HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: price@helios.unl.edu (Chad  Price)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: Tseng 4000 speed comparison on generic and Diamond boards.
Date: 10 Nov 1992 00:02:47 GMT
Organization: University of Nebraska--Lincoln	
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x90wardell@gw.wmich.edu writes:

>	I have teh same video card you have (Ultra VGA with Sierra Chip)
>and I got very good performance with the Tseng drivers also.  
>	ON the other hand, the Diamond Speedstar 24x wouldn't even
>work.

The SpeedStar 24X is a Western Digital/ paradise chipset, NOT TSENG.




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From: u1056905@csdvax.csd.unsw.edu.au
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: SP -> should I go back to FAT?
Date: 9 Nov 92 21:05:00 +1000
Organization: University of New South Wales

Hi all, 

I have installed the new SP more than a week ago, and have had
troubles since then.
My system (386DX40, ET4000, etc) has crashed numerous times
without a warning (actually it crashes at least once a day 
now), and I am getting REALLY annoyed with this.
I have just read a few messages which assured me that
I am not the only one with those sort of problems (such
as swap file grows and grows until it has no more space and
then just freezes the system up, etc). but anyway....

I have called IBM and explained my problmes. The guy on the
other side seemed to understand my problem, as it
appears that the same thing happened to him the day before. 
His recommendations are for me to backup everything I have, 
re-install DOS, and install OS/2 on top as a dual boot machine.
I am currently running full HPFS (hence, no dual-boot).
He seems to think that the SP still has a few bugs in it, in
the sense that it doesn't completely get rid of problems which
pre-existed the installation. Also, my interpretation of his words
is that HPFS is giving the SP a few problems, and thereofre I should
go back to FAT.

Now, I am a little reluctant to do so, as I kinda like
my 256 character file names, as well as the apparent
speed increase.  However, I will be glad if I could use my
computer to play all those nifty games that cannot run under OS/2.

My only worry is that FAT would be much slower the HPFS. So,
can anyone advise me whether the difference is that big.
I would especially appreciate figures concerning load
time of the system (from the moment you turn the computer
on till when you can start working with the WPS), as well
as starting applications, etc.

I think that's about it.

Oh, BTW, does anybody know the contact number for 
DeScribe in Australia?? It was quite fascinating calling
software shops which have never heard of that word-processor
before....

Appreciated. Mail or post. Assi.
u1056905@csdvax.csd.unsw.edu.au
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: greve@rs1.thch.uni-bonn.de (Thomas Greve)
Subject: Re: Quick SP question
Organization: University of Bonn, phys. Chemistry
Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1992 16:45:40 GMT

In article <1992Oct31.124237.16966@husc3.harvard.edu> gouvea@zariski.harvard.edu (Fernando Gouvea) writes:
>If I'm using the Orchid video driver, should I revert to VGA before
>installing the SP? 
Sorry, but it seems this line has been drooped by my mailer...
SP reverts you back to VGA by itself... ;-)

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From: dic5340@hertz.njit.edu (David Charlap)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: Joel's ATI drivers and the SPP
Date: 12 Nov 92 00:35:06 GMT
Organization: New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, N.J.

In article <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?

ftp-os2.nmsu.edu:/pub/os2/2.0/drivers/ati256c2.zip
No.
No.
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From: kjb@calmasd.prime.com (Ken Brucker)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Deskpic (was: more ServicePak impressions)
Date: 5 Nov 92 18:22:56 GMT
Organization: Computervision, San Diego CA

In article <1992Nov3.004850.5011@unlv.edu>, slumos@buddy.cs.unlv.edu (Steve E. Lumos) writes:
> In article <1992Oct31.080347.3827@news.Hawaii.Edu>, tholen@galileo.ifa.hawaii.edu (Dave Tholen) writes:
> ) The aquarium and spheres animations in DeskPic are now compatible with
> ) OS/2 2.0.  Good show, IBM!
> ) 
> ) When I mentioned the earlier incompatibility with version 1.3 software some
> ) time ago, the IBMer who responded said that they had just gotten a copy of
> ) DeskPic at that site, and they were so taken with it, that they just had to
> ) get it to work, and it looks like they did.
> 
> Speaking of which: Has anyone else had the behavior where DeskPic will not 
> work while ANY DOS program is running (background or foreground)?

Yep.

Ken

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From: hartzman@kilroy.Jpl.Nasa.Gov (Les Hartzman)
Subject: Re: Can't delete ATM fonts -- HELP!
Followup-To: hartzman@kilroy.jpl.nasa.gov
Organization: Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 16:21:14 GMT

In article <1992Nov9.101629.928@calmasd.prime.com> kjb@calmasd.prime.com (Ken Brucker) writes:
>I just finished installing the GA+CSD from scratch and went about putting some
>of my fonts back into the system.  There's one that I didn't mean to put back
>in and now want to delete it.  However, when I select the delete option and
>responding that I do want to delete the font I'm informed that some other
>application is using the font so I can't delete it.
>
>I've tried answering to both delete and leave the font files in the /os2/dll
>directory, but either way I get the same problem.  And I don't see how some
>other application could have been using the font since immediately after
>installing the fonts I tried to delete them.  I didn't even exit from the font
>application.
>
>Any ideas?  It's not a big deal, but I would like to save the disk space.  What
>would happen if I just deleted the font files without going through the font
>setup screens?
>
>Thanks!
>
>Ken
>

I had the same problem awhile ago.  I had added fonts, looked at them, decided
I didn't want them and tried to delete them.  Got the same error messages.
I then tried to delete the files directly.  What happened was that when I went
back into the font list to see if they were truly gone, they were and they
weren't!

Clicking on the "deleted" font showed its name as one that still existed, so
something got messed up.

However, much to my delight, I had to shutdown for some reason, and upon re-
booting I tried to delete the fonts and it worked!

I hadn't tried to add/delete fonts before the Service Pack so I don't know if
this is a Service Pack bug or a global OS/2 bug, but it should be fixed.  I
haven't called it in yet, but am going to, shortly.

Les



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From: ryan@wk229.nas.nasa.gov (James S. Ryan)
Subject: Re: ET-4000, CSD and notebook tabs. Help!
Keywords: CSD ET-4000 notebook tabs
Organization: NAS Program, NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA
Date: Mon, 9 Nov 92 21:04:22 GMT

I had a similar problem, and fixed it.  You'll have to
decide whether this applies to you.

Under GA without the service pack, I had the Orchid 800x600x256
drivers.  Things worked fairly well.

I didn't change the LIBPATH when I installed the SP, or
when I did the selective install of the 800x600x256 
generic ET-4000 drivers.  After each step, I had the
infamous transparent-notebook-tab problem. 

I deleted the directory containing the old Orchid drivers
from my LIBPATH, rebooted, and everything was fine. 

Some colors changed, but mostly for the better.  A big plus:
now when I change video modes, such as when a full screen DOS
app starts, the screen is automatically sized and positioned.
Before, I had to constantly adjust the horizontal position
and horizontal and vertical size controls on the monitor.
"That's why they're on the front of the monitor, you know."

The system is a generic 486-33, ISA bus, 8Mb RAM, generic ET4000 
SVGA card, ...

Off the subject:
I like the SP.  I used my system all weekend without being
forced to ctrl-alt-del or cold boot.  That wouldn't have
happened before, even though I had all the fixes and patches
which seemed to be applicable to my problems.

Like many others, I'd like to do VGA in a window on my 800x600 
screen, but that's something we've never had, not something lost
in the SP, as far as I know (except for 320x200x256, which still
works).

Steve Ryan
ryan@nas.nasa.gov
From: adhir@cygnus.umd.edu (Alok Dhir)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: OS2+VIO windows=110baud
Date: 5 Nov 92 18:32:32 GMT
Organization: /etc/organization

In article <1d6kb1INNq5d@matt.ksu.ksu.edu> nan@matt.ksu.ksu.edu (Nan Zou) writes:
>parry@yoyo.cc.monash.edu.au (Tom J Parry) writes:
>>David Hinds (dhinds@leland.Stanford.EDU) wrote:
>>> parry@yoyo.cc.monash.edu.au (Tom J Parry) writes:
>
>[ slow scrolling ]
>
>>> And the fix does not seem that tough to me; buffer up scrolling
>>> operations, do a single bitblt to reposition anything already in the
>>> window that stays visible, then paint the new lines all at once.
>
>>For this very reason, I use VI to read files instead of less because going
>>forward a full page in VI redraws the screen once whereas less scrolls 25
>>lines which seems equivalent to 25 redraws.
>
>Actually you can use the -c switch so that the screen is only redrawn
>once, same with more.
>
>Now back to the original point, I also find text scroll speed in windows
>unacceptable, compared to OS/2 even OpenWindows on a SPARC looks like a
>speed demon.

What kind of a computer are you using?  A 386/25 or something?  What in the
WORLD makes you think your 386 should be faster than a Sparc??  Geez.  I'm
sick of all you people with 386/16s running them at 1024x768, and then crying
about the slow speed of DOS Windows.  Have you ever tried the DOS Windows in
Win3.1?  They are exactly as slow (or as fast, in my case).  If you want
your scrolling to be fast, get a new graphics card or a new computer, or
reduce your resolution!  

Quit crying.  It's YOUR hardware, NOT OS/2!!

On my 486, with ET4000, the DOS window scrolling is pretty quick.


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From: nap42487@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Nishith A. Patel)
Subject: Re: TRAP0002
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 04:18:47 GMT

sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu (Timothy F. Sipples) writes:

>We have a system with bad cache RAM.  Try disabling the cache, if you
>can, and see how things go.

If you do this, you might have to reinstall OS/2. I once had it installed with
cache off, then later turned cache on. OS/2 would not always load. IBM tech
support said that the cache should not be changed, or problems will develop.
(and in fact, OS/2 will not let me change speeds on my computer with the
turbo button, since it alo turns the cahce on and off.) then when I reinstalled
with the cache on, it worked again (with the cache also staying on, of course).


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From: fieldls@ponews.ponca.dupont.com (Lee S. Fields)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2,comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: desktop expander?
Date: 12 Nov 92 21:03:14 GMT
NNTP-Software: PC/TCP NNTPLines: 13

In article <1dcet9INN1o3@darkstar.UCSC.EDU> dhalem@cats.ucsc.edu (Daniel Aaron Halem) writes:

 >> 
 >> Has anyone done a virtual desktop for os/2 2.0???
 >> I feel very constrained with only one desktop!!!!
 >> 

If you're desparate, you can always drag desktop objects
off to the screen to get a desktop larger than your display.
You will then get scrollbars to navigate side to side or up 
and down.
From: francis@vnet.ibm.com (Tim Francis)
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 92 16:33:56 EST
Subject: WIN-OS/2 3.1 CSD?
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.programmer
Reply-To: francis@vnet.ibm.com
Organization: IBM Canada Lab, WorkFrame/2 development
Disclaimer: This posting represents the poster's views, not those of IBM

In article <1dorvrINNjlr@agate.berkeley.edu>,
ksanthan@garnet.berkeley.edu (Kumaran Santhanam) writes:
>
>Can somebody point me towards the WIN-OS/2 3.1 Service Pack?  I have a few bugs
>in my WIN-OS/2 3.1 beta and I'd like to patch them w/ the CSD.
>
>Thanks
>
>Kumaran
>ksanthan@garnet.berkeley.edu
>

The service pack will only install over GA code (or other service packs).
The fixes in the service pack and the additions in the WINOS2 3.1 beta
will be rolled in together as soon as possible, but you should not try
to combine them yourself.  Even if you do get it to install, it will be
completely unsupported.   -tim
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.programmer
From: ejohnson@enuxha.eas.asu.edu (Eric R. Johnson)
Subject: Re: NMake, support long filename ?
Organization: Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ
Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1992 19:46:12 GMT

In article <19921106.073940.447@almaden.ibm.com> francis@vnet.ibm.com writes:
>In article <1992Nov6.020021.29864@nuscc.nus.sg>,
>scstech@solomon.technet.sg (Wilson Lau) writes:
>>
>>Howdy,
>>
>>	I'm new to OS/2 and I'm trying to port an application from Unix to OS/2.  While using the NMAKE utility from the Developer's Toolkit, I got a warning
>>message on a filename that was longer than 8 characters in length.  Is there
>>an option/fix to resolve this ?  I was happy to note that the HP partition now
>
>There is a bug in the current version of NMAKE, that restricts the use
>of HPFS filenames to a OS/2 versions with a minor version >=2 (it should

Also, there is a HPFS version of NMAKE on ftp-os2.nmsu.edu, I think under
pub/os2/all/programming.
From: dic5340@hertz.njit.edu (David Charlap)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.programmer
Subject: Re: wishes for next release of os/2
Date: 13 Nov 92 19:19:45 GMT
Organization: New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, N.J.

In article <1992Nov13.132237.3553@ifi.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de> weberj@dia.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de (Weber) writes:
>I would like to have in the next release of os/2: 
>
>- ps, kill, jobcontrol as in *IX, especially CTRL-Z
>  If a job is finished I'd like something like 'done compress.. '

PS and KILL have equivalent commands in the public domain.  Download
PROCS and KILLEM from ftp-os2.nmsu.edu.

As for job control, I think it would take a fundamental change to
change the process-type of a program (from windowed or full-screen to
detached.)  Suspending and resuming a task shouldn't be too hard,
though.

As for displaying a "done" message, where should it go?  A detached
process does not have a window, or a screen group, and the system
forgets the window that it was launched from, so what is going to
display this message?
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Distribution: jadpc2
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 92 14:10:58 -0800
From: Craig_Swanson@f514.n202.z1.fidonet.org
Subject: Finial cry for CD-ROM driver...
Comment-To: Brian_TAZ_Doe@f514.n202.z1.fidonet.org
Reply-To: Craig_Swanson@f514.n202.z1.fidonet.org
X-FSC-PATH: 202/514

 BTD> help me out, then please E-Mail me. If no help comes about
drivers, and
 BTD> not rigged solutions like VDM's, then I will be forced to go
back to
 BTD> Windows 3.1.. a fate clearly worse than death. Thank you in
advance.

Have you considered selling your Sony CD-ROM player and buying a new
SCSI 
CD-ROM player?  That clearly would not be a fate worth than death.



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From: murrayk@prism.CS.ORST.EDU (the Dodger)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.programmer
Subject: CSet/2 and port access.
Date: 8 Nov 92 08:29:16 GMT
Article-I.D.: flop.1dij4sINNmek
Distribution: world
Organization: Oregon State University, Computer Science Dept.
NNTP-Posting-Host: prism.cs.orst.edu

Alright, I'm starting to get frustrated here. I've been using CSet/2 for a
couple of days now and I love it. However, there are no hardware port access
functions such as outp and inp. I really need these functions to do what I
am trying to do. So I thought that I would just write the port functions in
assembler, assemble them with TASM 3.0, and then link it all together. Well,
it all goes fine until I run the program. The program just exits. I have no
idea what the exit codes are (it is a full screen graphics program) and I
get no access violations or anything like that.

Someone hinted at the fact that the hardware ports cannot be accessed from
32bit protected mode. Is this true? Am I going to have to try to write a
ring 0 dll to get this done? And if so, what will be the performance benefits
of this. My program will eventually be doing a LOT of port access, and if it
has to call a dll a few million times, then won't that slow things down a lot?

Thanks for any help.

Keith

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From: andreasg@nynexst.com (Andreas Girgensohn)
Subject: Profiling tools for C Set/2?
Keywords: n
Organization: Nynex Science and Technology
Date: Fri, 13 Nov 92 17:19:56 GMT

Are there any tools for profiling programs like UNIX gprof that can be used
with C Set/2 under OS/2 2.0?  Please reply by email since I don't read this
newsgroup on a regular basis.  Any pointers will be appreciated.

Andreas Girgensohn
andreasg@nynexst.com
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From: mmtl@hobson.cc.flinders.edu.au (T.Lampre)
Subject: Re: Who did the "native" gcc port?
Date: 5 Nov 1992 10:16:05 +1030
Organization: The Flinders University of South Australia

In article <1992Nov3.063244.14364@netcom.com> ljensen@netcom.com (Colin Jensen) writes:
>In article <9211021945.AA17776@cs.NYU.EDU> figueroa@cs.NYU.EDU (Samuel A. Figueroa) writes:
>>
>
>Michael Johnson did the original port of gcc 1.38 to os2 and maintained
>it through gcc version 2.0.  He then lost net access.
>
>Trevor Lampre updated it to gcc version 2.2.2 (and re-named it to gcc/2
>to distinguish it from the newer EMX/GCC).
>
>So Trevor, how about an update to 2.3.0? :-)

Actually, it's gcc 2.3.1 :-).

It would take next to no time to compile the new version, but I have
plans to do a more comprehensive job this time to eliminate some of
the problems I've observed in the earlier versions.

Unless people have a crying need for it I will hold off for a while.
This is a good idea anyway, I'd like to see what comes up in the
gnu.*.bug groups first.

I am also without a machine at the moment. I lost my system partition
for the third time in a month. It seems OS/2 doesn't get on well with
these new caching IDE controllers.

Trevor Lampre
<mmtl@cc.flinders.edu.au>
Flinders University of South Australia
From: kjb@calmasd.prime.com (Ken Brucker)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.programmer
Subject: New to OS/2 programming ... need help setting up
Date: 12 Nov 92 20:00:23 GMT
Article-I.D.: calmasd.1992Nov12.120023.940
Organization: Computervision, San Diego CA

I'm getting myself setup to start programming for OS/2.  I've got gcc 2.2.2
loaded and running and now I'm looking for a good make utility.  I've tried
gnumk362.zip but it seems to want something from emx.

Any recommendations on a good make utility that I can use with gcc 2.2.2?

Or should I grab emx?  What's involved in emx?  Is it just a shell around gcc
or what?

And while I'm here, what are some good books on PM programming?  I've already
got the 4 red books, but they don't seem to have any details on the calls
available for PM programming.

Is there a FAQ on all of this?

Thanks!!!

Ken

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From: PNIELSEN@finabo.abo.fi (Peter Nielsen)
Subject: Re: Overriding system colors (Using 256 distinct colors)
Organization: Abo Akademi University, Finland
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 21:05:42 GMT
X-News-Reader: VMS NEWS 1.23


OK! My problems with the (XGA) palette manager was caused by OS/2.

CSD (6055) fixes the problem! 

Thus the following code _is_ correct (LCOL_OVERRIDE_DEFAULT_COLORS must be
used, if you want all colors to appear correctly!)

 	hpal = GpiCreatePalette (hab, LCOL_OVERRIDE_DEFAULT_COLORS, 
 	                         LCOLF_CONSECRGB, 256L, (PULONG)palettePtr);
 	GpiSelectPalette (hpsMemory, hpal);
 	WinRealizePalette (hwnd, hpsMemory, &numcol);


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From: hank@ducvax.auburn.edu
Subject: Re: Curses error with EMX/GCC
Organization: Auburn University, AL
Date: Wed, 4 Nov 1992 15:54:55 GMT

In article <1992Nov3.171349.20423@fzi.de>, auhl@fzi.de (Axel Uhl) writes:
> I tried porting an editor written under HP/UX. There I used the Curses
> library, and thus expected the port with the EMX Curses library to run well.
> After simulating some missing screen attributes (why the hell does the EMX
> Curses not support A_BLINK etc... ?) the code was compilable. But to my surprise
> I got a core dump when inputting something with scanw. Trying to track the

You do need to set term and termcap, if I recall correctly. 

Mark Hessling maintains PDCurses 2.0 (beta). I used this to port sc to OS/2
1.x under MSC. I have only started playing with PDCurses under EMX, but the
compile went fine. I have not yet tested the demos under EMX/gcc (they work
fine under MSC). PDCurses is not widely available (I don't think archie
can find it), but Hessling may permit you to beta-test.

One other note: The port of curses to OS/2 on hobbes has a serious bug in
the ApiGetMode (or whatever it's called) use. Folks on the net helped me
with this one. PDCurses is considerably faster than this older curses. 
However, sometimes my windows slow down (why is this, anyway?), and the
older PDCurses beta seems immune from this slowdown (the slowdown is NOT
due to PDCurses).

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