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From: mr11@crux2.cit.cornell.edu (Mohammad REZAEI)
Subject: Bernoulli Drivers - $50?
Organization: Cornell Information Technologies
Date: 16 Oct 92 15:32:38 GMT

I recently purchased a 90 MB Bernoulli drive (HDI's new deal, where you
get 2 cartridges and the drive for $500). 
I just got off the phone with Iomega and they said that the OS/2 driver
was $49. I remember seeing a post before claiming that the drivers were only
~ $15. Do I have to do something to get this price (talk to the right person,
etc) or was the previous post erroneous?

e-mail or post.
Thanks in advance.

							-Mohammad

P.S., why would they charge so much for the drivers?
I guess a monopoly has some advantages :-<

Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: jake@nora.dei.unipd.it (Luca Polo)
Subject: Re: Information about video drivers for OS/2 2.0...
Organization: Universita' di Padova, Italia
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1992 09:33:11 GMT

In article <1992Oct10.211248.1361@grebyn.com> mfraioli@grebyn.com (Marc Fraioli) writes:
>In article <1b74o0INNcjf@iskut.ucs.ubc.ca> ochealth@unixg.ubc.ca (ochealth) writes:
>>In article <1992Oct10.161500.29370@utdallas.edu> goyal@utdallas.edu (Mohit K. Goyal) writes:

<omissis>

>>ARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
>>
>>No Trident! The current Trident drivers are so lame!
>>>
>>>ALL of the above drivers are being written by IBM!
>Agreed.  At first, I was happy that my video card was one of the few
>that happened to be supported.  Now I am irritated that my video card is
>the one with slow, buggy drivers that don't implement all the features
>they should (eg VGA graphics in a window).   Recommendations on an
>upgrade?

I agree, too. I get my PC in May, and I was quite happy when I saw trident
drivers for OS/2 2.0. But now it seems that nobody has interest in developing
new releases, and I'm stuck of slow 16 colors screens (I make a heavy use
of seamless, since switching from a full-screen session to another is
annoying; moreover, 256-color drivers have some bugs that leave garbage on
screen when you switch from OS/2 to WINOS2 - this is under 800x600).
If Trident won't release new drivers within a reasonable amount of time, I
think I'll change my video board... how about that 65536-color, 2 MB NCR
board ? :-)

					Luca Polo
From: chris@quay.ie (Christopher Davey)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: COM port hanging machine
Keywords: OS2 COM PORT HANG
Date: 16 Oct 92 07:59:59 GMT
Organization: Quay Financial Software

iandu@quay.ie writes:

>Machines:
>Tandon MCS 383/33
>Another unnamed clone

>Operating system:
>OS2 v1.3.2
>OS2 v2.0 GA

>Symptoms:
>Reading and writing successfully to a COM port for between 1 min to 1 hr.
>Suddenly the machine completely hangs in DosWrite to the COM port.

>Request:
>Does anybody know of a fix for this?
>Has this happened to anyone else?

After further investigation, we have determined that this only happens to
COM2, not COM1.

Is there a fix for this ?
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From: 880506s@dragon.acadiau.ca (James R. Skinner)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: Dual Monitor support?
Date: 14 Oct 92 01:29:10 GMT
Organization: Acadia University

holger@perm.geologie.uni-freiburg.de (Holger Hussy) writes:

>n which way can I use a secondary MDA display under OS/2?
>At the moment I just can switch to it. My Borland- Compiler 
>supports two display monitor debugging. Is more possible?

I two have just added a secondary MDA display and the best
thing that I have found for it thus far is ECHOMON.  It is
a server program that copies a fullscreen OS/2 session to
the MDA screen, thus allowing full functional text session
on the monocrome screen.  It also includes a program called
stuff that you can run from the WPS and it will send keystrokes
and mouse movements to the fullscreen ( and echoed monitor)

It works quite well, except that with GA code you are unable
to run dos or windows session without messing up ECHOMON.
I just got the GRE+win3.1 beta today and that problam has
disappeared....

I would be interested in hearing of anyother soulutions.
(Apart from IBM making it work properly and update any
screen even if it does not have the focus.  Like Windoze..)

 
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From: hermann@catull.uni-passau.de (Michael Hermann)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re : DONT BUY OS2---IT'S HORRIBLE !
Date: 15 Oct 92 12:00:09 GMT
Followup-To: Re : DONT BUY OS2---IT'S HORRIBLE !
Organization: University of Passau, Germany


I have not read the original post but I assume someone has difficulties to
install his CD-Rom....

The drivers provided by OS2 do only support two (don't ask me which..) CD-Roms,
but they do work for others as well ! According to a mag I read you only have
to change the name of the CD-Rom in the device drivers to match with the name
of your CD-Rom (I do not know whether this works with most other CD-Roms, but
IMO it's worth a try). As to why the name is included if this is the only
problem with other CD-Roms I do not have the slightest clue...

Hope this helps

  - Mike
From: joiner@exa.cs.umn.edu (Jay K. Joiner)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: Please explain '.inf' files! What are they?
Date: 9 Oct 92 15:12:34 GMT
Organization: University of Minnesota

In <david.718588889@mlb.geomechanics.csiro.au> david@mlb.geomechanics.csiro.au (David Le Blanc) writes:

>I have downloaded the ps2asst.zoo, which contains a group of files ending in
>'.inf'

>These files are not ascii, but are probably something incredibly simple such
>as me needing to use the 'help' browser to read them.

>If anyone could provide the missing clue i'd appreciate it.

These are used with the VIEW command, and should be placed in the
BOOKSHELF directory, usually \OS2\BOOKSHELF.  Then you can just
say VIEW <file>, where <file> is the root name of the .INF file.
From: gac2@ellis.uchicago.edu (Geoffrey A. Coulter)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: Always SCSI problems
Date: 16 Oct 92 04:08:02 GMT
Article-I.D.: midway.1992Oct16.040802.22534
Reply-To: gac2@midway.uchicago.edu
Organization: University of Chicago Computing Organizations

In article <ins822u.719033896@aurora.cc.monash.edu.au> ins822u@aurora.cc.monash.edu.au (David Peterson) writes:
>Has anyone had any problems with the Always IN-2000 SCSI card? Since
>installing OS/2, I haven't been able to write to this drive without the
>information becomming corrupted. I can read from the SCSI anytime, and
>can also read and write from my Quantum IDE without any problems.
>
>An Example : In CMD (or 4OS2), I copy all files in \os2 on the IDE to the
>SCSI, then perform a COMPare on them. The compare reports errors on almost
>every file I have just copied.
>
>I have had no problems with the SCSI under DOS.
>
>I have also checked the Bios of the adapter - it is the latest revision, and
>so is a different problem than the one outlined in OS2TNT.INF.
>
>Please help! I'm stuck with using the Quantum at the moment, and am forced
>to live without more than half of my total hard drive space!
>
>David.

I would guess that you have some sort of conflict between the IDE and
the Always.  I say this because my Always card has installed and
worked flawlessly, but it had some problems when it was cohabiting
with an Ultrastor 12F (ESDI).  If you can, I suggest pulling your IDE,
reinstalling OS/2 just on the Always/Quantum, and seeing if you can
read and write.  Alternatively, prepare a bootable floppy for the
SCSI, then pull the IDE, boot, and try reading and writing.

Good luck,

Geoffrey Coulter
From: nan@matt.ksu.ksu.edu (Nan Zou)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Has this bug been fixed?
Date: 14 Oct 1992 00:04:58 -0500
Organization: Kansas State University
NNTP-Posting-Host: matt.ksu.ksu.edu

I looked through the APAR listings and didn't see this problem mentioned
anywhere.  The bug is this: when you minimize a text mode OS/2 or DOS
program (windowed or fullscreen) to the desktop, the WPS displays the
default butt-ugly gray icon instead of the icon you've assigned to the
program in its folder.  This is quite annoying and one of things Windows
3.0 got a bum rap on.  I haven't had time to test it on the 32-bit GRE
beta (it's on a friend's machine), but I do hope it gets fixed soon.

-- Nan
From: michael.hagerty@nitelog.com (Michael Hagerty) 
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: FOLDER from Hell!
Date: 14 Oct 92 19:16:00 GMT
Distribution: world
Organization: Nitelog BBS - Monterey, CA - 408-655-1096
Reply-To: michael.hagerty@nitelog.com (Michael Hagerty) 

On 10-14-92, SLAM@DESIRE.WRIGHT.EDU wrote to ALL:

S> I knwo this has come up before but it never happened to me until today.
S> I have been afflicted with the "FOLDER" from hell. I cannot delete or
S> shred it. Anyway I can rid myself of this blot on my WPS?

What has worked for me is to go to the OS/2 prompt, CD down to above that
folder and (after checking that there is nothing in that directory) RD the
directory.  Worked perfectly...

Regards, Mikey (michael.hagerty@nitelog.com)
 * JABBER v1.3B1 #B042 * If I gie ya any more, Captain, she'll blow!
From: ericwolf@mentor.cc.purdue.edu (Eric Wolf)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: ATI Wonder XL/24
Date: 13 Oct 92 21:08:13 GMT
Organization: Purdue University Computing Center

It has been rumored that IBM will be providing ATI VGA Wonder OS/2 2.0
32 bit drivers...  Now, I have been forced to replace my OEM ATI VGA
Wonder (512k onboard) with a new board.  I was thinking about the
ATI VGA Wonder XL/24 because I can upgrade to it for $110.

Will these drivers IBM will be shipping with the CSD support this new
card?  Or, more specifically, does anyone know WHAT modes they will support
if it won't do all of them!

Thanks!!

- Eric Wolf
  ericwolf@mentor.cc.purdue.edu
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: jokim@jarthur.claremont.edu (John H. Kim)
Subject: Re: Don't put program shadows on Desktop!
Organization: Harvey Mudd College, Claremont, CA 91711
Date: Thu, 8 Oct 1992 04:58:40 GMT

kjb@calmasd.prime.com (Ken Brucker) writes:

>In article <1992Oct6.035227.17717@muddcs.claremont.edu>, jokim@jarthur.claremont.edu (John H. Kim) writes:

>> If you make a shadow of an object in the drives object, you will have
>> problems.
>> 
>> I think copying an object from the drives object copies the actual file,
>> so you don't want to do that.

>So, if I wanted to shadow a folder from the drives object to the desktop,
>what method should I use instead?  And what sort of problems might I get
>myself into if I continue to shadow a folder to the desktop?

Shadowing folders seems to work OK.  I haven't run into any problems with
the few folders I have shadowed to the desktop.  Just don't rename the
shadow unless you want to rename the original folder (that's the only
real problem I've found with shadowing files and programs from the
drives object, which is a pretty serious problem).

Definitely don't copy folders to the desktop.  You'll be copying the
entire contents of the folder (directory) to the "OS!2 2.0 Desktop"
directory.
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From: dic5340@hertz.njit.edu (David Charlap)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: Why do windows move around?
Date: 16 Oct 92 17:38:39 GMT
Distribution: comp.os.os2.misc
Organization: New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, N.J.

In article <GHENNIGA.92Oct15212744@ampere.ampere> ghenniga@NMSU.Edu writes:
>In an article stimpy@nmt.edu (John Reynolds) writes:
>>PROBLEM: You are running a cmd.exe or 4os2.exe session inside of a window. It
>>is located in the middle of your desktop. You execute a DOS app from said
>>commandline, your 4os2.exe window disappears, and the VDM session window
>>opens (in an unpredictable location at that). You get done with the dos
>>app and exit, and your original 4os2.exe window is now repositioned at the
>>upper left hand corner of the desktop (started in the middle before the DOS
>>app).
>
>	Not a problem with your video card, I think this is supposed to be
>a "feature". This only happens when you use maximized windows that you have
>maximized with the button in the upper-right corner of that window. If you
>maximize the window by hand, i.e., resizing the window via it's borders,
>this won't happen. Kind of a hassle but it works!

If you start your DOS app with a "START" command, then the original
(4OS2) window shouldn't disappear at all.
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From: dab6@po.CWRU.Edu (Douglas A. Bell)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: Viruses under OS/2
Date: 8 Oct 1992 14:45:42 GMT
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
Reply-To: dab6@po.CWRU.Edu (Douglas A. Bell)
NNTP-Posting-Host: thor.ins.cwru.edu


In a previous article, hafting@Lise.Unit.NO (Helge Hafting) says:

>When os/2 is running, it will put limits on what a virus can do.  A virus will
>be able to infect executable files both on HPFS and FAT partitions.
>But it is not supposed to be able to infect boot sectors or partition tables,
>as the "absolute disk write" bios interrupt is controlled by os/2.
>Don't be too sure however, I got a mail from someone who claimed that the
>stoned virus destroyed his disk when he was running os/2 only.  There is
>probably a bug in the disk handling system that made this possible.

What is more likely here is that the fellow powered up his computer
with an infected disk in the a: drive.  Before os/2 could start up,
the virus loaded itself into memory and tried to infect the hard drive,
but instead corrupted it.  OS/2 could not stop this because it would
happen before os/2 was loaded.
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: hshaw@Xenon.Stanford.EDU (Hubert Shaw)
Subject: Swapping Ctrl & CapsLock in os/2
Summary: How does one swap the ctrl and capslock keys
Keywords: keyboard
Organization: CS Department, Stanford University, California, USA
Distribution: comp
Date:  7 Oct 92 11:06:22 GMT

I was curious if there is anyway to swap the ctrl and caps-lock keys
under os/2.  Under DOS I had an int 15 handler which did the trick.  This
still works inside a DOS window, but I would like the effects to span all
os/2 apps.  Perhaps someone has written a souped up keyboard handler/driver
(is that the correct term?)  Any comments are appreciated.

- Hubert

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From: nevries@accucx.cc.ruu.nl (Nico E de Vries)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Will OS/2 2.0 finally support my Syquest?
Date: 10 Oct 92 12:23:11 GMT
Organization: Academic Computer Centre Utrecht

Is there somewere between al those CSD's and upgrades the promised
Syquest support? The Syquest standard SCSI controller is not recognized
and OS/2 is not removable harddisk aware. I would personally prefer
Syquest support above Win3.1 support :-)

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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: aaa@hpuerca.atl.hp.com (Simon Fowler)
Subject: Re: installation feedback, multiple partitions
Date: Fri, 16 Oct 1992 22:47:22 GMT
Organization: Hewlett-Packard Company, Atlanta GA

In article <5445@rosie.NeXT.COM>, sam_s@NeXT.com (Sam Streeper) writes:
> The curious thing about this installation is that it looks like logical drives  
> in an extended partition are not bootable like "normal" partitions, which is  
> why IBM supplies the bootmanager, a program that runs from a normal bootable  
> partition and knows how to boot both normal partitions and logical drives.
> 
> Perhaps this is apparent to others, but until I figured it out I was having  
> nothing but trouble.  My final disk layout looks like this:
> 
> Partition 1 = Primarty DOS with dos installed
> Partition 2 = Extended DOS partition
> 	then create a logical drive and mark it installable
> 	in my case the logical drive occupies 100% of the partition
> Partition 3 = mach
> Partition 4 = boot manager
> 
> 
> It seems to me it would have been much less convoluted if OS/2 (at least for  
> the HPFS) occupied its own "normal" partition, since it requires one to be able  
> to boot anyway.  Something I missed?

I'm not clear on what problem you are having here. Here is my set-up:

Partition 1:   Boot Manager     - primary
Partition 2:   OS/2 1.3         - primary
Partition 3:   DOS 5.0          - primary
Partition 4:   Logical Partition consisting of:
               5: OS/2 2.0 GA
               6: FAT volume
               7: OS/2 2.01 Beta

The disc will only accept 4 primary partitions. As you state, Boot Manager will boot
both primary and logical partitions. When I first installed OS/2 2.0, I believe that I 
tried using 4 primaries instead of letting the 4th be a logical. Works fine for me.
I know that some of the people here have had problems when they tried to use BSD386
since that did not like to co-exist.

simon
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: OS/2 2.x would loose its battle against Windows NT if... 
From: Steve.Withers@bbs.actrix.gen.nz
Date: Fri, 9 Oct 1992 11:07:24 GMT
Organization: Actrix Information Exchange

In article <1992Oct8.041819.6393@news.Hawaii.Edu> lkan@uhunix.uhcc.Hawaii.Edu (Linus Kan) writes:
> 
> o NT sells for below $199
> o NT tailored to Intel x86 platform and sells for below $99
> 
> I'll probably switch to NT and get a better desktop manager
> (eg. a future 32-bit Norton Desktop).
> 
> :) lkan
>  

At the demonstration of Windows for Worgroups that I attended today, the
Microsoft people took great pains to spell out in words of single sylabbles
that NT was not intended as a desktop system. It will be a file server or very
high end operating system for people running very hungry - multiple - apps. 
 
They said slowly, clearly, and repeated it often........
 
Steve

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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc,comp.os.os2.programmer
From: gdeniso@hubcap.clemson.edu (Gregory W Denisowski)
Subject: Re: Is Windows 3.0 programming very different from OS/2 PM  prog.?
Organization: Clemson University, Clemson SC
Distribution: usa
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 1992 15:27:27 GMT

In article <ANDRZEJ.92Oct9165022@bcars268.bnr.ca> andrzej@bnr.ca (Andrzej Bieszczad) writes:

[ Various interesting information deleted ]

>If IBM gets rid of the bugs, provides SVGA and fixes the message
>queue problem, it will be a very good system as well. I really like
>WPS.

"Fixing the message queue problem" is a bit trickier than it sounds.
It would require an entire re-write of the PM interface and there would
need to be some code revisions for most (if not all) PM programs as well.

From what I remember hearing a long time ago, OS/2 2.1 (or the next big,
big release aside from the Service Pack improvements, and in fact, I think
in the release that is supposed to have POSIX compliance in 93/94) PM
will re-written or have in addition to itself a client-server based
system of handling messages instead of the synchronized message queue
currently used.
 
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From: dic5340@hertz.njit.edu (David Charlap)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: How do I create a FONT?
Date: 9 Oct 92 18:20:09 GMT
Organization: New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, N.J.

In article <6OCT199221344351@sigma.tamu.edu> css0860@zeus.tamu.edu writes:
>
>Suppose I wanted to create an ATM font.  What do I need?

An Adobe developer's kit, I'd assume.  I believe the structure of the
.AFM files is documented in it.  Contact Adobe (not IBM) for
information on this.

To create bitmapped fonts, a font editor is provided in the Toolkit.

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dic5340@hertz.njit.edu| software; and the computer industry doesn't have enough
----------------------+ programmers to create that much good software.
Therefore, most of it must be worthless" -- Boris Beizer "The Frozen Keyboard"
From: MLONG@isucard.card.iastate.edu
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: OS/2 1.3 SNA Gataway and ES 1.0
Date: 14 Oct 92 19:21:58 GMT
Article-I.D.: isucard.16880BBF9.MLONG
Organization: CARD

In article <Bw4E4w.Jrt@news.udel.edu>                                           
turtle@brahms.udel.edu (Anthony J Collins) writes:                              
                                                                                
>I have an OS/2 1.3 SNA Gateway that connects to an IBM mainframe.              
>Today, I installed Extended Services 1.0 on a PC that is running hte           
>1.3 base operating system.  When I started Communications Manager, I           
>received a 3270 emulation screen and the world seemed to be happy.  My         
>question is Can Extended Services software talk to a 1.3 SNA Gateway           
>without any problems?  It appears to work, but I was under the impression      
>that I had to have an ES 1.0 SNA Gateway talking to an ES 1.0 Communications   
>Manager for the world to be happy.  Any thoughts????                           
>                                                                               
>Tony                                                                           
>                                                                               
>                                                                               
I think this is supported, 1.3 EE SNA gateway to a downstream ES 1.0 workstatio 
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Mike Long                                                                       
Iowa State University                                                           
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