HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: fhl@milton.u.washington.edu (Dean Pentcheff)
Subject: How to unstick a window-creation position?
Followup-To: comp.os.os2.misc
Reply-To: dean2@tbone.biol.scarolina.edu (Dean Pentcheff) 
Organization: Department of Biology, University of South Carolina, Columbia
Date: Sat, 19 Dec 1992 22:42:59 GMT

By using the Shift-Mouse combination I recently "fixed" the size of
my OS/2 command window.  Accidentally, I also moved it while holding
down the Shift key.  Now, of course, all OS/2 command windows open
at the same location, rather than cascading as they used to.  Is there
some way of unlocking this Shift-move fixation?  I'd like to return
to the cascaded window locations.

Thanks.

-Dean
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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu (Timothy F. Sipples)
Subject: Re: Wang 800x600x16 drivers for os/2???
Reply-To: sip1@midway.uchicago.edu
Organization: Dept. of Econ., Univ. of Chicago
Date: Sat, 12 Dec 1992 22:06:23 GMT

In article <BywGGo.E4r@mentor.cc.purdue.edu> ericwolf@mentor.cc.purdue.edu (Eric Wolf) writes:
>While waiting for XGA-2, I went out and bought a WANG 800x600x16 video
>card.  Are there drivers for this card for os/2??  Is it compatable with
>something that I don't know of?  It sure would be nice to get a decent
>resolution while I wait for XGA.
>I tried Joel's 800x600x16 generic driver but it wouldn't work.  SVGA ON
>doesn't even respond when I type SVGA ON.  It just comes back with the
>help message (so I assume the card is not recognized).

Do you know what chipset it uses?

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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: pvonk@scott.skidmore.edu (Pierre VonKaenel)
Subject: Re: Can OS/2 run full size windows in small windows?
Organization: Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs NY, 12866
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1992 15:08:02 GMT

>
>In DV/X, for example, you can open a DOS window with scalable fonts, and
>you can then resize the window as tiny as you please, and it will
>continue to display a full 25x80 screen.  Of course, the type gets
>tinier and tinier as you go, until it becomes virtually unreadable.
>But, it *does* work.

Question:  can you turn off this capability?  Often, I shrink down a
window so that it displays 2 or 3 lines, just what I need to see.  I
don't think I'd like the fonts to shrink down proportionately.


-- 
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Math & CS Dept.		| Saratoga Springs, NY 12866 | (518)584-5000 Ext 2391

"Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes." Oscar Wilde
From: enk2@po.CWRU.Edu (Erik N. Kovach)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: New 32 Trident & NEC 4FG Interlaced???
Date: 15 Dec 92 20:12:56 GMT
Reply-To: enk2@po.CWRU.Edu (Erik N. Kovach)
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
NNTP-Posting-Host: slc5.ins.cwru.edu


In a previous article, kbwilson@miavx1.acs.muohio.edu () says:

>Does anyone have any idea how to make this flicker go away?

It is NOT the software...it's the video card.

This is caused by a jumper setting on the card.  If your card
is a Trident 8900C, check the setting on jumper SW3 ("refresh rate").
Removing the pin connector will give a 48.7KHz refresh rate (known as
"non-interlaced", which is what you want.  Make sure this does not exceed
the refresh rate of your monitor (Multisync...i don't think it will..haha).

If your card is another Trident card (9000 or 8900B), refer to your manual
for the jumper.
-- 
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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: pre1@ellis.uchicago.edu (Grant Prellwitz)
Subject: Re: Boot Manager: Does any one have a compatibility list?
Summary: zero ID of Boot Manager to install NT
Reply-To: pre1@midway.uchicago.edu
Organization: University of Chicago Computing Organizations
Date: Sat, 19 Dec 1992 07:39:31 GMT

In article <sal8.246.724201910@po.cwru.edu> sal8@po.cwru.edu (Steve Luzynski) writes:
>In article <1992Dec12.192416.9499@ichips.intel.com> jburns@pdxgp1 (John Justin Burns Jr.) writes:
>>From: jburns@pdxgp1 (John Justin Burns Jr.)
>>Subject: Boot Manager: Does any one have a compatibility list?
>>Date: Sat, 12 Dec 1992 19:24:16 GMT
>>I have been using the Boot Manager with a variety of OSs.  I know that it
[...]
>>Windows NT (beta), Lan Manager, DOS 6.0, and earlier versions of DOS.
>
>The NT beta has code included that makes it absolutely refuse to install if 
>it detects the OS/2 boot manager on your hard drive. Pretty rude of MS if 
>you ask me (OS/2 does no such check for NT).
>
In Tim Sipple's benchmark document, he mentions a workaround for this.  It
is to zero the ID of the OS/2 Boot Manager partition.
The document winbench.txt should be available for ftp from ftp-os2.nmsu.edu.

I agree, it is extremely rude, selfish, childish, and anti-social behaviour.
Do you think Billy might have had something to do with it :^).

===========================================================================
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Me, a funny signature?                 |   76474,2121  (CIS)
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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: bross@spartan.ac.BrockU.CA (Brian J Ross)
Subject: Problem with DOS partition
Organization: Dept of Computer Science, Brock University
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL4
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 23:59:52 GMT


I have the following partitions: boot manager, (primary) DOS FAT, 
(primary) OS/2 HFPS, and a logical FAT for data.  When setting up the
DOS partition, the config.sys file become erroneous -- easy to do when
configuring memory. However, I can no longer access that partition at all
to correct it: trying to boot to it will freeze due to the 
faulty configuration. Booting from a DOS disk in "A:" still doesn't access
it, as "c:" is taken to be the logical FAT.
And the primary OS/2 partion can't access the DOS partition, of course. 

I'm stuck!  I'd really appreciate a fix for this that won't involve
yet another complete installation of the whole system (which would be
morally reprehensible with a serious computer system :-). 

-- 
Brian Ross                          "Welcome to Canada." -- Twin Peaks Movie.
bross@sandcastle.cosc.brocku.ca            
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: samiam@netcom.com (Scott Moore)
Subject: Re: How to install SBMMPM?
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  (408 241-9760 guest) 
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 07:46:17 GMT

parry@yoyo.cc.monash.edu.au (Tom J Parry) writes:

>I recall reading here recently that the instructions in the Soundblaster
>MMPM driver installation are incorrect. Unfortunately, any articles that
>resemble such info have long since expired here. I have downloaded the
>SBMMPM3 and SBMMPM2 and OS2MMPM archives from ftp-os2 and all are identical
>and refuse to install correctly.

>Anybody know what you have to do to get these drivers installed?

I did not have a problem with it. Be sure that os2mmpm is installed correctly,
make a disk with the contents of sbmmpm (you did make a disk an not install 
off hard disk right ?), then do minstall and all is well.

-- 
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samiam@netcom.com     | important than your 
Santa Cruz, CA USA    | mother"
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From: gkendall@ncr-mpd.FtCollinsCO.NCR.COM (Guy Kendall)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: CMS Jumbo 250 use under OS2 2.0
Date: 19 Dec 92 00:37:30 GMT
Reply-To: gkendall@ncr-mpd.FtCollinsCO.NCR.COM (Guy Kendall)
Organization: NCR Microelectronic Products Division

In article <1992Dec12.082445.12080@coyote.datalog.com> ejm@coyote.datalog.com (E.J. McKernan) writes:
>I just installed OS2 2.0 on a new 486/33. The machine includes a
>colorado memory systems jumbo 250 tape drive attached to the floppy
>controller. The entire system is using the HPFS. Now a couple of
>questions:
>
>1. Is there a driver available for the CMS under OS2?
>2. How can I set up a DOS session to run the DOS tape software?

A while back they said they would have drivers by the end of the year. 
It's pretty close...anyone seen them?


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From: rommel@jonas.gold.sub.org (Kai Uwe Rommel)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: Tseng ET4000 32-bit and 70+Hz
Distribution: world
Date: Sun, 20 Dec 92 22:51:49 MET
Organization: Private

In article <1992Dec19.203337.22233@wam.umd.edu> comehome@wam.umd.edu (Neal A. Dillman) writes:
>	Anyone know how to get the following to work??
>483/33MHz NEC w/4FG monitor and ET4000 video @ (and here's the hard part)
>70+Hz 1024x768  NI w/the service pack installed.
>
>	Please mail or reply through news... my eyes are killing me!!

Normally ET-4000 cards come with a utility called VMODE or DMODE or
SYNC to switch into 70Hz operation. For Genoa Cards, it's SYNC.

Just call that program in the fullscreen DOS session just before
calling SVGA ON to generate the PMI file.

Alternatively, call it under native DOS and run SVGA.EXE under native
DOS too (it works).

I have once done this with a Genoa 7800 card and OS/2 2.0 GA+SP and it
worked.

Kai Uwe Rommel

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DOS ... is still a real mode only non-reentrant interrupt
handler, and always will be.                -Russell Williams
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu (Timothy F. Sipples)
Subject: Trident 16-Bit Driver Tip
Reply-To: sip1@midway.uchicago.edu
Organization: Dept. of Econ., Univ. of Chicago
Date: Sat, 12 Dec 1992 23:46:42 GMT

On my system (and perhaps yours), the 800x600 16 color Trident 16-bit
driver works quite well except for one strange problem.  Occasionally
a text window (like the OS/2 command line window) will open
incorrectly such that the contents of the window are offset about one
character to the left of the window border.  Hence, when you type, you
can't see the first character on the left of each line.  Maximizing
the window cures the problem, but it is a minor annoyance.

I've found, however, that the command:

MODE CO80,25

resets the window and redraws it properly, to avoid the problem.  You
can use this command instead of maximizing the window.  To automate
the procedure, you can run the command by putting:

/K MODE CO80,25

in the optional parameters section of your OS/2 Windows program object
(on the first page of the notebook settings).

I haven't tried it, but it may be possible to change the SET OS2_SHELL
line in CONFIG.SYS to achieve the same effect, so that the line reads:

SET OS2_SHELL=C:\OS2\CMD.EXE /K C:\OS2\MODE CO80,25

I would be interested in any other ideas on this point.

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From: glenw@remus.rutgers.edu (Glenn T. Wasserman)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: PARADISE DRIVERS
Date: 15 Dec 92 20:44:15 GMT
Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J.

I have a friend with the new Paradise Accelerator. I'm pretty sure there are
no 2.0 drivers made for it, but (since I assume it's backward compatible) can
anyone tell me where I can find OS/2 1.3 drivers for the standard paradise 
chipset? Since (I assume) the board will work with the generic 800x600x16
driver that Joel has made, I would be looking for either 1024 drivers, or at
least 256 color drivers. 

Anyone got any???

-Glenn

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From: fhl@milton.u.washington.edu (Dean Pentcheff)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: Help with zip needed
Summary: Get the Info-Zip unzip from ftp-os2
Date: 13 Dec 92 19:44:00 GMT
Article-I.D.: u.1992Dec13.194400.28538
Reply-To: dean2@tbone.biol.scarolina.edu (Dean Pentcheff)
Followup-To: comp.os.os2.misc
Organization: Department of Biology, University of South Carolina, Columbia

pab@po.CWRU.Edu (Pete Babic) writes:
>I downloaded a bunch of files from ftp-os2.nmsu.cdu and found that many of them
>can't be disolved with pkunzip.exe version 1.1. I get a "don't know how to
>handle this file" message. I haven't been able to find a newer version of
>pkunzip. Can anyone tell me where and what to get to disolve these files?
>Thanks...

You should also download the Info-Zip group's version of unzip for OS/2.
It's also on the ftp-os2.nmsu.edu server in the files:
	pub/os2/all/archivers/unz50x16.exe     [16-bit version]
	pub/os2/2.0/archivers/unz50x32.exe     [32-bit version]

-Dean
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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: g1nickut@cdf.toronto.edu (Nick Zahariadis)
Subject: Re: Startup Folder
Organization: University of Toronto Computing Disciplines Facility
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 05:31:02 GMT

In article <1992Dec16.040714.138681@ua1ix.ua.edu> mhunter@ho13.eng.ua.edu (Mark W. Hunter) writes:
>
>I think I might have discovered a slight glitch (bug) in the way OS/2 deals withthe startup folder. Recently I moved the program DeskPic into the startup folderso it would automatically load whenever I booted OS/2. After awhile I got tired of it and decid
>ed to move it out of the startup folder. After I did this and rebooted, DeskPic reloaded even though the program object wasn't in the startup
>folder. It looks like OS/2 isn't recognizing when program objects are removed 
>from the folder, and subsequently not changing the programs that should be loaded on boot-up. 

 Mark, if you shut down the operating system and a program is running, it will
 start up the next time you boot. Is this the case?

 Also you might wanna look at your 'SET AUTOSTART' statement in the
 'config.sys' file.


 Nick.

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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc,comp.os.os2.advocacy
From: hwhalen@jupiter.sun.csd.unb.ca (Hugh Whalen)
Subject: Re: Future of OS/2 and IBM????????????
Organization: Faculty of Administration, University of New Brunswick
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 16:01:48 GMT

Sorry additions to the last post were missing. This is the full 
version.

In article <1992Dec17.134511.18616@csi.uottawa.ca> gagnon@aix1.uottawa.ca (Jean-Serge Gagnon 564-7183) writes:
>In article <1992Dec16.152535.12204@jupiter.sun.csd.unb.ca> hwhalen@jupiter.sun.csd.unb.ca (Hugh Whalen) writes:
>>In article <1992Dec16.072137.28867@sequent.com> furballs@sequent.com (Paul Penrod) writes:
>>>In article <1992Dec15.210437.934@gn.ecn.purdue.edu> ashwath@gn.ecn.purdue.edu (Ashwath Ram) writes:
>>[Stuff about IBM laying off 25,000 people deleted]
>>>IBM is among the most conservative of the blue chip stock companies
>>>and has long earned it's reputation as a stable commodity in the
>>
>>Ahem .... stable? I believe that around 1987 IBM stock was trading at 
>>approximately $178 per share. Yesterday it was trading at $56 per 
>>share. God help us if this is stability. :)
>
>This doesn't belong here, but I wish people would talk when they knew what
>they were talking about!!!! Have you ever heard of "spliting"? It's a 
>process in which a stock is doubled, and it's value is divided. For example
>an IBM share that was worth $178 in 1985 would split and then you'd have
>two shares, each worth $89, which is exactly the same thing. Since the time
>when the share was worth $178, IBM shares have split twice, meaning that
>whoever had one (1) share worth $178, today has four (4) shares worth $56.
>In other words, this person has $224 for a cost of $178 (or less, of course).
>
>So PLEASE, make sure you know what you're talking about, before saying
>something so drasticaly influential to the minds of people who REALLY have
>no idea what it means other that money.
>
>PLEASE, no flames, I just wanted to straghten this out. If a discussion
>arises from this, please note I have set follow-up to talk.bizzare.
>
>Thanks. 
>-- 


WRONG!!!!!!!! I just went to the library to verify this. According to 
Moody's Industrial Manual 1991 the last IBM stock split was May 31, 
1979 when the stock was split 4 for 1. That's right 13 years ago not 
since 1985, as you claimed. 

Information from Moody's Handbook of Common Stocks, Summer 1992 
Edition.  

        Share price range 1987  175 7/8 to 102
        Share price range 1991  139 3/4 to 83 1/2

Consider it straightened out. 

Hugh Whalen                     | Where all men think alike, no one
Faculty of Administration       | thinks very much.
University of New Brunswick     |               - Walter Lippmann			


DISCLAIMER: Neither UNB nor I care what the other thinks.
From: bab@se39.wg2.waii.com (Brian Button)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: New FAQ? Was - Re: A Listing of the TRAP message codes.
Date: 13 Dec 92 18:08:38 GMT
Organization: Western Geophysical Exploration Products
In-reply-to: tim@math.uakron.edu's message of 12 Dec 92 07:51:57 GMT


-->"Timothy" == Timothy Smith <tim@math.uakron.edu> writes:

Timothy> Does anyone have a listings of the TRAP error codes and what
Timothy> exactly they mean?  I keep getting a TRAP 0000 system halted.
Timothy> error messages and would like to know exactly what this an
Timothy> all TRAP error messages are..

Here is the list, Tim. I was going to reply to you, but I've seen
enough requests for this to justify posting it. Maybe it should be put
into the FAQ list??

Anyhow, here's the list:

==============================================================================
Trap #	Function	OS/2 HELP MSG (SYSxxxx)	Likely cause under OS/2:
==============================================================================
0000	Divide error			3184	division by zero by OS/2
0001	Debug exception				shouldn't occur
0002	NMI Interrupt				memory parity or 387 error
0003	One Byte Interrupt			shouldn't occur
0004	Interrupt on Overflow		3185	from INTO instruction
0005	Array Bounds Check		3191	from BOUND instruction
0006	Invalid OP-Code			3176	usually a corrupted .EXE
0007	Device not Available			from ESC or WAIT instruction
0008	Double Fault				shouldn't happen
0009	Reserved by Intel			
000A	Invalid TSS (Task State Segment)	OS/2 bug - not a common bug
000B	Segment not Present			Can be a program or OS/2 bug
000C	Stack Fault				stack was ruined (not common)
000D	General Protection Fault		invalid pointer (most common)
000E	Page Fault				OS/2 bug, error in virtual mem
000F	Reserved by Intel			
==============================================================================
(C)1992 Gebran Krikor  * Freely distributable 

Hope this helps you.

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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: hankedr@mail.auburn.edu (Darrel Hankerson)
Subject: Re: DISKCACHE vs IFS CACHE
Organization: Auburn University, Alabama
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1992 11:58:45 GMT

In article <BzEuKF.AIv@world.std.com> bsn@world.std.com (Brent S Noorda) writes:
>The command tells that the CACHE/: in the IFS line of
>CONFIG.SYS provides disk caching.  It also says that 
>the DISKCACHE line provides diskcaching.  Do these
>things work together? Are they exclusive?  What?

This has been discussed a few times in the past, but little mention has been
made of the incorrect on-line docs.  As I understand the situation (confirmed
by posts to this group), the on-line docs concerning "DISKCACHE for HPFS"
are wrong.  DISKCACHE is for FAT,  CACHE is for HPFS.

--Darrel Hankerson hankedr@mail.auburn.edu
From: jmaynard@oac.hsc.uth.tmc.edu (Jay Maynard)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: Which Tape Drive for OS/2?
Date: 19 Dec 1992 01:10:22 GMT
Organization: UT Health Science Center Houston

In article <1992Dec18.222114.22258@elroy.jpl.nasa.gov> hartzman@kilroy.Jpl.Nasa.Gov (Les Hartzman) writes:
>Are you using any new video drivers or just the plain vanilla VGA driver from
>GA?

Hmmm:

>A friend is using an A120 after the CSD, BUT he's only using the 16-bit Trident
>drivers.

I, too, am using the 16-bit Trident drivers - I couldn't get the 32-bit
versions to work. Maybe this is a common thread?...if so, it's
weeeeeeeeeeeeird...
-- 
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.
 "Brought to you by the letters O, S, and by the number 2." -- Mike Levis
From: dnmnn@rwg.stgt.sub.org (Norbert Nick)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: New BOCA SVGA drivers ??? 
Distribution: world
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 92 08:33:09 GMT
Organization: 


In article <dkm2.723096373@Isis.MsState.Edu> dkm2@ra.msstate.edu writes:

  > 
  > 
  > I just downloaded the BOCA SVGA drivers for the cirrus logic chipset.
  > Has anyone gotten them to work?
  > 
  > David
  > 
  > -- 
  >                David K. Magee | "Mandrake! Get over here and feed me that  
  >          MIS Graduate Student |  belt boy.  The Redcoats are coming! "
  >  Mississippi State University |
  >           dkm2@ra.msstate.edu |   -  General Jack Ripper, Dr. Strangelove 
  > 

I have got such a driver from my dealer in Germany. It works fine, after I had 
remove the BVHSVGA from the line SET VIOVGA=DEVICE(BVHVGA) in the
CONFIG.SYS. 

Norbert Nick