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From: sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu (Timothy F. Sipples)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: 2 OS!2 Desktop Directories
Date: 23 Nov 92 20:00:41 GMT
Reply-To: sip1@midway.uchicago.edu
Organization: Dept. of Econ., Univ. of Chicago

In article <1992Nov23.042515.13265@sbcs.sunysb.edu> kskapin@csws4.ic.sunysb.edu (Keith T Skapinski) writes:
>Well, OS/2 went weird on me again today. (One of these days, I'm gonna
>downloah the CSD). My desktop got screwed up - only the clock & pulse were on
>it, then it gave me an error that pulse was not responding to the system and
>then I only had a clock. So I rebooted, then I had nothing.
>Anyway, I rebuilt the desktop but now I have 2 directories:
>  OS!2_2.0_D & OS!2_21.0_D
>Is it safe to remove one of them?

It is safe to remove the first.

(Note that if you are incredibly conservative, like I am :-), you will
wince while you do this, praying that nothing goes wrong.  It won't.
However, on the chance that a cosmic ray hits your machine at just the
right spot, please know that I warned you.  :-))

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From: kskapin@csws4.ic.sunysb.edu (Keith T Skapinski)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: 2 OS!2 Desktop Directories
Date: 23 Nov 92 04:25:15 GMT
Organization: State University of New York at Stony Brook


Well, OS/2 went weird on me again today. (One of these days, I'm gonna
downloah the CSD). My desktop got screwed up - only the clock & pulse were on
it, then it gave me an error that pulse was not responding to the system and
then I only had a clock. So I rebooted, then I had nothing.

Anyway, I rebuilt the desktop but now I have 2 directories:
  OS!2_2.0_D & OS!2_21.0_D

Is it safe to remove one of them?
From: 925wardell@gw.wmich.edu
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: copyini vs cpyini
Date: 23 Nov 92 22:50:02 EST
Organization: Western Michigan University

In article <1992Nov23.063758.2033@muddcs.claremont.edu>, abaker@jarthur.claremont.edu (The Evil One) writes:
> In article <1992Nov22.213113.1978@midway.uchicago.edu> 
> 	sip1@midway.uchicago.edu writes:
>>While we're on the subject of the massively growing INI file, and
>>after apparently ruling out DeskPic as the culprit, is there anyone
>>NOT using 4OS2 who suffers from the problem?  (In other words, shall
>>4OS2 be nominated as the culprit?)
> 
> Well I can assure everyone it is NOT 4OS2.  Nor is it seamless windows.
> I have a growing OS2SYS.INI file too and I don't run 4OS2 or seamless windows
> or any third party video drivers, just the 8514/A drivers that came with the 
> SP.  I think it's just a bug in the SP.  I have the SP installed over a pure
> GA and I haven't added anything to it since.
> 
> Just my personal opinions
> 
> Andrew R. Baker        abaker@jarthur.claremont.edu

	I have found the following things cause the os2sys.ini to
grow a great deal:

	Hitting C-A-D instead of shutting down and changing the
extensions of files.

						-Brad
From: johnr@ee.uts.edu.au (John Reekie)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: How to change settings of _every_ folder
Date: 19 Nov 92 03:43:07 GMT
Organization: University of Technology, Sydney
NNTP-Posting-Host: rossi.ee.uts.edu.au

Hi

Can anyone tell me if there is a way of changing the settings
of every folder in the system. The Scheme editor only lets me
change a few things -- I want to set every folder in the system
to use 8-pt Helv icon text for all icon views, with default
view set to Flowed.

Thanks for any advice.

John Reekie
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: PS/2 Assistant
From: sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu (Timothy F. Sipples)
Date: Sat, 21 Nov 1992 15:51:41 GMT
Reply-To: sip1@midway.uchicago.edu
Organization: Dept. of Econ., Univ. of Chicago

In article <By22LD.93x@utdallas.edu> goyal@utdallas.edu (MOHIT K GOYAL) writes:
>Anyone know what the latest version is?

The 63rd Edition is out, and it should be making its way to
ftp-os2.nmsu.edu in due course.

[For those of you who don't know, there is a "gateway" from the OS/2
Shareware BBS to ftp-os2.nmsu.edu.  New material on the OS/2 Shareware
BBS, if not already duplicated on ftp-os2.nmsu.edu, takes about one
week, on average, to get to the /pub/uploads directory.]

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From: luca@dedalo.unipg.it (Luca Priorelli)
Subject: Norton Guide: where are you?
Organization: Universita' di Perugia
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 08:34:20 GMT

As a C programmer I found the Norton  Guide very handy and usefull.
I have an old release with a database for OS/2 1.0.

I tried to run them on OS2 2.0 and they wont work. I tried to call
the Italian distributor of Symantec and they told me they don't sell
them any more.

What happened to this product? Is it still available somewhere?

Thanks.

Luca Priorelli
From: ASI509@DJUKFA11.BITNET
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: BC++ for OS/2 announced - NOT!
Date: 19 Nov 92 10:14:34 GMT
 <1992Nov18.184951.25343@beaver.cs.washington.edu>
Organization: Forschungszentrum Juelich

In article <1992Nov18.184951.25343@beaver.cs.washington.edu>,
andrewb@lynx.cs.washington.edu (Andrew Berg) says:
>
>they could figure out how to produce 32-bit code. :) )  Perhaps someone
>at Borland could officially confirm or deny whether Borland Pascal 7.0
>will generate OS/2 mode apps.  Or unofficially, for all I care.
>
Though I'm not from Borland, I can tell you there's not much hope. In front of
me I have a Borland add for TP 7.0 which claims it to be the best you'll ever
get for DOS and Windows development. There's no word about OS/2. And from a
preview in a German magazine I know it even can't generate 32bit DOS or Windows
code. Data elements are still limited to 64K (that's sixtyfour kilobytes <g>).
Let's face it: Pascal is dead :-(

Michael Bode.
From: Bertram.Moshier@f115.n282.z1.tdkt.kksys.com (Bertram Moshier)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: os/2 credits secret s
Date: 18 Nov 92 19:00:10 GMT

Steve:

I completely agree with you!

IT IS GREAT THAT IBM FINALLY IS LOOSENING UP!

Many other software manufacturers provide the author's names.  It was
about time that IBM join the rest of the industry in the 1990s!  Way to
go IBM!

Bert Moshier
Unemployed but now free to support OS/2 during the daylight hours!


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From: jedwards@ms.uky.edu (Jonathan Edwards)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: OS/2 Trap Explanations.
Date: 16 Nov 92 13:32:05 GMT
Organization: University Of Kentucky, Dept. of Math Sciences

925wardell@gw.wmich.edu writes:

>Traps:


>	Could someone please give a brief list of what causes the different
>Trap errors in OS/2?

>	I just got a Trap 008 and have no idea what is causing it.

Trap 008 is a double fault (i.e., an exception occurred while the machine
was trying to process an exception).

The general wisdom is that most weird traps are caused by defective or
otherwise marginal memory, systems containing SIMMs rated at different
speeds, etc.
From: rpfaff@umiacs.umd.edu (Ray Pfaff)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: com3; how to get it to work?
Date: 20 Nov 92 15:29:22 GMT
Organization: UMIACS, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742

I believe that this is in the faq, but I can't find a copy at watson.
A while ago, I had a problem and had to use the alt-F1 trick to get
OS/2 to reboot.  I restored everything, but I forgot to add in the 
line to my config.sys file get OS/2 to recognize com3.  Could
someone tell me what needs to be typed in?
From: djbpitt+@pitt.edu (David J Birnbaum)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Growing os2sys.ini and seamless windows?
Date: 22 Nov 92 20:30:23 GMT
Organization: University of Pittsburgh

I have never even tried seamless windows; I'm using a no-name Tseng in
1024 x 768 x 256 and I run all my Windows applications (not many) in a
single full-screen session. I leave this open all the time and just pop
between it and my OS/2 Desktop. The big disadvantage of this setup is
that my full-screen Windows session only works when it has focus; if I
pop back to the OS/2 Desktop while AmiPro for Windows is printing, the
printing stops until I go back to my Win-OS/2 session. The only reason
I'm not trying seamless windows is that I plan to upgrade to an ATI
Ultra video card shortly and it probably isn't worth the time to
experiment too much with the Tseng setup.

In any case, seamless windows might have been a factor in your case, but
it isn't the only culprit.

Apparently anything that causes lots of os2sys.ini activity will cause
lots of growth; one IBM person explained the problem by saying that OS/2
isn't performing "garbage collection" on obsolete data in the ini files.
I don't know what activities cause new information to be written to
os2sys.ini (thereby rendering old information obsolete), but these are
the ones to watch out for.

Since I reinstalled after my misadventure with os2sys.ini, I've been
holding steady at about 66k. (Well, it was 29k after running copyini; it
grew a bit and then settled down.) I haven't dared to try another screen
blanker, although that, too, is at best a possible contributor, since
some folks with growing ini files don't use screen blankers and some
folks using the same screen blanker I was using don't have ini problems.

Back in the days of MSDOS, I used to think it was an unacceptable
nuisance to start removing individual lines from config.sys or
autoexec.bat to try to isolate a problem. In OS/2 this type of isolation
is simply impossible; there's simply too much going on at once.

Cheers,

David
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From: kitchin@avo.hp.com (Bruce Kitchin)
Subject: Re: Video7/Headland Cards
Organization: Hewlett-Packard, Santa Clara Division
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1.8 PL6]
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 19:28:06 GMT

I don't know about VRAM I drivers.  I have been able to make the 1024i
drivers work with the CSD installed.  The procedure is different.  I
did NOT replace display.dll in the \OS2\DLL directory.  That is not
the same thing as the display driver.  From instructions I found somewhere
(readme file?) I created another directory called DISPLAY in the root
of my OS/2 disk.  I put that directory name in LIBPATH *BEFORE* the
\OS2\DLL directory.  Into that directory I put display.dll and monitor.dll.
Somehow, OS/2 is able to find the correctly display.dll for each use by
installing this way.

The 1.x driver runs as well (or badly) as it did with G.A.  No seamless
windows (not a big problem for me, I'd prefer it, but I rather have
the higher resolution than seamless windows).  Also when I boot up, I
get a weird look WPS screen.  To clean up the screen, I use Ctrl-Esc
to pop-up the Window List.  I then press Alt-Space to get the system
menu and then X to maximize the Window List.  It still looks bad.  I then
select a full screen session (I have one in my startup folder).  It comes
us with some junk.  Then I press Ctrl-Esc to get the Windows List again.
Finally Alt-F5 restores the window list to normal size and the screen
is repainted correctly.  Press Esc to get rid of the window list if you
don't need it.  This sounds complicated but it is really easy.

One other thing however.  I tried to install higher resolution Windows
drivers but they mess up badly.  Since I don't use Windows heavily,
I live with that.  WPS high resolution is more important to me.

But Video-7 or whoever they are now is history as far as I'm concerned.
When a company lies as blatantly as they did (I remember the messages
and announcements you mentioned, they implied almost stated that they 
were in beta testing last spring, later they said that they really hadn't
started and blamed IBM), it looses my business very fast.

I don't know if my procedures given above will help.  Good luck.

Bruce
From: josephc@cco.caltech.edu (Joseph Chiu)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: HELP!  Can't use LPT1 - OS/2 Think it's in use!
Date: 20 Nov 1992 18:34:50 GMT
Organization: California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
NNTP-Posting-Host: punisher.caltech.edu

I have a strange situation that I haven't encountered before.

I have a program which, apparently, tried to access LPT1: directly.  OS/2
intercepts this with the error that another application is using the printer
and that I can either terminate my DOS session, or terminate the application
which is using the printer.

My problem is, nobody is using the printer.

Can anyone offer some insights?

BTW, I can use the printer in the VDM and in the DOS emulation modes, as well
as from within Borland C, so I know that the printer is accessible from the
DOS sessions.


Thanks a bunch!


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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: erzberg@ifi.unizh.ch (Martin Erzberger)
Subject: XGA and 640x480x65536
Organization: University of Zurich, Department of Computer Science
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 92 17:00:31 GMT

After applying the service pack, I can choose between 640x480
and 1024x768 pixels, each with 16 or 256 colors. The announcement
of the XGA-2 card tells something about OS/2 supporting
640x480x16 bit colors. Is there yet another driver to be released
yet? Maybe this mode is only supported with the XGA-2?
If somebody has more information about this, I will be glad
to hear it!
Thank you, Martin Erzberger

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From: victor.ng@rose.com (victor ng)
Subject: BC++ for OS/2
Organization: Rose Media Inc, Toronto, Ontario.
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 19:18:26 GMT
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Date Entered: 11-18-92 14:13
Z(> >     Borland C++ for OS/2 features a 32-bit optimizing C and C++ compiler, a
Z(> > Presentation Manager-hosted intergrated Development Environment (IDE), Turbo
Z(> > Debugger, and all the tools necessary to support OS/2 2.0 applications
Z(> > development.
Z(> > 
Z(> How much is this?

More importantly, does it REALLY take 100 megs of disk space?  Lets be
real people, raise your hand if you're willing to give up 100 megs to a
C compiler.

Vic
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From: jhlee@rose.handy.co.kr (Lee Joo Hee)
Subject: Wanted! Filenames for CSD.
Organization: HandySoft Institute of Technology, HandySoft Corp.
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL3
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 92 07:47:06 GMT

Hi, there

	I want to get CSD files from hobbies or software.watsof, anywhere.
I got CSD for OS/2. Now I need to get following. Please tell me filenames and
pointer to get CSDs.

	CSD for TCP/IP
	CSD for CSet/2
	CSD for WorkFrame/2
	CSD for OS/2 Toolkits

	Thanks in advance.

P.S. Official names please(If possible).
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From: CBURMAN@FINABO.ABO.FI (Chris Burman)
Subject: Re: copyini vs cpyini
Organization: The Clam of Reason Ltd.
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 14:17:51 GMT
X-News-Reader: VMS NEWS 1.24

In <1992Nov23.074047.6252@umr.edu> johns@mcs213i.cs.umr.edu writes:

> I have a feeling that this problem may vary depending upon
> how often a person reboots....
> 
> I reboot VERY infrequently, and as such I suspect my files
> didn't grow much.. It may be that those people who have problems
> with crashes, or reboot with ctrl-alt-del instead of using 
> shutdown or something.  

My system is constantly on. I haven't had a single crash since I don't 
remember when. I reboot twice a week (for various reasons - the day before 
yesterday I needed to shrink my ini-file...). So maybe it's that 
'something'? :-)

I'm not saying that it can't be the Dreaded User Error - God knows I've had 
my share of them! (That keyboard, sir, _hates_ these fingers...)


Chris Burman, cburman@abo.fi
From: kjb@calmasd.prime.com (Ken Brucker)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Bugs in Drive object and Invisible Icons in WPS
Date: 16 Nov 92 18:09:33 GMT
Organization: Computervision, San Diego CA

I just ran across a couple of interesting bugs.  I'm running GA+CSD with the
1024x768x256 Tseng drivers on a PDII.

1.  When using the drives object I was expanding one of the directories to
    list its subdirectories, but not all of them were displayed.  Actually
    only one directory out of 5 was displayed.  Opening the folder in question
    properly displayed folders for each of the sub directories, but the tree
    view refused to display them.  After exiting and re-entering a couple of
    times I was able to get it to display properly.

2.  After running TE/2 in full screen mode (the scrolling in a window is just
    too slow) I returned to the desktop.  I've got a folder that contains
    objects to run the various comm utilities I'm experimenting with right
    now that I had displayed at the time that currently contains icons for
    four applications.  When the screen refreshed after exiting TE/2 only one
    of the icons was visible.

    I could still click on the objects though to activate them.  They just
    weren't visible.  I knew where in the folder to go and a single click on
    each brought them back from their ghostly existence.

Anyone see anything like these?

Ken

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From: sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu (Timothy F. Sipples)
Subject: Re: OS/2, PCTCP, and WP51
Reply-To: sip1@midway.uchicago.edu
Organization: Dept. of Econ., Univ. of Chicago
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 18:22:13 GMT

In article <gf1jE6K00Uh_04tFQb@andrew.cmu.edu> Jeffrey Michael Gerber <jg3s+@andrew.cmu.edu> writes:
>I am having the strangest problems with OS/2 2.0, WordPerfect, and PCTCP
>(from FTP Software).
>First, if I leave PCTCP (in a VDM) idle for a long amount of time (it
>varies), it will forget that the TR is attached and start to have
>problems.  For example, EzMail and TN cannot find the machine to connect
>to (even if I specify the full name).  I suspect that maybe the TR is
>getting overheated or something.
>Second, and the bigger problem, is that I cannot run both PCTCP and
>WordPerfect at the same time under OS/2 2.0.  If I have PCTCP running in
>a VDM in the background and I start WordPerfect 5.1 in the foreground,
>it'll all work just fine for a few minutes.  Then, I get the following:
>    PCTCP VDM
>    SYS 2237: DosKrnl:
>    A NPX instruction was attempted, but no NPX is present
>    Explanation: You have an application attemptin to use the
>                    numeric coprocessor, but no coprocessor
>                    is present on this system.
>Then, PCTCP quits.  C'mon, PCTCP shouldn't be using the FPU/NPX.
>By the way, this is with the new "golden" CSD (it used to work before).

Naive question, but are you using a specific DOS session?  See
Appendix E of the Installation Guide and/or the online Command
Reference under VMDISK for more information.

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From: tom.koschate@rose.com (tom koschate)
Subject: Re: OS2SYS.INI file
Organization: Rose Media Inc, Toronto, Ontario.
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 22:26:54 GMT
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Date Entered: 11-17-92 17:19
On Tue, 17 Nov 1992 08:52:15 -0500 
     David J Birnbaum <djbpitt+@pitt.edu> writes: 
 
DJ> The association filters might have been a factor in my problem, as well. 
DJ> I associated *.zip and *.zoo files with unarchiving program reference ob- 
DJ> jects and had used them liberally (new system = lots of new files from 
DJ> hobbes). When you say that the file grows at 28K a pop, do you mean that 
DJ> it grows when you establish a new association or that it grows whenever 
DJ> you double-click on an associated file (so that opening an associated 
DJ> .wk1 file ten times causes a 280K jump)? I fear you mean the latter, 
DJ> which is very serious, indeed. 
 
I'm finding that the file is growing 28K each and every time I  
_use_ an application by association.  Some simpler activities,  
such as using the "Delete" option in a directory container add  
only a few hundred bytes at a time, and other WPS-y activities  
can add up to 40K.  A co-worker of mine managed to grow his  
OS2SYS.INI from 100K to 500K over the course of one morning.  
Other weirdness includes phantom printer queues. 
 
Running the usual INI maintenance tools only temporarily  
alleviates the problems.  Once downsized, the file starts to grow 
again.  The only cure I haven't tried is to go the MAKEINI route, 
as I don't feel ready to recreate my desktop from scratch. 
 
I have reported this problem to IBM, and found that, as of Monday 
afternoon, one other person had reported the same strange  
behaviour.  I've also seen reports on FidoNet and on IBM's  
OS2BBS.  If anyone else is running into this behaviour, I  
strongly suggest that you call IBM Support and report it! 
 
Tom 
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From: TW.FY4@isumvs.iastate.edu (Timothy I Miller)
Subject: Will this SCSI/CD-ROM Combo work?
Organization: Iowa State University, Ames IA
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 04:36:55 GMT

     Will somebody please enlighten me on the whole SCSI adapter
thing?  I've ordered an Adaptec 1522 and a Texel 3021 internal
CD-ROM, and would like to know if they will work with OS/2.
     The Adaptec is supposed to come with OS/2 drivers.  Do I also
need drivers for the CD-ROM, or will I need to get them from Texel?
Can I use the CD-ROM stuff that came with OS/2 (I have the SP)?
     Also, If I get a Floptical drive, will I need special OS/2
drivers for that, too?
     Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Timothy Miller

P.S.  Does anybody else out there have a 1522?  Is the 1542/b really
that much nicer?  I haven't seen any information about the 1542/b.
What are it's advantages?
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