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From: 5692330@mcimail.com (Robert Gammon)
Subject: Re: VIDEO_MODE_RESTRICTION slows down DOS box
Nntp-Software: PC/TCP NNTP
Organization: Texas Instruments Materials and Controls Group
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1992 16:00:27 GMT

In article <1992Dec17.145356.27712@bmerh85.bnr.ca> mlord@bmers63.bnr.ca (Mark Lord) writes:

 >> In article <1992Dec17.013514.2772@leland.Stanford.EDU> wkn@leland.Stanford.EDU (Ken Neighbors) writes:
 >> >I thought I'd set VIDEO_MODE_RESTRICTION to CGA so that I could get
 >> >96K more of memory for one of my text only DOS apps.  It now runs
 >> >twice as slow (or half as fast :)
 >> >
 >> >Here's some data:
 >> >restriction    mem             time to run
 >> >NONE           655360          16 seconds
 >> >CGA            753664          33 seconds
 >> >MONO           720896          33 seconds
 >> 
 >> Congratulations.  At least you can use this setting (winos231 beta pack).
 >> 
 >> With the stock OS/2 2.0 + SPP, this option has no effect at all on
 >> the memory available to DOS.  It does work if the SPP has *not* been installed.

Interesting, I am running with the service pack.  Here is what I get from mem
in a DOS window with CGA mode restriction:
---------------------
mem


    753664 bytes total memory
    753664 bytes available for DOS
    722480 largest executable program size

   2490368 bytes total EMS memory
   2097152 bytes free EMS memory

   2031616 bytes total XMS memory
   2031616 bytes available XMS memory
         0 bytes available contiguous extended memory
           DOS resident in High Memory Area
           High Memory Area in use

---------------------------------------------
This is my default DOS window that I use ALL the time.
--
Regards,
Robert Gammon
(713)-274-3299       (voice)
(713)-274-2324       (fax)

Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc,comp.os.os2.advocacy
From: stanton@haas.berkeley.edu (Richard Stanton)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: IBM won't accept Internet problem reports any more
Date: 15 Dec 1992 00:13:51 GMT
Organization: University of California, Berkeley
NNTP-Posting-Host: haas.berkeley.edu
Keywords: IBM problem report compuserve cis

In article <95004@rphroy.ph.gmr.com> rbotimer@max.ct.gmr.com (R Douglas Botimer) writes:
>CompuServe is on Internet.  Don't have the details here, but you can send mail  
>to CompuServe subscribers via Internet (without having an account yourself).   
>I'll post the detail as soon as I find them.

That's what I did (send to xxxxx.xxx@compuserve.com). That used to be OK, but
they will now only accept reports from Compuserve IDs.

Richard Stanton


Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc,comp.os.linux
From: 5692330@mcimail.com  (Robert Gammon)
Subject: Re: The IBM SCSI adaptor question
Nntp-Software: PC/TCP NNTP
Organization: Texas Instruments Materials and Controls Group
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 20:16:54 GMT

In article <1992Dec9.032810.9867@cs.brown.edu> wcn@cs.brown.edu (Wen-Chun Ni) writes:

 >> I am interested in the CD-ROM discount offer from IBM and CD technology.
 >> The only concern is the IBM SCSI adaptor, which doesn't seem to be
 >> widely supported. Is there any SCSI adaptor supported by both OS/2
 >> and Linux? Thanx!
 >> 
 >> 
 >> Wen-Chun Ni, wcn@cs.brown.edu         (401) 863-7669
 >> -------------------------------------------------------------------
 >>  I do more after 2 a.m. than most people do all day.
 >>                          - from a T-shirt given by a friend.

I ordered the beast after talking to CD Technology.  The adapter is a Future
Domain 850 series adapter, not an IBM adapter.

--
Regards,
Robert Gammon
(713)-274-3299       (voice)
(713)-274-2324       (fax)
From: limpe@sumax.seattleu.edu (Philipp Enrique T. Lim)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Are there any OS/2 Discussion Lists (Listserv)?
Date: 14 Dec 92 23:18:51 GMT
Organization: Seattle University


Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: figueroa@cs.NYU.EDU (Samuel A. Figueroa)
Subject: Where ATM fonts can be installed
Organization: New York University
Date: Sun, 20 Dec 1992 20:31:45 GMT

Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: jws@iastate.edu (James William Shoemaker)
Subject: Re: 1Meg limit in WinOS/2?
Organization: Iowa State University, Ames, IA
Distribution: na
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 18:28:45 GMT


>>Since WinOS/2 is effectively Standard Mode Windows, does
>>that mean that the biggest contiguous memory block that can
>>be allocated is 1Meg?

>Yes, if you use HUGE model.  If you use LARGE model, then the buggest
>block is 64K.  I think Windows provides some memory management
>functions that get around this, though.  But those functions might
>only be available in ENHANCED mode.

	As far as I know there is no way for a 16-bit Program to allocate
a memory region larger than 1M in Standard Mode Windows.

	One Caviat there is that WinOS2 is not Completely Standard mode Windows
It is Standard Mode Windows running on a DPMI server.  So a 32-Bit Windows
program that uses DPMI to get into and out of 32-bit mode runs great and can
allocate large buffers.  I know this because the 32-Bit Windows extender from
Watcom Does this and the programs generated by it run just fine, though you
have to give the Win-OS2 session they are in >64 Meg Ram for some reason.

	Needless to say any program I write under windows that allocates Large
buffers will be written using Watcom for the ability to run on the most
platforms possible.  I don't know if this trick works under NT, I haven't had
a chance to try it yet.


				JWS
From: chalekcl@crd.ge.com (Carl Chalek)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Screen savers
Date: 15 Dec 92 15:13:56 GMT
Reply-To: chalekcl@crd.ge.com
Organization: GE Corporate R&D

Are there any PD screen savers for OS/2?  Apparently there aren't any included
with it.

Carl Chalek
GE CRD
Schenectady, NY
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu (Timothy F. Sipples)
Subject: Re: Command line editting
Keywords: Stealth S3 Diamond
Reply-To: sip1@midway.uchicago.edu
Organization: Dept. of Econ., Univ. of Chicago
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 22:22:33 GMT

In article <5034@equinox.unr.edu> bmobley@unssun.UUCP (Brian Mobley) writes:
>Does anyone know how to change the command line editor for CMD.EXE so that
>insert mode is the default instead of overstrike mode? I know that pressing
>Insert toggles insert/overstrike mode, but I would prefer the default
>behaviour to be insert mode.

No, I haven't figured this one out.  Hopefully IBM will add this
feature to CMD.EXE.

However, you can use 4OS2, available via anonymous ftp from
ftp-os2.nmsu.edu.  This replacement for CMD.EXE adds several new
features, including the ability to set the default insert mode.

-- 
Timothy F. Sipples      | Read the OS/2 FAQ List 2.0h, available from
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: riehm@maccs.mcmaster.ca (Carl Riehm)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: How do I get OS/2 2.00.1?
Date: 18 Dec 92 20:52:48 GMT
Organization: McMaster University, Dept. of Mathematics and Statistic

A short time ago, I bought OS/2 in anticipation of installing it on the IBM
ThinkPad that I just received today.  Now I find out in the documentation that
accompanies the thinkpad that I need 2.00.1 instead of 2.0.  They give
an 800 number through which it can be obtained, but the number doesn't work
in Canada.  Is it possible to get 2.00.1 elsewhere, say as a patch to 2.0?
And is it really necessary to have 2.0 for the thinkpad???  Carl Riehm.
Xref: sparky comp.os.os2.misc:39597 comp.os.os2.programmer:7061
From: fattire@vnet.ibm.com (BJ Hargrave)
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 92 11:06:56 EST
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc,comp.os.os2.programmer
Subject: Re: PaulDev - who is he?? TRAP 000c
News-Software: UReply 3.0
            <BzCz8M.DDt@hpuerca.atl.hp.com>

In <BzCz8M.DDt@hpuerca.atl.hp.com> Simon Fowler writes:
>In article <19921215.173235.657@almaden.ibm.com>, fattire@vnet.ibm.com (BJ Hargrave) writes:
>> I know who PaulDev is, but the kernel you are using is pre-SP. Put the
>> SP kernel on and try again. (You have a down-level kernel)
>
>Is this the WINOS231 kernel? (I have to do these things late at night and may have got
>confused :-). Can I just get the SP kernel onto the machine or do I have to reinstall the
>whole SP?
>
>Thanks
>simon
>

I was refering to OS2KRNL from the SP. WINOS231 is part of the beta. The
SP is not applicable to the beta. DO NOT install the SP on the beta. If
you are using the beta make sure you have the latest code from the
November CD.
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
BJ Hargrave                     Internet: fattire@vnet.ibm.com
Boca Raton, FL                  IBMIPNet: bjhar@bjhar.bocaraton.ibm.com
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: pynq@quads.uchicago.edu (Jeremy Mathers)
Subject: What is the recommended size for an OS/2 system-only partition?
Summary: (I recently re-installed, with it set to 60M, and its too big)
Keywords: os2 waffle 165
Reply-To: pynq@midway.uchicago.edu
Organization: D. J. Dougherty & Associates
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 18:18:11 GMT

I want to partition my 200M disk as efficiently as possible, leaving
just enuf room on C: to hold the OS/2 system.  What is the magic number?
I just ordered the DAP CD ROM, so I think I am about to re-install again.

(In the most recent install [straight GA], we set it to 60 [with 140 as D:],
and after installing and running for awhile, there is still 28M
free on C:  This is now essentially wasted space...)

************************************************************************
Past performance is no guarantee of future results.

	- pynq@quads.uchicago.edu, who is still costing the net
	  hundreds, if not thousands, of dollars, every time he posts -
************************************************************************
From: swknasri@nuscc.nus.sg (Sriram)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: Wow, those Trident Drivers do work!
Date: 10 Dec 92 12:22:19 GMT
Organization: National University of Singapore
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL4

Shortly  after my earlier post, I read Kai uwe Rommel' s
recipe for seamless windows.  It works!

i.e.  create a new program object from the templates and
put c:\os2\mdos\winos2\progman.exe in the PATH and choose 
Winos2 Window in the settings.  Two lines in config.sys 
also need to be as follows: SET VIDEO_DEVICES=VIO_SVGA and
SET VIO_SVGA=DEVICE(BVHVGA,BVHSVGA)

Would be useful if these were in the README file for the drivers.

I still would like suggestions re garbage in DOS full screens
after AltHoming to and fro from Word 5 (graphics mode)

Sriram
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: hoppie@kub.nl (Jeroen Hoppenbrouwers)
Subject: Re: Where do things go when you move them to a folder?
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 92 07:41:45 GMT
Organization: Tilburg University, Tilburg, The Netherlands

In article <1992Dec18.045538.15204@midway.uchicago.edu>, pynq@quads.uchicago.edu (Jeremy Mathers) writes:
|> Here's the scenario:
|> 	1) I open up the drives Icon, and then open up a Icon view of a
|> 	   directory on the hard disk.
|> 	2) This gives me a display of all the files in that directory.
|> 	   (This display maps directly onto what I get if I go to a DOS
|> 	   window and do a dir of the directory)
|> 	3) Now, I create a folder in the directory that is being
|> 	   displayed, and move a file from the directory Icon view into the
|> 	   folder.
|> 	4) Now, I go to DOS, and do a dir of the directory, and lo, the
|> 	   file is no longer there.  Worse, the file is nowhere on the
|> 	   disk (I used a DOS file find utility, and it was nowhere to
|> 	   be found)  So, where is it?
|> 	5) Finally, if I go back to the desktop, and move the file back
|> 	   out of the folder into the directory Icon view, then when I go
|> 	   to DOS, the file is there.

Since you speak about DOS window instead of OS/2 window, it might be that the
name of your subfolder is HPFS-like and thus cannot be displayed by DOS,
hence you do not see the directory.

For the rest: file objects (not shadows etc.) are EITHER in the dir tree as shown
by a drive icon OR in the \OS!2_2.0_DESKTOP (spelling?) directory (e.g. if they
are on the desktop or in a folder that is not mapped into the normal file system).
Again, a DOS session cannot see this HPFS-like dir tree unless you modify the
desktop folder name.

If you did not use HPFS, did not use a DOS session to look for the file, and
your scan program does not choke on hidden files, we have some riddle here.


Jeroen

-- 
Jeroen Hoppenbrouwers, research engineer at     |  Stop connecting computers;
Infolab, Tilburg University, The Netherlands    |  start connecting people!
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: Object Vision for OS/2 for sale
Date: 17 Dec 92  11:23:25 EST

On <Dec 16 14:44>, Larry Salomon Jr. of 1:112/28 wrote to All:

 LSJ> From: os2man@panix.com (Larry Salomon Jr.)
 LSJ> Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc 
 LSJ> Subject: Re: Object Vision for OS/2 for sale
 LSJ> Organization: PANIX Public Access Unix, NYC
 LSJ> Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 14:44:28 GMT

 LSJ> In <1gir0qINNlqd@darkstar.UCSC.EDU> kristine@cats.ucsc.edu (Kristine 
 LSJ> Mei Lan Ing) writes:

>Object Vision for Os/2 for sale.

>Original box, manuals and reg card!

>$85.00

 LSJ> This is slimy.  Anyone who went to any of the OS/2 developer's 
 LSJ> conferences got a free copy, and you're trying to make an extra 
 LSJ> buck off it of.  Tsk, tsk. If you're going to be that was, I 
 LSJ> have three copies with the shrink wrap still on that I'll sell 
 LSJ> total for $80.00.  :)

 LSJ> Cheers,
 LSJ> Q

 LSJ> P.S.  ObjectVision for OS/2 is a good concept but is still *very* 
 LSJ> buggy.  I expected better from Borland.  :(
 LSJ> -- 
 LSJ> "If you choose not to decide, you  | "My other body is in the shop" 
 LSJ> - seen  still have made a choice" - Rush  |  on a T-shirt


How much for one?


   Ed June

   Fidonet:   1:133/308, Atlanta's OS/2 Users Group BBS, 404-471-1549
   Internet:  ed_june@over.mind.org
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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: lindor@eng.umd.edu (Lindor Eric Henrickson)
Subject: Re: Win 3.1 for OS/2 will >not< release this month
Date: Fri, 11 Dec 92 18:02:38 GMT
Organization: College of Engineering, Maryversity von Uniland, College Park
Originator: lindor@feedback.eng.umd.edu


In article <1992Dec9.232055.28242@CSD-NewsHost.Stanford.EDU>, quan@Xenon.Stanford.EDU (Tony Quan) writes:
>
>I recently spoke to someone at the OS/2 telephone support about a problem
>I was having with the Win-OS/2 in the service pack.  While discussing
>the problem, I asked about the next release of OS/2 (the one containing
>Win 3.1 support).  He told me that while IBM is still aiming for an
>end of the year release date, the problems IBM is encountering with
>the service pack are making a lot of people at IBM concerned about
>trying to release the new code so quickly.  Apparently there
>is feeling that an inadequate amount of testing was done on the service
>pack and that it didn't meet IBM's quality standards.  Therefore the
>IBMers want to make sure that the next release is up to snuff.  According
>to the IBM rep, they will do two rounds of beta testing on the new version
>code before release.  This made it fairly certain in his mind that the
>release would not happen in December.
>
>I admire the IBM person's candor.  I would much rather have a bug free
>product a little late than a buggy product now, and I am glad IBM
>thinks the same way.  It's refreshing to encounter something besides
>most software companies "push it out the door" mentality.  Probably 
>Microsoft fans will jump all over this, saying that IBM missed a ship
>date.  I don't really care.  To me it's much more important that a product
>be of high quality than be in line with some artificial date on the calendar.
>
>--Tony
>quan@cs.stanford.edu
>


Agreed!

LH

lindor@eng.umd.edu
From: werdna@cco.caltech.edu (Andrew Tong)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Freaky mouse problems....
Date: 11 Dec 1992 20:40:06 GMT
Organization: California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
NNTP-Posting-Host: sandman.caltech.edu

I have a PS/2 56 with a microsoft mouse attached running OS/2 WITH the new
CSD.

Whenever I move the mouse quickly in one direction or the other, the mouse
cursor seems to "wrap around" to the other side of the screen.  For example,
if the pointer is currently at the left side of the screen, and I jerk it to
the right, the mouse cursor will somehow move itself back to the left side.

It's a pretty annoying problem.  (Although whenever I use Windows, which
doesn't do this, I find that I kinda miss the jumpiness of the mouse....  But
I _would_ like to correct the problem....)

Thanks in advance.
From: kitchin@lf.hp.com (Bruce Kitchin)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: OK, WHY won't EA's get backed up?
Date: 14 Dec 1992 18:59:37 GMT
Organization: Hewlett Packard Santa Clara Site
NNTP-Posting-Host: eden.avo.hp.com
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1.2 PL7]

Charles (charles@gremlin.muug.mb.ca) wrote:
: 
: I keep reading how you can't back up OS/2 with a DOS back up program
: because the EA's won't get backed up.  Does this include FAT as well?  If
: so, why?  The EAs are just kept in a seperate file aren't they which will
: get backed up in a normal backup stream.
: 

The problem is the link between the file and its EA's.  A previously
unused field in the file's directory entry points to the EA's (probably
an offset into the file containing the EA's).  IF, the backup program
restores the directory entry bit for bit including any 'unused' or
'reserved for future expansion' fields, then if the 'EA DATA. SF'
is restored that was saved at the same time the file was saved,  then
I wouldn't be surprised to see a DOS backup utility work.  Unfortunately,
I'm not sure we can be sure about these points.  Some DOS utilities take
an entire copy of the directory entry while others are 'smarter' and only
take what they need.  The 'smarter' kind is likely to be a disaster
on OS/2.  It is known that some DOS FAT defragmenters do work on
disks with EA's.  They must move intact any fields that it knows nothing
about.

There are only a couple of ways to be sure.  Find out from the developer
whether they work in a compatible way with EA's.  Or test the situation
on a disk that you can afford to lose in case it doesn't work.  Neither
of these appeal to me.  But then I use an Irwin tape backup with software
that is EA aware and runs under OS/2.

Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: andrewb@lynx.cs.washington.edu (Andrew Berg)
Subject: CSD and DOS window switching...
Organization: Computer Science & Engineering Dept., Univ. of Washington, Seattle
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL8]
Date: Fri, 11 Dec 92 19:09:06 GMT

About a week ago, I installed the CSD.  Since then I've been unable to switch
a DOS window from being full-screen to windowed.  Going the other way I have
to pick Full Screen off the little menu.  Without the CSD I could use the 
Alt-Home, but no more.  Alt-Esc still works, though.

Has anyone had this problem or found a fix?  I am running a 386-33 with 8 meg,
ESDI HD, some kind of TSENG ET-4000 video card (1 Meg) with the default VGA 
drivers (640x480x16) since I haven't yet figured out how to install the SVGA
ones.

I kind of wanted to get the Alt-Home thing fixed before messing with the new
drivers too much.  

--

andrewb@cs.washington.ed
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: mna1@crux2.cit.cornell.edu (Muhammad N. Arif)
Subject: OS/2 LOGO bitmap as WINOS/2 wallpaper
Organization: Cornell Information Technologies
Date: 16 Dec 92 08:03:36 GMT

I copied the file os2logo.bmp to the winos2 subdirectory and selected that bitmap file as the wallper.  However, all I got was some random color pixels as winos2 background.

Is there any way to fix this?  I would like to have the os/2 logo as the background of my winos2.  Is there any utility to convert os/2 bitmaps to windoze 3.1 bitmaps?

Thanks in advance.

-Moe

Happily using OS/2 because Windoze is a NighTmare.

Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: feustel@netcom.com (David Feustel)
Subject: Re: OS/2 Multimedia Support for Tandy Sensation!?
Organization: DAFCO: OS/2 Software Support & Consulting
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1992 00:14:03 GMT

I haven't found the hardware info yet; I'm hoping Tandy will be able
to supply me with a tech ref manual for the Sensation! Hardware. One
comment I would make about the software that comes with it: much of it
is demo software from companies that want to sell their software to
Sensation! owners.
-- 
Dave Feustel N9MYI <feustel@netcom.com>
 
The Columbia River is now the most radioactive river in the U.S.

This environmental/nuclear nightmare, one of a series, brought to you
courtesy of Westinghouse and General ("We Bring Good Things to Life")
Electric.
From: matcsp@nuscc.nus.sg (Chan Shih-Ping)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: MMPM/2 MIDI drivers for MPU 401?
Date: 9 Dec 92 07:27:45 GMT
Organization: National University of Singapore
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL4

Subject says all: is such a thing available?
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc,comp.os.os2.advocacy
From: rsrodger@wam.umd.edu (Yamanari)
Subject: Re: Future of OS/2 and IBM????????????
Organization: University of Maryland, College Park
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 22:23:36 GMT

In article <1992Dec16.203114.20217@iplmail.orl.mmc.com> steveg@iplmail.orl.mmc.com (Steve Gabrilowitz) writes:
>|> Ahem .... stable? I believe that around 1987 IBM stock was trading at 
>|> approximately $178 per share. Yesterday it was trading at $56 per 
>|> share. God help us if this is stability. :) 
>
>Without all the facts, this means nothing - I don't follow the stock market so I
>don't know if the stock has split within the past 5 years, but if there was a 3:1
>split in there somewhere then that *would* demonstrate relative stability!
>
>                            Steve Gabrilowitz
>                            Martin Marietta, Orlando Fl.
>                            steve-gabrilowitz@orl.mmc.com
>                            Fidonet 1:363/1701 (407-380-1701)


	I do, there wasn't.  (That is, each share of IBM stock 
	that I own is now at a little more then 1/3rd the value
	of it's original purchase price).  There has been no split.
	IBM is, by far, the worst performer of the stocks I own 
	(admittedly, the rest are utilities).

	Wish I'd bought MS, though.

-- 
	"If you can't eat sand, why the hell are you living in a desert?"

	     Rule 1:  "Don't have more children than you can feed."
	  	  Nuclear redevelopment for a better world!
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: Steve.Withers@bbs.actrix.gen.nz
Subject: Re: OS/2 2.1 beta this afternoon.....will report.
Organization: Actrix Information Exchange
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 03:31:36 GMT

In article <1992Dec21.013924.23092@actrix.gen.nz> Steve.Withers@bbs.actrix.gen.nz writes:
> 
> I'm going 'round IBM this afternon to pick up a copy of the OS/2 V2.1(beta).
> I will install it tonight and let you all know what I think. Times like this
> I enjoy my job.....though at 29 floppies I may have lost the glow by
> tomorrow (this includes printer diskettes).
>  
> No doubt, there will be many such reports on the net by tomorrow. 

Well.....It will have to tomorrow. It was already 1 pm Monday when I wrote the
above and to copy 29 floppies (just b4 Xmas!!!) is not a fun job....
 
Steve

-- 
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Steve.Withers@bbs.actrix.gen.nz         | for proportional representation. It
+64 4 478 4714                          | looks like we may get a more  
**** Happy user of OS/2 v2!! ****       | democratic system "real soon now".
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