HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: bealjrkl@craft.camp.clarkson.edu ()
Subject: Problem printing with WP 5.1 DOS and OS/2 printer drivers
Summary: print takes 20 min with driver, but is normal without one
Keywords: problem printing Fujitsu RX7200 PCL HP bitstream facelift
Organization: Clarkson University
Date: Tue, 29 Sep 1992 03:53:30 GMT


    I am currently using OS/2 2.0 to multitask DOS applications, 
while I wait for OS/2 apps to come out.  I am having problems with 
printing from DOS apps, however.

    I use Word Perfect 5.1.  I recently purchased a Fujitsu RX7200, 
which emulates the HP Laserjet II.  However, very few fonts came with 
the printer, so I purchased Bitstream's Facelift for Word Perfect, 
ver. 1.5.  This works great under DOS 5.0.

    However, with a printer driver on the desktop, it takes about 20 
*minutes* to get a page printed.  What to Word Perfect is a single 
job becomes 800-1000 jobs to the printer driver (to give it credit, 
the page is usually printed accurately; however, going from 12ppm to 
0.05ppm is unacceptable).

    I can somewhat understand the problem: it is seeing EOF chars (I 
guess) and splitting the job up based on that.  The only solution I 
have to this is to delete the printer driver, which allows WP to 
print just fine.  However, that is not an elegant solution, as now my 
PM apps won't print.

    Has anyone else experienced this problem?

    How would I go about fixing it?

    When is Word Perfect 6.0 for OS/2 due out?  (I think 5.0 is 
available, but I refuse to downgrade to get the OS/2 version.  I also 
think 5.0 was for OS/2 1.3, and I'd like a 2.0-specific version.)  
I'd also be interested in 5.1 for OS/2, but I've heard that it isn't 
going to be made (WP Corp. is waiting for 6.0).

	advTHANKSance!
--
Kenneth L. Beal, Jr.		bealjrkl@craft.camp.clarkson.edu
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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.apps
From: TW.FY4@isumvs.iastate.edu (Timothy I Miller)
Subject: Re: Shredder vs. Trash (was: Why OS/2 **WILL** fail)
Organization: Iowa State University, Ames IA
Distribution: usa
Date: Sun, 4 Oct 1992 19:53:54 GMT

     Now, I'm a little confused on this whole deleting things from
the desktop thing.  If I have a program on the desktop, and drag it
to the shredder, is it being deleted from the disk, or is it just
being deleted from the desktop (like windows does)?
     Also, if I take a program object, and put it into a folder
(like
the 'recycle' folder (very clever idea, BTW)), is it physically
being moved from one subdirectory to another, or is it staying in
the same place on the disk, but looks different from the desktop
(like windows).
     Obviously, I come from a DOS background.  Thanks!

T. Miller
From: gjm@cray.com (Gordon Miller)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.apps
Subject: Re: Will ACAD rel. 10 run in a DOS session
Date: 29 Sep 92 18:07:22 GMT

In article <1992Sep28.183336.10449@news.iastate.edu> jbhuber@iastate.edu (Joseph B Huber) writes:
>I'm sure this has been asked before, but I didn't see it in the FAQ.
>
>Does ACAD rel. 10 run in an OS/2 2.0 DOS session? When I try to run ACAD rel.
>10, the drawing loads and is displayed, but then the system crashes and
>displays an internal processing error message (requires reboot - I can post
>the message and machine specs. if necessary).
>
>Is there a fix for this, or is it just a matter of getting the 'DOS setting'
>properly adjusted?
>
>Thanks.
>
>-- 
>Joe Huber 
>(jbhuber@iastate.edu)        | Capt. James T. Kirk on the 2nd law of thermo: 
>Dept. of Mech. Egr.          |  "It's not a hundred percent efficient,
>Iowa State University        |   but nothing ever is."


Yes, there is a  OS/2 kernel fix (OS2KRN) which may resolve this problem. 
Here is the description of the problem that it addresses.

APAR PJ04081 / PTR B735516
PROBLEM SUMMARY: IPE occurs at location 150:4912 which is a "rep stosd"
                 inside the BlastSFT. (AUTOCAD problem)


The fix is in OS2KRN.ZIP available on software.watson.ibm.com (129.34.139.5) in
directory "/pub/os2/os2fixes" and may be on ftp-os2.nmu.edu as well.

Cheers,
  Gordon Miller
From: rhoward@matd.gatech.edu (Robert L. Howard)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.apps
Subject: Re: Quattro Pro Excessive Disk Access
Date: 1 Oct 92 21:07:12 GMT
Organization: Georgia Tech Research Institute

smbrush@lims01.lerc.nasa.gov (Andy Brush @Sverdrup) writes:

>I'm using Quattro Pro in a default-settings DOS session.  It seems to 
>access the hard drive every time I press a key.  I have 8Mb of memory, 
>plenty of swap space, and no other programs running.

>Has anyone else out there seen this?  Have you found a fix?

Hey it does this under plain old MS-DOS too (very annoying
when working on a notebook PC or a PC with only a Bernouli).
It's a dog of a spreadsheet and I junked my copy of it....

Robert
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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.apps
From: bill@snoopy (Bill Poitras)
Subject: Re: MS ready to release 32-bit Word & Excel?!?! Read on...
Reply-To: bill@msi.com
Organization: Molecular Simulations, Inc.
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL5
Date: Thu, 1 Oct 1992 20:44:00 GMT

Kevin Crocker (kevinc@aupair.cs.athabascau.ca) wrote:
: goyal@utdallas.edu (Mohit K. Goyal) writes:
: Hey, no problem, just take all those 1Mb SIMMS and toss 'em in a Mac -
: they work just fine and it's a hell of a lot cheaper than getting
: Apple's SIMM upgrades.

Not really.  PCs use 1x9 SIMMs while Macs use 1x8 SIMMs.  I don't think
they are compatible.  Am I wrong?

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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.apps
From: 880506s@dragon.acadiau.ca (James R. Skinner)
Subject: Re: Visual REXX is here !
Organization: Acadia University
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 1992 04:04:03 GMT

RONY@awiwuw11.wu-wien.ac.at (FLATSCHER Rony) writes:

>On hobbes (ftp-os2.nmsu.edu) in the uploads-section there is an IBM-
>package called VREXX2.ZIP.
>It allows for using PM-controls from within REXX (windows, dialogs,
>fonts, drawings).
>Check it out, it is worth it !

I just downloaded this from software.watson.ibm.com yesterday and from my
first impression it looks like a great product!  I hope IBM plans to include
this rexx extension in the base OS/2 product in future releases


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        James Robie Skinner        |     Jodrey School of Computer Science        James.Skinner@dragon.acadiau.ca  |  Acadia University, Wolfville, NS, Canada
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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.apps
From: bdmccorm@nyx.cs.du.edu (Bob McCormick)
Subject: Re: ULTIMA 7
Organization: University of Denver, Dept. of Math & Comp. Sci.
Date: Mon, 5 Oct 92 23:00:08 GMT

patrick.macroy@scintill (Patrick Macroy)  writes:

>I was wondering if anyone knew if it's posable to run Ultima VII under O
/2 and 
> if so what settings to use?  I successfully installed it, but when I tr
 to run it 
>I get the generic "Program has incountered an error" message.  Ultima 7 
ses 
>some kind of wierd memory manager called VOODOO.  I imangine this is the
 
>problem.  Thanks!

> * KWQ/2 1.0.5 * 
>                                                                        
                                                                         
        



Ultima 7 wil NOT run with ANY other 386 mode software!  That includes
OS/2, Windows, 386Max, Qemm and even the EMM386 memory manager included
with DOS 5.  U
From: pricejoh@CS.ColoState.EDU (john russel price)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.apps
Subject: ftp problems
Date: 28 Sep 92 22:03:18 GMT
Organization: Colorado State University Computer Science, Industrial Technology



      I have a question that I can't get answered. Maybe someone
      can help.
   
     When I try to ftp-os2.nmsu.edu I get a unknown host message.
     If I try to use nslookup on the name it also says unknown host
     or something like that. Why cant I get connected here. I have
     FTP'ed to other sites and have had no problems. Any help or 
     suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

-- 
John Price    email: pricejoh@handel.CS.Colostate.Edu
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.apps
From: lai@seas.gwu.edu (William Y. Lai)
Subject: Re: Objectvision, Turbo Pascal for OS/2 (rumours)
Keywords: objectvision turbo pascal os/2 os2 borland
Organization: George Washington University
Date: Sat, 26 Sep 1992 18:53:40 GMT



Can you tell us how OV 2.0 for OS/2 compares with the latest OV for Windows?
Does it have all the features for OV/Win 2.0?

Curious,

-- 
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Dept. of Electrical Eng.|  I have a wonderful, wonderful life.  But there's so
George Washington Univ. |  much more out there.  Do I have it all?  Yes.  Do I
Washington, D.C.        |  want more?  Yeah, sure."     -Demi Moore        
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.apps
From: nenaas@ulrik.uio.no (Nils-Eivind Naas)
Subject: Re: TRN, Newsreader for OS/2
Organization: University of Oslo, Norway
Date: Tue, 29 Sep 1992 08:39:57 GMT

Are there any plans to implement nntp support for this newsreader?
Quite a lot of machines are installed at universities and other networked
sites where news are available vis nntp.
Save a lot of disk space and data transfer.

Nils-Eivind Naas, ISAF, Oslo
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.apps
From: ken@unixg.ubc.ca (Kenneth White)
Subject: Re: Extended memory
Organization: University of British Columbia, Vancouver, B.C., Canada
Date: Sun, 4 Oct 1992 02:22:59 GMT

I tried to use Lahey EM/32 Fortran which uses PharLap under OS/2 and
it works as a DOS application but can only get around 600K of real
memory. Does anyone know how to get it to use Extended Memory under OS/2?
From: gt1610c@prism.gatech.EDU (McGaugh)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.apps
Subject: Re: HPFS BACKUP
Date: 3 Oct 92 15:09:05 GMT
Organization: Georgia Institute of Technology

In article <1992Oct3.035153.5888@midway.uchicago.edu> sip1@midway.uchicago.edu writes:
>Also, in the shareware arena, there's OBackup Version 3.40.  You can
>get it via anonymous ftp from ftp-os2.nmsu.edu.

Where did you find a 3.40 version of OBackup?  I looked on hobbes,
and the latest version is 1.24, and it is useless since it has
expired (crippleware).

Ken.

-- 
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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.apps
From: hank@ducvax.auburn.edu
Subject: Re: Triple question: less, gcc, emx
Organization: Auburn University, AL
Date: Fri, 2 Oct 1992 23:48:49 GMT

In article <1992Oct02.084835.4314@donau.et.tudelft.nl>, linstee@dutecaj.et.tudelft.nl (Erik van Linstee) writes:
> When I call less (less177 from hobbes) I get a sys 1808: exception 0005
> report. Does anybody know what is wrong? When I try to call the same
> less from the dos prompt I get DPMI not supported, both with DPMI

You cannot run the 32-bit less (thanks John Kim) in a dos-box. Get the 
16-bit version (thanks Kai Uwe Rommel) from ftp-os2.nmsu.edu in 
pub/os2/all/gnu.

> I have seen EMX popup several times now, especially when installing
> less, and would like to know exactly what it is and why less fi needs

less uses emx.exe (when running under plain old dos, not a dos-box) and
uses emx.dll in OS/2. You MUST have emx.dll in a directory specified in
the config.sys LIBPATH statement.

--darrel hankerson hank@ducvax.auburn.edu
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.apps
From: unruh@physics.ubc.ca (William Unruh)
Subject: Help- Lost mouse pointer in WinOS W4W
Summary: Help lost mouse pointer in WinOS W4W
Keywords: mouse,Winos, Word for Windows
Organization: University of British Columbia, Vancouver, B.C., Canada
Date: Fri, 2 Oct 1992 05:01:46 GMT


Help. I have Word for Windows 2.0a as an application on my desktop. When
I first open it everything is fine (full screen) I then go to OS2
Desktop and then return to that W4W session via the sessions list or
double clicking again on the icon, and now the mouse poiter has
disappeared. It seems to vanish just before the Desktop vanishes, and
never reappears in the W4W session.
I am running on an ATI Wonder XL card using Joels ATI drivers at 1024.
The Windows is running at VGA

Note that a simple full screen Windows does not suffer from this.
Any clues?
Bill Unruh
unruh@physics.ubc.ca


Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.apps,comp.os.os2.advocacy
From: reimert@mamacass.etdesg.trw.com (Scott P. Reimert)
Subject: Re: MS to release PM32 Word & Excel?  NOT
Organization: TRW Inc., Redondo Beach, CA
Date: Mon, 28 Sep 92 22:05:32 GMT

In article <1992Sep26.112459.5348@wsl.ie> jja@wsl.ie (John J. Allen) writes:
>tomjo@microsoft.com (Tom Johnston) writes:
>: Why should Msft (or anyone else) write apps for PM32?  OS/2 runs
>: Windows apps (or so IBM tells me).  I'll just stick with Windows apps.
>
>Well seeing as Windows runs DOS apps, why did Microsoft create WinWord
>when it already had Word for DOS. Why not just keep upgrading DOS Word and
>tell users to use that instead of createing a Windows specific version.

Because MS wrote Windows, and wanted it to sell. As has been said elsewhere,
they needed a "killer app" or two. The difference here is that MS doesn't
write and sell OS/2, so they really coulden't care less whether it makes it
or not. All they need to do in this arena is clear a profit on the one app.

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From: rob@cybernet.cse.fau.edu (Robert Rittenhouse)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.apps
Subject: Program objects, files, shadows (was: Re: Shredder vs. Trash)
Date: 5 Oct 92 22:22:35 GMT
Organization: Cybernet BBS, Boca Raton, Florida

I'd also vote for a clearer way to distinguish between files and the
disk and the icons used to launch applications. Using shadow objects
makes sense to me. As a new OS/2 user I found (& sometimes still find)
this very confusing. I have tried to change the name of a program object
from say PROG.EXE to Program, accidently deleted programs and so on.

So, we have an object used to launch an application and we have the file
that contains (some) of the executable code. These are distinct and
APPEAR distinctly different.

There are still a number of behavioral issues to be worked out: when
one finds an executable file in the disk directory what should happen
when you drag it to the desktop? Should we automatically create the
shadow or actually move the physical file (which is currently done).

Along the same lines some of the OS/2 tools need work. The MIGRATE 
APPLICATIONS is virtually useless if all one wants to do is migrate
1 application (I know it doesn't do much anyway). The ICON EDITOR
(which is a fun tool even for beginners) goes through this weird
save dialogue and saves to this bizarre file name. And so on.

Maybe I'm just old but I've found the operations of the WPS confusing.

Rob Rittenhouse
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From: jmaynard@oac.hsc.uth.tmc.edu (Jay Maynard)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.apps,comp.os.os2.advocacy
Subject: Re: MS ready to release 32-bit Word & Excel?!?! Read on...
Date: 1 Oct 92 20:16:42 GMT
Followup-To: comp.os.os2.apps
Organization: UT Health Science Center Houston

In article <1992Sep29.200425.2154@sequent.com> furballs@sequent.com (Paul Penrod) writes:
>That is a point well taken, but past history has shown that
>Microsoft has been willing to support "competing" OS's in a sense
>by developing or porting applications to the Macintoy and SCO XENIX
>environments. While they are not Microsoft owned and operated OS's,
>they were lucrative income streams none the less.

Neither of the examples you cite, though, competed anywhere near as directly
with a Microsoft OS as does OS/2.  Not porting apps to Xenix would not have
helped DOS sales. Not porting apps to OS/2 may well help NT sales.

-- 
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jmaynard@oac.hsc.uth.tmc.edu      | adequately be explained by stupidity.
    Vote for a REAL change on 3 November: Throw out the check-bouncing,
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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.apps
From: 880506s@dragon.acadiau.ca (James R. Skinner)
Subject: DeskPic
Organization: Acadia University
Date: Mon, 28 Sep 1992 13:54:02 GMT

	
	I am having troubles getting deskpic to work properly.  After the
timeout period either just the mouse pointer disappears or the screen goes
black.  When I start to move the mouse the saver flashes on the screen for
a second and then is gone.  Anybody have this problem or know the solution?


-- 

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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.apps,comp.os.os2.misc
From: gregory@halcyon.com (Gregory Wright)
Subject: Re: GRE-Win3.1 Reports can go to CIS
Keywords: OS/2, GRE, Win3.1
Organization: The 23:00 News and Mail Service
Date: Fri, 2 Oct 1992 04:25:29 GMT

In article <1992Oct1.232124.8027@gmuvax2.gmu.edu> kbass@gmuvax2.gmu.edu (Ken Bass) writes:
>In article <hatton.717737756@cgl.ucsf.edu> hatton@socrates.ucsf.edu (Tom Hatton) writes:
>>
>>It is possible for anyone who wishes to send along comments, problems,
>>and bug reports to IBM's forum on Compuserve - there is a general 
>>account 76711.610@compuserve.com, plus I asked Sam Detweiler, who has
>>been responding on CIS, and he agreed that he would also take messages
>>from the net. His account is 71075.2430@compuserve.com
>>
 I sent in a bug report to 76711.610.compuserve.com and the response
was that at that forum they do not support the winos2 3.1 /GRE beta.
I asked for the address for the correct forum and will post it when 
I get it.


-- 
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|  gregory@bcstec.boeing.com    |   run OS2 I don't need it....."
|     gregory@halcyon.com       |                             
|____uunet!bcstec!gregory_______|               NOT A BOEING SPOKESPERSON.
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From: asrael@bob.informatik.rwth-aachen.de (Stefan Schoef)
Subject: Re: Meta Key in Emacs
Organization: Rechnerbetrieb Informatik  /  RWTH Aachen
Date: 29 Sep 92 06:39:47 GMT

880506s@dragon.acadiau.ca (James R. Skinner) writes:

>	
>	Does anybody know how to map the META key in emacs to a usefull key
>one the PC keyboard such as the ATL key?


I recently posted a (very quick and very dirty) hack for this
to gnu.emacs.sources.

It is surely not the best way to do this, but it works.

I would like to know if someone has a better way to do this.

If you can't get the above file in GES, feel free to mail me.
If there are enough people who want this, I will repost it in
this group (if not, I will send it by email).

Stefan


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From: tnfk1@isuvax.iastate.edu (tim green)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.apps,comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Autocheck setting on diskcache
Date: 29 Sep 92 01:32:16 GMT
Reply-To: tnfk1@isuvax.iastate.edu
Organization: Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa

I am getting a SYS1196 error when I try to run DISKCACHE in my config.sys
file.  The line is in the file as:

	DISKCACHE=384,LW,AC:C

I have tried variations on the theme such as including a threshold value, 
spaces in frnt of the 'AC', etc.  If anyone has any insights on how
to set this up to run the autocheck, I'd love to hear them!

Tim Green
Iowa State Univ., Ames, IA
tnfk1@isuvax.iastate.edu
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.apps
From: olavt@ulrik.uio.no (Olav Torvund)
Subject: Re: Desktop Publishing for OS/2
Organization: University of Oslo, Norway
Date: Fri, 2 Oct 1992 23:40:57 GMT

In article <92276.140304BRYAN@wvnvm.wvnet.edu> Jerry Bryan <BRYAN@wvnvm.wvnet.edu> writes:

   There does not appear to be any.  Interleaf never had an OS/2 version.
   It looks like both Ventura and Pagemaker had OS/2 versions, but are
   dropping them.  This leaves us with Windows versions under WIN-OS2.

I asked Aldus about PageMaker some months ago. At that time they said
that they were preparing an answer to the OS/2 question that would be
posted on Compuserve. I do not read Compuserve, so I do not know if
the answer was posted. But at that time they did not say NO!

Maybe we still will have to wait a bit longer, but I am sure that DP
apps for OS/2 will show up in not too long time. PageMaker 3.0 proved
that OS/2 is a very strong plattform for desktop publishing. Far ahead
of Windows, and even better than MacIntosh. But Aldus lost a lot of
money on that project. And then, once burned ...  They will not be one
of the pioneers in the OS/2 market this time.

Now it is obvious for anyone (maybe not for Microsoft) that OS/2 2.0
is a success. And it is even admitted by Microsoft that NT (Not Today)
will be delayed. It leaves OS/2 2.0 as the only 32-bits, multithreaded
OS in that market segment, and that is just what you need for DP.

Olav Torvund
Oslo, Norway
Olavt@jus.uio.no

Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.apps,comp.os.os2.misc,comp.os.os2.advocacy
From: kwhelan@neptune.uark.edu (Kenneth Whelan)
Subject: *** What happened to COMP.BINARIES.OS2 !! ***
Organization: University of Arkansas School of Law
Date: Thu, 1 Oct 1992 13:15:07 GMT


Just a quick note to find out why there hasn't been a post to comp.binaries.
os2 since ispell was posted a couple of weeks ago.   The binaries newsgroup 
is the one that fills my OS2 files area on my BBS. 


Many thanks
Ken
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From: qazia@JSP.UMontreal.CA (Qazi Ahmad)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.apps,comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: OS/2 2.1 with win 3.1 support
Date: 27 Sep 92 16:27:59 GMT
Organization: Universite de Montreal


 I have been reading the messages concerning the BETA version of 0s/2 with Win3.1 support. I would like to know if I would have to pay any money to get a copy of the BETA version and for the Release version when it comes out.  I bought OS/2 in July.  Are there any forms to fill out?  Do I have to call IBM?

Thanks
Ahmad
qazia@JSP.UMontreal.CA