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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.apps
From: des@inmos.co.uk (David Shepherd)
Subject: Re: *FAST* GIF viewer for OS/2 PM available on Hobbes
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL8]
Date: Mon, 4 Jan 93 11:48:09 GMT

James E. Lee (ez003045@hamlet.ucdavis.edu) wrote:
: I am also impressed with the speed of pmview, however, it tends to hang
: my system after a couple gifs...  oh well, I expect it'll be worth the 
: wait...  Keep up the good work!

i played around with it a bit and then went onto do something a bit
more serious using ami pro (well, printing out our christmas card
address list :-) and had all sorts of problems. when i managed to get 
am os/2 shell open i found that i had a 10Mb swap file (about 5Mb
bigger than i'd seen before). after rebooting and not using pmview
service returned to normal.

pmview is great, but i think it has a memory leak or some other
resource hog somewhere

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From: sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu (Timothy F. Sipples)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.apps,comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: BackMaster (was: CMS tape backup is buggy!)
Date: 4 Jan 93 16:45:42 GMT
Reply-To: sip1@midway.uchicago.edu
Followup-To: comp.os.os2.apps
Organization: Dept. of Econ., Univ. of Chicago

In article <1993Jan4.151335.22463@olymp.informatik.uni-bonn.de> greve@rs1 (Thomas Greve) writes:
>Backmaster is a backup program (you guessed it ;-), that is available
>from hobbes:/pub/uploads. I tried it between Xmas and New Years Eve
>and was a bit disappointed. There already is an item in the `settings'
>menu for QIC40/80 media, but this item is still `not implemented'...

This is a demo copy.  BackMaster is commercial.  It will be available
for $49.95 (introductory price).

>So let's wait for the next beta release. BTW: i wouldn't want to trust
>a PM-only backup program, as i'd like to be able to restore data after
>booting from a floppy -- eg. because the WPS doesn't come up anymore
>or whatever...

BackMaster has a standalone text mode restore facility, according to
the specs.

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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.apps
From: heiser@TDWR.ED.RAY.COM (Bill Heiser)
Subject: Re: HELP!!!!!!!
Organization: Raytheon Company, Equipment Division
Date: Tue, 5 Jan 93 17:23:35 GMT

In article <1992Dec31.203140.62375@cc.usu.edu> slq56@cc.usu.edu writes:
>I've decided that I no longer want to run OS/2 on my system, due to the
>lack of memory and a couple other hardware problems.  Is there a way
>to get rid of the OS/2 boot sector on my HD and put a DOS boot sector
>back on without having to re-format the HD?  Any info you can give will
>be appreciated... Thanks!

Why don't you boot from a DOS floppy (or an OS/2 floppy) and
run fdisk to make the DOS partition active?

Or are you running boot manager?    If so I wonder if you could
delete THAT partition, then make the DOS partition active?


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              Other: heiser@world.std.com, heiser@acs.bu.edu
From: dsou@btma57.nohost.nodomain
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.apps
Subject: LHX Helicopter Simulator Sound
Date: 5 Jan 93 09:34:57 GMT


The game LHX has support for the Adlib sound card, Tandy sound and
PC sound. The games runs fine within a DOS Window under OS/2 V2.0.
There is a problem with the sound. LHX tries to detect a sound card
at startup. About half the time it fails to detect my Sound Blaster
card, so utilizes the limited PC sound capabilities.

Does anyone have any suggestions on what I can do to ensure that my
sound card is always detected?

Regards,
Dan Soussi
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.apps
From: roe2@ellis.uchicago.edu (Cave Newt)
Subject: Re: New PKZIP problems?
Reply-To: roe2@midway.uchicago.edu
Organization: University of Chicago
Date: Sat, 9 Jan 1993 02:51:47 GMT

ghensle@opie.bgsu.edu (Gary Hensley) writes:

>I downloaded PKZIP 2.04C and I am wondering if anyone else is having any
>troubles with it?  Under straight DOS 5.0 it has worked fine (arj still
>compresses better for me) but under OS/2 it hangs while compressing files.

Use the -) option.  See comp.compression for other settings.
From: jfarley@eis.calstate.edu (John Roger Farley)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.apps
Subject: Re: Norton Commander for OS/2
Date: 9 Jan 93 20:51:09 GMT
Organization: Calif State Univ/Electronic Information Services

There is a great program that can be used for changing directories by
using a partial path name.  It can also show a tree of the entire disk. 
The name of the file is 'vcd10.zip' and can be found on hobbes.
From: unruh@physics.ubc.ca (William Unruh)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.apps
Subject: Re: cannot unzip file from OS2 ftp site
Date: 6 Jan 1993 04:20:17 GMT
Organization: The University of British Columbia
Distribution: usa
NNTP-Posting-Host: physics.ubc.ca

ahm@latech.edu (Albert H. Mak) writes:



>I downloaded a ziped file from ftp-os2.nmsu.edu. However was not
>able to unzip it. The program gave me a strange message
>"do not know how to handle XXXXXX.XXX" where XXXXXX.XXX is the 
>name of the unziped file.

Sorry I would have mailed but latech claims there is no user ahm.
ftp-os2 is using the new version of zip, so you need unzip 5.0 It is in
/pub/os2/2.0/archivers as unz50x32.exe. ( and no I also don't know why
they keep changing the compression type and version- it seems short time
ago ftp-os2 was all zoo, and now it's all new zip. Progress I guess).
From: des@inmos.co.uk (David Shepherd)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.apps
Subject: Re: better vdisk
Date: 5 Jan 93 14:40:40 GMT
Distribution: comp
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL8]

Jussi M Peltoniemi (jpeltoni@niksula.hut.fi) wrote:

: Is there better vdisk than the one that comes with os/2 2.0?

: I mean vdisk that is swappable

isn't this counter-productive. the whole idea of a vdisk is that the
files are in memory and not on a (slow) disk. making it swapable will
just chuck the files back out to disk.

: I have 17 MB ram and if I make 10 MB vdisk my machine slows down quite
: a bit with multiple big programs.

have you tried using a big disk cache instead?

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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.apps
From: nareid@due.unit.no (Helge Nareid)
Subject: Re: Borland C++, Lotus 123, Freelance Graphics ....
Keywords: New OS/2 apps
Organization: University of Trondheim, Norway
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 93 11:05:30 GMT

In article <1993Jan12.023942.29141@midway.uchicago.edu>, sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu (Timothy F. Sipples) writes:
|> In article <1993Jan9.202135.10331@ugle.unit.no> ewaage@Lise.Unit.NO (Espen Waage) writes:
|> >What is the latest news on Borland C++, Lotus 123,
|> >Freelance Graphics and those CA-products?
[...]
|> Borland hasn't said a word -- they've been extremely silent on the
|> issue, probably because of criticism for being late with Quattro Pro
|> for Windows and Paradox for Windows.

An acquaintance of mine says that he is expecting the "gamma" (!) version 
of Borland C++ "any day now", and if this is the case, the product should 
be released within a couple of months.

- Helge Nareid


Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.apps
From: mullins@convex.com (Don Mullins)
Subject: Educational games questions
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 16:30:03 GMT
Organization: Engineering, CONVEX Computer Corp., Richardson, Tx., USA
X-Disclaimer: This message was written by a user at CONVEX Computer
              Corp. The opinions expressed are those of the user and
              not necessarily those of CONVEX.

  Has anyone tried any of the DOS games from Davidson under OS/2 2.0?
  Specifically, I am looking to purchase "Reading & Me".

  Another series of games I am interested in is the Math Rabbit and Reader
  Rabbit series.  I don't know the company for the Rabbit programs.

Thanks,
Don

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From: marten@feki.toppoint.de (Marten Feldtmann)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.apps
Subject: Re: Don't trust GTAK! (was: Re: gtak with Future Domain)
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 93 07:30:04 GMT
Organization: Private OS/2 System

In article <1993Jan9.065916.578@tware.com> bash@tware.com (Paul Bash) writes:
>In article <C03nu7.47M@NeoSoft.com> tjb@NeoSoft.com (Timothy J. Bogart) writes:
>>Keywords
>>
>>Having installed gtak 201 binaries on a friend's machined with
>>a Future Domain 950 and Wangtek 6130 (?), I have some questions.
>>Doing a 'tar cp .' seems to chunk away nicley, with only an error
>>message about not being able to back up swapper.dat.  Fine.  Reading
>>with 'tar tpv' gives several errors about unrecognized file type and
>>it stops part way thru the archive.
>
>It sounds like you and I are having similar problems (although I'm
>using an Adaptec 1542B and an Archive 2150s). In my case, the

 The same problem (same behaviour) on my machine (1542B and Wangtek
5150ES) -- the author of the software mailed me (Andreas Kaiser), that
it only could be a hardware problem.

 MF

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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.apps
From: fiv2@cunixa.cc.columbia.edu (Fidel I Villa)
Subject: Database Server Under OS/2
Organization: Columbia University
Distribution: na
Date: Sat, 9 Jan 1993 17:35:25 GMT


Anybody out there *seriously* using IBM Database Manager (name?)
What front-end are you using (screen designer, report generator)?

We would like replace our Informix SQL engine (DOS single user) with 
one running natively under OS/2 and the requirements are:

1. Must have a data dictionary.
2. Should have good screen and report tools (DDE with OS/2 apps like
   Objectvision is good enough)
3. Multi-user preferred, therefore networkable.

- Fidel V.

* Thanks for all who patiently answered my previous questions, especially
to Andrew Jarman - my mail to you keep coming back.

-----------
Etcetera...

NY Times, Saturday 1/9

Rich A. Page (co-founder ) resigned from Next... 
Next is rewriting its NextStep software to run on IBM compatibles.
Competitor to OS/2? What your opinion.

Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.apps
From: 880506s@dragon.acadiau.ca (James R. Skinner)
Subject: 32bit 4os2 bug?
Organization: Acadia University
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 23:04:28 GMT

	
When ever I type help off in the new 32 bit version of 4os2 I get a general
protection fault. Has anyone else experienced this behaviour?

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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.apps
From: bash@tware.com (Paul Bash)
Subject: Don't trust GTAK! (was: Re: gtak with Future Domain)
Organization: Techware Design, Boulder, Colorado
Date: Sat, 9 Jan 1993 06:59:16 GMT

In article <C03nu7.47M@NeoSoft.com> tjb@NeoSoft.com (Timothy J. Bogart) writes:
>Keywords
>
>Having installed gtak 201 binaries on a friend's machined with
>a Future Domain 950 and Wangtek 6130 (?), I have some questions.
>Doing a 'tar cp .' seems to chunk away nicley, with only an error
>message about not being able to back up swapper.dat.  Fine.  Reading
>with 'tar tpv' gives several errors about unrecognized file type and
>it stops part way thru the archive.

It sounds like you and I are having similar problems (although I'm
using an Adaptec 1542B and an Archive 2150s). In my case, the
initial backup ran fine but attempts to restore the tape result in I/O
errors on the first few files, then GTAK appears to hang (though the
drive sounds like it continues to move in very short start/stop bursts). 
The tape itself is fine as I was successfully able to read it under 
Unix using GNU tar. GTAK just can't read back the tape archive it created 
on the same machine! 

The _real_ problem I have is that my tar tape is a backup of my entire
system prior to replacing my system disk with a larger one. Now, I'm
stuck with a largely empty 500MB disk and a full 150MB tape I can't
restore! AAAAARRRRRGGGGGHHHH!!!!!!

Somehow, a backup utility that can't restore its own backups seems worse 
than useless. I'm not yet sure how I'm going to recover from this one,
but the first thing I buy when I do will be a commercial backup/restore
utility that hopefully has been tested.

In case anyone is interested the backup was done with

	tar cp .

and the restore was attempted with

	tar xp

(nothing tricky there, right? :-). I even made two completed backups just
in case a tape turned up defective. 

Also, GTAK was installed exactly as per the instructions. That is, my
Archive 2150s was already set for SCSI target 2 so I just copied the
config.sys examples directly from the GTAK doc. The hardware 
itself has worked for a couple of years under MSDOS and OS/2 1.x using 
Sytos, so I'm pretty sure this isn't a hardware problem. Particularly 
since I can read the tar archive on my Unix machine. 

The moral of this story is don't trust GTAK any farther than you can
throw my, for all intents and purposes, useless OS/2 machine.

-- 
Paul Bash                                                   Techware Design 
bash@tware.com                                              Boulder, CO  U.S.A.
From: kbeal@amber (Ken Beal)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.apps
Subject: Re: FaceLift for WP
Date: 4 Jan 1993 13:52:23 GMT
Organization: Harris CSD, Ft. Lauderdale, FL
NNTP-Posting-Host: amber.ssd.csd.harris.com
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]

Carl Rosen (crosen@world.std.com) wrote:
: I am currently using Bitstream FaceLift for WordPerfect 5.1 v1.5.  I start
: FLWP from a desktop icon.  I load document a, and I have no problems.  I
: load document b, and the session crashes on any arrow key after printing. 
: Document c, however, causes the entire system to hang with a black screen.
: After testing 40+ documents, I can say that FaceLift causes the system to
: die in different ways, depending upon the content of the document.  Each
: document that causes a problem causes the _same_ problem _every_ time. 
: Slightly alter the content of the document, and a different failure mode
: appears.  Am I the only one to notice this?

Well, I've got FaceLift 1.5 for WP 5.1, and I notice no problems whatsoever.
Crashing, anyway; my biggest problem is that they only included >printable<
fonts, so page preview isn't always right :-(.  Since I've got an Epson
EX-800, printing is s  l  o  w -- it would be nice to preview it on-screen.

Can't wait for WP 6.0!  (Or 5.2, or whatever they're calling it these days :-)
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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.apps
From: hildajk1@netnews.jhuapl.edu (Ken Hildabolt)
Subject: Re: Does anyone know...Swap File
Organization: JHU/Applied Physics Laboratory
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 00:26:09 GMT

cnadler@vnet.ibm.com (Cliff Nadler) writes:


>I'm running the 2.1 beta and have found it uses less memory and swapper than
>previous version. This is still a beta, though.

>Cliff Nadler
>IBM Federal Systems Company

>Note: This post represents the views of the poster, not those of IBM or the
>      IBM Federal Systems Company

Cliff,

I have a 16 meg system and have been keeping track of memory usage with
Memstat. With GA+SP I have 7,942 k after booting up. With the 2.1 beta, I
have 7,643 k. The best so far was the original pre-load with 3.1 beta,
it left 8,267 available. So, the 2.1 beta is the worst so far.

Ken

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From: rwyble@schunix.uucp (Richard J. Wyble)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.apps
Subject: Re: Wordperfect 5.2 for OS/2
Date: 11 Jan 93 15:11:28 GMT
Organization: SCHUNIX Public Access Unix for Worcester County, MA, USA
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL4

Steve.Withers@bbs.actrix.gen.nz writes:
: Our local Wordperfect rep dropped in today and told me that he would be able
: to let me have a look at the beta for WordPerfect 5.2 for OS/2 in a few weeks
: - Feb/Mar.  He said it was a Presentation Manager app. 
:  

Please post whatever you learn. I have heard so many conflicting
reports from WPCorp. customer support that I no longer pay attention
to them. Hands-on reports are seemingly the only reliable indicators
these days.
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From: jahonen@cs.joensuu.fi (Jarmo Ahonen)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.apps
Subject: Re: Does anyone know...Swap File
Date: 7 Jan 93 12:18:40 GMT
Organization: University of Joensuu

ojtv@phoenix.oulu.fi (Olli Vuolteenaho) writes:

>I have an 8 MB system with GA+SP. The swapper.dat is initially 4 MB and in
>most cases it stays that way. I've seen it grow to 6 MB in actual use but
>it shrinks quite nicely when the demands for memory get smaller.
>As an example of a worst case scenario (for me at least) I have now
>Ckermit, Win-OS2 with Word for Windows 2.0, WordPerfect 5.1, Quattro pro 4.0
>and Turbo C++ 3.1 running and the swap file is 7 MB.

>Olli
>__________________________________________________________________________

At least to me it seems that swapper.dat does not grow constantly, but
I have set 16 MB as its initial size. Sometimes it does, however, grow to
20-25 MB but shrinks down to 16 MB later on.

Generally I'd recommend anybody to set the initial swapped.dat size so
high that in *most* cases it would not grow. If you have several processes
running, then a growing and fragmenting swap-file may have a very interesting
effect on your machines performance. Especially if your applications are
using the same disk as the swapper.dat.

It is, in a sense, nice to realize that the old tuning tricks I used with
UNIX machines some years ago seem to be usefull with my home PC now :-).

BTW, has anybody a list of the most common tuning techniques for OS/2?
Not like FAQ in hobbes, but something entirely devoted to techniques usefull
in getting *BIG* codes to run as fast as possible...
From: Ed.June@iphase.infoserv.com (Ed June)
Sender: FredGate@iphase.infoserv.com
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.apps
Subject: Repost! Elm HELP!
Date: 04 Jan 93  20:01:02 EST

I've tried here once, guess it didn't get out.
I tried also to send to the author of the port from three different systems...

Here goes again:



 Elm's being a severe pain.
 First of all it seems to require a directory of UUCP vs UUPC,
   had to redo that.
 Wasn't too hard to fix, but took a lot of time to find out.
 But now I get errors when trying to send mail.

 I get :

     Error ENOENT encountered trying to write to ?!J?A.

 It's the same ?!J?A. ditty EVERY time.

 Then it says:

     Message sent using dumbmailer mail.

 Then Kendra loads, Kendra says:

     Conflicting options specified

     Usage:  blah, blah, blah...

 Then elm reports:
 
     Mailer returned error status 1


 Bummer! Any suggestions?

 And the reason I'm trying to get Elm to work, is my feed says
   the headers are messed up when using Kendra's Mail.

    Ed June

   Fidonet:   1:133/308, Atlanta's OS/2 Users Group BBS, 404-471-1549
   Internet:  buggz@.mind.org
   UUCP:      ...!emory!uumind!buggz


 * Origin: Information Overload, Atlanta's OS/2 Users Group BBS (1:133/308)
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From: pebly@vnet.ibm.com (Bob Pebly)
Date: Fri, 8 Jan 93 08:04:23 EST
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.apps,comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: Using MSD from hobbes
Reply-To: pebly@vnet.ibm.com
Organization: IBM Industrial Sector Division, Boca Raton, FL
News-Software: UReply 3.0

In <yPV1wB1w165w@tcscs.UUCP> Gregory Youngblood writes:
>I tried to use the MSD util from Hobbes and it said:
>THis program will not run with this version of dos.
>
>Any ideas?

Try creating a DOS_VERSION setting for MSD.EXE to fool MSD into
thinking it is actually running under DOS 5.0.  Look in the Master
Help Index under "Dos, settings" for more details.

Bob Pebly

Disclaimer: This posting represents the poster's view, not those of IBM.
From: ted@isgtec.com (Ted Richards)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.apps
Subject: Re: Windows video drivers used in WINOS/2?
Date: 10 Jan 93 17:22:54 GMT
Organization: ISG Technologies Inc. Mississauga Ont. Canada
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL8]

Lee Reynolds (lee@tosspot.sv.com) wrote:
: How does one get svga drivers for windows to run in WINOS/2?

If you want SVGA for full-screen Windows sessions, all you need to do
is to edit ?:\OS2\MDOS\WINOS2\SYSTEM.INI and change the line that
starts display.drv=... to point to the standard Windows 3.0 hi-res
driver that came with your video card.

If you want to have seamless WINOS2 sessions. you must get a
special seamless WINOS2 driver that supports your card, and an OS/2
driver that supports seamless Windows.  If you have a Trident, ATI
Wonder, Paradise, Video7 or IBM256c card, you can use the Trident
drivers in file tri32new.zip on ftp-os2.nmsu.edu, in directory
pub/os2/2.0/drivers.  It appears to work for all of them (because they
are really IBM OS/2 2.1 beta drivers that "leaked out").  You must be
running the Service Pack on top of the 2.0 GA release.  You could also
just get the OS/2 2.1 beta.

You may have to do some tweaking.  I found for my 1 Meg ATI Wonder XL
that I did NOT want to install the BVHSVGA.DLL and the full-screen
Windows driver, or use the SVGADATA.PMI that SVGA.EXE generated.  I
did install IBMDEV32.DLL and IBMVGA32.DLL files and the seamless Windows
drivers.
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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.apps
From: hankedr@mail.auburn.edu (Darrel Hankerson)
Subject: Re: Gnu C/C++ TeX Info
Organization: Auburn University, Alabama
Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1993 03:59:32 GMT

In article <1iaugmINNeom@bigboote.WPI.EDU> ear@bigwpi.WPI.EDU (Mr. Neat-O [tm]) writes:
>After futzing around with emTeX and being quite unsuccessful in getting it
>to work with the gcc documentation, I gave up and used TeX and dvips on my

emTeX is quite easy to setup for TeX and Texinfo files...

>Incidentally, I was successful in viewing the PostScript file with version
>2.5.2 of GhostScript for OS/2.  Unfortunatly, I couldn't get GhostScript to
>print correctly on my IBM PC Graphics Printer (yes, the real thing, though
>it's really an Epson inside).  I tried both the epson and eps9high device
>drivers included with GhostScript at all resolutions and none of those
>combinations worked correctly even with the sample PostScript files.  I
>would be grateful if anyone who has gotten GhostScript to work with an Epson

Yang's gs in pub/os2/2.0/ works fine for me with
  gsos2a -sDEVICE=epson -dNOPAUSE sample.ps quit.ps

--darrel hankerson hank@ducvax.auburn.edu