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From: snodjs@tuckwell.unx.sas.com (Dan Squillace)
Subject: *WARNING* SPM/2 Beta Expiration Problem: System Hang
 
Originator: snodjs@tuckwell.unx.sas.com
Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1993 14:02:27 GMT
Organization: SAS Institute Inc.


If you have the SPM/2 beta (performance monitor for OS/2) which 
expired 01Jan93, get any SPM/2 statements out of  CONFIG.SYS before 
the next time you boot your system.  Otherwise you may hang before 
the WPS comes up.  
 
Dan Squillace
SAS Institute Inc. 
Cary, NC
From: forster@chem.tu-berlin.de (Peter Forster)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: SCSI Hard Drive + 2 IDE Drives -- OS/2 won't boot
Date: 8 Jan 1993 17:49:33 GMT
Organization: Technische Universitaet Berlin, Germany
Distribution: world
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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: dlcogswe@vela.acs.oakland.edu (Dan Cogswell)
Subject: Re: Radius XGA-2 board
Organization: Oakland University, Rochester MI.
Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1993 02:02:12 GMT

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

>In article <dlcogswe.726208642@vela> dlcogswe@vela.acs.oakland.edu (Dan Cogswell) writes:
>>I talked to a Radius customer support person today and asked him some
>>questions about their upcoming ISA XGA-2 board.  He's sending me a full info
>>pack, but these are some things he told me:
>>
>> -- Shipping Mid-January
>> -- Direct sales only initially because of high demand
>> -- First shipment is already spoken for
>> -- Price:  $499. Period.  No specials, no retail discounts.

>Yeah, right.  That's called price fixing.  They can not dictate what
>retailers will charge.  And considering that all sales will be through
>dealers, I don't see how they can make this statement.  Unless they
>charge their dealers $499.  Dealers will get a cheaper price if
>they're to sell it at $499, which means there will be discounting and
>competition. 

He told me dealers wouldn't be getting any boards for quite a while
because of the high demand.  I figure by June or so there will be a
couple of other boards out there and Radius will get their feces
assembled and the boards will be available for $300 or so.

-- 
Dan Cogswell               Or as we say in Michigan:  "Dee-troit"


Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: msmith@netcom.com (Martin P. Smith)
Subject: Re: 2.1 beta found on Hobbes
Organization: Netcom Online Communications Services (408-241-9760 login: guest)
Date: Sun, 10 Jan 1993 07:27:01 GMT

In article <1993Jan10.060745.10540@nwnexus.WA.COM> davego@halcyon.com (Dave Oliphant) writes:
>In article <1993Jan9.193339.24403@ccnews.nctu.edu.tw> u7822042@cc2.nctu.edu.tw () writes:
>>Hi all
>>
>>   I find the 2.1 beta version on hobbes now. It's in /pub/os2/2.1/beta/35
>>
>>directory. I think anyone who don't have a CD-ROM drivers will be happy
>>
>>hear this. I am downloading it now. And I am waiting for the morning to buy
>>
>>3"5 diskettes.It's a long night.
>
>Well, its 2000 hours here in Seattle on Saturday, 9 January 1993, I
>don't have a date, nor any party to go to, nobody likes me, and now,
>when I try to find the above, its not there.  What a great day! :-(!!!
>
>(Actually, I just remembered:  my cat still likes me!!! :=).
>

I am GLAD that the beta was removed from hobbes. The last thing developers
want to see is blatent breaches of copyright even for beta software. If this
had been allowed to continue then IBM may have decided to return to the pre
World wide DAP beta test mode. If you know somebody with a CD-ROM then pay 
$15 to get the CD and copy the disks. The other option is to ask nicely 
somebody in your local area who has the beta to make a copy for you from  
thier allowed 10 copies. My company is currently only using 5 of my alloted
10 copies. ( The rest are however already allocated ) 

Please support the devlopment efforts of developers large and small BUY
software that you use and pay the poor souls who write shareware otherwise
they will stop developing software.

Martin P. Smith
netcom.com

Software Piracy is a fancy phrase for STEALING 



Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: jardined@qucis.queensu.ca (Donald Jardine)
Subject: Re: 2 monitors under PM?
Organization: Computing & Information Science, Queen's University at Kingston
Date: Sat, 9 Jan 1993 14:09:51 GMT

In article <1993Jan9.050847.5868@samba.oit.unc.edu> Brandon.Vanevery@launchpad.unc.edu (Brandon Vanevery) writes:
>
>Can OS/2 handle a 2 monitor system gracefully?  Here's what I have in
>mind: OS/2 PM running on one monitor, and a full screen, 24-bit, 640 x 480
>DOS window on the other, using a Tseng ET4000 card for the latter.
>
>Alternately, maybe I'll invest in a Nova True Color board with native OS/2
>drivers for 1024 x 768 x 24-bit.
>
>At any rate, anyone have experience getting OS/2 to work on 2 monitors,
>whatever the resolution?
>

I'm running a Cornerstone 1600x1200 19" mono display with its own card and
display.dll for PM, and a NEC 3FGX screen with ATI Vantage card for the full-
screen OS2 and DOS/WINOS2.  Only one screen is active at a time, and the
PM display is blanked when the full-screen process is displaying. When PM
is active, the secondary screen is not updated.  However, within these 
limitations, it works.  I have never been able to disccover the magic 
incantations that will allow the ATI card to display in 8514 mode. 
Modifying OS2 config.sys and WINOS2 system.ini to try to make the system
use any other drivers except VGA has uniformly resulted in non-display of
WINOS2 screens.  Absent detailed documentation on the use and interaction
between display.dll, bvhvga, bvhsvga, bvh8514a, 8514a.sys, 8514.drv etc. etc.,
it's impossible for me to figure out what's actually happening :-).
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: amah@IASTATE.EDU ()
Subject: Re: OS/2 2.1 Beta Problems. ( Cross linked files. Paradise Video. etc.)
Reply-To: amah@IASTATE.EDU ()
Organization: Iowa State University
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 06:53:43 GMT

In article <1993Jan6.110244.7128@gw.wmich.edu>, x90wardell@gw.wmich.edu writes:
> 	I have read a lot about people using the DSPinstall program
> that is in OS/2.
> 
> 	DO NOT USE THIS PROGRAM.  Sometimes it may work but quite
> often it will not work and will cause the screen to be black on
> bootup or just plain gray.  
> 
> 	If you want to install a different graphics mode, use
> Selective Install.  I know it takes longer but it is safe.
> 
> 					-Brad
> 
Hi!

Thanks for the replies. Last night after posting that message I did a Selective
Installl and it did work!. Great!, now I can use 800X600 and 1024X768 modes in
256 colors. Too bad I can't run seamless WINOS2 yet.

I still have that problem with Crosslinking in EAs. Funny; all the files that
are cross linked are those program files which existed in my WIN31 desktop (I
used my WIN31 desktop to build WINOS2 desktop and chose the auto update WIN31
for any changes in WINOS2 desktop option). Maybe it's supposed to be that way.
Any comments?


Thanks!



Max.
amah@iastate.edu
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu (Timothy F. Sipples)
Subject: Re: Extracting text from .INF files
Reply-To: sip1@midway.uchicago.edu
Organization: Dept. of Econ., Univ. of Chicago
Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1993 04:31:27 GMT

In article <1993Jan5.210544.29141@njitgw.njit.edu> dic5340@hertz.njit.edu (David Charlap) writes:
>>I guessing and may be showing my ignorance.  I wonder if this is what
>>the IBMNULL driver that is always loaded does.  If I were trying to do
>>something like what you are, I would create a new printer (drag a printer
>>object out of the Template folder) and click on IBMNULL for the driver
>>and output to a file checkbox and then the Create pushbutton.  If you
>>get no better suggestions try it and see.
>Perhaps, but I don't think so.  I've installed the IBMNULL driver.
>(BTW, you must install it - from printer disk 1, then re-apply the CSD
>- a quick operation the second time around.  If you don't actually
>install IBMNULL, you don't get anything from that driver)  When I use
>IBMNULL to print text files, I get strait text, but when an app tries
>to print graphics (or ATM fonts) using it, the printer gets old
>Epson/IBM 9-pin graphics.  I've no problem, since my printer is an
>Epson, but it won't be what you want.

For OS/2 applications that do not have print selection mechanisms you
need to make the IBMNULL print object the default.  To do so, click on
the IBMNULL printer object you've created with mouse button two, then
select the appropriate menu option.

-- 
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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: sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu (Timothy F. Sipples)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: seemless window support
Date: 6 Jan 93 03:28:45 GMT
Reply-To: sip1@midway.uchicago.edu
Organization: Dept. of Econ., Univ. of Chicago

In article <726024198snx@kdrealm.linet.org> mikel@kdrealm.linet.org (Mikel Beck) writes:
>> The Service Pak provides seamless Win-OS/2 support for Tseng
>> 4000-based SuperVGA adapters.  The OS/2 2.1 beta extends that support
>> to numerous other SuperVGA adapters.
>        Which are the other "numerous other" supported adapters?

ATI VGA Wonder series;
Video7/Headland VRAM II;
IBM 256c (Cirrus chipset, ThinkPad 700C);
Trident TVGA;
Tseng ET4000;
Western Digital/Paradise.

I can give you the full list of WD/Paradise chipsets if you need them.

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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu (Timothy F. Sipples)
Subject: Re: How to customize? (was Re: Reformat needed to install 2.1 over 2.1 beta?)
Reply-To: sip1@midway.uchicago.edu
Organization: Dept. of Econ., Univ. of Chicago
Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1993 04:04:14 GMT

In article <1ib6v5INNoiq@agate.berkeley.edu> stanton@haas.berkeley.edu (Richard Stanton) writes:
>While some things can easily be added to directories on a different disk,
>the logical place for a lot of this stuff seems to be the directory tree
>containing the operating system. This of course gets destroyed when you
>reformat.
>Has anyone worked out a "perfect" solution to this problem? Writing every
>little change on a piece of paper just doesn't sound realistic.

The situation appears to be cleaned up a lot with OS/2 2.1.  If you
read through the online user manual that comes on the CD-ROM in INF
form (use VIEW to read it), there's now some discussion of using the
INI files to copy your desktop to another machine.  I suppose the same
principle may now apply to changes in version -- once you're up to
2.1, when released.

I'm working from memory on this one -- apologies for the lack of
specificity.

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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.misc
From: pprior@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Paul A Prior)
Subject: Re: Can I display windowed GIFS?
Organization: The Ohio State University
Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1993 22:45:17 GMT

In article <1993Jan4.175811.7653@apgea.army.mil> rcmerrit@apgea.army.mil (Robert C. Merritt <rcmerrit>) writes:
>
>Well, If you want to use a windoze program (cough, cough) in your os 2 
>enviroment, I would suggest Paint Shop Pro. I do that with my BBS.
>Rob Merritt

Bzzzt.  ATI has seen fit not to write any seamless drivers, so all
windoze stuff runs full screen.  thanks anyway!

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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: mjn@sbmiclr.cs.sunysb.edu (The Sixth Replicant)
Subject: Re: OS/2 2.1 Bugs Uncovered
Organization: Tyrell Corp.
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 17:28:56 GMT

In article <1993Jan6.195924.20641@midway.uchicago.edu> sip1@midway.uchicago.edu writes:
>(5) Wrong pointer when flipping through notebook pages.  Select Open
>-> Settings for the OS/2 Desktop (by clicking with mouse button two on
>the desktop background) or for any print object.  Flip through the
>pages by repeated clicking on the right arrow (lower right).  With
>both notebooks, the first time the General page is displayed the mouse
>pointer is the character insert bar, not the arrow.  Move the mouse
>pointer off the arrows, then back on -- now the mouse pointer is the
>correct type.  With the OS/2 Desktop notebook, this also occurs on
>File page.  Evidentally the mouse pointer is not being properly
>initialized on those pages.

This is a problem from the SP. I noticed the desktop setup bug shortly
after I loaded it, and I just verified the printer setup has the same
quirk.

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Marc Neuberger                                            mjn@sbcs.sunysb.edu
From: pynq@quads.uchicago.edu (Jeremy Mathers)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: SONY CD-ROM, non SCSI
Keywords: SONY CD-ROM, non SCSI
Date: 8 Jan 93 21:44:59 GMT
Reply-To: pynq@midway.uchicago.edu
Organization: D. J. Dougherty & Associates

In article <1993Jan8.162046.29628@newstand.syr.edu> jtcox@syr.edu writes:
>I have a SONY CD-ROM drive unit (CDU535 series) and host adapter card
>(CDB-240 series) which work fine with MSCDEX in a "DOS from drive a:"
>under OS/2.  But I cannot seem to access the drive from an OS/2
>window.  I would appreciate any information on how to accomplish this,
>if it is possible.

(reformatted for the carriage return impaired)

Anyway, I have a Sony CDU7205, non-SCSI, and the sad fact is we are out
of luck, for now.  Yes, it runs fine in specific DOS.

I talked to Sony about this - they claim to be having OS/2 drivers
available by "March or April".

************************************************************************
If God had intended Man to Walk, He would have given him Feet.

	- pynq@quads.uchicago.edu, who is still costing the net
	  hundreds, if not thousands, of dollars, every time he posts -
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From: pat@berry.Cary.NC.US (Pat Berry)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: Help with Shadow Text Color/Font
Date: Sat, 09 Jan 93 20:25:47 EST
Organization: Berry Communications

friesend@jester.usask.ca (Darryl Friesen) writes:

> I've run accross an interesting problem that I hope someone can shed
> some light on.  Using the scheme palette I can successfully change the
> color of both the Icon Text and Shadow Text, but NOT the font (at least 
> not in the way I want to).

Weird!  I had a similar problem yesterday.  I was able to change to
color of the Icon Text, but not Shadow Text.  I've tried numerous times,
and the Shadow Text stubbornly remains the same color.

Could there be a bug in the Scheme Palette editor?

-- 
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pat@berry.Cary.NC.US                    |  But I have a history of missing the
**** Happy user of OS/2 2.0 ****        |  point of stuff like this."
                                        |  -- Homer Simpson
From: ritz@ritz.mordor.com (Christopher Mauritz)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: Severe system crash when using SIO_V031.
Date: 13 Jan 93 05:18:18 GMT
Organization: Ritz International, Inc. -- Import/Export Consultants
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]

Well, I didn't have a system crash, but it wouldn't work with
Ckermit 5A (188).

Chris

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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: ychung@napier.uwaterloo.ca (Young Chung)
Subject: King's Quest VI settings
Organization: University of Waterloo
Date: Sat, 9 Jan 1993 15:29:39 GMT

Does anybody know a correct setting for this game?  The 'traditional' game
setting doesn't really work with game.  It takes forever to fade betwen '
scenes.


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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: jlloyd@adapcal.UUCP (John Lloyd)
Subject: Re: SCSI HD and CD-ROM problem with Adaptec 1542B
Organization: Adaptec Inc., California
Distribution: na
Date: Tue, 05 Jan 1993 16:27:49 GMT

In article <1993Jan4.061147.17279@tron.bwi.wec.com> tiffany@tron.bwi.wec.com (Robert Tiffany) writes:
>Is anyone running 2 SCSI devices with an adaptec 1542B ?
>I'm trying to get an IBM 3510 <Toshiba> CD-ROM drive to co-exist
>with a MAXTOR 7120 SCSI HD, and I'm having NO luck.  I can get
>either of the devices to work, but not both.  The device with the SCSI
>ID closest to 0 wins.
>
>The card has default jumper settings, except: floppy disabled, and bios
>disabled (I boot from an IDE drive).
>
>FILES:
>10-16-92   2:57a     36708           0  CDFS.IFS
>10-16-92   2:46a      6320           0  OS2ASPI.DMD
>10-16-92   2:41a     32978           0  OS2DASD.DMD
>10-16-92   2:44a     10844           0  OS2SCSI.DMD
> 3-30-92  12:00p     21556           0  CDROM.SYS
> 8-13-92   2:56p     16150           0  AHA154X.ADD
>

hy not try the new OS2CDROM.DMD? The beta release includes later ADD
drivers for all those supported in the shrink wrap.

jlloyd@adapcal.com
From: dic5340@hertz.njit.edu (David Charlap)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: Mac Icons?
Date: 4 Jan 93 22:23:44 GMT
Organization: New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, N.J.

In article <47762@ogicse.ogi.edu> francis@ese.ogi.edu (Francis Moraes) writes:
>I would like to convert some Mac icons to OS/2; does anyone know of a
>program that will do this? I haven't seen any posts on this subject and
>no mention is made to this in the FAQ which seems strange since I would
>think this would be a common enough thing to want to do...

This would be very difficult for the following reasons:

1) Mac icons are not stored in individual files.  They are stored as
   resources in other files.  Much like the way rc.exe binds icons to
executables, but unlike OS/2, the icons can not stand on their own.
This means you must (somehow) get the entire resource fork of a
program into the PC, and parse the icon structure out of it.

2) All mac icons are 32x32, but this is where the similarity ends.
   Icons are stored as a variety of resource types.  There is type
ICON, which is a black & white bitmap; there is ICN#, which is really
two bitmaps: a b&w bitmap and a mask (so parts can be transparent);
there is cicn, which is an 8-bit color bitmap with a mask; then there
is cin4 and cin8, which are 4-bit and 8-bit color icons with masks.
Etc.  So you need to convert each icon to it's respective "size" class
in the .ICO file.  Note also that each icon resource may have it's own
identifier constant, meaning you may have to read other resources to
associate the different forms of an icon with each other.  This is a
real pain, and I wouldn't want to do it.

In short, unless you've a lot of icons to do, you're probably better
off sitting in front of the mac with ResEdit (the resource editor) and
a piece of graph paper and just copy the bitmap that way.  I did the
system 7 trash and Mac icons like this.

BTW, I could be in serious legal trouble if I posted these icons,
couldn't I?  I'd like to share them, but I don't like threats of
lawsuits, either.



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From: pickrell@hoss.unl.edu (Andrew Pickrell)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: HELP - beta installation gives a TRAP 000d
Date: 4 Jan 1993 21:15:40 GMT
Organization: University of Nebraska--Lincoln	
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: hoss.unl.edu
Summary: HELP - 2.1b gives a TRAP 000d on installation
Keywords: beta,trap

I am trying to install the OS/2 2.1 beta on a Compaq 486/25.  I am using
an NEC-36 cdrom with a trantor t-128 scsi controller.  I HAVE successfully
installed it on a Gateway 2000 486/33 with the same cdrom setup.

I am using the same disks (2) that successfully worked on the Gateway.
During the second disk, i get a trap 000d at location 
##0160:fff60967 - 000d:9967. 60000, 9084

If anyone can help, I would like to get the beta up and running on
this computer for evaluaiton (The Gateway only has 4 megs of ram).

Thanks,
Andy

PS:  I have all of the trap information if that is helpful.


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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: 5692330@mcimail.com  (Robert Gammon)
Subject: Re: SCSI coexistence with other adapters
Nntp-Software: PC/TCP NNTP
Organization: Texas Instruments Materials and Controls Group
Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1993 19:16:39 GMT

In article <27DEC199213362183@pavo.concordia.ca> da_maha@pavo.concordia.ca (MAHAR, DEREK A.) writes:

 >> Can a SCSI adapter coexist with ESDI, MFM, RLL, or IDE adapters?  I have
 >> an Ultrastor ESDI controller, and want to install a SCSI CD-ROM drive.  Should
 >> I have any problems doing so?
 >> 
 >> DEREK

I have a Perceptive Solutions Inc (PSI) easyCACHE ESDI controller and a Future
Domain TMC850MEX SCSI controller in the same OS/2 2.0 system, and all is well.
The PSI has two ESDI hard drives attached, and the Future Domain has a CD-ROM
attached.
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