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From: sundaram@cps.msu.edu (Divya Sundaram)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Changing between full screen DOS sessions
Date: 27 Jul 92 17:24:32 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: Michigan State University, College of Engineering
Originator: sundaram@indian.cps.msu.edu


Hi all,
I have a quick question : I want to run two versions of a DOS app. full screen
"simultaneously". What is the quickest way of switching between the two 
programs?? I would appreciate any suggestions. 

Thanks heaps
Later

Divya
(sundaram@cps.msu.edu)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu (Timothy F. Sipples)
Subject: Re: install can't get past disk 1
Reply-To: sip1@midway.uchicago.edu
Organization: Dept. of Econ., Univ. of Chicago
Date: Sat, 25 Jul 1992 01:03:41 GMT

In article <1992Jul23.130824.28647@kakwa.ucs.ualberta.ca> kdorma@ravana.seas.ucla.edu (Kevin Dorma) writes:
>Just got my Win -> OS/2 upgrade, many thanx to Jon Hacker for his soothing
>advice.  However, the damn thing won't install....
>Disk 0 (installation disk) works fine.  Disk 1 produces:
>   OS/2 SYSTEM INSTALL
>   SYS00371: THE SYSTEM CANNOT WRITE TO A WRITE PROTECTED A:
>Any idease why the system is trying to write to disk 1 and not disk 0 
>(which is not write protected)???

You should un-write protect that diskette.  OS/2 is trying to write
the "update confirmed" file to your diskette (so that it will not
trouble you in the future about having DOS or OS/2 on your hard disk).

>Bypassing that error I either get
>   TRAP 000e
>   INTERNAL PROCESSING ERROR @ #0160:fff6453f    blah, blah, blah
>or
>   TRAP 0002
>   INTERNAL PROCESSING ERROR @ # same blah, blah, blah

Ah, now this is bad news.  It means you have a memory parity error,
which is almost always bad RAM.  The surest way to fix this problem
(after you have read through the FAQ List and followed the suggestions
there about wait states, precharge cycles, and bus speed) is to swap
SIMMs out individually and replace them until you have solved the
problem.

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From: hertz.njit.edu!dic5340@overmind.mind.org
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: Does 800x600x256 on the VGA part of a Graphics Ultra work under OS/2?
Date: 22 Jul 92 21:37:00 GMT
Organization: New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, N.J.
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In article <1992Jul21.150920.1103@mustang.uucp> mike@mustang.uucp (Mike 
Hoffos) writes:

>Yep, I did do svga on; it did nothing.  And my config.sys does have
>the vsvga.sys there.  My question still stands; does anyone with an
>Ultra get 800x600x256 in a DOS full-screen session if a program tries to
>fiddle the VGA portion into the mode?

Well, I don't have an Ultra, but I have a VGA Wonder. So...

If you're using an sVGA program, make sure it's configured as an ATI
VGA Wonder-compatible program.

If you use the Ultra's accelerated graphics mode, be sure you
installed the HDILOAD.COM program which came with the Ultra.  The
accelerator isn't accessible to most DOS programs without it.

-- 
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From: bert.tyler@satalink.com (Bert Tyler)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: ATI Graphics Ultra
Date: 27 Jul 92 21:05:00 GMT
Reply-To: bert.tyler@satalink.com (Bert Tyler)
Organization: SataLink Info Systems - Huntingdon Valley, PA - 215-364-3324

>I haven't been able to get the Graphics Ultra into 800x600x256 mode using
>the VGA portion of the card, in DOS full screen.  It doesn't even work if
>if I boot from a DOS 5.0 floppy and try going into that mode (VPIC).  Wonder
>what's happening?

I recently purchased a Gateway 408/50 with an ATI Graphics Ultra adapter
and had the same problem with my DOS programs (I'm not an OS/2 person).
Here's the fix that worked for me...

The ATI Graphics Ultra, as shipped on my Gateway with 15" CrystalScan
monitor, was apparantly set up to use a 72Hz refresh rate at 800x600
resolution.  The ATI side of that adapter >>won't go into 800x600x256
mode<< at a refresh rate above 70Hz (a fact noted as a comment in the
"real" ATI manuals a friend of mine had, but not in the manuals supplied
with my PC by Gateway - $%^&!@#!).  The 8514/A side of that adapter
apparantly does support that mode, which was why Windows 3.1 ran just
fine in 800x600x256 (the Windows drivers apparantly use the 8514/A side
of the adapter and ATI's proprietary 800x600x256 extension to the 8514/A
side of that adapter). VPIC and my own Fractint program try to use
the ATI side of that adapter at 800x600x256 mode, and fail.

The solution (for me, at any rate) was to fire up the INSTALL program
(from "real DOS", if you're using OS/2), select the "Start Up" (first)
option, then select "Monitor Type", select the "Custom" entry (at the
very end of the monitor list), select 800x600 resolution, then select
the 70hz refresh rate.  Bingo - 800x600x256 mode works fine.

                   Bert Tyler   (bert.tyler@satalink.com)
---
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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: steibel@venus.cs.umbc.edu (David M. Steibel)
Subject: Re: HELP! restoring deleted HPFS files
Organization: University of Maryland Baltimore Campus
Date: Thu, 30 Jul 1992 02:05:06 GMT

In article <1992Jul29.203713.22852@midway.uchicago.edu> 
   sip1@midway.uchicago.edu writes:
> In article <1992Jul29.173050.16406@serval.net.wsu.edu> 
     bassin@wsuaix.csc.wsu.edu (Ed Bassin - Sociology;S23679) writes:
>> Fool that I am, yesterday I erased an entire directory off my HPFS 
>> partition.  Unfortunately, my backup won't restore and to add insult to 
>> injury, I discovered that my SET DELDIR line was prefixed with a REM.  Is 
>> there an equivalent to Norton's quick unerase for HPFS?  Please say yes.
>
> The GammaTech Utilities have HPFS unerase.  There's also a utility
> called Phoenix, available via anonymous ftp from ftp-os2.nmsu.edu,
> which should do the trick.

I just thought I should say that writing any new data to the drive will
probably overwrite your old data.  Also, shutting down the system might
also erase some of your data.  I'm not really positive if this would happen,
but since you seem to think your lost data is important, it is something
to keep in mind.

If I were you, I would get a copy of ``Phoenix'' on a floppy disk, load it
and cross your fingers.  Of course, if you've used your drive since the
loss of your data, and writes have been involved, you could be out of
luck.

Try to use another computer in order to make the floppy.  I assume you
haven't done anything that involves writes.

Hope it helps..

--
David M. Steibel;  Author of the Demacs FAQ;  Internet: steibel@cs.umbc.edu

The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be measured by the way 
in which its animals are treated. - Mahatma Gandhi.



Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: axel@ubka.uni-karlsruhe.de (Axel Maurer)
Subject: Patch for MSCDEX
Organization: University of Karlsruhe, Germany
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1992 09:15:56 GMT

Somebody told me, that there's a patch for for MSCDEX to
get it run under OS/2 without having problems with
the DOS Version information.

Thanks in advance
-- 
Axel Maurer (Maurer@ubka.uni-karlsruhe.de) 
Xref: sparky comp.os.os2.misc:25058 alt.fractals:1251
From: dtl8v@holmes.acc.Virginia.EDU (Heraclitus)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc,alt.fractals
Subject: Re: PMFRACT
Date: 21 Jul 92 19:02:36 GMT
Organization: University of Virginia


  OK, my apologies for offending you on the File/New idea.  I kind of
like it, although it breaks the principle of similar function names
should perform similar operations, and File/New and File/Open perform
completely different things.  I don't, however, think that one should
have to define fractal type down at the fractal parameter level.
Perhaps you're right, though.  This belongs in alt.fractals.  I have
taken the liberty of cross-posting to that group for responses.
  I do like the PM interface much better, however.  The Windows
interface you wrote I never did get used to.  I liked the DOS
interface OK, but everything was non-visual and keyboard-driven, and
so it was easy to abandon it for a snazzier windowed interface.  One
advantage of PMFRACT has nothing to do with the interface, however.
It runs in background under OS/2 better than in Windows, as does
everything.  And with a 32-bit version, I'm sold.  I just wish the
PMFRACT program displayed its output earlier rather than
pre-calculating everything.  Matter of taste.

Doug Lamb
dtl8v@Virginia.EDU
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: Format 1.2M to 1.44M
From: lance@lancea.actrix.gen.nz (Lance Andrewes)
Date: Fri, 24 Jul 92 23:28:33 GMT
Distribution: world
Organization: none

kskapin@csws8.ic.sunysb.edu writes
 in article <1992Jul24.170613.6697@sbcs.sunysb.edu>:
> 
> The file the previous post was referring to is FDFORMAT18 available from
> GARBO.UWASA.FI (/pub/pc/diskutils). I downloaded it but it did not work
> for me. It kept saying error on track 0 head 0 after formatting. There
> is another file called 800II... in the same place. This one worked for me
> but it allows 1.2 to go to 1.4 not 1.44. Good enough for an OS/2 boot disk.
> [etc]

When I run FDFORMAT v1.8 with the paramaters F:1.44, it does format
a 1.2MB disc to 1.44MB.  On completion of formatting, I get the
message: "Head 0, Cylinder 0, 100%V  Error building new disc-
parameter-block. DOS-Error 5".  However, the disc is definitely usable.  
I've used these discs a lot when backing-up software.  Installations
run fine from the FDFORMAT formatted discs.

Sorry if this is not the error you're getting, but just in case ...
__
 _______  Email: lance@lancea.actrix.gen.nz
////      ZL2AJH    Wellington, New Zealand
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc,comp.os.os2.programmer
From: edb1@cbnewsf.cb.att.com (edward.benyukhis)
Subject: FastBack Plus 3.04 under OS2
Followup-To: poster
Keywords: Fastback Plus fails under OS/2
Organization: AT&T
Date: Tue, 21 Jul 1992 16:04:47 GMT


Can anyone please assist with the following problem:

When trying to restore with Fastback Plus 3.04 they system
reports a TRAP 0000 and locks up.  Perhaps a special set up is
needed I I do not know what it is.  If someone is familiar with
this issue, please respond.

Thank you,

Ed Benyukhis
From: mlevis@ringer.cs.utsa.edu (Mike Levis)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: The Future of OS/2
Date: 27 Jul 92 04:22:37 GMT
Organization: University of Texas at San Antonio

In article <26JUL199218573755@vmsb.is.csupomona.edu> cvadrtbc@vmsb.is.csupomona.edu (Srikanth Viswanathan) writes:
>
>I believe this is well into the future,  IBM doesn't intend on having Windows
>compatibility for ever,  I think it's going to end in September of 1993.  That
                                                ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>more than a year away.   Even if you have tons of Windows programs, why not
>try OS/2 and judge for yourself?  What have you got to lose?  You can always
>return it if you don't like it?  Besides, do you think that NT is going to 
>run Enhanced mode Windows code?  Not according to Mark Ryland of MS.  

I believe that you misunderstood the MS/IBM contract of source
code sharing.  I think that IBM cannot see *new* MS source code
for Windows (and other MS source code) after September 1993
(and vice versa).  IBM can have Windows code in it for as long
as it wants.

However, I agree with the rest of your statement.  Windows
compatibility in OS/2 2.0 is for migration (meaning people
will not have to throw away most of their Windows apps when
using OS/2 2.0).

>Srikanth

-- 
       === Mike Levis    mlevis@ringer.cs.utsa.edu ===
 .--.  ::  Call 1-800-3IBM-OS2 to order OS/2 2.0!!  ::
(OS/2) ::  Upgrade $49 from Windows, $99 from DOS.  ::
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From: syeoh@acsu.buffalo.edu (Lam Yeoh)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Fahrenheit 1280 and OS/2
Date: 28 Jul 92 12:57:56 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: UB

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?

Stephen
-- 
Stephen Yeoh                    SUNY@Buffalo

psyeoh@ubvms.cc.buffalo.edu
syeoh@acsu.cc.buffalo.edu
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: mig@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Meir I Green)
Subject: Olivetti to bundle OS/2
Reply-To: mig@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Meir I Green)
Organization: Columbia University
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1992 23:43:22 GMT

According to Clarinet news service, Olivetti has made an agreement to bundle
up to 20,000 copies of OS/2 per year with its machines.
In the UK, they have a license to bundle Windows, but are expected to offer
OS/2 as an option!

It's about time, somebody did this!

 * * * * *  =================  Internet address is   mig@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu
* * * * * * = Meir I. Green =  for short, mail to    mig@columbia.edu
 * * * * *  =================  UUCP Bang!            columbia.edu!mig
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From: cltong@ecst.csuchico.edu (Chin Leung Tong)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: Diamond Speedstar SVGA Card Problems (Tseng 4000) !
Date: 23 Jul 92 03:42:27 GMT
Organization: California State University, Chico


I just bought a new Diamond Speedstart SVGA Card today to replace my old
Mentor SVGA Card 'cos it always display wrong color palette.

I installed the new one and tried to boot my mechine.  However after 
the logos I could only get some giant icons and Huge system clock overlaping 
each other.  The entire screen was divided into 4 protions and overlap
each other.

I did replaced the patches form hobbes and still not working. 
Please help!
Thanks in advance.

Chin
From: rcook@bashful.helios.nd.edu (robert cook)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: Porting Tools for OS/2 to Windows NT
Date: 23 Jul 92 22:34:58 GMT
Reply-To: Cook.14@nd.edu (R. Kelley Cook)
Organization: Univ. of Notre Dame

Sorry for the complete cross-post, but I found this quite
interesting from the c.o.ms-windows.win32:

------ Begin Crosspost ----
From: johnhall@microsoft.com (John Hall)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.win32
Subject: Porting Tools for OS/2 to Windows NT
Date: Wed, 22 Jul 92 20:23:14 EST
Organization: Microsoft Corporation


On the Compuserve Win32 forum, the library upload section
for 'Porting From OS/2' now has a new updated set of
utilities.

os2port -- Help setting up an NT environment, then some
	   translation tools to move your C code to NT.
sedgnu  -- A NT version of Sed courtesy of Gnu
annote  -- NT version of source code annotation system
	   shipped with the 'OS/2 to Windows Conversion Kit'
resconv -- NT version of .rc file converter.
helpc   -- Original kit version of help (IPF) format conversion.
imagc   -- Image conversion (Ptrs, Bitmaps, etc)
apicnt  -- Tools for counting what API's you are using on OS/2,
	   some simple estimation techniques for the port.
winhlp  -- Conversion kit help file with hotlinks to the
	   32bit and 16bit Windows help files.
root    -- The root readme for the entire kit.

The original OS/2 to Windows conversion kit is still around,
but they are going fast.


-- 
-------------------------
My comments are my own.  They are independent and unrelated to the
views of my company , relatives or elected representatives.

-------  End Crosspost -------
Robert Kelley Cook     << Cook.14@nd.edu >>
Univ. of Notre Dame     The future for Intel computers arrived March 31!
Physics Dept.            Long Live the new OS/2!  Time to close the Windows!
From: hertz.njit.edu!dic5340@overmind.mind.org
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: specific dos and mem
Date: 22 Jul 92 21:47:00 GMT
Organization: New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, N.J.
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In article <1992Jul21.1480.22689@dosgate> "kenneth tam" 
<kenneth.tam@canrem.com> writes:
>Both claim that replacing HIMEM.SYS and EMM386.EXE or their equivalents
>with OS2\MDOS\HIMEM.SYS and EMM.SYS will work.  
>
>They don't, at least for me.  This is off a DOS 5.00 VMDISK image,
>
>I've got FSFILTER installed, so that isn't it.  It actually reports
>loading in the two OS/2 mem drivers, but the MEM command shows only
>conventional...
>
>The mouse works though.
>
> TFS> I'm not sure about UMBs and DOS loaded high -- anyone?
>
>No luck with UMBs here, since normally HIMEM.SYS controls those
>and it isn't loading right for me.  DOS HIGH, same problem I believe..

Did you ALSO set the DOS settings for the session?  Open the settings
for the icon you use to launch the DOS 5.00 VMDISK image.  Go to the
DOS settings.  Be sure that there is XMS memory allocated, DPMI memory
allocated, DOS is set HIGH, and that UMB's are set ON.
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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: jal@acc.flint.umich.edu (John Lauro)
Subject: ISA SCSI Controllers
Date: Mon, 27 Jul 92 13:57:22 EDT
Organization: University of Michigan - Flint

This group grows faster than I read it, so please send any replies
to me...  (of course, if you send it to the news group I will still try
to read them...  Will summarize and post results...)

I will be getting a SCSI drive, and would like recommendations of what
type of controller to get.  Eventually I plan to add a CD-ROM drive, and
multiple hard drives.  As in most cases, price is a concern...
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: mrjg8679@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Michael R James)
Subject: Re: Format 1.2M to 1.44M
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Fri, 24 Jul 1992 21:50:18 GMT

kskapin@csws8.ic.sunysb.edu (Keith T Skapinski) writes:

>In article <1992Jul22.201259.7773@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> kls@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Kenneth L Shellberg) writes:
>>Very recently, there was a posting which recommended a DOS
>>floppy formatter called fdformat, which will format a 1.2M
>>5.25 floppy to 1.44M.  Can anyone tell me where to find this
>>program?  It sounds like it would be very useful to me.
>>
>>Thanks in advance.
>>
>>Ken
>>

>The file the previous post was referring to is FDFORMAT18 available from
>GARBO.UWASA.FI (/pub/pc/diskutils). I downloaded it but it did not work
>for me. It kept saying error on track 0 head 0 after formatting. There
>is another file called 800II... in the same place. This one worked for me
>but it allows 1.2 to go to 1.4 not 1.44. Good enough for an OS/2 boot disk.

>If the original poster is reading this, any ideas why fdformat didn't work
>for me. I loaded the INT13X, then used FMT.

Hmm.  Are you sure it was FDFORMAT18 and not ATFMT110 or something
like that?  I have used the latter (which has progs named INT13X and
FMT).  Maybe it's just a different name?

Anyway, I had problems under certain circumstances formatting floppies
under OS/2 with FMT.  I could go back and check but my problems
seem to have come about when I tried to format 1 floppy normally and another
with FMT.  I'm pretty sure I got it to work eventually.  
I'll check this out again, I was getting the same error.
(Great little program BTW)

>|  kskapin@ic.sunysb.edu  (Keith Skapinski)  |    place        |

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       mechanics, died in 1906, by his own hand.  Paul Ehrenfest, carrying
       on the work, died similarly in 1933. Now it is our turn to study
       statistical mechanics."  
                                  -David L. Goodman "States of Matter" 
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc,comp.os.os2.programmer
From: dabl2@nlm.nih.gov (Don A.B. Lindbergh)
Subject: Re: IBM Multimedia for PM Announcement 
Organization: National Library of Medicine
Date: Thu, 30 Jul 92 15:43:23 GMT

...stuff deleted...

>TECHINFO   TECHNICAL INFORMATION
>   SPECIFIED OPERATING ENVIRONMENT
>   MACHINE REQUIREMENTS:  Multimedia Presentation Manager/2 Version 1.00
>   prerequisites OS/2 Version 2.0; the minimum hardware configuration
>   for OS/2 Version 2.0 and Multimedia Presentation Manager/2 is as
>   follows:

...stuff deleted...

>    o   PS/2 CD-ROM II internal driver (PS/2 Ultimedia (TM) Model 57 SLC)
>        or IBM PS/2 External CD-ROM Drive (Machine Type 3510, Model 002,      >        P/N 6451321) or equivalent.
>   o   Other multimedia adapters or devices when supported with device
>       drivers

huh, so one MUST have a cd rom to use this?  I'm sure one would *want* one
to have any fun :), but I was hoping that a midi/digital audio board and
OS/2 would be enough to start using MMPM/2......

>   o   MIDI Sequencing and Synthesizer support
>              Provides for Media Control of audio adapters that provide
>       internal synthesizer support of MIDI data.

ah yes, 'internal synthesizer support of midi data'.  Not a good sign.
Roland MPU-401 midi hardware has been the 'standard' for years even though
the Creative Labs/Media Vision and apparently IBM people don't support it.
Now we have people inventing another midi 'standard'.  Sigh.  Oh well, 
somebody has to address the hardware timing problems with midi hardware under
OS/2.  Apparently, the 'smart mode' of the Roland standard is unsuitable for
really sensitive, accurate timing, therefore the timing has to come from
'outside' the actual midi card, but I really don't know enough about it.  I
do know that current MPU-401 midi hardware and current IBM midi software under
OS/2 does not work well enough for a professional environment.  I have only
tested Twelve Tone's Cakewalk Pro 4.0E with a Music Quest MQX-32M midi card
however.  (The Music Quest card is register level MPU-401 compatible and takes
the Roland design further by incorporating true SMPTE read/write capability).
Which brings up the point that I don't see SMPTE (Society of Motion Picture and
Television) synchronization mentioned.  This is another long established
standard in daily use in all levels of professional film/television and audio
work.  Sigh.  I would like to know if Twelve Tone's new Cakewalk for Windows
will run under OS/2 with the MS multimedia extensions.  This software under
Windows 3.1 with a midi card and digital audio board is fantastic by the way.
One can imbed 44.1khz 16 bit stereo audio data in a midi sequence.  Good show
Twelve Tone.  I keep reading how there aren't any 3.1 specific applications.
What then is Cakewalk for Windows?  It certainly will not run under Windows
3.0  (perhaps it would run under 3.0 with the 1.0 multimedia extensions, I
don't know). 

I am looking forward to getting MMPM/2 (when Media Vision
comes out with their announced MMPM/2 drivers for the PAS-16 anyway.)
Somebody please tell me I don't actually HAVE TO HAVE a cd rom though!

--Don
dabl2@lhc.nlm.nih.gov