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From: adhir@cygnus.umd.edu (Alok Dhir)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: 1.2 mb drive on PS/2 90
Date: 28 Jul 92 03:37:32 GMT
Organization: /etc/organization

I have a rather curious problem.  I use a PS/2 model 90 at work with a 5.25"
1.2mb drive as drive B.  It works fine with 1.2mb disks, but can't read
360k floppies under OS/2 for some reason...keeps coming up with cyclic
redundancy errors.  So I thought "no biggie" and quickly ftped the 360K fix
from hobbes.  Upon unzipping, I found a file called ibm1flpy.add (I think
that's how it is).  The readme said to place this file in place of the file
with the same name in the os2 directory.  Here's the wierd part:  My PS/2
model 90 (486/33) does not have a file called ibm1flpy.add!  It's called
ibm2flpy.add!  (that's a 2 instead of a 1 for you non-careful readers).  So
I thought I'd just replace the ibm2flpy.add with the new ibm1flpy.add and
try it that way.  No luck...all floppy access became impossible.  I also
tried just leaving it in the os2 dir with the name intact (ibm1flpy.add) but
this didn't work either!  Any suggestions?

By the way, OS/2 is VERY stable on the PS/2 90.  I have not had a single 
crash in about a week of continuous use.  This is in sharp contrast to the
numerous crashes I experienced on my personal machine.  I am now awaiting
my new machine so I am looking forward to trying OS/2 on it (I traded in
my 486/50 local bus for a 486/50 EISA with an Orchid EISA Prodesigner IIs
card).

Thanks for the help...

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From: pclark@ds5000.DAC.Northeastern.edu (Peter Clark)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: OS/2 with HPFS locks up
Date: 29 Jul 92 22:23:48 GMT
Organization: Northeastern University, Boston, MA. 02115, USA

What BIOS does your system have?  There is a known install bug for OS/2 2.0
on certain versions of the Phoenix BIOS.  If you do not have the latest
version of Phoenix go grab it.
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Using IDE & SCSI
From: <LENBC@CUNYVM.BITNET>
Date: Tuesday, 28 Jul 1992 22:02:46 EDT
Organization: City University of New York/ University Computer Center

   I currently have a 100M IDE hard disk.  I'm finding that I need more
storage capacity and speed (who hasn't :-)).  Rignt now i'm looking to
purchase an SCSI 300M but I would still like to use my 100M for storing
data and my own personal programs.
   Is it possible with OS/2 to use IDE & SCSI at the same time...or will
it create a conflict of some sort ?

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From: tom@longs.LANCE.ColoState.EDU (Tom Aurand)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: Graphics Accelerator cards for local bus on OS/2
Date: 23 Jul 92 20:21:37 GMT
Reply-To: tom@longs.LANCE.ColoState.EDU (Tom Aurand)
Organization: Colorado State U. Center for Computer Assisted Engineering.

In article <1992Jul23.005041.11639@oracle.us.oracle.com>,
skanga@us.oracle.com (Shiraz Kanga) writes:
> Simple question - Is there any local bus graphics accelerator (coprocessed)
> card available that has hi-res OS/2 drivers for seamless windows
> 
> Shiraz
Simple answer - no.
From: etl0@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu (ERIC TODD LANDRIEU)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: Why do I get less hd space under HPFS than FAT??!?!
Date: 23 Jul 92 01:48:08 GMT
Organization: Lehigh University

>I have a 130meg Maxtor 7120A IDE hd.
>
>It formats out to 129.9 megs under DOS 5 & FAT.
>It formats out to 127.1 megs under OS/2 & HPFS.
>
>Does anyone know why I lose 3 megs if I use HPFS?  I thought that
>HPFS would give me more space than FAT because it uses smaller
>sector sizes than FAT, or something like that.
>
You get less space because HPFS uses the extra space for indices, etc. to make
the file access quicker and more efficient.  I don't remember the details, but
there is a fairly good explanation published a couple of years ago(I think it
was in Byte) which I ran across recently.  It does have smaller "sectors," but
when you think about it, even if FAT had more smaller sectors, you'd be
increasing the size of the FAT tables, etc. needed to maintain the disk.  So,
the combination of the two do a good job of cutting a little off of your disk
space(you're not alone... I lost around 2-3 megs on my drive in HPFS, too).
                                      Eric Landrieu

                                      
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From: dic5340@hertz.njit.edu (David Charlap)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: Forbidding extended attributes on FAT drive?
Date: 30 Jul 92 17:04:10 GMT
Organization: New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, N.J.

In article <nsh4u8c@fido.asd.sgi.com> pdc@sgi.com (Paul Close) writes:
>
>In that case, would someone care to explain why it seems that every single
>file has extended attributes?!?  I was copying some files that constituted a
>DOS game to floppy.  The files totalled less than 720K, but wouldn't fit on
>a 720K floppy.  Confused, I looked around, and found a 60K EA file on the
>floppy!!!  There's no good way to just delete the sucker, so I had to use
>eautil to remove the attributes from each and every file to free up enough
>disk space to copy the last file.
>
>This is stupid!  Most of the files were just plain *data*.  There's no
>reason for OS/2 to assign extended attributes to these files, but it did.
>There's no telling what the EAs were, but the program ran just fine without
>them!

If you used WPS to copy the files, then each one had a "long name" EA
associated with it in order to preserve the case (and the full file
name if it was > 8.3).
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From: hamish@waikato.ac.nz
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: Improving OS2 performance question
Date: 24 Jul 92 21:36:29 +1200
Organization: University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand

In article <1992Jul23.223421.29621@sj.ate.slb.com>, poffen@rushmore (Russ Poffenberger) writes:
> rdippold@cancun.qualcomm.com (Ron Dippold) writes:
> : kspeicht@kilcom1.ucis.dal.ca (Kevin F. Speichts) writes:
> : >	I have a 486/33 with 4MB of RAM with a 120MB 14ms hard drive.  How 
> : >can I improve OS/2's performance.   I'm using dual boot option, should I use 
> : >the HPFS system.  Should I buy 4 more MB's of RAM.  Or should I purchase a 
> : >coprocessed video card like the ATI Graphics Ultra 1.0MB.  Which one should 
> : >yield the best performance boost.  Or should I try a combination of options.
> : 
> : 
> : NOTHING is going to help you like 4 more MB of RAM is going to help
> : you.  Get the RAM, change to HPFS, and you'll find that OS/2 literally
> : runs several times faster.
> 
> True, but it still seems slower than native DOS, and Windows. I have 16Mb
> memory, and a 300Mb SCSI drive (Adaptec 1542). Maybe I would feel better
> if someone would get off their a** and write OS/2 drivers for the S3 card.

Matrox Are!! At least their agents in NZ had a fax from them a week ago saying
that beta drivers would be available on their BBS by the end of this week (Hey
thats today!). Can somebody have a look on their BBS and let me know if its
there? Then I can log in and drag it back....

> Or at least if IBM would fix it so I could switch from a full-screen WIN-OS2
> session running Windows 3.x drivers to the PM desktop without making the
> display go to pieces.
> 
> For me, Windows 3.1 beats the pants off OS/2 right now.
> 
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From: Bill.Hirt@mtask.omahug.org (Bill Hirt)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Installing OS/2 on a 486/33
Date: 25 Jul 92 10:14:48 CST
Reply-To: bill.hirt@mtask.omahug.org
Organization: Multitasking Systems, Kansas City
Followup-To: comp.os.os2.misc

I've seen several posts today about people having trouble installing on a
486/33 machine. I went through this same thing helping a friend install it on
his machine. After several tries, we finally got it installed. The key thing he
found from talking to IBM for several hours is that you must make sure your
system bus is running at 8 Mhz during the install. He was told that most 486
machines run the bus faster than that and that often causes OS/2 to fail during
the install. The actually were surprised that we even got it to completely
install once as they said it shouldn't be able to do that. Once his install was
complete at the slower bus speed, he was able crank up the speed of his bus
again. So check those BIOS settings...

Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: cvadrtbc@vmsb.is.csupomona.edu (Srikanth Viswanathan)
Subject: Re: csd charge?
Organization: California Polytechnic University, Pomona
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41    
Distribution: comp
Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1992 23:30:00 GMT
X-Posted-From: vmsb.is.csupomona.edu
X-Posted-Through: sol.ctr.columbia.edu

In article <1992Jul18.1480.22302@dosgate>, "bill dehaan" <bill.dehaan@canrem.com> writes...
>In message <13359@mindlink.bc.ca>, Alan B. York writes:
> 
>Because  IBM  publicly  stated  that  the features which were originally
>promised in 2.0 which did not actually make it into the product would be
>available in a free CSD in the  summer. A lot of people who were  in the
>"wait and see" camp were convinced to buy the original release based  on
>this.

I don't see IBM charging for the CSD. But I have no problem paying for a 
major upgrade.  According to  Albert Shan  on Fidonet,  the 32-bit GRE is 
in wide beta internally. 

Srikanth 
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: ychung@laplace.uwaterloo.ca (Young Chung)
Subject: Re: POV ray 1.0 (DOS) under OS/2
Organization: University of Waterloo
Date: Tue, 28 Jul 1992 16:57:18 GMT

In article <1992Jul28.061954.8122@sol.UVic.CA> gwebster@ugly.UVic.CA (This space for rent) writes:
>In article <1992Jul27.144730.24096@dragon.acadiau.ca> 890560p@dragon.acadiau.ca (Trevor Porter) writes:
>>
>>I was wondering if anyone else has tried running POV ray 1.0 from a DOS
>>session under OS/2 (without a math co-processor) without problems.  
>>
>>OS/2 gives a "trying to execute a NFX instruction and NFX processor
>>does not exist" error (or something like this) .
>>
>>The program works fine under DOS without a math co-pro. Am I doing something
>>wrong?
>>
>
>I ran into the same problem, and have not been able to get the program to work.
>
>I have the coprocessor emulation enabled (the line in my config.sys file
>reads DEVICE=C:\OS2\MDOS\VNPX.SYS) 
>


Are you sure VNPX.SYS is a coprocessor emulator?  I tried it and it gives
me the error even before it loads up the PoVRay exec.
Even a separate 387 emulator doesn't help even though sysinfo says I have
387 installed.
From: "kenneth tam" <kenneth.tam@canrem.com>
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: os/2 ram drive
Date: 29 Jul 92 19:27:19 EST
Reply-To: "kenneth tam" <kenneth.tam@canrem.com>
Distribution: comp
Organization: Canada Remote Systems

-> I believe that there is a minimum size to swapper.dat.  I never see
-> less than 1 meg of swap file.
->
-> Some apps go out and grow it on principle, I think.  Lotus 123/g 1.0
-> seems to be one, and DeScribe 3.0 16 bits also likes it.  The 32 bit
-> version of DeScribe 3.0 is a bit better....

Some one suggested to me in email (sorry, can't remember his name) to
take the SWAP paramter out of the MEMMAN= statement.  Sounds like it
would work, but I haven't tried it.  I figure I'll just set that,
reboot, _try_ to delete SWAPPER.DAT, and if I can't then either leave it
alone or boot from a separate OS/2 partition and nuke it from there.

Worst comes to worst, OS/2 will just complain it's running out of
memory..

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From: rcook@sneezy.helios.nd.edu (robert cook)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: Ziff coverage of Vaporware
Date: 21 Jul 92 06:18:58 GMT
Reply-To: Cook.14@nd.edu (R. Kelley Cook)
Organization: Univ. of Notre Dame


-- 
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Univ. of Notre Dame     The future for Intel computers arrived March 31!
Physics Dept.            Long Live the new OS/2!  Time to close the Windows! 
In article <1992Jul14.005241.30@ccsvax.sfasu.edu>, z_kupkams@ccsvax.sfasu.edu writes:

|> Well OS/2 is Fantastic, and NT is coming to BETA, the one factor we should
|> consider is not which is the BETTER OS? but which will be more widely accepted? 
|> Microsoft claims Existing Windows APPS, can be recompiled, and Linked with the
|> NT tools and what do you get? Instant 32-Bit code, Now to be realistic If only
|> 25% of the existing source code was written to Windows API specs, that should
|> not be a big problem ( Except for us OS/2 fans ). Windows already has a good
|> following, and a large number of apps available, if only 25% ( an arbitrary
|> number ) can be recompiled and shrink wrapped, It may prove to be problematic
|> for OS/2 fans. 

Unfortunately, MS claiming that all you need to do to use the 32-bit
API is recompile is a fallacy.  Charles Petzold (ex OS/2 PC-Mag guru :( )
stated in an pre-review of NT in the PC-Mag issue "reviewing" Win 3.1 and
OS/2 (the one with the top five reasons to buy OS/2: 1.  You already
got suckered by IBM into buying 1.x or something asinine like that)--that
it was much more difficult to port Win 16 apps to Win 32 apps than
to port 16 bit PM apps to their 32 bit cousins.
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: it1@ra.msstate.edu (Tim Tsai)
Subject: Re: Black icon fix -> more stable system
Organization: Mississippi State University
Date: Tue, 21 Jul 1992 06:05:59 GMT

lance@lancea.actrix.gen.nz (Lance Andrewes) writes:
>So, even if you haven't had the "black icon" problem, this
>fix is worth trying if you've experienced the same problems.

  The display seems much more snappy with the blakc icon fix.  Also,
maybe I'm just imagining this, but the HPFS patch I installed has
improved disk access by quite a bit.  I can now actually open a window
without hearing my hard disk [HPFS with 512K cache].
From: x91clifton1@gw.wmich.edu
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: Can I change the font in a DOS or OS/2 window?
Date: 27 Jul 92 14:02:59 EST
Organization: Western Michigan University

In article <1992Jul27.160825.21570@ll.mit.edu>, paulf@ll.mit.edu (Paul Freeman) writes:
> Hi.  I didn't see this mentioned in the FAQ or anywhere else.
> 
> I want to be able to use a smaller font inside my DOS or OS/2 windowed
> session.  Right now (in standard VGA mode) the window covers the entire
> width of the screen if I want all 80 columns visible.  I can change all
> the fonts in the WPS, but the DOS window fonts are always the same.
> 
> Any tips will be appreciated.
> 
> - Paul Freeman  (paulf@ll.mit.edu)

What fonts are available is a function of the graphics driver you are using.
Fortunatly, with the standard VGA driver from IBM there are many to choose
from. Simply pull down the control menu (far upper left corner) for the 
window and select (Change Font, or Font Size--I forget which one).

Hope this helps,

/Doug
From: dic5340@hertz.njit.edu (David Charlap)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: Nowhere directory?
Date: 28 Jul 92 16:44:03 GMT
Organization: New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, N.J.

In article <1992Jul27.183824.24864@usenet.ins.cwru.edu> dab6@po.CWRU.Edu (Douglas A. Bell) writes:
>
>It seems kind of odd to make a directory off of the root called
>nowhere to hold these ea's.  Is there anyway to get this directory out of 
>the root or keep the ea's somewhere else?

Why?  Is it really bothering you?  If it is, then just do a

      ATTTRIB +H Nowhere

and you won't have to see it anymore.



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From: dic5340@hertz.njit.edu (David Charlap)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc,comp.os.os2.advocacy
Subject: Re: RESULTS OF COMMUNICATIONS WEEK OS/2 POLL ........
Date: 21 Jul 92 19:52:34 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, N.J.

In article <144f8bINN9ap@agate.berkeley.edu> schubert@united.berkeley.edu (John Schubert) writes:
>
>Well the results are in!  On page 45 of the July 13 issue of CommuncationsWeek
>is the following:
>
>	LAST WEEKS RESULTS:
>
>		Which operating system is most strategic
>		to your enterprise network: IBM's OS/2
>		or Microsoft Corp's forthcoming
>		Windows NT?
>
>		OS/2: 76%	NT: 24%

Not surprised.  Any company that makes a strategic decision based on a
product that it can't buy immediately is looking down a quick path to
bankrupcy.   

A more fair comparison would have been with Windows 3.1 - at least
that can be purchased.  And in large quantities.

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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: affie@earley.sns.neuphilologie.uni-tuebingen.de (Ralf Affie Hauser)
Subject: Yippieh, Desktop *does* respond!!!
Keywords: Desktop
Organization: sns
Date: Mon, 27 Jul 1992 14:03:19 GMT

Hi folks,

I had this problem with my OS/2 2.0 Desktop in that it did not respond during
IPL sequence. Now schanck@tron.bwi.wec.com (Christopher R.S. Schanck) has pointed
out that an error occuring during this time could be caused by a corrupted shadow
in the StartUp folder.

I have removed all shadows from the StartUp folder and replaced them by copies of
the desired object (my startup folder contains: pulse, eyecon and quote) and it
works fine! Maybe it would have been enough to simply kill the shadows and
recreate them but I am sick of trying that out...

So, Christopher, thanks a lot from my here!

	affie.


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From: steve@cstat.aztec.co.za (Stephen Davies)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc,comp.os.os2
Subject: Re: X-like cut & paste in WPS?
Date: 22 Jul 92 21:05:43 GMT
Organization: Compustat (Pty) Ltd



In article <1992Jul16.041700.14542@nuscc.nus.sg> eletanjm@nuscc.nus.sg (TAN J
>exujlg@exu.ericsson.se (Jon L. Gauthier) writes:
>: Would it be too much to ask IBM to add Xwindows-like cut and paste to the 
>: 2 2.0 WPS in a later release (better yet, CSD)? 
>I think it was said sometime back (in which group I can't remember) that
>the WPS method is as defined in the CUA guidelines. IBM's just following
>the CUA in implementing the cut and paste.

Seeing that IBM defines CUA they can just change it.  That's what they
did with CUA 91.  They simply changed the standard to follow what's in
OS/2 2.0.

There are quite a few places where OS/2/CUA should be changed:  My
biggest irritation is the way that windows always jump to the front when
they are active/have the focus.


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From: dg4k+@andrew.cmu.edu (Daniel Brian Greenfield)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: HPFS from DOS
Date: 22 Jul 92 04:40:42 GMT
Article-I.D.: andrew.gePJR_q00Uh_81KoVF
Organization: Sophomore, English, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA

This was discussed a couple of months ago, but it was not of much
concern to me then.  Could someone please tell me which driver I need to
load in order to see an HPFS partition when I use a specific version of
DOS (in a window) from Drive A?