HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: cj00+@andrew.cmu.edu (Carl B Jabido)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.networking
Subject: Automatic Talk Respond?
Date: 30 Sep 92 08:34:52 GMT
Article-I.D.: andrew.AemRQgi00WB4I7qHFJ
Organization: Sophomore, Math/Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA

Hello,
I was wondering if there was any way to do the following (under TCP/IP
1.2.1) with the talk daemon/client.
Here's what I want to do.  Right now, when talkd receives a request to
talk, it comes up in the window that it's running in.  What I want is
that when a  talk request is received, a dialog box is opened, saying
who it's coming from, where, time etc.  Also in the dialog box would be
a button saying: "Respond to request? yes/no" etc. or something to that
effect.  That would really make things easier, because then we won't
have to have another window open on an already crowded screen.  Also, we
wouldn't have to hear those annoying beeps repeated over and over while
we type the address in.

Does anyone with the source code for talk think that this is possible? 
I think it should be.  Anyone want to try it?

On an easier (simpler at least) note, I know of the program icontalk,
which allows you to send messages under an icon in the caption.  Is it
possible to maybe intercept the talk requests and send them to the icon
caption?  Maybe through redirection?  Like talkd | icontalk.exe.

In summary, I just want a way to reply to a talk request without having
to keep the talkd window open all the time.  Of course, the first
suggestion would be ideal, but the second one is usable too.

Thanks for your help.

Carl Jabido
cj00@andrew.cmu.edu
carl@captainjack.pc.cc.cmu.edu
From: CCGT@MUSICA.MCGILL.CA (Graham Thorpe)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.networking
Subject: RE: Integrity of SPX?
Date: 2 Oct 92 17:01:30 GMT
Article-I.D.: VM1.02OCT92.12987145.0083
Organization: McGill University

In article <1992Oct1.201627.19031@nosc.mil> geurin@texasex.nosc.mil writes:
>Hello-
>
>There may have been a thread about this some time ago...
>
>I have the Novell Netware Requestor for OS/2 2.0 installed.  On our
>server, we have the Cheyenne Arcserve software that allows workstations
>to backup their HDs to DAT.  Arcserve uses SPX for data integrity.
>When I try to use Arcserve I get a data communication error to effect
>that it's unable to contact the workstation.  I'm loading the SPX driver
>in my config.sys.  Is Novell's SPX driver brain-dead?

Cheyenne is aware of the problem. They say that it is due to a
problem in SPX under OS/2 (as you suspected). They are supposed
to provide us with patches/updates to solve the problem.

Graham Thorpe
McGill University
Computing Centre
From: mhuth@byron.u.washington.edu (Mark Huth)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.networking
Subject: Re: Need a NewsReader for OS/2 tcpip
Date: 5 Oct 92 03:07:26 GMT
Organization: University of Washington, Seattle

In article <jdsmith.30.718222661@novell.com> jdsmith@novell.com (Doug Smith) writes:
>Isn't there a port of RN on the tcpip distribution disks?
>

Doug, there is a port of Rn on the distribution disks.  It is in the sample
directory.  Has anyone seen an X windows version of RN that will run under os/2
tcp/ip X windows?

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From: CCGT@MUSICA.MCGILL.CA (Graham Thorpe)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.networking
Subject: Installing OS/2 over a LAN ?
Date: 1 Oct 92 15:03:52 GMT
Article-I.D.: VM1.01OCT92.10869668.0069
Organization: McGill University

Does anyone know how to install OS/2 2.0 over a network ?
I have some documentation from an IBM course on OS/2 that
says there is a program (bundle file - use UNPACK) on diskette 7
that contains:     SEIMAGE.EXE
                   SEDISK.EXE
                   SEMAINT.EXE
                   SEINST.EXE
(the bundle file is called CID, or something like that)

Anyone know how to use these programs ?
The limited documentation I have indicates that the process involves
placing images of the OS/2 diskettes on the server, and then the
client to be installed talks to the server via NETBIOS.

Any help appreciated.

Graham Thorpe
McGill University
Computing Centre
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.networking
From: eliot@engr.washington.edu (eliot)
Subject: very poor ftp and nfs performance
Organization: University of Washington
Date: Tue, 6 Oct 1992 23:45:03 GMT


I've been lurking on this newsgroup for several weeks now and haven't
seen this brought up, so here goes..

the machine is a ps2-70 w/ 10M RAM, 3com etherlink mc card running OS2
2.0 and tcpip 1.2.1 with tcpip and nfs CSDs applied.  i am attempting
to use an rs/6000 as a fileserver for this machine.  the problem is
that doing nfs writes or ftp writes to the fileserver is just about
impossible.  any file larger than 10K or so will eventually time out
and die.  ftp or nfs reads from the fileserver is barely better.  i
get about 10KB/sec transfer rates on a network that is less than 1%
loaded.  a lan analyzer shows that the ps2 is only putting out packets
on the network every couple of seconds.

is there anything obvious that i am missing?  this is the very first
machine in the dept. that has os2 and the network performance so far
is worrying, since we also have a 3995 jukebox that will run basically
the same stuff.  serving several hundred GB of data at 10KB/sec is not
going to be pleasant!

thanks in advance for any advice or help.


eliot
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.networking
From: FENELON@lexmark.com (Mike Fenelon)
Subject: Re: Lan Manager and printing
X-Disclaimer: These views are the poster's and not necessarily those of Lexmark
Organization: Lexmark International, Lexington, KY
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 1992 16:30:51 GMT

There is a new way to add printers to a LAN Manager network... It is
the IBM 4033 LAN Connection for Printers and Plotters. This is an
external device which allows you to hook a parallel and/or serial
printer/plotter directly to the network. The printer is then routed
jobs from the  file/print server. With the redirection software,
you can run up to 7 printers from a single server. The device connects
to most printers on the market, but it works extremely well with the
IBM 4029 LaserPrinter family to achieve data transfer rates of up to 120KBps
through the parallel port, or 38.4Kbps through the serial port. The
4033 supports printing on the parallel and serial ports simultaneously
with no degradation of performance.
 
The 4033 comes in three models:
  TokenRing 16/4, Ethernet 10BaseT, and Ethernet 10Base2/10Base5
 
Not only does the 4033 support LAN Manager, but it also supports
IBM LAN Server and AIX in the same box. And there is another version
which supports Novell networks.
 
For more information on the IBM 4033 see your local IBM or Lexmark
dealer.
 
Mike Fenelon
Lexmark International
From: thompson@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.networking
Subject: Help!!!!  I can't get cutcp to work!
Date: 6 Oct 92 17:49:38 CDT
Organization: University of Kansas Academic Computing Services

Hello netters,


Help!!!!!

I have been trying to get cutcp to work in a DOS session for two
weeks now and I am going crazy!

I am running OS/2 on a 486-33 with 8 megs of RAM.  It is connected
to a Novell network by a Western Digital Elite ethernet card.  I
open a DOS session (emulated) with Netware_Resources set to NONE,
and Vipx_Enabled set to OFF.  I have no network drivers running
that I know of.  From here I try two different routes:

1]  I use my normal DOS stuff for getting connected to the network.
    Load the wd8003e.com driver.  Load the ipx driver.  Load the
    netx.com driver.  Here, usually the system traps, but if I
    am lucky, I then run tn3270 and the system traps.

2]  I use ODI packet drivers.  Load lsl.com.  Then wdplus.com. 
    Here the system does not lock up.  I then run tn3270, and I
    get server mode.  Fine, I hit alt-a to start a session, and
    it can't open a TCP connection.  It just sits there for 10 
    seconds, and then returns me to server mode.  My net.cfg for
    the OS/2 netware requestor drivers is set to IRQ 5, I/O 280,
    mem 0cc000.  My config.tel is set to IRQ=5, ioaddr=340, and 
    the mem is set to 0cc000.  I had to use ioaddr=340 because the
    wdplus.com driver won't load if I use 280.  

Can anyone tell me what it wrong?? 

Perhaps if someone sent me a working config.tel that would
solve the problem.  Thanks.

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From: backman@vaxeline.ftp.com  (Larry Backman)
Subject: Re: FTP's TCP/IP for OS2 - When?
Nntp-Software: PC/TCP NNTP
Organization: FTP Software, Inc., Wakefield, MA
Date: Fri, 02 Oct 1992 09:31:15

In article <1992Oct1.150557.10658@intellistor.com> pliuskon@intellistor.com (Saul Pliuskonis) writes:

 >> We are currently running FTP Software's version of TCP/IP on our PC
 >> clones, with WD8003 cards, and we would like to start migrating to OS2.
 >> We got FTP's software running under a DOS window, except for their IDRIVE
 >> facility, which allows disk mounts via PCNFS.  Have any other users of 
 >> FTP's TCP/IP had success with IDRIVE, and does anyone know if FTP will
 >> eventually support networking under OS2 directly?
 >> 
We've been supporting networking under OS/2 since 1990 :-).  You want
PCTCP for OS/2 which comes with an Idrive client among many other things.
Contact our sales dept. for pricing.

Larry Backman
FTP Software

Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.networking
From: ignacij@meishan.animal.uiuc.edu (Ignacy Misztal)
Subject: X + CSD 1.2.1 crashes the system
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Tue, 29 Sep 1992 13:39:16 GMT

This is a follow up on my previous reports on the IBM X with the
newest CSD. I have noticed 2 additional facts:
1. If X fails to work, it restarts easily next day,
2. Sometimes, when a message tries to pop-up on the X window, X 
issues an error message like AdjMgr error, and asks for permission to
remove the window. After that, the mouse pointer is active but none of 
PM Windows can be highlighted. Pulse shows full CPU utilization. 
Alt-Esc results (takes a minute) in a message to kill PMX, but PMX is 
apparently not killed, and the only recourse is rebooting.

I am posting this message hoping that someone from the IBM X development
team reads it, and that perhaps other people from the net give their 
workarounds, if any. In any case, the message is:

After the latest CSD, X HAS WORST RELIABILITY EVER!!!
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Ignacy Misztal			E-mail: ignacy@uiuc.edu
University of Illinois		Phone: (217) 244-3164
1207 W. Gregory Dr.
Urbana, IL 61801
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From: pmw0@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu (PHILLIP MICHAEL WILLIAMS)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.networking
Subject: PMX Server questions
Date: 6 Oct 92 12:42:08 GMT
Organization: Lehigh University

Our lab has recently purchased a 486 and installed OS2.  We also installed an et
hernet card and IBM's TCP/IP software.  I have gone through ICAT and set up all
the addresses and such and everything works ok.  I do have some questions about
PMX that I was hoping someone could answer for me.

Is there a way to open more than one xterm from the same UNIX box?  I can telnet
 to one of my accounts and reset the DISPLAY variable and open one xterm but no
more.  How do I get around this.  Is there something that I have to do on the UN
IX side??  If the is will it prevent me from logging on at a real workstation??
 Is there a way that I can open an xterm to my OS2 machine using PMX?

I hope someone can help me.   Right now I see no use for PMX, except that I can
run X applications.  Although, running one at a time does seem to be a hiderence
.  It would be much easier for me to walk to a workstation and run things there.

Thanks in advance.

Phil Williams
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.networking
From: geurin@nosc.mil
Subject: More on PMX's untimely death
Organization: Naval Ocean Systems Center, San Diego, CA
Date: Thu, 1 Oct 1992 21:13:34 GMT


Howdy-

Another poster noted that PMX easily restarts the next morning, and
sure enough, it does.  So I did some checking and this is what I
came up with:

Apparently, PMX doesn't like or can't utilize a socket number greater than
approximately 500 (socket connections can be looked at by typing
netstat -s).  The OS/2 TCP/IP stuff resets the 'socket counter' at
midnight or thereabouts.  At the end of the work day, my 'socket counter'
can easily be >1000 and when I come in in the morning, the 'counter'
is back down in the 200-300 range.  If one starts PMX at this time, it
works fine, but as soon as the 'counter' is >~500, PMX can't hear any
attempted connections.  Re-starting PMX results in the 'No sockets to
listen with, nothing to do' message in the PMX.LOG file.

This sounds like an easily fixed bug, no?

Chance Geurin
geurin@nosc.mil
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.networking
From: kitchens@austin.ibm.com (Otto Vaughn Kitchens)
Subject: Re: LaMail Question
Date: Mon, 28 Sep 92 13:02:45 GMT
News-Software: IBM OS/2 PM RN (NR/2) v0.14 by O. Vishnepolsky and R. Rogers
Reply-To: kitchens@austin.vnet.ibm.com (Otto Vaughn Kitchens)
Organization: IBM T. J. Watson Research

In  <1992Sep25.152801.8489@cbnewsh.cb.att.com>  gkm@cbnewsh.cb.att.com (gary.k.mc nees) writes:
> 
> Has anyone been able to figure out how to set the size and position
> of the window when creating a new note? I've tried using the shift
> key while moving and sizing, to no avail. I cannot find any place
> in the on-line or printed documantation explaining how to set this.
> Any help will be appriciated greatly.
> 
> Thanks Gary

Well, if you're talking about LaMail remembering the size of the edit 
window the next time that you create (or view) a note, one way that I 
found to get the size remembered is to do a Shutdown while a resized 
window was on the desktop.  There might be another (and easier) way to do
this, but doing the shutdown worked for me and a colleague of mine.

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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.networking
From: cummins@a.cs.okstate.edu (CUMMINS JOHN WILLI)
Subject: Public Domain TCPIP (Telnet/FTP)
Organization: Oklahoma State University, Computer Science, Stillwater
Date: Tue, 29 Sep 92 21:38:22 GMT

I've been running CUTCP in a dos session using a 3c503 card.  No problems.
I switched to a 3c509 card.  Since packet drivers are unavailable yet,
I loaded an ODI driver and then a packet driver that communicated with the ODI
driver.  Again... this works fine.

My question is... since I'm in the middle of a Novell network, can I load
netware under this same dos session?  I'd sure like being able to access a
laser printer that the DOS user's enjoy.

The problem here is I don't want to give up Telnet / FTP as I need them for
work.  I also can't afford IBM's package.

Is there a PD telnet / FTP for OS2?

(re Clarkson, NCSA, QVT, winQVT and whatnot?)


jc
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.networking
From: aar_osman@gsbacd.uchicago.edu
Subject: Update available to NW Requester for OS/2
Organization: 
Date: Sat, 3 Oct 1992 13:13:10 GMT


Hi everybody,

	Just to let you know that an NSD (Novell Service Distribution,
it means bug fixes and maint updates) is available for the Netware
Requester for OS/2.  It is available in Compuserve in NOVLIB library 1.
The file is called NSD201.ZIP. It is a big file (about 400 K).

	Wish I could upload it to Hobbes but I don't think I am allowed.
/Osman
From: jmaynard@oac.hsc.uth.tmc.edu (Jay Maynard)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.networking
Subject: Re: SLIP or PPP with OS/2 NOS
Date: 30 Sep 92 18:55:52 GMT
Organization: UT Health Science Center Houston

In article <92272.183759U28661@uicvm.uic.edu> U28661@uicvm.uic.edu writes:
>Does anyone know if TN3270 support is planned for PM NOS?  I was able to
>get a slip connection with the modem server at school, but the session
>just hangs.  Invoking the reset command from the NOS prompt does nothing
>at all.

Well, I'd like to see tn3270 in PMNOS, but I suspect it'll be an optional
component if it gets there at all. This is because of NOS's ham radio roots -
there aren't a lot of IBM mainframes on the ham packet network. :-) Long-term
plans for PM NOS include breaking it into an IP process communicating with
separate clients; if it gets to that stage, I may get adventurous and
implement it myself.

I can't help with your SLIP problem, unfortunately.
-- 
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jmaynard@oac.hsc.uth.tmc.edu      | adequately be explained by stupidity.
    Vote for a REAL change on 3 November: Throw out the check-bouncing,
  tax-and-spend Democrat Congress! (obviously, not an opinion of UTHSCH)
From: gyorgy@ponder.csci.unt.edu (Gyorgy Vizkelethy)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.networking
Subject: Newsreader
Summary: Newsreader problems
Keywords: TCP/IP, RN
Date: 5 Oct 92 16:41:25 GMT
Organization: University of North Texas

I amd using the rn newsreader which came with TCP/ip 1.2.1 and I get annoyed
by some of its problems. First, when an article is long, it just says "Article
too long" and there is no way to read that article. I cannot even save it,
because the save option appears only when I am reading the article.

Second, when there are lot of articles to load in a group, rn loads a part of
them into the correct group but the other half is loaded into the next group.
And then rn does not let me read those articles in the wrong group, it just
keeps beeping when I try to read an article. I have to quit, and restart it.
The first time I used it I had to restart rn several times, to read all the
articles (or discard them). Is this the it is working or am I doing something
wrong?
Any help would be appreciated.

George
From: jmaynard@oac.hsc.uth.tmc.edu (Jay Maynard)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.networking
Subject: NE2000 NDIS drivers?
Date: 30 Sep 1992 01:53:25 GMT
Organization: UT Health Science Center Houston


Does anyone out there have experience with the NE2000 NDIS driver in
NE2000O.ZIP on vax.ftp.com (or whichever machine it is up there) and OS/2 2.0?
I snarfed the package, but the driver is a couple of years old, and so I
assume it was written for OS/2 1.[23]. There are some 2.0-specific drivers on
ftp-os2.nmsu.edu, so I assume there are differences...
-- 
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jmaynard@oac.hsc.uth.tmc.edu      | adequately be explained by stupidity.
    Vote for a REAL change on 3 November: Throw out the check-bouncing,
  tax-and-spend Democrat Congress! (obviously, not an opinion of UTHSCH)
From: matcsp@nuscc.nus.sg (Chan Shih-Ping)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.networking
Subject: Re: HP27245 NDIS OS/2 (FTP at HP networks division?)
Date: 26 Sep 92 03:14:41 GMT
Organization: National University of Singapore

dbs@hprnd.rose.hp.com (Dave Sheehy) writes:
: >Does HP's networks division have an anonymous FTP server.  I'm trying
: >to get the latest and greatest HP27245 support which comes with patched
: >NDIS drivers which work for OS/2 2.0.  
: 
: Try anonymous ftp to hprnd.rose.hp.com. The drivers are in pub/pccards.
: 
: >Thanks!
: >Shih-Ping Chan


Is hprnd.rose.hp.com down?  Name servers give me 15.29.40.2 but I cannot get
a connection. FTP times out and I can't even "ping" it. Please help!

Shih-Ping Chan
matcsp@nuscc.nus.sg
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.networking
From: sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu (Timothy F. Sipples)
Subject: Re: NCSA + Enet
Reply-To: sip1@midway.uchicago.edu
Organization: Dept. of Econ., Univ. of Chicago
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 1992 01:42:49 GMT

In article <NPkRRB3w164w@dvss.UUCP> dvss!jtroy@udel.edu (Jay Troy) writes:
>I was running NCSA with the Clarkson SLIP packet driver between my OS/2
>PC and a DOS PC.  This seemed to work fine.  I've now added a pair of
>clone NE2000 enet boards to the computers.  I loaded the appropriate
>packet drivers tweaked NCSA, and now OS/2 crashes when I go to access
>the enet board.  The DOS PC side seems to work fine.  I can't ping the
>OS/2 machine from the DOS machine, and the OS/2 machine locks up on any
>access to the enet board (ping, etc).  Anyone have something similar
>working?

Are you using a specific DOS session?  (See the FAQ List.)

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Dept. of Econ., Univ.   | Or from LISTSERV@BLEKUL11.BITNET (send "HELP").
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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.networking
From: do-minh@CS.YALE.EDU (Minh Do)
Subject: ncsa telnet
Organization: Yale University Computer Science Dept., New Haven, CT 06520-2158
Date: Sat, 26 Sep 1992 18:01:59 GMT

Is there anything for OS/2 comparable to ncsa telnet for the mac and for dos?

Please reply by e-mail.  Thanks.

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                                               dominq@yalevm.ycc.yale.edu
From: price@helios.unl.edu (Chad  Price)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.networking
Subject: Re: DOS requester under Netware
Date: 30 Sep 92 13:26:13 GMT
Organization: University of Nebraska - Lincoln

T.M. RAJKUMAR <RAJKUMAR@MIAMIU.BITNET> writes:

>I have installed Netware requester for OS/2 on my machine, with all the
>options.  I am trying to establish a connection to my campus mainframe
>using Clarkson Univ. Packet drivers in the DOS mode.  Hence, I need to
>be able to load DOSdrivers in my session DXMA0mod.sys and DXMC0mod.sys
>.  Every time I try to set up the DOS session, DXMC0MOD.SYS will not load
>and complains.  If however I boot from DOS this will load correctly.
>I have a DOS partition of 60 MB and OS/2 in an Extended partition.
>I have tried loading the specific version of DOS 5.0 on my hard drive with
>the same results.  My Novell requester is installed for Global setup, but
>I set it to Private for this DOS session.
>What am I doing wrong or is this not feasible.
>I am on a 16MB token ring with a PS/2 Model 70.
> 
>Similarly, I have a problem with PMAIL.  It complains that the mapping
>is not established for it session, and that it cannot get at Charon.
>What could be wrong here?
> 
>Any pointers are appreciated.
>If anybody has a system that works with Clarkson Packet drivers and Novell
>on  a token ring setup, I would appreciate if they can send me a copy of
>the relevant config.sys setups.i
> 

I gave up and ordered the ibm TCP/IP package. Any attempt to run the Clarkson
and other drivers, even in a DOS image session, led me to have to reboot,
without a shutdown. I found that I could not kill the DOS image session (which
would not connect as intended anyway), and that shutdown in WPS also quit
working. I attribute this to the fact that OS/2 Netware requester and the DXM*
drivers both attempt to take exclusive control of the network card (token ring
in my case)

I have no idea why OS/2 doesn't complain and shut down the DOS session. Perhaps
someone with more knowledge of the internals can clue us in as to what is
happening? 

--
chad
price@helios.unl.edu
cprice@molecular.unmc.edu
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