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From: graham@cs.utexas.edu (Ralph Arnold Graham)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: ProComm Plus dies in background
Date: 26 Aug 1992 01:38:46 -0500
Organization: CS Dept, University of Texas at Austin
NNTP-Posting-Host: lovelady.cs.utexas.edu
Keywords: Procomm

Procomm Plus runs fine in a DOS full-screen - until I do something in the
foreground.  When I return to PCP, I find that it has stopped exactly where
it was when it went into the background.  This happens not only on downloads,
but when it is just sitting there at the UNIX prompt on my school account.
At that point, my only option is to close the application.  If I then redial
without leaving Procomm, it dials fine and detects a carrier, but I never
get the "connect" message - it just times out after the handshaking.  If I
exit PCP and re-enter, all is well again.

I'm running this on a 386-20 (not SX), a USR 2400 baud internal, and have
8 megs of RAM.  For DOS settings I have the following changes to the default
settings:
	COM_HOLD		ON
	HW_TIMER		ON
	IDLE_SECONDS		10 (have tried 60)
	IDLE_SENSITIVITY	100

I do not have a buffered UART, but didn't figure that really played a role
with such a slow modem.  Has anybody been successful with a 2400 baud modem
and ProComm Plus (ver. 2.0) ?  Thanks in advance for any light on the subject!


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From: mm459504@LANCE.ColoState.Edu (Michael Miller)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Os/2 and Jpeg, viewers available?
Date: 1 Sep 92 19:18:34 GMT
Organization: Colorado State U. Engineering College

After playing with some native os/2 graphics programs, I became curious as
to the availability of a jpeg viewer a la winjpg for windows (or alternatively,
a 256 color seamless driver) so's I could have the picture onscreen at the
same time as everybody else.


Winjpg crashes when it tries to load big pictures (even if I set DPMI_MEM_LIMIT
to 10+ meg) so I'm stuck with jpg2gif in a dos box.

--
"You seem ah decent fellow.  Ahd hate to keel you." - I. Montoya
"Well, you seem a decent fellow.  I'd hate to die." - Wesley
mm459504@longs.lance.colostate.edu
From: dic5340@hertz.njit.edu (David Charlap)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: Os/2 and Jpeg, viewers available?
Date: 1 Sep 92 23:16:11 GMT
Organization: New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, N.J.

In article <Sep01.191834.72228@yuma.ACNS.ColoState.EDU> mm459504@LANCE.ColoState.Edu (Michael Miller) writes:
>After playing with some native os/2 graphics programs, I became curious as
>to the availability of a jpeg viewer a la winjpg for windows (or alternatively,
>a 256 color seamless driver) so's I could have the picture onscreen at the
>same time as everybody else.
>
>
>Winjpg crashes when it tries to load big pictures (even if I set DPMI_MEM_LIMIT
>to 10+ meg) so I'm stuck with jpg2gif in a dos box.

I've used ColorView '286 with no problem under WIN-OS2.  Look for a
cview286.* package.  I suggest trying the usual Windows archives (like
wuarchive.wustl.edu) first.  There is also a cview386 package, but it
requires Enhanced mode, so WIN-OS2 can't run it.

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   |)  David Charlap           "TELEPHONE, n.  An Invention of the devil which
  /|_  dic5340@hertz.njit.edu   abrogates some of the advantages of making a
 ((|,)                          disagreeable person keep his distance."
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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: ppt@max.u.washington.edu (Anna par Terpsikora)
Subject: New BIOS for Mylex motherboard...
Organization: 
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1992 20:58:17 GMT


That's what i think i need.  I'm trying to install OS/2 2.0 on a 
Zeos machine with a Mylex motherboard.  After the logo screen on
disk 1, everything stops.  The disk controller's cache isn't on.
I've been told it's probably an outdated BIOS (Phoenix 1.10.08)
which is at least as old as the computer (i got it in 1989).
So far, so good...but i can't get in touch with anyone at Mylex
to tell me what BIOS i should upgrade to.

Thanks to anyone who could help!

Anna, 
who's getting envious of her friends who run Windows while she 
looks at her own crippled and disected computer running OS/2 1.1....

ppt@u.washington.edu
From: jk73+@andrew.cmu.edu (Joseph Wei-Cheng Ku)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: could some one tell me...
Date: 28 Aug 92 23:27:33 GMT
Article-I.D.: andrew.sebmPZ200WB51HLXcQ
Organization: Freshman, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA

on which disk is the origfiles entitled

wga.sys
vsvga.sys
vega.sys

located? I tried the svga patch, and it did more harm than good. so I
would like to reinstall the originals

-jk
From: laird@stable.ecn.purdue.edu (Kyler Laird)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: How do I make OS/2 wait for my HD to spin up?
Date: 3 Sep 92 16:49:45 GMT
Organization: Purdue University Engineering Computer Network

I mostly use my laptop for terminal emulation.  It doesn't access
the hard drive often, so I enabled the HD timeout.  This normally
works o.k., but occassionally the OS/2 lockup seems to hang when
it activates (and the HD is already stopped), and sometimes I get
a device not ready warning (from which I issue a retry) when I
change my setup in the comm program.

So...it seems that OS/2 waits a set amount of time for a reply
from the HD.  Sometimes the HD is fast enough, sometimes it isn't.
I'd like to make the wait time longer so that it never times out
waiting for the HD to power up.

Any ideas?  (IBM tech support didn't have any.)

Thanks!

--kyler
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: elee969@elroy.uh.edu (Brown, William J.)
Subject: Thanx about fortran question
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41    
Organization: University of Houston
Date: Sun, 23 Aug 1992 17:16:00 GMT

Thanks to all who responded to my query about fortran under os2.  Apparently
most like watcom.  Some suggested using an f2c converter then compiling with
a public domain c compiler.  Since my advisor is a die hard fortranner I doubt
he would go in for that.  I also have a few more questions.  Forgive me if these
are FAQs (perhaps somenone could direct me towards a FAQ list).

1. Since the only reason we might consider getting os2 would be for the fortran,
I assume it's possible to partition my hd into dos and os2 sections?

2. If one is possible, can os2 run applications located on the dos partition?

3. Since we have a registered copy of win 3.1, are we eligible for a special
upgrade price to os2?

again, thanks

William Brown
Applied Electromagnetics Group
Univ. of Houston
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: parry@yoyo.cc.monash.edu.au (Tom J Parry)
Subject: Re: Win-OS2 Windowed sessions with SVGA
Originator: parry@yoyo.cc.monash.edu.au
Organization: Monash University, Melb., Australia.
Date: Tue, 1 Sep 1992 00:50:28 GMT

Mark Ferraretto (mferrare@physics.adelaide.edu.au) wrote:
> 
> When I was running the Generic VGA driver under OS/2 2.0 on my 486DX2/50 I 
> could get WINOS2 applications running in a WIN-OS2 window.  Being the greedy
> hog that I am, I installed an 800x600x256 driver for my Tzeng PT2014Z 
> (ET4000 chip).  I installed the orchid driver.  Now I can't get WIN-OS2 
> windowed sessions any more!  I have to run WIN-OS2 session full screen.  This
> is very distressing.  Does anyone know how I can get my WIN-OS2 sessions
> windowed again in SVGA?

Wait for a fully featured SVGA ET4000 driver I suppose. (I live in
hope...)

-- 
Tom J Parry.
Your reality is a figment of my imagination.
From: kiehl@ibt013.ibt.kfa-juelich.de (Horst Kiehl)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Location of restartobjects definition
Keywords: restartobjects
Date: 2 Sep 92 12:15:19 GMT
Reply-To: kiehl@ibt013.ibt.kfa-juelich.de (Horst Kiehl)
Organization: Forschungszentrum Juelich GmbH (KFA), Germany

Where is defined which objects are to be restarted with the WPS?
I suppose it's in OS2.INI or OS2SYS.INI, some top level and/or key entry.
I'm able to remove or (I think) edit such entries with SHOWINI.

The reason behind this is that my WPS hangs in an infinite loop
before any icons are displayed unless I SET RESTARTOBJECTS=NO
in CONFIG.SYS. But I do want to use the desktop as a workplace
(or however it's called in English). The next option I have,
according to IBM's Tips and Techniques, is to use MAKEINI,
but I'd prefer not to trash all my WPS settings.
(No, I don't have backups of my INI files from before the problem.) :-(

Many thanks in advance.

Best wishes,

Horst
From: oistony@ubvmsb.cc.buffalo.edu (Anthony M. Petro)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: GNU GCC 2.1
Date: 31 Aug 92 14:21:00 GMT
Organization: University at Buffalo
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41

In article <tdhnfmg.genie@netcom.com>, genie@netcom.com (The Genie) writes...
> 
>Hi.  I just downloaded the GNU GCC 2.1 package from hobbes and
>successfully installed it into my 386 OS/2 system.  Playing around
>with C, I couldn't get even the simplest hello.c (not from the
>sample) program to compile correctly.  I'm sure there are
>no errors in the 4 line program.
> 
>I type "gcc hello.c"
>After 3-4 seconds of disk usage, OS/2 responds:
>SYS1808:
>The process has stopped.  The software diagnostic
>code (exception code) is  0006.

i downloaded gcc 2.1 and installed it, and then installed the 2.2.2 
binaries over the 2.1 binaries.  according to the note in the 2.2.2 
directory, one needs only the files gccbin.zoo and gcclib.zoo to 
upgrade from 2.1; i found the content of gcclib.zoo to be identical to 
the ones provided by 2.1 and installed only the binaries.

there are two text files entitled readme and install in the \doc 
directory (created by extracting the zoo files).  one of them, readme 
i believe, gives a few hints about using gcc in os/2, like not using 
the gcc linker but instead using link386.exe provided by os/2.

the other file describes environment variables that must be 
initialized for proper gcc operation.  i copied these into my 
config.sys, rebooted, and was able to compile sample1.c and sample2.c.

linking these with link386.exe gave me runnable executables.  however, 
i can't find any documentation on link386.exe.  when i linked 
sample1.o, link386 bitched that i didn't specify an executable file 
type or something like that, and warned that it was assuming the app 
was WINDOWSCOMPAT or something like that.  regardless, sample1.exe 
worked from an os/2 prompt, but "Hello world" isn't exactly a robust 
test.

other than that i'm completely clueless.  does anyone have any 
documentation (or reference thereto) for link386.exe?

> 
>What is wrong here?  Is it because I need a math co-processor?
>Help!  And thanks in advance.
> 
>Gene
anthony m. petro   "beethoven"    i can say what i want; i'm just an undergrad
oistony@UBVMSD.BITNET             "frame by frame,
oistony@mednet.bitnet              death by drowning,
petro@sun.acsu.buffalo.edu         in your own
                                   in your own...
                                   analysis..."
From: ccusekh@prism.gatech.EDU (Kevin Hodge)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: need help with install weirdness
Date: 27 Aug 92 14:30:23 GMT
Distribution: na
Organization: Georgia Institute of Technology

In article <66964@hydra.gatech.EDU> ccusekh@prism.gatech.EDU (Kevin Hodge) writes:
>I need help with a problem I had installing OS/2 2.0.  The system is a 
stuff deleted

>I chose HPFS for drive D: when I installed OS/2 and after the installation
>I formatted drive D: as HPFS and C: as FAT.  
oooops!  I meant to say: I formatted drive E: as HPFS and C: as FAT

>The OS/2 install seemed fine.  Printer works and I did a couple of shutdowns
>and reboots and all seemed ok.  Next, I installed MS-DOS 5.0 (provided by

One other note:  I booted OS/2 from floppies and did an FDISK to see if 
somehow the boot manager got deleted.  Nope, everything was still there.
Still looking for a solution.  Thanks.

-- 
Kevin A. Hodge                |   "I'll show you a life of the mind!"
Engineering Psychology        |            Madman Mundt
Georgia Tech                  |
From: mstaben@comtch.spk.wa.us (Matthew Staben)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: How can I run 123 3.1 in emulated DOS?
Date: 28 Aug 92 16:01:14 GMT
Organization: Waffle BBS at CompuTech Spokane, Washington

thompson@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu writes:

> Hello netters,
> 
> Has anyone been able to get 123 3.1 (for DOS) running in emulated
> DOS in OS/2?  I can't.  I think that a setting just needs to be changed
> but I can't figure out which one.  I need to run 123 3.1 in the 
> background--and Windows 3.1 won't do it.  I got it to work in a
> DOS from A: session in OS/2, but I would rather use emulated DOS.
> Any ideas?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
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To use LOTUS 123 3.1 in emulated dos, set all the executables to have 
version 3.3 faked,  (3,40,255) in DOS_VERSION settings, set DOS_UMB on, 
DOS_HIGH on and DPMI_MEMORY_LIMIT to 4 or more. (I use 3).  Then, cause 
the object to call a batch file which sets "123MEMSIZE=2048" then 
executes 123.exe.
 
This will work.
 
Matt


mstaben@comtch.spk.wa.us
 
- A warning to anyone, still in command...
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: linstee@dutecaj.et.tudelft.nl (Erik van Linstee)
Subject: Out of memory error. 6M left though. HELP!
Organization: Delft University of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering
Date: Sun, 23 Aug 1992 18:16:16 GMT

I just get an out of memory error while ther is 6748k of available
memory. All I have running is a communications session, the asteroids
game and thats it, when I try to open the shells folder the system
starts beeping and presenting me with numurous out of memory errors.
Whats up with this, since my 17M ram should be enough to cope with
this hands down, shouldn't it?

Erik
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From: rom@cci632.cci.com (Rudynell S. Millian)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: Standard Computer (and os/2)
Date: 27 Aug 92 16:59:04 GMT
Organization: [Computer Consoles, Inc., Rochester, NY


Stay away from any Standard Computer! I got my Advantage Series Standard 
Computer in May, and just before the end of the 30 day money back guarantee
the computer started acting up, and I can't get Standard to fix it or replcace
it. And no, OS/2 will not install on this piece of junk you are looking to 
buy.

I ordered the 386-33 with 4 M of RAM and 130 MB hard drive, ATI Wonder XL and
the MAG 1460 monitor. I was dissapointed when the computer arrived and didn't
look like the one advertised. I figured that as long as it worked, the looks
didn't matter. About a week before the 30 day money back guarantee the computer
started crashing at random, and wouldn't stay up and running for more than 5 
minutes. I wanted to complain, but it went back to normal for a week or so.
After that, the problem became more pronounced and I had to return it to be 
fixed. The people at Standard claim they have replaced the mother board, but
after I got my computer back, which by the way took well over a month and a lot
of grief, I was having the same problems. To make matters worse, 
the speaker wire had not been reconnected, my disk drive was loaded with 
junk files, and they gave me a complementary copy of the Michelangelo virus.
I tried to reach Tech. Support for weeks after that, but wasn't able to reach
them until last week. They sent me new simms to replace the old ones. Things 
are even worse now! I called again, and I was told they would get back to me.
I am still waiting.

The biggest frustration of all is that I can't get OS/2 to install. Yes, I have
asked them if the system would be OS/2 compatible, and they have lied to me 
just like they have lied to you.

The OS/2 installation disk is accepted fine and I get prompted to insert disk
number 1. Disk #1 starts loading, the OS/2 logo comes up in the background,
and then, all of a sudden, the computer reboots as if nothing happened and 
it complains about the disk in the drive. This has happened every time I 
tried installing OS/2 on my PC. I have installed OS/2 on a Gateway before, 
so experience is not what the problem is here.

In summary, Standard Computer sells junk, their Tech. Support stinks, and 
OS/2 will not install on their computers, no matter what the sales people
say. If you are looking for a computer you can count on, get a Gateway 2000.

R. Millian
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: awd@atl.scscom.com (Al Degenaar)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: GCC/GPP in c.b.os2 this week.
Date: 26 Aug 92 14:10:50 GMT
Organization: SCS/Compute, Inc.

In <1992Aug24.203048.13319@unlv.edu> slumos@unlv.edu (Steve Lumos) writes:

>In article <5VqZPB6w164w@dvss.UUCP> dvss!jtroy@udel.edu (Jay Troy) writes:
>>
>>
>>Why waste bandwidth with the new posting of GCC/G++ for OS/2 when the
>>EMX version is already working just fine and WITH GDB SUPPORT??!!?!?!

>Native GCC is a different program with a different purpose than EMX. I
>prefer the native version of GCC. I am not proting any UNIX programs,
>and the native version is smaller and doesn't require a DLL.

Also, the native gcc creates NATIVE obj files, EMX does not.  This means
that you can use the native linker & library utilities.  I know I can
live without a DLL, even though it is a nice feature.  I wish that EMX would 
give you the choice of using a DLL or linking a library.

>I think we can live with two versions just fine. Should DJ abandon
>DJGPP just because EMX also supports DOS :-)

>-- 
>Steve Lumos - slumos@cs.unlv.edu


Al

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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: panos@db.toronto.edu (Panos Economopoulos)
Subject: Re: TE2 and <--
Organization: Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto
Date: 30 Aug 92 18:33:41 GMT

klliou@milton.u.washington.edu (Kan-Lee Liou) writes:

>I am using TE2 to emulate VT100 to connect to both UNIX and VMS machines 
>through my .32 bis modem.
>I keep getting problems in using editors (vi for UNIX or ed for VMS).
>The problems are parts of the text I am editing may become invisible (actually,
>it is happening now).  No text is lost, but I just cannot see it.
>One example is if I use the <-- (move left) key, all the characters it goes 
>through will disappear.  I can use the --> (move right) key to let them show up
>again, but it's really a pain..
>How can  I modify the setup and solve these problems?
>Thank you.

>Kan-Lee, klliou@u.washington.edu

I posted about the same problem on comp.os.os2.apps.
Fernando Gouvea was kind enough to respond with the following.

-------------------<start quote>------------------

The current release of TE/2 no longer has this problem. I was one of those
who reported it to Brady Flowers, and he had it fixed within a week. (It's
a matter of vt100 using tabs to position the cursor.) The problem will go
away, even with the old version, if you do 'stty -tabs' before using your
editor.

============================================================================
Fernando Q. Gouvea				fqgouvea@colby.edu
Dept. of Math/CS				(207)-872-3278
Colby College					Mudd 407

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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: alvin@eyepoint.com (Alvin Starr)
Subject: POSIX/U... for OS/2
Summary: Are we Krazie or would a POSIX/U... API be a worthwile thing to have
Organization: eyepoint
Date: Thu, 3 Sep 1992 05:41:11 GMT

We for some time now have had a U*ix clone OS that will run hosted on virtualy
any O/S that we care to port to. It seems to me that with the amount of Unix
software out there it would be a distinct advantage for any Non Unix O/S to 
be able to emulate/simulate Unix. Is this not a reasonable idea or is my 
belief that since people are wiling to cough up big bucks for DOS emulatiors
that run on Unix/OS2/NT why not a unix emulator on DOS/OS2/NT.

Think of this not only could you compile and use all of your favourite GNU
tools, and news, and mail. Heck you could run your IBCSII binaries.

Any coments/flames/ridicule will be gracously accepted.

Just a note UNIX belongs to the big hulking lawers at U.S.L. and I would never
want to have anybody believe that we have a UNIX O/S. We look the same but
there is no USL code in our O/S, in fact our O/S is not even written in C so 
we owe them no tribute.

-- 
Alvin Starr                   ||   voice: (416)513-6717
Eyepoint Inc.                 ||   fax:   (416)513-6718
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From: thompson@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc,comp.os.os2.advocacy
Subject: Re: OS/2 Win3.1 support *better* than MS!
Date: 27 Aug 92 16:07:23 CDT
Organization: University of Kansas Academic Computing Services

In article <1992Aug27.122649.21603@actrix.gen.nz>, Steve.Withers@bbs.actrix.gen.nz writes:
> At an IBM OS/2 seminar this evening, one of the presenters told us that the
> news in IBM's internal forums today was that the Win3.1 support in the CSD is
> going to also include support for those Win3.x programs that will not run
> under Win3.1.......
>  
> So, Win-OS/2 is more compatible with Windows than Microsoft! Don't forget
> WinOS/2 also runs Windows 2.x apps as well, which MS doesn't run.
>  
> Sounds like a better Windows than Windows, to me.
>  

My my.  Maybe that's why it has taken so long...IBM has been bug-fixing
Windows 3.1.  Hmmm...  Any of the Micro$oft employees want to comment?

By the way, which applications don't work with Microsoft Windows 3.1?
I can't remember any, but when I am challenged on this point in the 
future (and I know I will be), I would like to know the specific apps.

Thanks.

> Also, the CSD will be shipping "real soon now"..........:-)

Oh please oh please in September!

>  
> Steve
> 
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From: The ShagoofaMeister <raj@rajsys.lonestar.org>
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: red books
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 92 15:50:44 CDT
Organization: RB Enterprises: The Shagoofa Project!

   Can someone mail me the ordering numbers for the OS/2 tuning books by
   IBM?
   thanks in advance