FAT and
where I keep all my data. I have nearly 70 megs of stuff on C: so I've
not found the time to sit here with 20 million floppies to back it up.
I'm paranoid about backups, so not having my C: properly backed up
makes me psychotic. I can't give up HPFS, because of the superior
speed. Morale: Call the companies, talk to a technical person, make
'em promise it will run with OS2, get the person's name, ask about
return guarantees, and probably you should buy an SCSI device.
L. Clarke (lclarke@zodiac).
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc,comp.os.os2.apps
From: pclank01@rigel.spd.louisville.edu (Pat C. Lankswert)
Subject: OS/2 v1.3 EE Upgrades
Date: Mon, 28 Sep 1992 17:19:00 GMT
Organization: University of Louisville

What is the current policy concerning OS/2 v1.3 ==> OS/2 v2.0 upgrades?
Is there a fee now?  We are particularly interested in Extended Edition.
Worse yet... we still have the Registration Card... I know, I know, we
should have sent it in... but we never got around to it.

Pat


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From: shyguy@ocf.berkeley.edu (David S. Shy)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: OS/2 Software.
Date: 28 Sep 1992 22:48:32 GMT
Organization: U.C. Berkeley Open Computing Facility
NNTP-Posting-Host: sandstorm.berkeley.edu

>Furthermore, most people in the U.S. will be receiving the OS/2 Coupon
>Book.  (There will be more such books, too.)  The Coupon Book provides
>discount coupons for OS/2 software.

Huummmmmmm, i must be in the [ (All people) - (Most people) ] group...

To this date, I still haven't gotten anything from IBM.... (and I did

send in the registration card)  Perhaps, I should just call them up...


Dave
shyguy@ocf.berkeley.edu


Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: psm@mullian.ee.mu.OZ.AU (Phil Malin)
Subject: Help!  Can't open more than 1 DOS and OS2 prompt
Organization: Computer Science, University of Melbourne, Australia
Date: Mon, 28 Sep 1992 02:39:11 GMT

The subject says it all.  When I first installed OS2 I could open up multiple
DOS and OS2 prompts (at least I think I remember doing so - doing it gave me
a buzz).  But now OS2 only lets me open up one of each :-(  The only major
operation I've done is to install Word2.0 and the postscript fonts.  I also
used to minimize the folders giving a hash background, but I've learned to
close them properly now.

Can anyone help me?

Phil
psm@mullian.ee.mu.oz.au

Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: cjin@snake6.cs.wisc.edu (Cjin Lee)
Subject: Disappearing Windows in OS/2 GRE
Organization: U of Wisconsin CS Dept
Distribution: usa
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 1992 20:05:53 GMT

Hi,
	I don't know if anyone has experience this before, but surely nobody
mentioned it yet.

	I opened up a seamless WIN31 WRITE.EXE and iconized it to the 
desktop.

	Next, I opened up a seamless WIN31 PBRUSH.EXE and iconized it to the
desktop.

	I did some other things including opening DOS windows, etc.

	When I want to restore the iconized WRITE.EXE, it didn't restore. 
However, I know it was there because when the mouse cursor was over the
place where the windows should be, it became a caret. I was able to type
some things on it, but I couldn't see anything. What I see is a caret on
top of the desktop background bitmap. The PBRUSH.EXE behaved similarly.

	The only way I can get the window to reappear was to bring up the
windows list and then do a close. Then the WRITE.EXE  window would appear
together with a dialog box prompting me to save.

	This doesn't happen all the time. I cannot reproduce this at will too.

	My system: 386-33 8MB 200HD TSENG3000 512K card. 

							- cjin pheow

PS: Email address: cjin%bc@cs.wisc.edu
From: hacker@cco.caltech.edu (Jonathan Bruce Hacker)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: graphics standards supported by 32 bit GRE?
Date: 2 Oct 1992 07:18:03 GMT
Organization: California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
NNTP-Posting-Host: punisher.caltech.edu

According to the documents I have seen the drivers to be supplied with
the 32 bit GRE include support for VGA, XGA, and some SVGA.

Does the above refer to seamless windows?  What sort of support is
there for the 8514 standard?


-- 
Jon Hacker
Caltech, Pasadena CA
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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: mrice@mozart.ColumbiaSC.NCR.COM (Mark W. Rice)
Subject: Re: Trident driver performance
Organization: Your Organization Here
Date: Tue, 06 Oct 92 21:21:01 GMT

In article <1992Oct5.152207.5108@icd.teradyne.com>, brinton@icd.teradyne.com (Chris Brinton) writes:
|> I have a question about the Trident drivers. I got my drivers a couple of
|> months ago and got them installed and they work fine, more or less. One 
|> thing I am unable to do, however, is run VGA games in a DOS window. The 
|> 640x480x16 drivers that came with OS/2 would allow me to do this, but the 
|> 1024x768x256 won't. I want to be able to run a 256 color app (ok, game) 
|> in a DOS window. Are there new drivers that will let me do this? Are there any in the works? Will the ET4000 drivers do this ?(Im thinking
|> of upgrading)
|> 
|> Thanks,
|> Chris
|> brinton@icd.teradyne.com

I've used Trident since GA and they've worked on all graphics except VGA in 
a window.  I've even had VGA windows "run" but that was only when I started
it in a window (as opposed to switching via alt-home).  But they looked
terrible.

I've only used the 800x600 in both 16 and 256 color mode.

I've been checking for new drivers on hobbes (ftp-os2....) and others but
haven't found any.

BTW: the 16 color drivers are more reliable (especially in a Windows full screen
session) and they'll do seamless mode.

Hope that helps a bit.


mark.rice@ColumbiaSC.ncr.com
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: cddukes@c00508-119rd.eos.ncsu.edu (PakRat's Anonymous)
Subject: Re: Using OS/2 without a Mouse
Organization: North Carolina State University, Project Eos
Date: Sat, 3 Oct 1992 06:26:54 GMT

Where does everyone get the idea that a mouse is required to run OS/2 2.0.
After more hours setting up and debugging machines running 2.0 than I
really want to count (IO errors... you know idiot operators) I became
quite familiar with running it without the benefit of a mouse.

The only thing you can't do without a mouse is move an icon to any
arbitrary place within a window...  This is also a problem under 1.3
so the point is moot at best.