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OS/2 Discussion Forum Mon, June 22, 1992 Volume 9206 Issue 04
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Today's topics:
New files on LISTSERVer
note of 06/19/92 16:31
OS/2 Monthly August '92 source code
Re: Problems with ADAPETEC XXE
Printer driver for color printers
FTP software's InterDrive and OS/2's NFS... HELP... Thanks...:-)
autocad
ZIP files
OS2 INSTALL PROBLEMS ON STANDARD DOD PC
Migrating problems?
Feed from the Listearn OS2-L OS/2 Non-Editored Discussion List :
Re: OS/2 2.0 tests in PC magazine!!
re: Re: OS/2 2.0 tests in PC magazine!!
Re: a few questions
Re: Address to hobbes
Re: Private Clipboard for Full Screen Win-OS2
Re: Postscript Version of OS/2 Tips and Techniques?
Re: Memory
Feed from the Usenet (UUCP/Internet) comp.os.os2.* newsgroups :
Re: OS/2's a Winner!
Re: 200,000 os/2 sold
OS/2 Monthly magazine...issue #3 arrives.
Re: EA-aware tar for IBM's TCP/IP ??
upcoming PC Magazine coverage
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Date: Mon, 22 Jun 92 12:00:00 +0200
From: Moderator of OS/2 Discussion Forum <OS2MOD@BLEKUL11>
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.
* Files distributed via comp.os.os2
filename filetype Remarks
-------- -------- -------------------------------
FAQ20C ZIPXXE OS/2 Frequent Asked Questions v2.0C
* File donated by (the author:) The Time Traveler <HE891C@GWUVM>
filename filetype Remarks
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AUG92 ZIPXXE OS/2 Monthly: July 92, Source code
* New Files from hobbes.nmsu.edu
filename filetype Remarks
-------- -------- -------------------------------
3C507 ZIP 3COM Etherlink NDIS drivers (8/16-bit)
TE2_120 ZIP TE/2 communications program version 1.2
TINF26 ZIP Listing of OS/2 products (.INF format) version 2. 6
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
Note: Use PKUNZIP -d to unzip !!
These files are distributed AS IS, we can not guarantee anything about
their working.
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* get the OS2INDEX PACAKGE. *
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Send your files to OS2@BLEKUL11.BITNET / OS2@cc1.kuleuven.ac.be
we will arrange everything for distribution.
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Date: Fri, 19 Jun 92 23:06:30 EDT
From: <TGEORGE@VM2.YorkU.CA>
Subject: note of 06/19/92 16:31
Thanks! I'll see if it helps, but I am already determined to
change the floppy cable (I obtained one with the proper terminations
today).
George
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Date: Fri, 19 Jun 92 23:36:41 EDT
From: The Time Traveler <HE891C@GWUVM>
Subject: OS/2 Monthly August '92 source code
I just sent you the file AUG92.ZIP, which is the source code to my column
in the August '92 issue of OS/2 Monthly.
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Date: Mon, 22 Jun 92 09:40:18 +0200
From: Moderator of the OS/2 Discussion Forum <OS2MOD@BLEKUL11>
Organization: K.U.Leuven (Belgium)
Subject: Re: Problems with ADAPETEC XXE
>I used the GET fn ZIP f=XXE to download ADAPTEC XXE. XXDECODE and
>UNZIP worked with no errors. The README file was ok. However, one
>of the three device drivers does not load and is obviously in error.
>A disk dump of AHA152X.ADD and AHA154X.ADD show that both of these files
>are SUBSTANTIONALLY different from AHA174X.ADD. Furthermore, AHA175X.ADD
>can not be loaded by OS/2 and causes a diagnostic message to be displayed.
>Please alert whoever sent you this "package" and have them send you the
>correct file.
>Thanks,
>John
We got it from the comp.binaries.os2 group. If any of our readers
does know a solution, please mail it to this list.
the moderators
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Date: Mon, 22 Jun 1992 10:49:04 MET
From: Gerhard Braendle <braendle@genmic.biochem.mpg.de>
Subject: Printer driver for color printers
Hello !
I am looking for a printer driver for color printers
like HP-DeskJet 500 C(olor) or HP-PaintJet.
For some reasons we have to run Compaq OS/2 1.21 or
MS OS/2 1.3.
Please mail directly to me, as I am not a subscriber
to this list. I will summarize the answers (if any)
and post them on the list.
Thanks in advance,
Gerhard
Gerhard Braendle
MPI fuer Psychiatrie, Martinsried (Germany)
phone: ++49-89-8578-3730
email: braendle@mpib-martinsried.mpg.dbp.de
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From: raymond@porthos.cs.ua.edu (Raymond Erdey)
Subject: FTP software's InterDrive and OS/2's NFS... HELP... Thanks...:-)
Date: Mon, 22 Jun 92 15:39:43 CDT
Hi,
I have set up a PS/2 Model 80 as an NFS server... I can mount drives
on the PS/2 from an RS6000 running AIX... But I want to be able to mount
drives on another PS/2 running DOS with FTP's PC/TCP Network Software
for DOS (application name is InterDrive); This dose not appear to be working.
FTP provides a C program that I think may be the key, but it requres RPC
header files (do not come with it or BorlandC)...
Anyone mounted an OS/2 file system onto a DOS based machine?
Thanks
Raymond
--
Raymond M. A. Erdey
Department of Computer Science
Box 870290
University of Alabama
Tuscaloosa, AL 35487-0290
(205) 348-7373
raymond@porthos.cs.ua.edu (Internet)
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Date: Tue Jun 23 17:22:26 BST 1992
From: Mike O'Carroll <mike@elec-eng.leeds.ac.uk>
Subject: autocad
Some time ago, I complained that Autocad 10 crashed OS/2. I've just
installed the latest kernel patches (from the UK bulletin board), and
the problem has (so far) gone away.
So, thanks where thanks are due!
Except the mouse doesn't work :-(
--
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
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Date: Tue, 23 Jun 92 16:20:53 +02
From: Carl Forde <CFORDE@BCSC02>
Subject: ZIP files
I requested 3DMAZE ZIP, and was able to load it onto my OS/2 1.3
system with no problems. You might want to add to the instructions
that people shouldn't specify EBCDIC -> ASCII translation options.
Even though the program seemed to reach my machine as intended, 3DMAZE
did not work as I expected -- I haven't been able to get it to display
a maze at all. Not on my machine or on a friend's 2.0 machine; using
either the 16 or 32 bit modes.
Have fun,
Carl Forde, 604-360-7130
VM Database and Development Support Centre
British Columbia Systems Corporation
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From: Bernstein_Phil@lanmail.ncsc.navy.mil
Date: Wed, 24 Jun 92 09:12:00 CST
Subject: OS2 INSTALL PROBLEMS ON STANDARD DOD PC
I don't know if this is the correct place to post this, but I need help.
During the install of os/2 I get what I now know is a 32 bit trap
(000d). This occures on disk #1 after about 10 seconds of the
message LOADING PLEASE WAIT. After waiting 1 week IBM finally returned
my call and told me I had a hardware compatability problem. The reason
I am posting here is that there are probably 100,000 othe people with
the same problem. You see I am am using the standard computer that the
DoD has been buying for the past two years! Here is my configuration
(same as another 250 machines at this base except 8 rather than 4 meg
RAM) Unisys 386/20, ATI VGA Wonder 512K, SUMO SCSI Adapter (THE
PROBLEM I AM TOLD), 400 Meg disk space, Dual 20 meg Bernoulli with RCD
adapter card, 3COM Etherlink II 3C503. If any one know of a fix or a
way to get more help than the 800 number please let me know. I truly
want OS/2 to work as I was once a builder on the XT and AT lines in BOCA
and still have some loyalty. Thanks in advance.
Phil
Bernstein_Phil@LANMAIL.NCSC.NAVY.MIL
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From: ged17r1@ecnuxa.bitnet
Subject: Migrating problems?
Date: Wed, 24 Jun 92 10:37:30 CDT
Almost all my DOS programs migrated fine into OS-2. One program,
ISTATA, or intercooled STATA, a statistics program, did not
migrate well. The company says I have to set the DPMI(?) and the
EMS parameters on OS-2 migration settings to make it work. I did
find some settings, but not these.
Richard Hinton
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Feed from the Listearn OS2-L OS/2 Non-Editored Discussion List :
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Date: Thu, 18 Jun 92 20:44:48 PDT
Reply-To: "IBM OS/2 Unedited Discussion List" <OS2-L@FRORS12>
From: Carl Forde <CFORDE@BCSC02>
Subject: Re: OS/2 2.0 tests in PC magazine!!
In the same issue John C. Dvorak in his "Inside Track" column, in reference
to the Spring Comdex in Chicago, wrote:
I made a point of going into the Windows NT section, where one high-end
vendor after another was showing all sorts of elaborate and complex
applications for NT. I asked every vendor I spoke to one simple question:
"Wouldn't this work better under OS/2?" Each one swallowed hard and
sheepishly admitted that it probably would. But they were in the
Microsoft NT pavilion and not in the OS/2 pavilion.
So, if the high-end vendors already think their applications would work better
under OS/2, why aren't they commercially available on OS/2 where they could be
making money for these vendors?
Have fun,
Carl Forde, 604-360-7130
VM Database and Development Support Centre
British Columbia Systems Corporation
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Date: Fri, 19 Jun 92 13:15:02 EDT
Reply-To: "IBM OS/2 Unedited Discussion List" <OS2-L@FRORS12>
From: Matthew=E.=Galster%Comp1%ESD-TG@TERRA-VS1.HANSCOM.AF.MIL
Subject: re: Re: OS/2 2.0 tests in PC magazine!!
Carl Forde <CFORDE%BCSC02.BITNET@pucc.Princeton.EDU> asks:
>so, if the high-end vendors already think their applications would work better
>under OS/2, why aren't they commercially available on OS/2 where they could be
>making money for these vendors?
I have a friend who is a software developer who works with several of MS's
beta programs for things like MS-C and so on, (but he's still my friend :-)
and MS has done a bunch of things to keep him in line.
He thinks they do things with their software development products which help
him. They give him free packages, free upgrades (to those and others.), free
trips to conferences, free time on compuserve. Lots of stuff. I don't know
how valuable it REALLY is, but he certainly likes it. And he believes MS when
they say OS/2 won't be ready in xxx (yer favorite vaporware prediction here)
even when the beta looks solid, yet he thinks that NT will be here soon
enough, and the test can't really begin until we see that.
I have two non-OS/2 'fans' who this week ordered OS/2 based on what they saw
on my machine and heard me say, and the support over the net (Keep it up!
Just think, WE may do a better job than IBM's marketing... What a concept.)
That's the third guy in a month. I'm not religious about OS/2, but it's the
best I see. I have a MAC IIci here with any app I want. I have dos, win3.0,
and win 3.1 if I wanted it. Unix isn't to the point where I can point a user
(who has trouble) at one and expect them to survive. If winNT really IS that
much better, I'll probably switch. But I'm certainly not going to hold my
breath waiting. Not after win3.1's 'radical improvements.'
>Have fun,
>Carl Forde, 604-360-7130
>VM Database and Development Support Centre
>British Columbia Systems Corporation
I have been!
MEG
Matt%comp1%esd-tg@terra-vs1.hanscom.af.mil
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Date: Sat, 20 Jun 92 00:47:00 CST
Reply-To: "IBM OS/2 Unedited Discussion List" <OS2-L@FRORS12>
From: Chen Zakaria <ZAKARIAM@SLUVCA.SLU.EDU>
Subject: Re: a few questions
>Dear networks,
>I installed OS/2 program on my computer but cannot run some programs under it.
>
>-At first, I cannot start WordPerfect 5.1 for Windows. OS/2 tells me that canno
t
> start this program. At Windows 3.0 it runs well.
To run WordPerfect for windows in WIN-OS/2, there is a fix program in
hobbes.nmsu.edu. Unfortunately, I forgot the filename of the fix. Maybe
somebody else will reply to this.
>-I have VAX computer connected directly to COM2 port of my PC. At the begining
> I tried to start communication program supplied by OS/2 (with following
> settings: terminal imulation- IBM INVT100, port-COM2, speed-19200,type of
> connection-COM-Hardwire). Program told me that cannot use COM2. I tried
> different settings with the same result (plese, note, that when I installed
> OS/2 for the first time it worked, but then I had to change format of my hard
I also used this program (PM Terminal) to connect directly to our VAX
systems. It works fine. My setting is VT100, COM1, 9600 bps (since my VAX
does not support higher than this - try check this...), COM-Hardwire.
The only problem with this program is that our VAX does not support
any other transfer protocol, other than kermit and HST. So I went back to
good old Polygon Poly-COM/220 1.21 to use HST, since it is a lot faster
than kermit.
> drive and reinstalled OS/2). I tried to start a program I'm using for
> communications- PC/InterComm, it was started, connected, but then wrong
> letters occured on the screen and program halted.
I had the same problem like you do. I know, it is very frustrating. Here
what I did. I used the fix for comm program from hobbes.nmsu.edu under
/pub/os2/new. The filename is commga.zoo. This program will fix the bugs
that they have in the com.sys and also vcom.sys supplied in original disk.
>-I have Gateway200 486/33C computer with NEC/MultiSync 2A display and SpeedStar
> SVGA board. This board support 1024x768x256 #38 mode, but as I understand,
> vsvga drive use 1024x768x16 #37 one. I have programs that use 800x600x256 #30
> mode. Is it any possibility to swich OS/2 into different mode (in master help
I
> have found that I have to go to OS/2 SYSTEM, then SYSTEM SETUP, then SETUP,
> then SCREEN tab.The problem is that there is NO SCREEN tab at all! So I dont
> know how to find in what mode is my computer and how to switch it.
>-I have one program that use memory between 3000:0000 and 7000:FFFF as an array
> with absolute addresses. When I started this program, it halted OS/2 and I had
> to reboot system. It looked like that it was halted as soon as program wrote
> to that area. Could anyone tell me how to set DOS Settings correctly in this
> case?
Sorry, I have no idea...
>-When I create a shaddow of a program, I'd like some times to have some fancy
> title on the screen. But as soon as I rename title, OS/2 change also a name of
> the file and I'm not able to start this program. How to change only title unde
> the icon?
Try point your mouse at the icon, then press ALT+LMB (Left Mouse Button).
Then, go ahead change the title of the icon. The best part about this is
that you can insert <RETURN> to split icon title into 2 lines (centered).
-CZ
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Date: Mon, 22 Jun 92 11:25:14 EDT
Reply-To: "IBM OS/2 Unedited Discussion List" <OS2-L@FRORS12>
From: "Paul J. Bodin" <pjb3@CUNIXB.CC.COLUMBIA.EDU>
Subject: Re: Address to hobbes
John K. Gotwals writes:
> I want to get APAR PJ03721 from hobbes. Can anyone give me the full
> address of the hobbes archive?
The archive at hobbes is now ftp-os2.nmsu.edu (note the change). I'm
sorry, I don't have the numerical form...
Paul J. Bodin Internet: pjb3@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu
Union Theological Seminary smail: 435-52nd Street
(718) 439-3549 Brooklyn, NY 11220
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Date: Wed, 24 Jun 92 07:32:42 EST
Reply-To: "IBM OS/2 Unedited Discussion List" <OS2-L@FRORS12>
From: John K Gotwals <GOTWALS@PURCCVM>
Subject: Re: Private Clipboard for Full Screen Win-OS2
On Tue, 23 Jun 92 23:22:00 EST Allan D. Rosen (412)624-0418 said:
>Does anyone know how to make the clipboard for full screen Win-OS2
>open up as a private clipboard? The default appears to be public.
>Cutting is much faster when the clipboard is private.
There are several ways.
1. After bringing up WIN-OS/2, double click on the clipboard, click on
on options, click on Public Clipboard (thereby removing the checkmark)
and then minimize the clipboard.
2. Just close the clipboard.
3. See the section on Windows applications in the "ReadMe" that came
with OS/2. There you are told how to permanently disable public DDE
and clipboard by editing the \os2\mdos\winos2\system.ini file.
Then you will not have to go through either steps 1 or 2 each time
you start WIN-OS/2.
-- John
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Date: Wed, 24 Jun 92 11:36:57 EDT
Reply-To: "IBM OS/2 Unedited Discussion List" <OS2-L@FRORS12>
From: "Paul J. Bodin" <pjb3@CUNIXB.CC.COLUMBIA.EDU>
Subject: Re: Postscript Version of OS/2 Tips and Techniques?
> > I think the ftp site that used to be hobbes changed its name...
>
> ftp-os2 and hobbes are the same machine - just different hostnames. hobbes
> is the canonical hostname.
That is perfectly true, but the os2 archive is contemplating a change
of address and possible of software. The archive administraters have
specifically requested that users of the archive begin using the
standard Bitnet form ftp-os2.nmsu.edu in order to avoid confusion and
bugs later, instead of the actual hostname.
Paul J. Bodin Internet: pjb3@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu
Union Theological Seminary smail: 435-52nd Street
(718) 439-3549 Brooklyn, NY 11220
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Date: Wed, 24 Jun 92 15:31:56 EDT
Reply-To: "IBM OS/2 Unedited Discussion List" <OS2-L@FRORS12>
From: andrew parks <OPK@NIHCU>
Subject: Re: Memory
> I am very new to OS2 and have 2 questions. I need to run a package called
> SAS that needs expanded memory or a memory manager to simulate expanded
> memory. If we bought expanded memory is there an easy way for OS2 to
> "know its there"?
> The end.
Hi Matt,
You would do very well to invest in the SAS product designed
for OS/2. You don't have to worry about expanded memory. The
DOS-based SAS product still is limited to 640K for the program
data vector, so you're going to run into limitations running
the DOS product under OS/2 (I assume in a VDM). SAS 6.06 is
DESIGNED for OS/2 and outperforms 6.03 or 6.04, both in speed
and in capacity.
If you're determined to run SAS in a DOS box, you can do that.
I think the memory manager in \OS2\MDOS will provide expanded
memory acceptable to SAS, but I have not tried it. BTW --
using expanded memory (-ems option) in DOS-SAS actually can
slow performance!
Hope this helps!
Andy Parks / opk@nihcu / opk@cu.nih.gov
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From: adamba@microsoft.com (Adam Barr)
Subject: Re: OS/2's a Winner!
Date: 19 Jun 92 21:04:30 GMT
Organization: Microsoft Corporation
In article <rdippold.708922623@cancun>
rdippold@cancun.qualcomm.com (Ron Dippold) writes:
>
> [ about Zachmann's column in the June 30th PC Magazine]
>
>In summary: OS/2 is better and more stable than he thought it would
>be, and is selling better than he dreamed it would.
Zachmann declares that OS/2 2.0 is the software hit of 1992
and will become the dominant desktop OS for the 1990's, while
Windows 3.1 is a disaster. IBM will win the OS wars hands down.
He confesses that he was wrong when he predicted 2.0 success
only comparable to that of Windows 3.0 in its first year of
release. It will be much better. People will move from Windows to
OS/2 more rapidly than even he had dared to expect.
He admits that OS/2 has some problems: no hi-res support, lots
of unsupported hardware, compatibility problems. However,
under Windows you can have trouble doing background downloads
at 9600 kbps, and if you format a floppy the rest of the system
slows down.
Plus, when an app crashes you get a message. Network support
is incomplete. Printing is a mess. The whole system crashes
sometimes.
Conclusion: Windows is history.
- adam
Disclaimer: Do not touch the exposed surface.
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From: wjb5106@rigel.tamu.edu (Walter Barnett)
Subject: Re: 200,000 os/2 sold
Date: 24 Jun 92 18:37:00 GMT
Organization: Texas A&M University
In article <81038@netnews.upenn.edu>, young@eniac.seas.upenn.edu
(Shin Young) writes...
>
>well, in the latest pc week (in the last page)
>
>bill got a check for royalties for 200,000 copies of OS/2 sold
>of which 50,000 were free upgrades...
>
>ibm seems to have been wrong about the original 400,000 mark.
Why do people like you insist on citing numbers like this (or trying to
present them as significant) without attaching a date to them? Just
because it is in last week's magazine does not mean the numbers are
current as of last week. There has got to be some time lag between
sales by IBM and royalty payments to Microsoft and considering OS/2 has
been on the market for less than three months, I doubt the 200,000
figure represents even a majority of total sales. Now, if you would
cite something along the lines of 200,000 sold through MM/DD/YY, then
you might be worth listening to...
Walter Barnett Aerospace Engineering Texas A&M University
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From: schubert@capri.berkeley.edu (John Schubert)
Subject: OS/2 Monthly magazine...issue #3 arrives.
Date: 23 Jun 92 20:41:55 GMT
Organization: U.C. Berkeley -- ERL
A week or two back there was some question about what had happened to
OS/2 Monthly magazine. The last issue I had received was issue #2 dated
April, I believe, and it appears that a few people had not received any
further issues as well.
I'm not sure if there was any clarification posted about when the next issue
would come out.
Issue #3 (June) just showed up in my mailbox today, so it looks like there
was just a "slight" delay again.
-John
John Schubert
schubert@united.berkeley.edu
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From: sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu (Timothy F. Sipples)
Subject: Re: EA-aware tar for IBM's TCP/IP ??
Organization: Dept. of Econ., Univ. of Chicago
Date: Tue, 23 Jun 1992 21:38:09 GMT
In article <92175.215056RONY@awiwuw11.wu-wien.ac.at>
RONY@awiwuw11.wu-wien.ac.at (FLATSCHER Rony) writes:
>anyone want to comment on plans for producing "tar" for IBM's
>TCP/IP, which is EA-aware ? Around here all Unix-boxes are
>back-upped by Exabytes sitting on Unix-boxes.
>Now, I would like to backup my OS/2-filesystem including EA-s
>(mandatory because of WPS !) and those of the other OS/2-machines
>via those exabytes sitting at the Unix-boxes.
>PC/TCP for DOS has tar, what about the OS/2 version? Anyone from
>PC/TCP care to comment ?
Great idea, but wouldn't it be possible to use EABK101 (available via
anonymous ftp from ftp-os2.nmsu.edu) to accomplish the same thing?
Just run EABACKUP before tar'ing.
--
Get the OS/2 FREQ. ASKED QUESTIONS LIST | Timothy F. Sipples
from 128.123.35.151, anonymous ftp, | Internet: sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu
directory pub/os2/all/faq, or from | IBM VNET Alias: SIPPLES AT BITNET
LISTSERV@BLEKUL11.BITNET (send "HELP"). | Dept. of Econ., U. Chicago, 60637
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From: roe2@ellis.uchicago.edu (Cave Newt)
Subject: upcoming PC Magazine coverage
Date: 24 Jun 92 04:32:47 GMT
Organization: University of Chicago
I just sent a message to Ray Duncan and got a pretty quick reply:
he will be writing some articles on OS/2 2.0 (and NT, sigh...)
shortly, with the first articles to appear around October or so.
I also asked about Petzold's plans, but he didn't say anything on
that score. One can hope, however...
Greg Roelofs
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