HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: gus@deathstar.dell.com (Philip Campman)
Subject: Speedstar 24X
Summary: ok
Keywords: 24X
Organization: Dell Computer Co
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 1992 09:00:12 GMT

ok, for those tha have just tuned in--any cards based on the WD90C31 (such
as the Diamond Speedstr 24X (not the 24 but the "24X") there is no driverr avail
able for it yet.  Diamond SAYS that thyey will write a driver as soon as the
32 bit GRE is released. so dont hold your breath on this sucker for many weeks.
if you ar egoing to get a graphics accelerator card and were considering a
Diamond Speedstar 24X, my advice is to considr a card fro ma a company that
CARES ABOUT ITS CUSTOMERS--and not just th customers running M$ Windows 3.1.
sure the card is fast at Windows, but since you ar reading this net, you are
interessted in a card tha works with OS/2. so look elsewhere. Lots of bitter
Diamond owners out here!! about to dump this sucker and get a card with
REAL support. Diamond are you listtening???



Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: hartzman@kilroy.Jpl.Nasa.Gov (Les Hartzman)
Subject: PMCOMM - Can't configure!
Followup-To: hartzman@kilroy.jpl.nasa.gov
Keywords: pmcomm
Organization: Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA
Distribution: na
Date: Thu, 8 Oct 1992 16:17:52 GMT

I downloaded PMCOM110.ZOO from ftp-os2.  Reading the documentation I expected
to get an error message about the COM port selection.  When the error box
came up, I tried to change it to COM4.  If I click on the 'OK' button, it just
sits there going nowhere.  If I change it to COM4 and hit minimize, PMCOMM
comes up, but without focus, and I can't get it to have focus.

What has to be down to get this program configured.  I'm anxious to try the
program since I've heard good things about it.

Thanks in advance for any help.

Les



-- 
Les Hartzman                hartzman@kilroy.jpl.nasa.gov
Jet Propulsion Laboratory   M/S 238-528    (818) 354-5964
4800 Oak Grove Dr., Pasadena,  CA.  91109
From: hatton@socrates.ucsf.edu (Tom Hatton)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: Service packs vs. 32-bit GRE/Windows 3.1 beta
Date: 7 Oct 92 08:58:23 GMT
Organization: UCSF Computer Graphics Lab

reisert@sttng.mlo.dec.com (Jim Reisert) writes:
>Does anyone have a list of what's in the service packs that's not in
>the beta, and vice-versa?  For example, if I have the beta now, will I
>want to revert to the GA release and install the service packs on top
>of it in order to get more bug fixes or functionality?

Yes.
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: das9674@usl.edu (Stephenson Daniel A)
Subject: Re: OS/2 GRE beta release
Organization: University of Southwestern Louisiana
Date: Fri, 9 Oct 1992 17:53:38 GMT

In article <2cfp3=#@lynx.unm.edu> rgaudre@triton.unm.edu (Ron Gaudreau) writes:
>I've been reading that there seems to be some that have actually been able
>to install the beta release of OS/2 with 32 bit GRE & WIN-OS 3.1
>I can't install it on my machine. It keeps saying that it can't find
>a handful of files even though there are there, in the proper directories
>and chkdsk says that the disk is fine. I would love to install this
>puppy but guess I will have to wait for the CSD, whenever that finally
>comes.

Gosh,m I wish I could help, but if everything went smooth for me,
how can I know how to help?  

Hmm..  Drat, too bad, man.
>        Ron Gaudreau              | rgaudre@triton.unm.edu  
-- 
Dan Stephenson, a *true* FORTRAN Hacker                        das9674@usl.edu  
"I have never understood why it should be neccessary to become irrational in
 order to prove that you care. Or indeed why it should be neccessary to prove
 it at all."  -Avon (Blakes 7 _The Duel_)
From: santeew@sisters.cs.uoregon.edu (Wes Santee)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: What happened on ftp-os2?
Date: 15 Oct 92 23:20:45 GMT
Article-I.D.: cs.1992Oct15.232045.27075
Distribution: na
Organization: University of Oregon Computer and Information Sciences Dept.

Hey, what happened to the batch directories on ftp-os2?
Yestderday they were (unless I'm completely high) in
/pub/uploads/sharebbs/  Have they been absolved?
I tried looking for some files that were there
in the standard 2.0 & all directories, but they weren't
there either (unless I'm still high).

Anyone know the answer?

Thx,
-- 
Wes Santee             | "I think it's about time we voted for senators
santeew@cs.uoregon.edu |  with breasts.  After all, we've been voting
                       |  for boobs long enough."
                       |       -Claire Sargent on women senators
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu (Timothy F. Sipples)
Subject: Re: I want dev. kit! ARRGGH...
Reply-To: sip1@midway.uchicago.edu
Organization: Dept. of Econ., Univ. of Chicago
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 1992 16:27:45 GMT

In article <1992Oct13.013715.19413@nuscc.nus.sg> eletanjm@nuscc.nus.sg (Tan Jin Meng) writes:
>This is driving me crazy. IBM's putting out this fantastic bargin for
>the developer's kit for $15 only and I CAN'T GET IT! I called up my
>local IBM office and was told I can't get it here in  Singapore.
>Anyone know of any way I can get my sweaty hands on it?

If you call the IBM DAP telephone number in Boca Raton, Florida, you
can order the CD-ROM from anywhere in the world now.  See FAQ List
2.0f for details.

-- 
Timothy F. Sipples      | The OS/2 FREQ. ASKED QUESTIONS LIST 2.0f is avail.
sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu | from 128.123.35.151, anonymous ftp, in /pub/os2/all
Dept. of Econ., Univ.   | /faq, or from LISTSERV@BLEKUL11.BITNET (send "HELP")
of Chicago, 60637       | [For the Internet, vote Clinton-GORE this year.]
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu (Timothy F. Sipples)
Subject: Re: OS2SYS.INI size
Reply-To: sip1@midway.uchicago.edu
Organization: Dept. of Econ., Univ. of Chicago
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 1992 16:14:58 GMT

In article <Bw0oEA.1K3@brunel.ac.uk> me90plb@brunel.ac.uk (Paul L Barnfather) writes:
>My OS2SYS.INI file has bloated to 1.5MB.
>Is it supposed to be this big ?
>OS2.INI is only 400k
>Is there a way of making the INI file smaller -
>clearing out garbage etc..
>Disk space is getting a little tight ...

If you are careful, and you know what you are doing, try the EditINI
program from IBM, available via anonymous ftp from ftp-os2.nmsu.edu.
ShowINI, available via anonymous ftp from ftp-os2.nmsu.edu, also works
fine.

-- 
Timothy F. Sipples      | The OS/2 FREQ. ASKED QUESTIONS LIST 2.0f is avail.
sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu | from 128.123.35.151, anonymous ftp, in /pub/os2/all
Dept. of Econ., Univ.   | /faq, or from LISTSERV@BLEKUL11.BITNET (send "HELP")
of Chicago, 60637       | [For the Internet, vote Clinton-GORE this year.]
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu (Timothy F. Sipples)
Subject: Re: Os/2 and second drives
Reply-To: sip1@midway.uchicago.edu
Organization: Dept. of Econ., Univ. of Chicago
Distribution: na
Date: Sat, 10 Oct 1992 01:35:44 GMT

In article <1992Oct9.193140.24778@cs.UAlberta.CA> shane@cs.UAlberta.CA (Ruman Shane James) writes:
>      I'm considering buying another hard drive to satiate software's space 
>apetite and remember reading that Os/2 didn't pacticularily like second drives
>, has there been any problems with using Os/2 on a system with two drives.  
>Also if two drives works fine, is it possible to format the second one totally
>as HPFS while Os/2 continues to reside on my FAT drive 1(unfortunately still
>gotta use dos occaisonally).  Illumination would be appreciated as always!

No problem.  (I'm assuming, for simplicity, that you are adding a
second hard drive to the existing controller.)

-- 
Timothy F. Sipples      | The OS/2 FREQ. ASKED QUESTIONS LIST is avail. from
sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu | 128.123.35.151, anonymous ftp, in /pub/os2/all/faq.
Dept. of Econ., Univ.   | Or from LISTSERV@BLEKUL11.BITNET (send "HELP").
of Chicago, 60637       | Family Values Means a Job
From: np4@prism.gatech.EDU (Nick Pomponio)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: Moving programs out of WIN-OS/2 Full Screen
Date: 11 Oct 92 19:59:44 GMT
Organization: Georgia Institute of Technology

In <1992Oct10.013859.2899@midway.uchicago.edu> sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu (Timothy F. Sipples) writes:

>In article <70688@hydra.gatech.EDU> np4@prism.gatech.EDU (Nick Pomponio) writes:
+>I accidentally installed a program in the Win-OS/2 full screen "folder"
+>(or whatever it is). I would like to move it to the Windows container
+>so that I can run it seamlessly. Is there any way to do this, short of
+>reinstalling the application? Since opening Win-OS/2 takes up the full
+>screen, I can't drag anything into/out of the folder. I appreciate
+>any help.

>Can you clarify your question?  What exactly are you trying to move,
>from where to where?

>-- 
>Timothy F. Sipples      | The OS/2 FREQ. ASKED QUESTIONS LIST is avail. from
>sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu | 128.123.35.151, anonymous ftp, in /pub/os2/all/faq.
>Dept. of Econ., Univ.   | Or from LISTSERV@BLEKUL11.BITNET (send "HELP").
>of Chicago, 60637       | Family Values Means a Job

I installed Freelance for Windows as per the instructions, but somehow it
ended up in the Win-OS/2 "folder", so I have to run it under full-screen
Windows emulation. I would like to run it seamlessly from the WPS desktop.

-- 
POMPONIO,NICHOLAS A
Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta Georgia, 30332
uucp:	  ...!{decvax,hplabs,ncar,purdue,rutgers}!gatech!prism!np4
Internet: np4@prism.gatech.edu
From: slam@desire.wright.edu
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: Can't print to file!
Date: 12 Oct 92 04:39:35 GMT
Organization: Wright State University

In article <Oct.11.16.07.03.1992.5442@remus.rutgers.edu>, glenw@remus.rutgers.edu (Glenn Wasserman) writes:
> This is a pretty annoying bug. When I install a new printer driver (any one)
> the WPS hangs. When it comes back, (really fast, I'm using the beta) I delete
> the extraneous printer icon, go to my printer object, select a driver and PRINT
> TO FILE, and whenever I print, it prompts for a filename, and then the app
> craps out and closes. I get "This session encountered... blah blah...". 
> Needless to say, nothing goes to my file...
> 
> Anyone else experience this? Maybe I'm doing something wrong.
> 
> -Glenn
> 
> Glenw@remus.rutgers.edu

[Printing problems using the 32-bit GRE beta].
My experience only varies in one respect from yours. Installation of a
new driver is alright. PRINT TO FILE has approximately the same effect
as you had. IN my instance, Win-OS/2 freezes. I have to Alt Esc to the WPS
and kill it. Even then, Win-OS/2 refuses to die. I usually do a reboot
to fix it. Annoying! This is the main reason why I junked the beta. I
use AmiPro for Win since the OS/2 version is not out yet and DeScribe is
too expensive. Sighh... I hope Lotus hurrys up with the Os/2 version of
AmiPro.

SC Lam - slam@desire.wright.edu
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: adamsm@woods.ulowell.edu
Subject: OS2 BETA - dos emulation not as good?
Organization: University of Lowell
Date: Thu, 8 Oct 1992 13:56:17 GMT

Just installed the new os/2 BETA as it came to me yesterday.  I had no
problems at first and rather enjoyed the win3.1 features even when considering
the drive change to 3.5 just to install the thing.  That is until I tried
running a few of the programs that I had previously run on the origional
copy.  In perticular, FASTBACK 3.X, that worked flawlessly before would
always come up with an ILLEGAL INSTRUCTION error no matter how I ran the 
thing (windows,dos box,dos full screen,wps c: drive, migrated icon, etc.).
I installed the beta with the format HPFS selection as the beta asked
for.  I can't understand why the beta wont run a dos program that the origional
would run fine.  I understand that this is a beta but if it cant run fastback,
which all my applications are backed up with, then it isn't worth my trouble.
Any suggestions for this mess would be greatly appreciated as I hoped get a 
little farther into testing this beta as I see a great future for OS/2.

-Mike Adams (Lowell, Massachusettes)
From: dic5340@hertz.njit.edu (David Charlap)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: OS/2 ate my whole harddrive!
Date: 15 Oct 92 20:14:57 GMT
Organization: New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, N.J.

In article <1992Oct14.012904.31161@frodo.cc.flinders.edu.au> mmtl@hobson.cc.flinders.edu.au (T.Lampre) writes:
>I suspect that it may be my new IDE controller. I added a 3rd drive to
>my system and so I have one of those new cached controllers with 4
>megs. I've had it installed for about a week with no problems and was
>going to post how happy I am with it, now I'm not so sure. The drive
>that failed was not the new one.

You're not using two IDE controllers in one computer, are you?  I was
told by a few people that your disk access can become unpredictible if
you do.  Better you get an IDE controller that supports 4 drives (I
think they exist).  Also, be sure that your 3rd drive isn't configured
as a "master" drive unless you want to boot from it.  I understand
that only one IDE drive (the boot drive) in a system can be configured
as master, and the rest must be slaves.

-- 
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"
From: bewhite@matt.ksu.ksu.edu (MacroMan)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: Don't put program shadows on Desktop!
Date: 8 Oct 1992 11:14:35 -0500
Organization: Kansas State University
NNTP-Posting-Host: matt.ksu.ksu.edu

jokim@jarthur.claremont.edu (John H. Kim) writes:
>Shadowing folders seems to work OK.  I haven't run into any problems with
>the few folders I have shadowed to the desktop.  Just don't rename the
>shadow unless you want to rename the original folder (that's the only
>real problem I've found with shadowing files and programs from the
>drives object, which is a pretty serious problem).

  This is strange.  I have several programs shadowed from the drives
object, and I have them renamed to something more friendly too.  I
have experienced no problems with them so far.  The only problem I
have had so far is renaming folders from the drives object.
-- 
  Bruce White(bewhite@matt.ksu.ksu.edu)
  "Back off man, I'm a scientist." - W. Murray
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: eletanjm@nuscc.nus.sg (Tan Jin Meng)
Subject: I want dev. kit! ARRGGH...
Organization: National University of Singapore
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1992 01:37:15 GMT

This is driving me crazy. IBM's putting out this fantastic bargin for
the developer's kit for $15 only and I CAN'T GET IT! I called up my
local IBM office and was told I can't get it here in  Singapore.

Anyone know of any way I can get my sweaty hands on it?

jin meng
From: miesfeld@cs.arizona.edu (Mark Miesfeld)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Where is the latest FAQ?
Date: 12 Oct 92 13:33:15 GMT


The latest version of the FAQ is (apparently) 20f, but I can not
seem to find it at ftp-os2.nmsu.edu.  For the past week Timothy
Sipples has been answering questions relating to the PDK CD-ROM
and as to which CD-ROM drives OS/2 supports by saying, see the FAQ.
The latest version I find is 20e, and it does not answer these
questions.

I am looking under pub/os2/all/faq.  Where else might it be?  I
do not see it under uploads or new either.

--
Mark Miesfeld
miesfeld@cs.arizona.edu
From: rcashman@lynx.dac.northeastern.edu (Robert Cashman)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: SetVer equivalent?
Date: 16 Oct 92 19:29:29 GMT
Organization: Northeastern University, Boston, MA. 02115, USA


  I'm running OS/2 2.0 on a 386-40mhz with a SoundBlaster Pro.  I have the
CD-Rom drive for the Pro.  I understand that I can not access the drive
under OS/2 currently.  I wanted to run the DOS drivers so that I can access
the drive under a DOS session.  I added the CONFIG sys driver to my profile for
the DOS session.  It loads fine.  However the MSCDEX program will not load.
It wants a correct DOS version.  Can I set it so that it thinks its the correct
DOS version like SETVER does?  Help!  

--Robert Cashman
  Northeastern University
  rcashman@lynx.northeastern.edu
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: goyal@utdallas.edu (Mohit K. Goyal)
Subject: Re: XGA Cards - Are there any?
Organization: Univ. of Texas at Dallas
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 1992 23:49:05 GMT

>>I know ATI is shipping 16-bit drivers with its 2 new Ultra cards, but
>>from talking to them I believe that they have NO intention of 
>>producing 32-bit drivers anytime soon.
>
>This will change is OS/2 becomes as big as it seems like it will...
>

Possibly.  How big will OS/2 have to become though?  Also, if ATI,
and other companies, haven't even started making drivers, who knows
how long it will be before they are released...
All I know is that I talked to someone higher up than the operators
today, and he said that ATI has "no plans to commit resources to
write 32-bit OS/2 drivers, as the 16-bit drivers shipping with the
Ultra Pro and Ultra Plus are 100% compatible with the 32-bit GRE, and
the 16-bit drivers take full advantage of all of the cards features."
(almost an exact quote)

>>this might be true, but we are talking about XGA-2, and XGA-2 right
>>now is specified for:
>>
>>65k colors in VGA
>>65k colors in SVGA
>>256 colors in 1024X768
>>
>>I don't know of any game today that can't fit in those limits.
>
>In XGA-2's case, however, we should be OK since it is VESA compliant.
>Question for the masses:  Is XGA-2 coming out in an EISA version?
>
Yeah, I was talking about XGA-2, not XGA.

I talked to Radius today, and the guy I talked to said that he doesn't
know of any plans for them to make an EISA version.

What I do wish is that IBM would specify 16-bit color for 1024X768.
That would require more than 1meg on the card though.
(which isn't that big a deal)

Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: bill@snoopy (Bill Poitras)
Subject: Re: Redbooks on watson.  Bookmaster?
Reply-To: bill@msi.com
Organization: Molecular Simulations, Inc.
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL5
Distribution: usa
Date: Wed, 7 Oct 1992 23:52:30 GMT

John Abanco (ujabanco@uxa.ecn.bgu.edu) wrote:
: Isn't there a way so you can print on the laser sometime at night or
: when the office closes? If there was something like a TSR that would
: print the files when nobody is around, that would solve your problem.
: Is there something like RECORDER for OS/2 that you could use?

You could also change the OS/2 printer object (or is it the job itself?
I don't remember) to run the print job at a later time.  Check out the
docs for printing.

--
+-----------------+-------------------------------+-------------------------+
| Bill Poitras    | Molecular Simulations Inc.    | Tel (408)522-9229       |
| (bill)          | Sunnyvale, CA USA             |                         | 
|                 | FAX (408)732-0831             | bill@msi.com            |
+-----------------+-------------------------------+-------------------------+

Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: bsn@world.std.com (Brent S Noorda)
Subject: Re: DOS Game too fast!! how to slow down?
Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
Date: Mon, 12 Oct 1992 13:06:59 GMT

I have SlowDos.exe, which chews up clock cycles in the timer interrupt.  It
works for what I needed it to work for.  You can slow to any level.  I gave
my 486 50Mhz a norton SI rating of 0.2.  I would send this to an ftp site
but I'm not sure how that works.  If you want the code, source and
executable, mail me a request and I will mail it to you.  If you feel
like telling me how to upload to ftp sites and to report on the upload, then
that also would be swell.
From: drkszk@ocf.berkeley.edu (Derek Suzuki)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Is anyone planning an XGA-2 on VL-bus?
Date: 14 Oct 1992 06:44:36 GMT
Organization: U.C. Berkeley Open Computing Facility
NNTP-Posting-Host: tornado.berkeley.edu

	Like the subject says.

	Derek
From: goyal@utdallas.edu (Mohit K. Goyal)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: The Service Pack is....DELAYED!!!! (October 31st!)
Date: 13 Oct 92 20:13:16 GMT
Article-I.D.: utdallas.1992Oct13.201316.5156
Organization: Univ. of Texas at Dallas

Well...I just got off the phone with 18003ibmos2 and I have been
informed that the Service Pack has been delayed again.

This time it has been delayed until the "end of the month".

I would say this means October 31st, but since that's a Saturday,
I'll say that IBM is now targeting October 30.

I expect we'll see an unofficial announcement of some sort on
software.watson.ibm.com before week's end.

Hopefully they will be able to get it out in October.

Oh well...guess we all will have to wait a little bit longer...

I wonder if IBM is still trying to release OS/2 2.x this year?
(OS/2 2.x = the next version of OS/2, will include Windows v3.1 support)
From: iam@stiatl.salestech.com (Ian Mercado)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: OS2 BETA - dos emulation not as good?
Date: 12 Oct 92 14:12:18 GMT
Article-I.D.: stiatl.1992Oct12.141218.6952
Organization: Sales Technologies, Inc.

jedwards@ms.uky.edu (Jonathan Edwards) writes:
>>	We don't have Compuserve access, and our report that we E-mailed
>>to their tech-support address was met with "we are not supporting 
>>the Beta version" as their reply.

The address I was given was 76711.610@compuserve.com

I just sent 6 reports to them today, and I assume that this is where they
should go.

Ian

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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: jokim@jarthur.claremont.edu (John H. Kim)
Subject: Re: OS2 BETA - dos emulation not as good?
Organization: Harvey Mudd College, Claremont, CA 91711
Date: Fri, 9 Oct 1992 01:50:46 GMT

adamsm@woods.ulowell.edu writes:

>Just installed the new os/2 BETA as it came to me yesterday.  I had no
>problems at first and rather enjoyed the win3.1 features even when considering
>the drive change to 3.5 just to install the thing.  That is until I tried
>running a few of the programs that I had previously run on the origional
>copy.  In perticular, FASTBACK 3.X, that worked flawlessly before would
>always come up with an ILLEGAL INSTRUCTION error no matter how I ran the 
>thing (windows,dos box,dos full screen,wps c: drive, migrated icon, etc.).

I haven't figured out how to get Wolfenstein 3D to run in a DOS box with
the beta.  It worked fabulously under 2.0 GA.  I tried the exact same
settings and still no go.  Any ideas?
-- 
John H. Kim                 | (This space to be filled when I
jokim@jarthur.claremont.edu | think of something very clever 
uunet!jarthur!jokim         | to use as a disclaimer)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc