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From: sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu (Timothy F. Sipples)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: 1280x1024 OS/2 2.0 Video Card (& driver)
Date: 30 Jul 92 16:32:12 GMT
Article-I.D.: midway.1992Jul30.163212.4758
Reply-To: sip1@midway.uchicago.edu
Distribution: comp.os.os2.misc
Organization: Dept. of Econ., Univ. of Chicago

In article <TAU.92Jul29222253@EOS-5.mit.edu> tau@athena.mit.edu (Frank D Chamberland) writes:
>I think this question may be a little premature (it never matured for
>OS/2 1.x), but does any one know if the following video card exists:
>1280x1024
>color (4-bit color is good enough)
>non-interlaced
>ISA bus
>RGB(+(h/v)sync) output (failing that I think I can get an adapter cable)
>***  OS/2 2.0 drivers  ***
>$500 price range

I would look to the XGA clones that are supposedly just around the
corner.  STB, Genoa, and a couple other companies are supposed to have
them available.  You might want to contact these companies to see what
they have planned.

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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: joker@diku.dk (Morten Christian Holmgreen)
Subject: PMTAPE 2.01 partno???
Date: Tue, 21 Jul 1992 21:34:32 GMT
Organization: Department of Computer Science, U of Copenhagen

Hi there...

I'm using PMTAPE 2.0 and having trouble updating it to version 2.01
here in Denmark, so if any of you are using v. 2.01, could you
please e-mail me the partno., since it would help A LOT...

Thanks............

Christian
-- 
M. Christian Holmgreen / joker@diku.dk / mochmch@uts.uni-c.dk
student, University of Copenhagen, Dept. of Computer Science
"Human errors can only be avoided if one can avoid the use of humans"
Organization: Queen's University at Kingston
Date: Sunday, 26 Jul 1992 17:23:58 EDT
From: Jim Gerlach <GERLACHJ@QUCDN.QueensU.CA>
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: RAM disks in DOS sessions
 <exujlg.115.0@exu.ericsson.se> <1992Jul25.004255.3347@midway.uchicago.edu>

It looks like adding a RAM disk to a DOS session may not be a simple
proposition. As Mike Ressler suggested it is possible to create RAM disks for
the entire OS/2 session by including the appropriate command in the OS/2
config.sys file. Howver, with ONLY :-) 8 Mb of RAM I'd rather not lose the 1.5
Mb of RAM I would need for a RAM disk. Timothy F. Sipples's suggestion of
starting a specific DOS session looks as if it would solve the problem but
seems like it might be more trouble than it's worth.

To explain the problem a little more... Systat and Sygraph use temporary files
during computations and normally write these files to disk, hence a RAM disk
can speed up these temporary files. It is obvious that this is a problem of
this particular DOS application and would not be a problem in an OS/2 app.
Thanx to those who replied. Any other suggestions?

Jim

Jim Gerlach - Cancer Research Laboratories
James.H.Gerlach@QueensU.CA                    Queen's University
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tel (613) 545-6446                            Kingston, Ontario
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From: ted@isgtec.com (Ted Richards)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: WINOS2 loses mouse pointer
Date: 29 Jul 92 12:29:31 GMT
Organization: ISG Technologies Inc. Mississauga Ont. Canada
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL4

jah@cc.tut.fi (Ahonen Jari) writes:
: 
:   I'm not sure if this thing is in some FAQ but I have following problem:
: If I start WINOS2 full screen, go to the WPS and then back to WINOS2,
: the mouse pointer disappears. It does function (I can get things selected
: with mouse) and in WPS it works OK.
: I'm using Trident 800x600 seamless drivers, maybe the bug is in them.
:   If anyone knows what to do, please drop me some mail.
: System: 486/33,8M memory,240M IDE,Trident 8900c,AMI BIOS

I had the same problem with an ATI Wonder XL.  One thing that *may* fix
the problem is to change the DOS setting VIDEO_SWITCH_NOTIFICATION.  If
it's OFF, set it ON; if it's ON, set it OFF.  This will either fix the
problem or *really* screw up your video when you switch back to the
WIN-OS2 session.  I also found that the problem happened with some
Windows drivers but not others, so try changing to a different
resolution or number of colours.

What finally fixed the problem for good was a new set of Windows 3.0
drivers that ATI just released.  Obviously that won't do you any good,
but you might mention to Trident that ATI fixed the problem by changing
their Windows drivers.

--
Ted Richards            ted@isgtec.com             [...!uunet.ca!isgtec!ted]
ISG Technologies Inc.   3030 Orlando Dr. Mississauga  Ont.  Canada   L4V 1S8
--
Ted Richards            ted@isgtec.com             [...!uunet.ca!isgtec!ted]
ISG Technologies Inc.   3030 Orlando Dr. Mississauga  Ont.  Canada   L4V 1S8
From: billr@iplmail.orl.mmc.com (Bill Richmond)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: Why do I get less hd space under HPFS than FAT??!?!
Date: 22 Jul 92 21:16:05 GMT
Organization: Martin Marietta

In article <1992Jul22.012601.18150@sdf.lonestar.org>, mo@sdf.lonestar.org (Mohit Goyal) writes:
|> Hello.  I have a question I hope someone can answer.
|> 
|> I have a 130meg Maxtor 7120A IDE hd.
|> 
|> It formats out to 129.9 megs under DOS 5 & FAT.
|> It formats out to 127.1 megs under OS/2 & HPFS.
|> 
|> Does anyone know why I lose 3 megs if I use HPFS?  I thought that
|> HPFS would give me more space than FAT because it uses smaller
|> sector sizes than FAT, or something like that. 
|> 
|> Please reply if you have an answer.  Thanks.
|> 
	It was the other way around for me. I "gained" like 2 megs by
using the HPFS...

Bill
From: jorgense@irisa.fr (Finn Jorgensen)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: Cache the swapfile?
Date: 21 Jul 92 17:46:20 GMT
Organization: Irisa, Rennes(FR)

Ulf Ruthberg writes:

> I think it is a good
> idea to cache the swap file since it is heavily used if you run your system
> hard (and who doesnt?).


To me, it hasn't got any sense to cache the swapfile.
The swapfile is used by OS/2 because of memory shortage. If you
have lots of RAM (16 Mb and up), there should be no use for a swapfile.
(in normal operation with a few applications running)
With only 4Mb, the swapfile is used to a point where things slow down
considerably.
Now, if you use up RAM to cache things, the swapfile will be used more.
OK, the swap is faster, but done much more, so globally, you slow down.

My advice is : if you have more than 8Mb of RAM, you may use a cache
for some files, but not SWAPPER.DAT. If you have less, dont cache at all
or use less than 512 Kb for the cache.

-- 
Finn Bo Jorgensen   Mail : jorgense@irisa.fr    Tel : 99 84 72 01
IFSIC, bureau TB122, Universite de Rennes
Campus de Beaulieu, 35042 RENNES CEDEX, FRANCE
From: sean@curry1.austin.ibm.com
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: some gripes about OS/2 2.0
Date: 23 Jul 92 17:56:59 GMT
Reply-To: curry@ausvmv.vnet.ibm.com
Organization: IBM Austin, TX


In article <62468@cup.portal.com>, ts@cup.portal.com (Tim W Smith) writes:
|> > >How the heck do I get more than one windowed DOS box running?  If I click
|> > >on the icon, it keeps popping up the one that's already running. 
Reminds me
|> > >of similar annoying behavior on the mac.
|> > 
|> > Go into the system icon and change the default action of what happens when
|> > you click on an icon that has already been opened.
|> 
|> This assumes that you like "click again to get another" behaviour.  If you
|> don't, you can make more icons to create DOS windows.  You can then easily
|> start multiple DOS windows, yet retain the "click on the icon to bring back
|> the window" behaviour.
|> 
|> --Tim Smith

Another option is to add items to your desktop popup menu to start OS/2 and/or
DOS windows.  This is nice if your desktop is already crowded.  (Although you
want to find a little desktop to bring up the menu  ;-)  ).

Sean
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: tselling@peabody.iusb.indiana.edu (Teresa Selling)
Subject: Re:  What does TRAP 000e mean?
Organization: Indiana University at South Bend
Date: Thu, 23 Jul 92 02:43:32 GMT

In article <1992Jul22.234448.6530@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu> tselling@peabody.iusb.indiana.edu (Teresa Selling) writes:
>I was happily typing along in TE/2 comm program when my system halted
>with a TRAP 0003.  What does that mean.  Perhaps I should mention
        ^^^^^^^^^ 
			typo should be TRAP 000e

>that I've not been able to download with TE/2.  I wind up using a dos
>comm package for that.
>Thanks.
>--
>Teresa Selling, IUSB, Indiana.
>


--
Teresa Selling, IUSB, Indiana.

Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: pvonk@scott.skidmore.edu (Pierre VonKaenel)
Subject: Re: Bernoulli Drivers--What Limitations in OS/2?
Organization: Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs NY, 12866
Date: Mon, 27 Jul 1992 19:21:46 GMT

In article <977@engcon.marshall.ltv.com> rodgers@engcon.UUCP (KMRODGERS) writes:
>  Initial rumors were that the drivers would be free 
>on Iomega's bulletin board and other forums, but latest is that Iomega will 
>charge $10-$20 plus media costs.  Nobody really knows. 

Can anyone shed light on this situation:  What if you use a real SCSI
card (like the Future domain SCSI-2) that is connected to a Bernoulli?
I assume that Bernoulli's drivers are for their *card*, not the box.
Is there a way for another SCSI card to use a Bernoulli and take
advantage of the HPFS mode as well as future Stacker support (which is
rumored in beta and can support Bernoulli - but again, is this only
with a Bernoulli card)?  As is, I think this combo of non-Iomega card
with a Bernoulli gives you a large floppy without these extra
capabilities.  Is this correct??????



-- 
Pierre von Kaenel	| Skidmore College	     | pvonk@scott.skidmore.edu
Math & CS Dept.		| Saratoga Springs, NY 12866 | (518)584-5000 Ext 2391
When asked his position on euthanasia, our local state rep. responded:
"I support youth all over the world."
From: mstaben@comtch.spk.wa.us (Matthew Staben)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: What happened to 'robust protected sessions'?
Date: 31 Jul 92 16:02:45 GMT
Organization: Waffle BBS at CompuTech Spokane, Washington

tedc@ee.ubc.ca (ted chen) writes:

> 
> I was recently using TE/2 to download a batch of files.  It had finished
> all but one, so I thought, "hey, I'll unzip the ones that are finished and
> take a look-see".  I open up a OS/2 windowed session, cd to the download   
> directory and do a dir.  As soon as I do this, the download aborts.  
> Hey!  I thought that each session was protected from each other.  I try it 
> again, just to make sure.  Yep, it aborts again.  
> 
> What happened to 'robust protected sessions'?
> 
> Ted

 
I do this all the time... and nothing happens.
 

mstaben@comtch.spk.wa.us
 
- A warning to anyone, still in command...
Organization: European Academic Research Network (EARN)
Date: Tuesday, 21 Jul 1992 09:15:03 GMT
From: Turgut Kalfaoglu <TURGUT@FRMOP11.BITNET>
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: OS/2 is Great! Thanks IBM
 <1992Jul16.210829.2914@scott.skidmore.edu>

Hear! Hear!

OS/2 is the best thing this PC has ever run! (and it has tried many things..)

Thanks IBM!   -turgut
From: rstanton@garnet.berkeley.edu (Richard Stanton)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: DOS window refuses to close (NOT a specific DOS session)
Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1992 21:50:32 GMT
Organization: Haas School of Business, U.C. Berkeley
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: connor.berkeley.edu

I recently tried to see if there was something on a floppy (3 1/2) disk.
It was in theory a DS, HD disk, but I think something went wrong with it at 
some stage (it was used as a PCTOOLS backup disk, and now cannot be 
formatted)

Anyway, I typed "DIR" from a DOS box, which just sat there forever, disk 
whirring. I couldn't kill the process (I tried closing the window and using 
KILLEM), and eventually rebooted. By the way, this was not from a specific 
DOS session - I know about the little program that closes these.

This seems like it should be rescuable, but it reminds me that I've had other
situations where DOS boxes just refuse to die. I double click and agree to 
lose all data, but they don't go away. I try using the KILLEM (I think 
that's its name), which says it's killed the process, but it's still there. 
I can't shut down, because the window refuses to go away.

Is this a common problem, and is there a known solution? It doesn;t happen 
all that often, usually after some sort of crash, but Ctrl-Alt-Del is the 
only solution I've found when it does occur

Richard Stanton			
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: gwebster@ugly.UVic.CA (This space for rent)
Subject: Re: New 32 Bit Fractint for OS/2 2.0 on Hobbes!!!
Organization: University of Victoria, Victoria, BC, Canada
Date: Fri, 31 Jul 92 06:03:35 GMT

In article <5545@umriscc.isc.umr.edu> johns@cs.umr.edu (John Stone) writes:
>
>   Hi there,
>I just downloaded the latest fractint for OS/2 from compuserve last night.
>I put the file at hobbes.nmsu.edu in the /pub/downloads.
>The moderator of the site seems to be gone or something, so it won't
>be in /pub/os2/new for while....
>
>It is called   pmfra2.zip and it is about 440k bytes in size.
>
>I tested it vs. the old pmfract, and it runs about 1.5 times faster
>than the old 16 bit version.  
>This is a 32 bit app, and only runs under OS/2 2.0
>

I download this OS/2 version and it looks great. One question: how do you get
colour palette to cycle? In the DOS version I have, I hit 'c'. I searched the
docs for this and came up with a brief mention of the '+' and '-' keys, but
neither of those seem to do anything.

Has anybody tried this?
-- 
________________________________________________________________________
| Gord Webster           | Be cool or be cast out - Rush               |
| University of Victoria | OS/2, it's curtains for Windows             |
| Victoria, B.C., Canada | Oxygen is for losers - Red Dwarf            |
Organization: The American University - University Computing Center
Date: Monday, 27 Jul 1992 12:27:34 EDT
From: <RICHARD@auvm.american.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: Dell offers OS/2 on its PCs
 <64428@hydra.gatech.EDU>

>has the Dell 450DE actually been tested by IBM?

I went two levels into customer service, but all I could find out was that
the 450DE was definitely not on the list, but the 433DE and 450SE were.
It's very suspicious since the 450DE has been out for a while.

Richard Edelman
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: dtl8v@holmes.acc.Virginia.EDU (Heraclitus)
Subject: Re: HPFS from DOS
Organization: University of Virginia
Date: Fri, 24 Jul 1992 16:54:10 GMT


  Actually, it seems to me that the FSFILTER.SYS is necessary to
access the boot drive (hard drive C:) in write mode regardless of
whether the drive is formatted in HPFS or DOS.  Will FSFILTER.SYS work
if I boot from a DOS floppy after re-formatting my hard drive for HPFS
so that I can access the data on the hard drive under a separate DOS
session, without loading OS/2 or using specific DOS sessions etc.?

Doug Lamb
dtl8v@Virginia.EDU
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: feustel@netcom.com (David Feustel)
Subject: Re: The Ultimate OS/2 FTP Source
Date: Thu, 23 Jul 92 03:26:27 GMT
Organization: DAFCO: OS/2 Software Support & Consulting



I just FTP'd to software.watson.ibm.com and I saw nothing that looked
like a patch to or replacement for DPMI.SYS. I'm having big-time
problems with Borland C++ v 3.1 in a dos box and would like to get the
DPMI.SYS fix in hopes that at least some of the problems will go
away.
-- 
Dave Feustel N9MYI <feustel@netcom.com>
---
What's the different between a Salem Witch Hunter and a modern day
Drug Warrior? - 3 centuries.
From: ucscb.UCSC.EDU!urbndv8@overmind.mind.org
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: 8514 & Scrambled/Clipped fonts
Date: 22 Jul 92 19:28:00 GMT
Organization: University of California; Santa Cruz
X-mailer: Stadel 3.4a-227
X-Spam-content: irrelevant


Problem:  change from VGA to 8514/A mode using Selective Install and then
all proportional fonts are mangled ... lose parts at the end, especially
in icon text, and some characters in some programs are mangled.

Tech Support at Boca helped me out ... it seems
Selective Install tries to change the font files when you go to an 8514,
but fails because of course they are in use.

So a complete reinstall will do the trick (and did) ... also, unpacking
the fonts whereever they are on the install disks and booting from floppy
and copying over should do it.

Don't forget a reinstall _will_ keep your old desktop in use, so a reinstall
might be simplest.

Dunno if this should go in bug lists and or the FAQ or not.

-- 
"The possessed's mad speech is the higher wisdom of the world, since it is 
human...Why have we not yet acquired this insight in relation to the world
of the free will?  Because outwardly we are the masters of madness, because
the insane are violated by us, and we hinder them from living according to
their ethical laws...Now we must endeavor to overcome the dead point in our
realtionship to insanity."       --Wieland Herzfelde, 1914
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: ced@APOLLO.HP.COM (Carl Davidson)
Subject: Re: OO File system (was re: os/2's som)
Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1992 15:58:47 GMT
Organization: Hewlett-Packard Company, Chelmsford, MA

In article <9207221528.AA15892@data.src.honeywell.com>, bergstro@src.honeywell.com (Pete Bergstrom) writes:
|> From: "stephen dawson" <stephen.dawson@canrem.com>
|> >"roger ramsey" <roger.ramsey@canrem.com>  writes
|> >
|> >>An object oriented file system provides considerably more than simple
|> >>Norton Desktop type functionality.  It provides things like directory
|> >>services and hooks for document management.
|> >Care to expand on what you mean by "directory services" and "hooks"?
|> 
|> An OO file system would allow a developer (at whatever level) to
|> insert an object that alters or supersedes the behavior of parts of an
|> existing file system.  This subclassing is actually used in
|> programming the behaviors of PM (and windoze) windows and dialogs.
|> 
|> One of the simplest uses of this would be to treat .zoo files as
|> directories, allowing the "dir" command to view a list of the
|> contents, "cd" into a .zoo file, apply "type" or "start" to a file
|> within, etc.
|>

Every once in a while I just can't resist the temptation to beat a dead
horse, so here goes...

The best example of an object-oriented file system I know of is the 
Apollo Domain file system. It does *precisely* what Pete describes, 
i.e. the I/O system knows how to determine the type of object you are 
operating on and calls the appropriate routines to operate on that 
object *automagically*. This facility is used, for example, to allow 
transparent access to the various versions (deltas) in a source code
management system without modification to existing tools. Editors,
compilers, and any other source manipulation tool you can think of
can access any version of a file through the normal naming scheme.

Another example of this is the "compress" file type that was introduced
in the latest release of Domain/OS. It does on-the-fly data compression
and de-compression.

The Domain file system allows users to add new file types and extend 
existing ones by adding new "type managers" to the system. New managers
can inherit operations from existing managers if desired.

As far as I know, no one has implemented the ".zoo" file type on Domain, 
but it could easily be done (no, I'm not volunteering).
 
|> >The WPS has features that I would describe by these terms. Maybe
|> >OS/2's System Object Module has more features than you realize. :-)
|> 

I think OS/2 is a great product (I run it on my PC at home) but it doesn't
begin to approach having a real object-oriented file system.

-- 
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Chelmsford System Software Lab | Microkernels: Where less is more.
The Hewlett-Packard Company    | 
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From: person@plains.NoDak.edu (Brett G Person )
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: cant shutdown my system
Date: 25 Jul 92 03:03:18 GMT
Article-I.D.: plains.19341
Organization: North Dakota State University, Fargo


When I try to shut-down os/2,i get the usual dialogs about shutting
down os/2 dos/os2 boxes etc. Then,  I am left with a non-closed
desktop. I.e. nothing happens.  Any ideas? 
thanks

-- 
Brett Person
Guest Account	
North Dakota State University
person@plains.nodak.edu || person@plains.bitnet
From: mmtl@hobson.cc.flinders.edu.au (T.Lampre)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: Speed OS/2 vrs. Windoze. sx slugs
Date: 23 Jul 92 00:55:09 GMT
Organization: Flinders University

In article <1992Jul21.221700.585@mala.bc.ca> bigras@mala.bc.ca writes:
>In article <6515150d@p4.f302.n242.z2.fidonet.org>, Hauke_Hess@p4.f302.n242.z2.fidonet.org (Hauke Hess) writes:
>>  > OS/2 is also showing poor performance on my 386SX 16 with 6 megs.
>>  > Using the 386test burn-in testing program in vanilla DOS 5 and OS/2
>>  > with a single, full-screen DOS window yielded the following:
>> 
>>  >             Calculations/sec (with turbo) | Calculations/sec (turbo off)
>>  > DOS 5      |          9980                |            6595
>>  > OS/2 2.0   |          1716                |            1469
>> 

Under what DOS settings? Is it getting accurate info from the clock?
These questions have been asked before but I still haven't seen any
answer.

[stuff deleted]

>> Noone noticed until now, and if you think a little longer about
>> your hardware configuration, you might notice that you used a 386SX,
>> that means: a 16Bit CPU.  Yes, 16Bit, try to imagine what happens if
>> you do a context switch on a 32Bit architecture that is emulated by a
>> 16Bit Bus. It really halves performance (if not more). And if OS/2
>> works in the background on the fly on a real 32Bit Bus, it crawls on
>> 16Bit. Try the same on a 386DX and post the benchmark once more.
>> Perhaps you will be surprised (perhaps we will be surpries, but I
>> don't believe in this)

I've had OS/2 running on 386sx/16 machines through to 486/50's and the
bus width makes little difference. I can't tell much difference
between the 386sx/16 and the 386dx/16 that I've tested.

>
>I use a 386/40 with 8mb / trident SVGA at home, bought just
>for 2.0  
>

Good setup.

>At work I use a 16MHz sx with 5mb and I run the HPFS.  The 
                               ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ 

This is what makes the difference. 5mb with HPFS? What was the
commandment? 'Thou shalt not run HPFS with less than 6mb of RAM'.
Actually I wouldn't run it with less than 8. (I wouldn't run OS/2 at
all with less than 8mb to be completely honest)

>speed to load something is ugly, but I just leave it running
>all the time {several weeks MTTReboot} and that helps
>a lot  as do the 720K multiple dos sessions I use for
>Novell network administration { multi servers multi windows }
>and the couple of connections to our VAX { through the net }
>that come in handy for mail and the internet.
>
>This system , slow though it is , is far more productive than
>win3.1 was on the system, and I don't think that 
>Windows_Next_Turkey will quite install on that system.
>
>So if you can't stand the speed of your sx slug just spend
>$300 and get a new 386/40 motherboard, it will transform
>your system.
>

Spend less on a few more meg of RAM. If you're still not happy then
you can always get a new motherboard later and the money on RAM won't
have been wasted.

Trevor Lampre
MIS Unit
Flinders University of South Australia
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc