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Date: Wed, 2 Sep 1992 10:25:36 EDT
From: Jerry Bryan <BRYAN@wvnvm.wvnet.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: Creating a RAM drive from Config.SYS

In article <1992Sep2.015017.202570@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu>, lbv2@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu
(m.l. gore) says:
>
>    This sounds silly, but does anyone have one? I recently upped my RAM to 20
>    meg. I prefer a several meg RAM drive for copying, backing up, and
>    especially to download.
>
>    I skimmed through the RED books, only to become confused with the device
>    driver VDISK, which creates a virtual disk, but the syntax only states
>
>    DEVICE = {path} {size},{two other switches for storage type}
>
>    Does this create a RAM drive at the next available drive letter.
>

VDISK.SYS works fine.  Yes, it takes the next available drive letter.
For example, DEVICE=C:\OS2\VDISK.SYS 4096 128 100 will make a 4-meg
disk (actually, 4096K, which is the same as 4-meg).  It will have 128 byte
sectors, and will support 100 directory entries.  In my case, it makes
me a D: disk.

The help is fairly good.  For example say HELP VDISK from the OS/2
command line, or else go through the help menus to get to the
same information.
From: mstaben@comtch.spk.wa.us (Matthew Staben)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: could some one tell me...
Date: 1 Sep 92 16:18:13 GMT
Organization: Waffle BBS at CompuTech Spokane, Washington

wjb5106@zeus.tamu.edu (Walter Barnett) writes:

> In article <sebmPZ200WB51HLXcQ@andrew.cmu.edu>, jk73+@andrew.cmu.edu (Joseph 
> >on which disk is the origfiles entitled
> > 
> >wga.sys
> >vsvga.sys
> >vega.sys
> > 
> >located? I tried the svga patch, and it did more harm than good. so I
> >would like to reinstall the originals
> > 
> 
> Try looking in the \os2\install\install.log file on your computer.  It 
> contains a list of all files installed by the installation program.
> _______________________________________________________________________
> Walter Barnett        Aerospace Engineering        Texas A&M University 

 
And then, you will want to create a duplicate directory structure on a 
different drive and unpack the disk.  I believe the file you'll want to 
unpack is called VGA.something on disk #2.  Just unpack it to the drive 
on which you made the duplicate data structures and copy them to the real 
ones and delete the rest.
 
Matt

mstaben@comtch.spk.wa.us
 
- A warning to anyone, still in command...
From: usdgog@vtserf.cc.vt.edu (Greg Granger)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: OS/2's lack of decent SVGA support (Re: OS/2 Drivers for Diamond)
Date: 27 Aug 92 19:11:33 GMT
Organization: Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA

In article <1992Aug25.215938.27567@unlv.edu> slumos@unlv.edu (Steve Lumos) writes:
>no, I haven't installed the ET-4000 patches. I think that Greg need to
>check out the README file. Try putting the card in 8-bit mode, etc,
>even though I didn't have to do this, mine is running in 16-bit just
>fine, some people have had to...
>Steve Lumos - slumos@cs.unlv.edu
-----

Yep, I tried all that ... didn't help.  It came down to buying a new
video card or sending OS/2 back.   <sigh>   I bought a $90 trident card
and things seem to be working find (I installed the 1024x768x256 drivers
... so now I need a bigger monitor ;-)   

Greg
From: stanton@haas.berkeley.edu (Richard Stanton)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: OS/2 printing bug???
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1992 17:37:14 GMT
Organization: Haas School of Business, U.C. Berkeley
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: connor.berkeley.edu

I've always been a little unsure about whether OS/2 printing quite does what 
it should. I think now that it doesn't. I have a HP LJIII attached to LPT1 
on my machine, but it also has a PS cartridge installed. For some reason, 
sending a PS file to LPT1 when the PCL driver is selected results in 
flashing lights from the printer, but no outpu. I assume this is because the 
PS interpreter gets confused by some PCL reset code that gets sent.

As a result, I defined a printer object using IBMNULL pointing to 
LPT1. This nicely dumps anything I send to LPT1 straight at the printer, 
which is mostly what I want.

However, sometimes I want to use PCL mode. For example, it would be nice to 
get a PRINT SCREEN to work. So I installed the PCL driver, pointing to
LPT2, which I redirected to LPT1. I also defined the PCL driver as the 
default printer. Now I can still dump whatever I want at LPT1 (which is 
still attached to IBMNULL). When I press the Print Screen button, and look 
at the PCL object queue, I see evidence of activity. It tells me a job is 
spooling, then printing. However, nothing ever comes out of the printer, and 
the light on the front of the printer doesn't even blink. If I direct the 
PCL object to print to a file, it does so fine, and I can then send it to 
LPT1 to print it, but this isn't what I want to have to do.

Am I missing something, or is it doing something wrong here? Is there 
another convenient way to achieve what I want?

Richard Stanton
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: parry@yoyo.cc.monash.edu.au (Tom J Parry)
Subject: Re: Disk with >1024 cylinders: problems
Originator: parry@yoyo.cc.monash.edu.au
Organization: Monash University, Melb., Australia.
Date: Tue, 1 Sep 1992 00:58:43 GMT

Ignacy Misztal (ignacij@meishan.animal.uiuc.edu) wrote:
> 
> Does anybody have disk with more than 1024 cylinders (without mapping
> software) running with OS/2 without problems? The Red Book from IBM
> suggests that disks with >1204 cylinders are ok, but space over
> that limit should be used in HPFS partitions only. I reformatted my 660 
> Mbyte ESDI disk from FAT (disk mapped to 1024 cylinders, only 528 Mbytes
> usable) to 660 Mbyte mixed FAT/HPFS. Now, various files become corrupted
> randomly. When accessing these files, the system freezes. I am uncertain 
> whether the problems are due to HPFS, >1024 cylinders, ESDI disk, or what
> something else. 

Most IDE drives will do cylinder translation for you and give you a full
660MB disk with < 1024 cylinders (but probably lots of sectors/track or
heads). This way you can even use large FAT partitions. I have a 500 meg
drive with 1500 odd sectors (I think) that is fully formatted under DOS
(not my machine :-) to 500 meg and 987 cylinders.

-- 
Tom J Parry.
Your reality is a figment of my imagination.
From: kristine@cats.ucsc.edu (chfn)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: left-hand mouse
Date: 29 Aug 92 01:19:02 GMT
Organization: University of California; Santa Cruz
NNTP-Posting-Host: am.ucsc.edu



Open up a windows full screen session.  Go into the control panel and setup
the mouse to swap buttons there.
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: RAM or the lack thereof
From: cvadr014@vmsb.is.csupomona.edu
Date: 26 Aug 92 00:28:36 PST
 <1992Aug17.212527.26945@njitgw.njit.edu> <5759@vtserf.cc.vt.edu> <BtJqvK.Aw2@news.cso.uiuc.edu>
Organization: California State Polytechnic University, Pomona
Nntp-Posting-User: rrodrigu

In article <BtJqvK.Aw2@news.cso.uiuc.edu>, tamu@uxh.cso.uiuc.edu (Todd Henderson) writes:
> usdgog@vtserf.cc.vt.edu (Greg Granger) writes:
> 
>>In article <1992Aug17.212527.26945@njitgw.njit.edu> dic5340@hertz.njit.edu (David Charlap) writes:
>>>Ah, but you only get one full-screen DOS session <bigger grin>.  DOS's
>>>stability isn't really an issue, since each app is (essentially) its
> 
>>True, but at least I do get one full screen DOS session, currently under
>>os\2 I get finger exercise pushing the reset button.
> 
>>I a bit p*ssed, after all in IBM's docs it clearly states that os\2
>>works with Tseng based video cards.  THIS IS NOT TRUE.  It doesn't work
>>with ET3000 based cards (well) and a seperate patch is required to get
>>it to work with ET4000 based cards.  This certainly suggests that they
> 
> I've never needed a patch for my Diamond SS+ hicolor.
> 
>>did not testing on this type of card.  Someone, decided that there were
>>a lot to Tseng based cards out there so ... they 'claimed' it would
>>work.  Normal people call this a lie, car salesmen call it a deal and
>>corporations consider this SOP (Standard Operating Procedure).
> 
>>IBM's order takers should have a screening procedure ... something like
>>this:
>>Q1) Is any of your equipment over 1 yr old?
>>  Y) You should know that os\2 will probably have difficulty with it.
>>  N) os\2 might work with it, do you feel lucky?
>>     Y) Sell quick
>>     N) Tell them what a pleasant voice they have.
>><sigh>  I'm dreaming ... any corp. who was honest about what they were
>>doing would proably be out of business in a quater.
> 
> When I ordered I got screened similiar to this.  The lady asked about memory,
> what brand of system, disk space, and a few other things.
> 
> She was very frank about needing more than 4 meg(which I had at the time).
> She also informed me of the money back guarantee, maybe you should take
> advantage of that.
	I don't see what the big deal about getting another 4 megs - if you use
Windoze anywhere halfway decently, then you'll need at least 8, and 8 is a
decent amount for OS/2 -  Besides, ram is what? 25 - 27 a meg?


> 
> Todd
> tamu@uxh.cso.uiuc.edu
> 
> 
>>Not a particularly happy os\2 camper ...
>>Greg <usdgog@vtserf.cc.vt.edu>
From: tamu@uxh.cso.uiuc.edu (Todd Henderson)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: Multiple Desktops....
Date: 2 Sep 92 20:00:38 GMT
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana


Maybe multiple desktops is a feature! :):)  Under HP VUE they have workspaces
and you can configure each one and then switch at will.  That is actually
kind of nice.  Might not be to bad in OS/2, it avoids cluttering it up to
bad, put one kind of work in one, play in another, etc. and in one click you
have a new desktop ready to do something else(different folders, icons
displayed).

Todd
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: frigo@psl.wisc.edu (Sean P. Frigo UW-Madison SRC (608)877-2332,-2001(FAX))
Subject: Drive A: CHKDSK buglet
Reply-To: frigo@psl.wisc.edu
Organization: University of Wisconsin - Physical Science Lab
Date: Fri, 4 Sep 92 14:49:59 GMT

Performing Check disk... from the Drive A: icon in WPS stalls and gives
no error if the Extended Attributes on the floppy are corrupted.

Performing CHKDSK from the OS/2 commandline gives the errors "Extended
Attributes version is not correct" or "Extended Attributes are corrupted"
with the same disk.
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Date: Fri, 4 Sep 1992 11:01:51 EDT
From: Jerry Bryan <BRYAN@wvnvm.wvnet.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: VDISK.SYS in one specific DOS Windows
 <1992Sep3.104421.23732@ugle.unit.no>

In article <1992Sep3.104421.23732@ugle.unit.no>, hafting@Lise.Unit.NO (Helge
Hafting) says:
>
>VDISK is an os/2 device-driver, as far as I know.

VDISK.SYS has been around for many years, at least as far back as DOS 3.0,
maybe even further back.  It is/was a standard DOS facility that
comes from IBM or Microsoft, not a share-ware, public domain, or whatever
program.  Thus, its its historical roots seem to be as
a DOS program.  The version shipped with OS/2 may or may not have anything
to do with the old DOS version, but it certainly looks and acts the same.

However, the version shipped with OS/2 is in the OS/2 directory, so
maybe it is an OS/2 driver rather than a DOS one????
From: George_Lin@mindlink.bc.ca (George Lin)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Out Of Memory, but +3M ram still free.
Date: 27 Aug 92 23:08:42 GMT
Organization: MIND LINK! - British Columbia, Canada
Distribution: world

When I have a few windows open (about 6) on the desktop, and then I open up a
seamless windows application, I will often get a "Not Enough Memory" message.
The windows app will ususally start up and exhibit the following problems:
1) Can't open any more apps (such as OS/2 Command Line window)
2) An "Out of Memory" error occurs on the windows app.

The strange part is that the screen saver (Kai Uwe Rommel) tells me that there
are still almost 4 Megs of ram free.  (16Meg total)

Any ideas as to what could be wrong?

--

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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: ochealth@unixg.ubc.ca (ochealth)
Subject: Excel 4.0? Word 2.0?
Organization: University of British Columbia, Vancouver, B.C., Canada
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1992 21:29:23 GMT


A little while back, someone posted a (cruel)rumour that MSoft was beta testing
Excel 4.0 and/or Word 2.0 for OS/2. Is there even a shred of truth to that?
It's pretty frustrating having a nice OS/2 setup, and there's SQUAT for OS/2
for wordprocessing. Sure, you can pay $75 (upgrade)to get outdated versions of 
MS Word 1.1 and Excel 3.0, but if MS abandons them, what's the point?

I called Lotus, and at least they will support OS/2 2.0, but 123 for OS/2 2.0
won't be out until end of '92, and AmiPro 3.0 won't be out until '93

WordPerfect for OS/2 2.0 is anyone's guess. Probably about the same time
as Ami.


jpm
-- 
______________________________________________________________________________
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From: kiehl@ibt013.ibt.kfa-juelich.de (Horst Kiehl)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: Can't delete an icon
Keywords: undeletable
Date: 31 Aug 92 16:27:46 GMT
Reply-To: kiehl@ibt013.ibt.kfa-juelich.de (Horst Kiehl)
Organization: Forschungszentrum Juelich GmbH (KFA), Germany

In article <1992Aug29.012110.15068@nuscc.nus.sg>, eletanjm@nuscc.nus.sg (TAN JIN MENG) writes:

>The simplest is simply to create a "rubbish" folder. Move any unwanted
>object in there and delete the "rubbish" folder periodically. Recreate 
>the rubbish folder anytime you want.

This won't work if one of the objects inside the folder is undeletable.
I tried it the way you described, and failed.

Best wishes,

Horst
From: rassilon@infopls.chi.il.us (Michael Quintero)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: RE: DOS EXTENDED MEMORY P
Date: 27 Aug 92 03:54:48 GMT
X-Maildoor: WaflineMail 1.00r

mjn@sbstaff2.cs.sunysb.edu (The Sixth Replicant) says:
>
>In article <100@slpfs1.UUCP> jct@slpfs1.UUCP (Jeff Tolmie) writes:
>>
>>    I have a question about DOS compatibility. Recently, I copied jpeg3386
>>from a MSDOS net and tried to get it to run. It thinks I have no extended
>>memory. So I opened a DOS fullscreen and typed "mem". Now, OS/2 tells me that
>>I have 2Mb XMS memory and 0 Mb contiguous extended memory available. This I
>>find a bit confusing. Does anyone know what the difference is? I can adjust
>>the XMS value via the DOS settings, but not this "contiguous extended memory".
>>
>>    The only thing I can think of is perhaps this 2nd value is what OS/2
>>calculates as the usable memory. Is perhaps a device driver getting in the
>>way? (The memory management from DOS is a JOKE!).
>
>I've noticed the same thing with mem: it always reports 0K contiguous in OS/2.
>However, I have a number of programs which use XMS calls directly and I can
>report that the XMS 0x09 function which reports #K free and largest
>contiguous blocks does report reasonable numbers, i.e. at the start of
>a DOS session, both are equal to the value I set in the DOS Settings. I
>can only imagine that mem is doing something un-kosher, ununusual, or
>incorrect.

Nope, neither one.  I had the same problem.  JPEG386 uses DPMI memory, not
XMS or EMS.  You need to increase DPMI memory to about 4 meg to make JPEG
happy.  Other than that, it works fine.

XMS isn't the same as extended.  Extended is the raw, unmanaged memory
available to DOS.  XMS is a standardized software-managed way of accessing
this memory, so your program doesn't have to worry about stepping on any
other program: It's managed by the XMS driver.

OS/2 takes all that extended memory into 386 mode, so it isn't accessible
to a DOS session.  Thankfully, it WILL emulate XMS.  Very few programs
use extended memory now.  (Only VDISK comes to mind.)  The practical
upshot of this is that it's perfectly natural to have 0K extended available.

Mike Quintero ( rassilon@infopls.chi.il.us )
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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: mawillia@eos.ncsu.edu (MICAH ANTHONY WILLIAMS)
Subject: Problem with TELEMATE
Originator: mawillia@c00477-224wi.eos.ncsu.edu
Keywords: Telemante, Comm, Baud
Reply-To: mawillia@eos.ncsu.edu (MICAH ANTHONY WILLIAMS)
Organization: North Carolina State University, Project Eos
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1992 21:25:17 GMT



	I'm experiencing some difficulty with Telemate ver 3.01. 
In my DOS settings, I have set IDLE_SENSITIVITY to 100, but I still
seem to lose characters from time to time.  Also, it seems to crash on
my periodically after I use it for a few minutes.   Can anyone shed
some light on this situation, or is Telemate just not totally compatible
with OS/2 yet?


Configuration:

386sx-20
8 Meg RAM
115 MEG Hard Disk (Toshiba)
Trident 8900 Card (Using 800x600x256 drivers)


Thanks.


                                                Micah A. Williams
                                                North Carolina State University
                                                Computer Engineering
                                                mawillia@eos.ncsu.edu
                                                willi-ma@aza.csc.ncsu.edu
                                                vega@garfield.catt.ncsu.edu


                "STAYING IN TOUCH WITH THE WILLIAMS TRADITION"
-- 
                                                Micah A. Williams
                                                North Carolina State University
                                                Computer Engineering
                                                mawillia@eos.ncsu.edu
                                                willi-ma@aza.csc.ncsu.edu
                                                vega@garfield.catt.ncsu.edu


                "STAYING IN TOUCH WITH THE WILLIAMS TRADITION"
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: pathak@mitre.org (Heeren Pathak)
Subject: Re: OS/2 Win3.1 support *better* than MS!
Followup-To: comp.os.os2.misc,comp.os.os2.advocacy
Organization: Mitre Corporation
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1992 13:24:24 GMT

In article <1992Aug29.064554.152730@zeus.calpoly.edu>,
jemenake@zeus.calpoly.edu (Joe Emenaker) wrote:
> 
> I read in a file that supposedly came from IBM that the folks at Boca are
> planning on releasing a package that will convert your Windows code into
> OS/2 code. I don't rememeber if it just converted the source-code, or if it
> converted the source and then compiled directly to exes, but they
> definitely made it sound like it would be very trouble-free. As long as
> it's not priced too high, we MIGHT be able to expect a flood of OS/2 ported
> programs after that conversion kit ships.
> 

While a package like this would allow a quick port, it would give you a
good OS/2 product.  Having preemptive multi-tasking thread allows a
developer to do some really neat background processing.  Just porting the
code will let you get a product out, but your product will get clobbered by
a competitors product that takes advantage of the threaded architechure. 
Note, this will also true for NT.

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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: parry@yoyo.cc.monash.edu.au (Tom J Parry)
Subject: Re: Some suggestions for OS/2
Originator: parry@yoyo.cc.monash.edu.au
Organization: Monash University, Melb., Australia.
Date: Thu, 3 Sep 1992 06:35:42 GMT

Timothy F. Sipples (sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu) wrote:
> In article <gershon.715476775@husc10> gershon@husc10.harvard.edu (Ethan Gershon) writes:
> 
> >MB2 pop-up menu for marked text like in CUA demo
> 
> Can you elaborate?
> 

I don't know if this is the same thing that Ethan is talking about but I
would like to be able to mark text in windows and copy and past it easilyy
with the keyboard and mouse. As an example, Hold {ALT,CTRL,SHIFT - you
pick} down while moving the mouse will mark a block - the current method is
VERY cumber some. Then ALT-MB3 could simply paste it in somewhere.

In X-Windows (twm at least) , it's even simpler, holding down the left
button does the marking/copying and the right button does the pasting.
Would make things much nicer.

-- 
Tom J Parry.
Your reality is a figment of my imagination.
From: rom@cci632.cci.com (Rudynell S. Millian)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Number 11 !!!
Date: 3 Sep 92 21:22:46 GMT
Distribution: comp
Organization: [Computer Consoles, Inc., Rochester, NY


	I am surprised nobody has mentioned that OS/2 ranks #11 on 
PC Magazine's list of top selling software. 

	How far up on the list do you think OS/2 will climb? My guess is
it will jump to #8 by year's end.

R. Millian
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc,comp.os.os2.apps
From: naughton@chinet.chi.il.us (Thomas Naughton)
Subject: Orchid Prodesigner IIs w/OS2 2.0 Questions
Organization: Chinet - Public Access UNIX
Date: Fri, 28 Aug 1992 13:25:32 GMT

  I have the Orchid Prodesigner IIs with a Panasonic 1381i monitor.
I have the new device drivers for the T4000 from HOBBES along with
the updated vsvga file.  I can only get my display to show up at
800x600x16 and nothing else.  I have set the dip switches on the 
video card to work with 60hz as the refresh rate for all the 
resolutions, but still no success at the other resolutions.
  Has anyone else been successful with the other drivers?  The added
resolution for the display (800x600) is great, but I really wanted
the 256 color mode too. 
  Any info would be great.  Thanks.

-- 
Thomas M. Naughton	              "Love is chemistry, but sex is physics"
naughton@nauts.chi.il.us (prefered)   naughton@chinet.chi.il.us (alternate)
Nobody is responsible for anything I say or do but me.  Sometimes not even me.
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: auhl@fzi.de (Axel Uhl)
Subject: Trident 8800 drivers ?
Keywords: Trident 8800, drivers, SVGA
Reply-To: fzi.de
Organization: Forschungszentrum Informatik (FZI), Karlsruhe, Germany
Date: Wed, 2 Sep 1992 12:32:21 GMT

Hi there!
I'm using a two year old Trident SVGA with 8800 chipset.
Will I be fixed to 640x400x16 for the rest of my life or
can anybody give me a hint, if and where to get drivers
for that card? I can't find them on HOBBES and using the
8900 drivers crashs the system.
Thanks in advance
Axel (auhl@fzi.de).