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From: fly@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Neil)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.apps
Subject: irit
Date: 12 Aug 92 14:12:54 GMT
Reply-To: fly@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Neil)
Organization: The University of Texas at Austin, Austin TX
Originator: fly@sleepy.cc.utexas.edu


 Has anyone tried to run IRIT (a computational solid geometry modeller)
under the OS/2 VDMs? I tried yesterday but it failed.

  This would be another good port because the dos 640k barrier destroys
the usability of this program for any sort of complex figures.  Also, if I 
understand correctly, OS/2 will emulate a co-procesor on michines without 
one, which should give a little speed improvement as well.


Thank you for any input.
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From: joiner@micro.cs.umn.edu (Jay K. Joiner)
Subject: Re: Can't run Ghostscript
Organization: University of Minnesota
Date: Mon, 17 Aug 1992 16:42:17 GMT

In <js.31.714063714@gaaj.uottawa.ca> js@gaaj.uottawa.ca (Jean-Serge Gagnon) writes:

>In article <1992Aug17.124841.20616@monu6.cc.monash.edu.au> parry@yoyo.cc.monash.edu.au (Tom J Parry) writes:
>>When I try and run either gs.cmd or gs.exe I get an error saying a file
>>could not be found "EMX". If I try run os2pmdrv, it says os2pmdrv is not
>>found. (I didn't expect os2pmdrv to run but I didn't expect a file not
>>found error)

>I have the same problem. Could someone please tell us why????

The correct version of EMX.DLL file must be somewhere on the LIBPATH. You
can find out what the LIBPATH is by checking in CONFIG.SYS.  You should
probably put it in \OS2\APPS\DLL.

There wasn't an EMX.DLL file included in the GS25OS2.ZOO distribution, but
you can get one from another archive.  I used the one from GROFFEXE.ZOO.

I would also be careful about naming an .EXE and .CMD with the same root
name.  This could cause problems because of the way CMD.EXE searches
for commands.

Jay Joiner
From: "roger ramsey" <roger.ramsey@canrem.com>
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.apps
Subject: os/2-the user's view
Date: 13 Aug 92 15:42:05 EST
Reply-To: "roger ramsey" <roger.ramsey@canrem.com>
Distribution: comp
Organization: Canada Remote Systems

Dave Tholen wrote on 08-11-92 regarding OS/2-THE USER'S VIEW:

DT>None of the Microsoft products I use are bug-free, and some of the bugs 
DT>that I've reported and that have been acknowledged by the developers 
DT>have gone unfixed for four years.  IBM seems to be doing at least as 
DT>good a job of fixing bugs as Microsoft, if not better.

None of the Microsoft products I use are bug free either.  However, if I 
recall correctly, IBM was the company that mdae a big deal about shipping 
OS/2 2.0 on time and bug free.  I don't recall Microsoft making such a 
statement openly about their products in recent history.

Roj

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From: fearick@physci.uct.ac.za (Roger Fearick)
Subject: GNUPLOT for PM
Date: Sun, 23 Aug 1992 10:59:54 GMT
Organization: Physics Department, University of Cape Town

Hi All,

I have uploaded to hobbes (ftp-os2.nmsu.edu) the latest version of
GNUPLOT for PM.
See pub/downloads/gnupltpm1-2.zoo

This is the 'faster' version of gnuplot.
It contains a few things to inprove the user interface:
1) Settings and window positions can now be saved (optionally).
2) The PM window will move to the foreground when plotting. The 
command window can be brought to the foreground by a menu item. This makes
it quite convenient to work with the PM window maximised to full screen.
3) A 'thick line' option is provided which is useful for plots output
via the PM window to a laser printer.

Enjoy!
Roger.


Roger Fearick                 *  Internet: fearick@physci.uct.ac.za
Dept. of Physics              *
University of Cape Town       *
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1992 11:39:41 EDT
From: James Justice <JAY@wvnvm.wvnet.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.apps
Subject: Re: FTTerm configuration questions

In article <92225.215906MORRISON@UCF1VM.BITNET>, MORRISON@UCF1VM.BITNET (Aaron
Morrison) says:
>
>First.  I am using the FTTERMC protocol to dial in to an IBM 4381 mainframe
>running VM/ESA (or CMS) release 5.  We have a 7171 communications server.
>All of this works.   What I want to know is how do you change the colors
>that the terminal program displays?  I have tried to change the colors
>from the customize pull down menu, but any changes I make there seem to
>make no difference.
>
>Also.  I would like to know how to generate PF13 through PF24.  I have
>tried many combinations, but to no success.  The logical placement would
>be to shift the function keys, but that doesnt seem to work.

I am currently using CKERMIT and like it fairly well.  I have tested the
PMFTERM product (I was a former happy user of FTTERM) and it is a very
nice product!  My only real bitches is that it does not support PF13-24
and I want a way to customize the keys.  The KERMIT way is not very user
friendly but it works well and you only have to do it once.  If this
product supported the 3270 KEY set better, I would likely convert!
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From: zisi@opal.cs.tu-berlin.de (Andreas Zisowsky)
Subject: Re: FDFORMAT and TIMESET under OS/2
Organization: Techn. University of Berlin, Germany
Distribution: fb20
Date: Wed, 12 Aug 1992 21:32:48 GMT

Hello,
>
>haven't tried reading the FDFORMATed diskettes yet so I am not sure how this

No, you can't read those disks under Dos-sessions. If you really have to use
fdread you must boot under OS/2 from a Dos-disk. Then fdread will work.

Andreas

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From: ear@wpi.WPI.EDU (Mr. Neat-O [tm])
Subject: Re: Shareware wish list  -or-  does it exist?
Organization: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date: Tue, 18 Aug 1992 22:42:35 GMT

In article <1992Aug18.165219.11745@njitgw.njit.edu> dic5340@hertz.njit.edu (David Charlap) writes:
>In article <66240@hydra.gatech.EDU> vapspgd@prism.gatech.EDU (Edward Hefter) writes:
>>c)  Some kind of file manager to work through my Copy II PC Deluxe Option
>>Board.  If the Mac can read and write IBM disks, I should be able to read and
>>write their disks, dammit!!!   The Copy II PC Deluxe Option Card (what a
>>mouthful) does work in a normal DOS windowed session with commands such as
>>mcopy, mdir, mdel, mtype, mcd, mmkdir, mformat.
>
>If there are any enterprising developers out there, it seems that this
>could best be done by writing a Mac-format .IFS driver.  This way, Mac
>disks would be recognized as any other foreign file-system - OS/2 and
>WPS using it seamlessly (like they do to HPFS) and DOS being able to
>see 8.3 files.

The main problem with reading MAC disks, as I understand it, is that the MAC
uses a variable speed floppy drive.  Thus, you need special hardware, such
as the Copy II PC Deluxe Option Card, to read a MAC disk, even though the
reverse is not true.

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From: hacker@cco.caltech.edu (Jonathan Bruce Hacker)
Subject: Re: DIRMANPM V2.0 ???
Organization: California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
Date: Fri, 21 Aug 1992 19:41:15 GMT

affie@earley.sns.neuphilologie.uni-tuebingen.de (Ralf Affie Hauser) writes:

>Hi friends of the object oriented design,

>Does anybody know whether DIRMANPM V2.0 was already released?!
>I was told that it's in its final beta test and that it is to be released
>in these days.

>affie, still waiting for THE file commander under OS/2


Paula of UB software told me she hoped to release V2.0 today if the
beta released earlier this week goes well.  (I have found it to be
solid, and hopefully other testers have too.)

I will make sure a demonstration copy goes on ftp-os2.nmsu.edu
as soon as Paula gives the word.  The price was to be $25 last time 
I heard.



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From: fearick@physci.uct.ac.za (Roger Fearick)
Subject: Faster GNUPLOT
Date: Fri, 14 Aug 1992 12:47:01 GMT
Organization: Physics Department, University of Cape Town

In response to popular demand I have uploaded to hobbes (aka ftp-os2.nmsu.
edu) a version of GNUPLOT for os/2 PM that plots MUCH faster.
See pub/downloads/gnupltpm.zoo of 14 August.

Enjoy.

Roger.

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Dept. of Physics              *
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From: t9114145@phillip.edu.au
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.apps
Subject: Strange Telix/Kermit transfer problems
Date: 22 Aug 92 18:14:43 GMT
Organization: RMIT (Bundoora Campus)


I'm having strange problems using Telix 3.15 when downloading from a Sony
workstation using Kermit. The Kermit used is ftp'ed, and compiled on the 
Sony, it seems to be working fine. 
 
The only way Kermit will transfer the files properly is if the control key
on my keyboard is held down. When the key is held down, I get about 110-120
cps transfer rate, as about as good as I'd expect from Kermit at 2400. When
the key is not held down it gets about 12 cps, with only sporadic bursts of
data coming through. I am using Telix in an OS/2 dos window. This is most
annoying: when I'm downloading I want to be able to multitask but if the
control key has to be held down I can't do it. 
 
I am using a 16550, but at 2400 baud that shouldn't matter should it? 
Any help appreciated.

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From: ear@penny.WPI.EDU (Mr. Neat-O [tm])
Subject: Re: OS/2 Shareware/Freeware
Organization: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date: Mon, 17 Aug 1992 17:49:57 GMT

In article <1992Aug17.162654.28964@njitgw.njit.edu> dic5340@hertz.njit.edu (David Charlap) writes:
>In article <jt7mtgm.feustel@netcom.com> feustel@netcom.com (David Feustel) writes:
>>I need to get info on VT 100/200 emulation first, though.
>
>Try contacting DEC.  After all, they designed and built the vt-series
>terminals.  Maybe they can sell you an ancient VT-100 terminal for $50
>or something.

A much easier and cheaper way to get a list of the most common escape codes
is to look through the source code for xterms.  You can ftp the source from
many sites (just ask archie about xterm).

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From: gribb/sps@gribb.hsr.no (Svendsen, Stein P.     7-93)
Subject: Re: Windows 3.1 virus attacks OS/2 2.0! 
Organization: Rogaland University Centre
Date: Mon, 17 Aug 1992 11:21:34 GMT

I have franticly been changing & trying settings in OS/2 just as I did with 
W_____s X.x (shh), and have been saved by having backups of all the 
important konfiguration files (Config.sys, all .INI's etc.) Program files 
rarely get changed... D'no if it would save the day after having Bill's 
Baby wading through the disks, but it's a good habit.

Moral:  DON'T TRUST ANYONE!
        (At least nobody called Setup or Install)

Stein (Hoover) S.
From: scastill@nmsu.edu (Steve Castillo)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.apps
Subject: matlab386
Date: 12 Aug 92 17:22:18 GMT
Distribution: comp.os.os2.apps
Organization: NMSU Computer Science


Sorry if this is a repeat question.  A colleague recently installed
os/2.  However he could not get matlab 386 to run.  It appears that
matlab 386 uses the pharlap tools.  Is there a problem with this?
What must be done to get matlab 386 to run in a dos window under os/2?
Please reply via e-mail.  Thanks in advance.
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From: baer@uwovax.uwo.ca
Subject: Re: WP4WIN slow loading
Organization: University of Western Ont, London
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1992 01:24:06 GMT

In article <Bss2uH.MxK@acsu.buffalo.edu>, v053qpgh@ubvmsb.cc.buffalo.edu (Eric W Sarjeant) writes:
Stuff deleted, re: slow loading of WP4Win
> I have noticed the same problem loading Ami Pro with OS/2. I'm using a 486
> with 8 megs of memory, and although I do plan on upgrading shortly it's a
> little troublesome. Hopfully an OS/2 version of Ami Pro will be made 
> available soon, and I've noticed that WordPerfect has been teasing us with
> WP for OS/2 ads as of late.
> 
> Incidentally, I am giving Ami Pro 4 megs of memory to load with, and I'm not
> running anything else.
I have 8 megs, and things load quickly until we get to the Win-OS/2 world.
I run a little utility that reports the size of my swapper.dat file, and 
I always notice that the default 4096k file I have set up gets bigger
when I open most Win-OS/2 apps (possible exception: 0 other applications
running).  This suggests to me that "loading"  WP4Win or WfWin involves
double disk duty: reading material in and then swapping it out.  Actual
performance once loaded isn't bad, with a little bit of switching degradation
if I've got more than a couple of other apps running (again, I attribute this
to swapping overhead.   Sounds like 8mB is slightly thin for fast Win-OS/2
work (thoiugh not disasterous). .  Dos and OS/2 boxes open and close
quite quickly on my 486 box  (an upgrade beyond 8mB involves swapping out
1mB SIMMS and replacing them with 4s [min=16mB = $500-700 :-( ], so I'm
stuck with 8mB for a while.  Recommendations with respect to tuning options
appreciated (though I've played around with some).
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From: pfr@drsrv1.hmi.de (Fritsch_Wolfgang)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.apps
Subject: EmTex and dvipm
Date: 20 Aug 92 18:46:06 GMT
Organization: Hahn-Meitner-Institut Berlin GmbH

coates@newton.physics.uq.oz.au (Tony Coates) writes:

>I haven't been able to locate an archive site for DVIPM (the .dvi file displayer for
>Presentation Manager under OS/2).  Can anyone point me to the most recent version?
>Is there an OS/2 v2.0 specific version? (I'm using v2.0).
>	Thanks in advance for any help that anyone can give.
>									Tony.
Here are possible sites:
 
in Stuttgart, Germany:
129.69.1.12       files in /soft/tex/machines/pc/emtex/betatest
 
from the U.S.: our beloved hobbes site
ftp-os2.nmsu.edu  (I believe I remember having seen an emtex directory there
  and almost surely it would contain the betatest path.

Yes, the betatest version tex386 is for OS/2 2.0, and so is dvipm, the way I
understand it.

Wolfgang Fritsch
pfr@psun2.hmi.de
From: sld@phys.ksu.edu (Steve Davis)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.apps
Subject: Re: Please stop sending me notes about Spice
Date: 19 Aug 1992 16:32:08 GMT
Organization: Kansas State University
NNTP-Posting-Host: piaget.phys.ksu.edu

In <156qPB2w165w@berry.Cary.NC.US> pat@berry.Cary.NC.US (Pat Berry) writes:


 [ ... ]

>Please stop!  I have no information about Spice, nor do I have copies.
>Asking me about it is a waste of your time, my time, and network
>bandwidth.  And, in the future, please *look* at the articles you read,
>and notice the difference between what is said and what is merely
>quoted.

Spice is available from ftp-os2.nmsu.edu, in the education directory for
OS/2 2.0.   It has the documentation which comes with the program -- you'll
probably only understand it if you're an electrical engineer.

Looks like it might be a good program, if you can figure out how to use
it.

That's all the information that I have, so don't mail me either...

Steve Davis
sld@phys.ksu.edu
From: sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu (Timothy F. Sipples)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.apps
Subject: Re: Help! PM Chart is Greek to me!
Date: 20 Aug 92 15:26:19 GMT
Reply-To: sip1@midway.uchicago.edu
Organization: Dept. of Econ., Univ. of Chicago

In article <64301@cup.portal.com> magus@cup.portal.com (Magus - Company) writes:
>Does anyone else have these problems (or solutions to them)?
>1) All text in PM Chart appears in Greek letters on the screen, no
>matter what font I select.  The fonts print properly, though.
>2) Font sizing seldome works.  I usually end up with 12 point text
>no matter what I specify, but on occasion do get the right size.

I had some problems with PM Chart until I put IOPL=YES in CONFIG.SYS
and rebooted.  The PMATM DLL is apparently marked as requiring IOPL,
and, with IOPL=NO in my CONFIG.SYS, I was having trouble.  (This
problem has been reported to IBM.)

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From: des@frogland.inmos.co.uk (David Shepherd)
Subject: Re: Has ispell been ported?
Organization: INMOS architecture group
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 92 10:31:06 BST

In article <1992Aug12.013115.17341@news.iastate.edu>, jbhuber@iastate.edu (Joseph B Huber) writes:
>Does any know if the popular Unix spelling program "ispell" has been ported to
>OS/2 2.0? 

its not so much a port as a recompilation ... its the first thing
i did after getting OS/2 and ENX/GCC.

i used the ispel v3 beta sources.

basically then only things to do are one or two changes to
filenames to fit 8.3 properly and to add an IDEFAULT into
the termio (?) info for the ioctl call.

use all the setups of UNIX with the USG variety (not BSD) and
i think its all fairly plain sailing.

btw ispell v3 comes with a fairly fearsome makefile, which i don't
think i ever fully understood, and you may find it simplest to
strip this down to a simpler version that just builds the
executables and the dictionary you want assuming you've already
got unpacked/unsquashed lists of words.

'spose if i got time i could check that my binaries haven't got any
dependencies on my system (like default library is E:\USR\LIB\ISPELL
and i'd need to check that this was switchable by an environment var)
then submit them to c.b.os2.

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Date: Wednesday, 12 Aug 1992 21:59:06 EST
From: Aaron Morrison <MORRISON@UCF1VM.BITNET>
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.apps
Subject: FTTerm configuration questions

I am currently using FTTerm that was uploaded to hobbes and posted on
comp.binaries.os2   It works great, but there are a few questions that I
would like to know the answers to.

First.  I am using the FTTERMC protocol to dial in to an IBM 4381 mainframe
running VM/ESA (or CMS) release 5.  We have a 7171 communications server.
All of this works.   What I want to know is how do you change the colors
that the terminal program displays?  I have tried to change the colors
from the customize pull down menu, but any changes I make there seem to
make no difference.

Also.  I would like to know how to generate PF13 through PF24.  I have
tried many combinations, but to no success.  The logical placement would
be to shift the function keys, but that doesnt seem to work.

Lastly, can one change the cursor size? Right now I am using the 16x8 font
and the cursor is at (or near) the top of the line, which is very annoying
to me.

Solutions to these problems would make me like the program even more than I
do now.  BTW I have read the documentation files that came with the program.

thanks
----------
Qapla'taH!

Morrison@ucf1vm.cc.ucf.edu  (Aaron Morrison)
Morrison@ucf1vm.bitnet
University of Central Florida, Orlando Florida USA
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From: "robert fielder" <robert.fielder@canrem.com>
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.apps
Subject: os/2-the user's view
Date: 12 Aug 92 17:04:46 EST
Reply-To: "robert fielder" <robert.fielder@canrem.com>
Distribution: comp
Organization: Canada Remote Systems


RR>I was running it at the office on an Everex STEP 386/33 w/8Mb and a
RR>200Mb IDE drive for evaluation purposes.  I ran it for several weeks until
RR>I had checked out things (in particular the performance of Windows apps
RR>since my organization will be migrating to those types of apps) and found
RR>it rather lacking in that area.  The DOS support was exceptional (albeit a
RR>bit much - several screens of parameters will certainly daunt the average
RR>user), the OS/2 support was the OS/2 support :-) (we have few OS/2 apps)
RR>and the Windows support was kludgy.  My general impression was that it was
RR>a good concept with somewhat rushed and inconsistent execution - a diamond
RR>in the rough, so to speak.  This technical viewpoint totally ignores the
RR>marketing perspective which, IMO, is considerably less favourable.

The last time you spoke of running OS/2 2.0 in any area I monitor was
before the GA release.  Does the above refer to the GA release
version?

I have not pushed the Windows issue, since I have mostly OS/2 apps or
DOS apps, but what I have done with it was OK.  Nothing to indicate it
was kludgy.  Mind you, I am running 800x600 under OS/2, so all windows
apps ran in a seperate Windows screen group.

Robert

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From: dic5340@hertz.njit.edu (David Charlap)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.apps
Subject: Re: OS/2 Shareware/Freeware
Date: 20 Aug 92 19:32:45 GMT
Organization: New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, N.J.

In article <zwb-zs_@engin.umich.edu> bernyeh@atchafalaya.engin.umich.edu (Bernard Yeh) writes:

>Another thing, I need some hints that will speed up OS/2 (yes I already have
>  the faq). God knows I need it: 386/25 with 4MB RAM, os/2 installed on
>  45 MB partition, plain VGA, 16k ram cache. Hopefully, I'll be buying a
>  486/33 or 50 soon, but for now, such info would be helpful.

4 more MB of RAM will do it.  The 486/33 may be a disappointment if
you don't buy the extra memory.  A 486 with 4MB of ram will crawl next
to a 386sx with 8MB.



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