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From: goyal@utdallas.edu (MOHIT K GOYAL)
Subject: EISA/MCA *or* Local Bus? Which is better for multitasking?
Organization: Univ. of Texas at Dallas
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 01:53:40 GMT


Hello.

I am curious as to which is better for OS/2, EISA/MCA or VL-Bus.(Vesa Local Bus)

Here is my setup:
single user on a stand alone pc.

that's pretty much it.

I will be running lotsa programs..games, word processors, Pascal, Mathcad,
whatever else.

Anyways, I would like to know which would offer better performance.

Also, does it even matter?  (ie-if EISA/MCA is much better, will it matter?
will I ever make full use of Local Bus, or vice versa?)

I plan on having a scsi-2 hard drive and a scsi cd rom.

also a sound card and an i/o card.    
(and of course a video and hd cards)

Thanks.
From: steveh@goanna.cs.rmit.oz.au (Steven Hayes)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Lost my Bitmap Fonts!!!
Date: 13 Dec 92 12:30:53 GMT
Organization: Comp Sci, RMIT, Melbourne, Australia

I'm not sure what I've done, but somehow OS/2 no longer knows about the
bitmap fonts which come standard with the system. System Proportional is
now the only bitmap font I can use for menus, etc. Helv, Courier and System
Monospaced fonts simply don't appear in any of the font selection dialogs.

all of the Adobe Type 1 fonts work fine... unfornatly these fonts look a little
tatty at small point sizes...

Any pointers or help greatly appreciated. 

Steve
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   Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT)  |  +61 3 660-2693
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: th9708@meibm8.cen.uiuc.edu (Todd Lee Henderson)
Subject: Will this work to add a 2nd drive ??
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 14:54:01 GMT

Hello all.  I currently have a Maxtor 7130 IDE drive and will be adding
a 7213 IDE drive within the week.  This is my plan of attack to try and
keep room for future growth and keep things simple.  I would like to
have  'system+commerc. apps+network apps' on the 210 meg disk and the 130 left
for thesis, docs, misc. files that are used with the above apps.  This means
moving almost everything to the new drive.  Here are the steps I plan, please
comment on whether they are possible or not.  By the way I will have no
boot manager or such here, straight OS/2.

1)  Use wpsbk9 to backup my desktop colors and stuff.

2)  Set up the new (210) drive as C: and format it and install the system
    apps, etc.

3)  Temp. set up old drive(130) as C: and restore the desktop using the wpsbk9
    utility to the D: drive.  Can wpsbk9 restore from C: drive to D: drive??
    (C: the small drive should still have the boot info on it.)  Reconfigure
    the drive so that I have C: 210 meg, D: 130 meg.

4)  Backup the stuff I want on the 130 meg drive and then reformat it to
    get rid of the system stuff and the boot info.

Step 3 is what I'm not sure about.

If anyone has any comments about the procedure, a simpler way, etc. please
let me know.  Also, if you have any comments about the disk break down let
me know.  I know I've seen some pretty complex partioning ideas, but I'm not
sure if for a home system it is worth it.  I main partion the 130 meg drive
into a 110 meg and a 20 meg drive and let the 20 be swap space.  I'll be going
to 16 or 20 meg system memory at about the same time so 20 meg should be more
than enough for that.  I may even reduce the 20 meg swap space, I haven't seen
many swapper.dat over 10 or meg even with 8 meg on the system??

Thanks,

Todd
From: cj00+@andrew.cmu.edu (Carl B Jabido)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: How to deinstall appletts?
Date: 14 Dec 92 05:46:46 GMT
Organization: Sophomore, H&SS general, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA

Excerpts from netnews.comp.os.os2.misc: 14-Dec-92 Re: How to deinstall
appletts? by Timothy F. Sipples@ellis 
> However, if you want something a little friendlier, try the new Visual
> REXX Selective Uninstall applet.  It is available via anonymous ftp
> from ftp-os2.nmsu.edu, directory /pub/uploads/sharebbs or
> /pub/uploads/sharebbs2, I believe (although it will be moved).  Check
> the "description" files in those directories for an annotated list.

Isn't there an "official" Selective Uninstall somewhere on the Service
Pack disks?  I don't remember exactly where it is, but I had it on my
system before I reformatted.  It had the same interface as Selective
Install.  It looks at what you have installed, and then asks you what
you want to uninstall.  It's decent.

Don't know what the Vrexx Selective Uninstall is like, but this is a
solution from IBM.

Carl
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: ejm@coyote.datalog.com (E.J. McKernan)
Subject: CMS Jumbo 250 use under OS2 2.0
Organization: Datalog Consulting, Tucson, AZ
Date: Sat, 12 Dec 92 08:24:45 GMT

I just installed OS2 2.0 on a new 486/33. The machine includes a
colorado memory systems jumbo 250 tape drive attached to the floppy
controller. The entire system is using the HPFS. Now a couple of
questions:

1. Is there a driver available for the CMS under OS2?
2. How can I set up a DOS session to run the DOS tape software?
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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: bsn@world.std.com (Brent S Noorda)
Subject: new ATI Ultra drivers
Summary: My experience w/new ATI Ultra drivers
Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 15:43:05 GMT

I installed the recent ATI Ultra that I had taken from the OS/2
Shareware BBS, which claimed to have just got it from ATI.  I assume
this is the same.  This is for OS/2 2.0 GA release.  You first
setup OS/2 for VGA, not 8514, and then run a short install program
that installs drivers and alters config.sys, also allowing you to
select resolutions up to 1024x768.  I chose 1024x768 because it allows
me to get even tinier text than the 8514 mode.  So now there is a little
more room on my desktop.  It doesn't seem to be any faster or better in
any way than the 8514 mode from GA install.

I installed the ATI driver because I though it would give me
seamless windows.  It didn't.  If it should have, then someone please
let me know.  My full-screen win/os-2 drivers had to be reset again
for 8514 because after the ATI install it had been set to VGA.

Summary: If you have a big screen and want all your text and icons to
get a little smaller (more/smaller stuff on your screen), then use
the new ATI drivers--but they're nothing to write home about.



Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: paul@NeoSoft.com (Paul Hutmacher)
Subject: 256 colors with Paradise?
Organization: NeoSoft Communications Services -- (713) 684-5900
Date: Sat, 12 Dec 1992 01:33:22 GMT

I must be missing something someplace but I can't seem to get 256 colors 
with OS/2 2.0 and the 10/29 CSD.  I've got a Paradise SVGA card that has
512k on it and can get 640x480x256 on it under dos or windoze and would
like to have the same under os/2.

Any suggestions, docs, faqs, or what have you?

Thanks!

-- 
Paul Hutmacher                Houston, Texas               paul@NeoSoft.Com
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc,comp.os.os2.advocacy
From: lauer@mpi-sb.mpg.de (Thomas Lauer)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: A really undeleteable file (Yes I tried ev
Date: 17 Dec 92 23:52:58 GMT
Reply-To: lauer@mpi-sb.mpg.de
Organization: Max-Planck Institut fuer Informatik

In article 4691@copper.Denver.Colorado.EDU, rvaniwaa@copper.denver.colorado.edu (Ronald J. Vaniwaarden) writes:
>if I try the gnu rm, it says rm:can't force write permission for c:/lpt1:
>no such file or directory.
>
>suggestions??
>
>--Ronald Van Iwaarden


 I've the same problem several times and here's the solution:
   -Boot Dos
   -delete the file (using del)
   -Boot OS2 from Disk and run checkdsk /F on the partition

 -Thomas

P.S.: I hope you have the FAT and not HPFS !
      If you have HPFS ...
       ... what about a low level format !

Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc,comp.os.os2.advocacy
From: hoppie@kub.nl (Jeroen Hoppenbrouwers)
Subject: Re: Why does DOS (Telix, AutoCAD, etc.) use 100%
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 92 07:34:15 GMT
Organization: Tilburg University, Tilburg, The Netherlands

In article <17DEC199220532131@zeus.tamu.edu>, rem5156@zeus.tamu.edu (The Doctor) writes:
|> ..does anyone know why my system maxes out to 100% when I use Telix, or OrCAD
|> or AutoCAD in a DOS full-screen session?
|> 
|> System: 486DX-33, 256K cache, 16MB RAM, etc.

Probably because your DOS settings tell the system session to do so  :-)

Basically, OS/2 distributes CPU cycles to every process that is ready to run
until its time slice is over or it releases the CPU or another thread with higher
priority comes available. DOS sessions do not know anything about multitasking and
therefore will never release the CPU voluntarily. Thus, OS/2 gives them as much CPU
as the system can spare (without blocking higher-priority threads, it is not
like Windogs!).

If your DOS app uses DOS/BIOS calls for e.g. keyboard requests, you can get the session
to eat less CPU by lowering the idle time and threshold settings for these programs.
Be aware that you can effectively kill Telix by this. As a trick, you can live up
a program by pressing a shift key continuously, so it gets CPU attention.

Seeing PULSE climb to 100% only tells you that the CPU is not sitting idle. It is
working all the time, but not only on your DOS session! Personally, I like
to see my CPU working   :-)



Jeroen

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Infolab, Tilburg University, The Netherlands    |  start connecting people!
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu (Timothy F. Sipples)
Subject: Re: Freaky mouse problems....
Reply-To: sip1@midway.uchicago.edu
Organization: Dept. of Econ., Univ. of Chicago
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 17:57:00 GMT

In article <1gaub6INNqs@gap.caltech.edu> werdna@cco.caltech.edu (Andrew Tong) writes:
>I have a PS/2 56 with a microsoft mouse attached running OS/2 WITH the new
>CSD.
>Whenever I move the mouse quickly in one direction or the other, the mouse
>cursor seems to "wrap around" to the other side of the screen.  For example,
>if the pointer is currently at the left side of the screen, and I jerk it to
>the right, the mouse cursor will somehow move itself back to the left side.
>It's a pretty annoying problem.  (Although whenever I use Windows, which
>doesn't do this, I find that I kinda miss the jumpiness of the mouse....  But
>I _would_ like to correct the problem....)

Is this mouse attached to your PS/2 through the PS/2 mouse port (and
not the serial port)?  Have you tried borrowing a PS/2 mouse?  Does it
suffer from the same problem?

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Dept. of Econ., Univ.   | /faq, or from LISTSERV@BLEKUL11.BITNET (send "HELP")
of Chicago, 60637       | [Read the List, THEN post to ONE OS/2 newsgroup.]
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc,comp.os.os2.programmer
From: dony@nimios.eng.mcmaster.ca (Bob Dony)
Subject: Re: Mutex (multiple session Unix terminal client...over modem!)
Organization: Communications Research Laboratory, McMaster Univ
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 15:27:38 GMT

In article <17601@umd5.umd.edu> adhir@cygnus.umd.edu (Alok Dhir) writes:
>Hello fellow happy OS/2ers (and you unhappy ones too :-) )...
>I am somewhat amazed by the efforts of Ronald Wong and his DOS mode
>comm program called Mutex.  For those of you that don't know, it is a

[cut ...]

>
>Actually, I am not sure if something like this exists already...does it?  
>Any info is appreciated.  And please, if you think you can do it, DO IT!
>
>The author of Mutex is Ronald Wong, tow@egret.medsch.wisc.edu...

There is another similar piece of software called UW - Unix Windows.
It's also a host-client arrangement.  The host has been developed for
BSD and there are client versions for the Amiga, the Mac, DOS &
Windows. (I believe it was originally developed for the Amiga) It's
been around for quite a while.  I'm using the Windows version in
seamless.  The released version 1.03 for windows has only adm31
emulation, but the beta 1.04 has pretty decent vt100 support & ZModem.
The person who is writing the Windows version is Russ Poffenberg
(poffen@sj.ate.slb.com).  I hear rumours that a PM version is being
worked on.

This type of comm package is *very nice* -- just like having multiple
xterms without the overhead of X.

(IMHO anyway)


-- 
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Communications Research Laboratory                      +1 416 525 9140 x7282
McMaster University, 1280 Main Street West                                   
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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: stimpy@nmt.edu (John Reynolds)
Subject: Re: Win 3.1 for OS/2 will >not< release this month
Organization: New Mexico Tech
Date: Sun, 13 Dec 1992 02:41:29 GMT

>about tho. i've sworn off Borland compilers for life simply because they
>wont't publish a known bug list.

Sworn off borland compilers? What else is better? They've got the best
product out that I've seen. No flame. I'm asking honestly, what did you
replace it with? MSC?????

-Jr



-- 
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Windows...It's like a stale cookie.    | John Reynolds stimpy@jupiter.nmt.edu
OS/2..."It's like buudaah" (SNL quote) | New Mexico Tech. #10 and rising!!!

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Organization: Computing Technology Services, Michigan Technological Univ.
Date: Friday, 18 Dec 1992 09:04:05 EST
From: Phat M Tran <TRAN@MTUS5.BITNET>
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc,comp.os.os2
Subject: Re: WinOS2 driver for the IAA display card
 <92352.091237TRAN@MTUS5.BITNET>
 <1992Dec17.161801.22329@sernews.raleigh.ibm.com>

> In <92352.091237TRAN@MTUS5.BITNET> Phat M Tran <TRAN@MTUS5.BITNET> writes:
> >
> >I too have the same IBM ImageAdapter/A connected to NEC/MultiSync 5D
> >running at 1280 by 1024.  However, WinOS2 can only use 640 by 480.
> >Solution to this problem will be greately appreciated.
> >
>
> Phat
>
> As of this moment in time there is *no* solution.  What several people I know
> do is run a second display adapter, such as an XGA, in their system.  They
> configure PM/WPS to run on the IAA and full screen sessions on the XGA.  They
> then run WIN-OS2 in the full screen session at XGA resolution.
>
> I can say that the problem has been acknowledged by the IA/A developers in
> Japan.  What I cannot say, because I don't know, is what they will do about
> it.

Since I run OS/2 2.0 with SP on an IBM PS/2 Model 95.  This computer
comes standard with XGA, I added IBM ImageAdapter/A.  Thus, both
are available and connected to the NEC/MultiSync 5D.  I can flip a
switch on the monitor to tell it which input to get.  How can I configure
WIN-OS2 to take advantage of XGA resolution??  (In WIN-OS2's setup
option, you can only change networking option.  There's no
video option...).

Thanks in advance...
Phat
From: sal8@po.cwru.edu (Steve Luzynski)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: What is going wrong with video driver support?
Date: 12 Dec 92 19:20:43 GMT
Organization: Case Western Reserve University
NNTP-Posting-Host: b61442.student.cwru.edu

In article <1gb2jvINNrup@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu> dab6@po.CWRU.Edu (Douglas A. Bell) writes:
>From: dab6@po.CWRU.Edu (Douglas A. Bell)
>Subject: What is going wrong with video driver support?
>Date: 11 Dec 1992 21:53:03 GMT
>
>
>It is obvious that something is going really wrong inside IBM.
>
>Why can't that get more than 1 video board manufacturer to write 
>video drivers?
>
>It's easier to get autocad drivers than os/2 2.0 drivers.
>
>And it's been almost 9 months!!!
>-- 

I have _my_ drivers....I can't help but giggle to myself everytime I see a 
video message - I got lucky enough to purchase one of the BOCA SVGA cards 
with the ET4000 chipset - yes, the one listed in the readme as specifically 
supported.

I agree that there's something wrong, though. Does anyone know what the most 
popular video cards are? I know around here most people have Tridents since 
that's what the bookstore sells.

I'd write some drivers but I only have one computer and it has that lovely 
ET4000 in it... :)

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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: pricejoh@CS.ColoState.EDU (john russel price)
Subject: okidata 390 drvers
Date: Sun, 13 Dec 1992 16:16:59 GMT
Organization: Colorado State University Computer Science, Industrial Technology

 I need a Okidata 390  printer driver for my os2 2.0.
 Any one know if it available or not? Or where to get.
 Pleas let me know.

Thanks.

-- 
John Price    email: pricejoh@handel.CS.Colostate.Edu
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: habke@news.cc.umanitoba.ca  (William habke)
Subject: Re: showini problem
Nntp-Software: PC/TCP NNTP
Organization: University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 15:14:27 GMT

In article <10195@blue.cis.pitt.edu.UUCP> djbpitt+@pitt.edu (David J Birnbaum) writes:

 >> I have used copyini (alias cpyini) to reduce the size of my ini files,
 >> but this requires the user to reboot from a floppy in order to replace
 >> the old ini files with the new, shrunken ones. One user informed me that
 >> showini was able to replace ini files while the system was running.
 >> "A significant advantage," thought I.
 >> 
 >> The backups went smoothly, but the restores did not. The restore stopped
 >> suddenly in the middle (after lpt3) and OS/2 crashed; I could move the
 >> mouse cursor, but nothing on the desktop responded to clicking and
 >> control-escape had no effect. The three finger salute generated a
 >> "system is rebooting" message, but no activity after several minutes of
 >> waiting. The big red button did the trick; chkdsk corrected one
 >> allocation error and everything came up fine (using the old ini files).
 >> I then used copyini to clean up my ini files without problems.
 >> 
 >> Has anyone else had trouble restoring with showini? I backed up to OS/2
 >> format, using "showini /b /s" and restored with "showini /r /s".
 >> Although the system was running, I wasn't doing anything else at the
 >> time that should have been affecting the ini files: alrmpro was running
 >> quietly in a corner and a full-screen Win-OS/2 session was up, but with
 >> no applications running. Any ideas what went wrong?
 >> 
 >> On a related topic, my os2sys.ini file grew by some 40k after I started
 >> alrmpro. Anyone else seen this?
 >> 
 >> Thanks,
 >> 
 >> 
 >> David
From: ericwolf@mentor.cc.purdue.edu (Eric Wolf)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: Trap 000C HEEELLLPPPP!
Date: 17 Dec 92 15:14:46 GMT
Organization: Purdue University Computing Center

In article <BzE235.AEp@news.cso.uiuc.edu> nap42487@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Nishith A. Patel) writes:
>ericwolf@mentor.cc.purdue.edu (Eric Wolf) writes:
>
>>In the middle of playing Mike Ditka's football game in a full-screen
>>DOS session, I got an error.  Well, it forced me to do a hard reset and
>>then when I selected OS/2 from the boot manager, it started to boot up
>>OS/2 and then it came up trap 000c - blah blah blah ( lots of register
>>info and it told me to contact a service rep.)
>
>>Well, I rebooted and again it said this again.  So, I tried to boot off the
>>floppies and I got past the first disk (installation disk) and then I got 1/2
>>way thru the 2nd one or so (disk #1) when it said that it could not open CON:
>>and it could not continue without it.
>
>Did you only try bpotting off the hard drive twice? I would try to do it more
>often; I frequently have to boot three times to get it to actually boot without
>a trap 0002 (and wait through that "chkdsk corrected allocation error" junk).
>don't know if trap 000c, though.
>
>
>>- Eric

Well, I booted more than three times!!!  And it appears to be a hardware
failure because now my computer won't even turn on!!! :( :( :(
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: rsrodger@wam.umd.edu (Yamanari)
Subject: Re: Boot Manager: Does any one have a compatibility list?
Keywords: Boot Manager Digital Research DR DOS
Organization: University of Maryland, College Park
Date: Sun, 13 Dec 1992 19:24:14 GMT

In article <1992Dec13.174111.20310@athena.mit.edu> andreast@athena.mit.edu (Andreas Turanski) writes:
>with DR-DOS, any and all files which are in a SuperStor partition
>canNOT be accessed in _any_way_ while running OS/2 2.0.  Trust me.


	If you're interested, you can in fact get a sort of
	read-only Superstore through an image, but it's not 
	worth the effort.  The person to ask is Charline Black,
	find her in the OS/2 conference on a RIME system--she 
	claims to have done so.


>1: Do NOT run CHKDSK on your DR-DOS partition(s) from under OS/2.
>   NOTE: I think that this also applies to other (i.e. MS/PC DOSs).


	I've run chkdsk (OS/2) on my DRDOS partition a number of
	times with no problems (either under OS/2 or when booting
	to DRDOS).  I remember getting some weird behavior back
	when I was using a lot of read-only and password'd files
	on my DRDOS partition, but I don't recal this being
	tied to chkdsk.  

	Please describe this problem--I've been running OS/2 + DRDOS
	(Win3.1) for about 4 months w/o problem.  

	I will say that in the interim using the DRDOS security
	feature (and dual boot) is acceptable until OS/2 implements
	something.  


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