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From: mlevis@ringer.cs.utsa.edu (Mike Levis)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: OS/2 through 1999
Date: 30 Aug 92 05:26:59 GMT
Organization: University of Texas at San Antonio

Yay!  Finally, some current info about the future of OS/2!!!

In article <1992Aug29.223902.3961@hemlock.cray.com> bgm@cray.com (Bert Moshier) writes:
[Lots of excellent info deleted to save bandwidth]
>
>	- OS/2 2.0 sold 300,000 copies in the last 10 days.  If this continues,
>	  it has a daily ship rate of 30,000 copies.

30,000 copies a day is pretty good for an OS that is supposedly
"dead" or "unsuccessful".  I think it was the August 3rd issue
of PC Week (or Infoworld) that said that certain companies are
still using OS/2 1.3.  They will upgrade to OS/2 2.01 when IBM
releases the refresh/service pack/CSD.  Then we will see still
more copies of OS/2 being sold.

(30,000 copies / day) * (day / 24 hr)  = 1250 copies / hr
(1250 copies / hr) * (hr / 60 min)     = 20.83 copies / min
(20.83 copies / min) * (min / 60 sec) ~= 1 copy / 3.47 sec

By the time it take me to accelerate my car (Impala V8 305) to
55 mph, IBM has sold 2.5 copies of OS/2 2.0!   Heh heh heh....
(Maybe we can start a "copies sold while accelerating" thread ;)

Hmm, I wonder if the OS/2 TV commercial helped to sell OS/2 2.0.
Has anyone seen the OS/2 TV commercial yet?  I've been looking,
but have not seen it yet.  Maybe someone can post a description
of it?

>Bert.

Thanks, Bert!  I appreciate your work you have done to promote
OS/2.  Yay!!!

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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: grimlok@hubcap.clemson.edu (Mike Percy)
Subject: Re: What is BookMaster ?
Organization: Clemson University
Date: Wed, 2 Sep 1992 13:10:25 GMT

eletanjm@nuscc.nus.sg (TAN JIN MENG) writes:

>mark@snark.itc.gu.edu.au (Mark Hessling) writes:
>: I have seen references to BookMaster in a couple of documents. What is
>: it ? Is it a commercial IBM product or a utility ?
>: 

>It's an IBM product. It seems that most of their machines have Bookmaster
>readers (AIX etc) but not for OS/2.
 
I think there's a product called BookReader for OS/2 which does this.
It may be part of the overall product line BookManager, and it may be a
mainframe server to an OS/2 client.  I'm only aware that our systems
staff got their first OS/2 machine for the main purpose of providing
them access to BookMaster soft-documentation through BookReader.  
 
BTW as far as I'm concerned, for producing software and other technical
documentation, BookMaster can't be beat.  It has large numbes of
features directed at such documents:
 Paragraphs & Headings
 Order, unordered, simple lists (nested lists as well)
 Text that isn't paragraphs ("Just plain lines", Computer input & output)
 Figures
 Cross references & footnotes
 Hilighting, citing, quoting, and noting  
 Overall document structure (prolog, front matter, title pages, appendices)
 Tables (multi-page & rotated)
 Directories (like phone books)
 Definitions (like dictionaries)
 Scaling
 Artwork (space, flowing text around, imbedding postscript)
 Special lists (glosaries, paramter lists, messages and codes)
 Mathematical formulas
 Illustrating display screens and interactive dialogs
 Indexes 
 Cover, edition notices, copyright notices, table of contents
 Appendix and chapter lettering/numbering
 Running headers and footers
 Absolute text layout by grid
 Developing programming language refernece manuals
 Programming syntax (railroad diagrams for your language!)
 Schedules
 Letters 
 Maintenance analysis procedures
 Parts catalog lists
 Revision control, slugs
 Symbols
 
This is just a quick list of things in the Bookmaster table of contents.
Also since, BM is on top of Script (a detailed runoff language) you can
re-program things you don't like.  Our consulting & tech services staff
maintains a thesis/dissertain package using DCF (bookmaster's less
advanced cousin).

Mike Percy             | grimlok@hubcap.clemson.edu  | I don't know about
Sr. Systems Analyst    | mspercy@clemson.clemson.edu | your brain, but mine
Info. Sys. Development | mspercy@clemson.BITNET      | is really...bossy.
Clemson University     | (803) 656-3780              | (Laurie Anderson)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc,comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
From: cgordon@vpnet.chi.il.us (gordon hlavenka)
Subject: Re: Why not OS/2 ???? Hmmmmmm
Organization: Vpnet Public Access
Date: Thu, 03 Sep 1992 16:25:23 GMT

Jeff, I like your style!   Unfortunately, I already plunked $49 for
the WIN -> OS/2 "up"grade, so I won't be tossing out another $20.

But I _am_ registered, and when (if?) the much-discussed CSD comes out
it _might_ fix my problems.  If it does, Mr. Bill can go scratch.

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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: pvonk@scott.skidmore.edu (Pierre VonKaenel)
Subject: Re: PMCOMM!!!
Organization: Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs NY, 12866
Date: Fri, 28 Aug 1992 18:15:11 GMT

In article <1992Aug27.185933.19328@njitgw.njit.edu> dic5340@hertz.njit.edu (David Charlap) writes:
>
>Does PMCOMM have built-in Zmodem?  That's one feature I haven't seen
>yet in OS/2 terminal packages.  I won't switch from Procomm Plus/DOS
>until I find a package that does this, and I'd like to remove yet
>another DOS app from my system, if I can.

Does HyperAccess/2 support Zmodem?


-- 
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"I support youth all over the world."
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: rwalker@next02.cc.umanitoba.ca. (Robert Walker)
Subject: Re: OS2-TO-SUN
Organization: University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada
Date: Sat, 29 Aug 1992 17:56:20 GMT

In article <14173.1321.uupcb@compart.fi> mike.walsh@compart.fi (Mike  
Walsh) writes:
> Has anyone any experience of connecting PCs running OS/2 (preferably
> OS/2 2.0) to SUN workstations ?
> How did you do it ? Any details of problems etc grateful received. Mike
>  
I think tcp/ip would be the place to look. With OS/2 I think it's an  
extension to the basic system, with SUN it's likely included with the base  
system.                                                                                
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu (Timothy F. Sipples)
Subject: Warning: Personal Mail to T. Sipples
Reply-To: sip1@midway.uchicago.edu
Organization: Dept. of Econ., Univ. of Chicago
Date: Thu, 3 Sep 1992 03:33:02 GMT

I thank everyone for considering me to be an "expert," but,
unfortunately, I have to issue this "warning."

If you are experiencing a problem with OS/2 2.0, please post to the
appropriate Usenet newsgroup.  You are much better off getting a
timely answer by posting.  I've been inundated with personal mail
requesting OS/2 help, and, while I've tried to keep up, it is growing
increasingly difficult.  So I plea for a bit of relief, and I would
appreciate it if you would stick to the Usenet newsgroups for
assistance if at all possible.

I do post replies to a great number of posts to comp.os.os2.*, but
even there I won't be able to keep up with everything.  If you don't
get a satisfactory answer in the newsgroup, then try alternative
avenues (like contacting IBM directly, checking with a local BBS,
checking information files already available on ftp-os2.nmsu.edu,
posting to CompuServe) or reposting, perhaps rephrasing the question
and/or making it more concise.

One useful tactic is to "lurk" for a while in the OS/2 newsgroups if
you are new.  Some questions get asked repeatedly (despite efforts to
encourage people to read the FAQ List), and you may just see your
question answered if you read through new messages over a week or two.

Also, please pick only one OS/2 newsgroup when you post.  Avoid
crossposting whenever possible.

With everyone's help we (the OS/2 community) will be able to get more
questions answered in a timely fashion.  Thanks in advance for that
help.

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From: panton@bcarh685.bnr.ca (Kenneth Panton)
Subject: Install OS2 on VGA/mono system
Reply-To: panton@bcarh685.bnr.ca (Kenneth Panton)
Organization: Bell-Northern Research Ltd.
Date: Tue, 1 Sep 1992 13:52:34 GMT

Do you know of anyone who successfully installed OS2 on a system
with a VGA card and a VGA monochrome monitor? How was it done?
I am seeing many dollar signs in my future!

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From: bewhite@goldwing.ksu.ksu.edu (MacroMan)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: Some suggestions for OS/2
Date: 2 Sep 92 05:59:22 GMT
Article-I.D.: goldwing.182ocuINNlih
Organization: Kansas State University
NNTP-Posting-Host: goldwing.ksu.ksu.edu


  Ok, some things I want to see:
   1) Be able to set folders to auto-close when an object in
      them is opened.  (I REALLY want this one)
   2) A replacement for the FIND utility found in many menus.
      Frankly, I find that Windows BROWSE is much easier for
      me to use.  Often, I know where the file is, I just 
      can't remember the EXACT path and name.  OS/2 takes
      quite a while to search my entire drive, and the 
      LOCATE function is very clunky IMHO.
   3) Filename completion on the command line interface.

 Hmmmm, I'm sure I'll think of some more soon.
-- 
  Bruce White(bewhite@matt.ksu.ksu.edu)
  "I live like I type - Fast, and with a lot of mistakes"
From: dic5340@hertz.njit.edu (David Charlap)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: PMCOMM!!!
Date: 28 Aug 92 20:33:21 GMT
Organization: New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, N.J.

In article <1992Aug27.190800.1673@gacvx2.gac.edu> logic@gacvx2.gac.edu writes:
>Try TE/2..  It does have built in Zmodem..  The shareware version is available
>at hobbes..  The registered version provides Zmodem crash recovery and a very
>robust script language..

I looked over TE/2 - it's a pain to configure and use.  Ideally, I'd
like something as simple as Procomm Plus (actually, I want DataStorm
to get off their duffs and write PCPLUS/2...).


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From: sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu (Timothy F. Sipples)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: Re-install, how to erase all EA's?
Date: 3 Sep 92 19:10:54 GMT
Reply-To: sip1@midway.uchicago.edu
Organization: Dept. of Econ., Univ. of Chicago

In article <1992Sep3.144330.12401@nlm.nih.gov> dabl2@nlm.nih.gov (Don A.B. Lindbergh) writes:
>I have a 240mb scsi drive setup as follows:
>BOOT MANAGER - 1MB
>C: FAT - 4MB
>D: FAT - 178MB
>E: HPFS - 50MB
>D: and E: are both logical drives (I think)
>and OS/2 boots off D: FAT
>I spent some time moving as much OS/2 stuff as I could to the E: HPFS drive,
>which I got to work, but with the last bunch of stuff I moved, I noticed the
>fonts in the folders are screwed up and courier font doesn't take effect even
>though I can choose it.  Also, I've decided what I really want is to run OS/2
>(and specific OS/2 stuff) from an HPFS drive, ie have it boot from the E: HPFS
>logical drive.  So I'm gonna re-install.  My question is: what is the best way
>to remove all evidence of the old OS/2 (EA's etc)?  I know I could move stuff
>around using real DOS and lose the EA's is that the best way?  Actually I have
>a bunch of stuff now on the E: HPFS drive, which I'll want to strip of old EA's
>What's the best way to go about all this?

Install OS/2 on E:, then, from an OS/2 floppy boot, CHKDSK /F drives D
and E.

That should do it.

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From: gershon@husc10.harvard.edu (Ethan Gershon)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Can't get com3 to work
Summary: can't get com3, irq 5 to work on os/2 2.0
Keywords: com3, irq5
Date: 30 Aug 92 16:35:12 GMT

I'm happily using OS/2 2.0 GA, but I haven't been able to get it to
work with my com3 since the day I installed it.
 
Equipment: Austin 386-33 with AMI bios, 2 serial, 1 paralell ports on
            motherboard
           generic 2400 baud internal modem
 
I have my modem set up as com1, irq4 and my mouse on the com2, irq3. I
set the motherboard's other com port to be com3, irq5 following the
instructions in the computer's manual.  The modem works just fine.  The 
mouse works just fine.  But when I boot up it says "COM3 did not install.
The interrupt level is not availible."  Relevant lines from my config.sys
are:
 
	DEVICE=C:\OS2\MOUSE.SYS SERIAL=COM2
	DEVICE=C:\OS2\COM.SYS (3,3E8,5)
	DEVICE=C:\OS2\MDOS\VCOM.SYS (3,3E8,5)
	BASEDEV=PRINT01.SYS
 
Does anyone have a solution? thanks.
                                             --Ethan Gershon
                                               gershon@husc.harvard.edu
From: failsafe@cellar.org (Failsafe)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: Where can I get a fan for my 486 chip?
Date: 26 Aug 92 23:04:23 GMT
Organization: The Cellar BBS and public access system

lgibes@teal.csn.org (Lawrence R. Gibes) writes:

> 
>      I  heard  Dvorak  speak  at  the  ONE  BBSCON  (a BBS conference in
>   Denver).    He  mentioned  that  he  likes  OS/2  and that it is a fun
>   operation system to  use.  He  said you need  16 meg RAM,  a fast hard
>   drive and a 486.
> 
>      He said  that at  first he  experienced a  number of system crashes
>   UNTIL he installed a fan for the 486 chip.  Apparently, there is a guy
>   in Sacramento CA that sells a $35.00 fan that is cemented to the  chip
>   to cool it to 87 degrees.   He mentioned this twice (that I heard)  so
>   he is very serious.
> 
>      So, does anyone know how to contact the guy in Sacramento?

I installed one of these on my 486-33 after I noticed it was very hot to
touch. I had no problems before installation and no problems after either! A
wonderful thing piece of mind is!

PCubid Computer Technology
6705 Silverthorne Circle
Sacramento, CA. 95842
(916) 338-1338

I have no connection to this company. They have some of my money however!


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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: pv9955@albnyvms.bitnet
Subject: Re: Standard Computer (and os/2)
Reply-To: pv9955@albnyvms.bitnet
Organization: University of NY at Albany
Date: Fri, 28 Aug 92 04:42:06 GMT

I am glad at least ONE person had something good to say about Standard.
I just ordered their new 486sx25, with 8MB, Ultra, 1460 monitor, and the
usual stuff.  After reading a LOT of negative comments about Gateway,
I bought one anyway, and I am VERY happy with it.
But for my dorm room, I neede something a little SMALLER, which Gateway
could not provide (and they do not credit for Software that I don't need).
So I bought a Standard.  I hope I have better luck than the people who 
complained about Standard, just as I had better luck with Gateway than others.
Don't hate me for being lucky.  But I will let you all know as soon as I get 
the Standard.
Pete
From: "roger ramsey" <roger.ramsey@canrem.com>
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: i've seen nt......
Date: 3 Sep 92 15:09:32 EST
Reply-To: "roger ramsey" <roger.ramsey@canrem.com>
Distribution: comp
Organization: Canada Remote Systems

Stephen Dawson wrote on 09-02-92 regarding UN:I'VE SEEN NT......:

SD>Yes. But *I* will be astonished if NT goes gold before late spring
SD>'92 unless a LOT of compromises are introduced.

Time will tell.

SD>The toll charges are cheaper than the shipping & handling and media
SD>charge. The OS/2 patches have been distributed around all major
SD>BBS's, so no one needs to call distance, even.
SD>
SD>And, PC mag estimates that over 2/3 of PC users have a modem!

Too true (BG).

Roj

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From: mstaben@comtch.spk.wa.us (Matthew Staben)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Autocad Release 12
Date: 26 Aug 92 20:09:22 GMT
Organization: Waffle BBS at CompuTech Spokane, Washington


 
I've got a problem...
 
I want to use Autocad Release 12 under OS/2 2.0.  Can this be done?  It 
will run under enhanced windows - by supplying a special PHARLAP.386 
device driver - but this does not work under OS/2.
 
Please respond ASAP!
 

mstaben@comtch.spk.wa.us
 
- A warning to anyone, still in command...
From: hank@ducvax.auburn.edu
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: LESS177
Date: 28 Aug 92 23:31:06 GMT
Organization: Auburn University, AL

In article <1992Aug28.175302.12120@tellab5.tellabs.com>, stein@tellabs.com 
(stein) writes:
> When I last saw postings on this subject I was still struggling with the OS/2
> installation so please forgive me for yet another posting. Does someone have
> "less" running ok ? Please send me the details. Thanks.

Apparently, you mean the 'less' from ftp-os2.nmsu in pub/os2/2.0/gnu/, ported
by John Kim. This version used Mattes' EMX, so the file emx.dll must be 
in a directory specified in the LIBPATH line of your config.sys. 

There is a problem with less and emx.dll (several updates to emx.dll have
been appearing). I don't recall exactly which work, but on my machine I use
  7-08-92  10:28      29778           0  emx.dll
with less (and all the GNU stuff ported by Kai Uwe Rommel). 

I do wish Kai Uwe Rommel would post his less 177 for OS/2 1.x. Note that
Rommel's version of less 170 appears at ftp-os2 as less-2u (DOS/OS2). It 
does have the advantage that it will automatically read compress'd files,
and it will run under OS/2 1.x. Unfortunately, it seems to beep to death
when I feed it stuff from groff (apparently, this is a problem with less,
not groff).

This 32-bit stuff is great, but I hope that folks will continue giving us
OS/2 1.x ports when possible. And speaking of ports...I needed a port of
the UNIX<->DOS end-of-line converter called 'flip' by Dhesi, so I made
one with MSC 6.00A. (I do wish someone could tell me why Dhesi worked so
hard with the findfirst/findnext calls for wildcards--I used setargv for
HPFS compatibility.) I also ported dvips 5.490 (from the recent 2.0 post
for OS/2) to DOS/OS2. This was easy (except I had to guess at stacksize).

--darrel hankerson hank@ducvax.auburn.edu
From: tc@soda.berkeley.edu (Tc Cheng)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: New Deskjet Drivers from IBM
Date: 30 Aug 1992 05:22:48 GMT
Organization: U.C. Berkeley, CS Undergraduate Association
NNTP-Posting-Host: soda.berkeley.edu

In article <1992Aug29.151852.3499@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> rjones@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Ronald Jones) writes:
>
>The new Deskjet drivers from IBM (on hobbes EPSON.ZOO ) seem to have
>solved the extra-page ejection problem with the DeskJet 500 for me.
>Also printing is much faster than with the Laserjet Classic driver I was
>using because of printing problems with the original Deskjet driver. 

The extra page bug was exterminated...only in OS/2.  When I print
from Windows programs, either seamlessly or full-screen, an extra
page of paper still spits out.  Doesn't really matter to me because
I get my paper for free... :)  

Does one need an updated windows driver in order to fix this problem?

tc
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From: dic5340@hertz.njit.edu (David Charlap)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc,comp.os.os2.advocacy
Subject: Re: OS/2 Win3.1 support *better* than MS!
Date: 27 Aug 92 18:03:25 GMT
Organization: New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, N.J.

In article <1992Aug27.141834.18096@ludd.luth.se> bjorn@ludd.luth.se (Bjorn Fahller) writes:
>In <1992Aug27.122649.21603@actrix.gen.nz> Steve.Withers@bbs.actrix.gen.nz writes:
>>Also, the CSD will be shipping "real soon now"..........:-)
>                                 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>My only problem with this is that in my experience, "real soon now" doesn't
>mean the same in the computer industry as it does elsewhere.

But in this case, "RSN" wasn't a statement by IBM, but one by Mr.
Withers.  IBM has stated "Fall", which means (to me) any time between
September and November.  Unofficial rumors out of IBM are saying
September, but I disbelieve unofficial rumors from any source.

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From: dic5340@hertz.njit.edu (David Charlap)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: 0s2 compilers
Date: 28 Aug 92 20:15:02 GMT
Organization: New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, N.J.

In article <JACOBS.92Aug28090825@cells.cs.utah.edu> jacobs@cs.utah.edu (Steven R Jacobs) writes:
>In article <9cdn=5-.msmith@netcom.com> msmith@netcom.com (Martin P. Smith) writes:
>>
>> Zortech supports 16 bit OS/2  at the moment.  It supports 32 bit extended
>> dos however. With the current release of the compiler you can create the 
>> following  
>>	 DOS 32bit DOS Windows 16 bit OS/2 
>
>Have you actually _run_ the 32 bit DOS Zortech compiler under OS/2?
>I have been unable to get the compiler or any programs compiled with
>it to run in a DOS window in OS/2.  There appear to be incompatibilities
>in the DPMI support.

I haven't used Zortech, but based on Mr. Smith's statement, it won't
work under the DOS box.  It appears to be a 32-bit program, requiring
a DOS extender - which will probably use VCPI.  Why not install the
OS/2 part and generate OS/2 1.x code with it?
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From: parry@yoyo.cc.monash.edu.au (Tom J Parry)
Subject: Re: OS/2 is playing striptease 
Originator: parry@yoyo.cc.monash.edu.au
Organization: Monash University, Melb., Australia.
Date: Fri, 28 Aug 1992 04:25:35 GMT

Jonathan Edwards (jedwards@ms.uky.edu) wrote:
> nmiller@starbase.trincoll.edu (norman miller) writes:
> >When I click on one of the migrated DOS applications such
> >as Word Perfect, the screen goes blank, a brief DOS command
> >line flashes on for a moment and -- back to the OS/2 icons.
> >Pretty as they are, I was hoping for something more.
> 
> >Any advice?
> 
> I've seen things like this happen if the DOS application fails
> for some reason.  You might try opening the settings for the application
> in question and tell it to run in a fullscreen session rather than in a
> window.  The error message might hang around longer then...

Or change the close on exit setting in the Session section to no. This will
leave the window there with the last output from the program.

-- 
Tom J Parry.
Your reality is a figment of my imagination.
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc