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From: jrs@panix.com (Jon Saxton)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: Format 1.2M to 1.44M
Date: 25 Jul 92 19:56:30 GMT
Organization: PANIX Public Access Unix, NYC

>>The file the previous post was referring to is FDFORMAT18 available from
>>GARBO.UWASA.FI (/pub/pc/diskutils). I downloaded it but it did not work
>>for me. It kept saying error on track 0 head 0 after formatting. There
>>is another file called 800II... in the same place. This one worked for me
>>but it allows 1.2 to go to 1.4 not 1.44. Good enough for an OS/2 boot disk.

Well, no, not really.  The program I use is FDFORMAT 2.0 by Chris Hochstatter
which I have had since DOS days.  It comes with source code in Pascal and
assembly language.  I never succeeded in getting the program to run on an
OS/2 system - I do my extended formatting on a DOS box and simply USE the
diskettes under OS/2 2.0.

>>If the original poster is reading this, any ideas why fdformat didn't work
>>for me. I loaded the INT13X, then used FMT.

>Hmm.  Are you sure it was FDFORMAT18 and not ATFMT110 or something
>like that?  I have used the latter (which has progs named INT13X and
>FMT).  Maybe it's just a different name?

I've never heard of ATFMT110.  Tell us more.
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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: wjb5106@zeus.tamu.edu (Walter Barnett)
Subject: Re: Nowhere directory?
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41    
Organization: Texas A&M University
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1992 16:19:00 GMT

In article <1992Jul28.164403.13996@njitgw.njit.edu>, dic5340@hertz.njit.edu (David Charlap) writes...
>In article <1992Jul27.183824.24864@usenet.ins.cwru.edu> dab6@po.CWRU.Edu (Douglas A. Bell) writes:
>>
>>It seems kind of odd to make a directory off of the root called
>>nowhere to hold these ea's.  Is there anyway to get this directory out of 
>>the root or keep the ea's somewhere else?
> 
>Why?  Is it really bothering you?  If it is, then just do a
> 
>      ATTTRIB +H Nowhere
> 
>and you won't have to see it anymore.
> 

You must have a better ATTRIB command than I do.  Mine doesn't work on 
directories.

_______________________________________________________________________
Walter Barnett        Aerospace Engineering        Texas A&M University 
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: hjkirch@morpheus.informatik.uni-erlangen.de (Hans-Joachim Kirchhoff (StudArb-Tribius))
Subject: TSENG users, READ THIS!
Organization: CSD., University of Erlangen, Germany
Date: Thu, 30 Jul 1992 07:05:30 GMT
Keywords: TSENG ET4000

I've just installed the new Windows 3.1 ET4000 drivers, I got via anonym
ftp. The readme-file contains some very interesting line:

-------------------- lines included --------------------------------
Tseng Labs, Inc. and me personally much appreciate your support.
Although Tseng Labs does not sell its products direct, your feedback is very
important. We do want to hear from you, your comments, suggestions, bug reports,
etc. DO have a great impact. We WILL as soon as possible have a Tseng BBS,
which will make all Tseng drivers and utility programs available direct to
you, not just via our OEM's.
Please send your comments, suggestions, bug reports etc. to:
(Help !! -- FAX, MAIL or to me on CSERVE is the preferred method)
(Yes, we are a small group of techies)

Tseng Labs, Inc.
WINDOWS DRIVERS SUPPORT
6 Terry Drive
Newtown Industrial Commons
Newtown, PA 18940
     (215) 968-0502
FAX  (215) 860-7713
Sincerely,
Lou Aynat
CSERVE ID: 73520,204
------------------------- end included lines ------------------------

Contact them and let them know, we all *NEED* proper ET4000 drivers for
OS/2. The only drivers I know of, that exists to day, are the STB and the
Orchid drivers, both in beta. These guys above wrote the ET4000 Windows
drivers, sure they can do the same for OS/2.
Sometimes, we users *CAN* make a difference. I just read, Colorado Backup
Systems are working to make OS/2 drivers available for the end of *THIS* year.
That is quite a different statement than the one, just two months ago.

So mail to 73520.204@compuserve.com and tell the "techies" at TSENG our
problem. 
The more mail, the better.

-Hajo

Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: abernard@athena.mit.edu (Andrew Bernard)
Subject: Monitor/video card advice
Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1992 14:03:18 GMT

I have been reading the posts concerning video cards and monitors but would
appreciate some advice.

I am currently running os/2 with TCP/IP 1.2.1, X-windows and NFS on a Northgate
486/33 w/8mb RAM with an Orchid proDesigner IIs (1 mb ram) and a 14" Panasonic 
Panasync c1381 in VGA mode.

Since I typically have 3-4 xwindow apps from a  remote rs/6000 and 2-3 local
programs up at a time, I need a bigger monitor, 17" min.  High graphics resolution
except for making the xwindows prettier isn't a high priority but  would be a
nice benefit.

My budget for new card(if necessary) and monitor is $2000 although any money
saved would go to increasing my RAM.


1) Can I keep my video card and run a bigger monitor?

 - if so do I need new drivers for the prodesigner?

2) What is the difference, theoretically and practically, between 8514a, XGA and
SVGA, especially under OS/2?  

What is running now matters, not promises about next quarter.

3) Monitor suggestions - including vendors in US especially if they offer
academic discounts.


and only slightly related

4) Will increasing my RAM to 16MB increase my system performance dramatically (I
am running a 600 MB maxtor drive off an esdi Adaptec 2322b - or will when I get
my replacement for the one that jsut crashed.)

Thanks in advance
email or posts ok
andrew
From: drkszk@ocf.berkeley.edu (Derek Suzuki)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: MMPM/2
Date: 25 Jul 1992 17:25:20 GMT
Organization: U. C. Berkeley Open Computing Facility
NNTP-Posting-Host: lightning.berkeley.edu

	I have heard this product mentioned a few times, but never in any
great detail.  Is the finished product available?  If so, how much is it?
What are its capabilities?  And are development tools available?

Derek Suzuki
drkszk@ocf.berkeley.edu
From: dic5340@hertz.njit.edu (David Charlap)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: Is a Customer Number important in dealing with IBM?
Date: 23 Jul 92 18:35:50 GMT
Distribution: na
Organization: New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, N.J.

In article <1992Jul22.180733.20154@sbcs.sunysb.edu> kskapin@csws8.ic.sunysb.edu (Keith T Skapinski) writes:
>
>I just said that I didn't have one. I told them that I was having a problem
>installing and needed assistance. They gave me a problem number. It helped
>them keep track of how my problem was being resolved I guess.
>
>Any way, I didn't have a customer number and had no problems.

A customer number is assigned to you the first time you buy an IBM
product.  For some reason, though, the aren't assigning them to people
who upgrade to OS/2.  (Are they assigning them to people who buy it
directly?) 

When you have the number, you use it on future orders and when calling
for help.  It allows them to keep track of who's who.  It also allows
them to keep a history of your problems, etc.
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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: cvadrtbc@vmsb.is.csupomona.edu (Srikanth Viswanathan)
Subject: Re: What is needed to install CHKDSK on a bootable floppy?
Organization: California Polytechnic University, Pomona
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41    
Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1992 00:50:00 GMT
X-Posted-From: vmsb.is.csupomona.edu
X-Posted-Through: sol.ctr.columbia.edu

In article <1992Jul20.124821.9845@scott.skidmore.edu>, pvonk@scott.skidmore.edu (Pierre VonKaenel) writes...
>In article <9207200246.AA27033@enet-gw.pa.dec.com> reisert@mast.enet.dec.com (Jim -- MLO3-6/B9 -- DTN 223-5747) writes:
> 
>Same thing for me.  I formatted a 3.5" disk and ran MAKEBOOT.  Then I
>copied CHKDSK to the disk.  When booting and running CHKDSK /F from
>A:, I get HPFS is running, nothing more.  I suspect there are other
>files needed.  Someone..... ?

I think you need the UHPFS.DLL file, it's on disk 2 (where Chkdsk is
also located.)

Srikanth

Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: pathak@mitre.org (Heeren Pathak)
Subject: Re: Is HPFS faster?
Followup-To: comp.os.os2.misc
Organization: Mitre Corporation
Date: Tue, 21 Jul 1992 15:48:19 GMT

In article <mg.711700324@elan>, mg@elan (Michael Golan) wrote:
> 
> Oh really? How many performance tests have you done on this subject?
> Not a O(n) theoretical comparison, but a real one? B-trees (and other
> self-balancing data structures) are quite slow compared to simpler
> data structures, until you get to large sizes (and since each entry in FAT
> is 4k, you need very big files for B-trees to outperform FAT enough to
> show any performance difference in real life)

I believe that IBM recommends that you continue using FAT for small disks. 
I think the minimum recommended HPFS size is 60Mb.  

If you are looking for comparisions between HPFS and other file systems,
you might want to hunt around the UC Berkeley for tech reports.  The HPFS
is very similar to the Fast File System the Berkeley developed for UNIX. 
Since grad schools tend to generate a lot of paper, I am sure you should be
able to find information about file system performance.

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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: smsmith@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Stephen M Smith)
Subject: Re: Soundblaster's FMORGAN
Organization: The Ohio State University
Date: Tue, 28 Jul 1992 07:11:45 GMT

greenfie@gauss.rutgers.edu (Greenfie) writes:

>> I got FMORGAN to work by loading the SBFMDRV driver first. 
[   ]
>Huh! That's strange. I load up SBFMDRV in every DOS session, in my
>autoexec.bat.
>
>Still frustrated! (I haven't gotten it to run at all, under any
>circumstances! Oh well.)

Ok, I tried something new and it worked perfectly the first time:

--First I booted a DOS 4.01 image in an OS/2 vdm. 
--Then I entered 'SBFMDRV' to load the SB driver.
--Then I entered SET BLASTER=A220 I5 D1 to set the SB to address A220,
	IRQ5, and DMA 1.
--Then I started 'fmorgan' from the \sb directory (not the \sb\fmorgan
	directory).  There's a batch file called fmorgan.bat in the
	\sb directory and I used that.

   Steve Smith       | __|__ |    " #*&<-[89s]*(k#$@-_=//a2$]'+=.(2_&*%>,,@
<smsmith@magnus.acs. |   |   |      {7%*@,..":27g)-=,#*:.#,/6&1*.4-,l@#9:-) "
  ohio-state.edu>    |   |   | 
  BTW, WYSInaWYG     |   |   |                           --witty.saying.ARC 
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: quan@Xenon.Stanford.EDU (Tony Quan)
Subject: Fix for Trident full-screen problem
Originator: quan@Xenon.Stanford.EDU
Organization: Computer Science Department, Stanford University.
Date: Sat, 25 Jul 1992 02:59:47 GMT


I've got a patch from Trident for the problems people have been
having when they switch back and forth from the WPS to a DOS or
OS/2 fullscreen.  It's a patch for the Trident 256-color drivers...
How do I get it to hobbes?  Just use FTP?  I'm sure a lot of people
could use this.

--Tony
quan@cs.stanford.edu

Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: lai@seas.gwu.edu (William Y. Lai)
Subject: Re:  What does TRAP 000e mean?
Organization: George Washington University
Date: Fri, 24 Jul 1992 04:35:47 GMT

In article <1992Jul23.070033.13742@csus.edu> vcsc2132@sfsuvax1.sfsu.edu (Henry Yeung) writes:
>>In article <1992Jul22.234448.6530@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu> tselling@peabody.iusb.indiana.edu (Teresa Selling) writes:
>>>I was happily typing along in TE/2 comm program when my system halted
>>>with a TRAP 0003.  What does that mean.  Perhaps I should mention
>>        ^^^^^^^^^ 
>>			typo should be TRAP 000e
>>
>>>that I've not been able to download with TE/2.  I wind up using a dos
>>>comm package for that.
>>>Thanks.
>>>--
>>>Teresa Selling, IUSB, Indiana.
>
>I have the same problem using Procomm plus for windows under OS/2.
>But it only happened once....
>Here is the message that I got when the system crashed last time:
>
>--
>The system detected an internal processing
>error at location ##0160:fff6453f - 000d:a53f
>60000. 9084
>
>048600b4
>Internal revision 6.311, 92/05/14
>--
>
>--Henry Yeung


Wow, same thing, except my Internal version is at 6.307, and I was running
Telix, a comm program in a VDM.  Is this a well known one?  What exactly is
trap 0E?



William
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Washington, D.C.        |  want more?  Yeah, sure."     -Demi Moore        
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: gsbg9079@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (G. Scott Braley)
Subject: Re: ATI Graphics Ultra: Are you sick of it yet?
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Sat, 25 Jul 1992 13:29:34 GMT

Maybe I did a bad thing then...I installed OS/2 _after_ I installed the Graphics
Ultra.  When I set it up, mostly out of curiosity I installed the 1024x768x20
with crystal fonts.  Was this worthwhie?  Should I have installed 1024x768x256
without the fonts?  Also, once they are installed, how do I un-install them?  

On a different note, it seems that the drivers for this card are MUCH larger
than for my old card (VGA Wonder).  Is it just the fonts or the new card?  I'm
not much good for "fine tuning" these things, so your comments so far are 
appreciated.


				-Scott

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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: bporter@nyx.cs.du.edu (Brad Porter)
Subject: Wierd keyboard problem Help!!!
Followup-To: comp.os.os2.misc
Summary:  shift key locking up
Keywords: os/2 keyboard problem
Organization: Nyx, Public Access Unix @ U. of Denver Math/CS dept.
Date: Wed, 22 Jul 92 23:06:26 GMT

My system is suffering from a very wierd keyboard problem,
My system configuration is:

Gateway 2000 386/33
2 80 Meg IDE hard drives
8 Megs of RAM
Gateway 2000 CrystalScan 1024ni monitor
Gateway 2000 Anykey Keyboard

The problem is that whenever I press shift-T the entire keyboard
seems to lock in to the shifted mode. In other words, instead of 
getting "g" I get "G" and when I press "7" I get "&" It is not
like Caps Lock, it is as if I was still pressing the Shift key.
This only happens when I press Shift and t.  I can "unshift" the
keyboard by pressing Shift again.

Now for the wierd part--- This only happens when I am in a dos or
windows application, not in a os/2 application. Also, if I use the
dual boot feature, It works fine in dos applications.  This only 
happens in OS/2 dos sessions.

Any help with this problem would be greatly appreaciated.

                                 -THANKS (see, it just did it)



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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: cvadrtbc@vmsb.is.csupomona.edu (Srikanth Viswanathan)
Subject: Re: The Future of OS/2
Organization: California Polytechnic University, Pomona
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41    
Date: Mon, 27 Jul 1992 02:57:00 GMT
X-Posted-From: vmsb.is.csupomona.edu
X-Posted-Through: sol.ctr.columbia.edu

In article <LJ6DoB1w164w@netlink.cts.com>, trekkie@netlink.cts.com (Bryce Newall) writes...
>I have been seriously considering buying OS/2 v2.0 for about 2 weeks now.  
>However, I heard from a friend up in San Francisco that Microsoft will no 
>longer be licensing the code required for OS/2 to run Windows programs.  In 
>effect, Microsoft is cutting their losses and trying to run IBM's operating 
>system into the ground.  I would like to know if there is any truth to this, 
>'cause if there is, then I don't think I'd bother with OS/2, in spite of how 
>wonderful it sounds.  Any comments?
> 

I believe this is well into the future,  IBM doesn't intend on having Windows
compatibility for ever,  I think it's going to end in September of 1993.  That
more than a year away.   Even if you have tons of Windows programs, why not
try OS/2 and judge for yourself?  What have you got to lose?  You can always
return it if you don't like it?  Besides, do you think that NT is going to 
run Enhanced mode Windows code?  Not according to Mark Ryland of MS.  

Srikanth
From: dic5340@hertz.njit.edu (David Charlap)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: Help, I've sorted and I can't get up!
Date: 30 Jul 92 17:41:34 GMT
Organization: New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, N.J.

In article <92210.130754DK6TOPER@MIAMIU.BITNET> DK6TOPER@MIAMIU.BITNET (Dan Karipides) writes:
>I clicked MB2 on the backround and selected "Sort..."  As expected, the
>Dsektop icons were sorted alphabetically.  I decided, however, that this
>wasn't what I wanted.  So I tried sorting the icons in a number of different
>ways; i.e., by type, by creation date, etc.  None of these put the icons
>exactly the way I wanted them.
> 
>Fine, I said.  I'll just go back to the default ordering of the icons.
>The only questions is: How?  I even tried moving the by hand (OK, by mouse),
>but clicking on "Arrange" flips them back to the last sorted order.

You're stuck.  The "default" arrangement is not a "default", but
simply positions.  Just drag the icons to where you want them and then
never, never click on "arrange" or "sort" ever again.

I wish these options had confirmation...  I also wish I could get them
off of the menu... *Sigh*

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From: edfd.uucp!root@overmind.mind.org
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: DNS and IBM's TCPIP, nslookup failure !
Date: 22 Jul 92 17:54:00 GMT
Organization: EDAG, ENGINEERING + DESGIN AG, Fulda, FRG
X-mailer: Stadel 3.4a-227
X-Spam-content: irrelevant


Hi guys !
I want to use a domain nameserver with IBMs TCPIP !
I installed a nameserver in our network. From our unix
workstations there is no problem to use this nameserver!
But if I want to start nslookup on my OS2 PC I get the message:

Can't find server name for address 192.9.210.60: Server failed!
Default Servers are not available 

Further more nslookup has not started. 


Now the resolv file of my OS2 PC:
domain  edag.de
nameserver 192.9.210.60

If I delete the line with the nameserver in the resolv file I can
start nslookup. Now I can set a default nameserver with :

server 192.9.210.60

and query the nameserver. Is anyone using DNS with IBMs TCPIP
for OS2. Is this a known bug? Any hints?
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: jhakuli@cs.joensuu.fi (Janne Hakulinen)
Subject: paper size in plotting
Organization: University of Joensuu
Date: Sun, 19 Jul 1992 19:54:35 GMT



Just curious,

	Why does the PMCHART program and couple of other
	programs use the maximum paper size
	(if using a plotter) even if you have selected
	A3-size from plotter icon's settings -> job properties???

	I know that paper size works fine if I select the
	paper size direct from PMCHART dialogs (File->printer setup)
	but why do we need job properties dialog if it dosen't work?

Janne Hakulinen
jhakuli@cs.joensuu.fi



Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: jdowdal@wam.umd.edu (John Dowdal)
Subject: Adaptec 1542B+IDE+OS/2?
Originator: jdowdal@rac2.wam.umd.edu
Organization: University of Maryland at College Park
Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1992 02:34:27 GMT


I am interested in adding a SCSI hard disk to my system.  I'd like to
know about successes and failures from people who have been using
an Adaptec 1542B controller with a SCSI hard drive; an IDE drive; and
running under OS/2 accessing both drives at the same time.

A friend has attempted to do this with an Ultrastor controller, but the
system crashed if he accessed both the IDE and the SCSI at the same time
(try loading a program from one drive when the swapfile is on the other
drive).

I also want to know if this controller works well without the INT 13
drivers.  This same person switched to a Future Domain controller,
and got a trashed hard disk because of bugs in the drivers.

Basically, I want to make sure that this will work without as much
trouble as my friend had.

John
jdowdal@wam.umd.edu
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: jot@teak09.cray.com (Otto Tennant)
Subject: HP DeskJet 500
Organization: Cray Research, Inc.
Distribution: comp.os.os2.misc
Date: 24 Jul 92 15:48:45 CDT

One lies about what an HP DeskJet 500 without any optional cartridges
is.  I knew the name once; to make certain I did not forget it, I
added it to a notes file ...
                         which was not backed up ...
                               which I lost when I had to reinstall OS/2.

What does one install an HP DeskJet 500 as?
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From: ak@ananke.stgt.sub.org (Andreas Kaiser)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Format 1.2M to 1.44M 
Distribution: world
Date: Tue, 28 Jul 92 04:19:43 GMT
Organization: ananke


In article <1992Jul26.182010.1884@panix.com> jrs@panix.com writes:

  > My system is one of those which does handle the extended formats:-
  > 
  >     3.5" 82 cylinders 21 sectors per track
  >    5.25" 82 cylinders 18 sectors per track

Be warned that you might perhaps not be able to read your own diskettes
with your next system, once your current system burns away.
  
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