From: sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu (Timothy F. Sipples)
Subject: Re: Help request
Reply-To: sip1@midway.uchicago.edu
Organization: Dept. of Econ., Univ. of Chicago
Date: Thu, 3 Sep 1992 02:28:04 GMT

In article <2SEP199219130564@zeus.tamu.edu> css0860@zeus.tamu.edu writes:
>I had heard that the Windows applets were available for OS/2.
>Is this true?  Where can I find them.  I know I can run my old 
>Windows applets but I thought these were going to be available as 
>WPS/os/2 applets.

The WLO Windows applets are available via anonymous ftp from
ftp-os2.nmsu.edu.  I do not recommend them.  Instead, I recommend you
simply lift the applets off the Windows 3.0 diskettes, EXPAND them,
and use those under Win-OS/2.

>Where can a student on a limited budget get a C compiler for OS/2?

Both GCC/2 and EMX/GCC are available via anonymous ftp from
ftp-os2.nmsu.edu.  At no charge.

>Any recommendations for
>  A) A communications program including Z-modem protocol

Have a look at TE/2 and PMComm, both shareware, and both available via
anonymous ftp from ftp-os2.nmsu.edu.  When you get TE/2 be sure you
get the latest CommPak along with it.

>  B) Is there a MUD for OS/2?

Excuse my ignorance, but what is MUD?

>  C) A spreadsheet program usefull for students in the sciences.

At no charge?  Well, you have the small spreadsheet applet that comes
with OS/2 2.0.  There is also a port of a small Unix spreadsheet
application which is available via anonymous ftp from
ftp-os2.nmsu.edu.  There are shareware DOS spreadsheet which you are
certainly permitted to use -- DOS is no stigma under OS/2 2.0.
Examples: As-Easy-As, PC-Calc.

Otherwise you can choose among Lotus 1-2-3/G (the one I use),
Microsoft Excel for OS/2, Microsoft Multiplan for OS/2, PFS:Works for
OS/2, N-Joy, Wingz, and, reportedly, CA-SuperCalc in a few months.

>Would like to hear news about drivers for my S3 STB WIND/X Card.

So far no S3 drivers -- real soon now, they keep saying.

>My roomy and I have found two ethernet cards.  Any hints on how we can
>set up a peer to peer?

The "nicest" way is to get an OS/2 TCP/IP package.  IBM's is nice,
since, with the NFS option, you can share disks in both directions,
although other vendors offer packages.  With educational discount
you'll end up paying IBM about $200 per copy for base plus NFS, which
isn't awful but it is, admittedly, a lot of money if you're on a
student budget.  (Although I did meet a few wealthy students when I
was an undergraduate.  :-))  What you get is pretty darn good, though,
with just about everything you could want.

DOS peer-to-peer network packages work OK in specific DOS sessions,
but, naturally, you get a DOS network, meaning that you get pretty
much everything you got with DOS but not much more.

Someone has got to be working on a public domain or shareware TCP/IP
for OS/2.  Anyone know any details?

There are some other possibilities that do not even involve ethernet
cards.  For example, OS2You, available via anonymous ftp from
ftp-os2.nmsu.edu, will let you run programs and transfer files across
a network (one you've already set up, like LAN Server) or across a
serial line (for the budget minded).

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