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From: andreast@athena.mit.edu (Andreas Turanski)
Subject: ***HELP*** WPS does NOT start when RE-install GA & IBM hasn't helped!!
Summary: Have been trying to RE-install 2.0 GA, but WPS doesn't start!!
Keywords: WPS HELP HELP PLEASE HELP INSTALLATION
Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Date: Sat, 7 Nov 1992 18:39:03 GMT

Dear SAVIOR,

  I am in DESPERATE NEED OF HELP.  After making the SP available in the NE
on export.lcs.mit.edu, I went about the process of backing up my BETA stuff
and otherwise prepared for RE-installing the 2.0 GA release so I could
stick the SP on top.

  Until I installed the wide-release OS/2 BETA I had been running the GA
os/2 since about the end of July.  I had not run into too many problems when
I first installed os/2 and was hoping that this would again be the case.
All went very normally EXCEPT that after the installation, THE WPS WAS NOT
RUNNING!!!!! or at least not visibly so.  I eventually got a startup.cmd
window going, but that was the only thing on screen! NO WPS.  I would click
on the background with the left mouse button.....NOTHING.  The right mouse
button....ZIPPO-NADA-NIL.  This started on about monday and since I have
called IBM, RE-RE-installed the GA at LEAST EIGHT (8) times, was told by
their analyst to 'try installing on a FAT partition.  It should work then'
which I did- though I correctly thought that this was a TOTAL NULL-suggestion-
i.e. it didn't work.  I even pulled my ULSI math co-processor in case that
was doing something, even though it hadn't hurt the Beta at all. NO LUCK.

If anyone has a clue, I am very clue-LESS at this point and would like
to get OS/2 RE-installed and WORKING before the weekend is up.  BTW
at IBM's suggestion we already tried rd'ing all the desktop dir's and del'd
all the .ini files and then had it regenerate these from scratch, but still
no luck.

ANY SUGGESTIONS????

My system:  386dx40MHz, have a ULSI 387 40MHz but it is not put-in (see above)
            120 meg IDE Maxtor HD,
            8 Meg RAM
            AMI BIOS (which has NEVER had any trouble)in a Standard Comp. BOX.
            Diamond SpeedStar+ 1meg TSENG 4000 video card.
            MAG 17" monitor -NICE :)
            CMS Jumbo 250meg tape- like I can use it under os/2 anyway!?!?
            Telepath modem someone kindly gave me- Yes it DOES WORK FINE.

PLEASE HELP POOR LOST SOUL.

Andreas.
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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: thoth@uiuc.edu (Ben Cox)
Subject: Re: Why TE/2 over Softerem (was: Re: Try this (I *LOVE* OS/2 2.x) ...
Originator: btc30679@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu
Reply-To: thoth@uiuc.edu (Ben Cox)
Organization: Ancient Illuminated Sears of Bavaria
Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1992 02:21:59 GMT

joshi@cs.uiuc.edu (Anil Joshi) writes:

>I am just wondering why everybody is using when Softterm comes with OS/2? 
>Should I try TE/2? I will have to download it using softterm ofcourse.

For one, TE/2 has Zmodem; for another, it runs in text mode (a plus
for me, since I like fast text scrolling; I run it in full screen
mode).  It also seems (to me) a bit more intuitive than Softerm; it's
a lot like ProComm + for DOS (which I bought long ago for my 286 dos
machine).

-- Ben
From: shabby@Athena.MIT.EDU (Chris Shabsin)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: Editing small icons.
Date: 9 Nov 1992 21:03:07 GMT
Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
NNTP-Posting-Host: steve-dallas.mit.edu
In-reply-to: cj00+@andrew.cmu.edu's message of 8 Nov 92 12:00:02 GMT

In article <8ezMrWO00iV3840F9y@andrew.cmu.edu> cj00+@andrew.cmu.edu (Carl B Jabido) writes:

   Hi, I was wondering if there was anyway to edit the small icons, the
   ones that are shown in the control menu of a window.  Some of the icons
   have color small icons, but some of them are black and white.  For the
   most part, the standard icons which came with os2 are black and white
   while ones that I added (through cvtico) have color small icons.  Is
   there anyway to get the standard small icons to be small?

   Thanks for any help...


   Carl Jabido
   cj00@andrew.cmu.edu

Yes, it is possible.  load the icon into the icon editor and bring up
Device List, and select

(Independent)1 Bits/pixel, 16x16, 0x0, 0x0

edit that, save the file, and Voila`!  You've gotten a new small icon.

The small ones made by cvtico are actually interpolated from the big
icons by OS/2 automatically, I think, instead of being explicitly in
the .ICO file.
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From: adhir@cygnus.umd.edu (Alok Dhir)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: SP sometimes crash
Date: 7 Nov 92 05:12:16 GMT
Organization: /etc/organization

In article <LZyqTB1w163w@coyote.datalog.com> ayee@coyote.datalog.com (allen yee) writes:
>I have successfully install the Service Pack on to my OS/2.  When I
>ran Aldus Pagemake 4.0 (windows app), the pakemaker runs fine.  After
>I finished with the application, I close it.  The desktop locks up and
>I can not get any button click or key click.  I try to soft boot by
>pressing Cntl-Alt-Del and with no luck.  I have to do a hard boot.
> 
>My system is as follows:
>           486/33 Clone with 128K cacke 8MB memory
>           Adaptec 1542B
>           Chinon CDROM
>           Seagate 600MB
>           Syquest 88MB
>           Sound Blaster Pro
>           Mouse, Serial Parallel
>           ET4000 (generic) running at 800x600x256
> 
>Any help would be appreciated.
> 
I can't help, but I can tell you that I have had this happen to me as well.
As a matter of fact, it happened on my true blue PS/2 model 90 at work
today as well, running WFW2.0 seamlessly (with no problems, I might add).
For some reason, OS/2 with SP likes to just lock up occassionally with no
apparent explanation.  Very annoying.

As long as we're talking about OS/2 bugs here, I may as well report this one
too.  The swapper.dat file grows and grows and rarely shrinks.  I found that
using a BMP for the background makes the problem about a million times worse.
Just having the bitmap and opening and closing a a winos/2 session a couple
of times will make the swapper grow to over 20 megs before it eats all 
available space and freezes up. 

Which brings me to another bug.  When OS/2 is out of swap space, why in the
HELL doesn't it report as such, ask you to close an app or two, and continue??
Instead, the stupid thing freezes up.

Unfortunately, most of my enthusiasm for OS/2 has been whittled down to
something akin to disdain.  It doesn't look like the damn thing is ever going
to actually be reliable.  Hopefully some other 32-bit multi threaded OS will
come along which is...

Incidentally, how do I go about reporting bugs to IBM...in the service pack
that is...

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From: richk@grebyn.com (Richard Krehbiel)
Subject: Re: News reader...
Organization: Grebyn Timesharing
	<1992Nov9.235554.20491@u.washington.edu>
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 03:18:16 GMT

In article <1992Nov9.235554.20491@u.washington.edu> rkimmel@stein.u.washington.edu (Denise Brown) writes:

>   I'm a bit confused about these news readers.  What I need to know
>   is Can I use anews reader to read theses messages off of internet
>   (usenet) with my normal account?  I'll the different programs I've
>   checked out seem like I need to be connected up through a network
>   and not a modem.  If there is something that will work, can
>   someone suggest (preferbly OS/2 2.0 version, but normal dos will
>   work, also) a good program that I can try out?  I'm tired of going
>   through 300+ new messages every 12 hours or so.
>
>   thanks!

    Well, this is one of the earliest messages I've managed to post
with a suite of news transfer programs I've been writing.  I'm using
GNU emacs and the GNUS news reading software under OS/2 2.0.  I'm
downloading batches of articles from a normal Unix account, and
uploading replies.  It's working today, but wasn't yesterday; I
wouldn't say it's ready for publication just yet...

    300+ messages every 12 hours sounds about right for me, actually.
I don't actually read all of them, I skim the headers and read what
looks interesting.
-- 
Richard Krehbiel                                 richk@grebyn.com
OS/2 2.0 will do for me until AmigaDOS for the 386 comes along...
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: umnoor@ccu.umanitoba.ca (Nasir Ahmed Noor)
Subject: Re: TE/2 question (was Re: Try this (I *LOVE* OS/2 2.x) ...)
Organization: University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada
Date: Sun, 8 Nov 1992 20:54:27 GMT

stimpy@nmt.edu (John Reynolds) writes:

>In procomm, I set the duplex to Full to get it to talk to my school's
>sun system correctly. When I run TE/2, what do I set the Local Echo to?

Leave it as it is. It defaults to local echo off.

>Is the duplex and Local echo the same thing. Does Full Duplex == local
>echo being ON?

Full Duplex == Local Echo Off

>When I run TE/2, it dials, and all that, but after I get the connection,
>it just sits there with a black screen.
>sits there even after hitting <Return> about a million times.

Some COM parameters/settings are wrong somewhere.
Check te2.ini file. Also try ALT-I while in te/2. You may want to try
following line before starting te/2 [from os/2 command line]...

mode comx:2400,n,8,1,xon=off,rts=hs,octs=on,idsr=off,odsr=off,to=on

WHERE: x [in comx] is the com port you modem is attached to.
set other things (e.g. modem speed, parity etc) according to your modem.

hope it helps,

--nasir
umnoor@ccu.umanitoba.ca
From: sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu (Timothy F. Sipples)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: Diamond Speedstar 24X question
Date: 9 Nov 92 16:56:52 GMT
Article-I.D.: midway.1992Nov9.165652.4578
Reply-To: sip1@midway.uchicago.edu
Organization: Dept. of Econ., Univ. of Chicago

In article <BxD3H2.D1H@news.cso.uiuc.edu> akashi@ux4.cso.uiuc.edu (Asaf F1 Kashi) writes:
>Are there any drivers that will work for the Diamond Speedstar 24X???
>16 or 32 bit, I don't care.  I tried installing the SP but the video slowed
>so much that I went back to the GA version. (The window zooming was *realy*
>slow)
>Is there a way to fix the video speed with the SP without a speedstar 24x 
>driver?

The only thing that got slower (in most cases) is the window
animation.  Lots of other things got a bit faster.  You can turn off
animation using OS/2 System -> System Setup -> System.

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From: duffy@theory.chem.ubc.ca (Pat Duffy)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware,comp.graphics
Subject: Re: 24-bit color board for OS/2 2.0 ?
Date: 10 Nov 1992 16:19:07 GMT
Organization: University of British Columbia, Vancouver, B.C., Canada
Distribution: usa
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In article <BxI8vt.450@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu> ntaib@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (Iskandar Taib) writes:
>In article <cezSyLa00iV0Q4lIk=@andrew.cmu.edu> sl31+@andrew.cmu.edu (Stephen M. Lacy) writes:
>
>
>>For $270 (education price) you can get an XGA-2 board with 1 meg of VRAM
>>that will do 640x480x65,536.  Its not 24-bit, but its damn well near it.
>>With 65,536 colors you can get one color per five pixels, hopefully you
>>don't really need more colors than that!  (well, at least for the price,
>>its a real bargain) :)
>>Its for MCA only (right now) and is made by IBM. (BTW, I just bought one)
>
>If its by IBM it'll only support the 8515 monitor which 
>means interlaced at 1024x768, and it won't do 800x600.
>
>640x480?
>
>Thptptptptpt!!!!

The XGA-2 standard (from what I have read) supports all the following:

All VGA modes.
640x480x(256 and 64k)
800x600x(256 and 64k)
1024x768x256 (it comes with 1MB)
up to 75Hz N/I (yes, that's NON-interlaced)

It is full extensible, vesa-compliant, busmastering video, and it's coming
soon from Radius for the ISA bus.

I want one.
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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: sonny@charybdis.harris-atd.com (Bob Davis)
Subject: Re: winos2 won't work with OS2 2.01.1 (CSD applied)
Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1992 02:00:18 GMT
Reply-To: sonny@trantor.harris-atd.com (Bob Davis)
Organization: Advanced Technology Dept., Harris ESS, Melbourne, FL
Keywords: winos2,CSD

In article <4039@rbiffm.informatik.uni-frankfurt.de> jr@johanna.th.physik.uni-frankfurt.de writes:
>I just applied the CSD to a freshly installed American version of 
>OS/2 2.0. The syslevel now is 2.01.1, so I think I have the 'right',
>and not the withdrawn CSD.
>When I double-click on the Win-OS2 icon in the command prompts folder
>a window opens, there is a beep, and the message 
>
>FATAL Exit code = 0x0401 
>
>is displayed. Then the window closes again. 
>Migrated windows applications also won' t work. 
>When I start winos2.com from a DOS full screen I get the same 
>Exit code as mentioned above.
>Can anybody help? 
>

	The CSD installation also broke WIN-OS2 on my machine.
With the original GA installation, WIN-OS2 worked on my EGA monitor
system. My symptoms are precisely the same as those described above
with the exception that I see NO error message.

	How widespread is this problem and does anyone have a fix?

	Thanks

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From: stimpy@nmt.edu (John Reynolds)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: TE/2 question (was Re: Try this (I *LOVE* OS/2 2.x) ...)
Date: 6 Nov 92 21:58:45 GMT
Article-I.D.: nmt.1992Nov6.215845.3836
Organization: New Mexico Tech

A related question between Procomm + and TE/2 is this:

In procomm, I set the duplex to Full to get it to talk to my school's
sun system correctly. When I run TE/2, what do I set the Local Echo to?

Is the duplex and Local echo the same thing. Does Full Duplex == local
echo being ON?

When I run TE/2, it dials, and all that, but after I get the connection,
it just sits there with a black screen. Admittingly, when I use procomm,
it will just sit there until I press <Return> about a million times (I've
been told that is the terminal server's problem, not mine), yet TE/2 just
sits there even after hitting <Return> about a million times.

Help!!!!!! I really want to run TE/2 because when I download files
using Xmodem (or kermit) through DOS procomm, it makes win-os2 just
plain unusable (the rest of OS/2 including other DOS sessions, really
don't suffer that much, I'm just assuming it's the extra overhead of
win-os2).

-Jr


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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: gagnon@aix1.uottawa.ca (Jean-Serge Gagnon 564-7183)
Subject: Re: Is this abug in the SP ?
Organization: Computing & Comm. Services, University of Ottawa
Date: Thu, 5 Nov 92 17:55:24 GMT

In article <3oHNTB2w165w@tcscs.UUCP> srcsip!tcscs!zeta writes:
>amah@IASTATE.EDU () writes:
>
>> Today I tried get a  dir list of the files on a diskette (A: drive). The
>> diskette was apparently unformatted. My display went out of sync. Couldn't se
>> anything legible on the screen. Tried switching to WPS but Ctrl+Esc didn't
>> work.
>> After a few minutes of trying different things, I removed the floppy and
>> inserted a new formatted one and hit return. It gave me a dir listing of driv
>> A: and everything went back to normal.
>> 
>> I tried several times and found that if the diskette in drive A: is unformatt
>> I can't even switch to A: without screwing up the display and no matter what 
>> try, the only way to get the screen back to normal is to remove the unformatt
>> diskette and replace it with a formatted one. It doesn't matter if I have SVG
>> ON or OFF.
>> 
>> Any suggestions ?
>> 
>Try doing a dir A: with no disk in the drive.  If the same thing happens,
>then your screen is losing sync when OS/2 goes to a text mode and tries
>to inform you that the system has had a problem...and prompts you for 
>a reaction....
>
>If DIR A: without a disk in it does NOT duplicate your original problem,
>then I don't have a clue..
>
>Greg

I would agree. If you get any error from reading a disk in a full-screen
session, OS/2 switches to 80X25 mode (maybe mono) and gives you an error
message blahblahblah, and you must press enter for the default action without
pressing any of the arrow keys which if retry.
I would guess that the problem had to do with mode switching. Maybe your
svgadata.pmi file? Try turning SVGA OFF and the a dir a:.

>
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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: low@wiliki.eng.hawaii.edu (Hock-leong Low)
Subject: WINOS2 won't run after Service Pack installation  
Organization: University of Engineering, College of Engineering
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 05:18:33 GMT

Hello,

I'm wondering if anyone encountered any problems running Windows
applications in WINOS2 after installtion of new Service Pack. 
I can't run MS Word nor can I run WINOS2 session--it just doesn't
execute upon 'double-click'.  Could the SP install accidently
erased some files?

Thanks in advance.

:) Jason	low@wiliki.eng.hawaii.edu
From: dic5340@hertz.njit.edu (David Charlap)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: Com_Direct_Access in Dos Sessions and 16550's
Date: 12 Nov 92 17:47:08 GMT
Organization: New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, N.J.

In article <1992Nov11.220433.17307@cumin.telecom.uqam.ca> shorrock@mips1.info.uqam.ca (Shorrock*Glenn) writes:
>The Service Pack adds a few new options for configuring Dos sessions: the
>first one is Com_Direct_Access.  Until now, Dos programs that manage a
>16550's buffers directly, like Procomm Plus, couldn't; OS/2 got in the way.
>I had to use the Mode command's buffers=on option in order to profit from
>my 16550.  My question: does the Com_Direct_Access option mean I can 
>forget about using Mode with buffers=on and just rely on Procomm to manage
>the 16550? If so, are there any advantages to letting OS/2 do the job 
>instead of Procomm?

I would't mess with this setting.  I turned it on for my PCPLUS
session, and I got garbage characters and parity errors all over the
place.  When I set it back, allowing OS/2 to manage the port, there
was no problem.

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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: menieuwp@cs.vu.nl (Nieuwpoort van ME)
Subject: Re: Will WIN 3.1 SP version install over current SP?
Organization: Fac. Wiskunde & Informatica, VU, Amsterdam
Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1992 12:36:44 GMT

grl@brb.dmt.csiro.au (Greg Lehmann) writes:

>I think I remember reading somewhere that the Service pack to be released in
>December to support Windows 3.1 would be incompatible with the current
>Service Pack. Both Service Packs can only be applied to original base version.
>Is this correct?

Yesterday, I tried installing WINOS231 over 2.0 GA and the Service Pack.
It replaced some important system files (including OS2KRNL and
\OS2\DLL\PMWIN.DLL). When I rebooted OS/2 I couldn't open the
icon view of any folder. (not by double clicking, not via the
keyboard, and not by choosing OPEN->Icon view).
Details view and tree view worked fine!

I re-ran the Service Pack, but only selected the root directory
and the DLL directory.

OS/2 is fine now, and WINOS2 3.1 seems to work. I haven't had time
to really look at it yet, but I could open Write, and I could
type things using a TrueType font.
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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: vargish@sura.net (Nick Vargish)
Subject: Re: Install OS/2 from driver B (correction & apology)
Summary: wait, I was the one...
Organization: SURAnet, College Park, MD, USA, NA, Earth, Milky Way
Date: Sat, 14 Nov 1992 05:11:15 GMT

Hank wrote:
>In Article <1992Nov13.132928.15487@sura.net>, vargish@sura.net (Nick Vargish) writes:
>> Birdy Array (root)) writes:

No, I was the one who wrote the following... "Please check attribution
carefully..." (I will take the heat for being in a position of
ignorance.)

nick: result in FRUSTRATION! Some fool archived it with the zip utility that
nick: runs under OS/2; it CAN NOT be unzipped with the official DOS pkunzip
nick: release -- you must already have OS/2 running to unzip it. A real 

>Calm down. Info-Zip's unzip 5.0 is widely available. Get the dos version
>from simtel20.army.mil in pd1:<msdos.zip>. Thanks to the folks involved
>in the Info-Zip project.

I wish I had known that. Sorry for the harsh words...

I'm personally grateful to the people who also put the thing out in
zoo format.

>--Darrel Hankerson hank@ducvax.auburn.edu

Nick Vargish

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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: nuscss1@vms1.iscs.nus.sg (Vax BULLET-IN-Board SysOps)
Subject: can't boot from third harddisk partition...Help !
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41    
Organization: National University of Singapore Dept. of Computer Sc.
Date: Sun, 8 Nov 1992 18:11:00 GMT

	I recently repartitioned my harddisk into 3 partitions (with
	Boot Manager taking up the 4th partition). Each partition is about
	200MB in size. The first partition boots to give DOS 5.0, the second
	partition boots to OS/2.

	The third partition (E:) is also DOS, but the computer refuses to boot
	from it after I select it from the Boot Manager menu. The screen goes
	blank, and the machine hangs. This happens even if I remove the
	config.sys and autoexec.bat. All partitions are FAT. I've ensured that
	the command.com, Io.sys and Msdos.sys are all properly installed
	with Norton Disktools (and used SYS as well for good measure).

	Can someone please give some pointers ? Thank You.