HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: Mark Kovarski <kovarski@zooid.guild.org>
Subject: Re: Why you should get everything in writing (long)
Organization: ZOOiD BBS
Date: Sat, 9 Jan 1993 06:12:16 GMT

brian@jaguar.cs.utah.edu (Brian Sturgill) writes:
>In article <1ii7alINNon4@controversy.math.lsa.umich.edu> spexet@math.lsa.umich.edu (D. Robert Spexet II) writes:
>>In article <1993Jan7.192103.16828@netcom.com> rcain@netcom.com (Robert Cain) writes:
>>>I joined the Developers Assistance Program and through that arm
>>>obtained a verbal assurance that there would be "no problem" obtaining
>>>said source code since there was nothing proprietary.  Based on this
>>>assurance and the license I had negotiated for using the interpreter I
>>>quit my day job to live off my savings and develop this product which I
>>>was going to call SimpleScript.
>>
>>Not to question your judgement in this case, but do you think that it was
>>really a wise move to do what you did on the basis of a verbal promise,
>>with nothing backing it up in writing?
>
>
>I think you misunderstand Bob's problem.  All he wanted was a sample printer
>driver.  IBM should have had this available well before OS/2 2.0 GA shipped.
>The point is that they didn't, and they still don't.
>I would agree with you comment if Bob had wanted something unusual from
>IBM, but this is standard stuff.
>
>Brian
>-- 
>C. Brian Sturgill                          NeXTStep 486 is for _YOU_!!!!
>University of Utah                    Microsoft needs competition, but I want
>Center for Software Science          to be one of the many running Windows NT!
>brian@cs.utah.edu; CIS: 70363,1373    :-) :-) :-)  NT SDK: $69; (800) 227-4679


Mr. Sturgill,

currently there is only one side of the story known. This is not to say
that there might have been a misunderstanding or a problem but it is to
early to jump to conclusions based only on one side of the story.  Let's
wait and see what will occur and what the reponse will be.

Best Regards,
Mark K.
E-Mail: kovarski@zooid.guild.org
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.programmer
From: t2372ca@cd1.LRZ-Muenchen.DE (Martin Rast)
Subject: Floating Point Denormal ??
Organization: Leibniz-Rechenzentrum, Muenchen (Germany)
Distribution: all
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 14:38:17 GMT

Hi,

can anybody help me solving the problem of the "Floating Point Denormal".
I read this message often, but I'd like the program to continue running. Is
there any possibilty to force the C-Set/2-Compiler that a underflow has the
result 0 and no TRAP-Operation (I don't like inserting code which bewares
small operands from beeing divided...)

Please help me !
Please EMail (not follow up); I'm not reading this board very often.

Thanks in advance,
|   Martin Rast                                                                |
|   Email:  Martin.Rast@cd1.lrz-muenchen.de          Packet:  DL3RDR@DB0LAN    |
*============Everyone is a foreigner, almost everywhere...=====================*
From: os2man@panix.com (Larry Salomon Jr.)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.programmer
Subject: Why WinCancelShutdown()?
Date: 5 Jan 93 13:35:48 GMT
Organization: PANIX Public Access Unix, NYC

Okay, everyone, due to the number of requests for this, I have decided to
post it instead.  Also, because I received this explanation some time ago,
my memory has since gone slightly hazy so some things might not seem 
entirely logical.

According to the docs, WinCancelShutdown(hmq,TRUE) prevents the system from
sending a WM_QUIT to that queue when the system is being shutdown.  What
happens is that the system sends each queue this message and waits for the
"queue" to respond (i.e. destroy itself) before continuing with the next queue.
It can sort of be deduced that the main thread of each application receives
this first.

Since the majority of secondary threads only have a message so that they can
call the PM functions which require it (e.g. WinSendMsg), they never "see"
this message and thus will never destroy themselves when it is sent.  For
most applications, this is not a problem as the first thread will usually
drop out of its message loop and kill the entire application; however, some
applications do not do this which, in effect, stops the system shutdown from
completing.

Obviously, it will probably not hurt you to not call this function from your
other threads, but it is only good to get in the practice of doing so.

Cheers,
Q
-- 
"If you choose not to decide, you  | "My other body is in the shop" - seen
 still have made a choice" - Rush  |  on a T-shirt
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From: rickr@Semi.Mitel.COM (Rick Reitmaier)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.programmer
Subject: Device Drivers
Keywords: device, driver
Date: 5 Jan 93 18:59:46 GMT
Organization: Mitel. Kanata (Ontario). Canada.


    Hi,

    A question about device drivers under OS/2.

    I'm currently trying to program a device driver in 
 C (no assembler for me, thanks).  I've been able to figure
 out most things, except for access to the request packet's 
 address.  How do I get the pointer to the packet from ES:BX 
 (physical device driver reference p3-5) while in my strategy 
 routine?
From: sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu (Timothy F. Sipples)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.programmer
Subject: Re: OS/2 HELP facility -- how?
Date: 4 Jan 93 16:37:02 GMT
Reply-To: sip1@midway.uchicago.edu
Organization: Dept. of Econ., Univ. of Chicago

In article <1993Jan04.083533.9752@kub.nl> hoppie@kub.nl (Jeroen Hoppenbrouwers) writes:
>In the extensive original IBM OS/2 Reference Guides and Programming Guides
>I cannot find *anything* about OS/2's system help facility. I saw there's
>a Help Manager in the system, and I can call this one, but no word about 
>compiling a help database. How do I create such a beast? Is this a reason
>to get the IBM C-set/2 kit?

In the Toolkit you will get the Information Presentation Facility
Compiler which will let you compile standalone INF files or
application HLP files.  Online documentation for IPFC is provided.
The printed manual is included in the OS/2 Technical Library.

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From: lopes@cogsci.ucsd.EDU (alann lopes)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.programmer,comp.os.os2.misc,misc.forsale.computers.pc-clone
Subject: Does anyone have an extra copy of the October PDK CD-ROM?
Date: 30 Dec 92 19:15:07 GMT
Organization: University of California, San Diego


    I've also had problems with the fulfillment center, I never received the
    October PDK. I got Sept and ordered the October, but received the Nov
    instead. I did not notice until a few weeks later and have been told
    that they no longer have them. They told me that I should find someone
    that has it and make a copy (a copy of a CD-ROM -- yeh right we all
    have CD-ROM writers on our desks) since you can legally make 10 copies
    of each CD.

    If anyone has an extra copy or a copy that they do not plan to use, I'd
    be very grateful if I could buy it from you.

          Thanks very much and a Happy Winter Solstice

                    alann


   alann lopes:        alopes@ucsd.edu       -- internet
   (619) 534-5438      ALOPES@UCSD           -- bitnet
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.programmer
From: rm3@ornl.gov (MCBROOM R C)
Subject: Re: emx .8f broke make 3.62
Organization: Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 17:02:11 GMT

In article <1993Jan5.192219.9159@wam.umd.edu> jdowdal@wam.umd.edu (John Dowdal) writes:
>
>I installed the new version of emx last night (.8f) and it appears that
>GNU make 3.62 has died.  I looked in make.exe and discovered it was compiled
>with emx .8b, so the new .DLL's are probably incompatible with the old
>compiler.  Murphy's law got me because I tested all of the commands except
>make (doing 1 line compiles entered from the command line) and of course
>make had to break.
>
>Put simply, I need a make that is compatible with the new emx.  I cannot
>build make from the sources myself because I need make to make make (arghhh!)
>
The subject of "make"s seems to be a real bear.  Installed 0.8f last night
(7Jan) and gnumake seemed to run although with some wierd activities.  It
would stop occasionally but entering CR from the keyboard a couple of times
would cause it to go to completion.  However, the two test cases I tried would
not link successfully.  There was a long list of __xxx__ the linker was looking
in libc.a to find that didn't seem to be there.  Missing macros?  The compiles
and archives done by the make file in lib\math seemed to work.  There are a 
number of gnumk362 files on ftp-os2.nmsu.edu.  I checked them all and they all
have the same executable.

You can use nmake2 which is also on ftp-os2.nmsu.edu but IBM apparently has
their own ideas about the command language and translating the UNIX style
makefiles to work with nmake2 is arduous.  Works well for simple compiles and
links and understands HPFS.

Are we having fun yet?

Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.programmer
From: shiva@well.sf.ca.us (Kenneth Porter)
Subject: persistent hide state
Organization: Whole Earth 'Lectronic Link
Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 02:24:56 GMT

I want my application to remember it's hidden state across
invokations.  It's not a WPS app, so it can't use the class hierarchy
to do this. My thought was that I could intercept some message
indicating hide/show state and save it to an ini file. This currently
doesn't quite work for me: I'm intercepting WM_SHOW, but I get a hide
message (WM_SHOW with mp1=false) when the application closes while
visible. Has someone else already done this?  What's the trick?
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.programmer
From: rofische@iiic.ethz.ch (Roman Fischer)
Subject: C++ Thread Class
Originator: rofische@a13
Organization: Dept. Informatik, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH)
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 14:08:03 GMT


Hi All,

Well, it seems my last posting was lost somewhere. I uploaded a thread-class for C++
on ftp-os2.nmsu.edu some days ago. So if you like... This class also features parameter
passing to threads.
If there are any comments, problems or bugs, please let me know.


Bye         Roman

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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2,comp.os.os2.apps,comp.os.os2.misc
From: eric@joyce.cs.su.oz.au (Eric Tsui)
Subject: (Maybe) Problem with BACKUP and RESTORE of very large ZIP file ...
Reply-To: eric@cs.su.oz.au (Eric Tsui)
Organization: Basser Dept of Computer Science, University of Sydney, Australia
Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1993 01:25:35 GMT

We often use ZIP and then BACKUP (in OS2) to backup our hard disk 
but have encountered excessive number of CRC errors while RESTORing the 
backuped disks. Is this a known problem with the use of ZIP and BACKUP ?
Generally our ZIPped files are over 10MB and therefore requires at least
a dozen of 3.5 HD disks (sometimes over 20 disks!!) to BACKUP the archive 
file.

Any suggestion on backuping a very large zip file ? Any alternative 
(from ftp?) ?

We also have access to ZOO, ARJ and LHA but have not used them as serious
as above.

Please respond to eric\@cs.su.oz.au as I do not subscribe to this group.

Eric Tsui.
From: h198@hosp.med.umich.edu  (Gene Mangum)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.apps
Subject: Re: Creative Labs CD-Rom support
Date: Tue, 05 Jan 1993  20:20 EDT
Organization: Univ of Michigan Hospitals
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: kestrel.hosp.med.umich.edu
X-Newsreader: FTPNuz (DOS) v1.0

In Article <C0CHoz.Gpx@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu> "sthiagar@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu (sivasailam thiagarajan)" says:
> 
> >In Article <9301034759@ritz.mordor.com> "ritz@ritz.mordor.com (Christopher Mauritz)" says:
 
  [Stuff Deleted]
 
> 
> In article <19930103082656.h198@hosp.med.umich.edu> h198@hosp.med.umich.edu  (Gene Mangum) writes:
 
  [Stuff Deleted]
 
> ------
> Just a warning: You *MUST* have MMPM/2 (the MultiMedia Presentation
> Manager extensions for OS/2) installed before you can use Creative
> Labs' beta OS/2 CD-Rom driver. MMPM/2 is included in the $15 DAP CD
> mentioned above. (You can buy MMPM/2 separately, but it's $90, and
> *that's* with a discount.) I think the new OS/2 2.1 beta also includes
> MMPM/2, and the docs for the CD-Rom driver state that OS/2 2.1 will
> include MMPM/2 as well. (At least, 2.1 will include enough of MMPM/2
> to run the CL CD-Rom driver.)
> 
 
  [Stuff Deleted]
 
 
  I'm almost positive that this is not true.   As a matter of fact, I
  installed MMPM/2 the first time from the PDK CD, using the above
  mentioned driver.   And it would be a bad idea to buy MMPM/2 now
  unless you're desparate for it, because all indications are that it
  will be included as part of OS/2 2.1.
 

  Gene Mangum
  Univ of Michigan Hospitals
From: mstaben@comtch.spk.wa.us (Matthew Staben)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.apps
Subject: Re: Autocad r12 for os/2 2.0
Date: 8 Jan 93 23:56:22 GMT
Organization: Waffle BBS at CompuTech Spokane, Washington

Richard.Muratti@f341.n632.z3.fidonet.org (Richard Muratti) writes:

> Does anybody know if Autodesk plans to port AutoCAD R12 to OS/2 ver 2.0.
> 
> I have been using been using AutoCAD R10 for OS/2 ver 1.1 / 1.2 since 1989 an
> for the last year have been running it under OS/2 ver 2.0.
> 
> 
> An interesting fact.
> Autodesk claim that they tested a 32 bit port and found it too slow. I find
> this hard to swallow as the 16 bit R10 version runs very nicely thank you.
> 
> Another interesting fact.
> In Autodesk's literature they list all
> platforms that they will no longer support as well as platforms that they pla
> to support in the future. OS/2 appears on neither list. However, there is vau
> mention of it in some of the developers manuals.
> 
> With over 1 million copies of OS/2 sold what are they waiting for.
> 
> I'll be interested in hearing any comments on this matter.
> 
>  * Origin: Custom Programming BBS - Node 2 (3:632/341)

 
AutoDesk is taking a prudent move, and not even mentioning support for 
OS/2 until they *know* what's up.  The last version (for OS/2) did not 
sell well, and didn't vindicate their expense - unfortunately.  
 
As to the 32-bit port being slow - **BZZZT! WRONG!**
 
BTW, you can run version 12 under OS/2 now with a special extender 
replacement from Phar-Lap which makes OS/2 DPMI and Phar-Lap's 
compatible.
 

mstaben@comtch.spk.wa.us
 
[Made in America]
From: merlin@neuro.usc.edu (merlin)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.apps
Subject: Microsoft C 7.0 && Windows 3.1 SDK for OS/2 2.0 (or OS/2 2.1 beta)
Date: 10 Jan 1993 17:56:30 -0800
Organization: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
NNTP-Posting-Host: neuro.usc.edu

Could someone send me information describing how they setup and use their
MS C/C++, Windows 3.0/3.1 SDK, and/or Borland C 3.0 && App Frameworks for
development of Windows code under OS/2 2.0/2.1beta?

Also, what rules must be followed to make such applications compatible 
with OS/2 2.0 WINOS2 and/or the Windows 3.1 emulation under OS/2 2.1 beta?

Finally, is it true that all future versions are intended to support MS
Windows by directly installing the native MS Windows system under OS/2?

Thanks, AJ

p.s.  Is there a compilation of whatever needs to be done to migrate
current Windows applications (shrinkwrapped software) to OS/2 2.0+ ?
I have managed to hand install things like Corel Draw & Photostyler
-- but the installations were complete ad hoc modifications of .INI
files and tweaking of window settings parameters.  A good database
of more orderly procedures for making shrinkwrapped software work in
OS/2 2.0 would be nice.

------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Alexander-James Annala
Principal Investigator
Neuroscience Image Analysis Network
HEDCO Neuroscience Building, Fifth Floor
University of Southern California
University Park
Los Angeles, CA 90089-2520
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From: hatton@socrates.ucsf.edu (Tom Hatton)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.apps
Subject: Re: TSENG4000 for Win 3.1
Keywords: Win 3.1 TSENG
Date: 12 Jan 93 19:51:35 GMT
Organization: UCSF Computer Graphics Lab

runt@spectrx.saigon.com (Max de dios) writes:
>Would anyone know if or where there are TSENG4000 drivrs for Windows 3.1, II 
>find alot of 3.0 drivers which are slow, and i'm in need of some speedier 3.1 
>drivers.  

The main Windows ftp source (as far as I know) is ftp.cica.indiana.edu
so you might try that and browse the drivers section. I think I have
seen about 3 or 4 sets of ET4000 drivers, "turbo" and otherwise.

To change resolutions for WinOS2, you can open a DOS session (full screen
or windowed) and run SETUP.EXE from the command line.

-- 
Tom Hatton
hatton@cgl.ucsf.edu
(415)-476-8693
From: Ed.June@iphase.infoserv.com (Ed June)
Sender: FredGate@iphase.infoserv.com
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.apps
Subject: PKZIP 2.04c for MS-DOS
Date: 09 Jan 93  08:34:26 EST

On <Jan 07 19:42>, Cave Newt of 1:112/28 wrote to All:


 CN>   NOTE THAT THIS IS AN MS-DOS PROGRAM!! 

That bombed out if you don't tell it that your system doesn't have a co-processor, when it thinks it does.
Crashed the whole system here.
I see that SHEZ needs to be re-written too...
*8^(


   Ed June

   Fidonet:   1:133/308, Atlanta's OS/2 Users Group BBS, 404-471-1549
   Internet:  buggz@mind.org
   UUCP:      ...!emory!uumind!buggz


 * Origin: Information Overload, Atlanta's OS/2 Users Group BBS (1:133/308)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.apps
From: 5692330@mcimail.com  (Robert Gammon)
Subject: Re: Does anyone know...Swap File
Nntp-Software: PC/TCP NNTP
Organization: Texas Instruments Materials and Controls Group
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 23:01:02 GMT

In article <1993Jan6.211403.29036@njitgw.njit.edu> dic5340@hertz.njit.edu (David Charlap) writes:

 >> In article <1993Jan06.162100.29821@watson.ibm.com> cnadler@vnet.ibm.com (Cliff Nadler) writes:
 >> >Actually, you can control it's existence by the MEMMAN parameter. If you make
 >> >it NOSWAP, it will only use the real memory in your system. However, if you
 >> >run out of memory, you're in trouble. Since most systems use the swapper (even
 >> >mine with 14Mb), you can run out of room real quick.
 >> 
 >> I'd recommend not using NOSWAP unless you have a MINIMUM of 20MB of
 >> memory.  I have 8MB of RAM, and my swapfile typically varies between
 >> 6MB and 10MB, occasionally spiking to 12MB.  This is having DINFO,
 >> CLOCK, ALARMS, Daily Planner, a windowed session, GNU-Emacs, GCC/2,
 >> and the Tooklit PM reference open and running at once.
 >> 
 >> I'm running OS/2 2.0 at service level XR-6055.

Also note that with swapping enabled, the minimum swapper.dat size appears to
be 1MB.  My SWAPPATH has initial swapper.dat size set to 512KB, but it
always gets created at 1MB.  In the environment that I run in, I won't 
consider turning off swapping with less than 24MB, and I consider that to be a
dangerous level.  I have 32MB on my system (HPFS cache = 64KB, I have
cacheing disk controller too).  Available memory hovers at 11-14KB most of
the time, and I have seen it drop to 8MB.  I am also running XR-6055.
--
Regards,
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(713)-274-3299       (voice)
(713)-274-2324       (fax)
From: JoeKu+@CMU.EDU (Joseph Wei-Cheng Ku)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.apps
Subject: problem running Lemmings...
Date: 9 Jan 93 06:32:51 GMT
Article-I.D.: andrew.0fHjsna00WB60hXBJt
Organization: Sophomore, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA


can anyone send me their Dos settings?

-jk 
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.apps
From: adhir@wam.umd.edu (Al Dhir)
Subject: Re: VT320 emulation under OS/2?
Organization: University of Maryland, College Park
Date: Sun, 10 Jan 1993 19:30:26 GMT

In article <1993Jan9.010920.11980@midway.uchicago.edu> sip1@midway.uchicago.edu writes:
>In article <7o91wB1w165w@vicuna.ocunix.on.ca> frampton@vicuna.ocunix.on.ca writes:
>>Is there a freeware OS/2-specific VT320 terminal emulator program that 
>>provides such niceties as ISO graphics support, file transfers, and 
>>esoteric key combinations like "F17", "Commit", etc.?
>
>That's a bit much to ask of freeware (although you never know now).  I
>know plenty of freeware and shareware VT-100 emulators, but VT-320 is
>pressing it a bit, I think.
>
>On the commercial side, HyperAccess/5 3.0, TalkThru, Dynacomm
>Asynchronous, and ChipChat all probably support VT-320.  (I know HA/5
>3.0 does.)  I'm not sure about the esoteric features you refer to, but
>you can always ask the technical support department at the companies
>that sell this software to see what they have to say.
>
What about C-Kermit for OS/2?  I know MS-Kermit for DOS provides vt-320,
why wouldn't the OS/2 version?
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From: cvetp036@vmsb.is.csupomona.edu
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.apps
Subject: Comanche in OS/2
Date: 5 Jan 93 03:39:38 GMT
Organization: California State Polytechnic University, Pomona
Nntp-Posting-User: cvetp036

In article <1993Jan4.184639.14304@apgea.army.mil>, rcmerrit@apgea.army.mil (Robert C. Merritt <rcmerrit>) writes:
> In article <1JAN199318555706@pavo.concordia.ca> p_quinn@pavo.concordia.ca (QUINN, PAUL) writes:
>>
>>	There is a helicopter game called Commanche Overkill (or something like
>>that).  My friend has this game but cannot get it to run uner OS/2.  
>>	Has anyone successfully done it?
>>
>>Please send solution by e-mail to:p_quinn@pavo.concordia.ca
>>
>>Paul
>>p_quinn@pavo.concordia.ca
> 
> 
> I would be interested that myself. I HAVE gotten it to run. I use the
> FAT system for OS/2 so I can just boot up from a blank dos system disk, 
> use my hard drive like I use to, run Overkill then when I'm done, reboot
> the come, ..os 2 ..tha-da! :)
> But I'm try to stay in os/2. Dose anyone know if any game makers are making
> os-2 specific games? I think the could be asome!
> 
> Rob Merritt

Comanche requires 386 protected mode. Which is in direct conflict with OS/2.

I still think that for games DOS would be better than OS/2. Make that 32 bit
DOS extenders games. There's just a bit too much overhead in OS/2 for a game
to run at optimal speed.
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.apps
From: sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu (Timothy F. Sipples)
Subject: Re: Norton Commander for OS/2
Reply-To: sip1@midway.uchicago.edu
Organization: Dept. of Econ., Univ. of Chicago
Date: Sat, 9 Jan 1993 21:03:29 GMT

In article <1in6u6INNdge@shelley.u.washington.edu> mhuth@hardy.u.washington.edu (Mark Huth) writes:
>>There's a new one out now called mrfilepm.zip.  It should be available
>>within a few days at ftp-os2.nmsu.edu (check directory
>>/pub/uploads/sharebbs first).  It is IBM employee written software.
>Tim, do you or does anyone else know if there is a Norton NCD-like program 
>available for os/2?  Basically, all it does is allow one to change directories
>from the command line by typing only part of a directory name.  For example,
>to change into /tim/sipples/faq...I could just type ncd faq.  

At least a couple.  I seem to recall VCD, RCD, etc.  Check the file
/pub/os2/00Index on ftp-os2.nmsu.edu via anonymous ftp.  Search
through until you find one you like.

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