HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: jmaynard@oac.hsc.uth.tmc.edu (Jay Maynard)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: Have I been hosed?
Date: 19 Dec 1992 01:14:36 GMT
Organization: UT Health Science Center Houston

In article <BUHR.92Dec18161355@ccu.umanitoba.ca> buhr@umanitoba.ca (Kevin Andrew Buhr) writes:
>Yup!  You got ripped off.  As pointed out by someone on here, the "F"
>stands for FIFO.  That's the "BUFFER" you're trying to turn on with
>the "MODE" command.

NO!
The F means "fast bus logic". The AN has the FIFO, and it works fine in ISA
machines (and possibly in MCA/EISA, too).
-- 
Jay Maynard, EMT-P, K5ZC, PP-ASEL | Never ascribe to malice that which can
jmaynard@oac.hsc.uth.tmc.edu      | adequately be explained by stupidity.
 "Brought to you by the letters O, S, and by the number 2." -- Mike Levis
From: hatton@socrates.ucsf.edu (Tom Hatton)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: IBM screws U again
Date: 15 Dec 92 06:54:36 GMT
Organization: UCSF Computer Graphics Lab

jks4675@ritvax.isc.rit.edu writes:
>The Radius XGA-2 card will RETAIL (not "List") for $499 because IBM wants
>to bleed Radius for licensing fees. Thus, IBM screws over Radius, who 
>will lose a lot of sales (me, for one), the typical OS/2 customer who
>wants a faster system, and themselves all at once.

>IBM is to be congratulated on yet another brilliant marketing scheme.

>This is clearly a good example why Windows NT presents such a threat to
>the upper level OS market. Microsoft might just care about it's customers
>(unlike Big Blue) and take out the market right out from under them.

>Anybody know where I can get an NT beta???

This is very sad - at about $250-300 it would probably have moved
units like crazy. Oh, well. One more goof for the list. Perhaps 
time will help get enough sold to bring down the price within a
reasonable period. I'll limp along un-coprocessed until then.
 

-- 
Tom Hatton
hatton@cgl.ucsf.edu
(415)-476-7986
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From: sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu (Timothy F. Sipples)
Subject: Re: No response to edit ICON
Keywords: icon csd cpyini settings
Reply-To: sip1@midway.uchicago.edu
Organization: Dept. of Econ., Univ. of Chicago
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 17:54:43 GMT

In article <7853@news.duke.edu> dbhlve@acpub.duke.edu (Robert Newlin) writes:
>Well, I went through the CSD and installed the Tseng SVGA drivers (Love
>em).  Some days later I ran CPYINI which shrunk my ini's, but also
>removed my video driver info.  Booted to a blank screen.  Ran the CSD
>which really just ran thru the disks to the last and reinstalled the
>video drivers.  I reinstalled the hi-rez.
>Somewhere along the way I lost something.  Now when I go into my
>settings notebooks and click on Create Another or Edit ICON, I get no
>response!  Where did I go wrong??  Is there some way to correct it
>without reinstalling?  

Is the Icon Editor listed when you hit CTRL-ESC to bring up the Window
List?  If so, click on it with mouse button two, then select tile.

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From: parry@yoyo.cc.monash.edu.au (Tom J Parry)
Subject: Re: Misc OS/2 questions (especially CSD installation)
Originator: parry@yoyo.cc.monash.edu.au
Organization: Monash University, Melb., Australia.
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 10:16:46 GMT

Jeremy Mathers (pynq@quads.uchicago.edu) wrote:
> In article <1992Dec14.110425.5825@monu6.cc.monash.edu.au> parry@yoyo.cc.monash.edu.au (Tom J Parry) writes:
> ...
> >Great! I had not tried to read them actually. You can't format to > 1.44MB
> >under OS/2 though on 1.44MB drives. I am not surprised, really, that OS/2
> >does read them. It should simply pick up the extra tracks & sectors form
> >the format type. My complaint is really that you can't specify something
> >like /F:82 on the format line because it tells you that the drive can't do
> >it!

> Not surprising.  It's not like any other garden variety FORMAT pgm will
> do it.

> I assume you can do it under OS/2, in a specific DOS window, using FDFORMAT.
> Theoretically, it should work under simulated DOS, as well, right?

YES! I just tried it. Works fine in an otherwise very vanilla OS/2 4DOS
session.

On the subject of garden varient programs vs OS/2
There are utilities that allow DOS users to get to 700K+ under DOS that are
certainly not garden variety yet OS/2 supports it out of the box.

There is this windowing environment that dies every time one app dies. OS/2
allows one app to die and the others to carry on. That's not garden variety
but it's in OS/2 with no extras.

Turning off the speaker, adjusting amounts of EMS/XMS available to
programs, the list is _LONG_ are all available under DOS if you get a
non-garden variety util yet they are all in OS/2

There is not much of a difference between getting at OS/2 and DOS from the
WPS (about 0.5 inches in my case) so formatting from DOS to get 1.76MB is
not much of a hassle but you can't do it from the WPS and not while you're
working in an OS/2 window without moving. SInce OS/2 will read (and I
presume writE) these disks with no probs and FDFORMAT runs hassle free in
DOS windows there is not a giant need for this kind of OS/2 support but it
is slightly conspicuous by its absence. I doubt it would be difficult to
add this to OS/2 FORMAT (not as the default capacity of course) or to
convert FDFORMAT to an OS/2 app. 

It's not much (given the above) but there isn't a reason I can find for it
not to be there.

-- 
Tom J Parry.
Your reality is a figment of my imagination.
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: tedc@ee.ubc.ca (ted chen)
Subject: 256 colour background bitmaps possible?
Organization: University of BC, Electrical Engineering
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 23:48:10 GMT

I recently tried to get a 256 colour background bitmap to display on the WPS,
but it simply doesn't seem to work.  The original picture was a .GIF, so I
used VPIC (DOS program) to convert it to a WIN 3.0 .BMP.  When using this
picture as a background, all the colours in it would be screwed up.  Looks
like only 16 colours now.  Then I thought, HEY, I'll try converting it
to an OS/2 bitmap and see if that helps.  No go, I still get the same problem.
I tried some of the .BGA (256 colour?) pics available on software.watson and
those seem to work fine.

Questions:

1) How do I get 256 colour bitmaps on my background?

2) How can I transfer my .GIF/.BMP files to a .BGA format?

3) What's the difference between a Windows .BMP and a OS/2 .BMP?

4) What does the inclusion of the 32-GRE's ability to do "palette 
   management" do for me?
   
I'm running in 1024x768x256 mode. with a Graphics Ultra, 8514/a drivers.

It seems wasteful when there are maybe only a dozen colours being used on
the desktop out of 256 available.

I understand that the picture won't be able to use ALL 256 colours since the
WPS us using a handfull, but can't the picture just take the closest ones
available?  Why do the number of colours have to be dropped so drastically
from 256 to what seems like only 16?

On a related note, using a background at 1024x768 requires almost 800k of
bitmap.  As pointed out in the FAQ, if speed is important, bitmap backgrounds
should be avoided.  To alleviate some of this performance degradation,
can the bitmap be stored in a RAM disk?  Could the RAM disk be generated, and
the copy of the bitmap placed in it before the WPS requires it?


Thanks for any help.


---
Ted Chen         <tedc@ee.ubc.ca>

Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: BOB@ysub.ysu.edu (Bob Quigley)
Subject: CDROM and SCSI info wanted
Organization: Youngstown State University
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 21:12:16 GMT

I am thinking of installing a TRANTOR T228 SCSI adapter, a Toshiba XM3301
CDROM drive (the CD Porta-Drive from CD Technology) and an internal SCSI
hard disk in my IBM PS/2 Model P70 portable. What I need to know is if the
TRANTOR T228 with the Toshiba XM3301 is supported by OS/2? I would buy the
complete adapter-CDROM drive set from CD Technology (this came as a promotion
with the November PDK) but the TRANTOR is a short card that won't use
up the only full slot available in the P70.
 
Thanks,
 
Bob Quigley
internet: bob@ysu.edu
BITNET: bob@ysub
CI$: 71544,2153
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From: toy@soho.crd.ge.com (Raymond L. Toy)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc,comp.periphs.scsi,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: SCSI tape recommendations
Keywords: SCSI, tape
Date: 17 Dec 92 21:27:27 GMT
Organization: GE Corporate R&D Center


I'm looking for a small SCSI tape drive, and I'd like some
recommendations for such a beast.  The tape drive should have a
capacity of about 120 Mb (250 compressed).  It will be used mostly
with OS/2 or Linux.  I already have a Future Domain controller for the
tape drive.

I've seen ads for Wangtek 5150s and Archive Vipers that seem to fit
the bill.  Any comments?  I know the 5150s aren't SCSI-2 so no quick
file access.  How about the Vipers?

Also, how about Tandberg?  Who would carry them?

I prefer e-mail, but posting is ok too (hard to keep up with the
volume sometimes!).  If there is enough interest, I'll summarize and
post the results.

Thanks for any info you might have.

Ray
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From: system%ble%boo@pacbell.com (SysOp)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: Mix of 3-chip and 9-chip simms with OS/2
Date: 16 Dec 92 08:36:12 GMT
Organization: Black Lodge Engineering

pyrite@qed.cts.com (Sean Camanyag) writes:

> With the Service Pack installed, I get a lot of trap errors, around 8-10,
> sometimes more, per day.  People at IBM NSC BBS have put the blame on my mix
> of 4 3-chip 1mb simms, and 4 9-chip 1mb simms.  This is UNACCEPTABLE,
> considering that with GA + separately downloaded fixes, I have not had ANY
> trap errors.  My question is, will this be fixed by the next release coming
> soon?  Or am I the only one having this problem?  I would like to start using

BUG WATCH (FROM PC WORLD)

   IBM OS/2 2.0

   Systems that use more than one type or more than one brand of memory chip
may crash while running applications under OS/2 2.0. Users report receiving
the error message 'Trap # error' before their system locks up.
   To avoid the problem, users should install either 9-chip or 3-chip SIMMS,
but not both, and should avoid mixing chips from different manufacturers. An
IBM spokesperson also advises that systems with 9-chip SIMMS seem to have
fewer problems with OS/2 2.0 than those with 3-chip SIMMS.

IBM Corp.
800/772-2227 (customer service)


..in other words, you are SOL ;-(

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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: davego@halcyon.com (Dave Oliphant)
Subject: Help Identify Mystery Tseng-4000 Card.  From Whence is it?
Organization: The 23:00 News and Mail Service
Distribution: usa
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 22:59:41 GMT

As I posted here last week, I picked up second hand a video card which
came in a Diamond Stealth VRAM box.  Now I am having doubts about the
true identity of this card.

Here are what the chips say:

Tseng Labs (CPU chip)
ET4000AX
TC6058AF
Japan 9110EA1

ROM Chips (3 of 'em)
ET 4000E - 9022  (Two of the ROM chips have this on it)
4/8/90 -HC
@TLI 1990 A

ET 4000 XL ROM
9/6/89
@TLI 1991 A

I am using the svga drivers from hobbes file name of "proii8.zip", I
think specifically for the orchid pro-designer II video boards, also
Tseng-4000 based.

Anyone have an idea as to the true identity of this video card?  I'm not
really worried about what I bought as it was a pig-in-a-poke kind of
thing.
From: sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu (Timothy F. Sipples)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: Are PS/2 floppy drives better under OS/2?
Date: 15 Dec 92 20:24:14 GMT
Reply-To: sip1@midway.uchicago.edu
Organization: Dept. of Econ., Univ. of Chicago

In article <1gev8gINNbid@skeena.ucs.ubc.ca> ochealth@unixg.ubc.ca (ochealth) writes:
>>Rumor has it that the next group of PS/2s will have OS/2-aware (and
>>controlled) autoejecting 2.88 MB floppy drives.  There will still be
>>manual eject button.  Just thought I'd throw in a little tidbit here.
>Cooool.
>Once of nicest parts about formatting floppies on a Sun, that you can
>tell it to eject when done, so you know when to put the next disk in.
>(btw, maybe you can mention to IBM to add a /beep option to format.exe,
>so you know when it's finished. one of the drawbacks of having such 
>excellent multitasking, is that you forget to check the window to
>see if it's done formatting)

You can do this quite easily in -- you guessed it -- REXX.  But, now
that I mention it, I leave the task up to you.  :-)

Just to get you started, you could call it BFORMAT.  Use the SysBeep
function in REXXUTIL to generate the beep (you can even play a short
musical interlude :-)).  Prompt first for the diskette label and
perhaps the diskette size (to make it really friendly).

I expect to see BFORMAT appearing at ftp-os2.nmsu.edu within two
weeks.  :-)

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From: rider@geloser.login.qc.ca (Serge Ayotte)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: Printer Problem... Help Me!!!
Date: 11 Dec 92 22:35:11 GMT
Organization: Gentleman Loser System, Montreal/Qc/Cdn

ydlee@hawk.cs.ukans.edu (Yong Duk Lee) writes:

> 
> Hello
> 
> This may have been asked many times... But I don't think this is in faq,
> and IBM Tech Line wasn't much help either.
> 
> I got Epson LQ-570 printer installed today, and everytime I try to print 
> on the printer, it says it can't write on lpt1. If I choose IBMNULL
> driver, it says printer is turned off but it is already turned on.
> 
> I read bad printer cable causes some problem. But I bought my cable
> from local IBM dealer, and it should be ok.
> 
> Can anybody help me? I have 50 pages report sitting in my computer that I
> can't print. Any help will be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance.
> 
> 

An OS/2 co-user called me last night with the same kind of trouble
expept for the printer... it all boiled down to THE BOCA I/O CARD not
doing proper interrupt call (or read, in other word completly NON
COMPATIBLE to OS/2). I would suggest you check the make of your card,
and if it is a BOCA, get an "el-cheapo" extra paralel port for your
machine.

Serge Ayotte

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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: bill@unixland.natick.ma.us (Bill Heiser)
Subject: Re: OS/2 2.1?
Organization: Unixland Public Access Unix  (508) 655-3848
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 18:03:28 GMT

ASI509@DJUKFA11.BITNET writes:

>(electronically). There are some pretty big bugs in 2.0 XR06055 and I expect
>them to get fixed.

How do you determine the "XR" number?

Is there a bug list available, so us newcomers (to OS/2) can tell whether
the things we see are bugs or "features"?  :-)
-- 
heiser@world.std.com
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc,comp.os.os2.programmer
From: aaa@hpuerca.atl.hp.com (Simon Fowler)
Subject: Re: PaulDev - who is he?? TRAP 000c
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 15:33:57 GMT
Organization: Hewlett-Packard Company, Atlanta GA

In article <19921215.173235.657@almaden.ibm.com>, fattire@vnet.ibm.com (BJ Hargrave) writes:
> I know who PaulDev is, but the kernel you are using is pre-SP. Put the
> SP kernel on and try again. (You have a down-level kernel)

Is this the WINOS231 kernel? (I have to do these things late at night and may have got
confused :-). Can I just get the SP kernel onto the machine or do I have to reinstall the
whole SP?

Thanks
simon
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: bross@spartan.ac.BrockU.CA (Brian J Ross)
Subject: Misc OS/2 questions (especially CSD installation)
Organization: Dept of Computer Science, Brock University
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL4
Date: Sun, 13 Dec 1992 21:16:39 GMT



I just installed OS/2, level XR02000. So far, I'm impressed with the
system, and most of my DOS and Windows programs have ran without problems.
Exceptions: Falcon 3.0 won't run, nor will some Windows 3.1 programs. Also,
MS Word 2.0 for Windows has some quirks, due to the reduced colours available
with the current video driver I'm using.

However, the documentation with it is totally inadequate and very disappointing.
The online help is marginally helpful.  I would have been totally stuck during
installation if not for the FAQ file on this newsgroup! I have the following 
questions:

1. How do I add directory paths to the emulated DOS path? 

2. I'm using the revised Tseng 4000 video driver.  However, it is inferior
   to the 24-bit Genoa driver I used for Windows previously. Is there an
   OS/2 video driver available for Genoa cards?  

3. Is there a good OS 2 reference book available?

4. (most pressing) I copied the current CSD files. However, they do not
   fit on 1.4 Meg diskettes (they're 1.47 Megs each). The ".dsk" converter
   program, however, seems to require that I use different disks for
   unpacking these patches. (This seems utterly ridiculous, but I can't 
   find anything contrary in the documentation). Is there a fix for this?

  
Cheers, 

-- 
Brian Ross                          "Welcome to Canada." -- Twin Peaks Movie.
bross@sandcastle.cosc.brocku.ca
From: hatton@socrates.ucsf.edu (Tom Hatton)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: XGA video modes
Date: 14 Dec 92 05:57:44 GMT
Organization: UCSF Computer Graphics Lab

kaul@vnet.ibm.com writes:
>In <1fl9t8INNl5j@crcnis1.unl.edu> pickrell@hoss.unl.edu (Andrew Pickrell) writes:
>>I am looking at getting Radius's XGA-2 card when it comes out and they
>>seem to be relying on IBM's XGA drivers.  What modes are the drivers
>>currently supporting (640*480*256, 800*600*256, 1024*760*256, etc)?

>The officially supported modes are:
>    16 colors:  1280x1024, 1024x768
>   256 colors:  1024x768, 800x600, 640x480
>   64k colors:  800x600, 640x480

>Not all modes are supported by all monitors (for example, you can't do the
>800x600x64k mode on an 8514).  Refresh rates, etc. are variable.  Basically,
>with the way the drivers are designed if you have the right DMQS file you
>can customize the resolution, refresh rates, etc. to your monitor.  Of
>course, changing the DMQS file isn't supported and you can damage your
>monitor if your monitor is run out of spec, especially the cheaper ones.

>>Also, are there any rumors floating about added modes with the december
>>release?

>I'm not touching that one :-)

To clarify on another point - is IBM going to sell an ISA, as well as the
MCA version? Or is that being left to others such as Radius?
 

-- 
Tom Hatton
hatton@cgl.ucsf.edu
(415)-476-7986
From: sat@thomson.UUCP (Scott Thomson)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: QuattroPro Windows replaces some WINOS2 dll
Date: 17 Dec 92 14:32:06 GMT
Organization: Thomson Software Services, Inc.

parry@yoyo.cc.monash.edu.au (Tom J Parry) writes:
: [stuff deleted]
: 
: I have installed QPW fine under WINOS2 with few probs (you can't run it
: seemless!)
: 
: -- 
: Tom J Parry.
: Your reality is a figment of my imagination.
I have QPW running under WIN-OS2 seemless.  I'm running 1024x768x256 in order
to see more.  I had to up my memory requirements in the WIN-OS/2 SETTINGS.
I set:
	WIN_RUNMODE		3.0 STANDARD
	DPMI_DOS_API		ENABLED
	DPMI_MEMORY_LIMIT	4
	EMS_MEMORY_LIMIT	4096
	XMS_MEMORY_LIMIT	4096
Basically, I set each type of memory to 4Meg.  I also run WordPerfect for
Windows seemless at the same time.  I don't have any large spreadsheets but
I do have some graphs and multi-page notebooks setup.  I have not had any
problems with QPW yet (but I do small stuff with it).

I did have to adjust my WPfWin settings to up the memory limits also.
Otherwise, if WPfWin was running first, QPW would not run (not enough memory).
Now they both run fine.

Scott
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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu (Timothy F. Sipples)
Subject: Re: WANTED: Driver for NCR video card
Reply-To: sip1@midway.uchicago.edu
Organization: Dept. of Econ., Univ. of Chicago
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 18:07:56 GMT

In article <Bz7qDv.2LL@news.iastate.edu> Stefan Zollner (ZOLLNER@zollner.ssp.ameslab.gov) writes:
>I have a cheap clone with an NCR video card (NCR 77C22E). It comes with
>a video driver for OS/2 1.x, but nothing with support for 2.0. 
>Is there a 2.0 driver for my NCR card somewhere out there ? It is somewhat
>annoying to have a WIN 3.1 driver with 1024x768 resolution, and only VGA
>for OS/2 2.0.

NCR is a pretty OS/2-savvy organization, so I would suggest contacting
them directly.  Please let us know what you discover.

NCR makes automatic teller machines, for example, which use OS/2 1.x
to operate.  The company also makes many Microchannel machines, and I
believe they have been one of the larger OEMs for OS/2 1.x.

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From: jdecarlo@mitre.org (John DeCarlo)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: autoexec and config for DOS and OS/2 shells
Date: 11 Dec 92 19:31:39 GMT
Organization: MITRE Corporation, McLean  VA

In article <Bz3x60.229@knot.ccs.queensu.ca>
 calvert@QueensU.CA (John Calvert) writes:

>my DOS
>shells don't have the full environment defined for them. I've set
>the environment size to 2048 which is large enough when booted under
>DOS.
>
>Why isn't my environment, specifically the path, set up properly in
>my OS/2 DOS shell?

Hmmm, I have an environment of 1024 in each of my OS/2 DOS sessions.  I used 
the statement:
SHELL=E:\OS2\MDOS\COMMAND.COM E:\OS2\MDOS /P /E:1024

in my E:\CONFIG.SYS file  (OS/2 boots from E: on my system).

This is essentially what I have in C:\CONFIG.SYS, with a different directory 
involved for COMMAND.COM, so that when I boot DOS I also get a 1024byte 
environment (DOS boots from C:).

Does this help?

John DeCarlo, MITRE Corporation, McLean, VA--My views are my own
Fidonet:  1:109/131  Internet:  jdecarlo@mitre.org