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OS2 Discussion Forum Volume 9207 Issue 03 - Part III
OS/2 DISCUSSION FORUM 920703 - Part III
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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.apps
From: macketan@Informatik.TU-Muenchen.DE (Robert Macketanz)
Subject: Re: Where's Borland?
Organization: Technische Universitaet Muenchen, Germany
Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1992 10:17:41 GMT
In article <1992Jul21.155506.1610@gacvx2.gac.edu>, logic@gacvx2.gac.edu writes:
|> In article <21JUL199215024239@lims01.lerc.nasa.gov>, smbrush@lims01.lerc.nas
a.gov (Andy Brush @Sverdrup) writes:
|> > A few months ago, Borland seemed to be promising that they were heavily
|> > committed to supplying applications for OS/2: The trade rags quoted
|> > Phillipe Khan (sp?) saying how important OS/2 would be, etc.
|> >
|> > TODAY, the picture looks different! While Lotus and Microsoft advertise
|> > OS/2 spreadsheets, Borland is shipping an "upgrade" from Quattro 3.0 to 4.0
|> > which is _less_compatible_ with OS/2 than the previous version. Borland
|> > technical support has no solutions, and they won't even refund the
|> > "upgrade" price because they "don't support OS/2". Nothing about upcoming
|> > Borland OS/2 releases has been in the rags for weeks.
|> >
|> > It seems that either Borland is having difficulty porting their compiler to
|> > OS/2, or that they have made a strategic decision to avoid OS/2. Either
|> > way, it's looking like it's time to make the decision to avoid Borland.
|> >
|> > Comments, Hard Info, etc. is Welcome
|> >
|> > Andrew S. Brush | SMBRUSH@LIMS01.lerc.nasa.gov
|> > Sverdrup Technology | 2001 Aerospace Parkway
|> > NASA LeRC Group | Brook Park, OH 44142
|> > "Opinions are Mine, Only" | (216) 826-6770
|>
|> Borland C++ for OS/2 is in betatest as we speak..
|>
|> If we avoid Borland and avoid Microsoft, there's not much left is there?
|> Hardly seems like a wise move..
|>
|> al hart
|>
Really in betatest ?! - where did you get this information from ?
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From: steveh@goanna.cs.rmit.oz.au (Steven Hayes)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.apps
Subject: Re: Where's Borland?
Date: 22 Jul 92 12:29:35 GMT
Organization: Comp Sci, RMIT, Melbourne, Australia
smbrush@lims01.lerc.nasa.gov (Andy Brush @Sverdrup) writes:
>A few months ago, Borland seemed to be promising that they were heavily
>committed to supplying applications for OS/2: The trade rags quoted
>Phillipe Khan (sp?) saying how important OS/2 would be, etc.
The compiler is in beta test now. Object Vision is shipping I think.
>It seems that either Borland is having difficulty porting their compiler to
>OS/2, or that they have made a strategic decision to avoid OS/2. Either
>way, it's looking like it's time to make the decision to avoid Borland.
Borland is certainly not ignoring OS/2. Philippe Kahn will be speaking to
Australian developers at the OS/2 Developers Conference here in Australia
in late August.
--
Steven Hayes | steveh@rmit.edu.au
Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT) | +61 3 660-2693
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From: joe2@vnet.ibm.com
Date: Wed, 22 Jul 92 19:57:16 FST
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: ATI fixes WINOS2 problems with Wonder cards!
Disclaimer: This posting represents the poster's views, not those of IBM
In <2869@isgtec.isgtec.com> Ted Richards writes:
>ATI has just released new Windows 3.0 drivers for the VGA Wonder- and
>Integra-series cards which fix almost all the problems with switching
>between the Workplace Shell and a full-screen WINOS2 session. The
>cursor no longer disappears, the screen no longer loses sync, and the
>cursor no longer acts like a paintbrush (all problems I have had with
>various of the old drivers).
>
>I have tried all of the supplied drivers with Joel Armengaud's
>1024x768/256 PM driver, and all work perfectly, except for the ATI
>640x480/32K driver, which changes the WPS colours to some very strange
>ones, but otherwise works fine. The colours revert to normal when you
>exit windows. There is also another driver included which I suspect is
>800x600/32K, but it is not mentioned in the Windows setup file, and
>doesn't work on my machine. You may need a more recent version of the
>card than I have to use this mode.
>
So it was not a bug in my driver! :-))
-Joel Armengaud
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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Black icon fix -> more stable system
From: lance@lancea.actrix.gen.nz (Lance Andrewes)
Date: Mon, 20 Jul 92 19:11:06 GMT
Organization: none
I've always tread wearily when running Windows apps under OS/2 2.0.
This means that I'd shut down dos and os/2 apps before starting
WinOS2, and visa versa. If I didn't, the system had a fair
chance of locking up when I returned to the PM desktop. About
2/3 of the icons would be drawn, then it would stop. A hard-boot
was required to recover.
The system: 20MHz 386SX, AMI bios, 8MB RAM, 210MB IDE drive,
Swan Tseng 4000 SVGA using Orchid 0.9 800x600 drivers.
Almost a week ago I installed the fixes in BLKICO.ZOO. Since
that time, I've frequently had dos and OS/2 apps running
simultaneously with a full-screen WinOS2 session. Switching
between sessions (so far) hasn't crashed the system.
So, even if you haven't had the "black icon" problem, this
fix is worth trying if you've experienced the same problems.
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_______ Email: lance@lancea.actrix.gen.nz
//// ZL2AJH Wellington, New Zealand
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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: it1@ra.msstate.edu (Tim Tsai)
Subject: Re: Black icon fix -> more stable system
Organization: Mississippi State University
Date: Tue, 21 Jul 1992 06:05:59 GMT
lance@lancea.actrix.gen.nz (Lance Andrewes) writes:
>So, even if you haven't had the "black icon" problem, this
>fix is worth trying if you've experienced the same problems.
The display seems much more snappy with the blakc icon fix. Also,
maybe I'm just imagining this, but the HPFS patch I installed has
improved disk access by quite a bit. I can now actually open a window
without hearing my hard disk [HPFS with 512K cache].
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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.networking
From: MLONG@isucard.card.iastate.edu
Subject: Re: OS2 SQLServer connections
Organization: CARD
Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1992 20:34:25 GMT
In article <5134@krafla.rhi.hi.is>
yngvib@rhi.hi.is (Yngvi Bjornsson) writes:
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>
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>I am running Microsoft SQLServer on a OS/2 server. I have Windows clients
>on a net connected with LANManager 2.1 and that works fine.
>I also need to run my Windows application on a standalone OS/2 computer,
>but I am having problems connecting to the database from the WIN-OS2 box.
>Is this possible at all? Any suggestions ?
>
I think you will need to create a Virtual Booted Real DOS box, run the MS-Net
software (DOS) in that box, start up WINOS2, and make sure that WINOS2's
network is set to LAN Man. Then the Windows Network stuff should work.
Sorry if this messes up your news reader
Mike Long
Iowa State University
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