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From: mawillia@eos.ncsu.edu (MICAH ANTHONY WILLIAMS)
Subject:  DOS Windowed session using Trident Drivers
Originator: mawillia@c00477-224wi.eos.ncsu.edu
Keywords: Trident
Reply-To: mawillia@eos.ncsu.edu (MICAH ANTHONY WILLIAMS)
Organization: North Carolina State University, Project Eos
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1992 21:31:37 GMT



	Hello all.  Is there any way to get the Trident 800x600x256
color drivers to run DOS programs that use graphics in a window, without
suspending them?  I can get text-based stuff like Manifest, DOS5 Editor,
and Norton Utilities to work fine, but Games like Bard's Tale 3,
Microsoft Flight Simulator, and GIF file viewers are suspended until I 
full-screen them.  They worked fine a window with the default 640x480x16 
drivers, but that is not the case now.  Is there a solution, or will I just
have to wait for Trident to release some better drivers?



                                                Micah A. Williams
                                                North Carolina State University
                                                Computer Engineering
                                                mawillia@eos.ncsu.edu
                                                willi-ma@aza.csc.ncsu.edu
                                                vega@garfield.catt.ncsu.edu


                "STAYING IN TOUCH WITH THE WILLIAMS TRADITION"



-- 
                                                Micah A. Williams
                                                North Carolina State University
                                                Computer Engineering
                                                mawillia@eos.ncsu.edu
                                                willi-ma@aza.csc.ncsu.edu
                                                vega@garfield.catt.ncsu.edu


                "STAYING IN TOUCH WITH THE WILLIAMS TRADITION"
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: mo@sdf.lonestar.org (Mohit Goyal)
Subject: Novice ? - Using Printer with OS/2 2.0
Organization: sdf Public Access UNIX, Dallas--unrestricted free shell access
Date: Sun, 30 Aug 1992 06:21:31 GMT

Hello.  I am posting this for a friend who does not have InterNet access.

Any and all help will be much appreciated.

Here is the situation:

He just purchased a NEC Silentwriter 2 Model 95.  This is a new
printer and their is no driver for it with OS/2 2.0.

I convinced him about 1 month ago to switch from DOS to OS/2.

I need to know how he can use this printer with OS/2 2.0.

The printer supports PostScript and PCL 5.

Does anyone know if NEC is working on a driver?
From: dic5340@hertz.njit.edu (David Charlap)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: Just the bloody FAQs, maam
Date: 27 Aug 92 19:10:25 GMT
Organization: New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, N.J.

In article <92240.054640ANDY@MAINE.MAINE.EDU> ANDY@MAINE.MAINE.EDU (Andrew T. Robinson) writes:
>
>How do I get the FAQ?

FTP to ftp-os2.nmsu.edu.  Download the faq list from the following
directory:

/pub/os2/all/faq

All revisions of the faq list are stored here.



-- 
   |)  David Charlap           "I don't even represent myself
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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: EA DATA. SF file size
From: jemenake@zeus.calpoly.edu (Joe Emenaker)
Date: Tue, 25 Aug 1992 21:06:34 GMT
Organization: California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo

In article <1992Aug25.192458.21679@ni.umd.edu> dan@ni.umd.edu (Dan Burns) writes:
>
>I have a PS/2 Model 80 with a 330 meg hard disk the with over 250 megs of
>disk space used (mostly old dos stuff), that I have OS/2 installed on using
>a FAT system and dual-boot.  My EA_DATA._SF is over 11 Meg in size right now
>(11059200 byte).  Is this normal?  At home I have a 35 meg HPFS system and
>140 Meg FAT system (on the same disk), and the file is just over 110K.
>
>Is something wrong here?  I am using kernal revision 6.311 dated 92/05/14.

Well, my understanding is that the EA_DATA file has the extended attributes
for the FILES on your hard disk, so the size should be more proportional to
the NUMBER of files on your HD rather than their total size. On my machine,
I've got about 2000 files and my EA_DATA is a little over a meg. That comes
to about 500 bytes per file. Sounds reasonable since I heard that the
EA_DATA is used to store the icons from your OS/2 and Windows EXEs.    

My advice would be to first check the number of files on each hard disk and
see if the proportions are a bit more similar than they are when you
compare EA-DATA size with actual total file size.


-- 
Joe Emenaker - Sexual Engineer | "You will be assimilated." - Borg 
   jemenake@nike.calpoly.edu   | "Yes, but before that happens, can we ask 
   Pro-woman, anti-feminist    |  you some questions?" 
 (This is the .sig of the day) |                       - Jordy LaForge
From: jjs@ubitrex.mb.ca (John Joseph Strybosch)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: OS2 WINS!! I give up!
Date: 28 Aug 92 15:44:42 GMT
Organization: Ubitrex Corporation, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada

In article <liuyu.714945700@kramden> liuyu@kramden.nyu.edu (Liuyu) writes:
>sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu (Timothy F. Sipples) writes:
> [Tim's stuff about Ram and Cache hw being marginal]
>
>Can you explain why this happens only under OS/2? Is it just another excuse, 
>blaming hardware? Does it happen under other complex programs like Unix or
>Novell? Thanks.

	It doesn't happen _only_ under OS/2!  People installing
Unix (ie sysVr4) have to deal with the same issues... and (IMHO)
much more significant software issues as well.

JJ Strybosch
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: gregw@isaacs ( Greg Wilson)
Subject: Re: sort fails on 400k file
Organization: U S WEST Advanced Technologies
Date: Thu, 3 Sep 1992 18:41:35 GMT

In article <1992Sep2.235241.11549@midway.uchicago.edu> sip1@midway.uchicago.edu writes:
>...
>You said you reverted to a Unix solution, but that certainly isn't
>necessary.  There are a number of SORT replacements for the OS/2
>"side," including the GNU alternatives ported from Unix.  Check
>ftp-os2.nmsu.edu via anonymous ftp.

I love GNU's "sort" but haven't been able to find an OS/2 version anywhere,
including ftp-os2.nmsu.edu.  Has anyone come across a copy?

Greg Wilson
gregw@uswest.com
From: djackson@axion.bt.co.uk (Dave Jackson)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Corrupt PS/2 Assistant - help !
Date: 26 Aug 92 08:12:50 GMT
Reply-To: djackson@axion.bt.co.uk (Dave Jackson)
Organization: British Telecom Research Labs


I've just down loaded ps2ast55.zoo from hobbes and find that
the I have a
corrupt file - I've been able to extract all parts except
ps2a_mkt.inf (?? -
the marketing information file). Could anyone out there who
has this please 
send me a copy of this one file - I can't face assembling the
30+ pieces
of the whole package from Hobbes again !!

Thanks in advance

(zip or zoo, uuencoded if possible)


David J Jackson   Telephone +44 473 645805
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From: linstee@dutecaj.et.tudelft.nl (Erik van Linstee)
Subject: Problem with new comm drivers
Organization: Delft University of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1992 10:42:55 GMT

I tried the new comm drivers and had the following problem. It seems
that the drivers do not propagate the Carrier Detect signal properly.
My communications program did not realise it was actually connected.
Could be I have to change a setting in the drivers' set up, but
when I reinstalled the old drivers it worked fine again.
Anybody else experienced this problem?

Erik
-- 
Erik van Linstee   |   linstee@duteca.et.tudelft.nl   |   I'll be back ... 
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: erzberg@ifi.unizh.ch (Martin Erzberger)
Subject: Migration Kit (Was: Re: OS/2 Win3.1 support *better* than MS!)
Organization: University of Zurich, Department of Computer Science
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 92 06:17:41 GMT


In article <1992Aug29.064554.152730@zeus.calpoly.edu>, jemenake@zeus.calpoly.edu (Joe Emenaker) writes:
> 
> I read in a file that supposedly came from IBM that the folks at Boca are
> planning on releasing a package that will convert your Windows code into
> OS/2 code. I don't rememeber if it just converted the source-code, or if it

This beast was announced on august 18. It's called "IBM Developer's
Migration Kit/2" and should ship is september. It's basically
Micrografx "Mirrors" technology and allows you to recompile and
relink properly written Windows code.
Regards, Martin Erzberger
From: mauritz_c@spcvxb.spc.edu
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Pasting text...making OS/2 more like my Mac...
Date: 26 Aug 92 16:30:42 GMT
Organization: SPC Community Access System

Being a new user to OS/2, I have noticed that all applications
do not make uniform use of the menu options like the Mac.  What
I mean is that for the most part, a standard set of alt-key,
control-key functions have the same functions in many programs.
Is there such an effort being conducted by IBM to introduce a 
similar set of programming guidelines?
 
The reason I bring this up is that the PM Terminal program doesn't
seem to be able to accept text copied from another application.  
Ideally, what I was trying to do was compose text in the enhanced
editor, copy it, and then "paste" it into my active terminal session.
This is quite easily achieved by even a novice on my Mac at work so
I was wondering how I can do it under OS/2 at home.
 
Any tips would be greatly appreciated.
 
Best regards,
 
Chris
From: ADUNSMUI@TOROLAB6.VNET.IBM.COM (Al Dunsmuir)
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 92 11:52:37 EDT
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: IBM LAN Server 3.0 beta (was Re: 32 bit HPFS?)
Organization: IBM Canada Laboratory Ltd, Toronto, CANADA
Disclaimer: This posting represents the poster's views, not those of IBM
News-Software: UReply 3.0
            <19920826.090625.905@almaden.ibm.com>

  I've been getting a lot of offline questions about the LAN Server 3.0
beta code.  Since I'm also a mere user and don't know many of the answers,
I decided I'd better get some serious help.

  I contacted one of the LAN Server 3.0 developers (who is answering many
of the same questions in the internal LAN Server 3.0 conference), and let
him know about these newsgroups.  He is getting access, and in a few days
he should be able to answer your questions in this newsgroup directly.   f

Al Dunsmuir                       Internet: adunsmui@torolab6.vnet.ibm.com
CODE Development II + TEAM OS/2      Voice: (416) 448-3315
IBM Canada Laboratory Ltd, Toronto, CANADA

OS/2 V2: Why settle for anything less?
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From: liuyu@kramden.nyu.edu (Liuyu)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2,comp.os.os2.misc,comp.os.os2.programmer,comp.os.os2.apps,comp.os.os2.advocacy
Subject: Re: IS IBM UK STILL IN THE STONE AGE???
Date: 31 Aug 92 00:21:19 GMT
Organization: New York University

ckincy@mcs213c.cs.umr.edu (Charles Kincy) writes:

>>Oh yeah. It is very easy to blame old hardwares. But do you see other big 
>>companies not supporting for Herc? All major companies support Herc except IBM.
>>So don't give me my hardware is older than yours! It's a standard video card 
>>from another company. IBM is even supporting a less capable CGA card.
>>You get no color in 640*200. Are you saying GUI will work better on CGA?? Maybe
>>two years later IBM might drop support on outdated VGA. I doubt it will happen
>>because it is a IBM standard. IBM only support its own standard.
>>If you haven't seen Windows on a Herc, it is your lack of experience. I've 
>>tried and it worked very well. It was a lot better than those low quality VGA
>>monitors which costed more and had a dot pitch size of your eyeball.
>>You are right no one is selling CGA anymore. But I still see mail orders sell
>>Hercules (maybe you don't see this since you don't live in US).
>>Then why is IBM only supporting its own outdated standard video cards?
>>If I had all the money, I would move on to a better hardware. 

>IBM does not have the resources to write drivers for everyone's 
>video cards.  Apparently, what they have done is to support their own
>products, and leave the responsibility of support to the manufacturers
>of the video cards.  This may have been a mistake, but that's the
>only way IBM could do it.

You still don't get the point. Who's talking about writing drivers for 
every video card? It's about writing drivers for "standard" card! As I said 
before, do you see IBM writing VGA drivers for wordperfect, lotus, windows, and
others since VGA is IBM's hardware?? Of course not. VGA is standard so is 
Hercules. Companies write their own. If these companies waited IBM to write
the drivers, they probably wouldn't be around. And they don't expect IBM to
write it. 
If this is the best IBM can do (only supporting its own stardard), I think
OS/2's future isn't so bright.


>You think Microsoft wrote the Herc driver for Windows?  Heh.  Yeah,
>right.  Herc wrote it.  If Herc refuses to write an OS/2 driver, well
>that's Herc screwing over their own customers, it's not IBM's fault.

Prove it. 

Did Herc also write all the drivers for the tons of software that support Herc?
IBM refuses to write driver for a standard from a competitor. It's like Lotus
refuses to write a standard VGA driver for its 123. And it expects IBM to write
it. It sure doesn't make any sense.

>>Time to support all standards.

>I agree.  Herc should support OS/2.  They don't.

You got it backward! OS/2 should support all standards.
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From: liuyu@kramden.nyu.edu (Liuyu)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2,comp.os.os2.misc,comp.os.os2.programmer,comp.os.os2.apps,comp.os.os2.advocacy
Subject: Re: IS IBM UK STILL IN THE STONE AGE???
Date: 29 Aug 92 22:52:01 GMT
Organization: New York University

Steve.Withers@bbs.actrix.gen.nz writes:

>In article <liuyu.715061158@kramden> liuyu@kramden.nyu.edu (Liuyu) writes:
>> 
>> I don't think it's silly. Not everyone knows IBM doesn't support the standard
>> mono graphics Hercules card when almost every other software companies write
>> their own Herc driver for their software. IBM expects Hercules to write it.
>> Does IBM write VGA driver for other software, ie wordperfect, lotus, Windows,
>> and bunch of others? Does these companies expect IBM to write drivers for them
>> since it's IBM's hardware? Of course not. VGA is a standard so is Hercules.
>> I don't think IBM wanted to support a standard from other vendors.
>> I think you should check the facts out first.

>Certainly no one in New Zealand has been selling brand new systems with Herc
>mono for a while now. GUI's don't work terribly well on Herc monitors. I have
>never seen Windows on a herc monitor..........
> 
>OS/2 will work just fine on the computer the herc monitor/card are used with -
>just get a CGA/EGA/VGA setup and away you go! No one sells CGA anymore,
>either - or EGA for that matter. Herc predates both.......
> 
>Time to move on.

Oh yeah. It is very easy to blame old hardwares. But do you see other big 
companies not supporting for Herc? All major companies support Herc except IBM.
So don't give me my hardware is older than yours! It's a standard video card 
from another company. IBM is even supporting a less capable CGA card.
You get no color in 640*200. Are you saying GUI will work better on CGA?? Maybe
two years later IBM might drop support on outdated VGA. I doubt it will happen
because it is a IBM standard. IBM only support its own standard.
If you haven't seen Windows on a Herc, it is your lack of experience. I've 
tried and it worked very well. It was a lot better than those low quality VGA
monitors which costed more and had a dot pitch size of your eyeball.
You are right no one is selling CGA anymore. But I still see mail orders sell
Hercules (maybe you don't see this since you don't live in US).
Then why is IBM only supporting its own outdated standard video cards?
If I had all the money, I would move on to a better hardware. 
 
Time to support all standards.
 
ps, I think Hercules came after CGA.
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2,comp.os.os2.misc,comp.os.os2.programmer,comp.os.os2.apps,comp.os.os2.advocacy
From: sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu (Timothy F. Sipples)
Subject: Re: IS IBM UK STILL IN THE STONE AGE???
Followup-To: comp.os.os2.advocacy
Reply-To: sip1@midway.uchicago.edu
Organization: Dept. of Econ., Univ. of Chicago
Date: Fri, 28 Aug 1992 21:34:38 GMT

Please do not crosspost in the OS/2 hierarchy -- pick one newsgroup
and stick with it.  Note the Followup line.

In article <1992Aug28.180020.17109@microsoft.com> philipla@microsoft.com (Phil Lafornara) writes:
>>>  It seems that there are a number of users using AMIPRO V2.0,
>>>  running under WIN/OS2 that have not encountered any problems.
>>>  I can only advise you to run the software on an IBM machine to
>>>  ascertain whether or not there is a fault with Hardware instead
>>>  of Software.
>     OK, please don't interpret this as a bash on IBM, as Microsoft
>corporate policy, or as anything more than a gut reaction to reading
>this text.
>     This really gives me the willies.  Is IBM only going to support
>OS/2 on IBM hardware?  And, if so, what would be the implications if
>OS/2 were to dominate the PC operating system market?

No, Phil.  Just yesterday IBM air expressed a private patch to me to
see if it would fix some minor video problems I had reported (after at
least three phone calls from the developer responsible for that
section of OS/2 code, who went through everything step-by-step).  The
diskette was hand labelled and included the IBMer's direct telephone
number.

The hardware they were trying to get OS/2 2.0 to work better with?  A
512K Trident 8900C SuperVGA adapter.

Incidently, the problem has been fixed and will be in the first CSD so
that everyone else will benefit.

The only other major company I've had such positive experiences with
was WordPerfect Corp.  Years ago I was one of the first using their
Apple //e version of WordPerfect.  It had a problem with my Stacker
hard drive.  On their dime I talked through the problem, and a couple
days later a new set of diskettes arrived on my doorstep.  They had
recompiled WordPerfect for my benefit -- the file dates were a day or
two earlier -- and whatever change they made did indeed fix the
problem.

Now, IBM UK may have dropped the ball on this one, but, generally, IBM
USA has been extremely helpful, at least in my experience.

(I do still have some criticisms on IBM's support, notably that
sometimes it is a bit too difficult to work through the front line
bureaucracy.)

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Dept. of Econ., Univ.   | Or from LISTSERV@BLEKUL11.BITNET (send "HELP").
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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2,comp.os.os2.misc,comp.os.os2.apps,comp.os.os2.programmer,comp.os.os2.advocacy
From: jja@wsl.ie (John J. Allen)
Subject: Re: IS IBM UK STILL IN THE STONE AGE???
Organization: Project Papyrus, AIRAID, Dublin, Ireland
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1992 09:42:23 GMT

brian%jaguar.cs.utah.edu@cs.utah.edu (Brian Sturgill) writes:
: Strange... OS/2 was extremely buggy and unstable in it's early incarnations
: (1.2 was awful!, and I'm told earlier versions were worse).
: I've worked with NT enough already to know it's more stable that 1.2
: was... I guess a miracle has occured!  Shall we take this a sign that
: NT has been blessed? :-)

NT has been blessed by Dave Cutler and his merry band of absolutely brilliant
engineers, what have had Microsoft (bg) strangle a beautiful OS(/2) by 
clampin the MS-Windows User Interface API onto it.

And NT it is more stable than OS/2 1.[0-2] because Microsoft used some real
quality engineers on it instead of the old-time hackers.

Oh I feel better with that off my chest.
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2,comp.os.os2.apps
From: mark@snark.itc.gu.edu.au (Mark Hessling)
Subject: Re: Files Requested
Organization: ITC, Griffith University, Brisbane, Australia
Date:  1 Sep 92 03:42:55 GMT

TomK@cup.portal.com (Tom R Krotchko) writes:

>>The OS/2 version of QEdit is not shareware. I just bought a copy
>>myself and I love it. It is exactally the same as QEdit for DOS 2.15
>>except that it uses virtual memory so you can edit much larger files.
>>I don't think that you have to go through SemWare, you can probably
>>get it through the Programmer's Shop, or Programmer's Paradise, etc.
>>Retail is $79.00, there is a 50% discount for students (with proof of
>>course). Here the address right off my invoice:

>Kedit for OS/2 (much enhanced version of XEDIT for VM/CMS) is available
>for about $130.

>The new version of Brief from Borland is available for OS/2, special
>introductory price of $99.

>TomK@cup.portal.com
>Tom Krotchko

THE for OS/2 (much enhanced version of XEDIT for VM/CMS) and very
similar to Kedit is available for nothing. It is on ftp-os2.nmsu.edu in
the editor directory or can also be ftp'd from

 accord.dciem.dnd.ca in /pub/curses/the

Mark.
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From: liuyu@kramden.nyu.edu (Liuyu)
Subject: Re: About this Hercules business (Re: IS IBM UK STILL IN THE STONE AGE???)
Organization: New York University
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1992 22:45:19 GMT

bauwens@acs.ucalgary.ca (Luc Bauwens) writes:

>About this Hercules business:

>1.  I doubt that to expect Hercules to write a driver makes
>much sense.  They (Hercules) probably have stopped manufacturing those
>"Hercules Graphics" cards years ago.  The cards that are still around 
>are probably all cheap clones made in Taiwan.  And drivers won't come
>from those manufacturers either.

>2.  Isn't it time for those folk who still use a Hercules
>to do themselves a favor and get a decent monitor?  A GUI with
>a low-res monochrome monitor just doesn't make sense.

>3.   Sure, IBM doesn't have to write drivers for all the
>hardware around.  But if their marketing approach were sensible,
>they would, wouldn't they?

>Luc B

Why don't you also include CGA and EGA? Are you implying GUI on CGA is
much better? If IBM wanted to drop support on low-res video, they should
have drop them all. 
And you are right. Their marketing is in doubt.

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From: TomK@cup.portal.com (Tom R Krotchko)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2,comp.os.os2.apps
Subject: Re: Re: Files Requested
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 92 15:30:10 PDT
Organization: The Portal System (TM)
  <1992Aug25.213143.26728@unlv.edu>

>The OS/2 version of QEdit is not shareware. I just bought a copy
>myself and I love it. It is exactally the same as QEdit for DOS 2.15
>except that it uses virtual memory so you can edit much larger files.
>I don't think that you have to go through SemWare, you can probably
>get it through the Programmer's Shop, or Programmer's Paradise, etc.
>Retail is $79.00, there is a 50% discount for students (with proof of
>course). Here the address right off my invoice:

Kedit for OS/2 (much enhanced version of XEDIT for VM/CMS) is available
for about $130.

The new version of Brief from Borland is available for OS/2, special
introductory price of $99.

TomK@cup.portal.com
Tom Krotchko
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2,comp.os.os2.misc