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From: rm3@ornl.gov (MCBROOM R C)
Subject: Re: Interesting WPS Bug
Organization: Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 14:16:16 GMT

In article <Nrc=f7_@engin.umich.edu> jwh@citi.umich.edu writes:
>I've run across an interesting bug in the WPS concerning
>files.  Sometimes, for no reason that I can explain, when
>I make a copy of a file from the command line, when I view
>the directory from the WPS, both the copy of the file and
>the original have the same title.  For example, I might have
>a file named v.exe and when a copy is made and called v1.exe,
>the WPS displays both objects as 'v.exe'.  It seems to only 
>do this for files which have EA's attached (I'm using HPFS),
>but not all files with EA's behave this way.  Has anyone else
>run across this and is there a rational explanation for why
>this occurs?  Clearly you shouldn't be able to have two different 
>objects with the same title in the same folder.
>
Keep poking around in OS/2.  If you do a detail view of the directory you 
will see that the data and program objects have both a title reference and
a name reference.  The title is what is displayed with the icon.  If you copy 
a data or program object onto itself it will have the same title but a new 
name constructed out of the original.  Someone in this newsgroup was asking
about having multiple versions of files as Digital does with its VMS system.
OS/2 uses the name and title mechanism to do just that.  You can use the 
settings to configure the copy from WPS to prompt you and ask if you want
to replace the file or store a new version so that you can make the decision
each time.

Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu (Timothy F. Sipples)
Subject: Re: OS/2 2.1 Observations
Reply-To: sip1@midway.uchicago.edu
Organization: Dept. of Econ., Univ. of Chicago
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 17:24:24 GMT

In article <726707394.0@nwark.FidoNet> Robert.King@p27749.f29728.n24936.z8308.FidoNet.Org (Robert King) writes:
> TFS> Incidentally, I do have some benchmarks on this new code, but there
> TFS> are a couple reasons why I can't post them.  The first is that the
> TFS> Ziff-Davis license agreement says you can't disseminate the results
>of
> TFS> WinBench (strange though that may sound), and the second is that I
>      ^^^^^^^^
> TFS> have a slight disagreement with the methodology that I want to
>correct
> TFS> first.  Also, we couldn't get NT to install on the same machine.
>I'm curious about WinBench.  I thought I had been keeping up with
>PC-Magazine for their entire publishing life, but I'm not familiar with
>this program which I presume is related to their Benchmark package.  Has
>it been released for public use?

Public use, yes, but the license forbids one from divulging the
numbers it generates, incredibly.  Therefore, I've been looking for
alternative benchmarks which do not have this absurd restriction.  I'm
still investigating.

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From: dic5340@hertz.njit.edu (David Charlap)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: Detach command.
Date: 7 Jan 93 23:07:27 GMT
Organization: New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, N.J.

In article <1ii3r8INNfea@iskut.ucs.ubc.ca> unruh@physics.ubc.ca (William Unruh) writes:
>He means, if you already have a program running , can you detach it from
>the window, and later reattach it. In Unix if you have a program running
>in you window from the command line, you can detach it fromn the winsow
>by halting it ( with ctrl-Z) and then issuing a bg command to restart it
>in the background. fg will take a backgrond task and reattach it to the
>window. Obviously if the task does console IO you can't detach it and
>have it keep running- In Unix it halts waiting for you to reattach it.

Unfortunately, OS/2 can't do this, and it would need a major
restructuring to allow it.  Under Unix, a background process is
exactly the same as a foreground process, except that it gets
suspended if it tries to read from the tty.

Under OS/2, it's a different session type, and runs in a different
operating environment.  Since most apps don't check to see if their
environment has changed before each I/O operation, such an on-the-fly
change would cause apps to crash in all but the simplest cases.  OS/2
could be restructured to allow all this, but I don't think it's worth
it when I can easilly start a minimized windowed session and bring
that to the foreground when I want it.

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From: jmaynard@oac.hsc.uth.tmc.edu (Jay Maynard)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: 800x600x256 on 512K SVGA? (was Re: OS800.DLL for OS/2 1.1)
Date: 6 Jan 1993 16:29:26 GMT
Organization: UT Health Science Center Houston

In article <1993Jan6.050316.20286@midway.uchicago.edu> sip1@midway.uchicago.edu writes:
>Not likely.  However, if you have 512K on the adapter, you can get
>640x480-256 and 800x600-256 with the new OS/2 2.1 beta (or with the
>leaked generic SuperVGA driver, available via anonymous ftp from
>ftp-os2.nmsu.edu).  If you have 1 MB, you can also get 1024x768-256.

Waitaminute. I thought all the 800x600x256 drivers out there took 1 meg,
including this one. Did they finally get it to run in 512K on a Trident 9000?
-- 
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      "Science is all in the public domain, and allows few secrets."
              -- Tom Clancy, _The Sum of All Fears_
From: ritz@ritz.mordor.com (Christopher Mauritz)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: MS Access does not run on OS/2 2.0
Date: 10 Jan 93 17:07:18 GMT
Organization: Ritz International, Inc. -- Import/Export Consultants
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Mohammed Mannan (mmannan@lynx.dac.northeastern.edu) wrote:
OS/2> I have recently bought the MS Access package (couldn't help it so cheap).
OS/2> During installation, it replaced some of the dlls, citing, I may have some
OS/2> outdated ones. Now, whenver I run Access, OS/2 goes crazy and I have to
OS/2> reboot.
OS/2> 
OS/2> MS Access is supposed to run on windows 3.0 (it says so on the packaging) and
OS/2> OS/2 runs windows 3.0 applications. What happened?
OS/2> 
OS/2> Anyone know if win 3.1 will run on top of OS/2, instead of running on
OS/2> top of DOS?

Are you surprised?  In light of Microsoft's previous antics to derail users
who try to use OS/2 (or Lotus products) I have decided not to purchase any
more of their software.  Why should I patronize a company who goes that
"extra mile" to break something just because I am not using their OS or
their applications?

Chris

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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: sorourke@lonestar.utsa.edu (Sean J. Orourke)
Subject: Re: Occasional problem
Organization: University of Texas at San Antonio
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 00:37:59 GMT

In article <stevem.15.0@newsbase.cs.yale.edu> stevem@newsbase.cs.yale.edu (Steve Morytko) writes:
>I am occasionally having a "window" (actually a folder that lists the
>programs with miniature icons - I can't remember the name for it) display
>absolutely nothing when I open it. If I close and reopen it the programs are
>listed correctly. It seems to happen when a lot of windows are open but
>other than that I haven't been able to tie it to any particular activity. I
>use an IBM VGA card (yes, they do exist) with 256K.  Any suggestions?
>-----------------------------------------------------------------

If you're talking about a Details View window, I have the same problem.  I open
a Details window and just get a blank white window.  I close it and open it
again and everything's fine.  I don't think it's your VGA card (I have an
ET4000 w/1 meg), but I have no idea what it is.

Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: karu@nevada.edu (NARANAPITI KARUNARATNE)
Subject: Re: GREEN FOLDER DISEASE
Organization: University of Nevada System Computing Services
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 17:12:17 GMT

In article <1664.625.uupcb@almac.co.uk> mike.dickson@almac.co.uk (Mike Dickson) writes:
>Small problem with seamless Windows support on this machine -
>
>If I start up a Windows app seamlessly on the WPS then OS/2 goes through
>the usual clunks and crunches to get tjhe Windows kernel loaded. As it
>does so, the (grey background) open folders on the WPS go a revolting
>shade of green and the background bitmap colours get screwed up totally.
>The Windows app still runs okay and using its own proper colours.
>
>However, if I run *any* text-based DOS application full screen and then
>quit from it I find that the problem is solved and the WPS colours are
>back to normal *and* that the Windows app is still running as before with
>the same colours. Furthermore, if I load up any further seamless Windows
>apps then they come up okay without any colour mangling. If I quit from
>all the Windows apps and start again with another one then the problem
>reappears so it seems to me that the problem is connected with the
>initial loading of the 'shareable' Windows code. (I understand that some
>parts of the Windows code is shared between Windows sessions)
>
>Rather odd one this and highly irritating. I've made up an object on the
>WPS called 'Reset Screen' which basically just knocxks the system into
>text mode and exits straight off, but this is obviously kludge of the
>week.
>
>Can anyone help? Relevant machine specs are ET4000 based card using the
>Service Pak 1024x768x256 drivers, 8Mb RAM, loads of disk space, Intel
>386-33DX.
>
>/\/\ | |< |.                                     mike.dickson@almac.co.uk
>---
> . SLMR 2.1a . "How to boil water, in 500 easy steps" by Chuck Forsberg
>                                                                                       
I have the same problem, identical in every respect, with a Trident 8900c
running 1024x768x256 in a 8mb, 386-40, with a 10mb swap file (initial] and
enough disk space.
Sorry, I do not know what causes it. However, I did not have this problem
running 800x600x256 mode. I will post if I find what causes it. I am still
investigating the problem.
If anyone knows what causes this behavior please let me know.
Thanks.

Karu.


Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: bross@spartan.ac.BrockU.CA (Brian J Ross)
Subject: Icons in windows continually offset
Organization: Dept of Computer Science, Brock University
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL4
Date: Sat, 9 Jan 1993 16:14:25 GMT


Every time I open a folder, the contents are scrolled such that I need
to reposition them to see them.  What *should* happen is that a window
keeps the icon positions it had when you closed it (like the Mac).
Would someone please tell me how to fix this annoying problem?

Also, is it possible to move an icon over a little bit in Os/2?
When I try it, it gives an illegality symbol, as it assumes you are
trying to move the icon to itself.



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Brian Ross                          
bross@sandcastle.cosc.brocku.ca            
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: ygg6647@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Youren  Guo)
Subject: 2.1b problems with Brief editor
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 23:00:42 GMT
Keywords: OS/2 beta, Brief

Does naybody else also have this problem?
Everytime when I use the Brief editor (3.1) in a DOS fs session,
it will hang the machine (I mean I have to reboot the machine!).
I recorded the trap # and the error message. But I'm not sure 
if anyone else also have this problem.

BTW, when I use NCSA telnet in a DOS fs session, it connects
fine. But when I close the connection, I cannot get back to
the DOS prompt, except by pressing TAB+ESC. 2.0 does not have
this problem.

-- 
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y-guo@uiuc.edu

Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu (Timothy F. Sipples)
Subject: Re: reporting bugs in 2.1 beta?
Reply-To: sip1@midway.uchicago.edu
Organization: Dept. of Econ., Univ. of Chicago
Distribution: usa
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 02:33:41 GMT

In article <1993Jan12.004914.20183@wam.umd.edu> ifox@wam.umd.edu (Ira "Isa" Fox) writes:
>   The subject line says it all.  I have internet access and prodigy.
>Does IBM execpt inet mail on their compuserv account??

They have set up a forum on CompuServe to accept bug reports, and I've
posted several there.  A CompuServe membership (with $15 usage credit)
is free to any OS/2 customer and/or beta tester.  (Instructions on
getting a sign-on packet should have been included in your package; if
not, I'll gladly post a followup with the details.)

Now, I hope they extend that to the Internet, but, so far, only bug
reports for released versions of OS/2 are accepted via the Internet.

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From: sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu (Timothy F. Sipples)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: Font Sizes in OS/2 Window.
Date: 9 Jan 93 01:06:45 GMT
Reply-To: sip1@midway.uchicago.edu
Organization: Dept. of Econ., Univ. of Chicago

In article <93007.142945JWHITE@MAINE.MAINE.EDU> Jim White <JWHITE@MAINE.MAINE.EDU> writes:
>Is there a way to enhance the selection of Font sizes that are available
>in an OS/2 or DOS window?
>I'm running OS/2 on a IBM PS/2 Model 70 386 with 8514a support on a smallish
>(13 in diagonal) monitor. I like to run the IBM TCP/IP TN3270 product (runs
>in std OS/2 window) in 43 line mode, but none of the current font sizes/configs
>really fit nicely and look readable to me (or at least I'd like a 'better'
>fit for my eyes).
>The answer doesn't seem to be in installing new fonts using the Font Palette
>in the System Setup folder. The fonts I'd like to change are somehow different
>from these. I currently have the following sizes available.....
>8x8, 10x6, 10x8, 12x8, 14x6, 14x8, 15x7, 16x8, 16x12, 18x8, 18x10, 20x12,
>22x12, 25x7, 30x12.
>I'd like to try a 16x10, or a 17x10. Is there any hope?

Hope, always.  One of my wishlist items is to provide the capability
to use monospaced ATM typefaces in these text windows.  So far, it
hasn't happened.

Until that happens (and hopefully it will), you'll be restricted to
those type sizes.

The 18x10 doesn't suit you that well?

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Organization: Wirtschaftsuniversitaet Wien, Vienna, Austria
Date: Friday, 8 Jan 1993 15:47:14 CET
From: FLATSCHER Rony <RONY@awiwuw11.wu-wien.ac.at>
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Update to >>Who are "BillMc" resp. "MarkH" ????? Where to find ?<<
 <930107114050@rgam.sc.ti.com>

Robert:

Thank you for your hint about "CHKDSK F: /F:3" --- it would not work !!!

Anyway, before posting the message that I cannot access drive F: nor
have it successfully repaired with CHKDSK, I permutated all parameters of
CHKDSK:

     CHKDSK F:     .... tells me about troubles in the allocation pool and
                        a file, CHKDSK would have to remove (no problems here)

     CHKDSK F: /V  .... displays all files on the locked partition

     CHKDSK F: /F:0 ... same as CHKDSK F:

     CHKDSK F: /F:1 thru /F:3 results in asking me to get in touch with
"BillMc" resp. "MarkH" to debug.

All sectors of drive F: can be read without errors with the test-function of
the famous GammaTech Utilities. So this leads me to believe that there are
logical errors in the HPFS-definition for drive F: (due to cold-boots
necessary because of a faulty PC) in which the developpers are interested in.

As I have no means to get in touch with them I am asking in Internet for help,
(maybe some IBM'ers could give me hint?) as I would need some data on that
drive.

Someone suggested that a faulty IBM1*.ADD-driver caused such a message on his
machine. This definitely seems not to be the case, as I have installed various
versions of OS/2 on other partitions and attempted to CHKDSK that locked drive
of mine (US-versions of: GA+SP which was installed on another partition, then
GA alone; German-versions of: GA, preloaded OS/2; by the way using or applying
the service pack after that disk is locked is not possible).

Someone out there who could help me ?

---rony
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu (Timothy F. Sipples)
Subject: Re: Ready for Letters under OS/2
Reply-To: sip1@midway.uchicago.edu
Organization: Dept. of Econ., Univ. of Chicago
Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1993 05:00:40 GMT

In article <11590@uqcspe.cs.uq.oz.au> king@cs.uq.oz.au writes:
>>   I have a copy of "Ready for Letters" for my two small children.  I have
>>it running under OS/2 (on a clone 486/33 with a SB Pro card on IRQ 5).
>>The program starts and runs (with the music playing just fine).  The problem
>>that I have is that if the program "moves" into certain areas (such as the 
>>kitchen or the workshop), I get crackling noises, and the system slows down to
>>a crawl.  I can switch out of the program and kill the task, but it takes on
>>the order of 60 seconds to paint the WPS screen etc.
>>   I suspect the problem is with the program and speech generation.
>You are correct, I get the same problem.  I can overcome the problem
>by using VMdisk (which effectively gives you a specific DOS 5.0
>session) which fixes the voice problem, but then the mouse doesn't work!
>I have tried all kinds of things with the COM_ settings, but it seems that
>OS/2 reserves COM1 for its mouse use and doesn't let the DOS
>session see COM1 at all.
>So at the moment, I just boot DOS from drive A: and in the autoexec.bat
>on that disk I swap over to drive C: and run rfl.bat.
>Let me know if you have any more luck with the VMdisk option.

You can get the mouse running by substituting the supplied MOUSE
driver \OS2\MDOS\MOUSE in place of your DOS mouse driver.  See
Appendix E of your Installation Guide and/or the online Command
Reference under VMDISK for further information.

(Note the same applies to the memory manager files -- use the
OS/2-supplied versions located in \OS2\MDOS.)

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From: gt8080a@prism.gatech.EDU (Henry 'Hank' Harlan Roark III)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Getting PageMaker 4.0 to recognize ATM fonts in Win-OS2?
Date: 8 Jan 93 22:21:16 GMT
Organization: Georgia Institute of Technology

When using a PostScript printer and PageMaker 4.0 in a Win-OS2 session,
how do I get PM4 to recognize and use the ATM fonts for display and
printing?

Hank Roark
gt8080a@prism.gatech.edu

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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu (Timothy F. Sipples)
Subject: Re: OS/2 2.1 Beta's WinOs2 will not print?
Reply-To: sip1@midway.uchicago.edu
Organization: Dept. of Econ., Univ. of Chicago
Date: Sat, 9 Jan 1993 17:00:03 GMT

In article <1993Jan8.223944.14939@miavx1.acs.muohio.edu> kbwilson@miavx1.acs.muohio.edu writes:
>	I installed the Beta 2.1 and my win-os2 will not print in any app
>It seems to be some problem with paper orientation....but not that simple.
>	I did a selective install of win-os2 and laser jet III drivers and
>still I can't print.  
>	I installed the laserjet III driver in win-os2 control panel and still
>no printing.  If any one can help I really do not want to go back to GA=SP

Seems to be a known bug -- the PCL 5 driver in Win-OS/2 3.1 in the
OS/2 2.1 beta does not work.

Back off to the HP LaserJet IIP driver in the beta.

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From: ted@isgtec.com (Ted Richards)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: Can I display windowed GIFS?
Date: 5 Jan 93 13:53:37 GMT
Organization: ISG Technologies Inc. Mississauga Ont. Canada
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Paul A Prior (pprior@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu) wrote:
: As part of the maintenance of the BBS I run (Black BAg II BBS - 
: a medical BBS 614-621-8240 Call TODAY! ;) I would like to
: be able to view GIFS while I'm typing the description of
: them while I'm uploading them to my board (from home).

: Right now, I have to run VPIC in a full screen session and 
: switch back and forth to type in the descriptions.  If I try
: to run it in a window I get desktop corruption in a big way.
: I tried running switch notification on, but it didn't help.

: Can I run such a program in a window?

: I'm running a ATI Pro VESA (GW2K 66Vesa) in 8514/a mode.

Try PMView.  It's on hobbes as pmview.zip.  It was in pub/uploads a few days ago, but may
have been moved.  It ought to be in pub/os2/new if it's not.

P.S.  There's also a program called pmview5b.zip, which is something else entirely.  That's
not the one you want.

It displays an image in a window.  It adjusts the colour palette, so the desktop colours
look a little strange until you click in another window or the WPS background.

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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: lestrade@Ra.MsState.Edu (John Patrick Lestrade)
Subject: I need help with the CSF.
Organization: Mississippi State University
Date: Sun, 10 Jan 1993 23:14:26 GMT


OK, I downloaded all 14 spg3??.zip/dsk files and after booting the first
things seemed to go smoothly until the twelfth diskette.  Then it
complained about not having found a file.
(The file was something like MINXMRI.DLL)
..and it just stopped with a
pretty screen that showed me a log file of what had been done thus far.
When I checked under /os2, the file it complained about was there....
I rebooted without diskettes and my OS/2 is fine but how do I know if
the corrective surgery worked or not?

The only problem I am having after installing the csf is that my quicken
for windows (which was running perfectly well from my os/2 desktop icon)
will now only run under Win-OS/2.  Now clicking on the desktop results
in two error (or warning) msgs. ``FIle not found'' (They do not say
which file!!) and after that a msg ``DDEAGENT error''. I re-installed
quicken from scratch and still get that error.
any help would be appreciated.

thanks
patrick

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