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From: roelle@uars_mag.jhuapl.edu (Curtis Roelle)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: After OS2/2 Reinstallation, SYS005 Errors
Keywords: reinstall
Date: 18 Aug 92 17:57:35 GMT
Organization: Johns Hopkins University

I recently found it necessary to reinstall OS2 V2 on the following system:
	
	486/33 with 8MB RAM & 200MB IDE HD, AMI BIOS.

First, the original OS2 V2 was deinstalled by:

1. Removing these directories:  "OS2", "OS!2_2.0_D", "SPOOL", and "PSFONTS".

2. Deleting hidden files: "EA DATA. SF", "WP ROOT. SF", "OS2BOOT",
		 	  "OS2KRNL", and "OS2LDR".

3. Restoring AUTOEXEC.BAT and CONFIG.SYS files.

I reinstalled the DUAL BOOT configuration and have had 3 proplems ever
since:

1. Whenever I attempt to start a DOS application from a DOS WINDOW or
DOS FULL SCREEN I get the following error:

			SYS005  (some kind of protection error)

2. All icons for migrated MS Windows applications in the Windows folder
look alike -- like windows.  Although they were migrated from MSW 3.1,
and hence won't run, in my previous OS2 installation they maintained their
regular Windows icon appearance (e.g. Calc looked like a calculator).

3. When I try to run Windows applications that worked in the previous
OS2 installation (e.g. Clock), I get this error (related to 1. above?)

			DOS error 5
 
I would appreciate any advice, thank you.

Curt Roelle -- roelle@sigi.jhuapl.edu
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: jdowdal@wam.umd.edu (John Dowdal)
Subject: OS2SPEED.ZIP on ftp-os2
Originator: jdowdal@rac2.wam.umd.edu
Organization: University of Maryland at College Park
Date: Wed, 12 Aug 1992 19:39:34 GMT

The program os2speed.zip on ftp-os2.nmsu.edu in /pub/downloads will allow
Desqview-aware programs to run in OS/2 without slowing down the whole
system.  Using the comm program Boyan 5.0 and DSZ/GSZ Zmodem, OS/2 can
communicate without stopping everything else.  Boyan beats all of the
OS/2 programs by a long shot, but isn't as good as telix (it isn't 
Desqview-aware).

boyan can be found on wuarchive.wustl.edu in
/mirrors/msdos/modem/boyan5a.zip and boyan5b.zip
dsz and gsz can be found on wuarchive in
/mirrors/msdos/zmodem

John
From: George_Lin@mindlink.bc.ca (George Lin)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: OS/2 questions from Amiga user
Date: 21 Aug 92 01:26:00 GMT
Organization: MIND LINK! - British Columbia, Canada
Distribution: world

> Thomas Farmer writes:
> 
> For example, on my Amiga I can give task priorities to different
> tasks. For example, I normally run comms packages with a task priority
> of about 3, most other things with a priority of 0, and stuff like
> screen-savers and ray-tracers with a priority of -1 or lower.
> 
> What is the equivalent with OS/2? Does it use task priorities in the
> same way? Can you change them?

There is a shareware utility to do this.

> Another question : why is it necessary for OS/2 to load the various
> comms drivers and other such stuff from the config.sys? This means
> that whenever you want to change something, you have to reboot the
> machine. If you happen to be running TCP/IP, this takes a fair while.

As far as I know, you must reboot the machine.  But then again, once the
config.sys is set up properly, there shouldn't be a need to change it often.
IBM compatible hardware comes in many varieties.  Different drivers for
different devices.

On the Amiga, you have to MOUNT devices that don't auto-config.  Similarly,
once these drivers are loaded, a reboot is required to kill the old.

> Third question : Can I turn off mouse acceleration? I like highly
> geared, but linear, mouse movement.

Not that I know of.  Other than playing with the setting Setup mouse settings,
there are no other adjustments.

> Question : Are there any command shells which aren't just text windows
> in a box? I'm looking for something that is scalable and doesn't just
> use scrollbars to access the pre-defined area.

I haven't seen any.  The font size can be changed, but I know this is not what
you are looking for.

> Last question : Can I play Pinball Dreams under OS/2? :-)
> I'm looking forward to the next release.


No, but you can play WOLFENSTEIN-3D and FALCON3.
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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: dic5340@hertz.njit.edu (David Charlap)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: HELP!  HPFS makes me yawn!
Date: 19 Aug 92 20:12:00 GMT
Organization: New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, N.J.

In article <1992Aug18.215220.8218@news.columbia.edu> am66@cunixa.cc.columbia.edu (Alexander Maldutis) writes:
>Hi!  I just got myself a Quantum Pro 105.  It is the third HD in my system, and
>runs off of an Adaptec 1542B.  Since DOG can't handle more than two drives,
>I formatted this thing as HPFS, b/c it's pointless to make it FAT.  Now that
>I've copied some of my programs to E:, like 3dmaze, Quattro Pro 3 and some
>other stuff cluttering my C:, I've found that disk accesses take much 
>longer, like two or 3 times longer [for seeks] than under FAT.  Am I doing
>something wrong, or does HPFS have slow access but fast transfer?  I haven't
>noticed any real increase in transfer speed.
>
>Any help, pointers, CONFIG.SYS lines, etc will be most appreciated.

please post your "IFS=" line from the top of CONFIG.SYS.  Lazy writes
should be on, and you should have sufficient cache allocated for it.
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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: pv9955@albnyvms.bitnet
Subject: Video video video...
Reply-To: pv9955@albnyvms.bitnet
Organization: University of NY at Albany
Date: Mon, 17 Aug 92 15:03:06 GMT

Okay, one last time.  I know I posted this question a few times before.  
And I know others have posted similar questions.
But I would just like to know again, which video adapters people like for OS2.
I am very close to buying a new computer to run OS2.  I have narrowed my 
decision to one of two companies.
One company uses ET4000 (SpeedStar) adapters, and the other company uses 
ATI video cards.
I am told that IBM has a "fix" for the ATI Wonder.  And I know that a patch
is required if I use the ET4000 chipset.
My only other option is the ATI Ultra,but I don't think I can afford it.
I will have to choose between two of the best non-coprocessed cards available.
The decision of what card to buy will decide which company to buy from.
The company that uses ET4000 cards is a little cheaper, so I would like to
know if the money saved will be worth the headache in getting the ET4000
to work properly (with seamless Windows).  I know that IBM supports the
ATI Wonder, so I might opt for the easy way out, and spend the few extra 
dollars,  What do people say?
Also, if I go with the company with the ET4000 cards, they also have a 
local-bus ET4000 chip, for the same price as the SpeedStar.
Other than video adapters, the two companiesd use mostly the same exact 
components, and have the same service policies.

Please EMail responses to PV9955@ALBNYVMS.BITNET

Thanks again,
Peter
From: murrayk@prism.CS.ORST.EDU (the Dodger)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: TRAP 000d from TE/2 downloads...REPEATEDLY!
Date: 22 Aug 92 18:34:33 GMT
Article-I.D.: CS.1992Aug22.183433.356
Organization: Oregon State University, Computer Science Dept.

The last two nights I have been downloading while I sleep, and I awaken in
the morning to a text screen with that nice TRAP 000d message. It tells me
that it has encountered an internal processing error at ##0160:fff6453f-
000d:a53f. Then it lists 60000, 9084. Of course, there is a lot of register
information at the top but I didn't feel like copying it all down. I got
the TRAP 000d again after I rebooted the second time and tried to switch
to the TE/2 session that automatically came up. This is starting to get
frustrating. I have recently reinstalled OS/2, and maybe I missed a patch
that fixes this problem. But I have checked various text files and I think
I have applied all of the relevant ones.

I really could use some help here.

Thanks.

Keith

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Date: Wed, 12 Aug 92 12:51:41 MDT
From: earlyd@ee.byu.edu (David Early)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Distribution: world
Organization: Brigham Young University, Provo UT USA
Subject: Ascend for Windows



Got a problem:

I have a firend who is having problems running Ascend in a full screen
session AND running WordPerfect 5.1 in a DOS Window.

Anybody know how I might optimize Ascend??  (I am one of those
guys who never installed Windows support so I don't know much about
it.)

Thanks in advance for any info.

Dave Early

ealryd@wombat.ee.byu.edu
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: branch@hfglobe.intel.com (Rob Branch)
Subject: Question Concerning PATH Variable
Organization: Intel Corp., Hillsboro, OR
Date: Wed, 12 Aug 92 18:07:35 GMT


This question has probably been asked before, but I haven't been able to find
an answer.  I would like to have a relatively long PATH variable set up for
a DOS window running under OS/2 2.0.  However, there seems to be a limit of
about 80 characters to the PATH variable.  Increasing the environment size of
the DOS_SHELL does not seem to help.  I'm sure that someone must have
encountered the same problem.  Is there something I'm overlooking???

Thanks for your help...

Rob Branch 
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: richk@grebyn.com (Richard Krehbiel)
Subject: Re: Logitech mouse problem
Organization: Grebyn Timesharing
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1992 21:59:22 GMT

In article <13325@chalmers.se> d9mikael@dtek.chalmers.se (Mikael Wahlgren) writes:
>A friend have a Logitech mouse (Series 9, serial, modell CC-93).  I know
>nothing about it, but apparantly he tried to install it as an usual
>IBM/MS serial mouse first, which didn't work.  Then he added the driver
>PCLOGIC (and refered to it in the MOUSE driver) and that got the mouse
>going.  But when he moves the mouse slowly the mouse is tracking very badly
>and when he moves it fast, it takes a quick jump to the correct direction
>BUT then it JUMPS BACK to almost the same position as previous.
>
>Anyone with a clue?  It is connected to the COM2 port BTW.

	His mouse is doing just what mine does.  These are the unfortunate
effects of running the serial mouse port at 1200 baud, which is the
power-on default.  The mouse itself can be programmed to run faster,
and at 9600 baud it's as slick and responsive as a mouse should be.
The DOS drivers which come with the Logitech mouse do this.  OS/2 does
not.

	As far as I know, there's no way to get OS/2 to program the mouse
for 9600 baud.  If someone does know a way, please tell me.  I
sincerely hope IBM (or Logitech) improves this situation in the future.
-- 
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OS/2 2.0 will do for me until AmigaDOS for the 386 comes along...
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: lermer@theory.chem.ubc.ca (Noah Lermer)
Subject: Re: After OS2/2 Reinstallation, SYS005 Errors
Keywords: reinstall
Organization: University of British Columbia, Vancouver, B.C., Canada
Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1992 00:29:28 GMT

In article <1992Aug18.221104.28756@njitgw.njit.edu> dic5340@hertz.njit.edu (David Charlap) writes:
>In article <roelle.714160655@uars_mag> roelle@uars_mag.jhuapl.edu (Curtis Roelle) writes:
>>2. Deleting hidden files: "EA DATA. SF", "WP ROOT. SF", "OS2BOOT",
>                            ^^^^^^^^^^^    ^^^^^^^^^^^
>>		 	  "OS2KRNL", and "OS2LDR".
>
>Big mistake!  You deleted all the extended attributes, but you didn't
>clear the FAT flags that OS/2 uses to indicate the presence of EA's.
>So, OS/2 thinks the file has EAs, but it can't load them.  Your only
>solution now is to reformat the partition.
>

Nope, he doesn't. I've done this so I should know :-) (the more fool me...)
An OS/2 chkdsk on the FAT partition will remake all the ea's and correct the
problem (although it may take a while...).

This can even be done without OS/2 on the disk from the  'emergency *PANIC*
floppy' with chkdsk.exe on it. Of course, everyone has one of those right?
(right.)

Happy campin' !
Bruce Hollebone - mail to hollebon@cemaid.chem.ubc.ca||lermer@theory.chem.ubc.ca
From: pshuang@athena.mit.edu (Ping-Shun Huang)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: OS/2 - A real memory hog!
Date: 16 Aug 92 00:55:38 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology


 > When all this is done SCRUTILS (which tracks amount of memory
 > available) reports 4700K free (or thereabouts).

I seem to remember answering this one before. Under an operating system
wuith virtual memory paging, the meaning of "how much memory is
currently free" is one which no longer has a non-ambiguous obvious
canonical answer. I do not know what SCRUTILS does to obtain the number
that it gives you, but let's suppose it is using a system call that
returns the number of 4Kb pages free. (Sidenote: it is relevant whether
SCRUTILS has been updated for OS/2 2.0, since there may be additional
new systems calls that return more useful specified information.)

What number should the operating system report? (a) number of physical
RAM pages which are 100% uncommitted, e.g. never been used by OS/2 for
anything, that still contain whatever value the RAM got filled with by
the cold boot BIOS memory test? (b) number of physical RAM pages which
OS/2 could make available if it threw out all the pages containing code
and data that are discardable, e.g. could be reloaded from the
executable and resource files if they are needed again? (c) number of
pages reported by answer [b] plus all the pages in the swapfile which
are not currently being used? One can make an argument that any one of
these answers is the "correct" one.

Even under Windows 3.x you run into this ambiguity. On one of the
machines I use that has 32Mb of physical memory, the Program Manager's
About dialog says there's over 100Mb of memory available. That's because
there's a 96Mb swapfile allocated. I don't know what the size of the
swapfile on your OS/2 system is, but I think that OS/2 is probably
reporting either the numbers from methods [a] or [b], whereas Windows
3.1 is clearly indicating the numbers from method [c].

--
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From: 880506s@dragon.acadiau.ca (James R. Skinner)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: Davys Dingbats and ATM
Date: 18 Aug 92 02:23:55 GMT
Organization: Acadia University

dic5340@hertz.njit.edu (David Charlap) writes:

>Fonts converted ith PFM2AFM are incomplete.  I can See them in the
>Font Palette, and Excel uses them.  Many other PM-based apps use them.
>They do NOT work with WPS or other OS/2 2.0 apps, however.  DeScribe
>may be using metrics that the converted .PFM file doesn't have.

	A very large number of AFM's for adobe fonts can be found at
cica.cica.indiana.edu in the directory /pub/ps/fonts/afms.  These metrics
seem to work better than those created with PFM2AFM.

	Proper ATM files may also be obtained directly from Adobe using
their listserver at ps-listserver@adobe.com



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From: unruh@physics.ubc.ca (William Unruh)
Subject: Re: OS2 swapping still sick?
Keywords: swap, swapper.dat,growing,slow system
Organization: University of British Columbia, Vancouver, B.C., Canada
Date: Sun, 16 Aug 1992 17:54:41 GMT

t's back up to 13M 14 hrs after I zero'd it and not much activity in the
meantime ( PMterm, some games,...)
Hmmm.
From: aa330@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Neil Gould)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: Adaptec Controllers
Date: 14 Aug 92 17:44:21 GMT
Article-I.D.: usenet.1992Aug14.174421.25375
Reply-To: aa330@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Neil Gould)
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)


In a previous article, dv@welchgate.welch.jhu.edu (Deepak Vaidya) says:

>I think this is asked before, but missed the answer.  Can the 1542b controller
>support 2 hard drive and a cdrom.  Right now I have a option getting my
>ultra store controller replaced, which only allows me to use int13 driver.
>I will appreciate if someone can answer the question.
>
>Thanks
>Deepak Vaidya
>dv@welchgate.welch.jhu.edu
>   [128.220.59.13]
>


The 1542b requires ASPI drivers to support devices with LU #s above 1/
However, you should be able to use up to 7 SCSI devices with the 1542b
& ASPI drivers.

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From: galway@chtm.eece.unm.edu (Denis McKeon)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: Why does CHKDSK D: /F: 3 take 2 hours?
Date: 20 Aug 92 14:19:21 GMT
Organization: Connemara - Computing for People
X-Mailer: Mail User's Shell (7.0.1 12/13/89)
Status: OR

swknasri@nuscc.nus.sg (Sriram N (Dr)) writes:

>Subject: Re: Why does CHKDSK D: /F: 3 take 2 hours?
>
>Periodically, I do a CHKDSK of my HPFS partition (290 MB) from the
>A: drive after booting up using the install diskettes.  
>
>After invoking CHKDSK, I see the program reading the HDD and see
>25 % complete on screen.  Thereafter, it is a slooooow crawl, at the
>rate of 10 minutes/ 5%.  I should mention that there is 200MB free
>space on the drive. 

Try using instead:
    CHKDSK D: /F:1

I believe that the /F:3 is trying to comprehend your 200MB of free space
as a recoverable file-system.  slooooowly.

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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: das9674@usl.edu (Stephenson Daniel A)
Subject: Re: Adding programs to pop-up menus: QUESTION
Organization: University of Southwestern Louisiana
Date: Sun, 23 Aug 1992 06:27:35 GMT

In article <harris.714500041@garfield.catt.ncsu.edu> harris@garfield.catt.ncsu.edu (Michael Harris) writes:
>das9674@usl.edu (Stephenson Daniel A) writes:
>
>>1) Let it know I want seamless Windows program from the pop-up menu
>>2) Let it know I want a WINDOWED DOS session for the DOS app
>>3) Also: How do I lauch a command.com or something and have it by default
>>come up as a windowed DOS box?
>
>This is really easy...
>
>Just create a program object with the settings you desire.  (Double-click it
>to make sure it works like you want it.)
>
>Then instead of typing in a program name in the name entryfield, use the
>"Find Program" button to select the program object that you just created.

But this '&~object making' doesn't seem too easy.

For example, despite my looking into 'start',I cannot get things to work
QUITE right.  For example, I want to start kermit in a WINDOW. I seems
that all the things I try either starts it minimize  or fullscrren or
SOMETHING.  Ack!

How does one start a SEAMLESS Windows app fromthe OS/2 command line?
How do I force a DOS app to  pop up in a Window?

I've finally gotten a DOS Cli window to pop up.
I made a 'dosbox.cmd' which says 'start /dos /win' in it.  It is 
an unfortunate workaround, but get me a windows DOS cli eventually (at first
there is a 'dosbox.cmd' window.  I hate having that OS/2 cmd floating
around extra.

Isn't there some default 'I want a command.com, but in a WINDOW by default?'

Hmm.  Is it possible to having this desktop pop up menu to simply
'point' to an OBJECT o nthe desktop?  Like, for the SO/2 system Editor,
pop up Os/2 sys editor as if I clicked on the icon, saying 'OS/2 System Editor'
on the top and everything?  Also, I noticed that the Sys Editor defaults
on 'starting' in the directory from which it was launched when you 'open'
a file.  Is there was way to make the root directory the default place to look?
I'd hate to keep a copy of it in the root directory to accomplish this...

Anyway, I'll just live with my Windows comm program and OS/2 System Editor
as shoadows on my desktop.
.

>
>______________________________________________________________________________
>     Michael Harris - harris@catt.ncsu.edu or harris@carvm3.vnet.ibm.com
> System Administrator, Computer & Technologies Theme Program, NC State Univ.
>(My opinions are my own and do not represent those of NCSU or IBM Corporation)


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From: Steve.Withers@bbs.actrix.gen.nz
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: New software at Watson's
Keywords: OS/2 software, IBM-FTP
Date: 19 Aug 92 11:43:57 GMT
Article-I.D.: actrix.1992Aug19.114357.20871
Organization: Actrix Information Exchange

In article <1v0ms7d.bob@netcom.com> bob@netcom.com (Bob Becker) writes:
> In article <1992Aug18.141010.25528@softserv.zdv.uni-tuebingen.de> affie@earley.sns.neuphilologie.uni-tuebingen.de (Ralf Affie Hauser) writes:
> >Hi everybody,
> >
> >I have just visited IBM WATSON FTP and I have seen a whole bunch of new software.
> >REAL software, not only APARS and fixes but nice programs and bitmaps.
> >
> 
> I tried  software.watson.ibm.com   and couldn't find anything new.
> Are you ftp'ing to a different address?

If you ftp there every day....then there has been nothing new for 6 days. If
you ftp there once every two weeks, then there is a lot of new stuff.

/pub/os2

Steve
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From: michael.hagerty@spacebbs.com (Michael Hagerty) 
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: After OS2/2 Reinstall
Date: 22 Aug 92 16:53:00 GMT
Distribution: na
Organization: SPACE BBS - Menlo Park, CA - 10 Lines + 4gB - 415-323-4193
Reply-To: michael.hagerty@spacebbs.com (Michael Hagerty) 

DC. In article <roelle.714160655@uars_mag> roelle@uars_mag.jhuapl.edu (Curtis Ro
DC. >2. Deleting hidden files: "EA DATA. SF", "WP ROOT. SF", "OS2BOOT",
DC.                             ^^^^^^^^^^^    ^^^^^^^^^^^
DC. >		 	  "OS2KRNL", and "OS2LDR".
DC.
DC. Big mistake!  You deleted all the extended attributes, but you didn't
DC. clear the FAT flags that OS/2 uses to indicate the presence of EA's.
DC. So, OS/2 thinks the file has EAs, but it can't load them.  Your only
DC. solution now is to reformat the partition.

What would be nice is a utility I can run under DOS which will clear all
of the FAT flags and start tabula rasa without reformatting the partition.

Regards, Mikey
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