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From: kitchin@lf.hp.com (Bruce Kitchin)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: Beta 2.1 in IBM-BBS
Date: 4 Jan 1993 16:22:18 GMT
Organization: Hewlett Packard Santa Clara Site
NNTP-Posting-Host: eden.avo.hp.com
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Timothy F. Sipples (sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu) wrote:
: 
: On the other hand, you can obtain it for $15 by calling 800-3-IBM-OS2.
: On CD-ROM, granted.  In the U.S., granted.  Also, the license
: accompanying this CD-ROM permits you to use the code for a limited
: time, and it permits you to distribute up to 10 copies "within your
: organization."  You may interpret the word "organization" broadly, I
: suppose.
: 
It hasn't been mentioned that I've seen yet, but with the CD-ROM, it is
possible to make floppies to use for installation on a system that does
not have a CD-ROM drive.  I've done it.  I made the disks on an OS/2 system,
both 3.5 and 5.25 disks can be made.  It looks like you can make the
disks from a DOS system with a CD-ROM drive but I haven't done that.  Making
disks was important to me since I have one system with a CD-ROM drive and
two others without.  From what I saw you can make disks of a different size
than your A drive if you have a B drive of that type.  This would help if
your non-CD-ROM system had a different drive A than your CD-ROM system.

Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: ghenniga@NMSU.Edu
Subject: OS/2 2.1 Bug.
Reply-To: ghenniga@NMSU.Edu
Organization: New Mexico State University - Electromagnetics Group
Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1993 21:57:27 GMT


	I'm having a major problem with the OS/2 2.1 beta. When I first
delete a file everything seems OK, however when I do an "undelete/l" I get
the following message:

	An error occurred while opening the control file.
	The error occured while attempting to open system control files
	in the temporary storage directory for the specified disk.

I've booted from floppy several times and wiped the whole \DELETE
subdirectory in hopes that it was just an outdated and/or corrupted
CONTROL.DEL file but that hasn't helped any. Things get even worse if I try
to delete a second file, the system traps out on me. This is on my D: drive
and I don't have UNDELETE enabled on any other drive. Here is the trap
information given on the dump screen:
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
TRAP 000d  ERRCD=0e50  ERACC=**** ERLIM=********
EAX=7d2b0104  EBX=00000482  ECX=ff080000 EDX=ffE20e50
ESI=7d190482  EDI=0000049C  EBP=00005e3a FLG=00012202
CS:EIP=0148:00000e24  CSACC=0096  CSLIM=0000854a
SS:ESP=0030:00005e30  SSACC=1097  SSLIM=00004f4f
DS=0400  DSACC=0093  DSLIM=000070c0 CR0=8001001b
ES=0158  ESACC=c093  ESLIM=ffffffff CR2=000c1004
FS=03b8  FSACC=0093  FSLIM=00000023
GS=0000  GSACC=****  GSLIM=********

The system detected an internal processing
error at location ##0160:fff60967 - 000d:9967.
60000,9084

048600b4

Internal revision 6.479, 92/12/09
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
(Here's the info from SYSLEVEL:)

C:\OS2\INSTALL\SYSLEVEL.GRE
IBM OS/2 32-bit Graphics Engine
Version 2.10     Component ID 562107701
Type 0
Current CSD level: XR02010
Prior   CSD level: XR02010

C:\OS2\INSTALL\SYSLEVEL.OS2
IBM OS/2 Base Operating System
Version 2.10     Component ID 562107701
Type 0
Current CSD level: XR02010
Prior   CSD level: XR02010
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
(Here's my system information:)

Generic clone (AT Bus) with Orchid 486/33 Superboard
Adaptec 1542B SCSI adapter
1 Maxtor 200MB SCSI hard drive partitioned as
		Startable	C: Primary	HPFS	45MB
		None		D: Logical	HPFS	146MB
---------------------------------------------------------------------------

I'd really appreciate it if someone could either send this directly to IBM
or post it on CompuServe for me in the OS2SUP forum!

Thanks in advance!
Gary Hennigan
---------
PhD Student, Computational Electromagnetics
New Mexico State University
email: ghenniga@NMSU.Edu
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: greve@rs1.thch.uni-bonn.de (Thomas Greve)
Subject: Re: pj06485 - fix for ALT-HOME legit?
Organization: University of Bonn, phys. Chemistry
Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 12:19:44 GMT

In article <3932@isgtec.isgtec.com> ted@isgtec.com (Ted Richards) writes:
>Jonathan Bruce Hacker (hacker@cco.caltech.edu) wrote:
>: There is a file on ftp-os2.nmsu.edu in /pub/uploads called
>: pj06485.zip.  This file contains new dll's that claim to fix the
>: broken ALT-HOME key in DOS sessions (APAR PJ06485) that was introduced
>: by the service pack. 
>
>It works.
But during shutdown, it displays some strange messages at the lower
left corner of the screen. (They disappeared so fast i couldn't read
them). This is not serious, but surprizing...
-- 
				- Thomas

   greve@rs1.thch.uni-bonn.de
   unt145@dbnrhrz1
From: brianw@macbeth.umd.edu (Brian Wiersema)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: To XGA-2 or not
Summary: The promise of video heaven
Date: 7 Jan 93 22:11:49 GMT
Organization: University of Maryland, College Park

In article <1993Jan07.161311.60766@watson.ibm.com> kaul@vnet.ibm.com writes:
>....
>Still, I have to say that I really like being able to change the resolution
>just by editing the file.  For example, you can do strange things like an
>800x600x64k color mode on an 8515 where the screen is just a block in the
>middle of the normal 1024x768 mode for those times when you want more colors
>but have a fixed frequency monitor.

Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: oneel@heawk1.gsfc.nasa.gov (oneel)
Subject: Re: Beta 2.1 in IBM-BBS
Organization: STX/GSFC Nasa
	<1993Jan1.233612.24408@midway.uchicago.edu>
	<1id0kjINNqgc@rave.larc.nasa.gov>
Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1993 14:12:34 GMT

In article <1id0kjINNqgc@rave.larc.nasa.gov> jcburt@gatsibm.larc.nasa.gov () writes:
   In article <1993Jan1.233612.24408@midway.uchicago.edu> sip1@midway.uchicago.edu writes:
   [...stuff deleted...]
   >
   >OS/2 2.1 beta is a complete, standalone, functional operating system.
   >It does not require any previous version in order to operate.  It

A bit deleted...

   But what about us poor schmucks who have OS/2 2.0 running on our machines,
   want to (*very* willing to!!!) run OS/2 2.1 BETA on our systems, BUT DON'T
   HAVE A CD-ROM DRIVE ???????

   John Burton
   jcburt@gatsibm.larc.nasa.gov


Here's how I do it.  I don't have a CD-ROM drive on an OS/2 system but
I do have one on a SPARC.

Mount the cd-rom in the sparc.

mount -r -t hsfs /dev/sr0 /cdrom

Use the unix cp command to copy all the .dsk files to the sparc disk.
Use the Info-ZIP ZIP to compress each .dsk file to it's own .zip file.
This is because some of the .dsk files don't seem to fit easily on a
1.44 meg floppy.

Write each .zip file to a dos formatted floppy using MTOOLS.

Sneakernet the floppies to the OS/2 system.

Read each .zip file onto the OS/2 system.
Unzip each .zip file to get .dsk files.

LOADDSKF each .dsk file back to floppies.

Volia, you have a set of diskettes.  Boot the OS/2 system off of the
diskette you wrote the installation disk image from.  This whole
procedure takes close to 8 hrs.  Most of the time is waiting for the
floppy drive on the OS/2 system.

The above procedure requires the minimum of a CD-ROM drive on some
system and some way of moving binary files from that system ot an OS/2
or DOS system.

Have fun....

bruce


--
Bruce O'Neel              oneel@heasfs.gsfc.nasa.gov
NASA/GSFC/STX/Code 664
From: wim@donar.GUN.de (Wim Echternach)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: UUPC 1.11q - UUPC 1.11v
Distribution: world
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 93 21:57:36 GMT
Organization: Private

Hello,

I have a question referring to the configuration of UUPC 1.11v.

I am using 1.11q and when I configure 1.11v in the same way, I received
an "unknown keyword rmail -- unknown keyword rnews in configuration file".
Both programms, rnews and rmail, are in the correct directory.

Please can someone e-mail his entries of rmail= and rnews= from the
uupc.rc file to me ?

Thanx.

Wim
--
wim@donar.GUN.de  -- Wim Echternach
Vossenackerstr.16 -- 4040 Neuss, Germany -- Voice: 049 / 2131 / 45128
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: hoppie@kub.nl (Jeroen Hoppenbrouwers)
Subject: Re: How do I set up Boot Manager correctly to access DOS Partitions?
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 93 15:09:04 GMT
Organization: Tilburg University, Tilburg, The Netherlands

In article <C0qCxB.4B9@news.cso.uiuc.edu>, jst50986@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Jack S. Tan) writes:
|> lyle@netcom.com (Lyle Fong) writes:
|> 
|> >I would like to be able to see my DOS partition from within OS/2 (HPFS)
|> >Currently, my partitions are set up so BOOTMANAGER is 1, OS/2 (PRIMARY)
|> >is 2, and DOS (also PRIMARY) is 3.. should they be set to LOGICAL drives
|> >instead of primary? etc.. any help appreciated..
|> 
|> Boot Manager is always a primary partition.  DOS also needs to be primary.
|> OS/2 should be logical in order to access the DOS partition.  (Only one
|> primary paritition may be active; if both DOS and OS/2 are primary, only
|> one accessed during any given boot.)  It would be better to put the DOS
|> partition right after the Boot Manager:  if the order is OS/2 and then DOS,
|> the OS/2 partition is C:, and the DOS partition is D: under OS/2.  When DOS
|> is booted, the DOS drive is C: (rather than D:, as under OS/2).  This could
|> be a big source of headaches, plus a lot of confusion in DOS batch files and
|> the DOS CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT.
|> 
|> I hope this helps.
|> 
|> -- 
|> 
|> Jack Tan                             If your parents didn't have kids,
|> jahk@uiuc.edu                          chances are you won't either.


And, VERY IMPORTANT: use the FDISK from within the installation procedure, not
directly from a prompt, because then the SetInstallable option won't work!


-- 
Jeroen Hoppenbrouwers, research engineer at     |  Stop connecting computers;
Infolab, Tilburg University, The Netherlands    |  start connecting people!
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: easton@zds-oem.zds.com (Jeff Easton)
Subject: Re: avga and co-processor
Organization: Zenith Data Systems, OEM Systems Engineering
Date: Mon, 04 Jan 1993 19:09:42 GMT
Keywords: avga co-processor

In article <1993Jan4.025957.3200@random.ccs.northeastern.edu> steck@ccs.northeastern.edu (Paul Steckler) writes:
>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).

  Call Cirrus.  They do have a OS/2 2.O driver in their GD542x display
drivers and utilities pack they give out to OEM's.  In this pack are
two drivers, 800x600 and 1024x768 16 colors though I think they are
non-seamless.

>| Paul Steckler                       |  Desperately seeking clever     |

-- 
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 (__  (__     Zenith Data Systems     j.easton@mi04.zds.com
 ___) ___)    Saint Joseph, Mich.     easton@andrews.edu
Monte Carlo   Z-LS/20 - Choice of a quiet generation
From: lmp8913@zeus.tamu.edu (PRESTON, LISA M)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: OS/2 won't free up memory!  Even when not in use.
Date: 6 Jan 1993 13:18 CST
Organization: Texas A&M University, Academic Computing Services
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: zeus.tamu.edu
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41    

In article <1993Jan6.051031.20678@midway.uchicago.edu>, sip1@midway.uchicago.edu writes...
->In article <baloo.726274300@mik.uky.edu> baloo@nx01.mik.uky.edu (kevin s coupal) writes:
->>When i'm in the settings option to find an icon, i have about 2000 icons to
->>choose from, after i choose my icon for the app the system starts dieing.
->>Apps quit responding to the system and i can't open any more windows.  
->>It tells me to close some windows to free up memory but that does no good.
->>What am i doing wrong?  I alwasy end up rebooting after selecing icons.
-> 
->This bug was apparently fixed with the Service Pak.  The Service Pak
->is available via anonymous ftp from ftp-os2.nmsu.edu.


	It didn't fix it on mine.  I open PSPM2 whenever I'm working with
large numbers of icons-that way when it finally starts giving me out of 
memory errors, I can kill pmshell to return it to normal.  It seems to run 
slower after this, so I usually save my data and reboot soon thereafter.

	Ctrl-Esc just doesn't cut it sometimes!!

LISA
From: friesend@jester.usask.ca (Darryl Friesen)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: WANTED: External ZModem for use with CKermit
Date: 10 Jan 93 20:08:16 GMT
Organization: University of Saskatchewan
NNTP-Posting-Host: jester.usask.ca
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL7]


Hello all.  I've got CKermit 5A(188) (which is the best OS/2 comm. app.
I've found so far by the way) but would like ZModem as well.  Can
anyone recommend a zmodem that works with CKermit?  Any and all
suggestions are muchly appreciated.

- Darryl

------------------------------------------------------------
Darryl Friesen            | Department of Computing Services
friesenda@sask.usask.ca   | University of Saskatchewan
------------------------------------------------------------
From: tom@salzo.Cary.NC.US (Tom Salzmann)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: Ready for Letters under OS/2
Date: Thu, 07 Jan 93 14:48:10 EST
Organization: SalzoBoard BBS

> In article <11590@uqcspe.cs.uq.oz.au> king@cs.uq.oz.au writes:
> >>   I have a copy of "Ready for Letters" for my two small children.  I have
> >>it running under OS/2 (on a clone 486/33 with a SB Pro card on IRQ 5).
> >>The program starts and runs (with the music playing just fine).  The proble
> >>that I have is that if the program "moves" into certain areas (such as the
> >>kitchen or the workshop), I get crackling noises, and the system slows down
> >>a crawl.  I can switch out of the program and kill the task, but it takes o
> >>the order of 60 seconds to paint the WPS screen etc.
> >>   I suspect the problem is with the program and speech generation.
> >You are correct, I get the same problem.  I can overcome the problem
> >by using VMdisk (which effectively gives you a specific DOS 5.0

Are you SURE about this?!??!  I have been informed that games such as this
and the SBPRO parrot will never work under OS/2 because of the filthy way
they try to use the hardware timer.  I cannot get either to work in ANY
kind of DOS session including VMdisk.  Both fail when they try to talk.


--
Tom Salzmann <tom@salzo.Cary.NC.US>
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: shurr@cbnews.cb.att.com (larry.a.shurr)
Subject: Re: Thank You SIP1
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Columbus, OH
Distribution: usa
Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1993 16:59:39 GMT

In article <1993Jan6.033112.15437@midway.uchicago.edu> sip1@midway.uchicago.edu writes:
}In article <20721@ucdavis.ucdavis.edu> ez003045@hamlet.ucdavis.edu (James E. Lee) writes:
}>Yeah, thanks a lot Timothy!  I really appreciate your knowledge and
}>willingness to help, and your efforts _do_ deserve to be noted and
}>applauded.

}This thread is much appreciated; thanks.

If all of us who owe Tim a vote of thanks posted or emailed, the
net would collapes under the load! :-)

}OK, now, back to OS/2...

Right!

Larry

P.S.  O.K., so it wouldn't collapse, but both this group and his mailbox
      would be jammed!

-- 
Larry A. Shurr (las@cbnmva.att.com) speaking only for myself.
Norman, listen carefully.  I am lying.  Are you sure your circuits are
registering?  Your ears are green.  Logic is a little bird singing in a
meadow.  Logic is a wreath of pretty flowers which smell bad! - Mr. Spock
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: ftacnikj@ax61.bnl.gov (Jan Ftacnik)
Subject: Interesting info about SpeedStar Plus cards 
Organization: Brookhaven Natl. Lab., Upton, NY 11973
Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1993 20:11:06 GMT


  I have recently discovered fairly surprising thing about SpeedStar Plus
card and driver support in OS2. I had my SpeedStar Plus card (version of
bios 4.23) exchanged by Diamond Computers for SpeedStar Plus (version 
of bios 6.01, different physical layout of the card). Before I was happily
running SP dirvers for 1024x768 seamless without any problems. After I
received my new card, I have discovered that SVGA.EXE is not able to correctly
read its registers. In fullscreen DOS session SVGA.EXE runs, reads registers
but doesn't get it right in any resolution (I have tried 800x600 and
1024x768). In real DOS booted (without OS2) SVGA.EXE is supposed to work 
too, but there I got the message saying that I have unsupported chip.  

  This can probably explain part of the confusion about SpeedStar Plus cards
with people reporting success and failure under very similar circumstances.
But this also leads to the following idea: Would somebody with OS2 2.1 latest
beta (on CDROM) be so kind posting SVGA.EXE (I have tried SVGA.EXE from GA and
SP and both fail) to hobbes ? I am pretty sure that drivers will work without
change (because I had it actually working with old SVGADATA.PMI after I got the
new card and started to mess with SVGA.EXE). If this problem is present also
in latest beta, I would like to report it to IBM. I have no space on the
drive to try beta myself so I am not going to buy it.

  So my question is: can someone post latest SVGA.EXE from 2.1 beta for 
the benefit of SpeeStar Plus users ?

						Jan Ftacnik
From: bing@zinc.cchem.berkeley.edu (Bing Ho)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: OS/2 2.1 beta Install Problems
Date: 9 Jan 1993 20:10:44 GMT
Organization: UC Berkeley
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: zinc.cchem.berkeley.edu

I got my CD-ROM yesterday and proceeded to copy the disk images off
my workstation and onto 3.5" disks.  I created the images, and then
started an install.

The first menu I get, where it asks me whether I want Full Install,
Selective, or Mouse Tutorial, my machine locks up.

I have a 486dx/33, ATI VGA Wonder XL, 16mb ram, 80mb disk that I am
installing the beta onto.

I reformatted the partition, so there shouldn't be a problem there.

Can anybody offer any advice as to what is wrong here?

-- 
Bing Ho
bing@zinc.cchem.berkeley.edu   University of California, Berkeley   
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu (Timothy F. Sipples)
Subject: Re: 9600 baud FAX modems under OS/2:  Recommendations??
Keywords: FAX modem, 9600, OS/2
Reply-To: sip1@midway.uchicago.edu
Organization: Dept. of Econ., Univ. of Chicago
Distribution: na
Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1993 05:06:43 GMT

In article <1993Jan5.195510.8244@elroy.jpl.nasa.gov> hartzman@kilroy.Jpl.Nasa.Gov (Les Hartzman) writes:
>I'm looking into getting a 9600 baud FAX modem (int. or ext.), and I'd like
>to know which ones work with OS/2 2.x.  I already have heard good things about
>the PMFax application, and I've heard bad things about Zoom modems.  And yes,
>I can't find it in the bank account to go to a 14.4 modem.
>Thanks in advance for any recommendations.

Really no special recommendations here -- check with the people in
comp.dcom.modems to see what they say, in general, about the hardware
end.  Faxworks for OS/2 (PMFax) is a terrific application, and any
Class 1 or Class 2 faxmodem should do just fine.

I like the USR Sportster V.32bis faxmodems.  We have a pair in the
office, and they seem to be performing quite well.

-- 
Timothy F. Sipples      | Read the OS/2 FAQ List 2.0h, available from
sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu | 128.123.35.151, anonymous ftp, in /pub/os2/all/info
Dept. of Econ., Univ.   | /faq, or from LISTSERV@BLEKUL11.BITNET (send "HELP")
of Chicago, 60637       | [Read the List, THEN post to ONE OS/2 newsgroup.]
From: hhsiao@vnet.ibm.com (Harry Hsiao)
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 93 14:13:23 EST
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: HELP! How do you reinstall a printer
News-Software: UReply 3.1
X-X-From: Harry Hsiao

In <1993Jan10.035443.18338@netcom.com> John Hesse writes:
>In a fumble-fingered attempt to delete a print job, I accidently deleted
>the printer itself.
>
>How can I reinstall the printer? (I read the FAQ to no avail, and the
>Device Driver Installation help says it cannot be used.)
>
>What to do???  OS/2 can be mighty mysterious when it wants to be.

Insert Printer Device Driver #1 in drive a: and try the following
sequence:
System -> Command Prompts -> Drive A

and you'll see Laserjet and Postscript printer driver. Click on the
icon that you like to install and it will pop up all the printer
drivers. Drag the driver to the desktop and it will prompt you a
menu for installation.

If you want drivers for 4019/4029, try Printer Driver #2.

Harry Hsiao
From: dic5340@hertz.njit.edu (David Charlap)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: 32 Bit HPFS in OS/2 2.1
Date: 5 Jan 93 21:01:17 GMT
Organization: New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, N.J.

In article <C0C5wJ.1n0v@austin.ibm.com> woan@cactus.org writes:
>In article <1993Jan4.082058.14330@kth.se> json@treankare.met.kth.se (Anders Jacobsson) writes:
>>Will 32 bit HPFS be included in OS/2 2.1
>>, if not, does anyone know where to get it?
>
>No, buy Lan Server... I guess the real question should be is whether
>it buys a single user system anything?

I don't think so.  The speed increases are marginal.  And all the
multi-user stuff (user-by-user file and directory restrictions) just
add overhead and eat memory that could be used elsewhere.
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From: unruh@physics.ubc.ca (William Unruh)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Weird focus in WPS
Date: 7 Jan 1993 05:11:50 GMT
Organization: The University of British Columbia
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: physics.ubc.ca
Summary: Weird focus in WPS
Keywords: focus, WPS, mouse, OS2window

Just had a very strange bug in GA. I have two windows opeing
automatically, one runnig swapsize, and the other an OS2 Window
Suddenly these two refused to give up focus. A double click on the
desktop background would open up Swapsize even if I had just killed it.
Ie the right mouse button seemed to think it was permanantly attached to
the Swapsize window, even if it wasn't running. I could open up the
iconised OS2 Window, but that was all- anything else on the screen
thought it was swapsize. After a couple of ASD reboots  it finally
started behaving itself again. Any clues?
From: dic5340@hertz.njit.edu (David Charlap)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: Opinion:  What IBM should change in OS/2
Date: 8 Jan 93 17:24:24 GMT
Organization: New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, N.J.

In article <1ik8vnINN5ov@hpscit.sc.hp.com> kitchin@lf.hp.com (Bruce Kitchin) writes:
>Then click on the right arrow key in the lower right
>corner of the notebook.  This displays what happens when the time out
>occurs.  You can select a bitmap (any bmp file should do - it appears that
>it needs to be in /os2/bitmap), select if it is displayed normal, tiled, etc.
>Most important select auto dim.  When the timeout occurs the bitmap is
>displayed and then slowly fades to black.

You haven't used Lockup much, have you?  Nothing slowly fades
anywhere.  About 3 minutes after the screen locks, it blanks, leaving
a floating "lock" icon to remind you that the computer is still
running.  No processes are suspended when the display locks, so any
background stuff (like downloads) will proceed.
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