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Info-IBMPC Digest           Sun, 21 Feb 93       Volume 93 : Issue  27

Today's Editor:
         Gregory Hicks - Rota Spain <[e-mail]>

Today's Topics:
                        DISKCACHE vs IFS=.../C:x
                              DOS Settings
                    Getting files from the server...
                FTP for Internet sites with E-Mail only.
                  Help:unable to start after BOOT /OS2
                     How to delete printer drivers?
               How to get rid of pesky printer template?
                        Looking for VDI Drivers
                         QUOTE in FTP (2 msgs)
                           software power-off
                      Updated ACM e-mail directory
                  What mail user agent do people use?

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Date: 4 Feb 93 00:11:55 GMT
From: Eric Trepanier <[e-mail]>
Subject: DISKCACHE vs IFS=.../C:x

[e-mail] writes:

>   Could someone briefly explain to me the difference or relation
> between the DISKCACHE line and the IFS /C option? The reference manual
> simply says they're both disk caches. Which one is used?

Diskcache is the FAT-based disk cache, while the /C:xxx is the
HPFS-based cache.  If your system is HPFSless (only FAT), you can REM
out the IFS line and save 512Kb of memory.  On a FATless system setup
(that's except the floppy drives which are always FAT), you can REM out
DISKCACHE, or minimize it considerably in order to make more memory
available to OS/2.

Eric
--
Eric Trepanier  [phone]
[e-mail]
"Everybody has a right to believe in something.
 I believe I'll have another beer."

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Date: 2 Feb 93 21:11:12 GMT
From: Matthew Staben <[e-mail]>
Subject: DOS Settings

[e-mail] (Timothy F. Sipples) writes:

> In article <[e-mail]> [e-mail] (Matthew
> >> >How does one, if possible, change DOS settings to a different default?
> >> >This does not necessarily mean the standard settings, but those
> >> >new ones as well - which in my case is the NETWARE_PROPERTIES which I
> >> >want to set to GLOBAL as the default instead of PRIVATE.
> >> I don't know if it works, but...
> >> Try to create a new "DOS prompt object", enter DOS SETTINGS and set them
> >> as you like, save them and then search for the "Folder" checkbox (i don't
> >> remember if it is in "General" page of the Settings notebook; then check
> >> it (i.e.: transform the object in a new template) and save all.
> >> You should obtain a template for a DOS session with your new defaults
> >> (hoping that WPS is consistent with object oriented philosophy here,too...
> >And this, does indeed, work.  But what if I don't want to call the
> >procedure from an ICON but simply a OS/2 command-line.  I want the
> >*GLOBAL* default to be GLOBAL, not PRIVATE.
>
> Then you should use a utility like STARTD (or one of many others),
> available via anonymous ftp from ftp-os2.nmsu.edu (check file
> /pub/os2/00Index for location).

I just solved my own problem.  The story is:

1. O2D, STARTD both would not change the settings for
NETWARE_RESOURCES.

2. VSHLL.SYS defaults to PRIVATE, or the 2nd setting in the
NETWARE_RESOURCES setting.

3. You can edit the setting so that PRIVATE is third, and GLOBAL is
second without causing a failure.

(excuse me:)

3. You can edit the VSHLL.SYS file so that GLOBAL comes before PRIVATE,
while NONE is still first.  Take care to use the same number of spaces.

Viola!  GLOBAL resources are now default!  Hope this helps.

Matt

[e-mail]

[Made in America]

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Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 19:48:10 EST
From: Drew Derbyshire - UUPC/Extended Help <[e-mail]>
Subject: Getting files from the server...

On Sun, 24 Jan 93 16:30, [e-mail] wrote:
> } DEC has a server, I don't have the name of it off the top of my head.

Date: Sat, 21 Nov 92 07:50:56 EST
From: Message Center <[e-mail]>
Subject: FTP for Internet sites with E-Mail only.

One of the features of the Internet is the ability to connect to
another location and obtain files stored at that location.  This
capability is called "FTP" (for "File Transfer Protocol".)  This means
that an installation can place important sources or binaries on a
particular machine and then "advertise" the place where the material is
stored.  Then, anyone who wants or needs this material can use FTP to
request it.  There are two types of FTP, one where you have advance
permission and have a specific account and password on that system, and
one where the system allows anyone to request files from it.  The
latter is done by using the "standard" account name of "anonymous" with
your internet address as your password, and is known as "anonymous
FTP".

Note:  If you are using a system on BITNET, you have special
capabilities through a different method.  See the bottom of this memo
for additional details.

FTP can be for small to enormous file areas.  Columbia University
provides an anonymous FTP site to allow people to obtain the sources to
the Kermit file transfer protocol.  In some cases, such as the massive
SIMTEL20 archive operated by the White Sands Missle Range, this
includes thousands of files which can be used by the IBM-PC, Macintosh,
Amiga and other systems.

While some people who either have university or commercial service
accounts have the ability to do FTP directly to their local machine,
then download the files from their local machine, a lot more people
have E-Mail only access to Internet, and thus have no means available
to do FTP and acquire these files.

However, there is a way to obtain files from FTP sites and retrieve
files by E-Mail.  This service is available by sending E-Mail messages
to the FTPMAIL service provided by Digital Equipment Corporation to
anyone with an Internet E-Mail address.  In fact, DEC operates an
anonymous FTP site called "gatekeeper" that if you don't ask for a
specific other site, it will make requests from gatekeeper.

To be able to do E-Mail based FTP, you need to know the name of the
site, then you simply tell FTPMAIL and ask it to obtain the files for
you if that site permits "anonymous" FTP, i.e. where anyone can obtain
any file from the system.  You send the message, and FTPMAIL eventually
will either (1) send you back confirmation or (2) send you back a note
saying you made a mistake.  If you got (1), it will then send you the
requested files, in chunks of 64K or less.  If the file is smaller than
64K, you get it in one message.  If the file is larger than 64K, you
get it in multiple messages.  (If you are on Compuserve, you need to
set this limit to 49K; send a HELP message to find out about the
CHUNKSIZE command.)

I personally have used this method to send over 10 megabytes of files
to me at my account on MCI Mail.  Note that you must know the system
you want to retrieve and the exact file names.  In almost all
instances, the particular case, UPPER OR lower, is critical and must be
done exactly as indicated based on a listing from a DIR request.

The way to make E-Mail FTP requests is to send a message to:

        [e-mail]

where a set of commands are sent as the text of the message.  (The
title of the message is not used except to identify file(s) returned to
you.)

The full instructions can be obtained by sending a message with: HELP
as a line in the text of the message.  The complete FTPMAIL capability
includes other features including non-anonymous FTP, ability to
retrieve a file in different sized pieces, and special password
capability.

The general method of sending a request is as follows (lines beginning
with ; are comments; these comments are not included on FTPMAIL
requests):

TO:  [e-mail]
; FTPMAIL's address
CONNECT WSMR-SIMTEL20.ARMY.MIL
; This is the name of the system I want to request from
REPLY [e-mail]
; Here is where I want files I receive sent to
BINARY
UUENCODE
; These two lines indicate I will be receiving 8-bit character
; files and they should be sent to me as uuencoded binary so
; that they can be sent as E-Mail.  If you are only doing DIR
; requests, you can skip both of these
GET PD1:<MSDOS.DBASE>WAMPUM42.ZIP
; Here I am requesting the system send me a particular file
; I am interested in.  Note that you can only request 10 files
; at a time, more than that and your request is rejected
DIR PD1:<MSDOS>
; Here I want a directory listing.  This will come back as a
; separate message
QUIT
; This is an optional command indicating that there are no more
; FTPMAIL commands.  If your system appends tag lines or disclaimers,
; to your messages, you should put this in so FTPMAIL will ignore
; them.

NOTE:  If your local system is a BITNET system, however, you can use
the BITFTP server from Princeton, whose syntax is slightly different,
and allows special features including direct binary transfers as
opposed to DEC's FTPMAIL which, since it is running on the Internet as
opposed to internal BITNET transfers, cannot provide this capability.
To use the BITNET server, you should send a message with HELP as the
text to "[e-mail]".  BITFTP will not send files to non-BITNET
sites.

Paul Robinson -- [e-mail]  -- These opinions are mine alone.
--
Drew Derbyshire         UUPC/extended e-mail:  [e-mail]
                                   Telephone:  [phone]
 "Please send Chocolate."                       - Snuffles P. Bear

 "Well, okay, Snuffles."                        - Drew Derbyshire

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Date: 2 Feb 93 23:22:02 GMT
From: Jack Tan <[e-mail]>
Subject: Help:unable to start after BOOT /OS2
Keywords: sys03146 & 02027 , boot manager

[e-mail] (Robert Tenback) writes:

>Hi,

>I use OS/2 with boot-manager, and yesterday I tried to start OS/2
>from DOS with the command BOOT /OS2, it did (of course) not work.
>Then I restarted my computer and choose OS/2 from the boot manager
>menu, but then it wouldn't startand gave some error messages:
>OS/2 !! sys03146
>OS/2 !! sys02027

Try booting from the Install diskettes and run FDISK.  Select the OS/2
partition to be Startable, then exit and reboot.  While you've booted
from the Install disks, you may want to run CHKDSK also.  It never
hurts.  (By the way, how did the BOOT command work from DOS?  Is the
OS/2 partition FAT?)

Jack Tan                             If your parents didn't have kids,
[e-mail]                          chances are you won't either.

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Date: 2 Feb 93 22:04:13 GMT
From: Don Mullins <[e-mail]>
Subject: How to delete printer drivers?

In comp.os.os2.misc [e-mail] (MCBROOM R C) writes:

>In article comp.os.os2.misc [e-mail] (Richard J. Wyble) writes:
>>
>>I am trying to delete the driver for NECSilentwriter 95, a PostScript
>>driver, and am having difficulty making it disappear.
>>
>> [deleted]
>
>Same song another verse.  My Epson MX-100 finally gave up so I bought
>a new STAR NX2420.  It emulates an IBM Proprinter X24E so I deleted the
>Epson 9pin driver but it won't go away.  EPM still has only the epson
>in its printer list.

>Ideas?

  If I understand your problem correctly, the problem is that you still
have driver OBJECTS that are separate from the DRIVERS themselves.  I
have noticed that you can have several printer driver objects that
point to the same .DRV file.  My guess is that the objects control
switches to the driver, providing different "personalities" form the
same physical driver.  Can anyone confirm this?

  Anyway, you should:

  1. Open Settings->Printer Driver for your current printer object.

  2 Select the pop-up menu for the driver you want to delete from the
printer drivers window (not the default driver window) by
single-clicking the right mouse button.

  3. Select Delete.

  Note that this will only work if no printer object is using this
particular driver as it's default driver.  You MAY need to reboot after
removing all printers that are using that driver object, I can't
remember.

  If memory serves me, it should prompt you for removing the drivers as
well.

  This is all from memory, as I am at work and my OS/2 machine is at
home.

Don
  Don Mullins, [e-mail]      | "Undertake not what you cannot
  Convex Computer Corporation          |  perform, but be careful to keep
  Richardson, Texas (USA)              |  your promise." - George Washington

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Date: 2 Feb 93 23:13:31 GMT
From: David Hinds <[e-mail]>
Subject: How to get rid of pesky printer template?

While goofing with the Templates folder, I accidentally duplicated a
bunch of the templates.  I was able to delete most of the extras with
the 'Black Hole' utility, but I still have two printer templates that
seem to be able to survive the Hole.  Is there any way to get rid of a
printer template?

Also, now I'm not sure how the template folder looked before I messed
it up, but I see that there are some pairs of templates, like 'bitmap'
and 'bitmap.BMP', that seem to be the same except for their names.  Is
there some reason for these to exist?

As an unrelated question, I don't have a printer at the moment, but I
thought I'd set up a printer object that prints to disk.  That works
fine from the WPS, but is there any way to have DOS printing redirected
away from a physical port?  I can't say I really understand the spool
system, but it looks like I can redirect a particular port to any other
port, but the DOS virtual printer driver must ultimately route printing
to an actual port.  Am I right?

        - David Hinds
          [e-mail]

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Date: Wed, 10 Feb 93 11:45:21 MAL
From: Mnoor Hasan <[e-mail]>
Subject: Looking for VDI Drivers

I have just purchased a molecular structure plotting program (written
in Fortran) which requres VDI (virtual device interface) drivers for
plotting on the screen, plotter, etc. The author sugested vdi drivers
in 'IBM Graphics Development Toolkit'. A quotation from a local IBM
dealer put a price tag of $500. I suppose this is quite expensive
considering the fact that the program itself costs only $50.  Can
anybody point me to where I can get similar drivers for lesser amount
of money (PD, shareware, or comercial)?

Mnoor Hasan  ([e-mail])
Computer Aided Chemistry Laboratory
UTM, Johor Bahru, MALAYSIA.

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Date: Fri, 5 Feb 93 09:16:55 CET
From: Espen Haakonsen <[e-mail]>
Subject: QUOTE in FTP |||

Hi all,

Does anyone know how to use the QUOTE command in FTP? QUOTE is a
command for locating specific programs/files in the FTP you're
currently logged.

 ESPEN HAAKONSEN                                See the future;
 Norwegian School of Management                         see OS/2.
 ............................................   Be the future;
 . (This letter states my opinion, and does .           run OS/2.
 .  not necessarily represent the opinion   .
 .  of my employer.)                        .

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Date: Fri, 5 Feb 1993 02:42:18 -0700 (MST)
From: Gregory Hicks - Rota Spain <[e-mail]>
Subject: QUOTE in FTP |||

> ...Quote is a command for
>locating specific programs/files ...

Actually, QUOTE is a command to your local FTP process (user FTP
program) that is *supposed* to take anything you type on the remainder
of the line and pass directly - without parsing for correct syntax - to
the server process.  This *could* be used to do a DIR command (or ls -l
for you *nix folks) or anything else...

FTP> QUOTE DIR *.zoo   is perfectly valid.  So is:
FTP> DIR *.zoo

The implementation of the DIR (server command) is supposed to be
"whatever gives you a listing of the current directory.  The command to
the *user* FTP process (the program you run at your host) that
*generates* the DIR command is implementation dependent.  I have seen
variations of "dir", "ls -l", and "ls [flag-list]" around the net.

To get a complete command list from your user FTP program, try HELP or
?...  To find out what commands are implemented at the remote site, try
QUOTE HELP.

Regards,
Gregory Hicks
Editor, Info-IBMPC Digest

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Date: Wed, 10 Feb 1993 12:14:08 +0100
From: Ronald van der Meer <[e-mail]>
Subject: software power-off

 This is maybe a bit silly question but alas. I do have a laptop (Sharp
PC-4521 with a V40 processor) which has to perform a specific task
every day at the same time for about 10 minutes. In the setup I can
specify a power-on time but not a power-off time. Once powered on I
have to power-off manually. I suspect that it must also be possible to
do a software power-off with some kind of (harware) interrupt. The more
so as some software packages manage to disable the hardware power-off
switch altogether. I really would like to do a software power-off to
let the thing run unattended. Any clues how to do this?  Or maybe a way
to find out how? All suggestions are appreciated.

Ronald van der Meer

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Date: 11 Jan 93 18:17:04 GMT
From: Joe Katz <[e-mail]>
Subject: Updated ACM e-mail directory

Here is an updated listing of ACM Volunteer and Staff e-mail addresses
as of January 11, 1993.

ACM HQ Member Services  ............... [e-mail]
ACM HQ Membernet        ............... [e-mail]
ACM HQ SIG Services (Conferences)...... [e-mail]
ACM HQ SIG Services (Genl Info)........ [e-mail]

President: Gwen [e-mail]
V-Pres: Stu Zweben............... [e-mail]
Secretary: John [e-mail]
Treasurer: A. Joe [e-mail]

Publications Board Chair: Peter [e-mail]

SIG Board Chair:
Randy Dipner....... [e-mail]
Members at Large:John [e-mail]
Michael [e-mail]
Jan Wilson..... [e-mail]
William Wulf... [e-mail]

Regional Representatives
 Central:Helen Takacs   ....... [e-mail]
 Eastern: Curtis Crawford......... No e-mail address
 International:Maurice Wilkes     ....... [e-mail]
 Western:Anita Borg....... [e-mail]

ACM HQ Executive Director:
Joe DeBlasi....... [e-mail]

Deputy Exec Director, Operations:
Pat Ryan....... [e-mail]

Director, Office of SIG Services:
Pegotty [e-mail]

Associate Director (PLAN,SAM,CPR,APL,SAC,ACT,NUM,DOC,IR,BIO):
Donna Baglio....... [e-mail]

Program Director (METRICS,APP,Forth,CSE,COMM,OPS,CUE,MOD,SOFT):
Pat McCarren....... [e-mail]

Program Director (GRAPH):
Lois Blankstein....... [e-mail]

Program Director (ARCH,MICRO,BIT,ART,DA,SMALL/PC,SIM):
Debbie Hall....... [e-mail]

Program Director (Ada, CAPH, UCCS, CHI, LINK, OIS, CAS):
Diane Darrow....... [e-mail]

Director, Office of Publications:
Mark Mandelbaum....... [e-mail]

Publisher, CACM:
Jim Maurer....... [e-mail]

Executive Editor, CACM:
Diane Crawford....... [e-mail]

Director, Office of Membership:
James Adams....... [e-mail]

Program Director, Local Activities:
Lisa Ernst....... [e-mail]

Coordinator, Local Activities:
Judy Granat....... [e-mail]

Deputy Director, Membership and Marketing Services:
Lillian Israel....... [e-mail]

Manager, Membership Services:
Linda Berg....... [e-mail]

PUBLICATIONS BOARD
Editor in chief, CACM:
Jacques Cohen................... [e-mail]

LOCAL ACTIVITIES BOARD
Chair/Programming Contest Director:
William Poucher............... [e-mail]

V-Chair/Professional Chapters Program Director:
Dave Oppenheim............... [e-mail]

Student Activities Director:
James [e-mail]

Student Activities, Vice Director:
Ruth [e-mail]

ACM/NS Director:
Bob Lemley...............    [e-mail]

MEMBERSHIP & PROMOTIONS BOARD

Chair:
Dahl Gerberick...............  [e-mail]

SIG BOARD
V-Chair/Area E Advisor (ACT, ART, NUM, PLAN, SAM):
David [e-mail]

Area A Advisor (APL, APP, BIO, FORTH, METRICS, MOD, OPS, SIM):
Judy [e-mail]

Area B Advisor (ARCH, DA, MICRO, SMALL/PC, SOFT, GRAPH):
Mary Jane [e-mail]

Area C Advisor (BIT, COMM, CPR, DOC, IR, LINK, OIS, SAC):
Gayle Yaverbaum    [e-mail]

Area D Advisor (Ada, CAPH, CAS, CHI, UCCS, CSE, CSU):
Della Bonnette     [e-mail]

Area D Conference Advisor (Ada, CAPH, CAS, CHI, UCCS, CSE, CSU)
John Gorgone  [e-mail]

Area A Conference Advisor (APL, APP, BIO, FORTH, METRICS, MOD, OPS, SIM)
To Be Named

Area B Conference Advisor (ARCH, DA, MICRO, SMALL/PC, SOFT, GRAPH)
To Be Named

Area C Conference Advisor (BIT, COMM, CPR, DOC, IR, LINK, OIS, SAC)
To Be Named

Area E Conference Advisor (ACT, ART, NUM, PLAN, SAM)
To Be Named

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Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 22:08:54 +0200 (EET)
From: [e-mail] (Mike Lawrie)
Subject: What mail user agent do people use?

Drew Derbeyshire writes:-

> "Russell N Nelson" <[e-mail]> wrote:
>> I'm becoming increasingly frustrated by the ``mail'' user agent that
>> comes with UUPC:
>>....
>> What third-party alternatives are there?
>Dunno, loyalty to Snuffles requires I stick with the original.

Based on some work done by Paul Nash <[e-mail]>, I now have a
package SNUUPM (SNews/UUpc/PMail) that uses PMAIL as the MUA. Look on
hippo.ru.ac.za:/pub/pc/snuupm06.zip for the current version, you might
get some ideas as to what a neat MUA can do.

Mike
--
Mike Lawrie                                    <[e-mail]>
Director, Computing Services                   ph [phone] x 279
Rhodes University, Drostdy Rd                  fx [phone]
Grahamstown 6140, South Africa

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