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From: pat@berry.Cary.NC.US (Pat Berry)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: 2.1 beta found on Hobbes
Date: Sun, 10 Jan 93 12:52:42 EST
Organization: Berry Communications

davego@halcyon.com (Dave Oliphant) writes:

> (Actually, I just remembered:  my cat still likes me!!! :=).

Your cat only pretends to like you.  It really just wants your money.

"Cats are scum.  You've read newspaper stories about elderly widows who
die and leave their entire estates to their pet cats, right?  Well, your
cat reads those stories too, and has spent most of its skulking, devious
little life dreaming about inheriting all your money.  You know where it
goes when it disappears for hours at a time?  Investment seminars,
that's where."  -- Dave Barry

-- 
Pat Berry - Cary, North Carolina, USA   |  "At least that's what *I* thought.
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
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: djs6015@ultb.isc.rit.edu (Don Smith)
Subject: Re: Fax Software for OS/2
Originator: djs6015@ultb
Organization: R.I.T.
Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 03:14:40 GMT

In article <93007.100141CATHIE@SLACVM.SLAC.STANFORD.EDU> <CATHIE@SLACVM.SLAC.STANFORD.EDU> writes:
}Does anyone have experience with FaxWorks OS/2, "software that allows users
}to send and receive faxes directly from OS/2 and Windows applications running
}in the OS/2 Workplace Shell Desktop and in WIN-OS/2 by simply using the print
}command"?
}
}Are there similar products that someone might recommend?
}

You may want to try Fax/PM, the fax software which comes with the OS/2
2.1 beta. I believe that the Fax/PM with the beta is slightly crippled
though (only can send one page at a time)... but it may be all you need.


-- 
   | Don Smith                                                          |
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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: daveegan@dhw68k.cts.com (Dave Egan - N6XVZ)
Subject: Can't get ATI Ultra Pro & OS/2 2.0 SrvcPak to sync
Organization: Wolfskill & Dowling residence; Anaheim, CA (USA)
Distribution: na
Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 06:58:43 GMT

I'm running a Gateway 2000 486dx50 w/8mb ram and the ATI Ultra Pro
Graphics Local Bus video card.  I can't get the damn thing to be
useable.  The system boots but the graphics are swacked.  When I 
move the mouse, lots of "static" for lack of a better word, appears.
If I close a window, portions of it remain, making the desktop useless.

I've tried the bit of using the ATI Install program to set the board
to Custom, 60mhz 1024x768 and storing to eeprom.  Not luck.  Loaded
(dspinstl) the 8514/a drivers and SVGA- same gig.  It's even 
duplicatable on my co-workers machine (same configuration).  

Gateway sez "Call ATI".  ATI sez "It should work with stock 2.0 service pak
drivers".  IBM is the only one who is looking into it.  Anybody else with
same problems and a solution?

-- 
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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: rimelsjj@piston.detroit.ingr.com (Jim Rimelspach)
Subject: What is HARDERR.EXE doing to my disk?
Keywords: OS/2,HARDERR.EXE
Organization:                      Intergraph, Midwest Regional Office
Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 13:38:29 GMT

After turning my 386SX on this morning, there was an unsual amount of disk
activity.  I have no apps other than the WPS running.  My disk is formatted
HPFS.  I opened a OS/2 Window and did a PSTAT cmd, the last process in the 
list was HARDERR.EXE.  What's the story??
From: lopes@cogsci.ucsd.EDU (alann lopes)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: Windows Enhanced Mode Support in Beta 2.1
Date: 7 Jan 93 23:27:19 GMT
Organization: University of California, San Diego

In article <1993Jan7.145900.22032@a.cs.okstate.edu> teague@a.cs.okstate.edu (Keith Teague) writes:
>I would like to run a program under WIN-OS/2 3.1 which requires enhanced
>mode support. I understand that this feature is provided by the beta. Can
>anyone tell me how to enable enhanced mode support - or is is provided
>automatically? My application will not install as it cannot sense that
>enhanced mode support is available.
>
>Keith Teague

 Keith, it appears that there is a little bug in the installation
 of the 3.1 support. For you to get enhanced mode you must do
 a seletive install of the windows system after the initial
 installation.  This has worked for me. I also believe that this
 has been discussed in previous postings.  Good Luck.

     alann

 P.S.  The "Better Windows than Windows" claim may be getting
       closer to truth. I can now run multiple instances of
       Quicken and even cut and paste between them with GREAT
       performance. Well, I guess one could do this before, but
       the performance just wasn't there.


   alann lopes:        alopes@ucsd.edu       -- internet
   (619) 534-5438      ALOPES@UCSD           -- bitnet
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: mjn@sbmiclr.cs.sunysb.edu (The Sixth Replicant)
Subject: SCSI termination on NEC CDR-84
Organization: Tyrell Corp.
Date: Sat, 9 Jan 1993 19:49:19 GMT

    I just bought a NEC CDR-84 CD-ROM and an Adaptec 1542B adapter. This
configuration appeared to be the consensus in this group about what was
good for OS/2.
    I'm new to SCSI. The CDROM will be my only SCSI device for the moment.
As I understand it the adapter must be terminated (by leaving in the
terminator resistors), and the CDROM drive must be terminated also. How do
I terminate the drive ?  The drive doc's say nothing about termination,
except to say that if you've installed the drive terminated and it doesn't
work re-install it unterminated and vice versa. Do I have to go out and buy
a SCSI terminator ?  Any help would be appreciated.

-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
Marc Neuberger                                            mjn@sbcs.sunysb.edu
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: patrice@cenparmi.concordia.ca (SCATTOLIN patrice)
Subject: I lost my fonts!!!
Organization: CENPARMI, Concordia University, Montreal, Canada
Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1993 18:11:34 GMT


I installed the fonts I found on hobbes. 
I wanted to remove them because I took too much space so I
removed all the PSF and AFM files. Now the font manager
doesn't find any of standard fonts. Can anybody help? I am running
GA+SP.

Thanks.
-- 
Patrice Scattolin
					patrice@cs.concordia.ca
Concordia University			Montreal, Canada
"I am so far north that Santa lives two blocks from me"
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu (Timothy F. Sipples)
Subject: OS/2 Abbreviations (Was: adaptec 1542b...)
Keywords: adaptec, 1542b
Reply-To: sip1@midway.uchicago.edu
Organization: Dept. of Econ., Univ. of Chicago
Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1993 03:58:54 GMT

In article <1993Jan4.153110.4849@memstvx1.memst.edu> #41811 writes:
>Altho, I do not presently have a computer at home, I can use the Univ's.
>But their printer(s) are not yet functioning.  When I can I will print out
>the FAQ's for OS2, downloaded yesterday.  Until then what are: GA  SP CSD?
>(and by the way thanks for your concern)

GA = General Availability (i.e. OS/2 2.0 shrinkwrap)
SP = Service Pak (the fix diskettes now available for OS/2 2.0)
CSD = Corrective Service Diskette(s), i.e. the Service Pak (they are
now synonyms; IBM is trying to get away from the term CSD).

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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: 003316g@dragon.acadiau.ca (Steve Gregory)
Subject: Re: Someone upload diskimages of Beta 2.1 to hobbes
Organization: Acadia University
Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 18:48:58 GMT

kbass@gmuvax2.gmu.edu (Ken Bass) writes:

>Would someone please be generous enough to upload the disk images to
>hobbes. Many of us dont have a CD ROM drive. The beta is free anyhow and
>available to anyone.

>   ---Ken

     Just so that I can start planning now, how many 1.44 disk images is that?
At any rate it is going to be _fun_ to down load them all, isen't it?

-- 

steve.gregory@acadiau.ca 
Help my .sig file has left me and is seeking a divorce, what should I do ?
< She claims I've been seeing another .sig! >
From: unruh@physics.ubc.ca (William Unruh)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: Someone upload diskimages of Beta 2.1 to hobbes
Date: 8 Jan 1993 21:08:17 GMT
Organization: The University of British Columbia
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: physics.ubc.ca

003316g@dragon.acadiau.ca (Steve Gregory) writes:

>kbass@gmuvax2.gmu.edu (Ken Bass) writes:

>>Would someone please be generous enough to upload the disk images to
>>hobbes. Many of us dont have a CD ROM drive. The beta is free anyhow and
>>available to anyone.

>>   ---Ken

>     Just so that I can start planning now, how many 1.44 disk images is that?
>At any rate it is going to be _fun_ to down load them all, isen't it?

I don't think it will or should happen. 2.1beta is a complete OS2 It
does not have to installed on top of anything else. Why should IBM give
away OS@ for free to the world? At least now there is a slight level of
control.
From: ddurby@girtab.usc.edu (Dennis Durby)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: OS/2 2.1 Beta PDK CD-ROM Now Available
Date: 5 Jan 1993 13:02:49 -0800
Organization: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
Distribution: na
NNTP-Posting-Host: girtab.usc.edu

I phoned the IBM Hotline/Order department yesterday afternoon to see about 
ordering the referenced PDK, and gave them the CD-ROM number from TS's 
post. The service person told me that I had given her the number for the 
2.1 beta CD-ROM, and that there was no new PDK since November, at least 
none she was aware of. I asked if I could speak with a supervisor, and was 
promptly and courteously connected to one. The supervisor also denied 
knowledge of a new PDK for December, checked out the CD-ROM number for me, 
and confirmed that the number was for the December OS/2 2.1 beta. She did 
tell me, however, that this beta disk contains some updates to the Nov. 
PDK, for a few files/functions. 

-Dennis Durby-				| Homophobia: An affliction of some
durby@scf.usc.edu			| folk residing in certain areas in
The University of Southern California	| Colorado, and elsewhere.
    "There's no signature like yo' signature, like no signature I know!"
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: t2372ca@cd1.LRZ-Muenchen.DE (Martin Rast)
Subject: 89-GIF-viewer for OS/2-PM ???
Organization: Leibniz-Rechenzentrum, Muenchen (Germany)
Distribution: all
Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1993 11:49:59 GMT

Hi,

does anybody know a location, where I can get a PM-GIFviewer for viewing
"modern" GIFs. All I have found until know have problems with 89-format !

Please EMail (I'm not reading this board often).

Thanks,
|   Martin Rast                                                                |
|   Email:  Martin.Rast@cd1.lrz-muenchen.de          Packet:  DL3RDR@DB0LAN    |
*============Everyone is a foreigner, almost everywhere...=====================*
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: jake@nora.dei.unipd.it (Luca Polo)
Subject: Re: Changing the colors of OS/2 window
Organization: Universita' di Padova, Italia
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 14:11:16 GMT

In article <1993Jan12.123324.1411@cs.joensuu.fi> jahonen@cs.joensuu.fi (Jarmo Ahonen) writes:
>
>hello,
>
>How can I change the colors of an OS/2 command window (CMD.EXE)
>from white fonts on balck to black fonts on white?
>
>Is it even possible?
You can change fg/bg colors using 
1) An utility like the Norton SA (screen attribute), or
2) if you installed ANSI.SYS device by writing to video an escape sequence
like this: ^[[#;#m, where "^[" is ESCAPE and "#" represents a number (sorry
but I don't remember all ANSI commands...).

Anyway, there's no mean to change colors from WPS or  Settings (or, if
such a mean exists, I don't know about it).

Luca Polo
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: roland@margaret (David A. Braun)
Subject: I've got the OS/2 2.1 beta, Now what do I do with it?
Organization: Choate Rosemary Hall
Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 13:53:37 GMT

I just received the OS/2 2.1 beta/PDK on CD-ROM today... Can someone tell me  
whether I can install this directly off the CD or if I will have to copy it to  
disks?  I have a Texel 3024 CD-ROM (This is compatable, I knoow) and two SCSI  
controllers that I can use it on... a PAS-16 and a SCSI card made by "Storage  
Plus Incorporated"... any help, pleeese...

<roland> David A. Braun
From: glenw@remus.rutgers.edu (Glenn T. Wasserman)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: ATI w/Trident drivers - Long-term report
Date: 13 Jan 93 03:02:51 GMT
Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J.


Just a bit of feedback about using the ATI Wonder with the Trident drivers-
so far pretty good. I think there are still a few problems with stability
(the system hoses from time to time - most commonly when switching from 
full-screen to windowed, or when a full-screen app ends). I also experienced
the system hang on the WPS when I moved one icon onto another - all of these
things never happened before these drivers were installed.

But by and large, they've been reliable and well worth the switch. Now if only
VDM's scrolled a little faster... :|

Another issue - I have not found the netware requester for OS/2 to be reliable
at all. I use C-Net ARCNet hardware for Netware 2.11, and when the network 
drivers are loaded, the system crashes randomly and experiences "bubbles" of
slow-down activity. I'll be moving around or something and (again, randomly)
the system will just pause and sit there - and then after about 3 seconds,
come back to life (and inconveniently remember all of my input during the
interim). Novelll wants $150 per event to ask about this, and I'm pissed. If I
had bought the "Blue" version from IBM, IBM would support it for free. Instead,
I'm told to call a technician, or the guy who sold me Netware. I'm the dealer
and technician. Now that I need help configuring a new product (and really, a
short phone call with more efficient adapter parameters might solve these 
problems - they could be minor) I am left in the dark, experimenting with 
different configurations. Did I mention I'm pissed? Oh, by the way, I have
experienced several trap errors through the course of the day (EACH day).

Just some random thoughts, 
Glenn


























-- 
*	Glenn Wasserman - Rutgers University - Computer Science  	*
*************************************************************************
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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: andreast@athena.mit.edu (Andreas Turanski)
Subject: Re: Help with Shadow Text Color/Font
Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 16:41:14 GMT

In article <oH15wB1w165w@berry.Cary.NC.US> pat@berry.Cary.NC.US (Pat Berry) writes:
>
>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?
>

Pat, come now.... lets not be *NEGATIVE*!!! I found by accident that
the Shadow Text changed (for me at least) after I shut down and rebooted.
So lets not think of this as...as...as a _bug_, but more as a  F E A T U R E.
OS/2 (at least the 2.1 Beta) will change the color of your shadows
only after you have had time to fully think out your decision and reboot.

Then again for some people (myself), this might scare and confound the SHIT
out of them as they reboot MUCH later and then say:

Oh, NO!!! what happened to half of my Icons!!! What's wrong...why
are they orangish-red (as I had chosen)?!?!?!

3 minutes of panic later...
"Oh, yeah...I did tell it to change my Shadow Text to that color...
 GOOD!"


BTW- I agree in *full* re: "Your cat only pretends to like you.
       It really just wants your money." & "Cats are scum."
     I take a dog's "[can we go out and play _together_]" over
     a cat's "[Oh, all right. I'll let you feed me and board me
               just this one more day..but don't BOTHER me or I'm gone!]"
      anyday :)
--
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From: sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu (Timothy F. Sipples)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: ATI VGA Wonder and OS/2 2.1 beta
Date: 6 Jan 93 03:55:41 GMT
Reply-To: sip1@midway.uchicago.edu
Organization: Dept. of Econ., Univ. of Chicago

In article <19930102094650.h198@hosp.med.umich.edu> h198@hosp.med.umich.edu  (Gene Mangum) writes:
>I tried the ATI 640x480x256 drivers that came with OS/2 2.1 beta.   They
>almost work, but I get "sparkles", or colored dots on the screen.   The
>number of dots increases steadily as I use the system.   I had a similar
>problem with the 256c drivers that ATI released a while back.   Otherwise,
>the speed was okay except that DOS/OS2 Window scrolling was pretty slow.
>Anyone have these working with a "generic" ATI VGA Wonder 512K?   If so,
>what message does yours give at boot time?   I get:
>     VGA 1024, BIOS V5-1.00
>Maybe I could upgrade the video BIOS?

Just a wild guess, but is your AT bus set to operate at 8 MHz?

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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: turtle@brahms.udel.edu (Anthony J Collins)
Subject: ES 1.0 SNA Gateway
Organization: University of Delaware
Distribution: comp.os.os2.misc
Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 17:27:47 GMT

What are the parameters that are critical in limiting the number of
people that can access the gateway?  Also, I am receiving acs1231w
errors on a client that is trying to access the gateway?  Any ideas?
I had a 1.3 EE SNA Gateway running great...

Tony

Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc,bit.listserv.banyan-l
From: gary@dragon.dsh.org (Gary D. Duzan)
Subject: Re: Banyan VINES & OS/2 2.0
Organization: Delaware State Hospital
Keywords: Banyan
Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1993 17:30:10 GMT

In article <C0Cvs7.EE3@mach1.wlu.ca> dbrown4@mach1.wlu.ca (david brown s) writes:
>Anyone hear any hints or rumours as to when Banyan will come out with an
>OS/2 2.0 driver? All I've heard so far from Banyan is 'real soon now'.
>
>David Brown
>

   The latest word I hear from our VAR is that OS/2 2.0 support
will be added in Vines 5.5, which is due out this month. There may
be some support in 5.0, but Banyan hasn't made an official statement
on the issue. There will NOT be OS/2 2.0 support in 4.x.  However,
I'm running beta drivers with 4.11(5) right now. It only supports
OS/2 apps, so you can't run Vines-aware DOS or Windows apps with
it. However, DOS and Windows sessions can access Vines drives and
printers. The full support is supposed to let you run DOS and
Windows Vines programs, but they've had a hard time getting it to
work.
   Corrections/comments from Banyan reps are welcome.

                                   Gary D. Duzan
                                   Network Administrator
                                   Delaware State Hospital




Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: orville%weyrich@uunet.uu.net (Orville R. Weyrich)
Subject: Re: Beta 2.1 in IBM-BBS
Reply-To: uunet.uu.net!weyrich!orville
Organization: Weyrich Computer Consulting
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 93 08:40:42 GMT

In article <1993Jan6.181232.16068@midway.uchicago.edu> pynq@midway.uchicago.edu writes:
>In article <1993Jan1.233612.24408@midway.uchicago.edu> sip1@midway.uchicago.edu writes:
>>It does not require any previous version in order to operate.  It
>
>Then why does the note that comes with it say that you need to have REXX
>installed and running on your current version of OS/2 in order to
>install the beta?
>

I think that the note means that if you are using OS/2 to run your CD-ROM
drive in order to make the couple of floppies needed to do the install,
that REXX is needed in order to create the floppies. You can use DOS to run
the CD-ROM to make the floppies, without using REXX. Once you have the 
couple floppies made, you don't need any OS/2 present to complete the
installation from floppies + CD ROM.

orville

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From: frampton@vicuna.ocunix.on.ca (Steve Frampton)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: Which modem - internal or external ?
Date: 11 Jan 93 21:27:48 GMT
Reply-To: frampton@vicuna.ocunix.on.ca
Organization: Vicuna Systems, Kingston, Ontario, CANADA
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii

Hello:

geiri@PROBLEM_WITH_INEWS_GATEWAY_FILE (Geir Inge Jensen) writes:

> I am planning to buy a USR Sportster modem in the near future. But 
> should I buy a internal or external one ?  This is a high speed modem, 
> and if the UART on the internal one don't support buffered I/O, wont I 
> then have a problem in OS/2 ?  If I buy a external one, I could always 
> put a 16650AFN UART on the I/O device. What do the people out there 
> suggest ?

It's really a matter of personal preference.  I recommend going with an
external model, for the following reasons:

        - More portable, easy to move between computers.
        - Visual status displays on most models to detect trouble.
        - Doesn't tie up an expansion slot.
        - Not limited to a specific IRQ; if your serial port can be
          configured the modem will handle any of them.
        - Easier to do a "hardware reset" of the modem.
        - Some internals, when having problems, don't hang up or reset
          upon system reset -- you have to power-down the computer.
        - Not *that* much more terribly expensive.

I've probably missed a few, but those are the reasons I use externals.
Hope this helps.

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