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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: FYI: Some news about Bert
Date: Sun, 15 Nov 1992 16:23:20 -0600

Everyone / Anyone:

Just FYI:

First the news:  bgm@cray.com no longer exists.  Please drop me from
the OS/2 moderated forum.  (Sorry - I forgot to do it before leaving.)

If you want to reach me, you may do so through

     - The MN OS/2 End-user Group's BBS Internet access (what I am
       using to send this message).
     - Compuserve (71371,517) (71371.517@compuserve.com)
     - IBM BBS in Altanta (404/835-6600)
     - MN OS/2 End-user Group BBS (612/379-8272)


As reported in many newspapers, Cray Research, Inc., is restructuring
itself.  I decided to accept voluntary layoff.  My last active day at
Cray was Friday, November 13, 1992.  (My employment for legal and
benefit reasons continues through December 31, 1992.)

I decided to accept voluntary layoff (like the IBM ITO (Incentive
Transition Option)) for several reasons:

  - Cray and I were growing apart on our visions of the future.
    I believe in IBM, OS/2, portable OS/2, and the Mach 3.0 micro
    kernel.
    I believe the computing majority can use supercomputing power and
    not just the elite few.
    Time will tell the tale.  I wish Cray Research, Inc., the best in
    its vision of the computing and supercomputing future.

  - Finding an OS/2 job would make me happy and get me excited for
    work again.

  - I believe I can and will find an OS/2 job before my severance
    package runs out.

Between the time of volunteering and my last active day, I received an
offer for (what I consider) two "dream jobs."  Since I have yet to
accept, I don't feel at liberty to discuss them publicly.

Bert Moshier


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From: sal8@po.cwru.edu (Steve Luzynski)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: Help installing READIBM.EXE
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 18:29:28 GMT
Organization: Case Western Reserve University
NNTP-Posting-Host: b61442.student.cwru.edu

In article <1992Nov19.235524.2566@gremlin.muug.mb.ca> borger@gremlin.muug.mb.ca (James Borger) writes:
>From: borger@gremlin.muug.mb.ca (James Borger)
>Subject: Help installing READIBM.EXE
>Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 23:55:24 GMT
>
>I'm having a very very hard time with the PDK CD ROM I ordered from IBM.
>
>I don't have a CD ROM drive so I have to keep running to a DOS machine
>that has one and copying the files over!  ARGH!  I'm trying to get the
>READIBM.EXE program going but every time I launch it says there aren't
>BOOKS and BOOKSHELVES paths in config.sys, so I added them, rebooted and
>it still gives the same error!  What do I have to do to install this
>thing?  I got the DOS version running, at least that one has enough sense
>to let you into the program so you can enter your own path!!!!

Don't know for sure on this one. Extended attributes maybe?

>
>Also, how on earth do I add paths to the DOS emulation windows?  I see it
>has a few remnents of my old DOS path but I can't figure where to add the
>rest!  I've been all over the online help and nowhere can I see where it
>says to edit the PATH statement used in DOS emulation!

Try that SET PATH= statement in your autoexec.bat. Remember, the stuff in 
there is _only_ used by the emulated DOS sessions. OS/2 doesn't look at it 
for OS/2 windows.

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happy people are deluding themselves that there is nothing wrong.
From: kbass@gmuvax2.gmu.edu (Ken Bass)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: TE/2 vt100 emulation problem
Date: 16 Nov 92 01:48:07 GMT
Organization: George Mason University, Fairfax, Va.

In article <9309@blue.cis.pitt.edu.UUCP> djbpitt+@pitt.edu (David J Birnbaum) writes:
>Until last week, I was running Procomm's vt100 emulation under MSDOS
>across a 2400 baud modem. This week it's TE/2's vt100 emulation under
>OS/2 across a v.32bis modem. Everything works as advertised, except for
>a serious problem with screen redraws in vi. Can anyone help?
>
>The specifics are that parts of the screen are often (but not always)
>blacked out as I move across them (either with cursor movement or when
>entering text). The area affected seems to be from the left margin to a
>bit more than halfway across the screen. Sometimes when I enter text,
>each character is displayed briefly and then blacked out; other times
>several characters linger briefly and are then all blacked out at once.
>This doesn't happen every time I use vi, but it's very frequent. It
>usually occurs when I am editing text; if I am appending new text at
>the end of a document, everything works smoothly.
>
>In all cases, the characters are being transmitted properly; if I escape
>into control mode and repaint the screen explicitly with control-L, they
>all reappear where they belong. Needless to say, escaping into control
>mode and repainting the screen using control-L is not the way vi is
>supposed to work.
>
>I have "redraw" set in vi and I can't find any other settings to
>twiddle. The mainframe I'm talking to is running Ultrix 4.2. I'm using
>the vt100-nam termcap setting. I can't prove that the problem is with
>vi, rather than with the termcap settings in general.
>
>I like TE/2 in general, but I use vi constantly and the problem is so
>frequent as to be a serious impediment to getting my work done. Any
>suggestions?
>
>Thanks,
>
>David
>
>-- 
>Professor David J. Birnbaum         djbpitt+@pitt.edu [Internet]
>The Royal York Apartments, #802     djbpitt@pittvms   [Bitnet]
>3955 Bigelow Boulevard              voice: 1-412-687-4653
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I have the same problem using Telix for DOS under OS/2. I am also using
Ultrix 4.1. I dont know what the answer is.

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George Mason University                       |   Techniques Corp, 
Student, Department of Electrical Engineering |   Software Engineer 
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From: dic5340@hertz.njit.edu (David Charlap)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc,comp.os.os2.advocacy
Subject: Re: OS/2 is NOT Crashproof!
Date: 23 Nov 92 21:12:29 GMT
Organization: New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, N.J.

In article <Mf4HHkm00WBNQ5RFV5@andrew.cmu.edu> cj00+@andrew.cmu.edu (Carl B Jabido) writes:
>Excerpts from netnews.comp.os.os2.misc: 23-Nov-92 Re: OS/2 is NOT Crashproof! by David Charlap@hertz.njit 
>> Why?  I don't think I've ever had a need to regularly change the
>> desktop resolution.
>
>Actually, I have.  It's not a Mac, it's not a workstation (ie,
>Decstation, Sparcstation, NeXTStation, etc).  It's a PC running the
>version of Mach which was released here at CMU.  I saw someone
>demonstrate it for me.  He went from 800x600x16 to 1024x768x256 with the
>touch of a hotkey.  Something like ctrl-alt-+ (plus).  Likewise, c-a--
>went back to 800x600x16.

I've seen this running.  A professor here is dabbling with PC-Mach.
But I didn't say it couldn't or hasn't been done.  I just can't see a
reason you'd want to.  I mean, if you've got this great 1024x768
desktop, why would you want to drop to a lower res?  Or if you like
the low-res, why would you want to pop back?  This is a curious
feature, but one that would get little real use, IMO.
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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: Creed Erickson <creed@blowfish.taligent.com>
Subject: Re: Can't access CD-ROM
X-Xxmessage-Id: <A736F3B8C001C1D4@kip-18.taligent.com>
X-Xxdate: Mon, 23 Nov 92 04:46:48 GMT
Organization: Taligent Inc.
X-Useragent: Nuntius v1.1.1d12
Date: Tue, 24 Nov 1992 04:46:40 GMT

In article <By3Fxv.FCq@taligent.com> Creed Erickson,
creed@blowfish.taligent.com writes:
>I have a brand new GA installation on a PS/2 w/IBM supplied CD-ROM drive.
>I also have the DAP CD disc.  When I try to access the DAP stuff via a 
>DIR D: command, I get something like:
>
>The Volume Serial Number is XXXX:YYYY
>Directory of D:\
>
>SYS0026: The specified disk cannot be accessed.
>
>
>This looks like a problem understanding the file system on the CD, are 
>there any set up tricks not dome by the installation which I need to
know 
>about?

To provide my own reply-- 

Seems there's a driver diskette which I needed to install using the
Device Driver Install utility.  Whoever unboxed and checked out the
system before it got to me didn't think to pass along some of the
included diskettes.  Once I got the CD drivers from the diskettes
installed everything started to work as I had expected.

---
Creed Erickson
From: srife@desire.wright.edu
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: OS/2 Backup Software, OBK340?
Date: 17 Nov 92 14:57:14 EST
Organization:  Wright State University 


Where is OBKUP340.ZIP?  I had downloaded a previous version a couple
months ago, but it wouldn't work.  There was discussion in this newsgroup
earlier, but I checked the ftp sites they suggested and could not find it.

I need a backup program that works before I apply the SP.  The discussion
about it leads me to believe this would be a wise decision.

Can anyone direct me to where I can find OBKUP340, the earlier version's
documentation looked like this was a fairly nice package.
Is there other backup software that works well with OS/2 2.0?
We are a university and funds are tight, so cheap or free is a necessity.

Thanks in advance.

Scott Rife
Wright State University, Dayton, Ohio
Internet:  srife@desire.wright.edu
Bitnet:    srife@wsu.bitnet
From: mystical@nmt.edu (Gurupartap Davis)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: tell me i'm wrong (braindead design in os2)
Date: 23 Nov 92 15:51:47 GMT
Organization: New Mexico Tech

>>b) path separation is always shown with the back(assward) slash (\).  is
>>this hard wired or can it be switched (as in drdos, early msdos)?  do
>>system calls accept both / and \ as in dos or is one stuck with this
>>braindead convention?  if nothing else it makes programming in c that
>>much more troublesome?

If you use the 4os2 shell, you can use either / or \.


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From: dic5340@hertz.njit.edu (David Charlap)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: OS/2 Crashproof? NOT!
Date: 19 Nov 92 20:34:12 GMT
Organization: New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, N.J.

In article <1992Nov18.063745.6394@ringer.cs.utsa.edu> mlevis@ringer.cs.utsa.edu (Mike Levis) writes:
>I don't have the SBOS2 driver, but since OS/2 drivers have the same
>privilege level as the kernel (at ring 0), dangerous drivers (buggy,
>beta, or badly installed) can knock down OS/2.

Well, device drivers don't run at ring 0, at least they're not
supposed to.  They run at ring 2 (along with IOPL segments, I
believe).

>If your driver is installed properly, and its not a beta driver, it
>probably has bugs in it.  (of course, a beta driver also has bugs,
>but at least you can be cautious knowing it's a beta.)

The SBOS2 driver is still very much a beta.  I removed it as a test.
Martian Dreams still crashed, but it lasted about four hours (with the
dippy background music playing all the while) for this to happen.  And
OS/2 wasn't brought down with it.  For now, I simply turned off the
background music in the game - now it doesn't crash at all and the
games goes much faster. (imgaine that :-)

I'm probably not going to put SBOS2 back in until the tracker program
(or EMX, I don't know the actual cause) gets repaired for use with
service level XR-6055.
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From: alrashid@felucca.som.cwru.edu (Tareq M. Alrashid)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: OS/2 2.0 PM problem...help needed!
Date: 24 Nov 1992 01:51:53 GMT
Organization: Library Collection Services/CWRU
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: felucca.som.cwru.edu
X-Post-Machine: felucca.som.cwru.edu


I need help in determining a PM problem. When I tried running an
OS/2 1.3 PM application on OS/2 2.0, my PM entry fields shrunk down
vertically, where I can't read the text (which has a default system
font), since I can only see the bottom half of the text. The other
thing is that the window title bar which has some text in it, got
chopped off like the following:

[original text in 
title bar]: 			Hello there today's date is 11/23/92

[resultant text in title
bar under OS/2 2.0]:		Hello there today's da

I opened my resourc.res file using the toolkit 2.0 Dialog Box Editor,
and the entry fields looked normal (you can see what you type under
test mode), it is only when I start my application. 

I guess, I could cheat by changing the font to something which fits
within the shown entry fields but that is not acceptable because, I
need the normal entry field sizes, so I could use the default fonts and be
able to read them.

If anybody out there had seen such a problem, or has
any solutions/suggestions, then please e-mail any of the following
addresses: 
	tma@po.cwru.edu
	alrashid@pyrite.som.cwru.edu
	tma@skybridge.scl.cwru.edu

Thanks much,
TAREQ
From: unruh@physics.ubc.ca (William Unruh)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: Bug Found in SVGA.EXE
Date: 17 Nov 1992 19:42:37 GMT
Organization: The University of British Columbia
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: physics.ubc.ca

pkedrosk@student.business.uwo.ca (Paul S. Kedrosky) writes:

>Be aware that there is a bug in the SVGA.EXE program supplied with the
>SP (and maybe with the orginal disks too). This has been verified by a
>number of users. The problem is that the SVGA program does not
>correctly identify certain video cards (notably Diamond Speed Star
>Plus ET4000 based cards). The work-around is to boot up under real DOS
>and run SVGA there. The PMI file thus created will be correct and
>should be used in place of the one created by SVGA.EXE when run under
>full screen OS/2 DOS sessions.

Is this the SP version or the original version of SVGA? If the new, does
the check that OS2 makes of the card when it changes modes agree with
SVGAdata.pmi- ie does it work?

Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: mortenk@dhhalden.no (MORTEN KNUDSEN)
Subject: Re: More bugs
Organization: Ostfold College
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 18:10:51 GMT

In article <1992Nov22.212249.1469@midway.uchicago.edu> sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu (Timothy F. Sipples) writes:
>From: sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu (Timothy F. Sipples)
>Subject: Re: More bugs
>Date: Sun, 22 Nov 1992 21:22:49 GMT
>In article <1992Nov21.205951.18557@ugle.unit.no> nareid@due.unit.no (Helge Nareid) writes:
>>|> >	- I still can't get norwegian characters in full screen dos & os/2.
>>|> >Works ok in a VDM.
>>|> Do you have the CODEPAGE line in your CONFIG.SYS set properly?
>>I've got the same problem om my work machine - Tseng video card in 1024x768x256 mode
>>but not on my home machine (standard VGA). Both machines are running (UK?) English
>>OS/2 with ServicePack installed and use codepage 865 (and yes - my CODEPAGE settings
>>are correct on both machines). The problem is a variation on the "cent-yen"-problem
>>which is so well-known to all Norwegian PC users. The norwegian character "O-slash"
>>occupies the same spaces in the 865 (Danish/Norwegian) codepage as the cent and yen
>>symbols in the 437 (USA) codepage. After the service pack was installed, we get 
>>"cent-yen" in the full-screen sessions but normal behaviour in the windowed
>>sessions.
>
>Note that the Service Pak (available from software.watson.ibm.com and
>ftp-os2.nmsu.edu) is not recommended for non-U.S. editions of OS/2
>2.0.  You should use the national language version of the Service Pak
>for your country.  Now, I don't know if that's causing this specific
>problem, but all bets are off when you apply the Service Pak to
>anything but the U.S. edition.
We are both using the US/international version (read his posting once more).
>
>-- 
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>sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu | 128.123.35.151, anonymous ftp, in /pub/os2/all/info
>Dept. of Econ., Univ.   | /faq, or from LISTSERV@BLEKUL11.BITNET (send "HELP")
>of Chicago, 60637       | [Read the List, THEN post to ONE OS/2 newsgroup.]
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: vd208cs@opie.bgsu.edu
Subject: Mode statement for 14.4
Organization: Bowling Green State University
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 03:06:15 GMT


After downloading the CSD for 24 straight hours I am finally upgrading my
modem from a 2400 baud to 14.4.  I remember everyone posting a while
back about the proper mode statement that you put in config.sys file.  I
know that the modem has a 16550 UART for the buffering but I am not sure
what kind of setup I should use. 

Any suggestions?

Gary Hensley
VD208CS@Opie.Bgsu.Edu
BW152@Cleveland.Freenet.Edu
- Animals are our friends, but they won't lend us money! -
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: ignacij@meishan.animal.uiuc.edu (Ignacy Misztal)
Subject: Re: Gateway 2000 486SX/33,...
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 16:43:13 GMT

rom@cci632.cci.com (Rudynell S. Millian) writes:


>	Is anyone out there running OS/2 2.0 on the new Gateway 2000 486SX/33?
>It supposedly has the WD-90C31 video chip, which is also used in some Dell 
>machines. Does the WD-90C31 support OS/2 or vice versa?

A friend of mine has. He has installed new files BHSVGA + something else. 
Look for fixes for DELL computers on Hobbes.
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From: markus@dxcern.cern.ch (Markus Baertschi)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc,comp.os.os2.programmer
Subject: Re: Run IPX/SPX and TCP/IP at the same time ?
Date: 19 Nov 92 00:35:30 GMT
Organization: CERN European Lab for Particle Physics


  Ernst,

  I'm running Novell & TCP/IP concurrently on my OS/2 V2 machine.
  It is fun to run Winword seamless on my desktop off a campus
  Novell server and save the files over NFS to a unix machine !

  Anyway, there is a document avaliable from IBM who describes most
  most possible LAN scenarios and show example config.sys, net.ini
  protocol.ini etc. files. This was a great help in setting up my
  configuration. I suggest you ask your friendly neighbourhood IBMer
  to find it for you.

  Markus

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From: d9mikael@dtek.chalmers.se (Mikael Wahlgren)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: S3 driver
Date: 20 Nov 92 04:36:13 GMT
Organization: Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg Sweden

I have a S3 video card, and have tried to use the Orchid F1280 drivers
available at hobbes.  But the SVGA.EXE utility included with the driver
package only says "unknown adapter type" (or something like it).  I am
hoping that it is just the SVGA.EXE utility that is "hard-coded" to the
Orchid card, and thus would like to get a copy of the SVGADATA.PMI
file that SVGA ON creates, from someone with an Orchid bF1280 board.

Mikael Wahlgren
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: FAGER@gribb.hsr.no (Fagerland, Svein      94/96)
Subject: Re: Hard Disk Partioning Que
Organization: Rogaland University Centre
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 10:09:21 GMT

In article <722002596.AA00554@csource.oz.au> Paul.Thornett@f409.n711.z3.fidonet.org (Paul Thornett) writes:
>From: Paul.Thornett@f409.n711.z3.fidonet.org (Paul Thornett)
>Subject: Hard Disk Partioning Que
>Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 12:22:08
>RM>     I plan to install OS/2 2.0 on my system in days.  I need to
>RM>know this:  if I install it with the FAT arrangement, and using the
>RM>Boot Manager so I have the choice of DOS or OS/2, can the hard disk I
>RM>install it on have stuff on it prior to my full install?  In other
>RM>words, can I put a bunch of junk on it, and then put OS/2 along with
>RM>that other junk?
>
>Yes.
>
>
>RM>Perhaps I need to use FDISK to make some
>RM>partitions, huh?  If so, somebody post me a good partitioning scheme
>RM>to use.   Thanks.
>
>Make sure that:
>
> - if you use Boot Manager, make your DOS partition the first physical
>   partition on the disk (after Boot Manager, if you like, or place Boot
>   Manager at the END) - and it must be a PRIMARY partition;
> - if you use Boot Manager, make the OS/2 bootable (installable) partition a
>   LOGICAL one (secondary);
> - you probably won't want to use HPFS for any OS/2 partitions less than some
>   60 MB - use FAT instead.
>
>For your information, here's my layout.
>   NAME             STATUS         ACCESS          TYPE          MBYTES
>   ----             ------         ------          ----          ------
>   Dos v5           Bootable       C:Primary       FAT             2
>                    None           D:Logical       FAT            40
>                    None           E:Logical       FAT            60
>                    None           F:Logical       FAT            60
>                    None           G:Logical       FAT            44
>   Os2 v2           Bootable       H:Logical       HPFS          110
>   Os2 mtce         Bootable       I:Logical       FAT             2
>                    Startable       :Primary       BOOT MANAGER    1
>
>The "Os2 mtce" partition is an independently bootable OS/2 partition which I
>use for disk maintenance, replacing DLL files, etc. It's much faster than
>booting from floppy.
>
> * SLMR 2.1a *                                                     
>
> * Origin: None (3:711/409)

Other partitoning examples would also be nice, since I am getting a new HD ( 
425 Meg Quantum ) 

 Svein Fagerland * HSR Stavanger Norway * Running OS/2 2.0.1
From: msf@skaro.as.arizona.edu (Michael Fulbright)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: Modem Uploads From Hell
Date: 16 Nov 92 07:11:44 GMT
Distribution: na
Organization: University of Arizona UNIX Users Group

In <1992Nov13.233156.28156@midway.uchicago.edu> sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu (Timothy F. Sipples) writes:

>First I would suggest reversing the mouse and modem -- place the mouse
>on COM1 and the modem on COM2.  The interrupts generated by the modem
>will then get serviced first.

>Make sure you change your CONFIG.SYS mouse statements as appropriate.

I've tried switching COM1 and COM2 and the problem persists. I have
tried another internal modem and I still have the same problem. I
disabled all the serial ports on the IDE card and installed a
serial/parallel card to hook the mouse too - doesnt help. Out of
curiosity I (heaven forbid) reloaded Windoze 3.0. Running the windows
TERMINAL.EXE program under Win3.0 and DOS 5.0, I am able to upload
without any performance hit (this is at 2400 baud). This really makes
me think the problem is OS/2 related, since I would imagine
conflicting interrupts would cause problems under Windose. Perhaps OS/2
and my motherboard don't mix too well. I'm going to try a different IDE
controller next (its the only thing I havent swapped out).

michael fulbright
msf@as.arizona.edu
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