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From: gogol@diku.dk (Peter Skov Knudsen)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.apps
Subject: Re: Can you have 256 color bitmaps for a background?
Date: 3 Sep 92 15:21:49 GMT
Organization: Department of Computer Science, U of Copenhagen

dens@flammulated.owlnet.rice.edu (Dennis Allen Schmitz) writes:

>As near as I can tell, folders don't try to change any of the pallet
>colors as they load pictures (this includes the desktop folder). The
>best way, I guess, to make this work would be to dither the original
>24 bit images using the default 256 palette colors.

>Later,
>den

It is __rumored__ that the svga drivers in the fall csd will include
pallete management, which should do the trick. BTW it is not the
responsibility of the folder displaying a picture to mangle with
the pallette - it should be done by the driver. If you at a given time
have several open folders with different background pictures using
a total of say 703 different colors which you want to display on
a 256-color display, the best result will be achieved letting the driver 
manipulate the pallette and assign colors to give the closest
possible match for all windows. This is opposed to the strategy in
Windows, where its the applications responsibility to manipulate
the pallette. This implies that if you under Windows have a 256-color
bitmap as your background, open wingif and display another 256 color-
bitmap, the background will in most cases look terrible. Given the
proper drivers with pallette management, both pictures will look
acceptable.
This latter approach naturally relies totally on the availability
of drivers with pallette management. As it is now, you can display as
many 256-color bitmaps under OS/2 as you like - and they"ll all look
absolutely terrible :-)

Peter S. Knudsen, email gogol@diku.dk
Computer science student, University of Copenhagen
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.apps
From: FAGER@gribb.hsr.no (Fagerland, Svein      94/96)
Subject: CHANGING MOUSE POINTER
Keywords: mouse pointer
Organization: Rogaland University Centre
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1992 06:44:40 GMT

Is there a way to change the mouse-pointer in OS/2 ?

I've noticed that there is an option in the icon editor for pointers.


Anyone ?
From: hethmon@duncan.cs.utk.edu (PAUL HETHMON)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.apps
Subject: terminal emulator of sun 3/4
Date: 28 Aug 92 13:04:01 GMT
Organization: University of Tennessee, Knoxville - Department of Computer Science
Distribution: world
Reply-To: hethmon@duncan.cs.utk.edu (PAUL HETHMON)
NNTP-Posting-Host: duncan.cs.utk.edu

Does anybody know of a communications package which will emulate a 
Sun 3 or Sun 4 keyboard?  Preferably a native OS/2 app.  Kermit and
Zmodem would be nice in it too.

Thanks,

Paul Hethmon
hethmon@cs.utk.edu
From: beders@wip-sol.dfki.uni-sb.de (Jochen Bedersdorfer)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.apps
Subject: Re: Looking for...
Date: 27 Aug 92 12:43:57 GMT
Organization: DFKI Saarbruecken GmbH, D-W 6600 Saarbruecken
In-reply-to: pickrell@hoss.unl.edu's message of 25 Aug 92 16:21:22 GMT

In article <1992Aug25.162122.4311@unlinfo.unl.edu> pickrell@hoss.unl.edu (Andrew Pickrell) writes:

   I found the following programs on a local "pay" board and couldn't
   seem to find them on archie.

   dskex2.zip   35328 bytes   os2 animated screen saver
   earth.zip    39680 bytes   screen for the above
   te2v32.doc   5797  bytes   how to set up v32bis with te2
   techos2.zip  23808 bytes   .bmp of enterprise shooting windows

   If someone could help me locate them, I would appricate it.

Try ftp.uni-stuttgart.de.
Directory pub/os2...
Get the INDEX-File there, you will find at least te2v32.doc and
earth.zip (looks quite good on the WPS:)

Greetings, :)ochen
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From: jbhuber@iastate.edu (Joseph B Huber)
Subject: Re: Is ispell for OS/2 available?
Organization: Iowa State University, Ames, IA
Date: Fri, 28 Aug 1992 17:31:19 GMT

In article <1992Aug27.222147.1@acfcluster.nyu.edu> sens@acfcluster.nyu.edu writes:
>In the great flood of GNU utilities that has been ported to OS/2 in the recent
>past, I notice that ispell is missing.  Has anyone given any thought to porting
>it?  Thanks in advance.
>-- 

I am working on a port. Everything seems to work, and I should have it ready
within the next week. I am not porting the GNU version however; I am porting
Geoff Kuenning's International Ispell v3.0.09(beta).

-- 
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Dept. of Mech. Egr.          |  "It's not a hundred percent efficient,
Iowa State University        |   but nothing ever is."
From: jim@juvat.UUCP (Jim Kunzman)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.apps
Subject: Re: Borland C++ for OS/2.....When!!!
Distribution: world
Date: Sat, 29 Aug 92 00:08:15 GMT
Organization: Headhunters (80th TFS, USAF/PACAF)

rovero@oc.nps.navy.mil writes in article <6007@taurus.cs.nps.navy.mil>:
> 
> The compiler is in beta now, and is also available (if you sign the
> nondisclosure stuff) on "early release" for about $300.  
> 
> Scheduled release is end of the year.....
> 
> -- 
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> 

Yes, I got an offer from Borland just the other day for this "beta"
program.  They announced that they had reduced the price substantially
from the previous beta.  They hadn't reduced it much, since now you
don't get a copy of the release compiler, just a discount coupon.
What an incentive...

I would love it if Borland would pay to Beta test some of my
software.  The unmitigated gall.  I'll just bet Borland pays
Microsoft for the opportunity of beta testing Windows NT!

Borland C++ beta?  Just say no.

--
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From: tholen@galileo.ifa.hawaii.edu (Dave Tholen)
Subject: Re: HyperAccess
Organization: University of Hawaii
Distribution: na
Date: Sun, 30 Aug 1992 00:01:19 GMT

Pierre VonKaenel writes:

> I recall someone posted a news announcement concerning HyperAccess/2:
> that a new version just came out for DOS|OS/2.  What's the latest
> version and is this the one that supports PM and/or WPS, or is the next
> version going to support them?

The recently announced upgrade is version 3.0.  It is still a character-mode
application.  The DOS and OS/2 versions are virtually identical in appearance
and operation, though under the hood they must be quite different.  For
example, the OS/2 version is multithreaded; the DOS version obviously can't
be.  I understand this new version still does not support long filenames (a
shame).  [For those of you who have been struggling with making DOS
communications program work under OS/2 2.0, I can only say that a native
OS/2 communications program really makes life much easier, though I can
understand a user's preference for sticking with a familiar program that
satisfies their needs.]

The 32-bit PM application that Hilgraeve is currently working on is expected
to ship before the end of the year.  I do not know what policy Hilgraeve has,
if any, with regard to upgrades from version 3.0 to the 32-bit PM version.
I for one do not plan to upgrade twice in the span of four months.
From: david@maxwell.ucsc.edu (David Darknell)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.apps
Subject: gtak question
Date: 3 Sep 92 00:12:30 GMT
Organization: University of California, Santa Cruz
NNTP-Posting-Host: maxwell.ucsc.edu

I have been trying, unsuccessfully to get gtarp to recognize and
dump not to a scsi tape, but to floppy disks.  However the
documentation included does not indicate how to access device -0 or -1
which I assume are floppy disks.  Can anybody give me some examples of
how to redirect the output to floppy disks?  
Can I use buffer to speed the process?

*****David
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.apps
From: jeffgus@netcom.com (Jeffrey Gustafson)
Subject: WordPerfect OS/2 -- Text mode or PM (WPS)??
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 92 05:45:16 GMT
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  (408 241-9760 guest) 
Summary: What interface does the current version of WordPerfect support?
Keywords: WordPerfect OS/2 WPS

	Could anybody tell me what interface the current version of
WordPerfect for OS/2 supports?  Does it support WPS (GUI)?
	Also, could anyone tell me where to get the current version of
WordPerfect for OS/2 and the retail price?  I looked around at Egghead
and didn't see it (I didn't ask yet either).  How about CompUSA?

	Please e-mail.

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From: clemens@faui8a.informatik.uni-erlangen.de (Clemens Beckstein)
Subject: Re: Reviews of OS/2 Backup So
Organization: Regionales Rechenzentrum Erlangen
Distribution: na
Date: Thu, 3 Sep 1992 12:41:32 GMT

michael.hagerty@spacebbs.com (Michael Hagerty)  writes:

>Under DOS I used Sterling Software's Intelligent Backup (later shortened to
>just DMS/IB -- I guess they were really mainframe people at heart).  I also
>tried and recommended to others a product developed in England named Flexi-
>Back Plus.  Same principle...  Daily backup consisted of the program asking
>for diskette 6, then 17, then 19 and then the master dictionary diskette.
>Real simple...

>Sterling has just released their OS/2 version, supporting HPFS.  My copy is
>on order, but has not yet arrived.  I have attempted to convince the author
>of flexi-back plus that there is a market for his product under OS/2, but
>he is of the mind that there is probably more need for a Windoze product.
>Alas...

>The two things which I really liked about Flexi-back plus which were
>lacking in DMS/IB was the ability to intermix different density (same size)
>diskettes in the pool and the ability to create a new copy of a diskette
>which was showing signs of going bad...  


Can you give some more info about Sterling (email and/or FAX) and
about the price of the Software?  Looks like the floppy backup
solution I have been looking for...

- Clemens
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.apps
From: sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu (Timothy F. Sipples)
Subject: Re: ZSoft Publisher's Paintbrush?
Reply-To: sip1@midway.uchicago.edu
Organization: Dept. of Econ., Univ. of Chicago
Date: Fri, 4 Sep 1992 03:50:01 GMT

In article <1992Sep4.011330.4030@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> rjones@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Ronald Jones) writes:
>Does anyone know if ZSoft's Publisher's Paintbrush, OS/2 edition
>is actually shipping. I am looking for native OS/2 support for
>my Logitech scanner and understand the windows version of this 
>software does support the Logitech.
>Any experience with either version of this software?

No experience, but the 16-bit version has apparently been out for some
time.  I'm not sure about the 32-bit version.

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From: ak@ananke.stgt.sub.org (Andreas Kaiser)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.apps
Subject: gtarp won't backup to sequence of floppies 
Distribution: world
Date: Thu, 03 Sep 92 02:29:13 GMT
Organization: ananke


In article <1992Aug31.141201.27191@fzi.de> fzi.de writes:

  > I'm using gtarp for backing up a HPFS volume to tape. On my system neither the
  > -W nor the -d, -A, -r and -u option works. Does anyone know about it and
  > will a fix for gtarp be released? Or lies the problem in the nature of a tape
  > backup?

Cartridges streamers do not allow tape data to be partially
overwritten. There are exactly two valid places where write operations
are allowed: at the beginning of the tape and behind all written data.

It is likewise impossible to append to an archive, since TAR writes his
own EOF record(s) [at least 512 bytes of zeroes] which cannot be
overwritten later. Some streamers allow overwriting the trailing tape
filemark, but this is intended for old versions of TAR which don't use
an EOF record.

		Gruss, Andreas
  
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From: plishka@wurzburg.cs.uofs.edu (Rich Plishka)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.apps
Subject: SB Pro & Multimedia Upgrade
Date: 25 Aug 92 17:53:42 GMT
Organization: Department of Computing Sciences


I've had the SoundBlaster MM upgrade (CD-ROM) for a few months now running under DOS... works fine.  Unfortunately, OS2/2.0 doesn't support it directly (no device drivers yet???!!!) & I can't get it to work under a DOS session ("incorect DOS version" error message).. Anyone find a patch/workaround/driver??

thanks..

Rich
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.apps
From: hank@ducvax.auburn.edu
Subject: Re: Can Win-3.0 applets be installed from dist w/o using Win-3.0 setup?
Organization: Auburn University, AL
Distribution: us
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1992 13:49:01 GMT

In article <c=hnv!p.gary@netcom.com>, gary@netcom.com (Gary Messenbrink) writes:
> How can the Windows 3.0 applets be installed in OS/2 without running the
> Windows 3.0 setup program in a DOS window?
> 
> I have looked in the on-line docs, the FAQ and RTFM and have not found
> anything.  I did manage to get the ones desired by running setup from
> a DOS window and then migrating the applets.  This method causes all the
> uncessary stuff for running Windows 3.0 under DOS to get copied also,

I've installed cardfile from windows 3.0a. One of the first few Windows
disks has the "expand" program needed. Run it in a DOS session to see
the options. For each program on the Win disks (compressed programs end with
'$', if  I recall correctly), run expand. That's it.

It has been some time since I've done this, so I may have fogotten something.
Send email if you find problems.

--darrel hankerson hank@ducvax.auburn.edu
From: stanton@haas.berkeley.edu (Richard Stanton)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.apps
Subject: Re: RCS 5.6 problem
Date: Tue, 1 Sep 1992 23:59:55 GMT
Organization: Haas School of Business, U.C. Berkeley
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: connor.berkeley.edu

In article <stanton.481.715391047@haas.berkeley.edu> stanton@haas.berkeley.edu (Richard Stanton) writes:
>I just installed RCS 5.6, and have got it pretty much working, except that 
>when I ran RLOG on a file that I produced using RCS 5.5 under MSDOS, it 
>complained:
>
>rlog error: bad diff output line: d1 1
>rlog aborted

I've worked it out. I had manually edited the file, resulting in its being 
saved with CRLF end of line markers. The original seems to be saved with at 
least some of the end of line markers being just LF. However, it seems that 
if the DOS version can handle either type of end of line, the OS/2 version 
should be able to as well.

Richard Stanton
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.apps
From: panos@db.toronto.edu (Panos Economopoulos)
Subject: Re: Which is better: pmcomm or te2? Other?
Keywords: pmcomm te2 comms
Organization: Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto
Date: 1 Sep 92 23:11:13 GMT

mvp@hsv3.lsil.com (Mike Van Pelt) writes:

>Are there any terminal programs out there that let you use window sizes
>other than 80x25?  I find it painful that I have this nice graphics
>display, but my terminal program (TE2) knows nothing but 80x25 mode.

If you are in an OS/2 window and issue the mode command
("mode co80,35" for example) and then you start TE/2, it does start
in a 35 line  window. Of course, in order for this to be useful your
remote system must also think you access it through a 35 line terminal
or whatever.

If you start TE/2 from a program object, you could use the /K parameter
of the commmand processor, as was recently mentioned, and place the
following (I think) in the parameters field of the program object:
	/K mode .... & te2
Look up the help page for CMD and/or START for the syntax details

>-- 
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>LSI Logic/Headland     | Judging from realistic simulations involving a
>mvp@hsv3.lsil.com      | sledge hammer and a common laboratory frog, we
>sun!indetech!hsv3!mvp  | can assume it will be pretty bad. -- Dave Barry

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From: mig@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Meir I Green)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.apps
Subject: Re: OS/2 locking up? What to do...
Date: 27 Aug 92 21:14:08 GMT
Reply-To: mig@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Meir I Green)
Distribution: comp.os.os2.misc comp.os.os2.apps
Organization: Columbia University, New York

In article <1992Aug26.140515.23371@nmt.edu> jreynold@nmt.edu (John Reynolds) writes:
>I have had OS/2 installed for about 3 weeks now and love it, the only thing
>that I have a question on is: How do you recover from "lock ups" and is it
>possible. For instance:
>				   
>The other day I started a DOS app (I had just modified the DOS properties) and
>as OS/2 was starting up the DOS session, that window just locked. Nothing would
>work (Mouse input dead, and Ctr-ESC and Alt-ESC useless). 
>Although, this lockup was different from others(where it appeared that
>everything was toast): I had PMEYES and PULSE running and both of those
>processes seemed to still be running. Someone told
>me that it might be the WPS locking up and that OS/2 was still technically
>running. So HOW DO YOU 'RESTART' WPS so that CTR+ALT+DEL doesn't have to be
>used?

I have this problem all the time.  Sometimes the mouse doesn't lock.  But
CTL-ESC doesn't help, and pressing other key combos indicates that the 
keyboard buffer is full because the computer beeps.  It is clear the OS/2
kernel is still ok, because CTL-ALT-DEL closes open files before rebooting!

I guess the real fix is for IBM to clean up the WPS code!

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From: rda612c@monu6.cc.monash.edu.au (js [schwobby])
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.apps
Subject: Re: zoo21
Date: 30 Aug 92 04:52:09 GMT
Organization: Monash University, Caulfield Campus

wjb5106@zeus.tamu.edu (Walter Barnett) writes:

>In article <scheidt.715087999@neun>, scheidt@neun.informatik.uni-kl.de (Hans-Joachim Scheidt (DA Assenmacher)) writes...
>>Can anybody told me how to use zoo21 recursiv on directories.
>> 
>>I want to archive a hole directory tree with one command. 
>> 
>>I know that this can be done with pkzip and lha but i want to use zoo.
>> 

>It's a little clunky but try using the I qualifier to take file names 
>from the standard input:

>dir /s/b/a-d | zoo aI archive




Why clunky, that`s what pipes are about.............

regards




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From: db3l@ans.net (David Bolen)
Subject: Re: Locking OS/2 on boot  (passwd protection)
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1992 17:13:44 GMT
Organization: Advanced Network & Services, Inc. - Elmsford, NY

In article <1992Aug27.183247.9699@njitgw.njit.edu> dic5340@hertz.njit.edu (David Charlap) writes:

>It also bothers me that Lockup prevents CTRL-ALT-DEL from rebooting.
>This doesn't increase security any, since I can just power off and on
>to get back in, and then there's the chance that the disk would be
>messed up.  If I want to prevent CTRL-ALT-DEL, I can just lock the
>keyboard with that key switch on the front of the computer or assign a
>power-on password, if it's a PS/2.

I think this is a good idea.  Many of the CMOS/Bios password systems (including
the PS/2's I think) only take affect upon a cold boot.  Thus, if you could
warm-boot out of lockup, you'd be able to bypass the system password.

Yes, you can use the key switch (not all machines necessarily have them,
right?) to disable the keyboard, but that's only useful if you are around.
What about the timed lockup situations where you leave your machine for a
period of time - you wouldn't be around to turn the key.

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From: reimert@mamacass.etdesg.trw.com (Scott P. Reimert)
Subject: Re: FAX/PM for $99.00 (IBM OS/2 Soloutions Coupon Book )
Organization: TRW Inc., Redondo Beach, CA
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 92 22:37:16 GMT

In article <13832@chalmers.se> d9mikael@dtek.chalmers.se (Mikael Wahlgren) writes:
>>I'll fax them and attempt to get a non-800 number.  BTW, I am using PMFAX
>>(now called Faxit for OS/2).  It is an outstanding product.

There are two different fax packages in the OS/2 coupon book. One is PMFax,
and the other is FAX/PM. Can somebody explain the major differences and
advantages? I just need an idea about them before I shell out $100 for the
wrong one.

			Scott

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From: genie@netcom.com (The Genie)
Subject: Re: Which is better: pmcomm or te2?
Date: Sat, 29 Aug 92 19:45:39 GMT
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  (408 241-9760 guest) 
Keywords: pmcomm te2 comms (TE/2 vt100 emulation)

In article <92Aug29.145122edt.12046@roll.db.toronto.edu> panos@db.toronto.edu (Panos Economopoulos) writes:
>Steve.Withers@bbs.actrix.gen.nz writes:
>
>> ...... 
>>refresh. I also bought TE/2 because PMComm's VT100 was not as good as TE/2.
>>This was probably the main difference for me as reasonably VT100 is critical
>>for my comms activities. 
>> .......
>
>Strange. vt100 emulation is critical for me, too. I login to UNIX systems
>and "vi" is my text editor. I tried TE/2 but abandonded it very shortly
>since when running "vi" in a TE/2 session, even hopping from one word
>to the next (with the vi command 'w') erases the previous word.
>One gets tired of hitting ctl-L continually.  There were also some other
>problems with the vt100 emulation that I've noted down somewhere but
>don't remember off the top of my head.
>

I've had the same experience with TE/2.  The vt100 terminal emulation
is not good.  I use the jove text editor and pressing keystrokes like
CNTRL-F (move the cursor to the right one space) will erase the
previous character on my screen.  And I too end up pressing
CNTRL-L many times to get the screen to refresh correctly.  This
is particularly bad when programming since I find it necessary
to see what's been typed before.

The last time this happened was when I used Telix.  But I fixed that
problem by setting the "destructive backspace off".  I tried doing
this same thing with TE/2 by modifying the te.ini file, but
still continues to erase characters off the screen.  For now, back
to Telix!

Gene