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From: joe@jsnode.equinox.gen.nz (Joseph Skinner)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: Need mail & news Package !?!
Date: Sun, 08 Nov 92 01:14:02 GMT
Distribution: world               
Organization: Me? Organized?

In article <haug03061921002143645@zesi.do.open.de> haug@zesi.do.open.de (Haug Buerger) writes:
>
>Hi,
>
>is there anybody who uses a OS2 mail and news package?
>I tried Waffle (dos = slow) and uupc 1.11 (no news).
>Is there any unix uucp port for OS2, is somebody working
>on one?
>

Just in case no one else mentions it there are 2 OS/2 packages which 
provide news suport to UUPC. These are TRN (a threaded version of RN) and
SNEWS.

Both work well although I prefer TRN which is avaliable as a file called
trnexe10.zoo

Hope this helps.

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From: landis@sugs.tware.com (Hale Landis)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Any Earthly Reason I SHould Use Os/2 NOW? 
Distribution: world
Date: Sun, 08 Nov 92 13:33:25 GMT
Organization: SUGS

Gee, sorry to hear you are having so much trouble.  In fairness,
here is a message from the other side of OS/2 life...

I upgraded my system from OS/2 1.3 (dual boot with DOS 5.0) to
OS/2 2.0 (also dual boot and DOS 5.0), FAT file systems,
Windows 3.0, SIX months ago.  I have not booted DOS for 5.5 months.
OS/2 2.0 has not crashed once, has not done anything unexpected and
I have not installed any of the IBM 'bug fixes' yet.

I have successfully: edited a file, printed a document, xcopy'ed
from floppy to floppy and had a uupc session running at 38Kbaud,
ALL AT THE SAME TIME!

I must admit, I don't run any Windows programs every often, but
I have had no problems there either.

I know there are others out there with similar stories to tell --
I know some of them!

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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: pee9901@ultb.isc.rit.edu (P.E. Erkkila)
Subject: MMPM and SBPRO
Originator: pee9901@ultb
Organization: Rochester Institute of Technology
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 13:35:02 GMT




      Can anyone with experience tell me how to get MMPM to recognize my
SBPRO. I've tried everything (including the manuals (well sorta)) and It
still won't do it. Something about the device already being in use.


damage 
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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: byafuso@athena.qualcomm.com (Byron Yafuso)
Subject: OS/2 and Logitech MENU and CLICK programs
Organization: Qualcomm, Inc., San Diego, CA
Date: Mon, 2 Nov 1992 23:12:29 GMT

I'm a new OS/2 user, so I apologize if this question has been answered 
before.

I've been able to use my Logitech mouse with programs in VDM and OS/2 DOS
windows for DOS programs which have mouse support.  I've long been using
the MENU and CLICK commands which came with my Logitech mouse with DOS
programs that didn't have mouse support.  Is there any way to use MENU
and CLICK in an OS/2 DOS window using the mouse programs included with 
OS/2?


Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Byron
byafuso@athena.qualcomm.com
From: "richard wyble" <richard.wyble@channel1.com>
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: icon problem after in
Date: 11 Nov 92 21:42:12 EST
Reply-To: "richard wyble" <richard.wyble@channel1.com>
Distribution: comp
Organization: Channel 1 Communications

->I can create a new icon, store it somewhere on the drive and load it
->to the folder (using the settings/general menu), but The Icon Does
->Not Change. Any suggestions?

Yes, the icon editor is a complicated beast, at least for one such as I, who
seldom uses it. The *device* descriptions are critical: iconeditor will save
icons in many different formats. If you are not saving your icon in a format
appropriate for your present video mode, you will get black icons.

Who has a descripton of IconEditor device settings, a description which is a
model of clarity and conciseness?

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From: gt0297a@prism.gatech.EDU (DRURY,tim)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: 8514 dead?
Date: 5 Nov 92 14:15:49 GMT
Organization: Georgia Institute of Technology

In <1992Nov4.181352.6828@hemlock.cray.com> bgm@cray.com (Bert Moshier) writes:

>>8514 is in the serv pack.  it installs fine; no questions asked.
>>but still no seamless windows...
>>
>>-tim

>- As for the seamless window, you are correct and I don't expect the support
>  soon (if ever).  Why?  Seamless windows support must directly access the
>  onboard VGA adapter for each system.  The 8514/A also directly accesses the
>  onboard VGA adapter for each system.  The 8514/A has write only registers
>  that make "multitasking" between drivers which directly change the 8514/A
>  and VGA adapter very interesting.

>  IMHO (and as an 8514/A owner), I must agree with OS/2.  Putting resourcess
>  into getting more OS/2 sales is more important than 8514/A support.
>  Hopefully, the work will level off, the headcount will go up, etc., and
>  IBM will have the resources to do both items.

>Bert.


actually, i dont want 8514.  i bought an ati vantage board so that i could
support os/2 in 8514 until ati got of their butts and wrote 32-bit
drivers that support their board.  (hello - anybody out there???)

so 16-bit 8514 is ok for now, but i'm getting impatient.  if ati doesnt
respond soon, i will find another board to buy, and rid myself of the ati.

-tim
From: z_kupkams@ccsvax.sfasu.edu
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: Kurta (beta) tablet drivers nearly ready
Date: 12 Nov 92 06:33:44 GMT
Article-I.D.: ccsvax.1992Nov12.003344.1788
Organization: Stephen F. Austin State University

In article <1dmfq5INNimf@gap.caltech.edu>, hacker@cco.caltech.edu (Jonathan Bruce Hacker) writes:
> I received a FAX from Kurta that they expect the beta version of their
> tablet drivers for OS/2 2.0 to be ready in approximately 3-4 weeks.
> If anyone wants to be on Kurta's list to receive the beta driver, you
> can FAX Kurta at (602)276-7823.
> 
> PS They blame the delay on the lack of a Hardware developers kit from
>    IBM.
> 
  Sounds like an excuse, I wrote a QIC-40/80 Driver and I never had 
  a hardware ( Device Driver Dev Kit ), perhaps they were caught by 
  suprise! Everythin that you need is the the Phys Device Driver
  reference manual, Steve Mastriani's Book, and some old OS/2 1.x
  books. MASM 5.1 or 6.0 and Microsoft C 6.0 is all that you need!

> --                                                              


Michael S. Kupka
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: Alan_York@mindlink.bc.ca (Alan York)
Subject: Slug Mode Video after Service Pak
Organization: MIND LINK! - British Columbia, Canada
Date: Sun, 8 Nov 1992 16:32:54 GMT

After installing the Service Pack, I have experienced a noticable slowdown in
the rate of video display speed.  I think there has been about a 30% hit.
Has anyone else experienced this problem and managed to solve it?
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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: rvenkate@ux4.cso.uiuc.edu (Ravikuma Venkateswar)
Subject: Re: Replacement IBM1S506.ADD file?
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1992 12:36:57 GMT

lum@dds4.uucp (Michael Lum) writes:

>The new IBM1S506.ADD in the "Golden" Service Pack did not work
>for me.  I had to REM out the entry in the config.sys file of
>Disk 2.

>    2 65 MB Mitsubishi RLL drives
>    Western Digital RLL controller

Or for me.
     Compaq motherboard controller on a Deskpro 386/20e (I think IDE)
     1 40 MB Compaq drive
     1 120 MB Conner CP30104 drive
-- 
Ravikumar Venkateswar
rvenkate@uiuc.edu

A pun is a no' blessed form of whit.
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: pvonk@scott.skidmore.edu (Pierre VonKaenel)
Subject: Re: What goodies were in the SPP?
Organization: Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs NY, 12866
Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1992 22:01:48 GMT

In article <1992Nov9.175908.2552@bnr.ca> stephen.drye@synapse.isis.org writes:
> I was wondering what exactly came with the SPP? 

Apparently, many bugs.


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Math & CS Dept.		| Saratoga Springs, NY 12866 | (518)584-5000 Ext 2391

"Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes." Oscar Wilde
From: nap42487@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Nishith A. Patel)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: Does VESA Local Bus put a huge strain on a CPU?
Date: 7 Nov 92 04:04:56 GMT
Article-I.D.: news.BxBvCA.DHv
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana

insom@watnxt06.ucr.edu (Chris Ulrich) writes:


>  Local bus is useful for only dumb frame buffers.  Frame buffers
>such as SVGA cards require all the bandwidth they can get, and 
>also require the CPU to do anything.  I suppose this would also
>hold true for sound cards and digitized sound.

>not CPU cycles, because they would be conducting the transfer 
>themselves.  The CPU in EISA systems is still able to function 
>out of its cache or access non locked memory (memory not accessed
>by the busmaster).
>  Local Bus is not even a decent solution to video.  A real video
>standard would have the video memory located at the top of the
>memory map (all of it, not in 64k chunks), a smart coprocessor,
>and DMA.  

A Local Bus card can be coprocessed. Just do that.

>  Unless Local Bus standardizes interrupt sharing and multiple 
>busmasters, it is not an acceptable replacement for EISA.
>  Of course, that doesnt mean you shouldnt have both...

Well, all I care about is fast video. getting a ISA+Local Bus is good enough
fr video, because going to EISA+Local Bus won't help you any. So I am basically
just forgetting about EISA here, not worrying about whether it is a better
bus for all-around performance or something. What I am still trying to figure
out is whaT local bus implementations are the best, because all of them are
definitely not created equal. Some are implemented poorly. I am trying to
figure out which ones are implemented well, giving the best performance.
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: nordin@qucis.queensu.ca (Brent Nordin)
Subject: post-CSD disk performance
Keywords: DOS disk performance
Organization: Computing & Information Science, Queen's University
Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1992 16:56:42 GMT

I installed the CSD last week on a Dell 310 (386DX-20,8MB RAM),240MB spread over
2 ESDI drives, 2 FAT partitions and 1 HPFS partition.  I had occasion to
delete a subdirectory containing about 110 files, with an average size of
1k bytes.  The operation seemed very slow, so I did some further testing.
The files were all on one of the FAT partitions.

Native DOS, delete 110 files < 2 secs
OS2 window                     18 secs
DOS window under OS2           3 minutes, 10 seconds!!!

The windows under OS2 were not full-screen.  The timings are repeatable, even
after a reboot.  The deldir option in the OS2 config.sys file is commented
out, so the delete should only be deleting and not copying.  The OS2 figures,
especially the dos window ones are clearly not acceptable.  I also have the
impression that my system is swapping more than it was before I installed the
CSD, but that is a purely subjective data point.  I have no pre-CSD figures
for the delete operation, so OS2 may always have been a poor performer in that
area.

If anyone has any ideas about this, I'd sure appreciate some advice.  The only
time I have ever seen disk performance this poor was when I was tuning the
disk interleave on a real-time OS on the same hardware.  For different
interleaves, the system would get faster and faster, up until a certain point
and then it would slow to a crawl.

Brent Nordin
nordin@qucis.queensu.ca
From: sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu (Timothy F. Sipples)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: wing commander too fast!
Date: 9 Nov 92 17:20:57 GMT
Article-I.D.: midway.1992Nov9.172057.5933
Reply-To: sip1@midway.uchicago.edu
Followup-To: comp.os.os2.apps
Organization: Dept. of Econ., Univ. of Chicago

In article <1992Nov8.234711.215@u.washington.edu> rene@hardy.u.washington.edu (Rene Magritte) writes:
>	Wing Commander is way too fast.  Can I use OS/2 to slow it
>down somehow?

I assume you mean that Wing Commander runs too fast under OS/2.  Yes,
you may be able to.  One way is to try reducing IDLE_SENSITIVITY.
Another is to experiment by launching several background tasks to
steal CPU time away.  Another is to retrieve one of those utilities
which purports to slow down a machine -- run such a TSR before you
start Wing Commander.  (These TSRs are available from such DOS
archives as wsmr-simtel20.army.mil and wuarchive.wustl.edu.)  Another
is to hit the turbo switch on the front of your machine to slow it
down.  Another is to consult the games10a.txt file (in
/pub/os2/2.0/info on ftp-os2.nmsu.edu, via anonymous ftp) to see what
it suggests.

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From: dpoole@hydrogen.oscs.montana.edu (David Poole)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: DOS *VERY* unstable after CSD
Date: 6 Nov 92 15:51:02 GMT
Article-I.D.: coe.1992Nov6.155102.19944
Organization: Montana State University


  I've run into a another problem with the DOS windows.  I can crash OS/2 at
will now by rapidly flipping back and forth between full screen and windowed
mode.  OS/2 simply dies (no message) and I have to do a hard reboot.  Other
times, I'll flip to a full screen, do some work, and won't be able to flip
back to windowed mode.  

  Has anyone else encountered this problem?  If it keeps up, I'm going to
junk the CSD and reinstall the original.  I haven't noticed any system
improvements since installing it.

Dav[e|id]
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: mlevis@ringer.cs.utsa.edu (Mike Levis) (OS/2)
Subject: Re: OS/2 Newbie Questions (longish)
Organization: University of Texas at San Antonio
Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1992 21:32:22 GMT

In article <1992Nov13.161937.16413@sura.net> vargish@sura.net (Nick Vargish) writes:
>
>3. Someone mentioned an "rm" written for OS/2... I couldn't find it on
>   hobbes. Could someone point me in the right direction? And, while
>   we're at it, how about an "mv" that runs under OS/2? (Best of all
>   would be a zsh for OS/2 complete with all the file utils, but I
>   won't hold my breath. :^)

Get the file gnufuexe.zip from directory /pub/os2/2.0/gnu at
ftp-os2.nmsu.edu .  This file contains rm, mv, du, chmod, ls, and
some other UNIX stuff.  (I just got it a few days ago -- I love
ls and chmod!)

There is a "ksh" alpha for OS/2 (I downloaded it a few days ago but I
have not had time to install it yet).  I'm not an expert on UNIX so
I don't know how close "ksh" is to "zsh" (I've only used "csh").
If you think "ksh" is close enough for your needs, then you can try
ksh47alp.zip in the /pub/os2/2.0/shells directory.  Again, this is an
alpha version.  (to avoid public embarrasment, I hope "zsh" is a
UNIX shell! :)

>4. While I'm on the subject of UN*X utils, how do I change the display
>   colors for less? Without re-compiling, that is. The current black-
>   on-orange is downright painful.

Me, too!  This is probably not an elegant solution, but this is
what I did to change the colors.  Just edit the ansi-color-2 section
in the file TERMCAP.DAT .  I used OS/2's copy-and-paste to copy
this excerpt from my TERMCAP.DAT .

ansi-color-2|ANSI.SYS color 2:\
        :ti=\E[0;37;44m\E[=7l:te=\E[0m\E[=7h:\
        :so=\E[1;37;46m:se=\E[0;37;44m:\
        :ue=\E[0;37;44m::me=\E[0;37;44m:tc=ansi:\
        :us=\E[0;30;47m:mr=\E[1;37;44m:so=\E[1;37;44m:md=\E[1;31;44m:

This will use red-on-blue, and black-on-lt_gray for the highlight.
BTW, it was just a quick hack I did when I got "less" a few weeks
ago, so this may not be the "best" way to do it.

>|  Nick Vargish       |                N O N   S E R V I A M                  |

P.S.	Sorry if this gets posted twice.  I dialed-in to a workstation
	but they all crashed when I was typing the post.  Thanks to
	MS-Kermit's page-up feature, and OS/2's copy-and-paste feature
	(even with DOS apps!!!), I did not have to retype my post;
	just page-up, copy, page-down, paste, then post!!! Heh, heh...


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"I believed what I was told, I thought it was a good   .--.
life, I thought I was happy.  Then I found something  (OS/2)
that changed it all..."  --  Anonymous, 2112  [Rush]   ~--~
Date: Friday, 6 Nov 1992 13:47:53 EST
From: Jerry Bryan <BRYAN@wvnvm.wvnet.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject:    Reallocate SWAPPER.DAT

This has been mentioned before, but shortly after installing the
Service Pack I started getting dire warnings from OS/2 about running
out of disk space.  I checked, and I was under 3 meg, maybe close
to 2.  Therefore, based on some warnings from the net, I shutdown,
booted from diskette, deleted SWAPPER.DAT, and ran CHKDSK C: /F:3.
Since then, I have had about 15 meg free, without changing anything else.
I could kick myself that I did not check the size of SWAPPER.DAT
before I deleted it.  I do not know how much of the space gain was
from deleting SWAPPER.DAT and how much was from CHKDSK.

In case it matters, I did have the fix on for SWAPPER.DAT growing
long before I installed the service pack.  Also, I am not aware of
any hard crashes I have had where I should have run CHKDSK and didn't.
Besides which, I am set up to run CHKDSK automatically out of CONFIG.SYS
as described in the FAQ.

It therefore seems to me to be a good idea that anybody who installs
the service pack should look at SWAPPER.DAT and their free
disk space very carefully.  It couldn't hurt just to close your eyes,
delete SWAPPER.DAT, and run CHKDSK, whether you need to or not.
From: sal8@po.cwru.edu (Steve Luzynski)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: TSENG Drivers without SP..
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 20:58:15 GMT
Organization: Case Western Reserve University
NNTP-Posting-Host: b61442.student.cwru.edu

In article <BxKFx9.J6q@mach1.wlu.ca> dube8367@mach1.wlu.ca (Mark Dubeau u) writes:
>From: dube8367@mach1.wlu.ca (Mark Dubeau u)
>Subject: TSENG Drivers without SP..
>Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 19:10:19 GMT
>
>  I really don't want to have to go through the hassle of installing the 
>whole SP for two reasons.  One, all I really want is high res. for my 
>TSENG based video card, and two, I'm happy with Os/2 2.0 the way it is.
>I've got all the important fixes, and I can bear with the 16-bit video
>until OS/2 2.1 ( or whatever ) is released.

Well, it wasn't really that much of a hassle (especially since you have a 
supported video card) but anyway...

>  My problem is that I want to have WINOS2 and OS/2 both in a high res.
>mode.  For OS/2, I just replaced DISPLAY.DLL with a driver from hobbes.
>No problem.  But , how can I get the same reolution in WINOS2?
>
>  I've grabbed some Windows drivers from a Windows FTP site, but the 
>instructions all assume I have Windows, and not WINOS2.  Does anyone
>have a WINOS2 TSENG based driver. (preferrably 800x600 @16or256 ).
>Or where can I get the correct information on how to do this?

As long as you're not thinking you'll get seamless windoze from this (cause 
you won't without the service pack), just copy the driver for the res. you 
want over VGA.DRV and SWINVGA.DRV (backup the old ones first of course.) 
For example, the driver that came with my ET4000 for 800X600X256 was called 
something like wn468.drv or something cryptic like that. I just typed 
'copy wn468.drv vga.drv'
'copy wn468.drv swinvga.drv'
and it worked just fine.

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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu (Timothy F. Sipples)
Subject: Re: OS/2 Trascan Imitation
Reply-To: sip1@midway.uchicago.edu
Organization: Dept. of Econ., Univ. of Chicago
Date: Sat, 7 Nov 1992 19:00:31 GMT

In article <NMOUAWAD.92Nov7132511@math.waterloo.edu> nmouawad@waterloo.edu (Naji Mouawad) writes:
>I am sorry to barge in this thread like so ... it is only recently
>that I started working seriously in and around WP to customize it to
>my liking.
>My system being used by a second person who studies psychology. She
>uses the computer to do her reports and now that she had become
>uccostemed to the object-oriented approach, she is starting to enjoy
>using a computer which is big plus to the WorkPlace Shell, given that
>she has bad memories of the c: prompt
>One of the few soar points is the recovery of deleted files. She still
>has to:
>1. open a Os/2 window
>2. cd to the directory corresponding to here folder
>3. issue the command "undelete file name"
>4. close back the window
>5. Apply a "refresh command" to the folder"
>This is unduelly complicated. 

Agreed.

Have you tried the TrashCan utility, available via anonymous ftp from
ftp-os2.nmsu.edu?  Check /pub/os2/00Index for location.

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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: mikel@networx.com (Mike Lempriere)
Subject: Re: RAM speed
Organization: NetWorx
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 01:58:43 GMT

Bob Becker (bob@netcom.com) wrote:
: Is anybody running OS/2 with or without the service pack with
: 80ns RAM installed?
: I can find nowhere in the docs that OS/2 requires anything faster
: than 80ns, but the tech. rep. I talked to seemed to think that
: the source of all my problems was my 80ns RAM.
: 
: Any thoughts out there?

The only consideration should be that you have the 486 wait states set
sufficiently high to cover your slowest RAM chips.  This is done in the
BIOS, the OS should not know or care.
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