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From: pvonk@scott.skidmore.edu (Pierre VonKaenel)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: Couldn't stick it out...
Date: 27 Jul 92 19:33:47 GMT
Organization: Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs NY, 12866

In article <7gwkoB4w165w@comtch.spk.wa.us> mstaben@comtch.spk.wa.us (Matthew Staben) writes:
>roger@kean.ucs.mun.ca writes:
>
>> >       For all it's "32 bit advanced coding", just about everything I do is 
>> > slower than the equivalent operation in Windows.  Booting, starting Apps (i
>> > shutting down; all of these tasks are quite noticably slower in 2.0 than in
>> > Windows.  Why? I don't know.
>> 
>> 	Just to say that I agree with the tone of your posting. The software 
>> is not yet in a form fit to be released to the general public. Too many
>> strange things happen. Too many crashes. And, as you point out, too slow 
>> (on a 486/33, 8Mb, 200 HD).  I'm still struggling with it, more out of a sens
>> of challenge than anything else.  Lets hope IBM can fix it before too long or
> 
>Interesting.  I'm on a 486-33 8meg 125 meg disk system.  Plenty quick
>for me.  In fact, some DOS sessions I have found actually run faster
>than they did under MSDOS.  I'm also running on a Novell network and
>system just simply hums.  

I've got a lowly 386-20 (PS/2 model P70) with 8MB and 120 MB HD.  DOS
is as fast as before.  Windows is a bit slow, but not much.  OS/2 is
okay speedwise.  Well, I'll admit, the system could be "snappier", but
I'm satisfied; perhaps the term "speed" is in the eyes of the
beholder.

"Too many crashes" (see above)?  Wow, I rarely have trouble with OS/2.
In fact, I've been writing some software for our department at home
(OS/2 machine), and when I tested it on my "Windows" machine at work,
I had to do more fine tuning.  But, I had a series of crashes in
Windows that I *never* experienced in OS/2.  I had been away from the
Windows machine so long that I had forgotten life in the crash lane.
I suddenly came to appreciate OS/2 more!


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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Why TE/2? Re: What does TRAP 000e mean?
From: Steve.Withers@bbs.actrix.gen.nz
Date: Sat, 25 Jul 1992 17:26:31 GMT
Organization: Actrix Information Exchange

In article <1992Jul24.171343.6830@sbcs.sunysb.edu> kskapin@csws8.ic.sunysb.edu (Keith T Skapinski) writes:
> 
> By the way, why is everyone using TE/2. I tried it and went back to the
> PMTerm that came with OS/2. I think its much better. More protocals, more
> and better term emulation, etc. The only thing I didnt like about PMTerm
> was that it was a pain to set up. Now that its set up, its great. I like
> it better than any other term program for OS/2 that I've seen.

PC comms is a text-based medium. Telix users feel "at-home" using TE/2. Also,
TE/2 has Zmodem - which the PMTerm does not - and that means that down/uploads
are quite a bit faster no matter what modem you are using. TE/2 has it's
faults, but I have registered it anyway. I don't do remote EMACS so I have no
problems with the VT100 emulation or any other emulation TE/2 supports.
 
I tried all the shareware comms programs for OS/2 that I could obtain, then
registered the best one. The only other one that was worth considering - THAT
I HAVE TRIED - was PMComm. (I'm not a kermit fan, BTW).
 
I also registered Telix 3.15. It may be a DOS comms program, but it is still
damned good - even in a VDM. I use it mainly to "debug" problems with
connecting to new modems or modems configured incorrectly at the other end. I
use TE/2  once I get a connection stabilised. There is a DigiTech "Lynx"
V32bis/V42bis modem that is in beta testing and i have a pretty hard time
geting a good connect with it.
 
Steve
 
 

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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: cvadrtbc@vmsb.is.csupomona.edu (Srikanth Viswanathan)
Subject: Re: BACKUP's and the Desktop
Organization: California Polytechnic University, Pomona
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41    
Date: Mon, 27 Jul 1992 02:45:00 GMT
X-Posted-From: vmsb.is.csupomona.edu
X-Posted-Through: sol.ctr.columbia.edu

In article <ednstras.711934727@kraken>, ednstras@kraken.itc.gu.edu.au (Michael Strasser) writes...
>cvadrtbc@vmsb.is.csupomona.edu (Srikanth Viswanathan) writes:
> 
>>In article <92202.102131BRYAN@wvnvm.wvnet.edu>, Jerry Bryan <BRYAN@wvnvm.wvnet.edu> writes...
>>>between the INI files and desktop directories.  Remember that INI files
>>>are hard to backup with standard facilities such as BACKUP and COPY because
>>>they are always open.  You have to run the backup out of CONFIG.SYS
>>>before they are opened, which in turn means you have to boot to back them
>>>up.  I hate to boot when it really is not necessary.  The other concern
> 
>>You really don't have to.  Someone on Fidonet a long time ago, posted
>>this very useful tip for backuping INI files:
> 
>>CALL=C:\OS2\XCOPY C:\OS2\*.INI C:\BACKUP\*.INI
> 
>This method is also described in the third redbook (on PM and WPS).  The
>method given there has
> 
>	RUN=C:\OS2\XCOPY C:\OS2\OS*.INI C:\OS2\INSTALL\
> 
>(Can some please explain the difference between CALL and RUN in CONFIG.SYS?).

Both of my suggestion and your work, but your suggestion is better because
it uses RUN instead of CALL.  I think CALL just runs it and waits for that
process to end before it continues to the rest of the config.sys (that's
why you are able to put a CALL=C:\CMD.EXE and it will load before the WPS).
RUN however, runs the programs and then continues, it doesn't wait for the
process to end, in other words, it multitasks this process, so you could
have like 10 RUN statements in your config.sys and OS/2 will run them all
at the same time.   At least that's the way I understood this.  Can anyone
confirm or shoot me down on this?

Srikanth
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: vv77076@cc.tut.fi (Vanhatupa Vesa)
Subject: Re: NEED SCSI HELP (adaptec 1542B)
Organization: Tampere Univ. of Technology, Finland.
Date: 28 Jul 92 17:39:17



I have also Adaptec 1542B controller and have similar problems.  In my
case, there is no error message printed, machine only hangs randomly
during diskoperation.  When I boot the machine, it hangs again after
checking disk.  Second boot is succesful.  I have tried the new
Adaptec 154x driver without any help.  

When I asked about this from my machine manufacturer they suggests,
that I should replace the Adaptec controllers ROM-bios to newer
version (3.10).  The old version I have (3.08) has some timing
problems, and doesn't work properly on fast machines.

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vv77076@cs.tut.fi
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc,comp.sys.ibm.pc.games
From: djs6015@ultb.isc.rit.edu (Don Smith)
Subject: DOS settings under OS/2 for games.... HELP!
Originator: djs6015@ultb
Reply-To: djs6015@ultb.rit.edu (Don Smith)
Organization: R.I.T.
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1992 19:48:55 GMT

Hi!
  Does anybody know the correct DOS settings under OS/2 2.0 to run
these two games?

1. "OVERLORD" by Virgin Mastertronics
2. "Super Ball" (shareware) by Raoul Said

They both have the similar problem of running much too fast for
their own good. Thanks.


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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: Steve.Withers@bbs.actrix.gen.nz
Subject: Re: Question: Using bitmaps for Background/Lockup
Organization: Actrix Information Exchange
Date: Sat, 25 Jul 1992 17:16:20 GMT

In article <1992Jul24.180750.4620@lmt.mn.org> elliott@lmt.mn.org (David Elliott  MIS x 363) writes:
> Steve.Withers@bbs.actrix.gen.nz writes:
> > In article <1992Jul22.162831.5880@usenet.ins.cwru.edu> dab6@po.CWRU.Edu (Douglas A. Bell) writes:
> >> 
> >> In a previous article, edg@Ingres.COM (Ed Goldman) says:
> >> 
> >>>Hi all,
> >>>
> >>>bitmaps as a background for the desktop or lockup, the image is not displayed
> >>>correctly -- it is scewed and wrapped across a diagonal.
> >>>
> >>>I thought that the gif2bmp utility was probably messing them up in the con-
> >>>version, but when I use vpic ( a dos-based image viewer ) it correctly 
> >>>displays the image and identifies it as an OS/2 PM bitmap.
> >>>
> >>>Does anyone know what the problem might be and if it can be fixed?
> >> 
> >> From what I understand, not all bmp's are created equal.
> >> There are windows bmp's and OS/2 bmp's.  Some windows bmp's
> >> will work under os/2 & vice versa.  But not all
> >
> > I got my GIF2BMP from Hobbes. I've converted about a dozen gifs with no such
> > problems. Maybe you have a Windows gif2bmp?......get the one from Hobbes.
> >
> I've used the GIF2BMP program and have noticed that the skewing effect
> you describe occurs on the 8-bit-color BMP files but not on the 4-bit-color
> BMP files.  I am using the Orchid 0.9 drivers at 1024x768x16 on a generic
> ET4000 card; perhaps the number of colors available to the desktop makes
> a difference.  (I haven't tried it with the 1024x768x256 drivers, so I 
> can't say for certain, but it's a hypothesis worth testing.)

OK. I'm using the Trident 800x600x256 SVGA driver.
 
Steve
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Steve.Withers@bbs.actrix.gen.nz         |  and bright in my eyes, 
withers_s@kosmos.wcc.govt.nz            |  And the stars going round in 
**** Happy user of OS/2 v2!! ****       |  my head." R. L. S.
From: stirling@hursley.ibm.com
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: SYS02025 and SYS02027 errors
Date: 31 Jul 92 10:19:51 GMT
Reply-To: ian@vnet.ibm.com
Organization: IBM UK Labs Ltd, Hursley, England
News-Software: NewsKit 1.5 - LaMail

In <1992Jul30.163809.21310@unlinfo.unl.edu>, wmammel@hoss.unl.edu (Bill Mammel) writes:
>
>I recently ran into a rather wierd problem.  I had a floppy boot
>disk system that I posted here.  However, I seem to have killed them.
>Now, whenever I boot from my floppy, I get two error messages:
>        SYS02025 and SYS02027
>and the system locks (or rather, never starts!)
>

These two very informative error messages (!!) mean that the diskette/disk is 
not bootable.  I obviously don't know what has happened to your diskettes but I 
recommend that you build them again.

Cheers,                                                                         
Ian Stirling                      Internet: ian@vnet.ibm.com                    
CICS/ESA Systems Facilities         Bitnet: ian at vnet                         
IBM UK Labs Ltd, Hursley, England IBMIPnet: ian@stirling.hursley.ibm.com
From: mitre.org!jdecarlo@overmind.mind.org
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: specific dos and mem
Date: 22 Jul 92 22:43:00 GMT
Organization: MITRE Corporation, McLean  VA
X-mailer: Stadel 3.4a-227
X-Spam-content: irrelevant

In article <1992Jul21.1480.22689@dosgate>
 kenneth.tam@canrem.com (kenneth tam) writes:

>Both claim that replacing HIMEM.SYS and EMM386.EXE or their equivalents
>with OS2\MDOS\HIMEM.SYS and EMM.SYS will work.  

>They don't, at least for me.  This is off a DOS 5.00 VMDISK image,

>I've got FSFILTER installed, so that isn't it.  It actually reports
>loading in the two OS/2 mem drivers, but the MEM command shows only
>conventional...

>The mouse works though.

Hmmm, I have a Boot from A: image with DOS loaded high and the SONY_CDU.SYS 
driver loaded high using UMBs (for my CD-ROM).  I don't remember what 
DOS_SETTINGS I fiddled with, though, because I did need to to get things to 
work.

John DeCarlo, MITRE Corporation, McLean, VA--My views are my own
Fidonet:  1:109/131  Internet:  jdecarlo@mitre.org
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: bauwens@acs.ucalgary.ca (Luc Bauwens)
Subject: Re: IBM vs. MS development kit prices?
Date: Thu, 23 Jul 92 02:29:40 GMT
Organization: The University of Calgary, Alberta

In article <6515150c@p4.f302.n242.z2.fidonet.org> Hauke_Hess@p4.f302.n242.z2.fidonet.org (Hauke Hess) writes:
> > So, now that MS is selling their NT SDK for $69.00, is IBM
> > going to further lower the price of their equivalent for
> > OS/2 (the Workset /2 or something like that)?
>
>I begin to understand why IBM normally don't care about "normal" PC users. As 
>long as these sheep-like run after every special offer, no matter how bad they 
>were treated by the company that offers before. An IBM that cares for long-term 
>strategy don't care for short term consumers.
>
>This seems to me like a normal president election: the candidate that promises 
>the least taxes and the best paid jobs for the most persons wins, no matter how 
>much lies he told before
>
>Please try to remember how bad someone treated you before getting trapped by 
>low price offers which only intense is to keep you from a company that makes 
>promises come true.

What's this fuss all about?

I don't remember that I ever had an unhappy love affair with either MS or IBM.
I don't remember that I ever was treated particularly badly (or for
that matter, particularly well) by either MS or IBM.

Seems to me they are both trying to control the agenda, so that competition
will be reduced and the survivor will be able to get high prices for
his products and slow down the rate of development of new products.

(And if I would really have to choose a champion, I guess I would
pick the nerds rather than the Mormon missioaries...)

I am running OS/2 because it's a 32 bits OS that works and is available
now, and is not vaporware.  IF NT becomes a (shrink-wrapped) reality
and if it's better from my standpoint, I will switch.

As for promises, "read my hips" :-).

LB


Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: 890560p@dragon.acadiau.ca (Trevor Porter)
Subject: POV ray 1.0 (DOS) under OS/2
Organization: Acadia University
Date: Mon, 27 Jul 1992 14:47:30 GMT


I was wondering if anyone else has tried running POV ray 1.0 from a DOS
session under OS/2 (without a math co-processor) without problems.  

OS/2 gives a "trying to execute a NFX instruction and NFX processor
does not exist" error (or something like this) .

The program works fine under DOS without a math co-pro. Am I doing something
wrong?

 
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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: mccall@mksol.dseg.ti.com (fred j mccall 575-3539)
Subject: Re: Phoenix BIOS anyone?
Organization: Texas Instruments Inc
Date: Thu, 30 Jul 1992 17:34:33 GMT

In <1992Jul28.174800.29950@burrhus.harvard.edu> kl@isr.harvard.edu (Kun Lee) writes:

>In article <13808@mindlink.bc.ca> Wayde_Police@mindlink.bc.ca (Wayde Police) writes:
>> .... [Stuff Deleted] ....
>>freeze.
>>So I finally called IBM support and they told me that the problem was
>>my phoenix bios is too old (1991). They said I needed to up rev to
>>revision dated 05-11-92! Is this right?! Is anyone out there running
>>OS2 2.0 on phoenix bios roms dated before this year's May!??
>>        Wayde V. Police
>> 
>I am using Phoenix BIOS dated in sometime in 1990 (October 1990 I believe).
>I am at work so I cannot get the exact date, but I got my 386DX/20 in 1990.
>I haven't had any problem with my Phoenix BIOS.

I've also used a Phoenix BIOS dated well before 1992 and had OS/2 run
correctly.  The motherboard is by ALR, which may make some difference.

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From: zeta@yngbld.gwinnett.com (Gregory Youngblood)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: help with 'turbo' mouse
Date: 15 Jul 92 04:50:12 GMT
Organization: TCS Consulting Services, Peachtree City, GA

Since installing OS/2 my mouse gained a turbo mode.

It is very annoying to move the mouse a little, and have it end up on the 
other end of the screen.  Does anyone know of a fix for this?  It is getting 
to bug me.  Other than that, OS/2 has been super!!

Thanks
Greg

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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: djs6015@ultb.isc.rit.edu (Don Smith)
Subject: Printing .GIF pictures on HP LaserJet
Originator: djs6015@ultb
Reply-To: djs6015@ultb.rit.edu (Don Smith)
Organization: R.I.T.
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1992 22:54:12 GMT

Does anyone know of a program which can dither a full color .GIF picture
and print it out on a HP LaserJet II compatible laser printer?

Thanks in advance,

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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc,comp.os.os2,comp.os.os2.apps
From: js@gaaj.uottawa.ca (Jean-Serge Gagnon)
Subject: Can I restore a FAT disk on an HPFS partition????
Organization: Computing & Communications, Ottawa University
Date: Thu, 30 Jul 1992 12:30:02 GMT

Hi,
    I have a 386-40 with a 170Meg HD. I used to have only 5Megs RAM, so I
formated my disk as a FAT partition initially. Lattely, I've upgraded to 
8Megs-o-RAM and want to re-format my disk for HPFS.

    What I want to know is whether I can safely backup my harddisk in a DOS
session using a DOS backup software, format my disk for HPFS, and then go
restore the data the same way, i.e. in a DOS session, using a DOS backup
software. Of course, I know that I will have to use OS/2's backup/restore
for the critical stuff, which BTW I wouldn't mind if someone could tell me
what that is, to make sure I'm on the right track.

    Any other pointers would be appreciated. Also personnal experience in
this matter. Please feel free to voice anything that might be usefull, even
if you think I already know it.

Thanks. 

P.S. Please reply via e-mail and if there is any interest, I will post a
summary, and then my success/failure report afterwards.
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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: cummins@a.cs.okstate.edu (CUMMINS JOHN WILLI)
Subject: Moving files to floppy
Organization: Oklahoma State University, Computer Science, Stillwater
Date: Thu, 23 Jul 92 15:49:11 GMT

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.

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: it1@ra.msstate.edu (Tim Tsai)
Subject: performance penalty of the INT13 driver
Organization: Mississippi State University
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1992 01:49:23 GMT

  Does anybody know what kind of performance gain I can expect if I get
rid of my Always IN-2000 and replace it with an Adaptec 1542B?  Also,
anybody in the know can give a hint on whether IBM will support the
IN-2000 directly in the future?  Always is NOT writing a 2.0 driver, so if
IBM is not volunteering the effort I'm going to need a new controller.
Thanks..
From: jc70@westend.VI.CMU.EDU (Joo C. Chung)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: OS/2 and SCSI
Date: 30 Jul 92 14:08:55 GMT
Reply-To: jc70@norman.vi.ri.cmu.edu
Organization: School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon

In article <rick.19.712447261@sjsumcs.sjsu.edu> rick@sjsumcs.sjsu.edu (Richard  
M. Warner) writes:
> In article <anderson.13.712329957@mayo.edu> anderson@mayo.edu (Alfred I.  
Anderson) writes:
> >From: anderson@mayo.edu (Alfred I. Anderson)
> >Subject: Re: OS/2 and SCSI
> >Date: 28 Jul 92 13:25:57 GMT
> 
> >In article <1992Jul27.134503.23338@src.umd.edu> chad@src.umd.edu (R Michael  
McMahon) writes:
> >>From: chad@src.umd.edu (R Michael McMahon)
> >>Subject: OS/2 and SCSI
> >>Date: Mon, 27 Jul 1992 13:45:03 GMT
> 
> 
> >>I have Unix on my PC. Out of curiosity, I got OS/2 2.0 and installed it
> >>(all 15 disks!) on my 386/7 33Mhz machine with an Adaptec 1542 SCSI
> >>controller. The disk performance is absolutely unbearable: it sounds 
> >>like OS/2 is reading one byte at a time from the disk. I believe this 
> >>is caused by the SCSI setup. Has anyone managed to achieve usable drive 
> >>performance in a SCSI system??? 
> 
> >>I won't use or recommend OS/2 if thats the best it can do.
> 
> >>R Michael McMahon       chad@src.umd.edu
> 
> 
> 
> >Perhaps someone can shed some light on this problem you're having.  I'd be 
> >interested too.  I wanted to get a 486 clone with a SCSI adapter to use with 
> >OS/2 Ver 2.  I was told that was a bad idea because IBM does not have a "
> >virtualized SCSI driver".  I was told to get an IDE disk. 
> 
> >Anyone know why?
> 
> I'll bite.  Actually, me and my office partner are both running OS/2
> on 486's with SCSI disk systems (Adaptec controllers, Maxtor drives)
> and have not had any problems so far.
> 
> >^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> >Alfred Anderson                Internet:    anderson@Mayo.edu
> >Mayo Foundation - Rochester MN 55905
> 
> >NOTE:  PLEASE INCLUDE YOUR RETURN ADDRESS IN THE BODY OR .SIG FILE
> >OF ANY NOTE SENT TO ME --- THE SOFTWARE ON MY END DOES NOT PASS 
> >YOUR RETURN ADDRESS FROM THE MESSAGE HEADER TO ME!
> >-----------------------------------------------------------------

I have not problems using OS/2 with Adaptec SCSI controllers. I'm using OS/2 on
2 machines with SCSI controllers. One is a PS/2 with the Adaptec 1640 and the 
other is a Dell with a 1542. The Dell is a 486/50 and it screams! The PS/2 has
an internal 60 meg hard drive and an external 213MB scsi hard drive. The
external drive is about 2-3 times faster than the internal.



Joo