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From: sal8@po.cwru.edu (Steve Luzynski)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: 256 colour pictures on OS/2-desktop ???
Date: 2 Oct 1992 19:32:14 GMT
Organization: Case Western Reserve University
NNTP-Posting-Host: b61442.student.cwru.edu
Summary: How is it possible to get a 256 colours picture on the desktop ?
Keywords: colours OS/2 desktop picture

In article <kotulla.718044549@talisker> kotulla@talisker.informatik.rwth-aachen.de (Axel Kotulla) writes:
>From: kotulla@talisker.informatik.rwth-aachen.de (Axel Kotulla)
>Subject: 256 colour pictures on OS/2-desktop ???
>Summary: How is it possible to get a 256 colours picture on the desktop ?
>Keywords: colours OS/2 desktop picture
>Date:  2 Oct 92 16:49:09 GMT
>Hello !
>
>Whenever I used Windows, I put a 256 colours BMP-Picture in the
>background of the desktop. Now I tried the same with OS/2 and got an
>unexpected result. I use an ATI Graphics Ultra with the standard
>8514/A driver shipped with OS/2. The colours of every picture were
>very strange. It seems that the palette had changed. But as far as I
>know the 256 colours are fixed so that it must be possible to show the
>picture in it's original colours.
>
>Does anybody solve this problem. I don't want to convert the picture
>to a 16-colour standard VGA-picture. In WinOS/2 I got no problems. The
>picture was on the desktop in it's original colours.
>
>Thanks in advance
>
>Axel Kotulla
>
>(E-Mail: kotulla@talisker.informatik.rwth-aachen.de)
>

 OS/2 doesn't let _anything_ change the pallette colors - including the 
desktop itself. Supposedly the CSD has a pallette manager that will allow 
the foreground program to maintain the colors it wants. Anyone else know for 
sure?
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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: grichard@swimming.cis.ohio-state.edu (Golden Richard III)
Subject: Re: L40SX Power Management driver problem
Organization: The Ohio State University Dept. of Computer and Info. Science
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 1992 20:35:26 GMT

In article <1992Sep30.152032.12209@jarvis.csri.toronto.edu> byu@white.toronto.edu (Benjamin Yu) writes:
>Is this power management driver specifically for the L40SX?  Can it be
>used on another laptop?  My Samsung NoteMaster will not go into suspend
>mode under OS/2 2.0.
>
>Thanks!
>Ben
>


What is usually done to enter suspend mode on the IBM and Samsung
laptops?  I'm not familiar with either.    On my Toshiba, I just close
the lid; works great under OS/2.

--Golden
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grichard@cis.ohio-state.edu                                   (614) 292-0056
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: hank@ducvax.auburn.edu
Subject: Re: questions about dvips, elm/vi...
Organization: Auburn University, AL
Date: Sun, 27 Sep 1992 13:11:23 GMT

In article <Bv8DvG.8I3@news.cso.uiuc.edu>, thoth@uiuc.edu (Ben Cox) writes:
> 1) I'm having a bit of trouble with TERMCAP and TERM.  I set
> TERMCAP=D:/emx/etc/termcap.dat, and TERM=rmono.  This works for
> xemacs, but not for elvis.  Elvis says simply "Unrecognized TERM
> type", and Elm says "Failed trying to initialize your terminal entry:
> unknown return code -3" (which I presume means file not found).

Wild guess #1: elvis does not look for TERMCAP, but searches the PATH.
If I recall correctly, less 177 (16-bit) from Kai Uwe Rommel ignores TERMCAP.

Wild guess #2: elvis does not understand forward slashes--use '\'.


> 2) DVIPS can't find "tex.pro".  It is in d:\emtex\ps; what do I need
> to tell it to get it to Do The Right Thing?

Who compiled dvips? If it is Sinha's port for OS/2 2.0 from ftp-os2.nmsu.edu
in pub/os2/2.0/emtex/, then it is compiled for the C drive. If I recall
correctly, you should set TEXCONFIG so that dvips can find config.ps, then
set the paths correctly in config.ps.  Remember, an '*' in config.ps
means a comment-line.

I ported dvips from Sinha's port to obtain an OS/2 1.3 (and MSDOS) executable.
It should appear in pub/os2/all/emtex/ soon, and the same advice goes.

--darrel hankerson hank@ducvax.auburn.edu
From: hatton@socrates.ucsf.edu (Tom Hatton)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: Crashes with TE/2 - have you seen this
Date: 7 Oct 92 03:47:24 GMT
Organization: UCSF Computer Graphics Lab

For TE/2 problems, the main "corrections" seem to be to use the new
commpak2.dll, and try out the new comm drivers (commga.zip on the IBM
ftp site, software.watson.ibm.com).
 
Tom
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: paril@ghost.dsi.unimi.it (letterio parisi)
Subject: CD ROM
Keywords: CD rom
Organization: Computer Science Dep. - Milan University
Date: Tue, 29 Sep 1992 13:54:22 GMT
Summary: cd rom

if you have any information about installing  cd-rom with os2 2.0
or 1.3 
mail at my address

thanks! bye
From: gregb@gout.austin.ibm.com
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: Doing Multiple Simultaneous Floppy Copies
Date: 5 Oct 92 14:00:40 GMT
Reply-To: gregb@pro-lep.cts.com
Organization: IBM, Austin
News-Software: IBM OS/2 PM RN (NR/2) v0.14 by O. Vishnepolsky and R. Rogers

In  <1992Oct2.132241.17995@weyrich.UUCP>  orville%weyrich@uunet.uu.net (Orville R. Weyrich) writes:
>In article <BvEH5t.JD5@news.cso.uiuc.edu> smlg1015@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Stuart M Lichtenthal) writes:
>>[stuff deleted]
>
>I tried to format two floppies (3.5 and 5.25) simultaneously and was 
>disappointed that the two drive lights alternated, i.e. I did not seem to
>get any speedup.
>
>Now that I think of it, I wonder if I was in two DOS boxes or two OS/2 boxes.
>I wonder if it would make a difference?

I wrote a PM program several years ago that sucked all the data off
a floppy (:-) and stored it in memory, to be dumped back to another
floppy, or stored on the HD.  It was multi-threaded, etc, but even
still, on my nice NCR micro-channel 486 . . . the drives alternated.

>
>Maybe it also depends on the type of floppy  disk controller you have. I have
>an old WD 16 bit MFM HD/FD controller in that particular machine.

I think something like a SCSI floppy controller (if such a beast is
possible) would be necessary, or atleast something coprocessed,
probably with some on-board memory - a bit much for a $50 floppy.
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From: gulcu@masg1.epfl.ch (Ceki Gulcu)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: OS/2 on SCSI
Keywords: dispair
Date: 2 Oct 92 23:02:17 GMT
Organization: Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne

Hi all,

We have just bought a Gateway 2000 486/33 with a 350MB SCSI HD controlled
by an Adaptec 1542B. OS/2 installs without hanging except that it runs
into errors reading the 9th diskette. I choose to ignore the problem
in order to let the installation complete, which it does.

After the installation, OS/2 boots fine and everything seems
OK. However, after a while I start loosing data randomly and CHKDSK
methodically finds corrupted clusters even though they were corrected
the last time it was run. Thus, I loose control of the system little
by little until OS/2 goes completely bzerk. 

I have noticed that SOMETIMES the HD goes in to a strange cycle where
its led blinks prediodically (about once every second). The only way
to stop this infernal cycle is to reboot the machine. This behaviour
was also observed during the installation just before OS/2 asks
for the infamous 9th diskette.

Note: - CHKDSK /F was run from the installation disquettes
      - Latest patches for AHA154x.ADD, OS2 kernel, HPFS.IFS were used.

Any ideas? solutions?

Thanking you in advance for your help,

GULCU Ceki
gc@lbdsun6.epfl.ch

University of Lausanne
Lausanne, Switzeland
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: mcgrath@staff.tc.umn.edu ()
Subject: Win-OS/2 in 386 enhanced mode
Keywords: window, 386, enhanced, win
Organization: University of Minnesota
Date: Mon, 5 Oct 1992 04:06:08 GMT

     Is there any way to get Win-OS2 to run in 386 enhanced mode?  I can't
seem to find any documentation on it.

     Thanks in advance,
     Mike McGrath

University of Minnesota
Undergraduate, Computer Science Dept.

mcgrath@staff.tc.umn.edu
From: s892705@minyos.xx.rmit.oz.au (Pak Khong)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: BC ++ from command line
Date: 1 Oct 92 03:55:43 GMT
Organization: RMIT Computer Centre
NNTP-Posting-Host: minyos.xx.rmit.oz.au

Does anyone know how to run Borland C++ version 3.0 from command line? 
I am running on a 386sx25 with 4Mb RAM and 80Mb HDD and I found that running desktop slows down the whole system. Now I am ruuning from command line and found
it quite zippy except when I run Windows program. A major problem that I have now is I can't run Borland C++ 3.0 from command line. I can't change the
 DPMI_DOS_API setting. I have to boot up into desktop (WPS)  and run from there.Which of course is annoying when I want to run other programs  as well. 
 Does anyone have a clue????

 Please mail me....Thanks.
 s892705@minyos.xx.rmit.oz.au
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: unruh@physics.ubc.ca (William Unruh)
Subject: Re: Looking for Screen Saver
Organization: University of British Columbia, Vancouver, B.C., Canada
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 1992 18:48:09 GMT

emartine@digi.lonestar.org (Edgar Martinez Martinez) writes:

> Doesn't Lockup waste CPU operation? I remember it moving a little lock around
>the screen. Is scrutl plain enough that it just blanks the screen without any
>fancy cartoons or CPU usage?

A cpu is a terrible thing to waste! 
Many people like having some minimal display to let them know that the
computer is still on, so they don't do something like switching it off (
or having their kids/spouses/collegues switch it off) to "save
electricity and it wasn't on anyway". So unless you are running
something that needs absolutely every CPU cycle, you're wasting CPU
operation anyway. Besides, those cartoons are fun to watch.
From: bab@se39.wg2.waii.com (Brian Button)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Creating new file types
Date: 28 Sep 92 18:20:23 GMT
Organization: Western Geophysical Exploration Products

I'm having a problem creating a template document file for Word for
Windows. I've tried creating a new file type for these files and tried
setting Word4Windows as the default Open choice for the template.
Unfortunately, neither one of these options worked :(

To create the new file type, I typed in the REXX script shown in the
WPS redbook and ran it. I then went into the settings and looked for
the new file type in the available types, but it wasn't there. Just to
be sure that the script worked, I ran it through PMREXX, and the
SysCreateObject line returned a 1, as it should, but no joy on the
creation front. Working from memory, the SysCreateObject line looked
like :

	SysCreateObject("W4W-Template","W4W-Template",
			"EXECPROG=e:\windword\winword.exe;TYPE1,TYPE2,TYPE3,,")

That's about as close as I can remember the line. Essentially, all I
changed on it from what it was in the redbook was the object name,
type, and program to run. What am I doing wrong?

I got some completely different problems when I tried to create a
template object. I started with a data object template and changed the
default open behavior to run Word4Windows. When I tried to run an
object created from the new template, W4W started vomiting because it
didn't understand the HPFS pathnames. How can I change the physical
location of the created object and still have it appear on the
desktop? Any suggestions?

As an aside, does anyone have any info on the Developers Assistance
Program? I called the publications number suggested by IBM to ask
about buying some books and they told me that certain things were only
available to DAP members. I'd appreciate any pointers to info on this.

Thanks in advance,

bab
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From: linstee@dutecaj.et.tudelft.nl (Erik van Linstee)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: Out of memory on 16mb system?!
Keywords: memory
Date: 6 Oct 92 08:20:49 GMT
Organization: Delft University of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering

Get rid of the kernel patch.

Erik


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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu (Timothy F. Sipples)
Subject: Re: Where is Rexxtacy?
Reply-To: sip1@midway.uchicago.edu
Organization: Dept. of Econ., Univ. of Chicago
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 1992 00:49:47 GMT

In article <_5+p49b.feustel@netcom.com> feustel@netcom.com (David Feustel) writes:
>Could someone post exactly where Rexxstacy is to be found and what
>the program does? Thanks.

REXXTacy is a REXX to C language translator.  You can obtain it via
anonymous ftp from ftp-os2.nmsu.edu.

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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: shurr@cbnews.cb.att.com (larry.a.shurr)
Subject: Re: A couple of questions...
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Columbus, OH
Date: Fri, 2 Oct 1992 17:31:36 GMT

In article <1992Sep25.235829.3367@midway.uchicago.edu> sip1@midway.uchicago.edu writes:
>In article <1992Sep25.030447.24237@umr.edu> gmartin@mcs213f.cs.umr.edu (Greg Martin ) writes:
>>[OS/2 Internals books query].

>I list two of the better titles in this area in the FAQ List.  "The
>Design of OS/2" and the IBM redbooks, specifically.

Just the FAQs, please (groan -- I'm really reaching, or that wretching, here).
Thanks for the FAQ list, Tim.  It is the place to go for info like this.

>>  And, can someone explain to me how it is that OS/2
>>has no problems reading floppies formatted with FDFORMAT,
>>you know, one of those nifty formatters that let's you
>>get ~1.7Meg out of an HD 3.5?  With DOS, I had to 
>>run FDREAD which, I believe patched MSDOS.SYS so it
>>would read these disks.  I figured OS/2 would choke
>>on these disks, but it seems to read them fine, and
>>that bugs me for some reason.

>"A better DOS than DOS..."  :-)

Yes.  I think so, actually.  It appears to me that OS/2 actually uses
the BIOS Parameter Block on the disk to get the geometry instead of
the obsolete, kludgy media byte.  MicroSoft defined it, but they've
never used it on floppy disks.  Unfortunately, unless there is a setting
or driver patch I have overlooked (could happen very easily), OS/2 won't
read my 720K 5.25 inch floppy disks made using FDFORMAT.  It wants to
read them, but it assumes that they are single-track density, like 360K
floppies, and that just won't work.  It behaves as though a 5.25 floppy
written in double (data) density format cannot possibly be using double 
TRACK density -- bad assumption, though understandable; the 720K 5.25
format never really caught on in DOS.  I only know of two machines which
routinely supported that format: the Texas Instruments Professional
Computer (hooray!) and the old Tandy 2000. I am now slowly retiring my
5.25 720K disks.  An annoying nuisance.

Larry
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From: hatton@socrates.ucsf.edu (Tom Hatton)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: VSVGA.SYS nonsense
Date: 6 Oct 92 21:27:14 GMT
Organization: UCSF Computer Graphics Lab

checker@acf5.NYU.EDU (checker) writes:

>ochealth@unixg.ubc.ca (ochealth) writes about two pages of Byzantine
>rules to get the Trident driver to work:
>>keep trying. The Trident card works...sorta

>Before I try this voodoo, will it work?  In other words, can you
>consistently switch back and forth to full screen sessions without
>the screen being garbled?

With a generic ET4 card and a NEC 3D, I can switch between any session
type happily with the Orchid proii beta driver (800x600x256) and the
vsvga.sys fix for ET4 cards. Trident seems to be problematic, as does
ATI in Win sessions.

Tom
From: kevinc@aupair.cs.athabascau.ca (Kevin Crocker)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: tcpip csd
Date: 29 Sep 92 22:32:26 GMT
Article-I.D.: aupair.kevinc.717805946

Hi all, just a wierd question.  Please answer by e-mail.

The tcpip csd that was put on watson and hobbes, how much of my
original tcpip installation needs to exist (i.e. be intact) for the csd
to work.  My hard drive had a little accident and I deinstalled tcpip
to fix the hd - do I have to reinstall the whole damn thing just so I
can install the csd right on top of it?

Can I do some sort of minimal install that will work so I don't spend
so much time flipping disks in and out?

Kevin
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From: grichard@swimming.cis.ohio-state.edu (Golden Richard III)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: Redbooks on software.watson.ibm.com
Date: 30 Sep 92 18:03:37 GMT
Article-I.D.: cis.1992Sep30.180337.29211
Organization: The Ohio State University Dept. of Computer and Info. Science

In article <1992Sep30.150832.100850@watson.ibm.com> nrt@watson.ibm.com (Nicholas R. Trio) writes:
>Apparently, there was some problem with the Redbooks that were put
>out the other day, so I have the newest replacements from Boca.  
>They are now on software.watson.ibm.com...the files are in the
>pub/os2/misc directory:
>
>redbook.packa
>redbk1.zip
>redbk2.zip
>redbl3.zip
>redbk4.zip
>
>If you got the redbooks before this morning (before 11:10 EDT) you might
>want to get the new ones I just put out.
>
>Nick Trio (nrt@watson.ibm.com)
>


Any comments on what the problem was and which redbooks (if not all)
had the problem?

--Golden
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grichard@cis.ohio-state.edu                                   (614) 292-0056
From: hatton@socrates.ucsf.edu (Tom Hatton)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: How's it like to run OS/2 in 4M?
Date: 5 Oct 92 06:58:55 GMT
Organization: UCSF Computer Graphics Lab

byu@white.toronto.edu (Benjamin Yu) writes:
>Well, I did it .. I bought the laptop.  It is a Samsung Notemaster 386sxl/25
>with 4M Ram and 80M HD.  I installed the minimum of OS/2, took about 15M.
>To boot OS/2 from C-A-D to WPS with a system clock, one DOS window, one OS/2
>window takes about 2 minutes.  I was a bit impressed and this is just the
>GA code!  Once my DOS or OS/2 windows are opened, editing while installing
>applications in parallel are acceptable, with no loss of cursor, etc.  
>However starting Windows is very slow and almost unusable.  

Well, stay tuned on the Win front. The speed of the Win3.1 beta is very
very good; it seems indistinguishable from Win3.1 for most things (to me)
and a benchmark (PC Mags' WinBench/Winmark) show about 90% of the native
Win3.1 - ok, it's a benchmark, and so on and so forth, but it seems to 
agree with my "real world" observations. 

And this is with beta code, so by 1/1/93, let's hope we have release code,
and SVGA drivers, and we'll be smiling. :-)

Tom
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc,comp.sys.ibm.pc,comp.os.msdos.misc,comp.multimedia
From: walls@saifr00.cfsat.honeywell.com (Gerald Walls)
Subject: Re: CDROM experts PLEASE HELP ME!!!
Keywords: CDROM CD ROM gods experts question msdos extensions
Organization: Honeywell Air Transport Systems Division
Date: Fri, 2 Oct 92 15:34:03 GMT

I would demand my money back for misrepresentation of the product.
then buy one that is SCSI.  as far as access files/directories with
non-DOS standard names, you'll have to have special software to
handle that.
From: v053qpgh@ubvmsd.cc.buffalo.edu (Eric W Sarjeant)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: Optimize OS/2 on 486 machine
Date: 28 Sep 92 17:43:00 GMT
Organization: University at Buffalo
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41

In article <sal8.31.717661297@po.cwru.edu>, sal8@po.cwru.edu (Steve Luzynski) writes...
>In article <1992Sep28.053112.25350@news.Hawaii.Edu> lkan@uhunix.uhcc.Hawaii.Edu (Linus Kan) writes:
>>From: lkan@uhunix.uhcc.Hawaii.Edu (Linus Kan)
>>Subject: Optimize OS/2 on 486 machine 
>>Date: Mon, 28 Sep 1992 05:31:12 GMT
>>Hi there:
>>
>>I have a 486 machine with 16Meg RAM plus 2 hard drives (120Meg each)
>>using FAT.
>>
>>*one of my objects on the desktop turned black--ie. from an image of
>>a disk to a black square.
> 
>There's a fix for that - it's called blkico.zip on software.watson.ibm.com.
> 
I have been having this problem with the little icons in the control box.
It's only evident when I'm in 1024x768x16 mode using my old 1.x TSENG
drivers. Will this fix work for that also? Are there any side effects
to this fix?
>>
>>*unable to delete .exe files because OS/2 apparently is accessing it
>>--but I don't see the running process in the Task List.
> 
>Then they are probably system files the WPS is using. If you really want to 
>try deleting them, boot off your install disks.
> 
I have noticed this problem as well, and these are NOT files that are
currently in use by the system. Here is an example. After generating a
pile of TARGA images with DKB for OS/2, I translated them into GIF images
with GWS for DOS. While this was ongoing (the translating) I was
formatting disks in the background. Everything was grand.

Then I went ahead and copied the translated GIF's to the disks (_after_
properly terminating GWS -- the files could not have been in use...).
To make a long story short, every so often OS/2 would beep and warn me
that one of the GIF files being copied was currently in use. I wasn't
doing anything else!

It's bizzare and annoying. The files do get copied flawlessly, but the
beeps and the message boxes are quite bothersome. 

Is this a FAQ? I have the list and haven't seen it listed - and it's very
random. I wonder what could be causing it?
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