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From: sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu (Timothy F. Sipples)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: Where's FAQ?
Date: 14 Dec 92 00:40:00 GMT
Reply-To: sip1@midway.uchicago.edu
Organization: Dept. of Econ., Univ. of Chicago

In article <101797@netnews.upenn.edu> joe@retina.anatomy.upenn.edu (Joe Panico) writes:
>Where's the FAQ?

Please check my signature.

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From: ericb@ursula.ee.pdx.edu (FurryLogic)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: OS/2 NOT 32 Bit?
Date: 18 Dec 92 06:40:28 GMT
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lotozo@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (William A Lotozo) writes:

>I have heard some people claim that OS/2 is not a 32 bit operating system
>but actually a 16 bit os running a 32 bit os emulation.  Is this so? 
>I thought that if anything it was a true 32 bit os with a 16 bit emulation
>for backwards compatability to os/2 1.x programs.

   No. But I'd really like to hear more abour this 32-bit OS emulation
these 'some people' talk about. :-)

-e.b.

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From: sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu (Timothy F. Sipples)
Subject: Re: OS/2 FAQ 2.0h is not in hobbies.
Reply-To: sip1@midway.uchicago.edu
Organization: Dept. of Econ., Univ. of Chicago
Date: Sat, 12 Dec 1992 05:42:02 GMT

In article <1992Dec10.025409.8801@kum.kaist.ac.kr> jhlee@rose.handy.co.kr (Lee Joo Hee) writes:
>I catn't find OS/2 FAQ 2.0h in hobbies.
>Please check and upload.

Check /pub/uploads.

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From: gsk@idx.com
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: Mix of 3-chip and 9-chip simms with OS/2
Date: 18 Dec 92 15:52:59 GMT
Organization: IDX Corporation, S. Burlington, VT

In article <1gm6deINNjqd@agate.berkeley.edu>, shyguy@ocf.berkeley.edu (David S. Shy) writes:
> In article <L7VqVB5w165w@qed.cts.com> pyrite@qed.cts.com (Sean Camanyag) writes:
>>With the Service Pack installed, I get a lot of trap errors, around 8-10,
>>sometimes more, per day.  People at IBM NSC BBS have put the blame on my mix
>>of 4 3-chip 1mb simms, and 4 9-chip 1mb simms.  This is UNACCEPTABLE,
> 
> kept all the 9's in one bank and all the 3's in the rest)  so you
> might want to check for that.
> 
> also, if you are mixing different speed simms, that may be your 
> problem (although some people have not experienced any problems
> under this setup...)
> 

What I have heard is the following. 3 chip simms are ok if your mother-board
will suppport 4 meg simms, since that is what they really are. It has to do
with the refresh logic.

2nd... IF you have different speed rams, you MUST place the SLOWEST rams
in the lowest address bank. (All simms in the same bank MUST be the same
speed).  The motherboard/bios determins the refresh rate and access rate from
the first bank. ALL of your ram will then be accessed at this slower rate.

I have followed these rules, have mixed 70ns and 60ns simms, and mixed 9 and 3
chep versions, and have not had any problem...

So the story goes....

				-- George --

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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: Adaptec AHA-1542B and large SCSI questions
From: Dimitri Vulis <DLVGC@CUNYVM.BITNET>
Date: Monday, 14 Dec 1992 02:22:07 EST
Organization: City University of New York/ University Computer Center

In article <1992Dec12.174722.407@weyrich.UUCP>, orville%weyrich@uunet.uu.net
(Orville R. Weyrich) says:
>My question is this: I have heard that SCSI disks larger than 1 Gb may
>not work properly without BIOS upgrades or special drivers. Is this true for
>OS/2?
>
>Are there any other considerations that I need to keep in mind or any
>tricks/gotchas?
At a site, I have a SCSI disk over 1GB running off an IBM SCSI controller.
It was running FAT.  I discovered that the allocation chunks were 16KB!
Today, actually, I reformatted it to HPFS (I used Sytos Plus to backup,
recommended) and there were (gasp) 40MB more free storage!!
Moral: use HPFS, especially for a large disk with a few thou files, many
of them small.

Dimitri
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu (Timothy F. Sipples)
Subject: Re: OS/2 Multimedia Support for Tandy Sensation!?
Reply-To: sip1@midway.uchicago.edu
Organization: Dept. of Econ., Univ. of Chicago
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 18:05:01 GMT

In article <1992Dec13.053913.23662@netcom.com> feustel@netcom.com (David Feustel) writes:
>I just got (tonight) a Tandy Sensation! multimedia machine and I'm
>wondering whether os/2 and the IBM multimedia support will run on it.

Can you describe the system, component by component?

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From: kskapin@csws3.ic.sunysb.edu (Keith T Skapinski)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: Please help : scrolling text with new Trident 32 bit drivers
Keywords: trident, scrolling, os2
Date: 19 Dec 92 18:49:37 GMT
Organization: State University of New York at Stony Brook

In article <1992Dec18.213054.17329@dlogics.com> ejk@dlogics.com (Rico Suave) writes:
>I have recently installed the new Service Pak and the new Trident 32-bit
>drivers, and I have found that in 1024x768x256 mode, the scrolling of
>text is incredibly slow (by comparison to the 16-bit 800x600x16 trident
>driver)  I have tried every font-size, to no avail.  Does anyone have any
>comments or suggestions concerning this scrolling speed?  This is
>driving me crazy.
>
>System:
>  486DX, 16M RAM
>  Trident 8900c, 1M
>  Plenty o' hard drive space
>
>Thanks.

It's also verrrry slooow for me too! Therefore, I went back to the 16 bit,
1024x768x16 drivers. Who needs 256 colors on their desktop anyway? Speed
is much more important than colors. The seemless Windoze was cool though, but
again not as necessary as speed. I'm much happier with the 16 bit 1024x768x16
driver because it is much faster and has really cool index tabs in the
settings. :)

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From: auhl@fzi.de (Axel Uhl)
Subject: Re: OS/2 Text Screen Editor?
Reply-To: auhl@fzi.de
Organization: Forschungszentrum Informatik (FZI), Karlsruhe, Germany
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 12:33:16 GMT

I'm porting an editor written under UNIX to OS/2 2.0. It is a text screen editor
(of course it can be run in an OS/2 window on desktop). It's not yet complete,
but I like working with it even with missing mouse support (which will be
added later) more than fiddling around with VI, which is e.g. not able to
cope with German special characters. I'm also no friend of installing the
huge EMACS package.
The editor I'm porting is named EHP (for (E)ditor written on a (HP) machine).
You can find the archive file on HOBBES (ftp-os2.nmsu.edu) in the
/pub/uploads directory. The archive file is named ehp.zip. Get ehp.txt first,
if you want to get a short overview (ehp.txt is also in /pub/uploads, though
it is contained in the archive, too).

Please let me know, if you have problems installing the package.
Thanks,
Axel (auhl@fzi.de)
From: h198@hosp.med.umich.edu  (Gene Mangum)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: How to install SBMMPM?
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992  13:14 EDT
Organization: Univ of Michigan Hospitals
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In Article <1992Dec14.074030.26586@monu6.cc.monash.edu.au> "parry@yoyo.cc.monash.edu.au (Tom J Parry)" says:
  [Stuff Deleted]
> Anybody know what you have to do to get these drivers installed?
 
  [.sig deleted]
  You have to first install MMPM/2.   After that, place the SBMMPM stuff
  on a floppy in your A: drive.   Run MMPM/2's MINSTALL program.   Check
  the lines added to your CONFIG.SYS.    The lines may need to be at the
  top of CONFIG.SYS (right after HPFS).
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From: pynq@quads.uchicago.edu (Jeremy Mathers)
Subject: Running ZIP/ZOO/etc from an icon (again!)
Reply-To: pynq@midway.uchicago.edu
Organization: D. J. Dougherty & Associates
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 06:34:44 GMT

What is the 50 word synopsis of whether it is possible to run any of the
compression programs effectively from an icon?  Is there a way to click
on an icon and have it prompt you at runtime for the program parameters?

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From: wcn@cs.brown.edu (Wen-Chun Ni)
Subject: Re: Please help : scrolling text with new Trident 32 bit drivers
Keywords: trident, scrolling, os2
Organization: Brown University Department of Computer Science
Date: Sat, 19 Dec 1992 20:38:13 GMT

In article <1992Dec19.184937.3819@sbcs.sunysb.edu> kskapin@csws3.ic.sunysb.edu (Keith T Skapinski) writes:
>
>It's also verrrry slooow for me too! Therefore, I went back to the 16 bit,
>1024x768x16 drivers. Who needs 256 colors on their desktop anyway? Speed
>is much more important than colors. The seemless Windoze was cool though, but
>again not as necessary as speed. I'm much happier with the 16 bit 1024x768x16
>driver because it is much faster and has really cool index tabs in the
>settings. :)
>

The new Tseng 1024x768x256 driver is also a dog.  Just wondering. The
Xfree386 was too slow to be useful. But the recent release reminds me
of the sparc at my school. It is 1024x768x256 too. So it is not
impossible for IBM or the makers to write a decent driver for our
cards.


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From: samiam@netcom.com (Scott Moore)
Subject: Re: XGA-2 Clarification
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  (408 241-9760 guest) 
Date: Sun, 20 Dec 1992 07:04:35 GMT

ericwolf@mentor.cc.purdue.edu (Eric Wolf) writes:

>Well, with Radius prices being so sky-high, does anybody know when another
>company will produce an XGA-2 card and release it?  Company info?  Specs?
>Pricing?  Any info whatsoever would be appreciated!!!!

You'll be sorry you asked. Their name is futurecomm, they were demoing the card
at comdex. The price they mentioned was the same as radius (~$500). I have
called them several times, their phone system is criminal. I'll post as soon
as I talk to someone with a pulse, but frankly i'd rather deal with radius
who is local and answers the &^**% phone.

                                                 [sam]

(and yea, there will sure to be more. In fact, get the sheet from INMOS, and
go into the XGA card bis. But don't expect any customers past the os/2 nuts)
(( of which I am one !!! please don't flame me !!))
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From: mlevis@ringer.cs.utsa.edu (Mike Levis) (OS/2)
Subject: TV ad for OS/2 app!!!
Organization: University of Texas at San Antonio
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 08:56:07 GMT

I was just watching CNN Headline News and I saw an advertisement for an
OS/2 application.  I think the name of this app was called ``FaxWorks OS/2''
or something like that.

They had some guy sitting at a desk talking to the TV audience.  While
describing the app, he also said something like ``thanks to the true
multitasking of OS/2'' (i.e. a plug for OS/2).  Then they flashed some
1-800 number.  This ad reminded me of that ``Quicken'' commercial --
low-budget but to the point.

I don't know if this is a 32-bit app.

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From: pynq@quads.uchicago.edu (Jeremy Mathers)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: OS/2 & Dos 5.0 floppy problem
Date: 16 Dec 92 14:40:59 GMT
Reply-To: pynq@midway.uchicago.edu
Organization: D. J. Dougherty & Associates

In article <BzB7Iw.HFq@mentor.cc.purdue.edu> ericwolf@mentor.cc.purdue.edu (Eric Wolf) writes:
>Ok...  Here's a problem for all you OS/2 gurus out there...
>
>Everytime I go to my DOS 5.0 partition (via Boot Manager) and format
>a disk using DOS 5.0 (format a: /f:1440 /u) it works fine.  Then when
>I try to dir the disk I just formatted, I get a general failure reading
>drive A: error.  But if I go to OS/2 and try to read the same disk, it
>works fine.  OS/2 can read and write to these disks no problem but DOS
>can't!!!  DOS always gives the general failure error when OS/2 reads
>them.

Another of Doug's 1000 reasons not to use DOS 5. (*)

I have the same problem when I format a disk under DOS 3.x (real DOS), 
then write on it with DOS 5.  The diskette becomes unreadable by DOS 5.
DOS 3 can, of course, read the diskette with no problems.

DOS 5 is full of bugs and should be avoided.

(*) Don't need no steenkin' DOS 4, no DOS 5, no DOS 6, no Windoze.
    I made the quantum leap from DOS 3.31 (which, combined with QEMM,
    does everything DOS 5 does and much more and much better) to OS/2 2.0.

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From: adhir@wam.umd.edu (Al Dhir)
Subject: Re: Mix of 3-chip and 9-chip simms with OS/2
Organization: University of Maryland, College Park
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 20:36:30 GMT

In article <BzE1Kz.A8F@news.cso.uiuc.edu> nap42487@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Nishith A. Patel) writes:
>jmaynard@oac.hsc.uth.tmc.edu (Jay Maynard) writes:
>
>>Humor us. Try replacing your RAM with a set from a different system,
>>preferably one known to run OS/2 with no problems.
>
>>Al is not the only one who has seen TRAP 0002s be memory problems. That goes
>>for everyone here, including IBM. OS/2 is known to be a torture test for
>>memory. Other programs, including what were thought to be heavy-duty
>>diagnostics, have been known to run properly on systems where OS/2 had TRAP
>>0002s which were cured by replacing RAM.
>
>Well, if you first say that the RAM is fine even for heavy duty diagnostics,
>but not for OS/2, then say the problem is with RAM, there is ome kind of
>contradiction. It is not like most RAM out there is "mortal" RAM, and there
>is some very privileged, select few RAM chips that are the ultimate in RAM
>chips. All RAM that is in perfect condition are pretty much the same, and getting
>RAM that happens to "work" with OS/2 is pure luck. 
>
>Is OS/2 this picky with all hardware, making it a metter of pure luck?
>(I know I already got unlucky with my modem).
>
So you know better than all the PC Techs in the world who are going to tell
you that it is your RAM.  Fine.  If you are so stubborn as to not even accept
the possibility that the problem is with your hardware, then forget it.  Go
back to DOS.  You deserve it.

I and a few others mean nothing more than to try to help you get your system
running properly with OS/2.  We stand to gain nothing else.  I'd say you have
an attitude problem here.

OS/2 happens to excersize your RAM quite a bit harder than standard diagnostics
programs like CHeckit.  RAM that checks out OK with CHeckit can easily choke
up with OS/2 (and WIndows for that matter).

Against my better judgement, I suggest again, that you install a new set of
SIMMS.  I am willing to bet my reputation that the problem lies with your 
memory.
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From: parry@yoyo.cc.monash.edu.au (Tom J Parry)
Subject: Re: How to install SBMMPM?
Originator: parry@yoyo.cc.monash.edu.au
Organization: Monash University, Melb., Australia.
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 10:19:55 GMT

Gene Mangum (h198@hosp.med.umich.edu) wrote:
>   [Stuff Deleted]
> > Anybody know what you have to do to get these drivers installed?
>  
>   [.sig deleted]
>   You have to first install MMPM/2.   After that, place the SBMMPM stuff
>   on a floppy in your A: drive.   Run MMPM/2's MINSTALL program.   Check
>   the lines added to your CONFIG.SYS.    The lines may need to be at the
>   top of CONFIG.SYS (right after HPFS).

Great! Works fine! I can play WAV and MID files on my SB through MMPM now.
Anybody know how to play a CD through the SB though? I don't want to keep
on switching my speakers from the CD drive speaker plug to my SB output.
I'd rather like to leave them plugged into the SB permanently and send all
sounds out of them.

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From: crichmon@sedona.intel.com (Chris Richmond)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: KX-2124 printer help
Date: 18 Dec 92 18:21:04 GMT
Organization: Intel Corporation
Originator: crichmon@sedona


I just installed a new Panasonic KX-2124 printer on my system.  Of course,
OS/2 doesn't have specific drivers, but I installed the 1124i drivers, Epson
LQ-850, and IBM Proprinter X24E drivers ( the two modes supported by my
printer).  I did the same thing in regular Windows 3.1.  I created a test
file that had several type faces and sizes in AmiPro 3.0.  I had ATM
running and when I printed the file from Windows, the output was very
impressive.  I started up WinOS2 and Ami and printed the same file using
the 1124i driver in OS2 and the output looked like crap.  Even the screen
didn't look as good.  I did have ATM running, but it looked like it wasn't
working.  This is on a fresh install of the GA OS2 2.0.  Does anyone have any
suggestions?  I would like to solve this before I reinstall the CSD.  Can I
use Windows printer drivers in WinOS2 and/or as the OS2 driver.  I think
that Panasonic has KX-2124 Windows drivers, but not OS2 drivers.

Thanks, Chris
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From: kanet@fraser.sfu.ca (Kane Tan)
Subject: CSD problem
Summary: My Icons keep vanishing on me!
Keywords: CSD, disappearing
Organization: Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C., Canada
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 17:48:19 GMT

This problem has probably been addressed in the initial CSD spew.. but I'm one of the late bloomers and have only installed the CSD after the new Trident drivers were leake.. er.. available. The problem is that I can't make executable icons anymore.. they disappear after I shut down my machine. Deleted items stay deleted, but new items just disappear. Hmpf, a probably (yet impractical) solution would be to leave my machine on 24 hours a day, but I just got Star Control II and that doesn't like OS/2 too muc



h, so I have to boot DOS.

HELP!!!!

K.

K
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From: jurlwin@gandalf.UMCS.Maine.EDU (Jeff Urlwin)
Subject: Re: Some info on the PDK, please
Organization: University of Maine, Department of Computer Science
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1992 18:27:35 GMT

In article <BzFB4z.4u4@news.iastate.edu> TW.FY4@isumvs.iastate.edu (Timothy I Miller) writes:
>Hello, everybody, I have a few questions about the OS/2 PDK
>(November version):
>
>1)  What is the Action Media II control driver?  Is it sort of like
>Apple Quicktime?  And if it is, what's that?  The way I understand
>it, it will allow people to have very good animation on the desktop,
>or something like that.

Sorry, I don't know.

>
>2)  What all has to be installed from the CD-ROM in order to write a
>program in C?  There is the C/C++ set/2, the CSD for C Set/2, the
>developers toolit, WorkFrame/2, and a few other programs.  I'm not
>sure what all to install, so any advice would be helpful...

At a minimum, you'll need the C/C++ Set/2.  The CSD you DON'T need.
It is for version 1.0 of the available CSet/2.  If you wish to 
do anything that needs PM or the OS, you'll need to install the 
toolkit.  If you want the workframe, you should install it first.
The workframe just helps you organize the interaction between you,
your editor, the compiler and the make utility.  I don't use it,
simply because I have my own environment that I'm used to.
It's similar (somewhat) to what the Borland IDE does for you...(for
example).
>
>3)  There is the C/C++ Set/2 stuff in the PDK, but on my CD, there
>was a little sticker saying that the C++ USL Class libs are
>available separately.  Does this mean that I can't program in C++?
No, you can still program in C++, but you won't have the strstream,
fstream, etc classes.  Until you get them, you can't, say: cout << foo;

Most of the stuff is for file I/O (via fstreams, etc), or whatever.

So, if your programs use this, you'll need it.  Most of the intro programs
I've seen and examples in books use this as a substitute for printf.
(cout goes to the console or window you are running in).  Some PM 
programmers would say that you won't need this, but I think you will.
Printing to the "stdout" is just a small subset of the usefulness
of these streams.  The strstream, for example, can be a substitute
(a better one, IMHO) for sprintf.  I would get them...(and I did!).
>
>Thanks for all the help, and I'm sorry if these questions are a
>little naive.
No problem....


Jeff

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