HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu (Timothy F. Sipples)
Subject: Re: MMPM/2
Reply-To: sip1@midway.uchicago.edu
Organization: Dept. of Econ., Univ. of Chicago
Date: Sat, 25 Jul 1992 17:55:00 GMT

In article <14s2q0INNsmq@agate.berkeley.edu> drkszk@ocf.berkeley.edu (Derek Suzuki) writes:
>	I have heard this product mentioned a few times, but never in any
>great detail.  Is the finished product available?  If so, how much is it?
>What are its capabilities?  And are development tools available?

You can reach the IBM Multimedia Information Center at 800-426-9402
ext. 150.  They should be able to answer your questions.

You can also retrieve the product announcement letter from
ftp-os2.nmsu.edu.  Filename is mmpm2.txt, I believe, in directory
/pub/os2/2.0/info.

I, too, await any reports from users of this package.  If anyone has
any comments on the package, please feel free to post.

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From: syeoh@acsu.buffalo.edu (Lam Yeoh)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Unix equivalent of CRON under OS/2?
Date: 28 Jul 92 13:10:09 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: UB

Forgive me if this is common knowledge.  Is there some sort of scheduler
like cron available for OS/2 that will allow spawning of new tasks with
the ability to stuff keystrokes into the keyboard if necessary?

Stephen
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From: tso@cephalo.neusc.bcm.tmc.edu (Dan T'so)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: Graphic/ultra and DOS windows problem. Help!
Keywords: ati ultra nec
Date: 27 Jul 92 23:31:44 GMT
Organization: Baylor College of Medicine, Houston,Tx

In article <3945@cruzio.santa-cruz.ca.us> michaelm@cruzio.santa-cruz.ca.us writes:
>Does anyone know what the setup should be for the Graphics/Ultra
>and a NEC XL. ATI didn't seem to know.

	I believe that the XL was the forerunner of the NEC 5D and can probably
be treated as such. It should certainly be capable of 1024x768 at 60Hz. Don't
know about 72Hz.
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: parry@yoyo.cc.monash.edu.au (Tom J Parry)
Subject: Re: Seamless Drivers for Trident 8900c ??
Originator: parry@yoyo.cc.monash.edu.au
Organization: Monash University, Melb., Australia.
Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1992 23:28:04 GMT

Steve.Withers@bbs.actrix.gen.nz writes:
> 
> Trident have supplied the full range of SVGA drivers for the 8900c, but the
> only seamless SVGA driver is the 800x600x16. I use the 800x600x256, though,
> because I have dumped all my Windows apps, and Windows is the only thing
> affected. Wolfenstien 3D needs 256! :-)

Full, in that they support all modes maybe but far from the full range
of SVGA drivers. I still can not do 256 colour graphics windows (with
the trident drivers I can't do any graphics windows!) and my text modes
in DOS full screen sessions are not 100% (although I am getting there).

I personally would prefer Trident to be working on graphics DOS windows over
seemless Windows drivers.

-- 
Tom J Parry.
Your reality is a figment of my imagination.
From: mstaben@comtch.spk.wa.us (Matthew Staben)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: Can both DOS and OS2 be booted from same HD ?
Keywords: boot, partition
Date: 28 Jul 92 15:38:52 GMT
Organization: Waffle BBS at CompuTech Spokane, Washington

nnhut@bnr.ca (Nhut Nguyen) writes:

> Hi world,
> 
> Please excuse my ignorance if this has been discussed, but I need
> advice from net.knowledge :-)
> 
> I have installed OS2 as HPFS in partition 3 of my hard disk. I also
> have DOS installed in partition 1. Is there any trick that I can
> use so that I can boot from both DOS and OS2 partitions? 
> 
> I know how to change partition ID so that DOS partition can be bootable
> after OS2 installation, but the problem seems to be that if I marked
> partition 1 as a DOS partition, OS2 think that partition 1 is drive C: 
> and tries to get files from there, and fails. Is it possible that I can
> change config.sys to instruct OS2 to get files from partition 3 instead ?
> I would like to know whether this is possibe before jump into changing
> my config.sys.
> 
> BTW, BOOT manager is not an option because I need all 4 partitions.
> Also dual boot is not good because I want to use HPFS.
> 
> Any advice will be greatly appreciated. Please post here if you have any
> suggestion.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> --
> +============================================================================
> | Nhut Nguyen                  |    Internet:   nnhut@bnr.ca                 
> | BNR Ltd., Ottawa, Canada     |    "Oogawa oto wo tatezu..."                
> +============================================================================

 
Dear Nhut,
 
As far as I know - you can only use OS/2 to recognise an HPFS partition,
and the only way you'll be able to see all four partitions with both
operating systems is to use the FAT system for all four partitions.  If
you find a way to boot DOS (from DOS) and still see the HPFS partitions,
I would be extremely interested in how this was done.  It would be 
interesting if a device driver was written for DOS to enable HPFS 
partitions to be recognised.
 


mstaben@comtch.spk.wa.us  _or_  mstaben@visual.spk.wa.us
 
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From: twong@civil.ubc.ca (Thomas Wong)
Subject: Re: Going from Win 3.1 to OS/2, worth it???
Organization: Dept. of Civil Engineering, U.B.C., Vancouver, B.C., Canada
Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1992 19:42:15 GMT

In article <1992Jul22.122545.1@woods.ulowell.edu> adamsm@woods.ulowell.edu writes:
>I am currently a Windows 3.1 user and find myself drawn to the "completeness"
>of OS/2.  I plan to "upgrade" to OS/2 later this month but am a bit leery about
>its DOS compatibility as I was hundreds of megs of DOS files but little or no
>OS/2 native applications, just how good is the DOS emulation, could I get away
>using my DOS programs reliably until I can afford new applications?  I
>currently have a 386/40 with 4m ram and a 130m drive.  I'm hoping this will
>prove to be an acceptable starting base as I don't forsee using any major power
>applications in the beginning.  Am I kidding myself about these stats, or will
>this system not cut it in the OS/2 world?  I would appreciate any comments as
>to your opinion on OS\2, preferably from previous DOS/WINDOWS users.  I thank
>you in advance for your comments regarding this issue...
>

Well, 4 MB of ram is really the _minimum_. We have upgraded one of our 386
system to 8 MB and still find that it runs quite slow. But if you move up 
to a 486... :). 

I think you'll find that hardware requirements will increase drastically and 
faster for any setup. Even Windows programs nowadays need 10 to 30 Meg of
harddisk space. We just got the new Corel Draw 3.0 and it takes up about
25 Meg of disk space. We are using it under Windows 3.1 and it runs sloooooow
on a 386. Really need a 486 to run it comfortably. And we also bought
MSC C++ 7.0 which runs under good'o'DOS but it came with 21 high density 
1.44 disks. Now I know that perhaps this is not a good comparison because
these are some of the larges packages around. But my point is that I think
systems requirement increases will happen in all platforms, not just OS/2,
not just Windows. In fact, I think computer parts are going out of date
faster than it is affordable for the average joe. How many upgrades have I
gone through in the last 2 years.... hmmm.... A lot more than back in the
good'o'XT days. But that's another story.

Thomas.
From: csws8.ic.sunysb.edu!kskapin@overmind.mind.org
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: QDOS 3
Date: 22 Jul 92 22:19:00 GMT
Organization: State University of New York at Stony Brook
X-mailer: Stadel 3.4a-227
X-Spam-content: irrelevant


I can't get QDOS 3 to work under OS/2 in a DOS box or in a virtual DOS image.
Instead of displaying a list of files in my directory, it displays a line
of garbage. I'm trying to use it on a FAT partition so the problem is not
HPFS related. Any ideas?

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From: hacker@cco.caltech.edu (Jonathan Bruce Hacker)
Subject: weird program template
Organization: California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
Date: Fri, 24 Jul 1992 18:20:50 GMT

I recently had a strange problem with my program template.  If I
dragged the program template onto the desktop to make a program
object, the application specified in the new program object would be
unable to find its help and/or dll files even though the libpath and
help paths were specified correctly.

If I copied an existing program object (not template) from the desktop
and used it to setup the new app, then everything worked fine.
Suspecting extended attribute problems, I ran chkdsk /f:3 which did
find an ea error, but the problem still remained afterwards.

I finally fixed the problem by deleting the original program
template (no small feat in itself) and converting a working
program object into a new template.  Now all is well again.  

Anyone got any ideas on this one?

-- 
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Caltech, Pasadena CA
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From: sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu (Timothy F. Sipples)
Subject: Re: Fastback and OS/2
Reply-To: sip1@midway.uchicago.edu
Organization: Dept. of Econ., Univ. of Chicago
Date: Mon, 27 Jul 1992 19:39:45 GMT

In article <1992Jul27.045124.6653@sequent.com> krader@sequent.com (Kurtis D. Rader) writes:
>I spent roughly four hours trying to get FastBack to work without
>success.  The symptoms lead me to believe that FastBack is attempting
>low level manipulation of the hardware which OS/2 won't allow a
>normal DOS application to perform.  I called Fifth Generation Systems
>but they said they had no plans for an OS/2 version.

They fib.  An OS/2 version is apparently in the works.

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From: sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu (Timothy F. Sipples)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: MouseSystems Mouse help
Date: 21 Jul 92 19:54:41 GMT
Reply-To: sip1@midway.uchicago.edu
Organization: Dept. of Econ., Univ. of Chicago

In article <19252@plains.NoDak.edu> grosen@isc.cs.ndsu.nodak.edu (Johannes Grosen) writes:
>Ok, so I read the FAQ *after* installing OS/2. I made the wrong choice when
>I chose a mouse (I have a MouseSystems mouse). Now I have OS/2 installed but
>no mouse :(
>So, do I have to re-install OS/2 to get the Logitech mouse driver or can I
>change device drivers via config.sys?

Use Selective Installation (OS/2 System -> System Setup) or consult
the online Command Reference under "MOUSE" for information on how to
change CONFIG.SYS.

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From: des@frogland.inmos.co.uk (David Shepherd)
Subject: Re: GT16MB.ZOO: Not Just for ISA Anymore
Followup-To: EA problems - OS/2 forgets settings
Organization: INMOS architecture group
Date: Fri, 24 Jul 92 10:44:20 BST

i've finally decided to start using some of the neat features of WPS
and have started associating various programs with data files but
i get the following problems

1) i associate micro-emacs (my normal editor) with plain text files
and the set up a LaTeX letter template as a plain text file and
mark uemacs as default option. i then take copies of the template
and all is fine. i then reboot the next day and all the associations
to uemacs have disappeared!

2) similarily i configure a TeX directory template with options set
so it won't show *aux, *log files etc to avoid clutter. this works
fine if i do this explicitly to a directory but if i set it up in
a template and take a copy these options are not copied.

if its any help i'm using a FAT filesystem .... is this a symptom
of no quite correct EA emulation under FAT and would this be fixed
by HPFS (not really an option as i've only 5M and since any additional
memory involves replacing 1M of 256k drams with 4M of 1M drams which
will need to be ditched when/if i upgrade to a 486 m/board i think
i'm stuck with FAT for a bit).

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From: neuron@tellabs.com (Don Graft)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: UNIX more command
Date: 21 Jul 92 13:00:21 GMT
Organization: Tellabs, Inc., Lisle, IL
Originator: neuron@tellabo

Recent postings inquired about a UNIX more. Well, if you're just annoyed
that the OS2 more requires redirected input, i.e., you can't type just
"more file", then there's a simple front end to OS2 more command you can
use to allow the above syntax. Place the following in a file more.cmd
somewhere in your path and rename OS2 more as shown:

@echo off
REM Rename \os2\more.com to \os2\_more.com
if A%1==A goto redir
_more <%1
goto end
:redir
_more
:end

This will allow both direct and redirected input. Of course, it's not
UNIX more but it does remove the little irritation.
Don
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: gjm@cray.com (Gordon Miller)
Subject: Re: Good OS/2 Comm Program
Organization: Cray Research, Inc.
Distribution: usa
Date: 21 Jul 92 12:41:11 CDT

In article <1992Jul16.044217.21136@news.Hawaii.Edu> ivan@uhunix.uhcc.Hawaii.Edu (Ivan Gum) writes:
>Hi everyone,
>Haveing just set up OS/2 on my PC, can any of you recommend to me a good
>communications program designed especially for OS/2.  I don't need host-mode
>capabilities, but something similar to Qmodem and Procomm Plus for DOS.
>Thanks.
>
Chip Chat is OS/2 specific.  Current version is 16-bit but 32-bit version is 
due out soon.  32-bit version will also have REXX scripting capability.

--Gordon Miller
  

Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: hacker@cco.caltech.edu (Jonathan Bruce Hacker)
Subject: launching OS/2 app from DOS VDM?
Organization: California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1992 04:54:41 GMT

Is there a way to launch an OS/2 app from a DOS VDM?  I am trying to
wean people off of DOS and this would be a great help in accomplishing
that.


-- 
Jon Hacker
Caltech, Pasadena CA
hacker@tumbler-ridge.caltech.edu
From: aubrey@uhunix.uhcc.Hawaii.Edu (Aubrey Moore)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: HELP! Getting ATI Graphics Ultra but no disks to change install!
Date: 24 Jul 92 00:39:19 GMT
Distribution: comp.os.os2.misc
Organization: University of Hawaii

I have a soon-to-be very big problem here that I hope someone can help me
solve.   I bought OS/2 a couple of months ago (in May) and installed it with
my Orchid Prodesigner II.   Thinking that I wouldn't need any of the diskettes
over the summer, I left my originals in my apartment back in NY.

Now, I'm in Hawaii and just ordered an ATI Graphics Ultra to hopefully use
the 8514 mode to speed things up a lot.  The problem????  I have no 
installation disks to use with my selective install change!  

Is there some way I can change my setup to have it use OS/2's 8514 drivers
without going through selective install?  Are the drivers already on my
hard drive and all I have to do is change some CONFIG.SYS settings (I choose
full installation back in may when I first got OS/2)?

If not, is there any way to get disk 6 and whatever other disks are needed
to get the 8514 drivers on my system (I notice it prompts for disk 6 first)?
I don't want to buy a $800+ plane ticket to get my originals nor pay another
$50 to get another upgrade and wait an unknown amount of time.

Can someone please help me?  

Thanks a mil!
Aubrey Moore
aubrey@uhunix.uhcc.hawaii.edu


P.S.  What are the best drivers to use with Win os/2 at high res. with
      the Graphics Ultra?  Can the Win 3.1 drivers be used?
From: dic5340@hertz.njit.edu (David Charlap)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: Does 800x600x256 on the VGA part of a Graphics Ultra work under OS/2?
Date: 28 Jul 92 16:39:57 GMT
Organization: New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, N.J.

In article <1992Jul27.201705.12912@ee.ubc.ca> tedc@ee.ubc.ca (ted chen) writes:
>I have run the INSTALL program, and have configured my monitor (MAG MX17)    
>using the custom monitor selection.  I've also used the 'Testing Card'
>selection in the install menu, and all 8514/a modes work correctly, as
>well as all the given resolutions.  The 800x600x16 DOES work, both in
>the test section and VPIC, but the 800x600x256 isn't in the test menu so I
>can't test it there.  In addition, 1024x768x16 doesn't work in VPIC either.

Then it's a software thing.  Is VPIC installed properly?  And is it
trying to access the 8514/a modes?  If it is, you'll probably need the
HDILOAD driver installed.



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Subject: Re: some gripes about OS/2 2.0
From: jemenake@zeus.calpoly.edu (Joe Emenaker)
Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1992 08:29:27 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo

widow@camelot.bradley.edu (Shaun Burnett) writes:
>bbrown@infonode.ingr.com (Bailey Brown) writes:
>
>>Why do I get this garbage that follows the mouse pointer around when I
>>run Norton 5.0 file find in a windowed dos box?
>
>	Will setting the mouse_exlusive_access to ON help?
>	(See only docs for more info. before setting).

Actually, as soon as I observed this behavior, I knew what was happening
and I immediately went to the config program and changed the seetings to
NON-graphical mouse-pointer and windows (I'm talking about the Norton
config program mind you).

After that, the mouse cursor disappeared! To my delighted surprise, the
invisible Norton mouse cursor now correspended with the OS/2 cursor
(running in a window). So, I just clicked with the OS/2 cursor on buttons
in a text program in a DOS window... and it worked great!

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From: rcook@sneezy.helios.nd.edu (robert cook)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: IBM FTP SITE ARRIVES
Date: 21 Jul 92 07:52:34 GMT
Article-I.D.: news.1992Jul21.075234.5700
Reply-To: Cook.14@nd.edu (R. Kelley Cook)
Organization: Univ. of Notre Dame

In article <1992Jul20.022430.18607@watson.ibm.com>, nrt@watson.ibm.com (Nicholas R. Trio) writes:
|> I'm glad the FTP server at software.watson.ibm.com is popular.  I'm the
|> one who runs it, and it holds both OS/2 fixes (as I get them from Boca)
|> and AIX V3 security fixes (again, as I get them from Austin).
|> 
...
|> 
|> Nick Trio (nrt@watson.ibm.com)
|> IBM T.J. Watson Research Center

I'm glad IBM opened this anonymous ftp site.  Now that I found the person who 
runs it, I have a small request.

Get a copy of the public domain zip program that will run on the RT
(ftp valeria.cs.ucla.edu /pub/zip10ex.tar.Z and compile it) if
you don't already have one.

type zip -o xxx.zip for each of the zip files in the /pub/os2
directory, so that the file dates will be set to the latest entry 
in the zip archives and not the date the unix file was placed into 
the directory so we ftp users can tell at a glance by typing
dir which files have been updated to a more current revision than
we already possess.  Currently every entry in the directory is either
July 15 or July 20 regardless of when the file was last updated.

Just a helpful suggestion.

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Physics Dept.            Long Live the new OS/2!  Time to close the Windows! 
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: rolfe@w3vh.UUCP (Rolfe Tessem)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: The Ultimate OS/2 FTP Source
Distribution: world
Date: Sun, 26 Jul 92 01:51:58 GMT
Organization: 

mmtl@hobson.cc.flinders.edu.au writes in article <1992Jul24.005914.48353@frodo.cc.flinders.edu.au>:
> 
> In article <64117@hydra.gatech.EDU> ccusekh@prism.gatech.EDU (Kevin Hodge) writes:
>
> >Gee Nick, what are you waiting for?  :-)
> > 
> Probably waiting for advice from the legal department. 
> 
> Were IBM to start providing access to Freeware, Shareware and
> copylefted software they would have to make all sorts of disclaimers
> about not endorsing or warranting the software stored there.

Give me a break! What is your justification for this statement? After all, NeXT ships the gcc compiler with it's system, and Sun is about to ship it with Solaris 2.0 (albeit as unsupported software).  Hardly a disclaimer.
 
> IBM seems to need to be more careful than most other companies in not
> seeming to favour any other party at the possible expense of others.

Huh?
 
> In this age of litigation the last thing I would want to see is a case
> of 'I lost income on my Widget Management program because you guys
> didn't put it up on your server'. Stupid yes, but just look at the
> suits that get filed and it's not improbable.

I guess this means that Apple, Sun and any of the other companies
too numerous to mention that maintain anonymous ftp servers for their customers should be quaking in their boots because their lawyers are clearly not on the case.

> I would prefer to see the site used for patches, CSD's, drivers and
> annoucements. We are already well served by ftp-os2 & other
> 'non-interested' parties for other wares.
 
This is perhaps the most assinine posting I have seen here in weeks.
Why should one poor, overworked machine at NMSU do all the work when
IBM has tons of hardware lying about?  The least they could do is
mirror hobbes on an IBM machine somewhere.

> Trevor Lampre
> MIS Unit
  ^^^^^^^^
No kidding. I'd never have guessed.

> Flinders University of South Australia

(flames to /dev/null please -- whoops, does OS/2 have a /dev/null?)
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