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From: mccall@mksol.dseg.ti.com (fred j mccall 575-3539)
Subject: Re: Question about Parallel Port, please read
Organization: Texas Instruments Inc
Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1992 19:54:08 GMT

In <4825@cruzio.santa-cruz.ca.us> nording@cruzio.santa-cruz.ca.us writes:



>I really don't pay that much attention to the printer interrupt (IRQ7).
>I even have another device using it.  It only would make sense with 
>memory-resident print programs (DOS print, background printing features,
>etc.).  It's different with COM ports.  Also, IRQ2 may have special uses, 

IRQ2 is the cascade interrupt for the first controller.  It will
automatically be remapped to IRQ9 (which is unused) by the
controllers. 

>IRQ6 is for floppy-disk drives, and IRQ5 is for hard drives.  

No, IRQ5 is the interrupt for LPT2:

>Re-assignment
>of these interrups ... well... I couldn't recommend it !!!

I suggest you investigate more fully.  My machine at home is currently
configured as follows (using 2 I/O boards):

	COM1 - IRQ4	Serial Mouse
	COM2 - IRQ3	Modem (16550AFN UART)
	COM3 - IRQ2	Modem (16550AFN UART)
	COM4 - IRQ5	Unused (but I've had a modem there, it works)
	LPT1 - IRQ7	Laser printer
	LPT2 - IRQ5	Unused (once used to link two machines, it works)

Everything works fine.  I not only RECOMMEND doing this; it is the only
way (other than multi-port boards with special drivers) to have more
than 2 usable COM ports that will work at the same time.

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From: cvetp036@vmsb.is.csupomona.edu
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: XFEEL in STARTUP.CMD
Date: 26 Dec 92 19:49:36 GMT
Organization: California State Polytechnic University, Pomona
Nntp-Posting-User: cvetp036

I ftp'ed the XFEEL program from hobbes.

It works fine when I do a start xfeel in an OS/2 session.

But when I put it in my STARTUP.CMD it hangs the system when it hits that line
in the STARTUP.CMD.
I realized that XFEEL isn't a complete programs (says so in the README file)
but has anyone successfully started up XFEEL in their STARTUP.CMD?

Here's the content of my STARTUP.CMD:

@echo off
 
START d:\utility\pmclock.exe
d:\os2\MODE
COM2:57600,N,8,1,TO=ON,XON=OFF,IDSR=OFF,ODSR=OFF,OCTS=ON,RTS=HS,BUFFER=ON
d:\os2\MODE COM3:2400,N,8,1
d:\os2\cache /lazy:on
d:\utility\4os2\shralias
alias /r d:\utility\4os2\alias.txt
 
EXIT
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From: calica@cae.wisc.edu (Carlo James Calica)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc,comp.os.os2.programmer,misc.forsale.computers.pc-clone
Subject: Re: FOR SALE: IBM OS/2 November DAP CD-ROM
Date: 31 Dec 92 00:18:16 GMT
Organization: College of Engineering, Univ. of Wisconsin--Madison

In article <1hqtu0INN3cj@uwm.edu> tanith@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (Mike Kretzer) writes:
>IBM just messed up a recent order I made for the November Developer's
>Assistance Program CD-ROM and sent me two extra copies.  Instead of going 
>through the bother of sending them back, I decided to see if anyone was
>interested in buying them from me (especially the folks outside of the USA
>where I hear these CD-ROMs are hard to find).
>
>I'm asking $25.00US for each (shipping incl.).  Send email to 
>tanith@csd4.csd.uwm.edu if you are interested...
>

I'm Sorry but $25 is WAY WAY to much.  You can get the same thing from IBM for
$15 with shipping.  Actually the $15 is the shipping.  Order it today and
they'll send it second day air Federal Express.  Sorry to flame you but.....

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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc,fido.nz_os2,fido.os2
From: Steve.Withers@bbs.actrix.gen.nz
Subject: OS/2 b2.1 - SVGA install "feature".
Organization: Actrix Information Exchange
Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 19:39:38 GMT

When installing the OS/2 2.1 beta you will likely chose the "Primary Display"
option on the install menu. You will go through your install. 
 
If you are like me.....then you dont get offered any SVGA drivers....:-(
 
Fix: Open System Settings and chose Selective Install. Pick the "Primary
Display" option again and go through the re-install procedure (yes, disks
6-19). At the end, it will tell you it is checking your hardware
compatibility and do the DOS full-screen, SVGA ON thing we all know and love.
 
It will then offer you the SVGA resolutions appropriate for your card - in my
case, a Trident 8900c with 1 meg. After that...follow your nose.
 
Steve

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From: dic5340@hertz.njit.edu (David Charlap)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: Hot-key to kill WPS?
Date: 22 Dec 92 17:03:15 GMT
Organization: New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, N.J.

In article <BzI7rI.DpI@undergrad.math.waterloo.edu> papresco@cantor.math.uwaterloo.ca (Paul Prescod) writes:
>As far as I am concerned, IBM really, really, wasted Ctrl-Alt-Del.
>C-A-D is a hardware interrupt,

All keyboard input is a hardware interrupt.  That's what INT-9 (DOS)
is for.

>so as long as the handler isn't corrupted, it should ALWAYS get the
>system's attnetion.

This is also the case with CTRL-ESC and any other system key.  But
sometimes the handler gets corrupted.  It's a bug.

>And I've never had a case when I couldn't reboot with ctrl-alt-del.

You've been lucky.  I've had WPS lock up completely on occasion,
CTRL-ALT-DEL would do nothing.  Oddly enough, the mouse pointer would
still move, but that's all that would work.  (no, I couldn't click
anything, either)

>So why couldn't the C-A-D handler bring up a menu: "Kill WPS, Start
>cmd.exe session, attempt shutdown, Reboot."

It could, and it probably should.  But that's not going to cure all
your problems.  And the "kill WPS" should be expanded to a general
"Kill a process...", and killing any processes should be a built-in
function - perhaps a menu item on the task list.
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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: Did microsoft really write an OS/2 "Terminator" crash prog?
From: oecn_smith@mec.ohio.gov
Date: 29 Dec 92 14:23:31 -0500
Reply-To: smith@leeca.oecn.ohio.gov
Distribution: world
Organization: Metrop. Educ. Council, Columbus, OH

In article <laird.725643909@thistle.ecn.purdue.edu>, laird@thistle.ecn.purdue.edu (Kyler Laird) writes:
> shurr@cbnews.cb.att.com (larry.a.shurr) writes:
> 
> I'd sure love some simple security that would keep people from deleting
> files like config.sys.  I thought that something like that was available
> for OS/2, but I can't recall.
> 
> --kyler

Hmmm, I must be simpleminded, but setting permission to read-only should keep
the casual user from doing to much harm.

bob - smith@leeca.oecn.ohio.gov
From: sasghw@pica.unx.sas.com (Greg Wust)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: Did microsoft really write an OS/2 "Terminator" crash prog?
Keywords: terminator microsoft crash
Date: 24 Dec 92 18:17:55 GMT
Organization: SAS Institute Inc.
Originator: sasghw@pica.unx.sas.com


In article <gershon.725175162@husc.harvard.edu>, gershon@husc11.harvard.edu (Ethan Gershon) writes:
|> I read in a recent PC mag that Microsoft put together an OS/2 terminator
|> program made specifically to crash OS/2.  To which L. Reiswig responded
|> "You have to stay up days and nights to write a program to crash OS/2.
|> With Windows that comes right in the box."
|>
|> Anyone know anything more about this?
|> (e.g. how they did it? what they did with the program? etc.)
|>
|>                                            --Ethan Gershon
|>                                            gershon@husc.harvard.edu


YES.  It was either Comdex last Fall or Spring.  MS went into the IBM
booth where OS/2 was up and running and began running their little
crash program on every machine they were allowed to walk up to.  And,
PC Magazine (as did most all others including InfoWorld and PC World)
wrote up about the childish little prank.  What became worse was that
IBM followed suit with its own little prank during a show presentation
on OS/2 where they caused MS Windows to crash in a similar way.  Made
both of them look really silly (pretty stupid for big companies, huh?).

Why would you want the program?? 
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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: "mike frisch" <mike.frisch@canrem.com>
Subject: opinion: what ibm should
Reply-To: "mike frisch" <mike.frisch@canrem.com>
Organization: Canada Remote Systems
Distribution: comp
Date: 31 Dec 92 00:48:33 EST


In a previous message, chris@cad.gatech.edu (Chris McClellen) writes:

CM> Those are some good suggestions.  I wish IBM would supply BETTER documentat
CM> WITH OS/2.  I hate the online reference.  You basically only get to search
CM> for topics you want help on.  Now, the REXX information thing is good,
CM> but the rest of them are disjointed.  I would like to see printed
CM> manuals distributed with OS/2, that are in a clear format.

     I agree with you that 'paper' documentation would've been better
with OS/2 since I can't stand the online docs either, but considering
the information contained in the online documentation, it would've
driven the price of OS/2 at least double what it is now.

CM> One thing that annoys me about OS/2 is that I do not know all of the
CM> settings that can be put in config.sys, and that I dont know what alot
CM> of the utilities, and files are.  I try to look them up in all
CM> the references, and they don't exist.

     This is why you scan any bulletin board systems or file sites for
text files on these subjects.  I've picked up MANY text files on the
topics that you've mentioned and keep them accessible at all times.  I
would love to see a simple reference manual (such as the manual
Microsoft included with DOS 5.0) that gives you a little information on
all of the commands.

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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: samiam@netcom.com (Scott Moore)
Subject: Re: XGA-2 Clarification
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  (408 241-9760 guest) 
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 06:31:04 GMT

Steve.Withers@bbs.actrix.gen.nz writes:

>I have been told that the ISA bus will allow only one bus mastering
>card.....whereas MCA will support several. 

I don't have the final answer to this question, but I note that the adaptec
1542 manual states that two 1542 cards may operate in the same ISA system
as long as they are jumpered to different DMA addresses. Since both cards
would perform bus mastering, this implies that it is indeed possible.
In fact, since the reason for the adaptec to perform bus mastering is to get
around the built - in DMA's speed limitations, one wonders why the card needs
to be jumpered for the DMA request lines (which normally request the 
motherboard to perform the DMA). I'll speculate here: perhaps adaptec is
using the onboard DMA's to arbitrate the request, then taking over the bus
when DMA in progress occurs ?

                                       [sam]sam
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From: dona@nwra.com (Dona)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: OS/2 2.1 on CDROM?  Different from December release of OS/2 PDK?
Date: 28 Dec 92 21:26:30 GMT
Article-I.D.: nwra.1992Dec28.212630.19635
Organization: Northwest Research Associates, Inc.

I just talked with someone at the IBM OS2 order desk.  He said
that the Dec Developer's kit contains the Beta of 2.1

He said that details were sketchy since it's such a new product,
and thus couldn't fill me in on what else was on the CD-ROM.
The part number is CD122292.  The cost is the same $15 shipping fee
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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc,fido.nz_os2,fido.os2
From: Steve.Withers@bbs.actrix.gen.nz
Subject: OS/2 b2.1 - WinOS/2 mouse now consistent with WPS.
Organization: Actrix Information Exchange
Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 19:30:35 GMT


The right/left handed mouse problems between the WPS and WinOS/2 3.1 seem to
be fixed in OS/2 b2.1
 
Steve
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From: mstaben@comtch.spk.wa.us (Matthew Staben)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: QuattroPro Windows replaces some WINOS2 dll
Date: 22 Dec 92 20:35:32 GMT
Organization: Waffle BBS at CompuTech Spokane, Washington

shurr@cbnews.cb.att.com (larry.a.shurr) writes:

> In article <1992Dec16.232634.13906@monu6.cc.monash.edu.au> parry@yoyo.cc.mona
> >I have installed QPW fine under WINOS2 with few probs (you can't run it
> >seemless!)
> 
> General Protection Fault which corrupts the seamless session (I've never
> had more than one since I haven't checked any "Separate session" boxes),
> right?  Yes?  Good!  I'm not alone, then.  Thought I might have done
> something wrong.  No?  Oh! No!  What have I done! THIS TIME!
> 
> Larry
> -- 
> Larry A. Shurr (las@cbnmva.att.com) speaking only for myself.
> Norman, listen carefully.  I am lying.  Are you sure your circuits are
> registering?  Your ears are green.  Logic is a little bird singing in a
> meadow.  Logic is a wreath of pretty flowers which smell bad! - Mr. Spock

 
Speaking of Seamless.  To solve all my seamless problems, all I did was 
migrate the desktop viewer (file manager?) to the windows applications
folder and then, started up this program seamlessly and used it to launch 
all the others.  From there on, all applications were seamless whether or 
not I told them to be.
 
Matt

mstaben@comtch.spk.wa.us
 
[Made in America]
From: msaletni@jade.tufts.edu (Michael J. Saletnik)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: multiple DOS windows, how?
Date: 2 Jan 93 01:49:33 GMT
Organization: Tufts University - Medford, MA

In article <zhao.725934941@unixg.ubc.ca> zhao@unixg.ubc.ca (Jiansheng Zhao) writes:

>I have been using OS/2 for several months. There is still one question which
>I am afraid of asking: how can I open more than two DOS (or OS/2) windows?
>Creating shadows all points to the same (ONE) session. Can anyone help?

Open the "settings" for your DOS and OS/2 windows.  Go to the [Window]
page, and change the "Default Open Behavior" from "Display Existing"
to "Create New."

						Michael


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From: Paul.Thornett@f409.n711.z3.fidonet.org (Paul Thornett)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: "Stuck" Ctrl key
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1992 11:24:02

SI>programs to directly tamper with the keyboard.  You may or may not
SI>find these useful in taming XyWrite.

Neither has helped.

And it's not only XyWrite. Yesterday I had a really strange series of
happenings. While running Telix, I started a Shez session. I pressed the DOWN
key, and my system happily rebooted! Once my WPS was back, I re-entered Shez,
pressed the DOWN key again, and the system rebooted. On the next occasion
(immediately after), I didn't even have to touch the keyboard - my computer
simply rebooted as soon as the WPS was in place. I tried pressing my reset
button in order to effect a cold boot - this made no difference. In the end I
had to power OFF my system (thereby - presumably - resetting the keyboard),
and after that everything was fine. And, no, my keyboard doesn't have any
"stuck" keys.

 * SLMR 2.1a *                                                     

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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: Program exist to create font sheets?
From: sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu (Timothy F. Sipples)
Date: Fri, 1 Jan 1993 19:22:29 GMT
Reply-To: sip1@midway.uchicago.edu
Organization: Dept. of Econ., Univ. of Chicago
Keywords: Fonts PM Program Wanted FTP 

In article <1992Dec20.215116.28209@julian.uwo.ca> postma@obelix.gaul.csd.uwo.ca (Warren A. Postma) writes:
>Simple question:
>Does anOS/2 (preferable) or WINDOZE program exist to take all the scaleable fonts in my C:\OS2\DLL
>directory (.AFM, .PFM, etc) and create a font sample sheet at a given size (say 18 or 24 pt) showing what they
>look like.
>I tried to create one, after installing about 80 or 90 shareware fonts.  EPM (Enhanced Editor) died with a
>Sys 3157 error in ATMPM.DLL,  and Describe (beta/demo DESC32PV.EXE available on many ftp sites)died 
>after I tried to use more than a dozen fonts in a document.
>All work fine when you only have a few fonts, and Describe coped with up to 30 fonts, until I tried to print
>at which point it crashed royally.
>DeScribe's demo gave me a lot of respect for the product, buggy as the DESC32PV.EXE package is, I am seriously
>tempted to defect from WordPerfect 5.1 for DOS to the new Describe version that just came out. (4.0 is it?)
>Apparently they gave almost everyone their wish-list. That's something I like to see from a company.
>Meanwhile, how does one make a font sheet?

Well, here are a couple alternatives:

WLO version of Windows Write (wlo10.zip)
PMDraw (pmdraw2.zip ?)

Both are available via anonymous ftp from ftp-os2.nmsu.edu.

On the commercial side there's Word for OS/2 PM.

Note that EPM still has a bug which prevents it from working when more
than 99 ATM typefaces are installed.  I believe this is the bug you
uncovered.

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From: sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu (Timothy F. Sipples)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: Opinion: What IBM should change in OS/2
Date: 2 Jan 93 18:22:10 GMT
Reply-To: sip1@midway.uchicago.edu
Organization: Dept. of Econ., Univ. of Chicago

In article <93001.171047UD092096@NDSUVM1.BITNET> Barry Pederson <UD092096@NDSUVM1.BITNET> writes:
>Change the packaging of the documentation that comes with OS/2:
>   I really really really..... hate opening up OS/2 (and many other IBM
>   software packages) to find dozens of separate little booklets, cards,
>   flyers, etc.  License information, proof of license, multi-lingual license
>   information, index to licenses....  Guides to this, that and the other
>   thing.  Cards for registration, cards for comments, cards to get more
>   cards.
>   Does every department at IBM get to print their own little scrap for
>   inclusion in the box?  I think it would be much better to put everything
>   in one or two manuals, like with DOS manuals.  At least then, you wouldn't
>   have to worry about missing one crucial scrap that tells you what you want
>   to know.
>   One comprehensive manual ... One comprehensive index ... a good thing

According to what I've heard, OS/2 2.1 will contain a nice, real
manual.

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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu (Timothy F. Sipples)
Subject: Re: Enormous Desktop!
Reply-To: sip1@midway.uchicago.edu
Organization: Dept. of Econ., Univ. of Chicago
Date: Sat, 2 Jan 1993 18:51:27 GMT

In article <19930102095813.h198@hosp.med.umich.edu> h198@hosp.med.umich.edu  (Gene Mangum) writes:
>I keep icons that I use frequently on the visible part of the desktop, and
>things that I seldom of never use (Minimized Window Viewer, OS/2 Help, etc.)
>off the left side of the screen.   Consequently, my desktop is about 1.5
>times the screen size, with a scroll bar at the bottom.
>Somehow, my desktop definition has got screwed up so that a few icons are
>far, far to the right (not politically speaking :-)   If I click on the
>arrow part of the scroll bar, the desktop doesn't move that I can tell.
>If I click in the empty part of the scroll bar (to scroll a page), the
>icons move, but the thumb of the scroll bar does not perceptibly move.
>This means that the desktop is absolutely *HUGE*.   I tried looking at
>the .INI files with EDITINI, but it's not obvious to me what to change.
>Any help to bail me out would be greatly appreciated.   I *WILL* start
>backing up my desktop as soon as I have one worth backing up...

Click on the desktop background with mouse button two and select
Arrange.  This will destroy your icon positioning, but it won't take
too long to put things back where you want them.  Then, when you're
satisfied with the revamped desktop, click on the desktop background
with mouse button two, select Refresh, mouse button two, select
Shutdown, and reboot.

The phenomenon you describe sometimes occurs when you switch display
drivers.

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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: sangercd@nextnet.csus.edu (Carl D. Sanger)
Subject: Re: IRQ2 in OS/2
Organization: California State University Sacramento
Date: Sat, 26 Dec 1992 07:09:47 GMT

In article <oq6cwB1w165w@tcscs.UUCP> zeta%tcscs@src.honeywell.com writes:
>Can OS/2 use IRQ2?  
>
>When I set up COM3 to run IRQ2 using:
>
>DEVICE=C:\OS2\COM.SYS (3,3e8,2) (4,2e8,5)
>
>in the config.sys file, then OS/2 reports:
>Unable to load COM3, Interupt not available, or something like that.
>
Most old EGA cards and even some VGA cards use IRQ2/9.  Is it possible
yours does?

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