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From: aar_osman@gsbacd.uchicago.edu
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.networking
Subject: Re: OS/2 2.0 NW requester/Cabletron/TCP
Date: 29 Aug 92 20:50:42 GMT
Article-I.D.: gsbacd.1992Aug29.145042.1
Distribution: usa

> 
> I read somewhere that the OS/2 2.0 NW Requester was released on July 1!
> I need to verify the the OS/2 version 2.0 Netware Requester is available
> and is generally thought of as being "ready" (if this is indeed the case).
	Yes, this is available.  Cal 1-800-NETWARE to order your copy.
> 
> The other reason that they tell me that we'll have to wait at least 6 months
> before we can have our OS/2 2.0 is that drivers supposedly do not exist for
> the network cards that we have (Cabletron E2010's and E2110's).  IS THIS
> CORRECT???  
	The cabletron drivers ARE available from the Cabletron bulletin
	board.  I have been using them for 3 months now.
> 
> I would also like info on using IBM's TCP/IP 1.2.1 package with the setup
> listed below.  If anyone can verify that the OS/2 workstations described
> below will INDEED continue to work wonderfully if we upgrade from OS/2 1.3
> to OS/2 2.0 (and NW Requester), please let me know! 
> 
	The 1.2.1 (refresh) package has a few problems with the NW requester
	2.0 that (in my opinion) it is unusable (intermittent freezes).  I
	understand that Novell/IBM fixed the problem and we are waiting for
	its release.  If TCP/IP operation under NW requester 2.0 is CRITICAL,
	I would wait until the patch is available.
> Setup:
> 
>    OS/2 Workstations:
>       
>       *   386-25 DX machines with 16MB RAM
>       *   330MB SCSI hard drive with WD FAASST SCSI 7000 controller
>       *   Cabletron E2010 or E2110 Network Interface Card
>       *   OS/2 version 1.3
>       *   Novell NW Requester for OS/2 version 1.3	
> 
>    DOS "ODI" Workstations:
> 
>       *   386-25 DX machines with 2MB RAM
>       *   40MB H.D.
>       *   Cabletron E2010 or E2210 N.I.C. 
>       *   LSL, IPXODI, CSIODI.EXE, Lan WorkPlace (Telnet, FTP) 
> 
>    Servers:
> 	
>       *   486-33 DX machines with ??MB RAM
>       *   660MB hard drive, 100MB hard drive
>       *   Novell Netware 3.11

	These machines are more than adequate.  I suggest at least 8mB
	ram for OS/2 machines that will concurrently run NW requester
	and TCP/IP.  Windows compatibility is also a resource hog.
> Thanks in advance!

	You are welcome!
> (svec@act-act6-po.act.org)

	Osman Ahmad aar_osman@gsbacd.uchicago.edu
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.networking
From: paula@alf.pec.co.nz (Paul Andrew)
Subject: Re: Anybody using a NE2000 compatible with OS/2 TCP/IP?
Organization: Production Engineering (NZ) Ltd.
Date: Tue, 25 Aug 1992 22:02:00 GMT

In article <protein.714276000@garfield.catt.ncsu.edu> protein@garfield.catt.ncsu.edu (Chris Blackmon) writes:
>Has anybody gotten the drivers for a NE2000 to work with OS/2?

Yes I have, I used a driver that came with Microsofts LAN Manager
which we used to use.


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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.networking
From: db3l@ans.net (David Bolen)
Subject: Re: VT-100/220 Key Redefinitions
Date: Tue, 1 Sep 1992 11:41:44 GMT
Organization: Advanced Network & Services, Inc. - Elmsford, NY

In article <67387@hydra.gatech.EDU> np4@prism.gatech.EDU (Nick Pomponio) writes:

>Is there any way to redefine the keyboard in the VT100 or VT220 telnet
>programs that are included in the IBM TCP/IP 1.2.1 package? I would
>like to use the VT100 program to connect to our Sun. The editor on the
>Sun is Crisp, and the ability to use the Alt keys would be very
>beneficial.

I don't think any of the current incarnation of the emulators let you redefine
the keyboard, but they do send unique escape sequences for all possible key
combinations, including things like Alt-(letter), all function key varieties,
keypad vs. normal Enter, etc..

So - if you can redefine things on the Unix side of the coin (presuming that
Crisp uses a termcap/terminfo entry or something), you should be able to
get it to work fine.

I don't know if I have a complete list of escape sequences handy at the moment.
I'll see if I can put one together and post it.

(BTW - if anyone else is using WordPerfect 5.0 on their Unix boxes, I've got a
 terminal definition file for OS/2 VT100 that makes the keyboard function
 identically to WordPerfect under DOS/OS/2)

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From: bwiersema@bss2.umd.edu (Brian Wiersema)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.networking
Subject: Re: IBM TCPIP Softcopy-3 Manuals
Date: 26 Aug 92 12:46:13 GMT
Organization: College of Behavioral and Social Sciences, U of Maryland

In article <1992Aug25.145046.10498@midway.uchicago.edu> sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu (Timothy F. Sipples) writes:
>In article <92237.151237JGF1@psuvm.psu.edu> <JGF1@psuvm.psu.edu> writes:
>>Does anyone know how to unpack - decode - unscramble the documentation that
>>comes with the TCP software labeled SOFTCOPY-3 MANUALS?

>They are in Book Manager format which can be read using the Book
>Manager/2 product from IBM.

Pretty slick.  You have to buy another product in order to read the manuals 
for the product you already bought.  I wonder what new product you need to 
buy to read the Book Manager/2 manuals?

Seriously, is there any ftp-able PD software that can read these files?
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.networking
From: nenaas@ulrik.uio.no (Nils-Eivind Naas)
Subject: Re: TCP/IP 1.2.1 with a Isolan 4110-3????
Organization: University of Oslo, Norway
Date: Thu, 3 Sep 1992 08:22:10 GMT

In article <1992Sep02.233719.39355@datamark.co.nz> thomas@datamark.co.nz (Thomas Beagle) writes:
Path: nntp.uio.no!nuug!aun.uninett.no!sunic!mcsun!uunet!wupost!waikato.ac.nz!comp.vuw.ac.nz!ferrari.datamark.co.nz!thomas
   Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.networking
   From: thomas@datamark.co.nz (Thomas Beagle)
   Date: Wed, 02 Sep 1992 23:37:19 GMT
   Organization: Datamark International Ltd.
   Lines: 23

   [Culturally appropriate greeting mode on.]

   Gidday.

   Now that I (at last!) have upgraded to TCP/IP 1.2.1 with the kind
   assistance of the people on this group, I have a new problem.

   Does anyone have/know about an OS/2 NDIS driver for the Isolan 4110-3
   card? It's in an MCA machine (PS/2 55sx with 8MB) and the local agents
   don't have a clue what I'm talking about. Unfortunately, I don't have
   much of a clue either.

   Any help would be appreciated. (They want to use Ethernet like me,
   rather than SLIP and I don't blame them.)

   P.S. Is there a CSD for the Xwindows module? That focus problem is a
   real pain and I recently had to kill the xterm on the Unix box to do
   anything with it.

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There is an OS/2 NDIS driver in the latest drivers disk set (v. 3.10).
Unfortunately, it is dated May 1991, so I do not know if it works with 2.0.

The Norwegian distributor, after I have been pestering him for months for
a working ODI driver for OS/2 2.0, tells me that :

a) 3Com has stopped production of the BICC cards since their recent takeover
b) 3Com has stopped further driver development for BICC cards

So, no working ODI driver for OS/2 2.0 ( for Netware and OS/2 coexistence),
probably no other modern working drivers either.
(There is a working ODI for MSDOS, however, though only for 16-bit cards)

Which leaves us, a 100 % BICC installation, somewhere out in the cold.

Buy new cards? Yes, probably over time.
Buy new 3Com cards, you said? No, sir !


Nils-Eivind Naas
Manager, Computer Services
Institute Group for Social Research
Oslo, Norway
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.networking
From: rickw@ipc1.cc.umr.edu (Rick Wilkerson)
Subject: Netware & OS/2 on an Ethernet II LAN
Date: Wed, 2 Sep 1992 20:07:55 GMT
Organization: University of Missouri-Rolla, Missouri's Technological University

Hi,
I have tried without success to get the Netware Requestor for OS/2 to work 
completely.  The problem is with the DOS programs located on our 3.11 servers.
Whenever I try to execute WordPerfect 5.1 for DOS, it starts to load and then
complains about not finding WP.FIL.  Even though I can do a DIR and find WP.FIL
exactly where it should be.  Also, cc:Mail for DOS terminates the DOS session.

I keep hearing that the requester works great, so what am I doing wrong.

Hardware:  IBM PS/2 Mod 70
           12 MB RAM
           3c523 Ethernet Card

The LAN uses ETHERNET_II framing.

Any and all help would be appreciated.

Rick...

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From: kslater@sps.pgh.pa.us (Kevin J. Slater)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.networking
Subject: Re: USENET and OS/2 2.0
Date: 30 Aug 92 12:14:27 GMT
Organization: SPS ACAD BBS, (412) 487-3637

sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu (Timothy F. Sipples) writes:

> In article <k+Xzr*000@cyvaned.cyvaned.sub.org> joedust@cyvaned.cyvaned.sub.or
> >I'll  try  to set up a USENET Site running under OS/2 2.0 in
> >the  near  future.   I've  experience with such beasts under
> >AmigaDOS  and  UNIX but i've really no idea where to get all
> >pieces of software to do so.
> >Where  can  i  get packages like uucp, sendmail, elm, cnews,
> >nn, cron ...  for OS/2?
> >Yes,  i  know,  i could ask archie, but who can tell me what
> >versions and releases working together in harmony?
> 
> Easy.  Get all the pieces via anonymous ftp from ftp-os2.nmsu.edu.
> You'll need UUPC, elm, and SNews to get started.
> 
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Well, seeing that I want to do the same thing... Will all this stuff work 
under v1.3 instead of 2.0? I have an AT currently running waffle 1.64 to 
give folks dialup access to my net and internet/usenet and I'm trying to 
replace DOS on this machine with OS/2 1.3, but I need to keep the same 
functionality.

...Kevin

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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.networking
From: eletanjm@nuscc.nus.sg (TAN JIN MENG)
Subject: Re: X windows on Non-UNIX systems
Organization: National University of Singapore
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1992 01:32:31 GMT

yktnews@watson.ibm.com writes:
:     IBM has  has demonstrated some X client applications, running on OS/2 (2.0), at
: Comdex and PC Expo (NY).
: 
:     IBM has also demonstrated DPM (Distributed Presentation Manager) at several 
: places.
: 
: KeJia.
: Gao@watson.ibm.com

***Distributed Presentation Manager!!!!! Could we know more... please?

jin meng
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.networking
From: gill@eagle (Warren Gill)
Subject: Re: LAN Manager 2.1
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL4
Organization: Sangamon State University
Distribution: na
Date: Tue, 1 Sep 1992 03:21:30 GMT

jon@bai.baylis.COM (Jon Granrose) writes:
: 
: In article <1992Aug31.151731.6058@nntp.hut.fi> tkorento@vipunen.hut.fi writes:
:   > On my job we are running LAN Manager 2.1 under OS2 v1.3.
: 
: I am assuming this is Microsoft Lan Manager.  Last I heard there is no
: support for an OS/2 2.0 server, only the client software is available (and

I definitely agree with Jon.  I wouldn't upgrade the server until Microsoft
updates the software.  I *would* upgrade the workstations, if they aren't,
using the beta requester.  OS/2 2.0 would be a kludge on your server with
only 6MB.  I would definitely add more RAM, regardless.  16MB will let you
use the NETRUN service, and speed up other things considerably.
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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.networking
From: jburns@pdxgp1 (John Justin Burns Jr.)
Subject: HELP!!! IBM TCP/IP 1.2.1 w/ Intel EtherExpress16
Organization: Intel Corp., Hillsboro, Oregon
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1992 19:44:22 GMT

I am trying, unsuccessfully, to use IBM TCP/IP 1.2.1 with Intel's 
EtherExpress16 network card.  Has anybody done this?  If so, how?

Thanks in advance,

John Burns

Send eMail to jburns@ichips.intel.com
From: Tom.Braun@f17.n8012.z86.Toadnet.org (Tom Braun)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.networking
Subject: 10Net
Date: 27 Aug 92 10:29:00 GMT
Organization: FidoNet node 86:8012/17 - Gateway/2 OS/2 User, St. Louis MO


Has anyone tried to set up 10Net with OS/2 ver 2.0?  I want to set up
a simple peer to peer between my 2.0 machine and an old DOS machine.
I would like to run 10Net as a server in a DOS window on the OS/2
machine with Arcnet cards.  I would appreciate any comments.  Thanks


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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.networking
From: thomas@datamark.co.nz (Thomas Beagle)
Subject: protocol.ini for Intel Ehterexpress?
Date: Sun, 30 Aug 1992 21:17:52 GMT
Organization: Datamark International Ltd.

Yes, I do feel stupid.

Someone on the net kindly sent me a working protocol.ini for the Intel
Etherexpress card - which I have gone and lost.

Could someone please mail me one?

Thanks.

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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.networking
From: vu@bsc.no (Nguyen Vu)
Subject: NewsReader For OS/2 2.0 ?
Organization: Bergen Scientific Centre, Bergen, NORWAY
Date: Tue, 1 Sep 1992 10:36:35 GMT

Hi Netters 

Is there any Newsreader which is ftp'able for OS/2 2.0 (TCP/IP 1.2.1) ?
Please E-mail me! vu@scanne.bsc.no

Thanks
Vu
From: sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu (Timothy F. Sipples)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.networking
Subject: Re: IBM TCPIP Softcopy-3 Manuals
Date: 25 Aug 92 14:50:46 GMT
Reply-To: sip1@midway.uchicago.edu
Organization: Dept. of Econ., Univ. of Chicago

In article <92237.151237JGF1@psuvm.psu.edu> <JGF1@psuvm.psu.edu> writes:
>Does anyone know how to unpack - decode - unscramble the documentation that
>comes with the TCP software labeled SOFTCOPY-3 MANUALS?

They are in Book Manager format which can be read using the Book
Manager/2 product from IBM.

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Xref: sparky comp.os.os2.networking:1170 comp.sys.novell:6861
From: sillett@edc3jr.gsph.pitt.edu (Robert L. Sillett)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.networking,comp.sys.novell
Subject: ODINSUP problems
Date: 30 Aug 92 14:57:06 GMT
Followup-To: comp.os.os2.networking
Organization: Epidemiology Data Center, University of Pittsburgh
Originator: sillett@edc3jr


I've configured IBM's TCP/IP 1.2.1 to run along with the Novell
Requester on the same NIC (3C503) using ODINSUP.  It works great --
for 90 or seconds.  Then all the TCP/IP+NFS functions stop working.  I
know that this is a known problem to IBM & Novell; however, is it a
problem with the 3COM drivers or with the software?

Thanks in advance.

--- Bob

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From: ignacij@meishan.animal.uiuc.edu (Ignacy Misztal)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.networking
Subject: X and SENDMAIL slow with DOS CPU hogs
Date: 3 Sep 92 22:19:27 GMT
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana

X Windows pop up in 5 minutes instead of 5 seconds if a DOS CPU hog
is running. At the same time, SENDMAIL does not receive mail at all!
Is there a way of assigning X and SENDMAIL higher priority so that they
work fine under the loaded system? FTP, TELNET etc. work fine in 
such conditions.
I am running IBM TCPIP 1.2.1 on a 486/33 with 16 M of memory.
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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.networking
From: sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu (Timothy F. Sipples)
Subject: Re: USENET and OS/2 2.0
Reply-To: sip1@midway.uchicago.edu
Organization: Dept. of Econ., Univ. of Chicago
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1992 03:07:03 GMT

In article <k+Xzr*000@cyvaned.cyvaned.sub.org> joedust@cyvaned.cyvaned.sub.org writes:
>I'll  try  to set up a USENET Site running under OS/2 2.0 in
>the  near  future.   I've  experience with such beasts under
>AmigaDOS  and  UNIX but i've really no idea where to get all
>pieces of software to do so.
>Where  can  i  get packages like uucp, sendmail, elm, cnews,
>nn, cron ...  for OS/2?
>Yes,  i  know,  i could ask archie, but who can tell me what
>versions and releases working together in harmony?

Easy.  Get all the pieces via anonymous ftp from ftp-os2.nmsu.edu.
You'll need UUPC, elm, and SNews to get started.

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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.networking
From: erzberg@ifi.unizh.ch (Martin Erzberger)
Subject: Slow PM with PMX
Organization: University of Zurich, Department of Computer Science
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 92 06:15:47 GMT


Has anybody else seen this:
As soon as I start PMX (the IBM TCP/IP 1.2.1 X-Server) the whole
Presentetion Manager Screen becomes sloooow. This is even before I
start any X-Session or Telnet session. This prevents me to have
running PMX all day (for example to use XBIFF) and is very annoying.
Is there a cure to this? Does PMX 1.2.1.3 fix this and if yes, where
can I get it (NOT from IBM support in Switzerland, I'm affraid)?
My system: PS/2 90, XGA, OS/2 2.0, out-of-the-box TCP/IP 1.2.1.
Thanks fpr any help. Martin Erzberger

Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.networking
From: backman@vax  (Larry Backman)
Subject: Re: TCP/IP System Shutdown WIBNI
Nntp-Software: PC/TCP NNTP
Organization: FTP Software, Inc., Wakefield, MA
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1992 12:00:12

 >> 
 >> >Wouldn't it be nice if when I shutdown OS/2 from the desktop, I wasn't
 >> >prompted about whether I wanted to kill the various OS/2 server tasks,
 >> >such as SendMail, LPRMon, and any others running?  I'm not an OS/2
 >> >programmer, but most of my OS/2 apps go away quietly when I shutdown my
 >> >system.  I presume most apps respond to some kind of signal which the
 >> >TCP/IP 1.2.1 servers ignore for the most part.
 >> 
 >> The only applications that can go away automatically are PM applications.
 >> There are special PM messages that the WPS sends to each application to let
 >> it know that a shutdown has been requested.  The applications are then
 >> supposed to do whatever is necessary to save their state and shut down
 >> (and some may prompt you just as if you selected their "Exit" menu item),
 >> and then tell the WPS whether or not they agree to the shutdown.

IFS's also get a FS_SHUTDOWN call (2 in fact) frm the OS telling them that to
clean up shop and go away.  I had a very amusing bug where I blocked
the OS from shutting down while waiting to timeout an RPC to an NFS
server that had gone away.  45 seconds later...the RPC timed out,
 returned from FS_SHUTDOWN and the system shut down.

Larry Backman
FTP Software
From: HLR002@DJUKFA11.BITNET (Manfred Kremer)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.networking
Subject: PCNFS form a DOS session?
Date: 4 Sep 92 09:31:31 GMT
Organization: KFA  Forschungszentrum Juelich

Is it possible to run PCNFS in a DOS session under OS/2? I am trying to
migrate to OS/2, but without PCNFS I am in severe trouble. So far I have
not been able to find the appropriate DOS-settings to make PCNFS run.

PLease let me know if you have a solution.

Manfred Kremer
bitnet: HLR002 at djukfa11
to ng PCNFS
From: hamish@waikato.ac.nz
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.networking
Subject: Re: IBM TCPIP Softcopy-3 Manuals
Date: 27 Aug 92 20:44:48 +1200
Organization: University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand

In article <1992Aug26.161714.7883@midway.uchicago.edu>, sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu (Timothy F. Sipples) writes:
> In article <bwiersema.25@bss2.umd.edu> bwiersema@bss2.umd.edu (Brian Wiersema) writes:
>>>>Does anyone know how to unpack - decode - unscramble the documentation that
>>>>comes with the TCP software labeled SOFTCOPY-3 MANUALS?
>>>They are in Book Manager format which can be read using the Book
>>>Manager/2 product from IBM.
>>Pretty slick.  You have to buy another product in order to read the manuals 
>>for the product you already bought.  I wonder what new product you need to 
>>buy to read the Book Manager/2 manuals?
>>Seriously, is there any ftp-able PD software that can read these files?
> 
> Well, not quite.  Book Manager format is an IBM standard, and it is
> not entirely unreasonable that purchasers of IBM's TCP/IP will be
> connecting to IBM RS/6000s, AS/400s, and 370 mainframes, all of which
> come with Book Manager software, I believe.  Further, the softcopy
> manuals are identical to the printed manuals you get with the product,
> so it isn't as if you can't read them.

OK. We have an RS/6000-550 here at Waikato. But the person who maintained it
just left (Hi alistair if youre reading this. Unlikely..), Anyway. Whats the
name of the executable under AIX, and where is it? I gather its an X-Windows
app.


Oh yeah While I'm here. Why does it take IBM 3 months to get stuff from
Australia to New Zealand, when I could have them here in 3 days if I ordered
them direct? Everything I order comes back with 90-day backorder on it, and
they take the 90-days too. :( Not exactly good for business IBM...

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|             opinion in any way. (ie we probably don't agree)               |
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  Q. If Nuclear Tests are so safe, why don't the French do them under Paris?
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