HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: dic5340@hertz.njit.edu (David Charlap)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: Problems "running" a *.INF file...
Date: 5 Jan 93 20:59:38 GMT
Organization: New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, N.J.

In article <1993Jan4.062712.14698@midway.uchicago.edu> pynq@midway.uchicago.edu writes:
>I d/l'd the OS2YOU.INF file from OS2YOU.ZIP - when I double click on the
>icon for the file, I get a VIEW.EXE error message, saying "Topic not found."
>
>However, when I go to an OS/2 window, and say "view os2you.inf", it
>seems to work fine - starts up a thread reading the file.  Why is this?

A bug in the install program.  *.INF files are not associated with
VIEW.EXE.  Instead, they're associated with the "Command Reference"
icon.  So the effective command line becomes:

    VIEW CMDREF.INF OS2YOU.INF

Since OS2YOU.INF isn't a topic in CMDREF.INF, you get the error.

Do this to correct the problem:

1) Open the Command Reference settings.  Go to the associations page
   and remove the association with *.INF files.

2) Go to OS/2 System -> System -> Migrate applications.  Choose OS/2
   programs.  Migrate VIEW.EXE (it's in C:\OS2).  Put the VIEW.EXE
   icon anywhere you want.  Rename it anything you want.

3) Open the VIEW.EXE's settings.  Create an association with *.INF
   files.

Now, your info files should be associated with VIEW.EXE instead of
with the command reference.  All should be well now.

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From: jwh@citi.umich.edu (Jim Howe)
Subject: Re: 2.1 beta:  is it possible to install directly from the cd-rom?
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 93 11:29:50 EST
Organization: IFS Project, University of Michigan
Reply-To: jwh@citi.umich.edu

In article <1993Jan12.150858.6715@midway.uchicago.edu>, pynq@quads.uchicago.edu (Jeremy Mathers) writes:
|> In article <APOULSEN.93Jan12004758@alfredo.mit.edu> apoulsen@athena.mit.edu (Andy Poulsen) writes:
|> >hi,
|> >
|> >from the postings i've seen on the 2.1 beta (since i arrived back from
|> >vacation) it appears to me that it is not possible to install the 2.1
|> >beta directly from the cd-rom i.e. you have to create floppies from the
|> >cd-rom and then install.  is this in fact the case?  or am i mistaken
|> >(hopefully) and it's possible to install directly?
|> 
|> There is a rumor floating around that it can be done, but I don't
|> believe it.  (If this were AFU, I would post that as an ObUl...)
|> 

If you have a supported CD-ROM drive, you can install from the CD-ROM
after creating 2 diskettes which you use to boot from.  Once you have booted
and done some initial configuration, OS/2 will install directly from
the CD-ROM.  I just did this a couple of days ago and it worked without
problems.



James W. Howe                  internet: jwh@citi.umich.edu
University of Michigan             uucp: uunet!mailrus!citi.umich.edu!jwh
Ann Arbor, MI   48103-4943         
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From: tmolbach@Lise.Unit.NO (Thomas M|lbach)
Subject: Mirror of hobbes
Organization: Norwegian Institue of Technology
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 93 08:45:56 GMT

Does anyone know if there is a mirror of hobbes anywhere? (In europe??)

thoMas
From: p_quinn@pavo.concordia.ca (QUINN, PAUL)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: OS/2 beta Ehanced Win 3.1 support
Date: 12 Jan 93 02:50:00 GMT
Organization: Concordia University
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41


	Does the 2.1 beta support Win 3.1 ehanced mode?  If so how to I start
Win in that mode?


Paul
p_quinn@pavo.concordia.ca
From: ASI509@DJUKFA11.BITNET
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: OS of the future....RFD about configuration
Date: 5 Jan 93 16:05:10 GMT
Organization: Forschungszentrum Juelich

In article <1993Jan4.223434.29621@njitgw.njit.edu>, dic5340@hertz.njit.edu
(David Charlap) says:
>
>What would you prefer, instead of config.sys.

I would like something like the Mac approach. If you suspect some app has
changed the system configuration and is causing trouble you can tell from the
name and icon of the INITS in the system folder which belongs to which app and
simply drag it out of the system folder.

Of cause we could have the same effect if every app that changes CONFIG.SYS
would first place a comment in the file and then make its additions. But then
_not_ _every_ app would do that. Better IBM would provide a change-config.sys-
-tool that maintains order in config.sys. I don't think that would be more
than a 15 to 20 kB utility, but if it belongs to the system I have hope it
would be used.

Michael Bode.
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: Elias_Wakan@mindlink.bc.ca (Elias Wakan)
Subject: finding OS/2 FAQ
Organization: MIND LINK! - British Columbia, Canada
Date: Sat, 9 Jan 1993 03:37:39 GMT

I've just upgraded hardware and want to consider using OS/2.  I've read the
mag reviews (none out-of-this-world fantastic, almost everybody seems
hypnotized by Windows), and a bit of the OS2.MISC and OS2.ADVOCACY dialogue.
Can someone tell me how to locate a (the?) OS/2 FAQ list.  Asume I'm a
complete neophyte beyond reading these USENET postings.

Thank you.

Elias Wakan
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Subject: Dos Settings for MSCDEX in 2.1 Beta??
From: kbwilson@miavx1.acs.muohio.edu
Date: 8 Jan 93 22:49:41 -0500
Organization: Miami University Academic Computer Service"

Hi,
	Does anyone know the method of getting mscdex to work in 2.1 Beta?
I made disks and installed from them and have messed up my img file to access
the CD-ROM.  I think it is explained in the CD-Rom but this does not help
me until I can access it.  If any one could look it up.  Someone posted it 
before but silly me didnt write it down.  Thanks if you can help and well
thanks if you can't.
				Boyd Wilson
					Kbwilson@134.53.2.10
From: dic5340@hertz.njit.edu (David Charlap)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: XGA-2 cards
Date: 5 Jan 93 20:50:42 GMT
Organization: New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, N.J.

In article <30638.1088.uupcb@satalink.com> bert.tyler@satalink.com (Bert Tyler) writes:
>Part of the XGA-2 spec is a new INT 10H BIOS call that returns with
>all of the information that used to require wandering through MCA
>POS-IDs to collect.  A *much* better approach, IMHO, and easily 
>pre-pended to the MCA-based POS-ID search found in all current
>XGA-aware programs and drivers.  Make the INT 10H call, and only use
>the MCA search if the INT 10H call fails.

Not likely.  Under protected mode (like OS/2), you won't be able to
access any BIOS functions, and certainly won't be able to make an
INT-10h call.  So this is strictly a DOS-only thing.  Under a DOS box,
the call should work if you turned off BIOS emulation and use the real
BIOS.  I don't think OS/2 could use this at all for its own drivers.

Then again, the SVGA.EXE program (which must be run from a DOS session
anyway) could make this call and write the information to the
svgadata.pmi file somewhere.  This could work.  You'd just have to
launch this DOS app before using any XGA modes.  Not a bad
alternative, since the XGA's "auto-configuration" seems to require a
disk file anyway.
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From: rcmerrit@apgea.army.mil (Robert C. Merritt <rcmerrit>)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Os/2 Questions
Date: 4 Jan 93 18:35:44 GMT
Organization: APG-Edgewood


Ok friends. I just got OS/2 and I have a few questions.
I don't think this bares any relvance BUT I'll list my system:
486 DX 33 (ISA) with 16 megs of ram, ATI VGA wonder, 175 meg hard drive,
Sound blaster pro with CD-rom, internal 9600 Zoom modem.
OS2 2.0 dos upgrade using FAT system
(well, some of that might be important).

1. How do I get procom for Windows working again?
	I installed os/2. (I was quite happy that it went in without a hitch)
I migrated all my dos and window programs. Procom worked great in down loads
and uploads with about 1000 cps using Z modem while playing the dos game 
Willy Beamish. (I "might" solve that one day! :) Later, while exploring, I
accdently deleted the append program fromm my mdos directory. I read, looked
at online help, banged my head, looked at the disk but I couldn't figure
out how to get it back. (It was giving an anoyying error but still allows
dos programs to run.) Ok, so the only way to get it back was to do a selective
install. So I( re-installed the dos-win0s2 and the program returened and
the error message went away. Later, I went into Procomm for wndows and it came
back and said that all the important dlls were missing. What the!!!??? ok,
I can see how weird thing could happen, so I deleted it and reinstalled 
procomm. Fine, no problem. Then I go to run it and it says, not a Win-OS2,     
please run as dos or os2.???? Like, I have the option? (I looked and it didn't
allow me to alter what it could be in the settings) So, I go into
win-os2, guesse what? It says it has no shell and throws me back into os2.
Short of deleting os2, the girl, the goldwatch and everything I'm not
sure what to do. ANY suggtions?? at all???


2. Ok, to get my soundblaster CD-rom to work, I have to boot a Virtual 
machine of dos 5 because my msdex.exe file requires dos 5.00 it seems. I
try to run it under os/2 dos and it says wrong dos version. Is there
some way I could fix it to run? I hate running under VM under drive A due to
it likes to read the floppy for some strange reason at bad times. I run a BBS
and while it works great under os/2 from a dos window, floppy drive access 
tends to slow things up. Any suggestions?

3. When I exit out of a program from dos, it sometimes locks up. Is there
anyway to xkill the process without a shut down or attempting to delete it?
Specifically with Wolfienstien 3d. (shareware demo version)

Thanks very much
Rob Merritt
From: KENKAHN@PKSMRVM.VNET.IBM.COM (Kenneth A. Kahn)
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 93 14:52:14 EST
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: Detach command.
Organization: Staff of IBM Fellow - IBM Personal/370
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)
            <21062@ucdavis.ucdavis.edu>

In <21062@ucdavis.ucdavis.edu> James E. Lee writes:
>Also, does anyone know of a way to put something in the background
>and foreground on the fly without using PM windows (like fg & bg in
>UNIX)?
>

I'm not sure what you mean by "on the fly" but you can use the START command
to kick off a background process via the /B option.  You can create an object
that starts a command processor, File Name of '*', and specify parameters like
"/C START /B prog.exe" to start the background session without calling up a
new window.
From: dab6@po.CWRU.Edu (Douglas A. Bell)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: OS 2.1 Beta.  What happened to me.
Date: 5 Jan 1993 19:16:10 GMT
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
Reply-To: dab6@po.CWRU.Edu (Douglas A. Bell)
NNTP-Posting-Host: slc12.ins.cwru.edu


In a previous article, williams@herky.cs.uiowa.edu (Kent Williams) says:

>Hi.  Here's what I started out with
>
>2.0 GA + CSD + Win 3.1 Beta
>
>I made diskettes and installed from them (if anyone's interested in Rube
>Goldberg setups, try this: I stuffed the CDROM in an Iris Indigo, copied
>the disk info into a directory visible on NFS, and then used a PC with
>PCNFS to make the disks).
>
>Problem 1) I can't run windows at all. seamless, full screen, doesn't matter.
>All start going and then quit.  If I start a full-screen DOS session and then
>type win, it tells me that it can't execute OS2GDI.EXE.

Rename gdi.exe to os2gdi.exe for a quick fix.
I think you could also hunt through the windows .ini file to find the 
problem.
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From: widow@camelot.bradley.edu (Shaun Burnett)
Subject: Re: Does anyone know a security-prog. for OS/2
Organization: Bradley University
Date:  7 Jan 93 19:18:00 GMT

In <1993Jan7.152011.2853@odin.diku.dk> spring@diku.dk (Jesper Honig Spring) writes:

>I'm looking for a programme, which will ask for a password each time the
>machine boots up. Does anyone no if such a programme exist and if so; where
>can I get it.

	I haven't used it, but "lockboot.zip" claims to have this
	function.  Get it from "ftp-os2.nmsu.edu" in
	"/pub/os2/2.0/sysutils".

	If you want more security than that, PYRAMID Development
	Corporations has PC/DACS.  It claims multiple level security
	with user identification and authentication, session time out,
	encryption and boot protection.  Cost is $49 in USA and
	Canada.

	Their phone number is 203-257-4223, FAX: 203-257-4245.


Shaun Burnett		    |	"You can't survive on a new planet with a
widow@camelot.bradley.edu   |	soul full of hope and fresh air you know."
OS/2--Happy Happy Joy Joy--OS/2		-  Dr. Who (Tom Baker)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: ifox@wam.umd.edu (Ira "Isa" Fox)
Subject: reporting bugs in 2.1 beta?
Organization: University of Maryland, College Park
Distribution: usa
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 00:49:14 GMT

   The subject line says it all.  I have internet access and prodigy.
Does IBM execpt inet mail on their compuserv account??

               Any info will be appreciated gratefully,
   
                                     - Ira 
                                   ifox@wam.umd.edu

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From: sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu (Timothy F. Sipples)
Subject: Re: Video switching hard on monitor?
Reply-To: sip1@midway.uchicago.edu
Organization: Dept. of Econ., Univ. of Chicago
Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1993 04:14:35 GMT

In article <1993Jan3.184051.22959@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> pprior@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Paul A Prior) writes:
>As a consequence of having no seamless drivers for my ATI Ultra Pro
>card I find myself switching around a lot, causing my monitor (Mag 15FX)
>to change modes.  It does this electronically, but the screen jumps
>around and it clicks when it happens.  Does this put undue stress
>on the monitor?  That is, is it really designed to be changed frequently
>or was it designed to make the switch maybe once a day?  I think
>most quality monitors now have this feature so that one does not have
>to manually adjust the field every time the mode changes.

No problem -- it should do no harm to your monitor.

-- 
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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc,comp.os.os2.apps
From: bauwens@acs.ucalgary.ca (Luc Bauwens)
Subject: Re: Trap 000e - any fix???
Date: Sat, 09 Jan 93 19:08:08 GMT
Organization: The University of Calgary, Alberta
Keywords: trap 000e

In article <1993Jan8.140742.16313@ms.uky.edu> shan@ms.uky.edu (Minghua SHAN) writes:
>I sometimes get trap 000e when running DOS applications (such as
>Paradox 4.0) under OS/2 2.0 + SP. Is this due to a OS/2 bug?
>Is there any fix to this problem?


Interesting.  My son just got hit by a Trap 000e while playing a
game called "Gateway" in a full-screen DOS session.  (For the
second time in a few days).  We haven't had the problem with
other DOS programs, though.

It says "Internal Processing Error at location ##0160:fff6459e - 
000d:459e.

)38600d1
Internal Revision 6.466, 92/10/15

(The Service Pak).

(I noted all the flags too, BTW)

And BTW**2, what is Trap 000e supposed to mean?

Luc B
From: unruh@physics.ubc.ca (William Unruh)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: Detach command.
Date: 7 Jan 1993 20:29:28 GMT
Organization: The University of British Columbia
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: physics.ubc.ca

KENKAHN@PKSMRVM.VNET.IBM.COM (Kenneth A. Kahn) writes:

>In <21062@ucdavis.ucdavis.edu> James E. Lee writes:
>>Also, does anyone know of a way to put something in the background
>>and foreground on the fly without using PM windows (like fg & bg in
>>UNIX)?
>>

>I'm not sure what you mean by "on the fly" but you can use the START command
>to kick off a background process via the /B option.  You can create an object
>that starts a command processor, File Name of '*', and specify parameters like
>"/C START /B prog.exe" to start the background session without calling up a
>new window.

He means, if you already have a program running , can you detach it from
the window, and later reattach it. In Unix if you have a program running
in you window from the command line, you can detach it fromn the winsow
by halting it ( with ctrl-Z) and then issuing a bg command to restart it
in the background. fg will take a backgrond task and reattach it to the
window. Obviously if the task does console IO you can't detach it and
have it keep running- In Unix it halts waiting for you to reattach it.
.
From: marten@feki.toppoint.de (Marten Feldtmann)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: A few OS/2 WPS question
Date: Thu, 07 Jan 93 13:06:37 GMT
Organization: Private OS/2 System

In article <1993Jan5.201312.23869@netcom.com> rogoff@netcom.com (Carolyn Rogoff David Rogoff) writes:
> 
>However, when I use the menu item, there are apparently arguements being sent
>to the application.  Emacs starts up and complains that it can't find file
>OS2 ! System (whatever it's called).
> 

 The same with elm.exe .. perhaps you write a "cmd"-file and start the
application from within this "cmd"-file.

 MF

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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: tee@ecf.toronto.edu (TEE LUNS)
Subject: Re: a couple of more questions
Organization: University of Toronto, Engineering Computing Facility
Date: Sun, 10 Jan 1993 22:25:40 GMT

In article <1993Jan10.212444.19826@netcom.com> rogoff@netcom.com (Carolyn Rogoff David Rogoff) writes:
>4)  Calling programs from WPS menu:  WPS adds the calling directory
>as an arguement to the program.  The way around this would be to
>have the menu call a .cmd script that deals with this and then runs
>the actual program.
>

    If the program being called doesn't need parameters passed ever, then
you can specify a blank % in the Parameters field in its settings notebook.
From: frampton@vicuna.ocunix.on.ca (Steve Frampton)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: Opinion:  What IBM should change in OS/2
Date: 7 Jan 93 21:46:08 GMT
Reply-To: frampton@vicuna.ocunix.on.ca
Followup-To: comp.os.os2.misc
Organization: Vicuna Systems, Kingston, Ontario, CANADA
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii

About the only the I liked about Windows was that the Program Manager
blanked the screen after a certain period of keyboard and mouse 
inactivity -- pressing any key or even just moving the mouse would
restore the screen.

Gawd, I wish WPS did that!

P.S. If it does, please don't flame me, but instead *please* tell me
how I can enable it!

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From: unruh@physics.ubc.ca (William Unruh)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: Windows 3.1 support doesn't work for me...
Date: 10 Jan 1993 21:45:05 GMT
Organization: The University of British Columbia
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: physics.ubc.ca

withers_s@kosmos.wcc.govt.nz writes:

>30ish empty lines following in order to foll the NNTP server into posting this.

Who the hell supports nntp ( or rather inews) This fascist behaviour of
inews of not letting you post if you dont have more response lines than
original is totally absurd. Sorry this is the wrong news feed but It's a
constant anoyance.
Bill Unruh
unruh@physics.ubc.ca

Xref: sparky comp.os.os2.misc:42098 comp.os.os2.apps:10083
From: pmuellr@vnet.ibm.com (Pat Mueller)
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 93 12:06:35 EST
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc,comp.os.os2.apps
Subject: Re: Passing batch arguments to pgm (was: Neat timesaving trick.)

>}So, I have e.cmd which looks like
>
>}@start \os2\e %1 %2 %3 %4 %5 %6 %7 %8 %9
>
>}(is there an easier way than making all the %'s?)
>
>If you were to use 4OS2 instead of CMD, you could then rewrite this as:
>
>@start \os2\e %&

Write it in rexx as

   --------------------------------------
   /* */
   "@start \os2\e" arg(1)
   --------------------------------------

or if it HAS to be 1 line

   /* */ "@start \os2\e" arg(1)

(The /* */ sequence in a .cmd file (starting in line 1, col 1) is
an indication to CMD.EXE that the file is a rexx macro, not the
old style .bat language).

Patrick Mueller                  addr:  pmuellr@vnet.ibm.com
IBM Cary, North Carolina         phone: 919-469-7242
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: schepers@watserv1.uwaterloo.ca (Peter Schepers)
Subject: Jump scrolling
Organization: University of Waterloo
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 18:01:24 GMT


Some people have been asking lately for jump-scrolling in a dos window. As
it turns out, I have found a way to do this. (I posted a message a while
ago, but I don't know if I did it right.)

One night, I was screwing around with some files I had downloaded, one of
which was called UNBLIN20.ZIP (available from OAK.OAKLAND.EDU
/pub/msdos/screen). This program changes the cursor from the standard blinking
line to a solid non-blinking block. After running this program, and doing
a DIR in a window, I found the scrolling speed MUCH improved. Taking it
out and doing a dir again, bleh, back to the same old smooth slow scroll.
So in my AUTOEXEC it goes. (for your info, I put UNBLINK near the top of
my autoexec, and execute it with a /u to turn the cursor into an
Unblinking block.)

So, in summary, it seems that when the cursor is disabled (i.e. no
flashing) the scrolling is much improved. I would heartily suggest you try
this program, since the improvement is appreciable. 



P.S. Can someone reply to this message, I am not sure if it is getting out
to the world...)

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From: pynq@quads.uchicago.edu (Jeremy Mathers)
Subject: How to load stuff high in specific DOS session (I missed it!)
Reply-To: pynq@midway.uchicago.edu
Organization: D. J. Dougherty & Associates
Date: Sat, 9 Jan 1993 04:55:38 GMT

I looked thru all the docs, and couldn't find out how to do it.
I think it was posted here just a few hours ago.

TFS said that you had to use the memory management stuff in
C:\OS2\MDOS, but there is nothing in there that looks like a LOADHIGH
utility.

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