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From: johnh@meaddata.com (John Holt)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.apps
Subject: GammaTech Utilities question
Date: 21 Jan 1993 17:59:52 GMT
Organization: Mead Data Central, Dayton OH
Distribution: na
NNTP-Posting-Host: pleiad.meaddata.com

Does anyone know if GammaTech will mark the defective sectors it finds as
bad, or does it just report them?  

I simply can not tell from the documentation provided.  


Thanks,

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From: kncarp@nicsn1.monsanto.com (Kevin N. Carpenter)
Subject: Problem using GTAK to restore
Organization: Monsanto Company
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL8]
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 12:08:43 GMT

I seem to be having problems getting gtar (from the gtak201b.zip package) to
restore any *.exe files.  The backup ran fine, and a "tar -tv" shows the files
as being present.  When I do a "tar -xvw" it ask me if I wish to restore the
first exe file, I see a bunch of disk and tape activity (it looks like its
restoring), and no error messages are generated.  However, a dir command does
not show the file as being present.

Normally, I'd just use a utility to see if perhaps it simply has the wrong
attributes, but I can't do that right now.  You see, 2.1Beta caused me
enough grief that I reformated my disk, and I'm trying to restore my old
2.0+SP system, including those utilities.  In other words, I'm in PANIC mode!

Any suggestions?
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Monsanto Company      Fidonet:   1:100/215.0 (home)
St. Louis, Missouri, U.S.A.
Opinions expressed are those of the author, not the company he works for.
From: yl01@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu (Yi-Der Lee)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.apps
Subject: Re: MathCad anyone?
Date: 25 Jan 93 16:40:04 GMT
Organization: Lehigh University

In article <tadr.727670235@keiko>, tadr@doe.carleton.ca (Tom A. D. Riley) writes
:
>In <727668058.AA00000@blkcat.UUCP> William.Todd@f347.n109.z1.fidonet.org (Willi
am Todd) writes:
>
>[stuff deleted]
>
>>|TL> 2) will in run in winos2 o.k.                                          |
>>|TL>                                                                        |
>>+---------------------------------------------------------------------------+
>
>>It is a Windows 3.1 program. Needs 2.1
>
>
>Maybe you can convince them to let you have a copy of mathcad 3.0 it runs
>fine under os2 2.0. (Glad I never gave in to their requests to "upgrade" :)
>
>I like the program very much. Think of it as the best calculator money can buy.
>
>No Sig.
>
I am using MathCAD 3.0 too.  It works perfectly under WIN-OS or seamless
windows application.  Mine is OS 2.0.  There are two situations that I feel it
insufficient.  First, it seems easier to hit "not enough memory" under OS2
instead of pure Win 3.1 environment.  Especially after a lot cut-and paste.
Second, the print_to_PS_file option under seamless windows application seems not
working properly.  The postscript printer does not recognize it.  Even I get
into WIN-OS and reset it.  WIN-OS just won't save the print_to_PS_file option.
So, actually what I did generally is getting into WIN-OS, resetting the
print_to_PS_file option, firing MathCAD and then print the file.  That will
give you valid PS file.

In my opinion, it's an excellent software.  Instead of having those tiny
programs flooded in your account, MathCAD takes care of that.  I haven't touch
my calculator (years ago, it's state_of_the_art, :-)) for a long time.

-- 
-ydl

yl01@ns1.cc.Lehigh.edu
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From: s_fuller@iastate.edu (Steve Fuller)
Subject: Re: Stacker for OS/2....March?
Organization: Iowa State University, Ames IA
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 17:12:00 GMT

In <C16HHK.7DI@hpuerca.atl.hp.com> aaa@hpuerca.atl.hp.com (Simon Fowler) writes:

>Stacker will only create virtual FAT drives in FAT partitions.

Is it just me, or does the hinting going around that Stacker for
OS/2 won't support HPFS make it completely bogus for most
people??? Sounds more like a compatibility upgrade to than
anything. I have a 212 Meg drive and I would like to get some
more space available on it, but I'm NOT about to go back to FAT
just to gain a 100 meg of drive space....


>simon
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From: ojtv@zombie.oulu.fi (Olli Vuolteenaho)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.apps
Subject: Re: First impression on WP4W 5.2
Date: 27 Jan 93 18:36:06 GMT
Organization: University of Oulu, Finland
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]

ghdai@vax1.umkc.edu wrote:
>WP4W 5.2 behaves much better now under
>OS/2 than 5.1.  It now longer leaves a process called -zombie- (by a
>utility called PSPM2 that can be found at Hobbes) running after it
>is closed.  Now I really believe that WP did make  some efforts to
>let it run OK under OS/2. However, under OS/2 2.1 beta, I can not
>let it choose a windoze printer driver.  Anybody has got similar
>problem? 

I'm using OS/2 2.0 GA+SP and the printer set up worked OK for me.
Otherwise I think that WP 5.2 fW isn't really optimized for OS/2:it
eats up 40 % of the system resources (leaving only 38-40 % free in my
two systems). It might be this that makes the program prone to random
crashes and weird behavior. As a comparison, Word for Windows 2.0
leaves 70 % free system resources. Even the WP File Manager consumes
surprisingly large slices of the resources. Also, I have had to
increase the DPMI_MEMORY_LIMIT to 4 MB in order to avoid the "not
enough memory" messages with WP 5.2.  BTW, in plain vanilla Windows
3.1, WP 5.2 fW doesn't appear to use much more system resources than
other programs, memory usage is quite heavy, however. Is it the Win
3.0 code in OS/2 2.0 that WP 5.2 is not comfortable with?

I remeber reading from somewhere that when free system resources go
down to 30s and below, Windows tends to get unstable? Is it so?

Olli
___________________________________________________________________________
From: sal8@po.cwru.edu (Steve Luzynski)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.apps
Subject: Re: All who think they deserve free upgrades...
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 06:46:17 GMT
Organization: Case Western Reserve University
NNTP-Posting-Host: b61442.student.cwru.edu
Keywords: OS/2 upgrade

In article <smithgr.727594889@rintintin.Colorado.EDU> smithgr@rintintin.Colorado.EDU (Gregory P. Smith) writes:
>From: smithgr@rintintin.Colorado.EDU (Gregory P. Smith)
>Subject: All who think they deserve free upgrades...
>Keywords: OS/2 upgrade
>Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 05:41:29 GMT
>For all of you who think that we should get free upgrades to OS/2 2.1 or any
>new version, think of it this way.  If we all get our upgrades for free IBM
>will just be hurting more than their current 5+ BILLION debt and we may never
>see another version of OS/2.

I have an idea. Everyone, send the cover from your Windows 3.1 manual (I 
know you all have at least _one_. I have two full licensed copies myself.) 
to Bill Gates and tell him you want either a free upgrade to OS/2 2.1 or 
your money back for Windows since it doesn't do anything useful.

For that matter, send the whole manual, postage due, to his house. Anyone 
worth that much money deserves to get 20,000 pounds of mail postage due.

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sal8@po.cwru.edu  | voice calls testily accepted at x2153.
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while writing this post with a dos newsreader, i played a modfile in the
background, compiled a 32bit presentation manager application, and printed
a 1.4 meg postscript document. try doing that in windows.
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OS/2 developer and user. got an idea? mail it in, i'm bored.
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.apps
From: tadr@doe.carleton.ca (Tom A. D. Riley)
Subject: Re: How is FrameMaker under OS/2?
Organization: Dept. of Electronics, Carleton University
Distribution: na
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 13:19:41 GMT

In <1993Jan26.042652.26256@odetics.com> frank@odetics.com (Frank Merrow) writes:

>Hi,

>I do not have an OS/2 system up yet, but I am being gently pushed
>in that direction.  I asked the FrameMaker folks if my MS-Windows
>version would run under OS/2.  The official answer is "not reliably".
>Then I noticed the one byte patch in the OS/2 FAQ (thank you
>Tim).  I less trusting individual might think that FrameMaker had
>deliberatly put an OS/2 incompatable instruction in the code, but I
>would never think such a thing!

>At any rate, I was wondering if anyone had actually attempted the
>patch and how well FrameMaker then runs under OS/2.  Also, once
>patched will the MAKER.EXE file still run under MS-Windows?  FrameMaker
>is the ONE program that is holding me to MS-windows.

I have used it a bit under 2.0. Make the usuall twiddles to the settings
for maximum speed (see the FAQ) and (very important) pump up the DPMI
and XMS memory settings to 12 or 16Meg even if you physically have less
(I have 8). My guess is that this forces os/2 to do the swapping rather than
maker. In this configuration, I couldn't tell the difference in speed between
win  3.1 and winos2 GA+SP.

One warning: I find maker unusable in a 640x480 resolution. Make sure you 
have the video driver issue sorted out first.
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From: hankedr@mail.auburn.edu (Darrel Hankerson)
Subject: Re: problem with OS/2 dvips
Organization: Auburn University, Alabama
Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 16:26:28 GMT


In article <1993Jan21.125139.8994@news.duc.auburn.edu> hankedr@mail.auburn.edu (Darrel Hankerson) writes:
>In article <1993Jan20.202547.19593@husc3.harvard.edu> gouvea@zariski.harvard.edu

Fernando Gouvea had written that the dvips (converts TeX dvi files) 5.495
recently posted to ftp-os2.nmsu.edu calls 'MakeTeXPK.cmd', and this
file will not be found on FAT drives. I had replied to an earlier post
on dvips 5.495 (there is a potential problem with FILE.0 in the .cmd file).

Currently, I use Sinha's port of dvips 5.490, but Rokicki has warned of 
problems with versions prior to 5.495 (also, the .cmd file included with
5.495 is a REXX script which offers additional features which may be of
interest). 


Here's a copy of my email reply:

I had assumed that a OS/2 would automatically truncate on a FAT drive (MSDOS
will truncate, right?). I tested 5.495 again, and it appears that you
are correct (but why did the author package it with 'maketexp.cmd' if it
needs to be 'maketexpk.cmd' on all systems?).  

I used beav (avail on ftp-os2.nmsu.edu, thanks to Kai Uwe Rommel for 
the port) to edit dvipsos2.exe so that 
'MakeTeXPK' is now 'MakeTeXP'. It works. Note that the REXX script
expects the new fonts directories to exist (?).

Note also that I posted a reply some time ago to a problem with the REXX
version (FILE.0 may need to be set). It does work for me if I rename to
'maketexpk.cmd'

--darrel hankerson hank@ducvax.auburn.edu



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From: giram00@DMI.USherb.CA (MARTIN GIRARD)
Subject: Flight simulator 4 (FS4) with OS/2
Organization: Universite de Sherbrooke -- Dept. d'Informatique
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 21:56:21 GMT

Keywords: FS4

Hi, I own a sound blaster card and today I have installed Graphic and sound
update.  My problem is the sound volume is constantly changing and also being
cut sometime.  I've have tried differents settings but none seems the be
correct.   Thanks for your help.

Dany Lavoie, universit de Sherbrobrooke, Qubec, Canada
From: jnelson@andromeda.rutgers.edu (John R Nelson)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.apps
Subject: TE/2 Modem.zip
Summary: Need Modem.zip for TE/2
Keywords: TE/2
Date: 22 Jan 93 13:11:40 GMT
Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J.

Does anyone have MODEM.ZIP for TE/2??  I'd like to have this file.
Could you E-Mail it to me (uuencoded is OK).   Or is there a ftp site that has this????

Thanks!!!
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Subject: Re: 800x600 on display HOW?
From: CFORDE@bcsc02.gov.bc.ca (Carl Forde)
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 93 15:33:42 PST
Organization: BC Systems Corporation

In article <C1FFsD.FM@boi.hp.com>
slack@boi.hp.com (David Slack) writes:
 
>
>        I have installed the 2.1b and everything seems to work fine.  BUT! I
>have set the display type to SVGA during install yet it looks like it is still
>displaying 600x480 (VGA?).  I have an HP Ultra VGA card with an HP Super VGA
>monitor.  I have windows 3.1 set up for 800x600 and it works fine.  So what do
>I need to do to get the higher res. on my display?
 
Look in "OS/2 System" -> "System Setup" -> "System" -> "Screen"
 
This will show you a notebook with the settings available to you with
the currently selected one highlit.  Or if you're running VGA mode, the
first one is highlit.  If you only have VGA then the "Screen" page of the
notebook won't be shown.
 
 
Have fun,
Carl Forde                            phonenet: 604-389-3234
VM Systems Software Group             bitnet  : CFORDE@BCSC02
British Columbia Systems Corporation  internet: cforde@bcsc02.gov.bc.ca
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.apps
From: wizzard@wam.umd.edu (The Wizzard)
Subject: Re: Civilization
Keywords: Games
Organization: University of Maryland, College Park
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 00:54:29 GMT

In article <kwhelan.51@neptune.uark.edu> kwhelan@neptune.uark.edu (Kenneth Whelan) writes:
>
>Has anyone gotten Civilization to run at full speed under OS/2.   Seems that 
>it doesn't like the way the graphics are running and it slows down to a 
>crawl when run in a VDM.   I also tried in a Dos 5.0 session and then I get 
>some sort of fatal error. 

I got rid of my speed problem by using IBM sounds instead of SoundBlaster
[AdLib??] sounds.  There has got to be a better solution than this.

I have an additional question for running Civilization:
When I run it under a full screen dos session, my pallette gets screwed up:

This occurs when I run CIV in VGA mode and then one of the cities builds
something, and I am sent back to the main map.  All shades of green turn to 
a single shade of pink, and other colors change sothat the whole color
scheme looks awful.

If it matters: I have a Diamond SpeedSTAR 24X video card.

Any comments on either the original question or my question would be greatly
appreciated.

Signed,
  The Wizzard
  (who is still trying to learn all of OS/2's features)


Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.apps
From: olavt@ulrik.uio.no (Olav Torvund)
Subject: Re: Micrografix' Designer in 32bit supposedly shipping now
Organization: University of Oslo, Norway
	<1993Jan26.020657.7428@mcshub.dcss.mcmaster.ca>
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 12:39:35 GMT

First of all: I have Micrografx 3.1 for OS/2 installed, and it is
definitly shipping. (I got it through ordinary distribution channels,
as an upgrade from previous OS/2 version.).

Yes, it uses Mirrors, and it does not support long filenames with
HPFS. In general it is very similar to the 3.1 version for Windows. I
have not compared speed, and I do not use the application enough to
give a solid based "free hand" evaluation of speed. But there is no
striking difference.

It comes with ca. 170 fonts. It also have a feature for aligning text
along a line (curve). I do not remembe if that is part of the Windows
version. (At least I have never used it with the Windows version).

As I have mentioned in an earlier post, I have been told that a
version 4.0 is not too far away, and that the 4.0 version will be a
real OS/2 program. But I do not know. I am generally sceptical to
promises from software vendors before they can show the actual
program, and (based on experience) I am even more sceptical to
information from Micrografx.


Olav Torvund
University of Oslo
Norway
Olavt@jus.uio.no
From: dic5340@hertz.njit.edu (David Charlap)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.apps
Subject: Re: News on 2.1 Release
Date: 21 Jan 93 15:20:05 GMT
Organization: New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, N.J.

In article <80916@hydra.gatech.EDU> gt0040a@prism.gatech.EDU (Tom Sorensen) writes:
>Personally, when I think of how people regard software upgrades I'm
>actually fairly amazed. Sure, you should get a discount since the old
>version is now pretty useless (you can still donate it though, MAYBE
>sell it), but free?

Absolutely.  When a company like MS (and IBM) can make a package (like
Word or DisplayWrite, or LAN Manager, etc...) and sell $50 worth of
disks and manuals for $500, it's more than enough profits to counter a
lifetime of free (or media-charge only) upgrades.  I find it sick and
disgusting that big companies like MS have you thinking that the $139
upgrade to Word and Excel (BTW, being the same price that non-owners
got) is a fair price for an upgrade.  3 or 4 years ago, I was able to
get $10 upgrades to lots of major software from MS, Borland, and
others.  Now, they've all gotten greedy and you think it's fair.  Talk
about brainwashing.

>Come on. Programmers need to eat too (trust me on this one <g>) and
>companies can't afford to pay programmers out of pocket change.
>Upgrades *MUST* cost something.

You'd be correct except for the fact that the profit margins are so
high, and volume of sales is so high that the upgrade fees are just
extra cash on top.  New sales money still far outweighs the upgrade
money.  And it keeps users happy.

>IBM has really been exclusive in their upgrade procedures until now-
>the only other area that rivals them is the shareware arena, but
>that's a whole different world.

IBM is the only company with a sense of ethics when dealing with
customers.  IBM is the only company that treats a loyal customer
better than a nobody off the street.  And you feel that's a bad thing?
I hope you stay far away from the board rooms and marketing divisions.

>OS/2 2.1 is coming along with a lot of new stuff. IBM is
>trying to get it to us for as little as possible, but if MS forces
>them to pay a licensing fee then they CANNOT give it away for free!  

Nobody's questioning that.  The big question is that MS doesn't have
the right to charge IBM for code that is available under their current
licensing agreement.  Just because MS likes screwing it's customers
doesn't give them the ability to force all their "partners" to screw
their customers equally.  And yes, IBM and MS are partners in OS/2
until that software-sharing license expires whether they're talking to
each other or not.
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From: gac2@ellis.uchicago.edu (Geoffrey A. Coulter)
Subject: Re: Civilization
Keywords: Games
Reply-To: gac2@midway.uchicago.edu
Organization: University of Chicago
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 05:28:50 GMT

In article <1993Jan27.005429.7225@wam.umd.edu> wizzard@wam.umd.edu (The Wizzard) writes:
>In article <kwhelan.51@neptune.uark.edu> kwhelan@neptune.uark.edu (Kenneth Whelan) writes:
>>
>>Has anyone gotten Civilization to run at full speed under OS/2.   Seems that 
>>it doesn't like the way the graphics are running and it slows down to a 
>>crawl when run in a VDM.   I also tried in a Dos 5.0 session and then I get 
>>some sort of fatal error. 
>
>I got rid of my speed problem by using IBM sounds instead of SoundBlaster
>[AdLib??] sounds.  There has got to be a better solution than this.
>
>I have an additional question for running Civilization:
>When I run it under a full screen dos session, my pallette gets screwed up:
>
>This occurs when I run CIV in VGA mode and then one of the cities builds
>something, and I am sent back to the main map.  All shades of green turn to 
>a single shade of pink, and other colors change sothat the whole color
>scheme looks awful.
>
>If it matters: I have a Diamond SpeedSTAR 24X video card.
>
>Any comments on either the original question or my question would be greatly
>appreciated.
>
>Signed,
>  The Wizzard
>  (who is still trying to learn all of OS/2's features)
>

In some README.TXT somewhere, I came across something saying the
Video_Retrace and HW_Timer should both be off.  Between then, it
became possible for me to play; however, my problems seem to have been
very different from yours before making those changes.  After the
start-up, I just got a blank screen, and all further activity ceased,
but now, everything is normal.  THis is using IBM sound and the
VGAWonder component of an ATI Graphics Vantage.

Good luck,

Geoffrey Coulter
gac2@ellis.uchicago.edu
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.apps
Subject: re: part2: MathCad anyone?
From: ghdai@vax1.umkc.edu
Date: 24 Jan 93 15:31:21 CST
Organization: University of Missouri - Kansas City
NNTP-Posting-Host: vax1.umkc.edu

>4) any other info you might have.

I forgot one thing very important.  When I installed itdirectly on my OS/2 and
HPFS only machine, it failed because the PKUNZIP cannot open a ZIPped file
called DIR0, which I guess is a reserved filename for CHKDSK (DIR0*).

I ended up with installing it into another machine running under a real DOS 5.0
and then backup and restore into my machine.

Guohuan H. Dai/2
-- 
GHDai@VAX1.UMKC.Edu |** Happy user of only OS/2 !!! / HPFS on 2 entire HD's **|
|* OS/2 2.1beta includes MMPM/2, Fax/PM, Win3.1 enhanced mode, TT fonts, etc.*|
From: Steve Frampton <frampton@vicuna.ocunix.on.ca>
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.apps
Subject: X windows in OS/2 possible over normal serial line?
Date: Wed, 20 Jan 93 23:15:37 EST
Reply-To: frampton@vicuna.ocunix.on.ca
Followup-To: comp.os.os2.apps
Distribution: world
Organization: Vicuna Systems, Kingston, Ontario, CANADA
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii

Hello:

I have a quick question -- at school I use X-Windows running under 
Sun/OS for my assignments.  I have the ability to call in from home to 
do my work, but what I get is a single, normal, boring screen.

I was wondering about getting X for OS/2, but here are a few questions
I need to have answered first:

(1) Is there a decent public-domain/freeware/shareware version of X
specific to OS/2?

(2) All I really need is the binaries -- where can I get them, and
how much disk space do they take?

(3) Can I continue to use OS/2 as per normal and only use X when I
want to connect up?

(4) Is it possible to dial up to the system at 9600bps, login, and
use X over the line this way, or would the window packet protocols
have too much overhead for this to work quickly?  

(5) If this is feasible, *how* much slower is X's overhead over those
of standard terminal programs?

About the only thing I'd use X for here at home would be to have one
window for my editor, the other for my compiler, another for FTP'ing
files, and maybe another for netrek.  :-)  Neither TCP/IP nor SLIP is 
an option for me, BTW.

Any information you can provide would be most appreciated.  Thanks in
advance!

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