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From: eletanjm@nuscc.nus.sg (TAN JIN MENG)
Subject: Diamond Speedstar support
Organization: National University of Singapore
Date: Fri, 2 Oct 1992 01:22:23 GMT


I just got this info from the Diamond Speedstar 24X FAQ Rev 1.5 (by
Zeos). Just thought it might be of interest...

"10> Will OS/2 2.0 be supported by the Speedstar 24X card?

OS/2 drivers will be released shortly after IBM releases the 32
bit graphics engine for OS/2 in October."

Another quote ...

"Developer kits for all of Diamond's products are being assembled
as you read this. Please contact Jeff Orr at Diamond for more
information on the driver developer kits. They can be reached at
408-734-2000 voice, 408-730-5750 fax.  There will be a forum on
Compuserve coming on-line for Diamond in the near future."

jin meng
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu (Timothy F. Sipples)
Subject: Re: A question on CDROMs
Reply-To: sip1@midway.uchicago.edu
Organization: Dept. of Econ., Univ. of Chicago
Date: Sat, 3 Oct 1992 03:09:08 GMT

In article <BvE20s.I2@dei.unipd.it> jake@paola.dei.unipd.it (Luca Polo) writes:
>In  the  last weeks I read several articles concerning the use of
>non-SCSI  CDROMs under OS/2.  The answer was, of course, that the
>only way to see them is to use a  "specific dos session"  (I  use
>a Compaq 3.31 DOS, since DOS 5.0 doesn't work).
>Now the question: is it so difficult/impossible to write a device
>driver which recognize even these CDROM ?   If I correctly inter-
>preted an article posted a while  ago,  "serial" CDROMs adhere to
>a standard,  which was "extended"  by  Microsoft in some way with
>its MSCDEX, so it should be possible to write a driver supporting
>at least the "minimal" features, or not ?

The trouble is that, while most CD-ROM drives understand a reasonable
subset (at least) of SCSI, there is no hardware standard for
connecting SCSI peripherals to the PC bus.

Adaptec, Future Domain, and IBM SCSI adapters are supported natively
under OS/2 2.0, so most CD-ROM drives (particularly the ones I list in
the FAQ List), when attached to these adapters, work fine under OS/2
2.0 (natively).  (That list is growing; for example, the Trantor
parallel to SCSI adapter now has an OS/2 2.0 driver.)

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From: sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu (Timothy F. Sipples)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: REXX communications program?
Keywords: REXX communication
Date: 30 Sep 92 00:37:05 GMT
Reply-To: sip1@midway.uchicago.edu
Organization: Dept. of Econ., Univ. of Chicago

In article <1992Sep28.141236.27395@qucis.queensu.ca> jardined@qucis.queensu.ca (Donald Jardine) writes:
>Does anyone know of a pure REXX program that allows data comm 
>on the serial ports of OS2, with both send and receive, and modem
>control.  C programs exist to do this.  Is there a REXX program that does
>not make use of a called C program to handle the actual IO?

I believe there's a sample bit of code/DLL available via anonymous ftp
from ftp-os2.nmsu.edu which demonstrates communications with REXX.
Don't quote me on it, though.  :-)

You might try just using STREAM with the device name (COM1, COM2).

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Date: Thu,  1 Oct 92 21:24:00 MDT
From: ecktons@sirius.byu.edu (Sean Eckton)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Help getting "seamless" windows (ATI VGA Wonder+)
Reply-To: ecktons@sirius.byu.edu (Sean Eckton)


I have the system set up in OS/2 so that I display 800x600x16 and also in  
Win-OS2 full screen mode.  But, I can't get seamless windows to work no  
matter what!  I used to work when I had the standard stuff going (640x480),  
but I can't stand moving things all the time because there isn't enough room.   
Can anyone help me?  the FAQ says that I can replace the SWINVGA.DRV driver  
for seamless windows with any driver of the same resolution and colors as the  
one I am using for OS/2 and I should have seamless windows.  That doesn't  
seem to be the case.  I can never get a Win-OS/2 window, the only possible  
windows session is win-os/2 full screen.  

My setup:  (graphics setup, that is):
	ATI VGA Wonder+ with 256K (I know, wimpy!)
	NEC Multisync monitor

What do I need to do?  I'm not going back to 640x480 and buying a different  
card is out of the question (it is the school's computer and I am lucky to  
have what I do).

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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: pzs3761@tamaix.tamu.edu (Pete Sierant)
Subject: winos231 mouse problem
Organization: chaotic to the abstract
Date: Thu, 1 Oct 1992 04:50:59 GMT

    When switching from a full-screen winos231 session to the desktop,
then back to winos231, I lose my mouse pointer. Switch back to the 
desktop using alt-esc (ctrl-esc is the win task list!) and my mouse
is fine. How can I keep my mouse in the winos2 session? I have a logitech
mouse, beta generic 800x16 driver, 32 bit GRE beta.

-- Pete              -=[ pzs3761@tamaix.tamu.edu ]=-
                 "Sometimes, a cigar is just a cigar"
                                                   -Sigmund Freud

Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: rm3@ornl.gov (MCBROOM R C)
Subject: Re: Service packs vs. 32-bit GRE/Windows 3.1 beta
Organization: Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Date: Tue, 6 Oct 1992 13:59:06 GMT

In article <1992Oct6.051047.8238@netcom.com> rcain@netcom.com (Robert Cain) writes:
>Sure wish y'all had been kind enough to tell us that before hand.
>
>Disgusted,
>
You shouldn't be.  The one word "beta" said it all and it was reinforced
by the warning that the release was not to be used for production.  If
you don't want to play the game by the rules stay in the stands!!  Even
there a certain amount of decorum is required.


Robert McBroom internet: rm3@ornl.gov
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: gcasaus@vesta.unm.edu (Greg Casaus)
Subject: Video Card Suggestions?	
Date: Tue, 06 Oct 92 14:57:16 GMT
Organization: University of New Mexico, Albuquerque
Keywords: Stealth Bad, what good? 

I bought a Diamond Stealth not too long ago, naively thinking it would soon be supported with OS/2 drivers.  Since this assumption is becoming more humorous by the minute, I am considering exchanging it for a card better supported by OS/2.
Any suggestions?  I have heard many of you lauding the merits of the Tseng and others.
	System Specs:
	486-50 clone
	256k cache
	212 Meg HD
	8 Meg 3X9 RAM
	15" Viewsonic 6FS Monitor

Thanks for your advice on this. 
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: mystical@nmt.edu (Gurupartap Davis)
Subject: Re: Ctr-ESC when ATI has problems....NOT!
Organization: New Mexico Tech
Date: Fri, 2 Oct 1992 06:09:28 GMT

In article <1992Oct1.150011.4415@nmt.edu> stimpy@nmt.edu (Stimpy) writes:
>>As a start, try CTRL+ESC. After some seconds, a dialog box should appear
>>telling you that the desktop isn't responding to the system, and asks if
>>you want it to be ended. Confirm, if another box appears telling details
>
>Yes, but what if the above doesn't work. I've got problems with my ATI
>Graphics Ultra (not totally sure, but people have told me it's the problem)
>so that when I run a win-os2 app, and then go back to WPS (either Alt-ESC
>or end the win-os2 app) and try to start a DOS window'ed session, everything
>just hangs. Totally. For testing purposes, if I try to start a DOS Fullscreen
>app, I can give keyboard input, but my entire screen is blank. Does anyone
>else have this problem?

Yes.

Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: tlilley@jarthur.claremont.edu (Thomas (Ted) Lilley)
Subject: Re: 256 colour pictures on OS/2-desktop ???
Keywords: colours OS/2 desktop picture
Organization: Harvey Mudd College, Claremont, CA 91711
Date: Fri, 2 Oct 1992 21:26:06 GMT

In article <sal8.45.0@po.cwru.edu> sal8@po.cwru.edu (Steve Luzynski) writes:
> OS/2 doesn't let _anything_ change the pallette colors - including the 
>desktop itself. Supposedly the CSD has a pallette manager that will allow 
>the foreground program to maintain the colors it wants. Anyone else know for 
>sure?

There is a program that can change the palette colors.  It's a picture viewer
I found on hobbes, but I don't remember the name.  It has a checkbox called
"Direct Palette Manipulation" which lets it change the desktop palette to
that of the picture being shown.  If you do this and close the picture viewer,
the desktop palette matches properly to any colors that weren't proper before.
I'm *not* advocating this as a solution, just an item of interest to let you
know that it can be done.  So, IBM, where is it?

Ted
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Help!!!  AS/400 <-> OS/2 PC Support (TRN)
From: phygod72@nic.gac.edu (Phil )
Date: 2 Oct 92 11:19:28 -0600


Yes, friends, I have a problem that someone can solve...

We are trying to get some PS/2's hooked into our AS/400 over a Token-Ring  
Network.  No problem getting the wires hooked up, but we had a fight with  
Communications Manager.

Actually, the configuration that we have works - we can get an emulator session  
running and PC Support too, but the system name isn't right.  This comes from  
the fact that when we set up the configuration, we really didn't have a clue  
what we were doing.  Now the name of our AS/400 is 5250PLU (which is what we  
thought the directions were telling us to put in that particular blank), and  
THAT ISN'T THE RIGHT NAME!!!

So, basically, how can we change this?  

*ALSO*  There is another AS/400 on the network, too, and we want to be able to  
have PC Support work with both of them.  Any hints/suggestions/comments would  
be helpful.  

Reply via e-mail to phygod72@nic.gac.edu (as this is somewhat out of the scope  
of this group), or post to this group if you really want to...

Phil Miesle
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: reimert@mamacass.etdesg.trw.com (Scott P. Reimert)
Subject: Re: Inside OS/2 a bit skimpy?
Organization: TRW Inc., Redondo Beach, CA
Date: Tue, 6 Oct 92 00:17:45 GMT

In article <1992Oct5.140231.4036@spcvxb.spc.edu> mauritz_c@spcvxb.spc.edu writes:
>Has anyone noticed how little information you get from
>"Inside OS/2"?  I got my trial issue the other day and I
>can't understand why anyone would purchase a subscription.
>There are only 12 issues a year and the August issue was
>exactly 12 pages long.  Not to worry though...I was offered
>the special subscription rate of $39/year rather than the
>usual $60.  :-)  Thank goodness I have internet access!
>I suspect that one week's worth of comp.os.os2.* contains
>far more useful information.  I hope that when more copies
>of OS/2 are out in the marketplace a more comprehensive
>magazine will appear.
> 
>Cheers,
> 
>Chris

It's been my experience that "Inside _______" magazines are all about the
same; they don't have any real MEAT to them. They promise all this neat
info, and then tell you how to drag an item across your screen -- and take
four pages to do it. I've seen them for DOS and OS/2, and they're useless.

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Organization: Wirtschaftsuniversitaet Wien, Vienna, Austria
Date: Wednesday, 30 Sep 1992 16:38:25 CET
From: FLATSCHER Rony <RONY@awiwuw11.wu-wien.ac.at>
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: 32bit-HPFS - status and plans ?

To my knowledge there are three variants of HPFS:

      - 16bit HPFS
      - 32bit HPFS
      - HPFS386

During beta-test for GA some IBM-lady posted the information that HPFS
would have 32bit-APIs but would work on 16bit internally. This would
mean that the present HPFS is 32bit external and 16bit internal.

If this is true, when will there be a 32bit HPFS (external/internal) ?

HPFS386 is a different story: It is written mostly in assembler and
contains security-issues (discretionary controls etc.). It is packaged
with the advanced LAN-server of IBM and with LAN Manager 2.1 of Microsoft.
So HPFS386 makes sense for a "normal" OS/2 once the disretionary control
(logons) are introduced to OS/2.

So, what is it what we have in GA and the Service-Pack 16bit HPFS or 32bit
HPFS ? When will HPFS386 (security version) be in the base package ?

Anyone knows ?

---rony
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: tedc@ee.ubc.ca (ted chen)
Subject: Re: Turn Help Off?
Organization: University of BC, Electrical Engineering
Date: Tue, 29 Sep 1992 19:13:37 GMT

In article <1992Sep28.135943.6934@persoft.com> johnf@persoft.com (John Freeborg) writes:
>
>Ok - there are about 2 things that are starting to annoy me after I've used
>OS/2 for quite a while.  Can anybody help with some ideas here?
>
>(1) How do you turn off BY DEFAULT the annoying little help line at
>    the top of the screen of OS/2 or DOS sessions when you are sitting
>    at the prompt?  I know you can type "HELP OFF" and that turns it off,
>    but how do you make the DEFAULT to be off?
>
>
> - John
>
>-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>John Freeborg          Software Engineer         Persoft
>johnf@persoft.com                                465 Science Dr.
>608-273-6000                                     Madison, WI 53711

To get rid of the DOS help line, just put "HELP OFF" in your AUTOEXEC.BAT.  It
took me a while to figure out how to turn the OS/2 help line off, but all you
have to do is look in your CONFIG.SYS and search for the 'PROMPT=$i[$p]'
and get rid of the '$i' part.  I happened to stumble upon this fact when I 
was browsing through the help docs.


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

Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: cnadler@vnet.ibm.com (Cliff Nadler)
Subject: Re: OS/2 users group...
Date: Mon, 05 Oct 92 13:16:51 GMT
News-Software: IBM OS/2 PM RN (NR/2) v0.14 by O. Vishnepolsky and R. Rogers
Reply-To: cnadler@vnet.ibm.com (Cliff Nadler)
Organization: IBM T. J. Watson Research

In  <4enVhtq00iV3E15l1M@andrew.cmu.edu>  Rahul Verma <rv0s+@andrew.cmu.edu> writes:
>I am interested in forming an OS/2 users group here at Carnegie Mellon
>University. I would appreciae if someone with related experience in such
>an activity would contact me and give me hints about the avenues that I
>meed need to take. I could form a subgroup of the universities computer
>club, but I'm sure there are some other official routes. Will IBM
>support us? I have so many questions, that I hope that someone from IBM
>will see this message and respond to me personally. In particular, I
>want to know if there are any gains to be had for the university
>community as a whole if we make our presence official. When I say gains,
>I'm thinking in terms of free information, support and perhaps discounts
>in software, etc...
>

IBM provides an educational discount on most of it's hardware and software.

For anyone wanting to start an OS/2 User's Group (or a special interest group
for an existing User's Group) call Gene Barlow in Dallas, Texas (1-214-406-7656).
He is (currently) IBM's point of contact for User's Groups.

Cliff Nadler (cnadler@vnet.ibm.com)
IBM Federal Systems Company - TEAM OS/2

Disclaimer: This post represents the views of the poster, not IBM Corporation.
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: grimlok@hubcap.clemson.edu (Mike Percy)
Subject:  Still problems with T8900c card, TRAP 000e and seamless w'dows
Organization: Clemson University
Date: Sat, 26 Sep 1992 19:49:28 GMT

I posted earlier about problems with my new system (no-name 386/40,
Trident 8900c, 8M).  After installing OS/2, but before dorking around
with it (changing settings etc.), I found that upon booting I get
SYS3186 messages and trap 000e errors.  I ftp'd (ftped? ftp-ed?) the
trid_fix file, and the trap e errors *seem* to have gone away, but I
cannot get any seamless widnows to open, not even WinOs2's clock.  

I've been using OS/2 since the March rollout (got one directly from a
rollout giveaway), on two very different machines at work.  I've not had
any troubles like this.  I can't figure this out.

I didn't really use seamless windows all that much, so it's not a big
loss.  It is, hwoever, pissing me off that this problem persists.  I'll
be taking the beta home to install (have been running it at work all
week) Monday...maybe that will fix things.

Meanwhile, any helpful hints will be appreciated.

Mike Percy             | grimlok@hubcap.clemson.edu  | I don't know about
Sr. Systems Analyst    | mspercy@clemson.clemson.edu | your brain, but mine
Info. Sys. Development | mspercy@clemson.BITNET      | is really...bossy.
Clemson University     | (803) 656-3780              | (Laurie Anderson)
From: v053qpgh@ubvmsb.cc.buffalo.edu (Eric W Sarjeant)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: MS mouse in WINOS2 not smooth
Date: 27 Sep 92 21:56:00 GMT
Organization: University at Buffalo
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41

In article <1992Sep27.132847.17527@newstand.syr.edu>, lruppert@rodan.acs.syr.edu (Your worst nightmare...) writes...
>In article <1992Sep27.065139.28152@utdallas.edu> goyal@utdallas.edu (Mohit K. Goyal) writes:
>>In article <klliou.717575011@milton> klliou@milton.u.washington.edu (Kan-Lee Liou) writes:
>>>My MS mouse runs smoothly in WIN 3.1 and OS2, but not very smoothly in WINOS2.
>>>Does anyone have a similar experience?  Is there a fix for it?
>>>Thank you.
>>>
>>>klliou@u.washington.edu 
>>
>>Hello.  I also have a MS mouse. (bus mouse) and it is not very smooth in
>>Win-OS/2 v3.1, also under OS/2, it doesn't accept all my clicks.  It is
>>not consistent.  I can't just double click on something because it will not
>>"read" both of them.  And sometimes, a click will "stick".  For example,
>>clicking on the side of the editor to scroll down, I just click once and
>>let go and the screen keeps on scrolling.  It is a brand new mouse, and
>>it works fine under plain ms-dos v5.0
>>
> 
>Wow! IBM did a good job putting full 3.1 emulation in there, Windows 3.1 has the
>exact same annoying bug!I

Aside from the fact that there is that annoying bug in Win3.1, I have also
noticed mouse access under Win-OS/2 can be awfully sluggish. Some general
recommendations (things that have seemed to help) include;

	- Turning on Background Execution
	- Give MOUSE_EXCLUSIVE_ACCESS an ON value
	- Try to move large files onto your hard disk before
	  editing. Disk activity accentuates the jagged
	  mousing.
	- Finally -- avoid Windoz at all cost...  :>
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From: dab6@po.CWRU.Edu (Douglas A. Bell)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: Civilization under OS/2
Date: 5 Oct 1992 17:46:02 GMT
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
Reply-To: dab6@po.CWRU.Edu (Douglas A. Bell)
NNTP-Posting-Host: thor.ins.cwru.edu


In a previous article, droberts@sparc5.cs.uiuc.edu (Donald B Roberts) says:

>I just purchased Civilization and love it! I have seen many discussions about
>getting it to run under OS/2, but I didn't pay any attention. I can get it to
>run, but it changes screens too slowly. I was wondering if anyone has solved
>this problem? Thanks in advance.


Here are a couple of possible solutions:

read the os/2 2.0 readme file.  It will say to run it with video retrace
emulation off and the hardware timer on.

Also try using the 3rd revision of the game.  the revision number will end
with a '.3'.  Patches are available on the net which will raise the revision
number.

For me, I have to run it with the sound on. ?????.  I installed a volume
switch on my computer, so I turn the volume off, but let civilization run
with the speaker on and it runs fine.  If I run civilization with the sound
off, it gets slow.  Strange but true.
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: des@inmos.co.uk (David Shepherd)
Subject: Re: MS moves back NT shipping...
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL5
Date: Fri, 2 Oct 92 11:38:59 BST

jeremy zawodny (jzawodn@andy.bgsu.edu) wrote:
: That's music to my ears!
: 
: The longer it takes for NT to go public, the more time developers for OS/2
: have on their hands.  Also, NT developers may get frustrated and move to
: OS/2.  Hmm... Is that a smile creeping across my face?

if you read comp.os.windows.win32 you'll already know that the
first upgrade cd-rom of the "pre-beta" release which in july was scheduled
for september is (or was last time i read anything a few days back)
already pushed back into sometime in october at the earliest.

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From: 880506s@dragon.acadiau.ca (James R. Skinner)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: xxdecode
Date: 28 Sep 92 17:54:37 GMT
Organization: Acadia University


	Where can I find binaries for xxdecode and xxencode?  Hobbes has
the source but it appears to be in basic?  thanks.


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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: asrael@bob.informatik.rwth-aachen.de (Stefan Schoef)
Subject: Non-shrinking SWAPPER.DAT *after* patches
Organization: Rechnerbetrieb Informatik  /  RWTH Aachen
Date: 28 Sep 92 11:24:32 GMT

I'm posting that for a friend of mine:

He had the well known problem of the non-shrinking SWAPPER.DAT
which is said to be fixed by applying the kernel patch from IBM.

He did so (and has now Kernel revision 6.412), but SWAPPER.DAT
is growing like before (until he reboots).

Please answer me by email, cause as remarked before, I'm posting this
for a friend without Internet access, and I'm no regular reader of
this group.

If other people have the same problem *after* applying the fix too,
feel free to contact me, and I will forward the answers.
If there are enough people who want the answers, I probably post
a summary to this group rather than forwarding.

Thanx for your efforts
                          Stefan


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