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From: lbv2@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu (BRIAN PAUL VAN LIEU)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Uuuhg! This is a stable beta???? Help!
Date: 24 Jan 93 15:14:50 GMT
Organization: Lehigh University


    OK, I finally installed the 2.1 beta last night. Many of you felt it was
    extremely stable. I remembe using the origional 2.01 beta and having few
    if any problems wiht it.

    I ran it fine for two hours last night. I altered the config.sys to create
    a RAM drive, a larger swapfile, and load dos high.

    Today (the next mourning), I have had 15 trap d and e errors in the past
    hour. That's right. The main thing is simply trying to close the icon
    editor, or another window that I never closed the last time my system
    trapped.

    It alll started with me trying to edit an icon (yes, I am a fool). Now I
    can not get all of my application to close so I can re-boot honestly. I do
    not have that line in my config.sys that prevents opened objects and such
    from being re-opened upon the next boot.

    This is really sad. I could take one re-boot a day, but now I am at the
    point where I am afraid to open an object.

    Has anyone experienced similar problems? I really don't want to go back to
    2.0 ;)

                                                cheers,

                                                bvl
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From: albrecht@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (Chad Edward Albrecht)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Wierd Tseng card?
Date: 27 Jan 1993 20:01:05 GMT
Organization: University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee
NNTP-Posting-Host: 129.89.7.4

I have and "Ultra VGA" board with a Tseng 4000AX chip on it.  It has 1 meg
of RAM and jumpers for IRQ2 enable and turbo and normal mode.

The problem is that I cannot get any of the Tseng 4000 video drivers for
OS/2 to work with it.  Anyone else have this problem and know the solution?


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From: adhir@wam.umd.edu (Al Dhir)
Subject: Re: WinOS2 Parallel ports busy bug (SP and 2.1b)
Organization: University of Maryland, College Park
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 03:37:38 GMT

In article <hrpdko.57@pnv.palm.cri.nz> hrpdko@pnv.palm.cri.nz (Dale K. Ogilvie) writes:
>
>In both the SP and now the 2.1 beta the windows program EPSCAN2 (a scanner 
>program) cannot use the LPT2 port to which the scanner is connected. OS2 
>reports that LPT2 is busy (being used by another app) even when nothing else 
>is running. 
>
>This problem can be fixed by replacing the SP/2.1beta VLPT.SYS file with the 
>version from 2.0GA.

Actually, the correct way to fix this is to open up the settings for the
printer object, find the page where you select the printer port, and double
click on LPT1 (or LPT2 or 3 or whatever you need).  An undocumented (I
couldn't find docs for it anywhere) settings box will open where you can
turn on the "Shared Access" for that port.  Works great.


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Subject: Running out of memory
From: R.C.(Chuck) Solly <NU035609@NDSUVM1.BITNET>
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 12:09:02 CST
Organization: North Dakota Higher Education Computer Network

I know I have seen this problem in this group before but not lately...

In the middle of an OS2 session I get a message that says I am out of
memory and to close one or more apps. The problem is that I don't have
any apps open!

Does this have anything to to with an application called Golden Commpass,
which is used for accessing Compuserve?

Rebooting solves the problem (of course) but is there any other way?

Thanks for allowing the silly question!!!

Chuck Solly
N. Dakota State University
From: sillett@edc3jr.gsph.pitt.edu (Robert L. Sillett)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Windows NT w/ Boot Manager
Date: 26 Jan 93 19:35:22 GMT
Distribution: na
Organization: Epidemiology Data Center, University of Pittsburgh


Several weeks ago I saw some posts that told how to get Windows NT to
work with OS/2's Boot Manager.  It involved editing the boot sector or
something...

Could someone post or e-mail me the instructions?

Thanks.

--- Bob


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From: toddy@uni-paderborn.de (Thomas Rose)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: OS/2 2.0 and Novell
Date: 26 Jan 1993 13:56:05 GMT
Organization: Uni-GH Paderborn, Germany
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: formentera.uni-paderborn.de

Hi !

I am working on a paper about OS/2 2.0 and Novell Netware !

I am using the Requester for 2.0 !


What are the following processes or files doing ?

DDAEMON.EXE, HARDERR.EXE, NBDAEMON.EXE, SPDAEMON, NW-CALLS, NWIFS, NETX !


Please answer immediatly via elm to toddy@uni-paderborn.de, because i have 
to finish my paper on 29.01.1993

     Thanks
            Tom
From: jmaynard@oac.hsc.uth.tmc.edu (Jay Maynard)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: My ET4000......(again)....:-(
Date: 27 Jan 1993 14:04:25 GMT
Organization: UT Health Science Center Houston

In article <Gary.Woodman.944.728095815@anu.edu.au> Gary.Woodman@anu.edu.au (Gary Woodman) writes:
>Did you boot DOS and try SVGA ON from there? This 'trick' cleared up many of 
>the hassles I had configuring my Trident card...

I don't know about Steve, but my father has the same problem, and doing what
you suggest doesn't help. I have an offer of a working svgadata.pmi faile by
email; if it works, I'll post here. (No, I don't know where my correspondent
got it.)
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Microsoft bashing." -- Douglas A. Bell, in comp.os.os2.advocacy (Me too!)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: des@inmos.co.uk (David Shepherd)
Subject: Re: Some 2.1b Problems
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL8]
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 93 10:56:49 GMT

Is their an official email address to send bug reports to with the
2.1beta - I'm not looking for any support or workrounds etc, just that
I'd like to think I was being a useful beta-tester.

So far in a short play with 2.1b I've only found 3 problems, which having
read the README file are probably known problems.

1) AmiPro starts its help utility behind the main window ==> you need to
manually bring it back to the front - README mentions a similar problem
with starting apps from the program manager.

2) Start windows apps minimized doen't work - switches app type to DOS
which then fails. This looks like the problem described in the REAME
file.

3) I ran AmiPro seamlessly, it comes up maximized so I pressed button
to shrink it's size, then after doing somethings I minimized it. This
sort of worked, but a couple of areas were left blanked out on the
desktop which still acted as WINOS regions (I think these areas matched
the shape of the menus that pop up from AmiPros bottom bar buttons) -
i.e. I got the windows pointer when I moved the cursor into these
regions. I could bring AmiPro back from the  minimized window directory
and all was then fine again. I have not been able to reproduce this.
However, it looks as if in something in WINOS isn't always releasing
the areas of the desktop that it claims when an app gets minimized.

Another problem, which I think is probably my misunderstanding how
WPS works, is that if I associate *.SAM with AmiPro then I edit 
such a document by double clicking on the file icon. If I then minimize
AmiPro I have to double click on the AmiPro icon to bring it back. Double
clicking on the file icon doesn't work. This seems counter intuitive
(as the intuition is that I have opened the file and then minimized the
open file, hence I should be able to re-open the opened file by
double clicking on it) or am I expecting too much from WPS (and is 
the fact that I'm using a WINOS2 app relevant).

Other than that 2.1b feels a lot snappier than 2.0GA+SP and AmiPro seems
to work seamlessly much better than in 2.0SP where minimizing it caused
all sorts of problems.

Finally, I installed by reformatting the drive (having carefully saved
all Amipro .INI files which get stuck on the system disk :-). I tried
using WPSBKUP/WPSREST but this didn't seem totally successful so  I
recovered the original 2.1 setup and recustomized the desktop. For the
proper 2.1 release it is vital that you can pull over a previous 2.0
setup into 2.1 (including preserving any trash that windows programs
etc deposit on the system disk) - I didn't try installing over 2.0 as
my system partition is very tight for space so this may not have
worked.


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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: markus@edfd.uucp (Markus Gruenkorn (MAGIC))
Subject: Os 2.0/1 does not run on this board !
Keywords: ami bios
Organization: EDAG, ENGINEERING + DESGIN AG, Fulda, FRG
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 12:14:02 GMT


Hi guys !
I am working for a big company. We installed OS2 2.0 on different PC's
with more or less problems but we are not able to install it on one kind
of PC with a specific board respectivly a specific BIOS. The number of the AMI
BIOS is DINT-6102-091589-K8. There are many PC's with this kind of board, bios,
therefore I would like to know a way to install OS 2.0 om them. Maybe there
is a patch for OS2 2.0 (the service pack did not solve this problem I tried it), or there is a newer version of the bios. If there is a newer version of the bios I would like to know where I can get it.
Any information would be appreciated !
thanks in advance!


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From: rick@sjsumcs.sjsu.edu (Richard Warner)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc,comp.os.os2.advocacy
Subject: Re: Some killer apps..was: economics of os2 for ibm
Date: 21 Jan 93 19:26:54 GMT
Organization: San Jose State University - Math/CS Dept.

Steve.Withers@bbs.actrix.gen.nz writes:

>In article <1jh8g4$3fj@agate.berkeley.edu> jp1ek@sunc.shef.ac.uk writes:
>> 
>> b) ibm has no killer applications of its own (are there any os2
>> killer applications anywhere?) that would lead one to buy os2;

>I would say that any native OS/2 comms program, fax program, or multi-media
>aplication would be a killer app.
> 
>Why? Because these things performs so much *better* with OS/2 that to compare
>them with Windows would be cruel. 
> 
>The only problem with killer apps is people have to know about them....
> 
>Steve

Well, the apps are starting to show up.  I was at the Windows & OS/2 
Conference yesterday (San Jose, CA) and IBM had the largest presence at
the show, all hyping OS/2.  They had one booth full of ISV's
demonstrating their apps and most of them were '32-bit' according
to the vendors.  IBM also had a booth specifically for vendors, a
training area, and a test-drive area where you could actually try out
some of the new OS/2 2.x apps.  The biggest name vendor showing a 
32-bit OS/2 2.x app was WordPerfect - WP 5.2 for OS/2 was being
shown publically for the first time.  

The best demo of the relative capabilities of OS/2 vs. Win 3.1 was
a side-by-side run by IBM.  Purpose of the demo was to show the
advantage of pre-emptive multitasking over cooperative multitasking.
The demo was done on 2 identical IBM PS/2 Model 57's.   Running was
a DOS box running the DOS backup command, a Windows box running an
Excel macro, and 'multimedia' app (a Win 3.1 one under windows - I
forget the vendor - and IBM's Ultimedia on OS/2 2.1 beta).  The 
backup was started, then the Excel macro, and finally the multimedia
app (video+sound).  Well, everything ran smoothly on the OS/2 machine,
while the Windows machine jerked and stammered through the demo.  
Unfortunately they did not allow us to look at the 'settings' used
which can, of course, have a large affect on such things.

I do have to give IBM credit for 2 things at this show:  first, there
was an inordinate amount of self-deprecating humour (referring
frequently to the news on Wednesday of the huge FY losses racked up
by Big Blue).  Second, I have to give them the 'stainless steel
balls' award for using only the 2.1 beta of OS/2 and actually letting
folks run it in the test-drive area.

For comparison, the ONLY presence for NT was in the rather small
MS booth, and no one except the demonstrator was permitted to 
touch the sacrosanct machines (fear of users seeing it crash?).


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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu (Timothy F. Sipples)
Subject: Re: OS/2 2.1 beta bugs
Keywords: beta 2.1 bug
Reply-To: sip1@midway.uchicago.edu
Organization: Dept. of Econ., Univ. of Chicago
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 22:40:25 GMT

In article <1993Jan22.154843.26891@ucl.ac.uk> ucgadkw@ucl.ac.uk (Dominik Wujastyk) writes:
>1/ Repeated system hangs with Trap d when deleting files.  Solved by
>   rem-ing out the deldir statment in config.sys.  Annoying, since I
>   now can't retrieve deleted files.

Known bug, and you've found the current workaround.

You can use the Safe Delete utility (unsdel10.zip) available via
anonymous ftp from ftp-os2.nmsu.edu if you really miss that feature.

>2/ I can't print from winos2 3.1.  I've installed the printer carefully
>   (HPLJ III), made it the default, diddled around generally, but still
>   no luck.  When I start Write, I get a message that the printer isn't
>   connected (it *is*) or is wrongly installed, check print manager, etc.
>   I have done all I can think of, with no luck.

Known bug.  Workaround: use the HP LJ IIP driver in Win-OS/2.

>3/ Nupop, the POP3 DOS client, causes some problems.  It is a comms
>   program, and is talking to my modem on COM3.  Sometimes it causes
>   the whole system to hang.  (Yes, yes, I type ctrl+esc and wait
>   forever, etc.).  Cold boot required.  This happens when nupop attempts
>   to send mail out via modem.  
>   Another problem is that the keyboard dies -- but not the mouse.  With
>   the mouse I can continue to work with nupop, but the keys are completely
>   dead.  Other sessions and windows are fine.

Please report it on CompuServe, if you have an account.  Use the
command GO OS2USER and post to message area 16.

>4/ the statement DEVICE=C:\OS2\COM.SYS (3,38E,4) in config.sys had the
>   bracketed stuff removed by the installation (beta over GA 2.0).  
>   Actually, com3 worked without the () stuff in GA+SP, but it doesn't
>   in 2.1b.

The installation routine is not yet up to par -- IBM recommends a
reformat when you install 2.1 beta.  They freeze the installation
details very late in the development cycle.

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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: tom@dirac.physik.uni-konstanz.de (Thomas Kirchhoff)
Subject: SCSI Adaptec 1542b + Fujitsu 520MB + GA 2.0 + Servicepak not working !
Organization: Physics Department Uni Konstanz
Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1993 14:37:48 GMT

After a cold start, I can make partitions with FDISK. Fine.
Then I want to format the new drive. Sometimes this process crashes the whole
maschine (The LED on the Adaptec controller then stays on). If I make
a warm boot, the SCSI drive will not be recognized. I have to shut the power
off, boot OS/2 which after CHKDSK just hangs, then I do a second warm boot.
This time I will get to WPS back with all the SCSI Drives present.
Once I was able to format an SCSI Partition to FAT. I then copied the 
README file to the drive. Using the TYPE command with the file
in an OS/2 Window worked, but clicking on the file to start the E editor
didn't. Only the Watch cursor appeared and the controller LED stayed 
on for ever.
What's wrong here ?
My system: Symphony motherboard 486DX-50, 16MB
           200 MB Seagate IDE
	   520 MB Fujitsu with Adaptec 1542b

By the way: All works fine with Linux, so I guess its not a hardware problem.

Hoping desparately for a hint !

Thomas Kirchhoff
tom@dirac.physik.uni-konstanz.de (134.34.15.3)
From: gutz@cc49.crl.aecl.ca
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: MS WFW NET.EXE in and OS/2 DOS session
Date: 27 Jan 93 16:05:53 GMT
Article-I.D.: cu23.1993Jan27.160553.2193
Distribution: comp.os.os2.misc
Organization: AECL-Research

I am having trouble getting the NET.EXE program that ships with Windows for
Workgroups to work in an OS/2 DOS session.  It gives me "Incorrect DOS 
version".  I loaded the required WFW network drivers using the DOS_DEVICE setting.

Yet if I run my real DOS 5.0 image and try NET.EXE it works fine.

I have tried everything, including the DOS_VERSION setting for NET.EXE.

If anyone knows how to run WFW NET.EXE and get it working, let me know.  If I can get this
working, I can get WFW running under OS/2. (It actually runs now, but without NET support).
If this works I'll gladly share the infor to all OS/2 and WFW netters.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Steve
gutz@cc49.crl.aecl.ca
From: brent@cco.caltech.edu (Brent R. Eubanks)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: HELP: Wordperfect 5.1 (DOS) won't run; would earlier
Date: 24 Jan 93 15:05:04 GMT
Article-I.D.: gap.1jub70INN7av
Organization: California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
NNTP-Posting-Host: sandman.caltech.edu

When I installed OS/2 a couple of weeks ago, Wordperfect migrated
automatically and ran without any problems.  Since then, I've
installed the service pack and done a few things to the CONFIG.SYS
(most notably, setting DOS=HIGH,UMB).  Now when I try to run it, I get
an error.  Wordperfect asks me if I have another copy of Wordperfect
currently running.  Then it says I have an old backup, would I like to
delete it?  Then I get the OS/2 "an error has occured" message and the
app ends.  

Does anyone have any idea what's going on?  Any way to fix it?  I
already tried deleting and re-migrating the file: this didn't help.  I
also ran CHKDSK, but nothing came of it.

Please respond via email.


Thanks


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From: ignasiak@netsun..cl.msu.edu (Todd Ignasiak)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: PMfax / OS/2 2.1b
Date: 26 Jan 93 01:49:36 GMT
Organization: Michigan State University
NNTP-Posting-Host: netsun.cl.msu.edu

I am a registered user of OS/2 2.0,  and I have a Supra V32bis Fax/Modem.
I don't really want to install the 2.1 Beta,  I'm just going to wait for
the complete version.   But, I would like to try the new fax applet.
And instead of wading through all the disks to find this app,  could
someone please just zip up the needed files and upload it somewhere.
Either hobbes, wuarchive, or I could set up my machine to receive it.

Thanks,

Todd Ignasiak

PS - I doubt this would be in violation of any copyrights/licensing agreements
since it is available via ftp, and I am a registered user.
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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: mjn@sbmiclr.cs.sunysb.edu (The Sixth Replicant)
Subject: Re: Suggestions for tape, CD, sound card for Gateway 2k
Organization: Tyrell Corp.
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 18:45:25 GMT

In article <1k131lINN2af@crcnis1.unl.edu> rlosee@unl.edu (Robert Losee) writes:
>...
>         My Gateway 2000 486/33 has a Maynard tape drive but OS/2
>won't deal with it.  I understand I need a new drive as this one will
>never work with OS/2 (is that correct?).

Call up Maynard. I think they sell OS/2 software for most if not all of their
drives. I found their phone staff to be very helpful when I was trying to
get info about Irwin drives and OS/2 software.

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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: jimi@well.sf.ca.us (Jim Isom)
Subject: Re: DIAMOND STEALTH DRIVERS NEEDED
Organization: Whole Earth 'Lectronic Link
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 20:50:34 GMT

In <hatton.727828762@cgl.ucsf.edu> hatton@socrates.ucsf.edu (Tom Hatton) writes:

+bill@west.msi.com (Bill Poitras) writes:
+>Sean Marrinan (seanm@romulus.rutgers.edu) wrote:
+>: Anyone got a copy or know what's up with the diamond stealth drivers.
-deletions-
Seems to be something of the same run-around I've gotten from TPE (Technology
Power Enterprises) in Fremont, CA.  They have an S3 chip on their video
board.  They've been saying RSN for months.  I WILL NOT BUY another soon.
Likely never, in fact.
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