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From: horemans@cs.kuleuven.ac.be (Jan Horemans)
Subject: breakpoint in pmwp.dll
Keywords: problemHi there,
Organization: Dept. Computerwetenschappen
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 15:55:39 GMT

This is my first posting so please excuse any lay-out problems.
I have a problem with OS/2 2.0 . When I start up my machine and choose
the OS/2 partition in boot manager, I get as far as my graphic   
background : default white. Then I get a SYS3173 error and a
menu to end the program or see help. The help says the error
was a breakpoint generated in pmwp.dll at 1ab25704.
Choosing end program just regenerated the same error a couple of
seconds later.
If anyone is interested in all the registers I will post it, but I
don't think it will help a lot.
I was having some problems before this all happened.
The icons from my desktop didn't appear on startup and the right-button
menu for the desktop was incomplete : no shutdown option.
I then did a find on folder objects in my desktop directory and moved
them back to the desktop. After this I did ctrl-alt-del and got the
breakpoint. I'd appreciate it if anyone out there could give me any
suggestions on how to clean up this mess, otherwise I'll just have to
reinstall everything. By the way this is just the GA edition without
any patches.


                           Thank you for any help.

Disk space, the final frontier.

Please reply by e-mail, because I don't think it's a common problem.
From: bobo@hpcvra.cv.hp.com (Bob O'Donnell)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: NEC CDR84/74 and OS/2
Date: 12 Nov 92 02:52:13 GMT
Article-I.D.: hpcvra.174280003
Organization: Hewlett-Packard Co., Corvallis, OR, USA

Yes, the drives are supported under OS/2 at present with the following
caveats.

The drives work only for data, not audio at present.

With the bundled Trantor interface card you need the Trantor drivers
off their BBS (or Compuserve).  With other interface cards most people
seem to be using CDROM_G.SYS, a driver that was included with the
OS/2 Developers CD that is being distributed by IBM for $15.

Bob

P.S. - If you know Bob Miller, tell him I said Hello.
From: adhir@cygnus.umd.edu (Alok Dhir)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: The swapper file
Date: 5 Nov 92 23:58:25 GMT
Organization: /etc/organization

Hey all.  I just installed the service pack on my IBM PS/2 model 90 at work
and have noticed something interesting.  On my 486/50 clone at home, my swapper
file grows like crazy and rarely ever shrinks.  On the PS/2 at work, however,
the swapper tends to stay way down around 4096k.  If it grows, it'll shrink
right back as soon as I quite a few apps.

The only difference between the work machine and my home machine is that at
work I have an IBM SCSI drive, and at home I have both an IDE and a SCSI.  
I have both IBM1S506.ADD and IBMINT.I13 (or whatever) installed for my 
two drives and they have always worked fine.  

Could this have anything to do with it?  Is my machine at home keeping TWO
seperate HD caches...one for each HD?

Also, the IBM1S506.ADD file I am using is the one from GA since the one in
the SP fails to see my IDE drive.  Could this have anything to do with it?

I read somewhere that there is a fixed IBM1S506.ADD file floating around
somewhere which should be able to see my IDE drive.  Could someone point
me in it's direction?

Any help is appreciated.
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From: Gary.Woodman@anu.edu.au (Gary Woodman)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: OS/2 Full Screen Problem
Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1992 02:06:14 GMT
Organization: Computer Services Centre, Australian National University
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In article <1dr3rbINN14s@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu> jms20@po.CWRU.Edu (John M. Sully) writes:
>OK...here's an interesting problem.  
>
>When I open an OS/2 full screen session, the monitor looses sinc, but
>there's no problem opening a DOS full screen session.  
>
>My system is:
>486/33 - 8Mb
>Diamond Speedstar
>OS/2 2.0 + CSD

Yes, I have that problem, with a 1Mb Trident 8900C. In my case it's to do 
with the contents of SVGADATA.PMI... I have one which gives me a nice 
fullscreen desktop at 800*600, but causes OS/2 fullscreens to lose sync, and 
I have another which is OK with fullscreen sessions but leaves a 2-3cm blank 
border all the way around the desktop. I'm still fiddling around with 
TVGACRTC, the Trident size/position utility, in the hope of generating a 
SVGADATA.PMI which works everyhow I like...

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Subject: Re: Viewing new .inf documents (including redbooks)
From: Thomas Permutt <TPERMUTT@UMAB.BITNET>
Date: Thursday, 12 Nov 1992 09:54:39 EST
Organization: University of Maryland at Baltimore

In article <9368@blue.cis.pitt.edu.UUCP> djbpitt+@pitt.edu (David J Birnbaum)
writes:
>>I'm trying to view the Redbooks from the WPS.  I have done the following but
>>without success:
>>
>>	1.  Created a program object for "VIEW.EXE" in the INFORMATION folder
>>	2.  In the settings for the "VIEW" object created in 1, set up an
>>	    association for "*.inf"
>>
>>Now, when I double click on any of the Redbook objects from the Drives folder,
 I get a message stating that the topic was not found.
>>
>>What am I doing incorrectly?
>
>I fixed this by opening each of the Redbook objects, opening the
>association settings, and changing the default to view.exe. Your second
>step above makes view.exe appear in the menu for all *.inf objects, but it
>doesn't make it the default. By the way, your first step is unnecessary;
>you can just add *.inf in the original view.exe object that came with
>OS/2, since you don't need a shadow of this in the directory where the
>.inf files live.
>
>Does anyone know if there is a smarter way to do this? I'm trying not to
>mix any new stuff in with the original OS/2 distribution; that way, if I
>have to reinstall, I don't lose anything I've added. As a result, I
>don't put new .inf files in c:\os2\books (where the command reference,
>etc. reside), but in a directory I created on a different partition. Is
>there any easy way to make any .inf file I dump in that directory
>automatically use view.exe when double-clicked? Or do I have to change
>them all individually, as I've been doing?
>
The trouble is the Command Reference object in Information.  It associates
view.exe with *.inf, but with parameter cmdref.inf.  Therefore opening the
file xxx.inf produces, by default,
   view.exe xxx.inf cmdref.inf   or
   view.exe cmdref.inf xxx.inf   , I am not sure which.
In either case, view with two arguments interprets one as a file and the
other as a topic, producing the "topic not found" message.

I can see no reason for Command Reference to be set up this way; I think it
is just wrong.  Removing the *.inf association from the Command Reference
object makes everything work as it should.

By the way, you might consider keeping your .inf files where they are and
putting shadows of them in Book.  Then you get it both ways:  they are safe
from reinstallation, but they are also where OS/2 expects them to be.  This
is not needed to get double-click to work properly.  Rather, the advantage,
I think, is that the "search all libraries" function will look at them.  Of
course, this can also be achieved, I think, by adding the place where they
stay to the "Bookshelf" in config.sys.

Tom Permutt tpermutt@medinfo.ab.umd.edu
From: nap42487@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Nishith A. Patel)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: Does VESA Local Bus put a huge strain on a CPU?
Date: 12 Nov 92 23:44:33 GMT
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana

mortenk@dhhalden.no (MORTEN KNUDSEN) writes:

>In article <Bx9M5D.HvM@news.cso.uiuc.edu> nap42487@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Nishith A. Patel) writes:
>>AND, because of the work involved in going through the driver and processor
>>(and in some cases from the accelerator to the VGA card), instead of just sending out the info, if you are doing something like throwing images out, some
>>coprocessed cards actually slow things way down compared to dumb VGA. Another
>>example, multimedia. say you are doing animation, paging screens. Dumb VGA
>>is going to go way too slow because of ISA, and coprocessed cards wont do any
>>better, with the possibility of doing worse.
>>Let's bring the Amiga back in. It can do certain things faster than ISA
>>computers because it does not have such a huge bottleneck. 
>>

>Why is the 7 MHz bus in the Amiga less of a bottleneck than the 8 MHz ISA
>bus?
>Just wondering.

Not that Amiga. The A500 and A2000 use ZorroII, which is about 7 MHz. the A3000
and A4000 (I think) use ZorroIII, which is 25 MHz, 32-bit, the same as the CPU.

Nish Patel    nap42487@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: mfraioli@grebyn.com (Marc Fraioli)
Subject: Re: Trident drivers
Keywords: zip corrupt archive
Organization: Grebyn Timesharing
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 22:07:00 GMT

In article <rlw.721465535@elan> rlw@elan (Robert Wald) writes:
>  I need to use the Trident os2 drivers on the archive, but they're in
>a strange ZIP format. Its not corrupt, but I can't read the compression.
>What version do you need to get at these? Thanks
>
>-Rob
>
>

The version you need is available from ftp-os2.nmsu.edu, I believe the
directory is /pub/os2/2.0/archivers, although it might just be
/pub/os2/archivers.   Maybe someone who knows for sure can follow-up to
that.
-- 
Marc Fraioli
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From: kslater@sps.pgh.pa.us (Kevin J. Slater)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: Service Pack available from edc3jr.gsph.pitt.edu
Date: 5 Nov 92 17:24:37 GMT
Article-I.D.: sps.qV1RTB2w165w
Organization: SPS ACAD BBS, (412) 487-3637

sillett@edc3jr.gsph.pitt.edu (Robert L. Sillett) writes:

> 
> I have downloaded the OS/2 2.0 Service Pack and have made it available
> via anonymous ftp on the machine edc3jr.gsph.pitt.edu (130.49.4.223)
> in the directory pub/ServicePack.  The LoadDskF.exe file is there too.
> 
> The machine is located at the University of Pittsburgh, in case you
> care.
> 
> --- Bob
> 
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Hey Guy, can you grab this via FTP? I'd like to have it available.

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From: timmo@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu (Tim DiLauro)
Subject: Re: What's wrong with my CSD?
Organization: HAC - Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore
Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1992 21:41:53 GMT

In article <1992Nov6.183742.22769@kum.kaist.ac.kr> jhlee@rose.handy.co.kr (Lee Joo Hee) writes:
>I have a some problem with my CSD I ftp'ed from software.watson.ibm.com.
>I installed CSD well untill I put 11th diskette but when install program
>asks for 12th disk I put it into my disk driver. Install program reads
>well but it generates an error related with "A:FIX\OS2\PRODUCT.EXE" and
>it displays only log message. When I reboot my computer, OS/2 doesn't seem
>to work correctly.
>	Is there any solution?

Well, I don't have much information about your configuration to go on, but I
had a similar problem.  When I installed the base (GA) version, I installed
as a secondary monitor an monochrome display adapter (MDA).  When I attemted
to install the ServicePak, it displayed the same message that you speak of
above.  The solution was to reinstall the GA without the secondary display,
install any other non-video drivers, and then install the ServicePak.

I hope this helps you.

-Timmo

Tim DiLauro    Systems Programmer    Johns Hopkins MSE Library
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: tholen@galileo.ifa.hawaii.edu (Dave Tholen)
Subject: ServicePak problem
Organization: University of Hawaii
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 08:36:36 GMT

I've encountered a problem with GA+ServicePak that I did not experience with
just GA.  I'd like to know if others are having the same problem before
reporting it to IBM.

If I run DOS programs from a DOS command prompt, no problem.

If I run DOS programs from an OS/2 command prompt (I've only tested full
screen, not a windowed command prompt), the first program executes properly,
but the second triggers an Internal Processing Error.  I've tried a couple
of completely different DOS programs, including Buerg's LIST, and the
problem occurs with all the ones I've tested.  The location of the error
is the same each time.

WARNING:  If somebody does test this on their system, be aware that if
what happened to me happens to you, your system will be stopped, so don't
have anything critical running in the background.  Also, when I reboot, I
find the desktop icons to be back in their default locations, though my
other customizations, like colors, are intact.
Xref: sparky comp.os.os2.misc:35890 comp.os.os2.programmer:6293 comp.os.os2.apps:8043
From: unruh@physics.ubc.ca (William Unruh)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc,comp.os.os2.programmer,comp.os.os2.apps
Subject: Re: What ever happened to John Rigdes ?
Date: 9 Nov 1992 17:25:53 GMT
Organization: The University of British Columbia
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: physics.ubc.ca

FLATSCHER Rony <RONY@awiwuw11.wu-wien.ac.at> writes:

>High,

>does anyone know what happend to John Ridges, the author of DESKPIC ( a very
>nice and open-acrchitectured screen-saver for OS/2 ) ?

>On the same DESKPIC-issue:

>     - is there a 32-bit version someplace ?
>     - where does one get the source code ?
>     - is there a place where additional animations for DESKPIC could
>       be obtained ?

He existed in Sept when I got a message from him. He is working on an
OS2 2.0 screensaver ( not deskpic) 
He says:
"3) I found a copy of the DESKPIC development kit on an anoymous
FTP site. The archive is "ftp-os2.nmsu.edu". In the directory
"/pub/os2/1.x/graphics" there is a file "deskpct.zoo". This file
contains both the development kit and a rather old version of
DESKPIC itself. The latest version of DESKPIC (version 1.32) is
also in the archive in the directory "/pub/os2/all/graphics" as
"deskp132.zoo".
"

Address  72000.2057@compuserve.com
From: ignacij@meishan.animal.uiuc.edu (Ignacy Misztal)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: Strange Problem with ESDI and SCSI Drives Co-Resident
Date: 12 Nov 92 14:44:58 GMT
Article-I.D.: meishan.ignacij.721579498
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana

teague@a.cs.okstate.edu (Keith Teague) writes:

>I have an UltraStor 12F ESDI controller with a Toshiba ESDI drive attached
>as my primary drive (C: and E: partitions; C is DOS FAT and E is OS/2
>HPFS). My secondary drive is a Toshiba SCSI-2 drive attached to a Future
>Domain 1680 SCSI controller (with a CD-ROM as well). I have an odd
>problem which I have noticed recently since I got my SCSI controller
>and drives.

>When I copy a LARGE number of files (>100 MB is common) from the ESDI
>drive to the SCSI drive using xcopy (directory, subdirectories and
>files) the copy operation will often hang. By this I mean the copy will
>simply stop. I am unable to ^c out of xcopy and if I try to shutdown
>the window will not die - I have to do a hard reset.

>Now the wierd part - If I open another os/2 window I can still access
>all the partitions on both ESDI and SCSI drives, even while the other
>window is dead with an xcopy in process!

>Further, if I begin another xcopy which involves the original partitions
>(for example from SCSI back to ESDI) the first xcopy will eventually
>come back to life and continue as though nothing ever happened!!!
>So far as I know, if I do not start another operation on the ESDI drive
>the first xcopy will stay dead forever.

>Does anybody have any ideas? I am running OS/2 beta on a 486/33 clone
>with 20MB of memory. I initially thought the bus speed (~11) MHz might
>have been too fast so I reduced it to about 8 MHZ. The problem persists.

>Could it be the ST506 driver? The SCSI (FD16-700.add) driver?

>Any help or suggestions will be appreciated.

>Keith Teague

I had problems with my 12F controller, 660 Mbyte ESDI disk and the
HPFS partition with GA until I installed a patched HPFS driver and 
reformatted the HPFS partition.
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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: stephen@linus.cc.ncsu.edu (Stephen Jackson)
Subject: Re: Service Pak readme
Reply-To: stephen@ncsu.edu
Organization: North Carolina State University
Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1992 17:42:30 GMT


Read this, read this!!! From software.watson.ibm.com, in the readme.sp file,
here we go:


After you apply this Service Pak, OS/2
          2.0 will provide support for a Super
          Video Graphics Array (SVGA) display
          adapter.  To install the display adapter
          on a computer that has OS/2 2.0
          preinstalled, select the Welcome folder,
          select the Configuration Tools folder,
          and then select the Configure object.
          

 >>>>     To install the SVGA display adapter on
 >>>>     other computers, select the OS/2 System
 >>>>     folder, select the System Setup folder,
 >>>>     select the System folder, and then
 >>>>     select the Selective Install object.
 
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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: geiri@stud.cs.uit.no (Geir Inge Jensen)
Subject: Printer on IRQ5 ?
Organization: University of Tromsoe, Norway
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 11:34:11 GMT
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Does there exist a way to get the printer work an LPT2 and IRQ5 ?  I have 
tried to choose LPT2 in the printer configuration window, but it wont
print. And the strange thing is that in any other program, it says that the
printer is on LPT1.OS2, even if I have chosen it to be on LPT2!

I know that LPT1 have to be on IRQ7, but is it so for LPT2 too ?  Am I
really sticked to IRQ7 ?


-Geir Inge
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From: pgleason@ncratl.AtlantaGA.NCR.COM (Pat Gleason)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: Joel's ATI drivers and the SPP
Date: 4 Nov 92 21:46:32 GMT
Organization: NCR Engineering and Manufacturing Atlanta -- Atlanta, GA

In <19921102.091305.8@almaden.ibm.com> joe2@vnet.ibm.com writes:

>   It's a bug in the 32bit GRE (using color indexes that are 2.0
>drivers-only, and should not be used with 1.x drivers).
>   I could find a workaround for this, but since IBM is going to
>release its own ATI Wonder drivers (640x480x256, 800x600x256 and
>1024x768x256), I am going to wait! And NO, I don't know exactly
>when those drivers will be released...

How many people would have to plead to get you to update your drivers ???
<plead, plead>

In another thread, someone stated that ATI has said that NO 1.3 driver will 
work with OS/2 2.0 Service Pack and that ATI will not be releasing working ATI 
Wonder drivers until 2Q 93. I for one need hi-res drivers that work NOW.

You might get quite a few registrations from all the dissatisifed people
here who also need working drivers.

Would one registration fee cover 16 color and 256 color drivers ???

Thanks.
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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: rene@hardy.u.washington.edu (Rene Magritte)
Subject: Background Transfers in OS/2 don't work at all
Summary: Anybody got any pointers?
Keywords: doesn't work
Organization: University of Washington
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 23:59:32 GMT

 
 	My modem works fine under OS/2 now, and I've used both TE/2
and commo without that "missing character" problem I was having
before.  However, I have been unable to manage any sort of background
transfer under OS/2.   I am running a Boca Research 14.4k, with 16450
(ugh -- anybody know if this can be upgraded?)  I swap out of my full
screen session, and when I return, the box is "frozen"  on the screen
with an error message to the effect that there were errors in the
download.  I can handle and expect diminished performance as a result
of not having a 16550, but to have the tranfer abort is very annoying.

Part of the problem might be that I havn't configured the modem
correctly under TE/2; there was no modem file for my modem in
modem.zip.  I took one that looked close, but perhaps I didn't get it
right.  If somebody else is using a bocamodem, gimme a holler.   I'd
like to get this working.
 
...and yes, IDLE_SENSITIVITY _was_ set to 100.
From: josephc@cco.caltech.edu (Joseph Chiu)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: WPS Buglette
Date: 13 Nov 1992 17:34:49 GMT
Organization: California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
NNTP-Posting-Host: sandman.caltech.edu

I think I've found another bug...

Create a .cmd file, say C:\newsessn.cmd, which will spawn off new
copies of cmd.exe:

@start "Command Shell" /f /n c:\os2\cmd.exe
@exit

Now, attach this to your Desktop Menu by:

  Open->Settings->Menu->(Popup Menu):[Actions on menu] Create another:
      Find Program-> (Select OS/2 Command File) -> Find -> Ok

Now, when you hit your right mouse button, it will spawn new copies of
the command shell... As many copies as you want...

Now, shutdown, and restart.  Try spawning command shell...  It _won't_
work...  Try Open->Settings->Menu->(Popup Menu):[Actions on menu] Settings.
The button clicks, but it won't work!

If I'm allowed to "attach" the .cmd  file in the first place, I should be
able to get it back after rebooting.  If not, OS/2 should forbid me from
attaching my shell (and Xterm, and ...) launcher...

BTW, it works when you attach a "binary" to the menu, but I don't want
to do that.  (I want to dedicate the binary's icon for the "one true shell")



-- 
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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: dwl@watson.ibm.com (David W. Levine)
Subject: Re: 8514 dead?
Date: Thu, 05 Nov 1992 17:33:19 GMT
Reply-To: dwl@watson.ibm.com 
Disclaimer: This posting represents the poster's views, not necessarily those of IBM
Organization: IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center

To put this in proper IBMese, the folks in Boca understand the requirement
to provide a full 32 bit 8514/A driver. 

David W. Levine --  dwl@watson.ibm.com  -- IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center
                   -- My Opinions, IBM's hardware. -- 
"Fanaticism consists in redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your
aim" - George Santayana  
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