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From: charlie@elektro.cmhnet.org (Charlie Smith)
Subject: Re: Disk Tansfer speeds, VLB, ISA bus saturation and max performance.
Organization: Why do you suspect that?
Distribution: usa
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 92 13:59:33 GMT

In article <1992Dec7.091529.3727@doug.cae.wisc.edu> keiths@cae.wisc.edu (Keith Scidmore) writes:
>What point is there in worrying about VLB when your average disk drive can't
>come close to saturating the 8 MHz ISA bus?  The majority of drives sold with
>PCs these days are only capable of about 1 MB/s transfers anyway.  If you
>want to speed up your drives I don't see how putting your 8-bit IDE interface
>on a 32-bit VLB is going to help you much unless you want to spend a ton
>of money and buy four drives and have some interface that supports disk 
>striping.  

Are you mixing up your megabits and megabytes?  Your run of the mill ESDI
drive is 10 MBits/sec and will support an "effective" transfer rate around
800 KBytes/sec.  Larger ESDI drives have a 15 MBits/sec transfer rate, and
will support an effective transfer rate of up to about 1200 KBytes/sec.
I'm using Maxstor XT-8760-E's with UNIX, and the numbers are similar.  The
8760 is a 650 MByte drive with 52 sectors / track, and that's a 15 MBit/sec
instantaneous rate.  SCSI is a better way to go, but I've got a lot of $$
in ESDI.  BTW, the controller you use can make a lot of difference.

Actually, in a multitasking environment like UNIX or os/2, SCSI is much
better if your operating system is smart enough to do things like have
actuators moving on multiple drives at the same time.  I don't know about
IDE, but MFM, RLL, and ESDI won't support that.

>
>Unless you want a file server or a fast network interface, ISA/IDE is more than
>adiquate for your drives.  The main advantage of VLB is to give the 
>video card a very high speed access port.  VLB also invites future 
>alternatives to ISA and EISA such as a means to implement a very fast 
>SCSI-II interface.  I think these cards will be available in the very 
>near future.
>
>My solution is to buy a 520 MB IDE Fujitsu drive that runs at 2.5 - 3 MB/s 
>and run it on ISA with a 2 MB (the maximum under OS/2) memory cache.  I 
>don't think you can do much better than this for drive access on a 
>stand-alone system.
>
>... or am I missing something?
>
>
>Keith R. Scidmore


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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: CBURMAN@FINABO.ABO.FI (Chris Burman)
Subject: Re: OS2SYS.ini file size. Possible Cause(s) !!! ??
Organization: The Clam of Reason Ltd.
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 12:30:16 GMT
X-News-Reader: VMS NEWS 1.24

In <921214190934@rgam.sc.ti.com> 5692330@mcimail.com writes:

> In article <1992Nov26.092947.27901@abo.fi> CBURMAN@FINABO.ABO.FI (Chris Burman) writes:
> 
>  >> My .ini file grows 50-70k every time I delete a file (.cmd files seem 
>  >> to be especially bad). 
> 
> Well, I delete DOZENS of files a day, every day, and my OS2sys.ini is stable.
> I do NOT touch the Drives object, all my deletions are at an OS/2 or DOS 
> command prompt.  I noted this in another post about a month ago, so perhaps
> the Drives object is partially responsible for the growth.

Interestingly enough my .ini file has somehow stabilized itself. It still 
grows, but now only about 15 - 25k at a time. It also seems that it doesn't 
grow _every_ time I delete a file.

But I suppose IBM is soon coming out with a fix.


Chris Burman, cburman@abo.fi
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: parry@yoyo.cc.monash.edu.au (Tom J Parry)
Subject: Re: QuattroPro Windows replaces some WINOS2 dll
Originator: parry@yoyo.cc.monash.edu.au
Organization: Monash University, Melb., Australia.
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 23:26:34 GMT

SCATTOLIN patrice (patrice@cenparmi.concordia.ca) wrote:

> When I installed Quattor Pro for windows it decided to replace some
> dll's. Now it mentions this during the install process and I would 
> not be worried if I was using the actual Windows. But did this
> replacement does any dammage to my WINOS2 set up? The files are the following:

> 	BWCC.DLL

The Borland Windows Custom Control Library. Each installation of a Borland
product that uses it makes sure the more up to date version is installed.

> 	ODAPI.DLL
> 	LD.DLL
> 	ODAPIQ.DLL
> 	OLESUR.DLL
> 	OLECLI.DLL

I suspect these are Borland files that it stashes in the Windows directory.

I have installed QPW fine under WINOS2 with few probs (you can't run it
seemless!)

-- 
Tom J Parry.
Your reality is a figment of my imagination.
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: shurr@cbnews.cb.att.com (larry.a.shurr)
Subject: Re: Question about OS/2 emulated DOS, how it works???
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Columbus, OH
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1992 19:06:27 GMT

In article <1992Dec14.074127.16842@netcom.com> samiam@netcom.com (Scott Moore) writes:
>jwhite@oasys.dt.navy.mil (Joseph White) writes:
>>I was under the impression that when you exited from an OS/2 emulated
>>DOS shell, that OS/2 cleared up the memory that was used, and made it
>>available for an other use.  Is that right?

>As long as the VDM (virtual dos machine) runs, it will behave just as real dos
>will, ie, you will get the hole effect from runnning a TSR. But once the VDM
>closes (as in the dos screen or window colapses and no longer shows up on the
>task list), it is truly gone, including any tsrs.

Hmmm...  There's more to it than meets the eye.  Logically, I would have 
agreed with you, but I have found that in cases where I exit from a VDM 
and later start another, I frequently get a complaint from nnansi.com 
that there's already a copy of nnansi.com loaded!  As if that wasn't 
enough, it doesn't do it every time, just most of the time.

Now, I don't, offhand, see how anything from one VDM can survive termi-
nation of the VDM and appear in another, new VDM session, but there is 
at least some indication that nnansi.com is still around between sessions.

I suppose that I ought to try using nnansi.sys and loading it using the
drivers option in the DOS settings.  I'll try it and see how well it 
works.  If it works without complaining, it still won't explain how 
loading nnansi.com in one VDM affects another, later VDM.

BTW: This only happens when terminating a VDM and starting a new one.  I 
can start several concurrent VDM's without any apparent conflict and no
error messages about nnansi.com already loaded.

Larry
-- 
Larry A. Shurr (las@cbnmva.att.com) speaking only for myself.
Norman, listen carefully.  I am lying.  Are you sure your circuits are
registering?  Your ears are green.  Logic is a little bird singing in a
meadow.  Logic is a wreath of pretty flowers which smell bad! - Mr. Spock
From: haug@zesi.do.open.de (Haug Buerger)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: german service pack out
Distribution: world
Date: Sat, 19 Dec 92 14:58:33 GMT
Organization: private


Oh please !!!

post a ftp server with dirctory where i can get it.

# haug@zesi.do.open.de (Haug Buerger)
# save a tree use email
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: The ZyXEL U1496E Fax/Modem & OS/2?
From: Dimitri Vulis <DLVGC@CUNYVM.BITNET>
Date: Monday, 14 Dec 1992 02:36:20 EST
Distribution: usa
Organization: City University of New York/ University Computer Center

In article <1992Nov29.201231.18783@sei.cmu.edu>, tokarj@ajpo.sei.cmu.edu (Joyce
Tokar) says:
>From my reading of the newsgroup 'comp/dcom/modems', it seems that
>the ZyXEL fax/modem is one of the best of the v.32 bis units.  Does
>anyone have any experience of using it (both fax and modem) under
>OS/2?
I've been running a ZyXEL U-1496E since August under the OS/2 version
of UUPC with no problems. I'm using 19.2kbps on the serial port
because I don't seem to be getting faster throughput anyway with
2400 or so on the other end. :)  Right now, it's on my waffle bbs
under plain dos at 718-261-2013.

As for fax, I've used the fax program it came with in a DOS box
with no problems.  It takes a text file and converts it using its
own fixed-pitch font or a pcx file (faxed verbatim).  A PM fax
interface sure would be nice.

Dimitri
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: bill@unixland.natick.ma.us (Bill Heiser)
Subject: Re: Diamond Stealth....cheap...buy?
Organization: Unixland Public Access Unix  (508) 655-3848
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 18:04:33 GMT

anto@dutetvd.tudelft.nl (Anto Daryanto) writes:
>Hi, I saw a Diamond Stealth for a bargain price yesterday. It'll cost me
>about $ 193,- (FL.349,-). I know that there is no OS/2 2.0 driver
>available yet, and you can only use it for vanilla VGA. 
>That's why I need some advice, shall I buy that card or get a Tseng
>based video card (I haven't any of those cards, and I'll get one of
>those). What are the advantages of Diamond Stealth compare to Tseng
>right know and may be next year? 


It's been suggested to me that an ATI Ultra is the way to go for
Win3.1 and OS/2 2.x.  Although there apparently is no driver specific
to the Ultra, its 8514 mode works well.

-- 
heiser@world.std.com
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: hankedr@mail.auburn.edu (Darrel Hankerson)
Subject: Re: Another OS/2 Bug?
Reply-To: hankedr@mail.auburn.edu (Darrel Hankerson)
Organization: Auburn University, Alabama
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 21:59:49 GMT

In article <1992Dec17.134451.12854@waikato.ac.nz> harvey@waikato.ac.nz writes:
>This bug(?) may have been noticed already but I'll post it any way
>
>3 drives all HPFS
>Delete stuff unremmed in autoexec.bat and config.sys
>directories full with deleted stuff (not sure if this is necessary)
>using XTGOLD 2.5 select a directory type alt P (for prune) type PRUNE
>Trap 000D everytime.
>
>This does not happen with FAT disks and not with del directories remmed out
>
>Anyone care to comment?

This happens with the first release of 4dos 4.01 when using deldir 
and "del /q". If I recall correctly, JP Software blames this on a bug 
in OS/2. Note that this does not occur with 4os2 (in an OS/2 session).
"del /q" may use the older FCB method.

--Darrel Hankerson hank@ducvax.auburn.edu

Xref: sparky comp.os.os2.misc:40047 comp.os.os2.advocacy:10651
From: jbodnar@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (John Bodnar)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc,comp.os.os2.advocacy
Subject: Re: Future of OS/2 and IBM????????????
Date: 20 Dec 92 07:44:51 GMT
Reply-To: jbodnar@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (John Bodnar)
Followup-To: comp.os.os2.misc
Organization: The University of Texas at Austin, Austin TX

According to hwhalen@jupiter.sun.csd.unb.ca (Hugh Whalen):
>Cash cow? I don't think so. The most optimistic numbers I've heard are 
>2 million units sold. Lots went out at what ....$49. Others have gone 
>to retail outlets and since the retail outlets have to make a profit 
>the full price of these units did not go to IBM. Subtract costs for 
>disks, manuals, suppport!!!!, bug fixes!!!!, shipping, order taking, 
>advertising, beta testing, etc. and there is no way that this product 
>*at this time* is a cash cow. If IBM got an average of $50 per unit 
>sold then they received at most $100,000,000  from OS/2 sales. This is 
>not much in a company that has over $50,000,000,000 in sales. It is at 
>most .2% of their sales.

Let's remember everything associated with OS/2, though.  Namely big
corporate customers with PS/2 installations, vertical applications, LAN
Server support, CICS, and so on.  The consulting and service arrangements
that IBM maintains and can build in this area WILL bring in money.  Maybe
not a cash cow, but certainly part of a profitable business.  The OS/2 base
operating system itself doesn't earn much money, but it's everything
associated with it that will.

-- 
John Bodnar                          : Friends don't let friends use Windows!
The University of Texas at Austin    : But I'm still waiting for Microsoft
Internet: jbodnar@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu : Solitaire NT!  Heaven forbid, another
UUCP: ....!cs.utexas!ut-ccwf!jbodnar : productive user of OS/2 v2.0!
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: Steve.Withers@bbs.actrix.gen.nz
Subject: Re: Playing CD's through a SB
Organization: Actrix Information Exchange
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 10:39:30 GMT

In article <1992Dec12.085751.7834@monu6.cc.monash.edu.au> parry@yoyo.cc.monash.edu.au (Tom J Parry) writes:
> Is it possible to play CD's on a SCSI controller (Trantor controller, Texel
> drive) through a Soundblaster (1.5 NOT PRO).
> 
> I have installed MMPM/2 from the PDK and have the new ftp-os2 drivers
> installed.
> 
> -- 
> Tom J Parry.
> Your reality is a figment of my imagination.

If you have CD drivers that can be installed in MMPM/2...you should be able to
get the sound, too.
 
Steve


-- 
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Steve.Withers@bbs.actrix.gen.nz         | for proportional representation. It
withers_s@kosmos.wcc.govt.nz            | looks like we may get a more  
**** Happy user of OS/2 v2!! ****       | democratic system "real soon now".
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: lindor@eng.umd.edu (Lindor Eric Henrickson)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: Screen savers
Date: 16 Dec 92 20:46:51 GMT
Organization: College of Engineering, Maryversity von Uniland, College Park
Originator: lindor@signal.eng.umd.edu


In article <BzBw51.35G@knot.ccs.queensu.ca>, calvert@QueensU.CA (John Calvert) writes:
>I only gave yowza a quick demo, but I had a lot problems with it.
>
>- each save screen has to be included explicitly, I found several of
>those included in the package were rejected as "not of the correct
>format"
>- my computer locked up several times when demoing
>
>So I switched to deskpic which tells you not to use two out of about
>a dozen screens in OS/2 v2. Beyond that it worked great and has some
>really nifty pics: fade to black, eyes, flashlight, etc.
>
>If anyone running yowza can explain how to get it to work I might
>try it again.
>
>John Calvert
>calvert@mast.queensu.ca

I had similar problems with yowza.  When demoing, system locked up a few times,
lost my mouse pointer once when trying to kill yowza from task list, etc.
**BUT** let me qualify this by letting you know that I am running the beta (win3.1)
version of os/2, so its quite possible that its a beta problem and not a yowza 
problem.  Anyway, I think I'll give deskpic a try.

LH
lindor@eng.umd.edu
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu (Timothy F. Sipples)
Subject: Re: printer driver for hp-deskjet 550 required
Reply-To: sip1@midway.uchicago.edu
Organization: Dept. of Econ., Univ. of Chicago
Date: Sat, 12 Dec 1992 05:47:27 GMT

In article <Bz3751.GFC@immd4.informatik.uni-erlangen.de> klotz@x.cip.e-technik.uni-erlangen.de (Juergen Klotz) writes:
>i plan to buy a hp 550 (color/bw) deskjet, but i want to know first is :
>   is there a driver for this printer available from IBM/HP or on the net ?
>maybe it's on the OS2 update but i don't have it yet !??

Yes.  In my limited testing it works very well.  You can get it via
anonymous ftp from either software.watson.ibm.com or ftp-os2.nmsu.edu.
On software.watson.ibm.com, look in directory /pub/os2/os2fixes.

-- 
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sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu | 128.123.35.151, anonymous ftp, in /pub/os2/all/info
Dept. of Econ., Univ.   | /faq, or from LISTSERV@BLEKUL11.BITNET (send "HELP")
of Chicago, 60637       | [Read the List, THEN post to ONE OS/2 newsgroup.]
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: quan@Xenon.Stanford.EDU (Tony Quan)
Subject: Re: Any news on OS/2 2.1?
Organization: Computer Science Department, Stanford University.
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 17:34:09 GMT

In article <dposey.724397445@well.sf.ca.us> dposey@well.sf.ca.us (David Posey) writes:
>
>OS/2 2.1 is being discussed today in c.o.os2.advocacy - it is scheduled for
>release in late Feb/early March (pre-Comdex). The Service Pack is
>_already_out! 1-800-3IBMOS2 to order ($25, 14 disks).
>It is not 'golden' (a perfect release), there are known bugs already.
>It is faster in several ways, includes the 32-bit graphics engine, and
>includes the *beta* Windows3.1 code (which has been known to cause a few
>glitches).
>

Wrong.  The currently available service pack does not include Windows
3.1 code.  I know, I have it.  IBM did release a beta of this Windows
3.1 code a couple of months ago, but that was a beta test limited
to a small group of people.

--Tony
quan@cs.stanford.edu


Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: tnt@netcom.com (Terry Turner)
Subject: autostartup - it's gone on too long!
Organization: Watch the Skies
Distribution: comp
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 19:15:57 GMT

a friend _still_ has apps starting up that he setup to autostart under
os/2 1.3. he does not want them to startup and neither he nor i can get
them to stop coming up at startup. if anyone can help us stop them please
send me a note.

background: he migrated his 1.3 desktop to 2.0 when he installed it (this
was last spring.summer) and these apps that he formerly wanted to have
start up were still coming up. there is no obvious way to stop them. he
has restartobjects set to startupfoldersonly and this does nothing to fix
this problem. 

my best guess is that the problem requires some work with an ini file
editor. has anyone tried this route?

-- 
terry
	tnt@netcom.com
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: jst50986@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Jack S. Tan)
Subject: Re: File system momentarily vanished; icon viewers; instb; ...
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 17:11:16 GMT

bross@spartan.ac.BrockU.CA (Brian J Ross) writes:

> Some miscellaneous questions...
> 
> While using full-screen DOS emulation, suddenly all my files vanished,
> both on my primary and logical partitions. I exited, got back into the
> f-s Dos, and they were back.  Has anyone else seen this happen?

Sorry, haven't seen this (luckily).

> Are there any OS/2 icon viewers/deleters, other than the bundled
> icon editor? I have a directory with ove a Meg of icons, and I'd like
> to efficiently peruse and delete them. Windows icon viewers don't work.

You can open the directory as 'Icon View' (select the folder from the
Drives object, pull up its menu, and select 'Open' --> 'Icon View') and
view the icons from there.  To delete, either drag the icon to the Shredder
or to a folder that you will delete later.

> I tried getting 'INSTB' to work(which creates a boot/installation disk
> for drive B). I kept getting a "wrong boot image" message when running 
> creating the second B boot diskette. 

Can't help you with this one, sorry.

> Finally (for now), if one screws up the config.sys of a primary DOS
> partition, so that one cannot execute it (say, bad memory configuration), 
> is there any way of recovering that partition without having to reinstall
> DOS?  Would utility software like Norton utilities help, if it existed for
> OS/2?

Boot a DOS boot diskette and, assuming you've made a backup, restore the
backup CONFIG.SYS from there.  Or, boot the DOS diskette, make some changes
to CONFIG.SYS, and reboot.

-- 

Jack Tan                                     Sattinger's Law:
jahk@uiuc.edu                       It works better if you plug it in.
From: joker@diku.dk (Morten Christian Holmgreen)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Weird Win-OS/2 behaviour
Date: 15 Dec 92 22:48:26 GMT
Organization: Department of Computer Science, U of Copenhagen

Hi OS/2'ers,

Before I applied the CSD, Win-OS2 always loaded DDE and Clipboard, when 
started. After I applied the CSD it didn't do that anymore - so far
so good. Now suddenly (after a month with the CSD) Win-OS2 starts DDE
and Clipb. again, when started, but ONLY the first time after OS/2 has 
been loaded (booted).
The DDE immidiatly says, that DDE is already running and exits, whereas
the clipb. stays on until I kill the beast. Even though I close the clipb.
it doesn't reappear, when starting an Win-OS2 session later!?!?!

Any ideas to this behaviour???

Christian
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: mlevis@ringer.cs.utsa.edu (Mike Levis) (OS/2)
Subject: Re: Please help. Problem on installation.
Organization: University of Texas at San Antonio
Date: Sun, 13 Dec 1992 07:05:45 GMT

In article <1992Dec13.042621.23498@usl.edu> lxl6767@usl.edu (Lerchaichanakul Luckchai) writes:
>After reinstall OS/2 for several times, I still cannot get it running.
>The symptom is I can run the installation program and copy all the 15
>diskettes into the machine completely.  But when I reboot the machine,
>it go through the os/2 logo and suddenly the screen return to text mode
>with only 'c0000005' on the upper left of the screen and just stop there.
           ^^^^^^^^^^
Let me guess -- you have a Diamond Speedstar 24x or Western Digital/Paradise,
right?  You need a replacement driver called BVHSVGA.DLL .  This driver
can be found at ftp-os2.nmsu.edu in the directory /pub/os2/2.0/ibm/os2fixes
in the file called bvsvga.zip [sic].

I think that FAQ #10 of a future FAQL 2.0i should change from
   "...fixes installation problems involving Western Digital..."
to
   "...fixes 'c0000005' installation problems involving Western Digital..."
in paragraph two.


>I cannot find any clues on the inst. manual, OS/2 faq.
>Your help in solving the problem would be highly appreciate.

If you ftp the driver from ftp-os2, you may also want to get os2tnd.zip in
/pub/os2/2.0/ibm/info .  This file contains ways to get around any bugs in
the original OS/2 2.0 GA.  (The only bug I ran into was that one-time
c0000005 trap with my WD90C31, but I like the way IBM supports its customers).


-- 
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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc,comp.os.os2.advocacy
From: furballs@sequent.com (Paul Penrod)
Subject: Re: Future of OS/2 and IBM????????????
Organization: Sequent Computer Systems, Inc.
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 92 07:21:37 GMT

In article <1992Dec15.210437.934@gn.ecn.purdue.edu> ashwath@gn.ecn.purdue.edu (Ashwath Ram) writes:
>	Hi, netters just a thought. IBM doesn't seem to be doing so hot
>financially they just said they are going to be laying off 25,000
>more people next year this after 40,000 have already been allocated
>to be laid off this year. Computer market analysts seem to think
>that IBM's profitability cannot improve unless global markets which
>are in recession improve as 30% of IBM's sales and 45% of their
>profits are from abroad. They doing some major reshuffling, what
>about the future of OS/2, how does it work into their long term plans.
>Will they be able to put in the same sort of resources into its
>support that Microsoft can put into NT. IBM has deep pockets so the
>impact is not being felt now. could some IBM'er comment on what is
>happening to the company and how as a customer I be confident that
>I will continue to receive the best operating system.
>
>
>Thanks,
>
>Ashwath Ram
>

I think it would be prudent to ask the question as to where the
cuts are coming from. Remember, IBM has started decentralizing it's
busineses and while the PC products Division may be going great
guns, their mainframe division may be suffering terribly, so you
might find the cuts coming from a source that has little to no
impact on the product (OS/2) that you are currently using. Also,
IBM is among the most conservative of the blue chip stock companies
and has long earned it's reputation as a stable commodity in the
volatile stock market. This implies that they have planned for this
and are trimming the fat from the company to be come more
competative.

While the numbers are gargantuan as compared to someone like
Borland or Microsoft, it represents a much smaller percentage of
IBM as a whole than Microsoft. I would not worry about OS/2 support
suffering. Right now, it's becoming a cash cow for them and they
have announced plans to integrate it into their other system
platform. As long as people continue to buy OS/2, IBM will continue
to promote it's growth and useability.


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