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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: Dvorak switches to OS/2!!
From: ttullio@eagle.wesleyan.edu
Date: 24 Jul 92 17:02:26 EDT
Organization: Wesleyan University

In article <l6uvg3INN8nr@utkcs2.cs.utk.edu>, hethmon@cs.utk.edu (PAUL HETHMON) writes:
> 
> It's interesting now that Zachmann has resigned, another ZD
> columnist has gone to OS/2.  I wonder what PC Week will do now?
> 
> Paul Hethmon
> hethmon@cs.utk.edu

I thought the same thing...
It's as if Dvorak was a day late and a dollar short to "save" Zachmann...
IE, united they stand, divided they fall?  Or does Dvorak have too much
clout to let ZD push him around?

He said that now that he's tried OS/2, he can't imagine using anything
else!  Sounds like a pretty definitive resolution on his part ... ZD might
just have to deal.


Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu (Timothy F. Sipples)
Subject: Re: 1.44 drive problem under OS/2
Reply-To: sip1@midway.uchicago.edu
Organization: Dept. of Econ., Univ. of Chicago
Date: Tue, 21 Jul 1992 14:51:40 GMT

In article <oHi0NB1w165w@pranny.UUCP> lee@pranny.UUCP (Lee Reynolds) writes:
>   system works fine for me except that under OS/2 I get drive failures
>when accessing my 1.44MB A: drive.
>   This a job for that floppy driver fix I've seen floating around?

Yes.  Look for ibm1flp1.zoo on ftp-os2.nmsu.edu.

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From: "kenneth tam" <kenneth.tam@canrem.com>
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: neat cmd.exe
Date: 21 Jul 92 22:14:09 EST
Reply-To: "kenneth tam" <kenneth.tam@canrem.com>
Distribution: comp
Organization: Canada Remote Systems

> line windowed command shell.  To see the stuff that's already scrolled
> off the top of the window, I press the mouse button and hold it (inside 
> the window) and then drag, moving the poiner ABOVE the border of the
> window, and it scrolls up!  NEAT!   Scrollbars are a thing of the
> past!? 

 DS> Huh? I tried this in my windowed CMD.EXE and 4OS2.EXE sessions and it
 DS> doesn't work in either. Can anybody verify this?


Works for me.  Hold down the LMB anywhere in the window, then keep it
held and move up/down out of it.

I'm using the 3686 kernal.

kenneth.tam@canrem.com
 
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From: sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu (Timothy F. Sipples)
Subject: Re: Questions: Migrate,WPS etc...
Reply-To: sip1@midway.uchicago.edu
Organization: Dept. of Econ., Univ. of Chicago
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1992 20:47:51 GMT

In article <1992Jul19.211312.19031@odin.diku.dk> joker@diku.dk (Morten Christian Holmgreen) writes:
>Maybe some of you OS/2'ers can help me answering the following questions:
>1)  How do I get OS/2 to return errorcodes to a program automatically,
>    instead of popping up to ask "Return error code to program", when
>    a program tries to access a locked file???

I think the AUTOFAIL setting in CONFIG.SYS controls this behavior.
Check your online Command Reference for details.

>2)  Exactly which files do I have to back up to preserve the WPS as it
>    is, apart from the OS!2_2.0_D directory, which maintains the physical
>    stuff???

The *.INI files in \OS2 also maintain Workplace Shell settings.

I do not have answers to your other two questions -- hopefully someone
will be able to help.

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From: heidt@aio.jsc.nasa.gov (Michael F. Heidt)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: Can I mix 70ns SIMMS with 80ns SIMMS
Date: 30 Jul 1992 17:36:33 GMT
Organization: NASA Johnson Space Center


There seems to be a lot of confusion of what the speed rating of RAM
chips means. An 80ns SIMM is guaranteed to respond to a read request
with valid data in 80ns. A 70ns will respond in 70ns, etc. If you have
a very fast computer, it is possible to do the read before the data is
valid, thus you must be sure that you have the minimum speed SIMM
required by your computer. The situation can be complicated by things
like wait states and bank switching, but in general just look at the
book for your mother board or look at the SIMMs that came in it. You
can use the same speed OR FASTER (lower access time). Thus 70ns SIMMs
will work just fine in a machine that works with 80ns or 100ns SIMMs.
The faster SIMMs will just cost more. We move SIMMs around regularly in
Intel based machines running MSDOS, OS/2, UNIX etc. with no problems.
We also do this in SPARCs and SUN4 systems. As long as the SIMMs are
fast enough they will work. You can't get too fast, just too expensive.
    The tradeoff between 9 chip SIMMs and 3 chip SIMMs is not so clear.
I would stick with whatever cam in the machine.

	Mike Heidt
	heidt@aio.jsc.nasa.gov
From: tedm@agora.rain.com (Ted Mittelstaedt)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Is a Customer Number important in dealing with IBM?
Date: 22 Jul 92 03:39:33 GMT
Article-I.D.: agora.1992Jul22.033933.25193
Distribution: na
Organization: Open Communications Forum

OK, I am getting ready to order a copy of OS2, but I have a question.  A long
time ago I read an article here by someone who claimed to have worked with
IBM for many years, who insisted that a Customer Number was vitally important
in dealing with IBM.  He went on to outline some long procedure to order
any IBM part, whereby one called this department and did this, and that
department and did that, and so on and so forth until one finally called
another number and actually ordered the software.  Basically, it boiled
down to getting an authentic customer number from someplace and then making
absolutely sure to mention it whenever ordering from IBM.  
  So, what I am asking is if a customer number is really that important to
have?  I understand that if one buys OS2 from someplace like Egghead, you
can use the stores customer number, but I don't want to be dependent on some
fly-by-night Egghead Computer store for a vital number necessary for
technical support, CSD's, etc.
  Also, I understand that it is possible to call the IBM BBS whenever you
please and download CSD's, so having a customer number just to be able to
get CSD's is not necessary.  However, once again I don't want to be dependent
on some here-today-gone-tomorrow BBS for a CSD.  (although I agree that the
IBM BBS is hardly such a thing)  Besides, why pay $10.00 in LD calls every
time a CSD comes out?
  Since I am planning on eventually ordering the TCP/IP package (unless
something better comes along) and probably more IBM OS2 specialty software
I would like to be able to keep a relationship with IBM for awhile.
  Also, the M.I.S. people at my company say to get a customer number before
talking to any salespeople at IBM or I'll be sorry.

  Can anyone care to comment?

Thanks,
Ted

tedm@agora.rain.com
From: thomasw@ersys.edmonton.ab.ca (Thomas Wilkinson)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: fax modems
Date: Thu, 30 Jul 92 21:00:33 MDT
Organization: Edmonton Remote Systems #3, Edmonton, AB, Canada

> Actually the compatability of a fax-modem is not a function of the hardware
> but of the software. My fax-modem works fine under OS/2 with some fax
> software but the fax software that came with it locked up under OS/2 every
> once in a while.
> 
> Before ordering, find out if the software is OS/2 compatible. Try to get
> Win-Fax.
> 
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Actually if you are using OS2 I would recommend personally PMFAX or 
Bitfax for OS2. These packages are both true OS2 applications and work 
great. I use PMFAX with a cheap zoltrix card and as far as I am concerned 
it greatly out performs the Satisfaxtion board at work running under DOS. 
It works great. Note you do not with most of the fax boards get 9600 text 
transfer, the high speed mode only works in the fax mode in most case.
 
Regards Tom Wilkinson


Thomas Wilkinson              thomasw@ersys.edmonton.ab.ca
Edmonton Remote Systems:  Celebrating 10 years of service to Northern Alberta
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: smsmith@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Stephen M Smith)
Subject: Re: Need help with ET4000
Organization: The Ohio State University
Date: Tue, 28 Jul 1992 15:17:45 GMT

smackinl01@cc.curtin.edu.au writes:

>I have an ET4000 based board...
>Oh yeah, the board is a Ultra VGA?? Using debug, the bios seems 
>to be a TSENG bios...

Seems to be?  You should find out for sure.  Get the msd.exe utility
from ftp-os2.nmsu.edu in the /pub/os2/2.0/dos subdirectories and run
it.  It will tell you all about your video card.

>with the orchid? orcad? drivers the screen doesn't switch into 
>graphics mode... simply stays in text mode and leaves blue "spaces"
>on the screen

First, run the SVGA ON command from a full screen text mode command
line.  That will configure OS/2 for your specific card's abilities.
Then make sure you have the line 'IOPL=YES' in your config.sys file.
Next make sure that you're not trying to run these screen drivers
in 70Hz refresh mode because they can only handle 60Hz at this point.
Be sure to read the installation text file for any other info about
these drivers.

BTW, you're really not missing much.  They only give you two fonts
in your windowed DOS sessions, you can't run seamless Windows with
them, the color palette is way off in 256 colors, windowed VGA DOS
apps are still mapped to 16 colors, and the whole WPS is slow, slow,
slow.  Hmmph.

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From: skagos@hercules.cs.uregina.ca (panagiotis skagos (187802923))
Subject: Publisher's Paintbrush ...
Reply-To: skagos@hercules.uregina.ca (panagiotis skagos (187802923))
Organization: University of Regina, Regina, Saskatchewan
Date: Sat, 25 Jul 1992 19:57:29 GMT

Hi,

  I was looking through the OS/2 insert in the recent PC Mag.  I saw
and advert for Publisher's Paintbrush and was really interested in
getting info on it.  Alas, I cannot dial the 1-800 # from where
I live (in western Canada) and there is no reader-service #.  Does
anyone have any info on this product?  I'd be really interested
in finding out about it ... especially how much it costs and when (or
if) it will be available.  If someone has the address of ZSoft I'd
also appreciate it so that I can send off a query to them.
  Thanks in advance!

  P. Takis Skagos
  (skagos@hercules.cs.uregina.ca)
From: weinkam@fraser.sfu.ca (James Lawrence Weinkam)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: Nowhere directory?
Date: 29 Jul 92 19:36:05 GMT
Organization: Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C., Canada

>>Why?  Is it really bothering you?  If it is, then just do a
>> 
>>      ATTTRIB +H Nowhere
>> 
>>and you won't have to see it anymore.

>You must have a better ATTRIB command than I do.  Mine doesn't work on 
>directories.

You can change the attributes of directories by clicking with the right
button on the directory's icon.  The open settings.  On one of the pages
you will be able to set the attributes to hide the directory.  If the
directory is hidden, then you are able to just type 
ATTRIB -h dir_name 
and it will become unhidden.

Hope this helps.

James
From: ak@ananke.stgt.sub.org (Andreas Kaiser)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: more about video cards 
Distribution: world
Date: Tue, 28 Jul 92 04:44:47 GMT
Organization: ananke


In article <1992Jul27.074452.2187@sarah.albany.edu> pv9955@albnyvms.bitnet writes:

  > My other options are the SpeedStar or a local bus adapter based on the ET4000
  > chip.  How do the Tseng cards work with OS2 ?  A techie from IBM said that
  > a special patch is required for OS2 to work with the ET4000, and it is 
  > available through IBM.  Does anyone have experience with this?

Some ET4000 cards may require this patch, some don't. Some ET4000 will
run with the present (slightly modernized 1.x) drivers, some will not.

Obviously, the ET4000 boards are not all the same. A driver which gives
70Hz with the Mega EVA might give ~~35Hz with the Speedstar - if it
works at all. Maybe the PLL clocking circuitry is different, since this
seems to be the only part which is not handled by the ET4000 chip
itself, because it was invented afterwards (the first ET4000s had half
a dozen crystal oscillators on them).
  
  > And what about local bus video?  Does OS2's 32 bit interface take full
  > advantage of the local bus video?  And are there drivers out there for 
  > local bus ET4000 for OS2 ?

Local bus video will be a fast and perhaps cheap solution -- once there
is a driver for the one and only card which fits into your "local bus"
slot (note that the "local bus" slots are not standardized).

There are no drivers now, so you either have to wait for drivers or
have to buy a card which is supported now. Do NEVER buy a card because
someone tells you "there will be an OS/2 driver real soon now".
  
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From: sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu (Timothy F. Sipples)
Subject: Re: WP 5.1 & SVGA
Reply-To: sip1@midway.uchicago.edu
Organization: Dept. of Econ., Univ. of Chicago
Date: Sat, 25 Jul 1992 00:47:35 GMT

In article <1992Jul24.125436.1@zodiac.rutgers.edu> lclarke@zodiac.rutgers.edu writes:
>When I use the drivers for superduper vga, my characters in WP 5.1
>get so small they can't be read. Is there a way around the problem?

In the system menu for your WordPerfect window there's a Change Font
option.  Select the font that looks the most pleasing.

Some drivers do not offer a satisfactory selection, in which case you
should simply run WordPerfect full screen and stop using a small
window.

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From: lebaron@INRS-Telecom.UQuebec.CA (Gregory LeBaron)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Not enough memory to continue PMV2001
Date: 26 Jul 92 04:58:17 GMT
Organization: INRS Telecommunications

I've been getting the following error quite frequently (every 20 minutes)
"There is not enough memory to continue.  Close some applications... PMV2001"

The system has 16 megs, lots of disk space for swap file and almost
nothing open; a full screen OS2 window and a DOS terminal program, for
example. I've applied the most recent kernel patches, os2krn.zoo, from
ftp-os2...

Also grabbed a copy of the Windows Logo interpreter from 
alt.binaries.pictures.utilities (of all places). 
Works very well but when I invoke help I get the error:
"This version of Help file not supported" 
Clear enough, I suppose but a bit terse. Any ideas?

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From: frigo@psl.wisc.edu (Sean P. Frigo UW-SRC (608)873-6651)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: 1.44 drive problem un
Date: 23 Jul 92 14:58:50 GMT
Reply-To: frigo@psl.wisc.edu
Distribution: comp
Organization: University of Wisconsin - Physical Science Lab

Yes, I have been getting "System Error:  The drive cannot find the
sector requested." when opening up drive A: from the WPS icon.
This is not reproducible as the disk will be accessed after repeated
attempts.

Another problem, perhaps related, is that a DOS program (Current Contents
on Diskette 1.3) calls PKUNZIP when loading new data from A: to the HDD.
The program can't find A: mostly and will search B:, and when it does find
A: for the 1st of 2 diskettes, it never finds A: for the 2nd.

I haven't been able to figure out why this won't work.  I went well under
DOS 5.0.

Sean Frigo
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: jelson@poincare.cs.jhu.edu (Jeremy Elson)
Subject: Problem using 1024x768x256c ATI VGAWONDER driver
Organization: Johns Hopkins Computer Science Department, Baltimore, MD
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1992 08:29:26 GMT


I'm running OS/2 on a 386/33 clone with 16MB ram, and an ATI VGAWONDERXL
card with 1MB RAM hooked up to a NEC Multisync 4D.

I ftp'd the 1024x768x256c driver from ftp-os2.nmsu.edu and tried
to install it.. made sure SVGA was on, ran the patch program on the 
driver, booted dos, replaced the display.dll with the patched driver,
and rebooted to OS/2.

The desktop comes up in the correct mode and looks good EXCEPT -- there
is an amazing "flicker" -- there is a flickering "shadow" of all on-screen
objects about 2-3 inches to the right of the "real" object.  This is not
an interlacing flicker (my monitor is non-interlaced anyway) ... it looks
like WPS is trying to draw each window, icon, etc. in 2 locations at once!

Has anyone had a similar problem or know of a solution?

Thanks,
   Jeremy

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From: jc70@westend.VI.CMU.EDU (Joo C. Chung)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: Interesting places that use OS/2.
Date: 30 Jul 92 14:02:46 GMT
Article-I.D.: cs.1992Jul30.140246.213012
Reply-To: jc70@norman.vi.ri.cmu.edu
Organization: School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon

In article <1992Jul29.221905.17652@unixg.ubc.ca> duffy@theory.chem.ubc.ca (Pat  
Duffy) writes:
> Hi All,
> 
> I was just on the phone with SemWare this morning ordering QEdit for OS/2  
from
> them and found out that they run their DOS QEdit under the DOS emulation of
> OS/2.  Kinda neat.  The tech. there said he spends most of his day in DOS  
boxes.
> 
> I also asked about a 2.0-specific version and was told that yes, they were 
> working on one (or would be soon), and that it would support HPFS and likely  
be
> a PM app.  Cool.
> 
> I was also told (by a friend) that Borland runs BC++ 3.1 in a DOS box under
> OS/2 (at least the tech that my friend spoke to did).
> 
> Things are looking better and better... :-)
> -- 
> Patrick Duffy, duffy@theory.chem.ubc.ca 
> 
> May our nation continue to be the beakon of hope to the world.
>                 -- The Quayle's 1989 Christmas card. 


I heard that OS/2 is being used at the Summer Olympics. :-)

YAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


Joo
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: slumos@unlv.edu (Steve Lumos)
Subject: Re: POV Ray, Is there an OS/2 version
Keywords: POV Ray Tracer, OS/2 Port
Organization: UNLV Computer Science
Date: Tue, 28 Jul 92 04:39:37 GMT

In article <9220921.20940@mulga.cs.mu.OZ.AU> terryr@muse.cs.mu.OZ.AU (Terry Robison) writes:
>Hello,
>	Does anyone know if there is a port of POV Ray 1.0 to OS/2.  I
>know you can run it in a DOS box by setting the memory available to 3
>or more meg - but that's to much of a waste on memory, after all, who
>wants to generate huge swap files if it can be avoided.

1. You can zero out XMS and EMS, POV-Ray only uses DPMI.
2. You can lower (or raise) the amount of DPMI that POV-Ray uses,
   RTFM.
3. An OS/2 version shouldn't necessarily take less memory, except
   that you don't need to load all of the DOS support code... As far
   as the RAM used by the program itself, it POV wants 3 megs, it's 
   gonna take 3 megs. Having an OS/2 version sure isn't going to
   change that...

TTYL - Steve
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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: des@frogland.inmos.co.uk (David Shepherd)
Subject: Re: HELP!  I can't delete anything!
Organization: INMOS architecture group
Date: Thu, 30 Jul 92 13:29:58 BST

In article <1992Jul28.184852.156135@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu>, jmp1@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu (JEFFREY MICHAEL PARSONS) writes:
>I've been running OS/2 for a while and have had no real problems.  Recently
>though, I tried to delete a bunch of files to free up space.  I "shredded"
>their icons and then deleted the files at the command line.  To my amazement,
>there was only a tiny change in my free disk space.  I don't have the undelete
>option enabled.  What's going on?!?  It's so bad now that the system has
>slowed to a crawl with only about 3Mb free.

did you delete files or were you deleting objects or even shaddows?

if you try to free up space by, for example, deleting a bunch of the
applets that you never use you may well find that you merely remove
the program object that points to the program and leave the underlying
.exe still on the disk.

remember that not everything you see in WPS is equivalent to
a file on disk ... objects can be shaddows of other objects, or in
the case of programs, merely pointers to the program file.

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From: tedc@ee.ubc.ca (ted chen)
Subject: Re: Does 800x600x256 on the VGA part of a Graphics Ultra work under OS/2?
Organization: University of BC, Electrical Engineering
Date: Sun, 26 Jul 1992 20:02:31 GMT

In article <2178337@overmind.citadel> hertz.njit.edu!dic5340@overmind.mind.org writes:
>In article <1992Jul21.150920.1103@mustang.uucp> mike@mustang.uucp (Mike 
>Hoffos) writes:
>
>>Yep, I did do svga on; it did nothing.  And my config.sys does have
>>the vsvga.sys there.  My question still stands; does anyone with an
>>Ultra get 800x600x256 in a DOS full-screen session if a program tries to
>>fiddle the VGA portion into the mode?
>
>Well, I don't have an Ultra, but I have a VGA Wonder. So...
>
>If you're using an sVGA program, make sure it's configured as an ATI
>VGA Wonder-compatible program.
>
>If you use the Ultra's accelerated graphics mode, be sure you
>installed the HDILOAD.COM program which came with the Ultra.  The
>accelerator isn't accessible to most DOS programs without 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.

I haven't been able to get the Graphics Ultra into 800x600x256 mode using
the VGA portion of the card, in DOS full screen.  It doesn't even work if
if I boot from a DOS 5.0 floppy and try going into that mode (VPIC).  Wonder
what's happening?

Ted
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