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From: am66@cunixa.cc.columbia.edu (Alexander Maldutis)
Subject: TE2 and Boca 14.4KB modem
Reply-To: am66@cunixa.cc.columbia.edu (Alexander Maldutis)
Organization: Columbia University
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1992 02:33:08 GMT

Hello all!  I recently got a Boca M1440I 14.4 KB internal modem.  I managed
to disable my Com2 port and get it up and running.  I use  TE2 and like
it very much.  My problem, however, is that there are no specific .inc 
files for this modem.  I managed to get the Intel96 modem parameters to
work, but the modem frequently misses packets during Zmodem, occasionally
fails to detect an answer, and has some other problems.

I was hoping that at least a few people in netland have taken advantage
of the ridiculous price of the modem, $229 at a local computer store,
and bought it.  Perjaps some have also managed to make it work reliably.
If so, I would be interested in hearing from you.  An actual .inc
file would also be extremely appreciated.

Regards and thanks in advance,

PS:An email reply would be preferred, and I will post the salient  info.

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From: "roger ramsey" <roger.ramsey@canrem.com>
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: ati graphics ultra
Date: 24 Jul 92 14:32:07 EST
Reply-To: "roger ramsey" <roger.ramsey@canrem.com>
Distribution: comp
Organization: Canada Remote Systems

Man Kit Tang wrote on 07-22-92 regarding ATI GRAPHICS ULTRA:

MK>Well, for an AT bus based coprocessed grahics card.  Most of the 
MK>advantage gain does come from reducing bandwidth requirement of the AT 
MK>bus.  The Mach 8 does some graphics primitive pretty well, but for that 
MK>matter, a 486 is not bad either.

I think you'll find that 1024x768x256 on a 386/33 with a Graphics Ultra 
will be faster than a 486/33 with a plain dumb frame buffer SVGA card.

MK>So, one more time, the problem of HIGH resolution graphics 
MK>performance of most PC compatibles with AT based controller is the 
MK>limited bandwidth of the AT bus.

From the point of view that, using your above example, the 486 would have 
to calculate every pixel and then send it across the bus rather than a 
series of instructions to the card, then yes the bus becomes a limiting 
factor.

Roj




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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: pathak@mitre.org (Heeren Pathak)
Subject: Re: Registration
Followup-To: comp.os.os2.misc
Organization: Mitre Corporation
Date: Thu, 30 Jul 1992 13:16:40 GMT

In article <1992Jul29.211534.2295@mtu.edu>, ajchuah@mtu.edu ([*BARK*])
wrote:
> 
> 
> 	It just occured to me to ask this question.  I know most
> of the people here bought OS2 V2.0.  I know i did.
> 	How many of us here actually registered OS2?
> Yes, registered.  I don't presume sending in the rebate
> form for Windoze is called registration.  So maybe we
> can get a poll of hands as to how many of us here actually
> bothered to get it registered?  Thanx.
> 

I make it a point to register *EVERY* software package I own.  This is
really in my benefit since most companies make special offers to registered
users.  Borland is especially good at this.  I was able to pick up Quattro
Pro for $50 on a special offer and recently I have gotten offers for
Paradox.

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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: tamu@uxh.cso.uiuc.edu (Todd Henderson)
Subject: Re: Moving files to floppy
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1992 17:28:17 GMT

cummins@a.cs.okstate.edu (CUMMINS JOHN WILLI) writes:

>I tried (and seeming succeeded) copying a large directory of small files
>to floppy.  I got prompted when a disk was full, and things went pretty well...
>Except:  I kept on getting error messages that the files I was copying
>were in use.  Odd... I'm rather certain they weren't.

I have moved things to the floppy icons and then went to look at it and 
nothing would be there!  It went thru all of the info about copying, etc.
but nothing showed up.  Is the drag and drop between disk not safe?

I'm going to go back and check this again, because I got many of the files in
use messages while I was doing it, so maybe those are the ones missing?

Todd
tamu@uxh.cso.uiuc.edu

>Is there a better way to do this?  A "backup" that won't split files or
>"tokenize" them in an odd way?

>(No... I'm not an ex-DOS user.  I just dragged the icons from the
>subdir they were in to the a: icon on the desktop)

>Is there a "move" or "copy" command that will allow for a new disk
>to be inserted when a file won't fit on the present disk?

>(I'm hoping to reformat HPFS... but need to salvage SOME (not all) files.)

>jc

Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: reisert@sttng.mlo.dec.com (Jim Reisert)
Subject: Re: OS/2 Stacker
Reply-To: reisert@sttng.mlo.dec.com (Jim Reisert)
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation -- Maynard, MA
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 92 19:09:08 GMT


In article <Bs4qI9.LMs@undergrad.math.waterloo.edu>, eylee@cayley.waterloo.edu (Edmund Lee) writes:

> Hi, does anyone when stacker will be available for OS/2???

Is it time for a comp.os.os2.stacker newsgroup yet?  (only 1/2 ;-)

Seriously, if this question isn't covered in the FAQ (don't have mine
handy), then it should be.

- Jim

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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: schmiher@Informatik.TU-Muenchen.DE (Hermann Schmidt)
Subject: Oh boy! Now it's me: no shutdown possible!
Originator: schmiher@hphalle5a.informatik.tu-muenchen.de
Organization: Technische Universitaet Muenchen, Germany
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1992 09:00:53 GMT


Hello,
Now this dreaded bug has caught me. My system does not shut down anymore.
The interesting thing is that there are no apps running (the window list
shows the desktop only). The os2.ini must be corrupted in some way. I
used the ini file from the install directory temporarily and shutdown
worked. But I do *not* like to lose all the setup work I've done over
the last weeks!

I leave the system with the three finger salute, with the effect that the
desktop layout changes made in the session get lost. Sigh!

Is there a way to clean up the ini files while keeping important setup
values? 

Thanks for any help.
Hermann
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: dlcogswe@vela.acs.oakland.edu (Dan Cogswell)
Subject: OS/2 hard drive:  SCSI or IDE?
Organization: Oakland University, Rochester MI.
Date: Tue, 28 Jul 1992 17:21:36 GMT

While putting together my new system on paper (486/33 tentatively) I had
decided on IDE for my hard drive interface.  That was until I installed
OS/2 on my DECpc 433 with 300 meg SCSI drive at work.  I can say that
this machine has one heckuva fast hard drive/interface.  When running
under DOS it seemed to be a dog, but the SCSI drivers for OS/2 must be
fast -- real fast. Plus, it installed quickly and easily.  No further
configuration was required on my part.

So, now I have to wonder:  is IDE or SCSI the better way to go?  SCSI,
of course opens up possibilities of CD-ROM, tape backup, etc. without the
purchase of an additional interface.  But, for a clone, are SCSI systems
as easy to setup and run with as the DEC machine I use at work (which I
am clueless as to the interface manufacturer).  IDE, on the other hand
is cheaper and nearly as fast(?).

Anecdotal evidence is more than welcome here.  How does *your* {SCSI|IDE}
system perform and what would you do {differently|the same} if you were
buying today.

-- 
Dan Cogswell

From: rcw@hpsad.sad.hp.com (Dick Williams)
Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1992 19:12:42 GMT
Subject: Re: OS/2 Frequently Asked Questions List Rel. 2.0c
Organization: HP Signal Analysis Division - Rohnert Park, CA
From: wjw@ebh.eb.ele.tue.nl (Willem Jan Withagen)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Still in trouble with ET4000
Keywords: ET4000, vsvga.sys
Date: 21 Jul 92 11:48:47 GMT
Reply-To: wjw@eb.ele.tue.nl
Organization: Digital Systems, Eindhoven University of Technology, the Netherlands

Remember me, I guess not with this high trafic. 8^)

I was trying, like most of us, to get my ET4000 thingy to work.
(Mine is a Optima Mega [1Mb] in a 486/33/Ami bios/20Mb RAM/HPFS system)

I've got it working as far as the WPS. As soon as I go full screen DOS
or OS/2 it starts loosing bits. Random characters appear in full color.
But, and this is the funny part, only in the actual cmd.exe or
command.com. As soon a I start an application like Qedit 
things work fine. Getting back to the shell and the mess starts again.

Are tehre any patches which would fix this. I already loaded the most
recent vgafix3 stuff.

Thanx,
	Willem Jan

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From: stirling@hursley.ibm.com
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: PM Terminal full-screen?
Date: 27 Jul 92 09:26:14 GMT
Reply-To: ian@vnet.ibm.com
Organization: IBM UK Labs Ltd, Hursley, England
News-Software: NewsKit 1.5 - LaMail

In <1992Jul24.165110.1@kean.ucs.mun.ca>, roger@kean.ucs.mun.ca writes:
>
>        I would like to run PM Terminal full-screen rather that in a 
>window.  But when I select the settings menu the choices for full 
>screen versus windowed are "greyed out", making it impossible to change 
>this setting.  
>
>        Is there anyway to run PM Terminal full-screen?
>

PM Terminal is a PM program, it has no concept of windowed vs fullscreen.  The 
best you can do is to run with it maximised.

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From: krader@sequent.com (Kurtis D. Rader)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: Fastback and OS/2
Date: 27 Jul 92 04:51:24 GMT
Organization: Sequent Computer Systems, Inc.

sillett@edc3jr.gsph.pitt.edu (Robert L. Sillett) writes:

>I am trying to get Fastback (the latest version) to work under OS/2
>2.0.  While I can backup to a FAT, HPFS, or network drive, I cannot
>back up to floppy.  The OS/2 README file tells me that I might have
>"problems" backing up to floppy (wow!).
>Has anyone been able to backup to floppy?

I spent roughly four hours trying to get FastBack to work without
success.  The symptoms lead me to believe that FastBack is attempting
low level manipulation of the hardware which OS/2 won't allow a
normal DOS application to perform.  I called Fifth Generation Systems
but they said they had no plans for an OS/2 version.
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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: smsmith@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Stephen M Smith)
Subject: Re: Game port access in DOS box under OS/2 (v2.0) ?
Organization: The Ohio State University
Date: Fri, 24 Jul 1992 04:02:29 GMT

mig@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Meir I Green) writes:

>>Is it possible for a program running in a DOS box under OS/2 (v2.0)
>>to access the game port.
>
>It works fine on my 386/40.  msd.exe even reads the port in real time.

OS/2 is just SO coooool.  I love to run msd.exe when I have a com
program running because OS/2 traps the attempts to read the com
port and STILL allows the utility to examine everything else!  This
would have caused the system to hang under Windows or Desqview.
In fact, I hung my com port a lot when running QAPLUS under DV.

I just added the following entry to the list of things that OS/2 has/
can do that Windows doesn't have/can't do:

 --Allow utilities that analyze the hardware to safely proceed when
         trying to access hardware that is being used by other
         processes.  For example, if a utility tries to examine
         the status and configuration of the COM and LPT ports and
         one of the COM ports is being used by a communications app,
         OS/2 will trap the attempt to access that COM port and allow
         the user to tell the utility to "ignore" the COM port and
         proceed to analyze other hardware.  When the utility is
         done, that COM port is simply reported as "not available".

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From: bauwens@acs.ucalgary.ca (Luc Bauwens)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: MSD under OS/2 (Was Re: Couple of OS/2 problems...)
Date: 30 Jul 92 05:36:31 GMT
Organization: The University of Calgary, Alberta

In article <GHENNIGA.92Jul29111724@ampere.ampere> ghenniga@NMSU.Edu writes:
>
>In an article jclei@sage.cc.purdue.edu (Jason Lei) writes:
>
>I have run MSD succesfully on both HPFS and FAT file systems under OS/2. Did
>you set the DOS session you tried to run MSD in that it was to report to
>MSD.EXE that it was version 4.01 of DOS? 
>	Go to the icon for the full screen DOS session in which you run MSD
>and open up it's settings notebook (click the second or middle mouse over the
>DOS full screen icon, click on the arrow to the right of "Open" in the menu
>and then choose "Settings"), go to the "Session" page and click on the "DOS
>Settings" button. Next choose the "DOS_VERSION" setting and at the end of
>the list type the following line:
>		MSD.EXE,4,01,255
>
>This means that OS/2 DOS emulation is to report to MSD.EXE that it is running
>under DOS 4.01 and that OS/2 is to tell it this up to 255 times. Now click on
>the "Save" button in the bottom left and close the notebook. Start your
>DOS full screen session and see if MSD will run now. It has for me everytime!

Interestingly, I found that if I don't mess with the DOS Version, MSD 
does not work, but if I go and set the DOS Version as 5.0 (!!!), then
it does work.

There are (at least) two versions of MSD, 1.10 and 2.00.  The first one
reports the OS as DOS 5.  The other correctly identifies it as OS/2 2.0.
The first one seems to choke for quite a while on my 360 k 5.25in B drive;
the other doesn't. (BTW, PCtools 7.1's SI does the same thing; and
reports the OS as DOS 20.0).

Luc B
From: kevinc@aupair.cs.athabascau.ca (Kevin Crocker)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Chips & Tech video drivers???
Date: 24 Jul 92 21:27:15 GMT

Hi all, I'm trying to find some Chips & TEchnologies VGA/SVGA/8514a
drivers. I've phoned C&T and they let me talk to one of the "agents".
As it was explained to me, C&T is a manufacturer and just OEM's their
video chips to others.  Well, this appears to be my case. I have a
PixelWorks Inc. (Hudson NH) WhirlWin WL1280 card that has a *whole*
bunch of electronics on it, including a built-in C&T VGA pass-thru with
(I think) a C&T 453 chip (hard to read) and a C&T 8514a pass-thru. Of
course, it also comes with its own high end Cirrus 1280 x 1024 with two
Brooktree RAMDAC's.

Now the problem, PixelWorks is planning and workingon drivers for OS/2
but won't say much about how the work is progressing.  

I have vision problems, which is why I have this card to begin with,
and really need to get some higher resolution than 640 x 480 x 16.

Does anyone know where I can find some drivers that would at least jump
start the C&T VGA (with 1MB)????

HELP!

Kevin
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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: smbrush@lims01.lerc.nasa.gov (Andy Brush @Sverdrup)
Subject: Re: BACKUP's and the Desktop
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41    
Organization: NASA Lewis Research Center
Date: 24 Jul 1992 07:37 EST  

In article <ednstras.711934727@kraken>, ednstras@kraken.itc.gu.edu.au (Michael Strasser) writes...
[another way to backup the desktop using COPY]

An excellent way of backing up the OS/2 configuration files every time you 
boot is:

CALL c:\archivers\zoo.exe unP+q ini.zoo c:\*.sys c:\*.ini c:\os2\*.ini
CALL c:\archivers\zoo.exe glAq=8 ini.zoo

you need to substitute whatever directory your zoo is in.

the first line adds a compressed version of the SYS and INI files to the 
archive ini.zoo, only if the files have changed since last backup.  The 
second line tells zoo to keep eight versions of each file.  I don't 
remember if the archive gets packed by these commands... you might consider 
doing that.

(This was originally posted by Colin Jensen on 4 April)

Good Luck!

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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: ochealth@unixg.ubc.ca (ochealth)
Subject: Trident video voodoo! (scary tricks)
Organization: University of British Columbia, Vancouver, B.C., Canada
Date: Fri, 24 Jul 1992 06:13:07 GMT


I've discovered some very strange things about the way OS/2 and the Trident
drivers interact.

I've learned some interesting things, but in the process I broke my
svgadata.pmi file, and nothing I do will get it back to working
condition.

For a while I've been cursing the Trident drivers for being buggy, and also
for not letting me run Ultima Underworld. Well, I'm sure the Trident drivers
are buggy for the Desktop, but I'm not so sure anymore about the Ultima bug.

Ultima underworld can ran with the IBM VGA drivers, if you follow some
tricks. BUt with the Trident drivers: no luck. But a day ago I was
playing with the modetest command for the video card, and amzingly I
was able to play Underworld! Unfortunately I can't repaet this feat.
Argh! But since I had to fiddle with so many video modes, god knows
what state the video registers were in when I *was* able to play.

This all leaves me highly suspicious of the vsvga.sys and the bvhsvga stuff.
When I got Ultima UW running, I thought "great, Ill type SVGA ON, and
the setup will be saved, and then UW will work" Big mistake. UW still doesnt
run, and now svgadata.pmi is wrecked, and now I've got crap on screen when 
switching back to the desktop from fullscreen (OS/2 or DOS) sessions.
Surprisingly, switching back frmo Windows doesn't leave crud on screen.

BTW, I've tried every video patch released for OS/2, with no luck.

Anyway, aside from determining the nature of these bugs, this doesn't help
me much. Does anyone know how the svgadata.pmi file is defined? Does
anyone know about Trident video drivers?


jpm

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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: cvadrtbc@vmsa.is.csupomona.edu (Srikanth Viswanathan)
Subject: Re: 1280x1024 OS/2 2.0 Video Card (& driver)
Organization: California Polytechnic University, Pomona
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41    
Distribution: comp.os.os2.misc
Date: Fri, 31 Jul 1992 06:27:00 GMT
X-Posted-From: vmsa.is.csupomona.edu
X-Posted-Through: sol.ctr.columbia.edu

In article <nvae09c@fido.asd.sgi.com>, pdc@sgi.com (Paul Close) writes...
> 
>There aren't any 1280x1024 drivers for OS/2 yet in any case (that I know of).

I think that the Image Adapter from IBM has a 1280x1024 driver, but it is
very expensive since it has a RISC processor on board and uses something like
3 megs of VRAM on board.  I believe it even does 1660x1280x16 or something
like that.  

Srikanth
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: lemieux@eecg.toronto.edu (Guy Gerard Lemieux)
Subject: Re: "Bug" in Joel Armungaud's 800x600x256 driver - update
Date: 31 Jul 92 14:04:08 GMT

dic5340@hertz.njit.edu (David Charlap) writes:
>You've all heard the bug about dotted vertical and horizontal lines
>appearing (and not always clearing) when popping up menus on the WPS
>desktop.  Well, I've noticed that after installing a background bitmap
>for the desktop, these lines don't appear.  

I have a background bitmap, and the lines still appear.
(I am using argyle.bmp from Windows 3.1 :)

I think the algorithm simply inverts the pixel index in order to draw
the dotted lines.  If you are using specialized video drivers, perhaps
the colour table has two complementary indexes which have the same
colour (unlikely), or:

perhaps your background bitmap is a dithered pattern of two
complementary indexes, and so drawing the dotted lines merely shifts the
dither pixels a bit along the line and you can't notice the difference.
For example, simplify things by saying the background bitmap uses only
two colours: black (0) or white (1), and the indexes of these colours
are such that ~black == white.  If your background is dithered:
		 010101010101010101
		 101010101010101010
		 010101010101010101
		 101010101010101010
		 010101010101010101
		 101010101010101010
and you draw a border around the background by inverting (~):
		 010101010101010101
		 110101010101010100
		 000101010101010111
		 111010101010101000
		 001010101010101011
		 101010101010101010
then you can hardly tell the difference (when the pixels are small enough).

>PS: Anyone with Windows background bitmaps can use them unmodified
>    with WPS.  Apparantly, you don't have to convert them to OS/2
>    bitmaps for Lockup and the background to read them.  I've
>    currently got the Windows 3.1 "Arcade" backdrop tiled across my
>    desktop with no ill effects (although it's kind of hard to read
>    icon text)

I can confirm this, I've cycled through them all...

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From: dic5340@hertz.njit.edu (David Charlap)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc,comp.os.os2.apps
Subject: Re: 800x600 for OS/2 1.3 ?
Date: 28 Jul 92 16:30:57 GMT
Organization: New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, N.J.

In article <1992Jul27.113525.29064@eagle.lerc.nasa.gov> dwolfe@halcon.lerc.nasa.gov (Dana Wolfe) writes:
>
>	We have an application which requires OS/2 version 1.3.
>	Is  there a generic 800x600 video driver available ?

Not generic, but most video board manufacturers have released OS/2 1.3
drivers.  Contact your board manufacturer or use anonymous ftp to
ftp-os2.nmsu.edu and download some.


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