HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: MSKALA@ESRIN.BITNET (Mike M. Skala)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: Icon editing and attachment
Date: 17 Nov 92 08:40:17 GMT
 <1992Nov9.203159.14130@miavx1.acs.muohio.edu> <9384@blue.cis.pitt.edu.UUCP>
 <BxItEs.G2v@news.cso.uiuc.edu> <92317.130928MSKALA@ESRIN.BITNET>
 <BxnD1J.Aw3@news.cso.uiuc.edu>
Organization: European Space Research Institute (ESRIN)

Thanks for all the help I received, the 'real' problem was,
that all the 'Find'-functions and the Drivemanager refused
to know about some of my directories. After renaming and
rerenaming, the problem vanished. Probably just lost the
extended attributes to identify them.

Also, as someone else has pointed out, you have to edit the
right resolution in the Icon editor (XGA in this case) to
get results. Yup, some more RTFM would have helped :(

mike

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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: amitp@ruf.rice.edu (Amit J Patel)
Subject: Re: BC++ for OS/2
Reply-To: amitp@owlnet.rice.edu
Organization: Rice University
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 14:09:55 GMT

In article <NmJguB1w165w@tcscs.UUCP>, tcscs!zeta@src.honeywell.com (Gregory Youngblood) writes:
|> From what I understand the current DOS version eats 53 to 58 megs with full
|> install.  Whats another 40. :)
|> 
|> Seriously though, what does the current DOS BORLAND (not turbo) c++ take up?
|> Does it really eat up 50+ megs?  What makes it worth that?
|> 

Are you talking DOS only or DOS+Windows?  With DOS only, if you don't
need ALL the memory models, and you don't need ALL the example code,
it fits into 16 megs.

These are my estimates:

	BC.EXE (IDE)	2 megs
	help file	5 megs
	BCC.EXE (cmdln)	1 meg

	libraries	0.5 megs [I use only 2 memory models]
	headers		<1 meg
	various utils	<1 meg
	turbo debugger	2 megs
	turbo profiler	2 megs
	turbo asm	1 meg
	class libraries	??

If you don't need turbo assembler/profiler, delete it!  I've deleted
things like remote debugging/profiling capabilities, windows
compiler/help/library/include files, example code, graphics library,
extra memory models, utilties like grep/unzip/touch that I have from
other places, help file for tasm (which requires thelp, which I also
deleted), and other junk.  [I used to have both Borland C++ 2.0 _and_
Borland C++ 3.0 (and MS-Word, DOS, and Turbo Pascal) on my 40 meg
drive, so I had lots of deleting to do]



				Amit
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: jst50986@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Jack S. Tan)
Subject: Re: Question about Boot Manager
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Sun, 22 Nov 1992 02:49:13 GMT

ltlowe@bnr.ca (Todd Lowe) writes:


> I have just started useing OS/2, and am using the dualboot method.
> My hard disk is completely FAT and only a single partition.  I plan to get
> a second drive and put HPFS and OS/2 on it and keep my DOS stuff on the
> first drive.
>
> I don't currently know much about the boot manager, but I'd like to
> know if I'll be able to install it with out having to reformat/partition
> my current DOS drive?  I've got a lot on it and do not want to have to
> backup/restore everything (~150 Meg) just so I can add the boot manager.
>
> -Todd
>
> ltlowe@bnr.ca

Unfortunately, you will have to repartition (and, hence, reformat) your first
drive.  You need to put in Boot Manager as a primary partition on the first
drive (many people have Boot Manager as the first partition).  If the second
drive is large enough, you could backup everything to that drive and then
restore (this will also defragment the first drive).  If the new one is
slightly smaller than the first, you could zip or zoo all the files, and
create a very large backup file on the second drive.

Hope this helps.

-- 

Jack Tan                                     Sattinger's Law:
jahk@uiuc.edu                       It works better if you plug it in.

Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: low@wiliki.eng.hawaii.edu (Hock-leong Low)
Subject:  How do speedup SCROLLING in DOS and REFRESH-RATE in WINOS2?  
Organization: University of Engineering, College of Engineering
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 07:10:48 GMT

...also, what does BTW stand for?

Thanks in advance.

:) Jason	low@wiliki.eng.hawaii.edu
From: dic5340@hertz.njit.edu (David Charlap)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: How do I set priority
Date: 20 Nov 92 21:47:37 GMT
Organization: New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, N.J.

In article <oDLiuB1w165w@tcscs.UUCP> zeta%tcscs@src.honeywell.com writes:
>What I needto find out is how to set the priority of programs.

You don't.  Applications set their own priorities.  But it isn't that
bad.  Priorities are usually dynamically altered based on usage (if
PRIORITY is set to DYNAMIC in config.sys).  So the program getting
more I/O will get more processor.

>That's the idea at least.  Another way to explain is I'd like the modem
>program to have 6 time slices, my session 4, and the background session
>to 1 time slice.   
>
>Is there a way to do this ??  

Not unless you write the modem program and your shell and all the
background shells.  There are system calls to set priorities, but I
don't think you can change another application's priority.

Look for a SETPRI package on ftp-os2.nmsu.edu.  It will let you launch
an application at a given priority, but the app is still free to
change its own priorities once it has been launched.


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From: pee9901@ultb.isc.rit.edu (P.E. Erkkila)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: gnu INFO.EXE
Date: 16 Nov 92 03:11:41 GMT
Organization: Rochester Institute of Technology
Originator: pee9901@ultb


   COuld someone please tell me how to get info to stop telling me my
terminal is too stupid :). I Really wat to run texinfo.


damage 
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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: Steve.Withers@bbs.actrix.gen.nz
Subject: Re: A neat idea for speeding up seamless WIN-OS2
Organization: Actrix Information Exchange
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 01:00:45 GMT

In article <1992Nov15.211334.146@njitgw.njit.edu> dic5340@hertz.njit.edu (David Charlap) writes:
> Like most others, I can't stand waiting for seamless WIN-OS2 to start
> up an application.  So I tried the following with much success:
> 
> Migrate the WIN-OS2 program manager (C:\OS2\MDOS\WINOS2\PROGMAN.EXE)
> to a WPS icon.  Run it.  Program manager pops up.  From there, you can
> launch Windows apps seamlessly and they load quickly, since WIN-OS2
> never terminates.  Program Manager can be minimized (as always) if you
> want to get it off the screen.
> 
> I didn't expect this to work for some reason, but it does.

I'll second this.

I have learned that this is a very good way to demo Win-os2 for customers. I
use it myself.
 
Steve

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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu (Timothy F. Sipples)
Subject: Re: Syquest performance
Keywords: info wanted - detailed if possible!
Reply-To: sip1@midway.uchicago.edu
Organization: Dept. of Econ., Univ. of Chicago
Date: Sat, 21 Nov 1992 01:39:32 GMT

In article <84006@ut-emx.uucp> futeh@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Futeh Kao) writes:
>Why is IBM so inept in writing scsi drivers?

I just thought I'd jump in on the last question.  There is no SCSI
hardware standard on the PC.  And SCSI itself, at least before SCSI-2,
is not really a standard.  There are at least a dozen makers of PC
SCSI adapters, each available in several permutations, and hundreds of
possible devices which can be attached to these adapters.

The example you provided, however (the NeXT) is a very much more
tightly controlled system, with the vast majority of hardware from but
one vendor.  And the NeXT never did have to contend with DOS.  :-)

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From: shurr@cbnews.cb.att.com (larry.a.shurr)
Subject: Re: HELP: Strange bug with window size
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Columbus, OH
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 16:56:31 GMT

In article <92322.092345FARID@FRECP12.BITNET> Farzad FARID <FARID@FRECP12.BITNET> writes:
>      I've encountered tow stranges bugs since I use OS/2 2.0. What is
>is funny (it may be a coincidence) is that each of these bugs appeared after
>a crash (to be more precise a lockup and not a Trap). Since then I'm stuck
>with these to problems, one of them being slighlty annoying :
>  - After the first crash, now all my OS/2 and DOS windowed Sessions open
> *maximised* all the time. Well this could be called a positive bug :), but
>anyway I'd like to know how it happened. I suppose all the information about
>window setting is stored in the .INI files, could anyone give me more
>information on how to modify these settings to get my sessiosn open just
>how I like them to be.

I, too, have this problem.  I don't recall that it started after a crash,
but memory may not serve.  It is true that I had done a SHIFT-click on
the maximize button to make the windows open with maximal dimensions for
25x80 which worked fine, though I never found a way to undo the change.
At some point, though, the windows started opening maximized, not just
"maximal."  This is obnoxious because maximized windows want to forget 
their onscreen locations and jump to the upper left corner of the display
at every oportunity.

I suppose that you can argue that it makes sense for PM windows to jump
to the upper left (which I don't necessarily believe to be valid), but
for VIO & VDM windows, it's a pain.

>  - The second bug is more annoying : after the second crash, all these
>windowed sessions not only start maximised but now they all have the
>*same starting position* on the screen !

I don't have this one, my VIO & VDM windows open maximized, but each at
an offset from the last, although they will jump to the upper left at
the earliest opportunity.

Does anybody know a way for Farzad and I to reverse these behaviors?

Larry
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From: tcscs!zeta@src.honeywell.com (Gregory Youngblood)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Black Icons.  WHAT DID I DO?
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 92 12:12:14 CST
Reply-To: tcscs!zeta@idss.nwa.com (Gregory Youngblood)
Organization: TCS Consulting Services

I just updated my kernal to the 6-17 from 3-30 to resolve the growing 
swapper.dat file.

I don't have the CSD yet, and the kernal is the FIRST and ONLY bug fix/
patch/kludge/whatever you want to call it that I've added to my GA re-install
after the gs program dumped my system earlier.  I did this before with no
problems?  What can I do?

It only affects the icons on the desktop, and it appears to be the folders
and not programs since the winos2 icon is not blackened.

I'm going to be doing some hacking to see what I can do, but I'd appreciate
any pionters.

thanks
Greg


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From: sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu (Timothy F. Sipples)
Subject: Re: How do I unfragment my HD
Reply-To: sip1@midway.uchicago.edu
Organization: Dept. of Econ., Univ. of Chicago
Date: Sat, 21 Nov 1992 02:04:57 GMT

In article <BxzsIB.8qp@news.cso.uiuc.edu> jst50986@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Jack S. Tan) writes:
>On a tangent, is there any utility that can track free CPU/disk time and
>apply them for purposeful activity?  For example, if the hard disk is
>sitting idle, then OS/2 could do some defragmentation or swapfile/*.ini
>maintenance.  Perhaps a program launcher (even a REXX script) with these
>programs set at very low priorities could do the same thing.  (The swap-
>file maintenance would be especially useful.)

Well, you can set a program to run at IDLE priority, which will make
sure that you do not notice any slowdown in the foreground.  You can
also schedule tasks arbitrarily (e.g. run a command file at Tuesday,
8:00 p.m.)  To do so, use the Alarms applet that comes with OS/2 2.0,
or choose one of the several freeware/shareware alternatives available
via anonymous ftp from ftp-os2.nmsu.edu.

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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: jedwards@ms.uky.edu (Jonathan Edwards)
Subject: Re: A neophyte asks: Can you get rid of Windows?
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 20:31:31 GMT
Organization: University Of Kentucky, Dept. of Math Sciences

clagett@ms.uky.edu (Bill Clagett) writes:

>I don't know how OS/2 runs Windows programs.  I don't really care
>either.  If you are not interested in Windows, can the
>emulation/whatever be removed.  How much diskspace does this save?

When you install, you have the option not to install Windows support.
Presumably it can be removed after it has been installed, but I'm 
not sure how to do that...

Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: hoppie@kub.nl (Jeroen Hoppenbrouwers)
Subject: FDISK does not set D: installable?
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 92 08:48:12 GMT
Organization: Tilburg University, Tilburg, The Netherlands

Help! I cannot get OS/2 to install on D: anymore?!?

My OS/2 system has been working for half a year now without any major
flaw. But last week the unexpected happened: my hard disk banged his
heads against the wall  :-(   So I tried to install the system again
and then I ran into trouble.

I used to have a primary partition C: (20MB FAT) and an extended logical
partition D: (80MB HPFS) with a BootManager at the beginning of the
disk. The BM gave me the choice of DOS or OS/2, and from within OS/2 I
could still access the C: partition. (DOS on C:, OS/2 on D:).

Unfortunately I cannot get this setup back again! FDISK won't let me set
a non-primary partition installable?!? I can only make two C: partitions
that thus cannot access eachother if I want to set the HPFS partition
installable.

This has definitely worked before!

Does anyone have any suggestions about what I am doing wrong this time?


Jeroen

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Infolab, Tilburg University, The Netherlands    |  start connecting people!
From: hashman%ble%boo@pacbell.com (The Hashman)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: OS/2 and 9600bps modem
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 92 16:25:33 PST
Distribution: world
Organization: Black Lodge Engineering

talamar@cs.concordia.ca (ANTONELLI michael a.) writes:

> I recently bought a 9600bps modem.  When I download using z-modem in
> Procomm Plus under OS/2, I get an excessive number of CRC errors causing
> the download to slow down to as little as 180cps.  Under plain DOS or

	..I had the same problem too.. But I was using GSZ/DSZ with the
mobyturbo option.. Then when I switched to just plain 'ol Zmodem CRC-32, 
my problem dissipated.. What protocol are you using with PCP? The internal
Zmdodem? Or some other external protocol?
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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: mfraioli@grebyn.com (Marc Fraioli)
Subject: Re: OS/2 Comm Programs?
Keywords: OS/2 COMM
Organization: Grebyn Timesharing
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 22:13:17 GMT

In article <BxrvwA.I83@world.std.com> jpole@world.std.com (Jamie C Pole) writes:
>  Hiya all...
>
>  Does anyone know of any good shareware (NOT begware or crippleware) PM
>comm programs?  I use TE/2 right now, but it is text mode only...  Thanks
>a lot...
>
I know of a few others besides TE/2, such as logicomm, magcom, and
pmqvt, but all of them are character-based.  I've never seen a graphic
OS/2 comm program at all, shareware or commercial, although I may have
missed it.
-- 
Marc Fraioli
mfraioli@grebyn.com	        	(So I'm a minimalist...)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: pikus@mail.physics.utah.edu (Fedor G. Pikus)
Subject: Re: OS2SYS.ini file size. It is safe to replace big .INI
Organization: University of Utah, Department of Physics
Date: Sun, 22 Nov 1992 20:24:02 GMT

In article <1992Nov22.030103.324@monu6.cc.monash.edu.au> parry@yoyo.cc.monash.edu.au (Tom J Parry) writes:
>From: parry@yoyo.cc.monash.edu.au (Tom J Parry)
>Subject: Re: OS2SYS.ini file size. Possible Cause(s) !!! ??
>Date: Sun, 22 Nov 1992 03:01:03 GMT
>> I do not want to loose my current desktop just to fix this.
>
>92K!!!!!  I have just saved it to a new file and it is 92K I am now going
>to be a little brave and reboot from floppy and replace the old file with
>this more compact one.
>
>CONCLUSION: OS/2 (With SPP) seems to leave gaps in OS2SYS.INI and not
>compact them out. 
>
>BTW I did the same calculation on OS2.INI and it calculates to 116K and
>takes up 126K so that's not too bad.
>
>-- 
>Tom J Parry.
I do this procedure rather often, after any major modification of my 
desktop and objects settings, or after installation of something new,
or creation a few new objects. It seems to be safe. Besides, I also 
have problems only with os2sys.ini.
Fedor G. Pikus
Department of Physics,
University of Utah,
pikus@mail.physics.utah.edu
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From: jpsum00@mik.uky.edu (Dark Knight)
Subject: Re: Deleting HPFS partitions using DOS tools
Organization: University Of Kentucky, Dept. of Math Sciences
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 19:22:28 GMT

In article <1992Nov16.153459.15045@midway.uchicago.edu>  
pynq@quads.uchicago.edu (George Jetson) writes:
> In article <1992Nov16.131302.22337@wam.umd.edu> adhir@wam.umd.edu (Al  
Dhir) writes:
>  Again, don't try
> >to mess with your HPFS partitions using DOS fdisk, you're just going to
> >end up pulling your hair out.  So don't come crying to me when you are  
bald.
> I can understand (DOS) FDISK being weird about it, but what I do not
   I just deleted a 202 Mb HPFS partition using FDISK.  I could view the  
file system using view non system disk (4).  FDISK even recognized my disk  
as being HPFS under file system.  I don't know about the FDISK with DOS  
5.0 as I was using the FDISK from DOS 6.0, but I assume that they are the  
same.
                                               Joey
JPSUM00@ukpr.uky.edu
JPSUM00@mik.uky.edu
From: sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu (Timothy F. Sipples)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: MMPM and SBPROsend
Date: 17 Nov 92 05:31:34 GMT
Reply-To: sip1@midway.uchicago.edu
Distribution: usa
Organization: Dept. of Econ., Univ. of Chicago

In article <Bxu6Ht.5oM@news.iastate.edu> TW.FY4@isumvs.iastate.edu (Timothy I Miller) writes:
>>There are two sets of drivers.  One is a third party effort which does
>>not operate with MMPM/2.  You can use the driver to play sound files
>>under OS/2 2.0, primarily.  The other works in conjunction with
>>MMPM/2.  If you don't have MMPM/2, don't use the MMPM/2 driver.
>     Could you please tell a little bit more about the third-party
>drivers that don't need MMPM/2?  For instance, what sort of sound
>files can be played with them?

I have no idea.  I do, however, know that you can get ahold of the
third party driver.  It is available via anonymous ftp from
ftp-os2.nmsu.edu.  Right now it is located in /pub/uploads, but it
could be moved.  Look for the file beginning with "sb."

Documentation is included in that archive with an explanation of the
driver's capabilities.

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From: doppler.UUCP!jdries@naspac.tc.faa.gov (J. Francis Dries III)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Win-OS/2 shelling DOS Apps.
Keywords: WinOS2 DOS
Date: Sun, 15 Nov 92 20:00:49 EST
Reply-To: doppler.UUCP!jdries@naspac.tc.faa.gov (J. Francis Dries III)
Distribution: world
Organization: Only Posers Wear Black Productions

I don't know if there is a solution for my problem, but I figure I'd
throw it to the net before I try tech support (or reading the
[under-documented] manuals).

To get my mail & news I am currently running Waffle v1.65 in a DOS
window under OS/2.  I'd love to switch to UUPC/extended along with Elm
and a threaded news reader such as SNews/2 (or preferably is there a
port of NN?), however I have to wait for my newsfeed to change their
dialout to be 7E1.

That not withstanding, a threaded news/mail reader is out now for Waffle
called HellDiver.  It is, however, a windows application, which runs
fine under WinOS2, excepting one minor nit.  In order to reply to mail
or news, or post, it needs to spawn a DOS application to feed the
message to RMAIL/RNEWS for batching.  In a straight installation of
OS/2, this type of operation isn't supported (or so says WinOS2).  Is
there any hope of finding a workaround, or even just a settings change?

I'd prefer EMail responses, as I don't know how well my news is comming
through currently for this group, however, if you feel it is important
enough an answer to post, feel free.  I didn't see anything off hand in
the FAQ, btw, directly answering to this particular question.


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