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From: rider@geloser.CAM.ORG (Serge Ayotte)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: How to use cvtico.exe??
Date: 13 Aug 92 12:46:35 GMT
Organization: Gentleman Loser System, Montreal/Qc/Cdn

mskreis@iastate.edu (Mark S Kreisberg) writes:

> In article <1992Aug11.112342.1@kean.ucs.mun.ca> roger@kean.ucs.mun.ca writes:
> >	I have obtained the cvtico.exe program from ftp-os2.nmsu.edu. 
> >This is supposed to convert MS-Windows icons into OS/2 icons.  How do 
> >I use it?   If I type "CVTICO" in an OS/2 window I just get back to the 
> >os/2 prompt.   If I type "CVTICO icon_name.ico" ___ same result. What 
> >is the correct syntax for using this program?
> >
> >
> >Roger C. Green,	Faculty of Medicine                      Phone: (709)737-688
> >Memorial University , St. John's, Newfoundland.          FAX  : (709)737-701
> 
> I had the same problem until I ran this program in a DOS window.  I also 
> changed the name of each icon from "icon_name.ico" to "icon_name" (although
> I don't know if this is necessary) and typed "CVTICO icon_name".  It works
> fine now.
> 
> Mark K
> -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
> mskreis@iastate.edu

A little something I did to be even more fancy is to create an icon for
it and just drop the icons of the windows icons I want to convert and
they even get copied to a specific directory.

-drag a program template to your desktop (or inside a folder)
-in the PATH/FILENAME tell it where cvtioco is (or use the find...)
-In parameter put the following
        %*path_of_where_you_want_the_converted_icon_to_go\%**F
-set OS/2 Window, Start Minimized, Close on exit

VOILA! You can even drag MULTIPLE Win icons to have they all converted
in one shot...

My thanks again to Tim for helping me to get a directories printing
icons, wich got me to read the online docs, wich got me to create the
above ;-).
Hope this help Roger an anyone else! (For once I had a
"sort-of-a-solution" rather than a question...)

See You around the 'Net!!

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From: sld@phys.ksu.edu (Steve Davis)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: NCSA telnet CPU usage
Date: 21 Aug 1992 18:32:32 GMT
Organization: Kansas State University
Distribution: usa
NNTP-Posting-Host: bohr.phys.ksu.edu

In <price.714418392@helios> price@helios.unl.edu (Chad  Price) writes:

>np4@prism.gatech.EDU (Nick Pomponio) writes:

>>In <1992Aug21.135137.1131@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> wrp@cyclops.micr.Virginia.EDU (Bill Pearson) writes:

>>*	When I run NCSA telnet under a DOS full screen window my Pulse meter
>>*suggests that I am hogging the CPU, even when it is in the background doing
>>*nothing.  Likewise with epsilon for DOS.
>>*
>>*	Is there a setting that I should change to tell these programs not
>>*to keep polling for something?
>>*
>>*Bill Pearson

>>I, too, have noticed this type of behavior. Even using 'type' to view a
>>file in another dos window while NCSA Telnet is running results in a slow,
>>jerky display.
>>-- 

>You need to play with the idle detect and the other parameter just above it 
>on the DOS parameters list. Since NCSA telnet constantly polls to see what 
>is happening, (as far as I can tell), you'll need to adjust the DOS session 
>so reduce the priority in background.

Well, at least when *I* adjust those settings, no change can be seen on
Pulse.  It is kinda annoying to have everything slow down just because I
have a telnet window open.

Steve Davis
sld@phys.ksu.edu

Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: das9674@usl.edu (Stephenson Daniel A)
Subject: .article
Organization: University of Southwestern Louisiana
Date: Mon, 17 Aug 1992 05:30:20 GMT

--
*Dan Stephenson   das9674@usl.edu 
*"It reminds me of something Cally said. 'He who trusts cannot be
*betrayed, only mistaken.' It was a saying of her people.... Cally is
*dead. So are most of her people." -Avon, from _Rescue_ (Blakes 7)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: djs6015@ultb.isc.rit.edu (Don Smith)
Subject: Re: Whats needed to run E.EXE?
Originator: djs6015@ultb
Organization: R.I.T.
Date: Thu, 20 Aug 1992 00:28:58 GMT

In article <19AUG199208472481@cl2.cl.uh.edu> CSCI11BA@cl.uh.edu writes:
:Greetings,
:
:I just made myself a bootable floppy with MAKEBOOT.CMD, and now I am 
:trying to figure out how to invoke the system editor (E.EXE)... 
:with no luck.  It seems the more DLL's I point to in config.sys, the
:more trouble I am getting myself into.  Id like to be able to put
:E.EXE on a floppy, and run it from there, just in case the HD crashes, etc.

I think that you should get yourself another editor, perhaps text based.
Remember that the system editor (E.EXE) is a PM application, and that
you only use the CMD.EXE shell when booting from a floppy disk.

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From: buehrer@husc16.harvard.edu
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Avoiding error dialogs from DOS tasks
Date: 15 Aug 92 01:59:56 GMT
Article-I.D.: husc16.1992Aug14.215956.14746
Organization: Harvard University Science Center

I am working on setting up a DOS box in OS2 that will occaisionally create a
system error.  I would like OS2 to gracefully allow this box to close and then
restart a new box with the program running again inside of it.  I assume that
such a loop is relatively easy to do.  The problem is that when the error oc-
curs in the DOS box, a dialog box pops up in OS2 and requires user intervention
to make it go away.  Is there any way to tell OS2 to either not put up the
dialog box or to automatically just hit a return and go away?

Thanks.

Tim Buehrer
timb@ksgbbs.harvard.edu
buehrer@husc3.harvard.edu
Organization: Computing Technology Services, Michigan Technological Univ.
Date: Friday, 7 Aug 1992 16:39:11 EST
From: Robb <RKKISTLE@MTUS5.BITNET>
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Help! TE/2 Crashing on exit

I've been using TE/2 1.20 for about two weeks now, and was just getting
ready to register it.  However, it has started crashing when I try to
exit TE/2.  The screen blanks and the cursor just sits there.  I can
switch back to other apps, but cannot kill TE2.exe from the task
list or with killem.  It only happens if I have connected with something
before trying to exit.

I have tried reinstalling from scratch, and installed the new commpak2.dll.
Any other ideas out there?  I really like this app!
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: parry@yoyo.cc.monash.edu.au (Tom J Parry)
Subject: Wrong autoexec being used
Originator: parry@yoyo.cc.monash.edu.au
Organization: Monash University, Melb., Australia.
Date: Sun, 16 Aug 1992 07:14:35 GMT

I have the following setup":

486/33 24meg RAM (anyone care to post exactly what OS/2 will use the >16
for?)
C: IDE 200 meg HPFS
D: IDE 120 meg FAT

I am running Boot manager and have DOS bootable on the D: drive for that
reason. My problem is that if I run a DOS program that is living on the
D: drive then the VDM uses the D: autoexec file. This is extremely ugly
as it is designed for the bootable DOS partition. 

I am using 4DOS and 4OS2. Here are some lines out of my coinfig.sys I
think are relevant (and correct). 4DOS used to be on the D: drive but I
put a copy on C: (HPFS) in the hope that it would not read the D:
autoexec.

SET COMSPEC=C:\4OS2\4OS2.EXE
SHELL=C:\OS2\MDOS\4DOS\4DOS.COM C:\OS2\MDOS\4DOS\4DOS /P

-- 
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Your reality is a figment of my imagination.
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: funka@Informatik.TU-Muenchen.DE (Andreas Funk)
Subject: Ghostscript redrawing error
Organization: Technische Universitaet Muenchen, Germany
Date: Tue, 18 Aug 1992 12:32:47 GMT

Hi,

i have some trouble using Ghostscript for OS/2:

Any time, the preview window is overlapped by another window,
the other window stays on top of the ghostscript window.

Any hints, suggestions etc....?

thanx in advance

Funky

Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: Steve.Withers@bbs.actrix.gen.nz
Subject: Re: OS/2 2.0 Apps
Organization: Actrix Information Exchange
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1992 07:38:57 GMT

In article <1992Aug12.033614.24011@wam.umd.edu> ys@wam.umd.edu writes:
> Just wondering, how many apps for OS/2 v2.0 using the 32bit are out there?
> It seems people are saying this new OS is so good, but not many apps
> supporting this true 32bit OS are out yet?
> Maybe someone can post a list of ones that a re out now and some proposed
> dates for other apps... Thanks in advance.

WordPerfect V6.0 and CorelDRAW! V3.0 will certainly be out by the end of the
year. I will likley have a beta of the latter for demonstration purposes in the
next few weeks. AMI Pro should be on the way too.
 
I spoke to a *just* former Borland rep who said that though the company line
was FOR OS/2, they were dragging their heels on actually porting all their
apps to OS/2. May be in 9 months or a year was the message. The reason (or at
least one of them) was that they were behind on a couple of projects and that
they wanted to dedicate available resources to bringing those out before
committing fresh resources to OS/2.
 
Lotus 1,2,3 V2.0 for OS/2 is in beta at the moment. There are others - many -
but I can't think of them at the moment.
 
Steve

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Steve.Withers@bbs.actrix.gen.nz         |  and bright in my eyes, 
withers_s@kosmos.wcc.govt.nz            |  And the stars going round in 
**** Happy user of OS/2 v2!! ****       |  my head." R. L. S.
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: kurtk@ee.ualberta.ca (Kurt Klingbeil)
Subject: Using CMD.EXE instead of PMSHELL.EXE
Organization: University Of Alberta, Edmonton Canada
Date: Wed, 12 Aug 1992 15:50:15 GMT

Could someone please explain what core functionality PMSHELL provides;
i.e. apart from GUIness... ?

If one uses CMD.EXE as the primary shell, does one lose such features
as being able to start the DOS box, and switch between concurrent tasks,
or is it just that I haven't figured it out yet?

I guess I'm not in bad company...  it seems the MKS hasn't figured it out
yet either.  Job control isn't supportted in their korn shell.  They said
that as soon as IBM provides the hooks, they will do job control.

It would appear that the DOS box, along with task management are PM
apps, and that as it stands, how to do these things with the OS/2 kernel
is either undocumented, or just too complex (i.e. write it all yourself) ?

Maybe it is just that CMD.EXE is unnessarily primitive...  It seems to me
that ina multitasking OS, something as basic and fundamental as
job control from the CLI should come out-of-the-box and not require
detailed explorations of internal nuances, and ftp-forays;   procs and killem,
and the not-yet-extant fgem, bgem, and niceem should have been in the initial
release.  Or not?

-- k(sup)2
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: xtifr@netcom.com (Chris Waters)
Subject: Re: Losing the desktop with a Dual Boot Machine!
Date: Wed, 19 Aug 92 01:56:08 GMT
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  (408 241-9760 guest) 
Distribution: comp.os.os2.misc

In <Bt74qr.5Cv@news.udel.edu> turtle@brahms.udel.edu (Anthony J Collins) writes:

>A friend has OS/2 2.0 installed with dual boot option -  OS/2 &
>DOS.  He loses his desktop frequently (1 out of 5 time.  Any 
>ideas?   Is anyone running the dual boot option successfully?
>Thanks in advance!

This should probably be in the FAQ list.  The trick is that you have to
do a shutdown to save the state of the desktop.  And typing "BOOT /DOS"
does not do a shutdown.  So, if (and only if) you've made changes to the
desktop, you should shutdown, reboot, and when OS/2 comes back up,
*then* run BOOT!

I do think that IBM should have made BOOT do a shutdown automagically,
but such is life...

(Not that I really care--I'm not running the desktop at this point.)  :-)
-- 
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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: parry@yoyo.cc.monash.edu.au (Tom J Parry)
Subject: Re: Above 16MB. Possible FAQ. Summary needed.
Originator: parry@yoyo.cc.monash.edu.au
Organization: Monash University, Melb., Australia.
Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1992 12:38:04 GMT

David Charlap (dic5340@hertz.njit.edu) wrote:
> 
> Since ISA boards are physically incapable of using DMA to transfer
> data above the 16MB line, OS/2 has to copy data first.  In other
> words, if you close the window and OS/2 has to write something to the
> disk, and that something is located in high memory (above 16MB), then
> the system has to move the data "south" of the 16MB line before
> writing it.  This may require other data to be moved "north" or
> swapped to disk.
> 
> At least, it's a good theory.  It might also simply be a bug.

If that IS the case, any suggestions on what to do with the >16MB. I
presume (if your above analysis is correct) disk caches in that area
will have the same problem. On the other hand, would OS/2 not recohnise
this higher memory and prefer the lower stuff to it. These pauses I hget
occur even ijust after I start OS/2. I would find it difficult to
believe 16MB has already been consumed by that point.

> 
> >Also, what is the best program around for getting stats on memory usage.
> >Sort of a MEM for OS/2 or even better, something like MANIFEST (I live &
> >dream in hope).
> 
> Not likely.  What kind of info do you want?  With a virtual memory
> system, all memory is either free, or can be made free.  And you have
> all the swap space on your disk that can be allocated as well.  You'd
> need many numbers, like:
> 
>    Number of free pages in memory
>    Number of discardable pages in memory
>    Number of pages that can be swapped to disk
>    Amount of free swap space on disk
>    Size of the largest contiguous block of memory

The kind of stats I would probably be after would be physical memory
stuff. Information such as how mnuch is being used and for what. How
much of my RAM is free etc. In my opinion these facts govern performance
more than the amount of swap space availabl;e and demonstrate what OS/2
is actually doing with RAM (which up to now, seems to be a mystery).

-- 
Tom J Parry.
Your reality is a figment of my imagination.
From: ejdeal@terri.austin.ibm.com
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: Install OS/2 with Genius Mouse
Date: 18 Aug 92 13:02:14 GMT
Reply-To: ...@cs.utexas.edu:ibmchs!auschs!terri.austin.ibm.com!ejdeal
Distribution: usa,local
Organization: IBM Advanced Workstation Division

> 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?
> 

I have installed OS/2 on a clone 386-25 with a Genius Mouse.
When I first installed (I selected the Mouse Systems Mouse driver),
the mouse didn't work at all--it just sat in the middle of the 
screen.  

I managed to complete the installation and exit the tutorial
by just using the keyboard and then shutdown the system. When I
rebooted, everything worked fine.  Oh, on my mouse, the middle
button acts as the right button.  I actually like this since I find
it easier to click with those two fingers anyway...


Hope this helps...

Eric Deal


SHUTDOWN from keyboard:
As I remember, press CTRL-ESC to bring up the task list and select 
the Desktop.  Now press the SPACEBAR to de-select the current icon.
Press SHIFT-F10 to bring up the destop menu and then select Shutdown.
(This is from memory, but I think it is right.) 
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu (Timothy F. Sipples)
Subject: Re: Rbase 4.0 protected mode problem
Followup-To: comp.os.os2.apps
Reply-To: sip1@midway.uchicago.edu
Organization: Dept. of Econ., Univ. of Chicago
Date: Thu, 20 Aug 1992 15:00:58 GMT

In article <1992Aug19.190533.689@mala.bc.ca> bigras@mala.bc.ca writes:
>I am having problems getting RBase v 4.0 to run in OS/2
>I have tried various combinations of EMS XMS etc.
>At first the error was 'not enough memory to run in 
>protected mode' { same as in windows }. After upping
>the XMS to 4 MB the error is a system error about a
>Co-Processor trap.
>Anyone worked this out yet?

The application may use a VCPI DOS extender, in which case it is
incompatible with both Windows and OS/2.  However, I'm sure that
Microrim has a DPMI compliant update (if that is indeed the problem).

Moreover, RBase is available in an OS/2 version (which, from what I
hear, is an outstanding product), with a full 32-bit version expected
some time this year according to reports.

Hopefully someone will have a more helpful answer, though.

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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: cvadrtbc@vmsb.is.csupomona.edu (Srikanth Viswanathan)
Subject: Printing in OS/2 and WinOS/2
Organization: California Polytechnic University, Pomona
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41    
Date: Sat, 22 Aug 1992 22:57:00 GMT
X-Posted-From: vmsb.is.csupomona.edu
X-Posted-Through: sol.ctr.columbia.edu

A friend of mine is having a problem with printing.  The printer
port seems to be generating EXTRA interrupts as per the PRNINTST 
program.  A couple of lines get printed and then it stops, if he
presses the online button a couple of times, it starts again and
then stops after a line.  He has to keep pressing the online button
to finish the job!  I don't think there are any IRQ conflicts and
replacing the printer port is not an option since it is also an
IDE controller card/serial port.  In WinOS/2, NOTHING prints, everything
just hangs (probably because the session is tied up waiting for
the printer to be finished.)  Any suggestiosn?  Thanks!

Srikanth 
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: xtifr@netcom.com (Chris Waters)
Subject: Re: After OS2/2 Reinstallation, SYS005 Errors
Date: Wed, 19 Aug 92 01:48:27 GMT
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  (408 241-9760 guest) 
Keywords: reinstall

In <1992Aug18.221104.28756@njitgw.njit.edu> dic5340@hertz.njit.edu (David Charlap) writes:

>In article <roelle.714160655@uars_mag> roelle@uars_mag.jhuapl.edu (Curtis Roelle) writes:
>>2. Deleting hidden files: "EA DATA. SF", "WP ROOT. SF", "OS2BOOT",
>                            ^^^^^^^^^^^    ^^^^^^^^^^^
>>		 	  "OS2KRNL", and "OS2LDR".

>Big mistake!  You deleted all the extended attributes, but you didn't
>clear the FAT flags that OS/2 uses to indicate the presence of EA's.
>So, OS/2 thinks the file has EAs, but it can't load them.  Your only
>solution now is to reformat the partition.


Er, well, no, it may not be quite that bad.  As someone who has deleted
EA DATA. SF and WP ROOT. SF before, I found that running CHKDSK seemed
to clean everything up.  OC, I didn't delete these files from the
partition with OS/2 installed--that would probably require a CHKDSK from
floppy, and a reinstall.  But you certainly shouldn't have to reformat. 
-- 
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From: "robert fielder" <robert.fielder@canrem.com>
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: un:my os/2 is really
Date: 14 Aug 92 14:29:25 EST
Reply-To: "robert fielder" <robert.fielder@canrem.com>
Distribution: comp
Organization: Canada Remote Systems

GUY GERARD LEMIEUX said:

GG>I suspect many people will be disappointed then.  I don't expect the
GG>32-bit graphics engine to affect many people.  I have a i486-33, and
GG>strongly suspect that most of the "slowness" can be attributed to the
GG>video card and not the processing time in the 16-bit engine.  Thus,
GG>I won't see much difference.  Now, if I had an ATI Ultra, I'd expect
GG>a whole not more!  (But what is the difference if you wait 10ms or 1ms?).

Guy:

I recently completed a personal project, porting an application from
16 OS/2 1.3 compiled with MSC 6.00a, to 32 bit using C Set/2.  Net
result: no change in performance!

Why?

The application is a very simple, brain damaged grep-type thingy.

Reason there is no performance improvement in the 32 bit version,
seems to be because both version of the application are outrunning the
hardware!  I am running a 386sx-20 system, with a Ultrastor ESDI
caching controller (4 Mb onboard) and an ATI VGA Wonder+ video at
800x600x16 with Joel's video driver.  I suspect it is the disk that
the apps are outrunning, since this machine has a standard ISA bus.

One other comment - going to a caching controller and a high speed
ESDI drive did not improve the base performance of this system,
because both the drive/controller and the motherboard can outrun the
buss.

In the case of the 32 bit graphics engine, perhaps the only people who
will see a bit performance are those using very high speed busses
(local bus?) or EISA video controllers.

In other words, for once the software (OS/2) is actually ahead of the
hardware!  Something unique in the computer world....

Robert

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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: etllnfr@bagpuss.ericsson.se (Lyndon Fletcher)
Subject: Grey icon and Memory problem
Organization: Ericsson Cellular Division
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1992 15:45:01 GMT

I recently got cvticon.exe and converted some windows icons I had to OS/2.
This has resulted in two problems that may be related.

1) To change the icon on an object you enter the General section of the
settings foe that object and select "Find". This correctly loads the icons
I want but if I then select "Edit" from the same settings page I do not get the
icon editer, instead the system just sits there. Any attempt to open another
window fails with the message "Not enough memory to start. Close one of your
applications and try again."
If I have a monitor like PMFREE or Memsize running at the time they show
almost 6 Meg and 58Mb of swap space left. CPU usage is low. Recently using
the PROCS utility I was able to see that an additional process called 
something like "PMTRIM" was running. Slaying this has cured the problem.

2) Is simular. On openning a folder that contains a lot of icons (such as
"productivity") only some of the programs have icons. All of the names are there but there are no actual icons. I suspect that the few progs that retain their
icons have them encoded into their binaries. Not only dont the icons appear
on the desktop openning the "General" section of "settings" for the object  
show a blank area where the icons should be. Again the system refuses to let
any new window be launched siting insufficient memory, again all the system
monitors at my disposal state that there is around 6M available.
Killing off all the windows fails to free enough memory to open any other    
windows and the system refuses to closedown. A list of processes shows nothing wrong and all the icons effected are the OS/2 default ones.

I have the lighthouse picture as a backdrop. I read somewhere that there
may be problems openning windows on small systems but I have 8Mb on my 
machine and the thing stays locked up even when all applications have been killed. This occured a couple of times before I changed the icons on the desktop
for converted windows ones and has happened on two occassions since.

THIS BUG KILLS AN OS/2 SYSTEM COMPLETELY until reboot.


Hope someone can help.

Fletch