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From: dic5340@hertz.njit.edu (David Charlap)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: LOADHIGH: How does it work in OS/2 (simulated DOS) ?
Date: 22 Dec 92 16:43:05 GMT
Organization: New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, N.J.

In article <1992Dec20.035112.28900@midway.uchicago.edu> pynq@midway.uchicago.edu writes:
>True.  WHat is particularly annoying is the inability to get LOADHIGH to
>tell you what is currently loaded high.  You can it from "MEM /P", though.
>
>Anyway, three other interesting things I've noticed:
>	1) My default CONFIG.SYS contained the line: DOS=LOW,NOUMB
>	   I changed this to DOS=HIGH,UMB, but it seemed to make no
>	   difference in my DOS sessions.  I guess it must only be
>	   parsed at OS/2 boot time.  (Weird!).  Anyway, I haven't tried
>	   rebooting to test this theory.

CONFIG.SYS is only read once per bootup.  The DOS boxes don't read it,
they only use the DOS settings.  The default settings are determined
by the CONFIG.SYS, and aren't changed without a reboot.

>	2) I then turned the DOS_HIGH and DOS_UMB switches in the DOS
>	   window notebook on, and that seemed to do the trick.
>	   However, I now get a funny looking MAPMEM, as shown below.
>	   Any idea why?

MapMem doesn't know how to handle OS/2's DOS boxes.  Neither does
PMAP, or any other memory mapper I know of.  They all read DOS's "list
of lists" to get the handle to the first memory block, after which,
they walk the chain of blocks.  Well, OS/2's DOS boxes don't have a
"list of lists" - the information is only accessible through hooks
into OS/2 - which is how MEM and the DOS boxes work.  If you create
UMB's in a specific DOS session (with /OS2/MDOS/HIMEM.SYS) then you'll
find MapMem to work correctly there.

>	3) Finally, for some reason, QD refuses to be loaded high.  (I
>	   have to load it low).  Needless to say, this has never been a
>	   problem with QEMM's LOADHI.  As I noted in another post, it
>	   complains that it is already installed and refuses to
>	   install (when attempted to be loaded high).

I've noticed this.  Under DOS 5.0, VSHIELD wouldn't load high due to
lack of free UMB space.  Under OS/2, VSHIELD generates an "impossible
internal error" when I attempt to load it high.
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From: ak@ananke.stgt.sub.org (Andreas Kaiser)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Selective Install Problem 
Distribution: world
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 92 07:28:02 GMT
Organization: ananke


In article <qaTVVB1w165w@tosspot.sv.com> lee@tosspot.sv.com writes:

  > Just changed mice on my system from a Logitech Mouseman Bus mouse to
  > a Logitech Mouseman Serial mouse.  Did the slsective install.
  > 
  > Of course, it didn't work. Now I get the line about the config.sys file
  > appearing when I boot and no mouse control.

When I changed in the opposite direction, from serial to inport mouse,
I got a similar effect. OS/2 worked well, except that the inport mouse
wasn't recognized.

Well, the driver actually was the same for both mice and the serial
mouse (which was still connected at that time) got priority over the
inport mouse. I just had to remove the serial mouse.

This happened some time ago, maybe IBM reversed the presence checks in
the meantime :-)
 
		Gruss, Andreas
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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc,comp.os.os2.advocacy
From: jmalloy@itsmail1.hamilton.edu (Joseph T. Malloy)
Subject: Re: Future of OS/2 and IBM????????????
Organization: Hamilton College - Clinton, NY
Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1992 01:37:24 GMT

In article <1992Dec22.174533.894@spang.Camosun.BC.CA> dbarker@spang.Camosun.BC.CA (Deryk Barker) writes:
>mgrice@athena.mit.edu (Matthew Grice) writes:
>[....]
>: 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.
>
>Off topic, but I've been sick of Pournelle, his goddamn libertarian
>politics, his wife and her goddamn reading tutor, his son's computer
>repair business and his other son's HP Poqet wqith which he apparently
>runs the US Navy, for months.{
>
>--
>Real:  Deryk Barker, Computer Science Dept., Camosun College, Victoria B.C.
>Email: (dbarker@spang.camosun.bc.ca)
>Phone: +1 604 370 4452

I am in agreement, though my distaste stretches over years...

jmalloy@hamilton.edu

Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: shwhang@rose.handy.co.kr (Whang)
Subject: Help! Noisy secondary monitor.
Organization: HandySoft Institute of Technology, HandySoft Corp.
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL3
Date: Tue, 29 Dec 92 13:30:26 GMT

Hi there.

I installed GA+SP to my system and it works fine.
But I have a problem for secondary monitor.
I installed 32bit Graphic Engine for my ET4000 video card made in Korea
(Brand name is Optima). It works fine too. But whenever I open full screen
DOS Box, My secondary monochrome monitor generates high pitch noise.
Is there anybody who experienced this problem?.

	please tell me the cause or the solution for this problem.

	thanks.
	jhlee@rose.handy.co.kr

P.S.
	My secondary video card is Hercules compatible one.
From: nyet@cco.caltech.edu (n liu)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: OS/2 and Logitech mice?
Date: 31 Dec 1992 04:48:41 GMT
Organization: California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
NNTP-Posting-Host: punisher.caltech.edu

I have a Logitech 3-button serial mouse (version c7) and no real
complaints... except that after booting msdos I have to cycle the
power to make the mouse work under os/2 (reset and c-a-del render the
mouse ineffective) This only occurs if I have the logitech driver
loaded during the dos boot session. The SP did not fix this, I didn't
bother notifying IBM (apathy ... ;-) Anybody else notice this?

Might this have something to do with the default MS mode that has to
be used since os/2 doesn't have logitech drivers?

Come to think of it, maybe I should consider experimenting with
a MS mouse.sys driver under a dos boot and see what happens..

Nye
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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: baloo@nx01.mik.uky.edu (kevin s coupal)
Subject: Looking for OS/2 anon. ftp site
Organization: University Of Kentucky, Dept. of Math Sciences
X-Path: nx01.mik.uky.edu!baloo
Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1992 17:10:42 GMT

I'm looking for a large os2 ftp site for os2 shareware and stuff.  Maintly
what I'm looking for is some os2 sound players and pic viewers.  I am
using the software that came with my soundblaster and the sound keeps
getting interupted.  Is there no way to fix that?  I was hoping new software
might.  Any clues?
Kevin Coupal
baloo@mik.uky.edu

Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: baloo@nx01.mik.uky.edu (kevin s coupal)
Subject: BBS program locks up entire system!  Help
Organization: University Of Kentucky, Dept. of Math Sciences
X-Path: nx01.mik.uky.edu!baloo
Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 08:17:19 GMT

I'm using remote access bbs software and when the user goes into the file
area and selects the file list, the screen goes out and up comes an error
screen.  It sais something about an internal processor error and to report
the location to my representative.  Here is the location number

##0160:fff6453f-000d:a53f.  60000,9084

Anyone ever have this type of lock up before?  This number does me no
good at telling me what is causing the lockup, why can't they simply
put error messages in english?  Also, how do i get in touch with an 
os/2 customer service rep?  There is no support numbers anywhere in the
box os/2 came in.  Big help there IBM

Please help

Kevin Coupal
Baloo@mik.uky.edu
:w!
From: davisar@memstvx1.memst.edu
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: ADAPTEC 1542B INSTALL QUESTIONS
Date: 29 Dec 92 16:40:17 -0600
Organization: Memphis State University

System:Toshiba386/20 100mb Conner IDE HD;387-20copro,Adaptec 1542,
Syquest SQ5110 OS2/2.0 & Linux installed. SQ5110 internally
terminated. Enclosed disk formatted.Desire to boot from internal
now;external in future; with multiple partitions on both drives.
Review of the Adaptec AHA-1542b as setup:

J5: synchronous negotiation   disabled       other setups
    scsi parity               enabled
    scsi address              7
    DMA Channel               5
    interrupt channel         11
    DMA transfer speed        5.0 (5.7?)
J6: BIOS                      enabled         tried disabled
    Auto Sense                enabled         tried disabled
J7: AT I/O Address            330H
    BIOS Wait State           0,disabled
    AT BIOS Address           CD000H,Enabled
J8: (all jumpers removed)     disabled
J9: DMA Request               5
    DMA Acknowledge           5
    INT Request               11

Above is AHA-1542B as shipped. Exceptions: 
 J8: shipped as [floppy enabled: DMA 2 REQ: DMA 2 ACK: INT 10].
 J5: DMA transfer speed shipped set to 5.0;  not the stated 5.7.

SQ5110: I changed the ID on SQ5110 from 6 to 0 using a button on
the rear;instructions indicate changes are made using jumpers.

Tried enabling J7: Floppy Secondary address.
Reviewed the  toshiba technical reference manual. Nothing.

In my C:\OS2 directory, I have found these files:
OS2DASD.DMD  OS2SCSI.DMD   IBM1FLPY.ADD  IBM1S506.ADD

In config.sys file I have found these basedev:
=PRINT01.SYS  =IBM1FLPY.ADD  =IBM1S506.ADD    =OS2DASD.DMD

Adaptec literature mentions two things I have not found:
(1) AHA154x.add.  (2) a basedev line in config.sys using (1).

Q#1: Has anyone sayed that Toshiba 5200 controllers require bus
mastering be disabled? Q#2: Can you see any solutions?
//davisar@msuvx1.memst.edu//
From: lance@lancea.actrix.gen.nz (Lance Andrewes)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: The system crashes when I move icons
Distribution: world
Date: Fri, 01 Jan 93 17:25:27 GMT
Organization: none
Keywords: icon crash bug

Since installing the SP, my system has become less stable.  The
most common cause of lock-up is when I move an icon on the desktop.

It doesn't always happen, but often enough to be a problem.  Sometimes
I can barely move an icon, other times I manage to move it across the
screen.  When this has happened, I've waited up to 10 minutes for
something to happen.  I am unable to bring up the Window List.  Hitting
the RESET button is the only fix.

Once the system has rebooted, the icon is sometimes in its original
position.  Other times it is in an unexpected position.

I have a 20MHz 386SX, AMI BIOS, 210MB IDE drive, 8MB RAM, Swan
SVGA card (1MB), 800x600x256 drivers (from the SP).

Does anyone else have this problem?  Thanks.
__
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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: 2 * IDE + SCSI under OS/2 2.0
From: sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu (Timothy F. Sipples)
Date: Fri, 1 Jan 1993 19:08:05 GMT
Reply-To: sip1@midway.uchicago.edu
Organization: Dept. of Econ., Univ. of Chicago

In article <1992Dec19.215353.15499@scorch.apana.org.au> lukpla@scorch.apana.org.au (Luke Plaizier) writes:
>	I am having this strange trouble with OS/2 with a new
>installation. The site consists of a small 386 with both bios
>supported drives occupied by an IDE pair. An adaptec 1510 -
>non boot bios and no fdd support - is used to run the main 300m SCSI
>drive.
>	Trouble is, the OS/2 installation didn't pick the SCSI
>card or drives on installation or in final operation.
>	Is this due to the fact that both bios drives are
>occupied, or is something wrong with the OS/2 AHA152X.ADD
>device driver????

The installation program may simply have been unable to detect the
Adaptec 1510.  You can add the necessary drivers manually to your
CONFIG.SYS if you wish.  Get ahold of the latest Adaptec drivers
(available via anonymous ftp from ftp-os2.nmsu.edu -- check the file
/pub/os2/00Index for location), then follow the instructions included.

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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: Need util to allow .EXE to run in a window
From: cvetp036@vmsb.is.csupomona.edu
Date: 29 Dec 92 20:07:54 PST
Organization: California State Polytechnic University, Pomona
Nntp-Posting-User: cvetp036

> There is a program shiped with OS/2 Toolkit called WINABLE.EXE which will
> make a full-screen exe winable. Remember, if the exe uses special VIO calls,
> WINABLE won't work.
> 
> Harry Hsiao

Is this WINABLE.EXE file ftp'able?

I hate it when I run the PKZIP OS/2 version and it goes into full screen.
I'm using Info-ZIP but I hate it when it can do wildcards like unzip foo*.*

And it seems to me that Info-ZIP is slower than PKZIP.

I just need something to prevent PKZIP to go into a full screen every time I
execute it.
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu (Timothy F. Sipples)
Subject: Re: Looking for file date toucher, better icon editor programs
Reply-To: sip1@midway.uchicago.edu
Organization: Dept. of Econ., Univ. of Chicago
Date: Sun, 3 Jan 1993 22:40:45 GMT

In article <baloo.725789226@mik.uky.edu> baloo@nx01.mik.uky.edu (kevin s coupal) writes:
>I'm looking for some shareware programs for icon editing that is better 
>than the one that comes with os/2.  I would like one where you can get a
>screen full of what the icons look like and select one to edit, delete
>move around etc.

I believe I sent such a utility to ftp-os2.nmsu.edu.  Unfortunately,
the index file doesn't have the descriptions listed yet.  Get ahold of
these four files:

/pub/os2/2.0/graphics/icons/icon135.zip
                            icon_160.zip
                            icons2.zip
                            iconsvx.zip

One of them should be the utility you are looking for.  How's that for
specificity?  :-)

If one of those doesn't fit the bill, check the OS/2 Shareware BBS
(703-365-4325).  Run a keyword search with "icon" on their file
archives, and see what you can find.

>Also looking for a file to touch the file dates of files.  I have touch.com
>for dos but it won't work in os/2 for some reason.      

Just in quick search, on the same BBS (703-365-4325) I've found
touch.zip, touch2.zip, and toucha.zip.  If you do find something on
the OS/2 Shareware BBS that isn't on ftp-os2.nmsu.edu, please send it
to that site.  Just place it in /pub/uploads.

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From: haen@veces.stgt.sub.org (Herbert Neugebauer)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: IRQ2 in OS/2
Date: Sat, 26 Dec 92 22:00:48 GMT
Organization: TRN Porting Labs

In article <oq6cwB1w165w@tcscs.UUCP> zeta%tcscs@src.honeywell.com 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.
>
>Thanks
>Greg

As far as I know, IRQ2 is used for chaining the interrupt
controllers in the ISA-PC architecture. So really free interrupts
are very rare. I think 10 and 11 are "free" on some machines
(I hope your serial port extension is a 16 Bit card),
or the interrupt of LPT2, if it is not installed.

So long

   Herbert

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From: gkushmer@jade.tufts.edu (Greg Kushmerek)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: TE/2 and Emacs - Problem
Date: 31 Dec 92 13:24:39 GMT
Distribution: comp
Organization: Roger Mellie Enterprises, PLC

I'm a "registered" user of TE/2, but my paid version and manuals have not
come in yet (so forgive me if this is hashed out there).

When the first round of Trident 32 bit drivers came out, I was one of
those who had his system hang up on him.  This forced me to do a full
re-installation (GA+SP).  Prior to that, I was using the first shareware
version of TE/2 that came out - the one with the problem COMMPAK.DLL

Emacs worked fine with the 'old' shareware version, but when I had to do
the re-installation, I only had a copy of the 'new' shareware version
with different colors and the new COMMPAK.DLL.  Now Emacs acts buggy.  If
I scroll backwards on a line with either arrow keys or C-b, then characters
on the screen disappear.  

I can get them back easily enough, but that requires me to do a C-l (screen
refresh).  Something changed between my old setup and my new setup.  It
could be a modem setting, it could be new to TE/2.  Either way, if anyone
knows the secret to stop this from happening, I would appreciate your
help.

Cheers,

--gk

Greg Kushmerek
From: jks4675@ritvax.isc.rit.edu
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Num Lock???
Date: 30 Dec 92 18:29:54 GMT
Reply-To: jks4675@ritvax.isc.rit.edu
Organization: Rochester Institute of Technology

Why the #$%@ does OS/2 turn off my numlock key when it boots up??
My BIOS (AMI) is set to turn it on.

Help, this is driving me nuts....


Jeff
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: Trident 32 bit 1024x768x256 slower than 16 color 16 bit
From: sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu (Timothy F. Sipples)
Date: Fri, 1 Jan 1993 18:49:19 GMT
Reply-To: sip1@midway.uchicago.edu
Organization: Dept. of Econ., Univ. of Chicago

In article <1992Dec17.025012.2280@sbcs.sunysb.edu> kskapin@csws3.ic.sunysb.edu (Keith T Skapinski) writes:
>With all the talk I've seen about the new Trident 32 bit 1024x768x256 drivers
>I decided to give them a try. I noticed that they are significantly slower than
>my old 16 bit 1024x768x16 drivers. Is this correct?
>Since speed is more of a factor than number of colors for me at this point, I
>went back to the old ones. Now I have my transparent tabs in the setting back.
>I was starting to miss them :) 
>I also saw alot of talk about "Joel's Generic SVGA drivers". Do these go up
>to 1024x768 or just 800x600? Seemless windows? etc? I would really like fast
>32 bit 1024x768x16 drivers which support seemless Windows.

The market seems to be color-crazy at the moment, and it seems that
that is the reason that IBM has focused on the 256 color drivers
first.  (Yes, we all know it imposes a significant speed penalty in
text windows, although there are some steps that can be taken to
alleviate the problem.)

However, I expect you'll see Trident step in with some 16-color
alternatives if IBM doesn't do it first.  Feel free to voice your
opinion on this -- Trident does seem to be reasonably responsive.

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From: h198@hosp.med.umich.edu  (Gene Mangum)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: SoundBlaster and OS/2 2.1 beta's MMPM/2
Date: Sat, 02 Jan 1993  16:01 EDT
Organization: Univ of Michigan Hospitals
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: kestrel.hosp.med.umich.edu
X-Newsreader: FTPNuz (DOS) v1.0

In Article <1993Jan2.190505.1368@actrix.gen.nz> "Steve.Withers@bbs.actrix.gen.nz" says:
> In article <19930102093916.h198@hosp.med.umich.edu> h198@hosp.med.umich.edu  (Gene Mangum) writes:
> > In Article <1993Jan2.075120.5123@actrix.gen.nz> "Steve.Withers@bbs.actrix.gen.nz" says:
 
  [Stuff Deleted]
 
> 
> Hmmmm......what is "OS2MMPM.ZIP" and where did you get it? I have been using
> the SB drivers that came with the 2.1 beta - OR - the SBMMPM2.ZIP that I have
> downloaded (Twice....*groan*) from the Creative Labs BBS.
 
  [Stuff Deleted]
 
> Maybe this OS2MMPM.ZIP is the answer.......
> 
> I await your reply.....:-)
>  
  
  [.sig Deleted]
 
  Sorry to get your hopes up.   I had forgotten that you'd tried the
  earlier drivers.   The file I got (OS2MMPM.ZIP) was one of 3 names under
  which the same Sept drivers were on hobbes.
 
  I guess the only hope at this point is to report the problem to IBM.
  They *should* want this to work since it'll be part of the base OS and
  consequently, get alot of exposure.   I don't know if you have access
  to IBMLink, but I'll try to remember to check/ask there.
 
  In the meantime, could you go back to the PDK MMPM/2?   There doesn't
  appear to be anything new that I can tell, except some of the screen
  handling problems have been cleaned up...
 

  Gene Mangum
  Univ of Michigan Hospitals
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: steck@ccs.northeastern.edu (Paul Steckler)
Subject: Re: avga and co-processor
Keywords: avga co-processor
Organization: College of CS, Northeastern U
Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1993 02:59:57 GMT

In article <1993Jan3.225612.1990@midway.uchicago.edu> sip1@midway.uchicago.edu writes:
>In article <1993Jan3.153105.21121@netcom.com> debby@netcom.com (Debby Hungerford) writes:
>> 2 problems. 1) I need a 256 color driver for my avga video card. 2) If
>>I add a math-coprocessor, do I need to re-install os2?
>
>1) I assume that was a typo, and you meant SVGA video adapter.  What
>SuperVGA adapter do you have?

There IS a super-VGA card called the AVGA.  These use a Cirrus Logic
chipset (also known as AcuMOS), and are available as no-name clone
cards.  I own a United Solutions 1024/WA card; the Win3 driver and the
generic installation pamphlet say AVGA.  It works great under
Windows -- very fast -- but to date there's no OS/2 2.0 driver (just
for 1.3).

-- Paul


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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: markr@cs.kun.nl (Mark Ruys)
Subject: emx and other questions
Summary: using emx.exe, start minimized/maximized and screensavers
Keywords: emx wps screensaver deskpic yowza
Organization: University of Nijmegen, The Netherlands
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 15:24:54 GMT

Is it possible to run programs build with the emx library (such as the GNU
utilities grep and diff) in a DOS box? When ever I try I get the message
DPMI not supported. I did put the emx.exe in my dos path. Also I tried
all DPMI settings (auto, enabled, disabled) with no avail.

Something else. I've put a shadow of the alarm applet in my startup folder.
But every time I boot, alarm is opened and put on the foreground. Is there
a way to start it minimized. To the opposite, I have an OS/2 box which
executes a mode co80,50. So every time I open this box, I have to maximize
it manualy to see the window totaly. Can I automize these procedures? I already
tried a shift - minimize/maximize with no luck.

Furthermore I tried the screensaver YowZa. When I load it, it has no icon,
but does appear in the ctrl-esc list. OK. As soon I double click on it, it
hangs my system! No OK. Another problem I have with DeskPic. After loading, all
icons on the desktop are vanished (probably covered by DescPic), and it does
not appear in the ctrl-esc list. With both screensavers I see no way to
configure them, nor to get rid of them (without killem). Anyone got these
work properly?

Mark Ruys.
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