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From: jc70@westend.VI.CMU.EDU (Joo C. Chung)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: 32bit graphics engine, etc...
Date: 28 Aug 92 14:29:24 GMT
Article-I.D.: cs.Btp6x0.GKD.2
Reply-To: jc70@norman.vi.ri.cmu.edu
Organization: School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon

In article <1992Aug26.192758.2696@njitgw.njit.edu> dic5340@hertz.njit.edu  
(David Charlap) writes:
> In article <BtLHIx.J63.2@cs.cmu.edu> jc70@norman.vi.ri.cmu.edu writes:
> >I heard from a friend that worked at Boca this summer that the 32bit GRE was  
> >sluggish and slower than the 16bit GRE.
> >
> 
> Isn't it great how rumors get started - "I heard from a friend...".
> By the way, did his GRE have all the debugging code in it?
> -- 
>    |)  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.

My friend worked with the OS/2 group at Boca Raton (sp?). He saw for himself 
the 32-bit GRE in use. 


Joo.
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: horan@cse.unl.edu (Mark Horan)
Subject: Problem with Qmodem in DOS box!
Keywords: modem dos
Organization: University of Nebraska - Lincoln
Distribution: 'usa'
Date: Mon, 24 Aug 1992 21:27:03 GMT

	I'm having problems with my modem in a dos full screen session.
What happens is that Qmodem reports  a CARRIER 14400 but then locks up and 
will not accept any key strokes.  This also happens under crosstalk for windows
under a full-screen win-os2 session.  If I use dual boot and boot DR DOS 6.0
Qmodem connects and works fine.  I tried booting a DR DOS 6.0 dos box under 
os/2 and the same problem occurred.  I also switched the modem from com2 to 
com3 and the results are the same, it works under DR DOS but not under os2.
I figure it's not an IRQ or a com port problem because the modem dials and
connects but then locks up.  I usually just ctrl-esc and kill the dos box
but then if I run Qmodem again I get no response from the keyboard again.
One other point that might help is that I am using an old AMI BIOS 4/09/89
and I have heard about some keyboard incompatibilities but I haven't run 
into any other problems other than this.
			Thanks in advance, any help is appreciated!!

		-Mark

--

Mark Horan --
horan@cse.unl.edu
From: t9114145@phillip.edu.au
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: How to kill processes/revert to standard PM
Date: 31 Aug 92 16:52:35 GMT
Organization: RMIT (Bundoora Campus)

On the weekend I ran into a problem using Notepad. After changing a few
things around in ROM BIOS, I found myself in an endless looping error. The
sequence of events was this -
 
1. Program Manager square window expands...
2. OS/2 System, Productivity, Command Prompt folder open
3. Icons appear on the desktop
4. Notepad opens
5. Error message appears - There is an option to show registers or to
	shut down the offending program. The only way out of this is
	to shut down the program (which I assume is notepad)
6. Everything disappears, then loop back to step 1.

The question is, after a reboot, how do I make OS/2 appear with no programs
active, i.e. how do I make it revert back to the way it was when I first
started it up (without reinstalling....). I guess there is some file which
tells the system what to open - what is it? 

-- 

Adam Eberbach    Computer Science student, RMIT.   t9114145@phillip.edu.au
               "We don' need no stinkin' signatures!"
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: dkm2@ra.msstate.edu (David K. Magee)
Subject: WINOS2 resoloution
Organization: Mississippi State University
Date: Thu, 3 Sep 1992 05:08:19 GMT

I have installed the 800x600x256 drivers for Tseng 4000 in PM , but how
can you change the resoloution of winos2?  

Thanks,

David


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From: mm459504@LANCE.ColoState.Edu (Michael Miller)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Just what IS Alt-F1 (was Re: Multiple Desktops....)
Date: 2 Sep 92 21:06:52 GMT
Organization: Colorado State U. Engineering College

In article <60052@mimsy.umd.edu> rpfaff@umiacs.umd.edu (Ray Pfaff) writes:
>Interesting that you should mention this.  I crashed my system all the way 
>to having to do an Alt-F1 to bring it back yesterday (warning:  I downloaded
>[Rest Deleted]                                                                 


I've heard a number of references to this infamous Alt-F1-at-bootup sequence
and was curious as to what it did exactly. (I've heard that it disallows
program starts and I've also heard it erases the Svgadata.pmi file)

So what does it do?

Mike



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"You seem ah decent fellow.  Ahd hate to keel you." - I. Montoya
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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 18:44:12 GMT
Organization: New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, N.J.

In article <1992Aug27.033532.12091@news.columbia.edu> mig@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Meir I Green) writes:
>Incidentally, it is nice of IBM to let us try out their beta
>patches, but can the betas be separated from the final patches on the
>FTP sites?  Maybe there could be a separate directory for beta patches, so
>we know what we are getting into---especially for the patches that we are
>*not* supposed to apply unless we are having specific problems :-)

ALL of the patches being posted to InterNet and CompuServe are betas.
None will be final until the Update Pack gets shipped this fall
(really soon, we're almost into September, which is the start of the
"fall" time window...)

All the patches (except for the Kernel patch) are labeled "do not use
unless you have a problem".
-- 
   |)  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: feustel@netcom.com (David Feustel)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: OS/2 through 1999
Date: 30 Aug 92 14:30:48 GMT
Article-I.D.: netcom._rgnl2h.feustel
Organization: DAFCO: OS/2 Software Support & Consulting

I've seen ads for OS/2 on at least three different channels: CNBC, CNN
and (I think) ABC about two nights ago.
-- 
Dave Feustel N9MYI <feustel@netcom.com>
 
( New .sig under construction. Watch this space! )
From: miker@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Hung Michael Nguyen)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Some OS/2 questions
Date: 29 Aug 92 01:51:32 GMT
Reply-To: miker@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Hung Michael Nguyen)
Organization: The University of Texas at Austin, Austin TX
Originator: miker@doc.cc.utexas.edu

Hello there.  I've been using OS/2 for a while, and have some questions:

1)  Is there any kind of EPM reference guide, esp. on how to write macros,
    and/or change the existing macros (I'm interested in modifying the
    macro(s) that format C code to conform to my coding style).

2)  What do I have to do to enable use of my 16550 UART (probably
    a FAQ)?

3)  Could somebody mail me the info about the Lan Server 3.0 beta
    program; more specifically, I'm wondering if the $150 gets me a final
    copy.

Thanks in advance.

--
Hung Michael Nguyen
miker@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu
-- 
Hung Michael Nguyen
miker@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu
From: bwiersema@bss2.umd.edu (Brian Wiersema)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: Can't delete an icon
Keywords: can't delete an icon, readonly
Date: 27 Aug 92 18:16:24 GMT
Organization: College of Behavioral and Social Sciences, U of Maryland

Problem:
>>I have an icon on my desktop that I can not get rid of. Here is how I
>>created it.
Horst responds:
>Finally I succeded by:
>1. Moving it onto A:\ by:
>2. Moving it to a subdirectory on A: the same way as above
>3. Deleting that directory (I don't remember which way)

Well, my undeletable icon is a network printer icon that refuses to moved to 
any other folder/drive/directory.  IBM-OS2 Tech Support was stumped, too.
Their suggestion (other than Alt-F1):  open a shadow of the system clock and 
move it on top of the bugger. :)

Any better ideas?
From: feustel@netcom.com (David Feustel)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Question About CSDs
Summary: Are CSDs Cumulative?
Date: 30 Aug 92 14:25:39 GMT
Article-I.D.: netcom.8qgnrvh.feustel
Organization: DAFCO: OS/2 Software Support & Consulting

Are the CSDs IBM issues for OS/2 and C Set/2 cumulative? I.E. do I
need all of the CSDs or just the most recent CSD to bring my software
up to current fix level? Thanks.
-- 
Dave Feustel N9MYI <feustel@netcom.com>
 
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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: eclarke@ibmpa.awdpa.ibm.com (Eric S. Clarke)
Subject: Re: TCP/IP and Netware Requestors
Organization: IBM Advanced Workstations Division, Palo Alto
Date: Wed, 2 Sep 92 21:58:59 GMT

In article <BtpIvB.HJA@mentor.cc.purdue.edu>, smithcr@mentor.cc.purdue.edu (Rick Smith) writes:
|> I have a problem getting TCP/IP and Novell to coexist.
|> 
|> Relevant information:
|> 
|> SMC Ethercard Plus Combo 10MB 10-BaseT to TCP/IP network
|> IBM Token Ring card 4MB to Novell Token Ring network
|> 
|> I have tested the two installations separately and either will work.  If
|> they are both enabled however the netware section fails during boot 
|> initializing the IFS.  The machine will just hang.  Note that I am
|> not trying to share protocols on a single board.  These are two distinct
|> boards and protocols.  I have included my config.sys for review.
|> 
|> Any help would be appreciated,
|>   Rick Smith
|> 

The problem is that the TCP/IP product uses NDIS drivers and Novell uses
a different kind of driver.  These two drivers are basically incompatible.
You can however get a piece of software that translates the NDIS stack into
novell's protocol and back.  I have not actually tried this so I can't tell
you anything about it.  You might try contacting you local branch office 
and ask them about it...

-- 

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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: jtq1@ra.msstate.edu (Jim Quinlan)
Subject: Opinions on STB card with S3 chip.
Organization: Mississippi State University
Distribution: usa
Date: Sun, 23 Aug 1992 23:37:20 GMT

I've found an STB video card with the S3 chip on it and would like to use
it with OS/2 2.0.  I'd appreciate some feedback as to:
  1) How good does it perform?
  2) Any compatibility problems?
  3) When would drivers be available?

The card is capable of 1024x768x256 non-interlaced and has the Sierra
RAMDAC on it.  sorry, don't know the model # off-hand.

I had been considering a Diamond Stealth or Orchid F1280, but this seems like
it might be just as good..  Which would be best?  What does everybody 
recommend?

My main concern is driver availability.. I have heard of various release
dates for drivers from Diamond and Orchid.  Also, I did see some
thread referring to STB a month or so back, but since I wasn't looking at
STB at the time, I ignored it (silly me)..

Any information regarding STB or any other S3 board is welcome..

Jim Quinlan
-- 
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jtq1@Ra.MsState.Edu       *        from a stick of chewing gum."
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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: cvadrtbc@vmsb.is.csupomona.edu (Srikanth Viswanathan)
Subject: Re: Possible fix for Trident fullscreen DOS problems!
Organization: California Polytechnic University, Pomona
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41    
Date: Sun, 30 Aug 1992 06:38:00 GMT
X-Posted-From: vmsb.is.csupomona.edu
X-Posted-Through: sol.ctr.columbia.edu

In article <1992Aug27.232616.18254@CS.ORST.EDU>, murrayk@prism.CS.ORST.EDU (the Dodger) writes...
>I think I may have discovered a way to fix the full screen problem where
>switching to a fullscreen DOS session just puts garbage on the screen. I
>was having this problem, and for some reason not necessarily relevant I
>decided to run ddinstal and reinstall the driver. And voila! My fullscreen
>problems are now cured. I don't know how long this will last, but it sure
>is a simple way to fix things up.
> 

Hmm, that's interesting.  I restored the GA VSVGA.SYS driver (I was using
the one from VSVGAFX3.ZOO), and now, my DOS full screen problems (garbled
screen) are greatly reduced,  I still get them now and then, but not always.
Someone tell me what this means?  

Srikanth
Clinton & OS/2 in '92!
From: jmaynard@oac.hsc.uth.tmc.edu (Jay Maynard)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: Some suggestions for OS/2
Date: 3 Sep 1992 14:40:36 GMT
Organization: UT Health Science Center Houston

In article <1992Sep3.021506.16434@midway.uchicago.edu> sip1@midway.uchicago.edu writes:
>>5.25" disk drives should have 5.25" disks as icons (NOT 3.5" ones)
>I think someone figured out how to change the icon, but I don't
>remember the details.  Does anyone recall where that information is
>located?

I did this once upon a time; all it took was going to the General page of the
Settings notebook for the drive object in the OS/2 System -> Drives folder,
and selecting Edit Icon. I had to create an icon by hand, though. I wanted to
cut the 5-1/4" picture from the Selective Install stuff, but wasn't able to.

Since then, I've reinstalled my system, and would like to have a 5-1/4" icon
back without having to draw it by hand. Any suggestions?
-- 
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jmaynard@oac.hsc.uth.tmc.edu      | adequately be explained by stupidity.
 "Keep in mind that Amateur Radio As We Know It Today will cease to exist
            at midnight tonight." -- Dave Newkirk, WJ1Z
From: gregb@gout.austin.ibm.com
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Checkit (was Re: OS2 WINS!!  I give up!)
Date: 27 Aug 92 21:19:54 GMT
Reply-To: gregb@gout.austin.ibm.com
Organization: IBM, Austin
News-Software: IBM OS/2 PM RN (NR/2) v0.037 by O. Vishnepolsky and R. Rogers

In  <1992Aug26.200451.13762@njitgw.njit.edu>  dic5340@hertz.njit.edu (David Charlap) writes:
> You got really unlucky.  From my own analysis, I'd run a very detailed
> check on your memory.  Get a program like Checkit and set it to
> complete memory analysis, and let it run continuously over an entire
> weekend, logging any errors to the printer.  OS/2, with it's high
> level of context switching, can push marginal and intermittantly bad
> memory over the edge.

Where can such a program be obtained?  I have a system that gets
occaisional trap 2's, but have no desire to start swapping chips
(yes, chips, it's an older motherboard).

Thanks.
__________________________________________________________
Greg Bryant                                 (512) 795-0323
Delta Music Systems                             Austin, TX
gregb@gout.austin.ibm.com  ---  but you can't send me mail
Just consulting.   Not an employee.   Not representing IBM
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: OS/2 BBS (PMHPO): I give up!
From: pyrite@qed.cts.com (Sean Camanyag)
Date: 1 Sep 92 02:15:33 GMT
Organization: The QED BBS, Lakewood CA

I can't get past the opening screen when I connect to IBM's OS/2 BBS.  I enter
the correct  Account code, UserID, and Password, then press Enter. Nothing
happens; the cursor just jumps to the Account code field as if I missed
something.  Well I didn't. I just tried 5 times in a row, and still their BBS
doesn't work... 

I have heard rumors that IBM's OS/2 BBS isn't worth the high charges. Those
rumors seem to be very right.  

Is it any wonder why I keep hearing that MS's marketing buries that of IBM's?


=========================+==============================================
    Sean Camanyag        |  "Data, I thought you were dead!"
    pyrite@qed.cts.com   |  "No, Sir.  I rebooted!"
=========================+=============================================
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: sarb@usace.mil (Sarbjit Takhar)
Subject: Re: using SHARE under OS2 Dos sessions
Organization: US Army Corps of Engineers, Sacramento District
Distribution: usa
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 92 16:57:21 GMT

In article <17g7h4INNq0a@matt.ksu.ksu.edu> stacyl@matt.ksu.ksu.edu (Stacy Brad Lacy) writes:
>I have some software that needs to use SHARE  in a dos window to
>allow correct processing of data files.  I have noticed that no
>SHARE command is available in the \OS2\MDOS directory.  Compounded wiht
>the fact that I can't get my DOS 5.0 SHARE command to work since I
>get "incorrect dos version messages" I haven't found a solution to the
>problem.
>
>Thanks in advance!
>Stacy
>stacyl@matt.ksu.ksu.edu


I've been doing some netowrk programming under DOS using OS/2 and as
far as I can tell, SHARE is always loaded in each DOS window.
If you call the DOS function that detects it, it always returns
true ... and the fact that my programs always seem to work great
in respects to record and file locking proves it...

So, even though there is no SHARE command file, it's already loaded.

Sarb Takhar

sarb@usace.mil
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: mig@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Meir I Green)
Subject: Re: DOS VDM can't see new file in A:
Reply-To: mig@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Meir I Green)
Organization: Columbia University, New York
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1992 05:38:14 GMT

Is there any way to "boot DOS on drive B" instead of A?
Is this a limitation which is in OS/2 or in the hardware?

I don't mean boot DOS, I mean boot a virtual machine from that disk's boot
sector!

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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: evanc@uuisis.isis.org (Evan Champion)
Subject: SBPRO MMPM/2 Drivers
Organization: International Shared Information Service (Ottawa)
Date: Sun, 30 Aug 92 16:20:24 GMT

I would like to get these SBPRO MMPM/2 drivers, but I can't find the
number for Creative Labs' BBS.  Could someone mail it to me?  Thanks!

Evan

From: glen@hpfcmgw.FC.HP.COM (Glen Robinson)
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1992 19:50:00 GMT
Subject: Re: OS/2 problem with Adaptec 1542B ?
Organization: HP Fort Collins, CO
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc

>   	Does anyone know if OS/2 2.0 has a problem with Adaptec 1452B
>   with Seagate ST41200N SCSI hard drive, or the floppy controller on the
>   Adaptec ? I have an ISA 486-50 with AMI bios. Everyting works fine
>   like before except the problems I mentioned above.

There is an updated version of the Adaptec driver on Watson and Hobbes.
I believe the Adaptec BBS also has this fix.  The problem had to do with
bus on off time I believe.

Glen - R
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: agriffin@mitre.org (James Artcher Griffin)
Subject: Re: OS2 WINS!! I give up!
Organization: The MITRE Corporation
Distribution: all
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1992 12:36:48 GMT

In <1992Aug27.015416.6882@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca> riehm@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca (Carl Riehm) writes:

>>In article <26AUG199210035893@lims01.lerc.nasa.gov> solomon@lims01.lerc.nasa.gov (Robert F. Solomon) writes:

>a horrible tale of woe...   I'm just about to install OS/2, but after reading 
>his experience, I very worried.  I *do* have a mixture of memory (on my IBM
>Model 70) which is certainly from different manufacturers, and almost certainly
>different speeds.  Does anyone else have any experience with using differing
>memory simms  with OS/2?   When IBM itself warns against this situation, 
>it sounds serious!   Carl Riehm.

As others have written, "Your mileage may vary."  My nameless 486/25MHz
128KCache 16MB motherboard has a mix of 70ns and 80ns made up of nine
and three chip SIMMs.  When I was only running DOS and MSWin 3.0, I
could setup for zero waitstate.  With OS/2 making full use the the
addressing capabilities of the 386/486 processor, timing is more
critical and I had to set the board for one-waitstate on both read and
write.

Along the same line (critical timing issues), I had to return the ISA
bus clock to its design setting of 8MHz for the system to run reliably.

Others have reported the same experience.  So, Robert and Carl, if you
have been "pushing" your motherboard reduce your speed a little and join
the productivity enhancing world of OS/2 2.0. (Hopefully)  HTH

Artch
From: linstee@dutecaj.et.tudelft.nl (Erik van Linstee)
Subject: Boot manager trick. For those interested
Organization: Delft University of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering
Date: Wed, 02 Sep 1992 19:11:27 GMT

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.

Erik

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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: scastill@nmsu.edu (Steve Castillo)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: ATI Graphics Ultra Windows drivers
Date: 28 Aug 92 15:17:25 GMT
Distribution: comp.os.os2.misc
Organization: NMSU Computer Science


I recently installed a Graphics Ultra video card in a 50 MHz 486 EISA
machine.  I am currently using the standard IBM 8514 drivers.
Although the OS/2 PM drivers deliver good performance the IBM 8514
drivers for winos2 are quite slow.  I tried installing the windows
drivers from the ATI disks using ATI's install program with only
partial success.  When installing the windows driver I get an "unable
to create OS/2 directory"  after I have told the install program that
winos2 is in os2/mdos/winos2.  How do I get around this.  Do I have to
do a manual installation?  Please reply via e-mail.  Thanks in
advance.

Steve Castillo
Electrical Engineering
New Mexico State U.

scastill@nmsu.edu
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