HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: pynq@quads.uchicago.edu (Jeremy Mathers)
Subject: Re: IBM Stock Prices (Was: Future of OS/2 and IBM????????????)
Reply-To: pynq@midway.uchicago.edu
Organization: D. J. Dougherty & Associates
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 21:03:52 GMT

In article <19921217.070626.754@almaden.ibm.com> lansche@torolab6.VNET.IBM.COM (Martin Lansche) writes:
>>Thanks.
>>--
>>Jean-Serge Gagnon, Ottawa University, Ottawa, Canada  K1N 6N5
>
>I too wish to straighten this.  While Jean-Serge may be correct in his
...
>around the $100 mark, climbed back to about $135, then fell to under
>the magic $100 level.  In the last 3 months, it has creeped down to
>about $75, and this week it fell below $60 a share (all prices in US$).
>There has been NO SPLIT IN AT LEAST 7 YEARS, so the split argument does
>not hold.  I wish there had been a split (I would be a richer man), but
>there hasn't.

I have been wondering for a while now just how many splits IBM has had
since 1981 (the introduction of the PC).

It is currently trading around $60 (US), which, interestingly enuf, is
what it was trading at just before the introduction of the PC.  However,
I assume from the above that the actual value of shares held in 1981 is
now about $240.  Is this correct?

I agree that it has never really recovered from the '87 crash.

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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: sci240s@monu6.cc.monash.edu.au (Wey Jing HO)
Subject: Mouse cursor "sticky" while printing. Cure?
Organization: Monash University, Melb., Australia.
Date: Fri, 11 Dec 1992 18:25:43 GMT

I have installed the latest CSD on my 486-33 with 16MB RAM. Also, the
spooler priority has been set to a very low value (about 10). Yet, the
mouse cursor become sticky if any printing is done in background.

The printer is HP LJ IIIP (Postscript) if this is of any help.
Anybody has a fix to this problem/or rather an annoyance.

Thanks.
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>Physics Dept., Monash University ( Caulfield Campus ), Melbourne, AUSTRALIA<
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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: pynq@quads.uchicago.edu (Jeremy Mathers)
Subject: Re: Can OS/2 run full size windows in small windows?
Reply-To: pynq@midway.uchicago.edu
Organization: D. J. Dougherty & Associates
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1992 15:57:02 GMT

In article <1992Dec18.044414.14780@midway.uchicago.edu> I wrote:
>In article <1992Dec17.000306.26852@midway.uchicago.edu> I wrote:
>>A la DV/X or Windoze 3.1 in Enhanced mode...
>
>Allow me to clarify.  I know that you can run a DOS window, which runs
>in a graphics mode and is a full 80x25, but only occupies about 2/3 of
>the VGA screen.  However, as far as I can tell, you cannot make it any
>smaller than that without losing sight of part of the 80x25 screen.

Allow me to further clarify.

I found the menu option to change the font size; this is a partial
solution.  Unfortunately, it only allows you a discrete set of choices
(I have no doubt there are ways to increase the menu of choices).
Further, it seems to me to be less intuitive to have to change it thru a
menu option, rather than being able to simply resize the window.

Ah, well.  So it goes...

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From: SPGJAF@CMSA.Berkeley.Edu (Joseph A. Faracchio)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: OS/2 Comm Programs
Date: 20 Dec 92 18:50:18 GMT
Organization: UC Berkeley (TCPIP)
NNTP-Posting-Host: cmsa.berkeley.edu

In article <1992Dec20.070340.29005@mksol.dseg.ti.com>
rloper@mksol.dseg.ti.com (robert l loper) writes:
 
>Hi,
>
>I have recently began using OS/2 and am in need of a good terminal program.
   ......
>Anyway, What is the general opinion of the available OS/2 term programs out
 
I like and am using RexxTerm by Charles Daney of Quercus Systems.
 
It is a non-windowing comm program but it has a lot of nice features.
Line, vt100, block, vt52, ansi-bbs, and Vidtex emulation support,
a dialing directory ,   xmodem,  -1k, ymodem,  -g, zmodem, kermit and
Compuserve-B file transfer capabilities.
 
BUT the best feature of all is that it uses REXX for its scripting-
control macro language.  You can control a complete terminal session
through status checking return codes from start to finish
(provided you can anticipate every point of error and write a recovery
subroutine.)       It uses IBM's OS/2 Rexx or Quercus own Personal/Rexx
which includes a lot of extra function(s).
 
Like Personal/Rexx, I think you get both dos and os/2 versions if you
pay the extra 20-30 dollars for the os/2 version.
 
Charles sends me new versions to test before he releases them.
.. hope this helps .. joe.f.
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From: feustel@netcom.com (David Feustel)
Subject: Re: OS/2 2.1? (Why it may cost) READ THIS!!
Organization: DAFCO: OS/2 Software Support & Consulting
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 00:02:16 GMT

Microsoft's os/2 software is beginning to look pretty long in the
tooth. Their os/2 documentation is totally obsolete.
-- 
Dave Feustel N9MYI <feustel@netcom.com>
 
The Columbia River is now the most radioactive river in the U.S.

This environmental/nuclear nightmare, one of a series, brought to you
courtesy of Westinghouse and General ("We Bring Good Things to Life")
Electric.
From: sal8@po.cwru.edu (Steve Luzynski)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: IBM won't accept Internet problem reports any more
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 19:26:34 GMT
Organization: Case Western Reserve University
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: b61442.student.cwru.edu

In article <1gilu6INNriv@agate.berkeley.edu> stanton@haas.berkeley.edu (Richard Stanton) writes:
>From: stanton@haas.berkeley.edu (Richard Stanton)
>Subject: IBM won't accept Internet problem reports any more
>Date: 14 Dec 1992 19:05:42 GMT
>I just got a message telling me that to report bugs etc I must now have
>a valid Compuserve account. What a pain.
>
>Richard Stanton
>
If they're going to be like that about it then send them to me. I'll move 
them along.

[ducking flood of messages]
Please make sure you have the correct address of the person to send it to in 
the message so I can just zip it off with minimal effort on my part. :)

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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: djs6015@ultb.isc.rit.edu (Don Smith)
Subject: Installing Linux on an OS/2 system, using Boot Manager
Originator: djs6015@ultb
Reply-To: djs6015@ultb.rit.edu (Don Smith)
Organization: R.I.T.
Date: Fri, 11 Dec 1992 19:20:03 GMT


Hi There...

Does anyone have any info that can help me make my Linux Partition
bootable from the Boot Manager? When I try to boot it from the Boot
Manager it says that its not a formatted drive... help!
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From: kbwilson@miavx1.acs.muohio.edu
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: New 32 Trident & NEC 4FG Interlaced???
Date: 15 Dec 92 18:00:07 GMT
Organization: Miami University Academic Computer Service"

Hello Net,
	I heard about the great new Trident drivers so I rushed to my
place of employment and grabbed a New 1 Meg trident card off the shelf
With the owners permission of course.  Ran home and replaced the old VGA
card in my system ( I was waiting for the back ordered ULtra Plus') installed
the driver twice (I goofed something the first time) and they worked.
My monitor is a NEC 4FG and it looked like it was running in 1024x768x256
interlaced.  So I resorted to the Card manual AHH a jumper so I removed the
jumper per the instructions and Started everything up again and everything
stayed the same (an interlaced flicker like look).
	I tried the 800x600x256 the monitor picked up the change but it still
looked interlaced.  last I tried the 640x480x256 and this seemed non-interlaced

Does anyone have any idea how to make this flicker go away?
I hope this is not the monitor I spent big bucks not to have problems like
this.
Could there be a problem with my card?

Second note DeScribe 32 (The store I work at is waiting for some info from
DeScribe to become an authorized vendor then I will upgrade) works fine
in 1024x768 but it grows off the screen in the other two modes(800&640)
Has anyone had similar problems?

These drivers seem pretty fast.
I am happy and I may cancle my ultra order until ATI writes drivers.
If I could only figure out this flicker problem?
		Thanks for reading.
			Boyd.
			I give trident 2 thumbs up!!!!!!
		
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From: mathelmr@nuscc.nus.sg (Helmer Aslaksen)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: new Creative Lab beta CDROM work?
Date: 9 Dec 92 02:21:40 GMT
Organization: National University of Singapore

I have installed MMPM, the sound (MMPM) beta driver from Creative, and the CD
(non-MMPM) beta driver. The sound driver works no problem for me. The CD
driver at first refused to install, but by changing the AT clock speed, it
worked. I have put it near the top of my config.sys. When I had it at the
bottom, it hung.

Unfortunately, the CD driver has trouble with audio CD's. I called
Creative's head office here in Singapore (most people seem to be unaware
that Creative actually is a Singapore based company) and they said that
the driver didn't support audio CD's at all! They said they were working
on new drivers. 
 --
Helmer Aslaksen
Department of Mathematics
National University of Singapore
Singapore 0511
Republic of Singapore
mathelmr@nuscc.nus.sg
From: rider@geloser.login.qc.ca (Serge Ayotte)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: SHIFTRUN (Was OS2SYS.ini file size: Interim solution.)
Date: 16 Dec 92 01:53:42 GMT
Organization: Gentleman Loser System, Montreal/Qc/Cdn

hatton@socrates.ucsf.edu (Tom Hatton) writes:

> 
> I haven't tried yet, but one other thing this may help with - for those who
> have recently carved the fat from swollen INI's, and want to copy the new
> slim versions over the bloated originals: you should be able to do the
> copy from a CMD session launched by shiftrun, rather than doing the painful
> floppy boot. I'll check it sometime soon to verify, unless someone else
> does so first.
>  

I've been doing this an average of once a week now... NO trouble...

Now this might seems funny, but can I right BAT file to use in OS/2
command prompt?? Or should they be called CMD ?? The only thing I was to
shorten (aside from those INI) is the typing to copy over <grin>

Serge Ayotte

The Magic of Windows:  Turns a 486 back into a PC/XT.
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From: hacker@cco.caltech.edu (Jonathan Bruce Hacker)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: XGA-2 Clarification
Date: 18 Dec 1992 17:54:59 GMT
Organization: California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
NNTP-Posting-Host: punisher.caltech.edu

jks4675@ritvax.isc.rit.edu writes:

>For those of you who I misled...
>The ISA XGA-2 board will cost $499

>The MCA XGA-2 board will cost $399.

>If you can justify why a 32-bit card costs LESS than a 16-bit,
>you will have my compliments, as well as the rest of the Microelectronics
>Department here....

>The cost difference is due to IBM, not Radius.

Observation:

There is competition for MCA XGA boards.

There is no competition for ISA XGA boards.

-- 
Jon Hacker
Caltech, Pasadena CA
hacker@tumbler-ridge.caltech.edu
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: tony@mpg.phys.hawaii.edu (Antonio Querubin)
Subject: Re: IBM won't accept Internet problem reports any more
Keywords: IBM problem report compuserve cis
Organization: University of Hawaii, Dept. of Physics & Astronomy
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 10:42:12 GMT

In article <gershon.724372412@husc10> gershon@husc10.harvard.edu (Ethan Gershon) writes:
>The format for sending mail to CI$ is xxxxx.xxxx@compuserve.com where
>xxxxx.xxxx is the compuserve user number for the recipient. (I think
>this works)

It does work.  I use it regularly.
-- 
Antonio Querubin  
tony@mpg.phys.hawaii.edu / ah6bw@uhm.ampr.org / querubin@uhunix.bitnet
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu (Timothy F. Sipples)
Subject: Re: QMS 1700 printer driver
Reply-To: sip1@midway.uchicago.edu
Organization: Dept. of Econ., Univ. of Chicago
Date: Sat, 12 Dec 1992 05:43:15 GMT

In article <1992Dec10.115215.8805@tom.rz.uni-passau.de> schaefer@kirk.fmi.uni-passau.de (Achim Schaefer) writes:
>I am searching for a printer driver for QMS 1700.
>If anyone can tell me anything about this driver please e-mail.

Can you provide some specifics on this printer?  (Is it a Postscript
device, for example?)  I'm not familiar with this model.

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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: andreast@athena.mit.edu (Andreas Turanski)
Subject: HELP: owner Diamond SS+ please send valid SVGADATA.PMI file
Keywords: HELP Diamond speed star + plus svga send
 
 
 
 
 
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Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Distribution: usa
Date: Fri, 11 Dec 1992 22:26:43 GMT

P.S. Not that anyone would, but please don't bother sending
     me SVGADATA files from other setups, etc. as this will
     just confound my complex (OS/2-LESS) situation.

MEGA-Thanks-in-advance
andreas
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From: v053qpgh@ubvmsd.cc.buffalo.edu (Eric W Sarjeant)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: Diamond Speedstar synch problems
Date: 13 Dec 92 17:13:00 GMT
Organization: University at Buffalo
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41

In article <92346.120229RKKISTLE@MTUS5.BITNET>, RKKISTLE@MTUS5.BITNET (Wiccan) writes...
>To keep my monitor in synch, I have to have the "vmode monitor"
>command in the autoexec.bat file that is run every time I
>open a DOS window.  This is only for hi res graphics modes.
>I have run SVGA ON from a full screen DOS session with the card
>set up properly.  Is this normal?
> 
>Also, very few of the hi res video drivers work.  Same problem,
>the screen is not in synch.  This includes the drivers included
>with the service pack.  The Generic 800x600x16 drivers do work
>(and quite well, I might add).
> 
>My monitor can only synch at 72hz in 800x600 modes, and I suspect
>that everything is defaulting to 60hz.  Am I doing something
>wrong, or is this just a limitation?

I don't think you're doing anything wrong. My system has an analogous
limitation which prevents me from using the 800x600 mode; however, 1024x768
works flawlessly.

Would anyone care to comment on a multisynch monitor (like the NEC)? Will
this kind of investment insure that our monitor will always synch to the
card? I have been considering this kind of investment, but I'm approaching
it cautiously because my current monitor does such a nice job.
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From: enk2@po.cwru.edu (Erik Kovach)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: Startup Folder
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 04:28:20 GMT
Organization: Case Western Reserve University
NNTP-Posting-Host: b62711.student.cwru.edu


Are you closing the application before restarting?  OS/2, unless instructed
in the CONFIG.SYS with a SET statement (I think SET RESTARTOBJECTS=
STARTUPFOLDERONLY), will reload anything at startup that was active 
upon shutting down the system from the last time.
From: jack@sdf.lonestar.org (Jack Hudler)
Subject: Re: Another HPFS question
Organization: Best lil' ol' Pubnix in Texas
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 13:35:40 GMT

In article <1992Dec11.154229.28083@inel.gov> jar@inel.gov (Jeffry A Rich) writes:
>In article <Gary.Woodman.893.724047037@anu.edu.au>, Gary.Woodman@anu.edu.au (Gary Woodman) writes:
>
>
>OK, good enuf. Now, what is/are the advantages to using HPFS over FAT...
>assuming a drive partition of 80 Mb? I understand that by using HPFS, you 
>have to dedicate 512Kb of ram to it. With only 8Mb of total ram, this 
>will hurt! Would long file names justify this loss?
>
That 8 meg you talk of is used up when you boot os/2. You have a virtual 
machine now, you don't really need to worrying about where every little
byte gets used.

IMHO HPFS is a must. FAT is dead. And if I were you I'd make the whole drive 
HPFS get rid of the partitions you don't need to have them.
Unless you require a DOS BOOT partition, but, just cut the string and go OS/2.
From: lmp8913@zeus.tamu.edu (PRESTON, LISA M)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: Hot-key to kill WPS?
Date: 18 Dec 1992 18:52 CST
Organization: Texas A&M University, Academic Computing Services
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: zeus.tamu.edu
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41    

In article <1992Dec18.224035.11618@cdf.toronto.edu>, g1nickut@cdf.toronto.edu (Nick Zahariadis) writes...
>In article <921218135552@rgam.sc.ti.com> 5692330@mcimail.com  (Robert Gammon) writes:
>>In article <15DEC199220470840@zeus.tamu.edu> lmp8913@zeus.tamu.edu (PRESTON, LISA M) writes:
-> 
-> [other stuff deleted]...
->> >>         Since this scenario will not work if the keyboard locks up, 
->> >> is there a utility or driver that will recycle the WPS on demand?  I've 
->> >> never had Ctrl-Alt-Numlock fail to work properly (If you can call that a 
->> >> solution!!), so some sort of driver should be possible to permit the WPS 
->> >> to be killed via the keyboard, even if it is "locked up".
-> 
-> This is in fact not possible, and probably not advisable. From my
-> understanding of it, shutdown capabilities and such lie at the kernel
-> level and you probably wouldn't want to have a utility overriding operating
-> system functions. If IBM can't figure it out and someone else can, then
-> hmmm... there is definitely a problem here. 

	I'm not trying to really do anything crucial to the operating 
system, just shut down an application (PMSHELL) that has gone awry.  The
Mouse and modem still work during these lockups, so the interupts aren't
disabled, and Ctrl-alt-Numlock works, so the keyboard isn't locked up;
it's just that the WPS isn't responding to input from the keyboard
or mouse buttons. (by using ctrl-alt numlock, I'm able to do a warm boot
when ctrl-alt delete does not work under a hung WPS)

	I've had the WPS recycle by itself-isn't there any way to force 
it to from the outside?

Thanx in advance!
LISA

PS
 This would come up for discussion when Tim Sipples is out of town!!!
From: lclarke@gandalf.rutgers.edu (Lee Clarke)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: Icon Crosshatching color setting?
Date: 20 Dec 92 04:02:00 GMT
Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J.

[cross hatch colors won't stick]

Haven't the foggiest idea about how to fix this, but I'll be dollars to
donuts the problem is the same once that won't allow me to change
the font in the Desktop Settings, Icon view permanently. Rather,
I can change it to say Helv 14 in a scheme, then drop it and it will change.
But eventually, in that session, or in a subsequent one, it reverts
to 10 points. No clues. No fixes in sight. 
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From: dabl2@nlm.nih.gov (Don A.B. Lindbergh)
Subject: Re: Bug in drawing windowed VDM
Organization: National Library of Medicine
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 92 14:02:12 GMT

In article <1992Dec17.223747.4215@midway.uchicago.edu> sip1@midway.uchicago.edu writes:
>In article <BAB.92Dec17083108@se39.wg2.waii.com> bab@se39.wg2.waii.com (Brian Button) writes:
>>Has anyone else seen this bug?
>>When I open anything in a maximum sized DOS window, in 800x600x256
>>mode, the contents of the window are shifted over about 1/4" from the
>>right side of the window. This results in the left 1/4" of the
>>contents being clipped, and 1/4" of whatever is beneath the window
>>peaking through on the right. I can get the window to redraw itself by
>>resizing it to a smaller size and then back to full size.
>>This only happens about 50% of the time, but it's getting annoying. It
>>only appeared after I installed the service pack.
>>BTW, the video card is a Diamond Speedstar (the basic Tseng 4000 based
>>one).
>
>Yes, known bug.
>
>Workarounds:
>
>(1) Maximize the window, then reposition it.
>
>(2) Set things up so that the command MODE CO80,25 is run as you open
>an OS/2 window.  You can do so by setting up a CMD file, for example,
>or by using the /K parameter when invoking CMD.EXE.
>
>-- 

I know about (2) and use the suggestion in the FAQ for OS/2 windows, but how
is this relevent to problems with a DOS Window? (just asking)
I really wish you could do the 'scroll buffer' trick with Dos Windowed sessions
but I guess you can't?

--Don Lindbergh
dabl2@lhc.nlm.nih.gov
From: rovero@attu.oc.nps.navy.mil (Josh Rovero)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: Data Technology DTC3X80 ISA SCSI Driver for OS/2 2.0?
Date: 14 Dec 92 04:07:58 GMT
Organization: Naval Postgraduate School,Monterey CA

Don't hold your breath!  I and thousands of other DTC 3x80 users
have our OS/2 support requests in the queue at DTC.  If enough
others pile on, they *may* consider supporting OS/2 version 2.


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