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From: Steve.Withers@bbs.actrix.gen.nz
Subject: Re: windows 3.1 support
Organization: Actrix Information Exchange
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1992 10:32:54 GMT

In article <1992Aug26.193807.5435@njitgw.njit.edu> dic5340@hertz.njit.edu (David Charlap) writes:
> >
> >"Windows 3.1 support goes into beta this month and is
> >slated for delivery later this year, . . . "
> >
> >I wonder how later.
> >
> >This couldn't be a little schedule slip, could it?
> 
> Not necesarilly.  "later this year" doesn't contradict "fall".  Fall
> means anytime from September to November.  "September" is just a rumor
> posted by some (well meaning, I'm sure) optimistic IBM people.

At the IBM OS/2 seminar I attended this evening (4th out of 5), one of the
presenters read out an item from todays internal IBM forums. Apparently, the
Win3.1 support in the CSD will support Win3.1 *and* all Win3.0 programs
INCLUDING THOSE THAT CAN'T RUN UNDER MS WIN3.1.
 
In other words: a better Windows than Windows.
 
Steve
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**** Happy user of OS/2 v2!! ****       |  are.....can I live with YOU?
From: trepe00@DMI.USherb.CA (ERIC TREPANIER)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: Why are printouts from OS/2 so ugly...?
Date: 3 Sep 92 17:53:29 GMT
Article-I.D.: DMI.Bu0KD5.E5G
Organization: Universite de Sherbrooke -- departement de Mathematiques et d'Informatique

In article <1992Sep3.143128.4998@odin.diku.dk> gogol@diku.dk (Peter Skov Knudsen) writes:
>My problem is as follows: I"ve got an Okilaser OL400 printer
>attached to my system. I use the HP Laserjet series 2 printer
>[... the rest is omitted]

I have the same printer as you, and my advice to you is run, don't walk,
and get the new HP drivers from FTP-OS2 / Watson / Whatever.  There is
one for OS2 and one for WINOS2.  Both are well worth the time and effort
to get them.  The speed increase in WINOS2 is especially significant.

I don't do much printing from OS2, as I have no real OS2 applications yet,
so I can't comment much on the output quality of the OS2 drivers.  However,
I have printed quite a few pages of help files and they come out looking
very sharp, although bitmaps and images do not appear in the printouts,
only the text.  The quality of output in WINOS2 is excellent.  Now I just
have to find some good-looking ATM fonts to replace the broken ones that
are shipped with WINOS2.

Also, I grabbed an OS2 HP printing utility on c.o.o.b yesterday and it is
a marvel.  It prints textfiles in landscape mode with an option of
shading every other line, which looks _GREAT_ for program listings.

>Peter Skov Knudsen, email gogol@diku.dk
>Computer Science Student, Universtiy of Copenhagen


Eric
trepe00@tohi.usherb.ca
From: ameline@vnet.ibm.com (Ian Ameline)
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 92 11:17:17 EDT
Subject: Re: C/2
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Organization: C-Set/2 Development, IBM Canada Lab.
Disclaimer: This posting represents the poster's views, not those of IBM

In article <1992Aug31.031450.11031@news.cs.brandeis.edu>,
branham@binah.cc.brandeis.edu (Tom Branham, Biophysics Grad. Brandeis) writes:
>
>At the Windows & OS/2 conference here in Boston a couple of weeks ago now,
>IBM stated that they were working on the C++ version and it should be
>entering beta by the end of the year .....
   Hopefully well before then.

>One of the Borland compiler
>development team also stated that they were well aware of this as
>they are ACTIVELY helping IBM to develop this compiler :)

   Hate to dissapoint you, but this is completely untrue. There has been
no contact what ever between Borland and IBM's C++ Compiler development
groups. We're in competition. (Which is good for you all -- we'll force
each other to have lots of features, great performance and low prices)

>                             ......Tom Branham
>P.S> Should be something to look forward to , No? %)

   It sure is! (I'm actually looking forward to Borland's being available
too. Competition is heathy)
>
From: stanton@haas.berkeley.edu (Richard Stanton)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: LaserJet Printer Drivers
Date: 27 Aug 92 17:09:13 GMT
Organization: Haas School of Business, U.C. Berkeley
NNTP-Posting-Host: connor.berkeley.edu

In article <1992Aug27.024712.3865@midway.uchicago.edu> sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu (Timothy F. Sipples) writes:
>Try ftp-os2.nmsu.edu.  Look for laserjet.zoo (right now in
>/pub/downloads) and the updated Win-OS/2 HP LaserJet driver
>(hpljwn.zoo?).

I tried using these WIN-OS/2 drivers, with rather poor results. I edited a 
memo in W4W 2.0, (with assorted ATM fonts installed), then printed it on my 
LJIII. The results were a great deal worse than using the standard "LJIII on 
LPT1.OS2" driver. For example, one upper case "A" appeared with no cross bar.

Richard Stanton
From: jk73+@andrew.cmu.edu (Joseph Wei-Cheng Ku)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: help... Wing commanderII doesn't work...
Date: 28 Aug 92 23:20:40 GMT
Article-I.D.: andrew.MebmJ8C00WB5NHLX8=
Organization: Freshman, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA

hi all yo fellow os2 users! 

I haveam having trouble running wing commader II under os2. 
whenI tryed to run it, it starts out normally...
giving me some message about expanded memory detected and fully used.
after a few seconds, the thing quit, and giving me the below message:

Sorry, an error has ocurred while allocating memory
please note the following,
fonts.fnt #1 ERR 6 PS-1  LB304966 at LP4
check you configurations...

I 0have no idea what this message means. 
after reinstalling it, it still could not run.
++I have tried to run it bot from the desktop and from the dos command
prompt, same error message both times. 
My system has 16 meg of ram, plenty of hard drive space.

I would greatly approciate any comments on this problem. 
thanks very much.

-jk
From: liuyu@kramden.nyu.edu (Liuyu)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: OS2 WINS!! I give up!
Date: 29 Aug 92 04:32:53 GMT
Organization: New York University

ADUNSMUI@TOROLAB6.VNET.IBM.COM (Al Dunsmuir) writes:
>>OS/2, due to it s high amount of context switching, has some strange
>>ability to push intermittently bad memory over the edge.  It's
>>happened on many computers.  Replacing the memory usually works to
>>cure it.
>>
>>My father's computer at work had its memory "pushed over the edge" by
>>Windows 3.1.  So it's nothing inherent in OS/2.  (And when Windows 3.1
>>died, it took most of his /Windows directory with it - a complete
>>re-install of Windows and all Windows apps had to be performed).
>>Again, replacing the memory cured everything.
>>
>>--
>>   |)  David Charlap           "I don't even represent myself
>>  /|_  dic5340@hertz.njit.edu   sometimes so NJIT is right out!.
>> ((|,)
>>  ~|~  Hi! I am a .signature virus, copy me into your .signature file.
>>

>  Some of the extra stress is due to two differences between when one executes
>a program from memory, and when one simply reads/writes that memory using a
>program (such as a DOS VDISK device driver).

>    A) A DOS device driver typically will access a smallish block of the
>       memory (copying data in or out), then not touch the card for what
>       appears to the card to be a relatively long time.  If the refresh
>       circuitry doesn't properly handle the cases when a particular
>       range of addresses is used without a break (code in a long, tight
>       loop), your memory won't get refreshed properly and you lose data.

>    A) When executing a program the address lines change in a fairly random
>       manner. Some memory cards (or memory chips) can keep up with relatively
>       slow changes, but aren't fast enough to keep up with the instruction
>       addresses.  Sooner or later the card fetches storage from the wrong
>       memory address, and your program dies a horrible death.


Thanks for the detail explaination.
I appreciated it a lot more than some personal attacks I got.
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu (Timothy F. Sipples)
Subject: Re: How do I make OS/2 wait for my HD to spin up?
Reply-To: sip1@midway.uchicago.edu
Organization: Dept. of Econ., Univ. of Chicago
Date: Thu, 3 Sep 1992 19:14:49 GMT

In article <laird.715538985@stable.ecn.purdue.edu> laird@stable.ecn.purdue.edu (Kyler Laird) writes:
>I mostly use my laptop for terminal emulation.  It doesn't access
>the hard drive often, so I enabled the HD timeout.  This normally
>works o.k., but occassionally the OS/2 lockup seems to hang when
>it activates (and the HD is already stopped), and sometimes I get
>a device not ready warning (from which I issue a retry) when I
>change my setup in the comm program.
>So...it seems that OS/2 waits a set amount of time for a reply
>from the HD.  Sometimes the HD is fast enough, sometimes it isn't.
>I'd like to make the wait time longer so that it never times out
>waiting for the HD to power up.
>Any ideas?  (IBM tech support didn't have any.)

I suggest disabling the hard disk spin down feature, first.  Then
pester the manufacturer of your notebook to get on the stick and work
with IBM to release OS/2 power management software.  You may also wish
to report the difficult to IBM using the os2prob.txt form, available
via anonymous ftp from ftp-os2.nmsu.edu, directory /pub/os2/2.0/info.

IBM's line of notebooks does handle power management issues under OS/2
much better.  I've seen an OS/2 battery monitor applet for the L40SX,
for example.

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From: bgm@cray.com (Bert Moshier)
Subject: Re: ?'s about IBM's OS/2 software
Organization: Cray Research, Inc.
Date: 31 Aug 92 18:00:37 CDT

In article <78786@ut-emx.uucp> slug@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Glen Anthony Graham) writes:
>In article <1992Aug29.161935.15684@sdf.lonestar.org> mo@sdf.lonestar.org (Mohit Goyal) writes:
>>Hello.
>>
>>I remember hearing a few months back that IBM was going to make public
>>all the internal IBM-use only OS/2 programs that employees and such
>>have written over the years.
>>
>
>I am not sure if any have been released yet, but the program does still exist.
>You must bear in mind that IBM is a big, bureaucratic corporation whose Lawyers
>love to protect their internal stuff.  I understand that applications should be
>appearing soon (I know of several IBMers who have applications they are working
>on trying to release).
> 
>Glen Graham
>             
>Internet: slug@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu

Glen:

Oh, they exist.  I use one of them all the time for IBM Link access (FTERMPM
or something like that).  There are several of them (on CIS and the IBM BBS).
 
Bert.
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: wjb5106@rigel.tamu.edu (Walter Barnett)
Subject: Re: --> DeskJet Owners READ THIS <--
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41    
Keywords: printer drivers
Organization: Texas A&M University
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1992 17:45:00 GMT

In article <BtMqqn.LzB@cmptrc.lonestar.org>, jwoods@cmptrc.lonestar.org (Jeff Woods) writes...
>In article <p1g083k@fido.asd.sgi.com> close@lunch.wpd.sgi.com (Diane Barlow Close) writes:
>>I just got off the phone with HP's customer support (DeskJet division)
>>after being told by IBM that IBM was NOT working on printer drivers
>>for the DeskJet and IBM didn't know what HP was doing.  Well, so far
>>HP isn't working on drivers for the DeskJet family of printers either.
> 
>Another solution is to use a printer driver that IS available that is "close 
>enough" to your printer to work.  The original DeskJet is a PCL 3 printer with
>128K memory and no softfont support, as I recall.  So is the original LaserJet.
>So if you have a DeskJet you ought to be able to use the LaserJet (original 
>128K version) driver as a work around.  Other DeskJet printers are supersets of

The Deskjets all have 16 kbyte buffers and do not support the full PCL-3
instruction set.  Sometimes Laserjet drivers will work; however, none of
them support the cartridges (for fonts or memory) and so, if you try to
use any non-printer fonts, everything is printed as a bitmap image. 
Printing a bitmap on a Deskjet requires the graphic information to be
sent in a ordered fashion from the top of the page down.  Laserjets
build the entire page in memory before printing. The point is that
Hewlett-Packard should support their hardware and write drivers for
these printers (that is, if they are at all interested in their 
customers' future purchases).

_______________________________________________________________________
Walter Barnett        Aerospace Engineering        Texas A&M University 
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc,comp.os.os2.apps,news.answers
From: auhl@fzi.de (Axel Uhl)
Subject: Hangs with ADAPTEC 1542B
Keywords: Adaptec 1542B, DMA, hangs
Reply-To: fzi.de
Organization: Forschungszentrum Informatik (FZI), Karlsruhe, Germany
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1992 14:34:32 GMT

Sometimes my system hangs without a Trap message (mouse stays "alive").
Somewhere I heard that the Adaptec 1542B has problems concerning the DMA.
Is that true, and if so, how can I avoid the problem?
Thanx in advance
Axel (auhl@fzi.de)
From: monty@blackhole.lerc.nasa.gov (Monty Andro)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: How can you mark/copy then past to your printer ?
Date: 28 Aug 92 14:44:05 GMT
Distribution: comp
Organization: NASA Lewis Research Center


Hello,

Is there a way to mark/copy text in a DOS or OS/2 window and then
paste it to your pinter for printout ?

Thanks,
Monty
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: djs6015@ultb.isc.rit.edu (Don Smith)
Subject: Re: TE2 and <--
Originator: djs6015@ultb
Keywords: CommPak/2 
Organization: R.I.T.
Date: Tue, 1 Sep 1992 22:40:58 GMT

In article <92Aug30.143328edt.16808@ois.db.toronto.edu> panos@db.toronto.edu (Panos Economopoulos) writes:
}klliou@milton.u.washington.edu (Kan-Lee Liou) writes:
}
}>I am using TE2 to emulate VT100 to connect to both UNIX and VMS machines 
}>through my .32 bis modem.
}>I keep getting problems in using editors (vi for UNIX or ed for VMS).
}>The problems are parts of the text I am editing may become invisible (actually,
}>One example is if I use the <-- (move left) key, all the characters it goes 
}>it is happening now).  No text is lost, but I just cannot see it.
}>through will disappear.  I can use the --> (move right) key to let them show up

I fixed this problem by installing the new commpak2.dll. I downloaded
it the week after it appeared on ftp-os2, I'm sure its still there..
where I don't know.

That also fixed the problem of vt100 defaulting to black and white,
even after you change the screen colors.
-- 
   | Don Smith                  | Woman mirrors the universe, and within |
   |djs6015@ultb.isc.rit.edu    |her temple she contains all the ritual  |
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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: ochealth@unixg.ubc.ca (ochealth)
Subject: Re: i've seen nt......
Organization: University of British Columbia, Vancouver, B.C., Canada
Distribution: comp
Date: Thu, 3 Sep 1992 05:11:54 GMT

In article <1992Sep2.1480.26260@dosgate> "roger ramsey" <roger.ramsey@canrem.com> writes:
>
>Why?  The loophole still exists.  A secure system should be secure and 
>Microsoft has also stated that it is developing a device driver 
>intermediary that will allow some drivers to talk to the NT API to ease 
>transition.  In PC Week, corporate evaluators were quoted as saying that 
>while the concept of a secure system as defined by the NT API was "a pain 
>in the ass" it was also a recognizable and necessary inconvenience that 
>they were willing to put up with for enhanced system security. 

OS/2 has built in hooks for security, it just isn't shipped in the
general version, since not everyone wants it. If this doesn't cover
every loophole, then you can disable the ability to run DOS programs.
The OS/2 DOS sessions are meant to be useful. The way NT claims to virtualize
DOS sessions would make them as usable as SoftPC: sure it's virtualized, but
isit useful.
>
>SD>Microsoft has been quoted in PC Week as stating emphatically that NT
>SD>will go gold in '92.

and Microsoft never lets shipping dates slide, so it'll ship, of course.
>
>SD>As for the OS/2 CSD, I have all the fixes already, downloaded
>SD>directly from IBM's BBS in Toronto.
>SD>
>SD>This is far better than waiting for disks to arrive in the mail!
>
>No argument from me, but what about users who don't wish to pay long 
>distance charges?  The fixes should be mailed automatically to all 
>registered users, if only as a display of good faith.

the way the Windows 3.1 patch was? Aside from TrueType, nearly all the stuff
in 3.1 should have been shipped as a patch 6 months after 3.0, as MS promised.

>
>Roj
>
>---
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From: sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu (Timothy F. Sipples)
Subject: Re: using SHARE under OS2 Dos sessions
Reply-To: sip1@midway.uchicago.edu
Organization: Dept. of Econ., Univ. of Chicago
Distribution: usa
Date: Wed, 2 Sep 1992 22:09:34 GMT

In article <-6@byu.edu> websterw@bones.et.byu.edu (william d webster) writes:
>I have been trying to use Paradox 3.5 in at least two DOS windows at
>the same time and have not been able to.  The second session reports
>an error message something like 'cannot open file, allready in use.'
>Then the second session closes.  The same database is not being used.
>My system is a noname 386-25Mhz, 210Mbyte IDE drive, 4M RAM.  Does 
>anyone have any ideas to solve this problem?

It could be some sort of settings or configuration file that is
causing the problem.

There are a couple ways around the problem.  One is to obtain a small
TSR, available via anonymous ftp from ftp-os2.nmsu.edu, which will
bypass this warning message (I'm afraid I don't remember the name, but
it was released a couple months ago -- look at the descriptions).  The
other is to make two copies of Paradox on the hard disk.

I think I prefer the first approach.  :-)

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sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu | 128.123.35.151, anonymous ftp, in /pub/os2/all/faq.
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From: harris@garfield.catt.ncsu.edu (Michael Harris)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: i've seen nt......
Date: 3 Sep 92 03:17:54 GMT
Distribution: comp
Organization: North Carolina State University

roger.ramsey@canrem.com (roger ramsey) writes:

>The fixes should be mailed automatically to all 
>registered users, if only as a display of good faith.

I don't think that this will happen.  Wasn't there a post sometime back
that said people could request the update be sent to them for the cost
of the diskettes and shipping?

I don't want IBM paying for diskettes to everyone.  Think about how
much money would be wasted sending the diskettes to everyone on this
newsgroup who had OS/2?  We don't need them... we have the IBM ftp site.

Money that could go to making something else cheaper.

______________________________________________________________________________
     Michael Harris - harris@catt.ncsu.edu or harris@carvm3.vnet.ibm.com
 System Administrator, Computer & Technologies Theme Program, NC State Univ.
(My opinions are my own and do not represent those of NCSU or IBM Corporation)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: Steve.Withers@bbs.actrix.gen.nz
Subject: Re: Pasting text...making OS/2 more like my Mac...
Organization: Actrix Information Exchange
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1992 11:10:33 GMT

In article <1992Aug26.123042.3701@spcvxb.spc.edu> mauritz_c@spcvxb.spc.edu writes:
>  
> The reason I bring this up is that the PM Terminal program doesn't
> seem to be able to accept text copied from another application.  
> Ideally, what I was trying to do was compose text in the enhanced
> editor, copy it, and then "paste" it into my active terminal session.
> This is quite easily achieved by even a novice on my Mac at work so
> I was wondering how I can do it under OS/2 at home.

I use TE/2 - an OS/2 shareware comms program - and as long as i am running it
windowed, I can paste into it no problem. You can't paste into full-screen
sessions.
 
Steve
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withers_s@kosmos.wcc.govt.nz            |  must like things the way they 
**** Happy user of OS/2 v2!! ****       |  are.....can I live with YOU?
From: cpbaltus@cs.vu.nl (Baltus CPS)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: TRAP 000d With Frontdoor
Keywords: TRAP, OS/2
Date: 31 Aug 92 08:11:52 GMT


Hello everybody,

For a long time now, I have been using the mailer Frontdoor on my
OS/2 machine (386/40 8 mb, 130 mb, trident 1mb). This program always
worked very well, but yesterday i got the message (when starting up
Frontdoor) Trap 000d and a lot of other technical info. The system
hung, and i had to reboot. 

The problem is, that, every time when i start up Frontdoor, the 
system will hang (exactly the same trap at the same location).

After REINSTALLING OS/2, everything works fine again. (for how long?)

Do you have any clue what happened?

Thanks.

			Stefan.

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From: parry@yoyo.cc.monash.edu.au (Tom J Parry)
Subject: Re: More on the C: and D: business
Originator: parry@yoyo.cc.monash.edu.au
Organization: Monash University, Melb., Australia.
Date: Mon, 24 Aug 1992 00:16:29 GMT

Clinton Jeffery (cjeffery@cs.arizona.edu) wrote:
> 
> Comments from the peanut gallery are welcome.  If someone can tell me
> how to format all 200MB (CMOS sez 1631 cyls, 15 heads, 17 spt) of the
> drive for OS/2, I'll stop whining about not being able to access a
> second 30MB DOS partition!

AHH! Well, DOS (or is the BIOS?) can not recognise more than 1024
cylinders. This is causing your problems. You will probably find that
your drive (SCSI or IDE, I presume) can be configured to a different set
of values, probably with 35 sectors and half the cylinders (I emphasise
PROBABLY, check with the docs or the manufacturer).


-- 
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