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From: rommel@Informatik.TU-Muenchen.DE (Kai-Uwe Rommel)
Subject: Re: German Service Pack !?!?
Organization: Technische Universitaet Muenchen, Germany
Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 13:49:03 GMT

In article <OLAVT.93Jan8134010@ulrik.uio.no> olavt@ulrik.uio.no (Olav Torvund) writes:
>In article <23678@sbsvax.cs.uni-sb.de> lauer@mpi-sb.mpg.de (Thomas Lauer) writes:
>
>
>    It semm's to me that there isn't any German service pack.
>
>    Who knows wheter IBM released a German service pack or not ?
>
>   -thomas
>
>If there is no German service pack, someone has to shake up IBM
>Germany. The Norwegian service pack has been available for about a
>month, and it can be downloaded from IBM Norway's OS/2 BBS. From a
>global commercial point of view, the German-speaking market (Germany,
>Austria and partly Switzerland) should be more interesting than the
>Norwegian speaking market.

The german service pack is available, but not on an FTP server to my
knowledge (please correct me if I'm wrong). I know a BBS where it is on
but it's in Frankfurt, so it's a long distance call for me (and I
almost exclusively use US versions of software if possible).

Kai Uwe Rommel

/* Kai Uwe Rommel --- rommel@informatik.tu-muenchen.de */

DOS ... is still a real mode only non-reentrant interrupt
handler, and always will be.                -Russell Williams
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Can a DOS TSR com. run above 9600bd ?
From: cohen@cmu.unige.ch
Date: 11 Jan 93 17:16:44 +0200
Organization: University of Geneva, Switzerland

How can I set a TSR communication DOS program to achieve a baud rate
above 9600 when running in a virtual dos machine (DOS 5.0) ? Indeed,
I am having troubles going above this speed, while I can achieve
115200 bd on a PC running under DOS.

Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: jsanchez@halcyon.com (Jim Sanchez)
Subject: Re: OS/2 2.1 Beta's WinOs2 will not print?
Organization: The 23:00 News and Mail Service +1 206 382 MAIL (382-6245)
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL8]
Date: Sat, 9 Jan 1993 15:00:56 GMT

kbwilson@miavx1.acs.muohio.edu wrote:
: Help
: 	I installed the Beta 2.1 and my win-os2 will not print in any app
: It seems to be some problem with paper orientation....but not that simple.
: 	I did a selective install of win-os2 and laser jet III drivers and
: still I can't print.  
: 	I installed the laserjet III driver in win-os2 control panel and still
: no printing.  If any one can help I really do not want to go back to GA=SP
: 				Thanks in advance
: 					Boyd Wilson
: 						kbwilson@134.53.2.10
I am unable to print with the beta 2.1 in win-os2 with my NEC P6
printer.  The system hangs completely and I get a GPF in os2user.  I can
eventually get the wps back by alt-esc by it is not easy.  I think there
is a serious fault here.  The printer works just fine in os2 sessions.

-- 
Jim Sanchez
Hughes LAN Systems jsanchez@halcyon.com
Kirkland, WA 98033 (206)828-7417 (voice) (206)828-2454 (FAX)
From: mike.dickson@almac.co.uk (Mike Dickson)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: OS/2 Error Code List
Date: 5 Jan 93 12:41:00 GMT
Reply-To: mike.dickson@almac.co.uk (Mike Dickson)
Organization: Almac BBS Ltd. +44 (0)324 665371

WH..I still think it is *really* important to at least publish a list of all
WH..SYSnnnn messages if there will be no text accompanying them.  While your
WH..suggestion of using "help ####" while online is acceptable, it doesn't
WH..help in cases such as the one I encountered :-)

I couldn't agree any more. Releasing an operating system without any real
paper documentation is absolutely crazy. If you have a problem like the
one you describe then you are stuck. Having the required information on
INF files isn't going to be much use.

/\/\ | |< |.                                     mike.dickson@almac.co.uk
---
 . SLMR 2.1a . Was That Your Wife I Saw In That GIF?
                                                                                                  
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: sagan@netcom.com (Mike May)
Subject: Need help w/Dos Window
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  (408 241-9760 guest) 
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL5
Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1993 08:06:42 GMT

I have a strange problem that I can't
seem to fix....  When I open a dos window
in PM, the text isn't displayed correctly.
It doesn't seem to get the line feeds correctly...
The text is displayed like this:

WINA20   386      9349   4-09-91  5:00a                                      U
TILITY  ZIP    955033   1-03-93  5:14p                                       IM
AGE    DAT     81920   1-03-93 12:17a                                        TRE
EINFO NCD       443   6-19-92  9:03p                                  CHEC
KIT      <DIR>       1-04-93  1:52p                                       QMODE
M       <DIR>       1-04-93  1:53p                                         UNIX
       <DIR>       1-04-93  1:55p                                        PKUNZIP
  EXE     23528   3-15-90  1:10a                                         PJ04045
 FIX      2801   6-13-92  2:01a                                         OS2
    <DIR>       1-04-93  2:52p                                         UTILITY


I tried changing all the VIDEO_* DOS settings 
with out any sucsess.  Full screen DOS sessions
work fine, as do OS/2 Windows and full screen
sessions.  I haven't seen this prob in the FAQ
(unless i missed it???) or posted here, So it may
be a prob with my hardware..  I use a standard VGA
card with a Cirrus chip set, on a 386 w/4M...
If anyone has any clues, I'd realy appreciate it!
TIA...

-- 
_-_-   Mike May             |  "Now, it's either I'm dead and I haven't -_-_
                            |   done anything that I want, or I'm still
-_-_   sagan@netcom.com     |   alive and there's nothin I want to do." _-_-
From: bert.tyler@satalink.com (Bert Tyler)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: XGA-2 cards
Date: 4 Jan 93 09:36:00 GMT
Reply-To: bert.tyler@satalink.com (Bert Tyler)
Organization: Datamax/Satalink Connection * Ivyland, PA (215) 443-9434

MD>(For the programmers out there.  Some of the places where an MCA card differs
MD>from an ISA card from the software standpoint is that all information about the
MD>card is stored in POS registers, so these would be read rather than a
MD>port address or something to determine interrupt/address/other information
MD>about a card.  Also, MCA cards are addressed by slot number, unlike ISA
MD>cards, where it doesn't matter which slot the card is placed in.  And other
MD>things like that....)

Part of the XGA-2 spec is a new INT 10H BIOS call that returns with
all of the information that used to require wandering through MCA
POS-IDs to collect.  A *much* better approach, IMHO, and easily 
pre-pended to the MCA-based POS-ID search found in all current
XGA-aware programs and drivers.  Make the INT 10H call, and only use
the MCA search if the INT 10H call fails. You've made an excellent
point in another section of your message, though, that it will take
some time before all of those XGA-aware programs are so modified.

Once the XGA or XGA-2 card has been detected (and that's a one-time
shot), there isn't any more bus-specific code involved.

(Side note: I added that code to one of my (DOS-based) XGA programs,
but to date haven't found anyone with an XGA-2 card willing to test
it.  Any volunteers should send me private email.  It's a 20K ZIP of
a little test program that has the MCA-based detection logic disabled.
Either the INT 10H logic will work, or it will claim that you don't have
an XGA adapter.)

                   Bert Tyler   (bert.tyler@satalink.com)
---
 . DeLuxe./386 1.25 #343sa . Did you expect mere proof to sway my opinion?
From: kitchin@lf.hp.com (Bruce Kitchin)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: 2.1 CDROM install problem
Date: 4 Jan 1993 20:07:20 GMT
Organization: Hewlett Packard Santa Clara Site
NNTP-Posting-Host: eden.avo.hp.com
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1.2 PL7]

Randy Suess (randy@chinet.chi.il.us) wrote:
: 
: 	I received the Beta 2.1 cdrom a few days ago, and am having
: 	a problem with one part of the install.  I am installing
: 	from the cdrom over an existing 2.0 system.  The install
: 	goes along fine for the 19 virtual disks, but then wants
: 	me to insert the first "drivers" disk in f: (my cdrom drive)
: 	It seems to expect f: to be a floppy, and won't find the
: 	driver in the cdrom hierarchy.  Also, it is a not very nice
: 	request as there is no escape from it.  You can't tell it
: 	to change drives or directories.  You need to reboot.
: 	I am now in the process of creating 26 some floppies and
: 	will try the installation from there.
: 	Anybody have this kind of problem?
: -- 

I had this problem also.  I asked on Compuserve and was given the bad news
that I had to install on a 'clean' system (i.e., format my hard drive - 
system partition only).  Being stubborn, I had tried removing all the
OS/2 stuff from the system.  I even used DOS to delete everything including
the EA files.  I then did a chkdsk from OS/2 to clean it up (using the
install disks to run OS/2).  In ALL cases the install failed.

I then did a backup (again using the install disks) of the stuff that
I cared about.  I had done a backup of my Desktop using the wpsbck7.zip
from ftp-os2.nmsu.edu.  I then installed and it worked fine.  I restored
my backups with no problem.  I then restored my Desktop, problems.
The printer just wouldn't work properly.  I tried reinstalling the
printer is various ways, deleting it and recreating, anything I could
think of.  Finally, I reinstalled over my new installation (with the
restored desktop and restored directories, no reformat) and now it works
fine.  My Desktop is what I had before and everything works so far.

Since Beta code apparently requires reformatting, it would be real nice
if IBM provided a way during beta of saving and restoring the desktop.
The problem with wpsbck is that it restores the system parts of the desktop:
template folder, printer objects, etc and some of this is incompatible.
But it is also something I'd rather have the new version anyway.

Good luck.

BTW, on one of my systems, it required 30 1.44 disks to do the backup!
I hope yours is simpler (on another system it only required about 5
disks since I had a larger disk and most things were on another drive 
except for a collection of utilities I've collected and I wanted them
close to the standard path directories).  The system requiring 30 disks
has a small disk and I don't believe I can afford the waste of partitioning
since it fragments my unused space between drives and means if the operating
system grows very much I'll have to repartition.
From: 5692330@mcimail.com (Robert Gammon)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: Help with ansi.sys in dos mode
Date: 5 Jan 93 23:00:31 GMT
Organization: Texas Instruments Materials and Controls Group
Nntp-Software: PC/TCP NNTP

In article <1992Dec30.000205.26964@midway.uchicago.edu> pynq@quads.uchicago.edu (Jeremy Mathers) writes:

 >> In article <baloo.725667761@mik.uky.edu> baloo@nx01.mik.uky.edu (kevin s coupal) writes:
 >> >I added a device line to my config.sys for ansi.sys and i rebooted my machine
 >> >but i still didn't get any ansi.sys in memory.  Maybe i put the command in the wrong
 >> >config.sys?  I'm lost.  Anyone know?  Or perhaps there is an ansi.exe that
 >> >i could use instead of the dos one?
 >> 
 >> I noticed this also.  I have had good luck with ANSI137.COM (available
 >> from your finer archive sites).

Well, I have ansi.sys in in config.sys, and I have DOS window support for ANSI
cursor control (colors, position, etc.).  ANSI.EXE does the same thing for OS/2
windows.  BOTH of them work fine (device=c:\os2\mdos\ansi.sys followed by
run=c:\os2\ansi.exe on).
---
Regards,
Robert Gammon
(713)-274-3299       (voice)
(713)-274-2324       (fax)
From: h198@hosp.med.umich.edu  (Gene Mangum)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: YES! VIO/MOU/KBD documentation is here??
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993  09:49 EDT
Organization: Univ of Michigan Hospitals
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: condor.hosp.med.umich.edu
X-Newsreader: FTPNuz (DOS) v1.0

In Article <1993Jan9.010437.11671@midway.uchicago.edu> "sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu (Timothy F. Sipples)" says:
> In article <1993Jan07.192226.20809@kvamdata.no> ekl@kvamdata.no (Eirik Lygre) writes:
> >The below quote is from an IBM CFORUM called os2tlkit, which is all
> >about the os/2 2.0 programming toolkit. It suggests to me that there
> >is now documentation for the VIO, KBD and MOU subsystems. Where?
> >Have a look at the OS/2 bbs, which is probably somewhere in the US.
> >Sorry -- cannot help you with a number. I'm sure someone will jump
> >in with this one, though.
> 
> This documentation has been available for several days now from
> ftp-os2.nmsu.edu via anonymous ftp, I believe.  
 
  [Stuff Deleted]
 
  Does this mean that any doc/programs on OS2BBS may be downloaded and
  put on an ftp site?   I wanted to post this as well as other things
  (recent sample C code for threads, ACDI, named pipes), but was 
  concerning about the legality of making this stuff available.   I 
  called OS2BBS (the help desk), and am waiting for a call back.

  Gene Mangum
  Univ of Michigan Hospitals
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: samiam@netcom.com (Scott Moore)
Subject: Re: Radius XGA-2 board
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  (408 241-9760 guest) 
Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 06:28:22 GMT

dic5340@hertz.njit.edu (David Charlap) writes:

>In article <726362760.0@iphase.infoserv.com> Ed.June@iphase.infoserv.com (Ed June) writes:
>>
>>That, and an EISA version or VESA version would be nice too...

>A VESA-compliant version of the XGA board is impossible.  VESA specs
>only apply to frame-buffer based boards, not to coprocessor-based
>ones.  The VESA specs would sap the XGA of all it's performance.

I beleive he was referring to the VESA local bus standard, which is certainly
possible and would be quite fast.

                                         [sam]
-- 
Scott A. Moore [SAM]  | "Cash is more 
samiam@netcom.com     | important than your 
Santa Cruz, CA USA    | mother"
408-423-1624          | Allan Shugart - CEO Segate Corp.
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From: ez003045@hamlet.ucdavis.edu (James E. Lee)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: Detach command.
Date: 7 Jan 93 19:20:20 GMT
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL3

Also, does anyone know of a way to put something in the background
and foreground on the fly without using PM windows (like fg & bg in 
UNIX)?

jel
From: 5692330@mcimail.com (Robert Gammon)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: OS2 CHKDSK question
Date: 7 Jan 93 16:41:02 GMT
Organization: Texas Instruments Materials and Controls Group
Nntp-Software: PC/TCP NNTP

In article <1993Jan5.142413.3926@alw.nih.gov> olds@helix.nih.gov (James Olds) writes:

 >> Hello OS2 Collective Wisdom. I have a question regarding OS2 2.0
 >> GA. I have it installed under the following configuration.
 >> Hardware:
 >> Compaq 386/25 with 9 MB RAM
 >> VGA Monitor
 >> 110 MB Hard drive Partitioned as follows:
 >> Primary Parition C: HPFS 30 MB
 >> Secondary Partition D: FAT 80 MB
 >> 
 >> While things are running quite swimmingly I am worried because
 >> the C: partition gives me CHKDSK errors which it does not allow
 >> me to correct (because it says the disk is in use or locked).
 >> Everything that I use regularly is on D. Only system files are
 >> on C. The swapper.dat file is on D. I set it up this way so that
 >> I would have basically no reason to touch the C: drive.
 >> 
 >> Now, there is no problem at the moment, because the machine has
 >> not crashed in any way. I am aware of DOS/OS2 2.0 file attribute
 >> considerations and do not use DOS utilites to copy files created
 >> by OS2 and I have not attempted to back up or compress the hard
 >> drive at all with any attribute-stupid utility.
 >> 
 >> My questions:
 >> 1) Is the problem serious or can I just blow it off and merrily
 >> compute away?
 >> 
 >> 2) How would I go about fixing this problem if I wanted to.
 >> 
 >> Please e-mail me directly and thank you in advance for your
 >> help.
 >> Cheers,
 >> 

Due to our very security minded corporation, email to outsiders is somewhat
painful compared to usenet postings, so my 0.02 goes here.  Since OS/2 is
booting from drive C: and SWAPPER.DAT is on drive D:, you will find it
virtually impossible to run chkdsk on either drive.  chkdsk refuses to run if
files are open on the disk (with good reason - corrupt the disk, corrupt the
open files, crash the system, etc).  In addition to SWAPPER.DAT, many .DLLs
are open on C: along with OS2.INI, and OS2SYS.INI.  To run chkdsk, boot from
the installation floppy, insert disk one when prompted, and at the first white
with blue letters screen, press escape.  Insert disk 2, and type 
"chkdsk c: /f", then "chkdsk d: /f:3".  Alternatively, if you don't have the
service pack installed yet, get seboot20.zip from ftp-os2.nmsu.edu.  seboot20
allows you to create a single floppy disk to boot from, much handier than the
installation disks, but it only works if the boot floppy drive is a 1.44MB or
greater.
--
Regards,
Robert Gammon
(713)-274-3299       (voice)
(713)-274-2324       (fax)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: etorrem@cbnewsj.cb.att.com (engelbert.jgm.torremans)
Subject: Bug report for IBM1S506.ADD from SPB506.ZIP
Organization: AT&T
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 12:25:57 GMT

Hello All, (and especially IBM developers for IBM1S506.ADD)

I am a very happy user of the first beta release of the IBM1S506.ADD driver.

Full name: ibm1s506.add    22583  11-18-92  21:25

This driver gave me the support for my 3rd harddisk connected to a
secondary harddisk controller. And it was also the first IBM1S506.ADD driver
that gave access to the second harddisk connected to my primary controller.
Everything is working perfectly when I use this release of the driver.

In config.sys I use:
BASEDEV=IBM1S506.ADD /V /A:1 /U:0 /GEO:(820,6,16)

My configuration:      -386/33 9Mb RAM, ISA bus, Cyrix 387
                       -3 Harddisks
                          Controller 1 (Base Address 1F0) WD1003 RLL (ST506)
                                with 2 disks attached (Seagate & MiniScribe)
                          Controller 2 (Base Address 170) MFM (ST506)
                                1 disk attached (Seagate)

A few days ago I found a more recent release of this driver on Hobbes and
I downloaded it to see if there were any improvements in it. The accompanying
doc file told me that a number of problems were resolved. So I installed
the new driver, altough none of the resolved problems where applicable to
my situation.

Full name: ibm1s506.add    22893  12-19-92   2:00

As a result of this OS2 no longer recognizes the second harddisk connected
to my primary controller. The disk connected to the secondary controller
was installed as before and could be accessed without problems.
This is the same problem that existed with with all pre-beta releases of
this driver and I needed to use the generic INT13 driver until the 
November SPB506.ZIP file came along.

Needless to say that, after I went back to the first driver, everything is
working alright again.

So the changes that IBM made to the driver might be an improvement for 
some people and configurations but they are a not for me. I would like to
ask IBM to change at least some part of the code (related to accessing 
the 2nd disk on a controller) back to the older version because that 
seemed to work and the newer version doesn't.

Maybe this problem with the second drive connected to a controller is also
related to the problems some people are having using a second IDE drive?

I think or hope that developers from IBM are reading the messages on the 
net, but I would also like to send this message directly to IBM, if I new 
where and to whome.

Engelbert Torremans


AT&T-NS-NL
Huizen
The Netherlands
Email: etorrem@cbnewsj.att.com or etorrem@hvlpa.att.com
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: teague@a.cs.okstate.edu (Keith Teague)
Subject: Windows Enhanced Mode Support in Beta 2.1 
Organization: Oklahoma State University
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 93 14:59:00 GMT

I would like to run a program under WIN-OS/2 3.1 which requires enhanced
mode support. I understand that this feature is provided by the beta. Can
anyone tell me how to enable enhanced mode support - or is is provided
automatically? My application will not install as it cannot sense that
enhanced mode support is available.

Keith Teague
From: joker@diku.dk (Morten Christian Holmgreen)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: XGA & IBM 8518 Combo
Date: 11 Jan 93 11:39:54 GMT
Organization: Department of Computer Science, U of Copenhagen

shabby@Athena.MIT.EDU (Chris Shabsin) writes:

>In article <1993Jan10.040350.18429@rose.com> robert.heuman@rose.com (robert heuman) writes:

>   Date Entered: 01-09-93 22:56
>   I have just OS/2 Version 2.0 and OS/2 Advanced LAN 3.0 on an IBM model 
>   95.  The install sets up for an XGA display, which looks like it can 
>   handle 1024*768.  The monitor is an IBM 8518, altho I have a NEC 4FG 
>   available I can switch from another computer, if need be. The IBM docs 
>   I have do not tell me the max. resolution of the 8518 (they refer to 
>   a tech ref doc not supplied), nor how to switch the XGA to a higher 
>   res. from the 640*480 that seems to have been set up.  Any info on 
>   either? The last may be a FAQ, in which case simply point me to where 
>   I should look.

>   Thanks in advance.... :->

>   Robert (Bob) Heuman


>I believe that an 8518 is not capable of anything greater than
>640x480.  I remember it being described as being an 8515 without the
>capability of doing 8514/a or XGA...  I don't remember where, but
>since I worked at IBM last summer when it was introduced, I suspect it
>was then...  

According to the XGA-2 Installation docs, the 8518 is capable of
640x480 at 60 Hz noninterlaced. (The 8515 can do 1024x768 at 43.5 Hz
Interlaced).

Christian
-- 
M. Christian Holmgreen / joker@diku.dk / mochmch@uts.uni-c.dk
M.Sc. student, University of Copenhagen, Dept. of Computer Science
"Human errors can only be avoided if one can avoid the use of humans"
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: cnadler@vnet.ibm.com (Cliff Nadler)
Subject: Re: OS/2 and what version of DOS
Date: Tue, 05 Jan 93 18:14:55 GMT
News-Software: IBM OS/2 PM RN (NR/2) v0.15 by O. Vishnepolsky and R. Rogers
Reply-To: cnadler@vnet.ibm.com (Cliff Nadler)
Organization: IBM T. J. Watson Research

In <1993Jan5.145242.9092@piston.detroit.ingr.com> goeckefw@piston.detroit.ingr.com (Fred Goeckel) writes:
>What version of DOS dos OS/2 2.0 come with.  I though I read that it was
>DOS 5.0 - is this true.  Also, If you have a machine setup for dual boot
>with DOS and OS/2 - does OS/2 use the DOS on the machine or the DOS that
>comes with OS/2.  Thanks - this info is very important to find out - I 
>have a lunch riding on this.  Thanks again !!!!!

OS/2 does not come with DOS. It includes an emulation of DOS at approximately
the DOS 5.0 level (some things are missing, I forget what) for OS/2 2.0.

Since the DOS is an emulation, only runnable under OS/2 2.0, it will only dual-
boot to the DOS originally on your drive.

Cliff Nadler
IBM Federal Systems Company

Note: This post represents the views of the poster, not those of IBM or the
      IBM Federal Systems Company
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc