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From: dregeczi@fraser.sfu.ca (David Joseph Regeczi)
Subject: Re: dvorak keyboard
Organization: Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C., Canada
Distribution: comp
Date: Tue, 24 Nov 1992 00:41:43 GMT

shabby@Athena.MIT.EDU (Chris Shabsin) writes:

>Does anyone have a way to set up OS/2 to run with a DVORAK keyboard?
>Perhaps a replacement for a DLL?  What would really be cool would be
>one where you could change on the fly from, perhaps, the keyboard
>object in System Setup?  Hmm... there are applications here... :)  If
>only they made the source to OS/2 public :)
                                                                      
With regards to the same question, I was told to get a program called 
SWAPDCP available on hobbes.  The program will allow you to switch keys on
the keyboard (in theory) hence allowing you to set up your keyboard.dcp file
to a DVORAK set up.  Unfortunately, I was not able to get it to work properly.
Post or mail me if it works for you (or if you find another way).


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|   Simon Fraser University       |  a full load always hurt my back; I flew | 
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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu (Timothy F. Sipples)
Subject: Re: Boca XVGA compatable w/ IBM XGA?
Reply-To: sip1@midway.uchicago.edu
Organization: Dept. of Econ., Univ. of Chicago
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 18:58:10 GMT

In article <Bxx9LC.MnF@mentor.cc.purdue.edu> ericwolf@mentor.cc.purdue.edu (Eric Wolf) writes:
>Is the XVGA card sold by BOCA research compatable with the IBM XGA standard?
>I want to get this card and use the XGA drivers for WPS and seemless windows.
>Any info would be greatly appreciated!  I hope to order it today so the sooner
>the better...

No, and they might find themselves in hot trademark water.

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Dept. of Econ., Univ.   | /faq, or from LISTSERV@BLEKUL11.BITNET (send "HELP")
of Chicago, 60637       | [Read the List, THEN post to ONE OS/2 newsgroup.]
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: fab9452@nigel.tamu.edu (Allan Bailey)
Subject: WPS lost Menu items
Organization: Texas A & M University
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 19:24:29 GMT


   I've lost the "lockout now" and "shutdown" options to my menu in the
WorkPlace Shell.

   Can anyone tell me how to get them back? or where the referenced
programms are that those menu options call?

  any and all help would be appreciated.

-- 
Allan Bailey, UNIX programmer, CSC
fab9452@nigel.tamu.edu
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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: CBURMAN@FINABO.ABO.FI (Chris Burman)
Subject: CSD and a growing swapper.dat
Organization: The Clam of Reason Ltd.
Date: Sat, 21 Nov 1992 20:13:27 GMT
X-News-Reader: VMS NEWS 1.24

There was a pre-CSD fix for the growing swapper.dat problem. Well, has 
anybody tried it with the CSD? (I'm not really keen on experimenting... 
I've re-installed quite enough many times, thank you...)

My swap file jumps to 12-13 MB (on a 8MB system) after an hour or two, 
and refuses to shrink. I'm pretty tight on disk space, and the problem 
is getting critical.

Is there any way to force the swap file to let go of old stuff? (I mean, 
without having to reboot.)

Any hints? Any at all?


Chris Burman, cburman@abo.fi
From: dic5340@hertz.njit.edu (David Charlap)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: Please HELP... Highlighted text unreadable in window.
Date: 15 Nov 92 21:17:46 GMT
Organization: New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, N.J.

In article <1992Nov13.181435.28699@a.cs.okstate.edu> cummins@a.cs.okstate.edu (CUMMINS JOHN WILLI) writes:
>Highlighted text in my OS/2 windows is DARK BLUE, and on a BLACK background,
>this is unreadable.  Can someone advise me on how to modify the HIGHLIGHT
>color?It's driving me batty... (something is importanr, so it's highlighted...
>making it unreadable!!!!)

Use the Scheme palette.

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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: richk@grebyn.com (Richard Krehbiel)
Subject: Re: Cnews and uucp?
Organization: Grebyn Timesharing
Date: Sun, 15 Nov 1992 15:22:37 GMT

In article <kD87TB2w165w@lakes.trenton.sc.us> owen@lakes.trenton.sc.us (UN Owen) writes:

>   Is there any thought of porting the cnews package and something 
>   like HDB or Taylor uucp over to OS/2?  I currently run Waffle 
>   under a DOS session, and could not use UUPC since it does not 
>   (according to the docs I have) have any support for feeding other 
>   systems.

I've thought of porting C-news, but a great deal of C-news is written
in Unix shell scripts; it would be a significant effort to port.
-- 
Richard Krehbiel                                 richk@grebyn.com
OS/2 2.0 will do for me until AmigaDOS for the 386 comes along...
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: carter@ferrari.mst6.lanl.gov (Dave Carter)
Subject: Re: TE/2 vt100 emulation problem
Organization: Los Alamos National Lab, Group MST-6
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 17:26:29 GMT

>>>In article <9309@blue.cis.pitt.edu.UUCP> djbpitt+@pitt.edu (David J Birnbaum) writes:
>>>>Until last week, I was running Procomm's vt100 emulation under MSDOS
>>>>across a 2400 baud modem. This week it's TE/2's vt100 emulation under
>>>>OS/2 across a v.32bis modem. Everything works as advertised, except for
>>>>a serious problem with screen redraws in vi. Can anyone help?
>>>>
>>>>The specifics are that parts of the screen are often (but not always)
>>>>blacked out as I move across them (either with cursor movement or when
>>>>entering text). The area affected seems to be from the left margin to a
>>>>bit more than halfway across the screen. Sometimes when I enter text,
>>>>each character is displayed briefly and then blacked out; other times
>>>>several characters linger briefly and are then all blacked out at once.
>>>>This doesn't happen every time I use vi, but it's very frequent. It
>>>>usually occurs when I am editing text; if I am appending new text at
>>>>the end of a document, everything works smoothly...

i have the same problem using emacs.

				- dave
-- 
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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Distribution: jadpc2
Date: Sun, 15 Nov 92 11:47:00 -0800
From: Boulton_Fernando@f514.n202.z1.fidonet.org
Subject: How can I install "Seaml
Comment-To: sundaram@f514.n202.z1.fidonet.org
Reply-To: Boulton_Fernando@f514.n202.z1.fidonet.org
X-FSC-PATH: 202/514

 > Hi all, 
 > I have been unable to install ANY of my winos2 apps as winos2
windowed 
 > seamless (what have you) apps. I am using  the ET4000 1024x768x16
pre CSD 
 > (i.e. the ones that were the modified from OS2 1.3) drivers. I have
applied 
 > most of the fixes that I came upon prior to the CSD release. I have
NOT yet 
 > installed the CSD. How can I get seamless Windoze3.0? Please help. 
 >  
 > I would appreciate a response by e-mail as my site cannot
(temporarily) 
 > read the comp.os.os2.misc newsgroup. 
 >  
 > Thanks y'all 
 
The old ET4000 does not support seamless windows, but the drivers that

came with the CSD do support.  Although I am having problems I've  
heard others run seamless windows 3.0 and Windows 3.1 (Beta)  
in SVGA mode. 
 
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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: smbrush@lims01.lerc.nasa.gov (Andy Brush @Sverdrup)
Subject: Re: How do I set priority
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41    
Organization: NASA Lewis Research Center
Date: 20 Nov 1992 08:29 EST  

In article <oDLiuB1w165w@tcscs.UUCP>, zeta%tcscs@src.honeywell.com writes...
> 
>What I needto find out is how to set the priority of programs.
> 
The only way *I* know of is to start the programs from within a "C"
program.  If you call DosSetPriority() from a process, then all the 
subsequent threads and DosExecPgm()'s will be at the priority specified.  
Further, the parent process is allowed to re-set the child's priority later
, unless the child sets its own priority.

There are two ways I have considered approaching this:

1)  Write a dedicated C program for starting a particular application at a 
certain priority.  I then associate the program with the application's Icon
  I have done this, and it works.  You can't re-set the app's priority 
later, because the parent has exited, and you can only re-prioritize 
decendant processes.

2)  Write a "shell-within-the-WPS-shell" which you then use to start 
applications.  I haven't done this yet, but I'm thinking that this would 
permit later tuning of the default priorities of the processes started by 
the mini-shell.

I have seen ads for a product for 1.3 that looked a lot like the solution 
in 2).  I don't know if it is available for OS/2 2.0, or who was selling 
the product.

Good Luck!

Andrew S. Brush             | SMBRUSH@LIMS01.lerc.nasa.gov
Sverdrup Technology         | 2001 Aerospace Parkway
NASA LeRC Group             | Brook Park, OH 44142
"Opinions are Mine, Only"   | (216) 826-6770
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: zeglins@ccu.umanitoba.ca (Gordon W. Zeglinski)
Subject: Re: OS2SYS.INI file keeps growing to > 5 MB
Organization: University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 15:30:22 GMT

In <1ecd6tINNscd@gap.caltech.edu> hacker@cco.caltech.edu (Jonathan Bruce Hacker) writes:

>Gary.Woodman@anu.edu.au (Gary Woodman) writes:

>>In article <1duh5uINNo8m@iskut.ucs.ubc.ca> ochealth@unixg.ubc.ca (ochealth) writes:

>>>By os2sys.ini has creeped up to 140K recently, so I'll have to reset it
>>>again when it gets too big. 4, 5, 6 megs for OS2sys.ini is way too big.
>>>this is a bug.

>It might help if someone used one of the ini editors to see actually
>what is in these huge files.  That should be a big clue!!

I used the latest release of inimaint to look inside the os2sys.ini file.
Mine is now about 1.6 megs long.  According to inimaint, there is only about
150K of valid info.  The rest of the file appears to be just wasted space.

>-- 
>Jon Hacker
>Caltech, Pasadena CA
>hacker@tumbler-ridge.caltech.edu


Gord.

-- 
Gord.
From: santeew@sisters.cs.uoregon.edu (Wes Santee)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: VDM's:  Still having problems
Date: 23 Nov 92 05:30:23 GMT
Article-I.D.: cs.1992Nov23.053023.13395
Organization: University of Oregon Computer and Information Sciences Dept.

'Lo all,

Awhile ago I posted a request on how to get DOS VDM's working
so they will not give me general write failure's when I
attempt to write to the physical drive where the image
file exists.  Thanks to all those who responded telling
me I *had* to include the FSFILTER in my config.sys.

But I'm still having problems.

I included the line DEVICE=FSFILTER.SYS on the disk that
I wanted to make an image out of and pathed all the
other *.SYS files (e.g. EMM386, HIMEM, etc) to the OS/2
equiv's in OS2/MDOS.  Only now, when I try to release the
image via FSACCESS A:, my machine locks up.  Here's my
line of reasoning:

(1)  I make the image file and boot from it.  From the 
     image file I type: FSACCESS A: and get a bad command
     error because it isn't pathed.  Okay, so:

(2)  I change to the directory where FSACESS is located on the
     hard drive and type FSACCESS A: and the machine locks up.
     Reboot.

(3)  Okay, the instructions say to execute this from the 
     prompt referencing the image file (i.e. A:\), so I
     path the FSACCESS program in the AUTOEXEC.BAT on the
     floppy disk and recreate the image file.  Now the
     image file hangs when starting.  Hmmm... Reboot.

(4)  Okay, so take out the path and just physically
     reference the fsaccess program from the image file.
     So I create and boot the image file and type
     c:\os2\fsaccess A: and the system hangs.  Reboot.

(5)  Okay, maybe the fsaccess program needs to be on
     the image file.  So I copy FSACCESS onto the floppy
     and recreate the image.  After booting, I type
     FSACCESS A: and the systems hangs.

What am I doing wrong?  The instructions don't go into
much detail about how to get around this.  Any answers?

Thx,
-- 
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Date: Mon, 16 Nov 92 07:56:13 MST
From: earlyd@newt.ee.byu.edu (David Early)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Distribution: world
Organization: Brigham Young University, Provo UT USA
Subject: Re: I guess there is no way to start zip/zoo from Icon


In article <BxrKIM.LJ4@ccu.umanitoba.ca>, umnoor@ccu.umanitoba.ca (Nasir Ahmed Noor) writes:
>
>As these programs require command line parameters and opitons. I was
>trying to import these onto my desk top to cut short the Path and DPath
>variables. Is there any PM interface available for any of the archivers?
>
>--nasir
>umnoor@ccu.umanitoba.ca


You could build one of your own.  I'll have a few out by christmas for
these types of programs.  VREXX2 is an option also--that is how I have 
prototyped mine.

Dave Early
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: des@inmos.co.uk (David Shepherd)
Subject: Re: Price level of OS/2 2.0 in Germany
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL5
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 92 10:51:13 GMT

Marten Feldtmann (marten@feki.toppoint.de) wrote:
:  The price of OS/2 2.0 in Germany is (at last!) falling down quite a
: bit. Though the official price is still more than 400 .- DM ($250), it's
: possible to get the software out on the street for about 250.- DM
: ($156), sometimes even less -- that's the way it should go....
: 
:  But where are the applications ... I've seen an ad for deScribe for
: about 1700.- DM ($1060)? Up to this time the following rule is still
: valid: buy window software and use it under OS/2 ....

in the UK OS/2 is still on "special" offer so it can be bought for
#95 ($146). registered OS/2 users got a "special intro offer" (sic)
on DeScribe a few months back of #399 ($614) with normal proce
being #499 ($768).

i've just bought AMI pro v3. in the UK the cheapest price available
for this seems to be #270 ($415). instead i ordered from one of
the US firms that have a UK toll free number and got it for #170
($262) - i placed an order at 11pm thursday night with the firm in
california and it was delivered at 9am this morning! - that's a better
response than i've had from uk suppliers. the downside is that i have
a US version so (a) will have to put up with a spell checker that can't
spell :-) and (b) won't get support ... though i think i'm able to
sort things out myself and there's always the net to consult! all
in all, i think i can find better things to do with #100 than give
it to lotus UK.

BTW, just realized, all the prices above need 17.5% VAT adding to them.

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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: Do OS/2 beta testers get a free copy?
From: cscks@luxury.latrobe.edu.au (Kamal Shaker.)
Date: Tue, 24 Nov 1992 01:57:56 GMT
Distribution: world
Organization: La Trobe University
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL4

sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu (Timothy F. Sipples) writes:
: In article <1992Nov16.154853.44835@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu> thompson@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu writes:
: >I ordered the OS/2 32 bit GRE/Win-OS/2 3.1 beta and am a beta tester.
: >Do I get a free copy of OS/2 after the beta period is over?
: 
: No.
: 
: Or, at the very least, don't expect one.  Presumably you received your
: beta copy by calling a 1-800 number.  They sent you 29 high density
: diskettes at no charge.  If so, don't expect anything else.
: 

Won't we get it for free anyway once it's released??

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From: ted@isgtec.com (Ted Richards)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: ATI VGAWONDER XL MOUSE PROBLEM
Date: 19 Nov 92 13:31:37 GMT
Organization: ISG Technologies Inc. Mississauga Ont. Canada
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL7]

Francois Normant (fn@junior.mathtok.polymtl.ca) wrote:
: Hi,
: 
: I have an ATI VGAWONDER XL 1MB card and I am trying to configure
: OS/2 2.0 to use it. Here is my question: What kind of mouse is it ?
: 
: I have tried Inport and Serial but with no success.

It is a bus mouse, Microsoft mouse compatible, I believe.  I have one
of these cards, and I just selected the default mouse type that OS/2
offered during installation.

: By the way, where can I find real drivers for this card (not only
: 256 colors).

Until ATI gets their act together (2nd quarter '93 is what the've
said), 256 colours is the best you can do on the desktop.  Even then,
I'm not sure whether OS/2 would support more than 256 colours.  ATI's
32K-colour Windows driver does work in WIN-OS2 (although switching back
to the desktop produces a really strange colour scheme).  Make sure you
have the latest Windows 3.0 drivers (dated July 16? '92).  They are on
ftp.cica.indiana.edu or on ATI's own BBS.

--
Ted Richards            ted@isgtec.com             [...!uunet.ca!isgtec!ted]
ISG Technologies Inc.   3030 Orlando Dr. Mississauga  Ont.  Canada   L4V 1S8
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc,alt.cd-rom
From: fredw@mks.com (Fred Walter)
Subject: NEC CDR-37 can be used with Adaptec 1542B
Organization: Mortice Kern Systems Inc., Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 03:26:18 GMT

The NEC CDR-37 CDROM player can be used with an Adaptec 1542B (despite
what NEC Tech Support will tell you, which is that it isn't on their
compatability list). Once I set the "SCSI Parity disable" jumper on the
Adaptec 1542B, it was able to recognize and control the CDR-37.

Just thought I'd save someone else some frustation by posting this tidbit.

Now, if only I knew what the side-effects of having SCSI parity disabled
will be if I add a SCSI device which actually uses parity...

	fred
-- 
Disclaimer: everything I write is my *personal* opinion and does not represent
or reflect the opinion of the company which employs me.
From: tanith@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (Michael D Kretzer)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: Will this SCSI/CD-ROM Combo work?
Date: 20 Nov 1992 22:33:37 GMT
Organization: University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee
Reply-To: tanith@csd4.csd.uwm.edu
NNTP-Posting-Host: 129.89.7.4
Originator: tanith@csd4.csd.uwm.edu

From article <BxzzHJ.AyM@news.iastate.edu>, by TW.FY4@isumvs.iastate.edu (Timothy I Miller):
>      Will somebody please enlighten me on the whole SCSI adapter
> thing?  I've ordered an Adaptec 1522 and a Texel 3021 internal
> CD-ROM, and would like to know if they will work with OS/2.
>      The Adaptec is supposed to come with OS/2 drivers.  Do I also
> need drivers for the CD-ROM, or will I need to get them from Texel?
> Can I use the CD-ROM stuff that came with OS/2 (I have the SP)?
>      Also, If I get a Floptical drive, will I need special OS/2
> drivers for that, too?
>      Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Well, I've never heard of a Texel, but if a SCSI CD-ROM drive does not
use the same command set as a Toshiba or an IBM CD-ROM drive, you will
have to use the generic CDROM_G (available from ftp-os2.nmsu.edu).  You
will not be able to use the drive to play audio CDs, but it will work
fine for data access from CD-ROMs on many 'unsupported' SCSI CD-ROM
drives.

Supposedly, release 2.01 of OS/2 will support many more CD-ROM drives,
but I don't remember seeing Texel drives on the list...

(Of course, you can usually load the DOS device drivers and be able
to use the CD-ROM in a DOS session only, but I don't think this is
what you want).

You might want to check out Corel's OS/2 CD drivers as an alternative
solution.  They support every CD-ROM I have encoutered (with audio support)
and a whole slew of multi-changer, WORM, and floptical drives are 
supported.  I have been using these drivers to run a WORM drive and
a NEC CDR83 drive for quite some time...the Corel drivers run about
$70US...
From: smadden@titan.trl.OZ.AU (Steve Madden)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: How to access HPFS drive after floppy boot ??
Date: 17 Nov 92 04:35:42 GMT
Organization: Telecom Research Labs, Melbourne, Australia

Hi there,
	 after receiving and installing TCPIP v1.2 which does not work
under 2.0, I duly removed it, but not as the manual suggested :-( I then
tried to instal version 1.2.1, but it does'nt have the ethernet drivers
on the disc yet, and so I get errors about being unable to find
macwd.dat or wahtever. I press enter, and one of the TCPIP drivers
loads, and the machine then hangs. If I boot from a floppy, I can't
acess my HPFS partition, and so I cant edit my config.sys file to stop
the TCPIP stuff being loaded. Anyone out there able to tell me what I
have to do to get at my config.sys ? (if I do a 'dir' after booting from
floppy, I get "incorrect internal file identifier") Am I destined for a
complete re-install or is there some way out ??

Thanks,


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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: mortenk@dhhalden.no (MORTEN KNUDSEN)
Subject: Re: Service pack
Organization: Ostfold College
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 16:10:45 GMT

In article <15NOV199215323428@sigma.tamu.edu> css0860@sigma.tamu.edu (CSS) writes:
>From: css0860@sigma.tamu.edu (CSS)
>Subject: Service pack
>Date: Sun, 15 Nov 1992 21:32:00 GMT
>
> Where can I ftp   the service pack from.
>
> Is it worth it?
>
hobbes.nmsu.edu, software.watson.ibm.com + lots of other places.
Yes, it's worth it. At least if you've had problems with the GA.
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc