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From: newbie@dylan.camb.inmet.com (Chris Newbold)
Subject: Use your "unsupported" CD-ROM drive natively with OS/2!
Organization: Intermetrics, Inc.
Date: Mon, 17 Aug 1992 19:45:11 GMT

This probably rates as a mild hack, but if you want CD-ROM support without
waiting or spending money...

After installing my Sony CDU-541 CD-ROM drive and having a ball under DOS,
Linux and Windows NT, I tried OS/2. No dice. The driver spat out the
id string for my drive and pompusly declared "Unsupported vendor." What a 
load of horsepucky. It's a SCSI CD-ROM drive, just like the Toshiba and
IBM drives which are supported. *SCSI* That means there is some semblance
of standardization. The driver shouldn't give a damn what's on the other
end, as long as it will talk SCSI with a supported host.

But, I though, par for the course, looking at the crappy video driver
support in OS/2.

So, I copied the CD-ROM driver CDROM.SYS off my HPFS partition into a FAT
parition; load it up under debug. Low and behold. There are a couple of
vendor id strings... So, I just replaced the word "TOSHIBA" with "SONY"
(filling the three remaining letters with spaces) and wrote it out.

Load up OS/2, copy it back into the HPFS partition, reboot and.. Voila!
The happy-little-camper driver installed itself running my Sony drive.

I seriously wonder if this whole "unsupported vendor" thing isn't a
marketing sham to get people to buy hardware from certain vendors or
get vendors to dump a load of money on IBM for some "driver development kit."

When will they learn that for an OS to be successful it must support a very
broad range of hardware? Passing the buck to a third party because you
are afraid of detracting from your own hardware sales because you write
a driver for someone else's product just isn't going to wash with me...

-Chris


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From: cvadrtbc@vmsb.is.csupomona.edu (Srikanth Viswanathan)
Subject: Re: How to reduce CPU taken by DOS programs?
Organization: California Polytechnic University, Pomona
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41    
Date: Sun, 16 Aug 1992 23:38:00 GMT
X-Posted-From: vmsb.is.csupomona.edu
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In article <stanton.441.713729685@haas.berkeley.edu>, stanton@haas.berkeley.edu (Richard Stanton) writes...
>I just tried using the "PULSE" program, and noticed that when I have a DOS 
>window open with FREEMACS (a little EMACS clone) running, CPU usage is up at 
>100%. This is silly. I tried using TAME, which works with Desqview, but this 
>didn't have any noticeable effect.
> 
>Is there a way to reduce the CPU hoggery of DOS programs?

Get the OS2SPEED.ZIP program from ftp-os2 (it's in the \pub\downloads
directory, only a couple of days old).  Or, you could get TAME, both
these programs reduce the "CPU hoggery" of DV aware programs (like GSZ
for instance which thinks its owns the whole CPU!)

Srikanth
From: das9674@usl.edu (Stephenson Daniel A)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: SET FILEC under OS/2 2.0???
Date: 20 Aug 92 04:33:56 GMT
Organization: University of Southwestern Louisiana

Hi there.  Is there something akin to set filec for OS/2 2.0?
THis is also know as 'file completion'.  Those 255 char names
are great, but wildcards don't always do the trick...

Thanks-
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 genius for being led?" -Avon, from Blakes 7
From: KENKAHN@PKSMRVM.VNET.IBM.COM ("Kenneth A. Kahn")
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: Using CMD.EXE instead of PMSHELL.EXE
Date: 13 Aug 92 14:14:23 GMT

Organization: Staff of IBM Fellow - NetWork Computing
Disclaimer: This posting represents the poster's views, not those of IBM
News-Software: UReply 3.0
X-X-From: KENKAHN@PKSMRVM.VNET.IBM.COM (Ken Kahn)

In <1992Aug12.155015.14039@kakwa.ucs.ualberta.ca> Kurt Klingbeil writes:
>Could someone please explain what core functionality PMSHELL provides;
>i.e. apart from GUIness... ?

As you suggested in your original post, the 2 biggest things you lose when
you run CMD instead of PMSHELL are support for Multiple Processes and PM
applications.  If all your applications are full screen, and you don't intend
on runningmore than one at a time, then you can use this environment.  You
might ask what u can gain from this; well you are still running OS/2 V2 so you
can run any 16 or 32-bit application.  You can run Full Screen DOS with the
right Device Drivers and such set up.
From: ak@ananke.stgt.sub.org (Andreas Kaiser)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: OS/2 Drivers for Diamond 
Distribution: world
Date: Fri, 14 Aug 92 04:41:36 GMT
Organization: ananke


In article <BswFpx.Lwq@gpu.utcs.utoronto.ca> sanders@gpu.utcs.utoronto.ca writes:

  > >I get real uncomfortable thinking about the 32-bit engine and its soon
  > >release.  This may provide S3 with an excuse for slipping the 16-bit
  > >drivers, claiming that they would rather do the 32-bit ones instead.
  > >We would then have exactly nothing...  Regards, Mikey
  > 
  > All physical OS/2 device drivers (PDD's) are 16 bit, even in 2.0.

Correct, but video device drivers are DLLs, not PDDs.

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From: dic5340@hertz.njit.edu (David Charlap)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: OS/2's lack of decent SVGA support (Re: OS/2 Drivers for Diamond)
Date: 17 Aug 92 21:25:27 GMT
Organization: New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, N.J.

In article <5709@vtserf.cc.vt.edu> usdgog@vtserf.cc.vt.edu (Greg Granger) writes:
>BTW, before anyone (else) tells me this problems been fixed, CHECK.
>This is an ET3000 based card (not ET4000 based ... not ET4000 based).
>IBM considers it Orchid's problem, Orchid doesn't even use that chip any
>more (anyone want to guess what kind of chance I have convincing Orchid
>to write a driver for me)?    

I remember an old issue of PC Mag, when they reviewed the first
generation of sVGA boards.  I remember them stating that the Tseng
chipset (then, the 3000) wasn't 100% register compatible with IBM's
ISA-based VGA board.  Oddly enough, IBM's board wasn't register-
compatible with the PS/2 video circuitry.

>So far I've found DOS far more stable (for example I don't have to
>reboot the machine ever time I try to get a full screen DOS session
>in DOS <grin>) and far friendlier.  

Ah, but you only get one full-screen DOS session <bigger grin>.  DOS's
stability isn't really an issue, since each app is (essentially) its
own operating system - library malloc() functions being the memory
manager, etc.  The DOS file system has been around for over 10 years,
so the bugs have been worked out of it (in most cases - ignore that
FASTOPEN bug in DOS 4.0...).

As for friendlier, well, DOS is as friendly as the shell you put
around it.  COMMAND.COM isn't very friendly.  Add CED or 4DOS and it
gets a little friendlier.  If you load the DOS SHELL, it gets
friendlier, still.  If you add Norton Desktop, it gets even
friendlier.  If you add Windows, it gets real friendly, etc.
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Subject: OS/2 News of Interest (Infoworld)
From: sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu (Timothy F. Sipples)
Date: Tue, 18 Aug 1992 13:46:07 GMT
Reply-To: sip1@midway.uchicago.edu
Organization: Dept. of Econ., Univ. of Chicago

Infoworld now reports that Artisoft, makers of LANtastic, are now
working on "OS/2 connectivity" for their peer-to-peer network.

If you are interested in such a product I suggest you (politely)
badger the company periodically to ask about the status of their work.

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Date: Thursday, 20 Aug 1992 21:11:13 +02
From: Wim Van Holder <FDBAQ03@cc1.kuleuven.ac.be>
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject:    Problem installing ES running 4OS2 1.0

I recently registered 4OS2 and can't live without it. The only problem
I've had so far regards the installation of Extended Services (OS/2 2.0).

When I open a 4OS2 session and issue the esinst command, a black screen
appears and the system starts to beep infinitely (I guess...). The only
thing I can do is to close the session, whereafter the beeps stop.

Wim Van Holder,
Systems Engineer at K.U. Leuven, Dept. TEW
From: kevinc@aupair.cs.athabascau.ca (Kevin Crocker)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: 1280x1024x16 colors with os/2!!!
Date: 20 Aug 92 21:07:25 GMT

cvadrtbc@vmsa.is.csupomona.edu (Srikanth Viswanathan) writes:

>In article <f95mdlr.feustel@netcom.com>, feustel@netcom.com (David Feustel) writes...
>>I've seen a 1280x1024 display of the os/2 workplace shell. I want it!
>>The display and controller are from IBM!!! The hardware currently
>>costs 6000. Ask for The IBM Image Adapter/A w 3 megabytes and the 6091

>Actually, I think it's capable for 1600x1280!  Are you sure it costs

this is noramally 1600 x 1200 not 1600x1280.

>6000, I heard it was more like $3000 with 3 megs of VRAM.  I personally
>would "settle" for an ATI Graphics Ultra.  
>Srikanth

Alas, some of us already have expensive high end boards that'll do
resolutions like 1280 x 1024 x 256/16.7M (includeing 4M VRAM) plus
on-board 8514/a and on-board SVGA with 1M.  What we don't have yet is
an OS/2 driver for this sucker.

Just an observation, I'm pretty happy about the board I have (and I'll
be on cloud 9 when they finish the OS/2 driver). I've got the Windows
3.1 drivers and tested the board vs. an ATI Graphics Ultra - no
comparison.  Don;t get me wrong the ATI GU is a wonderful board but
it's not the best you can get. Those of us with vision problems need
the higher resolution.

Kevin
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From: keating@casemo.UUCP (John Keating )
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: Some questions/comments...
Date: 20 Aug 92 05:06:55 GMT
Organization: Dowty Communications, Inc.

In article <l94vl1INNrft@blox.cs.utexas.edu>, marty@cs.utexas.edu (Marty J. Sirkin) writes:

> The answer to your question #1 is that you shouldn't have to worry about
> reinstalling your whole OS.  I don't know how you got the older version
> of UNPACK, nor is it that important.  The problem you had was that when
> the files are PACKed, the PACK program places the PACK version number in
> the header of the PACKed file.  Then, only the corresponding version of
> UNPACK can UNPACK the file.  The program is IBM internal, and not too bright,
> I'm afraid.  Even when we ship new versions of software with no change to the
> PACK/UNPACK program they create a new version of PACK/UNPACK.  As a result,
> you can have the exact same UNPACK program (but with a different version
> number) which is unable to function on a file!

Would this account for the pre 1.3 release date on my UNPACK, though?  Or the
different file sizes between all three versions?  Could some of those free
distribution copies have had some none-release code in them?

> Fortunately, I believe that there is a trend within IBM to go towards more 
> industry standard compression programs in the future.

Thank goodness...  I noticed that Phil Katz's pkzip2 and pkunzip2 programs
were included with the Extended Servicese 1.0 box.  A nice touch.

>     But I doubt this should be a problem for your OS install.  Could you just
> have had an old copy of the program (UNPAK) lying around??

My immediate thought was that it was an old version of the program, but that
didn't pan out, as the hard drive was reformatted to run OS/2 2.0 with HPFS.
Unless the OS/2 installation program actually loaded the original 1.3 UNPACK,
and then resaved it after installing 2.0, the UNPACK should be the one that
came with my OS/2.  I'll be checking the install diskettes tomorrow to see
what the dates on them are.

John Keating

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From: dic5340@hertz.njit.edu (David Charlap)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: New software at Watson's
Keywords: OS/2 software, IBM-FTP
Date: 18 Aug 92 17:50:16 GMT
Organization: New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, N.J.

In article <92@byu.edu> earlyd@ee.byu.edu (David Early) writes:
>
>Sorry, my database lost the ftp address.
>Care to repost it??

software.watson.ibm.com (129.34.139.5)

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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc,comp.os.os2.networking
From: sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu (Timothy F. Sipples)
Subject: Re: No network object, but there should be..
Reply-To: sip1@midway.uchicago.edu
Organization: Dept. of Econ., Univ. of Chicago
Date: Sat, 22 Aug 1992 01:51:14 GMT

In article <442@casemo.UUCP> keating@casemo.UUCP (John Keating ) writes:
>> I was just reading through the manuals and found a passage saying
>> that if your computer is connected to a network, a network object
>> is put on your desktop. Now the computer I installed on is connected
>> to a LAN through a IBM Token Ring card, but I did not get the object.
>> Is there a way to install this afterwards, and why wasn't it straight
>> off? The machine is an IBM PS/2 model 56 SX by the way.
>I (and a co-worker) have the same problem as Erik.  We have 3Com Etherlink
>Cards (Mine is an MC, and his is a II (Which Works, Thanks To All!)), plus
>we are running FTP's PC/TCP 1.2.  The PC/TCP allows us to use the network,
>but how do we play chess?  :^)

The network software has to support the placement of network drive
objects.  I believe both PC/TCP and IBM's TCP/IP do not, at present,
support this feature, but both developers, I'm sure, are racing toward
an update.

The Novell NetWare Requester does support network drive objects (very
Mac like, for lack of a better comparison), for example.

As for PMChess (the game that ships with OS/2), a LAN Server network
is apparently needed.  If you are so fortunate you can also try
Yahtzee across the network -- see ftp-os2.nmsu.edu via anonymous ftp
for that network game.  Of course, don't plan on getting any work
done.  :-)

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From: ochealth@unixg.ubc.ca (ochealth)
Subject: CPS: Extent not found (?)
Organization: University of British Columbia, Vancouver, B.C., Canada
Date: Sat, 15 Aug 1992 20:07:54 GMT


Just recently I started getting

##0f00:141e - 0002:141e
65535, 9051

CPS: Extent not found

which abruptly halts the whole system.

Anyone know what it means?

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From: jshelby@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Jerold A. Shelby)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: COM cards with IRQ > 7 for ISA ?
Date: 14 Aug 92 19:57:41 GMT
Organization: The University of Texas at Austin
In-reply-to: kurtk@ee.ualberta.ca's message of 12 Aug 92 16:04:39 GMT

You might try Sealevel Systems inc at (803)843-4343.  They have a number
of serial cards that might fill your needs.

Sorry, I don't know about the UART's receive/transmit buffers.

Jerry Shelby
UT Austin
jshelby@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu
From: bauwens@acs.ucalgary.ca (Luc Bauwens)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: Fortran under OS2
Date: 21 Aug 92 03:21:05 GMT
Organization: The University of Calgary, Alberta

In article <20AUG199215502516@elroy.uh.edu> elee969@elroy.uh.edu (Brown, William J.) writes:
>
>I am not at all familiar with the world of OS2, so I'm hoping that someone might
>answer a few questions for me.  As part of my research, I do quite a bit of 
>fortran programming which requires the use of rather large arrays.  When I try
>to run these programs thru Windows, I find I have to do quite a bit of tweaking
>with the compiler settings just to get them to run.  Even then, I still don't 
>get the correct answers, so I suspect my problem is the wacky memory limitations
>of dos.  Anyway, my question is - Are there fortran compilers for OS2 that will
>allow me to run these large programs without having to worry about memory?  I 
>know that the MS fortran is supposed to run under OS2 but I am quickly losing
>faith in it.  Also, I have a 386/40 with 8 megs of ram, is this machine capable
>of handling OS2?  How big should my hard drive be?  Right now I have a 40 meg
>hd which is compressed with Stacker, but I have heard that Stacker is not 
>compatible with OS2.  Any input will be greatly appreciated.

I am using Watcom Fortran 386 ($250.00 after academic discount; look
at their add in Byte for their 1-800 phone No.).  I used to use
MS Fortran 5.0 and then 5.1, under DOS and eventually (5.1) under
OS/2.  

The main difference is that Watcom is 32 bits while MS is 16 Bits.
The 32 bits compiler addresses up to 4 GBytes of memory under the
"small" (i.e., flat) memory model and I don't know how much under
the large (i.e., segmented) memory model.  

And yes, it makes life *much* simpler if you are hitting the roof of 640k,
or if you have arrays larger than 64k.

The Watcom compiler does allow you to write DOS and Windows 32 bits
apps, using an extender in the case of DOS, and the 32 bits mode
for Windows.  BUT it's kind of a pain to use it under DOS or
under Windows.  The compiler itself likes to be able to work within
the 32 bits flat memory space of OS/2.  (Ever ran into the problem
of running out of memory when compiling a fairly large, say 2000 lines,
routine with MS Fortran in DOS, and having to cut your routine
in smaller pieces?)

So, I would say, if you write Fortran code, you run into one of those
conditions in which, even buggy and with its somewhat sluggish GUI,
OS/2 2.0 is unarguably superior to anything else on the market
today.

Luc B
From: dic5340@hertz.njit.edu (David Charlap)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: UPDATE : Still can't print through Win-OS/2 :(
Date: 14 Aug 92 19:13:12 GMT
Organization: New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, N.J.

In article <14968@umd5.umd.edu> adhir@cygnus.umd.edu (Alok Dhir) writes:
>
>>Brian,
>>I just got a IIIP myself and had the same problem.  There's a generic (i.e.,
>>non-PCL5) Laserjet driver for Win-OS/2 available at software.watson.ibm.com 
>>that works, all be it slowly; it's nowhere near as fast as the HPPCL5A driver
>>under Windows 3.1, so I've been switching to Windows 3.1 to print out long
>>jobs.  I hope and pray the September CSD's will have a decent HPPCL5 driver
>>included.
>
>I was under the impression that you could use Win3.1 drivers under WinOS/2, 
>have you tried using it?

You can use Windows 3.0 drivers.  I doubt you'll be able to use a Win
3.1 driver unless it also works under Win 3.0

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From: zhao@unixg.ubc.ca (Jiansheng Zhao)
Subject: need os/2 bubble jet driver
Organization: University of British Columbia, Vancouver, B.C., Canada
Date: Fri, 14 Aug 1992 15:57:14 GMT

 
I need a Canon bubble jet printer driver badly, it's a pain to settle for 
LQ510 simulation. Please tell me if such a driver exists and where
I can find it. It's cerntainly not at ftp-os2.nmsu.edu.
Thanks.
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From: Alan_York@mindlink.bc.ca (Alan York)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: Where can I get a fan for my 486 chip?
Date: 17 Aug 92 04:46:23 GMT
Organization: MIND LINK! - British Columbia, Canada
Distribution: world

For everyone:  Call Norman W. Bailey of PCUBID at (916) 338-1338. I have been
test one of his fans and it works great. - Alan
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From: galway@chtm.eece.unm.edu (Denis McKeon)
Subject: Re: Two cool bugs!
Date: Fri, 14 Aug 92 07:03:13 GMT
Organization: Connemara - Computing for People
X-Mailer: Mail User's Shell (7.0.1 12/13/89)
Status: OR

duffy@theory.chem.ubc.ca (Pat Duffy) writes:
>6) No settings for the OS/2 full-screen session except the DOS settings that
>   were changed.

Agreed that that is a bug, but it reminds me of a feature request - 
in the "Dos settings" screen - I would find it darned nice to be able to 
see all the settings' values at once - and even nicer to see only the
settings and values which are not equal to the default values.

This could make the: "Gee, this used to work fine, now let's see, what
did I change last week?" situation a lot easier to deal with.  (see also 
[x:\] startd /sf file.ini program
as a workaround - or perhaps there is a reasonable method in REXX to
display settings and values, or to show all settings not equal to the
defaults - or to compare the settings of two objects.  Just a thought.

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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Install OS/2 with Genius Mouse
From: jones@atmo1.atmo.arizona.edu
Date: 17 Aug 92 09:22:18 MST
Distribution: usa,local
Organization: University of Arizona, Atmospheric Sciences


A friend of mine is having difficulty completing his OS/2 install.
I haven't actually looked at his system yet, but he reports that
his difficulty is his Genius Mouse.  He has a model GM-6.  I will
take a copy of the faq, drivers, and a kernel over to his house
this evening.  The question is:  Has anyone installed OS/2 with
this mouse and is there a definite problem and fix involved?

Thanks in advance,

Cyrus Jones

jones@atmo1.atmo.arizona.edu

Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc