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From: sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu (Timothy F. Sipples)
Subject: Re: Standard Computer (and os/2)
Reply-To: sip1@midway.uchicago.edu
Organization: Dept. of Econ., Univ. of Chicago
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1992 02:52:08 GMT

In article <1992Aug26.185543.26103@news.columbia.edu> hpw@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Harry P Warren) writes:
>I am trying to decide if I should buy this system for use with OS/2 2.0:
>  Standard Computers - Windows Workstation Plus

Why do vendors call their computers "Windows Workstations," their
video adapters "Windows SuperX," and so forth?  Rhetorical question, I
suppose.

>	33 MHz 486
>	16 MB of RAM
>	64 k Cache
>	15" MAG Monitor
>	ATI Graphics Ultra card w/ 1.5 MB of VRAM and mouse
>	210 MB Maxtor HD
>	  tower case, windows/dos/Norton Desktop, fax/modem, and
>	  choice of application (1-2-3, Ami Pro, Freelance, Paradox,
>	  or Borland turbo c++) . . . 
>	________
>	$3250 including shipping
>Has anyone had any experience with Standard that I should know about?
>I spoke to a sales representative and he said that the computer was
>compatible with os/2. If I understand correctly, ATI Graphics Ultra
>drivers already exist, at least for some resolutions. I called Dell
>and their quote for a similar system was $4214 :(

This system is just about the best system (on paper) you could put
together for OS/2.  The ATI Graphics Ultra is very fast and 8514/A
hardware compatible, meaning it will working with the stock 1024x768
256 color 8514/A driver that comes with OS/2 2.0.  The monitor you
list is quite nice according to reports I've heard.  The processor is
plenty fast, the RAM supply is quite comfortable, and the hard disk
space is ample -- a nice system.

I have no experience or impressions, pro or con, with Standard,
however.

See if they'll credit against the price if you delete the software --
or, if possible, see if they'll get you the OS/2 version of Lotus
1-2-3 or Paradox, for example.

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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: wcn@cs.brown.edu (Wen-Chun Ni)
Subject: Re: Some suggestions for OS/2
Organization: Brown University Department of Computer Science
Date: Wed, 2 Sep 1992 08:19:07 GMT


One thing I feel really annoying is the menu for WPS. It should be 
configurable rather than merely appendable.

The reason is that I often `touch'  the *Arrange* item every other
days due to a lousy Microsoft mouse. The entire desktop I 
deliberately designed thus turns into a mess. Any solution?




Wen-Chun Ni
From: djackson@axion.bt.co.uk (Dave Jackson)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: need os/2 bubble jet driver
Date: 28 Aug 92 08:25:25 GMT
Reply-To: djackson@axion.bt.co.uk (Dave Jackson)
Organization: British Telecom Research Labs


In article <5Xy3PB1w164w@sps.pgh.pa.us>,
kslater@sps.pgh.pa.us (Kevin J. Slater) writes:
|> zhao@unixg.ubc.ca (Jiansheng Zhao) writes:
|> 
|> > 
|> >  
|> > I need a Canon bubble jet printer driver badly, it's a
|> pain to settle for 
|> > LQ510 simulation. Please tell me if such a driver exists
|> and where
|> > I can find it. It's cerntainly not at ftp-os2.nmsu.edu.
|> > Thanks.
|> > -- 
|> > Jiansheng Zhao
|> > Dept. Chem. Eng, Univ. of B. C., Canada. V6T 1Z4
|> > zhao@unixg.ubc.ca
|> 
|> 
|> I've been attempting to use the Lexmark (IBM) 4072 Execjet
|> driver. It 
|> seems to be eating the first character of text files
|> dropped on the 
|> printer. I haven't fed it a graphics file yet. I have a
|> Star Starjet 
|> SJ-48 which can emulate a ProPrinter x24e, however, that
|> driver only 
|> supports 360x180 dpi output. (The printer, which is based
|> on the Canon 
|> bubble jet engine, can do 360x360 dpi.)
|> 
Strange,

I've got the 4072 Execjet driver, and it allows me 360x360. I
use a BJ10ex
and I've not lost characters from it yet in text mode -
graphics mode is
fine too.

The printer should be set to proprinter mode to use the
driver by the way.
Set the "line feed" option to 'none' on the driver.

The driver *is* at hobbes, in the downloads directory if my
memory serves me correctly (and it may well not do !)
filename os24072.exe.
It's also available from the Lexmark BBS (606-232-5653 in the
USA)


The win-os2 driver for the 4072 is on the printer drivers
disk number 3 in
your OS/2 package (3.5" disks).

The IBM4072 is a 'clone' of the Canon BJ300 incidentally.
There may be a new
driver from Lexmark soon as they have released a printer
based on the BJ20 -
the IBM 4070 - look out for that driver too.

David J Jackson   Telephone +44 473 645805
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From: gt3017a@prism.gatech.EDU (Guy Elden Jr.)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: OS/2 doesn't like my DOS files
Date: 2 Sep 92 02:32:17 GMT
Organization: Georgia Institute of Technology


  Well, I know this most likely has come up before, seeing as this group gets
tons of posts each day, but here goes anyhow...

   I just installed OS/2, and would like just this one obstacle cleared. For
some reason, which I don't know, I can't run any DOS or windows programs from
either a DOS window, full-screen, Win-OS/2 (starting from OS/2 desktop icon),
OS/2 sessions, or icons from within OS/2. It'll say something like sys0005, 
access denied for the DOS stuff, and in OS/2 windows, won't even read some
directories, like windows. 

   For the reading directories, it says extended attribute not set or
something like that, and stops. I am very frustrated, and can't seem to locate
(although I'm sure its out there somewhere) the answer to this problem.

help pleez!

oh, btw, I have OS/2 running on a Packard Bell 386/20SX, 10 meg ram, 85 meg
HD, all set up as DOS FAT, and almost completely installed (I didn't put in
fonts). 

thanks...

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From: pvonk@scott.skidmore.edu (Pierre VonKaenel)
Subject: Re: "Stuck" keys in OS/2
Organization: Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs NY, 12866
Date: Fri, 28 Aug 1992 18:23:01 GMT

In article <BALDWIN.92Aug28121209@csservera.scs.usna.navy.mil> baldwin@csservera.scs.usna.navy.mil (J.D. Baldwin) writes:
>Does anyone else have a "stuck" key problem in OS/2?  I've seen this happen
>in PM, OS/2 full screen, DOS full screen and various apps.  The system
>suddenly behaves as if one or more of Alt, Shift and/or Ctrl are being held
>down.  The keyboard is not sticking physically, and I am certainly not holding
>these keys down at the time.
>
Yes.... when using CrossTalk and typing away (usually when I start
typing very fast) everything goes to uppercase.  I can use Shift-A to
get lower case, but I can't get the digits back.  Usually I can C-x-c
and re-edit a file and things go back to normal (unix emacs at the
other end).  I'm using a model P70.



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From: x89coulter4@gw.wmich.edu
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Lockup/Alarm Bug
Date: 2 Sep 92 12:46:37 EST
Organization: Western Michigan University

Watch out for this little snag:

If you are using the Alarm applet under OS/2, I suggest you not use the
Lockup feature of OS/2 (or vice verca).  The "Lockup" screen was up on
my system when my Alarm went off.  The result was that I could neither
exit the lockup screen nor close the alarm box.

It appears as though the input focus is on the alarm applet, but is 
somehow checked along the way by the Lockup feature.

If you have a 'get-around' for this drop me a note. --Thanks.

-- James --
x89coulter4@gw.wmich.edu
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: db3l@ans.net (David Bolen)
Subject: Re: What is BookMaster ?
Date: Wed, 2 Sep 1992 02:00:03 GMT
Organization: Advanced Network & Services, Inc. - Elmsford, NY

In article <mark.715406880@snark> mark@snark.itc.gu.edu.au (Mark Hessling) writes:

>I have seen references to BookMaster in a couple of documents. What is
>it ? Is it a commercial IBM product or a utility ?

It's a commercial IBM product, although I believe only for large IBM systems.
Basically, it is a product layered on top of "Script", IBM's text formatting
system.  A large oversimplication is that Script provides a nuts and bolts
formatting system, while Bookmaster layers a structured document system on
top of Script, hiding the complexity.

This is the same sort of thing with TeX and LaTeX, troff and its macro
libraries, and other formatting systems.  (And is opposite to the approach
taken by Scribe and it's ilk (ie: Borland's Sprint) which starts as a high
level procedural formatter, but allows access to the nuts and bolts through
environment attributes).

Bookmaster is actually quite powerful.  Most (or all) of IBMs documentation is
now produced with it - including the books that came with OS/2, or the ones
(redbooks, technical library, etc..) that can be ordered.

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From: hank@ducvax.auburn.edu
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: <None>
Date: 27 Aug 92 13:04:06 GMT
Organization: Auburn University, AL

In article <1992Aug27.104549.10466@cco.caltech.edu>, nyet@cco.caltech.edu 
(n liu) writes:
> 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?)

Can't help with the trident stuff, but there is a program to mark these old
apps as WINDOWCOMPAT. Look on ftp-os2.nmsu.edu in pub/os2/1.x/. Somewhere
there is a program called 'tag' which works (although I did not test it 
specifically on the program you mention). tag is a PD version of Microsoft's
markexe, I believe.

However, in the case you describe, get the Info-ZIP stuff in
pub/downloads/Info-ZIP/. WARNING: Kai Uwe Rommel has posted a message about
extended attributes and the 32-bit zip program. Unzip and the 16-bit zip
are ok (?). If you want the earlier release, go to pub/os2/all/archivers/.
Don't get the earlier 32-bit unzip (there were some problems which I can't
recall).


> 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 seem to recall that someone said to either
  1. hold some button down during boot (sorry, can't quite remember)
or
  2. un-plug and re-plug the mouse after boot to force reset.

Be careful--I don't quite remember the recommendation.


> 
> 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.

There have been reports that the commga 2210 release causes some problems
in OS/2 sessions. Again, look for previous posts on this.

--darrel hankerson hank@ducvax.auburn.edu
From: dic5340@hertz.njit.edu (David Charlap)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: Two New OS/2 Books from Abacus
Date: 31 Aug 92 05:36:27 GMT
Organization: New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, N.J.

In article <1992Aug28.211512.9982@midway.uchicago.edu> sip1@midway.uchicago.edu writes:
>In article <1992Aug28.152313.28339@hemlock.cray.com> bgm@cray.com (Bert Moshier) writes:
>>P.S.  IBM "announced" last night at the MN OS/2 End-user Group meeting that
>>OS/2 sold 300,000 copies in the last 10 days.
>
>If that's true, OS/2 has now just about matched the pace of Windows
>3.1 sales.  That's incredible, if true.

It would explain a few things, though.  Like why video game stores
(like Games 'n' Gadgets) are now stocking a few token copies of OS/2,
when they swore on a stack of Windows cartons that they'd never sell
it ever.


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From: hamilton_b@kosmos.wcc.govt.nz
Subject: Re: OS/2 Win3.1 support *better* than MS!
Reply-To: hamilton_b@kosmos.wcc.govt.nz
Organization: Wellington City Council, Wgtn, NZ
Date: Sat, 29 Aug 1992 18:43:21 GMT

In article <1992Aug28.191056.9490@ludd.luth.se>, bjorn@ludd.luth.se (Bjorn Fahller) writes:
>
>Hehe. This does indeed raise an interesting question. Here, it's indeed fall
>now. No one can doubt it. Just take a look out the window and see the endless
>rain and the coloured leafs. In October, or at the latest, November, it's
>absolutely winter. So when will it come? And what about Steve Withers, and
>his fellow New-Zealanders? When's fall there? April or something?

Sorry, here in NZ "fall" does not exist. We have "Autumn" :-)
March - May would be probably be considered " Autumn "
 
>I'm sorry. Just being in a silly mood for the moment...
>   _
>/Bjorn.

Bruce Hamilton      Hamilton_B@kosmos.wcc.govt.nz

Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: mig@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Meir I Green)
Subject: Re: DOS VDM can't see new file in A:
Reply-To: mig@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Meir I Green)
Organization: Columbia University, New York
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1992 03:35:32 GMT

In article <1992Aug27.011937.15884@nuscc.nus.sg> eletanjm@nuscc.nus.sg (TAN JIN MENG) writes:
>mig@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Meir I Green) writes:
>: Is there any way to "boot DOS on drive B" instead of A?
>: Is this a limitation which is in OS/2 or in the hardware?
>: 
>: I don't mean boot DOS, I mean boot a virtual machine from that disk's boot
>: sector!
>
>I haven't tried it out but can't you simply modify the "DOS STARTUP
>DRIVE" in the settings notebook?

Exactly what I thought!  OS/2 pops up a message that "The parameter is
incorrect!"  Real informative.  I pressed F1 and, guess what help is lacking
in: tips about DOS settings!  I hope this improves in the CSD, if it is ever
released.

Incidentally, it is nice of IBM to let us try out their beta
patches, but can the betas be separated from the final patches on the
FTP sites?  Maybe there could be a separate directory for beta patches, so
we know what we are getting into---especially for the patches that we are
*not* supposed to apply unless we are having specific problems :-)

I guess we had better treat all the patches as alpha anyway, as long as
they patch the OS/2 2.0 GA *beta* :-)

Sorry, I guess it just seemed like poetic justice when running the syslog
program reproducably traps and *crashes* the system, when it is supposed
to help diagnose system problems, not create them!  Anybody else run syslog
and have it crash...anybody else run syslog, or is that something that noone
runs :-)  If it hurts, don't do it, right?

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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: jokim@jarthur.claremont.edu (John H. Kim)
Subject: Re: Background JPEGs?
Organization: Harvey Mudd College, Claremont, CA 91711
Date: Sat, 29 Aug 1992 15:22:04 GMT

FAGER@gribb.hsr.no (Fagerland, Svein      94/96) writes:

>Are there any PM jpeg viewers for OS/2. Are there any JPEG viewers for DOS ?

There's a DOS JPEG viewer called FullView and it seems to be pretty
decent.  I don't know where to get it.  Ask on alt.binaries.pictures.*
or alt.graphics.pixutils.

>I have just seen a Windows version that crashes all the time.

I'll second that.
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From: robert.fielder@canrem.com (robert fielder)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: uart chip with os/2
Date: 2 Sep 92 00:47:57 GMT
Reply-To: "robert fielder" <robert.fielder@canrem.com>
Distribution: comp
Organization: Canada Remote Systems


RS>I was wondering if anyone has experimented with the new UART chip under
RS>OS/2.  Since it is system architechture, it shouldn't generate any
RS>problems.  I am more interested if the chip shows any performance
RS>advantages over the older chip.  Also, could someone tell me who the
RS>manufacturer is and the proper part number?

Ra:

What new UART chip?

If you are refering to the NS16550AFN, then it is nothing new, I have
been using a couple for several years.

Both OS/2 1.3 and 2.0 recognize and use the 16550 chips.  They really
help.

Robert

Entered on Sun  08-30-1992  22:56:55 from Brampton, Ontario, Canada
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From: unruh@physics.ubc.ca (William Unruh)
Subject: Sorry about the Cross posts
Summary: sorry about the cross posts
Keywords: cross posts, apology
Organization: University of British Columbia, Vancouver, B.C., Canada
Date: Sat, 29 Aug 1992 00:39:06 GMT

That will teaach me not to look at the Newsgoups on a reply. That stupid
thread on IBM and the Stone Age was cross posted to every OS2
group, and double posted to
os2.misc Sorry for wasting everyones diskspace/time (And PLEASE
posters,refrain from cross posting to every os2 group most of us read
most of them anyway).
Bill unruh
unruh@phsyics.ubc.ca
From: "roger ramsey" <roger.ramsey@canrem.com>
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: windows 3.1 support
Date: 2 Sep 92 14:48:08 EST
Reply-To: "roger ramsey" <roger.ramsey@canrem.com>
Distribution: comp
Organization: Canada Remote Systems

Jay Maynard wrote on 09-01-92 regarding WINDOWS 3.1 SUPPORT:

JM>>In other words: a better Windows than Windows.
JM>
JM>...but then, we knew that already.

...to anyone but a real Windows user.

Roj

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From: thompson@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: How can I run 123 3.1 in emulated DOS?
Date: 26 Aug 92 21:29:47 GMT
Organization: University of Kansas Academic Computing Services

Hello netters,

Has anyone been able to get 123 3.1 (for DOS) running in emulated
DOS in OS/2?  I can't.  I think that a setting just needs to be changed
but I can't figure out which one.  I need to run 123 3.1 in the 
background--and Windows 3.1 won't do it.  I got it to work in a
DOS from A: session in OS/2, but I would rather use emulated DOS.
Any ideas?

Thanks,

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From: jbodnar@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (John Bodnar)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: OS/2 SVGA (Still) troubles
Date: 23 Aug 92 10:50:11 GMT
Reply-To: jbodnar@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (John Bodnar)
Organization: The University of Texas at Austin, Austin TX

According to X049BC@tamvm1.tamu.edu:
>Well, here goes: I have a NICE chipset (brand, not opinion ;> ) '486, 64KB
>cache, 16MB RAM, Trident 8900 SVGA w/1MB, 100MB IDE, 200MB IDE, and am
>getting the Olde DOS Swap Video Garbage Problem. I tried the VSVGA.SYS,
>etc. video fix, but to no avail. Per the FAQ list, I have tried setting
>RETRACE_EM to "off", NOTIFY_MODE to "on", and still no help. Can anyone
>help me puzzle this out?

I'm going to guess that you're getting garbage when you start up a DOS box.
This is what I did to fix garbage problems I was getting when starting a
WIN-OS/2 full screen session.  This may or may not help you in some way.

You essentially need a way to set a high resolution video mode when you
enter a DOS box.  Your VGA card may come with a VMODE utility that lets you
do this.  My ATI card doesn't have one, so I used VPIC to load a high
resolution image in my AUTOEXEC.BAT.  It works like this...

1) Make the last line of your AUTOEXEC.BAT something like this...

vpic /a /r c:\vga\circuit.gif

This loads and 800 x 600 image on screen and then leaves it there upon
exiting.

2) Make sure you've done SVGA ON.  If you haven't done it, do it right
after entering this DOS box.  Exit, then shutdown.

Whenever I start a full screen WIN-OS/2 session at 800 x 600, I no longer
getting video garbage problems on start up or when switching between
sessions.  This is a really strange fix, but it works.

Ideally, I would guess that OS/2 needs a DOS setting to lock a DOS box into
a particular video mode.
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From: klliou@milton.u.washington.edu (Kan-Lee Liou)
Subject: Re: left-hand mouse
Organization: University of Washington
Date: Sat, 29 Aug 1992 07:44:26 GMT

kristine@cats.ucsc.edu (chfn) writes:



>Open up a windows full screen session.  Go into the control panel and setup
>the mouse to swap buttons there.

I did, but when I open an application in Windows Programs folder, the
mouse becomes right-handed.

Kan-Lee, klliou@u.washington.edu
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