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From: aber@remus.rutgers.edu (Thomas Aber)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: MS Word for Windows Server install
Date: 12 Nov 92 03:27:50 GMT
Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J.


I was wondering if anyone has been successful at installing Word for
Windows version 2.0b on a file server using OS/2 2.0.  I'm running an
OS/2 LAN Server LAN with OS/2 2.0 workstations.  The install for a
server version of Word means running setup from a WINOS2 session on a
workstation, and installing to a network drive.  Word is supposed to
be smart enough to recognize that you are installing to a network
drive, and presents an options menu for Server or Workstation
installs.  My problem is that I am getting the regular install, and
the network is not recognized, and the network drive I am installing
to is thought of as just a virtual drive.  Microsoft says to try
changing the settings in WINOS2 for network, but I've tried them all
and still Word doesn't think that there is a network there.  Any
suggestions?

By the way, I think it is very interesting that Microsoft has a
support line dedicated to MS Apps support under OS/2 2.0, considering
how much they downplay it.  However, the final word from them was to
call IBM.

Tom
aber@remus.rutgers.edu
From: djbpitt+@pitt.edu (David J Birnbaum)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: TE/2 vt100 emulation problem
Date: 8 Nov 92 21:23:41 GMT
Organization: University of Pittsburgh

A couple of hours ago I posted a request for help with TE/2. To
summarize, my screen was getting messed up when I was using vi on the
UNIX host I was calling.

The solution just arrived by private email (the net is a wonderful
thing!). The authors of TE/2 have revised the commpak2.dll file that
their program uses. They did not change the version number. Thus, I had
te2_120.zoo (which I think I got from comp.binaries.os2, or perhaps from
hobbes a while ago), but the te2_120.zoo currently on hobbes has the new
dll file. This new file fixes the problem completely.

--David
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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: tholen@galileo.ifa.hawaii.edu (Dave Tholen)
Subject: Re: PSTAT gone?
Organization: University of Hawaii
Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1992 06:08:36 GMT

I wrote:

> Where, oh where has PSTAT gone?

Although I haven't had a chance yet to test this assumption, I'll bet that
PSTAT was a victim of my Selective Install.  IBM has a category that they
call Serviceability and Diagnostic Aids.  I thought that this category
included things like TRACE* that I had never used in earlier versions, so
I didn't install this group.  I bet PSTAT is one of them.  I just wish the
Selective Install procedure was a bit more explicit about what is included
in each group, like the Tools and Games category.
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: jst50986@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Jack S. Tan)
Subject: Re: Which files do I need for the CSD?
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 03:46:27 GMT

First of all, you can anonymously ftp the CSD and other necessary files
from i.ece.uiuc.edu, in the /os2 directory.  It's a bit closer.  There
are 3.5" and 5.25" versions available; pick the size corresponding to
your boot floppy drive.  For the 3.5" CSD diskettes, you need spg3xx.dsk,
where 'xx' is in the set { '01,' '02,' ... ,  '14' }.  For the 5.25" CSD
diskettes, you need spg5yy.dsk, where 'yy' is in the set { '01,' '02,'
... , '16' }.  These are diskette images, which can be installed using
LOADDSKF.EXE.  The files 'splab3.txt' and 'splab5.txt' contain labels for
the Service Pack for 3.5" and 5.25" diskettes, respectively.  There is a
file called 'readme.sp.'  Be sure to read this file!

That should be it.  I hope I haven't missed anything.

-- 

Jack Tan                                     Sattinger's Law:
jahk@uiuc.edu                       It works better if you plug it in.

Xref: sparky comp.os.os2.misc:35829 comp.os.os2:433 comp.os.os2.apps:8015
From: rene@hardy.u.washington.edu (Rene Magritte)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc,comp.os.os2,comp.os.os2.apps
Subject: **SOLVED** the "HELP HELP HELP" Video problem
Summary: Problem with Service pack solved
Keywords: SOVLED@
Date: 8 Nov 92 23:46:01 GMT
Article-I.D.: u.1992Nov8.234601.29962
Organization: University of Washington


 
 
	Well, with a little intuition and a lot of luck I solved the
video problem I was having under OS/2 + CSD.  Thanks to the many of
you that  wrote me to help, but my solution ended up being different
than any of the ones people suggested to me.  Many people suggested
various ways to run the "vmode" utility before/during OS/2 bootup.
The problem was that it seemed that the OS/2 desktop was being drawn
in a non-interlaced, too-high-refresh-rate-for-my-monitor mode.  I
could get  to a fullscreen session and run the vmode utility, but when
I switched windows to the desktop, everthing would be screwed up
again.   
	Desperate, I took a look at the file that SVGA had produced
(name escapes me right now).   I scrolled through the various video
modes that OS/2 had tested, thankful for the human readable format.  I
noticed the  Interlace=1 command next to the mode I was interested in.
Hmmmmm......  I scrolled down and noticed that the 1024x768 mode said
Interlace =0.   Crossing my fingers, I changed the 800x600x256 mode to
Interlace=0.  I rebooted, hoping I wouldn't fry my card or
something, and....success!  Everything is hunky dory now. 
 
	If I could just get my damn modem to work...where is my
com.sys? 
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: mlevis@ringer.cs.utsa.edu (Mike Levis) (OS/2)
Subject: Re: BUG: Windowing DOS.
Organization: University of Texas at San Antonio
Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1992 22:14:19 GMT

In article <1992Nov13.145705.6350@gw.wmich.edu> x90wardell@gw.wmich.edu writes:
>	S
>
>	Reproducable Bug in OS/2, post service pack:
>
>	Click on a DOS program.  Hit Alt-Home to m ake it a  window.
>Make it full screen again.  Now Hit At-Esc to leave it.  Return to it.
>You can no longer make it into a window.  Any ideas?

I have this same problem, but I don't have a solution.  I did some
experimenting and it appears that normally, OS/2 intercepts Alt-Home
to allow the DOS session to switch between FS and Windowed.  But
after pressing Alt-Esc or Ctrl-Esc from a FS, OS/2 does not intercept
Alt-Home anymore.  Instead it give Alt-Home to the DOS session!  This
is why switching between FS and Windowed is impossible for that DOS
session until you kill it.  Of course, I don't know why OS/2 is giving
the Alt-Home scan code to that DOS session...

Here is a copy-and-paste of a mini-program I made from a DOS session:

E:\>debug
-a
10D3:0100 mov ah,10
10D3:0102 int 16
10D3:0104 int 20
10D3:0106
-g=100

Run this program.  Press Alt-Home -- this switches between FS and Windowed.
The mini-program is still running because it is expecting a keypress.  At a
FS press Alt-Esc or Ctrl-Esc.  Return to the session.  Now press Alt-Home --
this ends the mini-program since OS/2 gives Alt-Home to that session.

>
>
>
>	
> 


-- 
====== Mike Levis   mlevis@ringer.cs.utsa.edu ======
"I believed what I was told, I thought it was a good   .--.
life, I thought I was happy.  Then I found something  (OS/2)
that changed it all..."  --  Anonymous, 2112  [Rush]   ~--~
From: daly@ecs.umass.edu (Bryon Daly, ECE dept, UMass, Amherst)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: SP crashes more often!! Help!
Date: 5 Nov 92 23:30:52 GMT

Well, I hate to say it, but it seems that OS/2 is less stable for me now than
it was before I applied the Service Pack.  It has crashed unexpectedly on me
quite a few times now, and I've seen a few other weirdnesses.

First the crashes:
I use ALT-ESC to switch between tasks a lot, usually from a full screen
seesion back to the WPS.  Sometimes, I use ALT-ESC from the WPS, and I think
this is when I crash (I'm not completely sure if this is always the situation,
though.  In all cases, it is when I am switching sessions).  Anyway, it tries 
to switch to a text session, but the screen goes black, and eveything locks 
up (CTRL-ALT-DEL doesn't even work...), so I need a hard reboot.
(I have a diamond speedstar, and am running at 800x600x256 to avoid the
1024x768 nuttiness)  Any ideas? A friend of mine running OS/2 on his IBM
model 100 with XGA says he has also experienced many lockups, but I don't
know if they are due to a similar situation or an unrelated one.

Also, I have seen multicolored garbage characters appear on screen in text 
mode after switching to it from the WPS.  There aren't many of them (2-5,
maybe), and they scroll normally with the rest of the characters when the 
screen scrolls, so they aren't permanent.

My suspicion is that these problems are due to bugginess in the 32-bit GRE.
Any suggestions?

Thanks,
-Bryon
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: pioch@poly.polytechnique.fr (PIOCH Nicolas - Nap on IRC)
Subject: S3 Farenheit problem (Orchid 1024x768x256 1.0 driver)
Date: Fri, 6 Nov 92 19:39:44 MET
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I installed on my system (French GA without SP yet) the 1024x768x256 driver
but I'm having 2 problems mainly:

--> If I open a windowed DOS session, then use alt-home once, the full screen
is garbled. Switching back to windowed session displays only half top of WPS,
vertically magnified 2 times.

--> Using Softerm Terminal or TE/2 generates an exception in DISPLAY.DLL,
leaving os/2 in an unstable state. Does that even for an os/2 shell sometimes.

Orchid France didn't even know the driver was out... so I can't get any support
from there :^)

If you post a followup, please send me a copy by e-mail. Thanx in advance.

*** Nicolas
    E-Mail: Nicolas.Pioch@grasp.insa-lyon.fr      (pioch@poly.polytechnique.fr)
    IRC:Nap                          >>> HAPPY user of OS/2 version 2.0 !!! <<<
From: rene@hardy.u.washington.edu (Rene Magritte)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: wing commander too fast!
Summary: Can I slow it down?
Date: 8 Nov 92 23:47:11 GMT
Article-I.D.: u.1992Nov8.234711.215
Organization: University of Washington


 
	Wing Commander is way too fast.  Can I use OS/2 to slow it
down somehow?
From: dic5340@hertz.njit.edu (David Charlap)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: Links in HPFS
Date: 11 Nov 92 21:02:40 GMT
Organization: New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, N.J.

In article <1992Nov11.171548.7211@midway.uchicago.edu> sip1@midway.uchicago.edu writes:
>There's certainly the provision for such things as links at the file
>system level.  It would be relatively easy to imagine such a system
>operating with extended attributes...

Much simpler than that.  HPFS uses directory entries that are simply
pointers to an F-node structure that contains all the file's
information.  These F-nodes are comparable to Unix's inode structure.
All that needs to be done is add a reference count to the F-node
structure and allow multiple directory entries to point to the same
F-node.  That's all there is to a hard link.  I think it could be done
in about one day, given the specs for HPFS.
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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: jst50986@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Jack S. Tan)
Subject: Re: Help--can't run MS Word after Service Pack installed.
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1992 05:27:33 GMT

mortenk@dhhalden.no (MORTEN KNUDSEN) writes:

> Also, I can't use my ATM fonts with word. Anybody have a solution?

Maybe a couple of question will help...

1.  Do you have the ATM lever to 'ON' under Win-OS2?
2.  Did you install the ATM fonts under Win-OS2?  Use the Win-OS2 ATM font
    installer to install the fonts (from the disks that came with the GA).

I've got the ATM fonts installed.  They are recognized under Winword and print
nicely.

Jack Tan
j-tan2@uiuc.edu
-- 

Jack Tan                                     Sattinger's Law:
j-tan2@uiuc.edu                     It works better if you plug it in.
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: jst50986@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Jack S. Tan)
Subject: '386spart.par' after re-installing Windows
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1992 07:39:03 GMT

jwj2@po.CWRU.Edu (Jermaster) writes:

> On a possibly related note, I reinstalled Windoze last night, since my 
> previous installation was 20MB (I need it to run Mathematica for Windoze
> over our network server) and I wanted to cut it down to the bare minimum.
> I ran it tonight, and got some problem with a corrupt swap file. I also
> found a file called "386spart.par" that showed up in my root dir that was
> ~9MB big! I wiped it immediately. 
> 
> Does any of what I just said make any sense or go together at all?
> 
> Thanx,
> -Jer

The file '386spart.par' is the Windows permanent swapfile.  I'm not sure
why it's corrupt, though.  I believe the swapfile is labelled 'corrupted'
when the swapfile and Windows version aren't the same (e.g., upgrading
Windows on the system without deleting the old swapfile), but this isn't
the only reason for 'corruption.'  You can try erasing it (as you've
already done) then re-installing it.  Windows looks for a large contiguous
block of space on the hard disk; if you're running on FAT, then defragment-
ing the disk before re-creating the swapfile is a good idea.  To re-create
the swapfile, run 'swapfile' via the File-->Run menu option.

Please pardon the lack of OS/2 content in this post.

-- 

Jack Tan                                     Sattinger's Law:
jahk@uiuc.edu                       It works better if you plug it in.
From: shyguy@ocf.berkeley.edu (David S. Shy)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: Simple Question:  How/when do you use VMODE?
Date: 14 Nov 1992 02:45:23 GMT
Organization: U.C. Berkeley Open Computing Facility
Distribution: na
NNTP-Posting-Host: sandstorm.berkeley.edu
Keywords: vmode

After looking around my os directories, I couldn't find the file vmode
either.... it turns out that it was located on my video driver disks
which came with my computer... (that's how i'm setting my video scan
frequencies...)

.sig, do your thing!


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| shyguy@ocf.berkeley.edu  | 1.4/1.2/1/1304 | deprived by Micro$oft/WindoZe |
=============================================================================
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From: fab9452@nigel.tamu.edu (Allan Bailey)
Subject: WinOS2 problem with system.ini file, FatalError 0x0401
Organization: Texas A & M University
Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1992 03:14:19 GMT


  in the readme file it says to make sure that all the 'device' entries
are correct in the system.ini file.  well, they look ok to me, a non-windows
users. :-\  

  could someone look at this file and tell me what's wrong with it?

  or if there is another reason for the "FatalError 0x0401" problem of
starting a winos sessions?

---begin 'system.ini'

[boot]
useos2shield=1
os2shield=winsheld.exe
shell=progman.exe
network.drv=
comm.drv=comm.drv
sound.drv=sound.drv
mouse.drv=mouse.drv
keyboard.drv=keyboard.drv
system.drv=atmsys.drv
sdisplay.drv=swinvga.drv
MAVDMApps=!printman
fonts.fon=vgasys.fon
fixedfon.fon=vgafix.fon
oemfonts.fon=vgaoem.fon
display.drv=vga.drv
atm.system.drv=system.drv
language.dll=

[keyboard]
; type 3 AT 84 or 86 keyboard
; type 4 101/102 enhance keyboard
subtype=
  OS/2       Ctrl+Esc = Window List        Type HELP = help
fixedfon.fon=vgafix.fon
oemfonts.fon=vgaoem.fon
display.drv=vga.drv
atm.system.drv=system.drv
language.dll=

[keyboard]
; type 3 AT 84 or 86 keyboard
; type 4 101/102 enhance keyboard
subtype=

type=4
oemansi.bin=
keyboard.dll=

[boot.description]
network.drv=
language.dll=English (American)

[386Enh]
device=tddebug.386

---end 'system.ini'

  thanks for any and all help.

  oh yeah, my installation, and servpak upgrade went with out a hitch, except
for this windoz problem...

  my machine:  486-33, 16Mb ram, local-bus, 212Mb HD, 
               SVGA Diamond Speadstor 24x


-- 
Allan Bailey, UNIX programmer, CSC
fab9452@nigel.tamu.edu
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From: kbeal@rcx1.ssd.csd.harris.com (Ken Beal)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: Networking 2 pc's at home, cheaply??
Date: 6 Nov 92 02:18:29 GMT
Organization: Harris CSD, Ft. Lauderdale, FL
NNTP-Posting-Host: rcx1.ssd.csd.harris.com

In article <Bx5Fzn.8E8@news.cso.uiuc.edu> tamu@uxh.cso.uiuc.edu (Todd Henderson) writes:
>I'm thinking about getting a PC for the better half and was wondering if it
>is possible to inexpensively network 2 pc's.  I don't like the idea of having
>2 of everything which would use up twice the disk space.
>
>I'd like to make mine a server(486-33) and then hang a 486 SX or 386-40
>off of it.  Is it possible to give the second pc full use of OS/2 over a
>small net like this or is this more costly than useful?

	How about networking a 486-33 running OS/2 2.0 with a 286-8, running
DOS?  Is that possible?  Can we share both ways?  Prices?  Better halves of
the world want to know! :)
--
Kenneth L. Beal, Jr.			kbeal@amber.ssd.csd.harris.com
"I'd give my right arm to be ambidextrous!" - MST3k
"Street person my responsibility." - Indigo Girls
The opinions expressed above are true.  The preceding sentence is false.
From: dic5340@hertz.njit.edu (David Charlap)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: Supported SVGA cards
Date: 10 Nov 92 19:04:06 GMT
Organization: New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, N.J.

In article <DyXZTB1w164w@geloser.login.qc.ca> rider@geloser.login.qc.ca (Serge Ayotte) writes:
>(Hoping I'm not putting my foot in my mouth... (-; )

Sorry..

>As much as I know, the 8514 mode is an INTERLACED mode, and most of the
>people I know (including myself once I have enough money to buy a card
>an monitor) that want's to run in 1024X768X256c want to run in
>NON-INTERLACED so as not to get crossed eye. And I do care about seemles
>window because I still have to work for the office with some DOS or win
>based prg.

IBM's 8514/a card is interlaced (but the 8514 monitor is
long-persistance, so you don't notice much...).  Other 8514/a cards
aren't.  ATI's Ultra cards can run as interlaced or NI while in 8514/a
mode.  You run the board's configure program (from DOS) to set this
up.  IBM's 8514/a driver will work either way.

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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: pkedrosk@student.business.uwo.ca (Paul S. Kedrosky)
Subject: Why won't it shut down?
Organization: University of Western Ontario
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 16:19:20 GMT

Things worked ok after installing the SP until all of a sudden
disaster struck (of sorts): I can't convince OS/2 to shut down when I
select the shut down option on the desktop. It says blahblah Do You
wnat to shutdown? and I dutifully say Yes, at which point I am
returned to the desktop. Nothing happens. Nada. I can do this for
hours (or at least until I get this overpowering urge  to spit on
the computer) and it obligingly says OK and then sits there.

What have I done (if anything ) and what can I do to fix this?

Paul

P.S. Please don't tell me to reinstall, I really don't want to do
that. I mean, if I really have to I guess that's ok, but I think I'd
just as soon not know.

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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: bob@netcom.com (Bob Becker)
Subject: TRAP 0002
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  (408 241-9760 guest) 
Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1992 05:02:08 GMT

Just a thought, but could a TRAP0002 be caused by bad memory
on the video card?

Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: hoppie@kub.nl (Jeroen Hoppenbrouwers)
Subject: Re: BOOK RECCOMENDATIONS
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 92 14:56:20 GMT
Organization: Tilburg University, Tilburg, The Netherlands

>Then I got the OS/2 Redbooks - CAN$50+GST - and for this price they are a MUST
>for anyone wanting to commit to, support, and/or hack OS/2. For the money,
>I got 6 Redbooks: Control Program, DOS/Windows Env., Pres. Mgr., App
>Development
>Print Subsystem, and a YellowBook: Networking and Systems Services and Support
>(actually a Technical Bulletin).  These books are 8-1/2x11 3-hole punched
>softcovers full of design information, so-so graphics (even the INF versions),
>and Lab Session Exercises and printed example code.  I can't imagine why
>these books are not more widely recommended, especially given the character of
>most OS frontier-pushers.
> 
>If you want to know how to format a floppy, get the NRP book; if you want to
>understand how OS/2 works, get the RedBooks.
>
>___
> * MR/2 1.32 NR * Will the real Neil Parks please log on?
>                                                                                  

How do these Redbooks compare to the original IBM OS/2 Programmer's
Guides I, II, and III? I got these three books, they are about three
centimetres thick double-sided A4 pages in a ring binder and contain
practically all information on the OS/2 kernel, the Presentation Manager
and the graphical kernel. They are not reference guides but contain a
lot of code samples and are really sufficient for OS/2 PM programming.
Add the GNU CPP set (EMX) and off you go.

Jeroen


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Infolab, Tilburg University, The Netherlands    |  start connecting people!
From: gonorth@cs.montana.edu (Spicher)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Can't shutdown
Date: 13 Nov 92 06:57:30 GMT
Article-I.D.: coe.1992Nov13.065730.619
Distribution: usa
Organization: Dept. of Computer Science, MSU, Bozeman Mt 59717



Some guy was having trouble using the shut down about a week ago, and I didn't
pay much attentionSl to the solution.  Anyways, I select shutdown, and when
the messagebox comes up, yes, cancel, help.  Help and cancel do the right
thing, but yes doesn't respond.  The button pushes, but nothing happens.

Anyone get this one fixed yet??

                                             Daron Spicher


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