HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: schroedter.pad@sni.de (Eric Schroedter)
Subject: how use >1024 Zyl. HD
Organization: Siemens Nixdorf Info.Sys. AG, Paderborn, Germany
Date: Fri, 28 Aug 1992 10:01:40 GMT

how can I use more than 1024 Zylinder.        
My Harddisk: Microsience HH1060 1314 Zyl .
For Dos use is Ontrack Diskmanager available.
But on a Ontrack READ/WRITE partion 0-1314 Zyl. (80MB)
OS2 2.0 installation stopped with Fdisk-Error

Thanks
Eric
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From: fly@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Neil)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc,comp.os.os2.apps
Subject: Drives object
Date: 23 Aug 92 17:31:55 GMT
Reply-To: fly@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Neil)
Followup-To: comp.os.os2.misc
Organization: The University of Texas at Austin, Austin TX
Originator: fly@thumper.cc.utexas.edu

Is there a way to force the windows from the drives object to show in
details view instead of icon view?
  I can set the windows to details view for about 2 levels deep but then 
the listings are iconic.

  I cannot figure out how to set the default.
From: dic5340@hertz.njit.edu (David Charlap)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: New Epson Drivers on comp.binaries.os2
Date: 1 Sep 92 13:16:25 GMT
Organization: New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, N.J.

New Epson printer drivers were posted to comp.binaries.os2.  They
should also be at ftp-os2.nmsu.edu.

I installed them, and the "extra-formfeed" problem when printing from
Windows is no more.  It also doesn't go in to LQ text mode when I dump
a text file from a command prompt (although it does if I drag a file
to the printer icon, so I can't delete my IBMNULL driver just yet).

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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: sam@ms.uky.edu (Mike Mills)
Subject: Exabyte and OS/2?
Date: Sun, 23 Aug 1992 19:32:30 GMT
Organization: University Of Kentucky, Dept. of Math Sciences

Does anyone have any experience using an Exabyte 8200 (8mm) tape drive under
OS/2?

What kind of software?

Thanks,


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From: sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu (Timothy F. Sipples)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: NEC-84 CD-ROM with OS/2 2.0
Date: 31 Aug 92 15:57:47 GMT
Reply-To: sip1@midway.uchicago.edu
Organization: Dept. of Econ., Univ. of Chicago

In article <1992Aug30.180818.23019@discus.technion.ac.il> deg@techunix.technion.ac.il (David Goldfarb) writes:
>I recently installed a NEC-84 CD-ROM drive on my machine, along with
>the NEC SCSI controller that comes with it by default.  For what it's
>worth, I think that the controller is a repackaged Trantor T128.
>OS/2 does not seem to recongnize the existence of this controller.  I
>tried the hack, mentioned in this newsgroup, of editing "TOSHIBA" to
>read "NEC " in CDROM.SYS, but to no avail.
>So, my question is: has anyone managed to make this controller work
>with OS/2 2.0.  Failing that, what is the cheapest SCSI controller I
>can buy that does work with OS/2 2.0 and the NEC-84.  (I'm hesitant
>about spending too much money on a SCSI controller before the market
>sorts itself out).

Start by running your CD-ROM software in a specific DOS session -- see
Appendix E of your Installation Guide and/or the online Command
Reference (under VMDISK) for details.

If that approach is not satisfactory, please post a follow up.

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From: hamish@waikato.ac.nz
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: WD7000. Will it be supported?
Date: 2 Sep 92 20:22:59 +1200
Organization: University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand


Can somebody tell me if Columbia Data Products are intending on supporting OS/2
2.0 with the WD-7000 FAAST SCSI controller? I have a driver from the 3.35v of
their software, but it says OS/2 1.x, and I don't know whether this will work
with 2.0 (And no time to mess about trying it at the moment either).

Can somebody tell me if this will work (Or if there is a later revision of the
driver software that will?) I know that OS/2 will use the controller via INT13,
but have heard that this is slow and clunky on disk accesses, so I'd rather use
a native controller.

Either that or the specs so that all isn't completely lost would be nice?

TIA.


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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: tanith@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (Mike Kretzer)
Subject: Does Windows 3.1 break executables?
Originator: tanith@csd4.csd.uwm.edu
Organization: Computing Services Division, University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1992 14:45:11 GMT


Does Windows 3.1 somehow modify Windows 3.0 executables so they won't
run under OS/2?  I've been using several Windows programs in OS/2
for quite some time with no problems whatsoever until I mistakenly
installed Windows 3.1 on a FAT partition.  When I booted DOS
and ran Windows 3.1, everything ran perfectly, but then when I went
back to OS/2 2.0, I couldn't run any of the Windows programs that
I had tried under Windows 3.1.  Does Windows 3.1 modify executables
so they won't run under OS/2?!?!  My only 'solution' to this problem
was to reinstall all my Windows programs again under OS/2.  Is there
anything else I could possibly do?

Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc,comp.os.os2.apps
From: Bill.Hirt@mtask.omahug.org (Bill Hirt)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: WINOS2 resoloution
Date: 03 Sep 92 22:32:42 CST
Reply-To: bill.hirt@mtask.omahug.org
Organization: Multitasking Systems, Kansas City
Followup-To: comp.os.os2.misc

 DKM> I have installed the 800x600x256 drivers for Tseng 4000 in PM , but how
 DKM> can you change the resoloution of winos2?  

You'll need the Trident Windows video drivers. I have an Orchid Prodesigner II
and all I did was have the Orchid DOS video install program copy the
Orchid-supplied Windows drivers to the OS2\MDOS\WINOS2\SYSTEM directory. I then
renamed the orginal VGA.DRV file to VGA.ORG and then renamed the approrpriate
Orchid Windows driver to VGA.DRV. I am sure this is not the best way to do
this, but it works. I am running my OS/2 Desktop at 800x600x16 and have a
similar Windows desktop using the Orchid Windows 3.0 800x600x16 driver.

Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu (Timothy F. Sipples)
Subject: Re: Some OS/2 questions
Reply-To: sip1@midway.uchicago.edu
Organization: Dept. of Econ., Univ. of Chicago
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1992 00:41:36 GMT

In article <HT91PB4w165w@infopls.chi.il.us> andyross@infopls.chi.il.us (Andrew Rossmann) writes:
>  Now that I've finally gotten OS/2 up on a semi-decent system (I'd rather
>be using my Gateway, but I have up trying to get the memory board so I
>could go to 8M. I'm using a Compudyne, instead.) I have a few questions:
>1) I'm running a FAT system for now, but OS/2 left in the IFS= line. Is the
>driver taking up any memory? Is it smart enough to not stay in memory if
>there is no HPFS partition?

Probably not, but it can't hurt (and could help) to REM out that line.

>2) In *TWO* installs, I ended up with ALOT of cross-linked EA's. The second
>time was a little better. I NEVER ran DOS between the install and the first
>run of CHKDSK. I've been able to clean most of them up (booted floppies,
>did the sequence: ren thefile tmp^copy tmp thefile^del thefile^chkdsk c:/f)
>BUT I have one crosslink into C:\OS!2_2.0_D\TEMPLATE. When I tried cleaning
>up on my first install, I lost information trying to clean up the above. Is
>there any way I can safely get the EAs out, clean up the cross link, and
>restore my Templates?? Trying to copy the Template folder doesn't work.

Try using CHKDSK /F from an OS/2 floppy boot per the exact
instructions in the OS/2 FAQ List.  My apologies if you have already
tried this approach -- please post a follow up.

>3) For some reason, although I have a 16550AFN on COM2, OS/2 now won't do
>any buffering. MODE COM2 shows BUFFER = N/A. I have a
>CALL=MODE...Buffer=auto  in my CONFIG.SYS. I know it USED to work, and may
>still figure it out. I have the COM and VCOM drivers dated 4/23 and 4/24.

You could try the commga.zoo drivers that just came across
comp.binaries.os2 and are now available via anonymous ftp from
ftp-os2.nmsu.edu.  These may help.  Are you quite sure it is a
16550AFN?  The original 16550 has a problem with its FIFO and is
treated like a 16450 (no buffer), for instance.

>  Just in case, my hardware:
>Computer: Compudyne 25/386C, 8M RAM, AMI BIOS "DINT-6064-091589-KF"
>Hard Drive: MicroScience 110M ESDI w/ Ultrastor 12F controller.
>Video: ATI VGA Wonder XL, 1M RAM w/ NEC 3D monitor.
>Mouse: Microsoft Serial on COM1
>Other: Sound Blaster 1.05
>  I did try an SVGA ON for a short time, but quickly went back to SVGA OFF.
>I hope that didn't screw up anything.

Probably not.

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From: Bjorn_Gustafsson@p2.f314.n201.z2.fidonet.bad.se (Bjorn Gustafsson)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: diskcopy problem
Date: 3 Sep 92 20:49:56 GMT
Reply-To: Bjorn_Gustafsson@p2.f314.n201.z2.fidonet.bad.se (Bjorn Gustafsson)
Organization: MAINFRAME
OD-Comment-To: Kan-Lee_Liou


 > I wanted to duplicate a disk in drive A and used 'Copy disk' of
 > Drive A icon. But what it did is to copy from drive A to drive B.
 > Can I change its function to be 'copying from driver A to drive A'?
 > Thank you.


Go to a OS/2-Window. At command prompt type: DISKCOPY A: A:

/////Bjorne

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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc,comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
From: cgordon@vpnet.chi.il.us (gordon hlavenka)
Subject: Re: Why not OS/2 ???? Hmmmmmm
Organization: Vpnet Public Access
Date: Thu, 03 Sep 1992 17:19:07 GMT

 doug@shako.Colorado.EDU (Doug McKnight) writes:
>>   I vote $20 to scare Microsoft out of complacency, who's with me!
>> "Come on, was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor?"
>                                 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>>     Jeff Andle
>
>
>Ah, the youth of today...........

Forget it, he's rollin'.  :-)

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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: baer@uwovax.uwo.ca
Subject: OS/2 problem: cannot load OS2CHAR.DLL
Organization: University of Western Ont, London
Date: Mon, 24 Aug 1992 02:06:28 GMT

I have been running OS/2 2.0 on my laptop (386dx-33/8mb, 120mB divided into
2 FAT partitions) for a month and a half without too much difficulty.  From 
some earlier difficulties I had with ill-behaved apps on my desktop, I 
have been in the practice of backup up os2sys.ini and os2.ini  -- simply
restoring these files usually gets me out of any troublesome situation.
  Well, this weekend (fortunately, after I had completed all of my
out-of-town work -- otherwise I would have been left hanging with no way
to run my apps) OS/2 died on my when I ran a game that normally worked
under OS/2 (I also had MS Word for Windows running at the same time -- perhaps
it was the combination that caused the problem).  The system hung, and a 
cold boot was necessary to get it up again.  Result: OS/2 logo appeared, 
then a message: os2CHAR.DLL could not be loaded, check to make sure
file is in root directory or in path specified in config.sys ... system
stopped.   At this point,everything died (three finger salute did not work..
only a cold boot).  Fine, I tried restoring os2sys.ini and os2.ini, but
got the same result. I did so after making sure OS2CHAR.DLL did, in fact
exist (and, for that matter, I made a copy of it on the root directory
of my boot drive *and* in c:\os2 for good measure.   Same problem; same
message.  I worried for a bit that the failure to load might be related
to a system memory problem, though would have expected a different message.
(I would have tried to throttle back the memory chips to 1 wait state, but
there doesn't appear to be a setting to that effect in the laptop's BIOS).
Finally, I took a drastic step I haven't had to resort to since the first
couple of weeks I worked with OS/2: I reformatted the entire drive with
DOS (I run dual boot), then reinstalled OS/2 from scratch. (Good thing
I have 2 partitions -- I was thus able to avoid reloading most apps, though
I did have to spend a couple of hours recustomizing WPS).    So far, OS/2
works like a charm again (no errors, no problems).   Mmmm.   
  Any clues out there as to what happened, how I might avoid it again and/or
how I might correct the problem with some less drastic corrective action?
   Thanks for any help.   Respond via e-mail or via posting.
 
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University of Western Ontario, London, Canada N6A 5C2
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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: cpbaltus@cs.vu.nl (Baltus CPS)
Subject: Problems with WINOS/2
Organization: Fac. Wiskunde & Informatica, VU, Amsterdam
Date: Wed, 2 Sep 1992 09:24:34 GMT

Hello all,

When i start up WINOS/2 by clicking the WINOS/2 icon, the WINOS/2 desk-
top comes up after a while, but when i choose a menu (the mouse does 
not work) my whole screen (on the spot of the menu) becomes corrupted.

I tried this with the 640x480x16 driver and the 800x600x16 driver. 
Both go wrong. On the OS/2 desktop i use 800x600x256 with virtual desk-
top. 

What is wrong?

			Stefan.

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From: ANDY@MAINE.MAINE.EDU (Andrew T. Robinson)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Help, my questions aren't in the FAQ
Date: 28 Aug 92 12:32:51 GMT
Organization: University of Maine System

1.  Why won't my full-screen OS/2 session work?   In 8514 mode, on an
    utterly uncustomized installation of OS/2, selected OS/2 FS just
    makes the mouse pointer dissapear.  CTRL-ESC gives a window list
    showing the FS OS/2 session, and I can kill it, but the screen
    continues to display the desktop if I select it.

2.  OS-2 has excellent crash protection, but I killed it good last
    night by shutting the machine off without shutting down.  When
    I booted, I got "Extent not found--system stopped" and a message
    telling me to contact support.  Instead, I re-installed OS/2.

    The reason I shut the machine off was to install another 2-8mb
    memory expansion card on the system for a total of 20mb (of which
    only 15,872k is usable for some reason).  Could adding memory cause
    OS/2 to crap out?  Perhaps by making it think the swap file should
    have been bigger than it was?

    A related, PS/2 question is why does the PS/2 55SX limit me to
    less than 16mb and is there any way to bypass this?

Andy

PS -- Norton 4.5 CI in an OS/2 DOS box with several other windows open
      on my machine is 12.5.  The pure-DOS CI for my machine is (if I
      remember correctly) 15.1.  That's not bad overhead at all, when
      you think about it (around 18%).  I'd heard less than 10%, however.
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: eletanjm@nuscc.nus.sg (TAN JIN MENG)
Subject: Re: Just what IS Alt-F1 (was Re: Multiple Desktops....)
Organization: National University of Singapore
Date: Thu, 3 Sep 1992 02:11:32 GMT

Sorry I forgot. The startup.cmd file is also replaced if it exists.

jin meng
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: stephen@unity.ncsu.edu (Stephen Jackson)
Subject: OS/2 2.0 patches and updates	
Organization: North Carolina State University Project Unity
Date: Fri, 28 Aug 1992 13:15:31 GMT


The question is easy...where is the best place to find them to ftp from?
From: dic5340@hertz.njit.edu (David Charlap)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Background JPEGs?
Date: 27 Aug 92 18:56:09 GMT
Organization: New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, N.J.

In article <1992Aug26.214512.3122@jarvis.csri.toronto.edu> lemieux@eecg.toronto.edu (Guy Gerard Lemieux) writes:
>(Now we need a program that will put up JPEGS as a background bitmap)

I don't know about you, but I'd rather convert the pic to a .BMP and
display that.  .BMP files can handle 24-bit color, and they won't take
a long time to display.  I'd hate to wait for a JPEG file to decode
during system startup.



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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: daleg@mks.com (Dale Groves)
Subject: Re: Installing OS/2 1.3 w/ Adaptec 1542b
Organization: Mortice Kern Systems Inc., Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1992 21:29:48 GMT

In article <LASKI.65.714925699@hauk.hsr.no> LASKI@hauk.hsr.no (Lars Kaare Skjoerestad) writes:
>Hi all,
>
>could some one please give me some hint on how to install OS/2 1.3 with a 
>Adaptec 1542b SCSI interface. The install sequence always terminates and 
>complains about no fixed disk aviable. ( OS/2 2.0 and DOS 5.0 finds the disk)
>
>Is there perhaps a smart way to load the aha154x.bid driver ?
>
>Any help is most welcome !! 
>(please don't ask me why i'm using OS/2 1.3 and not OS/2 2.0)
>
>
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>
>

As far as I am aware, OS/2 1.3 does not understand the 1542b on it's own - you
have to load the appropriate device driver in config.sys - which means you 
have to have another way to boot OS/2... like having a 'standard' hard disk
with OS/2 1.3 installed and bootable, load the driver and then use the driver
to access the SCSI drives on the 1542.

If you have ONLY a 1542 (no MFM, RLL, ESDI, or IDE drives), switch to OS/2 2.0
(notice I didn't ask... :-), you aren't going to install 1.3 on a SCSI only
system.  (I don't guarantee this, this was just my experience - same with
Windoz 3.0 - I couldn't get it to load when my only hard drives were SCSI
based.)

Windoz 3.1 and OS/2 2.0 both seem to understand the 1542 with their standard,
built-in drivers and both loaded and run with only my SCSI drives.


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Organization: Wirtschaftsuniversitaet Wien, Vienna, Austria
Date: Friday, 28 Aug 1992 11:47:53 CET
From: FLATSCHER Rony <RONY@awiwuw11.wu-wien.ac.at>
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc,comp.os.os2.apps
Subject: 32bit PKZIP 2.x for OS/2 ???
Distribution: world

Did anyone hear or read about Phil Katz' PKZIP in 32bit for OS/2 ?
If it is available, where can one get it to try it ? Is it version 2.x ?

---rony
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: clemens@faui8a.informatik.uni-erlangen.de (Clemens Beckstein)
Subject: Re: New os2 crud on software.watson.ibm.com
Organization: Regionales Rechenzentrum Erlangen
Date: Wed, 2 Sep 1992 13:36:04 GMT

dab6@po.CWRU.Edu (Douglas A. Bell) writes:



>There are some new files on IBM's ftp server including:

>a new hpfs patch
>a dpmi patch to let msc 7.0 run under os/2
>a complete listing of all files in os/2 2.0 with descriptions

correct... and i have put them on hobbes this morning as well...

- Clemens
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: stein@tellabs.com (stein)
Subject: LESS177
Keywords: Ported ?
Organization: Tellabs, Inc.
Date: Fri, 28 Aug 1992 17:53:02 GMT

When I last saw postings on this subject I was still struggling with the OS/2
installation so please forgive me for yet another posting. Does someone have
"less" running ok ? Please send me the details. Thanks.
From: x91clifton1@gw.wmich.edu
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: POSIX/U... for OS/2
Date: 4 Sep 92 14:38:51 EST
Organization: Western Michigan University

evanc@uuisis.isis.org (Evan Champion) writes:

> I would really love to get a Unix emulator for OS/2.  It would certainly   
> help me to run my UUCP/News setup!     
> 
> Another thing that I would like to see is a new HPFS driver that is more
> like Unix, lets you use "/" and "\" when changing directories and is case
> sensitive.  The case sensitivity is partially there, with the file system
> being able to record the case but not being sensitive to the case entered.
> Another thing, why are there spaces allowed in filenames?  I realize that it
> is good in a word processor to be able to save a file as "Letter to Norm"
> instead of "Letter.to.Norm", but spaces are a real pain when you have to do
> file manipulation in CMD.EXE (having to "" everything).  As above, any
comment
s
> will be graciously accepted!

	1. Using `\' or `/' is a function of the command interpreter 
	   ("shell" in Unix speak) that you are using--has little to
	   do with the OS kernel.

	   Solution: don't use cmd.exe, available now are 4os2 and sh
	   on hobbes. 4os2 is similar to cmd.exe but with many
	   extensions/improvements (although buggy). Sh is a Unix sh
	   work-alike, again with improvements. Also, in the future
	   we should see ports of other Unixish PD shells including
	   tcsh, ksh and bash.

	2. As for quoting command arguments, any Unix guru will tell
	   you: get used to it ;-). Any time you want to pass arguments
	   to a program that involve `funny' or shell metacharacters,
	   they must be quoted or "escaped". Under Unix the escape
	   character is `\', under cmd.exe or 4os2, it is `^'. Also note
	   that a handy feature of 4os2 is "command completion"--typing
	   an unambiguous starting portion of a filename followed by a
	   TAB will complete the filename, if the filename contains
	   spaces it will be automatically quoted. As an example of 
	   known bugs in 4os2, however, filenames beginning with `.'
	   do not complete (are ignored). 


/Doug
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From: klliou@milton.u.washington.edu (Kan-Lee Liou)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: diskcopy problem
Date: 28 Aug 92 23:56:34 GMT
Article-I.D.: milton.klliou.715046194
Organization: University of Washington

I wanted to duplicate a disk in drive A and used 'Copy disk' of Drive A icon.
But what it did is to copy from drive A to drive B.
Can I change its function to be 'copying from driver A to drive A'?
Thank you.

Kan-Lee, klliou@u.washington.edu
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc