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From: sal8@po.cwru.edu (Steve Luzynski)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: Turn Help Off?
Date: 29 Sep 92 15:01:16 GMT
Organization: Case Western Reserve University
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In article <1992Sep28.135943.6934@persoft.com> johnf@persoft.com (John Freeborg) writes:
>From: johnf@persoft.com (John Freeborg)
>Subject: Turn Help Off?
>Date: 28 Sep 92 13:59:43 GMT
>
>Ok - there are about 2 things that are starting to annoy me after I've used
>OS/2 for quite a while.  Can anybody help with some ideas here?
>
>(1) How do you turn off BY DEFAULT the annoying little help line at
>    the top of the screen of OS/2 or DOS sessions when you are sitting
>    at the prompt?  I know you can type "HELP OFF" and that turns it off,
>    but how do you make the DEFAULT to be off?
>

Edit your autoexec.bat and config.sys files. If you look, you'll notice that 
the prompt is set to PROMPT=$i$p$g. Guess what the $i is? That's right, it's 
that stupid help line. Take it out of both files and restart the system, and 
you'll never see the dumb thing again.

>(2) Some of the icons on my desktop have title text in light grey.  I created
>    shadows of the OS/2 full screen, OS/2 window, DOS full screen, and DOS
>    window on my desktop - they all have grey text.  So does my A: drive
>    icon.  All of my other icon title text is black.  I've tried going
>    into Palette Schemes and editing my own new palette.  I then dragged the
>    palette to the OS/2 desktop holding down the Alt key.  Everything
>    followed my new color rules, except for those damn grey icons!
>    Any clues?
>

Shadows, by default in every color scheme, have light grey icon text. If you 
really want to turn them black, edit the 'Shadow text' setting.

>I have the new beta CDROM and was wondering if anybody has tried the
>new beta Windows 3.1 support on top of the GA code (with the new kernel
>patch however)?
>
> - John
>
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>John Freeborg          Software Engineer         Persoft
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>608-273-6000                                     Madison, WI 53711


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From: mike.walsh@compart.fi (Mike Walsh) 
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: GRAPHICS ULTRA PROBLEMS!
Date: 30 Sep 92 13:53:00 GMT
Distribution: world
Organization: ComPart BBS, Helsinki-Finland, +358 0 506 3329 (14 lines V.32bis)
Reply-To: mike.walsh@compart.fi (Mike Walsh) 

Following my previous message (that I was having the same sort of
problems) I gave it a re-try.
The key was re-installing the ATI Graphics Ultra card.
I put the ATI disk 1 in A:, changed to A: and did INSTALL.
I changed the set-up power configuration (first item on the menu) to
8514, saved it and exited.
I then went to OS/2 (still set-up as VGA). Did a Setup and amended
the Graphics Adapter to 8514A. The selected install asked me for
all diskettes from 6 to 15 and seemed to copy from disk 7 (8514) and
10 (?) the fonts otherwise none.
I re-booted and it worked fine. The 14 inch monitor is a bit small, but
that's my problem not the installations.
Mike (Good luck !)
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Subject: re: Help - Disappearing Settings Notebooks
From: CFORDE@bcsc02.gov.bc.ca
Date: Tue, 06 Oct 92 12:39:12 PDT
Organization: BC Systems Corporation

 
On Tue, 6 Oct 1992 02:25:26 GMT, Tom A. D. Riley wrote:
 
>I've had some problems with settings notebooks
>disappearing from folders. When this happened to
>some basic folders, it was an inconvenience. Now
>it has happened to my desktop folder!
>
>When I try to open the settings, everything
>goes as expected except that the settings _don't_
>open. ctrl-esc shows the settings in the
>window list but trying to activate the settings
>doesn't pop up the window. Is there any thing I
>can do to get this control back??
 
I had this same problem.  The following advice worked for me:
 
>Chances are that the Settings windows actually do come up, just off
>screen and sized to invisibility.
>
>The immediate work-around is to select the Settings view from the
>Window list (to activate it), then press Alt+F7 (move) or Alt+F8 (size)
>to show the window and make it large enough to use.
>
>The user should then, at the first opportunity,
>  - shutdown
>  - reboot from the Install disk + disk 1,
>  - at the Welcome screen, press Esc to get a command prompt,
>  - put Disk 2 in the diskette drive
>  - run CHKDSK C: /F    (/F:3 if using HPFS) at least two times.
>    (ignore messages about allocation errors on SWAPPER.DAT)
>
>This should clean up whatever needed cleaning up, and the Settings pages
>should appear properly.
>
>Nathan Davis - IBM FSC Houston
 
Have fun,
Carl Forde                            phonenet: 604-360-7130
VM Database and Development Support   bitnet  : CFORDE@BCSC02
British Columbia Systems Corporation  internet: cforde@bcsc02.gov.bc.ca
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From: wjb5106@rigel.tamu.edu (Walter Barnett)
Subject: Re: dosv under os-2
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41    
Organization: Texas A&M University
Date: Mon, 28 Sep 1992 19:55:00 GMT

In article <1a7i5fINNilb@agate.berkeley.edu>, jp1ek@sunc.shef.ac.uk writes...

>i have been trying to run dosv (japanese version of ibm dos for
>at bus machines) under os-2.  this version of ibm dos fails
>because it cannot load a driver called $font.sys.  the message is
>that there is not enough extended memory.  the machine in
>question in fact has 6 megs of extended memory and $font.sys will
>load happily with 1 meg or less.

There is really no such thing as extended memory under OS/2.  It is just 
memory.  OS/2 provides what looks like extended memory (and expanded 
memory, for that matter) for the benefit of DOS programs that require it.

> 
>my guess is that $font.sys, although written by ibm, does its own
>thing with extended memory and cannot find any because it is all
>under the control of os-2.  if my guess is correct, where do i
>rtfm to find out how to give $font.sys some extended memory of
>its own to play with?  if my guess is correct, my second (largely

I would suggest looking in the on-line command reference:  click on
the Search button and type "extended memory".

_______________________________________________________________________
Walter Barnett        Aerospace Engineering        Texas A&M University 
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From: rcain@netcom.com (Robert Cain)
Subject: Erratic mouse in winos2
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  (408 241-9760 guest) 
Date: Sat, 3 Oct 1992 05:59:52 GMT


In winos2 my mouse is very erratic and the pointer often disappears for a bit.
Not really usable the way it is.  Has anyone else had this problem and found
the right settings?  I've tried the "MOUSE EXCLUSIVE ACCESS" or whatever it
is called with no effect.

Bob
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From: sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu (Timothy F. Sipples)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: How do you move *.ini
Date: 30 Sep 92 21:35:47 GMT
Reply-To: sip1@midway.uchicago.edu
Organization: Dept. of Econ., Univ. of Chicago

In article <1992Sep30.103340.15965@husc3.harvard.edu> chandoni@husc8.harvard.edu (John-Marc Chandonia) writes:
>I have several .ini files in my root directory left by various
>programs (neko, klondike, etc.).  Is there a way to tell OS/2
>to put these somewhere else (like \os2\ini)?  If they are hidden,
>will any programs they are associated with complain?

If you change the working directory for Klondike, Neko, and other
program objects (to, say, C:\OS2\APPS), the INI files will be placed
there.

I wouldn't worry too much about it, though.

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From: checker@acf5.NYU.EDU (checker)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: `implicit' DOS session settings
Date: 2 Oct 92 19:12:11 GMT
Organization: New York University


Is there any way of changing the default DOS settings from the OS/2
command line?  In other words, if foo.exe is a DOS program, and I type

[C:\] foo

How can I give foo 4 MB of DPMI memory, or something?

Chris
From: tenny@euclid.uucp (Nathan Tenny)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: Beta/SVGA Trident problems
Date: 27 Sep 92 04:57:32 GMT
Article-I.D.: nntp.1992Sep27.045732.26414
Organization: Department of Mathematics, University of Oregon


I don't have the 32-bit beta, and the 800x600x256-VD driver crashes on
my machine the same way the original poster described.  (The non-VD drivers
work fine.)  Possibly the beta is just revealing an extant bug in the
driver...

	NT
From: ASI509@DJUKFA11.BITNET
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Warning: WPS CRASH
Date: 30 Sep 92 09:35:43 GMT
Organization: Forschungszentrum Juelich

There is a discussion going on in the .advocacy group about why OS/2 will fail
or not. The main reason why people think it will fail is that it`s not fool
proof enough.I don`t intend to put this discussion forth in another group but
yesterday the WPS crashed on me in a way that gives reason to worry about
exactly that point.

I tried to move the OS/2 2.0 Desktop folder from my system drive D: (FAT) to my
data drive E: (HPFS). The result was tht 90% of the objects on my desktop dis-
appeared. Afterwards OS/2 refused to boot. I had to boot from a floppy, delete
the OS2.INI and OS2SYS.INI files and go through the MAKEINI procedure. This
evening I will have some happy hours reconstructing my desktop.

Before you call me a complete idiot doing that to my desktop folder consider 2
points:

  1. Imagine a typical Mac user. He sees a funny icon showing an office desk.
     He toys around with the mouse and somehow decides to see what happens if
     he moves that icon to another drive. --- WHAM, OS/2 dies.

  2. THIS IS A RECOMMENDED ACTION TO IMPROVE WPS PERFORMANCE. Let me share the
     following piece of wisdom from the Redbook vol 3 chapter 6.1.3 with you:

     "When OS72 is installed it sets up a directory called OS!2 2.0 Desktop on
     the boot drive, corresponding to the desktop work area. In this directory
     it installs some default objects for the user which the user can work with
     to subsequently create new foldrs and object for himself.

       ...
     Fortunately, it is possible to move the desktop to another drive or
     partition."

So either this is a bug, which I hope is fixed in the CSD or WPS has to be made
 fool proof in that vital files and folders can`t be removed from the places
where they have to be for the system to work.

I know that WPS is version 1.0, so it`s not perfect and noone can demand that
from a version 1.0. But I think WPS has to become fool proof so that Joe User
can work with it without crashing it twice a week.

Michael Bode.
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: urbndv8@ucscb.UCSC.EDU (Bleeding Rivets)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: Castle Wolfenstein Settings
Date: 2 Oct 92 16:51:07 GMT
Organization: University of California; Santa Cruz
NNTP-Posting-Host: ucscb.ucsc.edu


In article <14661@goanna.cs.rmit.oz.au> steveh@goanna.cs.rmit.oz.au (Steven Hayes) writes:
>linstee@dutecaj.et.tudelft.nl (Erik van Linstee) writes:
>
>>Also there should be NO EMS.
>
>Hey Erik, I've got EMS working with it just fine.
>-- 
>   Steven Hayes                                    |  steveh@rmit.edu.au
>   Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT)  |  +61 3 660-2693

I think maybe what he meant was that the paid (not shareware) full release
of Wolfenstein won't work if you let it use XMS (which it prefers over EMS).
So set XMS to 0 and give it a couple of megs of EMS.


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human...Why have we not yet acquired this insight in relation to the world
of the free will?  Because outwardly we are the masters of madness, because
the insane are violated by us, and we hinder them from living according to
their ethical laws...Now we must endeavor to overcome the dead point in our
relationship to insanity."       --Wieland Herzfelde, 1914
From: yuan1@husc10.harvard.edu (Nina Yuan)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: Setting refresh rates with a Trident and MAG MX15F
Date: 6 Oct 92 14:03:10 GMT

dab6@po.CWRU.Edu (Douglas A. Bell) writes:
>In a previous article, yuan1@husc10.harvard.edu (Nina Yuan) says:
>>I just set up OS/2 on a Zenon 486/33 with a 1 MB Trident card and a MAG
>>MX15F monitor using the 800x600x16 seamless drivers.  Everything works
>>wonderfully except for one thing; the MAG's LCD display indicates that
>>it's in 800x600 62Hz (I think) vertical refresh rate (Mode 5), but
>>another present mode (Mode 6 I think) allows it to do 800x600 at 70Hz.
>>I tried using the TVGACRTC utility to set the refresh rate (as per the
>>TREADME file), but only succeeded in hanging the system with a blank
>>(black) video screen.  Can anyone tell me what I'm doing wrong?

>There is a jumper on my trident card that had to be removed before the
>higher refresh rates could be used.  Once the jumper was removed, I had 
>to run 'svga off' and then run 'svga on' in a full screen dos session to
>generate a new svgadata.pmi file that knew that the card was set for the
>higher refresh rates.

Ah...I didn't think of that.  I think my card is actually a Trident
OEM version by Quadtel (I think), but I'll go look at the instruction
pamphlet again...

Also thanks to rm3@stc06.ctd.ornl.gov for responding to this post and to
my question about 5.25 inch boot disks (my mail to you bounced).

-nhy
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From: parry@yoyo.cc.monash.edu.au (Tom J Parry)
Subject: Re: Service packs vs. 32-bit GRE/Windows 3.1 beta
Originator: parry@yoyo.cc.monash.edu.au
Organization: Monash University, Melb., Australia.
Date: Mon, 5 Oct 1992 23:18:18 GMT

Jim Reisert (reisert@sttng.mlo.dec.com) wrote:
> 
> Does anyone have a list of what's in the service packs that's not in
> the beta, and vice-versa?  For example, if I have the beta now, will I
> want to revert to the GA release and install the service packs on top
> of it in order to get more bug fixes or functionality?
> 

Well, judging by the list of APARs posted recently, new fixes are being
added all the time.

Even if they are not, though, the beta is surely full of debugging code
(hence some complaints about GRE speed) and the SPP will surely not contain
such horrors. To get the full benefit you will have to go back to GA and
upgrade.

-- 
Tom J Parry.
Your reality is a figment of my imagination.
From: etl0@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu (ERIC TODD LANDRIEU)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Screensavers with the beta...
Date: 26 Sep 92 23:57:46 GMT
Organization: Lehigh University

I have noticed under the beta that, while everything else seems faster in
terms of graphics, screen-savers aren't.  Running Deskpic, I find some of the
savers VERY much slower(specifically: Fireworks and the Spacewarp(or
whatever), but Eyes and Kaleidascope are also noticeable).  And the Win31
screensavers which come with the beta are very slow as well(much slower than
they should be).  Any ideas?
                               Eric Landrieu

                               
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From: goyal@utdallas.edu (Mohit K. Goyal)
Subject: Blue Ninja's comment on performance on OS/2 2.0.1
Organization: Univ. of Texas at Dallas
Distribution: usa
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 1992 18:40:15 GMT

I just thought I would paraphrase what Lee Reisweg(sp?) said in the
FIDO OS/2 conference.

Regarding the claim by IBM of improved performance of OS/2 under 4megs
with the new CSD, he said that IBM wants to get 6meg performance with
4megs of memory.

This means IBM wants OS/2 with the CSD to run as well under 4megs as
OS/2 runs under 6megs right now.

He said they are almost their, but not quite finished.

He didn't say whether this was using HPFS or FAT. *I* am assuming he was
thinking of FAT.

Right now I am under the impression that minimum RAM for acceptable OS/2
performance is: 6meg=FAT, 8megs=HPFS.  Under my thinking, this would
change to 4megs=FAT, 6megs=HPFS with the new CSD installed.

Finally, I think he or some other IBM'r said that they are going to get
OS/2 to fit in 3.5 megs of RAM instead of the 4.5 it needs now, so that
it will really run under 4megs. (not speedwise, but memory wise)

That's all...

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From: do-minh@CS.YALE.EDU (Minh Do)
Subject: UART
Organization: Yale University Computer Science Dept., New Haven, CT 06520-2158
Date: Sun, 27 Sep 1992 20:25:13 GMT

The UART on my friend's Gateway 486-33 is 8250.  Is the 16550 better?

What does it add?  Does anyone know which one comes with the new Gateways?

Thanks.

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                                               dominq@yalevm.ycc.yale.edu
From: gt0297a@prism.gatech.EDU (Tim Drury)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: Graphics Ultra Problems!
Date: 30 Sep 92 13:22:09 GMT
Organization: Georgia Institute of Technology

In <19920929.171519.612@almaden.ibm.com> archer@vnet.ibm.com (Gary D. Archer) writes:

>In <1992Sep29.111229.4404@desire.wright.edu> slam@desire.wright.edu writes:
>>Well, I finally gave in and bought a MAG 15 and ATI Graphics Ultra combo
>>to run OS/2 2.0. I then reinstalled OS/2 2.0 GA, selecting 8514/a and
>>High Resoultion Full-Screen Win-OS/2. INSTALL goes through all 15 disks
>>and the printer drivers but upon reboot, OS/2 hangs on the WPS screen
>>with the gray background; there are no icons or anything else.
>>
>>I gave up on GA and installed the 32-bit GRE and had the same problem.
>>Arrrggghh!!! The strange thing was that everything worked using SVGA and
>>a cheapo Trident 8900C/1Mb card!
>>
>>What is going on? Help! Pleaazzzzzzeeee......
>Reply-To: archer@vnet.ibm.com


>Did you run ATI's install program to correctly set the mode for the
>ATI ULTRA at 1024x768?  Boot a dos disk and re-run the ATI install
>and checkout the 1024x768 settings.

and almost as important, after you configure the ati board for
8514 and program the eeprom, cycle the power on the machine.  i had
problems installing for 8514 also, i think somewhere along the
line i cycled the power to the machine and it all worked.  you
can program the eeprom without configuring the card so by cycling
the power the board will be forced to read the eeprom and set 
itself for 8514.

i think you'll like 8514 on a > 14" monitor.  my eyes hurt when
i look at one that small in svga mode.  i bought a 17" monitor
which looks real nice.

-tim
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: CSD rumours....here's mine...wot's yours?
From: Steve.Withers@bbs.actrix.gen.nz
Date: Sun, 27 Sep 1992 00:03:45 GMT
Organization: Actrix Information Exchange

In article <unruh.717453676@physics.ubc.ca> unruh@physics.ubc.ca (William Unruh) writes:
> kslater@sps.pgh.pa.us (Kevin J. Slater) writes:
> 
> >Steve.Withers@bbs.actrix.gen.nz writes:
> 
> >>  
> >> Here's mine: First two weeks of October.
> 
> >Sorry Steve, you're two weeks late, by my sources. Unless you're talking 
> >non-electronic media distribution. :)
> 
> So it's out now? Where? or did you mean "two weeks early"?

A limited number of people can - in the US - get the service pack by taking
part in the OS/2-Win3.1 beta programme. The actual, real, live service pack
won't be *generally* available for another few weeks (should be less than 1
month). The Win 3.1 support should be OK to release by the end of November -
though I am only guessing here. 
 
I have the new beta and it is pretty good! I have not found any real
bugs....either in OS/2 or the Win3.1 included. But then, i haven't had time to
really thrash it.
 
It is a lot faster and that's great!

Steve

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From: feustel@netcom.com (David Feustel)
Subject: Re: Redbooks on software.watson.ibm.com
Organization: DAFCO: OS/2 Software Support & Consulting
Date: Fri, 2 Oct 1992 23:48:07 GMT

OK. I misinterpreted "programming info". Could you elaborate on the
type of programming info you're looking for.
-- 
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From: gershon@husc10.harvard.edu (Ethan Gershon)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: Com3 using com.sys
Keywords: os2 comm
Date: 28 Sep 92 04:07:11 GMT
Distribution: na

I have also encountered problems using com3 on my system. Somebody
sent me a fix that seems to work perfectly that involves byte editing
the com.sys driver.  Unfortunately, I am not at my own computer right
now, so I can't send it along, but if someone else has it, or could
remind me later this week...
                                               --Ethan Gershon
                                               gershon@husc.harvard.edu
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From: stimpy@nmt.edu (Stimpy)
Subject: Summary of SatisFAXtion modem advices and tips...
Organization: New Mexico Tech
Distribution: comp.os.os2.misc
Date: Thu, 1 Oct 1992 23:02:41 GMT


Hi all, thanks to all of you that recently gave me advice about my
Intel SatisFAXtion modem. I have uploaded a file called 'satisfax.zoo'
to ftp-os2.nmsu.edu which contains a summary of all of your posts (among
other things). So, for SatisFAXtion modem questions, there is a source
of info (no thanks to Intel! Wake up boys, DOS/Windows won't cut it!)
at ftp-os2.nmsu.edu.

Cheers, and thanks again.

-John Reynolds
stimpy@jupiter.nmt.edu


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