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From: djs6015@ultb.isc.rit.edu (Don Smith)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.apps
Subject: Re: PmComm comments solicited.
Keywords: PMCOMM
Date: 8 Nov 92 19:08:27 GMT
Organization: R.I.T.
Originator: djs6015@ultb

In article <1992Nov5.202909.3501@wicat.com> kevin@wicat.com (Kevin Vigor) writes:
}
}Has anybody out there had any experience with PmComm? I downloaded a version
}from hobbes, and first impressions are excellent; I like the interface, it runs
}like a charm, and it sucks FAR less cycles than Qmodem. However, I'd like 
}comments before I spring $90 for Zmodem and scripts (neither of which I can
}live without).

I have seen the newest version of PMcomm 2.0, and its not very
impressive.  First of all, with the new svga drivers in the service
pack... the scrolling is very slow and choppy, even at 14.4. Second,
the way the scrollback buffer works is really stupid...  it opens up
a new window, and you cannot switch between the terminal and the
scrollback. Third, the DEC terminal emulation sucks.

Still sticking with Te/2
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From: Steve.Withers@bbs.actrix.gen.nz
Subject: Re: SP OR TE/2 PROBLEM. PLEASE HELP
Organization: Actrix Information Exchange
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 22:59:42 GMT

In article <1992Nov9.151615.14125@miavx1.acs.muohio.edu> khmak@miavx1.acs.muohio.edu writes:
> I have the following problem: TE/2 worked fine on my computer before I install
> the Service Pack. Now I installed the SP and TE/2 does not work any more.
> 	Does anyone know how to configur TE/2 or OS/2 so TE/2 would work again?
> Thank You.


I have TE/2 V1.21 and the CPK2_102.ZIP version of the COMMPAK2.DLL. These all
work fine. Version 1.20 of TE/2 also works just fine. 
 
Have you got the latest COMMPAK2.dll mentioned above? 
 
Steve
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From: branham@binah.cc.brandeis.edu (Tom Branham, Biophysics Grad. Brandeis)
Subject: Freeze Frame.........A warning and a solution....
Reply-To: branham@binah.cc.brandeis.edu
Organization: Brandeis University
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 23:52:47 GMT

I just thought I would let folks know of the little adventure I had 
recently with the new windows program Freeze Frame.  I installed
Freeze Frame (refered to as FF from here on) under a WInos2 session
on the beta not too long ago and noticed an unusual problem after a 
while, that did not initially seem to be connected at all.  The command
reference and help no longer functioned at all.  Upon finally just 
opening the information folder I noticed that the command reference icon
had been replaced with the butterfly w/magnifying glass icon of the FF
program View.exe.  Just so happens that the command refernce program is
also named View.exe.  Instead of installing the Graphic viewer program in the 
proper FF subdirectory, it installed it into the OS2 subdirectory containing
View.exe.  As this seems to be a flaw that is NOT beta dependent I would
warn ya folks to make a copy of the view.exe file under a different name, do the 
installation, move the New View.exe to the appropriate directory, and then
restore the command reference View.exe to its original place.  I have done
this and everything works fine :) 
                     .........Tom Branham
        Branham@binah.cc.brandeis.edu
P.S. I let IBM know so if anyone calls them it should be in their database
     
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From: wkn@leland.Stanford.EDU (Ken Neighbors)
Subject: Using OS/2 Icons (Re: OS/2 Icons)
Followup-To: comp.os.os2.apps
Keywords: icons, pain
Organization: DSG, Stanford University, CA 94305, USA
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 92 18:00:28 GMT

In article <1992Nov10.154707.26088@spock.UUCP> kurgan@spock.uucp (Andrew Twyman) writes:
>	Can anyone tell me if it is possible to access the built in OS/2
>icons for use on programs?  Also, how can one transfer Windows .ICO files
>to OS/2?  Thank's in advance.

I had to open the settings on the OS/2 object, "edit" the icon, and save
it as a file.  Then you can use the icon for any object you want, although
it's a royal pain to select an icon. (Open Settings, General, Find, Locate,
Path, OK, Find, OK.)  OS/2 is going to wear out my mouse!

Is there a better way?  I wish I could skip the step of having to save the
icon in a file, and just use the icon of another object.

Ken Neighbors
wkn@leland.stanford.edu
From: cjr10@cccvm.ccc.amdahl.com (Chris Russell)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.apps
Subject: Re: File encryption program???
Date: 6 Nov 92 01:05:21 GMT
Organization: Amdahl Corp.

In article <1d6oe6INN62s@aludra.usc.edu>
durby@usc.edu (Dennis Durby) writes:
 
>I am in dire need of a file encryption program (maybe that meets DOD
>standards or something?) in order to encrypt some word processing files.
>WordPerfect's is very simple to defeat, and I really need something for
>highly sensitive client files (and I need it fast!).  Any suggestions?
>Naturally, I'd like a native OS/2 program, but a DOS program would be fine
>and dandy for right now.  TIA!
 
One program which will do this is PCSECURE, part of the PCTOOLS package
from Central Point. It's a DOS program.
 
Chris Russell
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From: fab9452@nigel.tamu.edu (Allan Bailey)
Subject: Re: Quicken/Windows 2.0 icon problem
Organization: Computing Services Center, Texas A & M University
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 12:04:22 GMT


>In article <1992Nov9.151757.11691@schbbs.mot.com> CCOF50@maccvm.corp.mot.com (Lynda Schneiderman) writes:
>
>   >  I recently upgraded from Quicken/Windows 1 to version 2. I had Quicke set
>   >up under OS/2 as a seamless Window. Now, for some strange reason, the ion
>   >is wrong. It is displaying as a left pointing triangle. It should be a
>   >mostly green Quicken icon.
>   >  If I start up a 'generic' WIN-OS2 session, and start Quicken 2 there,the
>   >icon is fine.
>   >  I went into QW's Settings, and tried to change the icon. It wouldn't o
>   >it. I even tried to create a new entry (by peeling off a Program templae.)
>   >It, too, displayed the wrong icon.
>   > I'm running the GA release, with some of the newer pieces. I haven't
>   >received the CSD yet.
>
>   If it makes you feel any better, I have the same problem with the
>   Quicken 2.0 icon.  I am going to apply the service pack this week, if
>   it makes any difference I will post back here and let you know.
>

  there's a util call winicon that allows you to "strip out" the icons
from a windows 3.x program.  i used it to find the "real" quicken icon
and then just made that the icon.

  winicon is available on ftp-os2.nmsu.edu.

allan

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From: sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu (Timothy F. Sipples)
Subject: Re: SOX-32 for os/2 2.0 now available for FTP!
Reply-To: sip1@midway.uchicago.edu
Organization: Dept. of Econ., Univ. of Chicago
Date: Sat, 7 Nov 1992 17:29:59 GMT

In article <1992Nov3.003321.4233@unlv.edu> slumos@buddy.cs.unlv.edu (Steve E. Lumos) writes:
>) The SOX-32 port seems to be stable and workable...  It's at 
>) ftp-os2.nmsu.edu in /pub/upload (or something like that..  The obvious
>) place for uploads)  It is called SOX-32.ZIP.  Give it a whirl, and
>) let me know what you think of it.
>I don't know much about this program (just read a description and then came back here, so my question is: Can it read/write from/to stdin/stdout? It would be handy for converting anything to a .voc file and then redirecting output to SBDSP$ (the Sound Blaster driver).

Even if it doesn't, can't you use &1 as the target filename, then go
ahead and redirect to SBDSP$?

I think this works.

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From: pvonk@scott.skidmore.edu (Pierre VonKaenel)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.apps
Subject: Re: DeScribe 4.0
Date: 11 Nov 92 14:25:44 GMT
Organization: Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs NY, 12866

In article <4LT2TB2w165w@tcscs.UUCP> srcsip!tcscs!zeta writes:
>gkushmer@jade.tufts.edu (Greg Kushmerek) writes:
>
>> For anyone interested:  I just received my DeScribe 4.0 free upgrade offer
>> in the mail yesterday.  If you haven't gotten one then it should be
>> coming soon!
>
>Please post your impression of it as soon as you can...
>
>I'm very curious to see how this compares to other products...


In the latest PC Week you'll find an article on Describe 4.0.  I
skimmed it, so can't give details, but I got the impression the
reviewers weren't overly wild about it.  Some features are good and
others are not.

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From: sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu (Timothy F. Sipples)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.apps
Subject: Re: Is there an LHA that does HPFS EAs?
Date: 10 Nov 92 18:28:09 GMT
Reply-To: sip1@midway.uchicago.edu
Organization: Dept. of Econ., Univ. of Chicago

In article <1992Nov10.051853.536@usl.edu> das9674@usl.edu (Stephenson Daniel A) writes:
>Doe sanyone know of an OS/2 LHA extractor that uses OS/2's
>HPFS filenames?  I got the new Soundblaster drivers, which includes
>a module player which takes HPFS names, but all the DOS/OS/2 LHA
>program I have truncate all the 'mod.<insert name>.lha to 'mod.<xxx>'
>This is pretty irritating.
>Any leads would be greatly appreaciated.

OS/2 LHA 2.14, available via anonymous ftp from ftp-os2.nmsu.edu, does
support both long filenames and extended attributes.

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From: Jan.vOorschot@dnpap.et.tudelft.nl (Jan van Oorschot)
Subject: ATI 800x600 mode in CSD XR06055, HOW ?!?!
Organization: Delft University of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 19:52:01 GMT

Hi,

I've just installed CSD XR06055 on a machine with an TRIDENT card and
a machine with an ATI WONDER card. It starts correcrly in SVGA mode.
Now I want it to run in 800x600 mode and in 1024x786 mode. According
to the SVGAxxx.PMI file, the driver knows about these modes. According
to the online-help, in System/System Setup/System, there should
be a SCREEN option in which to set the screen resolution, but that
page just isn't there !

Two possibilies:

        - i need a seperate 800x600 driver for both cards/machines.
          The 800x600 mode in the .PMI file is only there for DOS VGA
          screen restore.
          
        - there is an other way to let the WS run in the 800x600 mode
        
I have tried to use the old TRIDENT 800x600 driver, but that resulted in
a gigantic crash.

Help anyone ?

J

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From: frank@algol.bsa.de (Frank Huemme)
Subject: lotus 3.1+
Organization: BSA
Distribution: comp
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 92 13:20:27 GMT
Keywords: lotus

Hello,
i want to run lotus 3.1+ for Dos in a dos-box. The prog said: Can't run
in a dos-box, use dos 3.0 or higher :-( After that i tried to install in
os2-box, worked fine since it want to generate the fonts. Said : use dos.....
Is there a trick to do it ?

	Frank

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From: gkushmer@jade.tufts.edu (Greg Kushmerek)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.apps
Subject: DeScribe 4.0
Date: 10 Nov 92 18:47:31 GMT
Distribution: comp
Organization: Roger Mellie Enterprises, PLC

For anyone interested:  I just received my DeScribe 4.0 free upgrade offer
in the mail yesterday.  If you haven't gotten one then it should be
coming soon!

--gk
From: price@helios.unl.edu (Chad  Price)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.apps
Subject: Speedstar SVGA Cards
Date: 9 Nov 1992 14:24:55 GMT
Organization: University of Nebraska--Lincoln	
NNTP-Posting-Host: helios.unl.edu
Keywords: Gateway Speedstar 32-bit GRE

PLEASE mention which speedstar card you are talking about. I have read no end
of comments on cards I don't have. THere is a Speedstart 24X, which is NOT
Tseng, but is a western digital chipset, as well as the older Speedstar which 
uses the Tseng chipset. They are not interchangable.

thanks -
--
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From: mrbill@leland.Stanford.EDU (William Bowen)
Subject: Re: Quicken/Windows 2.0 icon problem
Organization: DSG, Stanford University, CA 94305, USA
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 92 19:35:04 GMT

In article <1992Nov9.151757.11691@schbbs.mot.com> CCOF50@maccvm.corp.mot.com (Lynda Schneiderman) writes:
>>  I recently upgraded from Quicken/Windows 1 to version 2. I had Quicke set
>>up under OS/2 as a seamless Window. Now, for some strange reason, the ion
>>is wrong. It is displaying as a left pointing triangle. It should be a
>>mostly green Quicken icon.
>>  If I start up a 'generic' WIN-OS2 session, and start Quicken 2 there,the
>>icon is fine.
>>  I went into QW's Settings, and tried to change the icon. It wouldn't o
>>it. I even tried to create a new entry (by peeling off a Program templae.)
>>It, too, displayed the wrong icon.
>> I'm running the GA release, with some of the newer pieces. I haven't
>>received the CSD yet.
>
>If it makes you feel any better, I have the same problem with the
>Quicken 2.0 icon.  I am going to apply the service pack this week, if
>it makes any difference I will post back here and let you know.

I have the same problem; the CSD does not fix it. Interestingly, the icon is
displayed correctly when Quicken is minimized to the desktop in a seamless
windows session. Go figure.

Regards,

Bill
mrbill@leland.stanford.edu
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From: gagnon@aix1.uottawa.ca (7183)
Subject: Can't do an SVGA ON!
Originator: gagnon@aix1.uottawa.ca
Organization: University of Ottawa Computer Centre
Date: Fri, 6 Nov 92 21:25:16 GMT

Hi,
   I can't do an SVGA ON! I go to a DOS full screen session, and when I type
SVGA ON, it just replies with the usage text, just as if I only type SVGA!?!

Any ideas???

Thanks.
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From: dan@modcomp.com (Dan Grostick)
Subject: Re: 123 3.1 installation
Organization: MODCOMP, an AEG company
Distribution: na
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 03:43:15 GMT
 

>In article <1992Nov2.054828.17824@eskimo.celestial.com> chips@eskimo.celestial.com (:crp:) writes:
>>I want to install 1-2-3 3.1 under os/2 so that it appears as an
>>OS2 app. The documentation says that unlike version 3.0 , 3.1 can

>It now works under OS/2 (thanks to the far better DOS emulation), so
>go ahead.  Consult your OS/2 README file for some additional help
>(there are a couple minor "tricks" needed to get it running).

Regarding LOTUS 1-2-3 Release 3.1, and OS/2 2.0:

Here are the tricks, but they're not in the README I received with 2.0...
but the following info (courtesy IBM) should help! (complete instructions
are available from the IBM automated fax).

Create a 123.bat file that contains:

set 123MEMSIZE = 2048
cd \123                         (or whatever your 123 directory is)
123

Create a template for the 123.bat file:

Setup it up as DOS FULL SCREEN

and in the DOS SETTINGS set

DOS_FILES   40
DPMI_MEMORY_LIMIT  4 

and in the DOS_VERSION add

123.EXE,3,40,255
123DOS.EXE,3,40,255
LOTUS.EXE,3,40,255

and if necessary

INSTALL.EXE,3,40,255                   (for the installation program)
TRANSFER.EXE,3,40,255                  

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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.apps
From: wcn@cs.brown.edu (Wen-Chun Ni)
Subject: Re: os2 zip not compatible with Sun unzip
Organization: Brown University Department of Computer Science
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 05:35:58 GMT

In article <1992Nov11.235406.23590@netcom.com> feustel@netcom.com (David Feustel) writes:
>I've started using Sun Unix zip for downloads to my os2 system
>successfully for a couple of months. Today I tried using the os2 zip
>command and then uploading the file to the Sun where I tried to unzip.
>The Sun unzip program reports an unknown compression method has been
>used on the zip file. Does anyone know why this happens? Thanks.
>-- 

It's not sun unzip, I guess. The only unzip available to Unix boxes
is the same Info-(zip, unzip), to the best of my knowledge. The current
zipped files under OS/2 are InfoZip 1.9 and Unzip 5.0. I have updated
our versions here at Brown University, so you should get the source
and compile it for your sun. It's painless.



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From: gcs@edsi.plexus.COM (Greg C. Steiner)
Subject: Re: Can I run DOS modem software under OS/2?
Organization: Enterprise Data Systems Incorporated, Appleton WI
Date: Sat, 07 Nov 1992 22:50:31 GMT


>can I run DOS modem software in an OS/2 window?

Yes.  I use Telemate 3.01 under OS/2 2.0.  It works fine.  My 
partners at work use Procomm for Windows.
>Do I have
>to have a FAT partition to run old DOS software?

No.  DOS programs run fine from an HPFS partition. 

>Does I matter whether
>I am running DOS under OS/2 or running it directly using the
>boot manager?  Will it matter that I am on a PS/2?    

You should be able to run it either by booting to DOS (but why) or 
under OS/2.  I have a PS/2 at work, model 90.  DOS comm. program 
works fine.
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.apps
From: arthurs@upei.ca (Hal Arthurs)
Subject: Sony CD
Keywords: Sony 
Organization: University of Prince Edward Island
Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1992 15:39:42 GMT

I have a Sony CD-ROM model CDU535 and would like to access it through OS2. I 
understand there has been a lot of discussion on CD's and OS2 on this forum 
and would like to know if this has been done and how. I am using the Sony 
interface card with this drive in a 486SX with 16Meg Ram, 240Meg HardDrive, 
SVGA ET-4000 local bus. I have installed the service pack and cleared up my 
sync problem.

Please e-mail me if you can help... or have suggestions. I am new to this OS.


Hal
From: bharris@hfglobe.intel.com (Bennie Harris)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.apps
Subject: Re: Pagemaker 4.0 *** HELP ***
Date: 10 Nov 92 01:01:09 GMT
Organization: Intel Corporation

Niklas JRM Schmidt <9050564@awiwuw11.wu-wien.ac.at> writes:


>Hi,

>has anybody managed to run Pagemaker 4.0 for Windows under OS/2 2.0?
>I tried, everything started well, I can run PM4 seamless, I can create a new
>layout, but when I try to load a .pm4 file I had created previously under Win
>OS/2 terminates the session and reports SYS 3176. (BTW the file is not corrupte
>d or something like that, because I can load it with PM4 under Windows).

>       Can somebody tell me what SYS 3176 indicates?
>       Does somebody know the internet address of Aldus? (I want to ask why
>          they don't plan an OS/2 version)

>                 Thanks in advance

>               ----------------------------------------
>                NIKLAS JRM SCHMIDT
>                UNIVERSITY OF ECONOMICS VIENNA, AUSTRIA
>                BITNET/EARN: 9050564 AT AWIWUW11.BITNET
>               -----------------------------------------


I'am not at my system with OS/2 on it so I cannot tell you what
the sys3176 error mean but all you have to do to get information
when you see this type of error to type HELP SYS<number> at an
OS2 prompt. the command HELP SYS3176 will display the error
message for sys3176. This may give you a clue on how to fix
the problem.

-- Bennie Harris
From: doose@hydra.unm.edu
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.apps
Subject: Prodigy under OS/2?
Date: 12 Nov 92 23:59:25 GMT
Article-I.D.: lynx.dzdq23q
Organization: University of New Mexico, Albuquerque


 Please note I am using a friends acount.

Has anyone gotten Prodigy to work under OS/2 either in a window or
full screen?

The OS/2 box shows Prodigy running in a window but when ever I try to
run it I get a TRAP.

If you have an answer please post it or email me at 
uunet!bfa!poet

Thanks.

John Poet
Software Engineer
Aeon Systems
uunet!bfa!poet
From: ochealth@unixg.ubc.ca (ochealth)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.apps
Subject: Re: CPYINI - great utility !
Date: 13 Nov 1992 19:55:17 GMT
Organization: University of British Columbia, Vancouver, B.C., Canada
NNTP-Posting-Host: unixg.ubc.ca

In article <4582@drsrv1.hmi.de> pfr@drsrv1.hmi.de (Fritsch_Wolfgang) writes:
:
:I tried cpyini (extracted as cpyini.zip from hobbes) and found that it
:reduced the size of my os2system.ini file from above 1M to about 120k.
:Counting the backup copies this leads to about 4M space savings on my
:hard disk, and also to smaller time for boot. 
:
:I think that this utility belongs into the FAQ list, under the topic

Yes. Crap seams to get lost in the system.ini files and cpyini only copies
valid entries, leaving the garbage behind. At least this is waht happens on
my system (bug: mine wentup to 4 megs. I've heard as high as 5 megs). This
isn't from dead space (as some have suggested) or from too many progams
adding entries (unlikely given the number of WPS aware apps).
:"smart tricks" ! 

There is supposed to be a system API to access these files (to prevent
bogus entries or conflicts) but I can't believe who SLOW it is to access
the ini files. Just look at how long cpyini (or another program inicopy)
take to copy the file! You'd think that the system call would have some
kind of smart search tree for accesssing this file, esp. since its a database
with keys and records; most databases are better at searching and copying.

No wonder WPS takes so long to start up if it has to go through this bottleneck.

:
:Wolfgang Fritsch
:pfr@psun2.hmi.de


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