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From: kvien@elkraft.Unit.NO (Oddgeir Kvien)
Subject: Jumbo 250 MB QUI-80 & OS/2
Organization: Norwegian Institute of Technology
Date: Mon, 9 Nov 92 09:10:09 GMT

I have just got a Jumbo 250 MB tape streamer. I have been trying to
use it in a dos session under OS2 but with no much sucsess. I am able 
to back up some MB and then an error appears. (drive communication
error, error uppdating fat on tape or something similar). I am using
the tape software which came with the tape.

When I am running the CRT check (tape crt) it tells me that there is
electrical interference, but I got the internal version of the tapedriver
so i can not move it, and i have turned of my monitor and the interference
stil is there (I can heare the beep in the loudspeaker). I can not understand
that there should be some electrical interference inside my computer which
is affecting my tape and not my motherboard. (The interference could come 
from the powersuply, it is a ZEC 220W switch mode power suply).
The electrical interference is there also when I am booting up DOS with a 
floppy (my entire disk is HPFS). 

Trying to formate a tape in a dos session under OS2 also fails after a short
time, formating it when I am booting up DOS works all rigth (1h50m formating
time)

Is there something wrong with my tape drive (I don't think so) or do other
people have the same probleme?


My computer:
TCI 486DX 33MHz (Contaqu main board, ISA)
20 MB ram (70ns)
200 MB Maxtor HD 
IDE cache controller w/1MB (I also tryed anothe one with no difference)
3 1/2" floppy A
Trident 9000 (512kB)
Norwegian GA with english CSD (I just changed the numbers in the SYSLEVEL file)

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I hope you can read my english
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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.apps
From: rkimmel@stein.u.washington.edu (Denise Brown)
Subject: looking for a font...
Organization: University of Washington, Seattle
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 10:49:54 GMT

I'm looking for Albertus Fonts, preferebly ATM one.  Can anyone help?
From: Joe@twistor.dialix (Joe Katnic)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.apps
Subject: Re: Need 3270 emulator
Distribution: world
Date: 11 Nov 92 21:04:24 PST
Organization: Not an Organization

In article <8NOV199217094451@zeus.tamu.edu> css0860@zeus.tamu.edu (CSS) writes:
>Any hints?  I sure could use a 3270 emulator of os/2.
   
   There are two available from IBM.
   Extended Services/2 Version 1.0 contains Communications Manager.
    This product includes 3270 emulation across SDLC, LAN, X.25.
    It also includes a lot of other goodies. As ES/2 also contains
    a relational database manager it may be too expensive for your
    taste.

   Personal Communications Version 2 provides similar facilities
    for DOS/WINDOWS environments. Version 3 has just been announced
    and can basically do everything that Comms. MGR. can do,
    except for the APPN/APPC/LU6.2 communication and distributed
    database.
    It will run under OS/2 windows VDM's, DOS VDM's and I think also
    as native OS/2, but I'm not sure as I'm writing this from memory.

   Then there are the third party software manufacturers.
    
>
>
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>C. Steven Suehs, a Texas A&M University Biochem/Computer Sci Major
>whose opinions probably are not shared by Academic Computing Services.
>Dick Clark did not say "I think, therefore I am!"  It was Descartes
>who walked into a bar and was asked "Have a beer, sire?"
>"I think not."  >poof< and he was gone.
> .signature.virus--.signature.reverse.transcriptase

--

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                                                (ALT: jkatnic@DIALix.oz.au)
Science - A system of Truth.                         Phone: (+619) 474 3939
Engineering - A system of Use.
From: kjb@calmasd.prime.com (Ken Brucker)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.apps
Subject: Re: Filemanager?
Date: 5 Nov 92 17:56:58 GMT
Organization: Computervision, San Diego CA

In article <1d71lmINN3hi@gap.caltech.edu>, hacker@cco.caltech.edu (Jonathan Bruce Hacker) writes:
> kjb@calmasd.prime.com (Ken Brucker) writes:
> 
>>I found dirman20 to have some annoying delays when dragging items outside of
>>its own borders and onto desktop objects.  I also didn't like the way I
>>couldn't close views into directories that I had opened.  At least I couldn't
>>find a way to do so.  Was I doing something wrong?
> 
>>Ken
> 
> Can't comment on the delays since I don't use that feature much, but
> there are two ways to recycle file windows
> 
> a) In the WINDOW menu, check 'Replace on Open' and the open file
> window will be recycled as the current directory is changed.
> 
> b) double click on the upper left corner icon of an open window will
> permanently shut the open window.  This is the same as every PM
> program so I can't believe you wouldn't know this.  Am I
> misinterpreting your question?

I think I may have been a little unclear...in any event, after reflecting on
dirman a little more, the biggest reason I deleted it was the shareware
screen that kept popping up after a couple of minutes into the app.  I was
starting dirman only when I wanted to do some work with it and then getting
real annoyed when that box would pop up in the midst of what I was trying to
do.  I found that if I was in the middle of dragging a file around, it would
sometimes force me to restart the operation I was attempting.

Ken

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 **  kjb@calmasd.Prime.COM  
  **  Practice Random Kindness and Senseless Acts of Beauty
From: kjb@calmasd.prime.com (Ken Brucker)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.apps
Subject: TE/2
Date: 11 Nov 92 19:01:57 GMT
Article-I.D.: calmasd.1992Nov11.110157.934
Organization: Computervision, San Diego CA

I'm considering taking another look at TE/2 since I've heard that at least some
of the VT100 emulation problems have been resolved.  Before I do though, is
there a way to change the default directories used for upload and download?
I'm looking at Telix right now and it allows me to specifiy a default upload
and download directory but I'd really prefer to be running a native OS/2
application.

Thanks!

Ken

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From: pfr@drsrv1.hmi.de (Fritsch_Wolfgang)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.apps
Subject: Re: can problems with PMGLOBE2 be fixed?
Date: 6 Nov 92 07:55:06 GMT
Organization: Hahn-Meitner-Institut Berlin GmbH

lowey@jester.usask.ca (Kevin Lowey,159 Physics,(306) 966-4826,(306) 249-3232) writes:

>From article <4576@drsrv1.hmi.de>, by pfr@drsrv1.hmi.de (Fritsch_Wolfgang):
>> 
>> I noticed that PMGLOBE2.exe cannot be run when any Dos session is open.
>> It just stops while drawing the net of lattitudes. Is there any way to
>> fix this, e.g. by playing with the Dos settings?

>I have no problems with this.  I just opened a windowed DOS session,
>started the TREE program, and then opened PMGLOBE2.  Everything works
>fine.
>-- 
O.k., I noticed that there is a more recent version of PMGLOBE2 around. I
got my hands on it, and sure enough the problem is gone.

I like to use this one as a nice 'lockup' of my PC. When there is no
menu bar visible, only the knowledgeble will know how to screw with my
system...

Wolfgang Fritsch
From: v053qpgh@ubvmsb.cc.buffalo.edu (Eric W Sarjeant)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.apps
Subject: Re: Can AmiPro 3 Shell To Dos?
Date: 13 Nov 92 17:21:00 GMT
Organization: University at Buffalo
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41

In article <Nov.12.04.05.36.1992.28963@gandalf.rutgers.edu>, lclarke@gandalf.rutgers.edu (Lee Clarke) writes...
>There's a SmartIcon for MDOS in Ami 3.0, but I get an error message when
>I try it. Is there a way to make it work? What I really want to do is 
>assign a DOS program to an icon. TIA. L. Clarke

WinOS2 will not shell out to DOS. This means, unfortunately, that any
Ami Pro 3.0 macros that run a DOS session will fail. If you need a DOS
session you will have to return to the OS/2 desktop and run one from
there.
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 sUnyaB                              |  claim to wisdom, great or small..."
 v053qpgh@ubvms.bitnet               |
 sarjeant@aol.com                    |
From: stephen@linus.cc.ncsu.edu (Stephen Jackson)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.apps
Subject: Re: Deskpic problems
Date: 5 Nov 92 04:45:38 GMT
Article-I.D.: ncsu.1992Nov5.044538.29487
Reply-To: stephen@ncsu.edu
Organization: North Carolina State University


Actually, since installing the service pack on one machine, Deskpic has worked
better than before...the Aquarium saver and Spheres saver, which had not worked
before, are now working very well with the new Service Pack, and all the other
savers are working fine also...  Still have not been able to get "Out of This
World" to work fast enough yet, and the sound is really screwed up.  Any ideas
on that?

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From: sens@FASECON.ECON.NYU.EDU (Sunando Sen)
Subject: Re: Port of unix 'find' on OS/2?
Organization: New York University
Date: Sat, 7 Nov 1992 08:11:25 GMT

In article <1dfpaqINNpai@iskut.ucs.ubc.ca> ochealth@unixg.ubc.ca (ochealth) writes:
>From: ochealth@unixg.ubc.ca (ochealth)
>Subject: Re: Port of unix 'find' on OS/2?
>Date: 7 Nov 1992 06:56:26 GMT
>In article <1992Nov6.234042.19189@netcom.com> feustel@netcom.com (David Feustel) writes:
>>For those of you who would rather just buy the program, MKS sells a
>>toolkit that contains a complete wuite of unix utilities (including
>>the desired 'find' program) for both dos and os/2.
>
>but why? The GNU utilities are FREE, they have source code, and they
>are POSIX, and contain extended features and performance enhancements
>that put the standard UNIX utils to shame. After using GNU in OS/2,
>the standard SunOS tools seem inferior, and not worth using.
>
>>-- 
>>Dave Feustel N9MYI <feustel@netcom.com>
>> 
>>Security Classification: *** TOP SECRET ***
>
>
>-- 
>______________________________________________________________________________
>jpm: ochealth@unixg.ubc.ca         
>                            Happily using OS/2 2.0 because MS Windows isNT ___
>                                                      Insert VapourFeature ^^^

In fact I too got to know about the GNU utilities after starting to use OS/
2 (many many thanks to Kai Uwe Rommel).  For example, if I remember 
correctly, the cp, rm and mv in Ultrix do not have a "v" (verbose) option.  
The GNU file utilities have them and, it is a very convenient thing to have.

Regards,

Sunando Sen
sens@fasecon.econ.nyu.edu
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.apps
From: roland@spock.uucp (David A. Braun)
Subject: Re: Drawing Application
Organization: Choate Rosemary Hall
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 00:48:05 GMT

In article <1992Nov7.211413.13990@ringer.cs.utsa.edu> mlevis@ringer.cs.utsa.edu (Mike Levis) writes:
>In article <1992Nov7.173241.19716@midway.uchicago.edu> sip1@midway.uchicago.edu writes:
>>In article <1992Nov2.105635.1@brt.deakin.edu.au> gjocc@brt.deakin.edu.au writes:
>>>Is there a simple 2-D object based drawing package available for
>>>OS/2 2.0 PM?
>>>(Something like Mac Draw or the !Draw program that comes with Acorn RISC OS)
>>>PD or Shareware would be nice.
>>
>>What's wrong with PM Draw, which comes with OS/2 2.0?
>
>I just checked; there is no PM Draw included with OS/2 2.0 .
>However, there is one at ftp-os2.nmsu.edu, in the directory
>/pub/os2/all/graphics .  (I haven't tried it so I don't know
>how good it is)
>
>>Timothy F. Sipples

What are you talking about, "there is no PM Draw included", I've got it on
my system... It isn't very good in my opinion, but then my idea of an object
based drawing program in Autocad...

Roland.


Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.apps
From: djs6015@ultb.isc.rit.edu (Don Smith)
Subject: Re: PmComm comments solicited.
Originator: djs6015@ultb
Keywords: telix, te/2
Organization: R.I.T.
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 19:37:48 GMT

In article <1992Nov9.190929.4763@bnr.ca> jcyr@bnr.ca (Jean Cyr) writes:
}
}I have yet to find a comm program for OS/2 with the robustness and 
}features of Telix.


I think that TE/2's operation and features are very similar to Telix...
plus TE/2's performance is much better since its native OS/2. 
-- 
   | Don Smith                                                          |
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From: balesej@ucunix.san.uc.edu (Eric J Bales)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.apps
Subject: Re: gs252pm and SWAPPER.DAT
Date: 6 Nov 92 13:35:03 GMT
Organization: University of Cincinnati

In article <ygwsTB2w165w@tcscs.UUCP> srcsip!tcscs!zeta writes:
>
>Any other ideas?  I'm wary to try GSos2pm10 after what happened to me, did
>anyone whose system crashed as a result of running GSos2PM try GSos2PM10 
>yet? I'd be interested in hearing your responses.  I can't be a guinny (sp?)
>again, I can't afford the loss of time it takes to redo the system again.
>If no one has, perhaps I will try again in a couple of months when things
>slow down for me...

I've used GSos2PM10.  No problems with swapper.dat, or displaying fonts
or postscript files.  Worked very well, in fact, up until I shut it down.
At that point, it should have given back control to the 4OS2 session I
started it from, but it didn't.  So, I tried to get rid of the session
using the task list.  Didn't work.  Tried getting rid of it using the
'close' item on the drop down menu.  Didn't work.  Tried getting rid of
it using PSPM2, and that didn't work either!  I ended up having to reboot.
This program does this consistently.
	That is, however, the only problem with it I noticed.  Might be
a combination of 4OS2 and GSOS2PM10, or something else...  Don't know.
No lost data, though!

-- 
balesej@ucunix.san.uc.edu - atreis@tso.uc.edu		 -Eric Bales-
ebales@ddt.eng.uc.edu - at098@Cleveland.Freenet.Edu
		        -The second dolphin-
Dolphins. Soon you will be one of us, and then you will understand.
From: jtn@moscom.com (John Nielsen)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.apps
Subject: speedstar & sydos problems !!!
Date: 13 Nov 92 15:05:35 GMT
Organization: Moscom Corp., E. Rochester, NY
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.3 beta PL7]

1.	I am having a problem with my speedstar plus video board running at high
	resolutions. I want to use the ET-4000 '1024x768' driver but my monitor
	must be in sync before i enter the graphical environment. To run 
	windows I used to run the program 'VMODE monitor' to set my video at 
	70hz and then enter windows. I use the monitor switch in the command
	because of my gateway 2000 monitor. 
Question: How can I run vmode.com prior to entering the os2 environment?
			 Or is there another way to get high res?

2.	Is it possible to have os2 recognize my sydos 44 meg removable drive.
	I only have an 8 bit scsi controller, I've heard the 16 bit one works.
	I've tried the IBMINT13.I13 driver it does nothing. I've also tried
   a virtual dos window to no avail. Are there drivers that might help me
   if so were can I obtain them.
Question: Are there drivers for the sydos 44 removable w/ 8bit scsi controller?

If you could could you please email me responses.
I will post any workable solutions if demand is high.
	Thanks in advance, John
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John Nielsen   jtn@moscom.com		{rit,tropix,ur-valhalla}!moscom!jtn
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.apps
From: hank@ducvax.auburn.edu
Subject: Re: UNIX 'file' program for OS/2?
Organization: Auburn University, AL
Date: Sat, 7 Nov 1992 03:54:52 GMT

In article <1daie3INN79v@iskut.ucs.ubc.ca>, ochealth@unixg.ubc.ca (ochealth) writes:
> 
> Is anyone sitting on an OS/2 port of the UNIX file command? Or maybe
> you know where source code is? Also, anyone know where I can get a good
> list of OS/2 specific magic entries?

While learning to use the pascal-to-c translator p2c (on ftp-os2.nmsu.edu),
I played with:
           F I L E T Y P E  1 . 1
           ======================

 Free Software by TapirSoft Gisbert W.Selke
                August 1991
 TapirSoft
 Gisbert W.Selke
 Ermekeilstrasse 28
 D-5300 Bonn 1
 Germany
 E-Mail: <s00100@dbnrhrz1.bitnet>

It compiled fairly easily, but the overhead of the p2c conversion gave a 
50k executable, if I recall correctly (I did not keep the executable).

There is an 11k magic file with the program (but it does not have
OS/2 specific stuff).  I probably found this at
simtel20.army.mil as filtyp11.zip, but I'm not certain.

-- 
--Darrel Hankerson hank@ducvax.auburn.edu
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.apps,comp.os.os2
From: hartzman@kilroy.Jpl.Nasa.Gov (Les Hartzman)
Subject: Printing from WP for Windows:  Speed Problems
Followup-To: hartzman@kilroy.jpl.nasa.gov
Keywords: printing, WP
Organization: Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA
Distribution: na
Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1992 20:50:41 GMT

I'm experiencing VERY slow printing from WP 4 Windows under OS/2.  I'm using
an Epson Action Laser II with HP IIP emulation.  (I have the service pack
installed)  The printer also has 2.5M of memory.

I've tried selecting the WP4W driver, the Win driver, turning spooling on/off
while printing.  I'm running out of ideas!  Has anyone else experienced the
same thing?  Is it WP4W or is it Windows?

My printing speed under OS/2 is fine, leading me to believe that it is Windows,
but are there any other settings I can  try to speed things up?

Thanks in advance.

Les
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Jet Propulsion Laboratory   M/S 238-528    (818) 354-5964
4800 Oak Grove Dr., Pasadena,  CA.  91109
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From: zeta%tcscs@idss.nwa.com (Gregory Youngblood)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.apps,comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: JPG/GIF view
Date: Mon, 09 Nov 92 17:44:28 CST
Reply-To: srcsip!tcscs!zeta
Organization: TCS Consulting Services

I would like to find a gif/jpg viewer for OS/2 2.0  

is there one?

Greg


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Date: Monday, 9 Nov 1992 11:08:56 CET
From: Niklas JRM Schmidt <9050564@awiwuw11.wu-wien.ac.at>
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.apps
Subject:       Pagemaker 4.0 *** HELP ***


Hi,

has anybody managed to run Pagemaker 4.0 for Windows under OS/2 2.0?
I tried, everything started well, I can run PM4 seamless, I can create a new
layout, but when I try to load a .pm4 file I had created previously under Win
OS/2 terminates the session and reports SYS 3176. (BTW the file is not corrupte
d or something like that, because I can load it with PM4 under Windows).

       Can somebody tell me what SYS 3176 indicates?
       Does somebody know the internet address of Aldus? (I want to ask why
          they don't plan an OS/2 version)

                 Thanks in advance



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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.apps
From: ignacij@meishan.animal.uiuc.edu (Ignacy Misztal)
Subject: Re: PMX problems
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 14:38:18 GMT

serls@dashs.denver.co.us (Dave Serls) writes:

>I'm running the Service Pack with TCPIP 1.2.1 from the CD-ROM.
>The hardware is a 486DX 50MHz 32meg clone.
>PMX seems to be semi-flakey.  When a window is re-sized with more than
>one window open, it may lose keyboard focus for eternity.  The client
>is still able to handle display functions, but the window is just not
>'listening' for the keyboard.  Anyone have experience with this?

>--
>============================================================================
>Dave Serls                                                 303-973-6120
>serls@dashs.denver.co.us                                   Sorry Software
>============================================================================

PMX is still buggy, and everybody is awaiting a "final" fix, after which all
remaining bugs will be minor. I am in contact with the developers, and
all what I do at this point is wait and see (with PMX disabled since it is
of no use now).
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University of Illinois		Phone: (217) 244-3164
1207 W. Gregory Dr.
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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.apps
From: sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu (Timothy F. Sipples)
Subject: Re: What tape backup to you use with OS/2 ??
Reply-To: sip1@midway.uchicago.edu
Organization: Dept. of Econ., Univ. of Chicago
Distribution: usa
Date: Sat, 7 Nov 1992 17:49:01 GMT

In article <1992Nov4.164833.28753@scott.skidmore.edu> pvonk@scott.skidmore.edu (Pierre VonKaenel) writes:
>My new Dell came with a Wangtek tape drive and a DOS version of Sytos
>Plus.  I upgraded the software to OS/2 and it appears to work.  T.
>Sipples did mention in a recent post that he had problems with this
>setup after installing the SP... no word on what the problem is though.

Here are some details.  It is the only serious problem I've found with
the Service Pack, but, as you can imagine, I'm not happy about it.

Sytos Plus 1.35 for OS/2, Wangtek 5150EQ (i.e. Compaq 150/250) tape
drive, OS/2 2.0 XR06055.  Machine locks up completely in the middle of
a backup.

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