HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: eagle@garfield.catt.ncsu.edu (Daniel L'Hommedieu)
Subject: HPFS on Seagate SCSI? (ST-1096N)
Organization: Computer and Technologies Theme Program, NCSU, Raleigh
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1992 20:01:26 GMT

I have a Seagate ST-1096N attached to my Future Domain SCSI board. What
I'd like to do is repartition my Seagate to be 84 megs HPFS instead of
84 megs FAT.  I heard somewhere that Seagates won't do HPFS, so before I
waste all my time (and diskettes) backing up my drive, can someone
confirm with certainty that I can indeed reformat the drive to HPFS?

Daniel
--
Conversation between me and Dad a few years back: Dad: "This is a RISC
machine, son."  Me: "Why's it a risk, Dad?"  "That's the design, son.
It's designed as a RISC machine."  "What, a R-I-S-K?"  "No, it's R-I-S-C."
"Oh, what's that?"  "It stands for Reduced Instruction Set Computer."  "Oh."
From: dic5340@hertz.njit.edu (David Charlap)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: OS2 WINS!!  I give up!
Date: 27 Aug 92 18:48:19 GMT
Organization: New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, N.J.

In article <1992Aug27.030506.4609@midway.uchicago.edu> sip1@midway.uchicago.edu writes:
>In article <1992Aug27.015416.6882@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca> riehm@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca (Carl Riehm) writes:
>>a horrible tale of woe...   I'm just about to install OS/2, but after reading 
>>his experience, I very worried.  I *do* have a mixture of memory (on my IBM
>>Model 70) which is certainly from different manufacturers, and almost certainly
>>different speeds.  Does anyone else have any experience with using differing
>>memory simms  with OS/2?   When IBM itself warns against this situation, 
>>it sounds serious!   Carl Riehm.
>
>Some motherboards (and they tend to be the more poorly designed ones)
>are particularly sensitive to RAM and balk when using mismatched
>banks.
.....
>Due to some recent experience one should also suspect the RAM cache.
>Some vendors, it seems, cut corners and supply slightly out of spec
>cache memory, substituting cache that is too slow for the system.
>This, too, can result in memory parity errors.

Therefore, I don't think there'll be any problem with your PS/2 Model 70.


-- 
   |)  David Charlap           "I don't even represent myself
  /|_  dic5340@hertz.njit.edu   sometimes so NJIT is right out!.
 ((|,)
  ~|~  Hi! I am a .signature virus, copy me into your .signature file.
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: lohse@desy.de (Frankpeter Lohse)
Subject: Crashing OS/2 from a DOS window
Organization: Deutsches Elektonen Synchrotron DESY
Date: Wed, 2 Sep 1992 10:49:12 GMT

When I tried to test the DOS features of my OS/2 2.0 machines it crashes!
I wrote the following simple test program :

#include <stdio.h>

main()
{
   int i;
   int far *a;
   a = 0;
   for (i=0; i<10000; i++) a[i]=i;
}

When runing this program on a DOS machine the computer hangs and after 
reboot, the setup is destroyed.
On an OS/2 machine I expected to get a general protection fault or 
something like that but what I got was system crash. I can reproduce two
diffenrent results (with different machines) :

1. A register dump and a stopped system, reboot works fine.
2. System hangs (no reg dump) and setup is destroyed.

My question : what is the reason for this crash and can I protect my
system against it?

Thanks in advance,
Frankpeter

P.S. : We're using COMPAQ 386/25e with a german version of OS/2 2.0.
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Frankpeter Lohse                      | Disclaimer :
DESY, Hamburg, FRG                    | It's just me, not my organisation.
lohse@vxdesy.desy.de                  |
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
From: ANDY@MAINE.MAINE.EDU (Andrew T. Robinson)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Sorry (was: Just the bloody FAQs, maam)
Date: 27 Aug 92 09:54:30 GMT
Organization: University of Maine System

I was abashed to see at least one of my questions answered after
scrolling back through the postings a second time.  Sorry about that,
folks.

I'd still like to know how to get the FAQ, though.

Andy
From: richard@chaos.frcs.alt.za (richard)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Floppy drive woes
Date: 29 Aug 92 23:56:20 GMT
Article-I.D.: chaos.715132580snx
Organization: FRCS mail/news uucp point

Wy do some DOS programs keep polling the floppy drives when they are
started? Norton desktop is one of the programs that does this and
it is very annoying.

On a machine that has two floppy drives, it is even worse. So, is there
a fix for this? I am still using the 30-3-92 floppy driver.

Please email replies.

--
Richard Ellerbrock                                   richard@chaos.frcs.alt.za
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: cdfannin@csws19.ic.sunysb.edu (Chris D Fanning)
Subject: Re: Fixed disk read failure: screwy boot sector?
Organization: State University of New York at Stony Brook
Date: Tue, 25 Aug 1992 19:48:00 GMT

In article <1992Aug24.162323.2935@usl.edu> das9674@usl.edu (Stephenson Daniel A) writes:
>In article <1992Aug24.044152.17380@sbcs.sunysb.edu> cdfannin@csws19.ic.sunysb.edu (Chris D Fanning) writes:
>>In article <1992Aug23.234746.8953@usl.edu> das9674@usl.edu (Stephenson Daniel A) writes:
[ much deleted ]
>>My primary partition on the drive is DOS, I tried DOS's "SYS" and OS/2's
>>"FDISK"  Neither of them worked.  I was hoping that "SYS" would re-create
>>the boot sector but it didn't.  (This was booting DOS off of floppy and
>>going through the first 2 OS/2 disks.)  Finally, I decided to try Norton's
>>Disk Doctor (which usually does more harm than good.. which is why I steer
>>clear of it) and it identified the problem as the boot program was corrupted
>>and asked if it should fix it... I said "yes" and it did!
>
>Wow, is ther ea way to fix this problem w/o buy the Norton Disk Doctor?
>Is the NDD a part of some larger package, like Desltop/Win or sokmething?
>Thanks-
>.
>das9674@usl.edu

Personally, I don't know if there's a way to fix this problem without using
Norton Disk Doctor.  Someone else might know of one...?  But, NDD comes in
the package Norton Utilities for DOS.  Generally good programs except their
utility is greatly reduced under OS/2.. (sector editing doesn't work.. etc..)

Chris
From: kslater@sps.pgh.pa.us (Kevin J. Slater)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: OS/2 is playing striptease
Date: 30 Aug 92 11:54:56 GMT
Organization: SPS ACAD BBS, (412) 487-3637

nmiller@starbase.trincoll.edu (norman miller) writes:

> Having solved the problem of a blank screen (a new VSVGA
> driver was needed) I'm up against a new problem.  At this
> rate I may be running OS/2 by Christmas.  The new problem
> is this:
> 
> When I click on one of the migrated DOS applications such
> as Word Perfect, the screen goes blank, a brief DOS command
> line flashes on for a moment and -- back to the OS/2 icons.
> Pretty as they are, I was hoping for something more.
> 
> Any advice?
> 
> Norman Miller
> nmiller@vax1.trincoll.edu

Sure, and you'll probably get this same response from a couple of 
thousand others, in your settings for this application - set close window 
on exit to off. You can then read the error message and close the window 
manually.

...Kevin

- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
Kevin J. Slater (kslater@sps.pgh.pa.us)       | Believe in the Lord Jesus
Slater Programming Services  | CI$ 73077,2427 | and you will be saved - you &
Glenshaw, PA 15116-0027      | bix kslater    | your household. - Acts 16:31
- - - - - - - - - - - - WESPAC BBS (412) 487-3637 - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: Os/2's lack of decent svg
From: Steve.Withers@bbs.actrix.gen.nz
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1992 10:59:35 GMT
Organization: Actrix Information Exchange

In article <714642863.F00005@csource.oz.au> Ian.Munro@f341.n632.z3.fidonet.org (Ian Munro) writes:
> GG>card.  Now this card has worked with EVERY VGA APP I've every tried
> GG>(including Windows), but not OS/2.  IBM considers this Orchids problem.
> GG>I must assume that when IBM states OS/2 is VGA compatible they mean it
> GG>works with an IBM made VGA card (period).
> 
> C'mon, buddy, who do you imagine established the VGA standard?
> 
> GG>IBM considers it Orchid's problem, Orchid doesn't even use that chip any
> 
> Ditto
> 
> GG>So far I've found DOS far more stable (for example I don't have to
> GG>reboot the machine ever time I try to get a full screen DOS session
> GG>in DOS <grin>) and far friendlier.
> 
> Surely you are just restating the same video problem? ___

If GG has the Tseng ET4000 problem - which is what it sounds like - there is a
fix for this and it takes about.....oohhhhh.....10 seconds to put on.
 
TSENGFIX.ZIP
 
Use it! It works.
 
Steve

-- 
Steve Withers - Wellington, New Zealand | If you don't vote for MMP on 
Steve.Withers@bbs.actrix.gen.nz         |  September 19, 1992, then you 
withers_s@kosmos.wcc.govt.nz            |  must like things the way they 
**** Happy user of OS/2 v2!! ****       |  are.....can I live with YOU?
From: jeff@claw.clearpoint.com (Jeffrey J. Griglack)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: Just what IS Alt-F1 (was Re: Multiple Desktops....)
Date: 3 Sep 92 21:36:18 GMT
	<Sep02.210652.27515@yuma.ACNS.ColoState.EDU>
	<1992Sep3.123216.16852@actrix.gen.nz>
Reply-To: jeff@claw.clearpoint.com
Organization: /home/jeff/.organization

On 3 Sep 92 12:32:16 GMT, Steve.Withers@bbs.actrix.gen.nz said:

S> It restores the os2.ini, os2sys.ini and config.sys files from the
S> C:\os2\install directory where they are put at install time, to the C:\os2
S> directory where they are used. The effect of this is to return the OS/2
S> desktop to the default.

If the files come from c:\o2\install, couldn't you just modify the
files there to be a working, but later than initial install, version?
This would keep you from having to start everything from scratch each
time you tried something new and screwed up.
--

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
|Jeff Griglack             |"To mess about with typewriters and latch keys    |
|jeff@claw.clearpoint.com  | and call it work!"                               |
|jeff@fang.clearpoint.com  |                          -- E.M. Forster         |
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu (Timothy F. Sipples)
Subject: Re: OS2 Session Initialization?
Reply-To: sip1@midway.uchicago.edu
Organization: Dept. of Econ., Univ. of Chicago
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1992 03:01:26 GMT

In article <a#cn1=m.feustel@netcom.com> feustel@netcom.com (David Feustel) writes:
>How can I arrange for a "MODE 80,50" command to be executed
>automatically each time I start an os2 full screen session?

The /K trick will work -- look up CMD.EXE in the online Command
Reference and look at how the /K switch works.

Add:

/K MODE 80,50

to the optional parameters section of your OS/2 Window or OS/2 Full
Screen object, and that should do the trick.

-- 
Timothy F. Sipples      | The OS/2 FREQ. ASKED QUESTIONS LIST is avail. from
sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu | 128.123.35.151, anonymous ftp, in /pub/os2/all/faq.
Dept. of Econ., Univ.   | Or from LISTSERV@BLEKUL11.BITNET (send "HELP").
Chicago, 60637          | Hey GOP: The Economy, Stupid!
From: jmaynard@oac.hsc.uth.tmc.edu (Jay Maynard)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: Some suggestions for OS/2
Date: 2 Sep 1992 14:51:43 GMT
Organization: UT Health Science Center Houston

In article <1992Sep2.081907.10019@cs.brown.edu> wcn@cs.brown.edu (Wen-Chun Ni) writes:
>The reason is that I often `touch'  the *Arrange* item every other
>days due to a lousy Microsoft mouse. The entire desktop I 
>deliberately designed thus turns into a mess. Any solution?

Get WPBackup. It's good stuff. It's on ftp-os2.nmsu.edu.
-- 
Jay Maynard, EMT-P, K5ZC, PP-ASEL | Never ascribe to malice that which can
jmaynard@oac.hsc.uth.tmc.edu      | adequately be explained by stupidity.
 "Keep in mind that Amateur Radio As We Know It Today will cease to exist
            at midnight tonight." -- Dave Newkirk, WJ1Z
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc,comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
From: doug@shako.Colorado.EDU (Doug McKnight)
Subject: Re: Why not OS/2 ???? Hmmmmmm
Reply-To: doug@shako.Colorado.EDU (Doug McKnight)
Organization: University of Colorado, Boulder
Date: Wed, 2 Sep 1992 15:20:49 GMT

>    Why not buy OS/2 1.x, uprade to OS/2 2.0, use the "blank" disks
> and qualify for the free upgrade to OS/2 2.1, 3.0, etc.  Now, how
> many sdisks do you get for your $20?  Besides, the next version may
> run well!  Furthermore, if we all invest at least $20, (a) IBM will
> have some revenue to further their development, (b) the apparent
> installed base will be larger & OS/2 apps will eventually appear
> and (the best reason - c) IT WILL THOUGHROUGHLY PISS OFF MICROSLOTH
> and possibly make them release WIN32 and NT (Not There, Not True,
> Not Today, Not Tomorrow...)
>   I vote $20 to scare Microsoft out of complacency, who's with me!
> "Come on, was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor?"
                                 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>     Jeff Andle


Ah, the youth of today...........
From: liuyu@kramden.nyu.edu (Liuyu)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: OS2 WINS!! I give up!
Date: 27 Aug 92 20:01:40 GMT
Organization: New York University

sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu (Timothy F. Sipples) writes:
>Some motherboards (and they tend to be the more poorly designed ones)
>are particularly sensitive to RAM and balk when using mismatched
>banks.

>At present, however, I am using a no name clone motherboard with four
>80 ns 3-chip SIMMs and four 70 ns 9-chip SIMMs -- and it all works
>just fine.  And that will be the rule rather than the exception.
>However, in those cases where you get numerous TRAP 2 messages,
>suspect mismatched RAM, particularly a mixture of 3-chip and 9-chip
>SIMMs.

>Due to some recent experience one should also suspect the RAM cache.
>Some vendors, it seems, cut corners and supply slightly out of spec
>cache memory, substituting cache that is too slow for the system.
>This, too, can result in memory parity errors.

Can you explain why this happens only under OS/2? Is it just another excuse, 
blaming hardware? Does it happen under other complex programs like Unix or
Novell? Thanks.
>-- 
>Timothy F. Sipples      | The OS/2 FREQ. ASKED QUESTIONS LIST is avail. from
>sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu | 128.123.35.151, anonymous ftp, in /pub/os2/all/faq.
>Dept. of Econ., Univ.   | Or from LISTSERV@BLEKUL11.BITNET (send "HELP").
>Chicago, 60637          | Hey GOP: The Economy, Stupid!
From: coffman@plains.NoDak.edu (Clark Coffman)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Help with comm programs
Summary: Some work, some don't.
Date: 2 Sep 92 12:05:22 GMT
Article-I.D.: plains.20077
Distribution: usa
Organization: North Dakota Higher Education Computing Network

Well I need help. I've been trying to get communications programs to
run under OS/2 2.0. The program that comes with OS/2 works and pmfterm
works. My dos and Windows programs work, but te2, pmkermit, pmqvt do not
work. They don't allow me to even send commands to the modem. My cs and
mr lights are usually off when running the programs that don't work.

What I've tried:
 I've used the mode command to turn them on and then I can send commands 
and dial but can not connect. I've also put these programs after the iopl
in config.sys. I was reading some news here that talked about the file
sasyncda.sys that OS/2 programs use. I don't have this file and could not
find it on the OS/2 disks. I also tried to use selective install to install
serial support but this didn't do any good but lock my system up till I 
rebooted. I've also tried the supposedly new commga drivers, but this did
not fix anything and seemed to cause some problems so dinstalled them. I
also tried the new kernal but got rid of it too. I'm using a stock
installation of OS/2 right now with it's screen drivers for 640x480 16.
When I installed OS/2 last I installed every thing but the terminal program
and CDROM support.

I can get by with using pmfterm or my dos and windows programs, but it bothers
me that the others do not work. I'd like to get pmqvt or te2 to work so
I can try out their zmodem transfers, so any help would be greatly 
appreciated. Below is my hardware configuration:

386sx 16 mhz - AMI bios - 4 meg of ram - WD IDE hard drive controller with
floppy, 2 serial, 1 par, and 1 game port, WD 120 meg drive,
Trident 8900C VGA - 1 meg brd, Microtek scanner card.

Com1 is hooked to a US Robotics Courier HST Dual Standard, also tested was
a Viva 2442ef 2400 baud modem.
Com2 is used for a Beetle Mouse.

That should cover it I hope, Thanks for any hints.

 ___________________________________________________________________
| Hey, who else would you expect to be responsible for what I say?  |
<===================================================================>__
| (Bitnet)   -- NU116215@NDSUVM1       -- coffman@plains            |..|
| (Internet) -- NU116215@VM1.NODAK.EDU -- coffman@plains.nodak.edu  |==>
| (UUCP)     -- uunet!plains!coffman                                |..|
|                                                                   |..|
|    Clark W. Coffman   --)------  Dagda Mor  ------)--   CWC       |. |
 |                                                                 |. .|
  |______:-: You Teach Best What You Most Need To Learn. :-:______|..  |
    |  .... .. .  .... .. .. .....  . .. .....  ... ....  .  .. ..... |
     |______________:-: "Richard Bach" :-:___________________________|
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc,misc.forsale.computers
From: hepner@nosc.mil (Thomas A. Hepner)
Subject: C Set/2 and Developers Toolkit for Sale
Organization: Naval Ocean Systems Center, San Diego, CA
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1992 19:49:59 GMT


I have one copy of the OS/2 2.0 C/Set 2 package for sale.  This package
has never been opened, and contains the C Set/2 compiler and the
Developers Workbench (Toolkit and WorkFrame/2).  I will sell the
package for $230 (free shipping in continental US).  It has
5 1/4" disks (I think?).

Tom Hepner
email: hepner@cod.nosc.mil

Phone: (619) 553-3071
Xref: sparky comp.os.os2.misc:28624 comp.os.os2.programmer:4570
From: olender@vivaldi.cs.colostate.edu (Kurt Olender)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc,comp.os.os2.programmer
Subject: Re: Bypassing the "sniffer" on upgrade disks (Re: Do ARCHIVES of this newsgroup exist?)
Date: 30 Aug 92 18:16:45 GMT
Organization: Colorado State Univ. Computer Science Dept.


Don Smith writes:

   I am almost certain that to circumvent the "sniffer" you need to put
   a file called rup.rup on DISKETTE 1 with a file length of 0 and the
   Read Only, Hidden, System, and Archive flags on.

The Read Only, Hidden, System, and Archive flags are not necessary.  Only the
file RUP.RUP with length 0 on diskette 1.  I used this trick when installing
on a friend's new machine, which came with no OS installed.  His old machine
was an HP Vectra, and his HP-enhanced DOS wouldn't install on a non-Vectra.
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu (Timothy F. Sipples)
Subject: Re: Trouble with NCSA Telnet and floppy drives
Reply-To: sip1@midway.uchicago.edu
Organization: Dept. of Econ., Univ. of Chicago
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1992 20:33:58 GMT

Your NCSA Telnet/floppy problem may be cured by the floppy patch IBM
has released, available via anonymous ftp from ftp-os2.nmsu.edu.

-- 
Timothy F. Sipples      | The OS/2 FREQ. ASKED QUESTIONS LIST is avail. from
sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu | 128.123.35.151, anonymous ftp, in /pub/os2/all/faq.
Dept. of Econ., Univ.   | Or from LISTSERV@BLEKUL11.BITNET (send "HELP").
of Chicago, 60637       | Clinton's Arkansas: 49th in Per Capita Tax Burden
From: marten@feki.toppoint.de (Marten Feldtmann)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Problems with clipboard ...
Distribution: world
Date: Sun, 30 Aug 92 21:47:50 GMT
Organization: Private Site

I tried to test the clipboard facilities between OS/2 and WIN-OS/2 and
that feature does not work very well.

I made some pictures with paintbrush under WIN-OS/2.

Copying the picture to the clipboard, switching to OS/2: fine the
picture was there. Both clipboard were public.

I wrote some text with notepad.exe under WIN-OS/2. Everything as fine as
with the pictures ...

Now I wrote some texts with winworks and tried to copy the text. Copying
the stuff produces some error messages (something like "not enough
memory" and "format not copied"). The texts appears in the WIN-OS/2
clipboard, but not in the OS/2 clipboard.

Now I tried to copy some stuff from OS/2 clipboard to WIN-OS/2
clipboard, but I never manage to transfer even one character ... tries
before the winworks test also failed!

Does someone know, how to manage it ...?

By the way: switching from WIN-OS/2 to OS/2 takes nearly 10 seconds on
my computer. (486/33, 16MB, 8514/a) ...

 MF


--
Marten Feldtmann                         E-Mail: marten@tpki.toppoint.de
2300 Kiel 14,    Kieler Str. 29,   Tel.: 0431-731916,
From: bgm@cray.com (Bert Moshier)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: OS/2 through 1999
Date: 31 Aug 92 16:54:35 GMT
Organization: Cray Research, Inc.

In article <1992Aug30.052659.13507@ringer.cs.utsa.edu> mlevis@ringer.cs.utsa.edu (Mike Levis) writes:
>
>Hmm, I wonder if the OS/2 TV commercial helped to sell OS/2 2.0.

I doubt it.  The advertisements just started and they are difficult to find.

>Has anyone seen the OS/2 TV commercial yet?  I've been looking,
>but have not seen it yet.  Maybe someone can post a description
>of it?

I saw one on 8/20.  At first I didn't know what to expect.  Let me explain.

It starts out with a group of people around a table.  One is standing and the
rest are sitting.  The person standing is talking about how he is now able to
get work done quicker, easier, and how he feels so much more alert.

The advertisement changes to graphics.  An OS/2 logo moving.  The announcer
says:

	"When the computer is at the heart of your business.  Make sure OS/2
	is at the heart of your computer."  Or something like this.

The advertisement then returns to the person who says something about OS/2
(I don't remember what).

Observations:

	Number ONE:	Big time:	It is not on enough.  I saw it once and
	didn't get a lot of it the first time.  I need to see the advertisement
	again (and again and again) to help me remember it.  Sure I remember
	OS/2 and heart, but that is not enough to get me to buy a product.

	2)	When I first started watching it, I didn't know what to
	expect.  Confusion is the keyword.  At first I thought it might be
	for the car company which is designing for the human race.

	Then as the person spoke, I thought maybe it was an insurance
	advertisement.  SERIOUSLY!  I thought it was going to be about his
	open heart transplant or bypass and how it, (the operation) helped
	him.  How the insurance firm helped his company and his family.

	I was preparing myself to have him open his shirt and show the scar
	down his chest.

	3)	Boy. the break to the OS/2 graphics caught me off guard.
	I like the slogan!

	4)	When we came back to him, my mind was still swimming.
	I remember him saying something about OS/2 but can't remember what.

	5)	I really would like to see the advertisement again so I can
		get some of the meat.

Bert.

>
>Thanks, Bert!  I appreciate your work you have done to promote
>OS/2.  Yay!!!

Thank you for noticing!  BGM