HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: mig@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Meir I Green)
Subject: Re: Format 1.2M to 1.44M
Reply-To: mig@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Meir I Green)
Organization: Columbia University
Date: Mon, 27 Jul 1992 20:22:52 GMT

In article <1992Jul27.192109.12875@njitgw.njit.edu> dic5340@hertz.njit.edu (David Charlap) writes:
>In article <1992Jul23.201541.27862@news.columbia.edu> mig@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Meir I Green) writes:
>>
>>Actually, the disks read just fine under stock OS/2 2.0, without loading the
>>FDREAD driver.  I guess OS/2 actually reads the format specs before reading
>>from the floppy.  Maybe that's why it is so slow :-)
>
>Interesting.  Perhaps, though, this is simply because OS/2 recognizes
>the 1.44MB format.  How does it do with non-standard formats (like the
>1.7MB format)?  Under DOS, you can read the first 18 sectors of each
>track, and the rest give sector-not-found errors.

No, it copies large files to and from 1.72 Mb floppies, without any hickups,
other than the file sharing bug errors.

IBM!!!    Fix the bugs!!!!

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From: pdg@crosfield.co.uk (paul goffin)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Oh NO, New Install Problems!!
Date: 30 Jul 92 11:49:32 GMT
Organization: Crosfield Electronics, Hemel Hempstead, United Kingdom.

Oh good grief!

I've been running OS/2 2.0 on my 386/25 6MB for
some time now.  (In fact I bought it on the first
day of general release in April.)

I've been using a dual boot setup on my 65MB RLL drive
(OS.2 vs DOS 5).  I finally decided that I'd rather have
a boot manager setup instead  (I've used boot manager before
too, but not on this disk.  I used a SCSI disk and
a borrowed Adaptec 1542B that time.)   So.......

I booted up from floppy, repartitioned the disk as

     1  MB boot manager.
     25 MB FAT (DOS 5)   - primary
     36 MB FAT (OS 2)    - logical

then I aborted the installation, and booted DOS (from floppy)
and installed it (DOS) on the C: partition.

All OK so far.

Then I rebooted from floppy, set the D: partition as Installable
and installed OS/2 - several times.

Everything procedes smoothly until after the last floppy
is insterted and OS/2 is rebooted to build the desktop.

The desktop never appears.  There's a lot of disk activity,
but no desktop.  After a while, the activity stops and the
system appears stuck.  The mouse pointer moves, but the keyboard
and mouse buttons have no effect.  (No response from Ctrl-Esc
- even after waiting a miniute, nor Ctrl-Alt-Del)  I've even
tried to install the tutorial - perhaps there's a clue here -
the tutorial runs for a while then freezes out.

If I reset and reboot, theres still no desktop.  If I boot DOS
(the boot manager works!)  I can see all the files I'd expect
on the D: partition.  (all the OS2 directories, OS2!2_0.2 0 - or
whatever it's called etc.)

Like I said.  This machine used to run OS/2 under dual boot.  Now
it dos'n't run under boot manager.  It does run DOS though.  If I
boot from floppy, I can access all the files on D: just fine.

Any ideas?

BTW.  I have to use the IBMINT13.I13 fix to install OS/2, so it's
      not the "RLL meets AT- BUS" problem; and the Crtl-Shift-F1
      reform the desktop dos'n't work.  There isn't a desktop
      to reform!

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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: blasius@gmd.de (Volker Blasius)
Subject: Re: Logitech Serial mouse & OS/2
Organization: GMD, Sankt Augustin, Germany
Date: Mon, 27 Jul 1992 11:41:17 GMT

>>Does anyone have a Logitech serial mouse?

Yes, I have a serial TrackMan, and I also couldn't get it to work under
OS/2 2.0 unless I powered the machine up right into OS/2. I complained to
Logitech on CompuServe and got the following reply:

   - install OS/2 with Logitech Mouse on COMx
   - when booting from DOS to OS/2, first type MOUSE PC, then boot to OS/2
     (assuming MOUSE.COM is in your path - type MOUSE ? to see the effect)  
 
Works fine.

Volker
From: dic5340@hertz.njit.edu (David Charlap)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: Is there a C/C++compiler for OS/2 - where can I get it?
Date: 23 Jul 92 19:22:25 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, N.J.

In article <1992Jul22.162624.16664@msuinfo.cl.msu.edu> sundaram@cps.msu.edu (Divya Sundaram) writes:
>Hi all,
>
>I got the OS/2 system up and running! And yes, I am quite pleased with it.
>Now all I need is a good set of compilers -for Pascal, C and C++. I heard that
>Borland C++ 2.0 package has problems running under OS/2 (since it is made for
>DOS and Win 3 software development). I have Turbo Pascal/Win and BC++ 2.0, can
>I use them to write code?? What are mu limitations in this respect? 

DOS/Windows development tools usually work OK if they don't use any
protected mode resources.  I've run Turbo Pascal 5.5 without any
problem in a DOS box.  I haven't tried installing my Turbo Pascal for
Windows.  I have run Actor 4.03, and it works OK, but ObjectDraw and
the Whitewater Resource Toolkit have problems - they GPF and
terminate.

For OS/2 development, you have a few choices right now.  You can get
IBM's C-set/2.  You can download gcc 2.1.  Or you can purchase any of
a few OS/2 compilers currently selling:  Watcom, TopSpeed (JPI), and
Zortech come to mind.  I don't know if these are 32-bit OS/2 2.0
compilers or if they are 1.x compilers, but they do work.

Borland will be releasing BC++ for OS/2 2.0 sometime soon.  it's in
beta testing now.

>Also, when Is the support for WIn 3.1 and for programs like mathematica/windows
>supposed to come out?

The Win 3.1 support is scheduled to be released with the Corrective
Serive upgrade package.  Support for Enhanced Mode Windows
applications will never happen - that mode would compromise OS/2's
system integrity.


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From: joe2@vnet.ibm.com
Date: Thu, 30 Jul 92 16:26:45 FST
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: POV ray 1.0 (DOS) under OS/2
Reply-To: <joe2@vnet.ibm.com>
Disclaimer: This posting represents the poster's views, not those of IBM
News-Software: UReply 3.0
            l.UVic.CA> <Bs3z3J.B37@undergrad.math.waterloo.edu>
            <1992Jul29.031020.16028@sol.UVic.CA>

In <1992Jul29.031020.16028@sol.UVic.CA> This space for rent writes:
>In article <Bs3z3J.B37@undergrad.math.waterloo.edu> ychung@laplace.uwaterloo.ca
>(Young Chung) writes:
>>In article <1992Jul28.061954.8122@sol.UVic.CA> gwebster@ugly.UVic.CA (This spac
>e for rent) writes:
>>>In article <1992Jul27.144730.24096@dragon.acadiau.ca> 890560p@dragon.acadiau.c
>a (Trevor Porter) writes:
>>>>
>>>>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?
>>>>
>>>
>>>I ran into the same problem, and have not been able to get the program to work
>.
>>>
>>>I have the coprocessor emulation enabled (the line in my config.sys file
>>>reads DEVICE=C:\OS2\MDOS\VNPX.SYS)
>>>
>>
>>
>>Are you sure VNPX.SYS is a coprocessor emulator?  I tried it and it gives
>>me the error even before it loads up the PoVRay exec.
>>Even a separate 387 emulator doesn't help even though sysinfo says I have
>>387 installed.
>
>I searched the help file on VNPX, and it calls it a Numeric Processor Extension
>(80387). Sounds like a co-pro emulator to me, but it doesn't seem to work.
>Maybe I am using it wrong?
>--

VNPX is the virtual driver for the MVDM sessions, not the emulator.
You don't need to explicitely add it in your config.sys, it is
automatically loaded at initialization time.
For further details, RedBook volume 2, p69

-Joel Armengaud
From: canrem.com!bill.dehaan@overmind.mind.org
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: os/2's som
Date: 23 Jul 92 06:51:00 GMT
Organization: Canada Remote Systems
X-mailer: Stadel 3.4a-227
X-Spam-content: irrelevant

Stephen Dawson writes:

SD>The WPS has features that I would describe by these terms. Maybe
SD>OS/2's System Object Module has more features than you realize. :-)

We had an IBM  developer up from Boca  going over SOM with  us two weeks
ago. There's a truckload of functionality in there that didn't make  the
documentation.   Some   of   the   stuff   he  showed  us  was  amazing.
Unfortunately, it's undocumented, and not even Cary seems to  completely
understand it yet, so I think I will sit this out for a while.

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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu (Timothy F. Sipples)
Subject: Re: Bad news for POV and
Reply-To: sip1@midway.uchicago.edu
Organization: Dept. of Econ., Univ. of Chicago
Date: Thu, 30 Jul 1992 21:14:22 GMT

In article <1992Jul30.165030.9017@galileo.cc.rochester.edu> mek4@prodigal.psych.rochester.edu (Mark Kern) writes:
>Hey guys,
>    don't forget that the POV team is on America Online as well, in the
>PC graphics forum. AOL is much cheaper than compuserve, and could use
>some more OS/2 members.  Except, the software won't run under OS/2. :(

It can be patched to do so -- see the appropriate file on
ftp-os2.nmsu.edu.
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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: chris.chambers@rose.com (chris chambers)
Subject: How to delete undelet
Organization: Rose Media Inc, Toronto, Ontario.
Date: Fri, 24 Jul 1992 14:35:54 GMT
X-Gated-By: Usenet <==> RoseMail Gateway (v1.70)


Date Entered: 07-23-92 13:37
In <1992Jul22.120954.4010@ifi.unizh.ch> erzberg@ifi.unizh.ch writes

> - In OS2.INI are still references to the now deleted objects (and will
>   probably be there forever...). So, what one would need is something like
>   CHKDSK for the workplace shell, to cleanup all lost pointers etc.

This is not an quick solution, but the WPSBKUP shareware utility
will backup your WPS and icons, and in the process of restoring it
will compress your .ini files.

Chris Chambers
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From: raf4482@rigel.tamu.edu (REID FORREST)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: What happened to my serial comms???
Date: 28 Jul 1992 03:23:00 GMT
Organization: Texas A&M University, Academic Computing Services
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41

In article <1992Jul27.035425.17644@vpnet.chi.il.us>, cgordon@vpnet.chi.il.us (gordon hlavenka) writes...
>For about the past week, my serial port has been acting weird.
> 
>I run Telix 3.15 in a DOS box under OS/2.  Lately, the serial port has
>been getting serviced _very_ infrequently when in full-screen mode.  I
>mean, on a 386/25 (16MB RAM) I get about a dozen characters on the
>screen every few seconds.
> 
I've been having the same problem (Telix 3.14) in a DOS window/full screen.
Sometimes it works, and sometimes I have to press a key (I'm using CTRL)
for the characters to come up.  It seems like the incoming characters are
getting "stuck" in a buffer somewhere, and pressing a key "releases" them.
If anyone has any suggestions, I'd appreciate it.
	Reid Forrest
	RAF4482@zeus.tamu.edu
From: satalink.com!bert.tyler@overmind.mind.org
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: 32 bit fractint for WPS?
Date: 22 Jul 92 12:02:00 GMT
Organization: SataLink Info Systems - Huntingdon Valley, PA - 215-364-3324
X-mailer: Stadel 3.4a-227
X-Spam-content: irrelevant

DP>I've noticed some rumors about a 32 bit version of fractint for
DP>OS/2 2.0.  That would be great!  Can anyone point me in the right
DP>direction?

Don Egan has shipped his 32-bit version of PMFRACT (labelled version
17.2 - like Winfract, he's now basing his version numbers on which
version of Fractint's fractal engine he is using). He uploaded it
to Compuserve's COMART forum on July 6th.  Look in COMART in
Library 2 ("New Uploads") for PMFRA2.ZIP (the EXEcutable) and
PMFRS2.ZIP (the source).

I do not have access to the FTP network from this BBS.  If one of
the rest of you has access both to Compuserve and the FTP network,
I'm sure that Don would appreciate your spreading this fine freeware
program around.

                   Bert Tyler   (bert.tyler@satalink.com)
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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: teverett@jarthur.claremont.edu (Toby Everett)
Subject: Re: cant shutdown my system
Organization: Harvey Mudd College, Claremont, CA 91711
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1992 05:20:55 GMT

In article <1992Jul28.235705.23848@news.columbia.edu> mig@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Meir I Green) writes:
>
>That's not it.  Sometimes I can get OS/2 to shut down after a refresh, other
>times it just won't.  This is similar to the icons which stay cross hatched
>bug.  Anyway, OS/2 isn't out of memory, since I have 20 Mb installed, and
>OS/2 sees 16 Mb.  Anybody think that a new version of GT16MB will come out
>which will work for me?  My ISA machine has an AMI BIOS which is reporting
>all 20 Mb.  Oh well, I don't plan on keeping the extra 4 Mb anyway.  It is
>useless to me (although I could use it's worth in money).

Open a Windows List.  Select all bars except OS/2 2.0 Desktop.  Right click
on one of them.  Click Close.  Open a Windows list.  If the only program
running is OS/2 2.0 Desktop, then try Shutdown.  If not, you're SOL and try
a three finger salute.

        --Toby Everett
        --teverett@jarthur.claremont.edu
        --"I'm rooting for Boca.  How about you?"
        --"If there is a god, then the mountains are her temple."
        --"But that's climbing.  It's not raquetball."  P. Denkewalter
           (After veteran climber Terrance "Mugs" Stump fell into a
            crevasse on Denali.  Seven died that week.)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: levendel@ssd.comm.mot.com (Gil Levendel)
Subject: Re: NEW Orcad (ET400) Drivers on FTP-OS2
Organization: Motorola LMPS
Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1992 13:28:46 GMT
Keywords: n

People mentioned a "yellowing" of desktop buttons using the older 256 color
drivers.

I am still experiencing the same problem with the new 1024x256 color driver;
I'm not sure about the others.

The new 1024x16 driver also causes all my normally yellow folders to become
white.
From: msf@skaro.as.arizona.edu (Michael Fulbright)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: New User Questions - taking advantage of 16meg ram
Date: 31 Jul 92 18:38:09 GMT
Distribution: na
Organization: University of Arizona UNIX Users Group

Well, this monday I couldnt wait any longer (since july31 was coming
fast) and I called 1-800-3-IBMOS2 and got my windows upgrade. I was
impressed, the person made sure I had the proper hardware before doing
anything else.  It arrived Wednesday morning (wow) and I started
installing. No hitches.  So i've been reading all the online docs and
the stuff on diskcache and ifs.  I have 16 meg ram and I dont have a
good feeling for how much cache I should have. I think the default for
IFS is 512k, and for FAT partitions 64k (the line in config.sys says
diskcache 64k,LW, or something like that). My experience with DOS
caching is that larger sizes in both cases would improve compilation
speeds, etc.  I would appreciate any suggestions on how to make the
most of my memory. I'm running on a 3mhz 386 with a maxtor 120 meg ide
drive. I've found almost everything to be responsive - starting up
and shutting down go pretty quick, and when I click help things pop
up pretty fast. I am thoroughly impressed, i really hope OS/2 catches
on in a big way. No DOS extender (ie windoze) will ever be able to be
this good.

thanks
michael
From: rcook@sneezy.helios.nd.edu (robert cook)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: New OS2LDR in GT16MB.ZOO work GREAT!
Keywords: greater 16 mb thanks ibm
Date: 21 Jul 92 06:52:44 GMT
Article-I.D.: news.1992Jul21.065244.4357
Reply-To: Cook.14@nd.edu (R. Kelley Cook)
Organization: Univ. of Notre Dame

In article <bealjrkl.711144820@craft.camp.clarkson.edu>, bealjrkl@craft.camp.clarkson.edu writes:
|> 
|> 	I just installed the new OS2LDR, contained in GT16MB.ZOO on
|> hobbes (ftp-os2.nmsu.edu), and it works!  I was quite pleasantly 
|> surprised to see the System Info program come up with about 8MB (where
|> before it had about 4MB, and I have 20MB in my system).  I have a
|> Gateway 2000 486/33, 20MB, 210MB hard drive, Soundblaster, 2400B generic
|> modem, etc.
|> 
|> 	I also installed the new kernel, but haven't noticed any 
|> difference yet (the swap file hadn't really grown at all from what I
|> was doing; guess I need some resource hogs to test it).
|> --
|> Kenneth L. Beal, Jr.		bealjrkl@craft.camp.clarkson.edu
|> "I'd give my right arm to be ambidextrous!" (MST3K)

In fact there is an even newer version of OS2LDR on 
software.watson.ibm.com dated 7-13-92 purporting to offer 16+ Meg support
on even more clones.  I just sent it to ftp-os2 under the name
/pub/downloads/gt16mb2.zip

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Univ. of Notre Dame     The future for Intel computers arrived March 31!
Physics Dept.            Long Live the new OS/2!  Time to close the Windows!
From: jc70@westend.VI.CMU.EDU (Joo C. Chung)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: 3 questions about OS/2
Date: 24 Jul 92 14:02:41 GMT
Article-I.D.: cs.1992Jul24.140241.22242
Reply-To: jc70@norman.vi.ri.cmu.edu
Organization: School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon

In article <BrvuLJ.A11@acsu.buffalo.edu> kimd@acsu.buffalo.edu (Donghyo Kim)  
writes:
> Hi OS/2 fellas!
> I just finished installing OS/2 on my system and I have three problems.
> I would be appreciated if any one out there can help me.
> 
> First, the screen, Workplace Shell (?) is shifted about 1" to the left.
> If I adjust the screen to center and I open full DOS screen then
> the dos screen is shifted to right. Is there any way to fix this problem?
> My system is GW2000 with ATI Graphics Ultra. I set video mode as 8514/a.
> Before I change to OS/2 ther were no problems at all. So, I believe this
> is the problem of video driver.
> 
> The second thing is that when I start full screen WINOS2. ATM is not
> activated. And I found ATM's font dir is blank. Do I need to install

The ATM fonts can be found on the very last disk. I think it is printer drivers  
disk #5 or something like that.

> ATM fonts seperately?
> 
> Third, in DOS session, how can I run my autoexec.bat for DOS? 
> What I need is I want to retain all my environment setting for 
> original DOS. 

The DOS session should run the autoexec.bat automatically.

> 
> Thanks in advance.
> -- 
>    Donghyo Kim                             W) 716-636-2120           
>    Northwestern Univ.                     dhkim@casbah.acns.nwu.edu
>    SUNY at Buffalo                         kimd@acsu.buffalo.edu     
>    UIUC                                  u28581@u2.ncsa.uiuc.edu
From: dic5340@hertz.njit.edu (David Charlap)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: Upper/lower case swapping ????
Date: 23 Jul 92 19:16:23 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, N.J.

In article <1992Jul22.213327.15028@scott.skidmore.edu> pvonk@scott.skidmore.edu (Pierre VonKaenel) writes:
>Using my comm program (Xtalk for Win), if I type too fast, the case
>switches.  Without caps lock, I get upper case, with it I get lower
>case.  The trouble starts when I try non alpha symbols ( . or 4 for
>example).  What I get is > and $.  I can't get . or 4 in either caps
>lock mode.  When I get out of the emacs (UNIX) editor and back in to
>edit, sometimes things get straightened out (I call our UNIX box from
>my OS/2 home machine).  I haven't had this happen with other software,
>and it never happened in Windows.  I suspect Xtalk, but maybe it's the
>combination with OS/2.  Anyone experience the same thing?

I've had this happen on some older computers under DOS.  It appears to
be a bug in the keyboard controller chip.  I could always clear this
by pressing CTRL-SHIFT. 
 

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From: kskapin@csws8.ic.sunysb.edu (Keith T Skapinski)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: Format 1.2M to 1.44M
Date: 24 Jul 92 17:06:13 GMT
Organization: State University of New York at Stony Brook

In article <1992Jul22.201259.7773@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> kls@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Kenneth L Shellberg) writes:
>Very recently, there was a posting which recommended a DOS
>floppy formatter called fdformat, which will format a 1.2M
>5.25 floppy to 1.44M.  Can anyone tell me where to find this
>program?  It sounds like it would be very useful to me.
>
>Thanks in advance.
>
>Ken
>

The file the previous post was referring to is FDFORMAT18 available from
GARBO.UWASA.FI (/pub/pc/diskutils). I downloaded it but it did not work
for me. It kept saying error on track 0 head 0 after formatting. There
is another file called 800II... in the same place. This one worked for me
but it allows 1.2 to go to 1.4 not 1.44. Good enough for an OS/2 boot disk.

If the original poster is reading this, any ideas why fdformat didn't work
for me. I loaded the INT13X, then used FMT.


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From: ednstras@kraken.itc.gu.edu.au (Michael Strasser)
Subject: Linear mouse tracking
Keywords: mouse
Organization: ITC, Griffith University, Brisbane, Australia
Date: 24 Jul 92 02:29:48 GMT

One annoying aspect of OS/2 is ballistic mouse tracking.  (I assume that the
behaviour is not only in my mouse, a cheap Microsoft-clone.)

I really want linear mouse tracking, at least as an option.  I don't 
believe that ballistic tracking is needed to get across big screens: 
I don't have one on my OS/2 machine but I work sometimes on a Mac 
with a 2-page display and can easily get from on corner to the opposite 
one without lifting the mouse.

Is mouse tracking like this handled in MOUSE.SYS?  Can someone who has
dabbled in device drivers :-) cobble together one or patch the existing one
to provide linear tracking?

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