HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: sasghw@pica.unx.sas.com (Greg Wust)
Subject: Re: *WARNING* SPM/2 Beta Expiration Problem: System Hang
Originator: sasghw@pica.unx.sas.com
Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1993 15:22:53 GMT
Organization: SAS Institute Inc.


In article <ONEEL.93Jan6090309@heawk1.gsfc.nasa.gov>, oneel@heawk1.gsfc.nasa.gov (oneel) writes:
|>      [Stuff Deleted]
|>
|>    > This makes me wonder:  Does the OS/2 2.1 BETA have an expiration date
|>    > after which it stops running or something?
|>    >
|>    > Also, I've heard of two $15 offers and I'm wondering if they're the
|>    > same thing:  the OS/2 2.1 BETA, and something called a DAP (developers'
|>    > assistance package).  What's the story?
|>
|>      [Stuff Deleted]
|>
|>      My understanding is that the expiration date on the PDK software and
|>      the 2.1 beta is purely a legal one (no software checking).   IBM
|>      usually does not make their software stop working when it expires.
|>      I don't know if the IBM lawyers have some way of knowing, though :-)
|>

I remember a note on the PDK (or in the README) that stated something
like "This is beta level code . . . provided 'AS IS' . . . no warranty
. . . for use until General Availability release . . ." which would
indicate open use until GA release of the OS/2 2.0 CSet/2 2.0.  This
is further supported by a statement in the README which says that when
writing IBM via Compuserve, to include the PDK release date you are 
using that generated the problem (ie. you can keep using older PDK's).

It would be rather ridiculous for anyone to expect a developer to begin
coding to a compiler only to have to have them stop in the middle or near
the end because of an expiration date.  Especially when a final GA
product was not available to replace the compiler.

BTW, there were 3 CD offerings: The Sept/October PDK with beta CSet/2 and
beta Graphical Engine (released in CSD) and Windows 3.1 support, the 
November PDK with beta C++ and Communications Manager, and the OS/2
2.1 beta CD which is GA+CSD+Windows 3.1 support in seamless package.
(NOTE: PDK's offer much and the Nov. issue contains most everything in
the Oct. release - just wanted to highlight the major feature)  These 
are not free nor are they give-aways from IBM, they are released for
Professional Developers to assist in their creation of software for
OS/2 2.x and not for the general public to receive a "freebie" copy
of OS/2 2.x. 
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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: widow@camelot.bradley.edu (Shaun Burnett)
Subject: Re: 'Icon View' as default for drives: how?
Organization: Bradley University
Date:  7 Jan 93 03:04:06 GMT

In <726311017marten.marten@feki.toppoint.de> marten@feki.toppoint.de (Marten Feldtmann) writes:


> Just a little question: I wanted to have to 'Icon View' as the default
>open action view. I always get the 'Tree View' as the default view type
>for the root of each drive. Is it possible to change this?

	Taken from the SPP Readme file:

CHANGING A DEFAULT FOLDER VIEW
 
If you want to change the default view for displaying
the objects within a folder (for example, icon versus
details view), do the following:
 
1.  Display the pop-up menu for the folder by
    moving the mouse pointer to it and clicking
    mouse button 2.
2.  Click on the arrow to the right of Open.
3.  Select Settings; then select the Menu tab.
4.  Select Open in the Available menus field.
    The Menu Settings window is displayed.
5.  In the Default action field, select the
    default you want.
6.  Select OK.

	
Shaun Burnett		    |	"You can't survive on a new planet with a
widow@camelot.bradley.edu   |	soul full of hope and fresh air you know."
OS/2--Happy Happy Joy Joy--OS/2		-  Dr. Who (Tom Baker)
Have you read your readme file?
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: dlcogswe@vela.acs.oakland.edu (Dan Cogswell)
Subject: Re: Radius XGA-2 board
Organization: Oakland University, Rochester MI.
Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1993 04:57:06 GMT

dlcogswe@vela.acs.oakland.edu (Dan Cogswell) writes:

>I talked to a Radius customer support person today and asked him some
>questions about their upcoming ISA XGA-2 board.  He's sending me a full info
>pack, but these are some things he told me:

> -- 1024x768x65536 color mode under OS/2 

That should be 256 colors.  He did say there is a 16-bit mode, but I
don't think it's the 1024x768 mode.  Hopefully, I'm wrong.
 

-- 
Dan Cogswell               Or as we say in Michigan:  "Dee-troit"
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: Quirks that need fixed from the 2.1 beta ---
From: Steve.Withers@bbs.actrix.gen.nz
Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1993 02:59:28 GMT
Organization: Actrix Information Exchange

In article <1icncoINNe3l@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu> dab6@po.CWRU.Edu (Douglas A. Bell) writes:
> 
> 5-  I had it install winos2 3 times before the seamless windows function
>     worked.

I have had to install it a second time in order to get the WinOS/2 Settings to
include the WIN-RUNMODE.

> 
> 6-  The beta doesn't seem to like the netware requester very much.

I have had most success with the original requestor. The 2.01 update had to be
backed off......I have no identifiable trouble with my 3c505 adapter.....

> 7-  The trident drivers scroll very slowly.

They *could* be faster.....I hope.
 
Steve
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Steve.Withers@bbs.actrix.gen.nz         |        Space for rent.
+64 4 478 4714                          |   - cheap rates, nice location. 
**** Happy user of OS/2 b2.1 ****       | 
From: Rw.Hutchinson@p300.f0.n1362.z0.fidonet.org (Rw Hutchinson)
Sender: fredmail@psybbs.uucp
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: A very unnerving message
Date: Fri, 08 Jan 1993 01:28:00 -0500

In a message to All <06 Jan 93 17:10> Michael J. Saletnik wrote:

 MJ> much worse.  I received the message:
 MJ>    A defective sector on drive D: has been replaced.
 MJ>    No data was lost.
 MJ>    You should run CHKDSK soon to restore full performance
 MJ>    and to replenish the spare sector area of the volume.
 MJ> This was an HPFS disk.

 MJ> When I booted from floppy and ran CHKDSK, it told me:
 MJ>    CHKDSK corrected a minor filesystem error
 MJ> Great message, eh?

 MJ> Any thoughts are welcome...
 MJ>                    Thanks,
 MJ>                        Michael

I merely have to report receiving the SAME message, and apart from the
sound effects, the same symptoms. I am getting severely impatient with
all the chkdsk /f:3 corrective actions that I am taking.
In MY case, this did not start occurring until some time AFTER I applied
the SLU / Service Pack / Bugfix Pack, or whatever you call it, and
although I had hopes, it did NOT go away after I applied the UHPFS.DLL
bugfix.
I imagine the sound effects are hardware dependent. I am running a
Seagate IDE drive [any sound drowned in the beep accompanying the error
messages.]
     Best of Luck.


Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: S103408@UMRVMB.umr.edu
Subject: Re: Re: Zero-length files
Date: Sun, 10 Jan 1993 10:19:20 GMT
Organization: Univ of MO - Rolla

use a bogus command name that doesn't exist and redirect the
results.  The error goes to the screen and not the file, but the
file is created.   Try this:

bogus > bogus
------------------------- Original Article -------------------------
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: mlevis@ringer.cs.utsa.edu (Mike Levis) (OS/2)
Subject: Re: Zero-length files
Organization: University of Texas at San Antonio
Date: Sun, 10 Jan 1993 08:05:24 GMT

In article <1ierslINNriq@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu> al919@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Bruce
>
>I can't find the original posting, but someone asked about
>making zero-length files.  In DOS you can do this with
>
>REM > FOO.BAR
>
>I haven't tried this in OS/2.  That can be an exercise for the
>reader :-)

This works under a DOS session in OS/2, but not in an OS/2 session.
It seems that an OS/2 sessions *really* treats a REM statement as
a REM statement.  To get around this in an OS/2 session, one way is:

   type FOO.BAR > FOO.BAR

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From: lbv2@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu (BRIAN PAUL VAN LIEU)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: PAS-16 SCSI support?
Date: 8 Jan 93 17:20:15 GMT
Organization: Lehigh University


    Thank you to those who answered my question reguarding the co-existance of
    SCSI and IDE cards.

    Now, here's another tricky one. CD-ROMS go very well with a sound card.
    Instead of coughing up 300 for a good Adaptec card, can I use the SCSI of
    the PAS-16 to run a supported CD-ROM drive ? (supported meas Sony, NEC or
    Texel)

    $ is kind of tight, and I would like to know if you OS2ers have done such
    a thing. As it stands now, I am making a floppy copy of the 2.1 beta
    anyway ;)



                                    cheers,

                                    bvl
-- 

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  Lehigh University-AXP
  lbv2@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu

            OS/2 2.0...anything else is just a DOS.
From: Kimberly.Bobrow@f347.n109.z1.fidonet.org (Kimberly Bobrow)
Sender: Uucp@blkcat.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: PmQwk Announcement
Date: Fri, 08 Jan 1993 03:52:56 -0500

Here's the press release for Oberon's offline QWK mailreader -
it has been uploaded to OS/2 Shareware and Fernwood, but until
Pete and Emmitt get a chance to make them visible to all, you
can get it from Oberon's BBS...


Press Release                             Contact: Brady Flowers
                                                       President
                                                    507-388-7001
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

QWK MAIL READER FOR OS/2 2.0 PRE-RELEASE AVAILABLE TO PUBLIC

Mankato, MN, Jan. 4, 1993 - Oberon Software announced today tha@\t
the current pre-release version of its 32-bit application PMQWK,
a QWK Mail reader for OS/2 2.0, will be made available to the
public effective immediately.  The program is available for
download from Oberon Software's BBS at 507-388-1154.

"QWKMAIL" is a standard procedure for reading and replying to BBS
mail off-line and is supported by the majority of BBSes through-
out the world.  PMQWK is designed to interface with any BBS or
on-line service which offers QWKMAIL uploads and downloads.
PMQWK is the first and only off-line mail reader available which
exploits OS/2 2.0 to fully multi-task your off-line mail reading.
PMQWK allows the user to read and reply to any number of confer-
ences and messages from any number of BBSes simultaneously;
allowing for easy cross-referencing, cut and paste between mes-
sages and replies, and much more.  PMQWK has built-in support for
automatic quoting of message text in replies, Fidonet and Inter-
net addressing, regular expression searching through message text
and envelopes, a personal address book feature, custom tagline
generation, and interfaces with all popular text editors and OS/2
based archiving programs.

Users of this pre-release version will be able to place early
orders, at a special introductory rate, for the general release
version of PMQWK when it become available later in the first
quarter of 1993.

Oberon Software has been developing OS/2 software and providing
OS/2 related services since 1988.  More than just a specialty,
OS/2 related products and services are Oberon Software's only
business.  Other Oberon products include TE/2, the Oberon Termi-
nal Emulator/2, a general purpose telecommunications program for
OS/2; FSHL, Oberon Software's Alternative Command Line Executive;
and the Commpak/2 Programmer's Toolkit for creating telecommuni-
cations routines under OS/2.  The release of the 32-bit Commpak/2
Dynamic Link Library marked the first step by Oberon to convert
its entire line of software to OS/2 2.0 compatibility.

In addition to the conversion of its present product line to OS/2
2.0 and 32-bit operation, Oberon Software intends to expand its
product line in 1993 to include several new, native 32-bit
applications.

** OS/2 is a registered trademark of International Business Machines
Organization: Wirtschaftsuniversitaet Wien, Vienna, Austria
Date: Thursday, 7 Jan 1993 21:29:09 CET
From: FLATSCHER Rony <RONY@awiwuw11.wu-wien.ac.at>
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: Does anyone know a security-prog. for OS/2

Jesper,

wait for OS/2 version 2.1. In the lockup-section of the WPS you can
check (if I am not mistaken) a button to indicate that you wish the WPS
to lock-up at boot-time.

---rony
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: erzberg@ifi.unizh.ch (Martin Erzberger)
Subject: Can you read icon text against wallpaper?
Organization: University of Zurich, Department of Computer Science
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 93 08:41:18 GMT

Today I tried to replace the standard colored background of WPS
by a nice wallpaper (some kind of diagonal bricks). Now I found
that I almost can't read the tiny icon text anymore against this
new, non-uniform background. Since I took the bitmap from a 
Macintosh, I can see how it's done there: Every icon text also has 
a background color (don't know if it is settable tough).
On a WPS color scheme, there seems to be no "icon text background"
(and of course one would also need a "shadow icon text background").
Is there a cure against this problem or do I have to go back to
a simple colored background?
Regards, Martin Erzberger
From: pat@berry.Cary.NC.US (Pat Berry)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: Telix was working, I SWEAR!
Date: Mon, 04 Jan 93 18:23:55 EST
Organization: Berry Communications

pprior@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Paul A Prior) writes:

> Any idea what happened???  I have enjoyed using telix with os/2
> and would like to continue.  I can't think of anything I did
> that would have caused its performance to change so drastically.

Are you using the latest version of Telix?  A new company, deltaComm
Development, has bought the rights and the code from the previous owner,
Exis Inc.  deltaComm released a new version, Telix 3.20, about two weeks
ago, with some minor bug fixes and enhancements.  There is a six-line
deltaComm BBS where you can download the new version and get technical
support.

Here's how to contact deltaComm:

  ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
           deltaComm Development, PO Box 1185, Cary, NC  27512  USA

         (919)-460-4556 voice, (919)-460-4531 FAX, (919)-481-9399 BBS

      Telix Copyright (C) 1986,87,88,89,90,91,92 by deltaComm Development
  ---------------------------------------------------------------------------

For what it's worth, I've used Telix 3.15 and 3.20 under OS/2 with no
problems.

-- 
Pat Berry - Cary, North Carolina, USA   |  "At least that's what *I* thought.
pat@berry.Cary.NC.US                    |  But I have a history of missing the
**** Happy user of OS/2 2.0 ****        |  point of stuff like this."
                                        |  -- Homer Simpson
From: landis@sugs.tware.com (Hale Landis)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: YES! VIO/MOU/KBD documentation is here?? 
Distribution: world
Date: Fri, 08 Jan 93 19:33:10 GMT
Organization: SUGS

I hope the report that IBM has documented the KBD, MOU and VIO
calls is corret.  I think not documenting these was a *major*
omission in the original OS/2 documentation.

Thanks IBM!

--------------------------------------------------------
Hale Landis                           Santa Cruz, CA USA
408-423-4017          -or-                  408-439-2443
landis@sugs.tware.com -or- hale_landis@notes.seagate.com
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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: dona@nwra.com (Don Altman)
Subject: Re: Which modem - internal or external ?
Organization: Northwest Research Associates, Inc.
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 02:09:57 GMT

In article <2se9wB1w165w@vicuna.ocunix.on.ca> frampton@vicuna.ocunix.on.ca writes:
>It's really a matter of personal preference.  I recommend going with an
>external model, for the following reasons:
		(Many Reasons Deleted)

Except, of course, if you don't have a buffered UART (16550AF or
equivalent) on your serial port.  In that case, the internal modem
containing such a chip would be preferable due to the higher
throughput you'd obtain.

-- 
Don Altman                                 Northwest Research Associates, Inc.
dona@nwra.com                              Bellevue, WA
(206) 453-8141                             (206) 646-9123 (FAX)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: kaul@vnet.ibm.com
Subject: Re: To XGA-2 or not [New resolution support info, in reality]
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 93 15:49:44 GMT
News-Software: IBM OS/2 PM RN (NR/2) v0.16 by O. Vishnepolsky and R. Rogers
Reply-To: kaul@vnet.ibm.com
Organization: IBM T. J. Watson Research

In <1993Jan9.031753.6315@odin.diku.dk> joker@diku.dk (Morten Christian Holmgreen) writes:
>Are you sure, that 1280x1024 is 45Hz? In the SP's XGA DMQS-files it's 
>listed at 50Hz - why the slowdown?

No, I'm not sure.  The OS/2 people don't track our DMQS files completely.
They may well have had different numbers.  The numbers I listed are the
ones officially supported in the 2.02 reference diskette, at least as 
noted in Appendix A of the installation instructions.  We've had many
different revisions of officially supported DMQS files and I'm not sure
which version the SP picked up.  I haven't installed the DMQS files from
the reference diskette (I have my own "custom" set) so I really don't
know what's in there.

If you want to go and play with the DMQS files you're quite able to 
violate many of our specs and get what you want, or to tune your display 
for its maximum performance.  For example, our DMQS guru here is running 
his XGA-2 out of spec while driving his 6091 in 1280x1024x16 at 67Hz
noninterlaced.  That comes out to a 120MHz dot clock, while our official
max is 90MHz.  So yes, you can modify the DMQS file, but you should know
what you're doing and be willing to accept the consequences of violating
the specifications.  NOTE:  if you try this, you take your own chances.
We don't support that kind of abuse and I have no idea what it would do 
to the life of the adapter.  We also don't officially support the 6091 
display, but boy do I wish I had one!
-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: rgpxs360@glen-ellyn.iit.edu (Peter Stein)
Subject: Re: SCSI coexistence with other adapters
Organization: Illinois Institute of Technology, Rice Campus
Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1993 19:04:29 GMT

In article <930104141639@rgam.sc.ti.com> 5692330@mcimail.com  (Robert Gammon) writes:
>In article <27DEC199213362183@pavo.concordia.ca> da_maha@pavo.concordia.ca (MAHAR, DEREK A.) writes:
>
> >> Can a SCSI adapter coexist with ESDI, MFM, RLL, or IDE adapters?  I have
> >> an Ultrastor ESDI controller, and want to install a SCSI CD-ROM drive.  Should
> >> I have any problems doing so?
> >> 
> >> DEREK
>
>I have a Perceptive Solutions Inc (PSI) easyCACHE ESDI controller and a Future
>Domain TMC850MEX SCSI controller in the same OS/2 2.0 system, and all is well.
>The PSI has two ESDI hard drives attached, and the Future Domain has a CD-ROM
>attached.
>--
>Regards,
>Robert Gammon
>(713)-274-3299       (voice)
>(713)-274-2324       (fax)
>

This is interesting. When I called PSI they insisted that their 
controllers will only work with another controller of their
manufacture. I can think of no apparent reason why this need be
the case and the PSI representative offered no explanation. It
became moot anyway since I discovered that the PSI controllers
are grotesquely overpriced. Currently I have a Promise DC-2040
SCSI and an Ultrastor 12F ESDI controller happily coexisting in
my system (Ultrastor was even kind enough to fax a coresidence
data sheet). I have also heard of numerous other controller
combinations.


Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: "joe kovacs" <joe.kovacs@canrem.com>
Subject: dos windows in os/2-- def
Reply-To: "joe kovacs" <joe.kovacs@canrem.com>
Organization: Canada Remote Systems
Distribution: comp
Date: 5 Jan 93 23:39:20 EST

On 01-02-93  15:31, Timothy F. Sipples wrote to All as follows: 
 

 TFS>   Newsgroup: comp.os.os2.misc
 TFS>  Message-ID: <1993Jan2.184803.21806@midway.uchicago.edu>
 TFS>     Subject: DOS windows in OS/2-- default size?

 TFS> In article <19136@mindlink.bc.ca> Jeremy_Reimer@mindlink.bc.ca (Jeremy
 TFS> Reimer) writes: >Is there a way I can get certain DOS windows to always
 TFS> come up full-size (not >full-screen, but a full-sized 80x25 window)?
 >Right now they always come up about 1/3 the size of a full window.  I don't
 >mind this for all applications, but some I want to default to full-size.
                                      ^^^^

 TFS> Hold down SHIFT while dragging the border(s) until the window is full
 TFS> size.  This will preserve size changes.

This has never worked for me. The DOS window defaults to _almost_ full
size all right, but _every_ window comes up full size including, as I
remember, the OS/2 window at boot-up. This is unacceptable.

The other thing that goes wrong is that the stretched window is not
maximized. The maximum _stretched_ window still has the scroll bars on
the right side and the bottom, so it's too small.

If you have a way to get individual windowed applications in DOS and
OS/2 to start maximized, I'd sure like to hear about it.

Incidentally, I've never tried this since I applied the SP. Were these
things corrected?


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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: wagner@andersen.uucp (Wags Man)
Subject: Re: Detach command.
Summary: But how do you
Organization: Andersen Consulting
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 21:16:49 GMT


Bring a background process to the foreground???

If I have a process in bg in the current window, how can I bring 
that process up front?

thanks
steve
From: sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu (Timothy F. Sipples)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: SONY CD-ROM, non SCSI
Keywords: SONY CD-ROM, non SCSI
Date: 9 Jan 93 01:31:08 GMT
Reply-To: sip1@midway.uchicago.edu
Organization: Dept. of Econ., Univ. of Chicago

In article <1993Jan8.162046.29628@newstand.syr.edu> jtcox@syr.edu writes:
>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.

Sony is purportedly working on a driver (and do contact them to tell
them you are interested) for their CD-ROM adapter.  Until that time,
you will be restricted to using your CD-ROM in the session you've
described, and not with OS/2 sessions.

You can forego the floppy disk if you use the VMDISK command (to
actually create a diskette image on your hard disk).  See the online
Command Reference for details.

-- 
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of Chicago, 60637       | [Read the List, THEN post to ONE OS/2 newsgroup.]