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From: dic5340@hertz.njit.edu (David Charlap)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: OS2SYS.INI size
Date: 14 Oct 92 21:42:39 GMT
Organization: New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, N.J.

In article <1992Oct14.161458.25832@midway.uchicago.edu> sip1@midway.uchicago.edu writes:
>In article <Bw0oEA.1K3@brunel.ac.uk> me90plb@brunel.ac.uk (Paul L Barnfather) writes:
>>My OS2SYS.INI file has bloated to 1.5MB.
>>Is it supposed to be this big ?
>>OS2.INI is only 400k
>>Is there a way of making the INI file smaller -
>>clearing out garbage etc..
>>Disk space is getting a little tight ...
>
>If you are careful, and you know what you are doing, try the EditINI
>program from IBM, available via anonymous ftp from ftp-os2.nmsu.edu.
>ShowINI, available via anonymous ftp from ftp-os2.nmsu.edu, also works
>fine.

I think that space isn't compacted out of ini files when entries are
deleted.  You can compact space by copying the entries to another file
(with makeini or iniedit, I believe), boot a floppy, and copy your
duplicate INI file over the original.

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dic5340@hertz.njit.edu| software; and the computer industry doesn't have enough
----------------------+ programmers to create that much good software.
Therefore, most of it must be worthless" -- Boris Beizer "The Frozen Keyboard"
From: ucbked@athena (Earl H. Kinmonth)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: viruses and os/2: faq?
Date: 9 Oct 1992 21:56:56 GMT
Organization: Centre for Japanese Studies, Univ. of Sheffield
Distribution: world
Reply-To: jp1ek@sunc.shef.ac.uk
NNTP-Posting-Host: athena.berkeley.edu

have i missed something?  i've been looking through various
material on os/2, both official (ibm) and unofficial (faqs), and
i do not seem to find much on system security including a) the
threat from viruses (dos) under os/2; b) unix-style worms with an
os/2 system hooked to a network.

am i paranoid, or are os/2 celebrants keeping a tight lip about a
real problem?
-- 
earl h. kinmonth, centre for japanese studies, university of sheffield,
sheffield, england s10 2tn  jp1ek@sunc.sheffield.ac.uk
From: beders@wip-sol.NoSubdomain.NoDomain (Jochen Bedersdorfer)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: ZyXel HighSpeed & TE/2
Date: 7 Oct 92 12:10:43 GMT
Organization: DFKI GmbH, Saarbruecken, West Germany

Hi,
has anybody out there information about the right settings
for my COM2 and the terminalprogramm TE/2 ?
I just got my new ZyXEL-Modem (with VoiceCapability :)
and have problems with Uploading Software. Also I can`t
connect with the highest baud-rate with a BBS that has the same Modem.
I got 1000s of strange characters on the screen when I try so.

Please E-Mail, thanks in advance, long live os/2 etc.
:)ochen

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From: sal8@po.cwru.edu (Steve Luzynski)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: VideoBlaster and OS/2
Date: 12 Oct 1992 17:08:34 GMT
Organization: Case Western Reserve University
NNTP-Posting-Host: b61442.student.cwru.edu

In article <1992Oct12.104039.24067@actrix.gen.nz> Steve.Withers@bbs.actrix.gen.nz writes:
>The VideoBlaster is great - when it works. I have installed it several times
>for customers and for myself. It seems to like Trident 8900c's and Paradise
>video cards best. It likes to have 1meg on the card, too. It will NOT work in
>every PC. In fact, my experience is that it will not work in MOST PC's. Of the
>ten or so installs I have tried, the majority did not work. This is under
>MS-DOS5. 
[stuff deleted]

 On that note, are there any boards of this type that _do_ work under OS/2? 
I'd love to be able to watch TV in a window while I pretend to do other 
work. :)
From: mccall@mksol.dseg.ti.com (fred j mccall 575-3539)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: OS2 BETA - dos emulation not as good?
Date: 13 Oct 92 20:57:07 GMT
Article-I.D.: mksol.1992Oct13.205707.1294
Organization: Texas Instruments Inc

In <70973@hydra.gatech.EDU> gt0040a@prism.gatech.EDU (Tom Sorensen) writes:

>In <1992Oct09.121954.9528@stiatl.salestech.com> iam@stiatl.salestech.com (Ian Mercado) writes:

>>Come on, guy...IT'S A BETA!!!  I can't believe how many people that post 
>>whining about how the 32 bit GRE beta stinks so bad and how they can't use it.

>>Geez...why don't you do IBM and the rest of us OS/2 lovers a favor and
>>REPORT THE DAMN THING!!

>Would you give me your CI$ access number & password or the same to the OS/2
>BBS? Those are the *ONLY* ways you can report problems. I'm a poor college
>student and don't have the money to drain into either service. IBM fouled up
>on this one- I've got bugs that I want to report but can't, since I don't have
>access to the appropriate forums.

Golly gee, guy, if you can get to HERE, why don't you mail them on CIS
from HERE?  You think whining to us is going to get it fixed?  Surely
they accept these things EMail.

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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: gribb/sps@gribb.hsr.no (Svendsen, Stein P.     7-93)
Subject: Re: FOLDER from Hell!
Organization: Rogaland University Centre
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1992 11:50:56 GMT

In article <1992Oct12.201106.4719@desire.wright.edu> slam@desire.wright.edu writes:
>From: slam@desire.wright.edu
>Subject: FOLDER from Hell!
>Date: 13 Oct 92 01:11:06 GMT

>I knwo this has come up before but it never happened to me until today.
>I have been afflicted with the "FOLDER" from hell. I cannot delete or
>shred it. Anyway I can rid myself of this blot on my WPS?

>Thanks one and all.

>SC Lam - slam@desire.wright.edu

 I recall having this once, and seem to remember that I eventually managed 
to MOVE it to a floppy. (Formatting it after, of course). You can try it.

I didn't have it more, so I never found out why. There might well be other 
and better solutions though......


Good luck!



stein
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: fritz@ra.csc.ti.com (Fritz Whittington)
Subject: Re: OS/2 2.x would loose its battle against Windows NT if...
Organization: Texas Instruments
Date: Mon, 12 Oct 1992 18:35:22 GMT

In article <1992Oct12.113312.18544@monu6.cc.monash.edu.au> parry@yoyo.cc.monash.edu.au (Tom J Parry) writes:
>Phil PRANNO (gumby@cs.mcgill.ca) wrote:
>> 
>> The WPS is CUA 91 compliant.
>
>IBM don't think so. The Redbooks are full of pointers to programmers not to
>do what IBM has done with the WPS. There are lists of exactly what is not
>CUA compliant in there too. 
>
>e.g. ALL windows are supposed to have a pull down menu bar across the top
>(that's how I read it at least). The WPS menu box in the corner doesn't
>qualify according to IBM.

And the most irritating one of all (that's lacking the menu bar) is the
window that starts off SYS3716...  When you get one of these and use
the radio button to view a register dump, there's *NO WAY* (that I have been
able to find, anyway) to tell it you want to *MARK* all that text so that
you could copy and paste it into the bug report!!

IMHO, there should not only be a pull-down, it should have an option for
dropping you into an editor with a bug-report form already included, and
the register dump already filled-in...
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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: euauno@eua.ericsson.se (Uno Carlsson)
Subject: Diamond Stealth drivers ?
Reply-To: euauno@eua.ericsson.se
Organization: Ellemtel Telecom Systems Labs, Stockholm, Sweden
Date: Thu, 8 Oct 1992 19:14:30 GMT

Is there any drivers for Diamond Stealth working for OS/2?

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From: stimpy@nmt.edu (John Reynolds)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: Why do windows move around?
Date: 16 Oct 92 22:45:55 GMT
Article-I.D.: nmt.1992Oct16.224555.6190
Distribution: comp.os.os2.misc
Organization: New Mexico Tech

>In article <GHENNIGA.92Oct15212744@ampere.ampere> ghenniga@NMSU.Edu writes:

>>>commandline, your 4os2.exe window disappears, and the VDM session window
>>>opens (in an unpredictable location at that). You get done with the dos
>>>app and exit, and your original 4os2.exe window is now repositioned at the
>>>upper left hand corner of the desktop (started in the middle before the DOS
>>>app).

>If you start your DOS app with a "START" command, then the original
>(4OS2) window shouldn't disappear at all.

Yes, I realize this. That's not the problem. I'm just wondering why
the windows *must* continually piss me off by moving around...

-Jr
stimpy@jupiter.nmt.edu

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From: stimpy@nmt.edu (John Reynolds)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: Sending keystrokes to PM program.
Keywords: keystrokes PM window.
Date: 10 Oct 92 17:24:10 GMT
Organization: New Mexico Tech

>I need a small utility that will send a few keystrokes to a program that is
>running in a window!  I think REXX might do this, if I could capture the input
>stream handle for the target window, but I have no clue how to do this.  I
>didn't see anything that looked promising on Hobbes.
>What I want to do is gracefully terminate a program running in a PM window
under OS/2 1.3 (I can't upgrade until the software server I am running releases
>a version that will run under 2.0.  There are lots of utils on Hobbes which
>kill the process outright, but I would like to send it the keystrokes to
>shut it down a little more gracefully than that...
>If anyone knows of such a util, or knows how to go about it in REXX, I would
>really appreciate an email note to tell me about it!

Does the app you want to close support DDE? If so, try and do it that
way (you'll have to right a small program though....). That's all I can 
think of. I've done that kind of thing before in Windoze....

-Jr


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OS/2..."It's like butter" (SNL quote)
From: reisert@sttng.mlo.dec.com (Jim Reisert)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: Inside OS/2 a bit skimpy
Date: 8 Oct 92 19:18:56 GMT
Article-I.D.: nntpd.1992Oct8.191856.21703
Reply-To: reisert@sttng.mlo.dec.com (Jim Reisert)
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation -- Maynard, MA


It's more than *a bit* skimpy.  They get $39/year for it?  I wish I
could make as much money on the unsuspecting masses.

I think I also got a sample of Inside Windows once.  It seems all of
the "Inside..." publications are written for real beginners.

They're not getting any of my money!

- Jim

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From: dic5340@hertz.njit.edu (David Charlap)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: Soundcard's and OS/2 2.0
Date: 15 Oct 92 17:23:35 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, N.J.

In article <Bw5p27.EL8@dei.unipd.it> jake@nora.dei.unipd.it (Luca Polo) writes:
>In comp.os.os2.apps (or comp.os.os2.programmer, I don't remember) there
>was an article announcing a beta version of a SBPro driver for base OS/2
>(no MMPM). it can be downloaded from
>	astro.as.arizona.edu [128.196.176.1]
>and the path is 
>	/pub/SBOS2/sbos2v09.zoo
>I have not yet tried it, however, so I can't express any opinion on it.

I attempted to install it and its demo programs.  None worked.  First,
I had to install emx version 0.8e, since it only wants to run on the
latest version of emx.dll.  Once I did that, the apps all terminated
with an "unable to open device number" error.  Did the author remember
that OS/2 SB users will probably have their card set to IRQ-5 instead
of IRQ-7?

Anyhow, I'm going to try a few more things, but right now it appears
to be quite useless.


-- 
David Charlap         |"there aren't 50,000 things for which it's worth writing
dic5340@hertz.njit.edu| software; and the computer industry doesn't have enough
----------------------+ programmers to create that much good software.
Therefore, most of it must be worthless" -- Boris Beizer "The Frozen Keyboard"
From: rays@elm.lle.rochester.edu (Ray Stewart)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: HELP NEEDED WITH NEC CDR-74 CDROM
Date: 15 Oct 92 21:08:36 GMT
Distribution: na
Organization: University of Rochester Computing Center

I am trying to get a NEC CDR-74 CDROM to work under os/2 2.01 (beta).

I have done the patch on CDROM.SYS (changed IBM to NEC).

OS/2 recognizes the drive and it appears in as driver e:

When I try to access to drive I get THE PARAMETER IS INCORRECT ERROR.
This is rather strange and cryptic message.
The drive is being accessed because the drive light blinks.

Here is a copy of my setup in config.sys

BASEDEV=OS2DASD.DMD
BASEDEV=AHA154X.ADD
BASEDEV=OS2SCSI.DMD
DEVICE=D:\OS2\CDROM.SYS /I /N:4
ifs=d:\os2\cdfs.ifs

I am using an adaptec 1542B and the tape address is 3.

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks Ray

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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Western Digital WD90C31 video chipset - will there be a driver?
From: gershon@husc10.harvard.edu (Ethan Gershon)
Date: 9 Oct 92 19:07:24 GMT

It seems I will soon get a WD90C31 based video card to replace my
current card.  This chipset is made as a "windows accelerator".
I believe the card I am getting is manufactured by Paradise.
Does anyone know anything about using this card with OS/2 2.0?

thanks.
                                             --Ethan Gershon
                                             gershon@husc.harvard.edu
From: KENKAHN@PKSMRVM.VNET.IBM.COM (Kenneth A. Kahn)
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 92 18:14:07 EDT
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: OS/2 Boot Disk
Organization: Staff of IBM Fellow - IBM Personal/370
Disclaimer: This posting represents the poster's views, not those of IBM
News-Software: UReply 3.0
X-X-From: KENKAHN@PKSMRVM.VNET.IBM.COM (Ken Kahn)
            <1bi0j1INNe1r@matt.ksu.ksu.edu>

In <1bi0j1INNe1r@matt.ksu.ksu.edu> Nan Zou writes:
>KENKAHN@PKSMRVM.VNET.IBM.COM (Kenneth A. Kahn) writes:
>>In <Bw0nHI.1IA@brunel.ac.uk> Paul L Barnfather writes:
>
>>>Is it possible to boot OS/2 off a single 1.2MB floppy FOR HPFS?
>>>
>>>I can make a boot disk for FAT, but there isn't enough space
>>>for HPFS.IFS
>
>>No way, just won't fit.  Trust me I've tried.
>
>Actually there is a way to do it.  Get the DOS program FDFORMAT from
>wuarchive.wustl.edu:/mirrors/msdos/dskutl, this allows you to format an
>1.2 MB disk to 1.44 capacity, you should be able to fit the uhpfs.dll on
>it then.
>

There's a number of other ShareWare/PD programs that do this and more; they
can format a 1.44" disk to about 1.7M.  I'm investigating adding this function
to SE20BOOT but don't know enough about how Formatting works.  If anyone would
like to help me out with the technical know how, I'd appreciate it.

(The original question though was how to fit all this on 1.2M, which as I
 stated can't be done).
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc,comp.os.linux
From: hafting@Lise.Unit.NO (Helge Hafting)
Subject: Re: Running Linux in a VDM. Can I do it?
Organization: Norwegian Institute of Technology
Date: Fri, 16 Oct 92 12:03:30 GMT

In article <ldkjh1INN19c@coltexo.cs.utexas.edu>, easyrob@cs.utexas.edu (Robert Depew Reynolds) writes:
 > Doesn't Linux require a 32-bit machine?  At best, the VDM emulates a '286
 > machine.  Linux is a REAL 32bit operating system that requires full access to
 > a 32bit machine.  OS/2 is also a REAL operating system that requires complete
 > control of its hardware.  You can not run 32-bit specific code in a VDM.  This
                                              ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
 > would destroy system integrity.  There are however ways to have both operating
 > systems on your machine.  You can use BootManager to switch back and forth.
 > The procedure needed to do this can be found in one of the FAQs associated with
 > these to fine operating systems.
 >  
                             GO TEAM OS/2 !!!
You probably meant "protected mode code", wich is what linux need. ?
There is nothing that stops you from using the 32-bits registers when
using a 386 in virtual mode.  Virtual mode supports all 386 instructions & 
features, except from entering protected mode.  
A program running in a VDM could even use 4G segments, if os/2 did provide 
such things for VDM's.  There is little reason to do so, however, since VDMs
main purpose is to run msdos.
pkzip for msdos, wich runs fine in a VDM, use the 32-bit
registers when detecting a 386, in order to get the extra speed. 
   

If someone wants unix in a VDM, they may try minix.  It has 8086 compatability.
It is a commercial program, but there is a demo version somewhere.
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From: d9mikael@dtek.chalmers.se (Mikael Wahlgren)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: Help with high speed modems
Date: 10 Oct 92 18:14:04 GMT
Organization: Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg Sweden

djs6015@ultb.isc.rit.edu (Don Smith) writes:

>I just bought a V.32bis external modem with a 16550A UART. How do I    
>tell TE/2 to take advantage of the hardware buffering? 

Do you mean that the 16550 UART is _IN_ your external modem?  In that
case you won't have much use of it.  It is the UART in the COMPUTER
that is used by the operating system.

Mikael Wahlgren
From: sproles@pine.circa.ufl.edu (SPROLES)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re:  DOS Game too fast!! how to slow down?
Date: 9 Oct 92 23:19:23 GMT
Reply-To: sproles@pine.circa.ufl.edu
Organization: University of Florida  (ufl.edu)
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.3-4

In article <1992Oct2.104707.15972@ugle.unit.no>, hafting@solan.unit.no (Helge Hafting) writes...
>In article <1992Sep24.200818.21875@news.cs.brandeis.edu>, lau@hydra.rose.brandeis.edu () writes:
> > Hi
> > 	I have a game dated back to 8088 dark-age.
> > 	It's good but it runs too fast, perhaps too fast
> > even on an AT!  Now it just flashed in 486/33.. can't play.
> > 
> 
>Set idle_seconds and idle_sensitivity to 0.

stuff deleted

>If you have a turbo switch, turn it off.
>You may also try to keep the processor busy with background tasks.

more highly technical stuff deleted

Well, for about *nothing* (200 dollars or less) you may find an old used
XT laptop for just gaming that won't take too much space on your desk.

I know that all techies like the BIG FIX but just get an XT, play with it,
give it to your kids in 5-10 years so they can tear it open to see how the
ancients invented their teachers.

(Tongue in cheek prophesy!)

have fun, J.

Sproles@pine.circa.ufl.edu
From: KENKAHN@PKSMRVM.VNET.IBM.COM (Kenneth A. Kahn)
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 92 05:20:34 EDT
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: OS/2 Boot Disk
Organization: Staff of IBM Fellow - IBM Personal/370
Disclaimer: This posting represents the poster's views, not those of IBM
News-Software: UReply 3.0
X-X-From: KENKAHN@PKSMRVM.VNET.IBM.COM (Ken Kahn)

In <Bw0nHI.1IA@brunel.ac.uk> Paul L Barnfather writes:
>Is it possible to boot OS/2 off a single 1.2MB floppy FOR HPFS?
>
>I can make a boot disk for FAT, but there isn't enough space
>for HPFS.IFS
>
>se20boot.exe doesn't work - it runs out of disk space.
>

No way, just won't fit.  Trust me I've tried.

(SE20BOOT Author)
From: ccusekh@prism.gatech.EDU (Kevin Hodge)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: Thoughts during my forced OS/2 sabbatical
Date: 13 Oct 92 00:42:03 GMT
Organization: Georgia Institute of Technology

In article <CB.92Oct12135737@tamarack13.timbuk> cb@tamarack13.timbuk (Chris Brewster) writes:
          stuff deleted

>The activity of moving around directories, seeing listings, and looking
>at files is part of the everyday use of an OS.  I think OS/2 should make
>this at least as easy as it is with standard DOS utilities.

An outfit out of Maryland, QB Software, has released one such utility:
DirMan/PM that has been uploaded to Hobbes.  Look for the file DIRMAN20.ZIP
in /PUB/DOWNLOADS/ (at least I think that's where it was).  Pretty nice
utility, IMHO.  They want $25.00 if you get it from their BBS or $30.00
if you have them mail it to you.  I have no affiliation with QB Software, just
glad to see utilities like DirMan/PM coming out.    
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Engineering Psychology        |            Madman Mundt
Georgia Tech                  |
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc,comp.os.os2.programmer