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From: rcook@happy.helios.nd.edu (robert cook)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: Question about "standard" VGA mode
Keywords: VGA, 16 color, 256 color, BC++ 3.0
Date: 15 Apr 92 18:05:02 GMT
Article-I.D.: news.1992Apr15.180502.4049
Reply-To: Cook.14@nd.edu (R. Kelley Cook)
Organization: Univ. of Notre Dame

In article <kuj67uINNlar@yoakum.cs.utexas.edu>, marty@cs.utexas.edu (Marty J. Sirkin) writes:
|> I have a rather simple (I think) question about OS/2 2.0 and
|> standard VGA mode.
|> 
|> I have a 486/33 clone with a Diamond Stealth card.  I loaded 2.0 
|> on and proceeded to migrate Borland C++ 3.0 for Windows to the
|> desktop.  The programs all work correctly, but when I try to 
|> create bitmaps with the Resource workshop the "256" color button
|> is disabled. I know that I am displaying 256 color images (for
|> example the splash bitmaps of BC++ 3.0). 
|> 
|> Is this because of the "standard" VGA mode, or am I just missing
|> something in the BC++ application setup.
|> 
|> If I remember correctly, when I loaded BC++ 3.0 on windows 3.0 
|> (which was preloaded on the machine), the 256 color selection 
|> was not disabled, and could be used.
|> 
|> I appreciate any help I can get.

Yes, since there are no 256+ color drivers for the TSENG chipset (which
the Diamond Stealth is based on) for OS/2, you probably installed
the 640x480 16-color seemless windows (standard VGA) which would have
installed the standard VGA drivers for Windows also.

You should be able to go to a DOS Fullscreen session, type SVGA ON, and
then have SVGA support enabled for your computer.  Then you can install
your old Windows drivers into WINOS2 using its control panel andd you
will once again have 256 or 32768 color drivers for FullScreen Windows.  
Of course you lose seemless window support this way.  I will forward you
complete SVGA instructions also.

 
-- 
Robert Kelley Cook     << Cook.14@nd.edu >>
Univ. of Notre Dame     The future for Intel computers arrived March 31!
Physics Dept.            Long Live the new OS/2!  Time to close the Windows!
From: friesenda@skyfox.usask.ca
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: RE: Yet another idea for an OS/2 V2 ad.
Date: 8 Apr 92 23:55:12 GMT
Article-I.D.: skyfox.8APR92.23551256
Organization: University of Saskatchewan

In a previous article, duffy@theory.chem.ubc.ca (Pat Duffy) wrote:
>Hi All!
> 
>This one came to me on the bus today.  Must be in some creative phase of
>my biorhythmic cycle :-).

Not bad, but how about this:

Fade in:  Two users sitting side by side, Both have the same UAE 

>Fade out:  Text that says:  "Are you having problems with your computer
>           not running all the software you wanted it to?  Take action to
>           correct the situation NOW."
> 
>Fade in:  The same Windows screen with the same UAE.  About one second
>          after fade-in, the monitor explodes violently.  Bits of glass
>          and plastic fly everywhere.  When the smoke clears, another
>          monitor is there with the OS/2 startup logo on it.

           Instead of the explosion, one user presses Ctrl-Alt-Del
           and reboots the machine (running Windows). The other user
           looks at him with a smug grin, presses Ctrl-Alt-Del and
           simply shuts down that application.  We realize here that
           he was running the Windows App under OS/2!

>Patrick Duffy, E-Mail:  duffy@theory.chem.ubc.ca

----------
Darryl Friesen
friesenda@sask.usask.ca
Univ. of Saskatchewan
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc,comp.windows.ms
From: tinyguy@cs.mcgill.ca (Yeo-Hoon BAE)
Subject: Re: Is OS/2 2.0 faster than Windows??
Organization: SOCS, McGill University, Montreal, Canada
Date: Mon, 13 Apr 1992 03:12:27 GMT

In article <1992Apr12.204128.8545@nic.unh.edu> pss1@kepler.unh.edu (Paul S Secinaro) writes:
>In article <vw7t2+c@rpi.edu> mcintyre@cs.rpi.edu (David McIntyre) writes:
>>tomh@wes.on.ca (Tom Haapanen) writes:
>>>
>>>WINOS2 tests run on: PS/2 Model 80 16MHz w/ 80387; IBM VGA; 8 MB memory
>>>Win3.1 tests run on: 386/40; Tseng ET4000 VGA (640x480x16); 8 MB memory
>
>Is WINOS2 really _that_ much faster?  I'm impressed.
>
>Paul
>

   I naturally expected the tester to install Windows 3.0 on BOTH machines
   and then compare only in relative terms, not the real time measure-
   ment... If this is not the case, I agree, this test is not fair to
   OS2... But from the figures I've seen, he must have tried 3.0 on
   both machines...

-TG


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Date: Tue, 14 Apr 92 05:07:24 CST
From: gthome@ausvm1.VNET.IBM.COM
Subject: ibm os/2 lan server - adding > 500 users ?
Reply-To: gthome@ausvm1.VNET.IBM.COM
Organization: IBM - Austin
Disclaimer: This posting represents the poster's views, not those of IBM
News-Software: UReply 2.0
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc

In <peterd.703205695@tscc2> Peter Degotardi writes:
>Hi there...
>Does anyone out there in netland run IBM's OS/2 LAN Server (I know there are
>some  ;-) )
>
>Of you people who do, do any of you have app's that allow you to add hundreds
>of users from the C: prompt ?? Not just adding (I can do that with rexx),
>I mean read a text file with a list of users in it, create the users, add
>them to groups, create home filesets (if necessary), ASSIGN PRINTERS and
>BUILD APPLICATION SELECTORS.
>
>We'd like to give all our students individual logons to the network, but
>we have to assume that they won't be able to add applications to their
>selector or assign printers to themselves, and there's NO WAY that I am
>going to individually setup > 500 userids every 12 months.
>
>Similarly I'd like an app to remove these userid's later.
>Any suggestions ?
>
>--
>Peter Degotardi        (__)   *  University of Western Sydney, Macarthur
>PC Support Programmer  /00\   *  Teaching and Services Computing Centre
>Fax    +61 46 26-6937   oo    *  Campbelltown, New South Wales, Australia !
>Email  p.degotardi@uws.edu.au *  Just in case - 'My opinions are all mine !'
>
Peter,

I will forward this request to our IBM LAN Server Development and Support
groups.  They may be able to help.  Many IBM LAN Server value add tools
have been written, and what you describe may be one of them.

Gerry Thome
IBM - Austin (and formerly a system test person for IBM LAN Server)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu (Timothy F. Sipples)
Subject: Re: OS/2 2.0 "Buglet" Report
Reply-To: sip1@midway.uchicago.edu
Organization: Dept. of Econ., Univ. of Chicago
Date: Sun, 12 Apr 1992 17:21:54 GMT

In article <f0vjnf_.feustel@netcom.com> feustel@netcom.com (David Feustel) writes:
>I'd like to see a new Dos Setting added - one that would effectively 
>specify a private list of commands to be executed as a session-specific
>autoexec.bat for each session.

I think you can do this, although it isn't immediately obvious how.  I
believe COMMAND.COM (the one that comes with OS/2 or any other
COMMAND.COM) can take the /K option, and you can pass a command (or
the name of a batch file) to COMMAND.COM that way.  I'm not sure if
AUTOEXEC.BAT executes at all or, if it does, whether it does before or
after the /K command/batch file.

If you remove the AUTOEXEC.BAT file from your root directory (or
rename it), you can prevent COMMAND.COM from executing it.  Then you
can manually specify a startup batch file for each DOS session using
the /K option.

Is that clear?
-- 
Timothy F. Sipples       Keeper of the OS/2 Frequently Asked Questions
sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu  List, available via anonymous ftp from
Dept. of Economics       128.123.35.151, directory pub/os2/faq, or via
Univ. of Chicago  60637  netmail from LISTSERV@BLEKUL11.BITNET.
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: rcain@netcom.com (Robert Cain)
Subject: Re: DOS programs (games) and HPFS... is it possible?
Date: Wed, 08 Apr 92 20:48:53 GMT
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  (408 241-9760 guest) 
Distribution: na

This should work fine because the DOS box has a driver that makes DOS
apps think it is FAT.  Subtle disk use such as direct by disk sector will
probably get confused.  Also keep the names 8.3 or the DOS apps can't
see them.
-- 
Bob Cain    rcain@netcom.com   408-358-2007

"There are some strings.  They're just not attached."
                                                    Victoria Roberts
From: liggio@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu (Vincent J. Liggio)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: IBM, are you listening? (Was: Windoze 3.1 is here.)
Date: 12 Apr 92 22:14:01 GMT
Reply-To: liggio@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu (Vincent J. Liggio)
Organization: Columbia University

In article <1992Apr12.212453.22473@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu> mig@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Meir I Green) writes:
>Send upgrades of OS/2 2.0 before you fill the retail and mail-order
>market, since *we* are the ones who are generating the support for
>OS/2!  Thank you.  :-)

They  are...  Retail sales  of  OS/2 are  supposedly the  last  in line for
copies of OS/2.  (Heard from an OS/2 rep at the Super Tuesday Demo on April
7 in NYC).

Vince
From: atoenne@mpii02000.cs.uni-sb.de (Andreas Toenne)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: DeskJet too slow
Keywords: Oh no! He's doing it again
Date: 13 Apr 92 11:48:13 GMT
Organization: Max-Planck-Institut f"ur Informatik

Thanx for all tips regarding Windoze printing.
However, once the document is spooled in OS/2 printing is still crawling.
I tried it by printing into a file and then redirecting this file to the
LPT1: device manually. The printer is busy all the time but waits between
printing lines for about 15-25 seconds.
Note: this applies to printing graphics only. Text is fine.
Currently I use the Epson - DeskJet 500 printing option. Does the
Epson-EPL 7000 make any difference?

	Andreas

P.S. my hardware is pretty standard. An Intel 25MHz motherboard and a vanilla
mouse/serial/parallel card.

P.P.S. Has any1 noticed that the find option (when changing object icons) is buggy. I used to have a folder with about 2000 icons and I would like to 
'find' them all to pick new icons. Unfortunatly, find returns only the last 20
or so. Thus I have to copy/paste those icons using the icon editor.

-- 

	Andreas Toenne			Voice: 	x49 681 5846272
	Max-Planck-Institut		Office:	x49 681 302 5363
	fuer Informatik			e-mail:	atoenne@mpi-sb.mpg.de

	Im Stadtwald
	6600 Saarbruecken, Germany
From: rcain@netcom.com (Robert Cain)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: IT'S FINALLY STARTED!!!!
Date: 14 Apr 92 23:39:53 GMT
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  (408 241-9760 guest)

And just where I thought it would!
-- 
Bob Cain    rcain@netcom.com   408-358-2007

"There are some strings.  They're just not attached."
                                                    Victoria Roberts
From: rafetmad@cheshire.oxy.edu (David R. Giller)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: OS2 My experience/minor problems
Date: 10 Apr 92 18:05:13 GMT
Article-I.D.: cheshire.1992Apr10.180513.16526
Organization: Occidental College, Los Angeles, CA 90041 USA.

In article <1992Apr10.150810.6825@uwm.edu> tanith@csd4.csd.uwm.edu writes:
>From article <1992Apr10.101431.18818@jarvis.csri.toronto.edu>, by byu@csri.toronto.edu (Benjamin Yu):
>> # >In article <1992Apr9.152625.28104@cs.rose-hulman.edu> swartzjh@NeXTwork.Rose-Hulman.Edu (Jeff H. Swartz) writes:
>> # >>
>> # >>       The printer is set up on LPT1. 
>> # >>
>> # >>	System Configuration
>> # >>		483 -33 8 megs of ram
>> # >>		130 meg IDE hardrive
>> # >>		Soundblaster Card
>> # >                ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>> # >OS/2 uses IRQ7 (the default for the Soundblaster) for printing.  All you need
>> # >to do is change it to a free IRQ, and you should be in business.
>> # >
>> 
>> Can anyone tell me how to change OS/2 to use a free IRQ please?  Thanks!
>
>You do not change OS/2, you need to change the jumper on your Soundblaster
>Card.  This is a common problem with OS/2 installed on systems with 
>Soundblaster cards, since they default to IRQ 7.  OS/2 unfortunately uses
>most of the interrupts from 0-7 (or all, depending on your hardware
>configuration)...OS/2 uses IRQ 7 for LPT1, DOS typically does not on the
>other hand.  This is assuming that you have an ISA (AT compatible bus...
>if you have a PS/2 (MCA) or an EISA bus, then ignore these instructionst)

Not quite true.  MCA and EISA boards solve the IRQ-sharing problem only if
you are using MCA or EISA boards.  EISA can't fix the problems that are
built into ISA boards, and they need their own IRQ.

>Refer to your Soundblaster Reference manual for details on changing the
>IRQ jumper.  A good candidate for your system is to change the IRQ jumper
>to IRQ 5.  It involves opening up your computer so you can get at the
>Soundblaster card and moving a plastic 'jumper' from the IRQ 7 setting
>to IRQ 5.

Unfortunately, those of us with Logitech bus mice are SOL.

-Dave
-- 
David Giller, Box 134 | Q: How many Oregonians does it take to screw in a light
Occidental College    | bulb?  A: Three.  One to replace the bulb, and two to
1600 Campus Road      | fend off all the Californians trying to share the
Los Angeles, CA 90041 | experience. ---------------------------rafetmad@oxy.edu
From: sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu (Timothy F. Sipples)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: Does OS/2 2.0 support Bernoulli drives
Date: 9 Apr 92 17:14:57 GMT
Article-I.D.: midway.1992Apr9.171457.26287
Reply-To: sip1@midway.uchicago.edu
Organization: Dept. of Econ., Univ. of Chicago

In article <925@engcon.marshall.ltv.com> rodgers@engcon.UUCP (KMRODGERS) writes:
>The subject line says is all: Is support for Bernoulli Boxes (specifically,
>the 44 meg internal drives) included in OS/2 2.0?  I don't need to boot from
>the Bernoulli, but it constitutes a primary part of my system and I _cannot_
>run OS/2 until it has Bernoulli support.

The README file indicates that Bernoulli (and Syquest) removeable
media work fine with the following restrictions:
	-  You can't boot from them; you need a hard disk to boot;
	-  You cannot use HPFS on them.
-- 
Timothy F. Sipples       Keeper of the OS/2 Frequently Asked Questions
sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu  List, available via anonymous ftp from
Dept. of Economics       128.123.35.151, directory pub/os2/faq, or via
Univ. of Chicago  60637  netmail from LISTSERV@BLEKUL11.BITNET.
From: jeff@fang.clearpoint.com (Jeffrey J. Griglack)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: OS/2 Device Drivers - Mastrianni Book
Date: 16 Apr 92 14:17:53 GMT
Reply-To: jeff@fang.clearpoint.com
Organization: /home/jeff/.organization

On 15 Apr 92 10:36:20 GMT, martin@minster.york.ac.uk said:

m> Some time back the book ``Writing OS/2 2.0 Device Drivers in C'', by
m> Steven Mastrianni was discussed here. A release date of 6th April was given.
m> Is this book now available? I just got our bookshop to enquire, and the
m> publishers give the UK release date as AUGUST '92!!! This is *dreadful*!

m> Are there any US booksellers that will ship books such as this overseas?

I saw it on the shelf at Border's Bookshop in Framingham, Mass., last
Saturday (4/11), so I guess the release date was accurate.
--

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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: tanith@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (Michael D Kretzer)
Subject: Re: Manuals with OS/2 V.2 as shipped.
Originator: tanith@csd4.csd.uwm.edu
Reply-To: tanith@csd4.csd.uwm.edu
Organization: University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee
Date: Fri, 10 Apr 1992 05:00:58 GMT

From article <1992Apr10.012152.1013@sfu.ca>, by itreleav@fraser.sfu.ca (Ian Anthony Treleaven):
> Maybe someone could post exactly what documentation comes in the box when
> someone actually gets one.  :-)

All are distributed in 'booklet' form...no three ring binders or anything,
the box GA comes in is equivalent to a DOS 5.0 or Windows box, unlike
the OS/2 1.3 EE box, which was HUGE :)
Included 'documentation' (in no particular order):

(Mini 'booklets'...pamphlet length or smaller)
Proof of License
License Information
Program License Agreement
Quick Reference Card
Registration Card
Change of Address Card
Inside OS/2 advertisement card
Order form for printed versions of online docs
Service/Support/Defect card(s)
IBM NSC BBS information (OS/2 Electronic Device Driver Distribution Mechanism)

(Real booklets)
Adobe Type Manager for WIN-OS/2 - 11 pages
Compatiblity Information (Info on running DOS/Windows software in OS/2) - 11 pgs
Installation Guide - 113 pages
Getting Started - 59 pages
Using the Operating System - 79 pages
Migrating to the OS/2 Workplace Shell - 40 pages

Basically all the included documentation is of the 'read once' variety,
with the real 'meat' in the online documentation (which I prefer personally).
Until someone gets familiar with WPS, they might want to keep
the Using the Operating System book and possibly the Getting Started book
handy, but I found the on-line tutorials/reference more than sufficient
when starting out...
From: rdippold@qualcom.qualcomm.com (Ron Dippold)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: My OS/2 GA Won't Install!
Date: 9 Apr 92 20:01:19 GMT
Article-I.D.: qualcom.rdippold.702849679
Organization: Qualcomm, Inc., San Diego, CA

matt@bss1.umd.edu (Matthew Piermarini) writes:
>Help!
>  
>  I finally get a copy of GA and it won't get past disk 1 during the install.
>It fails with a FDISK error after displaying the Logo.  The INSTALL.LOG file 
>looks like:

>FDISK Unsuccessful

>because I have been using these drives for a while with DOS 5, AND IT WORKED 
>FINE USING THE .304 BETA!  Please help.

It sounds like it may not like the way your disk partition info is
setup.  Try using DOS's FDISK to erase all the partitions and then try
it (you do have it backed up, I hope...)
-- 
Curses! may you be forced to grep the termcap of an unclean yacc while a herd
of wild rogue emacs fsck your troff and vgrind your pathalias!
From: ifam655@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Jeff Lessem)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Strange bug with an internal modem and win-os2
Date: 17 Apr 92 16:23:11 GMT
Organization: The University of Texas at Austin, Austin TX

I discovered an interesting bug in OS/2 2.0, atleast I don't think
I have seen it mentioned before.
I set up com.sys to handle my internal modem set to com3 by
adding the (3,3E8,5) --or whatever-- to com.sys and vcom.sys, the computer
booted with these settings.
When I switched the jumper on the modem to move it from
com2 (where it worked) to com3 (where it worked on the same machine under
1.3 useing the 16450.sys driver) I found that I could no longer run
win-os2.  I would get a message stating that I had no room left in memory
or perhaps I was calling a non-existant file.  I had plenty of room on the
drive.
Perhaps this is a conflict with my integrated IDE/serial card, but I had
been using the modem on com3 for some time with 1.3 on the same system, so
I don't suspect any hardware conflicts.
Has anybody else encountered a similar problem?

BTW:  This is with GA, on a generic 486/33, AMI bios(as if OS/2 uses it) and
and OPTI chipset.
-- 
ifam655@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Jeff Lessem)
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From: bobo@hpcvra.cv.hp.com (Bob O'Donnell)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: ATI Ultra and OS/2 1.3
Date: 10 Apr 92 17:59:32 GMT
Organization: Hewlett-Packard Co., Corvallis, OR, USA

I have a system on which I have been running OS/2 1.3 ever since it
was released.  I have had it running in standard VGA mode since
my card (Video 7 1024i) did not have 1.3 drivers available.

I just replaced the 1024i with the ATI Graphics Ultra (1 Meg).  Everything
went smoothly with DOS and OS/2 booting up just fine.  But when I went
through the install process for the PM drivers that come from ATI, things
can apart.  I selected the 640 by 480 with 256 colors driver, the install
program did the installation of display.dll with no complaints.  This was
done within the DOS box as the manual instructed.  At the end of the
installation, the program directs you to reboot to have the new driver take
effect.  I went through the OS/2 shutdown process and rebooted.

Immediately after the messages scroll about installing the COM ports, the
boot process freezes with the most recent messages still on the screen.
I am still considering other causes, but on the surface it seems like the
driver is at fault.  Can anyone tell me if there are know difficulties
with the ATI drivers?
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: Andrew Bros <bros@convex.COM>
Subject: Re: First Impressions
Originator: bros@mikey.convex.com
Reply-To: bros@convex.COM (Andrew Bros)
Organization: Convex Computer Corporation, Richardson, TX
Date: Fri, 17 Apr 1992 18:31:22 GMT
X-Disclaimer: This message was written by a user at CONVEX Computer
              Corp. The opinions expressed are those of the user and
              not necessarily those of CONVEX.

In article <1992Apr16.210704.2884@watson.ibm.com> larrys@watson.ibm.com writes:
>In <1992Apr16.193514.6502@news.larc.nasa.gov>, mdw@hojo.larc.nasa.gov (Mike Weisenborn) writes:
>>Does anyone else have trouble moving an icon 'just a little bit'?  If you
>>move it over just a few pixels then WPS thinks you are trying to drop it
>>onto itself and it ends up going right back where it was.  Another nitpick.
>>And this one would definitely benefit by gridding the placement of icons.
>
>Very troublesome for me too!  I'm a real perfectionist; my icons have to
>be exactly lined up, etc..
>
  I got a program called gridlock that works under v1.3, has anyone
tried this under 2.0?  I don't know if it would work, but it aligns
icons to a grid, and you can specify what area of the screen you want
them in (horizontal lower left, verticl upper right.)

  I think I got this from comp.binaries.os2.  It came as gridlock.zoo.
When I get my upgrade, I'll try it out.
-- 
Andrew Bros				bros@convex.com
Data Acquisition Group			Convex Computer Corporation
Hacker's Dictionary:  DOS: Dain-bramaged Operating System