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From: freeman@eagle (Jay Freeman)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: Does OS/2+Irwin+EzTape+2 floppies work?
Date: 11 Oct 92 15:40:39 GMT
Article-I.D.: news.BvyrJs.MME
Organization: Sangamon State University
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joiner@exa.cs.umn.edu (Jay K. Joiner) writes:
: In <10582@uqcspe.cs.uq.oz.au> king@cs.uq.oz.au (Paul King) writes:
: 
: >Does the EzTape for OS/2 backup software work well in GA 2.0?
: 
: I have EzTape for OS/2 working under GA.  This was the version that
: shipped for 1.3.  The only glitch is you can't close it/kill it, so
: I reboot after finishing.  Mine is the external 80 Meg tape drive.
: EzTape software works with HPFS.
: 
: >Is it PM based?
: 
: No, and I run it full-screen, not windowed.
And yes :) The upgrade to EzTape/PM is finally hitting the street. $29 to
upgrade from a previous version.

: 
: >The backup unit is supposed to work off the floppy controller.
: >  I already have two floppy drives using the controller.  Is this
: >  a problem or does the unit plug in using a piggy-back mechanism
: >  effectively sharing with one of the other floppy drives?
: 
: Irwin makes a connector that splices the tape drive signal and
: power cables into the existing floppy cabling.  I have mine working
: with two floppy drives also.
:
When I put mine in, I just put another connector on my existing floppy cable,
between the controller card, and the b: drive connector. Works like a champ.

Jay

email:freeman@eagle.sangamon.edu
From: v053qpgh@ubvmsd.cc.buffalo.edu (Eric W Sarjeant)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: TE/2 and 16550 UART
Date: 16 Oct 92 16:39:00 GMT
Article-I.D.: acsu.Bw83Ky.ICJ
Distribution: usa
Organization: University at Buffalo
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41

In article <1992Oct14.014817.22569@muddcs.claremont.edu>, tlilley@jarthur.claremont.edu (Thomas (Ted) Lilley) writes...
>In article <81626@ut-emx.uucp> vcl@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Victor C. Limary) writes:
>>
>>  I'm having problems with high speed serial communications under OS/2.  My
>>current setup is a 486/33, 8 megs of RAM, and an Intel 9600EX modem on com4
>>(on port 2e8h, irq 4, with a 16550AFN UART).  I have the computer boot up
>>with a call=mode com4:19200,n,8,1,buffer=auto in the config.sys, and TE/2
>>is configured to use com4 at a locked baud rate of 19200.  Every seems to work
>>fine until I try to download  using ZMODEM.  The transfer rate will start
>>going up, and then, sometime after the transfer rate starts to go over 1024 cps,
>>I get "Retry Packet" errors.
>>  All the above information has lead me to believe that either OS/2 or TE/2
>>isn't using the UART.  Is anyone  having similar problems?
> 
>Hi,
>	I don't have similar problems, but I thought you'd like to know
>that hi-speed transfer can be done -- I download regularly at 1700 cps
>using TE/2 on a direct com1 hookup to my dorm server.  I do not have a
>16550 and have not made or changed a mode statement...it just works.
> 

Just thought I would add my voice here. I've had similar problems with
TE/2 and Zmodem downloading. Interestingly enough, these problems with Packet
Retires are not evident when running Qmodem or Telix in a DOS session. I
would suggest trying another communications program and seeing if the
problem goes away.
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From: harris@garfield.catt.ncsu.edu (Michael Harris)
Subject: Re: Please explain '.inf' files! What are they?
Organization: North Carolina State University
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1992 02:14:30 GMT

joiner@exa.cs.umn.edu (Jay K. Joiner) writes:

>In <david.718588889@mlb.geomechanics.csiro.au> david@mlb.geomechanics.csiro.au (David Le Blanc) writes:

>These are used with the VIEW command, and should be placed in the
>BOOKSHELF directory, usually \OS2\BOOKSHELF.  Then you can just
>say VIEW <file>, where <file> is the root name of the .INF file.

I wouldn't put stuff in the \OS2\BOOKSHELF directory.  I would put other
books in your own directory.  Also, put a dot at the beginning of the
BOOKSHELF path. ie:

SET BOOKSHELF=.;D:\OS2\BOOKSHELF;E:\MYBOOKS;
______________________________________________________________________________
     Michael Harris - harris@catt.ncsu.edu or harris@carvm3.vnet.ibm.com
 System Administrator, Computer & Technologies Theme Program, NC State Univ.
(My opinions are my own and do not represent those of NCSU or IBM Corporation)
From: goyal@utdallas.edu (Mohit K. Goyal)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: XGA Cards - Are there any?
Date: 13 Oct 92 21:13:45 GMT
Organization: Univ. of Texas at Dallas

In article <1992Oct13.201150.14174@colorado.edu> kurt@alumni.cs.colorado.edu (Kurt Olender) writes:
>I have been reading this thread on XGA-2 and was wondering if
>anyone makes one yet for ISA?  It sounds like it is only for
>MCA or EISA machines.  What's the scoop?
>
Hello.  Radius is making an ISA version.  I don't know if they are
making an EISA version.  You can call them at 18005radius. (pretty sure)

I don't think it will be out until December.

I think Intel has a licence to make XGA-2 chips or something, I'm not
sure.

Oh yeah, if you've been reading the XGA-2 messages then you've probably
been hearing people say that ATI is some big company that will support
everybody...welllllllll...

I know ATI is shipping 16-bit drivers with its 2 new Ultra cards, but
from talking to them I believe that they have NO intention of 
producing 32-bit drivers anytime soon.

Also, ATI has NOT developed 16 or 32 bit drivers for it Wonder card,
nor has it developed 16 or 32 bit drivers for it Mach chip on the
Vantage and Ultra.

*IBM* is writing 32-bit drivers for the ATI Wonder card since ATI
isn't.

Some other companies that IBM is having to write drivers for are:
Tseng, Cirrus, Paradise, Western Digital

FInally, someone just noted recently that some games won't run on
XGA...well...

this might be true, but we are talking about XGA-2, and XGA-2 right
now is specified for:

65k colors in VGA
65k colors in SVGA
256 colors in 1024X768

I don't know of any game today that can't fit in those limits.
From: Don.Johnson@f107.n207.z1.fidonet.org
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: `implicit' DOS session s
X-Sender: newtout 0.02 Oct  1 1992
Date: 06 Oct 92  17:29:02

CH>Is there any way of changing the default DOS settings from the OS/2
CH>command line?  In other words, if foo.exe is a DOS program, and I type

CH>[C:\] foo

CH>How can I give foo 4 MB of DPMI memory, or something?

There's a neat shareware util called STARTD which allows one to specify
DOS settings such as DPMI_MEMORY_LIMIT and COM_HOLD from an OS/2 command
line.

However, it has crashed my machine repeatedly (I may have used
incorrect syntax), and one time crashed so hard OS/2 wouldn't even
reboot. Had to reinstall from scratch.  Caveat emptor.

I've posted several messages in other echos/newsgroups, and tried to
email the author.  The email was returned undeliverable.

Don Johnson

 * OLX 2.1 TD * Courtesy of the Department of Redundancy Department

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From: ochealth@unixg.ubc.ca (ochealth)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: Information about video drivers for OS/2 2.0...
Date: 10 Oct 1992 17:43:27 GMT
Organization: University of British Columbia, Vancouver, B.C., Canada
NNTP-Posting-Host: unixg.ubc.ca

In article <1992Oct10.161500.29370@utdallas.edu> goyal@utdallas.edu (Mohit K. Goyal) writes:
>Here is some info. I got from an IBM'er:
>(Albert Shan is his name)
>
>Tseng ET4000 drivers will be in the Service Pack, they will be 32-bit,
>256 colour drivers for VGA, SVGA, and 1024X768.


Trident??
>
>32-bit XGA-2 drivers for all of XGA-2's resolution's/color combinations
>will be released in a couple of weeks, maybe with the Service Pack.

No Trident??
>
>32-bit 256-color drivers for ATI, CIrrus, Western Digital, & Paradise
>cards will be available before 1993.


Still no Trident?
>
>32-bit 8514/A drivers will be available before 1993.
>
ARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

No Trident! The current Trident drivers are so lame!
>
>ALL of the above drivers are being written by IBM!
>
>Well, it looks like everybody is *finally* going to get video drivers,
>and not a moment too soon...

grumble...
>


-- 
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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: gumby@cs.mcgill.ca (Phil PRANNO)
Subject: Re: FOLDER from Hell!
Organization: SOCS - Mcgill University, Montreal, Canada
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1992 16:55:23 GMT

In article <1992Oct12.201106.4719@desire.wright.edu> slam@desire.wright.edu writes:
>I knwo this has come up before but it never happened to me until today.
>I have been afflicted with the "FOLDER" from hell. I cannot delete or
>shred it. Anyway I can rid myself of this blot on my WPS?
>

Create a folder, drag this tenacious folder to it, delete the newly
created folder.  

>Thanks one and all.
>
>SC Lam - slam@desire.wright.edu


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 McGill University  *  BANG".  Should a new universe emerge, the validity of 
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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: hafting@Lise.Unit.NO (Helge Hafting)
Subject: Re: Looking for an early version of OS/2
Organization: Norwegian Institute of Technology
Date: Wed, 7 Oct 92 19:48:26 GMT

In article <1992Oct6.191215.1@nickel.laurentian.ca>, g5000005@nickel.laurentian.ca writes:
 > Greetings!
 > 
 > 	I am looking to buy an early copy of OS/2 that will run on a 286
 > computer. My reason? I am seriously considering upgrading from my 286, but
 > to what I don't know (yet). I use Macintosh in my lab and am impressed with
 > its GUI. But, I have been hearing good things about OS/2. I would like an
 > early copy so I can play with it on my present system and see what it is like. 
 > Also I would like to try my hand at programming in OS/2!
 > 
 > 	So, if anyone has an early version of OS/2 hanging around that they 
 > would like to sell (and that will run on a 286), please contact me at 
 > G5000005@nickel.laurentian.ca.
 > 
 > 	Oh yeah, I have a 12 MHz '286 w/287XL coprocessor, 40 MB HD and
 >  4 MB of RAM (if this makes any difference).
 > 
 > Norm

Os/2  v 1.3 should run fine on your 286.  But os/2 has changed a lot
from 1.3 to 2.0 (wich only run on 386sx or better.)

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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu (Timothy F. Sipples)
Subject: Re: Western Digital WD90C31 video chipset - will there be a driver?
Reply-To: sip1@midway.uchicago.edu
Organization: Dept. of Econ., Univ. of Chicago
Date: Sat, 10 Oct 1992 01:25:23 GMT

In article <gershon.718657644@husc10> gershon@husc10.harvard.edu (Ethan Gershon) writes:
>It seems I will soon get a WD90C31 based video card to replace my
>current card.  This chipset is made as a "windows accelerator".
>I believe the card I am getting is manufactured by Paradise.
>Does anyone know anything about using this card with OS/2 2.0?

The forthcoming CSD reportedly contains new SuperVGA drivers.  It will
be interesting to see whether a driver is available for this chipset.
Stay tuned.

I would also, politely and repeatedly, inquire with Western Digital.

Incidently, I am hopeful that you'll see a "generic" 800x600 16 color
driver in very short order.  It is still in beta testing at present.

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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: weinkam@fraser.sfu.ca (James Lawrence Weinkam)
Subject: Re: Suddenly, WINOS2 full screen loses sync
Organization: Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C., Canada
Date: Sat, 10 Oct 1992 00:17:02 GMT

ignacij@meishan.animal.uiuc.edu (Ignacy Misztal) writes:

>Until today, I was able to switch between WINOS full-screen and PM
>at will. Both are running at resolution 800x600x16  on ATI card using 2.0. 
>Today, suddenly, without any system changes, WINOS2 started losing sync
>if I return to an existing WINOS2 session from the PM screen. 
>WINOS2 always loads fine the first time. If one session goes out of sync, 
>another WINOS2 session can be opened without problems, This session goes
>out of sync too, if I temporarily switch to PM. Did someone else 
>experience this behaviour?

I have noticed this too.  To get around this for now, I have found that
starting a fullscreen dos shell and running SVGA OFF followed by
SVGA ON followed by a reboot will fix the problem.  When I do the reboot
I first do sutdown, wait for the ok, power down and then power on.  I
found that just hitting Crtl-alt-del does not always fix it, whereas 
powerdown has yet to not fix it.  I do not know what is causing this.

Anyone else have a better solution?

James Weinkam
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: rjones@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Ronald Jones)
Subject: Re: Don't put program shadows on Desktop!
Organization: The Ohio State University
Date: Thu, 8 Oct 1992 20:58:04 GMT

In article <1992Oct8.181330.12816@cbnews.cb.att.com> shurr@cbnews.cb.att.com (larry.a.shurr) writes:
>In article <1992Oct8.170936.13611@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> rjones@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Ronald Jones) writes:
>}In article <1b1mpbINNcfm@matt.ksu.ksu.edu> bewhite@matt.ksu.ksu.edu (MacroMan) writes:
>
>}I think I mistyped in the original article of this thread. The method of
>}choice is to use the "create another" option in the programs pull-down
>}menu. Then create the program in the folder of choice. This process
>}allows the program to be renamed without effecting the original (and
>}causing problems. If you rename a shadow say by removing the extension
>}from the name you WILL have problems with the original. These can be 
>}subtle. For example, I was unable to use the original to "create another"
>}with default settings after renaming the shadow. (Also the redbooks say
>}very explicitly NOT to put shadows of programs on the desktop that's 
>}good enough for me).
>
>So, I'm ARA (Against Redbook Advice)!  Little did I know.  I, too, have a
>number of program and folder shadows on my desktop.  Indeed, almost every-
>thing I've added to the original desktop is a shadow.  I've been very
>careful to modify only the original and never the copies.  This is easy to
>do since a shadow's right-click menu has a locate->original selection
>(click "locate," then click original from the resulting submenu).  The
>original objects and their shadows are fine so far.
>
>Larry

I used to have desktop folders filled with shadows and on several
occasions one or more disappeared. This followed situations in which I
loaded to many icons (or was otherwise messing around). So far that has
not happened using "create another". 

Obviously, this is a point of confusion that isn't handled well enough
in the standard docs.

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From: djackson@axion.bt.co.uk (Dave Jackson)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: OS/2 memory usage
Keywords: memory
Date: 14 Oct 92 08:17:15 GMT
Reply-To: djackson@axion.bt.co.uk (Dave Jackson)
Organization: British Telecom Research Labs


In article <Bw2LrF.A1F@inews.Intel.COM>,
crichmon@sedona.intel.com (Chris Richmond) writes:
|> 
|> Whould some kind soul please tell me how to figure out
|> what is
|> going on???
|> 
|> I have an Intel 403E (486-33 EISA, 8Mb, 120Mb IDE) system.
|> I started running
|> the system with the latest kernal patch and if I ran too
|> much stuff
|> ( WINOS2, 123W, Freelance, etc) I would get 'out of
|> memory' errors.
|> I replaced the kernal with the first kernal patch (
|> PJ03686 ??) and I also
|> downloaded memstat and dinfo from hobbes.  The swapfile
|> seems to grow and
|> shrink, but never back to the 2Mb that it started at. 
|> Also, memstat
|> only reports 512K free memory right after booting ( just
|> WPS and memstat
|> running).  If I bring up WINOS2, the swapfile grows about
|> 2MB, which seems
|> like the right amount if I was really out of RAM.  Did I
|> do something
|> stupid, or should I just wait the the CSD/Service pack?
|> 
This sounds right - the swap file won't shrink back to its'
initial size on
the reasoning that if it needed to grow then it was too small
originally. It
would only waste time having to constantlly grow it up from
the default startup
value over and over again. You can sometimes force the
swapfile to shrink
by choosing 'refresh' from the desktop menu (do it 2 or 3
times). (But not
back to its' startup value !)

What DPMI, EMS and XMS settings do you have for your winos2
sessions ?
Try 0K EMS, and either 0 or 64K for XMS. Set DPMI to give as
much memory as
you want windows to have (4 M seems fine if you're going to
run 1 or 2 apps).


I'd be tempted to ignore memstat - I got equally dubious
results from another
utility I tried (sorry, I can't rememer which one).

The swap file seems to grow much more with the beta 2.01.1 by
the way, this
again doesn't return to its' default value (it does shrink
much sooner than
the 17/06/92 kernel though)




David J Jackson   Telephone +44 473 645805
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From: Lynlee@cup.portal.com (Linda Stefny Baum)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: Biff
Date: Mon, 12 Oct 92 15:57:48 PDT
Organization: The Portal System (TM)
Distribution: na
  <1992Oct12.012625.17468@random.ccs.northeastern.edu>



...............  What is Biff .................

Sure would be nice to know what I am reading about.. ;)


					Lynlee@cup.portal.com
From: david@maxwell.ucsc.edu (David Darknell)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: OS2 DIED! SYS 03146 and SYS 02027 are all I have left!
Date: 9 Oct 1992 02:08:03 GMT
Organization: University of California, Santa Cruz
NNTP-Posting-Host: maxwell.ucsc.edu
Keywords: OS2 DIED

Anybody who can fill me in on what these SYS messages mean, would
make my day.  How do I re-construct my disk to lose as little as 
possible?

*David

Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: jav2d@faraday.clas.Virginia.EDU (Jason Adams Vanvalkenburgh)
Subject: Re: Logitec C-7 mouse won't work
Organization: University of Virginia
Date: Mon, 12 Oct 1992 23:12:42 GMT

I posted a similiar article about three weeks ago.  I junked my C-7 for a 
$14 "Merit Mouse" from the back of computer Shopper.  Oh well...

I got lots of "check the FAQ" and all that...

Never could get it to work, with or without MOUSE PC 
and all the tricks with the drivers.  I did have an original C-7.

If you resolv it, let me know...  But truly I'm happy with mr. cheapmouse.


					Jason vanValkenburgh
					UVa CLAS II


Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: linstee@dutecaj.et.tudelft.nl (Erik van Linstee)
Subject: Re: How to unpack gcchdr.zoo?(a corrupted file?)
Organization: Delft University of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1992 10:35:45 GMT

zhao@unixg.ubc.ca (Jiansheng Zhao) writes:

>When installing gcc2-222, I have no trouble to unzoo gccbin, gcclib and
>gccdoc (all ending with .zoo). However, gcchdr.zoo failed me:

>zoo error: Can't open \gcc\gcc-include\... ...

You're zoo files are ok, but you are most likely trying to unpack
them on your fat partition. Notice how gcc-include exceeds the 8
character limit. You should try to get zoo to ignore this error
and truncare the file name (if possible), unzoo them on another
machine that does not have that limit and rename the stuff to
zoo it again, or get yourself the HPFS. (There are more options
but those are the major one'2 :-))

Anyway, good luck
Erik



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From: sal8@po.cwru.edu (Steve Luzynski)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc,comp.os.os2.programmer
Subject: Re: os2 development
Date: Fri, 16 Oct 1992 17:51:41 GMT
Organization: Case Western Reserve University
NNTP-Posting-Host: b61442.student.cwru.edu
Summary: info needed

In article <1992Oct16.134059.964@vicorp.com> allan@vicorp.com (Allan Krantz) writes:
>From: allan@vicorp.com (Allan Krantz)
>Subject: os2 development
>Summary: info needed
>Date: 16 Oct 92 13:40:59 GMT
>
>
>  Hi,  I'm new to os2 and I'd like to find out more about it.
> Could someone tell me development environments available and
> graphics packages available.  Where to look, who to call or
> anything that would get me started writing some software on
> os2 would be helpful.  I'd also like to here from people
> that have already worked with os2 developing software and 
> what was good or bad about it.  Any info would be helpful.
>
>  thank you.
>  allan krantz
>  allan@vicorp.com

  As of today, the available development environments are:

1) IBM C Set/2 with Toolkit/2 and Workframe/2. This is IBM's offering. Pros: 
It's real IBM, has excellent online help, and lots of support via the 
various IBM guys that hang out around here. Also, it's on sale for $395 (
list $800 something) via the Compuserve OS/2 forums. Cons: Big (but then all 
C compilers are) and no C++.

2) Zortech C++. Priced around $400. Don't have any info on this one.

3) GNU GCC. From the Free Software Federation. Pros: It's free, and appears 
to be fairly powerful. Cons: I have yet to successfully install it (due to a 
poor net connection limiting my ability to download a decent copy of it). 
And, of course, support is basically by other programmers that use it.

Rumor has it that Borland C++ for OS/2 is in beta testing right now. I would 
imagine it will be as nice as Borland C++ for Dos/Windows - i.e. 
ObjectWindows, application frameworks, etc. Of course, it will probably also 
be at least as expensive as the DOS version - roughly $400 or so.

Those are all the ones I can think of.

As to your second question, my biggest gripe is the lack of an ObjectWindows 
like setup. I loved the ability (in Turbo C++ 3.1 for Windows) to let the 
standard class objects deal with crap like registering windows, creating 
scrollbars, etc, etc. I guess I just got spoiled.. ;)

There's also a dearth of good 3rd party books on programming OS/2 that deal 
specifically with version 2.0 (and not that many that deal with 1.3 for 
that matter). This, too, should be corrected as time rolls on.
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Character-based 32-bit OS/2 apps
From: gershon@husc10.harvard.edu (Ethan Gershon)
Date: 9 Oct 92 19:13:49 GMT

Are any of the major software houses putting out 32-bit OS/2 versions of
their DOS character based software, or does everybody insist on making
WPS based apps?  It would be really nice to have 32-bit multi-threaded
character based versions of WordPerfect and particularly Lotus 1-2-3.
I think these would really sell. (that certainly would be a better
DOS than DOS.)

Could such an application access the WPS clipboard? Use ATM fonts
for printing?

                                             --Ethan Gershon
                                             gershon@husc.harvard.edu