HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: gcasey@brtph418.bnr.ca (Errol Casey P910)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.apps,comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Help Wanted with uncompressing/reading USENET newsgroups
Summary: Have UUCP news feed need help uncompressing and reading newsgroups
Keywords: UUPC, UUCP, TRN, Snews, UFGate, Fidonet, Usenet
Date: 15 Oct 92 15:12:07 GMT
Followup-To: comp.os.os2.misc
Organization: BNR, Inc. Research Triangle Park, NC
Originator: gcasey@brtph418

I have recently obtained a USENET newsgroup feed and would be interested
in hearing how other people are reading such feeds. I use UUPC to poll
the site I get the newsgroups from.  The news from my feed are compressed 
with cunbatch and I have been unable to uncompress these files (tried
the Unix compress program for OS/2 from hobbes with now success).

My plan was to use a DOS program called UFGATE to move the newsgroups
into Fidonet Echo format for my BBS, but have been unsuccessful in getting
the DOS program configured correctly. I have seen there is a version of 
TRN and I believe a news program called Snews for reading USENET newsgroups.
What format does the newsgroups have to be in to use these programs? I use
OS2YOU, so if I can find a "safe" newsreader I can run this for my users
to read newsgroups.

- How do I uncompress cunbatch newsgroups under OS/2?
- What format do the newsgroups have to be in for a newsreader
  such as TRN or Snews to read them?
- Do TRN and SNews have shell options or other possible destructive
  options (if I were to let a remove user run the program) - This is
  what I mean by "safe" or "unsafe" in the above paragraph.

Please reply to me directly and if I will repost the answers if I get
sufficient response.


-- 
Errol Casey, Bell Northern Research, Research Triangle Park, NC
(919) 991-7310 email: gcasey@bnr.ca
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.apps,comp.os.os2.advocacy,comp.os.os2.misc,comp.os.os2.networking,comp.os.os2.programmer
From: colin@novell.com (Colin Goldstein)
Subject: *** OS/2 Bay Area User Group ***
Organization: Novell Inc., San Jose, Califonia
Distribution: ba
Date: Sat, 17 Oct 1992 01:28:08 GMT


                   *** OS/2 Bay Area User Group ***
 
           *** Object-Oriented Programming in OS/2 2.0 ***
 
Date:       Monday, October 26, 1992
 
Time:       New user clinic begins at 7:00 pm
            Meeting begins at 7:30 pm
 
Location:   IBM                 *** NEW LOCATION ***
            1055 Joaquin
            Mountain View, California
 
 
The OS/2 Bay Area User Group will have its monthly meeting on Monday,
October 26th.  The topic of the meeting is Object-Oriented Programming
in OS/2 2.0.  Digitalk will present their new PARTS product line.
Borland will demonstrate a beta version of Borland C++ for OS/2 2.0.
 
A clinic for new OS/2 users will precede the meeting.
 
Digitalk's PARTS is a new object-oriented programming tool that enables
rapid application construction from prefabricated and reusable software
components.  PARTS makes component reuse easier than creating the
component.  PARTS is receiving good reviews as an excellent development
tool.
 
Alex Lane, Borland product manager for C++ for OS/2, will demonstrate a
beta version of this product.
 
Door prizes will include software products and discounts.
 
We will have a clinic for new OS/2 users at 7:00 p.m., before the main
meeting.  Bring your questions about getting started with OS/2 and ask
the experts!
 
To help you plan for the future, our November 23rd meeting will feature
a presentation on multimedia by IBM.  This presentation was originally
scheduled for October but has been postponed to November.
 
All people interested in OS/2 are invited to join us.
 
For more information contact:
 
      Guy Scharf, (415) 948-9186
      Colin Goldstein, colin@sjf.novell.com
 
Please note the new location for our meetings!  To reach this location,
take the Shoreline Drive North exit from the Bayshore Freeway (Highway
101).  Turn left at the stoplight on Charleston.  Turn left again on
Joaquin, the next street.  The IBM site is the first building on the
left.
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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.apps
From: 880506s@dragon.acadiau.ca (James R. Skinner)
Subject: Re: Less help and vi option question
Organization: Acadia University
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1992 18:42:01 GMT

linstee@dutecaj.et.tudelft.nl (Erik van Linstee) writes:

>It appears to me that less has a problem finding files.
>When I press v to edit the current file or h to get help
>it a system message is issued saying the path can't be found.
>I set editor to various values, like c:\os2\e.exe, c:\os2\cmd.exe
>and d:\bin\q.exe, with no effect, the files *are* there however.
>Same goes with lesshelp. Is this a known problem, has it been
>fixed, or am I doing something wrong?

Help works fine for me.  Did you do the following?

   Copy less.hlp to a directory in your DPATH.  Alternatively, specify
the full path for less.hlp (including the filename) in the environment
variable LESSHELP.

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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.apps
From: tange@daimi.aau.dk (Ole Tange)
Subject: Using CorelDraw Fonts in OS/2, how??
Organization: DAIMI: Computer Science Department, Aarhus University, Denmark
Date: Fri, 9 Oct 92 13:51:29 GMT

I would like to use all my fonts in both OS/2, CD, WinOS and GhostScript.

Is there a way to accomplish this? I guess all the fonts should be converted
to a format all the programs understand. Has anyone any expierence with this?

I will appreciate any reply. TIA.


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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.apps
From: jokim@jarthur.claremont.edu (John H. Kim)
Subject: Re: Ami Pro 3.0 on OS/2 2.0
Organization: Harvey Mudd College, Claremont, CA 91711
Distribution: usa
Date: Fri, 9 Oct 1992 01:43:17 GMT

dbarker@spang.Camosun.BC.CA (Deryk Barker) writes:

>Hmmmm, I'm running Ami Pro 2.0 and intending to move to OS/2 any
>day.... BTW there is supposed to be an OS/2 version appearing soon.
>Anyone have any info on pricing, upgrade offers, etc.?

I've got Ami Pro 3.0 on the Win-OS/2 3.1 beta and it seems to run fine
full screen.  I have no problem with the font bar at the bottom.  The
only problems I did have were:  During the install, it kept complaining
compress.dll wasn't in my c:\dos directory (it was); restarting the
Win-OS/2 session fixed it.  When I start up and navigate with Help, the
help box keeps jumping to the background.  I just minimize everything
in the foreground, although it is beginning to get irritating.

Lotus still has no firm ship date or upgrade policy.  They're shooting
for end of the year or 1Q93.  Their cross-platform upgrade (Windows to
OS/2 version) policy with 1-2-3 and Freelance Graphics is $49, but when
I questioned them about Ami Pro, they said their policies on Ami Pro
are usually different from 1-2-3 and Freelance.
-- 
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From: dic5340@hertz.njit.edu (David Charlap)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.apps
Subject: Re: File Comparing Program
Keywords: compare difference
Date: 13 Oct 92 19:03:46 GMT
Organization: New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, N.J.

In article <Bw2E4x.7Dv@unx.sas.com> sasghw@pica.unx.sas.com (Greg Wust) writes:
>
>I have just discovered a program called XDIFF for the Unix world
>that graphically compares two revisions of a file (or two files)
>side by side with clear highlighting of changes, additions,
>etc.
>
>Does anyone know of anything like this that exists under OS/2,
>Windows, or DOS to use in OS/2 2.0 (I mean, real side by
>side viewing and all, not a little report like DOS's COMP).

I know of an OS/2 program called contrast.exe which does what you
want.  I don't know where to find it, though.  It was in use at a job
I once had and I forgot to bring it home with me.  I believe it is
shareware. 
-- 
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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: andrewb@wolf.cs.washington.edu (Andrew Berg)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.apps
Subject: Re: Corel Draw 2.5 for OS/2 2.0
Date: 7 Oct 92 20:23:51 GMT
Article-I.D.: beaver.1992Oct7.202351.19926
Organization: Computer Science & Engineering Dept., Univ. of Washington, Seattle
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL5

Alok Dhir (adhir@cygnus.umd.edu) wrote:

..some stuff deleted...

: It opened up a full screen window and a nice pretty bar graph indicated it's
: progress, but I could not switch out without hitting it's pause button.
: I don't understand this.  I though OS/2 was preemptively multitasking.  How
: is it that an application is allowed to take control and not let me control-esc
: or alt-esc back to my desktop while it continues in the background?  Is this
: a bug in OS/2?  Or is OS/2 not really preemptively multitasked?  Or is this

..other stuff deleted...

: 
: Questions comments welcome.  Answers even more so...
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I had a similar sensation when installing Smalltalk/V OS/2 2.0.

My guess was that the installation program was a *gasp* windows application.
That those suckers were so lazy as to not bother to port over the install.exe
is fine, but they _should_ say something about it in the process.  When running
the windows programs, they have the authority to take ctrl-esc, et.al. away
from the Windows manager, so they do.  This leaves you with the feeling that
OS/2 has stopped pre-empting, but really the WIN-OS/2 has just gotten there
first.

andrewb@cs.washington.edu
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.apps
From: rm3@ornl.gov (MCBROOM R C)
Subject: Re: Why OS/2 **WILL** fail
Organization: Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Date: Fri, 9 Oct 1992 16:51:53 GMT

In article <AUSTIN.92Oct7111636@frnk409.franklin.COM> austin@franklin.com writes:
>In article <1aa1m3INNkf9@matt.ksu.ksu.edu> bewhite@matt.ksu.ksu.edu (MacroMan) writes:
 >Anyone got a clue for me on a way to whap a directory and all its children
 >into the bit-bucket w/o typing a compound command?  How about a simple
 >compound command?  (Must delete SubDirs containing files and other SubDirs w/o
 >naming them explicitly)
>
>     Under 4OS2, type del /x/s/y <dir>.  I have this aliased to "zap"
>   so I can just type zap <dir> and the directory is gone.  Not sure
>   how many subdir levels this command recurses into.
>
>Same solution to both problems:
>
>	zip -r -q -y -m xyzzy.zip <dir>
>
>	cd <newhome>
>	unzip <oldhome>\xyzzy.zip
>
>	del <oldhome>\xyzzy.zip
>
>Note that I use zip, from info-zip, not pkzip.  So the command line options
>may be a little deceiving.  Note also that if you have the space, the -0
>(zero) option will forego compression, which will make things faster..
>
It dowsn't install, but the windows file manager does wonders under
winos2.  If you have DOS/WINDOWS installed just put \windows\winfile.exe
in a winos2 object or point to the same file with a program icon under
the winos2 program manager.  If you don't have DOS/WINDOWS installed but
have the disks just expand winfile.exe and winfile.hop into \winos2. and
run it from a winos2 session.

Very useful.


Robert McBroom internet: rm3@ornl.gov
From: pfr@drsrv1.hmi.de (Fritsch_Wolfgang)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.apps
Subject: Re: NCSA Telnet and Trumpet News
Date: 16 Oct 92 22:12:03 GMT
Organization: Hahn-Meitner-Institut Berlin GmbH

rkohlbus@dining.umd.edu (Robert C Kohlbus) writes:


>	I currently have OS/2 connect to my network using an SMC elite 
>ethercard plus with Novell's Netware.  What I now what to do is get NCSA
>telnet to work.  Does anyone currently have NCSA telnet working and if so
>please post or email me your config.tel.

I am using NCSA Telnet with an identical ethernet card. The config.tel file
is the same as used under genuine Dos, it derives in obvious ways from the
sample file included in the Telnet package.

Wolfgang Fritsch
pfr@psun2.hmi.de

Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.apps
From: kwjung@vela.acs.oakland.edu (JUNG KURT W  )
Subject: Re: File Comparing Program
Keywords: compare difference
Organization: Oakland University, Rochester MI.
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1992 17:29:07 GMT

Greg Wust writes:
> Does anyone know of anything like this that exists under OS/2,
> Windows, or DOS to use in OS/2 2.0 (I mean, real side by
> side viewing and all, not a little report like DOS's COMP).

My favorite file comparison utility is Visual Compare, a $33 shareware program
designed primarily for programers.  It was written by John Whitney and is
available in libary 6 of the CompuServe IBMSYS forum, probably elsewhere as
well.  Until recently, there was an OS/2 version available but now there is
only a DOS version.  It is character mode, configurable, very clean and fast,
and generates script files if desired.  I depend on this program daily.

I have also seen a similar utility for PM (OS/2 version 1.x) but it did not
have as many options and wasn't as polished.

-- Kurt


Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.apps
From: kotulla@scapa.informatik.rwth-aachen.de (Axel Kotulla)
Subject: Re: Communications Software for 2.0
Followup-To: Communications Software for 2.0
Keywords: Communication TE/2 OS/2
Reply-To: kotulla@scapa.informatik.rwth-aachen.de (Axel Kotulla)
Organization: RWTH Aachen, Deutschland
Date: Sun, 11 Oct 92 17:54:05 GMT

Hey,

what about TE/2. It's a real OS/2 application (text-mode, not pm but
better than nothing)
and the best of all it is shareware avaliable via hobbes.


Axel Kotulla (E-Mail: axel@pool.informatik.rwth-aachen.de)
From: ucgadkw@ucl.ac.uk (Dominik Wujastyk)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.apps
Subject: Advanced Revelation
Keywords: Advanced Revelation, databases
Date: 13 Oct 92 09:40:48 GMT
Organization: Bloomsbury Computing Consortium


Just a point of information (perhaps for the FAQ):  I found out 
yesterday that Revelation Technologies does have an OS/2 version
of their database package, Advanced Revelation.  This is a very
powerful database package, for those who don't know.  It has
a couple of unique features which can be crucial for certain
types of application.  a) unlimited text in text fields, without
storing blanks; b) breaks the Codd rules by allowing multiple
instances of particular fields ("repeated fields").  The latter
feature is ideal, say, for the "Subject" field in a bibliographical
database, where you need to enter several subjects, and you don't 
know in advance how many you may need.

ARev is -- under the bonnet -- based on Pick.

ARev's OS/2 implementation is of version 2.0 of the product.  DOS is
at 3.0, and OS/2 will come up to 3.0 soon.

Dominik
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.apps
From: ressler@galileo.ifa.hawaii.edu (Mike "IR" Ressler)
Subject: Mouse loses sync with DOS window point
Organization: UH IfA and NASA Infrared Telescope Facility
Date: Mon, 12 Oct 1992 04:25:28 GMT

I know this has been asked a billion times before, but I didn't worry about it
before and a perusal of the FAQ didn't turn up an answer.

I'm trying to run WordPerfect for DOS in a DOS window, but the OS/2 graphical
mouse pointer fails to keep track of the corresponding DOS text cursor (this
happens with other programs too - Norton Utilities, for example). Is there
some magic I can invoke to make them track each other?

I'm running an ET-4000-based SVGA board with the orch09 beta drivers if that's
part of the problem ...

E-mail preferred, but I'll see responses here. Thanks.

Mike
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  - astronomer who favors changing "Big Bang" to "Horrendous Space Kablooie"
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  Me? I like music I can brush my teeth with ...
From: v053qpgh@ubvmsd.cc.buffalo.edu (Eric W Sarjeant)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.apps
Subject: Re: Ami Pro 3.0 on OS/2 2.0
Date: 9 Oct 92 16:24:00 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: University at Buffalo
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41

In article <70449@hydra.gatech.EDU>, gt0554c@prism.gatech.EDU (MCCONNELL) writes...
> 
>I am thinking about purchasing Ami Pro 3.0 for windows, but I would like
>to use it under OS/2 2.0. Are there any special problems or settings I
>should know about? I think Ami Pro 3.0 does not use Windows 3.1 features.
>Am I correct?

I successfully installed Ami Pro 3.0 to work under WinOS2 v3.0; but I was
unable to get the spell checker, grammer checker, or thesaurus to function
properly. AP is unable to find certain DLL files; however, it will run
fine from my C partition where Windows 3.1 was accidentally installed...
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From: hacker@cco.caltech.edu (Jonathan Bruce Hacker)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.apps
Subject: AutoCAD World article on OS/2 2.0 and AutoCAD R12
Date: 15 Oct 1992 01:41:00 GMT
Organization: California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
NNTP-Posting-Host: punisher.caltech.edu

Subject: AutoCAD World article on OS/2 and AutoCAD R12

This is taken from AutoCAD World Vol 1 No 7, October 2, 1992...
I don't have their permission, and they will probably sue me
for everything I don't have which is everything.

Headline on front page

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

OS/2 Upgrade to end compatibility problem

By Ken Chambers
AutoCAD World Staff

Upgrades of IBM's OS/2 2.0 operating system will be designed to end
compatibility problems with AutoCAD Release 12, an IBM official said.

OS/2 2.0 and AutoCAD are incompatible in part because OS/2 complies
with the DOS Protected Mode Inetrface (DPMI) .9 specification while
AutoCAD complies with the updated 1.0 specification.

This conflict could soon be resolved by an OS/2 upgrade now in
testing, said John Soyring, director of IBM Software Development.

"We are now in the process of developing several upgrades to OS/2
2.0," Soyring said in mid September.  "One of these upgrades includes
updating our DPMI support to comply with the DPMI 1.0 specification."

"An IBM team is using AutoCAD R12 to test DPMI compliance of the
upgrade", Soyring said.  He gave no target date for launching the
upgrade.

"Code quality will dictate when we release this upgrade commercially",
he said.

AutoDesk programmers are also involved, a company official said, but
he declined to disclose any details.

DPMI, which was developed by Microsoft for Windows 3.0 in 1990,
addresses conflicts between multi-tasking virtual control programs,
like OS/2, and DOS extended programs, like AutoCAD.

AutoCAD users on the Compuserve electronic forum have lambasted IBM
for failing to comply with DPMI 1.0, the newest specification.

[ed note:  some of us have lambasted AutoCAD and not IBM... :-)]

But Soyring defended OS/2 saying it was designed to comply with the
standard of the time, DPMI 0.9.

Autodesk officials have said they have no plans to develop a version
of AutoCAD specifically for OS/2.  This could change, as company
policy has long dictated that AutoCAD will be ported to the platforms
that sell the best.

[..... stuff deleted about  CEO autocad musings]


IBM announced in August that it sold a million copies of the 32-bit,
multi-tasking operating system since its release this spring.

[..... stuff deleted about windows version and NT port which "like
       OS/2 2.0, will also be a 32 bit multi-tasking operating system"]

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~


I hope the upcoming CSD includes this DPMI 1.0 code.




-- 
Jon Hacker
Caltech, Pasadena CA
hacker@tumbler-ridge.caltech.edu
From: rob@cad4.lbl.gov (Robert J. McNamara)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.apps
Subject: Commo under OS/2
Date: 15 Oct 1992 15:00:53 GMT
Organization: Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory
Reply-To: rob@cad4.lbl.gov (Robert J. McNamara)
NNTP-Posting-Host: cad4.lbl.gov


I'm having a strange problem with {commo} 5.01 under OS/2: every so often, 
the DOS window just disappears (if it's been running for several hours)
without so much as an error message.  It just croaks, taking my active 
session with it.  I havn't seen this behavior with other DOS programs,
including Telegard (which runs 24 hours a day when commo isn't going).
Has anyone else seen this strange behavior?

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From: anlst2+@pitt.edu (Arthur N Lilley)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.apps
Subject: After Dark Problems
Date: 8 Oct 92 00:33:29 GMT
Distribution: all
Organization: University of Pittsburgh


     I'm having some trouble trying to run After Dark.  The screen saver pops
up every X minutes even if I have been doing stuff(mouse, keyboard, etc.).
I assume that the solution lies somewhere in the WIN-OS2 settings, but I
can't figure out the right combination.  Like I said, I don't think that
Windows is getting the signal that I have hit a key or clicked a mouse.
Once Afterdark pops up and is in the foreground, as soon as I hit a key it
will disappear like it should.  Any ideas?

                                                         - Art
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.apps
From: tamu@uxh.cso.uiuc.edu (Todd Henderson)
Subject: HPGL output from gnuplot->AMI PRO 2.0/3.0, how to control font?
Summary: How to set font?
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Fri, 9 Oct 1992 21:31:18 GMT

If any of the gnuplot users, who use the hpgl option with AMI PRO, could
enlighten me on how to control the font in gnuplot I'd appreciate it!!

My hpgl output gives a little tiny font in AMI PRO when I print or display
it!

Or I could probably find out for myself if I could figure out how to
print the manual/docs or could get a straight printable version of it.  The
one I have is in emTex format or something??

Thanks to all.

Todd
tamu@uxh.cso.uiuc.edu
From: lclarke@gandalf.rutgers.edu (Lee Clarke)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.apps
Subject: Scheme Pallette question
Keywords: pallette
Date: 14 Oct 92 10:18:17 GMT
Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J.

I have the menu font set to HELV 14 from the Scheme Pallette. But when I 
start my machine, the font goes to HELV 12 (I think) with a different
color arrangment. I have to change it back by bringing up the Scheme
Pallette, hold shift (or alt), and drag the scheme to the desktop. Any
ideas why it doesn't stick?