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From: rjones@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Ron Jones)
Subject: Maximizing OS/2, another book from NRP!
Organization: The Ohio State University
Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 03:16:09 GMT

New Riders Press (NRP) has a new book out for OS/2 called "Maximizing
OS/2" by John Little et al.  They also publish the best seller "Inside 
OS/2" and now "Inside OS/2 special edition".

I found "Maximizing OS/2" to be the best book yet for general use of 
OS/2. It includes chapters on:

Architectural Overview:  gives details on the underpinnings.  

Migration Considerations: installing OS/2

New Features: 32 bit graphics, MMPM/2

New Workplace shell: basic how to use

Optimizing OS/2 Installation: some advanced information including 
Networks.

Understanding Startup Files: details of each line in config.sys

Maximizing the Desktop: describes features

DOS connection: considerable detail on DOS settings understanding MVDM

Windows Support: great details on WIN-OS2, *.INI files

Making Most of OS/2 Applications: describes a number of native OS/2
applications.

Networking OS/2: describes Netware use with OS/2

Understanding the Communications Manager: E3EMUL.EX, ALMCOPY CMMouse

Communications Manager: Advanced Features:

Updating OS/2: details the ServicePak how to get and install
it!

OS/2 Troubleshooting: A great chapter about hardware under OS/2 
(e.g. CD-ROMS, SCSIs) evaluating system faults etc.

The book includes a  diskette containing WPSBK6, ICONS and several demos
(basically stuff you can get from FTP).

This would be a good book for someone without Internet access as it 
contains much of the information learned (the hard way) from reading 
USENET OS/2 groups.  For example it gives IBM part numbers for the RED 
BOOKS, defines APARs CSDs etc, how to report problems or get help from 
IBM and talks about common installation problems and device drivers.  It 
is really rich with tips and operational hints.  Its obviously been
written recently.  However, they talk about version 2.1 being out by the 
end of 1992 and describe its major features (they didn't know that it 
will include enhanced mode windows!)

HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!!  




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From: jack@cs.pitt.edu (Jack Nelson)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: ATI Ultra Pro / 2.1 Beta problems
Date: 25 Jan 93 18:43:05 GMT
Organization: Univ. of Pittsburgh Computer Science


  I have a Gateway 2000 486/33 (8megs, SCSI drive), ATI Ultra Pro with
1572FS monitor; I installed the 8514/A drivers, which seem to work well
with full-screen Windows.  If I try to run migrated Windows programs
however I find I cannot cntrl-escape back to the desktop and then back to
the windows program again: the screen stays black, no mouse; I can escape
to the desktop and kill it, however.
  The same programs run perfectly from a full-screen Winos2 desktop,
however, and I find I can go back and forth to the OS2 desktop from
there with no problem, so using that as a workaround is one solution.
  I also can only intermittently use a full-screen DOS window; at first
it comes up properly (CTRL-ESCAPE banner across the top, etc), but on
further invocations, I lose sync whenever trying to get another such
window.  Again, one can CTRL-ESCAPE out of it, so no big problem.
  Am I missing something, or do others have similar problems.  Obviously,
real seamless drivers would be much nicer.
  Jack
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From: dic5340@hertz.njit.edu (David Charlap)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: Is OS/2 a dead end?
Keywords: So quoth Bill Gates
Date: 22 Jan 93 20:32:30 GMT
Organization: New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, N.J.

In article <1993Jan21.135113.12208@cci632.cci.com> rom@cci632.cci.com (Rudynell S. Millian) writes:
>	Unfortunately Bill Gates has obtained tabloid status, and is currently
>the person the general public thinks of when it hears about the computer
>industry. If Mr Gates wants to hurt OS/2, this is the perfect time to do it,
>and he knows it.

But unlike tabloid figures, nobody on Earth wants to be BG's "love
slave".
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From: frampton@vicuna.ocunix.on.ca (Steve Frampton)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: Can I *PLEASE* get a fast COMM driver that &^$#* works!?
Date: 25 Jan 93 16:20:58 GMT
Reply-To: frampton@vicuna.ocunix.on.ca
Organization: Vicuna Systems, Kingston, Ontario, CANADA
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii

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

> Steve Frampton writes: 
> >Well, after my last posting about experiencing a severe system crash
> >using Ray Gwinn's SIO driver (version 0.31, I believe) somebody told
> >me that 0.34 is out and suggested I give it a try.
> >
> >The result?
> >The system detected an internal processing
> >error at location ##0160:fffa3bb4 - 000d:00049bb4.
> >60000, 7016
> >038600d1
> >Internal revision 6.307, 92/03/01
> >The system is stopped.  Record the location number
> >of the error and contact your service representative.

> Would you believe there's an sio040.zip now?  This driver is being
> updated very rapidly.  You can find sio040.zip in /pub/uploads (for
> the moment) on ftp-os2.nmsu.edu via anonymous ftp.

Okay, I'll give it a try.  But I'll be plenty pissed if it happens again
(why shouldn't it, though, it has been happening with sio001, 002, 011,
and 034...)  :-)

Anyways, no idea what could have caused the system crash?  *Should* I
be also running the X00v149a fossil driver with the SIO driver, or is
that the cause of my crash?

Thanks for your reply...

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From: laird@pasture.ecn.purdue.edu (Kyler Laird)
Subject: EMXLIBC.DLL dumps core on me
Organization: Purdue University Engineering Computer Network
Date: 23 Jan 93 14:50:05 GMT

Well, I finally got emxlibc to go along with the unix file utilities,
but every time I run something that uses it, I get an error:

	core dumped
	000000D2core dumped
	SYS1808:
	The process has stopped.  The software diagnostic
	code (exception code) is  0005.

	(There's also an error pop-up window.)

Any ideas?  The size of my EMXLIBC.DLL is 74402 bytes.  (I don't
have any checksum programs yet.)

Thanks!

--kyler
From: enk2@po.cwru.edu (Erik Kovach)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: OS/2 and fonts (ATM, etc.)
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 22:55:34 GMT
Organization: Case Western Reserve University
NNTP-Posting-Host: b62711.student.cwru.edu

In article <16B61EBBA.X049BC@tamvm1.tamu.edu> X049BC@tamvm1.tamu.edu writes:
>I am a VERY happy OS/2 user, tinkerer, geek, and wanted to add a efw more
>fonts to OS/2. I know it uses the Adobe Type Manager, but all I see advertised
>are ATM windows fonts! Will these work for OS/2 PM, Describe, etc.?

It is my understanding that OS/2 itself uses ATM Type One fonts, while 
Windows (and therefore WIN-OS/2) uses ATM Type Two fonts.  So NO, they
are not compatable.  Check around FTP sites (namely hobbes.nmsu.edu and such)
for Type One Fonts.
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: orville%weyrich@uunet.uu.net (Orville R. Weyrich)
Subject: Re: OS/2 2.1b installation help/tips!?
Reply-To: uunet.uu.net!weyrich!orville
Organization: Weyrich Computer Consulting
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 93 06:41:25 GMT

In article <C1A3pG.F93@hpuerca.atl.hp.com> aaa@hpuerca.atl.hp.com (Simon Fowler) writes:
>
>Make sure that you have the latest IBM1SP506.ADD - the one on the beta didn't 
>work for me.
>

From what I have read on the net, if you have trouble with MFM, RLL, or IDE
drives -- try an OLDER or a NEWER version of the above-mentioned file --
IBM seems to be having trouble making one version fit all. Of course, starting
with the newest and working backwards until you get satisfaction or run out
of alternatives seems prudent. 

orville

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From: mstaben@comtch.spk.wa.us (Matthew Staben)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: Scrolling performance (was Re: OS/2 Wish List)
Date: 25 Jan 93 20:37:55 GMT
Organization: Waffle BBS at CompuTech Spokane, Washington

parry@yoyo.cc.monash.edu.au (Tom J Parry) writes:

> Ola Sigurdson (d89os@efd.lth.se) wrote:
> 
> > 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).
> 
> Another aspect is the fact that OS/2 seems to use software emulation of the
> superior hardware features of these cards instead of the hardware code. In
> a DOS box you can turn off VIDEO_ROM_EMULATION and I got a 5 times
> improvement in scrolling speeds but my OS/2 windows are still far too slow.
> I have developped the habit of entering 'cls' before _every_ command I
> execute - and this actually saves me time!!!!
> 
> This applies both to the built in SPP SVGA ET4000 support and the 'leaked
> trident' generic drivers on my ET4000.
> 
> -- 
> Tom J Parry.
> Your reality is a figment of my imagination.

 
With the old 16-bit Generic ET4000 drivers, my scrolling speeds were 
actually phenomenal.  Now, that I'm using the TSENG 256 color drivers, 
I've since switched to many "full-screen" modes rather than windows.  In 
fact, WPS has just become my glorified task switcher.  
 
Regardless,  one reason OS/2 "emulates" video is due to the fact that 
many video cards for PCs use real-mode entry points which are 
incompatible with OS/2 - thus forcing the emulation to be active. 
 
Matt

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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: colfelt@ucsu.Colorado.EDU (Andrew BW Colfelt)
Subject: Re: Can not delete files or partition volume name.
Organization: University of Colorado, Boulder
Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1993 19:07:27 GMT

manaster@yu1.yu.edu (Chaim Manaster) writes:

>In fact, I tried to repartition, using OS/2 fdisk (for the scsi
>drive only), and reformatting. WHen I got back to the DOS side of
>hte computer, the g: partition now had a VOLUME name: with 3
>characters that I can't reproduce. 

>In order to delete this partition in DOS, fdisk requires the name
>of the VOLUME, and I have no way of entering it!!

Could you use the "label" command to replace the
unreprodoceable volume name with one of your
(reproduceable) choosing?


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From: pcadoret@ersys.edmonton.ab.ca (Peter Cadoret)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: converting GIF ---===> BMP
Date: 27 Jan 93 21:51:44 GMT
Organization: Edmonton Remote Systems #2, Edmonton, AB, Canada

kellmeye@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (kellmeyer steven l) writes:

` >What I'm trying to do is make a BMP for the background of OS/2.
` >Does anyone have any suggestions?
` >If so, my E-Mail address is "Nsorathia@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu"
` 
` Ditto.  Where does one pick up a program that does such a conversion? 

        Try WinJPEG..... it's slow, but it's the only one I've found
that converts the colours correctly........And I have yet to find a OS/2 
.GIF viewer which displays pictures correctly with my 256 colour 
drivers....The background screen displays them fine, so it ain't a 
problem with the drivers......Anyone have a suggestion?

                                                Peter

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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1993 16:03:34 -0500 
From: Carl B Jabido <cj00+@andrew.cmu.edu>
Subject: Re: MMPM/2 and PC speaker

Excerpts from netnews.comp.os.os2.misc: 22-Jan-93 Re: MMPM/2 and PC
speaker by Timothy F. Sipples@ellis 
> >       What about installing PC speaker driver fro Windows 3.1? I know this
> >will let you play sounds in WINOS2 (maybe!!). You can ftp the PC speaker
> >driver for Windows 3.1 from normal Windows ftp site such as
wuarchive.wustl.e
> du
> >and monu6.cc.monash.edu.au
>  
> No go -- that will not function in Win-OS/2.  The speaker driver
> requires total control of the machine.

But it does work!  What you have to do is go into the Win-OS/2 settings
(or Dos settings for full screen) and change HW_Timer from OFF to ON. 
It works on my system seamlessly and full-screen.  Even better is the
fact when running it seamlessly, it doesn't lock the computer like in MS
Windows!  Better Windows than Windows!  You can move the mouse and use
the system while playing .wav's!  Unfortunately, don't expect that good
sound-the PC speaker just wasn't designed for that.  Anyone try Video
from Windows yet?  It's really nice, and even on my slow Trident
(seamlessly even!), it kills Quicktime.

Carl Jabido
Xref: sparky comp.os.os2.misc:44199 comp.os.msdos.misc:7215
From: "mike frisch" <mike.frisch@canrem.com>
Subject: mmpm/2 and pc speaker
Reply-To: "mike frisch" <mike.frisch@canrem.com>
Organization: Canada Remote Systems
Distribution: comp
Date: 25 Jan 93 18:26:24 EST


In a previous message, David Charlap writes...

DC> Maybe, maybe, it could be done with the spooler disabled.  The reason
DC> the DOS software fails is that the print spooler is buffering and
DC> delaying all output to the printer ports.  If you disable the spooler
DC> (I don't know if this can be done), they might work OK.

     Hmmm...  I remember running some DOS software supporting a D/A
convertor on the parallel port under OS/2 and it worked.  I must have
had the spooler disabled or something.  I think I'll try doing that
again.

DC> As for MMPM/2 drivers, you'd need something to suspend the spooler
DC> (not too hard), and then directly access it's ports (harder).  I think
DC> a device driver might be able to do this, but I don't know if two
DC> devices (spooler and your sound driver) can be configured to use the
DC> same port or not.

     Right now, I am trying to see what the possibility of writing a
device driver for such a device would be.  Seeing as I'm a new C
programmer, I don't know what technicalities are involved.

     Much thanks for your reply!  It gives me something to think about
     now.

Mike.

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From: lclarke@gandalf.rutgers.edu (Lee Clarke)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: Suggestions for tape, CD, sound card for Gateway 2k
Date: 27 Jan 93 14:54:09 GMT
Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J.

mjn@sbmiclr.cs.sunysb.edu (The Sixth Replicant) writes:

>In article <1k131lINN2af@crcnis1.unl.edu> rlosee@unl.edu (Robert Losee) writes:
>>...
>>         My Gateway 2000 486/33 has a Maynard tape drive but OS/2
>>won't deal with it.  I understand I need a new drive as this one will
>>never work with OS/2 (is that correct?).

>Call up Maynard. I think they sell OS/2 software for most if not all of their
>drives. I found their phone staff to be very helpful when I was trying to
>get info about Irwin drives and OS/2 software.
Well, you can call them up, but unless things have changed in a big way
in the last couple of months Maynard is NOT supporting that drive (mine
is called Archive, but same thing). When I last spoke to Maynard folks
they told me they had no intention (ok "no plans") of writing software
for these floppy-card based drives. They DO have software for SCSI
drives, but that leaves the rest of us waiting for BackMaster, still in 
beta. So my impression is that, indeed these drives "will never work with OS/2"
at least as far as Maynard is concerned. Gee, what's so dang hard about
making these things work I suppose the answer is they're not as standard
as SCSI, but it ain't like they're single sided, 320 floppy drives that
came with the PC-1.
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: hanisch@winx06.informatik.uni-wuerzburg.de (Matthias Hanisch)
Subject: Install probs (2nd hd not detected!)
Organization: University of Wuerzburg, Germany
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 15:15:57 GMT

Hi OS/2 guys!

I'm sorry if this is a faq but I didn't read this newsgroup regularly and found
no similar problem in the latest postings.
The subject says it all.
Fdisk didn't recognize my 2nd hd. Though it knows that I have two hd's 
(I can choose between disk 1 and 2) when I select the 2nd disk the
partition information doesn't change : it is still the info of the 1st disk.
I then got out of fdisk and in the command interpreter. There I can access
4 different partitions of my 1st disk although I have only two dos partitions.
(The solution is that partition c and d is the same - and partition e and f.)
I have no access to the 2nd drive.

Perhaps some kind soul could help me please.

Just my configuration :
I have a noname 486/33 with 16mb , Adaptec 1542B SCSI-Controller ,
the 1st drive is a noname 100mb At-Bus 
the 2nd a Quantum Pro 425S.

A ton of thanx in advance!
	Matze

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From: Gary.Woodman@anu.edu.au (Gary Woodman)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: Is hobbes logged on archie? (was Re: Problems with SIO_034)
Date: 27 Jan 93 00:41:05 GMT
Organization: Computer Services Centre, Australian National University
NNTP-Posting-Host: 150.203.5.23

In article <1993Jan25.030841.10918@midway.uchicago.edu> sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu (Timothy F. Sipples) writes:
>In article <1993Jan24.232435.22626@venus.ic.cmc.ca> jcalvert@scorpio.ic.cmc.
ca>(John Calvert) writes:
>>I'd like to thank the readers for their kind responses. However, my
>>real question was, and still is, "Is hobbes being logged by archie?"

>Not yet, although some of its mirrors may be.

Yes, I saw this this morning - luga.latrobe.edu.au is a fair leap for anyone 
in North America, but it is mirroring hobbes, and it does appear in archie 
searches. Best of luck!

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From: ericwolf@mentor.cc.purdue.edu (Eric Wolf)
Subject: Info on Ahead's XGA-2 card
Organization: Purdue University Computing Center
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 17:54:48 GMT

Does anyone have any info on Ahead's planned XGA-2 card?  I am curious to
see if they have a 2M version and what resolution+color combinations are
supported along with refrresh rates, etc.

Thanks for any info!!!!

- Eric Wolf
  ericwolf@mentor.cc.purdue.edu
From: csjohn@knuth.mtsu.edu (John Wallace)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: How do I install ET4000 drivers?
Date: 26 Jan 1993 08:42:03 -0600
Organization: Dept of Comp Science, Middle Tenn State Univ, Murfreesboro, TN
Distribution: usa
NNTP-Posting-Host: knuth.mtsu.edu
Summary: How do I install ET4000 drivers?

I have OS/2 GA + CSD already installed into my machine.  Yesterday,
I bought a Diamond Speedstar Plus (ET4000 based) 16-bit graphics card
with 1MB video RAM.  I have heard that the CSD came with ET4000 drivers,
but I am unsure as to how to install them to my machine without having
to re-install everything all over again!  How do I do this??  Thanks.

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From: 2609cowend@vms.csd.mu.edu
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: Questions: HPFS/Paradise
Date: 27 Jan 1993 05:18:05 GMT
Organization: Marquette University - Computer Services
Reply-To: 2609cowend@vms.csd.mu.edu
NNTP-Posting-Host: vmsa.csd.mu.edu

In article <1993Jan25.223615.21403@midway.uchicago.edu>, sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu (Timothy F. Sipples) writes:
>In article <0096723F.3B730C20@vms.csd.mu.edu> 2609cowend@vms.csd.mu.edu writes:
>>2. Is there ANY WAY I can make modifications to the config.sys in my HPFS
>>formatted partition from DOS or the OS/2 install disks?  Config.sys crashed
>>when I installed the SIO/VSIO drivers, and there was no way I could modify the
>>config.sys, having to reinstall the entire system.  Is there _any way_ I can
>>get around this, or make a floppy-based boot disk with the HPFS system?
>
>Yes.  The first two diskettes in your OS/2 set constitute a bootable
>pair (see the FAQ List for details).  Just place an OS/2 text mode
>editor (like tedp090.zip, available via anonymous ftp from
>ftp-os2.nmsu.edu; check file /pub/os2/00Index for location) on a
>floppy disk, and use that in an emergency.
>
>(I'll try to cover this better in future releases of the FAQ List.)

     I tried to do this (yes, I did consult your FAQ before posting), but the
two disks wouldn't list any files in the partition.  I'd have my E: prompt,
do a DIR, nothing.  The problem was definately in the SIO/VSIO drivers 
(the system would freeze once it initialized my COM3 when it ran the drivers
in config.sys), why would I not be able to access the files?

>>Are the multimedia applets _supposed_ to stutter, or is that just my system?
>>Windows sound support works marvelously now, but the OS/2 applets sound awful
>>on my SoundBlaster...
>
>No, they shouldn't.  Your SoundBlaster isn't sharing in interrupt
>(like IRQ 7), is it?

     No, my SoundBlaster is on IRQ 2, well away from my mouse, modem and
printer...the reason I ask is that all sound support in OS/2 works fine except
for the applets specifically for OS/2...
     I had similar problems with the WinOS231 beta that came with the 2.00.1
beta, but that works fine with 2.1...

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