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From: [e-mail]                             04-Nov-99 15:24:01
  To: All                                               06-Nov-99 03:33:25
Subj: Re: Create file association that works from command prompt?

From: "Doug Darrow" <[e-mail]>

On Thu, 04 Nov 1999 17:15:45 GMT, Lorne Sunley wrote:

>What do you think the chances of IBM fixing this are if we
>report it as a "bug" in CMD.EXE? :-)

Absolutely and completely NIL. Because it isn't a bug. It's just the
fact that this is not withing the working parameters of CMD.EXE. EAs
are a WPS construct, not a cmd construct. It would be nice if they
WERE, but since they're not, I'll make do with a command interpretor
replacement, such as 4OS2, which at least understands executable
extenstions.



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From: [e-mail]                             05-Nov-99 22:51:01
  To: All                                               06-Nov-99 03:33:25
Subj: Re: Create file association that works from command prompt?

From: "Doug Darrow" <[e-mail]>

On Fri, 05 Nov 1999 17:19:04 -0700, Chuck McKinnis wrote:

>I think you might like Henk Kelder's latest release of wptools
>http://www.os2ss.com/information/kelder/
>He has added DEFASSOC.EXE, the help of which is:

DEFASSOC is nice but, unfortuantely, it doesn't do what he wants. What
it DOES do is allow you to set the file associations from the command
line. Once set, however, they still cannot be USED from the command
line. They still only work from the WPS.

What he WANTS to do is to be able to type a data file name and heve it
start the associated application to make use of that particular data
file. Example: typing document.dwp at the command line would
automatically start DeScribe WP and open document.dwp in it. In his
case, he wants to be able, on the command line, to type "someapp.pl"
and have it automatically invoke perl.exe to run someapp.pl. DEFASSOC
won't do that at all.


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From: @tin.it                                           06-Nov-99 07:35:08
  To: All                                               06-Nov-99 05:25:27
Subj: Re: Styler/2 AKA SmartWindows Increases Performace?

From: @tin.it (Alessandro Cantatore)

In article <[e-mail]>,
Aaron Lawrence <[e-mail]> wrote:

 >I seem to recall that the Styler/2 docs say it will improve performance
 >by removing some redundant black and white resources (now obsolete) and
 >the like from dialogs etc.

This is probably stated in the Dialog Enhancer documentation...
I never wrote such a thing (and I do not know either if that statement
is in any case valid)
My program substitutes some parts of the procedures of some kind of
PM controls with its own code.
Somebody else in past wrote me he got the feeling of performance increase.
I did nothing to improve performance... it might be a side effect
showing in some particular cases... I would rather expect a slight
decrease of performance, usually in the range of microseconds so
nothing detectable in the normal use or from programs like sysbench...

--
bye
Alessandro Cantatore
email reply to: alexcant at: tin.it
http://acsoft.ghostbbs.cx

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From: [e-mail]                          06-Nov-99 14:24:22
  To: All                                               06-Nov-99 14:36:00
Subj: Re: DualStor Restore (help?)

From: Paul Ratcliffe <[e-mail]>

Alan Beagley wrote:
>
> Ver. 2.0 handled the 250MB (compressed) tapes. Ver. 3.0 handled 800MB
> (compressed) tapes.

My OS/2 copy of 2.0 handles my Travan 1000 and the big (well they were
then!) tapes fine.

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From: [e-mail]                          06-Nov-99 14:23:13
  To: All                                               06-Nov-99 14:36:00
Subj: Re: DualStor Restore (help?)

From: Paul Ratcliffe <[e-mail]>

Spencer Lee wrote:
>
> Is there a Windows version of DualStor which will restore the files from the
> OS/2 DualStor backup? (from what I've gathered, the files that DualStor
> creates on the tape are 'EA' files - not sure if the Windows version uses
> the same format).

The format on the tape can either be QIC-80 or Dualstor format. Any
QIC-80 software will read QIC-80 tapes but only Dualstor will read a
Dualstor file system file.

> What do I have to do, and where can I get a copy of the DualStor software
> that I need?

There used to be limited functionality demo. versions around - I have
the DOS demo. but not the Windows demo. That would probably work under
Windows though - if not just boot DOS and run it.

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From: [e-mail]                                    06-Nov-99 09:24:28
  To: All                                               06-Nov-99 14:36:00
Subj: Re: Secure Internet ?

From: [e-mail] (Dan Casey)

In article <7vv7ga$43c$[e-mail]>, Peter Stahl <[e-mail]> wrote:
>Hi.
>I'm connecting to internet by a 33.6 kbs modem using
>Injoy + Smart Cache (Proxyserver) + Internet Adventurer
>and Netscape 4.61.

>Can anyone read and modify my disk from internet while
>I'm logged on to internet ?

>If so, what good does the Proxyserver do ?
>I know it is a cache but is the security better ?
>There is a Firewall to bye to Injoy, do I need it
>and is it worth it ?

There currently is an ongoing discussion of this on the Injoy mailing
List. You can subscribe to the list from the FX Communications website
at: http://www.fx.dk/

Basically, even with the Firewall product installed, the Firewall PC
is open to the  net. The Firewall protects systems on the LAN that are
connected to the  machine running Injoy, which  establishes the
connection to the net.



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From: [e-mail]                              06-Nov-99 11:44:22
  To: All                                               06-Nov-99 14:36:00
Subj: Re: Create file association that works from command prompt?

From: [e-mail] (Ted Todd)

In article <[e-mail]>,
"Doug Darrow" <[e-mail]> wrote:
>On Fri, 05 Nov 1999 17:19:04 -0700, Chuck McKinnis wrote:
>
>>I think you might like Henk Kelder's latest release of wptools
>>http://www.os2ss.com/information/kelder/
>>He has added DEFASSOC.EXE, the help of which is:
>
>DEFASSOC is nice but, unfortuantely, it doesn't do what he wants. What
>it DOES do is allow you to set the file associations from the command
>line. Once set, however, they still cannot be USED from the command
>line. They still only work from the WPS.
>
>What he WANTS to do is to be able to type a data file name and heve it
>start the associated application to make use of that particular data
>file. Example: typing document.dwp at the command line would
>automatically start DeScribe WP and open document.dwp in it. In his
>case, he wants to be able, on the command line, to type "someapp.pl"
>and have it automatically invoke perl.exe to run someapp.pl. DEFASSOC
>won't do that at all.
>
>
You can accomplish some of this with YAOS,
"Yet another OS/2 shell".  YAOS can be
started with a settings file that specifies
which application to load for a given file
extension.  Here is my settings file (which
was more extensive before I lost my E:
partition a few weeks back :().

[E:\UTIL]type yaos.rc
alias l=dir /w
alias ll=dir /p
alias c=cls
alias a=alias
alias line=mode co80, %1
alias ps=pstat /c | more
alias vi=tedit
alias cat=type
ext txt=tedit
ext sys=e
ext zip=unzip -l
ext inf=view

I could enter README.TXT from the command prompt
and it would be loaded in TEDIT.

Hope this is helpful.

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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 10:56:12
  To: All                                               06-Nov-99 16:43:23
Subj: Re: Create file association that works from command prompt?

From: Chuck McKinnis <[e-mail]>

Yeah, I know.  I don't use any of the command line processor
replacements.  Can they do these kinds of things?

Doug Darrow wrote:
>
> On Fri, 05 Nov 1999 17:19:04 -0700, Chuck McKinnis wrote:
>
> >I think you might like Henk Kelder's latest release of wptools
> >http://www.os2ss.com/information/kelder/
> >He has added DEFASSOC.EXE, the help of which is:
>
> DEFASSOC is nice but, unfortuantely, it doesn't do what he wants. What
> it DOES do is allow you to set the file associations from the command
> line. Once set, however, they still cannot be USED from the command
> line. They still only work from the WPS.
>
> What he WANTS to do is to be able to type a data file name and heve it
> start the associated application to make use of that particular data
> file. Example: typing document.dwp at the command line would
> automatically start DeScribe WP and open document.dwp in it. In his
> case, he wants to be able, on the command line, to type "someapp.pl"
> and have it automatically invoke perl.exe to run someapp.pl. DEFASSOC
> won't do that at all.

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

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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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From: [e-mail]                                      06-Nov-99 19:22:03
  To: All                                               06-Nov-99 16:43:23
Subj: Create file association that works from command prompt?

From: [e-mail] (Steen Bondo)

Chuck McKinnis wrote in a message to Doug Darrow:

CM> Yeah, I know.  I don't use any of the command line processor
CM> replacements.  Can they do these kinds of things?

I already told you.! 4OS2 does it.
--
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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 21:56:02
  To: All                                               06-Nov-99 20:02:25
Subj: Re: Secure Internet ?

From: James Moe <[e-mail]>


Peter Stahl wrote:
>
> Hi.
>
> I'm connecting to internet by a 33.6 kbs modem using
> Injoy + Smart Cache (Proxyserver) + Internet Adventurer
> and Netscape 4.61.
>
> Can anyone read and modify my disk from internet while
> I'm logged on to internet ?
>
    No. The connection is outgoing only. All anyone can see is your
service provider.

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From: [e-mail]                             06-Nov-99 16:54:20
  To: All                                               06-Nov-99 21:41:10
Subj: Re: Create file association that works from command prompt?

From: "Doug Darrow" <[e-mail]>

On Sat, 06 Nov 1999 10:56:24 -0700, Chuck McKinnis wrote:

>Yeah, I know.  I don't use any of the command line processor
>replacements.  Can they do these kinds of things?

Sort of... 4OS2, for instance, can set what's called executable
extensions. In config.sys or startup.cmd he would add the line:

SET .pl=x:\bin\perl.exe

then, from the command line he would type someapp.pl and 4OS2's command
processor replacement would recognize the .pl extension, and would then
start the perl.exe located in x:\bin\ and pass someapp.pl as the
command line parameter. This would accomplish what he wants in this
case. But it is NOT checking to see what type the file is defined as in
the EAs, it is merely recognizing the necessary executable required to
run it by the extension of the file. Actually, it's smarter even than
this because it isn't necessary to type the .pl extension as long as
there isn't another someapp with a .com, .exe, or .bat located earlier
along the search path.



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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 20:15:11
  To: All                                               07-Nov-99 03:28:17
Subj: Backup software and CD-RW

From: "Don Million" <[e-mail]>

I have a new PIII with a CD-RW and I want use it the for backing up my data
files. The documentation from Adaptec doesn't talk about saving modified
files, like the tape drive software does on my old machine. Has anybody used
the CD-RW for this kind of thing and what software did you use?
Thanks for any help,
Don Million



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From: [e-mail]                              07-Nov-99 14:58:27
  To: All                                               07-Nov-99 15:15:21
Subj: CD-RW for OS2

From: [e-mail] (A. Willard Reese)

I'm considering buying a Yamaha  6x4x16 internal SCSI-2 CD-RW kit with
an Adaptec PCI SCSI interface card to run on my Warp 4.0, fixpak 11,
system. Can anyone tell me their experience with such a setup?  How
about drivers for OS2?  What problems have been encountered, etc?  The
price is right on this combination but it's no good to me if it won't
run in OS2.
Thanks for any help,
Willard


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From: [e-mail]                                07-Nov-99 11:30:05
  To: All                                               07-Nov-99 15:15:22
Subj: Re: CD-RW for OS2

From: [e-mail] (Jerry McBride)

In article <OsgV3.51602$[e-mail]>,
[e-mail] (A. Willard Reese) wrote:
>I'm considering buying a Yamaha  6x4x16 internal SCSI-2 CD-RW kit with
>an Adaptec PCI SCSI interface card to run on my Warp 4.0, fixpak 11,
>system. Can anyone tell me their experience with such a setup?  How
>about drivers for OS2?  What problems have been encountered, etc?  The
>price is right on this combination but it's no good to me if it won't
>run in OS2.
>

Right off the bat... the 6416 runs just fine under all versions of OS/2 with
the exception of... there have been posts to the effect that the 6416 is not
able to cda with certain software...  Why? I have no idea as I don't own one.

I do own two 4416s drives that have worked flawlessly under os/2 in all
reguards.

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From: [e-mail]                             07-Nov-99 17:42:04
  To: All                                               07-Nov-99 15:15:22
Subj: OS20MEMU

From: [e-mail] (Ron Ratney)

I recently installed FIXPAK 12 and now OS20MEMU doesn't work. There is an
error message that a more recent version of OS20MEMU is required. Is there a
way to fix this?


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From: [e-mail]                             07-Nov-99 22:06:15
  To: All                                               07-Nov-99 20:07:02
Subj: Re: CD-RW for OS2

From: [e-mail] (Edward Germain)

On Sun, 7 Nov 1999 16:30:11, [e-mail] (Jerry McBride) wrote:

> >I'm considering buying a Yamaha  6x4x16 internal SCSI-2 CD-RW kit with
> >an Adaptec PCI SCSI interface card to run on my Warp 4.0, fixpak 11,
> >system. Can anyone tell me their experience with such a setup?  How
> >about drivers for OS2?  What problems have been encountered, etc?  The
> >price is right on this combination but it's no good to me if it won't
> >run in OS2.
> >
>
> Right off the bat... the 6416 runs just fine under all versions of OS/2 with
> the exception of...

Hmm, I'm in an almost similar situation.  Only I have an Adaptec 2940
on the motherboard.  I imagine it would work OK in this setup, too.
Any comments?

--Ed Germain


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From: [e-mail]                                    07-Nov-99 23:25:06
  To: All                                               07-Nov-99 21:28:07
Subj: Re: CD-RW for OS2

From: [e-mail] (Bob Eager)

On Sun, 7 Nov 1999 22:06:31, [e-mail] (Edward Germain)
wrote:

> > Right off the bat... the 6416 runs just fine under all versions of OS/2
with
> > the exception of...
>
> Hmm, I'm in an almost similar situation.  Only I have an Adaptec 2940
> on the motherboard.  I imagine it would work OK in this setup, too.
> Any comments?

I've been running the 4416S for several months now. I have an IBM
Server 325 which has the Adaptec 7880 on the main board (2940
chipset). Runs fine.

I use the RSJ software, which I found was cheaper from BMT Micro!

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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]...               07-Nov-99 15:38:08
  To: All                                               07-Nov-99 21:28:08
Subj: Theta Band Software announces the distribution of MMPack through Mensys

Message sender: [e-mail]

From: Julien Pierre <[e-mail]>


Theta Band Software's Multimedia Pack for OS/2 is now available for
ordering
through Mensys at http://www.mensys.nl .

MMPack is a collection of utilities to enhance OS/2 multimedia, and
contains
the following programs :

MMCheck
This is a utility that checks your MMPM/2 installation (i.e.
MMPM2.INI) for errors or suspicious settings. If it finds any, it  will
tell
you what they are, so that you can fix them.

MPU-401 Driver
This is a replacement for IBM's MPU-401 driver, which is used to  MIDI
support
for a number of sound cards, including sound cards that  use the Crystal
Semiconductor drivers. Enhancements over
IBM's driver
include :

                fixes for Warp 3
                SMP compatibility
                better hardware compatibility
                DOS sharing
                RTMIDI recording without an IRQ
                and more!

NPDSMI 2.0

This is a plug-in for Netscape Navigator and Communicator for OS/2.  The
function of the DSMI plug-in is to play music module files  embedded on
web
pages. Module files are 32 channel digital music and  are of
tremendously high
quality. This new version 2.0 of the DSMI  Netscape plug-in supports
compressed zip module files.

More information about MMPack is available on our web site at

http://www.thetaband.com

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From: [e-mail]                               07-Nov-99 18:53:02
  To: All                                               07-Nov-99 21:28:08
Subj: Re: CD-RW for OS2

From: Duane Chamblee <[e-mail]>

Bob Eager wrote:
> I've been running the 4416S for several months now. I have an IBM
> Server 325 which has the Adaptec 7880 on the main board (2940
> chipset). Runs fine.

Ditto, I make the some WarpUP! cds with this.

> I use the RSJ software, which I found was cheaper from BMT Micro!

Actually, have you looked at Indelible Blue's price recently? ;-)

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From: [e-mail]                                  08-Nov-99 14:32:22
  To: All                                               08-Nov-99 03:40:16
Subj: Re: Theta Band Software announces the distribution of MMPack through

From: Aaron Lawrence <[e-mail]>

Julien Pierre wrote:

> Theta Band Software's Multimedia Pack for OS/2 is now available for
> ordering
> through Mensys at http://www.mensys.nl .

I had a look at this, and it's cool, but the things in it aren't really
compelling to me. There are more pressing problems with MMOS/2 such as the
lack of much PCI soundcard support. IMHO.



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From: [e-mail]                    08-Nov-99 04:15:18
  To: All                                               08-Nov-99 03:40:17
Subj: Re: CD-RW for OS2

From: [e-mail] (John Hong)

A. Willard Reese ([e-mail]) wrote:
: I'm considering buying a Yamaha  6x4x16 internal SCSI-2 CD-RW kit with
: an Adaptec PCI SCSI interface card to run on my Warp 4.0, fixpak 11,
: system. Can anyone tell me their experience with such a setup?  How
: about drivers for OS2?  What problems have been encountered, etc?  The
: price is right on this combination but it's no good to me if it won't
: run in OS2.

    Is the Yamaha your only choice?  Seeing as how Plextor, Yamaha,
and Ricoh all make the best CDR/CDRW drives, the Ricoh models I find (at
least in Canada) seem to run a little cheaper.  In my case, only $40, but
still...$40 more for buying CDR's for me. ;-)
    I have the 7040S (4x write, 4x re-write, 20x read).  They have a
newer model that replaces it in the 7060S (a 6x write).  Plextor while
being the best of the bunch are also the most expensive.

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From: [e-mail]                                        08-Nov-99 02:39:17
  To: All                                               08-Nov-99 03:40:17
Subj: ProNews2 trouble; Memory leak?

From: Daniel Say <[e-mail]>

  I've had a recent problem with ProNews2,
which is why I'm not using it here.

  When pulling in the newsgroups and messages,
near the end of the task it crashes giving me
a Trap E error, and a previous message about
Newserver swapfile is full.
  I've moved my OS/2 swapfile address to
a volume with 270 megabytes; it used to be
at the \os2\system with about 70 megabytes
free.

  The program is fine until the end when
there is a rush of RAM (62 megabytes) deletion
or outflow.  That is my PmPatrol monitor line
shows that RAM is dropping fast and going to
zero from about 50 megabytes.  This is a
sudden change.

  Has there been a memory leak problem documented
before?

                Daniel Say
                [e-mail]

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From: [e-mail]                                   08-Nov-99 08:32:12
  To: All                                               08-Nov-99 03:40:17
Subj: Unattended Shutdown

From: Sergey Antipov <[e-mail]>

Hello everybody!
Please help me to find an utility to shutdown OS/2 Warp 3 in unattended
mode, i.e. from batch file, with no one pressing "Yes" button during
shutdown. The task is to shut down OS/2 server from UPS. PowerShute for
OS/2 does not works.
Please e-mail to [e-mail]
Thanks in advance,
Sergey Antipov

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From: [e-mail]                             08-Nov-99 06:29:17
  To: All                                               08-Nov-99 03:40:17
Subj: Re: Unattended Shutdown

From: [e-mail] (Dominique Pivard)

The Extended Shutdown facility included in XFolder will do this.

It's free and you can find it in
http://www2.hu-berlin.de/~h0444vnd/xfldr.htm

HTH, Dominique

On Mon, 8 Nov 1999 05:32:25, Sergey Antipov <[e-mail]> wrote:

> Hello everybody!
> Please help me to find an utility to shutdown OS/2 Warp 3 in unattended
> mode, i.e. from batch file, with no one pressing "Yes" button during
> shutdown. The task is to shut down OS/2 server from UPS. PowerShute for
> OS/2 does not works.


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From: [e-mail]                                    08-Nov-99 21:43:26
  To: All                                               08-Nov-99 20:06:28
Subj: Re: CD-RW for OS2

From: [e-mail] (Pierre Jelenc)

Jerry McBride <[e-mail]> writes:
>
> Right off the bat... the 6416 runs just fine under all versions of OS/2 with
> the exception of... there have been posts to the effect that the 6416 is not
> able to cda with certain software...  Why? I have no idea as I don't own
one.

That was me. It works fine with cdda2wav from the cdrecord package, but
that seems to be the only one.

There seems to be a bug in cdda2wav, but it's minor. If you try to rip a
number of tracks, say 2-5, and track 5 is longer than track 4, then track
5 will be truncated to the length of track 4. There is no problem in
single-track ripping.

Pierre
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                               |  Pawnshop's "Three Brass Balls" is out!
The New York City Beer Guide   |      RAW Kinder's "CD EP" is out!
   http://www.nycbeer.org      | Home Office Records http://www.web-ho.com

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From: [e-mail]                                 09-Nov-99 07:29:25
  To: All                                               09-Nov-99 05:19:24
Subj: Re: Unattended Shutdown

From: "William R. Estrada II" <[e-mail]>

Sergey,

  Look on the Net for an IBM EWS package called 'APMT'.  With it
you can find the 'Yes' window and click it.

  If you can't find it, I have the URL at work.

             William Estrada.

Sergey Antipov wrote:
>
> Hello everybody!
> Please help me to find an utility to shutdown OS/2 Warp 3 in unattended
> mode, i.e. from batch file, with no one pressing "Yes" button during
> shutdown. The task is to shut down OS/2 server from UPS. PowerShute for
> OS/2 does not works.
> Please e-mail to [e-mail]
> Thanks in advance,
> Sergey Antipov

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From: [e-mail]                              08-Nov-99 16:23:26
  To: All                                               09-Nov-99 10:58:10
Subj: Re: Installation of Kensington Expert Mouse

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

Stan Goodman wrote:

>Expert Mouse v5.0,
> I would like to be able to run the manufacturer's driver, and >to make use
of all four buttons on this device. Does anyone >know how to do this?

It never worked for me, other than the default two buttons.  Put this
one in the Hall of Shame, alongside the OS/2 version of Iomega Tools for
the Zip Drive.  Great trackball design, though.  Mine just died after
nearly two years of service.  Now using one of the Logitech Marble
models, and very glad I picked it up cheaply as a spare.

<jf>

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From: [e-mail]                        08-Nov-99 15:00:02
  To: All                                               09-Nov-99 14:42:23
Subj: Re: CD-RW for OS2

From: [e-mail] (Alex Taylor)

On Sun, 07 Nov 1999 14:58:54 GMT, A. Willard Reese <[e-mail]>
wrote:
> I'm considering buying a Yamaha  6x4x16 internal SCSI-2 CD-RW kit with
> an Adaptec PCI SCSI interface card to run on my Warp 4.0, fixpak 11,
> system. Can anyone tell me their experience with such a setup?  How
> about drivers for OS2?  What problems have been encountered, etc?  The
> price is right on this combination but it's no good to me if it won't
> run in OS2.

I used my 6416s to cut a CD in Warp (fp9) this very morning.  :)

My SCSI adapter is a Mylex BT-958, however.  As long as the SCSI card is
supported by OS/2 there should be no problem.  Pretty much any SCSI CDRW
should work.  You just need the SCSI adapter driver and an ASPI router
driver, plus software.

CDRecord/2 is free software, and works fine with SCSI CDRW's, although
it's not all that easy to use (command-line, although some crude PM
front ends are available).  Includes mkisofs and instructions for
installing the ASPI router.

RSJ is basically your only other option (and your only option, period,
if you have an IDE CDRW).  It's supposed to be really nice, easy to
use, and powerful.  And also very expensive.

--
-----------------------------------------------------------------
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 [e-mail]   http://eddie.cis.uoguelph.ca/~alex
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From: [e-mail]                        08-Nov-99 15:11:15
  To: All                                               09-Nov-99 14:42:23
Subj: Re: Theta Band Software announces the distribution of MMPack through  M

From: [e-mail] (Alex Taylor)

On Mon, 08 Nov 1999 14:32:45 +1300, Aaron Lawrence <[e-mail]> wrote:
> > Theta Band Software's Multimedia Pack for OS/2 is now available for
> > ordering through Mensys at http://www.mensys.nl .
>
> I had a look at this, and it's cool, but the things in it aren't really
> compelling to me. There are more pressing problems with MMOS/2 such as the
> lack of much PCI soundcard support. IMHO.

My main issue with MMOS/2 is the broken mixer system.  If they could
fix that (REALLY fix it, not just work around it like aMixer et al),
I'd pay for it!  As it is, it causes me no end of frustration when all
the damn volume settings reset themselves after every event.

--
-----------------------------------------------------------------
 Alex Taylor                  BA - CIS - University of Guelph
 [e-mail]   http://eddie.cis.uoguelph.ca/~alex
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From: [e-mail]                             08-Nov-99 07:58:21
  To: All                                               09-Nov-99 14:42:23
Subj: Re: Unattended Shutdown

From: [e-mail]

In <[e-mail]>, on 11/08/99
   at 08:32 AM, Sergey Antipov <[e-mail]> said:

>Please help me to find an utility to shutdown OS/2 Warp 3 in
>unattended mode, i.e. from batch file, with no one pressing "Yes"
>button during

I have configured Ctrl-Alt-Del Commander to close all my programs
that want a "Yes" answer so I can shut down without those
interruptions.

--
-----------------------------------------------------------
Bob Stephan [e-mail] or [e-mail]
  Happily using OS/2 Warp on the Central California Coast.
   http://www.redshift.com/~bstephan
-----------------------------------------------------------

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From: [e-mail]                                08-Nov-99 20:24:03
  To: All                                               09-Nov-99 20:25:15
Subj: Re: CD-RW for OS2

From: [e-mail] (Jerry McBride)

In article <807g6o$c7m$[e-mail]>,
[e-mail] (Pierre Jelenc) wrote:
>Jerry McBride <[e-mail]> writes:
>>
>> Right off the bat... the 6416 runs just fine under all versions of OS/2
with
>> the exception of... there have been posts to the effect that the 6416 is
not
>> able to cda with certain software...  Why? I have no idea as I don't own
one.
>
>That was me. It works fine with cdda2wav from the cdrecord package, but
>that seems to be the only one.
>
>There seems to be a bug in cdda2wav, but it's minor. If you try to rip a
>number of tracks, say 2-5, and track 5 is longer than track 4, then track
>5 will be truncated to the length of track 4. There is no problem in
>single-track ripping.
>

YIPES! You're right! I was playing with cdda2wav last night and I kept getting
a short wav file when ripped in batch mode. However ripping it by-it's-self
would yield a full length wav! Wow! That one was driving me nuts!

Also, cdda2wav could use a little attention to it's jitter routine as it does
not always work really well...

Also, the -n switch simply fails to work! I can't reset the buffer to more
than
the default.

Hmmm... a little more documentation would be nice too... :')


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From: [e-mail]                        09-Nov-99 17:59:19
  To: All                                               09-Nov-99 21:17:16
Subj: Re: Unattended Shutdown

From: "Joseph O. Henley" <[e-mail]>

Sergey Antipov wrote:
>
> Hello everybody!
> Please help me to find an utility to shutdown OS/2 Warp 3 in unattended
> mode, i.e. from batch file, with no one pressing "Yes" button during
> shutdown. The task is to shut down OS/2 server from UPS. PowerShute for
> OS/2 does not works.
> Please e-mail to [e-mail]
> Thanks in advance,
> Sergey Antipov

Sergey,

Following is a post which I had saved for just such occasions.  Hope it
helps.

You'll probably want to use something like:  START /DOS ......

Joe
---------------------------------


From "Derek Hawkins" <[e-mail]>

Date Sent  Wed, 28 Apr 1999 23:51:05 -0400

Subject  Re: Turn of computer via software.

Here's how to do it from the DOS prompt in MSDOS mode without having to
use
the switch;

Type the following  lines (one is blank) in your favorite text editor
(EDIT
will do just fine) and save as text file SHUTDOWN.TXT;

N SHUTDOWN.COM
A CS:0100
MOV     AX,5301
XOR     BX,BX
INT     15
MOV     AX,530E
MOV     CX,0101
XOR     BX,BX
INT     15
MOV     AX,530F
MOV     BX,0001
MOV     CX,BX
INT     15
MOV     AX,5308
MOV     BX,0001
MOV     CX,BX
INT     15
MOV     AX,5307
MOV     BX,0001
MOV     CX,0003
INT     15
<blank line>
R CX
30
W
Q

Type and enter the following at a DOS prompt after doing the above;

DEBUG < SHUTDOWN.TXT

This will create the file SHUTDOWN.COM (48 bytes) in the same directory.
SHUTDOWN.COM will power-off the computer when executed in MSDOS mode.
This
should work with any ATX motherboard.

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From: [e-mail]                 09-Nov-99 19:04:24
  To: All                                               09-Nov-99 21:17:16
Subj: Re: Installation of Kensington Expert Mouse

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

I have a 4 button Kensington Thinking mouse that works just fine under OS/2.
You can map the extra 2 buttons to other "mouse macros" but not keyboard
macros.

On Mon, 08 Nov 1999 16:23:53 -0500, J. R. Fox wrote:

>Stan Goodman wrote:
>
>>Expert Mouse v5.0,
>> I would like to be able to run the manufacturer's driver, and >to make use
of all four buttons on this device. Does anyone >know how to do this?
>
>It never worked for me, other than the default two buttons.  Put this
>one in the Hall of Shame, alongside the OS/2 version of Iomega Tools for
>the Zip Drive.  Great trackball design, though.  Mine just died after
>nearly two years of service.  Now using one of the Logitech Marble
>models, and very glad I picked it up cheaply as a spare.
>
><jf>
>



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From: [e-mail]                                         10-Nov-99 07:50:04
  To: All                                               10-Nov-99 05:30:18
Subj: Logitech Cordless MouseMan Wheel in OS/2?

From: Anssi Saari <[e-mail]>

I have my eye on a "Logitech Cordless MouseMan Wheel"
(http://www.logitech.com/se/mice/mc83_100.html). I'm wondering if that
mouse works well in OS/2, especially the wheel?

The wheel mouse support IBM has available doesn't mention this
specific model, only a "Mouseman+" which isn't even mentioned on
Logitech's site, maybe it's an older model.

--
Anssi Saari - [e-mail]

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From: [e-mail]@mail.beol.net                       10-Nov-99 22:30:26
  To: All                                               10-Nov-99 21:35:27
Subj: Re: OS/2 Backup Question

From: [e-mail]@mail.beol.net

In <NdhW3.30695$[e-mail]>, "David Lee"
<david.lee*nospam*@pronexus.com> writes:
>Hello again, OS/2 guru's,
>
>I have a set of floppy disks that each contain 2 files called BACKUP.00x and
>CONTROL.00x, where x=1 to 5 (there are 5 disks).
>
>I suspect that these may have been created using OS/2.
>
>Is there an OS/2 backup utility that creates filenames in this format? I
>know MS-DOS did, but DOS 5 and DOS 6 will not recognize them as valid backup
>files (the files are dated October 1995).
>
>Thanks!!
>
>David Lee
>
>

There is still an OS/2 BACKUP command, and a corresponding RESTORE
command. AFAIR, these have been there since at least OS/2 1.1, maybe
before. Go to an OS/2 window and type HELP RESTORE.

To find out what is on your backup disks, you should be able to issued:

RESTORE A: C:\*.* /S /D

where /D will list file ids, and /S will do that for all subdirectories that
were backed up.

R; B-)

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From: david.lee*nospam*@pronexus.com                    11-Nov-99 00:11:26
  To: All                                               10-Nov-99 21:35:27
Subj: Re: OS/2 Backup Question

From: "David Lee" <david.lee*nospam*@pronexus.com>

Thanks.

Do you know if later versions of OS/2 Restore will work with files backed up
with earlier versions of Backup? I know MS DOS changed the file formats with
every version of DOS, so you have to have the exact version of the utilities
to restore any files.


David


<[e-mail]@mail.beol.net> wrote in message
news:80crmt$n3g$[e-mail]...
> In <NdhW3.30695$[e-mail]>, "David Lee"
<david.lee*nospam*@pronexus.com> writes:

> There is still an OS/2 BACKUP command, and a corresponding RESTORE
> command. AFAIR, these have been there since at least OS/2 1.1, maybe
> before. Go to an OS/2 window and type HELP RESTORE.
>
> To find out what is on your backup disks, you should be able to issued:
>
> RESTORE A: C:\*.* /S /D
>
> where /D will list file ids, and /S will do that for all subdirectories
that
> were backed up.
>
> R; B-)


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From: [e-mail]                                   11-Nov-99 06:50:16
  To: [e-mail], bstephan@r..               11-Nov-99 03:54:24
Subj: Re: Unattended Shutdown

To: [e-mail], [e-mail]
From: "Sergey N. Antipov" <[e-mail]>

May You please provide me with some details? What is "Ctrl-Alt-Del
Commander"? If utility, please post an URL. If tuninig, please detail.
Seems that this is what I am looking for.
Sergey.


[e-mail] wrote:

> In <[e-mail]>, on 11/08/99
>    at 08:32 AM, Sergey Antipov <[e-mail]> said:
>
> >Please help me to find an utility to shutdown OS/2 Warp 3 in
> >unattended mode, i.e. from batch file, with no one pressing "Yes"
> >button during
>
> I have configured Ctrl-Alt-Del Commander to close all my programs
> that want a "Yes" answer so I can shut down without those
> interruptions.
>
> --
> -----------------------------------------------------------
> Bob Stephan [e-mail] or [e-mail]
>   Happily using OS/2 Warp on the Central California Coast.
>    http://www.redshift.com/~bstephan
> -----------------------------------------------------------

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From: [e-mail]               11-Nov-99 03:59:06
  To: All                                               11-Nov-99 03:54:24
Subj: Re: DualStor Restore (help?)

From: [e-mail] (Paul Saletan)

DualStor has the option to write tapes using either its own
proprietary format or the QIC-80 file system.  QIC-80 can be restored
from practically any WIN/DOS tape program.  In that case, installing
OS/2 and Dualstor just to copy off the data would be unnecessary.  I
would check this out before going to all that work.


"Spencer Lee" <sleeman@*nospam*ottawa.com> wrote:

>Hello all OS/2 gurus,
>
>Got a bit of a problem I'm hoping someone here can offer advice for.
>
>I have a customer sending me a back up of a bunch of files on QIC-80 tapes
>from a PS/2 machine running OS/2, and backed up with DualStor.
>
>I need to get these files into a Windows machine.
>
>I am getting a copy of OS/2, and I have a Colorado Jumbo 250 tape drive,
>which I understand DualStor supports, so I could (if I had a copy of
>DualStor) set up an OS/2 computer on my network, restore the files, and copy
>them over to a Windows box (I think).
>
>Questions:
>
>Is there a Windows version of DualStor which will restore the files from the
>OS/2 DualStor backup? (from what I've gathered, the files that DualStor
>creates on the tape are 'EA' files - not sure if the Windows version uses
>the same format).
>
>What do I have to do, and where can I get a copy of the DualStor software
>that I need?
>
>
>Thanks muchly,
>
>Sleeman
>


// Paul Saletan  ** Please remove NOJUNKMAIL from address when replying

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From: [e-mail]                                      10-Nov-99 19:25:16
  To: All                                               11-Nov-99 03:54:25
Subj: Unattended Shutdown

From: [e-mail] (Steen Bondo)

Sergey Antipov wrote in a message to All:

SA> Please help me to find an utility to shutdown OS/2 Warp 3 in
SA> unattended mode, i.e. from batch file, with no one pressing "Yes"

If you have BootManager installed - "setboot /b" I suppose it works for
W3 as well.

Gammatech has <reboot.exe>....
--
Steen

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From: [e-mail]                    11-Nov-99 11:57:15
  To: All                                               11-Nov-99 10:44:24
Subj: (1/2) Backup & Defragmentation 3.5

From: [e-mail] (John Hong)

                  Backup & Defragmentation 3.5

     This is just a little primer drawn up in order to help OS/2
users to use common compression utilities such as PkZip for backing
up their OS/2 drives.  Another use for this is also to fight
against fragmentation.  OS/2's HPFS file system does not fragment
like the way FAT drives do, but it does become susceptible to it
when the drive is almost full.  So, the best remedy is to backup
the data, format the partition, then unarchive the backup back to
the original partition and you are back in business.
     Prior to doing this, be sure to create boot disks in order to
compress/uncompress the backup files.  You can use either the
Create Utility Diskettes option in OS/2's System Folder or (a
better option) use BootOS/2 in order to make them.  BootOS/2 in
particular is more advantageous since it would only need two 3.5"
1.44 MB diskettes over the three needed by OS/2 Warp 3 & Connect
and the four for OS/2 Warp 4.  Plus, one can also use LxLite
compression with BootOS/2 in order to save that little extra bit of
disk space necessary.  As well, you can probably use it for an
LS-120 or ZIP disk whereas the Utility Diskettes option would not
support it.  BootOS/2 can be found at the Hobbes OS/2 Archive
(http://hobbes.nmsu.edu).  LxLite can be found at LEO
(http://www.leo.org) and possibly also at Hobbes.
     I'm sure some will ask, "But John, what about PowerQuest's
Drive Image or Norton's Ghost?"  Well, there really is no problem
with those programs.  They do as advertised, they backup the hard
drive into an image.  That image can be restored onto a single
machine (or if you have the Drive Image Pro) onto a network of
multiple machines.  Unfortunately, the problem with disk imaging
programs like those is that they do absolutely nothing about the
fragmentation of the file system.  Keep in mind, programs like
Drive Image and Ghost simply make a *mirror* image of the hard
drive's partitions.  This means that not only does it copy the
data, but also the holes that whatever file system left behind
after days, months, years, etc. of disk thrashing.  In a nut shell,
Drive Image and Ghost not only copy the hard drive data, but also
the fragmentation of the file system.  This is where this little
primer really comes into play.  Of course, the advantage with
something like Drive Image Pro is the ability to restore onto a
multitude of networked computers.  Something that would be a pretty
big pain in the butt by this method.

     EXTRA: It is a good idea to make your backups booting through
your bootdisks since there maybe locked files that won't be
compressed.  Locked files are files that are currently in use by
OS/2 and will not allow any kind of manipulation from the user to
take place.
     EXTRA EXTRA: Before making a backup, it maybe a good idea to
run CHKDSK from the bootable floppies first.  Another thing, make
sure you run CHKDSK (CHKDSK X: /F:2) twice in a row.  I picked up
this little tidbit from the "OS/2 Warp Unleashed" book by SAMS
Publishing (fine book, BTW).  It is found in Chapter 18, dealing
with troubleshooting on page 941:

     "Note that if you running HPFS, then you should periodically
     run CHKDSK C: /F:2 twice.  The first pass checks and cleans
     the primary HPFS structures, and the second pass checks and
     clears the secondary HPFS structures."

     BTW: When I say it was tested personally under an OS/2
system, it means that I had tested it under a bootable OS/2
partition and not just a partition with data on it.

     DISCLAIMER: The only guarentee that I can possibly give is
that the methods here work on the systems that I have tested.  All
bets are off for OS/2 Warp for e-Business I'm afraid since I do not
have that.  I no longer have OS/2 Warp 4 anymore, either (sold
that).  I'm strictly running OS/2 Warp Connect, but I don't expect
much to be different from OS/2 Warp 4 though.  Basically the same
kernel and filesystem afterall.  It is with OS/2 Warp for e-
Business that is a little different since its kernel no longer has
that memory addressing limitation and uses a different method of
organizing its file system due to the addition of JFS.

     Updates:

     * Added DISCLAIMER
     * RAR/2 2.60
     * ARJ/2 2.62
     * Windows 95 - FAT32
     * BootOS/2 9.26

     To Do List:

     * Testing ARJ/2 2.6x once it gets out of beta.  Just
     wondering, has there been any progress with this lately?  ARJ
     is now at v2.70.


                *NEWS* Warp for e-Business *NEWS*

     Okay, now that you've seent this, I have read of a user on
Usenet trying to use RAR/2 2.50 in order to backup their Warp for
e-Business partition.  It didn't work, apparently the EA's were
trashed.  Possibly this may have something to do with the new LVM
and JFS.  I don't know since I do not have Warp for e-Business, and
thus have no way of verifying.  So at this point in time it is best
not to try using any of these methods for backing up Warp for
e-Business.
     In the event if anyone is successful, please email me ASAP and
give me the details.


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Overall
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Compression    | Disk Spanning | Requires PM |  Recovery | EA's |
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PkZip/2 2.50   |      Yes      |     Yes     |    Yes    |  Yes |
Info-Zip 2.22  |      No       |      No     |    Yes    |  Yes |
RAR/2 2.60     |      Yes      |      No     |    Yes    |  Yes |
ARJ/2 2.62 Beta|      Yes      |      No     |    Yes    |   No |
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Disk Spanning: Ability to support multiple archives.  Basically
     once the disk or cartridge is full, it can ask the user to
     insert another disk or cartridge in order for it continue.
     A Yes is good.
Requires PM: Does the compression program require the PM,
     Presentation Manager.  This is OS/2's GUI.  A no is a good
     answer since it would be impossible to boot OS/2 up with
     regular floppies with the PM (unless it was a ZIP/LS-120
     booting with A: drive).
Recovery: Ability to recover/fix a corrupt archive, ie. PkZipFix.
     A yes here is a good answer.  If the file is corrupt you can
     at least salvage something from it.
EA's: Ability to save OS/2's Extended Attributes.  A yes here is
     a must for OS/2.
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Info-Zip for OS/2 (v2.22)
http://www.cdrom.com/pub/infozip/

     Works very well under OS/2.  Use the following switches:

zip -rS$ (destination/name of backup) *

example:

zip -rS$ F:\BACKUP.ZIP *

     Stick unzip.exe onto your OS/2 bootdisks, to restore the
drive simply:

unzip (name of backup)

example:

C: (being where I want it unzipped)
unzip F:\BACKUP.ZIP

     Info-Zip is fine if you are just going to back it up to
another partition or have a removable media drive large enough to
fit it.  Currently, Info-Zip is not able to handle disk spanning.
It is a future feature to be added according to their home webpage
when 3.0 comes out.

     Personally tested under a Warp 4 system (no FP's).

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PkZip for OS/2 (v2.50)
http://www.pkware.com

     Another that works well under OS/2.  Perhaps a little better
than Info-Zip since PkZip does handle disk spanning.  Use the
following switch:

pkzip /add /attr=all /dir=full /rec /volume=(drive letter)
       (destination/name of backup) *

example:

pkzip /add /attr=all /dir=full /rec /volume=C F:\BACKUP.ZIP *

     To enable disk spanning, add the /span switch before the
/volume one.
     Take note, use pkzip.exe, do not use pkzip2.cmd or else it
will simply fail and just zip up the volume label in a file
called "all.zip".

     Now to uncompress the archive, simply go:

pkzip /attr=all /dir=full /extract /mask=none /rec /volume=C
      (destination/name of backup)

example:

pkzip /attr=all /dir=full /extract /mask=none /rec /volume=C F:\BACKUP.ZIP C:

     Personally tested under a Warp 4 system (no FP's).

     Extra Note: Apparently the geniuses at PkWare designed PkZip
for OS/2 needing the Presentation Manager.  So, using the boot
disks from the Create Utility Disks function will not work.  The
only way for BootOS/2 to get this to work is with the TYPE=PM
option.  This of course will require a bootable device large
enough to handle the extra data.  So really you are going to need
a bootable ZIP or LS-120 device in order to get this working.
With that said, you can use unzip.exe in order to uncompress the
pkzipped files.  But, that has a problem too.  Currently UnZip
5.40 will not be able to unzip multiple archives (like Zip 2.22).
This is slated for the next major release (UnZip 6.00).

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*UPDATED*

RAR for OS/2 (v2.60)
http://www.rarsoft.com

     So much for easiest. :-(

     The folks behind RAR are now combining the OS/2 and DOS
versions together.  Now that is not the problem I have with it, it
is the fact that they are no longer going to provide a text-based
shell for RAR does.  After a couple of people emailed RARSOFT, the
response they got back was that they have no intention of putting
in a text-based shell anymore.  So, RAR is relegated back to the
rest of the command line utilities.  Pity.  It was a terrific and
easy compression utility to use.  I have kept the v2.50
instructions for anyone who still plans to use it, but be warned,
there are some fixes that v2.60 brings that people maybe interested
in.  Here are the most notable fixes:

1. Both compression and speed have been improved for RAR archives.
My thanks to Alexander Khoroshev and Bulat Ziganshin for hints,
which allowed me to achieve this.

<snip>

4. Previous RAR versions were not able to handle single files and
archives larger than 2 GB. This limitation does not exist any
more for RAR archives.  The new limitation is slightly more than
8,589,934,591 GB, that practically means "unlimited".  Note that
Win-95/98 file systems cannot handle files larger than 4 GB, you
need to use NTFS to work with such files.

This improvement is valid only for RAR archives, 4 GB limitation
for ZIP archives is not changed.

5. Significantly increased speed of scanning for large numbers of
files before archiving operations. Memory management also is
optimized, so now it is possible to handle hundreds of thousands,
or even millions of files.  WinRAR has been succesfully tested
with over million files.

6. Console RAR shows the total percentage of processed data when
archiving instead of the current file percentage as before.

     What is worse is that the RAR.TXT console manual is only
distributed in the WinRAR 2.60 for Windows 95/98 file.  I am just
wondering if they are that intent on killing their DOS and OS/2
user base, but anyways...

     I have yet to get this to work unfortunately. :-(

     I tried this to backup my OS/2 boot drive (C:).

C:\
rar32 a -m0 -r f:\test.rar

     It always comes out as "WARNING: No files added".  Funny thing
is, if I am in a directory it works.  Like this:

C:\UTILS
rar32 a -r f:\test.rar

     Anything in my UTILS directory such as FM2UTILS will be
archived properly.

C:\UTILS\FM2UTILS
        \CDRECORD
        \ETC

     All that is compressed.  Yet the thing is, if I am present in
my C:\, then the warning message alluded to earlier will always
appear.  Did I miss anything?


*OLD*

RAR for OS/2 (v2.50)

     Easiest one to use due to its Norton Commander-like
interface.  Go into RAR's configuration (press F9, it is the
first item on the menu) and make sure the following are checked
on:

     X - Always Solid Archiving
     X - Put Recovery Record

     X - Read Only
     X - Hidden
     X - System
     X - Archive

     X - Save extended attributes

     It could also be a good idea to check on multimedia
compression in order to get better compression.  The rest is
merely of choice, especially the compression (six methods to
choose) whether to be for the best compression (slowest) or no
compression at all in simply storing the files (fastest).
     In order to backup your OS/2 drive, simply hit the "+" key and
push enter in order to highlight all the directories (or select
whichever one's you intend to backup).  Push F5 in order to
compress onto a disk/cart and use Autodetect method in order
to ensure spanning across disks/carts (or you can specify exactly
what size you want).  Very easy.

     Take Note: Do not use "UNRAR.EXE" to restore!  Otherwise you
     will get a "Desktop can not be found in OS2.INI file,
     attempting to create Temporary Desktop" error message, where
     the Temperary Desktop will also fail, leaving you sitting at
     the PM with one OS/2 Window session.

     In order to restore, place RAR.EXE onto the OS/2 bootable
diskettes.  Start RAR.EXE up, now go to wherever you have the
file backed up to, enter it, this will allow you view the files
that are compressed inside the archived file.  Once that is done,
hit the "+" key and press enter in order to highlight all the
files.  Now, press ALT-F4 in order to restore by choosing the
destination.  Simply put in "C:" or wherever your original boot
partition was.  Once all of it extracted, there you go.  I think we
have a winner.

     Personally tested under a Warp 4 system (no FP's) and a Warp
3 system (FP40 applied).

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ARJ/2 (v2.62) *UPDATE*
http://hobbes.nmsu.edu

     I confess that I have not yet tested ARJ/2, but I wouldn't
recommend using it just yet since it is still in a beta stage,
and does not save EA's.  But you could use EAUTIL in order to do
this for you, but that is a bit of a chore especially since the
other compression utilities here can do this automatically.  So
what would be the point?

     What's the point?  Well, it looks like there is quite a good
point now that RAR/2 has changed a bit.  I am guilty of letting
ARJ/2 go by the wayside.  Hopefully I can make ammends by getting
off my lazy duff and trying to figure out a way to get ARJ/2
working in this manner of B&D.  Now, as I said earlier ARJ/2 is

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From: [e-mail]                    11-Nov-99 11:57:15
  To: All                                               11-Nov-99 10:44:24
Subj: (2/2) Backup & Defragmentation 3.5

still in beta and does not save extended attributes.  The EA's are
as you know a pretty big deal for where OS/2 is concerned.  Luckily
there was help well before the ARJ/2 port was even started.
EABACKUP & EARESTORE, two programs which make up EABK203.ZIP which
can be downloaded from Hobbes.  These utilities date way back to
1994!  Their sole purpose of being is to backup/restore OS/2's
extended attributes.
     Before I get started, be sure you use v2.61 and not v2.62, I
remember getting an email from the guy making the port.  He stated
that there is a bug with v2.62, problem is I can't remember for the
life of me on what that even was.  I think it had something to do
with the length of characters on a HPFS file name.  So, best use
v2.61 for now.  You will also noticed that there is a LX compressed
version available for download from Hobbes.  Good idea to nab that
one in order to stick onto the bootdisks.

     To backup OS/2, assuming your OS/2 drive is C: drive, run
ARJ/2:

arj a -a1 -b2 -jf -js -r -vvas X:/BACKUP.ARJ C:

     It will then go into its own command shell, just type in exit
and it will start packing away.
     To adjust compression method, the syntax is -m<0-4>.  0 is for
no compression (just storing), 1 is actually the best compression
which is the default.  2-4 being lower, 4 beingt the fastest
offering the least amount of compression.  Now, there is a way to
add build protection (-hk) but I would strongly recommend against
it.  I suppose this is like RAR/2's adding recovery record, but a
warning to anyone using it, it takes forever just to complete.  The
(-va) is to enable the autodetection disk spanning.  You can
specify the amount if you wish (eg. -v1440 for 1.44 MB floppies).
     Now, to backup the EA's:

EABACKUP C: X: /S

     This will create two files on the X: drive, [e-mail] and
[e-mail].  Now you can format the C: drive.  To restore, run:

arj x X:/BACKUP.ARJ C: -vv -y

     Don't forget to restore the EA's!

EARESTOR X: C: /S

     Now you are set, reboot and everything should now be working.

     Personally tested under a Warp 3 system (FP39 applied).

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Note: I only intend to write about currently supported compression
utilities.  In otherwords, LHA and ZOO for instance I simply will
ignore.  Neither one has been updated since 1989-1993, and are
relatively old and obsolete given the others listed here.


Windows 95 - FAT32 (http://www.microsoft.com) - *UPDATED*

     So, you want to just dump OS/2 forever and head off into
merry merry Windows 95 land?  Well, I have not had the
opportunity to try this using Windows 95 on a VFAT partition,
but under FAT32, there is simply no way you can backup a
Windows 95 partition using stuff like PkZip for Windows or
WinRAR.  The problem is that there are certain locked files
at play.  PkZip for Windows did complete, but now you have the
even bigger problem of trying to restore it from a bootdisk.
Won't happen, I'm afraid.  When I tried this booting off of a
Windows 95 boot disk, running PkZip 2.50's PkUnZip utility, it
would not work because it complained of a lack of memory
(apparently the FAT32 support on the bootdisk takes up a lot
of memory as I'm always stuck with 542k conventional RAM).
The last hope was RAR for DOS, but that too also complained of
a lack of memory.  So, what's the point of using a Windows
compression utility in order to backup the entire Windows 95
partition if there is absolutely *NO* way of restoring it?
     Now, where exactly am I going with all this?  Simple,
thanks to the great FAT32 driver written by Henk Kelder, one
can actually follow the exact methods listed here with the
various compression utilities in order for OS/2 to backup
Windows 95 through OS/2!  Using RAR/2 in the identical manner
listed earlier will allow you to backup a Windows 95 partition.
Once backed up, you can boot up with the Windows 95 bootdisk
and then format the partition, re-boot back into OS/2 and use
RAR/2 in order to restore the Windows 95 partition back to
its previous state.  Now when you look at the disk with Norton
Speedisk or booting Windows 95 up with a bootdisk in order to
use ScanDisk (to see the entire disk information) you will see
all the clusters neatly arranged in perfect order.  No
fragmentation!  The advantage to using this method over using
programs like Microsoft Defrag or Norton Speedisk is that they
are not always perfect and can in fact at some times break
files.  My motivation in going to all of this trouble was
because after using Defrag, I found that one of my .WAV files
in my Multimedia Themes was broken and could not be accessible.
Imagine what else could break.
     I have not tried using Info-ZIP or PkZip for OS/2, but
I figure they would work with the same restrictions applied
(ie. Info-Zip no disk spanning, PkZip needing the Presentation
Manager).  In order to install Henk's FAT32 driver, I simply
followed the quicky instructions he had listed in the FAT32.TXT
file, using PARTFLT.FLT and not the OS2DASD.DMD file he had
modifyed (on my OS/2 box it trapped as a result).  On the
IFS=FAT32 line I did not have /EAS on (enabling Extended
Attribute support).
     So, do you *really* want to dump OS/2?  Didn't think
so.  A question...could this method work with Linux?  There
is a ext2 driver available for OS/2, that I know of.  Perhaps
that is something else for me to try and play with! ;-)

     Ok, I may have jumped the gun here. ;-)

     Apparently there is a way to do this under Windows 95 and I'll
assume Windows 98.  I won't bother detailing the methods but it
will require a piece of shareware called DOSLFNBK in order to
backup its long file names.  But, it is nice to know that one can
do this within OS/2 anyways.
     I am definately going to find out whether or not one can do
this with Linux.  There is an ext2 file system driver available for
OS/2.  The reason why is that I see no way of actually doing this
under Linux.


CONCLUSION

     The best compression program for backing up OS/2 with should
by right be RAR/2, but I can't get it working properly.  So the
title for "Best Compression Utility" is essential up for grabs.
However, for those that have been using RAR/2 2.50 without any
problems should probably keep doing so.  I just hope that the
newest version of RAR/2 can be made to work since it does offer
some fixes.  As for the other compression utilities, each and
everyone one has their own little drawback.  Info-Zip is great,
until you want it to span across multiple disks/carts.  PkZip was
almost the one, but the folks at PkWare thought it was necessary
that the Presentation Manager be loaded with it, too.  The only
real drawback that ARJ/2 has is that it is still labelled as beta
software and I have not heard anything about it in the past year.
     Ironically enough, the heir apparent to RAR/2 2.50 looks like
it is a piece of beta software.  That's right.  ARJ/2.  Only you
will need EABK203.ZIP from Hobbes in order to really get it
working.  Hopefully, by the time ARJ/2 gets out of beta, one would
not need EABK203.ZIP anymore.  So for the people that have been
having problems with RAR/2 2.50 with the new OS/2 Warp for e-
Business, give ARJ/2 a go and report back to me.


BOOTOS/2 Notes: *UPDATE*
http://hobbes.nmsu.edu - latest version is 9.26

     The documentation in the latest version of BootOS/2 (9.26)
states that the problem being described later is supposed to be
now fixed.

     There seems to be a problem with Warp Connect & FP39 when
trying to make a BootOS/2 TARGET=x TYPE=PM partition.  It creates
it fine, but when I boot it up, it freezes at the "OS/2" box that
appears on the top left-hand corner.  Weird.  I could not boot
to a PM partition (BOOTOS2 TARGET=x TYPE=PM) even when I was back
down in FP26!  Same symptom occurs, during bootup it just freezes
at the "OS/2" box on the top left-hand corner.  The samething also
occurs in FP40, BTW.
     Even making just the floppies seems to cause a small error
with Warp 3 & Connect.  Under FP40, for instance, upon making the
two disk system (BOOTOS2 2DISK=A) after loading up the first disk
it would give me a blank screen and stop dead in its tracks,
going no further.  The solution, copy SESMGR.DLL from your
x:\OS2\DLL onto your BOOTOS2 disk 1 (A:\OS2\DLL).  This also
happened under FP39, BTW.  If you do run into any other kind of
problem with the BOOTOS2 floppies, press ALT-F2 upon booting up
the diskettes just to see what happens.  On this occasion for
example, upon pressing ALT-F2, the screen said that SESMGR.DLL
was not installed in any of the LIBPATH directory statements on
the diskette.
     Warp 4 seems to have absolutely no issues whatsoever, either
a TYPE=PM or 2DISK=A under any of the FP's I have used (FP1, FP6,
& FP10).


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From: [e-mail]                          11-Nov-99 13:22:03
  To: All                                               11-Nov-99 14:39:02
Subj: Re: OS/2 Backup Question

From: [e-mail] (Annie K.)

On Wed, 10 Nov 1999 16:40:13, "David Lee"
<david.lee*nospam*@pronexus.com> wrote:

:Is there an OS/2 backup utility that creates filenames in this format? I
:know MS-DOS did, but DOS 5 and DOS 6 will not recognize them as valid backup
:files (the files are dated October 1995).

 Try running OS/2's restore.exe on them.

--
Klaatu barada nikto

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From: [e-mail]                     11-Nov-99 20:59:14
  To: All                                               11-Nov-99 19:59:17
Subj: Re: OS/2 Backup Question

From: [e-mail] (Rainer Doering)

On Thu, 11 Nov 1999 00:11:52 GMT, "David Lee"
<david.lee*nospam*@pronexus.com> wrote:

>Thanks.
>
>Do you know if later versions of OS/2 Restore will work with files backed up
>with earlier versions of Backup? I know MS DOS changed the file formats with
>every version of DOS, so you have to have the exact version of the utilities
>to restore any files.
>
>
>David
>
RESTORE of Warp3&4 restores backups from BACKUP of MS-DOS 5.0

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From: [e-mail]                               11-Nov-99 22:27:19
  To: All                                               11-Nov-99 19:59:17
Subj: Re: OS/2 Backup Question

From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Bj=F8rn?= Vermo <[e-mail]>

David Lee wrote:

> Thanks.
>
> Do you know if later versions of OS/2 Restore will work with files backed up
> with earlier versions of Backup? I know MS DOS changed the file formats with
> every version of DOS, so you have to have the exact version of the utilities
> to restore any files.
>

I just had to restore a couple of old files, and WSeB did not have any
problems
with a backup made under OS/2 1.2.


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From: [e-mail]                      11-Nov-99 22:42:17
  To: All                                               11-Nov-99 21:27:04
Subj: Re: Backup & Defragmentation 3.5

From: [e-mail] (Marky)

On 11 Nov 1999 11:57:31 GMT, [e-mail] (John
Hong) wrote:

>
>                  Backup & Defragmentation 3.5
>
snip!
>     I'm sure some will ask, "But John, what about PowerQuest's
>Drive Image or Norton's Ghost?"  Well, there really is no problem
>with those programs.  They do as advertised, they backup the hard
>drive into an image.  That image can be restored onto a single
>machine (or if you have the Drive Image Pro) onto a network of
>multiple machines.  Unfortunately, the problem with disk imaging
>programs like those is that they do absolutely nothing about the
>fragmentation of the file system.  Keep in mind, programs like
>Drive Image and Ghost simply make a *mirror* image of the hard
>drive's partitions.  This means that not only does it copy the
>data, but also the holes that whatever file system left behind
>after days, months, years, etc. of disk thrashing.  In a nut shell,
>Drive Image and Ghost not only copy the hard drive data, but also
>the fragmentation of the file system.  This is where this little
>primer really comes into play.  Of course, the advantage with
>something like Drive Image Pro is the ability to restore onto a
>multitude of networked computers.  Something that would be a pretty
>big pain in the butt by this method.

While I agree with you that Drive Image saves an image _with_ the
fragmentation, Ghost does not work that way. From personal experience,
(FAT only) I can tell you that Ghost does file by file copying to and
from saved images. It is also saving additional info besides just the
files so it can restore the paritioning and boot sector info (for the
drive and each partition). The file by file copying means that on
restores, all the files and the free space are defragmented. I haven't
experienced directory fragmentation, but it may be possible with
directories that require more than one cluster: I just don't know.

Unfortunately, at least as of 5.1c, you are correct that you can't use
Ghost for backup and restore. The 5.1c version, saving on a file by
file basis, does not understand the additional info in the directory
entry that links an OS/2 file to EA DATA. SF (at least on FAT
partitions: I never tried it on HPFS). The result being, on a restore,
the EA info is totally corrupted. This is supposedly fixed in 5.1d,
which I have, but I haven't tried it on a partition with EAs yet. Or,
you could use EABACKUP and EARESTOR, as you suggest for
other tools that don't understand EAs.

Marky

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From: david.lee*nospam*@pronexus.com                    12-Nov-99 14:37:07
  To: All                                               12-Nov-99 14:25:26
Subj: Re: OS/2 Backup Question

From: "David Lee" <david.lee*nospam*@pronexus.com>

Thanks all. OS/2 Restore did the trick.


Annie K. <[e-mail]> wrote in message
news:[e-mail]...
> On Wed, 10 Nov 1999 16:40:13, "David Lee"
> <david.lee*nospam*@pronexus.com> wrote:
>
> :Is there an OS/2 backup utility that creates filenames in this format? I
> :know MS-DOS did, but DOS 5 and DOS 6 will not recognize them as valid
backup
> :files (the files are dated October 1995).
>
>  Try running OS/2's restore.exe on them.
>
> --
> Klaatu barada nikto


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From: david.lee*nospam*@pronexus.com                    12-Nov-99 14:40:21
  To: All                                               12-Nov-99 14:25:26
Subj: Re: DualStor Restore (help?)

From: "David Lee" <david.lee*nospam*@pronexus.com>

Well, I have now tried DualStor version 1.06 and 3.0 for Windows, and
DualStor 1.06 for OS/2, and all give me the same result with the tapes I
need to restore. After spinning the tape back and forth a few times, it
comes back and tells me "Tape Not Formatted".

I know the drive works, because, I was able to read an older QIC-80 tape,
and restore files from it (originally backed up with Colorado for Windows).

Should DualStor automatically recognize a tape that was written with it's
own proprietary format?

Would DualStor 1.06 recognize a backup created with version 3?


Thanks,

David

Paul Saletan <[e-mail]> wrote in message
news:[e-mail]...
> DualStor has the option to write tapes using either its own
> proprietary format or the QIC-80 file system.  QIC-80 can be restored
> from practically any WIN/DOS tape program.  In that case, installing
> OS/2 and Dualstor just to copy off the data would be unnecessary.  I
> would check this out before going to all that work.
>
>
> "Spencer Lee" <sleeman@*nospam*ottawa.com> wrote:
>
> >Hello all OS/2 gurus,
> >
> >Got a bit of a problem I'm hoping someone here can offer advice for.
> >
> >I have a customer sending me a back up of a bunch of files on QIC-80
tapes
> >from a PS/2 machine running OS/2, and backed up with DualStor.
> >
> >I need to get these files into a Windows machine.
> >
> >I am getting a copy of OS/2, and I have a Colorado Jumbo 250 tape drive,
> >which I understand DualStor supports, so I could (if I had a copy of
> >DualStor) set up an OS/2 computer on my network, restore the files, and
copy
> >them over to a Windows box (I think).
> >
> >Questions:
> >
> >Is there a Windows version of DualStor which will restore the files from
the
> >OS/2 DualStor backup? (from what I've gathered, the files that DualStor
> >creates on the tape are 'EA' files - not sure if the Windows version uses
> >the same format).
> >
> >What do I have to do, and where can I get a copy of the DualStor software
> >that I need?
> >
> >
> >Thanks muchly,
> >
> >Sleeman
> >
>
>
> // Paul Saletan  ** Please remove NOJUNKMAIL from address when replying
>


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From: [e-mail]                        12-Nov-99 23:47:27
  To: All                                               12-Nov-99 21:25:08
Subj: Re: Theta Band Software announces the distribution of MMPack through

From: [e-mail] (John Poltorak)

In <[e-mail]>, Aaron Lawrence <[e-mail]> writes:
>Julien Pierre wrote:
>
>> Theta Band Software's Multimedia Pack for OS/2 is now available for
>> ordering
>> through Mensys at http://www.mensys.nl .
>
>I had a look at this, and it's cool, but the things in it aren't really
>compelling to me. There are more pressing problems with MMOS/2 such as the
>lack of much PCI soundcard support. IMHO.

I'm looking for an excuse to buy this, but don't really see what it gives
me...

Now if it was guaranteed to set up sound on my diskless IBM Network Station
I would probably give it a try.


--
John

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From: [e-mail]                               13-Nov-99 01:06:28
  To: All                                               12-Nov-99 21:25:09
Subj: Re: Sound Cards and OS/2

From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Bj=F8rn?= Vermo <[e-mail]>

Jerry Prather wrote:

> ...  On the AOpen site there is (supposedly) a driver
> for OS/2.  I downloaded it, and called AOpen tech support to
> confirm that it was in fact an auto-unpack file (I don't like
> clicking on .exe files without knowing what's going to happen).
> But when I double click on the file, I get a very Win 3.1 looking
> error box that says "Unexpected DOS error 23".

Try UNZIP -v on the file to see if it is in a normal zip format.
Usually, OS/2 unzip will work fine with Windows self-extracting
files.


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