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From: ai904@yfn.ysu.edu (Len Dorfman)
Subject: Gateway 66 Mz & CD-ROM
Organization: Youngstown State/Youngstown Free-Net
Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 17:58:21 GMT


I'm looking to purchase a CD-ROM for my 66 Mz Gateway. Has
anyone bought the Gateway CD-ROM drive with their machine?
Does it work fine with OS/2? Is anybody using another CD-ROM
drive with the 486 Local bus Gateway? I'm trying to avoid
OS/2 twighlight zone madness. Thanks.. Len (ldorfman@delpji
oops... Address: ldorfman@delphi.com
From: rem5156@rigel.tamu.edu (The Doctor)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Errors from installation disk for 2.0
Date: 25 Jan 1993 09:31 CST
Organization: Texas A&M University, Academic Computing Services
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I was attempting to reinstall OS/2 2.0 after a major system crash last week,
but my installation disk gave me these two errors 02024 and 02027.  ANyone know
what these errors are?




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From: twong@civil.ubc.ca (Thomas Wong)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Help! OS/2 can't talk to printer anymore....
Date: 21 Jan 1993 08:45:01 GMT
Organization: Dept. of Civil Engineering, U.B.C., Vancouver, B.C., Canada
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I don't know what happened. It's been working fine....

Background: I have a 486 with a Laserjet IIIP with postscript cartridge.
So I have 2 printer icons on my desktop, one for plain LJ IIIP and the
other for LJ IIIP with postscript (with the appropriate printer driver
selected is basically the difference. Both defined as using LPT1). The
plain LJ IIIP is set as default printer. This has worked since the
original OS/2 I first bought. And with the service pack installed, it
still worked fine. Am still using OS/2 with Service Pack (not 2.1 beta).
In fact, I printing Xmas stuff right on Xmas day and it worked fine.
This was the last time I used it.

Problem: This week, I tried to print something and it won't print.
Finally, it came back with a message saying "Printer not responding!!
Retry?". I checked the printer and it looked ok. I checked everything. I
left the LJ IIIP as default printer, checked the settings and the right
printer driver was selected and lpt1 was still selected. Nothing has
changed. But I tested again and again and nothing even went to the
printer cause the light didn't even blink. So as far as OS/2 is
concerned, it can't even start talking to the printer. Well good thing I
didn't trust OS/2 and installed Boot Manager at the beginning so that I
can still boot DOS. (I have to say, I still have to boot DOS every once
in awhile cause I'm still finding limitations of OS/2's DOS emulation
such that I still need the real thing to run some of my DOS programs. Or
somethings under OS/2 just doesn't work like this printer business).
(But I do like OS/2 cause I do use it most of the time and only go back
to DOS when I just can't do some things at all. I just wish OS/2 will
finally clean things up in 2.1 so that I can stay in OS/2 period).
Anyways, back to my story. I can still boot DOS and print things fine
under DOS, Windows, everything still works fine under DOS. Some of the
simplest things that worked under DOS but not OS/2 was something as
silly as "echo > prn" and "echo > lpt1:" under the DOS prompt even. Not
even using a program. I've checked all my settings for my printer icon.
Both icons. Still using LJ IIIP as default so don't have to worry about
the PS stuff.

Any suggestins as to whatelse I can check for? Pointers? Hints?
Thanks in advance.

Thomas.

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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: jst50986@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Jack S. Tan)
Subject: Re: Questions for OS/2.2
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 00:53:26 GMT

mew@dcs.warwick.ac.uk (Merlyn) writes:

>I am thinking of switching from DOS/Windows to OS/2.2 but have some questions
>that i need answering.  Any reply would be gratefully received.

I can help with a few questions.

>Firstly, I have a lot of DOS and Windows programs already and I know they
>SHOULD work O.K. under VDM and WINOS2 But since I have 2 Hardrives I would 
>like to keep one as a DOS disk with FAT and one as an OS2 drive with the HPFS
>Can I boot from either drive depending on my needs? I heard that you can choose
>a dual boot option which will either boot OS/2 or DOS.

I don't have experience with two hard drives, but yes, you should be able
to boot off of two different partitions.  Dual boot allows you to install
OS/2 over the existing DOS partition without erasing your old files.  Since
both DOS and OS/2 reside in the same partition, OS/2 must use the FAT file
system, since DOS does.  There is an option called Boot Manager which allows
you to boot off of multiple partitions; I think this is what you want.
Boot Manager itself requires a partition, and must be a primary partition
on the drive.  In this case, you may have to repartition your boot drive.
(Maybe you can use the second drive for Boot Manager and FAT, copy every-
thing over, swap drives, and use the current FAT drive for HPFS.)

>If I run OS/2 from a HPFS drive can I still access a normal FAT (DOS) drive as 
>well? 

Yes, so long as the HPFS drive is in an extended partition.  If it is
primary, then you cannot access the DOS drive (which also must be primary).
(The rules are that only one primary partition may be active at any time,
DOS requires a primary partition, and OS/2 may reside in either a primary
or extended partition.)

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From: adhir@cygnus.umd.edu (Alok Dhir)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: OS/2 2.1b
Date: 24 Jan 93 04:49:29 GMT
Organization: Los Alamos National Laboratory, NM

>> 
>> I have found the 2.1b to be extremely unstable.  <deleted>
>> 
>> All of the above works perfectly in OS/2 2.0+SP.  I recommend staying as
>> far away from 2.1b as possible, unless you have the need for running some
>> particular enhanced mode app in Windows (which isn't even guaranteed to 
>> work...the only thing I wanted was for my Gravis Ultrasound drivers for
>> Windows (they require enhanced mode) to work but they don't).  2.0+SP
>> is MUCH more stable. 
>
>C'mon, this is a BETA version.  It isn't necessarily supposed to be rock solid. 
>That's why they call it OS/2 2.1 BETA.  And that is why there are people out
>there to test it, give their buggy feedback to IBM, so IBM can fix it before
>2.1 GA. :-)
>

True, but there are a number of OS/2 users (like myself) that upgraded to
2.1b as a direct result of the fact that net.opinions seemed to indicate
greater stability AS WELL AS greater functionality...NOT greater functionality
at the expense of an unstable system. 

For those that want to be in the beta test, fine, I applaude your efforts, 
but since this is my only machine and I can't afford to risk freezes, I
need stability.  

Let me qualify my warning:  If you are looking to be a beta tester for IBM, 
great...DL it and report the bugs.  If you are looking for a better version of
the OS, then you'd probably be better off waiting for 2.1GA.


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From: msaletni@jade.tufts.edu (Michael J. Saletnik)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Hiccupping DOS boxes
Date: 23 Jan 93 17:55:44 GMT
Organization: Tufts University - Medford, MA

I don't know what I did, but now all my DOS boxes (including
fullscreen WINOS2) are hiccupping.  They'll run for a bit, then slow
down to a complete crawl, then pick up again, then crawl.  Even the
mouse pointer in winos2 stops moving.

I've tried playing with VIDEO_RETRACE_EMULATION, VIDEO_ROM_EMULATION,
and even have set IDLE_SENSITIVITY to 100.  No help there.  I've tried
killing everything that I have at startup.  No change.  I removed
logdaem and the log$ device.  Nuttin'.

The only thing I've done to my system recently is to change my menu
and title bar fonts for the desktop.  But that was over a week ago,
and this problem just materialized yesterday.

Has anyone seen behavior like this and/or knows what's causing it?

The system is a Packard Bell ISA 486/33, 8meg, 120mb (2xHPFS,1xFAT),
Orchid F1280 S3 video 1024x768x256 (winos2 in regular vga mode, dos
programs in regular vga except WP5.1/dos in 132x60), GA+SP 2.0 ...

					Thanks,
						Michael
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From: aaronw@am.ucsc.edu (Aaron M. Williams)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: Which CD ROM for OS/2
Date: 21 Jan 93 08:31:41 GMT
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In-reply-to: fdq@athena.mit.edu's message of Fri, 15 Jan 1993 20:53:55 GMT

In article <FDQ.93Jan15155336@w20-575-54.mit.edu> fdq@athena.mit.edu (Fred D Quintana) writes:

   In article <1993Jan13.040304.3922@lynx.dac.northeastern.edu> mmannan@lynx.dac.northeastern.edu (Mohammed Mannan) writes:

      I am in the market for a CD ROM, and would like to know which
      one works best with OS/2. Please send your replies to:

	      mmannan@lynx.dac.northeastern.edu

      Thank you in advance for your help,

      M. Mannan

   I am also looking for a CDROM and would appreciate it if any responses are
   posted to this newsgroup.  

   Thanks for the info,
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I just purchased an IBM external CD ROM from NCA Peripherals in San Jose, CA.
They have them on sale right now for $299.  They're not real fancy or
anything, just cheap, and guaranteed to work with OS/2 if you have a SCSI 
controller with OS/2 drivers (such as the Adaptec series or Future Domain).

I just installed the drivers, plugged in the CD ROM, and rebooted and it
worked the first time.  The IBM CD Rom does not need a PS/2 either.  It's
just a standard SCSI device.

The drive claims 380ms random seek, but the Corel SCSI benchmark says it's
more like 250ms.  The data transfer rate is 150k/sec.

-Aaron Williams
aaronw@cats.ucsc.edu
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu (Timothy F. Sipples)
Subject: Re: OS/2 2.1 release reminders
Reply-To: sip1@midway.uchicago.edu
Organization: Dept. of Econ., Univ. of Chicago
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 00:07:06 GMT

In article <1993Jan27.183637.17319@cci632.cci.com> rom@cci632.cci.com (Rudynell S. Millian) writes:
>	Last Spring, when OS/2 2.0 was released, IBM made two grave mistakes;
>The general public couldn't get a hold of OS/2 2.0 through stores for weeks
>after the official release date, and IBM did NOT include proper documentation
>with the product.
>	When OS/2 2.1 is released this Spring, I hope the general public will
>be able to go to their local software store and buy it, and I hope that when
>these buyers open their OS/2 2.1 box, they will find, along with the disks or
>CD, a single comprehensive document/user's guide for what they purchased. 
>		G E T  T H E  I D E A  I B M?!

Yes, they do.  A draft copy of the manual is contained on the 2.1 beta
CD-ROM.  THERE WILL BE A REAL MANUAL IN 2.1 SHRINKWRAP.

As for distribution, I'm sure they want to get it done right.  We'll
only know about it when it happens.

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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: widow@camelot.bradley.edu (Shaun Burnett)
Subject: Re: SIO_034 and OS2SPEED
Organization: Bradley University
Distribution: na
Date: 23 Jan 93 18:09:33 GMT

In <kanet.727762785@sfu.ca> kanet@fraser.sfu.ca (Kane Tan) writes:

	SIO034.ZIP contains the SIO034 beta drivers.  These drivers
	replace the COM.SYS and VCOM.SYS that you currently have
	loaded.  From what I recall in the documentation accompanying
	the drivers, the author did not include comm code that most
	people don't need and that hampers the COM/VCOM drivers
	performance.  Also, DOS programs see a virtualized 16550
	(assuming you have one on your system).

	OS2SPEED.ZIP cotains a TSR that makes DOS programs that are
	Deskview aware,  "OS/2 aware."  This results in a DOS program
	not eatting up tons of CPU time doing things like polling the
	keyboard for input.

	Both are at "ftp-os2.nmsu.edu".  I assume the SIO034 drivers
	have been moved out of "uploads" by now and reside in
	"drivers" or "new".  Check under "/pub/os2/2.0/".  Use the
	index file if you have problems finding either of the
	programs.

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: dic5340@hertz.njit.edu (David Charlap)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: OS/2 port of Win cardfile somewhere ?
Date: 26 Jan 93 14:35:34 GMT
Organization: New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, N.J.

In article <19930121144256.h198@hosp.med.umich.edu> h198@hosp.med.umich.edu (Gene Mangum) writes:
>  Barf!!!  Gag!!!   What are you trying to do, kill OS/2???   WLO is
>  unacceptable crap.   I'm almost positive that the cardfile applet is
>  included with the 2.1 beta.   WLO Stinks!!

What's wrong?  Other than picking an oversized system font, I've found
no problem with these applets.  True, they can't print, but if you
want to do that, you can run them from WIN-OS2 and then they'll run as
Windows apps.  They run perfectly that way.



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From: dic5340@hertz.njit.edu (David Charlap)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: Is OS/2 a dead end?
Keywords: So quoth Bill Gates
Date: 26 Jan 93 14:43:22 GMT
Organization: New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, N.J.

In article <mortenk.193.727993897@dhhalden.no> mortenk@dhhalden.no (MORTEN KNUDSEN) writes:
>Well, I have 2x200Meg, and it takes a whole lot less that 5 minutes, 
>even after a _total_ crash. You will need about a zillion megs to 
>get 30 minutes (at least).

How full ar they?  I have a 200MB drive, and (especially before
service pack level XR-6055) it would take longer as more files were
added to the system.  Right now, I've a 50MB OS/2 partition (35MB
used) and a 150MB data partition (110MB used), and it takes about 7
minutes to inspect the disk after an abnormal reset.  I've only had to
do this once in the last month, though, and it was a piece of code I
wrote that caused the crash (I fixed it, so nobody will be getting
this in their downloads :-)).
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From: stanton@haas.berkeley.edu (Richard Stanton)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Loss of keyboard response after using C-Break under 2.1b
Date: 21 Jan 1993 06:47:14 GMT
Organization: University of California, Berkeley
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: haas.berkeley.edu

I've noticed some odd behavior from Os/2 windows occasionally, and it seems
only to happen after I've interrupted a previous program using C-Break.
What happens is that I lose full keyboard response. Not everything, but I
can't do much. For example, many times I've invoked LIST, been presented
with a directory listing andf a cursor bar, but been unable to move the cursor
to select a file. Pressing C-Break gets me out, and closing the window and
opening a new one cures the problem.

Richard Stanton


Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: walk@mrcnext.cso.uiuc.edu (Todd Walk)
Subject: Re: Rumor: IBM out of hardware business????
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 00:27:45 GMT

landman@hal.physics.wayne.edu (Joe Landman) writes:

>well, I have it on good authority that IBM will be getting out of the mainframe
>business in the next few quarters (eg: diving off a sinking ship might just be
>the first signs of a plan for survival).  No, I do not know any far up
>IBM insiders, I simply listened to what cuts IBM had announced over the last year.
>  It is not hard to figure out what is and is not profitable for them.  

>   There was some mention of them closing the plants in Fishkill and Poughkeepsie NY
>(right near my old home town of Yorktown, which is where IBM research is) which
>make various chips...  I hope the IBM will not be getting out of the workstation or
> PC areas.  I have a PS Valuepoint 433 and I love it, and I hear the the RS
>6000 is a nice machine to do heavy number crunching on...

From what I've heard, IBM cancelled the core logic development for their
next line of mainframes.  The mainframe division has also had recent
layoffs.  Workstation and PC divisions are doing better than ever.


					Todd Walk
					walk@mrcnext.cso.uiuc.edu
Organization: Wirtschaftsuniversitaet Wien, Vienna, Austria
Date: Tuesday, 19 Jan 1993 10:15:32 CET
From: FLATSCHER Rony <RONY@awiwuw11.wu-wien.ac.at>
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Beta 2.1: Bugs in WPS

1) Running the FIND-command on the WPS-object-menu:
      a) searching for files with "Program File"-type does not work on
         "*.COM"-files (types of "Object" was unchecked). I attempted to
         "manually" have OS/2 setup DOS-program-objects for COM-files;
         using the "Object"-type just creates a shadow to the physical
         files rather than creating program-objects for COM-programs.
      b) searching for files with "Object"-type yields a "find-result"
         folder; if deleting this folder, OS/2 starts to stall (pressing
         a key, a mouse button is not being reflected; it seems that
         from there on everything works every three seconds). The system
         becomes unusable. The only solution at that time: booting OS/2 2.1.
         Deleting first the contents of the "find-result" folder by hand and
         thereafter deleting the folder itself seems to work o.k.

2) As in another post mentioned: Icons being associated to files do not
   change its appearance, if changed on the program-object (i.e. the
   icon-change is not reflected on the associated files). The icon-change
   gets effective once OS/2 2.1 is rebooted.

3) The drive-object is *extremely* slow in presenting the top-level-entries
   of a directory. On a 50MHz 486 you can watch the creation of the plus-
   icons. The situation is even worse, if one decides to define drives in
   the FIND-function: I have drives A: thru I: on my machine; once I
   decide to locate via drives, it takes the WPS approximately three
   seconds (!!!) per drive to appear, totalling half a minute rather than one
   second  (this is on a 50MHz 486 !); also if a drive appeared (like D:) on
   which I would like the FIND-command to work on, I cannot mark it as long as
   not all drives appeared in the scrolling window !
   By the way, it seems that the drive-object shows top-level-directory
   entries faster, if one defines a persistent sort-order (like "allways
   sort"-checking in the property menu of the drive-object for the
   drive in question).
   Having the file-manager of WinOS2 3.1 running seemlessly side-by-side
   with the drive-object reveals that the file-manager is by magnitudes
   faster than the native OS/2-drive-object at present !

---rony
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: fiv2@cunixa.cc.columbia.edu (Fidel I Villa)
Subject: Inside OS/2 Publication by The Cobb Group
Organization: Columbia University
Distribution: na
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 01:06:50 GMT


I just got a sample copy of their publication (June 1992) and I find
it good. Topics discussed:
a) Setting notebooks, b) What is a shadow? c) OS/2 for lefthanded
d) Using Novell Netware with OS/2 e) Loading Windoze apps faster
f) The many ways to drag an icon.

Topic d) is, IMHO, comprehensive in just three pages.

The "Welcome to Inside OS/2" by the editor is thruthful.

"...it's clear that DOS just won't cut the mustard anymore. After all,
DOS was originally designed to run on PCs built in 1982, not 1992.
Equipping a powerful 386- or 486-based PC with a decade old operating
system is like putting a Model T Ford engine in a Lamborghini."

"When IBM released OS/2 2.0 this spring, they finally provided us
with an operating system for the '90s."

There is also a glossary at the back.

Cobb Group phone (800) 223-8720.
From: ramana@rama.esd.sgi.com (Ramana Vakkalagadda)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: Can the IBM C-Compiler compile Windows 3.0 apps?
Date: 26 Jan 93 00:06:51 GMT
Reply-To: ramana@rama.esd.sgi.com (Ramana Vakkalagadda)
Distribution: usa
Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc., Mountain View, CA, USA

In article <1k1l8cINNfoe@msuinfo.cl.msu.edu>, sundaram@egr.msu.edu
(Divya Sundaram) writes:
|> 
|> Hi all,
|> 
|> I am getting the IBM OS/2 2.1 beta CD-ROM in a couple of days. I wanted to
|> know whether the C-Compiler that comes with it will compile WINDOWS 3.x
|> (or WIN-OS2 3.1) programs. If it does, then I can ditch the Borland C++ 3.1
|> 50MB diskspace hogging compiler ....  
|> 
|> I am also wondering if there is any ONE compiler that will compile
DOS, WIN3.x
|> and OS2 progs .... this will undoubtedly same me a lot of disk space ....
|> 
|> Later y'all,
|> -- 
|> Thanks
|> Divya
|> (sundaram@egr.msu.edu)
|> Phone:	Office - 517-355-3265

Did you try WATCOM 9.0 or later? They seem to have the compiler
that might get all the options.

--ramana
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