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From: hrpdko@pnv.palm.cri.nz (Dale K. Ogilvie)
Subject: Re: WinOS2 Parallel ports busy bug (SP and 2.1b)
Organization: DSIR, Palmerston North, New Zealand
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 93 23:20:46 GMT

In article <1993Jan26.033738.9555@wam.umd.edu> adhir@wam.umd.edu (Al Dhir) writes:

>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.

I thought I tried that with no success, I'll give it another go.

Dale Ogilvie
From: gt1610c@prism.gatech.EDU (Michael Kenneth McGaugh)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Opinions Please -- WPS "feature"
Summary: WPS
Date: 25 Jan 93 14:50:23 GMT
Organization: Georgia Institute of Technology

Hey all.

There is one aspect of the WPS that I really feel is
counter productive.  I would like to hear some opinions
from others in the net about this idea.

I feel that when an icon is selected with mouse button 2
with the intent of dragging it (moving, copying, shadowing,
or drag-n-dropping), the folder which contains that object
should NOT become the foreground window.  I has become very
frustrating to find the object you are looking for, and when
you go to drag it to another folder, its folder comes to the
foreground and covers up the intended destination for your
object.

If I remember correctly, the 6.304 beta of OS/2 2.0 last
spring had this exact feature in it.  I do not know how much
code would have to be rewritten to change this, but I would
like to pursue this matter with IBM.  Does anyone know who or
where to contact about such a feature change?  I doubt they
will take it as a bug report.

Ken.
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From: d9mikael@dtek.chalmers.se (Mikael Wahlgren)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: Rumor: IBM out of hardware business????
Date: 24 Jan 93 21:15:04 GMT
Organization: Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg Sweden

twong@civil.ubc.ca (Thomas Wong) writes:

>There has been a rumor around this here part that IBM made an official
>announcement on Fidonet that they are dropping out of the hardware
>business. I don't have Fidonet access and can't confirm this. Anyone
>have such access and seen this announcement out there??  No more PS/1,
>PS/2? The end of their clone line only fater being out for a couple of
>months? Any clarifications? IBM, are you out there reading Usenet?

Do you think that if such a decision were made, that _FIDONET_ would be
the place they would select to explode the new?  NO WAY!

Mikael Wahlgren
From: swee.cheng@freddy.ersys.edmonton.ab.ca (Swee Cheng) 
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: RE: SUPRAFAXMODEM AND OS/
Date: 21 Jan 93 23:08:00 GMT
Reply-To: swee.cheng@freddy.ersys.edmonton.ab.ca (Swee Cheng) 
Distribution: world
Organization: Freddy's Place BBS - Edmonton, AB - 403-456-4241

To: All

> I can get a real good deal on a 14400 SupraFaxModem internal.  I'm told it
> doesn't have a 16550 UART, but has a different, better buffering scheme. 
> I don't really care as long as I can use it with OS/2 without problems.
> Like I said, I would get it at a really good price, and it's hard to pass
up.
> 
> Anyone had any experience with the beastie?

Try SIO.SYS and VSIO.SYS. They are the alternative replacement for COM.SYS
VCOM.SYS. They will emulate 16550A if you don't have one. I believe it is
called SIO0034.ZIP.
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From: matt@physics2.berkeley.edu (Matt Austern)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Selectively setting default font sizes
Date: 24 Jan 93 14:18:33
Organization: Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory (Theoretical Physics Group)
Reply-To: matt@physics.berkeley.edu
NNTP-Posting-Host: physics2.berkeley.edu

This is probably a frequently asked question, but I couldn't find it
in the FAQ list, so I don't feel *too* guilty about asking it here...

What I want to do is to set up default font sizes for my windows---but
different sizes depending on what I'm doing.  That is, I want emacs to
start up with one font, OS/2 command prompt windows to start up with
another font, etc.

As far as I can tell, there's no way to do that: when I select "Save"
in the "Font Size" menu, it affects every window that I subsequently
open.  Am I missing something really obvious, or is there really no
way to do this?  

(If there really is no way to do this, then there should be; font
sizes ought to be customizable on a per-program basis.  Is someone
from IBM listening?)
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From: enk2@po.cwru.edu (Erik Kovach)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: Cannot remove DesktopFolder!
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 17:49:07 GMT
Organization: Case Western Reserve University
NNTP-Posting-Host: b62711.student.cwru.edu

In article <C19I9u.Jr2@hermes.hrz.uni-bielefeld.de> chr@bio128.uni-bielefeld.de (Christian Bartling) writes:
>After installing the beta version OS/2 2.1 on my system, I have problems  
>to remove the old desktopfolder "OS!2 2.0 Desktop" from the system. I can  
>move it to any location on the harddisk, but there is no way (at least for  
>me) to delete this folder.

Boot off of disk and try to trash it.  Also, because the name contains
spaces in the HPFS format, you may have to contain the directory name
in quotes:
	DEL "OS!2 2.0 Desktop"

Will this work?  Anyone?
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From: jurlwin@gandalf.UMCS.Maine.EDU (Jeff Urlwin)
Subject: Syslevel (was Re: Can I *PLEASE* get a fast COMM driver that &^$#* works!?)
Organization: University of Maine, Department of Computer Science
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 17:05:19 GMT

In article <1993Jan24.172609.18386@midway.uchicago.edu> sip1@midway.uchicago.edu writes:
>>First of all:  I am running OS/2 2.0 GA, Syslevel XR02000 (by the way, 
>>*why* does it take over 10 minutes for the "Syslevel" command to give out 
>>that info!?)
>
>It may take a while because SYSLEVEL checks all drives, whether local
>or networked.  It also checks all directories.  (I think IBM should
>probably find a way to keep SYSLEVEL from checking networked drives.)
>

Why can't IBM have a syslevel directory, whose location is stored in the
os2sys.ini, or something similar?  Just a suggestion...

jeff

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From: bjorn@hactar.ludd.luth.se (Bjorn Fahller)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: 2.1b dozing off
Date: 27 Jan 93 12:48:05 GMT
Organization: Lule} Tekniska H|gskolas Datorf|rening - Ludd


I've had some problems with the 2.1b just dozing off. I cannot see anything
happening, but all of a sudden, it's dead, completely. C-A-D does nothing.
This doesn't happen often, and besides my suspision that it's related to
DOS-VDMs or Win-OS/2, I have no idea what's causing it. I cannot make it
die on purpose. It just happens once in a very long while.
   _
/Bjorn.

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From: jurlwin@gandalf.UMCS.Maine.EDU (Jeff Urlwin)
Subject: Re: Syslevel (was Re: Can I *PLEASE* get a fast COMM driver that &^$#* works!?)
Organization: University of Maine, Department of Computer Science
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 21:49:55 GMT

In article <1993Jan25.192723.28037@cybernet.cse.fau.edu> azzarito@cse.fau.edu (Doug Azzarito) writes:
>In article <1993Jan25.170519.5317@gandalf.UMCS.Maine.EDU> jurlwin@gandalf.UMCS.Maine.EDU (Jeff Urlwin) writes:
>>Why can't IBM have a syslevel directory, whose location is stored in the
>>os2sys.ini, or something similar?  Just a suggestion...
>
>SYSLEVEL's job is to check each file, and determine if the file is a product
>with specific release info in it.  It's the equivalent of greping your
>entire disk.  What would a SYSLEVEL directory do?  I want to look at the
>actual executable and see what release it is.

But they don't actually look at the executable, or so it seems.  It's in a
file SYSLEVEL.xxx.  So why not dump it all into one place?

Jeff









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From: aaa@hpuerca.atl.hp.com (Simon Fowler)
Subject: Re: How to get CDROM.SYS for OS/2 2.1b?
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 23:22:20 GMT
Organization: Hewlett-Packard Company, Atlanta GA

In article <1993Jan19.024927.28581@midway.uchicago.edu>, sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu (Timothy F. Sipples) writes:
> In article <1993Jan18.052942.20549@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> mcover@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Mark Coverdill) writes:
> >I waited until after a solid installation to install support for my
> >CDROM drive (a NEC 84 using a Trantor 128 SCSI board). Using Selective
> >Install I chose support for the drive and went through the disk swap.
> >After rebooting, CDROM.SYS was not is the OS2 subdirectory. How can I
> >get this file off the setup disks?
> >I pulled CDROM_G.SYS off of hobbes to try that but it causes OS2 to
> >crash on some disk accesses. Either that or the Trantor drivers I have
> >need to be updated for 2.1b. Anybody have the same setup working?
> 
> You want the file os2cdrom.zip, available from either
> software.watson.ibm.com or ftp-os2.nmsu.edu via anonymous ftp.  This
> file contains the correct drivers.

Make sure that you also have the latest Trantor drivers.

simon
From: steuer@clam.rutgers.edu (robert Steuer)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: QModem Users! USE SIO040.ZIP, FLAWLESS PERFORMANCE!!
Date: 28 Jan 93 18:56:15 GMT
Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J.

I just got SIO040.ZIP from pub/uploads in hobbes.nmsu.edu and
installed it and downloaded many files with Qmodem.  I was running
chkdsk on both my partitions, compiling a program, and viewing a
1024x768x256 color GIF image without so much as 1 ERROR, using Z-modem
protocol.  One thing though, they don't mention this in the manual:
* REM OUT BOTH YOUR COM.SYS AND VCOM.SYS DEVICE STATEMENTS IN YOUR
CONFIG.SYS!  Otherwise it ain't gonna work!  Good Luck!
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From: Gary.Woodman@anu.edu.au (Gary Woodman)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: OS/2 Network Monitor
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 01:11:49 GMT
Organization: Computer Services Centre, Australian National University
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: 150.203.5.23
Keywords: OS/2 Network Monitor

In article <1k3s4nINNg51@hayaku.protocol.zycad.com> vozzo@protocol.zycad.com (Frank Vozzo) writes:

>I am investigating a tool to monitor a large-scale network.  The network
>consists of 35 Lans, where each Lan is a group of 486's.  I need to monitor
>the network and provide statistic on the each lan.  I was not provided with a 
>great deal of information about the network, (as you might have noticed), but 
>any help provided will be appreciated.

You might like to look at Netalyze, an Australian-made OS/2 network 
management utility. I found the demo on IBM's Australian OS/2 support BBS, 
it might not have made it outside the country yet.

I found it very easy to start up and pleasant to look at, but I'm not 
working in the network area; our network management person liked the looks 
of it, he said it compared very well with the megabuck HP LAN Analyser they 
normally use.

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From: raty@tele.nokia.fi (Timo Tero Tapio Raty)
Subject: OS/2 Monthly ?
Organization: Nokia Telecommunications Ltd.
Distribution: comp
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 13:49:48 GMT


	Could somebody please give (mail) me information on how to
subscribe to OS/2 Monthly, possible discounts etc. I haven't found a
single bookstore that knew anything about this publication.

	Thanks,

	timo

	raty@tele.nokia.fi
	t33904k@puukko.hut.fi
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From: mhuth@hardy.u.washington.edu (Mark Huth)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: Boca Super VGA loses sync in fullscreen DOS
Date: 23 Jan 1993 19:11:34 GMT
Organization: University of Washington
NNTP-Posting-Host: hardy.u.washington.edu

jmaynard@oac.hsc.uth.tmc.edu (Jay Maynard) writes:
Jay, I'm having exactly the same problem, I can work around it by allowing
the windows or dos session to complete booting before switching away from it.
I only get the problem if I boot the system with a dos or windows program open
or if I switch away from a program using alt-esc while the program loads.  
I've used several video cards including a Paradise 1024 card without changing
the problem.  I reported it on Compuserve and was told that they'd never
heard of such a thing.  Tim suggested that there are known bugs with cards 
that cantain 512k (if I read his message correctly).  Both of the card's I've
tried do have 512k on board. That clearly isn't the problem with your dad's
system.    


>My father recently replaced his VGA with a Boca Super VGA board, based on the
>ET4000. He's tried with 2.0 GA, SP, and the 2.1 beta, and in all three, at any
>resolution, when he brings up a fullscreen DOS session (including a fullscreen
>Windows session), the monitor loses sync; an Alt-Home, followed by the Enter
>key, brings up *two* reduced size WPS images side-by-side, apparently split by
>scan line. The only way out of this situation is to reboot. The board has 1
>meg of RAM. The system is my old Mylex 386SX-16, with 8 meg or main memory and
>a Phoenix 386 BIOS PLUS v1.10. His old board, an ET3000, had this problem
>before the Service Pack in VGA mode. Any ideas?
>-- 
>Jay Maynard, EMT-P, K5ZC, PP-ASEL | Never ascribe to malice that which can
>jmaynard@oac.hsc.uth.tmc.edu      | adequately be explained by stupidity.
>    "I don't want to read poor Microsoft bashing. I want to read good
>Microsoft bashing." -- Douglas A. Bell, in comp.os.os2.advocacy (Me too!)
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From: nsorathi@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Nilesh Sorathia)
Subject: converting GIF ---===> BMP
Organization: The Ohio State University
Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 01:08:19 GMT

Is there a program out that will convert 1024x768x256 GIF to
1024x768x256 BMP?  I have a program called GWS that's suppose to convert
the files, but everytime I try converting it gives me an error saying
something like "file can't be converted".  I tried all the GIFs I have
and none of them worked.
What I'm trying to do is make a BMP for the background of OS/2.
Does anyone have any suggestions?
If so, my E-Mail address is "Nsorathia@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu"
From: h198@hosp.med.umich.edu  (Gene Mangum)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: OS/2 port of Win cardfile somewhere ?
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993  14:42 EDT
Organization: Univ of Michigan Hospitals
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: condor.hosp.med.umich.edu
X-Newsreader: FTPNuz (DOS) v1.0

In Article <1jmq13INNa6j@gap.caltech.edu> "hacker@cco.caltech.edu (Jonathan Bruce Hacker)" says:
> sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu (Timothy F. Sipples) writes:
> >In article <1jjq5lINN4gj@psun2.hmi.de> pfr@psun2.hmi.de (Fritsch_Wolfgang) writes:
 
  <<Stuff Deleted>>
 
> >>So, is there somewhere an OS/2 program that allows access to the
> >>Win cardfile data files?
 
  <<Stuff Deleted>>
 
> 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.
 
  <<.sig Deleted>>
 
  Barf!!!  Gag!!!   What are you trying to do, kill OS/2???   WLO is
  unacceptable crap.   I'm almost positive that the cardfile applet is
  included with the 2.1 beta.   WLO Stinks!!

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From: selliott@cup.portal.com (J Steve Elliott)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Where to get OS/2 2.00.1 ?
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 93 07:52:17 PST
Organization: The Portal System (TM)

Well, last night, I unpacked my new IBM Thinkpad 700C. Preloaded with IBM
DOS 5.0 and Prodigy (wowee). So the first thing I did was install OS/2 GA
Plus the service pack. Wouldn't work, The Thinkpad requires OS/2 2.00.1.
In other words, I can't just install the GA and then the service pack.

So, does anyone know if the shrinkwrapped OS/2 on the shelves now is 
version 2.00.1 or just version 2.0. Or perhaps, where is this version
available.

Thanx, Steve Elliott
From: gouvea@zariski.harvard.edu (Fernando Gouvea)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: OS/2 on notebook
Date: 28 Jan 93 13:07:24 GMT
Organization: Colby College Dept. of Math/CS

In article <1993Jan27.204953.20619@midway.uchicago.edu> sip1@midway.uchicago.edu writes:
>In article <C1HAq7.6z@mentor.cc.purdue.edu> mluong@sage.cc.purdue.edu (Mingh Luong) writes:
>>I've got a question for you all or whoever.  Right now, I have OS/2 running
>>on my notebook computer (386sx w/4megs), and  I was wondering what 
>>can I delete, from what the main OS/2 stuff, so that OS/2 doesn't eat too
>>much of my HD space?  And also, what are some suggestions for speeding up
>>OS/2? (besides getting a faster computer and more RAM)?
>
>Well, the applets can go (\OS2\APPS), if you like.  So can the
>optional bitmaps (\OS2\BITMAP), the Tutorial, online documentation you
>don't need, Win-OS/2 (if you don't use it), utilities you don't use
>(like TREE or QBASIC), and a few other odds and ends.

There's a utility on hobbes called SELDEL.CMD which will selectively delete
the applets you no longer need. It might be useful in this sort of setting.
It's especially nice for things like the Terminal applet, which has some 20
DLLs hidden in OS2/APPS/DLL that can be deleted if you don't want to use
it. (SELDEL is a VREXX script, so you'll need that to use it.)



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From: rloper@mksol.dseg.ti.com (robert l loper)
Subject: MMPM/2 SB Problems
Organization: Texas Instruments, Inc
Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1993 06:49:26 GMT

Hi,

I recently picked up the OS/2 2.1 beta, and installed it with no trouble,
and then installed MMPM/2, and had no problems there, but when I rebooted
to install the drivers, I got a message that my SBD2.sys driver hadn't
loaded.  Any ideas?  I'm running a 386/40, 8 megs RAM, 50 Meg HPFS OS/2 
partition, Soundblaster 1.5 at addr 200 IRQ 5 (yes, I told the MMPM install
this)

Thanx in advance...

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From: iidan@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Daniel Rogers)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: Trident 8900c supported... right??
Date: 22 Jan 1993 05:20:28 GMT
Organization: The University of Texas at Austin, Austin TX
NNTP-Posting-Host: sneezy.cc.utexas.edu

In article <1993Jan21.143225.20281@midway.uchicago.edu> pynq@midway.uchicago.edu writes:
>>>	2) I really think OS/2 ought to offer a way to choose at boot
>>>	   time whether or not it should reload all the apps that were
>>>	   running when you shut down (or crashed).
>>There is.  Add the following line to your CONFIG.SYS:
>>
>>SET RESTARTOBJECTS=STARTUPFOLDERSONLY
>
>That's not really a solution.  It is a work-around.
>
The manual also states you can hold down Cntrl-Shift-F1 during startup.


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From: sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu (Timothy F. Sipples)
Subject: Re: OS/2 and the Gravis Ultrasound
Reply-To: sip1@midway.uchicago.edu
Organization: Dept. of Econ., Univ. of Chicago
Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 03:53:38 GMT

In article <C1ABw4.6uw@undergrad.math.waterloo.edu> rgundech@cayley.uwaterloo.ca () writes:
>I am considering purchasing a Gravis Ultrasound sound card, but would like to
>get one major compatibility issue straight before I go ahead. I realize that
>there probably aren't any OS/2 drivers for this card out yet, but will the
>OS/2 SoundBlaster driver work for this card (the Ultrasound is SoundBlaster
>compatible). If not, does anyone know of any plans for an OS/2 driver for the
>card ?

No.

I would strongly recommend you stick with the SoundBlaster Pro 16 or
IBM M-Audio adapter.  Both have nonbeta, released OS/2 2.x MMPM/2
drivers.

The PAS-16 drivers are in beta.  (All drivers are available via
anonymous ftp from ftp-os2.nmsu.edu; check file /pub/os2/00Index for
location.)

Gravis has made promises, but nothing has shipped.  You should tell
them why you are taking your business elsewhere.

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From: pat@berry.Cary.NC.US (Pat Berry)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: Is OS/2 a dead end?
Keywords: So quoth Bill Gates
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 93 08:22:58 EST
Organization: Berry Communications

feg@cbnewsb.cb.att.com (forrest.e.gehrke) writes:

> PC Week for January 18th has an interview with Bill Gates.
> I quote the relevant item:
> 
> PC Week: Your feeling is that OS/2 is a dead-end platform?
> 
> Gates: It's certainly a dead end.  That's indisputable.
> Nobody would dispute that it's a dead end.

Apparently, Gates believes that by forbidding anyone to disagree with
him, he can turn his wishful thinking into fact.  But I dispute his
statement, and so will a lot of other people.  Sorry, Bill.

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