From: jst50986@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Jack S. Tan)
Subject: Questions about running OS/2
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Fri, 28 Aug 1992 23:04:59 GMT

I've had OS/2 2.0 installed on my system (see below) for about a month now,
and I have some questions.  (I've been away from the newsgroups for awhile
now, so please bear with any repeated questions.)  Note that suggestions will
be gladly taken (of course!), but I can't test anything, since the next time
I'll get to work with my OS/2 is Thankgiving.  :-(

- How do I set up a DOS window to believe that I have two monitors (by using
  two windows)?  I would like to run, say, Turbo C IDE in one window and the
  output screen in another window (which can be accomplished under ordinary
  DOS and dual monitors).

- I have been having trouble closing DOS and OS/2 windows on the Desktop.  I
  type 'exit' at the prompt, and the title bar changes to "Closing:  DOS [OS/2]
  Window," but then does not close.  Shutting down the system usually cannot
  be done:  the Shutdown warning comes up, and so does the appropriate warning
  for closing an open window, but the system does not complete shutdown and
  returns to the Desktop.  Sometimes, the system will not respond to mouse
  button input nor keyboard input soon thereafter.

- In a DOS window, I ran the file management program Treeview v1.1 (from Magee
  Enterprises, I think).  I copied some files from C:\SYSTEM (drive C is FAT)
  to the newly-created C:\SYS; the files included MOUSE.SYS and XCOPY.EXE.  I
  was warned that I would overwrite these two particular files (implying that
  they existed in C:\SYS).  These files were not present in C:\SYS (I checked),
  so I 'overwrote' them.  It turns out that the files under the same names in
  D:\OS2\MDOS were overwritten (but the files were also copied correctly to
  C:\SYS).  Any ideas as to what happened?
  
- To where or to whom should I email suggestions or bugs for OS/2?

- Is it possible to set the icon spacing?  Is there an equivalent function to
  the Macintosh's "Clean Up Selection [Window/Desktop]" to pull an icon to the 
  nearest grid interestion? 

- How do I access the font cartidges listed for my printer (HP LaserJet III)?
  [Open the printer object, go to the notebook page with the printer icons
  (2nd tab, I think), and open the settings for the laser printer.]  There is
  a page with "Available font cartidges."  Does this mean that, if I enable
  the correct cartridges, OS/2 will provide my programs with the font cartidges
  requested?  Can I tell WIN-OS2 that I have these cartidges (e.g., running
  Word for Windows)?


That's all I can think of for now.  Thanks in advance for any help!

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System configuration:
   Gateway 2000 486/33C
   210MB hard drive
     - Boot Manager
     - FAT  C: with MS-DOS 5
     - HPFS D: with OS/2 2.0  (extended partition)
   12MB RAM
   CrystalScan 1024NI monitor
     - Diamond SpeedSTAR v4.24 w/1MB
     - Running under default VGA
   HP LaserJet III w/1MB, no Postscript/cartidges

Patches installed:  (from ftp-os2.nmsu.edu)
   hpfs.zoo
   os2krn.zoo
   svgafx1.zoo
   svgafx2.zoo

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Sincerely,

Jack Tan
jst50986@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu
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