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From: price@helios.unl.edu (Chad  Price)
Subject: Re: Hidden Files, Defragmentation, Backup
Organization: University of Nebraska - Lincoln
Date: 20 Aug 92 19:00:05 GMT

sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu (Timothy F. Sipples) writes:

>In article <1992Aug19.161500.15942@sbcs.sunysb.edu> mjn@sbstaff2.cs.sunysb.edu (The Sixth Replicant) writes:
>>In the August "Inside OS/2" there's an article about defragmenting FAT
>>partitions. It suggests making EA DATA. SF non-hidden while defragmenting
>>so that it can be defragmented. This made me wonder about whether other
>>hidden OS2 files are movable. I'm interested for two reasons. First, 
>>to get maximum defragmentation, and second to be able to backup and
>>restore without reinstalling OS/2. What can people tell me about the movability
>>following hidden files ?
>>    \os2\system\boot.os2
>Yes.
>>    \os2\bitmap\aaaaa.exe
>Yes.
>>    \os2\bitmap\aaaaa.met
>Yes.
>>    \io.sys
>No.
>>    \msdos.sys
>No.
>>    \ea data. sf
>Yes.
>>    \os2boot
>No.
>>    \os2ldr
>Yes.
>>    \wp root. sf
>Yes.
>>    \os2krnl
>Yes.
...

A word of caution: I tried this - made the above mentioned files non-hidden and
and system and non-read-only, and wound up having to reformat the drive and
reinstall everything. Timothy is usually right, but I would be VERY cautious
about this ... perhaps my mistake was in moving os2boot (?)

In any case, Timothy, where did you find out about the movability/immovability
of the various files. I've glanced throught the Red Books and not yet spotted
the answer there. Where is it??


--
chad
price@helios.unl.edu
cprice@molecular.unmc.edu
From: ddurby@aludra.usc.edu (Dennis Durby)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: Word Perfect under OS/2
Date: 19 Aug 1992 22:53:05 -0700
Organization: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
NNTP-Posting-Host: aludra.usc.edu

In article <568RPB1w164w@gorilla.nbn.com> holmes@gorilla.nbn.com (Tim Holmes) writes:
>When I use WP 5.1 under OS/2, it has a very hard time opening 
>text files.  Little ones will eventually open, but with large ones,
>say over 80k, WP says "DOS text conversion in progress", but it
>just sits there for minutes (or longer, I haven't waited) with
>no hard disk accesses or anything.  I went through it with
>IBM Tech Support in Florida, and they were able to duplicate the problem, 
>but it was kind of left as, "well, you should call back and see if
>there's any news, this report will be automatically erased in
>28 days."  Didn't inspire too much confidence.
>
>There must be people running WP under OS/2.  This seems like a
>pretty major bug.  I hope this one isn't just erased after 28 days.
>Anybody out there have this problem?  Or a work around for it?
>

Tim-  Wait 'til you try a merge!  In about 15 minutes, it'll merge 5 or so
names into a letter.  Incredibly slooooowwww.  However, a work-around for 
the problem you outlined.  I have this happen too.  Instead of using R or 1 
for "Retrieve" document, highlight the document name in F5 (list files), then
press CTRL-F5, and then release.  The document will come on screen rather 
quickly (I believe this option was mentioned in some older wordperfect stuff 
unrelated to OS/2 a few years back).  It seems to retrieve with CR/LF as 
a hard return.  Don't have a work around for soft return yet.  I just wish 
the damn thing would work with a simple "R" from the List Files screen.

Anyhow, best of luck.  Oh, in the future, please post questions regarding 
apps to the comp.os.os2.apps list instead of here on comp.os.os2.misc .
Hope this works for you!

-Dennis Durby-
durby@aludra.usc.edu



Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: feustel@netcom.com (David Feustel)
Subject: Iomega Device Driver Warning!!!
Date: Tue, 18 Aug 92 23:40:48 GMT
Organization: DAFCO: OS/2 Software Support & Consulting

This posting is a caveat concerning use of the IOMEGA Bernoulli Box
Device Drivers for OS/2 v2.0.

Installation of the driver consistantly crashed my machine during
bootup just after getting the message from the Iomega driver that OAD
installation completed successfully. I could not use my machine until
I removed the DEVICE=C:\OAD\OS2.SYS command from C:\CONFIG.SYS.

I found upon trying to reboot from an os/2 v2.0 1.4 meg boot floppy,
that disks c: & e:, having been stopped without a proper shutdown,
were inaccessible. These drives would only become accessible *after*
successfully executing chkdsk /f on them. However, c: & e: were
formatted as HPFS. Chkdsk cannot fix an HPFS drive without using the
file uhpfs.dll which is 178,000 bytes long and does not fit on the
1.4 meg boot floppy created by the rexx procedure MKBOOT1.CMD which I
obtained from hobbes.nmsu.edu.

Fortunately, I was able to copy CHKDSK.COM and UHPFS.DLL from another
OS/2 machine onto a floppy. I then ran CHKDSK.COM from this floppy to
repair my c: and e: drives so that I could again use my system.

I have reported the problem with the malfunctioning driver to Iomega.

I strongly encourage anyone using HPFS on the c: drive to make sure
that they have a bootable a: b: pair of os/2 diskettes with chkdsk
software included so that they can unlock their c: drive after a
system crash.

Having survived this first problem with repairing an HPFS disk after a
system crash, I'm now even more sold on HPFS than ever. I only wish
now that IBM would make HPFS more POSIX compliant by making HPFS
case-sensitive.


-- 
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The War on Drugs is a full-employment program for psycho/socio-paths.
From: bgm@cray.com (Bert Moshier)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Does OS/2 have the equaivalent of the UNIX usage of ``?
Date: 13 Aug 92 21:34:11 GMT
Organization: Cray Research, Inc.

Everyone / Anyone:

Does OS/2 have the equaivalent of the UNIX usage of ``?  For example, the
command: grep "---" `find . -name ~*~ -print` is very useful.  It finds
all files/directories and passes the to grep as its parameters (filesnames).

Thanks in advance.

Bert.
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: fritz@ra.csc.ti.com (Fritz Whittington)
Subject: Re: HOW to INSTALL Fonts??
Organization: Texas Instruments
Date: Mon, 17 Aug 1992 16:01:21 GMT

In article <19920817.071027.117@almaden.ibm.com> bigred@vnet.ibm.com (Greg Forney) writes:
>Disclaimer: This posting represents the poster's views, not those of IBM
>News-Software: UReply 3.0
>X-X-From: bigred@vnet.ibm.com (Greg Forney)
>References: <1992Aug17.064054.18544@usl.edu>
>
>In <1992Aug17.064054.18544@usl.edu> Stephenson Daniel A writes:
>>Hi there.
>>
>>I downloaded a font yesterday, and danged if I cannot figure how
>>to install it so OS/2 System Editor 'sees' it!
>>
>>Does anyone know how and could mail or post the answer?
>>The Master Hep Index, once again, was *totall* useless.
>
>I've been following the Master Help for adding fonts and
>using the EDIT FONTs button in the System Setup folder
>in the OS2 system icon and the system editor sees them just
>fine. Where are you getting stuck? The only strangeness
>I've seen is that some fonts require that I reboot before
>print driver will handle them.
>
>GregF

Note also that (assuming Type 1 fonts) you must have the x.AFM file as
well of the x.PFB font def file.  A lot of the fonts that are
available for downloading right now have the x.PFM file instead of the
x.AFM file.  Get the original x.AFM file that goes with the font if
you can locate it, or otherwise retrieve pfm2afm.zoo from
ftp-os2.nmsu.edu and use it to convert the x.PFM to an x.AFM.


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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: mskreis@iastate.edu (Mark S Kreisberg)
Subject: Can't print from lpt2
Organization: Iowa State University, Ames, IA
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1992 07:48:11 GMT


I just purchased a parallel printer adapter so that I could use my second
printer.  Unfortunately, the IRQ assignment for this card is fixed at
IRQ 7.  So, I enabled IRQ 5 on my I/O card (which, by default, is set to
lpt2) by disabling IRQ7 and set the I/O address on the adapter to lpt1.

I hooked up both printers, made sure the appropriate drivers were install-
ed, and began some testing.  The printer on lpt1 functions properly; however,
when I try to print a file on the other printer, the process times out and I
get a "Printer not responding!" message.

Both ports work through DOS 5.0, so perhaps I'm doing something incorrectly.
Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,
Mark K
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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: cvadrtbc@vmsb.is.csupomona.edu (Srikanth Viswanathan)
Subject: Re:  Two PMSHELLs running?
Organization: California Polytechnic University, Pomona
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41    
Date: Sat, 22 Aug 1992 23:09:00 GMT
X-Posted-From: vmsb.is.csupomona.edu
X-Posted-Through: sol.ctr.columbia.edu

In article <1992Aug20.171039.2596@colorado.edu>, doug@shako.Colorado.EDU (Doug McKnight) writes...
> 
>If I use "procs" it reports that PMSHELL is running twice. Is this normal?
>I suspect not and that it is a result of an imperfect recovery from a disaster
>that left me with two desktops. 
> 
>How can I tidy up? Killem does nothing on one of these processes and on the 
>other it just shuts down the wps which then restarts itself. 

I think it is normal.  One PMSHELL.EXE is the PROTSHELL and the other one
is the actual WPS.  

Srikanth
From: msf@skaro.as.arizona.edu (Michael Fulbright)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Mouse pointer disappears
Date: 18 Aug 92 05:19:37 GMT
Distribution: na
Organization: University of Arizona UNIX Users Group


I am having trouble with losing my mouse pointer when I switch to full
screen DOS or WIN-OS/2 sessions. I have a Tseng 4000 based card. I am
running PM at 1024x768x16 with the newer orchid drivers from hobbes. I
am running WIN-OS/2 with Win3.0 driver from Boca at 640x480x256. When I
run a WIN-OS/2 program, say WINGIF, everything works fine UNTIL I switch
back to the PM desktop. When I return to the WIN-OS/2 session the mouse
pointer has vanished, although the mouse works (you can push buttons
and things happen). I have VIDEO_SWITCH_NOTIFICATION set on, and I have
MOUSE_EXCLUSIVE_ACCESS set on as well. Is there a problem with using
different video mode in PM and full screen WIN-OS/2? 

The problem is restricted to WIN-OS/2, cause I lose the pointer in DOS games
when I return to them.  I am using a Microsoft compatiable mouse, if that
helps.

thanks
michael fulbright
msf@skaro.as.arizona.edu
From: mlevis@ringer.cs.utsa.edu (Mike Levis)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: Two New OS/2 Books from Abacus
Date: 22 Aug 92 22:52:12 GMT
Organization: University of Texas at San Antonio

In article <1992Aug22.205549.4416@sol.UVic.CA> gwebster@ugly.UVic.CA (This space for rent) writes:
>In article <1992Aug22.172955.7060@midway.uchicago.edu> sip1@midway.uchicago.edu writes:
>>OS/2 Complete: From installation, to overview, to the basics of the
>>Presentation Manager, you'll learn how to take full advantage of this
>>new operating environment.  Item #B157.  ISBN 1-55755-157-X.  Sugg.
>>Price $24.95.
>
>First Windows is an "operating system" now OS/2 is an "operating environment"
>????
>
>Things are getting out of hand...

I've seen OS/2 at the stores, but in the "DOS utilities" section.

>| Gord Webster           | Be cool or be cast out - Rush               |

                    also:   Conform or be cast out - Rush

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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: thomasr@cpqhou.compaq.com (Thomas Rush)
Subject: Re: Impressions of Windows NT
Reply-To: thomasr@cpqhou.UUCP (Thomas Rush)
Organization: Compaq Computer Corporation
Date: Wed, 12 Aug 92 12:54:16 GMT
Keywords: R4000

In article <7AUG199221292854@vmsb.is.csupomona.edu> cvadrtbc@vmsb.is.csupomona.edu (Srikanth Viswanathan) writes:
>In article <1992Aug6.071330.10059@ccu1.aukuni.ac.nz>, stuartw@ccu1.aukuni.ac.nz (Stuart Woolford) writes...
>> 
>>not really, the advantage of 64bit is computational, and has very little to do
>>with the os ( or do you really think you will nead over 4G memory?? )
>
>Gee, I think it was Bill Gates who said "640K should be enough for
>anybody".  

Or even better yet, Peter Norton in the "New, Revised" edition of
_Inside_the_IBM_PC_ (Second edition?), commenting on the new IBM AT
and its RAM said, basically, "The AT comes with 256K of RAM, which 
will be more than enough for all but a few specialized applications."



thomas rush				uunet!cpqhou!thomasr
compaq computer corporation		their employee,
deep in the hearth of texas		not their opinions.
From: ms5u+@andrew.cmu.edu (Marc A. Shannon)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Drivers for Paradise?
Date: 14 Aug 92 10:07:29 GMT
Article-I.D.: andrew.MeWzNVa00WBN83C1Rd
Organization: Special Projects, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA

I've got a Paradise SVGA and would love to have a 256-color WPS.  I've
seen lots of talk on here about many other's drivers, but surprisingly
(maybe not so) nothing about Paradise.

Did I miss the boat?  Is there a way I can choose my off-magenta-with-a-
hint-of-green color? :-)

--Marc
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: zeglins@ccu.umanitoba.ca (Gordon W. Zeglinski)
Subject: Commga drivers
Summary: New commga drivers crash the system
Keywords: com
Organization: University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada
Date: Thu, 20 Aug 1992 15:14:13 GMT

IT would seem as if the new commga drivers are very buggy.  They will consistently hang os/2 with a trap 000d error
at ##0160:fff6452b-000d:a52b


This will occur every time a zmodem download is initialtd (via m2zmodem)
through ckermit v 5a.179 beta.

The exact problem is that the drivers seem to go into a one-way mode.
They appear to only allow data to flow out but no data can come in.
Once the com port is released -- kermit is exited, the system hangs.

If it matters I have a ISA based 486 using the latest patches for
everything. Except the com ports of course.


Gord.

-- 
Gord.
From: dic5340@hertz.njit.edu (David Charlap)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: Template problem
Date: 21 Aug 92 19:24:36 GMT
Organization: New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, N.J.

In article <t2#n_4a.bob@netcom.com> bob@netcom.com (Bob Becker) writes:
>I have a problem.  Somehow, and I have no idea how, I find myself
>with multiple Printer, Font Palette, Program, and Scheme Palette
>templates.  I'd like to get rid of the extra ones, but I don't
>know how to do it.  

You probably created the duplicate templates by ctrl-dragging them
(instead of just dragging them) when creating documents from them.

I don't think you can shred (or delete) a template, but you can change
it from a template to a document and shred that.  Go to the template's
settings.  One page (I think it's the last, "general" page) contains a
check box labeled "template".  Uncheck this box.  Your template will
become an ordinary file.  Shred this.


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From: dn@hplb.hpl.hp.com (Daniel Neades)
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1992 14:05:30 GMT
Subject: Re: Re: Idea for a unique delete?(for lack of a better description)
Organization: Hewlett-Packard Laboratories
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Reply-To: dn@hplb.hpl.hp.com (Daniel Neades)

In article <1992Aug13.111004.2582@kub.nl>, hoppie@kub.nl (Jeroen
Hoppenbrouwers) writes:
|>In article <1992Aug12.024411.3787@afit.af.mil>, fkilpatr@afit.af.mil
|>(Freeman A. Kilpatrick) writes:
|>>Why not just make a 'trash' directory, shadow it to the desktop, then
|>
|>(stuff deleted)
|>
|>I caught some people in this tread complaining about the Shredder not
|>being able to recover shredded objects. Although you cannot open the
|>shredder (reason why all Trashcan imitations posted so far are really
|>useful), there *IS* a way to recover shredded items.
|>
|>Just add the DELDIR= line to your CONFIG.SYS (OS/2 install puts it

yeah, yeah...

|>UNDELETE former-filename-incl.-path
|>
|>So this is no hacked undelete that picks up disk sectors, but an official
|>OS/2 utility that reads the deleted file back out the DELDIR directory.
|>
|>In this dir, files are stores in a "proprietary" manner and they are not
|>visible with DIR. So, the trashcan approach is still better :-)
|>but at least, with a very simple trick, you can recover from deletes.
|>In fact, you can even recover from Empty Trash!  :-)

I'd hardly call setting the hidden attribute 'proprietary' :-)

The problem with using the undelete facility is that it makes file
deletes much slower, particularly if you are deleting many small files (say, 
a couple of hundred icons). The time taken to delete a file seems to
exponentially increase with the number of files sitting in the DELDIR.
Of course, it may just be me that finds this a problem so I'd be glad to
here about other peoples' experience with DELDIR and UNDELETE.

BTW, I have a 486DX/25 (12Mb RAM) with a 10ms 245 IDE drive so I
definitely think that this is a problem with OS/2 and not my hardware.
I have no other performance related problems.

Daniel.
From: bab@se39.wg2.waii.com (Brian Button)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: UPDATE : CAN print through Win-OS/2 :)
Date: 13 Aug 92 12:54:22 GMT
Organization: Western Geophysical Exploration Products

It's fixed! I figured out what the problem was and now I'm able to
print just fine. Many thanks to Martin Lansche for the pointer to the
problem. He mentioned that Win-OS/2 seemed to want write to a file
LPT1.OS2 on C:. I don't know if it is actually looking for a file
there, but it definitely won't work if your C: drive is not formatted.

This was proven by formatting the partition FAT and trying to print. I
worked fine. I then removed the partition and recreated it as
unformatted. It didn't work. I reformatted the partition and could
print again. Sounds pretty convincing to me!

Thanks again for all the net.help, especially to Martin.

bab

PS - I'm phoning IBM to close this problem and tell them what the
solution was.
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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: rda612c@monu6.cc.monash.edu.au (js [schwobby])
Subject: video cards
Summary: video cards
Keywords: video cards
Organization: Monash University, Caulfield Campus
Date: Thu, 20 Aug 1992 01:31:18 GMT

Hi newsgroup.

   I just bought a new board: 486, EISA config, Overdrive config able.

I want to buy a new graphics card.

My dealer sells a diamond speedstar for $A280 with a trade in (tseng
labs ET4000).

  - Are there drives for OS2 for those cards?
  - If not will they come up soon?
  - How good is this card in comparison to ATI ULTRA?
  - How good are the cards for my new board?

I know it is much better then the tseng labs card (24bit, the new one!)


Please send me some email or post to the group.

thanks very much in advance.
regards
      schwobby
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From: hamish@waikato.ac.nz
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: S3 Advice Wanted
Date: 22 Aug 92 21:36:39 +1200
Organization: University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand

In article <geXGAK_00WBNA1VlsV@andrew.cmu.edu>, ml3q+@andrew.cmu.edu (Michael H. Lambert) writes:
> I plan to purchase a 486 box with a Diamond Stealth S3-based video card.
>  I would like to run OS/2.  However, I know that S3 drivers are not yet
> available and I understand that the Diamond Stealth is not 8514a
> compatible.  I would appear to have two options (not counting buying a
> different video card):  1) install OS/2 with a standard VGA driver then
> install an S3 driver when they come out 2) wait until drivers for the
> Diamond Stealth are released.  As I am not currently running OS/2, I
> have no idea how difficult it would be to change video drivers.  Any
> suggestions on what I should do?

You can run the S3 cards with normal VGA drivers. (The S3 is an enhanced vga
chip, with an enhanced mode for SVGA and H/W line draw etc). Changing video
drivers is sometimes simple (Same card), sometomes hard (Changing to a
different card).

I would say get the card now (Contrary to public opinion, I have found no speed
difference between the S3 and the ET4000 using the std VGA drivers at std VGA
res.).


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|  Programmer (n/5), School of Computing and Mathematical Sciences           | 
|  University of Waikato,                                                    |
|  Hamilton, New Zealand.                                                    |
|Disclaimer:  Anything said in this message is the personal opinion of the   |
|             finger hitting the keyboard & doesn't represent my employers   |
|             opinion in any way. (ie we probably don't agree)               |
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From: keating@casemo.UUCP (John Keating )
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: IBM Upgrades
Date: 19 Aug 92 18:14:41 GMT
Organization: Dowty Communications, Inc.

Okay, I stand here, blushing about my earlier tirade about how long it has
taken for IBM's Redemption Center to get around to sending me my free
upgrades.  I just came back from lunch, and found that I had a big, heavy
box waiting in Receiving for me.  Turns out it's my upgrades.  Wow, I guess
the squeaky wheel really does get the grease.  <grin>

I am glad that IBM finally shipped the upgrades, but I am still disappointed
by the time it took.  (Plus, I am still waiting for my copy of the Toolkit).
If IBM doesn't start marketing OS/2 correctly, they *will* lose to MS.  For
any of its bad points, MS does know how to market software to the masses,
and even to the developers.

John Keating, III


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From: KENKAHN@PKSMRVM.VNET.IBM.COM ("Kenneth A. Kahn")
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: DOS and HPFS
Date: 18 Aug 92 11:47:59 GMT

Organization: Staff of IBM Fellow - NetWork Computing
Disclaimer: This posting represents the poster's views, not those of IBM
News-Software: UReply 3.0
X-X-From: KENKAHN@PKSMRVM.VNET.IBM.COM (Ken Kahn)

In <1992Aug18.054401.25666@sarah.albany.edu> pv9955@albnyvms.bitnet writes:
>If I format my hard drive as one large partition, and use HPFS, does that
>mean that I cannot use a DOS prompt anymore, since DOS will only recognize
>FAT?  How about DOS in a Window?
>Or is the OS2 prompt *completely* DOS compatible?
>

If you're refering to the VDM Prompt under OS/2 V2, it can access either
FAT or HPFS.  The only 'catch' is HPFS files must be in 8.3 format.
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc