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From: sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu (Timothy F. Sipples)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: Jump Scrolling in DOS/OS2 Windows?
Date: 9 Jan 93 01:01:54 GMT
Reply-To: sip1@midway.uchicago.edu
Organization: Dept. of Econ., Univ. of Chicago

In article <1993Jan7.020244.4766@wam.umd.edu> adhir@wam.umd.edu (Al Dhir) writes:
>Remember the thread a few months ago where we all wanted jump scrolling
>in windowed DOS and OS2 boxes?  Did anything come of that?  Does 2.1 have
>this ability?
>Seems sort of stupid that OS/2 can't do this...especially considering that
>Windows 3.1 has it.
>Eagerly anticipating 2.1GA :)  ...

No, I don't think it has that feature (yet).  It's on my wishlist,
too.

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From: x90wardell@gw.wmich.edu
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: OS/2 2.1 Beta Problems. ( Cross linked files. Paradise Video. etc.)
Date: 6 Jan 93 11:02:44 EST
Organization: Western Michigan University

	I have read a lot about people using the DSPinstall program
that is in OS/2.

	DO NOT USE THIS PROGRAM.  Sometimes it may work but quite
often it will not work and will cause the screen to be black on
bootup or just plain gray.  

	If you want to install a different graphics mode, use
Selective Install.  I know it takes longer but it is safe.

					-Brad



Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu (Timothy F. Sipples)
Subject: Re: OS/2 2.1 Beta PDK CD-ROM Now Available
Reply-To: sip1@midway.uchicago.edu
Organization: Dept. of Econ., Univ. of Chicago
Distribution: na
Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1993 04:42:07 GMT

In article <1993Jan5.182507.5442@mdd.comm.mot.com> lmorris@mdd.comm.mot.com (Larry Morris) writes:
>Exactly.  You received the 2.1 Beta CD.  This announcement was for the 2.1
>Beta PDK CD.  There is a difference.  I am running the 2.1 Beta right now, 
>but have not yet ordered the PDK CD.  Does anyone have info on what is
>include in this months PDK?  They seem to be dropping and adding products
>every month.  Is there an update to TCP/IP or PM/X relative to the November
>PDK?  

Retraction: I don't think a December PDK exists.  The operator at the
OS/2 Hotline was probably mistaken here.  (I did try and check this
out first; sorry.)

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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: orville%weyrich@uunet.uu.net (Orville R. Weyrich)
Subject: Still have troubles with gnu tar, Sankyo drive, and Adaptec
Reply-To: uunet.uu.net!weyrich!orville
Organization: Weyrich Computer Consulting
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 93 09:06:02 GMT

Hello again -- still need help :-(

I have an Adaptec 1542B that works fine with a Maxtor hard disk and NEC
CD-ROM. But I can't get the "gtak201" version of gnu tar to work with my
Sankyo CP-150SE tape drive [a clone of wang 5150SE maybe?].

No matter what I try I get the message

	"Fatal SCSI error: Cannot access device TAPE$2, return code 31"

when I try to use the "tape ret" command.

I have tried disabling the CD-ROM in my config.sys.

I have tried both the GA-SP and 2.1 beta.

On the advice of someone on the net, I have added ASPI support, so that the
relevant entries in my config.sys are [these are at the end]:

	BASEDEV=OS2ASPI.DMD
	SET TAPE=+++TAPE$2
	SET TAPEMODE=0
	BASEDEV=SCSITAPE.DMD TAPE$2 A0 2 S0

Has anyone gotten a similar configration to work? How about a WangDat with
gtak and Adaptec 1542B and GA+SP or 2.1 Beta?

Any differences in your config.sys? Any other tape drives that are
inexpensive and available in the U.S. that work?

Any other HPFS-aware backup software that works with my hardware?

Any OS/2 or DOS-based diagnostic programs that might be useful in
probing the origin of my problems?

Advice gratefully accepted.


orville

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From: muehlenw@samhh.hanse.de (Stefan A. Muehlenweg)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: German Service Pack !?!?
Date: Sun, 10 Jan 93 16:06:18 MEZ

haug@zesi.do.open.de (Haug Buerger) writes:

> I have heared nothing about the german service pack.
> I think the US OS2 users will do the beta testing and IBM Germany
> will not publish the CSDs. They may concentrate on v2.1 to release
> it as fast as possible. I'm not sure if all the bugfixes are good
> for OS2, they have fead the rumor about a buggy system and it is
> definitly not.
> 
> # haug@zesi.do.open.de (Haug Buerger)
> # save a tree use email
> 

The german service pack is out. You can get it by snail mail from:

    V.C.S.
    Forststr. 53
    D-W-7000 Stuttgart 1
    Phone +49 (711) 621832
    Fax   +49 (711) 621843

The price for the pack is: DM 55,-- (+ 9,-- for packing).
It's annonuced to be available from ftp.uni-stuttgart.de, but I didn't
see it yet.

I did install it without problems, now the ET4000 runs correct in
1024x768x256 etc.

Stefan
(muehlenw@samhh.hanse.de)
From: rickt@rmtc.paramax.com (Rick Thompson [RMTC/ISP])
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Windows Help not supported
Date: 12 Jan 93 16:03:57 GMT
Organization: Paramax Systems


I'm having problems with some Windows apps. I have in that when I try to
issue Help I get the message "This Version of Help not Supported" or
something along those lines.  I'm running 2.0 + Service Pack.  The apps that
this occurs on are those apps that say they work under Windows 3.0 or 3.1 such
as ProComm for Windows, Coral 2.0 and Microsoft Access.  Is there a way to
get this working?



Thanks,

Rick   rickt@rmtc.paramax.com


This probably should have been posted to c.o.os2.apps
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: joiner@myria.cs.umn.edu (Jay K. Joiner)
Subject: Re: Detach command.
Organization: University of Minnesota
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 17:21:31 GMT

In <1ih9vnINNbrf@transfer.stratus.com> homberg@beorn.hw.stratus.com (Mike Homberg) writes:

>If you detach a command that requires keyboard input is there
>a way to bring it back into the foreground like in unix or 
>at least a way to kill the process number that is gives you
>when it detached?

I don't believe you can ever bring a DETACHed session to the foreground.
But you can use START instead.  It has switches to create full screen,
windowed, forground, and background sessions.  Should do what you want.

Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: samiam@netcom.com (Scott Moore)
Subject: Another fire on the 1024x768x24 log....
Summary: Report on a 1024x768x24 card
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  (408 241-9760 guest) 
Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1993 09:31:06 GMT

Well, guess I'm the only one who took the bait and called LAVA of ontario
canada and found out about their 1024x768x24 bit card. What I was told:

The card is based on the IBM 8514 chip (or chipset ?). It is not VGA 
compatible and requires a VGA card to use for "passthrough" service. But the
result is true 16 mil color at 1024x768, and the 2.0 drivers are avalible
now, including seamless capability, said to be developed in tandem with IBM.
So there is apparently a way to get 24 bit color now under os/2.
Lava is at (416) 674-5942.

                                            [sam]
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samiam@netcom.com     | important than your 
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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: samiam@netcom.com (Scott Moore)
Subject: Re: Wolf3d and 4dos
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  (408 241-9760 guest) 
Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1993 08:17:41 GMT

ychung@napier.uwaterloo.ca (Young Chung) writes:

>I need help with the Wolf3d setting under OS/2.

>The game runs fine until it starts loading up the mission.  When the red line
>reaches the right side the machine crashes.  When I go to DOS box then load up
>the game I can go to WPS and kill the session, but when I run it directly by
>double clicking on the WOLF3D game icon the whole machine crashes and I have to
>do a cold boot.

>I'm using 4DOS and 4OS2 on a 386-33 with a Soundblaster Pro card.  I'm using
>IRQ 7 at this moment and I'm going to try IRQ 3 when I get time.

1. Change the "retrace emulation" setting under dos to "off". This was what
was killing you.

2. I recommend setting the "interrupts during I/O" (don't have one ? see next).

3. Install the SP if you have not already done so. It fixes a hangup when the
game exits (you would will see if after you fix (1)), and also adds 2.

4. The last time I checked, making a windows out of wolfie crashes os/2.
I know of no fix, just don't go back to the desktop until you finish the
game.

                                              sam
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Santa Cruz, CA USA    | mother"
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From: sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu (Timothy F. Sipples)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: PAS-16 SCSI support?
Date: 9 Jan 93 01:21:03 GMT
Reply-To: sip1@midway.uchicago.edu
Organization: Dept. of Econ., Univ. of Chicago

In article <1993Jan8.172015.58200@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu> lbv2@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu (BRIAN PAUL VAN LIEU) writes:
>    Thank you to those who answered my question reguarding the co-existance of
>    SCSI and IDE cards.
>    Now, here's another tricky one. CD-ROMS go very well with a sound card.
>    Instead of coughing up 300 for a good Adaptec card, can I use the SCSI of
>    the PAS-16 to run a supported CD-ROM drive ? (supported meas Sony, NEC or
>    Texel)
>    $ is kind of tight, and I would like to know if you OS2ers have done such
>    a thing. As it stands now, I am making a floppy copy of the 2.1 beta
>    anyway ;)

The makers of the PAS-16 are working on an OS/2 driver -- contact them
to tell them you are interested.

The Creative Labs SoundBlaster already has OS/2 drivers, including one
for the CD-ROM interface on certain models.  These drivers are
available via anonymous ftp from ftp-os2.nmsu.edu (check file
/pub/os2/00Index for location).

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From: pgleason@ncratl.AtlantaGA.NCR.COM (Pat Gleason)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: Do Trident drivers work with ATI?
Date: 6 Jan 93 02:56:02 GMT
Organization: NCR Engineering and Manufacturing Atlanta -- Atlanta, GA

In <3926@isgtec.isgtec.com> ted@isgtec.com (Ted Richards) writes:

>The fix, in my case, was to go back to the original BVHVSVGA.DLL (from
>the SP) and SVGADATA.PMI (from Joel Armengaud's ati256c2.zip) for the
>desktop, and to the full-screen Windows 3.0 driver from ATI, while
>continuing to use the new IBMDEV32.DLL and IBMVGA32.DLL and the Trident
>seamless Windows driver from tri32new.zip.

So simple that any user could get it up and running in 5 minutes <g>.
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Distribution: world
Date: Thu, 31 Dec 92 16:31:02 -0800
From: George_Marengo@f514.n202.z1.fidonet.org
Subject: Re: Adaptec AHA-1542B an
Comment-To: fred_j_mccall_575-3539@f514.n202.z1.fidonet.org
Reply-To: George_Marengo@f514.n202.z1.fidonet.org
X-FSC-PATH: 202/514

f5>Personally, I'd like to get my information from someone who KNOWS
the
f5>correct answer; not someone who asserts that their answer must be
f5>correct just BECAUSE.

 Personally, I'd like to get my information from someone who has
actually
used the equipment in question, not some tech. line phone answerer.
I've
gotten better info from this conference (and others) than I have from 
IBM's OS/2 tech support.
___
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 * Origin: OS/2 Connection @ La Jolla, CA  <619-558-9475> (1:202/514)
From: mike.dickson@almac.co.uk (Mike Dickson)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: GREEN FOLDER DISEASE
Date: 10 Jan 93 11:24:00 GMT
Reply-To: mike.dickson@almac.co.uk (Mike Dickson)
Organization: Almac BBS Ltd. +44 (0)324 665371

Small problem with seamless Windows support on this machine -

If I start up a Windows app seamlessly on the WPS then OS/2 goes through
the usual clunks and crunches to get tjhe Windows kernel loaded. As it
does so, the (grey background) open folders on the WPS go a revolting
shade of green and the background bitmap colours get screwed up totally.
The Windows app still runs okay and using its own proper colours.

However, if I run *any* text-based DOS application full screen and then
quit from it I find that the problem is solved and the WPS colours are
back to normal *and* that the Windows app is still running as before with
the same colours. Furthermore, if I load up any further seamless Windows
apps then they come up okay without any colour mangling. If I quit from
all the Windows apps and start again with another one then the problem
reappears so it seems to me that the problem is connected with the
initial loading of the 'shareable' Windows code. (I understand that some
parts of the Windows code is shared between Windows sessions)

Rather odd one this and highly irritating. I've made up an object on the
WPS called 'Reset Screen' which basically just knocxks the system into
text mode and exits straight off, but this is obviously kludge of the
week.

Can anyone help? Relevant machine specs are ET4000 based card using the
Service Pak 1024x768x256 drivers, 8Mb RAM, loads of disk space, Intel
386-33DX.

/\/\ | |< |.                                     mike.dickson@almac.co.uk
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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu (Timothy F. Sipples)
Subject: Re: S3 drivers...
Reply-To: sip1@midway.uchicago.edu
Organization: Dept. of Econ., Univ. of Chicago
Date: Sat, 9 Jan 1993 18:48:43 GMT

In article <2b4dfd5c@f514.n202.z1.fidonet.org> George_Marengo@f514.n202.z1.fidonet.org writes:
> I've read a rumour that S3 Corp. has finished their OS/2 drivers and
>have sent them to board mfrs. Anyone out there heard any news from a
>board
>mfr?

This rumor is apparently true.

Orchid has released drivers for their Farenheit 1280 S3-based adapter.
The drivers support 800x600 and 1024x768 modes.

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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: rsrodger@wam.umd.edu (Yamanari)
Subject: Re: seemless window support
Organization: University of Maryland, College Park
Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1993 04:08:42 GMT

In article <1993Jan6.032845.15250@midway.uchicago.edu> sip1@midway.uchicago.edu writes:
>In article <726024198snx@kdrealm.linet.org> mikel@kdrealm.linet.org (Mikel Beck) writes:
>>> The Service Pak provides seamless Win-OS/2 support for Tseng
>>> 4000-based SuperVGA adapters.  The OS/2 2.1 beta extends that support
>>> to numerous other SuperVGA adapters.
>>        Which are the other "numerous other" supported adapters?
>
>ATI VGA Wonder series;
>Video7/Headland VRAM II;
>IBM 256c (Cirrus chipset, ThinkPad 700C);
>Trident TVGA;
>Tseng ET4000;
>Western Digital/Paradise.

	
	Real ambitious.  How many of those are more than a year *old* 
	(i,e., not even new when they were released)?  

	I take it this means that --
	s3 (decent driver)
	ss24x (i.e. Western Digital *accellerated*)
	ATI mach 8 (working new) and 32 (new, working) 
	and 8514 (IBM's *own hardware*) 

	drivers are not supplied?

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From: sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu (Timothy F. Sipples)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: Question Regarding the WD Paradise SVGA
Date: 9 Jan 93 01:19:16 GMT
Reply-To: sip1@midway.uchicago.edu
Organization: Dept. of Econ., Univ. of Chicago

In article <48241@ogicse.ogi.edu> francis@ese.ogi.edu (Francis Moraes) writes:
>There seem to be two possible Display Resolutions available for the
>Paradise under OS/2:
>640x480x256
>800x600x256
>All of these are very slow on my machine. I would prefer
>800x600x16
>Is this a possible resolution for the WD card or is this OS/2's lack of
>display driver support?

Joel Armengaud's "generic" 800x600 16 color driver works fine on the
Paradise series of adapters.  You can obtain it via anonymous ftp from
ftp-os2.nmsu.edu.  Filename is vga800-1.zip; check the file
/pub/os2/00Index for location.

Note that this driver does not support so-called "seamless" Win-OS/2.

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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: MS C 7.0 & OS/2 - is it doable?
From: daveegan@dhw68k.cts.com (Dave Egan - N6XVZ)
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 07:39:20 GMT
Distribution: na
Organization: Wolfskill & Dowling residence; Anaheim, CA (USA)

I'm working on getting a decent C and relational database development
setup at work.  We initially wanted to use WIndoze and MS C.  We have
been quite disappointed with the state of RDBMS and DOS.  Now we are
taking a look at OS/2 and Database Manager.

I'm familiar with OS/2; run it at home and work.  So no pitches, ok?
I do need to know if anyone has gotten Microsoft C/C++ version 7.0 to
work under OS/2 2.0.  Any glitches and solutions would be appreciated.
I have the fix for VCPI; that is the only one I am aware of that is
MS C specific.

Thanks!
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From: jmaynard@oac.hsc.uth.tmc.edu (Jay Maynard)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: To XGA-2 or not
Date: 6 Jan 1993 20:44:31 GMT
Organization: UT Health Science Center Houston

In article <1993Jan06.182721.26724@watson.ibm.com> kaul@vnet.ibm.com writes:
>They do.  The hard part is getting the correct DMQS files to describe your
>monitor.

Just how monitor-dependent is the DMQS file? Do I have to get one specifically
for a Sony CPD1302, or do I just need one for 800x600xhowever-many-colors-
it-supports mode? What's _in_ there, anyway?
-- 
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jmaynard@oac.hsc.uth.tmc.edu      | adequately be explained by stupidity.
      "Science is all in the public domain, and allows few secrets."
              -- Tom Clancy, _The Sum of All Fears_
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: jks4675@ritvax.isc.rit.edu
Subject: Odd question...???
Reply-To: jks4675@ritvax.isc.rit.edu
Organization: Rochester Institute of Technology
Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1993 04:09:19 GMT

Since my school only supports KERMIT for transfer protocol, I was wondering...
Does anybody have any XMODEM, YMODEM, or ZMODEM executables for VMS???
______PLEASE______ list FTP or e-mail.


Thanks,
Jeff
From: os2man@panix.com (Larry Salomon Jr.)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Time to bitch at Diamond (Was: S3 drivers...)
Date: 10 Jan 93 16:04:55 GMT
Organization: PANIX Public Access Unix, NYC

In <1993Jan9.184843.15043@midway.uchicago.edu> sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu (Timothy F. Sipples) writes:

>In article <2b4dfd5c@f514.n202.z1.fidonet.org> George_Marengo@f514.n202.z1.fidonet.org writes:
>> I've read a rumour that S3 Corp. has finished their OS/2 drivers and
>>have sent them to board mfrs. Anyone out there heard any news from a
>>board
>>mfr?

>This rumor is apparently true.

>Orchid has released drivers for their Farenheit 1280 S3-based adapter.
>The drivers support 800x600 and 1024x768 modes.

It sounds like it is time to do some serious bitching to Diamond to 
get them to develop/release their drivers!!!

Cheers,
Q
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From: lmp8913@zeus.tamu.edu (PRESTON, LISA M)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: Palette Manager problems (save-bits don't save palette)
Date: 10 Jan 1993 14:14 CST
Organization: Texas A&M University, Academic Computing Services
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: zeus.tamu.edu
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41    

In article <1993Jan10.051935.25691@monu6.cc.monash.edu.au>, parry@yoyo.cc.monash.edu.au (Tom J Parry) writes...
->Steven Hayes (steveh@goanna.cs.rmit.oz.au) wrote:
->> Everything was whoopy (sassi, froody ;-) until I added a menu to the window.
->> Now when a drop-down menu goes away the portion of the client area obscured
->> by the menu gets redrawn with an incorrect palette. The only repaint
->> messages that don't work properly are when the obscuring window uses the
->> SAVEBITS option (which doesn't actually cause a WM_PAINT message to get
->> sent, instead the window 'remembers' what is was covering)
-> 

->The latest PMVIEW also has the problem. I suspect it is a PM bug although
->I can't see why it should occur. If you save an area of memory and then put
->it back, with no intervening pallete change, the replaced section should be
->ok!


	PM Fract does the same thing, so it may be a PM bug.

LISA
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: williams@herky.cs.uiowa.edu (Kent Williams)
Subject: OS 2.1 Beta.  What happened to me.
Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1993 15:48:03 GMT
Organization: University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, USA

Hi.  Here's what I started out with

2.0 GA + CSD + Win 3.1 Beta

I made diskettes and installed from them (if anyone's interested in Rube
Goldberg setups, try this: I stuffed the CDROM in an Iris Indigo, copied
the disk info into a directory visible on NFS, and then used a PC with
PCNFS to make the disks).

Problem 1) I can't run windows at all. seamless, full screen, doesn't matter.
All start going and then quit.  If I start a full-screen DOS session and then
type win, it tells me that it can't execute OS2GDI.EXE.

I believe that this is linked to having Win 3.1 Beta laying around.  I'm
going to save off all my local stuff and re-install with HD reformat.

Problem 2) I was doing a backup, pursuant to Problem 1) and was on line
using Pro Yam in a Dos window.  All of a sudden blammo! System Halts.  I have
a bunch of numbers I copied down, and if any IBM'er wants 'em, I'll mail
them.   I'm back up after reboot and chkdsk, doing the exact same thing
only at 4800 baud instead of 9600, and I've not had the problem again.

Incidentally I now have over a hundred floppies tied up in various OS/2
versions and products.  We need a larger media standard!
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"You, Varlet! Why so blithe?" -- from "Shreck" by William Steig