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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
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From: jzawodn@bgsu.edu (jeremy zawodny)
Subject: IBM's tech support - Morons?
Organization: Bowling Green State Univ.
Distribution: na
Date: Sat, 12 Sep 1992 20:08:18 GMT


Okay, I had a problem trying to reset the attributes on several of OS/2's
system files.  So, I thought I'd call IBM's Tech support line and get some
help.  When they finally called me back, I explained that I was trying to
defrag my hard drive, but the "EA DATA. SF" file was about 1meg of clutter.

After explaining to him that Norton Utils, PC Tools, and Xtree all failed
the task, he suggested that I low-level my HD and start from scratch!

What an IDIOT!

Just for fun, I went to a dos prompt and manually used the attrib command.
No problem... Everything defragged just fine...

Anyone really think I should call IBM for assitance?  That's okay, I'll
rely on the newsgroups for my help...

Thanks to everyone who's helped me out the past few days!

As for IBM... Well, I'll let them low-level their hard drives or something...
BTW, I have an IDE drive (the ones you're NOT supposed to low-level!)

Jeremy
From: dic5340@hertz.njit.edu (David Charlap)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: VDM minimized icons?
Date: 4 Sep 92 23:17:08 GMT
Organization: New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, N.J.

In article <1992Sep03.082040.11269@kub.nl> hoppie@kub.nl (Jeroen Hoppenbrouwers) writes:
>Hi all nice OS/2ers out there,
>
>Can anyone inform me of the trick to change the DOS icon that
>appears after minimizing a DOS program? I attached a customized
>icon to a program object, so it appears with its own icon in a folder,
>and the system menu icon has been changed to the new icon as well. But
>when I minimize it, I get the generic DOS window icon. I have put an .ICO
>file with the same name as the .EXE file in the .EXE file directory, and
>used this icon to customize the program object.

A session's icon is the icon for the application it's running.  The
OS/2 icon you get when minimizing one of those sessions is the icon
for CMD.EXE.  See if you can attach an icon to COMMAND.COM, and try
it.

I don't know if this is what will work, but it seems logical.
-- 
   |)  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."
  ~|~                              --- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary
From: ghdai@vax1.umkc.edu
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: I love OS/2
Date: 15 Sep 92 16:50:27 GMT
Organization: University of Missouri - Kansas City

>Hey, I can beat this!  Try this on for size. . .
>
>Yesterday, I was FTP'ing from a local site, and all of a sudden, my WPS
>crashed (BTW, this was about the 4th time its happened since April).  I
>saw the WPS close, and there was my FTP window.  It was still open, and
>FTP'ing!
>The WPS reopened, and a few seconds later, FTP told me it was done
>getting the 2 meg file!  Pretty cool.

Yeah, I have also experience with WPS dead but other processes still going
on and finally finishing work done.  Very nice.  If the process is money-
costing d/l, be patient and wait for it done.
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: jokim@jarthur.claremont.edu (John H. Kim)
Subject: Re: Os/2 and Jpeg, viewers available?
Organization: Harvey Mudd College, Claremont, CA 91711
Date: Mon, 7 Sep 1992 08:48:35 GMT

jbodnar@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (John Bodnar) writes:
>According to hank@ducvax.auburn.edu:
>>The jpeg group's djpeg and cjpeg are available for OS/2 2.0. Try
>>ftp-os2.nmsu.edu in pub/os2/2.0/graphics/ (?). You need version 3. Then
>>watch your swapfile grow...

>Also, their 32 bit DOS version of this program is DPMI compliant and is
>roughly twice as fast as the plain DOS version.  It runs very well under
>OS/2, although you may have to adjust your region size with MODXCONF.EXE if
>your DPMI memory limit is too small.

Unless somebody has recompiled them recently, the OS/2 2.0 versions
of cjpeg and djpeg at ftp-os2.nmsu.edu are the ones I compiled using
GCC 2.1.  They are fully 32-bit and marginally faster (much faster
for memory-intensive conversions) than the the 32-bit DOS version put
out by the Independent JPEG Group.  I don't remember the exact numbers,
but I could dig them up if you want.  (I ran the benchmarks making sure
things didn't start swapping)

Somebody else compiled 32-bit DOS binaries with DJGPP's GCC 2.1 for
DOS, and those are nearly identical in speed to the OS/2 binaries.
However, they aren't DPMI compliant.

Stick with the OS/2 version.  It's faster and multitasks better.
-- 
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jokim@jarthur.claremont.edu | think of something very clever 
uunet!jarthur!jokim         | to use as a disclaimer)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: luca@dedalo.unipg.it (Luca Priorelli)
Subject: IBM PS/2 Mod. 95 and Memory Error
Organization: Universita' di Perugia
Date: Sat, 12 Sep 1992 10:37:42 GMT

I have an error with an IBM 95 which I never had before with other models.

I want to do change the icon of a folder in the WPS. I run "Find..." from
the "Setting" dialog box. Then I click on the "Find" button on the "Find"
dialog box to get all the icons on a given directory (they are 479).
After a while the PC bips a lot and:

1) the dialog box "Find Results" is shown and most of the icons are diplayed.
   Of the last 20 there is only the name but not the icon. The last icon
   displayed is all black.

2) a dialog box with a WPS error message is diplayed saying:
   "There is not enough memory to continue. ...etc... (PMV2001)"

3) whenever I close this box, it keeps coming back and noting else is allowed
   in the desktop. However Alt+ESC is allowed and the command shell works
   regularly.

Once after the point 1) the system hanged.

Any idea of what causes the problem? Anything to do with the engineering
change level (ECA053)?

Some data on the system:
PS/2 95 XP
12M RAM (2x2 + 2x4)
200M disk free
no fixes installed (swapper.dat, etc.)
3com 523
Multiprotocol Adapter

Thanks

Luca Priorelli
From: jxg33@po.CWRU.Edu (James Griesmer)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: New BIOS for Mylex motherboard...
Date: 7 Sep 1992 18:26:33 GMT
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
Reply-To: jxg33@po.CWRU.Edu (James Griesmer)
NNTP-Posting-Host: thor.ins.cwru.edu


In a previous article, ppt@max.u.washington.edu (Anna par Terpsikora) says:

>
>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.
>
I hope I'm not too late, but first try making your video board use 8
bit support rather than 16.  If its a paradise (western digital) card it
probably has a dipswitch setting to do this.  If its an ATI, it'll have
a program to run that came with the board (like vconfig.exe or
something).  Other video boards are probably similar.  THEN try to
install OS/2.

If that doesn't work try this:
(From OS/2 Frequently Asked Questions Rel. 2.0d)

DISKCOPY Disk 1 of your OS/2 2.0 package.  Set aside your original disk
1 and use the copy from now on as if it were the original.  Using a text
editor, modify the CONFIG.SYS file on Disk 1 (the copy), replacing the
line:
	BASEDEV=IBM1S506.ADD
with
	REM BASEDEV=IBM1S506.ADD.

Boot the installation diskette, and proceed through the installation
procedure through the first five diskettes, then reinsert the
Installation diskette as directed.  Then, after files have been copied
from the installation disk, the system prompts you to remove the disk
and press ENTER to reboot.  Do so, but immedieately reinsert the
installation disk as soon as the screen clears.  Follow instructions
(insert disk 1 and press ENTER when prompted), then press ESC when
prompted.  At the OS/2 command line, type:
	RENAME C:\OS2\IBM1S506.ADD IBM1S506.XXX
	COPY C:\OS2\IBMINT13.I13 C:\OS2\IBM1S506.ADD
replacing C: with the appropriate drive if you are installing elswhere.
Remove disk 1, then press Ctrl-Alt-Del to reboot to finish installation.

I also happen to have a 1989 vintage ZEOS 386 with a Mylex mother board.
I HAD to replace the bios because I had an AMI bios that had documented
problems with OS/2.  During my investigation it seemed that Pheonix did
not have any problems at any level.  In fact, the replacement BIOS I
bought was Pheonix! 

My installation problems were solved by putting the video board into
8-bit mode.  I didn't have to even try the second, long-winded solution.

If you find a BIOS upgrade necessary, I bought mine from UNICORE
SOFTWARE, INC.  1538 Turnpike St. N. ANDOVER, MASS 01845
(508)686-6468.

They do have a 800 number, but off hand I cannot find it.  Look in some
magazines.  It something silly like 800-444-BIOS.

Hope this helps!
From: deryd@ERE.UMontreal.CA (Dery David)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Compression prog for os2 for happens in dos?
Date: 12 Sep 92 06:21:59 GMT
Distribution: na
Organization: Universite de Montreal


       I thought i lot about buying stacker for dos when my HD was allways
full but that meant that I lost some executable space. Since some programs
need 595k of ram and stacker took some away i let it go. But know some
compression programs are coming out ( at least in the U.S...). If i use
a compression program under os2 do i loose executable space ?

      But what bugs me the must is this. If I use a compression program under
os2 and then need to run a program in a dos only enveriment, what happens to
the compress partitions ? (they would both share the same fat partitions ?)

If you have tested one compression program under os/2 could i have your feedback
please? And what happens to dual boot ?

David
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===============================================================
From: stanton@haas.berkeley.edu (Richard Stanton)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: HELP! OS/2 just committed suicide!!
Date: 5 Sep 1992 04:31:06 GMT
Organization: University of California, Berkeley
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: haas.berkeley.edu

I was just running CPBACKUP in one window while reading NEWS in another,
when everything died, apparently when CPBACKUP started to format the diskette.
The mouse cursor vanished, and although the screen display was intact,
nothing was updating, and I couldn't get a "not responding" window to pop
up or reboot with C-A-D

So I switched off. When I switched on, it tried to boot (after about 5 minutes
of whirring), but couldn't find lots of files. I switched off again, booted
from a floppy, and ran CHKDSK on my (HPFS) drive C:

Well, all my files seemed to be intact, except for my OS2 directory. This
has disappeared, but under a new directory called FOUND.000 or something
similar were about three other subdirectories called DIR0001.CHK etc
which seemed to contain most of the original OS/2 directory, plus a few
odd files. I tried to copy to the OS/2 directory, but it hung again in the
process. Oh well, I'll try on Tuesday.

This is a total pain. It looks like my best bet will be to reinstall OS/2,
but it looks like I should at least be able to save my desktop, OS2.INI,
WIN.INI etc before I do so. However, I've never had the entire operating
system wiped out under MSDOS, and it's not as though I was even
trying to do anything unreasonable or obviously risky.

This is as much as anything just to let off steam, also to warn about using
CPBACKUP under OS/2. Does anyone have any suggestions about

1) How to run CPBACKUP (and other programs such as PCTOOLS format that
want to get close to your disks) safely? It crashes completely unless
I INCLUDE D0000-D7FFF, the memory area used by my IBM SCSI controller
(though I don't know why this should matter), but it clearly isn't too
safe after what just happened

2) What I need to keep a copy of before I reinstall OS/2 to ensure I keep
all my customizations

3) A good OS/2 backup program/tape drive that will handle HPFS, long names,
extended attributes etc. I'll be getting FTP Software's TCP/IP package soon.
Will I be able to use this reliably to back up my disk to a workstation?

Thanks for listening. I was just getting to feel comfortable with OS/2...

Richard Stanton
From: limpe@sumax.seattleu.edu (Philipp Enrique T. Lim)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Any Video7 VRAM users out there?
Keywords: vram, video, os2, drivers, driver
Date: 5 Sep 92 03:14:40 GMT
Organization: Seattle University, Seattle, WA


Are there any Video7 VRAM users out there?

There doesn't seem to be a driver for OS/2 2.0 for the VRAM.  
Has Video7 or Headland Technologies produced a driver yet (intending to?)?

I've located a driver, but its for Presentation Manager V.1.2.  I tried
loading it (by replacing the "display.dll" file with their driver file,
and I ended up not being able to boot from my hard disk.   


Thanks.

Philip
limpe@seattleu.edu
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: kaz@iastate.edu (Jimmy Buffet)
Subject: NEC 24-Pin Printers
Summary: Getting printer to work in OS/2
Keywords: NEC P5200 P5300 24-pin OS/2 WinOS/2
Organization: Iowa State University, Ames IA
Date: Mon, 14 Sep 1992 05:56:24 GMT

Hello!

I have a NEC P5200, and as far as I can tell, there are no native drivers
for OS/2 2.0 for it.  However, a WinOS/2 IS included, but I still
can't get it to work.  None of the supposedly compatible Epson drivers work
either.  My config is kindof screwed:  I have two multi i/o cards, one with
one serial port active and two paralell ports (one serial inactive) and another
with two serial ports active and the parallel port deactiveated.  My printer
is in lpt2: (my serial cable takes up too much space for my printer cable
to be plugging in to lpt1:   :)   ).  Has anyone else gotten ANYTHING to
print with their P5200?  I've tried the "Epson 24-Pin" driver and LQ-2500
drivers, and neither worked.  And yes, they are set for lpt2:.  The
printer makes it "initialization" sound when I print from OS/2, but then
eventually comes up with an error.  The winos/2 doesn't recognize I have
a printer (and I have tried using IBM NULL).  Thanks for any help!

Jeff "Kaz" Kaczmarek

Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu (Timothy F. Sipples)
Subject: Re: copying desktop
Reply-To: sip1@midway.uchicago.edu
Organization: Dept. of Econ., Univ. of Chicago
Date: Sat, 12 Sep 1992 01:52:51 GMT

In article <18ltlpINN33n@agate.berkeley.edu> shyguy@ocf.berkeley.edu (David S. Shy) writes:
>Is there a way to make a "snapshot" of the desktop?  The equivalent
>in Win 3.1 is Alt-Prt. Screen if you are not sure what I am talking
>about.

Several ways.

I like using a little utility called PM Camera which you can obtain
via anonymous ftp from ftp-os2.nmsu.edu.

It was written for OS/2 1.x, but it works with OS/2 2.0 as well, and I
haven't found any incompatibilities.

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From: oliver@redwood.CS.Berkeley.EDU (Oliver Sharp)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: ATI Ultra driver question
Date: 11 Sep 92 19:28:53 GMT
Organization: University of California at Berkeley
NNTP-Posting-Host: redwood.cs.berkeley.edu

Ok, I think this is a stupid question, but I'm not making much progress
on it.  I grabbed the new ATI Ultra drivers off hobbes, and set the
various configuration options in config.sys for 800x600, but I'm not
getting it.  Yes, I did configure the Ultra under DOS to come up in
800x600 (and that works fine under Windows 3.1).  However, when I
boot under OS/2, I'm back to 640x480.  What's going on?

Thanks in advance for any help.  I tried calling ATI, but they have
been busy for two days (I called about 30 times).

- Oliver
From: ted@isgtec.com (Ted Richards)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: Joel's new ATI VGA Wonder drivers (1.01)
Date: 7 Sep 92 13:01:52 GMT
Organization: ISG Technologies Inc. Mississauga Ont. Canada
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL5

Ted Richards (ted@isgtec.com) wrote:
: 
: 	1. I use the SVGA.PMI file included.  Just replace your
: 	   existing one with this, then reboot.

Sorry, that should be SVGADATA.PMI

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ISG Technologies Inc.   3030 Orlando Dr. Mississauga  Ont.  Canada   L4V 1S8
From: jslm_cif@uhura.cc.rochester.edu (Jonathan Schulman)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: EISA machine
Date: 13 Sep 92 14:49:34 GMT
Organization: University of Rochester - Rochester, New York

In <1992Sep13.001835.24475@midway.uchicago.edu> sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu (Timothy F. Sipples) writes:
>EISA isn't going to provide ISA (AT bus) adapters with features that
>aren't found on the AT bus.  Meaning that true 32-bit EISA adapters
>can share interrupts and other resources, but AT bus adapters cannot,
>even in an EISA system.

>-- 
So even I have an EISA machine, I can't share the DMA channels between my
QIC-02 card, and my Soundblaster card. Great...
From: cvisser@ucrmath.ucr.edu (clyde r. visser)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: 1.1 ee to present version compatibility
Date: 10 Sep 92 16:22:27 GMT
Organization: University of California, Riverside

I would like to know if an application was developed on os2 1.1ee
will run flawlessly on the present recent version of os2.
Please reply directly to cvisser@ucrmath.ucr.edu if you could.
Thanks!

crv
From: lum@dds4.uucp (Michael Lum)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: Some suggestions for OS/2
Date: 4 Sep 92 21:12:32 GMT
Organization: Digital Dispatch Systems, Richmond BC

Most of those suggestions sound good, but what I would like is
very simple, I want to be able to hide the menu bar around PULSE.
I only want the frame like the PMEYES program.
-- 
Michael Lum                                        | dds4!lum@wimsey.bc.ca |
Digital Dispatch Systems, Richmond BC              |   Fax: (604) 270 9160 |
From: edso@watson.ibm.com (Edward So)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: Does OS/2 support v32bis/v42bis modems
Date: 14 Sep 92 14:50:18 GMT
Reply-To: edso@watson.ibm.com
Organization: IBM T.J. Watson Research Center
Disclaimer: This posting represents the poster's views, not necessarily those of IBM

In article <88601@netnews.upenn.edu>, zorrilla@cattell.psych.upenn.edu (Eric Zorrilla) writes:
|> 
|> >Also - you probably have a specific modem in mind, but not all v32bis
|> >modems (the v32bis=14.4K, v42bis is compression) support local DTE rates
|> >of 57.6K yet.  For example, the USRs don't, although the Telebits do.  Of
|> >course, with a base of 14.4K, even with terrific compression I don't think
|> >you'll be getting up to a 57.6K rate until the v.fast stuff comes out, so
|> >the local DTE of 38.4K on the USRs isn't that bad.
|> 
|> This is news to me and my USR documentation.  My USR HST Dual Standard w/fax
|> claims to support DTE rates up to 57.6 K.
|> 
|> [--------------------------------------+--------------------------------------]
|> | Eric Zorrilla - Dept. of Psychology  | zorrilla@cattell.psych.upenn.edu     |
|> | University of Pennsylvania           | 3815 Walnut, Philadelphia, PA 19104  |
|> [--------------------------------------+--------------------------------------]

The early USRs were rated for 38.4K DTE rate.  The one I bought last year
was one of them.  

-- 
Edward So,  Computing Systems, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center
IBM VNET: EDSO at WATSON       Internet: edso@watson.ibm.com
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: gill@eagle (Warren Gill)
Subject: Re: LAN Manager v2.1 and OS/2 v2.0
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL4
Organization: Sangamon State University
Date: Tue, 8 Sep 1992 13:52:48 GMT

   You will get more response if you post to comp.os.os2.networking.

   You can e-mail me for more info on LAN Manager.  Are you thinking
   of upgrading the server, or workstations?  Are you running LM 2.1
   and SQL on the same server, do you have multiple servers?

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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: kkingsto@erc.cat.syr.edu (Karl Kingston)
Subject: Re: TRAP 000d With Frontdoor
Keywords: TRAP, OS/2
Organization: Electronic Resource Center, Syracuse
Date: Sat, 5 Sep 92 11:57:56 EDT

In article <15943@star.cs.vu.nl> cpbaltus@cs.vu.nl (Baltus CPS) writes:
>
>Hello everybody,
>
>For a long time now, I have been using the mailer Frontdoor on my
>OS/2 machine (386/40 8 mb, 130 mb, trident 1mb). This program always
>worked very well, but yesterday i got the message (when starting up
>Frontdoor) Trap 000d and a lot of other technical info. The system
>hung, and i had to reboot. 
>
>The problem is, that, every time when i start up Frontdoor, the 
>system will hang (exactly the same trap at the same location).
>
>After REINSTALLING OS/2, everything works fine again. (for how long?)
>
>Do you have any clue what happened?
>
>Thanks.
>
>			Stefan.
>
>-- 
>-----------------------------------------------------------------------
>Departement of Mathematics and Computer Science      Vrije Universiteit
>				             Amsterdam, The Netherlands
>Stefan Baltus.			    	    InterNet: cpbaltus@cs.vu.nl

I had the same problem.  IBM couldn't help me but I managed to find out the
solution on my own.

Do you have the DELDIR unREMed out?  When I did that, FD would work for 
a while then it would HANG with a TRAP 000d.  I put the REM back in there,
deleted the UNDELETE directory (you'll need to unhide everything) and
rebooted.  FD came back.

-Karl

Karl Kingston - kkingsto@erc.cat.syr.edu
                karl.kingston@f335.n260.z1.fidonet.org

Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc