HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: edg@Ingres.COM (Ed Goldman)
Subject: Re: Orchid Prodesigner IIs 1024x768 drivers
Reply-To: edg@Ingres.COM (Ed Goldman)
Organization: Ask Computer Systems Inc., Ingres Division, Alameda CA 94501
Date: 4 Sep 92 22:40:52 GMT

In article <1992Sep2.233513.12085@newstand.syr.edu> lruppert@rodan.acs.syr.edu (Medvezhonok) writes:
>
>Has anyone else had a problem with running  320x200x256 and higher modes in
>a window with these drivers?  I was able to run these programs with the 
>standard VGA drivers with no problems at all.  I was hoping to see similar 
>performance with 640x480, but ended up losing the abilities I had in the first 
>place.  

Well for me sometimes it will run a 320x200 in a window, but for some reason
on other programs it will say "video mode cannot be run in a window -- program
suspended..." or some such.   

>Also, has anyone had any problems with the palette not looking right on 256
>color programs they run?  I ran PMGif, the gif displayer, and about half of
>the colors in the GIF images I viewed were obviously wrong.  I got the same 
>performance with a bitmap image I made in 256 colors from a WinOS2 program.
>Does anyone know why this is?  Windows 3.0 & 3.1 and X11 both have no problems
>releasing the palette to the applications, is this a bug?

Yes the colors get screwed up.  Yes the drivers are kind of slow.
Remember, these are *beta* drivers.  I find the 1024x268 to be serviceable,
but it frequently crashes and is slow.  I'm just hoping the IBM produced CSD
ET-4000 drivers will be better.

>Thirdly, the 16 color drivers were indistinguishable from the 256 color drivers
>.  The performance was just as slow, and there were 256 colors still. (I 
>followed the instructions with the drivers to the letter.)

Hmmm.  This doesn't sound right.  The 1024x16 driver I tried was definitely
different and *faster*.

Now some oddities I've discovered with Orchid's 1024x256 driver:

I recently upgraded my Motherboard + video from a 386-40 with a IIs to a
486-33 Local Bus ET-4000.  After some fiddling I got it running fine.  But,
a day or so later I noticed that after C-ESC'ing, and then returning to a
full-screen program my screen was blank and it looked like my monitor was no
longer recieving a signal from the computer (I have a Nanao which beeps when
the CPU is turned off and it was making this beeping noise after trying to
resume the session).  I tried doing this with several other programs and
it was the same for all.

Just by plain, dumb luck I tested the above with just a plain dos command
shell window (ALT-HOME to make it fullscreen, then CTRL-ESC, then return to
full screen) and that worked.  After that it worked for *everything*!
Now, this *sounded* very familiar to a thread a while back.  Can anyone
confirm that this has happened to them, or know what causes it, or know
of a better solution than enlarging a DOS window to get this to work right?

Also FYI: although the readme for the drivers say the max supported at 1024x256
is 60Mhz, I configured my card/monitor for 70Mhz, ran svga on, rebooted,
and the driver works fine (well, at least as good as it did, but less flicker).

-edg-
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: gwebster@ugly.UVic.CA (This space for rent)
Subject: Re: HPFS aware Comm program?
Followup-To: comp.os.os2.misc
Organization: University of Victoria, Victoria, BC, Canada
Date: Sat, 12 Sep 92 00:17:44 GMT

In article <1992Sep11.195748.16014@usl.edu> das9674@usl.edu (Stephenson Daniel A) writes:
>Is there an OS/2 2.0 comm programs that are HHPFS aware and let me
>download LONG filename files?
>

TE/2 handles long (HPFS) filenames. I LOVE being able to download files from
my unix account to my PC without changing the names to fit into an 8.3 name.

It is an OS/2 2.0 text based comm program. It hardly makes an impact on my 
systems speed (unlike Procomm 2.01 did).



-- 
________________________________________________________________________
| Gord Webster           | Be cool or be cast out - Rush               |
| University of Victoria | OS/2, it's curtains for Windows             |
| Victoria, B.C., Canada | Oxygen is for losers - Red Dwarf            |
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: das9674@usl.edu (Stephenson Daniel A)
Subject: Re: Unix Windows (uw)
Organization: University of Southwestern Louisiana
Date: Sat, 12 Sep 1992 21:28:23 GMT

In article <1992Sep12.140927.9878@seas.gwu.edu> lai@seas.gwu.edu (William Y. Lai) writes:
>Two questions:
>
>1.   What is it?


It is a comm program that lets you connect to BSD UNIX or a VAX and
run a server.  Pressing a keystroke cause MORE shells to appear.
7 total.  Nice for ftp'ing or archie searches AND still read news.

There is a Windows version, and a DOS version.  The DOS version has
downloads, the Windows one does not (but a downloading one is in beta).

>2.   Where can I find a copy?

The Windows on is at ftp.cica.indiana.edu in /pub/pc/win3/util(s),
called uwwin103.zip and there server is uwserver.zip.
.


>
>Thanks :-)
>
>William Lai
>
>-- 
>email: lai@seas.gwu.edu | "I want to do everything.  I want to have everything.
>Dept. of Electrical Eng.|  I have a wonderful, wonderful life.  But there's so
>George Washington Univ. |  much more out there.  Do I have it all?  Yes.  Do I
>Washington, D.C.        |  want more?  Yeah, sure."     -Demi Moore        


--
Dan Stephenson                                           das9674@usl.edu
" BERLIN WALL FALLS.  3 BORDER GUARDS LOSE JOBS.  CLINTON BLAMES BUSH! "
        -George Bush, '92 Republican nomination acceptance speech
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: bkappler@lilly.gris.informatik.uni-tuebingen.de (Bernhard Kappler)
Subject: OS/2 support
Organization: Comp. Center (ZDV) U of Tuebingen, FRG
Date: Mon, 14 Sep 1992 15:39:50 GMT

Hi,

is there anybody out there you knows an email adress of an IBM OS/2 Support or of 
somebody to tell about bugs.

I have problems with the HPFS format. First there where errors on swapper.dat reported.
I got a fix for this... Then CPS Errors came up. I tryed a "newer" fix. It sould solve
both problems. As you can guess it didn't... Now I have swapper.dat errors reported again.
Im using 2 SCSI drives with an Adaptec 1542B controler.

Hope somebody knows to help me, please send me a mail because I'm not able to read News the 
next two weeks

Many Thanks

Bernhard Kappler     bkappler@jasmin.gris.informatik.uni-tuebingen.de


Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: parry@yoyo.cc.monash.edu.au (Tom J Parry)
Subject: Re: Interesting bug
Originator: parry@yoyo.cc.monash.edu.au
Organization: Monash University, Melb., Australia.
Date: Tue, 8 Sep 1992 23:53:13 GMT

Bruce Clement (frey@alfheim.actrix.gen.nz) wrote:
> This is a solved problem which I'm only reporting for the benefit of anyone
> else who has similiar problems (Or IBM if they're interested).
> 
> Until recently I had a .BAT file which was launched from an icon in a WPS folder.
> 
> When I recompiled one of the programs in the file as an OS/2 native program
> I copied the .BAT file to a .CMD file & changed the icon to point to the .CMD.
> 
> While running the file, I noticed some strange results, and eventually discovered
> that there was no PATH. Further investigation revealed that there were no
> environment variables from CONFIG.SYS, and the DOS settings from the icon's
> previous existance were the only environment present.
> 
> Deleting the icon & recreating cured the problem.

This has been reported before. If any DOS settings are changed from their
DEFAULTS and then the dos session changed to an OS/2 session, then those
will be the only variables present in your environment. You can just make
the OS/2 icon a DOS session, reset the settings to their defaults and
switch to OS/2 again and it will be fine.

-- 
Tom J Parry.
Your reality is a figment of my imagination.
From: dic5340@hertz.njit.edu (David Charlap)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: WINOS2 resoloution
Date: 4 Sep 92 23:15:26 GMT
Organization: New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, N.J.

In article <72.2aa89198@ivgate> bill.hirt@mtask.omahug.org writes:
>
> DKM> I have installed the 800x600x256 drivers for Tseng 4000 in PM , but how
                                                    ^^^^^^^^^^
> DKM> can you change the resoloution of winos2?  
>
>You'll need the Trident Windows video drivers.
                 ^^^^^^^
....

I assume this was a typo.

-- 
   |)  David Charlap           "TELEPHONE, n.  An Invention of the devil which
  /|_  dic5340@hertz.njit.edu   abrogates some of the advantages of making a
 ((|,)                          disagreeable person keep his distance."
  ~|~                              --- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: wjb5106@zeus.tamu.edu (Walter Barnett)
Subject: Re: HPFS drive inaccessable...so I can't boot.  AAIIEEE!
Summary: HPFS big nasty system crash Can't boot, chkdsk
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41    
Organization: Texas A&M University
Date: Sun, 13 Sep 1992 00:20:00 GMT

In article <1992Sep12.053049.24032@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU>, imp@macbeth.Berkeley.EDU (Imp) writes...
>The last time I ran OS/2, shutdownm wouldn't work.  Since it hadn't caused
>problems before, I just powered off the system.  When I powered back on,
>OS/2 couldn't read drive D:, which is HPFS and had most of my system on it.
>Now I can't boot OS/2; it gives a "can't access device" error, and says I
>need to run chkdsk /F on D:, which I can't do unless I can boot...Is there
>any way to fix this short of reinstalling OS/2 on a different system?  I
>really don't want to bother, since when I came up here for college I didn't
>bother bringing the install disks with me (sound of head banging on wall).
> 
>I'm running OS/2 on a 486/33 with 16mb of ram and a 200+ meg hard drive,
>partitioned into 45/45/110, of which only D: is HPFS...if any of that makes
>a difference....
> 
>HELP!
> 

You may not need to reinstall OS/2 but you will need the installation
diskettes.  Boot the machine with the installation diskette and press
ESC at the blue intro screen.  This will give you a command prompt from
which you can run chkdsk.  The chkdsk program should be on the first or
second program diskette. 

_______________________________________________________________________
Walter Barnett        Aerospace Engineering        Texas A&M University 
From: steve.rainwater@ocitor.fidonet.org (Steve Rainwater)
Sender: FredGate@ocitor.fidonet
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: 1:124/2206
Date: Mon, 14 Sep 1992 09:36:02

TO: mkant+ai-faq@cs.cmu.edu

Mark,

        I have one correction for the AI FAQ and one possible addition.
First, the correction: The phone number you have listed for Network
Cybernetics Corporation is their FAX number rather than their voice number.
The correct voice number is 214-650-2002. Also, to receive the special $59
discount there are *two* requirements: 1) A valid Internet or Fidonet
address must be provided.  2) The order must be prepaid.  Companies wishing
to send P.O.s or receive other payment terms will have to order the disc at
the regular price.  The original intention was for the discount to be for
individuals only but there have been so many small companies ordering it
using the e-mailed dicount form (and who have valid e-mail addresses) that
we have decided to extend the offer to anyone who meets both of the two
requirements show above.


        Second, I was thinking that it might be useful to add the question:

        "Are there any dial-up AI-related bulleting board systems?"

        or something to that effect.  The answer is that there are three
primary ones at this time.  They are:

        The Interocitor  214-258-1832 (Fido 1:124/2206) V.32bis (14.4kbps)
                SysOp: Steve Rainwater  Hours: 24
                Desc: AI CD-ROM submission site, general AI archive.

        ShadeTree BBS    412-244-9416 (Fido 1:129/124)  V.22bis (2400bps)
                SysOp: Bill Keller      Hours: 8:30pm-8:30am only
                Desc: Oriented toward beginners in the field.

        C.N.S. BBS       509-62706267 (Fido 1:347/303)  USR HST (9600bps)
                SysOp: Wesley Elsberry  Hours: 24
                Desc: Best source for neural network related information.


Keep up the good work.

-Steve

steve.rainwater@ocitor.fidonet.org  
 
 * Origin: The Interocitor*AI/Robotics*214-258-1832 (1:124/2206)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: das9674@usl.edu (Stephenson Daniel A)
Subject: Re: HPFS aware Comm program?
Organization: University of Southwestern Louisiana
Date: Sat, 12 Sep 1992 04:17:57 GMT

In article <1992Sep12.001744.19103@sol.UVic.CA> gwebster@ugly.UVic.CA (This space for rent) writes:
>In article <1992Sep11.195748.16014@usl.edu> das9674@usl.edu (Stephenson Daniel A) writes:
>>Is there an OS/2 2.0 comm programs that are HHPFS aware and let me
>>download LONG filename files?
>>
>
>TE/2 handles long (HPFS) filenames. I LOVE being able to download files from
>my unix account to my PC without changing the names to fit into an 8.3 name.
>
>It is an OS/2 2.0 text based comm program. It hardly makes an impact on my 
>systems speed (unlike Procomm 2.01 did).


>
>
>
>-- 
>________________________________________________________________________
>| Gord Webster           | Be cool or be cast out - Rush               |
does this too.
heck at ftp-os2 for it.  I've been told that Ckermit
does thisjjjjjjjjj
>| Victoria, B.C., Canada | Oxygen is for losers - Red Dwarf            |


--
Dan Stephenson                                           das9674@usl.edu
" BERLIN WALL FALLS.  3 BORDER GUARDS LOSE JOBS.  CLINTON BLAMES BUSH! "
        -George Bush, '92 Republican nomination acceptance speech
Xref: sparky comp.os.os2.misc:30004 comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.win32:942
From: lopes@cogsci.ucsd.EDU (alann lopes)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc,comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.win32
Subject: Booting NT from OS2's Boot Manager (possible!)
Keywords: Windows NT OS2 Boot Manager
Date: 14 Sep 92 00:01:52 GMT
Organization: University of California, San Diego


   Douglas Hamilton has a solution for installing NT 
   along with OS2 and using OS2's Boot Manager to 
   choose the OS (see article in Oct '92 issue of 
   Windows Magazine, page 253).  Unfortunately his
   solution is very laborious with my current setup.  
   Has anyone found an easier way? Has anyone been able 
   to install NT into an extended partition? The NT 
   Release Notes suggest on page 13-15 that one can 
   install NT into a drive other than C:.  

   Also, has anyone been able to install NT from an NEC CDR-84
   running off the PAS-16 scsi controller?

   I'm interested any comments and/or suggestions.

            Thanks very much -- alann


   alann lopes:        alopes@ucsd.edu       -- internet
   (619) 534-7417      ALOPES@UCSD           -- bitnet
From: harris@garfield.catt.ncsu.edu (Michael Harris)
Subject: Re: Can I wax some OS/2 files..
Organization: North Carolina State University
Date: Wed, 9 Sep 1992 03:04:58 GMT

kslater@sps.pgh.pa.us (Kevin J. Slater) writes:

>I *need* space on my os/2 disk drives badly. Are there some files that 
>are installed with os/2 that I can safely delete? Is there a listing 
>anywhere of what files and .dll's are for what programs? How about a 
>program to see what program(s) use a particular .dll?

>Here are some files that I think maybe could go:

>\os2\cdfs.ifs
>\os2\cdrom.sys

If you don't have a CD ROM, OK.

>\os2\viewdoc.exe - What's this do anyway?

VIEW.EXE uses this program.

>\os2\bitmap\os2logo.bmp
>\os2\mdos\vcdrom.sys

Delete them.

Also delete the tutorial files including TUT.DLL in the ?:\OS2\DLL directory.
Also delete ?:\OS2\BITMAP\AAAAA.EXE and ?:\OS2\BITMAP\AAAAA.MET after typing:

	?:
	CD \OS2\BITMAP
	ATTRIB -S *
	ATTRIB -H *



______________________________________________________________________________
     Michael Harris - harris@catt.ncsu.edu or harris@carvm3.vnet.ibm.com
 System Administrator, Computer & Technologies Theme Program, NC State Univ.
(My opinions are my own and do not represent those of NCSU or IBM Corporation)
From: schovier@mentor.cc.purdue.edu (Eric)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Icon Size using Tseng400 1024x768
Keywords: OS2
Date: 11 Sep 92 05:31:16 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: Purdue University

Does anyone know how to make the Icons smaller using the Tseng 4000
drivers?  The large size is extremely annoying!

Thanks

		Eric Schoville
		schovier@mentor.cc.purdue.edu
From: jslm_cif@uhura.cc.rochester.edu (Jonathan Schulman)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: EISA machine
Date: 14 Sep 92 16:58:24 GMT
Organization: University of Rochester - Rochester, New York

In <1992Sep14.134538.21071@midway.uchicago.edu> sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu (Timothy F. Sipples) writes:

>That's my understanding, yes.  Now you know why Microchannel
>proponents are arguing for that route.

But MCA can share interrupts and DMA channels even though it is an ISA
card. Wait, MCA can't use ISA cards. If I remember, there really aren't
too many EISA cards out there. How important is it to have an EISA
machine?

Thanks.
From: rjones@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Ronald Jones)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: OS/2 Woes
Date: 14 Sep 92 01:30:17 GMT
Organization: The Ohio State University

In article <1992Sep14.002654.3810@monu6.cc.monash.edu.au> parry@yoyo.cc.monash.edu.au (Tom J Parry) writes:
>Timothy F. Sipples (sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu) wrote:
>> In article <1992Sep3.035320.11605@ultb.isc.rit.edu> jks4675@ritvax.isc.rit.edu writes:
>> 
>> >Problem #3: Is there any wat to start an OS/2 program minimized? The     
>> >notebook does not allow any changes to the settings for OS/2 programs.
>> 
>> It should.  If you have OS/2 windowed you should be able to select
>> Open Minimized.
>> 
>
>You should? I find that many OS/2 specific apps (PM especially) take
>over the SESSION section of the notebook so you have windowed is
>automatically selected and you can't change any of those settings
>including start minimised.
>

This is a bug. The start 

minimized check box in the sessions page is grayed and not selectable.  

It can be made to appear by temporaily changing the name of the program 

on the "Program Page".  After checking "start minimized" on the sessions 

page, you simply change the name back to what it should be. 

-- 
 < Ron Jones                   |    E-mail:       rj+@osu.edu   > 
 < The Ohio State University   |    Office:      (614) 292-1665 >
 < 338 West Tenth Avenue       |    FAX:(9-5PM)  (614) 292-7151 > 
 < Columbus, Ohio 43210        |        "eschew obfuscation"    >      
Xref: sparky comp.os.os2.misc:30055 comp.os.os2.networking:1344
From: dsc2@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Daniel S Chan)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc,comp.os.os2.networking
Subject: HELP! Icons don't appear at bootup!
Summary: Icon Problems
Date: 14 Sep 92 17:25:36 GMT
Reply-To: dsc2@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Daniel S Chan)
Distribution: usa
Organization: Columbia University


	The icons on the WPS don't appear sometimes upon bootup.  I get the
mouse cursor and the background bitmap loaded up but there are NO ICONS!  
I can't access anything not even the pop up menus.  PLEASE HELP!  I don't want 
to encounter this bug again when I am doing a crucial term paper.  Anyone who
has had this problem also please respond as well.  Perhaps we might be able to 
get a CSD out or if one's already available for it please let me know ( only 
on the bboard PLEASE..)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: tom@nds.com (Tom Williamson)
Subject: Re: CURE! for no desktop on bootup syndrome
Reply-To: tom@nds.UUCP (Tom Williamson)
Organization: Northwest Digital Systems
Date: Wed, 09 Sep 92 16:21:15 GMT

In article <14361@goanna.cs.rmit.oz.au> steveh@goanna.cs.rmit.oz.au (Steven Hayes) writes:
>schmiher@Informatik.TU-Muenchen.DE (Hermann Schmidt) writes:
>
>>I've been fiddling around with this problem for a while. All three
>>machines I work with were 'infected' one day or another.
>>The problem appears to be related to the automatic startup of any
>>kind of application thru any method (startupfolder, automatic restart).
>
>The problem occures when you have SHADOWS in your startup folder, or restart
>applications that are NOT in your startup folder. If you _copy_ whatever
>you want to run at startup into your startup folder, things will be swell.

Just a note to say that I don't think this problem has anything to do with 
having shadows in the startup folder.  One of the first things I did after 
installing os/2 was to shadow the system clock and pulse in the startup 
folder.  I have never had any of the symptoms mentioned above.  I have been
running my system that way for at least 6 weeks.

Sorry that I cannot offer some other direction to help solve your difficulty.

>I made these changes about 6 weeks ago, and haven't had a problem since.
>
>-- 
>   Steven Hayes                                    |  steveh@rmit.edu.au
>   Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT)  |  +61 3 660-2693

Tom Williamson
tom@nds.com
From: johnt@pilot.njin.net (John Thiruvathukal)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Diamond Speedstar SVGA mode driver desperately needed
Keywords: Diamond, Speedstar, SVGA
Date: 12 Sep 92 22:49:32 GMT
Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J.


Brief question:

Where can I find a 1024x768x256 driver for a Diamond Speedstar board
which isbased on the ET4000 chip.  I tried ftp-os2.nmsu.edu but all I
could
find there was a 16 color driver.  There was something called an STB
driver
and there was and Orchid ProDesigner driver.  The Orchid is based on
the same ET4000 chip.

I would appreciate it if someone would kindly e-mail me a response, as
I don't get many opportunities to spend time reading this group.

Thanks in advance!
From: grichard@swimming.cis.ohio-state.edu (Golden Richard III)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Problem with install (mouse doesn't work)
Date: 9 Sep 92 20:13:22 GMT
Organization: The Ohio State University Dept. of Computer and Info. Science



I've run into an installation problem on the following hardware:

	Toshiba 3300SL notebook (25 MHz 386SL) w/ 8 meg + 64K CPU cache


The problem is that I can't seem to make OS/2 recognize an Imsi PC
Stylus pointing device.   IBM is looking into the problem but have no
suggestion at the moment, other than to switch mice [a definite
possibility, as this one is brand new, but I like it and would like to
keep it if possible].

Symptom:   OS/2 *does* give me the mouse selection menu during
installation.   OS/2 does not recognize the mouse at any point during
installation.   When OS/2 is rebooted, the error message


	SYS1201: The device driver "C:\OS2\MDOS\VMOUSE.SYS " specified
in the DEVICE command on line 58 of the CONFIG.SYS file was not
installed.  Line 58 is ignored.   Press Enter to continue.


is displayed.   I haven't modified the CONFIG.SYS generated by
installation in any way, though I did verify that the line

	DEVICE=C:\OS2\MDOS\VMOUSE.SYS

is indeed in CONFIG.SYS and that the above file does exist in the
specified directory.


I was wondering if anyone had had a similar problem.   My solution
will be to return the mouse if I can't get it working in the next day
or so, but I would really rather keep this model because it is very
convenient for a portable.
	

Thanks.

-- 
Golden Richard III             OSU Dept. of Computer and Information Science
grichard@cis.ohio-state.edu                                   (614) 292-0056
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc