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From: enk2@po.cwru.edu (Erik Kovach)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: Very basic questions, but I hope not in FAQ??
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 22:57:05 GMT
Organization: Case Western Reserve University
NNTP-Posting-Host: b62711.student.cwru.edu

In article <1993Jan25.221351.29915@oz.plymouth.edu> tos@oz.plymouth.edu (Tom Schlesinger) writes:
>   1.  OS/2 according to the Index of the Manual has a screen dimmer; but on
>the page referenced, i.e. p. 49, it absolutely says nothing about it, nor
>anywhere else that I can find.  Any suggestions?

The dimmer is just setting the Lockup to AUTOMATIC in the settings view of
the desktop.  A little lock will float around the screen a few minutes after
lockup with this setting.  It's basically a screen SAVER.
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: Mr. File, where?
From: clear@cavebbs.welly.gen.nz (Charlie Lear)
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 93 10:20:39 GMT
Organization: The Cave MegaBBS, Public Access Usenet, Wellington, NZ

In article <1993Jan24.125156.15459@actrix.gen.nz> Steve.Withers@bbs.actrix.gen.nz writes:
>If you get truly desparate, call The CAVE/2 BBS on +64 4 564-2317 ... I 
>have uploaded it to both of them. 
>Mind you, you'd only have nerd access and wouldn't be able to get the file
>anyway.......:-(

Due to the number of people calling The Cave/2 from outside Wellington, I 
have modified the files permissions to allow first-time callers full access
to file downloads.  I'm surprised how fast word has got out about Cave/2's
file archive - and how far people will call to get at the latest files.

Hmm, we're almost getting into alt.bbs.ads territory here.  Anyway, Cave/2
has a Racal 3222 14400bps v32b/v42b modem for fast downloads, and first
time callers should grab the usual ALLFILES.ZIP for a list of what's online.

The system will be down over the next two days to install 2.1b, two new
hard disks and a new display system.  If you call and get no answer, its 
not dead, just very temporarily offline. 

-- 
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Databits Computer Co / Shareware Distribution NZ        Ph/Fax  +64 4 564-5307 
PO Box 2009, Wellington, New Zealand        The Cave MegaBBS +64 4 5642269 V32 
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: impatter@bode.uwaterloo.ca (Ian Michael Patterson)
Subject: Trident 8900C "32-bit-it" DOS fullscreen problem
Organization: University of Waterloo
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 22:17:44 GMT

I have OS/2 2.0 pre-installed on my machine.  This is the version with the 32-bit
graphics engine.  I have a 486 33Mhz machine, and a Trident 8900C video card
installed. I installed the tri32new.zip drivers on my machine with no
problems following the advice in the readme file included.  Although the windowed 
scrolling is slow, I really like these 256 color drivers.

My only problem now is that when I am running a DOS program, and use Alt-Esc
to go back to PM, and then try to re-enter my DOS program, the display is completely
illegible.  I read an article from someone out there that said if you shell out blindly
and run SVGA ON, the display comes back.  This is true, but if you are running something
that cannot shell out, you're SOL.  This is very annoying to deal with, as I am running a
fax modem in a DOS box in the background, so flipping out every couple of minutes, fixing
the display, viewing the fax, coming back in .... ARRRGGGGHHHH!

Anybody heard anything about a fix for this?  There were all kinds of notes about fixes
for the same kind of problem for the previous Trident drivers (16 bit, I guess)  I have
played with SVGA ON in just about every way (from real DOS boot, with the TVGACRTC fix,
blah blah blah...)  I'm going nuts (moreso than usual, anyways)

If anybody can help, please do.  I'm almost ready to go back to Wind... well, maybe not
that desparate!  Anyways, thanks for any help...

IMP.

Ian M. Patterson
Still working for a degree, one more school term
Then I have to get a real job... argh
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: smithgr@rintintin.Colorado.EDU (Gregory P. Smith)
Subject: MMPM/2 works in OS/2 2.0!
Organization: University of Colorado, Boulder
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 05:33:05 GMT

For all of you who want multimedia capabilities, but don't like the 2.1beta
due to it's bugs and long download time, good news.  MMPM/2 works just great
under OS/2 2.0.  Just download the two mmpm disks and run minstall.

Greg
From: kgallagh@digi.lonestar.org (Kevin Gallagher)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: (old) icons lost association with icon editor
Date: 25 Jan 93 18:44:05 GMT
Organization: DSC Communications Corp, Plano, TX

In article <1993Jan23.114816.15170@donau.et.tudelft.nl> linstee@dutecaj.et.tudelft.nl (Erik van Linstee) writes:
>It appears that my icons lost their association with the icon editor
>since I unarj'ed them. I realise that makes them loose the EA's
>but I rather thought the associoation was kept by the system.
>Anyone know of an easy way to reassociate them in one go?

I believe you must be running the 2.1 Beta.  You are probably trying to change
an icon.  After specifying the path where to find the icon file, you press
FIND and OS/2 reports it cannot find any icons in the directory specified.

The 2.0 Beta (which came out after the 2.0 GA release) did not have this
problem.  It located the exact same icon files (without the EA's) and
displayed all the icons in the directory.

The problem is with the FIND selection, not the Icon Editor.  If you bring up
the icon editor and set the directory to the place where your icons reside, it
will display them all and will successfully load any of them into the editor.

If you then immediately save the image back to disk unmodified, the EA's will
be attached to the stored image and the FIND selection, when changing an icon,
will now find the icon.

This is a workaround that will allow you to replace those awful OS/2 icons
with the few you wish to use.  But if you have hundreds of icons saved away, I
do not know how to invoke the icon editor in batch mode to load and save all
the files automatically.  Perhaps someone else can help us.
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From: sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu (Timothy F. Sipples)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: Selectively setting default font sizes
Date: 24 Jan 93 23:08:48 GMT
Reply-To: sip1@midway.uchicago.edu
Organization: Dept. of Econ., Univ. of Chicago

In article <MATT.93Jan24141833@physics2.berkeley.edu> matt@physics.berkeley.edu writes:
>This is probably a frequently asked question, but I couldn't find it
>in the FAQ list, so I don't feel *too* guilty about asking it here...
>What I want to do is to set up default font sizes for my windows---but
>different sizes depending on what I'm doing.  That is, I want emacs to
>start up with one font, OS/2 command prompt windows to start up with
>another font, etc.
>As far as I can tell, there's no way to do that: when I select "Save"
>in the "Font Size" menu, it affects every window that I subsequently
>open.  Am I missing something really obvious, or is there really no
>way to do this?  
>(If there really is no way to do this, then there should be; font
>sizes ought to be customizable on a per-program basis.  Is someone
>from IBM listening?)

I believe 4OS2 1.1 does this with the new WINDOW command.  You can get
4OS2 1.1 via anonymous ftp from ftp-os2.nmsu.edu.  Check file
/pub/os2/00Index for location.

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From: hrpdko@pnv.palm.cri.nz (Dale K. Ogilvie)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: WinOS2 Parallel ports busy bug (SP and 2.1b)
Date: 26 Jan 93 01:19:14 GMT
Organization: DSIR, Palmerston North, New Zealand


In both the SP and now the 2.1 beta the windows program EPSCAN2 (a scanner 
program) cannot use the LPT2 port to which the scanner is connected. OS2 
reports that LPT2 is busy (being used by another app) even when nothing else 
is running. 

This problem can be fixed by replacing the SP/2.1beta VLPT.SYS file with the 
version from 2.0GA.

Dale Ogilvie.
From: stephen@borg_208.cc.ncsu.edu (Stephen Jackson)
Subject: Re: os/2 2.1 beta - my 2 cents worth
Keywords: os2 beta
Reply-To: stephen@ncsu.edu
Organization: NCSU
Distribution: comp
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 16:32:38 GMT


Well, to change from 640x480x16 resolution, you need to run dspinstl from the
OS/2 Window(or full-screen) prompt.  That'll run SVGA ON, and will report back
with the different modes you can choose for your video card.  AS far as HPFS, it
has worked fine for me.  For the MMOS2 drivers, try putting them at the beginning
of your CONFIG.SYS (the Minstall originally puts them at the end of the file).
That helped my system (I have SB PRO).
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From: rommel@jonas.gold.sub.org (Kai Uwe Rommel)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: EMXLIBC.DLL dumps core on me
Date: 24 Jan 93 21:45:33 GMT
Organization: Private

In article <laird.727800605@pasture.ecn.purdue.edu> laird@pasture.ecn.purdue.edu (Kyler Laird) writes:
>Well, I finally got emxlibc to go along with the unix file utilities,
>but every time I run something that uses it, I get an error:
>
>	core dumped
>	000000D2core dumped
>	SYS1808:
>	The process has stopped.  The software diagnostic
>	code (exception code) is  0005.
>
>	(There's also an error pop-up window.)
>
>Any ideas?  The size of my EMXLIBC.DLL is 74402 bytes.  (I don't
>have any checksum programs yet.)

The strange thing is, the GNU file utilities at ftp-os2 are compiled
with emx's -Zomf -Zmt options which (as a side effect) also disables
core dumps. You should not be able to see core dumps with them ...

Why don't you, BTW, get the whole EMX system (you get a C, C++ and
Obj. C compiler, debugger, etc. etc. too ...) and those archives from
ftp-os2 with the other GNU tools (gnu*.zip)?

Kai Uwe Rommel

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DOS ... is still a real mode only non-reentrant interrupt
handler, and always will be.                -Russell Williams
From: x90farleigh1@gw.wmich.edu
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Swap Drive letters? 1.3, 2.X
Date: 27 Jan 93 14:13:44 EST
Organization: Western Michigan University

Is there a utility to swap drive letters for OS/2 1.3, and possibly 2.x?
 - I am running Lan Man and DOS is not available.

Thanks!
Fred Farleigh
X90FARLEIGH1.GW.WMICH.EDU
From: forster@sispa.chem.tu-berlin.de (Peter Forster)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: 20MB and memstat only sees 6 !
Date: 26 Jan 1993 23:02:49 GMT
Organization: Technische Universitaet Berlin, Germany
NNTP-Posting-Host: sispa.chem.tu-berlin.de

I have the GA+SP running on a computer with 20MB installed (I also use
an Adaptec 1542B, so maybe I can only use 16MB as real RAM other than swap
space). Right after booting the system, I open an OS/2 window and call
memstat, which reports the largest continuous block of memory as only about
5-6MB! Why is OS/2 fragmenting its memory like that? I don't load anything
unusual in config.sys (except for SCSI Tape support and quite a few environment
variabes), so there must be more memory available.

Is there anything like a memory-defragmenter, or at least a program that
can show me which drivers and programs are where in memory?

Any help will be appreciated.

Peter

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From: price@helios.unl.edu (Chad  Price)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: TCP/IP Package
Date: 27 Jan 1993 21:16:18 GMT
Organization: University of Nebraska--Lincoln	
NNTP-Posting-Host: helios.unl.edu

Marc_Van-Woerkom@ac3.maus.de (Marc Van-Woerkom) writes:

>Hello!

>We plan to connect a PC to our ethernet, which has several UNIX Workstations
>attached (SGI Iris, probably IBM RS6000 in the near future) to it.

>I think OS/2 is the proper operating system, but I need some info about
>the TCP/IP package for OS/2. (X-windows? NFS? 3270 emulation?)

I'm using IBM's TCP/IP 1.2.1 for OS/2 to write this response (logged into a
sparc via telnet). FTP is a PM app, and works well; X-win works OK to display
things, tn3270 works very well, NFS works OK, send-mail and nameserver stuff is
somewhat unreliable due, I think, to our particular local Token ring -
eithernet - gateway mix. Our primary nameserver is on an ethernet across a
gateway, and the link across that from the token ring is unreliable. This is a
general problem, not necessarily a TCP/IP problem, as when I am logged into
another machine in Lincoln, NE (I work in Omaha, NE - 50 miles away) and try to
get to machines across that gateway, I often have problems with hung
connections or failures to connect.

The only real problem is that after a few hours, all of my connections seem to
get dropped and I have to reboot (to restart all of the TCP/IP stuff). I think
I could just rerun the starttcp.cmd batch file after killing all of the TCP/IP
daemons, but I've never bothered. The time period before dropped connections
was increased by quite a bit with the last CSD, but this seems to be a kludge
until they find out what is really causing the problem. Things get dropped
after 3-4 hours.
--
chad
price@helios.unl.edu
cprice@molecular.unmc.edu
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: b259phl@utarlg.uta.edu (PHILIP LIPPEL)
Subject: Re: info needed on realtime data collection
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41    
Organization: The University of Texas at Arlington
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 16:48:00 GMT

In article <1993Jan27.020312.4883@nuscc.nus.sg>, eletanjm@nuscc.nus.sg (Tan Jin Meng) writes...
>b259phl@utarlg.uta.edu (PHILIP LIPPEL) writes:
>[ other stuff deleted ]
> 
>: The second Labmaster card is being used primarily for digital i/o from a 2-dimen
>: sional position-sensitive detector. Expected data rate is up to 100k events
>: /second. Each even requires a sixteen bit data transfer. All parts of this
>: system are " under development". Eventually the data taker will be a 486/33,
>: but we have transferred data at 100kHz on the 486/33 using a preliminary, 
>: DOS-based, program running in a DOS window. 
> 
>100kHz!!!! Is this correct??? This works out to 10 microseconds per
>event - which would make it almost an order of magnitude faster than the
>probable OS/2 context switch time.
> 
>Has anyone done realtime graphics display on an OS/2 machine?
>(DOS,WINOS2 or PM). What's the performance esp. with respect to timing
>jitter?
> 
>jin meng
Yes thats the correct rate. Context switching isn't really relevant-- it only
adds some time at the beginning of an acquisition cycle. We use a FIFO to store
a bunch of 16 bit numbers (representing the positions at which a particle hit
our detector). When the FIFO is half-full it generates an interrupt; you have
half the time to fill, then, to respond to the interrupt and empty the FIFO.
100kHz avg transfer rate is no problem. Whether or not you have time to do
anythig else while acquiring data at this rate depends on your machine, and
on how much you have to do with the received data. In our case we are just 
building a histogram in memory which amounts to a VERY short assembly program--
increment memory location X. 
P. Lippel
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: jarmo@ksvltd.fi (Jarmo Raiha)
Subject: Re: NEC CD-ROM and OS/2 2.1b
Organization: KSV Instruments ltd. Helsinki,Finland
Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 10:11:31 GMT

sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu (Timothy F. Sipples) writes:

>In article <1jkhg8INN9po@iskut.ucs.ubc.ca> hook@geog.ubc.ca (Chris Hook) writes:
>>Sorry if this is a 'daft' posting, but I can`t figure out how to access
>>my NEC CD-ROM drive (model CDR 73) from within OS/2 2.1b. 

>I suspect you are using the NEC-supplied SCSI adapter, which is made
>by Trantor.  Trantor drivers for OS/2 are available via anonymous ftp
>from ftp-os2.nmsu.edu.  They are in directory /pub/os2/new at the
>moment, but check file /pub/os2/00Index if you can't find them there.

When I installed NEC CD with adaptec scsi adapter it didn't work either.
The reason was (this was november 2.1 b) that the installation set up
ibm cdrom which uses cdrom.sys. I had to copy cdrom_g.sys from
the boot diskette and change config.sys accordingly.

Jarmo Raiha
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: ggb2390@Msu.oscs.montana.edu
Subject: help with 2.1b disk images
Reply-To: ggb2390@Msu.oscs.montana.edu
Organization: Montana State University
Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 04:08:29 GMT

	I down loaded the 2.1b disk images from a local ftp site that is
temporarly mirroring hobes. Could someone tell me how to unzip the disk images.
I have tried pkunzip for os2 and it would not unzip the images is there another
utility that I should be using. Any help would be greatly appreaciated.


Greg Baty      Internet   ggb2390@trex.oscs.montana.edu
                          icsic107@trex.oscs.montana.edu
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: kspousta@qualcom.qualcomm.com (Kevin Spousta)
Subject: Seamless Windows Missing .DLLs
Organization: Qualcomm, Inc., San Diego, CA
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 02:20:06 GMT

This is probably a FAQ, and I'm probably going to answer my own question again,
but what the hell...

When I fire off a couple of Windows apps they start to come up and then quit with a nasty "Missing blah.dll file" and then quit.  Do I have to copy these .DLL
files to my DLL directory OR do I need to add statements to my path statement
(or would that be LIBPATH?)

Oh yeah, while I'm on the path thing, somebody please tell me the path statement can be more than 127 characters long..  (please, no smart assed replies <grin>)


Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: donaldc@tangier.cs.dal.ca (Donald Chisholm)
Subject: Fdisk and partitions question
Organization: Math, Stats & CS, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, Canada
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 22:11:26 GMT

	If there is someone out there who knows EXACTLY what fdisk does I'd like some
help on the following problem:

	Recently my system lost the primary partition information somehow, my primary
partition shows up as a Non-Dos one.  My question is will fdisk destroy the information 
on that partition if I delete it and set it back up as primary dos of exactly the same
size?  I'm hoping if I do this and not format the partition the system may be able to
boot again provided other information was not destroyed.
	To sum up I'd like to restate the partition information, but not format, and recover
that partition's data.

Reply by E-mail please,

	Don
From: sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu (Timothy F. Sipples)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: How do I install ET4000 drivers?
Date: 26 Jan 93 17:07:06 GMT
Reply-To: sip1@midway.uchicago.edu
Distribution: usa
Organization: Dept. of Econ., Univ. of Chicago

In article <csjohn.728059113@knuth.mtsu.edu> csjohn@knuth.mtsu.edu (John Wallace) writes:
>I have OS/2 GA + CSD already installed into my machine.  Yesterday,
>I bought a Diamond Speedstar Plus (ET4000 based) 16-bit graphics card
>with 1MB video RAM.  I have heard that the CSD came with ET4000 drivers,
>but I am unsure as to how to install them to my machine without having
>to re-install everything all over again!  How do I do this??  Thanks.

See the README file that comes with your Service Pak (it is installed
in the root directory).  It should explain the procedure (hint:
Selective Install).

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From: dic5340@hertz.njit.edu (David Charlap)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: Opinions Please -- WPS "feature"
Date: 27 Jan 93 21:48:15 GMT
Organization: New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, N.J.

In article <1993Jan26.163319.22622@novell.com> lkawecki@novell.com (Lewis Kawecki) writes:
>A window should be able to take
>the focus without coming to the foreground.  The window focus should be 
>able to be different from the foreground window.

This is already the case.  The WM_SETFOCUS message doesn't
automatically bring a window to the top.  This is simply part of some
message's default processing.  Either a WM_BUTTON1DOWN in the title
bar or the WM_SETFOCUS message's default processing.  If you handle
this message yourself and don't give it to the system, your app can
exhibit these properties as well.

If you bring yourself to the top (with a WinSetWindowPos call), you
don't automatically get focus, and if you give yourself focus (also
with WinSetWindowPos, with different parameters), you don't
automatically get sent to the top.

So, OS/2 is well equipped to handle what you ask.  The default
handlers only need minor changes.  These might even be corrected with
a message queue hook by an application program.
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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: orville%weyrich@uunet.uu.net (Orville R. Weyrich)
Subject: Re: 2.1 bugs, suggestions. (was Re: 2.1b bug and editorial comment on killing processes)
Reply-To: uunet.uu.net!weyrich!orville
Organization: Weyrich Computer Consulting
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 93 07:21:01 GMT

In article <gershon.727824147@husc.harvard.edu> gershon@husc11.harvard.edu (Ethan Gershon) writes:
>Anohter thing the scroll bars need is buttons for *both* directions at
>*both* ends of the scroll bar...

While we are talking about features to minimize mouse movement -- how about
putting the CLOSE option at the top of the pull-down menu invoked by the
top left corner of a window? 9 times out of 10, if I open the menu, that's what
I want to do, rather than having to hunt down the list to find it at some
window-dependent place in the list?



orville

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