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From: ychung@leibniz.uwaterloo.ca (Young Chung)
Subject: Re: POV ray 1.0 (DOS) under OS/2
Organization: University of Waterloo
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1992 16:49:53 GMT

In article <1992Jul29.031020.16028@sol.UVic.CA> gwebster@ugly.UVic.CA (This space for rent) writes:
>In article <Bs3z3J.B37@undergrad.math.waterloo.edu> ychung@laplace.uwaterloo.ca (Young Chung) writes:
>>In article <1992Jul28.061954.8122@sol.UVic.CA> gwebster@ugly.UVic.CA (This space for rent) writes:
>>>In article <1992Jul27.144730.24096@dragon.acadiau.ca> 890560p@dragon.acadiau.ca (Trevor Porter) writes:
>>>>
>>>>I was wondering if anyone else has tried running POV ray 1.0 from a DOS
>>>>session under OS/2 (without a math co-processor) without problems.  
>>>>
>>>>OS/2 gives a "trying to execute a NFX instruction and NFX processor
>>>>does not exist" error (or something like this) .
>>>>
>>>>The program works fine under DOS without a math co-pro. Am I doing something
>>>>wrong?
>>>>
>>>
>>>I ran into the same problem, and have not been able to get the program to work.
>>>
>>>I have the coprocessor emulation enabled (the line in my config.sys file
>>>reads DEVICE=C:\OS2\MDOS\VNPX.SYS) 
>>>
>>
>>
>>Are you sure VNPX.SYS is a coprocessor emulator?  I tried it and it gives
>>me the error even before it loads up the PoVRay exec.
>>Even a separate 387 emulator doesn't help even though sysinfo says I have
>>387 installed.
>
>I searched the help file on VNPX, and it calls it a Numeric Processor Extension
>(80387). Sounds like a co-pro emulator to me, but it doesn't seem to work. 
>Maybe I am using it wrong?
>

Notice the word "Extension", I don't think that a 387 emulator can fit in a
file about 3K in size.  Even if I consider the theory that VNPX.SYS might
use EMULNPX.DLL, is this possible?  I mean a DOS device driver using OS/2 DLL?


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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: stoen@katana.pcpd.hou.compaq.com (Rick Stoen)
Subject: Re: Forbidding extended attributes on FAT drive?
Keywords: extended attributes, FAT
Organization: Compaq Computer Corporation
Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1992 18:49:44 GMT

In article <1992Jul22.155530.3181@midway.uchicago.edu>, sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu (Timothy F. Sipples) writes:
|> In article <250@zam103.zam.kfa-juelich.de> kiehl@ibt013.ibt.kfa-juelich.de (Horst Kiehl) writes:
|> >Is there a way to forbid OS/2 to store extended attributes on a FAT drive?
|> 
|> No.
|> 

Does anyone know what happens with NFS mounted drives? Is the IFS
written in such a way that it prevents you from doing anything that
would require creating an extended attribute? Would this mean that
there are some kinds of files you can't have on an NFS drive because
they absolutely require extended attributes?

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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: bowman@saguaro.cs.psu.edu (Mic Bowman)
Subject: Speedstar redisplay
Organization: Penn State Computer Science
Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1992 18:31:15 GMT

I've got a problem: whenever I switch between full-screen windows
sessions and the wps, the display is not refreshed.  In fact, neither
display is refreshed appropriately.  I'm using the new Orchid 1024x768
256 color PM display driver and the 1/15/92?? release of the Tseng
1024x768 Windows driver (and the May vsvga).  I've tried to set the flag
for window refresh on focus, but then my mouse cursor disappears on the
Windows scree :-(.  SVGA is ON.

Anyway, I think I've tried almost every "sensible" combination of values
without much luck.  Does anyone have any ideas?

--Mic

PS: please email responses, this group is too busy to follow any more

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Mic Bowman                                Computer Science Department
bowman@cs.psu.edu                         Penn State University
(814) 865-1406                            University Park, PA 16802-6103
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From: rstanton@garnet.berkeley.edu (Richard Stanton)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: specific dos and mem
Date: 24 Jul 1992 22:07:54 GMT
Organization: Haas School of Business, U.C. Berkeley
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: connor.berkeley.edu

>In article <1992Jul21.1480.22689@dosgate> "kenneth tam" 
><kenneth.tam@canrem.com> writes:
>>Both claim that replacing HIMEM.SYS and EMM386.EXE or their equivalents
>>with OS2\MDOS\HIMEM.SYS and EMM.SYS will work.  
>>
>>They don't, at least for me.  This is off a DOS 5.00 VMDISK image,

Another possibility. I don't know if this applies with specific DOS 
sessions, but I had trouble for a long time seeing any EMS memory, even 
though I had specified 2 MB in my DOS settings. It turned out that I had
too many claimants on the memory between C0000-DFFFF to allow a 64k vlock 
for the EMS page frame. Rearranging memory, and using INCLUDE and 
EXCLUDE_REGION settings helped in the end.

Richard Stanton
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu (Timothy F. Sipples)
Subject: Re: Desktop Recovery Procedure [ALT-F1]
Keywords: Desktop, ALT-F1
Reply-To: sip1@midway.uchicago.edu
Organization: Dept. of Econ., Univ. of Chicago
Distribution: na
Date: Sat, 25 Jul 1992 00:44:38 GMT

In article <1992Jul24.140423.16089@thinkage.on.ca> kadorken@thinkage.on.ca (Keith Dorken) writes:
>OS/2 Support indicated they were currently unaware of any method to recover
>the Desktop once you have taken the ALT-F1 route.

I am afraid they are correct.  I am told that IBM will have a "Save
Desktop/Restore Desktop" pair of options from the desktop menu in the
next release (possibly this September update).

-- 
Get the OS/2 FREQ. ASKED QUESTIONS LIST | Timothy F. Sipples
from 128.123.35.151, anonymous ftp,     | Internet: sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu
directory pub/os2/all/faq, or from      | Dept. of Econ., U. Chicago, 60637
LISTSERV@BLEKUL11.BITNET (send "HELP"). | Tsongas > Perot > Clinton.  Yay.
Date: Wed, 22 Jul 92 17:55:00 +0200
From: Hauke_Hess@p4.f302.n242.z2.fidonet.org (Hauke Hess)
Subject: Searching OS2 damn online manuals?!?! OS/2 Quality success?!?!?!
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
X-Comment-To: (Eric W Sarjeant)
Organization: I'm too sexy for this origin 

 >>2) Anyone can tell me how to make the help file into a good old TEXT file
 >>   so I can use a RELIABLE search command on it? (like you know, simple
 >>   text editor commands?)

Try the following: configure a teletype printer (or something close to it) on 
your WPS, select "print all pages" in the VIEW Window and print to a file. Than 
you should be able to remove all the ESC Sequences really fast.

Hauke

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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: edg@Ingres.COM (Ed Goldman)
Subject: Re: Question: Using bitmaps for Background/Lockup
Reply-To: edg@Ingres.COM (Ed Goldman)
Organization: Ask Computer Systems Inc., Ingres Division, Alameda CA 94501
Date: 22 Jul 92 18:46:26 GMT

In article <1992Jul22.162831.5880@usenet.ins.cwru.edu> dab6@po.CWRU.Edu (Douglas A. Bell) writes:
>In a previous article, edg@Ingres.COM ( I ) say:
>>Hi all,
>>
>>I got some gif files and converted them to os/2 bitmaps using a conversion
>>utility, gif2bmp which I got from GEnie.  [...]

>
>From what I understand, not all bmp's are created equal.
>There are windows bmp's and OS/2 bmp's.  Some windows bmp's
>will work under os/2 & vice versa.  But not all

Hmmm.  In case I wasn't clear in my original post, the gif2bmp utility is
supposed to create OS/2 bmps, NOT windows bmps.  That it does so is clearly
verified by the vpic viewer util I use which displays the bmp just fine and
says it's of type: OS/2 PM Bitmap.  Still and all, I can't get it displayed
correctly on the desktop background.

-edg-
From: dic5340@hertz.njit.edu (David Charlap)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: some gripes about OS/2 2.0
Date: 24 Jul 92 18:29:34 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, N.J.

In article <1992Jul23.082927.147019@zeus.calpoly.edu> jemenake@zeus.calpoly.edu (Joe Emenaker) writes:
>widow@camelot.bradley.edu (Shaun Burnett) writes:
>>bbrown@infonode.ingr.com (Bailey Brown) writes:
>>
>>>Why do I get this garbage that follows the mouse pointer around when I
>>>run Norton 5.0 file find in a windowed dos box?
>>
>>	Will setting the mouse_exlusive_access to ON help?
>>	(See only docs for more info. before setting).
>
>Actually, as soon as I observed this behavior, I knew what was happening
>and I immediately went to the config program and changed the seetings to
>NON-graphical mouse-pointer and windows (I'm talking about the Norton
>config program mind you).
>
>After that, the mouse cursor disappeared! To my delighted surprise, the
>invisible Norton mouse cursor now correspended with the OS/2 cursor
>(running in a window). So, I just clicked with the OS/2 cursor on buttons
>in a text program in a DOS window... and it worked great!

You might have also been able to do this by (instead) turbing on
MOUSE_EXCLUSIVE_ACCESS.  Doing this should get the following response:
The mouse pointer will remain stationary in the DOS box.  When you
click on the box, the OS/2 pointer will disappear and the DOS box
pointer will become active.  When you switch away from the DOS box
(with CTRL-ESC, or ALT-ESC), you'll get the OS/2 pointer back.

-- 
   |)  David Charlap           "I don't even represent myself
  /|_  dic5340@hertz.njit.edu   sometimes so NJIT is right out!.
 ((|,)
  ~|~  Hi! I am a .signature virus, copy me into your .signature file.
From: greenfie@gauss.rutgers.edu (Greenfie)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: Stupid (i.e. neat) CMD.EXE tricks
Date: 25 Jul 92 15:06:58 GMT
Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J.

In article <1992Jul25.142254.7192@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> smsmith@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Stephen M Smith) writes:

> sl31+@andrew.cmu.edu (Stephen M. Lacy) writes:
> 
> >    Point two: When working with windowed command shells, you can neatly 
> >    scroll around the window without using the scroll bars...
> 
> Can Windows 3.1 do this?
Who cares! This is exactly the attitude that makes people frown at OS/2
supporters. This is an OS/2 discussion. OS/2 can do this. It is a useful
thing to know. So what does it matter if windows can/can't do it?

Larry Greenfield
greenfie(ld)@gauss.rutgers.edu
        ^^^^ for better mailing, delete these characters
From: dic5340@hertz.njit.edu (David Charlap)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: no service after 1994 ?
Date: 29 Jul 92 15:30:39 GMT
Organization: New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, N.J.

In article <712307170snx@feki.toppoint.de> marten@feki.toppoint.de (Marten Feldtmann) writes:
>Well, what does this mean?
>
> Service expiration date :
>
> 4/30/94 No program services are available after this date
>
>One can read this on all packages of OS/2.

It means IBM is telling you when they plan to drop support for this
version of the product.  After 4/30/94, the will not offer additional
CSD's for problems, but they'll tell you to upgrade to the current
version. 


-- 
   |)  David Charlap           "I don't even represent myself
  /|_  dic5340@hertz.njit.edu   sometimes so NJIT is right out!.
 ((|,)
  ~|~  Hi! I am a .signature virus, copy me into your .signature file.
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: agriffin@mitre.org ((James) Artch Griffin(W20))
Subject: Re: Nowhere directory?
Organization: The MITRE Corporation
Date: Mon, 27 Jul 1992 13:24:48 GMT

In <2178771@overmind.citadel> po.CWRU.Edu!dab6@overmind.mind.org writes:


>Has anyone been able to figure out what the nowhere directory is for?

>Is there anyway to get rid of it?

You do not want to get rid of it if you ever plan to print.

The EAs associated with this directory deal with your printer (and
plotter, if you have installed drivers and queue managers).

As a demonstration - Children DO NOT TRY THIS WITHOUT ADULT
SUPERVISION!!

Select and MB2 your printer icon. This gives you the pop-up menu.
MB1 on the DELETE option.  Look at the information in the
delete-conformation dialog box (you still have delete conformation
active don't you?)  Select cancel.

Before you do this demonstration, you may wish to readup on installing
printer drivers. ;-)

Happy OS/2ing it.

Artch
From: sjb5@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu (STACY JOHN BEHRENS)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: Impressions of Windows NT
Date: 29 Jul 92 03:20:17 GMT
Organization: Lehigh University

In article <kDZmoB2w165w@comtch.spk.wa.us>, mstaben@comtch.spk.wa.us (Matthew St
aben) writes:
>dhinds@leland.Stanford.EDU (David Hinds) writes:
>
>> In article <9207281653.AA18391@enet-gw.pa.dec.com> reisert@mast.enet.dec.com
>> >
>> >>Further, since NT is 32-bit, users won't be able to address all of their
>> >>memory (physical + disk swap, the R4000 is a 64 bit chip because 32-bits
>> >>isn't enough address space).
>> >
>> >Wrong.  The R4000 is a 32-bit chip.  NT is 32 bits now, and has hooks
>> >for 64-bit support.
>>
>> Actually, the R4000 is a 64-bit chip.
>>
>>         - David Hinds
>>           dhinds@allegro.stanford.edu
>
>
>So?  Who's right?
>
>
>mstaben@comtch.spk.wa.us  _or_  mstaben@visual.spk.wa.us
>
>
The MIPS R4000 *IS* a 64 bit chip.  It is one of the very few 64-bit
microprocessors on the general market right now.  Of course this will change,
but the chip is 64-bits.

                                                Stacy John Behrens
                                                *===)-------------

                                                
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: jdecarlo@mitre.org (John DeCarlo)
Subject: Re: specific dos and mem
Organization: MITRE Corporation, McLean  VA
Distribution: comp
Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1992 18:43:12 GMT

In article <1992Jul21.1480.22689@dosgate>
 kenneth.tam@canrem.com (kenneth tam) writes:

>Both claim that replacing HIMEM.SYS and EMM386.EXE or their equivalents
>with OS2\MDOS\HIMEM.SYS and EMM.SYS will work.  

>They don't, at least for me.  This is off a DOS 5.00 VMDISK image,

>I've got FSFILTER installed, so that isn't it.  It actually reports
>loading in the two OS/2 mem drivers, but the MEM command shows only
>conventional...

>The mouse works though.

Hmmm, I have a Boot from A: image with DOS loaded high and the SONY_CDU.SYS 
driver loaded high using UMBs (for my CD-ROM).  I don't remember what 
DOS_SETTINGS I fiddled with, though, because I did need to to get things to 
work.

John DeCarlo, MITRE Corporation, McLean, VA--My views are my own
Fidonet:  1:109/131  Internet:  jdecarlo@mitre.org
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: amadeus@opal.cs.tu-berlin.de (Axel Richrath)
Subject: COM3, COM4
Organization: Techn. University of Berlin, Germany
Distribution: fb20
Date: Mon, 27 Jul 1992 22:38:10 GMT

hello!

i have tried to install additional COM3 and COM4. 
1) i jumpered the card so that trhe printer port of the new card is
disabled, and also i disabled the second COM-port (COM2/4)
2) i jumpered the first COM-port to be COM3
3) i selected interrupt 5 for this new COM3. i thought i could do this, coz
i disabled the printer-port that was LPT2 before and used interrupt 5
4) i booted with a DOS-disk running checkit and it said, that i exactly
have the configration i wanted to have (COM1=int4, COM2=int3, COM3=int5,
LPT1=int7)
5) then i booted OS/2 with the following lines in CONFIG.SYS:
	DEVICE=C:\OS2\COM.SYS (3,3E8,5)
	DEVICE=C:\OS2\MDOS\VCOM.SYS (3,3E8,5)
6) i connected an old cume-terminal to COM3 and tried to access it with a
selfmade term-prg (that worked with COM2 already!) - nothing happened
7) i connected a modem to COM3 without accessing COM3 with any program -
the TR-led on the modem went on
8) i did the same than in 6) ;), connected the modem to COM2 again (where
normally is connected) and started te/2 - the result was, that OS/2 told me
that i cant access COM2 coz it doesnt function :O
9) i shut down the process accessing COM3 and restarted te/2 at COM2 - it
worked... :I

this is a long and sad history - the question is - has anybody a clue where
my mistake could be???

greetings... axel


ps: the description of the io-card's jumpers was wrong - i tried all
possible combinations as long as i got the right messages from checkit.
when i started checkit from OS/2 it showed a different interrupt assignment
- but i assume that OS/2 internally maps the interrupts, or what? :)
and surely checkit isnt made for OS/2 - so after showing me this different
assignment it completely crashed :)
From: apas611@chpc.utexas.edu (David Boles)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: Impressions of Windows NT
Date: 28 Jul 92 19:50:00 GMT
Organization: The University of Texas System - CHPC

Sorry, I meant that Citrix was working on a multi-user character-mode
version of NT, not just a character mode version.

My apologies,

David Boles
Applied Research Labs
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: msmith@netcom.com (Martin P. Smith)
Subject: Re: fax modems
Date: Mon, 27 Jul 92 00:25:51 GMT
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  (408 241-9760 guest) 
Distribution: comp.os.os2.misc

In article <9207261553.AA13006@jed.cs.nyu.edu> m-lp9966@JED.CS.NYU.EDU (Lewis Perin) writes:
>Like everything else with no moving parts, fax modems have been
>getting very cheap lately.  While I don't often need to send images
>over the wire, the prospect of sending and receiving text at 9600 baud
>makes me want to junk my old 2400 baud modem and get one of the things
>I see advertised these days.  Since I don't want to foreclose the
>possibility of ever doing fax, can anyone tell me if any of the fax
>modems on the market today with text speeds >= 9600 are OS/2
>compatible?
>
>Thanks, Lew

It is not really the modem / Fax modem that you need to worry about it is the 
software that comes with it.  One of the most ppular pieces of bundeled software
( by popular I mean most regularly seen ) is QL2FAX. This dosen't seem to like 
working with OS/2.

I junked my copy and payed for BitFax for OS/2. This software works very well 
and I can recommend it highly. I have no association with either bit software 
who publish this product OR the Keller group who actually wrote it. The other
OS/2 product commonly used is PMFAX which is the same product with drivers for a
few more boards and a $50 higher price tag. 


MArtin Smith
msmith@netcom.com
From: cvadrtbc@vmsb.is.csupomona.edu (Srikanth Viswanathan)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re:  Dvorak switches to OS/2!!
Date: 28 Jul 92 23:14:00 GMT
Organization: California Polytechnic University, Pomona
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41
X-Posted-From: vmsb.is.csupomona.edu
X-Posted-Through: sol.ctr.columbia.edu

In article <heinz.02pw@edohwg.UUCP>, heinz@edohwg.UUCP (Heinz Wrobel) writes...
>In article <26JUL199219020957@vmsb.is.csupomona.edu> cvadrtbc@vmsb.is.csupomona.edu (Srikanth Viswanathan) writes:
>>As much as I liked the article, I wasn't so pleased with Dvorak's
>>statement that you need a 386/33 or 40 with 8-16 megs of RAM *minimum*
>>to run OS/2, and he also implied that Tseng cards don't work with OS/2.
> 
>IMHO you need at least 8MB to get something done with OS/2 but that's
>debatable. He's right with most ET4000 boards, though. With the OS/2
>package I can buy at any store, I eventually get nice flashy fireworks with
>my ET4000. Poor B.J. user won't be able to get patches and updates easily.
>It took me almost three weeks to get my OS/2 package running just becuase I
>couldn't get a hold of a driver update...

You do have a point about the regular users not havign the facilities to
get the patches, but I still think that his statement about NEEDING a
386/33 is off base.  I guess I should be happy that OS/2 is getting some
postiive press though!

Srikanth  
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: cvadrtbc@vmsa.is.csupomona.edu (Srikanth Viswanathan)
Subject: Did OS/2 save me from the Joshi virus??
Organization: California Polytechnic University, Pomona
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41    
Date: Fri, 31 Jul 1992 06:09:00 GMT
X-Posted-From: vmsa.is.csupomona.edu
X-Posted-Through: sol.ctr.columbia.edu

I got the shock of my life today when I tried to access my floppy drives
from OS/2 after dual booting from DOS,  I got a SYS0045 error meaning that
the Sector was not found, but the odd thing is that the drive wasn't even
accessed (no light).  Thinking it was an OS/2 problem, I tried BOOT /DOS
and drive A started acting funny.  I loaded up MSD.EXE and found out that
the drives were being recognized as 360k drives!  I checked my CMOS and
it was correctly configured.  Finally, I tried running a virus checker.
Bingo!  I had the Joshi virus on the partition table, apparently, I had
gotten the virus from my college computer where I had ftped some stuff.
After cleaning out the partition table, everything's back to normal.

Fortunately, I was in OS/2, otherwise, the partition table might
have been destroyed.  BTW, in case you are wondering, I got the
virus when I was in DOS (dual boot).  I have a whole new respect
for OS/2 after this experience.

Now, the question, why did I get a SYS0045 error?  Is it because
Joshi tried to "redefine" the floppy drive settings and OS/2 didn't
like that?  It apparently succeeded under DOS as evidenced by the
MSD report.

Srikanth
From: mek4@prodigal.psych.rochester.edu (Mark Kern)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: Does 800x600x256 on the VGA part of a Graphics Ultra work under OS/2?
Date: 27 Jul 92 04:16:31 GMT
Organization: University of Rochester - Rochester, New York

I'm interested in buying a Graphics Vantage w/ VGA pass through to my
Diamond Speedstar.  Will this work in 800x600x256 under my already
installed OS/2 2.0?  By work, I mean if it is possible for me to switch
to a full screen DOS session of a game and still have the game access VGA
without problems.  Is the ATI that much faster for OS/2?  Or will my
performance be better improved by going to a 486 (I have a 386-33) or
by getting more than 8 megs RAM?  I just want my Window apps (Draw, etc.)
to have a faster refresh time and for my OS/2 windows to be snappier.

Markus
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc