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From: yee@nimios.eng.mcmaster.ca (Paul Yee)
Subject: Re: Micrografix' Designer in 32bit supposedly shipping now
Summary: Micrografix Designer to use Mirrors DLL?
Organization: Communications Research Laboratory, McMaster University
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 01:59:02 GMT

Does anyone have more details about the purported 32-bit version of
Micrografix' Designer? I heard previously that it was to use Micrografix'
Mirrors DLL tool, which allows easy porting of Windows 3.x applications
to OS/2 BUT AT A PRICE - no long filename support for HPFS and who knows
what else. If this is indeed the case, having these ``OS/2''-mode apps
come out is a case of ``two steps forward, one step back''. I, for one,
am not too thrilled about having warmed-over Windows 3.x applications
paraded as ``native mode OS/2-PM apps''. Anyone care to comment on this
potentially insidious trend?

Regards,
Paul Yee
yee@nimios.eng.mcmaster.ca
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.apps
From: cleggp@aix.rpi.edu (Paul Jason Clegg)
Subject: Dexxa Mouse Locks Win-OS/2?
Organization: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 01:40:54 GMT

Hi!  I got a Dexxa mouse to replace my old, dead Genius Mouse.  After finally
figuring out which mouse driver to use in OS/2 (and after going through
CONFIG.SYS to remove the lines that OS/2 doesn't take out from the older
mouse driver).  However, it seems that whenever I try to run a Windows
session, either full-screen or seamless, the mouse driver kicks out.  I 
first noticed it with Ami Pro 3.0, which I run seamless, and the mouse
never comes back on (requires a reboot).  I tried running a full-screen
Win-OS/2 session, and the mouse locked, but when I went back to the
OS/2 screen, the mouse came back on...  Any hints/ideas?

Oh, send me email please; I don't follow this group...

...Paul


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From: rkimmel@stein.u.washington.edu (Robert Kimmel)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.apps
Subject: Re: Commercial comm programs for OS/2
Date: 21 Jan 1993 12:37:43 GMT
Organization: University of Washington, Seattle
NNTP-Posting-Host: stein.u.washington.edu

In article <1jk13oINN1v6@swimming.cis.ohio-state.edu> grichard@cis.ohio-state.edu (Golden Richard) writes:
>In article <d9mikael.727538575@dtek.chalmers.se> d9mikael@dtek.chalmers.se (Mikael Wahlgren) writes:
>>grichard@cis.ohio-state.edu (Golden Richard) writes:
>>
>>
>>>characters at 9600 baud and has no zmodem.  m2zmodem, as an external
>>>protocol for Ckermit, is a CPU pig, even with priorities lowered.
>>
>>>I do not have nor can I add a 16550 UART, because I use a Toshiba
>>>3300SL and have a portable (external) modem.
>>
>>I have to protest!  You seem to want everything without "paying" for
>>anything.  M2Zmodem is _NOT_ a CPU pig.  If you are using a 8250 or
>>compatible UART and run at 9600 baud you simply can't get that much
>>power left.  I am willing to bet that the the process that claims the
>>MAJOR time of the CPU is actually the COM.SYS driver, that won't leave
>>that much time left for anything else.
>>
>>Mikael Wahlgren
>
>I do not want "everything" without paying for anything.  I do expect a
>comm program to manage 9600 baud transfers w/o bringing a 386-class
>machine to its knees.   When m2zmodem is in use, my system is basically
>unusuable for ANY other task.  Under the default high priority setting
>(for 9600 baud+ transfers) the word "basically" doesn't even apply.
>TE/2 uses the same COM.SYS that m2zmodem uses and manages not to bring
>my machine to a crawl.  If TE/2 didn't crash occasionally with COM1
>not available messages and had better zmodem error recovery, we
>wouldn't be having this discussion.  For the record, my machine has a
>16450 UART.
>
>--Golden
>
>
>
>-- 
>Golden Richard III             OSU Dept. of Computer and Information Science
>grichard@cis.ohio-state.edu                                   (614) 292-0056

If your machine has a 16450 UART, why don't you spend $10 to $15 dollars
for a 16550 AFN?  Then you won't have those problems you are having.
 The 16550 AFN will fit into the socket where your 16450 is.  Any 
multitasking enviroment needs a 16550 AFN to work well with high speed modems,
that's just the way it is.  So either except it or quit complaining. 


Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.apps,comp.os.os2.misc
From: amitp@ruf.rice.edu (Amit J Patel)
Subject: Re: News on 2.1 Release
Reply-To: amitp@owlnet.rice.edu
Organization: Rice University
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 15:05:44 GMT

In article <1993Jan20.160446.25054@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>, gchalk@nyx.cs.du.edu (Geoff Chalk) writes:
|> 
|> I would like to remind everybody that is complaning that there might be
|> (and most likely will be) a charge for the upgrade to OS/2 2.1
|> that yesterday (1/19/93) IBM declared 4th quarted\r losses of
|> over $5,000,000,000.00.....yup thats % billion dollars for

Looks like we need 64-bits to store that number.  :^)

|> OCT, NOV, & DEC 92!!!
|> 
|> and remember that the new version will come w/ almost $20 worth of
|> diskettes!!
|> 
|> IMHO...stop complaining if you want to keep getting upgrades!!
|> 

I agree! :)




I read somewhere that this is the biggest loss any company has ever
had in a quarter...   :(





	Amit

From: tp923021@jarrah.canberra.edu.au (ben elliston)
Sender: gateway@f262.n620.z3.fidonet.org
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.apps
Subject: SYTOS under OS/2 2.1b
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 22:47:00

 > What's missing is the Tape Device Driver.  Sytos Plus
 > includes device drivers
 > for a number of backup devices.  Choose Backup Device

Will Sytos Plus 1.0 for OS/2 1.3 run under 2.0 okay?

Are drivers available for QIC-40 drivers like the CMS Jumbo 120?

Thanks!
From: sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu (Timothy F. Sipples)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.apps
Subject: Re: GammaTech Utilities question
Date: 24 Jan 93 23:12:08 GMT
Reply-To: sip1@midway.uchicago.edu
Distribution: na
Organization: Dept. of Econ., Univ. of Chicago

In article <1jmoaoINN2he@meaddata.meaddata.com> johnh@meaddata.com (John Holt) writes:
>Does anyone know if GammaTech will mark the defective sectors it finds as
>bad, or does it just report them?  
>I simply can not tell from the documentation provided.  

I believe so, yes.  For the definitive answer, I would contact the
GammaTech developers in Oklahoma -- they're great people, judging from
my dealings with them.

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From: rjones@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Ron Jones)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.apps
Subject: Re: Micrografix' Designer in 32bit supposedly shipping now
Date: 26 Jan 93 16:22:10 GMT
Article-I.D.: magnus.1993Jan26.162210.3948
Organization: The Ohio State University

In article <OLAVT.93Jan26133935@ulrik.uio.no> olavt@ulrik.uio.no (Olav Torvund) writes:
>First of all: I have Micrografx 3.1 for OS/2 installed, and it is
>definitly shipping. (I got it through ordinary distribution channels,
>as an upgrade from previous OS/2 version.).
>
>Yes, it uses Mirrors, and it does not support long filenames with
>HPFS. In general it is very similar to the 3.1 version for Windows. I
>have not compared speed, and I do not use the application enough to
>give a solid based "free hand" evaluation of speed. But there is no
>striking difference.
>

This conforms PC Week, who reported no speed improvement in their
review last week.


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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.apps
From: jksimmer@uncc.edu (Jr Simmerman, John K)
Subject: Ultima Underworld II, PAS16, & os2
Keywords: Ultima Underworld II, PAS16, & os2
Reply-To: jksimmer@uncc.edu
Organization: University of NC at Charlotte
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 20:51:49 GMT


Has anyone UW2 to work under os2 with a pas16 yet. If so do your sounds (foot steps, combat, etc) work.  I can get the sounds to work but only for a minute or so then nothing. I have talked to origin and they said they don't support os2 or the
pas16. 


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From: unruh@physics.ubc.ca (William Unruh)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.apps
Subject: Re: News on 2.1 Release
Date: 23 Jan 1993 00:29:06 GMT
Organization: The University of British Columbia
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: physics.ubc.ca

dic5340@hertz.njit.edu (David Charlap) writes:

>upgrade.  But Microsoft, who has actively chosen to block OS/2
>whenever possible should not get a single penny off of it's sales.
>It's completely unethical, and should be illegal, for a company to
>make a profit off of a product they're trying to destroy.  I object to

I understand your position, but it is IBM who signed the agreemetn with
MS. That they are now "enemies" is a historical "accident", but that's
what agreements are for, to remove dealings from the vicissitudes of
immediate emotions, etc.
o you might get mad at IBM for signing such an agreement, and bemoan the
fact, but it's no more Microsoft's fault than it is IBM's.
From: spexet@math.lsa.umich.edu (D. Robert Spexet II)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.apps
Subject: Re: WordPerfect 5.2 for OS/2 - Press Release!
Date: 21 Jan 1993 23:25:29 GMT
Organization: University of Michigan, Mathematics Department, Ann Arbor
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: explorer.math.lsa.umich.edu

In article <1993Jan21.103608.25237@actrix.gen.nz> Steve.Withers@bbs.actrix.gen.nz writes:
>OREM, UTAH, U.S.A., 1993 JAN 19 (NB) -- Wordperfect Corporation
>continues its promise to support OS/2 as well as Windows with an
>announcement that it will ship a graphical version of its popular word
>processing program Wordperfect 5.2 for IBM's OS/2 operating system
>this spring.

>Tanner said the company expects to ship Wordperfect for Windows 6.0
>in the spring or summer of 1993.

Now, this may really sound like a dumb question, but why would anyone want
to buy version 5.2 of WordPerfect, when they can just buy the latest Windows
version and run that instead?

After seeing both WP5.2 for Windows and Ami Pro for Windows, I think I'll
be sending my money to Lotus.  (Unsolicited advertisement)

>Steve Withers - Wellington, New Zealand |      
>Steve.Withers@bbs.actrix.gen.nz         |        Space for rent.
>+64 4 478 4714                          |   - cheap rates, nice location. 
>**** Happy user of OS/2 b2.1 ****       | 


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From: dic5340@hertz.njit.edu (David Charlap)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.apps
Subject: Re: News on 2.1 Release
Date: 26 Jan 93 14:18:06 GMT
Organization: New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, N.J.

In article <QfML7V200WCZ83LVEX@andrew.cmu.edu> mp52+@andrew.cmu.edu (Matthew Edward Patton) writes:
>When IBM charges $50 for 2.1 they are fully justified in doing so. 
...
>And FINALLY, $50 is NO RIPOFF! WHERE DID YOU AND OTHERS GET THAT IDEA?

Listen, for once:  IBM IS NOT GOING TO SEE A PENNY OF THAT MONEY!
It's all going to MicroSoft, who didn't do a stitch of work for OS/2
2.1.
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From: slhpv@cc.usu.edu
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.apps
Subject: Re: News on 2.1 Release
Date: 21 Jan 93 20:17:39 MDT
Organization: Utah State University


Maybe IBM should offer 2 packages:

	Package 1 = All windows 3.1 support in OS/2
		    User pays IBM price + Royalty price

	Package 2 = All windows 3.1 support if you stick the windows 3.1
		    installation disk in the drive when prompted
		    User pays IBM price (MS already got their money)

This does not imply that IBM price has to be >$0, just that if you bought
windows 3.1 from MS, IBM shouldn't have to pay them for it.

David Dunn
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.apps
From: mgrice@athena.mit.edu (Matthew Grice)
Subject: Re: .xsession for OS/2
Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 18:42:02 GMT

In article <1jmd5rINN8no@oak6.doc.ic.ac.uk> ppch@doc.ic.ac.uk (Patrick Herring) writes:
>
>Is there a .xsession (as in Xterm for UNIX) equivalent for OS/2, like BigDesk for
>Windows? I mean a window that looks at a virtual screen many times larger than the
>physical one; you move a box within it to get a physical view and drag the
>current screen to a blank space on the virtual screen (this is just in case it

If I understand you correctly, I think your problem is solved.
Here's the deal: the workplace shell _IS_ what you are looking for.
If you are running os/2 _2.x_ look no farther.
When you drag an object a little past the edge of the screen, scroll bars
appear for the entire desktop.
You can then move the desktop around.

Wait.  Gee.  Never tried it, but I bet that that only affects desktop
objects.  Darn.  I bet that windows would stay in the same place, and
only the shredder, printer, etc., would move.  Might want to try it out,
though.  I will when I get home.



Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.apps
From: doug@shako.Colorado.EDU (Doug McKnight)
Subject: Re: MathCad anyone?
Reply-To: doug@shako.Colorado.EDU (Doug McKnight)
Organization: University of Colorado, Boulder
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 18:08:45 GMT

>>|TL> 2) will in run in winos2 o.k.                                          |
>>|TL>                                                                        |
>>+---------------------------------------------------------------------------+

>>It is a Windows 3.1 program. Needs 2.1


>Maybe you can convince them to let you have a copy of mathcad 3.0 it runs 
>fine under os2 2.0. (Glad I never gave in to their requests to "upgrade" :)

>I like the program very much. Think of it as the best calculator money can buy.


I can run mathcad 3.1  under winos2  on os2 2.0.

Just give it plenty of DPMI memory. I think it was DPMI, it could
have been xms.. Anyway, it works.

Douglas
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.apps
From: rickt@rmtc.paramax.com (Rick Thompson [RMTC/ISP])
Subject: OS/2 2.1 Beta and MS Access
Organization: Paramax Systems
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 15:33:05 GMT



Hello,

I recently installed MS Access on my machine before getting the 2.1 beta.
When I installed 2.1 I reformatted my drive.  As a result I have lost a dll
for MS Access.  No problem, I thought, I'll just reinstall it.  Under 2.1
I now get a General Protection Fault in the windows session when I try to
do the install (a:setup.exe).  Does anyone know of a way around this?
I have tried running the install routine from a full screen OS/2 session,
full screen window session and seemless windows in which I gave a:setup.exe
as the program to run.


Thanks,

Rick  rickt@rmtc.paramax.com
From: kreinddm@ucunix.san.uc.edu (David M Kreindler)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.apps
Subject: M2ZMODEM timeout problems
Date: 27 Jan 93 20:33:59 GMT
Organization: University of Cincinnati

I've been trying to get M2ZModem working with ckermit, but have been
running into one problem over and over.  After running sz on the
mainframe at the other end of the connection and starting m2zmodem, it
displays an 'Initializing' message, pauses a couple of seconds, then
displays a ZTIMEOUT message.  File transfer never begins.  It *does*,
however, abort successfully.  Any advice on how to get past this little
problem would be appreciated.

I'm running OS/2 2.0 (GA+SP), generally run m2zmodem from ckermit after
doing a 'push' from the ckermit shell, and am using a 2400 baud hayes-
compatible without carrier detection.

-- 
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"Sometimes you're the windshield / Sometimes you're the bug...." - Dire Straits
From: thoth@uiuc.edu (Ben Cox)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.apps
Subject: Re: Mathematica for OS/2 exists!??
Date: 27 Jan 93 21:16:56 GMT
Reply-To: thoth@uiuc.edu (Ben Cox)
Organization: Ancient Illuminated Sears of Bavaria
Originator: ben@soliton

unruh@physics.ubc.ca (William Unruh) writes:

> It HAS been stated by WRI, in a number of telephone calls by me and
> by others to WRI, that they are working on an OS2 full WPS version. Are
> you saying that they are backtracking on this, or that a release has
> not yet been announced?

I'm saying that what you heard was not an official product
announcement.

The only thing I'm willing to trust in the software industry is
official product announcements.  And usually not even those.  :-)

--
Ben Cox
thoth@uiuc.edu
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.apps
From: slumos@unlv.edu (Steve Lumos)
Subject: Re: QmodemPro and OS/2 Question.
Organization: UNLV Computer Science
Date: Sat, 23 Jan 93 03:48:09 GMT

In article <1993Jan22.090159.19549@netcom.com> sagan@netcom.com (Mike May) writes:
>
>  The back cover of the QmodemPro box, says that QmodemPro will work with
>OS/2 as a DOS app.  All well and that it will work, But how WELL?  The
>4.5TD version pegs the CPU load, and cannot x-fer in the backgroud. 
>I am using SIO/VSIO, and have changed the IDLE_* settings, but every
>time the disk is accessed, QModem will get an Error in the x-fer, and
>cannot continue.  PMComm works fine in the background, so I know it can

For the time being, try setting PRIORITY_DISK_IO=NO in your
CONFIG.SYS. Basically, QmodemPro is a piece of crap. I am currently
bitching John Friel and MSI out on a regular basis to try and get some
of the garbage fixed. If I were you, I would start bitching them out
on their CI$ address, if enough people do that, maybe we will not only
get better performance under OS/2, but we will also be able to delete
lines in emacs under VT220 emulation with HAVING THE STATUS LINE
SCROLL UP WITH THE TEXT!!! (Yeah, they tested that pretty well,
geesh!) And then maybe we can get Kermit to use a block size larger
than 80 BYTES no matter what the settings are also...

TTYL - Steve
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From: durby@usc.edu (Dennis Durby)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.apps
Subject: SPSS 5.0.1 for Windows - LISREL
Date: 23 Jan 1993 17:28:45 -0800
Organization: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: aludra.usc.edu

Hi. I just recently got the SPSS for Windows 5.0.1 LISREL module and 
tried unsuccessfully to install it on my machine, a 486/66dx2 AMI EISA mb, 
with an AMI SCSI controller, Diamond Stealth VRAM adapter, 877 Toshiba 
SCSI HDD, etc. Under both the 2.1 beta and under the 2.0 GA + SP the 
program reports something like "improper Windows version. Program will not 
operate with this version." No kidding. So, any ideas on how to get it to 
install???  TIA!
Dennis Durby
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.apps
From: kwhelan@neptune.uark.edu (Kenneth Whelan)
Subject: Civilization
Summary: What are the dos settings
Keywords: Games
Organization: University of Arkansas School of Law
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 17:04:08 GMT


Has anyone gotten Civilization to run at full speed under OS/2.   Seems that 
it doesn't like the way the graphics are running and it slows down to a 
crawl when run in a VDM.   I also tried in a Dos 5.0 session and then I get 
some sort of fatal error. 


Kenneth Whelan
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.apps
From: bdubbs@cs.tamu.edu (Bruce Dubbs)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.apps
Subject: Re: tex previewers
Date: 28 Jan 1993 15:36:51 GMT
Organization: Computer Science Department, Texas A&M University
NNTP-Posting-Host: neuron.tamu.edu

In article <C1KGLA.F9n@ms.uky.edu> shan@ms.uky.edu (Minghua SHAN) writes:
|In article <1k747cINNp02@tamsun.tamu.edu> bdubbs@cs.tamu.edu (Bruce Dubbs) writes:
|>
|>I use the dviscr program included with emtex.  Its not PM, but it
|>works for me under OS/2 quite well.
|>   -- Bruce
|>
|
|Could somebody please tell me what I need to do to make dviscr
|work under os/2? When I run it, it says "Fatal error 2520: graphics
|mode not supported" and terminates.


Not that's one I can answer!

Set an envronment variable:
SET DVISCR= /oa=14 /ocr=1 /s=4

or alternatively put the switches on the command line.

The /oa switch selects the screen--in this case VGA.  The /ocr is the
color of the ruler.  The /s switch is the default viewing size.

See the DVISCR.DOC file for other switches and options.
  -- Bruce

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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.apps
From: shan@ms.uky.edu (Minghua SHAN)
Subject: Where is the new version of DVIPM ?
Keywords: tex,latex,dvi,dvipm
Organization: University Of Kentucky, Dept. of Math Sciences
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 14:25:34 GMT

Does any one know where I can find the new version of DVIPM?
I'm using v1.4r from hobbes. I saw v1.4s mentioned in pmtex.
Thanks.
Minghua Shan
From: jme4@po.CWRU.Edu (John M. Ehrlinger)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.apps
Subject: UNIX time program?
Date: 28 Jan 1993 06:14:27 GMT
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
Reply-To: jme4@po.CWRU.Edu (John M. Ehrlinger)
NNTP-Posting-Host: slc12.ins.cwru.edu


	I am wondering if anyone has ported a UNIX like time function to
OS/2?  Actually I can use both a DOS and OS/2 version if anyone has seen
these.
	Thanks for your help,
	--John Ehrlinger
From: jyouells@cup.portal.com (John A Youells)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.apps
Subject: Re: Cadkey and OS/2
Date: Sat, 23 Jan 93 17:14:24 PST
Organization: The Portal System (TM)
Distribution: usa

Cadkey 4.0 is an application that uses VCPI memory interface. I don't believe
that OS/2 2.0 VDM's support this. I understand that the upcomming CADKey 6.0
will support the DMPI memory interface and if it does it will work under OS/
2.0 VDM's. 6.0 is due for march release.
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