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From: claudio.fahey@idcbbs.com (Claudio Fahey) 
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Why am I getting a startup.cmd window?
Date: 23 Jan 93 15:15:00 GMT
Distribution: world
Organization: IDC BBS - Alameda, CA - 510-865-7115
Reply-To: claudio.fahey@idcbbs.com (Claudio Fahey) 

To: <DGRAHAM@HARPERVM.BITNET>

<D>  When I enter OS/2 upon starting the computer the first thing that pops up
<D>  is a window titled startup.cmd. OS/2 is obviously running startup.cmd and
<D>  opening a window for it, and I have no idea why. I have the clock in the
<D>  startup.cmd folder so that the clock comes up all the time, but when I clos
<D>  this new window the clock doesn't show up. Any way to get OS/2 to just run
<D>  the applications that are in the startup.cmd folder like it use to for me
<D>  instaed of having this window open? I am not sure what I did to change it t
<D>  make this happen, but something did.
<D>      Thanks in advance

If you have a startup.cmd file in your root directory, OS/2 will do that.
My startup.cmd file is a REXX program and I have it configured to start
a program ( Robocomm ) if the current time is between 5am to 8am.  If
you just want to start the clock, create a clock shadow in your Startup
folder located in you OS/2 System folder.  You can then delete the
startup.cmd folder.
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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: jcmorris@mwunix.mitre.org (Joe Morris)
Subject: Re: OS/2 Wish List
Organization: The MITRE Corporation
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 16:59:11 GMT

If it hasn't already been requested: a decent routine to handle loading
of files from the distribution diskettes after the initial installation
is complete.

Even Microsoft doesn't make you insert disks which are unnecessary for
the requested configuration change.  The way that OS/2 works when 
changing the system configuration is even worse than the old Microsoft
Word installer which, if you selected several printer drivers, made you
play the nimble fingered floppy flipper: at least each time you inserted
a disk the setup program actually needed something from that disk.  OS/2
setup seems to want to see every disk just on the off chance that it might
contain something useful.

And similar comments apply to the installation of a new printer: you must
guess which printer driver disk contains the files for the printer you
want to install.

I don't have the 2.1 beta; possibly (hopefully) this has changed...please?

Joe Morris / MITRE
From: enk2@po.cwru.edu (Erik Kovach)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: Trying to create OS/2-Bootable 5.25" Diskette
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 19:49:32 GMT
Organization: Case Western Reserve University
NNTP-Posting-Host: b62711.student.cwru.edu
Keywords: reboot, boot, bootable, se20boot, boot20, bootdisk.txt

In article <C1F7BD.77s@news.cso.uiuc.edu> jst50986@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Jack S. Tan) writes:
>This method may not be proper, but it does work:  format the diskette to a
>higher-capacity, nonstandard format.  Using FDFORMAT (available from various
>anonymous FTP sites), I was able to create a 1.47MB diskette, on which I
>created my boot diskette.  OS/2 is able to boot from such a disk, unlike
>DOS.  Also, when you are prompted for the install diskette in making the
>boot disk, you can use the boot disk from the CSD.  It seems to work also.

Or, if you're running FAT on ANY partition that is reachable from boot,
put the CMD.EXE and the HPFS.IFS onto the FAT partition and change the
CONFIG.SYS file on the boot disk to point to THOSE files.  Now the data
will fit on a 1.2.
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: tadr@doe.carleton.ca (Tom A. D. Riley)
Subject: 2.1b and FDISK during installation
Organization: Dept. of Electronics, Carleton University
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 22:59:15 GMT

I am trying to instal the 2.1 Beta over what used to be
GA+SP on a FAT partition in an extended logical drive.

During my first attempt the mouse and winos2 part of the
installation got hosed. For various reasons, I decided
to reinstall from scratch. At disk 2 I got an error
message that FDISK had failed and that I should do the
escape after disk 1 trick to correct the problem. To
my great amusement, the message offered no clue as to
how to fix the problem so I tried running fdisk mannually
after escapeing from the installation program. The "Set 
Installable" option was greyed out. I tried to delete
and recreate the partition but could still not get it
to be set installable. Is this something I am doing wrong
or a bug?

Any clues or similar experiences?
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: samiam@netcom.com (Scott Moore)
Subject: Re: tape drives and a WIN/OS@ question
Keywords: windows tape backup
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  (408 241-9760 guest) 
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 05:51:43 GMT

jdough@sinkhole.unf.edu (Joseph Dougherty) writes:


>        Has anyone found a satisfactory tape drive/software combination
>for OS/2 yet? Following the traffic here, in the PC nets and on CIS
>leads me to believe that this is a somewhat sticky area. Backing up
>to floppies is a pain and I'd like to invest in a decent drive (a CMS
>Jumbo 120 comes to mind). I don't have *major* needs now, just one 200
>meg drive with 4 partitions (2 HPFS and two FAT). All comments would
>be welcomed.

I have been successfully runing with a SCSI standard tape and GTAK, available
on hobbes (shareware). It works better than the commercial stuff.

>        Second question:
>        I have a couple of small Windows apps that run a lot slower
>in a seperate window than they do under "full" Win/OS2. In particular,
>I have a shareware backgammon game that runs slow and demonstrates poor
>screen refreshes when in a seamless window. Dialog boxes don't clear
>properly...the text clears from the box but the white shadow stays on the
>screen too long. Is there a setting to correct this?

DO you have the SP installed ? this cleared some but not all of the seamless
problems.

                                      [sam]
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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: bblank@mailer.cc.fsu.edu (Bryan S. Blank(FIRN))
Subject: Should OS/2 be _MY_ OS Too?
Organization: Florida State University
Date: Sat, 23 Jan 93 20:27:18 GMT

	Well, mommy and daddy are finally going to buy me a real machine. 
I am buying a 486DX/33 305 MB disk and 12 MB ram.  Should be one hot
machine.  It has a Trident SVGA card, and I am putting a 14.4K modem in. 
My question is...Should OS/2 be my OS for this machine?  Is 2.0 okay, or
do I have to get 2.1B?  There is no way for me to download it, as this is
also my voice line, but can IBM send it to me?  What makes OS/2 so great? 
Thanks!
					(--)Bryan(--)
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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: jlloyd@adapcal.UUCP (John Lloyd)
Subject: Re: SCSI Drive (Fujitsu 520 MB with Adaptec 1542b) not working.
Organization: Adaptec Inc., California
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 16:57:26 GMT

In article <TOM.93Jan24082527@dirac.physik.uni-konstanz.de> tom@dirac.physik.uni-konstanz.de (Thomas Kirchhoff) writes:
>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.
>
What are the adapter settings? Did you change the DMA transfer speed? I
have a Fujitsu 520MB as well and have used on two 486/33 motherboards
(one ISA and one EISA) with the 1542B and 1740 without difficulty. Both
boards were "clones" but neither had the symphony chipset.

jlloyd@adapcal.com

Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: olavt@ulrik.uio.no (Olav Torvund)
Subject: Re: OS/2 2.1 beta in Scandinavia (Norway)
Organization: University of Oslo, Norway
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 11:11:36 GMT

OS/2 2.1 beta is available i Norway from ugle.unit.no,
/pub/os2/2.1beta.

Olav Torvund
University of Oslo
NOrway
Olavt@jus.uio.no
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu (Timothy F. Sipples)
Subject: Re: PS/2s and OS/2 
Reply-To: sip1@midway.uchicago.edu
Organization: Dept. of Econ., Univ. of Chicago
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 22:22:13 GMT

In article <727634224snx@ananke.stgt.sub.org> ak@ananke.stgt.sub.org (Andreas Kaiser) writes:
>  > A PS/2 should be able to run OS/2 faster, seeing as it has ABIOS,
>  > can have DMA parallel ports and serial ports, busmaster adapters
>  > like SCSI, etc. that can free up the main processor and make a
>  > slower main CPU seem faster.
>	ABIOS:
>What is the advantage of ABIOS regarding OS/2 performance? ISA systems
>do not use ABIOS (there is none), do not use BIOS but use native
>drivers loaded in (fast) RAM. So why should ABIOS be superior to a
>native driver?

I think the main advantage is that it can save a bit of RAM, and more
RAM generally means better performance.  It is also conceivable that
the ABIOS routines can be customized (speed-wise) for the particular
machine in question (the "generic" routines may not be so optimized).

>There could be one advantage: Machine dependant stuff could be put into
>the ABIOS, allowing incompatible hardware without getting into the
>well-known driver problem. But IBM states, their new PS/2 machines with
>preloaded OS/2 do not accept any previous brand of OS/2, neither OS/2
>GA nor the Service Pack. So what about ABIOS?

Each IBM machine has a "tie in" file -- this file describes how OS/2
accesses the ABIOS, principally.  Older versions of OS/2 don't include
these files for newer PS/2s.

>	Concurrent DMA:
>Current ISA system usually have just one true DMA client, the floppy
>controller. A bus master adapter is a second client, but what the
>Adaptec does with the ISA bus regarding "bus fairness" (leaving some
>time for floppy, with too little time for slow mainboards in the GA
>driver), the MCA cards have to do also (note the "fairness" setting in
>the machine setup).

How often does one use the floppy?  Or the hard drive, for that
matter?  Not all the time.

Having DMA serial and parallel is definitely useful.

>	Bus-Master DMA:
>It is of little help to have an (IBM!) bus mastering SCSI adapter, if
>the adapter doesn't grok how to switch the IBM(!) disk drive into
>synchronous mode. A fast bus doesn't save you from a stupid design.

Of course.

Bus mastering, coprocessed XGA-2 was absent from the equation, by the
way, and this design is also advantageous.

Add to that better media sense circuitry, 2.88 MB floppy drives, and
you're looking at a very nice system for multitasking.

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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: laurentb@scsun.unige.ch (BARTHOLDI Laurent)
Subject: Writing video drivers
Organization: University of Geneva
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL8]
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 16:59:17 GMT

Yes, another post on writing video drivers.
My problem is I have a shitty video SVGA driver with a
RealTek chipset. I basically know how to program the device
(switch to graphics mode, back to text, display something, etc.)
but have nor the time nor the will to write a driver from scratch.
What I ideally would need is the source of some SVGA driver that I could
adapt to my system. As a thank to the network I would the hand back the
RealTek-compliant source.
If somebody thinks this is a good deal (or just is kind enough to help!)
please mail me at lbartho@uni2a.unige.ch.
Thanks a lot, Larry
From: unruh@physics.ubc.ca (William Unruh)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: What's good about native OS/2
Date: 27 Jan 1993 20:28:54 GMT
Organization: The University of British Columbia
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: physics.ubc.ca

lowey@jester.usask.ca (CrazyMan) writes:
]3) OS/2 programs run safer.

...
]In OS/2 however, an application may put a clock on the screen because
]it may not want you to change a document while it is being printed for
]example. The difference is you can still move the window around, click on
]other applications, and run them normally.  The one program doesn't take
]over the entire machine.

Well, in theory, but because of the single input cue, in practice it's
not quite so good- eg, if I open a floppy drive, it takes over the whole
shell for up to a minute, the terminal emmulator Hogs the input cue
badly at times (eg, on disconnect it will hog it until the modem has
hung up, no matter what) etc, but they can rarely grab it permanently.
So, better, but not yet perfect.
From: hmkirchh@cip.informatik.uni-erlangen.de (Hans-Joachim Kirchhoff)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: OS2GDI.EXE and GDI.EXE, which or both?
Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 21:26:50 GMT
Organization: CSD., University of Erlangen
NNTP-Posting-Host: faui00a.informatik.uni-erlangen.de

ghdai@vax1.umkc.edu writes:

>After I installed OS/2 2.1 beta, I could not start any windoze session.  The
>message is "Error loading OS2GDI.EXE."  As I understand later, there is a
>GDI.EXE installed in WinOS2\SYSTEM directory, and I just made a plain copy
>of it to OS2GDI.EXE and so everything started to work.  During the
>installation, OS2GDI.EXE is never copied from the floppies, but only GDI.EXE.
>I don't know, however, whether it's a naming error or simply we need the same
>thing existing as two copies under different names, like WIN.COM and
>WINOS2.COM.

>Guohuan H. Dai/2
>-- 
>GHDai@VAX1.UMKC.Edu |** Happy user of only OS/2 !! / HPFS on 2 entire HD's **|

I noticed the same thing on a system, that had Win3.1 installed. On my own
system, everything worked fine, I did not have to rename/copy OS2GDI. My
"theory" on this problem is as follows:
If the install procedure of OS/2 detects an existing win 3.1 (which it may
migrate), it sets up winos2 in a way, so that it calls os2gdi. This would
avoid calling the original windoze gdi.exe accidently, if someone changed
say the path argument. On a system w'out windows this would not be necc.
It certainly is only a "theory" and a pretty weird one, but why else would
the beta try to call os2gdi on one and gdi.exe on the other maschine?
Both systems were installed from the same disks.

Any comments??
-Hajo
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From: bselling@darwin.helios.nd.edu (brian selling)
Subject: Anyone using Ultrastore 14F adapter and SCSI tape drive?
Organization: OUC, University of Notre Dame
Date: Fri, 29 Jan 1993 03:45:07 GMT

I have an Emerald SCSI tape drive that I would like to use with gnu
tar to back up my system.  I notice alot of people using a similar setup
with Adaptec SCSI adapters.  Anyone know what I need to get my SCSI
tape drive working with the Ultrastor 14F and OS/2?

My adapter came with drivers for OS/2 ver 1.3 only.

Please post to the newsgroup or reply to bselling@tc1.nd.edu 
...I've been having mail delivery troubles so please post if
email doesn't make it.  Thanks.
--
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South Bend, IN
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: lavog00@DMI.USherb.CA (GUYLAIN LAVOIE)
Subject: Another bug in os/2 2.1b????
Organization: Universite de Sherbrooke -- Dept. d'Informatique
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 01:19:17 GMT

Hi all,
       I think I have found another bug in os/2!  The bug occur on my
system with RUNWORKPLACE set to cmd.exe (Without WPS).  When starting
a dos session, the pmshell process create a thread but when I exit
from the dos session, the thread is not killed, so at the end
the pmshell process just continu to build up thread until it reach the
number of threads possible on your system define in THREAD env. variable.

Guylain Lavoie
LAVOG00@DMI.USherb.CA
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: hanisch@winx06.informatik.uni-wuerzburg.de (Matthias Hanisch)
Subject: Re: Install probs (2nd hd not detected!)
Organization: University of Wuerzburg, Germany
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 15:21:39 GMT

I forgot to tell you that i have tried it with the new sysinst2.exe .
	Matze
From: hacker@cco.caltech.edu (Jonathan Bruce Hacker)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: OS/2 port of Win cardfile somewhere ?
Date: 21 Jan 1993 18:28:51 GMT
Organization: California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
NNTP-Posting-Host: punisher.caltech.edu

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

>In article <1jjq5lINN4gj@psun2.hmi.de> pfr@psun2.hmi.de (Fritsch_Wolfgang) writes:
>>With the OS/2 2.1 beta installation, it strikes me again that my
>>sole reason to get Windows with OS/2 is that I need to access my large
>>card file that has been produced by MS-Win. This seems a large waste
>>of disk resources (about 8 M).
>>So, is there somewhere an OS/2 program that allows access to the
>>Win cardfile data files?


The WLO extensions allow the windows cardfile program to run under OS/2 without
windows itself.  Give it a try.  WLO dll's are on hobbes.

-- 
Jon Hacker
Caltech, Pasadena CA
hacker@tumbler-ridge.caltech.edu
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu (Timothy F. Sipples)
Subject: Re: 2.1 beta
Reply-To: sip1@midway.uchicago.edu
Organization: Dept. of Econ., Univ. of Chicago
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 21:33:44 GMT

In article <21JAN199308402850@vmsa.is.csupomona.edu> cvadsgpb@vmsa.is.csupomona.edu (Srikanth Viswanathan) writes:
>I've been have random keyboard lockups in OS/2 sessions.  The keyboard
>just dies,  but I can still press Cntrl-Esc, at which time, the keyboard
>revives itself *sometimes*.  Anyone else having this problem?  

I am not.

>In WinOS/2 3.1, how do I disable the Print Manager from loading up?  I know
>it's something in the INI file.  I'd like to delete all of the True-Type
>fonts in the SYSTEM directory,  just to free up some space,  are there any 
>references to these fonts that I have to remove in the INI file?  Thanks!

The answer in the FAQ List should still apply to the 2.1 beta.

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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: eletanjm@nuscc.nus.sg (Tan Jin Meng)
Subject: Re: info needed on realtime data collection
Organization: National University of Singapore
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 02:03:12 GMT

b259phl@utarlg.uta.edu (PHILIP LIPPEL) writes:
[ other stuff deleted ]

: The second Labmaster card is being used primarily for digital i/o from a 2-dimen
: sional position-sensitive detector. Expected data rate is up to 100k events
: /second. Each even requires a sixteen bit data transfer. All parts of this
: system are " under development". Eventually the data taker will be a 486/33,
: but we have transferred data at 100kHz on the 486/33 using a preliminary, 
: DOS-based, program running in a DOS window. 

100kHz!!!! Is this correct??? This works out to 10 microseconds per
event - which would make it almost an order of magnitude faster than the
probable OS/2 context switch time.

Has anyone done realtime graphics display on an OS/2 machine?
(DOS,WINOS2 or PM). What's the performance esp. with respect to timing
jitter?

jin meng
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: linstee@dutecaj.et.tudelft.nl (Erik van Linstee)
Subject: Re: How to create multi-size icons?
Organization: Delft University of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 20:20:46 GMT

jst50986@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Jack S. Tan) writes:

>linstee@dutecaj.et.tudelft.nl (Erik van Linstee) writes:

>>Or rather, how do I create an icon that has the 20x20 view
>>that is shown in the upper left hand corner of a window?
>>Looking at the list of displays, I can only find the
>>cga-8514 range of layouts.

>You can take one of the icons which comes with OS/2 (OS/2 System works
>nicely) into the Icon Editor (General notebook tab --> Edit).  Select
>'Save As...' and save the icon under some name (e.g., NewIcons.ICO).
>You can erase all the graphics from the icon, but all the supported
>resolutions are still there ('List Predefined' option in the Icon Editor).
>Make this a template, and use it for future icons.

I've done this sofar (well, not make it a template, but the rest).
But, I do not want to have to paste existing icons into such
templates everytime I create a new icon.
I want to be able to create an icon in 32x32 or 40x40, or take
an icon from hobbes, and then add the 1 bit per pixel view whereby
the original icon will be automatically scaled down, just like
the scaling that is done from 32x32 to 40x40 (or vice versa) when
that view is added.
In other words, the 1 bit per pixel view should be in the display
list.


Erik

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