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From: tom@LANCE.ColoState.Edu (Tom Aurand)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: New COMMPAK2.DLL for TE/2
Date: 16 Sep 92 04:08:29 GMT
Organization: Colorado State U. Engineering College

In article <1992Sep15.235624.9177@midway.uchicago.edu> sip1@midway.uchicago.edu writes:
>In article <Sep15.222609.30819@yuma.ACNS.ColoState.EDU> tom@longs.lance.colostate.edu (Tom Aurand) writes:
>>I still can't start a winos2 app during a V.32bis V.42 Ymodem-G download.
>>I get a crc error in the download, TE/2 falls back to terminal mode,
>>and then the file goes beeping and puking across my screen
>>for the rest of its life.
>>This on an hpfs that is on a quick 4Mb ram buffered, EISA bus-mastering SCSI.
>
>YModem-G depends on an absolutely perfect, error-free link.  I suggest
>using either ZModem or normal YModem-Batch, preferably the former.  Or
>try experimenting with increasing TE/2's priority settings (in
>TE2.INI).

Would you say the same thing if you had witnessed, as a recent example, the
same connection (2 U.S.Robotics V.32bis Couriers - local phone line)
flawlessly download all of the TCPIP and nfs CSRs in a single download?  
This is no fluke either.  Any time TE/2 downloads get past the first packet
and I don't try to launch new jobs they complete without error (or at least
without reporting errors, as the modems do run ARQ).
_I_ do have some problems with TE/2.  Ymodem-G is made for me.
Tom
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: paul@tct.com (Paul Levin)
Subject: WANTED: List of installed OS/2 files
Organization: TC Telemanagement, Clearwater, FL
Distribution: usa
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1992 12:59:57 GMT


Does anyone have (I'm sure IBM does) a list of all of the files that
were (can be) installed on my hard disk, when I installed OS/2; and what
those files do.  I am sure there are several that I can remove with
no ill effects to the rest of the system -- but which ones ??


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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: ggg@kepler.unh.edu (Gregory G Greene)
Subject: Re: Links 386 Pro
Organization: University of New Hampshire  -  Durham, NH
Date: Sun, 6 Sep 1992 02:36:19 GMT

>Could anybody please tell me the proper settings for this game?...I'm running t
>he ATI Graphics Ultra with the ATI VESA driver, if that helps...I can get the g
>ame to work, but it seems that the golfer "swings" too fast and jerky...any
>suggestions?

	I had this same problem, although along with it I also had the game 
   randomly hang on me.  After trying all sorts of different DOS settings I
   gave up.  I now run it from pure DOS 5.0 and it runs perfect.  My machine
   has the Diamond Speedstar + graphics card, and the driver I was using was
   for the tseng4000 chipset.  

							G.Greene
From: ericb@rigel.cs.pdx.edu (Furry Logic)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: Some suggestions for OS/2
Date: 11 Sep 92 06:22:59 GMT
Article-I.D.: pdxgate.6086

parry@yoyo.cc.monash.edu.au (Tom J Parry) writes:

|| |MB2 pop-up menu for marked text like in CUA demo
|| 
|| Can you elaborate?
|| 

|I don't know if this is the same thing that Ethan is talking about but I
|would like to be able to mark text in windows and copy and past it easilyy
|with the keyboard and mouse. As an example, Hold {ALT,CTRL,SHIFT - you
|pick} down while moving the mouse will mark a block - the current method is
|VERY cumber some. Then ALT-MB3 could simply paste it in somewhere.

|In X-Windows (twm at least) , it's even simpler, holding down the left
|button does the marking/copying and the right button does the pasting.
|Would make things much nicer.

  Definately this method.... ^

  And take out the %@$#! carriage return it adds every time you paste. :)

-e.b.

  Eric Berggren             |  "Sometimes I think the surest sign that
  Computer Science/Eng.     |   intelligent life exists elsewhere in the
  Computer Action Team      |   Universe is that none of it has tried to
  ericb@rigel.cs.pdx.edu    |   contact us."        -- Bill Watterson
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: harris@garfield.catt.ncsu.edu (Michael Harris)
Subject: Re: Can I wax some OS/2 files..
Organization: North Carolina State University
Date: Wed, 9 Sep 1992 12:33:51 GMT

Also, you can consider moving ?:\OS2\APPS to another drive and then changing
all of your references in CONFIG.SYS to the new location.

That's the nice thing about WPS that didn't happen before.  If you use the
Drives object to move directories, all of your program reference objects get
updated too.
______________________________________________________________________________
     Michael Harris - harris@catt.ncsu.edu or harris@carvm3.vnet.ibm.com
 System Administrator, Computer & Technologies Theme Program, NC State Univ.
(My opinions are my own and do not represent those of NCSU or IBM Corporation)
Organization: European Academic Research Network (EARN)
Date: Thursday, 10 Sep 1992 15:08:01 GMT
From: Turgut Kalfaoglu <TURGUT@FRMOP11.BITNET>
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Subscribing to OS2 files..
Distribution: usa
 <1992Sep3.191143.20032@midway.uchicago.edu>
 <Bu1xvD.21p@epix.rrze.uni-erlangen.de>

If you are like me, you want to get the patches directory stuff
as soon as it becomes available. If you havent used the trickle servers
yet, give it a try - you subscribe to patterns, like:

<os2.patches>*
<os2.archivers>pk
etc.etc. and it sends you the file as soon as it is placed in the
directory. The source of os2 is ftp-os2.nmsu.edu, so it's a large
archive. Works really well.

If you have an NJE (bitnet) address, it will sendfile the file, if not,
it will encode it and mail it in pieces.. you pick the encoding
scheme, like XXE,UUE,BTOA,HEX.. For more info, send a:

/HELP

command in a mail message to trickle@frmop11.bitnet, or
trickle@frmop11.cnusc.fr...   regards, -turgut
From: sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu (Timothy F. Sipples)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: HPFS drive inaccessable...so I can't boot.  AAIIEEE!
Date: 13 Sep 92 00:12:17 GMT
Reply-To: sip1@midway.uchicago.edu
Organization: Dept. of Econ., Univ. of Chicago

In article <1992Sep12.053049.24032@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU> imp@macbeth.Berkeley.EDU (Imp) writes:
>The last time I ran OS/2, shutdownm wouldn't work.  Since it hadn't caused
>problems before, I just powered off the system.  When I powered back on,
>OS/2 couldn't read drive D:, which is HPFS and had most of my system on it.
>Now I can't boot OS/2; it gives a "can't access device" error, and says I
>need to run chkdsk /F on D:, which I can't do unless I can boot...Is there
>any way to fix this short of reinstalling OS/2 on a different system?  I
>really don't want to bother, since when I came up here for college I didn't
>bother bringing the install disks with me (sound of head banging on wall).
>I'm running OS/2 on a 486/33 with 16mb of ram and a 200+ meg hard drive,
>partitioned into 45/45/110, of which only D: is HPFS...if any of that makes
>a difference....

Read the OS/2 FAQ List, and follow the instructions on running CHKDSK
from an OS/2 floppy boot.  Should clear that problem right up.

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From: baldwin@csservera.scs.usna.navy.mil (J.D. Baldwin)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Lost all system objects, not all apps
Date: 14 Sep 92 21:37:11 GMT
Organization: Comp. Sci. Dep't., U.S. Naval Academy, Annapolis, MD

I don't know what happened, but I was working on a Novell drive, when
suddenly a lot of my desktop objects disappeared.  They just weren't
there all of a sudden, and an attempt to open an OS/2 window resulted 
in an "out of memory" error--though this was clearly erroneous since I
was able to run Emacs (one of the few icons left on my desktop).  Things
deteriorated slowly until finally nothing responded and I had to warm
boot (w/o shutdown).

Anyway, my System Folder, along with everything in it is GONE.  The shadow
folder "Productivity" that I had in a desktop folder is GONE.  The shadows
of some games I had in their own desktop folder are still there, but the
icon is a "broken link" icon.  The files themselves do not appear to be 
on the disk anywhere (though I'm not sure where they are supposed to be).
The subdirectories of "OS!2 2.0 Desktop" are still there, but the System
Folder isn't.  My System Setup, Startup, all that stuff are GONE GONE GONE.
All my shadows of OS/2 and DOS windows and full-screen sessions . . . GONE.

How can I a) get this stuff back, or b) failing that, re-install the originals
from the install disks without re-installing all of OS/2?
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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu (Timothy F. Sipples)
Subject: Re: Change fonts in windows
Reply-To: sip1@midway.uchicago.edu
Organization: Dept. of Econ., Univ. of Chicago
Date: Mon, 7 Sep 1992 14:50:34 GMT

In article <1992Sep6.191451.27004@usl.edu> das9674@usl.edu (Stephenson Daniel A) writes:
>>>Okay, how do you change the color in a DOS Window?
>>Why, as you always did, using ANSI escape sequences.
>Umm, I did ?  Is there a summary of how to do this? (ie, what makes
>what colors)

Consult any ANSI reference.  There are at least a couple available via
anonymous ftp from wuarchive.wustl.edu.  Look in mirrors/msdos/screen.

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Dept. of Econ., Univ.   | Or from LISTSERV@BLEKUL11.BITNET (send "HELP").
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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu (Timothy F. Sipples)
Subject: Re: Trident 800x600x16 virtual?
Reply-To: sip1@midway.uchicago.edu
Organization: Dept. of Econ., Univ. of Chicago
Date: Sat, 12 Sep 1992 01:45:16 GMT

In article <BuAuH0.HMI@cs.vu.nl> cpbaltus@cs.vu.nl (Baltus CPS) writes:
>Hi, I used the Trident 800x600x256 drivers with virtual desktop for a while
>and i really like them. The 256 colors make the whole screen processing a bit
>slow, so i was thinking about a 800x600x16 driver with virtual desktop.
>Does this thing exist at all? TRIDENT?

Only the 640x480x256 and 800x600x256 are available in virtual desktop
drivers at present.

The Trident BBS can be reached at 415-691-1016 if you wish to voice
your opinion on future driver development.  Leave a message for Stone
Li.

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Dept. of Econ., Univ.   | Or from LISTSERV@BLEKUL11.BITNET (send "HELP").
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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: dabl2@nlm.nih.gov (Don A.B. Lindbergh)
Subject: Re: Loading device drivers for DOS mode program
Organization: National Library of Medicine
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 92 14:42:55 GMT


...question about how to load device drivers for specific session deleted...

>Note: This is for character-mode device drivers only
>
>Copy the Dos Full Screen Object to your desired folder (or the Desktop),
>changing the name to whatever you want. Open the Settings dialog, click on
>the Session tab, select Dos Settings.
>
>One of the settings is DOS_DEVICE. In the Multi-line edit field on the right
>side, put the name of the device driver (and path). DO NOT PUT "DEVICE=" in
>there. You can put as many as you like (one per line).
>
>If you want this device driver loaded for ALL DOS sessions, put it in your
>CONFIG.SYS and reboot.
>

How do you specify to load stuff 'high' with this method, I could never figure
it out since you don't use device= (devicehigh etc)?

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

Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: weasel@rieska.oulu.fi (Kari T. Salmela)
Subject: Trident no good, ET4000 not any better..
Reply-To: weasel@rieska.oulu.fi
Organization: U Of Oulu, Information Processing Science
Distribution: comp
Date: Mon, 7 Sep 1992 09:39:20 GMT


I had a Trident 8900B VGA card and experienced problems with full
screen mode. I tried all fixes available in hobbes but card lost
sync every time I tried full screen DOS screen. Win-OS2 worked ok.

I got bored with that and bought a cheap Viewtop ET4000 VGA card.
It is fast and cheap, but.. with all Tseng fixes at hobbes, I cannot
get DOS full screen mode work any better. Interesting point is that
when I click DOS full screen, my multisync clicks and I can see texts
on screen partially (e.g. I can guess there reads 'Dos full screen' etc.
Screen flickers and shakes. Ctrl-Alt-Del leaves card into disturbed
state, so I have to press reset after C-A-D. When I boot next time
the DOS session is loaded into background, of course and it works
fine if I change to it with Ctrl-Esc; It seems that driver and mode is
fine, but something is done in the middle when session is started and
that breaks up the VGA function. 

Am I the only one with these problems or has anybody any cure for this?

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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: TW.FY4@isumvs.iastate.edu (Timothy I Miller)
Subject: Re: OS/2 Preformance.
Organization: Iowa State University, Ames IA
Distribution: usa
Date: Mon, 7 Sep 1992 21:45:35 GMT

In article <Bu6nt2.Dq1@watserv1.uwaterloo.ca>,
irobert@sunee.uwaterloo.ca (Ian Robertson) writes:
>
>
>   I've been thinking of moving to OS/2 from DOS/Windows (Which incidently I'm
>not happy with -- too many crashes ). I've got a 386/25MHz machine with
>8 megabytes memory. Will preformance on such a system be decent? Should
>I spend my upgrade money on a video accelerator or a faster motherboard?
>Also has ATi released drivers for the Ultra or Vantage for OS/2?
>     Thanks in advance
>       Ian
>

    From what I've heard, the speed of OS/2 on a 386/25 (is this an
SX or a DX?) is very reasonable.  This is a *very* subjective issue,
though!  The speed will not be as good as it is with DOS/Windows,
but you won't get as many crashes, either.  The 8 M of memory will
help a lot.  Whether to spend you're hard-earned money on a new
motherboard or a graphics accelerator is really up to you.  There
are no ATI drivers available yet for the Ultra or Vantage, but
these video cards are 8514/a compatible.  The drivers for 8514/a
come with OS/2, and make the video at 1024x768 256c very fast!  An
ATI Graphics Vantage can be bought for less than $250 mail order.
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: jld@datascope.com (Jay L. Davis)
Subject: Re: HELP: Where OS/2 2.0 CSD?
Organization: Datascope Corp.
Date: Tue, 8 Sep 1992 21:28:57 GMT

In article <1992Sep3.113804.14879@actrix.gen.nz> Steve.Withers@bbs.actrix.gen.nz writes:
>In article <Btwsvx.LHK@news.cso.uiuc.edu> btf57346@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Byron "Bohr" Faber) writes:
>> Ok.  With all this talk about the CSD I would like to know:
>> 
>> Is this something I have to call IBM about and get or will
>> this be one of those files on hobbes I could grab.  
>> 
>> Or even worse.  Will it cost $$$$. 
>> 
>
>As OS/2 is projected to sell 3 million copies by years end, I wouldn't blame
>IBM for getting a bit shakey about a totally "free" upgrade. I don't blame
>them. I wouldn't mind paying a few dollars for the major improvements the CSD
>will include.
> 
>Perhaps someone closer to the "centre" can clarify this?
> 

I wouldn't mind paying a couple of $ for it either. What I would prefer
is a package like the CSD + Multimedia on CD-ROM for $99.

Jay Davis
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From: peterf@vnet.ibm.com (Peter Forsberg)
Date: Sat, 12 Sep 92 13:05:16 SWE
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc,comp.os.os2.programmer
Subject: Re: Can't reset file attributes on EA DATA.SF
Reply-To: peterf@vnet.ibm.com
Organization: IBM Corporation
Disclaimer: This posting represents the poster's views, not those of IBM
News-Software: UReply 3.0

In <BuFnKy.C7A@andy.bgsu.edu> jeremy zawodny writes:
>I have read about defraging my drive (FAT system) and the process involved
>when OS/2 is installed.  I have tried to clear the RSH attributes of my
>EA DATA.SF files, but it doesn't work.  I have tried Xtree Pro, Norton
>Utilites, and PC Tools.
>(...)

The trick is to use OS/2 |||
Try the following command (standing in the root of your FAT drive):

   attrib -h -r -s "EA DATA . SF"

It does the trick. Don't forget the ""s, they're important here.

Peter
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From: ddurby@aludra.usc.edu (Dennis Durby)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Diskcopy problem
Date: 13 Sep 1992 15:49:35 -0700
Organization: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: aludra.usc.edu

Thrice in as many days I have tried to do a "diskcopy" from OS/2.  I have 
attempted this first from an OS/2 window, then OS/2 full screen, then from 
DOS full screen.  On each occasion my computer locked up, and displayed the
following message (well, these are portions of the message):
	OS/2 has detected a system error at the location (above or below?).
	Please note it and contact a representative:
	Location ##0160:fff64acc - 000D:accc.
		60002,   9084
I had to cold boot each time, it wouldn't respond to C A D.  Finally, I did
the copying by selecting DOS from boot manager, and did it the old fashioned
way.  Now, I'm pretty sure I've successfully diskcopied before from OS/2, but
it may have been under the old kernel, too.  Anyhow, ANYBODY GOT ANY IDEAS
OR FIXES OR OTHER SUGGESTIONS?????  Thanks.  What to do, what to do???

-Dennis Durby-				|  From the City of 4,157 points of
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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: OS/2 is giving me the fits about Windows and DOS
From: Steve.Withers@bbs.actrix.gen.nz
Date: Sun, 13 Sep 1992 11:11:51 GMT
Organization: Actrix Information Exchange

In article <18v0faINNoci@agate.berkeley.edu> hob@soda.berkeley.edu (Bing Ho) writes:
> I have had a recent problem where I try to run a DOS or Windows
> programs under OS/2.  It gives me out of memory errors (full-screen
> or seamless), something about cannot start programs/possibly out of
> memory.
> 
> I reinstalled OS/2, downloaded the lastest patches from hobbes.nmsu.edu,
> the latest hpfs and kernel update.  It was running fine for a
> few hours before the error reappeared.
> 
> Any guesses?  Perhaps a previously unknown bug about the kernel update?
> 
> I have a 386/40 8mb ram, silicon integrated systems chipset, and ami bios,
> dated 7/91.

I agree that there is something strange here. At home on my 386/40, I *never*
have this problem. But at work on my 486DX/25, I am a bit careful about
how many - and what sort - of tasks I open. 
 
The task that always seems to cause problems is DaVinci E-mail (windows)
started from our Novell LAN and running seamless on my desktop......If I open
5 things then this - no problem. 
 
If I open this first - then try to open the same five things - i only get to
about number 3 and everything starts with the PV?00002 (or is it 1?) messages
about there not being enough memory. Beep! Beep! Beep!
 
If i leave the e-mail closed and check it every 20-30 minutes, I have no
trouble whatever......
 
Mind you....I have about 250 messages on my queue at any one time (about 4
days worth).......
 
Steve

 
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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc,comp.os.os2.programmer
From: joiner@myria.cs.umn.edu (Jay K. Joiner)
Subject: Re: OS/2 help needed! comm and speed problems, etc.
Keywords: os/2 
Organization: University of Minnesota
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1992 03:18:09 GMT

In <BuDyJD.KL3@andy.bgsu.edu> jzawodn@bgsu.edu (jeremy zawodny) writes:

>Problem #2: Memory and Speed

>     I have 20megs of memory but don't need all of it to load
>applications into.  I would like a sizable hard disk cache (2meg
>or so) to speed up OS/2.  Can I do this?  How can I do this?
>     There is a line in my config.sys file something to the
>effect of "DISKCACHE=384,LW"  What does that mean?  LW?
>     While I'm at it, what do the following lines mean, too (also
>taken from my OS/2 config.sys):

>     THREADS=256
>     MAXWAIT=3
>     PRIORITY_DISK_IO=YES
>     CODEPAGE=437,850

For each of these CONFIG.SYS commands, type HELP <COMMAND> to get
online help.  This assumes you have loaded the Command Reference
file (C:\OS2\BOOK\CMDREF.INF).

>     In addition, can I have a ramdisk under OS/2?  If so, how
>can I do this?  If not, why not?

The ramdisk driver is VDISK.SYS.
Organization: Penn State University
Date: Sat, 5 Sep 1992 21:39:43 EDT
From: <JXL103@psuvm.psu.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: problems with modem/com port

...still somewhat new to OS/2....I currently have an Intel Satixfaxtion Modem
/400, Pmcomm 1.10....I have my modem set to Com 3, (3e8, irq 5), and I can't
get the pmcomm to work...I'm running the beta comm drivers (from COMMGA.zip).
On my Boot manager setup, my modem works fine in DOS.....any suggestions?
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