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From: sal8@po.cwru.edu (Steve Luzynski)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.apps
Subject: Re: Help wanted: how to restore Config.sys file4?
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 19:07:16 GMT
Organization: Case Western Reserve University
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In article <gong.82.724319875@dutw34.tudelft.nl> gong@dutw34.tudelft.nl (GONG Sunrong) writes:
>From: gong@dutw34.tudelft.nl (GONG Sunrong)
>Subject: Help wanted: how to restore Config.sys file4?
>Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 07:57:55 GMT
>I accidently deleted the config.sys file in the root directory. Now
>I can't boot OS/2 anymore. How can I recover the config.sys file?
>The file is on a HPFS partition.
>
>thanx in advance.
>
>-gong

There will be a backup copy of it (from install time) in \os2\install. You'd 
lose all your changes, though. Do you have undelete turned on? If you do you 
could boot from a floppy and undelete it...if not then I guess you know to 
update that backup copy occasionally now.. :)

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From: edchen@bcrvm1.vnet.ibm.com
Subject: Re: X11 server in OS/2?
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 23:07:37 GMT
News-Software: IBM OS/2 PM RN (NR/2) v0.14g by O. Vishnepolsky and R. Rogers
Reply-To: terishel@queen.drexel.mcs.edu
Organization: IBM Austin

Just to offer a different experience here.   I've been using the PMX
server for the last 2 months, and while it still has bugs and speed could
be faster, I have been more than happy with it.  It has been rock solid
for me, and I used it to run apps on both OpenWindows & AIX with no
problems.  I've had it crash maybe once or twice during this time - but
I was really stressing it with about 5 X apps running along with RN &
MS Word & lots of other stuff....

My system is a 386-25 Mod 80 PS/2 with XGA-2 & 10 Megs of RAM.

Ed Chen

From: Kurt.Germann@f347.n109.z1.fidonet.org (Kurt Germann)
Sender: Uucp@blkcat.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.apps
Subject: America OnLine Software?
Date: Tue, 08 Dec 1992 13:28:00 -0500

In a message to All <12-03-92 21:58>, jones writes:

 jA> Has anyone installed America OnLine software?  I get files copied
 jA> to my HD and then the DOS session locks up when the install
 jA> attempts to run the setup program.  I have manually run SETUP
 jA> after that and only managed to lock up a few more sessions (they're
 jA> close-able, of course)

What gave you the idea that it would work under OS/2?  I recently 
cancelled my AOL membership because they do not have any access
software that will run under OS/2.  I was also told by AOL that
"America Online for Windows", the new MS Windows software they
are developing, will not run under OS/2.  And,  AOL has no plans
to provide any OS/2 support.

  
  
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From: goyal@utdallas.edu (MOHIT K GOYAL)
Subject: Re: 1st hand info on NC/2?
Organization: Univ. of Texas at Dallas
Date: Sat, 19 Dec 1992 06:44:11 GMT

>>One question, does it still offer the "brief" option for viewing files/
>Hmmm...what do you mean by "brief".  The default viewer is a PM app, if
>that's what you mean...
>
>

Have you used the DOS version?  I'm talking about the viewing options:
full, brief, info, tree, etc...

I only use "brief" and am wondering if they include it in the OS/2 version.
(they might not because HPFS names can vary greatly in size)

Thanks for the reply.
From: haen@veces.stgt.sub.org (Herbert Neugebauer)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.apps
Subject: TRN for OS/2
Distribution: world
Date: Sat, 19 Dec 92 19:45:03 GMT
Organization: TRN Porting Labs
Keywords: problems, bugs, suggestions

Hello,

is anybody on the using the port of TRN for OS/2??

Why am I asking this?

A friend of mine and I have ported the thing 
and would like to do some fixes over the christmas
vacation. So please, if you are using it tell
us your problems and your suggestions. If you have
tried it but don't use it, tell us why. If it is
because of bugs, tells us and we will try to
fix them.

The source is not yet available for everyone (it is
not included in the distribution but available when
asking), because there are some things we want to fix
before a source distribution will be made available
(I hope that this can be done in late January, when
the fixes are done).

So please send your reports or suggestions to

term@godot.stgt.sub.org    or
haen@veces.stgt.sub.org


Thanx in advance

    Herbert

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From: richc@iplmail.orl.mmc.com (Rich Cherry)
Subject: emacs gdb
Organization: Martin Marietta
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 17:40:03 GMT

I have heard over the net that there is a way to run emacs and use gdb (emx gcc 
version).  How do I do this ?

Thanks Rich
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From: rbeebe@surgery.med.yale.edu (Rick Beebe)
Subject: Re: X11 server in OS/2?
Organization: Department of Surgery, Yale University School of Medicine
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 21:42:17 GMT

In article <1992Dec14.233901.2391@mksol.dseg.ti.com> mccall@mksol.dseg.ti.com (fred j mccall 575-3539) writes:
>From: mccall@mksol.dseg.ti.com (fred j mccall 575-3539)
>Subject: Re: X11 server in OS/2?
>Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 23:39:01 GMT

>In <724214258snx@galisant.demon.co.uk> gordon@galisant.demon.co.uk (Gordon Beck) writes:


>>In article <1992Dec12.064442.2859@monu6.cc.monash.edu.au> sci240s@monu6.cc.monash.edu.au (Wey Jing HO) writes:

>>> Anyone know of any X11 client available under OS/2? Just thougt it
>>> would be noce to have everything available under my 486 box (ie, DOS,
>>> Windows, OS/2 and X11 applications).
>>>
>>> --
>>> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>>> >Wey Jing Ho    Tel: 61-3-573-2567   E-mail : sci240s@monu6.cc.monash.edu.au<
>>> >Physics Dept., Monash University ( Caulfield Campus ), Melbourne, AUSTRALIA<
>>> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>>>
>>>
>>IBM's TCP/IP offering at version 1.2.1 supplies such support. I have had it
>>running to a sparc-station over ethernet

>Since when?  I thought it only provided server support.

I think you're right, it only offers server support. However, the original 
question--though it says client--implies that he's looking for a server.

The IBM TCP/IP server works, but not very well. Most of the applications 
I've tried come up with some error--usually about some illegal X call. Then 
I get a dialog box asking if I want to terminate the server. About half the 
time, even if I say NO, it terminates anyway. Sigh.

  ......................................................................
   Rick Beebe                                            (203) 785-4566
   Data Network Operations
   Biomedical Computing Unit                  beebe@biomed.med.yale.edu
   Yale University School of Medicine              beebe@yalemed.bitnet
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   Rick Beebe                                            (203) 785-4566
   Data Network Operations
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From: kbeal@amber (Ken Beal)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.apps
Subject: Re: CKermit.INI for 5A(188), OS/2 2.0
Date: 18 Dec 92 17:23:27 GMT
Organization: Harris CSD, Ft. Lauderdale, FL
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ghdai@vax1.umkc.edu wrote:
: I see many people asking for C-Kermit help.  I'm using C-Kermit 5A(188), 23/
: Nov/92, for OS/2 2.0 right now (and I believe you can find it at Hobbes).
: You need to dial first and then use connect, e.g.,
: 
: dial 123-4567
: connect

I don't know why everyone keeps saying this.  Every day, I start it up and,
as part of the script, it goes straight into the connect screen.

Then I type:

	atdt1170nnnnnnn

(the 1170 shuts off call waiting :-)  ), it dials and connects.  Perhaps I've
got something in my .ini file that noone else knows about? ;-)  (Can't post
it now, I'm at work...  If there's interest, I will.)
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From: sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu (Timothy F. Sipples)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.apps
Subject: Re: Zmodem from within CKermit... how to ? (was Re: CKermit - help!)
Date: 14 Dec 92 00:51:23 GMT
Reply-To: sip1@midway.uchicago.edu
Organization: Dept. of Econ., Univ. of Chicago

In article <NMOUAWAD.92Dec13182754@math.waterloo.edu> nmouawad@waterloo.edu (Naji Mouawad) writes:
>I've downloaded the latest Ckermit version CK5a and after setting
>carrier to off I was able to connect which is very nice.
>Is there a 32-bit public domain or at leat a shareware (reasonable
>price) zmodem which could work with CKermit ? While we are at it how
>does the speed of CKermit compares to that of Zmodem ? If it is
>anywhere close I would gladly stick to this very fine product. 

Try M2Zmodem, available via anonymous ftp from ftp-os2.nmsu.edu.
Check /pub/os2/00Index for the location.

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Date: Monday, 14 Dec 1992 10:55:17 CET
From: FLATSCHER Rony <RONY@awiwuw11.wu-wien.ac.at>
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.apps
Subject: Backup software using OS/2 Multimedia ?

Backing up 200MB, 400MB, nowadays starting with 1GB drives becomes more and
more a pain and expensive.

In the case of Multimedia OS/2 it would seem to be feasible to utilize the
available hardware to e.g. make backups to video tape-recorders. As the hard-
ware would be in place for MM-users that would be some gimmick (maybe even
shareware stuff ?).

So, does anyone know of anybody working on backup/restores utilizing MM-stuff ?

I would not mind if a backup lasts for hours as under OS/2 it would not hamper
me working at the same time on my other stuff.

---rony
From: warmuth@warmuth.wu-wien.ac.at
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.apps
Subject: Re: AmiPro 3.0 question
Date: 16 Dec 1992 09:10:26 GMT
Organization: Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration
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In  <78370@hydra.gatech.EDU>  gt0554c@prism.gatech.EDU (MCCONNELL) writes:
> I installed AmiPro 3.0 under OS/2 and I have the help files working, but
> there are still some problems. The "speed bar" at the bottom of the
> screen does not allow me to change fonts. I do not have the Service Pak.
> ...
There are two solutions for this problem. The first: run AmiPro in a
fullscreen Windows session. The second: Install the Service Pack (Then
the 'speed bar' will work in seamless windows too.

Michael
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From: harris@garfield.catt.ncsu.edu (Michael Harris)
Subject: Re: 16x16 / 32x32 -> 64x64
Organization: North Carolina State University
Date: Sat, 12 Dec 1992 20:46:41 GMT

dic5340@hertz.njit.edu (David Charlap) writes:

>In article <2565.243.uupcb@nitelog.com> michael.hagerty@nitelog.com (Michael Hagerty) writes:
>>I'm looking for a utility which would recast my 16x16 and 32x32 OS/2 icons
>>into 64x64 so that I can improve their readability.  I have not seen such
>>a utility and really could use it.

>The icon editor can do this.  Just bring up the size you have and tell
>the editor to bring up the size you want.  If the size doesn't exist,
>it will be created by scaling the view that was previously in the
>window.  Note that blindly scaling an icon up won't produce anything
>that looks very good.  You'll still have to touch up the image
>afterwards.

This solution won't do you much good if you want to display the icons on your
desktop.  OS/2 automatically loads the appropriate bitmap image for your
display resolution.  If you don't have one, it scales one from the independent
form.  What you need to do is tell OS/2 that you want a different icon size.
You may or may not be able to do that depending upon your display adapter and
display device driver.  For example, if you have an IBM Image Adapter or 8514
or ATI Ultra running in 8514 mode, there is a setting in OS2.INI (somewhere
I don't know which one) that you can set to change the size to the 64 x 64
icon.  I do not think that any other display driver supports this size.

64 x 64 icons were a thing in OS/2 1.2 and have not been seen since then.
Personally, I thought they were a little TOO big... but then again, I don't
like fixed size icons either.
______________________________________________________________________________
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 System Administrator, Computer & Technologies Theme Program, NC State Univ.
(My opinions are my own and do not represent those of NCSU or IBM Corporation)
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From: djg2@crux3.cit.cornell.edu (David J. Greenberger)
Subject: Re: alarm applet don't work, why?
Organization: Cornell Information Technologies
Date: 13 Dec 92 15:38:40 GMT

Robert Roxby <RROXBY@MAINE.MAINE.EDU> writes:

>I cant get this dumb alarm applet to work right.  when I try
>entering events using the daily planner, they dont get posted
>to the alarm clock and there is no alarm, then.  anybody
>know why?

First, in the daily planner, make sure you save your work.  Then, in the alarm
app, go into the Customize menu and set the master planner file to the one you
used in the daily planner.  Then the alarms should work.

Make sure you don't close (i.e., end) the alarm program if you want alarms to
go off.  To get it "out of the way," click on the minimize or hide button (top
of screen, second button from the right).  Alarms will still go off, then.
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From: ojtv@zombie.oulu.fi (Olli Vuolteenaho)
Subject: Something interesting ... :-)
Organization: University of Oulu, Finland
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]
Date: Sun, 13 Dec 1992 16:41:21 GMT


This is another try with a question that didn't get any takers (that's
why the silly title, I apologize).

Suppose some program changes the "apparent" name (the name that you
see when you double-click drive C icon, for example) of a directory
(I don't know how it happens but it does, believe me). In this particular
case the c:\os2 was changed to c:\SaveFile apparently by cpyini since
the latter name was given as the argument for cpyini. Now when you look
at the tree view of drive C, you see TWO directories named SaveFile (and
both at the same level of the directory hierarchy). But when you look
at drive C in the details view you see that while the "Name" of the directory
we are interested in is C:\SaveFile the "Real Name" still is C:\OS2.

The system works OK, so it is mainly a cosmetical problem. But imagine that 
after a while you could end up having nothing but SaveFile (or whatever)
directories - not very pretty or practical.

And now comes my question: How can you change the name of the newly born
C:\SaveFile back to C:\OS2? If you try the usual methods (alt-left click
then edit, or editing the "general tab" from the directory notebook) you
only get a statement "C:\OS2 is currently in use by another program" and
a flat refusal to do anything. More generally, is there a nice way of
changing properties of WPS if the the system is currently using them. For
files (like display.dll), booting to command line works but in the case 
of WPS you have to get WPS running before you have the properties you
want to change, right? Maybe fiddling with EAs would do the trick - scary
idea that, though.

Any ideas?. Thank you in advance!

Olli
_________________________________________________________________________
From: djbpitt+@pitt.edu (David J Birnbaum)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.apps
Subject: AmiPro Macro Developer's Kit
Date: 18 Dec 92 04:25:00 GMT
Organization: University of Pittsburgh

The AmiPro Macro Developer's Kit refuses to install from a full-screen
Win-OS/2 session. It reports a general protection fault in a specific
module (os2k286.exe) at a specific address.

Has anyone managed to work around this?

Thanks,

David
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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.apps
Subject: Re: Backup software using OS/2 Multimedia ?
Date: 18 Dec 92 12:14:40 GMT
 <1992Dec15.183416.5622@midway.uchicago.edu>
Organization: Forschungszentrum Juelich

In article <1992Dec15.183416.5622@midway.uchicago.edu>, sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu
(Timothy F. Sipples) says:
>We must be thinking on the same wavelength, because I had a great idea
>for a hardware device.  Someone should come up with a tape drive that
>does both 8mm Hi8 video and 8mm tape backup.  The technologies are
>very similar -- one would have to combine both in the same deck,
>that's all.

Its there. Recently I saw an add in a German computer magazine for an interface
 board for VHS tape recorders. I think it was from a German company. The price
was about DM250 ($150) with DOS backup software. Sure as hell they don't have
OS/2 software. If you like to hear more details, I will dig that issue out.

Michael Bode
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From: sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu (Timothy F. Sipples)
Subject: Re: Lotus Organizer 
Reply-To: sip1@midway.uchicago.edu
Organization: Dept. of Econ., Univ. of Chicago
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 22:59:29 GMT

In article <1992Dec16.022501.4031@u.washington.edu> mhuth@byron.u.washington.edu (Mark Huth) writes:
>I just installed Lotus Organizer under os/2.  It tells me that my 20megabyte 
>486/33 with 330 megs of hard drive space doesn't have enough memory to run the
>program and suggests that I shut one or more applications.  Obviously, I need to
>tweek something...what should be tweeked?  

I assume this is the Windows version.

Increase DPMI_MEMORY_LIMIT in the DOS Settings for your Win-OS/2
desktop.

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From: kbeal@amber (Ken Beal)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.apps
Subject: Re: In the spirit of Christmas ... Games for Os/2 ... Mahjong ...
Date: 14 Dec 1992 17:35:44 GMT
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No I'm not CAM (lowey@jester.usask.ca) wrote:
: Chris Waters (xtifr@netcom.com) wrote:
: : If that's the one I looked at, all it is is some silly solitare game
: : played with mahjong tiles.  It is NOT mahjong!!
: : I've seen one version of mahjong for DOS, but it was years ago, and I
: : can't locate it anywhere now, let along mahjong for OS/2.
: I may not understand what mahjong is.  I understood it was tiles stacked up
: in a specific pattern.  You then remove matching tiles from the end of each
: row on each level, until no tiles are left.  I don't know if this is "real"
: majohng, or the silly solitare game you mention.
: Anyway, look at FTP.USASK.CA in the following directories for a bunch of games.
: One is a nice "majongg" game, which looks best in 256 colours.
:   /pub/archives/os2/games
:   /pub/archives/family/games
:   /pub/archives/msdos/games
:   /pub/archives/windows/games

Mah Jongg is actually a game very similar to rummy, gin, gin rummy, bridge,
etc.  It is generally played with two players, and is a bit difficult to
learn.  (I've got a version for Nintendo, but it's in Japanese; the *only*
English on it is when you hit Start (for pause) and a little tea cup appears
and the screen reads "Tea Time" :-) ).

The solitare game with the stacked tiles is *not* Mah Jongg, despite what
its marketers want you to believe (seems kinda like Windows == Operating
System war that rages on and on and on... 1/2 :-)  ).
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From: rommel@jonas.gold.sub.org (Kai Uwe Rommel)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.apps
Subject: Re: CKermit - help!
Date: 14 Dec 92 20:41:03 GMT
Organization: Private

In article <1992Dec12.202337.16896@ousrvr.oulu.fi> ojtv@zombie.oulu.fi (Olli Vuolteenaho) writes:
>Thank you very much for your advise.
>and ???? to you: In C-Kermit 179 (and in the MS-kermits I've been using)
>you actually (c)onnect before you dial (or so I did 2 min ago). Ver 188,
>however, seems to work differently.

In 179, this was for the fact, that carrier detection was not yet
implemented. However, although it is now there in 188, you can turn it
off by using SET CARRIER OFF.

>"Dial number" works OK up to point it says CONNECT (baud). Right
>after the connection is established it bluntly tells "CALL COMPLETE" 
>and hangs up back to the C-kermit prompt. I don't find anything in my
>ckermit.ini file that should cause this. And like I said in my previous post,
>the same ini file works fine with the "beta" C-Kermit 179 (which I'm 
>unfortunately still using). What am I doing wrong?

Well, apparently you don't know much about how Kermit works. It is
*normal* that after a DIAL command you get back to the C-Kermit>
prompt. Then, after DIAL succeeded, you can enter C[ONNECT]. Or put a
macro in ckermit.ini that does both.

>I'm sorry if my questions are silly. I'm just stuck with old ways of using
>kermit and I wonder why they've changed it so much between versions 179
>and 188. Mind you, it may be a change for the better.

Yes, it was a change for the better. C-Kermit for OS/2 is (with
version 188) much more complete. Of the major things, only TCP/IP
telnet support is missing and I am going to implement this sometimes
too next year.

Kai Uwe Rommel

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