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From: eletanjm@nuscc.nus.sg (TAN JIN MENG)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: OS/2 DLLs
Date: 20 Aug 92 17:19:35 GMT
Organization: National University of Singapore

for the record, I've managed to shift all but about 300KB of DLLs to my
otherdrive. In addition to specifying the new directory on the LIBPATH,
you still have to retain the old dll directory on the LIBPATH

ie LIBPATH= .... D:\OS2\DLL;C:\OS2\DLL .....

where d:\os2\dll is my new location for the dlls.

I retained the following files in c:\os2\dll

 The volume label in drive C is TJM FAT.
 The Volume Serial Number is 18FC:B267
 Directory of C:\OS2\DLL

.            <DIR>      7-28-92  11:10p
..           <DIR>      7-28-92  11:10p
IBMNULL      <DIR>      7-28-92  11:44p
PSCRIPT      <DIR>      7-28-92  11:44p
ANSICALL DLL      438   3-30-92  12:00p
MSG      DLL      477   3-30-92  12:00p
NLS      DLL      465   3-30-92  12:00p
BKSCALLS DLL      401   3-30-92  12:00p
BMSCALLS DLL      398   3-30-92  12:00p
NPXEMLTR DLL    25280   3-30-92  12:00p
NAMPIPES DLL      711   3-30-92  12:00p
VIOCALLS DLL     1825   3-30-92  12:00p
BVSCALLS DLL      454   3-30-92  12:00p
DOSCALL1 DLL    87884   3-30-92  12:00p
BDCALLS  DLL    86746   3-30-92  12:00p
KBDCALLS DLL      858   3-30-92  12:00p
MOUCALLS DLL     1010   3-30-92  12:00p
OS2SM    DLL     1597   3-30-92  12:00p
OS2CHAR  DLL    56320   3-30-92  12:00p
QUECALLS DLL    14994   3-30-92  12:00p
SESMGR   DLL    31256   3-30-92  12:00p
MONCALLS DLL      472   3-30-92  12:00p
EPSON        <DIR>      7-30-92   1:11a
        23 file(s)     311586 bytes used
                     53528576 bytes free

Other than my particular situation, I think this would be useful for those 
people who have 2 or more SCSI drives - what you do is split the dlls across
the SCSI drives to speed up access.

jin meng
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: doug@shako.Colorado.EDU (Doug McKnight)
Subject:  Two PMSHELLs running?
Reply-To: doug@shako.Colorado.EDU (Doug McKnight)
Organization: University of Colorado, Boulder
Date: Thu, 20 Aug 1992 17:10:39 GMT


If I use "procs" it reports that PMSHELL is running twice. Is this normal?
I suspect not and that it is a result of an imperfect recovery from a disaster
that left me with two desktops. 

How can I tidy up? Killem does nothing on one of these processes and on the 
other it just shuts down the wps which then restarts itself. 

Thanks, Douglas
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: IBM4072/BJ-300 OS/2 DriverDIR
From: dmetz@vax1.umkc.edu
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1992 20:05:25 GMT
Organization: University of Missouri - Kansas City

>>|>                  
>>|>                      OS24072.exe
>>|> 
>>|>  This is the OS/2 printer driver for the IBM 4072 ExecJet
>>|> Printer, which is a clone of the CanonBJ-300. It is marked
>>|> |> as a beta version. It will work for the BJ-10e when it
>>|> is
>>|> switched to Proprinter emulation. I have experienced
>>|> some problems with my paper feed, but I am unsure as
>>|> to whether these are the result of the driver or of the
>>|> printer itself.
>>
>>yeah, what I forgot to say was to set form feed to "none" - I
>>have no problem
>>printing on A4  on a BJ10 EX like this.
> 
> But it only has 180x360 DPI instead of 360x360 DPI.  It cannot print
> envelope either.

I don't know what you're doing wrong, but I've got this driver working
fine on my BJ10e...in 360x360 DPI mode!  Perhaps it's a subtle difference
between the 10e and 10ex?

Overall, I'm not real pleased with the print quality (ie font mapping)
from the OS/2 desktop...everything I print seems really crude (although
in 360x360 mode) -- no smoothing or something...Does anyone know how to
remedy this print quality problem?

Wayne
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: funka@Informatik.TU-Muenchen.DE (Andreas Funk)
Subject: DviPS no memory error
Organization: Technische Universitaet Muenchen, Germany
Date: Mon, 17 Aug 1992 09:22:57 GMT

Hello,

some days ago i got dvips for os2. 
After installing it i tried to convert some simple 
dvi-files, but always the mesage:
"dvips: !no memory" occured.
There is no Postscript printer connected to my machine,
but i think it should run without one.

Dvips was installed with emtex, and i used the -o option
to direct the output to a file. I used the predifined config.ps 
settings.

Any hints are appreciated

Thanks in advance 

Funky
From: thomas@cogsci.ed.ac.uk (Thomas Plass)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: System requirements for GNU Emacs
Date: 19 Aug 92 16:16:11 GMT
Reply-To: thomas@uk.ac.ed.cogsci
Distribution: comp.os.os2.misc
Organization: Centre for Cognitive Science, University of Edinburgh

I am planning to use OS/2 on my next computer, not least because there
is a GNU Emacs available for it.  Now, you probably know all the
expansions of the acronym EMACS so I won't repeat them here.  Suffice
it to say that Emacs is big and even on the Sparc I am using to write
this article, it swaps like mad.  So my query: what are people's
estimates/experiences on what the minimal system requirement is for
running Emacs reasonably responsive _alongside_ the WPS?

If at all possible, reply by email cos although I find this newsgroups
one of the most informative and friendly ones, I just can't keep up
with its enormous traffic, folks. 

Thanks.

th.
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From: dic5340@hertz.njit.edu (David Charlap)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: Two cool bugs!
Date: 12 Aug 92 17:19:52 GMT
Organization: New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, N.J.

In article <1992Aug10.180807.13902@unixg.ubc.ca> duffy@theory.chem.ubc.ca (Pat Duffy) writes:
>Open the settings for your OS/2 full-screen session.  Change it to DOS full-
>screen and change video_switch_notification from the default.  Exit.  Change
>the session back to full-screen OS/2.  Exit and start up the full-screen
>session.  Type 'set'<return>.
>
>The only values that get returned are the DOS settings that were changed.  You
>have no path, no environment variables, nothing.

That's right.  DOS sessions don't get their environment variables from
CONFIG.SYS.  Create an AUTOEXEC.BAT file in the root of your boot
partition.  This will execute each time a DOS session starts.

>Alos, I am using a Graphics Ultra and running everything using the 8514/a
>drivers.  I am finding that Windows messes up my DOS sessions, in that I cannot
>see what I type, but that the programs I start run anyway, and my keystrokes
>seem to be registering.  However, all I see is a blue C:\> prompt and nothing
>else.  I have set video_xga_8514a_iotrap to on and video_switch_notification
>to on, but the problem persists.  Any ideas anyone?

No real idea, but have you set "SVGA OFF"?  Look for the svgadata.pmi
file (DIR svgadata.pmi /s) and delete it if you find it.  Next, check
your config.sys.  Be sure youve a reference to vsvga.sys and NOT to
vvga.sys.

These should be set for all 8514/a sessions, whether there is a
problem or not.
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From: t9114145@phillip.edu.au
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: OS/2 - why is it so slow?
Date: 14 Aug 92 15:04:23 GMT
Organization: RMIT (Bundoora Campus)

In article <713670392snx@tgm.CAM.ORG>, eric@tgm.CAM.ORG (Eric Trepanier) writes:
> Hello fellow OS/2 users,
> 
[...]
> 
> The worst problem are communications.  When I do telecommnunications, I
> _must_ leave the telecomm app foreground or not mess with the system too
> much (simple file handling in a CLI window is OK, but if I enter a full
> screen WinOS2 session, I am sure to get some lost characters in the telecomm
> app. resulting in protocol failure.  If the telecomm app is a DOS app, then

Might have to blame your hardware here - cheapo clones (like I have) don't come
with nice UART serial crds, usually. (mine didn't.) If you look at your serial
card and don't see a chip called '16550' you should think about getting one.
You probably have a 8250 or 16450 at the moment, which just doesn't cut it
for multitasking. The 16550 should help your lost character problem.
 
[...]
> My point is: give me a little more performance here.  At least as much as I
> get under DOS/Win!  Heck, this is suppose to be a state of the art 32 bit
> operating system, but right now, people with a 2Mb Amiga would laugh at
> seeing me being forced to suspend all activities while doing file transfers
> because of the poor serial communications.
> 

Well, I don't know. I used to have an Amiga but I think OS/2 LOOKS much nicer
at least. The 16550 will help your serial comms a lot. The Amiga has much better
serial ports standard, but since it's designed as a multitasker from day 1
it uses a better system for IO, and doesn't rely on an edge-triggered interrupt
which is easy for the CPU to miss. Persevere!

> 
> Eric
> --
> Eric Trepanier
> eric@tgm.CAM.ORG
> "Everybody has a right to believe in something.
>  I believe I'll have another beer."
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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: rbaldwin@afit.af.mil (Rusty O. Baldwin)
Subject: Re: Newer COM drivers?
Organization: Air Force Institute of Technology
Date: Sat, 15 Aug 1992 13:24:46 GMT

gkendall@ncr-mpd.FtCollins.NCR.COM (Guy Kendall) writes:

>On another network I heard someone mention something about some new
>COM drivers, apparently newer than the COMMGA drivers. I believe they
>said they were called COM0207 or something like that. I couldn't find
>them on ftp-os2 anywhere. Does anyone know if there were indeed any new
>COM drivers released, and what fixes are in them?


I got a call from IBM tech support and the tech mentioned the new
drivers.  He said they were called COM2210, were beta test drivers and
are available on Compuserve.  The call I had in to technical support was
because my modem wont connect at >2400 under OS/2.  The tech said the
new drivers might help.   I don't have access to Compuserve, could some
kind soul post them on the net??

Rusty Baldwin
rbaldwin@afit.af.mil
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: ochealth@unixg.ubc.ca (ochealth)
Subject: Re: Does Os/2 Have The Equai
Organization: University of British Columbia, Vancouver, B.C., Canada
Date: Thu, 20 Aug 1992 04:08:38 GMT

In article <714223952.6@wyrm.rbbs-net.ORG> Daniel.Karellen@f501.n914.z8.rbbs-net.ORG (Daniel Karellen) writes:
>BM>Everyone / Anyone:
>
>BM>Does OS/2 have the equaivalent of the UNIX usage of ``?  For example, the
>BM>command: grep "---" `find . -name ~*~ -print` is very useful.  It finds
>BM>all files/directories and passes the to grep as its parameters (filesnames).
>
>BM>Thanks in advance.
>
>BM>Bert.
>
>Download GREP for OS/2 from the fernwood bbs (203) 483-0348.  That's the 9600
>baud line, there's also a 14,400 baud line.

No no no. That's not what he meant. I think he already has grep etc.

grep "---" `find  foobar` is what he was asking.

In a UNIX C shell, the backquotes run that program, and leave the results
in the command line (in this case).

SO the `find ..` would expand to ./file1 ./file2 ./file2 etc.
Then those files would become the arguments to grep.

Confusing, but then this is UNIX.

BTW I *would* like to know if this is possible under OS/2. Maybe some bizarre
4OS/2 command? Anyway, it's a function of the shell, not the OS. Maybe when
bash gets ported...;-)

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>
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From: dic5340@hertz.njit.edu (David Charlap)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: sorry to bothr with such small questions
Date: 12 Aug 92 16:59:21 GMT
Organization: New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, N.J.

In article <qball.090c@pongnet.chi.il.us> qball@pongnet.chi.il.us (John Irey ) writes:
>and oh yea do you have to by special programs for os/2 I mean like for os/2
>kinda like wordperfect for windows?

I'm sorry, I misread this.  No, you don't HAVE to buy any OS/2 apps,
if you don't want to.  The DOS emulator (included) works very well for
most applications.  The WIN-OS2 program (also included) will run most
Windows applications in Real or Standard mode.

Of course, if you get OS/2 apps, you'll find them faster and better
than their DOS/Windows counterparts simply because you won't have an
emulator in the way.


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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: clark@odie.ee.wits.ac.za (Alan Robert Clark)
Subject: Novell over ArcNet & OS/2
Organization: Wits Electrical Engineering (Novell Users).
Date: Wed, 12 Aug 1992 14:21:17 GMT

We are having major trouble connecting to Novell via good old fashioned 
ArcNet - Novell Lan Requestor does not seem to support it.......

HEEEELLLLLPPPP AnyOne! PLEASE email.
Alan.

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From: jc70@westend.VI.CMU.EDU (Joo C. Chung)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: Geoworks under OS/2?
Date: 21 Aug 92 15:10:06 GMT
Article-I.D.: cs.BtCA4v.8zA.2
Reply-To: jc70@norman.vi.ri.cmu.edu
Organization: School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon

In article <1992Aug21.033514.14887@ra.oc.com> matt@ra.oc.com (Matthew Lyle)  
writes:
> Has anyone out there gotten Geoworks to run under
> OS/2??  I'm needing to get it working, so that I
> can access AOL.  If anybody has if they could drop
> me a note with the "tricks" I need to pull, I'd
> appreciate it.
> 
> I'll sumamrize to anyone else out there who 
> might want to know.
> 
> -- 
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> Technical Support Specialist                           matt@utdallas.bitnet
> West/SW/SE/Mid Atlantic Region (*Phew*)
> OpenConnect System, Dallas, Texas                      (214) 490-4090

There have been people who were able to get Geoworks running under OS/2. You 
might want to ask around on netnews.comp.os.msdos.pcgeos. They posted the 
changes you need to make in order to get Geoworks running under OS/2 there some 
time ago.


Joo
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: unruh@physics.ubc.ca (William Unruh)
Subject: OS2 swapping still sick?
Summary: OS2 swapping still sick?
Keywords: swap, swapper.dat,growing,slow system
Organization: University of British Columbia, Vancouver, B.C., Canada
Date: Sun, 16 Aug 1992 05:48:33 GMT

 I have OS2 on a 486-33-8Meg, 130Meg Fujitsu IDE hard drive.
 Lately the system has been getting slow, with a
 tremendous amount of disk activity going on even when there was nothing
 going on- eg only the desktop open, and I then open an OS2 window. The
 swapper.dat file had grown to over 14MB It dropped to 12, but stuck
 there, and the system had become slow. I dual booted Dos, and erased
 the huge swapper.dat file. OS2 is back to its old form now.
 Yes I have installed the kernel patch. Do others also find that the
 swapping still leaves something to be desired?
Bill Unruh
unruh@physics.ubc.ca
From: june@f308.n133.z1.FIDONET.ORG (Ed June)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Swap EE for TCP/IP?
Date: 16 Aug 92 10:28:46 GMT
Organization: FidoNet node 1:133/308 - Information Overloa, Riverdale GA


I have an unneeded virgin <unopened> copy of OS/2 EE on 5.25' disks.
Since I can't seem to $ell it, how 'bout trades?
I'd like to get TCP/IP or the IBM dev kit.
Anyone interested?


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From: tenny@euclid.uucp (Nathan Tenny)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: EMX and libgpp
Date: 20 Aug 92 18:36:10 GMT
Organization: Department of Mathematics, University of Oregon


Well, I have EMX up and doing nicely, and libgpp installed, but gcc can't
seem to find the include files in /emx/include.cpp/*.  Is there an environment
variable I need to set, or something of that nature?

Thanks

	NT
From: dg4k+@andrew.cmu.edu (Daniel Brian Greenfield)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Fonts question
Date: 21 Aug 92 06:15:33 GMT
Article-I.D.: andrew.ceZDe5600YV781zFlA
Organization: Sophomore, English, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA

Does anyone know whether the Macintosh fonts Bookman and London have
been ported for use with OS/2 and, if so, where they might be found?

Thanks,
Daniel
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: ychung@napier.uwaterloo.ca (Young Chung)
Subject: Re: Changing the title color of Shadow Icons
Organization: University of Waterloo
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1992 04:46:44 GMT

>In article <713459988snx@tgm.CAM.ORG> eric@tgm.CAM.ORG (Eric Trepanier) writes:
>>Hello Everyone,
>>
>>I have several "shadow" icons on my OS/2 desktop which were created from
>>several different Folders.  I have an OS/2 shell shadow icon, a WinOS2
>>full screen icon, etc.  The question is: How do I specify the color of
>>those icon's titles?  Right now, they are the default dark gray color
>>used by OS/2, but I have a dark cyan background desktop, so I can hardly
>>see them.  Which of the color setting from the Palette Scheme corresponds
>>to the color of shadow icon titles?  I tried changing "Drop Shadow" and
>>"Shadow Text" but they only work if I ALT-drag the palette on the whole
>>system.  Since I have different color schemes for several different
>>windows/folders, this is not a solution.

I got a file called syscols2.zoo from hobbes and works great.  I can change
colour of almost everything including the shadow text.  Now, I can put any
background and the text is visible with bright/dark red.


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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: bgraham@yoda.wsu.edu (Brooks Graham )
Subject: Cache parameter
Originator: bgraham@yoda.eecs.wsu.edu
Organization: Washington State University!
Date: Mon, 17 Aug 92 22:04:12 GMT


I have noticed that there are two places in the CONFIG.SYS that specify
the OS/2 disk cache size.  Once in the IFS= line and the other in (I think)
a CACHE= line.

What's the difference between these two caches?  Are there really TWO caches?
Should the sizes be the same?  I have noticed that increasing the CACHE= size
improves performance on a FAT partition but I can't really tell the 
difference on my HPFS partition.

I've looked in the on-line docs and they're really not all that clear.

Thanks in advance.

Brooks Graham
bgraham@yoda.eecs.wsu.edu

Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: masimo@netcom.com (Michael Maas)
Subject: vga seamless windows exit
Date: Mon, 17 Aug 92 18:06:53 GMT
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services (408 241-9760 guest)

So, I got os/2 up and running over the weekend (7 installs before I got what
I wanted.)

I wasn't going to install until the next release but temptation got the better
of me.  I like it better than win 3.0 except for the video limitations which
I have decided to wait for the csd to fix.

However, when I run a seamless vga window application in wps, I can't get it 
to close or exit.  the shadow always remains around the icon and the only way
I can get rid of it is to delete.  If I don't delete, the next time I boot, the
object is open on the desktop of wps when the boot is finished.

I have a noname 386-33 with 8 meg and a tseng 4000 video card.  Can anyone tell
me what is wrong?

Thanks,

Mike


Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: mig@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Meir I Green)
Subject: Re: Bugs was Re: OS/2-The User's View
Reply-To: mig@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Meir I Green)
Organization: Columbia University, New York
Date: Tue, 18 Aug 1992 02:27:56 GMT

In article <1992Aug17.205932.20713@ncsu.edu> linville@garfield.catt.ncsu.edu (John W. Linville) writes:
>In article <1992Aug17.183516.1274@news.columbia.edu> mig@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Meir I Green) writes:
>>Speaking of bugs, here is a really bad one:  I am experiencing an inconsistent
>>inability to run DOS sessions.  I get sys0008, not enough memory. However, I
>>have 16 MB (Well, 20 but only 16 are recognized by OS/2 :-() and over 100 MB
>>free on the swapper partition, which always remains at 1048 Bytes!
>>
>>The support person said she thinks the problem is because I have COM2 and COM3,
>>but not COM1!  I think to myself, so?  What is the relation?  Anyway, I am
>>beginning to wonder if I have some flakey cards, but OS/2 should really be
>>giving me a more appropriate error message, then.  Has anyone else had this
>>problem with OS/2?  I sometimes find myself unable to access my DOS programs,
>>since my disk is formatted HPFS!  This is quite unacceptable.  Any ideas?
>
>I had the same problem.  I am using an ethernet card on IRQ3 (the default for
>COM2).  I was unable to run DOS programs until I removed the DEVICE=C:\OS2\MDOS\VCOM.SYS line from CONFIG.SYS.  Now, I have no problems.  Hope this helps!

Well, looks like this is the bug!  I found the docs for my modem, and moved it
to com2, and put a serial port with 16550A on com1.  Works for now.  Note that
the mode command turns the 16550A on for com1, but if I put a mode command for
com2, the internal modem, the computer locks when I run a DOS communications
program!  (So I don't do it! :-)

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