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From: shurr@cbnews.cb.att.com (larry.a.shurr)
Subject: When am I registered? (was: Registering OS/2 ?)
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Columbus, OH
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 03:32:19 GMT

In article <1993Jan10.012045.28054@midway.uchicago.edu> sip1@midway.uchicago.edu writes:
>In article <C0M23I.878@andy.bgsu.edu> jzawodn@andy.bgsu.edu (jeremy zawodny) writes:
>>>...So tell me: what do I get if I register it ?
>>60 days worth of tech support and free upgrades!
>The technical support policies vary by country.  So do the materials
>you get when you send in the registration card.  In the U.S., for
>example, you'll get periodic mailings (like the OS/2 Solutions Coupon
>Book).  You should also receive news of any product upgrades.

My memory may be going on me, but let's see, now:

I send in the materials for the Windows upgrade rebate.  I know they
got that.  They sent it back because I forgot to include the title
page from my Windows manual.  Eventually, I got the check.  This I
remember for certain.

It seems like there was a separate card for registering the software.
My memory says I sent it in, BUT... I haven't received a Coupon Book
or any other mailing, so maybe I didn't.  Here I am at home, now, and
I've found a card entitled "Registration Card for OS/2 Support,"
amongst all the fool pamphlets in the distribution.  Hmmm... could
me poor memory be slipping?  Is this the card I thought I sent in?
Or did I register my posession of a copy of OS/2 with another card
and fail to look for a separate card to register for OS/2 support?

If so, that's a bit wackers in my experience.  I don't remember 
seeing this card before, but then, this collection of odd papers and
pamphlets did not hold my attention -- I should have inspected it
more closely, but it was so inconvenient and disorderly I set it
aside disgustedly.  My mistake, but dammit, they could have done
better! In any case, this registration card is evidently the one I
need to send in, yes?

Larry
-- 
Larry A. Shurr (las@cbnmva.att.com) speaking only for myself.
Norman, listen carefully.  I am lying.  Are you sure your circuits are
registering?  Your ears are green.  Logic is a little bird singing in a
meadow.  Logic is a wreath of pretty flowers which smell bad! - Mr. Spock
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: sheldon@iastate.edu (Steve Sheldon)
Subject: Whoops! SVGA on OS/2 2.0.1
Organization: Iowa State University, Ames IA
Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1993 06:06:11 GMT

 First, the problem:

 I've killed OS/2 somehow.  It now boots up and gives only a black screen.

I'm new to OS/2 as of 4 days ago, so bear with me.  My experience is mainly
with DOS, Unix, Amiga, CP/M, etc.

 My equipment:
 IBM PS/Valuepoint 486DX/33,  with OS/2 v2.0.1 preinstalled
 PS/VP 6319 monitor, 15" flatscreen multisync
 
 I made a backup of the preinstalled system, and repartitioned my disk
with:
 60 Meg HPFS for OS/2
 20 Meg FAT for DOS/Windows boot
 120 Meg FAT for programs/data

 The OS/2 and DOS partitions are primary.  I couldn't make OS/2 a logical
partition because the preinstalled system only wants to be drive C:.
But I figured this would work nice, and give me a path back to DOS.

 What I did:
 I decided to try playing with 1024x768 screen modes.  I went thru the
Welcome window and configuration setup to configure the 1024x768 mode for
the desktop.  Did a shutdown, and it worked ok.

 But the screen was flickering pretty bad.  I thought this was kind of
stupid, as this monitor was supposed to be able to do non-interlace.

 So I went back to 800x600 resolution.  No flicker.

 So I start reading the FAQ.  Don't find much in there about this, but the
section on SVGA under DOS interests me.

 It says I can do this 'SVGA ON' command to setup DOS for SVGA.  And then it
mentions about setting refresh rates prior to that.  So I pulled out the VGA
utilities disk that came with the computer.  It's a Tseng ET4000 chipset in
there, and looking thru the manual it says to type 'VMODE 72M' to set it up
for 72 Hz refreshed 1024x768 mode.

 I ran a DOS program that uses 1024x768 resolution(Atlas GIS), and by golly
it did work! No flicker...

 So I did VMODE 72M, and VMODE 72H, SVGA ON, EXIT and Shutdown the system.

 Booted back up into OS/2, worked ok.

 Went thru the Welcome folder's system configuration and set it up for
1024x768 mode. Shutdown, rebooted and...

 Nothing, it's black.  The disk light comes on when I do things like
Ctrl-ESC, hit mouse buttons, etc.  Just no display.

 I've tried renaming the file 'SVGADATA.PMI' which was created by SVGA ON to
something else, but the machine locks up completely when I do that.

 So I have a couple of questions, if anyone can answer them:

 1. How do I remedy this situation?  If I have to, I will reinstall the
OS/2 system, that's why I set it all up on a seperate partition.

 2. How do I get OS/2 to use a 70 Hz non-interlaced 1024x768 on the
desktop? It does 60 Hz by default and flickers badly.

 I'll summarize any responses.

Thanks for any help.
-- 
sheldon@iastate.edu                Steve Sheldon
Project Vincent                    ICSS Resource Unit
SCO ODT, Arc/Info, Atlas GIS       2142 Agronomy Hall
                                   Iowa State University
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: patrice@cenparmi.concordia.ca (SCATTOLIN patrice)
Subject: To: IBM; EA's prevented boot, CHKDSK could not fix it, 
Organization: CENPARMI, Concordia University, Montreal, Canada
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 16:43:18 GMT

I had the most peculiar problem to date. I was playing
around with Beta drivers to improve system performance.
Well they Trapped. That's ok. 

The last trap I got would not reboot. I claimed that PSSHELL.EXE was
not an executable! Turns out, after over two hours of floppy swapping,
that the Extended Attribute for \os2 and its subs were corrupted. 
OS/2 booted from GA would not fix it, it claimed that c:\ was busy
by another process wether it was the GA or the SP chkdsk. OS/2 copy
would not work neither would dir complaining of corrupted EA

In last resort I copied all of \os2 and subs into c:\, patched config.sys.
I was able to reboot from the second copy of OS/2and chkdsk fixed the \os2.
I then cleaned up the system and came back to where I was minus OS*.ini.

I would have liked booting not to present a problem. 
CHKDSK did fix problem but after the system booted. 
What is needed would be to run chkdsk earlier. If it's not possible,
check the EA before you try to run files. Deleting the EA would probably
have worked because only thing corrupted was the EA's for the \os2.

Aside from that I am an happy customer!

-- 
Patrice Scattolin
					patrice@cs.concordia.ca
Concordia University			Montreal, Canada
"I am so far north that Santa lives two blocks from me"
From: pat@berry.Cary.NC.US (Pat Berry)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Changing the color of icon text
Date: Fri, 08 Jan 93 19:54:17 EST
Organization: Berry Communications

I recently got my hands on a background bitmap that I really like (the
Enterprise NCC-1701D firing its phasers at a Windows 3.1 logo, hee
hee!), and I decided to replace my boring old gray desktop with it.  The
text labels of my icons didn't stand out very well, so I decided to
change it, using the Scheme Palette editor.

Changing the text for regular icons was no problem -- I just selected
Icon Text and picked a new color.  But I've been unable to change the
color of the text labels on my shadow icons!  I select Icon Text, pick a
new color, and drag the scheme icon to the desktop . . . and nothing
happens.  I can't figure out why it doesn't work.

Has anyone else had this problem?  Am I missing something obvious?  Or
are there cloaked Romulans hiding in my bitmap and jamming my signals?
Help!

-- 
Pat Berry - Cary, North Carolina, USA   |  "At least that's what *I* thought.
pat@berry.Cary.NC.US                    |  But I have a history of missing the
**** Happy user of OS/2 2.0 ****        |  point of stuff like this."
                                        |  -- Homer Simpson
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: To XGA-2 or not
From: cvetp036@vmsb.is.csupomona.edu
Date: 3 Jan 93 21:55:03 PST
Organization: California State Polytechnic University, Pomona
Nntp-Posting-User: cvetp036

Here's the situation:

I want to upgrade from my ATI Integra 512K to an accelerated card.

I was looking at the Speedstar 24X. Good price and above average performance.
Of course the  stumbling block is, no OS/2 drivers. And who knows when Dimaond
will get off their ass to write some.

So I've heard good things about XGA-2 from IBM so far. 

Is this card accelerated or coprocessor? Can someone give me some general data
like when it will be out, cost, and what res. it can do.

Thanxs.

Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: cullen@eicmfg.enet.dec.com (Andrew Cullen)
Subject: How to suppress IBM Logo/copyright window for Workframe,Debugger?
Keywords: Workframe/2,Debugger
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation
Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1993 16:02:30 GMT

Hi there,

    I recently purchased the CSet/2 development kit, ordered from IBM here 
in Germany. (OS/2, Developer's Toolkit, Cset/2 compiler and
Workframe/2 for DM799). Does anyone know how to suppress the Copyright/License
information window that appears when I start the Workframe? I get the
same window with an "OK" button whenever I start up the debugger as well.
  The book entitled "Cset/2 and Workframe/2 "An Integrated Development
Environment" mentions "disabling the logo display from the operating system"
on page 2 but gives no clues on how to do this.
Any advice appreciated. Note: This is *not* a beta kit - it was a retail
kit bought via IBM Direct.

  Cheers,

    Andrew Cullen
From: dic5340@hertz.njit.edu (David Charlap)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: To XGA-2 or not
Date: 5 Jan 93 20:54:35 GMT
Organization: New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, N.J.

In article <1993Jan3.215503.1@vmsb.is.csupomona.edu> cvetp036@vmsb.is.csupomona.edu writes:

>So I've heard good things about XGA-2 from IBM so far. 
>
>Is this card accelerated or coprocessor? Can someone give me some general data
>like when it will be out, cost, and what res. it can do.

The XGA-2 card, like the XGA is fully coprocessor based.  It is very
fast.  With it's OS/2 drivers, you'll get to pick from the following
resolutions (with 2MB of memory on board):

	640x480 (16, 256, or 64K colors)
        800x600 (16, 256, or 64K colors)
       1024x768 (16, or 256 colors)

The board supports other modes, but I don't think the OS/2 drivers (at
this time) do.

There is a large file explaining the XGA-2 specs on ftp-os2.nmsu.edu.
Look in /pub/os2/2.0/info for it.



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From: beders@disco-sun4.dfki.uni-sb.de (Jochen Bedersdorfer)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: why OS/2
Date: 11 Jan 1993 11:00:54 GMT
Organization: DFKI Saarbruecken GmbH, D-W 6600 Saarbruecken
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In-reply-to: francis@ese.ogi.edu's message of 5 Jan 93 13:54:50 GMT

In article <48041@ogicse.ogi.edu> francis@ese.ogi.edu (Francis Moraes) writes:

   sdk@med.ge.com writes:

   >After reading IBM literature, talking with one individual and
   >thinking about the postings here I decided that I should post
   >several questions and study the responses before making any
   >purchases.
   >
   >1.  If you value the ability to multi task as a driver to use
   >    OS/2, how much to you **really** multitask ?

Most people think, that multi-tasking is only a matter
of two distinct processes running asynchronous.
But, what is often forgotten, you can multitask or
better multithread IN an application.
For a fast processor, it makes not much sense
only quering a mouse and routing a message queue.
Other useful things can be done in the meantime.
Look at CorelDraw: While you`re choosing objects,
CorelDraw connects them internally.
Then, if you really want them to be connected, the
work is already done.

I can imagine much more things, where multithreading can be used.
Sorting while the user enters data in a database,
Saving, while an appl. prints to the spooler, etc.

But here is an example out of life:
One day, I was trying to connect to a local BBS.
Not to say, that the BBS was always busy...
Instead of waiting for the connect, I was installing 
a DOS-Game on my FAT-Partition, and between disk-changes,
I played another game.

The BBS was still busy, so I started Emacs,
loaded my current C-Projekt, made a few changes
and compiled it via Emacs.
Emacs started the make-process parallel, so I could
change the documentation while compiling.

That really saves time !
I will never go back to a non-multitasking (or "kooperative Multitasking)
OS. 


Greetings, :)ochen
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: das9674@ucs.usl.edu (Stephenson Daniel A)
Subject: Info on OAK OTI-067 drivers
Organization: Univ. of Southwestern La., Lafayette
Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1993 18:18:29 GMT

I jsut talked to someone at OAK Technologies, and he said (I think
his name is 'Bidon' or somesuch) that they _are_ working on
OS/2 2.0 Presentation Manager drivers.  He said they ought to be out next month


Then again, those smae drivers were supposed to be due 4 mos. ago. :-(

While I was talking to him, he said that some *new* Windows drivers
were released last summer.  The drivers from 67_win31.zip I got from
ftp.cica.indiana.edu are all old, it would seem.  In addition, he said
I needed an INSTALL.EXE file of some kind to install new WIndows drivers,
which the 67_win31.zip file did *not* have.  Does anyone know where I 
can get this?  I'd rathe rnot spend 45min. downloading from their BBS...

Here is some OAK info, in case you want/need it:

Oak Technologies:  Ph#: (408) 737-0888
		  Fax#: (408) 737-3838
                  BBS#: (408) 373-0728
                              ^^^
                               |-- this is what he told me, but
		       		   doesn't it look like it ought to
				   be '737' as well?

The BSS, he said, needs 8bits, no parity.  He said I answers at 2400bps.
He suggested the download would take ~45min.

I hope this answers some people's questions,

Dan Stephenson

-- 
Dan Stephenson   das9674@usl.edu 
"Even inferior PC demos seem to require more RAM than demos for the Amiga 500"
                                                                -John Bickers
"You're probably right.  The Amiga OWNS the demo market." -Jerry Shekhel
From: ASI509@DJUKFA11.BITNET
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: WORKPLACE SHELL INCONSISTENCY
Date: 5 Jan 93 15:40:19 GMT
Organization: Forschungszentrum Juelich

In article <1993Jan5.134559.8611@email.tuwien.ac.at>,
peter@swwwnext.tuwien.ac.at (Peter Wansch) says:
>
>I recently found one inconsistency in the Workplace Shell concept that is
>very confusing and I personally think that IBM should change that. Data
>objects and folder objects have a physical representation on the hard
>disk, while program objects and device objects are only references to
>either an executable file or whatever. Deleting a data object by dragging

I wish program objects an device objects would also have a physical existence
in the file system and not only within OS2.INI and/or OS2SYS.INI.
Then I would be able to simply drag a bunch of customized program objects to
a floppy or Sysquest and move them to another machine.
This is a no-nonsense application. Consider a huge textmode app like TeX. With
some WPS program objects you can build a fairly comfortable shell within 15
minutes. But you can't transfer it to another machine :-(

Also I guess (this is a _wild_ guess) some of the performance and growing INI
files problems would disappear.

Michael Bode.
From: d9mikael@dtek.chalmers.se (Mikael Wahlgren)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: OS/2 with PS/2 56 (9556)
Date: 6 Jan 93 11:59:38 GMT
Organization: Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg Sweden
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sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu (Timothy F. Sipples) writes:

>>2.  I installed Lan Server 3.0 Requester on the machine.  Works fine
>>    until you shutdown or reboot.  After reboot I get system configuration
>>    error (17300 and 16300) at POST.  This clearly has something to do with
>>    the network, as it only appears if I reboot after logging on to the
>>    network.

>Stupid question: have you run the Reference Disk?

Yes, but everytime I reboot after logging on to the network the setup was
lost.  I have now installed the OS/2 2.1 beta and everything seems OK now,
except that I don't know how to get the Ultimotion Matinee software video
motion to run.  If anyone have a hint I would be pleased.

Mikael Wahlgren
From: vandi@garfield.catt.ncsu.edu (Brian Vandivier)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: OS/2 and window's screen savers
Date: 5 Jan 93 16:34:35 GMT
Organization: Computer and Technologies Theme Program, NCSU, Raleigh

For Christmas, my mom bought me three window programs.  
The first one is the Star Trek Fonts.  I pretty sure I can use this with
window apps like 123 and Word Perfect.  Am I correct?
The other two are the Berkeley After Dark and the corresponding Star Trek
screen saver.  My question is, before I open the box, can I use the screen
savers with OS/2 in anyway.  Someone has told me that it should be possible
if I run seemless windows.  Can someone point me in the right direction
by telling me where I can find the drivers for such, or if it is not
possible for it to run properly with OS/2.  I'm running standard VGA 640x480
and I think I'm using the OAK tech. chip set.
Any help would me much appreciated.  Thanks.

Brian
*********************North Carolina State University***********************
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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: gregb@gout.austin.ibm.com
Subject: Re: Running OS/2 in monochrome
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 15:20:10 GMT
News-Software: IBM OS/2 PM RN (NR/2) v0.16 by O. Vishnepolsky and R. Rogers
Reply-To: gregb@pro-lep.cts.com
Organization: IBM Austin

In <1276@alsys1.aecom.yu.edu> ed@balrog.aecom.yu.edu (Ed Geraghty) writes:
>Greetings all,
>
>     We are moving an OS/2 machine in a high magnetic field area(10 gauss). I
>would like to figure a way to run OS/2 in monochrome 80x25 character mode. I

I don't know the specs on VGA monochrome, but if it'll work in your
environment, then you can still use the WPS. (We use one on our
support BBS), and you can pick one up for about (USD)90.
__________________________________________________________
Greg Bryant                                 (512) 795-0323
Delta Music Systems                             Austin, TX
INET: gregb@pro-lep.cts.com
ARPA: wixer!pro-lep!gregb@cs.utexas.edu
Just consulting.   Not an employee.   Not representing IBM
From: unruh@physics.ubc.ca (William Unruh)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: Beta 2.1 in IBM-BBS
Date: 6 Jan 1993 19:17:05 GMT
Organization: The University of British Columbia
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: physics.ubc.ca

oneel@heawk1.gsfc.nasa.gov (oneel) writes:
...
>Here's how I do it.  I don't have a CD-ROM drive on an OS/2 system but
>I do have one on a SPARC.

>Mount the cd-rom in the sparc.

>mount -r -t hsfs /dev/sr0 /cdrom

>Use the unix cp command to copy all the .dsk files to the sparc disk.
>Use the Info-ZIP ZIP to compress each .dsk file to it's own .zip file.
>This is because some of the .dsk files don't seem to fit easily on a
>1.44 meg floppy.

>Write each .zip file to a dos formatted floppy using MTOOLS.

>Sneakernet the floppies to the OS/2 system.

>Read each .zip file onto the OS/2 system.
>Unzip each .zip file to get .dsk files.

>LOADDSKF each .dsk file back to floppies.


Is there some way of getting LOADSKF to run of a Sun say- ie, does anyone
have the source code for LOADSKF which we couod compile onto our
workatatins and thus make the disk images easily?




























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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: tj@gpu.utcs.utoronto.ca (Terry Jones)
Subject: Re: SVGA problem: get 1024x768; how?
Organization: UTCS Public Access
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 20:38:41 GMT

>>I have OS/2 2.1 installed on a 486/33 with a WD90c30 SVGA card (1MB).
>>However the resolution is not 1024x768. It looks more like 400x600.
>>I went thru the FAQs but they made little sense. So, if there is a
>>kind soul outthere willing to guide me, I would appreciate it.
>
>Just go to your OS/2 System icon, double click on it, then double
.....
>which mode you want), and then you're all set.
>
>-- 
>Timothy F. Sipples      | Read the OS/2 FAQ List 2.0i, available from

Along a similar thread, the PS/ValuePoint machines come with drivers etc
for 1024/768 but when selected it works in interlaced mode instead of
non interlaced mode. Anyone able to get ti to work properly in non
interlaced mode?

tj
From: joker@diku.dk (Morten Christian Holmgreen)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: To XGA-2 or not [New resolution support info, in reality]
Date: 9 Jan 93 03:17:53 GMT
Organization: Department of Computer Science, U of Copenhagen

kaul@vnet.ibm.com writes:

[stuff deleted]
>It turns out we released the XGA 2.02 Device Driver disk today.  Looking
>in the appendix in the back, I see the 1360x1024 mode I mentioned (although
>the 9517 isn't listed as supporting it).  That makes the list of officially
>supported resolutions for XGA-2 something like:

>1) 640x480 at 60, 72, and 75 Hz NI, with up to 64k colors.
>2) 800x600 at 56, 60, 72, and 75 Hz NI, with up to 64k colors.
>3) 1024x768 at 60, 70, 72, and 75 Hz NI or 43.5 Hz I, with up to 256 colors.
>4) 1280x960, 1280x1024, and 1360x1024 at 45 Hz I, with up to 16 colors.

Are you sure, that 1280x1024 is 45Hz? In the SP's XGA DMQS-files it's 
listed at 50Hz - why the slowdown?

>-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
>Dick Kaul            | My opinions only, not official IBM positions, etc--
>IBM XGA Development  | they'd make me wear a suit if I were to speak for IBM.
>Boca Raton, FL       | "Shhhh... The maestro is decomposing."
>kaul@vnet.ibm.com

Christian
-- 
M. Christian Holmgreen / joker@diku.dk / mochmch@uts.uni-c.dk
M.Sc. student, University of Copenhagen, Dept. of Computer Science
"Human errors can only be avoided if one can avoid the use of humans"
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: greve@rs1 (Thomas Greve)
Subject: tar 4 jumbo (was: Colorado's OS/2 solution for Jumbo is here!)
Organization: University of Bonn, phys. Chemistry
Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1993 16:00:42 GMT

In article <1993Jan3.220855.17064@weyrich.UUCP> uunet.uu.net!weyrich!orville writes:
>In article <sheldon.725856657@pv141b.vincent.iastate.edu> sheldon@iastate.edu (Steve Sheldon) writes:
[comments about Sytos+ deleted]
>> One should think porting something like Tar would not be that terribly
>>difficult.
Hm. I *did* think about porting something like tar for this CMS floppy
tape, but i realized i wouldn't be able to. The reason is, that i
absolutely have no idea, how to program the floppy controller to
read/write/format tapes. I tried to get it from tape.exe (the DOS
version), but they built-in a scheduler that fooled my debugger
(td386).

If someone can tell me about this, i'd give it a try, but DMA under
virtual memory and direct hardware programming *is* difficult.

>Actually, there is a tar port on hobbes -- look for the file gtak201b.zip
>[I don't recall which directory]. It is HPFS and EA aware.
... and for SCSI tapes *only*. Does this solve your problem?
-- 
				- Thomas

   greve@rs1.thch.uni-bonn.de
   unt145@dbnrhrz1