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From: das9674@usl.edu (Stephenson Daniel A)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: Change fonts in windows
Date: 6 Sep 92 19:14:51 GMT
Organization: University of Southwestern Louisiana

In article <1992Sep6.172801.23457@midway.uchicago.edu> sip1@midway.uchicago.edu writes:
>In article <Bu55rB.3DM@news.cso.uiuc.edu> ffujita@s.psych.uiuc.edu (Frank Fujita) writes:
>>Okay, how do you change the color in a DOS Window?
>
>Why, as you always did, using ANSI escape sequences.

Umm, I did ?  Is there a summary of how to do this? (ie, what makes
what colors)
Thanks

>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


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Dan Stephenson                                           das9674@usl.edu
" BERLIN WALL FALLS.  3 BORDER GUARDS LOSE JOBS.  CLINTON BLAMES BUSH! "
        -George Bush, '92 Republican nomination acceptance speech
From: pfr@drsrv1.hmi.de (Fritsch_Wolfgang)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: ATI Graphics Vantage related problems.
Date: 9 Sep 92 18:35:40 GMT
Organization: Hahn-Meitner-Institut Berlin GmbH

frigo@psl.wisc.edu (Sean P. Frigo UW-Madison SRC (608)877-2332,-2001(FAX)) writes:

>I suggest that you boot DOS 5.0 from a floppy and try the ATI test program
>again.  Since the test program works the ATI hardware at low level, it may
>encounter problems (perhaps) from a DOS session under OS/2.

I did that, or rather I let the bootmanager start with Dos, and indeed the
test ran through without problem.

Wolfgang Fritsch
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu (Timothy F. Sipples)
Subject: Re: Plus signs in tree view of disk
Reply-To: sip1@midway.uchicago.edu
Organization: Dept. of Econ., Univ. of Chicago
Date: Mon, 14 Sep 1992 23:48:04 GMT

In article <13SEP199201522886@zeus.tamu.edu> css0860@zeus.tamu.edu writes:
>Sorry if this is in the faq.  Plus signs on folders in tree view
>of drive C don't always show up.  Is there a way to fix this?
>Un-reproduceable...random

Known bug, to be fixed in the forthcoming CSD.  Workaround: close and
reopen until plus signs appear.

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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
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: pee9901@ultb.isc.rit.edu (P.E. Erkkila )
Subject: SVGA.EXE
Originator: pee9901@ultb
Organization: Rochester Institute of Technology
Date: Tue, 8 Sep 1992 19:17:48 GMT


I figured out my problem with os/2 and SVGA support... The install
program is NOT installing the SVGA.EXE program file. Even though i hav
only installed off of this machine with the T8900C 1mg card installed.

 HELP ME !!!! :)


 I guess it's back to installing again... Any suggestions before I do so
?


Paul Erkkila 

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From: jclei@sage.cc.purdue.edu (Jason Lei)
Subject: Re: ATI Graphics Vantage related problems.
Organization: Purdue University Computing Center
Distribution: world 
Date: Mon, 7 Sep 1992 19:08:35 GMT

In article <Bu6sx1.1xM@news.cso.uiuc.edu> freeman@eagle (Jay Freeman) writes:
>Use the utilities that came with the card and set the mouse up to use IRQ 5.
>This will free up your serial ports. Unless you have 2 parallel ports, IRQ 5
>is free.

I did use IRQ5 to set the mouse.  The problem could be from conflict with
the serial ports on the multi IO card because the problem was gone when the
IO card was removed.  There is no document for the no-name card so I don't 
know how to disable the serial ports.

Jason



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From: tlilley@jarthur.claremont.edu (Thomas (Ted) Lilley)
Subject: Re: This is annoying, please help....
Organization: Harvey Mudd College, Claremont, CA 91711
Date: Sun, 13 Sep 1992 23:43:49 GMT

In article <1992Sep11.165624.11025@nmt.edu> jreynold@nmt.edu (John Reynolds) writes:

(Couldn't shut down dos app)
>because of this archain DOS app!!!!* So, I had to give the 3-fingered
>salute, and do the Alt-F1 trick on startup so the damn thing would hose
>me again!!! **This is really stupid.** I should have instantly been able to 
>close that damn app. Anyone have any comments/similar experiences/ or
>suggestions.
>-Jr

This sort of annoyance happens once in a while, and I don't know if there's 
a prescribed cure.  I would put set restartobjects=startupfoldersonly in my
config.sys -- that way you don't have to worry about the alt-f1 trick, OS/2
will only start your startupfolder programs on booting.

Hope that helps some, and there's more information about restartobjects in
a file called os2config.zoo.  It lists most of the config.sys commands.

Ted
From: oliver@redwood.CS.Berkeley.EDU (Oliver Sharp)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: News flash :::: Plus Hardcard drivers are now available for OS/2
Date: 11 Sep 1992 19:32:40 GMT
Organization: University of California at Berkeley
NNTP-Posting-Host: redwood.cs.berkeley.edu

Those of us who have been using OS/2 with a Plus Hardcard could only
access it read/only through the int13 driver.  Plus, after promising to
write drivers by October, came through early and they are now
available.  They will be sent out in a week or two to those who put
their names on the list, but you can get them right away from the
Plus BBS which is at (408) 894-3214.  Installation is simple; run
ddinstal and then rem out the int13 driver from config.sys.

I have installed it and tested it a tiny bit; no problems so far.
This solves one of my main problems with OS/2, and I'm a happy
camper.  Losing access to 100 meg of disk space was pretty painful.

Cheers,
- Oliver
From: mjw@eng.ufl.edu (Mike Wohlgemuth)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Any 1280x1024 drivers available?
Date: 15 Sep 92 13:24:45 GMT
Distribution: na
Organization: College of Engineering, University of Florida

I have a monitor that will support 1280x1024, but I haven't
heard of any video borads with OS/2 drivers that support this
mode.  If anyone knows of any drivers for OS/2 that support
1280x1024, please let me know.

Mike
From: aaron@spectrx.saigon.com (Aaron Anderer - System)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Incompatability with DTC 7287 RLL controller
Keywords: RLL
Date: Sun, 06 Sep 92 20:18:52 PDT
Organization: SPECTROX SYSTEMS (408)252-1005 Silicon Valley, Ca

I tried to get OS/2 2.0 running on my system but it wouldn't work with my
systems hard drive controller.  It would install fine, but when it rebooted
to run OS/2 it would load the OS/2 logo then give me a trap 000d.  I tried
loading it up on my Always IN2000 scsi card and a Syquest 44, and it worked 
fine so I know it is the RLL drive/controller combo that is the problem.

I have a Priam V185 and a ST4096 connected to the controller(Don't flame me 
about the ST4096, I know it is an MFM drive, but I'm not doing anything to
it with OS/2.)

is there a fix for this to get it to work?

---------------------------------------------------------------------------
Aaron Anderer, System Operator                aaron@spectrx.saigon.com
SPECTROX SYSTEMS +1 408 252 1005              szebra!spectrx!aaron          

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From: tom@nds.com (Tom Williamson)
Subject: HP LaserJet Drivers (Update & Correction)
Reply-To: tom@nds.COM (Tom Williamson)
Organization: Northwest Digital Systems
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 92 15:16:35 GMT

A while back I posted an article to this newsgroup stating that HP has a more 
recent version of the LaserJet driver than what is currently available at 
ftp-os2.nmsu.edu.  Unfortunately, I was given some bad information.

Yesterday I received the disk from HP and it is version 1.3.350, not 1.3.450.  
A quick call to HP this morning verified that 1.3.350 is indeed the most 
current version.  

Sorry for the bad information and, most of all, for any raised expectations.  

1.3.350 does work.  I am able to print documents.  It is still very slow.  I 
have just realigned my thinking.  Really this is a FEATURE to show off os2's 
multitasking capability.  This is the only aspect of os2 that I think DOS 
does better (faster).

regards
Tom Williamson
tom@nds.com
From: dic5340@hertz.njit.edu (David Charlap)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Bug in Calendar
Date: 15 Sep 92 16:38:30 GMT
Organization: New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, N.J.

There's an interesting bug in the "calendar" applet.  If you
double-click on a date, it is supposed to bring up the Monthly
Planner, with the cursor on the date you clicked.  It does this, but
it does not bring up the planner file that the calendar had loaded.
Instead, it always brings up a file called "File".

As a workaround, I use a planner file named "File" for all of my
appointments.  I suspect someone placed an extra pair of double-quotes
in an fopen() statement somewhere.
-- 
David Charlap         |"there aren't 50,000 things for which it's worth writing
dic5340@hertz.njit.edu| software; and the computer industry doesn't have enough
----------------------+ programmers to create that much good software.
Therefore, most of it must be worthless" -- Boris Beizer "The Frozen Keyboard"
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: iam@stiatl.salestech.com (Ian Mercado)
Subject: Why I love OS/2.  (Kids, try this at home!)
Organization: Sales Technologies, Inc.
Date: Fri, 04 Sep 1992 16:17:11 GMT

Last night, I had the need to DISKCOPY 15 1.44 meg floppies.  Normally a
time consuming and tedious process.  Not this time.  Just fired up an
OS/2 window and let 'er rip.  Only one pass per disk was necessary...none
of this 3+ passes garbage because of that ol' 640K memory barrier that we
all knew and loved.

An hour and a half later, it was all done.  Oh, that and about 7 more
completed missions of Wing Commander II (in which there was no noticeable
degradation in performance).  It's times like that that you really appreciate
all the things that OS/2 DOES do for you, instead of worrying about the things
that it doesn't.

I defy you to do that in Windows 3.1.

Ian

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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: harris@garfield.catt.ncsu.edu (Michael Harris)
Subject: Re: Printing to FILE
Organization: North Carolina State University
Date: Fri, 4 Sep 1992 21:28:03 GMT

eng30087@nusunix2.nus.sg (_) writes:


>I tried that but I still cannot print to a file.
>  I have two printer objects :
>  1) dot matrix printer connected to LPT1
>  2) HP Laserjet printer connected to file
>I have selected the default printer to be option 2 but all my printer output
>still goes to option 1. Any suggestions ?

All *what* printer output?  The output from the print command, a PM program
or a Windows program?

The default for the print command is whatever is connected to LPT1.  Period.
There are options to make it print to a different printer.  Take a look at
the OS/2 Command Reference.  It may not be possible to print a file to a
printer that is not associated with an LPTX port via the command line.  You
can drop a file on the printer icon and print it though.

If you are printing from a PM program, the program *should* print to the
default printer however, they have to be written to do this.  If the program
only opens up LPT1 and prints to it, that is exactly what will happen.

I'm not sure what happens when printing from a Windows application.





______________________________________________________________________________
     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)
From: blackmane@pro-haven.cts.com (Ed Blackman)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: Some suggestions for OS/2
Date: 15 Sep 92 20:16:38 GMT
Organization: ProLine [pro-haven] - Pariahs' Haven BBS, 409/693-8262, 9600-300

In <20335@plains.NoDak.edu> person@plains.NoDak.edu (Brett G Person ) writes:

% 
% I'd like an OS that wasn't so damn dependent on the install disks!
% Other products I have don't make me haul out the install disks ALL
% THE TIME to fix a problem.   Heck, even unix (copyright at&t) doesn't
% make me haul out the boot tape to fix the file system. 

You don't _NEED_ the install diskettes.  All you need to run Chkdsk is an
OS/2 boot disk or disks with a copy of chkdsk on it.  The install diskettes
are simply a convenient source that most everyone that runs OS/2 will have
access to.  You can create your own boot disk, either by hand, or by using
MAKEBOOT.CMD, which can be found at most OS/2 FTP sites.  Or just diskcopy
the first 2 install diskettes.

The reason chkdsk won't work when you've got everything up and running is
because OS/2 locks important files like OS2.INI, and chkdsk can't (and
shouldn't, IMO) deal with locked files.  One way around this, other that
booting from a floppy, isto get access to OS/2 before it locks up all those
files.  You can do this by putting "CALL=C:\OS2\CMD.EXE" (sans quotes)
early on in your config.sys.  This will give you an OS/2 command prompt
early in your boot sequence, and you can run chkdsk, etc, from there.  When
you exit from the CMD shell, booting will continue.  And if you're one of
those types that hates to have to type "exit" everytime you boot up, you
can replace CMD.EXE with 4OS2.EXE (from the shareware 4OS2 package) and set
up a .CMD file that will automatically exit if you don't press "y" or
whatever within a specified time limit.

Ed

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Internet: blackmane@pro-haven.cts.com
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From: ruggiero@antwrp.antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov (Knic)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: Diamond Speed Star+ (non-24x) driver problems.
Date: 8 Sep 92 17:32:33 GMT
Organization: Compton Gamma Ray Observatory Science Support Center


I've been watching for this for the past month but I seem to have missed it.
so let me ask again...

	How did you get the DSS24 (non-x) to work in 1024x768 mode?  I've tried
the et4000 patch etc... but to know avail.  I can't seem to get anything other
than standard vga out of my system.  I'd be happy to just get 640x480x256...

		please repost

				-Knic
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: das9674@usl.edu (Stephenson Daniel A)
Subject: HPFS aware Comm program?
Organization: University of Southwestern Louisiana
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1992 19:57:48 GMT

Is there an OS/2 2.0 comm programs that are HHPFS aware and let me
download LONG filename files?

--
Dan Stephenson                                           das9674@usl.edu
" BERLIN WALL FALLS.  3 BORDER GUARDS LOSE JOBS.  CLINTON BLAMES BUSH! "
        -George Bush, '92 Republican nomination acceptance speech
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: feustel@netcom.com (David Feustel)
Subject: Re: extended attributes
Date: Mon, 07 Sep 92 23:12:05 GMT
Organization: DAFCO: OS/2 Software Support & Consulting

I would strongly reccomend reinstalling os/2 and reformatting the disk
to HPFS. Extended attributes seem to cause problems with FAT systems
but work perfectly (at least in my case) with HPFS-formatted disks.
-- 
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: sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu (Timothy F. Sipples)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: WANTED: List of installed OS/2 files
Date: 15 Sep 92 15:52:33 GMT
Reply-To: sip1@midway.uchicago.edu
Distribution: usa
Organization: Dept. of Econ., Univ. of Chicago

In article <2AB5DE4E.53D6@tct.com> paul@tct.com (Paul Levin) writes:
>Does anyone have (I'm sure IBM does) a list of all of the files that
>were (can be) installed on my hard disk, when I installed OS/2; and what
>those files do.  I am sure there are several that I can remove with
>no ill effects to the rest of the system -- but which ones ??

Try the file os2flist.zoo (?), available via anonymous ftp from
ftp-os2.nmsu.edu.  Should be in /pub/os2/2.0/info.

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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
From: dic5340@hertz.njit.edu (David Charlap)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: DISPLAY.DLL always busy (installing new drivers)
Date: 8 Sep 92 16:03:44 GMT
Organization: New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, N.J.

In article <1992Sep7.095952.3792@spcvxb.spc.edu> mauritz_c@spcvxb.spc.edu writes:
>I just got the new Tseng4000 drivers from Hobbes, but I am having
>trouble installing them.  The system will not allow me to replace
>DISPLAY.DLL in the DLL folder since it is perpetually in use.
>How do I get around this?

Place a "CALL=C:\OS2\CMD.EXE" in config.sys (near the top).  When your
system boots, you'll be at a prompt.  You can replace ANYTHING at this
point, since file-locking hasn't been loaded yet.  Replace your .DLL
file here.  Type "exit" from this prompt, and booting will continue.



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  /|_  dic5340@hertz.njit.edu   abrogates some of the advantages of making a
 ((|,)                          disagreeable person keep his distance."
  ~|~                              --- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: xtifr@netcom.com (Chris Waters)
Subject: Re: Just what IS Alt-F1 (was Re: Multiple Desktops....)
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 92 18:02:50 GMT
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  (408 241-9760 guest) 

In <jdecarlo.240.716128041@mitre.org> jdecarlo@mitre.org (John DeCarlo) writes:

>And this is exactly what IBM recommends in the applicable Red Book.  They 
>recommend that the first line of CONFIG.SYS be an XCOPY of the *.ini files 
>into the INSTALL directory.  Then they recommend that STARTUP.CMD copy 
>the .INI files into .1, .2, and .3 versions so you have several versions 
>back, in case the most recent one is corrupted.

As an alternative, this idea came up in a discussion on a local BBS. 
(Note that I haven't tested this yet, but I cannot think of any reason
it wouldn't work...)

Add to your CONFIG.SYS:

CALL=C:\BIN\ZOO.EXE uh+ C:\INIBAK.ZOO C:\OS2\OS2.INI C:\OS2\OS2SYS.INI

This will save the INI files *if* they have changed, and will keep older
versions (Zoo allows you to have several versions of a file in an
archive).  Of course, this means that you must have a copy of zoo, but I
suspect that most people reading this do.

Just thought I'd pass this idea along.  Comments and criticism are welcome.
-- 
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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: dauphin@adobe.com (Kimberly Dauphin)
Subject: How do I make Win-OS/2 clipboard private and closed by default?
Organization: Adobe Systems Incorporated
Distribution: usa
Date: Mon, 14 Sep 1992 22:06:20 GMT

I've looked through all the manuals and can't seem to find the
answer.  Before I call the OS/2 help hotline, I thought I'd
try the net.os2.gurus.

Is there a way to make the Win-OS/2 clipboard *private* and
*closed* by default?

Thanks in advance!

-- 
_____________________________________________________

Kimberly Dauphin	  Adobe Systems Incorporated
dauphin@mv.us.adobe.com	  Mountain View, CA
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: rgpxs360@glen-ellyn.iit.edu (Peter Stein)
Subject: Re: v13i299: zip19x32.zoo, Info-ZIP Zip 1.9 - OS/2 2.0 version (part 01/05)
Organization: Illinois Institute of Technology, Rice Campus
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1992 15:09:50 GMT

In article <1992Sep9.204002.16961@njitgw.njit.edu> dic5340@hertz.njit.edu (David Charlap) writes:
>In article <2AAD239E.5017@deneva.sdd.trw.com> reimert@mamacass.etdesg.trw.com (Scott P. Reimert) writes:
>>Part 3 of Info-ZIP Zip 1.9 never made it this far. Would it be possible to 
>>get it reposted please?

Ditto. Neither of the 2 sites I read news at received it.

>
>Just ftp the program from ftp-os2.nmsu.edu.  Everything posted to
>comp.binaries.os2 is sent there.  It's currently in /pub/os2/new.
>It'll be moved elsewhere RSN.  It'll also be mirrored in the
>"archives" directory tree - where all c.b.o2 submissions end up.
>
>-- 
>   |)  David Charlap           "LECTURER, n.  One with his hand in your pocket,
>  /|_  dic5340@hertz.njit.edu   his tongue in your ear, and his faith in your
> ((|,)                          patience."
>  ~|~                              --- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary

Not everyone has internet access and obtaining files via mail servers is
agonizingly slow and error prone. Even though I now have access I am
constrained to download files from that site at 2400 baud. Furthermore,
what you're suggesting is terribly inefficient. If a single piece didn't
make it to a large number of sites would it be better to repost that
piece or have the subscribers retrieve the file in its entirety ?

It is particularly annoying to spend several days collecting the pieces
of a multipart submission only to discover that something is missing 
and then having to wait (sometimes in vain) for that piece to arrive.
Depending on the size of the submission one could also be tying up a
significant chunk of storage during this wait.
From: merrill@cs.arizona.edu (Darren Merrill)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Corel Corp ships CorelDraw 2.5 for OS/2
Date: 15 Sep 92 22:39:43 GMT

From InfoWorld (the worlds best source of info :):
   Corel Corp is shipping CorelDraw 2.01.1 for Unix 
   and CorelDraw 2.5 for OS/2.  The $895 Unix version
   [blah blah].... The 32-bit version for OS/2 offers
   new import and export filters and is shipping for
   $595.

There Steve, you have some backup :)

-darren

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Department of Computer Science  Compuserve: 76570,2526
University of Arizona    
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