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From: durby@almaak.usc.edu (Dennis Durby)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: 2.1b CHKDSK/AUTOCHKDSK
Date: 27 Jan 93 18:14:44 GMT
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Organization: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
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About every 2nd or 3rd time I boot the 2.1b, the system goes reports detecting 
file errors, and goes through AUTOCHKDSK on my three logical HPFS drives. This 
occurs, although not on every boot, despite my having gone through routine 
"shut down" procedure. This morning, it did it again, but this time went 
through one or two drives checked, then halted with a system error, which I 
(stupidly) forgot to write down. It said something like "Hit <ENTER> to 
continue" so I did. The system then filled the screen with "CHKDSK corrected 
a disk space allocation error" messages. Once filled, they probably kept going 
on by, because the disk chugged along for about 13 minutes or so. When WPS 
finally appeared, I shut down, and booted from A: and ran a CHKDSK /F:3 from 
there. Forty minutes or so later it had finished (HDD logical partition for 
the problem logical drive is 677 megs or so. I rebooted again, and all seems 
well.

My question is: What might be going on that the HPFS drives must be CHKDSKd
every several boots or so??? And, am I risking a total loss of data? My 
system: 486/66dx2 AMI EISA motherboard with 16 meg. caching AMI EISA SCSI-2
Model 44 controller, Toshiba 877 meg HDD (SCSI-2), Diamond Stealth VRAM 
video card (yeah, I know, I know), 16 megs RAM. C: drive is primary partition 
formatted 100 meg FAT and running DOS 5.0; D: is 50 meg logical HPFS partition 
with 2.0 GA+SP installed, but not running; E: is 50 meg logical HPFS partition 
with 2.1b installed, and running (I use boot mangler); F: is HPFS logical 
drive with the rest of the disk space, and programs and data are loaded here.

Suggestions???? TIA!!!
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From: sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu (Timothy F. Sipples)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: what to pick for NEC SCSI card?
Date: 25 Jan 93 18:47:46 GMT
Reply-To: sip1@midway.uchicago.edu
Organization: Dept. of Econ., Univ. of Chicago

In article <hook-250193083636@port63.annex1.net.ubc.ca> hook@geog.ubc.ca (Chris Hook) writes:
>A while back, I posted a request for help as far as getting my NEC CDR-73
>CDROM drive to work under OS/2 2.1b. The NEC CDR-73 is certainly
>one of the listed CDROM drives in the selective install CDROM section,
>and all the appropriate files seem to get installed and set up in
>my config.sys file. The machine boots up fine (no config.sys errors)
>but still there is no icon for the CDROM drive and no drive
>letter assigned to it for command line refernceing.
>It appears to me that my problem with this is that the PC thats
>using the CDROM ( a generic 486 33MZ ISA bus clone ) is using
>the NEC supplied SCSI adapter. There is no reference to this adapter
>in the SCSI adapter installation of the selective install 
>menu.
>Does anyone know if:
>	1. I can pick some reasonable substitute for the NEC SCSI adapter
>from the supplied OS/2 2.1b selective install SCSI adapter list.
>2. I can get an NEC SCSI adapter OS/2 compliant driver set to
>install.

Option 2 can be satisfied, which is probably what you'd prefer.  Get
ahold of the file trntradd.zip, available via anonymous ftp from
ftp-os2.nmsu.edu (check file /pub/os2/00Index for location).  This
file contains .ADD drivers to get your SCSI adapter working.

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From: sagan@netcom.com (Mike May)
Subject: Re: NEC P2200 Driver Needed.
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  (408 241-9760 guest) 
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Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 07:24:51 GMT

Timothy F. Sipples (sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu) wrote:
: In article <1993Jan26.093912.10129@netcom.com> sagan@netcom.com (Mike May) writes:
: >  I'm looking for a driver that will work my NEC Pinwriter 2200 printer.
: >I've tried the basic drivers: Epson 24pin, Epson LQ500, IBM Proprinter,
: >to no avail, and have look in Hobbes with out any success.  Do any 
: >net.people know which driver will work with this printer?  TIA.

: What sort of errors or problems are you encountering?  One of these
: drivers should have worked.

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  The Epson driver says "Cannot write to LPT1:" and the IBM driver says
"The printer is not turned on, turn it on."  Well I checked the port, 
I only have one LPT port..  But as I write this, I may have figured it out.
OS/2 doesn't like IRQ sharing, If I remenber correct, and my Sound Blaster
MAY be on IRQ7 as well, If this si correct, WILL OS/2 give me those errors?
If They Don't share IRQ's what else MIGHT be wrong??  TIA (again:)
 
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From: tp923021@jarrah.canberra.edu.au (ben elliston)
Sender: gateway@f262.n620.z3.fidonet.org
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: OS/2 2.1b Install HELP!!!!!!!!!!
Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 06:59:00

 > from hobbes, I have unzipped them (the 3.5 version)
 > and ran loadskf.exe on each disk image.  My problem
 > lies in installation.  HOW DOES ONE DO IT???? I
 > cannot, for the life of me find a install.exe file or
 > anything similar! SYSINSTX.com just gives me an error,
 > and I can't find anyother files that seem to do the
 > trick elsewhere!

Boot off the installation disk.

Cheers, Ben

Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: pprior@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Paul A Prior)
Subject: Latest Version of TE/2???
Organization: The Ohio State University
Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 16:28:31 GMT

I would like to try TE/2, an os/2 based comm program.  Does anyone
know what the latest verion is?  I found version 1.2 with commpack
2 ver 1.00. but it seems rather unpolished...

Thanks

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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: adhir@wam.umd.edu (Al Dhir)
Subject: OS/2 2.1b
Organization: University of Maryland, College Park
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 22:19:58 GMT


Hello all.  Has anyone else noticed that since installing 2.1b, certain
DOS programs can't recognize the HD anymore?  Specifically, F-Prot, the
latest version available on wuarchive nor reports "Error reading Drive X"
as soon as you try to scan the drive, whereas before it used to work like
a charm.  This is really annoying.

I have found the 2.1b to be extremely unstable.  It locks up exiting full
screen windows apps about 50% of the time and CTRL-ALT-NUMLOCK now do
nothing but freeze the machine.  Booting from a DOS VDM hangs the entire
machine also, if you try to use UMBs (by including a DOS=high,umb) in
the config.sys. 

All of the above works perfectly in OS/2 2.0+SP.  I recommend staying as
far away from 2.1b as possible, unless you have the need for running some
particular enhanced mode app in Windows (which isn't even guaranteed to 
work...the only thing I wanted was for my Gravis Ultrasound drivers for
Windows (they require enhanced mode) to work but they don't).  2.0+SP
is MUCH more stable.  

I think I'll reformat and reinstall 2.0 & SP with the Win3.1 beta from
the 2.1beta...think this'll work people?  Sure hope so...I'll let you know.
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From: des@inmos.co.uk (David Shepherd)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: os/2 2.1 beta - my 2 cents worth
Date: 22 Jan 93 11:01:40 GMT
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Gregg Hungerford (gah@board8.uucp) wrote:
:    I also finally discovered why NOT to use hpfs. The multimedia drivers
: crashed the system during the os2 boot. I couldn't access the hpfs partition
: from my dos/windows partition, so I couldn't remove the drivers and had
: to start over from scratch. Anyone know any other recovery?

1) boot from installation disk and press escape at menu after disk one
has been read - this drops you into a shell.

2) once you've fixed things use SE20BOOT to make a boot floppy to
speed this up slightly (and avoid havinf to get your installation
disks out each time)

3) a tip i picked up from here, make a small (2Mb is ok) partition
and use SE20BOOT to install boot system on it and add it to boot manager
menu, then you can boot a quick OS/2 command shell for debugging
from hard disk.

N.b. if you use any of the HPFS disks in one of these modes then since
you can't shutdown cleanly it will run the disk check when you next
boot - I gather there is a shutdown emulator on hobbes that fixes this.
 
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Organization: Penn State University
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 09:19:48 EST
From: <WDH2@psuvm.psu.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: I need some help with fonts please...

I guess the subj header say it all.
I've installed OS2 2.0 GA + CSD a week ago and I really like it.
I have three big Windows apps, Publisher, WORD and EXCEL.  I am used to
them and I really like them as well.  However before the OS move
I was using TT fonts and, despite the flack I've seen about them, I liked them
as well.  I've been searching at hobbes and cica for the atm equivalent
to these TT fonts:
Times Roman
Helvetica
Century Gothic
Lucida Sans and Lucida Sans Typewriter (a generic typewiter gothic)


I have a HP Deskjet 500 - no cartridges.

I know this list is not an exotic one, but I have not found the correct
ones yet.  All I would like is a source to get them, preferrably via
FTP.

Thanks

Lou Reynaldo
tinman@oz.chem.psu.edu    <-----please e-mail to this address
From: johno@cs.umbc.edu (john olszenski)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: HELP!!--trouble with seamless windows
Date: 23 Jan 1993 21:04:45 -0500
Organization: University of Maryland Baltimore Campus, Computer Science Department
NNTP-Posting-Host: algol.cs.umbc.edu

I just installed my beta version of os2.  I confess I am a profound user of
MS Windows and I hate MeSsy DOS, so I want to switch to os2.  The problem is
I can't getmy windows apps to work seamlessly.  I keep gettin a system error
that reads like this " An unrecoverable system error has occured. The session
has ended without saving your data"

Any suggestions would be appriciated.

Thanks 
johno
From: sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu (Timothy F. Sipples)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: Questions: HPFS/Paradise
Date: 27 Jan 93 01:18:32 GMT
Reply-To: sip1@midway.uchicago.edu
Organization: Dept. of Econ., Univ. of Chicago

In article <1993Jan26.201653.1915@sbcs.sunysb.edu> mjn@sbmiclr.cs.sunysb.edu (The Sixth Replicant) writes:
>>>A few questions, these may be FAQs, if so, put me in my rightful place...
>>>1. What's the deal with the Western Digital drivers with my 1B card?
>>>Will SuperVGA still be a dream for me with the proper release of 2.1, or 
>>>am I going to have to live with 16 colors until I get a new video card?
>>>Will there be a fix or special drivers on Hobbes?
>>OS/2 2.1 will include 256 color drivers for all modes (640x480,
>>800x600, and 1024x768) for most SuperVGA adapters, including Western
>>Digital.  (Notable exception: S3-based adapters, unless something
>>changes.)  So, no, you won't have to go fishing for a driver.  The
>>drivers will support seamless Windows, in fact.
>I think the poster may be referring to the fact that the 2.1b Western
>Digital (at least 640x480x256 512K) drivers don't work with the PVGA1B. The
>docs only mention PVGA1A boards. I, too, am wondering if these will work in
>the final 2.1 release.

I expect so, but you are correct -- the present drivers are flawed.
They don't seem to work with 512K adapters, across the board, as far
as I can tell.

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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: OS/2 campaign in PC rag/PC computing
From: ghdai@vax1.umkc.edu
Date: 27 Jan 93 11:28:13 CST
Organization: University of Missouri - Kansas City
NNTP-Posting-Host: vax1.umkc.edu

The newly published "PC Magzine" (Feb.9, 93, pp. 319-340) and "PC Computing"
(Feb. 93, pp. 213-234) have a special collection (20 pages) of "OS/2 100 Ways."
This is part of a whole new campaign before IBM introduces OS/2 2.1 in the very
near future (probably around March/April).

It clearly explains the endless possibilities of using OS/2 to improve
productivity, including thorough explanations of the advantage of OS/2 as an
operating system for your PC and plainty of OS/2 usage, tips, and tricks, many
of which I myself didn't know until I read it although I have been using OS/2
since last June.

I highly recommend that you find a copy and read through the story.  It will
help you raise productivity when using the computers.
After reading the articles, I believe, you'll be definitely sure that OS/2 is
really the operating system for your PC in the '90s.

Best regards,

Guohuan H. Dai/2
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Organization: K.U.Leuven - Academic Computing Center
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 14:14:53 +01
From: Peter Arien <LAAAA43@cc1.kuleuven.ac.be>
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: Anything like SOFTMAC available?
 <enk2.91.728024888@po.cwru.edu> <1993Jan26.105149.15281@miavx1.acs.muohio.edu>
 <1993Jan26.205722.4770@midway.uchicago.edu>

OK, Mac-ette.zip is at ftp-os2.nmsu.edu in pub/uploads. Don't know what
zipper I used. I think it's pkzip204c.

Btw: the new pkzip204e is out and is supposed to solve the DPMI-problem.
That is, it detects if it run in an os2 dos-box and then doesn't use DPMI
any more.

Greetings.

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From: v053qpgh@ubvmsb.cc.buffalo.edu (Eric W Sarjeant)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: TSENG4000 and OS/2 2.1b
Date: 23 Jan 93 18:23:00 GMT
Organization: University at Buffalo
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41

I am very confused. It was my understanding that SVGA support was
available with OS/2 2.1. When I go to Selective Install an SVGA board, I
am never asked what board I actually have. Eventually, after going through
all 19 disks, OS/2 informs me that there was an error in installation.
SVGA support is never enabled, and I'm back at 640x480x16.

Is there something I'm doing wrong? Is this feature not available until
2.1 is officially released? I'm using a SpeedStar SVGA board with 1 meg
of memory. I am interested in achieving seemless windows at 640x480x256.
Is this feasable?

Please reply via Email if possible. I will summarize if there are any
requests.
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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: Steve.Withers@bbs.actrix.gen.nz
Subject: Re: Speed in 2.1b
Organization: Actrix Information Exchange
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 10:19:33 GMT

In article <1993Jan19.232739.1@vms.ucc.okstate.edu> becker@vms.ucc.okstate.edu writes:
> 
> I just installed the DEC 92 version of the 2.1b. It seems to be slower than
> my original 2.0 GA.  Is this normal?
> 
> Thanks in advance.
> 
> Gary
> becker@vms.ucc.okstate.edu


If you are now using SVGA with 256 colours, it will *appear* to be
slower......but the actual throughput the system is capable of has increased.
The Trident SVGA drivers do scroll more slowly than the default VGA. 
 
Summary.....system is faster. Video appears slower.....:-)
 
Steve
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From: tcscs!zeta@src.honeywell.com (Gregory Youngblood)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: Is OS/2 a dead end?
Keywords: So quoth Bill Gates
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 93 12:10:27 CST
Reply-To: zeta%tcscs@src.honeywell.com
Organization: TCS Consulting Services

enk2@po.cwru.edu (Erik Kovach) writes:

> In article <1993Jan20.170840.4662@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> jebright@magnus.
> >The history of the computer market shows leaders don't always hold the lead.
> >NT will launch and a lot of folks will talk about it.  Then things will
> >begin to sort out...
> 
> Agreed.  OS/2 needs some serious marketing and not the Fiesta Bowl.  It is 
> still basically a very useful but computer-jock centered operating system 
> right now.

Unfortunately (hopefully 2.1 will solve this) the bugs and other "minor" 
glitches we all live with make this a computer-jock centered operating system.

Average computer users will not be willing to or may not be able to copy with
these "minor" glitches.  When Windows or dos crashed and average computer user
does a reboot, he's generally back at the dos command line within a minute
or two (depending on his config/autoexec), or back at windows in another min
or so.  With OS/2, when it reboots, particularly after a crash or unexpected
shutdown, it takes upwards of 5 to 30 minutes depending on your hard drive
size and configuration.  One time of that happening and your average computer
user is going to be disoriented.

The average computer user is not going to accept the larger size and more
complicated nature of OS/2.  He/she is used to the way dos boots and win
loads.    This is especially true of users who have never seen anything else
BUT dos.

[These are just my opinions].


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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 14:57:02 -0500 
From: "Joo C. Chung" <jc7o+@andrew.cmu.edu>
Subject: Re: MMPM/2 and SB

In message <C1AzKJ.E9@brunel.ac.uk>, 
 me90plb@brunel.ac.uk (Paul L Barnfather) writes:
>Pat Gleason (pgleason@ncratl.AtlantaGA.NCR.COM) wrote:
>: In <1993Jan20.095750.25675@unlv.edu> slumos@unlv.edu (Steve Lumos) writes:
>
>: >out is that when they said that I needed the 2.0 DSP to get *full*
>: >functionality, I assume that they mean that without the 2.0 DSP I can
>: >get *some* functionality (which I can't).
>
>: I am glad to see someone else read that paragraph the same way I did.
>
>Well I've got a soundblaster 2.0 with version 2.01 DSP, and I can't get
>MMPM/2 to work either. I don't see any error messages (or anything) when (if)
>the device driver loads, but when I try to play a .WAV file, I get the 
>message that 'Digitised Sound channel could not be opened, contact IBM etc..'
>
>BTW, the SB is on IRQ5, my LPT1 is on IRQ7 and I don't have LPT2.
>
>Any ideas ??
>
>Paul.

Well...I don't know if anyone has tried it or not but I have a SB MCV.

And I can't get MMPM/2 to work with it. It says that it can't open the
"Digital Audio" device. I can't check the IRQ because the SB MCV doesn't
use IRQs. The only thing I can set is the IO address and there is not conflicts
there. I can't even use it under Win-OS/2 v3.1 because the drivers aren't 
compatible with the SB MCV. 

Joo.
Organization: Penn State University
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 09:08:38 EST
From: <SXC3@psuvm.psu.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: info needed on realtime data collection

We are thinking of using OS2 in our lab to make better use of our computers,
since we use them for running the equipment and analyzing data.  However, the
FAQ states that, under OS2, real time data collection may be compromised.
Could someone explain how tweaking the OS2 DOS settings fixes this? Or are
there other folk who use OS2 in a lab setting who can tell me how they work
around this?  It's no use changing operating systems if it messes up our data,
though I must admit the multitasking ability is very tempting.
                 Thanks for your time,
                         Sabrina Chase
                         Penn State Physics Dept.
                         sxc3@psuvm.psu.edu
From: linstee@dutecaj.et.tudelft.nl (Erik van Linstee)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: How to create multi-size icons?
Date: 21 Jan 93 14:59:17 GMT
Organization: Delft University of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering

Or rather, how do I create an icon that has the 20x20 view
that is shown in the upper left hand corner of a window?
Looking at the list of displays, I can only find the
cga-8514 range of layouts.

Erik


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