HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: hatton@socrates.ucsf.edu (Tom Hatton)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: install ET4000 driver
Date: 5 Nov 92 08:14:54 GMT
Organization: UCSF Computer Graphics Lab

DTRAN@emelnitz.ucla.edu (Daniel Tran) writes:

>>Hi!  What is the CORRECT way to install ET4000 driver? use DPINSTAL from
>>os2/ OR SELECTIVE INSTALL? 
>>

>Do it from DPinstal.  This is the only to get it to work.  The new driver 
>works but very slow in 800x600x256.  Color palletes is wrong in seamless 
>windows, if you start a DOS full screen then run windows the palletes is 
>correct.

Time out. Using dpsinstl.exe is *not* "the only way to get it to work."
And 800x600x256 is quicker in some areas (graphics) and slower in others
(text scrolling).

If you have an ET4000, it is better to use Selective Install,
rather than dspinstl.exe, you get the correct fonts.

And the palette in seamless will be "wrong" if you have a BMP as a
background in full-screen WinOS2. This depends on the BMP palette, since
I have used the winlogo.bmp as a background, and the OS/2 palette is
unaffected. 

Tom
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: jhlee@rose.handy.co.kr (Lee Joo Hee)
Subject: WIN-OS2 generates Warning.
Organization: HandySoft Institute of Technology, HandySoft Corp.
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL3
Date: Fri, 6 Nov 92 09:48:22 GMT

	I installed my NetWare requester for OS/2 2.0 yesterday. I think
it works fine. But when I try to run WIN-OS2, it generates that NetWare
shell did not loaded and network related functions will not work.
But I can access NetWare drive quite well.

	The problem is, how can remove this warning permanently.
No kidding-Should I check the dialog box not to display warning?.
From: adhir@oberon.umd.edu (Alok Dhir)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: Trap 2- causes?
Date: 3 Nov 92 20:22:30 GMT
Organization: /etc/organization

In article <73460@hydra.gatech.EDU> gt0040a@prism.gatech.EDU (Tom Sorensen) writes:
>Ever since I've installed the SP I've been getting lots of Trap 0002's, which
>is keeping me from using OS/2 now. I had major problems with the beta, so I
>was happy to get the SP.
>
>I know Trap 0002 is a memory error, but is there anything that might cause it
>other than bad memory chips? I have gotten one Memory Parity Interrupt while
>running RoboComm under DOS, and I have a few other indications that my memory
>might be toast. I don't want to buy more memory right now, however, due to
>some wonderful new tariffs.
>
>FWIW- I *DID* reformat & reinstall before the SP. I'm running at 800x600x256
>with the Tseng drivers (done via DSPINSTL, not selective, but I doubt it'd make
>that much of a difference), on a 10 meg machine.
>
>Any suggestions other than new memory?


In my experience, a Trap 2 is ALLWAYS a memory problem.  You definitely
have some bat bits somewhere, and the only way you're going to be able
to fix it is by replacing your memory chips.

You might want to check your BIOS settings (if it's changeable) and see
if slowing down the speed of memory access helps, but I am pretty sure you
will have to buy new chips.

Sorry...
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From: parry@yoyo.cc.monash.edu.au (Tom J Parry)
Subject: Re: Slow scrolling in DOS solved
Originator: parry@yoyo.cc.monash.edu.au
Organization: Monash University, Melb., Australia.
Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1992 09:06:59 GMT

Mike Levis (mlevis@ringer.cs.utsa.edu) wrote:

[Very interesting results deleted]
> 
> Also note that sometimes a DOS Windowed is faster than a DOS Full Screen!
> And yes, I got an 18.8 (6.59 / 0.35) times faster scrolling just by
> changing some settings!
> 
> And remember, these results are only from my configuration.  I don't
> see how OS/2 can take 40 seconds to scroll 128 lines unless the
> video card/circuitry is slow.

First I am using 256 colours 800x600 which will make a difference and my
card is a Tseng Labs ET4000 card (yes, Tseng card & chipset). I doubt the
video circuitry is the problem. As I said before, by turning off EMULATION
in DOS sessions, I have reduced the scroll time on my 128 line file to 4
seconds but OS/2 sessions are still 40 seconds (these are windowed
sessions). Full screen OS/2 sessions fly by in 0.78 secs!!!

All my tests are done with the cursor starting on the bottom line of the
screen with 128 lines of about 70 characters times using 4OS/2 or 4DOS timer
command.

-- 
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From: hank@ducvax.auburn.edu
Subject: Re: Install OS/2 from driver B
Organization: Auburn University, AL
Date: Sat, 14 Nov 1992 00:12:39 GMT

In article <1992Nov13.132928.15487@sura.net>, vargish@sura.net (Nick Vargish) writes:
> Birdy Array (root)) writes:
> result in FRUSTRATION! Some fool archived it with the zip utility that
> runs under OS/2; it CAN NOT be unzipped with the official DOS pkunzip
> release -- you must already have OS/2 running to unzip it. A real 

Calm down. Info-Zip's unzip 5.0 is widely available. Get the dos version
from simtel20.army.mil in pd1:<msdos.zip>. Thanks to the folks involved
in the Info-Zip project.

-- 
--Darrel Hankerson hank@ducvax.auburn.edu
From: djbpitt+@pitt.edu (David J Birnbaum)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: formatting a 3.5" HD diskette to 720K: broken?
Date: 12 Nov 92 20:21:32 GMT
Organization: University of Pittsburgh


I thought I'd never want to format a 720K 3.5" diskette again, but I'm
trying to use diskcopy to back up some software distributed in that
format. OS/2 refuses to comply. I'm using a HD diskette that OS/2 was
happy to format at 1.44K. I wiped that formatting clean with a bulk
eraser before trying to reformat at lower density. The results:

1) If I click on the drive icon, select format, and set the density to
720K, the first 50% goes smoothly. The drive then begins to chug. After
several seconds, the bar grudging slips a little beyond 50%. The drive
then chugs forever, making no progress, until I abort.

2) If I use an OS/2 window and type 'format a: /n:9' (following
instructions), the first 50% goes smoothly, then the chugging starts,
then we creep up to 56%, and there we chug until I abort.

3) If I use a DOS window and the appropriate parameters, the formatting
reaches 100% and then apports with a "DMA across 64K" error message.
Selecting 'retry' doesn't help. The disk is unreadable when I abort the
format.

4) If I use a DOS window and run fdformat version 1.8 with the /f:720
option (normal 720K format, with no funny stuff), I get the same error
message as in #3. Using the /A (BIOS) option doesn't help.

All of the above are reproducible and were tried with multiple diskettes
(which, as I mentioned, were easily formatted to 14.4K).

Anyone know what gives?

Thanks,

David
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From: hstarke@europa.eng.gtefsd.com (Hal Starke)
Subject: Re: CD Beta Installation
Reply-To: hstarke@europa.eng.gtefsd.com (Hal Starke)
Organization: GTE Federal Systems Division
Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1992 21:08:54 GMT

 >I tried to install the OS/2 2.X beta from CD-ROM last night, with no luck.
>On the second disk, "Disk One", after a lengthy wait looking at the 
>"Loading, Please Wait" message, the system got stuck in what seemed to be a 
>loop:  The Diskette would be accessed, the CD activity light would blink 
>for a second or two, the message "CD-ROM not found, installation aborted" 
>would flash on my screen, and the process would repeat.  I let this 
>continue for 20 or 30 cycles before resetting the system.

I have the same behavior with my system.  What works for me is to Ctrl-Alt-Del
at this point and start over with the Installation disk followed by disk 1.
For me, it always works after the second try.  I also have to do this after
each cold start.  The boot will stop saying "No SCSI devices found...", but
will find the CD after Ctrl-Alt-Del.


______________________________________________________________


I just went through this with an Adaptec 1542b. What I found was the DMA transfer rate
was set to fast for OS/2. The higher rate worked fine for DOS and WINNT. Seems OS/2
is sensitive to this also. Slow down your DMA transfer rate.

Hal Starke, GTE Federal Systems
My views are my own!
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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu (Timothy F. Sipples)
Subject: Re: SP sometimes crash
Reply-To: sip1@midway.uchicago.edu
Organization: Dept. of Econ., Univ. of Chicago
Date: Sat, 7 Nov 1992 16:52:58 GMT

In article <16872@umd5.umd.edu> adhir@cygnus.umd.edu (Alok Dhir) writes:
>Incidentally, how do I go about reporting bugs to IBM...in the service pack
>that is...

Use the os2prob.txt form, available via anonymous ftp from
ftp-os2.nmsu.edu, directory /pub/os2/2.0/info.  List "XR06055" when it
asks for the CSD level.

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From: bab@se39.wg2.waii.com (Brian Button)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: Apps putting their crap in system directories. :(
Date: 11 Nov 92 12:08:23 GMT
Organization: Western Geophysical Exploration Products
In-reply-to: tamu@uxh.cso.uiuc.edu's message of 10 Nov 92 19:42:35 GMT


->"Todd" == Todd Henderson <tamu@uxh.cso.uiuc.edu> writes:

Todd> Is there any reason why companies' setup installs to put files
Todd> in system directories?  It seems like to me it would be much
Todd> easier for the user if they created a sub-directory, at the very
Todd> least, off of the system directory they are shooting for.

Part of the problem may be that you might need to reboot after
installing and before using something that installed a DLL or an EXE
in a non-standard place. To find those pieces, you'd have to change
your LIBPATH and PATH variables, and I don't know if LIBPATH can be
changed interactively.

Todd> Is this trend left over from DOS when the PATH had a limited
Todd> character length or do most UNIX's do this also???

Unix stuff does not do this. Each app installs its stuff into its own
directory hierarchy, and you add the appropriate parts to your PATH
and LD_LIBRARY_PATH variables interactively.

As much as I like OS/2, its still a lot more like DOS than Unix in
terms of usability (IMHO, Unix > OS/2 >>>>> DOS).

bab
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From: gouvea@zariski.harvard.edu (Fernando Gouvea)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: What is the verdict on the CSD/SP??
Date: 6 Nov 92 04:25:30 GMT
Article-I.D.: husc3.1992Nov5.232531.17153
Distribution: world
Organization: Colby College Dept. of Math/CS

In article <%|#@byu.edu> earlyd@newt.ee.byu.edu (David Early) writes:
>
>
>What is the verdict? does it cause more problems than it is
>worth?  Everyone has various complaints, but did it solve
>anything??  Did IBM boo-boo big time?
>

I was kinda worried, too, but after installing (with no problems),
everything is running quite well, and the Tseng driver looks really good.
I'm quite pleased. I can choose fonts for DOS windows, can run WIN-OS/2
seamlessly, can use deskpic, qwikswch... It all works.


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From: achatche@quads.uchicago.edu (andrew curtis hatchell)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: Settings needed: Crusaders of the Dark Savant
Date: 9 Nov 92 23:13:26 GMT
Article-I.D.: midway.1992Nov9.231326.16197
Reply-To: achatche@midway.uchicago.edu
Distribution: na
Organization: University of Chicago Computing Organizations

In article <1992Nov9.214331.20976@cs.uoregon.edu> santeew@sisters.cs.uoregon.edu (Wes Santee) writes:
>Howdy all.
>
>Has anyone gotten the game Wizardry:  Crusaders of the Dark Savant
>to run under OS/2 2.0?
>
>I've tried a number of combinations but it is trapped everytime.
>I hate having to boot DOS to run it...
>
>Thx,
>
>-- 
>Wes Santee             | "I think it's about time we voted for senators
>santeew@cs.uoregon.edu |  with breasts.  After all, we've been voting
>                       |  for boobs long enough."
>                       |       -Claire Sargent on women senators

I called Sir Tech on this and, as they said, and as I've confirmed, there
is no way to run it in a standard DOS session.  You can run it in a 
specific DOS session, however (something that the Sir Tech reps didn't
know).  At least, it boots in a specific DOS session (I didn't play it
extensively in that mode since I hadn't figured out how to get the
mouse to work and then I removed it from the hard drive to make room
for the Service Pak disk images).  
	Andrew Hatchell
From: sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu (Timothy F. Sipples)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: Switching from WINOS2 to Desktop & Back
Date: 9 Nov 92 16:54:36 GMT
Article-I.D.: midway.1992Nov9.165436.4408
Reply-To: sip1@midway.uchicago.edu
Organization: Dept. of Econ., Univ. of Chicago

In article <6791@news.duke.edu> eaj@acpub.duke.edu (Edward A. Johnson) writes:
>Until recently, switching back and both between the WPS and WINOS2
>fullscreen using Alt-Esc took less than a second. Now, switching from
>WINOS2 to WPS takes 15 seconds, whereas from WPS to WINOS2 remains less
>than a second. What have I done or has happened to cause this and how
>can I fix it?

The following settings (where applicable) might alleviate the problem:

VIDEO_SWITCH_NOTIFICATION (try both ways)
VIDEO_8514A_XGA_IOTRAP to OFF
VIDEO_RETRACE_EMULATION to OFF

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From: pgleason@ncratl.AtlantaGA.NCR.COM (Pat Gleason)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: 8514 dead?
Date: 6 Nov 92 21:00:48 GMT
Organization: NCR Engineering and Manufacturing Atlanta -- Atlanta, GA

In <73743@hydra.gatech.EDU> gt0297a@prism.gatech.EDU (DRURY,tim) writes:
>support os/2 in 8514 until ati got of their butts and wrote 32-bit
>drivers that support their board.  (hello - anybody out there???)

The scheduled release date for those drivers is 2Q 93. There has been
much gnashing of teeth over this fact on Compuserv.
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From: mfraioli@grebyn.com (Marc Fraioli)
Subject: Re: Unix Like File Name Completion...
Organization: Grebyn Timesharing
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 22:10:44 GMT

In article <sal8.166.721515589@po.cwru.edu> sal8@po.cwru.edu (Steve Luzynski) writes:
>In article <BxKGwH.Bpw@ccu.umanitoba.ca> umnoor@ccu.umanitoba.ca (Nasir Ahmed Noor) writes:
>>From: umnoor@ccu.umanitoba.ca (Nasir Ahmed Noor)
>>Subject: Unix Like File Name Completion...
>>Date: 11 Nov 92 19:31:28 GMT
>>
>>Does any one know if such a utility exists or if someone has plans to work
>>on one [if its possible--at all] to allow file name completion as its done
>>in Unix [ESC key]?
>>
>
>Already done. Download 4OS/2 from the ftp site of your choice. It does that 
>and a whole lot more. There's also a dos version (called 4DOS) that will do 
>the same for your DOS sessions.
>
>They both default to the TAB key for this but I'm pretty sure you can use 
>any key you want.
>
I believe there is also an OS/2 port of Unix csh floating around,
although it is not entirely complete or debugged.  When this is done, I
would assume it will have the filename completion feature in it, as this
is really a feature of csh, not of Unix in general.
-- 
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From: dic5340@hertz.njit.edu (David Charlap)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: Help--can't run MS Word after Service Pack installed.
Date: 5 Nov 92 09:04:54 GMT
Organization: New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, N.J.

In article <1992Nov4.023023.3423@news.Hawaii.Edu> low@wiliki.eng.hawaii.edu (Hock-leong Low) writes:
>I used to be able to run MS Word 2.0 on OS/2 2.0 but not anymore
>after I installed the NEW Service Pack.  Clicking on the MS Word
>object doesn't execute it.  By the way, would running 800x600
>at 256 colors with the new ET4000 drivers be the interference?
>Anyway, I decided to run OS/2 Full Screen and execute WINOS2.EXE
>from the command prompt.  I then created the MS Word item in
>WINOS2.  When I tried running it, I got the error messages due 
>to the missing files: SHELL.DLL, OLECLI.DLL and OLESVR.DLL.
>It says to insert the disk into Drive A--but which one..and is 
>it the original OS/2 disks or the Service Pack.  There were no
>problems in running DOS programs windowed.

None of these.  It's a Word error, and it's referring to Word disk 1.
The WinWord disk added these three DLL's to the WINOS2 directory.  If
you re-formatted your OS/2 partition, they're gone.  They are on
WinWord 2.0's disk 1, in the \DLL directory.  SHELL.DLL is right
there.  The other two are compressed.  You can use the DECOMP.EXE
program (root directory of WinWord disk 1) to decompress these.  Place
them either in your Win-OS2 directory or somewhere on your DOS PATH.

I created a D:\WINDLL directory (which is on my DOS PATH) for placing
all Windows DLL files in.  This avoids the problem - the only files in
the WIN-OS2 directory are IBM-issue files.
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From: kjb@calmasd.prime.com (Ken Brucker)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: Help--can't run MS Word after Service Pack installed.
Date: 9 Nov 92 17:47:56 GMT
Article-I.D.: calmasd.1992Nov9.094757.926
Organization: Computervision, San Diego CA

In article <mortenk.68.720998888@dhhalden.no>, mortenk@dhhalden.no (MORTEN KNUDSEN) writes:
> In article <1992Nov4.023023.3423@news.Hawaii.Edu> low@wiliki.eng.hawaii.edu (Hock-leong Low) writes:
>>Hello,
>>
>>I used to be able to run MS Word 2.0 on OS/2 2.0 but not anymore
>>after I installed the NEW Service Pack.  Clicking on the MS Word
>>object doesn't execute it.  By the way, would running 800x600
>>at 256 colors with the new ET4000 drivers be the interference?
>>Anyway, I decided to run OS/2 Full Screen and execute WINOS2.EXE
>>from the command prompt.  I then created the MS Word item in
>>WINOS2.  When I tried running it, I got the error messages due 
>>to the missing files: SHELL.DLL, OLECLI.DLL and OLESVR.DLL.
>>It says to insert the disk into Drive A--but which one..and is 
>>it the original OS/2 disks or the Service Pack.  There were no
>>problems in running DOS programs windowed.
>>
> I have the very same problem, except it doesn't ask for SHELL.DLL,
> only OLECLI and OLESVR. I copied these files to a floppy, and I
> have to insert them every time I run Word. Also, I can't use my
> ATM fonts with word. Anybody have a solution?

Copy those files to a directory on your hard drive and make sure that that
drive is in the path specified in your autoexec.bat.  That's all I needed to do
to get this to work.  And to make this last past future installs of the OS,
create a new directory (/WINDLL) and put the files there.  I make it a practice
to keep as much stuff as possible out of the OS directory hierarchy to make
re-installs less painful.

Ken

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From: nummi@me.utoronto.ca (Matti Nummi)
Subject: HCL eXceed under OS/2
Organization: UofT Mechanical Engineering
Distribution: comp
Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1992 06:01:02 GMT




	I have HCL eXceed P for DOS from Hummingbird and I want to use
this package under OS/2 so that I can use my PC as an X terminal connected
to a Sun network using TCP/IP.  I am using Novell LAN Workplace for DOS 4.0
for the TCP/IP stuff.  The package works fine under native DOS, but I have
been unable to migrate it successfully to run as a DOS program under OS/2.
When I start up the program it appears to load fine, but the instant I touch
the mouse to initiate a command, the program crashes and the video goes
wacko.  I get the SYS error message and the choice of ending the program,
returning the error message, etc. but the display has been shrunk to about
1/3 of its vertical height.
	I would appreciate any pointers on how to succesfully migrate this
application,
		Thanks
			Matti Nummi	nummi@me.utoronto.ca


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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: jarman@ee.ualberta.ca (Andrew Jarman)
Subject: Re: DOS *VERY* unstable after CSD
Organization: University Of Alberta, Edmonton Canada
Date: Sat, 7 Nov 1992 20:37:35 GMT

At work we have an OS/2 network using Lan Server.  I recently installed
the CSD thinking that our network would become MORE stable.  Rather, I
had 2-3 crashes a day of our domain controller plus numerous crashes 
on the other machines.  WordPerfect 5.1 seemed to generate the most problems
where before the CSD it rarely caused any faults at all.  Finally, I had
to reformat all of the system partitions on all of the machines and
re-install OS/2 GA along with all of the patches that floated across the
net.  I was eager to use the CSD, but it was WAY too unstable.  Strange,
though, but my home machine with the CSD installed gives no problems
what-so-ever, but maybe I haven't found them yet?

Good luck on solving your problems - I'd rather stay with the monster
I know than a new unstable one.  (At least my 800x600 Trident drivers work
with the old one.)

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