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From: dic5340@hertz.njit.edu (David Charlap)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: 32bit graphics engine, etc...
Date: 26 Aug 92 19:26:00 GMT
Organization: New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, N.J.

In article <1992Aug25.115314.20542@actrix.gen.nz> Steve.Withers@bbs.actrix.gen.nz writes:
>The 32-bit GRE's do the same thing as the 16-bit ones - they render the screen
>images which the video card then displays. This is done - as I understnad it -
>independently of what software is actually doing. The GRE performs the work
>requested of it by the programs. The 32-bit GRE does that faster and more
>efficiently. The impact on applications should be nil - other than to speed up
>the display.
>
>No modifications required as i understand it. If I am wrong, will somebody
>please put me right?

You're right.  The API will be unchanged.  Your applications will not
need any changes.  They will, however, have some extra bonusses.
Primarilly, they will have more window-object handles available,
meaning that more icons/buttons/windows/etc will be available for
simultaneous use - eliminating the "out of memory" errors, hopefully.
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From: shiva@well.sf.ca.us (Kenneth Porter)
Subject: sort fails on 400k file
Organization: Whole Earth 'Lectronic Link
Date: Wed, 2 Sep 1992 20:09:36 GMT

I wanted to sort a text file, line length less than 80 chars, total file
size 379438, on the second field, and the 2.0 sort told me that it had
insufficient storage. What's going on?

The file is a log file from a multi-threaded program and the second
field is the timestamp.  I wanted to sort by time to unravel the
sequence of operations of each thread.

My workaround was to copy the file to a Unix box and use the sort there.

Ken
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From: lavalite@well.sf.ca.us (Jonathan Scot Gentry)
Subject: Desktop Network folder GONE
Organization: Whole Earth 'Lectronic Link
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1992 15:52:23 GMT

HELPMEHELPMEHELPME
                   -- Count Zero

My Network folder is _gone_.

I did a chkdsk, and it told me (1) that "c:\os!2_2.0_d\novell\network"
was a bad subdirectory, and (2) that everything in my
"c:\os!2_2.0_d\network" directory had cross linked EA's.

chkdsk /f wasn't able to fix these problems, so I brightly thought to
myself, "I don't need "c:\os!2_2.0_d\novell\network; I'll just delete it
all."

So I did, and then I ran chkdsk again.  It came back and said something
about removing EA's for the subdirectories I had zapped, and then it
said something about "truncating" extra EA's in c:\os!2_2.0_d\network.

When I rebooted, my desktop Network and my Novell/Network folders were
both gone.  Oops!  Ack!

Short of reinstalling everything, how do I get my desktop Network folder
back?

Xref: sparky comp.os.os2.misc:29232 comp.os.os2.advocacy:4971
From: Gary.Woodman@anu.edu.au (Gary Woodman)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc,comp.os.os2.advocacy
Subject: Re: OS/2 Win3.1 support *better* than MS!
Date: Fri, 28 Aug 1992 08:11:58 GMT
Organization: Computer Services Centre, Australian National University
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: gurrung.anu.edu.au

In article <1992Aug27.122649.21603@actrix.gen.nz> Steve.Withers@bbs.actrix.gen.nz writes:
 
>So, Win-OS/2 is more compatible with Windows than Microsoft! Don't forget
>WinOS/2 also runs Windows 2.x apps as well, which MS doesn't run.

Don't forget the Win 3.0 real-mode apps, Win 3.1 doesn't have a real mode...

>Sounds like a better Windows than Windows, to me.

Me too.

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From: hoppie@kub.nl (Jeroen Hoppenbrouwers)
Subject: VDM minimized icons?
Date: Thu, 03 Sep 92 08:20:40 GMT
Organization: Tilburg University, Tilburg, The Netherlands

Hi all nice OS/2ers out there,

Can anyone inform me of the trick to change the DOS icon that
appears after minimizing a DOS program? I attached a customized
icon to a program object, so it appears with its own icon in a folder,
and the system menu icon has been changed to the new icon as well. But
when I minimize it, I get the generic DOS window icon. I have put an .ICO
file with the same name as the .EXE file in the .EXE file directory, and
used this icon to customize the program object.

Probably this is another obvious OS/2 gimmick that just hides behind a
row of notebook tabs?


Jeroen
From: oistony@ubvmsb.cc.buffalo.edu (Anthony M. Petro)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: cc/c++/?
Date: 31 Aug 92 01:57:00 GMT
Organization: University at Buffalo
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41

In article <x8gnhyj.genie@netcom.com>, genie@netcom.com (The Genie) writes...
> 
>Tell me if I'm wrong but a couple of days ago, I thought I saw
>the encoded forms for a C compiler floating around in
>the comp.os2.binaries r.g.n.  Usually, I was able to find the
>compressed binaries of this group in hobbes.nmsu.edu under os2/new.
>I haven't seen it yet.  Anyone know where I can ftp this?
>Thanks.
> 
>Gene

i just retrieved gnu gcc 2.1 and 2.2.2 from hobbes
os2/2.0/programming/gcc-2.2.2 and /gcc21 or some reasonable 
equivalent.  i do recall that gcc 2.2.2 is in /programming and not 
/gnu.    

anthony m. petro   "beethoven"    i can say what i want; i'm just an undergrad
oistony@UBVMSD.BITNET             "frame by frame,
oistony@mednet.bitnet              death by drowning,
petro@sun.acsu.buffalo.edu         in your own
                                   in your own...
                                   analysis..."
From: joe2@vnet.ibm.com
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 92 09:52:48 FST
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: Video video video...
Reply-To: <joe2@vnet.ibm.com>
Disclaimer: This posting represents the poster's views, not those of IBM
News-Software: UReply 3.0
            <unruh.714773855@physics.ubc.ca>

In <unruh.714773855@physics.ubc.ca> William Unruh writes:
>^stuff deleted:
>Do you know if there are any plans for the ATI Wonder XL series?
>Although Joel's drivers work reasonably well there are still some bugs (
>snow at the right edge, lines of spurious dots appearing, no seemless)
>and it
>would be nice to have really good drivers. Has IBM thought of perhaps
>hiring Joel to do the work, since his own attempt is so good?
>
>
   Yes, I would love writing the ATI 32bit drivers... the fact is that
I am already working for IBM France. I contacted the manager of the
video team in Boca, saying that I was ready to go there to write those
drivers. Guess what, he didn't accept. :-((
   By the way, I have released new 16bit ATI drivers. File is ATI256C2,
and it is already on ftp-os2.nmsu.edu and on LISTSERV at BLEKUL11.BITNET
It fixes the spurious dots problem... and other things (see  readme.txt).

   -Joel Armengaud
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: stidolph@leland.Stanford.EDU (Wayne Stidolph)
Subject: Re: IBM Awards OS/2 Gold Ambassador Honors
Organization: DSG, Stanford University, CA 94305, USA
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 92 16:36:52 GMT

I am pleased to hear that IBM is honoring these 15 outstanding
employees. I would be *more* pleased to learn what the 13 other names
and efforts were, as opposed to finding out that Lucy Baney is getting
calls from other companies...  Who are these people? Do we know them
here on the Net? Why do they care about OS/2?

I actually *would* like to know!

Related tangentially: Is IBM going to recognize the non-IBM folks who
have donated long hours to helping others through the first trials of
using this new (well, mostly :) OS? People like TFS, Kai-Uwe, Bert,...

Probably not; but, hey guys - I thank you, and I try to emulate your
community spirit. And I have a shorter .sig than most, too!
  Wayne
-- 
Wayne  stidolph@gtewd.mtv.gsc.gte.com or stidolph@leland.stanford.edu 
What I say is from me only. I try to be accurate, but I make mistakes: sorry.
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From: nyet@cco.caltech.edu (n liu)
Subject: variety of bitches/questions about trident, mice, and command shells
Organization: California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1992 10:45:49 GMT

First things first. I've checked these all against the faq (a reasonably recent
one), have not seen any of them discussed (although given the massive volume of
this group i may a missed them), and have yet to bitch at IBM about them.

I have a 8900b trident 1m board.
I snagged all the damn trident patches i could find off of hobbes.

switching back from os2 full screen mode corrupts my 800x600x256 desktop.

I've seen similar complaints about dos full screen but i haven't seen the
same problem

using 8900bfix before exiting os2 fixes the screen, but os2 has to boot a 
dos session to run the damn thing since it was supposed to fix the dos full
screen problem. argh.

This is no big deal since i rarely use os2 fullscreen sessions (is there a
pk/un/zip written for 2.0 that doesn't insist on running fullscreen?)

next bitch..

why do windowed sessions refuse to come up full size? There seems to be a 
preset limit on the actual window size (changing fonts changes num of chars,
but not the default windows size). This is REALLY annoying since every time
i want to run a shell i have to resize the damn thing by hand.

On a related note, can we expect to see more font size options for windowed
sessions? I understand these are included in the graphics drivers... i really
need a tiny one that's not square (i.e. 8x8 hurts the eyes - not because its
small but because its annoying since the letters are as high as they are wide)

an 8x6 or 9x7 would be almost ideal.

And finally (saving the worst for last)

I have a logitech mouse on com port 2 and a modem on port 1.

I am using boot manager to switch between dos 5.0 and os2 2.0

booting os2 after just having been using the dos boot causes my mouse
to no longer function, thus making me go through the digital gymnastics
of shutting down os2 via keyboard (ctrl shift whatever esc ctrl \ shft f10 
AUUUUUUGH! finger cramp :-)

Nothing brings my mouse back except power cycling.

I've snagged all the comm/mouse patches i could find to no avail.

incidentally, commga caused kermit to hang while trying a !rz.
I even halted the whole system once, but i wasn't able to reproduce
it so i didn't write down the error. I did deinstal commga though.

hep me hep me i bin hipmotized!
-- 
nyet@cco.caltech.edu
nyet@aerospace.aero.org
From: lrj@cs.cornell.edu (Lew Jansen)
Subject: Re: Why won't the d*mn windows stay put? (partial answer)
Organization: Lab of Atomic and Solid State Physics, Cornell University
Distribution: na
Date: Fri, 4 Sep 1992 13:10:58 GMT



  I had asked a two part question.  The first problem was that if an
OS/2 window was minimized and then restored, it would act like it had
been maximized.  As an example, say I ran "help" from an OS/2 window.
The window would minimize while view was running, and when I exitted 
view (help), the window would reopen at the upper-left section of the
screen.


hmkirchh@cip.informatik.uni-erlangen.de (Hans-Joachim Kirchhoff) writes:
>Don't Maximize your windows, Show them and, unless they have been maximized
>when you minimized them, they'll appear just where you want them.

  Problem is, I wasn't trying to "maximize" the window.  If I
double-clicked on a minimized window or if it restored itself it would
go to the upper-left corner as if it was maximized.

  I have now solved this one; the windows apparently were configured
to maximize whenever restored.  I shift-clicked on the "maximize"
button (right end of the title bar), converting it to just the large
square.  Things now behave properly as far as that goes.

  Of course, there's now a second problem.  I like to work in a 80x34
window.  I put the command "MODE 80,34" in my 4START.CMD to make this
happen.  When the windows were set to maximize on open, this would
work fine; the window would resize itself at startup.  Now, of course,
it just puts scroll bars.  *sigh*


>I wrote:
>>	  Also, is there any way to specify where on the desktop
>>	minimized icons should go?
>
>Open  OS/2System, System Setup and System. Click on Window. There it is.
>Minimize Button behaviour.

  Perhaps I was unclear.  I know how to set my choice of desktop,
hide, or viewer for minimized windows; it can also be set from the
desktop Settings.  However, what I want is to put them on the desktop
AND specify WHERE on the desktop the minimized window is to be placed.
The analogue in X11 is the specification of a window's iconic
geometry.



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    -- Lew Jansen, N2KNV               lrj@helios.tn.cornell.edu
    LASSP/LNS Systems Manager                (607) 255-6065
    Station Manager: W2CXM Cornell University Amateur Radio Club
            "You can't fight in here, this is the War Room!"
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: csci11ba@cl2.cl.uh.edu (451924952 NEWMAN, DANA FRANK)
Subject: Re: CSet/2 compiler and student pricing
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.4-b1  
Reply-To: CSCI11BA@cl.uh.edu
Organization: University of Houston - Clear Lake
Date: Sat, 29 Aug 1992 18:00:00 GMT

In article <59952@mimsy.umd.edu>, pr@umiacs.umd.edu (Jesus Rodriguez) writes...
> 
>Is there an educational price for the CSet/2 compiler for OS/2 2.0?
> 
>I have visited the computer store here on campus and they don't carry it.  I have
>also called IBM and they told me to ask the sales rep at the computer store.
> 
>SO essentially all this was useless.
> 
>Any help would be greatly appreciated.
> 
>Jesus M. Rodriguez
>pr@umiacs.umd.edu

There is an educational discount program, but when I called to order the
C developer's workset/2 package which is on sale till sept 5 for 295.00,
the sale price was WAYYYYYYY below the educational discount price. 

I just received the package about a week ago.  I havent had time to really
sit down and completely assess the thing, but so far from what Ive seen,
I think its a pretty good deal for the price.
From: oistony@ubvmsb.cc.buffalo.edu (Anthony M. Petro)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: 300,000 sold in ten days
Date: 31 Aug 92 16:45:00 GMT
Organization: University at Buffalo
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41

In article <2AA21EA9.4DCF@tct.com>, paul@tct.com (Paul Levin) writes...
>According to bert.tyler@satalink.com (Bert Tyler) :
>>
>>The real test of OS/2's popularity will be noting what happens to
>>IBM's share of the PC market when every PS/2 comes with a bundled
>>copy of OS/2 (and every Gateway comes with a bundled copy of DOS
>>and Windows).  If IBM's share goes up, that's a sign that folks 
>>like OS/2.  If it goes down, that's a sign that folks prefer
>>DOS/Windows.  No, I won't make a prediction <grin>.
>>
> 
>What about all of the people who buy a Gateway, or some other clone,
>because it is cheaper than a PS/2, and then buy OS/2 to run on it ?
> 

i agree.  the above assertion that hardware market share tracks os 
market share simply because the one is bundled with the other is 
simplistic.  for instance, i despise ps/2's, and wouldn't use one even 
if it were a gift.  however, i swear by os/2.  but i wouldn't buy a 
computer simply because it came with os/2, particularly if it were a 
ps/2.  obviously cost and configuration are major issues ignored by 
the comparison.  

furthermore, what about all the people who buy ps/2's and then buy 
microsoft's special ps/2 version dos/windows to run? (snort) however 
hypothetical the comparison, the reasoning given above would assert 
that os/2 was successful because SO MANY consumers were buying ps/2's, 
only problem being that they're throwing out os/2, and installing windows/dos.

oops.

> 
>-- 
>From:  Paul Levin   paul@count.tct.com   813-969-3367 (work, 9-5 EST)
anthony m. petro   "beethoven"    i can say what i want; i'm just an undergrad
oistony@UBVMSD.BITNET             "frame by frame,
oistony@mednet.bitnet              death by drowning,
petro@sun.acsu.buffalo.edu         in your own
                                   in your own...
                                   analysis..."
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: dave@stat.tamu.edu (Dave Perry)
Subject: 32bit graphics engine, etc...
Organization: Texas A&M University, College Station
Date: Mon, 24 Aug 1992 03:42:25 GMT

Does anyone know about the new drivers?  What kind of release date
are we looking at?  It would be nice to know when I will be able to
take advantage of my video card... :)  Hurry!
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From: sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu (Timothy F. Sipples)
Subject: Re: Problems with clipboard ...
Reply-To: sip1@midway.uchicago.edu
Organization: Dept. of Econ., Univ. of Chicago
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1992 20:16:52 GMT

A bit of advice for the Clipboard: make sure both source and target
programs are running before attempting any operation through the
Clipboard.  The README, I believe, makes this clear.

If that is not your situation please post a follow up.
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Dept. of Econ., Univ.   | Or from LISTSERV@BLEKUL11.BITNET (send "HELP").
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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu (Timothy F. Sipples)
Subject: Re: Memory Problems
Reply-To: sip1@midway.uchicago.edu
Organization: Dept. of Econ., Univ. of Chicago
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1992 00:48:30 GMT

In article <1992Aug25.135518.9718@wubios.wustl.edu> sean@wubios.wustl.edu (Sean Dyer) writes:
>I've been having trouble with OS/2 crashing on my Compaq Deskpro 386-20,
>spitting out its register contents and telling me to contact IBM.  I did
>contact them and they suggested that the problem was bad RAM, specifically
>they suspected that my machine contained 2 different memory chip speeds.  I
>investigated and found that the machine contained 5 Meg of 100ns memory and 8
>Meg of 80ns memory.  The machine came with 1 Meg of 100ns RAM on the
>motherboard, so it's safe to assume that it operates well with 100ns chips.  I
>called IBM back and told them what  the situation was and they confirmed that
>mixing chips, even mixing faster than spec chips, would cause problems for
>OS/2.  I reported the situation to the folks I work for and there was some
>skepticism about the diagnosis since all chips were at least as fast as the
>machine specifications.  My question is: Has anyone had a similar experience
>or is there anyone who knows more than I do about DRAM circuits that could
>give a plausible explanation either way?

Can you give specifics on the crashes?  The TRAP number is key -- if
you are getting TRAP 2's, for example, IBM is right, that there's bad
RAM (or RAM cache) in the system somewhere.

-- 
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From: kl2i+@andrew.cmu.edu (Kwan-Yong Lee)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Super VGA driver wanted
Date: 28 Aug 92 08:09:29 GMT
Article-I.D.: andrew.cebYyty00VpH4Hx0pR
Organization: Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA

Hi.  I'm looking for a Super VGA driver for OS/2 2.0
I have a Dell 486P50 (DX2) system with Paradise/Western Digital VGA chip
on mother board.
It has 1 Mb memory and can do up to 1024x768x256 colors.
I don't have a modem ,so it's best if I can FTP from some ftp sites.
Thanks!
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: moncrg@rs6109.ecs.rpi.edu (Gregory Donald Moncreaff)
Subject: Re: WD7000. Will it be supported?
Organization: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY
Date: Wed, 2 Sep 1992 16:43:25 GMT

In article <1992Sep2.202259.10539@waikato.ac.nz> hamish@waikato.ac.nz writes:
>
>Can somebody tell me if Columbia Data Products are intending on supporting OS/2
>2.0 with the WD-7000 FAAST SCSI controller? I have a driver from the 3.35v of
>their software, but it says OS/2 1.x, and I don't know whether this will work
>with 2.0 (And no time to mess about trying it at the moment either).
>
>Can somebody tell me if this will work (Or if there is a later revision of the
>driver software that will?) I know that OS/2 will use the controller via INT13,
>but have heard that this is slow and clunky on disk accesses, so I'd rather use
>a native controller.
>
>Either that or the specs so that all isn't completely lost would be nice?
>
i have installed os/2 on a wd7000-fasst rev3.36. i didn't use the sst software
to partition or format the disk. i use dos or os/2 fdisk only.
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From: cnadler@vnet.ibm.com (Cliff Nadler)
Subject: Re: OS/2 printing bug???
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 92 20:49:48 GMT
News-Software: IBM OS/2 PM RN (NR/2) v0.037 by O. Vishnepolsky and R. Rogers
Reply-To: cnadler@vnet.ibm.com (Cliff Nadler)
Organization: IBM T. J. Watson Research

In  <stanton.464.714850634@haas.berkeley.edu>  stanton@haas.berkeley.edu (Richard Stanton) writes:

If you are using OS/2 2.0, you can now have two different queues point at the
same printer port, so you can use different properties for each queue.

Click with the right mouse button on your printer object, select "Create 
Another", and create a new instance on the Desktop with a different name.
Then go into the settings and change the queue properties.

Cliff Nadler (cnadler@vnet.ibm.com)
IBM Federal Systems Company - TEAM OS/2

Disclaimer: This post represents the views of the poster, not IBM Corporation.
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: nirobb@ramsey.cs.laurentian.ca (N. I. Robb)
Subject: Query: Problem with Drive Icon
Summary: Problem with accessing hard drives
Keywords: drive folder
Organization: Dept. of Computer Science, Laurentian University, Sudbury, ON
Date: Wed, 2 Sep 1992 12:05:22 GMT

My 200 meg hard disk was formatted under dos 3.3 and I left it that way
when I installed os/2.  As a result I have drives c: through i:

When I open the drive icon in the system folder I can click on and can
read the directories of drives c d h and i.  However if I click on the
other ones e f or g, nothing comes up.  The screen momentarily expands and
shrinks immediately back down to the icon.

OS/2 knows there are files on these "drives".  The system editor is
able to access them.

Is there something in the setup that may have gone wrong.  Any help
appreciated.

Thank you
Ian Robb
Department of Physics
Laurentian University
Sudbury, Ontario CANADA


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