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ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 1. About The Guide ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ
The Hitchhikers Guide To OS/2
Issue #3
Published On 3/25/94
This guide is meant to give a concise report on current
OS/2 events. Any and all contents are solely my opinion. If you
don't agree with them run around the net and delete every copy
you can find. Otherwise sue me, but all I have is a 2400 baud
modem and a bunch of credit card bills. Anyone is welcome to the
latter :). Read on and I hope you enjoy another issue of the
HitchHiker's Guide To OS/2.
Any Comments Regarding The Guide or monetary donations can
be directed to:
sdudas@austin.onu.edu
Steve Dudas.
Special Thanks go to Dr. V. Phaniraj for letting me know
that wp2ipf/2 exists.
In you haven't guessed that is what this is done with.
Thanks to Kim Kruse Hansen for the great job he has done with
this application.
Copies of the HHGOS2 will be available for anonymous ftp
from ftp-os2.cdrom.com.
look in /pub/incoming/hhgos2_#.zip
every other Saturday for a new release or look in
/pub/os2/2_x/info/newsltr/hhgos2_#.zip For back issues.
The .zip file will contain both a .txt and the .inf version of
the HHGOS2.
ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 2. Here and Now ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ
The Hitchhikers Guide To OS/2
Topic #1 More on The CSD.
More small problems seem to be cropping up from what I hear. One magazine
reported that users of ET4000 video cards could not run their cards in anything
but standard VGA mode. Shhh don't tell my ET4000 card, or it may slip out of
800x600x256.
Overall though, I have heard nothing that would stop any sane person from
installing it. The speed increases still outweigh any minor bugs that have
cropped up.
Topic #2 More on Chicago
(What can I say it gets better all the time)
Well the Chicago release was bumped up to "definitely" this year. But of
course as they said last week "We won't release it until it's ready" If that
were the case MS would be on DOS 3.1. The prior version being .95 of course.
MS also announced that the "slimmed down" version of NT, code named
"Daytona" has been delayed to the 3rd Quarter of this year. Supposedly this
version will run in 12 megs. It seems that MS doesn't have any clue what they
are doing here. NT should NOT be slimmed, its a server OS and from what I have
seen a damn good one. It shouldn't have any Dos or W31 support. It should be
the ultimate server OS. It should make connecting any computer, running any
environment, to an NT server as easy as installing OS/2!
As a server OS, MS should NOT worry about resources it may use. Servers
these days should have 16 megs RAM, and a gig drive standard. It's still fun to
see MS screw things up, so Mr. Gates, Keep up the good work!
Topic #3 Stac Vs. MS
Well Stac won the big decision, and even countless appeals won't affect this
decision much. Stac wins $120 million, MS wins $13.6 million, and MS must
re-release DOS 6.2 without the Doublespace code.
IBM however continues to ship PC-DOS, which has on the fly compression.
Seems that someone at IBM actually got Stac's permission before they used
Stac's code.
Topic #4 OS/2 SMP
It's due out at the April Comdex, but I have looked into buying a SMP and no
luck. They just don't sell them in the mainchannels yet. But that may soon be
changing, Intel is apparently working on a set of SMP standards. Hopefully
they will not botch this like PCI. Wonder if the SMP boards will only run at
33Mhz like PCI?....
Topic #5 Gateway P5 Owners Listen UP!
There is a motherboard defect, courtesy of Intel. This also applies to those
who own a Dell Dimension X P560. The bug lies in your serial controller and is
known to cause a lockup in Win3.11. They have built a new serial.386 that
flushes the buffers, which seems to fix it. If I owned one I would be on the
phone and have a new chip and or motherboard on the way. I haven't heard
anything about its effects on OS/2, but mail me your experiences and I'll put
your comments in the next issue.
ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 3. SoftViews ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ
The Hitchhikers Guide To OS/2
This issues review goes to PM DCopy.
This app is small but very handy, it basically rawreads or rawrites a disk
onto or from an image file. Its pretty fast and fully multi-threaded. Thus
you won't even notice it while it works its magic. The version I tested was
1.5, and the program was produced by Jason R. Shannon. The format it reads
disks into is not a standard, but then again is there a standard for disk
images? No matter, I find it most useful for making a quick copy of an entire
disk that I won't need for awhile. Its great just to let the image sit on the
hardisk till you get around to using it.
ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 4. TechnoWatch ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ
The Hitchhikers Guide To OS/2
Intel has announced that a 90 and a 100Mhz version of the Pentium are being
released. They seem to have already made their way into the direct channel.
It's a nice try but I wonder if they will be able to run them to 135Mhz. 135Mhz
being the top clock speed that you can buy a PowerPC for this summer. :*)
Motorola has announced 100Mhz and 135Mhz versions to be released this summer.
ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 5. OS/2 Tips ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ
The Hitchhikers Guide To OS/2
Adding a Program Choice to the Pop-Up Menu
By: Juhoon Ahn
If you want another method of accessing a program, you can add the program
as a new menu choice on the pop-up menu of any folder. For example, the
desktop pop-up menu can be enhanced to add the "Reversi" item.
To add a program to a pop-up menu:
1. point to an empty area on the desktop.
2. Click mouse button 2. [Right button]
3. Select the arrow to the right of Open.
4. Select Settings.
5. Select the Menu tab.
6. Point to a program object (for example, the Reversi
object in the Games folder.)
7. Press and hold mouse button 2.
8. Drag the program object to the Actions on Menu list
box.
9. Release mouse button 2.
10. Point to the title-bar icon.
11. Double-click.
The next time you display the desktop folder pop-up menu, "Reversi" will be
one of the available menu choices. If you select this choice, the Reversi game
is displayed.
Note [not mine]: When you open a program object from the pop-up menu of a
folder object, the name of the object is passed to the program object. This may
cause an error when the object is opened. To avoid errors, display the pop-up
menu for the program object, select the arrow to the right of Open, and then
select Settings. Type % in the Parameters field."
Well, now it's clear, right?! Actually "%" sometimes does need. Since
it's of "Object," when I delete or make any change to the object settings, it
is not updated. In order to the changes to be updated, you need to do
"Drag-n-Drop" steps. If you find this to be not true, just let me know if you
find any way to make transparent. I am kinda annoyed to do all the updates
manually.
If you look at the Available menus list box, there are Primary Pop-up menu
and ~Open. Simply "~" makes the next character as the keyboard selection
character. So let's create another menu item. "~Xyz." Select "~Xyz," and add
some objects. That's it! I guess this could bring the desktop to another ways
to put together. I know this idea somehow conflicts with "object-oriented"
environment. Yet, I think having all the app sat the tip of the finger makes
easier to navigate through thedesktop. BTW, I put "beaver" on the pop-up menu.
At the Parameters, I put [Enter Filename to Edit]. So whenever I start
"Beaver" from Pop-Up, I just type the filename to edit. Actually I didn't read
this part from the manual until after I read an article from "Inside OS/2"[the
free copy from the company].
Sections of article taken from OS/2 Manuals, but who reads manuals anyways? :*)
- Juhoon Ahn (jahn@mindvox.phantom.com, jahn at #OS/2)
ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 6. Trivia Question ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ
The Hitchhikers Guide To OS/2
In 1985 and 1986 a computer named Therac 25 was built to send X-Rays into
patients in order to kill cancerous tissues. Due to a software bug this machine
ended up administering doses up to 100 times the safe level.
The question is: How many people died due to this software bug?
Answer to last Issues Trivia Question:
Niklaus Wirth helped develop NELIAC, a dialect of ALGOL 58, for the IBM 704
computer.
Yes I know these are hard... but stop by the library and look it up! Who
knows, you may learn something.
ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 7. DESKTOP CONTEST!!! ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ
The Contest will continue for another two weeks due to a glaring error on my
part. I failed to make it easy to send me your entries. I have gotten a number
of entries but its only fair to make it easier to enter.
Well we all make mistakes and the best way around them is to fix them! So
here goes, ftp all entries to moo.onu.edu login: anonymous and put them in
/incoming/desktops.
Here again is my desktop to give some ideas to anyone who did not get the
last issue.
FYI: one of the easiest ways to get a nice .bmp of your desktop is to use
PmJpeg 1.5 and its desktop capture option.
P.S. My desktop won't be entered for obvious reasons. :*)
ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 8. How To Submit an Article ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ
The Hitchhikers Guide To OS/2
Please Include the following Information in all submissions.
1) Your full name( No nicks for you ircers)
2) email-address
3) Date article was completed on.
4) A ONE sentence summary of the article.
5) Articles must be in a zipped file. The text should
be contained in a single ASCII text file. All
graphics should be in the .bmp format and may be in
256 colors. About 300 x 300 is a good size.
** I am unable to return any copies of articles sent to me **