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From: FLATSCHER.Rony@f1.n100.z60.wlink.nl (FLATSCHER Rony)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Example code to insert cmd files in startup folder
Date: Fri, 09 Oct 1992 21:52:45 -0100

Organization: Wirtschaftsuniversitaet Wien, Vienna, Austria

Larry:

We are backlogged a week, so you might know the answer already.

Create e.g. an OS/2-window-object, open the object-menu, choose open
settings, choose program. Let us say your cmd-file is called C:\DOIT.CMD

possibility 1)
  - enter "C:\DOIT.CMD" in "Path and filename"

possibility 2)
  - enter "CMD.EXE" in "Path and filename"
  - enter "/K C:\DOIT.CMD" in "Parameters"
  - if you want to prompt the user for parameters append to the program name
    in the "Parameters" an opening square bracket, a blank and a closing
    square bracket for any parameters you want to prompt for. If you want to
    supply a prompt text, replace the blank within the square brackets with
    the desired text.

Save the settings.

Move or shadow the object to the Startup-folder.

Possibility 1 executes C:\DOIT.CMD, upon termination it will terminate the
session.

Possibility 2 creates an OS/2-session, tells CMD.EXE to keep the session after
the program "C:\DOIT.CMD" is terminated, i.e. do not close the window.

---rony

Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: bob@netcom.com (Bob Becker)
Subject: Missing mouse
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  (408 241-9760 guest) 
Date: Fri, 16 Oct 1992 23:38:25 GMT

Help!
I just installed OS/2 and my mouse seems to have disappeared.
I get no reaction on the screen.
Anybody have any ideas how I can get it back without reinstalling
the whole system?

Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: booth@sgi.elec.uq.oz.au (Ian Booth)
Subject: Program objects disappearing
Organization: Prentice Centre, University of Queensland
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]
Date: Mon, 12 Oct 1992 04:34:44 GMT

This only started happening recently. I drag a new program object from
the templates folder to a folder (eg Additional DOS Programs) on my
desktop. I fill in the details and draw an icon and can use the program 
object to launch the appropiate program. However, next time I turn the 
computer on, the program object has disappeared! But, if a put the
program object directly on the desktop, it is still there next time I
switch on.

Any ideas what is going on?

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From: nyet@cco.caltech.edu (n liu)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: Soundcard's and OS/2 2.0
Date: 14 Oct 92 12:03:57 GMT
Organization: California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
NNTP-Posting-Host: sandman.caltech.edu

parry@yoyo.cc.monash.edu.au (Tom J Parry) writes:

>Mohit K. Goyal (goyal@utdallas.edu) wrote:
>> 
>> If I own a Sound Blaster Pro, and get a Sound Blaster Pro driver for
>> OS/2 2.0, does this mean when I play DOS games that I will be able to
>> select SoundBlaster as my sound card and everything will work?
>> 
>> I use OS/2 2.0 and am considering a sound card, the only reason I would
>> get one is for games, and maybe listening to a few cool .voc's or .wav's
>> or whatever...
>> 
>> Is this possible under OS/2?  Or should I create a FAT partition on my
>> HD and stick DOS 5 on it if I want to play games with sound?

There was mention in c.o.o.a of a SB beta driver kit...

     astro.as.arizona.edu
     /pub/SBOS2/

The following is the README file in that directory.
------snip snip-----

This directory contains the Beta version of the SBOS2 device driver

Files are

sbos2v09.zoo  - device driver with source (needed)

emxdll.zoo    - DLLs needed for any of below if you DONT already have EMX 0.8e

testexe.zoo   - compiled test programs from sbos2v09.zoo
mixerexe.zoo  - compiled mixertool
trackexe.zoo  - compiled .MOD player 
                   actually 2 versions, trackpro.exe and trackreg.exe
                                           SBPRO            SBREG
vocstuff.zoo  - executables and source to record and play .VOC files
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From: d9mikael@dtek.chalmers.se (Mikael Wahlgren)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: Why XGA-2?
Date: 13 Oct 92 23:37:56 GMT
Organization: Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg Sweden

goyal@utdallas.edu (Mohit K. Goyal) writes:

>Finally, about colors, I don't know of any "normal" user who needs more
>than 256 colors at any resolution.  The only thing I would do with more
>than 256 colors is look at cool .gifs, that is if I could find a .gif
>with more than 256 colors!
>I don't know of any program that supports more than 256 colors, of course
>I don't do any serious DTP or anything like that...

Well, with regard to OS/2, you will have to think a little more.  256 colors
are 256 colors TOTAL.  These colors are shared by ALL applications on the
PM Desktop, so if you have ONE application that uses all 256 colors, there
won't be any colors left for the other applications (and they will have to
use whatever happens to be the nearest color).  This certainly can be a
limitiation in multimedia applications.  Yes, 256 color GIFs are often
good enough quality, but if you want to display TWO (or more) different
GIF pictures on the screen at the same time,they suddenly won't be of the
same quality as you expect, as they can't demand the 256 colors they want.

Mikael Wahlgren

Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu (Timothy F. Sipples)
Subject: Re: Deleting Minimized Windows folder
Reply-To: sip1@midway.uchicago.edu
Organization: Dept. of Econ., Univ. of Chicago
Date: Sun, 11 Oct 1992 19:07:13 GMT

In article <gershon.718781760@husc10> gershon@husc10.harvard.edu (Ethan Gershon) writes:
>sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu (Timothy F. Sipples) writes:
>>If you decide you later wish to configure your desktop to be more
>>WPS-like (rather than having icons minimize to the desktop), you'll
>>want to have the Minimized Window Viewer around.
>Why is this more WPS-like?

Clarification -- that should have read, "more CUA 91-like."

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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: jclei@sage.cc.purdue.edu (Jason Lei)
Subject: Re: FOLDER from Hell!
Organization: Purdue University Computing Center
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 1992 03:49:54 GMT

In article <1992Oct13.165523.2750@cs.mcgill.ca> gumby@cs.mcgill.ca (Phil PRANNO) writes:
>In article <1992Oct12.201106.4719@desire.wright.edu> slam@desire.wright.edu writes:
>
>Create a folder, drag this tenacious folder to it, delete the newly
>created folder.  

Please disregard my previous post about the undeletable object.  The above
method did the trick for me.  Thanks, Phil.

Jason

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Subject: Re: [long] SUMMARY: Questions from a soon-to-be OS/2 user
From: cvafyaga@vmsa.is.csupomona.edu (Srikanth Viswanathan)
Date: 15 Oct 1992 15:41 -0800
Distribution: world
Organization: California Polytechnic University, Pomona
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41    

> IBM has a beta copy of fax software free here in Germany called
>"BitFax". Works quite good ....

Can I ftp BitFAX for OS/2 somewhere?  I always thought that it was
commercial.

Srikanth
Clinton & OS/2 in '92!
Xref: sparky comp.os.os2.misc:32452 rec.games.misc:17827
From: dic5340@hertz.njit.edu (David Charlap)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc,rec.games.misc
Subject: Re: Gunship, Autoexec, Ram Disk, PC-NFS
Keywords: lockups, autoexec, ramdrive, nfs
Date: 9 Oct 92 18:26:45 GMT
Organization: New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, N.J.

In article <1992Oct7.041302.8086@trl.oz.au> peter@tardis.trl.OZ.AU (Peter K. Campbell) writes:
>However, one has really been giving me trouble, and that is Gunship
>2000.  It seems to work ok most of the time, but generally after a
>few minutes it will just freeze - nothing you do to it will 
>make it restart, but the rest of OS/2 works ok, & I can swap it back
>and forth between full-screen DOS and the desktop ok (although it
>looks weird jumping between full screen 256 colours and small window
>16 colours :-).  However, if I leave it alone for a while it will start
>working again, as if nothing's happened.  Then after another few
>minutes exactly the same thing will occur.

Sounds like idle detection is kicking in where it shouldn't.  Try
setting IDLE_SENSITIVITY to 100.

>Another problem I've found is with the autoexec.bat file.  If I launch
>a DOS program from the desktop (e.g. doubleclicking the icon under the
>drive program) it will run the autoexec.bat file first, BUT ONLY IF IT
>IS ON THE SAME DRIVE AS THE PROGRAM.  This had me confused for ages -
>I couldn't work out why Underworld on drive C always called my (DOS)
>autoexec.bat, whereas Gunship on D didn't - then I got the brilliant
>idea of copying autoexec.bat to d:\, and, lo & behold, then Gunship
>started doing it too.

Odd.  My C:\Autoexec.BAT file loads whenever I launch a DOS session.
From a C: icon, from a D: icon, from a floppy icon, or even from an
OS/2 command prompt.

>Any idea of how to stop this from occurring?

Why don't you want it to occur?  The Autoexec.BAT file sets up the DOS
environment for you.  It could be a bad thing(tm) if an app loaded
with a blank environment.

>While I'm here, I might as well ask another question.  Block devices.
>They just don't work in OS/2.  Now, this isn't a problem with a disc
>cacher, seeing as OS/2 has one built in.  But I'm a great fan of
>RAM disks, & I haven't found a single one that works with OS/2.

What about C:\OS2\VDISK.SYS.  Doesn't it exist?

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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: joiner@exa.cs.umn.edu (Jay K. Joiner)
Subject: Re: Rumor about IBM'S CD ?
Organization: University of Minnesota
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1992 01:50:53 GMT

In <9y4JsB6w165w@gnct.com> garyng@gnct.com (garyng) writes:

>I have read that one cannot directly install from IBM's CD but to copy its
>content to 22 floppies and install from there, would someone please tell
>me that it is a joke.

It's a joke.  Assuming you have a supported CD-ROM drive and SCSI adapter,
you install from the CD.  You first make a two-disk boot set of floppies
from the CD, then boot from these, and the rest comes off the CD
directly.

Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: "mike frisch" <mike.frisch@canrem.com>
Subject: 32-bit graphics eng...
Reply-To: "mike frisch" <mike.frisch@canrem.com>
Organization: Canada Remote Systems
Distribution: comp
Date: 8 Oct 92 11:06:52 EST


     I hear all of this news of the new graphics engine for OS/2, but I
am curious to know if it's going to affect me in any way.  I am running
a ho-hum ATI VGA Wonder XL with whatever drivers OS/2 selected for me
at installation.  One simple question:  If I installed the 32-bit
graphics engine, would I notice a significant video peformance increase?

Mike.

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From: duffy@theory.chem.ubc.ca (Pat Duffy)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: XGA-2 Information...
Date: 10 Oct 1992 22:26:14 GMT
Organization: University of British Columbia, Vancouver, B.C., Canada
NNTP-Posting-Host: theory.chem.ubc.ca

All right (drool).  Where do I get one and how much do they cost?
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Organization: Wirtschaftsuniversitaet Wien, Vienna, Austria
Date: Monday, 5 Oct 1992 11:26:11 CET
From: FLATSCHER Rony <RONY@awiwuw11.wu-wien.ac.at>
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Passing Paramters to pgms (Re: Program Objects and Menues

Otso:

You obviously need to be able to pass parameters to your programs. You can
do this very easily:

   - Open object-settings
   - go to "Program"
   - move into the "Parameters"-field
   - for every parameter (argument) you want to specify, enter a left square
     bracket, blank and right square bracket; OS/2 will prompt you for the
     parameters. If you enter text instead of the blank, that will become
     the prompt for entering the parameter.
     Press Help once you placed your cursor into the parameter field.

---rony
From: ucgadkw@ucl.ac.uk (Dominik Wujastyk)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: adding PS fonts to OS/2 ?
Summary: pfa v. pfb files
Keywords: PS font pfa
Date: 7 Oct 92 14:25:12 GMT
Organization: Bloomsbury Computing Consortium

I have some pd PostScript fonts, Bitstream Charter and
IBM's Utopia.  These float around the net in various places.
The Charter font consists of *.pfb and *.afm files.  The 
Utopia is *.pfa and *.afm files.

Using the Font Palette/Edit font/Add routines from the OS/2 WPS,
I am able to add the Charter font to my system.  This seems
simply to consist of copying the files to c:\os2\dll -- am I right?

But the system seems unable to cope with the Utopia fonts which 
are in Ascii Postscript font format, i.e., *.pfa.

Any suggestions?  Is there such a beast as pfa2pfb?  Can the Add
routine be made to accept a *.pfa font?  (I renamed it *.pfb, but
that didn't really work.)

Dominik
From: archer@vnet.ibm.com (Gary Archer)
Date: Fri, 16 Oct 92 14:28:49 PDT
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: Disk cache - delayed write - if only
Reply-To: archer@vnet.ibm.com
          archer@vnet.ibm.com
Organization: ADSTAR -- an IBM Company
Disclaimer: This posting represents the poster's views, not those of IBM
News-Software: UReply 3.0

>But now, "ticka-ticka-ticka-etc..." is back under OS/2.  I have both
>HPFS and FAT partitions as I retain the ability to boot DOS and both
>are cached with the default settings for an 8MB system, but they seem
>to be write-through cache' only, correct?  I may easily have overlooked
>something in the documentation, but there is no delayed-write feature I
>could find, but I would like to be corrected if I'm wrong about it.


Yes, it does.  It's called LAZY WRITE and is defaulted to on for HPFS and
is specified as LW on the CACHE line in config.sys for FAT systems.
Check the on-line help for the CACHE line for more information.

The time limit is 5seconds and doesn't seem to be changable.  I'd suggest
playing around with some of the cache sizes to see what is best for
your system.

Gary D. Archer (lonestar@vnet.ibm.com)
Senior Programmer, Business Strategy  (408) 284-6387
ADSTAR M74/098
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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: mjn@sbstaff2.cs.sunysb.edu (The Sixth Replicant)
Subject: Re: Transfer system to 2nd disk?
Organization: Tyrell Corp.
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 1992 00:23:29 GMT

In article <1992Oct14.111256.1@csc.canterbury.ac.nz> regy106@csc.canterbury.ac.nz (John, Registry) writes:
>	I have just got a new (second) hard disk.  I am about to lose my first
>disk (the second one is bigger).
>	Is there an easy way of transfering my whole system from my first drive
>to the second?  Without having to reinstall?

A couple of months ago I got a new drive and was forced by incompatability
between the old drive (Maxtor 7120) and the new drive (Seagate st3144) to
make the old drive D: and the new drive C:. The drives would not work together
with the Maxtor as C: and the Seagate as D:.

I was and am using FAT for both drives.

Here's what I did:

copied XCOPY.EXE to a floppy.

Installed new drive as C: old drive as D:

Formatted and installed OS/2 on C: as if it was a new system. (Actually, I
believe that I FDISK'ed and FORMAT'ed using DOS on a floppy, then installed
OS/2 on the DOS system.) I did an absolutely minimal install. The main
purpose of installing OS/2 is to get all of the boot files in the right place.

I then booted OS/2 off of the installation floppies to get a CMD shell, put
in my XCOPY floppy and XCOPY'ed everything from D: to C:. This will copy
everything that isn't protected. The only proteced file which may need
replacement is OS2KRNL, if you have the patched version now. I just unhid
it on both drives before doing my XCOPY and hid it afterwards.

I booted off C: and presto !  Note that my desktop had been properly copied,
so I didn't have to set it up all over again. I was up and running where I
was in the first place.


I can't promise that this will work for you, but it seems a reasonable
approach and it did work for me.

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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: FOLDER from Hell!
From: slam@desire.wright.edu
Date: 12 Oct 92 20:11:06 EST
Organization: Wright State University 

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?

Thanks one and all.

SC Lam - slam@desire.wright.edu
Organization: European Academic Research Network (EARN)
Date: Thursday, 15 Oct 1992 15:55:36 GMT
From: Turgut Kalfaoglu <TURGUT@FRMOP11.BITNET>
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: OS/2 2.0 on 386sx - How is speed?
 <1992Oct3.033714.5340@midway.uchicago.edu>
 <GKUSHMER.92Oct7085731@jade.tufts.edu> <1992Oct9.102429.18829@actrix.gen.nz>

I can certify that on an 8-meg 55SX PS/2, the speed is very pleasant.
It is not a blizzard, but I have been working with it for six months
now, and it doesn't seem that bad, compared to the 386/33 cache at home.
I have TCP/IP and various deamons and things running (they sleep most of
the time, but still..)..

Regards, -turgut
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: das9674@usl.edu (Stephenson Daniel A)
Subject: Re: 3.5" beta disks-what if A: = 5.25"?
Organization: University of Southwestern Louisiana
Date: Fri, 9 Oct 1992 17:37:16 GMT

In article <1992Oct6.032647.17033@muddcs.claremont.edu> jokim@jarthur.claremont.edu (John H. Kim) writes:
>
>In article <1992Oct5.035244.25858@usl.edu> das9674@usl.edu (Stephenson Daniel A) writes:
>>Is there any work-around to installing the beta on a system with
>>the A: drive being 5.25"?  The beta comes on 3.5" diskettes ONLY.
>>
>>I fiddled with my BIOS - no luck there.  I looked at the cables from my
>>drives in my computer, and they weren't compatible so I couldn't
>>just switch them around.  Am I outta luck?
>
>Death to the person who started the idea of mixing floppy drives
>with card and pin connectors.

Heh heh

>When I bought a 3.5" Toshiba floppy drive, it came with an adapter
>that converts a card-style cable to a pin-style cable.  Anybody know
>of a place you can buy these cheap?

I just eventually bought a dual-purpose cable.  Works great.  

Wouldn't it be nice to have a little switch, maybe even OUTSIDE
the computer to switch the drive designations at will?

>John H. Kim                 | (This space to be filled when I
>jokim@jarthur.claremont.edu | think of something very clever 
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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: hafting@Lise.Unit.NO (Helge Hafting)
Subject: Re: Ramdrive in DOS-Box?
Organization: Norwegian Institute of Technology
Date: Fri, 16 Oct 92 12:22:54 GMT

In article <mkohtala.718996255@vipunen.hut.fi>, mkohtala@lesti.hut.fi (Marko Kohtala) writes:
 > In <1beca8INNt6n@perm.geologie.uni-freiburg.de> holger@perm.geologie.uni-freiburg.de (Holger Hussy) writes:
 > 
 > >I wanted to install a ramdrive only in the DOS-Box,
 > >not for the whole stystem. Is this possible?
 > >Trying it with the DOS_DEVICE setting it wasn't.  
 > 
 > You can install block devices in VMs.
 > 
 > Just take a DOS boot diskette and make it load the fsfilter.sys and
 > himem.sys in \os2\mdos and the ramdrive using XMS (in that order). 
 > 
 > I created a few disk images where from to boot some different versions
 > of DOS to testdrive a new version of my RAM Drive. Quite handy, since
 > I needed not to boot up my machine while the device driver had a bad
 > problem with it. Besides starting a VM is much faster than booting.
 > -- 
 > ---
 > Marko Kohtala - INTERNET:Marko.Kohtala@hut.fi, mkohtala@otax.tky.hut.fi
 > Student at (not representative of) the Helsinki University of Technology
How do you get "real dos" in a VM to use XMS?  I tried, but os/2
gave me an error message saying something about A20-problems.  I told
os/2 to run it anyway, and himem.sys complained that  "other
protected mode software" prevented it from accessing the A20 line, and then
it refused to load.  A ram disk in 640k is no good.  The settings for
the VM provided several MB for both EMS and XMS.
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From: steck@ccs.northeastern.edu (Paul Steckler)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Stacker experiences?
Date: 16 Oct 92 16:29:09 GMT
Article-I.D.: random.1992Oct16.162909.24111
Organization: College of CS, Northeastern U

Rumor had it that Stacker for OS2 was going to be available by now.
Has anyone installed it, and if so, does it work OK?  
Is there a cost difference between the DOS and OS2 versions?

I've got a 200 Meg disk filled with 300 Meg of data :-).

-- Paul

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From: sjb5@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu (STACY JOHN BEHRENS)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: DON'T BUY OS/2 -- IBM IS HORRIBLE
Date: 12 Oct 92 01:19:40 GMT
Organization: Lehigh University

In article <67445@cup.portal.com>, Tazzie@cup.portal.com (Jon S Novak) writes:
>I just got off the phone with IBM Tech Support.  If I want to be able
>to use my CD-ROM drive (Creative Labs SBPRO MM Upgrade Kit) then I
>have to either (A) buy an IBM cd-rom drive or (B) buy their
>'Multimedia Package' software for $500 bucks.  Are they out of their
>minds?   I just spent $100 for a program that was 'compatable with
>windows and dos programs' but in order for ME to be compatable, I must
>spend $500 more?  With customer support like that, it's no wonder that
>their stocks are falling.  My only suggestion is to keep away from IBM
>and stick with good ole reliable Microsoft (Can't wait for Windows NT)
>Furthermore, in their 'readme' file it tells you about problems with certain
>functions of some programs, and their solution? 'Don't use those features' Nic
>

Whoa, $500?  The price for their multimedia package is something like $125.
Still outrageous but hardly $500.
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