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From: gjw900@anu.edu.au (Gary Woodman)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: WD7000. Will it be supported?
Date: Wed, 9 Sep 1992 14:06:43 GMT
Organization: Computer Services Centre
NNTP-Posting-Host: slippc1.anu.edu.au

In article <1992Sep2.202259.10539@waikato.ac.nz> hamish@waikato.ac.nz writes:

>Can somebody tell me if Columbia Data Products are intending on supporting 
OS/2>2.0 with the WD-7000 FAAST SCSI controller? 

I read here a few months ago that CDP were working on a 2.0 driver, which 
would be in version 4.0 of the SST software. Fourth quarter, ws it?

>I have a driver from the 3.
35v of>their software, but it says OS/2 1.x, and I don't know whether this 
will work>with 2.0 (And no time to mess about trying it at the moment 
either).

Doesn't work.

>Can somebody tell me if this will work (Or if there is a later revision of the
>driver software that will?) I know that OS/2 will use the controller via INT13,
>but have heard that this is slow and clunky on disk accesses, so I'd rather use
>a native controller.

Wouldn't we all... I have a WD7000 on my office machine and it works file, 
albeit with the INT13 driver. Note that you can't partition the drive at 
all, even for Boot Manager, with the current level of the controller BIOS.

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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: grichard@swimming.cis.ohio-state.edu (Golden Richard III)
Subject: Problem with serial communication
Organization: The Ohio State University Dept. of Computer and Info. Science
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1992 23:55:11 GMT


I'm having trouble doing serial communication in OS/2 2.0.  I've tried
TE2 and PMCOMM with similar results (that is, very bad ones), so I
must have a setup problem or some such.


Details:  	Toshiba 3300SL 80386SL/25 with 8meg.


I have the computer running OS/2 connected to a 9600 baud serial line
(via a null modem cable) on the SUN in my office.  DOS communication
(w/o OS/2) works great, even at 38400 baud.  Under the OS/2
communication programs listed above, all I get is garbage.
Communication parameters on both ends are 9600,N,8,1.  I've tried
setting IDSR, ODSR, OCTS to OFF as described in the file 'atcom.txt'
on ftp-os2 but the problem remains unchanged.  I've tried doing Zmodem
transfers using the DOS program DSZ under a DOS session in OS/2 with
the result being *extremely* slow transfer, w/ CRC errors on virtually
every packet.

I wasn't running anything else when I tried any of the above programs.


I installed the new COM drivers to see if this would help, but the
problem is unchanged.  Ideally I'd like to hop back to 38400, but I
thought 9600 baud was a good test case.

Has anyone had similar problems?  A beer or an iced tea is waiting
when you visit Columbus.  :)


--Golden


-- 
Golden Richard III             OSU Dept. of Computer and Information Science
grichard@cis.ohio-state.edu                                   (614) 292-0056
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: thijs@cs.vu.nl (Doorn van MAB)
Subject: Microsoft Word 2.0 problems
Organization: Fac. Wiskunde & Informatica, VU, Amsterdam
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1992 12:10:35 GMT

A long time ago there where some posts in this group about saving problems
with Microsoft Word 2.0 running in WIN-OS/2.

Can anyone tell me more about these problems, e.g.:
 Are they serious ?
 When do they occur ?
 Is there a solution ?
 etc.
 etc.

Any help is welcome

Matthijs
________________________________________
"Counting in octal is just like counting in decimal, if you don't use your
 thumbs."

Internet:  thijs@cs.vu.nl
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: roelofs@pan.arc.nasa.gov (Cave Newt)
Subject: Re: using .zoo files?
Organization: University of Chicago
Distribution: usa
Date: Tue, 8 Sep 92 14:26:46 GMT

xtifr@netcom.com (Chris Waters) writes:

>Having a zoo that runs in a dosbox may be nice for some, but having a
>(presumably much faster) 32-bit version might be nice for others....

The Zoo on Hobbes is not a DOS app; it is a 16-bit OS/2 app.  Recompiling
it would probably boost the performance by about 50% or so (judging from
Zip).

Greg
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: ddulay@jarthur.claremont.edu (Dan Dulay)
Subject: installing 16550a's
Organization: Harvey Mudd College, Claremont, CA 91711
Date: Wed, 9 Sep 1992 20:40:56 GMT

I plan on changing the UARTs in my system very soon to 16550afn's and
I was wondering if there was anything that I would need to change w/
OS/2, e.g. reinstall, change my config.sys, etc.?  Also is there any way
to change the threshold on the buffer through OS/2?

Thank you
Daniel Dulay

Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu (Timothy F. Sipples)
Subject: Re: How do I make Win-OS/2 clipboard private and closed by default?
Reply-To: sip1@midway.uchicago.edu
Organization: Dept. of Econ., Univ. of Chicago
Distribution: usa
Date: Wed, 16 Sep 1992 00:00:39 GMT

In article <1992Sep14.220620.18818@adobe.com> dauphin@adobe.com (Kimberly Dauphin) writes:
>I've looked through all the manuals and can't seem to find the
>answer.  Before I call the OS/2 help hotline, I thought I'd
>try the net.os2.gurus.
>Is there a way to make the Win-OS/2 clipboard *private* and
>*closed* by default?

Yes.  Shutdown all running Windows programs and the Win-OS/2 desktop.
Remove all references to the Clipboard ("!clipwos2") in
\OS2\MDOS\WINOS2\SYSTEM.INI using a text editor, then restart
Win-OS/2.

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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: panos@db.toronto.edu (Panos Economopoulos)
Subject: Re: PMGlobe (astronomical calculations)
Organization: Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto
Date: 11 Sep 92 01:57:24 GMT

rlosee@unlinfo.unl.edu (Robert Losee) writes:

>My question is this; is the code available for the program?  It seems 
>to be written at IBM, I think by the guy who wrote REXX (my favorite 
>language) Cowlisha (sp?).  I could learn two things from it:

>1) the calculations needed to project sunlight on the earth and then 
>project this onto a 2 dimensional screen

There is an X-Windows program named ``sunclock'' which does the
same thing. The only difference is that the earth is not projected 
on the screen as a sphere but is mapped onto a square (the whole
window). The program itself can be found, most probably, in
any archive site that carries the group   ``comp.sources.x''

The following excerpt is from the manual page. The reference by Meeus
plus any book on graphics (with information about transformations,
projections etc) should be a good starting point.

....

HOW IT WORKS
     ``sunclock'' calculates the position of the Sun using the  algo-
     rithm in chapter 18 of:

     "Astronomical Formulae for Calculators" by Jean  Meeus,  Third
     Edition, Richmond: Willmann-Bell, 1985.

     and Mercator projects the illuminated area onto  map  image.
     The  Sun's  position  is  calculated to better than one arc-
     second in accuracy.


AUTHOR
     John Mackin, Basser Department of Computer Science,  Univer-
     sity   of  Sydney,  Sydney,  Australia;  <john@cs.su.oz.AU>.
     Based on a Suntools program by John Walker, Autodesk,  Inc.;
     <kelvin@acad.uu.NET>.

..............

>If anyone knows if and where I can get the code I'd be very 
>appreciative.  Thanks.

>--
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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: jeffgus@netcom.com (Jeffrey Gustafson)
Subject: Directory Sort (like Norton's) for OS/2 HPFS?
Date: Wed, 09 Sep 92 23:40:28 GMT
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  (408 241-9760 guest) 
Summary: Does a Norton Directory Sort like program exist for HPFS?
Keywords: directory sort norton os/2 hpfs

	Does anyone know if a Norton like directory sort program exit
for OS/2 HPFS?  I like being able to put files the way I want them
(not just sort switches), but I can't currently do this under HPFS.
	
			...Jeff
			jeffgus@netcom.com
From: jmitchel@husc17.harvard.edu
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Seemless Windows w/out WPS?
Date: 7 Sep 92 06:00:57 GMT
Article-I.D.: husc17.1992Sep7.020057.15428
Organization: Harvard University Science Center

To be brief, can seemless windows (Microsoft Windows programs on WPS desktop)
be used if the WPS is not loaded (SET RUNWORKPLACE=cmd.exe). Replies be either
email or post I will summarize any replie by email.

Thanks,

Jason
jmitchel@husc3.harvard.edu
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu (Timothy F. Sipples)
Subject: Re: Odd bootup stuff
Reply-To: sip1@midway.uchicago.edu
Organization: Dept. of Econ., Univ. of Chicago
Date: Mon, 14 Sep 1992 23:54:44 GMT

In article <1992Sep14.072356.4576@ultb.isc.rit.edu> jks4675@ritvax.isc.rit.edu writes:
>Why does OS/2 boot up into a WIN-OS/2 session when I explicitly colsed
>(oops I meant closed) it before shutting down the desktop?
>Sometimes it does this with DOS as well...

Check the OS/2 FAQ List for information on how to turn this off.

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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: conrad@actrix.gen.nz (Conrad Bullock)
Subject: Re: Vmode.com and os/2
Organization: Actrix Information Exchange
Date: Sat, 12 Sep 1992 09:21:00 GMT
Keywords: Diamond Speedstar

In article <kaz.716230787@pv7b8c.vincent.iastate.edu> kaz@iastate.edu (Jimmy Buffet) writes:
> Does anyone know if you can run a dos program before wps.  I need
> to run vmode.com to set my Speedstar 24 to work with my monitor.

In order to do what you want to do:

Open a DOS fullscreen. Run VMODE, and set all the options you need for your
card/monitor. Run SVGA ON. OS/2 will now remember the necessary video card
and mode information. Next time you start up, the WPS will come up with the
correct mode set.

Note that you will still have to put the VMODE statements into your 
AUTOEXEC.BAT, as when a DOS fullscreen is initialised, the card stuff is
reset (for that session only) - I assume as part of the video mode
init stuff in the video BIOS.

Note also that because SVGA ON does save the video register settings, you
can run any other programs which set up the registers. For example, my card
comes with a TSR called 'CENTER', which allows me to centre the hi-res
video modes on my screen, and load a TSR to set that stuff up when the mode
is set. So, I run VMODE, load CENTER, and then run SVGA ON.  Result: all my
hi-res modes are well centered.
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: jeffgus@netcom.com (Jeffrey Gustafson)
Subject: Re: Directory Sort (like Norton's) for OS/2 HPFS?
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 92 00:57:07 GMT
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  (408 241-9760 guest) 
Keywords: directory sort norton os/2 hpfs

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

>>	Does anyone know if a Norton like directory sort program exit
>>for OS/2 HPFS?  I like being able to put files the way I want them
>>(not just sort switches), but I can't currently do this under HPFS.

>What's wrong with sort switches?  I just place them in the DIRCMD
>variable and ignore them.

>Of course, if you want a custom (not sorted) listing, it could cause a
>problem.  I know of no such utility to do this for HPFS.

	That's what I'd like to do... custom sorts.  Norton Directory
Sort is my favorite program because I can put files where I want them.
			...Jeff
			jeffgus@netcom.com
From: xxbrent@convx1.lerc.nasa.gov (Brent Anderson)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Need advice regarding hardware requirements
Date: 14 Sep 92 15:17:51 GMT
Organization: NASA Lewis Research Center


Hello!  I need some advice regarding hardware requirements for OS/2.
I currently have a 386DX/40 no-name clone with 4MB of RAM and a Seagate
89MB IDE drive.  I would like to upgrade to OS/2, but will need to
upgrade my hardware first.  First,  it would be easiest and cheapest
to add another 4 1x9 SIMMs for a total of 8MB RAM (cost ~ US$140).
I could also (according to my motherboard manual) add 4 4x9 SIMMs
for a total of 20MB RAM (cost ~ US$500).

Can OS/2 use more than 16MB RAM?  I have heard that it can't.
Also, I use the Disney Animation Studio, which requires at least
2MB of Expanded (not extended) memory.  I understand that OS/2
takes up 6MB all by itself, so this would leave just 2MB for 
programs.  Would 8MB of RAM really give poor performance, and
would 16MB or 20MB give good performance?  I need to know if I
must spend the extra money to get the bigger memory.

Lastly, I am running out of space on my 89MB Seagate drive and will
definitely need to buy a new drive before installing OS/2.  Because
of this, several questions come to mind.  Is the seek access time
important to OS/2 performance?  It looks like 15-16ms around what
I might get - under that seems more expensive.  How much space is
generally required for swapping?  Are there compression methods
available under OS/2, and are they reliable and cost effective?
I don't know if my last question is OS/2-related, but could I
add a Maxtor IDE drive (15ms 200MB 7213A) as a master or slave to
work with my existing Seagate 1102A drive?  Would I be better
off buying a single 200MB Maxtor and sell my Seagate if they
don't work together, or would a second Seagate (16ms 130MB ST3144A)
a better configuration?

Any replies will be appreciated, either e-mailed or posted to comp.os.os2.
Thank you in advance.

--
Brent Anderson
xxbrent@convx1.lerc.nasa.gov
From: ts@cup.portal.com (Tim W Smith)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: Boot manager trick. For those interested
Date: Tue,  8 Sep 92 20:42:30 PDT
Organization: The Portal System (TM)
  <65365@cup.portal.com> <1992Sep8.174043.29642@twisto.eng.hou.compaq.com>

Hmmm...from email and other postings here, it appears things work better
for the rest of you.  Here's what I see:

	I've got an IDE and a SCSI drive.  The IDE is INT 13h drive 80h
and the SCSI drive is INT 13h drive 81h.

	Each drive contains one primary partition and one extended partition.
The extended partition on each contains two logical drives.

	This gives C: on 80, D: on 81, E: and F: on 80, and G: and H: on
81.

	OS/2 is installed on F:.

	If I remove the SCSI card from the system, I then end up with
the three things on 80 being C:, D:, and E:, with E: being what was F:
in the other configuration.

	OS/2 is not happy with this.  Editing config.sys and changing all
the F: references to E: lets it boot, but the desktop is not happy.  It
appears to contain references to F:.

--Tim Smith
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc,comp.os.os2.networking
From: zxmkx01@mailserv.zdv.uni-tuebingen.de (Andreas Kerger)
Subject: OS2/2.0 and Novell
Organization: Comp. Center (ZDV) U of Tuebingen, FRG
Date: Mon, 7 Sep 1992 13:56:42 GMT

Hi,
i' am trying to run the netware 
shell net5 or net3 in DOS window under 
OS2/2.0 Everything seems to work fine,
i get a connect to the file server.
the problem is to access the login-drive.
in a dos session there is with the dossettings
a lastdrive entry given. now net3/5 doesn't allow
any entry. therefore i'am not able to make a login ...
does anybody know how to avoid the problem
or (better) solve it ...
thank's a lot!
andreas

--
------------------------------------------
Andreas Kerger
Engelfriedshalde 22
7400 Tuebingen
From: shorrock@mips1.info.uqam.ca (Shorrock*Glenn)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Why disable Shadow RAM?
Date: 6 Sep 92 20:45:56 GMT
Organization: Universite du Quebec a Montreal

I've been benchmarking DOS sessions using the PC Tech Journal benchmark 
program, playing with the HW ROM TO RAM and VIDEO EMULATION settings as 
well as enabling and disabling my AMI bios' shadow RAM.  As far as I can tell,
I get the best performance with shadow RAM enabled, VIDEO EMULATION on, and
HW ROM TO RAM off; turning shadow RAM off and using HW ROM TO RAM on, as 
suggested by the FAQ, isn't as fast.  I haven't done any comparisons in
WIN-OS/2 or OS/2, but my impression is that having shadow RAM enabled there
isn't slowing anything down.  Does anyone else have similar results?

(My machine is an uncached 8 meg AMD 386sx-33 with a new AMI bios which, 
unlike older AMI bios's, lets me use the full 8 megs of memory if shadow
RAM is off).

Glenn Shorrock

Math Dept.
Univ. du Quebec a Montreal
shorrock @ info.uqam.ca
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: ghenniga@NMSU.Edu
Subject: Registration Address (was: Re: The CSD?....Read on!)
Reply-To: ghenniga@NMSU.Edu
Organization: New Mexico State University - Electromagnetics Group
Date: Mon, 7 Sep 1992 05:31:31 GMT


>All registered OS/2 users will most likely receive some mail from IBM in
>the near future.  Unless you have returned your registration card, you
>will not be receiving it.
>If you haven't done it yet, register your copy of OS/2 NOW!

On a related note...About two months or so after I registered OS/2 I moved,
can someone give me an address to which I can send a change-of-address 
card?

Thanks,
Gary
(ghenniga@NMSU.Edu)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: grichard@swimming.cis.ohio-state.edu (Golden Richard III)
Subject: Re: Enhanced Editor
Organization: The Ohio State University Dept. of Computer and Info. Science
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1992 17:41:19 GMT

In article <1992Sep15.163248.16366@njitgw.njit.edu> dic5340@hertz.njit.edu (David Charlap) writes:
>In article <1992Sep15.023223.10539@cis.ohio-state.edu> grichard@swimming.cis.ohio-state.edu (Golden Richard III) writes:
>>
>>On a related note, why does the "Enhanced" editor ask THREE times what
>>file I'd like to print to when I select "print file" from the File
>>menu?   My default printer is a postscript print-to-file device.
>
>Perhaps you had three files in the ring?  I really don't know.  I use
>Emacs to edit, and I use PRINT.EXE to print text files.

Nope.  I was just trying to print a single file.  The only reason I
was using the Enhanced Editor was to whip up some quick overheads for
a presentation (large fonts, etc.).  I don't plan on continuing to use
it, but I still don't like strange behavior.  I gave IBM a call this
morning and they said something to the effect that most people just
use it to edit and they didn't know right off what would cause that
behavior.  When they get back to me, I'll post the answer, if there is
one.

Has anyone else even seen this behavior, regardless of whether you
know how to fix it?


--Golden




-- 
Golden Richard III             OSU Dept. of Computer and Information Science
grichard@cis.ohio-state.edu                                   (614) 292-0056
From: liuyu@acf5.NYU.EDU (liuyu)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: Can't install from B: !ha ha ha
Date: 11 Sep 92 06:27:24 GMT
Organization: New York University

pdg@crosfield.co.uk (paul goffin) writes:

>Hi all.

>Do you remember all those complaints about not being able
>to install OS/2 from anything but the A: drive?

>And then IBM produced the instb utility.

>Well I've just seen over on one of the msdos groups
>a couple of DOS users who were complaining about not
>being able to install MSDOS 5.0 from drive B:.

>(For the same reason you can't istall OS/2 from B:, of
>course.  They are both operating systems and so have to be
>booted to work!)


Sure you can install MSDOS 5.0 upgrade from B:. 
The one you are talking about (plain MSDOS 5.0, not "upgrade") can't be 
installed from B:. The plain MSDOS 5.0 is for users who don't have any OS
and I think it's more expensive than "upgrade". It needs to boot but still
I think it should be able to install from B:....
As for OS/2 2.0 "upgrade" (emphasizing on "upgrade"), it should also be able 
to install from B:....
From: hartzman@kilroy.Jpl.Nasa.Gov (Les Hartzman)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: MFM and IDE Under OS/2 ?
Keywords: MFM, IDE, OS/2
Date: 15 Sep 92 20:41:57 GMT
Followup-To: hartzman@kilroy.jpl.nasa.gov
Distribution: na
Organization: Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA

I have an old ST-251 as my C: drive.  Its just big enough to hold the OS/2
swap file!  I want to add in an IDE drive to hold OS/2, but I'd like to know
if OS/2 will have problems with a C: MFM drive and a D: IDE drive.  Does anyone
out there have this kind of setup or know that it cannot work?

Please email responses.  Thanks in advance.

Les


-- 
Les Hartzman                hartzman@kilroy.jpl.nasa.gov
Jet Propulsion Laboratory   M/S 238-528    (818) 354-5964
4800 Oak Grove Dr., Pasadena,  CA.  91109
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu (Timothy F. Sipples)
Subject: Re: Minimize Icon To viewer problem
Reply-To: sip1@midway.uchicago.edu
Organization: Dept. of Econ., Univ. of Chicago
Date: Mon, 14 Sep 1992 23:59:26 GMT

In article <68133@hydra.gatech.EDU> gt7159a@prism.gatech.EDU (WATKINS,MARK ANTHONY) writes:
>	I am running several programs at startup. Actually they are all part
>of ibm tcp/ip package.  I have the /min option when starting the programs and I changed the
>system setting to minimize to viewer, but the viewer comes up after the programs
>are started.  The result is the programs are minimized to the desktop.  This is
>not what i want.  If there is anyway to get around this let me know.

Yes.  Now follow closely.  :-)

(1) Rename STARTUP.CMD to STARTUP.BAK.
(2) Create a program object (drag from your Templates folder).  Make
the program object run \TCPIP\BIN\TCPSTART.CMD, windowed.
(3) Drag a shadow of this program object to your Startup folder.

You can fiddle a bit more, but that's the gist of it.

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Dept. of Econ., Univ.   | Or from LISTSERV@BLEKUL11.BITNET (send "HELP").
of Chicago, 60637       | Family Values Means a Job
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: mark@walt.CS.MsState.Edu (Mark Rauschkolb)
Subject: Died during install.  What to do?
Organization: Mississippi State Univ.
Date: Wed, 9 Sep 1992 04:17:48 GMT

I am attempting to install os2 on a 386dx with 8 meg RAM 40 meg free
on the harddisk.  

1st I tried installing just os/2, got to the point where it says 
something about time to configure the system, and INSTALL.EXE died
with an error number 3176.

2nd I tried to install with the boot manager (at least the dos half 
would be working).  Got to Disk #7 and it died with the following:

The system detected an internal processing
error at location ##0160:fff6453f - 000d:a53f.

60000, 9084

038600d1
internal revision 6.307, 92/03/01

Can anybody tell me why? What to do?  etc.

Thanks

Mark Rauschkolb