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From: Ralf.Wirth@arbi.informatik.uni-oldenburg.de (Ralf Wirth)
Subject: Re: Can't extract proii4.zoo
Organization: University of Oldenburg, Germany
Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1992 09:39:05 GMT

Mark Denovich <md3z+@andrew.cmu.edu> writes:

>I have tried 10 times and still can't extract proii4.zoo from hobbes.

>Anyone else have an idea....

Yes. maybe you got it in ascii-transfer mode (type 'bin' before transfer).
Or there was a transfer failure (not often but possible).
Or the zoo file is in fact corrupted!


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From: tszeto@sw.stratus.com (Tommy Szeto)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: NCSA telnet CPU usage
Date: 21 Aug 92 20:20:27 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: Stratus Computer, Inc.

In article <173cs0INNs9b@moe.ksu.ksu.edu>, sld@phys.ksu.edu (Steve Davis) writes:
> In <price.714418392@helios> price@helios.unl.edu (Chad  Price) writes:
> 
> >np4@prism.gatech.EDU (Nick Pomponio) writes:
> 
> >>In <1992Aug21.135137.1131@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> wrp@cyclops.micr.Virginia.EDU (Bill Pearson) writes:
> 
> >>*	When I run NCSA telnet under a DOS full screen window my Pulse meter
> >>*suggests that I am hogging the CPU, even when it is in the background doing
> >>*nothing.  Likewise with epsilon for DOS.
> >>*
> >>*	Is there a setting that I should change to tell these programs not
> >>*to keep polling for something?
> >>*
> >>*Bill Pearson
> 

> 
> Well, at least when *I* adjust those settings, no change can be seen on
> Pulse.  It is kinda annoying to have everything slow down just because I
> have a telnet window open.
> 
> Steve Davis
> sld@phys.ksu.edu

If this program is Desqview aware you can use os2speed available from hobbes
which maps DV idle calls to similar ones available in OS2 to lower the cpu
loading when the app is just polling.  I use it with Qmodem and SLMR, and now
the cpu load is minimal when both apps are just polling for keyboard input.

Good luck,
Tom
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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: wcn@cs.brown.edu (Wen-Chun Ni)
Subject: Re: Win NT support in OS/2
Organization: Brown University Department of Computer Science
Date: Wed, 12 Aug 1992 22:47:40 GMT

In article <1992Aug12.171206.305@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> dtl8v@csissun12.ee.Virginia.EDU (Douglass Thornton Lamb) writes:
>
>
>  I've read that Microsoft and IBM will not be renewing their
>code cross-licensing agreement when it expires next year, but
>IBM will continue ad perpetuum to have rights to the code for
>Windows 3.0, 3.1, and NT, because they are covered by the
>current licensing agreement.  So can we expect Windows NT
>support in OS/2 3.0, when it becomes available next year?
>Obviously, it will require a 486 instead of a 386 and will
>probably have a major upgrade price tag attached to it,
>but you have to look ahead, right?  Microsoft has already
>begun work on the Windows 4.0 software to replace Windows NT.
>The pace of change in this market is astounding!
>  (All this is, of course, moot if I don't get my Win 3.1
>  support on the September CSD...)

*FLAME ON*

This is the most idiotic article I've ever seen on the net.  Why should
IBM support Windows NT, which is supposed to be OS/2's opponent? We've
gotten enough of those bullshit expressed by those who are supposed
to have brains. The support of Windows 3.0/DOS is used to ease the
pain of *migrating* the users into the OS/2 2.0 kingdom. If you like 
Windows NT, go get the CD ROM and leave us alone.

If I were the person in charge of OS/2, my first goal is to make 
OS/2 2.0 slim enough, rather than bloat it by adding the other 
nonsense like Windows x.y or DOG 6.0.

*FLAME OFF*


On the other hand, *if* OS/2 3.0 is to be designed as a microkernel-based
system, I'd like to see a pure 32-bit OS/2 on top of a Mach kernel. But,
no more *Windows* please, I am getting disgusted whenever I open the
windows of my apartment.



Wen-Chun Ni
From: goat@cats.ucsc.edu (The Black Watch)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: ZIFFNet conversations
Date: 20 Aug 92 19:30:57 GMT
Distribution: na
Organization: University of California; Santa Cruz
NNTP-Posting-Host: am.ucsc.edu


	I understand (from the back pages of PC Week) that an archive of the 
OS/2 interviews/discussions with IBM officials is available for download on 
Compu$erve. Did anyone here participate in these discussions, or perhaps get
the archive? This is something I would definitely be interested in reading, and
also perhaps hear a short review from a participant.
	
	-goat
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: parry@yoyo.cc.monash.edu.au (Tom J Parry)
Subject: Re: Above 16MB. Possible FAQ. Summary needed.
Originator: parry@yoyo.cc.monash.edu.au
Organization: Monash University, Melb., Australia.
Date: Tue, 18 Aug 1992 00:46:42 GMT

Andreas Toenne (atoenne@mpi-sb.mpg.de) wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> Finally I've upgraded my 486/ISA to 20MB of memory.
> Has any1 collected the tips/tricks how to access this pile of memory
> in OS/2?
> 
> I have applied the latest loader and I use the kernel that shrinks the
> swapfile. But the memavail-tool from hobbes tells me that I have only 16MB
> of memory. The bios knows about 20mb however.
> Can somebody answer the following questions:
> 

I have similar problems. I just upgraded to 24MB (8x 1MB 9 chip 80ns SIMMS
and 4x 4MB 9 chip 70ns SIMMS - just to bring up an old thread :-). I
downloaded GT16MB2 and installed it. I have the 'shrinking' kernel. I
have a program called SYSINFO which used to tell me I had 512K free.
When I went to 24MB it went up to 5MB free and with the GT16MB2 loader
it says 15MB free and my swap file doesn't seem to grow above 4 meg
EVER.

THIS IS GREAT! EXCELLENT! What could be better? Well, a little speed I
suppose. Things are definitely faster, much less swapping (eg on a big
find) BUT _CLOSING_ certain windows takes a while. Some windows
disappear instantly, but my folder windows pause for about a second or
two before closing. This never happened before GT16MB2 (I don't think. I
have also changed drives and 'upgraded' from an 8900C to an ET4000 over
the last few days - but the speed lag seems to be from GT16MB2)



Have I missed something? Is there something I can do to fix this?

Also, what is the best program around for getting stats on memory usage.
Sort of a MEM for OS/2 or even better, something like MANIFEST (I live &
dream in hope).

-- 
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Your reality is a figment of my imagination.
From: kevinz@storage.tandem.com (Kevin Ziegler)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Where did my 45% go? (DOS app performance)
Date: 13 Aug 92 20:21:30 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: Tandem Computers Inc.

I put OS/2 on my no-name 486/33 box last week.  The installation worked
smoothly, and I haven't experienced any problems running my applications.
However, all of my compute-intensive DOS applications are only running at
50% native DOS speed when launched in a full-size screen under OS/2.  The
latest OS/2 FAQ says to expect 95-97% native DOS speed from a single DOS
application running full-screen under OS/2.  Does anyone have any ideas
where the other 45% of performance went?

A little more info: I only have 5 MB of RAM, but the problem does not seem
to be related to disk swapping; I have watched the disk drive light while
the programs are running and the hard disk is not being accessed.  I have
AMI BIOS dated 6/6/91; I've heard of problems with OS/2 and AMI BIOS but
these don't seem to be performance-related problems.  Any help from you OS/2
gurus out there would be much appreciated.
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc,misc.forsale.computers
From: ghenniga@nmsu.edu (Gary Hennigan)
Subject: Someone from **INTEL**??
Reply-To: ghenniga@NMSU.Edu
Organization: New Mexico State University
Date: Sat, 22 Aug 1992 02:04:27 GMT


Sorry to waste bandwidth like this, but....

Someone from Intel replied to my earlier post about the OS/2 2.0 package I
had for sale. I had just upgraded my motherboard and was setting the network
stuff up when the email came in and, to make an already long story shorter
I lost the email. If you're still interested please reply again. I only saw 
the address briefly but it was something like:
			anhe@intel.com

Thanks, and I apologize again,
Gary Hennigan
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From: djs6015@ultb.isc.rit.edu (Don Smith)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: higher resolutions for Win-OS2
Date: 19 Aug 92 04:45:33 GMT
Article-I.D.: ultb.1992Aug19.044533.29527
Organization: R.I.T.
Originator: djs6015@ultb

In article <1992Aug18.042019.24714@sarah.albany.edu> pv9955@albnyvms.bitnet writes:
>I finally succeeded i installing OS2 on my Gateway 486sx25 with ATI Ultra.
>I am using the Ultra drivers from OS2 1.3 in 800x600, and all seems to 
>be working fine.
>But I would just like to know a few things.
>How can I increase the resolution of WIN-OS2 and Windoze apps run under OS2?

To increase the resolution under WIN-OS/2 you need to install a new
Windows 3.0 video driver. Just get yourself a compatible SVGA windows
driver, and replace it onto \OS2\MDOS\SYSTEM\VGA.DRV. Then load up
WIN-OS/2 and see what you get.
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From: sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu (Timothy F. Sipples)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: ps style process lister?
Keywords: ps , processes,list
Date: 20 Aug 92 15:18:41 GMT
Reply-To: sip1@midway.uchicago.edu
Organization: Dept. of Econ., Univ. of Chicago

In article <unruh.714289760@physics.ubc.ca> unruh@physics.ubc.ca (William Unruh) writes:
>Does a "ps -aux" style process lister exist for OS2- ie, something which
>will list all current processes, whether system or user? I keep getting
>the feeling that I have hidden processes running which is what is giving
>me the huge (12M) swap file.

OS/2 comes with one (PSTAT) -- consult your online Command Reference
for usage information.

There are also shareware/freeware alternatives.  I use a freeware
utility called procs which you can retrieve via anonymous ftp from
ftp-os2.nmsu.edu.  While you're there, get ahold of killem.

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From: v085khdn@ubvmsd.cc.buffalo.edu (Geo @UB)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: SVGA ON does not work!  SVGA OFF does!????
Date: 12 Aug 92 17:14:00 GMT
Organization: University at Buffalo
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41


	I Installed 2.0 last night.  Before doing so I read
a trillion TNT/FAQ things from hobbes, to know what not to do.

After I installed my 1024x768 windows drivers (as per FAQ), I knew I
had to go to a DOS full screen to do the SVGA ON shit.  OK.  So I
shut down, come back up and all I have is garbage.  Mega Garbage.  I have
never seen a monitor so out of sych, hissing & snapping etc.

Fortunatly I had droped a full screen dos shadow in the upper right corner, so
I just moved the mouse as far as possible & clicked.  Now I have a (normal)
DOS full screen.  SVGA OFF!  A blind shut down. Come back up.  Everything fine.
So I go to WIN-OS/2, fully expecting it not to work.  It works.  But then, maybe
the refreshing of WPS & mode swithching could happen.  After 2 hours & trying
everything I shouldn't be doing (SVGA in DOS windows, etc), everything is OK.

What gives?	by the way...GW2000 386sx-20, paradise/WD video on motherboard
(I wonder if it's 16 or 8 bit?) 12 megs.  I was impressed with the speed.  
Some folders were slow, but overall, and especially apps, very responsive.  

Also, I know there are no 2.0 paradise dirvers.  What about 1.3?  I have a
1.2, but I haven't tried it, for fear that it won't work (then what?)

Also, I have dual boot installed.  Now I wanna kill it cause I don't need it.
How do I do this (short of reinstall (egads!))? (Actually the installation
was very easy... but then, I have no CD-ROM, network, etc....)

Actually more first impresions...  WPS pretty neat, but too cluttered in VGA
(which is why I want 1024 drivers).  Applets from hell!!! Useless, Ugly, Awkward
WHY IBM? WHY? They were gone pretty quick.

And a final question.... Are the on -line docs uploaded anywhere?  Is IBM
intent on not letting this happen?  Please tell me they're somewhere.  I hate
to know that a couple of megs of HD are being wasted on something best
read while on the stool, or for bed time reading......
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: branham@binah.cc.brandeis.edu (Tom Branham, Biophysics Grad. Brandeis)
Subject: Re: OS/2 News of Interest (Infoworld)
Reply-To: branham@binah.cc.brandeis.edu
Organization: Brandeis University
Date: Fri, 21 Aug 1992 03:23:11 GMT

I seem to remember them demonstrating such connectivity at the Windows
OS/2 Show today.  Can check tomorrow if anyone is interested......?
                             .......Tom Branham
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: linstee@dutecaj.et.tudelft.nl (Erik van Linstee)
Subject: Os2 on diskless system. Is it possible?
Organization: Delft University of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering
Date: Fri, 21 Aug 1992 20:25:08 GMT


My employer wants to know if OS/2 can be run on diskless systems,
through an IBM token ring LAN. Does anybody know?

Erik

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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: klliou@milton.u.washington.edu (Kan-Lee Liou)
Subject: ATI driver
Organization: University of Washington
Date: Mon, 17 Aug 1992 07:50:16 GMT

Could someone guide me to the 800x600 and 1024x768 drivers for my ATI VGA Wonder?
Thank you.

Kan-Lee, klliou@u.washington.edu

Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: amund@itk.unit.no (Amund Skavhaug)
Subject: Re: Mice supported on COM1:-COM4: only?
Organization: Norwegian Institute of Technology / SINTEF, Trondheim, Norway
Distribution: comp.os.os2.misc
Date: Wed, 19 Aug 92 01:10:20 GMT

Well, I installed os2 on a selfmade machine with an old sx motherboard
with an ps2 style mouse port, documentation states that one needs to
patch the os2 1.1 driver....It also states that it works with a bus-
mouse.
It worked on first try without patches with os2 2.0 :-)
...Well, the install program told me I had an ps2 mouse, it
was kind of busmouse, so after install the pointer did not move.
Adding a real ps2 mouse solved this.
Now the machine has 2 comm ports free, one for a modem, the other
for some HC11 development. :-)
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From: xtifr@netcom.com (Chris Waters)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Nifty trick (was Re: Switching OS/2 windows<>fullscreen)
Date: 13 Aug 92 09:37:11 GMT
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  (408 241-9760 guest)

In <1992Aug12.164512.7237@njitgw.njit.edu> dic5340@hertz.njit.edu (David Charlap) writes:

>In article <1992Aug7.185249.4620@hsv3.lsil.com> mvp@hsv3.lsil.com (Mike Van Pelt) writes:
>>Unfortunately, ALT-HOME doesn't work for OS/2 windows.  If there's  
>>anything in TFM about switching OS/2 windows with full-screen sessions, 
>>it isn't in any of the more-or-less obvious places I looked. 

>Can't be done.

No it can't, and the unfortunate corrolary to this is that you can't cut
and paste between full-screen sessions.  (A fact that *almost* sent me
scampering back to DESQview, which *can* cut-and-paste between
full-screen sessions.)  However I came up with the following Nifty
Trick:

1.  Open a CMD or 4OS2 window.

2.  Tap ALT (or click on upper-left) to bring up the menu.

3.  Select Font Size from the menu.

4.  Pick a font size where it says: "Screen nn x 80".  I like the 10x8
    font myself.

5.  Select the font, and then, at the CMD prompt, type "MODE 80,nn",
    where "nn" is the value that was displayed on the font selection
    screen.  (e.g. "MODE 80,48" for the 10x8 font.)

6.  Now, maximize the window.  And voila!  It may not *really* be a
    full-screen session, but it sure looks and acts like one.  Except
    that you can cut or paste, or whatever.  :-)

Note that this procedure can be simplified by setting, say, the 10x8
font as your default font size.
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From: Lucian_Dancanet@transarc.com
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Saving the register info
Date: 21 Aug 92 07:51:38 GMT
Article-I.D.: transarc.8eZF4_n0BwwwA9mBss
Organization: Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA



Is there a way of saving the register information displayed by a
System Error into a file?

Thanks.

Lucian
From: lbriskin@digi.lonestar.org (Leonid Briskin)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Defragment EA DATA. SF
Keywords: OS/2
Date: 19 Aug 92 16:27:49 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: none

Hi netters !
I have 386 system with Dual Boot OS/2 and MS DOS. Last week I found
that my EA DATA. SF file has more than 300 pieces. To defragment this file
I used procedure from "Inside OS/2" "
  Boot OS/2
  ATTRIB -H EA?DATA.?SF
  Boot MS DOS
  Using Norton Speed Disk defragment file
  Boot OS/2
  ATTRIB +H EA?DATA.?SF

After all of this I find that my file was still fragmented.

Using MS DOS ATTRIB gave me error message " System re-installation error"
or somethink like this ( I  don't remember exact message ).

Could anybody tell me what I did wrong or mail me proper procedure to
defragment file

E-mail me at lbriskin@digi.lonestar.org

Thanks in advance,
 Leonid Briskin
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: duffy@theory.chem.ubc.ca (Pat Duffy)
Subject: Re: Two cool bugs!
Organization: University of British Columbia, Vancouver, B.C., Canada
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1992 21:50:04 GMT

In article <1992Aug13.195546.7457@njitgw.njit.edu> dic5340@hertz.njit.edu (David Charlap) writes:
>In article <1992Aug12.210835.17251@unixg.ubc.ca> duffy@theory.chem.ubc.ca (Pat Duffy) writes:
>>Hi Dave.  I don't know if I made myself clear enough, so just to be sure:  
>>
>>1) Open the settings for an OS/2 full-screen session.
>>2) Change the session to full-screen DOS.
>>3) Change a DOS setting.
>>4) Change the session back to OS/2 full-screen
>>5) Run the OS/2 full-screen.
>>6) No settings for the OS/2 full-screen session except the DOS settings that
>>   were changed.
>>7) Open the settings for the OS/2 full-screen session.
>>8) Change it to a DOS full-screen session.
>>9) Change the settings back to the defaults.
>>10) Change the session back to OS/2 full-screen.
>>11) All the environment variables in config.sys are restored.
>
>Nope.  This is really strange.  Not at all proper.

I have a report into IBM about this.  They've written back and I even have my
own bug report number.  Gotta love the CompuServe link to the internet. :-)
-- 
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From: KENKAHN@PKSMRVM.VNET.IBM.COM ("Kenneth A. Kahn")
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: Using CMD.EXE instead of PMSHELL.EXE
Date: 13 Aug 92 21:49:44 GMT

Organization: Staff of IBM Fellow - NetWork Computing
Disclaimer: This posting represents the poster's views, not those of IBM
News-Software: UReply 3.0
X-X-From: KENKAHN@PKSMRVM.VNET.IBM.COM (Ken Kahn)
> References: <1992Aug12.155015.14039@kakwa.ucs.ualberta.ca>
            <1992Aug13.193737.15403@ibmpa.awdpa.ibm.com>

In <1992Aug13.193737.15403@ibmpa.awdpa.ibm.com> Jeff Carty writes:
>In  <9208131529.AA00624@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU>  KENKAHN@PKSMRVM.VNET.IBM.COM ("Kenneth A. Kahn") writes:
>>
>> As you suggested in your original post, the 2 biggest things you lose when
>> you run CMD instead of PMSHELL are support for Multiple Processes and PM
>> applications.
>
>No, you still have multiple processes.  You lose multiple *sessions*.
>You can't DosStartSession another program.  You *can* DosExecPgm another
>fullscreen program (meaning it runs in your same session)...this is what
>

You are correct of course, what you lose is the ability to have multiple
screen groups, but you can certainly start multiple processes via DosExecPgm
with the EXEC_ASYNC option.  I do this all the time with special systems that
I boot from floppy disks.

>
>> can run any 16 or 32-bit application.  You can run Full Screen DOS with the
>> right Device Drivers and such set up.
>

I'll have to check on this and get report back.  I know I investigated this
for a project and I thought I remembered that you can run DOS Full Screen if
you can load the right device drivers; the only thing holding me back at the
time was not enoug room on the BOOT Disk system I was using.  If I remember
this right (and if not perhaps someone from Boca can refute this) the ability
to run a VDM is built into the OS2KRNL.
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: victor.ng@rose.com (victor ng)
Subject: Re: CP Backup
Organization: Rose Media Inc, Toronto, Ontario.
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1992 04:19:00 GMT
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Date Entered: 08-12-92 23:13
root@mordor.com (Chris Mauritz - SysGod) wrote:

>I'm trying to get CP Backup (v7.2) working under Win-OS2 without any
>luck.  It seems to hang everytime it tries to do the initial timing
>test.  Has anyone gotten it to work?

Try setting the EMS and XMS memory limits to zero.

Vic
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