Copy Link
Add to Bookmark
Report
OS2 Discussion Forum Volume 9210 Issue 01
************************************************************************
OS/2 Discussion Forum Mon, October 05, 1992 Volume 9210 Issue 01
Relevant addresses :
submissions : OS2@BLEKUL11.BITNET (bitnet)
OS2@cc1.kuleuven.ac.be (domain)
subscriptions : LISTSERV@BLEKUL11.BITNET (bitnet)
LISTSERV@cc1.kuleuven.ac.be (domain)
moderator : OS2MOD@BLEKUL11.BITNET (bitnet)
os2mod@cc1.kuleuven.ac.be (domain)
************************************************************************
OS/2 DISCUSSION FORUM ON BLEKUL11 MODERATORS:
Dirk Rober Karel Van der Haegen
(files distribution) (forum distribution)
K.U. Leuven - C.E.S. K.U. Leuven - D.T.E.W.
Van Evenstraat, 2 B Dekenstraat, 2
B-3000 Leuven B-3000 Leuven
BELGIUM BELGIUM
FDAAA12@BLEKUL11.BITNET FDBAQ13@BLEKUL11.BITNET
ndaaa12@ces.kuleuven.ac.be fdbaq13@cc1.kuleuven.ac.be
************************************************************************
Today's topics:
Long time, no see ...
New files on LISTSERVer
CM 205 CDROM drive and OS2
Latest C/Set 2 CSD
switching problems and major OS@ v2.0 CRASH!
Re: Lan Manager 2.1 Under Os22.0?
fortran on os/2
more questions
Re: Out of memory error. 6M left though. HELP!
defrag-utils
Lan 2.0 & MSDOS
The new OS/2
File in Use error
printer driver
DirmanPM
Systat 5.0 / Windows & tape drives
Driver for HP Deskjet 500C
BITMAP files
MOUSE SENSITIVITY
OS2 Big Fixes
Programming the Extended Editor
OS/2 and Bernoulli
October PC World
programming for os2
MSC 7.00 and extensions for OS/2; PWB problems
Feed from the Listearn OS2-L OS/2 Non-Editored Discussion List :
Re: Code Page for IBM Mainframe 'C'
Re: Code Page for IBM Mainframe 'C'
Reply to "Dumb question" (08/31/92 23:10:29)
Removable Media Support
Performance 2.0
Re: One hard drive or two?
Re: 16MB and more (was: 1 or 2 HD's)
Re: 16MB and more
Re: 16MB and more
Re: 16MB and more
Re: 16MB and more
Re: 16MB and more
Re: Technical Support
A laugh and an inquiry from a FOAF
SENDMAIL, twice?
OS/2 2.0 version 3.1 beta program
More info on OS/2 update
Sytos Backup
Stacker for OS/2 2.0
OS/2 2.0 Developer Assistance Program
.ini files
CHECKINI & .INI
Re: CHECKINI & .INI
Re: CHECKINI & .INI
IBM 2.3 GB Tape Drive Software
Re: IBM 2.3 GB Tape Drive Software
Re: IBM 2.3 GB Tape Drive Software
Re: IBM 2.3 GB Tape Drive Software
Oorexx And Epm 5.51
Win NT delay
Dino TV show BMP's Posted
is M$ really on the level?
Re : M$ and os2
Problems with the OS/2 pre-release
Re: Problems with the OS/2 pre-release
Re: CD-ROM
Feed from the Usenet (UUCP/Internet) comp.os.os2.* newsgroups :
MS ready to release 32-bit Word & Excel?!?! Read on...
IBM plans on future of OS/2
OS/2 Future Trends and Directions
Mathematica and OS/2
Tidbits about NT and OS/2 from the trade rags.
Service Pack news from IBM 10/01/92
New files on software.watson.ibm.com & ibm suggestions
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Date: Mon, 05 Oct 92 12:00:00 +0200
From: Moderator of OS/2 Discussion Forum <OS2MOD@BLEKUL11>
Organization: K.U. Leuven university, Belgium, EUROPE
Subject: Long time, no see ...
Don't blaim your system engineers, don't blaim the Internet, ... You
did not receive any issue from us since the 920901 issue of Sep., 09.
We will make up with this huge issue, of which of course some of the
items will be outdated ...
This issue contains over 3100 lines of information, questions and
answers based on what we received in the Sep. 09 - Oct. 05 time frame.
If you did not receive all 3100+ lines (due to some gateway which
truncated the mail, please do notify us ...)
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Date: Mon, 05 Oct 92 12:00:00 +0200
From: Moderator of OS/2 Discussion Forum <OS2MOD@BLEKUL11>
Organization: K.U. Leuven university, Belgium, EUROPE
Subject: New files on LISTSERVer
This is a list of new or updated OS/2 related files available from the
LISTSERV of the OS/2 Discussion Forum at BLEKUL11.
* New Files from comp.os.os2.*
filename filetype Remarks
-------- -------- -------------------------------
FAQ20F ZIP OS/2 Frequently Asked Questions v2.0f
OS2VSNT ZIP OS/2 vs NT comparison
* New Files from software.watson.ibm.com
filename filetype Remarks
-------- -------- -------------------------------
360K ZIP 360K ??
4029P ZIP 4029 Printer fix for prompting of .DRV files.
DPMI ZIP DPMI fix for MSC 7.0
SOMFIX ZIP SOM.DLL replacement for OS/2 2.0 GA level
ADDPRT ZIP OS/2 2.0 fix for adding WINOS2 Printer Settings
LS13FX ZIP OS/2 1.30.2 / DOS Lan Requester fixes.
LS20FX ZIP OS/2 2.0 / DOS Lan Requester fixes
* New Files from comp.binaries.os2
filename filetype Remarks
-------- -------- -------------------------------
GLIBP112 ZIP Library manager for OS/2 2.0 with GNU GCC/2 C++ Compiler
GMKEXE ZIP GNU make 3.62
UNZ50X16 ZIP Info-ZIP generic UnZip utility (16 bit)
UNZ50X32 ZIP Info-ZIP generic UnZip utility (32bit)
VGABMPS ZIP Collection of VGA bitmap wallpaper
ZIP19X16 ZIP Zip 1.9 compression and file packaging utility (16 bit)
ZIP19X32 ZIP Zip 1.9 compression and file packaging utility (32 bit)
CS0014 ZIP CS0014 level CSD for IBM C-Set/2
ET4-OS2 ZIP Generic Tseng ET4000 OS/2 2.0 Presentation Manager Drivers
FLIP1OS2 ZIP Converts UNIX-style newlines (lf) into Dos-style newlines
IRIT-OS2 ZIP port of the IRIT solid modeller
XL227C ZIP VM/CMS Filelist like disk utility
* New Files from ftp-os2.nmsu.edu
filename filetype Remarks
-------- -------- -------------------------------
NFSCSD ZIP IBM TCP/IP NFS version 1.21 CSD level UB01822
TCPIP1 ZIP IBM TCP/IP version 1.2.1 CSD level UB02252 - Disk 1
TCPIP2 ZIP IBM TCP/IP version 1.2.1 CSD level UB02252 - Disk 2
TCPIP3 ZIP IBM TCP/IP version 1.2.1 CSD level UB02252 - Disk 3
DVIDVI ZIP Repagination utility for TeX/emTeX .DVI files
EBOOKE ZIP EPM add-on utility to produce tagged source files
EPMAPP ZIP EPM 5.51 binaries
EPMBK ZIP Book (INF) files for EPM 5.51
EPMDLL ZIP EPM 5.51 DLLs (Dynamic Link Libraries)
EPMHLP ZIP EPM 5.51 help files
EPMMAC ZIP EPM 5.51 macros to create standard .ex files
EPMREX ZIP EPM 5.51 sample REXX macros
EPMSMP ZIP EPM 5.51 sample macros
FLIP1OS2 ZIP Convert Unix-style text files to OS/2 & vice-versa
KILL ZIP Kill running processes by process ID (PID)
LAMPDQ ZIP Allow EPM commands to be executed on a VM host
NORB200 ZIP OS/2 2.0 Requester for 8003/8013 Ethernet Lan Adapter
PMGB32 ZIP PMGlobe world globe program for OS/2 2.0
TINYED ZIP A tiny editor-great for an OS/2 boot disk
TXT2PS ZIP Utility for printing text files on Postscript printers
UDESKTOP ZIP Manage the OS/2 desktop from the command line
VSWITCH ZIP A text-mode-based task switcher
All new files are ZIP files. Depending on the gateways between BLEKUL11
and your site it might be necessary to specify extra options :
To get the normal ZIP file send the following command to our LISTSERV :
GET fn ZIP
(Where fn is the name of the file you want.)
To get an XXENCODED ZIP file (use this if your gateways have trouble
with binary files) use the following command :
GET fn ZIP f=XXE
To get several small XXENCODED files (use this if your gateways limit
the size of files) :
GET fn ZIP f=XXE,split
Our disk is also accessible by anonymous FTP at cc1.kuleuven.ac.be.
The OS2 files are available in the ANONYMOU.201 directory. To get a
list of files get the O2.FILELIST in the (default) ANONYMOU.191
directory.
Note: Use PKUNZIP -d to unzip !!
These files are distributed AS IS, we can not guarantee anything about
their working.
************************************************************************
* For a complete list of all OS/2 files available at LISTSERV@BLEKUL11 *
* get the OS2INDEX ZIP. *
* For a list of all new (last 3 weeks) OS/2 files available at *
* LISTSERV@BLEKUL11 get the NEWFILES TXT. *
************************************************************************
We still welcome all OS/2 related files for distribution on our LISTSERV.
Send your files to OS2@BLEKUL11.BITNET / OS2@cc1.kuleuven.ac.be
we will arrange everything for distribution.
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 92 15:50:14 +0200
From: Manfred Kremer <HLR002@DJUKFA11>
Organization: Forschungszentrum Juelich GmbH
Subject: CM 205 CDROM drive and OS2
I have been using the CM 205 CDROM drive by Laser Magnetic Storage Company
successfully under MSDOS 5.0. With OS/2 I have several problems.
My first attempt was to boot an external DOS session to install the device
driver and MSCDEX.EXE. This seemed to work, but I then got several
"Drive not ready" or "Error reading drive M:" messages, when I actually
accessed the drive. In one case I could then read the directory,
in all other cases even that was impossible.
Installing the drive in an OS/2 -Dos session was impossible, the
installation of the driver ended with a "Memory Limit Error" and was then
aborted. Furthermore, MSCDEX.EXE complained about an incorrect DOS version,
and this could not be influenced by the setver command.
Has anybody got this drive to work under OS/2? The drive seems to be
quite popular as it is sold in large quantities and at a very low price
(in some stores as cheap as about 270 US-$) here in Germany.
Any advice would be very much appreciated.
Manfred Kremer
BITNET: HLR002 at DJUKFA11
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Date: Wed, 2 Sep 92 07:53:11 CDT
From: markj@saintjoe.EDU (Mark Johnson)
Subject: Latest C/Set 2 CSD
Could some kind soul download the latest IBM C/Set 2 CSD from CompuServe,
called `cs0014.zip,' I think, and post it at Hobbes, or Novell. This camper
doesn't have the funds to get it. Or, does anyone have an 800 number where
I might be able to order it?
// Mark F. Johnson //
// Box 915 //
// St Joseph's College //
// Rensselaer, IN, 47978 //
// InterNet: markj@saintjoe.edu //
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Date: Thu, 3 Sep 92 19:10 EDT
From: Micah Silverman <SILVER50@snypotva.bitnet>
Subject: switching problems and major OS@ v2.0 CRASH!
Organization: Potsdam College of the STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK (SUNY)
Hiya there! I haven't read all of the current articles yet, so if I am
rehashing old news, pleas forgive me. I have two problems:
1) Switching problem
During a full screen dos session I was using some comm. software (mirror II).
My modem is on com@. I switched back to the PM (using CTRL-ESC). When I tried
to switch back to the dos session, all I got was a blank screen! I had to
switch back to the PM and can that session and start over. Anyone know why?
2) Major OS/2 2.0 CRASH
In a full screen dos session I tried to run IPX.com which was configured for my
16-bit ethernet card at IRQ-5. The system seriously jammed! CTRL-ESC would not
work. CTRL-C and CTRL-BREAK would not work. CTRL-ALT-DEL would not work!!!! I
had to hit the reset button and wait for CHKDSK to finish repairing
SWAPPER.DAT. Anyone got a clue?
DISCLAIMER:
-----------
I know that these questions center around Dos and some of you may be saying:
sounds like this guy is still living in the 80s with his pet dinosaur. Well, I
fully intend to use os/2 for myself, but some of my clients and colleagues have
not yet seen the light.
Thanks a lot!
Micah Silverman
silver50@snypotva
315 265 8536
19 Depot St.
Potsdam, NY
13676
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Date: Thu, 3 Sep 92 09:44:35 CDT
From: Darius Vaskelis <U54345@UICVM.UIC.EDU>
Subject: Re: Lan Manager 2.1 Under Os22.0?
>I'd like to know a simple VITAL thing (for me :-) :
>
>DOES Lan Manager 2.1 support OS/2 2.0 ???????
There is a beta version of the MS LAN Manager 2.1 Requestor for IBM OS/2
2.0 workstations available; however, the server portion itself does not
run under OS/2 2.0. I've also gotten the IBM OS/2 LAN Server 2.0
Requestor to log onto an MS LAN Manager 2.1 server, but I doubt it's
officially supported.
IBM LAN Server 2.0 Entry will run on OS/2 2.0 and is very similar to the
MS product, however it lacks HPFS386 support. (You can run IBM LAN
Server 2.0 Advanced, which supports HPFS386, on OS/2 2.0... but the
HPFS386 portion itself won't run on OS/2 2.0 so it becomes pretty much
the same as IBM LAN Server 2.0 Entry.)
Currently, there is a beta program for IBM LAN Server 3.0 which runs on
OS/2 2.0 and supports HPFS386 on OS/2 2.0. It's an extremely impressive
program, even though it's still in beta test. If you want to be in the
beta test program, contact your local IBM Marketing Rep/Systems Engineer/
Branch Office.
- Darius
I do not speak for IBM Corp.
--
Darius Vaskelis (IBM Marketing/Technical Support)
University of Illinois Account Team
One IBM Plaza 15-KC9 Telephone: (312) 245-3532
Chicago, IL 60611 Internet: U54345@uicvm.uic.edu
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Date: Fri, 04 Sep 92 16:03:33 BSC
From: gualter aurelio alves de souza <MSTMEC08@BRUFU>
Subject: fortran on os/2
dear networkers,
we are trying to execute a fortran program on os/2, but it doesn't possibl
e because the systems tell us that there are too many opened archives. how coul
d we increase the number of archives opened at the same time (like "files=N" in
the ms-dos) on the os\2?
thanks for all
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Date: Fri, 4 Sep 92 17:46 EDT
From: Micah Silverman <SILVER50@snypotva.bitnet>
Subject: more questions
Organization: Potsdam College of the STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK (SUNY)
Hello everyone! I have three new and exciting questions for the group:
1) My computer now emits a strange high frequency hum that it did not emit
before I installed OS/2 2.0. Anyone know why? The hum changes in pitch with
certain actions and programs. I have an IDE drive incidentally. I don't know
if that is relevant or not.
2) I got PMFRA2 via anonymous ftp. For some reason, after exiting the slashed
lines that indicate a process is running did not disapear from the icon. Has
this happened to anyone else? I shredded the icon and reinstalled it and it now
seems to be behaving.
3) Is there any special settings I need to change when I add more memory? The
reason I ask this is because I added 2.5 more megs of memory and have not
noticed any speed change in the performance of my OS/2.
I discovered a wonderful application of OS/2 today: Network Database debugging.
By running a Database application I am working on in two dos windowed sessions,
a network environment is simulated! I can test sharing files and all that sort
of thing! To think I have been driving 30 miles to the site that I am
writing this application for to use their network instead of just doing it on
OS/2!
Micah Silverman
silver50@snypotva
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Date: Mon Sep 7 10:56:56 BST 1992
From: Mike O'Carroll <mike@elec-eng.leeds.ac.uk>
Subject: Re: Out of memory error. 6M left though. HELP!
> >The "Out of memory" errors you refer to are not really running out of
> >memory. I've run out of memory, and I get a full-screen popup stating
> >that the swapper partition is full. I suspect that this error is due
It may be my imagination, but I don't seem to get this so much if I
allocate a big swap size to start with - e.g.
SWAPFILE=c:\os2\system 2048 8192
but its early days ...
On a totally different subject, does anybody know if there is (or is
likely to be) an OS/2 driver for the Backpack type tape streamer. It
seems to me that this ought to be a likely candidate, since control
via the parallel port ought to be straightforward?
--
Mike O'Carroll, Department of Electronic & Electrical Engineering,
The University, Leeds, LS2 9JT, UK
E-mail: mike@ee.leeds[.ac.uk]
UUCP: ...uunet!mcsun!uknet!lena!mike
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Date: Tue, 8 Sep 92 08:18:07 +0300
From: KARGRA@GBA930.ZAMG.AC.AT
Subject: defrag-utils
Hello all.
Some simple questions: Is anybody aware of a utility-package like nortonutils ?
Is there a version for OS2 expected ? What are the prices ? I'd like to have
access to my HD about the way I have it under DOS, to defrag or make a backup of
the "FAT" if HPFS has something like that. Usually it is better to be prepared
for the worst, but unless I have such utils, I have to rely on the limited
abilities of chkdsk.
Alfred
Alfred Jilka # Who was Andrew ?
Geologic Survey, Austria # An IBM-secret-service-agent. He crashed so many
KARGRA@GBA930.ZAMG.AC.AT # windows...
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Date: Tue Sep 8 13:57:41 BST 1992
From: Mike O'Carroll <mike@elec-eng.leeds.ac.uk>
Subject: Lan 2.0 & MSDOS
has anyone tried using the Dos lan requester (with Lan server 2.0) with
MSDOS (as opposed to IBM DOS)? For some reason, they never seem to go
together quite so smoothly.
Any ideas?
--
Mike O'Carroll, Department of Electronic & Electrical Engineering,
The University, Leeds, LS2 9JT, UK
E-mail: mike@ee.leeds[.ac.uk]
UUCP: ...uunet!mcsun!uknet!lena!mike
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Date: Tue, 22 Sep 1992 9:03:24 -0400 (EDT)
From: ROME@FEDC06.FED.ORNL.GOV (Jim Rome, 9201-2, MS 8071, 4-1306)
Subject: The new OS/2
You can get a new beta copy of the WinOS2_3.1 OS/2 by calling 800IBM-3040.
I just received mine and installed it. Since it comes with BOTH versions of
Windows, and 3.1 is on a separate set of disks, DO NOT install Windows in
the OS/2 installation unless you want both versions. (Or, you can delete
the \os2\mdos\winos2 directory and its contents). So, do the selective install.
Then install Win3.1 from the separate disks. And, You will have to edit
the DOS settings for each windows application to use the AUTOEX31.bat file
in \winos231.
So, with that out of the way, I booted up and received a trashed PM screen.
Icons had green backgrounds, and redraws didn't work properly. This was a
manifestation of the problems I had with my Trident card under the old
Windows. Despite the supposed OS/2 2.0 support, I have never gotten my
Trident Impact III card to work with anything other than the plain VGA
driver under 2.0.If I went to a full screen, the PM screen got trashed.
Now, with the 32-bit engine, this happens on boot-up. I had to replace
the Trident card with a Video7 VRAM. It worked fine. But, I have been unable
to figure out how to get any Super VGA support (which was claimed to be there).
Windows apps are MUCH snappier, and the overall graphics seems improved also.
I now think that OS/2 runs Windows as well as Windows also.
I complained to IBM about the Trident card problems. They replied that
Trident has has hundreds of complaints, but that they refuse to talk to
IBM. They also suggested that I needed an AMI BIOS dated later than 5/92
(mine is from 1989) since there are "non-obvious problems with OS/2 otherwise."
The problem is that the latest one available is 10/91 from Everex, and
AMI will not deal with individual customers.
Anyhow, the new OS/2 is worth getting, especially since it is free.
YOU WILL HAVE TO REFORMAT THE OS/2 PARTITION, however.
Jim Rome
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Date: Tue Sep 22 13:09:00 BST 1992
From: Mike O'Carroll <mike@elec-eng.leeds.ac.uk>
Subject: File in Use error
Sometimes, when using the WPS to copy a whole block of files (OK, objects)
from, say, the C drive to a floppy, I get one or more "file in use" errors.
Of course they're in use, I'm copying them! Anyone else seen this?
--
Mike O'Carroll, Department of Electronic & Electrical Engineering,
The University, Leeds, LS2 9JT, UK
E-mail: mike@ee.leeds[.ac.uk]
UUCP: ...uunet!mcsun!uknet!lena!mike
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Date: Wed, 23 Sep 92 10:20:33 CET
From: Glinski Wieslaw <GLINSKIW@PLEARN>
Subject: printer driver
I have got a problem with my printer - I cant't find the driver.
I got old printer Star gemini 10 X. I couldn't choose the proper one
from those that were provided by IBM. IBM QuietWriter III seemed
to fit to my printer(STAR Gemini 10 X), but pages are too long and
there appeared some additional signs. Of course I can change my printer
but I want to know if there is any solution.
Glinski Wieslaw
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Date: Wed, 23 Sep 92 10:46:36 CET
From: "Carel F. Vrijhoff" <CVRIJHOF@estec.estec.esa.nl>
Subject: DirmanPM
I downloaded from the BLEKUL11 Network a great OS/2 Directory Manager
program, called DIRMANPM, developed by QB Software, POBox 3638
Glyndon Maryland, 21071-3638.
It is a demo version and I am very interested in buying the full
version of the program, but I am not able to get in contact with them
as I do not have a telephone or fax number. It there anybody who
know the firm and can get me more details. Much obliged....
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Date: Wed, 23 Sep 92 16:04:56 MEZ
From: Klaus Hahn <I3160901@DBSTU1.RZ.TU-BS.DE>
Organization: University of Braunschweig, Germany
Subject: Systat 5.0 / Windows & tape drives
Two problems i encountered lately:
- we are in the process of evaluating a copy of the SYSTAT 5.o package
for Windows (3.o + 3.1), and i tried to get it up under OS/2 2.o.
The prg starts, but when i try to open a file it gives me a "GP fault
in moduel SYSTAT.EXE at ..." and forces me to close the process. Does
anyone know if there's a switch to make it work, if it will work under
OS/2's 3.1-compatiblity, or if SYSTAT will provide a patch ?
- after upgrading one of our DOS-based workstations, i had to learn that
there is no software available to drive the integrated tape streamer
under OS/2 2.o. Is this so (i called SYTOS and they will deliver r.s.n.) ?
BTW: when will Windows 3.1 - compatibility for OS/2 2.o be there ? Is there
a date known or is it Real Soon Now ?
Ciao,
- Klaus.
Klaus Hahn
Dept. of Psychology
Spielmannstr. 19
D-33oo Braunschweig, Germany
bitnet : i3160901 at dbstu1
internet: i3160901 at dbstu1.rz.tu-bs.de
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Date: Thu, 24 Sep 1992 13:33:36 +0200
From: Gerhard Braendle <braendle@mpib-martinsried.mpg.dbp.de>
Subject: Driver for HP Deskjet 500C
Hello !
I have to install a HP-Deskjet 500 C driver with Compaq OS/2 Ver. 1.2 Rev. B.
Unfortunately this printer is not supported and we can not use the newer
OS/2 version - that would support this printer - since our application will
not run with.
But then I read in os2-faq Ver. 1.9d about the possibility to install
the printer drivers supported by OS/2 2.x. This seemed to solve my problem.
I got a new version of IBM OS/2 2.2 and tried to install the DeskJet driver,
but no way ! The printer installation failed with an (undocumented)
"Error:(800)" telling me that a file called "EpsonDat.DLL" must be in the path
pointed to by "LIBPATH". I checked this and found in C:\OS2\DLL a file
EPSONDAT.DLL 66048 10.04.92 12:00:00 -A-
(the date is written in the german notation DD.MM.YY)
and in config.sys I found a line like:
LIBPATH=C:\OS2\DLL;
If someone has an idea what is wrong here, please let me know.
Pleas mail directly to me, as I am not a subscriber to this list !
Thank you very much in advance,
Gerhard.
Gerhard Braendle
Computer group
Max-Planck-Institut fuer Psychiatrie, 8033 Martinsried (Germany)
email: braendle@mpib-martinsried.mpg.dbp.de
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Date: 25 Sep 1992 18:09:22 -0500 (EST)
From: Vittorio Moriggia <CMSVITT@IBGUNIV.BITNET>
Subject: BITMAP files
Ciao to OS2-land,
How can I create or modify a .BMP (or .VGA) file?
I've the Corel Draw win-program and a old release of Scangal.
I can save i much different modes, but not in BitMap format.
How can I do that?
thanx in advance.
Vitt
Centro di Calcolo
Universita' di Bergamo
------------------------------------------------------------------------
From: hceng@solomon.technet.sg (Eng Heng Chiaw)
Subject: MOUSE SENSITIVITY
Date: Mon, 28 Sep 92 11:22:06 WST
I have a Microsoft 400 dpi mouse that I find very comfortable with Windows.
After installing OS/2, the sensitiviy sort of reduces to less than 200 dpi
in WPS. The setting, OS/2 default, is already at the "fastest". Is there
a way to restore the mouse back to the original specs? Thank you.
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Date: Mon, 28 Sep 92 21:40 EDT
From: Melvyn King <KING@SNYCORVA>
Subject: OS2 Big Fixes
I read in PCWeek that the bug fixes to OS2 were available for downloading from
software@watson.ibm.com but when I tried to ftp the connection was refused.
Anyone have any ideas? Are the files easily avaiable anywhere else? I am a
registered OS2 user.
Mel King Bitnet: king@snycorva
SUNY, Cortland
NY 13045
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Date: Thu, 01 Oct 92 20:47:44 MEZ
From: matthias mann <MATTHIAS@DOSUNI1>
Subject: Programming the Extended Editor
Has anyone a knowledge how to use the capabilities of the Extended Editor in fu
ll extent? That means for example how to create macros and define keys with
macros and so on. In the manual there is written only very little.
Any help or hint is greatly appreciated!
M.Mann
University of Osnabr"uck
Dept.of Physics
Barbarastr.7
D-W-4500 Osnabr"uck
E-mail:Matthias@dosuni1
Thanks in advance!
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Date: Wed, 16 Sep 92 20:07:30 EST
From: Mark Bashar <MICRO2@UCONNVM>
Subject: OS/2 and Bernoulli
I have an Iomega Bernoulli 90MB drive that I want to use with OS/2 (1.3).
The machine configuration is an IBM Model 80-A31 with a 300 MB SCSI hard
drive. My question is, what do I need to use the Bernoulli drive under
OS/2. Iomega says I need a driver from them which costs $90. Someone
suggested using the IBM removable drive driver. Where can I get this.
Also, has anyone ever run the Bernoulli off the IBM SCSI port (I also
have the Iomega SCSI interface card but am not sure if it is really needed).
I was told that I can but was not given any other information. (Also will
be using OS/2 2.0 soon).
Any information would be useful.
! Mark Bashar ! MICRO2@uconnvm.uconn.edu (Internet) !
! Microlab Consultant ! MICRO2@uconnvm (Bitnet) !
! University of Connecticut ! !
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Date: Thu, 17 Sep 92 13:34:29 -0500
From: msh@te6000.otc.lsu.edu (M. Scott Hoppe (OTC - 203 D. Boyd))
Subject: October PC World
Either PC World is a Microsoft BungBuddy, or its testers are
incompetent with anything more complex than a toaster.
The cover says: Who needs Windows? A close look at OS/2,
Desqview, and GeoWorks.
The article says: We know of case where people had no trouble
installing or running OS/2, but we know of
many others where heroics were required to
get it running.
(Attempting to imply that if YOU buy OS/2, you will most likely
not get to run without great pain.)
In a summary section called Environmental Overview, it says:
OS/2 has a lot of promise but doesn't multitask DOS
and Windows applications reliably.
Windows is undefeated at juggling DOS and Windows
programs.
(Pure BS, of course, since Microsoft's list of Windows
programs that won't run under Windows 3.1 is longer than
IBM's list for WIN-OS/2).
They even had the gall to praise Windows File Manager!
I have to say, I like the computer and peripheral
comparisons, but PC World should stop trying to rate
software. They just don't do it reliably.
msh@te6000.otc.lsu.edu -=( Scott )=-
------------------------------------------------------------------------
From: a20805@ITESO.bitnet
Date: Fri, 2 Oct 92 10:34:11 CST
Subject: programming for os2
HI:
I'm actually trying to programming in os2 and i like to know if
out there is a ftp with source code of examples about os2 programming, I
like to receive information about book about programming in c or c++ in os2
thanks in advance.
au revoir
John
a20805@itesocci.gdl.iteso.mx :INTERNET
a20805@itesocci : BITNET
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Date: Fri, 2 Oct 1992 22:59 MDT
From: <GOLDSTEIN_L@UCOLMCC>
Subject: MSC 7.00 and extensions for OS/2; PWB problems
npross@cayley.waterloo.edu (Norm Ross) writes:
>I just recieved the Microsloth C 7.00 extensions for OS/2 (I still write
>programs for DOS) and PWB DOES NOT WORK!
>
>I get SYS2070...the system could not demand load the applications segment
>PWBHELP->MSHELP.HELPNCERR is in error...
>So I call MS and politely ask why doesn't this work under OS/2 2.0 and am
>rudely told that this program is only meant for 1.x and basically... get lost.
I had a similiar problem with MSC 6.0. The message I got when starting
up PWB was that the system could not autoload PWBHELP.PXT.
I called the OS/2 hotline
and they directed my attention to the README. file OS/2 installation leaves
in the root directory. It states that to get Microsoft Codeview to work,
delete the file PWBHLP.PXT.
When I did this, it cleared up several different
problems I was having with PWB. (It also states that when using protect mode
version CVP 2.2 to trace through the source code rather than the assembler
language.)
Although this isn't exactly your problem, I hope it helps.
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Feed from the Listearn OS2-L OS/2 Non-Editored Discussion List :
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 92 22:25:01 EDT
Reply-To: "IBM OS/2 Unedited Discussion List" <OS2-L@FRORS12.BITNET>
From: "Drew Derbyshire - UUPC/Extended Help" <help@KEW.COM>
Subject: Re: Code Page for IBM Mainframe 'C'
On Mon, 31 Aug 92 14:11:03 pdt, "Lionel B. Dyck" <lbdyck@osreq48.rockwell.COM>
wrote:
> Has anyone developed (or found) a codepage for use with OS/2 2.0 and Extended
> Services 1.0 Communications Manager that will support the brackets correctly
> when coding 'C' for C/370 on MVS....?
It's more complex that that.
First off, the PDF editor thinks the brackets are unprintable; thus, I
think you're gonna get periods no matter how hard you try. Correct me
if I am wrong, I have to do MVS C as well. (I cheat though, and use VM.
See thirdly, below.)
Secondly, *real* brackets x'AD' and x'BD' (I think) are not the 3270
character set brackets, which are down around x'40'.
Thirdly, if you were on VM I could send you an XEDIT which does the SET
INPUT/SET OUTPUT translation you need, but you're on MVS, so there is no
third item.
Fourthly, have you considered trigraphs?
Fifthly, my TN3270 terminal emulator (Sun OpenWindows) actually gets the
brackets. I don't know why, and just thank the gods.
-ahd-
--
Drew Derbyshire UUPC/extended e-mail: help@kew.com
Care for a Snickers Bar?
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Date: Tue, 1 Sep 92 09:57:23 CET
Reply-To: "IBM OS/2 Unedited Discussion List" <OS2-L@FRORS12.BITNET>
From: Turgut Kalfaoglu <turgut@EARN-PS.CIRCE.FR>
Subject: Re: Code Page for IBM Mainframe 'C'
I don't know what it does, but PMANT, the PM-Telnet-3270 that comes with
TCP/IP has no problems with curly brackets ( { } ), meaning, I can type
them, and I can see them. I am using the US codepage. Regards, -turgut
Turgut Kalfaoglu, Server Programmer, European Academic Research Network
turgut@frors12.bitnet, turgut@frmop11.bitnet or turgut@earn-ps.circe.fr
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Date: Tue, 1 Sep 92 10:26:08 EDT
Reply-To: "IBM OS/2 Unedited Discussion List" <OS2-L@FRORS12.BITNET>
From: John DeCarlo <m14051@MWVM.MITRE.ORG>
Subject: Reply to "Dumb question" (08/31/92 23:10:29)
Dave Gomberg writes:
>I am trying to use the sticky pad. I got the first note off the top
>of the pad, and stuck it on the desktop. But now I cannot get another
>slip off the pad.
You don't say what you really tried, so here is my guess:
You used MB2 to tear off one note, then minimized everything. You can't
create a new note from a note, you have to be in the Sticky Pad itself.
You can't seem to get the Sticky Pad to redisplay, showing you a blank
Note 1 to tear off and write on.
This is a known bug in Sticky Pad, where the main pad is off the corner
of the screen, where you can't see it. Use Ctrl-Esc or two buttons to
bring up the list of apps. Select Sticky Pad (not a note) with MB2 and
Arrange or Tile or Move it. This will allow you to see it once again.
At that point, everything should be hunky dory again.
Internet: jdecarlo@mitre.org (or John.DeCarlo@f131.n109.z1.fidonet.org)
Fidonet: 1:109/131
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Date: Fri, 4 Sep 92 09:18:47 EDT
Reply-To: "IBM OS/2 Unedited Discussion List" <OS2-L@FRORS12.BITNET>
From: daniel hellerstein <DANIELH@ERS.BITNET>
Subject: Removable Media Support
This may not be germane, but IOMEGAnow has a OS/2 driver for Bernoulli
boxes that works well for us.
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Date: Sun, 6 Sep 92 22:49:57 PDT
Reply-To: "IBM OS/2 Unedited Discussion List" <OS2-L@FRORS12.BITNET>
From: Dave Gomberg <GOMBERG@UCSFVM.BITNET>
Subject: Performance 2.0
Well, I have gotten their first problem reports, and I guess I would
say, "Not ready for prime time." In the first place, their product
doesn't try to do much. In the second place it is buggy, both on the
outside, where there are incorrect results and on the inside where the
code leaves a lot to be desired. But worst of all, they sent out
some bugs that are pretty serious for CDROM users (broke their systems)
and then sent out paper fixes which were not right.
IMHO, they should have called each customer, asked enuf questions to
decide if they were affected, sent fixes in a rush on diskette to
affected customers, queued the fix for next fix shipment to unaffected
customers. But "the cost is prohibitive...." Clear and simple and
wrong. Sayonara. Dave
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Date: Mon, 7 Sep 92 13:09:10 EDT
Reply-To: "IBM OS/2 Unedited Discussion List" <OS2-L@FRORS12.BITNET>
From: "Paul J. Bodin" <pjb3@CUNIXB.CC.COLUMBIA.EDU>
Subject: Re: One hard drive or two?
Thomas Greve writes:
> > Dave Gomberg writes:
> >
> > > And the best way to reduce IO is LOTS of memory. I have 16m, and am
> > > considering upgrading to 32m.
[To which Paul J. Bodin responds]
> > Beware! Those contemplating megamemory upgrades should be aware that
> > OS/2 cannot directly use more than 16 megs of RAM unless the system
> > supports either 32 bit DMA or programmed I/O from the hard disk. The
> > reason is that OS/2 will use RAM for system or applications software
> > only if it can be paged directly to disk, and for addresses above 16
> > meg that requires 32 bit addressing.
[Here's Mr. Greve's part]
> Wrong. HD-IO is *never* made via DMA (except -- see below). ISA-DMA
> (probably *any* PC DMA) is so slow, that it is much faster to use the
> CPU (`programmed IO'). DMA is used by the FDC, only.
Wrong right back at you. It's true that HD-IO is not normally done
via DMA, and I don't know why OS/2's paging requires it, but it does.
That's what IBM's techs say anyway, and it is true in my experience.
I have 20 megs of RAM that are fully supported by my BIOS, an IDE
drive and an ISA bus. I have installed the GT16MB fix. OS/2 uses the
area above 16 megs on my system *only* for paging.
You are correct in pointing out that *some* IDE drives as well as some
SCSI setups will enable OS/2 to use memory above 16 megs on ISA bus
machines directly--sorry I had overlooked that. Nevertheless, it is a
good idea to check out your own particular setup and its capabilities
*before* investing in the extra RAM.
> So: no problem with >16MB on a very standard (ISA & IDE) machine, but
> there may be problems with any advanced hardware.
That, too, seems to be the case for the reasons you point out, but
cannot be generallized to *every* standard ISA & IDE machine or
*every* machine with advanced hardware. I know of others like you
with an ISA+IDE combination who are able to use >16MB, but it doesn't
work on my own machine and I also know of others for whom it doesn't
work. There are people with sophisticated bus-master SCSI controllers
who can't seem to get that 16MB barrier broken, and others who have
succeeded. I'm not well enough informed to know why there is such
variation, but I do know that many have experienced probems using more
than 16MB of RAM and thought it prudent to raise the flag for those
contemplating a memory upgrade who might encounter unforeseen
difficulties.
Paul J. Bodin Internet: pjb3@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu
Union Theological Seminary smail: 435-52nd Street
(718) 439-3549 Brooklyn, NY 11220
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Date: Mon, 7 Sep 92 21:40:16 EDT
Reply-To: "IBM OS/2 Unedited Discussion List" <OS2-L@FRORS12.BITNET>
From: "Paul J. Bodin" <pjb3@CUNIXB.CC.COLUMBIA.EDU>
Subject: Re: 16MB and more (was: 1 or 2 HD's)
Thomas Greve writes:
> Paul said:
> > [...] It's true that HD-IO is not normally done
> > via DMA, and I don't know why OS/2's paging requires it, but it does.
> > That's what IBM's techs say anyway, and it is true in my experience.
> ^^^^^^^^^^
> How did you find out? (no flame intended, really courious. There is
> lots of rumour on the net i'd like to verify myself. This (`IBM Techs
> say...') belongs to it.)
By exchanging E-mail with some of the development chaps at Boca. I'm
not enough of an expert to personally verify what they said, but it
was the straight skinny from the development people, not the tech
support people who sometimes change their stories from one day to the
next. There are techs and techs, of course...
I tested my BIOS to make sure that it responded properly to the
interrupts that OS/2 uses to measure memory size by reporting the 20
megs, and it did. I then tested how much memory OS/2 actually uses
and it uses 16 megs. The only element on my machine that can't do
what the techs said they need done is the DMA controller... QED. As I
said, I have an IDE drive.
> > I have 20 megs of RAM that are fully supported by my BIOS, an IDE
> > drive and an ISA bus. I have installed the GT16MB fix. OS/2 uses the
> > area above 16 megs on my system *only* for paging.
> Again: how did you find out?
I use three different OS/2 memory mapping utilities (plus a couple
that bombed out) and they all agreed that OS/2 was using 16 megs of
RAM on my machine. I got these utilities from ftp-os2.nmsu.edu
(Hobbes to some of us)--two of them were later reviewed by another
chap who claimed they used programming techniques which made them
unable to *measure* greater than 16MB chunks, and the third the one
posted by this same chap who claimed that *his* version could and had
done so on his own machine.
> Here is why i *think* OS2 uses my 24MB as i expect it to do:
> o When i had 8MB, *every* memory tool available told me about 500K
> of free memory.
> o Then i put in another 16MB and directly after bootup, 4os2 tells
> me about 12MB of `largest free block', now.
> o I had to remove 4MB temporarily. During this period, 4os2 reported
> `8MB'. This was what i would have expected.
> I did not try out 16MB, though. But i bet, i'd get `4MB', then. My
> machine is a '486 with ETEQ chipset. It probably has this bad old
> 82206 AT chip on it, which contains a 5 MHz 24 bit DMA controller. (i
> can look it up, if you want me to.) If it has, OS2 *can't* access the
> upper 8MB with DMA. No way.
My machine consistently reports 5MB free with 20MB of physical RAM, so
it sounds as if your machine uses the full 24 megs and my machine uses
16, with enough difference in configuration to slop 500K or so.
> Just in case: you say you installed the gt16mb fix (the 2nd one?).
> What does the debug loader (os2ldrd or similar) say on boot-up? You
> *don't* use the int 13 HD driver (`*.i13'), but the `ibm1s506' one, do
> you?
I don't use the debug loader--I'll try it and see. Also, I don't know
which gt16mb fix I have--I'll check. I use the latest IBM1S506.ADD,
and never had the 13H driver loaded.
> Here are some technical `hard core' information:
Thanks for the "hard core" info! :-) I'll get back to the list if
investigating the gt16mb fix versions turns up any new information for me.
Paul J. Bodin Internet: pjb3@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu
Union Theological Seminary smail: 435-52nd Street
(718) 439-3549 Brooklyn, NY 11220
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Date: Tue, 8 Sep 92 14:30:48 NFT
Reply-To: "IBM OS/2 Unedited Discussion List" <OS2-L@FRORS12.BITNET>
From: Thomas Greve <greve@RS1.THCH.UNI-BONN.DE>
Subject: Re: 16MB and more
Paul and i talked a lot about >16MB memory and if it is supported by
OS/2 or not. I suggested using the debug loader to find out what it
thinks you hardware is.
Last night i tried this my own (for the first time, i admit). I was
really surprized: (i don't understand the output of the debug loader,
but this is my interpretation)
It askes int 12 and int 15/88 about my memory and finds 640K + 23M.
This was what i would have expected. *BUT* some lines further down it
distinguished between 640K lo, 15M hi and 8M ext. memory.
Well... i have seen this somewhere, some time ago... in a world i
thought just having left...
OK. Paul agreed with me that OS/2 very probably uses my machine's
memory as expected, but i was really irritated by the thought, OS/2
could have the same problem as DOS, just scaled by a factor of 16...
- Thomas
PS: yes, i am aware that i use a hardware out-dated by years and
screwed beyond it's limits by a factor of N+1... ;-)
greve@rs1.thch.uni-bonn.de
unt145@dbnrhrz1
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Date: Tue, 8 Sep 92 11:39:18 EDT
Reply-To: "IBM OS/2 Unedited Discussion List" <OS2-L@FRORS12.BITNET>
From: "Paul J. Bodin" <pjb3@CUNIXB.CC.COLUMBIA.EDU>
Subject: Re: 16MB and more
A further report about OS/2's use of >16MB of RAM on my system.
Pursuant to Thomas Greve's suggestion, I checked the date of my os2ldr
file. It is the second release, that is the most current version of the
gt16mb fix. Having determined that, I followed Mr. Greve's second
suggestion and used the debug version of the loader to check its memory
use. The following are the pertinent lines from the debug output:
OS2LDRD 07July92
CGetDHPhysMem
I12 640
I1588 19456
PhysMem:
Base 00000000 Sz 000a0000 Loc 00000001 Cac 00000000
Base 00100000 Sz 01300000 Loc 00000000 Cac 00000000
BaseMem1:
Base 00000000 sz 000a0000
Base 00100000 sz 01300000
Low/High/Ex Mem = 640/15360/4096 K
BaseMem2:
Base = 00000000 Sz = 000a0000
Base = 00100000 Sz = 00f00000
Base = 01000000 Sz = 00400000
This information seems to me to indicate that the loader finds 640K of
usable low memory (I12) and 19456K of usable high memory (I1588).
This is, indeed, all the available physical memory in the system. It
then evaluates something (there's a bunch of data I don't know how to
interpret) and assigns base addresses for using portions of this
memory (BaseMem1) so that the low memory is used from base 00000000h
and the high memory is used from base 00100000h. It then further
evaluates something and divides the memory even further into low, high
and "extra" memory, finding 640K of low, 15360K of high and 4096K of
"extra". It assigns new base addresses (BaseMem2) of 00000000h,
00100000h and 01000000h respectively. This corresponds to using
memory under 1 meg for low memory, memory above 1 meg and under 16 meg
for high memory, and memory above 16 meg for "extra" memory, and also
correlates accurately with my observations and measurements of how
much memory OS/2 is using after the desktop is active.
According to the information I have gleaned from IBM, this means that the
top 4 megs are being used by OS/2 as a paging pool. This is used for
OS/2's paging before and in preference to swapper.dat to minimize disk
access, so it *does* have a useful place in the system. It is *not*,
however, used directly by OS/2 for active system and applications code or
data.
My system runs on an AMI MkII 386/33 AT motherboard with 64K SRAM
write-through cache, 20 megs of physical memory on the motherboard and a
Quantum LPS240AT IDE hard drive.
Paul J. Bodin Internet: pjb3@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu
Union Theological Seminary smail: 435-52nd Street
(718) 439-3549 Brooklyn, NY 11220
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Date: Tue, 8 Sep 92 12:02:04 EDT
Reply-To: "IBM OS/2 Unedited Discussion List" <OS2-L@FRORS12.BITNET>
From: "Paul J. Bodin" <pjb3@CUNIXB.CC.COLUMBIA.EDU>
Subject: Re: 16MB and more
Allan Rosen writes (among other things):
> For example, one of the messages referred to a DEBUG LOADER, but I don't
> know what this is (DOS command, OS/2 command, or 3rd party utility?).
The DEBUG LOADER you mention is included in the GT16MB.ZIP fix file
from IBM. It's name is os2ldrd, in contrast to the production loader
which is named os2ldr. To use the debug version, you must first
arrange for an ASCII terminal attached to COM2 of your OS/2 machine (I
used a null modem cable attaching it to my notebook with a terminal
program in local mode at 9600 baud 8N1). Then unhide os2ldr, rename
it, install os2ldrd, rename it to os2ldr and run ATTRIB +h +s +r
os2ldr to hide it and mark it as a system file. Then, with the ASCII
terminal set to capture, just boot OS/2. The debug information will
automatically be sent to the terminal via COM2.
Allan, I will leave the rest of your question to those better
qualified to answer... and eagerly look forwared to learning the stuff
myself!
Paul J. Bodin Internet: pjb3@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu
Union Theological Seminary smail: 435-52nd Street
(718) 439-3549 Brooklyn, NY 11220
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Date: Tue, 8 Sep 92 19:02:18 NFT
Reply-To: "IBM OS/2 Unedited Discussion List" <OS2-L@FRORS12.BITNET>
From: Thomas Greve <greve@RS1.THCH.UNI-BONN.DE>
Subject: Re: 16MB and more
> Low/High/Ex Mem = 640/15360/4096 K
>
> BaseMem2:
> Base = 00000000 Sz = 000a0000
> Base = 00100000 Sz = 00f00000
> Base = 01000000 Sz = 00400000
> [...] It then further
> evaluates something and divides the memory even further into low, high
> and "extra" memory, finding 640K of low, 15360K of high and 4096K of
> "extra". It assigns new base addresses (BaseMem2) of 00000000h,
> 00100000h and 01000000h respectively. This corresponds to using
> memory under 1 meg for low memory, memory above 1 meg and under 16 meg
> for high memory, and memory above 16 meg for "extra" memory, and also
> correlates accurately with my observations and measurements of how
> much memory OS/2 is using after the desktop is active.
Paul,
you mean: correlates with your experience, that this `Ex' mem is not
used as part of the usual memory pool -- as you state below.
This is what my ldr sais:
I12 640 # INT 12: 640K base mem
I1588 23552 # INT 15,ah=88: 23MB ext. mem
[...]
Low/High/Ex Mem = 640/15360/8192 K
[...]
BaseMem2:
Base = 00000000 Sz = 000a0000
Base = 00100000 Sz = 00f00000 # the loader seems to distinguish
Base = 01000000 Sz = 00800000 # between < 16MB and > 16MB
This all corresponds to what your loader sais. But OS/2 seems to use
my 8MB `Ex' mem as usual memory. So there must be another difference.
- Thomas
greve@rs1.thch.uni-bonn.de
unt145@dbnrhrz1
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Date: Wed, 9 Sep 92 10:13:32 CST
Reply-To: "IBM OS/2 Unedited Discussion List" <OS2-L@FRORS12.BITNET>
From: PATRICK@DHDIBM1.BITNET
Subject: Re: 16MB and more
> It askes int 12 and int 15/88 about my memory and finds 640K + 23M.
> This was what i would have expected. *BUT* some lines further down it
> distinguished between 640K lo, 15M hi and 8M ext. memory.
Well Thomas the output is correct. At least for your hardware :-(
ISA-Bus Systems are restricted for 16 MB of memory for code to run in
cause of their bus not being able to adress the memory above this
barrier. For this reason OS/2 uses the memory above 16 MB as a fast
paging-space.
> Well... i have seen this somewhere, some time ago... in a world i
> thought just having left...
Well you are right in this world. Just buy a new hyperfast
EISA or MCA machine and you will be able to leave it. :-)
> - Thomas
Patrick Hildenbrand
PATRICK9DHDIBM1.BITNET
European Networking Centre, Heidelberg, Germany
Disclaimer: The statements and/or opinions stated above are strictly my
own and do not reflect the views of my employer.
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 92 12:43:51 CDT
Reply-To: "IBM OS/2 Unedited Discussion List" <OS2-L@FRORS12.BITNET>
From: "Phillip E. Parker" <PPARKER@TWSUVM.UC.TWSU.EDU>
Subject: Re: Technical Support
You might also try the trick to make continuous backups of *.ini files
suggested in the Installation Guide, p.76. After having to reinitialize once
and losing my customizations, I did that and it works nicely.
Presumably you could also do this to wp*.* but I haven't tried it.
% Phillip E. Parker
% __ 2 Math. Dept. Bitnet: pparker@twsuvm
% |__) Wichita St. Univ. Internet: pparker@twsuvm.uc.twsu.edu
% | Wichita KS 67260-0033 Fax: 1-316-689-3748
% USA
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Date: Sat, 12 Sep 92 07:37:28 PDT
Reply-To: "IBM OS/2 Unedited Discussion List" <OS2-L@FRORS12.BITNET>
Comments: Originally-From: "M.Halley" <EG2MH@PRIMEA.SHEFFIELD.AC.UK>
From: Dave Gomberg <GOMBERG@UCSFVM.BITNET>
Subject: A laugh and an inquiry from a FOAF
Before you laugh too hard at this, consider how much modification would
be necessary to make something similar for OS/2 (then laugh too hard).
Dave
-------------------- Author's credit below ----------------------
On the programming line I have also managed to write a batch file to
partially implement the main Windows (tm) features under UN*X:
display title screen
display "Windows cannot find a device driver needed to run
Windows in enhanced mode:"
display "vddpga.386"
wait for a key press
set the screen to some hideously naff bright colours
if random number <0.8 load shell program else crash system
if random number <0.9 let user choose program, else just show
a mouse pointer moving around
:loop
if random number <0.5 goto success
display "Unrecoverable Application Error"
display " OK "
wait for return to be pressed
goto loop
:success
run the user's application
goto loop
If anyone has the source code for the random crashes during
applications, please let me know so that I can update this code to
more fully conform to the Microsoft implementation.Pete Appleton
[bi3pma%stg1.shef@sunc.shef.ac.uk]
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 92 12:13:34 EDT
Reply-To: "IBM OS/2 Unedited Discussion List" <OS2-L@FRORS12.BITNET>
From: Turgut Kalfaoglu <TURGUT@FRORS12.BITNET>
Subject: SENDMAIL, twice?
Howdy. I noticed an oddity with IBM TCP/IP 1.2.1: From time to time,
I notice a second copy of SENDMAIL running. I notice constant
disk activity (like a blink every second), and no mail arrives.
As soon as I kill those tasks (KILLEM.EXE, shareware works great),
and restart sendmail -bd -q30m, I start receiving mail again.
Just thought I'd let someone know.. It's strange.. -turgut
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Date: Wed, 16 Sep 92 21:22:02 EST
Reply-To: "IBM OS/2 Unedited Discussion List" <OS2-L@FRORS12.BITNET>
From: John K Gotwals <GOTWALS@PURCCVM.BITNET>
Subject: OS/2 2.0 version 3.1 beta program
Hot off the presses:
PRE-RELEASE IBM OS/2* 2.0 - 32-BIT GRAPHICS ENGINE and WIN-OS/2*
VERSION 3.1 BETA PROGRAM
September 16, 1992
OVERVIEW
IBM is initiating a beta program to obtain testing and development
feedback for the OS/2 32-Bit Graphics Engine and WIN-OS/2 Version
3.1 capabilities. The code is being made available for testing
and development feedback purposes only, and should NOT be used in
production.
DESCRIPTION
The 32-bit Graphics Engine is a full 32 bit implementation of the
OS/2 2.0 Graphics Engine and Graphics Programming interface. It
includes a full 32 bit implementation of the XGA and VGA device
drivers, and is fully compatible with existing 16 bit device
drivers. New features that developers can now take advantage of
are increased system limits for graphic objects and handles and
support for Palette Management on XGA adapters. The 32-bit
Graphics Engine will be of interest to OS/2 2.0 users who need to
evaluate Seamless PM/Windows Mode with high resolution (1024x768)
XGA and selected SVGA support.
WIN-OS/2 Version 3.1 provides the ability to run Windows**
Standard Mode applications which should execute with improved
performance and application integrity over WIN-OS/2 Version 3.0.
It includes support for the level of display and printer drivers
that were shipped with Microsoft** Windows 3.1, as well as the
3.1 level of support for Object Linking and Embedding (OLE) and
Dynamic Data Exchange (DDE). New features include Seamless
PM/Windows execution on XGA, and unique AUTOEXEC.BAT files per
VDM. WIN-OS/2 Version 3.1 requires the accompanying 32-bit
Graphics Engine to run.
PREREQUISITES
- Requires a test system capable of executing OS/2 Version 2.0
- Does not support installing over OS/2 1.3 or OS/2 2.0. You
need to reformat your partition.
ORDERING INSTRUCTIONS
For customers without local branch office support or remote
customer locations, a notice will be posted on CompuServe providing
a toll free number to order one set of diskettes for their
enterprise. This program will end on December 15th, 1992.
* OS/2 and WIN-OS/2 are trademarks or registered trademarks of
IBM Corporation.
** Microsoft and Windows are trademarks or registered trademarks
ofMicrosoft Corporation.
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Date: Thu, 17 Sep 92 19:29:26 EST
Reply-To: "IBM OS/2 Unedited Discussion List" <OS2-L@FRORS12.BITNET>
From: John K Gotwals <GOTWALS@PURCCVM.BITNET>
Subject: More info on OS/2 update
SeRVICE PACK ADVANCE INFORMATION
IBM intends to produce two versions of a Service Pack for OS/2 2.0.
One version will contain fixes for OS/2 2.0 and will include the
32-bit Graphics Engine, which will replace the 16-bit Graphics Engine
when the Service Pack is installed. The second version of the Service
Pack will only contain fixes for OS/2 2.0. Both of these Service Packs
are designed to be applied to the OS/2 2.0 product as released in April,
1992. However, they will be mutually exclusive; only one of them can
be applied. If you apply the version containing the 32-bit Graphics
Engine and later decide that you do not want it, you would have to
reinstall the original OS/2 2.0 and then apply the second version of
the Service Pack without the 32-bit Graphics Engine.
The version of the Service Pack containing the 32-bit Graphics Engine
is targeted to be available electronically at the end of September via
IBM LINK OS/2 BBS, CIS, NSC BBS, INTERNET, IBM CANADA OS2BBS, and other
external sources. Diskette availability will depend on manufacturing
schedules and constraints. The target is currently the middle of
October.
The version of the Service Pack without the 32-bit Graphics Engine is
targeted to be available electronically around the end of October/EARLY
November, with diskette availability approximately two weeks later.
The APAR's currently available for inclusion in the Service Packs are
listed below. Please bear in mind that this is a preliminary list.
IBM continues to make and test additional fixes and currently has fixes
for 60-80 additional APARs in final code and test. APARs will be added
as testing completes.
Please use the following information for your planning purposes, and not
as a commitment to deliver any specific APAR, or to guarantee any
specific delivery date.
Full Service Pack contents, delivery mechanisms, and availability will
be announced once the Service Packs are completed and schedules are
formalized.
APAR LIST (TENTATIVE) ===========================
For Service Pak XR06050 as of Tuesday 15 September 1992 9:02am
APAR Defect Abstract
------- --------------------------------------------------------
JR05562 MLE''S RESPONSE TO SV_INSERTMODE IS BACKWARDS
JR05775 APP STARTED WITH RUN= IN CONFIG.SYS HANGS SYSTEM IF XGA
JR06200 PRINT 120+ JOBS FROM IWP/2 GENERATES PMERR_SPL_NO_MEMORY
PJ03534 TRACEBUF IS CLEARED WHEN EXIT OPTION IS USED IN TRACE
PJ03575 Drives Sub-Folders not inheriting View settings
PJ03638 WIN-OS2 4129 PRINTER DRIVER CANNOT FIND 300.DRV ERROR
PJ03647 REMOVE TITLEBAR FROM SYSTEM CLOCK-CAN''T OPEN SETTINGS
PJ03656 MINIMIZING THINGS TO DESKTOP MINIMIZES THEM TO MWV
PJ03666 DOS VERSION OF LOTUS REQUIRES MEM COMMAND IN MVDM
PJ03677 ROLLOVER FIXES FROM B735600 INTO R205
PJ03696 MSG PMV2001, NOT ENOUGH MEMORY TO OPEN FOLDER.
PJ03701 DETACH SEEMS TO FAIL ON 2.0
PJ03709 SYS3176 WHEN DOS SETTING DOS HIGH AND UMB IS SET TO O
PJ03716 File Icon moved over Object Icon corrupts WPSH display
PJ03717 JIGSAW.EXE CAN HANG DESKTOP.
PJ03726 Loop in VPICA.ASM
PJ03743 SIMPLE BASIC PROGRAM LOCKS UP SYSTEM
PJ03748 IPE-LDRVALIDATEMTEHANDLE RUN MS CODEVIEW(CVP) OF DOS
PJ03755 RAPID ALT-HOME SWITCHING CAUSES VID CORRUPTION OR HANG
PJ03771 USING IBM 122 KEYBOARD AND GA CODE, INSTALL FAILS AFTER
PJ03785 2.0 INSTALL HANGS ON INSTALL DISK, ZEOS 386SX NOTEBOOK
PJ03807 HARD TO SEE MOUSE POINTER ON L40 LAPTOP
PJ03849 OBJECT NOT GOING DORMANT WHEN THEY SHOULD
PJ03852 ICED HANGS DURING COLOR FILL ON 8514 EDITING FOLDER
PJ03863 MODE CO132 FOR XGA FAILS TO PROPERLY SET FONT ON MOD
PJ03889 PROCOMM PLUS CAUSES SYSTEM HANG ON GA
PJ03897 SPOOLER PRIORITY HIGHER THEN TIME CRITICAL THREAD
PJ03912 COM.SYS SHOULD NOT HAVE ERROR LIMIT
PJ03918 USING OS/2 ON ISA MACHINES WITH MORE THAN 16 MEG RAM.
PJ03933 VMONO.SYS ALLOWING ACCESS TO 16K, BUT SAVING ONLY 4K
PJ03937 DosNewSize integrity problem on hpfs
PJ03942 NOBODY CALLS WINFREEDRAGINFO WHEN DRAG COMPLETES.
PJ03973 INSERT/OVERWRITE MODE IS TOGGLED INCORECTLY - NUMLOCK ON
PJ03981 OBJECT CREATED FROM TEMPLATE FOLDER CANNOT BE DELETED
PJ03998 HIMEM.SYS FROM DOS 5.0 WIPES SYSTEM IN A VM BOOT SES
PJ04026 WINSENDMSG NEVER RETURNS WITH BM_QUERYCHECKINDEX
PJ04027 BACKUP UTILITY DOES NOT BACKUP EMPTY SUBDIR''S (FOLDERS
PJ04032 IPE OCCURS IN XCPFATALDISPATCHERROR (XCPTMISC.ASM)
PJ04050 +/- SIGN NOT ALWAYS SHOWN IN TREE-VIEW IN DRIVES FOLD
PJ04056 SYSTEM HANGS WITH 2456 SCSI SCANNER UNDER OS/2 2.0 WITH
PJ04064 PAINTJET AND ''311 THIS FILE'' SYSTEM ERROR
PJ04082 MS C7.0 WON''T RUN IN A VDM, DPMI IS NOT FULLY COMPA
PJ04136 VDM/FULLSCREEN GOES BLACK AFTER DOWNLOADING FONTS
PJ04155 INCORRECT PRINTER DRIVER CHOSEN FOR TWO QUEUES (IBMN
PJ04208 FOCUS GIVEN TO MINIMIZED WINDOWS
PJ04215 SCROLLBARS ARE SBS_AUTOTRACK-SBM_QUERYPOS CHNGD FROM 1.3
PJ04242 The AUTOSTART option for shell objects does not work.
PJ04248 DEVHLP WITH LOCK SERVICE CAUSES MACHINE TO STOP
PJ04264 PGUNLOCK CAUSES IPE WHILE CLOSING COMM MGR FOLDER
PJ04273 IPE WHEN STARTING LAN REQUESTER
PJ04290 FORTRAN/2 VERSION 1.02 TRAPS IMMEDIATELY IN OS/2 SESSION
PJ04303 DOSREADQUEUE HANGS INTERMITTENLY WITH DOSSTARTSESSION
PJ04305 CURSOR DRAW - PAGES NOT LOADED/LOCKED
PJ04313 TRAP E - CS:EIP = 160:FFF888A7 - TKWAKEUP()
PJ04337 TRAP 8 FAULT IN THE PAGE FAULT HANDLER
PJ04338 32-BIT COREL DRAW''S IMR DRIVER DOES NOT WORK
PJ04342 UTILIZE COMPRESSION MODES IN LASERJET PRINTERS
PJ04348 VDISK NEEDS TO WORK ABOVE 16 MEG.
PJ04370 FKA.DLL IS NOT PROPERLY SUPPORTED UNDER 2.0.
PJ04377 TRAP D IN PSTAT (F:000016A5)
PJ04440 XCOPY RETURNING INAPPROPRIATE EXIT/RETURN CODE IE. ERROR
PJ04444 PMREXX TRAP E REXXAPI:CODE32:__EDCTHUN
PJ04456 VCOM/COM.SYS (SYS1201) ERROR IF MOUSE ON COM1 & NO COM2
PJ04500 IPE ## 0F00 : 00000D0F - 0002 : 0D0F 60000 , 2008 DOING
PJ04507 IBM SCSI ADAPTER SYSTEM IO PROBLEMS
PJ04509 NETWORK PRINTER ICON, WHEN BUILT, DOES NOT DUPLICATE THE
PJ04519 TRAP000E CS:EIP 0160 FFF7FA79 CSLIM FFFFFFFF RUNNING AN
PJ04548 TRAP WHEN PRINTING TO STOPPED SERVER FROM COMMMGR
PJ04553 CRITICAL MEMORY CORRUPTION IN PMWIN.DLL
PJ04567 RACE CONDIITION WITHIN WPSH DURING BOOT.
PJ04572 Running SYSINI sample from Reference Causes swapper to g
PJ04583 SHELL HITS INT3 TRAP BECAUSE SYSTEM IS TRASHED
PJ04596 FOCUS IS RETURNED TO DESKTOP FOLDER INSTEAD OF THE USER'
PJ04600 Starting sessions (VDM only?) ignores minfee in config.s
PJ04615 WINSETPRESPARAM NOT SETTING BACKGROUND COLOR OF SOME CON
PJ04662 SWITCHING TO A DOS APPLICATION CAUSES THE SYSTEM TO HANG
PJ04680 Picview's Print function fails using HP7595A printer Dri
PJ04694 COMMAND.COM does not support UNC with long server names
PJ04695 SOME DOS APPS WHICH RAN UNDER .304E ARE NOT ACCEPTING KE
PJ04696 IN A FOLDER'S SETTINGS NOTEBOOK, INCLUDE PAGE 2, FILE SY
PJ04711 MOD-70: CUSTOM SOFWTARE NOT WORKING WITH OS2SC I.DMD DRI
PJ04713 SETBOOT /IBD:C LOCKS SYSTEM UP ON C/I/D INSTALL (LAN
PJ04730 class objects can be unloaded multiple times causing a
PJ04736 MODE COMMAND NOT RECOGNIZING 16550 UART
PJ04808 DIR /P in OS/2 FS causes System hung with running KWIKIN
PJ04835 Bold Text becomes unbold after adding pages to notebook-
PJ04836 PROBLEM ADDING PAGES TO SETTINGS NOTEBOOK USING METHOD W
PJ04904 MOUSE LOSES SYNC ON TOSHIBA LABTOP CONNECTED TO DESKSTAT
PJ04920 Stack ptr corrupted when compile with 64K stack
PJ04930 TRAP D - dem_FFHACK - buffer overrun
PJ04942 WINSETCP ALLOCATES 4K MEMORY AND DOES NOT FREE IT.
PJ04968 Panasonic printers, footers print on next page
PJ05032 WinCreateObject or WinSetObjectData on an open OBJ hangs
PJ05052 2.0's Menuing system not consistent with 1.3's
PJ05090 DOUBLE CLICK ON ENTRY FIELD NOT WORKING IN 2.0
PJ05097 DISABLED MENU ITEM WHICH HAS BEEN ADDED DYNAMICALLY TURN
PJ05147 IBM1FLPY1.ADD Fixes
PJ05160 DOS AP LOTUS 123 3.1 ABENDS WITH OS2KRNL AFTER GA.
PJ05162 Loader is not initializing uninitialized global data to
PJ05177 RC Compiler does not support HPFS type file names in RCI
PJ05179 TrapD while accessing QueryFKADisplayDetails routine in
PJ05187 16 BIT PROGRAM GIVES INCORRECT REGISTER CONTENTS ON TRAP
PJ05189 trap when many monitor open/closes
PJ05191 landp/2 hangs after dosmonwrite/dosmonclose kbd$
PJ05214 Autoscroll doesn't work in right-justified entry-field c
PJ05215 DOS APP WritIT corrupts HPFS system only.
PJ05226 drag/drop to print-object incorrect due to cyChar in SHP
PJ05232 CALCULATOR LEAVES PM KEYBOARD HOSED.
PJ05247 COM.SYS/VCOM.SYS do not work with X00.SYS ( FOSSIL) driv
PJ05290 CORRUPTION WHEN USING WM_QUERYTRACKINFO
PJ05292 BP REG GETS TRASHED WHEN A WM_TRASLATEACCEL IS SENT
PJ05310 MS WORD 4 FRENCH VERSION, MOUSE PTR NOT ERASED PROPERLY
PJ05318 Child process remains in tasklist after parent/child are
PJ05354 FSFILTER.SYS PREVENTS TSR FROM LOADING IN UMB
PJ05370 Session Mgr hangs during screen group switch
PJ05411 Workplace print object hangs desktop!! (what a headline)
PJ05433 QUECALLS looping in Q_Empty
PJ05476 wrong memory freed on error path in LdrAllocSegments
PJ05480 Semaphore handle gets corrupted system deadlocked
PJ05506 Unable to show hidden object when using WinSetObjectData
PJ05511 32 bit call hooks do not work
PJ05630 Windows have border cut off at top (text edit field, dlg
PJ05655 keyboard beeps and keys not displayed in app w/monitors
PJ05731 Int66h Support in VCOM breaks with VHDQueryLin
PJ05802 Using ECHO within NMAKE and using a temp variable is inc
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Date: Mon, 14 Sep 92 14:25:50 PDT
Reply-To: "IBM OS/2 Unedited Discussion List" <OS2-L@FRORS12.BITNET>
From: Craig Cholar <3432P@NAVPGS.BITNET>
Subject: Sytos Backup
>From pg.5 of Sept 14 PC Week:
IBM and Sytron Corp. agree to distribute new version of Sytron's
popular backup and archival software to OS/2 2.0 users.
Under the agreement, IBM will market Sytos Plus File Backup Manager
1.35, a backup package designed for OS/2 2.0, which includes
software-based data-compression and backup capabilities that support
HPFS, extended attributes, and longer path names. The software
will run in 32-bit mode, and can backup 120MB in about 20 minutes.
Version 1.35 also includes improved backup/restore performance and
the ability to view volumes faster for large sets. Automated and
unattended backups can be programmed. The $295 product will be
available through IBM dealers or directly from Sytron of Westboro,
Mass. (no phone number given).
"Registered users of OS/2 2.0 can upgrade for $45 from IBM."
(exact quote, not exactly sure it really means what it says)
Does this mean one must already own an earlier version of Sytos
backup to upgrade for $45? Or can ANY registered OS/2 user get
the whole enchilada for $45? You be the judge.
No mention if this package uses a tape streamer, or is strictly
floppy-based. Anyone have more info?
Craig Cholar 3432P@NAVPGS.BITNET
Defense Manpower Data Center 3432P@CC.NPS.NAVY.MIL
Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey Calif.
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Date: Fri, 18 Sep 92 22:51:43 EDT
Reply-To: "IBM OS/2 Unedited Discussion List" <OS2-L@FRORS12.BITNET>
From: Carl Forde <CFORDE@BCSC02.BITNET>
Subject: Stacker for OS/2 2.0
The following appeared on OS2BBS today:
>Appended at 17:39:51 on 92/09/18 GMT (by FFITZ at AUSVM8)
>Subject: STACKER for OS/2 -- BETA
>Ref: None
>
>This is NOT a product announcement or endorsement. There have been
>several inquiries about the Stac Electronics product called STACKER,
>and I am providing the following as information only.
>
>Stac Electronics has mailed out application forms to at least some
>individuals who have called their order number requesting information
>on an OS/2 version of their product. The application is for a BETA
>version of STACKER for OS/2. The application packet does not contain
>any schedule information, but it does require return of the
>application by today (18 September).
>
>Stac Electronics may be reached at 619-431-7474, or by FAX at
>619-431-0880. The cover letter of the application packet was signed
>by Jon Canfield, Software Test Manager, and identified a contact of
>Irene Prekeges (extension 124) for questions or problems with the beta
>forms.
>
>It should be noted that at least one other vendor has announced a data
>compression software product for OS/2. DCF/2 was announced by
>Proportional Software, and their phone number is 800-666-4OS2, and
>their fax number is 800-955-4OS2.
>
>Best Regards,
>Frank Fitzpatrick
Have fun,
Carl Forde phonenet: 604-360-7130
VM Database and Development Support bitnet : CFORDE@BCSC02
British Columbia Systems Corporation internet: cforde@bcsc02.gov.bc.ca
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Date: Fri, 18 Sep 92 22:53:44 EDT
Reply-To: "IBM OS/2 Unedited Discussion List" <OS2-L@FRORS12.BITNET>
From: Carl Forde <CFORDE@BCSC02.BITNET>
Subject: OS/2 2.0 Developer Assistance Program
The following appeared on OS2BBS today:
>Appended at 18:54:56 on 92/09/18 GMT (by RONGER at RCHVMP2)
>Subject: OS/2 Developer Assistance Program
>
> IBM Announces Worldwide OS/2 Developer Assistance Program
> September 18, 1992
>
> IBM today announced that it has enhanced the OS/2 Developer Assistance
> Program (DAP) to reach software developers around the world who are
> interested in developing OS/2-based products. The details of this program
> -- which IBM expects will substantially increase the number of developers
> writing OS/2 software -- were outlined at the Software Development '92 Fall
> conference being held in Boston.
>
> Developers can apply for DAP membership by calling (407) 982-6408 to
> receive a sign-up form via facsimile. By October 18, developers can apply
> by typing "GO OS2DAP" on CompuServe** and completing the electronic sign-up
> form. There is no charge to join the DAP; however, some program services
> and products require a fee.
>
> In addition to current CompuServe support and country-specific electronic
> services -- such as IBMLink in the U.S. -- IBM intends to use CompuServe as
> one of the primary worldwide distribution sources for OS/2 product,
> technical and marketing information.
>
> IBM also announced that it will offer a beta version of OS/2 2.x code, beta
> versions of various IBM OS/2 development tools and programming technical
> information on a CD-ROM that is being distributed in a pilot program. An
> earlier version of this CD-ROM was tested by a dozen developers and this
> test is now being expanded to 4,000 programmers worldwide. The successful
> testing of this program is expected to lead to a more extensive use of
> CD-ROM technology for delivering large quantities of code and technical
> information to software developers.
>
> ** Trademark or registered trademark of CompuServe, Inc.
>
> End of Notice
> 12/17/92
>
>Mark Rongstad vnet: ronger at rchvmp2
>Rochester, MN internet: ronger@vnet.ibm.com
Have fun,
Carl Forde phonenet: 604-360-7130
VM Database and Development Support bitnet : CFORDE@BCSC02
British Columbia Systems Corporation internet: cforde@bcsc02.gov.bc.ca
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Date: Tue, 22 Sep 92 13:15:39 CDT
Reply-To: "IBM OS/2 Unedited Discussion List" <OS2-L@FRORS12.BITNET>
From: "Scott A. Sibert" <ssibert@JSUVAX.JSU.EDU>
Subject: .ini files
Phillip,
You know, I had some experiences with those darned *.ini files. Last night
, in fact. My os2.ini had grown to 142k and my os2sys.ini had increased to
550k. This is quite a change from my originals of about 40k and 20k
respectively. Well, I tried doing the ALT-F1 deal and it did not work.
Evidently, somewhere down the line, my two *.ini files had been copied over
the two in the /install subdirectory. So, now knowing what to do I booted
via install disks and erased my os2.ini and os2sys.ini, from both the /os2
and the /os2/install directories. Then I re-installed. It came up
alright. I've reconfigured my desktop the same as it was before and now
the two files only take up 80k and 35k respectively. Now, what made those
ini's grow like kudzu and take over my system? Before I erased and
reinstalled I was booting (from the beep after the CAD when it actually
starts loading the op sys) in 75 seconds. Then, immediately after
reinstalling (for several measurements) I booted in 43 seconds. Now, after
doing some configuring I'm up to 60 seconds. What in the world is OS/2
doing now that it evidently was not doing then?????
We _must_ have an os2.ini and os2sys.ini editor that will work for 2.0.
And I would like to have something that will track what the system is doing
at what times so I can figure out what's delaying it. I know exactly when,
during the boot, the system slows down, and when it speeds back up. It is
a complete mystery to me.
SAS
* Scott A. Sibert OOOOO SSSSS // 22222 *
* Jacksonville State University OO OO SS // 22 *
* Jacksonville, AL USA OO OO SSSSS // 22222 *
* ssibert@jsuvax.jsu.edu OO OO SS // 22 *
* OOOOO SSSSS // 222222 *
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Date: Wed, 23 Sep 92 12:33:15 +0800
Reply-To: "IBM OS/2 Unedited Discussion List" <OS2-L@FRORS12.BITNET>
From: "ivan@ntu.ac.sg (Ivan Leong)" <BZ7004742@NTUVAX.BITNET>
Subject: CHECKINI & .INI
Has anyone tried the CHECKINI prgm found at Hobbes?
It's supposed to check your .INI (OS2.INI & OS2SYS.INI) for old redundant stuff
and report them and optionally kill them off. I did manage to do the former and
found I've PLENTY of 'pointers' to deleted files WAY back in the 140Kb and 81Kb
INI files. However the problem lies in unable to kill them off.
CHECKINI advertises it will remove the useless stuff and write back only what's
useful if you specify the /C switch. It not only did not do that but it
actually increases the .INI sizes!
Has anyone got CHECKINI (in CHKINI_01.LZH) to work as said?
'il
---
Fidonet: 6:600/500.0 Miqas/2 [Singapore]
Internet: ivan@ntu.ac.sg _OR_ bz7004742@ntuvax.ntu.ac.sg
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Date: Wed, 23 Sep 92 10:19:25 EDT
Reply-To: "IBM OS/2 Unedited Discussion List" <OS2-L@FRORS12.BITNET>
From: "Paul J. Bodin" <pjb3@CUNIXB.CC.COLUMBIA.EDU>
Subject: Re: CHECKINI & .INI
> Has anyone got CHECKINI (in CHKINI_01.LZH) to work as said?
You don't say whether you have installed the latest REXX libraries.
Several INI file utilities use REXX functions that didn't work
properly in the GA release. The latest ones I know about are in
REXX20.ZIP dated 7-15-92.
Paul J. Bodin Internet: pjb3@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu
Union Theological Seminary smail: 435-52nd Street
(718) 439-3549 Brooklyn, NY 11220
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Date: Wed, 23 Sep 92 19:22:30 EDT
Reply-To: "IBM OS/2 Unedited Discussion List" <OS2-L@FRORS12.BITNET>
From: "ivan@ntu.ac.sg (Ivan Leong)" <BZ7004742@NTUVAX.BITNET>
Subject: Re: CHECKINI & .INI
Date sent: 24-SEP-1992 01:23:23
>> Has anyone got CHECKINI (in CHKINI_01.LZH) to work as said?
CHECKINI is an .EXE and not a REXX script, unlike SHOWINI.
'il
---
Fidonet: 6:600/500.0 Miqas/2 [Singapore]
Internet: ivan@ntu.ac.sg _OR_ bz7004742@ntuvax.ntu.ac.sg
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Date: Thu, 24 Sep 92 08:45:57 MET
Reply-To: "IBM OS/2 Unedited Discussion List" <OS2-L@FRORS12.BITNET>
From: Ralf Stegmann <steg_ral@CONVEX.HRZ.UNI-MARBURG.DE>
Subject: IBM 2.3 GB Tape Drive Software
Hello,
due to many problems with the Sytos Plus 1.3x Backup Software which we
are using on our IBM Lan Server 1.3 (later 2.0) PS/2 Mod. 95 with a
external IBM 2.3 GB Tape Drive attached to, i have the following
questions.
Has anybody out there experience in using other software than Sytos
on this tape drive?
Has anybody ever used ezTape/PM with this tape drive?
Any help is welcome,
thanks,
Ralf
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Date: Thu, 24 Sep 92 10:14:00 MET
Reply-To: "IBM OS/2 Unedited Discussion List" <OS2-L@FRORS12.BITNET>
From: Hans Schoone <CRMASCH@HDETUD2.TUDELFT.NL>
Subject: Re: IBM 2.3 GB Tape Drive Software
We also have Sytos Plus + IBM LAN server 1.3 + PS/2 mod 95 + 2.3 GB
tape drive IBM (internal) running.
I am interested in the problems you have (a man forewarned...).
We do not have *basic* problems so far: the backup gets done, and
we are able to restore files - as long as we do not expect requesters
to work during either, and only use VGA.
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Date: Thu, 24 Sep 92 10:47:26 MET
Reply-To: "IBM OS/2 Unedited Discussion List" <OS2-L@FRORS12.BITNET>
From: Ralf Stegmann <steg_ral@CONVEX.HRZ.UNI-MARBURG.DE>
Subject: Re: IBM 2.3 GB Tape Drive Software
We have basic problems! In our LAN (two main server Mod.95 each 1.2GB disk,
raising to 3.2GB, 1 printer server Mod. 70, 35 Requester Mod. 70,
all machines running OS/2 1.30.1 later 2.0 with IBM LAN Server 1.3)
I cannot prevent users from accessing the servers during
the backup phases. They are working on a large text-database and writing
stuff on the server machines 24 h a day. The daily backup (ca. 600MB raising
to 1GB) needs more than one hour, so the backed up dataset is not consistent
all the time. The monthly backup consuming 2 GB today and up 7GB at the
end of the year runs 4 hours and will run up to 12 hours. Well, Sytos has
problems working with inconsistend backup sets. So nearly half of the
backups get unusable because Sytos is hanging due to the stated problems.
For the future i am in need of a software, working with inconsistend
file sets during the backup, using file compression (I would need up
to 4 tapes for backing up 7GB) and supporting backup set splitting accross
many tapes. I know of tape software supporting this features, but i don't
know if they support IBM 2.3GB Tape Drives (external).
- Ralf
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Date: Thu, 24 Sep 92 12:35:00 MET
Reply-To: "IBM OS/2 Unedited Discussion List" <OS2-L@FRORS12.BITNET>
From: "Hans Schoone, Consul Risk Mgmt" <CRMASCH@HDETUD2.TUDELFT.NL>
Subject: Re: IBM 2.3 GB Tape Drive Software
> the backup phases. They are working on a large text-database and writ
> stuff on the server machines 24 h a day. The daily backup (ca. 600MB
> to 1GB) needs more than one hour, so the backed up dataset is not con
If the database does not contain support for consistent backup during
operation, I doubt whether is any package in the world that can make
a consistent backup during updates! It has only recently become
possible in the mainframe world by special hardware that allows you
to hold all updates to files in non-volatile storage until the
backup has completed, and still this requires support in the database
managers (you need to define which files are related to each other
and should be backed-up in the same point in time. In addition the
database system has to assure that all changes are committed to DASD
for all files (a 'sync' point), before the backup starts).
Would it not be your best bet to simply do a disk-to-disk copy
of your related fileset while somehow you disallow updates during
that backup window? It will cost you extra disk(s) of course, but
23h30 minute availability cannot be achieved for free.
You can then at leisure backup the copy-disk to tape.
Typical mainframe TP systems run 23h30m or 7x24h minus 1 hour
which is *called* 24h availability to soothe the users.
These databases have a LOG which can be used to restore all transactions
from the point of the full dump.
Now as to speed: our 1.2 GB disks run 730KB/s (they are HP disks), this
is a bechmarked value on our server for file transfers > 10MB. The
2.3GB tape drive has a max speed of 250KB/s (if I remember rightly), but
as we can observe from the light it's duty cycle is not so nice. Our
backup does 1.1GB in 106 minutes, or 172KB/s, *but* our disks are on the
same controller as the tape drive, so we might possibly almost double
the speed by adding a separate controller.
So if you want raw speed, you need extra disk(s) with an extra SCSI
controller, and I think you can reach a disk-to-disk transfer rate in
range of 700-900 KB/s, depending on your disk speed. That means it
would still take 15 minutes to copy 600 MB, if all your 600MB must be
consistent. So you will still have to stop operation for 15 minutes in
that case...
The other option is: buy a *real* tape drive, for instance an IBM 3480
compatible tape cartridge drive. These typically can run in the
1.5-3MB/s range for SCSI attached controllers. You need to dedicate a
controller to get the speed, and the backup software may not be what you
want. We have one, but do not use it for backups. With current $ value
you can ship them from the US to Europe for half the price you can buy
them for here ($10,000-$15.000 range).
The problem currently is the tape capacity: the current PC-attached
drives only put some 200MB on a cartridge (18 track non-compressed). I
expect we will see 36-track double length with compression comping up,
which puts them at 1.6GB, and will also mean an increase in data rate.
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Date: Sat, 26 Sep 92 20:12:20 EDT
Reply-To: "IBM OS/2 Unedited Discussion List" <OS2-L@FRORS12.BITNET>
From: Luca Regoli <MC0280@MCLINK.IT>
Subject: Oorexx And Epm 5.51
> What is EPM 5.51? And is this the OO-Rexx the folks in
> England have been working on or a different OO-Rexx?
> Thanks for the info Luky. Please advise about EPM 5.51.
> Thanks. Dave
Ok Dave let me try to tell you what I've understood:
OORexx is the new fronteer of programming.
Every language has its own limitations, for example C and C++ are language
for experts and however not for novices, on the other hand there are
languages like Visual Basic which is really simpler to use even for a
large number of computer users. The problem is that each language if is
simple to use it is even not so powerful, and the tired VB user who wants
to reach some objectives, probably will have to study more and start to
use C or C++.
The SAA Rexx Development Data System Division hope to solv this problem
with OORexx. OORexx will be as simple as today's Rexx but powerful like a
real OOP language, and will permit the use o mixted language as well as
sharing of objects among these other languages (if necessary).
As far as I know, OORexx is followed by the Division in New York. I don't
know if there are other work-goups in England.
I've followed the conference of Richard K. McGuire and all I've told you
is what I've understand from what he sayed.
Now let's come to EPM.
EPM stands for Editor Presentation Manager. After the exit of Personal
Editor 2 (PE2) IBM continued to develop the editor internally calling it
"E" and nothing other. The first version I've known was E3 (3.10) and
then 3.11 and 3.12 an extremely powerful DOS editor composed of two parts
an EXE and a EX part. The E.EX was the pseudo code of all the compiled
*.E files. The *.E files are text files written in a language very
similar to REXX with improved performances, and editor oriented (in the
first versions there were inly integers). You can think to E language as a
middle way among Rexx, Modula2, Pascal, and C... and as you can guess it
is really a POWER!
Ok, let's continue, then the folks continued to develop it and a 4.x
version came out to support DOS as well as OS2, with new features like
dinamic profile loading and releasing (there were the 64k limit for each
profile (= E.EX file)).
In the end with Presentation Manager they decided to implement this editor
so that they called it EPM as I wrote before, vers. 5.x. I have used old
version of EPM untill 5.20 the last available on PCtools in IBM. I must
say I know better E3 as EPM uses many PM functions that I'm not aware of.
The good news are that EPM once IBM internal use only, became the today's
distributed Enhanced Editor of OS/2 2.0 (in V. 5.50), but this was not so
interesting because it was distributed without the compiler (ETPM) and the
source code for the *.EX profiles. Finally a week ago I found on the
NORLOFF BBS :
Pete Norloff OS/2 Shareware (703) 385-4325
(703) 385-0931
The cmplete pakage of the new version as you can see:
File area 5 ... OS/2 Editors and Browsers
EBOOKE.ZIP 501192 09-12-92* EBookie is an EPM add-on that makes it much
easier to create tagged source help
EPMAPP.ZIP 155802 09-12-92* EPM v5.51 base code. See EPMBBS.TXT for
details. EPM editor, macro compiler, REXX debug
macros, quick help, etc.
EPMBBS.TXT 5722 09-12-92* EPM v5.51 readme. Get this first. The
EPM???.ZIP set has the macro language
programming capability.
EPMBK.ZIP 397751 09-12-92* EPM v5.51 *.INF files. See EPMBBS.TXT for
details. EPM User's Guide and Macro
Programmer's Tech Ref. in .INF format.
EPMDLL.ZIP 281559 09-12-92* EPM v5.51 dll. See EPMBBS.TXT for details.
DLLs for E editor toolkit.
EPMHLP.ZIP 86203 09-12-92* EPM v5.51 help. See EPMBBS.TXT for details.
Update EPM.HLP, unpack into \os2\hlp
EPMMAC.ZIP 262435 09-12-92* EPM v5.51 macros to build standard .EX files.
See EPMBBS.TXT for details.
EPMREX.ZIP 10549 09-12-92* EPM v5.51 sample EPM/REXX files. See
EPMBBS.TXT for details.
EPMSMP.ZIP 62132 09-12-92* EPM v5.51 Sample E macro code; includes useful
programs and building blocks. See EPMBBS.TXT
for details.
LAMPDQ.ZIP 13200 09-12-92* LAMPDQ lets you enter commands in EPM that
will be executed on the VM host.
Sorry for the long msg, and for any mistake in my little EPM story, but
I'm not from IBM I've only many friends in IBM.
Have fun with OS2 and EPM!
>>> == L u k y == >>>
mc0280@mclink.it
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Date: Sun, 27 Sep 92 00:18:17 EDT
Reply-To: "IBM OS/2 Unedited Discussion List" <OS2-L@FRORS12.BITNET>
From: "Paul J. Bodin" <pjb3@CUNIXB.CC.COLUMBIA.EDU>
In-Reply-To: Your message of Sat, 26 Sep 92 15:40:21 CDT
Phillip E. Parker asks:
> Re: Oorexx And Epm 5.51
>
> Any chance any of these files would become available at an ftp site
> on the Internet?
All of the latest Epm 5.51 files are available on
software.watson.ibm.com in the /pub/os2 directory.
The files and their significance are listed in EPMBBS.TEXT which is
one of the files available at that site.
N.B.!--four of the files have been updated *since* the new files were
posted on hobbes.
Paul J. Bodin Internet: pjb3@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu
Union Theological Seminary smail: 435-52nd Street
(718) 439-3549 Brooklyn, NY 11220
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Date: Thu, 1 Oct 92 00:54:24 +0800
Reply-To: "IBM OS/2 Unedited Discussion List" <OS2-L@FRORS12.BITNET>
From: "ivan@ntu.ac.sg (Ivan Leong)" <BZ7004742@NTUVAX.BITNET>
Subject: Win NT delay
REDMOND, WASHINGTON, U.S.A., 1992 SEP 28 (NB) -- Microsoft
Corporation says it won't make its target date for Windows NT,
which the company had said would come to market by the end of
1992. The new date is now "early 1993," with Microsoft officials
saying that it "needs more time to respond to customer
suggestions for improvements in the Windows NT system."
[much sniped]
Walker would not confirm that the final product would ship in the
first quarter, but told Newsbytes that by the end of November or
in early December he probably would be able to set a shipping
date.
'il
---
Fidonet: 6:600/500 (aka 6:600/510) Miqas/2 [Singapore]
Internet: ivan@ntu.ac.sg _OR_ bz7004742@ntuvax.ntu.ac.sg
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 92 20:50:04 NFT
Reply-To: Diego <labdg@emoryu1.cc.emory.edu>
From: Diego <labdg@EMORYU1.CC.EMORY.EDU>
Subject: Dino TV show BMP's Posted
Hi folks!
Just thought I'd drop a note to any "Dinosaur" TV show fans
that I've posted a file at ftp-os2.nmsu.edu which contains four
scans of the same show's characters (baby dino just hatched,
earl going to work, and fran and robbie each freaking out).
The file is named dinobmp.zip and is, for now, in the /uploads
directory. The pictures were originally scanned 256 color gif
files, but have been converted and dithered into 16 colors
suitable for viewing on the standard 640x480x16 desktop (at
least until real svga drivers arrive ;-) Considering the 16
color dithering, they look pretty good, and they sure do liven
up the dull old grey WPS. Just unzip, drop into /os2/bitamp,
goto settings-->desktop-->background, and enjoy.
-Regards,
-Diego Gallina (labdg@unix.cc.emory.edu)
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 92 14:31:53 CDT
Reply-To: "IBM OS/2 Unedited Discussion List" <OS2-L@FRORS12.BITNET>
From: "Scott A. Sibert" <ssibert@JSUVAX.JSU.EDU>
Subject: is M$ really on the level?
A friend of mine read (in InfoWorld?) that M$ is selling OS/2 in Australia
and is beta-testing a new version of Word for Windows (for OS/2) in Israel.
Apparently Windoze never caught on in these countries.
Can anyone confirm or deny this report?
SAS
| |
| Scott A. Sibert OOOOO SSSSS // 22222 |
| Jacksonville State University OO OO SS // 22 |
| Jacksonville, AL USA OO OO SSSSS // 22222 |
| ssibert@jsuvax.jsu.edu OO OO SS // 22 |
| OOOOO SSSSS // 222222 |
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Date: Thu, 1 Oct 92 11:51:12 +0200
Reply-To: "IBM OS/2 Unedited Discussion List" <OS2-L@FRORS12.BITNET>
From: "D. Rober" <NDAAA12@CES.KULEUVEN.AC.BE>
Subject: Re : M$ and os2
I know M$ has a new B-level release out for Word for PM. And I have 'heard'
that M$ would have a 32 bit version of Word for PM 'ready'.
Dirk
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Date: Sun, 4 Oct 92 16:34:41 EST
Reply-To: "IBM OS/2 Unedited Discussion List" <OS2-L@FRORS12.BITNET>
From: John K Gotwals <GOTWALS@PURCCVM.BITNET>
Subject: Problems with the OS/2 pre-release
I have had to remove the Win 3.1 portion of the OS/2 pre-release because
it would not work with the windows versions Excel 4.0 and Word 2.0.
Both packages would start ok, but the pull-down menus would not work.
I am currently using the 32-bit graphics engine OS/2 pre-release and
I found that if you press the Print Screen button during a DOS Full Screen
session, you will crash the session.
I am now wondering how any of these three problems could have gotten through
the IBM internal testing crew? I am using the ATI Ultra Graphics adapter
and did not have these troubles with the GA release.
-- John
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Date: Sun, 4 Oct 92 20:38:00 EDT
Reply-To: "IBM OS/2 Unedited Discussion List" <OS2-L@FRORS12.BITNET>
From: JAO@ZODIAC.BITNET
Subject: Re: Problems with the OS/2 pre-release
Do you find that the 32-bit GRE is much faster than the normal OS/2r2
setup or is the difference negligable? Also, the Windows 3.1 support
doesn't include FASTDISK, does it? That would be impossible without
Window's 386-enhanced mode, correct?
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Date: Sun, 4 Oct 92 16:40:51 EDT
Reply-To: "IBM OS/2 Unedited Discussion List" <OS2-L@FRORS12.BITNET>
From: "Paul J. Bodin" <pjb3@CUNIXB.CC.COLUMBIA.EDU>
Subject: Re: CD-ROM
Dave Gomberg writes re: CD ROM drives--
> If I ever break down and buy one, what about drivers? What is anyone
> using? How well does it work? Does the driver support caching? How
> inexpensively can I get by if I am not in a hurry (I am not, I still have
> postscript software that takes minutes per page).
OS/2 comes with a generic CD ROM driver that supports Toshiba and IBM
drives fully. Other SCSI drives are "sort of" supported with a litle
tweaking. A new CDROM_G.SYS driver is now available that provides
better generic support for SCSI CD ROM drives. You must also have the
appropriate SCSI driver for your SCSI host adapter card.
The CD ROM is supported as an installable file system via a file named
CDFS.IFS. The file system is installed in the same way that the HPFS
file system is installed, and supports many of the same parameters.
In particular, the cache size may be specified with the /C: parameter,
and the number of sectors read and buffered for each read can be
specified with the /M: parameter. I am currently using a 512K cache
buffer (/C:16) and am very pleased with the results.
Paul J. Bodin Internet: pjb3@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu
Union Theological Seminary smail: 435-52nd Street
(718) 439-3549 Brooklyn, NY 11220
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Feed from the Usenet (UUCP/Internet) comp.os.os2.* newsgroups :
------------------------------------------------------------------------
From: goyal@utdallas.edu (Mohit K. Goyal)
Subject: MS ready to release 32-bit Word & Excel?!?! Read on...
Date: 18 Sep 92 05:52:58 GMT
Organization: Univ. of Texas at Dallas
The following is something I captured off of the ILink OS/2 echo:
---------------
Folks, you are not going to believe this. Reprinted below is part of
the text from an article called "Microsoft Testing Word, Excel" from the
September 14, 1992 INFORMATION WEEK(page 14):
Is it or isn't?
While Microsoft Corp. last week reaffirmed that OS/2 2.0 support for
Microsoft Mail, LAN Manager, and SQL Server is "within the company's
plans" the Redmond, WA, software giant denied mounting reports that it
is far along in its development of at least two application packages,
Word and Excel, for archrival IBM's 32-bit operating system.
"It's something we evaluate all the time," says Pete Higgins, VP of
Microsoft's desktop applications group. "But we are not working on
native [OS/2 2.0] applications right now."
According to independent sources, however, Microsoft is indeed preparing
OS/2 2.0 versions of its popular Word word processing and Excel
spreadsheet progrmas, and one source even claims those versions are
already in some form of beta testing. Another source adds that MS has
hired 3 of IBM's own marketers to help promote the products.
William Bluestein, an analyst with Forrester Research Inc. in Cambridge,
MA, also confirms hearing that MS has nearly completed both packages.
..sources says the OS/2 versions of Word and Excel are being developed
by secret OS/2 programmers working in MS's office in Israel. That site
is known to be developing an OS/2 subsystem for MS's forthcoming 32-bit
operating system, Windows NT, which is due to ship in the first quarter
of 1993. The subsystem would allow Windows NT to run OS/2
character-based applications.
-------------------
I know nothing more. I am simply reposting this here FYI.
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Organization: Wirtschaftsuniversitaet Wien, Vienna, Austria
Date: Tuesday, 22 Sep 1992 17:01:37 CET
From: FLATSCHER Rony <RONY@awiwuw11.wu-wien.ac.at>
Subject: IBM plans on future of OS/2
Right now IBM is helding 3-day-seminars for OS/2-beta-testers and
developers of OS/2-software in Europe (Dusseldorf - Germany, Budapest -
Hungary, Rome - Italy, London - Great Britain, Copenhagen - Denmark,
Paris - France).
They have developers from their labs (Monte Copeland, Paul Rogers,
Chet Heath, Jason Dickie, Michael Derwin, Giffin Lorimer, Andrew
Skates, David Kerr, Barbara Barker, George Sweeney, Steve Joyce,
Steven King, Mark Simpson, Tim Blackwood, Jeffrey Fisher, Don Neely,
Scott Snyder, Don Neely, Steve Yeamans, Rick McGuire, Mike Kogan, ...).
Every participant is given a CD-ROM containing more than 200 MB of data,
among other things: OS/2 Technical Library Documentation, RedBooks,
Multimedia docu and Toolkit, Betacode (Network Transport Services/2,
System Performance Monitor, LAN Server 3.0, 32bit Graphics Engine), demos
(DAISys, Easel, Gpf, GUILd, PROMINARE, ...), tools (...), fixes (...).
Another CD-ROM is expected for the participants including Win 3.1 code
among other things.
**** Highlights of things in 1992:
- Bug Fixes
- Improved Performance
- Multithreaded VDMs
- OEM Support
- More Systems supported
- OEM Preload Support
- 32bit Graphics Engine And Palette Manager
- 32bit Graphics Drivers (XGA, VGA, Tseng, Headland, Western Digital,
ATI)
OS/2 ***Post*** 1992 Goals and Enhancements **Considerations**
- 586/P5 Exploitation
- Symmetric Multiprocessing on 80x86
- Memory-mapped Files
- Security (Login, Discretionary Access Control)
- Client-Server Support via RPC, Sockets, IPC Semaphore Event Pairs...
- Win32(s) compatibility
- 32Bit-PMWIN
- relieve 16-bit limitations
- multiple input queues
- better GUI-performance
- portability
- PM OLE
- SOM II
- Object REXX
There is a hell of a lot more ... (3 days !)
As Microsoft loudly tells customers about future enhancements I thought
it would be just fair to replicate some (by no means all !) enhancements
IBM plans for OS/2. In all aspects IBM plans allways inclusion of portability
issues. It just proofs, that OS/2-user of today will not be left on their
own in the future. IBM **is** committed to OS/2.
---rony
------------------------------------------------------------------------
From: sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu (Timothy F. Sipples)
Subject: OS/2 Future Trends and Directions
Organization: Dept. of Econ., Univ. of Chicago
Date: Sat, 26 Sep 1992 01:28:11 GMT
Today IBM Chicago held its monthly OS/2 User's Group meeting. This
month's meeting was devoted, in large part, to a presentation by two
OS/2 experts from Austin (mainly delivered by Don Crabtree).
I thought I'd post a report on that meeting and what these two
presented. Disclaimers: these aren't official IBM pronouncements, all
information is subject to change, etc., etc. A lot was covered, so
I'm bound to make some mistakes. Also, I am only familiar with half
the acronyms, so bear with me. :-)
Multimedia was largely glossed over in this presentation (since it
will be the exclusive focus of an upcoming meeting), so I do not
mention anything about MMPM/2 and other multimedia topics here.
As of approximately two weeks ago, 1.4 million copies of OS/2 2.0 had
left the factories, excluding internal copies, copies supplied to
ISVs, promotional copies, and electronically delivered copies. IBM
estimates that one million OS/2 2.0 users are now out there.
Among notable products, WordPerfect 6.0 for OS/2 is set for an early
first quarter 1993 release if all goes well. Hopes are still alive
for a year end release, but the date could slip.
A 32-bit Novell NetWare Server for OS/2 2.0 is expected at about the
same time.
The Developer's CD-ROM is now available. It contains full online
programming and redbook documentation, Book Reader/2, beta versions of
development tools (Workframe/2), OS/2 2.01 (beta, i.e. the Win-OS/2
3.1 update, etc.), LAN Server 3.0 beta, TCP/IP beta, C++ beta, and
much more. The cost is approximately $30. I'll post details on how
to obtain this CD-ROM in the near future in comp.os.os2.programmer.
This product is part of the "new IBM," you might say: six weeks from
conception to delivery. (Left unsaid was that it was a response to
Microsoft's NT CD-ROM. It was also a one-up on them; these are beta,
not "pre-beta" tools, there's a lot more on there in many ways, and it
comes at a third the price.) IBM expects they'll have a second CD-ROM
release in mid October -- a quick follow-on indeed.
Now, where is OS/2 headed?
By year end the following enhancements will be in place [meaning some
will obviously be delivered well before December 31]:
** LAN Server 3.0. It will contain multiprocessing (asymmetric) and
peer-to-peer features, among other things.
** 32-bit graphics engine. (*)
** SuperVGA drivers ("...representing 80 to 90 percent of the
marketplace...") (*)
** Reduced memory requirements. A standalone OS/2 2.0 station which
now requires 4.5 MB will be trimmed by one megabyte to 3.5 MB, i.e.
OS/2 2.0 will really fit in 4 MB. (*)
** Improved performance (in addition to the RAM diet). (*)
** Windows enhancements (i.e. Win-OS/2 3.1 with TrueType, multimedia
extensions, bitmaps, and applets). (*)
** Systems management enhancements. Specifically, remote network
installation and remote network maintenance will be improved and will
include more than LAN Server networks.
** LAN transport enhancements (i.e. NTS/2). NTS/2 contains additional
protocol stacks (Appletalk (!), NetBIOS/BEUI, IPX, DECNet, OSI, SNA, etc.)
All you need is a NDIS driver to run the whole show. NTS/2 can be
ordered separately and will be included at no extra charge in such
products as LAN Server, TCP/IP (presumably), and other network-related
add-ons.
** First DCE toolkit. Programmers will be able to take advantage of
DCE/RPC.
The (*) items will be delivered widely, electronically (through such
facilities as Internet ftp), as free updates. (Systems management
enhancements will be enabled in the base product, but they aren't
useful without a network requester and a server.)
In 1993 ("OS/2 2.x"):
** Win32/Win32s API compatibility. This was a surprise, frankly. But
it was there on the overhead transparency.
[Just to editorialize, this could cut both ways. On the one hand OS/2
is essentially remaining a superset of Windows "forever," i.e. if you
have OS/2 you can always run more. Meaning it is more attractive for
consumers. On the other hand you might ask whether developers should
write for the OS/2 API. But, then again, developers don't dictate OS
markets, consumers do. If OS/2 is more popular, and, other things
being equal, OS/2 users prefer native OS/2 applications over Win32
applications, then developers with native OS/2 versions will have an
advantage. What would be truly bizarre (devious?) is if IBM
implemented the Win32 API before Microsoft did, which is certainly
possible with these new, modern OSes given that the API is rigidly
defined. BUT I DIGRESS.]
** Security. B2 level features will be incorporated; C2 certifiable.
Read on.
** Network thresholds enabled. Several customers expressed the need
for reducing network traffic, and IBM is introducing this facility
where you can, for example, set a spool threshold such that output for
the printer won't cross the network until enough bytes have been
spooled. At least, that's what I think they meant.
** Distributed PM and X client. Meaning your PM applications can
execute on another machine across the network and display on your
local machine, even a machine running X. (The reverse is already
possible with Unix workstations, i.e. an X program executing on a Unix
workstation can display on the OS/2 PC with TCP/IP plus the X server.)
I should note at this point that the presenters pointed out that DOS
will live into the late 90s, and that they plan on offering a version
of the Workplace Shell for DOS. A WPS equipped DOS workstation could
also participate in this fashion, with Distributed/PM, which would
make a lot of 8088 and 80286 machines more useful. They admitted,
however, that the performance would be less than stellar, simply
because these machines are slow. But they would be put to good use.
** Pen/PM, i.e. support for pen input devices and paradigms.
** "Generic Client" support, meaning that network requesters from
multiple vendors will ship in one package, and you just select which
one(s) you want on installation. This package will be open to all
network suppliers.
In 1993 to 1994 ("OS/2 3.x"):
** DCE/RPC. This offering will solidify and expand across all IBM
platforms in this time frame.
** POSIX compliance.
** C2 certification granted. (It takes approximately 12 months, and
software is certified in combination with hardware.)
** Symmetric multiprocessing (SMP).
** Portability, based on the OSF/Mach 3.0 kernel.
IBM should have a demonstration at Comdex/Fall of OS/2 running atop
the OSF/Mach 3.0 kernel, a parallel database demonstration, and more.
[The presenter noted that the OSF/Mach 3.0 kernel has advantages over
the NT kernel, specifically, as an example, in I/O handling.]
The missions given to Taligent and Kaleida were also discussed. In a
nutshell, Taligent's mission is to borrow from the best of both IBM
and Apple, create standards and enhancements, and license back
technologies to the parent companies. Since IBM and Apple together
control over 50% of the market in personal computers, they hope to
promulgate standards more effectively in tandem. OS/2 and AIX will
continue to evolve (as will DOS, for that matter, with the
aforementioned WPS version). (It was left unsaid, but OS/2 will be
the "mainstream" operating system while AIX will be targeted at
markets where something more than POSIX compliance is demanded; I
suspect there will be a lot of "cross polination" here, but that the
two OS tracks will merge only as fast as the market dictates.)
Taligent may itself offer its own operating system in the distant (in
industry terms) future, but it was characterized as more of a niche,
high end product rather than as a mass market item.
Kaleida's mission is similar, namely to choose the best technologies
from the parent companies, to standardize and enhance them, and to
license them back to the parents (and promulgate them throughout the
industry). However, it was admitted that Kaleida's mission will be
much more difficult.
Incidently, the naming of Pink was explained. When IBM and Apple met,
the Apple representatives brought several 3x5 index cards, with
components of their key technologies written on each card. These
cards were tacked onto a bulletin board and were used in the
negotiations. The cards describing features found in OBS (Object
Based System, the Apple follow-on to Macintosh System 7) were pink.
OBS was then referred to as Pink, and the name stuck. Pink is but one
set of technologies from which Taligent will draw in creating a new
set of standards for a new, object-oriented operating system.
I've been to a couple of these Chicago meetings now, and this meeting
had its share of chuckles (mainly arising out of questions from the
audience). For example, one person asked whether "reduced
requirements" meant that OS/2 2.0 would now operate on 80286 machines.
(Answer: no, OS/2 1.3 remains the 80286 OS/2 offering.) Another asked
whether 8088 and 80286 machines could be hooked up to AS/400
minicomputers to "boost" its processing power (by tying the machines
together with DCE/RPC). (Answer: not really.) IBM customers, to some
degree, remain a conservative, traditional group. Which is terrific,
in some respects. But when was the 80386 introduced? 1985? Those
8088 machines just can't be obsolete. :-)
Bundling was discussed. According to the presenter, OS/2 2.0 is now
bundled with all IBM 386SX or better PS/2s, some PS/1s, and select
Dell systems. (On other Dell systems it will be preloaded at the
customer's request.) IBM is currently negotiating with nine other
vendors who wish to bundle OS/2 2.0 with their systems. Also, hard
drive manufacturers have approached IBM with interest in selling hard
drives with OS/2 2.0 preloaded. The presenter also expects you'll see
software bundling (e.g. systems bundled with, say, OS/2 2.0 and Lotus
1-2-3/G).
So, that's where OS/2 is heading, in summary, according to the
presentation.
Please follow up to comp.os.os2.advocacy.
--
Timothy F. Sipples | The OS/2 FREQ. ASKED QUESTIONS LIST is avail. from
sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu | 128.123.35.151, anonymous ftp, in /pub/os2/all/faq.
Dept. of Econ., Univ. | Or from LISTSERV@BLEKUL11.BITNET (send "HELP").
of Chicago, 60637 | Family Values Means a Job
------------------------------------------------------------------------
From: sdyck@ccu.umanitoba.ca (Sheldon Dyck)
Subject: Mathematica and OS/2
Organization: University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada
Date: Mon, 28 Sep 1992 23:03:49 GMT
I just received an e-mail from Wolfram and they are going to make a version
of Mathematica for OS/2. The following is the message that I received:
(I hope this clears up some of the rumours.)
Wolfram Research does intend to release an OS2 version of Mathematica,
probable very early next year. Please feel free to contact me later on for
more specific release information. Thank you for using Mathematica.
Sincerely,
Lori Gilmore
Academic Sales
Wolfram Research, Inc.
ph: 217-398-0700, ext. 233
fax: 217-398-0747
email: lori@wri.com
| Sheldon Dyck <sdyck> | 58 Pincarrow Road |
| Department of Mathematics, | Winnipeg, Manitoba. |
| University of Manitoba. | Canada, R3Y-1E3. |
| e-mail: sdyck@ccu.UManitoba.CA | (204)-488-6990 |
------------------------------------------------------------------------
From: brian%jaguar.cs.utah.edu@cs.utah.edu (Brian Sturgill)
Subject: Tidbits about NT and OS/2 from the trade rags.
Date: 30 Sep 92 21:35:26 MDT
Organization: University of Utah CS Dept
Contents:
OS/2 PDK
IBM ignores small developers
Zachmann
HP and NT
!!! Novell "rebuffs" OS/2 !!!
OS/2 users await Microsoft apps.
OS/2 demos SMP.
Both PC Week and InfoWorld had several articles about the
OS/2 2.0 SPP and the new easy entry into the DAP. These
have been well covered in c.o.o.a so I omit them.
]
---------
[PC Week; September 28, 1992; Pages 1,10]
OS/2 PDK a Boon for Developers.
[
The article contains a good review -- if you develop for OS/2
and have a CD-ROM drive... you want this.
Among many other things the PDK contains "Release-level copies of the
OS/2 multimedia extensions and multimedia development kit."
Is this the same stuff IBM charges $125 for?
] ...
The OS/2 Professional Developer's Kit is available [on CD-ROM] to members
of IBM's Developer Assistance Program for $15 shipping and handling
charge. The PDK may be ordered by calling (800) 342-6672.
.
------------
[PC Week; September 28, 1992; Pages 75]
OS/2 Still Suffers from IBM's Lack of Foresight.
By Jim Seymour
.
The distribution screwups of OS/2 2.0 have been widely reported. But
there's a darker side to IBM's weak support of OS/2 that hasn't been
reported--its lame, often insulting non-support of applications
developers eager to port their products to OS/2.
I've heard these stories over and over from developers since late
last year. It sounded odd to me: IBM know applications sell
operating systems; IBM knows that early, wide support of OS/2 by
apps developers is important. Why else would IBM spend so much
money on subsidy deals with large developers?
But not all the essential support for a new operating system
comes from the Big Boys. Especially when the biggest of the Big
Boys, Microsoft, seems very unlikely to sign up as an OS/2
developer. Sure, IBM has Lotus, Borland and WordPerfect, but a
broad range of software support is what's going to drive buyers
to OS/2.
Yet the stories for small developers about IBM turning a deaf ear
to their requests to join the team continued. When I tracked
them down, few of those developers were willing to provide
specifics. They made it plain they were afraid to anger IBM on
this. They still hoped to develop for OS/2
.
------------
[PC Week; September 28, 1992; Pages 78]
[Zachmann is rational this week -- amazing -- must be job hunting...
this is his next to last article... I won't miss him.
His theme is that despite what he's said before everyone should
look at Windows NT. Hopefully he'll take his own advice before
writing more about NT.]
------------
[PC Week; September 28, 1992; Pages 150]
Microsoft, HP Discuss NT Port for PA-RISC
Microsoft and Hewlett-Packard are discussing porting Windows NT
to HP's PA-RISC workstations, officials at both companies
confirmed last week.
HP, however, has not committed to a port, instead taking a
"wait-and-see attitude," said Wim Roelandts, vice president of
the Network Systems Group for HP.
.
------------
[InfoWorld; September 28, 1992; Pages 1,107]
NOVELL SEES THE FUTURE IN UNIX; OS/2 REBUFFED
Novell bids on USL takeover with UnixWare in the wings.
By Cheryl Gerber
On the eve of the formal rollout of UnixWare, Novell Inc.
officials last week acknowledged they see the future in Unix, not
OS/2.
The launch of the UnixWare desktop operating system, slated for
October 12 at NetWorld, will begin what analysts expect to be an
expanded interest in 32-bit Unix technology, and away from IBM's
beleaguered 32-bit OS/2.
"The reason we're in Unix is we woke up and realized thatOS/2
wasn't going to be it," said Peter Troop, a Novell spokesman.
"Novell long assumed that OS/2 would be the platform to field a
32-bit operating system that is hardware-scalable and supports
application integration on the network."
Novell has not been bashful about its preference for UnixWare,
sources said. They said the LAN giant has worked closely with
major software developers, including WordPerfect, Informix, and
Lotus Development Corp., to get them to commit to shipping
UnixWare versions of their most popular applications by year end.
"There is no question that UnixWare is a strategic platform for
Novell, while OS/2 has become a check-off item," said Jamie
Lewis, an analyst with the Burton Group, in Salt Lake City.
"There's no question the relationship between IBM and Novell has
chilled."
.
"There have been discussions for Novell to take a larger stake --
even to own 100 percent -- of USL, because Novel considers USL
strategic in its battle against Microsfot," said Roel Pieper,
chief executive officer of USL. Novell currently owns about 5
percent of USL.
[
Peiper had a rather lengthy article in last weeks Open Systems Today
where he blasted NT with every dirty trick in the book... including
irrational things like implying that Windows 3.0 UAE's were an
example of what NT would be like.
Unix International had a huge multi-page ad where they had a
lot of extremely prejudiced graphs show things like Unix app
availability and number of users. Careful readings of
the graphs showed them to not be outright lies... but
it was all very misleading.
]
.
Univel officals said the UnixWare OS, slated for commercial
shipment by year end, will be NetWare ready with Novell's SPX/IPX
protocols built in. Users will be able to share files and
printers as DOS and OS/2 do now, without an NFS server with
TCP/IP as an add-on NetWare Loadable Module.
.
IBM did not return calls by press time.
---------
[PC Week; September 28, 1992; Page 3]
OS/2 2.0 users impatiently await native applications from Microsoft
By Doug Barney and Ed Scannell
.
So far, Lotus Development Corp, is the only major vendor to
commit a broad suite of its native applications to IBM's advanced,
multitaksing operating system.
Overall, users prefer that applications under OS/2 run natively
rather than in the Windows compativility mode. True 32-bit OS/2
2.0 applications not only provide superior performance, the users
said, they also offer tighter integration than their Windows
counterparts.
.
Despite persistant rumors that Microsoft has developed key
applications such as new, 32-bit versions of Word and Excel, the
company continues to deny any OS/2 development plans.
.
---------
[PC Week; September 28, 1992; Page]
IBM SHOWS KERNEL OF MULTIPROCESSING OS/2
Technology would allow multiple operating systems on the same PC.
By Cate Corcoran
NEW YORK--IBM demonstrated microkernel technology that will
enable multiprocessing in OS/2 during Unix Expo here last week.
The technology will also enable object-oriented software and give
users a wider choice of applictions, the company said.
IBM showed OS/2, OSF/1, Unix, and DOS running as applicaitons on
top of a Mach microkernel on a PS/2. The applications were
resident in the same machine bu could not run concurrently.
.
[Several speculations by third parties as to when it would ship.]
IBM said only that the microkernel technology could find its way
into actual products in five years or less. The company has said
in the past that OS/2 3.0 will be based on Mach.
.
---------
Brian
--
C. Brian Sturgill I strongly encourage you to read Ross Perot's
University of Utah United We Stand
Center for Software Science How we can take back our country.
brian@cs.utah.edu; CIS: 70363,1373 (It's more important than OS/2 vs NT! :-))
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Organization: Rohm and Haas Company
Date: Thu, 1 Oct 1992 13:38:27 EDT
From: Peter J. Natali <MBAPN@rohvm1.rohmhaas.com>
Subject: Service Pack news from IBM 10/01/92
The following was released by IBM on 09/30/92:
---------------------- Start of article ----------------------------
OS/2 2.0 SERVICE PAK ADVANCE INFORMATION UPDATE
September 30, 1992
This is an update to information posted September 18, 1992.
IBM intends to produce two versions of a Service Pak for OS/2 2.0.
One version will contain fixes for OS/2 2.0 and will include the
32-bit Graphics Engine, which will replace the 16-bit Graphics Engine
when the Service Pak is installed. The second version of the Service
Pak will only contain fixes for OS/2 2.0. Both of these Service Paks
are designed to be applied to the OS/2 2.0 product as released in March,
1992. However, they will be mutually exclusive; only one of them can
be applied. If you apply the version containing the 32-bit Graphics
Engine and later decide that you do not want it, you would have to
reinstall the original OS/2 2.0 and then apply the second version of
the Service Pak without the 32-bit Graphics Engine.
The version of the Service Pak containing the 32-bit Graphics Engine
was targeted to be available electronically at the end of September.
IBM has been working feverishly to meet that target. However, based
on feedback generated by the earlier announcement and results of
testing, we have decided to include additional fixes in the Service
Paks. These fixes require additional code and test time. In addition
to testing these fixes, IBM is performing tests on the Service Pak as
an entity to ensure that the individual APAR fixes are compatible when
integrated into the system. IBM continues to make and test fixes and
to assess the content of the Service Pak to ensure that the proper
fixes are included and that high quality fixes are delivered.
The version of the Service Pak containing the 32-bit Graphics Engine
will be made available electronically via IBMLINK OS/2 BBS, CIS,
NSC BBS, INTERNET, and other external sources as soon as it is ready,
meaning that it has the proper content and the right level of quality.
The current outlook is that it will be available prior to mid-October.
The version of the Service Pak without the 32-bit Graphics Engine
will be available at a later date.
Full Service Pak contents, delivery mechanisms, and availability will
be announced once the Service Paks are completed and schedules are
formalized.
Please use the following information for your planning purposes, and not
as a commitment to deliver any specific APAR, or to guarantee any
specific delivery date.
The APAR fixes currently available for inclusion in the Service Paks
are listed below. The fixes added since the previous announcement are
listed first. Please bear in mind that this is a preliminary list and
that the information about availability refers to target dates.
Additional APARs are being addressed on an ongoing basis. APAR fixes
will be added as testing completes.
APAR LIST (PRELIMINARY) =====================
For Service Pak XR06050 as of Wednesday, September 30, 1992
APARS added since previous announcement -------
APAR Defect Abstract
------- ---------------------------------------------------------
JR05097 DOSFREESEG IS CAUSING INTERNAL PROCESSING ERROR. SYSTEM
JR06321 QUEUE PROCESSOR SHOULD NOT ISSUE ERROR MESSAGE ON PLAYME
JR06464 NETWORK PRINTER ICON, WHEN BUILT, DOES NOT DUPLICATE THE
PJ03757 FATAL TRAP 000E (PAGE FAULT)RUNNING APP USING MS CODE
PJ03780 XCOPY COMMAND DOESN'T WORK IN LAN ENVIRONMENT APA
PJ03803 FIND/LOCATE FOR NEW PGM SETTINGS NO DISPLAY ALL DRIVES
PJ03811 FSFILTER DOESN''T ALLOW REDIRECTION UNDER DR DOS
PJ03838 OAK TECHNOLOGIES VIDEO ROM MACHINES WILL NOT INSTALL
PJ03897 SPOOLER PRIORITY HIGHER THEN TIME CRITICAL THREAD
PJ04052 4 MEG PERFORMACE PACK FOR HPFS
PJ04059 POST ICONS LOST FROM A COPY OF A PROG REF AFTER REBOOT
PJ04066 OS2-2.0 NLS CANNOT COPY TO CLIPBD IN PM AND PASTE WINOS2
PJ04211 OS/2 BOOT MANAGER DOES NOT WORK WITH UNIX
PJ04217 BRING IN LOST IDSS/CMVC PTRS
PJ04220 OS/2 SWITCHES SOME CLONES INTO SLOW (NON-TURBO) MODE.
PJ04284 BASICA HALTS CLONE SYSTEM.
PJ04324 ''ABIOS RQB TOO SMALL'' PANIC COMING FROM IBMTOU.SYS
PJ04325 CODEVIEW, /O OPTION, DEBUGGING CHILD PROCESSES, HANGS WH
PJ04358 5.1 CAUSES TRAP0 IN THE KRNL WHILE IN A DOS F SCRN
PJ04402 NEW PORT DRIVER SETTINGS NEVER CALLED
PJ04470 TRAP D IN LDRGETTKMODULEINFO() CS:EIP=160:FFF5CBDB
PJ04540 TRAP 000D CS:EIP= 04E8 : 00002889 CSACC= 009F CSLIM=
PJ04587 IPE PANIC IN SELREMDISCREC
PJ04664 TSENG 3000 VIDEO BOARDS CAUSE FLICKER AT TOP OF SCREEN.
PJ04669 PARALLEL PORT INTERRUPT NOT SIMULATED INTO DOS SESSION
PJ04819 THE COMMAND REFERENCE COM.SYS INFORMATION IS INCOMPLETE
PJ04878 SYS2237 GENERATED ON NPX INSTRUCTIONS, UNDER REAL DOS WO
PJ04895 RETRY SHOULD BE DEFAULT PUSHBUTTON FOR PRINTER OFF-LINE
PJ04960 SYSTEM TAKES TOO LONG TO CLOSE & OPEN WINDOWS, STALLED A
PJ05044 EMS_LOW_OS_MAP_REGION STALLS AT 384
PJ05093 DOSCONNECTNMPIPE RETURNS 109 IN 2.0
PJ05157 6.412 KERNEL FIX CAUSES PMV2001 RUNNING SEAMLESS WINDOW
PJ05360 CAN'T OPEN ALL ICONS IN PRODUCTIVITY FOLDER - PMWIN HEAP
PJ05438 EPM TRAP 12 IN ETKE550.DLL
PJ05594 WIN-OS/2 XGA SCREEN BLACKS OUT IF POP-UP MESSAGE
PJ05673 NETWORK PRINT OBJECT TRUNCATES NAMED PIPE TO 8 CHARACTER
PJ05679 CTRL-ESC DOES NOT DISPLAY W.L. WHEN A DISABLED BUTTON HA
PJ05683 BACKGROUND PROGRAM CAN'T CONTINUE WHEN VIOPOPUP IN FOREG
PJ05742 LOTUS: WINDDEINITIATE API CALL CAUSES ACCESS VIOLATION
PJ05763 OBJECT POINTER WHICH DOES NOT POINT TO ANY CLASS HANGS W
PJ05769 ATM TRAPS WITH FONT WITH LARGE KERNING TABLE
PJ05787 CUSTOMER NEEDS 122 KEYBOARD FUNCTION KEYS SUPPORTED BY P
PJ06018 VWIN.SYS PLACED IN CONFIG.SYS WHEN DOS/WIN NOT INSTA
PJ06019 RSPFILE INSTALL WON''T INSTALL 8514/A WHEN USING SEMAINT
PJ06031 4 MB FILESYSTEM EA PERFORMANCE
PJ06032 INSTALLING PRINTERS FROM THE CONTROL PANEL KILLS VDM
PJ06035 MYSTIFY SCREENSAVER CAUSES A GP FAULT AND KILLS VDM
PJ06057 SYSTEM HANGS DOING DDE W/AMIPRO TO OS2DDE.EXE
PJ06058 NACK RUNNING DDE, DIB FORMAT, PM CLIENT / WIN SRVR, VGA
PJ06059 INSUFFICIENT MEMORY ERROR WHEN PERFORMING DDE
PJ06060 CLIPBOARD AND DDE CAN NOT BE SWITCHED TO PRIVATE
PJ06071 VXGA/SYSTEM DEADLOCKED WAITING FOR COPROCESSOR NOT BUSY
PJ06072 WINDOWING SVGA 1024X768X16 CREATES A BLANK (BLACK) WINDO
PJ06073 SVGA.EXE IN A WINDOW PRODUCES TRAPS OR ERROREOUS DATA
PJ06074 CORRUPTED DOS FS IMAGE (EVEREX CARD)
PJ06075 CURSOR CORRUPTION ON SWITCH TO FULLSCREEN WINDOWS SESSIO
PJ06076 XGA/VGA: SEAMLESS WINDOWS APP ALLOWS ICONS TO BLEED THRO
APARS listed in previous announcement ------------
APAR Defect Abstract
------- --------------------------------------------------------
JR05522 GETPATH ROUTINE IN DIR.ASM TRAPS - DOSQ
JR05562 MLE''S RESPONSE TO SV_INSERTMODE IS BACKWARDS
JR05775 APP STARTED WITH RUN= IN CONFIG.SYS HANGS SYSTEM IF XGA
JR05855 PRINT MGR NOT PRINTING JOBS SEQTLY IF
JR06200 PRINT 120+ JOBS FROM IWP/2 GENERATES PMERR_SPL_NO_MEMORY
PJ01512 NEED TO EXPORT PRINT OBJECT FUNCTIONS
PJ01667 WINCREATEOBJECT SUCCEEDS, THEN FAILS W/
PJ02058 WINCREATEOBJECT RETURNS INVALID MSG QU
PJ02271 WINADDATOM CAN ONLY HANDLE STRING
PJ03080 WPSCANSETUPSTRING STEPS OFF END OF PSZ
PJ03143 TRAP 6 & NPX ERROR WHEN TRYING TO LOAD
PJ03174 DOS PATH COMMAND OUTPUT IS SHORT ONE C
PJ03510 CANT CREATE OBJECTS WITH MULTIPLE DOS
PJ03534 TRACEBUF IS CLEARED WHEN EXIT OPTION IS USED IN TRACE
PJ03575 DRIVES SUB-FOLDERS NOT INHERITING VIEW SETTINGS
PJ03582 DPMI APP (RATIONAL SYSTEM S PORTIA16)
PJ03638 WIN-OS2 4129 PRINTER DRIVER CANNOT FIND 300.DRV ERROR
PJ03647 REMOVE TITLEBAR FROM SYSTEM CLOCK-CAN''T OPEN SETTINGS
PJ03652 THE DATE COMMAND IN DOS DOESN T WORK F
PJ03656 MINIMIZING THINGS TO DESKTOP MINIMIZES THEM TO MWV
PJ03661 FIX PROBLEMS W/PMTAPE ON UCHANNEL MACHINES
PJ03666 DOS VERSION OF LOTUS REQUIRES MEM COMMAND IN MVDM
PJ03671 CANT PRINT TO A LOCAL QUEUE DEFINED TO
PJ03677 TSENG ET4000 TC6059AF+ OUT OF S
PJ03684 LISTBOX DIV BY 0 SETTING FONTNAMESIZE
PJ03685 WPS BOTCHES COPIES OF MULTIPLE FILES/SU
PJ03686 SWAPPER.DAT NOT SHRINKING ON MOD 90
PJ03696 MSG PMV2001, NOT ENOUGH MEMORY TO OPEN FOLDER.
PJ03701 DETACH SEEMS TO FAIL ON 2.0
PJ03709 SYS3176 WHEN DOS SETTING DOS HIGH AND UMB IS SET TO O
PJ03716 FILE ICON MOVED OVER OBJECT ICON CORRUPTS WPSH DISPLAY
PJ03717 JIGSAW.EXE CAN HANG DESKTOP.
PJ03721 APPR: SVGA:OEM SYSTEMS W/ WESTERN DIGITAL
PJ03726 LOOP IN VPICA.ASM
PJ03733 DOSDELETE BY 2 PROCESS USING UNC FILES CAU
PJ03738 NAMED PIPE API SUPPORT IN VDM DOESN T
PJ03740 PMV6011 ERROR WHEN PRINTING FROM OFFICEVIS
PJ03743 SIMPLE BASIC PROGRAM LOCKS UP SYSTEM
PJ03748 IPE-LDRVALIDATEMTEHANDLE RUN MS CODEVIEW(CVP) OF DOS
PJ03755 RAPID ALT-HOME SWITCHING CAUSES VID CORRUPTION OR HANG
PJ03771 USING IBM 122 KEYBOARD AND GA CODE, INSTALL FAILS AFTER
PJ03785 2.0 INSTALL HANGS ON INSTALL DISK, ZEOS 386SX NOTEBOOK
PJ03788 CTTY COM2: WORKS, BUT KEEPS RESENDING
PJ03807 HARD TO SEE MOUSE POINTER ON L40 LAPTOP
PJ03837 BLACK ICONS SEEN IN WOR
PJ03849 OBJECT NOT GOING DORMANT WHEN THEY SHOULD
PJ03852 ICED HANGS DURING COLOR FILL ON 8514 EDITING FOLDER
PJ03854 FOCUS RETURNED TO INCORRECT PLACE AFTE
PJ03863 MODE CO132 FOR XGA FAILS TO PROPERLY SET FONT ON MOD
PJ03889 PROCOMM PLUS CAUSES SYSTEM HANG ON GA
PJ03897 SPOOLER PRIORITY HIGHER THEN TIME CRITICAL THREAD
PJ03905 DESKTOP STILL SWITCHED TO WHEN REMOVED
PJ03911 OS2 EMULATOR/OS2 WINDOW HANGS WHEN DES
PJ03912 COM.SYS SHOULD NOT HAVE ERROR LIMIT
PJ03918 USING OS/2 ON ISA MACHINES WITH MORE THAN 16 MEG RAM.
PJ03933 VMONO.SYS ALLOWING ACCESS TO 16K, BUT SAVING ONLY 4K
PJ03937 DOSNEWSIZE INTEGRITY PROBLEM ON HPFS
PJ03939 CAN T ACCESS 360KB 5 1/4 INCH DISKETTE
PJ03942 NOBODY CALLS WINFREEDRAGINFO WHEN DRAG COMPLETES.
PJ03945 REXX: VALUE( OS2ENVIRONMENT ) TO SET E
PJ03946 INVALID MSG Q RETURNED FROM WINCREATEO
PJ03970 REGR:IPE AT 0160:FFF6FC01 - 000D:00015
PJ03973 INSERT/OVERWRITE MODE IS TOGGLED INCORECTLY - NUMLOCK ON
PJ03981 OBJECT CREATED FROM TEMPLATE FOLDER CANNOT BE DELETED
PJ03997 PRINTING TO NETWORK PRINTER FROM PM AP
PJ03998 HIMEM.SYS FROM DOS 5.0 WIPES SYSTEM IN A VM BOOT SES
PJ04026 WINSENDMSG NEVER RETURNS WITH BM_QUERYCHECKINDEX
PJ04027 BACKUP UTILITY DOES NOT BACKUP EMPTY SUBDIR''S (FOLDERS
PJ04032 IPE OCCURS IN XCPFATALDISPATCHERROR (XCPTMISC.ASM)
PJ04050 +/- SIGN NOT ALWAYS SHOWN IN TREE-VIEW IN DRIVES FOLD
PJ04056 SYSTEM HANGS WITH 2456 SCSI SCANNER UNDER OS/2 2.0 WITH
PJ04060 POST SLIDER UPDAT SOMETIMES DO NOT ERA
PJ04064 PAINTJET AND ''311 THIS FILE'' SYSTEM ERROR
PJ04068 OS2DASD: ALLOCATE IORB SHOULD BE PASSE
PJ04070 GENERIC INT 13: SYSTEM DOESN T BOOT IN
PJ04072 BUTTON 2 DRAG IS SELECTING THE W
PJ04081 VDM TRAP D S IN FILE SYSTEM
PJ04082 MS C7.0 WON''T RUN IN A VDM, DPMI IS NOT FULLY COMPA
PJ04090 FFIX DOES NOT WORK WITH FAPI OR LANS
PJ04136 VDM/FULLSCREEN GOES BLACK AFTER DOWNLOADING FONTS
PJ04139 MLE CREATED W/WINCREATESTDWINDOW, EDIT
PJ04155 INCORRECT PRINTER DRIVER CHOSEN FOR TWO QUEUES (IBMN
PJ04164 DOS VERSION SETTING LOST SHELLING OUT F
PJ04191 OS/2 DOS WINDOW FAILURE
PJ04207 INFORMATION NOT CLEANED UP WHEN FOLDER
PJ04208 FOCUS GIVEN TO MINIMIZED WINDOWS
PJ04215 SCROLLBARS ARE SBS_AUTOTRACK-SBM_QUERYPOS CHNGD FROM 1.3
PJ04240 INSTALL FROM B DRIVE
PJ04242 The AUTOSTART option for shell objects does not work.
PJ04248 DEVHLP WITH LOCK SERVICE CAUSES MACHINE TO STOP
PJ04264 PGUNLOCK CAUSES IPE WHILE CLOSING COMM MGR FOLDER
PJ04265 FIND NEXT WITH A BAD DTA CAN TRAP THE
PJ04273 IPE WHEN STARTING LAN REQUESTER
PJ04276 ZORTECH DOS COMPILER RETURNS DPMI ERRO
PJ04303 DOSREADQUEUE HANGS INTERMITTENLY WITH DOSSTARTSESSION
PJ04305 CURSOR DRAW - PAGES NOT LOADED/LOCKED
PJ04313 TRAP E - CS:EIP = 160:FFF888A7 - TKWAKEUP()
PJ04337 TRAP 8 FAULT IN THE PAGE FAULT HANDLER
PJ04338 32-BIT COREL DRAW''S IMR DRIVER DOES NOT WORK
PJ04342 UTILIZE COMPRESSION MODES IN LASERJET PRINTERS
PJ04348 VDISK NEEDS TO WORK ABOVE 16 MEG.
PJ04370 FKA.DLL IS NOT PROPERLY SUPPORTED UNDER 2.0.
PJ04377 TRAP D IN PSTAT (F:000016A5)
PJ04440 XCOPY RETURNING INAPPROPRIATE EXIT/RETURN CODE IE. ERROR
PJ04444 PMREXX TRAP E REXXAPI:CODE32:__EDCTHUN
PJ04456 VCOM/COM.SYS (SYS1201) ERROR IF MOUSE ON COM1 & NO COM2
PJ04500 IPE ## 0F00 : 00000D0F - 0002 : 0D0F 60000 , 2008 DOING
PJ04507 IBM SCSI ADAPTER SYSTEM IO PROBLEMS
PJ04509 NETWORK PRINTER ICON, WHEN BUILT, DOES NOT DUPLICATE THE
PJ04519 TRAP000E CS:EIP 0160 FFF7FA79 CSLIM FFFFFFFF RUNNING AN
PJ04548 TRAP WHEN PRINTING TO STOPPED SERVER FROM COMMMGR
PJ04553 CRITICAL MEMORY CORRUPTION IN PMWIN.DLL
PJ04567 RACE CONDIITION WITHIN WPSH DURING BOOT.
PJ04572 RUNNING SYSINI SAMPLE FROM REFERENCE CAUSES SWAPPER TO G
PJ04583 SHELL HITS INT3 TRAP BECAUSE SYSTEM IS TRASHED
PJ04596 FOCUS IS RETURNED TO DESKTOP FOLDER INSTEAD OF THE USER'
PJ04600 STARTING SESSIONS (VDM ONLY?) IGNORES MINFEE IN CONFIG.S
PJ04615 WINSETPRESPARAM NOT SETTING BACKGROUND COLOR OF SOME CON
PJ04662 SWITCHING TO A DOS APPLICATION CAUSES THE SYSTEM TO HANG
PJ04680 PICVIEW'S PRINT FUNCTION FAILS USING HP7595A PRINTER DRI
PJ04694 COMMAND.COM DOES NOT SUPPORT UNC WITH LONG SERVER NAMES
PJ04695 SOME DOS APPS WHICH RAN UNDER .304E ARE NOT ACCEPTING KE
PJ04696 IN A FOLDER'S SETTINGS NOTEBOOK, INCLUDE PAGE 2, FILE SY
PJ04711 MOD-70: CUSTOM SOFWTARE NOT WORKING WITH OS2SC I.DMD DRI
PJ04713 SETBOOT /IBD:C LOCKS SYSTEM UP ON C/I/D INSTALL (LAN
PJ04730 CLASS OBJECTS CAN BE UNLOADED MULTIPLE TIMES CAUSING A
PJ04736 MODE COMMAND NOT RECOGNIZING 16550 UART
PJ04808 DIR /P IN OS/2 FS CAUSES SYSTEM HUNG WITH RUNNING KWIKIN
PJ04835 BOLD TEXT BECOMES UNBOLD AFTER ADDING PAGES TO NOTEBOOK-
PJ04836 PROBLEM ADDING PAGES TO SETTINGS NOTEBOOK USING METHOD W
PJ04904 MOUSE LOSES SYNC ON TOSHIBA LABTOP CONNECTED TO DESKSTAT
PJ04920 STACK PTR CORRUPTED WHEN COMPILE WITH 64K STACK
PJ04930 TRAP D - DEM_FFHACK - BUFFER OVERRUN
PJ04942 WINSETCP ALLOCATES 4K MEMORY AND DOES NOT FREE IT.
PJ04968 PANASONIC PRINTERS, FOOTERS PRINT ON NEXT PAGE
PJ05032 WINCREATEOBJECT OR WINSETOBJECTDATA ON AN OPEN OBJ HANGS
PJ05052 2.0'S MENUING SYSTEM NOT CONSISTENT WITH 1.3'S
PJ05090 DOUBLE CLICK ON ENTRY FIELD NOT WORKING IN 2.0
PJ05097 DISABLED MENU ITEM WHICH HAS BEEN ADDED DYNAMICALLY TURN
PJ05147 IBM1FLPY1.ADD FIXES
PJ05160 DOS AP LOTUS 123 3.1 ABENDS WITH OS2KRNL AFTER GA.
PJ05162 LOADER IS NOT INITIALIZING UNINITIALIZED GLOBAL DATA TO
PJ05177 RC COMPILER DOES NOT SUPPORT HPFS TYPE FILE NAMES IN RCI
PJ05179 TRAPD WHILE ACCESSING QUERYFKADISPLAYDETAILS ROUTINE IN
PJ05187 16 BIT PROGRAM GIVES INCORRECT REGISTER CONTENTS ON TRAP
PJ05189 TRAP WHEN MANY MONITOR OPEN/CLOSES
PJ05191 LANDP/2 HANGS AFTER DOSMONWRITE/DOSMONCLOSE KBD$
PJ05214 AUTOSCROLL DOESN'T WORK IN RIGHT-JUSTIFIED ENTRY-FIELD C
PJ05215 DOS APP WRITIT CORRUPTS HPFS SYSTEM ONLY.
PJ05226 DRAG/DROP TO PRINT-OBJECT INCORRECT DUE TO CYCHAR IN SHP
PJ05232 CALCULATOR LEAVES PM KEYBOARD HOSED.
PJ05247 COM.SYS/VCOM.SYS DO NOT WORK WITH X00.SYS ( FOSSIL) DRIV
PJ05290 CORRUPTION WHEN USING WM_QUERYTRACKINFO
PJ05292 BP REG GETS TRASHED WHEN A WM_TRASLATEACCEL IS SENT
PJ05310 MS WORD 4 FRENCH VERSION, MOUSE PTR NOT ERASED PROPERLY
PJ05318 CHILD PROCESS REMAINS IN TASKLIST AFTER PARENT/CHILD ARE
PJ05354 FSFILTER.SYS PREVENTS TSR FROM LOADING IN UMB
PJ05370 SESSION MGR HANGS DURING SCREEN GROUP SWITCH
PJ05411 WORKPLACE PRINT OBJECT HANGS DESKTOP!! (WHAT A HEADLINE)
PJ05433 QUECALLS LOOPING IN Q_EMPTY
PJ05476 WRONG MEMORY FREED ON ERROR PATH IN LDRALLOCSEGMENTS
PJ05480 SEMAPHORE HANDLE GETS CORRUPTED SYSTEM DEADLOCKED
PJ05506 UNABLE TO SHOW HIDDEN OBJECT WHEN USING WINSETOBJECTDATA
PJ05511 32 BIT CALL HOOKS DO NOT WORK
PJ05630 WINDOWS HAVE BORDER CUT OFF AT TOP (TEXT EDIT FIELD, DLG
PJ05655 KEYBOARD BEEPS AND KEYS NOT DISPLAYED IN APP W/MONITORS
PJ05731 INT66H SUPPORT IN VCOM BREAKS WITH VHDQUERYLIN
PJ05802 USING ECHO WITHIN NMAKE AND USING A TEMP VARIABLE IS INC
------------------------ End of article ----------------------------
------------------------------------------------------------------------
From: dab6@po.CWRU.Edu (Douglas A. Bell)
Subject: New files on software.watson.ibm.com & ibm suggestions
Date: 25 Sep 1992 19:55:45 GMT
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
There are some new files on software.watson.ibm.com.
These include a new comm.sys patch, another release of the enhanced
editor, and visual rexx among other things.
While it is nice that IBM has made the ftp site available and is
using it, the OS/2 section is beginning to become a mess.
It would be nice if IBM started to make subdirectories off of
/pub/os2 so that the files would be a bit more organized.
A 'new files' directory would be very nice.
------------------------------------------------------------------------
END OF OS/2 DISCUSSION FORUM 921001
***********************************
