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From: MLONG@isucard.card.iastate.edu
Subject: Re: Drag and Drop file transfer. How?
Organization: CARD
Date: Fri, 4 Sep 1992 21:30:15 GMT

In article <1992Sep4.164421.26775@colorado.edu>                                 
doug@shako.Colorado.EDU (Doug McKnight) writes:                                 
                                                                                
>                                                                               
>I would like to set up my os/2 machine so that someone can drag                
>and drop a file and have it transferred (by modem using kermit or              
>possibly xmodem) to my sparc.                                                  
>                                                                               
>I have been playing with an unregistered version of pmcomm but i'm             
>unsure if the scripting would allow this to work. I'm reluctant                
>to buy it in the dark, as it were.                                             
>                                                                               
>I also have been looking at pmftrm (from IBM) but it looks, to me, like the    
>scripting is limited to a small number of send/response strings. It this the   
>case.                                                                          
>                                                                               
>A perfectly good alternative would be to have an icon which, when clicked,     
>transferred the entire contents of a folder.                                   
>                                                                               
>What suggestions do all you gurus have? Is there a nice elegant inexpensive    
>way to do this.                                                                
>                                                                               
>Douglas                                                                        
>                                                                               
Not exactly what you are doing, but a REXX utility has been written to do this  
for Extended Services 3270 file transfer - drag a file to an icon, and have it  
upload to host.                                                                 
If you are interested in the REXX code I can see if I can find it again :=>     
Mike Long                                                                       
Iowa State University                                                           
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu (Timothy F. Sipples)
Subject: Re: Which EISA SCSI controller to buy?
Reply-To: sip1@midway.uchicago.edu
Organization: Dept. of Econ., Univ. of Chicago
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1992 15:54:29 GMT

In article <EecI7FS00awDA7K4Jb@andrew.cmu.edu> km4c+@andrew.cmu.edu (Ke-Wei Ma) writes:
>   I was wondering if anybody can suggest a good EISA scsi controller
>that I should get that will run well in both DOS and OS/2 environments? 
>The first controller that comes to mind is the Adaptec 1740.  Has all
>the incompatiblity been fixed between running it in enhanced mode under
>OS/2 yet?

The Adaptec is currently the favorite since it seems to support more
devices under OS/2 than most anything else.  Adaptec has just released
some new, patched drivers for their adapters (filename ahabeta.zoo,
available via anonymous ftp from ftp-os2.nmsu.edu), so they are
addressing problems as they come up, but I haven't heard of any
problems since May.

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From: km4c+@andrew.cmu.edu (Ke-Wei Ma)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Which EISA SCSI controller to buy?
Date: 30 Aug 92 13:46:57 GMT
Article-I.D.: andrew.EecI7FS00awDA7K4Jb
Organization: Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA


   I was wondering if anybody can suggest a good EISA scsi controller
that I should get that will run well in both DOS and OS/2 environments? 
The first controller that comes to mind is the Adaptec 1740.  Has all
the incompatiblity been fixed between running it in enhanced mode under
OS/2 yet?

Ke-Wei
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: wiegand@rtsg.mot.com (Robert Wiegand)
Subject: Re: Migrating Windows programs *after* repartioning and reformatting...
Reply-To: motcid!wiegand@uunet.uu.net
Organization: Motorola Inc., Cellular Infrastructure Group
Distribution: all
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1992 18:02:19 GMT

riehm@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca (Carl Riehm) writes:

>My disk (120mb) is partitioned a la DOS 3.3:  4 partitions c d e f.  
>After I install OS/2, I want to end up with 2 logical disks of 40mb and
>80mb, both formatted for HPFS.  How do I do this with a minimum of fuss?

>So far I have backed up my files using DOS backup to be safe (I hope).  Will
>they restore to an HPFS disk?  And if so, how do I migrate my windows programs
>in particular, as painlessly as possible (since I can't take advantage of the
>migration procedure provided during the OS/2 installation)?
>Carl Riehm.

I'm not sure about restoring you backup files after installing OS/2.

However, I do know that you don't have to do the migration at install
time. OS/2 includes a migrate program which you can use to perform
program migration at any time. So after you have installed OS/2 and
restored you application you can then do the migration.


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From: Steve_Goyette@mindlink.bc.ca (Steve Goyette)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: os/2 win3.1 support
Date: 3 Sep 92 23:00:16 GMT
Organization: MIND LINK! - British Columbia, Canada
Distribution: world

As a matter of fact, yet... Out here in the real world, we often get beta and
test versions of software.  The last beta before release was available to
specific sites up to 3 months before the software was  on the shelves.  The
point was that Windows 3.1 makes a nice try at what it does, but other than a
slick interface and a wealth of promises, it doesn't come through.  OS/2 does
(at least for the applications and needs that I have)

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From: das9674@usl.edu (Stephenson Daniel A)
Subject: HOW to change video drivers for FS WINOS2???
Organization: University of Southwestern Louisiana
Date: Sat, 29 Aug 1992 01:50:52 GMT

Hi there, I've found some hires Windows 3.0 drivers for my Oak
video card, andwant to use them for full screen WinOS2.

Has anyone else out there done this and can tell me how to set this up?
I have fiddled around with numerous things so far, but no luck

Thanks...this wouldn't be a FAQ, would it?
.

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From: bbm@po.CWRU.Edu (Brian B. Mathewson)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Some leftover problems with OS/2
Date: 2 Sep 1992 05:20:33 GMT
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
Reply-To: bbm@po.CWRU.Edu (Brian B. Mathewson)
NNTP-Posting-Host: slc12.ins.cwru.edu


Here are some problems I've had with OS/2 which I haven't seen reported
and which I don't think have been corrected.

By the way, I use a 16MHz 386SX and 6 Megs of RAM with the FAT file 
system.  (I'd go to 8 Megs, but I'd have to buy SIPPs which wouldn't
be compatible with a new motherboard.)


Problems with OS/2:

Since one of IBM's fixes, I've never had any more TRAPs.  However, OS/2
hangs sporadically when I try to do too many things at once.  Sometimes 
Ctrl-Esc gets out of it.  Most other times, the WorkPlace Shell is just 
doing a lot of routine things but with a lot of disk thrashing, and it 
hangs.  Ctrl-Esc usually makes the disk light up for a second, but there 
is no activity after that.  It seems that if it's possible for the 
Ctrl-Alt-Del or Ctrl-Alt-NumLock to work, then it should be a recoverable 
error.  But, I've never recovered from a lockup where the mouse stopped 
working.

My theory on why this happens:  OS/2 enters a critical section, or a 
stretch of code with interrupts turned off, but when it turns interrupts 
back on, interrupts have piled up (mouse, keyboard, system timer, disk, 
DMA, video, etc.) and are waiting to be answered, but OS/2 just can't 
catch up on such a slow machine.  (In my experience, not servicing an 
interrupt by the time the next same interrupt comes is usually pretty 
bad, depending on the hardware.)  Or, a deadlock occurs.

SVGA support is lacking.  My WD 90C11 chip is not handled properly, even 
with SVGA ON and the latest fixes and all the FAQ tips.  It's registers
are not saved/restored properly and it loses sync with the monitor
sometimes when switching between back from full-screen DOS sessions.
Using the standard VGA resolution drivers (VVGA.SYS and BVHVGA.SYS)
does not result in the same problem, but I can't leave programs in SVGA 
modes before switching.  However, I'd rather have them work on the 32-bit 
video drivers first than this.

Why do folders sometimes lose arrangement of icons?  Sometimes the icons 
are moved way down, and you have to select Arrange to get them back 
together.  (I've heard people report this problem before... Has it been
resolved yet?)


Performance problems:

Floppy access from the WPS (i.e. double-clicking on the A: icon) prevents 
subsequent opening/closing/moving/resizing of windows until the Drive A: 
window opens up.  Even though the WPS is not multithreaded (which would 
be nice), somehow, perhaps this could be coded so that it doesn't wait 
for the floppy.

Have a speedier Find operation and Open/Close folders operations.
The WPS find is slow compared to a [C:\] DIR /S WHATEVER.*
Is it just because the thread runs at a lower priority?

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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc,comp.os.os2.advocacy
From: jemenake@zeus.calpoly.edu (Joe Emenaker)
Subject: Re: OS/2 Win3.1 support *better* than MS!
Organization: California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo
Date: Sat, 29 Aug 1992 06:45:54 GMT

tomh@wes.on.ca (Tom Haapanen) writes:
>thompson@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu writes:
>> Well, the bigger packages get, the more enticing 32 bit code becomes. 
>> So in order to use something the OS/2 has (32 bitness), the product
>> is made incompatible with OS/2.  Chances are that these vendors
>> will recognize that 32 bitness along with all the other features OS/2
>> provides are what they need for these growing packages.
>
>Sure, 32-bitness is an advantage.  But the choice isn't quite so simple
>for developers -- there is also the option of doing a fast Win32 port
>and selling the product for Windows NT and Windows 3.1 + Win32s.
>
>If I were IBM, I'd be *intensively* lobbying the ISVs to make sure they
>are putting at least as much effort into their OS/2 versions as any Windows
>NT development.  Whether they are actually doing anything like this...

I read in a file that supposedly came from IBM that the folks at Boca are
planning on releasing a package that will convert your Windows code into
OS/2 code. I don't rememeber if it just converted the source-code, or if it
converted the source and then compiled directly to exes, but they
definitely made it sound like it would be very trouble-free. As long as
it's not priced too high, we MIGHT be able to expect a flood of OS/2 ported
programs after that conversion kit ships.

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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc,comp.multimedia
From: reimer@fraser.sfu.ca (Kenneth Ryan Reimer)
Subject: Re: Live video or video capture in window available?
Organization: Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C., Canada
Date: Tue, 1 Sep 1992 01:48:21 GMT

shiva@well.sf.ca.us (Kenneth Porter) writes:
>What hardware/software is available for displaying video in a window and
>capturing frames?  Is anyone providing OS/2 support for this yet?  Does
>anyone plan such support?

I'd recommend VideoLogic's DVA-4000, which has DOS, Windows and OS/2 drivers.
It supports analog NTSC/PAL video input via composite, RGBS or YC cabling.

>I need both ISA and MCA cards.  Coexistence with Super VGA, 8514, or
>XGA is desirable, as the displayed image needs a lot of resolution.

They offer both MCA and ISA versions, which are functionally identical.  Super
VGA modes are supported on the ISA platform, I'm not sure about MCA.  You can
reach them at (617) 494-0530.  We have a lot of experience with their products
and can vouch for the quality...  but they're pretty expensive.  Good luck!
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: turtle@brahms.udel.edu (Anthony J Collins)
Subject: Communications Manager and Host-directed printing
Organization: University of Delaware
Distribution: comp.os.os2.misc
Date: Thu, 3 Sep 1992 12:17:10 GMT

I have a PC running Communications Manager that is connected to a 
mainframe by a SDLC card.  Also, I have a laser printer attached to
the PC and I would like to configure Communications Manager so mainframe
applications can print to the laser printer on the PC.  The documentation
seems to indicate this is possible.  Has anyone worked out the details?
I'm looking for the key parameters that could be wrong.  Any help or
knowledge would be appreciated.  Thanks!

Tony

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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc,comp.os.os2.programmer,comp.os.os2.apps,comp.os.os2.advocacy
Subject: Re: IS IBM UK STILL IN THE STONE AGE???
From: Steve.Withers@bbs.actrix.gen.nz
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1992 09:17:36 GMT
Organization: Actrix Information Exchange

In article <liuyu.715220479@kramden> liuyu@kramden.nyu.edu (Liuyu) writes:
> 
> >You think Microsoft wrote the Herc driver for Windows?  Heh.  Yeah,
> >right.  Herc wrote it.  If Herc refuses to write an OS/2 driver, well
> >that's Herc screwing over their own customers, it's not IBM's fault.
> 
> Prove it. 
> 
> Did Herc also write all the drivers for the tons of software that support Herc?
> IBM refuses to write driver for a standard from a competitor. It's like Lotus
> refuses to write a standard VGA driver for its 123. And it expects IBM to write
> it. It sure doesn't make any sense.
> 
> >>Time to support all standards.
> 
> >I agree.  Herc should support OS/2.  They don't.
> 
> You got it backward! OS/2 should support all standards.


This little interchange should provide us all with some insights as to why we
don't have drivers for many products. This is *exactly* the sort of dispute
that is preventing HP from writing drivers for the Deskjet 500c......
 
Some one has to back down - and incur the costs of development. Those are
real dollars, folks. Perhaps when OS/2 has sold 2 million copies, HP might
budge - and Hercules.
 
Steve
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From: dic5340@hertz.njit.edu (David Charlap)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: DOS VDM can't see new file in A:
Date: 27 Aug 92 20:02:58 GMT
Organization: New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, N.J.

In article <27AUG199210410687@vmsa.is.csupomona.edu> cvadrtbc@vmsa.is.csupomona.edu (Srikanth Viswanathan) writes:
>In article <1992Aug26.053814.13068@news.columbia.edu>, mig@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Meir I Green) writes...
>>Is there any way to "boot DOS on drive B" instead of A?
>>Is this a limitation which is in OS/2 or in the hardware?
>> 
>>I don't mean boot DOS, I mean boot a virtual machine from that disk's boot
>>sector!
>
>Yeah, just change the DOS_STARUP_DRIVE in the Settings to B: instead of
>A:.

That doesn't work.  At least it doesn't on my computer.
DOS_STARTUP_DRIVE must either be A:, or a path to an image file on the
hard disk.

Note that it's simple to make an image file from a disk in drive B:.


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From: dic5340@hertz.njit.edu (David Charlap)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: Can't print on Epson LQ500
Date: 31 Aug 92 05:42:10 GMT
Organization: New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, N.J.

In article <wa77PB1w163w@coyote.datalog.com> ayee@coyote.datalog.com (allen yee) writes:
>I am having problem printing on the Epson LQ500.  The problem is as
>follows:
>      Loss of many characters in the first page.
> 
>If someone can help me fix this problem, I would greatly appreciated.
>Oh yeah, I am using Epson.drv driver which was supply by OS/2 2.0.

Two possibilities:

1) A bug in the driver.  New Epson drivers were just posted to
   comp.binaries.os2.  Get them and find out.  I will have them
   installed soon and report back.  (My printer is an LQ-500)

2) A bug in the spooler.

I notice that the printer will mangle the top of a page if I begin
printing from Word and abort the print run instead of letting it run
to completion.  I have to let a print job (any job) complete before
the driver/spooler/printer reset properly to allow a new job to being
properly. 

If I take care not to abort a print job, everything works fine.


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From: dic5340@hertz.njit.edu (David Charlap)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: using SHARE under OS2 Dos sessions
Date: 26 Aug 92 20:14:01 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, N.J.

In article <17g7h4INNq0a@matt.ksu.ksu.edu> stacyl@matt.ksu.ksu.edu (Stacy Brad Lacy) writes:
>I have some software that needs to use SHARE  in a dos window to
>allow correct processing of data files.  I have noticed that no
>SHARE command is available in the \OS2\MDOS directory.  Compounded wiht
>the fact that I can't get my DOS 5.0 SHARE command to work since I
>get "incorrect dos version messages" I haven't found a solution to the
>problem.
>
>I have looked through nearly all of the on-line help in OS2 and came up
>empty handed.
>
>Is there a way to replicate the dos SHARE command in a OS2/dos window?

You don't have to.  SHARE is only necessary for multiple processes
accessing the disk at once and for FCB access to large partitions
(under dos 4.0).  DOS emulator sessions have this built in (remember,
they access the multi-processing OS/2 file systems).

You can use SHARE in a Specific DOS session (like a DOS 5.0 VDM boot)
if you think you have a need for it.

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From: michael.hagerty@spacebbs.com (Michael Hagerty) 
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: S3 video card
Date: 26 Aug 92 19:12:00 GMT
Distribution: na
Organization: SPACE BBS - Menlo Park, CA - 10 Lines + 4gB - 415-323-4193
Reply-To: michael.hagerty@spacebbs.com (Michael Hagerty) 

T . From: "tbk" <UKJP@DKAUNI2.BITNET>
T . Subject: S3 video card
T .
T . Does the S3 vidoe card have any advantage in OS/2? Are there drivers
T . for S3 boards?

At present, no, there is absolutely no advantage to an S3 video card.

There are no OS/2 drivers for the S3 chip and it is believed that S2 may
be slow-rolling the drivers, awaiting the release of the 32-bit graphics
engine....  Sorry for the news (I have a Diamond Stealth VRAM [S3] card
and it is no better under OS/2 than a cheapo VGA card).

Regards, Mikey
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From: lbv2@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu (m.l. gore)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Creating a RAM drive from Config.SYS
Date: 2 Sep 92 01:50:17 GMT
Organization: Lehigh University


    This sounds silly, but does anyone have one? I recently upped my RAM to 20
    meg. I prefer a several meg RAM drive for copying, backing up, and
    especially to download.

    I skimmed through the RED books, only to become confused with the device
    driver VDISK, which creates a virtual disk, but the syntax only states

    DEVICE = {path} {size},{two other switches for storage type}

    Does this create a RAM drive at the next available drive letter.

    I am a little weary of screwing with the Config.Sys, after crashing the
    system with a bad cache statement (no joke).


                                            thanks,

                                            bvl
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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: unruh@physics.ubc.ca (William Unruh)
Subject: Re: Difference between DOS upgrade and full version
Organization: University of British Columbia, Vancouver, B.C., Canada
Date: Tue, 1 Sep 1992 22:51:38 GMT

dic5340@hertz.njit.edu (David Charlap) writes:

>Note that your OS/2 "upgrade" install disks get marked once you make
>your first installation with them.  Afterwards, they're just like
>ordinary install disks.  You can install OS/2 onto an unformatted
>system with it after this.


Disk 1 does if it is not write protected ( mine was while disk 0 which
it does
not write to was not)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: hafting@Lise.Unit.NO (Helge Hafting)
Subject: Re:    VDISK.SYS in one specific DOS Windows
Organization: Norwegian Institute of Technology
Date: Thu, 3 Sep 92 10:44:21 GMT

In article <92246.095542BRYAN@wvnvm.wvnet.edu>, Jerry Bryan <BRYAN@wvnvm.wvnet.edu> writes:
 > Some time ago there was a discussion about VDISK.SYS.  I reported that
 > VDISK.SYS could be used in CONFIG.SYS, in which case the defined
 > virtual disk would be globally accessible to all OS/2 and DOS windows.
 > This does indeed work.  I also reported that VDISK.SYS could be used
 > for just one DOS window, in which case the defined virtual disk would
 > be local to just that one DOS window.  It was reported to me via private
 > mail that this does not work.  The DOS window crashes.
 > 

VDISK is an os/2 device-driver, as far as I know.
An os/2 driver is always loaded when os/2 boots, and is therefore accessible
to all os/2, dos & windows programs.
Only dos device drivers can be accessible to only one dos session.
(ansi.sys is a dos-driver.)
If you try to use an os/2 driver as a driver for dos, dos will try to use
it as a dos driver, and this will probably crash the dos session.
I cannot see why you want a virtual disk restricted to only one dos-session,
but you might try a msdos virtual disk driver, such as ramdrive.sys .
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