HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: jks4675@ritvax.isc.rit.edu
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: OS/2 Woes
Date: 3 Sep 92 03:53:20 GMT
Reply-To: jks4675@ritvax.isc.rit.edu
Organization: Rochester Institute of Technology

Problem #1: Using a Western Digital SVGA card and using 1024X768X16,
my monitor falls out of sync when I enter a full-screen OS/2 session.
"SVGA STATUS" flashes for a brief while and says that my video card has
a Tseng chipset (My card is a Paradise with WD chips and 1MB VRAM).
Any ideas?

Problem #2: I cannot get my 2400 baud modem to work in OS/2. I have the
port on the modem set to COM2- the program hangs and then (as usual)
when I reboot, I get the swapper-chkdsk nonsense. I have used about
three or four programs and all hung up the system, not just the session.
My mouse is set to COM3. I have nothing else on any COM ports.

Problem #3: Is there any wat to start an OS/2 program minimized? The     
notebook does not allow any changes to the settings for OS/2 programs.

Problem #4: Any problems with high speed modems on OS/2? I'm getting a 
14,400 baud modem soon and I think I should prepare.

Please send me advice- I'm desperate for a solution to this mess.

Thanks,
Jeff
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: bgm@cray.com (Bert Moshier)
Subject: Re: Two New OS/2 Books from Abacus
Organization: Cray Research, Inc.
Date: 28 Aug 92 15:23:13 CDT

In article <1992Aug22.225212.16843@ringer.cs.utsa.edu> mlevis@ringer.cs.utsa.edu (Mike Levis) writes:
>
>I've seen OS/2 at the stores, but in the "DOS utilities" section.
>

Interesting in the Burnsville, MN Software Etc., they have it in the Windows
section.

Bert Moshier

P.S.  IBM "announced" last night at the MN OS/2 End-user Group meeting that
OS/2 sold 300,000 copies in the last 10 days.

BGM
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: feustel@netcom.com (David Feustel)
Subject: Goddam the Goddam IBM C Set/2 Install!!!!!!!!!
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 92 00:51:50 GMT
Organization: DAFCO: OS/2 Software Support & Consulting

This is a horror story. Type n now if you don't like horror stories

Installed IBMC, the toolkit and workframe 2 on disk c: without incident
immediately after installing os2. Unfortunately for me, I didn't
install the migration libraries. Everything that I describe below has
happened as a result of my trying to install the migration libraries.

1. The C Set/2 install process reported that it was unable to write to
the write-protected a: disk. Later it reported it couldn't find
sectors or the (original, once-used) IBM disks.

2. I rebooted dos and diskcopied all 14 toolkit diskettes

3. I reinstalled the toolkit on disk d:; it deleted all my shadow help
folders. I then tried to delete the new toolkit folder but could not
because of a system problem. I tried putting the toolkit into a new
folder and deleting that; no dice.

4.  I tried to install to the d: disk the migration libraries only (no c
compiler,debugger, documentation, etc). At the end of the install none
of the migration libraries had been copied.

5. I then tried a complete install to the d: disk. Everything seemed
to be going okay until I started getting error messages saying that backup
files on the *c:* disk would be overwritten. I terminated the install.

6. I then deleted the entire ibmc directory on disk c: and reinstalled the
*entire* Cset 2 fileset to the C disk. At the end of the install
process I have 4 empty subdirectories and the sample04 source files copied
over - nothing else.

This install program clearly came from HELL via Boca Raton.
-- 
Dave Feustel N9MYI <feustel@netcom.com>
 
( New .sig under construction. Watch this space! )
From: glenn.frasier@cutting.hou.tx.us (Glenn Frasier) 
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: SCSI
Date: 1 Sep 92 03:02:00 GMT
Distribution: world
Organization: The Cutting Edge - Houston, TX - 713-466-1525
Reply-To: glenn.frasier@cutting.hou.tx.us (Glenn Frasier) 


I am wanting to add a SCSI drive to my system, however I have 2 IDEs in
it now.  Can I just add a SCSI along with the 2 IDEs, or will I have to
take out an IDE?  

Also, which SCSI adapters are the best for OS/2.  I have heard of
adaptec and always (sp.) but know very little about SCSI systems.


Thanks for the help

Internet:  stdjtk@shsu.edu
           glenn.frasier@cutting.hou.tx.us


___
 * MR/2 1.2x NR * OS/2: Windows with bullet-proof glass.
From: liuyu@kramden.nyu.edu (Liuyu)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: OS2 WINS!! I give up!
Date: 28 Aug 92 17:18:50 GMT
Organization: New York University

jjs@ubitrex.mb.ca (John Joseph Strybosch) writes:

>In article <liuyu.714945700@kramden> liuyu@kramden.nyu.edu (Liuyu) writes:
>>sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu (Timothy F. Sipples) writes:
>> [Tim's stuff about Ram and Cache hw being marginal]
>>
>>Can you explain why this happens only under OS/2? Is it just another excuse, 
>>blaming hardware? Does it happen under other complex programs like Unix or
>>Novell? Thanks.

>	It doesn't happen _only_ under OS/2!  People installing
>Unix (ie sysVr4) have to deal with the same issues... and (IMHO)
>much more significant software issues as well.

Ok, lighten up. So it happens under other OS's. Though I never had problems
installing and running Interactive and Novell. Maybe I have decent hardwares...
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: ayee@coyote.datalog.com (allen yee)
Subject: Can't print on Epson LQ500
Organization: Datalog Consulting, Tucson, AZ
Date: Fri, 28 Aug 92 03:31:33 GMT

I am having problem printing on the Epson LQ500.  The problem is as
follows:
      Loss of many characters in the first page.
 
If someone can help me fix this problem, I would greatly appreciated.
Oh yeah, I am using Epson.drv driver which was supply by OS/2 2.0.
 
Allen Yee
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: schmiher@Informatik.TU-Muenchen.DE (Hermann Schmidt)
Subject: Re: CURE! for no desktop on bootup syndrome
Originator: schmiher@hphalle3a.informatik.tu-muenchen.de
Organization: Technische Universitaet Muenchen, Germany
Date: Fri, 4 Sep 1992 17:28:51 GMT


In article <186rqvINNtb@agate.berkeley.edu>, stanton@haas.berkeley.edu (Richard Stanton) writes:

[ stuff about startup problems deleted ]

I've been fiddling around with this problem for a while. All three
machines I work with were 'infected' one day or another.
The problem appears to be related to the automatic startup of any
kind of application thru any method (startupfolder, automatic restart).

I can only offer a simple, maybe unacceptable for some people, advice:
set RESTARTOBJECTS to STARTUPFOLDERSONLY in config.sys and keep your
startupfolder empty.
I've never had any problems anymore since having configured all three machines
in that way.

It would be interesting to hear from s.b. who had startup problems (or
still has) despite using this configuration...
From: mcollins@singha.eng.ohio-state.edu (Michael J. Collins)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Disappearing windows
Date: 2 Sep 92 19:03:02 GMT
Distribution: na
Organization: The Ohio State University Dept of Electrical Engineering

Hi!

I haven't seen this problem discussed yet, so I thought I bring it up
to see if anyone else is experiencing it...

When I run certain (I assume older) OS/2 shareware packages that write
to stdout in an OS/2 window, the display flashes to full-screen, the
apps write to it, then my window comes back---with no output displayed
in it.  I can partially get around the problem by piping the output
through more or page---the window still disappears momentarily, but
comes back with the output nicely displayed in it.

HOWEVER, sometimes the window *doesn't* come back, and it disappears
from the Task List also.  So...  I have to change the session settings
to go the current session instead of spawning a new one, then click on
the icon to bring the current session back, then change my session
settings back to the way I like them.  What a pain!

Has anyone else run into this problem?  If so, how did you get around
it?

                                     Thanks in advance!
                                        Mike Collins
                                        mcollins@hood.eng.ohio-state.edu
From: gogol@diku.dk (Peter Skov Knudsen)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: OS2 and Soundblaster
Date: 4 Sep 92 12:57:17 GMT
Organization: Department of Computer Science, U of Copenhagen

brown-sh@news.cis.ohio-state.edu (shawn c brown) writes:


>	I'm thinking about upgrading my machine to OS2.  Is it just some
>games that have trouble with Soundblaster (in OS2 mode) or do they all not
>work???

>Shawn Brown

There are no specific problems using Soundblaster with OS/2. A very
small number of games using digitized sound will not work properly,
but this is not a specific problem with Soundblaster, but due to
those programs requiring a large number of interrupts (>1000 per sec.).
Generally Soundblaster works just fine with OS/2.

Peter S. Knudsen
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: dab6@po.CWRU.Edu (Douglas A. Bell)
Subject: Instant Recall gives me trap e's.
Reply-To: dab6@po.CWRU.Edu (Douglas A. Bell)
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, (USA)
Date: Fri, 28 Aug 92 16:22:04 GMT




When I try to run instant recall 2.0, a small dos information
manager, I get trap e's when I try to access certain parts of the program.

What does trap e mean?

I have most of the patches installed on the system and I use the beta
trident video drivers.
From: bgm@cray.com (Bert Moshier)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: Does OS/2 have auto minimize?
Date: 31 Aug 92 17:09:35 GMT
Organization: Cray Research, Inc.

In article <17t551INN4bj@matt.ksu.ksu.edu> bewhite@matt.ksu.ksu.edu (MacroMan) writes:
>
>  I was just thinking how nice it would be if you could set up the
>OS/2 WPS so that if you open an object in a folder, the folder
>closes, or at least minimizes automatically.  It seems to me this
>would make the desktop much more efficient.  I find myself 
>constanly opening folders, double clicking on a program, then 
>having to click on the folder again (to bring it to the front)
>and finally double clicking on the upper left button to close.
>It would be much easier if the folder closed itself.  Is there
>a way to do this?  If not, why the <bleep> not?
>-- 
>  Bruce White(bewhite@matt.ksu.ksu.edu)
>  "I live like I type - Fast, and with a lot of mistakes"

Bruce:

I agree.  This was a nice feature in OS/2 1.3.  I had many program groups
(folders) on my system automatically minimize.  Several groups/folders did
not minimize automatically.  I set it based upon my epxected usage.

Bert.
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu (Timothy F. Sipples)
Subject: Re: HPFS on Seagate SCSI? (ST-1096N)
Reply-To: sip1@midway.uchicago.edu
Organization: Dept. of Econ., Univ. of Chicago
Date: Wed, 2 Sep 1992 23:15:05 GMT

In article <1992Aug31.200126.12451@ncsu.edu> eagle@garfield.catt.ncsu.edu (Daniel L'Hommedieu) writes:
>I have a Seagate ST-1096N attached to my Future Domain SCSI board. What
>I'd like to do is repartition my Seagate to be 84 megs HPFS instead of
>84 megs FAT.  I heard somewhere that Seagates won't do HPFS, so before I
>waste all my time (and diskettes) backing up my drive, can someone
>confirm with certainty that I can indeed reformat the drive to HPFS?

No reason why HPFS wouldn't work -- go ahead.

-- 
Timothy F. Sipples      | The OS/2 FREQ. ASKED QUESTIONS LIST is avail. from
sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu | 128.123.35.151, anonymous ftp, in /pub/os2/all/faq.
Dept. of Econ., Univ.   | Or from LISTSERV@BLEKUL11.BITNET (send "HELP").
of Chicago, 60637       | Family Values Means a Job
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: grumpy@jpradley.jpr.com (Jeff Markel)
Subject: Good Motherboards for OS/2?
Organization: Unix in NYC
Date: Fri, 04 Sep 1992 13:00:14 GMT

I'm in the market for a new motherboard and am looking for recommendations
(based on experience, of course).  I'd consider a 386/40 on up; with the
assumption that a 486SX25 is "up" from a 386/40 :-).

The limitation here: I can't spend more than about $1000 for the motherboard
AND memory ( 8 or more megabytes, preferably more).

My current system is a Northgate 386-20 w/page-mode motherboard and 4 meg.  I
sprang for Northgate's 32 bit memory board and 4 more meg, at $500, but quickly
found the system crashing like mad with TRAP 000's and TRAP 002's.  IBM told
me it was a memory problem, so I called Northgate, who confirmed that there
were known problems with that card and OS/2.  They were neither very
sympathetic nor very helpful, but they finally, reluctantly, agreed to take
back the board and give me a refund.  Thus I find myself with $500 back from
them plus some other rainy day money looking for a new motherboard.

Any experiences, esp. with prices and suppliers would be greatly appreciated.
Please e-mail as this newsgroup grows way too fast for me to keep up with.  I
will consolidate and post the replies.

                                Thanks...

                               Jeff Markel

Jeffrey Markel | uucp:     jpradley!argos!markel   | Argos Computer Systems Inc
KD2HN          | internet: grumpy@jpradley.jpr.com | 110 W. 32nd Street 
(212)594-5400  | amprnet:  kd2hn@kd2hn.ampr.org    | New York, NY 10001
===============================================================================
	The New World Order is ... "Shoot to kill!"
===============================================================================
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: gill@eagle (Warren Gill)
Subject: Re: Multiple Desktops....
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL4
Organization: Sangamon State University
Date: Wed, 2 Sep 1992 04:27:13 GMT

  I have had this happen as well.  When I added a new hard drive to my 
system, I ended up with a new desktop on my D drive, and the old one was
still on E:.  Also, I screwed up my desktop again installing some ATM
fonts, and tried doing a "MAKEINI" to hopefully fix the problem.  It
sort-of did, but now I have the _old_ desktop on E: and two on D:.  One
is "OS!2 2.0 Desktop" and the other is "OS!2 21.0 Desktop"

--
      ______                                                               
      )     (   Warren Gill, Microcomputer Software Specialist
     /       |  Sangamon State University, Springfield, IL                 
    (        |  Internet:        gill@eagle.sangamon.edu
     \_  *   |                                                             
       \     |  HSB-117          Monday-Friday 08:00-16:30 CDT
       /    /   217/786-7354
        \/\/    
          Adversity makes men wise but not rich. {John Ray}               
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu (Timothy F. Sipples)
Subject: Re: Does Windows 3.1 break executables?
Reply-To: sip1@midway.uchicago.edu
Organization: Dept. of Econ., Univ. of Chicago
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1992 20:24:53 GMT

In article <1992Aug31.144511.15531@uwm.edu> tanith@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (Mike Kretzer) writes:
>Does Windows 3.1 somehow modify Windows 3.0 executables so they won't
>run under OS/2?  I've been using several Windows programs in OS/2
>for quite some time with no problems whatsoever until I mistakenly
>installed Windows 3.1 on a FAT partition.  When I booted DOS
>and ran Windows 3.1, everything ran perfectly, but then when I went
>back to OS/2 2.0, I couldn't run any of the Windows programs that
>I had tried under Windows 3.1.  Does Windows 3.1 modify executables
>so they won't run under OS/2?!?!  My only 'solution' to this problem
>was to reinstall all my Windows programs again under OS/2.  Is there
>anything else I could possibly do?

No, you took a sound approach.

It could happen for a couple reasons.  One is that Windows 3.1 might
delete/move the OLE DLLs such that the Windows application running
under Win-OS/2 can't find them.  Or changes may be made to WIN.INI
which disrupt the proper functioning of Windows applications under
Win-OS/2.

-- 
Timothy F. Sipples      | The OS/2 FREQ. ASKED QUESTIONS LIST is avail. from
sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu | 128.123.35.151, anonymous ftp, in /pub/os2/all/faq.
Dept. of Econ., Univ.   | Or from LISTSERV@BLEKUL11.BITNET (send "HELP").
of Chicago, 60637       | Clinton's Arkansas: 49th in Per Capita Tax Burden
From: lbv2@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu (m.l. gore)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Root Dir GONE after propper shutdown!
Date: 3 Sep 92 21:22:58 GMT
Organization: Lehigh University


    That right folks, my entire root directory dno longer exhists. I can boot
    to dos from the manager, but all of my files are suddenly gone. There is
    nothing in my DELDIR, so I did not do it.

    I think my file tabel is corrupted, and since there are no utilities that
    will correct the situation, I must re-install for the 4th time.

    If you remember when last we spoke, I was the poor shlep who had three
    desktop directories and can't get rid of them. Well there's always room
    for one more.

    Has anyone else experienced a similar sudden loss of data? Something is
    definatedly not right here. I used to really push OS/2 around my halls,
    mostly because of the high standards it was designed upon.

    Now I am not so sure these theories have made the transition into an
    elegent package. I am stuck with the HPFS, and do not have a FAT partition
    large enough back up my data to. Why do I feel as if I went to buy a
    Porche, but got an Edsel with a Yugo engine instead??

    Any hints, clues, or relative bitches and moans are welcome....


                                                    bvl

    
-- 

   ---------------------------------
  | Brian Van Lieu                  |
  | Lehigh University               |
  | lbv2@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu          |
  |                                 |
  | ' You can't change the world    |
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: mig@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Meir I Green)
Subject: Re: PLEASE HELP - DRIVE C: NO LONGER READ BY OS/2
Reply-To: mig@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Meir I Green)
Organization: Columbia University, New York
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1992 05:35:45 GMT

Is there a hidden file in the root directory called WP?
I have a hunch this file is put there by fdisk.

 * * * * *  =================== Internet address is  mig@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu
* * * * * * == Meir I. Green == Amateur Packet Radio N2JPG@W2XO.PA.USA.NOAM
 * * * * *  = mig@columbia.edu= Amateur Packet Radio N2JPG@K2KJC.NY.USA.NOAM
* * * * * * =================== Amateur TCP/IP       N2JPG@uhm.ampr.org
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc,comp.os.os2.apps
From: rjones@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Ronald Jones)
Subject: Re: 32bit PKZIP 2.x for OS/2 ???
Organization: The Ohio State University
Date: Wed, 2 Sep 1992 23:32:06 GMT

In article <92241.114753RONY@awiwuw11.wu-wien.ac.at> FLATSCHER Rony <RONY@awiwuw11.wu-wien.ac.at> writes:
>Did anyone hear or read about Phil Katz' PKZIP in 32bit for OS/2 ?
>If it is available, where can one get it to try it ? Is it version 2.x ?
>
>---rony

I found unz50x32.zip (version 5, 32  bit version) on  access.usask.ca 
in pub/archives/os2/os2new. I have it running now!


-- 
 < Ron Jones                   |    E-mail:       rj+@osu.edu   > 
 < The Ohio State University   |    Office:      (614) 292-1665 >
 < 338 West Tenth Avenue       |    FAX:(9-5PM)  (614) 292-7151 > 
 < Columbus, Ohio 43210        |        "eschew obfuscation"    >      
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: canty@vlsi.polymtl.ca (Yves Canty (Hiv91))
Subject: Re: Word Perfect for Windows is not running...What did I do wrong?..Anil
Organization: Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal
Date: Tue, 1 Sep 1992 00:36:46 GMT

There is a program called FIXWP.EXE in the OS2/MDOS/WINOS2 directory.  This
program is supplied with OS/2 2.0 to patch WordPerfect for Windows so it
will work with OS/2 2.0.  Simply run FIXWP WPWINFIL.EXE in your WordPerfect
directory.

All these instructions are in the README file in the root directory of the
drive where you installed OS/2.  You should read this file, it contains
some other useful information.  :)


--
 -------------------------------------------------------------------------
|            Yves Canty             |         Internet address            |
|   Computer Engineering student    |                                     |
|  Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal  |       canty@info.polymtl.ca         |
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: Steve.Withers@bbs.actrix.gen.nz
Subject: Re: OS2 doesn't support Hercules? SYS 0355?? what is it?
Organization: Actrix Information Exchange
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1992 10:49:54 GMT

In article <liuyu.714771225@kramden> liuyu@kramden.nyu.edu (Liuyu) writes:
> Before I started to bash OS/2, does OS/2 support Hercules? 
> I just installed this thing last night. In the middle of installation, it got
> stuck and gave me SYS0355 which I think is about video. Does OS2 auto detect
> video cards like other programs? I already tried replacing os2krnl, ibm1s506,
> os2dasd. I installed it THREE times. Still no luck. HELP!!!
> I have AMD 386/40, 4meg ram, 70 meg MFM HD, Hercules card and monitor, two 
> floppy drives (1.44 being a:), AMI BIOS (12/12/91).
> 
> PS, I'm really pissed, it didn't even survive installation.

You would need at least EGA to run it - maybe even CGA - but Herc mono? Never
heard of it being supported. 
 
VGA is what you really *must* have to run OS/2. Anything less and it just
doesn't make sense. If EGA works....OK. That wouldn't be too bad.
 
Steve

-- 
Steve Withers - Wellington, New Zealand | If you don't vote for MMP on 
Steve.Withers@bbs.actrix.gen.nz         |  September 19, 1992, then you 
withers_s@kosmos.wcc.govt.nz            |  must like things the way they 
**** Happy user of OS/2 v2!! ****       |  are.....can I live with YOU?
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: nmiller@starbase.trincoll.edu (norman miller)
Subject: OS/2 is playing striptease 
Organization: Trinity College, Hartford, CT.
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1992 13:25:08 GMT

Having solved the problem of a blank screen (a new VSVGA
driver was needed) I'm up against a new problem.  At this
rate I may be running OS/2 by Christmas.  The new problem
is this:

When I click on one of the migrated DOS applications such
as Word Perfect, the screen goes blank, a brief DOS command
line flashes on for a moment and -- back to the OS/2 icons.
Pretty as they are, I was hoping for something more.

Any advice?

Norman Miller
nmiller@vax1.trincoll.edu
From: jreynold@nmt.edu (John Reynolds)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: OS/2 locking up? How to fix it...
Date: 2 Sep 92 14:23:12 GMT
Distribution: comp.os.os2.programmer comp.os.os2.misc
Organization: New Mexico Tech

Hello netters...

I've got a nagging question about OS/2. I've been running it (with pleasure)
for about a month now, but every so often when I start a new app, everything
will just freeze up. No mouse or keyboard input, but I can visibly see
that OS/2 is still "running" (I had pulse, PMEYES, and a clock running,
and they were still happily churning out output). I've read in this news
group that it's probably the WPS locking up and not "OS/2." So, how do
I get the WPS to snap out of this. Is there any way (without the three
fingered salute--by the way, when I did Ctl-Alt-Del, I listened as the
kernel sync'ed the filesystem, so I know it wasn't totally foobar)?

Is there some sort of directive in the config.sys to automatically restart
the WPS when something screws up, or do I (and lots of others I assume)
have to wait for IBM to fix the WPS code?

Thanks in advance.

-John

ps. I heard a rumor that this problem is going to be addressed in the CSD
to be released soon. Any truth to that?


-- 
Windows...It's like a stale cookie.
OS/2..."It's like butter" (SNL quote)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware,comp.benchmarks