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From: frank@cs.yorku.ca (Frank Pikelner)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Need help with CONFIG.SYS after Service Pack installed
Date: 6 Nov 92 15:58:45 GMT
Article-I.D.: yetti.1537
Distribution: world
Organization: York University, Dept. of Computer Science

Hello everyone,


After installing the service pack and (with help from the net) getting the
xxx506.add driver replaced. My system is up and running again - thank you all!

My only problem now is when my system boots I get an error from my CONFIG.SYS
file. I believe the number is 1201. The error is with 
DEVICE=G:\OS2\MDOS\VSVGA.SYS line. I have checked for bad extraneous characters
in the file - none. I have tried to move the line around in the file - no luck.
I have checked the location in the directory of the file - it's there. My system
is a 386DX/40 with 8MB ram, 120 IDE, 140 ESDI, ATI VGA Wonder+ with 1MB, I run
OS/2 in 640x480 mode (standard - no drivers). Am I doing something wrong?
Should I have used the command 'svga ON'? Should I even have the line in my
CONFIG.SYS file? If this is a FAQ please don't flame me too much - I'm new to
OS/2.

Thanks in advance to all,

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From: rgaudre@triton.unm.edu (Ron Gaudreau)
Subject: Re: install ET4000 driver
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 92 10:15:42 GMT
Organization: University of New Mexico, Albuquerque

In article <Mex4PT_00awWBJCEQz@andrew.cmu.edu> kc2x+@andrew.cmu.edu (Kwan-Ju Chen) writes:
>Hi!  What is the CORRECT way to install ET4000 driver? use DPINSTAL from
>os2/ OR SELECTIVE INSTALL? 
>
>Thanks

 You are supposed to use the Selective Install but unfortunately that doesn't
work for all so you may have to use the dpinstal program.

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From: sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu (Timothy F. Sipples)
Subject: Re: How to unzip CSD files
Reply-To: sip1@midway.uchicago.edu
Organization: Dept. of Econ., Univ. of Chicago
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 18:12:36 GMT

In article <3732@babcock.cerc.wvu.wvnet.edu> mlawson@cathedral.cerc.wvu.wvnet.edu (Michael Lawson) writes:
>I downloaded the CSD files from ftp-os2.nmsu.edu. When I attempted to put
>them on my diskettes using LoadDskF I got an error message ("File not
>compatiable with LoadDskF") and when I tried to unzip them first, using 
>PKUNZIP v1.1, I got another error message ("I don't know how to handle 
>spg301.dsk"). So what is the correct way to unzip these files??

You need Info-Zip's UnZip 5.0, available via anonymous ftp from
ftp-os2.nmsu.edu, directory /pub/os2/2.0/archivers.

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From: sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu (Timothy F. Sipples)
Subject: Re: MMPM and SBPRO
Reply-To: sip1@midway.uchicago.edu
Organization: Dept. of Econ., Univ. of Chicago
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 22:56:22 GMT

In article <1992Nov10.133502.27376@ultb.isc.rit.edu> pee9901@ultb.isc.rit.edu (P.E. Erkkila) writes:
>      Can anyone with experience tell me how to get MMPM to recognize my
>SBPRO. I've tried everything (including the manuals (well sorta)) and It
>still won't do it. Something about the device already being in use.

I assume you are using the beta MMPM/2 SoundBlaster drivers, available
via anonymous ftp from software.watson.ibm.com, correct?

Combining MMPM/2 with the third party drivers (which do not require
MMPM/2) is not what you want to do.

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From: sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu (Timothy F. Sipples)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: Executable Flag
Date: 9 Nov 92 17:04:06 GMT
Reply-To: sip1@midway.uchicago.edu
Organization: Dept. of Econ., Univ. of Chicago

In article <BVBwTB1w164w@uuisis.isis.org> evanc@uuisis.isis.org (Evan Champion) writes:
>Something that has always annoyed me is that OS/2 will only run a program if 
>it has a .EXE/.COM/.CMD/.BAT extension.  With no file naming requirements 
>with HPFS this seems to be a needless limitation.  It really annoyed me 
>today because I couldn't get KSH to run a script file until I renamed the 
>script to a CMD file.  Why not just have an executable flag; it would be 
>automatically turned on for any .EXE/.COM/.CMD/.BAT and would be optionally 
>set for other files, much like chmod for Unix.  It shouldn't be too hard; I 
>don't know about how attributes are saved with HPFS but there should be a 
>way to put it either in the file attributes or extended attributes for the 
>file.  This along with case sensitivity for filenames would really make my 
>day.

A good idea.  (I disagree on case sensitive filenames.  The only thing
case sensitivity is good for is quasi-compatibility with Unix.  If
Unix had to do it all over again, I'm sure it would have case
retention only.  But this issue has been beaten to death, so please
don't follow up.)

One can achieve similar effect using a REXX script called, say, RUN.
Then, with some clever use of extended attributes and bit of code, one
could start programs without .EXE, .COM, .BAT, or .CMD extensions.

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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: lkan@uhunix.uhcc.Hawaii.Edu (Linus Kan)
Subject: What is PERL4035.ZIP and YOWZA.ZIP?
Organization: University of Hawaii
Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1992 03:36:07 GMT

Hi there:

What is PERL4035.ZIP at FTP-OS2 site?  Also, what is the 
latest version of YOWZA and DESKPIC?

Thanks for response.

:) lkan@uhunix.uhcc.hawaii.edu

Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu (Timothy F. Sipples)
Subject: Re: SOLVED!!! **FatalExit code 0x0401**, but...
Reply-To: sip1@midway.uchicago.edu
Organization: Dept. of Econ., Univ. of Chicago
Date: Sat, 7 Nov 1992 17:07:19 GMT

In article <1992Nov07.130019.19881@donau.et.tudelft.nl> anto@dutetvd.tudelft.nl (Anto Daryanto) writes:
>My question is: is it possible to reinstall service pack only for /os2/mdos and 
>/os2/mdos/winos2 directories? I check with syslevel and it reports that
>I already have 32-bit GRE and all the fixes for the OS.

Sure.  Just run A:\SERVICE on the first Service Pack diskette, and
follow the menus (selecting/deselecting the directories you want to
update).  When it says that you have already updated your system, tell
it to proceed anyway.

The Service Pack, incidently, is smart enough to prompt you for only
the diskettes you need, so it goes very quickly.

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From: jurlwin@gandalf.UMCS.Maine.EDU (Jeff Urlwin)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: Service Pak readme
Date: 5 Nov 92 14:30:29 GMT
Article-I.D.: gandalf.1992Nov5.143029.13736
Organization: University of Maine, Department of Computer Science

In article <1992Nov4.110026.27@dcs.simpact.com> dharber@dcs.simpact.com writes:
>In article <6kRkTB1w165w@cybernet.cse.fau.edu>, ron@cybernet.cse.fau.edu (Ron Bassett) writes:
>> Everyone please read the Service Pak readme file especially
>> concerning TSENG ET4000 video driver support/installation.
>> 
>I have read the readme file, it says -
>
>'Select WELCOME from the desktop ...'
>
>I have looked in vain for WELCOME without finding it.
>
>Does anyone have any further clues?

It says the WELCOME folder is on machines which have OS/2 PREINSTALLED.

Run the "Selective Install" program from the "OS/2 Desktop".

Jeff
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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: 12 Nov 92 17:49:51 GMT
Organization: NCR Engineering and Manufacturing Atlanta -- Atlanta, GA

In <92316.145944JXL103@psuvm.psu.edu> JXL103@psuvm.psu.edu writes:

>Could you tell me about these ATI drivers and how I can get them?
>are they 32-bit?  make use of the mach 8 processor on the ATI graphics
>ultra?

Sorry. They are drivers for the ATI VGA Wonder and VGA Wonder XL.
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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: ssinglet@diana.cair.du.edu (LaserJock)
Subject: Using Info reader from emx package (arrows not working)
Organization: University of Denver, Denver, Colorado
Distribution: usa
Date: Fri, 13 Nov 92 23:27:44 GMT

Dear GCC People,

I recently ftp'd the emx package for os/2 and have a question
regarding the info reader from the wholeinf.zip package.  I
can get info to pull up the main menu, but the arrow keys don't
seem to work.  Info responds to keystrokes (I can enter q to
quit, or <CR> to go the the highlighted node), but I can't move
around the menu.....
Any suggestions?  I have told info I have an ansi terminal.  I'm
using the termcap.dat that came with the wholeinf.zip file.

Thanks
Steve
ssinglet@du.edu
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From: hoppie@kub.nl (Jeroen Hoppenbrouwers)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: OS/2 Trascan Imitation
Date: 5 Nov 92 07:58:17 GMT
Organization: Tilburg University, Tilburg, The Netherlands

In article <1992Nov5.013419.19588@colorado.edu> doug@shako.Colorado.EDU (Doug McKnight) writes:
>With regard to the whole trashcan business..
>
>My approach may have already been mentioned, but what i did was to 
>make a template trashcan, "tear one off the pad" and when it is 
>full I just shred the whole trashcan. 
>
>Douglas

Nice idea as well! Just replace the Trashcan icon with a plastic bag or
something, the kind of thing you put in real trashcans and that are
thrown away by the cleaning people even if there's nothing in it. So we
can happily throw away tons of non-bio-degradable plastic bags without
the environment spitting them back at us (after 100 years).

I read that the EAs are giving us hackers a hard time, and the ghost
objects even a harder time. Are the shadows etc. really stored into
OS2.INI? Yech. This might explain the no performance as well.

Hey, why doesn't someone come up with a *real* PM Trashcan object? Who's
got access to the source codes of the Shredder?



Jeroen

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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: "leo richardson" <UKI6@DKAUNI2.BITNET>
Subject: Icon problem after installing the SP
Organization: University of Karlsruhe, Germany
Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1992 16:42:25 GMT

Hi there,

I have changed the icons of some folders (system\games and system\
command lines) and then installed the servpak. I had the boring
standard folder icon again. If I use popup menu/settings/general
and bring up the icon editor, I have my own icon again --- in the
editor. I close the editor --- boring folder icon again. I can
create a new icon, store it somewhere on the drive and load it
to the folder (using the settings/general menu), but The Icon Does
Not Change.
Any suggestions?

regards

leo

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From: lmorris@mdd.comm.mot.com (Larry Morris)
Subject: Re: Copy OS/2 from one HD to an other.
Organization: Motorola, Mobile Data Division - Seattle, WA
Distribution: na
Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1992 19:34:54 GMT

In <Bx8xwG.C8B@tct.com> paul@tct.com (Paul Levin) writes:

>According to gagnon@aix1.uottawa.ca (7183):
>>   What I want to do, is install OS/2 on a PC, configure it plain Jane and 
>>the install the hard disk from an other PC as a second disk and copy OS/2
>>to it. After that, I can just put the disk back in the other PC and have
>>two OS/2's installed after 2 hours instead of 4! Wouldn't it be great!?
>>

>I do not think you can do this.  If you do the copy under OS/2, it will
>not copy files that are open, like the desktop.  If you do the copy

So boot from a floppy.  You should have no open files at that point.  Note
that I have not tried the actual process of cloning a disk, but I have often
booted from floppy to get at system files.  The concept is good. ;-)  What
I would like is something that creates a system image that I could back
up to tape.  Then boot from floppy and restore the image to a new or
resized partition.  Sort of a dd for OS/2,  but it would not require
the restored partition to be the same size as the original.



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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: jks4675@ritvax.isc.rit.edu
Subject: Trident SVGA Questions
Reply-To: jks4675@ritvax.isc.rit.edu
Organization: Rochester Institute of Technology
Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1992 21:01:15 GMT

I just got a 'MIKON' SVGA card; it has a 
Tridenty chipset. What drivers should I use? 
I want 1024 X 768 X 16.
Please E-mail reply.
Thanks,
Jeff
From: mikel@networx.com (Mike Lempriere)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: Does the Trident card have a RAM bios?
Date: 9 Nov 92 19:48:04 GMT
Organization: NetWorx
To: mikel
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]

Alan N Rovner (alanr@tekig5.pen.tek.com) wrote:
: I'm running with a Trident 8900C card with 1 MB, and have a minor oddity I'm
: trying to correct.  I'm running in 800x600 16-color mode (although the same
: effect happens in VGA).  Normally when I click MB2 on an object and bring
: up its menu, I get a 3D chiseled type effect.  This happens for all objects 
: except the Desktop.  When I click MB2 on the desktop instead of the chiseled
: effect I get a dark grey selection.
: 
: I'm wondering if somehow I screwed up something in the 8900C's BIOS and if
: so how do I reset it?  It used to work normally in the past.  I've looked 
: through the utility disks that came with the card, but didn't see anything 
: that looked like it would do the trick.
: 
: Any ideas would be appreciated.
: 
: Al Rovner
: Tektronix Test & Measurement Group
From: Jerry.Guizar@f347.n109.z1.fidonet.org (Jerry Guizar)
Sender: Uucp@blkcat.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Video Benchmark (of sort
Date: Sun, 08 Nov 1992 21:16:02 -0500

 
 In article from David Darknell (david@maxwell.ucsc.edu) 
 
 > ** vs.cmd 
 
CPU: 486DX2 
Speed: 50Mhz 
Bus: ISA 
Video Card: ATI Graphics Ultra 
Desktop: 1024x768x256 
 
                          OS/2 Full Screen     OS/2 Window 
___-------------------------------------------------------- 
Elapsed time for run 1:          0.96       |     3.78 
Elapsed time for run 2:          0.97       |     3.72 
Elapsed time for run 3:          0.97       |     3.72 
Elapsed time for run 4:          1.00       |     3.69 
Average elapsed time for 4 runs: 0.975      |     3.7275 
 
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From: jhall@dante.nmsu.edu (HALL)
Subject: NCSA telnet
Organization: New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, NM
Distribution: usa
Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1992 01:14:56 GMT

Hi, I am having problems with NCSA telnet.  After the connection is closed
it just hangs my machine.  Ftp seems to work okay.  Does this just not work.
I any one can help me..please do.

Thanks 

jhall@nmsu.edu
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: gtaylor@napier.uwaterloo.ca (Gord Taylor)
Subject: ATI Wonder XL24
Keywords: ATI, XL24, Mouse
Organization: University of Waterloo
Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1992 19:03:53 GMT

I quite recently bought the ATI Wonder XL24 card with bus mouse.  I've found
the following 2 problems and was ondering if anyone could help:

1. At boot up, OS/2 tells me that vmouse.sys can't load. Is this because
   I have it set to IRQ 2 (and have tried on IRQ 5).  I know the serial mouse
   drivers require (without patches) that it use IRQ 3 or 4.  Could someone
   either send me ALL their config.sys lines involving the mouse (as well
   as which order) or, if you've had the problem respond.

2. The XL24 comes with installation disks which directly install drivers to
   Windows 3.0 and 3.1 rather than running the usual setup program.  I was told
   by ATI that the Windows 3.0 drivers will work in Win-OS2, but the program
   seems not to be able to access the HPFS drive even though I'm in DOS full-
   screen from OS/2.  Could someone give me some type of solution. Or at least,
   which files (and changes to .ini etc.) from the ATI disks belong where?

					'Til later

Thanks

gtaylor@descates.uwaterloo.ca
From: sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu (Timothy F. Sipples)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: Mouse at PS/2 70
Date: 14 Nov 92 01:06:02 GMT
Reply-To: sip1@midway.uchicago.edu
Organization: Dept. of Econ., Univ. of Chicago

In article <1992Nov13.115142.2370@sun0.urz.uni-heidelberg.de> x27@sun0.urz.uni-heidelberg.de (T. Voelkering) writes:
>Does anybody know, how to install a serial MS-compatible mouse at one of
>those dammned, fuc%$^&*@@## Mod 70  at the serial COM1 port??
>(how I like my clones !!!)

This issue is reasonably well documented in the online Command
Reference.  If you need further assistance, please post a followup.

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From: parry@yoyo.cc.monash.edu.au (Tom J Parry)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: OS2+VIO windows=110baud
Date: 11 Nov 92 09:53:46 GMT
Organization: Monash University, Melb., Australia.
Originator: parry@yoyo.cc.monash.edu.au

Ben Cox (thoth@uiuc.edu) wrote:
> adhir@cygnus.umd.edu (Alok Dhir) writes:
> 
> >Quit crying.  It's YOUR hardware, NOT OS/2!!
> 
> >On my 486, with ET4000, the DOS window scrolling is pretty quick.
> 
> No.  Way.
> 
> People used to complain that X386 under Linux had slow scrolling
> speed.  It was about 2-3 times faster than OS/2 windows.  Then it got
> about 3x faster in a single release.

I played with Linux the other day and xterm scrolling shits all over OS/2.
It doesn't update after every single line which makes a very big
difference.
> 
> My windows scrolled faster on the 16-bit GRE than they do under the
> 32-bit GRE.  And they were slower under the 16-bit than the "slow"
> X386 windows.

For sure.
> 
> I'm running on a 33 MHz LocalBus 486DX with an ET4000, and the speed
> STILL sucks.  The WHOLE POINT of having a coprocessed video card that
> can scroll screen regions in hardware is to do fast scrolling without
> having to repaint the entire window.
> 
> Whoever wrote that scrolling code really dropped the ball.  It is NOT
> my hardware.

I disabled VIDEO EMULATION in DOS sessions and got a factor of 4 to 8
improvement immediately. Seems, as expected, that the ET4000 scrolling
(without coprocessor) is a lot better than OS/2's DOS scrolling. Only
problem is that I can't see any way of persuading it to do the same thing
for OS/2 windows.

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From: tanith@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (Michael D Kretzer)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: New TCP/IP BASE CSD (was: Re: UPCOMING POSTS TO COMP.BINARIES.OS2 (November 8 - November 14))
Date: 10 Nov 1992 01:28:19 GMT
Organization: University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee
Distribution: world
Reply-To: tanith@csd4.csd.uwm.edu
NNTP-Posting-Host: 129.89.7.4
Originator: tanith@csd4.csd.uwm.edu

From article <721328522snx@w3vh.UUCP>, by rolfe@w3vh.UUCP (Rolfe Tessem):
> mikek@miller.cs.uwm.edu writes in article <1dil75INNa9k@uwm.edu>:
>  
> After applying the three-diskette CSD for the TCP/IP base package
> recently posted to ftp-os2.nmsu.edu, I get a syslevel of UB02252
> for the base package.  Does the quoted post above mean that there
> is another, more recent CSD? If so, is it already on hobbes?

Yes, there is another, more recent CSD whose level is 2274.  As it turns
out the 2252 CSD was slightly buggy.

The 2274 CSD is on ftp-os2.nmsu in the directory /pub/os2/2.0/patches, 
and it will be posted to comp.binaries.os2 this week...
From: sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu (Timothy F. Sipples)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: Install OS/2 from driver B
Date: 14 Nov 92 01:03:17 GMT
Reply-To: sip1@midway.uchicago.edu
Organization: Dept. of Econ., Univ. of Chicago

In article <1992Nov13.132928.15487@sura.net> vargish@sura.net (Nick Vargish) writes:
>> I want to install OS/2 from driver B. It's said on FAQ that I can get a
>> free software to do it. Where is it???
>On hobbes, the file is called "instb.zip" -- getting this file will
>result in FRUSTRATION! Some fool archived it with the zip utility that
>runs under OS/2; it CAN NOT be unzipped with the official DOS pkunzip
>release -- you must already have OS/2 running to unzip it. A real 
>catch 22. 

No, that is not correct.  Info-Zip's UnZip 5.0 is available in
versions for all major platforms, including DOS.  Any DOS archive site
should have Info-Zip's UnZip 5.0.

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