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From: Steve.Withers@bbs.actrix.gen.nz
Subject: Re: --> DeskJet Owners READ THIS <--
Organization: Actrix Information Exchange
Date: Sat, 29 Aug 1992 23:22:15 GMT

In article <BtrKHA.Bp0@news.cso.uiuc.edu> tamu@uxh.cso.uiuc.edu (Todd Henderson) writes:
> 
> A lot of people are talking about alternative drivers, etc for the deskjet,
> my problem is the deskjet 500c!  Nice printer, but as for as I can tell no
> alternative drivers.  Currently I'm stuck with windows software running
> under os/2 because of drivers!  HP are you out there!
> 
> Todd
> tamu@uxh.cso.uiuc.edu

HP and IBM are currently in the midst of a dispute about who will write this
driver (or pay for it). It will be written........when the dispute is
resolved. Both companies have dug in their heels at the moment and - of course
- blame the other.
 
HP is a fussy company. They have such a big market share, they are much more
stroppy than other companies. Of course, IBM has suffered the same "illness"
in the past, though they seem to be in remission at present.
 
Meanwhile.....it's a pain for users - whoever is at fault, if anyone.
 
Steve

 


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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: HELP: Where OS/2 2.0 CSD?
From: Steve.Withers@bbs.actrix.gen.nz
Date: Fri, 4 Sep 1992 08:20:48 GMT
Organization: Actrix Information Exchange

In article <Bu0AJI.23s@news.cso.uiuc.edu> btf57346@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Byron "Bohr" Faber) writes:
> 
> >As OS/2 is projected to sell 3 million copies by years end, I wouldn't blame
> >IBM for getting a bit shakey about a totally "free" upgrade. I don't blame
> >them. I wouldn't mind paying a few dollars for the major improvements the CSD
> >will include.
> > 
> >Perhaps someone closer to the "centre" can clarify this?
> > 
> >Steve
> 
> Your going to pay for something that fixes a program you already bought?
> 
> Smart.
> 
> Byron

I get tired of this sort of stuff. I didn't buy Win3.1 support. I didn't buy a
32-bit graphics engine. I didn't buy the many "additional" progams likely to
be supplied with th CSD. 
 
NEWSFLASH! Writing software costs money. Lots of money. Giving it away is a
sure way to go broke - and leave user with nothing: for free.
 
Buying software isn't an exercise in paying one amount for a perfect piece of
software. If this ever happens to you.....let me know.  
 
Software and computing generally is an evolutionary thing. You either accept
that fact or give yourself ulcers moaning about how incompetent this or that
software company is.
 
If they are going to continue to develop and improve the system you are using
- you have to keep paying them to do it.
 
Welcome to the real world.
 
Steve
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From: clemens@faui8a.informatik.uni-erlangen.de (Clemens Beckstein)
Subject: Re: PMCOMM!!!
Organization: Regionales Rechenzentrum Erlangen
Date: Fri, 28 Aug 1992 16:02:15 GMT

dic5340@hertz.njit.edu (David Charlap) writes:

>Does PMCOMM have built-in Zmodem?  That's one feature I haven't seen
>yet in OS/2 terminal packages.  I won't switch from Procomm Plus/DOS
>until I find a package that does this, and I'd like to remove yet
>another DOS app from my system, if I can.

REXXTERM for OS/2 (by Quercus Systems) does have built-in Zmodem.
I am so satisfied with the package (especially with the fact that
communication scripts are written in REXX) that I switched from
Procomm Plus/DOS...

- Clemens
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: HELP!!!! Unable to run ANY dos apps
From: Steve.Withers@bbs.actrix.gen.nz
Date: Thu, 3 Sep 1992 12:49:59 GMT
Organization: Actrix Information Exchange

In article <3687@copper.Denver.Colorado.EDU> rvaniwaa@copper.denver.colorado.edu (Ronald J. Vaniwaarden) writes:
> 
> Needless to say, this is a problem because I still run lots of M$DO$ programs.
> This even happens when I try to open a dos window of full screen.  Finally,
> after many shutdown and rebooting attempts along with a complete chkdsk of C:,
> I reinstalled OS/2.
> 	I know, that was a bit drastic but when all else fails, restarting from
> scratch often works.  Anyway, I still cannot run any dos programs and I am
> still getting the trap 000e's.  I know that usually means bad memory but why
> did it only start happening now?  As far as patches go, I was running under
> the new kernel (6.477 or something) and now am running under the old one.

Go into the selective install and re-install your DOS and Windows support.

 
This should sort it out.
 
Steve

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From: lbv2@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu (m.l. gore)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: Just what IS Alt-F1 (was Re: Multiple Desktops....)
Date: 3 Sep 92 12:03:11 GMT
Organization: Lehigh University

>I've heard a number of references to this infamous Alt-F1-at-bootup sequence
>and was curious as to what it did exactly. (I've heard that it disallows
>program starts and I've also heard it erases the Svgadata.pmi file)
>
>So what does it do?
>
>Mike
>

    Hitting the ALT-F1 sequence will over write you OS2.INI and you OS2SYS.INI
    Files with the origional ones stored in the \OS2\Install dir..

    These two files are returned to thier origional state, and you loose every
    thing you have added to the WPS.

    It is much wiser to back these files on boot, usng Call and Xcopy in the
    Config.Sys. This is demonstrated on the installation guide.

    THis way, if you corrupt these fi;es, gothrough the 5 min floppy boot, adn
    over write them with the last set of good ones, keeping most if not all of
 you desktop in place.

                                                    later,

                                                    bvl


    
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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: buhr@umanitoba.ca (Kevin Andrew Buhr)
Subject: Advice wanted on using ESDI and IDE drives with OS/2
Organization: University of Manitoba, Canada
Date: Wed, 2 Sep 1992 23:27:26 GMT

We are in the process of upgrading a Gateway 2000 (386DX-33) to run
OS/2.  Right now we have a 100 MB ESDI hard drive running on an EISA
bus.  We have a large amount of data that we want to keep on disk, but
the data is only used periodically, so transfer speed is not top
priority.

Checking on prices of ESDI and IDE drives, we've found that, even if
we order a controller card, we can get roughly twice the disk space
for the same cost if we buy IDE.

My idea is to partition the existing ESDI hard drive: a 10 MB DOS
partition (as drive C) to allow emergency booting of vanilla DOS, and
the remaining 90 MB as a bootable HPFS partition containing the OS/2
system, networking support, the swapfile, and other heavily used
program and data files.  Then, we could have two IDE 200 MB drives
running off of one IDE controller--mostly HPFS with a DOS partition
or two.

Is there any problem with this setup other than possible performance
problems with the IDE drives?  Is anyone out there running IDE and
ESDI technology side-by-side on an OS/2 EISA box or on any box?  Do
the cards co-exist peacefully and will OS/2 recognize them properly?
I don't have the particulars on our ESDI drive or controller, but is
there anything to watch out for here?

I would really appreciate mail replies from anyone with experience in
this area.  I can't even remember what ESDI stands for!  (Though
knowing this would still not really help.)  I will summarize to the
net.

Thanks in advance.

Particulars:	Phoenix 80386 ROM BIOS PLUS ver. 1.10 G17-2 (c) 1985-88
		Gateway 2000 motherboard stamped 09-000-86-64 Rev E
		Processor is 80386DX-33 with 80387 coprocessor
		On-board 64K (?) cache
		SpeedSTAR VGA Rev. 4.  Tseng ET4000AX on card

Kevin Buhr <buhr@ccu.UManitoba.CA>
From: bert.tyler@satalink.com (Bert Tyler) 
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: 300,000 sold in ten days
Date: 30 Aug 92 11:20:00 GMT
Distribution: world
Organization: Datamax/Satalink Connection * Ivyland, PA (215) 443-9434
Reply-To: bert.tyler@satalink.com (Bert Tyler) 

 > IBM sent two "pros from Dover" (to use a MASH the movie term) to the
 > last MN OS/2 End-user Group meeting...
 > - OS/2 2.0 sold 300,000 copies in the last 10 days.  If this continues,
 >   it has a daily ship rate of 30,000 copies.

Forgive me for being a skeptic, but given the humongous splash IBM has
made about shipping (not selling) one million copies of OS/2 in 135 days
(including the full-page ads featuring the opened bottles of champagne),
one would expect an item like this to be promoted at a somewhat
higher level than "two pros from Dover" at an end-user group meeting.
I've yet to see an item like this cross any of the news wires, and
I would expect the top OS/2 honchos to be shouting something like this
from the rooftops - using bullhorns.  I certainly would be, if I were
them.  I'll keep scanning the newswires, though.

Hmm, wait a minute.  IBM is supposed to be shipping a brand new line
of PS/2s to their distributors sometime in September.  If, as rumored,
most of those new PS/2s (and a lot of current ones as well) are to be
shipped with a bundled copy of OS/2, and if IBM's internal processing
folks just sent the relevant copies of OS/2 to whomever was next in the
distribution food chain as part of that rollout, and if someone were to
treat that shipment as a "sale", then I guess one could come up with
a figure like the above. 

That's *really* stretching a point, though.  When you purchase a 
computer from Gateway and it comes with a "free" copy of DOS and 
Windows, Microsoft *has* made a sale - to Gateway.  A real live
sale, on a dollars-per-unit shipped basis.  When you purchase
a PS/2 and it comes with a "free" copy of OS/2. however, you can't
really call it a sale, unless you decide that IBM's left-hand is
selling a copy to its right-hand (and paying Microsoft a royalty in
the process) ((and eating the cost of that extra 4MB of memory they
had to add to get the machine to a usable 8MB)).  Sure, they lose
a little money on each OS/2 sale, but they make it up in volume...

The real test of OS/2's popularity will be noting what happens to
IBM's share of the PC market when every PS/2 comes with a bundled
copy of OS/2 (and every Gateway comes with a bundled copy of DOS
and Windows).  If IBM's share goes up, that's a sign that folks 
like OS/2.  If it goes down, that's a sign that folks prefer
DOS/Windows.  No, I won't make a prediction <grin>.

                   Bert Tyler   (bert.tyler@satalink.com)
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From: mike.walsh@compart.fi (Mike Walsh) 
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: OS2 TO SUN
Date: 3 Sep 92 07:30:00 GMT
Distribution: world
Organization: ComPart BBS, Helsinki-Finland, +358 0 506 3329 (14 lines V.32bis)
Reply-To: mike.walsh@compart.fi (Mike Walsh) 

Thanks to all those who send me replies or mail on my question of
how to connect OS/2 workstations to SUN machines.
The answer appears to be IBM's TCP/IP for OS/2 although one person
(who hadn't used it) also suggested FTP's equivalent product.
.
Now for the follow-up:
We need probably to do this connection to a remote SUN. I get the
impressions TCP/IP can handle this, is this true and are there
any problems with remote connection.
One question that comes to mind is will we need some form of
X-Windows emulation on the OS/2 side ? Answers to this and any questions
I've not posed gratefully accepted.
Mike
                             
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: clemens@faui8a.informatik.uni-erlangen.de (Clemens Beckstein)
Subject: Re: PMCOMM!!!
Organization: Regionales Rechenzentrum Erlangen
Date: Tue, 1 Sep 1992 15:49:12 GMT

rfm@access.digex.com (Bob Myrick) writes:

>>dic5340@hertz.njit.edu (David Charlap) writes:

>>REXXTERM for OS/2 (by Quercus Systems) does have built-in Zmodem.
>>I am so satisfied with the package (especially with the fact that
>>communication scripts are written in REXX) that I switched from
>>Procomm Plus/DOS...

>Where can I get REXXTERM for OS/2 or get in touch with Quercus Systems?

Bob,

you may want to contact Charles Daney (75300.2450@compuserve.com),
president of Quercus Systems (author of the "Personal REXX for DOS and
OS/2" package and author of the "Programming in REXX" textbook) for
technical details and pricing info...

Cheers,

- Clemens
From: genie@netcom.com (The Genie)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: cc/c++/?
Date: 31 Aug 92 00:23:18 GMT
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  (408 241-9760 guest)


Tell me if I'm wrong but a couple of days ago, I thought I saw
the encoded forms for a C compiler floating around in
the comp.os2.binaries r.g.n.  Usually, I was able to find the
compressed binaries of this group in hobbes.nmsu.edu under os2/new.
I haven't seen it yet.  Anyone know where I can ftp this?
Thanks.

Gene
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: gogol@diku.dk (Peter Skov Knudsen)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Why are printouts from OS/2 so ugly...?
Date: 3 Sep 92 14:31:28 GMT
Organization: Department of Computer Science, U of Copenhagen

My problem is as follows: I"ve got an Okilaser OL400 printer
attached to my system. I use the HP Laserjet series 2 printer
driver. I"ve installed the ATM typefaces bundled with OS/2 in
both OS/2 and WINOS/2. The fonts look great on-screen in both
the Workplace and under WINOS/2. When I print from WINOS/2,
the output is excellent, as you would expect. But when I print
from OS/2 the output is really ugly. The characters are jagged, 
smeared and almost unreadable in pointsizes < 16 points. I"ve
been printing from the enhanced editor and from the online
help system - in both cases with disastrous result.
As the characters are generated by ATM whether I print from
OS/2 or WIN/OS2, and as they in both cases are sent throug the
HP-driver, I would expect the output to be similar, so why isn"t
it. Is it just that the Enhanced editor is a pig, and everything
will be fine once I get a real word processor running under OS/2, or
do I have to accept that OS/2 drives my laserprinter in 9-pin-
matrix-printer-with-bad-ribbon emulation :-( which implies that
I have to all my writing under windows :-(((
Any comments?

Peter Skov Knudsen, email gogol@diku.dk
Computer Science Student, Universtiy of Copenhagen
From: vdhart@isil02.isi.kfa-juelich.de (andre van der hart)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Digital CD-Rom RRD40
Date: 3 Sep 92 16:31:10 GMT
Reply-To: vdhart@isil02.isi.kfa-juelich.de (andre van der hart)
Organization: Forschungszentrum Juelich GmbH (KFA), Germany

Hi Folks

I have installed OS/2 2.0 on a PS/2 model 95, which is equiped with a SCSI
controller from IBM. I have tried to connect a CD-ROM from Digital (RRD40).
The configuration and installation was OK. When I try to access the drive h:
I get a sytem error : "The parameter is incorrect" without further explanation.
I have changed also the name TOSHIBA into DIGITAL in the driver, but it didn't
help.
Has anyone installed successfully this CD-ROM?

Andre
From: ANDY@MAINE.MAINE.EDU (Andrew T. Robinson)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: os/2 win3.1 support
Date: 3 Sep 92 00:41:12 GMT
Distribution: comp
Organization: University of Maine System

From: roger.ramsey@canrem.com (roger ramsey)
>SW>Don't forget WinOS/2 also runs Windows 2.x apps as well, which MS
>SW>doesn't run.
>
>You have a point to this statement?  Anyone out there running Windows 2.x
>apps should be roundly told to get with the program or get out of it.
>
  The point is that backward compatibility is important, and you can't
  continue to throw over an established customer base (as MS is going
  to do to Windows users with NT).  Actually, MS seems to think they
  *can* continue to do it, but I find it to be bad business.  I am doing
  my part by discouraging my clients from using MS products.

>SW>Sounds like a better Windows than Windows, to me.
>
>But juggling so many API versions will it be a better Windows with the
>performance of say, a snail running uphill through snowdrifts?
>
  Even when OS/2 was at level 1.1, it was a better Windows than
  Windows.  Windows won not because it was better, but because it
  was a slicker package (kind of like the approach Bill Clinton is
  using.)

  In any event, the tacit and erroneous assumption is that supporting
  more APIs saps performance.  It may take up more disk space and more
  memory (what doesn't nowadays?), bu there is no reason why supporting
  multiple APIs means a performance hit.

>SW>Also, the CSD will be shipping "real soon now"..........:-)
>
>ROTFL!!!! (mostly derisive).  This must be the longest "soon" in history,
>considering they first "demoed" the so-called "3.1 support" in April.
>
  Kind of like the "soon" for the release of Windows NT.  That's a lame
  slam, since software schedules have been slipping since the beginning
  of programming history.  I am glad IBM is taking more time and hopefully
  fixing more bugs.

> ~ WinQwk 2.0 a#473 ~ IBM - Intimidated By Microsoft
>
  Now *that's* funny.  Considering the stuff I'm hearing from
  Microsoft reps at conferences, I'd say it was MS that's running
  running scared.

Andy
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: bgm@cray.com (Bert Moshier)
Subject: Re: IBM Awards OS/2 Gold Ambassador Honors
Organization: Cray Research, Inc.
Date: 28 Aug 92 15:33:46 CDT

In article <1684F8E87.MLONG@isucard.card.iastate.edu> MLONG@isucard.card.iastate.edu writes:
>                     IBM AWARDS OS/2 GOLD AMBASSADOR HONORS                                                                                           

First let me say, CONGRATULATIONS to the winners!!  IBM is right to show you
off and reward you!  You are making OS/2 the success it is becoming!!


Just a suggestion, IBM should also be looking to show-off non-IBM individuals
who support OS/2 above and beyond the call of duty.  I know many promote it
out of their own pocket, their own time, and at the risk of their own jobs.


Bert.
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc,comp.os.os2.advocacy
From: riehm@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca (Carl Riehm)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: OS2 WINS!!  I give up!
Date: 27 Aug 92 01:54:16 GMT
Distribution: all
Organization: McMaster University, Dept. of Mathematics and Statistics

>In article <26AUG199210035893@lims01.lerc.nasa.gov> solomon@lims01.lerc.nasa.gov (Robert F. Solomon) writes:

a horrible tale of woe...   I'm just about to install OS/2, but after reading 
his experience, I very worried.  I *do* have a mixture of memory (on my IBM
Model 70) which is certainly from different manufacturers, and almost certainly
different speeds.  Does anyone else have any experience with using differing
memory simms  with OS/2?   When IBM itself warns against this situation, 
it sounds serious!   Carl Riehm.
From: jclei@sage.cc.purdue.edu (Jason Lei)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: NEW: OS/2 2.0 drivers for ATI Graphics Ultra ?
Date: 4 Sep 92 06:49:33 GMT
Distribution: world
Organization: Purdue University Computing Center

In article <1992Sep2.232033.9210@midway.uchicago.edu> sip1@midway.uchicago.edu writes:
>In article <4398@drsrv1.hmi.de> pfr@drsrv1.hmi.de (Fritsch_Wolfgang) writes:
>>
>> ...lines deleted
>
>They are "real" coprocessor drivers, but they are apparently rather
>quick rewrites of the OS/2 1.x drivers.
>
>Here's the rule of thumb: if you want 1024x768 in 256 colors, use the
>stock IBM 8514/A driver.  If you want 800x600, use ATI's version.
				       		    ^^^^^^^^^^^^^

So should I choose "others" to use the ATI drivers?


Jason



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From: kiehl@ibt013.ibt.kfa-juelich.de (Horst Kiehl)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: Can't delete an icon
Keywords: undeletable object, undeletable icon
Date: 2 Sep 92 10:58:58 GMT
Reply-To: kiehl@ibt013.ibt.kfa-juelich.de (Horst Kiehl)
Organization: Forschungszentrum Juelich GmbH (KFA), Germany

In article <widow.715365585@camelot>,
widow@camelot.bradley.edu (Shaun Burnett) writes:

>	I was trying to create a shadow of an ICON but ended up
>	creating a copy.  This copy just did not want to be deleted
>	via WPS.  So I went to an OS/2 command shell, changed to the
>	appropriate directory, and deleted the subdirectory.

I was trying the same with the undeletable object I had (and wanted to delete).
The object came back when the directory was recreated. That was on an FAT drive --
I don't remember if I tried it on HPFS.

Best wishes,

Horst
From: exujlg@exu.ericsson.se (Jon L. Gauthier)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Drive objects on extended partitions?
Date: 26 Aug 92 15:13:23 GMT
Organization: Ericsson Network Systems, Inc.

I re-installed OS/2 2.0 a couple of weeks ago so I could use Boot Manager.
I partitioned my 210MB drive as follows:

	1:	1MB Boot Manager partition
	2:	60MB Primary HPFS partition for OS/2 System
	3:      10MB Primary FAT partition for DOS System
	4:	100MB Extended HPFS partition (D:) for OS/2 data
        5:      29MB Extended FAT partition (E:) for OS2/DOS data

I didn't get around to formatting the two extended partions until a few days 
later.  Once I did, I can't get the OS/2 drive objects to show up under WPS.
I can access both fine when I boot from OS/2, DOS under OS/2, or native DOS.
How do I create drive objects for those extended partitions?  I tried last 
night, but the Sandman got the better of me and I gave up.  The settings for 
the C: drive object didn't give me any help, and I couldn't find an option 
for creating a new one.

Any suggestions?

Regards,
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