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From: ochealth@unixg.ubc.ca (ochealth)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware,comp.os.msdos.misc
Subject: Re: Question about Parallel Port, please read
Date: 28 Dec 1992 23:03:38 GMT
Organization: University of British Columbia, Vancouver, B.C., Canada
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In article <BzzEH2.8CC@mccc.edu> pjh@mccc.edu (Pete Holsberg) writes:
>In article <1hmba2INN7jk@iskut.ucs.ubc.ca> ochealth@unixg.ubc.ca (ochealth) writes:
>
>=>If I set the jumper for bidirectional operation, am I depending on the
>=>printer electronics to set that bit correctly? Do all printers do it
>=>correctly? 
>
>=There are three ports that control the printer port:
>=for lpt1, there is port 378h (data) and 379h and 37Ah for other stuff.
>=Since bit 5 is assigned at 379, and bit 5 isn't used for 37A, I guess
>=the control bit is at port address 37A.
>
>True, but that doesn't answer the question. Do you know of any programs
>that control those ports? Thanks.

Since bit 5 of the control reigister ( 37Ah for LPT1) is non-standard, I
doubt if many programs will. The bidirectional feature will be useless for
printer stuff, but since you can use the parallel port for other things,
like File Shuttle (transfer files between computers) and for add on
SCSI adapters, tape drives, hard disks, etc., those drivers MAY know about
non-standard features, it might be usefull.

Basically, if you are just putting a printer on the port, it won't matter.
If you put a tape drive on the parallel port, the biderctional feature will
be VERY good (I'm pretty sure the driver program will test for bidirectional
ports, and WILL use them if it can.)

I wrote a short C program to test out the parallel ports, and my parallel
port control register doesn't let you set or clear bit 5 (or 6 or 7);
BUT I noticed that several parallel port lines marked OUTPUT are actually
bidirectional by default. I would leave your IO card jumpered for 
bidirectional ablility unless your printer acts strangely (it can't hurt).

The parallel port is pretty verssatile for electronics hacking if you like
doing that. It runs at 5 V, TTL logic levels, and the outputs can drive
70 mA per output pin, around 30 mA for bi-directional pins.

Some of this is hardware dependent, so don't take my card's setup as gospel
truth for IBMs.



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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: COM Port Help Please
From: sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu (Timothy F. Sipples)
Date: Fri, 1 Jan 1993 19:25:25 GMT
Reply-To: sip1@midway.uchicago.edu
Followup-To: comp.os.os2.misc
Organization: Dept. of Econ., Univ. of Chicago

The rule for AT bus interrupt assignments is always, "Keep it simple
if you can."  Here goes...

In article <1992Dec21.013036.21894@u.washington.edu> mts@hardy.u.washington.edu (Sean Milligan) writes:
>	Does anybody know why the following setup of my COM ports and Iterrupt settings doesn't work:
>		IRQ	Address		Remarks
>	COM1:    4	  3F8		Currently my mouse
>	COM2:    5	  2F8		This is the one I'm having 
>						problems with.
>	COM3:	 3	  3E8		Boca 14.4K Modem
>	CD-ROM	 2 	DMA Channel 3	Mitsumi CD-ROM
>My main problem is COM2.  Before I had it set to IRQ3, 2F8 and I believe this 
>worked.  Currently I only use this port to connect to my HP48SX Calculator but 
>for some reason I can't get it to work.  I tried COM1 for the serial cable to 
>calculator connection and it worked.  

Keep COM2 on its default IRQ 3.  Move COM3 to IRQ 5 (which you can do,
I believe, because the internal Boca 14.4K modem supports it).

>Then I tried to install my mouse as COM2 and use COM1 to connect to my 
>calculator.  But my mouse no longer worked and upon bootup OS/2 said COM3 not
>installed, Address not available.
>If anybody has any suggestions they would be greatly appreciated.  Should I try
>a different address for COM2?  Possible choices are 3E8, 2F8, or 2E8.  I don't
>want to change my COM3 becuase before PMCOMM never worked and now it does.

See the advice in the OS/2 FAQ List about adding the necessary
parameters to your COM.SYS and VCOM.SYS lines in OS/2's CONFIG.SYS.
This will enable COM3 for you.

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From: bf703@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Patrick J. Volkerding)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: TEXT FILE VIEWER...any?
Date: 25 Dec 1992 08:28:49 GMT
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
Reply-To: bf703@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Patrick J. Volkerding)
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In a previous article, umnoor@ccu.umanitoba.ca (Nasir Ahmed Noor) says:

>
>Could some one please list any file viewer for os/2 which could be used
>from command line. There are many DOS text file viewers around but I am
>looking for something which is native os2 2.0. There has to be a better
>solution to using type <file name>|more and I dont want to switch to PM
>for it.
>
>Thanks very much.
>
>--nasir
>umnoor@ccu.umanitoba.ca
>

Get yourself a copy of 4OS2. This is a replacement shell for CMD.EXE
and will give you *many* nice features, including a LIST command. I'm
pretty sure they have it at the ftp-os2.nmsu.edu site, somewhere under
/pub/os2/2.0/...

It is nearly identical in function to the 4DOS shell for MS-DOS, if
you're familiar with that. 4DOS also works in OS/2 DOS sessions. I
don't think anyone who spends time at the command line should be
without these.

Good luck!

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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: scastill@nmsu.edu (Steve Castillo)
Subject: 8514 seamless windows
Organization: NMSU Computer Science
Distribution: comp.os.os2.misc
Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1992 16:45:45 GMT


I follow this newsgroup regularly and have not seen anything recently
on 8514 seamless windows drivers.  Does anybody know when and if IBM
is going to provide 8514 seamless windows drivers?  I have an ATI
Graphics Ultra.  Since it appears that ATI is dragging their heels
about writing drivers for the Ultra card it appears that the next best
hope is for 8514 drivers.  I have now come to the conclusion that my
purchase of the (expensive) ATI card was a big mistake.  The Trident
is much cheaper and has good OS/2 seamless windows drivers written for it.
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From: eliot@engr.washington.edu (eliot)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: how to print from word to remote lpd server?
Date: 22 Dec 92 03:29:10 GMT
Article-I.D.: engr.Dec22.032613.32599
Organization: University of Washington


I have a single OS2 2.0 machine in a big cluster of unix boxes.  The
os2 machine has tcpip for os2 installed.  I'm trying to figure out how
I can do remote printing from word for windows to a unix box running
lpd.  I have so far been unable to even output a postscript file from
this program.  (the os2 machine does not have a printer attached)

a seconday problem that i'm running into is a "ghost printer object"
that I tried to delete but did not completely delete.  the bitmap for
the icon is gone, so is the device driver, but the title below the
icon remains and a dotted outline shows up if i click on it.  dragging
the object to the shredder doesn't do it.  how can i get rid of it
for good?

thanks in advance for any help or advice.


eliot
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: shurr@cbnews.cb.att.com (larry.a.shurr)
Subject: Re: Question about OS/2 emulated DOS, how it works???
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Columbus, OH
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 15:52:15 GMT

In article <1992Dec19.183854.14335@midway.uchicago.edu> pynq@midway.uchicago.edu writes:
}In article <1992Dec18.190627.12697@cbnews.cb.att.com> shurr@cbnews.cb.att.com (larry.a.shurr) writes:
}...
}>Hmmm...  There's more to it than meets the eye.  Logically, I would have 
}>agreed with you, but [nnansi.com complains that it's already loaded in a
}>new VDM started after terminating an old one].

}Amazing.  I have had this same problem - loading a TSR (QD). 

}>[I don't see how as TSR can survive from one session to the next].

}I think it does...

I forgot about this thread and that I had intended to check if nnansi.com
really survives from one session to the next.  However, circumstances
caused me to test, anyway, and what I found is that in the case of nnansi,
it doesn't... at least, it doesn't work.  Given your description of how QD
performs it's installation check (searches memory for a copy of itself),
perhaps the code is present in the VDM's address space, but it's not
hooked in to the appropriate interrupts, so it doesn't do anything.

Larry
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registering?  Your ears are green.  Logic is a little bird singing in a
meadow.  Logic is a wreath of pretty flowers which smell bad! - Mr. Spock
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: "James F. Adams" <p00003@psilink.com>
Subject: OS2 2.1 Beta and Soundblaster
Organization: None.
Date: Fri, 1 Jan 1993 02:56:28 GMT
X-Mailer: PSILink (3.2)

Has anyone got the OS2 2.1 Beta MMPM/2 to work with a non-pro
soundblaster?  The media player refuses to open the device.  The
card works in the beta Windows 3.1 and the OS/2 provided DOS
sessions.  The card is configured as: IRQ 3, IO Addr 220H, and DMA 1.

Please respond by e-mail if possible.
From: hendrik@vedge.com (Hendrik Boom)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: NEC Express CDR 25
Date: 29 Dec 92 03:14:43 GMT
Organization: Visual Edge Software Ltd.

Real soon now, I expect to be getting the DAP CD.
I'd like to prepare for it by buying a CD-ROM drive.
Locally available is a thing called the "NEC Express",
which comes with device drivers for DOS.  The salesman *thinks*
there is an OS/2 driver for it, but does not know
for sure.  IBM informs me that the NEC CDR 84 and NEC CDR 74
are on their list of drives they know to work, and that other drives
may well work too.  The drive in the "NEC Express" is,
however, a NEC CDR 25.

Does anyone know if this drive works with the OS/2 DAP disk?
And does anyone know where to obtain the driver?

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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: dwl@watson.ibm.com (David W. Levine)
Subject: Re: IBM won't accept Internet problem reports any more
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 08:08:54 GMT
Reply-To: dwl@watson.ibm.com 
Disclaimer: This posting represents the poster's views, not necessarily those of IBM
Organization: IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center
Keywords: IBM problem report compuserve cis

Maybe this will help a little. John Soyring (Director of Software
Development Programs for Personal Software) found out about this and is working
to get with the right people and straighten this out. 

For what it's worth, IBM's still not exactly small, and sometimes the
left and right hand don't always talk to each other. The good news is
that your complaints are getting very direct, unfiltered exposure to
the people who can fix it.  

David W. Levine --  dwl@watson.ibm.com  -- IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center
                   -- My Opinions, IBM's hardware. -- 
"Fanaticism consists in redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your
aim" - George Santayana
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Must be the monitor then.......
From: Steve.Withers@bbs.actrix.gen.nz
Date: Fri, 25 Dec 1992 10:44:51 GMT
Organization: Actrix Information Exchange

In article <Bzrt73.Dn1@netnews.jhuapl.edu> hildajk1@netnews.jhuapl.edu (Ken Hildabolt) writes:
>
> Steve,
> 
> I have experience with three machines using a Trident and C3.01 Bios.
> First is mine, using a Zenith ZCM-1492 monitor, 640x480x256c no problem.
> Second is a friend using a Sony-1304, worked in 640x480x256c and 1024x
> 768x256c, but at 800x600x256c had problems with vertical height, desk-
> top was ok in height, but OS/2 and DOS full screen were short, and any
> program run in DOS was short.
> Third, at work using a NEC 3FGx, works great in all three resolutions.
> 
> Ken

Thanks to those who replied. You are uninimous: C3.01 Trident is OK. It must
be the monitor......:-(
 
Steve
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From: h198@hosp.med.umich.edu  (Gene Mangum)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: SBlaster 2.0 and 2.1 beta MMPM/2....help?
Date: Fri, 01 Jan 1993  22:08 EDT
Organization: Univ of Michigan Hospitals
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In Article <1992Dec31.205851.11204@actrix.gen.nz> "Steve.Withers@bbs.actrix.gen.nz" says:
> I have installed the OS/2 2.1 beta's multi-media support. It included Sound
> Blaster 2.0 support. When I open the Digital Audio Player or the MIDI player,
> it tells that it failes to open the Digital Audio device. 
 
  I got my OS/2 2.1 beta last night, installed it today, and had the same
  problem.   I re-installed the OS2MMPM.ZIP set of drivers with no change.
  Then I moved the CONFIG.SYS lines for the SB to the top of CONFIG.SYS
  and it started working.   I have:
 
      IFS=D:\OS2\HPFS.IFS  /CACHE:256 /CRECL:4 /AUTOCHECK:E
      DEVICE=D:\SBPCD2.SYS /P:240
      DEVICE=G:\MMOS2\SBP2D2.SYS 1 3 5 240 4
      SET MMBASE=G:\MMOS2;
      SET DSPPATH=G:\MMOS2\DSP;
      DEVICE=G:\MMOS2\SSMDD.SYS
      DEVICE=G:\MMOS2\ADSHDD.SYS
      PROTSHELL=D:\OS2\PMSHELL.EXE
      etc...
 
  [Stuff Deleted]
 
> I did notice that the MMPM/2 install of the Sound Blaster has the DMA
> selection box "shadowed out". It let me set the IRQ and address, but not the
> DMA setting. Could this be a PS/2 "feature"......he says, grasping at straws.
  On mine, I first got a combo-box with different versions of the SB, then
  a box asking how many SB's I had, then it asked for DMA with a combo-box.
  The selections were a little too far to the right, but readable.   It
  may be different on a PS/2 (I'm assuming microchannel??).   I suspect
  then above will fix it.
  Good Luck,
From: sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu (Timothy F. Sipples)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: Installation problems
Date: 2 Jan 93 18:19:28 GMT
Reply-To: sip1@midway.uchicago.edu
Distribution: usa
Organization: Dept. of Econ., Univ. of Chicago

In article <1hmbojINNe95@msuinfo.cl.msu.edu> sundaram@egr.msu.edu (Divya Sundaram) writes:
>I was trying to install OS2 GA (original) on my machine and when I put the 
>Install disk in and boot up with it, it gives me the following errors:
>	OS/2 !! SYS02025
>	OS/2 !! SYS02027
>What does that mean? ANybody willing to enlighten me on this?

It's the OS/2 equivalent of "Non system disk -- insert another."
There are a few possible explanations.  One of the more likely is that
you simply have a bad disk.  Use DISKCOPY (under DOS, even) to see if
the disk is corrupt.  If you can copy it successfully, it should be
OK.

What does your system consist of, hardware-wise?

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From: "Christoph Luebbe" <UJ4J@DKAUNI2.BITNET>
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Soundcard Pro Audio Spectrum 16
Date: 28 Dec 1992 16:07:18 +0100
Organization: University of Karlsruhe, Germany
Distribution: world

..
Hi
I am looking for technical Information about my new PAS 16 Soundcard
Pin/Connector Assignement of the MIDI Interface, Programming Tools
etc for OS/2.
..
Thanks in advance
Christoph Luebbe
UJ4J@DKAUNI2.BITNET
From: h198@hosp.med.umich.edu  (Gene Mangum)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Colorado and Sytos - Round #2
Date: Sat, 02 Jan 1993  16:10 EDT
Organization: Univ of Michigan Hospitals
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Well, I went back to the README file for Sytos, and guess what?   I just
wasn't patient enough :-)   It takes 40 minutes to format a tape (DC2000)!
I guess they do one byte per pass of the tape.   Anyway, after the tape
formatted, I backed up a partition which has 12.5M of data on it.   It
took about 6 min, and the compare afterward *said* the backup was good.
I haven't actually tried a restore yet, though.
 
Someone else mentioned that it "buzzed" his A: drive every time it accessed
the tape.   Mine buzzed the B: drive maybe 2-3 times, but generally not.
This software does eat the machine, though.   Now I know why they have
unattended backup.   The machine is unusable while the backup/format runs!

  Gene Mangum
  Univ of Michigan Hospitals
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From: pathak@mitre.org (Heeren Pathak)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc,comp.os.os2.advocacy
Subject: Obtaining the new beta CD (NEW PHONE #)
Date: 23 Dec 92 16:24:07 GMT
Followup-To: comp.os.os2.misc
Organization: Mitre Corporation

I tried obtaining the beta CD using the number posted in the original
announcement (800-IBM-3040).  The person I talked to did not know anything
about the beta program.  She had seen the announcement that was posted to
the net (judging by the sound of her voice, she had received a bunch of
calls already).  

DO NOT CALL THE NUMBER ON THE ORIGINAL POSTING.

TO OBTAIN THE BETA, CALL: 800-3-IBM-OS2 (800-342-6672).

I called this morning and placed an order.  The beta CD should start
shipping in about two weeks.  Since this will be a wide spread beta and the
beta program ends at the end of Feb., I wouldn't expect a release until
early to mid March.

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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: scurry@pansy.srg (Scott Curry)
Subject: REPOST: Questions installing emx0.8e for the first time
Organization: ARINC Research, Corp.
Date: Tue, 29 Dec 92 23:04:46 GMT

I have two questions about installing emx0.8e.

First, I realize that the c++ include files are longer than 8.3 and should
be installed under HPFS, but I am still using FAT and want to know if there
is a work around or solution to getting emx to install the c++ stuff under
FAT?  Has someone reconfigured emx0.8e to conform to the FAT 8.3 filenames?

Second, I am having trouble with termcap under emx0.8e; hence, gdb4.6 doesn't
work.  Specifically, I have setup the environment variables etc, correctly, but
emx stills says my term is too dum to run gdb and I assume that is because
something is wrong with the termcap, but I am not sure what.  Any hints?

Thanks for the help in advance,

Scott

email: scurry%srg.uunet.uu.net

or please post a follow up.


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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: charlie@elektro.cmhnet.org (Charlie Smith)
Subject: Re: Disk Interleave??  What the general rule of thumb??
Organization: Why do you suspect that?
Date: Sat, 26 Dec 92 04:11:43 GMT

In article <BzMu6G.L4p@news.cso.uiuc.edu> th9708@meibm8.cen.uiuc.edu (Todd Lee Henderson) writes:
>
>
>
>I posted about this several days ago and got very little reponse.
>
>Some time ago there was a discussion of the proper interleave for disk
>under OS/2.  I only got part of the discussion and seem to remember that
>the appropriate interleave was 1 greater than the bios recommended as the
>optimum.  Any better facts on the subject??
>
>The disk to be used specifically is the WD 2200 214 meg IDE drive with
>at least 512k HPFS Cache(unless someone wants to let me in on the 'best' size
>cache for 16 meg systme memory??)
>

I'm not real OS/2 knowledgable, but - I've put together lots and lots of 
PC type machines with most types of disk under the sun.

You want a 1:1 interleave for best performance, assuming you have a decent 
disk controller board for most disks.  You only get to screw with the 
interleave factor when you do a low level format of the drive.


With IDE, my understanding is that you don't want to redo the low level
format of the drive, for these reasons:

	With the controller on the drive (IDE), you may not be able to
	see the real drive geometry.

	How you do the low level format is very specific to the drives
	geometry.  Low level formats involve setting the track to track
	offsets in addition to the interleasve factor.  Also, this usually
	lets you specify the number of sectors / track, which may or may
	not include "spare sectoring", depending on whether your controller
	will support it.

Anyway, you get the idea.  Now, why are you trying to specify your own
choice of interleave for an IDE drive?   I'd suggest leaving it alone.


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From: zhao@unixg.ubc.ca (Jiansheng Zhao)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Graphic Terminal Emulation?
Date: 2 Jan 93 00:41:14 GMT
Organization: The University of British Columbia
NNTP-Posting-Host: unixg.ubc.ca


C-kermit is a good program. However, I sometimes need graphic terminal
emulation, tek4013, for example, which C-kermit doesn't have (?). Should I go
back to MS-kermit? or there are other OS/2 comm. program can do the trick?
Thanks
-- 
Jiansheng Zhao
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zhao@unixg.ubc.ca