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From: eplester@rodan.acs.syr.edu (Edward A. Lester)
Subject: Install Boot Manager Question
Organization: Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY
Distribution: usa
Date: Thu, 30 Jul 92 18:35:17 EDT

I am planning to install OS/2 and would like to take advantage of
the Boot Manager capability. I would like to allow for the possibility
of also installing a version of UNIX in the future but I don't know
which type. What is a reasonable size primary partition to reserve?
Is this a good approach? Thanks in advance for any help.
           
                                              @@ Ed Lester @@
From: dic5340@hertz.njit.edu (David Charlap)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: JUNE ???? CSD'S?????
Date: 29 Jul 92 15:15:31 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, N.J.

In article <1992Jul28.143027.1341@unlinfo.unl.edu> pickrell@hoss.unl.edu (Andrew Pickrell) writes:
>
>In this week's InfoWorld, the rumor mill says the "June CSDs" will
>be out in mid September.  This will include the graphics engine, super-vga
>drivers, and other bug fixes.

NOTE:  THIS IS A RUMOR.  Did IBM say anything official about
September?  I only heard "Fall".
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From: cummins@a.cs.okstate.edu (CUMMINS JOHN WILLI)
Subject: Re: TSENG users, READ THIS!
Organization: Oklahoma State University, Computer Science, Stillwater
Date: Thu, 30 Jul 92 14:45:59 GMT
Keywords: TSENG ET4000

I've had relatively good luck with the orch009.zoo package of
Tseng drivers.  I use a "VGA Master" et4000 card with "High Color"....
But so far I've stuck with the 16 color drivers due to the fact that the
desktop colors in OS2 seem to change the pallet in ways I am not prepared
to cope with!

(try a 256 color background pic... under the desktop.  Odd colors in the
pic result)

I've also had "black Icon" syndrome... and been unable to fix it!
(after the "Black Icon Fix" I now can experience "Black Icon" with the
standard vga drivers!)

Ive had "mouse droppings" (slightly random mis-colored pixels, usually green
or blue) after the bouncing padlock screensaver kicks in...  Recon that's
a hardware problem (New card should be here today, same model).

Anything I can do to help you folks?  I have OS2 up and running
24 hrs a day, 7 days a week.  Running PM, lots of dos boxes, and the most
colorful 800x600 I can get.  I do kick into 1024x768 for odd tasks frequently.

jc   cummins@a.cs.okstate.edu, cummins@unx.ucc.okstate.edu
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: hjkirch@morpheus.informatik.uni-erlangen.de (Hans-Joachim Kirchhoff (StudArb-Tribius))
Subject: Re: fax modems
Organization: CSD., University of Erlangen, Germany
Distribution: comp.os.os2.misc
Date: Mon, 27 Jul 1992 14:25:47 GMT

In <9207261553.AA13006@jed.cs.nyu.edu> m-lp9966@JED.CS.NYU.EDU (Lewis Perin) writes:

>Like everything else with no moving parts, fax modems have been
>getting very cheap lately.  While I don't often need to send images
>over the wire, the prospect of sending and receiving text at 9600 baud
>makes me want to junk my old 2400 baud modem and get one of the things
>I see advertised these days.  Since I don't want to foreclose the
>possibility of ever doing fax, can anyone tell me if any of the fax
>modems on the market today with text speeds >= 9600 are OS/2
>compatible?

If you want to use the high-speed modem with DOS software, you might want
to get yourself a new UART 16550. This UART does some hardware-buffering.
On CompuServe, they highly recommend it, if you want to use >9600 Baud with
DOS apps. The virtual Com-Driver eats up some time, so the response time
for an arriving byte to be read can be to long with higher baud rates.
This is especially the case, if you have an 80386 with lower clock speed.
The UART 16550 is pin-compatible to the 16450 and not so very expensive.
If you have got one, set MODE COMx:BUFFER=ON from a DOS prompt to enable
the hardware FIFO.

-Hajo
From: heinz@edohwg.UUCP (Heinz Wrobel)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re:  Dvorak switches to OS/2!!
Date: 27 Jul 92 20:45:53 GMT
Organization: Edotronik GmbH

In article <26JUL199219020957@vmsb.is.csupomona.edu> cvadrtbc@vmsb.is.csupomona.edu (Srikanth Viswanathan) writes:
>As much as I liked the article, I wasn't so pleased with Dvorak's
>statement that you need a 386/33 or 40 with 8-16 megs of RAM *minimum*
>to run OS/2, and he also implied that Tseng cards don't work with OS/2.

IMHO you need at least 8MB to get something done with OS/2 but that's
debatable. He's right with most ET4000 boards, though. With the OS/2
package I can buy at any store, I eventually get nice flashy fireworks with
my ET4000. Poor B.J. user won't be able to get patches and updates easily.
It took me almost three weeks to get my OS/2 package running just becuase I
couldn't get a hold of a driver update...

>Srikanth

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From: pingshan@leland.Stanford.EDU (PINGSHAN WEN)
Subject: Re: Seamless Drivers for Trident 8900c ?? (SuperVGA guru)
Organization: DSG, Stanford University, CA 94305, USA
Date: Fri, 24 Jul 92 18:32:36 GMT

In article <1992Jul23.232804.3843@monu6.cc.monash.edu.au> parry@yoyo.cc.monash.edu.au (Tom J Parry) writes:
>Steve.Withers@bbs.actrix.gen.nz writes:
>> 
>> Trident have supplied the full range of SVGA drivers for the 8900c, but the
>> only seamless SVGA driver is the 800x600x16. I use the 800x600x256, though,
>> because I have dumped all my Windows apps, and Windows is the only thing
>> affected. Wolfenstien 3D needs 256! :-)
>
>
>I personally would prefer Trident to be working on graphics DOS windows over
>seemless Windows drivers.
>

Nope.  Neither Trident or IBM (or Microsoft) can do DOS Window 16 color
graphics in an OS/2 256 color desktop!  This is due to VGA hardware
different between 16 color and 256 color mode.  Also, IBM provides
limited 256 color SVGA support no allowing VSVGA.SYS to cope with
256 color DOS graphics in OS/2 256 color desktop.  However, IBM only
allows mode 13h (256 color) runs under 640x480 16 color standard VGA
mode.  So the conclusion is under current OS/2 2.0, if you use ANY
256 color driver, do not expect you are able to run 16 color graphics
in a DOS window.  In the future, 256 color graphics may be allowed to
run, but there might be a color problem (DAC access).
It is almost impossible to (use software) emulate 16 color graphics
if current hardware has to remain in 256 color mode!

Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: nrt@watson.ibm.com (Nicholas R. Trio)
Subject: Re: The Ultimate OS/2 FTP Source
Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1992 15:16:25 GMT
Disclaimer: This posting represents the poster's views, not necessarily those of IBM
Organization: IBM T.J. Watson Research Center

I think that it's valid to say software.watson.ibm.com will have the
latest patches for OS/2.  As far as public-domain software, I am really
not set up for it (and haven't done any of the paperwork to allow it
to happen here).

Nick Trio (nrt@watson.ibm.com - keeper of software.watson.ibm.com)
IBM T.J. Watson Research Center

Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: joker@diku.dk (Morten Christian Holmgreen)
Subject: Passing error code to program???
Date: Tue, 21 Jul 1992 21:36:41 GMT
Organization: Department of Computer Science, U of Copenhagen

How can I get OS/2 to automatically pass an error code to a program, 
instead of having to answer the "Retry, Close or Return Error" question,
every time I try to access a locked file or read a disk that's not in
the drive???

Christian
-- 
M. Christian Holmgreen / joker@diku.dk / mochmch@uts.uni-c.dk
student, University of Copenhagen, Dept. of Computer Science
"Human errors can only be avoided if one can avoid the use of humans"
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: djs6015@ultb.isc.rit.edu (Don Smith)
Subject: Re: NEW Orcad (ET400) Drivers on FTP-OS2
Originator: djs6015@ultb
Organization: R.I.T.
Date: Fri, 24 Jul 1992 06:45:35 GMT


I tried these new drivers on my Diamond Speedstar and they are still
no better. They made my icons far too large and really messed up
by making the icons jagged and mis-colored.

PS Sorry to the guy who I said would mail a copy of the old os/2
1.3 drivers... my host is really screwed up and I cannot upload.
I am just using an OS/2 1.3 1024x768x16 color driver with the
fix for the huge icons.
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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: cvadrtbc@vmsa.is.csupomona.edu (Srikanth Viswanathan)
Subject: Re: Why can't two full-screened DOS apps multitask???
Organization: California Polytechnic University, Pomona
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41    
Distribution: usa
Date: Thu, 30 Jul 1992 22:53:00 GMT
X-Posted-From: vmsa.is.csupomona.edu
X-Posted-Through: sol.ctr.columbia.edu

In article <1992Jul29.183031.24757@stiatl.salestech.com>, iam@stiatl.salestech.com (Ian Mercado) writes...
>How come anytime I have a program running in a full screen window, it gets
>suspended whenever I switch over to another full screened DOS window?  Windows
>doesn't do this, so why should OS/2??

It doesn't for me.  The one thing I hate is that if I run a DOS comm program
so that I can download from our VAX Zmodem (it requires that I use GSZ), 
the other DOS sessions get REALLY jerky.  The IDLE settings don't help,
I suspect that GSZ is doing a LOT of polling.  Speaking of GSZ, does
anyone know if Omen Tech is planning an OS/2 version?  They already
have Pro Yam for OS/2, so maybe they would if they knew the demand.
Email address anyone?

Srikanth
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: vv77076@cc.tut.fi (Vanhatupa Vesa)
Subject: Looking for Orchid Fahrenheit 1280 driver
Organization: Tampere Univ. of Technology, Finland.
Distribution: comp
Date: 23 Jul 92 18:32:52



I am looking for a Orchid Fahrenheit 1280 display driver
for OS/2 2.0.  Any information appreciated.
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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: edg@Ingres.COM (Ed Goldman)
Subject: Re: OS!2 2.0 DESKTOP does not reply...
Keywords: DESKTOP
Reply-To: edg@Ingres.COM (Ed Goldman)
Organization: Ask Computer Systems Inc., Ingres Division, Alameda CA 94501
Date: 23 Jul 92 16:20:23 GMT

>In article <1992Jul21.131837.11062@softserv.zdv.uni-tuebingen.de> affie@earley.sns.neuphilologie.uni-tuebingen.de (Ralf Affie Hauser) writes:
>>
>>Sometimes, only sometimes, my boot sequence does not finish! After displaying
>>my desktop background bitmap and before displaying all desktop objects 
>>(folders, printers, shredder etc) the system halts, waits about 30 seconds 
>>and displays a message box called: "OS!2 2.0 Desktop does not respond, <OK>
>><Abort>". If I press <OK> the display clears, bitmap-earth disappears, a 
>>few more seconds pass by and bitmap re-appears, desktop objects appear but
>>neither the folders do open, nor programs contained in the startup folder 
>>do run.
>

Well, I have a casual observance which I'm not sure actually means anything
beyond being a coincidence ...

I've had the above problem recently occur, but only once.  I've been 
running OS/2 for about 3 months now and haven't had a problem.  Another thing
that occurred several times is that I got "Not enough memeory to start program"
windows popup on the WP when trying to run a program or open a folder despite
the fact that I had about 20Meg free for swap (swap file was around 11 meg
at the time).

The only thing that I've done different recently is obtained about 1200 icons
from GEnie and started assigning them to various programs in setup.  I've
read here there's problems with too many icons in 1 folder so I separated them
in subdirectories.  I've noticed that the first few times I open these icon
folders, all the icons display correctly.  But, if I continue opening and
closing icon folders, a subset of the icons in the folder start to not
display correctly (they're just displayed as a file and not the icon itself).

Seems like this is when I start having memory problems, the swap file gets
bigger, and perhaps is associated with the WPS not responding on boot.

As I said might be just a coincidence, but there definitely seems to be a
bug in OS/2 that concerns the icons ...

-edg-
From: HARPER@VTVM1.CC.VT.EDU (Scott Harper)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: RE: Pheonix BIOS anyone?
Date: 28 Jul 92 16:14:33 GMT
Organization: UTexas Mail-to-News Gateway
NNTP-Posting-Host: cs.utexas.edu

On 28 Jul 92 08:25:34 GMT, Wayde_Police@mindlink.bc.ca (Wayde Police) said:


> I have been having nothing but trouble installing OS2 2.0 this last week. I
[...]
>So I finally called IBM support and they told me that the problem was
>my phoenix bios is too old (1991). They said I needed to up rev to
>revision dated 05-11-92! Is this right?! Is anyone out there running
>OS2 2.0 on phoenix bios roms dated before this year's May!??
>        Wayde V. Police
>
>

I am running OS/2 2.0 on a 486 system with Pheonix 80486 ROM BIOS PLUS
version 0.10 G14.  I have not seen any problems that seem to be bios-related.

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                               \_ \_    estimate the bandwidth of a station
                                  \ \      wagon full of tapes hurtling down
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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: msmith@netcom.com (Martin P. Smith)
Subject: Re: Impressions of Windows NT
Date: Fri, 31 Jul 92 03:24:07 GMT
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  (408 241-9760 guest) 

In article <1992Jul30.093454.27114@wsl.ie> jja@wsl.ie (John J. Allen) writes:
>ekl@fics.uucp writes:
>: 
>:    NT is not a multiuser system in the sence that several people hook
>:    up terminals and use the system simultaneously. However, the system
>:    is multiuser in the sence that it can store several different user
>:    profiles, and differentiate between them when they use *one*
>:    computer at *different* times.
>: 
>: In my book, that is not "multi-user", so "flatly wrong" may be a little
>: strong. Anyway, it looks like a nice OS. The user interface is not quite
>
>Although I'm no Windows NT fan I believe it is a multi-user OS but not 
>in the traditional sense. I believe that traditional multi-user should
>really be called 'simultaneous multi-user' to indicate that the machine
>knows about multiple users and can also allow them to use the machine 
>simultaneously.

Give me a Mother F..... break I do not think anybody would seriously think that
a system that does not support CONCURRENT  multiple users is a multi user system

If multiple user profiles is considered enough to make a system multi user then
DOS can be made multi user. Just create a little old routine that stores       
different autoexec.bats and a baby menu that allows you to enter a name and 
voila MULTI-USER DOS. 

Microsoft must hope that we are all morons who believe what they say all the 
time.  

Please get a grip multiple user profiles does not equate to multi user. 


Martin Smith 
msmith@netcom.com  
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: widow@camelot.bradley.edu (Shaun Burnett)
Subject: Re: Oh boy! Now it's me: no shutdown possible!
Organization: Bradley University
Distribution: usa
Date: 30 Jul 92 02:29:41 GMT

In <1992Jul29.090053.9340@Informatik.TU-Muenchen.DE> schmiher@Informatik.TU-Muenchen.DE (Hermann Schmidt) writes:


>Now this dreaded bug has caught me. My system does not shut down anymore.
>The interesting thing is that there are no apps running (the window list
>shows the desktop only). The os2.ini must be corrupted in some way. I
>used the ini file from the install directory temporarily and shutdown
>worked. But I do *not* like to lose all the setup work I've done over
>the last weeks!

	You can refresh the entire desktop.  To do this copy all of
	your *.ini's (in the "OS2" and root directory of your OS/2 boot
	disk) to a floppy or a safe place.  You'll also want to copy
	the config.sys and autoexec.bat to a safe place.  You'll have
	to boot from floppy to copy two of the *.ini's since they'll
	be in use by the system.

	Now to rebuild the entire desktop, you press Alt-F1 right
	after your BIOS sends out an okay beep.  Do this until you
	fill the keyboard buffer.  If you use boot manager, select
	OS/2 and then press Alt-F1 until the keyboard buffer fills
	again.

	Once the restore is done, refresh and shut down.  Now restore
	all of the files you backed up.


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)
From: greenidd@CS.ColoState.EDU (danielle greenidge)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: Has Colorado created OS/2 drivers?
Date: 23 Jul 92 14:03:01 GMT
Distribution: na
Organization: Colorado State University, Computer Science Department

In article <1992Jul22.181240.20232@sbcs.sunysb.edu> kskapin@csws8.ic.sunysb.edu (Keith T Skapinski) writes:
>
>The windoze version is out. Actually, its the looks like its the dos version
>just running under windoze. They give you a little windows icon, and an 
>install utility to install it into windoze. Big deal. I just got it in the
>mail 2 days ago.
>

Actually, the software version 2.54 is *NOT*  "THE WINDOWS VERSION" Colorado
has been advertising. It is only their temporary Windows solutions (they call
it their "Windows Launchable software") until the real thing comes out.
From: ghenniga@NMSU.Edu
Subject: Re: Fahrenheit 1280 and OS/2
Reply-To: ghenniga@NMSU.Edu
Organization: New Mexico State University - Electromagnetics Group
Distribution: usa
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1992 06:26:42 GMT


In article <Bs3o0L.7A@acsu.buffalo.edu> Lam Yeoh writes:
>Will I be able to utilitize the full 1024x768 resolution in a full screen
>DOS window under OS/2?
>Any ideas on when or if a proper driver exists to use the full resolution?

	I have a Farenheit 1280/D and you can use all the resolutions in a
DOS full screen session but you have to be very careful!! Since OS/2 doesn't
recognize the 1280 (via SVGA ON) it has no idea how to restore register
settings when switching modes. This means that if I was running Windows full
screen at 1024x768x256 and switched to OS/2's WPS things would be totally
messed up (I learned the hard way!). But as long as you stay in that full
screen session and don't switch to the WPS things work fine, at least for me.
Once in a while some garbage gets onto the WPS screen but it's still readable
and choosing "Refresh" from the Desktop menu clears things up.
	To get back to the WPS safely, after running in a hi-res mode, I
first exit from WINOS2 back to a regular text mode full screen and THEN
back to the WPS. Kinda confusing but here is the procedure I use to start 
Windows session in 800x600x256 with my 1280/D. I have two Windows SYSTEM.INI
files, one with the line to load my F1280 Windows driver, for hi-res modes,
called SVGASYS.INI, and the other a copy of the SYSTEM.INI installed by the
OS/2 installation called VGASYS.INI.

	1) Start a DOS full-screen session.
	2) I run a batch file which copies SVGASYS.INI to SYSTEM.INI and
	then starts WINOS2.
	3) Exit WINOS2, returning to a full-screen DOS session.
	4) Copy VGASYS.INI back to SYSTEM.INI.
	5) Exit the DOS session and if the WPS is a little out of whack
	use "Refresh" from the desktop menu to restore things to normal.

All this means that I can't run SVGA apps in the background but until
Orchid comes out with OS/2 drivers I can live with it!

Hope this helps,
Gary Hennigan
(ghenniga@NMSU.Edu)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: agriffin@mitre.org ((James) Artch Griffin(W20))
Subject: Re: Nowhere directory?
Organization: The MITRE Corporation
Date: Mon, 27 Jul 1992 17:04:53 GMT

In <Jul27.143002.71020@yuma.ACNS.ColoState.EDU> tom@longs.LANCE.ColoState.EDU (Tom Aurand) writes:

>In article <agriffin.712243488@tsfsrv>, agriffin@mitre.org ((James)
>Artch Griffin(W20)) writes:
>> In <2178771@overmind.citadel> po.CWRU.Edu!dab6@overmind.mind.org writes:
>> 
>> 
>> >Has anyone been able to figure out what the nowhere directory is for?
>> 
>> >Is there anyway to get rid of it?
>> 
>> You do not want to get rid of it if you ever plan to print.
>> 
>> The EAs associated with this directory deal with your printer (and
>> plotter, if you have installed drivers and queue managers).
>> 
>> As a demonstration - Children DO NOT TRY THIS WITHOUT ADULT
>> SUPERVISION!!
>> 
>> Select and MB2 your printer icon. This gives you the pop-up menu.
>> MB1 on the DELETE option.  Look at the information in the
>> delete-conformation dialog box (you still have delete conformation
>> active don't you?)  Select cancel.
>> 
>> Before you do this demonstration, you may wish to readup on installing
>> printer drivers. ;-)
>> 
>> Happy OS/2ing it.
>> 
>> Artch
>If you know something, spit it out.  If you know nothing, shut up.


>Tom

Sorry you were offended by my light hearted and sage reply.  I'll try
again.

The nowhere directory that is created as part of the OS/2 2.0
installation process is used to hold in its extended attributes
information about printer objects.  This includes plotters as well.  The
actual driver code is kept in other directories.

One can show this relationship by deleting a printer object or by just
begining the delete process.  Note: if the "delete conformation" option
has been turned off, then selecting the DELETE function from the printer
objects' pop-up menu will remove the object without affording the
opportunity to read in the delete conformation dialog box that the
object about to be deleted is "in" the nowhere directory.

I discovered this printer object - nowhere directory relationship while
adding and deleting some printer and plotter drivers.  More information
may be found (I think) in volume 5 of the Red Books, but I've not gotten
that far. 

Hope this help, Tom.  Have a better day!

Artch
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: lum@dds4.uucp (Michael Lum)
Subject: Re: Serial (Com2) mouse causes problems during modem download (com1)
Organization: Digital Dispatch Systems, Richmond BC
Date: Wed, 22 Jul 92 17:03:58 GMT

I know this is not a cheap solution, but I was having problems downloading
at 9600 baud (no 16550) such that whenever I moved the mouse characters
would get dropped and the packet would have to be resent.
(Mouse on COM2 as well)
I bought an ATI Graphics Ultra for faster video and it fixed the downloading
problem.  I suppose the copro on the Ultra free'd up a lot of CPU?
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