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From: rick@sjsumcs.sjsu.edu (Richard M. Warner)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.apps
Subject: Re: Floppy Backup, Re: 32bit Shareware backup program.
Date: 21 Jul 92 15:58:03 GMT
Organization: San Jose State University, Math & CS

In article <1992Jul21.054001.11676@cco.caltech.edu> hacker@cco.caltech.edu (Jonathan Bruce Hacker) writes:
>From: hacker@cco.caltech.edu (Jonathan Bruce Hacker)
>Subject: Re: Floppy Backup, Re: 32bit Shareware backup program.
>Date: 21 Jul 92 05:40:01 GMT

>rick@sjsumcs.sjsu.edu (Richard M. Warner) writes:

>>Ahem ... Diskettes are not 'relatively inexpensive' - esp. when you look
>>at them relative to tape.  For example, the cheapest one can find DS/HD
>>3-1/2" diskettes around here right now is about $1 per diskette.  Thats
>>$1 for 1.44 Mb of storage space, or $.70/Mb.  QIC-40 tapes are running
>>about $15, for 40 Mb of storage (uncompressed) or $.38/Mb.  QIC-24 tapes
>>are $15 each for 60 Mb of storage (uncompressed), or $.25/Mb, and QIC-150
>>are about $20 for 150 Mb of storage, or $.13/Mb.  At that rate, those
>>floppies get darned expensive.  And they take a lot more space to store,
>>also!


>While the above data is correct, it neglects to include the cost of
>the tape drive itself, which many people, myself included, would have
>to buy to store anything on tape.  Floppy drives, on the other hand,
>are standard equipment on every PC I've ever seen.  I think that is
>the point others have been making in this thread.

The math does not work well here, either.  For example, up until a couple
of months ago I was doing floppy backups on one system that required
75 diskettes for a full backup.  Anyone above the level of fool should
keep at least 3 full backups - umm, thats 225 diskettes!!!  At a buck
each, that's $225.  I bought a Colorado DJ-10 for $200 (with one
cartridge).  Two additional cartridges were $40 (together, including
tax).  So it is now $225 vs $240, and we have not counted the cost
of interim backups yet.  Then we take into account my time.  A full
floppy backup took 45 minutes of my undivided attention.  The tape 
backup takes 15 minutes, but I can do it 'unattended'.

Yes, floppies are an easy out.  But anyone running any disk over 100 Mb
really should invest in a tape drive.  The hassles of dealing with
hundreds of floppies just make if false economy.

(and for folks with multiple systems, just get one of the tape drives
that runs off the parallel port - backup multiple systems at the cost
of a single tape drive). 

>-- 
>Jon Hacker
>Caltech, Pasadena CA
>hacker@tumbler-ridge.caltech.edu

Rick Warner
rick@sjsumcs.sjsu.edu
From: "bill dehaan" <bill.dehaan@canrem.com>
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.apps
Subject: where's borland?
Date: 30 Jul 92 22:00:29 EST
Reply-To: "bill dehaan" <bill.dehaan@canrem.com>
Distribution: comp
Organization: Canada Remote Systems

In message <!akm7yr.msmith@netcom.com>, you wrote:

MPS>According to the guy on the stand at Object world (I can't recall his name b
MPS>he plays guitar in the borland jazz band ) Borland WILL provide a similar i
MPS>upgrade path from the DOS to the OS/2 compiler, this will also include the
MPS>Windows OE version of the compiler. No costs as yet but he said expect it to
MPS>close to the cost between version upgrades.

Really? If so,  this is good  news. But it  contradicts what we've  been
told  by  the  local  Borland  people,  who  seem to be bracing us for a
non-trivial upgrade fee. They said that the list price would probably be
$995, and that the  upgrade would be a  couple of hundreds bucks,  easy.
Then again, maybe the deal is  different in Canada than in the  US. Time
will tell.
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From: ressler@galileo.ifa.hawaii.edu (Mike "IR" Ressler)
Subject: SpeedSTAR Turbo Windows Drivers Under Win-OS2 ???
Organization: UH IfA and NASA Infrared Telescope Facility
Date: Fri, 31 Jul 1992 08:29:04 GMT

I'm not sure if this is an apps or a misc question, but ...

I recently got a Diamond SpeedSTAR-24 card, and would like to use the Win
3.0 drivers that came with it to drive Win-OS2. I should point out that I
am currently using an old SpeedSTAR 1024x768x256 driver successfully with
Win-OS2, but the new turbo drivers are significantly faster when I tested
them under real Windoze 3.0.

To patch in the new driver, I did essentially the same thing as I did for
the old one: I changed the driver= line in os2\mdos\winos2\system.ini to
wspdtbf.drv (from vga478.drv, the old driver) and I added the line
"driver=SpeedSTAR Turbo Windows -1024x768x256" to the [boot.description]
section to match the real Windoze system.ini. I also have it set up to use
the 8514 system fonts and the *f.fon fonts (the same as with the old
driver).

So now I start Win-OS2: while loading it tells me that it loaded the turbo
drivers in 1024x768 mode and it then gives me my basic desktop.  However,
if I now start up WordPerfect for Windows or if I try to preview some of the
fonts in the "control panel" window, it gives me the following error message:

	GP fault in module: wspdtbf.drv at 0004:0627
	Press okay to close application

I get the identical message every time. Anyone have any guesses as to what
this means? It seems to be font related, but I've tried various
permutations of Win-OS2 fonts and SpeedSTAR fonts without success (the
SpeedSTAR fonts don't seem to work at all). If anyone out there has
successfully run the Turbo Windows drivers, I'd love to hear from you. If
you can tell me what that error message means, I'd love to hear from you,
too. Thanks.

Mike

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  Me? I like music I can brush my teeth with ...
From: dic5340@hertz.njit.edu (David Charlap)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.apps
Subject: Re: emacs configuration file
Keywords: emacs configuration .emacs
Date: 21 Jul 92 22:08:35 GMT
Organization: New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, N.J.

In article <1992Jul21.140438.3156@Urmel.Informatik.RWTH-Aachen.DE> kotulla@scapa.ira.uka.de (Axel Kotulla) writes:
>
>can anybody tell me, how I get the standard configuration file .emacs to
>work under OS/2.
>Where has it to be placed? Which environment settings are necessary?

The .emacs file can be placed in any directory.  The directory should
be pointed to by the HOME environment variable, just like under Unix.
I created a directory D:\HOME, and placed it there.  I then added a
"SET HOME=D:\HOME" to my CONFIG.SYS file.

Just for those who don't know, the .emacs file is an emacs-lisp
program which is run automatically upon the startup of the emacs
program. 


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From: sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu (Timothy F. Sipples)
Subject: Re: Is there a screen-grab utility available ?
Reply-To: sip1@midway.uchicago.edu
Organization: Dept. of Econ., Univ. of Chicago
Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1992 16:18:36 GMT

In article <1992Jul22.042704.24490@sulo.otol.fi> jarinie@sulo.otol.fi (Jari Niemel{ T-230-3) writes:
>I need to take _shots_ from WorkPlaceShell, how is that possible ?
>Is there (in os/2) such function, or must I buy one ?

Since I am writing a book I have researched this.  :-)

There are at least two available via anonymous ftp from
ftp-os2.nmsu.edu.  Nikon II 1.1 is shareware and does the job quite
well.  But I like PMCapture 1.4, written by Charles Petzold.  It is
freeware and has quite a number of options.

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From: greenfie@gauss.rutgers.edu (Greenfie)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.apps
Subject: Re: Terminal Emulator with HPFS support needed
Date: 25 Jul 92 15:25:48 GMT
Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J.

hank@ducvax.auburn.edu writes:
> There is also m2zmodem 2.11 on ftp-os2.nmsu.edu.  It does have a terminal
> mode, but its main use is as an external x/y/z modem addition to other
> comm programs. I've tested the zmodem, but there is a ymodem and ymodem batc
> This is from the author of the remote-software Os2You. m2zmodem is Shareware.
> I can't use it with our vax for uploads, but it appears to be worth a look.
> Note: I can't get 2.11 to work with the com16450.sys driver (usually used
> in OS/2 1.3 for com3 support), but 2.09 will work on OS/2 1.3 and com16450
> 
Is there any way of using external protocols in Softerm/PM Terminal (or
whatever you want to call it)? I like PM Terminal, as it is much more
configurable than any other terminal package I've seen, and I already have
it, and it has good vt10[0/2] emulation. However, it doesn't support
ZModem, which is my protocol of choice. Thanx.

> --darrel hankerson hank@ducvax.auburn.edu

Larry Greenfield
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From: sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu (Timothy F. Sipples)
Subject: Re: Why do WPS windows take forever to close?
Keywords: wps windows close time forever
Reply-To: sip1@midway.uchicago.edu
Organization: Dept. of Econ., Univ. of Chicago
Date: Thu, 30 Jul 1992 16:42:47 GMT

I think you have really answered your own question, that there is some
fatal flaw with the hard drive you have been using.  Hopefully the
hard drive is still under warranty and can be exchanged.

I do not know of any magic bullet that will fix your problem -- I
haven't heard of any problems relating to Conner hard drives in
general.  I think you just happen to have a bad hard drive in this
particular case.

As a last ditch effort, though, try the following:

(1) Perform a CHKDSK /F per the instructions in the OS/2 FAQ List.
(2) Perform a restoration to "factory defaults" of the desktop and
CONFIG.SYS using the ALT-F1 trick described in the OS/2 README file in
the root directory.
(3) Perform a reformat/reinstall of OS/2 on that hard drive.  The
reformat is important -- I would not skip that step.

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From: Lowey@Sask.USask.CA (Kevin Lowey)
Subject: Re: Archiver that uses EAs?
Originator: lowey@jester.usask.ca
Reply-To: lowey@jester.usask.ca
Organization: University of Saskatchewan
Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1992 04:26:37 GMT

From jarman@ee.ualberta.ca (Andrew Jarman):
> Sorry if this is a FAQ, but is there a ZOO, ZIP, or anything else I can
> use to compress files and still keep the EAs.  

There is a version of LHARC that supports EAs.  It does so by
extracting the EAs and archiving them in a separate file in the
LH-Archive.  This makes it compatible with existing LHARC extractors.
When the file is extracted using the OS/2 LHARC program, the EA is
also extracted and added to the file.  Long file names are also supported.

This file is available as /pub/archives/os2/archiver/lh2_214.zoo on
ftp.usask.ca for anonymous ftp.

(I hope that's the right version of LHA, I'm not at the office to
double check the docs).

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From: RIMILLER@pucc.Princeton.EDU (Ronald I. Miller)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.apps
Subject: STATA under OS/2
Date: 23 Jul 92 18:08:56 GMT
Reply-To: RIMILLER@pucc.Princeton.EDU
Organization: Princeton University, NJ
Disclaimer: Author bears full responsibility for contents of this article

Has anyone out there successfully run the statistical package STATA under
OS/2?  When I try to run it in a DOS window I get an "allocation error".
None of my OS/2 docs have anything to say about what one might do for this.
The people on IBM's helpline have never heard of the program.  I tried
fiddling with some of the DOS memory settings but I don't have such a
clear idea as to what these actually do.  Thanks a bunch.
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From: smbrush@lims01.lerc.nasa.gov (Andy Brush @Sverdrup)
Subject: Where's Borland?
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41    
Organization: NASA Lewis Research Center
Date: 21 Jul 1992 15:02 EST  

A few months ago, Borland seemed to be promising that they were heavily 
committed to supplying applications for OS/2:  The trade rags quoted 
Phillipe Khan (sp?) saying how important OS/2 would be, etc.

TODAY, the picture looks different!  While Lotus and Microsoft advertise
OS/2 spreadsheets, Borland is shipping an "upgrade" from Quattro 3.0 to 4.0
which is _less_compatible_ with OS/2 than the previous version.  Borland
technical support has no solutions, and they won't even refund the
"upgrade" price because they "don't support OS/2".  Nothing about upcoming
Borland OS/2 releases has been in the rags for weeks. 

It seems that either Borland is having difficulty porting their compiler to 
OS/2, or that they have made a strategic decision to avoid OS/2.  Either 
way, it's looking like it's time to make the decision to avoid Borland.

Comments, Hard Info, etc. is Welcome

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From: ASI509@DJUKFA11.BITNET
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.apps
Subject: Re: Floppy Backup, Re: 32bit Shareware backup program.
Date: 21 Jul 92 08:32:22 GMT
 <1992Jul20.131435.5815@relay.nswc.navy.mil>
 <rick.6.711671081@sjsumcs.sjsu.edu>
Organization: KFA  Forschungszentrum Juelich

In article <rick.6.711671081@sjsumcs.sjsu.edu>, rick@sjsumcs.sjsu.edu (Richard
>Ahem ... Diskettes are not 'relatively inexpensive' - esp. when you look
>at them relative to tape.  For example, the cheapest one can find DS/HD
>3-1/2" diskettes around here right now is about $1 per diskette.  Thats
>$1 for 1.44 Mb of storage space, or $.70/Mb.  QIC-40 tapes are running
>about $15, for 40 Mb of storage (uncompressed) or $.38/Mb.  QIC-24 tapes
>are $15 each for 60 Mb of storage (uncompressed), or $.25/Mb, and QIC-150
>are about $20 for 150 Mb of storage, or $.13/Mb.  At that rate, those
>floppies get darned expensive.  And they take a lot more space to store,
>also!
>>Scott Hiles
>>whiles@relay.nswc.navy.mil

Sounds interesting. I know nothing about tape drives, so I`d like to know
what the _drive_ costs. What controllers are needed (SCSI, IDE,...) and
are there external drives? I have only two drive bays for removable media and
I have a 5.25" and 3.5" floppy installed (and consider purchasing a CD-ROM).

Sorry for this being a bit off topic but demand for large backup media is not
entirely unrelated to a 30Meg OS.

Please e-mail.

THANX, Michael Bode.
From: dic5340@hertz.njit.edu (David Charlap)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.apps
Subject: Re: 32bit Shareware backup program.
Date: 27 Jul 92 17:24:03 GMT
Organization: New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, N.J.

In article <1992Jul26.100819.14187@monu6.cc.monash.edu.au> parry@yoyo.cc.monash.edu.au (Tom J Parry) writes:
>My desire for a backup utility for OS/2 is primarily motivated by the following
>scenario.
>I have the problem of transporting my work to and from uni. I have OS/2 
>running at both locations, but my programming/working environment are
>constantly changing. What I need is a utility which (at the end of the day)
>will update a set of disks which I can take home/to uni. Obviously to save
>time only those files which have been updated which be backed-up / restored,
>but all files should exist in the set in their latest revision.
>I think the Shareware idea is good - the author of such a package can
>almost certainly count on a contribution from myself.

If all the files are in one place, you can always use the XCOPY
command with the "/m" parameter.  This parameter will copy only files
which have their "archive" bit set, and will then clear the archive
bit.  For those who don't know, both FAT and HPFS have an "archive"
bit for each file which is automaticly set when the file is written
to. 

This, combined with a batch file (or REXX program) can work until you
find a more suitable utility.
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From: Scott@enge1.cc.wm.edu (Scott Fenstermacher)
Subject: Procomm Plus, OS/2, RTS
Organization: Computer Center
Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1992 16:03:14 GMT

I am trying to use Procomm Plus in a DOS window to connect to an IBM 7171 
protocol converter. Everythig works fine until I connect to the 7171 and 
then the communications screen seems dead. I hooked up a RS232 breakout box 
and noticed that the RTS lead was not active. There is my problem. I pulled 
the RTS lead high and everything was OK. There are many other users that are 
planning to switch to OS/2 and I do not want (or think I should have to) 
build new cable for all these users. My question is:

	Is this a bug in OS/2?
 	Is the serial card I am using the problem (It works OK when booted 
	from DOS?
	Is there a patch for this problem?


Scott
From: z_kupkams@ccsvax.sfasu.edu
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.apps
Subject: Maximus BBS for OS/2, Exteral prgs?
Date: 21 Jul 92 23:01:48 GMT
Organization: Stephen F. Austin State University

Has anyone been able to get Maximus BBS for OS/2 to work with External Programs 
for remote users? 
I use the following line in my Menus.ctl file

UsrRemote Xterm_Run Cmd.exe_>com%P_<com%P Sysop "Os Shell"

Well it goes nuts, and spins out of control!
Has anyone been able to get this to work?
Mike
From: mstaben@comtch.spk.wa.us (Matthew Staben)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.apps
Subject: Re: Where can I find a version of PSPM that works with 2.0?????
Date: 27 Jul 92 15:51:49 GMT
Organization: Waffle BBS at CompuTech Spokane, Washington

sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu (Timothy F. Sipples) writes:

> PLEASE do not crosspost.  Post in .apps if you have an application
> question and leave it at that.
> 
> In article <1992Jul25.195951.9342@regina.cs.uregina.ca> skagos@hercules.uregi
> >  I've heard many times that there is a version of PSPM that works
> >with OS/2 2.0.  I've searched a bunch of ftp sites, but I cannot
> >locate it ... I only am able to find the older version that causes
> >OS/2 to barf.  Can someone point me in the right direction.  Thanks
> >in advance.
> 
> It is apparently an "IBM Internal Use Only" tool, I am told (which may
> be released to the public under the new policy, however).
> 
> That said, there is a utility called Slay, I believe, which should end
> up on ftp-os2.nmsu.edu within the next couple weeks.  (It takes a bit
> of time to get it from the OS/2 Shareware BBS through the "gateway,"
> so be patient.)
> 
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You want to obtain "RUNNING2.ZIP" from the shareware bbs.  There are two
applications in this package:  RUNNING2.EXE which shows all running
applications (PIDs, THREADS, CHILDREN, etc.) in several formats.  The
acompanying utility, SLAY actually works.
 

mstaben@comtch.spk.wa.us  _or_  mstaben@visual.spk.wa.us
 
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From: gong@dutw34.tudelft.nl (GONG Sunrong)
Subject: os2 port of DVIPS5.49 available?
Organization: Delft University of Technology
Date: Tue, 21 Jul 1992 14:19:19 GMT

Are there an os2 port of the lateset version dvips (version 5.49?)
available? If so, where can I get get it?

thanx in advance.

-gong 
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From: rommel@Informatik.TU-Muenchen.DE (Kai-Uwe Rommel)
Subject: Re: Anyone have GTAK100 running?
Organization: Technische Universitaet Muenchen, Germany
Date: Mon, 27 Jul 1992 18:58:31 GMT

In article <exujlg.117.0@exu.ericsson.se> exujlg@exu.ericsson.se (Jon L. Gauthier) writes:
>I'm loading in my config.sys via BASEDEV the os2scsi.dmd, os2aspi.dmd,
>aha152x.add, DEVICE=c:\os2\aspitape.sys TAPE$0 0 S0, and 
					 ^^^^^^
>SET TAPE=+++TAPE$4.  When booting, aspitape responds like it's loading, and
	     ^^^^^^
>I get no response from the ASPI manager or the AHA152X driver.  When I do a 
>TAPEP STATUS, it responds saying no driver loaded.

There *may* be some relation between the two marked names, don't you
think that too? Shouldn't they be the same?

Kai Uwe Rommel

/* Kai Uwe Rommel --- rommel@informatik.tu-muenchen.de */

DOS ... is still a real mode only non-reentrant interrupt
handler, and always will be.                -Russell Williams
From: ygoland@edison.seas.ucla.edu (The Jester)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.apps
Subject: Re: Borland C++ 3.1 in a DOS Session
Date: 26 Jul 92 20:36:39 GMT
Organization: The Hacker Conference

I program professionaly using borland c++ 3.1 IDE under
os/2. I use the following settings with great success:
DOS_BACKGROUND_EXECUTION - ON (for no particular reason)
DOS_HIGH - On (every K counts)
DPMI_DOS_API - ENABLED (THIS IS CRUCIAL)
IDLE_SECONDS - 60
IDLE_SENSITIVTY - 100 (The last two are a matter of taste. When I am
			working in BC I DO NOT want to have it
			premepted by ANYONE)
To the best of my recolection those are the only settings which
really matter. Actually only DPMI_DOS_API matters. The rest are just
preference. I run bc alot and without problems. The only problem I
do have, though, is with screen draws. I am using a trident card
running their 800x600x16 mode (I want seamless windows) and when I
initially boot bc I tend to do it in a window. But then after 10
minutes I want full screen (eye strain =) and when I initially move
over I get screen garble (Mostly because I run bc 3.1 in 43 (or
whatever) line mode and I don't think os/2 is quite sure what to do
with that) but pressing ctrl-esc to go to the window list and then
double clicking on borland c++ to go back, takes care of the
problem.
				The Jester

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