HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu (Timothy F. Sipples)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: File Xfers under OS/2 Communications
Date: 3 Jan 93 04:00:37 GMT
Reply-To: sip1@midway.uchicago.edu
Organization: Dept. of Econ., Univ. of Chicago

In article <1993Jan2.085224.1@vax1.umkc.edu> slee@vax1.umkc.edu writes:
>I'm seeing a problem w/communications in a dos window/fullscreen session, and
>was looking for an assist
>I run Telix in a dos session, and d/l's (to me) arrive at about 1200 cps on a
>9600 bps connect. When I try to u/l, I can only achieve transfer rates of
>570-600 bps. Are there any special settings needed to enable high speed file
>xfers _from_ my machine?
>I'm running with the October CSD; any assistance is much appreciated.

Many people have reported success using the SIO replacement COM
drivers, available via anonymous ftp from ftp-os2.nmsu.edu as filename
sio020.zip, directory /pub/uploads (although they will be moved; check
file /pub/os2/00Index for location).

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From: gershon@husc11.harvard.edu (Ethan Gershon)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: "IBM is listening." How? (was Re: IBM won't accept Internet...)
Keywords: IBM problem report compuserve cis
Date: 24 Dec 92 23:02:10 GMT
 <gershon.724973524@husc.harvard.edu> <1992Dec22.205133.16541@watson.ibm.com> <1992Dec24.133351.4175@panix.com>

os2man@panix.com (Larry Salomon Jr.) writes:

>No one does, although Dave Whittle has formal responsibility for Compu$erve.
>I find it hard to believe that IBM continues to ignore a network as large as
>the Internet, but then again, I also found it hard to believe that it took
>them so long to get any marketing going so I guess I shouldn't be surprised.

It's more than just the Internet's size that makes it important (though
that is important) it is the net's audience.

It seems to me that comp.os.os2, for example, is populated with some
of OS/2's most dedicated and descriminating users.  We do all this
testing and thinking about OS/2 for free... seems a wasteful business
decision for IBM to not pay more attention to our complaints, suggestions,
discoveries, etc.

                                           --Ethan Gershon
                                           gershon@husc.harvard.edu
From: richard.hunt@amail.amdahl.com
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: TEXEL CD ROM
Date: 22 Dec 92 21:54:16 GMT
Return-Path: <amail.amdahl.com!richard.hunt@juts.ccc.amdahl.com>

Does anyone know if the TEXEL CD rom drive is supported by OS/2?  I
know the NEC is, but what about Texel.  Appreciate your input.  Thanks...
From: rvaniwaa@copper.denver.colorado.edu (Ronald J. Vaniwaarden)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: bugs with icons in GA + SP
Date: 1 Jan 93 15:56:24 GMT
Organization: University of Colorado at Denver

I have been noticing an unusual bug on my 386/33, 16 mb, Trident video system.
If I start any application from an icon and then exit it, the icon still
shows that the application is active (by the hatch marks behind it).  Also,
it has also been happening that occasionally, when I click on an icon to
open a new program, one of the already active processes comes to the surface.
I am running the 'official' Trident 32 bit 800x600x256 video driver which may
be the cause as I did not notice these problems till I installed these
drivers. I think that the video drivers are losing track of the icons.

	I do have to say that they are the most stable video drivers I have
has on my system to date.  The 800x600x16 would trap 000d or 000e within an
hour and the 800x600x256 16-bit drivers would take about a day.  I am now
up to 3-5 days before a trap 000d and my machine support a BBS so it runs
24 hrs a day.

--Ronald Van Iwaarden
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc,comp.os.os2.advocacy
From: mgrice@athena.mit.edu (Matthew Grice)
Subject: Re: Future of OS/2 and IBM????????????
Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 15:36:30 GMT

In article <1992Dec19.012947.13106@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> pprior@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Paul A Prior) writes:
>As for all this IBM stock stuff, I think it's pretty obvious that anybody
>who is selling IBM stock right now (and there is a lot of it) is about 
>as stupid as you can be.  
>
>If I had -any- money, I'd be buying IBM stock YESTERDAY!  Come on, a 
>blue chip like big blue at it's lowest point in a decade?  And people
>are -selling-?  Do these people think IBM is going to go bankrupt or
>something???

These IBM-bashers are _absolutely_ ridiculous.  If I had any money
(saving it all for MIT :)) I'd be buying IBM left and right, too.
GM may be losing money, but IBM is nowhere _near_ in the kind of 
trouble that American car makers are.  People seem to have forgotten
that, unlike the American car makers, imo, IBM will always be here,
making money, and dominating.

Yesterday, in the Wall Street Journal, I saw the biggest piece of anti-
IBM, pro Microsoft-Intel propaganda bullshit you ever saw.  To my
surprize, Microsoft-Intel were suddenly taking over Big Blue.
(at least, that is the impression it gave)  Suddenly, Windows NT
was taking over the world, and OS/2 was not even mentioned.  Well, I
guess it was mentioned once.  In a pie chart with 1% of the share.
None of the problems with NT were mentioned, except at the end, where noone
reads to anyway.

Speaking of anti IBM-OS/2 propaganda, anyone see the latest Byte?
Look at this rundown.

Got a prize                                 Didnt (conspicuous in abscence)
_______________________________________________________________________
Windoze 3.1                                 OS/2 2.0
Compaq Prolinea                             PS/valuepoint
Tons 'o Windoze programs                    Not a lot of other programs
                                            HP's cheapline
                                            Solaris 2.1
                                            SPARClassic
                                            HP workstations

This really sucks, IMO.
Now I _know_ that BYTE is on the take.
I'm getting sick of Jerry Pournelle, too.  OS/2 bashing.  Won't even 
install HPFS on his OS/2 test computer.  Now he is going to announce to
the people that os/2 is slow.  What a bastard.

And they cancelled 'the Unix /bin," too.  Good thing I dont have a sub-
scription, or something else would be cancelled.

-Matt Grice
-mgrice@athena.MIT.edu

Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: calvert@QueensU.CA (John Calvert)
Subject: Re: File Xfers under OS/2 Communications
Organization: Queen's University, Kingston, Canada
Date: Sat, 2 Jan 1993 15:41:37 GMT

In article <1993Jan2.085224.1@vax1.umkc.edu> slee@vax1.umkc.edu writes:
>Are there any special settings needed to enable high speed file
>xfers _from_ my machine?
>

I am also having problems getting my modem to transfer at high speed.
Here is my configuration: 
    386/33 OS/2 v2.0 GA
    PC Logic 14,4 fax/modem on COM3, IRQ5, 16550AF UART
    mouse on COM1, nothing on COM2
    using SIO.SYS and VSIO.SYS (3,03e8,5)
    MODE.COM COM3:19200,N,8,1
    running Telix and Telemate (baud rate set to 9600)
    connecting at 9600 to a Sparc
    using Ymodem batch (have also used Xmodem and Zmodem)
    getting 300cps on up/down loads

Any further ideas? I followed the recent discussion on setting up com
ports and have tried what was recommended there (except using native
OS/2 software). I get the same when my machine is booted under DOS.

John
calvert@mast.queensu.ca
-- 
John Calvert

calvert@mast.queensu.ca
From: ochealth@unixg.ubc.ca (ochealth)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: IRQ2 in OS/2
Date: 30 Dec 1992 10:09:59 GMT
Organization: University of British Columbia, Vancouver, B.C., Canada
Distribution: usa
NNTP-Posting-Host: unixg.ubc.ca

In article <C024L9.Coy@news.iastate.edu> TW.FY4@isumvs.iastate.edu (Timothy I Miller) writes:
:In article <1992Dec29.195008.13016@mksol.dseg.ti.com>,
:mccall@mksol.dseg.ti.com (fred j mccall 575-3539) writes:
:>In <oq6cwB1w165w@tcscs.UUCP> tcscs!zeta@src.honeywell.com (Gregory Youngblood) writes:
:>
:>>Can OS/2 use IRQ2?
:>
:>>When I set up COM3 to run IRQ2 using:
:>
:>>DEVICE=C:\OS2\COM.SYS (3,3e8,2) (4,2e8,5)
:>
:>>in the config.sys file, then OS/2 reports:
:>>Unable to load COM3, Interupt not available, or something like that.
:>
:>IRQ2 is actually a cascade to the second interrupt controller.
:>AT-class hardware will map IRQ2 to IRQ9.  I've never tried this in
:>OS/2, but Windows will insist that you configure that port as IRQ9
:>rather than IRQ2; does OS/2 perhaps do the same thing?
:>
:
:     I have my mouse set up on IRQ 2 and my Scanman on IRQ 11.  I
:haven't had any problems using the two devices at the same time
:(although this might be expected, since I think IRQ 2 is actually
:the cascade for IRQ's 9-15 or whatever the upper limit is).  I don't
:know anrthing about configuring the Serial port as IRQ 2, though.

I hope he actually SET THE CARD TO IRQ 2 !!!

(you can't just edit config.sys to change the IRQ)
:
:Timothy Miller
:


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______________________________________________________________________________
ochealth@unixg.ubc.ca
From: zhao@unixg.ubc.ca (Jiansheng Zhao)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Cann't Increase EMS for DOS session, why?
Date: 27 Dec 92 00:31:33 GMT
Organization: The University of British Columbia
NNTP-Posting-Host: unixg.ubc.ca


I have a 486/dx with 8 MB RAM. However, I couldn't increase EMS for
a DOS program beyond about 3 MB by changing DOS setting for this program.
(EMS_MEMORY_LIMIT=8196, for example).
Am I correct to assume with virtual memory I can have as much EMS as I want?
Thanks for any help.
P.S. I was able to have EMS more than 5 MB on another machine with similar
setup. There may be a trick I don't know.

-- 
Jiansheng Zhao
Dept. Chem. Eng, Univ. of B. C., Canada. V6T 1Z4
zhao@unixg.ubc.ca
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu (Timothy F. Sipples)
Subject: Re: Boot up msgs go by too fast, any way to see them?
Reply-To: sip1@midway.uchicago.edu
Organization: Dept. of Econ., Univ. of Chicago
Date: Sun, 3 Jan 1993 22:29:28 GMT

In article <1992Dec30.180910.13383@hubcap.clemson.edu> grimlok@hubcap.clemson.edu (Mike Percy) writes:
>I'm going through a tricky bit right now trying to get IP/IPX
>coexistence on my OS/2 box with TCP/IP 1.2.1 and Netware Requester.  One
>problem I'm having is that each of these generates lots of boot-up
>messages, which scroll by so quickly I can't read them all to see if I
>have some parameter wrong (legal, but wrong).
>My pause key and scroll lock keys don't seem to affect them.  I've tried
>putting run=pause in my config.sys (it doesn't find it, but it stops to
>tell me the line was ignored, press enter), but Requester puts out lots
>of message in one step, and some of them scroll off.
>Any help, and if you've somehow managed to get IP/IPX together over a
>3c503 card with TCP/IP, Requester (using ODINSUP.SYS), I'd appreciate
>some help.

Well, there are a couple alternatives.  One is to use a device driver
written by someone in the OS/2 user group in Britain.  It pauses
CONFIG.SYS processing until you press ESC.  That device driver is
available from the OS/2 Shareware BBS (703-365-4325), but I'm afraid
I've forgotten the filename.  (A keyword search on "ESC" or
"CONFIG.SYS" should find it.)  If you do retrieve it, please send it
along to ftp-os2.nmsu.edu (place it in /pub/uploads).  We have an
informal gateway from that BBS to ftp-os2.nmsu.edu, but occasionally
things slip through, so it may not have made it to ftp-os2 yet.

The second possibility is to use the ShiftRun utility, available via
anonymous ftp from software.watson.ibm.com.  With a bit of tinkering
(not too much, actually), you'll get the effect you're looking for
(although ShiftRun does a lot more).

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of Chicago, 60637       | [Read the List, THEN post to ONE OS/2 newsgroup.]
From: jdries@doppler.UUCP (J. Francis Dries III)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: [Q]:  SNews/2 mailing articles.
Distribution: world
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 92 00:41:42 GMT
Organization: Only Posers Wear Black

I have UUPC v1.11w running on my machine with Elm v2.3pl11 and SNews/2
v2.0.  With two minor inconvienences of SNews (Random locking of machine
in both SNews reading articles and EXPIRE, I can CTRL-ESC to bring up a
task list, but that is all, nothing else.  The only other key sequence
that works is CTRL-ALT-NUMLOCK, CTRL-ALT-DEL does nothing.  This is OS/2
GA with the SP installed, TSENG SVGA drivers loaded), I haven't had any
major gripes. 

I do, however, have a problem.  When reading news in SNews I can post,
followup, reply to poster, etc. just like one would expect.  When I try
to mail the article to someone, I get a 
      SYS0005:  Access denied "D:\UUPC\SNews" message, and the screen
reappears just as everything was normal.  A quick UUSTAT tells me
otherwise.  This happens if I choose to edit or not the article being
sent.  MicroEmacs (my editor) is spawned with the article correctly if I
choose to edit before sending.

The only other problem I have had with SNews was a NUL pointer
assignment, runtime error r6000.

My workaround (messy) sofar has been to save the article, bring up ELM
with the "elm -f \directory\article" commandline to forward it off to my
intended recipient.

Please Email/Post any suggestions.

Thanks in advance.

--- 
J. Francis Dries, III            doppler.UUCP!jdries@naspac.tc.faa.gov 
jdries@doppler.UUCP                 ...!rutgers!faatcrl!doppler!jdries

"Indecision is the key to flexibility"
  -- Author Unkown
From: baloo@nx01.mik.uky.edu (kevin s coupal)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: I thought OS/2 was popular for not locking up?
Date: 2 Jan 93 18:38:45 GMT
Organization: University Of Kentucky, Dept. of Math Sciences
X-Path: nx01.mik.uky.edu!baloo

I've run several operating systems and all they can do is lock up.  I picked up
os/2 cuz it was supose to be much better and never lock up.  ONly the individual
windows could lock up.  Welp.  I seem tohave managed to even lock up OS/32
OS/2 rather.  On a regular basis.  I am running a simple BBS in a full
screen window and all goes perfectly fine untill someone tries to take
a simple file directory and the whole machine simply crashes!  What in the
world is this??  I can't believe tha such a simple operatiion could crash
this whole system.  It gives methis huge error code (TRAP000e) or something
and then a location number and tells me to report this to my representative.
Too bad they don't supply a customer service number with the software. That
may help somewhat.   I guess I would understand this mor if I just knew what
a crash simply was.  It just doesn't click in my mind.  I mean.  Crash is 
obviously something you don't want.  So, i think.  If os/2 can compute enought
to bring up this huge error code that it could just as well terminate the
program and not crash at all???  That would make a slight more sense to me.
I'm tired of operating systems crashing and then giving you an error code in
an incomprehensible explanation.  Perhaps if the error code were in english I
wouldn't have to bother the customer service department at IBM.  Oh well, I'm
just letting off steam i guess.  It all just seems really stupid that the only
thing i can do to crash my entire system is such a simple procedure.

Baloo@mik.uky.edu
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: pynq@quads.uchicago.edu (Jeremy Mathers)
Subject: Re: OS/2 2.1 Beta is OUT!!!!!!!!!!!  Wide Release!
Reply-To: pynq@midway.uchicago.edu
Organization: D. J. Dougherty & Associates
Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1992 15:55:36 GMT

In article <1992Dec27.132647.1@vmsb.is.csupomona.edu> cvetp036@vmsb.is.csupomona.edu writes:
>In article <725427584.0@ttlg.ttlg.UUCP>, Eric.Chan@ttlg.UUCP (Eric Chan) writes:
>> Where can I get a copy? Can you give me the name of the FTP site?
...
>
>It's on CD-ROM for $15 from 1 800 3IBMOS2.
>
>Now, my question is, can you install it WITHOUT a CD-ROM? As in copying
>the files over to floppies first?

It is my understanding, based on stuff I read in the README.NOW file on
the Nov PDK CD, that if your CD player is on the short list of supported
drives, then you *can* install directly from the CD.  You still have to
make, I think, two floppies, but after that you can just pull the stuff
in from the CD.  This should also work if your drive is listed as
supported in the "os2cdrom.zip" file.

I just ordered the thing.  Some comments/questions:
	1) How does this version compare/differ from the one on the PDK?
	2) The person who took my order said that this beta had become
	   available 12/21.  Not that it matters much, but the net has been
	   saying 12/28.  Are we sure we are talking about the same thing?
	3) I got the file "os2cdrom.txt" from hobbes.  It seems to say
	   that you can use any (well, say, Hitachi or Sony) CD drives
	   with OS/2, simply by using DEBUG to patch the name of your
	   drive into one of the driver files.  Does this mean that I
	   can use my non-SCSI Sony drive (CDU 7205) in this way?
	   Notes about this file:
		a) Despite the similarity in name, this file has little
		   to do with the "os2cdrom.zip" file.
		b) This file bills itself as "how to use non-Toshiba CD
		   drives under OS/2".

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	A bird in the hand is safer than one overhead.

	- pynq@quads.uchicago.edu, who is still costing the net
	  hundreds, if not thousands, of dollars, every time he posts -
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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: joshi@cs.uiuc.edu (Anil Joshi)
Subject: What format are .jpg files in?
Keywords: jpg, gif, pictures, images
Organization: University of Illinois, Dept. of Comp. Sci., Urbana, IL
Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 21:04:18 GMT

I have some image files I downloaded which have extension .jpg

The person uploading those files claimed that they are gif files. When I try to
view them using pmgif (from hobbes), I get an error message saying that these are not gif files. I suspect that they are in jpeg compressed format. Could 
somebody tell me how I can view these files?

1. Do I have to convert them to gif format? If so, is there a program on hobbes
   which does it?

2. Are there any other viewers that view these files directly?

Thanks in advance

Anil Joshi
joshi@cs.uiuc.edu


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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: Steve.Withers@bbs.actrix.gen.nz
Subject: Re: Future of OS/2 and IBM????????????
Organization: Actrix Information Exchange
Date: Sat, 26 Dec 1992 09:35:47 GMT

In article <Bzuu1x.CKA@ns1.nodak.edu> person@plains.NoDak.edu (Brett Person) writes:
> 
> IBM is still making mainframes which no one really needs anymore.  I think
> that any R&D cut will come in the older technology.  

On the topic of mainframes not being needed anymore.......it isn't true. Most
banks, large institutions/organisations, phone companies, simply couldn't
provide the services they do today without mainframes. No other systems can
support hundreds or thousands of users all accessing the same databases in
real-time update modes. The sheer volume of transactions that a mainframe can
process in a single second makes just about any other computer configuration
look puny.

Until recently, I was an MVS/CICS systems programmer for NZ's largest
exporter. Our system had over 400 users nationally accessing a single,
national database - updating it in real-time with most responses (95% +) being
under 5 seconds. The Amdahl 5890 with dual-processors that was the heart of
this system could only have been replaced by another mainframe. I know that
banks have thousands of users all doing the same thing......not counting the
ATM's you get your money out of. 

> We may see an *increase* in R&D for OS/2 and th RISC platforms.  I see IBM
> putting lots more effort into workstations and less and less into big iron. 

Big Iron is IBM's bread and butter. With oragnisations around the world
requiring current, central access to ever-growing bases of information, the
mainframe is fairly safe for a few years yet. 
 
But I do agree....the balance will shift. But mainframes are a long way from
being dead.
 
Steve
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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: Alan_York@mindlink.bc.ca (Alan York)
Subject: HELP with Help!
Organization: MIND LINK! - British Columbia, Canada
Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 20:14:53 GMT

I have a problem with OS/2 programs help not working.

I have installed a number of OS/2 programs in a directory called
c:\OS2TECH\PROGRAMS.  In the settings for the programs, the
executable name of the program and the working directory have
both been set to C:\OS2TECH\PROGRAMS.

In the CONFIG.SYS, the C:\OS2TECH\PROGRAMS has been added to the
SET PATH, SET DPATH, and SET HELP entries.  The problem is that
whenever I run a program from the WPS the HELP initialization
fails with messages like, Help Not Available, Help could not be
initialized, Help error 8195, PM Error 2003/0, etc.


The service pack has been installed.  This problem occured with
GA and is still not resolved.

When I run these same programs in an OS/2 window from the C:\>
prompt, they run ok and with the help.

Any ideas would be appreciated.  Thanks.

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