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From: U35828@uicvm.uic.edu
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: Davys Dingbats and ATM
Date: 19 Aug 92 22:18:05 GMT
 <1992Aug17.184346.2054@njitgw.njit.edu>
 <1992Aug18.022355.24317@dragon.acadiau.ca>
Organization: University of Illinois at Chicago

In article <1992Aug18.022355.24317@dragon.acadiau.ca>, 880506s@dragon.acadiau.ca
(James R. Skinner) says:
>
>        A very large number of AFM's for adobe fonts can be found at
>cica.cica.indiana.edu in the directory /pub/ps/fonts/afms.  These metrics
>seem to work better than those created with PFM2AFM.
>
>        Proper ATM files may also be obtained directly from Adobe using
>their listserver at ps-listserver@adobe.com
>

   FYI, I obtained AFMS.ZOO from WUARCHIVE.WUSTL.EDU in their /mirrors/win3/
fonts/atm directory.  The highly sought DAVYDING.AFM file was there, but
I still had the same results:  system lockup, as well as other weird things
recurring (see my original post).

Regards,


John Serrano-U of I Chicago    | Press.  / This is the way the
<U35828@UICVM.CC.UIC.EDU>      | Press. <  Three Stooges crash
<U35828@UICVM.BITNET>          | Pull.   \ a party-Soitenly!


P.S.  Cica.cica.indiana.edu. is now ftp.cica.indiana.edu.  The ATM fonts are
      kept in /pub/pc/win3/fonts/atm.  Good luck in trying to get the afms.zoo
      file; most likely, you'll get an "access denied" message.
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: des@frogland.inmos.co.uk (David Shepherd)
Subject: Re: OS/2 doesn't recognize my FAT partition
Organization: INMOS architecture group
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 92 10:48:03 BST

In article <whitney2.713581533@husc10>, whitney2@husc10.harvard.edu (Wayne Whitney) writes:
>I have my hard disk partitioned as (according to pmfdisk):
>
>               Status      Access   File System  Mbytes
>Partition 1   Startable  C :Primary     HPFS      162
>Partition 2   None       D :Primary     FAT         9
>Partition 3   None         :Primary Unformatted    52
>Partition 4   None         :Primary Unformatted     9
>
>where partitions 3 and 4 are a Linux root partition and swap
>partition, respectively.  However, OS/2 doesn't seem to recognize
>Partition 2, the FAT partition--if I go to the OS/2 (or DOS) prompt
>and type 'D:', OS/2 responds 'SYS0015:  The system can not find the
>drive specified.'  I've tried booting from the install disk and
>shelling out--D: is not available from there, either.  Yet DOS booted
>from a floppy makes this partition available to me as C:.  Does anyone
>have any idea what the problem is?  Thanks.


read the installation guide section on partitions. 

however you boot you will only see *ONE* primary partition. 

booting OS/2 gets you partition 1 as C: and partition 2 is
ignored as it is a alternative primary partition

booting DOS from floppy gets you partition 2 as C: as it rejects
partition 1 as not being of the right format (it doesn't understand
HPFS).

you need to repartition. 

if you want partition 2 to be DOS bootable and accessible from OS/2
the partition 2 needs to be primary and partition 1 extended (??
forgotten right term for this) as OS/2 can boot off one of these.
downside here is OS/2 will probaly end of D:  :-(

if you don't need DOS boot make partition 2 extended and you get
to see it from OS/2

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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: What is needed with what args for SCSI tapes
From: browland@vax1.umkc.edu
Date: Sun, 23 Aug 1992 16:44:50 GMT
Organization: University of Missouri - Kansas City

We wish to use an Archive Python 2.0g SCSI 2 tape backup as data storage
for OS2.  For those of you who are using GTAK100, or whatever,  what do
you have in your config.sys that is required for operation.  I have
an ADAPTEC 1540A host adapter (no floppys)

-robert
From: gwni@troi.cc.rochester.edu (G. Wayne Nichols)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: if exist absent\nul (was: Re: null device)
Date: 12 Aug 92 21:47:56 GMT
Organization: University of Rochester - Rochester, New York

In <#z3m67p@lynx.unm.edu> galway@chtm.eece.unm.edu (Denis McKeon) writes:

>Has anyone else noticed that a DOS batch file trick with nul: stopped
>working - under DOS you could test for the existence of a directory:

>    set dir=string
>    if exist %dir%\nul goto :exists
>	mkdir %dir%
>	cd %dir%
>	pkunzip ..\%dir%.zip
>	goto :exit
>    :exists
>	echo directory %dir% exists, cannot create
>    :exit

>I haven't done exhaustive testing with script file yet, but the 
>"if exist dir\nul" behavior seems to be the same under cmd.exe, 
>VDM (emulated DOS) and VDB (bootable DOS image created with VMDISK).

>Is there a reasonable way to test for directory existence in a DOS 
>batch file (under a VDB or a VDM)?

Just thought I'd warn you that it doesn't work in DRDOS 6.0, either.
It's OK in MSDOS through 5.0, though.
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu (Timothy F. Sipples)
Subject: Re: Using memory above 8MB as page-cache
Keywords: help
Reply-To: sip1@midway.uchicago.edu
Organization: Dept. of Econ., Univ. of Chicago
Date: Tue, 18 Aug 1992 21:58:28 GMT

In article <15000@umd5.umd.edu> ralph@umsa8.umd.edu (Ralph Roland) writes:
>I have a 33Mhz '486 machine with 8Meg of "0 wait-state" RAM on
>the motherboard, and have just acquired a couple of Intel AboveBoard 
>memory cards (6Meg worth).  If these boards are added to the system
>and configured to supply the address range 8M-14M, everything seems
>to work as I expect.  The first 8Meg of ram is fast, the rest is *SLOW*
>(of course this ram is on the ISA bus, and is slow (150ns) to begin
>with, so this is exactly what I expected to happen).  If OS/2 is
>allowed to use this memory everything crawls to a standstill, with
>windows taking several seconds just to 'explode' open or closed.
>It appears OS/2 is allocating the higher memory first, and the kernal
>is getting mapped into the slow memory...oh well.

OS/2 2.0 is supposed to sense whether RAM is "slow" or "fast" and give
the nod to the faster memory.  Evidently it isn't quite doing that in
your case.

You might try increasing your disk caches so that they "fill up" the
expansion slot memory.  Better bet, though, is to sell the expansion
boards and use the proceeds to add RAM to your motherboard -- you
might come close to breaking even.

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From: Daniel.Karellen@f501.n914.z8.rbbs-net.ORG (Daniel Karellen)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Dos And Hpfs
Date: 19 Aug 92 08:12:14 GMT


-Unknown-    >If I format my hard drive as one large partition, and use HPFS,
does that
-Unknown-    >mean that I cannot use a DOS prompt anymore, since DOS will only
recognize
-Unknown-    >FAT?  How about DOS in a Window?
-Unknown-    >Or is the OS2 prompt *completely* DOS compatible?


The DOS prompt on OS/2 will see HPFS files.  It will truncate the names, but
you
can still run dos.  The only place I use FAT partitions is on floppys and
that's
cuz I have to.  DOS works fine (even the booted version under OS/2).  HPFS is
MUCH MUCH BETTER to run OS/2 under.  Every time I've run FAT partions for OS/2,
I kept losing my extended attributes.  If you boot a DOS disk however, you will
not see any HPFS partions.  I keep an OS/2 boot disk around just to be safe. 
You can make one with the file MKBTDISK.ZIP.  I'm not sure if it's on this bbs.
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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: Steve.Withers@bbs.actrix.gen.nz
Subject: Re: OS/2's lack of decent SVGA support (Re: OS/2 Drivers for Diamond)
Organization: Actrix Information Exchange
Date: Fri, 14 Aug 1992 08:25:37 GMT

In article <1992Aug13.200955.27485@news.Hawaii.Edu> ressler@galileo.ifa.hawaii.edu (Mike "IR" Ressler) writes:
> In article <1992Aug13.074422.17119@actrix.gen.nz> Steve.Withers@bbs.actrix.gen.nz writes:
> >In article <unruh.713646010@physics.ubc.ca> unruh@physics.ubc.ca (William Unruh) writes:
> >> 
> >> I thought that IBM stated that OS2 GA shipped with many video drivers
> >> for popular boards.
> >> 
> >
> >It *did*. That's why almost every VGA, XGA, 8514/a video card in creation
> >works just fine.
> 
> --- Flame thrower on ---
> 
> And why 90% of us are pissed off since we own SVGA cards which blow away VGA,
> XGA, and 8514/a, but which IBM decided to do an asinine job of supporting.
> Everytime someone asks "How do I get drivers for an ET-4000 card" I launch a
> long description of all the arcane things I had to do to get mine working; I
> should just publish it weekly as an addendum to Tim's FAQ. IBM $%^&ed up on
> the SVGA support; don't bother trying to defend them.
> 
> --- Flame thrower off ---

The problem was that IBM invited video card makers to the party - but hardly
anyone turned up! Microsoft had them convinced that OS/2 was going to sink
with out trace. 

IBM can't - shouldn't have too - write video cards for the dozen or more
popular implementations of SVGA. Trident has done *very* well out of OS/2 so
far. I know of several people who have junked their existing video cards and
bought Trident-based cards purely for the OS/2 drivers. OK, they aren't the
fastest cards in the world, but they are a cheap alternative and the deliver
the goods - seamless  Windows at 800x600x16. All the higher resolutions and
colours are supported, but not seamless. 
 
I was using the 800x600x256 driver, but I found it slowish and I really didn't
need the extra colours for anything other than Wolfestien 3D. Changing video
drivers under OS/2 is so easy, I just use DDINSTAL when i want a round of
shootem-ups!
 
IBM provided the interface for the drivers. They did their job. Now the video
card manufacturers are busy writing drivers - even REALTEK are writing OS/2
drivers.
 
Steve
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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: dab6@po.CWRU.Edu (Douglas A. Bell)
Subject: Doug Lamb is incorrect. (was Re: Win NT support in OS/2
Reply-To: dab6@po.CWRU.Edu (Douglas A. Bell)
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
Date: Fri, 14 Aug 92 14:45:39 GMT


In a previous article, dtl8v@holmes.acc.Virginia.EDU (Heracleitus) says:

[Concerning Doug Lamb's first post to this group.]

>>This is the most idiotic article I've ever seen on the net.  Why should
>>IBM support Windows NT, which is supposed to be OS/2's opponent? We've
>>gotten enough of those bullshit expressed by those who are supposed
>>to have brains. The support of Windows 3.0/DOS is used to ease the
>>pain of *migrating* the users into the OS/2 2.0 kingdom. If you like 
>>Windows NT, go get the CD ROM and leave us alone.

>
>  Flame all you want, Mr.  I was just seeking information.  It is a
>FACT that IBM licensed the code to Windows NT from Microsoft and
>should therefore have the RIGHT to include the NT kernel in OS/2 3.0.

Doug Lamb,

Here is why that fellow said that you made such an idiotic post:

IBM has refused to license the Windows NT kernal.  At least according
to both PC Week and Info World.  It was part of the new software licensing 
agreement between IBM an and Microsoft.  They no longer license the product.
They have no rights to incorporate the code into their products. 
They didn't want it.  The only right IBM has to it is to resell it as
another vendor.  Please, when you make such emphatic statements on the net,
make sure that you are correct before you do it.

The other parts of the IBM microsoft agreement include a 20 million dollar
payment by MS to IBM for rights to use some software patents, and the right
to share code for regular windows, OS/2 and dos until september '93.
At the end of this time, niether IBM or microsoft will be able to incorporate
any new feature from those operating systems (not NT) into new products.
They also worked out an agreement as to the amount of royalties to be
paid to microsoft for each copy of OS/2 2.0 sold.

IBM has said that they are considering using the Mach Kernal for a portable
OS/2 2.0.
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: mig@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Meir I Green)
Subject: Re: OS/2 Needs a Supervisor mode!
Reply-To: mig@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Meir I Green)
Organization: Columbia University, New York
Date: Tue, 18 Aug 1992 01:59:19 GMT

>In article <1992Aug16.161525.23512@tamsun.tamu.edu> bdubbs@cs.tamu.edu (Bruce Dubbs) writes:
>>
>>Why don't you just make CONFIG.SYS read only using the ATTRIB command?
>>Ditto for the .dll's.  This may not be a perfect solution, but since
>>OS/2 traps I/O, a program cannot bypass it and manipulate the hardware
>>directly.

I did this for DOS, and OS/2 1.3.  In both cases it was more trouble than it
was worth.  It is too hard to make changes intentionally.  Installing the CSD
was nearly impossible.  I had to re-attrib all the files....  What makes you
think a supervisor mode isn't simpler!?

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From: marten@feki.toppoint.de (Marten Feldtmann)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: OS/2 2.0 without Windows and DOS available?
Distribution: world
Date: Thu, 20 Aug 92 18:22:30 GMT
Organization: Private Site

I would like to know, if there is a package of OS/2 2.0 available
without Windows 3.0 and DOS?

If not a public product -- would it be possible to get this from IBM --
of course for less money ... has anyone heard of something like this.

 MF


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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: linstee@dutecaj.et.tudelft.nl (Erik van Linstee)
Subject: No network object, but there should be..
Organization: Delft University of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering
Date: Fri, 21 Aug 1992 10:23:06 GMT

I was just reading through the manuals and found a passage saying
that if your computer is connected to a network, a network object
is put on your desktop. Now the computer I installed on is connected
to a LAN through a IBM Token Ring card, but I did not get the object.
Is there a way to install this afterwards, and why wasn't it straight
off? The machine is an IBM PS/2 model 56 SX by the way.

Erik

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From: rovero@oc.nps.navy.mil (Josh Rovero)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc,comp.unix.sysv386
Subject: Re: It's SCSI time! (DTC, SyQuest, what?)
Date: 14 Aug 92 14:31:33 GMT
Organization: Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey CA

The DTC 3280 that Hard Drives Int'l sold me did *not* come with OS/2 drivers.
The DTC tech support person I talked to last month said they were working
on soid drivers, but he had no idea when they would be done.


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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: bradleyt@spot.Colorado.EDU (Slan (rhymes with pawn))
Subject: Using MTEZ to fax under OS/2 2.0 (any hints welcomed)
Organization: University of Colorado, Boulder
Date: Wed, 12 Aug 1992 16:27:31 GMT

Hi folks.  I recently took advantage of the great deals on
the current wave of high speed fax/modems and got a Zoom,
which comes with a program called MTEZ.  This is a combination
modem/terminal emulator program and a fax receiver/sender
program.

I'm having a problem with the fax part and I recall seeing
a long discussion on faxing under OS/2 here a couple of
months ago.  At the time, unfortunately, I didn't have any
interest because I didn't have a fax modem, but now I do.

The problem I've having (and it's a doozy) is that whenever
I use the FAX portion of MTEZ, when I go to exit the program,
it completely stops OS/2 with a Trap 000d.  The program seems
to work fine under standalone DOS, but in an OS/2 VDM, it
just brings the whole system down (which, from my understanding
of the concept of virtual machines and protected operating
systems, isn't supposed to happen).

Now, in rapid fire list format, here are my questions:

1. Does anyone else use MTEZ under OS/2 2.0?  If so, is it
possible to get the fax part to work?

2. Is my recollection that DOS fax programs in general are
not suitable for OS/2 correct?

3. Considering the big deal made about how advanced OS/2 is
because it protects DOS sessions from one another, how is it 
that one single program can kill the whole OS/2 system?

4. Out of curiosity, does anyone know if Windows NT does a 
better job of handling DOS fax programs?

I appreciate any help you can give.  Also, this subject wasn't
in Tim's FAQ.  Should it be?

Todd.
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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: swknasri@nuscc.nus.sg (Sriram N (Dr))
Subject: Why does CHKDSK D: /F: 3 take 2 hours?
Organization: National University of Singapore
Date: Fri, 14 Aug 1992 08:13:07 GMT

Periodically, I do a CHKDSK of my HPFS partition (290 MB) from the
A: drive after booting up using the install diskettes.  My IDE drive
is a MAxtor XT-4380E (330 MB, FDISK shows only 320).  The motherboard
is Mylex 486/25 EISA, 8MB RAM, generic I/O card, WD SVGA card.

After invoking CHKDSK, I see the program reading the HDD and see
25 % complete on screen.  Thereafter, it is a slooooow crawl, at the
rate of 10 minutes/ 5%.  I should mention that there is 200MB free
space on the drive. Previously, SCO ODT :-) was on the HDD.  I did
the usual repartitoning and formatting using the OS/2 install program.
Should I have done a low-level format before I installed?

Generally, OS/2 has been behaving well and the HPFS disk access is
ok (although of late, it seems to be slower in DOS sessions).  My
SWAPPER file is usually around 5 Meg.  And I believe that the 
problem with CHKDSK is recent (I can't say for sure whether it
has always been this way;probably not).

When I do a FDISK from OS/2 how should the table read? I have
a boot-manager setup, 30MB FAT C: Drive, the rest HPFS.
I am particularly interested in knowing the distinction(s) among
installable, bootable and startable partitions.

Unlike the D drive, CHKDSK zips through the C drive.  On the D
drive, the drive light seems to be on continuously, as CHKDSK moves
glacially.  I should add that it fixes allocation problems before
the crawl.

Someone, give me a clue.


Sriram [the sigless one]
From: pfr@drsrv1.hmi.de (Fritsch_Wolfgang)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: running clock damages system?
Date: 17 Aug 92 13:23:16 GMT
Organization: Hahn-Meitner-Institut Berlin GmbH

After applying the patches from ftp-os2.nmsu.edu, I have not had any
system failures any more, except occasional stoppages which were
remedied by dropping the running clock. The clock might somehow interact
badly with some of the other applications, hence my question is here:
can anybody confirm my observation that the PM clock just might bring
down the system?

Actually, another necessary condition to a stable system seemed to be:
don't mess with the icons! I have a collection from hobbes which I
used to decorate Dos applications on the WPS. But more often than none,
during such a design session I would encounter system problems...

Wolfgang Fritsch
pfr@psun2.hmi.de
 

Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: chris.chambers@rose.com (chris chambers)
Subject: How to retain DESKTOP
Organization: Rose Media Inc, Toronto, Ontario.
Date: Sat, 22 Aug 1992 17:24:59 GMT
X-Gated-By: Usenet <==> RoseMail Gateway (v1.70)


Date Entered: 08-22-92 12:16
In article <stanton.451.0@haas.berkeley.edu> stanton@haas.berkeley.edu writes

> Several people have kindly given me instructions about moving from a fully
> FAT system to a HPFS system, and the consensus is that I need to back up my
> data, reinstall OS/2 with HPFS, and restore again.

Correct.  Have a least one backup of all user programs and data.

> apart from one BIG hassle I can see. Do I have to reinstall the default
> DESKTOP under HPFS, then customize it from scratch? This would be an
> incredible pain. If there's a way to save my current desktop settings, then
> restore them under HPFS, I'd be very grateful to anybody who could tell me
> how.

I see this question starting to appear periodically, as I expected
it would.  I asked this question a few months ago, and suggested
that people would be running into this problem.  I did not get any
good answers.

From my experiences, I found that WPSBK2 could not do the restore
properly because the filename used by OS/2 for FAT vs HPFS are
different.  I tried to manually replace the FAT filenames with the
HPFS equivalents, perform the restore, and substitute the FAT .ini
files.  I was unable to get the system to boot and present a
working WPS.  In theory, it should work, but I was unsuccessful.
WPSBK3 may have some enhancements to address this, but I have not
tried it.

If you are willing to play around, you should know that there are
some other programs which may be of assistance.  They are EABK20
which will backup and restore the extended attributes (all or
selected files or directories), EAUTIL which come with OS/2 (EABK20
automates the use of this program), and SHWINI which is a REXX
procedure to copy and restore the contents of your .ini files.

In any event, you should be in a position to restore your FAT drive
to its original state, if something above fails, or you run short of
time.  In any event, be prepared to operate as a pioneer.
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From: csci11ba@cl2.cl.uh.edu (451924952 NEWMAN, DANA FRANK)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Whats needed to run E.EXE?
Date: 19 Aug 92 14:47:00 GMT
Article-I.D.: cl2.19AUG199208472481
Reply-To: CSCI11BA@cl.uh.edu
Organization: University of Houston - Clear Lake
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.4-b1

Greetings,

I just made myself a bootable floppy with MAKEBOOT.CMD, and now I am 
trying to figure out how to invoke the system editor (E.EXE)... 
with no luck.  It seems the more DLL's I point to in config.sys, the
more trouble I am getting myself into.  Id like to be able to put
E.EXE on a floppy, and run it from there, just in case the HD crashes, etc.

So, can anybody tell me what I need to stick on the floppy in order to 
execute the system editor without the system telling me it cant find
'xxxx'.DLL???

Regards,

D. Newman
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc