HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: lhoang@orion.oac.uci.edu (Long Hoang)
Subject: Re: November PDK CD-ROM
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.apps
Organization: University of California, Irvine
Date: 17 Dec 92 22:20:39 GMT

In article <2B27C4DA.59D2@tct.com> jim@tct.com (Jim Kunzman) writes:

>I also installed the C++ compiler and tried to compile the demos.  I
>had a problem compiling Mahjongg - IPFC (I believe) couldn't find file
>BMTAG.TAG.  Anyone know anything about this?  Docs were very skimpy,
    Hi,
    Normally, Toolkit installation takes care of this. You probably lost
    it when reinstalling OS2. Make sure you have this in CONFIG.SYS:

         SET IPFC=C:\TOOLKT20\IPFC

    IPF online referecence covers this environment variable description.
    I use both Technical Library books as well as Online Ref. The nice
    advantage of online is one can search on text (with a good guess) and
    cross-references of the topic across all available reference volumes.
    In this case, open up Toolkit Information icon, then IPF Reference,
    and do a search on "IPFC" ..... you'll get a table of hints, and finally
    click on Environment Variable.

    As you might notice, this could be an out of date reply. I have another
    380s articles marked unread. If already addressed, please ignore.


>but then this is the first beta...

>
>-- 
>Jim Kunzman at Teltronics/TCT     <jim@tct.uucp>, <uunet!pdn!tct!jim>
>-----
>OS/2 2.0 - 1,600,000+ copies sold.  Sweet dreams Mr. Ballmy.

----------------------------
Another "happy OS2" believer.
----------------------------
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.apps
From: slumos@unlv.edu (Steve Lumos)
Subject: Re: Undeletable objects taking over desktop
Organization: UNLV Computer Science
Date: Sat, 19 Dec 92 23:32:44 GMT

In article <4704@drsrv1.hmi.de> pfr@drsrv1.hmi.de (Fritsch_Wolfgang) writes:
>I checked out blakhole.zoo but still hesitate using it for my purpose.
>I got a *second* folder with the drive objects in it (was created in
>the process of running checkini, don't remember the details). When I now
>try do dump this second folder into the blackhole it asks for confirmation:
>"do you want to delete drive A" or similar. Of course I don't want to delete
>drive A, not physically nor its presence in the drives folder, but only its 
>representation in that sticky extra folder. 
>Anybody knows for sure
>whether I can dare saying "yes" to that confirmation question?

Have some guts, BACKUP, and go for it! :-) My guess is that "Do you
want to delete Drive A?" is talking about the name of the OBJECT, not
drive A itself. I personally would make a quick backup and do it, but
you have to ask yourself "What is the worst that could happen and what
would I lose if it did happen."

TTYL - Steve

-- 
Steve Lumos - slumos@cs.unlv.edu
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.apps
From: mhuth@byron.u.washington.edu (Mark Huth)
Subject: Lotus Organizer 
Organization: University of Washington, Seattle
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 02:25:01 GMT

I just installed Lotus Organizer under os/2.  It tells me that my 20megabyte 
486/33 with 330 megs of hard drive space doesn't have enough memory to run the
program and suggests that I shut one or more applications.  Obviously, I need to
tweek something...what should be tweeked?  

-- 
Mark Huth                         * Office 206-543-3429 
Mhuth@u.washington.edu            * Fax    206-685-9394
Compuserve 70346,563              *
From: lindor@eng.umd.edu (Lindor Eric Henrickson)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.apps
Subject: Re: E-mailing Borland Customer Service
Date: 16 Dec 92 23:14:24 GMT
Organization: College of Engineering, Maryversity von Uniland, College Park
Originator: lindor@modulation.eng.umd.edu


In article <1992Dec16.153020.65314@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu>, lbv2@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu (BRIAN PAUL VAN LIEU) writes:
>
>    Hi folks,
>
>        A couple days ago, someone posted an email address for Borland.
>
                                                    bvl
>-- 
>
>  Brian P. Van Lieu
>  Lehigh University-AXP
>  lbv2@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu
>
>            OS/2 2.0...anything else is just a DOS.

I missed that e-mail address for Borland.  Could you please re-post it?   


LH
lindor@eng.umd.edu
From: serls@dashs.denver.co.us (Dave Serls)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.apps
Subject: Re: OS/2: leave it running? 
Distribution: world
Date: Sat, 19 Dec 92 20:37:17 GMT
Organization: Sorry Software

>
> I'm wondering how many users keep their OS/2 2.0 machines
> running full-time; that is, 24 hours a day.  Is there any benefit
> gained, thereby; or, are shorter sessions less injurious to HD
> hardware.
>
> If you'd like, e-mail me.  If there's enough response I'll
> summarize to the net.
>
> --
>
     Nearly all respondents (16) enthusiastically endorsed running their PCs
24 hours a day.  Some ran their office machines 24 hours and their home
stations when they were present, or not asleep.  Everyone agreed that
the electronics benefit the most.  In addition, no case for HD mechanical
failure was presented.

     So, if the fan is quiet and you've got a FAX switch on your modem,
go for it.....


--
============================================================================
Dave Serls                                                 303-973-6120
serls@dashs.denver.co.us                                   Sorry Software
============================================================================
From: wjw@ebh.eb.ele.tue.nl (Willem Jan Withagen)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.apps
Subject: Re: REPOST: HELP w/Service PACK!!!
Date: 17 Dec 92 10:22:47 GMT
Organization: Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands

[On the problem of installing the SP, which bombs out]

When I installed the SP, enverything went smoothly until the time came 
to reboot. The system hung, and every reboot would do the same.

I then went in with a floppy-boot and found out that the system want SVGA
but the file made by SVGA (SVADAT.PMI ??) was missing. 

The solution was to copy svga.{com,exe} to a floppy, and then reboot DOS.
There you get into high resolution mode using one of the programs which
comes with your hunky-dory SVGA card (ET4000 have vmode) and run SVGA ON.
Note:
	Make shure you have a directory called \os2, otherwise it'll give a 
	nonsense reply and nothing happens
     
Then copy this file to the \OS2 on your OS2 disk. 

After this rebooting did the trick.

	WjW


Digital Information Systems Group, Room EH 10.35 
Eindhoven University of Technology   
P.O. 513                     		Tel: +31-40-473401,Fax: +31-40-448375
5600 MB Eindhoven            		The Netherlands
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.apps
From: gregory@halcyon.com (Gregory Wright)
Subject: Corel Draw install problems
Organization: The 23:00 News and Mail Service
Date: Sat, 12 Dec 1992 03:55:21 GMT

 I am having troulbles installing Corel Draw for windows. It gets as
far as trying to unarc the first file and then I get an "An internal
error has occured in the dos session" error.
  Anybody have any ideas?....

Thanks in advance,
greg


-- 
 ________Greg Wright____________   "Sure my YMP is fast, but if it doesn't
|  gregory@bcstec.boeing.com    |   run OS2 I don't need it....."
|     gregory@halcyon.com       |                             
|____uunet!bcstec!gregory_______|               NOT A BOEING SPOKESPERSON.
From: eaj@acpub.duke.edu (Edward A. Johnson)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.apps
Subject: Re: OS/2 Backup Utility Supports CMS Jumbo
Date: 15 Dec 92 00:41:17 GMT
Organization: Duke University; Durham, N.C.

In article <1992Dec13.215522.4654@spcvxb.spc.edu> benezra_a@spcvxb.spc.edu writes:
>In article <BmOKrACABh107h@billapc.UUCP>, baustin@billapc.UUCP (Bill Austin) writes:
>> In <1992Dec9.152500.4220@wvnvms.wvnet.edu> roman@wvnvms.wvnet.edu writes:
>>>In the latest version of "OS/2 Monthly," (issue #6) which arrived today,
>>>there is an add for BackMaster, an OS/2 2.0 32-bit PM-based backup
>>>utility.  The ad states that BackMaster supports CMS Jumbo tape drives!
>>>In addition, it supports FAT, HPFS, long filenames and extended attributes.
>>>It backs up and restores to floppies and QIC-40/80 tape drives.
>> 
>>>There's more, but I'm not going to quote the whole ad.  List price is
>>>$79.95, but it's on sale for $49.95 till Christmas.
>> Has anyone(!) actually ordered and/or tried this product yet?  
>> It SOUNDS (at the pre-Christmas price at least) like a heck of a 
>> deal.  (I've seen the other follow up to this about only for floppy
>> interface CMS.. thats ok.. Thats what I use)
>> 
>
>Do you have a phone number for BackMaster?

MSR development                
        Rt 7 #6409               
        Nacogdoches Tx, 75961    
                                 
        ph. (409) 564-1862       
        bbs (409) 560-597        

This information I got directly from MSR bbs: 

Hardware Supported
       
   1.44M, 1.2M, 720K, 360K Floppy Drives.
   QIC-40/80
   Colorado Memory Systems specific hardware.
      AB-10 Adapter Board.
      Y-Cable Drive-B Sharing. ( ONLY CMS )
      
   Generic QIC-40/80 tape drives.
      
Hardware Not supported in this release, but is a high priority:
   2.88 Floppy Drives.
   Colorado Memory systems FC-10, and TC-15 Controllers
   Drive-B Sharing of tape drives and B Floppy Drive by non CMS drives.
   SCSI based tape drives.

	-Ted-

Edward A. Johnson
Cell Biology
Duke University Medical Center
Durham, NC 27710
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.apps
From: ekl@kvamdata.no (Eirik Lygre)
Subject: Re: alarm applet don't work, why?
Organization: Kvam data as
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 21:29:10 GMT

In article <92350.095207BRYAN@wvnvm.wvnet.edu> Jerry Bryan <BRYAN@wvnvm.wvnet.edu> writes:
>
>As a editorial comment in passing, I think that all the calendaring
>applets work great, but in some sense they are overdesigned  --  they are
>just not simple enough.  You have to go into them and tell them which
>files to use, for example.  The reason is good --  you can maintain multiple
>sets of calendars  --  a home calendar, a work calendar, your secretary's
>calendar.  Yet I believe that the applets could have been made a little
>simpler to use without losing functionality.
>
>To me, the calendaring applets have the look and feel of something with
>high function that was well designed by a large group, and the design was
>complete before any coding was done  --  typical high quality, professional
>programming.  Typical IBM.
>
>However, I can't help but feel that they would have been much better if
>they really hadn't even been designed at all, if instead one sharp person
>had gone away into a corner and just played around a little bit until
>it was done.  It would have been simpler, and it would have worked just
>as well or better.

The cool thing to do for IBM would be to redesign them into a real WPS
object. Imaging that you open a calendar object -- your basic datafile.
Up pops a folder. Not a program, but a freakin' regular folder! Except
that it isn't really a folder, but a WPS object. Inside this "folder"
are the applets. Now this would be a great example of the possibilities
of the WPS -- and it would *greatly* simplify the use of these applets

Eirik

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From: djbpitt+@pitt.edu (David J Birnbaum)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.apps
Subject: Re: AmiPro 3.0 question
Keywords: amipro
Date: 15 Dec 92 17:51:55 GMT
Organization: University of Pittsburgh

>The "speed bar" at the bottom of the
>screen does not allow me to change fonts. I do not have the Service Pak.
>Would AmiPro perform better if I did?

I have service pack installed and can change fonts from the speed bar.
If installing the service pack doesn't fix your problem, there is
something else amiss.

>Otherwise am I just stuck until OS/2 2.1 supports Win 3.1 features?

Since you have the help feature working, what other Win 3.1 features did
you have in mind? I wasn't aware that there were any other AmiPro
features not supported.

On another note, still no luck fixing the justification problem. To
recap: Win-OS/2, AmiPro, genuine Adobe (Minion family) fonts,
justification and kerning turned on. The screen is perfectly justified,
but the printout (HP LJ II) has a slightly ragged right margin (as much
as a full letter width). Lotus has never heard of the problem before.
One other user writes that he is using Minion and has no such problem,
albeit on a different printer. Another user reported the same problem,
which he solved by turning off kerning, but that isn't an option for me.

Cheers,

David
-- 
Professor David J. Birnbaum         djbpitt+@pitt.edu [Internet]
The Royal York Apartments, #802     djbpitt@pittvms   [Bitnet]
3955 Bigelow Boulevard              voice: 1-412-687-4653
Pittsburgh, PA  15123  USA          fax:   1-412-624-9714
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 09:52:07 EST
From: Jerry Bryan <BRYAN@wvnvm.wvnet.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.apps
Subject: Re: alarm applet don't work, why?
 <djg2.724261120@crux1.cit.cornell.edu>

In article <djg2.724261120@crux1.cit.cornell.edu>, djg2@crux3.cit.cornell.edu
(David J. Greenberger) says:
>
>Robert Roxby <RROXBY@MAINE.MAINE.EDU> writes:
>
>>I cant get this dumb alarm applet to work right.  when I try
>>entering events using the daily planner, they dont get posted
>>to the alarm clock and there is no alarm, then.  anybody
>>know why?
>
>First, in the daily planner, make sure you save your work.  Then, in the alarm
>app, go into the Customize menu and set the master planner file to the one you
>used in the daily planner.  Then the alarms should work.
>
>Make sure you don't close (i.e., end) the alarm program if you want alarms to
>go off.  To get it "out of the way," click on the minimize or hide button (top
>of screen, second button from the right).  Alarms will still go off, then.

As a editorial comment in passing, I think that all the calendaring
applets work great, but in some sense they are overdesigned  --  they are
just not simple enough.  You have to go into them and tell them which
files to use, for example.  The reason is good --  you can maintain multiple
sets of calendars  --  a home calendar, a work calendar, your secretary's
calendar.  Yet I believe that the applets could have been made a little
simpler to use without losing functionality.

To me, the calendaring applets have the look and feel of something with
high function that was well designed by a large group, and the design was
complete before any coding was done  --  typical high quality, professional
programming.  Typical IBM.

However, I can't help but feel that they would have been much better if
they really hadn't even been designed at all, if instead one sharp person
had gone away into a corner and just played around a little bit until
it was done.  It would have been simpler, and it would have worked just
as well or better.
From: morro@drycas.club.cc.cmu.edu
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.apps
Subject: FDFORMAT/FDREAD for OS/2
Date: 20 Dec 92 23:08:20 -0500
Organization: Carnegie Mellon Computer Club

Hello Everyone,

   Has anyone come across an OS/2 2.0 version of Christopher Hochstatter
excellent par of programs FDFORMAT/FDREAD ?  These programs enable one to
format floppy diskettes to higher capacity (DS/DD to 830 K for example !)
on regular 1.2 M and 1.44 M drives.  The latest version that I've seen is
1.8 however, FDREAD does appear to run in any way shape or form under OS/2.
I've tried both full screen and windowed versions of both DOS and OS/2 with
the same result - some gibrish scrolling across the screen and not much
else.  There are no error messages or anything, but I still can't read
the FDFORMATed diskettes.  I am a bit desperate as I have a lot of these
830 K and 1.77 M floppies but because I went to OS/2 and HPFS only system
I have no easy way of reading these.  If anyone has a knowledge of newer
version of these programs or perhaps knows how to reach Mr. Hochstatter
himself (I would be willing to work on porting these to OS/2, if necessary),
I would very much appreciate hearing about it.  Thanks in advance for
any and all help.

Best Regards to All,
John Duchowski
From: benezra_a@spcvxb.spc.edu
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.apps
Subject: Re: Zmodem from within CKermit... how to ? (was Re: CKermit - help!)
Date: 15 Dec 92 02:14:03 GMT
Organization: St. Peter's College, US

> Check /pub/os2/00Index for the location.

Timothy, pardon my ignorance, but how do you access the 00index? I've seen it 
there, but i can't read it or d/l it. Thanks,
AlanB.
Organization: Senior, Physics, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.apps
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1992 16:33:09 -0500 
From: Jason Ari Goldstein <jg3o+@andrew.cmu.edu>
Subject: Need TAR Help

Hey now,

Before my run in with the SP, I TARred my stuff to preverve the long
filenames and then backed it up onto floppies.  Anyway, originally my
stuff was on drive F: (I had a zillion partions) and now I have only one
partition.  Unfortunately, I can't get TAR to expand the files to the C:
drive in an OS/2 shell.  I was able to open a DOS window and then use
SUBST F: C:\ and then use TAR but things came out all messed up.  None
of my gnu and emx stuff will run (my most important programs) as well as
some of my programs now crash the entire system (OS/2 is crash proof -
sarcasm).

Some one please help before I have to spend hours reinstalling software
as well as trying to recover some data files that were lost.
            Later...

            Jason A. Goldstein
(or should it be J. Ari Goldstein - send in your votes)
___________________________________________
I've got a lot of good ideas...
The problem is, most of them suck!
        - George Carlin

Over, Finished, Gone, Done, Out.  (Finally)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.apps
From: silveanu@uhuru.uchicago.edu (Adrian Silveanu)
Subject: Creating the basic OS/2 system
Organization: University of Chicago
Date: Sun, 20 Dec 1992 20:10:09 GMT

I need to create an OS/2 system for someone.
Could somebody tell me what is necessary for a smooth OS/2 system?
In other words, it performs as quickly as a decent MAC (SE or SE/30),
the disk icon in OS/2 is quick to responed and shows what is on the 
disk quickly, and the programs start at a decent speed.

Just to be more persuasive to respond, I am writing a proposal for 
the computer teacher of my High School Computer room. The idea is
to get a working and decent IBM computer in there. The whole is
school MAC. Rumor has it we will be getting a old IBM Model 80 from
some other part of the school. Will that do? We also plan to demostrate
that IBMs are not at all hard and OS/2 is a good way to go, to show them that!

Also I just would like to see what is the range of OS/2 users.
I'll start. I am a junior in High School. I have been using OS/2 
for about 2 years.

Thanks,

Adrian

Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.apps
From: tjb@NeoSoft.com (Timothy J. Bogart)
Subject: Re: Zortech C++ (was Re: Good Prices on OS/2 Applications)
Organization: NeoSoft Communications Services -- (713) 684-5900
Date: Sun, 20 Dec 1992 02:31:44 GMT
Summary: question 

I do not own Zortech but received the flyer with the low prices.
This was exciting until it was claimed here that you still needed
an SDK of some sort to do PM programming with Zortech.  Is this 
really true?  And no debugger?  The flier says it comes with
"compiler, linker and necessary libraries".  Are these not the
libraries that used to be in the SDK?
From: lbv2@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu (BRIAN PAUL VAN LIEU)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.apps
Subject: Borland E-mail again (skip if you want)
Date: 17 Dec 92 21:08:37 GMT
Organization: Lehigh University


    OK, heres the e-mail address I used...


        customer-support@borland.com



                                    cheers,

                                    bvl
-- 

  Brian P. Van Lieu
  Lehigh University-AXP
  lbv2@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu

            OS/2 2.0...anything else is just a DOS.
From: francis@ese.ogi.edu (Francis Moraes)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.apps
Subject: Lamail and Sendmail Questions
Date: 19 Dec 92 23:09:49 GMT
Article-I.D.: ogicse.47545
Organization: Oregon Graduate Institute - Department of Env. Science and Eng.

I've been using Lamail and Sendmail under OS/2 for a while now but there are
some little things are bothering me and I thought you all might be able to
help.

1. How can I automatically forward all mail that comes to my PC to another
   machine?

2. When a message window comes up (after double-clicking on the message
   title), it is very small (say 50x100 pixels); too small to actually
   read the message. I can resize the window of course but I don't like
   having to do this every time I read a message. The reply window that
   comes up after I read a message is properly sized though.

3. I have managed to change the font on the message and reply windows but
   there seems to be no way to change the fonts in the main window. Is
   this true?

Thanks for any help.

francis
From: lclarke@gandalf.rutgers.edu (Lee Clarke)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.apps
Subject: Re: Any FAX progs work with Gateway Telepath fax-modem? (I've tried
Keywords: FAX Gateway telepath PMfax
Date: 13 Dec 92 02:47:38 GMT
Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J.

[doesn't like Telepath modem for any faxing]

Strongly disagree. The telepath ain't elegant, but it's cheap and, as someone
said, the modem part is as good as any (except no advanced chips). I, too,
couldn't get winfax pro to work well. But I then bought PMFAX (now FAXworks)
and it works quite well. So, no need to toast the Telepath. Just get
the right jelly to go on it.
From: thoth@uiuc.edu (Ben Cox)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.apps
Subject: Re: Mathematica 2.0/2.1
Date: 18 Dec 92 16:45:31 GMT
Reply-To: thoth@uiuc.edu (Ben Cox)
Organization: Ancient Illuminated Sears of Bavaria
Originator: ben@ipoint

alaakso@lk-hp-21.hut.fi (Antti Laakso) writes:

>>You need to open an MS-DOS partition under OS/2.  You will then be able to
>>run the MS-DOS version V2.1 under this arrangement.  The Windows version
>>does not operate under OS/2.

>What does it mean. Do I have to boot from DOS to run MS-DOS version or
>can this be done in OS/2 DOS session? 

You can run Mathematica 2.1 for DOS in an OS/2 DOS session.  I run it
fullscreen; it can also be run in a window (but it switches into
graphics mode to show plots, which can be awkward in a window).  You
must give the DOS session a large amount of DPMI XMS space (I give it
8MB).

>And what about OS/2 2.1, which will include Windows enhanced mode
>and DPMI support, will this allow running Windows version?

Your guess is as good as anyone else's out there.

--
Ben Cox
thoth@uiuc.edu