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From: ochealth@unixg.ubc.ca (ochealth)
Subject: Re: Newer COM drivers?
Organization: University of British Columbia, Vancouver, B.C., Canada
Date: Sat, 15 Aug 1992 19:16:51 GMT

In article <1992Aug15.132239.9978@actrix.gen.nz> Steve.Withers@bbs.actrix.gen.nz writes:
>In article <2155@ncr-mpd.FtCollins.NCR.COM> gkendall@ncr-mpd.FtCollins.NCR.COM (Guy Kendall) writes:
>> On another network I heard someone mention something about some new
>> COM drivers, apparently newer than the COMMGA drivers. I believe they
>> said they were called COM0207 or something like that. I couldn't find
>> them on ftp-os2 anywhere. Does anyone know if there were indeed any new
>> COM drivers released, and what fixes are in them?
>
>The COMM0207.??? drivers are in the /pub/downloads directory on hobbes - along
>with almost 200 other files. this is the upload directory. Things are moving
>out of there *very* slowly.

The comm207 drivers in /pub/downloads are older than the *new* commga.zip
on watson. The new commga inlcudes a new mode.com.

Try *both* though, because I found the commga drivers unstable on my
system, whereas the (slightly) older com207 drivers were better. People
will probably have different results on their systems.

> 
>Steve
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From: tange@daimi.aau.dk (Ole Tange)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Where Is The Article Archive??
Date: 19 Aug 92 17:45:54 GMT
Organization: DAIMI: Computer Science Department, Aarhus University, Denmark

I  Missed Some Articles  Way Back and would  like to retrieve them; does anyone
know if  there exists  an article archive  for  *.os2&* newsgroups?? An FTP-site
will be sufficient.

TIA.
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From: alanr@tekig5.pen.tek.com (Alan N Rovner)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Report on Mountain Tape Backup Availability.
Date: 14 Aug 92 02:53:28 GMT


I have recently been in contact with Mountain Network Solutions in
Campbell, CA regarding OS/2 tape backup hardware and software and
have the following info the net might be interested in.  I have
received several brochures, etc but no price list.  If I do receive
a price list, I'll post an update.  I do speculate about prices later
on though.

This is a quote regarding using my existing Filesafe 4000 unit:

"We currently do not have any OS/2 support for our TD product line
(Filesafe 4000, 8000 and 8500).  IBM does not currently support floppy
based tape drives under OS/2."

Darn, looks like I might as well take my 4000 unit out and use it in
a different PC.  I then asked about SCSI based units and received a 
more favorable reply along with several brochures.  I'll summarize
the info below:

Filesafe Tape Backup Software (what a generic name :-). I'm describing
only the OS/2 related info, there's a couple pages of other stuff:

* Supports both the OS/2 FAT and HPFS directory restoration.
* True protected mode application
* Both DOS and OS/2 versions included with Filesafe OS/2 software for
  use with dual boot systems.
* Supports IBM OS/2 V1.2, 1.3 and 2.0

I assume this software runs only on Mountain drives, which are SCSI
based using Mountain's own interface card supplied with the drive.
The drives are available in these storage capacities: 250, 525MB and
1.0 GB in SCSI format and 2.0 and 2.2 GB formats using a DAT cartridge
and 8mm cartridge respectfully.

I'm guessing the SCSI drives are in the $700 - $1000 range and I
remember someone on the net saying the tape backup software was $179,
so this whole system isn't what you would call cheap.

As a side question, supposing one did buy Mountain's SCSI card.  What
do you suppose the odds would be of running a hard disk and CD-ROM off
the same card?  I don't know enough about SCSI to comment, but from
what I've read here, I gather there are incompatibilities between
vendors.o

That's it for now, any further comments or info are welcome.

Al Rovner
Tektronix Test & Measurement Group
From: dic5340@hertz.njit.edu (David Charlap)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: How to install HPFS after installation
Date: 21 Aug 92 19:30:56 GMT
Organization: New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, N.J.

In article <stanton.450.0@haas.berkeley.edu> stanton@haas.berkeley.edu (Richard Stanton) writes:
>I originally installed OS/2 on a totally FAT system. For a few reasons, not 
>least of which is that I want to install GNU Emacs, I'm considering 
>installing HPFS now. How should I go about doing this with minimum possible 
>disruption? Is it possible to have my C: disk (where OS/2 boots from) remain 
>FAT (with dual boot capability) while reformatting my D: disk using HPFS?
>Do I have to back everything up and restore it to accomplish the change in 
>format? What should I beware of?

First, be sure you've the following files in your system:

\OS2\DLL\UHPFS.DLL
\OS2\HPFS.IFS

This being done, add the following line to the top of config.sys
(first line):

     IFS=C:\OS2\HPFS.IFS  /CACHE:512 /CRECL:4 /AUTOCHECK:D

There are other parameters (like lazy writes) which you may want to
play with.  See your Command Reference for details on the various
parameters you can provide.

This being done, reboot and format the D: drive for HPFS:

     FORMAT D: /FS:HPFS
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From: dic5340@hertz.njit.edu (David Charlap)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: Changing the title color of Shadow Icons
Date: 13 Aug 92 17:44:03 GMT
Organization: New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, N.J.

In article <eTTcPB1w165w@comtch.spk.wa.us> mstaben@comtch.spk.wa.us (Matthew Staben) writes:
>I fixed this problem by using SYSCOLS, which should be available via FTP 
>as I grabbed my copy from the binaries.  I'm not sure what exactly it's 
>called but the EXE is named SYSCOLS.EXE.  It allows you to make more 
>extensive changes to the desktop - and it really works.

Be sure to get the syscols2.zoo archive, though.  The original
syscols1.zoo is meant for the 1.3 desktop.  
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Nf-ID: #R:gaaj.uottawa.ca:713710325:tisdec.tis.tandy.com:13000004:000:1282
Nf-From: tisdec.tis.tandy.com!kevinl    Aug 18 12:10:00 1992


	Could you please elaborate on the 35Mb for the HPFS boot you
plan on using?  My questions are as follows:

	If OS/2 has problems, will you just be able to reinstall for that
35Mb, and everything else is okay?  What other advantages does this
have?  You mentioned patches for OS/2.  Does this make installing the
patches more convienient?

	What problems arise with the coexistance of FAT and HPFS?  If
I run my compiler (which is on FAT) from within the WPS (which is on
HPFS) will I encounter problems?  I know that the extended attributes
that are in HPFS cannot be coppied to FAT, but are there any more subtle
things I should know?

	Can I back up the HPFS partitions onto FAT floppies?  Or do I
need to format them for HPFS?  If I copy a file from the HD to a FAT
floppy will OS/2 know that it is just FAT?  (This should be just like
copying from the HPFS partition to the FAT, but I want to be sure.)

	How hard is it to install the HPFS?  It is supposed to be
and "intallable file system."  Do I have to reformat my entire
hard drive?  Reinstall OS/2 from scratch?  Stand on my head?

	I know that these are a bunch of questions, but I'm thinking
of doing the HPFS thing and I want to know the costs before I
jump in.  Any help you wish to give is greatly appreciated! 8-)


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From: bokkie@uctvax.uct.ac.za
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc,comp.os.os2.programmer
Subject: Dual Display: SVGA + Hercules?
Date: 14 Aug 92 17:21:18 +0200
Organization: University of Cape Town

I need to install a Hercules display controller next to my SVGA
so I can get 'true' Hercules.  

The SVGA has a Tseng labs ET4000 chipset and comes with a VMODE.COM
program which allows me to emulate Hercules.  This works fine if I 
boot up with DOS, but if I start a DOS session under OS/2 it is not
100% compatible (I'm working on a program which writes directly to
the Hercules display memory, and a that point it fails).  So the
solution seems to be a dual-display setup, but that doesn't work
either!  

I had a dual display setup like this on my old DOS 286 machine, and
it was fine (using some tricks I got from Richard Wilton's excellent
book on video systems - this involves disabling some of the VGA display
memory when you switch to Hercules).  Now under OS/2 these same tricks
no longer work.  In a full-screen DOS session I can get the display to
switch, but keyboard input does not show on the screen. Then I have to
kill the DOS session...

Any tips?  Please mail direct to me:  bokkie@uctvax.uct.ac.za

Frank Bokhorst
Psychology Department
University of Cape Town
South Africa
From: timb@ksgbbs.harvard.edu (Tim Buehrer - 625-6829)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Netware problems with OS2
Summary: How to change the default lastdrive parameter for dos sessions
Keywords: netware lastdrive
Date: 18 Aug 92 20:34:33 GMT
Organization: Kennedy School of Government, Harvard, Cambridge

I am trying to run a DOS batch file from a REXX script.  The problem that I
face is that the batch file is attempting to log in to a netware server
using the private services of the netware requester for OS/2.  This would 
work, except that when OS/2 creates the DOS window for the batch file to run
in, it creates it with the default settings for all of the session parameters
including lastdrive=z.  This does not leave any drives for netware.  I tried
setting lastdrive=e in config.sys which fixed the problem for the DOS sessions
but made it impossible to map network drives from within OS/2.  Any ideas on 
how I could fix this?

One solution would be to execute a program object from the REXX script rather
than a dos batch file.  The DOS program object could then have its DOS settings
set before hand and it would just work.  Unfortunately, I haven't been able to
figure out how to do that.  Any suggestions on this solution?

Thanks for taking the time to read this note.

Tim Buehrer
timb@ksgbbs.harvard.edu
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: das9674@usl.edu (Stephenson Daniel A)
Subject: Re: SET FILEC under OS/2 2.0???
Organization: University of Southwestern Louisiana
Date: Thu, 20 Aug 1992 14:29:03 GMT

In article <1992Aug20.081508.28238@monu6.cc.monash.edu.au> parry@yoyo.cc.monash.edu.au (Tom J Parry) writes:
>Stephenson Daniel A (das9674@usl.edu) wrote:
>> Hi there.  Is there something akin to set filec for OS/2 2.0?
>> THis is also know as 'file completion'.  Those 255 char names
>> are great, but wildcards don't always do the trick...
>
>4OS2 provides such functionality.

Ah, I've heard of this '4OS2'.  In brief, what else does it do better than the
supplied shell?
-Thanks-
>Tom J Parry.
>Your reality is a figment of my imagination.


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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: branham@binah.cc.brandeis.edu (Tom Branham, Biophysics Grad. Brandeis)
Subject: Re: IBM OS/2 news at PC92
Reply-To: branham@binah.cc.brandeis.edu
Organization: Brandeis University
Date: Thu, 20 Aug 1992 02:14:30 GMT

Well, today at the first day of the WIndows OS/2 Conference (except
for yesterdays tutorials) the Lotus Dev. Manager for 1-2-3 for OS/2 also 
stated that they were aiming to get 32 bit 1-2-3 w/ Many "Interesting"
improvements (Please feel free to insert any interpretation you like here :)
Stac had their own booth IN the OS/2 pavillion (Beta is ALMOST ready and
finished product is scheduled for the end of the year/beginning.  Also
the IBM booth is supposed to be rushing a box full of the NEW 
multimedia Extensions for OS2 to the show for tomorrow (for sale at half
price roughly $75 (?)).  Soundblaster also stated that they have FINISHEd
the OS/2 drivers and only "license" discussions needed wrapped up.
P.S. Anyone out there running MicroPhoneII out there?  I won a free
copy today that seems to want to lock up AFTER connection....
                       ................Tom Branham
From: pajerek@telstar.kodak.com (Don Pajerek)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: re: couldn't stick it
Date: 14 Aug 92 16:32:12 GMT
Reply-To: pajerek@kadsma.kodak.com (Don Pajerek)
Distribution: usa
Organization: Digital Equipment Corp. - Telstar

In article <1992Aug13.1048.1203@dosgate> "roger ramsey" <roger.ramsey@canrem.com> writes:
>Mitch Amiano wrote on 08-12-92 regarding COULDN'T STICK IT:
>
>MA>So it may be that comparing OS/2 to NT is simply wrong.  If anything, 
>MA>compare OS/2 to Windows 3.1/DOS, or wait until OS/2's next release, 
>MA>when it will probably have a MACH based kernel, to compare it to NT.
>

I wouldn't think so. After all, OS/2 is a 32-bit, multi-threaded,
pre-emptive multi-tasking OS, all of which is also true of NT, but not
true of Win3.1. The comparison to NT is apt, especially since both will
have been released in the same calendar year.

Don Pajerek

Standard disclaimers apply.
From: phaniraj@plains.NoDak.edu (V. Phaniraj)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: Switching OS/2 windows<>fullscreen
Date: 12 Aug 92 18:23:21 GMT
Article-I.D.: plains.19682
Organization: North Dakota State University, Fargo, ND

In article dic5340@hertz.njit.edu (David Charlap) writes:
>In article mvp@hsv3.lsil.com (Mike Van Pelt) writes:
>>Unfortunately, ALT-HOME doesn't work for OS/2 windows.  If there's  
>>anything in TFM about switching OS/2 windows with full-screen sessions, 

[...]

>Even if you could change the apps's mode (windowed to full-screen
>might seem possible, full-screen to windowed would depend on the
>application that is loaded, of course), you wouldn't be able to change
>the process's parent.  Remember, windowed sessions run as children of
>the PROTSHELL, and full-screen sessions run as children of the kernel.

Using Microsoft FORTRAN 5.1, all the programs I compile for OS/2
switch a windowed OS/2 session to a  full-screen one, and then return
to windowed mode once the application finishes running. I wrote
a little program that does nothing except shell to %OS2_SHELL,
and this works as a windowed--> full-screen switching program.
(requires access to command line though, not triggered by a
keyboard sequence). It would be interesting to check if this
session has direct access to the video hardware, which was mentioned
as one of the differences between windowed and full-screen sessions.
How would one test this ?

Raj
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From: d9mikael@dtek.chalmers.se (Mikael Wahlgren)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc,comp.os.os2.programmer
Subject: Re: Ghostscript port to OS2 2.0 is available
Date: 12 Aug 92 12:56:58 GMT
Organization: Chalmers University of Technology

In article <eln380s.713618585@fawlty7.eng.monash.edu.au> eln380s@fawlty7.eng.monash.edu.au (Goh Yan Pin) writes:

>	I tried to run it but it keeps saying 'EMX not found'. I did set up
>the directories properly. Any ideas?

The EMX.DLL library is missing from the package.  You can get it by FTPing
the emxdev.zoo file from hobbes.

Mikael Wahlgren      d9mikael@dtek.chalmers.se
From: mig@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Meir I Green)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Bugs was Re: OS/2-The User's View
Date: 17 Aug 92 18:35:16 GMT
Reply-To: mig@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Meir I Green)
Organization: Columbia University, New York

Speaking of bugs, here is a really bad one:  I am experiencing an inconsistent
inability to run DOS sessions.  I get sys0008, not enough memory. However, I
have 16 MB (Well, 20 but only 16 are recognized by OS/2 :-() and over 100 MB
free on the swapper partition, which always remains at 1048 Bytes!

The support person said she thinks the problem is because I have COM2 and COM3,
but not COM1!  I think to myself, so?  What is the relation?  Anyway, I am
beginning to wonder if I have some flakey cards, but OS/2 should really be
giving me a more appropriate error message, then.  Has anyone else had this
problem with OS/2?  I sometimes find myself unable to access my DOS programs,
since my disk is formatted HPFS!  This is quite unacceptable.  Any ideas?

Thanks.
Meir

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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: chairman@board8.uucp (The Chairman)
Subject: Re: OS/2 hard drive: SCSI or IDE?
Organization: board8
Distribution: na
Date: Tue, 18 Aug 92 14:49:56 GMT

shyguy@ocf.berkeley.edu (David S. Shy) writes:

 (* stuff deleted...*)

>I have a Conner 120 Meg IDE drive and I used Disk Manager v3.5 (which
>by the way, came w/ my Seagate MFM drive a long time ago) to low-level
>format the drive.  I've done this quite a few times, and OS/2 hasn't
>given me any problems yet.  I guess this is what you meant by the 
>custom utility...

>BTW:  why is there so much discussion about NOT low-level formatting
>	IDE drives?  I'm sure it does do some good... and does not
>	harm the drive, otherwise, I better watch out....

>				David Shy
>				shyguy@ocf.berkeley.edu
  When I bought my first IDE drive (from FRY's electronics in Sunnyvale,
Ca) I was told to low level format by 2 people. Nothing went wrong and the
drive worked great. It worked so great that I decided to buy another
(same drive - western digital 2 1/2" 60 meg). THAT's when the trouble began. 
  Suddenly I couldn't get either drive to work. Told the people at Fry's
and they told me that I shouldn't low level format ide drives (where did
I get THAT idea?). To make a really long story short - I burned out 3 
controllers and 3 drives. Frys couldn't make anything work and replaced
the whole system...

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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc,comp.os.os2.networking
Subject: Re: HELP !!!  Error : Exception in device driver: IFNET$
From: paula@alf.pec.co.nz (Paul Andrew)
Date: Thu, 20 Aug 1992 00:02:17 GMT
Followup-To: <1992Aug13.134844.29434@jupiter.sun.csd.unb.ca>
Organization: Production Engineering (NZ) Ltd.

In article <1992Aug13.134844.29434@jupiter.sun.csd.unb.ca> kristman@jupiter.sun.csd.unb.ca (Dan Kristmanson) writes:

... problem deleted ...
>
>*******
>Exception in device driver: IFNET$
>TRAP 000d       ERRCD=0000  ERACC=****   ERLIM=********
>ESI=7d334bc6  EDI=00000404  EBP=0000509c   FLG=00012212
>SS:ESP=0030:0000509a  SSACC=1097  SSLIM=0000434f
>FS=0000  FSACC=****  FSLIM=********
>
>The system detected an internal processing
>error at location ##0160:fff6453f - 000d:a53f .
>60000, 9084
>
>038600d1
>Internal revision 6.307, 92/03/01
>

Hi,

How ever did you manage to get this copy of the exception report, my
pc running OS/2 traps often and I write down some of the numbers.  I
wish that I could save the data to a file.


Paul Andrew   PaulA@hal.pec.co.nz    Production Engineering (NZ) Ltd.
Ph. +64 652 8189     (hi mom!)       P.O. Box 308, Marton, New Zealand



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From: eaj@acpub.duke.edu (Edward A. Johnson)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: Central Point Backup (for Windows) under OS/2
Date: 12 Aug 92 23:52:15 GMT
Organization: Duke University; Durham, N.C.

In article <679@riscy.simplot.com> rshelley@riscy.simplot.com (Robert Shelley) writes:
>Maynard has a good tape backup system that works with OS/2 V2.
>It handles backing up of EA's and restoring them also.  When
>you RESTORE it asks if you want to restore the EA's also so
>you can see the potential for this.  I am not at work right
>now so I don't have their address and phone number and I am
>not sure what drives they support, but if you want the number
>drop me a line and I will send it to you.  I am using the 2.0
>Gig DAT drive with this software the drive is also from
>Maynard.
>
>Robert         rshelley@riscy.simplot.com

Their software does not support QIC 40/80 tape drives (i.e., Colorado or
Maynard ArchiveXL tape drives). Nor does any other software that I have
tried to locate. This fiasco is very reminiscent of the esentially zero
printer support that came with OS/2 1.0. This together with no OS/2
Stacker is infuriating. My OS/2 2.0 still lies on the shelf and I continue 
with Windows 3.1 and Norton Desktop 2.0, which BTW, do a surprisingly good
job. Windows 3.1 support for graphics DOS windows has solved many of my
problems that drove me to consider OS/2 2.0. Maybe, someday, I'll get to
try OS/2. 8=))!

-Ted- 
Edward A. Johnson 
Department of Cell Biology
BOX 3709
Duke University Medical Center
Durham, NC 27710

Stacker
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: Why can't I communicate???????
From: Steve.Withers@bbs.actrix.gen.nz
Date: Sat, 15 Aug 1992 13:39:14 GMT
Organization: Actrix Information Exchange

In article <19920814.162634.983@almaden.ibm.com> bigred@vnet.ibm.com (Greg Forney) writes:
> Disclaimer: This posting represents the poster's views, not those of IBM
> News-Software: UReply 3.0
> X-X-From: bigred@vnet.ibm.com (Greg Forney)
> References: <Bszso4.5zM@news.cso.uiuc.edu>
> 
> In <Bszso4.5zM@news.cso.uiuc.edu> slg1202@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu writes:
> >I just got OS/2 2.0 and am trying to be impressed with the advanced
> >(superior) multitasking.
> >
> >Well, I load up Telix or Telemate in a DOS window and try to download
> >something through my modem and I get a ton of errors.
> >Effective throughput drops to 200cps (should be about 1600cps for v32bis)
> >
> >I reboot DOS and finish the file transfer at 1600cps under "wimpy" DOS 5.0.
> >
> >Am I doing something wrong???
> >
> >It seems that OS/2 is not fast enough and is missing some IRQ's from COM2.
> 
> 
> Could be. I know that significant work is is progress to improve COM port
> handling in OS/2. A beta of these improvements was just sent out 8/13.
> It would sound like you might need the new DOS property COM_DIRECT_ACESS
> set to ON to by-pass the COM port buffering OS/2 does. The package
> also has other COM port enhancements. Look for COMMGA.ZIP
> 
> GregF

Adding the following to the config.sys after the COM.SYS and VCOM.SYS device
statements will do a *world* of good!

call=mode.com com2:57600,n,8,1,RTS=HS,BUFFER=AUTO,XON=OFF
 
Works for me!
 
Steve
 


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