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From: dic5340@hertz.njit.edu (David Charlap)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: Couldn't stick it out...
Date: 30 Jul 92 21:04:28 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, N.J.

In article <1992Jul29.204736.26878@infonode.ingr.com> bbrown@infonode.ingr.com (Bailey Brown) writes:
>dic5340@hertz.njit.edu (David Charlap) writes:
>>Your MPEG viewer is probably a very well written program, then.
>>There's nothing inherent in Windows that will cause a slowdown
>>(although DOS boxes cause it serious problems).  If all you have are
>>Windows apps, and all disk I/O is to the hard drive, you can get ver
>>good speed.  Assuming the Windows apps are well written (MS
>>applications are NOT this way!).
>
>The MPEG viewer is a terribly written program.  I practically NEVER
>yields.  It takes several tries to get clicks on the "stop" button
>to register.  However, it has to be this way because it has alot of
>work to do to get 15 frames/sec on an ET4000.  It uses a special 
>DLL to access the video directly, bypassing windows.
>
>However, since Windows runs all windows programs as one pre-empted task,
>and each dos program as its own pre-empted task, my DOS comm program
>was able to keep downloading full tilt while the mpeg movie ran.

You didn't mention that it was a DOS comm program.  I assumed you
meant a Windows comm program.  Which would make the MPEG viewer very
friendly for downloads to work uninterrupted.

I've found that Procomm Plus 2.0 is great if you set its priority high
enough.  I had mine set to 300/300 (with Windows app priority set to
75/100) and there was never a download interruption.  Except when
using the floppies.

>I don't follow what you mean by saying dos boxes give windows serious
>problems.  As far as I can tell, the only really serious problems windows
>has is with accessing floppies.  

I've found that DOS boxes tend to slow down Windows apps much more
than they should.  I don't think Windows 3.0 (I've only used 3.1 on a
486DX2/50 in school, so I can't really judge speed with it) does a
good enough job of detecting idle time.

And, as you say, floppy access cripples Windows.  Since I regularly
install shareware from floppies (I can't download them from home due
to the phone bill, so I download them at high speed at school and take
them home on floppies), the inability to do anything while copying
large quantities of stuff is a real problem for me.

>Using free jpeg source compiled with Intel CodeBuilder (32-bit DPMI)
>doing jpg->gif on a 272x400 color jpeg file:
>
>Plain dos         : 14.61 seconds
>Dos under win 3.1 : 14.72 seconds

Now try this with another DOS session open and running.  Or while your
comm program is downloading....  I wonder what the slowdown will be.
I'd also love to see an equivalent test done in OS/2 DOS boxes and
VDM's. 
-- 
   |)  David Charlap           "I don't even represent myself
  /|_  dic5340@hertz.njit.edu   sometimes so NJIT is right out!.
 ((|,)
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From: ISF.Unisys.COM!starner@overmind.mind.org
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Sony Bus CD-ROM
Date: 22 Jul 92 20:23:00 GMT
X-mailer: Stadel 3.4a-227
X-Spam-content: irrelevant


Sony tells me that someone (he thought IBM) was working on a generic
CDROM driver that would support the Sony BUS CDROM drive.

Can anyone comfirm or deny this?

Until then, what process do i need to go through to get access to the
CDROM from a DOS AND WIN-OS/2 window? I suspect it is something making
a boot image floppy or something, but dont know the details....

thanks
Mark
From: po.CWRU.Edu!dab6@overmind.mind.org
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Nowhere directory?
Date: 23 Jul 92 04:51:00 GMT
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, (USA)
X-mailer: Stadel 3.4a-227
X-Spam-content: irrelevant


Has anyone been able to figure out what the nowhere directory is for?

Is there anyway to get rid of it?


p.s.  My OS/2 free upgrade came today.  It only took 3 and a half months!
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: parry@yoyo.cc.monash.edu.au (Tom J Parry)
Subject: Re: The Future of OS/2
Originator: parry@yoyo.cc.monash.edu.au
Organization: Monash University, Melb., Australia.
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1992 23:02:21 GMT

bill@snoopy (Bill Poitras) writes:
> 
> Isn't there a PMGif?  Is it any good?  I think its on ftp.nmsu.edu.  Just
> thought you might like to know.
> 

No, it's not any good. The best resolution I could get out of it, in a
full screen session was 320x200x256 and I'm using 800x600x256 Trident
Drivers. Seems PMGIF doesn't know anything about SVGA or special
drivers. I was most disappointed.

-- 
Tom J Parry.
Your reality is a figment of my imagination.
From: ADUNSMUI@TOROLAB6.VNET.IBM.COM (Al Dunsmuir)
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 92 11:04:28 EDT
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: POV ray 1.0 (DOS) under OS/2
Reply-To: SPOOLIST
Organization: IBM Canada Laboratory Ltd, Toronto, CANADA
Disclaimer: This posting represents the poster's views, not those of IBM
News-Software: UReply 3.0
            <1992Jul29.031020.16028@sol.UVic.CA>

In <1992Jul29.031020.16028@sol.UVic.CA> This space for rent writes:
>In article <Bs3z3J.B37@undergrad.math.waterloo.edu> ychung@laplace.uwaterloo.ca (Young Chung) writes:
>>In article <1992Jul28.061954.8122@sol.UVic.CA> gwebster@ugly.UVic.CA (This space for rent) writes:
>>>In article <1992Jul27.144730.24096@dragon.acadiau.ca> 890560p@dragon.acadiau.ca (Trevor Porter) writes:
>>
>>
>>Are you sure VNPX.SYS is a coprocessor emulator?  I tried it and it gives
>>me the error even before it loads up the PoVRay exec.
>>Even a separate 387 emulator doesn't help even though sysinfo says I have
>>387 installed.
>
>I searched the help file on VNPX, and it calls it a Numeric Processor Extension
>(80387). Sounds like a co-pro emulator to me, but it doesn't seem to work.
>Maybe I am using it wrong?
>--
>________________________________________________________________________
>| Gord Webster           | Be cool or be cast out - Rush               |
>| University of Victoria | OS/2, it's curtains for Windows             |
>| Victoria, B.C., Canada | Oxygen is for losers - Red Dwarf            |
>

  The V*.SYS files typically are used to virtualize a device (share it
between VDMs and the rest of OS/2 by saving/restoring status/regs, etc).
I believe the numeric coprocessor must actually exist for it to work in
a VDM.  It is, however, emulated for native OS/2 code if not installed.

Al Dunsmuir                       Internet: adunsmui@torolab6.vnet.ibm.com
CODE Development II + TEAM OS/2      Voice: (416) 448-3315
IBM Canada Laboratory Ltd, Toronto, CANADA

OS/2 V2: Why settle for anything less?
From: rambo!es9100@texbell.sbc.com (Eric Smith 5-0990)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: IBM FTP SITE ARRIVES
Date: 24 Jul 92 13:38:20 GMT
Organization: Southwestern Bell Telephone Company

In article <1992Jul20.095014.2575@news.tu-graz.ac.at> schinagl@fstgds06.tu-graz.ac.at (Hermann Schinagl) writes:
>In article <1992Jul17.203000.7301@ichips.intel.com> jburns@pdxgp1 (John Justin Burns Jr.) writes:
>>Could someone please post the ip address to software.watson.ibm.com?
>>
>Use /etc/ping -l and you will get 
>/etc/ping -l software.watson.ibm.com
>PING software.watson.ibm.com (129.34.139.5): 56 data bytes
>
>64 bytes from 129.34.139.5: icmp_seq=0. time=695. ms
>64 bytes from 129.34.139.5: icmp_seq=1. time=664. ms
>
>mfg hermann.

  If his server can't handle domain based address to ftp, ping isn't any
more able-bodied to know what software.watson.ibm.com is..


	software.watson.ibm.com's IP number is 129.34.139.5
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: tmcreek@eos.ncsu.edu (TOBIN MATTHEW CREEK)
Subject: Re: Video Boards
Originator: tmcreek@c00477-224wi.eos.ncsu.edu
Reply-To: tmcreek@eos.ncsu.edu (TOBIN MATTHEW CREEK)
Organization: North Carolina State University, Project Eos
Date: Sun, 26 Jul 1992 22:37:08 GMT


In article <9207262105.AA00460@magnusug.magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu>, ekarabin@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Eric B Karabin) writes:
>
>	Has anyone seen any video cards that support/conform to IBM
>XGA standard?
>
>
>					Eric...
>
>------------------------------------------------------------------------
>ekarabin@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu
>70004.1523@compuserve.com
>ekarabin@csi.compuserve.com
>


They are forthcoming.
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: Steve.Withers@bbs.actrix.gen.nz
Subject: Re: Registration
Organization: Actrix Information Exchange
Date: Fri, 31 Jul 1992 10:15:08 GMT
Keywords: Registration

In article <1992Jul29.211534.2295@mtu.edu> ajchuah@mtu.edu writes:
> 
> 	It just occured to me to ask this question.  I know most
> of the people here bought OS2 V2.0.  I know i did.
> 	How many of us here actually registered OS2?
> Yes, registered.  I don't presume sending in the rebate
> form for Windoze is called registration.  So maybe we
> can get a poll of hands as to how many of us here actually
> bothered to get it registered?  Thanx.

I mailed my card the day after i installed it.......love at first sight. :-)
 
Steve
-- 
Steve Withers - Wellington, New Zealand | "But the glory kept shining
Steve.Withers@bbs.actrix.gen.nz         |  and bright in my eyes, 
withers_s@kosmos.wcc.govt.nz            |  And the stars going round in 
**** Happy user of OS/2 v2!! ****       |  my head." R. L. S.
From: "stephen dawson" <stephen.dawson@canrem.com>
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: redbooks have arrived
Date: 23 Jul 92 09:52:55 EST
Reply-To: "stephen dawson" <stephen.dawson@canrem.com>
Distribution: comp
Organization: Canada Remote Systems

hal@pollux.cs.uga.edu (Hal N. Brooks)  writes

HN>I too received only volumes 1, 2, and 4.  Though I wasn't expecting
HN>the elusive volume 5, I was expecting volume 3.  The packing list
HN>gave no hint that volume 3 was back-ordered, or that the order
HN>was only partially fulfilled by this shipment, but there were
HN>instructions for reporting an error in the shipment.

HN>My question is, are those of you who only received volumes 1, 2, and
HN>4 sending back the packing list with the completed "order receipt
HN>summary," or are you just hoping that volume 3 will magically
HN>arrive someday?

I also received 1, 2 and 4, but my packing list clearly showed 3 on
back order.

    STEPHEN         Look through the Windows and you will see OS/2!
    ^^^^^^^    :-)  Walking and chewing gum at the same time.

 stephen.dawson@canrem.com
 Entered 07-23-92 at 7:37am in Downsview, Ontario

 * DeLuxe2/386 1.25 #3969 * I think, therefore I am 'dangerous.'
--
Canada Remote Systems  - Toronto, Ontario/Detroit, MI
World's Largest PCBOARD System - 416-629-7000/629-7044
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: stein@tellabs.com (stein)
Subject: Re: How to Isolate a bad SIMM?
Keywords: TRAP, IPE, BIOS
Organization: Tellabs, Inc.
Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1992 17:50:24 GMT


In article <62471@cup.portal.com> selliott@cup.portal.com (J Steve Elliott) writes:
>OK, I've been getting Trap 0002's on a pretty regular basis now. IBM says
>it's a bad simm. They recommend removing one at a time til it goes away. 
>The problem is that it may happen once a day, or once a week. Second, my
>system requires certain SIMM configurations, such as 4 4meg simms, 8 4 meg
>simms, etc. I have 16 MB on 4 simms, and my system won't run with only three.
>      
>So, does anyone know of a way to isolate a bad simm? Does the trap information
>have anything in it which indicates the failing address? Is there any 
>diagnostic software that just exercises memory? (My POST test passes all
>16 MB everytime.) At this point, all I can think of is buying another SIMM
>and replacing one at a time til the problem goes away for 1 month. 
>
>Thanx, Steve Elliott

Before you start replacing SIMMs you may wish to wait for the outcome of my 
TRAP and IPE adventures (see thread "OS/2 has fallen and it can't get up"). The
latest story from IBM is that my 1989 AMI BIOS can't cut it. Well since I was
considering an upgrade anyway I proceeded to order Mr. BIOS. I expect to have 
this installed and tested by Thursday and will post my results on Friday. Stay
tuned.
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: exujlg@exu.ericsson.se (Jon L. Gauthier)
Subject: Re: RAM disks in DOS sessions
Organization: Ericsson Network Systems, Inc.
Date: Fri, 24 Jul 1992 14:11:16 GMT

In article <92206.084129GERLACHJ@QUCDN.QueensU.CA> Jim Gerlach <GERLACHJ@QUCDN.QueensU.CA> writes:
>Date: Friday, 24 Jul 1992 08:41:29 EDT
>From: Jim Gerlach <GERLACHJ@QUCDN.QueensU.CA>
>Subject: RAM disks in DOS sessions

>I use a statistics package (Systat and Sygraph) that makes only limited use of
>EMS memory (1.5 Mb) but will use a RAM disk if available. Is it possible to
>setup a virtual RAM disk for the full screen DOS session I use to run this
>app (I have 8 Mb of RAM)?

>Thanx for any help. Jim

>Jim Gerlach - Cancer Research Laboratories
>James.H.Gerlach@QueensU.CA                    Queen's University
>GERLACHJ@QUCDN.QueensU.CA (NetNorth/BITNET)   Room A309A, Botterell Hall
>tel (613) 545-6446                            Kingston, Ontario
>fax (613) 545-6830                            CANADA  K7L 3N6

I had the same question posed to me here at work by someone, so I decided to
check it out.  Tried loading RAMDRIVE.SYS (the version that comes with Win3.
1) and got an error message stating, essentially, that block device drivers 
will are not allowed under a DOS virtual session.

Now, what use is a ram drive if it is written as a character device? ;)
Seriously, can someone enlighten us if it's possible to do this?

Regards,
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From: nan@matt.ksu.ksu.edu (Nan Zou)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: OS/2 and Modplay
Date: 22 Jul 1992 23:14:48 -0500
Organization: Kansas State University
NNTP-Posting-Host: matt.ksu.ksu.edu

raf4482@rigel.tamu.edu (REID FORREST) writes:

>Has anyone had any success with OS/2 and programs like ModPlay?  I've tried
>and Modplay slows to a crawl, and needless to say what comes out of the speak-
>ers nowhere near resembles music.   

ModPlay uses the direct mode of the SoundBlaster to play music, it probably
doesn't work too well in a multi-tasking enviroment.  A program I used,
called WOW II, uses double-buffered DMA routines to play modules and gives
pretty respectable results.  I still prefer an OS/2 based tracker module
player, anyone working on one?  I'll beta-test for you.

-- Nan
Date: Mon, 20 Jul 92 22:08:00 +0200
From: Hauke_Hess@p4.f302.n242.z2.fidonet.org (Hauke Hess)
Subject: IBM vs. MS development kit prices?
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
X-Comment-To: (Luc Bauwens)
Organization: Why do you care what other peaple think 

 > So, now that MS is selling their NT SDK for $69.00, is IBM
 > going to further lower the price of their equivalent for
 > OS/2 (the Workset /2 or something like that)?

I begin to understand why IBM normally don't care about "normal" PC users. As 
long as these sheep-like run after every special offer, no matter how bad they 
were treated by the company that offers before. An IBM that cares for long-term 
strategy don't care for short term consumers.

This seems to me like a normal president election: the candidate that promises 
the least taxes and the best paid jobs for the most persons wins, no matter how 
much lies he told before

Please try to remember how bad someone treated you before getting trapped by 
low price offers which only intense is to keep you from a company that makes 
promises come true.

Hauke

---

Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: nnhut@bnr.ca (Nhut Nguyen)
Subject: Can both DOS and OS2 be booted from same HD ?
Keywords: boot, partition
Organization: Bell-Northern Research, Ottawa, Canada
Date: Mon, 27 Jul 1992 19:04:37 GMT

Hi world,

Please excuse my ignorance if this has been discussed, but I need
advice from net.knowledge :-)

I have installed OS2 as HPFS in partition 3 of my hard disk. I also
have DOS installed in partition 1. Is there any trick that I can
use so that I can boot from both DOS and OS2 partitions? 

I know how to change partition ID so that DOS partition can be bootable
after OS2 installation, but the problem seems to be that if I marked
partition 1 as a DOS partition, OS2 think that partition 1 is drive C: 
and tries to get files from there, and fails. Is it possible that I can
change config.sys to instruct OS2 to get files from partition 3 instead ?
I would like to know whether this is possibe before jump into changing
my config.sys.

BTW, BOOT manager is not an option because I need all 4 partitions.
Also dual boot is not good because I want to use HPFS.

Any advice will be greatly appreciated. Please post here if you have any
suggestion.

Cheers,

--
+=============================================================================+
| Nhut Nguyen                  |    Internet:   nnhut@bnr.ca                  |
| BNR Ltd., Ottawa, Canada     |    "Oogawa oto wo tatezu..."                 |
+=============================================================================+
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu (Timothy F. Sipples)
Subject: Re: Why do I get less hd space under HPFS than FAT??!?!
Reply-To: sip1@midway.uchicago.edu
Organization: Dept. of Econ., Univ. of Chicago
Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1992 00:42:05 GMT

In article <1992Jul22.211605.12279@iplmail.orl.mmc.com> billr@iplmail.orl.mmc.com (Bill Richmond) writes:
>|> Hello.  I have a question I hope someone can answer.
>|> I have a 130meg Maxtor 7120A IDE hd.
>|> It formats out to 129.9 megs under DOS 5 & FAT.
>|> It formats out to 127.1 megs under OS/2 & HPFS.
>|> Does anyone know why I lose 3 megs if I use HPFS?  I thought that
>|> HPFS would give me more space than FAT because it uses smaller
>|> sector sizes than FAT, or something like that. 
>|> Please reply if you have an answer.  Thanks.
>	It was the other way around for me. I "gained" like 2 megs by
>using the HPFS...

You are both correct.

HPFS initially imposes a slightly higher overhead, but as soon as you
start storing files you save space (because HPFS uses a smaller
cluster size).

It has been my experience that on anything other than small hard disks
HPFS wins on disk capacity (with a "normal" mix of files on the
system).

-- 
Get the OS/2 FREQ. ASKED QUESTIONS LIST | Timothy F. Sipples
from 128.123.35.151, anonymous ftp,     | Internet: sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu
directory pub/os2/all/faq, or from      | Dept. of Econ., U. Chicago, 60637
LISTSERV@BLEKUL11.BITNET (send "HELP"). | Tsongas > Perot > Clinton.  Yay.
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc,comp.os.os2
From: joker@diku.dk (Morten Christian Holmgreen)
Subject: Alien invasion????
Date: Fri, 17 Jul 1992 23:26:45 GMT
Organization: Department of Computer Science, U of Copenhagen

"What the hell was THAT???" I asked myself, when I booted my OS/2 system
this morning - explanation follows:

When I booted the system OS/2 started to boot as usually, but when I should
open the WPS, it just exploded the frame and the second after it imploded
it again, after which it just started the Pulse (which I have in the 
Startup folder) and showed the tasklist with nothing else than pulse in it!

I tried to close Pulse and now there was nothing but the task list there. 
I tried hitting Ctrl-Esc, since my system has hung after boot before, but
that usually helped - well the task list came back, but thats all.

Since I'm about a 100 miles away from my manual and couldn't remember how
to create new .INI files, I was fucked...

"Thank God for tape-backup's" I thought! But I'm using a PM based backup,
so in order to get this to work I had to reinstall OS/2 from the original
disks which I have brought with me (I know, next time I'll remember the
manuals too). So I did this...

After that I wanted to restore, but since the tape is PM based it does NOT
back up the EA-file, and cannot (at restore) restore the files in use by
the OS/2 system, so I freed up another partition and restored the entire
OS/2 disk to the E: drive. Then I booted DOS and XCOPY'ed the files from
E: in the naive hope, that this would restore the WPS-settings as well
as my CONFIG.SYS and (DOS) AUTOEXEC.

So again, I booted OS/2. The CONFIG worked fine, and all the folders were
back in the WPS, but several had lost their original names and were now
using the disk names and further more a lot had lost their original icons,
including the OS/2 System folder and others. "Well, this is not so bad!"
I thought, I can just restall the icons and I'm back in business. How 
naive can you possibly be??? I now wanted to see if the system was intact
as far as functionality is concerned - I discovered that I can now ONLY
run OS/2 programs... DOS and WIN-OS2 sessions just hangs the system...

Further more when I click the mouse in the WPS to shut down the system,
this menu is totally GONE, maybe it was obducted by the aliens that 
smashed my system???

After this long and tedious work I still have a crippled system and
now the question is "WHAT THE HELL HAPPENED TO MY SYSTEM" and how
do I get it back?????

The only thing I know for sure to work is restoring the system
once again, and begin building the WPS as I want it again.

Lesson to all you boys and girls: DO NOT back the OS/2 system up from within
the system if you can avoid it - in the future I will back the OS/2 system
itself up from DOS - that way I should be able to make a 100% perfect copy...

Well, another sleepless night ahead, as I will go fight the aliens that
have invaded my system ;-)

Christian
-- 
M. Christian Holmgreen / joker@diku.dk / mochmch@uts.uni-c.dk
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: MLONG@isucard.card.iastate.edu
Subject: Can someone upload the Clipboard fix to FTP-OS2
Organization: CARD
Date: Sat, 25 Jul 1992 01:53:09 GMT

According to IBM they have released a clipboard fix that is 1-2 MB in size, and 
 is too large to be put on the IBM OS/2 BBS.  Can someone who has this please   
upload to ftp-os2.nmsu.edu                                                      
Thanks,                                                                         
Mike Long                                                                       
Iowa State University
Organization: The American University - University Computing Center
Date: Monday, 27 Jul 1992 14:44:28 EDT
From: <RICHARD@auvm.american.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc,
Subject:    Dell Offers OS/2 on Its PC's: Not Yet

Shortly after posting my last msg about this topic, I spoke with my rep
at Dell to inquire about the price of OS/2 which is listed on page 53
of the summer 1992 catalog.  He told me that his system showed that it
was not yet available and, as a result, was unable to price it.

Richard Edelman
The American University
Washington, DC