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Date: Wed, 29 Jul 92 16:38:07 EDT
From: Dan Kehn <KEHN@CARVM3.VNET.IBM.COM>
Subject: Questions: Migrate,WPS etc...
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc


In <1992Jul19.211312.19031@odin.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???

Call DosError(DISABLE_ERRORPOPUPS) before calling DosOpen().  Call
DosError(ENABLE_ERRORPOPUPS) to re-enable system handling of hard
errors.

>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???

OS2.INI, OS2SYS.INI, CONFIG.SYS.  Your backup utility needs to
preserve the EAs (extended attributes), too, because folder attributes
are stored in the directory's EAs.  You might want to read the
FAQ list for more backup hints (me, I never back up anything ;-)

Don't know the answers to (3) and (4).

Dan Kehn
From: pfr@drsrv1.hmi.de (Fritsch_Wolfgang)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: system gets confused by icon installation ?
Date: 21 Jul 92 08:12:51 GMT
Organization: Hahn-Meitner-Institut Berlin GmbH

This morning I had my horror trip. After switching on my PC the system did
some chkdsk all by itself (no instruction in config.sys included), and then
halted with the content of some registers and the instruction to call IBM.

I did now chkdsk /f3, after booting from a:. Some error of swapper.dat were
reported and corrected. I then booted again from c:, and now the system did
again some chkdsk but this time went through to the desktop view.

Anybody has seen this happening to him/her? It strikes me that the day before
I had installed the icons from hobbes and in this process I had several system
lock ups which could be mended by booting. I also remember having read
somewhere that too many icons in one file can hurt the system. Any comment
here?

Wolfgang Fritsch
HMI Berlin
pfr@dcon1.hmi.de
From: bewhite@matt.ksu.ksu.edu (MacroMan)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: More Info on Redbooks Needed
Date: 29 Jul 1992 22:05:21 -0500
Organization: Kansas State University
NNTP-Posting-Host: matt.ksu.ksu.edu

  Ok, so I heard a lot of good things about these "redbooks" that
people have been ordering.  I take it that they document some
features that aren't documented elsewhere?  Maybe get in depth
enough to interest a hacker type like me?  So I call.
  IBM tells me to call my nearest IBM center.  So I call.  They
transfer me to the librarian.  She doesn't seem to know much
about them.  Looks up redbooks on the 'puter.  No dice.  So
she looks up OS/2.  There are 738 references.  She tells
me I need to be more specific.  Titles or preferably product
numbers.
  All I wanted was to know EXACTLY what the books contain, and
how much they cost.  She said for me to ask you net weenies, so
thats what I'm doing.
  thanks much.
-- 
  Bruce White(bewhite@matt.ksu.ksu.edu)
  "I live like I type - Fast, and with a lot of mistakes"
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: Thanks for the disk space
From: jstewart@desire.wright.edu
Date: 22 Jul 92 04:54:26 EST
Organization: Wright State University 

In article <1992Jul21.033046.2007@infonode.ingr.com>, bbrown@infonode.ingr.com (Bailey Brown) writes:
> Thanks IBM.  If it were not for OS/2 2.0, I would still be hunting
> for disk space from time to time, deleting a few files here, a few
> files there, and so on.  Now I won't have to do that for quite 
> some time, now that I've installed 2.0 on my machine then wiped it off.
> 
> BTW, I have really important stuff to do with my PC.  OS/2 has crashed
> twice on me in the last two days, and it refuses to let me run
> my Intel 386/486 C Code Builder 1.1. It will run a program compiled with
> this version of the compiler, but not the compiler itself.  I know
> I could probably get a solution from the resident OS/2 gurus here, 
> but next week I'd have another problem and waste another couple
> of hours solving it.  If I wanted to tinker with my OS I'd get
> Linux.
> 
> Everything I want to run, including Code Builder, works fine right out of 
> the box under Windows 3.1, and my machine almost never swaps while running 
> windows with 8 meg (with 2 meg reserved for smartdrive), vs. swapping all 
> the time under OS/2 (with the default disk cache size).  Oh, and I forgot to 
> mention that using my SVGA at 800x600x256 72hz on my 16" monitor is much 
> nicer than plain vga at 60 hz.
> 
> It's just not worth giving up all of this just to be able to format floppies
> while playing Wing Commander in a window.
> 
> ------------
> Bailey Brown                               "Above all else, confusion reigns."
> Intergraph Corporation                                  
> bbrown@casca.b11.ingr.com                              Procol Harum

	I think you are to blame, you failed to identify your needs before you
went ahead with purchase and installation.  

						John Stewart

P.S. thanks IBM, I use OS/2 and I love it:)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: mig@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Meir I Green)
Subject: Re: Format 1.2M to 1.44M
Reply-To: mig@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Meir I Green)
Organization: Columbia University
Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1992 20:15:41 GMT

In article <1992Jul23.194934.18926@njitgw.njit.edu> dic5340@hertz.njit.edu (David Charlap) writes:
>In article <1992Jul22.201259.7773@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> kls@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Kenneth L Shellberg) writes:
>
>>Very recently, there was a posting which recommended a DOS floppy
>>formatter called fdformat, which will format a 1.2M 5.25 floppy to
>>1.44M.  Can anyone tell me where to find this program?  It sounds like
>>it would be very useful to me.
>
>I'd recommend not using it.  First of all, it probably won't work
>under OS/2.  I'd be surprised if it did.
>
>Second, I had problems with it under DOS 5.0.  It requires a TSR be
>installed (FDREAD.COM).  This TSR enables unusual formats by
>suppressing certain error handlers within DOS.  It makes some format
>programs (like Norton's Safe Format) refuse to format a disk that
>hasn't previously been formatted.
>
>The disks you produce with FDFORMAT are usually unreadable by
>computers that haven't loaded the FDREAD.COM TSR.

Actually, the disks read just fine under stock OS/2 2.0, without loading the
FDREAD driver.  I guess OS/2 actually reads the format specs before reading
from the floppy.  Maybe that's why it is so slow :-)

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From: joe2@vnet.ibm.com
Date: Fri, 31 Jul 92 12:03:53 FST
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: strange goings on
Reply-To: <joe2@vnet.ibm.com>
Disclaimer: This posting represents the poster's views, not those of IBM
News-Software: UReply 3.0

In <igcRoB1w164w@gorilla.nbn.com> Tim Holmes writes:
>So I finally got up to 8 megs(!) and am using OS/2.
>I like it, but a couple of crazy things.
>First, when I start up, I get Excel opened three times!
>I have nothing in the "startup" folder.
>Also, the sticky pad and other things always open in
>their default positions, not where I put them.
>Finally, it often takes 3 or 4 tries to get the
>thing to boot.
>
>The computer is a 386 33 with a 340 meg HD and 8 megs RAM.
>
>==========================================================================
>Tim Holmes             holmes@gorilla.nbn.com             San Rafael, CA
>--------------------------------------------------------------------------
>

What I always recommend, is putting

     SET RESTARTOBJECTS=STARTUPFORLDERSONLY


in the CONFIG.SYS.

-Joel Armengaud
From: isgtec.com!ted@overmind.mind.org
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: ATI fixes WINOS2 problems with Wonder cards!
Date: 22 Jul 92 09:48:00 GMT
Organization: ISG Technologies Inc. Mississauga Ont. Canada
X-mailer: Stadel 3.4a-227
X-Spam-content: irrelevant

ATI has just released new Windows 3.0 drivers for the VGA Wonder- and
Integra-series cards which fix almost all the problems with switching
between the Workplace Shell and a full-screen WINOS2 session.  The
cursor no longer disappears, the screen no longer loses sync, and the
cursor no longer acts like a paintbrush (all problems I have had with
various of the old drivers).

I have tried all of the supplied drivers with Joel Armengaud's
1024x768/256 PM driver, and all work perfectly, except for the ATI
640x480/32K driver, which changes the WPS colours to some very strange
ones, but otherwise works fine.  The colours revert to normal when you
exit windows.  There is also another driver included which I suspect is
800x600/32K, but it is not mentioned in the Windows setup file, and
doesn't work on my machine.  You may need a more recent version of the
card than I have to use this mode.

The only noticeable change (other than the lack of problems) is that
the drivers seem to take a little longer switching back to the WINOS2
session.  NOTE: you may need to set VIDEO_SWITCH_NOTIFICATION to ON in
the WINOS2 session's DOS settings.  There is also a slight improvement
in the 16-colour modes: the highlight bar is now blue instead of black,
if anyone cares.

I have placed the drivers in the pub/downloads directory on
ftp-os2.nmsu.edu, filename "atiwin30.zoo".  It was repacked directly
from the zip file I uploaded from the ATI BBS yesterday.  It will
probably migrate to another directory soon.  I also put the file in
pub/pc/win3/uploads on ftp.cica.indiana.edu (same name) if that is
better for anyone.

--
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ISG Technologies Inc.   3030 Orlando Dr. Mississauga  Ont.  Canada   L4V 1S8
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: agriffin@mitre.org (James Artcher Griffin)
Subject: Re: Nowhere directory?
Organization: The MITRE Corporation
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1992 19:44:18 GMT

In <712346856snx@stets.novalis.public.sub.org> stets@stets.novalis.public.sub.org (Thomas Stets) writes:

>agriffin@mitre.org writes in article <agriffin.712256693@tsfsrv>:
>>
>> [text deleted about nowhere directory]
>> One can show this relationship by deleting a printer object or by just
>> begining the delete process.  Note: if the "delete conformation" option
>> has been turned off, then selecting the DELETE function from the printer
>> objects' pop-up menu will remove the object without affording the
>> opportunity to read in the delete conformation dialog box that the
>> object about to be deleted is "in" the nowhere directory.
>>

>Well, I followed you instructions, and the dialog box said the object
>was "in" the OS/2 Desktop.

> MfG Thomas Stets

Curious?  My expectations were that all desk-top objects would be "in"
the OS/2 Desktop and I was surprised when deleting a plotter object to
see that it was reported to be "in" nowhere.  I'll check it again
tonight (home system OS/2, work still MS Win 3.1).

I have been using a file-manager utility that is "in development".
Occasionly it has messed up the directory tree, but I don't think I ever
tried to move or copy any thing other than files.  I may have another
bug report to fill out for the file-manager.

Thanks for your report Thomas.

I did get a chance to look at a draft of the Red Book Vol 5 (Printer
Support), but did not find anything in the index or table of contents
that dealt with nowhere.

Anyone from Boca here to tell us?

Artch
From: bigras@mala.bc.ca
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Seamless Drivers for Trident 8900c ??
Date: 22 Jul 92 21:10:39 -0700
Organization: Malaspina College

I was reading over comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy and somebody
mentioned theat trident drivers are available with
seamless windows.  The ones I am currently using
don't have this, and it would be nice to keep
some of those win games on the desktop.
Are seamless drivers available for the 8900c
in 1024x768x256?

Tony Bigras

ok
From: CSYSPCN@MVS.OAC.UCLA.EDU (CSYSPCN)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: Problem replacing *.DLL files
Date: 23 Jul 92 17:41:02 GMT

I have successfully used two methods:
1) use the rexx exec which can be found on ftp-os2.nmsu.edu to
   produce a bootable floppy, boot off of that, and manipulate away:

2) a) copy the new dll's to \
   b) reboot
   c) copy the new dll's to \OS2\DLL
   d) edit config.sys so that \ apears after \os2\dll in the LIBPATH
   e) reboot
   f) erase the new dll's in \
   g) restore the original config.sys
   h) reboot
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: wjb5106@zeus.tamu.edu (Walter Barnett)
Subject: Re: HPFS not finding bad blocks
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41    
Organization: Texas A&M University
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1992 16:24:00 GMT

In article <1992Jul28.173858.24764@usenet.ins.cwru.edu>, dab6@po.CWRU.Edu (Douglas A. Bell) writes...
> 
>In a previous article, jar@inel.gov (Jeffry A Rich) says:
> 
>>I tried sending this "Cry for help" in the Advocacy group, but, apparently that was the wrong area. I'll try again.
>>I have a 130mb hard drive with two known media errors on the disk. I can bypass these errors in dos/windows by using pctools.
>>When using OS/2 and HPFS, these errors manifest themselves within applications that I've installed on the disk. I was under the impression that if you format the drive while installing OS/2, the file system automatically detects these media errors and w
>>If anyone has any thoughts concerning this problem, I would be most appreciative in hearing them.
>>
>> Regards,
>>   JR Rich
> 
>Try booting from floppy and running chkdsk c: /f:3
> 
>It may take a while, but it may fix it.


Isn't HPFS supposed to have 'hot fixes' by which it marks bad sectors as 
they occur and then bypasses them until the end of time?


_______________________________________________________________________
Walter Barnett        Aerospace Engineering        Texas A&M University
From: person@plains.NoDak.edu (Brett G Person )
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: Looking for Deskjet printer driver
Date: 31 Jul 92 06:02:11 GMT
Organization: North Dakota State University, Fargo, ND

I told OS/2 that my deskjet 500 was a deskjet 500.  Should I have told os2 that it was something else?  

Someonme mentioneed pmchart.  Today I discovered that I couldn't print anything under pmchart.  The program crashes and os2 tells me to contact ther manufacturer with the register information.  It also can't identify the title of the progtram (pmchart) that crashes.

Wierd

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From: "michael daly" <michael.daly@canrem.com>
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: phoenix bios anyone?
Date: 31 Jul 92 00:26:21 EST
Reply-To: "michael daly" <michael.daly@canrem.com>
Distribution: comp
Organization: Canada Remote Systems

WP>So I finally called IBM support and they told me that the problem was
WP>my phoenix bios is too old (1991). They said I needed to up rev to
WP>revision dated 05-11-92! Is this right?! Is anyone out there running
WP>OS2 2.0 on phoenix bios roms dated before this year's May!??

I chatted with someone down in Boca Raton who informed me that all the
ALR machines they tested required the latest Phoenix upgrade to work
with OS/2.  I then called ALR to enquire as to the cost/availablity of a
new BIOS for my ALR (current BIOS is 1989 vintage) and was told that
version that I had heard was required was only used in the latest 486
boxes and that my machine was fine as is.  I installed OS/2 and haven't
had any problems.  Do you need a new BIOS? - that depends.  On what?  I
don't know.  But you'll find many people happily using older versions.

 * DeLuxe2 1.21 #289 * 
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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: mig@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Meir I Green)
Subject: Re: OS/2 crashed ..and ate BOOT MNGR?!
Reply-To: mig@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Meir I Green)
Organization: Columbia University
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1992 00:54:38 GMT

In article <!6mmy##.rlynx@netcom.com> rlynx@netcom.com (Roger Lynx) writes:
>Hi,
>just today my OS/2 setup crashed (not enough memory etc....) and
>when I managed to shutdown ... I could not boot anymore.
>Booting FDISK from DOS331 told me "hard disk reading error " (before it displayed everything okay)
>Booting from HD "Basic ROM not found" in 40 char size letters.
>
>HW:	486DX2, 16MB, 1542B, 330MB SCSI Micropolis, T8900C 1MB
>SW	1MB Boot mngr
>	C: 75MB	DOS331
>	D: 190MB HPFS OS/2 system
>	E: 50MB HPFS OS/2 DATA
>
>IS there away to re-make boot manager? Short of re-installing OS/2!?
>Thanks for input, help.

Why don't you try booting from the install diskettes.  You can run fdisk from
the command line, after pressing ESC.

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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu (Timothy F. Sipples)
Subject: Re: PM Terminal full-screen?
Reply-To: sip1@midway.uchicago.edu
Organization: Dept. of Econ., Univ. of Chicago
Date: Sat, 25 Jul 1992 00:53:31 GMT

In article <1992Jul24.165110.1@kean.ucs.mun.ca> roger@kean.ucs.mun.ca writes:
>	I would like to run PM Terminal full-screen rather that in a 
>window.  But when I select the settings menu the choices for full 
>screen versus windowed are "greyed out", making it impossible to change 
>this setting.  
>	Is there anyway to run PM Terminal full-screen?

Since it is a Presentation Manager application the most you can get is
Maximize.
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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: joker@diku.dk (Morten Christian Holmgreen)
Subject: Questions: Migrate,WPS etc...
Date: Sun, 19 Jul 1992 21:13:12 GMT
Organization: Department of Computer Science, U of Copenhagen

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???

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???

3)  Which settings do you other guys use for WCII? It's painfully slow,
    even though I use a 486-50. Whenever there's a sound, it takes forever
    for the sound to fade away. (And no, I don't want to turn off the sound
    - I like the crunchy sound when you hit the opponent ;-)

4)  Why does Migrate think, that my Borland C++ 3.0 is an OS/2 program????


Thanks in advance

Christian
-- 
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student, University of Copenhagen, Dept. of Computer Science
"Human errors can only be avoided if one can avoid the use of humans"
From: "peter gottlieb" <peter.gottlieb@channel1.com>
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: need scsi help
Date: 23 Jul 92 01:03:04 EST
Reply-To: "peter gottlieb" <peter.gottlieb@channel1.com>
Distribution: comp
Organization: Channel 1 Communications

SJB>  After I set up a 50 MB primary FAT partition and formatted it, it
SJB>started to read files from disk 2.  Shortly thereafter, it hangs.  It givess
SJB>me the following error code.

My Adaptec 1542b gives me trouble also; I always get a SYS0045 error on
the second disk.

Check the following:

   Is your 1542b set for default, 5.0 MB/s DMA rate?  Does it run
      it's internal DMA test loop successfully?  (see manual)

   Are your termination resistors set up properly?

   Is your bus speed 8 MHz?

   Does your BIOS shadow adapter ROM?

Also, try doing the install in non-turbo mode.


IBM does have an APAR for this, but it is not done yet.  The number is
PJ03892, and if you call the IBM 800 number, they will put you on the
list of "interested parties."

good luck.

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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: gogol@diku.dk (Peter Skov Knudsen)
Subject: Re: Facelift Problems
Date: Tue, 21 Jul 1992 12:08:35 GMT
Organization: Department of Computer Science, U of Copenhagen

rlosee@unlinfo.unl.edu (Robert Losee) writes:

>I've got Facelift for Windows running.  I think I installed it in full
>screen windows.  Now when I run WP4W it seems aware of this font 
>utility when it's started full screen, but not when it's started out 
>of the windows applications on the WPS (where WP4W was migrated).  
>I've got WP4W interim release from a month ago installed if that 
>matters.  Any thoughts on this?

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From my own experience using Facelift for Windows under OS/2, I recommend
that you don"t use it. Its perfectly possible to use it - I used it for
a month or so with Word for Windows, both full screen and seamless Windows,
and it never gave me any troubles save one: Printing is terribly slooow.
Using ATM printing generally takes < 1 min per page; using Facelift printing
generally takes > 15 min per page. The reason why I originally switched
from ATM to Facelift is that the latter produces better quality printout,
especially in small font sizes, but the difference in quality is only
marginal and a subjective matter, so I decided to get rid of the intolerable
printing time from Facelift and switched back to ATM. I addition there
are tons of PD ATM fonts available whereas the pricetag of just one
Facelift font is cripling.

If you after all decide to stick with Facelift, you should be sure to
disable ATM from the ATM control panel. Then shutdown Windows and restart
a full WINOS2 session. You should then install Facelift from your diskettes.
Shutdown WINOS2 and restart. Finally from all your Windows apps reselect
your printer to make the Facelift fonts appear in your app.
Good luck -  it worked for me.

Peter Skov Knudsen, email gogol@diku.dk, computer science student.
From: tedc@ee.ubc.ca (ted chen)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Installing BLKICO fix
Date: 29 Jul 92 23:03:57 GMT
Organization: University of BC, Electrical Engineering


I recently downloaded some of the recent fixes from ftp-os2 and have a couple
questions.  

1)  Can I delete all the 'fix files' after patching?                     

2)  When I follow the instructions for the BLKICO fix, copying the 2 .DLL
    files into the \OS2\DLL directory, I get a message saying that the two
    files are in use by another program.  I cannot copy over the old DLL's
    as instructed to.  

3)  What are the major patches that I should be installing?



Oh yes, just 1 more question, can somebody please post Red Book information
with the part numbers? (maybe this should be in the FAQ)


Thanks very much,     

Ted
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc