comp.os.os2.utilities (Usenet) Saturday, 06-Nov-1999 to Friday, 12-Nov-1999 +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ From: d.s.darrow@nvinet.com 04-Nov-99 15:24:01 To: All 06-Nov-99 03:33:25 Subj: Re: Create file association that works from command prompt? From: "Doug Darrow" On Thu, 04 Nov 1999 17:15:45 GMT, Lorne Sunley wrote: >What do you think the chances of IBM fixing this are if we >report it as a "bug" in CMD.EXE? :-) Absolutely and completely NIL. Because it isn't a bug. It's just the fact that this is not withing the working parameters of CMD.EXE. EAs are a WPS construct, not a cmd construct. It would be nice if they WERE, but since they're not, I'll make do with a command interpretor replacement, such as 4OS2, which at least understands executable extenstions. --- WtrGate+ v0.93.p7 sn 165 * Origin: Origin Line 1 Goes Here (1:109/42) +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ From: d.s.darrow@nvinet.com 05-Nov-99 22:51:01 To: All 06-Nov-99 03:33:25 Subj: Re: Create file association that works from command prompt? From: "Doug Darrow" On Fri, 05 Nov 1999 17:19:04 -0700, Chuck McKinnis wrote: >I think you might like Henk Kelder's latest release of wptools >http://www.os2ss.com/information/kelder/ >He has added DEFASSOC.EXE, the help of which is: DEFASSOC is nice but, unfortuantely, it doesn't do what he wants. What it DOES do is allow you to set the file associations from the command line. Once set, however, they still cannot be USED from the command line. They still only work from the WPS. What he WANTS to do is to be able to type a data file name and heve it start the associated application to make use of that particular data file. Example: typing document.dwp at the command line would automatically start DeScribe WP and open document.dwp in it. In his case, he wants to be able, on the command line, to type "someapp.pl" and have it automatically invoke perl.exe to run someapp.pl. DEFASSOC won't do that at all. --- WtrGate+ v0.93.p7 sn 165 * Origin: Origin Line 1 Goes Here (1:109/42) +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ From: @tin.it 06-Nov-99 07:35:08 To: All 06-Nov-99 05:25:27 Subj: Re: Styler/2 AKA SmartWindows Increases Performace? From: @tin.it (Alessandro Cantatore) In article <3821659A.C0B6A44C@clear.net.nz>, Aaron Lawrence wrote: >I seem to recall that the Styler/2 docs say it will improve performance >by removing some redundant black and white resources (now obsolete) and >the like from dialogs etc. This is probably stated in the Dialog Enhancer documentation... I never wrote such a thing (and I do not know either if that statement is in any case valid) My program substitutes some parts of the procedures of some kind of PM controls with its own code. Somebody else in past wrote me he got the feeling of performance increase. I did nothing to improve performance... it might be a side effect showing in some particular cases... I would rather expect a slight decrease of performance, usually in the range of microseconds so nothing detectable in the normal use or from programs like sysbench... -- bye Alessandro Cantatore email reply to: alexcant at: tin.it http://acsoft.ghostbbs.cx --- WtrGate+ v0.93.p7 sn 165 * Origin: Usenet: TIN (1:109/42) +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ From: paul.ratcliffe@bbc.co.uk 06-Nov-99 14:24:22 To: All 06-Nov-99 14:36:00 Subj: Re: DualStor Restore (help?) From: Paul Ratcliffe Alan Beagley wrote: > > Ver. 2.0 handled the 250MB (compressed) tapes. Ver. 3.0 handled 800MB > (compressed) tapes. My OS/2 copy of 2.0 handles my Travan 1000 and the big (well they were then!) tapes fine. --- WtrGate+ v0.93.p7 sn 165 * Origin: Usenet: BBC Bristol (1:109/42) +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ From: paul.ratcliffe@bbc.co.uk 06-Nov-99 14:23:13 To: All 06-Nov-99 14:36:00 Subj: Re: DualStor Restore (help?) From: Paul Ratcliffe Spencer Lee wrote: > > Is there a Windows version of DualStor which will restore the files from the > OS/2 DualStor backup? (from what I've gathered, the files that DualStor > creates on the tape are 'EA' files - not sure if the Windows version uses > the same format). The format on the tape can either be QIC-80 or Dualstor format. Any QIC-80 software will read QIC-80 tapes but only Dualstor will read a Dualstor file system file. > What do I have to do, and where can I get a copy of the DualStor software > that I need? There used to be limited functionality demo. versions around - I have the DOS demo. but not the Windows demo. That would probably work under Windows though - if not just boot DOS and run it. --- WtrGate+ v0.93.p7 sn 165 * Origin: Usenet: BBC Bristol (1:109/42) +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ From: dcasey@ibm.net 06-Nov-99 09:24:28 To: All 06-Nov-99 14:36:00 Subj: Re: Secure Internet ? From: dcasey@ibm.net (Dan Casey) In article <7vv7ga$43c$1@oden.abc.se>, Peter Stahl wrote: >Hi. >I'm connecting to internet by a 33.6 kbs modem using >Injoy + Smart Cache (Proxyserver) + Internet Adventurer >and Netscape 4.61. >Can anyone read and modify my disk from internet while >I'm logged on to internet ? >If so, what good does the Proxyserver do ? >I know it is a cache but is the security better ? >There is a Firewall to bye to Injoy, do I need it >and is it worth it ? There currently is an ongoing discussion of this on the Injoy mailing List. You can subscribe to the list from the FX Communications website at: http://www.fx.dk/ Basically, even with the Firewall product installed, the Firewall PC is open to the net. The Firewall protects systems on the LAN that are connected to the machine running Injoy, which establishes the connection to the net. -- ************************************************************** * Dan Casey * * President * * V.O.I.C.E. (Virtual OS/2 International Consumer Education * * http://www.os2voice.org * * Abraxas on IRC * * http://members.iquest.net/~dcasey * * Charter Associate member, Team SETI * * Warpstock 99 in Atlanta http://www.warpstock.org * ************************************************************** * E-Mail (subject: Req. PGP Key) for Public Key * ************************************************************** --- WtrGate+ v0.93.p7 sn 165 * Origin: Usenet: V.O.I.C.E., Indianapolis, IN (1:109/42) +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ From: ttodd@mindspring.com 06-Nov-99 11:44:22 To: All 06-Nov-99 14:36:00 Subj: Re: Create file association that works from command prompt? From: ttodd@mindspring.com (Ted Todd) In article , "Doug Darrow" wrote: >On Fri, 05 Nov 1999 17:19:04 -0700, Chuck McKinnis wrote: > >>I think you might like Henk Kelder's latest release of wptools >>http://www.os2ss.com/information/kelder/ >>He has added DEFASSOC.EXE, the help of which is: > >DEFASSOC is nice but, unfortuantely, it doesn't do what he wants. What >it DOES do is allow you to set the file associations from the command >line. Once set, however, they still cannot be USED from the command >line. They still only work from the WPS. > >What he WANTS to do is to be able to type a data file name and heve it >start the associated application to make use of that particular data >file. Example: typing document.dwp at the command line would >automatically start DeScribe WP and open document.dwp in it. In his >case, he wants to be able, on the command line, to type "someapp.pl" >and have it automatically invoke perl.exe to run someapp.pl. DEFASSOC >won't do that at all. > > You can accomplish some of this with YAOS, "Yet another OS/2 shell". YAOS can be started with a settings file that specifies which application to load for a given file extension. Here is my settings file (which was more extensive before I lost my E: partition a few weeks back :(). [E:\UTIL]type yaos.rc alias l=dir /w alias ll=dir /p alias c=cls alias a=alias alias line=mode co80, %1 alias ps=pstat /c | more alias vi=tedit alias cat=type ext txt=tedit ext sys=e ext zip=unzip -l ext inf=view I could enter README.TXT from the command prompt and it would be loaded in TEDIT. Hope this is helpful. --- WtrGate+ v0.93.p7 sn 165 * Origin: Usenet: MindSpring Enterprises (1:109/42) +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ From: swsnyder@home.com 06-Nov-99 17:46:26 To: All 06-Nov-99 16:43:23 Subj: Re: Need new tape backup From: "Steve Snyder" On Sat, 06 Nov 1999 17:37:50 GMT, Stephen Eickhoff (remove the - to reply) wrote: >"Camilla Cracchiolo (Camilla Cracchiolo, R.N.)" wrote: [snip] >> I'm considering a Seagate SCSI 8 Gig backup. Anyone here have >> experience with this drive? Also, I'm currently using Backmaster. >> Will it support this tape drive or do I have to get BackAgain/2? >> >> Please send me an e-mail copy of any replies you post to the >> newsgroup. > >I have the ST8000N and use it with Novaback. It works great, I usually get >about 38MB/min >with it. You MUST get a cleaner kit, though, and use it every few backups. I >let my drive get dirty and had to use three swabs on it just to do a full >restore. I too have a ST8000N which I use with Seagate's Backup Exec. As noted above, this drive is fast. I'm very happy with it. ***** Steve Snyder ***** --- WtrGate+ v0.93.p7 sn 165 * Origin: Usenet: @Home Network (1:109/42) +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ From: mckinnis@attglobal.net 06-Nov-99 10:56:12 To: All 06-Nov-99 16:43:23 Subj: Re: Create file association that works from command prompt? From: Chuck McKinnis Yeah, I know. I don't use any of the command line processor replacements. Can they do these kinds of things? Doug Darrow wrote: > > On Fri, 05 Nov 1999 17:19:04 -0700, Chuck McKinnis wrote: > > >I think you might like Henk Kelder's latest release of wptools > >http://www.os2ss.com/information/kelder/ > >He has added DEFASSOC.EXE, the help of which is: > > DEFASSOC is nice but, unfortuantely, it doesn't do what he wants. What > it DOES do is allow you to set the file associations from the command > line. Once set, however, they still cannot be USED from the command > line. They still only work from the WPS. > > What he WANTS to do is to be able to type a data file name and heve it > start the associated application to make use of that particular data > file. Example: typing document.dwp at the command line would > automatically start DeScribe WP and open document.dwp in it. In his > case, he wants to be able, on the command line, to type "someapp.pl" > and have it automatically invoke perl.exe to run someapp.pl. DEFASSOC > won't do that at all. -- Chuck McKinnis Senior Systems Engineer Denver Solutions Group, Inc. IBM Business Partner IBM Senior Systems Engineer (retired) --- WtrGate+ v0.93.p7 sn 165 * Origin: Usenet: Denver Solutions Group (1:109/42) +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ From: operagost@e-mail.com 06-Nov-99 17:37:25 To: All 06-Nov-99 16:43:23 Subj: Re: Need new tape backup From: "Stephen Eickhoff (remove the - to reply)" This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------A4DCB7A443A83DE1C6998BBF Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit "Camilla Cracchiolo (Camilla Cracchiolo, R.N.)" wrote: > I have to get a new tape drive. I've got a HP Traven T-3000. > > I'd like to get away from HP products altogether. They have great > tech support, but I suspect that's because their products die so > often. (Long history of failures here). > > I'm considering a Seagate SCSI 8 Gig backup. Anyone here have > experience with this drive? Also, I'm currently using Backmaster. > Will it support this tape drive or do I have to get BackAgain/2? > > Please send me an e-mail copy of any replies you post to the > newsgroup. I have the ST8000N and use it with Novaback. It works great, I usually get about 38MB/min with it. You MUST get a cleaner kit, though, and use it every few backups. I let my drive get dirty and had to use three swabs on it just to do a full restore. Backmaster 2 should support the drive, but I dumped them a while ago because the program was so slow. Novaback is nice because they include Windows and OS/2 versions in the same box. -- ---------------------------------- Stephen Eickhoff Havertown, PA ---------------------------------- --------------A4DCB7A443A83DE1C6998BBF Content-Type: text/x-vcard; charset=us-ascii; name="operagost.vcf" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Description: Card for Stephen Eickhoff (remove the - to reply) Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="operagost.vcf" begin:vcard n:Eickhoff;Stephen tel;work:610-341-8571 x-mozilla-html:FALSE org:Johnson Matthey, CSD NA;Information Technology adr:;;456 Devon Park Drive;wayne;PA;19087; version:2.1 email;internet:operagost@email.com title:PC Support Analyst end:vcard --------------A4DCB7A443A83DE1C6998BBF-- --- WtrGate+ v0.93.p7 sn 165 * Origin: Origin Line 1 Goes Here (1:109/42) +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ From: sbo@hehe.com 06-Nov-99 19:22:03 To: All 06-Nov-99 16:43:23 Subj: Create file association that works from command prompt? From: sbo@hehe.com (Steen Bondo) Chuck McKinnis wrote in a message to Doug Darrow: CM> Yeah, I know. I don't use any of the command line processor CM> replacements. Can they do these kinds of things? I already told you.! 4OS2 does it. -- Steen --- WtrGate+ v0.93.p7 sn 165 * Origin: Origin Line 1 Goes Here (1:109/42) +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ From: sma.spam-not@rtd.com 06-Nov-99 21:53:15 To: All 06-Nov-99 20:02:24 Subj: Re: Need new tape backup From: James Moe Steve Snyder wrote: > > > I too have a ST8000N which I use with Seagate's Backup Exec. > You do? I thought Seagate dropped os/2 support. The STT8000N came out long after they stopped updating their os/2 program. -- sma at rtd dot com Remove ".spam-not" for email --- WtrGate+ v0.93.p7 sn 165 * Origin: Usenet: Sohnen-Moe Associates, Inc (1:109/42) +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ From: sma.spam-not@rtd.com 06-Nov-99 21:56:02 To: All 06-Nov-99 20:02:25 Subj: Re: Secure Internet ? From: James Moe Peter Stahl wrote: > > Hi. > > I'm connecting to internet by a 33.6 kbs modem using > Injoy + Smart Cache (Proxyserver) + Internet Adventurer > and Netscape 4.61. > > Can anyone read and modify my disk from internet while > I'm logged on to internet ? > No. The connection is outgoing only. All anyone can see is your service provider. -- sma at rtd dot com Remove ".spam-not" for email --- WtrGate+ v0.93.p7 sn 165 * Origin: Usenet: Sohnen-Moe Associates, Inc (1:109/42) +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ From: d.s.darrow@nvinet.com 06-Nov-99 16:54:20 To: All 06-Nov-99 21:41:10 Subj: Re: Create file association that works from command prompt? From: "Doug Darrow" On Sat, 06 Nov 1999 10:56:24 -0700, Chuck McKinnis wrote: >Yeah, I know. I don't use any of the command line processor >replacements. Can they do these kinds of things? Sort of... 4OS2, for instance, can set what's called executable extensions. In config.sys or startup.cmd he would add the line: SET .pl=x:\bin\perl.exe then, from the command line he would type someapp.pl and 4OS2's command processor replacement would recognize the .pl extension, and would then start the perl.exe located in x:\bin\ and pass someapp.pl as the command line parameter. This would accomplish what he wants in this case. But it is NOT checking to see what type the file is defined as in the EAs, it is merely recognizing the necessary executable required to run it by the extension of the file. Actually, it's smarter even than this because it isn't necessary to type the .pl extension as long as there isn't another someapp with a .com, .exe, or .bat located earlier along the search path. --- WtrGate+ v0.93.p7 sn 165 * Origin: Origin Line 1 Goes Here (1:109/42) +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ From: swsnyder@home.com 07-Nov-99 02:07:16 To: All 07-Nov-99 03:28:17 Subj: Re: Need new tape backup From: "Steve Snyder" On Sat, 06 Nov 1999 21:53:30 GMT, James Moe wrote: >Steve Snyder wrote: >> >> >> I too have a ST8000N which I use with Seagate's Backup Exec. >> > You do? I thought Seagate dropped os/2 support. The STT8000N came >out long after they stopped updating their os/2 program. Maybe the STT8000N is compatible with some drive that is officially supported. In any case, Seagate Backup Exec v3.0 (file dates are 10/31/96) *does* work with that tape drive. ***** Steve Snyder ***** --- WtrGate+ v0.93.p7 sn 165 * Origin: Usenet: @Home Network (1:109/42) +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ From: million@best.com 06-Nov-99 20:15:11 To: All 07-Nov-99 03:28:17 Subj: Backup software and CD-RW From: "Don Million" I have a new PIII with a CD-RW and I want use it the for backing up my data files. The documentation from Adaptec doesn't talk about saving modified files, like the tape drive software does on my old machine. Has anybody used the CD-RW for this kind of thing and what software did you use? Thanks for any help, Don Million --- WtrGate+ v0.93.p7 sn 165 * Origin: Origin Line 1 Goes Here (1:109/42) +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ From: areese@bestnetpc.com 07-Nov-99 14:58:27 To: All 07-Nov-99 15:15:21 Subj: CD-RW for OS2 From: areese@bestnetpc.com (A. Willard Reese) I'm considering buying a Yamaha 6x4x16 internal SCSI-2 CD-RW kit with an Adaptec PCI SCSI interface card to run on my Warp 4.0, fixpak 11, system. Can anyone tell me their experience with such a setup? How about drivers for OS2? What problems have been encountered, etc? The price is right on this combination but it's no good to me if it won't run in OS2. Thanks for any help, Willard --- WtrGate+ v0.93.p7 sn 165 * Origin: Usenet: Reese Associates (1:109/42) +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ From: mcbrides@erols.com 07-Nov-99 11:30:05 To: All 07-Nov-99 15:15:22 Subj: Re: CD-RW for OS2 From: mcbrides@erols.com (Jerry McBride) In article , areese@bestnetpc.com (A. Willard Reese) wrote: >I'm considering buying a Yamaha 6x4x16 internal SCSI-2 CD-RW kit with >an Adaptec PCI SCSI interface card to run on my Warp 4.0, fixpak 11, >system. Can anyone tell me their experience with such a setup? How >about drivers for OS2? What problems have been encountered, etc? The >price is right on this combination but it's no good to me if it won't >run in OS2. > Right off the bat... the 6416 runs just fine under all versions of OS/2 with the exception of... there have been posts to the effect that the 6416 is not able to cda with certain software... Why? I have no idea as I don't own one. I do own two 4416s drives that have worked flawlessly under os/2 in all reguards. -- ******************************************************************************* * Sometimes, the BEST things in life really ARE free... * * Get a FREE copy of NetRexx 1.151 for your next java project at: * * * * GET IT NOW! WHILE IT'S STILL FREE! * * * * http://www2.hursley.ibm.com/netrexx * ******************************************************************************* /----------------------------------------\ | From the desktop of: Jerome D. McBride | | mcbrides@erols.com | \----------------------------------------/ -- --- WtrGate+ v0.93.p7 sn 165 * Origin: Usenet: TEAM-NETREXX (1:109/42) +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ From: rratney@datablast.net 07-Nov-99 17:42:04 To: All 07-Nov-99 15:15:22 Subj: OS20MEMU From: rratney@datablast.net (Ron Ratney) I recently installed FIXPAK 12 and now OS20MEMU doesn't work. There is an error message that a more recent version of OS20MEMU is required. Is there a way to fix this? --- WtrGate+ v0.93.p7 sn 165 * Origin: Origin Line 1 Goes Here (1:109/42) +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ From: egermain@mediaone.net 07-Nov-99 22:06:15 To: All 07-Nov-99 20:07:02 Subj: Re: CD-RW for OS2 From: egermain@mediaone.net (Edward Germain) On Sun, 7 Nov 1999 16:30:11, mcbrides@erols.com (Jerry McBride) wrote: > >I'm considering buying a Yamaha 6x4x16 internal SCSI-2 CD-RW kit with > >an Adaptec PCI SCSI interface card to run on my Warp 4.0, fixpak 11, > >system. Can anyone tell me their experience with such a setup? How > >about drivers for OS2? What problems have been encountered, etc? The > >price is right on this combination but it's no good to me if it won't > >run in OS2. > > > > Right off the bat... the 6416 runs just fine under all versions of OS/2 with > the exception of... Hmm, I'm in an almost similar situation. Only I have an Adaptec 2940 on the motherboard. I imagine it would work OK in this setup, too. Any comments? --Ed Germain --- WtrGate+ v0.93.p7 sn 165 * Origin: Usenet: Road Runner (1:109/42) +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ From: rde@tavi.co.uk 07-Nov-99 23:25:06 To: All 07-Nov-99 21:28:07 Subj: Re: CD-RW for OS2 From: rde@tavi.co.uk (Bob Eager) On Sun, 7 Nov 1999 22:06:31, egermain@mediaone.net (Edward Germain) wrote: > > Right off the bat... the 6416 runs just fine under all versions of OS/2 with > > the exception of... > > Hmm, I'm in an almost similar situation. Only I have an Adaptec 2940 > on the motherboard. I imagine it would work OK in this setup, too. > Any comments? I've been running the 4416S for several months now. I have an IBM Server 325 which has the Adaptec 7880 on the main board (2940 chipset). Runs fine. I use the RSJ software, which I found was cheaper from BMT Micro! -- Bob Eager rde at tavi.co.uk PC Server 325; PS/2s 8595*3, 9595*3 (2*P60 + P90), 8535, 8570, 9556*2, 8580*6, 8557*2, 8550, 9577, 8530, P70, PC/AT.. --- WtrGate+ v0.93.p7 sn 165 * Origin: Usenet: Tavi Systems (1:109/42) +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ From: madbrain%nospam@nospam.thetaband... 07-Nov-99 15:38:08 To: All 07-Nov-99 21:28:08 Subj: Theta Band Software announces the distribution of MMPack through Mensys Message sender: madbrain%nospam@nospam.thetaband.com From: Julien Pierre Theta Band Software's Multimedia Pack for OS/2 is now available for ordering through Mensys at http://www.mensys.nl . MMPack is a collection of utilities to enhance OS/2 multimedia, and contains the following programs : MMCheck This is a utility that checks your MMPM/2 installation (i.e. MMPM2.INI) for errors or suspicious settings. If it finds any, it will tell you what they are, so that you can fix them. MPU-401 Driver This is a replacement for IBM's MPU-401 driver, which is used to MIDI support for a number of sound cards, including sound cards that use the Crystal Semiconductor drivers. Enhancements over IBM's driver include : fixes for Warp 3 SMP compatibility better hardware compatibility DOS sharing RTMIDI recording without an IRQ and more! NPDSMI 2.0 This is a plug-in for Netscape Navigator and Communicator for OS/2. The function of the DSMI plug-in is to play music module files embedded on web pages. Module files are 32 channel digital music and are of tremendously high quality. This new version 2.0 of the DSMI Netscape plug-in supports compressed zip module files. More information about MMPack is available on our web site at http://www.thetaband.com -- -------------------------------------------------------------------- Julien Pierre http://www.madbrain.com Theta Band Software LLC http://www.thetaband.com -------------------------------------------------------------------- --- WtrGate+ v0.93.p7 sn 165 * Origin: Usenet: Theta Band Software LLC (1:109/42) +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ From: enaud@bellsouth.net 07-Nov-99 18:53:02 To: All 07-Nov-99 21:28:08 Subj: Re: CD-RW for OS2 From: Duane Chamblee Bob Eager wrote: > I've been running the 4416S for several months now. I have an IBM > Server 325 which has the Adaptec 7880 on the main board (2940 > chipset). Runs fine. Ditto, I make the some WarpUP! cds with this. > I use the RSJ software, which I found was cheaper from BMT Micro! Actually, have you looked at Indelible Blue's price recently? ;-) --- WtrGate+ v0.93.p7 sn 165 * Origin: Origin Line 1 Goes Here (1:109/42) +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ From: aaronl@pec.co.nz 08-Nov-99 14:32:22 To: All 08-Nov-99 03:40:16 Subj: Re: Theta Band Software announces the distribution of MMPack through From: Aaron Lawrence Julien Pierre wrote: > Theta Band Software's Multimedia Pack for OS/2 is now available for > ordering > through Mensys at http://www.mensys.nl . I had a look at this, and it's cool, but the things in it aren't really compelling to me. There are more pressing problems with MMOS/2 such as the lack of much PCI soundcard support. IMHO. --- WtrGate+ v0.93.p7 sn 165 * Origin: Usenet: CLEAR Net New Zealand (1:109/42) +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ From: jdc0014@InfoNET.st-johns.nf.ca 08-Nov-99 04:15:18 To: All 08-Nov-99 03:40:17 Subj: Re: CD-RW for OS2 From: jdc0014@InfoNET.st-johns.nf.ca (John Hong) A. Willard Reese (areese@bestnetpc.com) wrote: : I'm considering buying a Yamaha 6x4x16 internal SCSI-2 CD-RW kit with : an Adaptec PCI SCSI interface card to run on my Warp 4.0, fixpak 11, : system. Can anyone tell me their experience with such a setup? How : about drivers for OS2? What problems have been encountered, etc? The : price is right on this combination but it's no good to me if it won't : run in OS2. Is the Yamaha your only choice? Seeing as how Plextor, Yamaha, and Ricoh all make the best CDR/CDRW drives, the Ricoh models I find (at least in Canada) seem to run a little cheaper. In my case, only $40, but still...$40 more for buying CDR's for me. ;-) I have the 7040S (4x write, 4x re-write, 20x read). They have a newer model that replaces it in the 7060S (a 6x write). Plextor while being the best of the bunch are also the most expensive. --- WtrGate+ v0.93.p7 sn 165 * Origin: Usenet: St. John's InfoNET (1:109/42) +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ From: say@sfu.ca 08-Nov-99 02:39:17 To: All 08-Nov-99 03:40:17 Subj: ProNews2 trouble; Memory leak? From: Daniel Say I've had a recent problem with ProNews2, which is why I'm not using it here. When pulling in the newsgroups and messages, near the end of the task it crashes giving me a Trap E error, and a previous message about Newserver swapfile is full. I've moved my OS/2 swapfile address to a volume with 270 megabytes; it used to be at the \os2\system with about 70 megabytes free. The program is fine until the end when there is a rush of RAM (62 megabytes) deletion or outflow. That is my PmPatrol monitor line shows that RAM is dropping fast and going to zero from about 50 megabytes. This is a sudden change. Has there been a memory leak problem documented before? Daniel Say say@sfu.ca --- WtrGate+ v0.93.p7 sn 165 * Origin: Usenet: Simon Fraser University (1:109/42) +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ From: santipov@aha.ru 08-Nov-99 08:32:12 To: All 08-Nov-99 03:40:17 Subj: Unattended Shutdown From: Sergey Antipov Hello everybody! Please help me to find an utility to shutdown OS/2 Warp 3 in unattended mode, i.e. from batch file, with no one pressing "Yes" button during shutdown. The task is to shut down OS/2 server from UPS. PowerShute for OS/2 does not works. Please e-mail to santipov@zdnetonebox.com Thanks in advance, Sergey Antipov --- WtrGate+ v0.93.p7 sn 165 * Origin: Usenet: MTU-Intel ISP (1:109/42) +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ From: domi@kenavo.NOSPAM.fi 08-Nov-99 06:29:17 To: All 08-Nov-99 03:40:17 Subj: Re: Unattended Shutdown From: domi@kenavo.NOSPAM.fi (Dominique Pivard) The Extended Shutdown facility included in XFolder will do this. It's free and you can find it in http://www2.hu-berlin.de/~h0444vnd/xfldr.htm HTH, Dominique On Mon, 8 Nov 1999 05:32:25, Sergey Antipov wrote: > Hello everybody! > Please help me to find an utility to shutdown OS/2 Warp 3 in unattended > mode, i.e. from batch file, with no one pressing "Yes" button during > shutdown. The task is to shut down OS/2 server from UPS. PowerShute for > OS/2 does not works. --- WtrGate+ v0.93.p7 sn 165 * Origin: Usenet: None!! (1:109/42) +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ From: rcpj@panix.com 08-Nov-99 21:43:26 To: All 08-Nov-99 20:06:28 Subj: Re: CD-RW for OS2 From: rcpj@panix.com (Pierre Jelenc) Jerry McBride writes: > > Right off the bat... the 6416 runs just fine under all versions of OS/2 with > the exception of... there have been posts to the effect that the 6416 is not > able to cda with certain software... Why? I have no idea as I don't own one. That was me. It works fine with cdda2wav from the cdrecord package, but that seems to be the only one. There seems to be a bug in cdda2wav, but it's minor. If you try to rip a number of tracks, say 2-5, and track 5 is longer than track 4, then track 5 will be truncated to the length of track 4. There is no problem in single-track ripping. Pierre -- Pierre Jelenc | The Cucumbers' "Total Vegetility" is out! | Pawnshop's "Three Brass Balls" is out! The New York City Beer Guide | RAW Kinder's "CD EP" is out! http://www.nycbeer.org | Home Office Records http://www.web-ho.com --- WtrGate+ v0.93.p7 sn 165 * Origin: Usenet: Public Access Networks Corp. (1:109/42) +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ From: umunhum@flash.net 09-Nov-99 07:29:25 To: All 09-Nov-99 05:19:24 Subj: Re: Unattended Shutdown From: "William R. Estrada II" Sergey, Look on the Net for an IBM EWS package called 'APMT'. With it you can find the 'Yes' window and click it. If you can't find it, I have the URL at work. William Estrada. Sergey Antipov wrote: > > Hello everybody! > Please help me to find an utility to shutdown OS/2 Warp 3 in unattended > mode, i.e. from batch file, with no one pressing "Yes" button during > shutdown. The task is to shut down OS/2 server from UPS. PowerShute for > OS/2 does not works. > Please e-mail to santipov@zdnetonebox.com > Thanks in advance, > Sergey Antipov --- WtrGate+ v0.93.p7 sn 165 * Origin: Usenet: Human? (1:109/42) +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ From: jr_fox@earthlink.net 08-Nov-99 16:23:26 To: All 09-Nov-99 10:58:10 Subj: Re: Installation of Kensington Expert Mouse From: "J. R. Fox" Stan Goodman wrote: >Expert Mouse v5.0, > I would like to be able to run the manufacturer's driver, and >to make use of all four buttons on this device. Does anyone >know how to do this? It never worked for me, other than the default two buttons. Put this one in the Hall of Shame, alongside the OS/2 version of Iomega Tools for the Zip Drive. Great trackball design, though. Mine just died after nearly two years of service. Now using one of the Logitech Marble models, and very glad I picked it up cheaply as a spare. --- WtrGate+ v0.93.p7 sn 165 * Origin: Usenet: EarthLink Network, Inc. (1:109/42) +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ From: alex@eddie.cis.uoguelph.ca 08-Nov-99 15:00:02 To: All 09-Nov-99 14:42:23 Subj: Re: CD-RW for OS2 From: alex@eddie.cis.uoguelph.ca (Alex Taylor) On Sun, 07 Nov 1999 14:58:54 GMT, A. Willard Reese wrote: > I'm considering buying a Yamaha 6x4x16 internal SCSI-2 CD-RW kit with > an Adaptec PCI SCSI interface card to run on my Warp 4.0, fixpak 11, > system. Can anyone tell me their experience with such a setup? How > about drivers for OS2? What problems have been encountered, etc? The > price is right on this combination but it's no good to me if it won't > run in OS2. I used my 6416s to cut a CD in Warp (fp9) this very morning. :) My SCSI adapter is a Mylex BT-958, however. As long as the SCSI card is supported by OS/2 there should be no problem. Pretty much any SCSI CDRW should work. You just need the SCSI adapter driver and an ASPI router driver, plus software. CDRecord/2 is free software, and works fine with SCSI CDRW's, although it's not all that easy to use (command-line, although some crude PM front ends are available). Includes mkisofs and instructions for installing the ASPI router. RSJ is basically your only other option (and your only option, period, if you have an IDE CDRW). It's supposed to be really nice, easy to use, and powerful. And also very expensive. -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Alex Taylor BA - CIS - University of Guelph alex@eddie.cis.uoguelph.ca http://eddie.cis.uoguelph.ca/~alex ----------------------------------------------------------------- --- WtrGate+ v0.93.p7 sn 165 * Origin: Usenet: @Home Network Canada (1:109/42) +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ From: alex@eddie.cis.uoguelph.ca 08-Nov-99 15:11:15 To: All 09-Nov-99 14:42:23 Subj: Re: Theta Band Software announces the distribution of MMPack through M From: alex@eddie.cis.uoguelph.ca (Alex Taylor) On Mon, 08 Nov 1999 14:32:45 +1300, Aaron Lawrence wrote: > > Theta Band Software's Multimedia Pack for OS/2 is now available for > > ordering through Mensys at http://www.mensys.nl . > > I had a look at this, and it's cool, but the things in it aren't really > compelling to me. There are more pressing problems with MMOS/2 such as the > lack of much PCI soundcard support. IMHO. My main issue with MMOS/2 is the broken mixer system. If they could fix that (REALLY fix it, not just work around it like aMixer et al), I'd pay for it! As it is, it causes me no end of frustration when all the damn volume settings reset themselves after every event. -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Alex Taylor BA - CIS - University of Guelph alex@eddie.cis.uoguelph.ca http://eddie.cis.uoguelph.ca/~alex ----------------------------------------------------------------- --- WtrGate+ v0.93.p7 sn 165 * Origin: Usenet: @Home Network Canada (1:109/42) +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ From: bstephan@redshift.com 08-Nov-99 07:58:21 To: All 09-Nov-99 14:42:23 Subj: Re: Unattended Shutdown From: bstephan@redshift.com In <38266069.EDBF7EC3@aha.ru>, on 11/08/99 at 08:32 AM, Sergey Antipov said: >Please help me to find an utility to shutdown OS/2 Warp 3 in >unattended mode, i.e. from batch file, with no one pressing "Yes" >button during I have configured Ctrl-Alt-Del Commander to close all my programs that want a "Yes" answer so I can shut down without those interruptions. -- ----------------------------------------------------------- Bob Stephan bstephan@redshift.com or BobStephan@compuserve.com Happily using OS/2 Warp on the Central California Coast. http://www.redshift.com/~bstephan ----------------------------------------------------------- --- WtrGate+ v0.93.p7 sn 165 * Origin: Usenet: Posted via Supernews, http://www.supernews.com (1:109/42) +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ From: mcbrides@erols.com 08-Nov-99 20:24:03 To: All 09-Nov-99 20:25:15 Subj: Re: CD-RW for OS2 From: mcbrides@erols.com (Jerry McBride) In article <807g6o$c7m$1@news.panix.com>, rcpj@panix.com (Pierre Jelenc) wrote: >Jerry McBride writes: >> >> Right off the bat... the 6416 runs just fine under all versions of OS/2 with >> the exception of... there have been posts to the effect that the 6416 is not >> able to cda with certain software... Why? I have no idea as I don't own one. > >That was me. It works fine with cdda2wav from the cdrecord package, but >that seems to be the only one. > >There seems to be a bug in cdda2wav, but it's minor. If you try to rip a >number of tracks, say 2-5, and track 5 is longer than track 4, then track >5 will be truncated to the length of track 4. There is no problem in >single-track ripping. > YIPES! You're right! I was playing with cdda2wav last night and I kept getting a short wav file when ripped in batch mode. However ripping it by-it's-self would yield a full length wav! Wow! That one was driving me nuts! Also, cdda2wav could use a little attention to it's jitter routine as it does not always work really well... Also, the -n switch simply fails to work! I can't reset the buffer to more than the default. Hmmm... a little more documentation would be nice too... :') -- ******************************************************************************* * Sometimes, the BEST things in life really ARE free... * * Get a FREE copy of NetRexx 1.151 for your next java project at: * * * * GET IT NOW! WHILE IT'S STILL FREE! * * * * http://www2.hursley.ibm.com/netrexx * ******************************************************************************* /----------------------------------------\ | From the desktop of: Jerome D. McBride | | mcbrides@erols.com | \----------------------------------------/ -- --- WtrGate+ v0.93.p7 sn 165 * Origin: Usenet: TEAM-NETREXX (1:109/42) +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ From: joehenley@worldnet.att.net 09-Nov-99 17:59:19 To: All 09-Nov-99 21:17:16 Subj: Re: Unattended Shutdown From: "Joseph O. Henley" Sergey Antipov wrote: > > Hello everybody! > Please help me to find an utility to shutdown OS/2 Warp 3 in unattended > mode, i.e. from batch file, with no one pressing "Yes" button during > shutdown. The task is to shut down OS/2 server from UPS. PowerShute for > OS/2 does not works. > Please e-mail to santipov@zdnetonebox.com > Thanks in advance, > Sergey Antipov Sergey, Following is a post which I had saved for just such occasions. Hope it helps. You'll probably want to use something like: START /DOS ...... Joe --------------------------------- From "Derek Hawkins" Date Sent Wed, 28 Apr 1999 23:51:05 -0400 Subject Re: Turn of computer via software. Here's how to do it from the DOS prompt in MSDOS mode without having to use the switch; Type the following lines (one is blank) in your favorite text editor (EDIT will do just fine) and save as text file SHUTDOWN.TXT; N SHUTDOWN.COM A CS:0100 MOV AX,5301 XOR BX,BX INT 15 MOV AX,530E MOV CX,0101 XOR BX,BX INT 15 MOV AX,530F MOV BX,0001 MOV CX,BX INT 15 MOV AX,5308 MOV BX,0001 MOV CX,BX INT 15 MOV AX,5307 MOV BX,0001 MOV CX,0003 INT 15 R CX 30 W Q Type and enter the following at a DOS prompt after doing the above; DEBUG < SHUTDOWN.TXT This will create the file SHUTDOWN.COM (48 bytes) in the same directory. SHUTDOWN.COM will power-off the computer when executed in MSDOS mode. This should work with any ATX motherboard. --- WtrGate+ v0.93.p7 sn 165 * Origin: Usenet: AT&T WorldNet Services (1:109/42) +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ From: Nullmudshark-505@worldnet.att.net 09-Nov-99 19:04:24 To: All 09-Nov-99 21:17:16 Subj: Re: Installation of Kensington Expert Mouse From: "Dave" I have a 4 button Kensington Thinking mouse that works just fine under OS/2. You can map the extra 2 buttons to other "mouse macros" but not keyboard macros. On Mon, 08 Nov 1999 16:23:53 -0500, J. R. Fox wrote: >Stan Goodman wrote: > >>Expert Mouse v5.0, >> I would like to be able to run the manufacturer's driver, and >to make use of all four buttons on this device. Does anyone >know how to do this? > >It never worked for me, other than the default two buttons. Put this >one in the Hall of Shame, alongside the OS/2 version of Iomega Tools for >the Zip Drive. Great trackball design, though. Mine just died after >nearly two years of service. Now using one of the Logitech Marble >models, and very glad I picked it up cheaply as a spare. > > > --- WtrGate+ v0.93.p7 sn 165 * Origin: Usenet: nope (1:109/42) +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ From: as@sci.fi 10-Nov-99 07:50:04 To: All 10-Nov-99 05:30:18 Subj: Logitech Cordless MouseMan Wheel in OS/2? From: Anssi Saari I have my eye on a "Logitech Cordless MouseMan Wheel" (http://www.logitech.com/se/mice/mc83_100.html). I'm wondering if that mouse works well in OS/2, especially the wheel? The wheel mouse support IBM has available doesn't mention this specific model, only a "Mouseman+" which isn't even mentioned on Logitech's site, maybe it's an older model. -- Anssi Saari - as@sci.fi --- WtrGate+ v0.93.p7 sn 165 * Origin: Usenet: Magic (1:109/42) +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ From: yp17@beol.net@mail.beol.net 10-Nov-99 22:30:26 To: All 10-Nov-99 21:35:27 Subj: Re: OS/2 Backup Question From: yp17@beol.net@mail.beol.net In , "David Lee" writes: >Hello again, OS/2 guru's, > >I have a set of floppy disks that each contain 2 files called BACKUP.00x and >CONTROL.00x, where x=1 to 5 (there are 5 disks). > >I suspect that these may have been created using OS/2. > >Is there an OS/2 backup utility that creates filenames in this format? I >know MS-DOS did, but DOS 5 and DOS 6 will not recognize them as valid backup >files (the files are dated October 1995). > >Thanks!! > >David Lee > > There is still an OS/2 BACKUP command, and a corresponding RESTORE command. AFAIR, these have been there since at least OS/2 1.1, maybe before. Go to an OS/2 window and type HELP RESTORE. To find out what is on your backup disks, you should be able to issued: RESTORE A: C:\*.* /S /D where /D will list file ids, and /S will do that for all subdirectories that were backed up. R; B-) --- WtrGate+ v0.93.p7 sn 165 * Origin: Usenet: NetSet Internet Services, Inc. (1:109/42) +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ From: david.lee*nospam*@pronexus.com 11-Nov-99 00:11:26 To: All 10-Nov-99 21:35:27 Subj: Re: OS/2 Backup Question From: "David Lee" Thanks. Do you know if later versions of OS/2 Restore will work with files backed up with earlier versions of Backup? I know MS DOS changed the file formats with every version of DOS, so you have to have the exact version of the utilities to restore any files. David wrote in message news:80crmt$n3g$1@athena.netset.com... > In , "David Lee" writes: > There is still an OS/2 BACKUP command, and a corresponding RESTORE > command. AFAIR, these have been there since at least OS/2 1.1, maybe > before. Go to an OS/2 window and type HELP RESTORE. > > To find out what is on your backup disks, you should be able to issued: > > RESTORE A: C:\*.* /S /D > > where /D will list file ids, and /S will do that for all subdirectories that > were backed up. > > R; B-) --- WtrGate+ v0.93.p7 sn 165 * Origin: Usenet: Magma Communications Ltd. (1:109/42) +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ From: santipov@aha.ru 11-Nov-99 06:50:16 To: bstephan@redshift.com, bstephan@r.. 11-Nov-99 03:54:24 Subj: Re: Unattended Shutdown To: bstephan@redshift.com, bstephan@redshift.com From: "Sergey N. Antipov" May You please provide me with some details? What is "Ctrl-Alt-Del Commander"? If utility, please post an URL. If tuninig, please detail. Seems that this is what I am looking for. Sergey. bstephan@redshift.com wrote: > In <38266069.EDBF7EC3@aha.ru>, on 11/08/99 > at 08:32 AM, Sergey Antipov said: > > >Please help me to find an utility to shutdown OS/2 Warp 3 in > >unattended mode, i.e. from batch file, with no one pressing "Yes" > >button during > > I have configured Ctrl-Alt-Del Commander to close all my programs > that want a "Yes" answer so I can shut down without those > interruptions. > > -- > ----------------------------------------------------------- > Bob Stephan bstephan@redshift.com or BobStephan@compuserve.com > Happily using OS/2 Warp on the Central California Coast. > http://www.redshift.com/~bstephan > ----------------------------------------------------------- --- WtrGate+ v0.93.p7 sn 165 * Origin: Usenet: Mr. Postman (1:109/42) +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ From: softpointNOJUNKMAIL@surveypoint.com 11-Nov-99 03:59:06 To: All 11-Nov-99 03:54:24 Subj: Re: DualStor Restore (help?) From: softpointNOJUNKMAIL@surveypoint.com (Paul Saletan) DualStor has the option to write tapes using either its own proprietary format or the QIC-80 file system. QIC-80 can be restored from practically any WIN/DOS tape program. In that case, installing OS/2 and Dualstor just to copy off the data would be unnecessary. I would check this out before going to all that work. "Spencer Lee" wrote: >Hello all OS/2 gurus, > >Got a bit of a problem I'm hoping someone here can offer advice for. > >I have a customer sending me a back up of a bunch of files on QIC-80 tapes >from a PS/2 machine running OS/2, and backed up with DualStor. > >I need to get these files into a Windows machine. > >I am getting a copy of OS/2, and I have a Colorado Jumbo 250 tape drive, >which I understand DualStor supports, so I could (if I had a copy of >DualStor) set up an OS/2 computer on my network, restore the files, and copy >them over to a Windows box (I think). > >Questions: > >Is there a Windows version of DualStor which will restore the files from the >OS/2 DualStor backup? (from what I've gathered, the files that DualStor >creates on the tape are 'EA' files - not sure if the Windows version uses >the same format). > >What do I have to do, and where can I get a copy of the DualStor software >that I need? > > >Thanks muchly, > >Sleeman > // Paul Saletan ** Please remove NOJUNKMAIL from address when replying --- WtrGate+ v0.93.p7 sn 165 * Origin: Usenet: EarthLink Network, Inc. (1:109/42) +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ From: sbo@hehe.com 10-Nov-99 19:25:16 To: All 11-Nov-99 03:54:25 Subj: Unattended Shutdown From: sbo@hehe.com (Steen Bondo) Sergey Antipov wrote in a message to All: SA> Please help me to find an utility to shutdown OS/2 Warp 3 in SA> unattended mode, i.e. from batch file, with no one pressing "Yes" If you have BootManager installed - "setboot /b" I suppose it works for W3 as well. Gammatech has .... -- Steen --- WtrGate+ v0.93.p7 sn 165 * Origin: Origin Line 1 Goes Here (1:109/42) +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ From: jdc0014@InfoNET.st-johns.nf.ca 11-Nov-99 11:57:15 To: All 11-Nov-99 10:44:24 Subj: (1/2) Backup & Defragmentation 3.5 From: jdc0014@InfoNET.st-johns.nf.ca (John Hong) Backup & Defragmentation 3.5 This is just a little primer drawn up in order to help OS/2 users to use common compression utilities such as PkZip for backing up their OS/2 drives. Another use for this is also to fight against fragmentation. OS/2's HPFS file system does not fragment like the way FAT drives do, but it does become susceptible to it when the drive is almost full. So, the best remedy is to backup the data, format the partition, then unarchive the backup back to the original partition and you are back in business. Prior to doing this, be sure to create boot disks in order to compress/uncompress the backup files. You can use either the Create Utility Diskettes option in OS/2's System Folder or (a better option) use BootOS/2 in order to make them. BootOS/2 in particular is more advantageous since it would only need two 3.5" 1.44 MB diskettes over the three needed by OS/2 Warp 3 & Connect and the four for OS/2 Warp 4. Plus, one can also use LxLite compression with BootOS/2 in order to save that little extra bit of disk space necessary. As well, you can probably use it for an LS-120 or ZIP disk whereas the Utility Diskettes option would not support it. BootOS/2 can be found at the Hobbes OS/2 Archive (http://hobbes.nmsu.edu). LxLite can be found at LEO (http://www.leo.org) and possibly also at Hobbes. I'm sure some will ask, "But John, what about PowerQuest's Drive Image or Norton's Ghost?" Well, there really is no problem with those programs. They do as advertised, they backup the hard drive into an image. That image can be restored onto a single machine (or if you have the Drive Image Pro) onto a network of multiple machines. Unfortunately, the problem with disk imaging programs like those is that they do absolutely nothing about the fragmentation of the file system. Keep in mind, programs like Drive Image and Ghost simply make a *mirror* image of the hard drive's partitions. This means that not only does it copy the data, but also the holes that whatever file system left behind after days, months, years, etc. of disk thrashing. In a nut shell, Drive Image and Ghost not only copy the hard drive data, but also the fragmentation of the file system. This is where this little primer really comes into play. Of course, the advantage with something like Drive Image Pro is the ability to restore onto a multitude of networked computers. Something that would be a pretty big pain in the butt by this method. EXTRA: It is a good idea to make your backups booting through your bootdisks since there maybe locked files that won't be compressed. Locked files are files that are currently in use by OS/2 and will not allow any kind of manipulation from the user to take place. EXTRA EXTRA: Before making a backup, it maybe a good idea to run CHKDSK from the bootable floppies first. Another thing, make sure you run CHKDSK (CHKDSK X: /F:2) twice in a row. I picked up this little tidbit from the "OS/2 Warp Unleashed" book by SAMS Publishing (fine book, BTW). It is found in Chapter 18, dealing with troubleshooting on page 941: "Note that if you running HPFS, then you should periodically run CHKDSK C: /F:2 twice. The first pass checks and cleans the primary HPFS structures, and the second pass checks and clears the secondary HPFS structures." BTW: When I say it was tested personally under an OS/2 system, it means that I had tested it under a bootable OS/2 partition and not just a partition with data on it. DISCLAIMER: The only guarentee that I can possibly give is that the methods here work on the systems that I have tested. All bets are off for OS/2 Warp for e-Business I'm afraid since I do not have that. I no longer have OS/2 Warp 4 anymore, either (sold that). I'm strictly running OS/2 Warp Connect, but I don't expect much to be different from OS/2 Warp 4 though. Basically the same kernel and filesystem afterall. It is with OS/2 Warp for e- Business that is a little different since its kernel no longer has that memory addressing limitation and uses a different method of organizing its file system due to the addition of JFS. Updates: * Added DISCLAIMER * RAR/2 2.60 * ARJ/2 2.62 * Windows 95 - FAT32 * BootOS/2 9.26 To Do List: * Testing ARJ/2 2.6x once it gets out of beta. Just wondering, has there been any progress with this lately? ARJ is now at v2.70. *NEWS* Warp for e-Business *NEWS* Okay, now that you've seent this, I have read of a user on Usenet trying to use RAR/2 2.50 in order to backup their Warp for e-Business partition. It didn't work, apparently the EA's were trashed. Possibly this may have something to do with the new LVM and JFS. I don't know since I do not have Warp for e-Business, and thus have no way of verifying. So at this point in time it is best not to try using any of these methods for backing up Warp for e-Business. In the event if anyone is successful, please email me ASAP and give me the details. ----------------------------------------------------------------- Overall ----------------------------------------------------------------- Compression | Disk Spanning | Requires PM | Recovery | EA's | ----------------------------------------------------------------- PkZip/2 2.50 | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Info-Zip 2.22 | No | No | Yes | Yes | RAR/2 2.60 | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | ARJ/2 2.62 Beta| Yes | No | Yes | No | ----------------------------------------------------------------- Disk Spanning: Ability to support multiple archives. Basically once the disk or cartridge is full, it can ask the user to insert another disk or cartridge in order for it continue. A Yes is good. Requires PM: Does the compression program require the PM, Presentation Manager. This is OS/2's GUI. A no is a good answer since it would be impossible to boot OS/2 up with regular floppies with the PM (unless it was a ZIP/LS-120 booting with A: drive). Recovery: Ability to recover/fix a corrupt archive, ie. PkZipFix. A yes here is a good answer. If the file is corrupt you can at least salvage something from it. EA's: Ability to save OS/2's Extended Attributes. A yes here is a must for OS/2. ----------------------------------------------------------------- Info-Zip for OS/2 (v2.22) http://www.cdrom.com/pub/infozip/ Works very well under OS/2. Use the following switches: zip -rS$ (destination/name of backup) * example: zip -rS$ F:\BACKUP.ZIP * Stick unzip.exe onto your OS/2 bootdisks, to restore the drive simply: unzip (name of backup) example: C: (being where I want it unzipped) unzip F:\BACKUP.ZIP Info-Zip is fine if you are just going to back it up to another partition or have a removable media drive large enough to fit it. Currently, Info-Zip is not able to handle disk spanning. It is a future feature to be added according to their home webpage when 3.0 comes out. Personally tested under a Warp 4 system (no FP's). ----------------------------------------------------------------- PkZip for OS/2 (v2.50) http://www.pkware.com Another that works well under OS/2. Perhaps a little better than Info-Zip since PkZip does handle disk spanning. Use the following switch: pkzip /add /attr=all /dir=full /rec /volume=(drive letter) (destination/name of backup) * example: pkzip /add /attr=all /dir=full /rec /volume=C F:\BACKUP.ZIP * To enable disk spanning, add the /span switch before the /volume one. Take note, use pkzip.exe, do not use pkzip2.cmd or else it will simply fail and just zip up the volume label in a file called "all.zip". Now to uncompress the archive, simply go: pkzip /attr=all /dir=full /extract /mask=none /rec /volume=C (destination/name of backup) example: pkzip /attr=all /dir=full /extract /mask=none /rec /volume=C F:\BACKUP.ZIP C: Personally tested under a Warp 4 system (no FP's). Extra Note: Apparently the geniuses at PkWare designed PkZip for OS/2 needing the Presentation Manager. So, using the boot disks from the Create Utility Disks function will not work. The only way for BootOS/2 to get this to work is with the TYPE=PM option. This of course will require a bootable device large enough to handle the extra data. So really you are going to need a bootable ZIP or LS-120 device in order to get this working. With that said, you can use unzip.exe in order to uncompress the pkzipped files. But, that has a problem too. Currently UnZip 5.40 will not be able to unzip multiple archives (like Zip 2.22). This is slated for the next major release (UnZip 6.00). ----------------------------------------------------------------- *UPDATED* RAR for OS/2 (v2.60) http://www.rarsoft.com So much for easiest. :-( The folks behind RAR are now combining the OS/2 and DOS versions together. Now that is not the problem I have with it, it is the fact that they are no longer going to provide a text-based shell for RAR does. After a couple of people emailed RARSOFT, the response they got back was that they have no intention of putting in a text-based shell anymore. So, RAR is relegated back to the rest of the command line utilities. Pity. It was a terrific and easy compression utility to use. I have kept the v2.50 instructions for anyone who still plans to use it, but be warned, there are some fixes that v2.60 brings that people maybe interested in. Here are the most notable fixes: 1. Both compression and speed have been improved for RAR archives. My thanks to Alexander Khoroshev and Bulat Ziganshin for hints, which allowed me to achieve this. 4. Previous RAR versions were not able to handle single files and archives larger than 2 GB. This limitation does not exist any more for RAR archives. The new limitation is slightly more than 8,589,934,591 GB, that practically means "unlimited". Note that Win-95/98 file systems cannot handle files larger than 4 GB, you need to use NTFS to work with such files. This improvement is valid only for RAR archives, 4 GB limitation for ZIP archives is not changed. 5. Significantly increased speed of scanning for large numbers of files before archiving operations. Memory management also is optimized, so now it is possible to handle hundreds of thousands, or even millions of files. WinRAR has been succesfully tested with over million files. 6. Console RAR shows the total percentage of processed data when archiving instead of the current file percentage as before. What is worse is that the RAR.TXT console manual is only distributed in the WinRAR 2.60 for Windows 95/98 file. I am just wondering if they are that intent on killing their DOS and OS/2 user base, but anyways... I have yet to get this to work unfortunately. :-( I tried this to backup my OS/2 boot drive (C:). C:\ rar32 a -m0 -r f:\test.rar It always comes out as "WARNING: No files added". Funny thing is, if I am in a directory it works. Like this: C:\UTILS rar32 a -r f:\test.rar Anything in my UTILS directory such as FM2UTILS will be archived properly. C:\UTILS\FM2UTILS \CDRECORD \ETC All that is compressed. Yet the thing is, if I am present in my C:\, then the warning message alluded to earlier will always appear. Did I miss anything? *OLD* RAR for OS/2 (v2.50) Easiest one to use due to its Norton Commander-like interface. Go into RAR's configuration (press F9, it is the first item on the menu) and make sure the following are checked on: X - Always Solid Archiving X - Put Recovery Record X - Read Only X - Hidden X - System X - Archive X - Save extended attributes It could also be a good idea to check on multimedia compression in order to get better compression. The rest is merely of choice, especially the compression (six methods to choose) whether to be for the best compression (slowest) or no compression at all in simply storing the files (fastest). In order to backup your OS/2 drive, simply hit the "+" key and push enter in order to highlight all the directories (or select whichever one's you intend to backup). Push F5 in order to compress onto a disk/cart and use Autodetect method in order to ensure spanning across disks/carts (or you can specify exactly what size you want). Very easy. Take Note: Do not use "UNRAR.EXE" to restore! Otherwise you will get a "Desktop can not be found in OS2.INI file, attempting to create Temporary Desktop" error message, where the Temperary Desktop will also fail, leaving you sitting at the PM with one OS/2 Window session. In order to restore, place RAR.EXE onto the OS/2 bootable diskettes. Start RAR.EXE up, now go to wherever you have the file backed up to, enter it, this will allow you view the files that are compressed inside the archived file. Once that is done, hit the "+" key and press enter in order to highlight all the files. Now, press ALT-F4 in order to restore by choosing the destination. Simply put in "C:" or wherever your original boot partition was. Once all of it extracted, there you go. I think we have a winner. Personally tested under a Warp 4 system (no FP's) and a Warp 3 system (FP40 applied). ----------------------------------------------------------------- ARJ/2 (v2.62) *UPDATE* http://hobbes.nmsu.edu I confess that I have not yet tested ARJ/2, but I wouldn't recommend using it just yet since it is still in a beta stage, and does not save EA's. But you could use EAUTIL in order to do this for you, but that is a bit of a chore especially since the other compression utilities here can do this automatically. So what would be the point? What's the point? Well, it looks like there is quite a good point now that RAR/2 has changed a bit. I am guilty of letting ARJ/2 go by the wayside. Hopefully I can make ammends by getting off my lazy duff and trying to figure out a way to get ARJ/2 working in this manner of B&D. Now, as I said earlier ARJ/2 is --- WtrGate+ v0.93.p7 sn 165 * Origin: Usenet: St. John's InfoNET (1:109/42) +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ From: jdc0014@InfoNET.st-johns.nf.ca 11-Nov-99 11:57:15 To: All 11-Nov-99 10:44:24 Subj: (2/2) Backup & Defragmentation 3.5 still in beta and does not save extended attributes. The EA's are as you know a pretty big deal for where OS/2 is concerned. Luckily there was help well before the ARJ/2 port was even started. EABACKUP & EARESTORE, two programs which make up EABK203.ZIP which can be downloaded from Hobbes. These utilities date way back to 1994! Their sole purpose of being is to backup/restore OS/2's extended attributes. Before I get started, be sure you use v2.61 and not v2.62, I remember getting an email from the guy making the port. He stated that there is a bug with v2.62, problem is I can't remember for the life of me on what that even was. I think it had something to do with the length of characters on a HPFS file name. So, best use v2.61 for now. You will also noticed that there is a LX compressed version available for download from Hobbes. Good idea to nab that one in order to stick onto the bootdisks. To backup OS/2, assuming your OS/2 drive is C: drive, run ARJ/2: arj a -a1 -b2 -jf -js -r -vvas X:/BACKUP.ARJ C: It will then go into its own command shell, just type in exit and it will start packing away. To adjust compression method, the syntax is -m<0-4>. 0 is for no compression (just storing), 1 is actually the best compression which is the default. 2-4 being lower, 4 beingt the fastest offering the least amount of compression. Now, there is a way to add build protection (-hk) but I would strongly recommend against it. I suppose this is like RAR/2's adding recovery record, but a warning to anyone using it, it takes forever just to complete. The (-va) is to enable the autodetection disk spanning. You can specify the amount if you wish (eg. -v1440 for 1.44 MB floppies). Now, to backup the EA's: EABACKUP C: X: /S This will create two files on the X: drive, EA@BDATA.EAB and EA@INDEX.EAB. Now you can format the C: drive. To restore, run: arj x X:/BACKUP.ARJ C: -vv -y Don't forget to restore the EA's! EARESTOR X: C: /S Now you are set, reboot and everything should now be working. Personally tested under a Warp 3 system (FP39 applied). ----------------------------------------------------------------- Note: I only intend to write about currently supported compression utilities. In otherwords, LHA and ZOO for instance I simply will ignore. Neither one has been updated since 1989-1993, and are relatively old and obsolete given the others listed here. Windows 95 - FAT32 (http://www.microsoft.com) - *UPDATED* So, you want to just dump OS/2 forever and head off into merry merry Windows 95 land? Well, I have not had the opportunity to try this using Windows 95 on a VFAT partition, but under FAT32, there is simply no way you can backup a Windows 95 partition using stuff like PkZip for Windows or WinRAR. The problem is that there are certain locked files at play. PkZip for Windows did complete, but now you have the even bigger problem of trying to restore it from a bootdisk. Won't happen, I'm afraid. When I tried this booting off of a Windows 95 boot disk, running PkZip 2.50's PkUnZip utility, it would not work because it complained of a lack of memory (apparently the FAT32 support on the bootdisk takes up a lot of memory as I'm always stuck with 542k conventional RAM). The last hope was RAR for DOS, but that too also complained of a lack of memory. So, what's the point of using a Windows compression utility in order to backup the entire Windows 95 partition if there is absolutely *NO* way of restoring it? Now, where exactly am I going with all this? Simple, thanks to the great FAT32 driver written by Henk Kelder, one can actually follow the exact methods listed here with the various compression utilities in order for OS/2 to backup Windows 95 through OS/2! Using RAR/2 in the identical manner listed earlier will allow you to backup a Windows 95 partition. Once backed up, you can boot up with the Windows 95 bootdisk and then format the partition, re-boot back into OS/2 and use RAR/2 in order to restore the Windows 95 partition back to its previous state. Now when you look at the disk with Norton Speedisk or booting Windows 95 up with a bootdisk in order to use ScanDisk (to see the entire disk information) you will see all the clusters neatly arranged in perfect order. No fragmentation! The advantage to using this method over using programs like Microsoft Defrag or Norton Speedisk is that they are not always perfect and can in fact at some times break files. My motivation in going to all of this trouble was because after using Defrag, I found that one of my .WAV files in my Multimedia Themes was broken and could not be accessible. Imagine what else could break. I have not tried using Info-ZIP or PkZip for OS/2, but I figure they would work with the same restrictions applied (ie. Info-Zip no disk spanning, PkZip needing the Presentation Manager). In order to install Henk's FAT32 driver, I simply followed the quicky instructions he had listed in the FAT32.TXT file, using PARTFLT.FLT and not the OS2DASD.DMD file he had modifyed (on my OS/2 box it trapped as a result). On the IFS=FAT32 line I did not have /EAS on (enabling Extended Attribute support). So, do you *really* want to dump OS/2? Didn't think so. A question...could this method work with Linux? There is a ext2 driver available for OS/2, that I know of. Perhaps that is something else for me to try and play with! ;-) Ok, I may have jumped the gun here. ;-) Apparently there is a way to do this under Windows 95 and I'll assume Windows 98. I won't bother detailing the methods but it will require a piece of shareware called DOSLFNBK in order to backup its long file names. But, it is nice to know that one can do this within OS/2 anyways. I am definately going to find out whether or not one can do this with Linux. There is an ext2 file system driver available for OS/2. The reason why is that I see no way of actually doing this under Linux. CONCLUSION The best compression program for backing up OS/2 with should by right be RAR/2, but I can't get it working properly. So the title for "Best Compression Utility" is essential up for grabs. However, for those that have been using RAR/2 2.50 without any problems should probably keep doing so. I just hope that the newest version of RAR/2 can be made to work since it does offer some fixes. As for the other compression utilities, each and everyone one has their own little drawback. Info-Zip is great, until you want it to span across multiple disks/carts. PkZip was almost the one, but the folks at PkWare thought it was necessary that the Presentation Manager be loaded with it, too. The only real drawback that ARJ/2 has is that it is still labelled as beta software and I have not heard anything about it in the past year. Ironically enough, the heir apparent to RAR/2 2.50 looks like it is a piece of beta software. That's right. ARJ/2. Only you will need EABK203.ZIP from Hobbes in order to really get it working. Hopefully, by the time ARJ/2 gets out of beta, one would not need EABK203.ZIP anymore. So for the people that have been having problems with RAR/2 2.50 with the new OS/2 Warp for e- Business, give ARJ/2 a go and report back to me. BOOTOS/2 Notes: *UPDATE* http://hobbes.nmsu.edu - latest version is 9.26 The documentation in the latest version of BootOS/2 (9.26) states that the problem being described later is supposed to be now fixed. There seems to be a problem with Warp Connect & FP39 when trying to make a BootOS/2 TARGET=x TYPE=PM partition. It creates it fine, but when I boot it up, it freezes at the "OS/2" box that appears on the top left-hand corner. Weird. I could not boot to a PM partition (BOOTOS2 TARGET=x TYPE=PM) even when I was back down in FP26! Same symptom occurs, during bootup it just freezes at the "OS/2" box on the top left-hand corner. The samething also occurs in FP40, BTW. Even making just the floppies seems to cause a small error with Warp 3 & Connect. Under FP40, for instance, upon making the two disk system (BOOTOS2 2DISK=A) after loading up the first disk it would give me a blank screen and stop dead in its tracks, going no further. The solution, copy SESMGR.DLL from your x:\OS2\DLL onto your BOOTOS2 disk 1 (A:\OS2\DLL). This also happened under FP39, BTW. If you do run into any other kind of problem with the BOOTOS2 floppies, press ALT-F2 upon booting up the diskettes just to see what happens. On this occasion for example, upon pressing ALT-F2, the screen said that SESMGR.DLL was not installed in any of the LIBPATH directory statements on the diskette. Warp 4 seems to have absolutely no issues whatsoever, either a TYPE=PM or 2DISK=A under any of the FP's I have used (FP1, FP6, & FP10). --- WtrGate+ v0.93.p7 sn 165 * Origin: Usenet: St. John's InfoNET (1:109/42) +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ From: piquant00@uswestmail.net 11-Nov-99 13:22:03 To: All 11-Nov-99 14:39:02 Subj: Re: OS/2 Backup Question From: piquant00@uswestmail.net (Annie K.) On Wed, 10 Nov 1999 16:40:13, "David Lee" wrote: :Is there an OS/2 backup utility that creates filenames in this format? I :know MS-DOS did, but DOS 5 and DOS 6 will not recognize them as valid backup :files (the files are dated October 1995). Try running OS/2's restore.exe on them. -- Klaatu barada nikto --- WtrGate+ v0.93.p7 sn 165 * Origin: Usenet: Team OS/2 (1:109/42) +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ From: rainer.doering@icn.siemens.de 11-Nov-99 20:59:14 To: All 11-Nov-99 19:59:17 Subj: Re: OS/2 Backup Question From: rainer.doering@icn.siemens.de (Rainer Doering) On Thu, 11 Nov 1999 00:11:52 GMT, "David Lee" wrote: >Thanks. > >Do you know if later versions of OS/2 Restore will work with files backed up >with earlier versions of Backup? I know MS DOS changed the file formats with >every version of DOS, so you have to have the exact version of the utilities >to restore any files. > > >David > RESTORE of Warp3&4 restores backups from BACKUP of MS-DOS 5.0 --- WtrGate+ v0.93.p7 sn 165 * Origin: Usenet: Siemens AG,(Hofmannstr) Munich-Germany-Europe. (1:109/42) +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ From: bvermo@powertech.no 11-Nov-99 22:27:19 To: All 11-Nov-99 19:59:17 Subj: Re: OS/2 Backup Question From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Bj=F8rn?= Vermo David Lee wrote: > Thanks. > > Do you know if later versions of OS/2 Restore will work with files backed up > with earlier versions of Backup? I know MS DOS changed the file formats with > every version of DOS, so you have to have the exact version of the utilities > to restore any files. > I just had to restore a couple of old files, and WSeB did not have any problems with a backup made under OS/2 1.2. --- WtrGate+ v0.93.p7 sn 165 * Origin: Usenet: Norbionics (1:109/42) +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ From: marky_marky@bellatlantic.net 11-Nov-99 22:42:17 To: All 11-Nov-99 21:27:04 Subj: Re: Backup & Defragmentation 3.5 From: marky_marky@bellatlantic.net (Marky) On 11 Nov 1999 11:57:31 GMT, jdc0014@InfoNET.st-johns.nf.ca (John Hong) wrote: > > Backup & Defragmentation 3.5 > snip! > I'm sure some will ask, "But John, what about PowerQuest's >Drive Image or Norton's Ghost?" Well, there really is no problem >with those programs. They do as advertised, they backup the hard >drive into an image. That image can be restored onto a single >machine (or if you have the Drive Image Pro) onto a network of >multiple machines. Unfortunately, the problem with disk imaging >programs like those is that they do absolutely nothing about the >fragmentation of the file system. Keep in mind, programs like >Drive Image and Ghost simply make a *mirror* image of the hard >drive's partitions. This means that not only does it copy the >data, but also the holes that whatever file system left behind >after days, months, years, etc. of disk thrashing. In a nut shell, >Drive Image and Ghost not only copy the hard drive data, but also >the fragmentation of the file system. This is where this little >primer really comes into play. Of course, the advantage with >something like Drive Image Pro is the ability to restore onto a >multitude of networked computers. Something that would be a pretty >big pain in the butt by this method. While I agree with you that Drive Image saves an image _with_ the fragmentation, Ghost does not work that way. From personal experience, (FAT only) I can tell you that Ghost does file by file copying to and from saved images. It is also saving additional info besides just the files so it can restore the paritioning and boot sector info (for the drive and each partition). The file by file copying means that on restores, all the files and the free space are defragmented. I haven't experienced directory fragmentation, but it may be possible with directories that require more than one cluster: I just don't know. Unfortunately, at least as of 5.1c, you are correct that you can't use Ghost for backup and restore. The 5.1c version, saving on a file by file basis, does not understand the additional info in the directory entry that links an OS/2 file to EA DATA. SF (at least on FAT partitions: I never tried it on HPFS). The result being, on a restore, the EA info is totally corrupted. This is supposedly fixed in 5.1d, which I have, but I haven't tried it on a partition with EAs yet. Or, you could use EABACKUP and EARESTOR, as you suggest for other tools that don't understand EAs. Marky --- WtrGate+ v0.93.p7 sn 165 * Origin: Usenet: Posted via Supernews, http://www.supernews.com (1:109/42) +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ From: david.lee*nospam*@pronexus.com 12-Nov-99 14:37:07 To: All 12-Nov-99 14:25:26 Subj: Re: OS/2 Backup Question From: "David Lee" Thanks all. OS/2 Restore did the trick. Annie K. wrote in message news:WiQtt4WDEbXf-pn2-TkdZX2Yv1MdJ@vcn42.pm3-1.chey.wy.vcn.com... > On Wed, 10 Nov 1999 16:40:13, "David Lee" > wrote: > > :Is there an OS/2 backup utility that creates filenames in this format? I > :know MS-DOS did, but DOS 5 and DOS 6 will not recognize them as valid backup > :files (the files are dated October 1995). > > Try running OS/2's restore.exe on them. > > -- > Klaatu barada nikto --- WtrGate+ v0.93.p7 sn 165 * Origin: Usenet: Magma Communications Ltd. (1:109/42) +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ From: david.lee*nospam*@pronexus.com 12-Nov-99 14:40:21 To: All 12-Nov-99 14:25:26 Subj: Re: DualStor Restore (help?) From: "David Lee" Well, I have now tried DualStor version 1.06 and 3.0 for Windows, and DualStor 1.06 for OS/2, and all give me the same result with the tapes I need to restore. After spinning the tape back and forth a few times, it comes back and tells me "Tape Not Formatted". I know the drive works, because, I was able to read an older QIC-80 tape, and restore files from it (originally backed up with Colorado for Windows). Should DualStor automatically recognize a tape that was written with it's own proprietary format? Would DualStor 1.06 recognize a backup created with version 3? Thanks, David Paul Saletan wrote in message news:382e3d86.218588032@news.earthlink.net... > DualStor has the option to write tapes using either its own > proprietary format or the QIC-80 file system. QIC-80 can be restored > from practically any WIN/DOS tape program. In that case, installing > OS/2 and Dualstor just to copy off the data would be unnecessary. I > would check this out before going to all that work. > > > "Spencer Lee" wrote: > > >Hello all OS/2 gurus, > > > >Got a bit of a problem I'm hoping someone here can offer advice for. > > > >I have a customer sending me a back up of a bunch of files on QIC-80 tapes > >from a PS/2 machine running OS/2, and backed up with DualStor. > > > >I need to get these files into a Windows machine. > > > >I am getting a copy of OS/2, and I have a Colorado Jumbo 250 tape drive, > >which I understand DualStor supports, so I could (if I had a copy of > >DualStor) set up an OS/2 computer on my network, restore the files, and copy > >them over to a Windows box (I think). > > > >Questions: > > > >Is there a Windows version of DualStor which will restore the files from the > >OS/2 DualStor backup? (from what I've gathered, the files that DualStor > >creates on the tape are 'EA' files - not sure if the Windows version uses > >the same format). > > > >What do I have to do, and where can I get a copy of the DualStor software > >that I need? > > > > > >Thanks muchly, > > > >Sleeman > > > > > // Paul Saletan ** Please remove NOJUNKMAIL from address when replying > --- WtrGate+ v0.93.p7 sn 165 * Origin: Usenet: Magma Communications Ltd. (1:109/42) +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ From: jpolt@bradnet.legend.co.uk 12-Nov-99 23:47:27 To: All 12-Nov-99 21:25:08 Subj: Re: Theta Band Software announces the distribution of MMPack through From: jpolt@bradnet.legend.co.uk (John Poltorak) In <3826283D.3AF2C018@pec.co.nz>, Aaron Lawrence writes: >Julien Pierre wrote: > >> Theta Band Software's Multimedia Pack for OS/2 is now available for >> ordering >> through Mensys at http://www.mensys.nl . > >I had a look at this, and it's cool, but the things in it aren't really >compelling to me. There are more pressing problems with MMOS/2 such as the >lack of much PCI soundcard support. IMHO. I'm looking for an excuse to buy this, but don't really see what it gives me... Now if it was guaranteed to set up sound on my diskless IBM Network Station I would probably give it a try. -- John --- WtrGate+ v0.93.p7 sn 165 * Origin: Usenet: Legend Internet Ltd (1:109/42) +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ From: bvermo@powertech.no 13-Nov-99 01:06:28 To: All 12-Nov-99 21:25:09 Subj: Re: Sound Cards and OS/2 From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Bj=F8rn?= Vermo Jerry Prather wrote: > ... On the AOpen site there is (supposedly) a driver > for OS/2. I downloaded it, and called AOpen tech support to > confirm that it was in fact an auto-unpack file (I don't like > clicking on .exe files without knowing what's going to happen). > But when I double click on the file, I get a very Win 3.1 looking > error box that says "Unexpected DOS error 23". Try UNZIP -v on the file to see if it is in a normal zip format. Usually, OS/2 unzip will work fine with Windows self-extracting files. --- WtrGate+ v0.93.p7 sn 165 * Origin: Usenet: Norbionics (1:109/42) +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +============================================================================+