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- Summary: This posting contains a list of common questions (and answers)
- about the IBM OS/2 Warp operating system. It should be read by
- everyone interested in OS/2 Warp, from the newly curious to the
- long-time power user.
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- OS/2 Warp Frequently Asked Questions List
- User's Edition (U.S. English)
- Release 3
- February 20, 1995
- Compiled by Timothy F. Sipples
-
- Copyright (c) 1995 by Timothy F. Sipples
- All Rights Reserved.
-
-
- For changes, suggestions, or additions please mail tsipple@vnet.ibm.com or
- write:
-
- Timothy F. Sipples
- IBM Personal Software
- One IBM Plaza (07/SS4)
- Chicago, IL 60611
- U.S.A.
- FAX (312) 245-7624
-
- I cannot acknowledge your contribution(s) individually, but they are greatly
- appreciated.
-
-
- Mention of a product does not constitute an endorsement. Customers outside
- the United States should not necessarily rely on 800 telephone numbers, page
- numbers, part numbers, or upgrade policies contained in this List. Electronic
- mail addresses are in Internet form; use addressing appropriate to your mail
- system. Certain product names, including OS/2, OS/2 Warp, and Windows, are
- trademarks and registered trademarks of their respective holders.
-
- This List is freely distributable for noncommercial purposes. (For commercial
- purposes, please contact the author.) If you redistribute the List, please
- include all the original files. The views expressed in this document are not
- necessarily those of IBM Corp.
-
- This List is updated regularly and is distributed through various computer
- networks and online services, including the Internet, CompuServe, GEnie, and
- many BBSes.
-
- Both ASCII text and OS/2 Warp Information Presentation Facility (INF) versions
- of the List are provided. To view the INF version of the List, go to any OS/2
- Warp command line prompt (e.g. double click on "OS/2 Window") and type:
-
- VIEW WARPFAQ.INF
-
- The ASCII text version may be viewed using any text editor, word processor, or
- file listing utility. The text version is intended to answer any questions
- you may have before actually obtaining and using OS/2 Warp. You will find
- that the INF version provides a much more attractive List, with hypertext
- links, fast indexing, and, increasingly, illustrations.
-
- If you have not received all three files (WARPFAQ.ICO, WARPFAQ.INF, and
- WARPFAQ.TXT), please ask your system operator to make sure he/she is receiving
- the correct and complete package.
-
-
- Related information:
-
- (0.1) Release Notes
-
-
- (0.1) Release Notes
-
- {{ Text which has been revised or updated since the last release will
- ordinarily appear in the same color as this sentence and will be enclosed in
- double braces. }} However, due to the magnitude of the changes required for
- this release of the List, revision marking is not included.
-
- BBS operators and archive maintainers: please retain Versions 2.1E, 2.0L, and
- 1.9G of this List, the last versions to deal specifically with OS/2 Versions
- 2.1x, 2.0x, and 1.3x, respectively.
-
-
- Related information:
-
- (0.0) Introduction and Credits
- (0.2) Recent Developments
- (0.3) Questions in this Release
- (0.4) Special Report on OS/2 Warp
-
-
- (0.2) Recent Developments
-
- OS/2 Warp Version 3 is here! Please see (0.4) Special Report on OS/2 Warp for
- the latest on this exciting new release.
-
- To coincide with the release of OS/2 Warp Version 3, over 40 software
- developers have announced new software products. Here is a sampling:
-
- Product Description
-
- Stacker Version 4 for OS/2 On-the-fly disk
- compression
- Artisoft LANtastic for OS/2 Peer-to-peer networking
- DeScribe Version 5 for OS/2 Word processing/
- publishing
- Athena Mesa for OS/2 Object-oriented
- spreadsheet
- AIM/SDS Galactic Civilizations for OS/2 Action-strategy game
- Hockware VisPro C/C++ for OS/2 Rapid building of
- compiled C/C++
- applications
- IBM Antivirus for OS/2 DOS/Windows virus
- detection and
- elimination
- IBM OS/2 LAN Server 4 State-of-the-art network
- operating system
- Wolfram Mathematica for OS/2 Equation solving,
- mathematical computation
- Borland C++ Version 2 for OS/2 C/C++ compiler, including
- OWL
- Lotus Smartsuite ValuePak Enhancements to
- application suite
- Dux SimCity for OS/2 Urban planning game
-
-
- Other vendors expect to ship major new OS/2 Warp applications later this year,
- including Corel Office (including Corel Draw 6) from Corel Systems,
- Macromedia's Director (for multimedia presentations), games such as Doom and
- SimCity 2000, and even the first home "edutainment" CD-ROM title from CBS and
- IBM.
-
- Independent estimates now put the OS/2 installed base at over eight million
- users. At the time of this writing, OS/2 Warp ranks as the top selling PC
- software in the marketplace.
-
- The IBM Independent Vendor League offices have moved. For general information
- on the IVL, contact Lucy Darbisi at 203-452-7704 or by FAX at 203-268-1075.
- For product accreditation and support please call Gail Ostrow at 203-384-9996
- or FAX 203-368-6379. The Independent Vendor League supports OS/2 Warp
- consultants, book authors, trainers, and other professionals.
-
-
- Related information:
-
- (0.3) Questions in this Release
- (0.4) Special Report on OS/2 Warp
- (3.15) Dealers Specializing in OS/2 Warp
-
-
- (0.3) Questions in this Release
-
- The following questions are addressed in this release:
-
-
- (0.4) Special Report on OS/2 Warp
-
-
- (1.0) Fundamentals
-
- (1.1) What is OS/2 Warp?
-
- (1.2) What are the differences between versions?
-
- (1.3) How good is OS/2 Warp's DOS and Windows compatibility?
-
- (1.4) Where can I buy OS/2 Warp, and how much does it cost?
-
- (1.5) Why should I use HPFS? What does it offer me? Does it work
- with DOS?
-
- (1.6) Why should I choose OS/2 Warp over its competitors?
-
-
- (2.0) Hardware
-
- (2.1) What hardware do I need to run IBM OS/2 Warp? Do I need a PS/2?
-
- (2.2) Will OS/2 Warp work with my SuperVGA adapter?
-
- (2.3) Will OS/2 Warp work with my printer?
-
- (2.4) Can I use COM3 and COM4 in OS/2 Warp?
-
- (2.5) Are there any specific hardware recommendations?
-
- (2.6) Can I use more than 16 MB of RAM?
-
- (2.7) What device drivers are available that aren't included with
- OS/2 Warp?
-
-
- (3.0) Software
-
- (3.1) What applications are available for OS/2 Warp?
-
- (3.2) Where can I obtain OS/2 Warp shareware and freeware?
-
- (3.3) What are the "must have" shareware and freeware titles?
-
- (3.4) Is there a Norton Utilities for OS/2 Warp?
-
- (3.5) I would like to set up an OS/2 Warp BBS. What is available?
-
- (3.6) What do I need for OS/2 Warp multimedia applications?
-
- (3.7) Should I worry about viruses when running OS/2 Warp?
-
- (3.8) What networking products are available for OS/2 Warp?
-
- (3.9) How do I connect an OS/2 Warp machine into a peer-to-peer
- network?
-
- (3.10) What is Extended Services?
-
- (3.11) How do I connect my OS/2 Warp PC to the Internet?
-
- (3.12) What backup software is available?
-
- (3.13) What multiuser extensions and security options are available?
-
- (3.14) What on-the-fly disk compression software is available?
-
- (3.15) Are there any dealers that specialize in OS/2 Warp products?
-
- (3.16) How can I use my scanner with OS/2 Warp?
-
-
- (4.0) Installation, Maintenance, and Support
-
- (4.1) I am having trouble installing OS/2 Warp. What should I do?
-
- (4.2) I can't install OS/2 Warp from Drive B. What's wrong?
-
- (4.3) What is the best way to partition my hard disk for OS/2 Warp?
-
- (4.4) How do I access HPFS partitions on my hard drive without
- booting from the hard drive? I'm getting error messages now
- -- how do I "repair" my hard disk?
-
- (4.5) How can I get answers to my OS/2 Warp questions?
-
- (4.6) What are CSDs, how do I tell which I have, and where do I get
- them?
-
- (4.7) Which online services support OS/2 Warp, and how do I join?
-
- (4.8) Are there any OS/2 Warp user groups?
-
- (4.9) What OS/2 Warp books and magazines are available?
-
- (4.10) How do I report an OS/2 Warp problem to IBM?
-
- (4.11) What OS/2 Warp BBSes can I dial?
-
- (4.12) IBM has so many telephone numbers. Which one do I use?
-
-
- (5.0) Using OS/2 Warp
-
- (5.1) I'm a Unix wizard. How do I make OS/2 Warp resemble Unix?
-
- (5.2) I prefer Windows. How do I make OS/2 Warp resemble Windows
- (or OS/2 1.3)?
-
- (5.3) Sometimes OS/2 Warp will freeze when I run an application. What
- do I do?
-
- (5.4) How do I start a background process from the OS/2 Warp command
- line?
-
- (5.5) How do I add new Adobe Type Manager typefaces?
-
- (5.6) How do I tweak OS/2 Warp for maximum performance?
-
- (5.7) How do I measure OS/2 Warp performance and memory usage?
-
- (5.8) My background bitmap does not display correctly. What's wrong?
-
- (5.9) How do I boot a real version of DOS from within OS/2 Warp?
-
- (5.10) Are there any clever tricks that apply to OS/2 Warp?
-
- (5.11) How do I use REXX? What does it do?
-
- (5.12) What ANSI escape sequences can be used?
-
-
- (6.0) Miscellaneous
-
- (6.1) What can I do to promote OS/2 Warp?
-
- (6.2) How can I create INF files?
-
- (6.3) What is IBM?
-
- (6.4) What is the MIDI file IBMRALLY that I get with OS/2 Warp's
- multimedia?
-
-
- (7.0) Glossary of Terms
-
-
- (0.4) Special Report on OS/2 Warp
-
- "It's time..." -- Leonard Nimoy
-
- On October 11, 1994, IBM announced its boldest entry into the burgeoning home
- and small office software market, OS/2 Warp Version 3. Widespread on-the-shelf
- availability of OS/2 Warp occurred on November 4th in the United States.
-
- OS/2 Warp is the latest in a line of releases which have achieved broad
- acceptance in corporations around the world (and in many other segments of the
- software market). Over eight million people use OS/2 today, and that number
- just keeps growing. However, previous releases were criticized for being
- difficult to install, short on the list of included device drivers, consuming
- too much memory, an "industrial" appearance rather than a flashy one, and
- having bundled applications which were not appealing. In short, it was
- criticized for not appealing strongly enough to home and small business users,
- many of whom are struggling with an aging 16-bit Windows environment and who
- are craving for something better.
-
- Nonetheless, OS/2 has always been praised for its reliability, superior
- compatibility with existing DOS and Windows applications, true preemptive
- multitasking systemwide, and a state-of-the-art 32-bit programming environment
- for friendlier and more powerful applications. Features which have made it
- the most popular 32-bit software in the world and which have earned it over 50
- major awards, including PC Magazine's Editor's Choice and Infoworld's Product
- of the Year.
-
- IBM has, quite simply, "consumerized" OS/2 in creating OS/2 Warp. OS/2 Warp
- is the fastest, friendliest, and most powerful version of OS/2 yet. And, in
- concentrating on improving OS/2 in areas which matter most to home and small
- business users, IBM has ended up making OS/2 better for everyone, especially
- for current Windows users.
-
- Here is but a sampling of the features and improvements you'll find in OS/2
- Warp:
-
- o Lower memory requirements. OS/2 Warp really runs on a PC with as little as
- 4 MB of memory, and it races on a system with 8 MB. But no matter how much
- memory your PC has, OS/2 Warp now gives more memory to applications. That
- means speed, and that means you finish your work faster. And, naturally,
- since this is OS/2, memory management woes are a thing of the distant past.
- Get over 600K of free base memory in your DOS sessions, even after all your
- drivers are loaded. (Get over 700K free if your DOS application requires no
- more than CGA graphics!)
-
- o Enhanced Workplace Shell. OS/2's Workplace Shell has been praised for its
- ease-of-use for quite some time, but there are still major improvements to it
- in OS/2 Warp. A new LaunchPad lets you drag and drop the programs, folders,
- and other objects you use most frequently to a quick-access button bar. The
- LaunchPad is fully customizable, and it's always ready when you need it. The
- Workplace Shell now has palette awareness (so background bitmaps always look
- their best), "Comet Cursor" so you won't lose track of your mouse pointer,
- customizable mouse pointers, Pickup and Drop menus (so you won't have to open,
- shift, and resize windows before you drag and drop), automatic closing of
- parent folders (if desired) and an Open Parent menu option, animated icons (so
- that folders actually pop open when you double click), backup and recovery of
- your desktop (so you never lose your setup), an Undo Arrange option (if you
- accidently rearrange your desktop when you didn't mean to), opaque background
- icon text (so they really stand out against a complex background bitmap), drag
- and drop setting of background bitmaps, and much more. And the default color
- scheme? Dull, boring gray is gone, replaced with a soothing teal background
- and much more colorful icons. Plus it's easier than ever to find objects,
- thanks to the much simplified Find window (just a single click away from the
- LaunchPad).
-
- o Performance improvements. With the addition of new 32-bit code, the
- Workplace Shell is now much speedier. Folders pop open and close in record
- time. Shutdown races for the finish. Printing benefits from a new 32-bit
- engine, so more complex images are processed more swiftly. And printing no
- longer requires that you dedicate a precious interrupt (IRQ 7) to the task,
- very convenient for AT bus systems. OS/2 Warp can handle the hard disk much
- faster, particularly when formatting and checking (CHKDSK) the disk,
- particularly with the High Performance File System (HPFS). OS/2 Warp starts
- up faster (and with many fewer, if any, distracting device driver messages).
- Most importantly, perhaps, the "industrial" OS/2 logo you saw in previous
- releases has been replaced with a sleek new OS/2 Warp logo (which you can even
- use as a background bitmap).
-
- o Installation. Installation has been a sore point for many first-time OS/2
- users. The problem wasn't so much that their hardware devices weren't
- supported, it was that available device drivers were not included with OS/2.
- OS/2 Warp changes that, with generous built-in support for both older and
- newer video cards, CD-ROM drives (even non-SCSI models, including IDE drives),
- sound cards, TV tuner cards, video capture cards, mice, printers, PCMCIA, and
- SCSI cards. You won't have to go fishing for OS/2 device drivers nearly as
- often (if at all). Plus there's now a one-button "Easy Install" option. OS/2
- Warp will automatically interrogate your PC to find out what hardware is
- installed then put in the correct device drivers. Without asking dozens of
- questions. Multimedia support is now part of the main installation -- no
- tacked-on procedure. Selective Uninstall lets you deselect and remove those
- features you thought you might want but really didn't need -- no more poking
- around your \OS2 directory, hoping you delete the right files.
-
- o BonusPak. Gone are most of the "applets" found in previous releases of OS/2
- (although you may use them from your prior release of OS/2). Instead, IBM has
- spent a considerable amount of time collecting true 32-bit OS/2 applications
- which are both useful and which demonstrate the power of OS/2 Warp. About a
- dozen applications are included in the BonusPak, accompanied by a friendly
- installation program (which, if you have a sound card, will even play music).
- The BonusPak applications include:
-
- - System Information Tool. Do you remember how large your hard disk is? How
- many colors your video card is displaying with OS/2 Warp? How sensitive your
- mouse is? How much memory you have installed? Visit the System Information
- Tool to find out the answers to these questions and more. Part of the
- high-end IBM Netfinity for OS/2 hardware management product, it's now yours
- free of charge in OS/2 Warp. There's even a feature to list all the device
- drivers in your OS/2 Warp system, along with version dates.
-
- - Internet Connection. Certainly the highlight of the entire BonusPak, this
- set of applications (including Gopher, Ultimedia Mail, Telnet, ftp, and so on)
- gets you connected to the entire Internet using a dial-up SLIP connection.
- Registration on the IBM Global Network is a simple button click, and you don't
- have to memorize arcane commands or learn about IP addresses. You can also
- use your own Internet provider if you do not wish to use IBM's. However, you
- get three free hours of connect time on the IBM Global Network with every copy
- of OS/2 Warp. Send and receive Internet mail (even mail with sound and video
- attachments), explore the World Wide Web with the IBM Web Explorer, browse
- weather maps and online library catalogs with Gopher, and even chat with other
- OS/2 Warp and Internet users in the Internet's newsgroups. And, only with
- OS/2 Warp, you don't have to wait while you are downloading a file or complex
- Web document -- go do something else. OS/2 Warp delivers real multitasking,
- so you never have to wait.
-
- - Person to Person. For desktop videoconferencing and collaboration on
- projects, or for a new way of communicating that's just plain fun, IBM's
- Person to Person is included with the BonusPak. Person to Person gives you a
- Chalkboard which lets you share bitmaps (including copies of spreadsheets,
- documents, and other windows on your desktop) with other Person to Person
- users across a network, by modem, or even over the Internet Connection. What
- you draw or put in your Chalkboard is immediately sent to all the other people
- in your Person to Person "conference call." You can also share the contents
- of your Clipboard and carry on a live conversation by keyboard. With
- appropriate hardware, you can also transmit live video. Save plane fare and
- work on projects with your friends and colleagues without actually being in
- the same room.
-
- - Compuserve Information Manager. Access Compuserve in grand style. There's
- even an icon for the OS/2 forums, so you can get speedy answers to your OS/2
- Warp questions.
-
- - HyperAccess. Dial up BBSes, Dow Jones, MCI Mail, BIX, GEnie, and many other
- online services with this richly featured communications software. It even
- includes dialing directories and ZModem. And, remember, downloading or
- uploading a file under OS/2 Warp doesn't mean you have to wait to do something
- else.
-
- - Faxworks. Send and receive faxes of unlimited length using the most popular
- fax software for OS/2, Faxworks. You can even send faxes from DOS and Windows
- applications. Simply print to a printer port (LPT3 by default) as if it were
- an IBM Proprinter X24E. Faxworks will automatically log all traffic so that
- you can review it at any time. It supports drag and drop faxing, and it is
- even integrated with the phone book in IBM Works.
-
- - IBM Works. Real word processing (with spell checking), database, charting,
- spreadsheet, address book, phone book, calendar, and other applications for
- getting essential work done, right out of the box, with OS/2 Warp. All these
- applications are tightly integrated, thanks to OS/2 Warp's System Object
- Model. Drag a spreadsheet into your word processing document and it's linked.
- No arcane menu options or contortions required. The IBM Works Event Monitor
- will even notify you when you have an appointment you need to keep and, thanks
- to OS/2 Warp's real multitasking, you won't miss that notification just
- because your computer is doing something else.
-
- - Multimedia Viewer. An application which gives your computer the ability to
- deal with "foreign" multimedia files, everything from Kodak Photo CD images to
- Sun .AU audio files from the Internet. There's even a Light Table (a new
- folder type which you can use anywhere in the Workplace Shell) which gives
- thumbnails of all your bitmaps and images to let you catalog and categorize
- your collection. If you are a photographer, or use desktop publishing, think
- of all the time you'll save.
-
- - Video IN. Formerly a $199 product by itself, IBM Ultimedia Video IN is
- included free of charge in the BonusPak. Winner of Byte Magazine's Best of
- Comdex award, Video IN lets you record software motion video files (AVI files)
- in either Ultimotion or Indeo formats. You can record in real time or from
- still images (images which come either from sets of bitmaps or from a computer
- controlled laserdisc player). Many popular video capture cards are supported
- for recording from external video sources. However, you don't need a video
- capture card to use Video IN. You can construct an animated weather sequence
- (like the ones you see on television) from weather images you download from
- the Internet, for example.
-
- o DOS and Windows capabilities. With the new Windows FastLoad option, you can
- preload all of the Windows environment under OS/2 Warp when you boot, so that
- Windows applications that you start from the Workplace Shell pop up in no time
- flat. And OS/2 Warp supports those very few applications which require Win32s
- (such as MathCAD). For DOS and Windows programs, OS/2 adds better virtual DMA
- handling, which means applications such as games will run smoother and faster.
- And creating a program object for a DOS or Windows application will
- automatically pull in the correct settings from OS/2's database -- it's no
- longer a separate procedure. IBM even includes settings for over 250 of the
- most popular DOS, Windows, and OS/2 games.
-
- o System recovery options. What did you do if OS/2 couldn't boot? You may
- have had to reinstall in the past. No longer. Now OS/2 Warp comes with
- several great features to let you figure out what went wrong (and, more
- importantly, to prevent something from going wrong in the first place). A
- small OS/2 character mode text editor is now included on your OS/2 Warp boot
- diskettes, so you can change critical files without the Workplace Shell, if
- need be. You can now make a set of utility diskettes (for emergencies) using
- a program in the System Setup folder. A Maintenance Desktop is provided
- alongside your regular desktop (and you can even use it while OS/2 Warp itself
- is installing). When you boot OS/2, you will now see a white box in the upper
- left hand corner followed by "OS/2." Hit ALT-F1, and a menu pops up with
- several options (such as immediately dropping to a command line, using
- archived desktops, etc). You can even choose to have this menu display at
- every bootup, with or without a timeout. Hit ALT-F2, and you see a list of
- every device driver load, as it loads, so if your system is stalling you can
- determine the exact problem. There are queue enhancements to prevent lockups.
- Hit CTRL-ESC if an application grabs control of the input queue, and you are
- back in charge much quicker. Plus you can now (optionally) enable type ahead,
- so that you can start typing before an application loads.
-
- o Multimedia enhancements. Beyond the features in the BonusPak (Video IN and
- the Multimedia Viewer), the base OS/2 multimedia features have been enhanced
- and improved. Support is built-in for compressed audio formats (including
- ADPCM) so that you can record and play back WAV files which take up far less
- disk space. MPEG video is supported with the Reel Magic card. You can
- display live video signals in a window on your OS/2 desktop with such cards as
- the Win/TV. Performance is much improved, and the amount of memory required
- for multimedia is lower. New system sounds and sound effects are provided.
- Additional multimedia files (including Kodak Photo CD images) are included on
- the CD-ROM version of OS/2 Warp. The DIVE (Direct Interface Video Extensions)
- API has been enhanced, to better support fast action games and animation under
- OS/2.
-
- o Miscellaneous. There are literally thousands of other improvements in OS/2
- Warp. For example, the credits screen is now back. If you have installed the
- optional bitmaps, you can now find out who created OS/2 Warp by clicking once
- on the desktop background and pressing CTRL-ALT-SHIFT-O (i.e. hold down CTRL,
- ALT, and SHIFT, and tap the letter O key). Color palettes have been separated
- into Mixed Colors and Solid Colors, so you can pick colors that will look good
- even on a 16 color VGA system. Scheme palettes are larger and have more
- exciting selections. The Information folder contains quite a bit more
- detailed information and many more documents (while the plain text README file
- has rightly shrunk) on topics such as performance considerations and Windows
- programs in OS/2. The Tutorial is both artistic and useful, with a button for
- Windows users to learn equivalent functions, a Practice button (to let you
- practice new steps), and a Do It button (to let the Tutorial actually perform
- a task, such as opening the Games folder). The OS/2 Mahjongg game is included
- in the base installation. DOS programs such as the DOS Editor and MSD, and
- the Win-OS/2 Program Manager, are automatically placed as program objects in
- the appropriate folders. Adobe Type Manager can now be turned off for Windows
- programs (the default). A SESSION_PRIORITY setting allows for boosting the
- responsiveness of individual DOS or Windows programs. OS/2 Warp will install
- over (and use, for running Windows applications) Windows 3.1 and 3.11, and
- Windows for Workgroups 3.1 and 3.11.
-
- The best news is that, aside from the much maligned applets in OS/2 2.x,
- nothing was taken away from OS/2 Warp. The most popular 32-bit operating
- system for the PC was simply made better for everyone.
-
-
- What versions of OS/2 Warp are available?
-
- OS/2 Warp will be available across the entire range of OS/2 products. OS/2
- Warp Version 3 is the first. This product is an upgrade for DOS, Windows, and
- OS/2 for Windows users. It uses an existing copy of Windows or Windows for
- Workgroups on your PC's hard disk to provide compatibility with Windows
- applications. (If a copy of Windows is not available, OS/2 Warp Version 3
- will still support DOS and OS/2 applications.)
-
- Next, OS/2 Warp Version 3 with Win-OS/2, now available, is designed as an
- upgrade for "full pack" OS/2 users or for new PCs without DOS/Windows. It is
- identical to OS/2 Warp Version 3 except that it contains Windows code (to run
- Windows applications).
-
- Other versions of OS/2 Warp (for SMP and networking) are also planned. If you
- purchase OS/2 Warp now, a discounted upgrade to the so-called network version
- of OS/2 Warp will be available. (The upgrade consists of a larger BonusPak;
- the base OS/2 Warp software does not fundamentally change.)
-
-
- Can I upgrade from "full pack" OS/2 2.x to OS/2 Warp Version 3?
-
- The short answer is no, that OS/2 Warp Version 3 with Win-OS/2 is a more
- convenient upgrade. However, if you are willing to reformat, you can purchase
- and install OS/2 Warp Version 3 to run DOS and OS/2 applications. If you
- install Windows before installing OS/2 Warp Version 3, you can also run
- Windows applications. IBM does not recommend such an upgrade without
- reformatting. Or, at the very least, you should completely remove all traces
- of OS/2 (with Win-OS/2) from a diskette boot. That means you should remove
- the following directories:
-
- \Desktop
- \Nowhere
- \Delete
- \OS2
- \MMOS2
- \PSFonts
- \Spool
-
- and the following files:
-
- AUTOEXEC.BAT
- CONFIG.SYS
- OS2BOOT
- OS2KRNL
- OS2LDR
- OS2LDR.MSG
- OS2VER
- README
- WP ROOT. SF
-
-
- Since I have to install Windows from DOS, how can I create an OS/2 Warp
- Version 3 system with 100% HPFS?
-
- If you wish to run with no DOS (FAT) file systems (all HPFS), it is more
- convenient to use OS/2 Warp Version 3 with Win-OS/2, now available. However,
- it can still be accomplished with OS/2 Warp Version 3 (without Win-OS/2) by
- following these steps:
-
- 1. Create an empty FAT drive on any PC;
-
- 2. Boot DOS from diskette and escape to the command line;
-
- 3. Insert Windows Diskette 1 in Drive A and enter SETUP;
-
- 4. Install Windows (Custom install preferable);
-
- 5. Using a utility such as PKZIP, create a set of diskettes which contains
- the entire contents of the \WINDOWS directory just created;
-
- 6. Install OS/2 Warp Version 3, reformatting everything to HPFS in the
- process;
-
- 7. From a DOS command line, restore the contents of the \WINDOWS directory
- to the same drive (Drive C, for example) where it was originally
- installed and set these backup diskettes aside for future use
- (label them "Win-OS/2");
-
- 8. Run OS/2 Warp's Selective Install, pass by the first panel, and make
- sure that the checkbox next to Win-OS/2 is checked, then click on
- the Install button;
-
- 9. Insert original Windows diskettes when prompted;
-
- 10. Shutdown and reboot.
-
- Alternatively, you can use a free utility called WSETUP, available from (3.2)
- Shareware and Freeware Sources, to install Windows 3.1 from within OS/2 Warp.
- Or you can use a new product, Partition Magic from PowerQuest, which can
- convert a DOS FAT hard disk into HPFS, on-the-fly, retaining all existing
- files in the process.
-
-
- Does OS/2 Warp support Windows VxDs?
-
- No. OS/2 Warp Version 3 does not support VxDs (or, more precisely, VxDs which
- compromise system integrity are not supported). Microsoft is actively
- discouraging use of VxDs (because applications which use them cannot run under
- NT and may not run under Windows95), and IBM recommends that you not invest in
- software which requires them. Most software vendors will probably be
- releasing updates of their products which do not use VxDs (or native OS/2 Warp
- versions of their applications).
-
- Fortunately, the number of applications which require VxDs is very small, and,
- of those applications, most are related to networking (for which there are
- most often superior native OS/2 alternatives).
-
-
- Will OS/2 Warp Version 3 get rid of my DOS and Windows when I install it?
-
- Absolutely not. Like a good application would, OS/2 Warp Version 3 leaves
- your native environment untouched, so you can always return to it safely and
- conveniently. DOS/Windows is preserved using DualBoot by default. (Boot
- Manager is also available.) You can even use OS/2 Warp's OSDELETE command
- (from an OS/2 diskette boot) to remove OS/2 Warp should you wish to do so.
- Install OS/2 Warp Version 3 with confidence.
-
-
- Can OS/2 Warp read my drives compressed with Stacker, DoubleSpace, DriveSpace,
- or SuperStor?
-
- Not by itself. It will safely ignore such drives if they exist. If you would
- like to continue using compressed drives, then Stacker Version 4 for OS/2 is
- right for you. Stacker for OS/2 can not only read and write Stacker
- compressed drives, but it can also safely convert DoubleSpace, DriveSpace, and
- SuperStor compressed drives to the more popular Stacker format.
-
-
- How do I get OS/2 Warp Version 3?
-
- Walk into any software dealership and ask for it. It is readily and widely
- available to all software dealers, either directly from IBM or through
- distributors. The best price is available through your dealer, although you
- can order the product from IBM directly.
-
-
- How much does OS/2 Warp Version 3 cost?
-
- With all of OS/2 Warp's features, including the BonusPak, the U.S. single
- unit price is usually under $80 (list price is $129).
-
- Discounted upgrades to OS/2 Warp Version 3 are available for the following
- users (U.S. terms):
-
- o OS/2 for Windows (purchased August 1, 1994, to December 31, 1994): $50 off
- (only with rebate coupon affixed to box).
-
- o All other OS/2 for Windows users: $25 off (only with in-store rebate
- coupon, if available).
-
- OS/2 Warp Version 3 with Win-OS/2 has a list price of $199. A discounted
- upgrade to OS/2 Warp Version 3 with Win-OS/2 is available to all OS/2 2.1x
- "full pack" users and carries a list price of $129. Estimated street price on
- the upgrade is under $80.
-
- Other discounts may apply for additional licenses, VALU agreements, etc.
- Pricing and availability may vary outside the United States, so consult your
- local OS/2 software dealer for details.
-
-
- OS/2 Warp is available on what types of media?
-
- OS/2 Warp Version 3 (and OS/2 Warp Version 3 with Win-OS/2) are available on
- 3.5 inch diskettes and CD-ROM (with 3.5 inch boot diskettes). OS/2 is no
- longer available on 5.25 inch diskettes. See (4.2) Installing OS/2 Warp from
- Drive B.
-
-
- How much does it cost to use the IBM Global Network for the Internet
- Connection?
-
- Rates vary by country, so no one answer will necessarily apply. The latest
- rate information for your country is displayed when you first register with
- the IBM Global Network using OS/2 Warp's Internet Connection. You are asked
- then to agree to the terms. Three hours of free access are provided with
- every copy of OS/2 Warp, and you will not incur any charges until you use more
- than three hours or fail to cancel your account within three months of
- registering.
-
- In the United States, there are two primary rate plans: either $12.95 for 6
- hours per month or $29.95 for 30 hours per month (with per hour charges for
- additional hours). Generally speaking, you will enjoy lower rates for
- accessing the Internet through the IBM Global Network if you do not live in a
- major city (where other Internet providers may be competing) or if you travel
- and need access from two or more locations. The IBM Global Network provides
- worldwide access with local dial-up numbers all over the world. Most other
- Internet providers only provide service within a specific metropolitan area.
- OS/2 Warp provides the capability to connect either with the IBM Global
- Network or an Internet provider of your choice, so you should feel free to
- shop for the most attractive rates for your situation. Most independent
- Internet providers will readily assist you in configuring OS/2 Warp to access
- their services, so do not hesitate to ask.
-
-
- Can I use Warp's Internet Connection with IBM TCP/IP for OS/2?
-
- Yes. This combination is now supported by IBM. Make sure that you install
- the latest Service Pak(s) for IBM TCP/IP for OS/2, however. Also, when the
- OS/2 Warp Internet Dialer is active, all TCP/IP traffic will be routed through
- your dial-up connection (and traffic through your network card will be
- suspended). When you close the Dialer, traffic will resume through your
- network card.
-
-
- I can't wait for the so-called network version of OS/2 Warp. How do I get
- OS/2 Warp to use my network card to access the Internet?
-
- Assuming your network card is connected into the Internet already (perhaps at
- a university), any of the following software packages will allow OS/2 Warp's
- Internet software to work over your network card:
-
- o IBM LAN Server 4 Requester (Client) for OS/2
- o IBM DCE Client Kit for OS/2
- o IBM AnyNet/2
- o IBM TCP/IP Version 2 for OS/2 Base Services Kit with latest Service Pak
-
- The least expensive of these (under $50 typically) is the LAN Server 4
- requester. However, it is not sold separately with diskettes. The diskettes
- for the requester are bundled with IBM LAN Server 4. If you know someone who
- has IBM LAN Server 4, you can legally obtain a copy of the requester from that
- person if you purchase a separate license card for the requester from IBM or
- any IBM software dealer.
-
- The DCE Client is the second least expensive (under $65 typically) method, and
- diskettes are provided (not just the right to copy) when you purchase it.
-
- Please note that when you are using OS/2 Warp's Internet Dialer, all traffic
- will be routed over the dial-up connection and any traffic over the network
- card will be suspended. If you close the Internet Dialer, traffic over your
- network card will resume. Also please be advised that IBM has not completed
- testing on OS/2 Warp's Internet Connection in combination with any product
- which provides TCP/IP for network cards except for IBM TCP/IP Version 2 with
- the latest Service Pak. Nonetheless, many OS/2 Warp users are using these
- suggested combinations of products with great success and little apparent
- difficulty. IBM expects to officially "bless" these suggested combinations in
- the near future.
-
-
- Will all my current software work with OS/2 Warp?
-
- With very few exceptions, yes. IBM has tested OS/2 Warp against huge numbers
- of applications and networking packages, including the Novell Netware Client
- Kit for OS/2, Communications Manager, IBM TCP/IP for OS/2, the LAN Server
- requester, and much more. Any specific application notes are contained in the
- Application Considerations online document, located in the Information folder
- in OS/2 Warp.
-
-
- Related information:
-
- (1.5) High Performance File System (HPFS)
- (3.2) Shareware and Freeware Sources
- (3.8) Networking Products
- (3.11) Internet Connection
- (4.2) Installing OS/2 Warp from Drive B
- (4.4) Starting OS/2 Warp from Diskette
- (4.6) Corrective Service Diskettes
-
-
- (1.0) Fundamentals
-
- The following questions are addressed in this section:
-
- (1.1) What is OS/2 Warp?
-
- (1.2) What are the differences between versions?
-
- (1.3) How good is OS/2 Warp's DOS and Windows compatibility?
-
- (1.4) Where can I buy OS/2 Warp, and how much does it cost?
-
- (1.5) Why should I use HPFS? What does it offer me? Does it work with
- DOS?
-
- (1.6) Why should I choose OS/2 Warp over its competitors?
-
-
- (1.1) What is OS/2 Warp?
-
- What is OS/2 Warp?
-
- OS/2 Warp is an advanced operating system for PCs with an 80386 processor or
- better. It was developed by IBM as the successor to DOS, the operating system
- developed for the original IBM PC.
-
- OS/2 started as a joint project between IBM and Microsoft in the mid 1980s and
- was first released in late 1987 (at that time designed for the IBM PC/AT and
- other 80286-based systems). Microsoft was a public and vocal supporter of
- OS/2 for years, issuing several of its own releases and promoting OS/2
- application development. Bill Gates, for example, stated that, "...OS/2 is
- the platform of the '90s." However, OS/2 versions from 1.3 onward have been
- the responsibility of IBM.
-
- OS/2 Warp was designed from the ground up with preemptive multitasking and
- multithreading in mind. "Preemptive multitasking" means that the operating
- system is responsible for allocating processor time to the one or more
- applications which are running. (Cooperative multitasking, as found in
- Microsoft Windows or the Macintosh's System 7, requires that each application
- surrender the processor after a certain amount of time. If one application
- refuses to yield, all the other applications stop running.) "Multithreading"
- means that programs can start subtasks which will then be executed by the
- operating system in the background. For example, a word processor may create
- a separate thread (subtask) to handle printing or saving to disk. When the
- user asks the word processor to perform one of these tasks, the word processor
- creates a new thread and control returns to the word processor (and the user)
- immediately. The subtask is executed by the operating system in the
- background. The user is then free to ask the word processor to perform
- another task without waiting for the thread to complete. Applications which
- utilitize multithreading can be much more responsive to the user.
-
- OS/2 Warp also protects applications from one another (a single misbehaved
- program will not typically disrupt the entire system), supports all
- addressable physical RAM, and supplies virtual memory to applications as
- requested, breaking DOS's 640K barrier.
-
- An OS/2 Warp demonstration diskette (which will run on any PC with VGA or
- better, and DOS or OS/2) is available from IBM by calling 800-3-IBM-OS2. The
- OS/2 Warp demo diskette may also be downloaded; see (3.2) Shareware and
- Freeware Sources.
-
-
- Related information:
-
- (1.2) Differences Between Versions
- (1.3) DOS and Windows Compatibility
- (1.6) Why Choose OS/2 Warp?
- (3.2) Shareware and Freeware Sources
- (3.10) Extended Services
- (6.3) What is IBM?
-
-
- (1.2) Differences Between Versions
-
- What are the differences between versions?
-
- o IBM OS/2 Warp, Version 3 is the newest and most advanced version of OS/2
- ever created. This release is aimed squarely at the rapidly growing home and
- small business software market. Yet, in addressing the concerns of these
- demanding consumers, it offers significant advantages to the large number of
- traditional IBM and OS/2 users, including those in big businesses and
- government. A few of the enhancements include a BonusPak of full fledged
- applications (including one button access to the Internet), the LaunchPad,
- many more device drivers, and significant performance improvements. Please
- see (0.4) Special Report on OS/2 Warp for more information.
-
- o IBM OS/2 Version 2.1 is the previous release of OS/2, which added Windows
- 3.1 compatibility, multimedia support (including software motion video), and
- more device drivers. With Version 2.1 IBM ended the practice of including
- extra features in its own, preinstalled versions of OS/2 that were not found
- in the off-the-shelf package. OS/2 2.1x and OS/2 for Windows propelled OS/2
- into the mainstream PC marketplace. The latest Service Pak for OS/2 2.1 is
- level 06300.
-
- o IBM OS/2 Version 2.0 is the first release of OS/2 which will run only on
- machines with an 80386SX processor or better. With this release IBM started
- developing OS/2 (and its Intel and non-Intel-based successors) independently
- but continued to involve third party PC manufacturers in its testing.
- Improvements included an object-oriented Workplace Shell (WPS); a multiple
- operating system boot mechanism; better DOS and Windows support [see (1.3) DOS
- and Windows Compatibility]; new 32-bit programming interfaces; support for
- more than 16 MB of physical RAM [see (2.6) More Than 16 MB RAM]; and more
- third party device drivers. OS/2 1.x applications, unmodified, still run
- under OS/2 2.0 (and later).
-
- o IBM OS/2 Version 1.3 is the last release of OS/2 to operate on PCs with
- 80286 CPUs. This version introduced built-in Adobe Type Manager (ATM) [see
- (5.5) Adobe Type Manager], providing scalable typefaces for screen and
- printer. Procedures Language/2 (REXX), a powerful batch-oriented programming
- language, became a part of Standard Edition with this release. [See (5.11)
- REXX.] (A few vendors are shipping Microsoft OS/2 Version 1.3, but Microsoft
- has ceded all OS/2 development to IBM.)
-
- o OS/2 Version 1.2 was the first to incorporate the High Performance File
- System (HPFS) [see (1.5) High Performance File System]. With this release IBM
- OS/2 added a dual boot mechanism and IBM Extended Edition [see (3.10) Extended
- Services] introduced REXX.
-
- o OS/2 Version 1.1 was the first to include the Presentation Manager (PM)
- GUI/API. Microsoft OEM versions added a dual boot mechanism with this
- release.
-
- o OS/2 Version 1.0, introduced in late 1987, was the first release of OS/2.
- Task switching was accomplished using a character-based shell and limited DOS
- compatibility was provided.
-
- Versions of OS/2 from 2.1 on have been made available in two packages: one
- containing built-in Windows code to run Windows applications (sometimes called
- the "with Win-OS/2" or "full" package) and the other which can use an existing
- copy of Windows (optional) to run Windows applications (the "for Windows" or
- "without Win-OS/2" package).
-
-
- Related information:
-
- (0.4) Special Report on OS/2 Warp
- (1.1) What is OS/2 Warp?
- (1.3) DOS and Windows Compatibility
- (2.6) More Than 16 MB RAM
- (3.10) Extended Services
- (5.5) Adobe Type Manager
- (5.11) REXX
-
-
- (1.3) DOS and Windows Compatibility
-
- How good is OS/2 Warp's DOS and Windows compatibility?
-
- OS/2 1.x [see (1.2) Differences Between Versions] justifiably earned a
- reputation for poor DOS compatibility. Since it was hampered by the 80286, it
- could not run more than one DOS application at a time.
-
- The situation changed dramatically with OS/2 2.0, and OS/2 Warp adds further
- refinements. OS/2 Warp Version 3 preemptively multitasks DOS and Windows
- (standard and enhanced mode, including Win32s) applications in separate,
- protected sessions.
-
- OS/2 Warp provides a complete DOS emulation equivalent to DOS 5.0 or later.
- The operating system can provide each DOS application with up to 32 MB of EMS
- 4.0 (expanded memory), 16 MB of XMS 2.0 (extended memory), and/or 512 MB of
- DPMI 0.95 (DOS Protected Mode Interface extended memory), all from its pool of
- physical and/or virtual memory (meaning you do not have to have as much RAM in
- your system as your applications request). These limits are in addition to
- the up to 730K free conventional memory supplied to each DOS application, even
- after mouse and network drivers [see (3.8) Networking Products] are loaded.
- As in DOS 5.0 or later, DOS code and device drivers may be loaded into high
- memory. A 386 memory manager like QEMM is not needed -- these features are
- provided by OS/2 Warp directly.
-
- The DOS emulation allows customization of device driver sets -- each DOS
- application shares a systemwide CONFIG.SYS and the equivalent of its own
- CONFIG.SYS. Also, there is a systemwide AUTOEXEC.BAT file; however, batch
- commands particular to each DOS application can be invoked using separate,
- application-specific AUTOEXEC.BAT files. And many DOS Settings are provided
- to fine tune [see (5.6) Performance Tuning] each DOS/Windows application's
- behavior (e.g. IDLE_SENSITIVITY and SESSION_PRIORITY). Most of the popular
- DOS/Windows applications on your hard disk will be migrated automatically when
- you install OS/2 Warp, so that program icons will be set up for them.
- Applications which are automatically recognized include over 250 of the most
- popular DOS, Windows, and OS/2 games.
-
- In addition, OS/2 Warp will boot one or more specific versions of DOS in
- separate sessions, to assist in running particularly difficult applications
- (e.g. DOS networks, MSCDEX and CD-ROM drivers). So, for example, it is
- possible to multitask DOS 3.3, DOS 4.0, DOS 5.0, DOS 6.0, DOS 6.2, PC-DOS 6.3,
- DR-DOS, OS/2 Warp's DOS, and Desqview running atop DOS, all in separate
- sessions, either windowed or full screen, all with the same and/or separate
- device drivers, TSRs, environment variables, etc. DOS boot images may be
- stored on a hard disk. These procedures are described in the online Command
- Reference (under VMDISK), Master Help Index, and in the printed manual. [See
- also (5.9) Specific DOS Sessions.]
-
- Standard graphics modes [generally up to VGA resolutions; see (2.2) SuperVGA
- Support] are supported in DOS windows, as are selectable text mode fonts.
- Cut/paste to/from windowed DOS applications is supported (to/from other DOS,
- OS/2, and Windows applications), including graphics cut/paste. Theoretically,
- OS/2 Warp can run up to 240 simultaneous DOS/Windows sessions; the practical
- maximum depends on your PC's performance.
-
- OS/2 Warp will, in fact, run virtually all DOS applications in existence,
- including notorious ones such as Microsoft Flight Simulator, Wing Commander,
- Maple, MatLab (Version 3.5k or later), AutoCAD (Release 12 requires
- maintenance version C2 or later), and others. Those that do not run generally
- fall into the following categories:
-
- 1. Programs that use Virtual Control Program Interface (VCPI) memory extenders
- or other extenders which require direct access to 80386 control registers.
- Since such applications are also all but incompatible with Windows, most
- vendors have updates for DPMI compatibility;
-
- 2. Applications which attempt to directly address the physical sectors of an
- OS/2 managed nonremoveable hard disk drive. Such programs include UnErase in
- Norton Utilities [see (3.4) Disk Utilities]. Fortunately OS/2 Warp has a
- built-in UnDelete feature which is more robust than Norton's approach.
- (Consult the online Command Reference for information on how to enable
- UNDELETE);
-
- 3. Timing sensitive DOS applications. Certain DOS programs that generate
- digitized sound through the PC's internal speaker may have distorted sound.
- High speed, real time data collection may be compromised. These problems can
- often be minimized or even eliminated using OS/2 Warp's DOS Settings,
- including the SESSION_PRIORITY setting.
-
- 4. Certain DOS programming debuggers. DOS applications running under OS/2
- Warp are not permitted to access debug registers DR0-DR7 from a DOS session.
- Also, DOS debuggers will not be able to set hardware breakpoints, and all
- read/write operations to debug registers in virtual 8086 mode will be ignored.
-
- See (3.12) Backup Software for information on OS/2 backup issues.
-
- DOS-based disk caching software is not required since OS/2 Warp includes a
- built-in, highly configurable, efficient disk cache (available even for
- CD-ROMs). See the online Command Reference for details.
-
- DOS programs running under OS/2 Warp are extremely fast. A single DOS
- application (no other applications open) running full screen under OS/2 Warp
- typically achieves 95-97% of the performance it would have under native DOS.
- If the DOS application accesses the hard disk frequently, such as with
- database software, it can actually operate up to several times faster than it
- would if running under native DOS.
-
- If pure DOS is absolutely required, OS/2 Warp includes a utility called the
- Boot Manager. The Boot Manager can provide a listing of all the operating
- systems available on the system and will allow selection of any one at
- startup, with a default after timeout. The OS/2 DualBoot method (to switch
- between DOS and OS/2 only) is still available as well. Consult the printed
- OS/2 Warp manual for instructions on how to use Boot Manager or DualBoot.
- Note that OS/2 Warp need not be installed on Drive C -- it can reside on other
- volumes [see (4.3) Hard Disk Partitioning].
-
- Compatibility with Windows, a popular DOS extender, is provided by either
- Win-OS/2, an environment based on Microsoft's Windows source code, or by an
- actual copy of Windows 3.1, Windows 3.11, Windows for Workgroups 3.1, or
- Windows for Workgroups 3.11. See (1.2) Differences Between Versions for
- details. OS/2 Warp supports Windows 3.x enhanced mode (including Win32s) and
- standard mode applications, either on a full screen Windows desktop (with the
- familiar Program Manager and one or more Windows applications) or
- "seamlessly," alongside OS/2 applications on the Workplace Shell desktop.
- "Seamless" operation is available with all video drivers that ship with OS/2
- Warp (VGA or better). [See (2.2) SuperVGA Support.]
-
- Several icon conversion utilities can convert Windows icons for use by the
- OS/2 Icon Editor and/or OS/2-specific programs [see (3.2) Shareware and
- Freeware Sources]. (No conversion is necessary if the icons are to be used
- with Windows programs running under OS/2 Warp.)
-
- OS/2 Warp directly provides all Windows enhanced mode features save one:
- support for Windows virtual drivers (VxD). Services provided by WINMEM32.DLL
- and Win32s are supported. See (0.4) Special Report on OS/2 Warp for more
- information.
-
- Windows applications are well integrated into the overall OS/2 Workplace Shell
- environment with DDE and Clipboard hooks, and OLE (Object Linking and
- Embedding) is supported among Windows applications. Adobe Type Manager [see
- (5.5) Adobe Type Manager] comes with OS/2 Warp (for both OS/2 and Windows
- applications), and TrueType fonts still work fine with Windows applications.
- Windows screen (for a full screen desktop) and printer device drivers will
- work under Win-OS/2 [see (2.2) SuperVGA Support]. Such notorious Windows
- applications as Word, Norton Desktop (save portions described above),
- Toolbook, and After Dark work fine under Win-OS/2. Even applications which
- rely on the Windows Multimedia Extensions ( supplied as part of Windows and
- Win-OS/2) operate without trouble. [See (3.6) Multimedia for information on
- the OS/2 multimedia extensions, MMPM/2.] Even the Windows applets run just
- fine.
-
- OS/2 Warp's Windows support (called Win-OS/2) departs from plain Microsoft
- Windows in that it allows more than one Windows desktop and can preemptively
- (rather than cooperatively) multitask Windows applications in separate,
- robust, protected sessions, at the user's option. Also, both DOS and OS/2
- applications can be started from the Win-OS/2 Program Manager.
-
- In short, OS/2 Warp is generally regarded as the most DOS and Windows
- compatible among the new crop of 32-bit operating systems (NT included). It
- is also generally regarded as a better DOS multitasker than Desqview.
-
-
- Related information:
-
- (0.4) Special Report on OS/2 Warp
- (1.2) Differences Between Versions
- (2.2) SuperVGA Support
- (3.2) Shareware and Freeware Sources
- (3.4) Disk Utilities
- (3.6) Multimedia
- (3.8) Networking Products
- (3.12) Backup Software
- (4.3) Hard Disk Partitioning
- (4.4) Starting OS/2 from Diskette
- (5.5) Adobe Type Manager
- (5.6) Performance Tuning
- (5.9) Specific DOS Sessions
-
-
- (1.4) Availability and Cost of OS/2 Warp
-
- Where can I buy OS/2 Warp, and how much does it cost?
-
- In the United States IBM OS/2 Warp Version 3 is available directly from IBM by
- calling 800-3-IBM-OS2. Call for the latest information on pricing --
- promotional pricing may be in effect. Both diskette (3.5 inch media) and
- CD-ROM versions are available. The CD-ROM version contains diskette images
- (so you can create a set of installation diskettes from the CD-ROM) as well as
- extra multimedia and Kodak Photo CD files. Express shipping is provided with
- all orders placed through this toll free number.
-
- IBM part numbers are as follows:
-
- Part No. Product
-
- 83G8100 OS/2 Warp Version 3 (3.5)
- 83G8102 OS/2 Warp Version 3 (CD)
- 83G8103 OS/2 Warp Version 3 (ALC)
- 83G8700 OS/2 Warp with Win-OS/2 (3.5)
- 83G8701 OS/2 Warp with Win-OS/2 (CD)
- 83G8702 OS/2 Warp with Win-OS/2 (ALC)
- 83G8708 OS/2 Warp with Win-OS/2 Upgrade (3.5)
- 83G8709 OS/2 Warp with Win-OS/2 Upgrade (CD)
- 83G8710 OS/2 Warp with Win-OS/2 Upgrade (ALC)
-
- Upgrade packages are designed to upgrade OS/2 2.1 or 2.11. "ALC" means
- Additional License Certificate, in other words simply a license card (without
- manuals or media) representing the right to use OS/2 Warp on an additional PC.
-
- OS/2 Warp is now available from almost any software dealer (including
- Corporate Software, Egghead, Software Etc., and many others). Software dealer
- pricing is lower than that available directly from IBM -- often $10 or $20
- lower.
-
- OS/2 Warp costs about the same as Microsoft Windows for DOS and roughly one
- fifth to one third as much as the base (not to mention server) versions of
- Windows NT, NeXTStep, Solaris, and UnixWare.
-
- In Canada phone 800-465-1234 to order. In the U.K. phone the OS/2 Solution
- Centre at 0285-655888 or IBM at 0256-841818 or 0800-919-929. In all
- countries, any IBM software dealer or office can fulfill your OS/2 Warp order.
- Pricing varies from country to country.
-
- IBM is trying to make OS/2 Warp available everywhere DOS is purchased. If
- your dealer does not stock OS/2 Warp, take your business elsewhere (and
- explain why). IBM bundles OS/2 Warp with most new PCs, and several other
- vendors, including AST, Compaq, Everex, Northgate, ALR, Unisys, Dell, Ariel
- Design, Vobis, Escom, Toshiba, Osbourne, and Tangent, will either preload OS/2
- Warp automatically or by request.
-
- IBM offers two money back guarantees in the U.S.: a 30-day, no questions
- asked, money back guarantee, and a 90-day compatibility guarantee [see (2.1)
- Hardware Requirements].
-
- If you intend to purchase many copies (usually over 100) of any IBM software
- product (including OS/2 Warp), be sure to ask your software dealer or IBM
- representative about VALU agreements. Using VALU, you can save significant
- amounts of money on your software purchases and benefit from special
- promotions.
-
- In many countries outside the United States, a fully functioning 45-day trial
- version of OS/2 Warp on CD-ROM is available through PC oriented magazines,
- computer shows, dealers, and other outlets.
-
-
- Related information:
-
- (0.4) Special Report on OS/2 Warp
- (1.2) Differences Between Versions
- (2.1) Hardware Requirements
- (3.8) Networking Products
-
-
- (1.5) High Performance File System (HPFS)
-
- Why should I use HPFS? What does it offer me? Does it work with DOS?
-
- HPFS is an installable file system (IFS) provided with OS/2 Warp which may
- optionally be used instead of (or alongside) the standard DOS-style FAT (File
- Allocation Table) file system. HPFS offers long file names (up to 254
- characters including the path, greatly exceeding the "8 dot 3" limit in DOS's
- FAT file system), contiguous storage of extended attributes (without the EA
- DATA. SF file used by FAT), resistance to file fragmentation, improved media
- error handling, smaller cluster size, support for larger file storage devices
- (up to 512 GB), and speedier disk operation, particularly on large hard disks,
- on systems with more than 6 MB of RAM. HPFS is not case sensitive, although
- it does preserve case in file names.
-
- However, HPFS is not currently supported on removeable media, although some
- programs (e.g. BACKUP) preserve long file names on such FAT disks. Also,
- native DOS cannot access a HPFS partition without a special utility. However,
- DOS/Windows sessions running under OS/2 can use all files that conform to the
- "8 dot 3" naming conventions, even if they are stored on HPFS volumes. (FAT
- is not required for compatibility with DOS and Windows applications running
- under OS/2 Warp.)
-
- Note that PowerQuest has released Partition Magic, a utility which can convert
- the DOS FAT file system to OS/2 HPFS on-the-fly, leaving all your files
- intact. Partition Magic also allows you (free space permitting) to
- repartition your hard disk without destroying any files. This utility can
- save an enormous amount of time in managing your hard disks. Contact your
- favorite OS/2 Warp software dealer to order Partition Magic.
-
-
- Related information:
-
- (3.4) Disk Utilities
- (3.15) Dealers Specializing in OS/2 Warp
- (4.3) Hard Disk Partitioning
- (4.4) Starting OS/2 Warp from Diskette
-
-
- (1.6) Why Choose OS/2 Warp?
-
- Why should I choose OS/2 Warp over its competitors?
-
- There are many products which compete with OS/2 Warp, at least to some extent.
- Before comparing OS/2 Warp with those products, it is important to understand
- what strengths OS/2 Warp brings to the table.
-
- OS/2 Warp requires a PC with a 386SX (or better) and preferably 6 MB of RAM
- (or more). If you do not have the hardware required to run OS/2 Warp (and
- cannot conveniently upgrade), other choices should be considered. However,
- OS/2 Warp is considered by far the "lightest" (in terms of resource
- requirements) of all the new crop of 32-bit operating systems (which includes
- Microsoft NT, NeXTStep, Novell UnixWare, and Solaris). Furthermore, IBM has
- made great strides in reducing the amount of memory required by OS/2 Warp. A
- PC which is well-equipped to run Windows for DOS is also well-equipped to run
- OS/2 Warp.
-
- OS/2 Warp is based on a stable, proven design (which started with OS/2 1.0,
- introduced in 1987). Today's OS/2 Warp barely resembles Version 1.0, yet
- applications written for that version still run under OS/2 Warp, unmodified.
- OS/2 1.x found ready markets in so-called "mission critical" applications,
- including automatic teller machines for banking, point-of-sale systems,
- process control and factory automation, network software, and more. Other
- operating systems (particularly NT) have not had the benefit of a long period
- of testing and reliable operation.
-
- As noted in (1.3) DOS and Windows Compatibility, OS/2 Warp is generally
- acknowledged to be the most DOS and Windows compatible 32-bit operating system
- on the market. OS/2 Warp users have access to the broad range of software
- written for these environments (in addition to the growing library of native
- OS/2 Warp software) without sacrificing compatibility or performance. Again,
- this ability stands in contrast to the mediocre DOS and Windows compatibility
- (and performance) found in such operating systems as NT, NeXTStep, Solaris,
- UnixWare, Linux, and others. NT, for example, cannot tolerate most DOS device
- drivers, has no specific DOS session features, and will not run DOS graphics
- applications in windows on the desktop. (NT also does not include any support
- for PCMCIA cards or Advanced Power Management, so common in notebook
- computers.) IBM calls OS/2 Warp "the integrating platform" because it
- actually lends functionality to all applications, even if you only run DOS and
- Windows programs.
-
- Currently DOS (with or without Windows) is the most common operating
- environment on PCs (with OS/2 Warp in second place and closing the gap). OS/2
- Warp provides several advantages over plain DOS/Windows, such as:
-
- Preemptive multitasking. OS/2 Warp can run more than one application at the
- same time, and no application can ever take all the CPU attention away from
- the other tasks. Downloading files, formatting diskettes, printing,
- mathematically intensive tasks, and other computer-hogging jobs can run
- reliably, in the background, freeing your computer so you can work more
- effectively and save time.
-
- Multithreading. OS/2 Warp applications can be written to use threads (also
- known as subtasks). Threads also run in the background so that an application
- never stops responding to your input. For example, with the DeScribe word
- processor's multithreaded printing, you can tell the application to print the
- file then immediately make another revision, without waiting for the document
- to even spool to the print queue.
-
- Enhanced Configurability. Your DOS applications, for example, can have
- individually tailored CONFIG.SYS settings -- no rebooting required. So, if
- you want to play that game of Wing Commander, you do not have to get rid of
- your TSRs and network drivers beforehand.
-
- Crash Protection. Every application running under OS/2 Warp is isolated from
- all the other applications. If one application decides to write to random
- areas of memory, OS/2 Warp will promptly notify you of the offense. All your
- other applications continue to run, unharmed. Neither DOS nor Windows offer
- such complete protection. For example, if you have a Windows application
- which likes to crash (cause a GPF error), OS/2 Warp can run it in a separate
- Win-OS/2 session. If the application self destructs, all your other DOS,
- Windows, and OS/2 Warp applications which may be running never miss a beat.
- No operating system is totally crash proof, but OS/2 Warp is widely considered
- to be extremely reliable, both because of its design and because of its
- maturity.
-
- Workplace Shell. Literally millions of dollars are spent on Windows desktop
- replacements and accessories (such as Norton Desktop, PC Tools, and so on).
- If you do not like the Windows Program Manager and File Manager (still
- available under OS/2 Warp), OS/2 Warp's Workplace Shell is worthy of your
- attention. Folders can be nested. Objects (including files) can have long
- names (so you don't have to remember what "Y6EDGQTR.ILK" means). Your desktop
- is almost infinitely customizable: every folder can have a different color or
- background, for example. And consistency is maintained throughout the
- Workplace Shell. Want to print a file? Drag it to the printer object. Fax
- it? Drag it to the Fax object. Open it? Drag it to an application program
- object. Delete it? Drag it to the Shredder.
-
- Access to OS/2 Warp Applications. There's only one way to add OS/2 Warp
- applications to your PC: add OS/2 Warp. Many of these applications are not
- available for any other operating system. For example, Watcom's VX-REXX and
- HockWare's VisPro/REXX let you create fully graphical applications in no time
- flat. (VX-REXX recently won PC Magazine's Editor's Choice award.) Lotus
- cc:Mail for OS/2, which takes full advantage of the Workplace Shell, makes
- e-mail simple. IBM's Ultimedia Builder/2, Workplace/2, and Manager/2 are the
- best multimedia authoring tools available anywhere, better than anything for
- Windows, says PC Magazine. And you can only play Galactic Civilizations for
- OS/2, the Number 1 PC game according to a recent Internet list, when you're
- running OS/2. OS/2 Warp allows you to run the largest library of 32-bit
- applications available for the PC.
-
- OS/2 Warp costs less (much less) than its competitors. OS/2 Warp is a best
- seller and continues to gain ground on plain DOS/Windows, meaning application
- developers and hardware manufacturers take notice (most recently Corel Systems
- and Toshiba). OS/2 Warp is likely to be the most popular operating system on
- PowerPC systems. OS/2 Warp coexists peacefully with your existing DOS/Windows
- setup (using either DualBoot or Boot Manager), so you can make the switch at
- your own pace. OS/2 Warp continues to capture industry awards. Most
- recently, Windows Magazine named OS/2 to its Top 100 list. And, for the
- second straight year, OS/2 won Overall Product of the Year from the readers of
- Infoworld. (OS/2 also earned Infoworld's Software Product of the Year and the
- Interoperability Award. In fact, OS/2, with three of the highest awards all
- to itself, was the only product to win more than one award.) As an OS/2 Warp
- user, you'll be joining the over eight million OS/2ers around the world who
- are experiencing a new level of performance when they use their PCs.
-
-
- But shouldn't I wait for Windows95 ("Chicago")?
-
- Most industry observers believe that Chicago (Windows95) will not be available
- until far into 1995. In other words, Microsoft is promising a product which
- will offer some of OS/2 Warp's features at some point in the future. Even if
- you think you are interested in Chicago, OS/2 Warp will not suddenly render
- your PC unable to run it. So why not upgrade to OS/2 Warp in the meantime?
-
- Yet there are several good reasons why you may not be making that upgrade.
- First, like most first releases, Chicago will suffer from its share of bugs.
- It will take a considerable amount of time (and expense) to solve these
- problems. Second, OS/2 Warp is by no means standing still. By the time
- Chicago is released, OS/2 Warp could possibly enjoy another upgrade. (The
- time between new releases of OS/2 has been averaging about 14 months. The
- last major Windows update, Version 3.1, was introduced in April, 1992.) In
- other words, it will have features (such as support for Symmetric
- Multiprocessing and the PowerPC) that are not even contemplated for Chicago.
- Or, in still other words, vaporware (software which does not yet exist) always
- sounds more appealing than real software on the surface, because software
- vendors can make whatever claims they like.
-
- Chicago will not support any OS/2 Warp applications (whose number is only
- growing with time). On the other hand, OS/2 Warp now supports the Win32s
- programming interface for 32-bit Windows applications. The resource
- requirements for Chicago will increase over Windows 3.1 (at the same time IBM
- has fine tuned OS/2 Warp to use less memory and perform better) -- at best
- Chicago will demand a PC no less powerful than that demanded by OS/2 Warp.
-
- Byte and Windows Sources have pointed to some architectural problems with
- Chicago. These publications have cited Chicago's pervasive use of 16-bit
- subsystems (which will cause "thunking," i.e. a performance hit for calls
- made by 32-bit applications), failure to protect 16-bit Windows applications
- from crashing the entire system (which OS/2 Warp already prevents), and the
- 16-bit locking mechanism (which means that 16-bit Windows applications will
- not be preempted by Chicago, possibly resulting in hung background file
- transfers, poor multimedia performance, and other problems, even for 32-bit
- applications). Moreover, reportedly all video and network device drivers for
- Windows 3.1 must be rewritten to work with Chicago. A recently published
- book, "Undocumented Windows95," even suggests that new 32-bit Windows
- applications may still depend on real mode vestiges from ordinary DOS.
-
- Finally, Microsoft made similar promises (on the overwhelming success to be
- achieved by NT and Windows for Workgroups, most recently). These promises
- have not come to pass. It is far from certain whether Chicago will satisfy
- the marketplace.
-
- For a concise, researched, official view of OS/2 Warp when compared to the
- as-yet-unreleased Windows95, IBM has published a whitepaper which is available
- from online services such as CompuServe and the Internet.
-
-
- Related information:
-
- (0.4) Special Report on OS/2 Warp
- (1.3) DOS and Windows Compatibility
-
-
- (2.0) Hardware
-
- The following questions are addressed in this section:
-
- (2.1) What hardware do I need to run IBM OS/2 Warp? Do I need a PS/2?
-
- (2.2) Will OS/2 Warp work with my SuperVGA adapter?
-
- (2.3) Will OS/2 Warp work with my printer?
-
- (2.4) Can I use COM3 and COM4 in OS/2 Warp?
-
- (2.5) Are there any specific hardware recommendations?
-
- (2.6) Can I use more than 16 MB of RAM?
-
- (2.7) What device drivers are available that aren't included with OS/2 Warp?
-
-
- (2.1) Hardware Requirements
-
- What hardware do I need to run IBM OS/2 Warp? Do I need a PS/2?
-
- You need any ISA (AT bus), EISA, VESA LocalBus, PCI, or Microchannel PC
- compatible with at least an 80386SX CPU, 4 MB (6 MB or more strongly
- recommended) of RAM, an 80 MB or larger hard disk (with 20-70 MB free,
- depending on which features you wish to install), a supported video adapter
- (CGA, EGA, VGA, SuperVGA, 8514/A, XGA, or third party driver) with appropriate
- display (VGA or better strongly recommended), and a high density 3.5 inch
- diskette drive for installation. A mouse or other pointing device is strongly
- recommended. Allow extra RAM and hard disk space for OS/2-based networking
- [see (3.8) Networking Products], Extended Services [see (3.10) Extended
- Services], and/or extra system loads (i.e. an extraordinary number of large
- applications running simultaneously). When calculating hard disk space
- requirements, subtract space occupied by files already on the hard disk which
- are functionally included in OS/2 Warp and may be deleted, e.g. DOS, a 386
- memory manager, Adobe Type Manager [see (5.5) Adobe Type Manager] with base
- typefaces, etc.
-
- The performance of OS/2 Warp itself will not be increased appreciably with the
- addition of a math coprocessor. However, certain applications may benefit.
-
- The Workplace Shell (WPS) will not operate with the Monochrome Display Adapter
- or the Hercules Monochrome Graphics Adapter. Usually the WPS will fail to
- work with monochrome EGA. However, some EGA adapters (e.g. Paradise
- Monochrome EGA Card, ATI EGA Wonder) will emulate all color EGA modes on TTL
- monochrome monitors and, thus, will work with the WPS.
-
- The following dual monitor configurations are supported: VGA (or most
- SuperVGA) with Monochrome Display Adapter (not Hercules), 8514/A with VGA, XGA
- with VGA, and XGA with one or more other XGA. A secondary monitor is most
- often used with code debuggers that explicitly support such configurations.
- The Workplace Shell desktop is currently shown only on the primary display
- (except for the STB MVP-2 and MVP-4 ISA and Microchannel display adapters
- which do support the Workplace Shell desktop spanning multiple monitors --
- contact STB at 214-234-8750 or FAX 214-234-1306 for more information; and the
- Double Edge video card from Nth Graphics, phone 800-624-7552).
-
- OS/2 Warp specifically supports hard drive adapters which conform to the
- Western Digital chipset interface standard (nearly all MFM, RLL, IDE, and ESDI
- adapters) and Adaptec, Future Domain, DPT, BusLogic, MediaVision/Trantor, and
- IBM SCSI adapters. [True OS/2 Warp drivers for most SCSI adapters, e.g.
- Always, Trantor, Rancho, Procomp, Corel Systems, Seagate, Mylex, CE Infosys,
- Ciprico, NCR, and others are available directly from the adapter manufacturers
- or from (3.2) Shareware and Freeware Sources.] In addition, "generic" INT13
- support is provided for all other hard disk adapters. This "generic" support
- even embraces such devices as Iomega's Bernoulli and SyQuest's removeable
- media products (but for best results contact Iomega or SyQuest for an OS/2
- Warp driver).
-
- OS/2 Warp driver support is available for nearly all CD-ROM drives. The list
- below describes the drivers included with OS/2 Warp. If your CD-ROM drive is
- not on the list, it is in all likelihood a close cousin (or follow-on model)
- to one of the CD-ROM drives on the list, and OS/2 Warp will automatically
- recognize it using the closest match. Be sure to ask the manufacturer of your
- CD-ROM drive for advice if OS/2 Warp is not recognizing it.
-
- o CD Technology
-
- - T3301
- - T3401
-
- o Chinon
-
- - 431
- - 435
- - 535
-
- o Compaq
-
- - Dual Speed
-
- o Creative Labs
-
- - OmniCD
-
- o Hitachi
-
- - 1650S
- - 1750S
- - 3650
- - 1950S
- - 3750
- - 6750
-
- o IBM
-
- - CD-ROM I
- - CD-ROM II
- - Enhanced CD-ROM II
- - ISA
-
- o Mitsumi
-
- - CRMC-LU002S
- - CRMC-LU005S
- - CRMC-FX001
- - CRMC-FX001D
- - CRMC-FX001DE
-
- o NEC
-
- - Intersect 25
- - Intersect 36
- - Intersect 37
- - Intersect 72
- - Intersect 73
- - Intersect 74
- - Intersect 82
- - Intersect 83
- - Intersect 84
- - MultiSpin 4Xe
- - MultiSpin 4Xi
- - MultiSpin 3Xe
- - MultiSpin 3Xi
- - MultiSpin 3Xp
- - MultiSpin 38
- - MultiSpin 74-1
- - MultiSpin 84-1
- - 2vi
- - 260
-
- o Panasonic
-
- - 501
- - LK-MC501S
- - 521
- - 522
- - 523
- - 562
- - 563
-
- o Philips
-
- - LMS CM-205
- - LMS CM-225
- - LMS CM-205MS
- - LMS CM-206
- - LMS CM-225MS
- - LMS CM-226
- - LMS CM-215
- - LMS CM-207
-
- o Pioneer
-
- - DRM-600
- - DRM-604X
-
- o Plextor
-
- - DM-3028
- - DM-5028
- - 4PLEX
-
- o Sony
-
- - CDU-31A
- - CDU-33A
- - CDU-7305
- - CDU-7405
- - CDU-531
- - CDU-535
- - CDU-6150
- - CDU-6201
- - CDU-6205
- - CDU-6251
- - CDU-7201
- - CDU-7205
- - CDU-55D
- - CDU-55E
- - 541
- - 561
- - 6211
- - 7211
- - 7811
- - 6111
-
- o Tandy
-
- - CDR-1000
-
- o Texel
-
- - 3021
- - 5021
- - 3024
- - 3028
- - 5024
- - 5028
-
- o Toshiba
-
- - 3201
- - 3301
- - 3401
- - 4101
-
- o Wearnes
-
- - CDD-120
-
- Most IDE CD-ROM drives are also supported. For CD-ROM drives that use their
- own adapter cards (that are not attached to SCSI adapters), you may need to
- know which interrupt (IRQ), DMA channel (if any), and port addresses are used
- by the CD-ROM adapter in order to correctly configure OS/2 Warp. Please
- consult the printed OS/2 Warp manual for guidance.
-
- OS/2 Warp's CD-ROM support includes audio, ISO 9660/High Sierra, CD-ROM/XA,
- and Kodak Photo CD (including multisession) compatibility for those CD-ROM
- drives which support these standards. An OS/2 Warp CD-ROM device driver
- automatically provides CD-ROM services to DOS and Windows applications running
- under OS/2 Warp. In other words, you do not need to load DOS CD-ROM device
- drivers when you are running OS/2 Warp. However, in the unlikely event you
- cannot locate an OS/2 Warp driver for your CD-ROM drive, you may use the DOS
- CD-ROM device drivers in a specific DOS session [see (5.9) Specific DOS
- Sessions for details].
-
- OS/2 Warp drivers for some non-SCSI Hitachi CD-ROM models are available by
- calling either Laser Resources (800-535-2737) or Proline (415-692-5262); ask
- for CDREXT5D. Storage Devices offers OS/2 drivers for its parallel port
- attached peripherals, including its CD-ROM drive.
-
- See (2.3) Printer Support for information on OS/2 printer and plotter
- compatibility.
-
- OS/2 Warp is explicitly supported on non-IBM PC compatibles. IBM is offering
- a money back compatibility guarantee in the U.S. Should OS/2 Warp fail to
- work on your compatible within the first 90 days of use, and should IBM be
- unable to fix the problem, your purchase price will be refunded. To date over
- 2000 non-IBM models have been tested in IBM's own labs.
-
-
- Related information:
-
- (3.2) Shareware and Freeware Sources
- (3.8) Networking Products
- (3.10) Extended Services
- (5.5) Adobe Type Manager
- (5.9) Specific DOS Sessions
-
-
- (2.2) SuperVGA Support
-
- Will OS/2 Warp work with my SuperVGA adapter?
-
- Consult the OS/2 Warp printed manual for complete information on SuperVGA
- support.
-
- OS/2 Warp contains built-in 256 (or more) color drivers for most SuperVGA
- adapters based on the following chipsets:
-
- o ATI
-
- - 28800
- - Mach 8
- - Mach 16
- - Mach 32
-
- o Cirrus Logic
-
- - 5422
- - 5424
- - 5426
- - 5428
- - 5430
- - 5434
-
- o Headland Technology
-
- - HT209
-
- o IBM
-
- - VGA 256c
-
- o S3
-
- - 864
- - 86C801
- - 86C805
- - 86C928
-
- o Trident Microsystems
-
- - TVGA 8900C
-
- o Tseng Laboratories
-
- - ET4000
- - ET4000/W32
- - ET4000/W32p
- - ET4000/W32i
-
- o Weitek
-
- - Power 9000
- - Power 9100
-
- o Western Digital
-
- - 90C24
- - 90C31
- - 90C33
- - 90C11
- - 90C30
-
- These chipsets are used in the vast majority of SuperVGA adapters. OS/2 Warp
- also supplies "generic" SuperVGA support for other chipsets (such as Chips &
- Technologies and Realtek) which allows full screen DOS and Windows
- applications to run in SuperVGA modes, but OS/2's Workplace Shell runs in VGA
- resolution. If a high resolution driver for your SuperVGA card is not
- included with OS/2 Warp, contact the video card manufacturer for the correct
- driver. Many drivers included with OS/2 Warp support HiColor (65,536 colors)
- and even TrueColor (16 million colors) modes if you have enough video memory.
-
- Some SuperVGA adapters (notably ATI's Vantage and Ultra lines) are 8514/A
- hardware compatible and will function in 1024x768 256 color mode with OS/2's
- built-in 8514/A driver.
-
- Regular Windows 3.1 display drivers may be used for the full screen Win-OS/2
- desktop. To install a Windows 3.1 display driver under Win-OS/2, simply
- replace the fdisplay= entry in the SYSTEM.INI file with the name of the
- Windows .DRV file supplied by the vendor, and copy the .DRV file to the
- Win-OS/2 SYSTEM directory. Note that you may have to use the EXPAND program
- supplied with Windows or Win-OS/2 to decompress the vendor's .DRV file.
-
- Settings for your SuperVGA display are controlled from the System object in
- your System Setup folder (which is located inside the OS/2 System folder).
- There you can change video modes and even set the refresh rates for those
- modes according to your monitor's capabilities.
-
-
- Related information:
-
- (2.5) Specific Hardware Recommendations
- (2.7) Device Driver List
- (3.2) Shareware and Freeware Sources
- (5.8) Displaying Background Bitmaps
-
-
- (2.3) Printer Support
-
- Will OS/2 Warp work with my printer?
-
- OS/2 Warp includes support for the following printers (partial list; see
- below):
-
- o AST
-
- - TurboLaser
-
- o Agfa
-
- - Matrix ChromaScript
- - Compugraphic 9400PS
- - Compugraphic 400PS
-
- o Apple
-
- - LaserWriter II NT
- - LaserWriter II NTX
- - LaserWriter Plus
- - LaserWriter
-
- o Brother
-
- - HJ-100i
- - HJ-400
- - HL-10PS
- - HL-10DPS
- - HL-10V
- - HL-10h
- - HL-1260
- - HL-4PS
- - HL-4V
- - HL-630
- - HL-631
- - HL-641
- - HL-645
- - HL-655M
- - HL-660
- - HL-6
- - HL-6V
- - HL-8PS
- - HS-1PS
- - HS-1PS2
- - M-1309
- - M-1324
- - M-1809
- - M-1824L
- - M-1909
- - M-1924L
- - M-4309
-
- o Compaq
-
- - Pagemarq 15
- - Pagemarq 20
-
- o Citizen
-
- - PN48
-
- o ColorMaster Plus
-
- - 6603
- - 6613
- - 6613XF
-
- o Colormate
-
- - PS
-
- o Dataproducts
-
- - LZR-1260
- - LZR-2665
-
- o Digital
-
- - DECcolorwriter 1000
- - LN03R ScriptPrinter
- - LPS PrintServer 40
-
- o Epson
-
- - AP-2250
- - AP-3250
- - AP-3260
- - AP-5000
- - AP-5500
- - ActionLaser 1000
- - ActionLaser 1500
- - ActionLaser 1600
- - ActionLaser II
- - DFX-5000
- - DFX-8000
- - EPL-7000
- - EPL-7500
- - EPL-8000
- - EX-1000
- - EX-800
- - FX-1050
- - FX-1170
- - FX-286e
- - FX-850
- - FX-870
- - Generic 24 pin
- - Generic 48 pin
- - Generic 9 pin
- - Generic ESC2P
- - JX-80
- - LQ-1010
- - LQ-1050
- - LQ-1070
- - LQ-1170
- - LQ-150
- - LQ-2500
- - LQ-2550
- - LQ-500
- - LQ-510
- - LQ-570
- - LQ-850
- - LQ-860
- - LQ-870
- - LQ-950
- - LX-800
- - LX-810
- - MX-80
- - Stylus 300 Inkjet
- - Stylus 800 Inkjet
- - Stylus Color Inkjet
-
- o Generic Postscript printer
-
- o Hewlett-Packard
-
- - 7470A Plotter
- - 7475A Plotter
- - 7550A Plotter
- - 7580A Plotter
- - 7580B Plotter
- - 7585A Plotter
- - 7585B Plotter
- - 7586B Plotter
- - Color LaserJet PS
- - Color LaserJet
- - ColorPro
- - DesignJet 200
- - DesignJet 220
- - DesignJet 600
- - DesignJet 650C
- - DeskJet 1200C
- - DeskJet 310
- - DeskJet 320
- - DeskJet 500
- - DeskJet 500C
- - DeskJet 510
- - DeskJet 520
- - DeskJet 540
- - DeskJet 550C
- - DeskJet 560C
- - DeskJet Plus
- - DeskJet Portable
- - DeskJet (Original)
- - DraftMaster I
- - DraftMaster II
- - DraftMaster MX
- - DraftMaster RX
- - DraftMaster SX
- - DraftPro
- - LaserJet 2000
- - LaserJet 4 Plus
- - LaserJet 4
- - LaserJet 4M
- - LaserJet 4M Plus
- - LaserJet 4L
- - LaserJet 4ML
- - LaserJet 4MP
- - LaserJet 4MV
- - LaserJet 4P
- - LaserJet 4Si MX
- - LaserJet 4Si
- - LaserJet 4V
- - LaserJet 500 Plus
- - LaserJet Classic
- - LaserJet IID
- - LaserJet III
- - LaserJet IIID
- - LaserJet IIIP
- - LaserJet IIISi
- - LaserJet IIP Plus
- - LaserJet IIP
- - LaserJet Plus
- - LaserJet II
- - PaintJet XL HP-GL/2
- - PaintJet XL300
- - PaintJet XL
- - PaintJet
-
- o IBM/Lexmark
-
- - 2380
- - 2381
- - 2390
- - 2391
- - 3816
- - 4019 LaserPrinter
- - 4029 LaserPrinter
- - 4037 LaserPrinter
- - 4039 LaserPrinter
- - 4070 IJ
- - 4072 ExecJet
- - 4076 ExecJet II
- - 4079 Color Jetprinter
- - 4201 Proprinter II
- - 4201 Proprinter III
- - 4201 Proprinter
- - 4202 Proprinter IIXL
- - 4202 Proprinter IIIXL
- - 4202 Proprinter XL
- - 4207 Proprinter X24
- - 4207 Proprinter X24E
- - 4208 Proprinter XL24
- - 4208 Proprinter XL24E
- - 4216-031
- - 4224
- - 4226 Model 302
- - 5183 Portable Printer
- - 5201 Quietwriter II
- - 5202 Quietwriter III
- - 5204 Quickwriter
- - 6180 Plotter
- - 6182 Plotter
- - 6184 Plotter
- - 6186 Plotter
- - 7371 Plotter
- - 7372 Plotter
- - 7374 Plotter
- - 7375 Plotter
- - Personal Page Printer II
- - Personal Page Printer
- - 4047
- - 4076 Color
- - WinWriter 600
-
- o IBM Null (Plain Text/Daisy Wheel)
-
- o Kyocera
-
- - F-1000
- - F-1000A
- - F-2000A
- - F-2200S
- - F-3000A
- - F-3300
- - F-5000
- - F-5000A
- - F-800
- - F-800A
- - F-820
- - FS-1500
- - FS-1500A
- - FS-1550
- - FS-1550A
- - FS-3500
- - FS-3500A
- - FS-400
- - FS-400A
- - FS-5500
- - FS-5500A
- - FS-850
- - FS-850A
- - P-2000
- - Q-8010
-
- o Linotronic
-
- - 100
- - 200
- - 300
- - 500
-
- o NEC
-
- - Colormate PS/40
- - Colormate PS/80
- - LC-890
- - Silentwriter 1097
- - Silentwriter 95
- - Silentwriter 95f
- - Silentwriter 97
- - Silentwriter S62P
- - Silentwriter LC 890XL
- - Silentwriter2 290
- - Silentwriter2 Model 90
-
- o Okidata
-
- - OL830-PS
- - OL840-PS
- - OL850-PS
- - OL870
- - ML-192
- - ML-193
- - ML-320
- - ML-321
- - ML-3410
- - ML-380
- - ML-390
- - ML-391
- - ML-393
- - ML-395
- - ML-395B
- - ML-520
- - ML-521
- - ML-590
- - ML-591
-
- o Olivetti
-
- - LP-5000
-
- o Panasonic
-
- - KX-P1123
- - KX-P1124
- - KX-P1124i
- - KX-P1150
- - KX-P1180
- - KX-P1191
- - KX-P1624
- - KX-P1654
- - KX-P1695
- - KX-P2023
- - KX-P2123
- - KX-P2124
- - KX-P2130
- - KX-P2135
- - KX-P2180
- - KX-P2624
- - KX-P3123
- - KX-P3124
- - KX-P3624
- - KX-P4400
- - KX-P4401
- - KX-P4410
- - KX-P4420
- - KX-P4430
- - KX-P4440
- - KX-P4450
- - KX-P4450i
- - KX-P4451
- - KX-P4455
- - KX-P5400
- - KX-P5410
-
- o Phaser
-
- - Phaser Card (Postscript)
-
- o QMS
-
- - 1060 Level 2
- - 1660 Level 2
- - 1725 Print System
- - 2025 Print System
- - 3225 Print System
- - 420 Print System
- - 4525 Print System
- - 860 Print System
- - 860 Plus Print System
- - ColorScript 100 Model 10
- - ColorScript 100 Model 30
- - ColorScript 100 Model 30si
- - ColorScript 100
- - ColorScript 210
- - ColorScript 230
- - ColorScript Laser 1000
- - IS X320T
- - Magicolor Laser Printer
- - PS 1500
- - PS 1700
- - PS 2000
- - PS 2200
- - PS 2210
- - PS 2220
- - PS 410
- - PS 800 Plus
- - PS 800
- - PS 810 Turbo
- - PS 810
- - PS 815 MR
- - PS 815
- - PS 820 Turbo
- - PS 820
- - PS 825 MR
- - PS 825
-
- o Qume
-
- - ScripTEN
-
- o Seiko
-
- - ColorPoint PS Model 4
- - ColorPoint PS Model 14
- - ColorPoint PSN Model 14
- - ColorPoint PSN Model 4
- - ColorPoint2 PSF
- - Personal ColorPoint PS
- - Personal ColorPoint PSE
- - Professional ColorPoint PSH
-
- o Star
-
- - LS-5 EX
- - LS-5
- - LS-5TT
- - NX-1001
- - NX-1040R
- - NX-1500
- - NX-2415
- - NX-2420R
- - NX-2430
- - SJ-144
- - SJ-48
- - XB-2420
- - XB-2425
- - XR-1020
- - XR-1520
-
- o Texas Instruments
-
- - MicroWriter
- - OmniLaser 2108
- - OmniLaser 2115
- - MicroLaser PS
- - MicroLaser Pro 600
- - MicroLaser XL PS
- - MicroLaser 16 Turbo
- - MicroLaser 6 Turbo
- - MicroLaser 9 Turbo
- - MicroMarc Color
- - MicroWriter PS
-
- o Tektronix
-
- - Phaser 200J
- - Phaser 200e
- - Phaser 200i
- - Phaser 220J
- - Phaser 220e
- - Phaser 220i
- - Phaser 300J
- - Phaser 300i
- - Phaser 440
- - Phaser 480
- - Phaser 480J
- - Phaser II PX
- - Phaser II PXe
- - Phaser II PXi
- - Phaser II PXiJ
- - Phaser III PXi
- - Phaser III PXiJ
- - Phaser IISD
- - Phaser IISDJ
- - Phaser IISDX
- - Phaser PX
- - Phaser PXi
-
- o Varityper
-
- - VT-600
-
- o Wang
-
- - LCS15 FontPlus
- - LCS15
-
- The above list is abbreviated; certain models are not listed. If your printer
- is not listed, consult both the OS/2 Warp printed manual and your printer's
- manual to see if your printer emulates one of the above models. For example,
- the Canon BubbleJet Model BJ-10e printer works well with the IBM 4070 IJ
- driver.
-
- IBM, NEC, Canon, and other printer manufacturers have OS/2 Warp drivers for
- their printers available for download from BBSes. Contact your printer's
- manufacturer for assistance. These downloadable drivers include older IBM
- models (such as the IBM 5152 Graphics Printer and 5201 Quietwriter I), NEC dot
- matrix printers, and Canon laser and BubbleJet printers. The IBM/Lexmark BBS
- can be reached at 606-232-5653.
-
- DOS and Windows printer drivers continue to work for DOS and Windows
- applications. Use the Win-OS/2 Control Panel to install Windows printer
- drivers for use with OS/2 Warp.
-
-
- Printer Troubleshooting for OS/2 Warp
-
- If you are experiencing trouble printing, be sure to consult the "Printing in
- OS/2" online document (located in your Information folder) and the OS/2 Warp
- printed manual for assistance. Common problems are usually solved using one
- of the following methods:
-
- 1. If you are using a Postscript printer, and you are having difficulty
- printing with Windows applications, particularly over a network, try adding
- the following line to the Postscript section of your WIN.INI file:
-
- CtrlD=0
-
- 2. If you experience slow printing, or if you see a long series of repeated
- characters (or garbage) appearing in your printed documents, try editing your
- CONFIG.SYS file using any text editor (such as the OS/2 System Editor or
- Enhanced Editor). Locate the line BASEDEV=PRINT01.SYS and add the parameter
- /IRQ so that the line reads BASEDEV=PRINT01.SYS /IRQ. Shutdown and restart
- your system for the change to take effect. This change will not affect
- printing over a network and it does not apply to Microchannel systems.
-
- 3. Make sure that your printer port is properly configured, at the correct
- port address for LPT1 (or LPT2, if used), and that your printer port is
- generating the correct interrupt (IRQ), and that no other adapter in your PC
- is using the same port address or interrupt. See (4.1) Installation for
- details.
-
- 4. Make sure that the cable to your printer is properly shielded, grounded,
- has all 25 pins wired, and that it does not extend more than 15 feet or 5
- meters. Ideally the cable should be no more than 6 feet or 2 meters in
- length.
-
- 5. To improve performance when printing from DOS or Windows applications,
- configure your application to print to LPT1.OS2 (or LPT2.OS2 for printer port
- 2). (WordPerfect for DOS benefits greatly after making this change.) Use the
- application's "print to file" feature, if necessary. For Windows
- applications, use the Win-OS/2 Control Panel to route printer output to
- LPT1.OS2.
-
-
- Related information:
-
- (3.2) Shareware and Freeware Sources
- (4.1) Installation
-
-
- (2.4) COM3 and COM4 Support
-
- Can I use COM3 and COM4 in OS/2 Warp?
-
- COM3 and COM4 are supported on most PS/2s without any additional effort. On
- ISA, EISA, PCI, and VESA LocalBus machines, some additions are required to
- CONFIG.SYS. Using a text editor, include "(port number, base address,
- interrupt number)" parameters next to the COM.SYS filename. One example:
-
- DEVICE=C:\OS2\BOOT\COM.SYS (3,3E8,5) (4,2E8,10)
-
- Parameters for COM1 and COM2 need not be included (unless they are somehow
- nonstandard). OS/2 Warp must end up with sequentially numbered logical COM
- ports, if possible. For example, if (physical) port two is not installed but
- port three or port four is installed, start numbering using (2,...) in the
- DEVICE lines. See the OS/2 Warp printed manual and the online Command
- Reference for more information. If these efforts fail, try the SIO drivers
- [available from (3.2) Shareware and Freeware Sources]. Note that IRQ 2 is
- actually redirected to IRQ 9 on the AT bus, so use (...,...,9) in the above
- COM.SYS settings if your serial port is set to use IRQ 2.
-
- AT bus COM ports cannot be used at the same time if they share interrupts
- because of bus design limitations (cf. "Under the Hood: How Interrupts
- Work," Byte, February, 1992). An adapter which provides more flexibility in
- interrupt selection [e.g. the 16-bit model from STB; see (2.5) Specific
- Hardware Recommendations] may prove helpful. Also, PolyCom, a replacement
- driver available from (3.2) Shareware and Freeware Sources, supports up to
- eight ports with the right hardware (Xenix-compatible multiport adapters).
-
- "Smart" (coprocessor controlled) multiport communication adapters should be
- used when installing more than four ports. Such an adapter will work with
- OS/2 if the manufacturer has written an appropriate driver. Examples include:
-
- Company Telephone Number
-
- IBM (ARTIC) (800) PS2-2227
- Digiboard (612) 943-9020
- Stargate (216) 349-1860
- Arnet (615) 834-8000
- Computone (404) 475-2725
- Comtrol (612) 631-7654
- CTC Systems (415) 966-1688
- Equinox (305) 255-3500
- I-Concepts (214) 956-7770
- Specialix (408) 378-7919
- Stallion (408) 395-5775
- Quatech (216) 434-3154
-
-
-
- Related information:
-
- (2.5) Specific Hardware Recommendations
- (3.2) Shareware and Freeware Sources
- (4.1) Installation
-
-
- (2.5) Specific Hardware Recommendations
-
- Are there any specific hardware recommendations?
-
- Here are some of the peripherals and adapters that are particularly well
- suited to OS/2 Warp. Use these recommendations as general guidelines for
- adding peripherals to your OS/2 Warp PC. When you buy a new PC, remember to
- ask for OS/2 Warp preloaded. When you purchase a new add-on for your PC,
- remember to ask about OS/2 Warp drivers and compatibility.
-
- o Sound cards. There are many excellent sound cards on the market for OS/2
- Warp. Two of the best are the IBM Audiovation (available for both AT bus and
- Microchannel) and the Creative Labs SoundBlaster 16 SCSI-2. This model
- SoundBlaster includes a built-in SCSI port for CD-ROM drives, tape backup
- devices, etc., and OS/2 Warp's built-in Adaptec 152x SCSI driver will work
- with the card. OS/2 Warp also includes the correct SoundBlaster audio driver.
- An OS/2 Warp driver diskette for the Audiovation adapter is available either
- with the card or from the IBM PC Company BBS at 919-517-0001.
-
- o 16550AFN Buffered UART Serial Port Adapters. Improves high speed serial
- communications performance. Price: $35 for a two port adapter from Zero-One
- Networking (phone 800-255-4101 or 714-693-0808). Ask about adapters with
- parallel ports.
-
- o Four Port 16550AFN Buffered UART Serial Adapter. The STB 4-COM adapter is
- available for $110 delivered by calling 800-735-5266 Ext. 64 (or 919-286-1502
- Ext. 40). The 16-bit STB adapter provides four buffered serial ports, each
- with an independently selectable interrupt and address. IRQs above 7 are
- supported for each port. Up to two of these adapters may be installed in the
- same system (for up to eight buffered serial ports). Four six inch 8-pin DIN
- to DB9 male converter cables are supplied. Fifteen month manufacturer's
- warranty and free technical support from STB.
-
- o CD-ROM Drives. True SCSI-2 CD-ROM drives (double speed or better) are
- preferred over other CD-ROM drives. They are easier to configure, perform
- better, and can be easily transferred to another PC (particularly portable,
- external drives). They can also be more easily attached to many notebook
- computers. The SoundBlaster 16 SCSI-2 adapter, mentioned above, can provide
- the SCSI port for a CD-ROM drive.
-
- o SuperVGA cards. A wide variety of SuperVGA cards work well with OS/2 Warp.
- Many users find that cards based on the S3 chipsets are among the most
- compatible and represent the best values.
-
- o RAM (Memory). Your first choice when you wish to upgrade your PC to enhance
- the performance of OS/2 Warp. Choose good quality, name brand memory, and
- make sure that parity checking is included. (Some new PCs are attempting to
- get by with non-parity RAM. To ensure that all your memory is operating
- correctly, parity checked RAM is preferred. In fact, many higher end systems,
- especially servers, use error correcting memory for reliability.)
-
- o Hard Disk Drives. For a PC with one or two hard disks, each 512 MB or less
- in size, IDE hard disks represent the best value. They are inexpensive, and
- they perform well. However, SCSI hard disks with a good quality OS/2 Warp
- compatible SCSI adapter are generally a better choice when you have more than
- one hard disk in your PC and/or you wish to use hard disks larger than about
- 512 MB in size. SCSI also provides the opportunity to add tape backup,
- CD-ROM, and other devices. Caching hard disk adapters are generally useful
- only after you have added main memory (RAM) to the PC itself.
-
- o Tape Backup Devices. Cheap tape drives (which attach to your PC's diskette
- controller quite often) are quite tempting, and they work well under OS/2 Warp
- with backup software such as IBM's DualStor and MSR's BackMaster. However, a
- SCSI tape drive (such as a 4 mm DAT drive) is now only a little more
- expensive. Each 4 mm cartridge can hold 2 GB of data (uncompressed) or more.
- With hard disks growing larger and larger, you may wish to invest in a high
- capacity tape drive.
-
- o Processor/Motherboard. If you need to save money, save it by getting a
- system with a less powerful processor. OS/2 Warp will benefit most from
- adding main memory (RAM), and generally least from upgrading the processor.
- Since OS/2 Warp multitasks so well, the need for raw speed is usually less.
- (If you use another operating system, where you spend time waiting for tasks
- to complete, and where you cannot put tasks in the background and still get
- other work done, you can imagine that a faster processor would be of greater
- benefit.) However, make sure that your PC's motherboard contains an OverDrive
- socket, and preferably one that supports symmetric multiprocessing (SMP) and
- the Intel MPS 1.1 standard. That is, a system into which you can place a
- second processor chip and have both processors run at the same time. If you
- then run OS/2 for SMP, which supports two or more processors, you have a much
- more powerful system should you choose to upgrade. Also, the more processor
- cache memory you can afford in your PC, the better. However, if you can find
- a system which also uses so-called interleaved memory, OS/2 Warp will benefit
- tremendously. Many systems designed as servers use faster interleaved memory.
-
- o Notebook Computers. The critical factor when choosing a notebook computer
- for OS/2 Warp is support for PCMCIA card slots. Most notebooks are now
- supported, but be sure to check ahead of time. If your notebook computer is
- not listed in OS/2 Warp's list of PCMCIA drivers, choose either the closest
- match (in terms of manufacturer) or try each, one by one, in turn. Midwestern
- Micro notebooks, for example, appear to work well with OS/2 Warp's AST
- PowerExec PCMCIA driver. Toshiba now preloads OS/2 Warp on its notebooks, on
- request, and all IBM Thinkpads will ship with OS/2 Warp preloaded.
-
- o Network Adapters. Any network adapter with an "IBM LAN Server" or "IBM OS/2
- NDIS" driver (usually supplied on a diskette with the card) will work fine
- with OS/2 Warp. Ethernet (especially 10BaseT) is a popular choice for PC
- networking. IBM, 3Com, Cabletron, Intel, and SMC are some of the most popular
- brands. However, many large companies have upgraded their Token Ring networks
- to 16 Mbps, so if you are looking for a good value for a small network, 4 Mbps
- IBM Token Ring adapters for both AT bus and Microchannel are inexpensive and
- thoroughly standardized. Setting up a small OS/2 Warp network with Artisoft's
- LANtastic for OS/2? Try an IBM MAU (Multistation Access Unit), as many Token
- Ring cards as you need (used 4 Mbps cards are under $50), and cables. Look in
- the back pages of LAN Times, The Processor, PC Week, and other publications
- which are read by larger corporate computer users, and you'll see great
- bargains on good quality networking products. See (3.8) Networking Products
- for some more advice.
-
-
- Related information:
-
- (2.1) Hardware Requirements
- (2.2) SuperVGA Support
- (2.4) COM3 and COM4 Support
- (2.6) More Than 16 MB RAM
- (3.2) Shareware and Freeware Sources
- (3.6) Multimedia (MMPM/2)
- (3.8) Networking Products
- (3.12) Backup Software
-
-
- (2.6) More Than 16 MB RAM
-
- Can I use more than 16 MB of RAM?
-
- OS/2 Warp will address all the RAM in your system. If the BIOS recognizes the
- memory, OS/2 Warp will find it and use it.
-
- However, on certain systems the RAM beyond the 16 MB boundary may be used as a
- fast swap area. OS/2 Warp relies on its swap file, SWAPPER.DAT, to hold code
- and data which cannot fit into real memory (i.e. to provide virtual memory).
- If the swap file (and applications) can only be accessed via a hard disk
- adapter which uses 24-bit DMA for disk access (e.g. the Adaptec 154x series),
- then the system must move code and data below the 16 MB boundary before it can
- write it to disk. This "double move" is costly (in terms of performance), and
- often OS/2 Warp will merely use all the RAM above the 16 MB boundary as a fast
- swap area (before writing to disk) to avoid the problem. It is up to the hard
- disk adapter driver, however, to decide how to handle this situation.
-
- Only AT bus adapters are limited to 24-bit DMA. Microchannel, EISA, VESA
- LocalBus, and other 32-bit adapters are not so limited. Moreover, only a
- select few AT bus hard disk adapters utilize DMA. Nearly all MFM, RLL, ESDI,
- and IDE adapters, and most SCSI adapters, do not use DMA for disk access.
-
- Suffice it to say that, regardless of your present hardware, OS/2 Warp will
- take advantage of it as best it can. However, if you are planning new
- hardware purchases, you may wish to take this particular hardware design
- limitation into account. Specifically, if you plan to install more than 16 MB
- of RAM in your system, either choose a 32-bit hard disk adapter (Microchannel
- or PCI, for example) or choose an AT bus adapter which does not utilize DMA
- for disk access (a standard IDE adapter, an Adaptec 152x series SCSI adapter,
- or a Future Domain SCSI adapter, for example). The performance trade-off is
- highly system dependent, however. You may find that even DMA adapters such as
- the Adaptec 154x series outperform the alternatives in certain cases.
-
-
- Related information:
-
- (2.5) Specific Hardware Recommendations
-
-
- (2.7) Device Driver List
-
- What device drivers are available that aren't included with OS/2 Warp?
-
- Here is a list of a few of the device drivers (and their common filenames)
- available from (3.2) Shareware and Freeware Sources. New and updated OS/2
- Warp device drivers are being released almost every day, so use this list only
- as a rough guide. If you do not see the driver you need listed, you may be
- able to use one of OS/2 Warp's built-in drivers or a "generic" driver. If you
- develop PC hardware, and wish to create an OS/2 Warp driver, contact the IBM
- Developer Connection (800-6-DEVCON in the United States, for example) to
- obtain the OS/2 Device Driver Development Kit.
-
- o 3Com Etherlink III: 3C5X9.ZIP
- o 8255 PIO Adapter: 2.ZIP
- o Allied Telesis AT-1700T Ethernet: 17LANOS2.ZIP
- o Alpha Research SCSI: SCSIOS.ZIP
- o Always 7048 CD-ROM: AL7048.ZIP
- o Always AL-7000 SCSI: IN2000.ZIP
- o Always IN-2000 SCSI: ALIN2OS2.ZIP
- o AMI SCSI: AMI0OS2.ZIP
- o Apple CD-150/Sony CDU-8002 CD-ROM: CD-150.ZIP
- o Appoint Gliffic Plus: GLIFF1.ZIP
- o ARNET SmartPort Plus: ARNETOS2.ZIP
- o Artpad (Pen for OS/2): ARTPAD.ZIP
- o Aztech 268-01 CD-ROM: AZT268-1.ZIP
- o Aztech 268-03 CD-ROM: AZT268I.ZIP
- o Beethoven Superspin CDD-110 CD-ROM: WEARNES.ZIP
- o Boca Vortek: OS21_VR.ZIP
- o Boca Voyager: VOYOS2.ZIP
- o Calcomp (Pen for OS/2): CALCMP.ZIP
- o Canon BubbleJet printers: BJOS2.ZIP
- o Canon Laser printers: CANLBP.ZIP
- o CE-Infosys SCSI: CEI5630.ZIP
- o Chinon 431, 435, 535 CD-ROM: CHINON.ZIP
- o Chips & Technologies video: C&T643.ZIP
- o Compaq Concerto (Pen for OS/2): CNCRTO.ZIP
- o Conner IDE hard disks (automatic power down): CONNER.ZIP
- o Cornerstone and ImageAccelerator: IAOS2102.ZIP
- o Cyrix 486DLC Cache Enabler: CYRIX.ZIP
- o Diamond Stealth 64: 8OS21.ZIP
- o Diamond Viper VLB video: OS2102.ZIP
- o Digiboard PC/X: 594M.ZIP
- o Digiboard PC/X, MC/X: 309K.ZIP
- o Digiboard driver for IBM LAN Distance: 1142A.ZIP
- o Dolphin 8000 AT CD-ROM: DOLAT001.ZIP
- o DTC 2290 EISA IDE: 32EIDE2.ZIP
- o DTC SCSI: DTCSCSI.ZIP
- o DTC VESA LocalBus IDE: 32EIDE.ZIP
- o Generic 800x600-16 video: SVGA16.ZIP
- o Goldstar R400/R420 CD-ROM: GSCD4X.ZIP
- o Gravis Ultrasound: GUSOS202.ZIP
- o Hercules Dynamite: DYNAMITE.ZIP
- o Hercules Graphite: AGX1596.ZIP
- o IBM 4/10 GB 4 mm DAT: IBM410.ZIP
- o IBM Image Adapter/A: IAAOS2.ZIP
- o IBM Infrared Wireless LAN Adapter: IRLAN.ZIP
- o IBM LANStreamer: DB12.ZIP
- o IBM MWave DSP: OS_2D.ZIP
- o IBM PS/2 Model 95 Info Panel: PS2INF.ZIP
- o IBM Token Ring Busmaster: IBMTRBMO.ZIP
- o Inmos Transputer: TRANSP.ZIP
- o Iomega Bernoulli: BERN231.ZIP
- o Logitech MouseMan/Sensa: L_MS_OS2.ZIP
- o Matrox MGA II+ video: MATROX12.ZIP
- o Microsolutions Backpack CD-ROM: BPCDOS2.ZIP
- o Miro 10SD, 20SD, ERGO video: MISD111.ZIP
- o Miro 20SV, 40SV, ERGO video: MISV101.ZIP
- o Mozart audio: MOZART06.ZIP
- o NCR 53C810 SCSI: NCR810.ZIP
- o NCR video: NCROS215.ZIP
- o NEC 260 IDE CD-ROM: NEC260.ZIP
- o NEC Pinwriter printers: NECPIN.ZIP
- o NET-420C Ethernet: NET420C.ZIP
- o Novell NE-2000 Ethernet: LSNE2.ZIP
- o Number 9 GXE, GXE64, GXE64P: 64OS2.ZIP
- o Number 9 Trio: TRIOOS2.ZIP
- o PC Speaker (MMPM/2): SPKRDD22.ZIP
- o Pentium Workaround (For Flawed CPU): 586NPX.ZIP
- o Promise IDE: OS2DRV11.ZIP
- o QLogic SCSI: QL10OS.ZIP
- o RACAL Interlan NI5210 Ethernet: NI5210O.ZIP
- o RACAL Interlan NI9210 Ethernet: S12963.ZIP
- o Reveal/AZI audio: SCROS2.ZIP
- o Seagate ST-01/ST-02 SCSI: ST01_102.ZIP
- o Sixgraph Wizard 900 video: P9OS2140.ZIP
- o SPEA Mirage P-64 video: MIRAGEP.ZIP
- o Spider Black Widow: BWPOS2.ZIP
- o Spider SC-100E Ethernet: S12960.ZIP
- o STB Express PCI video: EXPOS2.ZIP
- o SummaSketch II: SUMMA.ZIP
- o Teac CD-55 CD-ROM: CD55OS.ZIP
- o TEKRAM DC-800B SCSI: TEKRAM.ZIP
- o TEKRAM IDE Caching controller: DC620OS2.ZIP
- o Texas Instruments TI-4000 Quickport mouse: OS2MICE.ZIP
- o Trantor SCSI: OS2-TSL6.ZIP
- o Trident 9440 video: OS2_9440.ZIP
- o V-7 Mercury video: OSMIP202.ZIP
- o V-7 Mirage video: OSMIR202.ZIP
- o Wacom (Pen for OS/2): WACOMD.ZIP
- o Wearnes DD110/Orchid CDS3110 CD-ROM: CDD110.ZIP
- o Weitek P9x00 video: P9X00HI.ZIP
- o Western Digital/SMC Ethercard Plus: EOO215.ZIP
-
-
- Related information:
-
- (2.2) SuperVGA Support
- (3.2) Shareware and Freeware Sources
-
-
- (3.0) Software
-
- The following questions are addressed in this section:
-
- (3.1) What applications are available for OS/2 Warp?
-
- (3.2) Where can I obtain OS/2 Warp shareware and freeware?
-
- (3.3) What are the "must have" shareware and freeware titles?
-
- (3.4) Is there a Norton Utilities for OS/2 Warp?
-
- (3.5) I would like to set up an OS/2 Warp BBS. What is available?
-
- (3.6) What do I need for OS/2 Warp multimedia applications?
-
- (3.7) Should I worry about viruses when running OS/2 Warp?
-
- (3.8) What networking products are available for OS/2 Warp?
-
- (3.9) How do I connect an OS/2 Warp machine into a peer-to-peer network?
-
- (3.10) What is Extended Services?
-
- (3.11) How do I connect my OS/2 Warp PC to the Internet?
-
- (3.12) What backup software is available?
-
- (3.13) What multiuser extensions and security options are available?
-
- (3.14) What on-the-fly disk compression software is available?
-
- (3.15) Are there any dealers that specialize in OS/2 Warp products?
-
- (3.16) How can I use my scanner with OS/2 Warp?
-
-
- (3.1) Applications
-
- What applications are available for OS/2 Warp?
-
- In addition to the thousands of applications available for DOS and Windows,
- there are over 2,500 OS/2-specific applications representing almost every
- category imaginable. OS/2 Warp provides an attractive, 32-bit, Workplace
- Shell environment for new applications; many do not have DOS/Windows
- predecessors. Here are just a few:
-
- o AIM/SDS
-
- - Galactic Civilizations
- - Tensor
-
- o Alpha Software
-
- - AlphaFour
-
- o Artisoft
-
- - LANtastic for OS/2
-
- o Athena Designs
-
- - Mesa 2 Spreadsheet
-
- o BocaSoft
-
- - System Sounds
- - WipeOut Screen Saver
-
- o Borland
-
- - C++
- - ObjectVision
- - Interbase
-
- o Cawthon Software
-
- - Chipchat Wireless Communicator
-
- o Computer Associates
-
- - CommonView
- - Compete!
- - Datacom
- - dBFast
- - Easytrieve Workstation
- - IDMS
- - PAN/LCM
- - QbyX
- - Realia COBOL
- - Realizer
- - RET
- - Simply Accounting
- - SuperProject
- - Telon/PWS
- - Textor
- - Unicenter
-
- o Corel Systems
-
- - CorelDraw
- - CorelOffice
- - Ventura Publisher
-
- o Creative Systems Programming
-
- - Golden CommPass
-
- o DeScribe
-
- - DeScribe 5
-
- o DUX
-
- - SimCity
-
- o Global Village
-
- - Faxworks Pro
- - Faxworks LAN
-
- o Hilgraeve
-
- - HyperAccess 5
- - KopyKat
-
- o HockWare
-
- - VisPro/REXX
- - VisPro C/C++
-
- o IBM
-
- - ADSM
- - AnyNet/2
- - APL
- - Book Manager
- - C Set ++
- - CallPath/2
- - CICS
- - Communications Manager/2
- - Continuous Speech Series
- - DB2
- - DCAF
- - DCE
- - Developer Connection
- - Device Driver Kit
- - DirecTalk/2
- - DualStor
- - EduQuest educational software (including Columbus and Illuminated Books)
- - FlowMark
- - FormTalk
- - HyperWise
- - LAN Distance
- - LAN Server 4
- - LAN Server for Macintosh
- - LAN Server Ultimedia
- - NetFinity
- - Person to Person/2
- - PL/1
- - Programmer's Toolkit
- - Prolog
- - Screen Magnifier/2
- - Screen Reader/2
- - SearchManager/2
- - SOM Toolkit
- - TCP/IP
- - THINKable/2
- - Time and Place/2
- - TranslationManager/2
- - Ultimedia Builder/2
- - Ultimedia Perfect Image/2
- - VideoCharger
- - VisualAge
- - VisualGen
- - VisualInfo
- - Visualizer
- - VoiceType Dictation for OS/2
- - VRPG
- - (Many others)
-
- o Lotus Development
-
- - 1-2-3
- - Freelance Graphics
- - Notes
- - cc:Mail
- - Ami Pro
-
- o Maxis
-
- - SimCity 2000
-
- o Micrographx
-
- - Draw
- - Designer
-
- o Microrim
-
- - R:Base
-
- o OneUp
-
- - S.M.A.R.T.
- - WindowWasher
-
- o Online Data
-
- - OnCmd xBase
-
- o Proportional Software
-
- - DCF/2 (disk compression)
-
- o Software Corp. of America
-
- - Poly/PM
- - TalkThru
-
- o Stac Electronics
-
- - Stacker 4
-
- o Sundial Systems
-
- - Relish
-
- o Sybase
-
- - System 10 SQL Server
-
- o Symantec
-
- - Fastback Plus
- - Norton Commander
- - Zortech C++
-
- o Watcom
-
- - C++
- - Fortran
- - SQL Server
- - VX-REXX
-
- OS/2 Warp versions of popular utilities include Info-Zip's Zip and Unzip, ARC,
- LHA, Zoo 2.1, many GNU tools, tens of different file finders, desktop clocks,
- calculators, and many more. Programming languages include Ada, APL,
- Assembler, BASIC, C, C++, COBOL, Forth, Fortran, Icon, LISP, Modula-2, Pascal,
- PL/1, Prolog, REXX (included with every copy of OS/2 Warp), Smalltalk, and
- still more, from vendors such as Borland, Cabot, Clarion, IBM, Microway,
- Symantec (through its Zortech subsidiary), Watcom, and many more. Two free
- ports of the 32-bit GNU C/C++ compiler, GCC/2 and EMX/GCC, are available [see
- (3.2) Shareware and Freeware Sources]. See the Programmer's Edition of the
- OS/2 Warp Frequently Asked Questions List for more information on OS/2 Warp
- programming tools and utilities.
-
- The IBM PC Company BBS (919-517-0001) provides an online product database of
- OS/2-specific software. A directory of OS/2 applications, IBM document number
- G362-0029, is published by Graphics Plus (phone 800-READ-OS2). The OS/2
- Development Tools Guide is available free of charge by calling the IBM
- Developer Assistance Program at (407) 982-6408. TINF [see (3.2) Shareware and
- Freeware Sources] is an applications directory (for use with the OS/2 VIEW
- facility).
-
-
- Related information:
-
- (1.3) DOS and Windows Compatibility
- (3.2) Shareware and Freeware Sources
- (3.15) Dealers Specializing in OS/2 Warp
-
-
- (3.2) Shareware and Freeware Sources
-
- Where can I obtain OS/2 Warp shareware and freeware?
-
- See (4.11) OS/2 Warp BBSes for information on bulletin board systems that
- support OS/2 Warp.
-
- On the Internet, the Usenet conference comp.binaries.os2 carries OS/2
- software. And several sites are available via anonymous ftp. (No ftp? Send
- a single line message with the word HELP to bitftp@pucc.bitnet or
- ftpmail@decwrl.dec.com to learn about ftp mail servers.) Some are (with
- Internet node numbers and subdirectories):
-
- ftp-os2.cdrom.com 192.153.46.2 pub/os2
- ftp-os2.nmsu.edu 128.123.35.151 os2
- software.watson.ibm.com 129.34.139.5 pub/os2
- mtsg.ubc.ca 137.82.27.1 os2:
- access.usask.ca 128.233.3.1 pub/archives/os2
- luga.latrobe.edu.au 131.172.2.2 pub/os2
- funic.funet.fi 128.214.6.100 pub/os2
- pdsoft.lancs.ac.uk 148.88.64.2 micros/ibmpc/os2
- ftp.uni-stuttgart.de 129.69.1.12 soft/os2
- src.doc.ic.ac.uk 146.169.2.1 computing/systems/os2
- zaphod.cs.uwindsor.ca 137.207.224.3 pub/local/os2
- ftp.luth.se 130.240.18.2 pub/pc/os2
- ftp.informatik.tu-muenchen.de 131.159.0.198 pub/comp/os/os2
-
- The ftp-os2.cdrom.com library is available on CD-ROM from Walnut Creek (phone
- 510-947-5996). A quarterly subscription is available. Profit Press (phone
- 800-843-7990) also offers OS/2 shareware and freeware on CD-ROM. EMS (phone
- 301-924-3594) offers an OS/2 shareware/freeware library on diskette.
-
- Other sources include CompuServe, Prodigy, America Online, GEnie, BIX, and
- numerous other online services. See (4.7) Online Services.
-
- IBM has been releasing freely distributable employee written software (e.g.
- Excal, Visual REXX) and OS/2 patches to these electronic archives.
-
-
- Related information:
-
- (3.3) "Must Have" Shareware and Freeware
- (3.5) Running a BBS Under OS/2 Warp
- (3.7) Viruses
- (4.6) Corrective Service Diskettes
- (4.7) Online Services
- (4.11) OS/2 Warp BBSes
-
-
- (3.3) "Must Have" Shareware and Freeware
-
- What are the "must have" shareware and freeware titles?
-
- Here are some of the shareware and freeware selections that have proven
- popular among OS/2 Warp users. Where available, an approximate filename is
- provided. However, since version numbers are changing frequently, please bear
- in mind that some of this information may be dated. Also, please register any
- shareware you use -- your support will ensure a continuing supply of capable
- OS/2 Warp shareware.
-
- o 4OS2 Version 2.5 (4OS225B.ZIP): A replacement command interpreter from JP
- Software. A must for command line users.
-
- o BlackHole (BLCKH3.ZIP): A Workplace Shell object that destroys anything
- dragged to it.
-
- o BookShelf (BOOKSHLF.ZIP): Utility which presents a coherent menu of all
- available INF files on your system. Creates an OS/2 bootable diskette.
-
- o C-Kermit 5A(190) (CKO190_.ZIP): A terminal emulation and modem
- communications program featuring the Kermit file transfer protocol.
-
- o CONFIG.SYS Editor (CFGED1B.ZIP): A Presentation Manager utility which eases
- CONFIG.SYS editing.
-
- o emTeX (various): Provides professional typesetting and document
- composition.
-
- o EMX/GCC (various): Powerful C/C++ compiler with programming aids and
- enhanced libraries.
-
- o Enhanced Editor Toolkit and Accessories (various): Add-ons to the Enhanced
- Editor (EPM) which provide editor macro capabilities, documentation, and
- various accessories.
-
- o Extended Attributes Backup (EABK23.ZIP): Saves extended attributes so that
- non-EA aware backup software preserves all necessary OS/2 data.
-
- o FM/2 Utilities (FM2UTILS.ZIP): FAT/HPFS defragmenters and more.
-
- o Galleria (GALLER22.ZIP): Graphics manipulation and screen capture utility.
- Also try PM Camera for screen capture.
-
- o GhostScript PM (GSPM26.ZIP): Postscript interpreter and viewer.
-
- o GTAK GNU tar (GTAK24.ZIP): Tape archive (backup and restore) utility.
- Supports SCSI tape drives.
-
- o HSwitch (HSWTCH02.ZIP): A task list for full screen sessions.
-
- o IBM Configurator and Pricer (ICPAUSA.ZIP): Prices IBM personal computer
- systems and accessories.
-
- o Icon Extractor (ICON_170.ZIP): Converts Windows icons to OS/2 format.
- Icons can be extracted from Windows executables. Assigns icons via drag and
- drop. Deletes undeleteable objects.
-
- o Icon Programming Language (ICON88.ZIP): A simple yet powerful programming
- language for many platforms, including OS/2 Warp. Supports graphical
- applications.
-
- o Info-Zip's UnZip 5.1 (UNZ512X2.EXE): Extract files from ZIP archives.
- PKZip 2.x compatible. Supports extended attributes. Companion utility, Zip
- 1.9, also available.
-
- o INI Maintenance (INIMT33D.ZIP): Edit and maintain your vital OS/2 INI
- files.
-
- o Internet Relay Chat (IRC2_021.ZIP): Connection to the Internet Relay Chat
- system. Works with OS/2 Warp's Internet Connection software.
-
- o McAfee's Virus Scan (OSC214.ZIP): Detects viruses. Companion Virus Clean
- and Net Scan utilities also available.
-
- o Minesweeper (DMINE121.ZIP): A game which requires you to avoid the mines in
- a minefield. Several other versions are available.
-
- o MR/2 (MR2_220.ZIP): Reader for BBS QWK mail packets. File manager and
- program launcher.
-
- o NetSuite (NSUITE1B.ZIP): A collection of popular Internet software
- packages.
-
- o OS2Exec (OS2EXEC.ZIP): Start any OS/2 program from any OS/2 DOS session.
-
- o OS2You (OS2YOU30.ZIP): OS/2 remote control over a modem or LAN connection.
- Companion program PM2You, for control of graphical applications, including DOS
- and Windows, is also available.
-
- o PMMPEG (PMMPG21A.ZIP): A software-only MPEG video player for OS/2 Warp --
- perfect when using the Internet.
-
- o PM 'Poze (PMPOZE.ZIP): Music composition software for OS/2 Warp with
- support for MOD music files.
-
- o PM UUEncode/Decode (PMUUE120.ZIP): A friendly UUEncode/Decode utility for
- converting binary files to plain ASCII text and vice versa. Handy when using
- OS/2 Warp's Internet Connection.
-
- o PMView (PMVU86B.ZIP): Shareware GIF, JPEG, etc. image viewer with
- slideshow and drag-and-drop features. Other image viewers include JoeView,
- Image Archiver, and PMJPEG.
-
- o Pretty Good Privacy (PGP26OS2.ZIP): Encryption/decryption of files for
- enforcing privacy.
-
- o PS Assistant (PSAST101.ZIP): Provides information on most of the IBM
- personal computer product line, including OS/2.
-
- o psPM (PSPM2.ZIP): Displays a graphical representation of the processes
- running on an OS/2 system and allows termination of any or all.
-
- o 'Roids (ROIDS23.ZIP): The classic Asteroids game updated for OS/2 Warp,
- with multimedia.
-
- o Screen Blanker (BLANKR47.ZIP): Customizable screen saver and desktop lockup
- utility.
-
- o SIO COM Drivers (SIO145.ZIP): Replacement serial port drivers which offer
- enhanced performance.
-
- o Souper (SOUPER12.ZIP): Downloads e-mail and new messages in newsgroups from
- the Internet for later reading, offline. Works well with Yarn for OS/2.
-
- o StartD (STARTD22.ZIP): Provides the capability to start DOS sessions with
- specific, custom DOS Settings from the OS/2 command line.
-
- o UUPC/Extended (various): Provides uucp connection for mail, news, and other
- services.
-
- o Visual REXX (VREXX2.ZIP): Provides the ability to write REXX programs which
- use Presentation Manager windows, scroll bars, menus, and other features.
-
- o Workplace Shell Backup (WPSBK30.ZIP): Backup the OS/2 desktop.
-
- o Workplace Shell Tools (WPTOOL09.ZIP): Creates or deletes standard Workplace
- Shell objects.
-
- o Worldwide OS/2 BBS List (OS2WORLD.ZIP): List of BBSes around the world
- where OS/2 is the predominant area of discussion and where large OS/2 software
- archives are held.
-
- o Zap-o-Com (ZOC203.ZIP): A popular, full featured modem communications
- application from Germany.
-
- o ZipStream (ZS103A.ZIP): On-the-fly disk compression using a safer,
- file-by-file approach. Works with both FAT and HPFS.
-
- o ZTreeBold (ZTB120.ZIP): One of several file managers for OS/2 Warp. Others
- include FileJet, ADU/2, OS/2 Commander, and literally over a dozen others.
-
-
- Related information:
-
- (3.2) Shareware and Freeware Sources
-
-
- (3.4) Disk Utilities
-
- Is there a Norton Utilities for OS/2 Warp?
-
- Not yet, although Norton Desktop, Norton Utilities, and Norton Commander all
- work under OS/2 Warp's DOS/Windows sessions [with limitations; see (1.3) DOS
- and Windows Compatibility]. Also, Norton Commander is now available for OS/2
- Warp.
-
- However, there are at least three sets of system utilities just for OS/2 Warp:
- GammaTech Utilities, JFS Utilities, and Graham Utilities. All are available
- from dealers specializing in OS/2 Warp software. Note that OS/2 Warp has a
- built-in UNDELETE command (see the online Command Reference for instructions
- on how to enable UNDELETE), and HPFS is resistant to fragmentation [see (1.5)
- High Performance File System].
-
-
- Related information:
-
- (1.3) DOS and Windows Compatibility
- (1.5) High Performance File System
- (3.15) Dealers Specializing in OS/2 Warp
-
-
- (3.5) Running a BBS Under OS/2 Warp
-
- I would like to set up an OS/2 Warp BBS. What is available?
-
- OS/2 Warp is an excellent environment for BBS operation (even using
- DOS/Windows software), including large multiline facilities. Related software
- will enable FidoNet capabilities, gateways to Usenet/UUCP, nodelist
- processing, additional file transfer protocols, and more.
-
- Six popular OS/2 Warp BBSes are Maximus, Lora, and Simplex [available from
- (3.2) Shareware and Freeware Sources), Omega Point/2 (BBS 404-564-1961),
- Magnum (phone 818-706-9800, BBS 818-706-9805), and Multi-Net (phone
- 503-883-8099, BBS 503-883-8197).
-
- For more information on operating a BBS under OS/2 Warp (with conferences
- devoted to the subject) log on to one of the OS/2 Warp BBSes listed in (4.11)
- OS/2 Warp BBSes.
-
-
- Related information:
-
- (2.4) COM3 and COM4 Support
- (4.11) OS/2 Warp BBSes
-
-
- (3.6) Multimedia (MMPM/2)
-
- What do I need for OS/2 Warp multimedia applications?
-
- OS/2 Warp includes support for both the Windows multimedia extensions and
- MMPM/2, the OS/2 Warp multimedia extensions, at no extra charge. OS/2 Warp's
- MMPM/2 includes software motion video support for IBM Ultimotion, Intel Indeo,
- and Autodesk FLI/FLC files. Software motion video provides playback of video
- clips in a window under OS/2 Warp. (Video for Windows will operate correctly
- under Win-OS/2, but Ultimotion is far more capable than Video for Windows.
- Ultimotion supports higher frame rates, larger image sizes, better
- synchronization of video and audio, stretching, and, often, simultaneous
- playback of two or more video clips, even with background tasks running.) An
- accelerated display adapter and a fast processor can help improve the quality
- of software motion video.
-
- Drivers for the following multimedia adapters (audio, video capture, video
- display, MPEG, etc.) are included with OS/2 Warp:
-
- o AITech WaveWatcher
- o AudioDrive (ESS 688)
- o Business Audio (AD1848)
- o CEI Video Clipper
- o Compaq Business Audio
- o Creative Labs SoundBlaster
- o Creative Labs SoundBlaster 16
- o Creative Labs SoundBlaster AWE32
- o Creative Labs SoundBlaster Pro
- o Creative Labs VideoBlaster
- o Hauppauge Win/TV
- o IBM M-Audio
- o IBM Thinkpad Audio (Crystal)
- o MediaVision Jazz 16
- o MediaVision ProAudio Spectrum 16
- o New Media Graphics Super VideoWindows
- o OmniComp M&M Basic
- o Samsung VideoMagic
- o Sigma Designs Reel Magic
- o Sound Galaxy NOVA 16 Extra
- o Toshiba 4700C
- o Toshiba 6600C
-
- If you have an audio card that is not on this list, it may still work with a
- similar driver. For example, the MediaVision ProAudio Studio and ProAudio
- Spectrum Plus (see below) sound cards will work with the ProAudio Spectrum 16
- driver. Also, many ATI sound cards work with the Creative Labs SoundBlaster
- or SoundBlaster Pro driver. Some ATI sound cards, however, require a BIOS
- upgrade.
-
- Other drivers (including one for the popular Gravis Ultrasound) are available
- either from the manufacturer of your sound card or from (3.2) Shareware and
- Freeware Sources.
-
- If you do not have a sound card, there is a MMPM/2 driver for the standard PC
- speaker, also available from OS/2 Warp shareware and freeware sources.
- However, this driver demands a huge amount of processor attention and does not
- provide sound quality that even approaches the simplest sound card.
-
- Note that the MediaVision ProAudio Spectrum Plus operates correctly when using
- the built-in MMPM/2 ProAudio Spectrum 16 driver. However, to obtain full
- functionality you must change the PARAMSTRING line in the [ibmwavepas1601]
- section of the file \MMOS2\MMPM2.INI after installation of MMPM/2. Using a
- text editor (like the OS/2 System Editor), change the line so that BPS=8
- instead of BPS=16. This change causes MMPM/2 to default to 8-bit audio (since
- the ProAudio Spectrum Plus does not support 16-bit audio).
-
- REXX programs [see (5.11) REXX] can be used to play, record, and manipulate
- MMPM/2 audio and video files. For more information on REXX and MMPM/2,
- consult the online Multimedia with REXX document (located in the Multimedia
- folder).
-
- More information on IBM's OS/2 Warp multimedia extensions (MMPM/2) and tools,
- Ultimotion, multimedia hardware, and IBM multimedia titles (e.g. Illuminated
- Manuscript) is available through IBM's Multimedia Office (phone 800-426-9402
- ext. 150).
-
- Support for DOS and Windows applications which require access to a sound card
- will depend on which sound card you have. Generally such applications will
- work fine. At the worst you may have to turn off MMPM/2 support and/or run
- only one DOS or Windows application which requires use of the sound card at a
- time. At best you can run DOS, Windows, and OS/2 applications which use the
- sound card at the same time. For advice on setting up DOS, Windows, and OS/2
- multimedia applications, consult the Multimedia online document, located in
- your Information folder.
-
-
- Related information:
-
- (0.4) Special Report on OS/2 Warp
- (1.3) DOS and Windows Compatibility
- (2.5) Specific Hardware Recommendations
- (3.2) Shareware and Freeware Sources
- (4.5) Technical Support
- (5.11) REXX
- (6.4) IBMRALLY MIDI File
-
-
- (3.7) Viruses
-
- Should I worry about viruses when running OS/2 Warp?
-
- At present there are no viruses specific to OS/2 Warp. However, DOS/Windows
- viruses can conceivably infect an OS/2 Warp system. DOS/Windows antivirus
- tools are just as useful in preventing such infection. Also, IBM has an
- antivirus package (AntiVirus/2) which runs under OS/2 Warp directly (without
- using a DOS or Windows session). To order AntiVirus/2, call 800-551-3579
- (800-465-7999 in Canada). Other antivirus packages for OS/2 Warp include
- Central Point's AntiVirus, McAfee's SCAN and CLEAN, and Dr. Solomon's
- Antivirus Toolkit, Dr. Cohen, and F-PROT.
-
- But OS/2 Warp is likely to be much more resistant to viruses because of its
- design. Viruses running in one virtual DOS/Windows session are likely to be
- confined to that session. Low level disk access is curtailed under OS/2 Warp,
- thus preventing most virus infection at that level. And when a DOS/Windows
- virus does trigger, it is far less likely to disrupt the entire system. In
- fact, OS/2 Warp is most vulnerable when it isn't in charge (i.e. when native
- DOS is being used). A DOS virus then has free reign to write to the hard disk
- and possibly disable OS/2 Warp. The greater risk comes from leaving OS/2
- Warp.
-
- OS/2 Warp is by no means virus proof -- no system is. But it should prove
- more resistant to virus infection.
-
-
- Related information:
-
- (1.3) DOS and Windows Compatibility
-
-
- (3.8) Networking Products
-
- What networking products are available for OS/2 Warp?
-
- Unfortunately, PC networking can be a complicated subject. The simple act of
- connecting two PCs can be easy, though, if you understand a little bit about
- how networks operate (and how they relate to OS/2 Warp). With that caveat in
- mind, here is a plain English introduction to networking with OS/2 Warp.
-
-
- Drivers for Network Adapters
-
- OS/2 Warp drivers are available for nearly all network adapters because of
- OS/2's dominant position as the software of choice for PC networking. There
- are two types of OS/2 Warp network drivers in general use: NDIS and ODI. ODI
- is only used by the Novell Netware Client Kit for OS/2. NDIS drivers are used
- for all other OS/2 networking software in common use.
-
- If you only wish to connect your OS/2 Warp PC to Novell Netware servers using
- the Novell Netware Client Kit for OS/2, then you should use an OS/2 ODI
- network card driver. The driver will likely be supplied with the Novell
- Netware Client Kit for OS/2 (see below).
-
- If you do not plan to run the Novell Netware Client Kit for OS/2, or you plan
- to run it in combination with other OS/2 networking or communications
- software, you should plan on using the OS/2 NDIS (also sometimes known as the
- IBM LAN Server) driver for your network card. The OS/2 NDIS driver is almost
- always found on a diskette accompanying your network card or can be obtained
- directly from the manufacturer. It may also be included in the OS/2
- networking software you purchase (for example, IBM LAN Server 4 or Artisoft's
- LANtastic for OS/2). OS/2 NDIS drivers for many network adapters are also
- available from (3.2) Shareware and Freeware Sources, as well as vax.ftp.com
- via Internet anonymous ftp. Drivers for 3Com adapters are available via
- anonymous ftp from ftp.3com.com, from the 3Com Support BBS, or from CompuServe
- (GO THREECOM). Drivers for Cabletron adapters are available via anonymous ftp
- from ftp.ctron.com.
-
- Make sure you request the driver intended for OS/2 Version 2.0 or later. OS/2
- NDIS drivers written for earlier releases of OS/2 can be used, but they will
- require that you edit the accompanying .NIF file so that more recent
- installation programs will recognize it.
-
- The Novell Netware Client Kit for OS/2 can use OS/2 NDIS drivers if you
- install an ODI to NDIS converter. This converter (or "shim") is supplied as
- part of either IBM's Network Transport Services/2 (LAPS) or the replacement
- product, IBM Multiprotocol Transport Services (MPTS/LAPS). (NTS/2 should be
- considered an earlier version of MPTS.) MPTS forms the core of all OS/2 Warp
- networking software. It provides the installation and configuration utility
- for matching network card drivers with networking protocols. IBM licenses
- MPTS to many vendors, and it is included with most OS/2 networking products.
- MPTS is almost always the first software you should install (after OS/2 Warp)
- to allow your PC to access a network. Using MPTS, you simply select your
- network card(s), then select which networking protocol(s) you wish to run with
- your network card(s), and MPTS takes care of the rest.
-
-
- What Networking Protocols are Available?
-
- There are few (if any) networking protocols which are not available for OS/2
- Warp. A networking protocol is simply the language used for communicating
- with other systems across the network. OS/2 Warp allows you to use multiple
- networking protocols, at the same time, over the same network card, should you
- need to, so you can mix and match as need be (without taking away precious
- memory from your DOS applications). Sometimes networking protocols are
- available by themselves ( packaged without any client software to take
- advantage of the protocol). For example, the IBM LAN Server 4 requester
- (client) software includes all the programs you need to access a server (or
- peer) running IBM LAN Server 4. It also includes MPTS with NetBIOS (the
- primary protocol used for communicating with systems running LAN Server,
- Windows for Workgroups, and NT, among others). However, the same MPTS
- includes other protocol support, including TCP/IP, 802.2 (SNA/APPN), and the
- ODI to NDIS converter (used to run the Novell NetWare Client Kit for OS/2).
- Other times OS/2 networking software comes with everything you need in one
- box. Still other times the software which uses a particular networking
- protocol is packaged separate from MPTS and the protocol support. For
- example, the Internet Connection, part of OS/2 Warp's BonusPak, works only
- with a modem using a dial-up connection to the Internet unless you add MPTS
- (which provides TCP/IP protocol support for network cards).
-
- There are four primary networking protocols for PCs in use today. If you are
- just starting to venture into the world of PC networking, you need not
- understand everything about these protocols, but you should know what popular
- OS/2 Warp networking software uses each.
-
- o TCP/IP (Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol)
-
- As the name suggests, TCP/IP is the predominant protocol used for connecting
- systems into the Internet. Due to the popularity of the Internet, and due to
- the fact that TCP/IP is available for a larger variety of systems than any
- other networking protocol, TCP/IP use is growing rapidly. TCP/IP is designed
- to be routed over wide area networks, so it is well suited for campus
- environments and for connecting many remote locations. However, TCP/IP has
- several disadvantages. It can be difficult to configure (although OS/2 Warp's
- TCP/IP support is the easiest yet devised). It treats all network traffic the
- same, regardless of its importance. It is not very efficient handling
- exceptionally busy network links. It cannot guarantee delivery of real time
- information (and thus doesn't work particularly well with audio and video).
- Finally, NFS (Network File System), the software used to share disks over a
- TCP/IP-based network, lacks features and performance.
-
- The following software packages for OS/2 Warp provide TCP/IP protocol support
- for network adapters (in other words, they include MPTS):
-
- - IBM DCE Client Kit for OS/2
- - IBM LAN Server 4
- - IBM LAN Server 4 Requester (Client) for OS/2 (comes with LAN Server 4)
- - IBM AnyNet/2
- - Most other products with MPTS
-
- The following software packages for OS/2 Warp provide TCP/IP protocol support
- plus TCP/IP access software beyond that included with OS/2 Warp:
-
- - IBM TCP/IP Version 2 for OS/2 Base Services Kit (requires latest Service
- Pak)
-
- Includes both client and server software, including telnetd, ftpd, rshd,
- rexecd, and more.
-
- - IBM TCP/IP Version 2 for OS/2 Accessory Kits (require latest Service Paks)
-
- Add-on kits are available for NFS (server and client), X Window Server, Domain
- Name Server, X.25 Extended Networking, and more.
-
- Other protocols (such as NetBIOS) can be encapsulated and routed over TCP/IP.
- (MPTS provides the support to do so.) WinSock support is provided with OS/2
- Warp's Internet Connection software, so you can run any TCP/IP or Internet
- software designed for Windows under OS/2 Warp. See (0.4) Special Report on
- OS/2 Warp for additional information on TCP/IP, the Internet, and OS/2 Warp.
-
- o NetBIOS/SMB
-
- NetBIOS is the "native" protocol used by IBM LAN Server, Artisoft's LANtastic
- (Version 5 and later, including LANtastic for OS/2), Windows for Workgroups,
- Microsoft Windows NT, Microsoft LAN Manager, and several other PC-based
- network software packages. The protocol is fairly well standardized, and all
- these systems can "talk" to one another. NetBIOS is the highest performance
- networking protocol available for PCs (or, more precisely, IBM LAN Server 4
- Advanced has been rated the fastest PC network server by LANQuest Labs when
- compared with Microsoft NT Advanced Server, which uses NetBIOS, and Novell
- Netware, which uses the IPX protocol). However, its major disadvantage is
- that it cannot be easily routed over wide area networks (see above).
-
- The following software packages for OS/2 Warp provide NetBIOS protocol support
- for network adapters:
-
- - IBM LAN Distance
- - IBM Network Transport Services/2
- - IBM Communications Manager (Version 1.1 or later)
- - Most other products with LAPS
- - IBM DCE Client Kit for OS/2
- - IBM AnyNet/2
- - Most other products with MPTS
-
- The following software packages for OS/2 Warp provide NetBIOS protocol support
- for your network card plus access software for sharing disks, printers, etc.,
- over a NetBIOS-based network:
-
- - Artisoft's LANtastic for OS/2
-
- The premier peer-to-peer networking package for OS/2 Warp. Quickly, easily,
- and inexpensively connects you to other OS/2 Warp PCs with LANtastic or IBM
- LAN Server, and Microsoft Windows for Workgroups and NT PCs. LAN Times raves
- that LANtastic for OS/2 is much easier to use than any other version.
-
- - IBM LAN Server 4
-
- Rated the fastest network operating system by LANQuest Labs. Available in
- both Entry and Advanced versions, and second only to Novell Netware in
- marketshare, IBM LAN Server 4 now includes both TCP/IP and NetBIOS protocol
- support, drag-and-drop administration, better documentation, and a host of
- other enhancements. Winner of "Best of Show" at Networld+Interop.
-
- - IBM LAN Server 4 Requester (Client) for OS/2
-
- Offers connection to any NetBIOS-based server, even using NetBIOS over TCP/IP.
- Also offers limited peer-to-peer networking. Diskettes containing this
- software are included with IBM LAN Server 4 only.
-
- In short, for small peer-to-peer networks, Artisoft's LANtastic for OS/2 is an
- excellent choice. When your needs grow, IBM LAN Server 4 Entry Edition fits
- the bill. And, when your needs require the fastest PC server you can get, IBM
- LAN Server 4 Advanced Edition is the wise move.
-
- o IPX/SPX
-
- IPX is a protocol which was designed by Novell. It is used to connect to
- Novell Netware servers and to PCs running Personal Netware.
-
- The following software packages for OS/2 Warp provide IPX protocol support and
- Netware access software for your network card:
-
- - Novell Netware Client Kit for OS/2
-
- Updated regularly (the latest version is Release 2.11), the Netware Kit for
- OS/2 is freely available from Compuserve, OS/2 Warp BBSes, and many other
- electronic sources. (Novell collects revenue from higher priced servers and
- provides free or nearly free client software.) To use the Netware Kit with
- OS/2 NDIS drivers (and other OS/2 Warp networking software), be sure to select
- Netware support when you configure your network card using MPTS. If you only
- plan to use your network card to access Novell Netware servers, you can use an
- OS/2 ODI driver (if available).
-
- - Novell Netware for OS/2 (from IBM)
-
- A kit which allows you to install the regular Novell Netware 4.01 server
- software on an OS/2 PC. Your complete Netware server can then run alongside
- any other DOS, Windows, or OS/2 applications, even IBM LAN Server 4, on the
- same PC.
-
- o 802.2/SNA
-
- IBM's enterprise networking protocols are collectively referred to as SNA
- (Systems Networking Architecture). These are the protocols used to connect
- PCs to other PCs, midrange systems (such as the AS/400), and mainframe systems
- (such as the ES/9000). SNA protocols are similar to TCP/IP in that they are
- being used to connect a variety of different systems together. However, SNA
- protocols offer features such as rollback/commit options (for keeping
- databases in sync), priority markers (for giving more important traffic
- preference), and better utilization over busy networks.
-
- Communications Manager/2 is a comprehensive package designed for enterprise
- networking with SNA protocols using dial-up, ISDN, coax, or network links.
- Terminal emulation (IBM 3270, IBM 5250), file transfer (IND$FILE), APPC/APPN,
- SDLC, LU 8.2, and more are all included. In other words, all the access
- software you need for taking advantage of IBM's enterprise networking is in
- one integrated package. Communications Manager/2 Version 1.1 (or later)
- includes NTS/2 (LAPS).
-
-
- What Other Networking Packages are Available for OS/2 Warp?
-
- The four primary protocols are not the only protocols in use today (and they
- are not the only protocols which are available for OS/2 Warp). Other packages
- include:
-
- o DEC Pathworks (DECnet)
-
- o Banyan Vines Requester (Client) for OS/2
-
- o AppleTalk (included with Lotus Notes for OS/2)
-
- o IBM LAN Server for Macintosh
-
- Designed to run alongside a PC running IBM LAN Server 4, LAN Server for
- Macintosh allows the same server to be accessed by Apple Macintoshes on the
- network. It makes an IBM LAN Server 4 system look like an AppleShare server.
-
- In addition, there are many other software packages designed for networks
- which are also designed for OS/2 Warp. Some are servers (Lotus Notes, cc:Mail
- Post Office for OS/2, and database servers such as IBM DB2 for OS/2 and Sybase
- System 10 SQL Server). Some are gateways and middleware (for example, IBM LAN
- Distance, which provides secure dial-up access to your office network; your
- modem behaves just like a network card, up to the speed of your modem). Some
- help manage networks (like IBM Netview for OS/2, IBM NetFinity, and
- CA-Unicenter from Computer Associates). Some let you control a PC over the
- network (IBM DCAF, Hilgraeve's KopyKat, and SCA's Poly/PM, for example). Some
- automate backups over a network (IBM ADSM). Some check for viruses (IBM
- Antivirus/2, McAfee ViruScan for OS/2). Some help you install software over a
- network (IBM LAD/2, IBM NetView Distribution Manager). And some just simply
- don't fit into any neat category (including Global Village's Faxworks LAN, IBM
- DCE, IBM SOM Toolkit, and IBM Time and Place/2). By no means is this a
- comprehensive list. And these software packages aren't reinventing the wheel;
- they all use one (or more) of the above mentioned networking protocols to
- communicate. So, for example, you might choose Artisoft's LANtastic for OS/2
- and the Lotus Smartsuite for OS/2 (which includes cc:Mail for OS/2) to set up
- a small PC network with electronic mail, since cc:Mail works fine with
- NetBIOS.
-
- Suffice it to say that OS/2 Warp is the most connected PC operating system,
- and it connects with style. Infoworld, in fact, calls OS/2 the best network
- client (and awarded it the "Interoperability Award").
-
-
- Related information:
-
- (0.4) Special Report on OS/2 Warp
- (1.3) DOS and Windows Compatibility
- (3.2) Shareware and Freeware Sources
- (3.9) Peer-to-Peer Networking
- (3.10) Extended Services
- (3.11) Internet Connection
- (3.13) Multiuser Extensions and Security
- (4.6) Corrective Service Diskettes
- (5.9) Specific DOS Sessions
-
-
- (3.9) Peer-to-Peer Networking
-
- How do I connect an OS/2 Warp machine into a peer-to-peer network?
-
- There are three preferred packages for connecting your OS/2 Warp PC into a
- peer-to-peer network:
-
- o Artisoft's LANtastic for OS/2
-
- Simplest, easiest, and least expensive. Rated 4.5 (out of a possible 5
- points) by LAN Times. Connects with other LANtastic PCs (DOS, Windows, and
- OS/2), IBM LAN Server, Microsoft LAN Manager, Windows for Workgroups, and
- Windows NT.
-
- o IBM TCP/IP Version 2 for OS/2 with NFS Kit
-
- NFS (Network File System) is the standard way to share disks with other
- systems across a TCP/IP network (including the Internet). The IBM NFS Kit
- turns any OS/2 Warp PC into an NFS client and server. If you want to
- participate in a peer-to-peer network with many Unix-based workstations
- (including IBM's RS/6000s), this choice is best. If you have TCP/IP protocol
- support from some other networking product (such as one which includes MPTS),
- the IBM TCP/IP Version 2 for OS/2 Base Services Kit is not absolutely
- required.
-
- o IBM Communications Manager/2
-
- APPN/APPC protocols for peer-to-peer networking are provided in this
- comprehensive package for IBM enterprise networking with SNA. Your OS/2 Warp
- PC is a full peer with midrange systems (such as the IBM AS/400) and
- mainframes (such as the IBM ES/9000). If these acronyms are foreign to you,
- try LANtastic for OS/2.
-
-
- Related information:
-
- (0.4) Special Report on OS/2 Warp
- (3.8) Networking Products
- (3.10) Extended Services
-
-
- (3.10) Extended Services
-
- What is Extended Services?
-
- Prior to Version 2.0, IBM offered two separate packages with each release of
- OS/2: Standard Edition and Extended Edition. Extended Edition included
- extra, bundled software products: the Communications Manager (for
- communication with IBM mainframes, minicomputers, and other hosts), Database
- Manager (a full, network aware, relational database), and LAN Requester.
-
- Later, IBM unbundled the Extended Edition features, dropped LAN Requester from
- the package (now available separately, with IBM's LAN Server), updated it for
- OS/2 2.x, and renamed it Extended Services 1.0. ES, by itself, did not
- include the base operating system as Extended Edition once did.
-
- Most recently, IBM has stopped selling Extended Services, splitting it up into
- DB2 for OS/2 (a full 32-bit relational database) and Communications Manager/2.
- With each component available "a la carte," you can configure your OS/2 Warp
- system to your exact specifications (almost always at a lower cost), and you
- are free to substitute similar products from other vendors (so you aren't
- locked into IBM's offerings).
-
- To install the now obsolete Extended Services 1.0 under OS/2 2.1 or later, you
- must replace the ESSTART.CMD file on ES Diskette 1 with the ESSTART.BAK file
- found in the \OS2\INSTALL directory. Remember to keep a backup of the old
- file.
-
-
- Related information:
-
- (1.2) Differences Between Versions
- (2.1) Hardware Requirements
- (3.8) Networking Products
- (4.6) Corrective Service Diskettes
-
-
- (3.11) Internet Connection
-
- How do I connect my OS/2 Warp PC to the Internet?
-
- The following information is adapted from a chapter appearing in the
- forthcoming book Internet Secrets from IDG Books, a comprehensive guide to the
- Internet.
-
- IBM's flagship software for PCs, OS/2 Warp, ships with a BonusPak of full
- fledged 32-bit applications, including a suite of Internet access
- applications. This section describes those capabilities, why you might choose
- OS/2 Warp to connect to the Internet, and how to configure and customize some
- of the special features found in the OS/2 Warp Internet Connection.
-
-
- What is OS/2 Warp's Internet Connection?
-
- The Internet Connection supplied with the basic OS/2 Warp package provides
- everything you need to access the Internet using a direct dial-up SLIP or PPP
- connection. There are two modem dialers supplied with the package. One
- registers you with the IBM Global Network (currently the only worldwide
- dial-up Internet service provider) and the other lets you sign onto any third
- party provider of your choice. Three free hours of Internet access on the IBM
- Global Network are provided with every copy of OS/2 Warp.
-
- OS/2 Warp's BonusPak also includes Person to Person, Video IN, Multimedia
- Viewer, and other applications which enhance the capabilities of the Internet
- Connection software. Person to Person allows you to engage in "conference
- calls" on your PC, where you can exchange information using a shared
- chalkboard and even broadcast video signals if you have a high speed
- connection and the necessary hardware. Whatever you copy into your chalkboard
- (such as a Lotus 1-2-3 spreadsheet) is seen by others in your Person to Person
- conference. Participants can draw lines, add text, point to items, and
- annotate inside the shared chalkboard window. Person to Person works over
- many types of networks, including the Internet Connection. Video IN allows
- you to record video clips from a VCR, laserdisc player, or other video signal
- using any of several video capture adapters for your PC. However, even if you
- do not have a video capture card, you can use OS/2 Warp's Video IN to create
- animated weather sequences, for example, like those you see on television as
- part of the weather forecast. You can use the Internet Connection to download
- weather maps of your favorite part of the world, then assemble those weather
- maps into a movie using Video IN. Multimedia Viewer extends OS/2 Warp's
- multimedia capabilities so that you can view and collect several image types
- (such as Kodak Photo CD, TIFF, GIF, Targa, and others) as well as play back
- audio files from other systems (such as the Sun .AU format), file types which
- are common on the Internet.
-
- OS/2 Warp has several key benefits, all by itself, which make it a powerful
- platform for accessing the Internet. One of OS/2's key strengths for years
- has been its ability to reliably handle communications (including modem
- traffic) in the background along with other tasks. OS/2 Warp provides true
- preemptive multitasking and multithreading (often called "real multitasking").
- Other operating environments, including Microsoft Windows and Macintosh System
- 7, provide cooperative multitasking. The difference is that OS/2 Warp, and
- not individual applications, is in charge of your PC's processor. In a
- cooperative multitasking system, if one programmer writes one application
- which does not yield control of your PC's processor back to the operating
- system in timely fashion, everything else stops running. Unfortunately that
- failure happens all too often. With OS/2 Warp, you can reliably and
- confidently download a file from the Internet using ftp, browse the World Wide
- Web using the IBM Web Explorer, format a diskette, print a document using your
- favorite word processor, and still run other DOS, Windows, and OS/2
- applications. File transfers will not abort, and connections won't be
- dropped, simply because you try to go do something else.
-
- With OS/2 Warp, you are encouraged to go spend your time doing other things
- while receiving information from the Internet (or doing anything else, for
- that matter). That capability allows you to save a lot of online time (and
- charges), because you can have several tasks running at once. (Many OS/2 Warp
- users, for example, run two or more copies of the IBM Web Explorer
- simultaneously. While one is retrieving a page from the World Wide Web, the
- other can be read, without in any way disturbing any other task.) Preemptive
- multitasking also means that OS/2 Warp can be used just as easily as a server,
- delivering information over the Internet as requested. OS/2 Warp systems are
- used as ftp, gopher, and even World Wide Web servers, for example.
-
- Finally, many "Internet in a Box" packages are sold in software dealerships,
- often for $100 or more. The entire OS/2 Warp package, including the BonusPak
- with the Internet Connection, is typically priced at $79 or less. The user
- community for OS/2 Warp is active, enthusiastic, and fast growing, and you can
- get help, advice, and assistance from members of that community through the
- Internet, even on a real time basis.
-
-
- Installation
-
- The Internet Connection (and other BonusPak applications) comes on a separate
- set of diskettes (or CD-ROM) in the OS/2 Warp package. Inside the BonusPak
- box you'll find a brief manual explaining each of the BonusPak applications
- and how to install them. A common installation program is provided
- (INSTALL.CMD) which you should ordinarily use. Select those applications you
- wish to install, one-by-one, from the common installation program.
-
- If you have the CD-ROM version of the OS/2 Warp BonusPak, be sure to select
- the correct version for the country where you live. The BonusPak CD-ROM
- contains directories (such as US for United States and NO for Norway) for the
- various countries of the world. Run INSTALL.CMD from the correct directory.
-
- Note that you do not have to shutdown and reboot your PC until after you have
- installed all the BonusPak applications you wish to use, after you have exited
- the common installation program. You do not need to reboot after installing
- each single application.
-
- To shutdown your OS/2 Warp PC, either:
-
- 1. Move the mouse pointer so that it is pointing anywhere on the desktop
- background. Tap the right (second) mouse button. Select Shutdown. Or,
-
- 2. Click on the Shutdown button (can also be a little picture of a PC with a
- moon on the screen) located on the LaunchPad.
-
- A proper shutdown will assure that all the changes you have made to your
- desktop will be saved.
-
-
- Registering with the IBM Global Network
-
- Even if you plan to use a third party Internet provider, you should register
- with the IBM Global Network to use your three hours of free time. The
- Internet Connection software is designed to be upgraded over a modem, and the
- IBM Global Network will automatically update your OS/2 Warp Internet
- Connection to the latest version when you first sign on. Plus, you can
- download the IBM Web Explorer (a free World Wide Web browser for OS/2 Warp) by
- double clicking on the Retrieve Software Updates icon, located in your IBM
- Internet Connection for OS/2 folder. If for some reason you do not wish to
- sign onto the IBM Global Network, you can retrieve the latest version of the
- Internet Connection software and the Web Explorer via anonymous ftp from
- ftp.ibm.net.
-
- The latest rate information for your country is provided when you sign on to
- the IBM Global Network. When the rates are displayed, you are given the
- opportunity to then proceed with sign on or abort. Generally speaking, IBM
- Global Network's rates are attractive if you either travel from place to place
- (and need local access to the Internet from two or more cities, especially
- abroad) or if you must dial long distance (and incur extra charges) to dial
- another Internet service provider. If you live in a major metropolitan area,
- well served by other Internet service providers, and you rarely (if ever) need
- access to the Internet from other cities, you might want to investigate other
- providers (which may be less expensive).
-
- After you have installed the Internet Connection and restarted your OS/2 Warp
- PC, you should see a folder called IBM Information Superhighway on your
- desktop. Double click on this folder to open it, then double click on the IBM
- Internet Connection for OS/2 folder. Inside you will see a folder called IBM
- Internet Customer Services. Double click on this folder, then double click on
- the Registration icon located inside. Follow the instructions provided to
- sign on. Make sure your modem is turned on and working. If you do not know
- which type of modem you have, just choose Default. Make sure you select the
- correct speed for your modem. A V.32bis modem, for example, usually will work
- best set to 19,200 bps.
-
- If you ever need help accessing the IBM Global Network, double click on the
- Customer Assistance icon (located inside the IBM Internet Customer Services
- folder), and click on the Ask for help button. Telephone numbers and other
- ways of reaching IBM Global Network support worldwide are provided.
-
- Be sure to write down your account information (especially your password).
- You will need your password every time you wish to sign on to the IBM Global
- Network to access the Internet. You can sign on to the IBM Global Network
- using the IBM Internet Dialer program (in your IBM Internet Connection for
- OS/2 folder) or by double clicking on any of the available applications (such
- as Gopher).
-
- You can modify the settings for your modem, local access number, and other
- settings from the Dialer. Start the Internet Dialer, then click on the Cancel
- button to prevent your modem from dialing. A second window, which provides
- information on the commands send to your modem, will pop up. Just click on
- the settings button, and an OS/2 settings notebook for the Dialer will then
- appear. This settings notebook is a common fixture in OS/2 Warp, and it is
- used for altering the properties of virtually any object. Click on the tabs
- of the notebook to switch among categories of settings, and click on the
- arrows in the lower right of the notebook to flip pages back and forth.
-
-
- Internet Connection Applications
-
- The key Internet applications are included with OS/2 Warp's Internet
- Connection. They include Gopher, NewsReader/2, Ultimedia Mail/2 Lite, telnet,
- telnet 3270, and ftp. (The IBM Web Explorer is available for download using
- the Retrieve Software Updates program.) These applications are
- straightforward counterparts to versions for other platforms. However, there
- are some special features unique to OS/2 Warp.
-
- NewsReader/2
-
- The Internet Connection's NewsReader/2 is a graphical application to access
- NNTP (Network News Transport Protocol) Internet news servers. This
- application communicates with the news server over your connection with the
- Internet provider to receive messages contained in the 7,000 plus forums found
- on the Internet. Facilities are provided for reading messages, posting or
- mailing replies, using your favorite text editor, and even decoding so-called
- Rot13 messages, which is an encoding method often used by people who wish to
- provide mild protection against accidental reading of a message. For example,
- Rot13 can be used to encode messages which contain information about the plot
- in a new movie, including its conclusion, and you as a reader have to go
- through the task of directing NewsReader/2 to decode the Rot13 text if you
- want the information.
-
- Note: NewsReader/2 is not a "threaded" newsreader, meaning that it does not
- provide total flexibility over following "chains" of messages by subject.
- However, you can achieve nearly the same effect by changing NewsReader/2's
- settings to sort newsgroups by subject.
-
- Note: Many Internet messages are intended to be viewed on dumb terminals,
- where the characters on a given line can line up exactly with characters
- located on lines below. People often construct elaborate (or not so
- elaborate) text "drawings," using vertical bars, dashes, and other characters
- to create boxes and other shapes, lines, and pictures. These features will
- not display correctly unless you are using a monospaced (as opposed to
- proportionally spaced) typeface. In NewsReader/2, you can select either the
- System VIO or System Monospaced screen fonts (in your choice of sizes) to get
- better results when viewing messages that contain these features.
-
- The first time you start NewsReader/2, you will be prompted to obtain the full
- list of available newsgroups. Allow NewsReader/2 to fetch this list, but go
- ahead and use some of the other Internet Connection applications while the
- list is downloading.
-
- Ultimedia Mail/2 Lite
-
- This mailer is POP compliant, so you can use it with any Internet service
- provider which provides a POP mail server. It also supports MIME mail, so you
- can easily send and receive binary attachments to e-mail (including multimedia
- files, Kodak Photo CD images, etc).
-
- The Ultimedia Mail/2 Lite folder contains the various parts of this e-mail
- application. To check whether you have received any electronic mail, simply
- double click on the In-basket icon. After Ultimedia Mail has connected to the
- server, any e-mail in your in-box will be displayed with some basic
- information (subject, author, etc). The icon to the left of each piece of
- mail may contain a number inside. If so, it indicates that the message has
- not only a text part, but also attachments (such as binary files). The number
- indicates the total number of parts contained in that piece of e-mail (the
- main text counts as one part). Simply double click on a piece of e-mail to
- open and read it. A menu is available for each piece of e-mail. Simply point
- to the piece of e-mail and tap the right (second) mouse button. You can use
- this menu to delete e-mail that you do not wish to read, for example.
-
- Note: Use the sample e-mail that the IBM Global Network sends you to practice
- reading, editing, and deleting Internet electronic mail.
-
- You can save e-mail in folders, collecting related pieces of mail in any
- chosen categories. Mail that you send is automatically saved in its own
- folder so that you have a record of correspondence with other people. To
- draft a new piece of e-mail (and send it to someone else), double click on the
- New Letter icon. The main window for composing e-mail will then appear.
-
- Note: Every time you connect to your Internet service provider, be sure to
- check your In-basket. You will not be automatically notified that you have
- e-mail waiting. However, most POP mail servers will hold your e-mail for long
- periods of time, so if you do not remember to check, your mail won't be lost
- just because you hang up.
-
- Note: Ultimedia Mail Lite supports drag-and-drop extensively. To attach a
- file or picture to a new letter, for example, simply drag the file or picture
- to the rectangular area to the left of the message entry area. To save a file
- attached to received e-mail, drag out of the rectangular area to the desktop
- or a folder.
-
- When you use the IBM Global Network to access the Internet, your e-mail
- address is username@ibm.net, where "username" is whatever name IBM assigned to
- you when you registered. You can give this Internet address out to other
- people, and they can send e-mail to you from anywhere in the world.
-
- telnet and telnet 3270
-
- The templates for these applications are located in the Application Templates
- folder (located in the IBM Internet Connection for OS/2 folder). To create a
- telnet session, for example, simply "tear off" one of the telnet templates and
- drag it to any other folder (or to the desktop). Remember that OS/2 Warp, by
- default, uses the second (right) mouse button to drag and drop. Then fill in
- the host information with the name of the system you wish to reach using
- telnet. The telnet 3270 (for accessing mainframe computers across the
- Internet) and ftp templates work similarly. If you don't want to create an
- icon for every system you log onto, use the telnet, telnet 3270, and ftp icons
- located in the Internet Utilities folder.
-
- You can cut and paste using the Internet Connection's telnet and telnet 3270
- applications. (The telnet 3270 icon is used for accessing IBM mainframe
- systems over the Internet. For example, you can reach the IBM OS/2 BBS
- subscription service and other IBMLink services by using telnet 3270 to
- connect to ibmlink.advantis.net.) Command line (character mode) versions of
- these applications are available as well (from any OS/2 command line, full
- screen or windowed).
-
- Note: The telnet and telnet 3270 applications do not include built-in file
- transfer capabilities. If the system you wish to connect to supports it,
- simply open another window and use ftp to transfer files. However, some
- systems will not allow ftp for sending and receiving files (CompuServe, for
- example, which is reachable by using telnet to connect to compuserve.com). If
- so, you may wish to use the freely available C-Kermit for OS/2 as a
- replacement for telnet. C-Kermit, and many other OS/2 Warp Internet packages,
- are available from the ftp sites listed below.
-
- ftp
-
- The OS/2 Warp Internet Connection comes with both command line (character
- mode) and graphical versions of ftp (file transfer program) for sending and
- receiving files from various servers on the Internet. (Popular ftp servers
- for OS/2 software are listed below.)
-
- The graphical version (FTPPM) first presents a window which prompts you for
- login information (such as user name and password). Many servers are
- so-called "anonymous" servers (meaning that a user name of "anonymous" will
- allow you to log on and retrieve any files located in public directories).
- You should, however, still enter your e-mail address as a password. (Some
- anonymous ftp servers even require it.) Ordinarily you can leave the Account
- entry blank; some systems (primarily IBM mainframes) may require it, but most
- do not.
-
- The main FTPPM window has two primary sections. At the top you will see a
- view of your own PC's hard disk, and you can navigate through directories and
- select files just as you would with most other applications. In the section
- below, you will see a directory listing from the remote ftp server, and you
- can navigate through its directories very similarly.
-
- There are two common pitfalls encountered by first time users of FTPPM. The
- most common is forgetting to select the correct file type before transferring
- a file. There are two file types available: ASCII (plain text) and binary.
- The default is ASCII, but the default may not be appropriate depending on the
- type of file you are trying to send or receive. Also, you should remember
- that most remote ftp servers are case sensitive (so if you have to type a file
- name, be sure the case you type matches its directory listing, letter for
- letter). Finally, be sure that you have indicated where you want files to go
- when you download files from remote servers. Otherwise, FTPPM is likely to
- place them in the root directory on your PC's hard disk, and you may not want
- them there.
-
- Gopher
-
- Gopher is supplied with OS/2 Warp and provides the ability to navigate through
- a set of servers on the Internet which are all interconnected. You can double
- click on menus and files listed in your Gopher window to navigate across
- various Internet servers. Weather maps, software, library catalogs, and much
- more are available.
-
- OS/2's Gopher is quite straightfoward. You can readily distinguish between
- files and submenus by looking at the icons to the left of each menu item.
- Submenus are indicated by gopher icons. If you double click on a submenu, you
- will get a window with a new set of options displayed.
-
- Note: Gopher will, by default, create a new window when your menu selection
- takes you to another server. You can use this fact to speed up your searches,
- because you can go back to the original window and select another menu option
- to branch off in a different direction. In fact, as with other applications
- on OS/2 Warp, you can use other Gopher windows while one is still downloading
- information from a server. To get a list of all the open Gopher windows,
- simply bring up the OS/2 Warp Window List by pressing CTRL-ESC.
-
- IBM Web Explorer
-
- The IBM Web Explorer is a free, downloadable addition to your Internet
- Connection. You can install it on your system by double clicking on the
- Retrieve Software Updates icon.
-
- The Web Explorer, like Mosaic and other browsers, is designed to access the
- Internet's World Wide Web. It is a fully multithreaded browser, meaning that
- it can receive multiple incoming streams of information simultaneously. This
- multithreaded design speeds up retrieval of WWW pages.
-
- You can configure the Web Explorer to use practically any external program for
- viewing various file types (audio, video, pictures, etc). However, by default
- the Web Explorer will use both internal viewers and (if installed) the
- BonusPak's Multimedia Viewer, to handle the wide variety of file types stored
- in WWW pages. Many of these file types are not native to the PC, and the
- Multimedia Viewer can convert such files to PC readable formats. (For
- example, Sun .AU audio files are very common, and the Multimedia Viewer
- includes support for listening to these audio files.)
-
- Because the World Wide Web is highly graphical, you will get best results by
- using the Web Explorer on a display with 256 colors or more. Also, WWW pages
- can be large (and take lots of time to download). However, there are many
- ways you can make your time on the World Wide Web much more efficient using
- the Web Explorer. These tips include:
-
- 1. Use two (or more) copies of the Web Explorer simultaneously. While one is
- downloading a page, you can be reading and selecting a link in another. By
- default, OS/2 Warp will not start multiple copies of any object simply by
- double clicking on its icon again. To change this default behavior, simply
- point the mouse pointer at the Web Explorer program object, tap the right
- (second) mouse button, then select Settings. The familiar OS/2 settings
- notebook will appear. Click on the Window tab, and change the object open
- behavior to open another window. Close the settings notebook, then double
- click on the Web Explorer icon to launch another copy.
-
- 2. Use the QuickList feature to save favorite pages you have visited. The Web
- Map feature can help you track where you've been.
-
- 3. Save pictures and even entire WWW pages using OS/2 Warp's drag-and-drop
- features. The pictures and other elements in a WWW page, as viewed by the IBM
- Web Explorer, are objects. Using the right (second) mouse button, you can
- drag and drop a picture of Barney the Dinosaur, for example, to your OS/2 Warp
- desktop or any folder to save it. You can use this method to rapidly create
- an animated weather sequence from weather maps (in tandem with the BonusPak's
- Video IN application). Be careful, though, that you do not violate any
- copyright restrictions.
-
-
- Resources on the Internet for OS/2 Warp Users
-
- You can receive help, information, tips and techniques, and other assistance
- using OS/2 Warp through the Internet. The OS/2 Warp community on the Internet
- is large and friendly. Here are just some of the places to visit:
-
- Newsgroups
-
- comp.os.os2.misc
- comp.os.os2.advocacy
- comp.os.os2.apps
- comp.os.os2.networking.misc
- comp.os.os2.networking.tcp-ip
- comp.os.os2.programmer.oop
- comp.os.os2.programmer.tools
- comp.os.os2.programmer.porting
- comp.os.os2.programmer.misc
- comp.os.os2.games
- comp.os.os2.setup
- comp.os.os2.bugs
- comp.os.os2.beta
- comp.os.os2.announce
- comp.binaries.os2
- comp.lang.rexx
-
- anonymous ftp
-
- ftp-os2.cdrom.com
- ftp-os2.nmsu.edu
- software.watson.ibm.com
-
- gopher
-
- index.almaden.ibm.com
-
- World Wide Web
-
- http://www.ibm.com
- http://www.ibm.net
- http://www.mit.edu:8001/activities/os2
-
- Internet Relay Chat (IRC)
-
- #os/2
-
-
- Popular Additions to the Internet Connection
-
- You can retrieve free and low cost software to add to your OS/2 Warp system
- from the anonymous ftp sites listed above. Here are some of the most popular:
-
- Name Description
-
- C-Kermit Used as a replacement for telnet, providing Kermit file transfer
- capabilities
- NetSuite A collection of popular Internet applications (ftp, gopher, news
- reader)
- IRC/2 Internet Relay Chat for OS/2 Warp
- GoServe An IBM-written Gopher server for OS/2 Warp; takes advantage of
- REXX
- OS2HTTPD A World Wide Web server for OS/2 Warp
- P2P-FT A file transfer capability for OS/2 Warp's Person to Person
- application
-
- More applications are being written and released with each passing month, so
- consult the OS/2 newsgroups and ftp sites for the latest.
-
- You can also use any Windows Internet software with OS/2 Warp's Internet
- Connection. The Internet Connection includes WinSock support (using the
- WINSOCK.DLL file). Please be sure, though, that the WINSOCK.DLL file supplied
- by the Internet Connection is the only file by that name on your PC's hard
- disk.
-
-
- Using Third Party Dial-Up Internet Providers
-
- You need not use the IBM Global Network to access the Internet with OS/2 Warp.
- (However, three hours of free access is free time, and you should use it at
- least to get the latest versions of Internet software.) The Internet
- Connection (after using the Retrieve Software Updates program) supports
- connections to almost any third party Internet service provider using the
- standard SLIP or PPP protocols. The dialer even supports scripting using
- OS/2's built-in REXX programming language, so it can respond to any given
- login procedure used by your preferred Internet provider. (A sample script,
- ANNEX.CMD, is provided with the Internet Connection to get you started.
- Consult the online help for complete information on how to create such a
- script. In most cases, though, either you will not need a special script or
- your Internet service provider of choice has the necessary information you
- need to get connected. Be sure to ask your provider for instructions using
- OS/2 Warp to connect.)
-
- The Dial Other Internet Providers icon is located in the Internet Utilities
- folder and is the application used (instead of the IBM Internet Dialer) to
- access third party providers. You can place several different providers (and
- dial-up access numbers) in the Dial Other... directory. Be sure to select
- SLIP, CSLIP (SLIP with VJ compression), or PPP protocol, as appropriate. Once
- connected to your Internet provider, all the Internet Connection applications
- will operate exactly the same way, provided the numeric Internet addresses for
- the various servers required (nameserver, POP mail server, etc.) are
- correctly configured.
-
-
- Using OS/2 Warp's Internet Connection with a Network Card
-
- See (0.4) Special Report on OS/2 Warp.
-
- At the time of this writing, IBM has started testing a release of OS/2 Warp
- with additional bundled applications (including full support for ethernet,
- Token Ring, and other network cards) formerly sold separately. This so-called
- "OS/2 Warp for Networks" is scheduled for release sometime in the first half
- of 1995. The larger BonusPak, with the extra networking software, will be
- available as an upgrade for base OS/2 Warp as well.
-
-
- Related information:
-
- (0.4) Special Report on OS/2 Warp
- (3.8) Networking Products
-
-
- (3.12) Backup Software
-
- What backup software is available?
-
- Generally DOS backup programs will work under OS/2 Warp, but they may not
- capture some OS/2 data (especially extended attributes) on the hard disk
- without the assistance of utilities such as EABackup [see (3.2) Shareware and
- Freeware Sources].
-
- OS/2 Warp backup tools are available, notably:
-
- ADSM IBM 800-IBM-CALL
- ARCsolo Cheyene 800-243-9462
- Back Again/2 Computer Data Strategies 612-730-4156
- Back in a Flash! CCT Inc. 612-339-5870
- BackMaster MSR Development 409-564-1862
- BakupWiz PCX 619-259-9797
- 800-800-4PCX
- DMS/Intelligent Backup Sterling 916-635-5535
- DualStor IBM 800-IBM-2-YOU
- NovaBack NovaStor 818-707-9900
- Sytos Premium Sytron 508-898-0100
- 508-898-2608 (BBS)
-
- Note that BackMaster now supports portable tape drives designed to attach to a
- parallel port, including those made by Colorado/HP, as well as other tape
- drives (SCSI and non-SCSI).
-
- Keeping your data and applications safe and secure means that you have a well
- rehearsed backup and restore strategy. This strategy should be tested,
- because your backup is only useful if it can be restored. Make sure that the
- OS/2 Warp backup software you choose has the features you need for your backup
- strategy and that it supports a wide variety of tape backup systems (including
- yours).
-
-
- Related information:
-
- (2.5) Specific Hardware Recommendations
- (3.2) Shareware and Freeware Sources
- (4.4) Starting OS/2 from Diskette
- (3.15) Dealers Specializing in OS/2 Warp
-
-
- (3.13) Multiuser Extensions and Security
-
- What multiuser extensions and security options are available?
-
- OS/2 Warp, as it ships, does not provide multiuser capabilities. These
- capabilities are provided by add-ons which deliver security, network access by
- many users, remote control capabilities, or some combination of features.
- Commercial products for remote and network access include:
-
- Citrix Citrix Systems 305-755-0559
- DCAF IBM 800-IBM-CALL
- KopyKat Hilgraeve 313-243-0576
- LAN Distance IBM 800-IBM-CALL
- LAN Server IBM 800-IBM-CALL
- OS2You/PM2You Ridax programutveckling Sweden 031-196074
- Poly/PM Software Corp. of America 203-359-2773
- Remote-OS Software Lifeline 407-994-4466
-
- Products which provide security features (including software designed to
- protect OS/2 Warp in a computer lab, where PCs are used by many different
- people, one at a time) include:
-
- DeskMan/2 DevTech 803-790-9230
- Desktop Observatory Pinnacle 317-279-5157
- PC/DACS Pyramid 203-257-4223
- Restricted Workplace IBM (Limited Availability)
- Secure Workplace Syntegration 909-464-9450
-
- As always, you should contact each vendor for additional information so that
- you can determine which software best meets your needs for security, remote
- access, network access, and multiuser capabilities with OS/2 Warp.
-
-
- Related information:
-
- (3.2) Shareware and Freeware Sources
- (3.8) Networking Products
- (3.15) Dealers Specializing in OS/2 Warp
-
-
- (3.14) Disk Compression
-
- What on-the-fly disk compression software is available?
-
- Stacker 4 for OS/2 and DOS (Stac Electronics, phone 619-431-7474), DCF/2
- (Proportional Software, phone 303-484-2665), and ZipStream (shareware, Carbon
- Based Software) are available for OS/2 Warp.
-
- Stacker provides on-the-fly disk compression for FAT drives only. The product
- provides compression for both DOS and OS/2 in the same package, and it will
- convert MS-DOS DoubleSpace, DriveSpace, and PC-DOS 6.x SuperStor/DS disk
- compression into Stacker format.
-
- DCF/2 compresses both FAT and HPFS drives. The DCF/2 container file can even
- be located on other devices besides hard disks.
-
- ZipStream is available from (3.2) Shareware and Freeware Sources. It works
- with both FAT and HPFS, and it compresses files individually (without using a
- large container file).
-
-
- Related information:
-
- (1.5) High Performance File System (HPFS)
- (3.2) Shareware and Freeware Sources
- (3.15) Dealers Specializing in OS/2 Warp
-
-
- (3.15) Dealers Specializing in OS/2 Warp
-
- Are there any dealers that specialize in OS/2 Warp products?
-
- The following software dealers are either totally or predominantly geared to
- OS/2 Warp customers:
-
- o Below Zero (800-461-2777, 403-547-0669, or FAX 403-547-1018). Based in
- Calgary. Will export to the United States and other countries.
-
- o Indelible Blue (800-776-8284, 919-834-7005, or FAX 919-783-8380). Offers a
- huge selection of OS/2 software at reasonable prices. Based in Raleigh, North
- Carolina, and will export.
-
- o Mfg's Rep. Co. (800-808-4672, 415-525-2700, or FAX 415-525-2707). One of
- three California-based dealers specializing in OS/2 Warp software.
-
- o Office Solutions (800-897-APPS, 310-439-5567, or FAX 310-438-7888). Another
- major California-based OS/2 Warp software vendor. "Supported by Team OS/2,"
- and courts OS/2 user group members aggressively.
-
- o OS+ Resource (800-804-8588 or FAX 310-804-6154). The third California-based
- OS/2 software dealer, stocking a wide variety of applications.
-
- o OS/2 Solution Centre (44-285-641175 or FAX 44-285-640181). Primarily for
- European OS/2 Warp users, but will export elsewhere. Offers some OS/2 Warp
- titles available no where else. Located in Gloucestershire, England.
- Discounts available to members of the International OS/2 Users' Group.
-
- o OS/2 Express (800-672-5945 or FAX 301-770-1720). OS/2 Professional
- magazine's mailorder operation for OS/2 software and accessories.
-
-
- Related information:
-
- (2.5) Specific Hardware Recommendations
-
-
- (3.16) Image Scanners
-
- How can I use my scanner with OS/2 Warp?
-
- There are three basic approaches to using your image scanner with OS/2 Warp.
- In decreasing order of attractiveness:
-
- 1. Buy Native OS/2 Warp Software. Real 32-bit OS/2 software gives you the
- best results, integrates well with other OS/2 applications, and works
- reliably. OS/2 software packages for scanners are now available, including
- Applause from Solution Technology (407-241-3210 or FAX 407-997-6518) and
- ImpOS2. (Applause is available in versions for Logitech and HP scanners.)
-
- 2. Use Existing DOS/Windows Software (SCSI-based Scanner). Many scanners for
- PCs are attached to SCSI adapters (like those from Adaptec) for which there
- are OS/2 .ADD device drivers. You can use your existing DOS or Windows
- scanner software if you follow these steps:
-
- a. Load the OS/2 .ADD driver for your SCSI adapter. OS/2 Warp will do so
- automatically for Adaptec, BusLogic, DPT, IBM, and MediaVision/Trantor SCSI
- adapters. You need a BASEDEV=XYZ.ADD line in your CONFIG.SYS file in order to
- load the correct driver, where XYZ.ADD is the name of the OS/2 driver file for
- your SCSI adapter.
-
- b. Configure OS/2 Warp for ASPI support. Make sure that the following two
- lines are in your CONFIG.SYS file:
-
- BASEDEV=OS2ASPI.DMD
- DEVICE=X:\OS2\MDOS\VASPI.SYS
-
- where X is replaced with the drive where OS/2 is installed.
-
- c. Load TWAIN device drivers in a DOS/Windows session and run the software.
- Your scanner or scanning software probably came with a device driver for
- so-called TWAIN support which is designed to work with ASPI (Adaptec SCSI
- Programming Interface). Since you have just configured OS/2 Warp to provide
- ASPI services to your DOS and Windows sessions, you can now load device
- drivers (such as TWAIN drivers) and software which uses ASPI. (Since OS/2
- Warp is providing ASPI services, do not attempt to load DOS or Windows SCSI or
- ASPI drivers.) Consult the documentation accompanying your scanner and/or
- scanning software for additional advice.
-
- 3. Use Existing DOS/Windows Software (non-SCSI Scanner). If your scanner is
- attached to a proprietary adapter (often not a SCSI adapter), you may use a
- specific DOS session under OS/2 Warp to load the necessary device drivers
- (including a driver for the proprietary adapter) and run your scanning
- software.
-
-
- Related information:
-
- (3.15) Dealers Specializing in OS/2 Warp
- (5.6) Performance Tuning
- (5.9) Specific DOS Sessions
-
-
- (4.0) Installation, Maintenance, and Support
-
- The following questions are addressed in this section:
-
- (4.1) I am having trouble installing OS/2 Warp. What should I do?
-
- (4.2) I can't install OS/2 Warp from Drive B. What's wrong?
-
- (4.3) What is the best way to partition my hard disk for OS/2 Warp?
-
- (4.4) How do I access HPFS partitions on my hard drive without booting from
- the hard drive? I'm getting error messages now -- how do I "repair"
- my hard disk?
-
- (4.5) How can I get answers to my OS/2 Warp questions?
-
- (4.6) What are CSDs, how do I tell which I have, and where do I get them?
-
- (4.7) Which online services support OS/2 Warp, and how do I join?
-
- (4.8) Are there any OS/2 Warp user groups?
-
- (4.9) What OS/2 Warp books and magazines are available?
-
- (4.10) How do I report an OS/2 Warp problem to IBM?
-
- (4.11) What OS/2 Warp BBSes can I dial?
-
- (4.12) IBM has so many telephone numbers. Which one do I use?
-
-
- (4.1) Installation
-
- I am having trouble installing OS/2 Warp. What should I do?
-
- First consult the printed manual and other materials accompanying OS/2 Warp.
- Make sure your PC meets the system requirements in (2.1) Hardware
- Requirements. And if the following instructions do not help, fall back on
- IBM's free technical support (phone 800-992-4777 in the United States). You
- can also use the (4.10) Problem Report Form. For help with printing, see
- (2.3) Printer Support.
-
-
- Configuring PC Devices
-
- The most common problems in installing and configuring OS/2 Warp occur because
- two or more devices in your PC are sharing interrupts (IRQs), port I/O
- addresses, memory address space, or DMA (Direct Memory Access) channels. Any
- system with AT bus slots (even systems with only EISA or PCMCIA slots) can
- exhibit configuration problems to at least some degree if the various devices
- are not configured properly. (Microchannel systems are designed to be Plug
- and Play and are the only systems which avoid these problems. OS/2 Warp
- supports Plug and Play for PCMCIA, which prevents potential configuration
- problems unless you add a docking station with AT bus and/or VESA Localbus
- slots.) Such configuration problems are actually not related to OS/2 Warp in
- particular; they are due to the way PC hardware is designed and can affect all
- software (see below).
-
- More precisely, if your PC is using any AT bus or VESA Localbus adapters, you
- must be extremely careful to configure these cards properly so that no system
- resources (including IRQs) are used by more than one device. Unfortunately
- so-called Plug and Play (for AT bus) will not be the answer to configuration
- problems, since any AT bus adapter which does not support the Plug and Play
- specification (very few do today) can (and often will) come into conflict with
- other devices, and even a Plug and Play PC probably will not be able to
- determine what resources that "old" card is using. In short, be careful.
-
- How to configure the devices in your PC will depend on both the device and the
- PC. With Microchannel PCs (designed to be Plug and Play ever since their
- introduction), configuration is done entirely in software, automatically,
- using a Reference Diskette. With AT bus cards, DIP (Dual Inline Package)
- switches and jumpers are the norm. However, devices which are built into PCs
- with AT bus and/or VESA Localbus slots are sometimes configured using
- software, either on diskette or built into the PC's ROM BIOS setup program.
-
- If you do have a PC with AT bus and/or VESA Localbus slots, you should write
- down the names of all the devices in your system and the IRQs, I/O addresses,
- memory space, and DMA channels that they use. Create a chart with this
- information, and keep it with your PC. Every time you add or remove a device
- (or change a device's configuration), you should record these changes on your
- PC's chart. Use the information below as a guide to get you started, bearing
- in mind that PCs do vary, and you will need to confirm each piece of
- information. In OS/2 Warp you can use the RMVIEW command to explore your PC's
- use of resources (as seen by OS/2 Warp). At any OS/2 Warp command line, type
- RMVIEW /? for an explanation of the command's options.
-
- As stated above, there are four kinds of resources which any device in your PC
- can use:
-
- o Interrupts (IRQs). When an event occurs which your PC needs to respond to
- (such as clicking a mouse button), a signal (called an interrupt) is sent to
- your PC's processor by the interrupt controller. The interrupt controllers
- (there are two) are responsible for monitoring sixteen IRQ lines, numbered 0
- to 15. The first controller responds to IRQs 0 to 7. The second controller
- handles 8 to 15. Only the first controller is actually allowed to "talk" to
- your computer's processor. If the second controller receives an interrupt
- (for example, as a result of a network card signalling incoming information),
- it signals this event to the first controller by triggering IRQ number 2 and
- passing the true IRQ number (8 to 15) to the first controller.
-
- This design is called a "cascade," and it is important to understand because
- many adapters which you can install inside your PC claim to use IRQ 2. In
- fact, they are actually using IRQ 9. When the AT bus was created (as an
- upgrade from the 8-bit slots found in the original IBM PC and PC/XT), this
- cascade design was adopted so that IRQs 8 to 15 could be added without a
- radical redesign. Since IRQ 2 was needed so that the first controller could
- "listen" to the second, the original IRQ 2 was rewired to IRQ 9. Therefore,
- 8-bit cards are able to use IRQs 0 to 7 (except 2) and 9. Any 16-bit AT bus
- cards are able to use IRQs 0 to 15 (except 2), for a total of 15 possible
- interrupts. Still, the documentation accompanying many adapters suggests that
- IRQ 2 can be used when, in fact, IRQ 2 was rewired (as part of the card slot)
- to trigger IRQ 9 long ago.
-
- No devices in your PC should ever share IRQs (unless you have a Microchannel
- PC, where sharing of these fifteen available IRQs is allowed.) Most PCs use
- the following default IRQ assignments:
-
- IRQ Common Use
-
- 0 Timer (Real Time Clock)
- 1 Keyboard
- 2 Cascade
- 3 COM2 (Communications Port 2)
- 4 COM1 (Communications Port 1)
- 5 LPT2 (Printer Port 2)
- 6 Diskette Controller
- 7 LPT1 (Printer Port 1)
- 8 Math Coprocessor
- 9 Available
- 10 Available
- 11 Available
- 12 PS/2 Style Mouse
- 13 Available
- 14 Hard Disk Controller
- 15 Available
-
- "Available" simply means that typically (not always) these IRQs are not
- prereserved for particular devices and, if not already taken, may be used by
- other adapters.
-
- o Port I/O Addresses. Most devices in your PC require a range of memory
- addresses (usually 8 bytes) located low in the range of possible addresses.
- These are called port I/O addreses, and, for shorthand, they are typically
- recorded using just one number three digits in length. For example, COM2
- (communications port 2) normally uses the port I/O addresses 02F8 through 02FF
- (hexadecimal), but often the documentation for a device which can use a COM2
- assignment simply refers to the address range required as 2F8 (sometimes
- called a base address, or base I/O address).
-
- Port I/O addresses are locations in memory where your PC's processor can place
- information (to be received by a device) or read information (to be retrieved
- from a device). So, for example, one of the available eight port I/O
- addresses used by COM2 is used for receiving information from, for example, a
- modem. A second location is used to pass information on to the modem, to be
- sent out. Each device which requires port I/O addresses may not use all eight
- available, but, nonetheless, port I/O addresses are reserved in blocks of
- eight. No other device in your PC can share another device's port I/O
- addresses.
-
- Fortunately, conflicts involving port I/O addresses are rare. To avoid
- conflicts, make sure that you record any port I/O address blocks used by any
- of the add-in cards inside your PC. Devices which are built into your PC
- (such as your PC's keyboard controller) use standard port I/O addresses which
- are well understood by manufacturers of add-in cards, and so add-in cards
- cannot be set to use these blocks. Still, one adapter can conflict with
- another if your PC's chart is not recorded carefully. COM ports use the
- following port I/O addresses by default:
-
- Device Port I/O Address Block
-
- COM1 3F8 to 3FF
- COM2 2F8 to 2FF
- COM3 3E8 to 3EF
- COM4 2E8 to 2EF
-
- Some 8514/A compatible video cards (notably those made by ATI) may use port
- I/O addresses which are ordinarily reserved for COM3 or COM4. Reconfigure
- COM3 and/or COM4 (if present) to avoid conflicts. Common add-in devices which
- use port I/O addresses include network, SCSI, and sound cards.
-
- o Memory Address Space. In the PC design, a range of memory addresses
- (typically from hexadecimal A000:00 to DFFF:FF) was set aside for the use of
- add-in adapters (including video). Adapters can use banks of memory (of
- varying sizes) in this range to allow your PC's processor to run programs from
- ROM (Read Only Memory) located on the adapter and to communicate with the
- adapter (for example, by placing information into video memory for display on
- your PC's screen). Video cards, SCSI adapters, video capture cards, network
- cards, and even sound cards are common users of memory address space in this
- region.
-
- o DMA Channels. DMA (Direct Memory Access) channels are used by devices which
- need to access your PC's main memory (RAM) directly, without requiring
- attention from your PC's processor. Using DMA can help increase the
- responsiveness of your system, freeing your PC's processor to do other things.
- Like IRQs, DMA channels are numbered 0 to 15, but all sixteen are available
- (none are cascaded). DMA channel 2 is normally reserved for the diskette
- controller. Most others are available for use by some SCSI adapters, network
- cards, sound cards, video capture cards, tape backup controllers, some CD-ROM
- adapters, and other devices. As with any other PC resource, DMA channels
- cannot be shared. Conflicts can cause your system to stop working.
-
- If you think configuring PCs with AT bus and/or Localbus slots is harder than
- it should be, and requires more expertise than should be necessary, you are
- probably right. However, there are solutions (both current and proposed) to
- these hardware configuration nightmares. One has been on the market since
- 1987, namely Microchannel. The PCI bus is also configured through software,
- automatically, providing Plug and Play. And OS/2 Warp supports Plug and Play
- for PCMCIA. Some manufacturers and vendors are working on Plug and Play for
- the AT bus. However, these technologies for the older AT bus (and for VESA
- Localbus) don't address the core problem, namely systems which have the
- capability to accept adapters which are not designed for any Plug and Play
- scheme. Nearly all the AT bus and VESA Localbus adapters on the market today,
- not to mention all such adapters purchased over the years, do not support Plug
- and Play. Drop such a card into even the best Plug and Play PC, and suddenly
- you are back trying to figure out which devices are using which resources in
- order to resolve conflicts.
-
- IBM recommends that, as a consumer, regardless of the software you choose to
- run, you purchase a PC with a full understanding of these issues. If you
- choose a PC with Microchannel, PCI, and/or PCMCIA slots exclusively, you will
- be buying a system which is much easier to configure, saving you time and
- money. (If these designs mean the PC is more expensive, it may be worth the
- higher initial expense to save time and money over the life of the system.)
- If you purchase a system with EISA, AT bus, and/or Localbus slots, in order to
- make such a system easy to configure with Plug and Play you should demand from
- the manufacturer both Plug and Play BIOS (in the system itself) and all Plug
- and Play adapters. The moment an adapter which is not Plug and Play ready is
- added to such a system is the moment when your configuration work might begin.
-
-
- Other Installation Issues
-
- o Be sure your CMOS setup parameters are set correctly, especially those
- relating to floppy drives. RAM should be given sufficient wait states and
- precharge cycles. Test with cache memory and/or shadow RAM disabled if
- necessary. The AT bus should run at 8 MHz. For best performance, make sure
- all your RAM is set to be cacheable.
-
- o Older Adaptec SCSI adapters may require a free BIOS upgrade to recognize
- hard disks larger than 1 GB. Adaptec can be reached at 800-442-7274 or
- 408-945-8600. Some Quantum LPS105AT IDE hard disks require a free ROM update
- (to Version 2.6) from the manufacturer to work with OS/2.
-
- o If your AMI keyboard BIOS is below Revision F you may need an update.
- Contact Washburn & Assoc. (phone 716-248-3627) for an inexpensive
- replacement.
-
- o Check to make sure keyboard DIP switches are set correctly. For example, if
- the keyboard is attached to a system with an AT bus it should typically be
- switched to "AT" mode.
-
- o "Autoswitching" on non-IBM EGA adapters should be disabled (usually with a
- DIP switch or jumper setting). In rare cases it may be necessary to switch
- third party VGA/SuperVGA adapters into 8-bit mode and/or disable "autosense."
- See (2.2) SuperVGA Support.
-
- o OS/2 Warp is particularly sensitive to bad RAM or cache memory (often
- reflected in TRAP 0002 error messages). Use a thorough RAM testing utility,
- and try not to mix 9-chip and 3-chip SIMM/SIPP memory modules. When
- upgrading, avoid adding RAM which is not rated (in nanoseconds) at least as
- fast (i.e. with an equal or lower number) as the RAM already in the system.
-
- o Allow several minutes for OS/2 Warp to build your desktop (and display
- icons) at the end of installation -- take the Tutorial offered to you in the
- meantime. Be sure to take a look at the documents found in the Information
- folder, too.
-
- o Try disconnecting any tape backup device if "Cannot find COUNTRY.SYS"
- messages are encountered when booting OS/2 Warp. This error message may also
- indicate that OS/2 Warp cannot find its boot drive, usually because of an
- improperly loaded or omitted hard disk .ADD device driver.
-
- o An Always IN-2000 SCSI adapter with BIOS 3.06A or 3.20 requires an updated
- version from the manufacturer. A companion 8-pin serial PROM chip may also
- need to be updated. Contact Always at 818-597-9595. Also ask about
- non-IBMINT13.I13 driver support.
-
- o The TI TM4000 notebook may require a BIOS update to run OS/2 Warp; phone
- 817-771-5856 for help. Also ask about an OS/2 Warp driver for the QuickPort
- trackball. Before installing OS/2 Warp on this machine, be sure to set
- Advanced OS Power off and HDD Motor Timeout Always On in the second page of
- the machine's setup screen.
-
- o For the technically advanced user, the following list of TRAP error codes
- may help you in addressing OS/2 Warp problems. Report any such TRAPs to IBM
- using the (4.10) Problem Report Form.
-
- Code Description
-
- 0000 Divide by zero error
- 0001 Debug exception
- 0002 Non Maskable Interrupt (usually memory parity error)
- 0003 Breakpoint (one byte INT 3 instruction)
- 0004 Overflow
- 0005 Bounds check (BOUND instruction)
- 0006 Invalid opcode
- 0007 Coprocessor not available
- 0008 Double fault
- 0009 (Reserved)
- 000A Invalid TSS
- 000B Segment not present
- 000C Stack exception
- 000D General protection
- 000E Page fault
- 000F (Reserved)
- 0010 Coprocessor error
- 0011-001F (Reserved)
- 0020-00FF Available for external interrupts via INTR pin
-
-
- Related information:
-
- (2.1) Hardware Requirements
- (2.2) SuperVGA Support
- (2.3) Printer Support
- (2.4) COM3 and COM4 Support
- (3.2) Shareware and Freeware Sources
- (4.2) Installing from Drive B
- (4.6) Corrective Service Diskettes
- (4.7) Online Services
- (4.10) Problem Report Form
-
-
- (4.2) Installing from Drive B
-
- I can't install OS/2 Warp from Drive B. What's wrong?
-
- IBM OS/2 Warp can only be installed starting from Drive A, like DOS (unless
- your BIOS supports booting from Drive B). After booting from Drive A, OS/2
- Warp can then be copied from CD-ROM or across a network. (For more
- information on installation across a network, see Remote Installation and
- Maintenance, IBM Publication No. GG24-3780. Related publications include
- Automated Installation for CID Enabled OS/2, IBM Pub. No. GG24-3783, and
- Automated Installation for CID Enabled Extended Services, LAN Server and
- Network Transport Services/2, IBM Pub. No. GG24-3781.) You could open your
- machine and swap floppy drive cable connectors, use your system's setup
- utility to set the new CMOS parameters, and then install OS/2 Warp from the
- "new" Drive A. Sometimes the floppy drive cable connectors will not be the
- same. If so you can obtain an adapter plug.
-
- You may also use IBM's twin "bootstrap" diskette images [see (3.2) Shareware
- and Freeware Sources] to boot from a 5.25 inch Drive A and install using 3.5
- inch OS/2 diskettes inserted into Drive B. These two diskettes are also
- available free of charge from IBM OS/2 Warp Technical Support. However, this
- procedure should only be used if absolutely necessary.
-
- Since an ever increasing number of PC software packages is only available on
- 3.5 inch diskettes (or CD-ROM), IBM recommends that you take the time now, if
- at all possible, to reconfigure your PC so that you have a 3.5 inch Drive A.
-
-
- Related information:
-
- (3.2) Shareware and Freeware Sources
- (4.1) Installation
-
-
- (4.3) Hard Disk Partitioning
-
- What is the best way to partition my hard disk for OS/2 Warp?
-
- There is no single best way to partition your hard disk for OS/2 Warp. For
- some advice on the subject you should consult the printed documentation
- accompanying OS/2 Warp. Opinions vary, even among experts.
-
-
- What is partitioning?
-
- Your PC's hard disk is organized into sections called partitions, much like an
- apartment building is split into separate units. Each section or unit can be
- used for a different purpose, with different furniture (files) contained
- inside. Like an apartment building, the partition walls can be torn down,
- moved, and rebuilt, but usually at great expense and with a lot of disruption.
- The furniture (files) must be moved out of the unit (partition) and saved
- before remodeling (repartitioning). When you run out of space inside a
- partition, you can either split your furniture (files) among two or more
- units, or you can remodel.
-
- With DOS (and with OS/2 Warp) partitioning may not even be a concern because
- it may have been done already, automatically. Quite often your PC arrives
- with one hard disk containing just one partition -- the simplest
- configuration. When you install OS/2 Warp, by default it will be copied
- alongside DOS (if it exists) to this one partition (Drive C), and you will be
- able to switch between plain DOS and OS/2 Warp using DualBoot. (An icon is
- placed in your OS/2 Warp Command Prompts folder which lets you switch to plain
- DOS, and the BOOT /OS2 command lets you switch back to OS/2 Warp. Note that
- the BOOT program is located in the \OS2 directory, so you may have to use the
- command C:\OS2\BOOT /OS2 so that DOS can find the program.)
-
- However, there are reasons why you may wish to set up separate partitions
- and/or repartition your hard disk(s). In OS/2 Warp, the FDISK utility (or the
- Advanced installation program) allows you to repartition. First some
- definitions:
-
- Term Definition
-
- Primary Partition Primary partitions have the following
- restrictions: (1) DOS can only boot (start)
- from the first primary partition with a
- logical drive (Drive C) on the first hard disk
- in a PC; (2) A maximum of four primary
- partitions are allowed on each hard disk; (3)
- Every PC must have at least one primary
- partition somewhere; (4) A primary partition
- can contain only zero or one logical drive.
-
- Extended Partition The other partition type for DOS and OS/2 Warp,
- which has none of the restrictions noted
- above.
-
-
- Logical Drives Both DOS and OS/2 Warp use drive letters (Drive
- C, Drive D, etc.) to refer to logical drives.
- A primary partition contains either none or
- one logical drive, while extended partitions
- can contain many logical drives.
-
- Boot Manager A special primary partition, one megabyte in
- size, which comes with OS/2 Warp and which can
- be installed by OS/2 Warp. If installed and
- active, Boot Manager presents a menu when you
- start up your PC, listing all the available
- operating systems you have placed on the menu.
- You can then select any one (such as DOS or
- OS/2 Warp) from the menu. Boot Manager also
- features an optional timeout. Boot Manager
- is required if you wish to start OS/2 Warp
- from any drive other than the first primary
- partition (logical Drive C), and it allows
- OS/2 Warp to be started from a logical drive
- in an extended partition.
-
- Installable Drive During partitioning, one logical drive must be
- set as installable (to indicate to the OS/2
- Warp installation program where OS/2 Warp
- should be placed).
-
- Startable Partition A startable partition is one that should be
- looked at by your PC as it starts. If an
- operating system (or Boot Manager) is found,
- it will be started and run. At least one
- partition must be startable.
-
- These definitions hint at some complexity should you decide you wish to
- partition your hard disk(s) in some way other than single, large primary
- partition(s). Remember that repartitioning involves backing up all your
- files, partitioning your hard disk as desired, reformatting each logical
- drive, and restoring files. (See below for an exception to this procedure.)
- Consequently, because of the work involved, you may opt to avoid
- repartitioning anyway. (It also means that you should think carefully about
- how to organize your hard disk(s) so that you avoid work later on.)
-
-
- Some Advice
-
- To simplify these decisions, you should keep in mind that, in general,
- partitions are meant to be used to separate that which must be separated of
- necessity. The partitioning system was invented to allow your PC to store
- multiple operating systems which had different types of file systems (in other
- words, different ways of storing files on your hard disk). DOS uses the
- so-called FAT (File Allocation Table) file system, for example. Unix might
- use a Berkeley file system, a completely different way of storing the
- information required to manage directories of files. Because these file
- systems might be incompatible, separate areas of the hard disk (partitions)
- must be set aside, with one operating system never touching the other's
- partition(s).
-
- OS/2 Warp (in its basic package) supports two file systems: the DOS FAT
- scheme and HPFS. So, as you might expect, if you want both DOS and OS/2 Warp,
- and you wish to use HPFS on the same (physical) hard disk, you need two
- partitions (one for DOS and its FAT file system, one for HPFS), even though
- OS/2 Warp itself could be located on the FAT logical drive. You want to
- choose partition sizes so that each logical drive can handle expected growth
- in the number and sizes of new files that are added to each.
-
- That advice suggests (correctly) that you should not impose separate
- partitions for other reasons, generally speaking. For example, never create a
- separate logical drive for your OS/2 Warp swap file or print spool files.
- Also, it rarely makes sense to create a separate drive to divide application
- or program files from data files (for backup purposes, for example). With
- both DOS and OS/2 Warp's file systems, subdirectories should be used for that
- purpose.
-
-
- Restrictions
-
- There are reasons why you might be forced to create separate partitions
- despite tendencies not to. For example, the DOS FAT file system grows less
- and less efficient (from both a performance and storage standpoint) as the
- size of a logical drive grows. Moreover, the FAT file system can only cope
- with a maximum partition size of two gigabytes. Hard disks larger than 2 GB
- using the DOS FAT file system must be divided. Also, on many PCs, because of
- BIOS restrictions, your startable (primary) partition must be physically
- located entirely below the 1024th cylinder on your hard disk (or, roughly
- speaking, it must be no larger than about 511 MB). When the original IBM PC
- was designed and first sold in 1981, hard disks were small, (usually 10 MB or
- less in size), expensive (in the thousands of dollars), slow, and relatively
- uncommon, so the BIOS built into the system was never designed to boot from
- such "enormous" hard disks. While your first, startable partition (the one
- containing DOS and/or OS/2 Warp) must often be located entirely below the
- 1024th cylinder, another partition can be created which spans this cylinder
- and occupies the remainder of the hard disk (HPFS recommended).
-
-
- "Ideal" Arrangements
-
- What does all this boil down to? In a perfect world, starting from scratch,
- there are probably two common, "ideal" configurations. If you wish to use
- both DOS and OS/2 Warp on the same PC, and switch between plain DOS and OS/2
- Warp easily, you should partition your hard disk as follows:
-
- 1. Boot Manager (1 MB);
-
- 2. Primary Partition with Drive C, FAT file system, containing DOS (large
- enough to contain DOS itself plus all the files which you expect you will need
- to get access to when running plain DOS);
-
- 3. Extended Partition with one logical Drive D, HPFS, containing OS/2 Warp
- (remainder of the hard disk).
-
- If you wish to use OS/2 Warp exclusively, there's probably nothing better
- than:
-
- 1. Primary Partition with Drive C, HPFS, containing OS/2 Warp (entire hard
- disk).
-
- Of course, we do not live in a perfect world, and you are probably not
- starting from scratch, so, for sheer convenience (or other reasons), your
- chosen partitioning scheme will vary. If you find that the partitioning you
- choose does not suit you, the worst that can happen is that you will need to
- create a complete backup of all your files and restore those files after
- reorganizing your hard disk. A new software package called Partition Magic
- from PowerQuest can ease even this procedure, because it allows both
- on-the-fly conversion of FAT to HPFS (keeping files intact, where they are)
- and, as long as free space permits, movement of the partition lines (a bit
- like a sliding wall in an apartment building). Regardless, you should have a
- backup strategy that preserves all your important information.
-
-
- How are drive letters assigned?
-
- A common source of confusion arises with the assignment of drive letters.
- Both DOS and OS/2 Warp use drive letters (C, D, etc.) to refer to logical
- drives. Some applications (including Windows and OS/2 Warp itself) depend on
- these drive letters to a great degree, so that if you repartition, and the
- drive letter changes (so that the application believes it is located on a
- different drive, because a different drive letter was assigned to its drive),
- the application may not run correctly (or at all).
-
- OS/2 Warp assigns drive letters in the following order (with some
- oversimplification here):
-
- 1. A and B are reserved for the first and second diskette drives in the PC,
- regardless of whether or not they are actually installed and available.
-
- 2. C is assigned to the first logical drive found in an active primary
- partition. In practice, C is assigned to the logical drive containing DOS or,
- if installed to a primary partition, the logical drive containing OS/2 Warp.
- If C is not assigned to a primary partition's logical drive, and that primary
- partition is physically located ahead (in front) of the logical drive which
- was assigned C, that primary partition will be totally skipped. In other
- words, if the partitions are as follows:
-
- a. Boot Manager
-
- b. Primary Partition (DOS, FAT)
-
- c. Primary Partition (OS/2 Warp, FAT)
-
- then, when OS/2 Warp is started, the primary partition containing DOS will not
- be assigned a drive letter, and the drive containing OS/2 Warp will be
- assigned C. When DOS is started from the Boot Manager menu, the drive
- containing OS/2 Warp will be assigned D. (This "shift" in drive letters argues
- for having only one primary partition when using Boot Manager, or for making
- the OS/2 Warp primary partition HPFS, which is skipped by DOS.)
-
- 3. The next drive letter(s) (D, E, etc.) is(are) assigned to the remaining
- primary partitions' logical drive(s), in sequence, located on all the hard
- disks in the system.
-
- 4. The next drive letter(s) is(are) assigned to logical drive(s), in sequence,
- in the extended partitions located on all the hard disks in the system.
-
- 5. The next drive letter(s) is(are) assigned to other devices connected to the
- PC (such as CD-ROM drives).
-
- 6. Drive letter(s) can then be assigned (not necessarily in sequence) to
- remaining drives, such as network drives.
-
- Confused by all these partitioning rules and outcomes? Remember: keep it
- simple.
-
-
- Related information:
-
- (1.5) High Performance File System
- (3.2) Shareware and Freeware Sources
- (3.12) Backup Software
- (5.6) Performance Tuning
-
-
- (4.4) Starting OS/2 Warp from Diskette (and CHKDSK)
-
- How do I access HPFS partitions on my hard drive without booting from the hard
- drive? I'm getting error messages now -- how do I "repair" my hard disk?
-
- With IBM OS/2 Warp, insert the Installation Diskette, Shutdown (if necessary),
- and reboot. When prompted insert Diskette 1 and press ENTER. When prompted,
- press the F3 key. You will be given an OS/2 Warp command line prompt. From
- there you can make necessary changes to your hard disk -- an OS/2 Warp
- character mode text editor called TEDIT is provided on the OS/2 Warp
- Installation Diskette for such changes. (Make sure you backup CONFIG.SYS
- before making any changes so that you can easily revert to the old version
- should things go wrong.)
-
- You may use this diskette boot method to run CHKDSK on your FAT or HPFS
- volumes. After you reach the command line, insert Diskette 2. Do not log to
- another drive. Type CHKDSK X: /F to repair most kinds of damage to your hard
- disk, replacing X with the appropriate drive letter. OS/2 Warp CHKDSK will
- also mark your hard disk as accessible, if possible, should OS/2 Warp "lock it
- out" for some reason. It will also allow Workplace Shell drive objects to
- open properly if they are not functioning correctly. Repeat for each drive
- letter you wish to check and/or correct.
-
- "Errors" may be reported by CHKDSK if OS/2 Warp was booted from the hard disk.
- These "errors" are normal. Since the hard drive is in use by OS/2 Warp itself
- (and files are open) CHKDSK is unable to accurately report errors.
-
- The best way to avoid the need to perform CHKDSK is to always select Shutdown
- before turning off your PC. Click on the Workplace Shell desktop background
- using mouse button two to bring up the appropriate menu. Also, avoid
- manipulating OS/2-related files when using native DOS. Finally, enable
- autochecking for all your hard disk volumes. For HPFS volumes use the
- /AUTOCHECK parameter in the IFS=...HPFS line in your CONFIG.SYS. For FAT
- volumes use the AC parameter in the DISKCACHE line of your CONFIG.SYS. See
- the online Command Reference for details.
-
- The Create Utility Diskettes program, located in the OS/2 Warp System Setup
- folder, is designed to create a set of three diskettes which can be used to
- get to an OS/2 Warp command line prompt (and to provide the essential
- utilities often used when booting OS/2 Warp from diskette, including FDISK and
- TEDIT). If for some reason you cannot boot OS/2 Warp from the hard disk,
- these diskettes are handy for conducting emergency repairs.
-
-
- Related information:
-
- (1.5) High Performance File System
- (3.2) Shareware and Freeware Sources
- (4.3) Hard Disk Partitioning
-
-
- (4.5) Technical Support
-
- How can I get answers to my OS/2 Warp questions?
-
- If your question is not answered in this List, post a note to the appropriate
- Usenet conference on the Internet. (You can use NewsReader/2, part of OS/2
- Warp's Internet Connection, to read and post messages in Internet newsgroups.)
-
- comp.os.os2.apps
-
- Carries discussions related to finding or using any application running under
- OS/2 Warp
-
- comp.os.os2.networking.tcp-ip
-
- Looks at TCP/IP and Internet networking issues
-
- comp.os.os2.networking.misc
-
- Examines all other networking questions
-
- comp.os.os2.advocacy
-
- Deals with opinions and speculation
-
- comp.os.os2.programmer.porting
-
- Helps programmers move applications over to OS/2 Warp from other operating
- systems and environments
-
- comp.os.os2.programmer.oop
-
- Focuses on programming with object technologies (such as SOM, DSOM, OpenDoc,
- Taligent frameworks, and the Workplace Shell)
-
- comp.os.os2.programmer.tools
-
- Compares and contrasts the various programming tools and compilers available
- for OS/2 Warp
-
- comp.os.os2.programmer.misc
-
- Addresses anything else related to OS/2 Warp programming
-
- comp.os.os2.beta
-
- Explores beta releases of OS/2 Warp and related products
-
- comp.os.os2.announce
-
- Carries important OS/2 Warp announcements
-
- comp.os.os2.games
-
- Deals with gameplaying under OS/2 Warp
-
- comp.os.os2.bugs
-
- Discusses possible bugs found in released versions of the operating system
-
- comp.os.os2.multimedia
-
- Fosters conversation about OS/2 Warp multimedia (including MMPM/2)
-
- comp.os.os2.setup
-
- Offers a place to talk about setup and installation issues
-
- comp.os.os2.misc
-
- For any other OS/2 Warp-related discussion
-
- These groups are watched closely by OS/2 Warp experts from IBM. Also,
- comp.lang.rexx discusses REXX programming.
-
- Internet Relay Chat (IRC) has a dedicated channel (#os/2) which provides
- round-the-clock, real time OS/2 Warp support and information thanks to the
- efforts of several volunteers. A version of IRC for OS/2 Warp is available
- from (3.2) Shareware and Freeware Sources.
-
- The latest IBM AIX, RS/6000, and OS/2 Warp related product announcements are
- now available via Internet anonymous ftp from ibminet.awdpa.ibm.com
- (192.35.233.1) in directory /pub/announcements.
-
- You can also obtain OS/2 Warp information through the Internet's World Wide
- Web (WWW). You can use the IBM Web Explorer (available for use with OS/2
- Warp's Internet Connection) to browse these URLs:
-
- URL Description
-
- http://www.ibm.com The main homepage for IBM Corp.
- gopher://index.almaden.ibm.com IBM's OS/2 Warp gopher site
- http://www.ibm.net The IBM Global Network homepage
- (includes information on OS/2 Warp
- and its Internet Connection)
- http://www.mit.edu:8001/activities/os2 The OS/2 homepage at M.I.T.
-
- Your local FidoNet BBS may carry OS/2 Warp echo conferences and/or OS2NET. If
- not, ask your system operator to join them. CompuServe (GO IBMOS2), Smartnet
- (an international network of PCBoard BBSes), and Prodigy (JUMP OS/2 CLUB) are
- also excellent resources.
-
- The IBM PC Co. BBS's (modem 919-517-0001) message areas, product database,
- and PS Assistant file(s) are invaluable resources. For information on the IBM
- OS/2 Warp BBS (available through IBMLink) please call 800-547-1283. In the
- United States IBM has free technical support (phone 800-992-4777; some
- services require a toll call), an OS/2 Warp Hotline (general information,
- orders, upgrades, phone 800-3-IBM-OS2; ask about OS/2 Warp videotapes,
- T-shirts, and other accessories), the HelpWare Center (for help with IBM brand
- PCs, phone 800-PS2-2227), a software order line (phone 800-IBM-CALL), and two
- FAX information services (phone 800-IBM-4FAX and/or 800-IBM-3395). In Canada
- phone IBM Personal Systems Software at 800-465-1234.
-
- OS/2 Warp developers should contact the IBM Developer Assistance Program
- (phone 407-982-6408); membership is free. (You may also join on CompuServe
- with GO OS2DAP. IBM's DAP can also be reached by Internet mail at
- wwdap@vnet.ibm.com.) The OS/2 Warp Developer's Connection CD-ROM, containing
- a wide selection of development tools and code, is available from IBM (phone
- 800-6-DEVCON to order in the United States; in Canada, phone 800-561-5293; in
- Europe, phone 45-3-252-6588 or FAX 45-3-252-8203; elsewhere, phone
- 61-2-354-7684 or FAX 61-2-354-7766.) (The OS/2 Warp Device Driver Kit CD-ROM
- is also available from the Developer Connection order centers.)
-
- IBM offers classes worldwide to help in using and programming OS/2 Warp; phone
- your local IBM branch office (or the OS/2 Warp Hotline) for more information,
- or call IBM Education and Training at 800-IBM-TEACh. IBM Education and
- Training also has information on testing to become a certified OS/2 Warp
- and/or IBM OS/2 LAN Server professional. OS/2 Warp education and training is
- also available from any of the third party providers listed in the directory
- provided with every copy of OS/2 Warp. If you did not receive a copy of this
- directory, please contact the IBM OS/2 Warp Hotline at 800-342-6672 to request
- one. For more information on the IBM Independent Vendor League (and to find
- out how to be listed in the Solutions Directory), please call 203-452-7704 or
- FAX 203-268-1075. You may also dial the IBM I.V. League BBS at 203-380-8264.
-
- If you need to reach any individual at IBM, but you do not know that person's
- direct telephone number, call the IBM Switchboard at 800-IBM-3333. If you
- need to send electronic mail to any IBM employee who is reachable via the
- Internet, but you do not know that employee's address, try sending a message
- to nic@vnet.ibm.com with a Subject line that reads whois Smith, John
- (replacing Smith, John with the last name and first name of the person you are
- trying to reach). Leave the body of the message empty.
-
- See (4.9) Books and Magazines for information on OS/2 Warp publications. Any
- of the regular DOS or Windows resources (e.g. books, magazines,
- shareware/freeware sources) will be useful since OS/2 Warp supports DOS and
- Windows applications.
-
-
- Related information:
-
- (1.3) DOS and Windows Compatibility
- (3.2) Shareware and Freeware Sources
- (3.11) Internet Connection
- (4.7) Online Services
- (4.8) User Groups
- (4.9) Books and Magazines
- (4.10) Problem Report Form
-
-
- (4.6) Corrective Service Diskettes
-
- What are CSDs, how do I tell which I have, and where do I get them?
-
- CSDs are Corrective Service Diskettes, or bug fixes (Service Paks),
- periodically issued by IBM. The OS/2 Warp CSD level number may be obtained
- using the command SYSLEVEL from an OS/2 Warp command line prompt. CSDs are
- cumulative, i.e. only the most recent CSD is required to bring a system up
- from any previous CSD level. However, CSDs only apply within a major version
- number. For example, an upgrade, not a CSD, would bring OS/2 Version 2.1 up
- to Version 3. Note also that each national language (e.g. French, U.K.
- English) uses a distinct CSD.
-
- CSDs may be ordered by phoning 800-494-3044. Customers with IBM customer
- numbers (usually large sites) should order through IBMLink. Outside the
- United States, ask an authorized IBM dealer or representative for the CSD.
- CSDs may also be downloaded from the IBM PC Co. BBS (modem 919-517-0001),
- CompuServe (GO IBMOS2), or from (3.2) Shareware and Freeware Sources. And
- CSDs may be ordered through IBM's OS/2 Warp BBS.
-
- The latest, current OS/2 Warp CSD level will be listed in this List and in the
- PS Assistant files. At present there is no Service Pak for OS/2 Warp. The
- latest Service Pak for OS/2 Version 2.1 and OS/2 for Windows is Level 06300.
-
-
- Related information:
-
- (3.2) Shareware and Freeware Sources
-
-
- (4.7) Online Services
-
- Which online services support OS/2 Warp, and how do I join?
-
- IBM's official non-IBM online service for OS/2 Warp user and developer support
- is CompuServe (GO IBMOS2). In the United States you can obtain a free
- introductory CompuServe membership by calling 800-524-3388 and asking for
- Representative 239. (Note that it is now possible to connect to CompuServe
- through the Internet from anywhere in the world at no extra charge. Simply
- telnet to compuserve.com.)
-
- IBM maintains an unofficial presence on many other networks, including the
- Internet. (You can use OS/2 Warp's Internet Connection to access the full
- range of Internet services.) For general information on the Internet consult
- one of the many books describing the network. One example: The Whole
- Internet by Ed Krol, O'Reilly & Associates (phone 707-829-0515), ISBN
- 1-56592-025-2. Once you start using the Internet you should peruse the
- information files posted to the news.answers newsgroup to familiarize yourself
- with Internet resources.
-
- The OS/2 Warp Roundtable (Page 1400, Keyword OS2) has opened on GEnie. To
- subscribe to GEnie, set your communications software to half duplex and either
- 1200 or 2400 bps then have your modem dial 800-638-8369 (800-387-8330 in
- Canada). Upon connection, type HHH and press RETURN. At the U#= prompt type
- SIGNUP and press RETURN, then follow the directions given.
-
- Delphi not only provides full access to the Internet (GO INT), but there is
- also a dedicated OS/2 Warp forum (GO CUS 41) available on the service. The
- base rate is only $20 for 20 hours of access per month. To sign up for
- Delphi's five hour free trial and save the $19 signup fee (if you end up
- joining permanently), (1) call 800-695-4002 with your modem; (2) at the
- CONNECT message press ENTER a couple times; (3) at the USERNAME prompt type
- JOINDELPHI and press ENTER; (4) at the PASSWORD prompt type CUSTOM41 and press
- ENTER; (5) follow the instructions to sign up for the service. (Your five
- free hours expire at the end of the calendar month you sign up for Delphi, so
- you probably will not want to sign up at the end of the month unless you use
- the free time right away.)
-
- Prodigy, BIX, any many other online services also offer OS/2 Warp support and
- information.
-
-
- Related information:
-
- (3.2) Shareware and Freeware Sources
- (3.11) Internet Connection
- (4.5) Technical Support
- (4.11) OS/2 BBSes
-
-
- (4.8) User Groups
-
- Are there any OS/2 Warp user groups?
-
- The following OS/2 Warp user groups meet regularly. You can obtain the most
- up-to-date list of OS/2 Warp user groups and SIGs (Special Interest Groups)
- using the IBM Web Explorer to connect to URL
- http://www.austin.ibm.com/pspinfo/ibmpcug.html. If your favorite OS/2 Warp
- user group is not listed below, please mail details to ibmpcug@vnet.ibm.com.
- See (6.1) Promoting OS/2 Warp for information on IBM assistance to OS/2 Warp
- user groups.
-
- Note that addresses given are mailing addresses, not necessarily meeting
- locations. Also, please respect the time of individuals named below. Most
- are volunteers. Inquiries should relate to the activities of the group.
-
- o Australia
-
- - Melbourne PC User Group, OS/2 SIG
- 66 Albert Road, 2nd Floor
- South Melbourne, Victoria 3205
-
- - Sydney PC Users Group, OS/2 SIG
- P.O. Box E162
- St. James
- Sydney, NSW 2000
-
- o Austria
-
- - Anwender/2-The Styrian OS/2 Users Group
- Merangasse 82/II/9
- A-8010
- Graz
-
- o Belgium
-
- - Alex Wyckmans
- OS/2 User Group Belgium
- Maurits Sabbestraat 128
- B-2800 Mechelen
- +24-2-536.81.24
-
- - OS/2 Working Group GUIDE
- Karel Van der Haegen, K.U. Leuven
- Faculteit E.T.E.W., Dienst Informatica
- Naamsestraat, 69
- Leuven, B-3000
-
- o Canada
-
- - Alberta
-
- o Central Alberta OS/2 User Group
- Greenwood Business Centre
- c/o BRIDGE Scientific Services
- 205, 10607 - 82 Street
- Edmonton, AB T6A 3N2
-
- o Calgary OS/2 User Group
- c/o David Volk
- P.O. Box 2844
- 1680 West
- Calgary, AB T2P 3E3
-
- - British Columbia
-
- o Vancouver PC Users' Society, OS/2 SIG
- c/o Jonathan Story
- P.O. Box 12
- Vancouver, BC V6C 2L8
-
- o Rick Bird
- Victoria OS/2 User Group
- 2518 Wentwich Road
- Victoria, BC
- (604) 390-7196
-
- o Multitasking SIG (OS/2)
- c/o Greater Victoria PC Users Assoc.
- P.O. Box 5309, Station B
- Victoria, BC V8R 6S4
-
- o OS/2 LAN Users Group
- c/o Tracey Kerr, IBM Canada Ltd.
- 1803 Douglas St., 2nd Floor
- Victoria, BC V8T 5C3
-
- - Manitoba
-
- o Winnipeg OS/2 User Group
- c/o Paul Marcino
- P.O. Box 2914
- Winnipeg, MB R3C 4B5
-
- - Nova Scotia
-
- o OS/2 Atlantic Users Group
- IBM - Canada
- 1969 Upper Water St., 12th Floor
- c/o Natalie Wilson
- Halifax, NS B3J 3R7
-
- o Mr. Ralph Mercer
- Annapolis OS/2 Support Group
- Box 5080
- Greenwood, NS BOP 1NO
- (902) 765-8824
-
- - Ontario
-
- o Ottawa OS/2 Users Group
- IBM Canada Ltd.
- Attn: Karen Wright
- 55 Metcalfe Street
- Ottawa, ON K1N 8X1
-
- o Kawartha Computer Club, OS/2 SIG
- 460 Scriven Road
- Bailieboro, ON K0L 1B0
-
- o David Jones
- Personal Computer Club of Toronto, OS/2 SIG
- P.O. Box 5429
- Station A
- Toronto, ON M5W 1N6
- (416) 274-4811
-
- o Peter Kraiker
- Toronto OS/2 Sysops (TorontOS/2)
- 508 Soudan Ave.
- Toronto, ON M4S 1X3
- (416) 480-0360
-
- o George Oliver
- OS/2 Corporate Focus Group
- TCS (Canada) Ltd.
- 700 Dorval Drive, Ste. 202
- Oakville, ON L6K 3V3
- (905) 849-1390
-
- o Joseph A. Kovacs
- K-W OS/2 Corporate Users Group
- 33 Manor Park Crescent
- Guelph, ON N1G 1A2
- (519) 767-0894
-
- o London OS/2 Users Group
- John Roesner
- c/o Links Custom
- 1000 Pond Mills Road
- London, ON N6N 1A2
-
- o North Bay OS/2 Users Group
- c/o Michael Lavallee
- 790 Laurentian Ave.
- North Bay, ON P1B 7V2
-
- - Quebec
-
- o Gilles Kirouac
- Club OS/2 de Quebec
- as: Systemes Myriades
- 3652 Chemin St-Louis
- Ste-Foy, QC G1W 1S9
-
- o Estrie Area OS/2 User Group
- c/o Francois Menard
- P.O. Box 142
- Sherbrooke, QC J1H 5H8
-
- o Gilbert Lefebvre
- Club des Utilisateurs d'OS/2 de Montreal
- 10214 Ave Peloguin
- Montreal, QC H2C 2J8
- (514) 382-9858
-
- - Saskatchewan
-
- o Regina OS/2 User Group
- c/o P. Takis Skagos
- 3438 Keohan Cr.
- Regina, SK S4V 1J5
-
- o Germany
-
- - OS/2 User Group Deutschland
- c/o Heide Davis, PC & PR GmbH
- Kolner Strasse 51
- Mechernich-Kommern, D-5353
-
- - Olaf Scherdin
- OS/2 User Group of Flensburg
- Swinemuender Str. 3
- 24944 Flensburg
- +49-461-32880
-
- o Honduras
-
- - Usuarios de OS/2
- c/o Tulio Enrique Tercero
- GBM de Honduras, APDO 310
- Tegucigalpa
-
- o Holland
-
- - Holland User Group OS/2 (HUGO)
- c/o Paul Van Keep
- Lange Kerkdam 113
- Wassenaar, BT 2242
-
- o New Zealand
-
- - Christchurch OS/2 User Group
- P.O. Box 3712
- Christchurch, 8001
-
- - New Zealand PC Assoc. Inc., OS/2 SIG
- c/o Graeme Roberts
- P.O. Box 14025
- Wellington, 6030
-
- - Wellington OS/2 Users Group
- c/o Andrew McMillan
- 15 Airlie Rd.
- Karehana Bay, Plimmerton 6251
-
- o Russia
-
- - Constantin E. Protopopov
- Russia OS/2 User Group
- c/o International Computer Club
- Room 53,54
- proezd Serova 4
- Centre
- Moscow, 101813
- (095)482-0837
-
- o South Africa
-
- - Cape Town OS/2 User Group
- P.O. Box 4034
- c/o Glenn Fermoyle
- Cape Town, 8000
-
- o Ukraine
-
- - Kharkov OS/2 User Group
- 47 Lenin Ave.
- Institute for Low Temperature Physics and Engineering
- Kharkov, 310164
-
- o United Kingdom
-
- - Jan Bevans
- International OS/2 User Group
- c/o Mike Gove
- Barton House
- Barton Lane
- Cirencester
- Gloucestershire GL7 2EE
- +44-(01285) 644522
-
- o U.S.A.
-
- - Alabama
-
- o Michael Franklin
- Escambia County Computer User Group, OS/2 SIG
- 717 Douglas Ave.
- Brewton, AL 36426
- (205) 867-3327
-
- o B.J. Jacobs
- Mobile Area OS/2 User Group
- 4720 Morrison Drive
- Mobile, AL 36608
- (205) 342-8945
-
- - Alaska
-
- o Jacquelyn M. Briskey
- Alaska Computer Society, OS/2 SIG
- P.O. Box 240945
- Anchorage, AK 99524
- (907) 562-0105
-
- - Arizona
-
- o Esther and Bill Schindler
- Phoenix OS/2 Society
- 5515 North 7th St.
- Suite 5-133
- Phoenix, AZ 85014
- (602) 585-5832
-
- o Sierra Vista IBM PC UG, OS/2 SIG
- c/o Kevin McCrory
- 4931 Loma Loop
- Sierra Vista, AZ 85635
-
- o Les Stein
- Tucson Computer Society, OS/2 SIG
- 5702 East 8th St.
- Tucson, AZ 85711-3214
- (602) 790-7746
-
- o Keith Wood
- OS/2 User Group for Northern Arizona
- 1448 E. Maricopa
- Cottonwood, AZ 86326
- (602) 634-2404
-
- - California
-
- o Fred Zimble
- Greater South Bay PCUG, OS/2 SIG
- 2800 Plaza Del Amo, #99
- Torrance, CA 90503
- (213) 621-5181
-
- o Alan DuBoff
- Los Angeles OS/2 Technical Architect Group
- 6507 Whitaker Ave.
- Van Nuys, CA 91406
- (818) 989-4423
-
- o Steven Christ
- Long Beach IBM Users Group, OS/2 SIG
- 3618 Maine Ave.
- Long Beach, CA 90806
- (310) 490-0930
-
- o Jamie Jemison
- Hughes Aircraft OS/2 User's Group
- Hughes Aircraft Co.
- Bldg. C05, Room 2070
- 1600 Forbes Way
- Long Beach, CA 90810
- (310) 816-6185
-
- o Scot Gould
- Inland Empire OS/2 Users Group
- Keck Science Center
- 925 North Mills Ave.
- Claremont, CA 91711-5916
- (909) 621-8555 ext. 3197
-
- o Craig Swanson
- San Diego OS/2 User Group
- 11080 Camino Propico
- San Diego, CA 92126
- (619) 987-5955
-
- o Rollin White
- North Orange County Computer Club, OS/2 SIG
- P.O. Box 7283
- Huntington Beach, CA 92615-7283
- (714) 968-3143
-
- o Mike Lyons
- Orange County IBM PCUG, OS/2 SIG
- P.O. Box 1779
- Brea, CA 92622-1779
- (714) 990-0580
-
- o Bert Langer
- Southern California OS/2 User Group
- 982 N. Batavia St.
- Unit B-11
- Orange, CA 92667
- (714) 532-2298
-
- o Len Zakas
- Channel Islands PC UG, OS/2 Corner
- P.O. Box 1213
- Camarillo, CA 93011
- (805) 388-8452
-
- o Tony Ermie
- Tule Fog Computer Club, OS/2 SIG
- 2231 Memory
- Visalia, CA 93277
- (209) 733-4875
-
- o Tony Ricciotti
- High Desert OS/2 Users Group
- 8 Cypress Ave.
- Edwards, CA 93523
- (805) 258-4312
-
- o Sandeleh Francis
- Fresno PC Users Group, OS/2 SIG
- #395
- Fresno, CA 93726-6137
- (209) 229-0473
-
- o Steven Decato
- Naval Postgraduate School, OS/2 SIG
- Box 1259
- Monterey, CA 93943
- (408) 899-9625
-
- o Sandy Rockowitz
- Bay Area OS/2 User Group
- c/o Guy Scharf
- Software Architects, Inc.
- 2163 Jardin Dr.
- Mountain View, CA 94040-2253
- (415) 755-3124
-
- o San Francisco OS/2 Users Group
- c/o Bob Barber, AOSI
- 250 World Trade
- San Francisco, CA 94111
-
- o Hank Stephenson
- San Francisco PC Users Group, OS/2 SIG
- 465 Laidley
- San Francisco, CA 94118
- (415) 586-0700
-
- o Jeremy Stadlberger
- Teenage OS/2 Users Group
- 3817 22nd St.
- San Francisco, CA 94114
- (415) 826-9403
-
- o Gerald Brown
- OS/2 User Group
- World Savings and Loan
- 794 Davis St.
- San Leandro, CA 94577
- (415) 297-7881
-
- o Vallejo OS/2 User's Group
- c/o Dennis Dorsey
- 157 Mitchell Ct.
- Vallejo, CA 94590
-
- o Jerry Silverstein
- San Jose IBM Club PC Club, OS/2 SIG
- L63/026-210G
- IBM SSD-SP
- San Jose, CA 95193
-
- o Ann Tecklenburg
- Stockton OS/2 User Group
- 7509 East Kettleman Lane
- Lodi, CA 95240
- (209) 333-0312
-
- o Loyd Reedy
- Ripon PC User Group, OS/2 SIG
- 1146 7th St.
- Ripon, CA 95366-2569
- (209) 599-6486
-
- o Gary Kawaye
- California OS/2 Users Group
- c/o State of California
- Teale Data Center
- 2005 Evergreen St.
- Sacramento, CA 95815
- (916) 263-1884
-
- o Charlie Kotan
- Sacramento PC User Group, OS/2 SIG
- P.O. Box 460
- Cedar Ridge, CA 95924
- (916) 641-4007
-
- - Colorado
-
- o Robert Saenz
- Rocky Mountain OS/2 User Group
- ISSC
- 5600 North 63rd St.
- Boulder, CO 80314
- (303) 924-2881
-
- o Jeff Shapiro
- Colorado Springs PC Users Group, OS/2 SIG
- c/o John Pearson
- P.O. Box 1028
- Colorado Springs, CO 80901
- (719) 473-6569
-
- o Robert Wagner
- Old Colorado I/S OS/2 Users Group
- 2423 Hagerman St.
- Colorado Springs, CO 80904-3228
- (719) 471-8306
-
- - Connecticut
-
- o David Pinard
- New England OS/2 User Group
- c/o Ron Beauchemin
- ABB C-E Services, Inc.
- 200 Great Pond Drive
- Windsor, CT 06095
- (203) 954-1872
-
- - Florida
-
- o PC User's Group of Jacksonville, OS/2 SIG
- c/o Brad Davis
- Barnett Technologies
- MC 076-005
- 4800 Spring Park Rd.
- Jacksonville, FL 32207
-
- o Peter Davies
- NW Florida OS/2 User Group
- 5736 Bronco Pl.
- Milton, FL 32570-4003
- (904) 626-4118
-
- o Brian Walton
- Alachua County Computer Users Group, OS/2 SIG
- 3100 SW 35th Place
- Apt. 6-B
- Gainesville, FL 32608
- (904) 371-8009
-
- o Homer Whittaker
- Central Florida Computer Society, OS/2 SIG
- 1501 Magnolia Ave.
- Winter Park, FL 32789
- (407) 628-8877
-
- o Carlos M. Echinique
- Miami OS/2 Users Group
- 8780 SW 82nd St.
- Miami, FL 33173-4126
- (305) 596-8271
-
- o Steve Matus
- Ft. Lauderdale Computer UG, SIG-32
- 8461 NW 31st Place
- Sunrise, FL 33351-8904
- (305) 748-7237
-
- o Doug Azzarito
- South Florida OS/2 User's Group
- 2399 NW 30th Road
- Boca Raton, FL 33431-6212
- (407) 982-3700
-
- o Tim Bryce
- Tampa Bay OS/2 Users Group
- M. Bryce & Assoc., Inc.
- 777 Alderman Rd.
- Palm Harbor, FL 34683
- (813) 786-4567
-
- o Harvey Bruneau
- Tampa PC Users Group, OS/2 SIG
- 9402 Hidden Ridge Place
- Tampa, FL 33637
- (813) 985-3338
-
- o Pinellas IBM PC Users Group, OS/2 SIG
- c/o Michael C. Grogg
- 1510 Barry St., #J-2
- Clearwater, FL 34616-4410
-
- - Georgia
-
- o Robert L. Cannon
- Atlanta PC User Group, OS/2 SIG
- c/o Robert Cannon
- 3070 Presidential Drive
- Suite 220
- Atlanta, GA 30340
- (404) 455-4177
-
- o John D. Hopkins
- University of Georgia OS/2 Users Group
- Gilbert Health Center
- Univ. of Georgia
- Athens, GA 30602-1755
- (706) 542-8640
-
- - Illinois
-
- o James Schmidt
- North Suburban Chicago OS/2 User Group
- William M. Mercer, Inc.
- 1417 Lake Cook Road
- Deerfield, IL 60615
- (708) 317-7405
-
- o Dwight Cannon
- West Suburban Chicago OS/2 User Group
- Microfocus
- 1842 Centre Point Dr.
- Suite 128
- Naperville, IL 60593
- (708) 955-0082
-
- o Timothy F. Sipples
- Downtown Chicago OS/2 Users' Group
- One IBM Plaza (07/SS4)
- Chicago, IL 60611
- (312) 245-4003
-
- o Melissa Woo
- Champaign-Urbana OS/2 User's Group
- Environmental Health & Safety Bldg.
- 101 S. Gregory St., MC-225
- Urbana, IL 61801
- (217) 244-6655
-
- o Britt Hagen
- Central Illinois OS/2 Users Group
- Illinois Dept. of Insurance
- c/o Kurt Wellbaum
- 320 W. Washington
- Springfield, IL 62767
- (217) 524-0455
-
- - Indiana
-
- o Indianapolis Computer Society, OS/2 SIG
- P.O. Box 2532
- Indianapolis, IN 46206
-
- o Fort Wayne OS/2 Users Group
- c/o Stephen Gutknecht
- 3724 Shannon Drive
- Fort Wayne, IN 46835
-
- o Purdue OS/2 User's Group
- c/o Philip Polstra
- P.O. Box 2
- Otterbein, IN 47970-0002
-
- - Iowa
-
- o Bob Wruck
- Des Moines OS/2 User Group
- 12824 NW 127th Ct.
- Des Moines, IA 50325
- (515) 276-3606
-
- o Tom Peterson
- OS/2 SIG
- University of Northern Iowa
- Gilchrist 255
- Cedar Falls, IA 50614-0007
- (319) 273-6460
-
- - Kentucky
-
- o Alan McCutchen
- Kentucky-Indiana PCUG, OS/2 SIG
- 1108 South Brook St.
- Louisville, KY 40203-2716
- (502) 587-8285
-
- - Lousiana
-
- o David Arbour
- Baton Rouge OS/2 User Group
- 6333 Feather Nest Lane
- Baton Rouge, LA 70816-2733
- (504) 753-9637
-
- - Maryland
-
- o Ron Wright
- Capital PC User Group, OS/2 SIG
- 51 Monroe St., Plaza East Two
- Rockville, MD 20850
- (301) 762-6755
-
- o Paul Demmitt
- Central Maryland Micro UG, OS/2 SIG
- 9337 Angelina Circle
- Columbia, MD 21045-5110
- (410) 381-8939
-
- o Eric Erickson
- Hagerstown Computer Club, OS/2 SIG
- 12 West Magnolia Ave.
- Hagerstown, MD 21742-3347
- (301) 733-7312
-
- - Massachusetts
-
- o Marcia Gulesian
- Boston Computer Society, OS/2 SIG
- 1073 Main St.
- Concord, MA 01742
- (508) 369-3918
-
- o Kent Lundberg
- M.I.T. OS/2 Technical Users' Group
- M.I.T. Room 38-591
- 77 Massachusetts Ave.
- Cambridge, MA 02139
- (617) 253-1938
-
- - Michigan
-
- o Edward Trumbo
- Greater Detroit OS/2 User Group
- 16251 Ryland
- Redford Twp., MI 48240-2512
- (313) 876-8802
-
- o Users' PC Organization, OS/2 SIG
- c/o Skip Osterhus
- 3631 E. Meadow Ct.
- Okemos, MI 48864
- (517) 349-6024
-
- o Mary DeVries
- West Michigan OS/2 User Group
- c/o Spartan Field Engineering
- 537 76th St. SW
- Grand Rapids, MI 49509
- (616) 678-8562
-
- o Nancy Smith
- Delta DOS User's Group, OS/2 SIG
- 1023 9th Ave. South
- Escanaba, MI 49829-3101
- (906) 786-9240
-
- - Minnesota
-
- o Ben Bornstein
- Hutchinson Computer Users Group, OS/2 SIG
- 735 N. Main St.
- Hutchinson, MN 55350
- (612) 587-6219
-
- o Marcus Krumpholz
- Minnesota OS/2 Users Group
- 7300 12th Ave. South
- Minneapolis, MN 55423
- (612) 866-1618
-
- o John Bald
- Twin Cities PC User Group, OS/2 SIG
- 5701 Normandale Rd.
- Edina, MN 55424
- (612) 929-5850
-
- - Mississippi
-
- o Mike Erickson
- Jackson County PC User's Group, OS/2 SIG
- 1209 Canal St.
- Pascagoula, MS 39567
- (601) 935-2970
-
- - Missouri
-
- o Ron Gines
- Gateway/2 OS/2, Inc.
- 3838 Humphrey
- St. Louis, MO 63116
- (314) 771-6176
-
- o Connie Nusser
- Heartland Windows User Group, OS/2 SIG
- c/o IBM Corp.
- 2345 Grand Ave.
- 4 Satellite
- Kansas City, MO 64108
- (816) 556-6637
-
- o Phillip Wilson
- Mid-Missouri OS/2 User Group
- P.O. Box 30645
- Columbia, MO 65205-0645
- (800) 385-7074 ext. 2884
-
- - Nebraska
-
- o Finis Cook
- Omaha OS/2 Users Group
- IBM Corp.
- 450 Regency Pkwy.
- Omaha, NE 68114
- (402) 493-9101
-
- o Dottie Smith
- Lincoln OS/2 Users Group
- State of Nebraska, Central Data Proc.
- Nebraska State Office Bldg., Lower Level
- Lincoln, NE 68509
- (402) 471-4857
-
- - Nevada
-
- o Las Vegas OS/2 User's Group
- c/o Dr. NHA Karunaratne
- P.O. Box 94316
- Las Vegas, NV 89193-4316
-
- o Rob Winchell
- Las Vegas PC User Group, OS/2 SIG
- 1350 East Flamingo Rd., #188
- Las Vegas, NV 89119
- (702) 736-3788
-
- - New Hampshire
-
- o Frank Richards
- New Hampshire OS/2 User Group
- P.O. Box 71
- Marlow, NH 03456
- (603) 446-7307
-
- - New Jersey
-
- o Bruce Leiwant
- Northern New Jersey OS/2 User's Group
- 280 West Mount Pleassant Ave.
- Livingston, NJ 07039-2729
- (201) 762-6086
-
- o OS/2 User's Group of Monmouth County
- c/o Keith Brodhead, Jr.
- 71 Stockton Ave. #4
- Ocean Grove, NJ 07756
-
- o Nick Cvetkovic
- Assoc. of PC Professionals, OS/2 SIG
- 808 Richard Road
- Cherry Hill, NJ 08034
- (609) 779-0202
-
- o Charles Hujdu
- Philadelphia HUB PC User Group, OS/2 SIG
- 16 West Judith Drive
- Blue Anchor, NJ 08037
- (609) 882-4422
-
- o Peter Cohen
- Central Jersey PCUG, OS/2 SIG
- 1112 Ruby Drive
- Toms River, NJ 08753
- (908) 905-1005 ext. 279
-
- - New York
-
- o Bill Zack
- New York OS/2 Users Group (NYPC)
- c/o William H. Zack & Assoc.
- 10 Robert Ct.
- Fairfield, CT 06430
- (203) 255-2979
-
- o Todd Armstrong
- OS/2 Jam Session for Finance & Securities
- IBM Corp.
- 33 Maiden Lane, 12th Floor
- New York, NY 10038
- (212) 493-2998
-
- o Don Pearson
- Danbury Area Computer Society, OS/2 SIG
- Distributed Data Proc. Corp.
- Crichton Castle
- de Lancey Road
- North Salem, NY 10560-9763
- (914) 669-9622
-
- o Craig Smith
- Westchester OS/2 Users Group
- 42 Barker Ave., Suite 4G
- White Plains, NY 10601
- (800) 995-0400
-
- o H. Stanley Smith
- Rockland PC Users Group, OS/2 SIG
- 9 Chestnut Grove Ct.
- New City, NY 10956-2713
- (914) 634-6618
-
- o Phil Mandato
- Long Island OS/2 User's Group
- IBM Corp.
- 2 Jericho Plaza
- Jericho, NY 11753
- (516) 349-3920
-
- o Charles Suhr
- Capital District OS/2 User Group
- 158 Brookline Road
- Ballston Spa, NY 12020
- (518) 885-5786
-
- o Tony Lanzafame
- Capital District Computer Enthusiasts, OS/2 SIG
- P.O. Box 1910
- Schenectady, NY 12301
- (518) 436-1381
-
- o Stewart Davis
- Central NY PC Users Group, OS/2 SIG
- 4760 Broad Road
- Syracuse, NY 13215
- (315) 492-3745
-
- o Raymond Kenniston
- Mohawk Valley PC Users Group, OS/2 SIG
- 185 Otsego St.
- Ilion, NY 13357
- (315) 894-2396
-
- o Frog Computer Society, OS/2 SIG
- c/o Nick Francesco
- 321 Executive Office Bldg.
- Rochester, NY 14614-1701
-
- o Rochester OS/2 User's Club
- c/o Jerry Seward
- 5 Spicewood Lane
- Rochester, NY 14624-3117
-
- - North Carolina
-
- o Rich Cottle
- Triangle OS/2 User Group
- P.O. Box 98461
- Raleigh, NC 27624-8461
- (919) 676-4190
-
- o Bill Calvin
- Charlotte OS/2 User Group
- G-A Technologies
- P.O. Box 31474
- Charlotte, NC 28231
- (704) 334-3282
-
- - Ohio
-
- o David Jackson
- Columbus Computer Society, OS/2 SIG
- 140 East Town Street
- Columbus, OH 43215-5195
- (614) 225-3555
-
- o Rod Hacker
- Nationwide OS/2 User Group
- 3 Nationwide Plaza
- Mailstop 3-09-02
- Columbus, OH 43215
- (614) 249-8054
-
- o Andrew J. Nicola
- Far West OS/2 Professionals
- 4832 Clague Road
- North Olmsted, OH 44070-3760
- (216) 734-0287
-
- o Charlie Sweet
- Greater Cleveland PC UG, OS/2 SIG
- IMax Associates
- 981 Keynote Circle, Suite 2
- Cleveland, OH 44131
- (216) 351-2120
-
- o Garey Smiley
- NE Ohio OS/2 Users Group
- P.O. Box 1888
- Akron, OH 44314
- (216) 848-1312
-
- o John Kozacik
- Cincinnati PC Users Group, OS/2 SIG
- 3723 Petockey Ave.
- Cincinnati, OH 45227
- (513) 271-4109
-
- o Kevin Royalty
- Team OS/2 Cincinnati Users Group
- 11460 Mill Road
- Cincinnati, OH 45240
- (513) 745-8490 ext. 8547
-
- o Anthony Cogan
- Dayton Microcomputer Assoc., OS/2 SIG
- 1324 Holly Ave.
- Dayton, OH 45410
- (513) 254-3811
-
- - Oklahoma
-
- o Oklahoma City PC UG, OS/2 SIG
- P.O. Box 12027
- Oklahoma City, OK 73157-2027
-
- o Janice L. Briggs
- Tulsa Computer Prof. User's Assoc., OS/2 SIG
- IBM Corp.
- 2 Warren Place
- 6120 South Yale
- Tulsa, OK 74136
- (918) 493-4755
-
- o Don Singleton
- Tulsa Computer Society, OS/2 SIG
- P.O. Box 690180
- Tulsa, OK 74169
- (918) 622-3417
-
- - Oregon
-
- o Bob Seeder
- Portland PC Users Group, OS/2 SIG
- Attn: Resource Manager
- 921 SW Morrison, Suite 545
- Portland, OR 97205
- (503) 292-9639
-
- o TEAMOS2.PDX
- c/o Albert Gaylord
- 5425 SW Seymour St.
- Portland, OR 97221
-
- - Pennsylvania
-
- o Linda Watson
- Pittsburgh OS/2 User Group
- IBM Corp.
- 4 Allegheny Center, 2nd Floor
- Pittsburgh, PA 15212
- (412) 237-7972
-
- o Ray Hric
- Computer Users of Erie, OS/2 SIG
- c/o Tom Kuklinski
- P.O. Box 1975
- Erie, PA 16507-0975
- (814) 866-5396
-
- o Henri McVey
- Lancaster Microcomputer Users Group, OS/2 SIG
- 714 N. Marshall St.
- Lancaster, PA 17602-2162
- (717) 396-9406
-
- o Pennsylvania Computer Society, OS/2 SIG
- c/o Bill Wolff
- Wolff Data Systems
- 836 Redgate Road
- Dresher, PA 19025
-
- o Mike Antonucci
- Delaware Valley OS/2 User Group
- c/o Tim Howey
- 30th Street Station
- Philadelphia, PA 19105
- (215) 388-8615
-
- o Larry Lavins
- Philadelphia Area Computer Society, OS/2 SIG
- c/o LaSalle University
- 1900 West Olney Ave.
- Philadelphia, PA 19141
- (215) 878-9608
-
- o Exton PC Council, OE SIG
- c/o Allan Owen
- 310 N. High Street
- West Chester, PA 19380
-
- - South Carolina
-
- o Palmetto PC Club, OS/2 User Group
- c/o Paul S. Beverly
- P.O. Box 10, 3C2
- Columbia, SC 29202
-
- o Upstate IBM PC Users Group, OS/2 SIG
- c/o Philip Yanov
- P.O. Box 5521
- Greenville, SC 29606
-
- o Charles Izard
- Hilton Head Island Computer Club, OS/2 SIG
- c/o Harry Skevington
- 16 Forest Drive
- Hilton Head Island, SC 29928
- (803) 689-9771
-
- - Tennessee
-
- o Music City PC User Group, OS/2 SIG
- c/o Alan Ashendorf
- 488 Saddle Drive
- Nashville, TN 37221
-
- o Tad A. Duet
- Nashville Area OS/2 Users Group
- c/o DRT Systems International
- 402 BNA Dr.
- Suite 403
- Nashville, TN 37217
- (615) 731-5649
-
- o Steve Harris
- Chattanooga OS/2 Users Group
- TVA MP 3B-C
- 1101 Market St.
- Chattanooga, TN 37402
- (615) 751-7753
-
- o Arnold Sprague
- East Tennessee PC UG, OS/2 SIG
- 808 Fairfield Dr.
- Knoxville, TN 37919-4109
- (615) 584-8482
-
- o Memphis PC Users Group, OS/2 SIG
- P.O. Box 241756
- Memphis, TN 38124-1756
-
- - Texas
-
- o North Texas PC UG, OS/2 Developers SIG
- P.O. Box 780066
- Dallas, TX 75378-0066
-
- o North Texas PC UG, OS/2 End Users SIG
- P.O. Box 780066
- Dallas, TX 75378-0066
-
- o Toby Pennycuff
- Dallas/Ft. Worth OS/2 User's Group
- 1211 Wilshire Blvd.
- Arlington, TX 76012-4623
- (817) 963-9566
-
- o Daryle Swink
- Houston Area League of PC Users, OS/2 SIG
- 10700 Fuqua #303
- Houston, TX 77089
- (713) 922-1614
-
- o Ira Wilsker
- Golden Triangle PC Club, OS/2 SIG
- 5770 Clint Lane
- Beaumont, TX 77713-9531
- (409) 880-8193
-
- o Neal Krawetz
- Texas A&M OS/2 Users Group
- Dept. of Computer Science
- Texas A&M University
- College Station, TX 77843
- (409) 822-3650
-
- o Tim Hoke
- Alamo PC Organization, OS/2 SIG
- 14118 Kings Meadow
- San Antonio, TX 78231
- (210) 493-3845
-
- o Howard Hyten
- OS/2 Users Group
- 1200 Barton Hill Dr., #222
- Austin, TX 78704
- (512) 471-4291
-
- o Andrew J. Gnoza III
- Southwest International PC Club, OS/2 SIG
- 633 Agua Caliente
- El Paso, TX 79912-2226
- (915) 833-0539
-
- - Utah
-
- o Bob Angell
- Utah Computer Society, OS/2 SIG
- AIMS
- 1238 Fenway Ave.
- Salt Lake City, UT 84102-3212
- (801) 583-8544
-
- o Neil Wagstaff
- Utah Valley PC User Group, OS/2 SIG
- P.O. Box 233
- Provo, UT 84603
- (801) 377-2100
-
- - Vermont
-
- o Bruce Alvarez
- Burlington OS/2 User Group
- 52 Central Ave.
- South Burlington, VT 05403
- (802) 862-7451
-
- - Virginia
-
- o Frank McKenney
- Richmond PC User's Group, OS/2 SIG
- McKenney Assoc.
- 3464 Northview Place
- Richmond, VA 23225
- (804) 320-4887
-
- o Steven Grim
- Mid-Atlantic OS/2 User Group
- 1478 Petite Ct.
- Virginia Beach, VA 23451-6013
- (804) 422-6692
-
- o Carol Deyerle
- Government and PC Users Group of Roanoke, OS/2 SIG
- IBM Corp.
- 111 Franklin Plaza
- Roanoke, VA 24011
- (703) 981-9411
-
- - Washington
-
- o Ward Kaatz
- Pacific Northwest OS/2 User Group
- 748 North 79th St.
- Seattle, WA 98103
- (206) 625-1755 ext. 5802
-
- - West Virginia
-
- o PC HUG, OS/2 SIG
- 517 Ninth St.
- Suite 904
- Huntington, WV 25701
-
- - Wisconsin
-
- o John (Rip) Edmundson
- Milwaukee Area IBM PCUG, OS/2 SIG
- 5870 Dunvegan Dr.
- New Berlin, WI 53146-4808
- (414) 679-9075
-
- o Yi-sen An
- IBM Wisconsin OS/2 Users Group
- IBM Corp.
- 411 E. Wisconsin Ave.
- Milwaukee, WI 53202
- (414) 223-6147
-
- o Tom Ender
- Madison PC User's Group, OS/2 SIG
- P.O. Box 2598
- Madison, WI 53701-2598
- (608) 873-9117
-
- o Joe Mangal
- Central Wisconsin Computer Society, OS/2 SIG
- 3440 Evergreen Dr. #4
- Plover, WI 54467
- (715) 344-3137
-
- o Tim Klaver
- Fox Valley Tech. College PC UG, OS/2 SIG
- 1825 N. Bluemound Dr.
- Appleton, WI 54913
- (414) 730-4700 ext. 2075
-
-
- Related information:
-
- (3.11) Internet Connection
- (4.5) Technical Support
- (6.1) Promoting OS/2 Warp
-
-
- (4.9) Books and Magazines
-
- What OS/2 Warp books and magazines are available?
-
- OS/2 Warp has its own magazines: OS/2 Developer Magazine (phone 800-WANT-OS2
- or 708-647-5960, FAX 708-647-0537), Inside OS/2 (phone 502-491-1900), OS/2
- Professional (phone 301-770-7302), and OS/2 Magazine (Miller-Freeman; phone
- 800-765-1291 or 415-905-2200, or FAX 415-905-2499).
-
- Many OS/2 Warp books can be ordered by calling the IBM OS/2 Warp Hotline at
- 800-342-6672. Or you may obtain OS/2 Warp books through most computer book
- sellers. The most popular, general user guides to OS/2 Warp include OS/2 Warp
- Unleashed (by Moskowitz and Kerr), Inside OS/2 Warp (published by Que), and
- Your OS/2 Warp Consultant (by Herb Tyson). Other books (both new and updates
- to existing OS/2 titles) are also available.
-
- Several publishers specialize in OS/2 Warp. For example, Van
- Nostrand-Reinhold publishes perhaps the largest selection of books
- (particularly on programming topics) relating to OS/2 Warp. If you cannot
- find a good selection of OS/2 Warp books at your favorite computer book
- vendor, ask your dealer to order the titles that interest you or contact one
- of the (3.15) Dealers Specializing in OS/2 Warp.
-
- IBM publishes technical guides on various OS/2 Warp topics called "redbooks."
- To order these and other IBM publications phone your local IBM office and ask
- for the Librarian or phone 800-765-4IBM. Many IBM publications are available
- in both printed and CD-ROM formats. Some IBM publications are also available
- by calling IBM Technical Books at 800-IBM-PCTB.
-
-
- Related information:
-
- (3.15) Dealers Specializing in OS/2 Warp
- (4.5) Technical Support
-
-
- (4.10) Problem Report Form
-
- How do I report an OS/2 Warp problem to IBM?
-
- If you would like to send an OS/2 Warp bug report to IBM, you may phone IBM at
- 800-992-4777 (in the U.S.) or you may fill in the OS/2 Warp Problem Report
- Form and mail it to IBM via CompuServe or the Internet.
-
- The Problem Report Form helps IBM solve your problem more quickly, especially
- if you include all the relevant details. IBM then has to ask fewer questions
- in order to determine the problem.
-
- To use the Problem Report Form, follow these steps:
-
- 1. If you are reading the INF version of this List, press CTRL-F. This panel
- will then be saved to a file named TEXT.TMP.
-
- 2. Using a text editor (like the OS/2 Warp System Editor), open either
- TEXT.TMP or the plain text version of this List.
-
- 3. Delete all the extra lines in the file so that only the OS/2 Warp Problem
- Report Form remains.
-
- 4. Fill in all the requested information using your text editor.
-
- 5. Save the Form to disk (as file name OS2PROB.TXT for example).
-
- 6. Upload the file to CompuServe Mail or the Internet, and send the Form to
- IBM. (The exact procedure will depend on the service and the software you
- use.)
-
- You may use the Problem Report Form as many times as you need to, but please
- include only one problem per copy.
-
- ------ Submit an OS/2 Warp Problem Report ------
-
- This support is eligible for U.S. customers only.
-
- Customers should use this form to report a suspected OS/2 Warp defect to
- IBM support. IBM employees should refer to the OS2DFECT FORUM in IBMPC
- for instructions on how to report an OS/2 Warp defect.
-
- If you have how-to or other questions about OS/2 Warp, please refer to these
- sources:
-
- - The OS/2 Warp on-line documentation and README file.
- - If you have a CompuServe ID, you may submit an item to the
- appropriate section within the forums under IBMOS2 (GO IBMOS2).
- - Many bulletin board systems contain user forums where OS/2 Warp users
- share information and ideas on OS/2 Warp.
-
- Please provide as much information as possible on your problem. Feel free to
- add additional space, or remove sections of the form that are not relevant to
- your problem.
-
- CONTACT PERSON: __________________________________
-
- PHONE NUMBER: (___) ___-____ x____ Phone number where you can be
- FAX NUMBER: (___) ___-____ x____ contacted between 8-5, M-F.
- Electronic Mail: _________________________________
-
- Note: Support will normally be handled electronically through
- CompuServe mail. IBM may contact you via telephone if it
- appears it will expedite resolution to the problem.
-
- Would you rather be contacted by phone? Y _ N _
-
- ONE LINE DESCRIPTION OF THE OS/2 WARP PROBLEM:
- ___________________________________________________________________
-
- DETAILED PROBLEM DESCRIPTION - If possible, provide step-by-step recreation
- scenario. Also, please include any fixes or workarounds you may have already
- tried.
- __________________________________________________________________
- __________________________________________________________________
- __________________________________________________________________
- __________________________________________________________________
- __________________________________________________________________
-
- Enter any error messages that occur: ________________________________
-
- Select the appropriate answers by placing an "X" in the space indicated.
- Can you recreate the problem? Y _ N _
- Has the problem occurred on more than one system? Y _ N _ Unknown _
-
- OS/2 WARP OPERATING SYSTEM SOFTWARE CONFIGURATION:
- OS/2 Warp Version 3 ......: _ CSD Level: _______
- OS/2 Warp V3 with Win-OS/2: _ CSD Level: _______
- OS/2 for Windows .........: _ CSD Level: _______
- OS/2 Version 2.1x ........: _ CSD Level: _______
-
- NOTE - CSD = Corrective Service Diskette.
- Use the SYSLEVEL command to determine, if unknown.
-
- HARDWARE CONFIGURATION (provide as much as possible):
- Brand and model of PC: ____________________________________
- Microprocessor: Intel _ Other (specify) _______________
- Type: 286 _ 386SX _ 386 _ 486SX _ 486 _ Pentium _
- Speed: __ MHz
- Total RAM ....: __ MB
- Disk drive ...: ____ MB
- File System: FAT _ HPFS _ Both _
- Manufacturer: ___________________ Model # _______
- Type: IDE _ SCSI _ MFM _ RLL _ ESDI _ Unknown _
- Manufacturer and model # of disk controller: ______________________
- Manufacturer, revision #, and date of System BIOS: __________________
- Manufacturer and model # of video adapter: __________________________
- Manufacturer and model # of display: ________________________________
- Memory installed on video adapter: _____ EGA _ VGA _ SVGA _ 8514 _ XGA _
- Diskette Drive A: 3 1/2" _ 5 1/4" _
- Diskette Drive B: 3 1/2" _ 5 1/4" _
- List other adapters installed: _____________________
- _____________________
- _____________________
-
- TRAP INFORMATION - If a TRAP occurs and results in the 16 bit trap display
- similar to the following, enter any of the register values that you recorded:
-
- SESSION TITLE: __________________________________________________
- TRAP____
- AX=____ BX=____ CX=____ DX=____ BP= ____ SI=____ DI=____
- DS=____ ES=____ FLG=____ CS=____ IP=____ SS=____ SP=____
- MSW=____ CSLIM=____ SSLIM=___ DSLIM=___ ESLIM=____ CSACC=__
- SSACC=__ DSACC=__ ESACC=__ ERRCD=____ ERLIM=____ ERACC=__
- ________________________________________________________________
- ________________________________________________________________
- ________________________________________________________________
-
- If a TRAP occurs and results in the 32 bit trap display similar to the
- following, enter any of the register values that you recorded:
-
- TRAP ____
- ERRCD=____ ERACC=____ ERLIM=________ EAX=________ EBX=________
- ECX=________ EDX=________ ESI=________ EDI=________ EBP=________
- FLG=________ CS:EIP=____:________ CSACC=____ CSLIM=________
- SS:ESP=____:________ SSACC=____ SSLIM=________ DS=____ DSACC=____
- DSLIM=________ CR0=________ ES=____ ESACC=____ ESLIM=________
- CR2=________ FS=____ FSACC=____ FSLIM=________ GS=____ GSACC=____
- GSLIM=________
-
- THE SYSTEM DETECTED AN INTERNAL PROCESSING
- ERROR AT LOCATION ##____:________ - ____:____. _____, ____ ________
- INTERNAL REVISION _.___, __/__/__
-
- PRINTER - If this is a printer problem, please provide the following:
- Printer Vendor: __________________ Model ....: ________________
- Driver Name ..: __________________ Port Used : ________________
- Printer is attached to: Local _ LAN Server _ Host _
-
- COMMUNICATIONS MANAGER - If this is a problem with Communications Manager,
- please provide answers in this section:
-
- Communications Manager/2 ...Version: ___ CSD Level: _______
- OS/2 Extended Services 1.0.........: ___ CSD Level: _______
- Describe your Communications Manager configuration (DFT, T-R, etc):
- ________________________________________________________________
- ________________________________________________________________
-
- LOCAL AREA NETWORK - If this is a local area network problem, please enter
- information about the LAN involved:
-
- LAN SERVER: OS/2 LAN Server Version 1.3 : _ CSD Level: ________
- OS/2 LAN Server 2.0 Entry .. : _ CSD Level: ________
- OS/2 LAN Server 2.0 Advanced : _ CSD Level: ________
- OS/2 LAN Server 3.0x Entry ..: _ CSD Level: ________
- OS/2 LAN Server 3.0x Advanced: _ CSD Level: ________
- OS/2 LAN Server 4.0 Entry .. : _ CSD Level: ________
- OS/2 LAN Server 4.0 Advanced : _ CSD Level: ________
-
- LAN REQUESTER:
- LAN Server 4 Requester .....: _ CSD Level: ________
- LAN Server 3.0x Requester...: _ CSD Level: ________
- LAN Server 2.0 Requester....: _ CSD Level: ________
- OS/2 EE 1.3 Requester.......: _ CSD Level: ________
-
- DOS LAN REQUESTER:
- LS 4.0 Requester ...........: _ CSD Level: ________
- LS 3.0x Requester ..........: _ CSD Level: ________
- LS 2.0 Requester ...........: _ CSD Level: ________
- OS/2 EE 1.3 Requester ......: _ CSD Level: ________
- DOS Version: ____ DOS Vendor: _________________
-
- Is the failing system a Domain Controller? Y _ N _
- Is the failing system an additional server? Y _ N _
-
- DATABASE MANAGER or DB2/2 - If this is an OS/2 DATABASE MANAGER or DB2/2
- problem, please enter information about the DataBase Manager problem below.
-
- DB2/2 .... Version: ______ CSD Level: __________
- Extended Services 1.0 ...... CSD Level: __________
-
- SQL Error Code ....: ________
- Secondary Return Code: ________
- Error occurs when database is being accessed as:
- Stand Alone ......: Y _ N _
- Requester (Client): Y _ N _
- Database Server ..: Y _ N _
- Using RDS ........: Y _ N _
- Using LAN ........: Y _ N _
- If the error is occurring at a requester, can the problem be recreated
- at the server? .....: Y _ N _
- Error occurs in which application?
- Query Manager.....: _
- LI ..............: _ (Command Line Interface)
- User Application..: _
- If a trap has occurred, provide the SQLABEND results:
- _________________________________________________________________
- _________________________________________________________________
- _________________________________________________________________
-
- PLEASE REVIEW ALL OF THIS PROBLEM REPORT BEFORE SENDING. When you are
- ready to send this OS/2 Problem Report, send the form via electronic mail
- to ---
-
- Base OS/2 problems - Base Support, 76711,610
- All Other problems - Product Support, 76711,611
-
- (To send from the Internet use address 76711.610@compuserve.com
- or 76711.611@compuserve.com, as appropriate.)
-
-
- Related information:
-
- (4.5) Technical Support
- (4.7) Online Services
-
-
- (4.11) OS/2 Warp BBSes
-
- What OS/2 Warp BBSes can I dial?
-
- The following BBSes hold large OS/2 Warp libraries:
-
- BBS Name Number
-
- Fernwood 203-483-0348
- The Bin BBS 206-451-1905
- OS/2 Source BBS 303-744-0373
- Denver OS/2 BBS 303-755-6859
- Inside Technologies BBS 313-283-1151
- OS/2 Woodmeister 314-446-0016
- Pyramid/2 415-494-7497
- Gateway/2 314-554-9313
- Bay Area OS/2 510-657-7948
- OS/2 San Diego 619-558-9475
- OS/2 Las Vegas 702-433-5535
- OS/2 Shareware 703-385-4325
- Greater Chicago Online 708-895-4042
- OS/2 Exchange BBS 904-739-2445
- Abaforum (Barcelona) +34-3-589.38.88
- IBM UK +44-256-336655
- OS/2 UK +44-454-633197
- IBM Denmark +45-42-88-72-22
- Copenhagen UG BBS +45-48-24-45-80
- OS/2 Norway +47-22-38-09-49
- IBM Norway +47-66-99-94-50
- IBM Germany +49-7034-15-2160
- OS/2 Australia +61-2-241-2466
- Soft/2 Shareware (Adelaide) +61-8-370-7339
-
- (The monthly Worldwide OS/2 Warp BBS Listing, available from these BBSes,
- lists others.) The IBM PC Company BBS (modem 919-517-0001) has some
- shareware/freeware as well, along with CSDs [see (4.6) Corrective Service
- Diskettes] and the PS Assistant (an invaluable resource for locating almost
- any sort of information on OS/2 Warp). For information on IBM's OS/2 Warp BBS
- phone 800-547-1283. IBM Canada maintains several support BBSes:
-
- (416) 946-4244
- (416) 946-4255
- (514) 938-3022
- (604) 664-6464
- (604) 380-5441
-
-
-
- Related information:
-
- (3.2) Shareware and Freeware Sources
- (4.6) Corrective Service Diskettes
-
-
- (4.12) IBM Telephone Directory
-
- IBM has so many telephone numbers. Which do I use?
-
- Here are some of the telephone numbers at IBM that are of particular
- importance to OS/2 Warp users. Please consult the PS Assistant [available
- from (3.2) Shareware and Freeware Sources] for additional IBM telephone
- numbers.
-
- o IBM Developer Connection (800-6-DEVCON). Accepts orders for and provides
- information on the IBM OS/2 Warp Developer Connection and Device Driver Kit
- CD-ROM subscriptions.
-
- o IBM Education and Training (800-IBM-TEAC). Supplies information on classes
- and training for all IBM products, including OS/2 Warp. Also provides
- information on professional certification testing for IBM software products
- such as OS/2 Warp and OS/2 LAN Server.
-
- o IBM EduQuest Order Center (800-769-8322). Accepts orders for and provides
- information on IBM's products for K-12 education (students, faculty, and staff
- are eligible), including "Columbus," "Illuminated Books and Manuscripts," and
- other multimedia educational software for OS/2.
-
- o IBM Help Center (800-756-4IBM). The "800 number for all 800 numbers" in the
- United States. If you're not sure which number to call, start here. The
- operator will stay on the line until you're satisfied you've reached the right
- party.
-
- o IBM Independence Series Center (800-426-4832). Provides information and
- literature on any of IBM's software products for people with disabilities,
- including Screen Reader/2 and Screen Magnifier/2.
-
- o IBM Information Center (800-IBM-3333). IBM's United States "switchboard" --
- can be used to reach any IBM employee.
-
- o IBM Information Center TDD (800-426-3383). For hearing impaired callers
- using TDD, provides access to other IBM hotlines when you're not sure who to
- call.
-
- o IBM Multimedia Help Center (800-241-1620). Technical support for most of
- IBM's multimedia software products, including Person to Person for OS/2.
-
- o IBM OS/2 Warp Hotline (800-3-IBM-OS2). Accepts orders for OS/2 Warp,
- certain OS/2 Warp software titles, OS/2 Warp video cassettes, t-shirts, mouse
- pads, computer furniture, and other OS/2 Warp-related items. For United
- States residents.
-
- o IBM OS/2 Warp Technical Support (800-992-4777). The product support line
- for OS/2 Warp in the United States. Look in your OS/2 Warp package for a blue
- card describing product support services. Some services may require a toll
- call.
-
- o IBM PC Technical Books (800-765-4IBM). Accepts orders for most IBM
- publications from anyone in the United States.
-
- o IBM Personal Systems Software Canada (800-465-1234). For general inquiries
- and orders from Canadian residents for any OS/2 Warp-related product.
-
- o IBM Publications Canada (416-474-7000). Accepts orders for any IBM
- publication, including the OS/2 Warp Online Book Collection, shipped to any
- Canadian address.
-
- o IBM Publications U.S. (800-879-2755 opt. 1). Accepts orders for any IBM
- publication shipped to any address in the United States.
-
- o IBM Ultimedia Tools Center (800-887-7771). Provides information and
- literature on IBM's Ultimedia software products, including Ultimedia
- Builder/2, the multimedia authoring tool.
-
-
- Related information:
-
- (3.2) Shareware and Freeware Sources
- (4.5) Technical Support
-
-
- (5.0) Using OS/2 Warp
-
- The following questions are addressed in this section:
-
- (5.1) I'm a Unix wizard. How do I make OS/2 Warp resemble Unix?
-
- (5.2) I prefer Windows. How do I make OS/2 Warp resemble Windows?
-
- (5.3) Sometimes OS/2 Warp will freeze when I run an application. What do I do?
-
- (5.4) How do I start a background process from the OS/2 Warp command line?
-
- (5.5) How do I add new Adobe Type Manager Typefaces?
-
- (5.6) How do I tweak OS/2 Warp for maximum performance?
-
- (5.7) How do I measure OS/2 Warp performance and memory usage?
-
- (5.8) My background bitmap does not display correctly. What's wrong?
-
- (5.9) How do I boot a real version of DOS from within OS/2 Warp?
-
- (5.10) Are there any clever tricks that apply to OS/2 Warp?
-
- (5.11) How do I use REXX? What does it do?
-
- (5.12) What ANSI escape sequences can be used?
-
-
- (5.1) Making OS/2 Warp Resemble Unix
-
- I'm a Unix wizard. How do I make OS/2 Warp resemble Unix?
-
- A great number of GNU and Unix utilities have been ported to OS/2 Warp native
- mode and are available from (3.2) Shareware and Freeware Sources. A uucp
- package, UUPC/Extended, is available via anonymous ftp from ftp.clarkson.edu,
- directory /pub/uupc; mail help@kew.com with questions.
-
- In addition, the Hamilton C Shell is available from Hamilton Labs (phone
- 508-358-5715 or mail 3890321@mcimail.com). The Thompson Toolkit, a
- Bourne-like shell, and awk are published by Thompson Automation (phone
- 206-224-1639). MKS (phone 519-884-2251 or mail pat@mks.com) publishes a
- number of standard Unix utilities for OS/2 Warp. An OS/2 Warp version of lint
- is available from Gimpel Software (phone 215-584-4261). OS/2 Warp comes with
- full featured Internet access software called the Internet Connection. For
- OS/2 Warp-specific X Windows server support, IBM provides an optional package
- available with its TCP/IP Version 2 for OS/2. (Hummingbird and AESoft also
- sell X-Window server kits for OS/2 Warp.)
-
- DOS and Windows based utilities and aids still work fine under OS/2 Warp.
-
-
- Related information:
-
- (3.2) Shareware and Freeware Sources
- (3.8) Networking Products
- (3.11) Internet Connection
-
-
- (5.2) Making OS/2 Warp Resemble Windows
-
- I prefer Windows. How do I make OS/2 Warp resemble Windows?
-
- Spend some time with the Workplace Shell first. Browse the online Tutorial,
- Master Help Index, and Information folder. Once you are used to the Workplace
- Shell, you may find that you will never want to go back.
-
- If you still prefer Windows-like behavior, follow the instructions in your
- OS/2 Warp printed manual (or consult the online Command Reference) to use the
- MAKEINI utility with the WIN_30.RC configuration file.
-
- Note that you can run the Win-OS/2 Program Manager "seamlessly" on your OS/2
- Warp desktop, and you can use it to launch DOS, Windows, and even OS/2 Warp
- applications. Using the Program Manager in this way can make even hard core
- Windows users more comfortable.
-
-
- Related information:
-
- (1.3) DOS and Windows Compatibility
-
-
- (5.3) Recovering from Crashed Sessions
-
- Sometimes OS/2 Warp will freeze when I run an application. What do I do?
-
- Before rebooting with CTRL-ALT-DEL, try CTRL-ESC. Do not hit additional keys,
- do not move the mouse. Wait up to a minute. Either the Window List or an
- error message should pop up. You may close the offending application at that
- point; allow some time for it to close. (Try ALT-ESC if you have disabled
- CTRL-ESC in that application's DOS Settings. If you do not get any response,
- press CTRL-ESC or ALT-ESC repeatedly until the dialog appears.) Note that the
- Workplace Shell can recycle, independent of running applications, if it
- crashes.
-
- If the system is badly disabled, sometimes pressing CTRL-ALT-NUMLOCK twice
- will result in a prompt to create a dump diskette. You may do so (the online
- Command Reference describes dump diskettes), or at that point you may reboot
- with CTRL-ALT-DEL.
-
- To prevent applications from automatically restarting see (5.10) Clever
- Tricks. To restore the desktop to "factory defaults," and for other system
- recovery options, use ALT-F1 when OS/2 Warp starts (when you see the white
- rectangle as OS/2 Warp boots).
-
-
- Related information:
-
- (4.6) Corrective Service Diskettes
- (5.10) Clever Tricks
-
-
- (5.4) Starting Background Processes
-
- How do I start a background process from the OS/2 Warp command line?
-
- Look up the START and DETACH commands in the online Command Reference.
-
- If you wish to start a DOS session with nondefault settings, use a utility
- such as STARTD. If you wish to start an OS/2 Warp session from a DOS session,
- try OS2EXEC. Both (and several others) are available from (3.2) Shareware and
- Freeware Sources.
-
-
- Related information:
-
- (3.2) Shareware and Freeware Sources
-
-
- (5.5) Adobe Type Manager
-
- How do I add new Adobe Type Manager typefaces?
-
- OS/2 Warp comes with built-in Adobe Type Manager (ATM) for OS/2 Warp and
- Win-OS/2. A basic set of typefaces (Courier, Helvetica, and Times New Roman)
- comes with OS/2 Warp and is installed (if selected) for use under both OS/2
- Warp's and Win-OS/2's ATM.
-
- Each typeface you install under OS/2 Warp and/or Win-OS/2 should come with at
- least two separate files with PFB and AFM extensions. To install a typeface
- for use under Win-OS/2, use the ATM Control Panel. The Win-OS/2 ATM Control
- Panel will then build a PFM file from the AFM file if a PFM file is not
- already included. To install a typeface for use with OS/2 Warp-specific
- applications, select OS/2 System -> System Setup -> Font Palette -> Edit Font
- -> Add.
-
- PFM files may converted to AFM files using the PFM2AFM utility, available from
- (3.2) Shareware and Freeware Sources. (However, these converted AFM files
- sometimes produce unusual results.) AFM files for Adobe commercial typefaces
- are available via Internet anonymous ftp from ftp.mv.us.adobe.com; the PFB
- files are available for purchase from Adobe. Many public domain typefaces for
- OS/2 Warp's ATM are available from (3.2) Shareware and Freeware Sources.
- AllType (Atech Software, phone 800-786-FONT), FontMonger (Ares Software, phone
- 415-578-9090), and Fontographer convert between TrueType and Adobe Type 1
- formats.
-
- Typeface files may be shared by OS/2 Warp ATM and Win-OS/2 ATM. To do so,
- install the typefaces using both the Font Palette and Win-OS/2 ATM Control
- Panel, specifying the same target path each time (most conveniently \PSFONTS).
-
- Note that in some releases of OS/2 IOPL=YES should appear in CONFIG.SYS for
- proper operation of ATM. This setting is the default.
-
-
- Related information
-
- (3.2) Shareware and Freeware Sources
-
-
- (5.6) Performance Tuning
-
- How do I tweak OS/2 Warp for maximum performance?
-
- For advice on tuning OS/2 Warp (including information on running games) please
- consult the documents located in the Information folder. Also, several tools
- have been developed to help tune OS/2 Warp for performance, notably:
-
- Here are some basic steps you can take to improve the performance of your OS/2
- Warp PC:
-
- o Use FastLoad so that Windows applications start faster. Start the Win-OS/2
- Setup program, located in your System Setup folder. There is a checkbox
- marked "FastLoad." Check this box to enable the FastLoad feature. When you
- start OS/2 Warp, a DOS session with Win-OS/2 will be started automatically and
- preloaded so that Windows applications will start faster. However, enabling
- FastLoad will increase the amount of time required to start OS/2 Warp.
-
- FastLoad will not provide any benefit if (a) you have enabled the "Separate
- session" feature for your Windows application(s); (b) your FastLoad session is
- set for a different mode than your Windows application(s). In other words, if
- your FastLoad session is set for Enhanced mode, the Windows applications you
- start from the OS/2 Warp desktop must also be set to Enhanced mode. You can
- adjust the FastLoad mode setting by using the Win-OS/2 settings button in the
- Win-OS/2 Setup notebook. The mode setting for a Windows application is
- controlled from the settings notebook for that application. If the mode
- settings are not identical, FastLoad can actually hamper performance.
-
- o Adjust the disk cache size. Generally, OS/2 Warp can make better use of
- your PC's memory for applications, so you will usually want to keep the size
- of your disk cache modest. There are at least three types of disk caches
- available: FAT, HPFS, and CD-ROM. All are controlled by the CONFIG.SYS file.
- Normally OS/2 Warp will set the disk cache sizes correctly for your PC's
- amount of memory. However, you may wish to make changes, especially if you
- have added or removed memory from your PC.
-
- As a rule of thumb, the total size of your disk caches (combined) should be
- about 10% of your PC's available memory. For example, if you have a system
- with 12 MB of memory, then you can spare a little over a megabyte (1024K) for
- disk cache. The cache sizes for the three most popular OS/2 Warp file systems
- are controlled using the following lines in CONFIG.SYS:
-
- DISKCACHE=xxxx[,...]
- IFS=[...]HPFS.IFS /CACHE:yyyy [...]
- IFS=[...]CDFS.IFS /C:zz [...]
-
- (for FAT, HPFS, and CD-ROM, respectively). The "[...]" notation above
- indicates that additional, optional parameters are available for these lines.
- Replace "xxxx" or "yyyy" with the size of the cache you would like (in
- Kilobytes). For example, to set a cache size of 1 MB for the FAT file system:
-
- DISKCACHE=1024
-
- Replace "zz" with the size of the CD-ROM cache you wish to set, in 64K
- segments. For example, to set a cache size of 128K for the CD-ROM file
- system, use:
-
- IFS=[...]CDFS.IFS /C:2
-
- For more information on setting disk cache sizes, please refer to the online
- Command Reference.
-
- o Relocate the OS/2 Warp swap file. For maximum performance, the swap file
- (controlled by the SWAPPATH line in CONFIG.SYS) should be located on the most
- used drive on the least used hard disk on your PC. Also, preallocating a
- larger swap file (8, 12, or even 16 MB) can increase performance. See your
- online Command Reference for details on SWAPPATH.
-
- o Speed printing by dedicating IRQ 7. With OS/2 Warp, the default printing
- method is to poll the printer port (much like DOS). This method is compatible
- with a wide variety of PCs and printers, but sometimes printing speed suffers.
- For faster results, enable interrupt-driven printing. See (2.3) Printer
- Support for details.
-
-
- Related information:
-
- (1.3) DOS and Windows Compatibility
- (2.3) Printer Support
- (5.7) Measuring Performance and Memory Usage
-
-
- (5.7) Measuring Performance and Memory Usage
-
- How do I measure OS/2 Warp performance and memory usage?
-
- OS/2 Warp does not treat system resources like DOS. Memory is treated as a
- virtual resource, used intelligently. For example, OS/2 Warp will retain
- unused, "dormant" code in memory if that memory is not otherwise required, on
- the assumption that that code may be used again. Also, all but a small
- portion of OS/2 Warp (and most applications, no matter how many are running)
- may be paged to disk should a large amount of physical memory be required.
- Utilities which display "free" memory, then, are only useful for rough,
- relative measurements. (Such utilities also often fail for another reason:
- many only report the largest contiguous block of free physical RAM. And a few
- will never report more than 16 MB of RAM because they were designed for OS/2
- 1.x.)
-
- Similarly, utilities which purport to measure system load (e.g. Pulse) should
- not be relied upon for definitive performance measurement. Subjective
- assessments are often much more reliable. Pulse (and similar utilities) rely
- on a measurement of processor time allocated to a thread running at OS/2
- Warp's lowest priority. This method is sometimes subject to erroneous
- results.
-
- That said, more rigorous system performance optimization and monitoring tools
- include IBM's System Performance Monitor/2, BenchTech (Synetik, phone
- 303-241-1718), OR/SysMon (International OS/2 User Group, phone +44-285-641175
- or FAX +44-285-640181), CPU Monitor (BonAmi), and Performance 3.0 (Clear &
- Simple, phone 203-658-1204).
-
- Note that OS/2 Warp's swap file is designed to behave with hysteresis. It
- will not shrink in size as easily as it grows, under the assumption that swap
- space needed once may be needed again. It should shrink given enough time and
- continued, less intense system loads.
-
-
- Related information:
-
- (5.6) Performance Tuning
-
-
- (5.8) Displaying Background Bitmaps
-
- My background bitmap does not display correctly. What's wrong?
-
- Color bitmap images used for the Workplace Shell screen or folder backgrounds
- may not display correctly (may have distorted or missing colors) due to
- incorrect matching with OS/2 Warp's default palette. Unlike Windows, by
- default OS/2 Warp does not adjust the palette to accommodate background
- bitmaps (to keep the rest of the desktop from experiencing color distortions).
- Applications, though, can always control the palette selection when they are
- in the foreground.
-
- If you would like OS/2 Warp's Workplace Shell to change palettes, when
- possible, to make your background bitmap(s) look better, check the "Workplace
- shell palette aware" checkbox, located on the first page of the System object
- (which is located in your OS/2 Warp System Setup folder). Alternatively, you
- may use the numerous background images which have been specifically prepared
- for the Workplace Shell [available from (3.2) Shareware and Freeware Sources]
- or you may use an image editing/conversion utility which can create a proper,
- system palette-matched bitmap file. For example, JoeView [available from
- (3.2) Shareware and Freeware Sources] may be used to import noninterlaced GIF,
- Windows BMP, and PCX files and save them as palette-matched OS/2 Warp BMP
- files.
-
- Note that background bitmap images impose some additional overhead, taking up
- RAM and disk resources. You should probably use them sparingly. Also, if you
- have set a Win-OS/2 background bitmap you may experience desktop color
- distortions when running Windows programs "seamlessly." Disable the Win-OS/2
- background bitmap to remedy the problem.
-
-
- Related information:
-
- (2.2) SuperVGA Support
- (3.2) Shareware and Freeware Sources
-
-
- (5.9) Specific DOS Sessions
-
- How do I boot a real version of DOS from within OS/2 Warp?
-
- Booting a real version of DOS under OS/2 Warp provides certain features that
- the OS/2 Warp emulated DOS sessions cannot. For example, a specific DOS
- session can provide access to devices (like CD-ROM drives) and networks for
- which there are only DOS device drivers. A specific DOS session can also help
- get DOS applications which generate spurious "divide by zero" errors running
- again.
-
- You may be able to run only one such session per hardware device (if that
- device is not under OS/2 Warp's direct control). So, for example, if you have
- your DOS networking software loaded in one specific DOS session, you may not
- start another, similar session which also accesses the same network card.
-
- Specific DOS sessions are discussed in the online Command Reference (under
- VMDISK), the Master Help Index, and the printed OS/2 Warp manual. You should
- consult those resources first. However, if you are still unsure how to
- configure your system to run specific DOS sessions, follow these steps:
-
- 1. Create a bootable DOS diskette. Insert your DOS system diskette into Drive
- A and reboot. When you arrive at the "A>" prompt, type FORMAT A: /S and
- press ENTER. (Note that you may wish to format the diskette for the smallest
- capacity possible, to save hard disk space later on. For example, a 5.25 inch
- double density -- not high density -- diskette may be formatted to just 160K
- by adding the /1 /N:8 parameters to the FORMAT command.) When prompted,
- insert a blank diskette into Drive A and press ENTER. When the FORMAT
- operation is complete, remove the diskette and restart OS/2 Warp.
-
- 2. Copy FSFILTER.SYS to the diskette. Double click on OS/2 System -> Command
- Prompts -> OS/2 Window. Insert the diskette you just formatted into Drive A.
- Copy the following file to your startable diskette: \OS2\MDOS\FSFILTER.SYS.
-
- 3. Set up CONFIG.SYS. Using a text editor (like the OS/2 System Editor)
- create the file A:\CONFIG.SYS with the following lines at the top:
-
- DEVICE=FSFILTER.SYS
- DEVICE=C:\OS2\MDOS\HIMEM.SYS
- DEVICE=C:\OS2\MDOS\EMM386.SYS
- DEVICE=C:\OS2\MDOS\ANSI.SYS
-
- Change the "C:" drive letter if OS/2 Warp is installed on another drive. Add
- any other lines as required for your application (like CD-ROM or networking),
- but do not include any XMS, EMS, mouse, or memory management device drivers.
- Make sure that everything is referenced with a drive letter and path, as
- above.
-
- 4. Set up AUTOEXEC.BAT. Likewise, create a file named A:\AUTOEXEC.BAT and
- make sure that the first line reads:
-
- C:\OS2\MDOS\MOUSE
-
- changing "C:" if necessary. Add any additional lines (like PATH, SET PROMPT,
- and so on) as required by your application. Make sure that \OS2\MDOS is
- referenced in the PATH.
-
- 5. Test your DOS diskette. Once you have configured the CONFIG.SYS and
- AUTOEXEC.BAT files as you wish, double click on OS/2 System -> Command Prompts
- -> DOS from Drive A:. A DOS session should start. Test for the functionality
- you need (like access to your CD-ROM reader or network). If the session is
- not working properly, press CTRL-ESC and shut down the session, edit
- CONFIG.SYS and/or AUTOEXEC.BAT as required, and repeat the test.
-
- 6. Create the diskette image. When you are satisfied that your specific DOS
- session diskette functions properly, go back to the OS/2 Window and type
- VMDISK A: C:\DOS.IMG to create a diskette image file. (If you want the file
- to be located on another drive or in another directory, change "C:\"
- accordingly.)
-
- 7. Create a program object for your specific DOS session. Drag a program
- object from your Templates folder to any target folder. When the notebook
- opens, enter a single asterisk (*) in the Program Name field, then click on
- the right arrow in the lower right. Select either DOS Window or DOS Full
- Screen for the session type, as desired. Click on the DOS Settings button,
- click OK, and scroll down until you find the DOS_STARTUP_DRIVE property.
- Enter C:\DOS.IMG in the field at the upper right. (If your image file is not
- located on Drive C in the root directory, make the necessary changes.) Change
- any other DOS Settings if necessary. Click on the Save button, then click on
- the General tab. Give your program object a name. Then close up the
- notebook.
-
- You should now be able to double click on your new program object to start
- your specific DOS session. If you require access to your diskette drive
- (Drive A), use the FSACCESS command. See the online Command Reference for
- details.
-
- When formatting your bootable DOS diskette, you may wish to use additional
- command line parameters to create a diskette with a reduced capacity. The
- "smaller" the diskette, the less room the diskette image file created by
- VMDISK will take on your hard disk. See your DOS manual for details, or use
- the example given above.
-
-
- Related information:
-
- (1.3) DOS and Windows Compatibility
-
-
- (5.10) Clever Tricks
-
- Are there any clever tricks that apply to OS/2 Warp?
-
- o To force DIR to display your directories in alphabetical order, with the
- subdirectories listed first, add the line
-
- SET DIRCMD=/O:GN
-
- to CONFIG.SYS; and, if you wish the same for your DOS command line sessions,
- add the same line to AUTOEXEC.BAT. You may also wish to run DOSKEY to enable
- the command history feature. (Shutdown and reboot for changes to CONFIG.SYS
- to take effect.)
-
- o Hold down SHIFT while resizing text windows to make size changes permanent.
-
- o If you want to configure your printer port(s) for shared access (so that DOS
- programs like LapLink, for example, can use them directly), go to your printer
- object, click on it with mouse button two, select Open -> Settings, select the
- Output tab, then double click on the port you wish to share. Check the
- appropriate box.
-
- o While running a DOS graphics program in a window, use the graphics cut and
- paste feature to clip a picture and paste it into the Icon Editor. You can
- then quickly and easily create custom icons for your applications.
-
- o To disable the automatic application restart feature, add the line
-
- SET RESTARTOBJECTS=STARTUPFOLDERSONLY
-
- to your CONFIG.SYS. To manually disable automatic application restart when
- booting OS/2, hold down the left CTRL, left SHIFT, and F1 keys simultaneously
- from the time the mouse pointer appears until icons are displayed on the
- desktop.
-
- o If you wish to dispense with the Workplace Shell (and its overhead),
- particularly on low memory systems, change the line SET RUNWORKPLACE... in
- CONFIG.SYS to read SET RUNWORKPLACE=C:\OS2\CMD.EXE (replacing C, if necessary,
- with a different drive letter). In fact any program with job control (e.g.
- Enhanced Editor, HyperAccess/5) can be used as the shell. [Character mode
- alternatives to the Workplace Shell are now available from (3.2) Shareware and
- Freeware Sources.]
-
- o To implement a small scroll back buffer for your OS/2 Warp command line
- windows, use the command MODE CO80,102. This procedure may be automated by
- adding /K MODE CO80,102 in the Optional Parameters section of the OS/2 Window
- program object settings.
-
- o If you do not want any command line parameters passed to a program object
- that you start (for example, if you customize the desktop menu so that it has
- an additional option which starts a command line prompt) place a lone % in the
- Optional Parameters section of the program object settings. If you do wish to
- pass parameters, but you want the extraneous information that the Workplace
- Shell passes to the object to be ignored, try putting && REM % in the Optional
- Parameters section after the parameters you wish passed.
-
- o If you want to move an icon a small distance, "grab" it from the edge
- nearest the direction you want to move the icon.
-
- o A clever way to manipulate files that are locked when the Workplace Shell is
- running (e.g. display drivers) is to add the line CALL=CMD.EXE at the end of
- CONFIG.SYS. Then Shutdown and reboot. The system will restart with an OS/2
- Warp command line prompt. Type EXIT to proceed into the Workplace Shell.
- Using CALL is also a convenient way to configure OS/2 Warp's serial ports
- using the MODE command. For example:
-
- CALL=C:\OS2\MODE.COM COM2:38400,N,8,1,OCTS=OFF,RTS=ON,BUFFER=ON
-
- configures COM2 for high speed RTS handshaking and buffered I/O. [Moreover,
- the MODE command can be used to determine whether your system has a buffered
- UART (National Semiconductor 16550A or equivalent), nearly essential for high
- speed communications. Use the command:
-
- MODE COMx
-
- (where x is the communications port number) from an OS/2 Warp command line.
- If you see anything but "BUFFER = N/A" then you have a buffered UART for that
- port.]
-
- You can use either CDDBOC or SHIFTRUN instead of CALL; both utilities are
- available from (3.2) Shareware and Freeware Sources.
-
- Another way, which works well with display drivers, is to copy the new DLL(s)
- to its(their) own directory (say, C:\NEW), then place that directory name
- first in LIBPATH in CONFIG.SYS. Shutdown and reboot. OS/2 Warp will use
- that(those) DLL(s) before it attempts to use the one(s) located in \OS2\DLL.
- To switch back to the old driver, edit CONFIG.SYS and remove C:\NEW from
- LIBPATH, then Shutdown and reboot.
-
- o To shutdown without a mouse, press CTRL-ESC, select the Desktop, then press
- the spacebar (to deselect any icons, if necessary), SHIFT-F10, and select
- Shutdown.
-
- o Selective Install/Uninstall should be used with caution when changing mouse,
- multimedia, or display drivers. Verify that proper changes have been made to
- CONFIG.SYS.
-
- o If your settings notebooks do not display but are listed in the Window List,
- click on the name of the settings notebook in the Window List (brought up with
- CTRL-ESC) with mouse button two and select Cascade.
-
- o If your \OS2\*.INI files have grown large, use the CopyINI or WPSBackup
- utilities to shrink them. Both are available from (3.2) Shareware and
- Freeware Sources.
-
- o To restart the Workplace Shell (without saving desktop settings, perhaps
- after an accidental Sort), use a utility such as psPM [available from (3.2)
- Shareware and Freeware Sources] to terminate PMSHELL.
-
- o To get rid of a WPS object that cannot be deleted, try one of the following:
-
- - Insert a blank diskette in Drive A, click on the stubborn object with mouse
- button two, select Move, select the Path page, enter A:\, press ENTER, then
- format the diskette;
-
- - Use the WPSTools or Black Hole, available from (3.2) Shareware and Freeware
- Sources. (The WPSTools can also recreate desktop objects that have been
- lost.)
-
- o To load a device driver into high memory in a particular DOS session change
- the DOS_DEVICE setting for the session and add SIZE=0 before the path and
- filename for the device driver. For example, the following DOS_DEVICE entry:
-
- SIZE=0 C:\OS2\MDOS\ANSI.SYS
-
- loads the ANSI.SYS device driver into high memory in that particular session.
-
- o To reboot the machine from the command line, use:
-
- SETBOOT /IBD:C
-
- Change the last letter (C) if you want to boot from another drive. Disk
- buffers will be flushed, but Workplace Shell settings will not be saved.
-
- o The settings notebooks now support drag and drop operations for assigning
- icons and for changing menus.
-
- To change the icon for an object, first open the settings notebook (click on
- the object with the secondary mouse button, then select Open -> Settings).
- Click on the General tab. Then drag any other object to the icon located on
- the General page of the settings notebook. The object's icon will change to
- match. If you want to restore it to its former state, click on the Undo
- button.
-
- To assign actions to menus, open the settings notebook, then click on the Menu
- tab. Click on any of the items in the Available menus section (or Create
- another). To add an Action, drag the desired program object to the Actions on
- menu section.
-
- o To quickly maximize a window, double click on its title bar. To restore the
- window to its former size, double click on the title bar again.
-
- o If you have UNDELETE enabled, but you want to delete an occasional file
- without the overhead incurred by having UNDELETE capability, use the /F
- parameter with the DEL command. Using this parameter (in either a DOS or OS/2
- Window) will bypass the routine which moves the file(s) to the directory
- specified by the DELDIR environment variable. The file(s) is(are) deleted
- faster, but you will not be able to undelete it(them). The /N parameter will
- prevent prompting ("Are you sure?").
-
- o OS/2 Warp includes the ability to set a power on password. However, if you
- have forgotten your password, and you cannot unlock your desktop when you turn
- your machine on, try the following. Start OS/2 Warp from a diskette boot [see
- (4.4) Starting OS/2 Warp from Diskette] to get a command line prompt. At the
- prompt, enter the following commands:
-
- C:
-
- (assuming OS/2 Warp is installed on Drive C; change if necessary)
-
- MAKEINI OS2.INI LOCK.RC
-
-
- o If you are using a 1024x768 display driver (such as 8514/A), but you do not
- want the icons scaled up in size from 32x32 to 40x40, patch the display driver
- file (e.g. \OS2\DLL\8514_32.DLL) using DEBUG or a similar utility. Search
- for the hexadecimal byte sequence 28 00 28 00 20 00 20 00 and replace the two
- 28 values with 20. Reboot for the change to take effect, and be sure to keep
- a backup copy of the original file.
-
- o To hide your entire desktop, single click on any icon on the desktop, press
- CTRL-ESC, then press CTRL-SHIFT-ESC. To return the desktop to normal, press
- CTRL-ESC then double click on Desktop.
-
- o If you would like to have a Presentation Manager application start up
- minimized, first set up a program object for it by dragging a Program template
- from the Templates folder. Then, on the first page of the notebook, enter the
- full path and filename of the PM program, but deliberately misspell it. Click
- on the arrow in the lower right to turn the page, then check the Start
- minimized checkbox. Click on the left arrow to turn the page back, then
- correct the misspelling. Fill in any other information, as desired, then
- close up the notebook. The program object is now ready to start your PM
- application minimized.
-
- o To get approximately 730K free in your DOS sessions, change
- VIDEO_MODE_RESTRICTION in the session's settings to CGA (unless your
- application requires more than CGA graphics capabilities).
-
- o In a full screen, character mode OS/2 Warp session it is normally impossible
- to copy text from the screen to the Clipboard. To get around the problem, try
- setting your printer object to hold all print jobs, press the PrintScreen key
- while the full screen OS/2 Warp session is active, return to the printer
- object and double click on the print job icon for the PrintScreen, then cut
- and paste from the editor.
-
-
- Related information:
-
- (3.2) Shareware and Freeware Sources
- (4.4) Starting OS/2 Warp from Diskette
- (4.6) Corrective Service Diskettes
-
-
- (5.11) REXX
-
- How do I use REXX? What does it do?
-
- REXX is built into every copy of OS/2 Warp (where it is also known as
- Procedures Language/2). It is a general purpose, interpreted programming
- language which was first released on IBM mainframes over a decade ago. REXX
- is extremely easy to learn and use. It is particularly strong at string
- manipulation, and it has features which are difficult to implement in compiled
- languages (like the ability to read its own source code or execute a string as
- a command).
-
- OS/2 Warp applications can use REXX as a common scripting language, which
- means that users need not learn separate macro or script languages for each
- application. For example, the OS/2 Warp versions of Lotus 1-2-3 and Borland
- ObjectVision will interface with REXX. OS/2 Warp's multimedia extensions
- (MMPM/2) contain a REXX interface, so REXX programs can play, record, and
- manipulate sound and video files. And REXX can be used to create complex
- batch files (with interactive prompting), since it is integrated so tightly
- into OS/2 Warp's command processor. Moreover, a trio of REXX visual builders
- (programming tools which help create even complex REXX applications quickly
- and easily using simple, drag and drop manipulation of on screen objects),
- HockWare's VisPro/REXX, Watcom's VX REXX, and Gpf REXX, are now available.
-
- For more information on OS/2 Warp's REXX interpreter, see the REXX Information
- online documentation located in the Information folder. For more information
- on REXX generally, consult the REXX Frequently Asked Questions List [available
- from (3.2) Shareware and Freeware Sources]. Or consult one of the many books
- available on REXX under OS/2 Warp, including OS/2 REXX: From Bark to Byte
- (IBM Publication No. GG24-4199) and REXX Under OS/2 by G.F. Gargiulo (Wiley,
- ISBN 0471-519-014).
-
- Here are some REXX hints and tips:
-
- o If you wish to place program output in the REXX queue (for processing by a
- REXX program), try
-
- DIR *.TXT | RXQUEUE
-
- as an example. (In other words, pipe the program output to RXQUEUE.) To use
- this program output in your REXX program, try
-
- /* Sample */
- WHILE QUEUED() > 0
- PARSE PULL X
- SAY X
- END
-
- o To execute REXX commands interactively from the command line, use the
- REXXTRY command. For example:
-
- REXXTRY DO X=1 TO 10;SAY X;END
-
-
-
- Related information:
-
- (0.2) Recent Developments
- (3.2) Shareware and Freeware Sources
- (3.6) Multimedia (MMPM/2)
-
-
- (5.12) ANSI Escape Sequences
-
- What ANSI escape sequences can be used?
-
- ANSI escape sequences provide cursor and screen control in OS/2 Warp character
- mode sessions. By default ANSI support is turned ON (although it may be
- turned off with the command ANSI OFF). ANSI support is also available in DOS
- sessions if the device driver ANSI.SYS is loaded. See the online Command
- Reference for details.
-
- The following ANSI escape sequences are available:
-
- Key
- ESC Refers to ASCII code 27 (i.e. the Escape key)
- # Replace with the appropriate number
- .... Replace with additional attributes, if desired
-
- Escape Code Sequence Function
- Cursor Controls
- ESC[#;#H or ESC[#;#f Moves cursor to line #, column #
- ESC[#A Moves cursor up # lines
- ESC[#B Moves cursor down # lines
- ESC[#C Moves cursor forward # spaces
- ESC[#D Moves cursor back # spaces
- ESC[#;#R Reports current cursor line and column
- ESC[s Saves cursor position for recall later
- ESC[u Return to saved cursor position
- Erase Functions
- ESC[2J Clear screen and home cursor
- ESC[K Clear to end of line
- Set Graphics Rendition
- ESC[#;#;....;#m Set display attributes where # is
- 0 for normal display
- 1 bold on
- 4 underline (mono only)
- 5 blink on
- 7 reverse video on
- 8 nondisplayed (invisible)
- 30 black foreground
- 31 red foreground
- 32 green foreground
- 33 yellow foreground
- 34 blue foreground
- 35 magenta foreground
- 36 cyan foreground
- 37 white foreground
- 40 black background
- 41 red background
- 42 green background
- 43 yellow background
- 44 blue background
- 45 magenta background
- 46 cyan background
- 47 white background
- ESC[=#;7h Put screen in indicated mode where # is
- 0 for 40x25 black and white
- 1 40x25 color
- 2 80x25 black and white
- 3 80x25 color
- 4 320x200 color graphics
- 5 320x200 black and white graphics
- 6 640x200 black and white graphics
- 7 to wrap at end of line
- ESC[=#;7l Resets mode # set with above command
- Keyboard Reassignments
- ESC[#;#;....#p The first ASCII code defines what is to be
- changed; the remaining codes define what it is
- to be changed to; strings are permitted.
- Examples:
- ESC[65;81p - A becomes Q
- ESC[81;65p - Q becomes A
- ESC[0;68;"dir";13p - Assign the F10 key to a
- DIR command.
- The 0;68 portion is the extended ASCII code for
- the F10 key and 13 is the ASCII code for a
- carriage return. Other function key codes:
- F1=59, F2=60, F3=61, ... F10=68.
-
- You can use ANSI escape sequences in the PROMPT environment variable to create
- complex command line prompts. See the online Command Reference (under PROMPT)
- for details.
-
- For example, if you have a color monitor, try editing your CONFIG.SYS file so
- that
-
- SET PROMPT=$e[32;40m$e[1m[$P]$e[0m
-
- to obtain a more colorful OS/2 Warp command line prompt. (Case is significant
- in the example given.) You can do the same for your DOS sessions if you edit
- PROMPT in AUTOEXEC.BAT, assuming you have ANSI.SYS loaded. Note that the $i
- portion of your PROMPT will enable the help line at the top of the window or
- screen. It is not included in the example above.
-
-
- Related information:
-
- (5.10) Clever Tricks
-
-
- (6.0) Miscellaneous
-
- The following questions are addressed in this section:
-
- (6.1) What can I do to promote OS/2 Warp?
-
- (6.2) How can I create INF files?
-
- (6.3) What is IBM?
-
- (6.4) What is the MIDI file IBMRALLY that I get with OS/2 Warp's multimedia?
-
-
- (6.1) Promoting OS/2 Warp
-
- What can I do to promote OS/2 Warp?
-
- OS/2 Warp is selling well, but there are steps you can take to assure that
- hardware devices and software will be available for OS/2 Warp in the future.
- Customer requests do matter.
-
- o Politely, firmly, and repeatedly request driver support from printer, video
- adapter, and other hardware manufacturers.
-
- o When you receive a mailing for DOS/Windows software with a postpaid
- envelope, return the order form marked "Please send information on your native
- OS/2 Warp version."
-
- o Start a user group at your location. Contact Gene Barlow or Richard Woolsey
- at IBM (phone 214-402-6456) or mail ibmpcug@vnet.ibm.com for assistance.
- Think about how you can publicize your user group. For instance, most local
- newspapers and television stations will print/broadcast meeting announcements
- for free. Your local cable television company will be happy to broadcast a
- videotape of your meeting on the public access channel.
-
- o Correspond with members of the computer trade press. Ask for reviews of
- OS/2 Warp software, hardware compatibility testing with OS/2 Warp, OS/2 Warp
- benchmarking, etc. Respond politely but forcefully to press you think unfair;
- praise good reporting.
-
- o When you purchase a new system, ask the vendor to install OS/2 Warp, and to
- offer credit for dropping DOS and Windows. If the vendor refuses, you may
- wish to take your business elsewhere. Compaq, Everex, AST, Northgate,
- Toshiba, Vobis, Escom, Osbourne, Patriot, CompuAdd, ALR, Unisys, Dell,
- Tangent, IBM, Ariel Design, and others all offer systems with OS/2 Warp
- preloaded.
-
- o Make sure your company (or yourself) specifies OS/2 Warp compatibility when
- purchasing new products.
-
- o Demonstrate OS/2 Warp to friends, relatives, and associates.
-
- o Ask your computer store to stock OS/2 Warp software titles, have OS/2 Warp
- demonstration machines, etc.
-
- o Pass along useful OS/2 Warp shareware and freeware to your local BBS. Be
- sure to register OS/2 Warp shareware.
-
- o Write an outstanding piece of shareware or freeware [see (4.5) Technical
- Support for details on joining DAP]. IBM has been known to recognize such
- work with rewards. Also, ask authors of DOS/Windows shareware and freeware if
- they would port to OS/2 Warp, or volunteer.
-
- o Recommend products that work well under OS/2 Warp; dissuade people from
- purchasing products that do not.
-
- o Wear OS/2 Warp pins, shirts, buttons, and other souvenirs. Contact the
- Lees/Keystone OS/2 Warp Merchandise Center (phone 914-273-6755 or FAX
- 914-273-9187) or the IBM OS/2 Warp Hotline (phone 800-3-IBM-OS2) to order such
- items.
-
- o Join Team OS/2, an international organization of volunteers who are OS/2
- Warp enthusiasts and are actively sharing their knowledge and enthusiasm with
- others. These activities include supporting OS/2 Warp user groups, running
- OS/2 Warp BBSes and online conferences, demonstrating OS/2 Warp at retail
- stores and other public places, encouraging and helping others to install OS/2
- Warp, answering OS/2 Warp questions, and much more. Membership is not limited
- to IBM employees. For information on Team OS/2 events you should monitor the
- TEAMOS2 echomail conference on your local FidoNet BBS. If your local BBS does
- not carry TEAMOS2, ask your system operator to get it. See (4.11) OS/2 Warp
- BBSes for the names and numbers of several BBSes which carry TEAMOS2. To join
- Team OS/2, send your name, address(es), and telephone number to Vicci Conway
- (netmail 76711.1123@compuserve.com or FAX 407-982-1229). Include information
- on your activities to date and a one line description of yourself for the
- public Team OS/2 list.
-
-
- Related information:
-
- (3.2) Shareware and Freeware Sources
- (4.5) Technical Support
- (4.11) OS/2 Warp BBSes
-
-
- (6.2) Creating INF Files
-
- How can I create INF files?
-
- Creating INF files (like the OS/2 Warp Frequently Asked Questions List you are
- reading now) is remarkably straightforward. All you need is the Information
- Presentation Facility Compiler (IPFC), part of the IBM Developer's Toolkit for
- OS/2 Warp Version 3 (available separately or as part of many development
- environments such as Borland C++ for OS/2, IBM C Set ++/2 and First Step, and
- CA-Realizer), and a text editor (like the Enhanced Editor included with OS/2
- Warp). You can also purchase and/or download tools specifically designed to
- create OS/2 Warp help/INF files, including IBM Hyperwise, IPFE, and many more.
-
- Online IPFC documentation is included with the Toolkit, but you may also wish
- to order the printed Information Presentation Facility Guide and Reference,
- IBM Publication No. S10G-6262. See (4.9) Books and Magazines for ordering
- instructions. Note that the Toolkit is part of the low cost OS/2 Developer's
- Connection CD-ROM. See (4.5) Technical Support for details.
-
- If you wish to include illustrations in your INF file you can use any graphics
- software which can generate OS/2 Warp bitmaps and/or metafiles. (For example,
- you may create your illustration in IBM Works, paste the illustration into
- Picture Viewer, then save the illustration as a metafile. Both IBM Works and
- Picture Viewer are included with OS/2 Warp.) A screen capture utility [like
- PM Camera or Galleria, available from (3.2) Shareware and Freeware Sources]
- can also prove useful.
-
- The May, 1994, issue of OS/2 Magazine contains an article written by Timothy
- F. Sipples on writing OS/2 help files. You may wish to consult this article
- for an introduction to the IPFC tag language.
-
-
- Related information:
-
- (3.2) Shareware and Freeware Sources
- (4.5) Technical Support
- (4.9) Books and Magazines
-
-
- (6.3) What is IBM?
-
- What is IBM?
-
- IBM (International Business Machines Corp.) is the world's largest provider
- of computing solutions. The company's software operations make IBM the
- largest software company in the world, with approximately $12 billion in
- annual revenue. IBM Corp. provides direct employment to approximately
- 220,000 people worldwide. Its stock is traded on the New York Stock Exchange
- (symbol: IBM), and it is one of the Dow Jones 30 Industrials.
-
- IBM was founded in the early part of the 20th century when its business
- primarily consisted of the manufacture and sale of scales, tabulating
- machinery, and other instruments for government and industry. During World
- War II, IBM was invaluable to the war effort. Its scientists designed and
- built the first electronic computer (the Mark I). Beginning in the 1950s, IBM
- manufactured and sold computer systems to large numbers of other companies,
- revolutionizing the conduct of business worldwide. The company achieved
- dominance (and remains preeminent) in many areas in the computer and software
- industries. IBM is the world's largest holder of patents relating to
- computing (including software) technologies, for example. The company has
- engaged in basic research for decades, resulting in such products as the
- diskette drive. Its scientists have most recently pioneered such areas as
- superconductors, perpendicular recording techniques, and manipulation of
- individual atoms to record information.
-
- Today IBM manufactures, markets, and services a wide range of computing
- products. Hardware products include the ES/9000 family of mainframe
- computers, AS/400 line of midrange computers, RS/6000 workstations, Thinkpad
- notebook computers, Aptiva home/small business PCs, and IBM brand PCs for
- government and business. Software products include operating systems (OS/2
- Warp, MVS, VM, OS/400, AIX, PC-DOS, and many others), databases,
- communications, networking, multimedia, CAD/CAM, programming, and much more.
- IBM also competes in areas such as banking systems (automatic teller machines,
- check processing equipment, etc.), point-of-sale systems (cash registers,
- barcode scanners, etc.), factory floor systems (computer controlled production
- equipment, robotics, monitoring), and much more. IBM also produces computers
- and software designed so that persons with disabilities can enjoy life to the
- fullest. Products such as Screen Reader/2, Screen Magnifier/2, and many more
- are available through IBM's Special Needs Division.
-
- Through its joint ventures, subsidiaries, and partnerships, IBM is engaged in
- a wide variety of other lines of business. For example, Sears and IBM are
- co-founders of Prodigy Services Company. Sears and IBM also jointly own
- Advantis (part of the IBM Global Network), a company providing network
- connections (including connections to the Internet) to individuals, companies,
- and institutions around the world. IBM, Apple, and Hewlett-Packard each hold
- stakes in Taligent, a software company producing object-oriented technologies
- for inclusion in several operating systems, including OS/2 Warp. Apple and
- IBM each own half of Kaleida, the company producing ScriptX, a standard
- architecture for producing multimedia presentations. IBM's EduQuest designs
- and markets PCs and software for K-12 education, including "Columbus" and
- "Illuminated Books and Manuscripts" (multimedia software titles for OS/2).
-
- A complete history of IBM, as well as a full report on IBM's current and
- future endeavors, would occupy volumes. However, the few paragraphs included
- here should give you an idea of the scope of IBM's business activities.
-
- Mr. Louis Gerstner is the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of IBM Corp.,
- headquartered in Armonk, New York, U.S.A. Mr. John Thompson is head of IBM
- Software, the worldwide organization responsible for developing and marketing
- all of IBM's software products. Mr. Leland ("Lee") Reiswig ("The Blue
- Ninja") is the President of the Personal Software Products Division at IBM,
- the division which develops OS/2 Warp and many of IBM's software products for
- PCs. The bulk of the Personal Software Products Division workforce is based
- in Boca Raton, Florida, and Austin, Texas.
-
-
- Related information:
-
- (1.1) What is OS/2 Warp?
- (4.12) IBM Telephone Directory
- (6.4) IBMRALLY MIDI File
-
-
- (6.4) IBMRALLY MIDI File
-
- What is the MIDI file IBMRALLY that I get with OS/2 Warp's multimedia?
-
- If you have a sound card which can play back MIDI files, you can use the MIDI
- Player (in your Multimedia folder) to listen to any of the sample MIDI files
- provided with OS/2 Warp. IBMRALLY.MID is an instrumental recording of IBM's
- theme song, "Ever Onward IBM."
-
- Here are the words so that you can sing along. Bear in mind that the lyrics
- date back decades, when women were not routinely employed in most industries
- (especially engineering and computing).
-
- There's a feel-ing ev'ry where of big-ger things in store,
- Of new hor-i-zons com-ing in-to view.
- Our aim is clear: to make each year ex-ceed the one be-fore,
- Stay-ing in the lead in ev'ry-thing we do.
- The will to win is built right in,
- It will not be de-nied,
- And we will go a-head we know by work-ing side by side.
- Ev-er On-ward, Ev-er On-ward,
- That's the spir-it that has brought us fame.
- We're big but big-ger we will be.
- We can't fail for all can see
- That to serve hu-man-i-ty has been our aim.
- Our pro-ducts now are known in ev'ry zone.
- Our rep-u-ta-tion spark-les like a gem.
- We've fought our way thru and new
- Fields we're sure to con-quer too
- For the Ev-er On-ward I-B-M.
- Ev-er On-ward, Ev-er On-ward,
- We're bound for the top to nev-er fall.
- Right here and now we thank-ful-ly
- Pledge sin-cer-est loy-al-ty
- To the cor-por-a-tion that's the best of all.
- Our lead-ers we re-vere,
- And while we're here,
- Let's show the world just what we think of them!
- So let us sing men, sing men,
- Once or twice then sing a-gain
- For the Ev-er On-ward I-B-M!
-
-
- Related information:
-
- (3.6) Multimedia (MMPM/2)
- (6.3) What is IBM?
-
-
- (7.0) Glossary
-
- The following terms are often used in conjunction with OS/2 Warp:
-
- APAR
-
- A bug fix which has been (or will be) created by IBM to address a very
- specific problem. (Example: "Please send me APAR 09761.")
-
- ASPI
-
- Adaptec SCSI Programming Interface: a standard set of services used by
- backup, scanning, and other types of software which require access to a SCSI
- adapter. OS/2 Warp comes with ASPI support for DOS, Windows, and OS/2
- applications.
-
- BonusPak
-
- Free, full fledged applications included with OS/2 Warp at no extra charge.
- The BonusPak includes HyperAccess, Faxworks, Person to Person, the Internet
- Connection, Compuserve Information Manager, Video IN, IBM Works, and other
- applications. These applications not only demonstrate how powerful and
- easy-to-use OS/2 Warp really is, but they also let you get to work (or play!)
- right out-of-the-box.
-
- CID
-
- "Configuration/Installation/Distribution": a term usually used to refer to
- the ability to install an operating system or application remotely, over a
- network. (Example: "IBM TCP/IP 2.0 for OS/2 is now CID-enabled.") See (4.2)
- Installing from Drive B.
-
- CSD
-
- "Corrective Service Diskette(s)": see (4.6) Corrective Service Diskettes.
-
- DASD
-
- "Direct Access Storage Device": disk space (most commonly a hard disk drive).
- (Example: "I do not have enough DASD for this new application.")
-
- DCE
-
- "Distributed Computing Environment": an open software standard, created by
- the Open Software Foundation and backed by IBM and other vendors, which allows
- for applications to operate across a network and distribute the workload
- without a significant investment in programming. DCE supports common
- directory services (for accessing resources on a network), security (for
- preventing unauthorized or runaway applications from wreaking havoc on a
- network), and other management features. OS/2 Warp is a key platform for DCE,
- and IBM produces the most advanced implementations of DCE available on the
- market.
-
- DMA
-
- "Direct Memory Access": circuitry provided on all PCs to allow peripherals
- (such as disk controllers) to transfer data to memory directly, without the
- assistance of the computer's processor. Appropriate use of DMA can often help
- to improve overall system performance.
-
- DPMI
-
- "DOS Protected Mode Interface: a method used by some DOS applications
- (including Windows) to access memory beyond 640K on 80286 (or later)
- processors. OS/2 Warp can provide DPMI memory to DOS and Windows
- applications. See EMS and XMS.
-
- EA
-
- "Extended Attribute": up to 64K of assorted data stored with any file under
- OS/2. Such data may include file type (e.g. "Plain Text"), icons, comments,
- and other information which is best left outside the file itself. Only OS/2
- applications can create and modify extended attributes.
-
- EMS
-
- "Expanded Memory Specification": one of several types of memory (beyond 640K)
- that can be used by certain DOS applications. OS/2 Warp can provide EMS
- memory to DOS applications. See DPMI and XMS.
-
- ES
-
- "Extended Services": see (3.10) Extended Services.
-
- FAT
-
- "File Allocation Table": the disk format introduced by DOS. See HPFS.
-
- GA
-
- "General Availability": available for purchase as a shrinkwrapped product
- from IBM and its dealers.
-
- HPFS
-
- "High Performance File System": see (1.5) High Performance File System.
-
- IFS
-
- "Installable File System": refers to an OS/2 driver used to manage a file
- system type. Available IFSes include NFS (used with TCP/IP networks), CD-ROM,
- HPFS, and HPFS386 (supplied with IBM LAN Server Advanced).
-
- IPL
-
- "Initial Program Load": starting a PC's operating system (i.e. booting or
- rebooting). (Example: "Please IPL your system now.") See also RIPL.
-
- ISV
-
- "Independent Software Vendor": a software developer, other than the provider
- of the operating system (such as IBM and OS/2), which produces applications
- for that operating system (e.g. Borland is an OS/2 ISV, producing Borland C++
- for OS/2).
-
- LA
-
- "Limited Availability": available only from IBM to certain customers.
-
- multitasking
-
- Running two or more applications "simultaneously," dividing the computer
- processor's attention among them. (In fact, the two or more applications only
- appear to run simultaneously because the processor switches between them
- rapidly.) Cooperative multitasking, such as that found in Microsoft Windows
- and Macintosh System 7, requires that each application be written so as to
- "surrender" the computer's processor at regular intervals so that it can
- devote attention to other running applications. If one application for some
- reason refuses to yield the processor, all other applications stop running.
- Preemptive multitasking, as found in OS/2 and Unix, for example, leaves the
- operating system in charge of delegating processor time to each running
- application. The amount of attention given depends on the operating system's
- scheduler, the logic which assesses (and perhaps adjusts) the priorities of
- various tasks and assigns processor attention accordingly.
-
- multithreading
-
- An operating system's ability to manage what are sometimes called lightweight
- processes, namely subtasks which are spawned by applications. For example, a
- word processor may be written so that any printing operation is put in a
- separate thread. This thread is then run alongside the word processor itself,
- in the background, so that control returns immediately to the user of the word
- processor. OS/2 1.0 was the first major operating system to support threads.
- See multitasking.
-
- object
-
- The basic unit of interaction in OS/2 Warp. In some environments, such as
- Windows, users work only with files. In other environments, such as the
- Macintosh, users work with documents and applications. In OS/2 Warp, users
- work with objects (of which files and documents are but two types). OS/2 is
- easy to use because objects are generally not restricted in the ways they can
- be used based on computer-oriented restrictions (such as the length of names
- for objects). Rather, objects can be treated in very similar ways when using
- OS/2, with differences related to more human ideas of how things behave. For
- example, in OS/2 Warp every object (including the desktop itself, which is a
- folder-type object) has a pop-up menu, brought up with a click of the second
- mouse button. Printer objects have unique menu options (such as Change Status
- and Set Default). Likewise, document objects have other possible menu
- selections (such as Print). Disk objects have Format. But the whole point is
- that the user, not the computer, dictates how objects can be used and
- manipulated, insofar as possible.
-
- OpenDoc
-
- A set of technologies (slated for inclusion in OS/2 Warp in 1995) which,
- together, will deliver unprecendented flexibility in the way applications and
- objects can be combined, manipulated, and transformed by people using
- computers. OpenDoc recognizes that people are creating more and more complex
- documents, including documents which contain embedded runnable code (such as
- multimedia sound and video clips which activate with a mouse click), and they
- need a way to store, manage, link, and revise such documents, without
- unnecessary complexity. OpenDoc is a standard supported by members of the
- Component Integration Laboratories, including IBM, Apple, WordPerfect, Lotus,
- Novell/Wordperfect, and many other vendors. SOM is a key technology found in
- OpenDoc (and the Workplace Shell and its applications, including IBM Works,
- demonstrate several aspects of OpenDoc technology today).
-
- PM
-
- "Presentation Manager": the underlying services used by programmers and the
- Workplace Shell (see WPS) to provide windows, scroll bars, dialog boxes, and
- other essential interface elements.
-
- PMR
-
- "Problem Management Record": a number assigned by IBM to track a
- customer-reported problem. (Example: "I have opened PMR Number 9X534; please
- reference this number if you call again.")
-
- PPP
-
- "Point-to-Point Protocol": a standard communications method used to carry
- network protocols (especially TCP/IP) over a modem, ISDN, or other serial
- connection. Although PPP requires more overhead than SLIP, it is considered
- its successor. PPP is available, free of charge, for OS/2 Warp's Internet
- Connection.
-
- RIPL
-
- "Remote Initial Program Load": the capability to boot (start) a PC (load its
- operating system) over a network. See IPL.
-
- seamless
-
- Refers to the ability to run Windows applications alongside OS/2 and DOS
- applications on the Workplace Shell (see WPS) desktop as opposed to the full
- screen Win-OS/2 desktop. (Example: "Will this video driver support seamless
- Windows?")
-
- SLIP
-
- "Serial Line Internet Protocol": or a means of sending TCP/IP network traffic
- over a modem or ISDN connection. SLIP is used when connecting to an Internet
- provider (such as the IBM Global Network) using OS/2 Warp's Internet
- Connection.
-
- SMP
-
- "Symmetric Multiprocessing": a set of technologies in which two or more
- computer processors (CPUs) are managed by one operating system to provide
- greater computing power to applications. With SMP, processors are treated
- more or less equally (with applications able to run on any or perhaps all
- processors in the system, interchangeably, at the operating system's
- discretion). Simple MP usually involves assigning each processor to a fixed
- task (such as managing the file system), reserving the single main CPU for
- general tasks. OS/2 for SMP provides true SMP capabilities on a variety of
- systems, including those which are compatible with the Intel MPS
- (Multiprocessing Specification) 1.1 standard.
-
- SOM
-
- "System Object Model": the underlying design which allows applications
- running on OS/2 Warp to be so tightly integrated, able to share data and,
- indeed, runnable objects quickly and easily. The Workplace Shell is the
- largest and most complex OS/2 application based on SOM, but there are many
- other applications which use SOM extensively (such as IBM Works, cc:Mail for
- OS/2, Chipchat Wireless Communicator, IBM Workframe 2.1, DeScribe Version 5,
- Mesa for OS/2, and more). For programmers, SOM is fully compliant with CORBA
- standards, fully distributable (over a network) without any programming
- changes, and is true object technology, with inheritance, encapsulation, and
- polymorphism. SOM objects running on OS/2 Warp are fully protected from one
- another and do not share the same address space. SOM is one of the key
- technologies in OpenDoc, is available on many other platforms, and has been
- declared a U.S. Federal Government open software standard.
-
- SP
-
- "Service Pak": see CSD. Sometimes numbered (e.g. "SP 2") to refer to a
- particular Service Pak.
-
- Taligent
-
- A company founded by IBM and Apple (with Hewlett-Packard also a major
- shareholder) with a mission to create a set of object-oriented software
- technologies, including the Taligent frameworks, for use by its parent
- companies in their products (including OS/2 Warp).
-
- TCP/IP
-
- "Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol": a protocol, widely
- available and implemented across a huge range of systems, which allows
- information to be transmitted across a network. TCP/IP is the protocol used
- by the Internet, and it is used over a SLIP connection in OS/2 Warp's built-in
- Internet Connection.
-
- URL
-
- "Universal Resource Locator": standard notation for locating and accessing
- information on the Internet which is used with a World Wide Web browser (such
- as the IBM Web Explorer).
-
- Win-OS/2
-
- IBM's customized version of Windows, based on Microsoft's own source code,
- which provides compatibility with Windows applications under OS/2. Windows is
- not emulated when it runs under OS/2; a real copy of Windows, only slightly
- modified, is used. OS/2 Warp is available both with and without Win-OS/2.
- The version of OS/2 Warp without Win-OS/2 is designed to use an existing copy
- of Windows or Windows for Workgroups (if present) to run Windows applications
- under OS/2 Warp. When running this way, that copy of Windows or Windows for
- Workgroups is also often called Win-OS/2.
-
- Workplace OS
-
- A set of technologies (not a product itself) which IBM is using to create
- future versions of OS/2 Warp (such as OS/2 Warp for PowerPC) and other
- operating systems. Key to this set of technologies is the IBM Microkernel
- (based on the Carnegie-Mellon Mach microkernel) and the ability to support
- multiple "personalities." Workplace OS technology allows IBM (and, in fact,
- other vendors) to create portable, reliable operating systems which are easily
- reconfigured to meet the needs of any buyer.
-
- WPS
-
- "Workplace Shell": OS/2 Warp's most commonly used user interface which
- provides icons, folders, drag-and-drop configuration, settings notebooks, and
- other features necessary for user interaction with the operating system and
- its applications.
-
- XMS
-
- "Extended Memory Specification": a method used by some DOS applications for
- accessing extended memory (beyond 640K) on 80286 (or better) processors. OS/2
- Warp can provide XMS memory to DOS applications. See DPMI and EMS.
-
-
- Related information:
-
- (0.4) Special Report on OS/2 Warp
- (1.5) High Performance File System (HPFS)
- (3.10) Extended Services
- (3.16) Image Scanners
- (4.2) Installing from Drive B
- (4.6) Corrective Service Diskettes
-
-
- [End of plain text version of the OS/2 Warp Frequently Asked Questions List.]
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