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From: dic5340@hertz.njit.edu (David Charlap)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: Problems "running" a *.INF file... (check association for *.inf)
Date: 6 Jan 93 22:41:18 GMT
Organization: New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, N.J.

In article <1993Jan6.180055.4100@cvedc.prime.com> billt@cvedc.prime.com (Bill Tracy) writes:
>But, it sure can be a pain to find WHICH one already had the association!
>
>Any suggestions from anyone on finding what object has an association set?

Easy.  Click-right on the icon.  Pick the "open" menu choice, and look
at what's on the cascaded menu.  One will always be "settings", one
will (probably) be System editor, and the rest will be associations.
The one with the check next to it will be the default association.

Note that OS/2 System Editor is on every list because it is associated
with *.
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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: tclausen                        
Subject: SONY CD-ROM drives with OS/2
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41    
Organization: University of Minnesota CIS
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 13:26:00 GMT

Recently I aquired a Gateway 2000 486/66V.  They offer a CD-ROM drive
upgrade with this machine.  The CD-ROM drive has its own Sony interface.
I was wondering if it ran with OS/2.  The technical people at Gateway
tell me that they have no drivers for OS/2.  Mostly I want the drive for
reading software distribution packages---not so much for multimedia.
If anyone has any experience with this setup please drop me a line!

Thanks,

Tom

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From: dic5340@hertz.njit.edu (David Charlap)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: Opinion: What IBM should change in OS/2
Date: 11 Jan 93 20:44:20 GMT
Organization: New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, N.J.

In article <726705823snx@dashs.denver.co.us> serls@dashs.denver.co.us (Dave Serls) writes:
>A particular peeve:
>  I use quite a few windowed os/2 prompts.  It would be nice to have
>an option on the system menu, say 'exit', which unconditionally closes
>a windowed prompt without the dialog box.  I mean it's CMD.EXE running
>there (unless you have one of the alternate commnad processors).
>As an even better option or be able to assign the
>'close' double-click to this 'exit' function.

This dialog box is to protect you.  Non-PM apps can't receive the
WM_CLOSE/WM_QUIT message that OS/2 generates when forcing a session
closed.  This means that they can't clean themselves up.  OS/2 can not
clean up after them either - it must simply discard their memory and
file handles.  So, it asks if you're really sure.  In any case, you
shouldn't be quitting a DOS/OS/2 session that way - you should quit
the app and let the session terminate itself.
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From: 5692330@mcimail.com (Robert Gammon)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: OS/2 Beta: Swapper.dat and Auto Chkdsk
Date: 7 Jan 93 16:41:09 GMT
Organization: Texas Instruments Materials and Controls Group
Nntp-Software: PC/TCP NNTP

In article <1ifba3INNt3i@access.usask.ca> lowey@jester.usask.ca (CrazyMan) writes:

 >> Robert Gammon (5692330@mcimail.com) wrote:
 >> 
 >> : I just added a CD-ROM to my system, and I have had to do hard resets.  No,
 >> : chkdsk runs BEFORE CDROM IFS is installed.  HPFS.IFS is the FIRST line in
 >> : my config.sys, CDROM.IFS is on line 91, cdrom.sys is on line 27, and BASEDEV
 >> : for my SCSI adapter is on line 42 (the CD-ROM is the only thing attached to
 >> : SCSI).
 >> 
 >> One thing to keep in mind about the CONFIG.SYS file is that it isn't always
 >> read in order.  For example, I think the BASEDEV device drivers are loaded
 >> before other device drivers. The Redbooks discussed this in detail, but it 
 >> has been a while since I read it so I'm a bit fuzzy on the details.
 >> 
 >> Some of the other lines are order dependant.  For example, the order of the 
 >> mouse drivers and the COM drivers are important.
 >> 

I mentioned the order because it sounded like the original poster had the ifs 
for cdrom earlier in the file than hpfs.  As a result, the cd error got posted
to the screen, a key had to be pressed, and he then had to wait for chkdsk.
In this case order is important (and it certainly isn't the only case).  I
agree that config.sys gets processed to extract certain lines first (BASEDEVs
are among the first things processed).  Note IFS = lines seem to load in order
with DEVICE = lines.

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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: parry@yoyo.cc.monash.edu.au (Tom J Parry)
Subject: Re: Zero-length files
Originator: parry@yoyo.cc.monash.edu.au
Organization: Monash University, Melb., Australia.
Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 05:29:18 GMT

Robert Gammon (5692330@mcimail.com) wrote:
> In article <1ierslINNriq@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu> al919@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Bruce Halco) writes:


> Ahh, but this is not what the original poster was seeking.  Yes, this
> creates a file with a listed size of 0 bytes, BUT, a minimum allocation
> unit is still used (512 bytes, a single sector with HPFS, more with FAT).
> Our PC file systems insist on allocating at least one allocation unit to
> every file (not an unreasonable assumption since most of us have little or
> no need for such capability).

Bzzzt: In FAT at least, a zero length file has no clusters/allocation units
assigned to it. If you look at the directory with something like Norton's
you'll find a 0 entry (If I remember correctly) in the first cluster
entry.

-- 
Tom J Parry.
Your reality is a figment of my imagination.
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: chasi@netcom.com (Charles Inman)
Subject: Re: 'Icon View' as default for drives: how?
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  (408 241-9760 guest) 
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 16:10:07 GMT

From article <726311017marten.marten@feki.toppoint.de>, by marten@feki.toppoint.de (Marten Feldtmann):
> 
>  Just a little question: I wanted to have to 'Icon View' as the default
> open action view. I always get the 'Tree View' as the default view type
> for the root of each drive. Is it possible to change this?
> 
>  MF

Yes, there is, and it is quite simple:

  1) Pull up the Settings notebook for the drive you want to change.
  2) Select the Menu tab
  3) Select the '~Open' menu in the Available Menus list box
  4) Click on the 'Settings' button

You should now have a dialog box that has the title 'Menu Settings'

  5) Select '~Icon View' in the Default Action list box then click on the
     OK button.
  6) Close the Settings notebook.

That is all.  When you double click on the drive icon, you should now get
the Icon View as the default.

Chas
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Charles Inman
chasi@netcom.com

"If the phone doesn't ring, it's me"
		- Jimmy Buffett
From: dab6@po.CWRU.Edu (Douglas A. Bell)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Quirks that need fixed from the 2.1 beta ---
Date: 5 Jan 1993 19:26:16 GMT
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
Reply-To: dab6@po.CWRU.Edu (Douglas A. Bell)
NNTP-Posting-Host: slc12.ins.cwru.edu


1-  the shadow for the hands on the system clock leave specks of garbage
    on the clock face. 

2-  the settings for the system clock have a setting to change the color
    of the seconds hand for the clock.  It changes the colors for all the 
    hands on the clock.

3-  I've seen ghost icons left in the drive windows after copying files
    or deleting files.

4-  If a program makes a new file in a directory, the file can appear very
    far way from the rest of the icons in a drive window.

5-  I had it install winos2 3 times before the seamless windows function
    worked.

6-  The beta doesn't seem to like the netware requester very much.

7-  The trident drivers scroll very slowly.


    
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From: reisert@mast.enet.dec.com (Alpha Personal Systems -- DTN 223-5747 -- MLO3-6/B8)
Subject: For Sale:  OS/2 Extended Services for 2.0
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 93 11:44:22 PST
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I have the Extended Services for OS/2 2.0, unused and still sealed, on 5.25"
media.  I will sell for best offer (shipping not included).

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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: rimelsjj@piston.detroit.ingr.com (Jim Rimelspach)
Subject: Icons Lost Datatypes
Keywords: OS/2, WPS
Organization:                      Intergraph, Midwest Regional Office
Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1993 14:08:15 GMT

After opening the Productivity folder, I noticed alot of the icons where 
different.  Clicking on say PM Terminal resulted in a dialog box w/ option
of going to Settings.

Per the OS/2 README (3/92) I deleted the os.ini and ossys.ini files and 
recreated them, removed OS!2 2.0 Desktop folders and restarted.  This
procedure simiply replaced the WP Shell.  It did not update the file types.
I thought maybe it would.

Suggestions?


Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: thumper@cs.montana.edu (Wade Hasbrouck)
Subject: PCBoard, OS/2, and Zmodem
Organization: Dept. of Computer Science, MSU, Bozeman Mt 59717
Date: Sun, 10 Jan 1993 23:00:27 GMT


Hi all,
    I am currently running a BBS using PCBoard 14.5.  I have been running it
under dos since about august, and now I have OS/2 2.0.  My BBS has an online
CD-ROM, and I finally got MSCDEX to load so now that I can run my BBS under
OS/2 using a Virtual Dos Machine.  I have heard rumors that there is a patch
for PCBoard to run under OS/2 2.0.  I am curious if any of you know where this
patch is available, besides Clark Developments BBS.  I would prefer to get it 
via anonymous FTP if possible.  Now that I have the BBS under OS/2 I noticed
when a user tried to download something using Zmodem, that it seemed to work
fine, but after the transfer, the users prompt is messed up, PCBoard says that 
it can't find certain files.  I am curious is this problem due to Zmodem and 
OS/2 2.0 or is it PCBoard and OS/2.  I would say Zmodem, because the BBS worked fine until Zmodem was used.  I have also noticed that in using Procomm + for 
windows under OS/2 that Zmodem does weird and funky things.  I don't know if 
other protocals(sp?) do the same things, since 99% of my users use Zmodem.
The reason for running the BBS under OS/2 is that it makes it to where I can use
my computer, and run the BBS at the same time.  Windows used to crash quite 
frequently for me, so now I am trying to use OS/2.


Please respond via e-mail or News.


Thanks in advance,




-- 
Wade A. Hasbrouck
thumper@cs.montana.edu
From: bauwens@acs.ucalgary.ca (Luc Bauwens)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: SVGA ON fails... why?
Date: 9 Jan 93 04:58:22 GMT
Distribution: comp
Organization: The University of Calgary, Alberta

In article <C0GGqL.1vH@hfglobe.intel.com> chris@hfglobe.intel.com (Chris Houghton) writes:
>In article <1993Jan6.004932.16694@vax5.cit.cornell.edu> jwty@vax5.cit.cornell.edu writes:
>>The trouble is that I can't seem to get SVGA ON to work.  When I try it,
>>the result is:
>>
>>C:\OS2>svga on
>>
>>SVGA: PMI File Generator (v1.01).
>>Usage: SVGA <ON | OFF>
>
>I had this problem.  I checked setup and my Video BIOS was based at E0000.
>I set the base to C0000 and that fixed it.

Interesting.  Mine *is* at C0000, but in a DOS session under OS/2,
SVGA ON does not work.  If I run VESA.COM, then it works, but does not
correctly identify the board as an ATI OEM.

If I boot DOS (a true DOS), then it works.  But even if I move the file
then produced to my HPFS D:\ partition, to D:\OS2, the whole thing
still doesn't work (it did before I applied the Service Pack.)

BTW, I got one of those ATI OEM that say VGA1024, BIOS V5-1.00,
1988 vintage, with 512 k.

(And BTW**2, anybody knows what kind of SVGA do those new IBM Value Point
(or whatever) use?

Luc B
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: pynq@quads.uchicago.edu (Jeremy Mathers)
Subject: Problems "running" a *.INF file...
Summary: It works from the command line, but not by double clicking an Icon.
Reply-To: pynq@midway.uchicago.edu
Organization: D. J. Dougherty & Associates
Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1993 06:27:12 GMT

I d/l'd the OS2YOU.INF file from OS2YOU.ZIP - when I double click on the
icon for the file, I get a VIEW.EXE error message, saying "Topic not found."

However, when I go to an OS/2 window, and say "view os2you.inf", it
seems to work fine - starts up a thread reading the file.  Why is this?

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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc,comp.os.os2.programmer
From: sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu (Timothy F. Sipples)
Subject: OS/2 2.x Beta CD-ROMs Now Available Outside the U.S.
Followup-To: comp.os.os2.misc
Reply-To: sip1@midway.uchicago.edu
Organization: Dept. of Econ., Univ. of Chicago
Date: Sat, 9 Jan 1993 20:24:29 GMT

Mike Gove (mgove@cix.compulink.co.uk) has informed me that the OS/2
2.1 Beta CD-ROM will be available from the International OS/2 User
Group.  This CD-ROM may be ordered from the IOS2UG by anyone who does
NOT live in Australia, Canada, or the United States.  (For ordering
information in those countries, please consult the OS/2 Frequently
Asked Questions List, Release 2.0i.)

The CD-ROMs are available on a first come, first served basis.  The
OS/2 2.1 Beta CD-ROM will be available from the IOS2UG shortly after
January 18.  All members of the IOS2UG can receive one free of charge.
For all others, the cost is 25 UK pounds, including postage and VAT
(tax).

You may FAX your request in to the IOS2UG in the UK at (0)285-640181
or telephone (0)285-641175.  The country code for the UK is 44.
MasterCard (Access) and Visa (BarclayCard) charge cards are accepted.
If you are ordering from anywhere in the European Community, please
include your company's VAT number, if applicable.
  
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Dept. of Econ., Univ.   | /faq, or from LISTSERV@BLEKUL11.BITNET (send "HELP")
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From: dic5340@hertz.njit.edu (David Charlap)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: Radius XGA-2 board
Date: 5 Jan 93 21:25:20 GMT
Organization: New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, N.J.

In article <dlcogswe.726208642@vela> dlcogswe@vela.acs.oakland.edu (Dan Cogswell) writes:
>I talked to a Radius customer support person today and asked him some
>questions about their upcoming ISA XGA-2 board.  He's sending me a full info
>pack, but these are some things he told me:
>
> -- Shipping Mid-January
> -- Direct sales only initially because of high demand
> -- First shipment is already spoken for
> -- Price:  $499. Period.  No specials, no retail discounts.

Yeah, right.  That's called price fixing.  They can not dictate what
retailers will charge.  And considering that all sales will be through
dealers, I don't see how they can make this statement.  Unless they
charge their dealers $499.  Dealers will get a cheaper price if
they're to sell it at $499, which means there will be discounting and
competition. 
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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: jst50986@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Jack S. Tan)
Subject: Re: Trouble adding items to WPS desktop menu
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 06:52:04 GMT

ced@APOLLO.HP.COM (Carl Davidson) writes:

>  Over the weekend I tried adding some additional entries to the WPS desktop's
>menu using the "Menu" tab in the settings notebook. What I want to do is 
>have a sub-menu which has picks for the various command interpreters (shells)
>running in windows. 

>  No problem creating the sub-menu entry, and no trouble creating the 
>individual entries in the sub-menu. I was able to add entries for CMD.EXE,
>COMMAND.COM, and for sh200, the Unix shell work-alike I downloaded from hobbes.

>  The problem comes when I select one of the items:

>    1) When I select an OS/2 window (which executes CMD.EXE in a window), it
>       works, but I get an error message about not finding something in the 
>       path. I can't tell what it can't find because the status line in the 
>       window covers the first line of the error message;

To remove the status line, find the PROMPT= line in your CONFIG.SYS.  Remove
the '$i' part to get rid of the status line (or, create a copy of the line,
REM out the original, and modify the copy).

-- 

Jack Tan                             If your parents didn't have kids,
jahk@uiuc.edu                          chances are you won't either.
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: lbv2@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu (BRIAN PAUL VAN LIEU)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: Beta 2.1 in IBM-BBS
Date: 8 Jan 93 17:12:54 GMT
Organization: Lehigh University

>If you have access to any CD-ROM drive (on any DOS or OS/2 machine)
>you can "manufacture" the install diskettes yourself.
>
>I believe the principle reason why there's no diskette distribution
>this time is because of the time lag.  It takes longer to press
>diskettes and get them distributed.  This code would get too stale.
>By the time you get the diskettes this 2.1 beta may go golden.
>
>--
>Timothy F. Sipples      | Read the OS/2 FAQ List 2.0h, available from
>sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu | 128.123.35.151, anonymous ftp, in /pub/os2/all/info
>Dept. of Econ., Univ.   | /faq, or from LISTSERV@BLEKUL11.BITNET (send "HELP")
>of Chicago, 60637       | [Read the List, THEN post to ONE OS/2 newsgroup.]
>


    Tim is right. Just get access to one. Santa did not give me the ROM drive
    I wanted, so I will use my friends drive, along with the old OS/2 beta
    *disks* (that were supposed to be erased anyway ;), and make my new beta.

    Pretty nice of IBM to put this feature in to allow distribution. I wonder
    if the NT kit has the same thing. I doubt it


                                        cheers,

                                        bvl
-- 

  Brian P. Van Lieu
  Lehigh University-AXP
  lbv2@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu

            OS/2 2.0...anything else is just a DOS.
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: widow@camelot.bradley.edu (Shaun Burnett)
Subject: Re: Ready for Letters under OS/2
Organization: Bradley University
Distribution: usa
Date:  6 Jan 93 05:38:46 GMT

In <11590@uqcspe.cs.uq.oz.au> king@cs.uq.oz.au (Paul King) writes:


>>   I suspect the problem is with the program and speech generation.
>You are correct, I get the same problem.  I can overcome the problem
>by using VMdisk (which effectively gives you a specific DOS 5.0
>session) which fixes the voice problem, but then the mouse doesn't work!

	When booting from diskette, EMS, XMS and mouse references
	should point to a particular file in the "\OS2\MDOS"
	subdirectory.

	Consult the Master Index for more info under the following
	topics:

	DOS
	 starting from a diskette (and)
	  Changing CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT for a specific DOS version

Shaun Burnett		    |	"You can't survive on a new planet with a
widow@camelot.bradley.edu   |	soul full of hope and fresh air you know."
OS/2--Happy Happy Joy Joy--OS/2		-  Dr. Who (Tom Baker)
From: mike.dickson@almac.co.uk (Mike Dickson)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: Hot-key to kill WPS?
Date: 11 Jan 93 21:14:00 GMT
Reply-To: mike.dickson@almac.co.uk (Mike Dickson)
Organization: Almac BBS Ltd. +44 (0)324 665371

AS..Scenario:  A user fairly new to OS/2 is running a full-screen DOS app and it
AS..hangs.  What do thay do?  Why the tried-and-true Ctrl-Alt-Del will do it!
AS..Oops.  Well, it _looked_ like DOS.  I forgot I was running CriticalApp in
AS..another window.  Too late now...

I agree. Running a full screen VMB for anything more than an hour and you
can forget what you're doing and what you're working from. I've rebooted
the machine only to notice there's no giveaway DOS boot disk in drive a:
and I only then remember that I was running something else behind the
VMB...

/\/\ | |< |.                                     mike.dickson@almac.co.uk
---
 . SLMR 2.1a . Never trust a skinny cook.
From: matt@Turing.ORG (Matthew L. Kreger)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Will LaserMaster WinJet work with OS/2 2.1?
Date: 7 Jan 93 19:52:32 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: The Turing Project, Public Access Internet Host

I have been unable to reach LaserMaster tech support, though when I have in
the past they have been completly unable to answer any questions I have.

Does anyone have one of the cards?  Ever tried it with OS/2?

Thanks in advance.
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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc