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From: tedc@cs.ubc.ca (Ted Chen)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: 256 colour background bitmaps?
Date: 16 Dec 1992 15:03:56 -0800
Organization: Computer Science, University of B.C., Vancouver, B.C., Canada
Distribution: world
Reply-To: tedc@ee.ubc.ca
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I'm not sure my first post got through, so I'll post again.  I've been trying
to get some 256 colour bitmaps to display on my WPS background and have had
no success.  It seems that the pictures have been reduced in the number of
colours, perhaps to 16.  I tried both Windows 3.0 .BMP's and OS/2 version
1.1 .BMP's with no luck either way.

Questions:

1) How do I display 256 colour bitmaps in the background?

2) What is the difference, between Windows 3.0 .BMP's, OS/2 1.1 .BMP's and,
   if they exist, OS/2 2.0 .BMP's? Which one should I use?

3) Trying some of the 1024x768 bitmaps from software.watson seemed to work
   ok, but these are in .BGA format.  If it is possible, how do I transfer
   between the various formats?  I tried CVBMP from hobbes, but that only
   goes into version 1.1 .BMP format.

4) What does the Service Pack's "palette management" function do for me, and
   how is that related?

           
I understand that since the palette is limited to 256 total colours, and the
WPS already using some of them, it isn't possible to exactly reproduce the
original colours, but why the severe drop to only around 16 colours?  Can't
the OS assign the closest available colours to the bitmap?

On a different note, the FAQ recommends against using a bitmap in the 
interests of keeping WPS operations snappy.  Using a bitmap at 1024x768 with
256 colours consumes almost 800k of memory.  Can this performance degradation`
be alleviated by setting up a RAM disk and and sticking the bitmap there?
Is this even possible to do?  Upon bootup, the RAM disk needs to be set up
as well as having the .BMP file copied into it, before the WPS comes up.

Oh yes, my setup, if that makes a difference.

GA+SP, running with ATI Graphics Ultra in 8514/a mode at 1024x768 res.

Thanks for any suggestions.

---
Ted Chen   <tedc@ee.ubc.ca>
From: dab6@po.CWRU.Edu (Douglas A. Bell)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: Are they fast or are they slow? (Tri32)
Date: 15 Dec 1992 20:15:45 GMT
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
Reply-To: dab6@po.CWRU.Edu (Douglas A. Bell)
NNTP-Posting-Host: slc12.ins.cwru.edu


In a previous article, gkushmer@jade.tufts.edu (Greg Kushmerek) says:

>So I've been reading news and I see two schools of thought emerging:
>
>	o The Trident 32 bit drivers are fast
>	o The Trident 32 bit drivers are slow
>
>The linchpin, I believe, is that set of Joel's svga generic drivers.  Some
>people seem to have been using them and others appear to have been
>using the old Trident 16 bit drivers.  
>
>What I have noticed is that anyone using the old Trident drivers appears
>to be reporting a speed increase.  Yet anyone using the generic drivers
>sees a speed _decrease_.
>
>As I am using the generic drivers (Thanks, by the way, for those) and have
>not yet tried putting on the 32 bit drivers, I'm curious to know
>if it is worth it.
>
>Anyone have any ideas on this?

I found it difficult to use the 32 bit trident drivers after using Joel's
dirvers.  PM bench records a few speed increases with the 32 bit trid drivers,
but the average response was slower, and some operations were dreadfully
slow, such as only being 1/3rd the speed of Joel's drivers when it comes to 
opening dialog boxes and pull down menus.  I'm sure that this can be
attirbuted to Joel's skill as a programmer.  The other problem I had was that
some of the text mode fonts were particularly slow to scroll and hard to
read in a window.

In the rumor department, I here that the 32 bit trident drivers were 
written by IBM for the 2.1 release.  If they were, then hey you
IBM guys! the scrolling speed is awful on the 32 bit trident drivers.
They scrool at less than half the speed of joel's drivers.
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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: chasi@netcom.com (Charles Inman)
Subject: Random Beeps while running Service Pack
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  (408 241-9760 guest) 
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1992 17:00:08 GMT

Well, I've got a strange one happening to me.  I have OS/2 installed on two
systems one is a Compaq 386/33L with 12 meg of ram and the other is a Compaq
486/33M.  A couple weeks ago I received and installed the service pack at home
on the 33L and shortly after I received and installed it at work on the M-box.

Aside from some occassional system lock ups, everything seemed to be fine,
however in the past couple days both systems have begun exhibiting the same
strange problem.  For no apparent reason, every so often the systems will beep
1, 2 or 3 times.  This behavior seems to be completely random, I have not been
able to determine any specific action that will cause it.

Sometimes it will occur while the system is booting and sometimes it won't.
Sometimes it will happen when I execute an application and sometimes it won't.
It's not a devastating problem, but it is a kind of anoying problem.

Has anyone out there experienced a similar problem or know what is causing it
and how to make it stop?

Thanks in advance,

Chas

-- 


Charles Inman
chasi@netcom.com

"If the phone doesn't ring, it's me"
		- Jimmy Buffett

Xref: sparky comp.os.os2.misc:39710 comp.os.os2.programmer:7084
From: patrice@cenparmi.concordia.ca (SCATTOLIN patrice)
Subject: SLIP for OS/2
Organization: CENPARMI, Concordia University, Montreal, Canada
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1992 00:07:21 GMT


Does anyone know what I need to run SLIP on OS/2? Is it available 
on Hobbes, or an IBM product? 

Thanks
-- 
Patrice Scattolin
					patrice@cs.concordia.ca
Concordia University			Montreal, Canada
"I am so far north that Santa lives two blocks from me"
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: parry@yoyo.cc.monash.edu.au (Tom J Parry)
Subject: Playing CD's through a SB
Originator: parry@yoyo.cc.monash.edu.au
Organization: Monash University, Melb., Australia.
Date: Sat, 12 Dec 1992 08:57:51 GMT

Is it possible to play CD's on a SCSI controller (Trantor controller, Texel
drive) through a Soundblaster (1.5 NOT PRO).

I have installed MMPM/2 from the PDK and have the new ftp-os2 drivers
installed.

-- 
Tom J Parry.
Your reality is a figment of my imagination.
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: jhlee@rose.handy.co.kr (Lee Joo Hee)
Subject: Re: Where to get the $15 OS/2 CD?
Organization: HandySoft Institute of Technology, HandySoft Corp.
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL3
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 92 11:23:24 GMT

	Hi, I want to know non 800 international
order phone number.
	jhlee@rose.handy.co.kr
From: rhoward@matd.gatech.edu (Robert L. Howard)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: GA plus SP-- reduce total number of disks?
Summary: A possible FAQ...
Date: 11 Dec 92 18:15:47 GMT
Organization: Georgia Tech Research Institute

Okay, I am sure that this has been asked before...

Given that I have GA (on the nice IBM provided disks) and the
Service Pack (on my on floppies, it was downloaded), how can
I combine them into GA+SP so that I

a) reduce the number of total floppies

b) only have to install the combined set as a single procedure
   rather than install GA then upgrade to SP?

Robert
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From: gkushmer@jade.tufts.edu (Greg Kushmerek)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Are they fast or are they slow? (Tri32)
Date: 15 Dec 92 19:03:09 GMT
Distribution: comp
Organization: Roger Mellie Enterprises, PLC

So I've been reading news and I see two schools of thought emerging:

	o The Trident 32 bit drivers are fast
	o The Trident 32 bit drivers are slow

The linchpin, I believe, is that set of Joel's svga generic drivers.  Some
people seem to have been using them and others appear to have been
using the old Trident 16 bit drivers.  

What I have noticed is that anyone using the old Trident drivers appears
to be reporting a speed increase.  Yet anyone using the generic drivers
sees a speed _decrease_.

As I am using the generic drivers (Thanks, by the way, for those) and have
not yet tried putting on the 32 bit drivers, I'm curious to know
if it is worth it.

Anyone have any ideas on this?

--gk

Greg K.
From: bab@se39.wg2.waii.com (Brian Button)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Bug in drawing windowed VDM
Date: 17 Dec 92 13:31:08 GMT
Organization: Western Geophysical Exploration Products

Has anyone else seen this bug?

When I open anything in a maximum sized DOS window, in 800x600x256
mode, the contents of the window are shifted over about 1/4" from the
right side of the window. This results in the left 1/4" of the
contents being clipped, and 1/4" of whatever is beneath the window
peaking through on the right. I can get the window to redraw itself by
resizing it to a smaller size and then back to full size.

This only happens about 50% of the time, but it's getting annoying. It
only appeared after I installed the service pack.

BTW, the video card is a Diamond Speedstar (the basic Tseng 4000 based
one).

bab
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From: beders@wip-sol.dfki.uni-sb.de (Jochen Bedersdorfer)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: OS/2 NOT 32 Bit?
Date: 17 Dec 1992 14:03:32 GMT
Organization: DFKI Saarbruecken GmbH, D-W 6600 Saarbruecken
	<92352.112713ASI509@DJUKFA11.BITNET>
NNTP-Posting-Host: dfki.uni-sb.de
In-reply-to: ASI509@DJUKFA11.BITNET's message of 17 Dec 92 10:27:13 GMT

In article <92352.112713ASI509@DJUKFA11.BITNET> ASI509@DJUKFA11.BITNET writes:

>   In article <1992Dec17.014016.14071@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu>,
>   lotozo@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (William A Lotozo) says:
>   >
>   >I have heard some people claim that OS/2 is not a 32 bit operating system
>   >but actually a 16 bit os running a 32 bit os emulation.  Is this so?
>   >I thought that if anything it was a true 32 bit os with a 16 bit emulation
>  >for backwards compatability to os/2 1.x programs.

>   You are right and they are wrong. There are _some_ parts that are 16Bit. Though
>   the only one I know of was the old (GA Version) graphics engine. Since the
>   service pack it is 32Bit. OS/2 has the old APIs for 16 apps and perhaps the
>   texmode I/O functions are 16Bit code. But as I understand IBM wants to move
>   to PM-only operation, so it would be logical not to change that to 32Bit code.
>
>   If it was a 16Bit OS, how could such things like the 32Bit GNU compilers exist
>   without an OS/2-extender like the DOS-extender version ?
>
>   Michael Bode.

You both don`t seem to understand: OS/2 IS an 32-bit OS. It
is switching down to 16-bit code in some cases...

:)ochen
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From: jon@bai.baylis.COM (Jon Granrose)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: CDROM on MS OS/2 1.3
Distribution: na
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 92 20:52:09 GMT
Organization: Baylis Automation Inc. (Scotts Valley, CA)


Howdy,

I have some questions on the CDROM drivers for MS OS/2 1.3.

I have a Denon DRD253 drive on a Future Domain controller (840 I think)
running in our file server under OS/2 1.3.  We need the interrupt that
controller is using so we are going to try to switch the drive to our
Adaptec 1542b controller.

I've done what reseach I can and have calls in to all the concerned parties.
Can anyone tell me if this setup will work with the provided drivers
or am I going to have to get new ones from Adaptec and/or Denon?  I've read
what little there is the manuals I have and none of them are of any help.
If anyone out there has a setup like this, I'd appreciate seeing the relevant
lines from the config.sys as well.

Any information appreciated. Thanks.

-Jon
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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: klotz@x.cip.e-technik.uni-erlangen.de (Juergen Klotz)
Subject: printer driver for hp-deskjet 550 required
Organization: CSD., University of Erlangen, Germany
Date: Fri, 11 Dec 1992 08:48:36 GMT


i plan to buy a hp 550 (color/bw) deskjet, but i want to know first is :
   is there a driver for this printer available from IBM/HP or on the net ?

maybe it's on the OS2 update but i don't have it yet !??


bye
  juergen klotz
  (email : klotz@cip.e-technik.uni-erlangen.de)


Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: tommy@lynx.msc.cornell.edu.UUCP (Mike Thompson,332,54714,2734927)
Subject: Re: What is the recommended size for an OS/2 system-only partition?
Originator: tommy@snoopy.msc.cornell.edu
Organization: Cornell-Materials-Science-Center
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 23:32:23 GMT

From article <1992Dec14.181811.23621@midway.uchicago.edu>, by pynq@quads.uchicago.edu (Jeremy Mathers):
> I want to partition my 200M disk as efficiently as possible, leaving
> just enuf room on C: to hold the OS/2 system.  What is the magic number?
> I just ordered the DAP CD ROM, so I think I am about to re-install again.
> 
> (In the most recent install [straight GA], we set it to 60 [with 140 as D:],
> and after installing and running for awhile, there is still 28M
> free on C:  This is now essentially wasted space...)

I'll jump on this since, IMHO, there are right and wrongs ways to partition
the system.  I've installed some 8 systems under the following "principle".

Primary partition 1:    1 MB for Boot manager
Primary partition 2:   30 MB FAT  (C:) DOS compatibility partition
Extended partition 1: 100 MB HPFS (D:) Main OS/2 boot partition and software.
                                       All commercial packages easy to restore
                                       here.  Seldom backed up.
Extended partition 2: 200 MB HPFS (E:) Main data/development partition.  Gets
                                       backups regularly.
Extended partition 3:  50 MB HPFS (F:) Test disk for installs of beta OS/2
Extended partition 4:  20 MB FAT  (G:) Swap partition.  Set so swap never
                                       competes with user space.  If 20 MB is
                                       not enough, you need more memory.

The 50 MB was a bit tight on the last beta (fully configured), so I might
steal 10 more from user space.  The 100 on D: is just sufficient, but
there is no penalty putting some commercial software up on E:.  (Base is
20 MB, add 30 for toolkit, 15 for C, 30 for TCP/IP and wow!).  The OS is
getting so bloody big that I don't really want to back it up all the
time.  So, I have a utility that just grabs all the .INI files and backs
them up at boot time (shiftrun is great).  Normal backup of F: only.

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OS/2:  For the few, the proud, the devoted!
From: rbotimer@max.ct.gmr.com (R Douglas Botimer)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: IBM won't accept Internet problem reports any more
Keywords: IBM problem report compuserve cis
Date: 14 Dec 92 19:32:54 GMT

In article <sal8.256.724361194@po.cwru.edu> sal8@po.cwru.edu (Steve Luzynski)  
writes:
:In article <1gilu6INNriv@agate.berkeley.edu> stanton@haas.berkeley.edu  
(Richard Stanton) writes:
:>From: stanton@haas.berkeley.edu (Richard Stanton)
:>Subject: IBM won't accept Internet problem reports any more
:>Date: 14 Dec 1992 19:05:42 GMT
:>I just got a message telling me that to report bugs etc I must now have
:>a valid Compuserve account. What a pain.
:>
:>Richard Stanton
:>
:If they're going to be like that about it then send them to me. I'll move 
:them along.
:
:[ducking flood of messages]
:Please make sure you have the correct address of the person to send it to in 
:the message so I can just zip it off with minimal effort on my part. :)
:
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CompuServe is on Internet.  Don't have the details here, but you can send mail  
to CompuServe subscribers via Internet (without having an account yourself).   
I'll post the detail as soon as I find them.

Doug
Organization: Penn State University
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 10:35:14 EST
From: darren karns <DWK110@psuvm.psu.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: OS/2 Questions

the first error mentioned here (chkdsk error) is the same error that i am
getting. could any responses please be posted or emailed to me also.

             thanx

             --Darren--
From: hardgrov@pilot.njin.net (Roy Hardgrove)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: Inexpensive 16-bit Future Domain SCSI Adapters
Date: 17 Dec 92 02:48:48 GMT
Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J.

>In article <1992Dec12.235542.16006@midway.uchicago.edu>
>sip1@midway.uchicago.edu writes:

>Several people have been looking for an inexpensive yet decent SCSI
>adapter for use under OS/2 2.0 (to run CD-ROM, particularly).
>
>I have no affiliation with the company, but Hi-Tech (at 805-966-5454
>or FAX 805-966-2354) is offering the Future Domain 16-bit TMC-1660ER
>SCSI adapter for $65.  I believe this adapter includes floppy disk
>support.
Nope.  No Floppy support on the card.

I also have no affliation with HITECH, but have recently purchased a
SCSI drive and the aforementioned FD1660 Controller.  Just for the
sake of accuracy, it may be an OEM card but on system bootup the FD
Bios is present!  It works just fine with all my software, and even
handles Win3.1 32 bit fast disk addressing.  I am also able to run my
system at 13.33Mhz without a problem!

The only drawback is the transfer rate: @ 900KB/s.  You can reach
HITECH at (800)922-2554.  Their prices are "scary" low, but their
service is impressive and they have earned my trust despite initial
apprehensions. 

Just thought you should know.

Roy F. Hardgrove
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wrong?  Are laws to be enforced simply because they were made? or
declared by any number of men to be good, if they are NOT good?"
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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc,alt.cd-rom
From: pendrith@spectrum.cs.unsw.oz.au (Mark Pendrith)
Subject: Re: CD-ROM, OS/2 and TMC-850MEX controller
Reply-To: pendrith@spectrum.cs.unsw.oz.au (Mark Pendrith)
Organization: unsw
Date: Sun, 13 Dec 1992 10:34:34 GMT

In article <1992Dec12.155516.14547@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> cjones@nyx.cs.du.edu (Charles J. Jones) writes:
>Hi!
>
>I just used the offer that comes with the OS/2 PDK to purchase a Toshiba
>XM-3301 CD-ROM drive and adapter.  The adapter that came was the Future Domain
>TMC-850MEX ISA bus SCSI adapter.  I understood that OS/2 would work with
>Future Domain BUT, at least with the drivers I have, it doesn't.  I get
>the message "SCSI-DD not found" when cdrom.sys tries to load.  So, do
>I need to get other drivers?  If so where can they be found?  Maybe I need
>to use a different switch to the base scsi driver?  Maybe I'm screwed because
>this adapter is not nativly supported yet at all?  I can use the disk just
>fine is a DOS session, but I need to have it available in an OS/2 session. 
>Any help would be greatly appreciated.
>
>Thanks in advance
>
>Charles
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did you reinstall os/2 so that a new config.sys with 

basedev=fd8xx.add

is included? the fd8xx.add is the 8-bit future domain driver included in
GA and CSD (although i found that the CSD one had a few problems that the
GA one didn't). in other words, native support is provided.

you could also probably install this driver manually, if you want to
find the file on the distribution diskettes and unpack it from the archives.
the order the drivers load is probably important, so you might have to
figure out exactly what this is to go this route.

hope this helps.

Mark Pendrith

pendrith@cs.unsw.oz.au



Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu (Timothy F. Sipples)
Subject: Re: Block Device drivers in DOS session
Reply-To: sip1@midway.uchicago.edu
Organization: Dept. of Econ., Univ. of Chicago
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 17:59:34 GMT

In article <1992Dec12.174750.72444@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu> etl1@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu (EMIL THOMAS LERCH) writes:
>This is sort of a repost, but I need to do some file sharing in a sort of peer
>to peer setting, but it's not large enough to use a network.  The problem is
>that OS/2 won't let you use block device drivers in a DOS session.  This is
>really important to me, so if anyone knows of a workaround or program I could
>use to allow me to do this I'd appreciate it.  I got one response last time I
>posted, but I only got the first line of the response.   Thanks.

You can use a specific DOS session.  See Appendix E of your
Installation Guide and/or the online Command Reference under VMDISK.

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From: gjo@brt.deakin.edu.au
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: Niggling little problems
Date: 18 Dec 92 10:23:35 EST
Organization: C&CS, Deakin University
NNTP-Posting-Host: vax2.viccol.edu.au

In article <1992Dec8.052602.17240@midway.uchicago.edu>, sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu (Timothy F. Sipples) writes:
> In article <1992Dec8.124429.1@brt.deakin.edu.au> gjo@brt.deakin.edu.au writes:
>>1. I have a 101 keyboard and the arrow keys don't work in the system
>>   editor. I have to use the arrows on the keypad. Any ideas?
>>   I hope this isn't my keyboard BIOS (AMI Rev. F)
> 
> My hunch is that you have the keyboard switched to "XT" mode.  Check
> for any DIP switches, and make sure it is set for "AT" mode.
> 

The keyboard is in AT mode, it won't work at all in XT mode.

The arrow keys work in other OS/2 Apps and in an OS/2 window or full
screen. Why not in the System Editor and Enhanced Editor?

Is there a special keyboard mapping file for these Applications
that I haven't got set up correctly?

Greg O'Sullivan
(gjo@brt.deakin.edu.au)
.
.
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc