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From: Steve.Withers@bbs.actrix.gen.nz
Subject: 4 meg OS/2 is great!
Organization: Actrix Information Exchange
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 02:50:39 GMT

I have continued to play with OS/2 2.1 on 4 meg machine. I have it running
like a rocket!
 
Try this:
 
Use FAT, not HPFS.
Use the cmd.exe instead of running the WorkPlace Shell.
 
You can still run all the PM, DOS and WinOS/2 apps. You alt+Esc between them.
 
Even better, however, is using Norton Commander for OS/2 as the interface!

Starting the MENU.EXE program first seems to be the best way. This way you get
a nice - though sparse - PM menu that you can put your apps onto. It's a kind
of low-rent Program Manager
 
Most importantly, though, the performance is great! I had a DOS window, OS/2
full screen, WinOS2 3.1, PMSeek and PM Calculator all open and running and the
system was going *very* nicely!!!
 
Try this if you have 4 megs. You don't need Norton Commander, but it does
provide a PM menuing system that is pretty clever, too, as well as what looks
very much like the Win3.1 File Manager....only better.
 
Steve

 

 

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From: jwh@citi.umich.edu (Jim Howe)
Subject: Re: WORKPLACE SHELL INCONSISTENCY
Date: Thu, 07 Jan 93 09:18:42 EST
Organization: IFS Project, University of Michigan
Reply-To: jwh@citi.umich.edu

In article <93005.164019ASI509@DJUKFA11.BITNET>, ASI509@DJUKFA11.BITNET writes:
|> In article <1993Jan5.134559.8611@email.tuwien.ac.at>,
|> peter@swwwnext.tuwien.ac.at (Peter Wansch) says:
|> >
|> >I recently found one inconsistency in the Workplace Shell concept that is
|> >very confusing and I personally think that IBM should change that. Data
|> >objects and folder objects have a physical representation on the hard
|> >disk, while program objects and device objects are only references to
|> >either an executable file or whatever. Deleting a data object by dragging
|> 
|> I wish program objects an device objects would also have a physical existence
|> in the file system and not only within OS2.INI and/or OS2SYS.INI.
|> Then I would be able to simply drag a bunch of customized program objects to
|> a floppy or Sysquest and move them to another machine.
|>

I agree completely.  I recently acquired a new machine and it was a pain
to get the new machine configured like my old machine.  IBM likes to
make the point that the WPS is 'object oriented' and that uses don't
have to worry about where an object physically resides.  Unfortunately
this isn't true.  A user shouldn't have to be aware that there are
file system objects, and non-file system objects.  If a user wants to
move an object from one machine to another, there should be a simple
method to do so.  Ideally, dragging the object to a floppy would be
the most intuitive.  The copying mechanism should be smart enough to
properly reconstruct the object when it gets moved from one machine
to another.  If paths don't exist on the target the system could do
what it does when a path no longer exists on the primary machine, the
object simply won't function.

|> This is a no-nonsense application. Consider a huge textmode app like TeX.
|> With some WPS program objects you can build a fairly comfortable shell 
|> within 15 minutes. But you can't transfer it to another machine :-(
|> 

Exactly.  Modifications should be made to the standard backup/restore
programs to properly save and recreate objects when they are saved/restored.
The drag and copy operation should be modified to properly handle 
non-file system objects.  The object-oriented nature of the WPS is
great, but it still needs refinement.


James W. Howe                  internet: jwh@citi.umich.edu
University of Michigan             uucp: uunet!mailrus!citi.umich.edu!jwh
Ann Arbor, MI   48103-4943         
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc,comp.os.os2.apps,news.answers
From: rommel@jonas.gold.sub.org (Kai Uwe Rommel)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: German Service Pack !?!?
Date: 9 Jan 93 12:20:00 GMT
Organization: Private

In article <726439404snx@zesi.do.open.de> haug@zesi.do.open.de (Haug Buerger) writes:
>I have heared nothing about the german service pack.
>I think the US OS2 users will do the beta testing and IBM Germany
>will not publish the CSDs. They may concentrate on v2.1 to release
>it as fast as possible. I'm not sure if all the bugfixes are good
>for OS2, they have fead the rumor about a buggy system and it is
>definitly not.

The german service pack is definitely available since December 21. It
is not on a FTP site, but I know of one IBM BBS which has it. I don't
have the ressources to download it over a long distance call and put
it on a FTP site. Someone in the area around Frankfurt/Main may want
to step forward now ...

Kai Uwe Rommel

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DOS ... is still a real mode only non-reentrant interrupt
handler, and always will be.                -Russell Williams
From: ez003045@hamlet.ucdavis.edu (James E. Lee)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: Mirror of hobbes
Date: 12 Jan 93 22:56:06 GMT
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL3

try luga.latrobe.edu.au -- I don't remeber where it is, but in any
case, it doesn't have the beta yet.  It probably can't get it cuz
hobbes has been pretty dern unreachable recently.  I don't know how
mirroring works, however, so I don't know if it'll get it when it
gets a chance or what.  The directory for it is there, but the only
thing in it is the readme for 2.1b.

jel
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: 5692330@mcimail.com  (Robert Gammon)
Subject: Re: I can't delete these read-only files! Help
Nntp-Software: PC/TCP NNTP
Organization: Texas Instruments Materials and Controls Group
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 23:00:35 GMT

In article <baloo.726346252@mik.uky.edu> baloo@nx01.mik.uky.edu (kevin s coupal) writes:

 >> After using chkdisk i get some sort of an error about a certain directory 
 >> that is screwed up.  I tried to do a chkdsk /f .  No good, it sais the
 >> disk is locked by some other application.  (No other windows open)  I guess
 >> if you have one partition you're screwed?  I tried attrib.  That won't
 >> work becuase the files are ascii codes and even after using an editor to
 >> figure outthe codes the attrib command still didnt'work.  the direcotry
 >> sais these messed up files are taking up 3.9 gig of my 87 meg hard drive.
 >> Really cute there.  How will i get rid of these files?  
 >> Kevin Coupal
 >> baloo@mik.uky.edu

The chkdsk message is there because you are running chkdsk under OS/2 on a
disk volume that has files open.  chkdsk can't (and we don't want it to) move
files around that are open and possible some application is reading writing to
these files.  Boot from Installation disk, insert disk one when asked, press
escape at first white with ble letters screen, insert disk 2, run chkdsk.  Or,
if you are not running with the Service Pack, and your drive A: is a 1.44MB
drive, get seboot20.zip from ftp-os2.nmsu.edu.
--
Regards,
Robert Gammon
(713)-274-3299       (voice)
(713)-274-2324       (fax)
From: rfm@access.digex.com (Bob Myrick)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: SBPRO with 2.1 Beta Problems
Date: 6 Jan 1993 20:31:17 GMT
Organization: Express Access Online Communications, Greenbelt, MD USA
NNTP-Posting-Host: access.digex.com
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL3

I have the OS/2 2.1 Beta and a SBPRO. While I can use the SBPRO fine with
MMPM/2, I cannot seem to get sound support from windows. When installing the
SBPRO drivers, WINOS2 dies with a divide by zero error.

Has anyone been lucky in making this work?
--
Bob Myrick (rfm@access.digex.com)
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From: widow@camelot.bradley.edu (Shaun Burnett)
Subject: Customize OS/2's text messages
Summary:  Use PMSEEK to find the file and BEAV-2 to edit
Organization: Bradley University
Distribution: na
Date: 13 Jan 93 05:35:10 GMT

	OS/2 2.0 like any other OS, is prone to having text messages
	edited. :)

	The most offending text to me is the help for Lockup.  It's bad
	enough that you can't lockup up on boot, but telling "someone"
	to reboot the computer if they don't know the password.  Come
	on ...  (Luckily, password on boot is provided in OS/2 2.1.)

	Anyways, I used "pmseek" to find the file that contained the
	"offending" text.  I then used "beav-2", to replace text in
	the file.  (The file with the lockup text is
	"\os2\dll\pmwpmri.dll" by the way.)

	Beav-2 can be found at "ftp-os2.nmsu.edu".
	
	Make sure you back up the file you edit.

	Also, if the file you're using is in use by the system, copy
	it, edit the copy, reboot from disk and replace the file with
	its copy.


Shaun Burnett		    |	"You can't survive on a new planet with a
widow@camelot.bradley.edu   |	soul full of hope and fresh air you know."
OS/2--Happy Happy Joy Joy--OS/2		-  Dr. Who (Tom Baker)
From: Robert.King@p27749.f29728.n24936.z8308.FidoNet.Org (Robert King)
Sender: UUCP@p0.f1060.n391.z1.FidoNet.Org
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: OS/2 2.1 Observations
Date: 05 Jan 93 18:15:21 EST

In a message to All <29 Dec 92 17:29> Timothy F. Sipples wrote:

 TFS> Incidentally, I do have some benchmarks on this new code, but there
 TFS> are a couple reasons why I can't post them.  The first is that the
 TFS> Ziff-Davis license agreement says you can't disseminate the results
of
 TFS> WinBench (strange though that may sound), and the second is that I
      ^^^^^^^^
 TFS> have a slight disagreement with the methodology that I want to
correct
 TFS> first.  Also, we couldn't get NT to install on the same machine.

Hi Tim!

I'm curious about WinBench.  I thought I had been keeping up with
PC-Magazine for their entire publishing life, but I'm not familiar with
this program which I presume is related to their Benchmark package.  Has
it been released for public use?

Robert W. King

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From: sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu (Timothy F. Sipples)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: OS/2 & Lan Server Crashed when external cache turned on
Date: 9 Jan 93 01:29:09 GMT
Reply-To: sip1@midway.uchicago.edu
Organization: Dept. of Econ., Univ. of Chicago

In article <1993Jan8.202432.21283@news.vanderbilt.edu> BING@ctrvax.Vanderbilt.Edu () writes:
>	I have a PC compatible 486 running OS/2 2.0 with the lastest patch and
>OS/2 Lan server 2.0. The machine has an external cache. But whenever the
>external cache is turned on, it will crash the whole system. when it is 
>turned off, everything works fine. Is there anyone experinced the same kind
>of problem, or could anyone kindly help explaining what is likely the
>culprit for the problem. Your help would be greatly appreciated.

It is somewhat common, yes, to have faulty cache memory.  You may be
trying to run it too fast (see if you can insert a wait state), or the
cache memory may be somehow faulty.  If the system is still under
warranty, explain the problem to the manufacturer and ask for
assistance.  Otherwise, see what you can do to try and restore the
cache memory.  It is possible you may have to replace one or more
faulty cache memory chips, but check other settings first.

-- 
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From: jks4675@ritvax.isc.rit.edu
Subject: .BMP==>.ICO
Reply-To: jks4675@ritvax.isc.rit.edu
Organization: Rochester Institute of Technology
Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1993 04:41:35 GMT

Any way to convert .bmp's , say, from the clipboard, to .ico??
I am trying to get 256 color icons. Is this possible??

Jeff

Gates is irrelevant
Microsoft is futile
Windows has been assimilated....
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu (Timothy F. Sipples)
Subject: Re: To XGA-2 or not
Reply-To: sip1@midway.uchicago.edu
Organization: Dept. of Econ., Univ. of Chicago
Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1993 04:26:17 GMT

In article <1993Jan3.215503.1@vmsb.is.csupomona.edu> cvetp036@vmsb.is.csupomona.edu writes:
>Here's the situation:
>I want to upgrade from my ATI Integra 512K to an accelerated card.
>I was looking at the Speedstar 24X. Good price and above average performance.
>Of course the  stumbling block is, no OS/2 drivers. And who knows when Dimaond
>will get off their ass to write some.
>So I've heard good things about XGA-2 from IBM so far. 
>Is this card accelerated or coprocessor? Can someone give me some general data
>like when it will be out, cost, and what res. it can do.

Would you believe that, in one of the recent roundups of accelerated
SuperVGA adapters, Diamond was claiming that its 2.0 driver was
available upon request?

XGA-2 from IBM is available now.  IBM sells a Microchannel version in
the U.S.  Radius and a couple other companies are slated to deliver AT
bus XGA-2 adapters this month.  (Outside the U.S., IBM sells an AT bus
XGA-2 adapter.)

The Microchannel version is certainly a good choice.  Since the AT bus
version is not yet available, no one has been able to form any
opinions on it.

-- 
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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu (Timothy F. Sipples)
Subject: Re: Registering OS/2 ?
Keywords: Why should I ?
Reply-To: sip1@midway.uchicago.edu
Organization: Dept. of Econ., Univ. of Chicago
Date: Sun, 10 Jan 1993 01:20:45 GMT

In article <C0M23I.878@andy.bgsu.edu> jzawodn@andy.bgsu.edu (jeremy zawodny) writes:
>>I bought my version of OS/2 in July -92, but I've been too lazy
>>to register it. So tell me: what do I get if I register it ?
>60 days worth of tech support and free upgrades!

The free upgrades have historically been true, but it is not a cast in
stone policy.

The technical support policies vary by country.  So do the materials
you get when you send in the registration card.  In the U.S., for
example, you'll get periodic mailings (like the OS/2 Solutions Coupon
Book).  You should also receive news of any product upgrades.

-- 
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From: rcmerrit@apgea.army.mil (Robert C. Merritt <rcmerrit>)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: Can I display windowed GIFS?
Date: 6 Jan 93 14:01:23 GMT
Organization: APG-Edgewood

In article <1993Jan5.224517.2371@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> pprior@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Paul A Prior) writes:
>In article <1993Jan4.175811.7653@apgea.army.mil> rcmerrit@apgea.army.mil (Robert C. Merritt <rcmerrit>) writes:
>>
>>Well, If you want to use a windoze program (cough, cough) in your os 2 
>>enviroment, I would suggest Paint Shop Pro. I do that with my BBS.
>>Rob Merritt
>
>Bzzzt.  ATI has seen fit not to write any seamless drivers, so all
>windoze stuff runs full screen.  thanks anyway!
>
>-- 
>--------pprior@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu----(614) 621-8240----------------
>Paul A. Prior    Ban anchors, not reef tanks    Nuke Gay Whales for Jesus  
>3rd year medical student 		        
>The Ohio State U. College of Medicine   Tobacco Kills- Please don't smoke!


Thats odd... I run Paint Shop Pro in a Window on the OS2 WPS with my BBS in a
Window all the time. And I have ATI... oh well...
Rob Merritt
From: stanton@haas.berkeley.edu (Richard Stanton)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: How to save WPS settings going 2.0 --> 2.1b?
Date: 12 Jan 1993 05:55:09 GMT
Organization: University of California, Berkeley
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: haas.berkeley.edu

Is this possible in any way? Two suggestions that might work are:

1) Copy Os2.INI and OS2SYS.INI, then copy them back again after installing
   2.1b

2) Use WPSBKUP

Has anyone tried either of these (successfully)?

Richard Stanton


Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: randy@chinet.chi.il.us (Randy Suess)
Subject: Re: Ethernet card at IRQ=5, possible?
Organization: Chinet - Public Access UNIX
Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 17:45:18 GMT

In article <1ih85dINN17a@psun2.hmi.de> pfr@psun2.hmi.de (Fritsch_Wolfgang) writes:
>I reconfigured to
>IRQ=5, i.e. both the crad and the Telnet configuration file. Now when
>starting Telnet it would hang.
>Is IRQ=5 the problem? I remember having noticed some communication about
>problems with COM3 on this interrupt.

	IRQ 5 works fine, I have a number of wd8003's running under
	OS/2 with it set up that way.  Just make sure that you don't
	have a parallel port card set up for lpt2 with the interrupt
	enabled.  lpt2 uses int 5.  Also, many tape drives use int 5
	as default.

-- 
	I am created Shiva the Destroyer; Death, the shatterer of worlds!
	Who is this dog meat who stands before me now?
	That's the biz, sweetheart.
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From: gershon@husc11.harvard.edu (Ethan Gershon)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: How to change icons
Date: 13 Jan 93 05:37:56 GMT
Article-I.D.: husc.gershon.726903476

Is it possible to change:

1) the icon displayed for minimized DOS apps?

2) the small icon that appears in the upper left corner button?

                                             --Ethan Gershon
                                             gershon@husc.harvard.edu
Organization: Wirtschaftsuniversitaet Wien, Vienna, Austria
Date: Monday, 4 Jan 1993 18:07:47 CET
From: FLATSCHER Rony <RONY@awiwuw11.wu-wien.ac.at>
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Who are "BillMc" resp. "MarkH" ????? Where to find ?


What is the story ?

   Having installed OS/2 (various versions) on a brand-new IBM-PC
   with XGA-2 (ALF-type). Obviously something is wrong with it as
   it comes up with errors like "cannot demand-load segment * ->
   DOSCALL1.DLL", "application caused an illegal semaphore lock" etc.

   Sometimes it hangs hard and I have to cold-boot it.

   Now, the "funny" thing: All of a sudden, CHKDSK would not repair
   my F:-drive which is HPFS (and has tons of important data).

   This is what happens:

       CHKDSK F: /F

       ChkDsk warns me that data could be lost, I agree in order to
       proceed, immediately thereafter I get a message

       "**********  ChkDsk attempting to write sector 0
        **********  Contact BillMc or MarkH to debug"

   Who is BillMc resp. MarkH ???

   How can I get in touch with them (am sitting in overseas, Europe/
   Austria) ? Any phone numbers ? Any instructions ?

   Has anyone any ideas ? I need access to that drive to move my stuff over
   to a new machine during the holidays.

   ---rony
   P.S.: If I say "CHKDSK F:" *without* specifying the fix-paramter "/F",
         then 2.00.1 German tells me, that there are "erroneous status
         information in the temporary assignment pool" (actually the
         original text is in German and reads: "Fehlerhafte Statusinformationen
         im temporaeren Zuordnungspool wurden von CHKDSK korrigiert.
         Die fehlerhafte Datei \ORACLE6\CGEN\MENUS\CGM3.SQL wurde von CHKDSK
         entfernt."
         Additionally I get some drive-infos:

                308208 Kilobyte Gesamtgroesse             (total amount)
                   157 Kilobyte in 125 Verzeichnissen     (directories)
                157968 Kilobyte in 2401 Benutzerdateien   (files)
                    33 Kilobyte in erweiterten Attributen (extended attributes)
                  2048 Kilobyte sind fuer das System res..(reserved for system)
                148001 Kilobyte verfuegbar                (free)

    P.P.P.S.: Testing the drive with GammaTech finds no errors reading all of
         my 616.448 sectors.
From: merrill@cs.arizona.edu (Darren Merrill)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: UltraStor 14F and 11/92 PDK
Keywords: PDK, UltraStor
Date: 9 Jan 93 02:39:21 GMT

Does anyone know if the 11/92 PDK comes with drivers for the 
UltraStor 14F SCSI controller?  or, are the beta drivers on 
Hobbes as good as it gets?
(And, if so... how good are the beta drivers?)

Thanks.
--
Darren Merrill                  Internet: merrill@cs.arizona.edu  
Department of Computer Science  Compuserve: 76570,2526
University of Arizona    
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu (Timothy F. Sipples)
Subject: Re: OS/2 Comm Programs
Reply-To: sip1@midway.uchicago.edu
Organization: Dept. of Econ., Univ. of Chicago
Date: Sat, 9 Jan 1993 06:13:14 GMT

In article <C0KFxJ.17o@knot.ccs.queensu.ca> calvert@QueensU.CA (John Calvert) writes:
>>I just cannot seem to get a good vt100 emulation.  Everytime I try to
>>edit something (with VI, if that matters), characters get 'blanked'
>>over with a left-cursor press (not backspace).  Things don't seem
>>'solid'.  Y'know?
>I have this problem with Telix, but didn't have it with Procomm, nor with
>Softerm. I don't remember what happened with Telemate. Is there any simple
>way to fix this in Telix?

Possibly by changing the "Backspace Destructive?" setting from Yes to
No for that session.

-- 
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From: hoppie@kub.nl (Jeroen Hoppenbrouwers)
Subject: Re: What is HARDERR.EXE doing to my disk?
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 93 14:00:19 GMT
Organization: Tilburg University, Tilburg, The Netherlands

In article <1993Jan11.083114@axion.bt.co.uk>, djackson@axion.bt.co.uk (Dave Jackson) writes:
|> I think that HARDERR.EXE is in control of the swapping
|> process (a hard
|> error being one which requires paging in from/out to disk).
|> It's active
|> all of the time, on all systems, whether HPFS or FAT.

Nope. The HARDERROR deamon sits in your system looking for severe (hardware)
problems, such as open disk drives. It will stop the requesting app, put out
a message box to let the user correct the problem, and if everything seems alright
it lets the app continue. If the user cannot correct the problem, an error code is
passed to the app.

Try a DIR A: without a disk in the drive-- there's your HARDERR program!
(Try this with HARDERR killed-- I'm curious what will happen!)

Source: Inside OS/2 by Gordon Letwin.


Jeroen

-- 
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Infolab, Tilburg University, The Netherlands    |  start connecting people!
From: samiam@netcom.com (Scott Moore)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: Removing OS/2 safely (with dual-boot)
Date: 8 Jan 93 17:20:25 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  (408 241-9760 guest)

eapg115@orion.oac.uci.edu (Hans A. Baumgartner ----- (hbaum@uci.edu)) writes:

>Help, I need to remove OS/2 2.0 from my disk.  I have it set up with dual
>boot (boot /os2...). How do I safely remove it.  Can I get rid of the 
>bootstrap w/o reformatting?

Dual boot to DOS (important, as this will restore your boot sector). 
Eliminate the os2 and os2!2_0 etc directory trees. Get rid of os2* files in
the root. Then remove the hidden files with *.?sf extentions.

                                                [sam]
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