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From: cro@socrates.ed.asu.edu (C. R. Oldham)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.apps
Subject: Re: Why do WPS windows take forever to close?
Keywords: wps windows close time forever
Date: 30 Jul 92 17:10:19 GMT
Organization: North Central Association, Commission on Schools

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

>I think you have really answered your own question, that there is some
>fatal flaw with the hard drive you have been using.  Hopefully the
>hard drive is still under warranty and can be exchanged.

Yeah--I wondered that too, but do you think that I *really* could have
gotten *3* bad hard drives in a row?  From two different manufacturers?

>As a last ditch effort, though, try the following:

>(1) Perform a CHKDSK /F per the instructions in the OS/2 FAQ List.
>(2) Perform a restoration to "factory defaults" of the desktop and
>CONFIG.SYS using the ALT-F1 trick described in the OS/2 README file in
>the root directory.
>(3) Perform a reformat/reinstall of OS/2 on that hard drive.  The
>reformat is important -- I would not skip that step.

Already done.  I'm currently trying to install with two 100Mb HPFS
partitions instead of one 200Mb HPFS.  Maybe that'll fix it.

Thanks for your suggestions.

Charles R. (C. R.) Oldham | North Central Association, Commission on Schools
cro@socrates.ed.asu.edu or| Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ 85287-3011
aocro@acvax.inre.asu.edu  | 602/965-8700:800/525-9517 | #include <disclaimer.h>
"For the Lord is a great God, and a great King above all gods..." Psalm 95:3
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.apps
From: rommel@Informatik.TU-Muenchen.DE (Kai-Uwe Rommel)
Subject: Re: GNU groff/troff et al.. macro bugs?
Organization: Technische Universitaet Muenchen, Germany
Date: Thu, 30 Jul 1992 20:59:47 GMT

In article <1992Jul30.154942.24776@bmerh85.bnr.ca> mlord@bmers63.bnr.ca (Mark Lord) writes:
>I have fetched the GNU groff package from hobbes..  WOW!
>
>At last, I can format man pages on my 486, rather than uploading
>to a unix box and then downloading the results.
>
>But.. the basic test for such programs is to try them on their own
>man pages.. in this case, several files result in warnings/errors from
>the formatter.  Is this "normal", or just an added OS/2 feature?

WOW, that's a fast man. I must have uploaded this only minutes before
... anyway, you have probably viewed the included man pages on the
screen? Then you get a few warnings about missing characters that are
not supported on the ascii (or cp437 or cp850?) device but only on dvi
or PostScript. That's normal.

What man pages fail? I included a few from the BSD release because the
GNU groff mages frequently refer to them.

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
From: TomK@cup.portal.com (Tom R Krotchko)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.apps
Subject: Re: Where's Borland?
Date: Mon, 27 Jul 92 19:12:28 PDT
Organization: The Portal System (TM)
  <1992Jul24.022936.21509@frodo.cc.flinders.edu.au> <62816@cup.portal.com>
  <1992Jul27.033548.9522@weyrich.UUCP>

Incidentally, don't waste your time with Protogen for $50.

Its equal to decent shareware, but certainly, you can't do prototypes
as Borland (and the name) implies.

A friend bought it, and is returning it. I played with it for 1/2 hour.
Not very good.
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.apps
From: macketan@Informatik.TU-Muenchen.DE (Robert Macketanz)
Subject: Re: TeX for OS/2?
Keywords: TeX, OS/2
Originator: macketan@hphalle9b.informatik.tu-muenchen.de
Organization: Technische Universitaet Muenchen, Germany
Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1992 10:25:51 GMT


In article <1992Jul21.082850.11727@hippo.ru.ac.za>, keyser@oliver.sun.ac.za (Keyser W MSC) writes:
|> Can anyone tell me if there is a TeX for OS/2 and perhaps where I
|> can find it?
|> 
|> Thanks in advance.
|> 
|> --
|>   Wouter
|> 
|> ------------------------------------------------------------------
|> P.W. Keyser                      e-mail:keyser@cs.sun.ac.za         
|> Departement Rekenaarswetenskap,  "These Romans are crazy" - Obelix  
|> U.S., Stellenbosch, 7600, R.S.A.
|> ------------------------------------------------------------------

There is a TeX for OS/2 : emTeX, available from some mail servers, eg.
this one (where I got my copy from) "mail-server@cs.ruu.nl"
just ask "send ls-lR" and you get the directory listing...
			Robert
From: rick@sjsumcs.sjsu.edu (Richard M. Warner)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.apps
Subject: Re: Floppy Backup, Re: 32bit Shareware back
Date: 22 Jul 92 00:01:17 GMT
Organization: San Jose State University, Math & CS

In article <1992Jul21.141820.24239@relay.nswc.navy.mil> whiles@nswc.navy.mil (William Scott Hiles x1568) writes:
>From: whiles@nswc.navy.mil (William Scott Hiles x1568)
>Subject: Re: Floppy Backup, Re: 32bit Shareware back
>Date: 21 Jul 92 14:18:20 GMT

>In article 711671081@sjsumcs.sjsu.edu, rick@sjsumcs.sjsu.edu (Richard M. Warner) writes:
>>
>>>In my opinion you are wrong about backing up to floppies.  Many people and
>>>companies use a backup strategy which allows them to backup to convenient
>>>(but small) media such as floppies.  This strategy is to establish a area
>>>of the disk which contains the operating system, and area for programs, and
>>>an area for user stuff.  The operating system area and the programs area are 
>>>only backed up when they are modified.  The user data area is always backed
>>>up and in general may not be that large.  The benefit of backing up to
>>>relatively inexpensive floppies which are supported by the os makes such
>>>a program and process very attractive.  At this point in OS/2, we have little
>>>choice unless we are willing to shell out a lot of money for a tape drive.
>>>Diskette drivers are standard with OS/2...
>>

A lot of big name manufacturers are around, and should be for a while.
With all the new, big OS's, tape drives *will* become more standard.
(No one will stand backing up a Windows NT or UNIX machine off a
diskette drive for very long!).

>Additionally, if I have 10 386s which cost about 1500.00 each, I am not about
>to spend 500.00 per computer to add a tape drive.  If I maintain all the systems
>identically and the only difference is the user area, I have made life a lot simpler
>with only floppies.

No, if you are smart you get one tape drive and use it for all 10 
machines.  Easy if you are on a network, easy if you are not on a 
network (several QIC-40 and 1/4" SCSI drives are around that can plug
into a parallel port - move it from machine to machine.  Works well).
No matter how you try, differences will creep in.  You should have at
least 1 full backup of each machine; 3-4 in rotation if you are really 
good.


>By the way, the backup utility is worth 35.00.  I paid over 70.00 for a backup
>utility from PcTools, so 35.00 makes it extremely attractive regardless of 
>the media which it supports.  

>Scott Hiles
>whiles@relay.nswc.navy.mil
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.apps,comp.os.os2.misc
From: exujlg@exu.ericsson.se (Jon L. Gauthier)
Subject: Anyone have GTAK100 running?
Organization: Ericsson Network Systems, Inc.
Date: Mon, 27 Jul 1992 16:26:28 GMT

A while back there was a post regarding GTAK100, the GNU TAR port to OS/2 
that supports tape drives on SCSI adapters.  I replied to that posting, 
saying that since I got the DOS version working, it was probably easy to get 
the protected mode version working.  BOY, WAS I WRONG!!!

I spent 3 hours last night trying to get it to work on my system.  My 
configuration is as follows:

	Fivestar 386/25 w/AMI BIOS, 5/89 vintage (Yes, it does work!;)
	10MB RAM (4MB-9chip, 4MB-3chip, 2MB-3chip 256K - no crashes yet)
        213MB Maxtor IDE drive
	Internal Zoom 2400 Modem
	DFI SVGA (Trident 8800 chipset)
	Adaptec AHA-1522 SCSI adapter
	Archive Viper 2150S Tape Drive

	I've got the Adaptec BIOS enabled at C800, boot disabled, adapter 
	SCSI address at 7, Tape drive address at 0.

I'm loading in my config.sys via BASEDEV the os2scsi.dmd, os2aspi.dmd,
aha152x.add, DEVICE=c:\os2\aspitape.sys TAPE$0 0 S0, and 
SET TAPE=+++TAPE$4.  When booting, aspitape responds like it's loading, and 
I get no response from the ASPI manager or the AHA152X driver.  When I do a 
TAPEP STATUS, it responds saying no driver loaded.

What am I doing wrong?  The docs for the adaptec aspi beta and the newest 
aha152x drivers just say copy the new over the old, but they don't say 
anything about switches.  The AHA1522 came with DOS, Netware and SCO Unix 
drivers, but no OS/2 drivers - therefore no OS/2 docs.  The OS/2 readme file 
wasn't much help, either. 

Could the adaptec beta os2aspi.dmd be conflicting with IBM's os2scsi.dmd?

Thanks in advance,
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From: ygoland@edison.seas.ucla.edu (The Jester)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.apps
Subject: Re: OS/2-The User's View
Date: 31 Jul 92 10:22:23 GMT
Organization: The Hacker Conference

I usually avoid following up my own posts but in light of the mail I
have been recieving, I think it necessary. My original post
regarding problems I was having with os/2 was NOT meant as a plea
for help (otherwise I would have been much more specific and
provided hardware information). Instead it was a query, are other
people out there having problems with os/2 crashing for no
particular reason (other than you did something somewhat nasty. For
example today I ran a modem program, system editor, borland c++, and
a dos window all at the same time and the system went D O W N (i.e.
I got the 'call your local system representative message')). Now if I
could repeat this little trick I would come and say 'well why is it
happening?'. But if I were to go into os/2 right now and do it again
I have a 50/50 chance something would happened. Therefore I chose to
ask a difference question than 'how do I take care of this.' What my
original post was asking was:Are other people, in general, having
problems with os/2 crashing on them? I want to gauge the general
'success' rate with os/2 to see if my crash-a-day is because I have
something wacked on my system or because thats just os/2. (Hell I
used to think my crash-an-hour on windows was abnormal till I
started talking with other windows users and realized it was par for
the course). 
				The Jester
--
			The Jester
"Whats a Knock Out like you doing in a computer generated Gin
joint like this one?"-William Riker
"I'm god, whats your excuse?"-The Jester
From: tony@bai.baylis.COM (Tony von Ruden)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.apps
Subject: Norton Commander for OS/2 
Distribution: na
Date: Mon, 27 Jul 92 18:49:20 GMT
Organization: Baylis Automation, Inc.


In article <1992Jul27.143420.14873@softserv.zdv.uni-tuebingen.de> 
            affie@earley.sns.neuphilologie.uni-tuebingen.de writes:

  > Now I am looking for somethin' like the Norton Commander for OS/2 (2.0). 
  > .... If you ask for money I will pay for it!
  > 

  Ditto for me. Norton Commander for DOS is still my most used program 
  under OS/2 2.0.

Tony von Ruden			tony@baylis.com
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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.apps
From: jokim@jarthur.claremont.edu (John H. Kim)
Subject: Re: Unix-like MORE for OS/2? (yes, I _did RTFFAQ)
Organization: Harvey Mudd College, Claremont, CA 91711
Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1992 02:47:18 GMT


a port of the DOS version of LIST is available for OS/2.
A friend of mine got it off one of thoseOS/2 BBSes.  If
it's not at an ftp site, I can put my copy there (7.5h - old).
But I'm in Korea, telnetting in, so don't expect it soon.

Oh, it doesn't support long filenames.  :(
-- 
John H. Kim                 | (This space to be filled when I
jokim@jarthur.claremont.edu | think of something very clever 
uunet!jarthur!jokim         | to use as a disclaimer)
From: jot@teak09.cray.com (Otto Tennant)
Subject: WordStar for Windows and OS/2
Organization: Cray Research, Inc.
Distribution: comp.os.os2.apps
Date: 21 Jul 92 22:08:42 CDT

Just between you, me, and the gatepost, ...

Normally I don't use Windows or Windows applications.  Indeed, WSWin
is the only one I have.

Unusual things happen when I try to use it.  Tonight, when I tried to
exit Windows, I got an interesting moire pattern. The three-finger
salute got me back to a reasonable system; I wonder what I blew.

I'm going to be happy with GNU Emacs, I guess.
--
===============================================================================
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Cray Research, Inc.              Virgil                          (612) 683-5872
665 Lone Oak Drive                                                
Eagan, MN 55121
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.apps
From: sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu (Timothy F. Sipples)
Subject: Re: Terminal Emulator with HPFS support needed
Reply-To: sip1@midway.uchicago.edu
Organization: Dept. of Econ., Univ. of Chicago
Date: Sat, 25 Jul 1992 01:21:36 GMT

In article <14psjeINN8tp@matt.ksu.ksu.edu> bewhite@matt.ksu.ksu.edu (MacroMan) writes:
>  I need a communications program that will download YModem Batch
>and supports long filenames with multiple periods.  Is this
>possible under HPFS?  If so, does anyone know of a program 
>that will support such a transfer?

TE/2, a shareware communications program, does so.  You can get it via
anonymous ftp from ftp-os2.nmsu.edu.

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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.apps
From: cl45@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu (Ching-Tse Liu)
Subject: 32-bit GNUPLOT under both OS/2 2.0 and Windows enhanced mode
Reply-To: cl45@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu (Ching-Tse Liu)
Organization: Columbia University
Date: Fri, 24 Jul 1992 04:14:23 GMT

Hi,

I have just uploaded GPLOT386.ZIP to WSMR-SIMTEL20.ARMY.MIL.                                                                     
It will probably be in PD1:<MSDOS.PLOT> .                                                               

I have also uploaded the same file under the name 'gnuplt32.zip'
to ftp-os2.nmsu.edu in pub/downloads since a number of people in
comp.os.os2.apps have expressed their interests in a 32-bit GNUPLOT. 
I wonder if this is appropriate for this site though.                                                                       

It's a port of GNUPLOT 3.2 to the MSDOS for 386 PCs. It is a
32-bit DMPI compliant DOS extended program that can run under
both the Win 3.1 enhanced mode and the OS/2 DOS box. It also
                                       	***********************	            
--cliu@merlin.appmath.columbia.edu	*   CLifton T. Liu    *
--cl45@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu		***********************

Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.apps
From: MLONG@isucard.card.iastate.edu
Subject: New OS/2 32 bit apps book avail.
Organization: CARD
Date: Fri, 24 Jul 1992 05:38:12 GMT

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From: steveh@goanna.cs.rmit.oz.au (Steven Hayes)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.apps
Subject: Re: Where's Borland?
Date: 22 Jul 92 12:29:35 GMT
Organization: Comp Sci, RMIT, Melbourne, Australia

smbrush@lims01.lerc.nasa.gov (Andy Brush @Sverdrup) writes:

>A few months ago, Borland seemed to be promising that they were heavily 
>committed to supplying applications for OS/2:  The trade rags quoted 
>Phillipe Khan (sp?) saying how important OS/2 would be, etc.

The compiler is in beta test now. Object Vision is shipping I think.

>It seems that either Borland is having difficulty porting their compiler to 
>OS/2, or that they have made a strategic decision to avoid OS/2.  Either 
>way, it's looking like it's time to make the decision to avoid Borland.

Borland is certainly not ignoring OS/2. Philippe Kahn will be speaking to
Australian developers at the OS/2 Developers Conference here in Australia
in late August.
-- 
   Steven Hayes                                    |  steveh@rmit.edu.au
   Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT)  |  +61 3 660-2693
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.apps
From: tamu@uxh.cso.uiuc.edu (Todd Henderson)
Subject: Re: Where's Borland?
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Fri, 24 Jul 1992 18:50:03 GMT

bking@ersys.edmonton.ab.ca (Barry King) writes:

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

>> Actually, both used to deelop for OS/2.  Lotus was one of the first
>> vendors to release OS/2 apps.  Remember 1-2-3/G?  Well, they now have
>> 1-2-3, AmiPro, Freelance Graphics, and cc:Mail for OS/2.  They've been
>> available for over a year.  How do I know?  A Lotus rep told me at an
>> advertising seminar.
>> 
> 
>Ami Pro is available as an OS/2 app?  That's news to me (good news if 
>it's true).  My understanding was that they were still working on it.  
>And, Lotus just took over AmiPro within the last year...I question this 
>information but will check it out.  123/G, of course, has been around for 
>some time and was a good product, IMHO.  Borland really showed their 
>colours about OS/2 way back when Paradox 3.5 was released for DOS with no 
>plans to bring Paradox OS/2 up to that release level, nor port the 
>Paradox engine for retail distribution.
> 
>If you have concrete evidence of the existence of AmiPro at the retail 
>level, please let me know.  In the interim I'll do some checking on my 
>own. 

About 1 month ago when I called Lotus the lady said that AmiPro 3.0 for windows
had been officially announced and would be out in late summer or early fall.
She said a more exact date, I just can't remember.  She also sent me a flyer.

However, when asked about OS/2 she said that no official release date has
been announced, but they were working on it for sometime in the fall hopefully.
She said the upgrade from the windows versions would not be to much.  They
did not want to make it finacially prohibitive to go to OS?2 products.

Todd
tamu@uxh.cso.uiuc.edu

>Regards,
> 
>Barry

>Barry King              bking@ersys.edmonton.ab.ca
>Edmonton Remote Systems:  Celebrating 10 years of service to Northern Alberta
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.apps
From: ralf@ubka.uni-karlsruhe.de (Ralf Grohmann)
Subject: Re: OS/2 and Stacker
Organization: University of Karlsruhe, Germany
Date: Fri, 24 Jul 1992 13:27:29 GMT

In article <14lepsINNjhp@agate.berkeley.edu>, shyguy@ocf.berkeley.edu (David S. Shy) writes:
|> Does anyone know if OS/2 will work under Stacker, the on-the-
                       ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
|> fly-compression program?  If not, are there any such programs
|> that OS/2 will work with?
|> 
|> David Shy
|> shyguy@ocf.berkeley.edu 

You mean Stacker will work under OS/2? As of now, NO! 

Ralf

-- 
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From: RHS@garnet.berkeley.edu (Richard Stanton)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.apps
Subject: Printing problem with OS/2 GNUPLOT port
Date: 31 Jul 92 16:44:04 GMT
Distribution: world
Organization: Haas School of Business, U.C. Berkeley
NNTP-Posting-Host: connor.berkeley.edu

I have installed the OS/2 GNUPLOT port, which looks great, but I'm having 
printing trouble. Specifically, my printer is a HP LJ III with PS cartridge. 
If I only set up a PCL icon, then GNUPLOT is happy to print to the PCL 
driver. However, if I also set a PS printer icon, even though I set the 
default printer device to be LJIII in PCL mode, GNUPLOT insists on using the 
PS driver.

Another similar problem - Using the new DVIPM program, when I try to print a 
page, it allows me to choose the printer device, except the only choice it 
gives me is IBMNULL - not too useful.

Does this problem affect others, or is it likely my OS2.INI is corrupted?

Richard Stanton
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.apps
From: fredw@mks.com (Fred Walter)
Subject: Re: Floppy Backup, Re: 32bit Shareware back
Organization: Mortice Kern Systems Inc., Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA
Date: Tue, 21 Jul 1992 23:54:14 GMT

x91clifton1@gw.wmich.edu writes:
>I've got a Mountain QIC-60 internal and a pile of tapes sitting there idle.
>Anyone coming out with decent backup software is going to get my business.

Why not buy Mountain's tape backup software ? It supposedly works under
OS/2 2.0 and handles HPFS/etc. And it costs only $179.

Call Mountain (408-379-4302) for more info.

(No, I don't own it, I've just been doing research into tape backup software.)

	fred
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From: rolfe@w3vh.UUCP (Rolfe Tessem)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.apps
Subject: Re: Re: Unix-like MORE for OS/2? (yes, I _did RTFFAQ)
Distribution: world
Date: Sun, 26 Jul 92 01:21:16 GMT
Organization: 

glen@hpfcmgw.FC.HP.COM writes in article <14130011@hpfcmgw.FC.HP.COM>:
> 
> It's not 'more' but I would recommend you take a look at Vern Berg's (sp?)
> list.  It is my file viewer of choice on DOS and OS2, and if I had it on
> my U**X or realtime machine I'd use it there.
> 
> Glen - R
> 

The version I have, 1.0h, does not grok long file names.  Is there a
version that does?

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