HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: rkimmel@stein.u.washington.edu (Robert Kimmel)
Subject: Re: HA/5 problem or Hobbes problem?
Organization: University of Washington, Seattle
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 05:53:29 GMT

In article <92355.173041RROXBY@MAINE.MAINE.EDU> RROXBY@MAINE.MAINE.EDU (Robert Roxby) writes:
>On a couple of occasions I have gotten something from Hobbes and
>found that when I try to download it to my machine from the
>mainframe using HA/5 it doesnt get beyond adding the name to the
>intended directory before giving a message like -"transfer halted-
>disk error."  I don't think there is a disk error, files from
>other sources behave fine.  Any ideas?

This happens sometimes to me, and I don't have the slightest idea why.  It     
doesn't happen that often though, but I have to reset the program to get it 
to download again.


Xref: sparky comp.os.os2.apps:9417 comp.os.os2.programmer:7079
From: lbartho@uni2a.unige.ch
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.apps,comp.os.os2.programmer
Subject: Bug with Brief 3.1 for OS/2
Date: 16 Dec 92 13:44:14 GMT
Organization: University of Geneva, Switzerland

Dear Netters,
I recently purchased Brief 3.1 for OS/2. I found it overall to be a good
product, although i have tested the sophisticated commands/macros only
in DOS mode.
In the OS/2 version, I found what I believe is an awful bug. Try entering
a file with:
*****************
abcdef
abcdef
abcdef
abcdef
abcdef
abcdef
****************
and type:
<Alt-T>
a{?}
\0a
You would expect this to replace ab's by ba's, wouldn't you ?
Well, it works in the DOS version, but not the OS/2 version.
Could somebody please confirm?
I tried sending a mail to customer-support@borland.com, but they
refused assistance, saying I should connect to compuserve. And I was
dumb enough to read their ad saying they're 'famous for their support...'
That's Larry Bartholdi speaking to you, from Geneva, Switzerland.
thank you for your attention.
From: pfr@drsrv1.hmi.de (Fritsch_Wolfgang)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.apps
Subject: Re: Undeletable objects taking over desktop
Date: 17 Dec 92 08:37:20 GMT
Organization: Hahn-Meitner-Institut Berlin GmbH

sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu (Timothy F. Sipples) writes:

>>     ... some of productivity applets on the desktop, which the
>>shredder rejects and which don't have a delete option on the
>>pull-down menu.  How do I get rid of them?  Thanks.

>The Black Hole WPS object add-on (available via anonymous ftp from
>ftp-os2.nmsu.edu, directory /pub/uploads) is
>useful here.  

I checked out blakhole.zoo but still hesitate using it for my purpose.
I got a *second* folder with the drive objects in it (was created in
the process of running checkini, don't remember the details). When I now
try do dump this second folder into the blackhole it asks for confirmation:
"do you want to delete drive A" or similar. Of course I don't want to delete
drive A, not physically nor its presence in the drives folder, but only its 
representation in that sticky extra folder. 
Anybody knows for sure
whether I can dare saying "yes" to that confirmation question?

Wolfgang Fritsch
pfr@psun2.hmi.de
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.apps
From: ojtv@zombie.oulu.fi (Olli Vuolteenaho)
Subject: Re: CKermit - help!
Organization: University of Oulu, Finland
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]
Date: Sat, 12 Dec 1992 17:34:22 GMT

Minghua SHAN (shan@ms.uky.edu) wrote:
: (1) I've been using Ckermit 179 obtained from hobbes. Everything has
: been fine except that it sometimes loses characters. I thought
: maybe Ckermit 183 would solve this problem. So I down loaded
: ckerm183.zip from hobbes. I tried all settings that I could think
: of (including using the same ckermit.ini file I have been using
: with ckermit 179), but I still ca not get it to work.
: This is what happens when I run it:
: 
: [D:\]ckermit
: C-Kermit 5A(183) BETA-5, 22 Aug 92, OS/2 2.00
: Type ? or HELP for help
: C-Kermit>c
: No carrier detected.
: ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
: C-Kermit>
: 
: Does anybody have any idea?

Exactly the same happens with my CKermit 188. Moreover, it also completely
crashes the modem (only boot-up seems to revitalize it). The "beta" version
179, however, works fine (with the same ini file) - I'm using it now!. 
Any ideas?

Olli
________________________________________________
From: sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu (Timothy F. Sipples)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.apps
Subject: Re: WinFax Pro
Date: 14 Dec 92 01:00:21 GMT
Reply-To: sip1@midway.uchicago.edu
Organization: Dept. of Econ., Univ. of Chicago

In article <1992Dec12.233105.987@sbcs.sunysb.edu> kskapin@csws3.ic.sunysb.edu (Keith T Skapinski) writes:
>>The general net consensus seems to be that Faxworks for OS/2 (formerly
>>PMFax) is a much better choice.  To order, call SofNet at
>>404-984-8088, FAX 404-984-9956.  The cost is $99 if you mention the
>>OS/2 Coupon Book.
>Cool! I just got a Fax/Modem (Practical Peripherals 14400) and would like to
>get better fax software that would work under OS/2. Does this package that
>you mention have an annotation feature? This is very important since I often
>receive forms to fill out and can't be bothered saving the fax as a PCX so
>I can modify it, then convert it back, then fax it, etc. Do you actually
>have to have a coupon to get it for this price, or just mention it? I
>definately cant afford to spend more than $99. THanks.

Just mention the coupon -- the deal should still be on.  Otherwise,
you have to pay $149.  (They might have an educational discount,
moreover.)  I've also seen Faxworks for OS/2 on sale from the major
mail order vendors for around $109.

Yes, it does have an annotation feature.  And it is ATM based -- you
can select any ATM typeface at any point size.  Really quite useful.
You can also draw circles, boxes, lines, or whatever on your FAX.

-- 
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.]
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.apps
From: ojtv@zombie.oulu.fi (Olli Vuolteenaho)
Subject: Re: CKermit - help!
Organization: University of Oulu, Finland
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]
Date: Sun, 13 Dec 1992 05:31:54 GMT

Greg A. Harris (harriga@duc.auburn.edu) wrote:
: In article <1992Dec12.202337.16896@ousrvr.oulu.fi> ojtv@zombie.oulu.fi (Olli Vuolteenaho) writes:
: >and ???? to you: In C-Kermit 179 (and in the MS-kermits I've been using)
: >you actually (c)onnect before you dial (or so I did 2 min ago). Ver 188,
: >however, seems to work differently.
: 
: I don't quite understand this. If you connect before you dial, then I assume
: that you do your dialing by using '+++' to send the modem to command mode, 
: then issue the ATD.  This may not be the best way to connect.

I guess there are different ways of doing it. The more elegant 'Script' way
doesn't just seem to work for me (see below).
: 
: >"Dial number" works OK up to point it says CONNECT (baud). Right
: >after the connection is established it bluntly tells "CALL COMPLETE" 
: >and hangs up back to the C-kermit prompt. I don't find anything in my
: >ckermit.ini file that should cause this. And like I said in my
: >previous post,
: >the same ini file works fine with the "beta" C-Kermit 179 (which I'm 
: >unfortunately still using). What am I doing wrong?
: 
: This is exactly what happens when I do a logon.  Now that you have the
: "Call complete", you should do the "connect" command c (I do this with
: a script).  Your experience is ckermit working as advertised (at least as 
: far as I understand ckermit). 
: 
: To be precise, I do the login thru my script, then the last line in my
: script is "connect".

That is the last line of my ini file

: When you say "hangs back to the C-kermit prompt," this is the point that
: you should do a "connect".  Do you mean to say that the modem hangs up?

Yes.

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

Someone e-mailed me this (and now I notice that it had actually been posted
here a while ago): put "set carrier off" to the ini file and it works.
It DOES WORK, thank you! (now I'm using version 188).

Thanks everyone for your help.

Olli

(BTW, I still didn't get answer to my other (rhetoric) question: why do
ckermit versions 179 & 188 work differently with the same ini file? (At least
for me they seem to)).
_____________________________________________________________________
From: jonpo@kelvin.uio.no (Jon Petter Omtvedt)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.apps
Subject: ASPI driver for COREL SCSI (Re: ASPI for WINOS2)
Date: 16 Dec 92 09:17:23 GMT
	<1992Dec12.185626.20159@adapcal.UUCP>
Organization: University of Oslo, Norway


   In article <kspousta.723854818@qualcom> kspousta@qualcom.qualcomm.com (Kevin Spousta) writes:
   >mwaldorf@Physik.TU-Muenchen.DE (Matthias Waldorf) writes:
   >
   >>We are using an Agfa Focus scanner connected to the Adaptec 1542B
   >>SCSI adapter. Under Windows it's possible to use the same adapter
   >>for both the harddisk and the scanner. Agfa's software uses the
   >>aspi4dos driver to access the scanner. Under OS2 the software can't
   >>access the scanner. Is there any ASPI driver for OS2 which does
   >>also work in WINOS2 sessions ? Any help is welcome !
   >
   > DL'ed OS2_ASPI.EXE from Adaptec's BBS yesterday..  Lemme see if I can
   >dig up the number here...  Ah..  here it is...
   >
   >408-945-7727  
   >
   >the file is in the OS2 SIG..
   >
   Unfortunately OS2ASPI.DMD will only work with OS/2 applications.

   John

I very much want an ASPI driver which can be used with the OS/2
COREL SCSI driver (I want to use mye MAXTOR RXT-800HS WORM disk
with os/2) for the IBM PS/2, mod.90. Does anybody know if the
mentioned ASPI driver can be used? Or is there any other possible
drivers? I there exsists a ASPI driver, information on a ftp 
cite where I can get it would be appreciated!

Regards
Jon Petter Omtvedt
University of Oslo
Norway
From: quilty@titan.ucc.umass.edu (Humberto Humbertoldi)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.apps
Subject: OS/2 2.0 and Alpha Four V.2
Date: 13 Dec 92 19:44:10 GMT
Organization: University of Massachusetts, Amherst

I just installed OS/2 2.0 at my work machine; and have not managed to
resolve an incompatibility with Alpha Four v.2 database -- which is
one of the main applications we need at work.  Alpha Four is in the
OS/2 migration database (it migrated), so one would think that IBM
would have prepared the DOS settings for compatibility -- but no such
luck.  An IBM tech representative was of very little help -- though
there is an off chance that someone a little more knowledgeable will
call back in a couple days.
	The machine I have is a clone 386sx-33 w/6Mg (4Mg of those on
a Bocaram AT+), with Trident 1Mg SVGA, but running only in stock VGA
video mode.  The IDE disk is partitioned with both HPFS and FAT areas,
w/ Alpha Four on a FAT section (so that I can at least boot to DOS
when I need to use it).  I don't think this as much to do with the
problem, however.
	The problem is with display problems while running Alpha Four.
The opening screen of the database appears normally, and the program
seems to fully load.  But after choosing a choice or two from the
opening menu, the screen goes blank (but in the color scheme of Alpha
Four)... The whole screen is the normal grey-blue of the Alpha Four
background, except for the menu-choice highlight bar which still
appears on screen, and moves around with the arrow keys, as normal.
Occassionally, if I choose some additional menu choices (from memory
of either the activation key or screen position of the choice -- since
the actual choices are no longer visible), the screen will go into an
inappropriate video mode, with flashing hi-bit characters flashing
randomly over the screen.  Sometimes, on hitting the "quit" key, OS/2
reports one of several system errors (sorry, I don't have them in
front of me right now).
	The problem seems to be pretty much identical whether I start
Alpha Four from the Icon which "Migrate" created, or from the default
"Dos Full-Screen" Icon.  I've tried fiddling with obvious Dos
Settings, but all I've managed to do is get system errors from OS/2 as
soon as I start Alpha Four with the modified settings.
	Please email any responses to me.  I often check this group,
but I might miss the response if it's only posted.

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From: morro@drycas.club.cc.cmu.edu
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.apps
Subject: Re: AmiPro 3.0 question
Date: 20 Dec 92 23:12:30 -0500
Organization: Carnegie Mellon Computer Club

gt0554c@prism.gatech.EDU (MCCONNELL) writes:

> I installed AmiPro 3.0 under OS/2 and I have the help files working, but
> there are still some problems. The "speed bar" at the bottom of the
> screen does not allow me to change fonts. I do not have the Service Pak.

How did you get HELP to work ?  I keep getting - this version not supported,
etc. error.

John
From: jbayer@ispi.COM (Jonathan Bayer)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.apps
Subject: Re: AmiPro 3.0 question
Keywords: amipro
Date: 16 Dec 92 12:52:57 GMT
Organization: Intelligent Software Products, Inc.

gt0554c@prism.gatech.EDU (MCCONNELL) writes:


>I installed AmiPro 3.0 under OS/2 and I have the help files working, but
>there are still some problems. The "speed bar" at the bottom of the
>screen does not allow me to change fonts. I do not have the Service Pak.

This is a known problem, acknowledged by Lotus.  It is solved by either
running AmiPro in full-screen windows, or by installing the Service Pak.


JB
-- 
Jonathan Bayer		Intelligent Software Products, Inc.
(908) 248-1853		37 Winthrop Rd. 
jbayer@ispi.COM		Edison, NJ   08817
From: serls@dashs.denver.co.us (Dave Serls)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.apps
Subject: Re: OS/2: leave it running?
Distribution: world
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 92 02:57:08 GMT
Organization: Sorry Software

I'm wondering how many users keep their OS/2 2.0 machines
running full-time; that is, 24 hours a day.  Is there any benefit
gained, thereby; or, are shorter sessions less injurious to HD
hardware.

If you'd like, e-mail me.  If there's enough response I'll
summarize to the net.

--
============================================================================
Dave Serls                                                 303-973-6120
serls@dashs.denver.co.us                                   Sorry Software
============================================================================
From: jg3o+@andrew.cmu.edu (Jason Ari Goldstein)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.apps
Subject: REPOST: HELP w/Service PACK!!!
Date: 14 Dec 92 08:01:21 GMT
Organization: Senior, Physics, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA

Hey now,

This is the second time that I am posting my problem,  someone please
help me I really need to get my machine up before I leave school and
will have to download a lot of shareware via modem instead of via
ethernet (BIGGGGGG Difference !).

Anyway...

When I install the service pack, it goes fine until then end of disk 12
and then I get an error like: user exit error a:\os2\fix\product.exe. 
It then will only let me see the log (real useful - sarcasm) and reboot.
 Of course it won't boot becuase the service pack isn't completely
installed.  If I try installing it again it jumps right to installing
the 12th disk and then it dies again.

Stuff I have tried:
    - Reinstalling the Service Pack
    - Reinstalling the GA (no problems) and then the Service Pack
    - Using someone else's disk 12 which worked on their machine but not mine

Does anyone know what this is?  How can I get around it?  What does
product.exe do?  Did I get the bad version of the Service Pack (I doubt
it)?  Is there patches for the SP for my machine (specifics below)?  Can
I e-mail in my problem to IBM? If so, how? Etc. Etc.

Any help would be greatly appreciated because I really like OS/2 but I'm
not gonna put up with this shit much longer.  Another week or so of not
having my machine up and I am going to buy Mark William's Unix and run X
windows (it's actually cheaper than OS/2).

My Machine:
    - 35 Mhz. 368/387 with 8M (all same type and speed) RAM
    - 160M Micropolis ESDI Hard drive
    - ET4000 based SVGA Card and NEC 3D monitor
    - Everything is in one partition (I have not needed to boot DOS
since I         put 0S/2 on my machine and so I got rid of all of the
partions.)

            Later...

            Jason A. Goldstein
(or should it be J. Ari Goldstein - send in your votes)
___________________________________________
I've got a lot of good ideas...
The problem is, most of them suck!
        - George Carlin

Over, Finished, Gone, Done, Out.  (Finally)
From: lbv2@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu (BRIAN PAUL VAN LIEU)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.apps
Subject: Borland E-mail address, and QPro
Date: 16 Dec 92 21:46:24 GMT
Organization: Lehigh University


    I had several people ask me for the Borland e-mail address (which is
    funny, since I though I got it here). One person mentioned that if
    everyone wrote, bugging them about C++, it might send a message to
    management. If anything, it will keep Tim (thi guy who answers) quite busy.

    There was another address I initially wrote to. The address returned to me
    is as follows: (I hope it works...)

        76701.251@compuserve.com


        I am not familiar with compuserve, but that sounds like an account.
        Maybe the address I was given mimmicks this address. I am new at
        this...


     About QPro. THis is funny. His first sentance was 'I can not comment on
     products not announced'. He then went on to say, 'I honestly haven't
     heard anything about QPor. I believe they are waiting to see how C++ and
     Objectvision sell...'.

     Huh? You can't comment, but you did anyway. Smells like Tuna.

     So, they are waiting to see how C++ does? Well, they wouldn't have to
     wait too long it they would release the *%*&@!^ product. Zortech was
     released the other day, right?? I wonder if it will effect their sales...


                                                cheers,

                                                bvl
-- 

  Brian P. Van Lieu
  Lehigh University-AXP
  lbv2@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu

            OS/2 2.0...anything else is just a DOS.
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.apps
From: silveanu@uhuru.uchicago.edu (Adrian Silveanu)
Subject: EISA, ISA, ISA LB & my computer
Organization: University of Chicago
Date: Sun, 20 Dec 1992 19:40:54 GMT

Hello, could someone tell me which of the following Architectures does 
OS/2 2.0 likes the most:
EISA
ISA
ISA /w LB

I am asking, because I am planning to buy a 486DX at 50 or 66Mhz once the
P5 comes out. Right now I have a 386sx 16Mhz ISA with a 426MB hard drive,
16 MB of ram and a super vga card running as VGA. The hard drive is IDE.
Also is there anything I can do now to speed up my computer?

Thanks for all the help,

Adrian
From: tony@jassys.UUCP (Tony Holden)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.apps
Subject: os2 as a news machine?
Date: 19 Dec 92 23:38:19 GMT
Organization: HSC CO.

I've been looking at os2 up at work and have seen that it might
possibly replace my old Xenix machine here at home that I use for
news.

Has anyone come up with uucp and news software that's been ported to
os2?


-- 
Tony Holden					live on the edge,
tony@jassys					  Bank in Texas
jassys!tony@rwsys.lonestar.org
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.apps
From: sci240s@monu6.cc.monash.edu.au (Wey Jing HO)
Subject: Re: X11 server in OS/2?
Organization: Monash University, Melb., Australia.
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1992 01:15:33 GMT

In <rbeebe.17.0@surgery.med.yale.edu> rbeebe@surgery.med.yale.edu (Rick Beebe) writes:

>In article <1992Dec14.233901.2391@mksol.dseg.ti.com> mccall@mksol.dseg.ti.com (fred j mccall 575-3539) writes:
>>From: mccall@mksol.dseg.ti.com (fred j mccall 575-3539)
>>Subject: Re: X11 server in OS/2?
>>Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 23:39:01 GMT

>>In <724214258snx@galisant.demon.co.uk> gordon@galisant.demon.co.uk (Gordon Beck) writes:


>>>In article <1992Dec12.064442.2859@monu6.cc.monash.edu.au> sci240s@monu6.cc.monash.edu.au (Wey Jing HO) writes:

>>>> Anyone know of any X11 client available under OS/2? Just thougt it
>>>> would be noce to have everything available under my 486 box (ie, DOS,
>>>> Windows, OS/2 and X11 applications).
>>>>
>>>>
>I think you're right, it only offers server support. However, the original 
>question--though it says client--implies that he's looking for a server.
I am the original poster. I was kinda interested on how to produce X programs
on the OS/2 boxes (eg, xhello that comes with the PMX).


>The IBM TCP/IP server works, but not very well. Most of the applications 
>I've tried come up with some error--usually about some illegal X call. Then 
>I get a dialog box asking if I want to terminate the server. About half the 
>time, even if I say NO, it terminates anyway. Sigh.

There must be something wrong with your setup or something else. I have tried
XView, Khoros, and a few other simple X programs from a Sun Sparc2GS and
everything seem to be running well. I have 486-33 with 16MB and currently I
am running the TCP/IP, PMX stuffs with the Beta distribution (from PDK1) plus
their respective CSD or pathches applied.
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^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
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>Physics Dept., Monash University ( Caulfield Campus ), Melbourne, AUSTRALIA<
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From: davem@iplmail.orl.mmc.com (Dave Mckinny)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.apps
Subject: Problems with Trident 32-bit drivers
Date: 17 Dec 92 16:54:21 GMT
Organization: Martin Marietta

Hi Gang,
I just wanted to know if anybody else has seen this behavior.

1) I can call up the Command Reference but when I try to access a command
    I get an error message, where the WPS restarts itself. Then NONE of the
    windows, message boxes, or dialog boxes render properly. This condition
    gets worse with every attempt to do anything such that the system is 
    COMPLETLY HUNG in about 30 seconds. ONLY POWER CYCLING BRINGS IT BACK!

2) Any attempt to use the Scheme Editor produces similar problems.

I went back to standard VGA after having to chkdsk /f:3 on both my hpfs 
partitions THREE TIMES EACH, and reinstalling the SP. Otherwise the system
would not finish booting, it stuck at the flashing curser after the os2 logo.
And yes I did make the suggested backups when I installed the drivers and 
copied the files back to their appropriate directories when I tried to restore
standard VGA. Also the colors were, shall we say, less than correct.

I did otherwise like the drivers.

By the way my system is as follows

486/33 64K cache
Two 120 MB Maxtor IDE Drives
    Master: C partition Primay, FAT, 80 MB  
            E partition Logical OS/2 boot area, HPFS, 40 MB
    Slave:  D partition OS/2 data and Swapfile, HPFS, 120 MB
16 MB ram
Trident 8900C SVGA (obviously)

Unless someone tells me something to the contrary I'm going to assume these
are still bugs in the beta code and give trident a buzz.

Good day to you all,

David D. McKinny davem@orl.mmc.com