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From: jst50986@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Jack S. Tan)
Subject: Small tip for chopped letters
Summary: Insert spaces for nonclipped letters
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1993 06:15:50 GMT
Keywords: fonts, letters

I'm running OS/2 on a Tseng in 1024x768 mode, and labels of objects in the
Workplace shell are often clipped at the end (e.g., 'Drive D' looks like
'Drive C' because the rightmost bit of 'D' gets clipped).  I don't remember
if this happened in VGA or not, but a simple workaround is this:  add a space
after the name of the object.  For example, change 'Drive D' to 'Drive D '.
This will make the fonts display correctly.

-- 

Jack Tan                                     Sattinger's Law:
jahk@uiuc.edu                       It works better if you plug it in.
From: russa@carson.u.washington.edu (E.Russell Alexander)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: SONY CD-ROM, non SCSI
Keywords: SONY CD-ROM, non SCSI
Date: 9 Jan 93 05:27:39 GMT
Organization: University of Washington, Seattle
NNTP-Posting-Host: carson.u.washington.edu

Previous post somehow got chopped.  In introduction I noted that 
Sony referred me to Trantor/Mediavision. They're the ones with 
the "list" for drivers. Will post their #.

JH
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: parry@yoyo.cc.monash.edu.au (Tom J Parry)
Subject: Re: OS/2 2.1 Bugs Uncovered
Originator: parry@yoyo.cc.monash.edu.au
Organization: Monash University, Melb., Australia.
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 09:27:16 GMT

William Unruh (unruh@physics.ubc.ca) wrote:
> sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu (Timothy F. Sipples) writes:

> >(24) Can a confirmation for CTRL-ALT-DEL be added?  I recommend:
> >"Press CTRL-ALT-DEL to reboot the system without saving your desktop,
> >ESC to abort."
> I understand why but No. CAD is for an emergency when nothng responds.
> I have had the keyboard buffer fill when a rogue process hogged the focus
> but refused to do anything. In that case asking for an extra response
> would prob have meant no CAD, and the reset switch instead ( with the
> danger of file corruption).

Not when the extra response is another CAD!!!

-- 
Tom J Parry.
Your reality is a figment of my imagination.
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu (Timothy F. Sipples)
Subject: Re: avga and co-processor
Reply-To: sip1@midway.uchicago.edu
Organization: Dept. of Econ., Univ. of Chicago
Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1993 04:09:45 GMT

In article <72900@cup.portal.com> jyouells@cup.portal.com (John A Youells) writes:
> I have an AVGA3 card with a Cirrus Logic GD5422 1mb and a quatel bios. 
>I have been running the 800x600x16 driver in os2 2.0 + SP and 800x600x256
>in winos231. I haven't tried it with the 2.1 beta yet but it works with the 
>GA+SP well. I have been able to load 24 bit .tga files in a vdm with no t3.e 
> The Cirrus BBS number is 407 241-1601. I haven't seen 256 color os2 drivers 
>yet but I am going to check with CirrusLogic directly.

Would someone kindly upload these Cirrus drivers to ftp-os2.nmsu.edu
via anonymous ftp?  Place them in /pub/uploads if they aren't already
at that site.

-- 
Timothy F. Sipples      | Read the OS/2 FAQ List 2.0h, available from
sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu | 128.123.35.151, anonymous ftp, in /pub/os2/all/info
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: u7822042@cc2.nctu.edu.tw ()
Subject: 2.1 beta found on Hobbes
Organization: National Chiao Tung University
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL8]
Date: Sat, 9 Jan 1993 19:33:39 GMT

Hi all

   I find the 2.1 beta version on hobbes now. It's in /pub/os2/2.1/beta/35

directory. I think anyone who don't have a CD-ROM drivers will be happy

hear this. I am downloading it now. And I am waiting for the morning to buy

3"5 diskettes.It's a long night.
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu (Timothy F. Sipples)
Subject: Re: Icons in windows continually offset
Reply-To: sip1@midway.uchicago.edu
Organization: Dept. of Econ., Univ. of Chicago
Date: Sat, 9 Jan 1993 17:05:53 GMT

In article <1993Jan9.161425.23855@spartan.ac.BrockU.CA> bross@spartan.ac.BrockU.CA (Brian J Ross) writes:
>Every time I open a folder, the contents are scrolled such that I need
>to reposition them to see them.  What *should* happen is that a window
>keeps the icon positions it had when you closed it (like the Mac).
>Would someone please tell me how to fix this annoying problem?

Click inside the folder with mouse button two.  Select Arrange.
Assuming you do a proper Shutdown (mouse button two on the desktop
background to bring up that menu), your icon positions should be saved.

>Also, is it possible to move an icon over a little bit in Os/2?
>When I try it, it gives an illegality symbol, as it assumes you are
>trying to move the icon to itself.

No.  This feature has been hotly debated.  I'm not sure which approach
I like better.

IBM set things up this way to prevent the accidental movement of
icons.  It can be frustrating in other environments to have your icons
"drift" a bit if you accidentally hold down a mouse button while
moving the mouse.

To move an icon a little bit, first move it well away from its
original location, then move it back to where you want it to go (two
step process).

-- 
Timothy F. Sipples      | Read the OS/2 FAQ List 2.0i, available from
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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: ced@APOLLO.HP.COM (Carl Davidson)
Subject: Trouble adding items to WPS desktop menu
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 15:16:54 GMT
Organization: Hewlett-Packard Company, Chelmsford, MA

  Over the weekend I tried adding some additional entries to the WPS desktop's
menu using the "Menu" tab in the settings notebook. What I want to do is 
have a sub-menu which has picks for the various command interpreters (shells)
running in windows. 

  No problem creating the sub-menu entry, and no trouble creating the 
individual entries in the sub-menu. I was able to add entries for CMD.EXE,
COMMAND.COM, and for sh200, the Unix shell work-alike I downloaded from hobbes.

  The problem comes when I select one of the items:

    1) When I select an OS/2 window (which executes CMD.EXE in a window), it
       works, but I get an error message about not finding something in the 
       path. I can't tell what it can't find because the status line in the 
       window covers the first line of the error message;

    2) When I select a DOS window (which executes COMMAND.COM), it works, but
       sets no PATH variable;

    3) When I select and sh200 window, it briefly opens a window, flashes an
       error message to briefly to read, and closes the window.

  Well it occurred to me that maybe I needed to access these programs through 
their WPS program objects instead, so I deleted the sub-menu and all its entries
and started over from scratch, this time pointing the menu entries at the 
program objects in the desktop. Same results.

  Anybody know why this happens and how to get things to work right? Thanks.

-- 
Carl Davidson  (508) 436-4361  |
Chelmsford System Software Lab | Microkernels: Where less is more.
The Hewlett-Packard Company    | 
DOMAIN: ced@apollo.hp.com      |
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: bradley@wimsey.bc.ca (Bradley Arnst)
Subject: Re: OS/2 Monthly
Organization: Wimsey Information Services
Distribution: comp.os.os2.misc
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 20:16:36 GMT

In article <1993Jan7.141217.29824@cs.rochester.edu> vonk@cs.rochester.edu (Peter VonKaenel) writes:
>
>Hi,
>
>	Would someone please post or e-mail me the 800 number for
>OS/2 Monthly mag.  I still haven't received the Dec. issue and am starting
>to wonder if they lost my subscription.
>
>Thanks,
>Peter von Kaenel  (vonk@cs.rochester.edu)

The number is 1-800-365-2642.

I like the magazine. I just picked it up at my local computer bookstore.
For any who want to know, subsciption stuff follows:

1 Year subscription--12 issues / $39  2 year subscription--24 issues / $75
Foreign subscriptions must be paid in US dollars.
$45 / year to Canads or Mexico, $77 / year to all other countries
call the 800 number or
send your name, address, city, state, and zip code along with your
Check/MO or Visa or Mastercard number with exp. date and signature to
JDS Publishing, P.O. Box 4351, Highland Park, NJ 08904

Issue Six (the one I just picked up), has excellent tech and beginner stuff.

- Bradley
From: ted@isgtec.com (Ted Richards)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: shift resizing seems to affect all OS2 windows
Date: 7 Jan 93 14:37:33 GMT
Distribution: world
Organization: ISG Technologies Inc. Mississauga Ont. Canada
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL8]

William Unruh (unruh@physics.ubc.ca) wrote:
: This may be  a faq, but I have swapsize running which I want to be a
: small one line window. I also have what I want to be aan OS2 window
: minimized on the desktop. If I Shift- resize the window running
: swapsize, so it gets remembered, my other OS2 window also comes up tiny.
: Ie, the resizing seems to affect ALL OS2 windows- Is there only one
: table somewhere with the bootup winsow sizes? Is there some way I can
: get teh windows to be resized on bootup independently?

Yes, that's right. All OS/2 text windows are the same size, and all DOS
windows are the same size.

You can achieve the effect you want, though, by using memsize
(memsz151.zip in pub/os2/all/sysutils on ftp-os2).  It is a PM
application, so can set its own individual size.  It displays a number
of different system parameters, including the current swap file size,
the date/time, the free space an each of your hard drives, the amount
of free memory, and others that I can't remember.  Each can be selected
individually, so if you just want a one-line box showing the swap file
size (or even better, the amount of space left on the swap drive),
just deselect all the other options.  You can even turn off the window
title line, so you really only have a single line displayed.

--
Ted Richards            ted@isgtec.com             [...!uunet.ca!isgtec!ted]
ISG Technologies Inc.   6509 Airport Rd., Mississauga  Ont.  Canada   L4V 1S7
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: widow@camelot.bradley.edu (Shaun Burnett)
Subject: Anyone gotten the DOS Hardcard driver to load in an external DOS box?
Organization: Bradley University
Distribution: na
Date:  7 Jan 93 03:24:29 GMT

	In order to make my external DOS box complete, I need to be
	able to load the Hardcard driver so that I can write to the
	Hardcard partition.

	However, the driver bombs out with a bios conflict at a
	particular address (CA000).  I've tried to exclude the region
	needed by the Hardcard in DOS Settings, emm386.sys and
	hidos.sys (DRdos driver).  However, the problem still occurs.

	Anyone have any suggestions aside from playing "musical
	chairs" with the BIOS address dip switch settings.  I doubt
	that will work tho'.

	I'm using the GA + SPP version.


Shaun Burnett		    |	"You can't survive on a new planet with a
widow@camelot.bradley.edu   |	soul full of hope and fresh air you know."
OS/2--Happy Happy Joy Joy--OS/2		-  Dr. Who (Tom Baker)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: jdowdal@wam.umd.edu (John Dowdal)
Subject: OS/2 2.1 beta
Organization: University of Maryland, College Park
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 22:00:46 GMT

I got the OS/2 2.1 CD-ROM and created install floppies from the CD
using another computer.  I have a Western Digital Piranha 200 meg HD
(don't know the model #) and a Fujitsu 500 meg FJ2624A.  Both are IDE
hard drives.  It appears that the beta barfs on the Fujitsu drive.
On the second disk (install disk 1), it accesses the hard disk,
and the light stays on forever (I really mean indefinite), and it
gives an error message stating that FDISK won't run.  I removed
the Fujitsu by removing it from the CMOS setup, and it booted fine
and I got the menu.  This seems pretty major.  Someone needs to get
this do IBM, preferable without paying CI$.  (that's why I wont
do it myself).  

I bought that drive instead of a SCSI to avoid SCSI problems....
and look what I get.  OS/2 2.1 beta pukes on the IDE but likes
SCSI....

JOhn
From: sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu (Timothy F. Sipples)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: Beta 2.1 in IBM-BBS
Date: 6 Jan 93 03:48:41 GMT
Reply-To: sip1@midway.uchicago.edu
Organization: Dept. of Econ., Univ. of Chicago

In article <1id0kjINNqgc@rave.larc.nasa.gov> jcburt@gatsibm.larc.nasa.gov () writes:
>>On the other hand, you can obtain it for $15 by calling 800-3-IBM-OS2.
>>On CD-ROM, granted.  In the U.S., granted.  Also, the license
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>>accompanying this CD-ROM permits you to use the code for a limited
>>time, and it permits you to distribute up to 10 copies "within your
>>organization."  You may interpret the word "organization" broadly, I
>>suppose.
>But what about us poor schmucks who have OS/2 2.0 running on our machines,
>want to (*very* willing to!!!) run OS/2 2.1 BETA on our systems, BUT DON'T
>HAVE A CD-ROM DRIVE ???????

If you have access to any CD-ROM drive (on any DOS or OS/2 machine)
you can "manufacture" the install diskettes yourself.

I believe the principle reason why there's no diskette distribution
this time is because of the time lag.  It takes longer to press
diskettes and get them distributed.  This code would get too stale.
By the time you get the diskettes this 2.1 beta may go golden.

-- 
Timothy F. Sipples      | Read the OS/2 FAQ List 2.0h, available from
sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu | 128.123.35.151, anonymous ftp, in /pub/os2/all/info
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.]
From: mstaben@comtch.spk.wa.us (Matthew Staben)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: Hot-key to kill WPS?
Date: 11 Jan 93 16:37:35 GMT
Organization: Waffle BBS at CompuTech Spokane, Washington

stewarta@netcom.com (Alex Stewart) writes:

> My 2 cents:
> 
> In the days of DOS, Ctrl-Alt-Del was a very handy thing and worked quite
> nicely.  It rebooted your machine.
> 
> In these days of Windows and OS/2, however, this becomes something of a
> problem.  Reboot a single-tasking computer and you know exactly what you're
> doing.  You lose one program, and possibly some changes to your data for that
> program.  Reboot OS/2, and you lose one program, and the Workplace shell, and
> your editor, and your other session running god-knows-what, and this all
> happens intantly when you hit one key combination.
> 
> Scenario:  A user fairly new to OS/2 is running a full-screen DOS app and it
> hangs.  What do thay do?  Why the tried-and-true Ctrl-Alt-Del will do it!
> Oops.  Well, it _looked_ like DOS.  I forgot I was running CriticalApp in
> another window.  Too late now...
> 
> (note:  this has happened to me (although, admittedly, CriticalApp wasn't tha
> critical)).
> 
> Nevertheless, Ctrl-Alt-Del should still be able to get you out if everything
> comes crashing down around you, even in OS/2.  Simple solution:  Ctrl-Alt-Del
> pops up a little box (just like the shutdown box), that says "Whoa!  You're i
> OS/2 now, remember?  Sure you want to do this?  I could just kill off that on
> app for you if you want, or you can go on and reboot the whole machine." (ok,
> so the wording would be a bit different).
> 
> Ctrl-Alt-Del doesn't accidentally wipe out everything, but Ctrl-Alt-Del can g
> you out of a system hang.  Bingo.
> 
> -alex
> -- 
> -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Alex Stewart:         Sysop of YBBS (510) 689-8952 |   This space for rent.
> stewarta@netcom.com   .----------------------------'-------------------------
> stewarta@carleton.edu | Somebody, somewhere, is offended by what I am saying.
> -----------------------------------------------------------------------------

 
So... Why don't you make a routine which traps the three-finger salute - 
it shouldn't be too difficult!
 

mstaben@comtch.spk.wa.us
 
[Made in America]
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: jst50986@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Jack S. Tan)
Subject: Re: Windows Help not supported
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 18:58:43 GMT

rickt@rmtc.paramax.com (Rick Thompson [RMTC/ISP]) writes:


>I'm having problems with some Windows apps. I have in that when I try to
>issue Help I get the message "This Version of Help not Supported" or
>something along those lines.  I'm running 2.0 + Service Pack.  The apps that
>this occurs on are those apps that say they work under Windows 3.0 or 3.1 such
>as ProComm for Windows, Coral 2.0 and Microsoft Access.  Is there a way to
>get this working?

Look at ftp-os2.nmsu.edu.  There is a file (I forget where) with updated
Windows help support.  'win31hlp.*' or something like that.

-- 

Jack Tan                             If your parents didn't have kids,
jahk@uiuc.edu                          chances are you won't either.
From: hacker@cco.caltech.edu (Jonathan Bruce Hacker)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: Icons in windows continually offset
Date: 9 Jan 1993 23:33:44 GMT
Organization: California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
NNTP-Posting-Host: punisher.caltech.edu

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

>To move an icon a little bit, first move it well away from its
>original location, then move it back to where you want it to go (two
>step process).

Another trick is to place the cursor at the very edge of the icon and then
try to move it.  This will allow small movements to be made in the direction
nearest to the edge of the icon.




-- 
Jon Hacker
Caltech, Pasadena CA
hacker@tumbler-ridge.caltech.edu
From: lu-chien-ping@cs.yale.edu (Chien-Ping Lu)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Boot Manager on #2 IDE Hard Disk
Date: 6 Jan 1993 14:18:04 -0500
Organization: Yale University Computer Science Dept., New Haven, CT 06520-2158
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: category.systemsz.cs.yale.edu


Some previous post already had an answer for 2 SCSI hard 
disks system. My question is a straightforward follow-up. 
Can I install boot manager in the second IDE hard disk? 
I have two IDE hard disks sharing the same IDE controller. 

Thanks.
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: sheldon@iastate.edu (Steve Sheldon)
Subject: Re: Can OS/2 run full size windows in small windows?
Organization: Iowa State University, Ames IA
Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1993 06:04:25 GMT

In <1993Jan5.135029.7546@linus.mitre.org> dbrake@cyclone.mitre.org (Dennis Brake (PSI) X7767) writes:

>In article <1993Jan3.032235.5727@midway.uchicago.edu> sip1@midway.uchicago.edu writes:
>>In article <1i58b7INNq26@newsgate.cs.pdx.edu> ericb@ursula.ee.pdx.edu (FurryLogic) writes:
>>>  Not to mention a scroll-bar. If there's one nice thing about NT, windows
>>>have scroll bars with nice, LARGE buffers.
>>
>>See the OS/2 FAQ List for a suggestion on how to have 102 line
>>windows.  That's not too bad.
>>
>>-- 

>102 lines is not enough. What we want is a command window where lines that are
>scrolled off of the top are saved in a buffer. The size of the buffer should
>be configurable and be able to be redirected to a file. Since I've seen and 
>operated DeskView/X, I'm sold. If it would only run on top of a multitasking
>kernel. Maybe Quarterdeck would consider porting it to OS/2 as a replacement
>for the Worthless Shell.


 I've never seen Desqview/X.  But the ability of having a scroll buffer in
your command window is a feature of X windows, not just DesqView/X.

 On my DECstation I use a 512 line scroll back buffer in the xterm's and
I'll tell you that it is VERY nice to have!  512 lines takes at most
somewhere around 40K of RAM, which is not much.
 (Not much! Sheesh, CP/M only gave me 57K of TPA... ARRGH! :-)
-- 
sheldon@iastate.edu                Steve Sheldon
Project Vincent                    ICSS Resource Unit
SCO ODT, Arc/Info, Atlas GIS       2142 Agronomy Hall
                                   Iowa State University
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: More Installation Questions...
From: ghdai@vax1.umkc.edu
Date: 12 Jan 93 12:39:15 CST
Organization: University of Missouri - Kansas City
NNTP-Posting-Host: vax1.umkc.edu

>I have a lot of programs on my HD.  The TNT, FAQ and Redbooks indicate that one
>should reformat the HD before installation of OS2.  After the OS2 install where
>do you install the Windows programs (WinWord and Excel?)? in WIN/OS2 or OS2?
>
>Lou Reynaldo

It's really simple.  When you install DOS apps and some windoze apps, you just
click on drive A or B, find the icon (if it's icon view) representing
INSTALL.EXE or SETUP.EXE or whatever, double click on it and there you go.

For some other winbloze apps, you'd better open a WinOS2 full screen session,
and you are given a Program Manager.  From there, you install those trash
just like you install them under 100% recyclable winbloze itself.

Guohuan H. Dai
-- 
GHDai@VAX1.UMKC.Edu |** Happy user of only OS/2 !! / HPFS on 2 entire HD's **|
From: sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu (Timothy F. Sipples)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: Problems with printer
Date: 9 Jan 93 01:01:22 GMT
Reply-To: sip1@midway.uchicago.edu
Organization: Dept. of Econ., Univ. of Chicago

In article <1993Jan6.222312.21977@bnr.ca> grahama@bnr.ca (Graham Ashby) writes:
>As a new user of OS/2 2.0 I have a couple of questions about printing:
>1) when printing from DOS, I get an anoying dialog on the WPS desktop
>   asking if I have inserted paper yet.  Can I get rid of this?

Probably.  First, make sure your printer is online before you print
and that paper is available.  Then check the settings for your printer
object.  Click on your printer object with mouse button two, then
select Open -> Settings.  Click on the right arrow (lower right) until
you see a page with "Job Properties."  Click on that button, then make
sure you have the proper paper feed selected (i.e. not manual feed).

>2) I printed out some of the documentation on my cheap Epson, and it came
>   out in multiple fonts (as if through ATM)  Can I do this for files
>   I create with, say, the system editor?

The System Editor supports only one typeface, the default for your
printer.  To create a document with multiple typefaces, use the
Enhanced Editor.

-- 
Timothy F. Sipples      | Read the OS/2 FAQ List 2.0h, available from
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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.]