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From: sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu (Timothy F. Sipples)
Subject: Re: OS2 and floppy drives- input frozen while drive accessed
Keywords: floppy, input
Reply-To: sip1@midway.uchicago.edu
Organization: Dept. of Econ., Univ. of Chicago
Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1993 17:07:32 GMT

In article <1993Jan22.234627.26211@porthos.cc.bellcore.com> ral@athens.cc.bellcore.com (Ronald A. Levenberg) writes:
>I've noticed a *VERY* high CPU usage whenever I print on my IBM PS/2 Model 70.
>I'm using a HP Laser Printer with Postscript cartridge connnected to LPT1.
>I've got 14 MB of memory.
>Under OS/2, one of the CPU meters shows CPU activity up at 40% - 50%
>when the spooler is churning output to the printer.  Then, CPU usage
>goes down while the printer chugs away, then the usage goes way up again
>for the next chunk of data.  During the time, the mouse is quite unresponsive.
>Under regular Windows 3.1, not OS/2, it's even worse.  Mouse clicks and
>menu choices are ignored for even longer periods of time than with OS/2, so
>much so that you can't use Windows at all until the printing stops.
>On my COMPAQ 386/33L, which only has Windows 3.1, the machine is perfectly
>usage during printing.
>Why does this happen, and is there any way to tune the system so the
>CPU is usable during the printing?

I have two suggestions.  The first is to use your reference diskette
and try switching your parallel port to "enhanced" mode, if you model
supports that feature.  (Certain PS/2s can use DMA on the parallel
port.)

The other, assuming you are running with the OS/2 Service Pak, is to
go to your System Setup folder and double click on Spooler.  In one of
those notebook pages you should be able to adjust the printing
priority.  Reduce it, and you should find your computer more
responsive, although you may sacrifice printing performance.

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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc,comp.os.os2.advocacy
From: nap42487@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Nishith A. Patel)
Subject: Re: Is OS/2 a dead end?
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 23:50:15 GMT

dab6@po.CWRU.Edu (Douglas A. Bell) writes:


>In a previous article, bill@west.msi.com (Bill Poitras) says:

>>Douglas A. Bell (dab6@po.CWRU.Edu) wrote:
>>: >Gates: It's certainly a dead end.  That's indisputable.
>>: >Nobody would dispute that it's a dead end.
>>: I think Bill Gates has finally gone off his rocker and started to
>>: believe the crap that his marketing department spews out.  There is
>>: something to be said for a positive out look, but it is another thing
>>: to deny reality.
>>
>>Oh please.  Bill Gates is probably saying this because you wants
>>everybody else to believe it.  I have heard management in MY company say:
>>"Bill Gates says OS/2 is dead" and they believe it.

>Bill Gates is going to lose a lot of credibility over this one.

From who? OS/2 computer enthusiasts? I'm sure Gates would agree with me when
I say, "Ohhh, well."

It appears the OS/2 advocates were really hoping OS/2 would become successful,
and when it didn't, they start saying things about how those that put down
OS/2 will somehow be haunted by what they said when OS/2 rises from the dead
and makes them look like idiots. Sort of a desparation argument.

DON'T WORRY ABOUT IT. If you bought OS/2 hoping this would happen, you certainlytook a long-shot chance. Just think of it as a DOS multitasker.

BTW, by successful, I mean mainstream, not 1.5 million users.
From: dic5340@hertz.njit.edu (David Charlap)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: Soundblaster with MMPM/2
Date: 22 Jan 93 14:48:19 GMT
Organization: New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, N.J.

In article <1993Jan20.201815.1@vmsb.is.csupomona.edu> cvadrhfd@vmsb.is.csupomona.edu writes:
>
>And I have it set on 220 and IRQ 7. Yeah, I know it conflicts w/ the printer
>port. And MMPM/2 works fine for me. One small thing I changed was from
>device 0 to device 1 for both WAV and MID player and it works great.

Can you print this way?



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From: lmp8913@zeus.tamu.edu (PRESTON, LISA M)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: WINOS/2 session settings disappeared?
Date: 25 Jan 1993 23:25 CST
Organization: Texas A&M University, Academic Computing Services
Distribution: world
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News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41    

In article <1k1rniINN6i1@swimming.cis.ohio-state.edu>, grichard@cis.ohio-state.edu (Golden Richard) writes...
-> 
->I've been using 2.1beta for about 2 weeks and this is the first major
->problem I've run into:
-> 
->I have a program object icon on my desktop for Amipro.  When I double
->clicked on it today (it was working yesterday and previously), I got
->an error message.  I opened the settings for the Amipro object and
->under Session, DOS WINDOW was selected.  The WINOS/2 window and full
->screen radio buttons were dark (unavailable)!  I checked my WINOS/2
->full screen object under command prompts and it also had the WINOS/2
->radio buttons disabled.  I haven't done anything since yesterday (when
->all was well) that would obviously have caused these problems.   

	I noticed the same thing when I tried to change the settings of a
full-screen app to seamless-It was marked to run in an OS/2 window!! 
The funny thing was, it still ran fine as a WINOS2 Full-screen!

	Selective install of Winos2 and DOS fixed it right up.

->Note that my installation of 2.1b was done after a reformat.  Any ideas?

Mine, too. 

Someone with a CIS account should post this one!

LISA
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: jmorriso@ee.ubc.ca (John Paul Morrison)
Subject: Can't install OS/2 2.1beta
Organization: University of BC, Electrical Engineering
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 03:32:38 GMT


Grrrr.


I can't install OS/2 2.1 beta.

It gets all the way to the LAST DISK, and then it hangs.
If I reboot after that, OS/2 starts to boot from the hard disk, buten
hangs at the logo. At this point, pressing enter once makes
it access the harddisk. pressing enter again, and OS/2 starts churning
and then no more keyboard action is recognized (from this point, ctrl-alt-del
no longer works)

I tried changing the spb506.add driver as suggested, with no luck. I tried
the newer version from IBM, I also tried the generic int13 driver,
and OS/2 can't boot either.

what's wrong?
(IDE drive, AMI BIOS, AMD386-40, HPFS formatted)

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From: azzarito@cse.fau.edu (Doug Azzarito)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: Must I have to reformat to install the new OS/2 2.1 beta
Date: 25 Jan 93 19:24:33 GMT
Organization: Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, FL, USA

In article <81692@hydra.gatech.EDU> gt0040a@prism.gatech.EDU (Tom Sorensen) writes:
>Question- I'll gladly format and reinstall, but how can I keep my GA+SP desktop?
>I've got WPSBackup but is it safe to restore the 2.0 desktop (w/ INI files)
>over the 2.1 one? I really don't want to deal with going through all the
>customization again.

If you want to keep your existing setup, then don't re-format.  IBM is
testing installation over 2.0.  I have done it on several machines with good
results.
From: enk2@po.cwru.edu (Erik Kovach)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: Anything like SOFTMAC available?
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 05:08:08 GMT
Organization: Case Western Reserve University
NNTP-Posting-Host: b62711.student.cwru.edu

In article <93025.133917DGRAHAM@HARPERVM.BITNET> <DGRAHAM@HARPERVM.BITNET> writes:
>Is there anything available for OS/2 that will do MacIntosh emulation. Does
>anyone know if this is even possible. And if not, at least a utility to read
>in MacIntosh files. I tried the macutils found on hobbes, but that seemed to
>be for reading Mac files into Unix, and not OS/2. Thanks for any info.

I REALLY REALLY REALLY REALLY REALLY doubt that there is a Macintosh emulator
for two reasons: hardware and the Macintosh copyrights that they have been,
well, anal about.  Macintosh-formatted disks, I am pretty sure, cannot be
read by PC's (although if you have a Mac, PC disks can be read/altered, so
use a Mac to convert a file to FAT file system and THEN use the Macutils
program).
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: hankedr@mail.auburn.edu (Darrel Hankerson)
Subject: Re: c0000005 -- what does it mean?
Organization: Auburn University, Alabama
Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 14:51:24 GMT

In article <1993Jan22.103552.27602@donau.et.tudelft.nl> linstee@dutecaj.et.tudelft.nl (Erik van Linstee) writes:
> [video problem]
> [suggestion to get bvhsvga]
>
>What exactly does it solve?

Well, it solves the problem mentioned in the post. From the documentation:

---  FIX FOR OS/2 2.0 APAR PJ03721  ---  May 19, 1992

APAR:      PJ03721

SYSTEM:    OS/2 2.0 GA

Module(s): \OS2\DLL\BVHSVGA.DLL

CORRECTS:

In general - None.

Specific -   Fixes problem with OEM and PCM systems using the
             Western Digital SVGA video adapter with VRAM. This
             problem caused OS/2 2.0 to terminate with error
             "C0000005" when the SVGA.SYS driver is loaded in
             CONFIG.SYS.

Contradictions - Fix is specific to problem stated above and should
             not be installed on systems not having this problem.

Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: jst50986@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Jack S. Tan)
Subject: Installing gcc?
Summary: Can't #include in gcc
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 07:27:26 GMT
Keywords: gcc

This problem seems kind of simple, but it's been bothering me:  how does
one install gcc for OS/2?  I have set up the directories correctly; have
set the environmental strings correctly, with the proper slash/backslash
orientation; and have added the bin directory to my path.  The problem
comes when compiling the sample code (a 'hello, world!' program).  I get
an error similar to

sample.c 1:  undefined or invalid # directive

Line 1 is '#include <stdio.h>'!  Hmmm... seems a bit odd to me.  Any ideas?

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From: fiv2@cunixa.cc.columbia.edu (Fidel I Villa)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: OS/2 Mark/Copy Bug
Date: 24 Jan 93 16:13:25 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: Columbia University


Try this:

Open two DOS sessions - one running DOS EDIT.EXE

type any text file in the other, e.g. 'type config.sys'

Mark and copy some text: e.g.

SET PATH=C:\OS2;C:\OS2\SYSTEM

Go to the other session and paste it.

I am getting similar to:

SE TPATH=C:\OS 2;C:\OS2\S YSTEM
  ^           ^          ^
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: markus@edfd.uucp (Markus Gruenkorn (MAGIC))
Subject: Still problems with AMI BIOS ?
Keywords: AMI BIOS
Organization: EDAG, ENGINEERING + DESGIN AG, Fulda, FRG
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 14:36:31 GMT


Hi guys !
I am working for a big company. We installed OS2 2.0 on different PC's
with more or less problems but we are not able to install it on one kind
of PC with a specific board respectivly a specific BIOS. The number of the AMI
BIOS is DINT-6102-091589-K8. There are many PC's with this kind of board, bios,
therefore I would like to know a way to install OS 2.0 om them. Maybe there
is a patch for OS2 2.0 (the service pack did not solve this problem I tried it), or there is a newer version of the bios. If there is a newer version of the bios I would like to know where I can get it.
Any information would be appreciated !
thanks in advance!


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From: tcscs!zeta@src.honeywell.com (Gregory Youngblood)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: OS/2 must ship with systems
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 93 23:12:20 CST
Reply-To: zeta%tcscs@src.honeywell.com
Organization: TCS Consulting Services

apoulsen@athena.mit.edu (Andy Poulsen) writes:

> >>>>> On 23 Jan 93 12:22:18 GMT, Steve.Withers@bbs.actrix.gen.nz said:
> 
> >At risk of starting the FTC thing again.......i just read through most of th
> >ads in the December Computer Shopper (mine comes by boat...OK?).
> >  
> >"* includes MSDOS5 and Windows 3.1!" 
> >  
> >got pretty boring by the 300th ad. A couple mentioned other OS's being
> >available...usually OS/2 was first mentioned as an alternative.
> >  
> >But why virtually NO vendors will offer OS/2 as an option has me wondering.
> >People who use OS/2 almost have to go out and *find* it. I don't blame IBM f
> >this completely. The MS lock on the mail-order PC market *is* a virtual
> >monopoly. No one else gets a look in. 
> 
> >How can OS/2 get vendors to ship it with systems? I don't know what the answ
> >is: make it $10 a copy to OEMs like MS has done with their software? 
> 
> i think this is a great idea; however, i think that if it comes with
> os/2 it should also come with a boot manager or dual boot option, since
> there are a few pieces of software (most notably CAD stuff -- i use
> personal designer by computervision) that won't run under os/2 (or
> windows, for that matter) because their dos extender doesn't support
> dpmi memory (i've heard it's just a command-line option on the compiler,
> but couldn't get anyone at the company who knew anything about the
> programmer's side of things...).  so i still have to boot dos if i want
> to use that package.  as (if ?) support for os2 grows, then i could run
> it under os2.  for now, however, i'm stuck booting dos.
> 
> the bottom line is that although i think shipping systems with os2 is a
> great idea, there will be people who will need the dos option.  (also,
> perhaps people are still afraid of a big new thing like os2 and would be
> afraid to have it as their only option...)

The next step is to have IBM PS/2  and  PS/1 systems that are able to ship
with OS/2 on it ready to go instead of DOS/Windows.

Greg

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From: tos@oz.plymouth.edu (Tom Schlesinger)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Very basic questions, but I hope not in FAQ??
Date: 25 Jan 93 22:13:51 GMT
Organization: Plymouth State College - Plymouth, NH.


   1.  OS/2 according to the Index of the Manual has a screen dimmer; but on
the page referenced, i.e. p. 49, it absolutely says nothing about it, nor
anywhere else that I can find.  Any suggestions?

   2.  I've obtained an NEC CD-ROM driver that may work (by ftp) for my new
machine on which I installed OS/2 the other day.  Now, how do I install this
fine driver, and what else do I need to do to try and run the CD-ROM from OS/2
instead of from DOS?

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From: seanm@romulus.rutgers.edu (Sean Marrinan)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: DIAMOND STEALTH DRIVERS NEEDED
Date: 22 Jan 93 17:56:20 GMT
Organization: Rutgers University



Anyone got a copy or know what's up with the diamond stealth drivers.
I'm sick of 16 colors.  

please post or email any info you have.

seanm@remus.rutgers.edu
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: "joe kovacs" <joe.kovacs@canrem.com>
Subject: os/2 qwk reader and pkzip
Reply-To: "joe kovacs" <joe.kovacs@canrem.com>
Organization: Canada Remote Systems
Distribution: comp
Date: 24 Jan 93 02:47:09 EST

On 01-18-93  17:58, Cvadrhfd wrote to All as follows: 
 


 Cv> Anyone know an OS/2 QWK mail reader that'll work with QWK files that
 Cv> are packed with PKZIP 2.04c?

 Cv> I tried PMQWK, KWQ/2 and MR2 and all three unpacks the QWK files
 Cv> improperly. 
 Cv> Also, I just got InfoZIP 5.0 (dated 1-15-93) from hobbes. Is this the
 Cv> version that is suppose to handle wildcards?

 Cv> I tried unzip c:\zip\foo*.* and it didn't work.

I think that *no* OS/2 reader will work with PKZip 2.04, period, because
2.04C is a *DOS* zipper. OS/2 readers will only work with OS/2 zippers.
An OS/2 version of PKZip 2.04 is said to be in the works.

I got it to work OK with Bluewave in a DOS session after a month of
trying. The trick was in adding the key "-)" to the zipper file
specification in the Setup, Archivers, ZIP. Thus, my two Zip lines read:

D:\LIBRARY\POOF\PKZIP.EXE  #F  @I  -)
D:\LIBRARY\POOF\PKUNZIP.EXE  #F  #I  -)

#F @I are stock BW coded thingies.

Early on, following advice, I set EMS, DPMI and XMS TO 0 trying to get
it to work, but there was no result. Later, I put in the  -)  and it
worked. I didn't then revise the EMS et al, because it worked fine like
that.


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From: Steve.Withers@bbs.actrix.gen.nz
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: Windows Standard/Enhanced in Beta 2.1 - how?
Date: 24 Jan 93 12:48:04 GMT
Organization: Actrix Information Exchange

In article <C19KrB.LnM@watserv1.uwaterloo.ca> schepers@watserv1.uwaterloo.ca (Peter Schepers) writes:
> 
> It seems when you install the system clean, and without installing the
> hires video drivers, you get the WIN_RUNMODE option. At least I did when I
> installed it a few days ago here at work. When I installed the 800x600x256
> ATI XL drivers, the option disappeared. The same thing happened with the
> WD90C30 drivers.
> 
> Does this mean that if I re-install the DOS/Windows support, this will
> come back?

I think it will. I am glad this has been clarfied somewhat. On the two
installs where the WIN_RUNMODE was not installed, re-installing the DOS/WinOS2
support fixed it. Doing this also re-installs your video drivers......
 
Steve
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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: kellmeye@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (kellmeyer steven l)
Subject: Re: converting GIF ---===> BMP
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 03:24:17 GMT

nsorathi@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Nilesh Sorathia) writes:

>Is there a program out that will convert 1024x768x256 GIF to
>1024x768x256 BMP?  I have a program called GWS that's suppose to convert
>the files, but everytime I try converting it gives me an error saying
>something like "file can't be converted".  I tried all the GIFs I have
>and none of them worked.
>What I'm trying to do is make a BMP for the background of OS/2.
>Does anyone have any suggestions?
>If so, my E-Mail address is "Nsorathia@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu"

Ditto.  Where does one pick up a program that does such a conversion? 
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From: lmp8913@zeus.tamu.edu (PRESTON, LISA M)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: OS/2 Mark/Copy Bug
Date: 24 Jan 93 17:16:00 GMT
Article-I.D.: zeus.24JAN199311163397
Distribution: usa
Organization: Texas A&M University, Academic Computing Services
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In article <1993Jan24.161325.15241@news.columbia.edu>, fiv2@cunixa.cc.columbia.edu (Fidel I Villa) writes...
> 
->Try this: 
->Open two DOS sessions - one running DOS EDIT.EXE
->type any text file in the other, e.g. 'type config.sys'
->Mark and copy some text: e.g.
->SET PATH=C:\OS2;C:\OS2\SYSTEM
->Go to the other session and paste it.
->I am getting similar to: 

->SE TPATH=C:\OS 2;C:\OS2\S YSTEM
->  ^           ^          ^

	We reported this as a bug in the last Beta (pre-SP).  Obviusly it has
not been fixed, as I just reproduced it in the 2.1 Beta. It did the same
thing in WordPerfect for DOS, so it is not QBASIC's fault. 

HEY IBM: Listening? 

LISA
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: jhintze@niksula.hut.fi (Bu Richard Jochum Hintze)
Subject: printer problems
Organization: Helsinki University of Technology, Finland
Distribution: comp.os.os2.misc
Date: 28 Jan 93 00:54:59

 I am having problems with getting my printer to work
properly with the Epson LQ 2500 driver. I have a cut
sheet feeder which the driver doesn't seem to be able
to communicate with.
 It works well if I emulate a IBM XL printer and use 
the corresponding driver and it also works in plain DOS, 
so I doubt that the cable is defective.
 I'm very grateful for any hints on how to get it working
the way it should.

Jochum Hintze

p.s I've tried both 2.0 & 2.1b .
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu (Timothy F. Sipples)
Subject: Re: .INF file format
Reply-To: sip1@midway.uchicago.edu
Organization: Dept. of Econ., Univ. of Chicago
Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1993 17:36:55 GMT

In article <1993Jan23.220238.656@sbcs.sunysb.edu> mjn@sbmiclr.cs.sunysb.edu (The Sixth Replicant) writes:
>Has anyone had any success decoding the .INF file format ?  I've got
>INF01.ZIP from hobbes, but this info doesn't seem to describe, for
>example, the PRCP.INF file. Any help or pointerse would be appreciated.

Any INF file for OS/2 is in Information Presentation Facility format.
To view it, just type:

VIEW (filename)

at any OS/2 command line prompt.

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From: kgallagh@digi.lonestar.org (Kevin Gallagher)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: Why are os/2 manuals so usless?
Date: 25 Jan 93 07:25:51 GMT
Organization: DSC Communications Corp, Plano, TX

In article <1993Jan20.223633.21866@midway.uchicago.edu> sip1@midway.uchicago.edu writes:
>In any event, I'm hearing that a "real" manual will be included in the
>2.1 shrinkwrap.  What appears to be a draft of the manual is on the
>2.1 beta CD-ROM.

I purchased a hardcopy of the 2.0 GA Command Reference manual (cost me nearly
$40!).  It is quite a bit easier to read and look up information in the
hardcopy version than in the on-line version, this is for certain.  (I grew
quite tired of chasing one reference after another, sometimes going in
circles, looking for the DETAILED information I needed, when I used the
on-line version!)

However, the Command Reference manual is skimpy, to say the least.  It is the
place to look up the syntax of a command you already know you want to use for
a particular purpose.  But don't expect to find any detailed technical
discussion of why and how you might want to use any of the commands!  And
don't expect to find many non-trivial examples of how to use the command.
Most commands have NO examples.  IBM gets a D- here on user documentation.

User documentation is one of the BIGGEST problems with OS/2!  Without
excellent user documentation which provides sufficient technical information
to isolate, diagnose, and fix most end user problems, OS/2 will fail.

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