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From: jurlwin@gandalf.UMCS.Maine.EDU (Jeff Urlwin)
Subject: Re: NEC Intersect Model CDR-74 and OS/2 2.0--yes or no?
Organization: University of Maine, Department of Computer Science
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 14:10:23 GMT

In article <78396@hydra.gatech.EDU> ccusekh@prism.gatech.EDU (Kevin Hodge) writes:
>We have a Gateway2000 486DX2/50 EISA with an Adaptec 1742 32-bit
>SCSI controller (running in enhanced mode).  I have access to a 
>NEC Intersect Model CDR-74 CD-ROM player.  Before I hook it up I
>wanted to check and see if anyone has any experiences with such
>a setup.  Will it work under OS/2 2.0?  In particular, I want to
>use it with the PDK.  Thanks in advance.

I tried the CDR-74 with the 1542B way back at GA and found the BEST solution
was my CORELSCSI software (which I already had).  I lot of people were able
to edit the CDROM.SYS with a binary editor and change the TOSHIBA id to
NEC    (note that spaces are important here...use spaces to wipe the rest
of the characters in TOSHIBA).  

I also understand that the latest CDROM drivers (available on the CDROM
itself...) should work fine with most drives.  Since our sales person
took my neat, portable, CD and gave me an old SONY (non-SCSI) I can't
test any of the fun stuff any more.

Hope this helps.

Jeff



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From: hacker@cco.caltech.edu (Jonathan Bruce Hacker)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: DISKCACHE vs IFS CACHE
Date: 19 Dec 1992 21:28:35 GMT
Organization: California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
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mullins@convex.com (Don Mullins) writes:

>  So, should I REM out the DISKCACHE line in config.sys if I am only running
>  HPFS disks?  Maybe just setting DISKCACHE=0 ...
>  
>  Could doing this free up some real memory now being used for this not used
>  often cache on a HPFS-only system? Could this have an adverse effect on
>  floppy (FAT) accesses?


Bear in mind that floppies are FAT.  

-- 
Jon Hacker
Caltech, Pasadena CA
hacker@tumbler-ridge.caltech.edu
From: zhao@unixg.ubc.ca (Jiansheng Zhao)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: Installing Linux on an OS/2 system, using Boot Manager
Date: 12 Dec 92 20:34:35 GMT
Organization: The University of British Columbia
NNTP-Posting-Host: unixg.ubc.ca

In <1992Dec11.234305.27937@cdf.toronto.edu> g1nickut@cdf.toronto.edu (Nick Zahariadis) writes:

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>Lines: 19

>In article <1992Dec11.192003.10358@ultb.isc.rit.edu> djs6015@ultb.rit.edu (Don Smith) writes:
>>
>>Hi There...
>>
>>Does anyone have any info that can help me make my Linux Partition
>>bootable from the Boot Manager? When I try to boot it from the Boot
>>Manager it says that its not a formatted drive... help!

> Put me on the list as well. I'm interested to know.
> 
> Thanks,
> Nick.

I used shoelace to boot linux from linux partition of my HD. Then put this
linux-partition onto bootmanager's menu. It works.
-- 
Jiansheng Zhao
Dept. Chem. Eng, Univ. of B. C., Canada. V6T 1Z4
zhao@unixg.ubc.ca
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: hsu_wes@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu (Wesleyan Hsu)
Subject: Re: printer driver for hp-deskjet 550 required
Organization: HAC - Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore
Date: Sun, 13 Dec 1992 21:32:24 GMT

>You can get it from ftp-os2.nmsu.edu or download fron the IBM NSC BBS
>(404) 835-6600

But remember that these are only beta drivers!

Wes Hsu
Johns Hopkins U
Dept.of.ECE

Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc,comp.os.os2.advocacy
From: hwhalen@jupiter.sun.csd.unb.ca (Hugh Whalen)
Subject: Re: Future of OS/2 and IBM????????????
Organization: Faculty of Administration, University of New Brunswick
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 15:51:22 GMT

In article <1992Dec17.134511.18616@csi.uottawa.ca> gagnon@aix1.uottawa.ca (Jean-Serge Gagnon 564-7183) writes:
>In article <1992Dec16.152535.12204@jupiter.sun.csd.unb.ca> hwhalen@jupiter.sun.csd.unb.ca (Hugh Whalen) writes:
>>In article <1992Dec16.072137.28867@sequent.com> furballs@sequent.com (Paul Penrod) writes:
>>>In article <1992Dec15.210437.934@gn.ecn.purdue.edu> ashwath@gn.ecn.purdue.edu (Ashwath Ram) writes:
>>[Stuff about IBM laying off 25,000 people deleted]
>>>IBM is among the most conservative of the blue chip stock companies
>>>and has long earned it's reputation as a stable commodity in the
>>
>>Ahem .... stable? I believe that around 1987 IBM stock was trading at 
>>approximately $178 per share. Yesterday it was trading at $56 per 
>>share. God help us if this is stability. :)
>
>This doesn't belong here, but I wish people would talk when they knew what
>they were talking about!!!! Have you ever heard of "spliting"? It's a 
>process in which a stock is doubled, and it's value is divided. For example
>an IBM share that was worth $178 in 1985 would split and then you'd have
>two shares, each worth $89, which is exactly the same thing. Since the time
>when the share was worth $178, IBM shares have split twice, meaning that
>whoever had one (1) share worth $178, today has four (4) shares worth $56.
>In other words, this person has $224 for a cost of $178 (or less, of course).
>
>So PLEASE, make sure you know what you're talking about, before saying
>something so drasticaly influential to the minds of people who REALLY have
>no idea what it means other that money.
>
>PLEASE, no flames, I just wanted to straghten this out. If a discussion
>arises from this, please note I have set follow-up to talk.bizzare.
>
>Thanks. 
>-- 
>Jean-Serge Gagnon, Ottawa University, Ottawa, Canada  K1N 6N5 
>(613)564-7517 fax:(613)564-7819   email:jsg8a@acadvm1.uottawa.ca
>-- Get PPST31.ZOO at gaaj.uottawa.ca in /public/unix ------------
>-- it's a benchmark for PS devices with an index to Apple LW ----

Hugh Whalen                     | Where all men think alike, no one
Faculty of Administration       | thinks very much.
University of New Brunswick     |               - Walter Lippmann			


DISCLAIMER: Neither UNB nor I care what the other thinks.
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: charles@gremlin.muug.mb.ca (Charles)
Subject: Re: Can the OS/2 Prof. Dev.'s Kit CD-ROM be read from DOS?
Organization: The Haunted Unix Box
Distribution: usa
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 03:32:36 GMT

widow@camelot.bradley.edu (Shaun Burnett) writes:

>	Can the OS/2 Professional Deveoper's Kit CD-ROM be read from
>	DOS?  I don't have a CD-ROM drive, but if I could find someone
>	that does, I could copy needded files from the CD to disk.
>	Would this work?  Or is there a HPFS file structure on the CD?


Yes, this is what I had to do with mine.  However, BookReader for example,
needs to be installed with the install program because things need to be
added to your config.sys.  Otherwise the stupid thing dies on startup and
doesn't tell you whats wrong! (well, actually it does, but what it tells
you is wrong, even more frustrating!)

I just copied over everyhing in /install /ez2inst and the install script
and then ran it, worked fine then.
From: sal8@po.cwru.edu (Steve Luzynski)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: Boot Manager: Does any one have a compatibility list?
Date: Sat, 12 Dec 1992 23:11:51 GMT
Organization: Case Western Reserve University
NNTP-Posting-Host: b61442.student.cwru.edu

In article <1992Dec12.192416.9499@ichips.intel.com> jburns@pdxgp1 (John Justin Burns Jr.) writes:
>From: jburns@pdxgp1 (John Justin Burns Jr.)
>Subject: Boot Manager: Does any one have a compatibility list?
>Date: Sat, 12 Dec 1992 19:24:16 GMT
>I have been using the Boot Manager with a variety of OSs.  I know that it
>works with DOS v4.01, DOS v5.0, MS OS/2 SE v1.3, and surprise-surprise IBM
>OS/2 v2.0.  What I would like to know is what else it works with, and more
>important, what it does not work with?  Were there any changes in the Boot
>Manager in the SP?
>
>Of particular interest to me is:  Novell (286 and 386 versions), DR-DOS,
>iRMX, various brands of Unix, Banyan Vines, Solaris (beta), NextStep (beta?),
>Windows NT (beta), Lan Manager, DOS 6.0, and earlier versions of DOS.

The NT beta has code included that makes it absolutely refuse to install if 
it detects the OS/2 boot manager on your hard drive. Pretty rude of MS if 
you ask me (OS/2 does no such check for NT).

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From: hatton@socrates.ucsf.edu (Tom Hatton)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: How to deinstall appletts?
Date: 14 Dec 92 20:39:54 GMT
Organization: UCSF Computer Graphics Lab

sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu (Timothy F. Sipples) writes:
>In article <Bz624y.EMz@news.cso.uiuc.edu> nap42487@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Nishith A. Patel) writes:
>>How do you deinstall all the games that come with OS/2, except for solitaire?
>>Better yet, does anyone know how to install the solitaire which comes with
>>Windows? Then I would just delete all the games.

>Pretty easy, really.  You can just delete the appropriate files in
>\OS2\APPS.

>However, if you want something a little friendlier, try the new Visual
>REXX Selective Uninstall applet.  It is available via anonymous ftp
>from ftp-os2.nmsu.edu, directory /pub/uploads/sharebbs or
>/pub/uploads/sharebbs2, I believe (although it will be moved).  Check
>the "description" files in those directories for an annotated list.

Is this the same as the Uninstall on the Service Pack? It basically allows
undoing whatever Selective Install puts on, so it doesn't let you remove
just one or two applets and keep the rest. You can manually unpack the
uninstall.exe and .hlp from the SP (disks...8 and 9?) if it wasn't 
installed automatically.
 

-- 
Tom Hatton
hatton@cgl.ucsf.edu
(415)-476-7986
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From: sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu (Timothy F. Sipples)
Subject: Re: HELP: SYS005 error
Reply-To: sip1@midway.uchicago.edu
Organization: Dept. of Econ., Univ. of Chicago
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 22:32:52 GMT

In article <1132@rtmrd1.crd.neddata.nedlloyd.nl> raimond@rtmrd1.crd.neddata.nedlloyd.nl (Raimond Diederik) writes:
>To all OS/2 wizzards!!!!!!!!
>A friend of mine (he doesn't have news :-)) has a:
>	KT 486/33Mhz 
>	200Mb IDE drive
>	8 Mb internal memory
>	OAK chipset 1Mb SVGA
>	AMI BIOS 40-0101-000000-00101111-070791-OPWBDX-8
>    	   	 000-0-0000-00-00-0000-00-00-000
>		 000-1-0000-00-00-0000-00-00-00-1
>We tried to install OS/2 2.0 with CSD update. He has 1 large FAT partition with
>DOS already installed, so we used DUAL BOOT with OS/2 on FAT.
>On a large number of (normal) DOS programs we get:
>	DOS error 5
>	SYS0005: access denied
>CHKDSK (no /F) gives something like this:
>	The type of file system for the disk is FAT.
>	The volume label is IBMDOS_5.
>	The Volume Serial Number is 1969-5EA3
>	Errors found.  F parameter not specified.
>	Corrections will not be written to disk.
>	C:\BIN\CONFMT.COM attempted to claim an extended attribute that does
>	not exist. The error was corrected.
>	C:\BIN\COPYQM.COM attempted to claim an extended attribute that does
>	not exist. The error was corrected.
>	C:\BIN\DC.COM attempted to claim an extended attribute that does
>	not exist. The error was corrected.
>	C:\BIN\DD.COM attempted to claim an extended attribute that does
>	not exist. The error was corrected.
>	C:\BIN\EPSON2A.COM attempted to claim an extended attribute that does
>	not exist. The error was corrected.
>	C:\BIN\GETKEY.COM attempted to claim an extended attribute that does
>	not exist. The error was corrected.
>	C:\BIN\GREP.COM attempted to claim an extended attribute that does
>	not exist. The error was corrected.
>	C:\BIN\LIST.COM attempted to claim an extended attribute that does
>	not exist. The error was corrected.
>	......
>If we reboot plain old DOS everything works perfect! And on my system 
>(PS/2 P70) with same software works also O.K.
>Can someone tell us out, we're stuck

See the FAQ List about this one -- you want to run CHKDSK /F from an
OS/2 floppy boot.  (Recopy the files -- just move them to a new
directory and back -- if the problem persists.)

To avoid the problem in the future, enable autochecking.  Again, see
the FAQ List here.

-- 
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sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu | 128.123.35.151, anonymous ftp, in /pub/os2/all/info
Dept. of Econ., Univ.   | /faq, or from LISTSERV@BLEKUL11.BITNET (send "HELP")
of Chicago, 60637       | [Read the List, THEN post to ONE OS/2 newsgroup.]
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: jurlwin@gandalf.UMCS.Maine.EDU (Jeff Urlwin)
Subject: Re: XGA-2 Clarification
Organization: University of Maine, Department of Computer Science
Date: Sat, 19 Dec 1992 16:09:35 GMT

In article <pathak-181292115317@virtual.mitre.org> pathak@mitre.org (Heeren Pathak) writes:
>In article <1992Dec18.063416.3786@ultb.isc.rit.edu>,
>jks4675@ritvax.isc.rit.edu wrote:
>> 
>> For those of you who I misled...
>> The ISA XGA-2 board will cost $499
>> 
>> The MCA XGA-2 board will cost $399.
>> 
>> If you can justify why a 32-bit card costs LESS than a 16-bit,
>> you will have my compliments, as well as the rest of the Microelectronics
>> Department here....
>> 
>> The cost difference is due to IBM, not Radius.
>
>Not necessarily.  The cost difference may be due to the bus master
>technology for the ISA bus.  Remember, the Microchannel bus DIRECTLY
>supports bus mastering.  I didn't even think that bus mastering was
>possible on the ISA bus but it looks like Radius figured out how to do it. 
>I suspect part of the cost may be related to this.

Bus mastering *is* possible on the ISA bus.  The Adaptec 154X SCSI 
controllers have been doing it for years (there are PLENTY other
cards that do it too, but I can't even begin to list them all).
And the 1542B just cost me $251, mail order.

Jeff

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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: rm3@ornl.gov (MCBROOM R C)
Subject: Re: Which Tape Drive for OS/2?
Organization: Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 16:05:08 GMT

In article <1gj1ujINN19p@hpscit.sc.hp.com> you write:
>I use an HP 120MB tape controlled through the floppy drive.  It is really
>an Irwin drive.  I have Irwin's Eztape for PM.  It supports various
>other tape drives with different controllers.  I'm very pleased with
>Eztape for PM.  You would probably want to checkout your options on
>which hardware to choose among those supported by it.  There is probably
>a major price/performance tradeoff.  My 120MB drive is rather out-dated.

Do you have a list of the other drives supported?  I have an EVEREX 120M
drive that doesn't seem to be popular but I would really like to use it!

There would seem to be some commonality in the implementation of the 
floppy tape hack.

Robert McBroom internet: rm3@ornl.gov

Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: harris@garfield.catt.ncsu.edu (Michael Harris)
Subject: Re: Lost my Bitmap Fonts!!!
Organization: North Carolina State University
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 02:30:43 GMT

steveh@goanna.cs.rmit.oz.au (Steven Hayes) writes:

>I'm not sure what I've done, but somehow OS/2 no longer knows about the
>bitmap fonts which come standard with the system. System Proportional is
>now the only bitmap font I can use for menus, etc. Helv, Courier and System
>Monospaced fonts simply don't appear in any of the font selection dialogs.
>all of the Adobe Type 1 fonts work fine... unfornatly these fonts look a
>little tatty at small point sizes...

Have you changed your video resolution any time recently?  OS/2 only allows
you to load bitmap fonts for the device resolution that you are running.
To save space, OS/2 2.0 only installs the bitmap fonts for the resolution
that you install.  If you install VGA and then upgrade to a different
resolution (such as 8514, XGA, perhaps SVGA- I'm not sure about this one.)
you will still have the VGA fonts and OS/2 won't recognise them.

The reason that you get System Proportional is because it is stored in the
video device driver DLLs (DISPLAY.DLL for example) and not in a .FON file.

The easiest way to get your fonts back is to find someone who has the same
device resolution that you are using and then copy their .FON files to your
system.  You will find them in the \OS2 subdirectory.  The files will be in
use so you will have to boot from floppy or try the SHIFTRUN utility on
software.watson.ibm.com.  Generally speaking, the font resolutions are as
follows:

96x72   dpi  EGA
96x96   dpi  VGA/SVGA 800x600 (depending upon your SVGA manufacturer)
120x120 dpi  XGA/8514/SVGA 1024x768 (depending upon your SVGA manufacturer) 

The problem is that there are inconsistencies between manufacturers of SVGA
drivers as to what your font resolution will be.  The list above is how it
should be.  However, some SVGA manufacturers may allow use of 96x96 dpi
fonts at the 1024x768 video resolution.

______________________________________________________________________________
     Michael Harris - harris@catt.ncsu.edu or harris@carvm3.vnet.ibm.com
 System Administrator, Computer & Technologies Theme Program, NC State Univ.
(My opinions are my own and do not represent those of NCSU or IBM Corporation)
From: hatton@socrates.ucsf.edu (Tom Hatton)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: NT won't co-exist with OS/2?
Date: 14 Dec 92 06:39:58 GMT
Organization: UCSF Computer Graphics Lab

jburns@pdxgp1 (John Justin Burns Jr.) writes:
>In article <1992Dec13.013647.18178@cdf.toronto.edu> g1nickut@cdf.toronto.edu (Nick Zahariadis) writes:
>>In article <sal8.246.724201910@po.cwru.edu> sal8@po.cwru.edu (Steve Luzynski) writes:
>>>The NT beta has code included that makes it absolutely refuse to install if 
>>>it detects the OS/2 boot manager on your hard drive. Pretty rude of MS if 
>>>you ask me (OS/2 does no such check for NT).
>>
>> Hmm, that just gave me a hell of an idea! Why not write a little utility
>> that will disable the OS/2 Boot Manager bit from the Master Boot Record?
>>
>> And make it available for ftp! Who knows I might get a chance over X-mas
>> to do this myself. Don't hold your breath though.
>>
>> Nick.
>>
>Nick,

>Sorry to respond to this same post twice.

>This capability is very important to me.  If you are not going to write
>it then I will try.  My problem is very little knowledge of the boot manager/
>boot process.  Where can I get information on this topic.

>Please let me know if you are or are not going to write this program.

>How would this work?  An OS/2 program to go in and alter the Master Boot
>Record?  Then an NT program to set it back after NT is installed?  Or use
>NT's fdisk.  Could OS/2's fdisk disable the boot manager?  

>Lots of questions.  As you can tell I am quite excited over this.

It is too late for this version, but perhaps a barrage of calls to 
MS complaining about this Boot Manager vs NT load might help - is
there something about NT that *requires* it to be incompatible with
Boot Manager, or are they being bloody-minded about it (as with 
deleting the ability of the C compiler to make OS2 code)?
 

-- 
Tom Hatton
hatton@cgl.ucsf.edu
(415)-476-7986
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: greve@rs1.thch.uni-bonn.de (Thomas Greve)
Subject: Re: Installing Linux on an OS/2 system, using Boot Manager
Organization: University of Bonn, phys. Chemistry
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 16:49:21 GMT

In article <1992Dec11.192003.10358@ultb.isc.rit.edu> djs6015@ultb.rit.edu (Don Smith) writes:
>
>Hi There...
>
>Does anyone have any info that can help me make my Linux Partition
>bootable from the Boot Manager? When I try to boot it from the Boot
>Manager it says that its not a formatted drive... help!
Linux comes with it's own boot manager, but i don't have any
experience with it, yet.
-- 
				- Thomas

   greve@rs1.thch.uni-bonn.de
   unt145@dbnrhrz1
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: bai@msiadmin.cit.cornell.edu (Dov Bai-MSI Visitor)
Subject: Re: Why does DOS (Telix, AutoCAD, etc.) use 100%
Organization: /usr/local/lib/news/organization
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1992 13:50:12 GMT

>In article <17DEC199220532131@zeus.tamu.edu>, rem5156@zeus.tamu.edu (The Doctor) writes:
> ..does anyone know why my system maxes out to 100% when I use Telix, or OrCAD
> or AutoCAD in a DOS full-screen session?
> 
> System: 486DX-33, 256K cache, 16MB RAM, etc.

If any of these programs is "DesqView aware" ( I think Telix is ), you
can claim back many CPU cycles by loading the OS2SPEED utility (from
hobbes) before starting your program. I put OS2SPEED in my autoexec.bat.

>
>Jeroen
>
>-- 
>Jeroen Hoppenbrouwers, research engineer at     |  Stop connecting computers;
>Infolab, Tilburg University, The Netherlands    |  start connecting people!


Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: wcn@cs.brown.edu (Wen-Chun Ni)
Subject: Re: OS/2 2.1? (Why it may cost) READ THIS!!
Organization: Brown University Department of Computer Science
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 09:20:52 GMT

In article <OLAVT.92Dec14003146@ulrik.uio.no> olavt@ulrik.uio.no (Olav Torvund) writes:
>
>Win 3.1 support is of course important in todays market. But I think
>that if MS continues this attitude, IBM should in not to distant
>future make Windows support an option. Past 1993 I will probably not
>need Windows support anymore, so why pay MS for it? Making Win support
>an option from let us say OS/2 2.2 or 3.0 can also boost the
>development of OS/2 applications, assuming that OS/2 will have a well
>established critical user base by then.
>


I said this when OS/2 2.0 was just released. At that time, there were 
very few Win 3.1-specific software. All we had might be Excel 3.0 
or MS Word 2.0 (for Windows).

There is no reason why OS/2 should plug the Windows 3.1 support into
the newly release OS/2 2.x. You can get it as an option. But, for those
who had long stopped buying Windows applications, they should be treated
in a different way.  There may be new users of OS/2 who need WIn3.1 
support. Fine, they can purchase that separately.

I'd like to pay for the OS/2 2.x to IBM, *but*, thanx, no Windows 3.1.
I don't need that dog. All I need is native OS/2 software.



Wen-Chun Ni, wcn@cs.brown.edu         (401) 863-7669
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