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From: kdorma@ravana.seas.ucla.edu (Kevin Dorma)
Subject: any problems with OS/2 or Win 3.0 on fast 486's ??
Organization: Dept. of Chemical Engineering, University of Alberta
Date: Tue, 28 Jul 1992 23:25:55 GMT

How's it goin', eh?
I have a '486-40 and I cannot run Win 3.0 in 386 mode _OR_ install/run
OS/2 unless the speed is cut to 20 MHz, all cache disabled and ROM shadowing
disabled.
Has anyone ever seen or heard about this type of problem with ANY SORT of
386 or 486, particulary machines faster than 33 MHz.
If so, what was the problem and how was it fixed.


EMAIL TO kdorma@ravana.eche.ualberta.ca , NOT TO THE ADDRESS ON THE HEADER
   {ok, so I haven't figured out how to change that line.... working on it}

TIA

                                  | 
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kdorma@ravana.eche.ualberta.ca    | What's yours?
Ph.D. type of student             | 
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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: gogol@diku.dk (Peter Skov Knudsen)
Subject: Re: csd charge?
Date: Tue, 21 Jul 1992 11:47:08 GMT
Distribution: comp
Organization: Department of Computer Science, U of Copenhagen

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

>In article <1992Jul18.1480.22302@dosgate> "bill dehaan" <bill.dehaan@canrem.com> writes:
>>Because  IBM  publicly  stated  that  the features which were originally
>>promised in 2.0 which did not actually make it into the product would be
>>available in a free CSD in the  summer. A lot of people who were  in the
>>"wait and see" camp were convinced to buy the original release based  on
>>this.

>They never said summer, but otherwise I agree with you.

>Their latest "future plans" letter (posted here recently) seems to
>indicate that the 32-bit graphics engine, Windows 3.1 compatibility,
>generic SuperVGA drivers, and so on will be available in a Service Pak
>this September, for free (electronically, e.g. via ftp) or on
>diskettes (media charge).
Stuff deleted.

I remember reading in the FAQ, that you have to get a CSD specific for your
national version of OS/2. Does this also apply to this Service Pack, and if
so will service packs for all national versions be made available on ftp
or just the US version?
If I have to get this Service Pack from one of IBM-Denmark"s authorized
dealers, I expect to pay hundreds of $$ "media charge", so please don"t 
tell me that all us non-US customers will have to get our language specific
update :-(

Regards
Peter S. Knudsen, email gogol@diku.dk, computer science student.
From: xtifr@netcom.com (Chris Waters)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: Stupid (i.e. neat) CMD.EXE tricks
Date: 21 Jul 92 10:10:43 GMT
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  (408 241-9760 guest)

In <1992Jul20.124432.9755@scott.skidmore.edu> pvonk@scott.skidmore.edu (Pierre VonKaenel) writes:

>In article <1992Jul20.070605.2015@ultb.isc.rit.edu> djs6015@ultb.isc.rit.edu (Don Smith) writes:
>>In article <keOUree00Vp94=yFIn@andrew.cmu.edu> sl31+@andrew.cmu.edu (Stephen M. Lacy) writes:
>>>    Point two: When working with windowed command shells, you can neatly 
>>>    scroll around the window without using the scroll bars, what you do is 
>>>    drag the mouse as if you're selecting something, then move the mouse 
>>>    outsize of the window, and it will scroll in that direction.  For example,
>>
>>
>>Huh? I tried this in my windowed CMD.EXE and 4OS2.EXE sessions and it
>>doesn't work in either. Can anybody verify this?

>Yup, works for me.  I have an 4os2 session that does it.  But you must
>have the scrolling ability set.  Add:  /k: d:\os2\mode.com co80,101
>to the settings "optional parameters" on the first page.  

Er, not exactly.  There must be scrollbars visible, otherwise there's
nothing to scroll!  :-)  But you can achieve this simply by reducing the
size of an 80x25 window.  Or, as suggested above, by using the mode
command to increase the dimensions to something like 80x50 or 80x25. 
Note that you can do this from the prompt.  No need to have a /k
statement in your settings.  Just type "mode 80,102".

The trick is that you have to click with the *RIGHT* mouse button!  I
suspect that this is the reason Don failed to make it work.
-- 
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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Texas 16c550AN
From: John_Huttley@kcbbs.gen.nz (John Huttley)
Date: 29 Jul 92 00:33:57 GMT
Organization: Kappa Crucis Unix BBS, Auckland, New Zealand

Does anybody know if this chip will work acceptably with the com550
driver? I know that the -AFN variety is preferred in the Dos world and
consequently I am leery about using these chips.
Any advice would be welcome.

Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu (Timothy F. Sipples)
Subject: Re: Idea for a unique delete?(for lack of a better description)
Reply-To: sip1@midway.uchicago.edu
Organization: Dept. of Econ., Univ. of Chicago
Date: Tue, 28 Jul 1992 02:11:55 GMT

In article <Bs2A49.Iwv@news.cso.uiuc.edu> tamu@uxh.cso.uiuc.edu (Todd Henderson) writes:
>I was watching a ballgame and they did an ad. for the dirt devel hand vac.
>It was on the big board cleaning up dirt(of coarse).  At any rate, I thought
>of an idea that would be better than the MAC trash can.
>By using some combination of mouse buttons(it seems like os/2 has used most
>already) your cursor turns into a vacuum cleaner and as you move it over
>a file it sucks it up.  You could have a setting for confirmation just like
>with the shredder.
>Just an idea.  Sorry it's off the beaten path a little.

Terrific idea.  Another possibility: have an icon of a shark (Jaws)
gobbling things on the screen.

-- 
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from 128.123.35.151, anonymous ftp,     | Internet: sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu
directory pub/os2/all/faq, or from      | Dept. of Econ., U. Chicago, 60637
LISTSERV@BLEKUL11.BITNET (send "HELP"). | Tsongas > Perot > Clinton.  Yay.
From: tau@athena.mit.edu (Frank D Chamberland)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: 1280x1024 OS/2 2.0 Video Card (& driver)
Date: 30 Jul 92 02:23:00 GMT
Distribution: comp.os.os2.misc
Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology



I think this question may be a little premature (it never matured for
OS/2 1.x), but does any one know if the following video card exists:

1280x1024
color (4-bit color is good enough)
non-interlaced
ISA bus
RGB(+(h/v)sync) output (failing that I think I can get an adapter cable)
***  OS/2 2.0 drivers  ***
$500 price range

From what I've read most of the S3 based video cards should be able to
handle this (or something close like 1280x900 (???)) but I don't know
of any that claim to have OS/2 drivers.

I have a 2 year old (unsupported) TIGA board that's very slow (read
bad Windows drivers) for which I  might be able to get drivers that
might work. But I'd rather bet on a supported board from a reputable
company. 

Dave Chamberland
tau@athena.mit.edu
From: jbradsh2@okeefe.helios.nd.edu (jonathan bradshaw)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: Icons and reason for blacking
Date: 21 Jul 92 20:17:00 GMT
Organization: University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame

In article <21JUL199210523887@vmsa.is.csupomona.edu> cvadrtbc@vmsa.is.csupomona.edu (Srikanth Viswanathan) writes:
>In article <V27ZNB1w164w@sps.pgh.pa.us>, kslater@sps.pgh.pa.us (Kevin J. Slater) writes...
>>I have a mild case of black icon disease. Only, in most cases, if I open 
>>up the settings book for the program, the icon returns to normal. I saw a 
>>message saying that you should run chkdsk on your drive and that will 
>>clear it up. I did, it didn't. What is causing this to occur?
>
>Don't know, but there's a fix for it, available at both software.watson.ibm.com 
>and ftp-os2.nmsu.edu.  
>
>Srikanth

This fix may be causing some of my new problems since installing it. Now any
full screen session upon closing locks up Os/2 (CAD doesn't reboot!) and I'm
getting "Low system resources" type messages when running Windows programs.
This all started after putting the patch in.

--
 Jonathan Bradshaw | jbradsh2@darwin.cc.nd.edu | HAM: N9OXE | Prodigy XMSN02B
 WNDU-AM/FM/TV South Bend, IN | Disclaimer "My opinions are not my employers"
 - "Busy life, not enough time to look in the mirror." -  Deborah Ann Gibson -
From: un032463@wvnvms.wvnet.edu
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Looking For OAK Tech. Drivers
Date: 31 Jul 92 13:02:12 GMT
Organization: West Virginia Network for Educational Telecomputing

HHELP!!!!  I have an Oak Technologies SVGA card and I am looking for the newest
drivers for OS/2 v2.0.  Any help would be great!  Please E-Mail.  Thanks...
From: me2539@sw1ne.sbc.com (me)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Printing OS2INT correctly
Summary: Document doesn't page properly.
Date: 24 Jul 92 18:02:15 GMT
Followup-To: Sender
Distribution: usa
Organization: Southwestern Bell Telephone Co.


I got the OS2TNT document from the binaries group, combined the
parts, uudecoded and unzooed it.  However, when I try to print
it (using lp) the paging is off.  In what format was the document
produced?  How can I print it so that it pages properly--ie, all
of each page on its *own* page?

Please reply by email, since this probably isn't a biggie.

Thanks
-- 
       --------------------------------------------------
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      |  evidence of things not seen."                   |
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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: bergstro@src.honeywell.com (Pete Bergstrom)
Subject: OO File system (was re: os/2's som)
To: comp.os.os2.misc
Posted-Date: Wed, 22 Jul 92 10: 28:01 CDT
Organization: Honeywell Systems & Research Center
Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1992 15:28:01 GMT
Received-Date: Wed, 22 Jul 92 10: 28:02 CDT

From: "stephen dawson" <stephen.dawson@canrem.com>
>"roger ramsey" <roger.ramsey@canrem.com>  writes
>
>>You mean like Norton Desktop does right now?  And like WPS does for
>>OS/2?  Wow!  Microsoft's new technology is simply bundling
>>competitor's innovations!

There are really no innovations in either OS/2 or NT - they are simply
new implementations of unix.  If you want to see innovation, look at
Mach (yes, NT may follow some of the principles of Mach, i.e.,
microkernel, but right now it appears to be a unix clone).


>>An object oriented file system provides considerably more than simple
>>Norton Desktop type functionality.  It provides things like directory
>>services and hooks for document management.
>Care to expand on what you mean by "directory services" and "hooks"?

An OO file system would allow a developer (at whatever level) to
insert an object that alters or supersedes the behavior of parts of an
existing file system.  This subclassing is actually used in
programming the behaviors of PM (and windoze) windows and dialogs.

One of the simplest uses of this would be to treat .zoo files as
directories, allowing the "dir" command to view a list of the
contents, "cd" into a .zoo file, apply "type" or "start" to a file
within, etc.

>The WPS has features that I would describe by these terms. Maybe
>OS/2's System Object Module has more features than you realize. :-)

It does have more features, however there is a long way to go before
these boxes are really useful.

Pete
From: dic5340@hertz.njit.edu (David Charlap)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: Forbidding extended attributes on FAT drive?
Keywords: extended attributes, FAT
Date: 23 Jul 92 19:09:10 GMT
Organization: New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, N.J.

In article <250@zam103.zam.kfa-juelich.de> kiehl@ibt013.ibt.kfa-juelich.de (Horst Kiehl) writes:
>Is there a way to forbid OS/2 to store extended attributes on a FAT drive?

Not really.  If you write protect the disk, I don't think OS/2 will
give you an error though.  It doesn't on my system.  Of course, you
can't write any files when you do that.


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From: mstaben@comtch.spk.wa.us (Matthew Staben)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: Help !! I'm having problems installing OS/2
Date: 28 Jul 92 19:06:24 GMT
Organization: Waffle BBS at CompuTech Spokane, Washington

paul@tct.com (Paul Levin) writes:

> Can someone tell me what's wrong -- I was installing OS/2, in dual boot mode 
> (existing FAT file system with DOS 5.0).  My system is as follows --
> 	386 DX 33MHz, 8 Mbyte, AMI Bios, 
> 	4096 Seagate (80 MBytes MFM), WD clone HFD-CC
> 	Trident SVGA 1024x768 1 Mbyte
> 	Fast Trap track ball on serial port 1 
> 		(uses DOS device driver to be Microsoft mouse compadable)
> 
> Setup DOS 5.0 as per OS/2 installation manual.
> Load OS/2 diskettes 1-6 & Installation Diskette  --- took over 45 minutes.
> System does a re-boot.
> Gets to "Loading system -- please wait" -- several minutes of disk activity
> then a black screen and no disk activity for many minutes.  
> 	I hit the reset button.
> Then got 
> 	4 minutes of "Loading system -- please wait" again
> 	2 min.        black screen with cursor in upper left corner
> 	2 min.	      white screen
>         2 min.        white screen with little black clock
>         a second      clock replaced with arrow
>         7 min.        black clock again
>               gave up -- turned machine off !!
> 
> I have 2 questions -- 
> 	1) WHAT'S GOING ON ???
> 	2) How can I get my track ball to work with OS/2, since under DOS,
> 	   it requires that I load a device driver to make it Microsoft
> 	   compadible ? 
> 
> Please respond to Paul Levin --  paul@count.tct.com
> 	or		813-969-3367
> 	   

 
I know the symptoms!  You need to get the disk fix from the IBM NSC
BBS.  Look for MFM/RLL fix.  Follow the instructions exactly and your
problems will be solved.  The first five disks install quite quickly
and you should be able to install the entire system in 30 minutes at
the most.
 
Matt


mstaben@comtch.spk.wa.us  _or_  mstaben@visual.spk.wa.us
 
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: THOGER@bg1.hbg.hydro.no (Terje Thoegersen)
Subject: Re: Refuse to accept disk #3
Organization: Norsk Hydro, Hydro Data
Date: Fri, 31 Jul 92 16:24:56 GMT
X-News-Reader: VMS NEWS 1.11

In <1992Jul30.230114.25548@microsoft.com> a-willyp@microsoft.com writes:

> 
> I tried to install my 486 machine with 114 megB ESDI
> hard drive using adeptec controller.   Everything
> was doing fine till installation refused to accept
> floppy disk labelling "Disk #3".   This appears that
> installation thinks this is wrong disk.   I am not
> able to continue on Disk #3.   I had no problem
> installing in another computer (AST labtop) in all
> all installation diskettes.   Then I copy from my
> laptop to my 486 and then 486 machine can run OS/2
> without any problem but I want to install directly
> from installation diskettes.
> 
> I am totally deaf and I have special phone number for
> the deaf to call IBM Support but it is recording message
> and IBM have never returned call, yet.
> 
> Can you please advice me why my machine won't accept
> disk #3?   This acts like that this disk is wrong one.
> 
> Hardware:  486 with 33 mhz, Clone with AMI bios, Adeptec
>            ESDI controller with 114 megB drive (less than
>            1024 cyclinders).  I have tried several 
>            different VGA video cards.   Inport Mouse 
>            and two com ports.
> 
> Thank you
> 
> willy
> 
> uunet!microsoft!a-willyp
> or uunet!icxn!seaeast!willyp
> 
> p.s. I am not working for Microsoft so I am not speaking
> for Microsoft.

The problem is that your floppy-disk does not support 'change-line', pin
34 on the interface. Check your FD to see if there is some sort of an 'XT/AT'
jumper. If so, make sure this is set to 'AT'.

The problem is described in the OS2TNT.ZIP file found on ftp-os2.nmsu.edu.
(I'm not sure I got that adress quite right. If not, I'm sure someone will
correct me :-))

  -Terje



-------------------------------------------------------------
Terje Thoegersen    Norsk Hydro    Hydro Data    Oslo, Norway
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: ralf@ubka.uni-karlsruhe.de (Ralf Grohmann)
Subject: Re: OS/2 and Modplay
Organization: University of Karlsruhe, Germany
Date: Fri, 24 Jul 1992 13:03:08 GMT

I use a very good mod-player called 'ss'.
It works flawlessly even without the 'hw_timer on'-Setting.
I like it especially because you don't need to fiddle with
config-files etc. It's a single .EXE!

It is available from our FTP-Site ftp.rz.uni-karlsruhe.de
as pub/msdos/music/mod/ss.zip in Germany.

Try it, you'll like it!

Ralf

-- 
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Micro-BIT, Rechenzentrum Universitaet Karlsruhe, Germany
ralf@ubka.uni-karlsruhe.de
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From: dic5340@hertz.njit.edu (David Charlap)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: OS/2 and Modplay
Date: 28 Jul 92 19:37:41 GMT
Organization: New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, N.J.

In article <1992Jul28.191739.18025@njitgw.njit.edu> dic5340@hertz.njit.edu (David Charlap) writes:

>If anyone can point me to an ftp site that has "Whacker Tracker II",
>I'd like to try it out. 

I've been pointed to it.  The file is WOWII100.ZIP, and is available
from wuarchive.wustl.edu, located in the /mirrors/msdos/sound
directory.  The author claims OS/2 2.0 compatibility (with some
restrictions), so I'll try it out and report back soon.
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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc,comp.os.os2.apps
From: heinrich@leland.Stanford.EDU (Mark Andrew Heinrich)
Subject: ET4000 Interlaced/Non-interlaced Problem
Organization: DSG, Stanford University, CA 94305, USA
Date: Wed, 22 Jul 92 08:17:53 GMT

I have a generic ET4000.

When I run svga on under a real (booted, not VDM) DOS prompt it fills
in my 1024x768 16 and 256 color modes with InterlaceMode=0.  When I run
svga on from a full-screen DOS session under OS/2 it fills in the same modes
with InterlaceMode=1.  From looking at the settings I have determined that
InterlaceMode=0 actually means the card is being driven interlaced (Go 
figure).

I am using Orchid's 0.9 1024x768x256 driver.  Using the svgadata.pmi
file generated in the first case, the WPS is fine and everything appears
to work--UNTIL I go into any 1024x768 (16 or 256 color modes) through a
DOS session (this includes WIN-OS2).  In these modes the bright colors
shimmer badly and the screen is painful to look at.

Using the svgadata.pmi file generated in the 2nd case (NI), the WPS has the
same shimmering that only occurred in the DOS sessions before, and it
is completely unusable.

It seems that the Orchid drivers work in interlaced 1024x768 and shimmer in
non-interlaced 1024x768, and that's fine with me, but the DOS 1024x768 gif 
viewers and windows drivers are non-interlaced and are unusable. 
Note these programs do not shimmer under NATIVE DOS.  

To get my 1024x768 DOS programs to run (and Windows driver) what do I need
to do?  Are there interlaced ET4000 1024x768x256 Windows drivers?  Since
running svga on under OS/2 sets up my 1024 modes as non-interlaced is it
doing so incorrectly?  Does anyone else have this problem?  It would
be nice to brainstorm on this one.

Help is welcomed,
Mark
-- 
Mark A. Heinrich
E-Mail: heinrich@leland.stanford.edu
 	"I wanna be like Mike."  -- Dean Smith	
	3PEAT!!!
From: grosen@isc.cs.ndsu.nodak.edu (Johannes Grosen)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: MouseSystems Mouse help
Date: 21 Jul 92 15:13:20 GMT
Article-I.D.: plains.19252
Organization: North Dakota State University

Ok, so I read the FAQ *after* installing OS/2. I made the wrong choice when
I chose a mouse (I have a MouseSystems mouse). Now I have OS/2 installed but
no mouse :(

So, do I have to re-install OS/2 to get the Logitech mouse driver or can I
change device drivers via config.sys?

Thanks!
-- 
Johannes Grosen
ISC Group System Administrator
401E Minard Hall
North Dakota State University
(701) 237-8409
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: riehm@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca (Carl Riehm)
Subject: Udell's complaints about the WPS in the August Byte.
Organization: Department of Computer Science, McMaster University
Distribution: all
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1992 15:59:39 GMT

Anyone care to comment about Jon Udell's complaints that
1) the WPS is prone to crashes
2) It is "maddeningly slow" - he gives several examples, including the fact that
his PS/2 25mhz Model 70 with 6 mb of ram takes 3 seconds to open a folder with
"just a few icons".

Carl Riehm.
From: ccusekh@prism.gatech.EDU (Kevin Hodge)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Dell offers OS/2 on its PCs
Date: 22 Jul 92 19:49:01 GMT
Organization: Georgia Institute of Technology

I just received a product catalog from DELL and was pleased to see that
they are now offering OS/2 2.0 as one of the operating systems that
a customer may choose to have installed on his/her PC.  See pages
33 and 53.
-- 
Kevin A. Hodge                |   "I'll show you a life of the mind!"
Engineering Psychology        |            Madman Mundt
Georgia Tech                  |
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: MLONG@isucard.card.iastate.edu
Subject: How to make a Sony CD-ROM work with OS/2
Organization: CARD
Date: Sat, 25 Jul 1992 02:13:03 GMT

From the IBM OS/2 BBS:                                                          
                                                                                
                                                                                
 ---------------------------------------------------- Level 5 of 5 Panel 1 of 1 
 ----- OS2HW CFORUM appended at 22:43:24 on 92/07/17 GMT (by KENIN at MARTLINK) 
 Subject: Sony CD-ROM CDU535...HELP!!                                           
 Ref: Append at 15:43:45 on 92/07/10 GMT (by MTRA165 at OS2CUST)                
                                                                                
 I have a SONY CD that is working fine.  The process is not supported by IBM.   
                                                                                
 1) Install the CD support on the Selective Install screen.                     
 2) I have a ADAPTEC SCSI card that is supported by OS2.                        
   Look for the BASEDEV=AHA154X.ADD for the 1542 card in your CONFIG.SYS,       
   if it is there (or one like it) you are OK here.                             
 3) Make sure the following were added to your CONFIG.SYS by the install:       
   IFS=D:\OS2\CDFS.IFS /Q                                                       
   DEVICE=D:\OS2\CDROM.SYS /Q /I /N:4                                           
   DEVICE=D:\OS2\MDOS\VCDROM.SYS                                                
 4) Reboot and give it a try.                                                   
                                                                                
  The /I parm is the key.  This tells the driver not to look at the device      
 manufacturer info.  Please get on the phone and abuse SONY, as they must add   
 the support to ensure we will continue to have our CD access thru OS2.         
                                                                                
  Good Luck!                                                                    
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