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From: exujlg@exu.ericsson.se (Jon L. Gauthier)
Subject: Problems installing Quicken for Windows...
Organization: Ericsson Network Systems, Inc.
Date: Mon, 27 Jul 1992 21:57:59 GMT

I tried to install QW 1.01 for windows under WIN-OS/2, but it crashed on the 
second disk, at 46% complete.  The entire WIN-OS/2 session was frozen, not 
responding to mouse or keyboard input.  When I say crashed, I mean froze.  I 
could ALT-ESC back to WPS and kill the windows object, but every time I 
tried installing Quicken again, it crashed at the same point.

My DOS settings are the defaults for WIN-OS/2.  Any hints for changes?  I 
guess I should have left a 30MB FAT partition with Windows/Quicken 
installed - I can't balance my checkbook until I get it back up!

Thanks in advance...

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From: bwatkins@nyx.cs.du.edu (Brian Watkins)
Subject: Programming
Organization: Nyx, Public Access Unix (sponsored by U. of Denver Math/CS dept.)
Disclaimer1: Nyx is a public access Unix system run by the University of
Disclaimer2: Denver for the Denver community.  The University has neither
Disclaimer3: control over nor responsibility for the opinions of users.
Date: Tue, 28 Jul 92 03:17:22 GMT

MicroWay has apparently got a great OS/2 2.0 32 bit highly optimized compiler
out.  Look for an add in byte.
.
a\\

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From: kdorma@ravana.seas.ucla.edu (Kevin Dorma)
Subject: any problems with OS/2 or Win 3.0 on fast 486's ??
Organization: Dept. of Chemical Engineering, University of Alberta
Date: Tue, 28 Jul 1992 23:24:04 GMT

How's it goin', eh?
I have a '486-40 and I cannot run Win 3.0 in 386 mode _OR_ install/run
OS/2 unless the speed is cut to 20 MHz, all cache disabled and ROM shadowing
disabled.
Has anyone ever seen or heard about this type of problem with ANY SORT of
386 or 486, particulary machines faster than 33 MHz.
If so, what was the problem and how was it fixed.


EMAIL TO kdorma@ravana.eche.ualberta.ca , NOT TO THE ADDRESS ON THE HEADER
   {ok, so I haven't figured out how to change that line.... working on it}

TIA

                                  | 
Kevin Dorma                       | Hi, my Lyapunov exponent is 2.31.
kdorma@ravana.eche.ualberta.ca    | What's yours?
Ph.D. type of student             | 
Dept. of Chemical Engineering     | Don't look at my disclaimer, your's
University of Alberta             | is much more interesting.
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From: joiner@cs.umn.edu (Jay Joiner)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.apps
Subject: Re: Where's Borland?
Date: 22 Jul 92 03:23:02 GMT
Organization: University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, CSci dept.

In <1992Jul21.155506.1610@gacvx2.gac.edu> logic@gacvx2.gac.edu writes:

>If we avoid Borland and avoid Microsoft, there's not much left is there?

Not much left--how about the compiler that brought you OS/2 in the 
first place.

I doubt MS will ever offer a OS/2 2.0 compiler.  I'm sure Borland will
have theirs eventually, but the best deal on an "industrial strength"
(and this eliminates the GNU ports) development system for OS/2 2.0 has 
got to be IBM's bundle at $295 until September.

Jay Joiner
Univ of MN
From: bewhite@matt.ksu.ksu.edu (MacroMan)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.apps
Subject: Terminal Emulator with HPFS support needed
Date: 24 Jul 1992 16:27:10 -0500
Organization: Kansas State University
NNTP-Posting-Host: matt.ksu.ksu.edu

  I need a communications program that will download YModem Batch
and supports long filenames with multiple periods.  Is this
possible under HPFS?  If so, does anyone know of a program 
that will support such a transfer?
  Thanks much,
-- 
  Bruce White(bewhite@matt.ksu.ksu.edu)
  "I live like I type - Fast, and with a lot of mistakes"
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.apps
From: parry@yoyo.cc.monash.edu.au (Tom J Parry)
Subject: Re: 32bit Shareware backup program.
Originator: parry@yoyo.cc.monash.edu.au
Organization: Monash University, Melb., Australia.
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1992 06:04:43 GMT

dic5340@hertz.njit.edu (David Charlap) writes:
: >I have the problem of transporting my work to and from uni. I have OS/2 
: >running at both locations, but my programming/working environment are
: >constantly changing. What I need is a utility which (at the end of the day)
: >will update a set of disks which I can take home/to uni. Obviously to save
: >time only those files which have been updated which be backed-up / restored,
: >but all files should exist in the set in their latest revision.
: >I think the Shareware idea is good - the author of such a package can
: >almost certainly count on a contribution from myself.
: 
: If all the files are in one place, you can always use the XCOPY
: command with the "/m" parameter.  This parameter will copy only files
: which have their "archive" bit set, and will then clear the archive
: bit.  For those who don't know, both FAT and HPFS have an "archive"
: bit for each file which is automaticly set when the file is written
: to. 

I should clarify that my "programming/working" environment involves several
directories on several partitions (my /include and /lib on c:,
my work in various directories on e:). I've tried the simple XCOPY / lharc /
zip / zoo mathods, none of which is satisfactory.

-- 
Tom J Parry.
Your reality is a figment of my imagination.
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From: dstrawsburg@jabba (DON.... EXT.5955)
Subject: Quicken 5.0 and OS/2
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41    
Organization: Hughes Network Systems, Inc.
Distribution: comp
Date: Tue, 28 Jul 1992 20:58:00 GMT

Hey all,

Here the problem, I am running OS/2 2.0 on a no-name 386DX-33mhz, 8meg ram
210 meg HD, SVGA. I've loaded the latest kernal, comm.sys, and osldr. I do 
electronic checking using Quicken 5.0.  I have a Zoom 9600 fax/2400 modem 
card installed as com3, irq 5, 3E8 base address.  I've modified the 
config.sys, device=c:\os2\comm.sys (3, 3E8, 5) same with the vcomm.sys.
When I start Quicken and set it up for com3, it chokes, won't transfer my 
checks, give me the message about a dead modem or bad setup or some shit.
Quicken has no settings for the IRQ so I assume it's pounding away at the 
standard IRQ 4. Brain Dead software...Sorry! But I was hoping that OS/2 
would send that com3 request to the right interrupt and base address.

Anyone have a clue or past experience with this?
I not going to dump OS/2 for WinDoze or anything like that, didn't work in 
Windows 3.0 either.
If anyone as a clue let me know..my next step is to call Intuit and ask the 
about the interrupt and why it isn't selectable.

Thanks,

Don Strawsburg


Go OS/2 2.0!!!!
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From: orville%weyrich@tnet.com (Orville R. Weyrich)
Subject: Re: Where's Borland?
Reply-To: tnet.com!weyrich!orville
Organization: Weyrich Computer Consulting
Date: Mon, 27 Jul 92 03:35:48 GMT

In article <62816@cup.portal.com> TomK@cup.portal.com (Tom R Krotchko) writes:
>I wonder if Borland will sell us the OS/2 version of their C++ compiler
>cheaply as an upgrade from the Windows version? Say, $50? Am I dreaming?

I have wondered the same thing; I suspect that the upgrade will cost at least
$200; if I thought it would be only $50 I would rush out and buy BC++ 3.1
right away; but I don't have budget for two BC++ compilers at $200 a pop.

Is there anyone else with an opinion on what Borland's pricing will be?
Borland -- if you are listening, you might improve your cash flow by
announcing a reasonable upgrade price from BC++ 3.1 for windows to OS/2 2.0.


orville

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From: young@eniac.seas.upenn.edu (Shin Young)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.apps
Subject: Can you run DataEast games under OS/2?
Date: 23 Jul 92 16:48:27 GMT
Distribution: na
Organization: University of Pennsylvania


has anyone been successful with games from DataEast.
specifically, i have

	Bo Jackson Baseball
	Boxing (wide world of sports)

the symptoms are:
	slow file loading
	slow action
	sound sometimes disappears/converts from SoundBlaster to PC

i have tried the settings recommended by the GameInfoFile...
i have a 386-33, Soundblaster at IRQ5

thanks for any help

young
young@eniac.seas.upenn.edu
From: RHS@garnet.berkeley.edu (Richard Stanton)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.apps
Subject: How to get PCTools PCFORMAT to work?
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1992 21:36:46 GMT
Organization: Haas School of Business, U.C. Berkeley
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: connor.berkeley.edu

When I try PCFORMAT, it checks the disk (taking a very long time), then
tells me "fatal error - Wrong DOS version". I've tried playing with the
DOS settings, but to no avail.

Has anyone got this working (versiob 7.1, by the way)

Richard Stanton
From: shyguy@ocf.berkeley.edu (David S. Shy)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.apps
Subject: OS/2 and Stacker
Date: 23 Jul 1992 05:07:08 GMT
Organization: U.C. Berkeley Open Computing Facility
NNTP-Posting-Host: sandstorm.berkeley.edu

Does anyone know if OS/2 will work under Stacker, the on-the-
fly-compression program?  If not, are there any such programs
that OS/2 will work with?

David Shy
shyguy@ocf.berkeley.edu
From: jhrv@ellis.uchicago.edu (John M. Kim)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.apps
Subject: Re: Less177 problem fixed, bug?
Date: 21 Jul 92 18:19:49 GMT
Reply-To: jhrv@midway.uchicago.edu
Organization: Center for Population Economics

In article <1992Jul20.063338.3385@leland.Stanford.EDU> heinrich@leland.Stanford.EDU (Mark Andrew Heinrich) writes:
>Well, I figured out my "problem" with LESS from less177.zoo.  I was using
>the environment variable LESSTERM instead of TERM because another
>application was using TERM.  This should work fine, but it doesn't.  When
>I put set LESSTERM=ansi-color-2 in my config.sys and re-booted and then
>tried to run LESS, I still received the SYS3175 error (program cannot run).
>Typing SET revealed that LESSTERM was indeed set correctly.  BUT, if I
>manually typed set LESSTERM=ansi-color-2 right then and there, LESS ran
>without a hitch!  Since I did not want to manually type this every time
>I set the TERM variable and made my other app work with LESS's TERM.
>
>This seems to be a problem with less, albeit one that can be overcome.

Mark,

I can't duplicate your problem here (I tried it on several machines
with different configurations).  It sounds more like a problem with
your system configuration than with less, since you say it does work
if you set LESSTERM manually from the command line.

You know what, I'll bet you that your config.sys says 
"set LESSTERM =ansi-color-2" or "set LESSTERM= ansi-color-2",
             ^^                              ^^
rather than "set LESSTERM=ansi-color-2".  This sensistivity of
the set command to blanks before or after the "=" is a well-known
"feature" of DOS that seems to have carried over to OS/2.  (I tried 
"set LESSTERM= ansi-color-2" in my config.sys and got exactly the
             ^^
same error: SYS3715.  If your config.sys is set up this way, it's 
a "bug" in your config.sys, rather than in less.  If not, as a last 
resort check if the line in your config.sys has any trailing blanks,
though I'm not sure if that matters.)

John
From: kslater@sps.pgh.pa.us (Kevin J. Slater)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.apps
Subject: Re: AutoCad for OS2 available ???
Date: 23 Jul 92 13:24:26 GMT
Organization: SPS ACAD BBS, (412) 487-3637

x91clifton1@gw.wmich.edu writes:

> In article <kg=mphk.jps@netcom.com>, jps@netcom.com (John Serafin) writes:
> 
> > Does AutoCad 10.0 run under OS/2?   I can't get it to work at work.
> 
> Yes although v11 will *not* and I heard v12 may/may not. I created a 
> program object, spent some time fine tuning the settings (plus the
> settings for my display list ADI driver), created an icon, and now I
> just double click on the sucker and I'm in AutoCAD.
> 
> Mail a message to: 99clifto@lab.cc.wmich.edu and I'll send you the
> details if you are intereseted.
> 
> /Doug


the 286 version of R11 does work under OS/2. Quite well in fact. You lose 
the ability to run ADS stuff (which includes the mini-AME thingy).

...Kevin

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From: bab@se39.wg2.waii.com (Brian Button)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.apps
Subject: Getting 1600 CPS w/ Procomm+ ?
Date: 30 Jul 92 18:17:30 GMT
Organization: Western Geophysical Exploration Products

I know this subject has been beaten into the ground, but I'd like to
ask one more question about using a 16550AFN to get transfer rates up
around 1600 CPS. This is not specifically an OS2 question, but I am
running Procomm under OS/2, so it does qualify, kind of.

I currently have a line at the bottom of my config.sys file which sets
up COM1 at 19.2kB, turns on the appropriate things, and prints out a
message saying "Asynchronous communications mode has been set" or
something to that end.  The modem is a USR Courier HST DS, which I
have set up to use hardware handshaking, selective compression (&k3 I
think), and I've set the baud rate between the port and the modem
fixed at 19.2kB. Inside Procomm, I set the baud rate to 19.2kB, set
the rest of the parameters for a number, and make a call.

Here's where the problem happens. Regardless of the fact that I set
the DCE/DTE baud rate fixed at 19.2, the port is set to the connect
baud rate for the call. This means that if I connect to a modem at
9600, I only get about 960CPS transfer rate.

What am I doing wrong? I think I've given enough information, but if I
left something out, let me know.

Also, I'm usually trying to download stuff from work using sz and sb
from a Sun SPARC2. Text transfers work fine at about 960CPS, but
binary ones only creep along at about 600CPS. Any suggestions for
this?????

Thanks for any help.

bab
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From: lclarke@zodiac.rutgers.edu
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.apps
Subject: Re: STATA under OS/2
Date: 25 Jul 92 11:28:05 GMT
Organization: Rutgers University Computing Services

In article <13362@pucc.Princeton.EDU>, RIMILLER@pucc.Princeton.EDU (Ronald I. Miller) writes:
> Has anyone out there successfully run the statistical package STATA under
> OS/2?  When I try to run it in a DOS window I get an "allocation error".
> None of my OS/2 docs have anything to say about what one might do for this.
> The people on IBM's helpline have never heard of the program.  I tried
> fiddling with some of the DOS memory settings but I don't have such a
> clear idea as to what these actually do.  Thanks a bunch.

I'm using Stata v. 2.05 and it runs like a dream. Why not call STATA?
They're quite good. Or, do "open, settings, session, dos settings".
Then click on dos_version and at the bottom of the list enter
"stata.exe,5,0,255" without the quotes of course. The docs say somewhere
that you should use this option--which tells OS/2 that when stata.exe 
boots up it should emulate dos 5.0, and to tell stata dos 5.0 is running
no matter how many times it asks (I think this is the logic)---only when
you need to tell a program another version of dos is running. IE, the docs
say 5.0 is always perfectly emulated. But not true: I have a dictionary
program that was garbage until I tried this.
From: zorrilla@cattell.psych.upenn.edu (Eric Zorrilla)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.apps
Subject: [Bibliography Tool?]
Date: 22 Jul 92 02:40:19 GMT
Organization: University of Pennsylvania

Hello all!

	Does anyone know of a bibliography tool program (similar to EndNote,
for example) that has been developed for OS/2.  It could be either Share-
ware or Commercial.  I'd love to hear about any that you know of (as long
as they are not 1.x specific)....

	Ideally, it would allow importing of downloaded information from
MedLine, PsychInfo, etc. with no user sweat, would allow a number of different
bibliographic formats to be output, would have a large space for abstracts, 
etc. etc.

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| University of Pennsylvania           | 3815 Walnut, Philadelphia, PA 19104  |
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From: bjorh1+@pitt.edu (Reidar Bjorhovde)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.apps
Subject: Please TRIM your followups.
Date: 21 Jul 92 20:14:36 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: University of Pittsburgh

Please, PLEASE, trim your citations when you are following up an
article!!!!!   Lately, the discussion of backup software has been
notoriously BAD for not trimming the previous posts (i.e. #4349)

The subject line is usually enough for most of us to remeber what is
going on with a particular subject, so come on!!



-- 
Ian D. Bjorhovde
bjorh1+@pitt.edu
Department of Materials Science & Engineering
University of Pittsburgh
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.apps
From: sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu (Timothy F. Sipples)
Subject: Re: Borland C++ 3.1
Reply-To: sip1@midway.uchicago.edu
Organization: Dept. of Econ., Univ. of Chicago
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1992 20:51:00 GMT

In article <29JUL199216185150@lims01.lerc.nasa.gov> scdorcy@lims01.lerc.nasa.gov (JAMES DORCEY) writes:
>>(3)  Wait until September for the Win-OS/2 3.1 update.
>Hey Tim - where'd you get the date from?  Is it official?

Semi-official, anyway.  This date was specified in the "plans" IBM has
released in letter form.  You can obtain this file from
ftp-os2.nmsu.edu.

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From: ray@hrtpc.cmhnet.org (Ray Thornton)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.apps
Subject: Re: 32bit Shareware backup program.
Date: Fri, 24 Jul 92 11:31:04 EDT
Organization: P.W. Publishing Company, Columbus, Ohio USA

kbass@gmuvax2.gmu.edu (Ken Bass) writes:

> To be honest, unless it is a Tape Backup program that supports shitty
> QIC-80, it would be worthless to me. I suspect that under OS/2, since so
> much diskspace is required, and people are running on higher end
> machines, no one in there right mind is going to back 200 megs onto
> floppies.

I have a Toshiba 5200 luggable. Once you get one of these beasties, there's
little else you can afford for a while. I wouldn't mind backing up my 100 Meg
hard drive to floppy until I can afford groceries and an external tape drive.

Guess I only have half of a right mind since it is only 100 Megs  #8>]
-ray
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From: steveha@microsoft.com (Steve Hastings)
Subject: Re: Can IBM write code?
Date: 24 Jul 92 18:23:53 GMT
Organization: Microsoft Applications Division

In article <1992Jul23.012406.10938@ccu.umanitoba.ca> jjs@ubitrex.mb.ca (John Joseph Strybosch) writes:
>I was told, by my Microsoft rep, when I lived in Edmonton, and
>MS had just released MSDOS 4.00, that IBMDOS 4.00 was not the
>same thing as MSDOS 4.00.  He claimed that IBM had gone off and
>made a whole bunch of changes to DOS and released their own
>dos 4.00.  This jives with what my IBM rep said at the same time.

IBM developed DOS 4.0, and both IBM and MS sold it.


>Apparently Microsoft had to reverse engineer these differences and 
>doing so introduced a bunch of bugs that were not there in IBM's
>version.  SOOO MS had to release a set of bug fixes and called
>it MSDOS 4.01.  This was from one of those trash comp. mags.

This is completely erroneous.  Product development for DOS 4.00 was all
done by IBM; then MS did some bug fixes.  MS called the bug-fixed version
"DOS 4.01", and IBM called it "DOS 4.0" which earned them some flames from
magazines, users, etc. who were upset that it was hard to tell whether
they were buying the bug-fixed version or the buggy one.

This was all long before I went to work at MS; I remember reading
editorials saying that it was probably a good thing IBM had taken over the
DOS development -- they thought it was too unwieldy for both MS and IBM to
work on a product together (and OS/2 certainly showed this to be true).


>This could explain two things: why IBM was first to the market with
>version 4.0 and why MS alone had to release a bug fixed version:
>MSDOS 4.01

To repeat, IBM and MS shipped the same product.  After the bug fix, both
companies shipped the same product, but only MS identified the bug fix
with a version number change.


>Obligatory OS/2: whatever happened it is obvious that when it comes
>to DOS, IBM does know their stuff... they certainly indicate this
>knowledge in MDOS-OS/2.

Sorry, this doesn't parse: MDOS-OS/2?  If you are talking about the MVDM
code, MS wrote that.  It is probable that IBM modified it later, so parts
of it are probably IBM code.
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