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From: tanith@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (Michael D Kretzer)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: Are there any S3 drivers for OS/2?
Date: 16 Nov 1992 22:19:12 GMT
Organization: University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee
Reply-To: tanith@csd4.csd.uwm.edu
NNTP-Posting-Host: 129.89.7.4
Originator: tanith@csd4.csd.uwm.edu

From article <BxtxGy.D1t@scd.hp.com>, by kitchin@avo.hp.com (Bruce Kitchin):
> Since the initial poster asked people to email him, I'm repeating the
> request which a request to post a reply in this group since I and others 
> are also interested.
> 
> We want to know if there are any hi-res drivers for video cards based
> on the S3 accelerator chip?

There is a beta-level driver for the Orchid Fahrenheit 1280 board
on ftp-os2.nmsu.edu.  I do not know if it will work on any other
S3 board besides the Fahrenheit 1280, but it's worth a shot.  I
personally have a newer Fahrenheit 1280 and the drivers don't work
very well (the whole system crashes whenenver I open a windowed
command line session).

However, the other than that the screen redraws are very quick...
much faster than my Tseng-compatible board (I can't vouch for the speed of
windowed command-line sessions, though).
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu (Timothy F. Sipples)
Subject: Re: Paradise says it is not working on 2.0 video drivers
Reply-To: sip1@midway.uchicago.edu
Organization: Dept. of Econ., Univ. of Chicago
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 18:55:39 GMT

In article <TAIPALE.92Nov17091332@node_40515.kiloapo.tele.nokia.fi> taipale@kiloapo.tele.nokia.fi (Pekka J Taipale) writes:
>>Every company has the right to go for bankrupcy.
>Unfortunately, missing OS/2 2.0 drivers hardly will make Paradise go
>to bankrupcy. I like OS/2, but I have a WD 90C31 chipset and no
>drivers.  Thus, when I like to play, I use OS/2. When I need to work,
>I switch to Windows 3.1 because Microsoft provides a driver that works
>with my card and provides a suitable resolution (800x600). Note: This
>is not an opinion for or against OS/2 or Windows. It is simply a fact.
>Hello, IBM, nothing wrong with that "Hardware manufactures provide the
>drivers" scheme?

Newsflash: you can have 800x600-16 colors with Paradise/Western
Digital (except the recent accelerated models), Trident,
Video7/Headland, ATI VGAWonder, etc.  Get the file vga800-1.zip,
available via anonymous ftp from ftp-os2.nmsu.edu, directory
/pub/uploads right now (it could be moved).  This is a "generic"
800x600-16 driver which works just fine.  So now you can have your
cake and eat it too.

-- 
Timothy F. Sipples      | Read the OS/2 FAQ List 2.0g, 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: KENKAHN@PKSMRVM.VNET.IBM.COM (Kenneth A. Kahn)
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 92 12:00:25 EST
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: .BOOks & BOOTs ...
Organization: Staff of IBM Fellow - IBM Personal/370
Disclaimer: This posting represents the poster's views, not those of IBM
News-Software: UReply 3.0
X-X-From: KENKAHN@PKSMRVM.VNET.IBM.COM (Ken Kahn)
            <23NOV199209055777@utarlg.uta.edu>

In <23NOV199209055777@utarlg.uta.edu> Gordon M. Keegan writes:
>In article <1992Nov21.023411.22945@midway.uchicago.edu>, sip1@midway.uchicago.edu writes...
>>In article <19NOV199214424243@utarlg.uta.edu> c145gmk@utarlg.uta.edu (Gordon M. Keegan) writes:
>>> Two questions (non-faq :( ).  One fairly straight-forward, one not.
>>
>>Actually, Question Two, I think, is addressed in the FAQ List.  It
>>isn't the most convenient method, but it does work (and the FAQ List
>>is designed to be a baseline reference of sorts).
>>
>
>   Sort of.  I understand that I can boot, see, the hard disk, and
>   fix it with CHKDSK using the installation disks.  The eventual
>   goal is to boot with a pair of floppies that load Novell drivers
>   and a CMD script that will rebuild parts of the drive as needed.
>   Given past experience, we are expecting a high enough number of
>   these cases that we'd like to make the process as automatic as
>   possible.  This is the only real dead end we seem to have run
>   into.  Any pointers as to what is different on the installation
>   disks would be greatly appreciated.

Look for the BOOT20.ZIP file, available on most BBS and on CIS.  Following is
from the abstract:

  The SE20BOOT program is a utility that allows you to build a BOOTable
  OS/2 V2 system using an existing OS/2 V2 system.  The BOOT system can be
  installed on any valid medium that OS/2 can BOOT from, including, but not
  limited to, Floppies and Hard Disk Drives.

You can thus use it to create a custom made BOOT Disk.  You can then modify
the disk to include access to your LAN or whatever; you'll probably have to
expand out to 2 dissk for this but SE20BOOT will do the hard part by creating
the base BOOT Disk.
Organization: Stanford Linear Accelerator Center
Date: Friday, 20 Nov 1992 11:33:01 PST
From: <CATHIE@SLACVM.SLAC.STANFORD.EDU>
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Brief Comdex Report

I just spent three days of vacation at Comdex, where I saw much which has
been promised for some time but is finally on the market in abundance:
laptop computers with excellent color screens, pen computers, dot matrix
and laser color printers, desktop video and many multimedia offerings.

Microsoft dominated the floorspace and had advertisements all over the city,
but IBM won best new product for 1992 with OS/2 and had a large room of
vendors displaying their products for OS/2, so the competition continues.

Microsoft demonstrated Windows NT running on a Sequent, an DEC Alpha, and
pcs, but it is delayed until next summer.  Previously I had heard that NT
requires 16 Meg to run well, but at Comdex I heard that it really needs 32 Meg.

IBM showed OS/2 running on Mach, which is coming next year.  I was fortunate
attend a presentation by Lee Reiswig about the future of DOS and OS/2.  IBM
is adding the following to DOS:  Workplace Shell look and feel, multitasking,
pen support, Romable, enhanced memory manager, improved utilities and improved
networking.

There are over 600 32-bit applications now shipping for OS/2, with more
announced.  IBM showed DeScribe, AmiPro beta, Word Perfect beta, Notes, and
voice controlled applications, and a pen computer that included voice
annotations.

In December OS/2 will be released with the 32-bit graphics engine and Win 3.1
support.  In early '93 more printer support and 32-bit high resolution display
drivers will be available, and later in '93 systems management capabillity,
multimedia, pen/speech, object technology from Taligent, and better security
will be added.  Also new network services are coming.  The demonstration
included remote access to OS/2 from anywhere--via dial, cellular, or wireless
phone.

Another thing which I saw and want is the tiny, $300 14.4 kilobit modem
and fax.

Cathie Burke Dager   cathie@slacvm.slac.stanford.edu   415-926-2904
---> the opinions expressed are mine alone and not necessarily those
     of SLAC, Stanford University or the DOE
---> REXX Symposium   May 18-20, 1993   San Diego, California
From: "richard wyble" <richard.wyble@channel1.com>
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: white screen on insta
Date: 18 Nov 92 09:35:44 EST
Reply-To: "richard wyble" <richard.wyble@channel1.com>
Distribution: comp
Organization: Channel 1 Communications

LP |I am trying to install OS/2 2.0 on a PS/2 80. When the installation is
LP |completed and the system is restarted everything is OK until the moment
LP |the desktop is supposed to apper. Insted the PC shows a white screen
LP |and there is periodic activity on the disk.

You do not say how long you are waiting on the "periodic activity" to cease. 
Though it has been a long while since I installed OS2, I do recall an 
extremely long period of time for the first desktop to be built. I read 
reports of this taking up to thirty minutes on some systems.

I suggest that you at least wait until the disk activity stops, and then give 
it another ten or fifteen minutes before declaring it dead on arrival.

Happy OS2'ing!

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From: traub@rtf.bt.co.uk (Michael Traub)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Please tell me I don't have to re-install the CSD again!
Date: 17 Nov 92 09:12:31 GMT
Organization: BT Customer Systems, Brighton, UK

I read in a magazine review today (PCWeek) that if one even adds a printer to
the Windoze desktop the CSD must be re-installed. Tell me this isn't true!
I hadn't previously configured any printers for Windoze, and I've just added
a postscript printer to the desktop. I installed the OS/2 postscript printer
before I added the CSD.

If it is partly true how can I find out what needs to be updated without
re-installing the whole thing?


-- 
Michael Traub
BT Customer Systems, Brighton Systems Centre. traub@btcs.bt.co.uk
From: sal8@po.cwru.edu (Steve Luzynski)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: HELP!  Can't use LPT1 - OS/2 Think it's in use!
Date: Sun, 22 Nov 1992 02:44:27 GMT
Organization: Case Western Reserve University
NNTP-Posting-Host: b61442.student.cwru.edu

In article <1ejb4aINNp2q@gap.caltech.edu> josephc@cco.caltech.edu (Joseph Chiu) writes:
>From: josephc@cco.caltech.edu (Joseph Chiu)
>Subject: HELP!  Can't use LPT1 - OS/2 Think it's in use!
>Date: 20 Nov 1992 18:34:50 GMT
>I have a strange situation that I haven't encountered before.
>
>I have a program which, apparently, tried to access LPT1: directly.  OS/2
>intercepts this with the error that another application is using the printer
>and that I can either terminate my DOS session, or terminate the application
>which is using the printer.
>
>My problem is, nobody is using the printer.
>
>Can anyone offer some insights?
>
>BTW, I can use the printer in the VDM and in the DOS emulation modes, as well
>as from within Borland C, so I know that the printer is accessible from the
>DOS sessions.

Well, I don't know what _causes_ the problem, but if you open your printer 
object and set the LPT1 port to 'Shared Access' then it will work like a 
champ. I had the same problem and was equally mystified.

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the only thing we have to fear, is - well, okay, there's a bunch of em. try
rejection, ozone depletion, carjacking, change, people with guns, bad hair
days, losing your tan, running out of beer, being hit by frozen airplane
waste, random maniacs, hateful email, girls with boyfriends, the pizza guy
being late, 'format c:', losing your mind, finding it again, and not having
correct change. just to name a few.
From: rvaniwaa@copper.denver.colorado.edu (Ronald J. Vaniwaarden)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: CSD and a growing swapper.dat
Date: 21 Nov 92 22:18:38 GMT
Organization: University of Colorado at Denver

In article <1992Nov21.201327.6354@abo.fi> CBURMAN@FINABO.ABO.FI (Chris Burman) writes:
>...
>My swap file jumps to 12-13 MB (on a 8MB system) after an hour or two, 
>and refuses to shrink. I'm pretty tight on disk space, and the problem 
>is getting critical.
>
>Is there any way to force the swap file to let go of old stuff? (I mean, 
>without having to reboot.)
>
>Any hints? Any at all?

I too was having the same problem (16 mb ram, no apps running and 12+ mb
swap file)  The solution turned out to be to get rid of the background bitmap.
Apparently, the CSD/32-bit GRE has some trouble with remembering that it no
longer needs memory that it has swapped out to disk when it comes to
graphics on the desktop.  I got rid of the background and have a solid color
now and I have a manageable swapfile

--Ronald Van Iwaarden
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: richk@grebyn.com (Richard Krehbiel)
Subject: Re: tell me i'm wrong (braindead design in os2)
Organization: Grebyn Timesharing
Date: Sat, 21 Nov 1992 15:46:00 GMT

In article <1egn4dINNklu@agate.berkeley.edu> ucbked@athena (Earl H. Kinmonth) writes:

>   a) file names are always shown in upper case.  is os2 case insensitive?
>   is upper case required?  do ibm programmers have six fingers (one for
>   the shift key)?  are they still thinking in terms of the o26/o29
>   keypunches and bcd coding?  reading os2 takes me back to my first
>   programming experiences in the early 1960s.  i thought os2 was a modern
>   system oriented to the future....

The FAT file system still stores files in all upper case.  HPFS will
preserve the case of the file name you give it, but will not observe
case when matching existing files.

>   b) path separation is always shown with the back(assward) slash (\).  is
>   this hard wired or can it be switched (as in drdos, early msdos)?  do
>   system calls accept both / and \ as in dos or is one stuck with this
>   braindead convention?  if nothing else it makes programming in c that
>   much more troublesome?

The system calls accept either \ or / for path separator, but the
command shell wants back slashes.  You can use the shareware shell
4OS2, and it will accept forward slashes for the filename separator in
some cases, anyway.

>   c) os2 uses the braindead and redundant CR/LF convention from msdos.  do
>   os2 utilities work the text files that have only line feeds or must one
>   run unix files through a filter?  programming utilities to work with
>   either convention is trivial, but for some reason (ideological?) it is
>   not done (cpp in Borland c and c++ is a classic example of user-hostile
>   programming).

I'm not sure about all the utilities.  I know when you TYPE a file
with only LF for newlines it doesn't appear correctly.  Emacs works
correctly with either (CR/LF or LF newlines).  The stuff I've written
with emx/gcc works fine when reading either, and you can choose to
write DOS-compatible text files or Unix-comnpatible text files (by
calling them "binary mode").
-- 
Richard Krehbiel                                 richk@grebyn.com
OS/2 2.0 will do for me until AmigaDOS for the 386 comes along...
From: rbarclay@trentu.ca (Ross Barclay)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Misc questions on OS/2
Date: 15 Nov 92 19:48:00 GMT
Organization: Trent University Computer Services Department
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41

Hello. I had a couple of questions about OS/2:

        1) are there any good public domain or shareware comms programs for it?

        2) I see some posts where people talk about 3.1 support. How is this
           available?

  Any help would be most appreciated. Thanks alot.


                                                Ross Barclay
                                                RBarclay@TrentU.Ca
From: djbpitt+@pitt.edu (David J Birnbaum)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: Who has a WIN-OS2 setup object?
Date: 15 Nov 92 15:18:58 GMT
Organization: University of Pittsburgh

>Several people have talked about a new setup object for WIN-OS2 in
>there OS/2 System->System Setup folder after installing the SP.
>
>No such thing exists in my System-Setup folder ...

Mine was off screen. I originally thought it was missing, but when I hit
"arrange icons" to move things closer together, it moved into view.

--David
-- 
Professor David J. Birnbaum         djbpitt+@pitt.edu [Internet]
The Royal York Apartments, #802     djbpitt@pittvms   [Bitnet]
3955 Bigelow Boulevard              voice: 1-412-687-4653
Pittsburgh, PA  15123  USA          fax:   1-412-624-9714
From: Gary.Woodman@anu.edu.au (Gary Woodman)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Plus Hardcard problem after SP
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 00:42:07 GMT
Organization: Computer Services Centre, Australian National University
NNTP-Posting-Host: 150.203.5.23

I was pretty pleased to receive the latest Hardcard driver a couple of 
months ago, and merrily set to filling it up, with the swapfile amongst 
other things.

After installing the service pack, the Hardcard does something seriously 
upsetting to OS/2 - which works fine with or without the most recent driver. 
When the driver is loaded but the Hardcard is not installed, the driver 
realizes, explains, and prompts me to carry on. All well and good.

But when I install the Hardcard, _whether or not I use the driver_, OS/2 
bombs out in a big way with "cannot find C:\OS2\COUNTRY.SYS"!

I've tried again and again, and I've tried the INT13 driver, apparently 
without effect. 

Any suggestions as to what to try next?

Environment:
Hawk (clone) 486SX-33
MR BIOS
6Mb RAM (but the m/b only sees 4 :-()
Seagate ST3144 (130Mb IDE)
generic I/O
Logitech bus mouse
Trident TR8900C 1Mb
NEC 1.4Mb floppy
Plus Hardcard 80 II (sometimes :-()
OS/2 2.0 GA (kernel and VBIOS fixes)+SP
Trident 800*600*256 virtual desktop driver
Deskpic (hey! the aquarium works!)
Pulse
etc etc etc...

--
Gary.Woodman@anu.edu.au         This post made from 100% recycled electrons.
From: lee@husc4.harvard.edu (Kun Lee)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: Please tell me I don't have to re-install the CSD again!
Date: 18 Nov 92 01:05:36 GMT
Article-I.D.: husc3.1992Nov17.200537.17551
Organization: Harvard University Science Center

In article <1992Nov17.091231.20868@rtf.bt.co.uk> traub@rtf.bt.co.uk (Michael Traub) writes:
>I read in a magazine review today (PCWeek) that if one even adds a printer to
>the Windoze desktop the CSD must be re-installed. Tell me this isn't true!
>I hadn't previously configured any printers for Windoze, and I've just added
>a postscript printer to the desktop. I installed the OS/2 postscript printer
>before I added the CSD.
>
>If it is partly true how can I find out what needs to be updated without
>re-installing the whole thing?
>
>
>-- 
>Michael Traub
>BT Customer Systems, Brighton Systems Centre. traub@btcs.bt.co.uk

Readme file warns you about installing other than new display drivers. You may
have to reinstall CSD if you see some problem. Don't panic too much. It won't
go through all 12 or 14 diskettes. It will use disk1,2,(3), and the last one.
Oh, you will immediately recognize, if you have any problem by the way.

----------------------------------------------------------
Kun Lee			|| 
Harvard University	||  Internet: kl@isr.harvard.edu
Cambridge, MA 02138	||    Bitnet: kl@harvunxw
From: lbv2@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu (m.l. gore)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: os/2 credits secret s
Date: 15 Nov 92 15:07:18 GMT
Organization: Lehigh University

In article <1992Nov14.1047.28882@channel1>, richard.wyble@channel1.com (richard
wyble) writes:
>
>WJ |Just thought this may be of interest to some people. There is a secret
>WJ |(may not be a secret anymore) combination keys to activate the OS/2
>WJ |credits to its programmers under WPS. Just place the focus on the WPS
>WJ |and press Ctrl-Alt-Shift-O. Then the screen will clear to show a "beach"
>WJ |scene with scrolling names of programmers in a window in alphabetical
>WJ |order.
>
>
>Does anyone know how to get rid of this c**p? It obviously occupies some
>amount of real estate on the disc, and obviously waits for that ctr-alt-shft
>combination, ergo, it wastes time and resources.
>

    Yeah, this has been around since the beta, maybe before. If you are really
    concerned about the 64 + change K these two files occupy, just delete all
    Aaaaa files in the os2/bitmap directory. These 2 files (exe and met) are
    attributed so ypu must turn off all attributes (read only, hidden,
    whatever).
    They weren't too hard to find. Now if windows would allow people to delete
    their stuff too...

                                                    later folks,

                                                    bvl
-- 

  Lehigh University-AXP
  lbv2@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu

            OS/2 2.0...anything else is just a DOS.
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: rscott@csws17.ic.sunysb.edu (Robert Scott)
Subject: problems with wps redraw
Followup-To: comp.os.os2.misc
Summary: switching from dos to wps
Organization: State University of New York at Stony Brook
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 12:16:33 GMT


I've been having this problem with os/2 ever since I had it.  Lately it has
gotten much worse so I've decided to ask for help.

Basically, whenever I switch from a dos session to the wps, the screen will
start to redraw itself but then stop midway.  Usually the top of the screen
will remain undrawn.  At this point the mouse works, downloads continue, 
but I can't do anything.  Ctrl-ESC and Alt-ESC flush some buffers but thats
about it.  

Two days ago, I had a pretty bad crash with the system just rebooting on me.
I then had to do a CTRL-ALT-F1 to rebuild my desktop.  Since then I have had
the screen lockup about once every hour.  NO FUN.

Now the system had been working pretty well for the last couple of months.
I suspect the problem may lie in my SVGA driver.  (Its the one I got from
cardinal technologies and is the converted 1.3 version.)  I am using
1024x768 @ 256 colors.  Chkdsk reveals nothing on any  of my drives.

Any suggestions?

---ralph



Organization: Sophomore, Math/Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Date: Sun, 22 Nov 1992 14:31:31 -0500 
From: Carl B Jabido <cj00+@andrew.cmu.edu>
Subject: Moving "OS!2 2.0 Desktop" ?

Is it possible to move the Desktop to another partition?  I partitioned
my drive as follows: 40 meg system, 60 meg user, 20 meg swap file.  This
left me with very little space on the Desktop.  I wanted to move this to
my 60 meg User partition where I have 20 megs free still.  Is this
possible?

Thanks for any help!

Carl Jabido
cj00@cmu.edu
From: mts@hardy.u.washington.edu (Sean Milligan)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Telecommunication Difficulties
Date: 21 Nov 92 07:40:52 GMT
Article-I.D.: u.1992Nov21.074052.1405
Organization: University of Washington, Seattle

Every since I reformatted my hard drive, reinstalled OS/2, and service pack I
can't get any! telecommunication program to work properly under OS/2.

I'm using PCPLUS under straight DOS 5.0 to write this.  

My modem is a 14.4K Boca Internal set to COM3, IRQ3, 2E8.  My config.sys file
contains the (3,2E8,3) statements.  I haven't used any MODE COM3 commands
because PCPLUS hangs on Initialization with any.

I have both TE/2 and PMCOMM but can't get either of them to find my modem.  As
far as I can see all the settings within the programs are correct.

My problem with PCPLUS is that it drops alot of characters.  The output is 
grabled.  It use to work fine before my reformatting.  I also changed my 
modem settings from COM4, IRQ3, 2E8 because it was conflicting with my COM2
settings.  I haven't tried to go back to my original settings but maybe I'll
have to.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.  I hate have to reboot to DOS to tele-
communicate.

Sean Milligan 
mts@hardy.u.washington.edu
Student, Department of Mechanical Engineering
University of Washington, Seattle