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From: t9014201@phillip.edu.au
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.apps
Subject: Re: Softerm (Re: Which is better: pmcomm or te2?)
Date: 1 Sep 92 19:30:45 GMT
 <1992Aug29.004905.8158@actrix.gen.nz> <92Aug29.145122edt.12046@roll.db.toronto.edu> <78726@ut-emx.uucp>
Organization: RMIT (Bundoora Campus)

In article <78726@ut-emx.uucp>, drxmann@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Dustin R. Christmann) writes:
> In article <92Aug29.145122edt.12046@roll.db.toronto.edu> panos@db.toronto.edu (Panos Economopoulos) writes:
>>On the other hand, I have yet to find a flaw in the Softerm vt100/vt102
>>emulation. Flawless. (Now that I 've figured out how to set my default
>>up/download directory, I think I can live with it!)
> 
> I use Softerm regularly, and think it's pretty damn good for the price (free
> with OS/2)
> 
> LIKES:
> 
> - Terrific VT emulation
Good Enough.  I'm still looking for a VT220 or VT320 emulator, such as you find
in MS-Kermit....

> - Very configurable
You mean you UNDERSTAND how to configure this thing?
It has to be the most confusing program I have ever used.
PMCOMM is much much simpler.

> - Great price
Sure...
> 
> DISLIKES:
> 
> - Problems with any 256 color Trident driver (thin blue stripe runs from top to
>   bottom of screen along the left side of window)
> 
-the way it locks up the system..  Too many "Please wait clocks", when things
go wrong you just have to sit and twiddle your thumbs  'till it realizes it.
For a program designed for a multitasking operating system, its pretty weak.

- no timeout/re-dial feature.  
Vital for someone fighting for access to the college modems.

- if you can cut from one window and paste into Softterm, I havent worked it
out yet.


> - No ZModem
> -- 
> Thanx,			|   Team OS/2	| Internet: drxmann@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu
> Dustin R. Christmann	| (I was there) | Bitnet: DRXMANN@UTXVM
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From: sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu (Timothy F. Sipples)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.apps
Subject: Performance 2.0 for OS/2 2.0
Date: 3 Sep 92 18:10:33 GMT
Reply-To: sip1@midway.uchicago.edu
Organization: Dept. of Econ., Univ. of Chicago

Someone recently requested a cheap set of utilities which would allow
for more "automatic" system performance optimization, particularly
with DOS apps.

Well, I picked up the latest issue of OS/2 Monthly, and, wouldn't you
know it, such a beast exists.  It is called Performance 2.0 for OS/2
2.0, and it is sold by Clear & Simple Inc., P.O. Box 130, W. Simsbury,
CT, 06092.  The price is a low $17.45 including shipping.  They can be
reached by telephone at 203-658-1204.

The product is described as a 50-page booklet with 15+ software
objects.  These objects let you tune the system "with the click of a
mouse," while the booklet "explains to all users the inside track to
optimizing OS/2 2.0."  "Clarity & Simplicity guaranteed!" they say.

Note that this optimization suite is said to require 8 MB of hard disk
space.  Interesting.

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From: feustel@netcom.com (David Feustel)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.apps
Subject: Re: Which is better: pmcomm or te2?
Keywords: pmcomm te2 comms
Date: 28 Aug 92 23:45:51 GMT
Organization: DAFCO: OS/2 Software Support & Consulting

ucgadkw@ucl.ac.uk (Dominik Wujastyk) writes:

>This isn't intended to start a war, but I thought some people might
>have tried the two already, and be able to sum up the pros and cons.

>Pmcomm is about 20 dollars more to register, I believe (89 versus 69,
>roughly).  That's about all I know, so far.

pmcomm32 (a beta version available to registered pmcomm users) has
too-good emulation of vt100 and Zmodem support. It supports HPFS but
long filenames are not preserved across downloads. I vote for
pmcomm32.
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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.apps
From: nyet@cco.caltech.edu (n liu)
Subject: Kermit vt-100 emulation is slighty messed up.
Organization: California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
Date: Thu, 3 Sep 1992 08:57:59 GMT

vi, for example, seems to have major problems. I use 'resize'
to get my termcap set right, but it seems to think the screen
is one line bigger than kermit lets things write to. 

i.e. while just using the terminal plain, kermit allows scrolls
to the very last line of the screen, but when using vi, it doesn't
let vi write to the last line, which remains blank, except when 
things scroll into it. I'm not sure if i've characterized this
correctly...

Is there a vital setting i'm missing?

I'm using Kermit 5A(183) 
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From: david@maxwell.ucsc.edu (David Darknell)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.apps
Subject: Re: new! os/2 disk compressio
Date: 1 Sep 92 07:16:41 GMT
Distribution: comp
Organization: University of California, Santa Cruz
NNTP-Posting-Host: maxwell.ucsc.edu

In <1992Aug27.862.5076@execnet> "robert eidswick" <robert.eidswick@execnet.com> writes:

>August 10, 1992

>Proportional Software Corporation today announced the DCF/2
>Disk Compression Facility for IBM's'@ OS/2@ Version 2.0.

>  In response to the needs of IBM OS/2 users, Proportional
>Software has introduced the first dynamic disk compression
>technology for OS/2 Version 2.0. The DCF/2, or Disk
>Compression Facility/2 allows users to increase their local
>physical disk storage without affecting applications software
>or system behaviour.

...

>  Proportional Software is introducing the DCF/2 at $99.95
>through December 31, 1992. The U. S. list price is $129.95.
>We have a special price of $64.98 (50% of list for IBM
>employees(for personal use, only) if they fax the order with a
>copy of their IBM badge.

>  Contact Herb Smith at 1-800-666-4672 or by
>FAX at 1-800-955-4672, for further information. Callers from
>outside of the continenal United States please call voice at
>(303)-484-2665 or by fax at (303)-484-2670

>  Also, please mention my name when you call,  thank you.
>                Robert Eidswick.
>--
>Executive Network Information System  (914) 667-4567
>International ILink Host
  
  *****
  I called Proportional wondering if the IBM price was also good for
  students, ala `educational discount' or `student pricing' for those
  of us dirt poor.  Alas, no discount exists just yet, 'cause there
  has been "no demand for it!"  If you would like a coup of this
  software at discount, and you are a bona fide college student, call
  proportional at the 1-800 number above and request you student copy.
  Perhaps if enough of us request a copy, they will make them
  available!

  *****David
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.apps
From: wcn@cs.brown.edu (Wen-Chun Ni)
Subject: Re: Uncompress
Organization: Brown University Department of Computer Science
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1992 07:43:08 GMT

In article <1992Aug31.054400.13784@news.columbia.edu> mig@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Meir I Green) writes:
>
>Oh!?  Did you port ksh :-)
>or are you using 4os2?
>
>Anybody want to tackle porting bash to os/2?
>*Please*?!  :-)
>

I don't feel very optimistic about the porting of Unix styled shells.
The immediate reasons are:
  1. (still) fork problems, and
  2. lacking of the job-controlling signals like SIGTSTP/SIGCONT
     under OS/2 (is there any?)

To solve the fork problem, a lot of modifications to the original 
code should be rewritten.

The job control hooks depend on IBM:-(.




Wen-Chun Ni
From: rovero@oc.nps.navy.mil (Josh Rovero)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.apps
Subject: Re: Borland C++ for OS/2.....When!!!
Date: 27 Aug 92 23:45:50 GMT
Distribution: comp.os.os2.apps comp.os.os2.programmer
Organization: Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey CA

You should try to contact Dave Intersimone at Borland.  He isn't a
marketeer (he's in charge of product development), but he can steer
you to the people who should know.

He's on Compuserve and Bix......

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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.apps,comp.os.os2.misc
From: hartzman@kilroy.Jpl.Nasa.Gov (Les Hartzman)
Subject: Postscript Printing from Win-OS/2 Problem!
Followup-To: hartzman@kilroy.jpl.nasa.gov
Keywords: Postscript, Win-OS/2
Organization: Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA
Distribution: na
Date: Tue, 1 Sep 1992 15:15:13 GMT

I'm having problems printing to a postscript printer via a LAN.  I'm running
TCP/IP 1.2.1 with LPRMON redirecting the print job to our Sun.  The only
problem is when trying to print from a WIN-OS/2 session.  The output has a
control code as the first character in the output, so the printer chokes,
producing nothing but postscript code output!  I've had to start printing to
a file and then editing out the 1st character before sending the file to the
printer.  As I said, this is only in a Windows session; OS/2 app. printing is
fine (actually, so is WordPerfect printing since THEIR driver works!).

Any help would be greatly appreciated.  Thanks in advance.  Email or post.

Les.



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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.apps
From: mig@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Meir I Green)
Subject: Re: Locking OS/2 on boot  (passwd protection)
Reply-To: mig@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Meir I Green)
Organization: Columbia University, New York
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1992 21:18:16 GMT

In article <BtnA98.30@news.cso.uiuc.edu> btf57346@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Byron "Bohr" Faber) writes:
>Ok.  I like os/2's password protection, but does anybody have an idea
>how to get it to lock up on boot.  It doesn't do me much good if it
>will only look up after 3 minutes idle, or if I tell it to.

Buy a BIOS that has a password option, or buy a security card.  Another
option is to encrypt your disk, but I don't think that is a good substitute
for a hardware password, as they can still erase your data too easily.

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From: zorrilla@cattell.psych.upenn.edu (Eric Zorrilla)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.apps
Subject: Re: Orchid ProdesignerII (ET4000) Full Screen OS/2 Loss sync
Date: 1 Sep 92 15:00:58 GMT
Organization: University of Pennsylvania

>I am using an Orchid Prodesigner II board at 1024x768 Non-Interlaced
>resolution with the latest Orchid 1024x768x16 drivers. Everything
>works fine (WIN-OS2, Full Screen DOS, PM) except it I switch to 
>a Full Screen OS/2 session I lose sync (my command prompt is rolling
>at 3 different lines on my screen).

This sounds very similar, though not identical to an ongoing problem that I
have which my OS/2 tech support guy has not been able to iron out for me.
Someone else, however, has called them with an identical problem to yours
and they got him back up and running with some odd playing around of SVGA
on (to make a long story short, they told him to power down HARD after running
SVGA on while still at the DOS prompt).  Call Boca Raton for better info.

>With the standard VGA IBM drivers I don't have this problem. With the
>Orchid drivers at 800x600 I don't have a problem. The problem is
>related to my SVGADATA.PMI file. If I run SVGA ON under DOS 5.0
>(so card is in normal, non-interlaced mode) I can run OS/2 in
>Non-Interlaced mode but I get my problem. If I run SVGA ON from a
>DOS Full Screen session I get a different SVGADATA.PMI file, one for
>Interlaced mode. And if I boot OS/2 using this SVGADATA.PMI file then
>I don't get the problem, but OS/2 is running Interlaced. On a 20" monitor
>it doesn't look too good that way.

How can you tell if you are running in Interlaced or NOn-interlaced mode?
What are your dip switch settings (and what monitor are you using?)  I
am using a Sony 1304 and my OS/2 full screen is squashed and elongated
whenever I start or switch to a session (it looks like I waould have
3 rolling prompts if it would roll, though as the screen is cut into 3 sec-
tions).  Tech Support suggested running PSMode before running SVGA ON and
selecting the highest resolution setting and, from that, running SVGA ON.

>Has anyone else seen this problem. The thing that makes this bad is
>OS/2 system messages come up with a loss of sync. If I could fix them
>at least then I would be ahead. I tried adding a /K MODE CO132,25 to the
>CMD.EXE in my CONFIG.SYS and that fixed the Full-Screen OS/2 sessions

Ah!  Something for me to try.

>(since they run that COMMAND Shell, but System error messages are
>still with a loss of sync.

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From: gt1959a@prism.gatech.EDU (Marcus Chandler Davis)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.apps
Subject: Help
Date: 1 Sep 92 22:51:03 GMT
Organization: Georgia Institute of Technology

Hello,  I'm a new OS/2 user and I'm having a major problem.

I have install OS/2 2.0 on a 486-50 with 16MB RAM over existing DOS 5.0
and Windows 3.0.  OS/2 desktop runs fine...but when I try to go to a Dos or
Windows program it loads the program and the screen image becomes greatly 
skewed...so bad that it's unusable.  It looks like a graphics mode error,
but all software is in a normal VGA mode and I have a normal SVGA card.
Worse yet,  the skewed image remains even when I Alt back to desktop or if 
I Ctrl+Alt+Delete....the only thing that works is a cold boot.....but OS/2
reloads the skewed program when I reload!

Someone help me please!!  thanks...

MC Davis


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From: GG.MPD@forsythe.stanford.edu (Michael Durket)
Subject: How do I...
Organization: Stanford University, California, USA
Distribution: na
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1992 15:32:44 GMT

A few questions:

1) How do I make Wordperfect the default choice on open for
   any file with the extension .DOC? I know how to do this
   on a per-file basis, and I know how to associate Wordperfect
   with all files that have the .DOC extension. The problem
   is that the system editor E is always the default open
   choice for files with the type "plain text". I want E
   to be the choice for all files of type "plain text" but NOT
   if they have the .DOC extension, so that double-clicking
   them will open them up in Wordperfect.

   I'm setting this up for a person who uses Wordperfect
   daily and has several hundred .DOC files already. Templates
   have been set up but aren't the complete solution in this
   case.

2) Does anyone know what DOS settings to use to make PGA Golf
   work? It works fine in full screen DOS unless you Ctrl+ESC
   back to OS/2. Upon a subsequent switch back to the game, the
   screen is corrupted. Also, in windowed-DOS mode, the screen
   drawing is bizarre - it seems tiled or replicated. I've fiddled
   with all the VIDEO_ settings to no avail.

Any help would be appreciated, particularly as the person I'm
setting this system up for is in a position to influence by example
a county department to go with OS/2 (and before you ask, no he
doesn't play PGA golf on county time - it's a personal system that
he brought in to work... Yeah, that's it! That's the ticket!)

Please post any response via email - our news machine has been
unreliable of late - and, thanks for any assistance.
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.apps
From: reimert@mamacass.etdesg.trw.com (Scott P. Reimert)
Subject: NDW 2.0 under WinOS2 (help request)
Organization: TRW Inc., Redondo Beach, CA
Distribution: usa
Date: Wed, 2 Sep 92 03:15:53 GMT

I have re-installed NDW 2.0 in my WinOS2 setup, but it fails to load. It
gets almost all the there, to the point where it's placing the viewer, icon-
editor, etc, on the desktop, then it dies with an error code like:

	Fatal trap x0004

Or something close to that. It flashes the error message, then terminates
the WinOS2 session completely and leaves me at the WPS again. I've tried
migrating it, and I followed the readme regarding the WinShield=0, but have
had no joy.
     I know this can work, because I had it working at one time (before a
catastrophic disk problem). I just can't figure out what I did last time.
For what it's worth, here is some system config junk:

	486/33 AMI *motherboard* w/ 8MB RAM
	Microp 330MB SCSI HD
	Adaptec 1542b

			Any help is appreciated,

					Scott

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From: btf57346@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Byron "Bohr" Faber)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.apps
Subject: Crypt?
Date: 29 Aug 92 20:46:23 GMT
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana

Can anybody out there tell me if there is a unix compatible crypt for 
os/2?   Thanks

Byron Faber

Please E-mail
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From: lutz@solace.psych.rochester.edu (Dave Lutz)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.apps
Subject: Re: Speedstar... HELP ME
Date: 3 Sep 92 14:57:50 GMT
Organization: University of Rochester - Rochester, New York

In <Yec4R3O00WB6JM1qBs@andrew.cmu.edu> md3z+@andrew.cmu.edu (Mark Denovich) writes:

>I have a diamond speedstar with a Crystal Scan NI (gateway) monitor
>I have had zero luck attempting to install the Orchid Drivers from hobbes.

  I have it working fine on my Gateway.  All I did was follow the instructions
that came in the readme file.  I've had two different versions of the orchid
drivers, and both work pretty well.  I tested all of the drivers in the first
version I had, but only the 600x256 in the newer version.

  The old version loses sync with a single DOS application if I switch away and
then back, but that hasn't been a real problem.  I've never totally lossed sync
or had to reboot to fix things.  The new version fixed the problem, but they
don't have 640x256, so I went back to the old one.

  Perhaps you should be a bit more specific about your problem.  Like what
steps you've taken, and what the results were.

Dave Lutz
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.apps
From: gregory@halcyon.com (Gregory Wright)
Subject: Re: Borland C++ for OS/2.....When!!!
Organization: The 23:00 News and Mail Service
Date: Sat, 29 Aug 1992 17:57:52 GMT

In article <715046895snx@juvat.UUCP> jim@juvat.UUCP (Jim Kunzman) writes:
>program.  They announced that they had reduced the price substantially
>from the previous beta.  They hadn't reduced it much, since now you
>don't get a copy of the release compiler, just a discount coupon.
>What an incentive...
>
>I would love it if Borland would pay to Beta test some of my
>software.  The unmitigated gall.  I'll just bet Borland pays
>Microsoft for the opportunity of beta testing Windows NT!

  I don't believe that you got the full picture.  I was on the phone
with a rep. from Borland yesterday and this is what I was told.  There 
are two beta programs going on for C++ for OS2. One, the "normal" beta
program where they pay for the beta testing.  To be a part of this 
program you must fill out an application and get accepted as well as
fill out the non-disclosure form. The second program is the one you
recieved the offer for. All you need is to fill out the non-disclosure
form and send the money(~$299). After the main release you get the 
compiler for an upgrade price.  True, you don't get paid under this
program but you *DO* get an OS2 compiler and they will take your bug
reports and comments. As a plus to this program they do not require
you to do extensive, pre defined, beta testing.
  All in all, I would say this is a great offer.....IMHO. :-)

>
>Borland C++ beta?  Just say no.
>
Borland C++ beta?!? Give me, give me, give me!!!!!!

>--
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>

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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.apps
From: wjb5106@rigel.tamu.edu (Walter Barnett)
Subject: Re: Starting programs from the background menu
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41    
Organization: Texas A&M University
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1992 16:38:00 GMT

In article <FAGER.10.715245049@gribb.hsr.no>, FAGER@gribb.hsr.no (Fagerland, Svein      94/96) writes...
>There is a menu for every object. In the backbround picture menu iI have 
>added a few of my own programs to the menu, but when I start them from the 
>menu they dont start in the directory where the .exe file is.
> 
>So some programs dont't work ( for instance all the command prompts ).
> 
>THe only way to get around this,  I've  discovered is to make a command file 
>that brings you to the program location before it starts it.
> 
>THERE MUST BE A EASIER WAY ? ANYBODY ?

Have the menu point to a program object rather than an executable file.
With the program object, you can specify the starting directory and
parameters.  Use the FindProgram-Locate option to point to the object. 
The pop-up menus pass their path to the program being started; you can
stop this by placing a percent sign as the first thing in the parameters
field for the program object. 

_______________________________________________________________________
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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.apps
From: jimh@pacdata.com (Jim Harkins)
Subject: Those wacky DOS options
Organization: Pacific Data Products
Date: Tue, 1 Sep 1992 16:34:13 GMT

I just bought a 486 box and put OS/2 on it, one of the first things I discovered
is that Wolf3d won't run under OS/2.  Last night I spent a couple of hours
screwing around with the DOS settings with no luck.  So I've got 2 questions.

1).  How do I make Wolf3d run?
2).  When a program won't run, how do you figure out which of the 20-30
	 setting to screw with?  I doubt the problem is with exclusive mouse
	 access or something like that, so I'm down to about 20 options to
     try.

thanks.

jim

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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.apps
From: schmiher@Informatik.TU-Muenchen.DE (Hermann Schmidt)
Subject: How to run the '1896' game?
Originator: schmiher@hphalle2a.informatik.tu-muenchen.de
Organization: Technische Universitaet Muenchen, Germany
Date: Tue, 1 Sep 1992 16:38:25 GMT


Hello,
a friend of mine has desperately tried to run the game '1896'
(might be another number; it's an economy simulation) with
no success. He checked out all the settings, tried the VDM stuff,
but no go.

Any suggestions/experiences ?

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