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From: fhart@ncratl.AtlantaGA.NCR.COM (Fred Hart)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.apps
Subject: Uncompress
Keywords: compress uncompress
Date: 27 Aug 92 17:03:00 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: NCR Engineering and Manufacturing Atlanta -- Atlanta, GA

I am looking for an os/2 2.o port of uncompress. I found a version of compress
on hobbes but it doesn't look like uncompress came with it. Any pointers
would be appreciated.

-- Fred Hart (fred.hart@AtlantaGA.ncr.com)
From: x91clifton1@gw.wmich.edu
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.apps
Subject: Re: Ami Pro Info?
Date: 4 Sep 92 12:59:08 EST
Organization: Western Michigan University

In article <1992Sep4.155354.29086@tamsun.tamu.edu>, pzs3761@tamsun.tamu.edu (Pete Sierant) writes:
> In article <xqmnj__@lynx.unm.edu> gcasaus@leo.unm.edu (Greg Casaus) writes:
>>Anybody heard if Lotus is planning to offer some upgrade path from Ami Pro
>>for Windows to OS/2?  Any ideas on pricing?
>>
>>Greg Casaus
> 
> According to the Lotus person who took my order for Ami Pro 3.0 for Win,
> the OS/2 version will be available "this year," the developers are "very 
> excited" about how the OS/2 version works, and depending on several factors
> (timing,marketing, etc), the Ami Pro _3.0_ Win -> OS/2 upgrade will be a
> $29, $49 or $79 "technical upgrade".
> 
> Incidently, Ami Pro 3.0 works perfectly under OS/2 right now, both seemless
> and full-screen (I run full screen for the speed), and I've been cutting, 
> pasting, importing and graphing up a storm for a month now. Oh yeah, you 
> can use it to write words, too. Defininetly the best by far of the huge
> disk-hog, bloated pig memory eater style word processors.
> 
> -- 
> -- Pete              -=[ pzs3761@tamsun.tamu.edu ]=-
> Disclaimer:  Neither you, I nor this posting exist. We are the end result 
>              of a late night pizza locked in glorious battle with Bill Gates
>              neural and digestive systems.  Please act accordingly.

I installed AmiPro 3.0 under WinOS/2 and guess what--no help. Apparently Ami
is backwardly compatable with Win 3.0 in every regard other than help file
format, the WinOS/2 help engine (3.0 of course until this fall) simply does
not understand Ami's help files.

/Doug
--
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From: dens@spotted.owlnet.rice.edu (Dennis Allen Schmitz)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.apps
Subject: Re: Uncompress
Date: 28 Aug 92 18:33:19 GMT
Article-I.D.: spotted.DENS.92Aug28123319
	<ednstras.714976274@kraken> <1992Aug28.073813.8925@midway.uchicago.edu>
Organization: Rice University, Houston, Texas

In article <1992Aug28.073813.8925@midway.uchicago.edu> jhrv@ellis.uchicago.edu (John M. Kim) writes:

   >jhrv@ellis.uchicago.edu (John M. Kim) writes:
   >
   >>copy compress.exe uncompress.exe
   >>copy compress.exe zcat.exe
   >
   >Eh?  What about a few batch files:
   >
   >zcat.cmd:
   >---
   >@compress -c %1 %2 %3 %4 %5 %6 %7 %8 %9
   >---
   >
   >I think I remember the options correctly.

Or, for even less disk space:

alias uncompress compress -d
alias zcat compress -dc

Later,
den
From: dic5340@hertz.njit.edu (David Charlap)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.apps
Subject: Re: Winword, ATM & winos2
Date: 28 Aug 92 19:39:52 GMT
Organization: New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, N.J.

In article <1992Aug27.205150.23994@pslu1.psl.wisc.edu> frigo@psl.wisc.edu writes:
>As a follow-up:  I reinstalled Winword from a WIN-OS2 session and know
>it works.  I have been informed that the Winword files may have been
>corrupted during restoration from a tape backup.

If WinWord was installed under Windows 3.1 and you later moved it to
OS/2, you'd have to do a re-install, since it doesn't copy the OLE
(and some other) DLL files under Windows 3.1 (they're built in to the
system). 


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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.apps
From: unruh@physics.ubc.ca (William Unruh)
Subject: Re: CHANGING MOUSE POINTER
Keywords: mouse pointer
Organization: University of British Columbia, Vancouver, B.C., Canada
Date: Tue, 1 Sep 1992 03:53:55 GMT

harris@garfield.catt.ncsu.edu (Michael Harris) writes:

>FAGER@gribb.hsr.no (Fagerland, Svein      94/96) writes:

>>Is there a way to change the mouse-pointer in OS/2 ?
>>I've noticed that there is an option in the icon editor for pointers.

>This option is to create a custom pointer image to put in your program.
>There is no way to change the default pointer short of using a resource
>editor on your DISPLAY.DLL.

Is there a way of reattaching the mouse pointer? I have had a program
attach the mouse pointer to a completely transparent one and then bomb,
leaving it transparent ( slightly difficult to use). How can I reattach?
From: rommel@jonas.ucrc.sub.org (Kai Uwe Rommel)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.apps
Subject: Re: Uncompress
Distribution: usa
Date: Sun, 30 Aug 92 19:12:13 MET
Organization: Private
Keywords: compress uncompress

In article <1992Aug28.224249.20832@ultb.isc.rit.edu> djs6015@ultb.isc.rit.edu (Don Smith) writes:
>In article <8836@ncratl.AtlantaGA.NCR.COM> fhart@ncratl.AtlantaGA.NCR.COM (Fred Hart) writes:
>}I am looking for an os/2 2.o port of uncompress. I found a version of compress
>}on hobbes but it doesn't look like uncompress came with it. Any pointers
>}would be appreciated.
>
>I have an OS/2 version of compress also, it didn't come with uncompress
>either. For mine, you use the -d switch to uncompress. Try compress -?
>or compress -h to get some sort of help. 

"uncompress" is equivalent to "compress -d". You can also copy
compress.exe to uncompress.exe, it's only the name which makes the
difference.

Kai Uwe Rommel

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handler, and always will be.                -Russell Williams
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.apps
From: btf57346@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Byron "Bohr" Faber)
Subject: Re: Which is better: pmcomm or te2?
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1992 15:20:44 GMT
Keywords: pmcomm te2 comms

feustel@netcom.com (David Feustel) writes:

>ucgadkw@ucl.ac.uk (Dominik Wujastyk) writes:

>>This isn't intended to start a war, but I thought some people might
>>have tried the two already, and be able to sum up the pros and cons.

>>Pmcomm is about 20 dollars more to register, I believe (89 versus 69,
>>roughly).  That's about all I know, so far.

>pmcomm32 (a beta version available to registered pmcomm users) has
>too-good emulation of vt100 and Zmodem support. It supports HPFS but
>long filenames are not preserved across downloads. I vote for
>pmcomm32.
>-- 
>Dave Feustel N9MYI <feustel@netcom.com>
> 
>( New .sig under construction. Watch this space! )

What good does HPFS support do if you can't preserve file names in a
download.

Byron
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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.apps
From: FAGER@gribb.hsr.no (Fagerland, Svein      94/96)
Subject: Best videocard for OS/2
Organization: Rogaland University Centre
Date: Thu, 3 Sep 1992 08:46:35 GMT

I'm am a proud owner of a Trident 8900, but since I use the 800x600 256 
drivers the screen update is poor. For instance text scrolling in a window i 
slow.

So I'm now thinking of buying a new graphics card for my 486/33 20meg 60ns

What are your idas of the best card for OS/2 ( are there any seamless 256 
colour drivers for any cards ) ?

:-)

Svein Fagerland  Rogaland University Centre  STAVANGER NORWAY
From: mig@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Meir I Green)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.apps
Subject: Re: Locking OS/2 on boot (passwd protection)
Date: 31 Aug 92 05:12:34 GMT
Reply-To: mig@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Meir I Green)
Organization: Columbia University, New York

In article <Btp8rL.yM@news.cso.uiuc.edu> btf57346@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Byron "Bohr" Faber) writes:
>mig@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Meir I Green) writes:
>
>>In article <BtnA98.30@news.cso.uiuc.edu> btf57346@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Byron "Bohr" Faber) writes:
>>Buy a BIOS that has a password option, or buy a security card.  Another
>>option is to encrypt your disk, but I don't think that is a good substitute
>>for a hardware password, as they can still erase your data too easily.
>
>I've seen some hardware cards.  But alot have a "driver" that needs to be run.
>Lot of good that does us os/2 people.

Doesn't USA Flex sell one?  JDR Microdevices?  Do these need software?

>And as for the bios, the cold boot only protection isn't nice either.

Works on all reboots with my AMI BIOS!

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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.apps
From: sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu (Timothy F. Sipples)
Subject: Re: Missing DLL's for Word 2.0?
Reply-To: sip1@midway.uchicago.edu
Organization: Dept. of Econ., Univ. of Chicago
Distribution: na
Date: Thu, 3 Sep 1992 00:13:13 GMT

In article <40805@gremlin.nrtc.northrop.com> maurit@nrtc.nrtc.northrop.com (Mark Aurit <maurit>) writes:
>Im trying to run WORD for Windows 2.0 under OS2 2.0  and get
>the following error msgs: Cannot file file: SHELL.DLL,
>and the same error msg for OLECLI.DLL and OLESVR.DLL. Does
>anyone know the fix?

Safest way is to reinstall Word 2.0 under Win-OS/2.

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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.apps
From: sci240s@monu6.cc.monash.edu.au (Wey Jing HO)
Subject: Re: Best videocard for OS/2
Organization: Monash University, Melb., Australia.
Date: Thu, 3 Sep 1992 12:12:10 GMT

In <FAGER.12.715509995@gribb.hsr.no> FAGER@gribb.hsr.no (Fagerland, Svein      94/96) writes:

>I'm am a proud owner of a Trident 8900, but since I use the 800x600 256 
>drivers the screen update is poor. For instance text scrolling in a window i 
>slow.

>So I'm now thinking of buying a new graphics card for my 486/33 20meg 60ns

>What are your id
>as of the best card for OS/2 ( are there any seamless 256 
>colour drivers for any cards ) ?

YES! What about a register-level compatible 8514/A card?

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From: dic5340@hertz.njit.edu (David Charlap)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.apps
Subject: Re: Which is better: pmcomm or te2? Other?
Keywords: pmcomm te2 comms
Date: 1 Sep 92 13:08:41 GMT
Organization: New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, N.J.

In article <1992Aug31.215451.10950@hsv3.lsil.com> mvp@hsv3.lsil.com (Mike Van Pelt) writes:
>Are there any terminal programs out there that let you use window sizes
>other than 80x25?  I find it painful that I have this nice graphics
>display, but my terminal program (TE2) knows nothing but 80x25 mode.

Are you counting DOS programs?  I can run Procomm Plus in 80x50 mode
(full screen or windowed), and I can run it in 132x44 mode in
full-screen sessions.
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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.apps
From: rjones@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Ronald Jones)
Subject: Re: ZSoft Publisher's Paintbrush?
Keywords: Zsoft, windows 
Organization: The Ohio State University
Date: Fri, 4 Sep 1992 14:31:31 GMT

In article <1992Sep4.035521.18291@nwnexus.WA.COM> gregory@halcyon.com (Gregory Wright) writes:
>am using only the Paintbrush part and do nothing with the scanner side
>of the package. I am running it under win/os2 with no troubles at all. It
>ran right "out of the box."  However, If they come out with   32-bit
>OS2 version I would wait for it....HPFS support, speed, etc....
>

I (finally) got hold of someone at Zsoft and am very disturbed by what
was said. They have a OS/2 2.0 version of PB but the scanner support is
not in this program as in the Windows product. The sales person said
that this was because OS/2 had built-in scanner support so it wasn't 
needed (news to me!). Also, PB for OS/2 would not be sold through retail
outlets. You have to buy it directly from Zsoft! The salesperson could
not tell me why this was the policy. 


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From: ucgadkw@ucl.ac.uk (Dominik Wujastyk)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.apps
Subject: Vern Buerg's LJBOOK in an OS/2 DOS window?
Keywords: list dos
Date: 28 Aug 92 12:20:06 GMT
Organization: Bloomsbury Computing Consortium

For years I have used Buerg's ljbook program to print misc. documentation
files as little booklets.  It does one side of the paper on a
HPLJ, and then pauses while you take the printed pages and put them
back into the paper tray for the second side to be printed.

In an OS/2 DOS window, this doesn't work.  OS/2 seems to send some
reset command to the printer when ljbook is pausing, or before
the second bit of printing is started, and the font changes 
orientation.

Is there a way to stop OS/2 sending this reset command?  I tried 
turning off the spooler, but that didn't make any difference.

Dominik
From: hank@ducvax.auburn.edu
Subject: Rokicki's dvidvi for DOS/OS2
Organization: Auburn University, AL
Date: Sat, 29 Aug 1992 20:42:55 GMT

Rokicki's dvidvi (dvi-to-dvi for selecting pages, 2-sided print, etc.)
at labrea.stanford.edu claims to be ready for MSC 6.0, but this appears
to be incorrect. There are three problems, one of which affects all compilers
with 16-bit ints:
 1. MSDOS needs malloc declared.
 2. The output is to stdout, so setmode is required for redirection.
 3. One of the '#ifdef SHORTINT' has incorrect cases.

I do not understand how this compiled to a working version with MSC 6.0. 
In any case, I've corrected the errors, and compiled both an OS/2 and
a bound executable with MSC 6.00A. If anyone needs these, please send me
a note.

It should be noted that there is a MSDOS program dvi2dvi at simtel20.army.mil
in pd1:<msdos.tex> which claims to be a faster version of dvidvi.

--darrel hankerson hank@ducvax.auburn.edu
From: jme4@po.CWRU.Edu (John M. Ehrlinger)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.apps
Subject: Can Mathematica for DOS (V.2.1) run on OS/2???
Date: 4 Sep 1992 04:46:07 GMT
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
Reply-To: jme4@po.CWRU.Edu (John M. Ehrlinger)
NNTP-Posting-Host: slc12.ins.cwru.edu


Hi all,

	I just got a letter from Wolfram about my upgrade from V2.0 to
V2.1.  The letter said if you have any questions, call the number.  So I
did.

	When I asked if the Dos version of Mathematica would run under
OS/2, the sales rep answered pretty quickly with a YES.  After my heart
slowed from the initial rush of excitement,  I began to wonder...

	My question is has anyone tried it??

	After I asked her about the DOS version, I asked about the
Windows version.  She answered yes again but then qualified it with an "I
think".  This lead me to believe that maybe the DOS version really does
run under my operating system of choice.

	Could someone please verify this so I can 86 my DOS partition
and get some real work done??>?

	Thanks
	--John

,

Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.apps
From: feustel@netcom.com (David Feustel)
Subject: Re: Which is better: pmcomm or te2?
Date: Sat, 29 Aug 92 18:21:08 GMT
Organization: DAFCO: OS/2 Software Support & Consulting
Keywords: pmcomm te2 comms

PMCOMM32 also permits scripts writen in C and comp{led to exe.
-- 
Dave Feustel N9MYI <feustel@netcom.com>
 
( New .sig under construction. Watch this space! )
Xref: sparky comp.os.os2.apps:5735 gnu.gcc.help:2024
From: stanton@haas.berkeley.edu (Richard Stanton)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.apps,gnu.gcc.help
Subject: Gimpel LINT options for GCC?
Date: 31 Aug 1992 19:57:30 GMT
Organization: Haas School of Business, U.C. Berkeley
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: connor.berkeley.edu

Has anyone got an option file for Gimpel LINT (for OS/2) that works well
with the EMX port of GCC 2.1? If so, I'd be very grateful if you could send 
me a copy.

Thanks a lot

Richard Stanton
From: jeff@claw.clearpoint.com (Jeffrey J. Griglack)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.apps
Subject: Re: Borland C++ for OS/2.....When!!!
Date: 27 Aug 92 22:03:03 GMT
Reply-To: jeff@claw.clearpoint.com
Distribution: comp.os.os2.apps comp.os.os2.programmer
Organization: /home/jeff/.organization


Will there be an "upgrade" price from DOS/Windows Borland C++??
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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.apps
From: tadr@doe.carleton.ca (Tom A. D. Riley)
Subject: Re: sz -e filename.zoo in TE/2
Organization: Dept. of Electronics, Carleton University
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1992 23:43:56 GMT

In <tadr.714587473@lore> tadr@doe.carleton.ca (Tom A. D. Riley) writes:

>I'm using TE/2 to dial in to a sun machine. The only thing
>stopping me from registering is that I can't get zmodem
>downloads working properly yet. The suns are running
>sz on their side. When I try sz file.txt everything works fine
>but sz file.zoo causes a bunch of retries and eventually
>aborts. My sys admin says the correct approach is to use
>sz -e file.zoo with Telix under DOS and to forget TE/2 :(.
>My understanding is that the -e (escape everything) option
>lets the recieving zmodem program know that a binary file is
>incoming. So sz -e file.zoo should work under TE/2 _but_ this
>causes TE/2 to abort right away for me. 

>Any one know if I should try to get something other than sz
>on the sun side or if I am simply doing somthing stupid? Is
>this a bug in TE/2?
Thanks for the many replies both email and posted. In the end
the solution turned out to be the new COMPAK2.DLL in compk101.zoo
from ftp-os2 in the downloads directory.
BTW I'm using :
sz -eb file.zoo 
com16450.sys         (otherwise I have to touch the port from dos)
on port3 IRQ5

2400 Baud modem

The posts about zmodem downloads being slow are true for me too.
But I don't care. 184cps reliable background downloads are better
than 300cps of junk.

Now at last os2 is starting to pay off.
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.apps
From: rjones@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Ronald Jones)
Subject: ZSoft Publisher's Paintbrush?
Organization: The Ohio State University
Date: Fri, 4 Sep 1992 01:13:30 GMT


Does anyone know if ZSoft's Publisher's Paintbrush, OS/2 edition
is actually shipping. I am looking for native OS/2 support for
my Logitech scanner and understand the windows version of this 
software does support the Logitech.

Any experience with either version of this software?


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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.apps
From: hank@ducvax.auburn.edu
Subject: Re: Can Win-3.0 applets be installed from dist w/o using Win-3.0 setup?
Organization: Auburn University, AL
Distribution: us
Date: Thu, 3 Sep 1992 11:43:23 GMT

In article <1992Sep1.145623.28250@polari>, jsanchez@polari.online.com writes:
> [installing Win 3.0 applets]

I installed cardfile by:
1. Use the unexpand program on one of the first few disks of Win3. unexpand
cardfile.ex$ and cardfile.hl$

2. Put the expanded files in os2\mdos\winos2\

It has been some time--I hope I have the filenames right. There is also
the WLO versions. These were an attempt to bring the applets to OS/2 1.x.
These do run directly under OS/2, but crashed my 386SX hard (I do use
these on OS/2 1.3 without problem). Crashes on 2.0 occur on clipboard 
operations. Your mileage may vary.

--darrel hankerson hank@ducvax.auburn.edu
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.apps
From: roelofs@pan.arc.nasa.gov (Cave Newt)
Subject: Re: unzip vs. unzip_ex
Organization: University of Chicago
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 92 05:48:30 GMT

mig@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Meir I Green) writes:

>What is even better is the fact that the unzip programs are zipped!  That's a
>pretty trick to play :-)
>
>UNZ50X32 ZIP    85993   8-25-92
>UNZIP41X ZIP   109994  11-25-91
>ZIP19X32 ZIP   146273   8-25-92

Yes, but there are bare UnZip executables there somewhere, too, and
these files were zipped with PKZ102.EXE, so you can unzip them with
that version.  And, of course, you can always make your own; the
original source archives, stored on valeria.cs.ucla.edu:/incoming
for now, are in .tar.Z, .zoo *and* .zip format.  Choose yer poison...

Greg Roelofs
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.apps
From: jreynold@nmt.edu (John Reynolds)
Subject: OS/2 locking up? What to do...
Organization: New Mexico Tech
Distribution: comp.os.os2.misc comp.os.os2.apps
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1992 14:05:15 GMT

Hello out there,

I have had OS/2 installed for about 3 weeks now and love it, the only thing
that I have a question on is: How do you recover from "lock ups" and is it
possible. For instance:
				   
The other day I started a DOS app (I had just modified the DOS properties) and
as OS/2 was starting up the DOS session, that window just locked. Nothing would
work (Mouse input dead, and Ctr-ESC and Alt-ESC useless). 
Although, this lockup was different from others(where it appeared that
everything was toast): I had PMEYES and PULSE running and both of those
processes seemed to still be running. Someone told
me that it might be the WPS locking up and that OS/2 was still technically
running. So HOW DO YOU 'RESTART' WPS so that CTR+ALT+DEL doesn't have to be
used?

Any insight on this problem would be greatly appreciated.

-John

-- 
MS-DOS is an interrupt handler with a brain-dead interface.
Windows is a pathetic attempt at.....????
OS/2 is the future....that's here right now!
From: dic5340@hertz.njit.edu (David Charlap)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.apps
Subject: Re: ATI Ultra advice needed
Date: 2 Sep 92 19:54:47 GMT
Organization: New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, N.J.

In article <1992Sep2.062045.5642@ee.ubc.ca> eliu@ee.ubc.ca writes:
>
>
>I am thinking of getting an ATI Ultra to run OS/2. Could any Ultra
>user give me some advice? Does the driver in ftp-os2.nmsu.edu work
>fine with OS/2?

The ATI driver (which is an ATI driver, not a shareware driver) is
only necessary if you want to run the Ultra in 800x600x256 mode.  if
you want to use the 1024x768x256 mode, just use the IBM 8514/a driver.
It works fine.

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