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From: djm@lems21.lems.brown.edu (Daniel J. Mashao)
Subject: Re: PSPM2 under 2.1 Beta
Organization: LEMS, Brown University, Providence, RI, USA
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 06:15:21 GMT

In article <1jvta3INNpll@gap.caltech.edu> hacker@cco.caltech.edu (Jonathan Bruce Hacker) writes:
|   >Hi Folks!
|   >	Under the 2.1 Beta, PSPM reports any running DOS Programs 
|   >with the name "-zombie-".
||   It does this for me with OS/2 2.0GA + SP so I don't think anything has
||  changed.

 same here with OS/2 2.0GA - SP. Anyway to change that? 
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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu (Timothy F. Sipples)
Subject: Re: DCF/2, Stacker & WinOS/23.1b print man
Reply-To: sip1@midway.uchicago.edu
Organization: Dept. of Econ., Univ. of Chicago
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 22:43:11 GMT

In article <1993Jan21.020947.14774@wam.umd.edu> adhir@wam.umd.edu (Al Dhir) writes:
>I understand DCF/2 upon shipping will include HPFS and FAT support.  I have
>been told that DCF/2, however, will not supply a DOS driver so we can read
>our FAT partitions when booted in DOS (big mistake if you ask me).

Perhaps.  It's the same tradeoff you make when using HPFS, though, so
it isn't unprecedented.

>I also understand that Stacker will not be able to use HPFS.  

In the first release, so they say.

>So here's the questions:  First, will a StackerOS/2 FAT partition be usable
>from the DOS side with a DOS version of Stacker?  If so, might it be possible
>to use BOTH Stacker and DCF/2, Stacker for FAT to retain REAL DOS compatibility
>and DCF/2 to compress HPFS partitions?

In theory, that should work, yes.

>Also, my drives go all the way up to G presently.  Am I going to wind up with
>H, I, J, K once my partitions are compressed?!  Is there any way to continue
>calling them C-F (my G is a 5.25" floppy)?

I don't know -- it depends on the product design.  I think the answer
is different for Stacker and DCF/2.

>Last question:  I recently installed the 2.1beta.  I cannot for the life of 
>me get the WinOS/2 3.1 Print Manager to quite loading up!  What in the world
>is making the damn thing get loaded every time I call up WinOS/2 (full screen)?

I think this is still covered adequately in the FAQ List -- did that
advice work?

I thought you had that list memorized by now.  :-)

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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: rik@sci.kun.nl (Rik Fleuren)
Subject: Re: NEW 2.1B install problem
Organization: University of Nijmegen, The Netherlands
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 23:23:20 GMT

In <1993Jan25.001543.25844@monu6.cc.monash.edu.au> parry@yoyo.cc.monash.edu.au (Tom J Parry) writes:

>parry@yoyo.cc.monash.edu.au (Tom J Parry) writes:
>: uznerk@mcl.ucsb.edu (Andrew Krenz) writes:
>: : Okay, I got past the first problem I had installing 2.1 beta, now for the
>: : second one.  
>: : 
>: : When you reach the part after it reboots and loads up the graphical
>: : interface and asks you if you want to install the whole thing or just 
>: : selected parts, it bombs.  You can choose any of the options (except
>: : the mouse tutorial) and after a couple seconds, the mouse pointer freezes
>: : and so does everything else.
>: : 
>: : I've  tried all sorts of different CMOS settings, and the install disks I'm 
>: : using have all the latest and greatest fixes.
>: : 
>: : Thanks,
>: : 
>: : -Andrew Krenz
>: : uznerk@mcl.ucsb.edu
>: 
>: I had exactly the same problem - so I mucked around a little, reinstalling
>: (a total of 4 times), after which the selective install worked fine. I don't
>: know what happened - seems to be an INSTALL problem.
>: 
>
>Looking back on it - the selective install worked fine AFTER i reformatted 
>my major partition. Sorry about the extra message folks :-)
>
>-- 
>Tom J Parry.
>Your reality is a figment of my imagination.

Did you try running selective install from the WPS or the command line?

I also had INSTALL.EXE problems, but after a lot of attempts the install
dialog box suddenly appeared and I was able to install OS/2. And now with
an installed OS/2 2.1b, I cannot run INSTALL.EXE again. Only once this morning
the dialog box came on the screen, so I could finnish the installation (I
didn't do a full install the first time). Every time INSTALL.EXE hangs
I have to reboot with CNTRL-SHIFT-F1 pressed or INSTALL will start-up
and hang OS/2 again :-(.

It probably has something to do with my configuration: a 40Mhz 386-40 (AMD)
with AMI BIOS and an 80Mb IDE Quantum Prodrive.

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From: RONY@awiwuw11.wu-wien.ac.at (FLATSCHER Rony)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: 8514 drivers (Re: This is a BETA???)
Date: 28 Jan 93 11:06:44 GMT
Organization: Wirtschaftsuniversitaet Wien, Vienna, Austria

One funny (?) remark. Within IBM there are tons of 8514-cards, so IBMers
were asking for seemless 8514 drivers internally. Only, after it became
clear that there are tons of 8514-compatible-cards outside IBM did they
realize that it was necessary to write a seemless driver.

Explanation: The 8514 was the forerunner of the XGA, simply put 8514 was
an intermediate step. The XGA being out on the market for quite a while
and seeing others going mainly the Tseng-route, they thought 8514 was not
that important.

Just for info...

---rony
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: mskreis@iastate.edu (Mark S Kreisberg)
Subject: HELP - Can't print from any Win Apps
Organization: Iowa State University, Ames, IA
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 21:15:24 GMT


First, my printer works fine through the WPS so I know it is not an interrupt
problem.

I just finished installing Word & Quicken for windows through WINOS2.  Both
applications seem to be working just fine with the one exception that I am
unable to print through either program (neither seemlessly nor through a
full screen WINOS2 session).  The correct driver has been installed, is set for
the correct port, and is active.

Does anyone have any suggestions?

Thanks,

Mark K
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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: pynq@quads.uchicago.edu (Jeremy Mathers)
Subject: Re: OS2You work with DOS apps?
Reply-To: pynq@midway.uchicago.edu
Organization: D. J. Dougherty & Associates
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 20:34:57 GMT

Another question about OS2You:
	Does it work with ports beyond COM2?

I have mouse on COM1, modem on COM2, and null modem cable on COM3.
COM3 works fine using DOS communications programs (I sometimes have to
tell it is COM4, but we've covered that one already...)

But OS2YOU only lets me pick from COM1 or COM2.

I am using SIO/VSIO, with (3,2E8,5) on both.

************************************************************************
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are 50-50 it will.

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	  hundreds, if not thousands, of dollars, every time he posts -
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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: akennedy@mercury.ncat.edu
Subject: 2.1 beta won't load on Zeos
Organization: North Carolina A&T State University
Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 02:24:42 GMT

I have tried to load the 2.1 beta on a Zeos 33/486 w/ 8MB RAM
210 MB IDE Western Digital HD, Diamond Speedstar video card
 without any success! The IBM blue logo comes up fine with
the first installation disk. Then when I put in disk one
the floppy drive light comes on for awhile then it beaps
and the blue IBM logo remains on the screen.

I have tried this with the IBM1S506.ADD that comes with the
beta, the newest version 12/19/92, a verion on hobbes, and
the present version that I have on my GA+SP version. None
of them work!

I took the exact disk home and it started up flawlessly on my
G2000. I didn't install it though because I don't screw around
with my home machine!

IBM GET IT RIGHT!

Alvin
email akennedy@garfield.ncat.edu

Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: roland@spock.uucp (David A. Braun)
Subject: 640x480x256 1.0meg?
Organization: Choate Rosemary Hall
Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1993 23:35:59 GMT

What is the purpose of the 640x480x256 graphics mode for ET4000 that uses 1.0
meg of video memory?  Is is any faster than using the 512k version.


<roland>

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 !!!"ARRAY EXCEEDS 64K, PLEASE MAKE DATA ELEMENT SMALLER"!!!
 !!"Out of Conventional memory... High memory... Upper memory
 Extended memory... Expanded memory..."!! !!"UNRECOVERABLE APPLICATION ERROR"!!
 Well it worked with DOS, and it doesn't with OS2...  Must be
 the OS... The fact that the BIOS was HARDWIRED incorrectly couldn't
 have anything to do with it, Right?     -----Roland of Gilead-----   }
From: rub@aero.org (Jerzy W. Rub)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: OS/2 Wish List
Date: 25 Jan 93 20:40:52
Organization: The Aerospace Corporation, Los Angeles, California
	<1993Jan24.193522.10158@odin.diku.dk>
	<RUB.93Jan24173507@solarium.aero.org>
	<1993Jan26.004851.11526@news.columbia.edu>
NNTP-Posting-Host: solarium.aero.org
In-reply-to: mig@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu's message of Tue, 26 Jan 1993 00:48:51 GMT

I keep forgetting to ask for one (?) more thing:

12.  1280x1024 drivers for ATI Ultra+.  I now use 1024x768 but NEC 6FG is a
large monitor.
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: bangell@cs.utah.edu (bob angell)
Subject: 16550 UART (what I found out thus far ...)
Date: 22 Jan 93 09:04:17 MST


Ok, here is the skinny on the 16550 UARTs .....

I received mail from several people asking to post this information to
the net .... and I appreciate everyone's input that sent me email (too
many to reply separately .... THANK YOU! (you know who you are!!)) ...
Ok, here is what I did .... called Zero-One Networking out of Anaheim,
CA (714) 693-8080 and they have a board with 2 16550's for $35 + S&H
and you can get the board just like it comes for $25 + S&H (1 16550 and
socketed for another if you decide to put it in .... ) ..... this sounded
pretty good to me (just needed 1 16550 UART port).....

Now about the 16550AF and 16550AFN controversy .... National Semiconductor
(to the best of my knowledge) was the only one to release the AFN to fix
a really obscure bug (read - probably wont affect more than 1/100000) and
therefore the 16550AN is OK .... only time will tell!!

Another few suggestions were to get the board from 2nd cousins twice 
removed <grin> that sell the equipment out of their second bedroom in
a 2BR apartment .... didn't follow-up with these leads (I'm sure the
merchandise is good ... just needed a better paper-trail).

Thanks y'all!

-Bob-

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Principal, Management Systems Engineer   | Health Systems Engineering
Applied Information & Management Systems | Database design/development
1238 Fenway Avenue - SLC, UT 84102-3212  | Simulation/Modeling/Neural Nets
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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: jhrv@tao.cpe.uchicago.edu (John Kim)
Subject: Re: win-os2 (2.1 beta) printing problems ...
Organization: Center for Population Economics
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 22:41:15 GMT

In article <1993Jan21.213728.5650@midway.uchicago.edu> sip1@midway.uchicago.edu writes:
>
>It sounds like the LaserJet III bug in Win-OS/2 beta.  Do not use the
>LJ III driver -- back off and use the LJ IIP driver.

Let me elaborate a bit.  The driver for PCL5 printers comes in a
separate file from the other PCL printers, and it seems to be broken.
None of the printers covered by this driver file will work correctly
with winos2 in os/2 2.1 beta.  This includes the HP LJIII, IIIP, IIID,
and IIISi.  Note the postscript modes of these printers (if you have a
postscript cartridge or simm) and the LJIV work ok, since the
postscript mode uses a different driver and the LJIV uses its own
driver (available from HP or from windows ftp sites).

The LJIIP is the closest to PCL5 among the PCL4 printers, so that's
why it's recommended.  You won't get scalable fonts and some other
fonts/features, but you'll get most (all?) of the data compression
built into PCL5, which makes for faster printing.

John
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu (Timothy F. Sipples)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: IBM accepts internet problem reports
Keywords: IBM INTERNET
Date: 23 Jan 93 20:25:07 GMT
Reply-To: sip1@midway.uchicago.edu
Organization: Dept. of Econ., Univ. of Chicago

In article <1993Jan23.192741.21814@netcom.com> samiam@netcom.com (Scott Moore) writes:
>The following was received from IBM:
>We have just reinstated Internet support.  It has gone back the way it
>used to be, so you can tell your Internet customers that it is business
>as usual.  We will not make a public statement as to the reopening of
>Internet support, as we never really supported it.  Thanks for your help
>during this time.
>This was affirmed by an earlier post in this group. Could one of you all
>repost the IBM address ?

All the pertinent information is contained in the file os2prob.txt,
available via anonymous ftp from ftp-os2.nmsu.edu.  Check file
/pub/os2/00Index for location.  (The newest version is presently in
/pub/uploads, but it will be moved.)

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From: bjorn@joshua.ludd.luth.se (Bjorn Fahller)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: 2.1b: Workareas still crash WPS
Date: 21 Jan 93 16:39:09 GMT
Organization: Lule} Tekniska H|gskolas Datorf|rening - Ludd


I have a folder, with mirrors of my tmp, binp and archive directories.
I use these to plow through the piles of downloads I make myself
subject to. When closing the workarea, the tmp closes (next time
on opening the icons may or may not rember their positions), close
the archive directory (Tree view, so positions are not a problem).
The binp folder is hardly ever opened, so that's not a problem either.
When it's time to close the work area, nothing happens for 10 seconds
or so (33MHz 486, 8Mb ram), and then it's closed. At this time it's
not very unusual (maybe 30% of the times) that it brings all of WPS
with it.

   _
/Bjorn.
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From: sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu (Timothy F. Sipples)
Subject: Re: Real Hotkeys?
Reply-To: sip1@midway.uchicago.edu
Organization: Dept. of Econ., Univ. of Chicago
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 17:40:10 GMT

In article <19893@mindlink.bc.ca> Elias_Wakan@mindlink.bc.ca (Elias Wakan) writes:
>Does OS/2 have real hotkeys?  e.g. Can you define ALT+key (or ALT+CTRL+key,
>or whatever) one shot key combinations that take you directly from one app to
>any other? or do these keystokes only take you back to the WPS?

As shipped, no.  However, you can try QuickSwitch or some of the other
utilities available via anonymous ftp from ftp-os2.nmsu.edu (check
file /pub/os2/00Index for location).

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From: hmkirchh@cip.informatik.uni-erlangen.de (Hans-Joachim Kirchhoff)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: Borland C++ 3.1 and OS/2 2.0
Date: 26 Jan 93 18:05:02 GMT
Organization: CSD., University of Erlangen
NNTP-Posting-Host: faui00a.informatik.uni-erlangen.de

statters@csaadel.adl.csa.oz.au (Steve Tattersall) writes:

>If the dynamic link option is chosen for the Borland run-time,
>OWL and class libraries, the programme fails to terminate
>properly.

>A GA fault is reported in the run-time DLL and then many errors
>dialogs appear with random characters in them.

>All code has been built using windows 3.0 resources and headers.
Steve,
yes I know this one. Here is, what the Borland guy on CIS told me:
OWL.DLL does some cleaning up in its WindowExitProcedure WEP. There it
deletes an instance of the TMODULE class. This happenes in the
MODULE.CPP source file (near the end of the file). However, when
Win3.0 calles the WEP of a DLL, the stack it allows is so small, the
WEP MUST NOT USE API calls (sounds ridiculous, does it not). Win3.1
has corrected the problem, so the new OWL31 tries to be nice and
cleans up the memory it needed. But if you want to use the OWL.DLL under
Win3.0, you'll have to remove the "delete Module;" line, since the delete
call tries to use some API function.
After you rebuilt the OWL31.DLL, everything should work ok.

>Linking the code with static libraries, the code fails to start under
>WIN-OS2 (the not supported / not recognised error).
Concerning this, there is a switch under Options (I think) Resource, which
distiguishes btw 3.0 and 3.1 Applications. Also you probably should
define WIN30 rather than WIN31;STRICT, when using the OWL.

Have fun.

-Hajo
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From: sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu (Timothy F. Sipples)
Subject: Re: EXTERNAL TAPE BACKUP UNITS/WHO? WHERE?
Reply-To: sip1@midway.uchicago.edu
Organization: Dept. of Econ., Univ. of Chicago
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 18:34:27 GMT

In article <SCANNON.52.728063977@novell.com> SCANNON@novell.com (Steve Cannon) writes:
>Are there any external tape backup units available for OS/2 2.0 that will 
>backup both FAT and HPFS EXCLUDING companys based in Colorado?
>Who and where are they?

I list several tape backup products in the OS/2 FAQ List -- were any
of help?

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From: rom@cci632.cci.com (Rudynell S. Millian)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: OS/2 2.1 release reminders
Date: 27 Jan 93 18:36:37 GMT
Organization: [Computer Consoles, Inc., Rochester, NY


	Last Spring, when OS/2 2.0 was released, IBM made two grave mistakes;
The general public couldn't get a hold of OS/2 2.0 through stores for weeks
after the official release date, and IBM did NOT include proper documentation
with the product.
	When OS/2 2.1 is released this Spring, I hope the general public will
be able to go to their local software store and buy it, and I hope that when
these buyers open their OS/2 2.1 box, they will find, along with the disks or
CD, a single comprehensive document/user's guide for what they purchased. 

		G E T  T H E  I D E A  I B M?!

R. Millian
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: kspousta@qualcom.qualcomm.com (Kevin Spousta)
Subject: Re: OS/2 2.1 VDM problems
Organization: Qualcomm, Inc., San Diego, CA
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 02:43:32 GMT

kspousta@qualcom.qualcomm.com (Kevin Spousta) writes:
[Misc. crap deleted]

>I'm really started to get annoyed with this..  The 2.01 beta works, the 2.0GA works, the 2.0GA+CSD works..  What's the deal with this new stuff???

SUCCESS!!!  I guess the deal with the new stuff is in the way the memory management works..  In the older versions of OS/2, I could load the Ethernet Driver
software 'high' and it'd fly.  I removed the upper memory switch, re-created the
VDM image and WHAMMO!  Telnet!!  (Now why didn't I think of this on Monday??)

If I keep fixing my own problems, I'm gonna quit posting here.. ehhehe

Thanks to all of you who E-mailed me your suggestions!!


Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: json@treankare.met.kth.se (Anders Jacobsson)
Subject: Re: converting GIF ---===>  BMP
Organization: Royal Institute of Technology, NADA
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 07:55:40 GMT

In article <C1F8n2.7yz@news.cso.uiuc.edu>, jst50986@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Jack S. Tan) writes:
|> nsorathi@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Nilesh Sorathia) writes:
|> 
|> > Is there a program out that will convert 1024x768x256 GIF to
|> > 1024x768x256 BMP?  I have a program called GWS that's suppose to convert
|> > the files, but everytime I try converting it gives me an error saying
|> > something like "file can't be converted".  I tried all the GIFs I have
|> > and none of them worked.
|> 
|> You can use Fractint for OS/2 2.0 to 'Open' as a GIF and 'Save As...' an
|> OS/2 2.0 BMP.
|> 
|> -- 
|> 
|> Jack Tan                             If your parents didn't have kids,
|> jahk@uiuc.edu                          chances are you won't either.
You ca get it from hobes
A. Jakobsson
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: amichail@napier.uwaterloo.ca (Amir Michail)
Subject: 2.1 beta
Organization: University of Waterloo
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 15:06:16 GMT

I installed the beta on my machine, and encountered several problems...

(1) - changing the display resolution through selective install
      requires going through 16 disks or so.

(2) - ATI 800x600 256 colors won't install.  1024x768 installs but is much
      too slow on my ATI XL

(3) - popdown menus don't work in Word

(4) - The math equation editor doesn't work in Word.  Seems that the
      characters used are all wrong.


I heard that problem (3) was corrected.  Is this true?  I just downloaded
the beta from hobbes last week...

Thanks in advance for any clues.

Amir
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: swkgb@nuscc.nus.sg (George David Bishg)
Subject: Re: Must I have to reformat to install the new OS/2 2.1 beta
Organization: National University of Singapore
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL4
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 23:56:52 GMT

azzarito@cse.fau.edu (Doug Azzarito) writes:
: In article <81692@hydra.gatech.EDU> gt0040a@prism.gatech.EDU (Tom Sorensen) writes:
: >Question- I'll gladly format and reinstall, but how can I keep my GA+SP desktop?
: >I've got WPSBackup but is it safe to restore the 2.0 desktop (w/ INI files)
: >over the 2.1 one? I really don't want to deal with going through all the
: >customization again.
: 
: If you want to keep your existing setup, then don't re-format.  IBM is
: testing installation over 2.0.  I have done it on several machines with good
: results.

I tried installing 2.1 beta over 2.0.  It kept the desktop and worked --
to an extent.  However, after several crashes I decided to reformat and
load fresh.  I had saved the desktop using WPSBK7 off of Hobbes.  When I
restored the desktop everything came up fine.  Now the system works even
better than 2.0.  I recommend that you save the desktop, reformat and load
2.1b fresh.

George
From: SPGJAF@CMSA.Berkeley.Edu (Joseph A. Faracchio)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: XGA what?
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 93 12:58:51 PST
Organization: UC Berkeley (TCPIP)
NNTP-Posting-Host: cmsa.berkeley.edu

Re:   Radius XGA-2 ISA board not supported by OS/2 (yet).
 
 
Gee.  And Radius wants full list price of $499.00 for it,
and is only selling direct!!
 
Sounds like a great way to shot oneself in the foot.
Lucky for them it's not they're only product nor that they're a startup co.
.. joe.f.
p.s. $499.00  .. no thanks I'll pass at least for now.