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From: HAFEN@rzmain.rz.uni-ulm.de (HAFEN KLAUS)
Subject: Trident 256-colours-driver
Organization: University of Ulm, Germany
Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1992 08:00:56 GMT
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I have downloaded t640-256.zoo from ftp-os2.nmsu.edu and tried to install
it. First, I checked my Config.sys about IOPL=YES,and it was OK.
Then I backed up my drivers, went to OS2-Full-Screen and typed SVGA ON.
The SVGADATA.PMI was created in /OS2.
Then I typed DDINSTAL and installed the driver t640c(640x480x256), about
173 Kb.
Everything worked fine, and after installation was complete, I rebooted
my system.
The OS2-Logo appeared on the screen, then teh screen got black, my HD-drive
stopped, and in the left upper corner the cursor was blinking. I tried almost
all combinations of keys(alt-Numlock, alt-escape, ctrl-escape,etc), but 
nothing happened. Okay, so I thought to boot from diskette and reinstall
the old drivers.After taking out disk No.1 after booting, I tried to copy
my drivers back.
But all I got was an error message, that this path couldnt be found.
The command cd D:(OS2 is on logical drive D installed) worked, and the D-
prompt blinked. But when I typed dir I got the next error message, and 
I could neither read nor write to HD. So I had to install OS2 again.
My system: 
          -486/33, 4MB Ram
          -105 HD(AT-bus)
          -prim.Partition C, 29 MB, DRDOS 6.0
          -log.    "      D, 70 MB, OS/2 2.0, HPFS
          -Trident 9000 Video-card, 512 kb
          -Multisync-monitor
Now my question: Did I make a mistake ?
                 Are the drivers corrupted(unpacking worked fine)?
                 Is there another possibility to restore my system
                 as to reinstall?



 
                                                 Klaus Hafen
                                                 University ULM
                                                 Hafen@DULRUU51
From: TomK@cup.portal.com (Tom R Krotchko)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.apps
Subject: Re: Where's Borland?
Date: Tue, 28 Jul 92 18:37:50 PDT
Organization: The Portal System (TM)
  <4DgeoB3w164w@ersys.edmonton.ab.ca>
  <1992Jul27.173000.16992@njitgw.njit.edu>
  <1992Jul28.104311.8836@actrix.gen.nz>

Objectvision for OS/2 for $500? 

Don't say anything, but you can order it in the US direct from
Borland for $99. 

I realize $1US != $1NZ, but I don't think the ratio is 5:1.

Someone sold me a shrink wrapped version for $75; its worth that
much.

TomK@cup.portal.com (Tom R Krotchko)
sun!portal!cup.Portal.com!Tomk
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From: harris@garfield.catt.ncsu.edu (Michael Harris)
Subject: Word 1.1 for OS/2 patch available?
Organization: Computer and Technologies Theme Program, NCSU, Raleigh
Date: Sat, 25 Jul 1992 21:56:47 GMT

I seem to recall hearing someone mention a fix from Microsoft for Word 1.1 for
OS/2. What fixes are available? If so, what is the telephone number to call and
how do I describe what I want?  (ie. patch fix numbers or some such info.)

I'm specifically having the "menus don't respond" problem.  However, I want
to fix everything that can be fixed while I'm at it.
______________________________________________________________________________
     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)
From: fly@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Neil)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.apps
Subject: Pmcomm question
Date: 31 Jul 92 00:02:56 GMT
Reply-To: fly@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Neil)
Organization: The University of Texas at Austin, Austin TX
Originator: fly@happy.cc.utexas.edu


 I am having a problem with PMcomm:

When I download something, the transfer statistics window is in the bottom 
left corner of my screen.  It is too far into the corner to grab it with
my mouse and move it to where I can see it.

  I have tried everything I can think of to move the box short of erasing the
applicaton and starting over.

Any ideas? I would like to see the statistics, they are very helpful....


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From: reisert@mast.enet.dec.com (Jim -- MLO3-6/B9 -- DTN 223-5747)
Subject: GNU Make for OS/2?
Date: Wed, 22 Jul 92 10:26:57 PDT
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I have the GNU C compiler (gccbin21), and it includes makefiles for some
sample programs.  Where can I find a 'make' to go with this?

Thanks - Jim

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From: bradj@proton.corp.sgi.com (Brad Johanson)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.apps
Subject: Re: Where's Borland?
Date: 21 Jul 92 20:29:40 GMT
Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc.

I went to a meeting of the Bay Area OS/2 Users group meeting last
night and some reps from Borland gave a talk about Object Vision 2.0
for OS/2 2.0.  The product allows development of Object Vision
programs on OS/2, that are compatible and can then be run in the
Windows environment.  There was a drawing at the end of the meeting
and I won a copy of the program.  Don't have it yet, I have to send
in the form and they will send it to me.  The product is shipping
right now however.  They also had some information about their other
products such as BC++.  I haven't read through it yet, so I don't
know if they are adds for their OS/2 versions or not.

But from what I saw at the meeting it definitely looks like Borland
is committed to OS/2.

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From: wilson@ac4.cs.nps.navy.mil (kalin wilson)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.apps
Subject: Falcon 3.0 or other hi res dos games
Date: 22 Jul 92 17:01:44 GMT
Organization: Naval Postgraduate School,Monterey,CA

I recently installed os/2 2.0 and I'm putting it through the paces.
One thing that would really impress me is to be able to at least run
falcon 3.0 and possible multitask it, under os/2. Falcon 3.0 seems to
put a lot of demands on the hardware so this seems like a good test.
Here is my configuration:
	80486-33 with 8MB ram
	200 mb ide HD using HPFS (completely)
	Orchid prodesigner II w/ 1mb (1024x768x256) I have beta 0.9
drivers
	soundblaster pro installed with default settings

	When I run Falcon using the default dos settings strange
things happen. The company title screen displays fine and the music is
fine. When the animation sequence starts (two plane combat) the music
is garbles and the animation is extremely slow. the credits screens
are fine as is their music.  however, when I exit the credits Falcon
reports that it can't find or open the file sound.bnk, which I have
verified is present, and exits.

	Before I start fiddling with settings I thought I'd see if
anyone has gotten Falcon 3.0 to run under os/2. If you have had
success with other high res games using the sound blaster I would like
to hear what it took. 

Thanks for any help,

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From: vapspgd@prism.gatech.EDU (Edward Hefter)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.apps
Subject: Trident 8800 Drivers?
Date: 27 Jul 92 21:02:31 GMT
Organization: Georgia Institute of Technology

A while back, someone asked about Trident SVGA drivers for the 8800 chip.
Did anything ever come of this?  Am I stuck in 640X480 until I buy a new
card?  Is there a cheap way out of this that involves me using the same SVGA
card I have now and running in 800X600?  If not, whose buttons do I push to
try to get it done?  I've already left a message on the Trident BBS.
-- 
                                Edward Hefter
                   Trying To Survive the Ga Tech Experience
                         vapspgd@prism.gatech.edu
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From: it1@ra.msstate.edu (Tim Tsai)
Subject: Re: Where's Borland?
Organization: Mississippi State University
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1992 20:47:34 GMT

joker@diku.dk (Morten Christian Holmgreen) writes:
>>TODAY, the picture looks different!  While Lotus and Microsoft advertise
>>OS/2 spreadsheets, Borland is shipping an "upgrade" from Quattro 3.0 to 4.0
>>which is _less_compatible_ with OS/2 than the previous version.

  What is the problem you are having with Quattro 4.0?  I haven't used
the new version much but it has run just fine for me under OS/2.

Organization: Junior, Physics, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.apps
Date: Tue, 21 Jul 1992 14:11:35 -0400 
From: Jason Ari Goldstein <jg3o+@andrew.cmu.edu>
Subject: Re: Floppy Backup, Re: 32bit Shareware backup program.
	<rick.6.711671081@sjsumcs.sjsu.edu>

>>Ahem ... Diskettes are not 'relatively inexpensive' - esp. when you look
>>at them relative to tape.  For example, the cheapest one can find DS/HD
>>3-1/2" diskettes around here right now is about $1 per diskette.  Thats

Were have you been looking?  I can get HD 3 1/2" Disks for $0.59/each in
lots of 25.  This is what I have been using to backup my hardisk in the
past.

Later...

Jason A. Goldstein
___________________________________________
I'm a peripheral visionary...
I can see the future but only off to the sides.

Over, Finished, Gone, Done, Out.  (Finally)
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From: sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu (Timothy F. Sipples)
Subject: Re: Where's Borland?
Reply-To: sip1@midway.uchicago.edu
Organization: Dept. of Econ., Univ. of Chicago
Date: Sat, 25 Jul 1992 01:17:05 GMT

In article <1992Jul24.010404.21525@news.Hawaii.Edu> tholen@galileo.ifa.hawaii.edu (Dave Tholen) writes:
>Do recall that one of the first PM applications out there was Borland's
>Sidekick for PM, which came bundled with OS/2 version 1.1 during it's initial
>promotional stage.  Borland is not new to PM programming.

And it is still available, incidently.  Borland issued a couple bug
fixes along the way to keep it humming along.  You can probably call
Borland and order it without trouble.

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From: dic5340@hertz.njit.edu (David Charlap)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.apps
Subject: Re: Procomm Plus, OS/2, RTS
Date: 24 Jul 92 18:21:17 GMT
Organization: New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, N.J.

In article <Scott.12.0@enge1.cc.wm.edu> Scott@enge1.cc.wm.edu (Scott Fenstermacher) writes:
>I am trying to use Procomm Plus in a DOS window to connect to an IBM 7171 
>protocol converter. Everythig works fine until I connect to the 7171 and 
>then the communications screen seems dead. I hooked up a RS232 breakout box 
>and noticed that the RTS lead was not active. There is my problem. I pulled 
>the RTS lead high and everything was OK. There are many other users that are 
>planning to switch to OS/2 and I do not want (or think I should have to) 
>build new cable for all these users. My question is:
>
>	Is this a bug in OS/2?
> 	Is the serial card I am using the problem (It works OK when booted 
>	from DOS?
>	Is there a patch for this problem?

I can't say.  I use Procomm Plus 2.0 in a DOS windows to connect to a
generic 2400 baud modem, and I never had a problem.  Could the 7171 be
keeping RTS low?  I don't think my modem would respond if RTS wasn't
high on my machine.

It might also be the serial card.  Can you check the RTS during a DOS
connection?  The OS/2 com drivers seem to use all the signals they
get, while DOS leaves things to the apps.



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From: scdorcy@lims01.lerc.nasa.gov (JAMES DORCEY)
Subject: Re: Borland C++ 3.1
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41    
Organization: NASA Lewis Research Center
Date: 30 Jul 1992 12:25 EST  

In article <63078@cup.portal.com>, TomK@cup.portal.com (Tom R Krotchko) 
writes...
>Robert Cringely's rumor is that IBM will charge for the upgrade.
> 
>Any comments?

Yes...  IBM will charge for a Borland upgrade?

(or did the subjects take a turn someplace?)

JD
From: dic5340@hertz.njit.edu (David Charlap)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.apps
Subject: Re: Borland C++ 3.1
Date: 30 Jul 92 20:44:46 GMT
Organization: New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, N.J.

In article <29JUL199216185150@lims01.lerc.nasa.gov> scdorcy@lims01.lerc.nasa.gov (JAMES DORCEY) writes:
>In article <1992Jul25.011538.5133@midway.uchicago.edu>, 
>sip1@midway.uchicago.edu writes...
>
>>(3)  Wait until September for the Win-OS/2 3.1 update.
>
>Hey Tim - where'd you get the date from?  Is it official?

The official word is "fall".  Unofficially, rumors that supposedly
came from IBM say "september".  I don't believe such rumors (much),
though.  To me, "fall" means anywhere from September to November.
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From: fredw@mks.com (Fred Walter)
Subject: Re: Borland C++ 3.1
Organization: Mortice Kern Systems Inc., Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA
Date: Tue, 21 Jul 1992 15:02:11 GMT

richc@iplmail.orl.mmc.com (Rich Cherry) writes:
>I remeber someone asking a while back whether borland C++ 3.1 would work
>with os/2.  What was the finial answer ?

I've used it (the command line version). It works. You do need to change
at least one DOS SETTING (???DPMI??? from AUTO to ENABLED or some such
thing; I'm not at my OS/2 2.0 machine right now).

	fred
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From: kevinl@tisdec.tis.tandy.com
Date: 23 Jul 92 07:33 CDT
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.apps
Subject: Re: Borland C++ 3.1
Message-ID: <12900002@tisdec.tis.tandy.com>
Nf-ID: #R:iplmail.orl.mmc.com:11657:tisdec.tis.tandy.com:12900002:000:242
Nf-From: tisdec.tis.tandy.com!kevinl    Jul 23 07:33:00 1992


	After reading this note string, I went home and tried doing
the DOS_DPMI AUTO->ENABLED thing, and my Borland C++ 3.0 worked great!
It's the first time and I'm ecstatic about being able to do my dos
programming in OS/2.  Thanks for the info!

Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.apps
From: orville%weyrich@tnet.com (Orville R. Weyrich)
Subject: Re: Where's Borland?
Reply-To: tnet.com!weyrich!orville
Organization: Weyrich Computer Consulting
Date: Mon, 27 Jul 92 03:44:28 GMT

In article <!akm7yr.msmith@netcom.com> msmith@netcom.com (Martin P. Smith) writes:
>According to the guy on the stand at Object world (I can't recall his name but 
>he plays guitar in the borland jazz band ) Borland WILL provide a similar i
>upgrade path from the DOS to the OS/2 compiler, this will also include the 
>Windows OE version of the compiler. No costs as yet but he said expect it to be


In other words, $195?



orville

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From: TomK@cup.portal.com (Tom R Krotchko)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.apps
Subject: Re: Where's Borland?
Date: Sat, 25 Jul 92 14:12:58 PDT
Organization: The Portal System (TM)
  <1992Jul22.144409.1611@gacvx2.gac.edu> <bagmsda.msmith@netcom.com>
  <1992Jul24.022936.21509@frodo.cc.flinders.edu.au>

I wonder if Borland will sell us the OS/2 version of their C++ compiler
cheaply as an upgrade from the Windows version? Say, $50? Am I dreaming?
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.apps,comp.os.os2.misc
From: sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu (Timothy F. Sipples)
Subject: Re: System hang with REISPLANNER
Followup-To: comp.os.os2.misc
Reply-To: sip1@midway.uchicago.edu
Organization: Dept. of Econ., Univ. of Chicago
Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1992 15:58:13 GMT

In article <1992Jul22.075729.22721@donau.et.tudelft.nl> anto@dutetvd.tudelft.nl (Anto Daryanto) writes:
>I'm a happy user of OS/2 2.0. Last night I had my seconds system down, since
>I got OS/2 2.0 (well, not include WPS's bugs). I have the newest kernel
>patch (6.412) and the new pmwin.dll and pmgre.dll.
>Anyway, I ran REISPLAN (the time table tool from the Netherlands Railway)
>last night and got a system error:
>	The system detected an internal processing error at
>	location ##0160:fff64526-000d:a52b.
>	60000, 9084
>	038600d1
>	Internal revision 6.412, 92/06/02
>and I have to cold-start my PC. 
>FYI, with the old kernel (6.307) I can run this software flawlessly.

Go back to the old kernel.  Any "ad hoc" patch should only be applied
if absolutely necessary -- you don't go applying these patches unless
you have good reason.  Sometimes that isn't made clear, but it bears
repeating.

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From: "bill dehaan" <bill.dehaan@canrem.com>
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.apps
Subject: 32 bit backup
Date: 21 Jul 92 21:41:00 EST
Reply-To: "bill dehaan" <bill.dehaan@canrem.com>
Distribution: comp
Organization: Canada Remote Systems

In message <18JUL199223124107@venus.tamu.edu>,FREY, TONY C writes:

TC>Welcome to poverty.  I bet most of us don't have tape backups. I have a 120
TC>meg drive, of which I would gladly back-up onto floppies (been doing so under
TC>FAT for 2 years), most users aren't going to have high end systems.

I'd tend to  dispute this. People  using OS/2 have  by definition a  386
with 4MB of ram and at least 30MB of data. The majority will have  more.
Clearly, a  $250 tape  drive option  is not  all that  uncommon on  such
systems. Also, I  expect that the  OS/2 (and NT)  systems will spur  the
growth of backup systems, once native OS/2 and NT support exists.

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Subject: Re: 32bit Shareware backup program.
From: robertson@physc1.byu.edu
Date: 29 Jul 92 10:50:08 -0600
Distribution: world
Organization: Brigham Young University

In article <18JUL199223124107@venus.tamu.edu>, tcf9033@venus.tamu.edu (FREY, TONY C) writes:
> In article <1992Jul18.142347.24110@gmuvax2.gmu.edu>, kbass@gmuvax2.gmu.edu (Ken Bass) writes...
>>In article <1992Jul18.005121.105@ccsvax.sfasu.edu> z_kupkams@ccsvax.sfasu.edu writes:
>>>
>>>	How many people think that a shareware floppy backup program for
>>>OS/2 would be a usefull utility in your tool box? If the Program supported
>>>HPFS, Long filenames, Extended Attributes, and could be used to backup to
>>>any Logical device( Floppy, Hard Drive, etc... ) Would the backup utility
>>>be worth $35 to you? There may be a release next month if there is enough
>>>demand for it. Let me know what you think, and what FTP sites you look for
>>>shareware apps on, thanks!
>>>
>>>Michael Kupka
> [STUFF DELETED]
> 
>>To be honest, unless it is a Tape Backup program that supports shitty
>>QIC-80, it would be worthless to me. I suspect that under OS/2, since so
>>much diskspace is required, and people are running on higher end
>>machines, no one in there right mind is going to back 200 megs onto
>>floppies.
>> 
> 
> Welcome to poverty.  I bet most of us don't have tape backups. I have a 120
> meg drive, of which I would gladly back-up onto floppies (been doing so under
> FAT for 2 years), most users aren't going to have high end systems.
> 
> An opinion.
> 
> Tony Frey
> TCF9033@venus.tamu.edu
  I don't think being rich is a point for a tape backup.  I bought a tape
  backup 120MB Colorado, for less than $300.  In the past year I am sure I
  have saved over 30 hours pulling in and out floppies and thus I have
  already got my money back.  If someone came out with a tape backup
  program that supports HPFS, I would order it now.  Doing the backup via a
  utility to backup the desktop to a FAT drive, works but is inconvient, and
  I would prefer to have only HPFS drives.  Plus instead of starting the
  backup before I go to bed, I could do it anytime under OS/2.

  Please write the backup program to include tape QIC compatibility.
      Jim Robertson  robertson@physc1.byu.edu

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From: ttomisin@csulx.weber.edu (Tom M. Tomisin)
Subject: Re: Where's Borland?
Organization: Weber State University, Ogden Utah
Date: Tue, 28 Jul 92 17:23:50 GMT


Object Vision for OS/2 can be upgraded from Object Vision for Windows


$99.95 thats what I was told when I called Borlands Order number.
Organization: Weber State University, Ogden Utah

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From: kevinl@tisdec.tis.tandy.com
Date: 27 Jul 92 07:30 CDT
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.apps
Subject: Re: Borland C++ 3.1 in a DOS Session
Message-ID: <12900003@tisdec.tis.tandy.com>
Nf-ID: #R:alnitak.usc.edu:9:tisdec.tis.tandy.com:12900003:000:133
Nf-From: tisdec.tis.tandy.com!kevinl    Jul 27 07:30:00 1992


	You should be able to just go into the DOS Settings for the icon
for BC++, or your command line, and set DPMI from AUTO to ENABLED.

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From: rommel@Informatik.TU-Muenchen.DE (Kai-Uwe Rommel)
Subject: Re: bugs in GNU file utils?
Organization: Technische Universitaet Muenchen, Germany
Date: Tue, 21 Jul 1992 22:14:30 GMT

In article <1992Jul21.035553.19209@unixg.ubc.ca> ochealth@unixg.ubc.ca (ochealth) writes:
>with ls, mv etc:
>
>it won't do globbing of the form set: [stuff]
>ie ls [a-z]* to list files starting with a to z.
>maybe I'm assuming too much, but isn't it supposed to glob that?

The globbing is (under Unix) done by the shell, not by the programs. The
mentioned programs do the normal OS/2 filename globbing provided by the
C library. If you want more advanced globbing, you need a Unix like
shell for OS/2.

>with ls:
>ls -a won't list OS/2 hidden files (although I think it lists UNIX style
>hidden files like .file). ls -a also complains about the file .. in the
>root directory of a drive (it's not there, so ls  shouldn't complain about
>not finding it!)

ls -a lists hidden files, but not system files. This makes a difference.
Also, the .. bug occures only on HPFS root directories. But there *is* a
.. directory returned by DosFind* even in the root, but you can't stat it.

>question:
>the old GNU dd used to take inf=0,1,2 or outf=0,1 etc to read a drive
>as a block device. Has this been removed? I can't get it to work...

This was removed because I never used it. I could put that back in.
However, *if* it is put back in, some enhancements would be nice, such
as accessing logical and physical drives (partitions vs. physical disks)
differenly.

Kai Uwe Rommel

/* Kai Uwe Rommel --- rommel@informatik.tu-muenchen.de */

DOS ... is still a real mode only non-reentrant interrupt
handler, and always will be.                -Russell Williams
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