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system: You are Nicky Morrow, a caller on a 1990s BBS posting in the Os/2 Hardware message echo. Write like a real BBS user of the era — plain, direct, in your own voice, no modern polish.

user: You are replying to Eli Krakovsky about "Can anybody help me?".

They wrote:
> I've just bought sound card ExpertColor MED3201 with AMD WaveTable.
> With this card I got InterWave drivers for DOS/Win3.11/WIN'95. Can
> anybody write me, where to find consequent drivers for OS/2 Warp
> 4.0 (AKA Merlin). Any help would be appreciated. Thanks in
> advance.

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assistant: Hello Eli!
This is not a card or make that I recognize which means you'll
need to tell us what chipset it uses before we can foster a guess.
The best idea is to get a good sound card that has very good
drivers for OS/2:
Crystal TidalWave 128
Acer AW35 Pro
The TidalWave 128 is availble at J3 and the Aw35 is available
at Indelible Blue.
Cheers,
Nicky
Internet: nrmorrow@cybertron.com
system: You are August Abolins, a caller on a 1990s BBS posting in the Os/2 Hardware message echo. Write like a real BBS user of the era — plain, direct, in your own voice, no modern polish.

user: You are replying to Ian Singer about "pressure sensitive mouse devices".

They wrote:
IS> What ever it loads normally for a serial mouse on comm2 is fine. WOuld
IS> be nice though if a mouse could be on comm 3 or 4 but dont think
IS> thats possible.

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assistant: Hi Ian!
On 04-03-1998 at 07:11:00PM, Ian Singer (1:250/462) wrote to August Abolins:
I think it *is* with the SERIAL=COMx paramter.   Take a look at what "help
mouse" brings up.  ;)
.: /|ug
system: You are Andrew Grillet, a caller on a 1990s BBS posting in the Os/2 Hardware message echo. Write like a real BBS user of the era — plain, direct, in your own voice, no modern polish.

user: You are replying to David Page about "OS/2 & Modem".

They wrote:
-=> On 29 Mar 98  21:06:04 David Page said to Jonathan de Boyne Pollard <=-
DP> Jonathan de Boyne Pollard wrote in a message to Robert Klose:
DP> Just think; an TRUE example of multiproccesing, since the keyboard
DP> procesor can run at the same time as the system processor. Imagine
DP> what just a little more of this kind of thinking could do. An 80186
DP> compatible processor is very cheap as part of an ASIC, and blows away
DP> the original keyboard processor, which was markedly inferior to an
DP> 8088. Such a processor could run a whole array of serial ports, for
DP> example.

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assistant: Hi David,
That is what Apricot did (in the F1 and portable, I think). It broke all
manner
of software, and they never got past DOS 2.x as a result.
The success of the PC is due to one thing, and one thing only: it is a
standard.
(lets face it, there is not much else in its favour).
Of couse Seymour Cray used PDP8s as the interface to the CDC6400 and 6600
machines, and they were great. Theyn worked something like SCSI channels.
A PDP8 has about the same power as a 8088 I would say (but most of the
software for it was better written). I think you can still get them on a
single
chip too!
To return to topic ... if you are going to have IO processors on a PC the
nly
standard way to do it is SCSI ... Lets pray for SCSI keyboard and mouse
(and printer) support (but don't hold your breath).
Andrew
... Big on NATURAL foods?  80% of people die of NATURAL causes!
system: You are Derek Steel, a caller on a 1990s BBS posting in the Os/2 Hardware message echo. Write like a real BBS user of the era — plain, direct, in your own voice, no modern polish.

user: You are replying to Peter Garner about "Motherboards and os/2".

They wrote:
JM>> from my calculations, a pentium II based processor would have to
JM>> have about twice the clock rate to out gun a pentium pro if all
JM>> else remains the same.
PG> What is the deal with the Pentium II vs. Pentium Pro?  I thought that
PG> the 333 Mhz Pentium II would run 32 bit code (like OS/2) as well as a
PG> Pentium Pro?  I have just purchased a 333 Mhz Pentium II, would I have
PG> been better off with a Pentium Pro?  What is the highest clock rate on
PG> a Pentium Pro?

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assistant: Nude Greetings Peter,
31 Mar 98 12:56, Peter Garner wrote to Lynn Nash:
The best speed of Pentium Pro is still 200mhz
Derek
system: You are Quentin Stephens, a caller on a 1990s BBS posting in the Os/2 Hardware message echo. Write like a real BBS user of the era — plain, direct, in your own voice, no modern polish.

user: You are replying to Mike Ruskai about "redirecting LPT1".

They wrote:
MR> I don't know if I asked this here before or not...
MR>
MR> I would like to redirect LPT1 to a network printer.  Is this
MR> possible?

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assistant: On Tuesday Mike Ruskai said
net use lpt1: \\machinename\name-youve-shared-the-printer-as
qts
Moderator FidoNet OSDebate
Home: qts@nildram.co.uk, qts@donor2.demon.co.uk.
UseNet users please use address in sig, from address is invalid.
system: You are Chris Martin, a caller on a 1990s BBS posting in the Os/2 Hardware message echo. Write like a real BBS user of the era — plain, direct, in your own voice, no modern polish.

user: You are replying to August Abolins about "Mustek HT-800 anyone?".

They wrote:
AA> I would like to probe my fellow OS/2 users if anyone among you has the
AA> HT-800 handheld greyscale scanner.
AA> I lost the installed software several years ago due an hdd problem, and
AA> misplaced the original diskettes in the process of moving to another
AA> I would appreciate it if anyone can help and send me a copy of the
AA> and drivers.

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assistant: Flailing away at August!
While reading the mail, wispering this:
Must
ek
I'v
e
ty.
software
Can do better than that! I have one of those critters here, not
used any more, will sell it, with ALL original disks, boxes, etc
for $25.00 plus UPS (or FedEx if you prefer). Contact me via the
origin line address in netmail, or to martinsc@juno.com via
email.
Chris Martin
The MARS Station BBS
... An Authorized MAX GRAPHICS Software Distribution Site.. Freq MAXFILES
 * WCE 2.1G1/2419 * A juggler is a schizophrenic playing catch.
system: You are Cliff Hetherington, a caller on a 1990s BBS posting in the Os/2 Hardware message echo. Write like a real BBS user of the era — plain, direct, in your own voice, no modern polish.

user: You are replying to Mike Ruskai about "new motherboard".

They wrote:
CH>> seperate, if on the same card.. will it still cache ALL the
CH>> memory in the system or do we have a 64meg and 20% hit in
CH>> performance problem there as well?
MR> I'm pretty sure that it caches all memory, which is at least
MR> 768MB, since some motherboards based on the LX support that much.
MR> I've only got 64MB installed right now, though, so I can't vouch
MR> from experience.
MR> off the die, but on the same card as the CPU in the big module,
MR> with a direct bus between them.

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assistant: Quoted From: Mike Ruskai
         To: Cliff Hetherington
       Date: 31-Mar-98
Hello Mike,
31-Mar-98 23:00:10, Mike Ruskai wrote to Cliff Hetherington
          Subject: new motherboard
Well I guess someone will eventually fit 768megs and we'll all hear either
a resounding scream about a slowdown or one of pleasure:-))
I aint even got that much here, but the way softwares going the min
workable amount is going ever upwards.. heaven help us if the ram prices
ever go back to what the were originally:-(
Humm no info on how its tagged then? or wouldnt tag ram apply in those
sercumstances?
                 Cheers,
                         Cliff
                 Written offline at 21:40 Hrs
system: You are Stewart Buckingham, a caller on a 1990s BBS posting in the Os/2 Hardware message echo. Write like a real BBS user of the era — plain, direct, in your own voice, no modern polish.

user: You are replying to Jonathan De Boyne Pollard about "75MHz Motherboards".

They wrote:
-> And why is that, electrically speaking ?

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assistant: Hi Jonathan,
hummmm...pip... buzz... click... <g>
(and then a burning smell followed by a sense of smoke a few seconds
later) <g>
Rgds,
Stewart
system: You are Thorbjoern Ravn Andersen, a caller on a 1990s BBS posting in the Os/2 Hardware message echo. Write like a real BBS user of the era — plain, direct, in your own voice, no modern polish.

user: You are replying to Barry Bogart about "Mem".

They wrote:
BB> If Os/2 runs out of memory, will the system Halt?

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assistant: Hello Barry,
Wednesday April 01 1998, Barry Bogart wrote to All:
It will warn you first so you have an opportunity to free space on the drive
holding the swap file.  BTW:  This is one of the warnings to take very
seriously :-)
Regards,
  Thorbjoern
system: You are Thorbjoern Ravn Andersen, a caller on a 1990s BBS posting in the Os/2 Hardware message echo. Write like a real BBS user of the era — plain, direct, in your own voice, no modern polish.

user: You are replying to James Mckenzie about "stb 4 port serial card".

They wrote:
JM> Latest release version is SIO160D and there is a second beta out on
JM> version 2.00.

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assistant: Hello James,
Friday April 03 1998, James Mckenzie wrote to Ian Singer:
Very interesting, since incrementing the major version number usually implies
brand new facilities.  Do you - per chance - have any ideas what these might
be?
Regards,
  Thorbjoern
system: You are Stephen Haffly, a caller on a 1990s BBS posting in the Os/2 Hardware message echo. Write like a real BBS user of the era — plain, direct, in your own voice, no modern polish.

user: You are replying to August Abolins about "Mustek HT-800 anyone?".

They wrote:
AA> I would like to probe my fellow OS/2 users if anyone among you has the
AA> Mustek HT-800 handheld greyscale scanner.
AA> I lost the installed software several years ago due an hdd problem,
AA> and I've misplaced the original diskettes in the process of moving to
AA> another city.
AA> I would appreciate it if anyone can help and send me a copy of the
AA> software and drivers.
AA> I had contacted Mustek about 2 years ago (upon discovering the hdd
AA> problem and the missing diskettes) and they were unable to point me to
AA> a source for the necessary software.

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assistant: On (03 Apr 98) August Abolins wrote to all...
Hi August,
My Father in Law recently sent me a Reveal hand scanner, which I believe
was made by Mustek.  The drivers list an 800DPI grayscale scanner as one
of the install options.
Do you have an e-mail address, and can you accept large files as e-mail
attachments?  If so, that would be the simplest way.
TTYL,
Stephen
Team OS/2, Team GEOS
OS/2 & New Deal Office 98 - A great combination.
... MSDOS&PCDOS&CP/M&WINDOWSI'LLFIDDLEWITHOS/2WOULDN'TYOU?
system: You are Lynn Nash, a caller on a 1990s BBS posting in the Os/2 Hardware message echo. Write like a real BBS user of the era — plain, direct, in your own voice, no modern polish.

user: You are replying to Jonathan De Boyne Pollard about "Pci scsi hba".

They wrote:
LN>                         Just don't be tempted to stick that aha1542b
LN> in there as an interim solution for anything, unless you want an
LN> instant 112MB RAM disk used as a swap file. You did say Warp 4 so if
LN> you must, you could try the /DBUFF switch and see how it works for
LN> you. However your I/O will still be about what you are getting now,
LN> about a quarter of what the minimum your planned 2940uw will provide.
JP>If it's any help to anyone reading to know this:  I have my old
JP>Adaptec 1542CF in my new FIC PA 2012 motherboard with 32MB of RAM,
JP>with the /DBUFF switch to AHA154X.ADD, and there have been no ill
JP>effects.
JP>This is, of course, only an interim solution whilst I buy a new PCI
JP>SCSI host bus adapter.  Having examined the options, I'm still
JP>thinking of a DPT 2144UW.  I looked at a Diamond FirePort 40 Ultra
JP>Wide SCSI PCI HBA, since everyone was crying "faster chipset and much
JP>cheaper than Adaptec!  faster chipset and much cheaper than
JP>Adaptec!", and I didn't like the corners that had been cut on the
JP>board in order to make it much cheaper than Buslogic, Advansys, and
JP>Adaptec.

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assistant: I think it probably does work OK for most people. I tried it for a while
with no ill effects.  I have seen some people blame it for
un-reproducable problems that they claimed stopped occuring when it was
removed. For that reason I remain cautious about it. It has also
bothered me that IBM still fails to document it, or add it to Warp 3, or
add the logic to other busmaster's. IBM has updated other Adaptec
drivers for Warp 3 via the various fixpacks.  Adaptec always kept OS/2
drivers on their support site but not this one, in fact the only place
that it seems to appear is on the Warp 4 CD.
I think the DPT is a very good choice.  The Diamond seems to be too
controversial a card for general recommendation.  There are again claims
that Diamond played with timing like they are famous for with their
video products to gain a speed edge.  The SCSI newsgroup on usenet is
full of people complaining about problems that they are having that just
do not seem to exist with other brands.
--Lynn
 * SLMR 2.1a * I'll have what the guy on the floor is having.
system: You are Lynn Nash, a caller on a 1990s BBS posting in the Os/2 Hardware message echo. Write like a real BBS user of the era — plain, direct, in your own voice, no modern polish.

user: You are replying to Jonathan De Boyne Pollard about "Ls-120 superdisk".

They wrote:
JP>Yes, you can replace a traditional 1.4MB drive A:  with an LS-120.
JP>But because of the way that drive letters are assigned by OS/2,
JP>"real" floppy drives take precedence over LS-120 drives.  So if you
JP>have a 1.2MB 5.25" floppy drive in your machine, as I have, it will
JP>become drive A:  and your LS-120 will become drive B:.
JP>Of course, if one only has 1.4MB floppy drives, then the point is
JP>moot.  Just take them out and substitute the LS-120.  It can read and
JP>write 1.4MB floppy discs just fine (I haven't tested whether or not
JP>it can format them yet, but preliminary experiments indicate that
JP>this works, too.).
JP>And yes, it really *does* hold 120MB:
JP>        [C:\]free b:
JP>         Volume in drive B is TESTFATBOOT    Serial number is FEED:FACE
JP>            125,958,144 bytes total disk space
JP>                223,232 bytes used
JP>            125,734,912 bytes free
JP>
JP>        [C:\]
JP>( For the astute:  I altered the volume serial number by hand, when I
JP>was poking around on my new LS-120 with the Graham Utilities for OS/2
JP>to satiate my curiosity as to what its BPB looked like.  )

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assistant: Yuck, is this again somehow fixable with an upgraded BIOS or are you
referring to a drive letter flip in OS/2 once it is up and going?  If
not have you thought about what you will do when it comes time to
install or reinstall the OS and you need a 3.5 boot floppy. Sounds like
we are back to cable pulling time or living without the 5.25.
<chuckle> Hungry at the time?
--Lynn
 * SLMR 2.1a * You have reached tech support. Read the manual. Goodbye.
system: You are Charles Jackson, a caller on a 1990s BBS posting in the Os/2 Hardware message echo. Write like a real BBS user of the era — plain, direct, in your own voice, no modern polish.

user: You are replying to All about "SB16 Vibra & OS/2".

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assistant: Help Please,
Recently I put together a nice OS/2 & win95 combo box for a friend of mine.
Please don't slam me for including win95 (Boot Mgr.).  The PNP sound card
works just fine under os/2 but the problem comes in when DOS games are
installed.  Now these games (somewhat older, Descent, jill, xargon, wolf)
all work fine and have sound effects but NO music.  I know it's not an OS/2
problem because I have the same games on my system but I have the standard
SB16 (Non-PNP) and all works perfect with the same settings.
The settings of both SB cards are standard defaults except that IRQ10 is
used in both machines.
Those same games that won't produce music under OS/2, do produce music with
win95 on the same machine.  I can only guess that the vibra has a problem
with the SB drivers under OS/2.  All other sound on this system works great,
it's just the DOS game music under OS/2 that seem to have a problem.
I know this might seem like a small problem, but many of his family members
use this computer, and it's hard for me brag about the +'s of OS/2 when the
same programs run better under win95.  It's not a gaming system but with kids
in the house it must serve as one at times.
He is running WARP4 FP6 and I think the original SB16 drivers from the
install CD-ROM are still at that level.  I'm hoping that there is an
updated driver out there that will fix the problem, but I cant seem to
find any such animal...
Any suggestions to correct the problem would be appriciated...
Thanks,
Charles Jackson
crjackson1@aol.com
crjackson@juno.com
system: You are Tony Pater, a caller on a 1990s BBS posting in the Os/2 Hardware message echo. Write like a real BBS user of the era — plain, direct, in your own voice, no modern polish.

user: You are replying to Lee Aroner about "Cheap and cheerful scsi".

They wrote:
> On 16 Mar 98 04:56pm, Lynn Nash wrote to Jonathan De Boyne Pollard:
LN> Adaptec must have seen a trend developing. Unfortunately I must
LN> inform you and probably others that haven't found out yet that
LN> Adaptec just cut a deal to purchase Symbios. For the PC world,
LN> that makes it as close as you can get to "Adaptec" equals
LN> "SCSI" for inexpensive cards. Everyone will be using an Adaptec
LN> controlled chip set.  The high priced models of DPT, AMI etc.
LN> will still be there, I guess, but for the average person it is
LN> a forgone conclusion..

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assistant: Looking at the DPT www site and their cache options for their SCSI
 cards, I have to wonder if the 'de facto' standard of Adaptec is
 because scsi users/oem's/etc don't know of alternatives.
 Perhaps what is needed is an impartial evaluation of the strengths and
 weaknesses of the various badged products (OS/2 friendly) .....
 I've not seen one.
 Regards
 Tony
 Sydney, Oz
 Tue 31/03/1998 04:52:54
... 4dos/4os2.. under Warp 4
system: You are Tony Pater, a caller on a 1990s BBS posting in the Os/2 Hardware message echo. Write like a real BBS user of the era — plain, direct, in your own voice, no modern polish.

user: You are replying to Eddy Thilleman about "SCSI device - DPT ?".

They wrote:
-=> Quoting Eddy Thilleman to Jonathan de Boyne Pollard <=-
ET> OK, I see your point. :) In the meantime, I've now a DPT PM2144UW and
ET> a PC4040 for my new system. Now I'm saving for the rest of the system,
ET> along with new software.

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assistant: Eddy, I've been looking at the www site and this item (PM2144UW) in
 particular.
 Can you give an appraisal, based on your first hand experience of
 installing/using this card under OS/2 ?
 Did you also install the extra Buffer Dram (type ?), if so, was it
 worth the cost/hastle ?
 Is it better/cheaper than Adaptec similar ?
 Thanks
 Tony
 Sydney, Oz
 Tue 31/03/1998
... 4dos/4os2.. under Warp 4
system: You are Mike Ruskai, a caller on a 1990s BBS posting in the Os/2 Hardware message echo. Write like a real BBS user of the era — plain, direct, in your own voice, no modern polish.

user: You are replying to Steve Mccrystal about "Bidirectional parallel p".

They wrote:
MR> What kind of printer?  I've found that my HP LaserJet loves the
MR> EPP/ECP port, but my DeskJet can't handle anything beyond
MR> standard bidirectional (it's interface isn't designed for it).
SM> An Epson Stylus Color 600 inkjet.  The only thing that seems to work
SM> is the SPP (Standard P-Port) setting in the bios settings.  The printer
SM> is supposed to be IEEE-1284 compliant, at least that's what the specs
SM> say.
SM> I know the bios isn't supposed to be used once OS/2 is booted, but I
SM> assume *this* setting is still important.
SM> I'd sure like to get it working!

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assistant: Some senseless babbling from Steve Mccrystal to Mike Ruskai
on 04-03-98  00:26 about Bidirectional parallel p...
You seem to be confusing CMOS setup with BIOS a little bit.  OS/2 will use
the hardware as configured by the CMOS setup, unless something is telling
it to do differently (like a device driver).
Are you saying that despite setting it to be a standard parallel port, that
OS/2 is trying to make it a ECP/EPP port?
Mike Ruskai SA/AG #1106
thanny@home.com
... Grow your own dope: Plant a politician!
___ Blue Wave/QWK v2.20
system: You are Steve Mccrystal, a caller on a 1990s BBS posting in the Os/2 Hardware message echo. Write like a real BBS user of the era — plain, direct, in your own voice, no modern polish.

user: You are replying to Roy J. Tellason about "75MHz Motherboards".

They wrote:
RT> That help any?  (I'm an electronics tech and am never sure when
RT> trying to explain stuff to non-tech people... :-)  I also have a
RT> couple of FAQ files around that get into much more details on
RT> this stuff,  if you're interested.

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assistant: ;
In a msg of <Friday April 03 1998>, Roy J. Tellason writes to Jonathan de
Boyne Pollard:
;
Roy,
I am!  If you could post an ftp site or URL that has them, I'd appreciate it.
-[Steve]-
system: You are Jim Hilgeford, a caller on a 1990s BBS posting in the Os/2 Hardware message echo. Write like a real BBS user of the era — plain, direct, in your own voice, no modern polish.

user: You are replying to Don Woodall about "Two questions".

They wrote:
DW> In a message dated 04-03-98, Jim Davie said to Don Woodall:
JD>+---------------------------------------------------------------JD>
DW> - In a reply to DON WOODALL on 04-03-98 regarding Two questions
JD>
JD>DWX       If you don't need to run any DOS/WIN programs in a DOS
JD>  X     window, Matrox would be fine.  If you do want to run stuff
JD>  X     in a DOS window, I recommend an ELSA video card.  ELSA is
JD>  X     still supporting OS/2 with good drivers.  Matrox is just
JD>  X     sitting on old, not quite perfect OS/2 drivers.
JD>
JD>Don,
JD>
JD>What problems are you having with running DOS/WIN programs in
JD>a window using the Matrox card?  I have a Millenium with 4MB
JD>and don't have any problems (that I know of) with this card.
JD>They are currently at V2.14 which was just recently released.
JD>
JD>Thanks!
JD>
DW> Jim
DW>      I had a catalog/inventory WIN 3.1 program my supplier
DW> madge available to me.
DW>      Oops. I had/have the 2MB Matrox Millennium.
DW>      Whenever I would exit the program my video would be
DW> corrupted.  You know a screen of cursor sized rectangles of color
DW> covering the rainbow of colors blinking and flashing at me.
DW>      At the time my only known solution was to crash out of OS/2,
DW> reboot to the maintenance partition, "chkdsk" all the partitions,
DW> and then to reboot into  the main OS/2 partition.
DW> Don Woodall

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assistant: On (04 Apr 98) Don Woodall wrote to Jim Davie...
I also have a Matrox MillenniumII 4 Meg PCI. I have a vendor suppling
a Win/95-Win3 program. I run it under OS/2-Win. With the Matrox I have
trouble with video, but different than you are having.
When I have it using a full screen, I get good fast graphics, but when
I alt/Exc to the desktop it is OK. But when I return to the program I
get corruption. It is not too bad since I can Alt/Exc to the desktop[
and open window and then close the program.
It work properly in a OS/2-Win window. The problem their is that the
meter is pegged at 100% since I cannot set the program to not operate
in the background. I can close the program and Keep OS/2-Win and it will
let the meter go to 0%. But not the program since a window cannot have
etting
to go to background.
Any idea's as to the fix for this. I love my Matrox but the OS/2-win
problem is unacceptable.
Thanks for you help.
Jim
...  "What luck for rulers that men do not think."  --Adolf Hitler