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From: mccall@mksol.dseg.ti.com (fred j mccall 575-3539)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.apps
Subject: Re: Where's Borland?
Date: 28 Jul 92 21:32:44 GMT
Organization: Texas Instruments Inc

In <1992Jul27.034428.9603@weyrich.UUCP> orville%weyrich@tnet.com (Orville R. Weyrich) writes:

>In article <!akm7yr.msmith@netcom.com> msmith@netcom.com (Martin P. Smith) writes:
>>According to the guy on the stand at Object world (I can't recall his name but 
>>he plays guitar in the borland jazz band ) Borland WILL provide a similar i
>>upgrade path from the DOS to the OS/2 compiler, this will also include the 
>>Windows OE version of the compiler. No costs as yet but he said expect it to be


>In other words, $195?


Will they also include an 'Application Frameworks' sort of thing?  To
my mind, the IDEAL thing to do would be to provide an common
'Application Frameworks' sort of interface that would let developers
use the same code for DOS, Windows, and OS/2 -- what you got depending
on a compiler flag for what kind of executable you wanted, but the
source being the same (unless you wrote directly to one of the APIs).

I'm not even sure how feasible this would be, since I haven't
seriously thought about it, but boy would it be NEAT.  :-)

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From: lclarke@zodiac.rutgers.edu
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.apps
Subject: ref
Date: 22 Jul 92 19:18:08 GMT
Organization: Rutgers University Computing Services

Using wp 5.1 and super vga drivers, eg the orchid betas, and et4000 card.
When i install the drivers and boot wp in a dos window, the letters are
too small to read. Why? Is there a way to use the hi-res modes?

Chip Clarke
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.apps,comp.os.os2.misc
From: sci240s@monu6.cc.monash.edu.au (Mr W.J. Ho)
Subject: ET4000 drivers for OS/2 coming .... real soon now
Followup-To: comp.os.os2.misc
Organization: Monash University, Melb., Australia.
Date: Tue, 21 Jul 1992 10:03:08 GMT

I received a ET4000 card by ColorView today. The following is an extract
from its README file date June 18, 1992. Is this a sign of interest in 
supporting OS/2 drivers for ET4000?
(see 45 line down)
#################### Start - edited ###################
Introduction

As a VGA Card the ColorView offers top-the-line performance.

Also included with the card is the IBM 8514 Emulation Driver (RIXA18).  This
is a Software Emulator and  as such does not perform the full range of capabi-
lities a Hardware Emulator might.  The Software Emulator has been tested with
serveral various software programs.  In spite of fact, we assume no responsibility
for any lack of compatability to any program requiring or offering an IBM-8514
Mode.

The ColorView VGA Card is based on the TsengLabs ET4000 Chip, which unlike
other VGA cards offers a real 16-bit Graphic-Controller.

We strongly recommend that before installing any software packages the corresponding
sub-directories be copied on to a separate disk.


Directory - Disk

Name                    Description

WIN30           >DIR< sub-directory for Windows 3.0 driver
WIN31           >DIR< sub-directory for Windows 3.1 driver
LOTUS           >DIR< sub-directory for Lotus Version 2/3 driver
WP5X            >DIR< sub-directory for Word Perfect 5.x driver
UTILITY         >DIR< sub-directory for Utilities
GEMVEN          >DIR< sub-directory for GEM 2/3 and Ventura 2 driver
8514AI          >DIR< sub-directory for Software Emulator 8514/A driver
PCAD            >DIR< sub-directory for PCAD driver
ORCAD3          >DIR< sub-directory for ORCAD3 driver
NTHDRV          >DIR< sub-directory for AutoCad R10/R11 driver
CADKEY          >DIR< sub-directory for CADKEY driver
3DS             >DIR< sub-directory for 3D Studio/AutoShade 2.0 32K colors
VERSACAD        >DIR< sub-directory for VERSACAD driver


****** This is the interesting line ..... but the disk supplied does not have
****** this OS/2 Ver. 2.0 directory. Coming soon??

OS2-V20         >DIR< sub-directory for OS/2 Ver. 2.0 

WORD5           >DIR< sub-directory for WORD 5.0 driver
WORDSTAR        >DIR< sub-directory for WordStar driver
TCI8515.DOC     this file

Trident Computer Inc.
June 1992

############# End - much text was edited out ####################

Anyone to comment?

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From: jeff@claw.clearpoint.com (Jeffrey J. Griglack)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.apps
Subject: Re: Floppy Backup, Re: 32bit Shareware back
Date: 21 Jul 92 20:02:44 GMT
	<1992Jul21.141820.24239@relay.nswc.navy.mil>
Reply-To: jeff@fang.clearpoint.com
Organization: /home/jeff/.organization


I paid $45 for my Archive tape drive (used).  It has worked fine for
about a year, and the parent company is still in business.  However,
it is old technology, and they do not want to support it anymore.
They are coming out  with OS/2 drivers for their newer (DAT) drives.
So you see that the stability of the company is not the only thing
that determines the support.

If I had 10 386's, I would still only buy 1 tape drive.  I would then
buy 10 ethernet cards (about $100 per) and the software to run them.
Then I would remotely access the machine with the tape drive.

I have a 200 Meg hard drive.  The OS and other utilities take up about
60 Meg.  The rest has to be backed up.  I do not feel like pumping
around 100 floppies into my machine every day.  Of course I have not
backed it up since I built OS/2 on it, and I do not like that
situation either.
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From: horne@edge1.pfc.mit.edu
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.apps
Subject: Has anyone run Gnu Calc?
Date: 30 Jul 92 14:23:39 GMT
Article-I.D.: edge1.30JUL92.14233975
Organization: MIT PLASMA FUSION CENTER

I've been told that Gnu Calc is "part of EMACS".  Will the OS2 port of EMACS support it?
Has anybody tried it?  It looks Huge -- (manual about 2" thick) but potentially
very useful.  (Please E-mail to me at Horne@alcvax.pfc.mit.edu.)

                                                Thanks
                                                        Steve
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.apps
From: umak@atar.epps.kodak.com (Uma Krishnan)
Subject: Person-Person - Info requested again 
Keywords: Person-Person 
Reply-To: umak@atar.Atex.Kodak.COM
Organization: Atex Publishing Systems, Inc.
Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1992 15:40:31 GMT

I posted a week ago, requesting for info about Person-Person.
I got no response. The software is from IBM and it enables
conferencing of some sort.

Could some kind soul tell me what it does, or give me the telephone
number for IBM-OS2 sales, so that I can info from them


Thanks in advance

Uma Krishnan


Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.apps
From: eletanjm@nuscc.nus.sg (TAN JIN MENG)
Subject: XVision
Organization: National University of Singapore
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1992 05:16:41 GMT

Has anyone managed to get XVision 4.1 working in Win-OS2 session?

I installed it and then tried running xvision.exe from a Win-OS2 Full
Screen Session but the program aborted with 

"XVision has caused an error in Win-OS2*.
 GP Fault in Module:OS2K286.EXE at 0001:44A6"

Anybody know what's going on?

Thanks

jin meng
Organization: European Academic Research Network (EARN)
Date: Monday, 27 Jul 1992 16:17:35 GMT
From: Turgut Kalfaoglu <TURGUT@FRMOP11.BITNET>
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.apps
Subject: Re: Floppy Backup, Re: 32bit Shareware backup program.
 <92205.132615ASI509@DJUKFA11.BITNET> <1992Jul24.181218.8896@njitgw.njit.edu>

I know this is a hardware problem, but how come no one came up with
some gadget that can insert and remove diskettes placed on a stack
above? Somewhat like the cartridge readers of IBM mainframes?

-turgut
From: ASI509@DJUKFA11.BITNET
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.apps
Subject: Were`s JPI ?
Date: 23 Jul 92 11:44:36 GMT
Organization: KFA  Forschungszentrum Juelich

Hi there,

the title says it all, does anyone know anything about JPI`s 32bit compilers ?
I heard they are developing 32bit versions of their compilers but never heard
an estimate when they will be out. They had 16bit OS/2 compilers since long so
it shouldn`t be too difficult for them.

THANX, Michael Bode.
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.apps
From: sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu (Timothy F. Sipples)
Subject: Re: Borland C++ 3.1
Reply-To: sip1@midway.uchicago.edu
Organization: Dept. of Econ., Univ. of Chicago
Date: Thu, 30 Jul 1992 21:24:05 GMT

In article <ANDRZEJ.92Jul30115405@bcars268.bnr.ca> andrzej@bnr.ca (Andrzej Bieszczad) writes:
>   Semi-official, anyway.  This date was specified in the "plans" IBM has
>   released in letter form.  You can obtain this file from
>   ftp-os2.nmsu.edu.
>What is the file name and its location. Does the letter explain
>near anf far future or is it just about a single CSD?

I believe ibmplans.txt in /pub/os2/2.0/info or /pub/downloads on
ftp-os2.nmsu.edu via anonymous ftp.

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directory pub/os2/all/faq, or from      | Dept. of Econ., U. Chicago, 60637
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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.apps
From: sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu (Timothy F. Sipples)
Subject: Re: New OS/2 32 bit apps book avail.
Reply-To: sip1@midway.uchicago.edu
Organization: Dept. of Econ., Univ. of Chicago
Date: Sat, 25 Jul 1992 01:20:58 GMT

In article <1682D14C65.MLONG@isucard.card.iastate.edu> MLONG@isucard.card.iastate.edu writes:
>The following information will be announced this coming Tuesday:                
> NEW - 2nd Edition of OS/2* APPLICATION SOLUTIONS DIRECTORY and the             
>       32-Bit SUPPLEMENT AVAILABLE NOW! ____________July 21, 1992               
> The new "IBM OS/2 Application Solutions Directory" and the "OS/2               
> 32-Bit Supplement" are available from Graphics Plus at                         
> 1-800-READOS2 or 1-800-732-3672.  The directory lists more than                
> 1,700 OS/2 applications including over 350 international products              
> and the supplement contains more than 1100 OS/2 Version 2-based                
> applications.                                                                  
> The Directory groups detailed listings of the applications by major            
> industry and includes company and major product indexes.  The                  
> Supplement includes detailed listings of more than 250 applications            
> available soon plus the company, product and phone listings of over            
> 1100 applications planned for 1992 availability.                               
> Order your copies now by calling 1-800-732-3672.  The directory is             
> only $19.95 plus S&H while the supplement is $5.95 plus S&H.                   
You've got to fix that poster, Mike.  :-)

I just wanted to mention that this directory includes a copy of the
OS/2 Frequently Asked Questions List (thanks, IBM).

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directory pub/os2/all/faq, or from      | Dept. of Econ., U. Chicago, 60637
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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.apps
From: hacker@cco.caltech.edu (Jonathan Bruce Hacker)
Subject: Re: Win Excel 3.0 -> OS/2 Excel for $7.50 (Academic edition)
Organization: California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1992 17:59:26 GMT

Steve.Withers@bbs.actrix.gen.nz writes:


>I find it hard to believe that Microsoft is releasing *new* OS/2
>software......I know there are versions of Excel and Word that have been
>around for a couple of years.......
> 
>Can anyone confirm that these are new?
> 

This is not a new version.  The latest version of excel for windows is
4.0.  The latest version for OS/2 is 3.0.  My point in posting this
was to let people know that they can get a real OS/2 version of excel
for very little money if they recently bought a windows version.  Besides,
the differences between 3.0 and 4.0 are not very exciting compared to 
having a version that runs as a proper PM app.

Sorry for the confusion.

-- 
Jon Hacker
Caltech, Pasadena CA
hacker@tumbler-ridge.caltech.edu
From: nmouawad@waterloo.edu (Naji Mouawad)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.apps
Subject: Re: Floppy Backup, Re: 32bit Shareware backup program.
Date: 26 Jul 92 20:30:25 GMT
	<92205.132615ASI509@DJUKFA11.BITNET>
	<1992Jul24.181218.8896@njitgw.njit.edu>
Organization: University of Waterloo

In article <1992Jul24.181218.8896@njitgw.njit.edu> dic5340@hertz.njit.edu (David Charlap) writes:

   In article <92205.132615ASI509@DJUKFA11.BITNET>
ASI509@DJUKFA11.BITNET writes: 
   >In article <1992Jul22.172317.26801@njitgw.njit.edu>,
dic5340@hertz.njit.edu (David Charlap) says: 

   >>emloyee's time.  With a tape drive, the employee has merely to insert
   >>a tape, start the backup, and go to lunch (or home for the evening).
   >
   >I think we all hope OS/2 will not only be a company OS but will make it
   >to the desktop of the home user. For the cost of a tape drive I can buy
   >about 1 Gigabyte of floppies in Germany. I have no employee who does my
   >backup so this is irrelevant to me. I definitely want a _good_ floppy
   >backup program.

   Well, I am looking to buy a tape drive for my home OS/2 system as soon
   as I find one that will work with my ISA 386 machine.  I can't stand
   sitting by the computer for two hours inserting floppies all night to
   make a backup.  One good 150MB tape system would solve all my
   problems...

   I may not be getting paid for it, but my time at home is valuable
   enough that I don't want to waste it in front of the computer.



It so often happens that solutions thought useful and practical turns
out to be outdated. I do wonder whether it would be worthwile to wait
for the new disk-drives which would read and write diskettes of up to
22 megs or so. Backing-up would then requiere no added hardware ...


naji.
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From: vaniwaar@einsicht.mcs.anl.gov (Mr. Ronald VanIwaarden)
Subject: focus for OS/2
Organization: Argonne National Laboratory, Chicago, Illinois
Date: Mon, 27 Jul 1992 12:56:35 GMT

I am looking for a program for OS/2 that works like the focus in X-windows.
That is, I want to have the window that the mouse pointer is in to be the
active window.  I have seen an auto-raise for windows and that type of
program would also be acceptable.  Has anyone seen anything like this and if
so, is it available at Hobbes or another FTP site?

--Ron
From: "kenneth tam" <kenneth.tam@canrem.com>
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.apps
Subject: os/2 screengrabber
Date: 24 Jul 92 18:25:33 EST
Reply-To: "kenneth tam" <kenneth.tam@canrem.com>
Distribution: comp
Organization: Canada Remote Systems

-> I need to take _shots_ from WorkPlaceShell, how is that possible ? Is
-> there (in os/2) such function, or must I buy one ?

There are a few that are PD/ShareWare.

Nikon is one of them.  There's another called PMCapture or PMGrab or
something like that.

I wonder if a Windows screen grabber running seamless could grab WPS
graphics?

kenneth.tam@canrem.com
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From: dsp@reef.cis.ufl.edu (David Patching)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.apps
Subject: Problems setting up Jove for OS/2
Date: 30 Jul 92 16:56:29 GMT
Reply-To: dsp@reef.cis.ufl.edu (David Patching)
Organization: U of Florida. Computer Science Dept.


Hello,

    I'm trying to set up an environment in OS/2 that I can use to learn
to program with g++.  The editor that I would like to use is Jove.  I've
not been able to set up Jove properly, though.  I'm hoping someone on
the net can help.  
    When I invoke Jove, the file I want to edit appears only on
the top half of the OS/2 window.  The botton half of the window remains the 
same as it was before invoking Jove.  Jove's cursor moves through the
whole window.  The top half of the screen won't scroll until the cursor
is at the bottom of the full screen.  
    A "Meta-x" command will move the cursor to the command line at 
the bottom of the full screen.  However, the comand line contents
are not visible.
    When I exit Jove, the whole screen appears as it should have when
first invoking Jove.
    Any advice will will be greatly appreciated.  Please send replies
via e-mail to dsp@reef.cis.ufl.edu.

Thank you for your time and attention,

David S. Patching
dsp@reef.cis.ufl.edu
   
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.apps
From: hacker@cco.caltech.edu (Jonathan Bruce Hacker)
Subject: Re: Floppy Backup, Re: 32bit Shareware backup program.
Organization: California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
Date: Tue, 28 Jul 1992 22:27:31 GMT

rick@sjsumcs.sjsu.edu (Richard M. Warner) writes:

>In article <92209.161735TURGUT@FRMOP11.BITNET> TURGUT@FRMOP11.BITNET (Turgut Kalfaoglu) writes:
>>From: TURGUT@FRMOP11.BITNET (Turgut Kalfaoglu)
>>Subject: Re: Floppy Backup, Re: 32bit Shareware backup program.
>>Date: 27 Jul 92 16:17:35 GMT

>>I know this is a hardware problem, but how come no one came up with
>>some gadget that can insert and remove diskettes placed on a stack
>>above? Somewhat like the cartridge readers of IBM mainframes?

>>-turgut

>Because it would be so expensive that everyone would prefer tape drives
>over it.  Check out the cost of tape carousels (they are available for 
>8mm and 4mm tapes on PC's).  A similar situation happenned with dual-bin
>feeders for HP LaserJet's.  Some 3rd party folks made them, but they
>were 50%+ of the cost of a second printer, so people who needed dual
>bins opted for dual printers or one of the LaserJet's that had built-in
>dual bins.  Cost as it relates to marketability is the basic reason.

I wouldn't generalize like this. CD changers are cheap, and Pioneer
makes a not too expensive cassette tape changer.  Its reasonable to
expect that if the volume is high enough, almost anything can 
be made economically. 





-- 
Jon Hacker
Caltech, Pasadena CA
hacker@tumbler-ridge.caltech.edu
From: vapspgd@prism.gatech.EDU (Edward Hefter)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.apps
Subject: Using a Copy II PC card in a file-manager type fashion
Date: 29 Jul 92 19:58:35 GMT
Organization: Georgia Institute of Technology

I don't know if this is the right newsgroup for this question, but since
you've read this far, it might be.

I have a Copy II PC card that I use primarily to read and write MacDisks.  I
would like to be able to have something like the file manager that OS/2 uses,
but for Mac disks.  I can access the disk in a Dos shell using the program
that came with it (circa 1989, I believe), but, there has to be an easier
way.  After all, this is OS/2.  So, if there are any of you programmers out
there who are bored and looking for a way to make my life (and probably many
others' lives) easier and happy, drop me a line.

Thanks for your time.
-- 
                                Edward Hefter
                   Trying To Survive the Ga Tech Experience
                         vapspgd@prism.gatech.edu
From: TomK@cup.portal.com (Tom R Krotchko)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.apps
Subject: Re: Where's Borland?
Date: Sat, 25 Jul 92 22:18:36 PDT
Organization: The Portal System (TM)
  <1992Jul24.022936.21509@frodo.cc.flinders.edu.au> <62816@cup.portal.com>
  <!akm7yr.msmith@netcom.com>

Is the Borland C++ compiler being held up for compatibility with the
Windows NT? I read in Infoworld a week or so ago that the OS/2 and NT
compiler would be one and the same.
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.apps,comp.os.os2.misc
From: exujlg@exu.ericsson.se (Jon L. Gauthier)
Subject: Re: Anyone have GTAK100 running?
Summary: My SCSI has fallen and it can't get up!
Keywords: gtak100,scsi,adaptec
Organization: Ericsson Network Systems, Inc.
Date: Mon, 27 Jul 1992 21:31:44 GMT

In article <1992Jul27.185831.3354@Informatik.TU-Muenchen.DE> rommel@Informatik.TU-Muenchen.DE (Kai-Uwe Rommel) writes:
>From: rommel@Informatik.TU-Muenchen.DE (Kai-Uwe Rommel)
>Subject: Re: Anyone have GTAK100 running?
>Date: Mon, 27 Jul 1992 18:58:31 GMT

>In article <exujlg.117.0@exu.ericsson.se> exujlg@exu.ericsson.se (Jon L. Gauthier) writes:
>>I'm loading in my config.sys via BASEDEV the os2scsi.dmd, os2aspi.dmd,
>>aha152x.add, DEVICE=c:\os2\aspitape.sys TAPE$0 0 S0, and 
>                                         ^^^^^^
>>SET TAPE=+++TAPE$4.  When booting, aspitape responds like it's loading, and
>             ^^^^^^
>>I get no response from the ASPI manager or the AHA152X driver.  When I do a 
>>TAPEP STATUS, it responds saying no driver loaded.

>There *may* be some relation between the two marked names, don't you
>think that too? Shouldn't they be the same?

>Kai Uwe Rommel

>/* Kai Uwe Rommel --- rommel@informatik.tu-muenchen.de */

>DOS ... is still a real mode only non-reentrant interrupt
>handler, and always will be.                -Russell Williams

I didn't realize it, but my POST was incorrect.  My config.sys contains
a SET TAPE=+++TAPE$0.  I wish the solution was that easy!! :(

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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.apps
From: hess@swt6.informatik.uni-hamburg.de (Hauke Hess)
Subject: Killer app found :-)
Summary: This is my killerapp!
Keywords: Killer app, jargonfile
Organization: University of Hamburg, FRG
Distribution: comp
Date: 23 Jul 92 08:20:57 GMT

Hello World,

quite a while ago there was the call for a killer app that would convice people
that installing OS/2 is good for them. At least one person was convinced by
my favorite killer app, that is the JARGN299.ZIP archive including the most
recent "Jargonfile" (aka The File, Hackers Dictionary) as an OS/2 Hypertext.

I whish to thank the author of this version. It makes even a 4MB machine worth
installing OS/2!!!

Hauke