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From: mmtl@cc.flinders.edu.au (T.Lampre)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.apps
Subject: GTAR problem
Date: 11 Sep 92 03:41:51 GMT
Organization: Flinders University
Originator: mmtl@hobson.cc.flinders.edu.au

I have been using GTAR to back up about 160meg to tape. All has worked
well until last night when it aborted saying 'Not enough memory'. I
have 16megs and a good deal of space for my swap file and GTAR was the
only thing running.

I suspect it was due the huge number of small files containing source
code on my system as this is the only major change since my last
backup. 

Has anyone alse had this problem and found a solution?


Trevor Lampre
<mmtl@cc.flinders.edu.au>
Organization: Sophomore, Math/Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.apps,comp.os.os2.advocacy
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1992 13:02:46 -0400 
From: Carl B Jabido <cj00+@andrew.cmu.edu>
Subject: Re: SOMFIX.ZIP, WPS, drive-object, HPFS

Excerpts from netnews.comp.os.os2.advocacy: 11-Sep-92 Re: SOMFIX.ZIP,
WPS, drive-.. by Tim Glauert@cam-orl.co.u 
> I guess my expectations are higher than yours! Perhaps it is because I use
> NT, which has the snappy interface of Windows with an underlying system that
> is as powerful as OS/2. But, of course, NT already has a 32-bit graphics
> engine :-)

Yeah, but none of us "normal" people have access to NT beta's, so NT
means absolutely nothing to me.  Of course, by the time NT is released,
OS/2 should have a 32-bit graphics engine, 3.1 support, and maybe, if
we're lucky, 32-bit HPFS (go ahead and flame me because NT already has a
32-bt file system).
IBM's supposed to release a performance analyzer which will increase
system performance by 50 to 150%  So performance will be great.  BTW, my
computer(386/40, 8 megs) doesn't take seconds to open a pull down menu
or something like that.  My system runs fine in 1024x768-256.  Sure, if
I didn't have a Trident video card, I'd shave seconds off my system, but
that has nothing to do with OS/2.

Carl Jabido
cj00@andrew.cmu.edu
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.apps,comp.os.os2.apps
From: crichmon@sedona.intel.com (Chris Richmond)
Subject: OS/2 a better DOS than DOS!!!
Originator: crichmon@sedona
Reply-To: crichmon@sedona.intel.com
Organization: Intel Corporation
Date: Mon, 14 Sep 1992 17:25:26 GMT


I guess that OS/2 really is a better DOS than DOS.

I bought a new 486-33 a while ago and over the weekend, I was
trying out all my old DOS software to make sure it still worked
(under DOS 5.0).  Well, everything was OK until I tried to
run Sprint (Borlands old word processor).  It started loading,
spit out the one line title, and failed with a Divide overflow
error and stuck me back at the DOS prompt.

This concerned my for a minute.  I though it might be due to too much
free RAM (~620K).  I loaded Turbo C++, shelled to DOS and Sprint still
woundn't run.  Now I was worried.  My 30 day trial had already passed
and I am 'stuck' with the computer now ( wish I could be stuck with a 
car that is this relatively fast :^) ).

Well have no fear, OS/2 is here!  I opened a full screen DOS session,
loaded Sprint, and it worked flawlessly!

Now, I don't really care that it doesn't work under DOS, but has anybody
seen this before??

Thanks, Chris
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From: gouvea@zariski.harvard.edu (Fernando Gouvea)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.apps
Subject: Re: GammaTech Announces 32-bit OS/2 2.0 Utilities
Date: 4 Sep 92 23:49:01 GMT
Organization: Colby College Dept. of Math/CS

In article <1992Sep3.181527.17372@midway.uchicago.edu> sip1@midway.uchicago.edu writes:
>GammaTech has released a 32-bit update to their popular GammaTech
>Utilities for OS/2.  This new set of utilities runs only on OS/2 2.0
>(or later), of course.
>
>The suite of utilities includes:
>HPFS Optimization (an oxymoron in some sense, but if you have a
>heavily used server or BBS system, it might be useful);

Does it also include a FAT optimizer that understands EA's?



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Colby College					Mudd 407
From: dws@margay.cs.wisc.edu (DaviD W. Sanderson)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.apps
Subject: POP mail client for OS/2?
Date: 10 Sep 92 20:34:18 GMT
Reply-To: dws@ssec.wisc.edu
Organization: UW-Madison Space Science and Engineering Center

I am looking for mail user agent programs for OS/2 that can communicate
with a POP (Post Office Protocol) server.  I didn't find anything on
hobbes.  Either free or commercial programs would be fine.  If there
is enough interest, I will summarize the results of this query.
-- 
DaviD W. Sanderson (dws@ssec.wisc.edu)
From: death@clewis.ws.cc.cmu.edu (Craven Ohm Kid)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.apps
Subject: How much is X for OS/2 TCP/IP?????
Date: 14 Sep 92 16:16:06 GMT
Organization: J. Random Misconfigured Site
X-Posted-From: clewis.ws.cc.cmu.edu
NNTP-Posting-Host: sol.ctr.columbia.edu


I just received my copy of TCP/IP for OS/2 only to realize that i had  
Received the base product.   I am interested in purchasing the Xserver (in  
fact this is why I bought the program in the first place!)

Or does anyone want to sell their package?


--Mark
From: gt1610c@prism.gatech.EDU (McGaugh)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.apps
Subject: Some possible backup solutions.
Date: 11 Sep 92 14:37:47 GMT
Organization: Georgia Institute of Technology

Hey All.

First of all, the following suggestions have not been tested.  I will not
be able to test them myself until next week.

Backing up the Workplace Shell:

The new 32 bit zip and unzip from InfoZip not only store/retrieve EA's,
but also empty directories (plus their EA's).  This I have tested.
Why not have a 'call=...' line in the config.sys to backup the *.ini
files and the 'OS!2 Desktop' directory.  I don't now right now if zip
has the ability to keep multiple backups of the same file, like zoo
does, but I'm sure that there is a way around that.

Backing up to floppy:

There was recently a thread about using gtar (GTAK100.ZOO from hobbes)
with the -S option to backup to floppy.  People were also complaining
that this would not work with the option to compress the files.
Why not pipe the output of the new 32 zip into gtar.  Will this work?

Finally, I have a question.  If I were to make a backup of all the files
on my hard disk, including system and hidden files, and then I reformatted
my hard disk, what else is needed, other than an exact copy of each file,
to make the system bootable again?

Any comments or suggestions?  Please post or write.

Ken.
-- 
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Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta Georgia, 30332
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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.apps
From: sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu (Timothy F. Sipples)
Subject: Re: ?'s about HyperAccess/5
Reply-To: sip1@midway.uchicago.edu
Organization: Dept. of Econ., Univ. of Chicago
Date: Sun, 6 Sep 1992 17:33:34 GMT

Please do not crosspost in the OS/2 newsgroup hierarchy.

In article <1992Sep5.223641.24470@utdallas.edu> goyal@utdallas.edu (Mohit K. Goyal) writes:
>Is their an upgrade available for users of the DOS version to go to the
>OS/2 version?

I believe so, but I do not know what the exact terms are.  Contact
Hilgraeve for details.

>Does he have any type of educational discount for either the DOS only
>or DOS & OS/2 package?

Not that I have been able to find.  They might do it as part of their
large quantity purchases, or through a campus bookstore, but not
individually, as far as I am aware.

>Is it possible to just get the OS/2 package?

No, the DOS and OS/2 versions ship together.

It actually is fairly convenient, because I believe the license allows
you to use the DOS version on your laptop, so if you have a clunky
laptop kicking around that can't run OS/2 you can still use the same
communications program (albeit without some of the niceties OS/2
brings to the table).

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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.apps
From: hank@ducvax.auburn.edu
Subject: Re: COM3 works for SoftTerm, but not C-Kermit...
Organization: Auburn University, AL
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1992 23:50:07 GMT

In article <1992Sep10.150231.23541@tamsun.tamu.edu>, ail8070@tamsun.tamu.edu (Andy I. Liaw) writes:
> New problem: I've got Com3 to work for softterm by following the instruction
> in the FAQ.  I tried to run C-Kermit and it does not recognize 'set port'
> command.  I guess itrecognize 'set line ...' but I don't know what to set it

My C-Kermit understands 'set port'. Are you using version 5A(179) or 5A(183) of
C-Kermit? Your ckermit.ini file should have a 'set port' line, as in
  set modem hayes
  set port com2
  set speed 2400

I've used ckermit on com3.


> Also: I've just obtained a Fax/modem board yesterday.  When I tried to run 
> the accompanied software in a DOS box, OS2complaint that it tried to access
> COM1 which is controlled by another app.  But I didn't have any other app
> running!  Besides, I've configure it to run on COM3!!  What's wrong?

C-Kermit 5A(179) did the same thing. Apparently it tries to touch all
the com ports. It didn't seem to do any harm in my case.


--darrel hankerson hank@ducvax.auburn.edu
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.apps
From: silveanu@uhuru.uchicago.edu (Adrian Silveanu)
Subject: GammaTech Utilities --> A question....
Summary: GammaTech Utilities
Keywords: GammaTech
Organization: University of Chicago
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1992 00:41:42 GMT

Are the GammaTech Utilities OS/2 PM based or just plain OS/2 command line
interface based?

THANKS!



Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.apps
From: hank@ducvax.auburn.edu
Subject: 'shar -C' problem
Organization: Auburn University, AL
Date: Wed, 9 Sep 1992 17:05:23 GMT

I noticed that 'shar -C' does not work using the version of shar in
pub/os2/all/archivers/shar324x.exe at ftp-os2.nmsu.edu.  The '-C' option
is to call 'compress' and 'uuencode'. Looking over the executable (with
'strings'), it appears that redirection and pipes are causing the problem.

Any comments? Pointers to other shar's for OS/2?  I noticed that the GNUish
shar 3.49 for DOS works...

--darrel hankerson hank@ducvax.auburn.edu
From: prs@Turing.ORG (Phillip R. Scarr)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.apps
Subject: STAC begins selecting Beta testers!
Date: 13 Sep 92 16:16:43 GMT
Organization: The Turing Project, Charlottesville Virginia.

I recieved a form in the mail indicating that STAC electronics will
begin beta testing Stacker for OS/2 shortly.  I suspect that a finished
product will be available 4th quarter this year.  Great news for those
of us with undersized drives!

	-Phil
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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.apps
From: feustel@netcom.com (David Feustel)
Subject: Re: Is there an uncompress for OS/2 and where is it?
Date: Mon, 07 Sep 92 23:08:10 GMT
Organization: DAFCO: OS/2 Software Support & Consulting

A complete suite of os/2-compatible unix utilities is available from
MKS Systems. The latest os/2 version supports HPFS and long
filenames.
-- 
Dave Feustel N9MYI <feustel@netcom.com>
 
RE Drug Warriors who enjoy making a "good" bust: I'm sure the Salem
Witch Hunters enjoyed their law enforcement achievements too.
From: hatton@socrates.ucsf.edu (Tom Hatton)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.apps
Subject: Re: NY OS/2 Developers Conference
Date: 13 Sep 92 23:44:14 GMT
Organization: UCSF Computer Graphics Lab

jpolizzi@cybernet.cse.fau.edu (joe polizzi) writes:
>The following is an abridgement of an IBM conference
>announcement that I came across:

>          OS/2 DEVELOPER CONFERENCE & EXPOSITION
>              New York Sheriton Towers
>                   7th Ave at 52 St
>                 October 18-21, 1992

>A detailed brochure and information are available at the
>phone numbers to follow. There is discount pricing for
>reservations made befor October 2, 1992.
>CONFERENCE FEE INCLUDES CD ROM OS/2 BETA VERSION AND OBJECTVISION!
                                     ????

Nice to know that attendees will get ObjectVision, but it seems a bit
odd to be giving them 6-month old OS/2 code, no? Or is IBM admitting
OS/2, while pretty wonderful, still rates a beta label? :-O :-) 

Too good to pass up, sorry. Does this mean beta of the SPP (Service and
Performance Pack), perhaps? In any case, you might want to re-post to
clarify.

Tom
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.apps
Subject: 32-bit CorelDRAW! 3.0 for OS/2....on the 14th.
From: Steve.Withers@bbs.actrix.gen.nz
Date: Sun, 13 Sep 1992 00:46:16 GMT
Organization: Actrix Information Exchange

I have benen reliably informed that CorelDRAW v3.0 for OS/2 will be released
on the 14th......(tomorrow).
 
It is multi-threaded, so - apparently - yuo can have up to nine images being
drawn simultaniously. You can also acces the menu bar and other things while
the image(s) are being drawn......
 
There are a lot of other good features, but the multi-threading alone would
make it a real improvement over the Windows version.....
 
Oh Yeah...it is supposed to be heaps faster than the Windows
version.....like.....A LOT faster.
 
I look forward to this one.
 
Steve

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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.apps
From: jim@tct.com (Jim Kunzman)
Subject: zip19x32.zoo (missing part 05)
Organization: TC Telemanagement, Clearwater, FL
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1992 13:43:41 GMT

Our news feed was down part of this week.  We did not receive part
05/05 of zip19x32.zoo.  Would someone who did receive this part please
email it to me?  Thanks in advance.

-- 
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Disclaimer?  I don't got no disclaimer.  I don't need no disclaimer.
I don't got to show you no steenking disclaimer!
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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.apps
Subject: Re: Netware requester for OS 2 2.0
From: Steve.Withers@bbs.actrix.gen.nz
Date: Sun, 13 Sep 1992 03:54:32 GMT
Organization: Actrix Information Exchange

In article <92256.090905RAJKUMAR@MIAMIU.BITNET> T.M. RAJKUMAR <RAJKUMAR@MIAMIU.BITNET> writes:
> I saw the netware requester for OS/2 1.X at hobbes.  Is there a
> ftp site that has the novell netware requester for OS/2 2.0.
> Thanks
> Rajkumar

The Novell Requester for OS/2 2.0 is commerical software and costs US$30. Get
it from Novell....or maybe IBM. 
 
Some beta versions are on the ftp server at ftp.ucs.ubc.ca, but with the final
release being so cheap, it makes little sense to use a beta.
 
Plus you get a manual and support.
 
Steve

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From: tom@LANCE.ColoState.Edu (Tom Aurand)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.apps
Subject: Re: OS/2, TE/2 & Zmodem
Summary: Ymodem-G fails
Date: 8 Sep 92 23:05:53 GMT
Expires: Wed, 30 Sep 1992 05:00:00 GMT
Followup-To: comp.os.os2.apps
Organization: Colorado State U. Engineering College

In article <1992Sep8.172051.9890@uoft02.utoledo.edu> 
cscon134@uoft02.utoledo.edu (John Heiden UNIVERSITY OF TOLEDO) writes:

... much excised ...

>Well, I have a 80486 that runs at 33 Mhz and has 16 Megabytes of RAM installed
>on it.  I use 9600 baud with v.32 v.42bis as well.
>
>Anyway, my system will "trash" a transfer if I am doing just about anything
>else at the same time. 

Using Ymodem-G I get first block crc errors often, under any load conditions.
Similar sort of setup but com port running at 38.4 kbps.  If the transfer
gets past the first block it will complete 99/100+ independent of file size.  

Getting past the first block is about a four of five shot.

I have basically given up trying to do other things during downloads.

...  more deleted ...

Tom
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.apps
From: sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu (Timothy F. Sipples)
Subject: N/Joy: On Sale
Reply-To: sip1@midway.uchicago.edu
Organization: Dept. of Econ., Univ. of Chicago
Date: Sat, 12 Sep 1992 04:59:18 GMT

N/Joy: The World of Objects, an integrated, object-oriented package
for OS/2, is available now at the introductory price of just $295.
Contact Vienna Software Publishing at 800-392-7724 or 407-392-7724 for
details.

-- 
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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.apps
From: fippen@ux2.cso.uiuc.edu (John W. Fippen - Invoice)
Subject: QuickDex for OS/2?
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Sat, 5 Sep 1992 17:39:23 GMT
Keywords: quickdex os/2

Does anyone know of a program for os/2 2.0 that is simular to QuickDex on the
MAcintosh? I've been using the mac program for 4 years, and I can't get used to
the junk one in windows. Can anyone help?

Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.apps
From: css0860@rigel.tamu.edu (CSS)
Subject: Help installing TeX
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41    
Reply-To: css0860@zeus.tamu.edu
Organization: Texas A&M University, Academic Computing Services
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1992 04:43:00 GMT


After briefly going over the EmTeX directories at hobbes...I'm still
not entirely sure on what I need to install the EmTeX stuff.
Any hints what file will have definitive installation procedures?

Also, What spreadsheet/data analysis software do you recommend for
a science major?

-Steve Suehs

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From: sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu (Timothy F. Sipples)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.apps,comp.security.misc
Subject: Re: Self-Extracting Binaries dangerous? (Was: REXXShip: Self-Extracting UUEncode!)
Date: 6 Sep 92 17:56:45 GMT
Reply-To: sip1@midway.uchicago.edu
Organization: Dept. of Econ., Univ. of Chicago

In article <dank.715798089@blacks> dank@blacks.jpl.nasa.gov (Daniel R. Kegel) writes:
>Is it just me, or do other people shudder at the thought of
>self-extracting binary archives?  They seem dangerous to me
>because they involve running a raw program straight off the net
>without any visibility as to what it's doing.
>It seems safer to give everybody a copy of, say, uudecode.  Perhaps
>IBM could include it in their next release as a security enhancement
>for those folks who would otherwise blindly run things off the net.

Not really (unless you consider GNU source code dangerous -- I suppose
some people do :-)).

The reason is that the REXXShip format, while self extracting,
contains a wrapper in REXX code (and a short one, at that).  You can
look at the wrapper, compare it, and make sure nothing funny is going
on.  It is about a dozen lines.  It is roughly analogous to someone
handing you a twelve line program.  If you are concerned about
security then you just examine the source code (which this is) to make
sure nothing strange is going on.

This isn't a self extracting binary file (archive), which is a totally
different beast.  If someone hands you a file called FORMAT11.EXE it
could be a self extracting archive.  Or could it do something more
dangerous?  You just don't know.  Unless you take the file and spend
hours with a code examiner of some sort, disassembling the code, you
won't know what it does until you run it.  REXXShip is definitely not
like this.

Arguably REXXShip format is safer than UUEncoded format since the
UUDecode utility itself could have been altered by a devious person.
REXXShip at least elminates one step.  Granted, it doesn't solve the
problem of viruses or other maladies residing in the binary file it
produces, but it doesn't run that binary file (unlike a binary format
self extracting archive, which can run its contents -- or do anything
else).

Good point, though, and I'm glad you brought it up.

Incidently, a much more efficient version of REXXShip is awaiting just
a few finishing touches.  It uses a modified XXEncoding type scheme so
that the binary file only grows by about four thirds (plus overhead)
instead of double after encoding.

Also, the REXXShip format does not preclude the use of a standalone
decoder.  Time permitting I'll be writing a standalone decoder (for
reasons of speed), so people will have flexibility.

-- 
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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").
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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.apps
From: ddulay@jarthur.claremont.edu (Dan Dulay)
Subject: Help w/ pmqvt
Organization: Harvey Mudd College, Claremont, CA 91711
Date: Mon, 14 Sep 1992 06:03:19 GMT

In looking for a vt200 emulator for OS/2 (a feature which TE/2 should add), I
came across pmqvt.  Could someone please explain what I am doing wrong with
this program.  The program works fine (I guess), but there are several
quirks which I do not understand.  For example I cannot create a program
object for this program.  The first time I tried to create one, although
OS/2 recognized it as an executable it did not recognize it as a PM program.
Now OS/2 does not even recognize it as a program.  This leads to my next
problem:  I cannot open a settings notebook on any of the files that came
in the pmqvt archive.  In fact I cannot even get a menu from any of these
files.  I don't have this problem with any other objects or files, so
does anyone know what is going on here?

Daniel Dulay

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