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From: jmaynard@oac.hsc.uth.tmc.edu (Jay Maynard)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: How to increase speed of communications in OS/2 2.0
Keywords: os2 waffle 165
Date: 16 Dec 1992 18:59:37 GMT
Organization: UT Health Science Center Houston

In article <brown.198.724388877@chinchilla.ir.ucf.edu> brown@chinchilla.ir.ucf.edu (Bill Brown) writes:
>This is probably your problem.  Although the 16550AN has a FIFO buffer (a 16 
>byte queue to prevent character overrun under high speed serial rates), it's 
>completely broke.  The 16550AFN is the fixed version of this chip.

Sorry. The 16550 (non-A, non-AF) was the broken one. (The N is National
Semiconductor's package designator for a plastic DIP.) The 16550A fixed the
FIFO so that it works. I'm using two of them continuously under heavy loading,
and the FIFOs work fine. The AF fixed an obscure bug, but the info I have is
that there's no practical difference in normal use.  

While I'm here, it's time to reiterate that the 16550A/AF is a pin-for-pin
replacement for the 8250 and 16450. Occasionally, folks will hear that there
are special support chips required for the 16550. Hogwash. Those support chips
turn out to be 1488/1489 RS-232 line receiver/drivers, and are completely
compatible with the 16550. Thousands of folks have replaced their 16450s and
8250s with 16550s and had no problems at all.
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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: charlie@elektro.cmhnet.org (Charlie Smith)
Subject: Re: Inexpensive 16-bit Future Domain SCSI Adapters
Organization: Why do you suspect that?
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 92 18:18:46 GMT

In article <1992Dec12.235542.16006@midway.uchicago.edu> sip1@midway.uchicago.edu writes:
>Several people have been looking for an inexpensive yet decent SCSI
>adapter for use under OS/2 2.0 (to run CD-ROM, particularly).
>
>I have no affiliation with the company, but Hi-Tech (at 805-966-5454
>or FAX 805-966-2354) is offering the Future Domain 16-bit TMC-1660ER
>SCSI adapter for $65.  I believe this adapter includes floppy disk
>support.
>
>I have not specifically tested this adapter with OS/2 2.0.  However,
>the OS/2 2.0 README file indicates that the TMC-1660 is supported
>natively by OS/2, without the IBMINT13.I13 driver.
>
>-- 
>Timothy F. Sipples      | Read the OS/2 FAQ List 2.0h, available from

A word of caution:  I called Future Domain Tech Support today about this 
controller card. (714-253-0400)  They said that the ER on the end of the
model number means that it is a special OEM card that does not have 
onboard BIOS.  

My question was, will it work with Interactive 386 UNIX, and they said that
it would work for drives other than the boot drive.  They said that you
could not boot off of a controller without a BIOS.  This should hold true 
for any operating system.

Also, Future Domain said that their drivers are packaged with both ISC UNIX
and os/2, which will let you get by without having to configure *additional*
drivers.

(Also, another distributer I checked to cross check the 
price said that they had the TMC-1600, but had never heard of it with
an 'ER' suffix.  You get what you pay for I guess.)


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From: stanton@haas.berkeley.edu (Richard Stanton)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: Internet is too big....CI$ is much smaller.
Date: 18 Dec 1992 19:27:07 GMT
Organization: University of California, Berkeley
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In article <1992Dec18.101853.22386@actrix.gen.nz> Steve.Withers@bbs.actrix.gen.nz writes:
>IBM in the US probably can't handle to volume - and cost - of the Internet
>problems...besides, they want these things to be done locally by the national
>versions of the various IBMs......

I griped to the Compuserve problem report ID (from my Internet account...) that
cutting off Internet support was a stupid idea. The reply was that it was 
less a policy decision not to support Internet users, but more to
do with IBM's agreement with Compuserve, and the lack of any such agreement
with "the Internet". I don't quite understand what that means, particularly
when IBM has many Internet type addresses, but maybe someone else has some ideas.

Richard Stanton
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: andreast@athena.mit.edu (Andreas Turanski)
Subject: Re: Boot Manager: Does any one have a compatibility list?
Summary: Boot Manager works with DR-DOS
Keywords: Boot Manager Digital Research DR DOS
Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Date: Sun, 13 Dec 1992 17:41:11 GMT

In article <1992Dec12.192416.9499@ichips.intel.com> jburns@pdxgp1 (John Justin Burns Jr.) writes:
>I have been using the Boot Manager with a variety of OSs.  I know that it
>works with [...]

>Of particular interest to me is:  Novell (286 and 386 versions), DR-DOS,
[rest del'd]

John,
  I have and am successfully using DR-DOS 6.0 with OS/2 and the Boot
Manager.  There are almost no problems.  The only major consideration is
that if one uses the SuperStor dynamic disk compression which comes
with DR-DOS, any and all files which are in a SuperStor partition
canNOT be accessed in _any_way_ while running OS/2 2.0.  Trust me.
I've tried!  Other than that (which is not really a "problem"
but more the lack of availability of a "feature" <G>) there
are no difficulties that I have ever had except the following two:

1: Do NOT run CHKDSK on your DR-DOS partition(s) from under OS/2.
   ONLY run DR-DOS's CHKDSK and then only while under _straight_
   DR-DOS.  If you accidentally _do_ do this, life is not lost, but
   I am not sure of a consistently working way of recovering.
   If one DOES run os2 CHKDSK on the DR-DOS partition, one should
   kill it ASAP (CTRL-C), shut down and go to straight DR-DOS to
   see if a DR-DOS CHKDSK will fix things.  The symptoms which afflict
   the os2 session before shutdown is that it fails to correctly
   read the affected partition(s) giving a lot of "garbage" when
   a DIR command is executed, etc.
   NOTE: I think that this also applies to other (i.e. MS/PC DOSs).

2: I think when I originally partitioned and formatted my drive for
   Boot Man. DR-DOS 6.0, and OS/2 2.0 I had to do the following
   so I could install DR-DOS and have it "visible" from os2:

  a. make all the partitions from os2 disk #1 during os2 install.
     These included those mentioned above in 2.

  b. format the DR-DOS partition from os2?? or from os2 then from
     DR-DOS (sorry I don't remember exactly as I tried a few combo's <G>),
     maybe even just from DR-DOS.  If the wrong method was chosen either
     I couldn't install DR-DOS or I couldn't use the DR-DOS partition
     from within os2.



Hope this helped, just write me if you have more questions.

Andreas.
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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu (Timothy F. Sipples)
Subject: Re: Misc OS/2 questions (especially CSD installation)
Reply-To: sip1@midway.uchicago.edu
Organization: Dept. of Econ., Univ. of Chicago
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 18:13:29 GMT

In article <1992Dec15.101646.3744@monu6.cc.monash.edu.au> parry@yoyo.cc.monash.edu.au (Tom J Parry) writes:
>There is not much of a difference between getting at OS/2 and DOS from the
>WPS (about 0.5 inches in my case) so formatting from DOS to get 1.76MB is
>not much of a hassle but you can't do it from the WPS and not while you're
>working in an OS/2 window without moving. SInce OS/2 will read (and I
>presume writE) these disks with no probs and FDFORMAT runs hassle free in
>DOS windows there is not a giant need for this kind of OS/2 support but it
>is slightly conspicuous by its absence. I doubt it would be difficult to
>add this to OS/2 FORMAT (not as the default capacity of course) or to
>convert FDFORMAT to an OS/2 app. 
>It's not much (given the above) but there isn't a reason I can find for it
>not to be there.

Actually, there is.  And the reason is related to why HPFS on floppies
has been resisted.  (Actually, you don't really need HPFS on floppies
for the long filename support.  I'm working on that minor problem --
some small replacement COPY, DIR, RENAME, and DEL utilities are all
you need.  But I digress.)

Say, for example, you format such a diskette to 1.76MB.  Then you
decide to give it to a friend who has a machine running DOS, without
FDREAD.  The diskette is unreadable.  Now, unless you're a "rocket
scientist" (meaning that if you read this newsgroup you qualify),
you're going to get extremely frustrated because you can't exchange
diskettes with another user.  (There's enough trouble with people
trying to read high density floppies in double density drives --
that's confusing enough.  Add a few more nonstandard formats and
you're really going to get people confused.)

If they do add it to the standard format command, though, make it
undocumented and somewhat convoluted.  Say, add the parameter /NS (for
nonstandard) if you're going to create diskettes with /N:20 and /T:82.

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From: utter@acsu.buffalo.edu (William M. Utter)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc,comp.os.os2.programming
Subject: Which CD-ROM Drive.
Date: 12 Dec 92 17:08:19 GMT
Organization: UB


	I'm in the market for a CD-ROM drive and I don't have a SCSI
interface.  Which CD-Rom Drive will work with OS/2?  Thanks.



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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: samiam@netcom.com (Scott Moore)
Subject: Re: Showing 256color Bitmaps
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  (408 241-9760 guest) 
Date: Sat, 12 Dec 1992 08:12:08 GMT

Volkmar.Stegmann@arbi.informatik.uni-oldenburg.de (Volkmar Stegmann) writes:

>Hi,

>I'm using PaintShopPro for Windows in a windowed session on the WPS and it
>shows the Bitmaps of among 10 formats without any problems in 256 colors.
>I'm using the SP and the 800x600x256 driver that comes with it.

The reason it does not have the same problems is that it is a windows program.
Windows programs directly reprogram the pallete. A similar program exists, 
"viewgif" that was written for 1.x os/2 (which lacked 256 color support).
It also works, and also directly programs the pallete.
The bug (apparently existing on all but XGA adapters) is that the os/2 API
method for programming the pallete doesn't work.

                                                  [sam]

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From: lmp8913@zeus.tamu.edu (PRESTON, LISA M)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: Icon Crosshatching color setting?
Date: 19 Dec 1992 15:51 CST
Organization: Texas A&M University, Academic Computing Services
Distribution: world
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News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41    

In article <1992Dec18.215003.3532@njitgw.njit.edu>, dic5340@hertz.njit.edu (David Charlap) writes...
->In article <15DEC199218534912@zeus.tamu.edu> lmp8913@zeus.tamu.edu (PRESTON, LISA M) writes:
->>	I reinstalled OS/2+SP after accidentally deleting some system files.:-(
->>Everything works OK, and all of my desktop customization was preserved, except
->>that the cross-hatching on the icon of an open folder has changed color-
->>it formerly was the same color as the Shadow text (blue), but is now black.
->>This is inconveinent, as the background desktop color is also black-result,
->>invisible crosshatching.
-> 

->Since you say you suffered a crash just before this happened, try
->re-dragging the same scheme from the palette to the desktop and see if
->that helps.  The hatching may not be the same setting, but copied
->while a scheme is dragged.
-> 

	No, I didn't have a crash- I accidently deleted most of the
files in my \os2 directory, so I reinstalled os2 and the SP.
I've tried making new schemes, dropping schemes on every window, chkdsk,
and finally resorted to MAKEINI- no good.  When I redrag the scheme to 
the desktop the crosshatches reappear (in the shadow text color, as they
were originally) , but they are black on when any new object is opeded, 
and all return to black after shutdown.

	After all of this, I've developed another quirk- the text
in the window list is red, and I cannot change it ( although I can 
change the window background color).

Thanx 
LISA
From: spielman@pender.ee.upenn.edu (Terence P. Spielman)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Info on ATI Ultra Plus card wanted...
Date: 14 Dec 92 19:04:31 GMT
Reply-To: spielman@pender.ee.upenn.edu (Terence P. Spielman)
Organization: University of Pennsylvania

Does anybody know specifics about the ATI Graphics Ultra Plus 
with regards to OS/2 2.0?  

I saw the card in CompUSA a few days ago, and am considering buying it,
especially since Radius' XGA2 seems to be delayed and is more pricey.
However, I would like to know if the ATI card easily supports OS/2.
I noticed that the box says it comes with OS/2 PM drivers, but I need
to know if they are for version 2.0 and if they support Windows in seamless
mode.  I would also like to know if the 24 bit color is supported as well.

Additionally, could somebody explain the differences between the original
ATI Graphics Ultra and the ATI Ultra cards?  Do these differences apply
to the ATi Graphics Plus and Pro?

Also, if I were to buy the ATI Ultra Plus, what limitations do I face by
only getting 1 MByte instead to 2?

Although, there may be enough interest in this topic to warrant a return post
to the newsgroup, could you please email the answers as well?  I don't always
read this group, and the articles pile up quickly.

Thanks,
Terence Spielman
spielman@pender.ee.upenn.edu
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: tom@longs.lance.colostate.edu (Tom Aurand)
Subject: Re: Farenheit 1280 Drivers..FINALLY!
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 19:05:44 GMT
Organization: Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO  80523

In article <2B2E1B32.8EE@deneva.sdd.trw.com>, reimert@santacruz.etdesg.trw.com (Scott P. Reimert) writes:
|> In article <Dec15.083643.69359@yuma.ACNS.ColoState.EDU> tom@longs.LANCE.ColoState.Edu (Tom Aurand) writes:
|>
 
mine mostly expunged

|> >...THEY WORK !!!!!!!!!!
|> 
|> Which GRE are you running? I tried the betas on the 32-bit GRE, and the
|> flicker they produced was unbearable. I *know* it's not my f1280 card or
|> moniter, because I've had 1024x768 on my system before, flicker free.
|> 
|> I would be VERY happy if Orchid fixed the flicker problem these produced
|> when running in the 32-bit GRE.
|> 

I use GASP (gasp!) + winos231 (from diskette beta (old)).

My dipswitch settings are for the fastest available scan rates.
I'm sure it must be 70Hz non-interlaced.  I use 1024 x 768 256 color
on a NEC 5fg.
From: dhalem@cats.ucsc.edu (Daniel Aaron Halem)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: OS/2 & Dos 5.0 floppy problem
Date: 19 Dec 1992 02:04:58 GMT
Organization: University of California, Santa Cruz
NNTP-Posting-Host: am.ucsc.edu


dic5340@hertz.njit.edu (David Charlap) writes:

>In article <BzB7Iw.HFq@mentor.cc.purdue.edu> ericwolf@mentor.cc.purdue.edu (Eric Wolf) writes:
>>Everytime I go to my DOS 5.0 partition (via Boot Manager) and format
>>a disk using DOS 5.0 (format a: /f:1440 /u) it works fine.  Then when
>>I try to dir the disk I just formatted, I get a general failure reading
>>drive A: error.  But if I go to OS/2 and try to read the same disk, it
>>works fine.  OS/2 can read and write to these disks no problem but DOS
>>can't!!!  DOS always gives the general failure error when OS/2 reads
>>them.

>Neat.  This sounds like a better problem than the one I have.  My
>system can not format 720K disks - attempting to do so results in
>unuseable floppies.  However, if another computer formats them to
>720K, my system will have no problem reading or writing them.  This is
>with the OS/2 format command and with the DOS 5.0 FORMAT command
>(booted into a VMB).

>I have yet to try booting straight DOS 5.0, so I don't know if it's a
>hard or soft error.
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Problems such as these are usually due to the diskette parameter table
being setup improperly for 720k diskettes.  Some of the other formatting
programs can handle this properly.  I have written a formatter that does this
but since it is part of a commercial product, I cannot distribute it.  I have
found this problem to be the most pronounced on AMI bios'es.

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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: woan@exeter.austin.ibm.com (Ronald S. Woan)
Subject:  IBM screws U again
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 05:25:09 GMT
Reply-To: woan@cactus.org
Organization: Austin School of Hardknocks

If you don't mind my asking, just how much is IBM asking for
licensing fees? I assume it is actually paid by the company
producing the licensed chipset and not Radius. How much is
Radius paying for the XGA chipset?
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From: altman@sbcs.sunysb.edu (Jeff Altman)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: ServPack Problem - anyone install on second SCSI drive
Date: 15 Dec 92 04:39:33 GMT
Organization: State University of New York at Stony Brook

Here is the system configuration.

IBM PS/2 55sx
AOX MicroMaster 486/33 
14mb RAM
Adaptec SCSI 1640
two drives
first: 1 partition primary - IBM DOS 5.0 FAT
       boot manager
second: 2 partitions  40 mb - Primary HPFS OS/2 2.0
                      89 mb - Extended HPFS (non boot)

System runs fine without ServPack

SP accepts all of the 12 regular 3.5" diskettes.
Asks for 1st device driver disk
and then hangs with an error that A:\OS2\FIX\PRODUCT.EXE
reached an error condition upon exiting.

product.exe is located on disk 12.

From this point on I can't restart OS/2.

Future attempts to run the SP leave service.log files
on my DOS drive.

The diskettes appear to be fine as they work on my Dell
with a primary partition on drive 0.

Has anyone successfully run the SP on a similar setup?

Thanks in advance.

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From: tcscs!zeta@src.honeywell.com (Gregory Youngblood)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: OS/2 NOT 32 Bit?
Date: 21 Dec 92 01:14:24 GMT
Reply-To: zeta%tcscs@src.honeywell.com
Organization: TCS Consulting Services

rommel@jonas.gold.sub.org (Kai Uwe Rommel) writes:

> In article <92352.112713ASI509@DJUKFA11.BITNET> ASI509@DJUKFA11.BITNET writes
> >You are right and they are wrong. There are _some_ parts that are 16Bit. Tho
> >the only one I know of was the old (GA Version) graphics engine. Since the
> >service pack it is 32Bit. OS/2 has the old APIs for 16 apps and perhaps the
> >texmode I/O functions are 16Bit code. But as I understand IBM wants to move
> >to PM-only operation, so it would be logical not to change that to 32Bit cod
> 
> Actually, more parts of PM are still 16-bit, such as the Window
> Manager and apparently also the GPI. They will be converted to 32-bit
> over the next year, as far as I know.
> 
From my understanding, the HPFS file system is also 16 bit.  From what I've
seen there is still a large portion of OS/2 that is 16 bit.  I was under the
impression is was 100% 32 bit EXCEPT for the graphics engine...  needless to
say when I learned otherwise I was a bit disillusioned at first. 

Does anyone have a complete list of what components are 32 bit and what parts
are 16 bit?


Greg

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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: kskapin@csws2.ic.sunysb.edu (Keith T Skapinski)
Subject: Re: A really undeleteable file (Yes I tried everything in the FAQ)
Organization: State University of New York at Stony Brook
Date: Sat, 19 Dec 1992 02:26:02 GMT

In article <4691@copper.Denver.Colorado.EDU> rvaniwaa@copper.denver.colorado.edu (Ronald J. Vaniwaarden) writes:
>Well, I think I have the ultimate in undeletable files.  While I was 
>installing the Trident 32-bit drvers, I rebooted from a floppy to
>change the 'in-use' files and while at the command line, I tried to print
>out a file.  What I did was type fname.txt > lpt1.  Well, nothing
>was printed and I searched to find the old copy of thes file.  When I
>rebooted, there was this file called lpt1 and it is undeleteable.  I
>tried the drag to a folder and delete the folder but I am not allowed
>to move the file.  If I try to delete it, it says it \dev\lpt1  Sys0003:
>the system cannot find the path specified.
>If I try the gnu rm, it says rm:can't force write permission for c:/lpt1:
>no such file or directory.
>
>suggestions??
>
>--Ronald Van Iwaarden
>

I had the same thing happen to me some time ago but it was with com1 rather
than lpt1 and I couldn't delete it. The only way I could get around it was
to boot using DOS than access the partition with the file (assuming it is FAT)
then delete the file using some third party utility package. I think it was
either QDos3 or Norton. Good luck.


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