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From: kristman@jupiter.sun.csd.unb.ca (Dan Kristmanson)
Subject: HELP !!!  Error : Exception in device driver: IFNET$
Organization: University of New Brunswick
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1992 13:48:44 GMT

I am running OS/2 2.0 and IBM TCP/IP 1.2 on a IBM PS/2 model 57 with
12 meg RAM.

Since I installed the TCP/IP I have been having this problem.  When
I leave my machine for an extended period of time, I return to the 
following error message :

*******
Exception in device driver: IFNET$
TRAP 000d       ERRCD=0000  ERACC=****   ERLIM=********
EAX=000003fc  EBX=7d244bbe  ECX=00000007   EDX=00000010
ESI=7d334bc6  EDI=00000404  EBP=0000509c   FLG=00012212
CS:EIP=2158:00006a0d  CSACC=009b  CSLIM=00006bf4
SS:ESP=0030:0000509a  SSACC=1097  SSLIM=0000434f
DS=2150  DSACC=0093  DSLIM=000060ce  CR0=8000ffd
ES=0017  ESACC=00f3  ESLIM=00000403  CR2=789e4028
FS=0000  FSACC=****  FSLIM=********
GS=0000  GSACC=****  GSLIM=********

The system detected an internal processing
error at location ##0160:fff6453f - 000d:a53f .
60000, 9084

038600d1
Internal revision 6.307, 92/03/01

The system is stopped.  Record the location number
of the the error and contact your service representative.
*************



I can reboot my machine and things work fine for a while.

Has anyone seen this error or know how to fix it ?? 
Is there a patch or a CSD out there somewhere in net land????

Any helpful hints would be greatly appreciated.

Dan Kristmanson
Computer Systems Specialist
U.N.B.(F.C.S.)
KRISTMAN@UNB.CA
(506) 453-4566  ph.
(506) 453-3566  fax.
From: dic5340@hertz.njit.edu (David Charlap)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: Hands up! Who has deleted WinOS2?
Date: 12 Aug 92 17:03:25 GMT
Organization: New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, N.J.

In article <1992Aug11.083219.23103@hplb.hpl.hp.com> dn@hplb.hpl.hp.com (Daniel Neades) writes:
>What are you all using for a Word Processor then?  I use Word for
>Windows, because
>it's the best WP that I've seen so far.  I'd like to see the back of Windows
>(nasty as it is), but I'd hate to lose WfW.

You didn't say what version.  If you're using WfW version 1.1, you can
get Word For OS/2 from Microsoft.  It's equivalent to WinWord 1.1.

Same for spreadsheet.  I regularly use Excel 3.0 for OS/2.


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From: rdippold@cancun.qualcomm.com (Ron Dippold)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: checking for 16550 under OS/2
Date: 20 Aug 92 16:26:53 GMT
Organization: Qualcomm, Inc., San Diego, CA

mauritz_c@spcvxb.spc.edu writes:
>I just got a new high speed double serial port card for my 486.
>One port has a 16450 and the other has an NS16550AFN.
>Unfortunately, the documentation for the card is not all too
>clear about which chip controls which port.  Is there any way
>OS/2 can check this for me?  

Try a MODE COM1:,,,,BUFFER=ON and then the same thing for COM2.  The
one that doesn't have the 16550 (Buffering) should complain.
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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: rick@sjsumcs.sjsu.edu (Richard Warner)
Subject: Re: S3 Drivers - A Question
Organization: San Jose State University - Math/CS Dept.
Date: Thu, 20 Aug 1992 17:20:10 GMT

FDBAQ03@cc1.kuleuven.ac.be (Wim Van Holder) writes:

>Having bought my S3 card in late May, I'm still waiting for the announcement
>of OS/2 2.0 drivers for my Orchid F1280. And I'm not the only one |

>Now, before I start thinking of getting rid of my Orchid and buying an ATI
>Graphics Ultra, I would like to know if the Orchid will provide the same
>accelleration facilities to OS/2 as it does to Windows, once the drivers
>will be there (in September as I read recently) ? Forgive me if this is
>obvious, I'm not an expert on this. This reason why I'm in doubt is that in
>a recent posting of someone who contacted Orchid, they said the Fahrenheit
>was designed to speed up Windows and wondered why one would buy it with
>the intention to run OS/2. In another posting it was suggested that Orchid
>was awaiting the release of the 32 bit engine.

>Wim Van Holder,
>Systems Engineer at K.U. Leuven - Dept. TEW.

This question would best be answered by Orchid.  But, there is no
reason that the F1280 cannot offer the same kind of performance
enhancements under WPS and WinOS2 that it does under Windows.  The
S3 chip accelerates certain graphic operations.  These operations
are the same for WPS as for Windows.  You have really asked two
questions - can it accelerate OS/2 (WPS and WinOS2) and will it
accelerate OS/2.  The answer to the first is yes.  I'll leave the
second to Orchid.

Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: carty@vnet.ibm.com (Jeff Carty)
Subject: Re: Using CMD.EXE instead of PMSHELL.EXE
Organization: IBM PSP Palo Alto, Ca.
Distribution: comp.os.os2.misc
Date: Wed, 19 Aug 92 05:40:49 GMT

In  <1992Aug18.170049.12196@njitgw.njit.edu>  dic5340@hertz.njit.edu (David Charlap) writes:
> In article <18AUG199208083688@vmsb.is.csupomona.edu> cvadrtbc@vmsb.is.csupomona.
> >I don't think Shutdown is necessary if you run CMD.EXE as your Workplace,
> >but there is a program on ftp-os2 called SHUTDOWN.ZOO.  It SEEMS to do
>
> Yes it is!  If you have lazy writes on, then you stand a very good
>
> program (for boot manager) does this).  If you don't have any such

I don't see why you wouldn't just get in the habit of C-A-D and forget
about those other programs.  I suspect that all they do is call DosShutDown,
which is exactly what C-A-D does.

Unless those programs also call WinShutDown (which sends the "Save your
state" messages to the PM apps).  It could be quite useful to have this
happen even though you don't run WPS.

I speculate that WPS shutdown just calls WinShutDown (triggering WPS save,
since WPS is really just another PM app) and then DosShutDown.

Jeff
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu (Timothy F. Sipples)
Subject: Re: How to retain DESKTOP after reinstalling FAT --> HPFS?
Reply-To: sip1@midway.uchicago.edu
Organization: Dept. of Econ., Univ. of Chicago
Date: Sat, 22 Aug 1992 01:57:14 GMT

In article <stanton.451.0@haas.berkeley.edu> stanton@haas.berkeley.edu (Richard Stanton) writes:
>Several people have kindly given me instructions about moving from a fully 
>FAT system to a HPFS system, and the consensus is that I need to back up my 
>data, reinstall OS/2 with HPFS, and restore again.
>This is all very well 
>apart from one BIG hassle I can see. Do I have to reinstall the default 
>DESKTOP under HPFS, then customize it from scratch? This would be an 
>incredible pain. If there's a way to save my current desktop settings, then 
>restore them under HPFS, I'd be very grateful to anybody who could tell me 
>how.

WPSBackup should let you do that.  That utility is available via
anonymous ftp from ftp-os2.nmsu.edu.

It is a bit of a pain if you originally installed OS/2 on FAT and want
to move to HPFS.  But WPSBackup should at least let you save your
desktop in the process.

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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: riehm@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca (Carl Riehm)
Subject: Repartitioning the hard disk and installing OS/2.
Organization: McMaster University, Dept. of Mathematics and Statistics
Distribution: all
Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1992 02:26:10 GMT

Well I finally bit the bullet and bought OS/2 today after a couple of months
of procrastination. I want to install OS/2 as the Only Operating System.  My
hard disk (120mb) is now partitioned into C,D,E, and F drives. I want  to use
the HPFS file system and have only a C drive.  It's not clear to me how to do
this from the description in Chapter 2 of the Installation Guide.  Will I get
the opportunity to reformat my hard disk during the Basic Installation and 
install the HPFS?  Will a DOS backup from the 4 logical drives C,...,F made
with the DOS Norton Backup be restorable to the newly formatted disk without
trouble?    Please help!   Carl Riehm.
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Monitor syncing problem
From: jennen@eeyore.stcloud.msus.edu (Steve Jennen)
Date: 17 Aug 92 12:57:28 -0600
Organization: St. Cloud State Univ., MN

I am running GAUSS386 in a full-screen dos box with 8mb DPMI memory.
The program I wrote for GAUSS generates graphs and everything seems to
work fine except if I let it generate the graph in the background.
After the program finishes the graph (it beeps when it's done) and I
switch to it (from the WPS) using Alt-ESC or using the window list, the
graphics screen is all messed up as if the monitor wasn't synced right.

If I watch the program generate the graph and then switch to the WPS and
then back again, everything is OK.  (Note:  the program starts out in
text mode and then switches to 640x480x16 to plot the graph.)

I have installed the VSVGA patch as per the FAQ and that didn't seem to
affect the problem at all.

I'm using a Gateway 486/33, 16mb memory, 320meg drive and a Diamond
SpeedStart Plus with 1mb display memory.

-=steve, jennen@eeyore.stcloud.msus.edu

Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: wmammel@hoss.unl.edu (Bill Mammel)
Subject: OS/2 ini files
Summary: Ini files growing
Keywords: OS/2, ini
Organization: University of Nebraska - Lincoln
Date: Fri, 14 Aug 1992 16:36:46 GMT

I've discovered that my OS2.INI and OS2SYS.INI files are growing huge.
In fact, the OS2SYS.INI file has grown 60K in the last 10 hours of uptime.
Right now, it's about 192K.  It seems to contain all sorts of information
from the WPS that I have deleted.  It also looks like it has duplicates of
the same "entry" for a WPS object.

Any ideas as to what's causing this?  I'd like to get it back down to
a more "reasonable" size.

I have tried to back it up with WPSBackup but WPSBackup backs up the
extraneous information as well.

Thanks,

--
Bill Mammel
Department of Chemical Engineering
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: lgibes@teal.csn.org (Lawrence R. Gibes)
Subject: Where can I get a fan for my 486 chip?
Organization: Colorado SuperNet, Inc.
Date: Sat, 15 Aug 1992 04:17:42 GMT

     I  heard  Dvorak  speak  at  the  ONE  BBSCON  (a BBS conference in
  Denver).    He  mentioned  that  he  likes  OS/2  and that it is a fun
  operation system to  use.  He  said you need  16 meg RAM,  a fast hard
  drive and a 486.

     He said  that at  first he  experienced a  number of system crashes
  UNTIL he installed a fan for the 486 chip.  Apparently, there is a guy
  in Sacramento CA that sells a $35.00 fan that is cemented to the  chip
  to cool it to 87 degrees.   He mentioned this twice (that I heard)  so
  he is very serious.

     So, does anyone know how to contact the guy in Sacramento?

     Thanks, Larry Gibes lgibes@csn.org
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: parry@yoyo.cc.monash.edu.au (Tom J Parry)
Subject: Re: OS2SPEED.ZIP on ftp-os2
Originator: parry@yoyo.cc.monash.edu.au
Organization: Monash University, Melb., Australia.
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1992 14:09:34 GMT

John Dowdal (jdowdal@wam.umd.edu) wrote:
> The program os2speed.zip on ftp-os2.nmsu.edu in /pub/downloads will allow
> Desqview-aware programs to run in OS/2 without slowing down the whole
> system.  Using the comm program Boyan 5.0 and DSZ/GSZ Zmodem, OS/2 can
> communicate without stopping everything else.  Boyan beats all of the
> OS/2 programs by a long shot, but isn't as good as telix (it isn't 
> Desqview-aware).

I find this last sentence a little ambiguous. What isn't DV aware? You
seem to be saying that Boyan is not as good as Telix but you use it
because Telix is not DV aware.  I think you may be wrong there. I am
pretty sure the current version of Telix (3.15 I believe) _IS_ DV aware.

-- 
Tom J Parry.
Your reality is a figment of my imagination.
From: tjc@acsu.buffalo.edu (Thomas J. Corsalini)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: lockup
Date: 19 Aug 92 23:59:57 GMT
Organization: UB


	Last night I grabbed a program template so that I could place Telix
on my desktop. After I entered /path/filespec I hit the tab key twice and
entered the working directory(except that I didn't look up to notice I was
in the parameters line) and close the settings dialog. I clicked on the icon
and nothing...the only thing moving was the second hand on the clock. 
	Is there any way to recover when the machine locks? I realize it
was my fault - I just wonder if there wasn't something else I could do.


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From: stanton@haas.berkeley.edu (Richard Stanton)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: How to install HPFS after installation
Date: 20 Aug 92 21:39:33 GMT
Distribution: world
Organization: Haas School of Business, U.C. Berkeley
NNTP-Posting-Host: connor.berkeley.edu

I originally installed OS/2 on a totally FAT system. For a few reasons, not 
least of which is that I want to install GNU Emacs, I'm considering 
installing HPFS now. How should I go about doing this with minimum possible 
disruption? Is it possible to have my C: disk (where OS/2 boots from) remain 
FAT (with dual boot capability) while reformatting my D: disk using HPFS?
Do I have to back everything up and restore it to accomplish the change in 
format? What should I beware of?

Thanks for any suggestions

Richard Stanton
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: djs6015@ultb.isc.rit.edu (Don Smith)
Subject: Re: Dentist.  Where can I get it?
Originator: djs6015@ultb
Organization: R.I.T.
Date: Thu, 20 Aug 1992 00:37:03 GMT

In article <-90mgm+@lynx.unm.edu> cn0gr8af@hydra.unm.edu (Student Class Account) writes:
:I would like to modify the standard display.dll driver (for standard vga).
:Can I do this with "Dentist"?
:
:If so, where do I get it?

I have used DENTIST to extract the resources from my OS/2 1.x
DISPLAY.DLL. I heard that DENTIST doesn't work well with OS/2 2.0
divice drivers, but I'm not sure. Give it a try....

DENTIST.ZIP is located on:
novell.com
/pub/os2/fernwood
dentist.zip
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From: bigred@vnet.ibm.com (Greg Forney  bigred@vnet.ibm.com)
Date: Wed, 12 Aug 92 18:33:44 EDT
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: Where can I buy OS/2 2.0???
Reply-To: bigred@vnet.ibm.com (Greg Forney)
Organization: IBM

Disclaimer: This posting represents the poster's views, not those of IBM
News-Software: UReply 3.0
X-X-From: bigred@vnet.ibm.com (Greg Forney)

In <1992Aug12.222238.21752@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> Tom Bielecki writes:
>I have checked a couple local stores, and non of them carry OS/2 2.0
>for some reason. I would rather run OS/2 2.0 than MS Windows, or DOS
>( a sorry excuse for an OS ). So, could someone tell me where (I
>heard of an 800 IBM number) I can go about purchasing the $40 version???
>
The number is 1-800 3IBMOS2. The first promotional price expired.
A new promotional price is in effect, but for me to post details
here would seem inappropriate use of the NET.

Greg (If I answer your questions, they must be FAQ's ;=) Forney
From: zorrilla@cattell.psych.upenn.edu (Eric Zorrilla)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: [External Modem Protocals]
Date: 18 Aug 92 05:56:39 GMT
Organization: University of Pennsylvania

I'm sure this has been discussed before but....

I am running HA5 for OS/2 and am unable to use any external protocals
(e.g., HS-Link) because I get a "That COM port is being used by another
program...." I presume because the  protocal is a DOS one.  What is the
workaround/solution, if any to this problem?

I have the new comm drivers if I need to use any of their special settings
to fake something....
 
Thanks in advance!


[--------------------------------------+--------------------------------------]
| Eric Zorrilla - Dept. of Psychology  | zorrilla@cattell.psych.upenn.edu     |
| University of Pennsylvania           | 3815 Walnut, Philadelphia, PA 19104  |
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From: dic5340@hertz.njit.edu (David Charlap)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: Whats needed to run E.EXE?
Date: 19 Aug 92 20:38:58 GMT
Organization: New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, N.J.

In article <19AUG199208472481@cl2.cl.uh.edu> CSCI11BA@cl.uh.edu writes:
>Greetings,
>
>I just made myself a bootable floppy with MAKEBOOT.CMD, and now I am 
>trying to figure out how to invoke the system editor (E.EXE)... 
>with no luck.  It seems the more DLL's I point to in config.sys, the
>more trouble I am getting myself into.  Id like to be able to put
>E.EXE on a floppy, and run it from there, just in case the HD crashes, etc.
>
>So, can anybody tell me what I need to stick on the floppy in order to 
>execute the system editor without the system telling me it cant find
>'xxxx'.DLL???

Not bloody likely.  E.EXE is a PM application.  PM is a huge slew of
DLL's.  There isn't enough room on two floppies to hold them, even if
there was nothing else there.

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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: des@frogland.inmos.co.uk (David Shepherd)
Subject: Speedstar 24X OS/2 driver + 32bit GE info
Organization: INMOS architecture group
Date: Wed, 19 Aug 92 09:42:02 BST

just seen this in comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware which has some
relevant OS/2 info

In article <1992Aug17.192727.3255@zeos.com>, kgermann@zeos.com (Ken Germann) writes:
>                      Diamond Speedstar 24X
>                    Frequently Asked Questions
>                         August 18th, 1992
>
>This is the first revision of an FAQ on the Speedstar 24X
>card. The driving force behind wanting to compile the FAQ revolves
>around the fact that ZEOS now carries the Speedstar 24X card as
>part of its product line.

>10> Will OS/2 2.0 be supported by the Speedstar 24X card?
>
>OS/2 drivers will be released shortly after IBM releases the 32
>bit graphics engine for OS/2 in October.

so perhaps october's the date for the CSD or whatever it turns
out to be.

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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu (Timothy F. Sipples)
Subject: Re: Os2 on diskless system. Is it possible?
Followup-To: comp.os.os2.networking
Reply-To: sip1@midway.uchicago.edu
Organization: Dept. of Econ., Univ. of Chicago
Date: Sat, 22 Aug 1992 02:00:42 GMT

In article <1992Aug21.202508.10009@donau.et.tudelft.nl> linstee@dutecaj.et.tudelft.nl (Erik van Linstee) writes:
>My employer wants to know if OS/2 can be run on diskless systems,
>through an IBM token ring LAN. Does anybody know?

Absolutely.  You need to get ahold of IBM's LAN Server publication
describing what is known as Remote IPL.  For a list of OS/2 related
publications get ahold of the file os2pubs.txt, available via
anonymous ftp from ftp-os2.nmsu.edu.

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From: eric@tgm.CAM.ORG (Eric Trepanier)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: Question Concerning PATH Variable
Date: 14 Aug 92 00:18:18 GMT
Organization: SynerLogic

branch@hfglobe.intel.com writes in article <1992Aug12.180735.22655@intelhf.hf.intel.com>:
> This question has probably been asked before, but I haven't been able to find
> an answer.  I would like to have a relatively long PATH variable set up for
> a DOS window running under OS/2 2.0.  However, there seems to be a limit of
> about 80 characters to the PATH variable.  Increasing the environment size of
> the DOS_SHELL does not seem to help.  I'm sure that someone must have
> encountered the same problem.  Is there something I'm overlooking???

That's a common DOS limitations, though the limit is 127, not 80.  Some
people on this newsgroup have claimed that the 127 character limitation
was with the length of command lines, not with the actual environment
variables.  I don't think so, i.e. the following trick does _not_ work:

SET PATH=C:\;....(127 character path)...
SET PATH=%PATH%;......

I know of some PD programs that allow to fool DOS into accepting longer
path names, but this does not work with all DOS applications.

> Thanks for your help...
> 
> Rob Branch 

Eric
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From: etl0@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu (ERIC TODD LANDRIEU)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: Where are all the screensavers?
Date: 22 Aug 92 16:07:14 GMT
Organization: Lehigh University

>Where can I find myself a screen saver that will work under 2.0?  without
>having to use the "lockup now" option ?
>
>What do people use out there?
>
Get DeskPic from Hobbes.  It would be somewhere around pub/os2/all/???.  A
couple of the savers don't work under 2.0, but the rest are phenominal.  I
especially like "melting flex", which is fantastic at 1024X768.
                                     Eric Landrieu

                                     
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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: rb532@rbhp17.rbg.informatik.th-darmstadt.de ()
Subject: Calender Problems
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1992 09:57:24 GMT
Organization: TH Darmstadt

Why does the os/2 calender comes every time on a random position.
I have the calender in my autostart folder, I placed it in the left 
corner, but it comes every time somewhere in the middle of the screen.

Is this propably a problem of my relese ?

Salut   PAT
???????????