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From: wdence@nswc-wo.nswc.navy.mil (Walter Dence)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.apps
Subject: Re: Ada for OS/2?
Keywords: Ada, OS/2
Date: 21 Nov 92 11:47:08 GMT
Organization: Naval Surface Warfare Center

In article <1992Nov21.034801.25671@midway.uchicago.edu> sip1@midway.uchicago.edu writes:
>In article <1525@melair.UUCP> christy@melair.UUCP (Chris Tyson) writes:
>>  I posted this to comp.lang.ada yesterday and I should have 
>>  cross-posted it here.  Oh well, here goes.  I'm looking for
>>  an OS/2 compatible Ada product.  Any one heard of one if so
>>  I'd love to hear about it too.  
>
>I'm not trying to dodge the question, but I'd like you to go looking
>in the following location: check ftp-os2.nmsu.edu via anonymous ftp
>(or the OS/2 Shareware BBS at 703-385-4325) for the file tinf30.zip.
>(The "30" is the version number -- it can increment.)  This is an OS/2
>guide to applications and tools, and it is quite handy to say the
>least.  I believe an Ada is listed.
>
>-- 
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>of Chicago, 60637       | [Read the List, THEN post to ONE OS/2 newsgroup.]

     There is an Ada FAQ.  There is also an Ada UseNews group.  And an
Ada BBS.  
 
     Also, there is a monthly-updated file, val-comp.hlp, that lists
all Ada compilers.
 
     I just looked at the Nov92 list.  There is no os2 compiler.  In
addition, I have asked about it, and there is no known (to me anyway)
effort going on to do an os2 one.  You could probably use one of the 
"386" versions that are available in a Dos window.



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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.apps
From: rocks@dante.nmsu.edu (Dave Rocks)
Subject: Maple and OS/2
Organization: New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, NM
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 15:17:55 GMT

	Does Maple run under OS/2? I heard it would only run on the beta
	with the windows 3.1 support.
From: vohwi-d@acsu.buffalo.edu (David A. Vohwinkel)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.apps
Subject: 256 color's backgrounds
Date: 20 Nov 92 16:48:12 GMT
Organization: State University of New York at Buffalo/Comp Sci

Does anyone know of a program that will convert .Gif's into something that can
be used in 256 colors for the backgroung of the WPS?? I downloaded the 
bga1bmps.zip and bga2bmps.zip off of software.watson.ibm.com and it contains
some cool .BGA files that look really nice as backgrounds in the WPS....And
they appeared to be in 256 colors.. and I installed the service pack with the
Tseng Svga drivers with dspinstl so I should be able to get 256 colors right?
I tryed using vpic50 to convert .Gif's to windows 3.0 .Bmps's and it would
only display it in 16 colors as a backgroung ... but vpic would view it in 256 
colors.... anyone have any ideas on what I can do to get them to work ... I got
the same results with gif2bmp(os2 version). it wouldn't display in 256 colors..


					Thanks

						Dave V
From: Joe@twistor.dialix (Joe Katnic)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.apps
Subject: Re:  AmiPro 3.0 font metrics wrong?
Distribution: world
Date: 19 Nov 92 21:09:50 PST
Organization: Not an Organization

In article <1992Nov15.183315.19594@spang.Camosun.BC.CA> dbarker@spang.Camosun.BC.CA (Deryk Barker) writes:
>In article <hess.721296906@rzdspc14> hess@rzdspc14.informatik.uni-hamburg.de (Hauke Hess) writes:

>Can anyone cast any light on this?
>
>Deryk Barker, Computer Science Dept., Camosun College, Victoria B.C.
>

When I did a trial of word processing packages for work, I installed
AMIPRO V3.0 on OS/2 V2.0.

I followed the Windows install document implicitly.
Open a WINOS2 session and install from that.

Turn on ATM fonts in WINOS2.

The only problem I noticed was when the AMIPRO document size was set
to preview the whole page.

Then the wrong fonts appeared to be used and a complete mess was
presented on the window.

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From: ekim@pyuxe.uucp (25853-confenti)
Subject: Re: Perf Mon Tools for OS/2?
Organization: Bellcore, Livingston, NJ
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 92 19:44:43 GMT

Hello, ijust downloaded a set of tools off a bbs in toms river nj.
called cbtoolsx.zip this came with a clock,swap monitor and a free space
monitor (no memory :().
unforturnetly every memory monitor that i have seen so far only reports 
524k free on my system with 6meg. I just upgraded to a new system bd. 486/25
and now have real problems with my system.
well back to work l8tr mike confenti

Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.apps
From: derek@wubios.wustl.edu (Derek Morgan)
Subject: Dialog box for PostScript Printers
Followup-To: comp.os.os2.apps
Organization: Division of Biostatistics, WUMS, St. Louis, MO
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 17:14:56 GMT

We have a Panasonic KX-P4455 attached to a system running OS/2. We would like
to be able to send a file to it without having to specify the type of file
("Plain text" "Printer-Specific", etc.), and without having to go through the
printer options dialog box.

Any and all input is welcome.

AdvTHANKSance,

Derek Morgan
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.apps
From: teague@a.cs.okstate.edu (Keith Teague)
Subject: Re: Stacker for OS/2 ?
Organization: Oklahoma State University
Date: Tue, 24 Nov 92 00:58:03 GMT

I just got a postcard from Stac indicating that the beta test program
for Stacker for OS/2 was about to actually begin. Thought some of you
might like to know that the wait appears to be coming to a close...

Keith Teague

Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.apps
From: apoulsen@athena.mit.edu (Andy Poulsen)
Subject: Which FAX software for os2?
Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Date: Sun, 22 Nov 1992 19:19:09 GMT

hi,

which FAX software works best under os2?  i'm especially interested in
something that will let me treat it as a printer driver (preferably
something that i can use postscript fonts with so that i can send
documents that i've already got...)  does winfax pro work under win-os2?
and if so, will it receive in the background (i have a graphics ultra
and don't run seamless windows -- i use the hi-res desktop instead) if i
leave it running in a win-os2 session?

any help much appreciated!

thanks!

andy

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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.apps
From: rkimmel@stein.u.washington.edu (Robert Kimmel)
Subject: Re: Growing OS2SYS.INI probable cause?
Organization: University of Washington, Seattle
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 23:28:59 GMT

In article <1er451INNhe6@gap.caltech.edu> josephc@cco.caltech.edu (Joseph Chiu) writes:
>I just got off the phone with IBM trying to get a handle on why there is
>an LPT1: conflict with one of my programs.  (It appears to be a vestige
>of dongle code that was somehow left in the product...  It isn't supposed
>to need a dongle, though...)
>
>Anways, I offhandedly mentioned my OS2SYS.INI growth to the tech on the
>line and he asked: "Do you leave apps open when you shut down?"
>
>According to him, that will cause the growth of the OS2SYS.INI...   According
>to what he said, OS/2 preserves the "state" of the system at shutdown,
>thus causing the growth of the INI file.  If apps are closed prior to
>shutdown, this is not supposed to happen.
>
>This sounds plausible.  I'm going to test this theory out over the next
>few days...  It certainly explains the increased disk access during
>shutdowns.
>
>
>-- 
>Joseph Chiu, Dept. of Computer Science, Caltech.    josephc@coil.caltech.edu
>1-57 California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91126. +1 818 449 5457 
>*    Now running OS/2, Windows, DOS, and UNIX (okay, well, maybe not...)   *

That probably is the case, I always use shutdown, but I close all apps manually before I do.  And I don't have a *.ini size problem, my biggest one being
150K.  Was wondering why people were having that problem and I wasn't.  =)
From: rob@cad4.lbl.gov (Barracuda)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.apps
Subject: Star Control 2 under OS/2
Date: 19 Nov 1992 08:20:40 GMT
Organization: Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory
Reply-To: rob@cad4.lbl.gov (Robert J. McNamara)
NNTP-Posting-Host: 128.3.252.177


Has anyone been able to get Star Control 2 to work under OS/2?
(I've got the CSD installed if that makes a difference). It seems
to either fail with an error or hang up OS/2 entirely. If you've got 
it working please let me know what settings you're using.

+-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-+-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-+-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-+
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From: srife@desire.wright.edu
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.apps
Subject: OS/2 Backup Sofware?
Date: 16 Nov 92 10:34:17 EST
Organization:  Wright State University 

Where is OBKUP340.ZIP?  I had downloaded a previous version a couple
months ago, but it wouldn't work.  There was discussion in this newsgroup
earlier, but I checked the ftp sites they suggested and could not find it.

I need a backup program that works before I apply the SP.  The discussion
about it leads me to believe this would be a wise decision.

Can anyone direct me to where I can find OBKUP340, the earlier version's
documentation looked like this was a fairly nice package.
Is there other backup software that works well with OS/2 2.0?
We are a university and funds are tight, so cheap or free is a necessity.

Thanks in advance.

Scott Rife
Wright State University, Dayton, Ohio
Internet:  srife@desire.wright.edu
Bitnet:    srife@wsu.bitnet
From: evanc@uuisis.isis.org (Evan Champion)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.apps
Subject: Autocad R12 Fix
Date: 16 Nov 92 02:39:30 GMT
Organization: UUISIS Electronic Mail Service (Ottawa)

I was looking for that Autocad R12 fix for a friend so that he will be able 
to run it under OS/2 but I've had no luck.  I've looked on watson and ftpos2 
and called the OS/2 Support board in Montreal but it isn't anywhere.  If 
anyone can tell me where to get it (with a directory and a filename if 
possible) I'd really appreciate it.

Evan
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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.apps
From: wjb5106@zeus.tamu.edu (Walter Barnett)
Subject: Re: Trouble with Excel after SP
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41    
Organization: Texas A&M University
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 19:43:00 GMT

In article <1992Nov17.165820.24977@njitgw.njit.edu>, dic5340@hertz.njit.edu (David Charlap) writes...
>In article <9211172327@ritz.mordor.com> ritz@ritz.mordor.com (Christopher Mauritz) writes:
>>That must be a 2.1 specific problem.  Excel 4.0 is running on my machine
>>with no problems whatsoever.  However, I'm worried that Msoft will
>>sneak in code in a future release designed to torpedo OS/2 as it has
>>been claimed they did with earlier versions of DOS to break Lotus 123.
> 
>This will necesarilly cause problems. Excel versions prior to 3.0 were
>meant for Windows version 2.x, and cause problems with 3.x.  As a
>matter of fact, Windows 3.0 would give you a warning if you tried to
>run Excel 2.1 under it in standard or enhanced mode.
> 

Microsoft offered a maintenance release of Excel (Version 2.1c) when
Windows 3.0 came out that addressed this problem.  It was provided free
of charge (disks only).  I am using v2.1c under Winos2 without any
problems. 

_______________________________________________________________________
Walter Barnett        Aerospace Engineering        Texas A&M University 
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.apps
From: sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu (Timothy F. Sipples)
Subject: Re: need a good graphics program
Reply-To: sip1@midway.uchicago.edu
Organization: Dept. of Econ., Univ. of Chicago
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 05:03:59 GMT

In article <1992Nov15.151343.22174@kakwa.ucs.ualberta.ca> kdorma@ravana.eche.ualberta.ca (Kevin Dorma) writes:
>How's it goin', eh?
>I'm looking for a good graphics program, something for sprucing up graphs and
>making cool diagrams.   My supervisor does the graphing bit with Gnuplot and
>Adobe Illustrator on the NeXT.  I think it is overkill, though.  A really good 
>2D/3D graphing package would be an alternative.  Any suggestions?

The closest match to what your supervisor is presently doing would be
GNUPlot for OS/2 (available via anonymous ftp from ftp-os2.nmsu.edu)
and CorelDraw 2.5 for OS/2.

However, depending on your needs, you might find that PM Chart
(included with OS/2 2.0) is enough.  I would also look at PM Draw
(which just popped up at ftp-os2.nmsu.edu; filename pmdraw2.zip),
Micrographx Draw for OS/2 (commercial), Lotus Freelance Graphics for
OS/2, and, naturally, any DOS or Windows software.  There is no
shortage of options here.

-- 
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sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu | 128.123.35.151, anonymous ftp, in /pub/os2/all/info
Dept. of Econ., Univ.   | /faq, or from LISTSERV@BLEKUL11.BITNET (send "HELP")
of Chicago, 60637       | [Read the List, THEN post to ONE OS/2 newsgroup.]
From: josephc@cco.caltech.edu (Joseph Chiu)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.apps
Subject: Growing OS2SYS.INI probable cause?
Date: 23 Nov 1992 17:24:49 GMT
Organization: California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
NNTP-Posting-Host: sandman.caltech.edu

I just got off the phone with IBM trying to get a handle on why there is
an LPT1: conflict with one of my programs.  (It appears to be a vestige
of dongle code that was somehow left in the product...  It isn't supposed
to need a dongle, though...)

Anways, I offhandedly mentioned my OS2SYS.INI growth to the tech on the
line and he asked: "Do you leave apps open when you shut down?"

According to him, that will cause the growth of the OS2SYS.INI...   According
to what he said, OS/2 preserves the "state" of the system at shutdown,
thus causing the growth of the INI file.  If apps are closed prior to
shutdown, this is not supposed to happen.

This sounds plausible.  I'm going to test this theory out over the next
few days...  It certainly explains the increased disk access during
shutdowns.


-- 
Joseph Chiu, Dept. of Computer Science, Caltech.    josephc@coil.caltech.edu
1-57 California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91126. +1 818 449 5457 
*    Now running OS/2, Windows, DOS, and UNIX (okay, well, maybe not...)   *
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.apps
From: mmannan@lynx.dac.northeastern.edu (Mohammed Mannan)
Subject: Service Pak, which one is latest?
Organization: Northeastern University, Boston, MA. 02115, USA
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 05:44:41 GMT

I am a new convert to OS/2. OS/2 is running on my system for about a week
Big Blue is charging $25.00 plus Taxes and shipping for the service pak but
I rather ftp the patches and not pay (running low on cash after buying those
simms). Will some kind OS/2 user direct me to the latest version of the service
pak? 


Thanking you in advance,

M. Mannan



	Thanking you in advance,


Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.apps
From: sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu (Timothy F. Sipples)
Subject: Re: Developer Tools ?
Reply-To: sip1@midway.uchicago.edu
Organization: Dept. of Econ., Univ. of Chicago
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 04:53:56 GMT

In article <1992Nov9.092302.14500@coli.uni-sb.de> atoenne@mpi-sb.mpg.de (Andreas Toenne) writes:
>Recently I started programming in Smalltalk/V for OS/2. Very nice package and
>I like to be a happy camper BUT
>the documentation keeps on talking about a IBM developers toolkit.
>Smalltalk/V needs some resource compiler to build dialogs and I need some
>advice how I bundle strings, bitmaps and icons in a DLL.
>Are the redbooks (from watson) sufficient to understand the API calls or do
>I need extra printed documentation?

IBM's Toolkit should keep you going.  In the U.S. it can be had for
about $79 (or $15 -- the cost of the OS/2 PDK CD-ROM).  You might want
to check the announcement letters available via anonymous ftp from
ftp-os2.nmsu.edu, directory /pub/os2/2.0/info/ibm, for more
information on the Toolkit.

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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.apps
From: gaw2@cunixa.cc.columbia.edu (Gang Wu)
Subject: Kermit for PM
Organization: Columbia University
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 16:09:24 GMT

i just downloaded kermit for pm from hobbes. i have some problem when
i try to do a file transfer. the problem is, after the connection is
established, how do i get back to the C-Kermit mode on MY machine so
i can give a send to receive command? i think on a ms-dos version you
just press Alt-X, but this doesn't work on PM version. 

Gang
gaw2@cunixa.cc.columbia.edu

Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.apps
From: jahonen@cs.joensuu.fi (Jarmo Ahonen)
Subject: What happened to Wingz spreadsheet program?
Organization: University of Joensuu
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 07:28:56 GMT


hello,

Some time ago I remember seeing a nice spreadsheet for OS/2 1.X.
It was named Wingz, and now when OS/2 has matured a bit I decided
to find out if there I would be able to buy a new version of Wingz...

But I have been unable to find anything about the program... What happened?
Did it disappear from the marketplace?

Or is the case just that it is not sold in Finland anymore?

Thenks for your help,

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Computing Centre, Lappeenranta University of Technology, P.O.Box 20,
SF-53851 Lappeenranta, Finland. email: Jarmo.Ahonen@lut.fi

Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.apps
From: JACKW@lexmark.com
Subject: Problem With Designer after CSD
X-Disclaimer: These views are the poster's and not necessarily those of Lexmark
Organization: Lexmark International, Lexington, KY
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 19:34:13 GMT

After installing the CSD for 2.0 I am having trouble running
Designer under Win-OS2.  Namely, whenever I try to change display
a color (anything other than black) on the screen, it crashes.
 
It won't even display the color selection pallette.
 
Any Ideas?
From: halco@iccgcc.decnet.ab.com (ext. 3540)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.apps
Subject: Re: Looking for good (usable?) term program for OS/2 2.0
Date: 23 Nov 92 12:01:25 EST

> systems/environments, I'll take Softerm over Windows Terminal any day.
> 
> I would not discount it out of hand.  It does everything through
> YModem, the VT-100 emulation is darn good, and every key can be
> remapped as desired.  It lacks scripting, Zmodem, and has an annoying
                                 ^^^^^^^^^^

In the Help for Softerm there are several references to scripting "if the 
Script module is installed" or something like that.  Sounds like this is
a crippled version of their "real" product.  Anyone know about availability
of the script support?
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.advocacy
From: sjb5@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu (STACY JOHN BEHRENS)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.advocacy
Subject: Re: OS/2 Crashproof? NOT!
Date: 16 Nov 92 18:16:58 GMT
Organization: Lehigh University

In article <gnash.721870994@ee.uts.EDU.AU>, gnash@ee.uts.edu.au (Greg Nash) writ
es:
>>Example 2:
>>From programming, it is TRIVIAL to hang the OS.  Write a PM application and
>>before starting the StdWindow, create a named pipe and wait for another proces
s
>>to access the pipe.  Hang city - the machine is long GONE!  Can't switch to an
y
>>other application.  And try this one after loading the CSD.  SubClass the
>>FrameWindow in a PM application to modify the RESIZE message.  Pass minimize
>>and maximize message unchanged to original routine.  Resize works correctly,
>>however, minimizing the window (only after the CSD is installed) will hang the
>>sytem - full reboot time again!  With 400 MB of HPFS partitions to chkdsk, the
>>mean time between debugging attempts is about 5 minutes.
>
>>It seems odd that in a multitasking environment one can write any application
>>that can crash the whole OS.
>
>How about Unix? I have a friend that wrote a 2-line program (of course could
>have compressed it to 1 line) that has brought down every unix system he
>has tried it on (with permission. half a dozen different breeds/versions
>of unix when I last heard, a couple of years ago).  I'm not excusing OS/2
>for being crashable despite claims to the contrary, but it doesn't shock
>me that it happens.  I wonder if anyone will ever crash NT?
>
> -- Greg Nash
>
There is nothing particularly difficult about bringing down a multitasking
machine.  You can get any Unix based machine to die by overload by using a
couple of nested fork statements.  That will bring any machine to its knees.
Now doing it by way of a flaw in the system is a little tougher, but there are
backdoors in *every* system.  As long as you have a fairly thorough knowledge
of the system in question, it is usually trivial to bring one down.

-- 
Stacy John Behrens
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From: tzs@carson.u.washington.edu (Tim Smith)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.advocacy
Subject: Re: Programmers are more productive under DOS than under OS/2!!!
Date: 17 Nov 92 09:27:59 GMT
Article-I.D.: u.1992Nov17.092759.6325
Organization: University of Washington School of Law, Class of '95

In article <BxtBr8.ABq@rice.edu> amitp@owlnet.rice.edu writes:
>Ever since I got OS/2, I've been playing games and messing with colors
>and fonts instead of working.  I haven't worked on my shareware
>programs for over three months now!!!  What should I do?  Go back to DOS?
>

I once watched someone spend nearly an hour resizing and moving windows
around, trying to get his work environment *exactly* *right*.  This was
on a Macintosh, soon after they were introducted.  I believe that when
he went to lunch, we removed most of his fonts, so that he wouldn't be
tempted to spend a couple of hours getting everything in the *exactly*
*right* font! :-)

--Tim Smith
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.advocacy,comp.os.os2.misc