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From: sorourke@lonestar.utsa.edu (Sean J. Orourke)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: 256 colors?
Date: 5 Nov 92 07:57:01 GMT
Organization: University of Texas at San Antonio

I'm using the Orchid Prodesigner IIs drivers at 800x600x256, but OS/2 doesn't
seem to want to recognize the 256 colors.  Is there anything I can do to force
OS/2 into 256-color mode?
From: nap42487@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Nishith A. Patel)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: Paradise says it is not working on 2.0 video drivers
Date: 14 Nov 92 04:25:17 GMT
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana

sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu (Timothy F. Sipples) writes:

>By the way, the "generic" 800x600-16 color driver (filename
>vga800-1.zip, available via anonymous ftp from ftp-os2.nmsu.edu) does
>work with Paradise/Western Digital adapters (the nonaccelerated ones).

>But Paradise still has no excuse.

Will this driver work without the service pack? If so, does it work slower
without service pack (from having to use a 32-bit driver with a 16-bit GRE or
something)?


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From: sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu (Timothy F. Sipples)
Subject: Re: qmodem and keyboard polling
Reply-To: sip1@midway.uchicago.edu
Organization: Dept. of Econ., Univ. of Chicago
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 18:09:08 GMT

In article <92314.230945COP80196@UCF1VM.BITNET> Bill Laird <COP80196@UCF1VM.BITNET> writes:
>When I use Qmodem, I notice that pulse is set to 100 % CPU usage. This is
>to be expected if qmodem is doing keyboard polling (which I assume it does).
>I also notice, however, that even after I terminate qmodem the pulse line
>quivers for a little bit and settles in at about the 75 % usage mark. Nothing
>else is active, just the WPS, pulse, and the system clock. This happens both
>in GA and with the beta.
>Has anyone else experienced similar problems? It looks as if I may have to
>use one of those killem programs to get rid of the qmodem threads that are
>left hanging around. Any suggestions?

Please see the OS/2 FAQ List about this issue.  In a nutshell, relax.

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From: shyguy@ocf.berkeley.edu (David S. Shy)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Service Pack Results/Questions
Date: 5 Nov 92 15:07:06 GMT
Article-I.D.: agate.1dbdaqINN8lt
Organization: U.C. Berkeley Open Computing Facility
NNTP-Posting-Host: sandstorm.berkeley.edu

--Adreneline Fully On--

WOW! WOW! WOW! WOW! WOW!

--Off--

I think the week I spent to download the sp was worth it.  Thus far, after
working with it for about an hour, everything looks/runs/feels great.  The
1024X768X256 Tseng drivers are excellent, much better than the orchid
drivers i was working with.  Although, when i tried to open too many windows
at the same time, it seems a little slower than before.  This will have
to be further investigated.  Seamless windows (after opening up wingif) is
wonderful.  The display looks wonderful (except the fonts used on the tabs
in the settings menu... they remind me too much of my cga days...)  In
general my initial impression of the sp is very good.... however, now
to some of the bad points...

i think, ibm could've put a little bit more work into the user-interface.
for example, i couldn't not figure out how to use the new tseng drivers
until i finally decided to read comp.os.os2.misc for help... (thanks Mr. 
Charlap).  One would assume that by going into the selective install, one
would be able to install the new drivers... (that's where i wonder around
for hte longest time...)

secondly, the dspinstall program... after the software has finished loading
in all the drivers and update the files, there is no feedback from the 
software that what i was tryign to accomplish has been done... instead i'm
faced w/ the same menu askign what i want to install... it was not unitl
i clicked on cancel that os/2 told me to reboot and all that..

these are just two little minor annoyances (perhaps i missed some things
in my rush to get everythign done... i did read the new readme however...)
however, i think ibm was very very rushed in getting this thing out from
looking at all the questions/complaints/sometimes-not-so-nice-messages 
which people posted on the net.  so taking that into consideration, i
give ibm two thumbs up for a job well done.

(i think my .sig will show up)
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From: kjb@calmasd.prime.com (Ken Brucker)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: folder contents changing between boots?
Date: 12 Nov 92 16:57:39 GMT
Article-I.D.: calmasd.1992Nov12.085740.938
Organization: Computervision, San Diego CA

I've got an interesting problem.  Ever since I installed the SP my Information
folder contents have been toggling back and forth between having the Start
Here icon (I moved it in there) and having the Command Reference, REXX manual
and the 4 Redbooks that I added to the folder.

Any ideas what's going on?  It seems to toggle when I reboot the system.  I
haven't taken the time to really research what causes it.  Last night, I was
working fine, made some changes to config.sys so rebooted.  When I went back
into the Information folder, the contents were different.  I haven't checked to
see if a reboot will put my modified contents back.  This isn't the first time
this has happened either.

Very strange....

Ken

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From: price@helios.unl.edu (Chad  Price)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: Service Pack locks DELL
Date: 6 Nov 1992 14:10:17 GMT
Organization: University of Nebraska--Lincoln	
NNTP-Posting-Host: helios.unl.edu

ignacij@meishan.animal.uiuc.edu (Ignacy Misztal) writes:

>I applied Service Pack to a 486/50 Dell. Under 2.0 GA, Dell locked up 
>until all SVGA references in config.sys were changed to VGA. With 
>SP applied, it locks no matter whether SVGA or VGA are there. Does
>anobony know a solution?  Dell uses a Western Digital SVGA set.

PLease post more details. I have a Dell 486D/50 with the standard 230 MB
hard drive and 8MB memory and the built-in chipset (and removed the ATI
Vantage card) and once the ATI card was removed, I have had no problems
with either the GA or the CSD/Svc Pak disks. All went on smoothly. The GA
_required_ the bvsvga patch from ibm to run and the (?) June kernel patch in
order to keep the swapper file under control. Everything else is as it came
out of the box.


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From: kmacleod@dg-rtp.dg.com (Kenneth Macleod)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc,comp.os.os2
Subject: Re: The Confusions of ALL OS/2 UPDATES
Date: 11 Nov 92 18:24:58 GMT
Reply-To: kmacleod@dg-rtp.dg.com (Kenneth Macleod)
Followup-To: comp.os.os2.misc
Organization: Data General Corporation, Research Triangle Park, NC

In article <BxIxvE.MEI@ccu.umanitoba.ca>, umnoor@ccu.umanitoba.ca (Nasir
Ahmed Noor) writes:
|> 
|> Hi,
|> I am sure there will be a good many number of OS/2 users who are
totally 
|> confused by all the floods of updates. CSD, udpate packages, DLL
updates
|> etc etc. If IBM wasn't sure of bug fixes, why did they released it in
the
|> first place? Also, why there is no official notification of updates
?
|> 
|> There also seems to be a lack of guidance for novice users like
myself.
|> I was browsing thru the directories of hobes and found that there is
a 
|> whole dirctory filled with updated and fixes. No who is to tell that
which
|> one are for which problem and which ones are really worth applying. 
|> 
|> Then there is new CSD. What does it do any way. Every day there are a
few
|> reports on usenet that problems/performance got worse after applying
CSD.
|> Now who is to ask about that? What problems does it fix and when is
it
|> worth applying...????
|> 
|> --nasir
|> umnoor@ccu.umanitoba.ca

The basic idea with the fixes, the CSD and any other patches is if you
don't need them or are not sure of what you are doing don't use them.

The CSD fixes some problems that had no work-around.  It does introduce
a couple of other bugs wich are cosmetic in nature.  For example, you
might lose the ability to use alt-home to switch between full and
windowed dos sessions.  You can still use other methods to make the
switch.

Additionally, some people have had trouble installing it, mostly because
they did not read the readme file and other directions.

Lastly, some people (myself excluded) have had trouble with the new
video drivers for the tseng cards.  Scrolling in a dos window appears to
have slowed down when using hi-res video drivers, but full screen
appears to be just as fast as before.

One more thing.  By using the tseng drivers I have lost the ability to
run dos graphics programs in a window.  This is not big deal since
before they were really slow anyhow. 

If you want answers to a specific question, post something in
comp.os.os2.misc and you're sure to get some sort of reply.  Also, try
reading the FAQ on hobbes.

Good luck.

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From: aarhemtu@cayley.uwaterloo.ca (Anil)
Subject: Help getting SPG
Originator: aarhemtu@cayley.uwaterloo.ca
Organization: University of Waterloo
Distribution: na
Date: Sat, 7 Nov 1992 00:55:48 GMT


Help! LoadDiskF say's theres and error in CRC check!! 

I FTP'ed the spg3*.dsk files from software.watson.ibm.com. to my account here 
at Waterloo. From here I copied them to disk and took them home (or downloaded
them if they were too large to fit on a disk). Great! A home I used 
LoadDiskF (which I got from the same site) to restore the disks image, but it
tells me the CRC check is wrong. When I look on the disk It's got several
Gigabyte files on it, and most file names seem to be shifted to the right 
 
 ie "EADME D. OC" or "ISK 5"

This happend with all the 14 disks!!!

A little more info for those who care:

	-I used BIN when FTPing
	
	-When I downloaded I used Zmodem and my modems error checking.

	-I redownloaded LoadDiskF it check it, it still doesnt work.

	-I downloaded the 14 disk in 4 seperate intervals, spread
	  over several days.

Doesn't FTP have ERROR checking??? I MUST !!!



PLEASE HELP ME, I need the SPG. 

Email - aarhemtu@undergrad.uwaterloo.ca

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From: sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu (Timothy F. Sipples)
Subject: Re: Work Place Shell: The Future.
Reply-To: sip1@midway.uchicago.edu
Organization: Dept. of Econ., Univ. of Chicago
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 23:43:20 GMT

In article <1992Nov11.204923.6315@gw.wmich.edu> x90wardell@gw.wmich.edu writes:
>Dear IBM (if you are listening):
>    	New Method of making programs have a certain Icon:
>	(This is a suggestion, this doesn't currently work):
>	Find Icon you want.
>	Click on right mouse button while on icon (object).
>	Select copy Object Icon.
>	Select the program you want to change icon of.
>	Click right button.
>	Select Paste Object Icon.
>	Done.

Nice idea.  However, perhaps we can make this even more WPS-like.  How
about keeping the first step, but having the pointer change to some
sort of paint can or paint brush, then just clicking on the target
changes the icon.

Less flexible, I suppose.  Multiple pastes would be useful.

>	Also, if anyone knows of a way to make all .wp5 or some
>arbitrary extension come up with a certain icon (without having
>to do trhough each one individually), please postit.

From the command line you can do this using AddIcon Version 1.1,
available via anonymous ftp from ftp-os2.nmsu.edu.  Of course, I have
a bit of an interest in this utility.  :-)

It isn't strictly automatic, but it does understand wildcards.  One
could also imagine setting up a daemon of sorts with very little extra
effort (a background task running all the time which does nothing but
assign icons to data files based on their extensions).

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From: dona@nwra.com (Dona)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Help with CD-ROM, Please -- solved!
Date: 11 Nov 92 21:02:26 GMT
Article-I.D.: nwra.1992Nov11.210226.12909
Distribution: na
Organization: Northwest Research Associates, Inc.

Well, I went home, fiddled some more, & solved my problem.

To install the cd-rom, one must not only choose cd-rom support from the
selective install panel, but must also go in and choose IBM cd-rom
drivers WITHIN the cd-rom support item.  Then reboot & it all sorts
out.  

The results of the above procedure was an additional "IFS" statement in
my config.sys that gave me access to the drive.

It IS NOT necessary to do a full reinstall of the OS as CD Technology
tech. support claimed.  It MAY be necessary to have the drive
physically installed and powered on before this works.  I haven't gone
back & tried again without it.

Thanks to all who offered help.
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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: rda491s@monu6.cc.monash.edu.au (Agus Budy Wuysang)
Subject: Re: Any Earthly Reason I SHould Use Os/2 NOW?
Organization: Monash University, Melb., Australia.
Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1992 01:52:54 GMT

In article <1992Nov8.150405.19006@mlb.semi.harris.com> sonny@trantor.harris-atd.com (Bob Davis) writes:
>	I have EXCESSIVE hours already invested in trying to give OS/2
>the benefit of the doubt (I have installed GA and SP from scratch AT LEAST
>10 times -- do you know how long it takes to feed 18+ GA disks in PLUS
>14+ SP or CSD disks in?????? -- and I AM TIRED!)
>
>	I love the POTENTIAL of OS/2 but, realistically, one gives up
>after Lucy pulls the football away EVERY time....
>
>	With my 486SX 25 MHZ system, EGA monitor, 8 MEG SIMM system,
>I  cannot get WINOS2 to work at all after installation of the "CORRECTIVE"
>SERVICE DISKS (even though it worked after the GA), I cannot EVER get DOS
>from A: DIsk to work, and I cannot get the Notebooks to keep from clipping
>the tops of many pages away.

If you have EGA monitor, you should put "device=[drive][path]ega.sys"
in order to use Windows 3.0 (or WinOS2).

EGA.SYS comes with either Win 3.0 or DOS 5.0 I think, not sure about
DOS 5, but certainly with Win 3.0.
It should work with DOS 20.00 (OS/2 VDM) WinOS2 session.

That's because EGA can't manipulate its register like VGA.
But I strongly recommend to get a VGA monitor and adapter.

>
>	And MY complaints are HARDLY the ONLY ones. This newsgroup is
>replete with accounts of problems encountered by many people.
>
>	One wonders, as a customer, after so many dissappointments, how
>IBM could have loosed such a problem-plagued package as the CSD on its
>users.
>
>	I AM TIRED OF TRYING TO MAKE IT WORK!
>
>	Thank you.
No probs, just don't give it up too soon.

>
>
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From: gouvea@zariski.harvard.edu (Fernando Gouvea)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: Does 32-bit Tseng driver work with Speedstar?
Date: 7 Nov 92 00:43:31 GMT
Article-I.D.: husc3.1992Nov6.194331.17182
Organization: Colby College Dept. of Math/CS

In article <1992Nov6.172034.3131@athena.mit.edu> rpeou@athena.mit.edu (Rith   Peou) writes:
>
>I was wondering if anyon with a Diamond SpeedStar video card has been able
>to use the 32-bit Tseng driver in 1024x768 mode.  Using this mode, my system
>hangs with the hard drive light continuously on, but it works in 800x600
>mode; an even stranger thing is that the system hangs at different times,
>sometimes just after the OS/2 logo disappears, sometimes just when the 
>WPS is loaded, and other at other times, but I have never gotten past the
>screen refreshing for the WPS.
>
>Is it just my system or have other people experienced the same?  Has anyone
>been successful running 1024x768 mode on the Speedstar?

I've had no problems at all, so far, and I don't think I did anything
special. One item that might help: put a call to vmode.com (somthing like
"vmode monitor") in your DOS autoexec.bat, so that it gets executed before
the svga utility runs. (You'll need to set up your monitor first, so that
"vmode monitor" works.) I've had it set up like that with GA, so it
happened without my intervention when selective install installed the
drivers. I haven't done anything else, but note that there is a section in
the new README file about handling the SpeedStar; it suggests running
vmode.com from the startup.cmd file. I don't...but I do have WIN-OS/2 Full
Screen in my startup folder, so that vmode does get exectued every time I
start up the system.




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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: 880506s@dragon.acadiau.ca (James R. Skinner)
Subject: Re: Window Washer
Organization: Acadia University
Date: Sat, 7 Nov 1992 11:16:35 GMT

adhir@cygnus.umd.edu (Alok Dhir) writes:

>In a previous article, Tim Sipples claims that a screensaver called Window
>Washer is available via hobbes.  I couldn't find it.  Anyone else?
>Perhaps it's time for an all-inclusive index on hobbes.  I am sick of
>going into directory after directory looking for something.

There is an all inclusive index on hobbes its called pub/os2/00Index but
as you have mentioned Window Washer does not seem to be at the site..

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From: turtle@brahms.udel.edu (Anthony J Collins)
Subject: PC 3270
Organization: University of Delaware
Distribution: comp.os.os2.misc
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 15:16:55 GMT

I am looking for info on PC3270 from IBM.  Specifically, I need to
know if a pc3270 emulator can interface to an os/2 1.3 EE SNA
Gateway(using Communications Manager).  If so, what versions?  Any
info is appreciated.  Thanks!

Tony
From: adhir@cygnus.umd.edu (Alok Dhir)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Using small icons
Date: 6 Nov 92 20:52:18 GMT
Organization: /etc/organization

Hello all.  I have a question that I think alot of you will find intriguing.
Since installing the service pack and the high res ET4000 drivers (1024...),
the system has defaulted to the 40x40 icons.  As a result, any icons we made
on our own and did not delete the 40x40 resource out of have reverted to
their ugly originals.  What I want to do is force my system to use the
32x32 icons WITHOUT scaling them up or using the 40x40 even if available.
I'd rather have icons smaller by 8pixels on a side and reclaim some screen
real estate.  I do not care about having the icons be bigger.

Can anyone think of how this can be accomplished?  Where are all the OS/2
system hackers...how come stuff like this isn't available already?

Thanks...

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From: djbpitt+@pitt.edu (David J Birnbaum)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: system slowdown?
Date: 9 Nov 92 21:36:54 GMT
Organization: University of Pittsburgh

I installed OS/2 last week on a snappy system (50MHz 486DX, EISA SCSI
controller, 14ms hard drive); the only slug is the Tseng video, which
is just keeping the slot warm until ATI releases the EISA Ultra Pro.

Things were very fast when I first installed, but they slowed down
considerably within a few days. With a half-dozen windows open (icon
views of folders), I can double-click on a text file and have to wait
several seconds before the icon grays - plus several more until the
editor actually opens. Things were much peppier when I first installed.

Since my installation, I've added a few dozen directories and several
hundred text and executable files, as well as a few thousand .ico files
(I keep no more than 200 of these in any single directory). I notice
that folders with .ico files in them open even more slowly than other
operations; is this significant?

I haven't tweaked much yet and I'm sure I can coax somewhat better
performance out of the system by following the suggestions in the FAQ
(all I've done so far is to turn automation off). But I don't understand
the remarkable slowdown in all operations; the equally untweaked system
I first configured had much better response in general. The slowdown
seems to reflect slow disk response; I can hear the hard disk turning
for several seconds before a selected icon grays, etc. I realize, of
course, that increasing the number of files on a disk can slow things
down, but I don't have a sense for how much degradation is normal. Are my
expectations too high?

Thanks,

David

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