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From: Gary.Woodman@anu.edu.au (Gary Woodman)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: REXX communications program?
Date: Thu, 1 Oct 1992 06:44:16 GMT
Organization: Computer Services Centre, Australian National University
NNTP-Posting-Host: gurrung.anu.edu.au
Keywords: REXX communication

In article <1992Sep30.003705.4929@midway.uchicago.edu> sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu (Timothy F. Sipples) writes:
>In article <1992Sep28.141236.27395@qucis.queensu.ca> jardined@qucis.queensu.
ca (Donald Jardine) writes:>>Does anyone know of a pure REXX program that 
allows data comm >>on the serial ports of OS2, with both send and receive, 
and modem>>control.  C programs exist to do this.  Is there a REXX program 
that does>>not make use of a called C program to handle the actual IO?
>
>I believe there's a sample bit of code/DLL available via anonymous ftp
>from ftp-os2.nmsu.edu which demonstrates communications with REXX.
>Don't quote me on it, though.  :-)
>
>You might try just using STREAM with the device name (COM1, COM2).

Since Tim mentioned this, I'll just add that the REXXTIME utility on ftp-os2.
nmsu.edu does just this to set up the modem, call the Naval Observatory, get 
the time from there, and set the clock in the PC. Whether the techniques 
used in REXXTIME are suitable for a general-purpose terminal program is 
anybody's guess...

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From: amin@rsvl.unisys.com (Amin Kassem )
Subject: Please read this post 
Organization: Unisys - Roseville, MN
Distribution: usa
Date: Fri, 25 Sep 92 19:58:33 GMT



Please send me mail if you can read my message.
I need to know if other NETters can read me when I post.
Thank you.


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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: nrt@watson.ibm.com (Nicholas R. Trio)
Subject: Reorg of /pub/os2 on software.watson.ibm.com
Date: Sun, 27 Sep 1992 04:31:36 GMT
Disclaimer: This posting represents the poster's views, not necessarily those of IBM
Organization: IBM T.J. Watson Research Center

The OS/2 Repository on software.watson.ibm.com has been reorganized.
The file directories now under pub/os2 are:

	os2fixes - for OS/2 fixes (obviously)
	ews - IBM Employee Written Software stuff
	epm - EPM stuff
	info - Misc. OS/2 info
	misc - Misc. OS/2 stuff

In addition, I put up a cron job that at midnight will create
the file "ls-lR" which will be a list of all files under the 
/pub/os2 hierarchy.

As always, if there are problems or suggestions, drop me a note
at nrt@watson.ibm.com. 

Nick Trio 
IBM T.J. Watson Research Center
Keeper of software.watson.ibm.com
From: jwty@vax5.cit.cornell.edu
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Beware new HPFS.IFS!
Date: 29 Sep 92 16:55:34 EDT
Distribution: comp
Organization: Cornell University

Hi All,

  I just had an interesting conversation with IBM Tech Support.  I have managed
to to recreate an old problem, namely the corrupt SWAPPER.DAT problem, by
installing the latest (Aug 28) patch version of HPFS.IFS over the previous
patch, which cured the problem.  I asked them to post the old patch on s.w.i.c.

  So the guy tells me to wait for the CSD, which will be distributed
electronically - on October 16!

  He also told me that the CSD will be a series of patches, not a complete
installable version of OS/2.

  This doesn't sound like what I've been reading on the net.  So I'm not sure
what to make of it.  But it does seem like we've been given a definite release
date at last!

	Chris Koresko
	koresko@astrosun.tn.cornell.edu
From: smithcr@mentor.cc.purdue.edu (Rick Smith)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Need info on com3 and com4 settings for ISA bus machine
Date: 6 Oct 92 15:29:46 GMT
Organization: Purdue University Computing Center

A friend of mine need the info on how to get the com3 and com4 ports on
an ISA bus to share interrupts properly.  If someone has this information
please email it to him at the address listed below.

deepperl@mentor.cc.purdue.edu

Thanks


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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: sci240s@monu6.cc.monash.edu.au (Wey Jing HO)
Subject: Re: GRE 32-bit bug, maybe.
Organization: Monash University, Melb., Australia.
Date: Mon, 28 Sep 1992 03:50:41 GMT

In <717501412snx@alfheim.actrix.gen.nz> frey@alfheim.actrix.gen.nz (Bruce Clement) writes:

>tcf9033@venus.tamu.edu writes in article <23SEP199221171817@venus.tamu.edu>:
>> 
>>  I seem to have a reoccuring problem since installing GRE 32/Win-OS/2 3.1
>> The problem seems to be that the system does not know that a program is ended.
>> Example, I was playing Asteroids (PM version) and then quit, yet even after
>> I quit the icon was still shadowed. I checked the window list but it was not
>> there and just figured it to be a bug. Well later after I shut down and then
>> started the system back up Asteroids comes up, like it was running when I
>> shut down.

>Yes, I get it reasonably frequently (maybe once a fortnight). I'm running GA 
>with the OS2KRNL.ZOO, BLKICO.ZOO, and REXX20.ZOO patches that came 
>out on comp.binaries.os2.

>At the same time I start getting weird effects with these same programs in
>the ctrl+esc task switcher menu (Other programs acquire their names/etc).

>Once it happens to one program I usually find it spreading & affecting others.

>The effect seems harmless, but is sufficiently annoying that I usually shut
>down & reboot.
        ^^^^^^^
               NO, you do not have to reboot. I normally just kill the PMSHELL
process (the second one shown by the process status utility from ftp-os2) and 
a new WPS will be created, getting rid of the shadowing of icons which are not
running.


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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: Lowey@Sask.USask.CA
Subject: Re: Redbooks on watson.
Originator: lowey@jester.usask.ca
Reply-To: lowey@jester.usask.ca
Organization: University of Saskatchewan
Distribution: usa
Date: Tue, 6 Oct 1992 20:01:55 GMT

From article <1app1sINNb5c@matt.ksu.ksu.edu>, by stacyl@matt.ksu.ksu.edu (Stacy Brad Lacy):
> 
> I noticed today that the redbooks are available on watson and hobbes.  
> However, I only found them in .INF format, is there an easy way to convert
> these to text, or better yet, postscript?  I really would rather have a
> hard copy of the parts that I need.  (Yes, I know you can order them 
> cheaply, but I haven't gotten around to it yet.)

Notice that the REDBOOKS.INFO file says that these things are
copyright by IBM, and can only be distributed to registered OS/2
users.  I assume the reason they are only available in .INF format is
that you have to be running OS/2 to use the VIEW command to view the
.INF files.  Converting these to text, then posting them, would
probably be a copyright violation.

Note also that it's probably cheaper to buy the books, then it would
be to print out text versions of them.  As well, you would get all the
figures in the text version.


One thing I noticed about the "view" command is that it won't print
any bitmaps in the .INF documents.  I hope IBM has this as a "wish
list" item for the VIEW program.  I'd really like to be able to print
the WHOLE document, including graphics, instead of just the text.
-- 
- Kevin Lowey (Lowey@Sask.USask.CA)
>>>>> Anonymous FTP to FTP.USASK.CA for DOS, OS/2, and Windows programs <<<<<
From: Lynn.Nash@f107.n207.z1.fidonet.org
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: External Drives For Port
X-Sender: newtout 0.02 Oct  1 1992
Date: 02 Oct 92  19:35:00

>From: sis_amth@edison.adm.tuns.ca
>Message-ID: 1992Sep29.225848.1@edison.adm.tuns.ca
>Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
>I am running OS/2 on a Toshiba 3100sx with 11 megs of ram and an 80 meg
>disk.  This works fine but I want  bigger disk.  Does anyone have any
>experience with external disks wich plug into the parallel port.  The Oct.
>Byte has an article which lists 3 such devices.  I wonder in particular
>about the Backpack from Micro Soulutions.
>Bill Phillips, TUNS

Bill you could always get one of those dongles that convert your parallel
port to SCSI then you could run any external SCSI disk.  Trantor the 
people that make NEC's CD ROM adapter card has one that also leaves
your parallel port active.  Check the color ads in the back of PC Mag or 
Computer shopper. Since Trantor has developed their own driver for 
CD Rom it is possible that they have general OS/2 drivers for their cable.

--Lynn
___
 * MR/2 1.1 NR * An ounce of image is worth a pound of performance.
                                         
--- Maximus/2 2.01wb
From: gt1610c@prism.gatech.EDU (McGaugh)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: How do you move *.ini
Date: 30 Sep 92 19:26:14 GMT
Organization: Georgia Institute of Technology

In article <1992Sep30.103340.15965@husc3.harvard.edu> chandoni@husc8.harvard.edu (John-Marc Chandonia) writes:
>I have several .ini files in my root directory left by various
>programs (neko, klondike, etc.).  Is there a way to tell OS/2
>to put these somewhere else (like \os2\ini)?  If they are hidden,
>will any programs they are associated with complain?

I think you can do this by specifying a working directory
in the settings notebook.

Ken.

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From: d9mikael@dtek.chalmers.se (Mikael Wahlgren)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: Can you recommend a SCSI and CD-ROM?
Date: 28 Sep 92 23:53:08 GMT
Organization: Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg Sweden

pdc@lunch.wpd.sgi.com (Paul Close) writes:

>>Current recommendation is an Adaptec host adapter with a Toshiba
>>SCSI-2 or IBM CD-ROM drive.

>Would a cheap 8-bit SCSI controller work fine for a CD-ROM, or does the data
>throughput really indicate a more expensive 16-bit card?

You are joking, right?  A CD-ROM typically supply data at 150 kb/sek and
any cheap SCSI board handles these extremely low transfer rates.  But
you should ensure that the board you select, have drivers for OS/2 2.0
(Future Domain or Adaptec).  But if you want to use the SCSI card with
something else, like a hard disk, you should look at the high end adapters.

Mikael Wahlgren
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: burleigh@ogre.cica.indiana.edu (Frank Burleigh)
Subject: Install problem (can't!) on new machine
Summary: can't install GA on Insight
Keywords: install problems crash
Organization: Indiana University
Distribution: na
Date: Sat, 3 Oct 1992 06:37:42 GMT


I'm having a problem installing OS2 on my new system--
namely, I can't.

Here's the chronology: reboot with install disk; see IBM
welcome display; insert disk 1 and hit <enter>; OS2 logo
flashes; screen clears; OS2 logo w/ copyright appears;
copyright replaced by the "Loading, please wait" message
below the logo; screen clears and "Loading, please wait"
appears at the screen's top.

Floppy drive light goes off and there is no further
activity.  I tried 5 times, waiting as long as one hour for
activity.

The system comes from Insight (brrrr):
- 486DX/50, 256k cache, 16MB (4 4x9 70ns 9 chip SIMMs)
- system board is unidentified but it uses a Unichip chipset
- AMI BIOS (12/91)
- Teac 2.88mb floppy
- GSI EHD-21 floppy/IDE interface (has its own BIOS at DC00)
- Quantun lps240A drive
- Diamond speedstar 24x video board
- Kouwell serial card (2 ports, 16550afn UARTs; microsoft
mouse on com2)

There's a history here.  Originally the machine came with
your typical Boca IDE/IO board.  That board didn't support
the 2.88mb drive so, before I got the GSI controller and the
serial IO board, I had a friend's 1.44mb drive attached to
the Boca IDE/IO board.  At one point we did use the
install/disk 1 pair to get the text that appears prior to
FDISK (blue text on white).  We didn't proceed because we
only wanted to see if we could boot something (didn't have
any other bootable disks around).  I assume we had OS2 up at
that moment.

So I believe something is awry with either the GSI
controller or the new serial i/o board.  I can't test that
theory because I'd have to reinstall the Boca IDE/IO board
which doesn't allow me to access the 2.88mb drive at
anything but 720k.

The GSI people assured me before I bought that board that
there'd be no trouble between it and OS2.  Before I give up
on the 2.88mb drive, IO board and GSI controller, ask to
borrow my friend's 1.44mb drive again or buy one myself,
does anyone have any suggestions or insights?

--
Frank Burleigh
Department of Sociology, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN  47405
CIS 72730,1017; Internet burleigh@ogre.cica.indiana.edu; Bitnet burleigh@iubacs
From: shurr@cbnews.cb.att.com (larry.a.shurr)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: Crashes with TE/2 - have you seen this
Date: 7 Oct 92 03:53:03 GMT
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Columbus, OH

In article <1992Oct5.140435.714@cbnews.cb.att.com> shurr@cbnews.cb.att.com (larry.a.shurr) writes:
>I've liked what I've seen with TE/2 and think I should pay my shareware 
>fee, but I've run into a problem.  Got four crashes while running TE/2
>while doing other things (diskcopy & assorted other programs).

>Two of the crashes were Trap 2's followed by "internal processing error"
>information as follows:
>
>	##0160:fff6453f - 000d:a53f
>
>	60000, 9084
>
>	0038600d1
>
>	Internal revision 6.311, 92/05/14

Steve Withers in Wellington, New Zealand told me that these were caused
by the new com.sys driver from the comm2210.zoo set of drivers.  I've
never seen that archive name before, but my drivers were from the patch
archive called commga.  I reverted to the original com.sys and vcom.sys
and the problem disappeared this evening.

First I tried installing commpak2.dll V1.02 which he seemed to suggest
might help, but maybe didn't mean to... especially since I got a trap 2
withing 10 minutes as before.  Now, running the old com.sys, I've not 
had a trap for 1 1/2 hours and was running numerous other things at
the same time - format floppy, copy, etc...  The other error I reported
(##0160:fff64a0 - 000d:a53f; 60002, 9084) has also not recurred, either.

My thanks for the responses.
Larry
-- 
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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: "Christoph Luebbe" <UJ4J@DKAUNI2.BITNET>
Subject: Re: ATM- Messing up metrics for chars > 127
Organization: University of Karlsruhe, Germany
Date: Sat, 26 Sep 1992 23:43:50 GMT

 Peter S. Knudsen writes that he has problems with font metric under
 WinOs2 with the Type Manager. The problem are wrong pfm files the
 Type Manager creates with the *.inf and *.afm files. You can fix
 this problem when you change the line Pi = true in Pi = false
 located in the *.inf file of your font. For the fonts
 TimesNewRoman Helvetica and Courier you find these files on
 the last OS/2 Printer Disk (Nr. 5). Please don't ask me why
 this works.

 Christoph Luebbe uj4j@dkauni2.bitnet    or
                  uj4j@ibm3090.rz.uni-karlsruhe.dbp.de

Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: gbauer@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (German W Bauer)
Subject: Where is ibmcua1/2.zip?
Organization: The Ohio State University
Date: Thu, 1 Oct 1992 01:07:11 GMT

German
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Product Design/  Development

____________________________________________gbauer@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu
From: chandoni@husc8.harvard.edu (John-Marc Chandonia)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: How do I set up WinOS2 3.1 MM w/ internal speaker?
Date: 1 Oct 92 19:28:49 GMT
Article-I.D.: husc3.1992Oct1.152850.16000
Distribution: world
Organization: Harvard University Science Center

Has anyone set up WinOS2 3.1 (from the beta) to do MM sound
(ie .wav files) through the internal speaker?  Are the proper
DLL's and DRV's included?  I used to have sound utilities like
dsound (windows 3.0) and remac (dos) but since moving to OS/2, I've
heard nothing from my speaker but clicks and beeps.
So, if you know how to do this, please forward me the information!

Thanks,
JMC
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From: Lowey@Sask.USask.CA (Kevin Lowey)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: ZIPs on Hobbes
Date: 29 Sep 92 20:43:21 GMT
Article-I.D.: access.1992Sep29.204321.6220
Reply-To: lowey@jester.usask.ca
Organization: University of Saskatchewan
Originator: lowey@jester.usask.ca

From hank@ducvax.auburn.edu:
> In article <BvB46x.DzA@ucunix.san.uc.edu>, loatspa@ucunix.san.uc.edu (Phil Loats) writes:
>> tried to unzip them pkzip 1.1 can not uncompress them.  Is there
>> something I missed??  ...Yes, I changed to binary mode, I've got .zoo
> 
> You missed the release of Info-Zip Zip 1.9. Get UnZip 5.0 from ftp-os2.nmsu.edu
> in pub/os2/all/archivers/ or pub/os2/2.0/archivers.
> 
> --darrel

Does anyone know where I can get the authors of this new incompatible
.ZIP version?  I wish that if they were going to change the standard
and introduce incompatible compression formats, then they would have
the courtesy of renaming the archive names from .ZIP to something
else, like IZP for Info Zip.  It causes no end of confusion for people
who try to unpack the "zip" files on my BBS, and I'm getting sick of
having to re-pack everything to .ZOO again to get around this
confusion.

-- 
- Kevin Lowey (Lowey@Sask.USask.CA)
>>>>> Anonymous FTP to FTP.USASK.CA for DOS, OS/2, and Windows programs <<<<<
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: reisert@mast.enet.dec.com (Jim -- DTN 223-5747 -- MLO5-2/13A)
Subject: DCF/2 ship date posponed to 9/30
Date: Tue, 29 Sep 92 13:42:23 PDT
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[from IBM]

----- STACKER FORUM appended at 19:41:08 on 92/09/17 GMT (by SBDILKS at BETVMIC5)
Subject: Disk Compression Software, DCF/2, for OS/2 2.0
Ref:     Append at 14:08:51 on 92/09/14 GMT (by RYOUSTRA at WASVMIC1)

Proportional Software tells me the ship date has now slipped to 9/30.

Steve

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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu (Timothy F. Sipples)
Subject: Re: OS/2 2.0 on 386sx - How is speed?
Reply-To: sip1@midway.uchicago.edu
Organization: Dept. of Econ., Univ. of Chicago
Date: Sat, 3 Oct 1992 03:37:14 GMT

In article <1992Oct1.233700.1@vax1.umkc.edu> ghdai@vax1.umkc.edu writes:
>Anybody has seen OS/2 2.0 installed on a 386sx-20MHz with *8* MB RAM?
>How is it compared to the OS running on a 486DX/25?  One of my friend
>wants to upgrade from wondoze 3.1 to OS/2, but he worries about speed.
>He has currently 4MB, which is definitely not enough, though OK for
>windoze.

No problem.  RAM is the critical commodity, and with 8 MB you'll have
smooth sailing.  Even on a 386SX-20.

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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: jws@iastate.edu (James William Shoemaker)
Subject: Re: CD-ROM drive won't run under os/2?
Organization: Iowa State University, Ames, IA
Date: Mon, 5 Oct 1992 16:29:06 GMT


> In this way, you don't have to create a boot image for every combination you
> need(each will take 1.44mb of disk space). Just have a set of config.* and
> autoexec.* and copy the desired one before boot from a dos image.

	Actually a boot image is the size of the disk that it is created from
I make all of mine from 360K disks.  Saves mucho space.  Any DOS files that
don't fit in 360K go into a directory on the path of that VDM.

						JWS
From: azzarito@cse.fau.edu (Doug Azzarito)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: Turn Help Off?
Date: 29 Sep 92 22:53:56 GMT
Organization: Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, FL, USA

In article <29SEP199214451099@rigel.tamu.edu> wjb5106@rigel.tamu.edu (Walter Barnett) writes:
>> 
>>You can SELECT shadow colors from a scheme palette, but the WPS ignores you. 
>>Have you actually TRIED it?  Of course, the new service pack may change this
>>(I'll try it tonight and let you know), but for GA users, they're stuck with
>>gray shadow text and white shadow highlight text.
>> 
>
>It works for me.  Drop the new scheme on the background of the WPS
>Desktop rather than trying to target a particular icon.

No fair using WPS patches!  The GA code didn't work, but the latest code seems
to fix this bug.
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: TGRAF-05 under OS/2 - print screen
From: ghdai@vax1.umkc.edu
Date: Fri, 2 Oct 1992 17:51:52 GMT
Organization: University of Missouri - Kansas City

I have a question concerning GrafPoint's TGRAF-05/IBM terminal emulation
software.  This communication program emulates Tektronix 4105/4010 graphics
terminal.

When it was used under DOS in the past, one can hit <Alt-Shift-PrtScn> to
send the text on the screen to the printer on LPT1: WITHOUT a FORMFEED.
Hitting <Alt-PrtScn> to print screen with FORM FEED (the page coming out of
the LaserJet II.

Now under OS/2, when pressing <Alt-PrtScn>, it still works.  But <Alt-Shift-
PrtScn> does not work.

I checked the DOS settings for the app, but only found "Ctrl-Home", etc.
Bypass, etc.  Anybody who has experience with such a problem relating to
a combination key stroke, please help.
From: mike.walsh@compart.fi (Mike Walsh) 
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: GRAPHICS ULTRA PROBLEMS!
Date: 30 Sep 92 12:55:00 GMT
Distribution: world
Organization: ComPart BBS, Helsinki-Finland, +358 0 506 3329 (14 lines V.32bis)
Reply-To: mike.walsh@compart.fi (Mike Walsh) 

I can't help, but I can sympathize !
I'm running a NEC Multisync II and a newly-bought Graphics Ultra
and under Win 3.1. I get 8514a mode with no problems. In OS/2 2.0
after several attempts at 8514a - including reformatting the partition
and installing from scratch, I get the same white screen you do.
Meanwhile VGA works fine .....
Mike
                                            
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