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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: lemieux@eecg.toronto.edu (Guy Gerard Lemieux)
Subject: Re: os/2 ram drive
Distribution: comp
Date: 29 Jul 92 01:59:20 GMT

tamu@uxh.cso.uiuc.edu (Todd Henderson) writes:

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


>>6. A RAM disk can totally eliminate disk I/O if you have enough memory.
>>   Disk caching does not eliminate all I/O because all writes happen
>>   eventually, even with lazy write.

>I will not claim to be to knowlegdable about ram disk, io, etc., but it
>seems to me, you are saying:
>1.  Make a ram disk.
>2.  Put your swap there.  This gives no disk i/o if you have enough memory.
>Am I missing something here?

Yes, you are.  Putting your swap in the RAM disk makes zero sense.  Rather,
put frequently accessed files in RAM.

Simple example:  when compiling a small C program, most of the time is
spent reading and processing the OS/2 header files.  If I put the header
files into a RAM disk, the access time is zilch.  With disk caching, I
take a chance that my cache is not large enough AND that because I am
multitasking, my header files get flushed from the cache.

Speaking of lazy writes:  when I am doing heavy writing and reading
to a file, chances are it will be cached.  If I stop writing to the file,
the lazy cache will timeout and then write the changes to the disk.  If
this file is only a "temporary file", it need not be written to disk because
it will only be deleted soon anyways.  Thus, the disk access is wasted.

When you know how much space you need, and how frequently you want the
information, a RAM disk makes sense.

Personally, I would like a DYNAMIC RAM disk.  As I copy files into it,
it grows in size (until I'm out of physical(virtual?) memory).  This way
I never have to worry about making a SIZE setting in my CONFIG.SYS and
rebooting.

The alternative is to give us memory mapped files ala BSD.


Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu (Timothy F. Sipples)
Subject: Re: HELP! restoring deleted HPFS files
Reply-To: sip1@midway.uchicago.edu
Organization: Dept. of Econ., Univ. of Chicago
Date: Thu, 30 Jul 1992 16:27:54 GMT

In article <29JUL199219242353@zeus.tamu.edu> rfs0838@zeus.tamu.edu (SCHAFFTER, RODNEY FRANK, JR) writes:
>	I see that this utility is in the os2/1.x/diskutils directory.
>	Will it work under 2.0?

Re: Phoenix.  It should.  (Note to Mike: it should probably be moved
to the pub/os2/all hierarchy.)

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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: erzberg@ifi.unizh.ch (Martin Erzberger)
Subject: Re: How to delete undeletable objects
Organization: University of Zurich, Department of Computer Science
Date: Wed, 22 Jul 92 12:09:54 GMT

First, thanks to everyone who helped.
In summary, the simplest way to delete undeleteble objects seems to be:
- Create a new directory (eg. \wegmit)
- Move all the nasty object into it (with Drive C object)
- delete everything manually in this folder (Drive C will not allow one
  to do it, so I used File Manager from OS/2 1.3)
- remove the folder

There are some interesting things though:
- If one immediatly recreates the directory (md c:\wegmit), and looks into
  it with Drive C object, the stuff is back in! To circumvent it, I had to
  create a new folder (in Drive C object), open it, rename it to "wegmit",
  and delete it again. After that, the traces to this folder seem to be
  gone.
- In OS2.INI are still references to the now deleted objects (and will
  probably be there forever...). So, what one would need is something like
  CHKDSK for the workplace shell, to cleanup all lost pointers etc.
  OF COURSE I would prefer it, if I could decide myself if I want to delete
  something, without being forced to use "tricks".
Regards, Martin


Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: grimlok@hubcap.clemson.edu (Mike Percy)
Subject: Re: "Bug" in Joel Armungaud's 800x600x256 driver - update
Organization: Clemson University
Date: Thu, 30 Jul 1992 19:32:52 GMT

dic5340@hertz.njit.edu (David Charlap) writes:

>PS: Anyone with Windows background bitmaps can use them unmodified
>    with WPS.  Apparantly, you don't have to convert them to OS/2
>    bitmaps for Lockup and the background to read them.  I've
>    currently got the Windows 3.1 "Arcade" backdrop tiled across my
>    desktop with no ill effects (although it's kind of hard to read
>    icon text)
 
Not all Windows bitmaps can be used as OS/2 bitmaps.  I have some that
do work, but the one I want to use doesn't work.  I'm keeping an eye out
for Win .bmp to OS/2 .bmp converters though.

Mike Percy             | grimlok@hubcap.clemson.edu  | I don't know about
Sr. Systems Analyst    | mspercy@clemson.clemson.edu | your brain, but mine
Info. Sys. Development | mspercy@clemson.BITNET      | is really...bossy.
Clemson University     | (803) 656-3780              | (Laurie Anderson)
From: stirling@hursley.ibm.com
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: Mouse pointer "icon"???
Date: 30 Jul 92 10:41:54 GMT
Reply-To: ian@vnet.ibm.com
Organization: IBM UK Labs Ltd, Hursley, England
News-Software: NewsKit 1.5 - LaMail

In <1992Jul29.164707.14443@ultb.isc.rit.edu>, jfo8808@ultb.isc.rit.edu (J.F. Olshefsky ) writes:
>
>Because I'm insane and therefore want a fork (eating utensil) for a
>mouse pointer, I was wondering if anyone had any luck finding the way
>to change the pointer.  I've managed to create the fork pointer using
>the icon editor (fyi, create a new file and it's obvious how to select
>pointers).  I tried filefind on the system drive with *.PTR and could
>only locate the template for pointers, which does me little to no good.
>
>Btw, if this was posted before, call me stupid and tell me to get a
>tutor on how to properly post -- the former message shouldn't have
>posted, at least according to the message it yelled at me.
>

The mouse pointer is held as a resource within DISPLAY.DLL.  What I have done in
the past is to use a resource editor to extract the mouse pointer, it has always
been resource 1, use the icon editor to change it, and finally used the resource
editor to replace it in DISPLAY.DLL.

I do not know where you will find a suitable resource editor.  The one I used is
an internal program, and doesn't work on OS/2 2.0 yet.

Cheers,                                                                         
Ian Stirling                      Internet: ian@vnet.ibm.com                    
CICS/ESA Systems Facilities         Bitnet: ian at vnet                         
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From: x91clifton1@gw.wmich.edu
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: Has anyone made a Boot Disk?
Date: 21 Jul 92 16:42:13 EST
Organization: Western Michigan University

In article <1992Jul21.185351.4591@unixg.ubc.ca>, twong@civil.ubc.ca (Thomas Wong) writes:
> Has anyone tried making a boot disk (as opposed to the usual install
> disk then disk 1 then Esc key)? I grabbed the bootdisk.txt file from
> ftp-os2 site, and followed it to make myself a bootdisk. I tried
> booting from it and OS/2 booted up just fine. But when I tried to do a
> "dir" on C:\, I get the error.....
> 
> SYS00026: The specified disk or disketter cannot be accessed.
> 
> I'm using the Boot Manager for DOS 5 and OS/2, and at this point Drive C: 
> is my OS/2 system partition formated as HPFS. Now if I ran DOS last so that
> my DOS system partition was my last bootable partition so that when I boot
> from floppy, my Drive C: would still be my DOS system partition which
> is FAT, I can read it ok using this OS/2 bootdisk. It's just if I ran OS/2
> last so that my OS/2 HPFS is now Drive C:, booting from this OS/2
> bootdisk now, it doesn't recognize this HPFS or some problem like this.
> 
> Has anyone been successful with a bootdisk? Thanks.
> 
> Thomas.
> 
Yes, to automate the process get makebootdisk.cmd (makbtdsk1.zoo at 
ftp-os2.nmsu.edu in /pub/os2/2.0/sysutils). Also if your boot floppy
is a 5.25 I recomend a DOS floppy formater called fdformat. This
allows you to format a 1.2M diskette to 1.44M thus giving you the
room to get all the chkdsk stuff on the disk with a little room left
over for a small editor (tedp.exe).

/Doug
From: hertz.njit.edu!dic5340@overmind.mind.org
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: OS/2 and Modplay
Date: 22 Jul 92 21:43:00 GMT
Organization: New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, N.J.
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X-Spam-content: irrelevant

In article <21JUL199211572601@rigel.tamu.edu> raf4482@rigel.tamu.edu (REID 
FORREST) writes:
>Has anyone had any success with OS/2 and programs like ModPlay?  I've tried
>and Modplay slows to a crawl, and needless to say what comes out of the 
speak-
>ers nowhere near resembles music.   I have a Covox Sound Master II, and can
>use programs designed to Covox, DAC on LPT1, Speech Thing, etc.
>Any help would be appreciated.

Modplay is sending bytes directly to the sound hardware.  This is a
timing critical application, and may cause problems.  This is known.
Using a DAC on LPT1 will mean all your data gets channeled through the
spooler - not a happy situation.

Your best bet is to somehow increase the multitasking priority of the
DOS session in which ModPlay is running.  I'm not sure how to do this,
but I believe it can be done with a program recently posted to
comp.binaries.os2.  Also, close as many other applications as you can,
to give ModPlay the greatest share of the clock.

You MIGHT try setting HW_TIMER to "on", but on my system, this caused
ModPlay to crash OS/2.  So you might want to forgo that idea.

If you get it working before me, let me know.  I recently downloaded a
different Module Player (Also DOS based) from the Net, and I'll post
the results of trying to use it when I get a chance to play with it.


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From: "kenneth tam" <kenneth.tam@canrem.com>
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: hpfs reliability
Date: 21 Jul 92 22:14:07 EST
Reply-To: "kenneth tam" <kenneth.tam@canrem.com>
Distribution: comp
Organization: Canada Remote Systems

07-21-92  08:28 - Meir I Green wrote to All re: HPFS reliability

 MIG> Nope!  HPFS all the way!  No more lost extended attributes, higher
 MIG> reliability !

But not with lazy writes on.  IMO that's bad news for "mission-critical"
apps -- in the last week I've managed to crash and burn HPFS + LW at
least 3-4 times.

 MIG> All they need to do is package a *real* backup program with OS/2!

Agreed.

kenneth.tam@canrem.com

 
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From: lee@pranny.UUCP (Lee Reynolds)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: 1.44 drive problem under OS/2
Date: 21 Jul 92 12:42:35 GMT
Organization: Pranny International, Inc.

Hm,
   system works fine for me except that under OS/2 I get drive failures
when accessing my 1.44MB A: drive.

   This a job for that floppy driver fix I've seen floating around?

                                    Lee
From: "bill dehaan" <bill.dehaan@canrem.com>
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: os/2's som
Date: 30 Jul 92 22:00:31 EST
Reply-To: "bill dehaan" <bill.dehaan@canrem.com>
Distribution: comp
Organization: Canada Remote Systems

Stephen Dawson writes:

SD>Run, don't walk to your phone and order volume 3 of the Redbooks!

I've had  all five  redbooks since  the middle  of March.  I was talking
about  things  that  are  _definately_  undocumented,  even  within IBM.
Hopefully,  this  will  change  over  time,  but  as  IBM  put  it,  the
documentation was  the least  of their  concerns in  getting the product
out.

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From: uujanze@ccu.umanitoba.ca (Rob Janzen)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: OS/2 working!
Summary: Its working now
Keywords: Yahoo!!
Date: 28 Jul 92 04:06:54 GMT
Organization: University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada

Well, I reinstalled OS/2, and not only is my DOS windows working proper,
but my com ports are working as well... And I haven't applied any patches
yet. 

Something tells me I'm going to do a backup of my HD before I start applying
any patches...

Thanks to all who sent me suggestions.

Rob Janzen  	(uujanze@ccu.umanitoba.ca)
From: HRU003@DJUKFA11.BITNET
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: Format 1.2M to 1.44M
Date: 25 Jul 92 07:46:00 GMT
 <712020513snx@lancea.actrix.gen.nz>
Organization: KFA  Forschungszentrum Juelich

Hello,I have some problems with old disks formatted with fdformat 1.8,
if I have used the option "-x:2 -Y:3" which will give some sector
sliding that results in faster access. Alas this access seems to be
too smart for OS/2 as it won't read files from those disks without
some "sector not found"-errors. Anyone having a solution for this
problem?
Another problem: if I used fdformat's ability to format a 720k-Disk
on a 1.2Mb-Drive (which needed a resident program that fixed the
double-step-flag in the BIOS-area), then these disks are also un-
reachable under OS/2.
If i can understand the latter problem I don't understand the first
problem with sector sliding. Are those OS/2 disk-drivers (IBMFLP1.ADD
by the way) that dumb, that they have to forfeit if they meet a slightly
unusual disk layout?
Can anyone please tell those guys at IBM responsible for OS/2 about
this problem ? (As i know the same thing happens with disks formatted
by VGACOPY a nice copy program from Germany which tries to optimze
the speed of disk-access by using the sector slide scheme too).

Thanks a lot for any advice,
Jens Pirnay
email: hru003@djukfa11 (Bitnet)
       jens.pirnay@rphs1.physik.uni-regensburg.de (Internet)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: Steve.Withers@bbs.actrix.gen.nz
Subject: Re: Seamless Drivers for Trident 8900c ??
Organization: Actrix Information Exchange
Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1992 12:19:15 GMT

In article <1992Jul22.211039.589@mala.bc.ca> bigras@mala.bc.ca writes:
> I was reading over comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy and somebody
> mentioned theat trident drivers are available with
> seamless windows.  The ones I am currently using
> don't have this, and it would be nice to keep
> some of those win games on the desktop.
> Are seamless drivers available for the 8900c
> in 1024x768x256?

Trident have supplied the full range of SVGA drivers for the 8900c, but the
only seamless SVGA driver is the 800x600x16. I use the 800x600x256, though,
because I have dumped all my Windows apps, and Windows is the only thing
affected. Wolfenstien 3D needs 256! :-)
 
I don't use the 1024x768x256 because all the icons are too small on my 14"
monitor!
 
Steve
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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: eln380s@fawlty6.eng.monash.edu.au (Goh Yan Pin)
Subject: Re: Does 800x600x256 on the VGA part of a Graphics Ultra work under OS/2?
Organization: Monash University, Melb., Australia.
Date: Fri, 24 Jul 1992 04:09:21 GMT

mike@mustang.uucp (Mike Hoffos) writes:

>In article <1992Jul20.174848.7662@njitgw.njit.edu> dic5340@hertz.njit.edu (David Charlap) writes:
>>In article <1992Jul18.205156.4997@mustang.uucp> mike@mustang.uucp (Mike Hoffos) writes:
>>>Under MS-DOS 5.0, I frequently used gif viewers that allowed me to use
>>>the 800x600x256 mode that the VGA portion of the ATI Graphics Ultra offers.
>>>
>>>No matter what I do though, OS/2 just doesn't like to let the same
>>>programs in a DOS full-screen session go into the mode. When they try
>>>to enter 800x600x256, all that happens is that the screen stays in text
>>>mode, but the colors get all funny.  When you give the keystroke that
>>>would get you out of the picture viewing mode, the screen corrects itself.
>>
>>Did you install the VSVGA.SYS driver into CONFIG.SYS?  I thought svga
>>on does that automatically, but it might not have.  Go into CONFIG.SYS
>>and be sure that the reference to VVGA.SYS isn't there (or is
>>commented off) and that VSVGA.SYS is there.
>>
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>Yep, I did do svga on; it did nothing.  And my config.sys does have
>the vsvga.sys there.  My question still stands; does anyone with an
>Ultra get 800x600x256 in a DOS full-screen session if a program tries to
>fiddle the VGA portion into the mode?

>Mike Hoffos

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Yes, I can get 800x600x256 in DOS fullscreen. I have VSVGA.SYS in my config.sys
and I also ran SVGA ON and rebooted. However, I got a problem too. I cannot  
get 800x600x256 in a DOS windows on desktop. And whenever I set SVGA ON, my
DOS text windows becomes funny. It only has 80x25 and no matter what I do I
cannot get it to resize to 80x25. Any ideas?


Yan Pin GOH			eln380s@fawlty7.eng.monash.edu.au
From: bauwens@acs.ucalgary.ca (Luc Bauwens)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: RESTARTOBJECTS (WAS Re: strange goings on)
Date: 31 Jul 92 15:53:45 GMT
Organization: The University of Calgary, Alberta

In article <19920731.030903.185@almaden.ibm.com> <joe2@vnet.ibm.com> writes:
>
>What I always recommend, is putting
>
>     SET RESTARTOBJECTS=STARTUPFORLDERSONLY
>
>
>in the CONFIG.SYS.
>
>-Joel Armengaud

I'll second that.

Tim: has this made it into the FAQ yet?

Luc B
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: cdonnell@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Chris E Donnell)
Subject: IBM reps to demo OS/2 2.0 at Bizmart on Saturday!
Organization: The Ohio State University
Distribution: cmh
Date: Fri, 24 Jul 1992 19:27:12 GMT

I heard that IBM is having one or two reps at the Bizmart store in Westerville 
this Saturday.  They will bring true 32 bit software with them to demo.  I'm 
sure they will have bug fixes with them also so bring your disks.  I believe 
they will be there from 9am to 6pm but they may be there all day.  Bizmart is 
in the Westerville Mall on Huber Village Blvd.
From: hertz.njit.edu!dic5340@overmind.mind.org
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: Speed OS/2 vrs. Windoze. sx slugs
Date: 23 Jul 92 03:04:00 GMT
Organization: New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, N.J.
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X-Spam-content: irrelevant

In article <1992Jul21.221700.585@mala.bc.ca> bigras@mala.bc.ca writes:
>I use a 386/40 with 8mb / trident SVGA at home, bought just
>for 2.0  
>
>At work I use a 16MHz sx with 5mb and I run the HPFS.  The speed to
>load something is ugly...

That's because you only have 5MB.  IBM recommends nothing less than
6MB for HPFS use.  You'll get much better performance if you up the
memory by at least one more megabyte, or if you re-format your disks
for the FAT system and remove the HPFS driver from CONFIG.SYS

>So if you can't stand the speed of your sx slug just spend $300 and
>get a new 386/40 motherboard, it will transform your system.

Or up the memory if you're below convenient operating levels (6MB).
Personally, I'd insist that any OS/2 users have at least 6MB
(preferably 8).  The memory is relatively cheap, and if you decide to
upgrade the motherboard anyway, you can (usually) transfer the SIMMs
over to the new system.


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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: jja@wsl.ie (John J. Allen)
Subject: Re: Impressions of Windows NT
Organization: Workhorse Systems Limited, Dublin, Ireland
Date: Fri, 31 Jul 1992 10:06:57 GMT

msmith@netcom.com (Martin P. Smith) writes:
: >
: >Although I'm no Windows NT fan I believe it is a multi-user OS but not 
: >in the traditional sense. I believe that traditional multi-user should
: >really be called 'simultaneous multi-user' to indicate that the machine
: >knows about multiple users and can also allow them to use the machine 
: >simultaneously.
: 
: Give me a Mother F..... break I do not think anybody would seriously think that
: a system that does not support CONCURRENT  multiple users is a multi user system
: 
: If multiple user profiles is considered enough to make a system multi user then
: DOS can be made multi user. Just create a little old routine that stores       
: different autoexec.bats and a baby menu that allows you to enter a name and 
: voila MULTI-USER DOS. 
: 

Give me a Mother Fucking Break.

Not if it don't have a protected file system.

Also only my fucking opinion.

So fuck yours anyway.
From: jemenake@zeus.calpoly.edu (Joe Emenaker)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Aren't all "2.0" drivers seamless?
Keywords: OS/2 Headaches
Date: 24 Jul 92 18:27:05 GMT
Organization: California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo

Well, after discovering that almost none of the heralded Trident drivers
support seamless Windows and VGA emulation in DOS windows, I have a
question:

According to the IBM spec, is seamless windows and graphical dos windows an
OPTION or is it mandatory.

My reason for asking is because I had always assumed (without any real
evidence) that TRUE OS/2 2.0 drivers would support the seamless win and the
graphical DOS. For this reason, I'd say that most of the Trident drivers
out there right now are NOT bona fide OS/2 *2.0* drivers. Sure, OS/2 is
able to function fairly well with them, but they strike me as something tha
was put out there just to have SOME sort of Trident support out there.

So, when a driver doesn't support seamless windows and/or graphics in DOS
windows, is it a real, bona fide, kosher, motherhood & apple pie OS/2 2.0
driver?
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