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From: rwalker@next02.cc.umanitoba.ca. (Robert Walker)
Subject: OS/2 sales momentum, Paul Leach, DCE, etc.
Organization: University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada
Date: Sat, 10 Oct 1992 17:10:49 GMT

I recently read a small item, in PC Magazine, which indicated that the  
folks at Microsoft are quite shaken up, or words to that effect, by the  
ever increasing momentum of OS/2. How are sales of OS/2 going these days ?  
The word from the sales-people at one of our local super-stores is "see  
that empty bin over there, thats were you'll find OS/2 when we're not sold  
out". They eagerly claim utter amazement at the rate of movement. Of couse  
nobody is suggesting it's outselling Windows. I would imagine things at  
MicroSoft should be quite upbeat, at the very least in accounting. 

Does anybody know Paul Leach of NCS (Network Computing System) fame ? What  
is he up to these days ? I thought I read some time ago where he had moved  
from HP to MicroSoft. For those of you interested, I've seen OSF's DCE  
(Distributed Computing Environment nee: NCS) running under OS/2. As far as  
I'm aware this is not commercially available. Whatever dominates the  
proverbial corporate desktop should run DCE, in my estimation, because  
it's a no brainer. But you do need a wee 'bit o brain' to understand the  
architecture behind it. Paul was way ahead of his time.

___Bob
From: bert.tyler@satalink.com (Bert Tyler) 
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: XGA-2 Information...
Date: 12 Oct 92 16:11:00 GMT
Distribution: world
Organization: Datamax/Satalink Connection * Ivyland, PA (215) 443-9434
Reply-To: bert.tyler@satalink.com (Bert Tyler) 

TH>Does this mean we'll be seeing XGA-2 support for Fractint? <smile>

(Struggling to keep this thread somewhat related to OS/2...)

The OS/2 and Windows ports of Fractint will support XGA-2 right out of
the box, assuming that your OS/2 and/or Windows drivers support it (and
I am assuming that IBM will ship the XGA-2 with drivers for both).
That's one of the truly nice things about a GUI from the application
programmer's point of view - new video drivers become somebody else's
problem.

The DOS version depends on timing and my getting ahold of one of those
adapters.  Certainly we want to add sensitivity to IBM's new INT 10H
method of XGA detection, as it's the only way we're going to work with the
non-MCA versions of that adapter.  Support for 1024x768 non-interlaced
will happen, but may not make it into version 18.x.  Full DMQS support
is farther off (no way for version 18.x), as it will involve replacing
a lot of current logic.  OTOH, we *do* have a reputation to maintain - 
Fractint was one of the first MS-DOS programs out there with direct
video support for the XGA adapter.

                   Bert Tyler   (bert.tyler@satalink.com)
---
 . DeLuxe./386 1.25 #343sa . Did you expect mere proof to sway my opinion?
From: ASI509@DJUKFA11.BITNET
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: Don't put program shadows on Desktop!
Date: 14 Oct 92 16:09:59 GMT
 <1992Oct8.205804.18871@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu>
 <92283.134520ASI509@DJUKFA11.BITNET> <1992Oct14.003222.15425@hsv3.lsil.com>
Organization: Forschungszentrum Juelich

Sorry, I don`t speak UN*X.

Michael Bode.
From: dic5340@hertz.njit.edu (David Charlap)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: adding PS fonts to OS/2 ?
Keywords: PS font pfa
Date: 16 Oct 92 01:18:19 GMT
Organization: New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, N.J.

In article <15OCT199215535613@vmsa.is.csupomona.edu> cvafyaga@vmsa.is.csupomona.edu (Srikanth Viswanathan) writes:
>
>That's odd,  I remember installing fonts in the \PSFONTS dir and it worked
>just fine.   Did you also put the *.PFB files in the directory??  

They'd be copied automatically if the Font Palette was used to put
them there.

-- 
David Charlap         |"there aren't 50,000 things for which it's worth writing
dic5340@hertz.njit.edu| software; and the computer industry doesn't have enough
----------------------+ programmers to create that much good software.
Therefore, most of it must be worthless" -- Boris Beizer "The Frozen Keyboard"
From: hatton@socrates.ucsf.edu (Tom Hatton)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: XGA-2 Information...
Date: 12 Oct 92 04:56:25 GMT
Organization: UCSF Computer Graphics Lab

bert.tyler@satalink.com (Bert Tyler) writes:
>MW>The XGA-2 has something they call "Display Mode Query Set" (DMQS), which
>MW>is supposed to automaticly adjust the resolution/update frequency to the
>MW>screen connected.  Does this implicate that I have to use one of IBM's
>MW>XGA-2 displays for the XGA-2 adapter?

>I have just received some documentation on DMQS, and the folks who sent
>it to me told me that I am free to talk about it, so here goes...

>(The quick answer: no, it doesn't.  You can use other monitors and still
>gain the advantages of the XGA-2.)

[bunch of useful info deleted]

>Finally, an extra feature of the XGA-2 (which has nothing to do with
>DMQS) is an extra INT 10H call that returns the ramp-up information
>on your XGA adapter that used to require MCA-specific code that wandered
>through all of the MCA adapters looking for POS-IDs.  This means that
>software can now detect the presence of XGA-2 adapters in a straightforward
>fashion regardless of which bus the hardware is using, making ISA
>implementations of XGA-2 adapters easy to access.  In fact, there is
>now nothing preventing anyone from coming out with a local-bus version
>of the XGA-2 <wow!>.

[more deletions]

>I *like* what IBM is doing with the XGA-2.

After the boondoggles of CGA, EGA, 8514 (1024 *interlaced*?), and PGA,
it's heartening to see more reasonable colour/resolution support, and at
what seems to be a reasonable price. Yow.

Does this mean we'll be seeing XGA-2 support for Fractint? <smile>

Tom
From: jorgense@irisa.fr (Finn Jorgensen)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: 3.5" beta disks-what if A: = 5.25"?
Date: 12 Oct 92 15:24:37 GMT
Reply-To: jorgense@irisa.fr
Organization: IRISA, Campus de Beaulieu, 35042 Rennes Cedex, FRANCE

In article 18170@a.cs.okstate.edu, cummins@a.cs.okstate.edu (CUMMINS JOHN WILLI) writes:
>In article <1992Oct5.035244.25858@usl.edu> das9674@usl.edu (Stephenson Daniel A) writes:
>>Is there any work-around to installing the beta on a system with
>>the A: drive being 5.25"?  The beta comes on 3.5" diskettes ONLY.
>>
>>I fiddled with my BIOS - no luck there.  I looked at the cables from my
>>drives in my computer, and they weren't compatible so I couldn't
>>just switch them around.  Am I outta luck?
>
>How do the "Twisted" floppy cables work?  It would seem that if setting the
>two drives to ID 1 (I think that's factory stock) makes A appear as ID 1 and
>B appear as ID 2, that setting them both to ID 2 would do the opposite.  (or
>does that 4 wire twist mean that both would need to be set to ID 4?)
>
>A "straight" floppy cable would simplify things in that it would allow you to
>configure floppy ID's by just moving the jumpers on the drives.  Maybe that
>would cause problems for the "local technician" who later cannibalizes your
>machine....
>
>jc

When IBM put out the first PC's, the usual way to run floppy drives was to turn
on the motor on all connected drives an just select the one drive that was to be
accessed. Thus, the drives have only one MOTOR-ON line and, usually, four DRIVE
SELECT (DS0, ...) lines. IBM wanted to be able to turn on only one motor at a time
so they needed discrete MOTOR ON lines. Since the drives only have one line, they
used a kludgy technique that results in this twisted cable :
(what you call ID 0, ID 1,... was DS0, DS1 in my doc, so please translate...)

Line number       adapter end         drive end         drive end
                                      straight cable    twisted cable


10              Motor on drive A      DS0               Motor on
12              Drive select B        DS1               DS2
14              Drive select A        DS2               DS1
16              Motor on drive B      Motor on          DS0

As you can see, moving jumpers will not do anything other than a faliure. If you
try to move the jumper from ID 1 to ID 2, you'll no longer be able to use the drives.


---
Finn Bo Jorgensen,  E-Mail : Finn.jorgensen@irisa.fr    Tel : 99 84 72 01
IFSIC, bureau TB122, Universite de Rennes
Campus de Beaulieu, 35042 RENNES CEDEX, FRANCE
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: dic5340@hertz.njit.edu (David Charlap)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: OS2SYS.INI size
Date: 15 Oct 92 17:16:00 GMT
Organization: New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, N.J.

In article <14OCT199215230079@vmsa.is.csupomona.edu> cvafyaga@vmsa.is.csupomona.edu (Srikanth Viswanathan) writes:
>
>Try getting a program called COPYINI,  it shrinks these files pretty well.
>It's available on ftp-os2.

Where?  I looked all over ftp-os2 and couldn't find any archive named
copyini.  Is it a part of another package?



-- 
David Charlap         |"there aren't 50,000 things for which it's worth writing
dic5340@hertz.njit.edu| software; and the computer industry doesn't have enough
----------------------+ programmers to create that much good software.
Therefore, most of it must be worthless" -- Boris Beizer "The Frozen Keyboard"
Xref: sparky comp.os.os2.misc:32608 comp.os.os2:385 comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware:26654
From: adhir@cygnus.umd.edu (Alok Dhir)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc,comp.os.os2,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Third floppy under OS/2
Date: 11 Oct 92 17:43:25 GMT
Originator: adhir@cygnus.umd.edu

Hey all, I figured out how to get my third floppy drive to work under OS/2.
My first two are 3.5" 1.44s and the third is a 5.25" 1.2mb...  Here's how
I did it (thanks to Tim Sipples for the advice on the 360k fix...):

First of all, you need a floppy card which supports up to four floppies.  Mine
is a EISA IDE controller with 4 floppy support by DTC (I don't recommend you
buy anything from them, though, they aren't making OS/2 drivers so the 
enhanced mode of my controller is lost on OS/2...under DOS I do about 5Mb/s,
under OS/2 I do about 1).  Anyhow, then you need a flat cable to connect the
3 or 4 floppies to your controller.  It is 34 pins, without the twist in it
like most AT floppy cables have, and it has room for 4 devices.  Then you
set one of the devices to ID0, one to ID1, and one to ID2...as opposed to
the AT method in which BOTH are set to ID1.  In your BIOS setup, if you
have it, tell the BIOS the types of the first two drives.  The third drive
WILL NOT be recognized at bootup by DOS or OS/2.  I have yet to get DOS to
see the drive (apparently, I need some sort of driver), but under OS/2
I just had to get the '360K.ZIP' fix from IBMs FTP site and this floppy
driver fix makes it so the drivers support up to four devices by adding
parameters to the BASEDEV=IBM1FLPY.ADD line in config.sys.  Mine looks like
BASEDEV=IBM1FLPY.ADD /A:0 /U:2 /F:1.2mb
and it churns a bit after OS/2 begins booting and it gets installed as
drive G behind my last HD.  Works great!
-- 
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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: crosen@world.std.com (Carl Rosen)
Subject:  > 16MB and OS/2
Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 1992 04:18:52 GMT


You shouldn't have any problem at exactly 16MB.  Some clones have problems
with configurations greater than 16MB.  If you decide to expand your memory,
get the file GT16MB.ZIP from Compu$Serve, or on the World in /sources/os2.
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: SB drivers for OS/2
From: CFORDE@bcsc02.gov.bc.ca
Date: Mon, 12 Oct 92 12:04:36 PDT
Organization: BC Systems Corporation

In article <1992Oct10.015234.3436@midway.uchicago.edu>
sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu (Timothy F. Sipples) writes:
 
>For native OS/2 2.0 support you should politely and repeatedly request
>as much from Creative Labs.
 
I called Creative Labs this morning (800-998-5227).  The rep I talked to
said they do have OS/2 drivers for the SBPro.  They are available from
the Creative Labs BBS at 408-428-6660.
 
Have fun,
Carl Forde                            phonenet: 604-360-7130
VM Database and Development Support   bitnet  : CFORDE@BCSC02
British Columbia Systems Corporation  internet: cforde@bcsc02.gov.bc.ca
From: cvafyaga@vmsb.is.csupomona.edu (Srikanth Viswanathan)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: VSVGA.SYS nonsense
Date: 7 Oct 92 05:46:00 GMT
Organization: California Polytechnic University, Pomona
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41

In article <1973@acf5.NYU.EDU>, checker@acf5.NYU.EDU (checker) writes...
> 
>I'm getting a little sick of not being able to switch back to full
>(non-garbled) screen OS/2 and DOS sessions from my nice high resolution
>WPS (using the Trident drivers).  Certainly others are having the same
> 
>Is anyone out there using the Trident 8900C/1MB with the 1024x768x256
>color drivers that is able to switch to an from non-garbled full screen

There has been talk on Fidone that you can just use VVGA.SYS instead
of VSVGA.SYS (VVGA.SYS is supposed to be only for VGA resolution) and
that supposedly fixes the probolem.  I thought the problem was gone in
the beta, but it's come back!  I'll try this fix and post the result 
here.  BTW, the person who suggested this implied that this would
probably work only for 800x600x16,  again, I will try it at higher
resolutions and see if it works.

Srikanth
Clinton & OS/2 in '92!
From: gkushmer@jade.tufts.edu (Greg Kushmerek)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: OS/2 2.0 on 386sx - How is speed?
Date: 7 Oct 92 13:57:31 GMT
Organization: Roger Mellie Enterprises, PLC

I run OS/2 on a 386sx-25 with 8 megs and it works fine.  There are moments
when I have a lot of apps open that it screen response is a little sluggish -
but that is because I am using SVGA mode on a Trident more than anything else.

--gk
From: dic5340@hertz.njit.edu (David Charlap)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: Thoughts during my forced OS/2 sabbatical
Date: 16 Oct 92 01:23:51 GMT
Organization: New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, N.J.

[Lots of arguments for and against a PC-shell type file viewer being
 built into OS/2 omitted]

Why can't such a program (like PC-Shell) be written for OS/2.  File
viewers can be applications.  And you can associate it with every file
on your disk if you want (just like E.EXE is associated with
everything). 

I think building it into the OS is silly.  On the other hand, it would
make a very useful bundled utility, or perhaps an add-on for the WPS.
But not as a part of the OS.
-- 
David Charlap         |"there aren't 50,000 things for which it's worth writing
dic5340@hertz.njit.edu| software; and the computer industry doesn't have enough
----------------------+ programmers to create that much good software.
Therefore, most of it must be worthless" -- Boris Beizer "The Frozen Keyboard"
Organization: Arizona State University
Date: Friday, 9 Oct 1992 09:44:28 MST
From: <AUPXS@ASUACAD.BITNET>
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: OS2 BETA - dos emulation not as good?
 <1992Oct9.015046.17579@muddcs.claremont.edu>


      I got Castle Wolfenstein 3D to work in full screen mode with the Beta,
something that I wasn't able to do with the GA. However switching back and
forth between WPS and CW3D messed up the graphics for both cw and the chess
game i was running in the backround (any suggestions on how to fix this?).
I wasn't able, however, to get it to run in a dos box.

      Does anyone know if 3.1 programs work in seamless mode? I don't seem
to have permission to modify the session type from anything except dos.
If I click the program icon for a 3.1 app, I get a 'program cannot run under
dos' error. Migrate doesn't appear to recognize any of the 3.1 programs as
windows programs either.

      Any help would be appreciated.

Jim DeKorse
Xref: sparky comp.os.os2.misc:32438 comp.os.os2.apps:7016
From: dic5340@hertz.njit.edu (David Charlap)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc,comp.os.os2.apps
Subject: Re: Wildcards do not work with GNU utils
Date: 9 Oct 92 15:34:30 GMT
Organization: New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, N.J.

In article <1992Oct8.073050.3989@ericsson.se> etxabju@juno.ericsson.se (Anders Bjurman) writes:
>This is a difference between UNIX and OS/2 (and DOS) that I think is very
>frustrating: In UNIX it is the shells responsibility to expand wildcard, and in
>OS/2 the applications should do it.
>
>Is there any simple solution of this problem?

For a programmer.  OS/2 has the ability to extract filenames from
wildcards (via the DosFindFirst and DosFindNext functions).  So
someone needs to write a procedure to take a wildcard and expand it
into a list.  Then you insert this code into the gnu code somewhere
appropriate. 

>Or, is there some simple utility out there some there that is capable of expanding
>wildcards for another program? e.g.
>
>C> wildcard ls *.exe *.com
>
>Where the wildcard program examines all args, except the first one (ls) and
>expands them. Wildcard then starts the first arg (ls) with the expanded 
>names as args (how long can a command line in OS/2 be?).

This exists.  There is a unix-like shell for OS/2 called sh.exe
(Sorry, I don't have the full name on-hand), but it does the wildcard
expansion properly.  I simply run sh (giving me a $ prompt) and use
the utilities from there if I need wildcard expansion.

-- 
David Charlap         |"there aren't 50,000 things for which it's worth writing
dic5340@hertz.njit.edu| software; and the computer industry doesn't have enough
----------------------+ programmers to create that much good software.
Therefore, most of it must be worthless" -- Boris Beizer "The Frozen Keyboard"
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: dabl2@nlm.nih.gov (Don A.B. Lindbergh)
Subject: Re: Soundcard's and OS/2 2.0
Organization: National Library of Medicine
Date: Fri, 16 Oct 92 13:44:01 GMT

In article <1992Oct15.172335.25438@njitgw.njit.edu> dic5340@hertz.njit.edu (David Charlap) writes:
>In article <Bw5p27.EL8@dei.unipd.it> jake@nora.dei.unipd.it (Luca Polo) writes:
>>In comp.os.os2.apps (or comp.os.os2.programmer, I don't remember) there
>>was an article announcing a beta version of a SBPro driver for base OS/2
>>(no MMPM). it can be downloaded from
>>	astro.as.arizona.edu [128.196.176.1]
>>and the path is 
>>	/pub/SBOS2/sbos2v09.zoo
>>I have not yet tried it, however, so I can't express any opinion on it.
>
>I attempted to install it and its demo programs.  None worked.  First,
>I had to install emx version 0.8e, since it only wants to run on the
>latest version of emx.dll.  Once I did that, the apps all terminated
>with an "unable to open device number" error.  Did the author remember
>that OS/2 SB users will probably have their card set to IRQ-5 instead
>of IRQ-7?
>
>Anyhow, I'm going to try a few more things, but right now it appears
>to be quite useless.

I also tried it and couldn't get it to work.  I have a Mediavision PAS-16.
Has anyone with a MV board (or non Creative Labs board) gotten it to work?
I've emailed the author, I believe I followed the instructions correctly,
*except* I did forget about the .DLL  I didn't install this, but got a 
message after the config.sys was read which said the SB was 'not found'.
I'll have another try tonight.  Again, if anyone with a non-Creative Labs
board gets this to work, please post.  (Yes I know MV drivers are 'coming'.
They won't say EXACTLY WHAT drivers, and only that beta's will be available
in 'November').  I'm a little impatient :)

--Don Lindbergh
dabl2@lhc.nlm.nih.gov

Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: kjell@hut.fi (Kjell Ljungqvist)
Subject: MSC7 under OS/2
Reply-To: Kjell.Ljungqvist@hut.fi
Organization: Helsinki University of Technology
Distribution: comp
Date: Thu, 8 Oct 1992 09:42:26 GMT

Hello!

I have heard something about a OS/2 hosted version of MSC/C++7. What I am 
looking for is a way to get MSC7 running (especially CL) under OS/2. 
I have tried different patches (for DPMI and so on) but I still can't get
things running the way I want.

So, is this OS/2 hosted version for real? Where can I obtain it?

Please reply by email.

   	  
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From: king@cs.uq.oz.au (Paul King)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Does OS/2+Irwin+EzTape+2 floppies work?
Summary: I am thinking of getting an Irwin Tape backup system
Date: 9 Oct 92 07:46:41 GMT
Reply-To: king@cs.uq.oz.au


I am thinking of getting an Irwin 250Mb tape backup system.

Does the EzTape for OS/2 backup software work well in GA 2.0?

Is it PM based?

The backup unit is supposed to work off the floppy controller.
  I already have two floppy drives using the controller.  Is this
  a problem or does the unit plug in using a piggy-back mechanism
  effectively sharing with one of the other floppy drives?

Does anyone know whether Linux supports the Irwin unit?

Thanks, Paul.
--
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Dept. of Computer Science, Univ. of Queensland			      /     X
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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: goyal@utdallas.edu (Mohit K. Goyal)
Subject: Re: ATI Wonder XL/24
Organization: Univ. of Texas at Dallas
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 1992 00:52:10 GMT

>Will these drivers IBM will be shipping with the CSD support this new
>card?  Or, more specifically, does anyone know WHAT modes they will support
>if it won't do all of them!
>
I have read that IBM will write 32-bit drivers for VGA, SVGA, and 1024X768
modes, all for 256 colors.

IBM will then give the source code to ATI and ATI will be free to modify
the code to support 16 colors, or any other range of colors.

The best I have heard is that drivers from IBM for ATI's Wonder, 
Paradise, Western Digitial, and Cirrus cards will be out before 1993.

Since the Service Pack has been delayed until the end of the month, maybe
IBM will be able to include them with the Service Pack.

IBM is also writing 8514/A drivers that are 32-bit. (before 1993 again)
and a set of drivers like the ones described above for the ET4000 chipset,
and these drivers *will* be in the Service Pack.

Finally, XGA-2 drivers(32-bit) for *all* of XGA-2's modes will be released
in October, maybe not until the Service Pack.(ie-part of the SP)

whew...
From: genie@netcom.com (Gene Choi)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: Western Digital Chipsets
Date: 13 Oct 92 20:41:36 GMT
Article-I.D.: netcom.1992Oct13.204136.27297
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services (408 241-9760 guest)

In article <1992Oct12.160110.2519@ultb.isc.rit.edu> jks4675@ritvax.isc.rit.edu writes:
>I have had TERRIBLE experiences with the WD chipset (Paradise PVGA).
>I strongly recommend that anybody considering a card such as this
>consider alternatives.
>Because:
>
>1) If your card has 1MB VRAM, the 1024 X 768 X 16 driver will not work
>very well in WIN/OS2. The driver only shows the top half of the screen
>on the bottom half of your monitor. Incidentally, this is also the
>case for Win 3.1
>
>2) Paradise has expressed (repeatedly) their lack of support for 
>OS/2 2.0 drivers. They provide 1.2 drivers only; and their slower
>than molasses in January,
>
>3) Good luck getting your full-screen OS/2 sessions to synch properly.
>I had them working right once, but they just died.
>\
>
>4) They screw around with your config.sys when you install them.
>

I can't believe that the company is still trying to sell those
slow crappy cards.  Outdated technology worth $30 in my opinion.