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From: parry@yoyo.cc.monash.edu.au (Tom J Parry)
Subject: Can't delete an icon
Originator: parry@yoyo.cc.monash.edu.au
Organization: Monash University, Melb., Australia.
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1992 00:06:08 GMT

I have an icon on my desktop that I can not get rid of. Here is how I
created it.

I dragged a new program out of the template folder onto the desktop.
I Set it as a dos window and in the settings, put D:\ (a dos boot drive)
into the Dos image to boot section [granted, I was experimenting/playing a
bit]. I filled nothing in in the program to run section on the first
settings page. I closed the settings, and everything looked ok. I ran the
program (double clicked the icon), the WPS restarted itself. 

So I decided that I'd had enough messing around for one night and decided
to delete the icon. NOT! It has no delete entry in its pop up menu. I can't
delete it via the window list, the details view of the WPS, the DEL key,
nothing. I tried moving it to different places, changing many settings (The
D:\ in the settings is long gone) and I can not delete it. 

Anybody know what I have done, and how to undo it. I definitely do not feel
like recereating os2.ini, I have just reinstalled OS/2 (converted my boot
drive from FAT to HPFS) and don't feel like setting up my desktop again.

Any suggestions?

-- 
Tom J Parry.
Your reality is a figment of my imagination.
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: jreynold@nmt.edu (John Reynolds)
Subject: Re: NEW: OS/2 2.0 drivers for ATI Graphics Ultra ?
Organization: New Mexico Tech
Date: Wed, 2 Sep 1992 14:31:38 GMT

pfr@drsrv1.hmi.de (Fritsch_Wolfgang) writes:
>In the 9/92 issue of the German MC magazine I find an 1-page add about
>the ATI Graphics Ultra. It says that there are OS/2 2.0 drivers for
>800*600 and 10xx*7yy resolution.
>
>Does anybody know: are these real ATI drivers which support the
>coprocessor on the card? I thought common wisdom (as spelled out by Tim S.)
>is to use the IBM 8514a driver. I sent a copy of the add to my dealer,
>and he was suprised and ordered the drivers for an US $ equivalent of
>about 20 from ATI. I bought my card in June and this one still comes with
>the PM driver for OS/2 1.x.
>
>Wolfgang Fritsch
>pfr@psun2.hmi.de
>

If this is true about the new drivers, could someone post an address
where we might purchase them (or better yet and FTP site where they
might be :-).

-John


-- 
Windows...It's like a stale cookie.
OS/2..."It's like butter" (SNL quote)
From: Bill.Hirt@mtask.omahug.org (Bill Hirt)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: OS/2 printing bug???
Date: 28 Aug 92 20:12:20 CST
Reply-To: bill.hirt@mtask.omahug.org
Organization: Multitasking Systems, Kansas City
Followup-To: comp.os.os2.misc

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

I'm not sure this is the problem. You didn't mention which PS cart you have. I
have a HP LaserJet IIP with a Pacific Page V3.2 Postscript cartridge. The HP
LaserJet Postscript driver will send a command in the Postscript file which
tells the printer to set the paper tray. The Pac Page cart in the version I
have doesn't support it. I've seen conflicting reports whether their v4.0 does
for the IIP. Their latest version doesn't support the IIP as I tried to upgrade
and they said it didn't do IIP's.

I did install the generic Postscript driver instead of the HP LaserJet IIP
Postscript driver and this improves the chance of success, though I still can't
get a few DOS programs like Avery LabelPro to print (gives me an imagemask
error).

A Postscript error handler program is handy to have around just to see what is
happening when your printer is just sitting there blinking at you :).

 RS> at the PCL object queue, I see evidence of activity. It tells me a job is 
 RS> spooling, then printing. However, nothing ever comes 
 RS> out of the printer, and 
 RS> the light on the front of the printer doesn't even blink. If I direct the 

I've seen this too. I appreciate you mailing me if you get info on a solution
to this.
From: dic5340@hertz.njit.edu (David Charlap)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: OS2 WINS!! I give up!
Date: 28 Aug 92 20:02:35 GMT
Organization: New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, N.J.

In article <liuyu.714945700@kramden> liuyu@kramden.nyu.edu (Liuyu) writes:
>>Due to some recent experience one should also suspect the RAM cache.
>>Some vendors, it seems, cut corners and supply slightly out of spec
>>cache memory, substituting cache that is too slow for the system.
>>This, too, can result in memory parity errors.
>
>Can you explain why this happens only under OS/2? Is it just another excuse, 
>blaming hardware? Does it happen under other complex programs like Unix or
>Novell? Thanks.

OS/2, due to it s high amount of context switching, has some strange
ability to push intermittently bad memory over the edge.  It's
happened on many computers.  Replacing the memory usually works to
cure it.

My father's computer at work had its memory "pushed over the edge" by
Windows 3.1.  So it's nothing inherent in OS/2.  (And when Windows 3.1
died, it took most of his /Windows directory with it - a complete
re-install of Windows and all Windows apps had to be performed).
Again, replacing the memory cured everything.


-- 
   |)  David Charlap           "I don't even represent myself
  /|_  dic5340@hertz.njit.edu   sometimes so NJIT is right out!.
 ((|,)
  ~|~  Hi! I am a .signature virus, copy me into your .signature file.
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: hank@ducvax.auburn.edu
Subject: Re: Os/2 and Jpeg, viewers available?
Organization: Auburn University, AL
Date: Wed, 2 Sep 1992 13:59:42 GMT

In article <Sep01.191834.72228@yuma.ACNS.ColoState.EDU>, mm459504@LANCE.ColoState.Edu (Michael Miller) writes:
> After playing with some native os/2 graphics programs, I became curious as
> to the availability of a jpeg viewer a la winjpg for windows (or alternatively,
> a 256 color seamless driver) so's I could have the picture onscreen at the
> same time as everybody else.
> Winjpg crashes when it tries to load big pictures (even if I set DPMI_MEM_LIMIT
> to 10+ meg) so I'm stuck with jpg2gif in a dos box.

The jpeg group's djpeg and cjpeg are available for OS/2 2.0. Try
ftp-os2.nmsu.edu in pub/os2/2.0/graphics/ (?). You need version 3. Then
watch your swapfile grow...

Others have said that jview from Holliday (Windows) is promising. Windows
stuff was once found on cica.cica.indiana.edu, but I'm not current on 
Win software.

--darrel hankerson hank@ducvax.auburn.edu
From: feustel@netcom.com (David Feustel)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: OS2-TO-SUN
Date: 29 Aug 92 18:54:21 GMT
Organization: DAFCO: OS/2 Software Support & Consulting

rwalker@next02.cc.umanitoba.ca. (Robert Walker) writes:

>In article <14173.1321.uupcb@compart.fi> mike.walsh@compart.fi (Mike  
>Walsh) writes:
>> Has anyone any experience of connecting PCs running OS/2 (preferably
>> OS/2 2.0) to SUN workstations ?
>> How did you do it ? Any details of problems etc grateful received. Mike
>>  
>I think tcp/ip would be the place to look. With OS/2 I think it's an  
>extension to the basic system, with SUN it's likely included with the base  
>system.                                                                                
I talk t{sun~syst[es ~rom o2 ll the time using uelix,xD PMCMM and
TEoy
The only probllem is the occasi{al bad line (s todXy).

-- 
Dave Feustel N9MYI <feustel@netcom.com>
 
( New .sig under construction. Watch this space! )
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: hstarke@europa.asd.contel.com (Hal Starke)
Subject: Re: S3 video card
Reply-To: hstarke@europa.asd.contel.com (Hal Starke)
Organization: GTE Federal Systems Division
Date: Tue, 1 Sep 1992 17:47:58 GMT

 T . From: "tbk" <UKJP@DKAUNI2.BITNET>
T . Subject: S3 video card
T .
T . Does the S3 vidoe card have any advantage in OS/2? Are there drivers
T . for S3 boards?

At present, no, there is absolutely no advantage to an S3 video card.

There are no OS/2 drivers for the S3 chip and it is believed that S2 may
be slow-rolling the drivers, awaiting the release of the 32-bit graphics
engine....  Sorry for the news (I have a Diamond Stealth VRAM [S3] card
and it is no better under OS/2 than a cheapo VGA card).

Regards, Mikey
---
 . JABBER v1.2 #42 . In the land of the blind, the one-eyed is king.


If you are a Windows user the S3 Windows 3.1 drivers work fine in full screen, and they do accelerate.
From: 2609cowend@vms.csd.mu.edu
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: COM problems in OS/2 v2.0
Date: 1 Sep 92 01:54:34 GMT
Article-I.D.: vms.0095FEE7.4332F040
Reply-To: 2609cowend@vms.csd.mu.edu
Organization: Marquette University - Computer Services

I have a Practical Peripherals v32/v42/v42bis internal modem set up in
COM3 (3E8,IRQ4, nothing wacky), and have no trouble at all with it in
DOS.  However, OS/2 has a really odd problem with it...
 
I set up my COM drivers in config.sys with the (3,3E8,4) statement, and
the modem initializes -- after the _third boot_.  The modem will never 
initialize after one or two hard boots, only after at least the third,
sometimes longer.  Strange, because I have no trouble on the first boot
with DOS 5.0...and my AMI BIOS says 3E8 is a valid address on the first 
boots...
 
Anyone have any idea?  Please E-mail me the answer, if you would be so
kind...
 
-----------------------------------------
David Eschatfische -- 2609COWEND@vms.csd.mu.edu
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu (Timothy F. Sipples)
Subject: Re: Help needed for a blank screen
Reply-To: sip1@midway.uchicago.edu
Organization: Dept. of Econ., Univ. of Chicago
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1992 00:38:39 GMT

Please do not crosspost within the OS/2 hierarchy -- it is extremely
bad form because of the tremendous traffic.

In article <1992Aug24.202640.20799@starbase.trincoll.edu> nmiller@starbase.trincoll.edu (norman miller) writes:
>I've installed OS/2 on a new machine with an American Megatrends 
>bios, an STB ERGO VGA card and a Samsung Synmaster 3 monitor.
>My trouble is that, whether I try to start a migrated application
>such as Word Perfect or try something from the full DOS window,
>the screen turns dark and then a pattern of horizontal lines.  Nothing
>more.  Typing DIR A: turns the drive light on.  Typing EXIT changes
>the pattern but nothing intelligible.  
>Is it the card?  The monitor?  I've installed OS/2 on other machines
>with no problems, but I've tried 4 or 5 times on this one (both dual
>boot and OS/2 alone) with no success.

The vsvgafx3.zoo patch, available via anonymous ftp from
ftp-os2.nmsu.edu, should fix the sync problem with this Tseng
4000-based card.

If not, please post a follow up.

-- 
Timothy F. Sipples      | The OS/2 FREQ. ASKED QUESTIONS LIST is avail. from
sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu | 128.123.35.151, anonymous ftp, in /pub/os2/all/faq.
Dept. of Econ., Univ.   | Or from LISTSERV@BLEKUL11.BITNET (send "HELP").
Chicago, 60637          | Hey GOP: The Economy, Stupid!
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: tedc@ee.ubc.ca (ted chen)
Subject: Re: Is my ultra interlaced??
Organization: University of BC, Electrical Engineering
Date: Thu, 3 Sep 1992 16:47:20 GMT

In article <1992Sep3.022932.16911@midway.uchicago.edu> sip1@midway.uchicago.edu writes:
>In article <1992Sep3.001951.20414@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> pprior@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Paul A Prior) writes:
>>I've got an ATI Graphics ultra and when I installed os/2 I selected
>>8514/a graphics mode.  My screen has pretty back flicker/shimmer
>>with light colored backgrounds which I am assuming is a low refresh
>>rate/interlacing.  How can I fix this?  Do I need a different driver?
>>BTW, the monitor is a Mag 15 FX.
>
>Just run the ATI setup program (supplied with the adapter, on
>diskette) to configure the card for your monitor.  Go no higher than
                                                    ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

>72 Hz noninterlaced, and make sure you select 8514/A mode.
 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

>-- 
>Timothy F. Sipples      | The OS/2 FREQ. ASKED QUESTIONS LIST is avail. from
>sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu | 128.123.35.151, anonymous ftp, in /pub/os2/all/faq.
>Dept. of Econ., Univ.   | Or from LISTSERV@BLEKUL11.BITNET (send "HELP").
>of Chicago, 60637       | Family Values Means a Job

I seemed to have found out about that fact after finding that 76Hz produced
a dark shaded desktop.  I tried 74Hz which had the same effect, then 72Hz which
works fine.  Why is there a 72Hz restriction?

---
Ted Chen     <tedc@ee.ubc.ca>
From: dic5340@hertz.njit.edu (David Charlap)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: Can I delete 400K EA... file from drive D: (all DOS programs)?
Date: 28 Aug 92 20:48:27 GMT
Organization: New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, N.J.

In article <stanton.470.0@haas.berkeley.edu> stanton@haas.berkeley.edu (Richard Stanton) writes:
>My drive D: contains only DOS programs. However, I see there is a 400K EA...
>file in the root directory. This seems rather large, since none of the files
>should need any extended attributes.
>
>Can I just delete the file? If there might be problems with doing this, is 
>there another way to shrink it? (By the way, CHKDSK /F didn't change 
>anything)

Don't do this.  The files have pointers into the EA's, and they will
end up pointing into nothing - generating lots of errors.  CHKDSK
might be able to correct these errors, but it's not worth trying.

Use the EAUTIL program to strip the EAs from your files.  You can then
delete the stripped EAs from your drive.

Note that the EAs will be written back to your drive as you use WPS on
it.  Every folder has EAs to let WPS know the window and icon
positions of it and its contents.  You delete the EAs, and the
positions will all revert back to the defaults.


-- 
   |)  David Charlap           "I don't even represent myself
  /|_  dic5340@hertz.njit.edu   sometimes so NJIT is right out!.
 ((|,)
  ~|~  Hi! I am a .signature virus, copy me into your .signature file.
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: branham@binah.cc.brandeis.edu (Tom Branham, Biophysics Grad. Brandeis)
Subject: Re: Which mouse should I buy??????
Reply-To: branham@binah.cc.brandeis.edu
Organization: Brandeis University
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1992 03:00:34 GMT

I use the computer at home (quite a bit each day...probably on average
3-4 hours) from the seat of my lazy-boy recliner :)  Computer is up on
a side stand, monitor is on a sliding/rotating arm and keyboard sits
on my lap (off to one side so that the dog does not hit my escape key
every time he puts the ball there for me to throw down the stairs).
Not much room for anything but a track ball.  I have had a couple,
but the logitech has by far the smoothest feel to it.  Really wish
I could use one of the serial portable trackballs from them, but my
motherboard has "jealous" serial ports.  They don't work, I can disable
them to the extent my bus trackball and internal modem work fine,
but when you try to install a new serial card even disabled they
refuse to allow the ports to work  %(  As it is I have the trackball on
a sliding shelf arranged to move right up to the arm of the chair :)
                                 .........Tom Branham
P.S.  This thread used to be related to OS/2 I am sure....?
P.P.S. Trying to run a full screen dos session of Design Cad 3D
       this last week (not tried it under OS/2 before) with
       my video 7 1024i video card selected with 256 color mode (640x480)
       and it displays fine, except when I move the cursor I get
       lots of snow and the picture jumps.  I was told to try the
       Mouse exclusivity option for the session, but it did not
       seem to make any difference.  Any suggestions?
P.P.P.S.  I never seem to get a response to any questions asked in a 
          P.S.  I wonder if I would get any response to a poll
          here asking folks to reply if they do not answer
          questions in P.S.'s?  (actually, probably my own fault for
          being a little too long winded.  like here  :)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu (Timothy F. Sipples)
Subject: Re: cache vs. diskcache
Reply-To: sip1@midway.uchicago.edu
Organization: Dept. of Econ., Univ. of Chicago
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1992 18:37:46 GMT

In article <mtsjej.714800019@gsusgi1.gsu.edu> mtsjej@gsusgi2.gsu.edu (cat_walker) writes:
>hello...i am new to os2 am getting confused on the
>CACHE vs. DISKCACHE commands...and also the CACHE used in the 
>IFS command.......could someone please explain the differences
>in these....also any parameter suggestions are welcome....
>i have 486/50 with 8mg ram and 230mg drive.....

CACHE (as in the IFS line) controls the HPFS cache and DISKCACHE
controls the FAT cache.

I would suggest no more than 1 MB total cache for your system.  So,
for example, if you have all HPFS try CACHE of 768 and DISKCACHE of 64
(without lazy writes).  If you have a mixture of the two, try 512 for
each.  If you have just FAT, try 1024 for DISKCACHE and REM out the
IFS line.

-- 
Timothy F. Sipples      | The OS/2 FREQ. ASKED QUESTIONS LIST is avail. from
sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu | 128.123.35.151, anonymous ftp, in /pub/os2/all/faq.
Dept. of Econ., Univ.   | Or from LISTSERV@BLEKUL11.BITNET (send "HELP").
Chicago, 60637          | Hey GOP: The Economy, Stupid!
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: parry@yoyo.cc.monash.edu.au (Tom J Parry)
Subject: Re: Boot manager trick. For those interested
Originator: parry@yoyo.cc.monash.edu.au
Organization: Monash University, Melb., Australia.
Date: Thu, 3 Sep 1992 00:19:11 GMT

Erik van Linstee (linstee@dutecaj.et.tudelft.nl) wrote:
> If you install the bootmanager to run OS/2 and some other OS, try
> the following. Make a partition for boot OS's to fit in (like
> 35Mb for OS2 and 2Mb for DOS) and make them both as primary. Now
> if you installed both you can choose either one, but neither will
> see the other. Of course you will need a third (now logical) partition
> to keep your programs and data in, but the fun is that DOS can
> never corrupt your OS2 system files and OS2 can't touch those of DOS.
> You will always start up with your system on C: and your files on
> D: while the other system is invisible.
> Might come in handy for those who want a little extra security of either
> system. In fact you can easily extend both partitions to contain the
> files you don't want the other system to know about.

This is OK as long as you don't want to use HPFS. The 35meg boot partition
for OS/2 can be HPFS but the common d: drive must be FAT so it is visible
when you boot dos. 

Since all your wokring files are on the FAT partition you don't benefit
from HPFS as much as you would like. I use boot manager, and only have a
FAT area so that when I boot DOS I can get to certain DOS specific
utilities and some ill behaved games.

-- 
Tom J Parry.
Your reality is a figment of my imagination.
From: dic5340@hertz.njit.edu (David Charlap)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: DOS VDM can't see new file in A:
Date: 27 Aug 92 18:41:30 GMT
Organization: New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, N.J.

In article <1992Aug26.184116.14482@midway.uchicago.edu> sip1@midway.uchicago.edu writes:
>However, I have used VMDISK on Drive B -- it seems to work just fine
>as the source for the hard disk boot image file.

For that matter, I've used VMDISK on Drive E: - my third floppy drive.
I wanted to use a 5.25" disk, so I could format a single-sided, 180K
disk for the image.  Why make a 720K image file if I can fit
everything into 180K, right?



-- 
   |)  David Charlap           "I don't even represent myself
  /|_  dic5340@hertz.njit.edu   sometimes so NJIT is right out!.
 ((|,)
  ~|~  Hi! I am a .signature virus, copy me into your .signature file.
From: fell@sol.UVic.CA (Stuart Fell)
Subject: Re: IS IBM UK STILL IN THE STONE AGE???
Organization: University of Victoria, Victoria B.C. CANADA
Date: Tue, 1 Sep 92 04:10:30 GMT

In article <64786@cup.portal.com> TomK@cup.portal.com (Tom R Krotchko) writes:
>I'm sorry to hear about your problems with AmiPro. I have no solutions other
>than to advise writing or calling Lotus.

I tried calling Lotus about some problems running AmiPro under OS/2 2.0.
I got passed around a couple times before being presented with someone
who had any kind of idea how to use OS/2 or what it was capable of.  

He stated that Ami Pro 2.0 hadn't (at least officically) been tested under
OS/2 2.0.  Was told to purchase the soon shipping upgrade to 3.0 that should
be shipping soon.  Saying that this should fix up "any" incompatibilities.

I'm gambling on ordering the ~$50 upgrade and hoping for the best and
anxiously awaiting their OS/2 version.

Stuart Fell


Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: parris@cs.scarolina.edu (Barry Parris)
Subject: Frozen mouse pointer and shutdown problems
Keywords: HELP!
Organization: USC  Department of Computer Science
Distribution: usa
Date: 30 Aug 92 15:27:56 GMT

I'm posting this for a friend who has no net access.  His system is a 386-40
with 8MB RAM.  (If other details are needed, I can get them.).  He has had
problems with his mouse pointer freezing and he also said at times he has
been unable to shutdown the system.  Any clues, pointers, solutions?

Thanks!  
--
----
Barry Parris    parris@cs.scarolina.edu
From: maurit@nrtc.nrtc.northrop.com (Mark Aurit <maurit>)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: OddeSsy2: the installation from Hell
Date: 1 Sep 92 15:08:15 GMT
Reply-To: maurit@nrtc.nrtc.northrop.com (Mark Aurit <maurit>)
Organization: Northrop Research & Technology Center, Palos Verdes, CA

System: PS2 mod 70, 8 meg RAM, Optima external SCSI.

A while back I posted as to how I could not load 2.0; Id get
past the install disk, but on disk 1 the system would hang.
After going back and forth with OS2 support, they recommended
that I deinstall the SCSI. I did, it loaded. Hurrah!

So I talked to the tech rep at Optima, he said he was surprised,
2.0 was running on an AT (I know, I know) without any problems.
More importantly, he said the board was just an Adaptec 1640, nothing
fancy. IBM support said yeah, I should have no problems with that board.

[Oh yeah, I got one of the OS2 betas up and running with no problems.
You'll see where that fits in in a sec]

So I reinstalled the Optima, and now the WorkPlace Shell wont come
up. I called IBM, he sez the problem is in Extended Attributes or 
some such left over from the Beta copy. I mentioned how I had formatted
the system after the copy (using the MS-DOS 5.0 format); he said it
will take a low level format. OR I can remove the 5 OS2 system files
(os2krnl, os2boot, os2ldr, wp root. sf and ea data. sf) and reinstall
OS2.

So hey, what's another hour. I didnt really know where to start with the
low-level format. My reference disk had a file llformat.com, so I thought
Id try it, a>llformat c:, the system hung (Oh yeah, there is nothing
of any importance on the C: drive, all my apps and data are on the SCSI).
So I thought Id remove the files, all the os2* files came off o.k.,
but the wp* and ea* wont go, no matter how I trick the command line,
and trying both popdos and the Windows File Manager - they tell me the
attributes cannot be changed.

Does anyone have any ideas if in the EA's might in fact be the problem,
how to use llformat, how to change the attributes on files that
refuse to let this happen, which team will win the AFC title? My
tastes are catholic.

Mark
maurit@nad.northrop.com
maurit@nrtc.northrop.com
(310) 331-4069
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc