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From: ignacij@meishan.animal.uiuc.edu (Ignacy Misztal)
Subject: Single file locks OS/2. HPFS?
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Fri, 28 Aug 1992 18:43:06 GMT

Lately I have reformatted my 660 Mbyte ESDI disk to include a 511 Mbyte
secondary partition. There were problems with the partition like lost files 
until the HPFS and kernel fixes were applied. After some time, The spelling
checker in WordPerfect was locking its window. Yesterday, when I tried to 
back up the partition up, the system froze while processing one file. That 
file was fine in the old partition. I erased that directory, and begun 
backing up again. The system froze again. After some investigation, it
became obvious that touching (grep, xcopy) some files freezes the computer. 
I tried disabling caching, shadowing, increasing drive disk waits, with 
no change.
I am wondering if this is hardware or software problem. By using that 
partition, am I waiting for a time bomb to explode and take all 
my files away?
The same setup with FAT partitions only never caused me any disk problem.
My PC is Gataway 486/33 (purchased 2 months ago) with ULTRASTOR 12F 
controller and 660 Mbyte Seagate disk.
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From: "bill dehaan" <bill.dehaan@canrem.com>
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: csd dates
Date: 3 Sep 92 23:14:56 EST
Reply-To: "bill dehaan" <bill.dehaan@canrem.com>
Distribution: comp
Organization: Canada Remote Systems

BD>As for the date  of the rumoured CSD,  our IBM reps have  "repositioned"
BD>their previous statements.  We are now  told that late  November is more
BD>likely.

RF>Bill:

RF>Are these sales people who 'defected' from Microsoft?  <g>

Sadly, no. They are IBM reps  for a major corporation. They seem  pretty
frustrated to me, though.

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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: alheid@sedist.cray.com (Greg Alheid)
Subject: Re: COM cards with IRQ > 7 for ISA ?
Organization: Cray Research, Inc.
Date: 25 Aug 92 20:39:13 CDT

 kurtk@ee.ualberta.ca (Kurt Klingbeil) writes:
|> Is there such a thing ?  I'm not talking about the multi $100, 4-or-8 port
|> proprietary jobs that require special drivers, and are usually used for
|> multi-user systems.  I mean a regular rinkeydink COM card with a '16-bit'
|> card edge that allows jumpering the IRQ up into the 9-15 region...
|> 
|> A related thing I'm curious about...  does the 16550 UART  have a buffer
|> only on the receive side, or is there one on the Tx side as well ?
|> It seems almost too obvious to ask, but that would be a way to get around
|> the 1k interrupt/second limitation...
|> 
|> Perhaps, before long, there will be a 'C' release of that chip?
|> 
|> -- k(sup)2

and jshelby@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Jerold A. Shelby) replies:
|> You might try Sealevel Systems inc at (803)843-4343.  They have a number
|> of serial cards that might fill your needs.
|> 
|> Sorry, I don't know about the UART's receive/transmit buffers.
|> 
|> Jerry Shelby
|> UT Austin
|> jshelby@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu

  Besides Sealevel Systems, B&B Electronics has one as well. Both 
of their cards have two COM ports and allow for interrupts >7. If 
I remember correctly, SS's is about $179 and B&B's is about $159. 
Also STB makes a FOUR port card that has interrupts above 7 for 
about $100.

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From: rrosen@cesl.rutgers.edu (Robert Rosenbaum)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc,comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Re: Why not OS/2 ???? Hmmmmmm
Date: 3 Sep 92 20:41:11 GMT
Followup-To: comp.os.os2.misc
Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J.

In <1992Sep2.220555.15372@cis.ohio-state.edu> brown-sh@tortoise.cis.ohio-state.edu (shawn c brown) writes:

>>"Come on, was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor?"
>				^^^^^^^

>	I REALLY hope you were kidding...!

Forget it - He's rolling.
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: parry@yoyo.cc.monash.edu.au (Tom J Parry)
Subject: Re: OS/2 Compilers
Originator: parry@yoyo.cc.monash.edu.au
Organization: Monash University, Melb., Australia.
Date: Fri, 28 Aug 1992 04:27:43 GMT

Jesus Rodriguez (pr@umiacs.umd.edu) wrote:
> 
> 
> 	Compiler		Available		Student		C/C++/Both?
> 	--------		---------		-------		-----------
> 	
> 	WATCOM C9.0/386
> 
> 	BORLAND C++         RSN         Most Borland Products are    Both
> 
> 	IBM CSet/2

-- 
Tom J Parry.
Your reality is a figment of my imagination.
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: djr48312@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (X X)
Subject: HELP!!! Norton Desktop and OS2
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Sun, 23 Aug 1992 21:36:55 GMT

I recently installed OS/2.  Before I installed it however I backed up my
50meg BBS with Norton Desktop for Windows.  I've installed norton desktop
into WIn-OS2 after installing os2.  But Norton Backup will not work correct
ly with it.  It says it cannot read the disk in the floppy drive.  I checked
and the files are still there.  What do I do?  Please Help, if I cant do
theis Ill be forced to go back to "real" windows.  I have OS/2 occupying
the full hard disk and using FAT tables.  HELP!!!!!!!!!!


Dennis Robinson

djr48312@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu
From: gershon@husc10.harvard.edu (Ethan Gershon)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: Some suggestions for OS/2
Date: 3 Sep 92 20:24:45 GMT
Article-I.D.: husc10.gershon.715551885

sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu (Timothy F. Sipples) writes:

>In article <gershon.715476775@husc10> gershon@husc10.harvard.edu (Ethan Gershon) writes:
>>multiple desktops with and without logins to allow multiple users to
>>use the same system etc... (kind of like XEROX's "Rooms for Windows")

>OS/2 2.0 already has this feature (without logins).  You can set up
>multiple work areas (desktops).

you're right, but it's not quite the same thing.

>>give out a good "make bootable diskette/disk" program as an applet. I
>>still haven't entirely figured this out.

>I think the IBM employee written SE20BOOT program that just floated
>across comp.binaries.os2 might do the trick for you.

I am still playing with this program trying to get it to work.

>>include an optional pull down menu system for the desktop (like toolchest
>>for X or (I think) rocket launcher for the Mac) that allows you to pull
>>down a list of applications or other functions and execute a selection from
>>them.

>Already there, really.  Click both buttons simultaneously while
>pointing at the desktop and you get the Window List.  Click mouse
>button two on the desktop and you get the system menu, which you can
>customize (select Open -> Settings to do so).  You can add
>applications to the bottom of the list, for example.

I tried to do this, and I get some sort of error everytime I use one
of the applications I started; something about the drive or path not being
availible, and then the program comes up. what's going on? (I still think
such a pull down system would be nice)

>>MB2 pop-up menu for marked text like in CUA demo

>Can you elaborate?

in the CUA demo, you mark text, and then click with MB2 on it, and options
(like search, cut, paste, etc) come up for that block. I realize that this
could be implemented by an individual program, but it would be nice to
see as a pervasive thing in the system.

>>a basic collection of icons (including those that are used by the system)
>>for OS/2 and DOS programs and functions

>Definitely available from BBSes, ftp-os2.nmsu.edu (via anonymous ftp),
>and the like, but I see your point.  It comes down to a question of
>whether the disk space is worth it.

I think a small collection, as well as .ico files of the icons the system
uses (or are these there and I simply missed them?) would be nice. .ico
files tend to be short...


I had another earlier today, but now I can't remember what it was.

                                                    --Ethan Gershon
                                                    gershon@husc.harvard.edu
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: shurr@cbnews.cb.att.com (larry.a.shurr)
Subject: Re: blinking text / vertical lines with ET4000 card in VGA mode. HELP!
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Columbus, OH
Date: Thu, 3 Sep 1992 12:24:46 GMT
Keywords: ET4000 blinking text black icons

In article <gershon.715387650@husc10> gershon@husc10.harvard.edu (Ethan Gershon) writes:
}I am running OS/2 2.0 on a generic 386-33 with (what I think) is a
}Diamond Speedstar VGA with 1meg RAM...
}Now, at random, vertical lines appear in my text and graphics modes,
}[and other peculiar onscreen effects also occur.  Various problems
}persist through or occur after reboot].

}Am I experiencing a hardware or software problem? seems like a software
}problem, considering the after-image that closed windows leave. Any
}ideas, anyone?

Ethan,

Personally, I suspect your video memory.  I had some of the same problems
right after upgrading my Diamond SpeedStar from 512K to 1M.  The dealer 
gave me replacements for the suspect chips and all the problems cleared up
after I installed them.

Larry
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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: wolff@crc.ricoh.com (Gregory J. Wolff)
Subject: OS/2 2.0 Dead End (Help needed)
Keywords: hpfs, floppy, bugs
Reply-To: wolff@crc.ricoh.com (Gregory J. Wolff)
Organization: RICOH California Research Center
Distribution: usa
Date: Tue, 1 Sep 92 01:10:14 GMT


After stumbling through several "challenging" difficulties over the past months,
I finally found one I can't seem to get around.  (I'll omit the full horror 
story, though it's better/worse than most of them...)

The problem:
  OS/2 with HPFS installed fails to properly deal with floppies (3.5 inch)
  written by other systems (including the same machine before HPFS install).
	A directory listing shows only the first character in each filename
	and does not allow access to any of the files (File not Found error,
	even when double clicking the icon in the workspace).  Also, files
	written by this system appear incorrectly on other systems (eg. only
	first character of file name shows up, directory table seems screwed up)

The compound problem:
  After trying everything and making sure that all the documentation says that 
  HPFS still uses FAT for floppies, I decide to try to boot with the FAT file
  system instead of HPFS (note: C partition is HPFS, D is FAT).  Naively
  I remark out the IFS=HPFS line in my config.sys file.  On Reboot OS2   
  complains that there is no IFS line in my config file and stops the system.
	(Apparently it wants "IFS=" followed by nothing for FAT, why????)
	Attempting to boot from the OS2 installation disks seems to be going
	well until an error appears, the file A:\COUNTRY.SYS FILE NOT FOUND 
	(or something close).  I know that the file is there, and have 
	not had this problem before in booting from installation disks.
	Also, I notice that the CONFIG.SYS file of disk #1 of the installation
	disks has a IFS=HPFS... line in it.  

The status:
  I'm totally stuck.  I can't even get my computer to boot and even if I could
  get it to boot from a DOS disk, I doubt that I would be able to read/modify
  the CONFIG.SYS on the C: drive (HPFS partition).

Please, if you have any suggestions please let me know, before my machine and
OS2 go out the windows...

Machine specs:
386 25 MHZ clone
12 Mbyte RAM
65 Mbyte RLL hard drive (2 30Mbyte partitions)
1.44 3.5in TEAC floppy
16 bit video card (Paradise?)

Thanks in advance,
-Greg

PS. If anyone is collecting horror stories, and wants to hear mine, drop me a 
line.
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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: "roger ramsey" <roger.ramsey@canrem.com>
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: os/2 win3.1 support
Date: 2 Sep 92 14:48:08 EST
Reply-To: "roger ramsey" <roger.ramsey@canrem.com>
Distribution: comp
Organization: Canada Remote Systems

Steve Withers wrote on 09-01-92 regarding OS/2 WIN3.1 SUPPORT *BETT:

SW>Don't forget WinOS/2 also runs Windows 2.x apps as well, which MS 
SW>doesn't run.

You have a point to this statement?  Anyone out there running Windows 2.x 
apps should be roundly told to get with the program or get out of it.

SW>Sounds like a better Windows than Windows, to me.

But juggling so many API versions will it be a better Windows with the 
performance of say, a snail running uphill through snowdrifts?

SW>Also, the CSD will be shipping "real soon now"..........:-)

ROTFL!!!! (mostly derisive).  This must be the longest "soon" in history, 
considering they first "demoed" the so-called "3.1 support" in April.

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From: monty@blackhole.lerc.nasa.gov (Monty Andro)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Need help with printscreen failures.
Date: 1 Sep 92 17:41:40 GMT
Distribution: comp
Organization: NASA Lewis Research Center


Hello,

Does anyone have any ideas why print-screen fails?  Every time I
attempt a print-screen, I get a "PMPRTSCR failure - verify that default
printer is setup properly using printer setup.".  As far as I can tell
the printer is setup properly.  I can successfully print from
wordperfect and at the command line using print filename.  Anyone have
any ideas on what is wrong?

Monty
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: cnadler@vnet.ibm.com (Cliff Nadler)
Subject: Re: Multiple Desktops....
Date: Wed, 02 Sep 92 21:25:53 GMT
News-Software: IBM OS/2 PM RN (NR/2) v0.11 by O. Vishnepolsky and R. Rogers
Reply-To: cnadler@vnet.ibm.com (Cliff Nadler)
Organization: IBM T. J. Watson Research

In  <BtyvL5.CEJ@news.cso.uiuc.edu>  tamu@uxh.cso.uiuc.edu (Todd Henderson) writes:
> 
> Maybe multiple desktops is a feature! :):)  Under HP VUE they have workspaces
> and you can configure each one and then switch at will.  That is actually
> kind of nice.  Might not be to bad in OS/2, it avoids cluttering it up to
> bad, put one kind of work in one, play in another, etc. and in one click you
> have a new desktop ready to do something else(different folders, icons
> displayed).
> 
> Todd

Actually, it is a feature of the Workplace Shell called a Workarea. Any folder
can be a workarea (see the File tab, page one of the Settings). A work area
has similar properties to the Desktop, in that any application opened from 
inside it will re-open when the workarea is opened (as long as it was running
when the workarea was closed), and all object other than programs opened from 
a workarea will be closed when the workarea is closed.

This is from memory, but is a pretty powerful feature of OS/2. In fact you 
can use it to provide some multi-user customizations (Have the desktop just
contain the workarea objects for each person, then have the person's workarea
contain all the objects they can use.

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IBM Federal Systems Company - TEAM OS/2

Disclaimer: This post represents the views of the poster, not IBM Corporation.
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: grega@netcom.com (Greg Altman)
Subject: Bay Area OS/2 BBS has 9600 and more files
Date: Sun, 23 Aug 92 19:28:45 GMT
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  (408 241-9760 guest) 


The San Francisco Bay Area OS/2 BBS has a new 9600 baud modem installed!

The phone number is unchanged: (510) 657-7948.

New files have been added from hobbes.nmsu.edu (os2-ftp.nmsu.edu) and
novell.com. About 200Meg is available for download. The new files will
be available after Beta testing and fixes on 8/24/92.

Please expect some downtime for the new file installation on 8/23/92
between 3:00pm and 2:00am Pacific time.
-- 
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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: rommel@Informatik.TU-Muenchen.DE (Kai-Uwe Rommel)
Subject: Re: New INFO-ZIP Zip/Unzip trouble
Organization: Technische Universitaet Muenchen, Germany
Date: Tue, 25 Aug 1992 22:12:13 GMT

In article <1992Aug25.182713.9597@wam.umd.edu> jdowdal@wam.umd.edu (John Dowdal) writes:
>The new v1.9 of Info-ZIP's ZIP on ftp-os2.nmsu.edu is supposed to
>handle EAs attached to files.  It reports 'Message File Not Found'
>if I zip a file with extended attributes and produces a trashed
>temporary file instead of a .ZIP.  It works fine on files without EA's.
>What does 'Message file not found mean' and how can I correct 
>this problem?

It says that something went wrong. Apparently, the 32-bit executable I
made available does not work correctly if more than one file processed
has EA's.

I did main development and testing with emx+gcc but made the release
with IBM C to avoid any trouble with emx.dll but unfortunately this
created different trouble :-(

I'll track that down and replace the 32-bit executables. As a
workaround, you can use the 16-bit zip executable under OS/2 2.0 too.
It is not too much slower than the 32-bit one (unlike unzip).

Kai Uwe Rommel

/* Kai Uwe Rommel --- rommel@informatik.tu-muenchen.de */

DOS ... is still a real mode only non-reentrant interrupt
handler, and always will be.                -Russell Williams

Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: MLONG@isucard.card.iastate.edu
Subject: Re: Can't format in drive a: (5.25"HD)
Organization: CARD
Date: Fri, 4 Sep 1992 21:37:51 GMT

In article <1992Sep4.143029.3772@spcvxb.spc.edu>                                                                                                      
mauritz_c@spcvxb.spc.edu writes:                                                                                                                      
                                                                                                                                                      
>I recently had the need to format a disk in my A: drive (5.25"HD) and                                                                                
>noticed that it simply does not work.  The disk will churn on and                                                                                    
>on and the format fails.  Why?  I think I have the most recent HPFS                                                                                  
>patch.  Is there another patch I need?  When is IBM going to consolidate                                                                             
>all these damn patches into some semblance of order?                                                                                                 
>                                                                                                                                                     
>Cheers,                                                                                                                                              
>                                                                                                                                                     
>Chris                                                                                                                                                
>                                                                                                                                                     
Just want to make sure that your CMOS drive settings are corect.  Was it workin                                                                       
g before and then quit, or has it never worked?  There are some fixes for IBM1F                                                                       
LPY.ADD file, you may wnat to try that fix.                                                                                                           
What errer message do you get?  Are you using a command line or using the Drive                                                                       
s PM based format?                                                                                                                                    
Good luck                                                                                                                                             
Mike Long                                                                                                                                             
Iowa State University
From: ddurby@aludra.usc.edu (Dennis Durby)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: OS/2 and Memory Limits
Date: 28 Aug 1992 14:05:06 -0700
Organization: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
NNTP-Posting-Host: aludra.usc.edu
Keywords: Memory

I am getting a new motherboard in the next few days, and wanted to 
load it with memory up front, because the memory is cheaper if I do it 
when I buy the motherboard.  My question is:  "Does OS/2 recognize more
than 16 megs?"  I am thinking of getting 20 megs.  I suspect this is a 
FAQ of sorts, but I'm not at home where the FAQ list resides, and I need to 
know in order to place the order.
Thanks!
-durby@aludra.usc.edu-
Dennis Durby


Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: pathak@mitre.org (Heeren Pathak)
Subject: Re: windows 3.1 support
Followup-To: comp.os.os2.misc
Organization: Mitre Corporation
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1992 15:35:43 GMT

In article <1992Aug27.103254.17594@actrix.gen.nz>,
Steve.Withers@bbs.actrix.gen.nz wrote:
> 
> 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.

If this is true, it could lead to some interesting marketing....

Protect your Win 3.0 software investment, UPGRADE to OS/2 instead on Win
3.1!

BTW, this could be true.  From what I understand, the apps that break under
3.1 break because they perform actions that could undermine the system. 
Since everything has its own process space under Windows, Win 3.1 has to
put a bunch of restrictions to protect itself.  OS/2 doesn't have to worry
about this!

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