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From: [e-mail]                    05-Nov-99 19:03:06
  To: All                                               06-Nov-99 03:33:25
Subj: Re: How to use more than 64MB under OS/2?

From: "Graham C. Norris" <[e-mail]>

I've you are using an Athlon this is a known problem with no known
solution. There's plenty more posts like this in the OS/2 newsgroups, I
suggest you join one of the existing threads.

Graham.

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From: [e-mail]                              06-Nov-99 04:45:14
  To: All                                               06-Nov-99 03:33:25
Subj: Re: How to use more than 64MB under OS/2?

From: James Moe <[e-mail]>


"╛j"Æ   â" wrote:
>
> I wanted to use 256MB memory under OS/2,
> the system reported 256MB during boot up,
> but only 64MB was report under the OS/2 system.
> What should I set to make in my OS/2 system so
> that it might report 256MB of system memory?
>
    There is usually a BIOS option about that. Look for an entry that
says "OS Select for DRAM > 64MB" (that's what it is in this Award BIOS).
Set it for "OS/2."
    I have 128MB and os/2 sees it all.

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From: [e-mail]                        06-Nov-99 11:04:03
  To: All                                               06-Nov-99 10:27:24
Subj: Re: Need new tape backup

From: [e-mail] (John Poltorak)

In <[e-mail]>, Charles Christacopoulos
<[e-mail]> writes:
>"Camilla Cracchiolo (Camilla Cracchiolo, R.N.)" wrote:
>>
>> I have to get a new tape drive.
>Check http://www.cristie.com/
>I am looking to purchase one of their drives (admittedly a large
>autoloader) and they may be willing to bundle their backup software for
>os/2.  Well if you ask them nicely they will as they seem to bundle the
>Win95 crap with them.

I've been asking Cristie if they will be providing OS/2 drivers for the
Onstream
30/50 GB tape drives, and they hope to have something available in a month
or two. These drives seem too good to be true, pricewise, - no idea on
reliability though...

>--
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>-------------------------------------------------------------------
>Charles Christacopoulos, Secretary's Office, University of Dundee,
>Dundee DD1 4HN, (Scotland) United Kingdom.
>Tel: +44+(0)1382-344891. Fax: +44+(0)1382-201604.
>http://somis.ais.dundee.ac.uk/    (runs on OS/2)
>Scottish Search Maestro http://somis2.ais.dundee.ac.uk/ (runs on OS/2
>too)
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From: [e-mail]                               06-Nov-99 10:27:17
  To: All                                               06-Nov-99 10:27:24
Subj: DoVolIO Error

From: Frank Stolpmann <[e-mail]>

Hi,

in the last few days my system hung several times due to an internal
processing error:

WtHF: DoVolIO Error

I don't know why it is caused. Meanwhile I changed the ibm1s506.add to
danis506.add but that didn't change. After the error had occured chkdsk
had a lot to do and I got severe problems to restart my system.

Any hints?

I use 1 IDE HD (1,2 GB) and 2 SCSI HD (2x 4,3 GB); on the IDE HD resides
the OS/2 Bootmanager, Warp is in a logical partition on HD2.
My system: MSI 5169 motherboard, 128 MB SDRAM, Warp 4 FP10.


Bye.

Frank Stolpmann
[e-mail]
http://home.knuut.de/FStolpmann
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From: compcom@                                          06-Nov-99 13:22:07
  To: All                                               06-Nov-99 14:35:29
Subj: How to Install Warp 4 on 4Gig Drive

From: compcom@

Can anyone point me to a solution to this?
I've a 4Gig drive I've used with Warp V3 Connect using BootManager to carve
it into 2*2Gig. When I try to move to Warp V4 it complains about the
partitions
.. even sees them in a scrambled fashion?

Thanks

Ken == COMPCOM at IBM.NET

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From: [e-mail]                06-Nov-99 08:38:21
  To: All                                               06-Nov-99 14:35:29
Subj: Re: How to use more than 64MB under OS/2?

From: "Mike Ruskai" <[e-mail]>

On Fri, 5 Nov 1999 19:35:43 +0800, ╛j∙Æⁿ≤╧â wrote:

>I wanted to use 256MB memory under OS/2,
>the system reported 256MB during boot up,
>but only 64MB was report under the OS/2 system.
>What should I set to make in my OS/2 system so
>that it might report 256MB of system memory?
>
>Thanks for your help!

If you're running Warp 4, then nothing.

If you're running Warp 3, then a later FP should also make it nothing.

If not, then you should look for a setting in your computer's CMOS setup
saying something about OS/2 and >64MB of RAM, which you should toggle to
YES.



 - Mike

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From: [e-mail]                                    06-Nov-99 07:31:19
  To: All                                               06-Nov-99 14:35:29
Subj: Re: OS/2 Warp 3 Boot Manager

From: [e-mail] (James Knott)

In article <7vrknb$but$[e-mail]>,
"Warren Won" <[e-mail]> wrote:
>I am new to this newsgroup, so please forgive me if this question has
>already been asked a million times.....
>
>I am trying to run FDISK (from my OS/2 Warp 3 installation disks) on a 13Gb
>IDE hard disk, so I can run Boot Manager. However, it will not recognise
>anything over 8Gb and ends up trashing everything I have on any partitions
>at the end of the disk.
>
>I know that there were issues with the 1024 cylinder boundary, but are there
>any updates to FDISK that fix this (and if so, where can I get my grubby
>paws on them)?

Get the latest IDEDASD.EXE from the fixpak site.  It will handle up to
~32 GB drives, which is the limit for the IDE interface.

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_________________________________________________________________________
The above opinions are my own and not those of ISM Corp., a subsidiary of
IBM Canada Ltd.

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From: [e-mail]                                 06-Nov-99 17:46:26
  To: All                                               06-Nov-99 16:43:23
Subj: Re: Need new tape backup

From: "Steve Snyder" <[e-mail]>

On Sat, 06 Nov 1999 17:37:50 GMT, Stephen Eickhoff (remove the - to reply)
wrote:
>"Camilla Cracchiolo (Camilla Cracchiolo, R.N.)" wrote:
[snip]
>> I'm considering a Seagate SCSI 8 Gig backup.  Anyone here have
>> experience with this drive?  Also, I'm currently using Backmaster.
>> Will it support this tape drive or do I have to get BackAgain/2?
>>
>> Please send me an e-mail copy of any replies you post to the
>> newsgroup.
>
>I have the ST8000N and use it with Novaback. It works great, I usually get
>about 38MB/min
>with it. You MUST get a cleaner kit, though, and use it every few backups. I
>let my drive get dirty and had to use three swabs on it just to do a full
>restore.

I too have a ST8000N which I use with Seagate's Backup Exec.  As
noted above, this drive is fast.  I'm very happy with it.


***** Steve Snyder *****



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From: [e-mail]                              06-Nov-99 17:28:26
  To: All                                               06-Nov-99 16:43:23
Subj: Undeleteable files with extended characters

From: "Stephen Eickhoff (remove the - to reply)" <[e-mail]>

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After a hard disk crash, I did a full restore from backup. Now I can't apply
fixpacks, run a backup
or even open a folder from the desktop because the process will hang. There
are three files
with extended ASCII characters in them:

Directory of E:\programs\games\billy

11-01-99  12:10a     <DIR>           0  .
10-31-99   6:19p     <DIR>           0  ..
 8-21-97   4:54p        25           0  català.bat
 8-21-97   4:54p        27           0  f╜royskt.bat
 8-21-97   4:54p        25           0  româna.bat
        5 file(s)         77 bytes used
                   6012416 K bytes free

I can't delete them from the command line. OS/2 says it could not find the
file specified. Since I
can't open the folder from the drives object without hanging the shell, I
can't even try dumping them to the shredder. I also can't rename the files or
deltree the directory with the FM2 utils. What the heck do I do here? CHKDSK
doesn't report any errors with the drive.

----------------------------------
         Stephen Eickhoff
          Havertown, PA
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From: [e-mail]                           06-Nov-99 18:17:06
  To: All                                               06-Nov-99 16:43:23
Subj: Re: Undeleteable files with extended characters

From: [e-mail] (Lorne Sunley)

On Sat, 6 Nov 1999 17:28:52, "Stephen Eickhoff (remove the - to
reply)" <[e-mail]> wrote:

> This is a multi-part message in MIME format.
> After a hard disk crash, I did a full restore from backup. Now I can't apply
> fixpacks, run a backup
> or even open a folder from the desktop because the process will hang. There
> are three files
> with extended ASCII characters in them:
>
> Directory of E:\programs\games\billy
>
> 11-01-99  12:10a     <DIR>           0  .
> 10-31-99   6:19p     <DIR>           0  ..
>  8-21-97   4:54p        25           0  catal┘.bat
>  8-21-97   4:54p        27           0  f½royskt.bat
>  8-21-97   4:54p        25           0  rom┐na.bat
>         5 file(s)         77 bytes used
>                    6012416 K bytes free
>
> I can't delete them from the command line. OS/2 says it could not find the
> file specified. Since I
> can't open the folder from the drives object without hanging the shell, I
> can't even try dumping them to the shredder. I also can't rename the files
or
> deltree the directory with the FM2 utils. What the heck do I do here? CHKDSK
> doesn't report any errors with the drive.

Did you try using wildcard characters in the REN command?

REN cat*.bat first.bat
REN f?roy*.bat second.bat
REN rom*.bat third.bat

Just a WAG

Lorne Sunley

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From: [e-mail]                   06-Nov-99 19:29:03
  To: All                                               06-Nov-99 16:43:23
Subj: Re: DoVolIO Error

From: "Frank-Rainer Grahl" <[e-mail]>

On Sat, 6 Nov 1999 10:27:35 GMT, Frank Stolpmann wrote:

>>Hi,
>>
>>in the last few days my system hung several times due to an internal
>>processing error:
>>
>>WtHF: DoVolIO Error

It looks like one of your drives is about to fail. Try to identify the failing

drive and move all data off it fast. I suspect it's the drive where chkdsk
finds
the most errors.

 Regards
 Frank-Rainer Grahl
 ([e-mail]  [e-mail])


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From: [e-mail]                              06-Nov-99 17:37:25
  To: All                                               06-Nov-99 16:43:23
Subj: Re: Need new tape backup

From: "Stephen Eickhoff (remove the - to reply)" <[e-mail]>

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"Camilla Cracchiolo (Camilla Cracchiolo, R.N.)" wrote:

> I have to get a new tape drive.  I've got a HP Traven T-3000.
>
> I'd like to get away from HP products altogether.  They have great
> tech support, but I suspect that's because their products die so
> often.  (Long history of failures here).
>
> I'm considering a Seagate SCSI 8 Gig backup.  Anyone here have
> experience with this drive?  Also, I'm currently using Backmaster.
> Will it support this tape drive or do I have to get BackAgain/2?
>
> Please send me an e-mail copy of any replies you post to the
> newsgroup.

I have the ST8000N and use it with Novaback. It works great, I usually get
about 38MB/min
with it. You MUST get a cleaner kit, though, and use it every few backups. I
let my drive get dirty and had to use three swabs on it just to do a full
restore.

Backmaster 2 should support the drive, but I dumped them a while ago because
the program
was so slow. Novaback is nice because they include Windows and OS/2 versions
in the same box.

--
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          Havertown, PA
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From: [e-mail]                              06-Nov-99 21:53:15
  To: All                                               06-Nov-99 20:02:24
Subj: Re: Need new tape backup

From: James Moe <[e-mail]>


Steve Snyder wrote:
>
>
> I too have a ST8000N which I use with Seagate's Backup Exec.
>
    You do? I thought Seagate dropped os/2 support. The STT8000N came
out long after they stopped updating their os/2 program.

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From: [e-mail]                06-Nov-99 17:09:16
  To: All                                               06-Nov-99 20:02:24
Subj: Re: Undeleteable files with extended characters

From: "Mike Ruskai" <[e-mail]>

On Sat, 06 Nov 1999 17:28:52 GMT, Stephen Eickhoff (remove the - to reply)
wrote:

>After a hard disk crash, I did a full restore from backup. Now I can't apply
>fixpacks, run a backup
>or even open a folder from the desktop because the process will hang. There
>are three files
>with extended ASCII characters in them:
>
>Directory of E:\programs\games\billy
>
>11-01-99  12:10a     <DIR>           0  .
>10-31-99   6:19p     <DIR>           0  ..
> 8-21-97   4:54p        25           0  català.bat
> 8-21-97   4:54p        27           0  f╜royskt.bat
> 8-21-97   4:54p        25           0  româna.bat
>        5 file(s)         77 bytes used
>                   6012416 K bytes free
>
>I can't delete them from the command line. OS/2 says it could not find the
>file specified. Since I
>can't open the folder from the drives object without hanging the shell, I
>can't even try dumping them to the shredder. I also can't rename the files or
>deltree the directory with the FM2 utils. What the heck do I do here? CHKDSK
>doesn't report any errors with the drive.

del *.bat doesn't do anything?



 - Mike

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From: [e-mail]                       07-Nov-99 00:00:03
  To: All                                               06-Nov-99 20:02:24
Subj: Re: Undeleteable files with extended characters

From: Henk kelder <[e-mail]>

Are you sure you are running the same codepage as when the files were
created?

Henk

Stephen Eickhoff (remove the - to reply) wrote:
>
> After a hard disk crash, I did a full restore from backup. Now I can't apply
> fixpacks, run a backup
> or even open a folder from the desktop because the process will hang. There
> are three files
> with extended ASCII characters in them:
>
> Directory of E:\programs\games\billy
>
> 11-01-99  12:10a     <DIR>           0  .
> 10-31-99   6:19p     <DIR>           0  ..
>  8-21-97   4:54p        25           0  català.bat
>  8-21-97   4:54p        27           0  f╜royskt.bat
>  8-21-97   4:54p        25           0  româna.bat
>         5 file(s)         77 bytes used
>                    6012416 K bytes free
>
> I can't delete them from the command line. OS/2 says it could not find the
> file specified. Since I
> can't open the folder from the drives object without hanging the shell, I
> can't even try dumping them to the shredder. I also can't rename the files
or
> deltree the directory with the FM2 utils. What the heck do I do here? CHKDSK
> doesn't report any errors with the drive.
>
> ----------------------------------
>          Stephen Eickhoff
>           Havertown, PA
> ----------------------------------
>
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From: [e-mail]                              06-Nov-99 23:27:09
  To: All                                               06-Nov-99 21:41:10
Subj: Re: Undeleteable files with extended characters

From: "Stephen Eickhoff (remove the - to reply)" <[e-mail]>

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I tried using wildcards, like catal?.bat, *.bat, *.*, etc.
I don't know what codepage was used to create them. They came from a game
called Drilling Billy.

Henk kelder wrote:
>
> Are you sure you are running the same codepage as when the files were
> created?
>
> Henk
>
> Stephen Eickhoff (remove the - to reply) wrote:
> >
> > After a hard disk crash, I did a full restore from backup. Now I can't
apply
> > fixpacks, run a backup
> > or even open a folder from the desktop because the process will hang.
There
> > are three files
> > with extended ASCII characters in them:
> >
> > Directory of E:\programs\games\billy
> >
> > 11-01-99  12:10a     <DIR>           0  .
> > 10-31-99   6:19p     <DIR>           0  ..
> >  8-21-97   4:54p        25           0  català.bat
> >  8-21-97   4:54p        27           0  f╜royskt.bat
> >  8-21-97   4:54p        25           0  româna.bat
> >         5 file(s)         77 bytes used
> >                    6012416 K bytes free
> >
> > I can't delete them from the command line. OS/2 says it could not find the
> > file specified. Since I
> > can't open the folder from the drives object without hanging the shell, I
> > can't even try dumping them to the shredder. I also can't rename the files
or
> > deltree the directory with the FM2 utils. What the heck do I do here?
CHKDSK
> > doesn't report any errors with the drive.
> >
> > ----------------------------------
> >          Stephen Eickhoff
> >           Havertown, PA
> > ----------------------------------
> >
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From: christian.hennecke@ruhr-uni-boch...               07-Nov-99 00:31:03
  To: All                                               06-Nov-99 21:41:10
Subj: Re: How to Install Warp 4 on 4Gig Drive

Message sender: [e-mail]

From: Christian Hennecke <[e-mail]>

compcom@ schrieb:
>
> Can anyone point me to a solution to this?
> I've a 4Gig drive I've used with Warp V3 Connect using BootManager to carve
> it into 2*2Gig. When I try to move to Warp V4 it complains about the
partitions
> .. even sees them in a scrambled fashion?

You need to update some drivers on your installation disks. Get the
IDEDASD package from IBM's Online DDPak and replace the original
IBM1S506.ADD, OS2DASD.DMD and OS2CDROM.DMD with the new ones and the
install should work ok.

Christian Hennecke
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From: [e-mail]                                 07-Nov-99 02:07:16
  To: All                                               07-Nov-99 03:28:17
Subj: Re: Need new tape backup

From: "Steve Snyder" <[e-mail]>

On Sat, 06 Nov 1999 21:53:30 GMT, James Moe wrote:

>Steve Snyder wrote:
>>
>>
>> I too have a ST8000N which I use with Seagate's Backup Exec.
>>
>    You do? I thought Seagate dropped os/2 support. The STT8000N came
>out long after they stopped updating their os/2 program.

Maybe the STT8000N is compatible with some drive that is officially
supported.  In any case, Seagate Backup Exec v3.0 (file dates
are 10/31/96) *does* work with that tape drive.


***** Steve Snyder *****



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From: [e-mail]                    06-Nov-99 18:11:14
  To: All                                               07-Nov-99 03:28:17
Subj: Re: DoVolIO Error

From: "Graham C. Norris" <[e-mail]>

We had major problems with the L2 cache on one of these motherboards and
Win95 and 98. I've no idea if it is a common problem, but you might try
turning off the L2 cache (in the BIOS setup) for a while, this was the
only thing which allowed our 5169 to work reliably at all.

Graham.

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From: [e-mail]                    06-Nov-99 18:13:26
  To: All                                               07-Nov-99 03:28:17
Subj: Re: Undeleteable files with extended characters

From: "Graham C. Norris" <[e-mail]>

If you are using DIR /A then it will list hidden files. What does ATTRIB
*.BAT show for these files?

Graham.

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From: [e-mail]                06-Nov-99 21:59:22
  To: All                                               07-Nov-99 03:28:17
Subj: Re: Undeleteable files with extended characters

From: "Mike Ruskai" <[e-mail]>

On Sat, 06 Nov 1999 23:27:18 GMT, Stephen Eickhoff (remove the - to reply)
wrote:

>I tried using wildcards, like catal?.bat, *.bat, *.*, etc.
>I don't know what codepage was used to create them. They came from a game
>called Drilling Billy.

Something you might try is loading up a sector editor, and looking for the
FNodes for those files (obviously, a sector editor with a text search
facility is needed).

Overwrite the FNodes with anything, then run CHKDSK /F on the drive.

That should prompt it to remove the directory entries, and free up the
space taken by the files.


--
 - Mike

Remove 'spambegone' and reverse to send e-mail.


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From: [e-mail]                        07-Nov-99 03:04:08
  To: All                                               07-Nov-99 03:28:17
Subj: Re: Undeleteable files with extended characters

From: [e-mail]

In <[e-mail]>, "Stephen Eickhoff (remove the - to reply)"
<[e-mail]> writes:
>>
>I tried using wildcards, like catal?.bat, *.bat, *.*, etc.
>I don't know what codepage was used to create them. They came from a game
>called Drilling Billy.
>>> > 11-01-99  12:10a     <DIR>           0  .
>> > 10-31-99   6:19p     <DIR>           0  ..
>> >  8-21-97   4:54p        25           0  catalα.bat
>> >  8-21-97   4:54p        27           0  fóroyskt.bat
>> >  8-21-97   4:54p        25           0  romΓna.bat
>> >         5 file(s)         77 bytes used
>> >                    6012416 K bytes free
>> >
>> > I can't delete them from the command line. OS/2 says it could not find
the
>> > file specified. Since I
>> > can't open the folder from the drives object without hanging the shell, I
>> > can't even try dumping them to the shredder. I also can't rename the
files or
>> > deltree the directory with the FM2 utils. What the heck do I do here?
CHKDSK
>> > doesn't report any errors with the drive.
>> >

You could boot DOS, and use Norton Utilities in the /M or physical drive mode
to plant standard letters instead of accented ones.

I got this problem from Microsoft Excel under Microsoft Windows '95 using
names like M╔MOCO~1.DOC as the short visible to DOS name for an exemple
file named "MΘmo court.doc": it could be renamed under Windows using
normal letters for the first part.

I also recall than GWBASIC.EXE from MSDOS was able to access, create and
erase accented letters and spaces in file name: I just tested and it did
create a
filename with a space and a ╔ in it; my version of Warp 4 (Canadian -French)
had no problem erasing it from Icon view ...This was on a FAT-16 drive.
If standard US warp doen't, you just could install another Codepage for a
while
as most others have accented letters and can use them in names.




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From: [e-mail]                              07-Nov-99 07:05:08
  To: All                                               07-Nov-99 03:28:17
Subj: Re: Undeleteable files with extended characters

From: "Stephen Eickhoff (remove the - to reply)" <[e-mail]>

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Well, I did find the file using the Gammatech Utilities' secotr editor, but I
admit I don't know where to make the changes. Besides, it won't let me do it
since the drive is my boot drive, and is therefore locked. Seems like a pretty
huge bug to me. I'm not sure that changing the codepage like other suggested
will work either. I tried simply doing a copy of the filename from dir and
pasting it into del, but it just pretended to delete the file as usual.

Mike Ruskai wrote:
>
> On Sat, 06 Nov 1999 23:27:18 GMT, Stephen Eickhoff (remove the - to reply)
> wrote:
>
> >I tried using wildcards, like catal?.bat, *.bat, *.*, etc.
> >I don't know what codepage was used to create them. They came from a game
> >called Drilling Billy.
>
> Something you might try is loading up a sector editor, and looking for the
> FNodes for those files (obviously, a sector editor with a text search
> facility is needed).
>
> Overwrite the FNodes with anything, then run CHKDSK /F on the drive.
>
> That should prompt it to remove the directory entries, and free up the
> space taken by the files.
>
> --
>  - Mike
>
> Remove 'spambegone' and reverse to send e-mail.

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         Stephen Eickhoff
          Havertown, PA
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From: [e-mail]                          07-Nov-99 11:36:29
  To: All                                               07-Nov-99 10:20:13
Subj: Re: Workplace shell bugs part II

From: Jan Rasche <[e-mail]>

hi@arjen!

i have a same problem with drag&drop, like as i install the omnidrv via it.
but a
have additional some instabilities when i open file system windows.
i also have the fix xr_012 but on a german native os2 v4..
if you found a solution please contact me.

Arjen Meijer wrote:

> On Tue, 19 Oct 1999 17:58:32 +0200 (CET), Arjen Meijer wrote:
>
> To follow up my own posting:
>
> I found some bugs not fixed in fixpack 12. Can anybody confirm these?
>
> Draging and dropping of a file attachment from pmmail 2.1 to a folder which
> is opened AS A SHADOW will halt the WPS (not responding and no reset
> possible). The length of the filename has no influence. (Maybe this is a
> error in my *.ini files, but I think it is a real bug.)
>
> Arjen

thanks

jan rasche

home: www.xcommunycationz.com

P.S.:

It's a november day in Germany and no other harm was done to humans,
animals, hardware or software during this experience.

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From: [e-mail]                07-Nov-99 07:11:20
  To: All                                               07-Nov-99 10:20:14
Subj: Re: Undeleteable files with extended characters

From: "Mike Ruskai" <[e-mail]>

On Sun, 07 Nov 1999 07:05:17 GMT, Stephen Eickhoff (remove the - to reply)
wrote:

>Well, I did find the file using the Gammatech Utilities' secotr editor, but I
>admit I don't know where to make the changes. Besides, it won't let me do it
>since the drive is my boot drive, and is therefore locked. Seems like a
pretty
>huge bug to me. I'm not sure that changing the codepage like other suggested
>will work either. I tried simply doing a copy of the filename from dir and
>pasting it into del, but it just pretended to delete the file as usual.

When SEDIT shows the current sector as being an FNode, and the path and
name of the files are what you want, just overwrite the sector with junk.

Obviously, what you'll need to do is boot from floppy disks to be able to
lock the drive.

And as for your WPS problems, mentioned previously, try deleting the WP
ROOT. SF file in the root directory of any and all problem drives.


--
 - Mike

Remove 'spambegone' and reverse to send e-mail.


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From: [e-mail]                               07-Nov-99 23:36:14
  To: All                                               07-Nov-99 10:20:14
Subj: Re: Workplace shell bugs part II

From: [e-mail]

In <[e-mail]>, Jan Rasche
<[e-mail]> writes:
>hi@arjen!
>
>i have a same problem with drag&drop, like as i install the omnidrv via it.
but a
>have additional some instabilities when i open file system windows.
>i also have the fix xr_012 but on a german native os2 v4..
>if you found a solution please contact me.
>
>Arjen Meijer wrote:
>
>> On Tue, 19 Oct 1999 17:58:32 +0200 (CET), Arjen Meijer wrote:
>>
>> To follow up my own posting:
>>
>> I found some bugs not fixed in fixpack 12. Can anybody confirm these?
>>
>> Draging and dropping of a file attachment from pmmail 2.1 to a folder which
>> is opened AS A SHADOW will halt the WPS (not responding and no reset
>> possible). The length of the filename has no influence. (Maybe this is a
>> error in my *.ini files, but I think it is a real bug.)
>>
>> Arjen
>
>thanks
>
>jan rasche

I have a similar problem. I am running Object Desktop. When I try to use
any sort of file manipulation, including drag and drop with Object navigator
my disk light goes hard on and my WPS locks up.

I am running a text based file manager(works quicker anyway) with no problems.

FP12, OD Fix1, Warp4
Brian

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From: [e-mail]                                07-Nov-99 12:20:12
  To: All                                               07-Nov-99 15:15:22
Subj: Re: sys3175 in Nescape (4.61)

From: Jim Parker <[e-mail]>

Jim Parker wrote:

> I am getting a SYS3175 in Netscape. This is the sequence of events which
> lead to the problem:
>
> 1. Dial uo my ISP (Injoy 1.1)
> 2. Bring up Netscape 4.61
> 3. Bounce around from newgroup to newsgroup looking at posts of interest
> and perhaps posting.
> 4. On some random bounce to a different news group, all Netscape windows
> disappear. The Netscape icon on my desktop remains cross hatched but no
> Netscape processes appear the window list (ctrl-esc)
> 5. Try to restart Netscape and get SYS3175. Only recovery I've found so
> far is to shut down and reboot. Then everything is OK until the next
> time it crashes in a similar fashion.
>
> Details:
> Access violation at 00591ba (hmm - this number dosen't look right.
> Perhaps wrote it down wrong. 00591b3a?)
> NETSCAPE.EXE 0001:00581b3a
> P1=00000001 P2=00000002 P3=XXXXXXXX P4=XXXXXXXX ESI=00dc80c0
> EDI=0059183c
> DS=0053 DSACC=d0f3 DSLIM=1fffffff
> ES=0053 ESACC=d0f3 ESLIM=1fffffff
> FS=150b FSACC=00f3 FSLIM=00000030
> GS=0000 GSACC=**** GSLIM=********
> CS:EIP=005b:00591b3a CSACC=d0df
> SS:ESP=0053:007c4900 SSACC=d0f3
> EBP=007c492c FLG=00012202
>
> Running Warp 4 FP9.  Installed StarOffice5.1 on Sunday. First noticed
> this problem Monday. Have been using Netscape 4.61 since it first came
> out GA without any difficulty. Makes me somewhat suspicious of
> StarOffice but the only changes to config.sys that I can detect were the
> addition of the StarOffice directory to the end of PATH and LIBPATH
> variables. Hard to imagine how that could cause problems.
>
> Any ideas? Fixes? Ways to recover without rebooting (even though there
> is no Netscape in the window list, there must be something still running
> and, if I could kill it, I would be able to recover without reboot) ?
>
> Thanks
> Jim

I've cured the problem although I don't know what caused it. It wasn't as
random as I thought, it was a particular newsgroup, comp.os.os2.misc.
Everytime I tried to get to that newsgroup, Netscape crashed. To correct the
problem I edited the news*.rc file and removed the reference to
comp.os.os2.misc. Then resubscribed to it. For now everything seems ok. BTW,
when I was editing the file I didn't see anything unusual about the
comp.os.os2.misc entry.

Jim


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From: [e-mail]                            07-Nov-99 13:31:20
  To: All                                               07-Nov-99 20:07:01
Subj: Re: Undeleteable files with extended characters

From: Chuck McKinnis <[e-mail]>

If you can't apply a fixpack, I suspect there may be even more files
with bad names.

However, you may want to try a couple of things.

1.  Open a command prompt
2.  Do the dir command
3.  Mark and copy the file name
4.  Key in delete or rename and then paste the file name in

Another way is to use the alt + numeric keypad to enter the special
characters.  This is with codepage 850.

alt + 133 = α
alt + 189 = ó
alt + 131 = Γ

On my system I have to use the left alt key.

Yet another way would be to go at the files using the drive object to
open the folder and either delete or rename the files.

You could also open the system editor and key in the delete filename
using the alt + numeric method and copy and paster the command to a
command line prompt.

"Stephen Eickhoff (remove the - to reply)" wrote:
>
> After a hard disk crash, I did a full restore from backup. Now I can't apply
> fixpacks, run a backup
> or even open a folder from the desktop because the process will hang. There
> are three files
> with extended ASCII characters in them:
>
> Directory of E:\programs\games\billy
>
> 11-01-99  12:10a     <DIR>           0  .
> 10-31-99   6:19p     <DIR>           0  ..
>  8-21-97   4:54p        25           0  català.bat
>  8-21-97   4:54p        27           0  f╜royskt.bat
>  8-21-97   4:54p        25           0  româna.bat
>         5 file(s)         77 bytes used
>                    6012416 K bytes free
>
> I can't delete them from the command line. OS/2 says it could not find the
> file specified. Since I
> can't open the folder from the drives object without hanging the shell, I
> can't even try dumping them to the shredder. I also can't rename the files
or
> deltree the directory with the FM2 utils. What the heck do I do here? CHKDSK
> doesn't report any errors with the drive.
>
> ----------------------------------
>          Stephen Eickhoff
>           Havertown, PA
> ----------------------------------

--
Chuck McKinnis
Senior Systems Engineer
Denver Solutions Group, Inc.
IBM Business Partner
IBM Senior Systems Engineer (retired)

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From: [e-mail]                       07-Nov-99 22:07:01
  To: All                                               07-Nov-99 20:07:01
Subj: Re: Undeleteable files with extended characters

From: Henk kelder <[e-mail]>

Did you tell what filesystem you're running on?

If your config.sys hasn't changed then you probably only have 2
available codepages.

try switching to the other page and then try to delete them.
Look in your config.sys for a line like:

CODEPAGE=437,850

Actual number might be different. Type CHCP<enter> in a OS/2 session. It
will show the active codepage. Then try switching to the other number as
specified in your config.sys.
In the example above 437 would be the default. 850 is the 'other' CP. So
to switch to the other CP type:

CHCP 850<enter>

Then try to delete the files.

Henk

Henk kelder wrote:
>
> Are you sure you are running the same codepage as when the files were
> created?
>
> > 11-01-99  12:10a     <DIR>           0  .
> > 10-31-99   6:19p     <DIR>           0  ..
> >  8-21-97   4:54p        25           0  català.bat
> >  8-21-97   4:54p        27           0  f╜royskt.bat
> >  8-21-97   4:54p        25           0  româna.bat

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From: [e-mail]                             08-Nov-99 14:02:23
  To: All                                               08-Nov-99 03:40:17
Subj: Win-OS/2 Print Manager Starts Automatically with Win-OS/2 - WHY?

From: "Christopher E. Souter" <[e-mail]>

Hi,everyone!

Does anyone know why Print Manager starts automatically
when Win-OS/2 starts up?

I have looked in all the usual places, such as the
StartUp group, the "load= " line in the WIN.INI file,
the SYSTEM.INI file, the PROGMAN.INI and the
CONTROL.INI files.

Print Manager is *NOT* in my StartUp group, and there
is *DEFINITELY* no reference to it in any of the
above-mentioned files.

Can anyone tell me what is causing it to start up every
time Win-OS/2 starts, and how I can stop it?

I am using a Windows printer driver which does not use
Print Manager, and I want to avoid conflicts.

I am using OS/2 Warp 4 (FullPack), with FixPak 9, but
this problem has existed since I installed Warp , i.e.,
before any FixPaks were applied.

Thanks in advance
Chris Souter
(Australia)
[e-mail]



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From: [e-mail]                                    08-Nov-99 04:08:28
  To: All                                               08-Nov-99 03:40:17
Subj: Re: Win-OS/2 Print Manager Starts Automatically with Win-OS/2 - WHY?

From: Bill "Wild Willy" Kredentser <[e-mail]>

In article <[e-mail]>,
  "Christopher E. Souter" <[e-mail]>
wrote:
> Does anyone know why Print Manager starts
automatically
> when Win-OS/2 starts up?
        <<<snip>>>

Try this in OS2\MDOS\WINOS2\SYSTEM.INI:

[boot]
WAVDMAPPS=
MAVDMAPPS=

WW
Team OS/2 Cincinnati & PROUD OF IT!


Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
Before you buy.

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From: [e-mail]                             08-Nov-99 14:19:19
  To: All                                               08-Nov-99 03:40:17
Subj: True Type Fonts in Warp 4?  HOW???

From: "Christopher E. Souter" <[e-mail]>

Hi, everybody!

I recently upgraded from Warp 3 to Warp 4.

One reason why I did this is because I understood that,
among other things, Warp 4 is supposed to support True
Type fonts.

However, I have searched all the online documentation
and I just can't find any reference to True Type fonts
anywhere.

So, how do you install them?  Is it through the Font
Palette?  Where do you find the True Type Fonts in a
standard Warp 4 system?  How do you get the Font
Palette to recognise them?

Thenks in advance
Chris Souter
(Australia)
[e-mail]




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From: [e-mail]                                08-Nov-99 15:55:19
  To: All                                               08-Nov-99 03:40:17
Subj: Re: True Type Fonts in Warp 4?  HOW???

From: "Shane Baker" <[e-mail]>

On Mon, 08 Nov 1999 14:19:39 +1000, Christopher E. Souter wrote:

>I recently upgraded from Warp 3 to Warp 4.
>
>One reason why I did this is because I understood that,
>among other things, Warp 4 is supposed to support True
>Type fonts.
>
>However, I have searched all the online documentation
>and I just can't find any reference to True Type fonts
>anywhere.
>
>So, how do you install them?  Is it through the Font
>Palette?  Where do you find the True Type Fonts in a
>standard Warp 4 system?  How do you get the Font
>Palette to recognise them?

Font Pallette -> Edit Font -> Add  ..... and then select the fonts from the
source.

Regards

Shane Baker
Canberra - Australia's national capital
_____________________________
sbakerATpcug.org.au - please make the obvious change when replying
Australian Pets newsgroup - aus.pets  <<>>  Australian Dogs Page -
http://www.pcug.org.au/~sbaker/dogs.htm



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From: james.arnold@!!!usa.net                           08-Nov-99 03:31:20
  To: All                                               08-Nov-99 03:40:17
Subj: Re: Win-OS/2 Print Manager Starts Automatically with Win-OS/2 - WHY?

From: james.arnold@!!!usa.net

In <[e-mail]>, "Christopher E. Souter"
<[e-mail]> writes:
>Hi,everyone!
>
>Does anyone know why Print Manager starts automatically
>when Win-OS/2 starts up?
>
>I have looked in all the usual places, such as the
>StartUp group, the "load= " line in the WIN.INI file,
>the SYSTEM.INI file, the PROGMAN.INI and the
>CONTROL.INI files.
>
>Print Manager is *NOT* in my StartUp group, and there
>is *DEFINITELY* no reference to it in any of the
>above-mentioned files.
>
>Can anyone tell me what is causing it to start up every
>time Win-OS/2 starts, and how I can stop it?
>
>I am using a Windows printer driver which does not use
>Print Manager, and I want to avoid conflicts.
>
>I am using OS/2 Warp 4 (FullPack), with FixPak 9, but
>this problem has existed since I installed Warp , i.e.,
>before any FixPaks were applied.
>

        It is a "feature"!

        To stop the Win-OS/2 Print Manager forever add the following to
the "[boot]" section of system.ini:

        MAVDMAPPS=

        Once that is done you won't be bothered by Print Manager again.

        Jim

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                                              ICQ:    9719182

        Member Toronto OS/2 User Group

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From: [e-mail]                              08-Nov-99 05:31:06
  To: All                                               08-Nov-99 03:40:17
Subj: Re: True Type Fonts in Warp 4?  HOW???

From: James Moe <[e-mail]>


"Christopher E. Souter" wrote:
>
> Hi, everybody!
>
> I recently upgraded from Warp 3 to Warp 4.
>
> One reason why I did this is because I understood that,
> among other things, Warp 4 is supposed to support True
> Type fonts.
>
> However, I have searched all the online documentation
> and I just can't find any reference to True Type fonts
> anywhere.
>
> So, how do you install them?  Is it through the Font
> Palette?
    Yes.

> Where do you find the True Type Fonts in a
> standard Warp 4 system?  How do you get the Font
> Palette to recognise them?
>
    Wherever they are stored. The first place to look is in
x:\OS2\MDOS\WINOS2\SYSTEM. Windows dumps averything there. In the future
copy the font files to someplace of your own choosing, say, \TRUETYPE.
    Open the Font Pallette, select Edit Font...->Add... . Type in the
path to the fonts.


--

sma at rtd dot com
Remove ".spam-not" for email

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From: [e-mail]                                   08-Nov-99 05:44:11
  To: All                                               08-Nov-99 03:40:17
Subj: Re: Win-OS/2 Print Manager Starts Automatically with Win-OS/2 - WHY?

From: Meinolf Sondermann <[e-mail]>


"Christopher E. Souter" wrote:
>
> Hi,everyone!
>
> Does anyone know why Print Manager starts automatically
> when Win-OS/2 starts up?
>

[....]

> Can anyone tell me what is causing it to start up every
> time Win-OS/2 starts,

No

> and how I can stop it?
>

Yes:
Add these two lines to the BOOT section of SYSTEM.INI

WAVDMAPPS=
MAVDMAPPS=

One of the both is already there, but I don't remember which.

[...]

> Thanks in advance

You're welcome

> Chris Souter
> (Australia)
> [e-mail]


Bye/2
Meinolf

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From: [e-mail]                          08-Nov-99 14:21:28
  To: All                                               08-Nov-99 03:40:17
Subj: Re: Win-OS/2 Print Manager Starts Automatically with Win-OS/2 - WHY?

From: "Wayne Bickell" <[e-mail]>

Here's something I saved from a previous thread of the same nature.
I've even left in the credit to the original poster :-)

:>in your \winos2\system.ini, add the line

:>MAVDMAPPS=

:>to the [Boot] section.  Print Manager will no longer open when you start
:<Win-OS/2.


:>Bill Pridgen
:>[e-mail]

:>Using OS/2 and PMINews

Cheers

Wayne



On Mon, 08 Nov 1999 14:02:46 +1000, Christopher E. Souter wrote:

:>Hi,everyone!
:>
:>Does anyone know why Print Manager starts automatically
:>when Win-OS/2 starts up?
:>
:>I have looked in all the usual places, such as the
:>StartUp group, the "load= " line in the WIN.INI file,
:>the SYSTEM.INI file, the PROGMAN.INI and the
:>CONTROL.INI files.
:>
:>Print Manager is *NOT* in my StartUp group, and there
:>is *DEFINITELY* no reference to it in any of the
:>above-mentioned files.
:>
:>Can anyone tell me what is causing it to start up every
:>time Win-OS/2 starts, and how I can stop it?
:>
:>I am using a Windows printer driver which does not use
:>Print Manager, and I want to avoid conflicts.
:>
:>I am using OS/2 Warp 4 (FullPack), with FixPak 9, but
:>this problem has existed since I installed Warp , i.e.,
:>before any FixPaks were applied.
:>
:>Thanks in advance
:>Chris Souter
:>(Australia)
:>[e-mail]
:>
:>
:>

******************************************************
Wayne Bickell
Tokyo, Japan
[e-mail]
******************************************************
           Posted with PMINews 2 for OS/2
  Running on OS/2 Warp 4 (UK)  + FixPak 9
******************************************************



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From: [e-mail]                             08-Nov-99 19:39:25
  To: All                                               08-Nov-99 05:18:18
Subj: Re: Win-OS/2 Print Manager Starts Automatically with Win-OS/2 - WHY?

From: "Christopher E. Souter" <[e-mail]>

Hi, everyone!

Thank you for the information!

It worked, and all is now OK!

Thank you for such quick replies!

Best regards
Chris Souter
(Australia)
[e-mail]


Wayne Bickell wrote:
>
> Here's something I saved from a previous thread of the same nature.
> I've even left in the credit to the original poster :-)
>
> :>in your \winos2\system.ini, add the line
>
> :>MAVDMAPPS=
>
> :>to the [Boot] section.  Print Manager will no longer open when you start
> :<Win-OS/2.
>
> :>Bill Pridgen
> :>[e-mail]
>
> :>Using OS/2 and PMINews
>
> Cheers
>
> Wayne
>
> On Mon, 08 Nov 1999 14:02:46 +1000, Christopher E. Souter wrote:
>
> :>Hi,everyone!
> :>
> :>Does anyone know why Print Manager starts automatically
> :>when Win-OS/2 starts up?
> :>
> :>I have looked in all the usual places, such as the
> :>StartUp group, the "load= " line in the WIN.INI file,
> :>the SYSTEM.INI file, the PROGMAN.INI and the
> :>CONTROL.INI files.
> :>
> :>Print Manager is *NOT* in my StartUp group, and there
> :>is *DEFINITELY* no reference to it in any of the
> :>above-mentioned files.
> :>
> :>Can anyone tell me what is causing it to start up every
> :>time Win-OS/2 starts, and how I can stop it?
> :>
> :>I am using a Windows printer driver which does not use
> :>Print Manager, and I want to avoid conflicts.
> :>
> :>I am using OS/2 Warp 4 (FullPack), with FixPak 9, but
> :>this problem has existed since I installed Warp , i.e.,
> :>before any FixPaks were applied.
> :>
> :>Thanks in advance
> :>Chris Souter
> :>(Australia)
> :>[e-mail]
> :>
> :>
> :>
>
> ******************************************************
> Wayne Bickell
> Tokyo, Japan
> [e-mail]
> ******************************************************
>            Posted with PMINews 2 for OS/2
>   Running on OS/2 Warp 4 (UK)  + FixPak 9
> ******************************************************

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From: [e-mail]                             08-Nov-99 19:41:17
  To: All                                               08-Nov-99 05:18:18
Subj: Re: True Type Fonts in Warp 4?  HOW???

From: "Christopher E. Souter" <[e-mail]>

Hi, everyone!

Thank you for such quick replies!

Your help is greatly appreciated!

Best regards
Chris Souter
(Australia)
[e-mail]


Shane Baker wrote:
>
> On Mon, 08 Nov 1999 14:19:39 +1000, Christopher E. Souter wrote:
>
> >I recently upgraded from Warp 3 to Warp 4.
> >
> >One reason why I did this is because I understood that,
> >among other things, Warp 4 is supposed to support True
> >Type fonts.
> >
> >However, I have searched all the online documentation
> >and I just can't find any reference to True Type fonts
> >anywhere.
> >
> >So, how do you install them?  Is it through the Font
> >Palette?  Where do you find the True Type Fonts in a
> >standard Warp 4 system?  How do you get the Font
> >Palette to recognise them?
>
> Font Pallette -> Edit Font -> Add  ..... and then select the fonts from the
> source.
>
> Regards
>
> Shane Baker
> Canberra - Australia's national capital
> _____________________________
> sbakerATpcug.org.au - please make the obvious change when replying
> Australian Pets newsgroup - aus.pets  <<>>  Australian Dogs Page -
http://www.pcug.org.au/~sbaker/dogs.htm

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From: [e-mail]                         08-Nov-99 21:10:18
  To: All                                               08-Nov-99 20:06:28
Subj: Re: Warp Server not able to get available memory

From: [e-mail]

Thanks to all for the posts and the EXCELLENT education and pointers.

IBM DB2 Support confirmed what all were saying about DB2 attempting to
allocate large memory for bufferpools; that is:

1. OS/2 has an address space limit of 512 MB.  Shared and system
resources use a significant chunk of this, leaving (very) roughly 200-
300 MB of virtual memory available to programs.

2. The Warp Server SMP Upgrade allows programs to circumvent this by
allocating in the 'High Memory Area' (HMA) between 512 MB and 2 GB (or
VIRTUALADDRESSLIMIT).  DB2 will take advantage of this, when present.

Our problem was that, although we had Warp Server, we didn't have the
correct edition / upgrade to support the HMA.  Given current licenses &
installation, we've decided to recommend sticking to no more than 200
MB of bufferpool + heap allocation when running under OS/2 Warp
(this'll work under Warp workstation as well).  Other DB2 servers
wanting to use more memory will have different OSes, anyway.

Thanks again to all,
Derek Williams

In article <[e-mail]>,
  Hannes Hromadka <[e-mail]> wrote:
>
>
> [e-mail] wrote:
>
> > I suppose I should ask: Has anyone been able to allocate and use
> > bufferpools larger than 220 MB (>55,000 pages) under OS/2 Warp?
>
> Good question: The answer is YES.
>
> It was not me, but some people at my job had to write real big
programs. Big
> means loading a huge module into a simulation environement.
>
> The limit was around 300MByte. In OS/2 2.11 it was about 320 to 350MB
they
> could aquire. In Warp 3 sometimes the limit was below 200MByte. It
depends
> of the size of the buffer segments you use to allocate the memory.
>
> Someone told us, that the SMP Kernel of Warp Server has a higher
limit.
>
> But further investigation was stopped when the development was moved
to Win
> NT 8-(
>
> Somewhere in my office I have a small testproram and the results of
tests on
> OS/2 2.11 and Warp 3 with different fixpak levels. If I find it I can
do
> tests on Warp 4.5 and post the result.
>
> Some good information about available memory can be found in the
> documentation of theseus2. A real good package to monitor and analyze
RAM
> usage. The programs seems to be IBM only, but it found its way into
the
> internet. Search hobbes for it or LEO in Germany.
>
>                 Greetings from Vienna
>
>                         Hannes
>
>


Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
Before you buy.

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From: [e-mail]                             08-Nov-99 15:42:13
  To: All                                               08-Nov-99 20:06:28
Subj: Re: Warp Server not able to get available memory

From: "Scott E. Garfinkle" <[e-mail]>

On Mon, 08 Nov 1999 21:10:37 GMT, [e-mail] wrote:

>Our problem was that, although we had Warp Server, we didn't have the
>correct edition / upgrade to support the HMA.
You need to have Warp Server with SMP feature (which works whether or not
your system is SMP-capable) or Warp Server for e-Business (aka Aurora) to get
this feature. Glad you got it resolved, anyway.  BTW, with WSeB, you can also
get DB2 database files > 2gb.


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From: [e-mail]                           08-Nov-99 23:33:22
  To: All                                               08-Nov-99 21:19:01
Subj: Re: Some W.S. e-Business fixes

From: [e-mail] (Lorne Sunley)

On Mon, 8 Nov 1999 15:50:52, "Scott E. Garfinkle"
<[e-mail]> wrote:

> I've put a couple of ***test*** fixes out on our temporary FTP site --
> ftp://testcase.boulder.ibm.com/ps/fromibm/os2 .   These are VERY new fixes,
> and have not been through our system test. My personal opinion is that
> they're stabl, but YOU HAVE BEEN WARDED.  You can get jfstest2.zip, which
> contains the latest jfs.ifs and ujfs.dll. This fixes numerous hang and trap
> problems related to jfs, including some chkdsk issues.  You can also get
> aurorafx.zip, which contains new os2krnl and doscall1.dll files for both uni
> and smp installations. The kernel/doscall1 files fix numerous other strange
> problems like hangs, traps, inability to put swapper.dat on a JFS drive,
etc.
>
> Anyway, for those of you who want to wait for more testing, that's probably
a
> good idea. I put these out for those of you who are either adventurous or
> desperate.
>
> Once these files expire in a couple days, PLEASE don't ask for me to send
> them to you again.
>     -scott

I've installed them, both the os2krnl files (for SMP) and the
JFS fixes.

So far, the system booted up with no problems and I haven't
had any crashes yet (running for 1 hour). The occasional Trap D
and Trap E crashes I've had usually only occur no more than
once in 4 to 8 days so it will take a while to see if they have gone
away.

The only thing is, the Aureal Vortex 1 sound card drivers
still trap when the desktop starts up. The next time I feel
like trashing the system I'll let the drivers load and post
the trap. (BTW - this is with the ASP4VDD.SYS driver
commented out) The trap only occurs when the ASP4OS2.SYS
driver is loaded. The drivers work with Warp 4, of course.

Lorne Sunley

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From: [e-mail]                               08-Nov-99 20:14:00
  To: All                                               09-Nov-99 03:31:28
Subj: Re: Nasty characters problem with Netscape 4.61

From: Michel Catudal <[e-mail]>

"Jeffrey S. Kobal" wrote:
>
> Michel Catudal wrote:
>
> > > If you run your system in 850, you should be OK.
> > >
> >
> > How to do that and still keep the CF keyboard layout?
>
> > OS/2 keyboard support has no other option for the CF keyboard.
> > The Canadian (CA) keyboard is a different keyboard layout.
>
> Codepage and Keyboard Layout are two different things.
> You should still be able to use the CF keyboard with the
> 850 codepage.
>
> Jeffrey S. Kobal
> IBM Corporation

I did get it by switching to the second choice when I choose the country but
it
doesn't change anything as far as Netscape is concerned. I get the accents
in most windows by changing the font to times roman. As for the title of the
messages or windows as well as the text in preferences the letters which
should
have accents look like garbage. With the default font the letters on my
web site look like shit as well. This is a severe bug in OS/2 as they should
support
characters better than that. Perhaps they should learn how it's done under
Linux and learn
a bit. I would say winblows since when I run NT in a command line it is
frequent to get a
crash because NT chokes on codepage 863. I usually have to do a kill as I lose
control of
the keyboard except for the ctrl alt del sequence which usually works.

--
Tanné du plantage avec Ti-Mou?
C'est l'temps d'essayer Linux
http://www.netonecom.net/~bbcat/
We have software, food, music, news, search,
history, electronics and genealogy pages.

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From: [e-mail]                               08-Nov-99 20:24:00
  To: All                                               09-Nov-99 03:31:28
Subj: Re: Has anyone ever got AWE64 to work with OS/2?

From: Michel Catudal <[e-mail]>

Marko wrote:
>
> Yes. I found the files and instructions on LEO.
>
> -> I have a plug and pray AWE64 card. It works great with Linux, Winblows NT
and Winblows 98
> -> but with OS/2 I get stupid messages. If I remove the /P in the command I
get
>
> -> C'est l'temps d'essayer Linux
>
> Je l'ai essaye, et je te dis que Linux est encore loin d'egaler OS/2.
>

If IBM would support codepages correctly perhaps. I have had to abandon OS/2
for
a while because the sound didn't work and the text sucks when I want to write
in
French, Spanish, Catalan or Portuguese.

I see that you can't write accents,
I rest my case ...

I still think that PM is superior to X but as for the internet and correct
support
for French and other latin languages OS/2 has flunked big time. I get a much
faster
NcFTP download with OS/2 but to browse the net OS/2 sucks big time. This is
unfortunate
as I still like OS/2 a lot. Fortunately Linux is working better and better.
Since IBM
has been kissing up to the evil empire in Redmond little has come up for us
from IBM
as far as OS/2 is concerned. Where is OS/2 4.5 or 5.0 for the rest of us? IBM
doesn't
give a rat's ass about you and me, big business is more important.

--
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http://www.netonecom.net/~bbcat/
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From: [e-mail]                      09-Nov-99 00:50:13
  To: All                                               09-Nov-99 03:31:28
Subj: Re: True Type Fonts in Warp 4? HOW???

From: [e-mail]       (John Thompson)

In <[e-mail]>, [e-mail] (Glen D)
writes:

>Might I also suggest FreeType/2 which is improved TrueType support for
>OS/2, and totally free (www.freetype.org).

And FreeType/2 even works with Warp v3!

-John ([e-mail])

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From: [e-mail]                               08-Nov-99 20:40:02
  To: All                                               09-Nov-99 03:31:28
Subj: Re: Has anyone ever got AWE64 to work with OS/2?

From: Michel Catudal <[e-mail]>

Tim Rosnau wrote:
>
> I've had no trouble at all with the AWE64 once I got it installed
> with the correct drivers and settings. Try this page for some tips.
>
> http://www.islandnet.com/~rharvey/os2/awe64os2.html#contents
>
> Hope this helps.
>

Actually the link to what I want is this

http://www.islandnet.com/~rharvey/os2/awe64os2.html#news


Thanks, it works now. Since netscape or webexplorer look like shit with
Netscape
and WebExplorer's screwed up codepage support I still find OS/2 useless for
web
access or newsgroups.


--
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C'est l'temps d'essayer Linux
http://www.netonecom.net/~bbcat/
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history, electronics and genealogy pages.

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From: [e-mail]...               08-Nov-99 23:18:02
  To: All                                               09-Nov-99 03:31:28
Subj: Attn: IBM HPFS driver guys

Message sender: [e-mail]

From: "Mike Ruskai" <[e-mail]>

After poking around HPFS for the past month or so, I came across a
discrepancy between what DosQueryFSInfo() returns for free space, and
what's indicated by the freespace bitmaps on the drive.

On drives ranging from 130MB up to 3GB, the difference is 4096 sectors.

On drives 10MB in size, the difference is 443 sectors.

These sectors are not reserved for any known HPFS structure.  They are
also not used by anything, known or otherwise (all bytes have the value
0xF6).

In all cases, the free but unreachable sectors are the last data sectors
on the drive.  That is, the last 4096 (or 443) sectors of the drive, not
counting any freespace bitmaps, which these dead sectors often span.

I haven't tested HPFS386 thus far, and I haven't personally tested the
HPFS support of WinNT 3.x (and 4.0, for people who take the time).
However, I have a piece of anecdotal "evidence", by means of someone
mentioning to me that they seem to recall NT reporting 2MB more free space
on a shared HPFS drive than OS/2 (which, of course, matches the
discrepancy on a 512-byte sector drive).

I'm not particularly concerned about WinNT, but if the story proves true,
it does present a potential for data "loss" - where WinNT stores data, but
OS/2 is unable to read it.

My primary concern is that 2MB of disk space is not usable (under OS/2),
for no apparent reason.

I'd appreciate having an APAR opened on this, or receiving an explanation
for why it's not a bug.

--
 - Mike

Remove 'spambegone.net' and reverse to send e-mail.


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From: [e-mail]                               09-Nov-99 04:08:02
  To: All                                               09-Nov-99 10:58:09
Subj: Warp 4  installation  problem

From: "Dilbert Firestorm" <[e-mail]>

hiya all
-
I have a problem installing Warp 4 CD over warp 3 fixpack 38.
-
I get an error sys0193 on a file coninst.exe
-
any suggestions on this?



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From: [e-mail]                 09-Nov-99 10:16:09
  To: All                                               09-Nov-99 10:58:09
Subj: Re: How to use more than 64MB under OS/2?

From: [e-mail]


Mike Ruskai wrote:

> If not, then you should look for a setting in your computer's CMOS setup
> saying something about OS/2 and >64MB of RAM, which you should toggle to
> YES.

At the moment this setting only affects OS/2 2.1 (same for 'Boot to OS/2').
This problem is common to most Athlon boards and most 'modern' motherboards,
it's a BIOS and OSLDR thing, and where digging this up.
Look in the comp.os.os2.setup.misc newsgroup.

If you need a fully working Athlon board fast, get the Asus K7M. Two people
(that I know of) have confirmed it is OS/2 compliant.
If you can wait, it's probably gonna be a BIOS update ( I  don't know what
the time-scale is though !)

Hang on !

Wim Wauters

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From: [e-mail]                              08-Nov-99 17:22:07
  To: All                                               09-Nov-99 10:58:09
Subj: Re: Win-OS/2 Print Manager Starts Automatically with Win-OS/2 - WHY?

From: "J. R. Fox" <[e-mail]>

James Arnold wrote:

> To stop the Win-OS/2 Print Manager forever add the following >to the
"[boot]" section of system.ini:
>
>         MAVDMAPPS=
>
>Once that is done you won't be bothered by Print Manager >again.


There was another such fix-line floating around

          WAVDMAPPS=

Do you happen to recall what that was for ?

<jf>

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From: [e-mail]                          09-Nov-99 14:06:07
  To: All                                               09-Nov-99 13:50:28
Subj: Re: Warp 4  installation  problem

From: [e-mail] (Kevin Croxen)

Yep. Back up data, reformat, and install Warp 4 in a clean
partition. Trying to do an upgrade install of Warp 4 has
always been a very hit-and-miss affair, even from Warp
3 fixpack levels that actually existed when the GA Warp 4
CD was pressed back in Oct. '96.

--Kevin



On Tue, 09 Nov 99 04:08:05 (cst), Dilbert Firestorm
<[e-mail]> wrote:
>hiya all
>-
>I have a problem installing Warp 4 CD over warp 3 fixpack 38.
>-
>I get an error sys0193 on a file coninst.exe
>-
>any suggestions on this?
>
>
>
>Origin: Nuclear Wasteland * 504-394-0509
>
>

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From: [e-mail]                                  09-Nov-99 09:11:00
  To: All                                               09-Nov-99 13:50:28
Subj: OS/2 Warp 3 and fixpak problem

From: "Bob Dehn" <[e-mail]>

I installed fixpak 32 on a Warp 3 system and get a workplace shell error
when it comes up. I backed out the fixpak and things are OK again. I chose
this fixpak because I need to get 10 systems Y2K complaint and have had
problems with fixpak 40 in the past. Any suggestions would be greatly
appreciated!

Bob Dehn
[e-mail]


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From: [e-mail]                             09-Nov-99 09:37:24
  To: All                                               09-Nov-99 13:50:28
Subj: Re: Some W.S. e-Business fixes

From: "Scott E. Garfinkle" <[e-mail]>

On Mon, 08 Nov 1999 23:33:44 GMT, Lorne Sunley wrote:

>The only thing is, the Aureal Vortex 1 sound card drivers
>still trap when the desktop starts up. The next time I feel
>like trashing the system I'll let the drivers load and post
>the trap. (BTW - this is with the ASP4VDD.SYS driver
>commented out) The trap only occurs when the ASP4OS2.SYS
>driver is loaded. The drivers work with Warp 4, of course.
Don't bother posting the registers unless you also get a standalone dump.
I suspect that this will be required to fix the problem. Is the "Aureal 1"
chipset the
same as the "A3D" chipset?


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From: [e-mail]                                     09-Nov-99 09:16:19
  To: All                                               09-Nov-99 13:50:28
Subj: Re: Undeleteable files with extended characters

From: [e-mail] (Mikus Grinbergs)

What I find VERY strange is that the "substitution characters"
do not work (unless the current codepage somehow 'matches' the
extended characters).  What I mean by this is that if I want
to erase 'wp root. sf', I *can* do so with 'del wp?root.?sf',
but if I want to erase 'jac·.mid', under *some* codepages I
can NOT do it with 'del jac?.mid'.

I load various (music) files off the .bin newsgroups which were
created on Amigas or Macs or whatever, and often have bizarre
characters in the filenames (for example, if the filenames
contain embedded commas I *do* have to substitute ? or * in
referencing those files under OS/2).

mikus

On Sun, 07 Nov 1999 22:07:03 +0100 Henk kelder <[e-mail]>
wrote:
> Did you tell what filesystem you're running on?
>
> If your config.sys hasn't changed then you probably only have 2
> available codepages.
>
> try switching to the other page and then try to delete them.
> Look in your config.sys for a line like:
>
> CODEPAGE=437,850
>
> Actual number might be different. Type CHCP<enter> in a OS/2 session. It
> will show the active codepage. Then try switching to the other number as
> specified in your config.sys.
> In the example above 437 would be the default. 850 is the 'other' CP. So
> to switch to the other CP type:
>
> CHCP 850<enter>
>
> Then try to delete the files.
>
> Henk
>

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From: [e-mail]                           09-Nov-99 16:19:01
  To: All                                               09-Nov-99 13:50:28
Subj: Re: Some W.S. e-Business fixes

From: [e-mail] (Lorne Sunley)

On Tue, 9 Nov 1999 15:37:48, "Scott E. Garfinkle"
<[e-mail]> wrote:

> On Mon, 08 Nov 1999 23:33:44 GMT, Lorne Sunley wrote:
>
> >The only thing is, the Aureal Vortex 1 sound card drivers
> >still trap when the desktop starts up. The next time I feel
> >like trashing the system I'll let the drivers load and post
> >the trap. (BTW - this is with the ASP4VDD.SYS driver
> >commented out) The trap only occurs when the ASP4OS2.SYS
> >driver is loaded. The drivers work with Warp 4, of course.
> Don't bother posting the registers unless you also get a standalone dump.
> I suspect that this will be required to fix the problem. Is the "Aureal 1"
> chipset the
> same as the "A3D" chipset?
>

OK I'll do a standalone dump.

The drivers are for the Aureal AU8820 chipset. They
are available through the www.aureal.com website.
The website refers to them as the Vortex 1.

I think it's one of the A3D chipsets, there is also
an AU8830 chipset, but there are no OS/2 drivers
for that one.

Lorne Sunley

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From: [e-mail]                                  08-Nov-99 13:51:14
  To: All                                               09-Nov-99 14:42:23
Subj: HP LaserJet 1100 quirks

From: [e-mail] (Chris Hall)

I needed to replace a dead Brother HL-630 so I got an HP LJ 1100. I have
it mostly working but with 2 odd behaviours. The problems occur either with
the HP or IBM drivers (www.hp.com or device driver pak online). First, any
printing from Win-OS2 will be held up until the printer can be "woken up"
somehow. By this, I mean that the printer starts out a Win-OS2 offline and
I need to do something to get it to accept characters. The 2 ways I've found
to
do this is 1) press the "Go" button, which prints a test page, after which the
printer accepts information 2) remove all paper (changing the paper status
light)
after which the printer accepts information. Once printing can be established
in a Win-OS2 session, it is OK until that session ends. A new session causes
the same problem. DOS printing does not have this problem. I am using the
win 3.1 print driver from the printer's CD. Installation was fine, and I did
install
when ibmnull was the default OS2 driver.

The second strange thing has to do with printing from Adobe Acrobat. About
60-70% of all times roman characters are corrupt (mostly white on black, but
also distorted). The same doc prints fine in GhostView, and all other OS2
printing
is fine (Describe, Wordpro).

If anyone has a lead on either of these problems let me know. Thanks.

Chris Hall  ([e-mail])
Dept. of Geological Sciences, U. of Michigan
"They use Microsoft Excel to plot their data. Sometimes they get the results
they expect, sometimes they don't."   from Microsoft TV commercial, 1999.


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From: [e-mail]                          08-Nov-99 14:14:08
  To: All                                               09-Nov-99 14:42:23
Subj: Re: Undeleteable files with extended characters

From: [e-mail] (Kevin Croxen)

Forgive the caveman approach, but since this error arose after a full restore
from tape, why can't the drive simply be reformatted and this time have a
sightly-less-than-full restore from tape? Omitting the directory with the
junk filenames?

--Kevin



On Sun, 07 Nov 1999 07:05:17 GMT, Stephen Eickhof
f (remove the - to reply) <[e-mail]> wrote:
>This is a multi-part message in MIME format.
>--------------94B18C6204BC60BAFBDF17A3
>Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
>Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
>
>Well, I did find the file using the Gammatech Utilities' secotr editor, but I
>admit I don't know where to make the changes. Besides, it won't let me do it
>since the drive is my boot drive, and is therefore locked. Seems like a
pretty
>huge bug to me. I'm not sure that changing the codepage like other suggested
>will work either. I tried simply doing a copy of the filename from dir and
>pasting it into del, but it just pretended to delete the file as usual.
>
>Mike Ruskai wrote:
>>
>> On Sat, 06 Nov 1999 23:27:18 GMT, Stephen Eickhoff (remove the - to reply)
>> wrote:
>>
>> >I tried using wildcards, like catal?.bat, *.bat, *.*, etc.
>> >I don't know what codepage was used to create them. They came from a game
>> >called Drilling Billy.
>>
>> Something you might try is loading up a sector editor, and looking for the
>> FNodes for those files (obviously, a sector editor with a text search
>> facility is needed).
>>
>> Overwrite the FNodes with anything, then run CHKDSK /F on the drive.
>>
>> That should prompt it to remove the directory entries, and free up the
>> space taken by the files.
>>
>> --
>>  - Mike
>>
>> Remove 'spambegone' and reverse to send e-mail.
>
>--
>----------------------------------
>         Stephen Eickhoff
>          Havertown, PA
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>
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>tel;work:610-341-8571
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From: [e-mail]                             08-Nov-99 09:50:26
  To: All                                               09-Nov-99 14:42:23
Subj: Some W.S. e-Business fixes

From: "Scott E. Garfinkle" <[e-mail]>

I've put a couple of ***test*** fixes out on our temporary FTP site --
ftp://testcase.boulder.ibm.com/ps/fromibm/os2 .   These are VERY new fixes,
and have not been through our system test. My personal opinion is that
they're stabl, but YOU HAVE BEEN WARDED.  You can get jfstest2.zip, which
contains the latest jfs.ifs and ujfs.dll. This fixes numerous hang and trap
problems related to jfs, including some chkdsk issues.  You can also get
aurorafx.zip, which contains new os2krnl and doscall1.dll files for both uni
and smp installations. The kernel/doscall1 files fix numerous other strange
problems like hangs, traps, inability to put swapper.dat on a JFS drive, etc.

Anyway, for those of you who want to wait for more testing, that's probably a
good idea. I put these out for those of you who are either adventurous or
desperate.

Once these files expire in a couple days, PLEASE don't ask for me to send
them to you again.
    -scott


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From: [e-mail]                     08-Nov-99 16:23:05
  To: All                                               09-Nov-99 14:42:23
Subj: Re: True Type Fonts in Warp 4?  HOW???

From: [e-mail] (Glen D)

Might I also suggest FreeType/2 which is improved TrueType support for
OS/2, and totally free (www.freetype.org).


Glen D
-<remove Z from my e-mail address>-


On Mon, 08 Nov 1999 19:41:34 +1000, "Christopher E. Souter"
<[e-mail]> wrote:

>Hi, everyone!
>
>Thank you for such quick replies!
>
>Your help is greatly appreciated!
>
>Best regards
>Chris Souter
>(Australia)
>[e-mail]
>
>
>Shane Baker wrote:
>>
>> On Mon, 08 Nov 1999 14:19:39 +1000, Christopher E. Souter wrote:
>>
>> >I recently upgraded from Warp 3 to Warp 4.
>> >
>> >One reason why I did this is because I understood that,
>> >among other things, Warp 4 is supposed to support True
>> >Type fonts.
>> >
>> >However, I have searched all the online documentation
>> >and I just can't find any reference to True Type fonts
>> >anywhere.
>> >
>> >So, how do you install them?  Is it through the Font
>> >Palette?  Where do you find the True Type Fonts in a
>> >standard Warp 4 system?  How do you get the Font
>> >Palette to recognise them?
>>
>> Font Pallette -> Edit Font -> Add  ..... and then select the fonts from the
>> source.
>>
>> Regards
>>
>> Shane Baker
>> Canberra - Australia's national capital
>> _____________________________
>> sbakerATpcug.org.au - please make the obvious change when replying
>> Australian Pets newsgroup - aus.pets  <<>>  Australian Dogs Page -
http://www.pcug.org.au/~sbaker/dogs.htm

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From: [e-mail]                           08-Nov-99 16:41:07
  To: All                                               09-Nov-99 14:42:23
Subj: Re: Some W.S. e-Business fixes

From: [e-mail] (Lorne Sunley)

On Mon, 8 Nov 1999 15:50:52, "Scott E. Garfinkle"
<[e-mail]> wrote:

> I've put a couple of ***test*** fixes out on our temporary FTP site --
> ftp://testcase.boulder.ibm.com/ps/fromibm/os2 .   These are VERY new fixes,
> and have not been through our system test. My personal opinion is that
> they're stabl, but YOU HAVE BEEN WARDED.  You can get jfstest2.zip, which
> contains the latest jfs.ifs and ujfs.dll. This fixes numerous hang and trap
> problems related to jfs, including some chkdsk issues.  You can also get
> aurorafx.zip, which contains new os2krnl and doscall1.dll files for both uni
> and smp installations. The kernel/doscall1 files fix numerous other strange
> problems like hangs, traps, inability to put swapper.dat on a JFS drive,
etc.
>
> Anyway, for those of you who want to wait for more testing, that's probably
a
> good idea. I put these out for those of you who are either adventurous or
> desperate.
>
> Once these files expire in a couple days, PLEASE don't ask for me to send
> them to you again.
>     -scott

WARNING - read and understood.

I'll post how they work out.....

Is it necessary to change the os2krnl and doscall1 files
that are in the \os2\install\smp directories or is changing
the hidden root directory os2krnl and \os2\dll\doscall1.dll
all that is required...

Lorne Sunley

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From: [e-mail]                                      09-Nov-99 13:17:04
  To: All                                               09-Nov-99 16:00:00
Subj: OS/2 & >64 MB Detection on new boards

From: "Frank Field" <[e-mail]>

I got this message from Gigabyte when I was trying
to figure out why my new Athlon board wouldn't
address more than 64 megs of RAM.  It points to a
problem between OS/2 internals and the emerging
hardware "standards."  Anyone got any thoughts about
how to point this out to IBM?

=======

Dear Sir,

I'm responding to your FAX about BIOS problems sizing memory
above 64MB with OS/2.

OS/2 and Windows NT/9x use different BIOS calls to determine
how much memory is available.  OS/2 uses INT 15h,AX=E801h
while Windows uses INT 15h,AX=E820h.

Look here, http://www.ctyme.com/intr/int.htm
<http://www.ctyme.com/intr/int.htm>  to see the details.

Award has had support for the E801 call since late in 1995.
Recently, though, this support was made conditional on ACPI
in order to pass an Intel "Component Validation Test".  In other
words a BIOS with ACPI support could not have E801 support.
Very recently (October), this code was refined to allow the
E801 support to be included even if ACPI is supported.

In summary, your BIOS doesn't have support for the runtime
call OS/2 needs to correctly determine how much memory
above 64MB is available.  It is possible that a BIOS upgrade
from Gigabyte might fix this.

I hope this clarifies what is happening for you, and regret that
we can't make the BIOS support OS/2.

=======


Frank Field
[e-mail]
O-


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From: [e-mail]                             09-Nov-99 10:39:24
  To: All                                               09-Nov-99 16:00:00
Subj: IBM1S506.ADD Driver

From: "David T. Johnson" <[e-mail]>

I attempted to use the July, 1999 version of the IBM1S506.ADD driver to
install OS/2 v4 on an ASUS Athlon K7M motherboard.  It would not work.
The system did not lock up but each install screen would display for
perhaps 5 minutes after a key was pressed before the next screen would
appear.  I was able to do a successful install by using the 10/31/99
version of (non-IBM) DANIS506.ADD driver and renaming it to be
"IBM1S506.ADD" on the install disk.

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From: [e-mail]                             09-Nov-99 10:44:07
  To: All                                               09-Nov-99 16:00:00
Subj: Re: How to use more than 64MB under OS/2?

From: "David T. Johnson" <[e-mail]>


"Graham C. Norris" wrote:
>
> I've you are using an Athlon this is a known problem with no known
> solution. There's plenty more posts like this in the OS/2 newsgroups, I
> suggest you join one of the existing threads.
>
I installed OS/2 v4 on an Athlon ASUS K7M motherboard with 128 MB and
OS/2 found all 128 MB of the memory.  The K7M BIOS had a 'Boot to OS/2
Memory > 64 MB' option but it did not matter if this was enabled or
disabled, OS/2 still found all 128 MB of memory.  As far as I know, the
ASUS K7M motherboard is the only Athlon board which uses a RAM query
supported by OS/2 v4.

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From: [e-mail]                               09-Nov-99 13:48:04
  To: All                                               09-Nov-99 20:25:14
Subj: Re: Backing out FP12

From: Irv Spalten <[e-mail]>

This mystery gets DEEPER all the time.

First, you NEED a C: drive that when OS/2 boots, it calls C:. This can
ONLY be accomplished by using BOOT MANAGER, and when Boot Manager is
installed, it must be known as C:. That means the drive was created via
Boot Manager as a PRIMARY.

I figured this out by installing and using Partition Magic and NT on an
EXISTING C: that was OS/2. When we installed NT to the old OS/2 C: (we
had OS/2 on D: and E: as well), we were able to test out NT. What we had
was NO C: under OS/2. AFTER I messed around with Partition Magic, and
used IT to format the existing C: at FAT32 and to knock off the old C:
in Boot Manager so that wasn't a selection, we hit a wall, D: became C:
and E: became D:. I had to use BOOT MANAGER to delete the FAT32 and
redefine the partition as a primary again.

I guess I could now go back and format just the C: as FAT 32. The part I
can't understand is if I add that to the Boot Manager via PM at least,
it appears I'll be in the same boat (PM 4.0 Pro used) again, a visible
C: that gets ignored and the drives that are recognized moved down one
letter again? How can I recreate the scenario that is REAL? I suspect I
need OS/2's Boot Manager, not PM's.

Still laboring over this, but I beleive that the need for a C: is no
longer needed. We 'fixed' this by accident when we allowed for a non
writeable CD under WSeB.

It still doesn't fix a broken/stopped install of a FP when the next boot
inserts a readable C: via Boot Manager. We know how to fix this, but are
wondering if we'll now find FIXSTART.xxx on other drives for people.

Irv

[e-mail] wrote:
>
> In <[e-mail]>, Irv Spalten <[e-mail]> writes:
>
> >We have NT and PM, not a problem.
> >
> >Discovered that the C: drive requirement of it being readable is NO
> >LONGER a problem. Prior fix we believe for WSeB (that can have a C: CD
> >drive) fixes this. The C: from NT comes back as UNKNOWN, and therefore
> >we do not look at it. We then use the first 'real' drive letter we find
> >for the CSF_SEL and FIXSTART file.
> >
> >We'll be removing the READ.ME entry about a small C: being needed.
> >
> >Irv
> >
>
> ha ! it DID work ! just takes an idiot who ignores instructions to discover
. .
> we appreciate the work you do in documentation - it's a thankless task,
> but I've noticed the readme's have been getting more accurate - so, thank
> you ! ( now if you could just convince the guys who make the fixes to
> write them down, your job could be easier also !)
>
> current situation is that the first partition that os/2 can write to will
get
> the csf_sel and fixstart files ? wonder if you could set that to a user-
> chosen drive so that unforeseen occurrences didn't ? Now that so many
> have multiple partitions and multiple os'es . . .
>
> --
> h rad  ngravv d

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From: [e-mail]                                      09-Nov-99 15:42:25
  To: All                                               09-Nov-99 20:25:14
Subj: Re: OS/2 & >64 MB Detection on new boards

From: "Frank Field" <[e-mail]>

Small correction: that e-mail missive was from Phoenix
Technologies, not Gigabyte.  The following message
came over the transom:

================

Please feel free to use my E-mail.  I guess I wasn't
clear about this, but I work in Engineering Support
(i.e. Technical Support) at Phoenix.  Phoenix and Award
merged some time ago.  I have access to the Award codebase,
so the information I gave you is based on reading the BIOS
source code.

================



Frank Field
[e-mail]
O-


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From: [e-mail]                           09-Nov-99 21:01:04
  To: All                                               09-Nov-99 20:25:15
Subj: RSU and FSERVICE Hang

From: Matt Hickman <[e-mail]>

When installing Fixpack 12 on my Warp v4 Thinkpad 760CD, the RSU
process gets to the point of completing the download, unzipping the
files, starting a REXX cmd file in \os2\install and starting an
fservice session.  At this point, it seems to be looping or hanging.

The Rexx cmd file window is diplaying an message, unable to start
a process in the foreground.  The FSERVICE full screen is blank.  If
I kill and restart the Rexx script, I still get the error message and
another fservice process starts.

Any ideas about what is going on, how to fix it, or how to
restart the RSU process without another 4 hr download?

Thanks.

--
Matt Hickman
I don't even see how a four-dimensional coffee cup
could even hold coffee, much less a whole galaxy.
              - Robert A. Heinlein (1907-1988)


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From: [e-mail]                 09-Nov-99 17:40:10
  To: All                                               09-Nov-99 20:25:15
Subj: Correction

From: [e-mail]


[e-mail] wrote:

> This problem is common to most Athlon boards and most 'modern' motherboards,
> it's a BIOS and OSLDR thing, and where digging this up.
> Look in the comp.os.os2.setup.misc newsgroup.

AND in comp.os.os2.misc, look for Frank Field.

> Hang on !
>
> Wim Wauters

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From: [e-mail]                       09-Nov-99 22:40:27
  To: All                                               09-Nov-99 20:25:15
Subj: Re: Undeleteable files with extended characters

From: Henk kelder <[e-mail]>

Mikus Grinbergs wrote:
>
> What I find VERY strange is that the "substitution characters"
> do not work (unless the current codepage somehow 'matches' the
> extended characters).  What I mean by this is that if I want
> to erase 'wp root. sf', I *can* do so with 'del wp?root.?sf',
> but if I want to erase 'jacú.mid', under *some* codepages I
> can NOT do it with 'del jac?.mid'.
>
> I load various (music) files off the .bin newsgroups which were
> created on Amigas or Macs or whatever, and often have bizarre
> characters in the filenames (for example, if the filenames
> contain embedded commas I *do* have to substitute ? or * in
> referencing those files under OS/2).
>
I've seen *exactly* the same on HPFS if I create a file using one
codepage with an extended char and then switch to another codepage where
the extended char isn't defined. OS/2 keeps telling me it cannot find
the file, although the directory entry shows it (although the name is
incorrect).

Henk

> mikus
>
> On Sun, 07 Nov 1999 22:07:03 +0100 Henk kelder <[e-mail]>
wrote:
> > Did you tell what filesystem you're running on?
> >
> > If your config.sys hasn't changed then you probably only have 2
> > available codepages.
> >
> > try switching to the other page and then try to delete them.
> > Look in your config.sys for a line like:
> >
> > CODEPAGE=437,850
> >
> > Actual number might be different. Type CHCP<enter> in a OS/2 session. It
> > will show the active codepage. Then try switching to the other number as
> > specified in your config.sys.
> > In the example above 437 would be the default. 850 is the 'other' CP. So
> > to switch to the other CP type:
> >
> > CHCP 850<enter>
> >
> > Then try to delete the files.
> >
> > Henk
> >

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From: [e-mail]                          09-Nov-99 22:59:16
  To: All                                               09-Nov-99 20:25:15
Subj: Re: Undeleteable files with extended characters

From: [e-mail] (Ilya Zakharevich)

[A complimentary Cc of this posting was sent to Henk kelder
<[e-mail]>],
who wrote in article <[e-mail]>:
> > I load various (music) files off the .bin newsgroups which were
> > created on Amigas or Macs or whatever, and often have bizarre
> > characters in the filenames (for example, if the filenames
> > contain embedded commas I *do* have to substitute ? or * in
> > referencing those files under OS/2).
> >
> I've seen *exactly* the same on HPFS if I create a file using one
> codepage with an extended char and then switch to another codepage where
> the extended char isn't defined. OS/2 keeps telling me it cannot find
> the file, although the directory entry shows it (although the name is
> incorrect).

This is the stupidmost idea to have case-insensitive file system with
sorted directories and user-switchable codepages at work.  Lookup of
files ignores case when doing binary search, then cannot find the
file, since the ordering is different on different codepages.

Ilya

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From: [e-mail]...               09-Nov-99 18:01:23
  To: All                                               09-Nov-99 20:25:15
Subj: Re: How to use more than 64MB under OS/2?

Message sender: [e-mail]

From: "Mike Ruskai" <[e-mail]>

On Tue, 09 Nov 1999 10:16:19 +0000, [e-mail]
wrote:

>
>Mike Ruskai wrote:
>
>> If not, then you should look for a setting in your computer's CMOS setup
>> saying something about OS/2 and >64MB of RAM, which you should toggle to
>> YES.
>
>At the moment this setting only affects OS/2 2.1 (same for 'Boot to OS/2').
>This problem is common to most Athlon boards and most 'modern' motherboards,
>it's a BIOS and OSLDR thing, and where digging this up.
>Look in the comp.os.os2.setup.misc newsgroup.

The setting referred to above is also necessary for Warp 3, at least
without some fixpack level.

The problem is that the BIOS has no facility to report greater than 64MB
of RAM, so proprietary extensions are necessary.  Not everyone did the
same thing by default, hence the switch, which Warp 4 doesn't need
(because it supports all of the proprietary >64MB reporting mechanisms).


--
 - Mike

Remove 'spambegone.net' and reverse to send e-mail.


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From: [e-mail]                                    10-Nov-99 00:20:24
  To: All                                               09-Nov-99 21:17:16
Subj: Re: Has anyone ever got AWE64 to work with OS/2?

From: Bill "Wild Willy" Kredentser <[e-mail]>

In article <[e-mail]>,
  Michel Catudal <[e-mail]> wrote:
> Marko wrote:
        <<<snip>>>
> I see that you can't write accents,
> I rest my case ...
        <<<snip>>>

Je compose ce message en Netscape chez DΘjα News.
Est-ce que tu peux voir les accents dans le mot DΘjα?
Ils parraissent comme il faut ici.  Moi, je m'en sert
du WARP 4 amΘricain, FP12, C/2 4.61, Java
1.1.8+changements de 1999/11/6, clavecin (le mot pour
"keyboard?") amΘricain, et ces lignes en CONFIG.SYS:
COUNTRY=001,F:\OS2\SYSTEM\COUNTRY.SYS
CODEPAGE=437,850

Quel est le mot franτais pour CONFIG.SYS?  <:-))

J'ai fait des expΘriences d'Θchanger le 437 & 850
mais j'ai vu des problΦmes.  Quels problΦmes?
J'oublie.  ╟a fait trop longtemps depuis que je l'ai
fait.  Je me souviens seulement que j'ai vu des
problΦmes.  Je vois aucun problΦme maintenant, alors
je vais le laisser comme τa.  Oui, je sais que 437
est trΦs vieux, mais τa marche quand mΩme.

Pas mal pour un maudit anglais, ancien MontrΘalais,
non?

WW
Team OS/2 Cincinnati & PROUD OF IT!
Pourquoi les Habs ne comptent pas assez de buts?
O∙ est Yvan Cournoyer en notre heure de besoin le
plus grand?


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From: james.arnold@!!!usa.net                           10-Nov-99 02:08:10
  To: All                                               10-Nov-99 05:30:17
Subj: Re: Win-OS/2 Print Manager Starts Automatically with Win-OS/2 - WHY?

From: james.arnold@!!!usa.net

In <[e-mail]>, "J. R. Fox" <[e-mail]> writes:
>James Arnold wrote:
>
>> To stop the Win-OS/2 Print Manager forever add the following >to the
"[boot]" section of system.ini:
>>
>>         MAVDMAPPS=
>>
>>Once that is done you won't be bothered by Print Manager >again.
>
>
>There was another such fix-line floating around
>
>          WAVDMAPPS=
>
>Do you happen to recall what that was for ?
>
><jf>
>

        I cann't remember what that last line was for, although I too have
it in system.ini.

        Jim


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From: [e-mail]                              10-Nov-99 06:03:08
  To: All                                               10-Nov-99 05:30:18
Subj: Re: Undeleteable files with extended characters

From: James Moe <[e-mail]>


"Stephen Eickhoff (remove the - to reply)" wrote:
>
> After a hard disk crash, I did a full restore from backup. Now I can't apply
> fixpacks, run a backup
> or even open a folder from the desktop because the process will hang. There
> are three files
> with extended ASCII characters in them:
>
> Directory of E:\programs\games\billy
>
> 11-01-99  12:10a     <DIR>           0  .
> 10-31-99   6:19p     <DIR>           0  ..
>  8-21-97   4:54p        25           0  català.bat
>  8-21-97   4:54p        27           0  f╜royskt.bat
>  8-21-97   4:54p        25           0  româna.bat
>         5 file(s)         77 bytes used
>                    6012416 K bytes free
>
> [ ... ]

    Have you tried using a program like DELTREE or BLOWOFF? These are
recursive directory removal programs. BLOWOFF is especially eager to
eradicate whatever you point it at. There is also a little ditty called
BLACKHOLE that is the WPS version of BLOWOFF; drag-n-drop whatever onto
it and Poof! gone. Usually; not always effective. BLOWOFF is the most
effective I've found.
    Another thing to try is to Drag-and-Drop the files to a floppy. The
WPS seems to use a different approach to accessing files than the
command line does. Then, of course, you can format the floppy to expunge
the files.


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From: [e-mail]                          10-Nov-99 12:45:13
  To: All                                               10-Nov-99 10:29:14
Subj: Warp and USB mouse, keyboard

From: jean michel <[e-mail]>

Hello,
I have 2 USB ports, and I connect a keyboard and a mouse USB, I install
USb basic, USB keyb USB mouse and ibmkeyb usb. The mouse is OK, but
keyboard don't work properly, sometimes the keys don't work, sometimes,
the same key repeat two, three four times !
Can every body help me ?
Sorry for my poor english, I am French...
Than you
Jean Michel

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From: [e-mail]                          10-Nov-99 12:14:03
  To: All                                               10-Nov-99 10:29:14
Subj: Re: True Type Fonts in Warp 4?  HOW???

From: [e-mail] (Buddy Donnelly)

On Mon, 8 Nov 1999 05:55:39, "Shane Baker" <[e-mail]> a ┌crit
dans un message:

> On Mon, 08 Nov 1999 14:19:39 +1000, Christopher E. Souter wrote:
>
> >I recently upgraded from Warp 3 to Warp 4.
> >
> >One reason why I did this is because I understood that,
> >among other things, Warp 4 is supposed to support True
> >Type fonts.
> >
> >However, I have searched all the online documentation
> >and I just can't find any reference to True Type fonts
> >anywhere.
> >
> >So, how do you install them?  Is it through the Font
> >Palette?  Where do you find the True Type Fonts in a
> >standard Warp 4 system?  How do you get the Font
> >Palette to recognise them?
>
> Font Pallette -> Edit Font -> Add  ..... and then select the fonts from the
> source.

Or use Cliff Cullum's FontFolder utility, which provides excellent font
management for OS/2. World-class font management, in fact.

It's shareware, so you can test it, and it's available online at:

    http://www.pvsoft.com/


--

Good luck,

Buddy

Buddy Donnelly
[e-mail]


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From: christian.hennecke@ruhr-uni-boch...               10-Nov-99 20:47:20
  To: All                                               10-Nov-99 16:37:18
Subj: Re: How to use more than 64MB under OS/2?

Message sender: [e-mail]

From: Christian Hennecke <[e-mail]>

Mike Ruskai schrieb:
>
> On Tue, 09 Nov 1999 10:16:19 +0000, [e-mail]
> wrote:
>
> >
> >Mike Ruskai wrote:
> >
> >> If not, then you should look for a setting in your computer's CMOS setup
> >> saying something about OS/2 and >64MB of RAM, which you should toggle to
> >> YES.
> >
> >At the moment this setting only affects OS/2 2.1 (same for 'Boot to OS/2').
> >This problem is common to most Athlon boards and most 'modern'
motherboards,
> >it's a BIOS and OSLDR thing, and where digging this up.
> >Look in the comp.os.os2.setup.misc newsgroup.
>
> The setting referred to above is also necessary for Warp 3, at least
> without some fixpack level.
>
> The problem is that the BIOS has no facility to report greater than 64MB
> of RAM, so proprietary extensions are necessary.  Not everyone did the
> same thing by default, hence the switch, which Warp 4 doesn't need
> (because it supports all of the proprietary >64MB reporting mechanisms).

I am sorry to have to correct you. Here on my Warp 4 system the 128MB of
RAM are recognized with either BIOS setting, but the memory performance
is much better with the special OS/2 setting turned on according to
Sysbench. So the setting _does_ matter.

Christian Hennecke
--
Keep passing the open windows! ("The Hotel New Hampshire", John Irving)

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From: [e-mail]                                  10-Nov-99 15:33:00
  To: All                                               10-Nov-99 20:03:07
Subj: Please HELP! Folder Class Object Problem with Warp4 - prize for anyone

From: Dave <[e-mail]>

Hello everyone!  Warp rules!

Anyway, here's the situation.  I installed InetPowerServer at one point,
didn't like it, and uninstalled.  Unfortunately, somewhere during this
time, IPS's folder classes borked or something and ALL my folders on my
system no longer have a "default view".  So in order to open a folder, I
must right click it, click the open ARROW, then click icon view...
double clicking doesnt work now!

Has anyone ever had this problem or know of a fix? (besides reinstall
OS/2) - would recreating os2.ini and os2sys.ini fix the problem?

For anyone who can help me through this, I will give you 50+ MB web/ftp
space on my T1 server.

THANKS!
-Dave
[e-mail]
http://warpedcow.tsx.org
Warpedcow on EFNET #os2warez

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From: [e-mail]                               10-Nov-99 23:43:12
  To: All                                               10-Nov-99 21:35:27
Subj: Re: DoVolIO Error

From: Frank Stolpmann <[e-mail]>


>
> On Sat, 6 Nov 1999 10:27:35 GMT, Frank Stolpmann wrote:
>
> ->in the last few days my system hung several times due to an internal
> ->processing error:
> ->
> ->WtHF: DoVolIO Error
>
> Cut and paste your IFS=HPFS.IFS line into a post here.
>
>
> Trevor Hemsley, London, UK
> ([e-mail] or [e-mail])
>

Here is ts:

IFS=F:\OS2\HPFS.IFS /CACHE:2048 /CRECL:4 /AUTOCHECK:FIGJK




Bye.

Frank Stolpmann
[e-mail]
http://home.knuut.de/FStolpmann
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From: christian.hennecke@ruhr-uni-boch...               11-Nov-99 00:51:11
  To: All                                               10-Nov-99 21:35:27
Subj: Re: Please HELP! Folder Class Object Problem with Warp4 - prize for

Message sender: [e-mail]

From: Christian Hennecke <[e-mail]>

Dave schrieb:
>
> Hello everyone!  Warp rules!
>
> Anyway, here's the situation.  I installed InetPowerServer at one point,
> didn't like it, and uninstalled.  Unfortunately, somewhere during this
> time, IPS's folder classes borked or something and ALL my folders on my
> system no longer have a "default view".  So in order to open a folder, I
> must right click it, click the open ARROW, then click icon view...
> double clicking doesnt work now!
>
> Has anyone ever had this problem or know of a fix? (besides reinstall
> OS/2) - would recreating os2.ini and os2sys.ini fix the problem?

Maybe. Do you have a recent backup of these files?
If not you may try a REXX script that goes recursively through the trees
and sets the appropriate settings for the folders. On Hobbes is a
package called RECURSE.ZIP (in /pub/os2/util/wps) that can change lots
of settings for a folder and its subfolder by dragging the top folder
onto a special object. Otherwise you may try the following REXX together
with the RECURSE command from CmdPak (a free CMD.EXE extension) or a
similar shell command that recursively executes commands:

call RxFuncAdd 'SysLoadFuncs', 'RexxUtil', 'SysLoadFuncs'
call SysLoadFuncs

call SysSetObjectData directory(), 'DEFAULTVIEW=ICON';

Another possibility _may_ be to change the system default folder view to
something other than the current, reboot, change it back to what you
want and reboot again.

Good luck!

Christian Hennecke
--
Keep passing the open windows! ("The Hotel New Hampshire", John Irving)

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From: [e-mail]                             10-Nov-99 23:44:29
  To: All                                               10-Nov-99 21:35:27
Subj: Re: How to use more than 64MB under OS/2?

From: Fyodor Dudnik <[e-mail]>

╛j∙Æⁿ≤╧â wrote:
>
> I wanted to use 256MB memory under OS/2,
> the system reported 256MB during boot up,
> but only 64MB was report under the OS/2 system.
> What should I set to make in my OS/2 system so
> that it might report 256MB of system memory?
>
> Thanks for your help!
>
> Kin

I use now 384Mb RAM - not have any problems... :(
I think you need to correct your's BIOS settings,
for example switch-> "more 64MB use under OS/2" -> Enable

--
Best regards, Fyodor Dudnik

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From: [e-mail]                          11-Nov-99 00:25:20
  To: All                                               10-Nov-99 21:35:27
Subj: Re: Please HELP! Folder Class Object Problem with Warp4 - prize for any

From: [e-mail] (Andrew Stephenson)

In article <[e-mail]> [e-mail] "Dave"
exulted:

> Hello everyone!  Warp rules!

That's okay then.  You may live.  <g?>

> Anyway, here's the situation.  [...]  ALL my folders on my
> system no longer have a "default view".  [...]

Have you been into
  "OS/2 System"|"System Setp"|"System"|"Window (page 3 of 3)"
yet?
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From: [e-mail]                               10-Nov-99 19:04:04
  To: All                                               10-Nov-99 21:35:27
Subj: Re: Has anyone ever got AWE64 to work with OS/2?

From: Michel Catudal <[e-mail]>

Bill Wild Willy Kredentser wrote:
>
> In article <[e-mail]>,
>   Michel Catudal <[e-mail]> wrote:
> > Marko wrote:
>         <<<snip>>>
> > I see that you can't write accents,
> > I rest my case ...
>         <<<snip>>>
>
> Je compose ce message en Netscape chez Déjà News.
> Est-ce que tu peux voir les accents dans le mot Déjà?
> Ils parraissent comme il faut ici.  Moi, je m'en sert
> du WARP 4 américain, FP12, C/2 4.61, Java
> 1.1.8+changements de 1999/11/6, clavecin (le mot pour
> "keyboard?") américain, et ces lignes en CONFIG.SYS:
> COUNTRY=001,F:\OS2\SYSTEM\COUNTRY.SYS
> CODEPAGE=437,850
>

Tes pitons sont en Français ou en un certain dialecte Grec?

> Quel est le mot français pour CONFIG.SYS?  <:-))
>
> J'ai fait des expériences d'échanger le 437 & 850
> mais j'ai vu des problèmes.  Quels problèmes?
> J'oublie.  Ça fait trop longtemps depuis que je l'ai
> fait.  Je me souviens seulement que j'ai vu des
> problèmes.  Je vois aucun problème maintenant, alors
> je vais le laisser comme ça.  Oui, je sais que 437
> est très vieux, mais ça marche quand même.
>

Avec le clavier Canadien Français et pays Canada je n'ai que le choix entre
863 et 850.
Je vais essayer avec le pays USA pour voir si je peux avoir mon clavier
Canadien Français
et voir les charactères comme il faut. J'ai fait venir un clavier du Québec
mais je
suis Américain. Le clavier US vaut pas cher pour écrire en Français ou
Espagnol.
J'aime bien mon clavier CF. J'ai aussi un clavier CA que j'ai obtenu d'un
Radio Shack
à Big Rapids, ils avaient reçu des PC en Français par erreur. Je l'aime moins
et je l'ai
donné à mon garçon qui s'en sert sur son PC. Je vais lui en commander un CF.
Ils sont
pas chers, surtout avec la faible valeur du dollar Canadien.

> Pas mal pour un maudit anglais, ancien Montréalais,
> non?
>
> WW
> Team OS/2 Cincinnati & PROUD OF IT!
> Pourquoi les Habs ne comptent pas assez de buts?
> Où est Yvan Cournoyer en notre heure de besoin le
> plus grand?
>

Ils jouent pourtant bien mais ne gagnent pas. Cela prend du botage
de cul. J'écoute quand même les parties à CKAC mais c'est chiant
de les entendre se faire battre.

--
Tanné du plantage avec Ti-Mou?
C'est l'temps d'essayer Linux
http://www.netonecom.net/~bbcat/
We have software, food, music, news, search,
history, electronics and genealogy pages.

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From: [e-mail]                               10-Nov-99 20:00:21
  To: All                                               10-Nov-99 21:35:27
Subj: Re: Please HELP! Folder Class Object Problem with Warp4 - prize for

From: Brad BARCLAY <[e-mail]>

Dave wrote:
>
> Hello everyone!  Warp rules!

    It sure does :).

> Anyway, here's the situation.  I installed InetPowerServer at one point,
> didn't like it, and uninstalled.  Unfortunately, somewhere during this
> time, IPS's folder classes borked or something and ALL my folders on my
> system no longer have a "default view".  So in order to open a folder, I
> must right click it, click the open ARROW, then click icon view...
> double clicking doesnt work now!
>
> Has anyone ever had this problem or know of a fix? (besides reinstall
> OS/2) - would recreating os2.ini and os2sys.ini fix the problem?

    I haven't seen it before, but assuming you've installed and used
Feature Installer at least once in your OS/2-using career, the following
REXX script should help to fix things up for you:

-------------------------------[cut
here]-------------------------------------
/* Quick script to build WPObjData objects.           */
/* Written by Brad BARCLAY <[e-mail]>    */
call RxFuncAdd 'SysLoadFuncs', 'RexxUtil', 'SysLoadFuncs'
call SysLoadFuncs

/***************************************************/
/* Note:  be sure to set the following variable to */
/*        a drive letter visible to OS/2.          */
/*        Normally, C:\ should be just fine.       */
/***************************************************/
dir="C:\"

/***************************************************/
/* Note:  there is no need to change these two     */
/*        variables - they are defined for         */
/*        the sake of convienence.                 */
/***************************************************/
filename="FLDRMOD.BJB"
objname="<FOLDERFIX>"

/***************************************************/
/* Note:  the following variable may be set as     */
/*        follows:                                 */
/*                                                 */
/*        ICON       -  Opens in Icon View         */
/*        TREE       -  Opens in Tree View         */
/*        DETAILS    -  Opens in Details View      */
/*        DEFAULT    -  Opens in the classes       */
/*                      default view.              */
/***************************************************/
defview="ICON"

/***************************************************/
/* Program starts here...                          */
/***************************************************/
myrc=SysRegisterObjectClass("WPObjData", "OBJDATA")
myrc=SysCreateObject("WPObjData", filename, dir, "OBJECTID="||objname)
if myrc=0 then exit    /* Couldn't create the object */

myrc=LINEOUT(dir||filename, "DEFAULTVIEW="||defview)
myrc=LINEOUT(dir||filename)

myrc=SysMoveObject(objname, "<WP_DESKTOP>")
myrc=SysSetObjectData(objname, "TITLE=Drag and Drop Folders Here!")
exit
-------------------------------[cut
here]-------------------------------------

    Copy this to a file, and modify any of the variables that might need
changing (probably none of them, but one never knows :).  Save it to a
file on your hard drive (call it whatever you want - I called it
FLDFIX.CMD), and run it.

    This script alone won't fix your problem - HOWEVER it will create an
object on your desktop where you can drag and drop all of your folders
to (one a a time or many at once) which will set their default view to
"ICON" (unless you change the 'defview' variable as explained in the
REXX script).

    If you happen to have lots and lots and lots of folders on your system,
I can whip up either another script or a C program which will do all of
them for you, but this should at least get you started in fixing some of
your more important folders, and is good if only some folders are
broken, and not others.

    The following script is much more brutal :).  It will traverse every
subdirectory (folder) on the specified drive and give it the
"DEFAULTVIEW=ICON" (or whatever you specify) attribute:

-------------------------------[cut
here]-------------------------------------
/* Quick script to traverse and modify directories.*/
/* Written by Brad BARCLAY <[e-mail]>    */
call RxFuncAdd 'SysLoadFuncs', 'RexxUtil', 'SysLoadFuncs'
call SysLoadFuncs

parse arg drive

/***************************************************/
/* Note:  the following variable may be set as     */
/*        follows:                                 */
/*                                                 */
/*        ICON       -  Opens in Icon View         */
/*        TREE       -  Opens in Tree View         */
/*        DETAILS    -  Opens in Details View      */
/*        DEFAULT    -  Opens in the classes       */
/*                      default view.              */
/***************************************************/
defview="ICON"

/***************************************************/
/* Program starts here...                          */
/***************************************************/
"@dir" drive||"\ /AD /S /F | RXQUEUE"

DO FOREVER UNTIL QUEUED()=0
   PULL dir
   say "Modifing directory: "||dir
   rc=SysSetObjectData(dir, "DEFAULTVIEW="||defview)
   if rc=0 then say "Failed!"
end /* do */
exit

-------------------------------[cut
here]-------------------------------------

    Again, copy and save it however you wish (I call it FXALLFLD.CMD).
Specify the drive letter (with colon) as the only parameter, ie:

                fxallfld c:

    If you don't specify a drive letter, it will just assume the current
drive.  Run this command once for each drive letter you have, and it
should fix everything up in one fell swoop (note hwever that every
folder is going to have the exact same default - in tihs case ICON
view.  If you had any folders which had a different icon view, you'll
have to go back and change them manually.  Note however that this
shouldn't affect drive objects at all).

> For anyone who can help me through this, I will give you 50+ MB web/ftp
> space on my T1 server.

    Thanks, but I already have 5Gb on about 90Mb of bandwidth through
yaztromo.idirect.com on a WARP Server for e-business box, but it was
nice of you to offer :).

Brad BARCLAY

=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
Posted from the OS/2 WARP v4.5 desktop of Brad BARCLAY.
E-Mail:  [e-mail]        Location:  2G43D@Torolabs

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From: [e-mail]                               10-Nov-99 20:11:12
  To: All                                               10-Nov-99 21:35:27
Subj: Re: Please HELP! Folder Class Object Problem with Warp4 - prize for

From: Brad BARCLAY <[e-mail]>

Christian Hennecke wrote:
> Otherwise you may try the following REXX together
> with the RECURSE command from CmdPak (a free CMD.EXE extension) or a
> similar shell command that recursively executes commands:

[...snip...]

    Just FYI, in case you didn't see my script in response to this users
query, in this case doing it recursively isn't going to buy you anything
but more processing and IO time to do the actual recursion.  In this
case, it would be easier to pipe the output of a DIR /AD /S /F through
RXQUEUE and PULL directories off the queue iteratively, and then run
SysSetObjectData against them.

    Best of all, with this solution you don't need any third-party tools or
utilities - RXQUEUE comes bundled with OS/2.

    Not meaning to critique your REXX capabilities - just a handy tip to
keep in mind if you didn't already know about it :)

Brad BARCLAY

=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
Posted from the OS/2 WARP v4.5 desktop of Brad BARCLAY.
E-Mail:  [e-mail]        Location:  2G43D@Torolabs

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From: [e-mail]...               10-Nov-99 20:43:17
  To: All                                               10-Nov-99 23:25:13
Subj: Re: How to use more than 64MB under OS/2?

Message sender: [e-mail]

From: "Mike Ruskai" <[e-mail]>

On Wed, 10 Nov 1999 20:47:41 +0100, Christian Hennecke wrote:

>Mike Ruskai schrieb:
>>
>> On Tue, 09 Nov 1999 10:16:19 +0000, [e-mail]
>> wrote:
>>
>> >
>> >Mike Ruskai wrote:
>> >
>> >> If not, then you should look for a setting in your computer's CMOS setup
>> >> saying something about OS/2 and >64MB of RAM, which you should toggle to
>> >> YES.
>> >
>> >At the moment this setting only affects OS/2 2.1 (same for 'Boot to
OS/2').
>> >This problem is common to most Athlon boards and most 'modern'
motherboards,
>> >it's a BIOS and OSLDR thing, and where digging this up.
>> >Look in the comp.os.os2.setup.misc newsgroup.
>>
>> The setting referred to above is also necessary for Warp 3, at least
>> without some fixpack level.
>>
>> The problem is that the BIOS has no facility to report greater than 64MB
>> of RAM, so proprietary extensions are necessary.  Not everyone did the
>> same thing by default, hence the switch, which Warp 4 doesn't need
>> (because it supports all of the proprietary >64MB reporting mechanisms).
>
>I am sorry to have to correct you. Here on my Warp 4 system the 128MB of
>RAM are recognized with either BIOS setting, but the memory performance
>is much better with the special OS/2 setting turned on according to
>Sysbench. So the setting _does_ matter.

I never mind being corrected.

I do get a bit miffed when contradicted incorrectly.

That BIOS setting affects nothing but how the amount of total system
memory is reported.  This report is done once during bootup, and never
again.  It can have no impact on memory performance, and it doesn't.  Any
difference you saw was due either to different system activity at the time
of the benchmark, or a different configuration change (such as changing a
BIOS setting to cache more than 64MB, which would have a substantial
impact on memory performance).


--
 - Mike

Remove 'spambegone.net' and reverse to send e-mail.


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From: [e-mail]                                10-Nov-99 23:16:18
  To: All                                               11-Nov-99 03:54:24
Subj: Problem printing from EPM to HP 682C printer.

From: Jim Parker <[e-mail]>

Whenever I tried to print from EPM (Warp 4 FP9) to my HP 682C printer
(Omni driver version 30.698), the last line of each page got chopped off
- only the top sliver of the line got printed.

To solve the problem I had to create, in the the printer driver
properties,  a new user defined paper size which changed the bottom clip
from 0.59 inches to 0.50 inches and then create a connection using that
paper size and then, in the printer properties,  select that connection
in the job properties.

This is obviously a bug in the Omni driver - the bottom clip for letter
size paper is incorrect. Fortunately there is this work around.

Just thought the gazillion people who use OS/2 and have HP 682 printers
and use EPM to print stuff would be dying to know this :-)

Cheers
Jim

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From: [e-mail]                            11-Nov-99 00:05:09
  To: All                                               11-Nov-99 03:54:25
Subj: Can't view JPEG files.

From: Nelson and Satasha Williams <[e-mail]>

Can anyone PLEASE tell me why I can't view JPGs anymore?  It simply
brings up the viewer box, but never shows the picture.  The only way to
kill it is to open the WINDOW LIST, select the picture, and then CLOSE.
Can anyone tell me why this phenomenon has happened?  I have to view
them in, gulp........, Windows now.  please help.

Using Warp4, FP12

Nelson


--
Note: No Microsoft programs were used in the creation or distribution of
this message. If you are using a Microsoft program to view this message,
be forewarned that I am not responsible for any harm you may encounter
as a result.


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From: [e-mail]                                11-Nov-99 00:39:01
  To: All                                               11-Nov-99 03:54:25
Subj: Re: Please HELP! Folder Class Object Problem with Warp4 - prize for

From: Jim Parker <[e-mail]>

Dave wrote:

> Hello everyone!  Warp rules!
>
> Anyway, here's the situation.  I installed InetPowerServer at one point,
> didn't like it, and uninstalled.  Unfortunately, somewhere during this
> time, IPS's folder classes borked or something and ALL my folders on my
> system no longer have a "default view".  So in order to open a folder, I
> must right click it, click the open ARROW, then click icon view...
> double clicking doesnt work now!
>
> Has anyone ever had this problem or know of a fix? (besides reinstall
> OS/2) - would recreating os2.ini and os2sys.ini fix the problem?
>
> For anyone who can help me through this, I will give you 50+ MB web/ftp
> space on my T1 server.
>
> THANKS!
> -Dave
> [e-mail]
> http://warpedcow.tsx.org
> Warpedcow on EFNET #os2warez

If the scripts offered don't help try this:

1. Right click on a folder
2. select properties
3. select menu tab
4. select "~Open as" from the "Available menus" list and press properties
5. pick your "Default Action"

If this works, repeat for all folders in your system. Yeech, there's got to
be a better way.

Jim


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From: [e-mail]                                11-Nov-99 00:46:09
  To: [e-mail]                                  11-Nov-99 03:54:25
Subj: Re: Please HELP! Folder Class Object Problem with Warp4 - prize for

To: [e-mail]
From: Jim Parker <[e-mail]>

Dave wrote:

> Hello everyone!  Warp rules!
>
> Anyway, here's the situation.  I installed InetPowerServer at one point,
> didn't like it, and uninstalled.  Unfortunately, somewhere during this
> time, IPS's folder classes borked or something and ALL my folders on my
> system no longer have a "default view".  So in order to open a folder, I
> must right click it, click the open ARROW, then click icon view...
> double clicking doesnt work now!
>
> Has anyone ever had this problem or know of a fix? (besides reinstall
> OS/2) - would recreating os2.ini and os2sys.ini fix the problem?
>
> For anyone who can help me through this, I will give you 50+ MB web/ftp
> space on my T1 server.
>
> THANKS!
> -Dave
> [e-mail]
> http://warpedcow.tsx.org
> Warpedcow on EFNET #os2warez

Yes, I think there is a better way.

Go to OS/2 System->System Setup->Window tab page 3 of 3 and select Default
Folder View of choice.

Jim



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From: [e-mail]                                11-Nov-99 00:25:09
  To: All                                               11-Nov-99 03:54:25
Subj: Re: Can't view JPEG files.

From: Jim Parker <[e-mail]>

Nelson and Satasha Williams wrote:

> Can anyone PLEASE tell me why I can't view JPGs anymore?  It simply
> brings up the viewer box, but never shows the picture.  The only way to
> kill it is to open the WINDOW LIST, select the picture, and then CLOSE.
> Can anyone tell me why this phenomenon has happened?  I have to view
> them in, gulp........, Windows now.  please help.
>
> Using Warp4, FP12
>
> Nelson
>
> --
> Note: No Microsoft programs were used in the creation or distribution of
> this message. If you are using a Microsoft program to view this message,
> be forewarned that I am not responsible for any harm you may encounter
> as a result.

You could view them in Netscape. I know this isn't the answer you're looking
for but it keeps you out of,  gulp........, Windows.

Jim


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From: [e-mail]                                    11-Nov-99 05:45:23
  To: All                                               11-Nov-99 03:54:25
Subj: Re: Has anyone ever got AWE64 to work with OS/2?

From: Bill "Wild Willy" Kredentser <[e-mail]>

In article <[e-mail]>,
  Michel Catudal <[e-mail]> wrote:
> Bill Wild Willy Kredentser wrote:
> > In article <[e-mail]>,
> >   Michel Catudal <[e-mail]> wrote:
> > > Marko wrote:
         <<<snip>>>
> Tes pitons sont en Franτais ou en un certain
dialecte Grec?

Je ne connais pas le mot "piton."  Si τa veut dire
keys on the keyboard, non, j'ai un clavier (merci
pout le mot) ordinaire amΘricain.  Je tape les
sequences spΘciales Alt+NumericKeypad.  Et τa fait
une trantaine d'annΘes depuis que j'ai ΘtudiΘ la
physique α l'Θcole; c'est la derniΦre fois que j'ai
"parlΘ" le grec.  <:-))

        <<<snip>>>
> J'Θcoute quand mΩme les parties α CKAC mais c'est
chiant
> de les entendre se faire battre.

Oui.  Je viens d'en faire la mΩme chose.  Menant 4-1
aprΦs deux pΘriodes, compte final 5-4 pour
Pittsburgh.  Chiant en hostie.  J'espΦre que CKAC ne
va jamais changer leur signal Real Audio en G2.

WW
Team OS/2 Cincinnati & PROUD OF IT!


Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
Before you buy.

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From: [e-mail]...               11-Nov-99 01:45:23
  To: All                                               11-Nov-99 03:54:25
Subj: Re: Can't view JPEG files.

Message sender: [e-mail]

From: "Mike Ruskai" <[e-mail]>

On Thu, 11 Nov 1999 00:05:19 -0500, Nelson and Satasha Williams wrote:

>Can anyone PLEASE tell me why I can't view JPGs anymore?  It simply
>brings up the viewer box, but never shows the picture.  The only way to
>kill it is to open the WINDOW LIST, select the picture, and then CLOSE.
>Can anyone tell me why this phenomenon has happened?  I have to view
>them in, gulp........, Windows now.  please help.

Can't say I know, because I don't use the built-in JPEG support.  I use
PMJPEG, one of several programs you can use for image viewing.


--
 - Mike

Remove 'spambegone.net' and reverse to send e-mail.


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From: [e-mail]                    11-Nov-99 06:47:14
  To: All                                               11-Nov-99 03:54:25
Subj: Re: Problem printing from EPM to HP 682C printer.

From: [e-mail] (John Hong)

Jim Parker ([e-mail]) wrote:
: Whenever I tried to print from EPM (Warp 4 FP9) to my HP 682C printer
: (Omni driver version 30.698), the last line of each page got chopped off
: - only the top sliver of the line got printed.

    Have you tried version 30.702?


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From: MtLavinia_nospam@nym._nospam.ali...               10-Nov-99 23:04:21
  To: All                                               11-Nov-99 10:44:23
Subj: Re: How to use more than 64MB under OS/2?

Message sender: MtLavinia_nospam@nym._nospam.alias.net

From: "Lavinia" <MtLavinia_nospam@nym._nospam.alias.net>

On Wed, 10 Nov 1999 20:43:34 -0500 (EST), Mike Ruskai wrote:

>That BIOS setting affects nothing but how the amount of total system
>memory is reported.  This report is done once during bootup, and never
>again.  It can have no impact on memory performance, and it doesn't.  Any
>difference you saw was due either to different system activity at the time
>of the benchmark, or a different configuration change (such as changing a
>BIOS setting to cache more than 64MB, which would have a substantial
>impact on memory performance).

This has been a most interesting thread.  What I want to know is....
Even though various utilities are reporting only 64M, is Warp 4 in fact
utilizing all 128MB of installed ram?  I don't have the bios switch for
< 64M.

Thanks, L.


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From: [e-mail]                            11-Nov-99 09:41:27
  To: All                                               11-Nov-99 10:44:23
Subj: Comm/2 keeps bringing down my system.

From: Steve Drewell <[e-mail]>

My Warp 4 machine won't stay up for much more than a few days before it
dies and the longest it's ever been up before crashing is 9 days. Most of
the time it's just sitting there running the RC5DES client but it gets
"proper" use during the evenings and weekends.

Whenever it crashes, it seems more than coincidental that Comm/2 4.61 is
running. Last night, after 4 days, it died and Process Commander showed
that netscape.exe was trying to exit and so was the first instance of
pmshell. Nothing could be done except reboot.

Because I'm just a home user, it's not critical but it is annoying. I
often hear people say that their machines have been up for weeks or months
but why my machine won't stay up is beyond me. Maybe if I didn't run
Comm/2 I'd not have a crash but that's not not really an option as there
is no viable alternative to Comm/2.

So, am I barking up the wrong tree? Is Comm/2 to blame or not? Has anyone
else who keeps their machine running constantly had reason to suspect that
Comm/2 brings down their machine?

Any advice will be appreciated.

Cheers,
Steve

Western Geophysical, Bedford, UK
Tel: [phone]
Fax: [phone]


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From: [e-mail]                           11-Nov-99 13:45:00
  To: All                                               11-Nov-99 10:44:23
Subj: Re: Comm/2 keeps bringing down my system.

From: "Ivan Adzhubei" <[e-mail]>

In <[e-mail]>, on 11/11/99
   at 09:41 AM, Steve Drewell <[e-mail]> said:

At which fixpak level your Warp 4 system is? I am having severe problems
with FP12 here, with Comm 4.61 being pretty unusable since applying FP12
due to memory leak in pmmerge.dll (confirmed by people from IBM).
Unofficial pmr00052 fix improves the situation a bit, but I still having
occasional WPS hangs, mainly after attempting to exit Comm 4.61 and LSS
1.1. This system used to run in 24/7 mode very stably prior to FP12.

Cheers,
Ivan

>My Warp 4 machine won't stay up for much more than a few days before it
>dies and the longest it's ever been up before crashing is 9 days. Most
>of the time it's just sitting there running the RC5DES client but it
>gets "proper" use during the evenings and weekends.

>Whenever it crashes, it seems more than coincidental that Comm/2 4.61
>is running. Last night, after 4 days, it died and Process Commander
>showed that netscape.exe was trying to exit and so was the first
>instance of pmshell. Nothing could be done except reboot.

>Because I'm just a home user, it's not critical but it is annoying. I
>often hear people say that their machines have been up for weeks or
>months but why my machine won't stay up is beyond me. Maybe if I didn't
>run  Comm/2 I'd not have a crash but that's not not really an option as
>there is no viable alternative to Comm/2.

>So, am I barking up the wrong tree? Is Comm/2 to blame or not? Has
>anyone else who keeps their machine running constantly had reason to
>suspect that Comm/2 brings down their machine?

>Any advice will be appreciated.

>Cheers,
>Steve

>Western Geophysical, Bedford, UK
>Tel: [phone]
>Fax: [phone]


--
-----------------------------------------------------------
"Ivan Adzhubei" <[e-mail]>
-----------------------------------------------------------

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From: [e-mail]...               11-Nov-99 06:03:23
  To: All                                               11-Nov-99 10:44:24
Subj: Re: Comm/2 keeps bringing down my system.

Message sender: [e-mail]

From: "Mike Ruskai" <[e-mail]>

On Thu, 11 Nov 1999 09:41:55 +0000, Steve Drewell wrote:

>My Warp 4 machine won't stay up for much more than a few days before it
>dies and the longest it's ever been up before crashing is 9 days. Most of
>the time it's just sitting there running the RC5DES client but it gets
>"proper" use during the evenings and weekends.
>
>Whenever it crashes, it seems more than coincidental that Comm/2 4.61 is
>running. Last night, after 4 days, it died and Process Commander showed
>that netscape.exe was trying to exit and so was the first instance of
>pmshell. Nothing could be done except reboot.
>
>Because I'm just a home user, it's not critical but it is annoying. I
>often hear people say that their machines have been up for weeks or months
>but why my machine won't stay up is beyond me. Maybe if I didn't run
>Comm/2 I'd not have a crash but that's not not really an option as there
>is no viable alternative to Comm/2.
>
>So, am I barking up the wrong tree? Is Comm/2 to blame or not? Has anyone
>else who keeps their machine running constantly had reason to suspect that
>Comm/2 brings down their machine?
>
>Any advice will be appreciated.

The only problems I've had with Comm/2 were it triggering faults in my
audio drivers (since corrected).

You should see to it that you're running the latest revision.


--
 - Mike

Remove 'spambegone.net' and reverse to send e-mail.


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From: [e-mail]                            11-Nov-99 11:07:16
  To: All                                               11-Nov-99 10:44:24
Subj: Re: Comm/2 keeps bringing down my system.

From: Steve Drewell <[e-mail]>

I'm at FP12 also. What's the unofficial pmr00052 fix???

On Thu, 11 Nov 1999, Ivan Adzhubei wrote:

ε At which fixpak level your Warp 4 system is? I am having severe problems
ε with FP12 here, with Comm 4.61 being pretty unusable since applying FP12
ε due to memory leak in pmmerge.dll (confirmed by people from IBM).
ε Unofficial pmr00052 fix improves the situation a bit, but I still having
ε occasional WPS hangs, mainly after attempting to exit Comm 4.61 and LSS
ε 1.1. This system used to run in 24/7 mode very stably prior to FP12.
ε
ε Cheers,
ε Ivan
ε
ε >My Warp 4 machine won't stay up for much more than a few days before it
ε >dies and the longest it's ever been up before crashing is 9 days. Most
ε >of the time it's just sitting there running the RC5DES client but it
ε >gets "proper" use during the evenings and weekends.
ε
ε >Whenever it crashes, it seems more than coincidental that Comm/2 4.61
ε >is running. Last night, after 4 days, it died and Process Commander
ε >showed that netscape.exe was trying to exit and so was the first
ε >instance of pmshell. Nothing could be done except reboot.
ε
ε >Because I'm just a home user, it's not critical but it is annoying. I
ε >often hear people say that their machines have been up for weeks or
ε >months but why my machine won't stay up is beyond me. Maybe if I didn't
ε >run  Comm/2 I'd not have a crash but that's not not really an option as
ε >there is no viable alternative to Comm/2.
ε
ε >So, am I barking up the wrong tree? Is Comm/2 to blame or not? Has
ε >anyone else who keeps their machine running constantly had reason to
ε >suspect that Comm/2 brings down their machine?
ε
ε >Any advice will be appreciated.
ε
ε >Cheers,
ε >Steve
ε
ε >Western Geophysical, Bedford, UK
ε >Tel: [phone]
ε >Fax: [phone]
ε
ε
ε --
ε -----------------------------------------------------------
ε "Ivan Adzhubei" <[e-mail]>
ε -----------------------------------------------------------

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From: [e-mail]                            11-Nov-99 10:24:00
  To: All                                               11-Nov-99 10:44:24
Subj: TCP/IP 4.1 and telnetd

From: Mogens Beltoft <[e-mail]>

How do I configure telnetd to allow a user to
connect to my machine with telnet?

When I try I get a message saying something to
the effect that user verification is not
performed, then the connection times out. I'm
not even presented with a username/password
logon.

I've set inetd to start telnetd, I've configured
a user under the security tab and allowed the
user telnet access.

Please help.
                 _____
                   |
                   |
\_________________/ \_________________/
                  \_/
Mogens Beltoft

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From: [e-mail]                                    11-Nov-99 09:28:10
  To: All                                               11-Nov-99 10:44:24
Subj: Re: How to use more than 64MB under OS/2?

From: [e-mail] (Bob Eager)

On Thu, 11 Nov 1999 07:04:43, "Lavinia"
<MtLavinia_nospam@nym._nospam.alias.net> wrote:

> This has been a most interesting thread.  What I want to know is....
> Even though various utilities are reporting only 64M, is Warp 4 in fact
> utilizing all 128MB of installed ram?  I don't have the bios switch for
> < 64M.

You can find out by running my MEM utility:

   http://www.tavi.co.uk/os2pages/

--
Bob Eager
rde at tavi.co.uk
PC Server 325; PS/2s 8595*3, 9595*3 (2*P60 + P90), 8535, 8570, 9556*2,
8580*6,
8557*2, 8550, 9577, 8530, P70, PC/AT..

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From: [e-mail]                         11-Nov-99 02:31:17
  To: All                                               11-Nov-99 10:44:24
Subj: Re: TCP/IP 4.1 and telnetd

From: Fujiha <[e-mail]>

Mogens Beltoft wrote:
>
Can't help but it work fine here (I stay logged in 24/7 too)


> How do I configure telnetd to allow a user to
> connect to my machine with telnet?
>
> When I try I get a message saying something to
> the effect that user verification is not
> performed, then the connection times out. I'm
> not even presented with a username/password
> logon.
>
> I've set inetd to start telnetd, I've configured
> a user under the security tab and allowed the
> user telnet access.
>
> Please help.
>                  _____
>                    |
>                    |
> \_________________/ \_________________/
>                   \_/
> Mogens Beltoft

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From: [e-mail]                           11-Nov-99 15:03:22
  To: All                                               11-Nov-99 10:44:24
Subj: Re: Comm/2 keeps bringing down my system.

From: "Ivan Adzhubei" <[e-mail]>

In <[e-mail]>, on 11/11/99
   at 11:07 AM, Steve Drewell <[e-mail]> said:

Steve,

PMR00052.ZIP was posted on testcase.boulder.ibm.com a couple of weeks
ago. You can grab a copy from my ftp:

ftp://protein.bio.msu.su/pub/os2/fixes/pmr00052.zip

It also contains a replacement keyboard.dcp. Just reboot in command line
or using boot floppies, rename FP12 versions of the corresponding files
on your system (\OS2\KEYBOARD.DCP and \OS2\DLL\PMMERGE.DLL) and copy
over fixed versions, then reboot again.

It does not fix all of my problems with FP12, but at least I can use my
system for more than one day now :).

There's another unofficial post-FP12 fix available, with a new version
of kernel, but I did not tried it yet.

Cheers,
Ivan

P.S. Sorry for poor access to my server, our Internet connectivity
really sucks at the moment :-(. Please, use wget or any other FTP client
supporting REST option.

>I'm at FP12 also. What's the unofficial pmr00052 fix???

>On Thu, 11 Nov 1999, Ivan Adzhubei wrote:

>ε At which fixpak level your Warp 4 system is? I am having severe
>problems ε with FP12 here, with Comm 4.61 being pretty unusable since
>applying FP12 ε due to memory leak in pmmerge.dll (confirmed by people
>from IBM). ε Unofficial pmr00052 fix improves the situation a bit, but
>I still having ε occasional WPS hangs, mainly after attempting to exit
>Comm 4.61 and LSS ε 1.1. This system used to run in 24/7 mode very
>stably prior to FP12. ε
>ε Cheers,
>ε Ivan
>ε
>ε >My Warp 4 machine won't stay up for much more than a few days before
>it ε >dies and the longest it's ever been up before crashing is 9 days.
>Most ε >of the time it's just sitting there running the RC5DES client
>but it ε >gets "proper" use during the evenings and weekends.
>ε
>ε >Whenever it crashes, it seems more than coincidental that Comm/2
>4.61 ε >is running. Last night, after 4 days, it died and Process
>Commander ε >showed that netscape.exe was trying to exit and so was the
>first ε >instance of pmshell. Nothing could be done except reboot. ε
>ε >Because I'm just a home user, it's not critical but it is annoying.
>I ε >often hear people say that their machines have been up for weeks
>or ε >months but why my machine won't stay up is beyond me. Maybe if I
>didn't ε >run  Comm/2 I'd not have a crash but that's not not really an
>option as ε >there is no viable alternative to Comm/2.
>ε
>ε >So, am I barking up the wrong tree? Is Comm/2 to blame or not? Has »
>>anyone else who keeps their machine running constantly had reason to
>ε >suspect that Comm/2 brings down their machine?
>ε
>ε >Any advice will be appreciated.
>ε
>ε >Cheers,
>ε >Steve
>ε
>ε >Western Geophysical, Bedford, UK
>ε >Tel: [phone]
>ε >Fax: [phone]
>ε
>ε
>ε --
>ε -----------------------------------------------------------
>ε "Ivan Adzhubei" <[e-mail]>
>ε -----------------------------------------------------------

--
-----------------------------------------------------------
"Ivan Adzhubei" <[e-mail]>
-----------------------------------------------------------

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From: [e-mail]...               11-Nov-99 06:16:01
  To: All                                               11-Nov-99 10:44:24
Subj: Re: How to use more than 64MB under OS/2?

Message sender: [e-mail]

From: "Mike Ruskai" <[e-mail]>

On Wed, 10 Nov 1999 23:04:43 -0800 (PST), Lavinia wrote:

>On Wed, 10 Nov 1999 20:43:34 -0500 (EST), Mike Ruskai wrote:
>
>>That BIOS setting affects nothing but how the amount of total system
>>memory is reported.  This report is done once during bootup, and never
>>again.  It can have no impact on memory performance, and it doesn't.  Any
>>difference you saw was due either to different system activity at the time
>>of the benchmark, or a different configuration change (such as changing a
>>BIOS setting to cache more than 64MB, which would have a substantial
>>impact on memory performance).
>
>This has been a most interesting thread.  What I want to know is....
>Even though various utilities are reporting only 64M, is Warp 4 in fact
>utilizing all 128MB of installed ram?  I don't have the bios switch for
>< 64M.

Whatever is reported by DosQuerySysInfo()'s QSV_TOTPHYSMEM is what OS/2
has been told by the BIOS is the installed amount of memory.

If your utilities are reporting 64MB, then that's what OS/2 sees.

Going by the information I've seen posted, it would seem that the Phoenix
BIOS people have gotten rid of a reporting mechanism used by countless
OS's, and replaced it with one used only by Windows, to be compliant with
an arbitrary Intel design standard; ironically for a board which can't
even use an Intel processor.

So, either your board maker will get the BIOS patched to behave correctly,
or IBM will patch OS/2 to use the proprietary memory reporting mechanism.


--
 - Mike

Remove 'spambegone.net' and reverse to send e-mail.


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From: [e-mail]                 11-Nov-99 11:41:26
  To: All                                               11-Nov-99 10:44:24
Subj: Re: How to use more than 64MB under OS/2?

From: [e-mail]

> > The problem is that the BIOS has no facility to report greater than 64MB
> > of RAM, so proprietary extensions are necessary.  Not everyone did the
> > same thing by default, hence the switch, which Warp 4 doesn't need
> > (because it supports all of the proprietary >64MB reporting mechanisms).
>
> I am sorry to have to correct you. Here on my Warp 4 system the 128MB of
> RAM are recognized with either BIOS setting, but the memory performance
> is much better with the special OS/2 setting turned on according to
> Sysbench. So the setting _does_ matter.
>
> Christian Hennecke

Wonderfull !
What motherboard is this ?
AFAIK the bios setting only influences how the available memory is reported,
not
run !

Wim Wauters

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From: [e-mail]                                10-Nov-99 22:10:28
  To: All                                               11-Nov-99 10:44:24
Subj: Re: Some W.S. e-Business fixes

From: [e-mail] (Jerry McBride)

In article <[e-mail]>,
"Scott E. Garfinkle" <[e-mail]> wrote:
>I've put a couple of ***test*** fixes out on our temporary FTP site --

Ahhh... Thank God! I'm this close.... to going back to Lanserver 4.0.

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From: [e-mail]                            11-Nov-99 14:33:25
  To: All                                               11-Nov-99 14:39:01
Subj: Re: Comm/2 keeps bringing down my system.

From: Steve Drewell <[e-mail]>

Thanks for the info, Ivan. I'll give it a try and see how I get on.

Cheers,
Steve

Western Geophysical, Bedford, UK
Tel: [phone]
Fax: [phone]


On Thu, 11 Nov 1999, Ivan Adzhubei wrote:

ε Steve,
ε
ε PMR00052.ZIP was posted on testcase.boulder.ibm.com a couple of weeks
ε ago. You can grab a copy from my ftp:
ε
ε ftp://protein.bio.msu.su/pub/os2/fixes/pmr00052.zip
ε
ε It also contains a replacement keyboard.dcp. Just reboot in command line
ε or using boot floppies, rename FP12 versions of the corresponding files
ε on your system (\OS2\KEYBOARD.DCP and \OS2\DLL\PMMERGE.DLL) and copy
ε over fixed versions, then reboot again.
ε
ε It does not fix all of my problems with FP12, but at least I can use my
ε system for more than one day now :).
ε
ε There's another unofficial post-FP12 fix available, with a new version
ε of kernel, but I did not tried it yet.
ε
ε Cheers,
ε Ivan
ε
ε P.S. Sorry for poor access to my server, our Internet connectivity
ε really sucks at the moment :-(. Please, use wget or any other FTP client
ε supporting REST option.
ε
ε >I'm at FP12 also. What's the unofficial pmr00052 fix???

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From: [e-mail]                               11-Nov-99 08:13:16
  To: All                                               11-Nov-99 14:39:01
Subj: Re:  Warp 4  installation problem

From: "Dilbert Firestorm" <[e-mail]>

RE: Re: Warp 4  installation  problem
BY: [e-mail] (Kevin Croxen)

>Yep. Back up data, reformat, and install Warp 4 in a clean
>partition. Trying to do an upgrade install of Warp 4 has
>always been a very hit-and-miss affair, even from Warp
>3 fixpack levels that actually existed when the GA Warp 4
>CD was pressed back in Oct. '96.

so.  I have to do a complete clean install when upgrading  from warp 4?

If I do that, what's become of Warp3's desktop? I really would hate to rebuild
it.



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From: [e-mail]                               11-Nov-99 08:13:17
  To: All                                               11-Nov-99 14:39:01
Subj: Re: Warp 4 installation problem

From: "Dilbert Firestorm" <[e-mail]>

RE: Re: Warp 4  installation  problem
BY: [e-mail] (Kevin Croxen)

>Yep. Back up data, reformat, and install Warp 4 in a clean
>partition. Trying to do an upgrade install of Warp 4 has
>always been a very hit-and-miss affair, even from Warp
>3 fixpack levels that actually existed when the GA Warp 4
>CD was pressed back in Oct. '96.

btw, is there a possiblity that the CD or boot disk may have been corrupted?

Is there a way to check this?

I did buy warp 4 at Ebay.....



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From: [e-mail]                               11-Nov-99 08:13:16
  To: All                                               11-Nov-99 14:39:01
Subj: Re: Fixpack38 *.ddk

From: "Dilbert Firestorm" <[e-mail]>

RE: Re: Fixpack 38 *.ddk
BY: doug.bissett"at"attglobal.net (Doug Bissett)

>There are a few of these available (I built my own, but it is NOT
>ready for prime time <g>). The only one that I can remember, is called
>QuickFix. Look for QF11.ZIP. You should find it, and others, at HOBBES
>(http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/). This uses a program, to extract the
>diskette images, directly to (ZIP) disk (I use a PP ZIP drive, so it
>should work for you).
>There is a section in the new users links on the OS/2 supersite
>(http://www.os2ss.com), about installing fix packs. There is some very
>good information in there.
-
doug,
-
thanx for the tip on QuickFix. That did the trick for fixpack 38.  It allowed
me to backout to the original warp.
-
I couldn't do anything at all with respect to loading any windows  program in
the warp 3 fixpack 38 win-os2 environment.  I had suspected a combination of
fixpack 38 & video device driver problems.  It took me some fiddling, and got
it to load the normal vga driver. I tried to load the multi-media options, but
it looks like it didn't copy from the original warp3 disks.  It looks like
they maybe corrupted.
-
it is very possible that I didn't apply the fixpack 38 correctly as I remember
running the fixpack under warp 3 instead of using the utility disk or bootos2.
-
btw, the video card I use is the Matrox Millenium.  I've installed the very
latest drivers which is at 2.31.
-


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From: christian.hennecke@ruhr-uni-boch...               11-Nov-99 15:44:00
  To: All                                               11-Nov-99 14:39:01
Subj: Re: How to use more than 64MB under OS/2?

Message sender: [e-mail]

From: Christian Hennecke <[e-mail]>

Mike Ruskai schrieb:
> I never mind being corrected.
>
> I do get a bit miffed when contradicted incorrectly.

See below.

> That BIOS setting affects nothing but how the amount of total system
> memory is reported.  This report is done once during bootup, and never
> again.  It can have no impact on memory performance, and it doesn't.  Any
> difference you saw was due either to different system activity at the time
> of the benchmark, or a different configuration change (such as changing a
> BIOS setting to cache more than 64MB, which would have a substantial
> impact on memory performance).

Well, the test was run under _exactly_ the same conditions. Maybe the
switch also changed other things. The motherboard is an ASUS
P/I-P55T2P4. The only thing I can think of as a cause for this is
activation of the APM, but I don't think that could happen while
Sysbench is running.

Christian Hennecke
--
Keep passing the open windows! ("The Hotel New Hampshire", John Irving)

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From: christian.hennecke@ruhr-uni-boch...               11-Nov-99 15:45:17
  To: All                                               11-Nov-99 14:39:01
Subj: Re: How to use more than 64MB under OS/2?

Message sender: [e-mail]

From: Christian Hennecke <[e-mail]>

[e-mail] schrieb:

> Wonderfull !
> What motherboard is this ?
> AFAIK the bios setting only influences how the available memory is reported,
not
> run !
>
> Wim Wauters

An Asus P55T2P4. But as Mike said, it can't be possible. Well, I don't
know what to think anymore. Maybe the switch did something else?

Christian Hennecke
--
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From: [e-mail]                           11-Nov-99 14:35:05
  To: All                                               11-Nov-99 14:39:01
Subj: Re: RSU and FSERVICE Hang

From: Matt Hickman <[e-mail]>

In article <[e-mail]>,
  Irv Spalten <[e-mail]> wrote:
> Matt, check the RSUINST.LOG in OS2\INSTALL. Any errors?
>
> You should be able to restart by going to the $RSUTMP$ directory and
> entering 'os2serv'. If you STILL fail, you're probably running out of
> handles. In the session, enter 'SET SHELLHANDLESINC=25', and then
> restart. That doesn't help, look in the CSF directory for the FixTool
> READ.ME file. Follow the directions there for SERVICE or FSERVICE, and
> add the required documented SET statements to direct the FixTool to
the
> needed files.

Thanks Irv.  The last entry in the RSUINST log was 'starting
os2serv.exe...'  I ran os2serv from the command line with the
parameters in the log and all ran fine and went to normal EOJ.
There were no errors in the RSUINST.LOG.

--
Matt Hickman
I don't even see how a four-dimensional coffee cup
could even hold coffee, much less a whole galaxy.
              - Robert A. Heinlein (1907-1988)


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From: [e-mail]                          11-Nov-99 15:08:29
  To: All                                               11-Nov-99 14:39:02
Subj: Re: Warp 4  installation problem

From: [e-mail] (Kevin Croxen)

Worse than just the desktop, you will have to reinstall
all your apps. So that just the data can be restored
from backup.

Admittedly, Warp3 to 4 upgrade was and is nicer, when
 it works. But sometimes on some hardware/software
combos it flat out won't work. In these cases, the
ugly, labor-intensive full install is the only
option. Generally, the end result is a cleaner
more stable Warp system, so there is at least
one upside.

Good luck,
Kevin




On Thu, 11 Nov 99 08:13:33 (cst), Dilbert Firestorm <[e-mail]>
wrote:
>RE: Re: Warp 4  installation  problem
>BY: [e-mail] (Kevin Croxen)
>
>>Yep. Back up data, reformat, and install Warp 4 in a clean
>>partition. Trying to do an upgrade install of Warp 4 has
>>always been a very hit-and-miss affair, even from Warp
>>3 fixpack levels that actually existed when the GA Warp 4
>>CD was pressed back in Oct. '96.
>
>so.  I have to do a complete clean install when upgrading  from warp 4?
>
>If I do that, what's become of Warp3's desktop? I really would hate to
rebuild
>it.
>
>
>
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>

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From: [e-mail]                                         10-Nov-99 23:38:17
  To: All                                               11-Nov-99 14:39:02
Subj: Re: How to use more than 64MB under OS/2?

From: Anssi Saari <[e-mail]>

Christian Hennecke <[e-mail]> writes:

> I am sorry to have to correct you. Here on my Warp 4 system the 128MB of
> RAM are recognized with either BIOS setting, but the memory performance
> is much better with the special OS/2 setting turned on according to
> Sysbench. So the setting _does_ matter.

Can we have your numbers? I got very minor differences either
way. Results with the OS/2 setting on are on the left. K6-2 300, Asus
T2P4, 128MB EDO RAM.

Come to think of it, I guess it's within the realm of possibility that
some motherboard might use different memory timings depending on that
setting. Can't imagine why, though.

 Memory
   5    kB copy          :     1090.652 1092.145    Megabytes/second
   10   kB copy          :     1111.178 1112.927    Megabytes/second
   20   kB copy          :     1078.504 1062.704    Megabytes/second
   40   kB copy          :      136.934  137.108    Megabytes/second
   80   kB copy          :       87.333   87.286    Megabytes/second
   160  kB copy          :       85.999   85.852    Megabytes/second
   320  kB copy          :       85.237   85.600    Megabytes/second
   640  kB copy          :       54.331   57.308    Megabytes/second
   1280 kB copy          :       38.251   37.259    Megabytes/second
   5    kB read          :      654.917  655.684    Megabytes/second
   10   kB read          :      654.278  657.801    Megabytes/second
   20   kB read          :      644.794  644.021    Megabytes/second
   40   kB read          :      311.937  311.733    Megabytes/second
   80   kB read          :      236.420  236.580    Megabytes/second
   160  kB read          :      236.029  236.004    Megabytes/second
   320  kB read          :      229.349  234.879    Megabytes/second
   640  kB read          :      157.636  164.623    Megabytes/second
   1280 kB read          :      117.773  117.308    Megabytes/second
   5    kB write         :      949.350  949.077    Megabytes/second
   10   kB write         :      947.543  946.997    Megabytes/second
   20   kB write         :      935.408  931.082    Megabytes/second
   40   kB write         :      199.160  199.442    Megabytes/second
   80   kB write         :      133.846  134.049    Megabytes/second
   160  kB write         :      133.356  133.198    Megabytes/second
   320  kB write         :      132.235  129.397    Megabytes/second
   640  kB write         :       84.668   84.171    Megabytes/second
   1280 kB write         :       60.879   60.718    Megabytes/second
   -----------------------------------------------------------------------
   Total                 :      472.958  472.649    Memory-marks

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From: [e-mail]                                  11-Nov-99 16:42:08
  To: All                                               11-Nov-99 14:39:02
Subj: Re: Warp 4 installation problem

From: [e-mail]

On Thu, 11 Nov 1999 08:13:34, "Dilbert Firestorm"
<[e-mail]> wrote:

> RE: Re: Warp 4  installation  problem
> BY: [e-mail] (Kevin Croxen)
>
> >Yep. Back up data, reformat, and install Warp 4 in a clean
> >partition. Trying to do an upgrade install of Warp 4 has
> >always been a very hit-and-miss affair, even from Warp
> >3 fixpack levels that actually existed when the GA Warp 4
> >CD was pressed back in Oct. '96.
>
> btw, is there a possiblity that the CD or boot disk may have been corrupted?
>
> Is there a way to check this?

My 2 cents, browse through www.software.ibm.com/os/warp and look to
the device driver for _updated_ Boot disk images.  And create new
images since the original Warp v4 boot are quite old... (couple of
yaers).

Just my reco, the CD should be in good condition....


> I did buy warp 4 at Ebay.....
>
>
>
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From: [e-mail]                                  11-Nov-99 13:37:29
  To: All                                               11-Nov-99 16:48:03
Subj: Re: Please HELP! Folder Class Object Problem with Warp4 - prize for

From: Dave <[e-mail]>

Thanks for your help, but the script did NOT fix the problem.  It ran through
all
the folders on my drives, but still none of my folders had icon view as a
default.
In fact, it is still IMPOSSIBLE to set ANY default view, not just ICON VIEW.

Must I resort to rebuilding os2.ini and os2sys.ini ?

Brad BARCLAY wrote:

> Dave wrote:
> >
> > Hello everyone!  Warp rules!
>
>         It sure does :).
>
> > Anyway, here's the situation.  I installed InetPowerServer at one point,
> > didn't like it, and uninstalled.  Unfortunately, somewhere during this
> > time, IPS's folder classes borked or something and ALL my folders on my
> > system no longer have a "default view".  So in order to open a folder, I
> > must right click it, click the open ARROW, then click icon view...
> > double clicking doesnt work now!
> >
> > Has anyone ever had this problem or know of a fix? (besides reinstall
> > OS/2) - would recreating os2.ini and os2sys.ini fix the problem?
>
>         I haven't seen it before, but assuming you've installed and used
> Feature Installer at least once in your OS/2-using career, the following
> REXX script should help to fix things up for you:
>
> -------------------------------[cut
> here]-------------------------------------
> /* Quick script to build WPObjData objects.                */
> /* Written by Brad BARCLAY <[e-mail]>        */
> call RxFuncAdd 'SysLoadFuncs', 'RexxUtil', 'SysLoadFuncs'
> call SysLoadFuncs
>
> /***************************************************/
> /* Note:  be sure to set the following variable to */
> /*        a drive letter visible to OS/2.          */
> /*        Normally, C:\ should be just fine.       */
> /***************************************************/
> dir="C:\"
>
> /***************************************************/
> /* Note:  there is no need to change these two     */
> /*        variables - they are defined for         */
> /*        the sake of convienence.                 */
> /***************************************************/
> filename="FLDRMOD.BJB"
> objname="<FOLDERFIX>"
>
> /***************************************************/
> /* Note:  the following variable may be set as     */
> /*        follows:                                 */
> /*                                                 */
> /*        ICON       -  Opens in Icon View         */
> /*        TREE       -  Opens in Tree View         */
> /*        DETAILS    -  Opens in Details View      */
> /*        DEFAULT    -  Opens in the classes       */
> /*                      default view.              */
> /***************************************************/
> defview="ICON"
>
> /***************************************************/
> /* Program starts here...                          */
> /***************************************************/
> myrc=SysRegisterObjectClass("WPObjData", "OBJDATA")
> myrc=SysCreateObject("WPObjData", filename, dir, "OBJECTID="||objname)
> if myrc=0 then exit    /* Couldn't create the object */
>
> myrc=LINEOUT(dir||filename, "DEFAULTVIEW="||defview)
> myrc=LINEOUT(dir||filename)
>
> myrc=SysMoveObject(objname, "<WP_DESKTOP>")
> myrc=SysSetObjectData(objname, "TITLE=Drag and Drop Folders Here!")
> exit
> -------------------------------[cut
> here]-------------------------------------
>
>         Copy this to a file, and modify any of the variables that might need
> changing (probably none of them, but one never knows :).  Save it to a
> file on your hard drive (call it whatever you want - I called it
> FLDFIX.CMD), and run it.
>
>         This script alone won't fix your problem - HOWEVER it will create an
> object on your desktop where you can drag and drop all of your folders
> to (one a a time or many at once) which will set their default view to
> "ICON" (unless you change the 'defview' variable as explained in the
> REXX script).
>
>         If you happen to have lots and lots and lots of folders on your
system,
> I can whip up either another script or a C program which will do all of
> them for you, but this should at least get you started in fixing some of
> your more important folders, and is good if only some folders are
> broken, and not others.
>
>         The following script is much more brutal :).  It will traverse every
> subdirectory (folder) on the specified drive and give it the
> "DEFAULTVIEW=ICON" (or whatever you specify) attribute:
>
> -------------------------------[cut
> here]-------------------------------------
> /* Quick script to traverse and modify directories.*/
> /* Written by Brad BARCLAY <[e-mail]>        */
> call RxFuncAdd 'SysLoadFuncs', 'RexxUtil', 'SysLoadFuncs'
> call SysLoadFuncs
>
> parse arg drive
>
> /***************************************************/
> /* Note:  the following variable may be set as     */
> /*        follows:                                 */
> /*                                                 */
> /*        ICON       -  Opens in Icon View         */
> /*        TREE       -  Opens in Tree View         */
> /*        DETAILS    -  Opens in Details View      */
> /*        DEFAULT    -  Opens in the classes       */
> /*                      default view.              */
> /***************************************************/
> defview="ICON"
>
> /***************************************************/
> /* Program starts here...                          */
> /***************************************************/
> "@dir" drive||"\ /AD /S /F | RXQUEUE"
>
> DO FOREVER UNTIL QUEUED()=0
>    PULL dir
>    say "Modifing directory: "||dir
>    rc=SysSetObjectData(dir, "DEFAULTVIEW="||defview)
>    if rc=0 then say "Failed!"
> end /* do */
> exit
>
> -------------------------------[cut
> here]-------------------------------------
>
>         Again, copy and save it however you wish (I call it FXALLFLD.CMD).
> Specify the drive letter (with colon) as the only parameter, ie:
>
>                                 fxallfld c:
>
>         If you don't specify a drive letter, it will just assume the current
> drive.  Run this command once for each drive letter you have, and it
> should fix everything up in one fell swoop (note hwever that every
> folder is going to have the exact same default - in tihs case ICON
> view.  If you had any folders which had a different icon view, you'll
> have to go back and change them manually.  Note however that this
> shouldn't affect drive objects at all).
>
> > For anyone who can help me through this, I will give you 50+ MB web/ftp
> > space on my T1 server.
>
>         Thanks, but I already have 5Gb on about 90Mb of bandwidth through
> yaztromo.idirect.com on a WARP Server for e-business box, but it was
> nice of you to offer :).
>
> Brad BARCLAY
>
> =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
> Posted from the OS/2 WARP v4.5 desktop of Brad BARCLAY.
> E-Mail:  [e-mail]            Location:  2G43D@Torolabs

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From: [e-mail]                                    11-Nov-99 19:03:20
  To: All                                               11-Nov-99 16:48:03
Subj: Re: Comm/2 keeps bringing down my system.

From: Bill "Wild Willy" Kredentser <[e-mail]>

In article
<TyCW3.8286$[e-mail]>,
  [e-mail] wrote:
> In
<[e-mail]>,
Steve Drewell <[e-mail]> writes:
        <<<major snippage>>>

I said a few weeks ago that if the change I made
fixed my problems, I would quit posting about it on
the no-news-is-good-news theory.  You haven't seen me
posting about Communicator, have you?  The magic
bullet did seem to be to have a healthy size RAM
cache & a small, symbolic token size disk cache.  I
have had practically no problems at all since I did
that.  I've run the thing up to about 20 simultaneous
instantiations & it doesn't hiccup.

This is a bit counter-intuitive.  Disk caching should
be slower than RAM caching, but it seems like if
there's no disk cache at all, the fallback processing
takes longer.  Similarly, when you have graphics
loading disabled (not animations, graphics) it seems
to take Communicator longer to decide to put all
those little missing-graphic graphics on the page
than it takes to download the graphics & display
them.  Another paradox.

I must admit that very occasionally, perhaps once or
twice a week, I get that annoying SYS3175 trap that
has been posted many times.  I finally caved in <:-))
to Jeff Kobal's repeated claims that these are a
problem in OS/2 itself when I noticed that every once
in a while I'd get what looks like the exact same
trap from things when Communicator wasn't even
running here.  I'm reading people saying things about
post-FP12 fixes to PMMERGE & so on.  So maybe there's
some movement on that front.

I have found that when trying to play Real Audio, I
occasionally get strange delays & Windows faults.
But I'm reasonably certain this is because a lot of
sources are now putting out G2 & the older 5.0
RAPlayer just gags on them.  But I have seen the
dreaded Communicator is not responding Enter/Cancel
screen.  And I've hit Enter.  AND COMMUNICATOR CLOSES
AND MY SYSTEM CONTINUES TO RUN!!!  So I reopen
Communicator & surf somewhere else.  Working as
designed, at long last, I'd say.

I'm using C/2 4.61 with 16Meg RAM cache, 128K disk
cache, graphics loading/Java/Javascript enabled. Also
Java 1.1.8+1999/11/6 update, FP12, DDFP1, WR08620,
IP08412, 5-year-old Pentium 133 on a 2-year-old DFI
motherboard with Award BIOS, 96M RAM, old Matrox
Millennium PCI 4Meg with 3.0.60 BIOS & 2.31.100
driver, Sound Blaster 16 ISA, 2 IDE HDDs, 1 IDE
CD-ROM.

WW
Team OS/2 Cincinnati & PROUD OF IT!


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From: [e-mail]                                  11-Nov-99 15:21:22
  To: All                                               11-Nov-99 19:59:16
Subj: Re: Comm/2 keeps bringing down my system.

From: [e-mail]

In <382a9f52$1$vina$[e-mail]>, on 11/11/99 at 01:45 PM,
   "Ivan Adzhubei" <[e-mail]> said:

>In <[e-mail]>, on 11/11/99
>   at 09:41 AM, Steve Drewell <[e-mail]> said:

>At which fixpak level your Warp 4 system is? I am having severe problems
>with FP12 here, with Comm 4.61 being pretty unusable since applying FP12
>due to memory leak in pmmerge.dll (confirmed by people from IBM).
>Unofficial pmr00052 fix improves the situation a bit, but I still having
>occasional WPS hangs, mainly after attempting to exit Comm 4.61 and LSS
>1.1. This system used to run in 24/7 mode very stably prior to FP12.

>Cheers,
>Ivan
Just out of curiosity, is this still the ASUS p55t2p4 MB?  And is it the
Intel HX chip set that they (IBM) are having trouble with again?

Regards from NYC.

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From: [e-mail]                                  11-Nov-99 13:06:18
  To: All                                               11-Nov-99 19:59:16
Subj: Re: Please HELP! Folder Class Object Problem with Warp4 - prize for

From: Dave <[e-mail]>

Sorry Jim, neither of those suggestions work, unfortunately :(

Makes me think that something is SERIOUSLY borked....

Jim Parker wrote:

> Dave wrote:
>
> > Hello everyone!  Warp rules!
> >
> > Anyway, here's the situation.  I installed InetPowerServer at one point,
> > didn't like it, and uninstalled.  Unfortunately, somewhere during this
> > time, IPS's folder classes borked or something and ALL my folders on my
> > system no longer have a "default view".  So in order to open a folder, I
> > must right click it, click the open ARROW, then click icon view...
> > double clicking doesnt work now!
> >
> > Has anyone ever had this problem or know of a fix? (besides reinstall
> > OS/2) - would recreating os2.ini and os2sys.ini fix the problem?
> >
> > For anyone who can help me through this, I will give you 50+ MB web/ftp
> > space on my T1 server.
> >
> > THANKS!
> > -Dave
> > [e-mail]
> > http://warpedcow.tsx.org
> > Warpedcow on EFNET #os2warez
>
> Yes, I think there is a better way.
>
> Go to OS/2 System->System Setup->Window tab page 3 of 3 and select Default
> Folder View of choice.
>
> Jim

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From: [e-mail]                           11-Nov-99 14:04:12
  To: All                                               11-Nov-99 19:59:17
Subj: Re: Nasty characters problem with Netscape 4.61

From: Michael Kaply <[e-mail]>

I am confused.

Are you running in 850 or 863 now?

If your system is running in 863, you will see corrupt characters.

You can use codepage 850 with a CF layout.

In config,sys,

change
DEVINFO=KBD,UX,C:\OS2\KEYBOARD.DCP
to
DEVINFO=KBD,CF,C:\OS2\KEYBOARD.DCP

change
CODEPAGE=863,850
to
CODEPAGE=850,863

This has already been reported as a bug.

Mike Kaply
IBM



Michel Catudal wrote:

>I did get it by switching to the second choice when I choose the country but
it
>doesn't change anything as far as Netscape is concerned. I get the accents
>in most windows by changing the font to times roman. As for the title of the
>messages or windows as well as the text in preferences the letters which
should
>have accents look like garbage. With the default font the letters on my
>web site look like shit as well. This is a severe bug in OS/2 as they should
support
>characters better than that. Perhaps they should learn how it's done under
Linux and learn
>a bit. I would say winblows since when I run NT in a command line it is
frequent to get a
>crash because NT chokes on codepage 863. I usually have to do a kill as I
lose control of
>the keyboard except for the ctrl alt del sequence which usually works.

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From: [e-mail]                           11-Nov-99 14:07:11
  To: All                                               11-Nov-99 19:59:17
Subj: Re: NS 4.61 - crash on Russian character set

From: Michael Kaply <[e-mail]>

Actually, Russian on any NLS is pretty straightforward.

The second codepage of the two isn't really used - it is simply prepared for
YOU to switch to it.

So, to configure your machine for russian:

CODEPAGE=850,866
DEVINFO=KBD,RU,C:\OS2\KEYBOARD.DCP
COUNTRY=007,C:\OS2\SYSTEM\COUNTRY.SYS

Use Left Alt+Shift and Right Alt+Shift to switch between Cyrillic and
English

Mike Kaply

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From: [e-mail]                              11-Nov-99 22:48:18
  To: All                                               11-Nov-99 19:59:17
Subj: Re: Deleted disk icons

From: [e-mail] (Hans Peter Holm)

Einar Lygre wrote:

> Don't ask me how I could do it, but I deleted the disk icons in one
> folder and oooops, they where gone in all folders. Now I only can
> access the disk and files using the command prompts.
> There must be a way to recreate the icons.

It's a classic mistake. Create a Drive.cmd file from the following
REXX and run it:


--- Start Drive.Cmd ---------------------------
/* REXX */

Call RxFuncAdd 'SysCreateObject', 'RexxUtil', 'SysCreateObject'

class = 'WPDrives'
title = 'Drives'
location = '<WP_DESKTOP>'
setupstring = 'OBJECTID=<WP_DRIVES>'
option = 'REPLACE'

RC = SysCreateObject(class, title, location ,setupstring ,option)

if RC then
  say title' has been created'
else
  say 'error creating 'title
--- End   Drive.Cmd ---------------------------

--
Hans

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From: [e-mail]                               11-Nov-99 17:26:18
  To: All                                               11-Nov-99 19:59:17
Subj: Re: Please HELP! Folder Class Object Problem with Warp4 - prize for

From: Brad BARCLAY <[e-mail]>

Dave wrote:
>
> Thanks for your help, but the script did NOT fix the problem.  It ran
through all
> the folders on my drives, but still none of my folders had icon view as a
default.
> In fact, it is still IMPOSSIBLE to set ANY default view, not just ICON VIEW.
>
> Must I resort to rebuilding os2.ini and os2sys.ini ?

    Hmmm - I think that might still be a bit extreme.  What might work is
to simply deregister and re-register the WPFolder class.  That would
hopefully set it back to its defaults - but to be ohnest, I don't know
what it would do to or for your folder instances :).

    Something you can try to see if it will help is a non-destructive
MAKEINI.  Run it from within the WPS (through an OS/2 Command prompt
window), and rebuild your OS2SYS.INI.  Running it from under the WPS is
generally onn-destructive, and it *might* help.

    One query:  do you have any third-party add-on tools installed which
override the default WPFolder object?  Anything like Object Desktop or
anything?

    I still think you can fix things (with some help) without resorting to
anything hugely drastic.  If the above doesn't help any, let me know and
I'll pull out my OS/2 WPS programming reference sometime this weekend
and whip up an EXE for you which will (hopefully :) fix the problem.

Brad BARCLAY

=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
Posted from the OS/2 WARP v4.5 desktop of Brad BARCLAY.
E-Mail:  [e-mail]        Location:  2G43D@Torolabs

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From: [e-mail]                 11-Nov-99 16:41:28
  To: All                                               11-Nov-99 21:27:04
Subj: Re: Please HELP! Folder Class Object Problem with Warp4 - prize for

From: [e-mail] (Raphael Tennenbaum)

Dave <[e-mail]> wrote:

>Thanks for your help, but the script did NOT fix the problem.  It ran through
all
>the folders on my drives, but still none of my folders had icon view as a
default.
>In fact, it is still IMPOSSIBLE to set ANY default view, not just ICON VIEW.
>
>Must I resort to rebuilding os2.ini and os2sys.ini ?
>

Before you do that (and perhaps should have done this before
you did the other stuff) hasten to

   http://www.os2ss.com/information/kelder/#WPTOOLS

and download Henk Kelder's latest WPTOOLS, an absolutely
indispensible set of (freeware) tools for maintaining your
ini files.  Carefully read the CHECKINI documentation, then
run CHECKINI and see if that's fixed your problem.  THen
come back and let us know how it went....

--
Ray Tennenbaum        '99 YZF-R6
readme@ http://www.ray-field.com

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From: [e-mail]                               11-Nov-99 21:04:28
  To: All                                               12-Nov-99 03:36:01
Subj: EPM bug?

From: "dinkmeister" <[e-mail]>

In the layout details for S1, if I clear it, it'll just come back
to the default settings.  the S1 thing prints the page number at the
bottom of the page, btw.  I found that if you put a space there instead
of just leaving it clear, it wont return to the default values.

I use fte as my editor of choice, but fte only prints out ascii text,
I use epm to print out text in the "times new roman" size 9.
now heres the question - can I print out an ascii text file from the
commandline using the times new roman font size 9?

thanks,
- dink ( http://dink.org )





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From: [e-mail]                                11-Nov-99 22:10:15
  To: All                                               12-Nov-99 03:36:02
Subj: Re: Problem printing from EPM to HP 682C printer.

From: Jim Parker <[e-mail]>

John Hong wrote:

> Jim Parker ([e-mail]) wrote:
> : Whenever I tried to print from EPM (Warp 4 FP9) to my HP 682C printer
> : (Omni driver version 30.698), the last line of each page got chopped off
> : - only the top sliver of the line got printed.
>
>         Have you tried version 30.702?

No, but I tried several versions of the driver before I figured out the work
around. I'll give it a try.

Thanks
Jim


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From: [e-mail]                                    11-Nov-99 22:09:05
  To: All                                               12-Nov-99 05:21:02
Subj: Re: Comm/2 keeps bringing down my system.

From: J. N. Pfisterer <[e-mail]>

Hi, Ivan -

Noted your exchange with Steve Drewell and tried to free-load on it; but
repeated attempts to connect to your ftp resource were unsuccessful.  I
suspect that a few others may have been trying too and beat me to it.

>PMR00052.ZIP was posted on testcase.boulder.ibm.com a couple of weeks
>ago. You can grab a copy from my ftp:
>ftp://protein.bio.msu.su/pub/os2/fixes/pmr00052.zip

Do you recall exactly where in the testcase.boulder.ibm.com site you
found it.  I tried there too; but found it a typical, murky IBM site and
didn't manage to spot pmr00052.zip.
>
>It also contains a replacement keyboard.dcp. Just reboot in command line
>or using boot floppies, rename FP12 versions of the corresponding files
>on your system (\OS2\KEYBOARD.DCP and \OS2\DLL\PMMERGE.DLL) and copy
>over fixed versions, then reboot again.

Thanks for the explanation!
>
>It does not fix all of my problems with FP12, but at least I can use my
>system for more than one day now :).

Haven't had that problem, since I shut my system down at night; but
there's something really eating memory now!  I have 64megs RAM installed
and kept swapper set to 2 megs with no visible swap activity.  Usually
had around 25megs of physical memory available at any time.  Now, the
physical memory is evaporating and the swap file is shooting up to
20megs or more! :(
>
>There's another unofficial post-FP12 fix available, with a new version
>of kernel, but I did not tried it yet.

Is it in the same place on the IBM ftp site?  What is it supposed to
fix?

>P.S. Sorry for poor access to my server, our Internet connectivity
>really sucks at the moment :-(.

May just be a lot of people trying to get to it at once.

Thanks for offering the ftp and supplying all this good info.

Jack P.

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From: [e-mail]                            12-Nov-99 12:02:04
  To: All                                               12-Nov-99 10:28:26
Subj: Re: Warp 4 and Dell Optiplex

From: Mark Brooker <[e-mail]>


Richard Cohen wrote:
>
> Hi,       Wondering if anyone has come across this
>
> I look after a Call Ctr that uses Warp 4 on the Dell Optiplex range of PC's
> (G1, Gn and older). We are getting intermitent keyboard lockups and have not
> found a reason as yet.
> The K/Bd locks up but the PC is still usable via mouse.. Unplugging and
> repluging the K/Bd seems to resolve the problem "until next time".
>
> I have contacted Dell and they push me to the side saying OS/2 not supported
> run Diags...
>
> Any help appriciated

I have the exact same problem. Reverting to the original keyboard driver
improved things, the lockups don't happen as often now, but do still happen.
Seems to happen most often on a quick burst of typing.

Can't help, but you're not alone.

Mark.

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From: [e-mail]                           12-Nov-99 16:49:17
  To: All                                               12-Nov-99 14:25:26
Subj: Re: Comm/2 keeps bringing down my system.

From: "Ivan Adzhubei" <[e-mail]>

In <382b25ca$1$zpunffba$[e-mail]>, on 11/11/99
   at 03:21 PM, [e-mail] said:

>In <382a9f52$1$vina$[e-mail]>, on 11/11/99 at 01:45 PM,
>   "Ivan Adzhubei" <[e-mail]> said:

>>In <[e-mail]>, on 11/11/99
>>   at 09:41 AM, Steve Drewell <[e-mail]> said:

>>At which fixpak level your Warp 4 system is? I am having severe problems
>>with FP12 here, with Comm 4.61 being pretty unusable since applying FP12
>>due to memory leak in pmmerge.dll (confirmed by people from IBM).
>>Unofficial pmr00052 fix improves the situation a bit, but I still having
>>occasional WPS hangs, mainly after attempting to exit Comm 4.61 and LSS
>>1.1. This system used to run in 24/7 mode very stably prior to FP12.

>Just out of curiosity, is this still the ASUS p55t2p4 MB?  And is it
>the Intel HX chip set that they (IBM) are having trouble with again?

Yep, your guess is right! Heven't heard about HX problems before tho.
Could you please post a few details? Or point me to any other source of
info? Haven't seen anything HX-chipset specific in APAR database or
elsewhere on IBM sites.

Thanks,
Ivan

P.S. I was thinking about upgrade anyway, but you know, upgrading a
production server could be a real pain in the ass!

I.

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From: [e-mail]                           12-Nov-99 16:52:25
  To: All                                               12-Nov-99 14:25:26
Subj: Re: Comm/2 keeps bringing down my system.

From: "Ivan Adzhubei" <[e-mail]>

In <80gaqh$7m6$[e-mail]>, on 11/11/99
   at 10:09 PM, J. N. Pfisterer <[e-mail]> said:

Hi,

>Noted your exchange with Steve Drewell and tried to free-load on it;
>but repeated attempts to connect to your ftp resource were
>unsuccessful.  I  suspect that a few others may have been trying too
>and beat me to it.

No, connections to my server did not reach server limit. However, as I
told, we have an extremely poor channel to the outside world at the
moment. I can only recommend to use wget or similar program able to
retry broken connections automatically and restart broken downloads. Or
if anybody has an Internet access from any of the large US universities
connected to vBNS (National Science Foundation network), please, try
downloading this archive from my server and put it on your site. We have
a separate channel to vBNS, very fast and reliable. Sites like
princeton.edu, harvard.edu, etc. can access my server without any
problems. Unfortunately, the whole Europe is almost cut off of my
site...

>>PMR00052.ZIP was posted on testcase.boulder.ibm.com a couple of weeks
>>ago. You can grab a copy from my ftp:
>>ftp://protein.bio.msu.su/pub/os2/fixes/pmr00052.zip

>Do you recall exactly where in the testcase.boulder.ibm.com site you
>found it.  I tried there too; but found it a typical, murky IBM site
>and didn't manage to spot pmr00052.zip.

Common practice on IBM testcase server is that all unofficial fixes
posted there will expire in 2-3 days and removed from the server. You
will no longer find any of the fixes I mentioned at testcase. Usual
place to check is:

ftp://testcase.boulder.ibm.com/ps/fromibm/os2/

>Haven't had that problem, since I shut my system down at night; but
>there's something really eating memory now!  I have 64megs RAM
>installed and kept swapper set to 2 megs with no visible swap activity.
>Usually  had around 25megs of physical memory available at any time.
>Now, the  physical memory is evaporating and the swap file is shooting
>up to  20megs or more! :(

I am experiencing all sorts of weird problems with WPS - corrupted mouse
pointer, folders not closing, hangs, etc. And yes, there is a huge
memory leak in the original FP12 pmmerge.dll. This was fixed by
pmr00052, but not the rest of the problems. I will try kernel fix to see
if it helps.

>>There's another unofficial post-FP12 fix available, with a new version
>>of kernel, but I did not tried it yet.

>Is it in the same place on the IBM ftp site?  What is it supposed to
>fix?

Yes, but it has also already expired. The readme says it fixes the
problem with too large stack allocated by FP12 kernel. You can find it
at:

ftp://protein.bio.msu.su/pub/os2/fixes/02617k.zip

>Thanks for offering the ftp and supplying all this good info.

There's a depository for unofficial fixes arranged on another server
here in Russia. Unfortunately, this server also has rather poor access
from the US, and all the file listings are in Russian.

Cheers,
Ivan

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From: [e-mail]                              12-Nov-99 13:47:19
  To: All                                               12-Nov-99 14:25:26
Subj: SCSI Card help

From: [e-mail]

Hi all
Has anybody used the advansys asb3940U2W
SCSI card and how well does it work with
OS/2 Warp 4.0.
Thank you
Anton Laux


Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
Before you buy.

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From: [e-mail]                               12-Nov-99 14:02:24
  To: All                                               12-Nov-99 14:25:26
Subj: Re: Can't view JPEG files.

From: Jim Backus <[e-mail]>

Jim Parker wrote:
>
> Nelson and Satasha Williams wrote:
>
> > Can anyone PLEASE tell me why I can't view JPGs anymore?  It simply
> > brings up the viewer box, but never shows the picture.  The only way to
> > kill it is to open the WINDOW LIST, select the picture, and then CLOSE.
> > Can anyone tell me why this phenomenon has happened?  I have to view
> > them in, gulp........, Windows now.  please help.
> >
> > Using Warp4, FP12
> >
> > Nelson
> >
> > --
> > Note: No Microsoft programs were used in the creation or distribution of
> > this message. If you are using a Microsoft program to view this message,
> > be forewarned that I am not responsible for any harm you may encounter
> > as a result.
>
> You could view them in Netscape. I know this isn't the answer you're looking
> for but it keeps you out of,  gulp........, Windows.
>
> Jim

I've had similar problems - seemed to happen after viewing a number of
pictures.  FWIW my recommendation is to get hold of PMView and use that
instead - it is shareware but the the registration fee is not too high
and it is well worth it.

--
===
Jim Backus  [e-mail]
Systems engineer  Tel [phone] ext 2577

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From: [e-mail]                           12-Nov-99 17:18:19
  To: All                                               12-Nov-99 14:25:26
Subj: Re: NS 4.61 - crash on Russian character set

From: "Ivan Adzhubei" <[e-mail]>

In <J8TqGkcvSg25-pn2-qpeJvqpT06Td@localhost>, on 11/06/99
   at 01:10 AM, [e-mail] said:

>Hi Ivan

>Just discovered that these pages (from Minivend) had <font
>face=verdana,arial,helvetica> in several places, including the
>buttons. Removing verdana brought Russian back there, and it works

Yep, I was hit by this problem several times. Looks like web designers
could not even think about somebody running under a totally different OS
with a different set of default fonts installed. There's two workarounds
for this problem: either disable the use of document-specific fonts in
Comm preferences, or install the necessary (truetype) fonts. Can be a
problem to find Cyrillic ones, I take them from my Russian version of
Windows...

>with both proportional and fixed fonts with 'helv' and 'system mono'
>in NS. The title bar won't show cyrillic though - except by dropping a
>font on it, which should not be necessary. As all these pages are
>dynamically generated (and are identical for different languages),
>it's not practical to include a character set statement in the html,
>so NS has to be told to use 'Cyrillic' in the 'view'-> settings.

Titlebars may need prepared CP866 in config.sys to show Russian
characters. Actually, OS/2 NLS support always was kinda black magic...

>Hmmm. I'm using 'codepage=850,1004', 'country=044',
>'devinfo=kbd,us...' It is a US keyboard on a UK system. I don't use

IBM CP1004 is roughly equivalent to MS Windows 1251 Cyrillics codepage
(but not exactly, some characters vary). The problem is, there is no
default way in OS/2 to make a program use any predefined set of NLS
resources, like codepages, fonts, etc. PM programs actually can use and
switch between _any_ NLS resources installed on the system, but only if
programmer has chosen to do this. By default, programs which were not
coded explicitely to use codepage switching, will use default primary
codepage on startup, and can also use default secondary one (as defined
in CODEPAGE statement in CONFIG.SYS), but none of the other CP's
available on the system. Many modern PM programs can switch between
non-default codepages, among these - Comm (all versions), MR2Ice,
Openchat/2, PMMail, PMInews, ProNews. However, sometimes they may show
odd behaviour in some parts. I can hardly blame developers for that -
it's a real nightmare to test programs in all possible combinations of
35 NLS settings or more.

>anything out of NS except the browser - PMMail, ProNews, and MrEd for
>writing html. What I've found with PMMail, is that I have to start it
>in cp1004 and then (as well as plain English) it will handle European
>accented characters and Cyrillic correctly. It uses the Latin-1 char
>set, but encoding is 8-bit. In fact it's my wife who uses this (she's
>the Russian one, I'm from New Zealand) and she just uses a koi-8 font,
>has Chump (the keyboard switcher) set to koi-8, and people seem to
>have no problem reading her emails. To read mail from others, she just
>drops either a koi8 or cp1251 font on the message, depending who sent
>it. French or German characters are fine with the default helv font.

Changing font to read mail is not very elegant solution :). In fact,
this is a hack. The proper algorithm which a program should support is
to decode any external document received in an alien codepage into OS/2
native standard Cyrillics codepage (CP866), view, edit and/or create it
using system default CP866 resources, and then convert it again into an
external codepage just before sending it out. Most recent versions of
internet client can do this quite seamlessly. I use Com 4.61, MR2Ice,
PMMail, PMINews, ProNews, Openchat/2, and all of them work almost
perfectly with Russian.

The problem is - we have at least 4 different but equally popular
codepages for Cyrillics! These are: CP866 (DOS & OS/2), Win-1251 (MS
Win), KOI8-R (Unix world), MacOS. The official "transport" text encoding
for Internet is KOI8-R, but it is commonly violated by Windows users, in
preference of Win-1251 codepage. Some clients support Win-1251 as
external codepage also (Comm 4.61), some needs additional utilities to
decode it. I can send you a REXX script to make PMMail read Win-1251
properly if you wish.

>ProNews has individual settings pages for each ng, so it can be set to
>proper Russian settings for one ng and Latin-1 settings for other
>ng's. It runs in cp850, and shows Cyrillic fine like this.

Because ProNews can switch to CP866 on itself. It does not depend on
system default CP's in CONFIG.SYS. Same is true for PMMail and MR2Ice.
The latter can even override the default CP on startup (via command line
switch).

>MrEd can switch at any time between the default cp (whatever your
>system has) and a cp 1004 setting. This is very useful for writing
>Cyrillic, just by setting Chump to translate to that keyboard (you
>switch keyboards by hitting both 'shifts' together), and using a cp
>1251 font. You can also set it to koi8 and use a koi8 font.

I use Layer for keyboard switching here. It can only switch between
system default codepages though. But as I told, proper way to deal with
KOI8 text is to decode it into CP866 first...

>> NC4.61 has much improved Cyrillics support, I'd say - almost perfect.
>> It can display Russian text properly in form fields, buttons,
>> titlebar, almost everywhere. Its should work, but only if the rest of
>> your system is set up properly.

>This is true - maybe it wasn't running properly at the time (one of
>several other things may well have interacted negatively with it),
>which could be why it crashed. Right now it shows buttons, fixed and
>proportional fonts properly, and the titlebar with eg Arial Cyr
>dropped on it. It won't show form field input correctly with koi8,
>cp1251, or cp866 fonts, but that's doubtless because Chump's menu is
>now disabled, as I've just found, and I can't change the keyboard
>layout. Installed DragText a couple of days ago, and that's most
>likely the culprit. As NS is running on cp850 then it needs a cp850
>keyboard layout to show Russian correctly. In fact, I've just
>re-started NS on cp 1004 (Chump's default layout), and found that
>dropping a cp 1251 font into a form field shows correctly
>(cp1251=cp1004) so therefore form fields are OK.

Sure looks like some minor conflicts in the system configuration. I
never used Chump so I can't comment on its quality.

Cheers,
Ivan

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"Ivan Adzhubei" <[e-mail]>
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From: [e-mail]                               12-Nov-99 16:15:15
  To: All                                               12-Nov-99 19:52:27
Subj: Re: EPM bug?

From: Brad BARCLAY <[e-mail]>

dinkmeister wrote:
>
> In the layout details for S1, if I clear it, it'll just come back
> to the default settings.  the S1 thing prints the page number at the
> bottom of the page, btw.  I found that if you put a space there instead
> of just leaving it clear, it wont return to the default values.
>
> I use fte as my editor of choice, but fte only prints out ascii text,
> I use epm to print out text in the "times new roman" size 9.
> now heres the question - can I print out an ascii text file from the
> commandline using the times new roman font size 9?

    Sure.  Open your printer objects properties notebook, Select the "Text
Format" tab, select "Font" as the text format option, then press the
"Change Font" button.

    Using tis, you should be able to print using whatever installed font
you want when using FTE, or any other editor wihch prints as plain text.

Brad BARCLAY

=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
Posted from the OS/2 WARP v4.5 desktop of Brad BARCLAY.
E-Mail:  [e-mail]        Location:  2G43D@Torolabs

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From: [e-mail]                                  12-Nov-99 15:53:21
  To: All                                               12-Nov-99 19:52:27
Subj: Re: Please HELP! Folder Class Object Problem with Warp4 - prize for

From: Dave <[e-mail]>

I have tried that util many times, to no avail.

Raphael Tennenbaum wrote:

> Dave <[e-mail]> wrote:
>
> >Thanks for your help, but the script did NOT fix the problem.  It ran
through all
> >the folders on my drives, but still none of my folders had icon view as a
default.
> >In fact, it is still IMPOSSIBLE to set ANY default view, not just ICON
VIEW.
> >
> >Must I resort to rebuilding os2.ini and os2sys.ini ?
> >
>
> Before you do that (and perhaps should have done this before
> you did the other stuff) hasten to
>
>    http://www.os2ss.com/information/kelder/#WPTOOLS
>
> and download Henk Kelder's latest WPTOOLS, an absolutely
> indispensible set of (freeware) tools for maintaining your
> ini files.  Carefully read the CHECKINI documentation, then
> run CHECKINI and see if that's fixed your problem.  THen
> come back and let us know how it went....
>
> --
> Ray Tennenbaum        '99 YZF-R6
> readme@ http://www.ray-field.com

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From: [e-mail]                                  12-Nov-99 15:58:25
  To: All                                               12-Nov-99 19:52:27
Subj: Re: Please HELP! Folder Class Object Problem with Warp4 - prize for

From: Dave <[e-mail]>

Brad BARCLAY wrote:

> Dave wrote:
> >
> > Thanks for your help, but the script did NOT fix the problem.  It ran
through all
> > the folders on my drives, but still none of my folders had icon view as a
default.
> > In fact, it is still IMPOSSIBLE to set ANY default view, not just ICON
VIEW.
> >
> > Must I resort to rebuilding os2.ini and os2sys.ini ?
>
>         Hmmm - I think that might still be a bit extreme.  What might work
is
> to simply deregister and re-register the WPFolder class.  That would
> hopefully set it back to its defaults - but to be ohnest, I don't know
> what it would do to or for your folder instances :).
>

Thats worth a try... now how do I do that?


>
>         Something you can try to see if it will help is a non-destructive
> MAKEINI.  Run it from within the WPS (through an OS/2 Command prompt
> window), and rebuild your OS2SYS.INI.  Running it from under the WPS is
> generally onn-destructive, and it *might* help.
>

If I do this, will I need to reboot to see if it works?  Rebuilding os2sys.ini
and
replacing my current one will or will not lose my desktop settings etc?


>
>         One query:  do you have any third-party add-on tools installed which
> override the default WPFolder object?  Anything like Object Desktop or
> anything?
>

Yes, I have OD 2.0.1 installed

However, the zip file "folders" open just fine, its just that normal folders
dont open
normally.


>
>         I still think you can fix things (with some help) without resorting
to
> anything hugely drastic.  If the above doesn't help any, let me know and
> I'll pull out my OS/2 WPS programming reference sometime this weekend
> and whip up an EXE for you which will (hopefully :) fix the problem.
>

I suppose if I can rebuild my folder class from ground up, I can always
Reinstall OD
without much hassle.

And to all those of you who are making suggestions to help me, thank you very
much!  My
invitation for 50MB free web server space stands to anyone who wants to email
me or find
me on EFNET and discuss arrangements.

Thanks!

-Dave
Warpedcow on EFNET
http://warpedcow.tsx.org
[e-mail]

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From: christian.hennecke@ruhr-uni-boch...               13-Nov-99 01:56:14
  To: All                                               12-Nov-99 21:25:08
Subj: Re: How to use more than 64MB under OS/2?

Message sender: [e-mail]

From: Christian Hennecke <[e-mail]>

Anssi Saari schrieb:
> Can we have your numbers? I got very minor differences either
> way. Results with the OS/2 setting on are on the left. K6-2 300, Asus
> T2P4, 128MB EDO RAM.
>
> Come to think of it, I guess it's within the realm of possibility that
> some motherboard might use different memory timings depending on that
> setting. Can't imagine why, though.

Sorry, I sold that board two months ago and I didn't save the result.
But I think I remember there was about 1/3 loss.

Christian Hennecke
--
Keep passing the open windows! ("The Hotel New Hampshire", John Irving)

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From: christian.hennecke@ruhr-uni-boch...               13-Nov-99 02:01:20
  To: All                                               12-Nov-99 21:25:08
Subj: Re: Please HELP! Folder Class Object Problem with Warp4 - prize for

Message sender: [e-mail]

From: Christian Hennecke <[e-mail]>

Brad BARCLAY schrieb:
>         Just FYI, in case you didn't see my script in response to this users
> query, in this case doing it recursively isn't going to buy you anything
> but more processing and IO time to do the actual recursion.  In this
> case, it would be easier to pipe the output of a DIR /AD /S /F through
> RXQUEUE and PULL directories off the queue iteratively, and then run
> SysSetObjectData against them.
>
>         Best of all, with this solution you don't need any third-party tools
or
> utilities - RXQUEUE comes bundled with OS/2.

Oh well! This is good to know.

>         Not meaning to critique your REXX capabilities - just a handy tip to
> keep in mind if you didn't already know about it :)

What REXX capabilities? I almost don't have any. ;-) You really caught
me!

Christian Hennecke
--
Keep passing the open windows! ("The Hotel New Hampshire", John Irving)

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