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From: chandoni@husc8.UUCP (John-Marc Chandonia, , , )
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: Can I change the font in a DOS or OS/2 window?
Date: 29 Jul 92 16:37:56 GMT
Article-I.D.: husc3.1992Jul29.123758.14284
Originator: chandoni@husc8.harvard.edu

by dic5340@hertz.njit.edu (David Charlap):
> clifton1@gw.wmich.edu writes:
>>What fonts are available is a function of the graphics driver you are using.
>>Fortunatly, with the standard VGA driver from IBM there are many to choose
>>from. Simply pull down the control menu (far upper left corner) for the 
>>window and select (Change Font, or Font Size--I forget which one).
> 
> After making your selection, click on "save" to make the font size
> "stick" to all future OS/2 and DOS windowed sessions.

What would really be cool is the ability to use any font on the system
in a DOS/OS2 box.  This seems like a fairly simple thing to write
into the graphics driver (not that I've ever written an OS/2 driver!).
Even better would be drag & drop capacity from the font pallette, but
this might be harder to implement, since the system doesn't currently
let you drop fonts onto windowed sessions.  These things wouldn't
actually be all that useful in practice (read:  lab/office) but
would be great for ads/PR (read:  rubbing in the noses of Windows
weenies).

What would actually be useful is the ability to save different font
preferences for different windowed sessions... i.e. I want my
WP/DOS window to open up in a medium sized font, and my 4OS2 window
to open up in a very small font so I can get 50 lines on the screen.
[ By the way, does anybody know how to do this now using a REXX
script to change the font or something? ].

JMC
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From: chk@mcshh.Hanse.DE (Christian Kuhtz)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: ESDI - special driver needed ?
Date: 31 Jul 92 02:05:47 GMT
Organization: Point of Presence Hamburg

Hi,

today I'm going to buy an Adaptec 2322B to get an ESDI HDD runnin' that has
been hangin' around a long time. I never had run it before 8).

Now my question is: Is there any performance improvement by special drivers
for ESDI HDD ? Are there any driveres around ? Sorry, this may be faq
questions, but ... I'll have to know that.. 8)

Ciao,
  Christian
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: smackinl01@cc.curtin.edu.au
Subject: Re: OS/2 hard drive:  SCSI or IDE?SCUP
Organization: Curtin University of Technology
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1992 03:22:10 GMT

Ancedote follows:
My 386sx/25 8M ram 120m SCSI (Maxtor 7120S) HDD screams.
Simon.
From: "kenneth tam" <kenneth.tam@canrem.com>
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: specific dos and mem
Date: 21 Jul 92 22:14:08 EST
Reply-To: "kenneth tam" <kenneth.tam@canrem.com>
Distribution: comp
Organization: Canada Remote Systems

07-21-92  13:12 - Paul J Bodin wrote to All re: Specific dos and memory 

 >Question : can a VDM created using VMDISK have EMS/XMS, DOS loaded
 >high, UMB's for loading device drivers high, etc.
 >
 >My attempts at doing this have been fruitless so far; though an IBM
 >service rep said it is possible.

 PJB> It is indeed possible to do it all.  Remember to use FSFILTER.SYS in
 PJB> the image CONFIG.SYS, and then simply substitue the HIMEM.SYS and
 PJB> EMM386.SYS from the /os2/mdos directory instead of the native DOS
 PJB> versions.  Be sure to provide enough memory in DOS Settings to do what
 PJB> you try to do with the image configuration files, and all should go
 PJB> swimmingly.
 
Are you sure?  I am quite confident that the relevent memory settings
in "DOS Settings" don't appear for specific DOS sessions -- you're supposed
to deal with it through the config.sys/autoexec.bat of the disk.


kenneth.tam@canrem.com

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From: norman.vi.ri.cmu.ed!jc70@overmind.mind.org
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: Has anyone made a Boot Disk?
Date: 22 Jul 92 18:36:00 GMT
Organization: School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon
X-mailer: Stadel 3.4a-227
X-Spam-content: irrelevant

In article <1992Jul21.185351.4591@unixg.ubc.ca> twong@civil.ubc.ca (Thomas  
Wong) writes:
> Has anyone tried making a boot disk (as opposed to the usual install
> disk then disk 1 then Esc key)? I grabbed the bootdisk.txt file from
> ftp-os2 site, and followed it to make myself a bootdisk. I tried
> booting from it and OS/2 booted up just fine. But when I tried to do a
> "dir" on C:\, I get the error.....
> 
> SYS00026: The specified disk or disketter cannot be accessed.
> 
> I'm using the Boot Manager for DOS 5 and OS/2, and at this point Drive C: 
> is my OS/2 system partition formated as HPFS. Now if I ran DOS last so that
> my DOS system partition was my last bootable partition so that when I boot
> from floppy, my Drive C: would still be my DOS system partition which
> is FAT, I can read it ok using this OS/2 bootdisk. It's just if I ran OS/2
> last so that my OS/2 HPFS is now Drive C:, booting from this OS/2
> bootdisk now, it doesn't recognize this HPFS or some problem like this.
> 
> Has anyone been successful with a bootdisk? Thanks.
> 
> Thomas.

I'm not sure the problem is with the boot disk. If the OS/2 partition is a  
primary partition and not an extended logical partition, then you won't be 
able  
to see the OS/2 partition from dos or from the boot disk. And you won't be 
able  
to see the DOS partition from OS/2. So....repartition your hard disk. Make 
DOS  
the first primary partition and OS/2 an extended logical partition.



Joo.
From: heinz@edohwg.UUCP (Heinz Wrobel)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re:  Redbooks???
Date: 21 Jul 92 20:42:43 GMT
Organization: Edotronik GmbH

In article <1992Jul6.095748.21885@actrix.gen.nz> Steve.Withers@bbs.actrix.gen.nz writes:
>Anyone who cares about the environment even a little should lobby for the
>introduction of on-line docs. Think of the millions of trees that go into

The catch is: To use the online docs you need a system that is up and
running. To get it up and running you need the docs. If it _is_ up and
running you don't need the docs anymore...

It's a Murphy problem: When you _really_ need the docs you can't get to
		       them. :-(

>Steve Withers - Wellington, New Zealand | "But the glory kept shining

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From: dregeczi@fraser.sfu.ca (David Joseph Regeczi)
Subject: Trident 8514 compat. drivers
Organization: Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C., Canada
Date: Sun, 26 Jul 1992 17:14:44 GMT

Can someone tell me what the difference is between the 8514 compatible 
1024x768x256 drivers and the actual Trident drivers (of the same resolution).
Is there any distinct advantage to using the 8514 drivers?

djr
From: urbndv8@ucscb.UCSC.EDU (Bleeding Rivets)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: Speed OS/2 vrs. Windoze. sx slugs
Date: 22 Jul 1992 15:15:47 GMT
Organization: University of California; Santa Cruz
NNTP-Posting-Host: ucscb.ucsc.edu



Some end-user type wrote:

 > Using the 386test burn-in testing program in vanilla DOS 5 and OS/2
 > with a single, full-screen DOS window yielded the following:

 >             Calculations/sec (with turbo) | Calculations/sec (turbo off)
 > DOS 5      |          9980                |            6595
 > OS/2 2.0   |          1716                |            1469

On a 486/33 with 12 meg's at work, Norton's SI in a DOS Box shows approx a 
70 CPU speed rating; the figure I get under DOS 5 is 73 or so ... Subjectively,
that seems to agree with my perceptions of the speed hit I get doing other
things.  Another benchmark I tried just now, switching to a DOS full-screen
session with two other idle windows backgrounded, gave my 386/40 a rating
of 36.7 times PC-XT speed; under DOS 5 standalone it would get .  Oddly,
a DOS _window_ got a slightly higher rating, 38, consistently.

So this looks like user error.  My guess would be he had little enough 
memory to force swapping.  

box, or something like that.


-- 
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human...Why have we not yet acquired this insight in relation to the world
of the free will?  Because outwardly we are the masters of madness, because
the insane are violated by us, and we hinder them from living according to
their ethical laws...Now we must endeavor to overcome the dead point in our
realtionship to insanity."       --Wieland Herzfelde, 1914
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: swknasri@nuscc.nus.sg (Sriram N (Dr))
Subject: Re: msd.exe
Organization: National University of Singapore
Date: Thu, 30 Jul 1992 12:05:28 GMT

sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu (Timothy F. Sipples) writes:
: In article <1992Jul24.195932.4238@cs.ubc.ca> tedc@cs.ubc.ca (Ted Chen) writes:
: >Someone mentioned that I could find MSD.EXE at ftp-os2.nmsu.edu.  It's a
: >system utility a la Quarterdeck MANIFEST.  Where is it?
: 
: I have not looked, but it should be in /pub/os2/2.0/dos (or
: thereabouts).

  Well I just did and followed the advice to add MSD.EXE,4,01,255
to my DOS VERSION in the settings for DOS full screen.  

  To my unpleasant surprise, it hangs the system (486/25, Mylex Eisa,
Phoenix 1.0 BIOS, 8MB) with the following message:

  TRAP 000e

   The system detected an internal processing error at location
  ##0160:fff6543f-000d:a53f
  60000, 9084

   Internal revision 6.307, 92/03/91

  The system is stopped. Please contact ...

  MSD works fine under raw DOS 5.0 booted from the FAT partition
  I haven't checked if it will hang the system under DOS 5.0 under
  OS/2. 

  Sriram
From: rodgers@engcon.marshall.ltv.com (KMRODGERS)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: Bernoulli Drivers--What Limitations in OS/2?
Summary: Iomega is screwy
Date: 27 Jul 92 15:15:37 GMT
Reply-To: rodgers@engcon.UUCP (KMRODGERS)
Organization: LTV MEG, Dallas, TX

In article <BrHnsv.L2E@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> meyer@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (Don Meyer) writes:
>cardowm1@teomail.jhuapl.edu (Wes Cardone) writes:
>>I suspect I may experience some amount of limitations in getting
>>OS/2 to talk to my dual 44MB Bernoulli drives.  Word has it that
>>Bernoulli has not yet released drivers for OS/2 v2 . . .
>IOMega has drivers for v2.0, but they are still in beta-testing, I believe.

Well, I (and many others) have been going through an interesting ritual on
the Iomega forum on CI$ lately . . .

(me) Okay, it's the [insert random date here]; where are the drivers?  They
were promised by now.

(Iomega sysop) Well, they've all been pulled in from the beta sites several
weeks ago, and we're waiting for Marketing to decide what to do.

(outraged masses) WHAT THE HELL IS GOING ON HERE???!!!!

(repeat once a week for 2.5 months)

To sum up, the Iomega sysop on CI$ (Ron somebody, don't remember the last name
right now) says that the drivers are finished, have been for several weeks, but
the large wigs got involved and are delaying the release while Marketing figures
out what to do with them.  Initial rumors were that the drivers would be free 
on Iomega's bulletin board and other forums, but latest is that Iomega will 
charge $10-$20 plus media costs.  Nobody really knows.  Apparently, Iomega had 
a similar fiasco over OS/2 1.x drivers and those who went through that are 
worried that the same is happening here.

A few beta reports have leaked out on CI$, however, and if they are accurate,
the drivers will support FAT and HPFS.

>Call them and find out -- if you have already purchased their OS/2 1.X drivers,
>you may be able to talk them into a beta copy.
                    ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
NOT!!!  But call and bitch heavily about the situation, though.

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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: Grrr...2.0 can't be "this" slow, can it????
From: Steve.Withers@bbs.actrix.gen.nz
Date: Fri, 31 Jul 1992 10:25:57 GMT
Organization: Actrix Information Exchange

In article <1992Jul30.041907.19373@noose.ecn.purdue.edu> laird@stable.ecn.purdue.edu (Kyler Laird) writes:
> 
> At work, however, I decided to install v2.0 on a standalone
> 386DX-25 today.  Mildly:  it sucks!  I've got 8MB, and it's
> awful.  I'm running HPFS and all I see are disk accesses
> when I do anything.  Win-OS2 is a snail.  DeScribe 3.0 drags
> on and on.

Are accessing all your RAM? Doesn't sound like it........it should run a lot
better than that! A CMOS problem? Check your setup......

> On the upside, I was helping a co-worker with his (personal)
> Windows (3.1) workstation.  It's even worse.

I am running Win3.1 on a 486DX/25 - and it sucks. I had to re-boot it *3*
times today! That's about 2 more than usual. 

> 
> I'd love to hear what I might be doing wrong.  Tomorrow I plan
> to reinstall (and be sure to shutdown immediately), and try
> reformatting with a fresh HPFS and, perhaps, (yech!) FAT
> partitions.
> 
> Thanks for any help you have to offer!

Best of luck!
 
Steve
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From: jeffc@netcom.com (Jeff Cohen)
Subject: Re: JUNE ???? CSD'S?????
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 92 23:43:48 GMT
Organization: Hacker's Anonymous
Distribution: usa

In article <1992Jul29.151531.11000@njitgw.njit.edu> dic5340@hertz.njit.edu (David Charlap) writes:
>In article <1992Jul28.143027.1341@unlinfo.unl.edu> pickrell@hoss.unl.edu (Andrew Pickrell) writes:
>>
>>In this week's InfoWorld, the rumor mill says the "June CSDs" will
>>be out in mid September.  This will include the graphics engine, super-vga
>>drivers, and other bug fixes.
>
>NOTE:  THIS IS A RUMOR.  Did IBM say anything official about
>September?  I only heard "Fall".
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It's rumor.  No official statement yet to my knowledge.
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From: jemenake@zeus.calpoly.edu (Joe Emenaker)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: HELP! It's going from bad to worse! Fast!
Date: 23 Jul 92 19:53:21 GMT
Organization: California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo

Earlier, I wrote:
>
> [stuff deleted]
>
>Anyway, I finally gave up and decided to re-install. Well, I boot the
>Installation disk and it asks for Disk 1 and I feed that to the machine.
>Then, it querries me about if I want to format the partition, etc. Then, it
>asks for Disk 2 and I feed it in. Then it says it's installing the files
>and then it halts and says that it had trouble with some of the files. I
>hit Enter to see the INSTALL.LOG (or whatever it's named) and I see that it
>created the directories okay but it biffed when it tried to copy UNPACK.EXE
>to the hard disk. Mind you, this disk-set (5.25") installed perfectly two
>days ago. Just to double-check, I booted from DOS and tried copying
>UNPACK.EXE by hand and it worked perfectly. Anybody have any ideas what
>might be the problem here?

Well, before anyone's mail got to me, I, out of luck, ran CHKDSK from OS/2.
Mind you, I had run CHKDSK from DOS and also I had run Norton Disk Doctor
from DOS as well and they gave the HD a clean bill of health. Well, the
OS/2 CHKDSK reported extended attribute problems (even though I had removed
ALL of the OS/2 directories before re-installing). Well, it fixed those up
and then the install program worked fine.

So, then, IBM called this morning asking what my problem was that I called
them about yesterday about. I told the guy about the EA problem and he said
that they've had a good number of calls from people with the same problem,
but they techs could never figure out what was causing it. He said he was
going to put the thing I tried in the "PRV" or some name like that.

Gee, I feel so special. :-)


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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: jfo8808@ultb.isc.rit.edu (J.F. Olshefsky )
Subject: Mouse pointer "icon"???
Originator: jfo8808@ultb
Organization: Rochester Institute of Technology
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1992 16:47:07 GMT
Expires: Wed, 19 Aug 1992 16:47:08 GMT

Because I'm insane and therefore want a fork (eating utensil) for a
mouse pointer, I was wondering if anyone had any luck finding the way
to change the pointer.  I've managed to create the fork pointer using
the icon editor (fyi, create a new file and it's obvious how to select
pointers).  I tried filefind on the system drive with *.PTR and could
only locate the template for pointers, which does me little to no good.

Btw, if this was posted before, call me stupid and tell me to get a
tutor on how to properly post -- the former message shouldn't have
posted, at least according to the message it yelled at me.


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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: sveinare@idt.unit.no (Svein Are Martinsen)
Subject: Re: NEW Orcad (ET400) Drivers on FTP-OS2
Followup-To: comp.os.os2.misc
Keywords: ET4000, large fonts
Reply-To: sveinare@idt.unit.no
Organization: IDT -- Norwegian Institute of Technology
Date: Wed, 22 Jul 92 10:55:57 GMT

In article <1992Jul22.075236.14004@leland.Stanford.EDU>, heinrich@leland.Stanford.EDU (Mark Andrew Heinrich) writes:
|> There here!  In pub/downloads.  The 16 color ones are proii4.zip and the
|> 256 color ones are proii8.zip.  I installed the 1024x768 driver and it 
|> have noticed a few things:
|> 
|> 1) The "yellowed" palette problem has been fixed.
|> 2) The font size in Window titles and other places has been increased and
|>    is more readable.

NO! This is not an improvement for me! The fonts are now to huge and takes too
MUCH space. The caption is to high, the minimize/maximize buttons don't fit 
exactly in the caption as they did before. The large fonts results in that even
text in some settings-windows does not fit in its window. All the icons are
too large too.

I had the same problem with ET4000 drivers under Windows 3.0, but then two 
versions of each driver (in each resolution) were available. One used 8514
fonts, the other VGA fonts. I had to used the one which used VGA fonts.

I hope this will happen to ET4000 drivers for OS/2 as well. If this is not too much
trouble can this possible be done? All in all, it's impossible for me to 
use the new drivers, but then I'm happy with the old one except missing seamless,
missing virtual desktop, missing speed, ...

Better, when the first CSD arrives, all these drivers (VGA & 8514 fonts) 
for generic ET4000 cards are included, with all the promised 
functionallity (seamless, virt. deskt.). 


BTW, I have a general ET4000 card (from Trident, I think), not from Orchid, so
I guess I don't have that much to say about the proii* drivers (Did it anyway! :-)

[stuff deleted]
|> Mark
|> -- 
|> Mark A. Heinrich
|> E-Mail: heinrich@leland.stanford.edu

 Svein 
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From: cvadrtbc@vmsb.is.csupomona.edu (Srikanth Viswanathan)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: The Future of OS/2
Date: 31 Jul 92 05:05:00 GMT
Organization: California Polytechnic University, Pomona
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41
X-Posted-From: vmsb.is.csupomona.edu
X-Posted-Through: sol.ctr.columbia.edu

In article <1992Jul29.230221.20880@monu6.cc.monash.edu.au>, parry@yoyo.cc.monash.edu.au (Tom J Parry) writes...
>bill@snoopy (Bill Poitras) writes:
> 
>No, it's not any good. The best resolution I could get out of it, in a
>full screen session was 320x200x256 and I'm using 800x600x256 Trident
>Drivers. Seems PMGIF doesn't know anything about SVGA or special
>drivers. I was most disappointed.

I kinda like VIEWGIF, try it out,  the Direct Pallete option is really nice,
it will display a gif just like PM wasn't there, except that it some what
messes up the colors in PM (expected),  but it does restore them once you
exit.  

A word of thanks to Tim Sipples,  I looked at the Phoenix unerase program
and it looks really good.  Glad I don't have to shell out $$ for Gammtech!
Thanks!

Srikanth
From: midway.uchicago.edu!sip1@overmind.mind.org
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: ATI Ultra - Diamond Stealth Drivers Available
Date: 22 Jul 92 20:03:00 GMT
Organization: Dept. of Econ., Univ. of Chicago
X-mailer: Stadel 3.4a-227
X-Spam-content: irrelevant

In article <anderson.10.711812858@mayo.edu> anderson@mayo.edu (Alfred I. 
Anderson) writes:
>It is my understanding that the ATI Graphics Ultra card can emulate an 8514/
>a and thus not require drivers other than those normally supplied with OS/2 
>ver 2.0 to function.  Right?

Correct.

>Question:  Do OS/2 2.0 drivers exist for either the Ultra or the Diamond 
>Stealth that will take advantage of OS/2?  I'm looking for at least 
>800x600.

Not for the Diamond Stealth (yet).  In addition to the 1024x768 256
color 8514/A driver that comes with OS/2, the one that works with the
ATI Graphics Ultra, ATI has released beta OS/2 2.0 drivers for 800x600
and 640x480 (accelerated) for the Graphics Ultra.  You can retrieve
them via anonymous ftp from ftp-os2.nmsu.edu.

>My calls to Diamond to see if they have OS/2 drivers available have not been
 
>returned by them.
>(PS: For those in the know - if you were purchasing one or the other of 
>these video cards to use in a 486DX with the intended purpose of OS/2 Ver 2.
>0 development as well as MS Win 3.1 development......which would you 
choose?)

The ATI Graphics Ultra.  Easily.  One is proprietary, one is hardware
compatible with an IBM standard (8514/A).  The proprietary one is
slightly slower and not much cheaper.  No contest, in my opinion, at
least right now.

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