HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: djbpitt+@pitt.edu (David J Birnbaum)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Viewing new .inf documents (including redbooks)
Date: 9 Nov 92 21:21:08 GMT
Organization: University of Pittsburgh

>I'm trying to view the Redbooks from the WPS.  I have done the following but
>without success:
>
>	1.  Created a program object for "VIEW.EXE" in the INFORMATION folder
>	2.  In the settings for the "VIEW" object created in 1, set up an
>	    association for "*.inf"
>
>Now, when I double click on any of the Redbook objects from the Drives folder, I get a message stating that the topic was not found.
>
>What am I doing incorrectly?

I fixed this by opening each of the Redbook objects, opening the
association settings, and changing the default to view.exe. Your second
step above makes view.exe appear in the menu for all *.inf objects, but it
doesn't make it the default. By the way, your first step is unnecessary;
you can just add *.inf in the original view.exe object that came with
OS/2, since you don't need a shadow of this in the directory where the
.inf files live.

Does anyone know if there is a smarter way to do this? I'm trying not to
mix any new stuff in with the original OS/2 distribution; that way, if I
have to reinstall, I don't lose anything I've added. As a result, I
don't put new .inf files in c:\os2\books (where the command reference,
etc. reside), but in a directory I created on a different partition. Is
there any easy way to make any .inf file I dump in that directory
automatically use view.exe when double-clicked? Or do I have to change
them all individually, as I've been doing?

Thanks,

David

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From: jwj2@po.CWRU.Edu (Jermaster)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Black Icons
Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1992 03:47:49 GMT
Organization: Eastern & Ohio Railroad Company
NNTP-Posting-Host: b63154.student.cwru.edu

In article <1992Nov8.231129.7352@ringer.cs.utsa.edu> mlevis@ringer.cs.utsa.edu (Mike Levis) writes:

>I've never had problems with black icons........

What is the "black icon" problem? I might have had that happen to me tonight.
I booted OS/2, and all of the icons were in black and white. When I clicked
on them, they turned to color. I shut down and rebooted, and everything is
fine.
On a possibly related note, I reinstalled Windoze last night, since my 
previous installation was 20MB (I need it to run Mathematica for Windoze
over our network server) and I wanted to cut it down to the bare minimum.
I ran it tonight, and got some problem with a corrupt swap file. I also
found a file called "386spart.par" that showed up in my root dir that was
~9MB big! I wiped it immediately. 

Does any of what I just said make any sense or go together at all?

Thanx,
-Jer
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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: news@massey.ac.nz (USENET News System)
Subject: Re:ET4000 in 800x600x256 - Switching between 35/38khz hor freq?
Reply-To: P.Kay@massey.ac.nz
Organization: School of Maths & Info. Sci., Massey University, Palmerston North, NZ
Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1992 01:08:04 GMT


>Subject:ET4000 in 800x600x256 - Switching between 35/38khz hor freq?

My thanks to Brad (x90wardell@gw.wmich.edu)for his prompt and correct answer

	install the 800x600 drivers
	Open a dos window, 
	type vmode 35k
	type svga on
	exit
	reboot OS/2 and you should be pleasantly surprised.
	

Peter Kay
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: sundaram@eecae.msu.edu ()
Subject: HELP: How do you recover WIN-OS2 Full screen ....
Originator: sundaram@eecae.ee.msu.edu
Organization: Michigan State University, College of Engineering
Distribution: usa
Date: Sun, 8 Nov 92 07:32:37 GMT

Hi all,

I had two questions - perhaps destined for the FAQ :-

1.	Is there any way to install mods and win-os2 onto a separate
	partition from OS2? I want to install OS2 on E: but want to have
	all my MDOS and WINOS2 on D: .

2.	If I deleted my win-os2 full screen from my Desltop - how can I
	recreate or recover it?? 



I tried moving the MDOS/WINOS2 stuff onto D: and accidently deleted the 
WIN-OS2 Full screen object from my desktop. I need to recover it.

Any help forthcoming would be greatly helpful 
Ta


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From: dhinds@leland.Stanford.EDU (David Hinds)
Subject: Re: OS2+VIO windows=110baud
Organization: DSG, Stanford University, CA 94305, USA
Date: Mon, 9 Nov 92 19:17:00 GMT

In article <92314.093840ASI509@DJUKFA11.BITNET> ASI509@DJUKFA11.BITNET writes:
>What drivers are you all using? Is that problem only with 800x600 and 1024x
>768 resolution or do you have it with VGA as well ???

I've only used the stock VGA 640x480 drivers, because I've assumed that the
higher res ATI drivers could only be slower.

>On my system (33MHz 386 with _ET3000_ VGA) text scrolling in DOS windows
>IS FASTER than in full screen DOS 5.0 booted without OS/2.
>
>While printing 1000 lines of text from Turbo Pascal takes 12s under plain
>DOS 5.0 it only takes 7s in a OS/2 DOS window with the 14x8 pixel font.
>The timing was done by hand and by the benchmark program.

I admit I hadn't appreciated how much of a difference different fonts make.
I never use the 8-bit-wide fonts in windows, since it seems to defeat the
purpose, as an 80-character window is full screen width at VGA resolution.
Here are some by-hand timings with a 1000 line text file:

        DOS window, 14x8 font:   17 sec
                    10x6 font:   22 sec
        DOS full-screen:         16 sec

        OS/2 window, 14x8 font:  85 sec
                     10x6 font: 152 sec
        OS/2 full-screen:         6 sec

        DOS application (CUTCP Telnet)
            window, 14x8 font:   26 sec
                    10x6 font:   56 sec
            full-screen:          8 sec
        
This is an ATI VGA Wonder, on a 16 MHz 386SX system, with DOS settings
HW_ROM_TO_RAM on, VIDEO_RETRACE_EMULATION off, and VIDEO_ROM_EMULATION off.
With these settings, I can live with DOS scrolling, though I'd still like
it to be faster, with some sort of DOS setting for lazy screen updates.

I guess this shows that the scrolling problem is in fact a software problem
and not a hardware one.  I don't see any good reason why an OS/2 window has
to be at least 5X slower than a DOS Window.  The full-screen DOS value seems
to indicate that most of the overhead in the DOS timings is from the TYPE
command itself, and the DOS emulation layer, not the screen update speed.
I don't really understand why the Telnet program, which seems able to send
stuff to the screen faster than TYPE, is slower in a window.  When I set
Telnet to use the BIOS instead of "direct" screen updates, it gets slower
still.

Scrolling in DOS windows also looks "nicer" than OS/2 windows.  In an OS/2
window, the mouse pointer flickers, as it is erased and redrawn for every
line scrolled.  The DOS mouse pointer does not visibly flicker.

        - David Hinds
          dhinds@allegro.stanford.edu
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From: bjorn@ludd.luth.se (Bjorn Fahller)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: IBM C-Set/2 1.0
Date: 11 Nov 92 08:53:28 GMT
Organization: Lule} Tekniska H|gskolas Datorf|rening - Ludd

In <1553@yetti.UUCP> frank@cs.yorku.ca (Frank Pikelner) writes:

>This may be an obvious question, but is this a C compiler for OS/2 from
>IBM? Free (or shareware)? Has anyone tried it?

>cset0022.zip    2554201  IBM C-Set/2 1.0 CSD # 00022

I guess you didn't expect it to be a free C compiler, so I suppose you're not
really disappointed to find out it's not. It is the CSD only.
   _
/Bjorn.
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From: sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu (Timothy F. Sipples)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: Mitsumi CD  and MTMCDS.sys
Date: 12 Nov 92 19:22:41 GMT
Reply-To: sip1@midway.uchicago.edu
Organization: Dept. of Econ., Univ. of Chicago

In article <1992Nov11.183734.15024@u.washington.edu> mts@hardy.u.washington.edu (Sean Milligan) writes:
>I just got cdsys.zip and tried to get it to work but it won't install.  It says
>no SCSI device found.  Driver not installed.  I'm wondering if anyone out there
>knows what the different switches are for CDROM_G.SYS.  The only file included
>says use /g/i/m:4 but doesn't explain otherwise.
>Any help would be greatly appreciated.

You should use a specific DOS session -- see Appendix E of your
Installation Guide and/or the online Command Reference under VMDISK
for more information.

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From: parry@yoyo.cc.monash.edu.au (Tom J Parry)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Large Window, small font
Date: 11 Nov 92 10:07:55 GMT
Organization: Monash University, Melb., Australia.
Originator: parry@yoyo.cc.monash.edu.au

I like to run Wordstar in 50 line mode. To do this, I have to run something
like NCC first. I have the two in a batch file and that batch file is
attached to my Wordstar program object.

My problem is that the DOS window opens at 80x25 and then NCC switches it
to 50 line mode and I get scrollbars (_Horizontal_ and Vertical for some odd
reason).  Then Wordstar kicks in. I then have to resize the window manually
(I hold down shift!) and then I have to change the font from 14x8 to 10x8.

The next time I run Wordstar I have to go through the exact same
sequence. I have no idea how to persuade OS/2 to start with a bigger
window and if I click on SAVE when changing the font, all my DOS sessions
change which makes other things far too small.

In other words I want to
a) Make OS/2 open a larger DOS window than 80x25 for this program only
b) Use a smaller font for this program only.

Anyone know how to do either?

-- 
Tom J Parry.
Your reality is a figment of my imagination.
From: jg3s+@andrew.cmu.edu (Jeffrey Michael Gerber)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: DISKCACHE and FAT
Date: 7 Nov 92 06:52:41 GMT
Organization: Senior, Social & Decision Sciences, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA

The following is an excerpt from the README (after installation of CSD):

o   If you are using the file allocation table    
    (FAT) file system, update the DISKCACHE=      
    statement in your CONFIG.SYS file by          
    adding AC:x at the end of the statement.      
    "X" stands for the drive letters of your      
    FAT partitions.  For example, if drives       
    C and D are FAT partitions and your           
    DISKCACHE statement is the following:         
                                                  
       DISKCACHE=64,LW                            
                                                  
    change it to read:                            
                                                  
       DISKCACHE=64,LW AC:CD                      
                                                  
    This change causes OS/2 2.0 to automatically  
    run the Check Disk program on the specified   
    partitions if the system shuts down improperly



I tried this, but got an error that said that I had an illegal parameter
in CONFIG.SYS and then asked me to press any key to bypass the line.

What's up?

I have a C: drive, which is a DOS-FAT drive (if that matters) and a D:
drive, which is an OS/2-FAT drive.

Jeff
From: duffy@theory.chem.ubc.ca (Pat Duffy)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: ATI, we're screaming! (was Re: 8514 dead?)
Date: 6 Nov 1992 06:48:51 GMT
Organization: University of British Columbia, Vancouver, B.C., Canada
NNTP-Posting-Host: theory.chem.ubc.ca

In article <1992Nov5.161156.15321@nmt.edu> stimpy@nmt.edu (John Reynolds) writes:
>
>No kidding. I don't have much money for hardware these days, but I guarantee
>a *new* video card will be high on the list if "Q2 of '93" doesn't come
>sooner that Q2 of '93. Who needs more harddrive space (what I *was* going
>to buy) when the ATI/IBM driver combo keeps killing my Vio sessions when
>I run win-os2???? Not me. This sucks. I don't like windoze, but damnit,
>I *like* some of it's apps!
>
>Let's go people....

I fixed that problem.  All I did was to open the settings for the full-screen
Windows session and set:

VIDEO_SWITCH_NOTIFICATION to ON
VIDEO_8514_XGA_IOTRAP to OFF
VIDEO_RETRACE_EMULATION to OFF

and hey presto - no more corruption of VIO sessions.  Not only that, but 
Windows sessions are now _much_ faster too (graphically speaking, that is).

I identify with the frustration, though.  XGA-2 from Radius for the ISA bus
is coming out really soon.  Come on ATI:  Get your act together or you'll
lose a customer...
-- 
Patrick Duffy, duffy@theory.chem.ubc.ca 

"Commander, these cubes are improperly balanced."
		-- Lt. Commander Data, Star Trek the Next Generation.
From: santeew@sisters.cs.uoregon.edu (Wes Santee)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Settings needed: Crusaders of the Dark Savant
Date: 9 Nov 92 21:43:31 GMT
Article-I.D.: cs.1992Nov9.214331.20976
Distribution: na
Organization: University of Oregon Computer and Information Sciences Dept.

Howdy all.

Has anyone gotten the game Wizardry:  Crusaders of the Dark Savant
to run under OS/2 2.0?

I've tried a number of combinations but it is trapped everytime.
I hate having to boot DOS to run it...

Thx,

-- 
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From: dinda@cae.wisc.edu (Dinda Peter)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: Service Pack DSPINSTL hangs on Tseng
Date: 13 Nov 92 00:06:48 GMT
Article-I.D.: doug.1992Nov12.180648.14652
Organization: U of Wisconsin-Madison College of Engineering


According to IBM, the Service Pack is not guaranteed to work on a
system with the "beta" patches installed.  This came out after a
marathon consulting session over an error syndrome almost identical
to what you have specified (Update dies on disk 12).  The only solution
IBM had was to reinstall the GA then apply the service pack to that.

Personally, I found this infuriating - not that the SP was not guaranteed
to work on a(n) (IBM-)patched system, but that this is not documented
*anywhere*.

Peter A. Dinda
From: close@lunch.wpd.sgi.com (Diane Barlow Close)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: DOS *VERY* unstable after CSD
Date: 7 Nov 1992 02:00:10 GMT
Organization: Self employed, eh.
Reply-To: close@lunch.wpd.sgi.com (Diane Barlow Close)
NNTP-Posting-Host: lunch.wpd.sgi.com
Originator: close@lunch.wpd.sgi.com

dpoole@hydrogen.oscs.montana.edu (David Poole) writes:
>
> Other times, I'll flip to a full screen, do some work, and won't be
> able to flip back to windowed mode.  
> Has anyone else encountered this problem?  

I have!  I can't switch between qmodem windowed and qmodem full
screen.  I can get to full screen but I can't flip back to the windowed
screen no matter how I try.  (Qmodem is the only DOS program I've used
so far, so this could be a DOS thing rather than a qmodem thing.)  If
it happens with other DOS programs I plan to report it as a bug to the
compuserve address.  I just have to try it and see!

-- 
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From: gagnon@aix1.uottawa.ca (7183)
Subject: Driver for OAK video, Anywhere?
Originator: gagnon@aix1.uottawa.ca
Organization: University of Ottawa Computer Centre
Date: Fri, 6 Nov 92 21:20:34 GMT

Hi,
   Subject pretty much says it all. I have a PackardBell 486SX/20 at work
and it has an on board OAK 512K video "board". Is it compatible to anything
else?

   Another thing, I tried SVGA ON, but it doesn't create a SVGADATA.PMI
file! Any ideas?

Thanks.
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From: beders@wip-sol.dfki.uni-sb.de (Jochen Bedersdorfer)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: .inf -> text converter ?
Date: 11 Nov 92 11:14:16 GMT
Organization: DFKI Saarbruecken GmbH, D-W 6600 Saarbruecken


More important to me:
Is there a .INF <-> texinfo - Konverter ?
Imagine, the PM-Reference in a lovely Emacs-Window...


Greetings, :)ochen

BTW, ever tried mode co80,102 in a windowed os/2-command line ?
You`ll get a nice scroll-back buffer...

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From: rlw@elan (Robert Wald)
Subject: Trident drivers
Organization: Princeton University, Dept. of Computer Science
Date: 11 Nov 92 07:05:35 GMT

  I need to use the Trident os2 drivers on the archive, but they're in
a strange ZIP format. Its not corrupt, but I can't read the compression.
What version do you need to get at these? Thanks

-Rob
From: owen@lakes.trenton.sc.us (UN Owen)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Cnews and uucp?
Date: Fri, 13 Nov 92 17:08:55 EST
Reply-To: owen@lakes.trenton.sc.us (UN Owen)
Organization: Lakes Public Access

Is there any thought of porting the cnews package and something 
like HDB or Taylor uucp over to OS/2?  I currently run Waffle 
under a DOS session, and could not use UUPC since it does not 
(according to the docs I have) have any support for feeding other 
systems.
I was curious whether the ARGO/UX package as mentioned in the FAQ 
would run Unix cnews and uucp, but when I call Argosoft all I get 
is a fews beeps, then a dialtone.  Sending them a fax also gets no 
response.

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From: efinley@infoserv.com (Elliot Finley)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: Glass Cleaner screen saver
Date: Fri, 06 Nov 92 01:00:45 PST
Distribution: world
Organization: Personalized Programming

Well, I looked on Hobbes for 'Window Washer' and couldn't find it.

What directory is it in???

            Elliot Finley
               (efinley@infoserv.com)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: brown@main.mndly.umn.edu (Downtown 'Chad' Brown)
Subject: HELP!!!  NEW SERVICE PAK PROBLEMS!!!
Organization: the Minnesota Daily (U of MN Student Newspaper)
Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1992 20:26:10 GMT


Can somone please help me with this...

I tried to install both the old and new service pak for OS2. Every time I 
get to the second disk, I get the error of "CLOCK01.SYS not found, please 
correct the config.sys ...blah...blah...blah..."

If anyone knows the trick around this please Email me at
Brown@main.mndly.umn.edu

Thanks
From: dave.flacks@almac.co.uk
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: cpbackup
Date: 8 Nov 92 12:01:01 GMT
Distribution: comp
Organization: ALMAC BBS Ltd

Is anyone having any problems with CPbackup v7.1 under OS/2  with the
service pack installed. All I get now is a "CPBACKUP.MSG file not found"
error whenever I try and load it.

I've tried everything, including a VMB, but no success at all.
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From: pee9901@ultb.isc.rit.edu (P.E. Erkkila)
Subject: Mitsumi CD  and MTMCDS.sys
Originator: pee9901@ultb
Organization: Rochester Institute of Technology
Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1992 16:19:06 GMT



   Can someone tell me if there are drivers available for the
Mitsumi CD rom player. For dos it uses the MTMCDS.sys from microsoft.


Paul Erkkila 
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From: sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu (Timothy F. Sipples)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: CSD install.  Should I gamble?
Date: 9 Nov 92 17:08:51 GMT
Reply-To: sip1@midway.uchicago.edu
Organization: Dept. of Econ., Univ. of Chicago

In article <wFiXTB3w165w@tcscs.UUCP> srcsip!tcscs!zeta writes:
>With all the clamoring over the CSD that's out, WHY should I update my
>system to the CSD level?  The 32bit GRE would be nice, but it sounds as
>if it is so buggy it should still be beta testing, and not released.

If you are happy, don't move.

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From: kjb@calmasd.prime.com (Ken Brucker)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: Cann't run gcc:sys1808
Date: 9 Nov 92 18:08:00 GMT
Article-I.D.: calmasd.1992Nov9.100800.927
Organization: Computervision, San Diego CA

In article <zhao.721173846@unixg.ubc.ca>, zhao@unixg.ubc.ca (Jiansheng Zhao) writes:
> 
> In order to run gcc under os/2, I reinstalled os/2 (HPFS), and 
> unpacked gccbin.zoo, gcclib.zoo and gcchdr.zoo. It seems all files
> are at the right place. However, I have trouble to compile the simplest
> C program.
> 1). I added d:\gcc\bin to autoexec.bat (my os/2 is on D: drive),
> however, os/2 cann't find d:\gcc\bin\gcc.exe, no matter how I tried.

That's because OS/2 doesn't use autoexec.bat.  Only DOS uses it.  Go into
config.sys and change the path statement there to add the \gcc\bin directory.
All of the set commands for CPLUS_INCLUDE_PATH, etc. should also be in
config.sys and not autoexec.bat.

You will need to reboot to have your changes take effect.

Ken

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