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From: friesend@jester.usask.ca (Darryl Friesen)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: Mac Icons?
Date: 5 Jan 1993 19:57:48 GMT
Organization: University of Saskatchewan
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Al Dhir (adhir@wam.umd.edu) wrote:
> >In short, unless you've a lot of icons to do, you're probably better
> >off sitting in front of the mac with ResEdit (the resource editor) and
> >a piece of graph paper and just copy the bitmap that way.  I did the
> >system 7 trash and Mac icons like this.
> 
> Sheesh!!  Are you kidding?  Why didn't you just take a snapshot of the
> Mac screen with the command-S (or something similar) keystroke and

Command-Shift-3 (not F3 for those with Mac extended keyboards, the 
3 key).

> take the snapshot file home to your OS/2 machine for processing??  I did
> this with a TON of Mac AND NeXT icons and it worked great.  Just take what-
> ever format picture you end up with (TIFF on NeXT and PICT on Mac) and
> convert/view it - either using utils easily available on the Mac or using
> utils on the PC (Hijaak).  Then CUT it and PASTE it into the icon editor.
> Just the thought of sitting there with graph paper... oh god!

Kind of like cutting firewood with a butter knife isn't it?!  :)

I thought about suggesting this when the original article was posted
by assumed that 10 other people would have as well.  I'm surprised it
took this long.  Just about ANY Macintosh paint program (even HyperCard!)
can read those PICT files.  We've got SuperPaint and Canvas 3.0 at work
and between the two of them they can save to just about any format you
want.

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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: Brandon.Vanevery@launchpad.unc.edu (Brandon Vanevery)
Subject: 2 monitors under PM?
Organization: University of North Carolina Extended Bulletin Board Service
Date: Sat, 9 Jan 1993 05:08:47 GMT


Can OS/2 handle a 2 monitor system gracefully?  Here's what I have in
mind: OS/2 PM running on one monitor, and a full screen, 24-bit, 640 x 480
DOS window on the other, using a Tseng ET4000 card for the latter.

Alternately, maybe I'll invest in a Nova True Color board with native OS/2
drivers for 1024 x 768 x 24-bit.

At any rate, anyone have experience getting OS/2 to work on 2 monitors,
whatever the resolution?

Brandon

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From: ced@APOLLO.HP.COM (Carl Davidson)
Subject: Re: ATI VGA Wonder (Old model, revision 5 chipset) and TRI32New drivers
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 15:01:54 GMT
Organization: Hewlett-Packard Company, Chelmsford, MA

In article <1993Jan10.230015.27050@njitgw.njit.edu>, dic5340@hertz.njit.edu (David Charlap) writes:
|> 
|> I downloaded the TRI32NEW.ZIP package and tried to install the
|> 800x600x256 driver on my 512K VGA-Wonder board.  As everyone else
|> reported, the top 88 lines were duplicated on the bottom of the
|> screen, and vice versa.
|> 
|> [text deleted]
|> 
|> Anyway, does this seem to make sense?  Is there anything I can do
|> about it, short of getting source code to the driver?  Interestingly
|> enough, other chipsets (like TSENG) correctly set the Line Compare
|> register to 1023, so the Trident drivers don't have this problems on
|> those systems.
|>

David,

Sorry to be the bearer of bad news, but it appears that these drivers
will only run properly on boards with 1024K (1 meg) of memory. If you want
call it a *bug* in the drivers, I won't argue. 

Even after you upgrade to 1024K things won't be right until you edit 
SVGADATA.PMI by hand (see my posting from last Friday). Personally, I think 
that having SVGA.EXE generate register settings on the fly by reading the board
(this is what it appears to do -- I have no specific knowledge of this) 
is more trouble than it's worth. It's too easy to end up with sub-optimal
register values and it's difficult to customize your setup for specific 
monitors. It would seem more reliable to have SVGA.EXE identify the 
board type and configuration and then query the user for things like 
the desired refresh rate and set the appropriate values from an internal
table. 

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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: OS 2.1 Beta.  What happened to me.
From: Steve.Withers@bbs.actrix.gen.nz
Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1993 02:38:13 GMT
Organization: Actrix Information Exchange

In article <1993Jan5.154803.27494@news.uiowa.edu> williams@herky.cs.uiowa.edu (Kent Williams) writes:
> Hi.  Here's what I started out with
> 
> 2.0 GA + CSD + Win 3.1 Beta
> 
> I made diskettes and installed from them (if anyone's interested in Rube
> Goldberg setups, try this: I stuffed the CDROM in an Iris Indigo, copied
> the disk info into a directory visible on NFS, and then used a PC with
> PCNFS to make the disks).
> 
> Problem 1) I can't run windows at all. seamless, full screen, doesn't matter.
> All start going and then quit.  If I start a full-screen DOS session and then
> type win, it tells me that it can't execute OS2GDI.EXE.
> 
> I believe that this is linked to having Win 3.1 Beta laying around.  I'm
> going to save off all my local stuff and re-install with HD reformat.

You should re-formatted from the start.......:-)


Steve
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From: "Stefan Breuer, Uni Karlsruhe" <UJD9@DKAUNI2.BITNET>
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: FOUND GERMAN SERVPACK!!!
Date: 12 Jan 1993 16:47:27 +0100
Organization: University of Karlsruhe, Germany
Distribution: world

Hey folks!

Many people in this newsgroup were asking about the German Servpack:
seems like a kind soul invested some time and took it to...

   129.69.1.12   (ftp.uni-stuttgart.de)

Directory soft/os2/servpak.german

I haven't tested it yet, but it looks quite well!

Thanks to whoever did it!

Stefan


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From: a2509kan@cdf.toronto.edu (Damian R. Kanarek)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2,comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Service pack installation question....
Date: 5 Jan 93 02:39:19 GMT
Distribution: na
Organization: University of Toronto Computing Disciplines Facility
Originator: a2509kan@traal.cdf.toronto.edu

Hi there, all!

 I'm trying to obtain the service pack from hobbes for 5.25' drive....
I noticed that the unzipped disk files are > sizeof(5.25' disk)....
Am I supposed to leave those files zipped, for the installation
software to unzip? Help..... 

Any other hints would also be much appreciated. 

 (This is for a friend of mine, so if this is a stupid question, it's 
HIS fault; respond via email, and I'll forward the replies to him. Thanks
a lot). 

Damian
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2,comp.os.os2.misc
From: hofstoet@vanessa.fmi.uni-passau.de (Hans Ulrich Hofstoetter)
Subject: Re: Service pack installation question....
Organization: University of Passau, Germany
Distribution: na
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 13:29:03 GMT

In article <1993Jan5.023919.17036@cdf.toronto.edu>, a2509kan@cdf.toronto.edu (Damian R. Kanarek) writes:
> Hi there, all!
> 
>  I'm trying to obtain the service pack from hobbes for 5.25' drive....
> I noticed that the unzipped disk files are > sizeof(5.25' disk)....
> Am I supposed to leave those files zipped, for the installation
> software to unzip? Help..... 
> 
Where did you get the service pack from?
Is it availible via ftp? where?

Thanks in advance


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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.programmer
From: attwool@exocet.enet.dec.com (justyn k Attwool)
Subject: Odd DDE PM to Windows activity + Questions
Reply-To: attwool@exocet.dec.com (justyn k Attwool)
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation
Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1993 12:18:27 GMT


 I hope I'm not going to ask to many questions in one go and therefore make
 sound confusing.. but here goes..


 I've had some trouble in using DDE between PM and WIN-OS/2 environments..

 If I've got 32bit PM DDE Server example program running and then invoke a 
 Word for Windows (Version 2.0a) Session under Win-OS/2 and setup a link to
 the PM DDE Application and Topic. As soon as I issue an Update of the link
 the PM DDE server gets the WM_DDE_INITIATE message issues the WinDdeRespond
 but the Word for Windows Client DDE hangs.

 I've spoken to someone and they seem to indicate that there might be a problem
 when running Windows 3.1 DDE Applications under Win-OS/2 and talking out to
 PM.. Can anyone verify this ?

 BTW The 32bit PM DDE Client example works fine..

 Next question ... untried:

  Are there any changes needed ( either Client or Server ) for a 16 Bit PM
 DDE Client talking to a 32 bit DDE Server...

  If I have a 16bit DDE server running under OS/2 2.0 will it be able to 
 accept connections from WIN-OS/2 applications ?

 Regards 
 Justyn
From: bigbill@vnet.ibm.com (Bill Sarantakos)
Date: Wed, 6 Jan 93 18:12:18 EST
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.programmer
Subject: Re: Is there a PMSPY?  Does PM have transparent windows?
Organization: IBM Canada Laboratory
Disclaimer: This posting represents the poster's views, not those of IBM
News-Software: UReply 3.0

In <C0GC04.36w@watserv2.uwaterloo.ca> Eric Giguere writes:
>1) Is there a PMSPY (functional equivalent to the Windows SPY.EXE) available
>   from anyone, free or commercial?  (I.e., a program that lets you view
>   messages sent to windows...)

The WorkFrame/2 product has a fully functional sample program called
PMSPY that should do what you want, source is included.

Bill Sarantakos    OS/2 C++ Compiler Development     Toronto, Ontario
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.programmer
From: greve@rs1.thch.uni-bonn.de (Thomas Greve)
Subject: Re: emx .8f broke make 3.62
Organization: University of Bonn, phys. Chemistry
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 14:02:25 GMT

In article <1993Jan5.192219.9159@wam.umd.edu> jdowdal@wam.umd.edu (John Dowdal) writes:
>
>I installed the new version of emx last night (.8f) and it appears that
>GNU make 3.62 has died.  I looked in make.exe and discovered it was compiled
>with emx .8b, so the new .DLL's are probably incompatible with the old
>compiler.  Murphy's law got me because I tested all of the commands except
>make (doing 1 line compiles entered from the command line) and of course
>make had to break.
>
>Put simply, I need a make that is compatible with the new emx.  I cannot
>build make from the sources myself because I need make to make make (arghhh!)

Phew. Good to know. I was about to switch from 0.8e to 0.8f -- i
simply didn't have enough disks yesterday. As my make works with 0.8e,
i'll make a make with 0.8e which should run with 0.8f, then.

I'll let you know, when i'm ready, but don't expect me to be the first
one (depending on how much work it is -- i don't have that much spare
time these days). BTW: which file date has the make.exe you use? I saw
make362 (or gnumk362 or whatever) appear on hobbes several times.
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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.programmer
From: jahonen@cs.joensuu.fi (Jarmo Ahonen)
Subject: FORTRAN for OS/2?
Organization: University of Joensuu
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 13:17:32 GMT


Hello everybody,

Is there somewhere a decent FORTRAN compiler for OS/2 2.0?
A FORTRAN-90 compiler would be nice, but -77 compiler is
OK (hopefully it would have some -90 extensions).

If you do know a company that sells such a beast, then please
inform me about the costs and wherefrom can I get it. 

Thanks in advance,

Jarmo J. Ahonen
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From: ads@canon.co.uk (Adam Billyard)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.programmer,comp.graphics,comp.os.msdos.programmer,comp.sys.ibm.pc.programmer
Subject: Re: Fixed point sqrt anyone?
Date: 6 Jan 93 09:39:37 GMT
Reply-To: ads@canon.co.uk
Organization: Canon Research Centre Europe Ltd

murrayk@prism.CS.ORST.EDU (the Dodger) writes:


> Well? Does anyone know of a quick and dirty way to get a reasonably accurate
> square root of a fixed point integer number? My numbers are stored in a 16.16

It depends on what "reasonably accurate" means.  I used a Newton-Raphson
approximation in a 3D pool game I did a while back, and I got enough accuracy 
and quickly enough for my needs..

	Adam
	
NB If you're looking to do vector normalization then you probably need quite a 
lot of accuracy.
From: GERSTLE@TOROLAB6.VNET.IBM.COM
Date: Wed, 6 Jan 93 09:30:42 EST
Subject: How the hell am I supposed to profile?
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.programmer
Organization: IBM Corporation
Disclaimer: This posting represents the poster's views, not those of IBM

In article <1ie21vINNevs@flop.ENGR.ORST.EDU>,
murrayk@prism.CS.ORST.EDU (the Dodger) writes:
>
>I'm not having ANY luck in profiling my program. I'm using the tools off of
>the October PDK (anxiously awaiting the new PDK) and it just isn't working.
>
>I'm compiling with the /Gh option to get the profiling hooks, and with the
>debugging options on also. I'm linking with the /NOE options as the online
>docs say.

Keith,

Unfortunately, some Profit files were left off the October PDK (some rather
important ones as you have discovered).  You can get going again by getting the
November PDK or by downloading PROFIT.ZIP from our BBS (800-874-2881).

Pat
>
>I've even gone so far as installing the profit.sys device in my config.sys
>file. IT STILL WONT PROFILE ANYTHING. (Sorry for yelling...) I type 'profit
>program' and profit comes up and I can select and deselect modules and
>procedures in my program. Then I click on Trace and a little dialog pops up
>saying '0 events logged to ...'. What am I not doing? My app is a full screen
>program, but I've tried the same with one of the sample program 'sort' with
>no luck either.
>
>Thanks for any info.
>
>Keith
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From: bigbill@vnet.ibm.com (Bill Sarantakos)
Date: Tue, 5 Jan 93 18:51:56 EST
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.programmer,comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: fread()/fseek()/fwrite() problem?
Organization: IBM Canada Laboratory
Disclaimer: This posting represents the poster's views, not those of IBM
News-Software: UReply 3.0

In <C0Dz8s.4u4@panix.com> Larry Salomon Jr. writes:
>It is my code or is the following a problem?
>
>pfFile=fopen("ABCD","r+b");
>fread(achLine,sizeof(achLine),1,pfFile);
>fread(&sMyStruct,sizeof(sMyStruct),1,pfFile);
>
>/* @@ */
>sMyStruct.bCheckedout=TRUE;
>fseek(pfFile,sizeof(achLine),SEEK_SET);
>fwrite(&sMyStruct,sizeof(sMyStruct),1,pfFile);
>/* @@ */

Before one can output/input after having input/output, a fflush()
or file positioning function (fseek, fsetpos, or rewind) must be called
(see top of page 131 in ANSI spec).  While the above code appears to
be OK, perhaps the context from which it was taken is incorrect.  If
you think the runtime is being over-zealous and disallowing this
case (since using rewind() actually works), send a test case to
cset2@vnet.ibm.com along with a note explaining the problem.

Bill Sarantakos    OS/2 C++ Compiler Development     Toronto, Ontario
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.programmer
From: os2man@panix.com (Larry Salomon Jr.)
Subject: Announcing PIPES
Organization: PANIX Public Access Unix, NYC
Date: Sat, 9 Jan 1993 00:44:15 GMT

The following is from the command "PIPES" with no arguments.

This is a programming tool for PM programmers.  It allows you to redirect
stdout from your PM app to another instance of PIPES to be immediately
displayed.

Unfortunately, I cannot place it on hobbes, since I haven't paid my money
to access FTP.  So, if some kind soul will do it for me, I will gladly
uuencode the program and mail it to you.  Please send me email if you are
willing, and I will send it to the first person ONLY.  Others will be
directed to the appropriate directory on hobbes.

Cheers,
Q

P.S.  Now that I have my modem working at home, I plan to upload a LOT
of stuff that I have written on Monday, including a subroutine library
with lots of neat goodies in it.  Don't touch that dial!!

-------------------------------
Pipe utility
Version 1.00
Copyright (c) 1992 by Larry Salomon, Jr.
All rights reserved.

Reads all input from or writes all input to the specified named pipe.

Syntax:  PIPES -p pipe [-w|-r] [-t timeout]

-p      - specifies the pipe to read from or write to.  It must be in the
          form "\PIPE\name" and must be unique between a server/client pair.
          This parameter is required

-w,-r   - specifies whether the pipe is to be read from or written to.  Write
          is the default.

-t      - (in read mode) this specifies the number of seconds to wait before
          attempting to read from the specified pipe.  This allows you to
          start the client before the server without receiving an error.  0
          indicates that no wait should occur, and is the default.

-t      - (in write mode) this specifies the number of seconds to wait for
          a connect to be established with a client.  0 indicates that the
          server should wait forever.  The default is 10 seconds.

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From: ekl@kvamdata.no (Eirik Lygre)
Subject: Re: Why you should get everything in writing (long)
Organization: Kvam data as
Date: Sat, 09 Jan 1993 13:44:05 GMT

In article <19930108144414.h198@hosp.med.umich.edu> h198@hosp.med.umich.edu  (Gene Mangum) writes:
>
>  [stuff deleted]                                           But, unless
>  IBM is restricted by M$ on providing the driver, they should come
>  across with the code.   And if they are restricted by an M$ copyright,
>  they should say so.
> 
>  [more stuff deleted]
>
>  Gene Mangum
>  Univ of Michigan Hospitals

According to Bob, IBM did say that the source code was owned by Microsoft:

In article <1993Jan7.192103.16828@netcom.com> rcain@netcom.com (Robert Cain) writes:
> To my amazement and consternation I was told that the original contact
> that had made the promise was retired and wrong.  In fact the source
> code was owned by Microsoft and could not be released to me by IBM.

The *very* stupid part on IBM, was not telling Bob this until it was too
late.

Eirik

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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.programmer,comp.os.os2.advocacy
From: Steve.Withers@bbs.actrix.gen.nz
Subject: Re: Why you should get everything in writing (long)
Organization: Actrix Information Exchange
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 18:47:18 GMT

In article <1993Jan7.220154.446@fcom.cc.utah.edu> brian@jaguar.cs.utah.edu (Brian Sturgill) writes:
> 
> I think you misunderstand Bob's problem.  All he wanted was a sample printer
> driver.  IBM should have had this available well before OS/2 2.0 GA shipped.
> The point is that they didn't, and they still don't.
> I would agree with you comment if Bob had wanted something unusual from
> IBM, but this is standard stuff.

But wasn't the problem that the code in question was not IBM's to give out? 
 
It was MS code. 
 
Or did i miss something........

Steve
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From: dic5340@hertz.njit.edu (David Charlap)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.programmer
Subject: Re: 90 degree rotation of bitmaps ?
Date: 6 Jan 93 22:09:32 GMT
Organization: New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, N.J.

In article <1993Jan6.135311.24368@neptune.inf.ethz.ch> mhof@iiic.ethz.ch (Markus Alexander Hof) writes:
>Hello together,
>
>Just got a little problem, for which  I have a solution, but which is awfully
>complicated. I got 20 little Bitmaps, which I ought to have also turned 90 and
>180 and 270 degree. Only solution I found is to enter all turned versions as
>well into the iconedit. 
>
>PS: Can't use any transformations or segmentchains, because first it's really 
>dynamic and second has to be drawn very quick (I use now GpiBitBlt).

Try this.  Create a presentation space that isn't associated with a
window (I think WinCreatePS is the function...).  All you need is you
HAB to do this.

WinDrawBitmap each of your bitmaps into this PS.  Use pixel-by-pixel
functions to create rotated bitmaps from them.  Then use
GpiCreateBitmap to make bitmaps from the rotated images.  use them
just as you'd use the ones in your resource file (I think).  Or leave
all the bitmaps (rotated and normal) in various (non-overlapping!)
regions of your extra PS and use GpibitBlt to copy them to the window
when you need them.
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