HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu (Timothy F. Sipples)
Subject: Re: ibm1flpy.add mucks up
Reply-To: sip1@midway.uchicago.edu
Organization: Dept. of Econ., Univ. of Chicago
Date: Sat, 3 Oct 1992 03:25:30 GMT

In article <1992Oct01.100259.18603@donau.et.tudelft.nl> linstee@dutecaj.et.tudelft.nl (Erik van Linstee) writes:
>I tried to install this replacement driver on my system the other
>day and afterwards my floppy drives were no longer recognised.
>Is this a confirmed bug or did I miss something?

Once again, ad hoc patches should NOT be installed unless you have a
specific problem which needs to be fixed.

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Dept. of Econ., Univ.   | Or from LISTSERV@BLEKUL11.BITNET (send "HELP").
of Chicago, 60637       | Family Values Means a Job
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: grimlok@hubcap.clemson.edu (Mike Percy)
Subject: Re: Doing Multiple Simultaneous Floppy Copies
Organization: Clemson University
Date: Fri, 2 Oct 1992 15:23:17 GMT

dic5340@hertz.njit.edu (David Charlap) writes:

>In article <1859@vall.dsv.su.se> harald@vall.dsv.su.se (Harald Fragner) writes:
>>
>>I think this is a question of what your hardware will support. With ISA I
>>can only write to one floppy at a time, although running two tasks
>>copying one disk in each drive is faster than running one task copying
>>two disks one at a time.

>Although ISA can only use one floppy at a time, you can still gain
>this way.  With appropriate cache sizes and lazy writing on, your
>multiple floppy-copies will work in parallel.  The OS will simply
>queue up read and write requests for the two diskettes and issue them
>in bulk.  Only one floppy at a time is accessed, but you get better
>performance than waiting for one copy to finish before starting the
>next. 
 
A client of ours had field workers gathering data.  Some had 5 1/2
floppies, others had 3 1/2.  I receive about 30-40 disks of each size
every so often.  The data has to be combined and uploaded to their VAX
on-line system.  Before I got OS/2, I ran a batch file that looped
through each of the disks of one size, copying the data to my hard
drive.  Then I ran through the second batch.  Took a long time,
especially wasting the time I spent removing a disk and putting a new
one in.

With OS/2, I wrote a Rexx exec that does pretty much the same thing, but
it utilizes both of my floppy drives.  It works out that while drive a:
is copied, I'm sticking a disk in drive b:, and vice versa.  If the data
files are long, both drive lights are on, and the hard drive too.  Wow,
try that in DOS/Windows!  I've no real timings, but it seems about 20%
faster now...

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)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: harris@garfield.catt.ncsu.edu (Michael Harris)
Subject: Re: Service packs vs. 32-bit GRE/Windows 3.1 beta
Organization: North Carolina State University
Date: Mon, 5 Oct 1992 21:58:47 GMT

reisert@sttng.mlo.dec.com (Jim Reisert) writes:

> For example, if I have the beta now, will I
> want to revert to the GA release and install the service packs on top
> of it in order to get more bug fixes or functionality?

The service packs can only be installed over GA release code.  They
cannot be installed over beta code.

______________________________________________________________________________
     Michael Harris - harris@catt.ncsu.edu or harris@carvm3.vnet.ibm.com
 System Administrator, Computer & Technologies Theme Program, NC State Univ.
(My opinions are my own and do not represent those of NCSU or IBM Corporation)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: b259phl@utarlg.uta.edu (PHILIP LIPPEL)
Subject: Re: Running BASICA crashes OS/2
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41    
Organization: The University of Texas at Arlington
Date: Fri, 2 Oct 1992 21:22:00 GMT

In article <1992Sep24.165737.23205@midway.uchicago.edu>, sip1@midway.uchicago.edu writes...
>In article <1992Sep23.135813.43275@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu> thompson@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu writes:
>>When I try to run BASICA, OS/2 crashes hard.  Trap 0000e i think.
>>Just wondering if this happens to anyone else, and if this was
>>listed in the list of fixed bugs that circulated a little while
>>ago.
>>P.S.  I am running OS/2 on a clone and the OS/2 docs say BASICA 
>>      will only run on a PS/2.
> 
>You were warned.  :-)
> 
>Seriously, delete both BASIC.COM and BASICA.COM.  Run QBASIC instead.
> 
>-- 
>Timothy F. Sipples      | The OS/2 FREQ. ASKED QUESTIONS LIST is avail. from
>sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu | 128.123.35.151, anonymous ftp, in /pub/os2/all/faq.
>Dept. of Econ., Univ.   | Or from LISTSERV@BLEKUL11.BITNET (send "HELP").
>of Chicago, 60637       | Family Values Means a Job
Aw c'mon Tim, this is a little harsh. It's pretty easy to fix things so 
basica will run. I agree everyone should be encouraged to move up to at least
Qbasic, but there are some people who need there old BASICA as a crutch for
a while (I know, my father is one of them.) Besides, one of the best ways to
convince people to switch is to run BOTH and let them see how much faster
QBASIC is. At any rate, it is clearly a bug that running BASICA bombs OS/2
when run, as opposed to just coming up with a nice little error message-- evenb
IBM DOS-5 had the courtesy to say "This program requires BASIC in ROM", or
some such thing, and terminate gracefully. 
Anyway, for those of you who want to run  BASICA on your machine, here's how:
open the settings window for the BASICA object, and change the first entry on
 the program page (prog path and file name) to point to gwbasic.exe, or basica.
exe, or whatever your particular version of basic is called. Then all will be
well! But do try QBASIC, also. By the way, unlike QuickBasic, QBASIC can read
your tokenized BASICA files directly.
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: dandrews@bilver.uucp (Dave Andrews)
Subject: Re: Traps at 0160: fff645yy: bug or harware error?
Organization: W. J. Vermillion - Winter Park, FL
Date: Tue, 29 Sep 1992 19:16:32 GMT
Keywords: trap

In article <310@zam103.zam.kfa-juelich.de> kiehl@ibt013.ibt.kfa-juelich.de (Horst Kiehl) writes:
><...+....1....+....2....+....3....+....4....+....5....+....6....+....7.>
>Recently some postings (including by me) reported OS/2 crashes
>having in common occurring on 486 machines and:
>
>   TRAP 000x ...
>   ...
>   ... ##0160:fff645yy - 000d:a5yy
>   60000, 9084
>
>   ...
>
>(yy=2b or yy=3f, the latter with x=6, for instance)
>
>Are these crashes caused by a bug in OS/2
>or by hardware errors that OS/2 can't cope with?

I've been told by IBM that my crashes are due to the Micronics rev 'e'
motherboard in my Gateway 486/33c machine.  They insist that I get
the board upgraded to rev 'f'.  Gateway is not wild about this.

(See the OS/2 "Tips and Techniques" for IBM's word on this.)

- David Andrews
  dandrews@bilver.oau.org

Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: poffen@sj.ate.slb.com (Russ Poffenberger)
Subject: Power failure ate my desktop!
Reply-To: poffen@sj.ate.slb.com (Russ Poffenberger)
Organization: Schlumberger Technologies, San Jose, CA.
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 92 16:04:20 GMT


I think this has been discussed before, but of course I didn't pay attention.
Last night, while doing some work, I had a power failure. "No problem" I say
to myself, chkdsk will fix some allocation errors, take a while scanning the
disk, and all will be OK, right? WRONG!

OS/2 boots OK, no error messages (I have tried several times!), but my desktop
is just a blank blue screen with a mouse pointer. No icons, no nothing. The
mouse buttons don't do anything. So for now, my OS/2 os no-worky.

Back to Windows 3.1 for now. Any clues?

Thanks,

Russ Poffenberger               DOMAIN: poffen@sj.ate.slb.com
Schlumberger Technologies ATE   UUCP:   {uunet,decwrl,amdahl}!sjsca4!poffen
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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: fritz@ra.csc.ti.com (Fritz Whittington)
Subject: Re: How to use ATM rather than Truetype with WINOS231?
Organization: Texas Instruments
Date: Thu, 1 Oct 1992 21:02:25 GMT

In article <1aa6adINN2g6@agate.berkeley.edu> stanton@haas.berkeley.edu (Richard Stanton) writes:
>I like WINOS231 a lot, and would like to use it instead of WINOS. However, I
>don't seem to be able to get ATM to work. I disabled Truetypre in the
>Control Panel, then changed the SYSTEM.INI file to make ATM the display driver,
>and copied all the ATM files to \WINOS231. I then installed W4W (though only
>by entering the path, not a full install - maybe that's the problem).
>I only seem to get one font on the screen, which I can't change.
>
>What do I need to do?

I think just give up on installing ATM.  Winos231 must be using the
same ATM that os/2 is using.  At least, when I installed a lot of new
Type 1 fonts using the OS/2 font Pallette, they then showed up under
PageMaker running under winos231.

Don't bother with trying to do a regular install of ATM while under
Winos231, either.  It installs just fine, but will always show
"Inactive." 

In W4W, sometimes the drop menus (like Fonts) don't seem to drop when
the button is pushed.  But you can scroll thru choices using the
arrow keys!

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From: steck@dworkin.ccs.northeastern.edu (Paul Steckler)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Win3.1/GRE beta from drive B:
Date: 30 Sep 92 03:48:42 GMT
Organization: College of Computer Science, Northeastern University
Originator: steck@dworkin.ccs.northeastern.edu

I see a brief mention of installation from drive B in the
FAQ.  I accidentally ordered 3.5" floppies for the beta.

Can the new beta be installed from drive B?  What is the
"bootstrap" file on hobbes I need to do so?

-- Paul
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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: hafting@Lise.Unit.NO (Helge Hafting)
Subject: Re: Wildcards do not work with GNU utils
Organization: Norwegian Institute of Technology
Date: Tue, 6 Oct 92 13:47:52 GMT

In article <1992Oct06.113517.148217@ipgaix.unipg.it>, luca@dedalo.unipg.it (Luca Priorelli) writes:
 > When I try to use any GNU utility putting an * as filename, it says
 > "'*' not found". The 4os2 shell that I use seems not to be able to
 > expand the wildcard characters before invoking the program. 
 > 
Under os/2, the shell does not expand wildcards, that is a job
for the program.

 > How can I do?
You may modify your utilities to expand wildcards themselves, I think
someone made a general utility for doing this.
 > 
 > Is there a means to have the expansion done?
 > 
 > Is anybody trying to port bash?
It is possible to port a unix shell, but then you could get problems 
running os/2 programs wich may not expect a list of files as argument...
 > Thank a lot in advance to anybody who will reply.
 > 
 > Luca Priorelli

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From: mholmes@ringer.cs.utsa.edu (Mark Holmes)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: OS2 BETA *Can't find WP shell*
Date: 4 Oct 92 21:48:02 GMT
Organization: University of Texas at San Antonio

I installed the OS2 Beta version and it was working just fine for the
first couple of days... but now everytime I boot OS2 it says that it
can't find the Work Place shell and that my INI files might be corrupted.

So... I do the makeini thing that is described in the README file and
delete the old Wp root .sf file and then it loads up just fine... until
after the next shut down when I have to do it all over again.  I'm running
it with a FAT type partition.

Mark

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From: jms20@po.CWRU.Edu (John M. Sully)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: Shutdown failure (?)
Date: 5 Oct 1992 19:36:18 GMT
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
Reply-To: jms20@po.CWRU.Edu (John M. Sully)
NNTP-Posting-Host: thor.ins.cwru.edu


In a previous article, dic5340@hertz.njit.edu (David Charlap) says:

>
>Some (poorly written) apps don't recognize the shutdown message.  They
>don't pass it to the default handler, and they don't respond properly.
>This effectively places the entire shutdown process on hold.  Try
>killing various apps and seeing which one has to go before shutdown
>proceeds. 
>

hmmm...interesting.  I've had this problem as well, but all I had
running at the time was the system clock, DOS window and and OS/2 window.

Any ideas?

John
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From: kiehl@ibt013.ibt.kfa-juelich.de (Horst Kiehl)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Traps at 0160:fff645yy: bug or harware error?
Keywords: trap
Date: 28 Sep 92 16:33:42 GMT
Reply-To: kiehl@ibt013.ibt.kfa-juelich.de (Horst Kiehl)
Organization: Forschungszentrum Juelich GmbH (KFA), Germany

<...+....1....+....2....+....3....+....4....+....5....+....6....+....7.>
Recently some postings (including by me) reported OS/2 crashes
having in common occurring on 486 machines and:

   TRAP 000x ...
   ...
   ... ##0160:fff645yy - 000d:a5yy
   60000, 9084

   ...

(yy=2b or yy=3f, the latter with x=6, for instance)

Are these crashes caused by a bug in OS/2
or by hardware errors that OS/2 can't cope with?

That is, are these problems solved by installing intact hardware
or do we have to just disable hardware components like external cache
and wait for a fix?

Many thanks in advance!

All the best,

Horst
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: feustel@netcom.com (David Feustel)
Subject: Re: Redbooks on software.watson.ibm.com
Organization: DAFCO: OS/2 Software Support & Consulting
Date: Thu, 1 Oct 1992 23:48:54 GMT

richk@grebyn.com (Richard Krehbiel) writes:

>In article <1992Sep30.150832.100850@watson.ibm.com> nrt@watson.ibm.com (Nicholas R. Trio) writes:
>>pub/os2/misc directory:
>>
>>redbook.packa
>>redbk1.zip
>>redbk2.zip
>>redbl3.zip
>>redbk4.zip

>Drat... These files do not contain programming information.  Are there
>files that do?

Au Contrair! Check the lab exercises at the end of each of the view
files contained in the zips. Also, ther are files of the form
rb733???.zip (3 of them) that contain more rebook stuff. I haven't
looked at them yet though.
-- 
Dave Feustel N9MYI <feustel@netcom.com>
 
[.sig on vacation]
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: jim@tct.com (Jim Kunzman)
Subject: Attention potential Beta Testers
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 1992 13:34:12 GMT
Organization: TC Telemanagement, Clearwater, FL

Achtung Beta Testers!  Hart Graphics is once again doing the disks for
the 32-bit GRE and Windows 3.1 beta.  You are reminded that before
OS/2 was released, Hart Graphics did the duplication and distribution
of the various OS/2 betas and that many testers received defective
disks.

Well I just spent five hours backing up my drives, doing a low-level
format, attempting to install the beta, discovering that disk 4 of the
distribution media is defective (apparently nothing on tracks 75-79),
and of course restoring my original OS/2 to once again have a working
system.  You might say I was slightly chagrined.

Here's a tip.  Before you start installation, verify the disks.  Yes,
it's a pain, but not completely a waste of time since OS/2 can
multi-task and at lease you can be doing something productive (like
reading news!).  You can use diskcopy to read the entire disk and then
just ctrl-c to inhibit the write phase.  Even better, create a backup
set of disks.  Also be warned that the disks are not write protected.
You might want to write protect your master disks before you start.

One final tip.  You might want to create a partition solely for OS/2
when you re-install.  It will save backup time in future and be more
convenient when you receive new beta and/or release software.

-- 
Jim Kunzman at Teltronics/TCT     <jim@tct.uucp>, <uunet!pdn!tct!jim>
-----
OS/2 2.0 - 1,400,000+ copies sold.  Sweet dreams Mr. Balmy.
From: legarret@ecs.umass.edu
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Chinon CD-ROM, DOS BBS, OS2YOU
Date: 2 Oct 92 17:49:01 GMT


I have a CHINON CDS-431 CD-ROM drive, SCSI interface, Can Anyone tell me
if its possible to get this OS/2 to recognize this CD-ROM?

I have only been able to get it to work under a VDM, but since I run a DOS
BBS that access it, I don't like having to run the BBS in a VDM, since it 
locks the BBS when someone tries a game door.

Also, How can DOS door programs be run from Maximus/2 by using OS2YOU?

Any info. appreciated.
						...Carlos Legarreta


Reply by mail if possible.


================================================================================
	Carlos Legarreta
	University of Massachusetts, Amherst
	E-Mail: legarret@ecs.umass.edu
===============================================================================
From: efinley@infoserv.com (Elliot Finley)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Need help getting 1024x768 from Boca
Date: Thu, 01 Oct 92 00:58:46 PDT
Distribution: world
Organization: Personalized Programming

I have a Boca Research SVGA (NCR chipset) with 1meg installed.

I've been trying to get this thing to do 1024x768x256 for a long
time now without any luck.

The installation disks have PM drivers, but I think they are for
OS2 1.3 because they don't seem to work.

When running the diagnostic software from a DOS box, it does the
high res. just fine.  But when I do a SVGA ON from a fullscreen
DOS session, it creates a ZERO-length svgadata.pmi (sp?) and the
desktop is still 640x480x16 upon rebooting.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

              Thanx in advance
                 Elliot Finley
                    (efinley@infoserv.com)

Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: baer@uwovax.uwo.ca
Subject: Upgrading from 8mB to 16mB
Organization: University of Western Ont, London
Date: Sun, 27 Sep 1992 23:12:11 GMT

I'm thinking of upgrading my 486 from 8mB to 16mB.   Am I correct in assuming
thatthere is nothing special I will have to do to get OS/2 to recognize the
additional 8mB I'm putting in my system (actually, I'm replacing 2 banks 
of 1mB SIMMs with 1 bank of 4mB SIMMs)?  I realize that my disk cache settings
might not be optimal, but that's something I can tinker around with later
(I know which settings to change to expand my FAT and HPFS caches).

Assuming the answer to the above is "nope, just install & update your BIOS", 
does anyone recall the IBM-recommended settings for cache sizes on a system
with 16mB (with both FAT and HPFS partitions)?
    Is there any advantage to setting up a fairly large cache
(1024k, 2048k)  as Windows seems to do when it installs? 
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University of Western Ontario, London, Canada N6A 5C2
Internet: BAER@UWOVAX.UWO.CA
From: azzarito@cse.fau.edu (Doug Azzarito)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: Here's some for the FAQ
Date: 29 Sep 92 18:48:25 GMT
Organization: Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, FL, USA

In article <1992Sep29.125436.5841@ultb.isc.rit.edu> jks4675@ritvax.isc.rit.edu writes:
>1.) Why do files (that were just downloaded) give me a 'file in use'
>warning when I copy them to floppy??

Beause of a WPS bug.  This is fixed in the service pack (available in a few
days).

>2.) I had a very odd problem last night...the system gave me two errors:
>
>SYS !OS2 00248
>SYS !OS2 00496

Those message numbers don't seem right.  0496 is a video shield error, and I
don't even know what 0248 is.  

>Question: How much disk space does the makeini command occupy
>when it's done?? How do I kill the old desktop to free up the 
>space??

Makeini needs enough space to make default INI files (about 32K).  MAKEINI
doesn't re-create the desktop.  ALT-F1 will do that.  Besides, the desktop
doesn't take up much space either.

>
>Also, does using the undelete stuff (ie, getting rid of the REM in
>config.sys) take up space? If so, how do I reclaim it??

You bet.  It uses up as many KBytes as you specify on the DELDIR command.  If
you don't want to use UNDELETE, you can REM it back out, and delete the stuff
in your DELETE directory.
From: archer@vnet.ibm.com (Gary Archer)
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 92 09:04:44 PDT
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: PAS-16 and Os/2 Beta HELP!
Organization: ADSTAR -- an IBM Company
Disclaimer: This posting represents the poster's views, not those of IBM
News-Software: UReply 3.0

In <29SEP199220215312@scsuc.ctstateu.edu> MAKOFSKY,STEVEN writes:
>Im having a really bad time getting my PAS-16 working with the Os/2 beta in
>both Win3.1 and Dos. ANyone who has gotten their PAS-16 to work, please let
>me know how to set it up. It keeps skipping like there is an interupt conflict
>but, I know there isnt. HELP!
>
Try setting the interrupt during file I/O setting to yes.

Reply-To: archer@vnet.ibm.com

From: yuk@hpopd.pwd.hp.com (Yuk Lun Chan)
Date: Thu, 24 Sep 1992 12:25:41 GMT
Subject: Re: OS/2 2.0 and GEM!
Organization: Hewlett-Packard ISG-SBU-PWD, UK.
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc

>comp.os.os2.misc / pdg@crosfield.co.uk (paul goffin) /  8:28 am  Sep 24, 1992 /
>I might be the only person in the world to be doing
>this, but I just thought someone else might like
>to know.

>So I need to run GEM.  I usually, well since April
>anyway, run OS/2 2.0.  Guess what?  I can.

>Last night I opened a DOS full screen session, put
>my new GEM 3.0 install disks in drive A: and it
>just worked!

>I can even access my HPFS partitions with it.
>(Interestingly GEM retains and displays HPFS upper
>and lower case file and directory names).

>So I now have OS/2, DOS (DOS 5 sessions under OS/2),
>Windows 3.0 (WIN-OS/2) and GEM on my PC.

Not very surprise, since GEM was writting for CP/M-86 and then Concurrent CP/M,
a multi-user, multi-process PC operating system, then ported (or rewirte?)
to MS-DOS and DR-DOS. Everything are supposed very clean. Normally, only
unclean equirement and software cause trouble in OS/2 e.g. my no-name clone.

>Talk about backwards compatibility!

Yuk