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From: je@unix.brighton.ac.uk (John English)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: Problems with ProIIs with OS/2 2.0+CSD
Date: 10 Jan 93 18:04:29 GMT
Organization: University of Brighton, UK

peb@pebble.gentoo.com (Pat Bozeman) writes:
: I am unable to get my Orchid Prodesigner IIs card to work in OS/2.  I kinda
: got it working a while ago in 800x600, but when I open a dos session my
: refresh would drop to what looked like 56hz. 
: 
: Has anyone got this card working?

Yes, eventually! With the CSD installed SVGA ON refused to work --
SVGA WHO said it was an IBM video card -- SVGA ON DOS generated
SVGADATA.DOS which when renamed to SVGADATA.PMI worked fine.
   (I)t's
   (B)lack
   (M)agic... :-)
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From: steveh@goanna.cs.rmit.oz.au (Steven Hayes)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Palette Manager problems (save-bits don't save palette)
Date: 9 Jan 93 07:33:43 GMT
Organization: Comp Sci, RMIT, Melbourne, Australia

Hi Netters,

I'm sure this has been posted about before, but I couldn't remeber the 
solution to the problem, so...

I've been writing a image viewing program for OS/2 2.0 which uses the
palette manager. Its pretty simple at the moment - displays pgm format images
of any size and 'depth' and lets you scroll around the image in a window.

Everything was whoopy (sassi, froody ;-) until I added a menu to the window.
Now when a drop-down menu goes away the portion of the client area obscured
by the menu gets redrawn with an incorrect palette. The only repaint
messages that don't work properly are when the obscuring window uses the
SAVEBITS option (which doesn't actually cause a WM_PAINT message to get
sent, instead the window 'remembers' what is was covering)

So, what do I have to do to insure that SAVEBITS redraws work with the correct
palette entries?

Cheers

Steve
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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: mjharris@nyx.cs.du.edu (Mike Harris)
Subject: Re: 2.1 beta found on Hobbes
Organization: University of Denver, Dept. of Math & Comp. Sci.
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 93 21:13:15 GMT

msmith@netcom.com (Martin P. Smith) writes:

>I am GLAD that the beta was removed from hobbes. The last thing developers
>want to see is blatent breaches of copyright even for beta software. If this
>had been allowed to continue then IBM may have decided to return to the pre
>World wide DAP beta test mode. If you know somebody with a CD-ROM then pay 
>$15 to get the CD and copy the disks. The other option is to ask nicely 
>somebody in your local area who has the beta to make a copy for you from  
>thier allowed 10 copies. My company is currently only using 5 of my alloted
>10 copies. ( The rest are however already allocated ) 

>Please support the devlopment efforts of developers large and small BUY
>software that you use and pay the poor souls who write shareware otherwise
>they will stop developing software.

>Martin P. Smith
>netcom.com

>Software Piracy is a fancy phrase for STEALING 

I don't think that anyone is arguing that software piracy is OK Martin.
Some people would just like to get the beta into there hands and try it
out without dropping a grand for a CD drive. It is a beta and I can't
believe anyone would use the beta (with the massive debug code slowdown
and bugs) in leiu of 2.1 at the price it will probably sell for. I would
think that it would be good business for IBM to get it in as many hands as
possible.


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From: jig1@inode.com
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: OS/2 DRIVERS FOR ADAPTEC
Date: 12 Jan 93 08:43:49 EST
Reply-To: jig1@inode.com
Distribution: world
Organization: inode BBS, Usenet Access for NYC (212-679-9146)

A Could someone using the 1542B under OS/2 tell me what drivers
  I need, and where I can find them?  I'll be buying one shortly,
  along with a SCSI HD.  I'm also considering getting a CD-ROM in the
  next few months.

Adaptec has their own BBS that has all the drivers that you need.  Just
give them a call, they are very helpful.
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From: sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu (Timothy F. Sipples)
Subject: OS/2 2.1 Beta PDK CD-ROM Now Available
Reply-To: sip1@midway.uchicago.edu
Organization: Dept. of Econ., Univ. of Chicago
Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1993 19:13:58 GMT

The OS/2 Hotline (telephone 800-3-IBM-OS2) is now accepting orders for
the December OS/2 2.1 Beta Professional Developer's Kit CD-ROM.  The
CD number is 122292, and the cost is $15 (a shipping charge).  This
number is good in the United States only.  This CD-ROM should be
shipping in about one week.  It includes the new OS/2 2.1 beta of the
base operating system.

If you have details on how to order from outside the United States,
please post.

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of Chicago, 60637       | [Read the List, THEN post to ONE OS/2 newsgroup.]
Organization: William Rainey Harper College; Palatine, IL  60067
Date: Monday, 4 Jan 1993 09:56:57 CST
From: <DGRAHAM@HARPERVM.BITNET>
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Gateway 2000, Other dos, etc.

A couple quick questions for anyone with answers out there.

1.  I just installed OS/2 on my Gateway 2000 486/33V and it worked nicely.
    I set the screen, Crystalscan 1572FS, to 1240x768 resolution and once
    again I had no problem. Then when I did the service pack update to the
    system it locked up going into PM. Is there something that I need to do
    when I do the service pack to stop this from happening? Since I got OS/2
    in May, I know I need the service pack, so please help.
Extra info: The machine is a 486DX, 33 MHz, with a Vesa board. The OS/2
                  drivers for the VESA board were installed by me following
                  the instructions for loading into OS/2

2.  I also tried to load Lotus 123 v 3.1 into OS/2 and I keep getting the
    message that I need DOS 3.0 or higher and not the DOS that comes with OS/2.
    Is there any way to tell a DOS session to use a different DOS version?

3.  Will the OS/2 bootable disk available through Hobbes allow me to get to my
    HPFS partition? If not, how can I? I tried booting from the first couple
    os OS/2 install disks, but that did not help.


Any help with the above questions is appreciated!!

David L. Graham
From: durby@almaak.usc.edu (Dennis Durby)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: More on CD-ROMs
Date: 11 Jan 1993 17:21:13 -0800
Organization: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: almaak.usc.edu

Well, I've gotten several responses to my query about which CD-ROM to 
purchase. I'd like to invite some more, and then I'll summarize for the 
list.

What folks aren't mentioning is specific (or even approximate) model 
numbers.  Just Texel, Sony, Toshiba, etc. It would be helpful if you 
could let me know which models, and/or their associated mean access 
times, transfer rates, etc. Even within the same manufacturer these seem 
to vary a great deal.

So, which Texel? I have speeds on the Toshiba 3301 and 3401, more or less, 
although different vendors have different identifying letters or codes in 
front of these numbers.  The Toshiba 3401, being offered thru CD 
Technology, Inc. (with coupon from IBM) has a 200 millisecond random 
access time, a 330 Kb/sec transfer rate, dual spin, and is multi-session 
Kodak compatible/capable, according to the folks at CD Tech. They didn't 
know whether it was able to do Sony XA, another possible (someday) 
"industry standard". The external version has jacks for speakers.

So, how might this compare to the Texel, or the Sony, and which might be 
the comparable Texel and Sony models????? TIA!!
-dennis durby-
durby@usc.edu

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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: greenidd@CS.ColoState.EDU (danielle greenidge)
Subject: Re: Colorado/Sytos
Date: Tue, 05 Jan 1993 01:04:42 GMT
Organization: Colorado State University, Computer Science Department

In article <1993Jan4.151911.13822@galileo.cc.rochester.edu> jslm_cif@uhura.cc.rochester.edu (Jonathan Schulman) writes:
>In <1993Jan4.001121.4807@spcvxb.spc.edu> benezra_a@spcvxb.spc.edu writes:
>
>>> I've been wondering if this new Sytos software will work with CMSs' TC-15
>>> tape controller card.  So far I have not seen any mention of the controller
>>> cards with the new software.  Can anyone shed any light.
>>> 
>>Well Dave, I read the readme before i sent the Sytos back, and it does support 
>>the FC-10. It needs a work around to get it going, but it is supported. I 
>>didn't recall seeing anything about the TC-15, sorry.
>
>Sytron has never supported the TC-15 card, and when I talked to them a few
>months ago, they had no intention of supporting it.
>-- 
>Jonathan Schulman      University of Rochester 
>jslm_cif@uhura.cc.rochester.edu       
>Don't blame me for the state of the country, I didn't vote for that
>Democratic bozo!


[stuff you can read in my repost deleted]


Here's some more information you might be interested in:
	* Colorado Memory Systems will begin shipments of this
	  Jumbo OS/2 solution in mid-January.
	* Please allow two to four weeks for the delivery of
	  your shipment.
	* A version for PowerTape should be available late January.
	* A version with Trakker and TC-15 support is slated for 
	  early second quarter 1993.

[more stuff you can read in my repost deleted]

As the above states, Colorado Memory Systems is actively working with
Sytron to provide a TC-15 OS/2 solution by early 2nd quarter of this
year.

If you can think of any more questions or issues I have not addressed in this
posting, please feel free to email me or call Colorado Memory Systems Product
Information at 1-800-845-7905.


==============================================================================
==== Danielle Greenidge       ||     || snail mail: 800 South Taft Avenue ====
==== Product Info Specialist  ||=====||             Loveland, CO  80537   ====
==== Colorado Memory Systems  ||     || telephone : (800) 845-7905        ====
==============================================================================
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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: gregj@kong.eng.hou.compaq.com (Greg Judkins)
Subject: Re: ESDI hard drive
Organization: Compaq Computer Corp.
Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 19:03:32 GMT

In article <93008.080419CHM103@psuvm.psu.edu> <CHM103@psuvm.psu.edu> writes:
>
>In article <1ii9bmINNkoo@crcnis1.unl.edu>, pickrell@hoss.unl.edu (Andrew
>Pickrell) says:
>>
>>In <Matt_Kievit.0bzy@abcd.Houghton.MI.US> Matt_Kievit@abcd.Houghton.MI.US
>>(Matt
>>Kievit) writes:
>>
>>>Does anyone (someone should) know if an ESDI hard drive with 16bit
>>>controller will work with OS/2?  I can pick up one fairly cheap compared to
>>>another IDE.  Also, will it coexist with my current IDE controller?  I have
>>>a 386DX-33 if it matters at all..  Thanks...
>>
>>
>>>-- Via DLG Pro v0.995
>>
>>To the first question, yes os/2 works fine with esdi drives I have run with
>>both a compaq esdi system and Gateway 2000 with Ultrasort 12F esdi controller.
>>
>>I don't know about coexistance.
>>
>>Andy
>>
>>--
>>===========================================================================
>>
>>Andrew Pickrell                   | My opinions are my own,
>>
>>UNL Dept. of Chemical Engineering | but they could be yours too
>>EMail :pickrell@hoss.unl.edu      | for the low price of 5 bucks...
>>
>
>An ESDI and an IDE cannot coexist in the sam system.  You can use either
>of them with a SCSI drive though.

My next door neighbor at work has the following setup working on a
Compaq 486/25 EISA box:

IDE controller with 120MB and 240MB drives
ESDI controller with 320MB drive

This is working fine under DOS/Windows.  Is there some special reason why
it would not work under OS/2?

Greg
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: jdickins@cs.umr.edu (James Dickinson)
Subject: Re: Excel, PageMaker, Photostyler, CorelDraw, MS Word, FreeHand
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 07:02:16 GMT
Organization: University of Missouri - Rolla, Rolla, MO

In article <1iqkidINN92p@neuro.usc.edu> merlin@neuro.usc.edu (merlin) writes:
>Can we get these applications to run in seamless mode on the 
>OS/2 2.0 or 2.1beta desktop?  I have an ATI Graphics Vantage
>(DRAM version of the ATI Graphics Ultra) which is currently
>installed with the default OS/2 2.0 8514/a drivers on a few
>of our end user machines.
>
I have the same card and at the moment ( even with the 2.1 beta ) the only way
to do "seamless" Windows is in 16 color standard, unaccelerated VGA mode. As
to when this is going to change, I have no idea. I hope with the release of
2.1, maybe, hopefully.

Jim


Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: funka@Informatik.TU-Muenchen.DE (Andreas Funk)
Subject: OS2 2.1 Beta overseas availability
Organization: Technische Universitaet Muenchen, Germany
Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1993 08:09:40 GMT

Hello,

can someone tell me how to buy the IBM-CD-Roms
overseas (especially here in Germany).

I'm interested in the OS2 2.1 Beta and the PDK-CD-Rom.

If there is no direct way, is someone out there to
buy it and ship it to me?

Any hints appreciated

Funky

Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: pprior@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Paul A Prior)
Subject: Re: Gateway 486 Local Bus Install Prob.
Organization: The Ohio State University
Date: Sat, 9 Jan 1993 02:48:15 GMT

In article <1993Jan8.133855.16824@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> wbk3a@brain.med.virginia.edu (Wade Komisar) writes:
>I am having a problem install the OS/2 gold code on a Gateway 486/66v
>machine.  Everthing is well an good until the reboot before disk 6.  The
>video is out of synch.  Is there some setting I need to use in setting up
>the ATI local bus video that would enable me to continue the install?
>
>Has anyone experieced a similar problem?  Thanks.

You must set your video card to 60 hz plain IBM VGA during the install.
This is done via the ATIINSTALL program (make sure to SAVE).  Once
you have installed (you can choose any video you want), you can re-run
the ATINSTALL and set to whatever refresh rate you want.

Paul

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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu (Timothy F. Sipples)
Subject: Re: Always Technology IN-2000 SCSI Controller
Reply-To: sip1@midway.uchicago.edu
Organization: Dept. of Econ., Univ. of Chicago
Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1993 04:39:19 GMT

In article <4JAN199312540452@lims01.lerc.nasa.gov> smbrush@lims01.lerc.nasa.gov (Andy Brush @Sverdrup) writes:
>First, thanks to Tim for answering my first two questions about SCSI cards.
>For procurement-related reasons, I'm getting the Compudyne with the Allways 
>IN-2000 SCSI adapter.  Always says that this adapter is compatible with OS
>/2 2.0, without needing additional drivers.  Does this mean that the Always 
>card gets recognized as a different brand (IBM, maybe?), or that I'm stuck 
>with the INT13 generic SCSI driver? (The Always telephone support did not 
>have the answer to this question)

Right -- they depend on the IBMINT13.I13 driver.  Which isn't
horrible, except it is just a stopgap.  With it, you'll only have
access to hard drives, and only two at that.  And you might have
difficulty if there's another hard disk adapter in the system.

Fortunately (?) Always is fast joining the minority -- all the major
SCSI adapters, and a lot of minor ones, are now supported under OS/2
2.x.  The list includes: Adaptec, Future Domain, IBM (all shipped with
OS/2 2.0), DPT (shipped with OS/2 2.1 beta, along with the first
three), Trantor (including the parallel adapter), BusLogic, Mylex
(beta driver), ProCom (certain models only; check), CE Infosys
(check), Corel Systems, and perhaps some others.  The only holdouts
still are Always and Western Digital (WD has gone out of the SCSI
adapter business), as far as I know.  Seagate's ST-01 and ST-02
adapters do not have native support under OS/2 2.x, but they aren't a
serious alternative on 386 machines, never mind 486 machines.

Is that reason enough for your purchaser, namely restrictions on use?

You can also add to the list of reasons performance: an adapter with a
native driver will outperform one using IBMINT13.I13.

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of Chicago, 60637       | [Read the List, THEN post to ONE OS/2 newsgroup.]
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: Steve.Withers@bbs.actrix.gen.nz
Subject: Re: Can I display windowed GIFS?
Organization: Actrix Information Exchange
Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1993 18:40:52 GMT

In article <1993Jan3.183739.22900@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> pprior@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Paul A Prior) writes:
> As part of the maintenance of the BBS I run (Black BAg II BBS - 
> a medical BBS 614-621-8240 Call TODAY! ;) I would like to
> be able to view GIFS while I'm typing the description of
> them while I'm uploading them to my board (from home).
....
> 
> Can I run such a program in a window?
> 
> I'm running a ATI Pro VESA (GW2K 66Vesa) in 8514/a mode.

PMView will do GIFs in a window. The only problem is that it returns your
desktop to the default colour scheme while it is running. After you close it
down, your customised colour-scheme returns. It also screwed up my palette
once when I used Migrate Application to set it up. The second time I installed
it, I used the program template instead and everything is just fine.
 
But it does GIFs in a PM window and it works very well as long as you are
aware of the above.

Steve
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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: jtcox@syr.edu (Ted Cox)
Subject: SONY CD-ROM, non SCSI
Keywords: SONY CD-ROM, non SCSI
Reply-To: jtcox@syr.edu
Organization: Syracuse University.
Date: Fri, 8 Jan 93 16:20:46 EST

I have a SONY CD-ROM drive unit (CDU535 series) and host adapter card (CDB-240 series) which work fine with MSCDEX in a "DOS from drive a:" under OS/2.  But I cannot seem to access the drive from an OS/2 window.  I would appreciate any information on how to accomplish this, if it is possible.


---


Ted Cox
jtcox@gumby.syr.edu
From: antony@werple.apana.org.au (Antony Suter)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: OS/2 Error Code List
Date: 9 Jan 1993 01:04:21 +1100
Organization: werple public-access unix, Melbourne
NNTP-Posting-Host: werple.apana.org.au

rszeto@wc.novell.com (Ron Szeto) writes:

>To find out the meaning of these error codes, boot with the install disk.  
>Proceed with disk 1.  When ask to start install, ESC out to command prompt.
>Entering "HELP SYSxxx", where xxx is the error code, will give you the detail
>explanation.  --Ron

Try it from any OS/2 command prompt and be pleasantly suprised.
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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: mdtaylor@utdallas.edu (Michael David Taylor)
Subject: OS/2 vs DOS/Win31 Benchmark 
Reply-To: $USER@utdallas.edu
Organization: The University of Texas at Dallas, ACC
Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1993 20:01:52 GMT

Here are some times from 32 bit raytracing using rayshade 4.0 on a 486DX 33 
with overdrive and 16 MB ram,  Dos 5.0 with Win 3.1 and OS/2 2.0.

command line: ray pool.ray -R 512 512 -O pool.tga

Operating System			Total CPU Time

Dos in a Win 3.1 window			1244 seconds

OS/2 2.0 window in WPS			1266 seconds


Comments: Shouldn't OS/2 be faster than a dos extender?  I just installed
OS/2 today and havent fiddled with the settings.  Rayshade386 is available
from wuarchive.wustl.edu in the graphics directory of msdos, possibly under
raytracing and/or rayshade 4.0.  Ray0S2 is available from 128.123.35.151 in
/pub/os2/2.0/graphics.  Enjoy
                 
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: jahonen@cs.joensuu.fi (Jarmo Ahonen)
Subject: Re: OS2 2.1 Beta overseas availability
Organization: University of Joensuu
Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1993 09:41:19 GMT

funka@Informatik.TU-Muenchen.DE (Andreas Funk) writes:

>Hello,

>can someone tell me how to buy the IBM-CD-Roms
>overseas (especially here in Germany).

>I'm interested in the OS2 2.1 Beta and the PDK-CD-Rom.

>If there is no direct way, is someone out there to
>buy it and ship it to me?

>Any hints appreciated

>Funky

You cannot get the beta here in Finland. I do not know if
it is possible to get it directly from the USA.

Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: BING@ctrvax.Vanderbilt.Edu ()
Subject: OS/2 & Lan Server Crashed when external cache turned on
Organization: Vanderbilt University
Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 20:24:32 GMT
X-News-Reader: VMS NEWS 1.24

Hi, there,
	I have a PC compatible 486 running OS/2 2.0 with the lastest patch and
OS/2 Lan server 2.0. The machine has an external cache. But whenever the
external cache is turned on, it will crash the whole system. when it is 
turned off, everything works fine. Is there anyone experinced the same kind
of problem, or could anyone kindly help explaining what is likely the
culprit for the problem. Your help would be greatly appreciated.
	Bingxue Xu
	Vanderbilt Univ CC.
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: OS/2 Monthly
From: ejm@coyote.datalog.com (E.J. McKernan)
Date: 10 Jan 93 18:03:15 GMT
Distribution: comp.os.os2.misc
Organization: Datalog Consulting, Tucson, AZ

In article <1993Jan7.230911.1417@njitgw.njit.edu> dic5340@hertz.njit.edu (David Charlap) writes:
>I just thought I'd mention that I spotted OS/2 Monthly in my local
>Software:Etc store.  It was in the back of the magazine rack, but it
>was visible without searching.

I picked up a copy at the local Barnes & Noble book store.

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