HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: d89os@efd.lth.se (Ola Sigurdson)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Scrolling performance (was Re: OS/2 Wish List)
Date: 24 Jan 93 09:35:28 GMT
Organization: Lund Institute of Technology, Sweden

In article <1993Jan24.063203.13560@cs.brown.edu> wcn@cs.brown.edu (Wen-Chun Ni) writes:
>In article <1993Jan24.041403.27929@midway.uchicago.edu> sip1@midway.uchicago.edu writes:
>>In article <enk2.83.727847427@po.cwru.edu> enk2@po.cwru.edu (Erik Kovach) writes:
>>
>>>9.  Improved DOS and OS/2 windowed session speed in 8-bit color. (may be the
>>>    the drivers limitations, tho)
>>
>>The jump scrolling would help, naturally.
>>
>
>No. Basically, I think the SVGA driver for Tseng chips is too slow. The
>same card under Linux+X-Windows is much faster in video scrolling,
>even I turn off the jump scroll feature in X-terms. The old X386 driver
>for ET?000 chips used to be criticized as awfully slow, like what I
>see in OS/2 2.0+SP. After a guy in UT Austin rewrote the driver
>in assembly, the card gives you the performance of Sparc.
>[deleted]
>Wen-Chun Ni, wcn@cs.brown.edu

The above may be true, but it isn't the main reason for the slow
scrolling in the command windows. The problem is, I think, that
the window client code is inefficient to the point of being broken:
When the window scrolls up one line, each line is redrawn separately.
(The correct way to do it is of course to bitblt the window one line
up, and then draw the bottom line.)
  As an example, compare the scrolling speeds for the System Editor and
a command window, using similar fonts. You should find that the
scrolling is quite acceptable for the System Editor, and that it is
atrocious for the command window (even with coprocessed graphics).


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From: rhaig@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Robert Haig)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc,comp.os.os2.advocacy,alt.startrek.creative
Subject: Re: IBM and Borg analogy
Date: 24 Jan 1993 06:16:35 GMT
Organization: The University of Texas at Austin
Distribution: comp
NNTP-Posting-Host: tramp.cc.utexas.edu


In article <SHABBY.93Jan23104941@deathtongue.mit.edu> you write:
>
>We are IBM.
>Downsizing is irrelevant.
>Client-server is irrelevant.
>You will be assimilated.
>Mainframes will preva*KABOOM*.
>
>I am Hugh.  I am now IBM.
>Meet OS/2.  

That's actually very interesting.  The IBM internal name for the 2.1beta code
is BORG.  This makes for some very interesting ideas....

Or you could take it a face value (someone that makes up these names is a TNG 
fan).  Especially when you consider that the service pack was/is called RIKER.




--
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UT Residence Halls 		|	    -- unknown (unemployed) consultant
From: enk2@po.cwru.edu (Erik Kovach)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: Anything like SOFTMAC available?
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 13:16:08 GMT
Organization: Case Western Reserve University
NNTP-Posting-Host: b62711.student.cwru.edu

In article <1993Jan26.052731.6887@midway.uchicago.edu> sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu (Timothy F. Sipples) writes:
>The company that makes Mac-in-DOS (or is it Mac-in-PC?), the utility
>that reads Macintosh diskettes on a PC, apparently has an OS/2 version
>as well.  I'm afraid I don't have more details though.  Please let us
>all know what you find out.

Anyone know the details of this????  This campus is BIG with Mac's.
From: joker@diku.dk (Morten Christian Holmgreen)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: 2.1 beta
Date: 21 Jan 93 21:31:14 GMT
Organization: Department of Computer Science, U of Copenhagen

cvadsgpb@vmsa.is.csupomona.edu (Srikanth Viswanathan) writes:

>I've been have random keyboard lockups in OS/2 sessions.  The keyboard
>just dies,  but I can still press Cntrl-Esc, at which time, the keyboard
>revives itself *sometimes*.  Anyone else having this problem?  
Me too. Under all kinds of DOS-sessions, both fullscreen and windows. Irri-
tating as hell.

>In WinOS/2 3.1, how do I disable the Print Manager from loading up?  I know
Remove the !printman entry from MAVDMapps - NOT the line, but just the word.
(It's in the FAQ ;-)

Christian
-- 
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M.Sc. student, University of Copenhagen, Dept. of Computer Science
"Human errors can only be avoided if one can avoid the use of humans"
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: lkawecki@novell.com (Lewis Kawecki)
Subject: Re: Opinions Please -- WPS "feature"
Organization: Novell Inc., San Jose, Califonia
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 16:33:19 GMT


Almost 100% correct!!!
This problem of windows coming to the forground when you drag an icon is part
of a larger problem or WPS Option prefably.  A window should be able to take
the focus without coming to the foreground.  The window focus should be 
able to be different from the foreground window.  I think this would be a
wonderful option for the workplace shell, and it would fix this problem of
draging icons around.


In article <1993Jan26.011516.13108@news.columbia.edu> mig@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Meir I Green) writes:
>100% correct!!!!
>This has been bothering me almost every time I want to drag something :-)
>No, seriously, this is an illogical UI.
>PSE FIX IT...Thanks.
>
>In article <81678@hydra.gatech.EDU> gt1610c@prism.gatech.EDU (Michael Kenneth McGaugh) writes:
>>Hey all.
>>
>>There is one aspect of the WPS that I really feel is
>>counter productive.  I would like to hear some opinions
>>from others in the net about this idea.
>>
>>I feel that when an icon is selected with mouse button 2
>>with the intent of dragging it (moving, copying, shadowing,
>>or drag-n-dropping), the folder which contains that object
>>should NOT become the foreground window.  I has become very
>>frustrating to find the object you are looking for, and when
>>you go to drag it to another folder, its folder comes to the
>>foreground and covers up the intended destination for your
>>object.
>>
>>If I remember correctly, the 6.304 beta of OS/2 2.0 last
>>spring had this exact feature in it.  I do not know how much
>>code would have to be rewritten to change this, but I would
>>like to pursue this matter with IBM.  Does anyone know who or
>>where to contact about such a feature change?  I doubt they
>>will take it as a bug report.
>>
>>Ken.
>>-- 
>>M. Ken McGaugh
>>Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta Georgia, 30332
>>uucp:	  ...!{decvax,hplabs,ncar,purdue,rutgers}!gatech!prism!gt1610c
>>Internet: gt1610c@prism.gatech.edu
>
>
> * * * * *  =================== Internet   mig@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu
>* * * * * * == Meir I. Green == AmateurPkt N2JPG@W2XO.PA.USA.NOAM
> * * * * *  = mig@columbia.edu= Amateur IP N2JPG@uhm.ampr.org
>* * * * * * =================== BC-Goliath green@smtplink.barnard.columbia.edu 


<<------------------------------------------------------------------------->>
<< In real life:     Lewis R. Kawecki      |  OS/2 2.0 is not just another >>
<< Internet Address: lkawecki@novell.com   |  program...                   >>
<< Work Phone:       (408) 473-8941        |  It is a way of life!!        >>
<<------------------------------------------------------------------------->>
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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: hoppie@kub.nl (Jeroen Hoppenbrouwers)
Subject: Re: minimize mouse movement (was Re: 2.1 bugs, suggestions.)
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 93 13:51:26 GMT
Organization: Tilburg University, Tilburg, The Netherlands
Keywords: mouse, slow

In article <1993Jan25.082527.16070@leland.Stanford.EDU>, wkn@leland.Stanford.EDU (Ken Neighbors) writes:
|> In article <1993Jan25.072101.28604@weyrich.UUCP> uunet.uu.net!weyrich!orville writes:
|> >While we are talking about features to minimize mouse movement -- how about
|> >putting the CLOSE option at the top of the pull-down menu invoked by the
|> >top left corner of a window? 9 times out of 10, if I open the menu, that's what
|> >I want to do, rather than having to hunt down the list to find it at some
|> >window-dependent place in the list?

Wuk? Double-click on that top-left corner icon -- window will close!

(now I call that minimal mouse movement-- zero!)


Jeroen

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From: cvadrhfd@vmsb.is.csupomona.edu
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: 2.1 beta + keyboard lockup
Date: 24 Jan 93 22:17:24 GMT
Organization: California State Polytechnic University, Pomona
Nntp-Posting-User: cvadrhfd

Anyone else experiencing some keyboard lockup in OS/2 2.1 beta?

I'm using 4OS/2 32 bit as my command processor. And when I fire up QEdit for
OS/2 it would lock my keyboard.

This only happens in OS/2 sessions. I can close the session, though. And my
Control+ESC for the task list still functions. It's just that the OS/2
process won't take any keyboard input.
 
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: wkn@leland.Stanford.EDU (Ken Neighbors)
Subject: Re: 2.1 beta -- Trap 000d
Followup-To: comp.os.os2.misc
Summary: It was a DELDIR problem
Keywords: trap d, beta
Organization: DSG, Stanford University, CA 94305, USA
Date: Sat, 23 Jan 93 02:38:33 GMT

In article <1993Jan22.221505.11240@leland.Stanford.EDU> wkn@leland.Stanford.EDU (Ken Neighbors) writes:
>I set up my Noteworthy Music Catalog (ROEG) to go, and it worked
>just as good as it always has (GA and win3.1 beta), but when I
>exited, bang -- trap d.  I had already commented out the deldir
>from config.sys, so that wasn't the problem.  I wonder if they're
>related? ...

Yes they are related.  Since this is a DOS program, it runs AUTOEXEC.BAT,
where I had not REMed out DELDIR!  Thanks to James Yeh for pointing this
out.  So remember, get rid of those DELDIRs everywhere.  (I only have
two autoexec files, but now that there's a setting for them, you could
have a bunch!)

Ken
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: keiths@cae.wisc.edu (Keith Scidmore)
Subject: 2.1b and Ultrastor 34F SCSI-2F VLB Adapter
Organization: College of Engineering, Univ. of Wisconsin--Madison
Date: 23 Jan 93 17:39:23 CST

Would anyone who has installed 2.1b on a machine with a Ultrastor
34F SCSI adapter card send me email about the experience.  I can't
get install to boot from my HD. After the first 6 disks load 2.1b
onto the (freshly formatted) partition, an error message is given
stating that KBD01.SYS can't be found (but it is there in /OS2) and
the OS locks up after telling me to fix the problem.  I've been
running 2.0 without too much trouble but 2.1b just won't load.  

This is my second posting of this question.  I just can't imagine that
I'm the only one reading this newsgroup who has tried 2.1b with a
34F card, so I thought I'd give it another try. To you other readers,
sorry for the redundant message.  If the 34F card is a problem with
2.1b I will post the solution, if any.

Keith R. Scidmore
From: mnjafar@wsuhub.uc.twsu.edu
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Need IBM phone number to order os2 2.1b
Date: 21 Jan 93 18:55:13 GMT
Organization: Wichita State University, Wichita, Ks

Hi, can any one give me the IBM phone number and price of the
os2 2.1beta cd.

Thanks in advance

Mohammad Jafar
mnjafar@wsuhub.uc.twsu.edu
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Borland C++ 3.1 and OS/2 2.0
From: statters@csaadel.adl.csa.oz.au (Steve Tattersall)
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 02:24:18 GMT
Organization: Computer Sciences of Australia Pty Limited, Adelaide
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL4

I have a problem executing programs written using Borland C++
and applications frameworks under WIN-OS2.

If the dynamic link option is chosen for the Borland run-time,
OWL and class libraries, the programme fails to terminate
properly.

A GA fault is reported in the run-time DLL and then many errors
dialogs appear with random characters in them.

All code has been built using windows 3.0 resources and headers.

Can anyone shed light on this one?  Do I really need windows 3.1
in order to run this software (or OS/2 2.1)?

BTW: The test software supplied with the compiler demonstrate the
same characteristics, in particular the chess program.

Linking the code with static libraries, the code fails to start under
WIN-OS2 (the not supported / not recognised error).

		Ta,
			Steve Tattersall

Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: ghenniga@NMSU.Edu
Subject: Re: Missing COUNTRY.SYS
Reply-To: ghenniga@NMSU.Edu
Organization: New Mexico State University - Electromagnetics Group
	<1993Jan25.151715.26993@isrc.sandia.gov>
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 23:09:30 GMT

In an article bryan@isrc.sandia.gov (Jon R. Bryan) writes:
>mig@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Meir I Green) writes:
>: Just to remind everyone:  the 2.1beta requires you to download sysins.zip
>: and copy sysinst2.exe to Install Diskette1, if you have a SCSI controller
>: and another (active?) disk controller in your system.
>
>I have _only_ a SCSI controller with two drives.  I tried this patch
>anyway, and it made no difference.  COUNTRY.SYS can't be found.

I can tell you what I did...One of the beta copies I have (2.0.?), the one
that came on the PDK CD, did exactly the same thing, after installing the
equivalent of the first 5 3.5" diskettes I rebooted and got the offending
COUNTRY.SYS message. At this point I booted off of my OS/2 2.0 boot
diskette and manually edited my CONFIG.SYS, adding the base device driver
for my controller, in this case BASEDEV=AHA154X.ADD for my Adaptec 1542
SCSI controller. I rebooted and the remainder of the installation went
without a hitch. I had no problems with the 2.1 beta CD though so I can't
make any guarentees!

Gary Hennigan
---------
PhD Student, Computational Electromagnetics
New Mexico State University
email: ghenniga@NMSU.Edu
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc,comp.os.linux
From: rafetmad@cheshire.oxy.edu (David Giller)
Subject: HELP! Adaptec 1740 user needs assistance....
Followup-To: poster
Organization: Occidental College, Los Angeles, CA 90041
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 00:29:05 GMT

Sorry folks, I hate to waste bandwidth, but I need some assistance
here with my Adaptec AHA-1740...

I had a problem with a program, and it wiped out all my hard drive...
I had most everything backed up, but of course, murphy struck...

I lost my apsiedos.sys file, and my Adaptec disks are at home in
Oregon... could some kind soul help me out and mail me an aspiedos.sys
driver?  I still need dos to operate....

Thanks all...

-Dave
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Occidental College    | bulb?  A: Three.  One to replace the bulb, and two to
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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: mtshdsx@gsusgi2.gsu.edu (Herbert D. Sayers)
Subject: HELP! OS/2 won't boot after mem upgrade!
Summary: After a memory upgrade, os/2 will not boot.
Keywords: Help! Boot problem memory
Organization: Georgia State University
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 19:08:14 GMT

I hope this is the correct group, and is not a FAQ.

A friend of mine recently installed 4M of memory in his computer and now the machine will not boot under os/2. He receives the following message:

   The system detected an internal processing error at location
   ##0160:FFF64AE0 - 000D:AAE0
   6002, 9084
   0386:00D1

   Internal revision 6.307, 93/03/01

The rest of the message says he should write down the location number and contact his service representative.

He has done this and IBM claims it is a problem with his memory. This sounds possible to me, but he is concerned that this is not the problem because he has no problem using this new memory with DOS 5.0.

Could this be a problem with the memory? Or is it an OS/2 bug? BTW, what exactly is the location number, a memory address?

He is also using verision 2.0 of os/2.

Any help would be appreciated. Please email to me, I will summarize and repost any answers. Thank you very much, in advance.


Bert Sayers
MTS - Georgia State University
mtshdsx@gsusgi2.gsu.edu
From: joker@diku.dk (Morten Christian Holmgreen)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: OS/2 Wish List
Date: 24 Jan 93 19:38:52 GMT
Organization: Department of Computer Science, U of Copenhagen

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

>In article <enk2.83.727847427@po.cwru.edu> enk2@po.cwru.edu (Erik Kovach) writes:
>>>Partial OS/2 release 2.1 wishlist:
>>>1. Password for all icons and folders with master password for everything
>>>   in case forgotten.

>PC/DACS provides this sort of feature.  It is available for the price
>of $49 if you mention the OS/2 Coupon Book.  (See the FAQ List for
>details.)

Who is PC/DACS? Do you have a phone-number, that's NOT a 1-800 number, since
I can't call that here from Denmark?

Christian
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"Human errors can only be avoided if one can avoid the use of humans"
Xref: sparky comp.os.os2.misc:43918 comp.os.os2.apps:10667
From: roe2@ellis.uchicago.edu (Cave Newt)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc,comp.os.os2.apps
Subject: Info-ZIP "unzip *.zip" (was: Re: OS/2 QWK reader ...)
Summary: in 5.1, not 5.0p1
Date: 25 Jan 93 05:16:32 GMT
Reply-To: roe2@midway.uchicago.edu
Followup-To: comp.os.os2.apps
Organization: University of Chicago

cvadrhfd@vmsb.is.csupomona.edu writes:

>Also, I just got InfoZIP 5.0 (dated 1-15-93) from hobbes. Is this the version
>that is suppose to handle wildcards?
>I tried unzip c:\zip\foo*.* and it didn't work.

No, the wildcard-handling feature will be in 5.1.  We actually have
two unofficial (and non-portable) patches which add wildcards to
unzip (one for MS-DOS/Borland C and one for OS/2, the executables of
which were uploaded to ftp-os2 last week; I don't know if it's still
there or not, but it wasn't any sort of official release).  But the
portable way to do this is with readdir-type routines, and I'm still
working on that.  There are a number of other important and *big*
modifications going on right now, so it will be a while before this
even shows up for beta testing.

Follow-ups (if any) to c.o.os2.apps, or you will die a horrible death...

Greg Roelofs
Info-ZIP
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: kvetzal@watarts.uwaterloo.ca (Ken Vetzal)
Subject: Problem with PM Terminal
Organization: University of Waterloo
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 22:42:07 GMT

I am posting this for a friend who is running OS/2 2.0 GA.  He has 
an internal 2400 baud modem.  Whenever he tries to run PM Terminal, 
he gets a system error SYS3175 (A program in this session encountered
a problem and cannot continue).  This immediately after the program
is started, i.e. before getting to the Softerm session manager.  
Does anyone have any idea what might be causing this, or how it can
be fixed?  
Thanks a lot in advance for any help provided.

Ken Vetzal (kvetzal@watarts.uwaterloo.ca)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: linstee@dutecaj.et.tudelft.nl (Erik van Linstee)
Subject: Re: How to create multi-size icons?
Organization: Delft University of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering
Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 11:02:55 GMT

"Stefan Breuer" <UJD9@DKAUNI2.BITNET> writes:


>>
>> linstee@dutecaj.et.tudelft.nl (Erik van Linstee) writes:
>>
>> >Or rather, how do I create an icon that has the 20x20 view
>> >that is shown in the upper left hand corner of a window?
>> >Looking at the list of displays, I can only find the
>> >cga-8514 range of layouts.
>>
>> You can take one of the icons which comes with OS/2 (OS/2 System works
>> nicely) into the Icon Editor (General notebook tab --> Edit).  Select
> (...)
>> Make this a template, and use it for future icons.

>You could also start the icon editor WITHOUT an icon, then create
>a layout for 20x20 or 16x16 or whatever (be sure to give it a name
>other than 'NEW' (I called mine "Stefan" :-) )) and exit the editor.
>From now on the new icon size will be available.

Thanks! That works perfectly. Though it isn't the 1 bit
per pixel view OS/2 uses in its own icons, it works all
the same.

Erik
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu (Timothy F. Sipples)
Subject: Re: Odd behaviour of WinOS2... Changes directories... Kno
Reply-To: sip1@midway.uchicago.edu
Organization: Dept. of Econ., Univ. of Chicago
Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1993 17:05:20 GMT

In article <727684393snx@tgm.CAM.ORG> eric@tgm.CAM.ORG (Eric Trepanier) writes:
>No, Windows 3.0/3.1 will keep the current directory from where it was booted.
>So if started from C:\DOS, the Windows current directory would be C:\DOS.
>Besides, with Program Manager 3.1, one can set the starting directory in the
>program item setting, whether it is a DOS or a Windows program.  This method
>would work under WinOS/2 3.1 obviously.
>However, under Windows 3.0, it was possible to specify a starting directory,
>only for DOS programs, through the use of .PIF files.  This would not work
>under WinOS/2 3.0, but of course you don't need it anyway, since you probably
>start your DOS programs from OS/2 directly...

It could be a bug, in which case you should report it.  If you have a
CompuServe account, type GO OS2USER and post a message in message area
16.

A somewhat inelegant workaround is to write a simple batch file (e.g.
WIN.BAT) which runs WINOS2.  It would include some simple logic to
preserve the original directory location and restore it.

-- 
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Dept. of Econ., Univ.   | /faq, or from LISTSERV@BLEKUL11.BITNET (send "HELP")
of Chicago, 60637       | [Read the List, THEN post to ONE OS/2 newsgroup.]
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: "richard anstruther" <richard.anstruther@canrem.com>
Subject: ps/2 scsi
Reply-To: "richard anstruther" <richard.anstruther@canrem.com>
Organization: Canada Remote Systems
Distribution: comp
Date: 23 Jan 93 13:01:57 EST

-> From: jdickins@cs.umr.edu (James Dickinson) writes:

-> I would like to know if the MCA bus version of the PS/2 with a SCSI
-> drive will support multiple SCSI devices such as a CD-ROM and a tape
-> backup.

I can't speak for all PS/2's (especially the older ones), but my
Model 77's SCSI adapter has an internal connector and an external
port (in addition to the SCSI drive) and can support multiple
SCSI devices.
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