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From: jburns@pdxgp1 (John Justin Burns Jr.)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: How to increase multiple DOS performance?
Date: 8 Oct 92 17:55:19 GMT
Organization: Intel Corp., Hillsboro, Oregon

I am using OS/2 to run multiple DOS sessions.  Each session controls a
different hardware device.  I am finding current performance unacceptable.
How do I increase the performance?

My hardware is a 66 Mhz DX2 based ISA Gateway 2000, with a 200MB IDE HD and
16 MB of RAM (70ns).  The hardware board each DOS session is controlling
do not use hardware interupts.  We are using an EtherExpress/16 network
board.

Will EISA help?

Will SCSI drive(s) help?

Will local bus network/video help?  We are currently using the default
VGA display, but may move up to SVGA.  Will such a move hurt performance?

Is there a way of bumping up the privileges of the DOS sessions?  I would
like the background DOS sessions to have as much CPU time as the session
that is in focus.

Any other suggestions?

Thanks,

John Burns
jburns@ichips.intel.com
Xref: sparky comp.os.os2.misc:32286 comp.sys.ibm.pc.games:16239
From: thg@truffle.NoSubdomain.NoDomain (Tim Glauert)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc,comp.sys.ibm.pc.games
Subject: Re: Civilization under OS/2
Keywords: Civilization, OS/2
Date: 7 Oct 92 15:30:45 GMT

In article <1992Oct5.171157.28108@sunb10.cs.uiuc.edu>, droberts@sparc5.cs.uiuc.edu (Donald B Roberts) writes:
|> I just purchased Civilization and love it! I have seen many discussions about
|> getting it to run under OS/2, but I didn't pay any attention. I can get it to
|> run, but it changes screens too slowly. I was wondering if anyone has solved
|> this problem? Thanks in advance.

Don't use the "No Sounds" option. Select "IBM Sounds" and turn of the sound
later if you don't want it. Or at least this worked for me...
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu (Timothy F. Sipples)
Subject: Re: GCC PM Programming docs
Reply-To: sip1@midway.uchicago.edu
Organization: Dept. of Econ., Univ. of Chicago
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1992 15:35:08 GMT

In article <Bw0LL1.6ro@scd.hp.com> kitchin@avo.hp.com (Bruce Kitchin) writes:
>I've looked several times this morning for 2.0f of FAQ.  I can't find it
>either in /pub/os2/all/faq or in /pub/os2/new.  Has it been posted yet?
>Or is the revision still 2.0e?

It is in /pub/uploads at the moment, but it should be moved shortly.

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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: jws@iastate.edu (James William Shoemaker)
Subject: NEC CDROM: 74/84
Organization: Iowa State University, Ames, IA
Date: Wed, 7 Oct 1992 15:51:20 GMT

	This has been gone over before I know, but I obviously missed something

	I just got my CDR-74 (it responds with 84 to a SCSI querry) and hacked
the cdrom.sys to say NEC, but Have a few problems with it.

	There has to be a disk in it for OS/2 to recognize it on boot, and if
remove the disk OS/2 cannot ever read anything shoved into the drive,
including the origional disk.  Also I have to remoce the /I switch from the
device line to get anything to happen.

	This is connected to an Adaptec 1542B.

	There also is a problem with hard drive access when the drive is
erroring.  OS/2 thinks sectors have gone bad.

	What flags do I have to change, or will this never work right.

					JWS



Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: goyal@utdallas.edu (Mohit K. Goyal)
Subject: Soundcard's and OS/2 2.0
Organization: Univ. of Texas at Dallas
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1992 01:47:53 GMT

Hello.

I have a question regarding soundcards and OS/2.

Is it possible to create sound drivers that can be used with the OS/2 2.0
base package?

As far as I know, the *only* soundcard drivers available are for the
original SoundBlaster and require MMPM/2.

I'm not sure what use sound drivers will be for games.

If I own a Sound Blaster Pro, and get a Sound Blaster Pro driver for
OS/2 2.0, does this mean when I play DOS games that I will be able to
select SoundBlaster as my sound card and everything will work?

I use OS/2 2.0 and am considering a sound card, the only reason I would
get one is for games, and maybe listening to a few cool .voc's or .wav's
or whatever...

Is this possible under OS/2?  Or should I create a FAT partition on my
HD and stick DOS 5 on it if I want to play games with sound?

Thanks.

Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc,comp.os.os2.apps
From: ekl@fics.uucp
Subject: Re: Wildcards do not work with GNU utils
Organization: Kvam data as
Date: Sat, 10 Oct 1992 16:50:50 GMT

In article <1992Oct9.153430.17462@njitgw.njit.edu> dic5340@hertz.njit.edu (David Charlap) writes:
>In article <1992Oct8.073050.3989@ericsson.se> etxabju@juno.ericsson.se (Anders Bjurman) writes:
>>This is a difference between UNIX and OS/2 (and DOS) that I think is very
>>frustrating: In UNIX it is the shells responsibility to expand wildcard, and in
>>OS/2 the applications should do it.
>>
>>Is there any simple solution of this problem?
>
>For a programmer.  OS/2 has the ability to extract filenames from
>wildcards (via the DosFindFirst and DosFindNext functions).  So
>someone needs to write a procedure to take a wildcard and expand it
>into a list.  Then you insert this code into the gnu code somewhere
>appropriate. 
>
>David Charlap         |"there aren't 50,000 things for which it's worth writing
>dic5340@hertz.njit.edu| software; and the computer industry doesn't have enough
>----------------------+ programmers to create that much good software.
>Therefore, most of it must be worthless" -- Boris Beizer "The Frozen Keyboard"

Also for a programmer, several C compilers have extended C runtime start
up code which can be linked, and which does globbing. For C Set/2, I think
the function is located in setargv.obj

Eirik
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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc,comp.ibm.pc.hardware
From: dbarker@spang.Camosun.BC.CA (Deryk Barker)
Subject: AMI BIOS and OS/2
Organization: Camosun College, Victoria B.C, Canada
Date: Fri, 9 Oct 1992 17:29:57 GMT

I recently read in the OS/2 FAQ that there might be problems if you
have an AMI keyboard BIOS version of 7 or earlier. Can somebody tell
me how I can determine this?

Deryk Barker, Computer Science Dept., Camosun College, Victoria B.C.

Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: dimento@opal.cs.tu-berlin.de (Christian Moskal)
Subject: looking for REXX script MAKEBOOT ...
Organization: Techn. University of Berlin, Germany
Date: Mon, 12 Oct 1992 10:32:38 GMT

Hello,

I have learnt that someone has written a REXX script called 'Make-
boot' to easily create an OS/2 boot disk. Can someone please email
me the script or provide me with a pointer, please?

Thank you,
-- Chris

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From: benezra_a@spcvxb.spc.edu
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: Please explain '.inf' filesDEREGISTER
Date: 9 Oct 92 03:23:09 GMT
Followup-To: comp.os.os2.misc
Organization: St. Peter's College, US

In article <david.718588889@mlb.geomechanics.csiro.au>, david@mlb.geomechanics.csiro.au (David Le Blanc) writes:
> I have downloaded the ps2asst.zoo, which contains a group of files ending in
> '.inf'
> 
> These files are not ascii, but are probably something incredibly simple such
> as me needing to use the 'help' browser to read them.
> 
> If anyone could provide the missing clue i'd appreciate it.
> 
To view .inf files, type...view filename.inf  The view command will also work 
by opening up a program from templates and entering view.exe as program and the 
.inf file as a parameter. You can then make an icon for that program or just 
copy the Rexx book from the information folder and change the .inf to the one 
you want.
ab
 
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu (Timothy F. Sipples)
Subject: Re: adding icons
Reply-To: sip1@midway.uchicago.edu
Organization: Dept. of Econ., Univ. of Chicago
Date: Sun, 11 Oct 1992 19:23:52 GMT

In article <vpsoc.718784274@manning> vpsoc@cs.UAlberta.CA (Rob Eitzen) writes:
>How would I go about having an icon that I've made come up for all files
>of a certain type or extension?  eg. a particular icon for all *.voc
>files.
>On this note, is there a way to add new file types?  ie. a .voc file
>type?

It is a tad kludgey, but have a look at the AddIcon (Version 1.1)
utility I wrote.  It is available via anonymous ftp from
ftp-os2.nmsu.edu.

-- 
Timothy F. Sipples      | The OS/2 FREQ. ASKED QUESTIONS LIST 2.0f is avail.
sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu | from 128.123.35.151, anonymous ftp, in /pub/os2/all
Dept. of Econ., Univ.   | /faq, or from LISTSERV@BLEKUL11.BITNET (send "HELP")
of Chicago, 60637       | [For the Internet, vote Clinton-GORE this year.]
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: ins822u@aurora.cc.monash.edu.au (David Peterson)
Subject: Always SCSI problems
Organization: Monash University, Melb., Australia.
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 1992 03:38:16 GMT

Has anyone had any problems with the Always IN-2000 SCSI card? Since
installing OS/2, I haven't been able to write to this drive without the
information becomming corrupted. I can read from the SCSI anytime, and
can also read and write from my Quantum IDE without any problems.

An Example : In CMD (or 4OS2), I copy all files in \os2 on the IDE to the
SCSI, then perform a COMPare on them. The compare reports errors on almost
every file I have just copied.

I have had no problems with the SCSI under DOS.

I have also checked the Bios of the adapter - it is the latest revision, and
so is a different problem than the one outlined in OS2TNT.INF.

Please help! I'm stuck with using the Quantum at the moment, and am forced
to live without more than half of my total hard drive space!

David.
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: bryan@bass.lkw.com (Bryan Young)
Subject: Installation Problems
Organization: Lakewood Corporation
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 1992 14:10:10 GMT

When trying to install os/2 2.0 on a 386 w/ 16mg of RAM, I am getting to the fourth disk when the
system locks up and a get a TRAP000006 message on the screen. Anybody have any ideas? Could you
please email me a response because I don't get to read news very often.

Thanks
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu (Timothy F. Sipples)
Subject: Re: Panisonic 2124 and OS/2
Reply-To: sip1@midway.uchicago.edu
Organization: Dept. of Econ., Univ. of Chicago
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 1992 16:02:23 GMT

In article <718873366.0@wyrm.rbbs-net.ORG> Fred.Wilkins@f501.n914.z8.rbbs-net.ORG (Fred Wilkins) writes:
>I have a Panasonic 1124 and I can't get anything to Print to LPT1 using 
>the newest Epson driver.  There is no Panasonic 1124 driver I use the 
>Epson driver for panasonic 1124...  Please any info will help 
>I can Dual Boot and print... no probs 

You might want to read the OS/2 FAQ List and try the suggestions
relating to printing problems.

-- 
Timothy F. Sipples      | The OS/2 FREQ. ASKED QUESTIONS LIST 2.0f is avail.
sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu | from 128.123.35.151, anonymous ftp, in /pub/os2/all
Dept. of Econ., Univ.   | /faq, or from LISTSERV@BLEKUL11.BITNET (send "HELP")
of Chicago, 60637       | [For the Internet, vote Clinton-GORE this year.]
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: wkn@leland.Stanford.EDU (Ken Neighbors)
Subject: WPS--Intuitive?!?
Organization: DSG, Stanford University, CA 94305, USA
Date: Sat, 10 Oct 92 22:22:59 GMT

I thought I'd set up a folder on the desktop, with my to-do list,
address list, and daily planner files.  I started out with the to-do
list.  Shouldn't this have been easy?  Here are my problems:

1)  It's an incredible pain to get the program to automatically load
    the data file when I double click on the data file.
2)  Can't name the file without a $T$ extension.
3)  It's an incredible pain to change the icon for the data object to
    that of the program object.

Hopefully, I'm just going about it the wrong way.  I'm using the
pre-release beta of OS/2 with 32-bit GRE & Win3.1.  Here's what I did:

Opened the To-Do List Applet, type in my list, and saved it in a file:
   e:\wkn\lists\todo.
Opened my folder on the desktop.
Opened Drives, E, wkn, lists.
Made a shadow copy of the file in my desktop folder.
Double clicked on the shadow copy, and the system editor came up,
   with the information as a text file.  Closed the editor.
Tried to change the "Type" of the file to "PMDiary To-Do List File",
   which is what I thought it was supposed to have been saved as.
That type wasn't in the list.  After reading in Redbooks and looking at
   OS/2 books at the bookstore, decided it was either impossible, or
   no one else knew how to do it either.
Created a context menu action to call the program by default.  This works,
   but I shouldn't have to do this for every list I make, should I?

I noticed the file had an extension of "$T$", so I renamed it without the
   extension.  Bad mistake.  Now the to do list program won't read the
   information in the file.  I thought the WPS and HPFS would make file
   extensions a thing of the past.

I didn't like the plain data file icon, so I wanted to change it to the
   to-do program's icon.  I couldn't do it directly.  I opened settings
   for the data file, selected General, clicked find, and after clicking
   infinity-1 buttons was able to type in the location of the to-do program.
   The icon didn't change.  So I opened settings for the to-do program,
   selected General, edit (icon), and saved it in a file.  Then I went back
   to the data file, and changed the icon to the ICO file.  This works, but
   why won't it use the icon out of the program directly?

In summary, here are my questions:
1) How do you set the TYPE of a data file so that the to-do list program will
   automatically open it when I double click on it?
2) How do I name the file what I want without the $T$ extension, and it still
   work?  Is there an abstraction for data files comparable to that for
   programs, i.e, data object<->data file like program object<->program file?
3) How do I set the icon for one object to be the icon of another object?

You may respond by e-mail, and I'll summarize.  But if you post, please don't
include all of my article--I only have 2400 baud.

Thanks for any help or specific pointers to where I can find out how to do
Ken Neighbors
wkn@leland.stanford.edu
Xref: sparky comp.os.os2.misc:32753 comp.os.os2.programmer:5630
From: dic5340@hertz.njit.edu (David Charlap)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc,comp.os.os2.programmer
Subject: Re: Is Windows 3.0 programming very different from OS/2 PM  prog.?
Date: 13 Oct 92 15:11:24 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, N.J.

In article <ANDRZEJ.92Oct9165022@bcars268.bnr.ca> andrzej@bnr.ca (Andrzej Bieszczad) writes:
>
>You use toolkits. Very rarely you need to use low level calls to Xlib.
>There are some very nice C++ libraries of classes that handle complete
>screen objects. You may disregard the wwindow manager. but usually you
>do not want to (Motif compliance is a requirement for many
>applications).

And of some enterprising company (Borland?!?) makes a toolkit for
X/Motif that has the same classes as for Win and OS/2, we can have
some real portability!

>In UNIX, like in NT, you do not get a glass hour cursor that can lock
>your workstation. If you move out of the window of the application,
>you are free to do anything else.

Well, usually.  If you do something that works with your terminal
(like loading new fonts into your x-terminal), the terminal locks up
(without any special pointer) until they finish loading.  The only
indication that the terminal didn't die during this process is the
rapid blinking of the "data transfer" LED.  Of course, this may be a
feature of the terminal I use and not of X itself.  I also get an
hourglass icon while Motif is installing itself, and some menus won't
respond while apps are loading.

It's not as wait-free as you imply, although it is much better than
Windows and OS/2.

>If IBM gets rid of the bugs, provides SVGA and fixes the message
>queue problem, it will be a very good system as well. I really like
>WPS.

I didn't know that this was an OS/2-gripe thread.  Let's not comment
on this paragraph.  I thought we were just comparing Windows with X
with PM.

-- 
David Charlap         |"there aren't 50,000 things for which it's worth writing
dic5340@hertz.njit.edu| software; and the computer industry doesn't have enough
----------------------+ programmers to create that much good software.
Therefore, most of it must be worthless" -- Boris Beizer "The Frozen Keyboard"
From: daves@vtucs.cc.vt.edu (Dave Sisson)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: Beta Trap
Date: 15 Oct 92 15:33:00 GMT
Organization: Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA

In article <Bw5Avu.L4A@mentor.cc.purdue.edu> syserror@sage.cc.purdue.edu (Artificial Intelligence) writes:
>However, from this time on, the machine halts at unpredictable times with
>a TRAP 000D.  The farthest I have gotten in installation is disk 8, and, of 

    I too, had this problem, but it also occured for me with the standard GA.
It seems when I opened my machine something went wierd and neither became
reliable.  After I got the service guy out to replace the motherboard (we have
a one year service contract for my machine), it worked fine.
Organization: Penn State University
Date: Mon, 12 Oct 1992 22:54:10 EDT
From: <BJT105@psuvm.psu.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: Why XGA-2?
 <1992Oct12.222518.12059@news.columbia.edu>

The things that are exciting to me about XGA:

1.  Technology has been licensed to Intel and SGS-Thompson, so there will be
"openness" and competition.

2.  It is a solid standard which stands a good chance to fill the crying
need we have for a video standard above VGA.

3.  The technology is being developed with groups like the Video Electronics
Standards Association (VESA) in mind, producing better adherance to
industry-standard specifications.

4.  It is a completely modern design, with many advantages over frame
buffers which are extentions of the VGA spec.  There are many "goodies"

5.  There are plans for future growth of the spec.  VESA has a XGA committee
which has documented a system of future enhancements, and IBM has a number
of cool things planned.  Most prominantly, full virtualization of the VGA is
planned for 1993.  Think of this as something like the way the 386
virtualizes the 8086 ...  this is an exciting and critical feature for
multitasking operating systems like OS/2 and NT, to multitask VGA
applications windowed and in the background!  I don't know how this will
work out (I think it is currently just a plan), but imagine being able to
run those nasty, register-level DOS games in a window!  I'm salivating just
thinking about it!

6.  It is not limited to current designs: XGA can be implemented on different
    busses or with > 1MB RAM or > 1024x768/256 images.

Bernie Thompson
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: bob@netcom.com (Bob Becker)
Subject: >16MB RAM and OS/2 
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  (408 241-9760 guest) 
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 1992 02:28:28 GMT


I have seen several articles concerning the operation of OS/2
on computers with 16MB or more RAM.
I am about to install OS/2 on a computer with exactly 16MB, and 
I want to know if I am going to have a problem or if there is 
something else I should be doing?
Thank you for any help or advice.

Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: poffen@rushmore (Russ Poffenberger)
Subject: Sound drivers in Beta?
Organization: Schlumberger Technologies, ATE division, San Jose, Ca.
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL4
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 92 23:48:09 GMT

Anyone know the proper way to load sound drivers under win-os2 3.1 beta? I
have a ThunderBoard for windows that include drivers for Windows 3.x. Indeed
they work fine under Windows 3.1, but under win-os2 3.1 beta, the wave files
(like you can program to system events) sound like a skipped record, repeating
the first 300ms or so 4 or 5 times, and never playing the whole thing.

Do I need updated drivers? Does Media Vision have a BBS?

Thanks for any tips,
Russ Poffenberger               DOMAIN: poffen@sj.ate.slb.com
Schlumberger Technologies ATE   UUCP:   {uunet,decwrl,amdahl}!sjsca4!poffen
1601 Technology Drive		CIS:	72401,276
San Jose, Ca. 95110             Voice: (408)437-5254  FAX: (408)437-5246
From: cvafyaga@vmsa.is.csupomona.edu (Srikanth Viswanathan)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: OS2SYS.INI size
Date: 14 Oct 92 23:23:00 GMT
Organization: California Polytechnic University, Pomona
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41

In article <Bw0oEA.1K3@brunel.ac.uk>, me90plb@brunel.ac.uk (Paul L Barnfather) writes...
>My OS2SYS.INI file has bloated to 1.5MB.
>Is it supposed to be this big ?
>OS2.INI is only 400k
>Is there a way of making the INI file smaller -
>clearing out garbage etc..
>Disk space is getting a little tight ...

Try getting a program called COPYINI,  it shrinks these files pretty well.
It's available on ftp-os2.

Srikanth
Clinton & OS/2 in '92!
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: rdippold@qualcom.qualcomm.com (Ron Dippold)
Subject: Re: Biff
Organization: Qualcomm, Inc., San Diego, CA
Date: Mon, 12 Oct 1992 01:48:01 GMT

steck@ccs.northeastern.edu (Paul Steckler) writes:
>I AM contemplating writing PMBiff (I've already asserted my copyright
>on that name :-)), if enough folks demand it.  You're about the
>3rd person to ask about it.  From what I know about PM, this 
>is an easy port.  Anyone else interested?

Y$ESSSS!!  D00D!!! 
-- 
Murphy's Law is recursive.  Washing your car to make it rain doesn't work.
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: genrad@philmtl.philips.ca (Genrad)
Subject: OS/2 Upgrades-Hitachi CD Rom
Organization: Philips Electronics Limited, St. Laurent QC, Canada
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 1992 19:04:25 GMT

Hello netalnders,

	I was rummaging around in some of my old stuff (just moved) and I see 
that I have an old version on OS/2 (version 1.1). Is there still an free upgrad to version 2.0? This is a complete IBM edition, and I would like an additional
copy of OS/2 to run on my second PC (a PS/2 Model 70-121).

	I also discovered that I have a copy of Microsoft Excel for OS/2,
release 2.20. Is this still current, and if not where/how may I get a copy of
the current release?


						Regards,
						Kostas Kritsilas

P.S. Does anyone know about OS/2 2.0 drivers for the Hitachi CDR-3600U?
A recent posting said that Hitachi was working these drivers.
From: mrice@mozart.ColumbiaSC.NCR.COM (Mark W. Rice)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: TSENG ET-4000 FLICKER (ouch my eyes)
Date: 11 Oct 92 22:51:05 GMT
Organization: Your Organization Here

Upon the advice of many netters out there I bought an ET4000
video board.  I like it a lot and want to thank all of you who
responded to my post.

PROBLEM: My screen flickers terribly.  I've tried running svga on
after installation, and after running the vmode program to set 800x600
with non-interlaced action.  My monitor is non-interlaced.  I'm running
the generic 4000 drivers downloaded from ftp-os2 in 16 colors.

If I knew I had to stick with the flicker, I'd send this card back today.
Do I need to re-install OS/2?

BTW: When using the Windows drivers in full screen windows, There is 
no noticeable flicker.   If you email me, my eyes and I will thank you.

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