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Organization: Penn State University
Date: Thu, 20 Aug 1992 13:41:14 EDT
From: H. Choe <HXC6@psuvm.psu.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc,comp.periphs.scsi
Subject: OS2+ESDI+SCSI: Help!

I have a SWAN 486-50DX2 local bus (ISA) system with
    Ultrastor 12F controller and Micropolis 1664 340mb ESDI HD.
The OS/2 2.0 system had worked fine until I added
    Adaptec 1542B SCSI controller and Micropolis 1624 660mb SCSI HD.
The symptom is that the system hangs frequently in wordperfect, kermit,
etc.  Once it happens, keyboard stucks and even Ctr-Alt-Del magic
sequence does not work -- Only hard reset works.
This is what I did: (I did not reinstall OS/2 which is still on ESDI
HPFS partition)
   (1) I disabled floppy on 1542B.  Two floppy drives are connected
       to the motherboard.  Other than that, I use the default
       configuration of 1542B.
   (2) I disabled all shadow ram.
   (3) "BASEDEV=AHA154X.ADD" is added to config.sys. (obtained from Hobbes)
   (4) I checked IRQ conflicts using MSD[dos] obtained from Hobbes.
The new SCSI HD is partitioned by OS/2 FDISKPM into 2 logical partitions and
formated as HPFS.

Do I miss something?  Any advices?  Many many thanks!!!!!
Organization: Penn State University
Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1992 11:58:38 EDT
From: <BJT105@psuvm.psu.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: Video video video...

Within a month IBM will Beta 32-bit ET4000 drivers, along with the 32-bit
graphics engine.  Since these drivers are generic ET4000, which manufacturer
is not as important a consideration.  (In the test labs they have Orchid IIs,
STB Powergraph, Diamond Speedstar, Boca Research (older ones, they now use NCR
chips instead of Tseng), Amdek, and a couple others.  The biggest compatability
problem is getting the SVGADATA.PMI file generated when the card is in the
proper state to match the capabilities of the monitor (as far as refresh).
Drivers for other chipsets will be coming, but timeframes are hard to guess.
You can be sure the you will have Tseng ET4000 drivers soon, so that's what
I'd recommend. The drivers will be 32-bit with seamless windows in all
resolutions, and pallete management.  Believe it or not, the 16 color drivers
are on a later schedule, so the 256 color drivers will be released first.
(so the higher speed of 16 colors will not be available immediately).

Bernie
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: ajchuah@mtu.edu ([*BARK*])
Subject: DOG help.
Keywords: DOG	
Reply-To: ajchuah@mtu.edu
Organization: Michigan Technological University
Date: Mon, 17 Aug 1992 02:54:40 GMT



Hi netters,
          I have a question on FAT disk defragmentation.  I
think it is time i use DOG(Disk OrGanizer) to defragment my HD.
I have some FAT partitions and i plan to defragment it using DOG.
Could someone please tell me the right procedure to take to 
defragment the HD?  I have the following questions:

1) When do i run DOG?  From OS2?  from DOS? from a system 
   booted of the floppy?  Or which is best?

2) Which options do i use in DOG?

3) Do i have to make any changes in OS2 after/before i use DOG?

4) Any relevant information or gotchas which pertains to the 
   working of DOG, OS/2 and Disk Defragmentation.  Please
   don't exclude anything you think necessary because i have
   never used DOG.

	Thanx all in advance.

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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: parry@yoyo.cc.monash.edu.au (Tom J Parry)
Subject: Re: How to safely recover from Ctrl-Alt-Del?
Originator: parry@yoyo.cc.monash.edu.au
Organization: Monash University, Melb., Australia.
Date: Sun, 16 Aug 1992 06:37:38 GMT

Sumant Kumar Sahay (sksahay@toprak.ecn.uoknor.edu) wrote:
> 
> I have recently installed OS/2 v2.0 XR02000 with FAT and dual boot.
> A Windows user took a look at my OS/2 system and in order to revert it
> to the native mode DOS, saved the Autoexec.bat as Autoexec.os2, copied
> Autoexec.001 to Autoexec.bat, and did the three finger salute 
> (a la Ctrl-Alt-Del).
> The result was the following message -

UGLY! Dual boot does more than play owth Autoexec, it also moves
config.dos to config.sys and adjusts the boot record (I presume) to
point to the dos system files instead of OS/2. 


OOPS, deleted some lines, seems your error code mentioned COUNTRY/SYS as
ooposed to COUNTRY.SYS. Looks like your config.sys is a little broken.
You could boot from a DOS floppy, fix config.sys, put autoexec.os2 back
and reboot. Should work if you're careful.

> Another question that comes to mind is, shouldn't the Autoexec.bat
> file for OS/2 be named Autoexec.cmd?  At least, then it would be
> a deterrent for such mishaps.

NO! Autoexec.bat is used for DOS sessions. It has nothing to do with
OS/2 sessions. The OS/2 equivalent is called startup.cmd. The
autoexec.bat file serves almost the same purpose in OS/2 as it does in
DOS and definitely deserves to be a BAT file.

-- 
Tom J Parry.
Your reality is a figment of my imagination.
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: grimlok@hubcap.clemson.edu (Mike Percy)
Subject: PATH Variable, a general request (& criticism)
Organization: Clemson University
Date: Sun, 16 Aug 1992 13:45:27 GMT

eric@tgm.CAM.ORG (Eric Trepanier) writes:

>branch@hfglobe.intel.com writes in article <1992Aug12.180735.22655@intelhf.hf.intel.com>:

[longer than 127 char paths in DOS]

Flame to developers:

This goes out to all Windows, DOS, and OS/2 developers.  Every stinking
program I install has instructions along the line of
  "Make sure to include the directory c:\wizbang (or wherever you
installed Wizbang 2.1) in your PATH statement."

Arg!  THey know there's a limitation on DOS (therefore Windows) PATHs.
And they know that people often put things in directories like
d:\windows\apps\wizbang.  And they know that longer paths make for
slower performance.

Under windows and OS/2, I'm most likely going to be launching pgms from
clicking on an icon (which could include a fully qualified path to the
executable), so why must I have it in the path?  So it can find it's
DLLs?  I'd love to have my path include only those directories from
which I'm actually going to start programs from the command line.

I have two suggestions to all developers.  
1.  Include the ability to point the executable to a configuration file.
    If not indicated get the cfg file from the launch directory or the
    working director, but let us decide to override:
     d:\wizbang\wizbang.exe -c d:\wizbang\wizbang.ini
   (Keep this out of win.ini, I hate programs that screw with my
    win.ini!)

2.  Along with any configuration stuff like colors and drivers and such,
    please, please, please include path directives:
    [WizBang]
    dll-path=d:\wizbang
    font-path=d:\wizbang
    wbg-path=d:\wizbang
    save-path=d:\wizbang\save
    
With a setup like this, I'll not have to worry about long paths, dll
or font lirbary name conflicts, programs stomping on each other and
things like that.  Is this too much to ask?  Is it too difficult for
developers?

Mike Percy             | grimlok@hubcap.clemson.edu  | I don't know about
Sr. Systems Analyst    | mspercy@clemson.clemson.edu | your brain, but mine
Info. Sys. Development | mspercy@clemson.BITNET      | is really...bossy.
Clemson University     | (803) 656-3780              | (Laurie Anderson)
From: dic5340@hertz.njit.edu (David Charlap)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: Defragment EA DATA. SF
Keywords: OS/2
Date: 20 Aug 92 21:03:02 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, N.J.

In article <1992Aug19.162749.5526@digi.lonestar.org> lbriskin@digi.lonestar.org (Leonid Briskin) writes:
>Hi netters !
>I have 386 system with Dual Boot OS/2 and MS DOS. Last week I found
>that my EA DATA. SF file has more than 300 pieces. To defragment this file
>I used procedure from "Inside OS/2" "
>  Boot OS/2
>  ATTRIB -H EA?DATA.?SF
>  Boot MS DOS
>  Using Norton Speed Disk defragment file
>  Boot OS/2
>  ATTRIB +H EA?DATA.?SF
>
>After all of this I find that my file was still fragmented.

The EA files have the system (S) bit set as well as the hidden (H)
bit.  Try running attrib with the "-H -S" parameters to clear both
bits, and then with the "+H +S" parameters to turn them on again.  I'd
recommend doing this from DOS, though, since the files are open and
active while OS/2 is running.

>Using MS DOS ATTRIB gave me error message " System re-installation error"
>or somethink like this ( I  don't remember exact message ).

Odd.  I recommend using the gnu chmod program.  I've used it for many
things under DOS.  I don't know about EA data files, though, since my
hard drives are HPFS formatted, and I don't care much about floppy
fragmentation (re-format and xcopy works fine to defragment a floppy!)

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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu (Timothy F. Sipples)
Subject: Re: Saving the register info
Reply-To: sip1@midway.uchicago.edu
Organization: Dept. of Econ., Univ. of Chicago
Date: Sat, 22 Aug 1992 01:47:33 GMT

In article <8eZF4_n0BwwwA9mBss@transarc.com> Lucian_Dancanet@transarc.com writes:
>Is there a way of saving the register information displayed by a
>System Error into a file?

Consult the online Command Reference under LOG.SYS for further
information on this feature.  Note that some reports have indicated
that this facility is not working correctly, but it is certainly worth
trying.

You may also wish to consult the information under CREATEDD and
related commands as well.

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From: affie@earley.sns.neuphilologie.uni-tuebingen.de (Ralf Affie Hauser)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: New software at Watson's
Keywords: OS/2 software, IBM-FTP
Date: 18 Aug 92 14:10:10 GMT
Organization: sns

Hi everybody,

I have just visited IBM WATSON FTP and I have seen a whole bunch of new software.
REAL software, not only APARS and fixes but nice programs and bitmaps.

Seems that somebody has whispered the secret of how to find friends
to Big Blue ...

	affie, looking forward to the future of OS/2
From: bigras@mala.bc.ca
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Rbase 4.0 protected mode problem
Date: 19 Aug 92 19:05:33 -0700
Organization: Malaspina College


Hi,
I am having problems getting RBase v 4.0 to run in OS/2
I have tried various combinations of EMS XMS etc.

At first the error was 'not enough memory to run in 
protected mode' { same as in windows }. After upping
the XMS to 4 MB the error is a system error about a
Co-Processor trap.

Anyone worked this out yet?

Tony Bigras

ok
From: feustel@netcom.com (David Feustel)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: 1280x1024x16 colors with os/2!!!
Date: 13 Aug 92 23:38:45 GMT
Organization: DAFCO: OS/2 Software Support & Consulting

I've seen a 1280x1024 display of the os/2 workplace shell. I want it!
The display and controller are from IBM!!! The hardware currently
costs 6000. Ask for The IBM Image Adapter/A w 3 megabytes and the 6091
color display. This is microchannel hardware.
-- 
Dave Feustel N9MYI <feustel@netcom.com>
---
Given Civil Seizure, from the DEA's point of view, winning the War on
Drugs would be killing the Goose that lays golden eggs.
From: mauritz_c@spcvxb.spc.edu
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: checking for 16550 under OS/2
Date: 20 Aug 92 14:28:35 GMT
Organization: SPC Community Access System

I just got a new high speed double serial port card for my 486.
One port has a 16450 and the other has an NS16550AFN.
Unfortunately, the documentation for the card is not all too
clear about which chip controls which port.  Is there any way
OS/2 can check this for me?  
 
Cheers,
 
Chris
From: msmith@netcom.com (Martin P. Smith)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: More than 1024 sectors on a hard drive.
Date: 19 Aug 92 02:42:01 GMT
Distribution: comp.os.os2.misc
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  (408 241-9760 guest)


I just bought a new hard drive ( Microscience 1120 120Meg RLL ) Yea I know
it's old technology but I am waiting to get a 486 notebook and this is
 as much as I can afford. The drive will format to 120Meg ONLY if i can
format it with more than 1024 sectors. 

My question is can I use the supplied SWBIOS.COM program under OS/2 toi
get the extra space ???? There is also a DMDRVR.BIN file. 

Any help is much appreciated I really could use the extra 25 megs I will 
gain.


Martin Smith
msmith@netcom.com
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: price@helios.unl.edu (Chad  Price)
Subject: Re: NCSA telnet CPU usage
Organization: University of Nebraska - Lincoln
Distribution: usa
Date: 21 Aug 92 17:33:12 GMT

np4@prism.gatech.EDU (Nick Pomponio) writes:

>In <1992Aug21.135137.1131@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> wrp@cyclops.micr.Virginia.EDU (Bill Pearson) writes:

>*	When I run NCSA telnet under a DOS full screen window my Pulse meter
>*suggests that I am hogging the CPU, even when it is in the background doing
>*nothing.  Likewise with epsilon for DOS.
>*
>*	Is there a setting that I should change to tell these programs not
>*to keep polling for something?
>*
>*Bill Pearson

>I, too, have noticed this type of behavior. Even using 'type' to view a
>file in another dos window while NCSA Telnet is running results in a slow,
>jerky display.
>-- 

You need to play with the idle detect and the other parameter just above it 
on the DOS parameters list. Since NCSA telnet constantly polls to see what 
is happening, (as far as I can tell), you'll need to adjust the DOS session 
so reduce the priority in background.

chad

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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc,comp.unix.xenix.sco
From: stein@tellabs.com (stein)
Subject: Upgrading to SCSI
Followup-To: poster
Keywords: SCSI-2, FAST SCSI, Adaptec 1542B, Ultrastor 14F
Organization: Tellabs, Inc.
Date: Mon, 17 Aug 1992 17:49:36 GMT

I am considering upgrading to a high capacity SCSI drive. What controllers reliably
support OS/2 and XENIX ? Ultrastor doesn't provide XENIX support. Adaptec claims to
support XENIX, but does it really work ? What about OS/2 ? Adaptec's 1542B is only a
SCSI controller not SCSI-2 (5 Meg transfer) or FAST SCSI (10 Meg transfer). While SCSI
promises much flexibility and performance the volume of postings seems to suggest that
not all the kinks have been worked out yet. I would like to move towards the future
without compromising existing software. I wonder if I might be best off by just tacking 
another ESDI drive onto my Ultrastor 12F controller (currently I have a 160 Meg ESDI).
If any of you have gone through a similar experience I'd like to hear from you.
From: dic5340@hertz.njit.edu (David Charlap)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Possible cause for out of memory errors
Date: 21 Aug 92 20:05:37 GMT
Organization: New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, N.J.

If you open large quantities of windows at once, you may find yourself
getting an "out of memory" error, with plenty of space left on the swap
volume.

I don't think this is actually an out of memory condition.  I've
gotten them, and the display usually blanks with an error telling you
that the swapper.dat partition is full.  Instead, I'm pretty sure that
the real reason is that you're using up all the window handles in the
system.  (Remember: each control, button, edit field, menu, etc, are
all windows, and all get window handles.) This is a fault of the 16-bit
GRE, and will go away when the 32-bit GRE is installed.  I recall one
developer running into this problem with an application that was
creating a large number of windows.  He got the beta 32-bit GRE and
the problem went away.
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From: dic5340@hertz.njit.edu (David Charlap)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: DOS autoexec.bat capability?
Date: 20 Aug 92 21:10:25 GMT
Organization: New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, N.J.

In article <19920820102648ECL4JN2@MVS.OAC.UCLA.EDU> ECL4JN2@MVS.OAC.UCLA.EDU (Jack Newsbaum) writes:
>When starting up a dos task within OS/2, is there any capability for the
>automatic execution of the equivalent of an autoexec.bat file
>corresponding to what happens in vanilla DOS?

Yes.  If you have a file called AUTOEXEC.BAT located in the root
directory of the boot drive, it will execute every time you open a DOS
box.  For specific DOS sessions, put an AUTOEXEC.BAT file in the image
file or on the boot disk (of course).
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From: adhir@cygnus.umd.edu (Alok Dhir)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: UPDATE : Still can't print through Win-OS/2 :(
Date: 13 Aug 92 17:19:40 GMT
Organization: /etc/organization


>Brian,
>I just got a IIIP myself and had the same problem.  There's a generic (i.e.,
>non-PCL5) Laserjet driver for Win-OS/2 available at software.watson.ibm.com 
>that works, all be it slowly; it's nowhere near as fast as the HPPCL5A driver
>under Windows 3.1, so I've been switching to Windows 3.1 to print out long
>jobs.  I hope and pray the September CSD's will have a decent HPPCL5 driver
>included.

I was under the impression that you could use Win3.1 drivers under WinOS/2, 
have you tried using it?
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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: koverber@cs.ulowell.edu (Kurt Overberg)
Subject: Getting better resoulution for OS/2?
Organization: /usr/ug/1992/koverber/.organization
Distribution: comp
Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1992 14:02:29 GMT



Hello, 

	I'm relatively new to OS/2.  I really like it so far, but am getting
rather sick of 640x480 mode.  How can I slip into a higher resoultion?
I have a generic Tseng ET-4000 card.  Where can I get drivers?  
Where are the good FTP sites?   Anyone?  If you can, mail me, just so
I don't waste anymore bandwidth than neccessary.  Thanks!


				-kurt
--
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U of Mass, Lowell        | "The nice thing about standards is that       
koverber@cs.ulowell.edu  |  there are so many to choose from." - A. Tanenbaum

Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: smbrush@lims01.lerc.nasa.gov (Andy Brush @Sverdrup)
Subject: Re: Word Perfect under OS/2
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41    
Organization: NASA Lewis Research Center
Date: 21 Aug 1992 08:40 EST  

In article <568RPB1w164w@gorilla.nbn.com>, holmes@gorilla.nbn.com (Tim Holmes) writes...
>When I use WP 5.1 under OS/2, it has a very hard time opening 
>text files.  Little ones will eventually open, but with large ones,
>say over 80k, WP says "DOS text conversion in progress", but it
>just sits there 

I think that you are out in left field for trying to pin this one on OS/2:
I measured the times for WP 5.1 for DOS to load the OS/2 root directory
README file (76kb), on two machines: 

OS/2, 386SX, 5Mb RAM, 16MHZ clock,         1 minute 35 sec
DOS+Win 3.1, 486DX, 8Mb RAM, 50MHz clock,  1 minute 50 sec

Nothing else was running on either machine.

I can see why IBM doesn't think that this is an OS/2 bug!

Andrew S. Brush             | SMBRUSH@LIMS01.lerc.nasa.gov
Sverdrup Technology         | 2001 Aerospace Parkway
NASA LeRC Group             | Brook Park, OH 44142
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From: coffman@plains.NoDak.edu (Clark Coffman)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: After OS2/2 Reinstallation, THANK YOU!!!!
Keywords: reinstall
Date: 22 Aug 92 02:39:01 GMT
Organization: North Dakota Higher Education Computing Network

OH MY $%^$ING GO# I've been dealing with wierd OS/2 Problems for a
week. My original install was incorrect so I just did what the 
previous person did and I've done six installs since and my
problems just increased. So I've been reading this group for the
past two hours and finally I find this! Ha!!

This should definately be in the FAQ sheet. I've read the last one
posted at least seven times. Whew, what a relief!!!!!!!!!

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     TT     HH   HH    AAAA    NNN   NN  KK   KK   SS        !!!!
     TT     HHHHHHH   AA  AA   NN N  NN  KKKKK     SSSSSSSS  !!!!
     TT     HH   HH  AA AA AA  NN  N NN  KK   KK         SS 
     TT     HH   HH  AA    AA  NN   NNN  KK    KK  SSSSSSSS   !!

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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu (Timothy F. Sipples)
Subject: Re: Hidden Files, Defragmentation, Backup
Reply-To: sip1@midway.uchicago.edu
Organization: Dept. of Econ., Univ. of Chicago
Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1992 19:58:41 GMT

In article <1992Aug19.161500.15942@sbcs.sunysb.edu> mjn@sbstaff2.cs.sunysb.edu (The Sixth Replicant) writes:
>In the August "Inside OS/2" there's an article about defragmenting FAT
>partitions. It suggests making EA DATA. SF non-hidden while defragmenting
>so that it can be defragmented. This made me wonder about whether other
>hidden OS2 files are movable. I'm interested for two reasons. First, 
>to get maximum defragmentation, and second to be able to backup and
>restore without reinstalling OS/2. What can people tell me about the movability
>following hidden files ?
>    \os2\system\boot.os2
Yes.
>    \os2\bitmap\aaaaa.exe
Yes.
>    \os2\bitmap\aaaaa.met
Yes.
>    \io.sys
No.
>    \msdos.sys
No.
>    \ea data. sf
Yes.
>    \os2boot
No.
>    \os2ldr
Yes.
>    \wp root. sf
Yes.
>    \os2krnl
Yes.
>Also, in the documentation for EABACKUP, it says that EABACKUP is unneccesary
>if your backup/restore preserves the EA pointer in the directory entry (and
>of course you restore a whole disk EA DATA. SF included). Does anyone know
>whether any or all versions of Fastback have such a property ?

They do not -- only OS/2 backup software properly handles extended
attributes.  EABACKUP is used in conjuction with DOS backup software.

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