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From: victor.ng@rose.com (victor ng)
Subject: Mac under OS/2
Organization: Rose Media Inc, Toronto, Ontario.
Date: Tue, 6 Oct 1992 20:36:30 GMT
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Date Entered: 10-06-92 15:30
Simple question.

Can it be done?

Thanks
Vic
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From: reimert@mamacass.etdesg.trw.com (Scott P. Reimert)
Subject: Re: Procomm Plus for Windows under OS/2?
Organization: TRW Inc., Redondo Beach, CA
Date: Mon, 28 Sep 92 22:41:06 GMT

In article <lcdbcqINN4lu@lovelady.cs.utexas.edu> graham@cs.utexas.edu (Ralph Arnold Graham) writes:
>Someone mentioned that they got Procomm Plus for Windows working under OS/2.
>I am wondering how?  I have tried installing it from winos2 twice now, with
>no success.  Can it be installed without going to winos2, or should it be?
>Any help would be appreciated...
>
>
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I installed it on the the first try without a problem. There are a few
quick things you may want to look at:

1) Install it from the WIN-OS2 session, as you would from Windows.
2) Migrate it.

		Scott

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From: patrick.macroy@scintill (Patrick Macroy)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: CHEAPEST CDROM PLAYER FOR
Date: 26 Sep 92 08:30:00 GMT
Reply-To: patrick.macroy@scintill (Patrick Macroy)
Organization: Scintillation BBS - Lombard, Illinois - 708-953-4922

SA> What would be the least expensive CDROM player that I could use in order 
SA> to install OS/2 from this CDROM, as well as read the documentation on it 
 
Take a look at the lastest DAK cataloge.  On page 6 they are offering a complete cdrom package, with controller and cables for $200. It also comes with software to manage your cd-rom disks and a program to play regular audio CDs on it.  It's certainly not the best CD-ROM around (DAK has a better one for $400), but from the sounds of it, it might meet your needs.   
DAK's number is 1-800-888-7808 (1-818-888-8220) 
 
Patrick MacRoy - patrick.macroy%scintill@vpnet.chi.il.us 


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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: shurr@cbnews.cb.att.com (larry.a.shurr)
Subject: Re: Shutdown failure (?)
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Columbus, OH
Date: Wed, 7 Oct 1992 02:48:32 GMT

In article <15921@umd5.umd.edu> adhir@cygnus.umd.edu (Alok Dhir) writes:
}In article <1aq5fiINNltr@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu> jms20@po.CWRU.Edu (John M. Sully) writes:
}}In a previous article, dic5340@hertz.njit.edu (David Charlap) says:
}}}Some (poorly written) [swallow the shutdown message and hang the system]
}}hmmm...interesting.  I've had this problem as well, but all I had
}}running at the time was the system clock, DOS window and and OS/2 window.
}That stupid clock does this to me all the time!  The OS/2 system clock, as
}neat as it looks, is [ill-behaved in varioius ways]

Oddly, enpugh, the clock has never given me any problems of this sort 
(knock on wood).

}What OS/2 really needs is a kill command which will KILL NO MATTER WHAT.
}I know you can do this in Unix using either kill -KILL or kill (9) or
}something like that...

Bad news.  As many a frustrated Unix System Administrator knows, even
kill -9 is sometimes unable to kill a process.  This ability to become
unkillable is actually incorporated into the design of Unix though even
if that capability was not provided, it would still be possible for
processes to become effectively unkillable, anyway... ask a Unix wizard 
about "Sleeping Uglies" if you seek the path to true enlightenment.
And until you have walked that path and written rundown code of your
own, offer your criticism cautiously.

Please forgive me if my wit does not amuse you, the principle is sound.
Philosophically, you SHOULD be able to kill any process in the system,
it just isn't easy to do while simultaneously meeting all the other
demands of good systems design and implementation.  I know; I've tried,
and it's a minefield.  

You know that Microsoft agrees with you, right?  Even if they didn't,
the marketplace changed their minds, right?  One of the features of 
Windows 3.1 (I know, I shouldn't mention that name, sorry) is its 
greatly improved resistance to UAE's and it's ability [frequently] to 
be able to kill a hung application without killing the whole system 
outright through a mechanism attached to ctl-alt-del.  Arguably, it
"should have been that way all along," but do you know how hard that is
to accomplish?

Presumably...  Hopefully...  IBM, too, wants to provide a secure and
robust system in which any appropriate entity can be killed without
wrecking the system, but knowing how difficult... ok, nearly
impossible...  this can be.  At least they provide the ctl-alt-del 
escape hatch which flushes the disk buffers and hopefully always 
leaving the filesystems in good shape in a forced shutdown situation.

Larry
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From: azzarito@cse.fau.edu (Doug Azzarito)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: IS IBM1s506.add suspect ??? WAS Re: PLUS hardcards and the 32 GRE beta
Date: 26 Sep 92 16:23:11 GMT
Distribution: comp.os.os2.misc
Organization: Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, FL, USA

In article <c#!pmbc.msmith@netcom.com> msmith@netcom.com (Martin P. Smith) writes:
>
>This matter begs the Question of who I contact in big blue to talk to this
> about.

If you (or anyone else) is having trouble with IBM1S506 in the beta, send me a
note.  Tell me what type machine you have, what hard drive controller, and
what drive (try to be specific!)  I just spent an afternoon digging up a bunch
of OOOOOLD RLL drives and controllers, but S506 hasn't rejected any of them
yet.  I'm still looking for a WD 1006 RLL (I have the MFM version).  But, if I
get messages about other drive/controller combos, I may be able to find the
solution.

So, send me a note, and I may be able to post a "newer and improved" IBM1S506
for all.
 
Thanks,
Doug Azzarito
(yea, I'm on the OS/2 development team)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: mcrocker@titan.ucc.umass.edu (MATTHEW S CROCKER)
Subject: Re: Dos partition Kills os/2
Organization: University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 1992 13:52:17 GMT

In article <1992Sep29.124347.7815@ultb.isc.rit.edu> pee9901@ultb.isc.rit.edu (P.E. Erkkila) writes:
>
>
>   Can anyone out there help me with this problem. I sucsessfully
>installed os/2 on a primary partition leaving 30 megs for msdos.(BBS).
>However when i got to install DOS 5.0 (fdisk, format, sys ). It screws
>up the os/2 partition so that os/2 will only bott occasionally. And when
>It does it will almost always hang on the (os/2 vga loading) screen.
>On the rare occasion that it passes this point, it will DEFINITLY hang
>when i try and do just about anything.
>
>  So how do i add dos?. Should I use the fdisk that came with Os/2 ?
>

RTFM :)

I think your gonna have to start over...

Install OS/2  
  when asked select reformat drive....
  set up your prtitions  (use boot manager)
   1 MB part for boot  manager  (marked as bootable)
   30 MB FAT for DOS 
   the rest for HPFS (FAT) for OS/2

the OS/2 fdisk program does this pretty easily...

let OS/2 format its prartition
Install OS/2

reboot with DOS disk in Drive A:

FORMAT C: /S

Install DOS. and such...

if you formatted the OS/2 Partition as FAT then it will be drive D:
if you formatted it as HPFS  then it is not accessable from DOS

its all in  the install docs.

>HELP
>
>damage
>
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From: ASI509@DJUKFA11.BITNET
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: Reorg of /pub/os2 on software.watson.ibm.com
Date: 28 Sep 92 10:45:05 GMT
 <1992Sep27.214252.20367@linus.mitre.org>
 <1992Sep27.233643.150009@watson.ibm.com> <1992Sep28.085700@axion.bt.co.uk>
Organization: Forschungszentrum Juelich

Would it be possible to add a short description directly to the directory entry
as they do it on ftp-os2.nmsu.edu ? As it is now I have to get the package or
index files to get an idea of what a program is good for and then have another
access to watson to get the actual files.

Besides that it would be good to group fixes and additional utilities in
separate directories.

Thanks for that service, Michael Bode.
From: hartzman@kilroy.Jpl.Nasa.Gov (Les Hartzman)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Can't delete folder!
Keywords: delete, folder, desktop
Date: 30 Sep 92 22:38:39 GMT
Article-I.D.: elroy.1992Sep30.223839.16593
Followup-To: hartzman@kilroy.jpl.nasa.gov
Distribution: na
Organization: Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA

Well, I've hit my first folder that won't delete!  I can't drop it on the
shredder OR onto a floppy.  I've run chkdsk /f:3 and nothing has changed.
What do I do now????

Also, on an HPFS system, how do you go to the desktop directory?? When I do
a 'dir' on the root, I see "OS!2 2.0 Desktop".  But, I can't 'cd' to this
name, nor do a 'dir' on it to see its contents.  Under the old FAT system I
was on before, I had no problems like this.  All help is appreciated.

Thanks in advance.

Les


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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: rlynx@netcom.com (Roger Lynx)
Subject: U14F BETA DRIVER
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  (408 241-9760 guest) 
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 1992 16:13:11 GMT


Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: orville%weyrich@uunet.uu.net (Orville R. Weyrich)
Subject: Re: Doing Multiple Simultaneous Floppy Copies
Reply-To: uunet.uu.net!weyrich!orville
Organization: Weyrich Computer Consulting
Date: Fri, 2 Oct 92 13:22:41 GMT

In article <BvEH5t.JD5@news.cso.uiuc.edu> smlg1015@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Stuart M Lichtenthal) writes:
>I have not seen this subject discussed before:  how might the
>multitasking ability of os/2.0 be used to do multiple simultaneous
>floppy copying?  If I had 3 floppy controllers and  6 floppy
>drives, how would one go about copying an image on the harddisk
>to all six floppies simultaneously?  Are there enough hardware
>addresses to do this?  Would some DMA something or other have to
>be set?  As far as I understand, this task is impossible under
>DOS.

I tried to format two floppies (3.5 and 5.25) simultaneously and was 
disappointed that the two drive lights alternated, i.e. I did not seem to
get any speedup.

Now that I think of it, I wonder if I was in two DOS boxes or two OS/2 boxes.
I wonder if it would make a difference?

Maybe it also depends on the type of floppy  disk controller you have. I have
an old WD 16 bit MFM HD/FD controller in that particular machine.


orville

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From: sergey@umiacs.umd.edu (Sergey Brin)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: OS/2 BETA (Win31+32GRE) --> SB Drivers
Date: 28 Sep 92 02:45:35 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: UMIACS, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742

In article <80434@ut-emx.uucp> semirp@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu () writes:
>I just got the Win3.1+32GRE BETA in the mail today. After installing
>WIN31-OS2 I tried to set up my Soundblaster as the sound device. 
>The install needs 2 files : SNDBLST.DRV and VSBD.386.
>The first file was installed with WIN31 but the second file was   
>nowhere to be found. The install insists that it is on disk 3 of 
>WIN31-OS2 but its not there. Anybody else gotten this to work???
>
>Semir Patel

Yes (actually, kind of).
After a lot of mucking around, trying to find VSBD.386, I ftped to
cica and found the file SBW31.EXE which I believe was in the
uploads directory.

These are updated SB drivers to be used with WIndows 3.1.
cica's address : ftp.cica.indiana.edu

The file will probably get moved to another dir soon.
Anyway the drivers seem to work OK, except once when I got an error
which I caused Win OS/2 3.1 to hang but I haven't been able to 
reproduce it.

--sergey
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: orville%weyrich@uunet.uu.net (Orville R. Weyrich)
Subject: Re: OS/2 TCP/IP ethernet question
Reply-To: uunet.uu.net!weyrich!orville
Organization: Weyrich Computer Consulting
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 92 16:30:36 GMT

In article <oelmb3y00VojE1Y0JR@andrew.cmu.edu> kl2i+@andrew.cmu.edu (Kwan-Yong Lee) writes:
>Hi.  
>I recently bought an ethernet card (Fast Data ET-200 16bit 10 base T)
> from Fast Micro.  Yeah, you probably never heard about it, but I bought
>it because it was the cheapest I could find ($109).  I was able to run
>PCS and PC/TCP for DOS with manufacturer-supplied drivers.  I am now
>trying to run TCP/IP on OS/2 2.0 but I got stuck for the part where I
>must specify my ethernet card.  The instructions gives me list of
>changes I need to make some changes in my config.sys according to which
>type
>of ethernet card or token ring card I have.   However, I don't know
>which ethernet card is compatible to mine (It's not compatible to
>Western Digital, I know that.)  Has anybody bought and tried ET-200 from
>Fast Data? I am fairly new in OS/2 and even more clueless for network
>stuff.
>Thanks in advance!

At least some cheap e-net cards that have a name ending in "-200" are 
clones of the NE-2000. You might try an NE-2000 driver.



orville

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From: mccall@mksol.dseg.ti.com (fred j mccall 575-3539)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: OS/2 CSD e-mail disribution
Date: 1 Oct 92 19:10:07 GMT
Article-I.D.: mksol.1992Oct1.191007.11720
Organization: Texas Instruments Inc

In <1992Sep29.111632@axion.bt.co.uk> djackson@axion.bt.co.uk (Dave Jackson) writes:


>In article <EVF7QSI@mailgzrz.tu-berlin.de>,
>bzbmaier@ZIB-Berlin.DE (Gerhard Maierhoefer) writes:
>|> 
>|> In article 717555737snx@alfheim.actrix.gen.nz,
>|> frey@alfheim.actrix.gen.nz (Bruce Clement) writes:
>|> >    ...........................
>|> >To conserve bandwidth, and to speed the distribution, I
>|> was wondering if
>|> >it would be possible (and acceptable to your legal
>|> department) to come to
>|> >an arrangement with the powers that control
>|> comp.binaries.os2 to have 
>|> >the service pack simultaneously available through that
>|> distribution
>|> >channel?
>|> >
>|> >--
>|> >Bruce Clement    (frey@alfheim.actrix.gen.nz  SNEWS/2, 
>|> UUPC 1.11q)
>|> 
>|> I strongly recommend and promote this idea.
>|> 
>I can't agree  - this method allows those who haven't already
>paid for OS/2
>to obtain it free of charge.  (Don't forget the service pack
>is the complete
>system, not just bug fixes). I'm sure IBM wouldn't want to
>encourage
>software piracy in this way.

It is?  I was aware that the recent Beta for Win-31/32-bit graphics
was a full system, but is the actual CSD going to be distributed that
way as well?

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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: c9a-aj@po.berkeley.edu (Claudio Fahey)
Subject: OAK driver for OS/2 2.0
Organization: University of California, at Berkeley
Date: Sat, 3 Oct 1992 21:58:57 GMT


Does anybody know if there are any Oak VGA drivers for OS/2 2.0?
If so, where can I get them?  Thanks.
From: ddurby@aludra.usc.edu (Dennis Durby)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: So what's the word on 32-bit ET4000 drivers?
Date: 29 Sep 1992 17:12:07 -0700
Organization: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
NNTP-Posting-Host: aludra.usc.edu
Keywords: ET4000 32-bit beta

In article <BvCq4s.79B@hpuerca.atl.hp.com> aaa@hpuerca.atl.hp.com (Simon Fowler) writes:
>In article <hatton.717710622@cgl.ucsf.edu>, hatton@socrates.ucsf.edu (Tom Hatton) writes:
>> djs6015@ultb.isc.rit.edu (Don Smith) writes:
>> 
>> >I think that we should all write and pester these companies 
>> Well, if you have looked at the Diamond BBS messages in the months since
>> GA release, endless put-offs from Diamond.
>I "pestered" Diamond - they do not have a date. My best bet is to sell my car 
>anyone interested in a Stealth card? 
>simon
ANYONE interested in buying two??  Mine is fresh and unused other than the 
burn-in in the factory.  I'm tired of this endless waiting, too.  It seems
utterly ridiculous that it is impossible for S3 drivers to have been written 
by this time for OS/2.  I'd be delighted to sell my Stealth VRAM at this 
point.  But this is the wrong newsgroup for that, I guess.  Is there a 
comp.hardware.svga.diamond.stealth.suckers newsgroup yet?

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		    "A signature?  I can't even type!"



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From: "richard anstruther" <richard.anstruther@canrem.com>
Subject: ati ultra
Reply-To: "richard anstruther" <richard.anstruther@canrem.com>
Organization: Canada Remote Systems
Distribution: comp
Date: 2 Oct 92 18:53:09 EST

   Jimmy Buffet writes:

-> I am thinking of selling my card and getting an ATI Graphic Ultra+
-> EISA (I believe that's the designation.  It has 800x600 in 24 bit,
-> and is quite fast.) Does anyone know what ATI support will be around.
-> Will 24-bit drivers be available?  How about standard 256 color
-> drivers?  Also any technical info (specs) on the Ultra+ would be
-> appreciated... thanks!

Don't rush out to buy that ATI card before considering another
option.  IBM recently announced XGA-2 adapters which apparently
are much, much faster than the original XGA and non-interlaced
(among other improvements).  The list price is quite reasonable
for IBM (around $325 or something like that) and they'll be the
first in line for seamless Windows drivers from IBM (SVGA
is second, 8514 is third if I recall correctly).  The XGA-2
card is Microchannel only from IBM, but Radius apparently was
producing an EISA version.  You might want to check with Radius
before committing to ATI, which is dragging its feet producing
and OS/2 2.0 driver.
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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: atzeiner@iastate.edu (your mom)
Subject: Re: Redbooks on watson.  Bookmaster?
Organization: Iowa State University, Ames, IA
Distribution: usa
Date: Tue, 6 Oct 1992 03:41:25 GMT

In article <1992Oct6.021338.21952@nuscc.nus.sg> eletanjm@nuscc.nus.sg (Tan Jin Meng) writes:
>ujabanco@uxa.ecn.bgu.edu (John Abanco) writes:
>: Isn't there a way so you can print on the laser sometime at night or
>: when the office closes? If there was something like a TSR that would
>: print the files when nobody is around, that would solve your problem.
>: Is there something like RECORDER for OS/2 that you could use?
>
>Just write a very short rexx script that uses SysSleep.
>
>jin meng

How about using the print options-start time under the settings for the printer
you want to print on?? :-)




Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: jks4675@ritvax.isc.rit.edu
Subject: NEW EPSON DRIVERS BAD!!!
Reply-To: jks4675@ritvax.isc.rit.edu
Organization: Rochester Institute of Technology
Date: Tue, 6 Oct 1992 03:15:31 GMT

After pulling down the new epson drivers for OS/2 PM, I installed them
using the settings notebook for the printer. 

I was trying to printout a file for my To-Do list....
BAD IDEA!! The driver for my printer hunng the operating system.
To make matters worse, the To-Do list was in my startup.
Even with using CTRL-SHIFT-F1, the file came up. Of course, the system
kept going down. Ever see a pendulum???

My conclusion is this....Don't use the Panasonic drivers (in Epson mode)
that came off WATSON. There are NO DOCS on installing them, just an
executable with NO EXPLANATION. Am I supposed to use this??
Would it have been a problem to include a five line readme????

Why aren't there PANASONIC drivers anyway? Microsoft has them for Win 3.1;
in fact, I use it for Win OS/2. If Team OS/2 is listening, please lose
the Epson emulation and get some Panasonic-specific drivers (that work).

AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Jeff
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu (Timothy F. Sipples)
Subject: Re: IBM:  still asleep at the wheel
Reply-To: sip1@midway.uchicago.edu
Organization: Dept. of Econ., Univ. of Chicago
Distribution: usa
Date: Sat, 3 Oct 1992 03:33:42 GMT

[IBM TCP/IP ordering ordeal deleted.]

I sympathize.  It took us a little too long to get the order in, too.

However, they are mail order places which sell IBM software.
Corporate Software, for example, sells IBM TCP/IP.

With the benefit of hindsight...  :-)

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From: wayned@cybernet.cse.fau.edu (Wayne Desmond)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: cd rom suggestions
Date: 27 Sep 92 17:35:59 GMT
Organization: Cybernet BBS, Boca Raton, Florida

richard.hajinlian@channel1.com (richard hajinlian) writes:

> Anyone have any suggestion as far as wich cd rom to buy for machine?  I
> have an Adaptec scsi 1542b.  Any suggestions would be appreciated.


Definitely buy a Toshiba, if you can afford to.  I bought a Toshiba ##01 
from CD Technology, Inc. for $400.00.  They call it a CD Porta Drive 
T3301-INT, part number 23301.  I got a deal by sending in a special order 
form from Microsoft as part of their Developer Network CD pre-release 
program.  CD technologies won't give you this price without the form tho. 
 You can reach them at (408) 752-8500.  Fax number is (408) 752-8501.

Disclaimer: Not associated with CD Technology or Toshiba!

+-----------------------------------+-----------------------------------+
| Wayne Desmond                     | Happily using and working (read:  |
| OS/2 Consultant/Programmer        | earning a GOOD living) with       |
| (wayned@cybernet.cse.fau.edu)     | OS/2, since version 1.1.          |
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