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From: dlv@cunyvms1.gc.cuny.edu (Dimitri Vulis, CUNY GC Math)
Subject: Re: A good config.sys for 486/33 machines
Reply-To: dlv@cunyvms1.gc.cuny.edu
Organization: Computer Center, CUNY Graduate School, New York NY 10036
Date: Sat, 29 Aug 1992 00:37:43 GMT

In article <1992Aug21.200039.22046@njitgw.njit.edu>, dic5340@hertz.njit.edu (David Charlap) writes:
>My friend has a 486/33 with 16MB of memory and found OS/2 slow at
>first.  He tweaked his config.sys file a bit, and now it is very fast.
Many thanks! I have a few comments.
>>DISKCACHE=256,LW,32
I recommend adding ,AC:CD here if you have any FAT drives (like C and D).
This'll run chkdsk/f on them which you can't do after you boot.
>>PRINTMONBUFSIZE=2048,134,134
>This controls the printer's buffering.  I don't know if it's for DOS
>sessions or for all sessions.
This seems to speed printing up on my machine and if you have a printer
on LPT2 then replace the second 134 by 2048 too.
>>SET DELDIR=C:\DELETE,512;
>This allows the undelete function to work.  By default, this line is
>REMarked off.
I've had the machine hang when deleting files from DOS box with undelete
un-remed; so I remed it back. (A lurking bug, I think)
>
>>BASEDEV=PRINT01.SYS
>>BASEDEV=IBM1FLPY.ADD
>>BASEDEV=IBM1S506.ADD
Be careful here if you copy this to your config.sys! The '1' files are for
ISA (AT) and the '2' files are for Microchannel (PS/2).
>>DEVICE=C:\OS2\APPS\SASYNCDA.SYS 
>This helps DOS sessions use the COM port.
Nope, this is used by OS/2 apps like PM terminal and can be remed out if you're
only using DOS communications or serial mice or for OS/2 apps
that use DosOpen for COMn (saving a little memory)
Dimitri Vulis
CUNY GC Math
DLV@CUNYVMS1.BITNET DLV@CUNYVMS1.GC.CUNY.EDU

Disclaimer: my Usenet postings don't necessarily represent anyone's views,
especially my own and/or CUNY's.
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: parry@yoyo.cc.monash.edu.au (Tom J Parry)
Subject: Re: Creating a RAM drive from Config.SYS
Originator: parry@yoyo.cc.monash.edu.au
Organization: Monash University, Melb., Australia.
Date: Thu, 3 Sep 1992 00:12:48 GMT

Jerry Bryan (BRYAN@wvnvm.wvnet.edu) wrote:
> 
> VDISK.SYS works fine.  Yes, it takes the next available drive letter.
> For example, DEVICE=C:\OS2\VDISK.SYS 4096 128 100 will make a 4-meg
> disk (actually, 4096K, which is the same as 4-meg).  It will have 128 byte
> sectors, and will support 100 directory entries.  In my case, it makes
> me a D: disk.
> 
> The help is fairly good.  For example say HELP VDISK from the OS/2
> command line, or else go through the help menus to get to the
> same information.

What area of memory does OS/2's VDISK use? I have 24 meg and would like to
use the upper 8 (on an ISA machine) for something more than swap space. A
ram disk would be nice. Also, does anybody know which section of memory the
CACHE goes in?

-- 
Tom J Parry.
Your reality is a figment of my imagination.
From: holmes@gorilla.nbn.com (Tim Holmes)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: PMCOMM!!!
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 92 18:24:35 PDT
Organization: GORILLA BBS

pvonk@scott.skidmore.edu (Pierre VonKaenel) writes:

> In article <1992Aug27.185933.19328@njitgw.njit.edu> dic5340@hertz.njit.edu (D
> >
> >Does PMCOMM have built-in Zmodem?  That's one feature I haven't seen
> >yet in OS/2 terminal packages.  I won't switch from Procomm Plus/DOS
> >until I find a package that does this, and I'd like to remove yet
> >another DOS app from my system, if I can.
> 
> Does HyperAccess/2 support Zmodem?
> 
Yes it does.  In fact, it supports the auto-download Zmodem feature.
And it's a very good package!

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Tim Holmes             holmes@gorilla.nbn.com             San Rafael, CA
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From: michael.hagerty@spacebbs.com (Michael Hagerty) 
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Can't get com3 to work
Date: 1 Sep 92 02:08:00 GMT
Distribution: na
Organization: SPACE BBS - Menlo Park, CA - 10 Lines + 4gB - 415-323-4193
Reply-To: michael.hagerty@spacebbs.com (Michael Hagerty) 

EG. From: gershon@husc10.harvard.edu (Ethan Gershon)
EG. Subject: Can't get com3 to work
EG.
EG. I have my modem set up as com1, irq4 and my mouse on the com2, irq3. I
EG. set the motherboard's other com port to be com3, irq5 following the
EG. instructions in the computer's manual.  The modem works just fine.  The
EG. mouse works just fine.  But when I boot up it says "COM3 did not install.
EG. The interrupt level is not availible."

I had the same problem...  Fixed it by getting the COM2210 interim fix.
Read the docs which are in that archive and it might help.  Oh, this file
is also called COMGA3 on some boards.  Inside the archive it will be ID'd
as 2210.  Regards, Mikey
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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu (Timothy F. Sipples)
Subject: Re: Printing to FILE
Reply-To: sip1@midway.uchicago.edu
Organization: Dept. of Econ., Univ. of Chicago
Date: Sat, 29 Aug 1992 16:42:27 GMT

In article <1992Aug27.151508.28016@nuscc.nus.sg> eng30087@nusunix2.nus.sg (_) writes:
>How do I capture the output to a printer port in OS/2. I need this
>as some packages do not have this print to file option.

In the settings for your printer object there is a print to file
checkbox on one of the pages.  Click on the printer object with mouse
button two, select Open -> Settings, and page through until you find
it.

-- 
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sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu | 128.123.35.151, anonymous ftp, in /pub/os2/all/faq.
Dept. of Econ., Univ.   | Or from LISTSERV@BLEKUL11.BITNET (send "HELP").
Chicago, 60637          | Hey GOP: The Economy, Stupid!
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: cpbaltus@cs.vu.nl (Baltus CPS)
Subject: Problems receiving a FAX within os/2 and QL2fax
Organization: Fac. Wiskunde & Informatica, VU, Amsterdam
Date: Wed, 2 Sep 1992 16:15:33 GMT

Hello all,
 
I use the program QL2fax to receive faxes. But, the receive fax
program is a TSR (terminate and Stay Resident). I don't get it working

Can anybody tell me whether it is possible at all? Or does a OS/2
fax program exist?

			Stefan.

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From: kiehl@ibt013.ibt.kfa-juelich.de (Horst Kiehl)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: Can't delete an icon
Keywords: undeletable icon, undeletable object
Date: 1 Sep 92 07:58:59 GMT
Reply-To: kiehl@ibt013.ibt.kfa-juelich.de (Horst Kiehl)
Organization: Forschungszentrum Juelich GmbH (KFA), Germany

In article <1992Sep1.004539.2101@monu6.cc.monash.edu.au>,
parry@yoyo.cc.monash.edu.au (Tom J Parry) writes:

>I have tried almost everything and this ICON does not want to go away.

Hm-hm. I'm reposting the method that worked for me
(and for schmiher@Informatik.TU-Muenchen.DE (Hermann Schmidt)),
perhaps it'll work for you too.

I succeeded getting rid of an undeletable object by:

1. Moving it onto A:\ by:

   a) Selecting it

   b) Selecting Move... from it's menu

   c) Selecting the Path (not drive) tab

   d) Entering A:\ (or just A: -- I can't remember)

2. Moving it to a subdirectory on A: the same way as above

   (I suspect this step was unnecessary)

3. Deleting that directory (I don't remember which way)

Then it was gone which I verified by a Search.
I think I also reformatted the disk and verified
that there weren't any EAs left.

Best wishes,

Horst
From: bgraham@yoda.wsu.edu (Brooks Graham )
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Memory support GT 16Mb
Date: 31 Aug 92 23:38:44 GMT
Article-I.D.: serval.1992Aug31.233844.6624
Organization: Washington State University!
Originator: bgraham@yoda.eecs.wsu.edu

Here's a question:  I've seen motherboards on the market that support up
to 64 Mb of memory on the motherboard.  It's my understanding that the magic
16Mb limit is due to ISA's DMA controller being unable to address beyond
the 16Mb line.  

The question is this:  have these manufacturers implemented a DMA controller
capable of going over the 16Mb line?  Or is it that DOS DMA xfers _always_
occur below that line?  For that matter, is having over 16Mb when using
DOS/Windoze dangerous?  Hmmm. I suppose that when using a v86 box under
Windoze/Desqview that the DMA addresses resolve between the 0-640 range
through the magic of 386/486 memory mapping. 

In any event, if someone can make sense of my question and has an answer,
it would be appreciated.  I have one of these motherboards and am
considering increasing the memory over 16Mb (currently running at 8)

thanks

Brooks Graham 

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bgraham@yoda.eecs.wsu.edu   |    the bold survive."
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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: tnt@netcom.com (Terry Turner)
Subject: Re: "Stuck" keys in OS/2
Date: Wed, 02 Sep 92 19:30:03 GMT
Organization: Watch the Skies
	<TNT.92Sep2063157@netcom.com> <1992Sep2.144826.8965@njitgw.njit.edu>

In article <1992Sep2.144826.8965@njitgw.njit.edu> dic5340@hertz.njit.edu (David Charlap) writes:


   In article <TNT.92Sep2063157@netcom.com> tnt@netcom.com (Terry Turner) writes:
   >just another data point: my ps2/95 does this with the alt key but never 
   >the shift or control keys.

   It happens when switching sessions via alt-esc, right?  What happens
   is that the session gets the alt-down, when it's pressed, but the
   keyboard gets switched away before the alt-up signal is sent.  It's a
   bug.  The session should be send an alt-up upon switching out to
   prevent this.

this could well be. i am a keyboard junkie and use alt-esc and arrows 
to change sessions. it is not a reliable bug so i am not sure if this 
is the only time that it happens. and it certainly doesn't happen every
time.
-- 
terry
	tnt@netcom.com
From: bgm@cray.com (Bert Moshier)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: Two New OS/2 Books from Abacus
Date: 30 Aug 92 02:57:24 GMT
Organization: Cray Research, Inc.

In article <1992Aug28.211512.9982@midway.uchicago.edu> sip1@midway.uchicago.edu writes:
>In article <1992Aug28.152313.28339@hemlock.cray.com> bgm@cray.com (Bert Moshier) writes:
>>P.S.  IBM "announced" last night at the MN OS/2 End-user Group meeting that
>>OS/2 sold 300,000 copies in the last 10 days.
>
>Bert:
>
>If that's true, OS/2 has now just about matched the pace of Windows
>3.1 sales.  That's incredible, if true.
>
>-- 
>Timothy F. Sipples      | The OS/2 FREQ. ASKED QUESTIONS LIST is avail. from

Tim:

I doubt the IBMers at the meeting were lying.  BTW, I failed to mention that
IBM sent to "pros from Dover" to use a MASH the movie phrase.  They spoke on
the future of OS/2 through 1999(!!).
 
I plan on doing a column on the subject based upon the meeting for OS/2
Monthly Magazine.

I will be posting a note with the highlights of the talk.

Bert.
Xref: sparky comp.os.os2.misc:28196 misc.forsale:24583
From: chseow@rice-chex.ai.mit.edu (Choong Huei Seow)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc,misc.forsale
Subject: OS/2 2.0 C Developer's Workset 2 for sale
Date: 26 Aug 92 00:07:23 GMT
Followup-To: chseow@ai.mit.edu
Distribution: usa
Organization: MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory


hello,
      I no longer need the copy of the OS/2 2.0 C Developer's
Workset/2, and wish to part with it for a reasonable price.
The Kit contains:

1) IBM OS/2 Workframe/2
2) IBM OS/2 Developer's Toolkit
3) IBM OS/2 C Set/2

This kit contains all the neccessary tools for developing OS/2 2.0
applications. The manuals and documentations which accompanied the
package are all in like new condition. I will also include the copy of
GNU gcc compilers, gdb, and emacs for OS/2 if you take the whole
package.
        For those interested, please reply to chseow@ai.mit.edu.

thanks,
Choong Huei Seow
chseow@ai.mit.edu
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: rgundech@napier.uwaterloo.ca ()
Subject: Re: 0s2 compilers
Organization: University of Waterloo
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1992 13:35:12 GMT

>Can someone recommend a good compiler for os2? And perhaps an assembler too. I
>want something that really utilizes the advanced (?) features of os2 over DOS
>type programs.
>looking for libraries that offer similar types of objects, such as buttons,
>sliders, canvas's, etc. I want something to help me flesh out GUIs *fast*!
>
>Thanks in advance!
>
>-Keith 

If an OS/2 assembler and graphical libraries are available via ftp sites or
commercially at a reasonable (OK cheap) price, could someone please e-mail
the details to me.
	rgundech@napier.waterloo.edu
From: lopes@cogsci.ucsd.EDU (alann lopes)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: OS2-TO-SUN
Date: 30 Aug 92 20:38:08 GMT
Organization: University of California, San Diego

In article <14173.1321.uupcb@compart.fi> mike.walsh@compart.fi (Mike Walsh) writes:
>Has anyone any experience of connecting PCs running OS/2 (preferably
>OS/2 2.0) to SUN workstations ?
>How did you do it ? Any details of problems etc grateful received. Mike
>                                                                                   

Connect how?  Using IBM's TCP/IP should give you all the connectivity
you need.  Currently, I am using a sun as a printer server so that I
can print from OS2 to laser printers on LocalTalk. Many other types of
client/server configurations are possible with the TCP/IP package.

   Hope this helps  -- alann


   alann lopes:        alopes@ucsd.edu       -- internet
   (619) 534-7417      ALOPES@UCSD           -- bitnet

           


Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc,comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
From: pprior@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Paul A Prior)
Subject: Re: Why not OS/2 ???? Hmmmmmm
Organization: The Ohio State University
Date: Thu, 3 Sep 1992 00:11:13 GMT

In article <1992Sep2.152049.7982@colorado.edu> doug@shako.Colorado.EDU (Doug McKnight) writes:
>>    Why not buy OS/2 1.x, uprade to OS/2 2.0, use the "blank" disks
>> and qualify for the free upgrade to OS/2 2.1, 3.0, etc.  Now, how
>> many sdisks do you get for your $20?  Besides, the next version may
>> run well!  Furthermore, if we all invest at least $20, (a) IBM will
>> have some revenue to further their development, (b) the apparent
>> installed base will be larger & OS/2 apps will eventually appear
>> and (the best reason - c) IT WILL THOUGHROUGHLY PISS OFF MICROSLOTH
>> and possibly make them release WIN32 and NT (Not There, Not True,
>> Not Today, Not Tomorrow...)
>>   I vote $20 to scare Microsoft out of complacency, who's with me!
>> "Come on, was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor?"
>                                 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>>     Jeff Andle
>
>
>Ah, the youth of today...........
      ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Ahh,, the old farts who never watched Animal house... <G!>


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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: Can't get com3 to work
From: Steve.Withers@bbs.actrix.gen.nz
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1992 09:45:49 GMT
Organization: Actrix Information Exchange
Keywords: com3, irq5

In article <gershon.715192512@husc10> gershon@husc10.harvard.edu (Ethan Gershon) writes:
> I'm happily using OS/2 2.0 GA, but I haven't been able to get it to
> work with my com3 since the day I installed it.
>  
> Equipment: Austin 386-33 with AMI bios, 2 serial, 1 paralell ports on
>             motherboard
>            generic 2400 baud internal modem
>  
> I have my modem set up as com1, irq4 and my mouse on the com2, irq3. I
> set the motherboard's other com port to be com3, irq5 following the
> instructions in the computer's manual.  The modem works just fine.  The 
> mouse works just fine.  But when I boot up it says "COM3 did not install.
> The interrupt level is not availible."  Relevant lines from my config.sys
> are:
>  
> 	DEVICE=C:\OS2\MOUSE.SYS SERIAL=COM2
> 	DEVICE=C:\OS2\COM.SYS (3,3E8,5)
> 	DEVICE=C:\OS2\MDOS\VCOM.SYS (3,3E8,5)
> 	BASEDEV=PRINT01.SYS
>  
> Does anyone have a solution? thanks.
>                                              --Ethan Gershon
>                                                gershon@husc.harvard.edu

Any other cards in your PC? An ethernet card or SoundBlaster could be using
IRQ5.......something is........
 
Steve

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From: djackson@axion.bt.co.uk (Dave Jackson)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: What has happened to Hobbes ??
Date: 28 Aug 92 07:50:25 GMT
Reply-To: djackson@axion.bt.co.uk (Dave Jackson)
Organization: British Telecom Research Labs


I have to use ftpmail to get to Hobbes (from
ftpmail@decwrl.dec.com), however
I now get messages back from the mail server which say:

>>> checking security of host `hobbes.nmsu.edu'
>>> HOST IS NOT REGISTERED WITH THE DOMAIN NAME SERVICE
  -- End Of Ftpmail Transcript --

It was registered  yesterday, so has Hobbes gone, or has it
been removed from
the above ftp-mail server.

If the latter does anyone know of another ftp mail server I
can use (I can't
use bitftp@pucc.bitnet as we don't have a bitnet path on the
whole route - 
or so the machine informs me when bouncing my requests back
!!

(By the way the decwrl machine never recognised the
ftp-os2.nmsu.edu address
for hobbes, and still doesn't)



David J Jackson   Telephone +44 473 645805
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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc,comp.protocols.tcp-ip
From: MLONG@isucard.card.iastate.edu
Subject: Re: DOS packet drivers, NDIS and Token-Ring
Organization: CARD
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1992 08:26:36 GMT

In article <92239.103636A6054OS2@HASARA11.BITNET>                               
A6054OS2@HASARA11.BITNET writes:                                                
                                                                                
>I'm using OS/2 2.0 and have TCP/IP 1.2 installed with the IBMTOK MAC           
>driver.                                                                        
>Since programs like Archie can only be used with ethernet packet drivers       
>(those progs are based on CUTE or NCSA telnet), I can't use these Network      
>Information Retrieval progs.                                                   
>However I lately read something about converting packet drivers to NDIS. Is    
>that possible and how? Or is there some info available on this topic? Or other 
>possibilities to use those programs?                                           
>                                                                               
>All help is very much appreciated,                                             
>                                                                               
>Rachid Tebbal                                                                  
>University of Amsterdam                                                        
>Department of Information Systems                                              
>The Netherlands.                                                               
>                                                                               
>                                                                               
Right now I am running the IBMTOKEN.COM packet driver and the IBM OS/2 LAN Requ 
ester and CUTCP all at the same time all on the same token ring adapter.        
You will first need the OS/2 NTS/2 Beta LAPS disks, they can be gotten from     
800-IBM-3040 (I see you are international, sorry for the 800 number).  This new 
 version of LAPS (or NTS/2?) comes with a Virtual IEEE 802.2 driver for DOS     
boxes.  Within LAPS I changed the System Key from its default of 0 to 0002 in t 
he OS/2 configuration for IEEE 802.2.  Then open the DOS box, and use the comma 
nd C:\IBMCOM\LTSVCFG S=16 C=18 N1=1 D=1.  Then load the IBMTOKEN.COM packet     
 driver, then load CUTCP, or NCSA, or whatever.                                 
This Virtual 802.2 looks to be very powerful at allowing OS/2 to share network  
adapter resources with DOS Network packet drivers that are written to 802.2.    
Mike Long                                                                       
Iowa State University                                                           
                                                                                
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: db3l@ans.net (David Bolen)
Subject: Re: ati ultra
Date: Wed, 2 Sep 1992 01:51:02 GMT
Distribution: comp
Organization: Advanced Network & Services, Inc. - Elmsford, NY

In article <1992Sep1.1480.25934@dosgate> "bill dehaan" <bill.dehaan@canrem.com> writes:

>RF>Others who use the ATI 8514a boards, using IBM 8514a drivers, claim
>RF>lightning speed!
>
>Really? At  our site,  we find  them identical  to the  IBM boards  when
>running OS/2...

Then you've either got really fast IBM cards or something is really slow about
your ATI card, at least from my experience.  Most of the machines I'ved used
with OS/2 have been PS/2s with 8514 adapters and the ATI Graphics Ultra I
recently got for my home ISA machine is *much* faster.  Albeit subjectively,
it feels like it runs rings around the IBM card (and I'm even driving a
standard IBM 8514 monitor with the ATI, so it's not just a fancy monitor
maybe changing the subjective feel).

Probably the simplest test is text scrolling.  I can almost read as fast as
the IBM 8514 used to scroll my text windows - especially if it was a full
screen height (40-43 lines) window.  With the ATI, it's just a blur, even
with the large window - really a major difference.

--
-- David
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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: twong@civil.ubc.ca (Thomas Wong)
Subject: Joel's new ATI VGA Wonder drivers (1.01)
Organization: Dept. of Civil Engineering, U.B.C., Vancouver, B.C., Canada
Date: Fri, 4 Sep 1992 17:14:42 GMT

Has anyone tried Joel's new ATI drivers, version 1.01, the one where
you no longer need the atipat.exe program to patch the drivers for
your video card? And has a bunch of fixes. I have been using the older
driver (1.0) just fine except for the dots that appears occassionally
on the desktop which the new driver fixes. So I tried the new driver
but now I get the "twinkle" effects. I went into DOS full screen
mode as suggested but still get the "twinkles" when I come back to
desktop. Has anyone used it successfully? But I'm back to the old
drivers for now. Thanks.

Thomas.

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