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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: Wildcards do not work with GNU utils
From: soh3@quads.uchicago.edu (min-woong sohn)
Date: Wed, 7 Oct 1992 02:43:35 GMT
Reply-To: soh3@midway.uchicago.edu
Organization: University of Chicago 

In article <1992Oct06.113517.148217@ipgaix.unipg.it> luca@dedalo.unipg.it (Luca Priorelli) writes:
>When I try to use any GNU utility putting an * as filename, it says
>"'*' not found". The 4os2 shell that I use seems not to be able to
>expand the wildcard characters before invoking the program. 
>

What utility program are you using?  Neither cmd.exe nor 4os2.exe
expands wildcards before it passes command line arguments to the
program.  It's the responsibility of the program to read and
expand the wildcards.

Min
From: adhir@cygnus.umd.edu (Alok Dhir)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: Why XGA-2?
Date: 14 Oct 92 22:22:35 GMT
Organization: /etc/organization

>
>>Not a very good point.  ATI has drivers for just about everything already.
>>(And will soon for OS/2 as well...)
>
>Too bad that ATI has promised OS/2 drivers REAL SOON NOW, for quite some
>time.  When they finally arrived, they were so poor, that ATI recommended
>using IBM's instead.  No support for Crystal Fonts, no Seamless support,
>no speed optimization.  

IBM has promised the CSD since June.  It was June CSD, then Sept CSD, then
October 15 CSD, and now I just read it's been delayed again.  If IBM can't
get a fixed version of OS/2 and the 32-bit GRE out, then how the hell can
we expect all these other companies to get drivers out for it??  

Hold your whining about lack of drivers until we get the CSD.  Unitl then,
whine about no CSD!
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From: mvp@hsv3.lsil.com (Mike Van Pelt)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: Don't put program shadows on Desktop!
Date: 14 Oct 92 00:32:22 GMT
Organization: LSI Logic/Headland Technology

In article <92283.134520ASI509@DJUKFA11.BITNET> ASI509@DJUKFA11.BITNET writes:
>What is soooo difficult about these shadows ? A shadow is as the name suggests
>no independent object but only a reference to an existing object. ...
>A program object is a totally different thing. If you like you can think of it
>as the WPS equivalent of a short batch file that calls your application.

Oh, OK.  Unless I'm more confused than I think I am, here's another way
to think of it for us Unixoids:

A shadow is a hard link (and unlike Unix hard links, must have the same
name) and a program object is a symbolic link.

Sort of.  For one thing, shadows are distinct from the "original",
which isn't true of Unix hard links.
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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: "leo richardson" <UKI6@DKAUNI2.BITNET>
Subject: Re: Stacker experiences?
Organization: University of Karlsruhe, Germany
Date: Fri, 16 Oct 1992 18:42:30 GMT



>
> Rumor had it that Stacker for OS2 was going to be available by now.
> Has anyone installed it, and if so, does it work OK?
> Is there a cost difference between the DOS and OS2 versions?
>
And has anyone tried DCF/2 yet? How does this work?
>  -----------------------------------------------------------------------
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From: d9mikael@dtek.chalmers.se (Mikael Wahlgren)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: XGA-2 Information...
Date: 10 Oct 92 18:16:36 GMT
Organization: Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg Sweden

goyal@utdallas.edu (Mohit K. Goyal) writes:

> ...also has busmastering...1meg vram....
>  Radius is making an ISA (maybe EISA too) XGA2 card.
>  Their number is 18005RADIUS.
>  The ISA card won't be available until December.

I have some additional questions about the XGA-2 for ISA card (I just
ordered one, but I guess I will have to wait for some time before putting
my hands on it).

I have an Adaptect 1542B SCSI-controller, which is a bus-master.  Can I
expect the XGA-2 busmaster to work in the same ISA system as the Aha 1542B
busmaster?

The XGA-2 has something they call "Display Mode Query Set" (DMQS), which
is supposed to automaticly adjust the resolution/update frequency to the
screen connected.  Does this implicate that I have to use one of IBM's
XGA-2 displays for the XGA-2 adapter?

Mikael Wahlgren
From: pr@umiacs.umd.edu (Jesus Rodriguez)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: Why XGA-2?
Date: 14 Oct 92 19:21:38 GMT
Organization: University of Maryland Institute for Advanced Computer Studies
Originator: pr@fnord.umiacs.umd.edu


In article <1bg5dsINN312@matt.ksu.ksu.edu>, nan@matt.ksu.ksu.edu (Nan Zou) writes:
|> adhir@cygnus.umd.edu (Alok Dhir) writes:
|> 
|> >>Why is XGA-2 important?
|> >>
|> >>(1) Support for up to eight adapters/monitors in a single system.
|> 
|> >Does this mean OS/2 will finally be able to do the dual screen thing
|> >like Macs and have the mouse pointer go between screens?  Hmmm...
|> 
|> I would sure hope so!  That'll shut the arrogant Mac users up, if you've
|> been reading comp.sys.mac.advocacy (hey I was bored), you'd know this is
|> a known PC sore point, which the Mac users like to pound on again and
|> again ad nausem.  It's not like most people can actually afford multiple
|> monitors, but this will be a cool thing to have.
|> 
|> >>(3) Bus mastering.  Apparently even on the AT bus.
|> 
|> >Sounds good.  Do the Ultras busmaster?
|> 
|> I remember that the AT bus has some trouble with multiple busmasters, so
|> if you already have a busmastering card, say an Adaptec 1542B, wouldn't
|> adding a XGA-2 card mess things up?
|> 
|> >>(4) Fully extensible.  It is the "last" graphics standard 
|> >>(5) Intelligent querying of monitor/adapter capabilities.
|> >>(6) A VESA standard, meaning it has widespread industry support.
|> >>(7) It is actually _less_ expensive than the ATI cards.
|> >>(8) Much faster than XGA(1).  
|> >>(9) Full (and standard) customization for your monitor.
|> 
|> Those sound like nice features, and I agree with others here, XGA-2 is
|> a nice architecture to build on, I just think the current implementation
|> from IBM is a little weak (1024x768x8bit, come on!), I want at least
|> 1024x768 at 24 bit, for maybe ~$500, hopefully also 1280x1024x24b for
|> less than $1K.
|> 
|> -- Nan

If that's what you want then don't get the XGA-2!!

Jesus
From: nan@matt.ksu.ksu.edu (Nan Zou)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: OS/2 Boot Disk
Date: 15 Oct 1992 12:22:44 -0500
Organization: Kansas State University
NNTP-Posting-Host: matt.ksu.ksu.edu

KENKAHN@PKSMRVM.VNET.IBM.COM (Kenneth A. Kahn) writes:
>In <1bi0j1INNe1r@matt.ksu.ksu.edu> Nan Zou writes:
>>KENKAHN@PKSMRVM.VNET.IBM.COM (Kenneth A. Kahn) writes:
>>>In <Bw0nHI.1IA@brunel.ac.uk> Paul L Barnfather writes:

>>>>Is it possible to boot OS/2 off a single 1.2MB floppy FOR HPFS?
>>>>
>>>>I can make a boot disk for FAT, but there isn't enough space
>>>>for HPFS.IFS
>>
>>>No way, just won't fit.  Trust me I've tried.
>>
>>Actually there is a way to do it.  Get the DOS program FDFORMAT from
>>wuarchive.wustl.edu:/mirrors/msdos/dskutl, this allows you to format an
>>1.2 MB disk to 1.44 capacity, you should be able to fit the uhpfs.dll on
>>it then.
>>

>There's a number of other ShareWare/PD programs that do this and more; they
>can format a 1.44" disk to about 1.7M. 

FDFORMAT will also do this and many other formats.

>can format a 1.44" disk to about 1.7M.  I'm investigating adding this function
>to SE20BOOT but don't know enough about how Formatting works.  If anyone would
>like to help me out with the technical know how, I'd appreciate it.

Source code in Turbo Pascal is included with the FDFORMAT program, you
can look it over.

-- Nan
From: ressler@galileo.ifa.hawaii.edu (Mike "IR" Ressler)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: Why XGA-2?
Date: 16 Oct 92 01:29:35 GMT
Organization: UH IfA and NASA Infrared Telescope Facility

In article <1992Oct13.182629.3355@utdallas.edu> goyal@utdallas.edu (Mohit K. Goyal) writes:
>Finally, about colors, I don't know of any "normal" user who needs more
>than 256 colors at any resolution.  The only thing I would do with more
>than 256 colors is look at cool .gifs, that is if I could find a .gif
>with more than 256 colors!

/* Flame on */
BS! This kind of logic is responsible for the fact that it's taken 10 years
to get an affordable 24-bit card for PC's. (And have you ever heard of
JPEG/Targa/TIFF/BMP and a host of other 24-bit graphics formats?)
/* Flame off */

How do you define "normal" user? I consider myself a highly educated, but
otherwise "normal" user. Now that I've got a cheap 24-bit card, I don't
understand how I ever got anything done without it. Yes, I use it for
astronomical image processing, and yes, I wrote all my own software to do it,
but that's only because the PC market is completely brain-dead when it comes
to decent graphics capabilities. True, many people don't need more than 256
colors, and that's fine, but any modern standard (software or hardware) which
doesn't anticipate using 1024x768x24-bit or higher isn't worth bothering with.
Please don't write off those of us who do need the advanced capabilities for
our bread and butter as abnormal/technoconceited/gearheaded/etc.

>I don't know of any program that supports more than 256 colors, of course
>I don't do any serious DTP or anything like that...

I'll write them myself if I have to. At least now I have the hardware with
which I can do it! (Besides, they do exist, and we'll see more now that
some affordable hardware exists.)

Mike
"Looking forward to 4096x3072x36-bit!"
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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: goyal@utdallas.edu (Mohit K. Goyal)
Subject: Re: Latest scoop on the service pack...
Keywords: Service pack
Organization: Univ. of Texas at Dallas
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 1992 00:46:58 GMT

>According to 12 Oct 92 Info World, p6:
>
>IBM will release next week it's ...Service Pak (containing) 240
>fixes.  Among the fixes... are the 32-bit graphics engine,
>seamless windows support for XGA & Super VGA... performance
>improvements to DDE & clipboard...
>
>The service pak, which can be installed over the existing version,
>will be available first through Compuserve and other bulletin
>boards.  Later it will be available on disks...for a nominal
>fee.

The only change I can add is that operator's at IBM's OS/2
order line are saying that the Service Pack has been *delayed*
until the "end of the month".
(Most likely October 30th, since the 31st is a Saturday)

Also, it should include XGA-2 drivers as well as TsengET4000
drivers.
From: ching@angelo.amd.com (Mike Ching)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: XGA-2 Information...
Date: 16 Oct 92 20:22:26 GMT
Organization: Advanced Micro Devices, Santa Clara, CA

In article <719208116.F00002@blkcat.UUCP> Timur.Tabi@f347.n109.z1.fidonet.org (Timur Tabi) writes:
>MW>I have an Adaptect 1542B SCSI-controller, which is a bus-master.  Can I
>MW>expect the XGA-2 busmaster to work in the same ISA system as the Aha 1542B
>MW>busmaster?
>
>No.  ISA can only support one bus-mastering card.  If the XGA-2 ISA card works
>only in bus-mastering mode, then you can't use it.
>___
> * MR/2 1.31 NR * Columnist for "OS/2 Monthly"
>


The ISA bus can support multiple bus masters. I have a bus master SCSI
controller (Adaptec) and a bus master Ethernet controller (PCnet-ISA)
in my computer. Most computers have 6 available DMA requests for bus
masters. Refresh and the floppy controller use 2 of the 8 total.

Mike Ching
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc,comp.sys.laptops
From: heiland@cbnewsm.cb.att.com (david.j.heiland)
Subject: Toshiba 5100 screen problems with OS/2
Organization: AT&T
Date: Fri, 9 Oct 1992 20:16:33 GMT

I've gotten OS/2 2.0 to install on a Toshiba 5100 laptop (circa 1987,
386 16MHz, EGA plasma display), but when I try to do the final reboot
after installing a printer driver and 27MB of files, I get a SYS0355 
error (vio call invalid for this display mode...).  

I called IBM but was only told that the bios was probably too old, or that 
OS/2 won't work with CGA (see below).  The display is messed up (one very 
bright horizontal line on the screen at all times, lots of black "flames" 
bouncing down from the top of the screen), but still works.

I was able to install OS/2, which required using the graphic mode of
the machine, but now I can't get it to work.  The install screens were messed
up in that the bottom inch or so of the screen was black so some graphics
were cut off (I was able to move some of the windows around so I could read
all of the text).  OS/2 apparently thinks the screen is CGA since the
config.sys file (I can boot DOS from a floppy and look at the C driver) has
CGA drivers in it.  The Toshiba's setup has an EGA mode (high resolution
and emulation) and a CGA mode.  It also has a soft key combination that
supposedly changes between a 350 and 400 graphic line screen.  Trying all
of these combinations didn't help (I got a full of trap errors and registers
from one of the modes).  I've seen the 640x400 screen work in the setup mode,
so the machine can do it - maybe I need a special driver.  I'll keep trying 
combinations since it worked once before, but if anyone has any experience 
with the 5100 I'd appreciate some suggestions.

Dave Heiland   djh@neptune.att.com
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: jake@nora.dei.unipd.it (Luca Polo)
Subject: Re: Starting a program maximized
Organization: Universita' di Padova, Italia
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 1992 09:01:41 GMT

In article <92287.120204JAL142@psuvm.psu.edu> <JAL142@psuvm.psu.edu> writes:
>How do I start a program so that it begins in a maximized window?  I'm using
>TE/2 and it starts in a window with scroll bars...it is annoying to keep having
>to click the maximize button.  How do I set up the program or OS/2 to run TE/2
>maximized without having to do it manually each time I run it?

Usually if you resize a window holding Shift key down, OS/2 keeps memory of the 
fact for all subsequent openings of the object (I did so for OS/2 and 
PM Terminal windows, but I don't know if it is a PM or a program-specific
feature: but it should PM).

					Luca Polo.
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: lkan@uhunix.uhcc.Hawaii.Edu (Linus Kan)
Subject: Windows NT for about $500... 
Organization: University of Hawaii
Date: Thu, 8 Oct 1992 05:25:08 GMT

I don't think so--it's just a gimmick!  That was the estimated price
range so that tempted users like me would eventually buy OS/2.
Microsoft says that--do you think they'll actually sell NT for
that price?  Think about it--if you were a sales strategist at 
Microsoft, how much would you suggest NT sell for so as to 
maintain total monopoly on Intel based systems?  $500 for NT is
quite ridiculous--it's all just a (brillant) gimmick and a false
'add'.

I'm sure Microsoft is reading the OS/2 newsgroups and get user
evaluations and problems plus tips and ideas so that they could
improve their NT code.  And since NT and OS/2 are similar in code,
Microsoft is learning its mistakes from the release of OS/2 2.0
--us OS/2 users did all the test Microsoft needed for the NT kernel.

I feel that Windows NT would sell for below $100--maybe at a lost
but what does Microsoft have to loose--they've got profits from
its other popular applications.  Anyone suspected that Microsoft
would sell NT for $69 to developers?

Well, when NT is ready for release, Microsoft would come out hard
with a powerful campign against OS/2.  The final analysis--OS/2 2.x
would NOT survive in the long run--unless die-hard OS/2 users
want to be unique and sway away from the mainstream, ie. Windows.

Hey--I have OS/2 2.0 on my system...won't be there long though.

:) lkan
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From: jstewart@desire.wright.edu
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc,comp.os.os2.programmer
Subject: Re: Front panel display API
Date: 16 Oct 92 14:59:32 GMT
Article-I.D.: desire.1992Oct16.095932.4887
Organization: Wright State University

In article <Bw6rF0.33B@well.sf.ca.us>, shiva@well.sf.ca.us (Kenneth Porter) writes:
> I have a PS/2 Model 95 with a 6-digit front panel display for reporting
> POST progress and errors. OS/2 1.3 doesn't do anything with it, but OS/2
> 2.0 uses a filled box character in the last position as a virtual drive
> light. Is there a standard API for writing to this display?
> 
> My company also uses Dells with such displays. Under DOS, the Dell
> displays typically show the current drive cylinder. They do nothing
> under OS/2.
> 
> It seems a shame to waste this resource. One could use it as a secret
> printf to debug PM programs, for example.
> 
> Ken
> 

	Besides, It'd be a great hack:)  If you find out how to do it send
me a note, maybe it'll work on my Everex.

					John Stewart
From: mcafee@netcom.com (McAfee Associates)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: viruses and os/2: faq?
Keywords: VIRUS, HPFS, OS/2
Date: 10 Oct 92 05:39:46 GMT
Followup-To: poster
Organization: McAfee Associates

Hello Earl,

While I do not have much experience with viruses under OS/2 yet, I give you
bits and pieces of information gleaned from my (albeit limited) contact with
viruses under OS/2 and conversations with other virus researchers, etc.

Most file infecting viruses (i.e., viruses that attach to .COM and .EXE
files) can infect in a VDM, unless the virus makes some low-level access to
the system hardware that OS/2 won't allow.  If the file in question is an
OS/2 bound or family executable, the virus will in most cases corrupt the
EXE header information, resulting in a dead host for the virus (makes it
difficult to spread).

Master Boot Record (partition table) infectors like the Stoned and Michelangelo
viruses that attach to the bootstrap code located at the beginning of a disk
will infect an HPFS-formatted drive.  This is because these viruses do not rely
on DOS or the FAT filing system to spread, but instead work using BIOS calls
that can be made without the presence of any operating system.  I did have a 
chat with someone who successfully removed the Michelangelo virus from an HPFS
hard disk with CLEAN-UP without any problems, but in lieu of the fact I don't
have any knowledge of how HPFS allocates system areas on hard disks, I'd 
recommend booting from the original OS/2 install disks and backing up any
critical files before trying this (always a good idea in any case, but its
crucial with OS/2!).

S&S Computing (Dr. Solomon), ASP (Dr. Fred Cohen), and McAfee Associates
currently have OS/2 anti-viral or security programs in development.  A beta-
test version of SCAN for OS/2 (OS2SCAN.EXE?) went up on our BBS last Monday,
the major differences being HPFS and long filenames support.  If all go well
it should be ready shortly.

Regards,

Aryeh Goretsky
McAfee Associates Technical Support



/IN REPLY TO/
In article <1b4v78INN5oc@agate.berkeley.edu> jp1ek@sunc.shef.ac.uk writes:
>have i missed something?  i've been looking through various
>material on os/2, both official (ibm) and unofficial (faqs), and
>i do not seem to find much on system security including a) the
>threat from viruses (dos) under os/2; b) unix-style worms with an
>os/2 system hooked to a network.
>
>am i paranoid, or are os/2 celebrants keeping a tight lip about a
>real problem?
>-- 
>earl h. kinmonth, centre for japanese studies, university of sheffield,
>sheffield, england s10 2tn  jp1ek@sunc.sheffield.ac.uk


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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: stu9r22@bnr.ca (Ian Lowrie)
Subject: Re: CYRIX 387-33: DOES IT WORK THE OS/2???
Organization: Bell-Northern Research, Ottawa, Canada
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 1992 20:50:55 GMT

adamsm@woods.ulowell.edu wrote:
: I've been running OS/2 just fine for the last few months in my 386-40 so
: I went out to purchase a 387 to enhance performance.  I was finally sold on
: a CYRIX 387-33mhz (The salesman told me the chip would work find in my 40mhz
: machine and that it would save me money over the 387-40mhz).  From the time
: that I installed the 387-33, Os/2 crashed MANY times.  I decided to reinstall

Hi!

Get the 387-40.  I have been running my 386/33 w/ Cyrix 387/33 under OS/2 2.0
since April (Late april) with absolutely no problems, even with my 
raytracer in the background (386 flat model Dos program, and rayshade for
OS/2)

Your problem is probably a speed problem.  You can go slower than rated
with a chip, but pushing a chip is asking for trouble...

Stephen Drye
Please DON'T e-mail to here, it won't work :( !!!
From: jclei@sage.cc.purdue.edu (Jason Lei)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: FOLDER from Hell!
Date: 14 Oct 92 03:38:36 GMT
Organization: Purdue University Computing Center

In article <gribb/sps.6.718977056@gribb.hsr.no> gribb/sps@gribb.hsr.no (Svendsen, Stein P.     7-93) writes:
>In article <1992Oct12.201106.4719@desire.wright.edu> slam@desire.wright.edu writes:
>
>>I knwo this has come up before but it never happened to me until today.
>>I have been afflicted with the "FOLDER" from hell. I cannot delete or
>>shred it. Anyway I can rid myself of this blot on my WPS?
>
> I recall having this once, and seem to remember that I eventually managed 
>to MOVE it to a floppy. (Formatting it after, of course). You can try it.

Maybe my problem is different.  I created a "color palette" object on the
desktop by dragging its template from the Templates Folder, and I could
not delete it any more.  OS/2 always gave me the "STOP" sign when I tried
to drag the "color palette" object to drive A or the shredder.


Jason


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