HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: Nancy_-_Hellekson@cup.portal.com
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.apps,comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: News on 2.1 Release
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 93 02:45:43 PST
Organization: The Portal System (TM)
  <1993Jan20.160446.25054@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>
  <1993Jan21.152712.15720@njitgw.njit.edu> <C18oCG.H00@mentor.cc.purdue.edu>

Hey, everybody!  Godd news! At the anonymous FTP address ftp-os2.nmsu.edu is 
the beta release for OS/2 2.1.  It weighs in a t about 40Mb, but worth it, I'
m sure.  Trouble is, all the included docs are for CDROM installation, 
leaving us 3.5" users in the cold.  The docs refer to a file on the CDROM
entitled DOSTEXT.TXT or somesuch, which is supposed to explain the install.
SDoes anyone out there have that file, or more information on installing the
beta?  Thanks.
From: henshaw@cerl.gatech.edu (Andy Henshaw)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.apps
Subject: MS Access setup gets General Protect. Fault on 2.1b
Date: 23 Jan 93 23:45:41 GMT
Organization: CERL/EE, Georgia Tech, Atlanta

I just got a new release of MS Access (which could have some bug
fixes??? Who knows?) and tried to run the setup application from
full screen Win-OS2.  After displaying the Gradient background,
the program bombs with a Windows General Protection Fault.
Anybody know how to work around this?

Thanks,

Andrew Henshaw
henshaw@cerl.gatech.edu
From: fali@alchemy.chem.utoronto.ca (Fathei Ali)
Subject: tex viewers
Organization: University of Toronto Chemistry Department
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 21:12:14 GMT

Recently, I've downloaded the Emtex package from Hobbes. 
Does anobody know whether any os/2 previewers (PM ?) has
been written ? if so, where could be located ?
Thanks for the help.
	 
	 Fathei Ali
    Department of Chemistry
    University of Toronto
    fali@alchemy.chem.utoronto.ca
From: bokkie@uctvax.uct.ac.za
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.apps
Subject: Re: Mr. File/PM is very cool!
Date: 27 Jan 93 16:20:28 +0200
Organization: University of Cape Town

In article <Gary.Woodman.941.728093047@anu.edu.au>, Gary.Woodman@anu.edu.au (Gary Woodman) writes:
> In article <727914810snx@w3vh.UUCP> rolfe@w3vh.UUCP (Rolfe Tessem) writes:
>>
>>This is just the kind of utility OS/2 needs, 
>>Highly recommended. 
> 
> Ditto, I really like this app.
> 

Ditto.  With this, you can run OS/2 without the WPS desktop.

Frank Bokhorst
Psychology Dept
University of Cape Town         (Satisfied OS/2 user)
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From: orville%weyrich@uunet.uu.net (Orville R. Weyrich)
Subject: Re: News on 2.1 Release
Followup-To: comp.os.os2.advocacy
Reply-To: uunet.uu.net!weyrich!orville
Organization: Weyrich Computer Consulting
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 93 09:03:28 GMT

[followup to comp.os.os2.advocacy]

In article <80699@hydra.gatech.EDU> gt0040a@prism.gatech.EDU (Tom Sorensen) writes:
>
>So in short unless IBM pulls out another surprise (the wording in the agreement
>may indicate that IBM doesn't owe MS any more money, I don't know), IBM will
>be paying MS a per license fee.
>
>
>Yes, but given IBM's current financial state (18 year stock low, and its
>dropping further after this mornings announcement- about $5 billion worth
>of losses last quarter), they can't afford to pay MS $25 per copy and then
>give it away to 2 million customers for free! And this completely excludes the
>cost of development, which IBM is planning to eat anyway!

$25/copy royalties????? I was under the impression that MS charges the clone
makers about $8/copy for the full 3.1 code plus DOS that MS allows to be
bundled with new computers? And IBM already has copyright on some parts of
DOS and Windows, I think. These numbers look funny. Either IBM negotiated
a very BAD deal or else my numbers are wrong. 

Anyone with clarification?

orville

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From: sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu (Timothy F. Sipples)
Subject: Re: Should I use OS/2
Reply-To: sip1@midway.uchicago.edu
Organization: Dept. of Econ., Univ. of Chicago
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 21:41:15 GMT

In article <1993Jan20.214832.15185@miavx1.acs.muohio.edu> arhodge@miavx1.acs.muohio.edu writes:
>I have a 486sx25 with a 124 meg HD and 5 megs of ram.  I plan to get up to 8 
>megs soon.  I OS/2 worth trying?  I run Windows 3.1 now in enhanced mode.
>Will it be slower or faster?  Does OS/2 support 1024x768 at 256 colors yet?
>Can I use the HPFS and still run my windows apps?  Thanks for any help..

Yes, it is worth trying, particularly since you can get ahold of the
OS/2 2.1 beta at no charge.  It is available via anonymous ftp from
ftp-os2.nmsu.edu, software.watson.ibm.com, and other sites.

Please see the OS/2 FAQ List -- it should provide a good introduction.

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From: cwolff@intellistor.com (Clint Wolff)
Subject: Re: Zo` KL%@
Keywords: t$T'mb6&[\LV64gDbV:Tiq@Sr6h?fyK
Organization: Intellistor, Longmont, CO
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 93 18:29:06 GMT

In article <4yyNXB3w165w@spectrx.saigon.com> digger@spectrx.saigon.com (doug miller) writes:
>vLk;]<wCt!M"m_2yo{S{;m[;YOfQ(}'t2q/u"u&?{?XboCbVcu%N_:MM'sAYQ
>DZ:P'?1EbZ@3d=+\&F}4o%m
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<meaningless comments better suited for comp.os.os2.advocacy deleted>

Perhaps when pnews said 'are you sure you wnat to do this' you should have
said no?? :)


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From: ygoland@edison.seas.ucla.edu (The Jester)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.apps
Subject: Re: News on 2.1 Release
Date: 22 Jan 93 07:05:10 GMT
Organization: PGP VER2 Key Available Upon Request

>Sheesh, who ever heard of a free upgrade!?  That's like saying that if
>you buy a new car, that you should be given subsequent models for *free*
>because they are improvements on the old one.  Blech.
>IBM has put untold man-years of working in getting OS/2 2.1 ready for
>release.  I don't see why they should be expected to be doing this for
>free.

Thats it! I can't take this bullshit anymore!!! Let me make this as
clear as humanly possible:
	1.IBM has the right to charge whatever it damn well pleases
	for upgrades, software, WHATEVER! NO ONE IS ARGUING AGAINST
	that point!!!!!

	2.IBM PROMISED THAT IT WOULD GIVE 2.1 TO ALL 2.0 USERS FOR
	FREE! LET ME REPEAT THAT:

FFFFF  RRRRR  EEEEE  EEEEE !
F      R   R  E      E     !
FFF    RRRRR  EEE    EEE   !
F      R  R   E      E     !
F      R   R  EEEEE  EEEEE *

Thats right, FREE! GRATIS! NO CHARGE!! NO COST!!! THEY PROMISED
THIS! I don't give a fuck if this is a good deal for IBM or not, I
don't give a damn if this was a smart move on their part. The god
damn bottom line for all you thick headed morons who seem completely
incapable of understanding even the most fundamental concepts of
offer and acceptance, is that IBM PROMISED TO GIVE IT TO ALL 2.0
USERS FOR FREE! PERIOD! END OF DISCUSSION!!

					The Jester

p.s. I am some what sorry for this heavy flame. But the sheer
ignorance frequently displayed regarding IBM's obligations to
legitimate os/2 v2.0 users was getting to be beyond the usual noise
threshold expected of the average human.
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"Hes too short to be seen, to rich to be bribed, and will quit
before he does any real damage"-Jay Leno
From: roe2@ellis.uchicago.edu (Cave Newt)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.apps
Subject: Re: Great Tetris-clone for OS/2 2.0
Date: 26 Jan 93 21:28:43 GMT
Reply-To: roe2@midway.uchicago.edu
Organization: University of Chicago

frampton@vicuna.ocunix.on.ca writes:

>I just FTP'ed "tetrispm.zip" -- it is a Tetris-clone for the WPS, called
>"Sirtet" and is written by John Lisek.

I found it as sirtet.zip, and it's for PM, not WPS...did you really
find an OS/2 2.0 version?

>The only problem I have with the game is the way the blocks rotate.  They
>rotate the *wrong* way -- directly opposite the true arcade game and
>every PC-Tetris clone that I have seen.  This is quite disruptive for
>a Tetris geek such as myself.

I agree!  If the author is lurking about, or if the source code is
available somewhere, it would be nice to fix this.  It is, as you 
say, disruptive.

It would also be nice if the game detected the aspect ratio of the
screen instead of assuming 1:1.  Or maybe it is detecting it, but
overcompensating...anyway, on EGA (ye gods, I'm so embarrassed...)
everything is squished.

Oh well, it's still a nice game, even if it doesn't get fixed.

Greg
From: slam@discover.wright.edu (Sau Chun Lam)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.apps
Subject: Re: << AmiPro Printing Bug! >>
Date: 22 Jan 93 06:14:11 GMT
Organization: Wright State University

Thanks for the replies I received with regards to my above problem.

I have managed to develop a fix by hacking the WinOS/2 SYSTEM.INI.

Apparently, the TI Microlaser WPD file was installed correctly but
either WinOS/2 or AmiPro does not pick it up.

The [PSCRIPT] section of SYSTEM.INI indicates the number of 
External Printers installed and the names of each of the respective
WPD file (less extension).

I commented out the IBM drivers that were installed by OS/2, changed
the number of External Printers to 1 and set the TI printer driver
as External Printer1.

This cured the printing bug and I'm able to print from AmiPro even
with the WinOS/2 print manager disabled.


SC Lam - slam@eve.wright.edu
From: kbeal@amber (Ken Beal)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.apps
Subject: HELP: Need a CD-ROM player.
Date: 26 Jan 1993 14:56:49 GMT
Organization: Harris CSD, Ft. Lauderdale, FL
NNTP-Posting-Host: amber.ssd.csd.harris.com
Summary: Need help choosing a CD-ROM player.
Keywords: CD-ROM help player CD Norse Gods
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]

Hi all,
I just joined IBM's DAP, and have ordered the PDK CD-ROM.  I need to
find a good, inexpensive player.  My machine does not currently have
SCSI, and I think that would be expensive; I've got IDE right now.
(It's an ISA 486/33.)

I've seen a player in the Damark catalog, which comes with several
CD-ROM titles, for about $200.  The name wasn't printed, as far as
I could see; does anyone know if that player will work with OS/2?
(It comes with its own interface card...)

The titles aren't >really< important; if I can find a good player
for, say, $300ish, I can do without the "extras" (I really only
want it so I can write some code for OS/2, not to play around
with).

If you could email your responses (along with posting them if you
feel others would be interested), I'd greatly appreciate it -- I'm
in training all week, and as my .sig shows, any response will be
gone in a day.    Thanks!  :-)
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From: tcscs!zeta@src.honeywell.com (Gregory Youngblood)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.apps,comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: News on 2.1 Release
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 93 11:50:13 CST
Reply-To: zeta%tcscs@src.honeywell.com
Organization: TCS Consulting Services

unruh@physics.ubc.ca (William Unruh) writes:

> tcscs!zeta@src.honeywell.com (Gregory Youngblood) writes:
> 
> ]This is just one of the things I refer to.  This is the 2.0 GA box.  Which
> ]was not all 32 bit.  Yes the journalists who reported on OS/2 mentioned this
> ]and that IBM would be bringing out the rest of OS/2 that was not 32 bit.

> And the parallel port is still 8 bit, so OS2 will never be fully 32bit.

Are you now talking hardware?  I was talking strictly software..the os/2
software!

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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.apps
From: slumos@unlv.edu (Steve Lumos)
Subject: Re: Stacker for OS/2....March?
Organization: UNLV Computer Science
Date: Sun, 24 Jan 93 01:56:23 GMT

In article <1993Jan23.112143.10725@actrix.gen.nz> Steve.Withers@bbs.actrix.gen.nz writes:
>I have since heard from others here in NZ who met the Stac rep that they made
>exactly this point. In one case, the guy showed her DCF/2 specs and info and
>said:"This is your competition......you will have to be equal or better to
>sell OS/2 disk compression.....".

Sadly, I don't think that this is the case. Had DCF/2 shipped at ANY
one of the release dates in the past, they would have cleaned up. I
think it is a race now though. If Proportional doesn't release before
Stac, they aren't going to have a chance. HPFS or not, Stacker has two
things: 
	1) H-U-G-E popularity and support from the media.
	2) TRUST. It has been in use so long that few people are not
	   completely trusting of Stacker.

The second one is important, IMO. It doesn't matter how good DCF/2 is
(seems like a far better product than Stacker to me), people are going
to be warry of it at first. All of these delays and charging credits
cards before they ship aren't going to help them to gain trust either.

TTYL - Steve
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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.apps
From: hankedr@mail.auburn.edu (Darrel Hankerson)
Subject: Re: Emacs/Calc: Won't start GnuPlot
Organization: Auburn University, Alabama
Distribution: na
Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 21:56:46 GMT

In article <halverso.727725226@staff.tc.umn.edu> halverso@staff.tc.umn.edu (Chris Halverson) writes:
>I've just installed the Calc package for Emacs on my OS/2 system. Calc
>setup fine and installed correctly. It works fine, except that it
>won't start GnuPlot correctly. A gnuplot window comes up, but just
>sits there. I have to kill the gnuplot window, then emacs says that it
>couldn't start a gnuplot session. I've got the gnuplot dir in my path,
>but it's just not working. Has anyone gotten calc to use gnuplot

Wild guess: The gnuplot for OS/2 has gone through a few revisions. 3.3 (?)
starts from gnuplot.exe, but earlier versions started from gnushell.exe.
Could this be it?

--darrel
From: v085khdn@ubvmsb.cc.buffalo.edu (Geo @UB)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.apps
Subject: Re: Why I switched to Windows
Date: 28 Jan 93 06:44:00 GMT
Organization: University at Buffalo
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41

In article <1993Jan27.062007.10014@exucom.com>, miket@exucom.com (Michael Teper) writes...
> 
>I have been a Windows supporter all along up until OS/2 Came out. When it
>did, I installed it and tried it and LOVED it (even though I was only
>running with 4Mb RAM). Unfortunately, I had to switch back to DOS/Windows.
> 
>WinOS/2 was painully slow on my 386-33 and to date none of the
............> 
>Now, give me a good reason to load up an OS that will eat up 25% of my HD
>space and give me nothing more than SLOOOOWW but protected (not even that
>at 100%) multitasking of the software I already multitask under DOS/Windows.

>Win NT is already promises lots of Apps, but it is WAY too much of a hog
>(and who knows if they come through on those promises). So whats left out
>there OS-wise to chose from ? Can you say "DOS/Windows" ???? Sad, isnt it?
> 
> 
>-- 
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>          PC Expanders INC,3580 Sheridan Drive, Amherst, NY 14226
>          IBM/Compatibles - Sales, Service, Networking Solutions!

Well Michael, perhaps you should think about Expanding your PC!!!
I know of a nifty little place over on Sheridan Drive.....


George Sabini
SUNY @ Buffalo
Amherst, NY 14261, etc...		sabini@eng.buffalo.edu
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From: lawrence@cmu.unige.ch
Subject: MMOS2 and Soundblaster install prob.
Organization: University of Geneva, Switzerland
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 05:44:50 GMT

Hi,

I managed to get the 2.1b installed and apart from the fact that I 
haven't yet found out how to increase the resolution of my PM screen
(I have an ET4000 generic with 1Mb so I would like to have 800x600x256
colors), I can't get the MMOS2 installed properly. It installs all the 
programs but won't load the driver (SBDOS.SYS I think) in the config.sys.
What do I have to do? My SOundblaster (1.0) works fine in DOS and in the
multimedia extensions in WIN 3.1 (and of course WIN-OS2).

Can anyone help me with this???

Thanks, Graham. :-)
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From: knipe@cvpsun05.csc.ti.com (Richard Knipe)
Subject: Pmcomm help needed
Reply-To: knipe@cvpsun05.csc.ti.com
Organization: Texas Inc., Dallas, Texas
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 17:54:02 GMT

Does anyone know how to get pmcom to send control characters
correctly.  When I dail into different main frames, there are
times that I need to send a "control-6" or a "control-enter".
Pmcom is the only communications program I've ever used that
doesn't do this correctly.


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From: dic5340@hertz.njit.edu (David Charlap)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.apps,comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: News on 2.1 Release
Date: 26 Jan 93 14:20:45 GMT
Organization: New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, N.J.

In article <833qXB4w165w@tcscs.UUCP> zeta%tcscs@src.honeywell.com writes:
>I bought Turbo Pascal 6, and just a little while later 7 was released.  I
>called Borland and got a free upgrade, to BORLAND pascal 7 with everything.
>
>I thought that was VERY fair.  Personally I'd have been happy with TP7, but
>hey...they let me have BP7.

Perhaps because there is no TP7, only BP7?
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From: kncarp@nicsn1.monsanto.com (Kevin N. Carpenter)
Subject: Re: Problem using GTAK to restore
Organization: Monsanto Company
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL8]
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 17:37:54 GMT

Kevin N. Carpenter (kncarp@nicsn1.monsanto.com) wrote:
: I seem to be having problems getting gtar (from the gtak201b.zip package) to
: restore any *.exe files.  The backup ran fine, and a "tar -tv" shows the files
: as being present.  When I do a "tar -xvw" it ask me if I wish to restore the
: first exe file, I see a bunch of disk and tape activity (it looks like its
: restoring), and no error messages are generated.  However, a dir command does
: not show the file as being present.

: Normally, I'd just use a utility to see if perhaps it simply has the wrong
: attributes, but I can't do that right now.  You see, 2.1Beta caused me
: enough grief that I reformated my disk, and I'm trying to restore my old
: 2.0+SP system, including those utilities.  In other words, I'm in PANIC mode!

: Any suggestions?

With much playing around I discovered that the EXE files were indeed restored,
but with a System attribute.  Doing a ATTRIB -S *.* in appropriate directories
caused the "missing" files to return.
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From: orville%weyrich@uunet.uu.net (Orville R. Weyrich)
Subject: Re: DCF/2 When?
Reply-To: uunet.uu.net!weyrich!orville
Organization: Weyrich Computer Consulting
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 93 06:58:22 GMT

In article <1jhv64INNj3q@hpscit.sc.hp.com> kitchin@lf.hp.com (Bruce Kitchin) writes:
>I got my credit card bill yesterday and noticed that Proportional
>Software had charged my card on 1/7/93 for DCF/2.  I called today to
>find out why I hadn't got it yet.  Their answer was that they had
>such a backlog of orders that they started charging the cards early.
>They also said that I should get the product by the end of the month.
>I told them this was not satisfactory.  They offered to credit the
>amount back and the card and recharge it when shipped.  I don't if
>this is considered a legitimate practice (charging more than a few
>days ahead of shipment, especially when you know you can't ship in
>a few days), but it really should be.

I think that there is a Federal law that governs mail-orders that says
something to the effect that if an order doesn't ship within 30 days, the
company has to offer to refund your money within so many more days. I
don't know if this applies to credit card orders ...


orville

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From: Gary.Woodman@anu.edu.au (Gary Woodman)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.apps
Subject: Re: Mr. File/PM is very cool!
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 00:04:07 GMT
Organization: Computer Services Centre, Australian National University
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: 150.203.5.23

In article <727914810snx@w3vh.UUCP> rolfe@w3vh.UUCP (Rolfe Tessem) writes:

>I just picked Mr. File/PM off hobbes, and am very pleased. This is
>just the kind of utility OS/2 needs, at least until applications are
>more generally WPS-aware.  Having played with it for a couple of
>hours, I don't really think Norton Commander is going to have much
>luck in the marketplace with Mr. File available as freeware. There are
>a number of elegant touches - drag and drop, shortcuts, etc.

>Highly recommended. (available in /pub/os2/all/diskutils, I believe.)

Ditto, I really like this app.

It's sort of what the Windows File Manager should have been all along, if 
Windows had been capable of all the nifty things you can do with OS/2 and PM.

Run, don't walk, to ftp-os2!

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