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From: [e-mail]                             10-Nov-99 17:28:04
  To: All                                               13-Nov-99 00:33:04
Subj: Re: Comm/2 v4.61 easter egg

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

On Wed, 10 Nov 1999 06:49:06 GMT, Jeffrey S. Kobal wrote:

>As most easter eggs are!  Congrats on finding it!

So, Jeff, are you guys going to fix the bad memory leak problem with
the 128-bit version of v.4.61 before the end of the year, or are we to
be forced to buy a Software Choice Support package to get the fix?


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From: [e-mail]                     13-Nov-99 02:04:00
  To: All                                               13-Nov-99 00:33:04
Subj: Re: IBM WAKE UP

From: "Darin McBride" <[e-mail]>

On Fri, 12 Nov 1999 16:10:16 -0500, Brad BARCLAY wrote:

>    I unfortunately don't have an answer (and I really wish I did...), but
>is there *anything* keeping any of these companies from using VAC++
>v3.0, which doesn't seem to have the limitations these groups are
>talking about (most of IBM's OS/2 products are compiled with VAC++ v3.0
>AFAIK, and many of them are significantly bigger than any of the above
>mentioned products)?

Um, yes.  VAC++ 3.0 has *severe* C++ limitations.  It is showing its age
quite well.  Template support is sketchy, for example.  This prevents the
Standard Template Library from compiling on it.  This alone has forced me to
move most of my home development to gcc.
---
Disclaimer: unless explicitly mentioned otherwise, I do not speak
for the company I work for.



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From: [e-mail]                                  12-Nov-99 17:55:19
  To: All                                               13-Nov-99 00:33:04
Subj: Re: cannot find winsock.dll - Quicken 98

From: Mark Hood <[e-mail]>

[e-mail] writes:
> In <[e-mail]>, on 11/11/99
>    at 06:28 PM, Anssi Saari <[e-mail]> said:
>
> >Winsock.dll needs to be in your (DOS) path, not %etc%.
>
> So should I stick it in c:\os2\mdos\winos2?

I have it in c:\tcpip\dos\bin.

The following is how I have my Warp 3 Connect fixpak 39 set up for DOS and
Windows tcp/ip stuff.  I don't remember if I set it up this way myself or if
that's how it installed, but it works:

autoexec.bat has the line:

set etc=c:\tcpip\dos\etc
and c:\tcpip\dos\bin is the first directory in the path.

config.sys has the lines:

device=c:\tcpip\bin\vdostcp.vdd
device=c:\tcpip\bin\vdostcp.sys
run=c:\tcpip\bin\vdosctl.exe

c:\tcpip\dos\bin contains:

  -rwxrwxrwx   1 user     group       68105 Jan 28  1994 comtcp.exe
  -rwxrwxrwx   1 user     group       82729 Jan 28  1994 ping.exe
  -rwxrwxrwx   1 user     group         345 Nov 27  1996 setup.cmd
  -rwxrwxrwx   1 user     group       34564 Jan 28  1994 tcpcntl.exe
  -rwxrwxrwx   1 user     group        1643 Apr 17  1997 tcpstart.cmd
  -rw-rw-rw-   1 user     group       49664 May 12  1994 wftpapi.dll
  -rw-rw-rw-   1 user     group       83817 Apr 20  1997 winsock.dll
  -rwxrwxrwx   1 user     group       37472 Jan 28  1994 wping.exe
  -rw-rw-rw-   1 user     group       16083 May 12  1994 wping.hlp

c:\tcpip\dos\etc:

  -rw-rw-rw-   1 user     group         397 Jul 20  1998 hosts
  -rw-rw-rw-   1 user     group          84 Apr 17  1997 inetd.lst
  -rw-rw-rw-   1 user     group          76 Apr 17  1997 ping.cfg
  -rw-rw-rw-   1 user     group        5451 Mar 24  1995 protocol
  -rw-rw-rw-   1 user     group          97 Jul 20  1998 resolv
  -rw-rw-rw-   1 user     group          67 Apr 17  1997 sendmail.cf
  -rw-rw-rw-   1 user     group       42725 Mar 24  1995 services
  -rw-rw-rw-   1 user     group          38 Mar 10  1999 tcpdos.ini
  -rw-rw-rw-   1 user     group          84 Jan 16  1997 trusers

This is addition to the stuff needed to run the native OS2 tcp/ip, which
needs to be working for the DOS stuff to work as well.  HTH.

-- Mark Hood

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From: [e-mail]                      12-Nov-99 12:26:13
  To: All                                               13-Nov-99 00:33:04
Subj: Re: Partition Magic 5.0 upgrade

From: [e-mail]       (John Thompson)

In <8NO1LLldNq1r-pn2-0dNd8XsjBPdj@localhost>, [e-mail] (Jan
Swartling) writes:

>It's not a question whether there is a OS/2 version or not. (There is no
>native OS/2 version, since the one in PM3). The question is, can you work
>with HPFS partitions with PM v4 and v5? The answer is, yes! Check on your
>PM v4, you'll find a directory OS2INST. If you run the MAKEDISK.BAT you'll
>create a bootable diskette with a graphical DOS version of PM. Use this
>diskette when it's time to change anything in your HPFS partition.

This MAKEDISK.BAT is one of the things I kept trying to get
Powerquest to change during the PM v5 betas.  Even though  they
provide the bootable DR-DOS diskette image to run PM from a
floppy boot, the fact that they insist on using a .BAT file to
create the diskettes means that you need to have DOS support on
your OS/2 machine to create the diskettes.  I tried to convince
them that simply making another copy of MAKEDISK.BAT on the CD
but naming it to MAKEDISK.CMD would allow the diskettes to be
created in a native OS/2 session.  By the end of beta 2 I thought
I had convinced them.  But I see there's still no MAKEDISK.CMD
file there.

I also suggested using the LOADDSKF.EXE program to create
diskettes directly from images (like they do for the linux
diskette creation, using "dd") but that didn't get too far.  In
any case, if you have a PROTECTONLY=YES OS/2 installation you can
still create the needed bootable diskettes using the linux
instructions and the OS/2 port of the "dd" command, found in the
GNU File Utilities package.

-John ([e-mail])

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From: [e-mail]                                12-Nov-99 10:29:18
  To: All                                               13-Nov-99 00:33:04
Subj: Wanted: Gear 3.x cdr software

From: m <[e-mail]>

Need this program to run my cdr under OS/2. Please email price
                         mike

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From: [e-mail]                                  12-Nov-99 17:52:01
  To: All                                               13-Nov-99 00:33:04
Subj: Netscape Communicator 4.61 -- Almost too embarrassed to ask.

From: [e-mail]

I used Communicator 4.04 with success for Java.  When I installed 4.61, I lost
Java support.  The message is "Your browser is not running Java.  Either turn
Java support on or get a Java Compatible browser."

Preferences (in 4.61) has all Java options checked: enable Java, enable Java
script,
etc.  If I type Java -version at an OS/2 prompt, I'm told I'm running Java
version
1.1.6.  I don't use any other Java apps, so I can't tell if it's just a
Netscape
problem or not.

Maybe I missed something in the README, but I didn't find anything helpful.
Suggestions what to do?

Thanks.

Ray DeGennaro

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From: [e-mail]                                     12-Nov-99 16:17:19
  To: [e-mail]                           13-Nov-99 00:33:04
Subj: Re: Comm/2 v4.61 easter egg

To: "Jeffrey S. Kobal" <[e-mail]>
From: Mirage Media <[e-mail]>

Thanks! I think you guys do a GREAT job.

Corey
Mirage Media
Nuenen, The Netherlands


"Jeffrey S. Kobal" wrote:
>
> Buddy Donnelly wrote:
>
> > No, for your information, the "end papers" and "title matter" are
> > traditional and quite important elements of producing printed book
> > signatures for binding, and you might be surprised how much design thought
> > and debate goes into those things.
>
> Well, then, let's just say that it's "traditional" for software
> engineers to put their name into what they write, to credit
> those who put their time and effort -- and often heart --
> into the project.  We also use our authors page to list the
> people that had a hand in the project (perhaps not with
> the development directly... but with some part of the life
> of the product) as a way of thanking them for contributing
> and giving them some credit as well.
>
> Credit... recognition... pride... motivation.  Sometimes a
> little pat on the back can go a long way towards improving
> how a person produces.
>
> Jeffrey S. Kobal
> IBM Corporation

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From: [e-mail]                                  12-Nov-99 16:36:14
  To: All                                               13-Nov-99 00:33:04
Subj: Re: The Describe 5 Diaries...

From: [e-mail] (Stan Goodman)

On Fri, 12 Nov 1999 08:16:27, [e-mail] wrote:

> In article <yHQxxE9f8dqd-pn2-u01oXVcdRgw9@POBLANO>,
>   [e-mail] (Stan Goodman) wrote:
> > On Thu, 11 Nov 1999 08:12:44, [e-mail] wrote:
> >
> > > In article <80d6nu$njr$[e-mail]>,
> > >   [e-mail] (John Hong) wrote:
> > ---------------snip----------------
> >
> > > Interesting: You seem to have gone a similar way than I have,
> starting
> > > with WordPerfect/DOS to Describe/OS2, both being discontinued by
> their
> > > makers. Mine went on to "Papyrus" (OS/2) which comes from the Atari
> > > world AFAIK and which is still being further developed (It only
> seems
> > > that their plans and announcements go sometimes much further than
> their
> > > capabilities to realize things, but this looks familiar to everybody
> > > ever having programmed the one or other project :-)) See
> > > http://www.rom-logicware.com/start.htm where they are talking about
> the
> > > english language version of the program "coming out every
> moment"...: I
> > > hope for you it will really do!
> >
> > FWIW, they were talking about "an English version any moment" two
> years
> > ago. The more things change, the more they are the same.
>
> Yes, you are right: Right now you read on the home page that the english
> version will come out "in October" - which must be 1999 in the context
> :-)
>
> OTOH, according to my correspondence with Ulli Ramps of RL they are now
> actually busy with the translation - contrary to 2 years ago where they
> were just announcing it. At the same time they are also working on their
> database (that is optionally integrated into Papyrus) which was promised
> one year ago and is out now since September, but still needs some
> "ripening"; they are not sleeping though.
>
> Of course the only good answer to your frustrated reaction would be the
> real publication of the english version - and this I can only hope for,
> not promise or announce anything for sure, of course!

Oh, I have no frustrated reaction. Two years ago I offered them my services
_free_ for editting an English version of their documentation (I have done
that for several OS/2 software houses, as my contribution to getting more
good OS/2 software around), and they said a rough copy would be ready for
me at any moment, so I kept myself available to do that  -- when it became
clear that they have no real concept of time, I told them I considered
myself free, and that the offer was off. It would be a mistake to build on
any time estimate from these people.

-------------
Stan Goodman
Qiryat Tiv'on
Israel

E-mail sent to [e-mail] will, of course, not reach me. Sorry.
Send E-mail to: domain: hashkedim dot com, username: stan.


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From: [e-mail]                                12-Nov-99 12:06:05
  To: All                                               13-Nov-99 00:33:05
Subj: Re: IBM WAKE UP

From: [e-mail]

[e-mail] (Brian Davis) said:

>Me thinks you already know the answer dude. The morons in
>upper management can't pull their collective heads out of their collective
>butts long enough to think about anything except
>how to meet the expectations of the so called financial wizards on Wall
>Street. That's my take on the way it is.

>Damn.....this was cathartic. :-)

Now, now, now!  You know perfectly well it is very old fashioned to think
any corporation any longer thinks about anything but cash.  Function,
public spirit and common sense simply aren't in the equation any more.

Jim L
Remove XX from address to Email
Crooks and kooks will get guns regardless of laws.


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From: [e-mail]                                  12-Nov-99 12:18:20
  To: All                                               13-Nov-99 00:33:05
Subj: Re: Comm/2 keeps bringing down my system.

From: [e-mail]

In <382c1ba7$1$vina$[e-mail]>, on 11/12/99 at 04:49 PM,
   "Ivan Adzhubei" <[e-mail]> said:


>>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!

Indeed to the PS, I dont want to change a solid MB either.

As for the HX chipset, you may remember our problems with IBM1s506.add
back when Sam Detweiler was responding here.  I guess it was a year or so
ago and Sam noted a problem that the driver had with what he called
"certain planars".  Since we all had the same problem, that is the sniffer
took several minutes to read the chip set, it occurred to me that the
problems with pmmerge.dll may be connected.

I dont really know why or if this is true, but the long arm of coincidence
seems to be at work.

As you said it was a guess.

PS.  If you are thinking of changing MBs you would be wise to stick with
ASUS.  They seem to be the only one to have an OS2 compatible BIOS.

Regards.


--
----------------------------------------------------
------
Monroe Chasson
[e-mail]
-----------------------------------------------------------
MR2ICE reg#51

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From: [e-mail]                           12-Nov-99 17:38:18
  To: All                                               13-Nov-99 00:33:05
Subj: Best Rewritable CD for OS2

From: [e-mail] (Gideon Singer)

I am planning on installing a RWCD in the new year. Is there any
consensuse as to which is the best unit to install for OS2/W98 setup?


Gideon Singer
Webpage: members.home.net:80/gsinger
Remove the 'nospam' to email

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From: Tim [e-mail]                              12-Nov-99 18:08:20
  To: All                                               13-Nov-99 00:33:05
Subj: Injoy: wont transmit a particular file

From: Tim [e-mail] (Tim Stephen)

    I have injoy 1.1 with IP masquerading turned on on a warp 4 fixpack
11 system.  Recently I noticed that Injoy won't allow a at least a
couple of files to download into my system either through FTP or
netscape browser.  The files are little graphics files that exist on our
web server (which has a T1 connection).  The files display/download
properly on all other systems that access them with ftp or http but not
on the injoy system.  They display/download properly when the injoy
system is connected via IBM dialer rather than injoy.  They are small
files (~15K or less).  Injoy shows an unusual amount of FCS invalid
messsages as they are being accessed.

    Any ideas??

Tim Stephen
CIOS

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From: [e-mail]                         12-Nov-99 17:38:24
  To: All                                               13-Nov-99 00:33:05
Subj: Problem with PSF/2

From: Siobhan Perricone <[e-mail]>

 I've got a strange problem and I'm hoping that someone here will have
a suggestion for something I could look at or try to figure out what's
wrong.

I have a PC (not a server) running OS/2 Warp 4 FP 10 and IBM/Pennant
Print Services Facility/2.  The PC has two network cards.  One card is
connected to a network with other computers, through which the jobs
come.  The second card is only connected to 3 IBM 3160 printers.  This
machine does nothing but print jobs.

There are two computers that send jobs to this print server.  One is an
image server running on Unix, the other is on a Netware network (we
call it the EDS machine).  We have to run a special program that starts
up a netware queue in order to receive the jobs from the EDS machine.
The command for that is:

start nwpsf2 qr=qrdr nwq=ibmprnt_eds os2q=eds

This starts up the queue thingie and it shunts jobs into the EDS
queue.  We then use PSF/2 to transform the jobs while sending them to
another print queue for one of the three printers.

The problem is that when the jobs come out of the printer, they aren't
printed properly.  We're getting garbage characters inserted at the top
of the page, and it looks like it's inserting something at the end of
each line that causes it to wrap weirdly, so that the items that are
supposed to be in table format, with lines around them, are all funky
looking and take up twice as much space (as does everything else).

I tried restarting the computer a couple of times and that doesn't
help.  It does this on all three printers, yet jobs from the image
server come out just fine on all three printers.  I've had them resend
the job a couple of times, and it comes out the same each time.

Here's the kicker.  I have another computer with the same set up that
we use as a back up when this one is on the fritz, and when the jobs
get sent to *that* one, they print out fine.

This just started a couple of days ago.  Before that it was printing
out the EDS jobs fine.  Does anyone have a suggestion for a place to
start looking?


--
Siobhan Perricone
PC Technician
Alltel Information Services
(I only speak for myself, not for Alltel)


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

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From: [e-mail]                                 12-Nov-99 20:17:22
  To: All                                               13-Nov-99 00:33:05
Subj: Re: Partition Magic 5.0 upgrade

From: "Hal Murray" <[e-mail]>

  >
 > What sort of problems did you have?  I've used Partition Magic v4
 > and v5 betas 2 and 3 on my HPFS and ext2 partitions without
 > problems.
 >
It changed the file type for my 8 gig extended partition so OS/2
could not access it.

I discussed this with Power Quest techs and they acknowledged there
was a problem.Hal Murray
Calgary, AB
Warp 4, FP12, Java 118, Emerald Mai

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From: [e-mail]                             13-Nov-99 04:35:08
  To: All                                               13-Nov-99 03:31:18
Subj: Re: Partition Magic 5.0 upgrade -- still need Win before DOS?

From: [e-mail]

PM3 was nice in that they had the DOS text mode right on the CD where
you could get it -- PQMAGICT.EXE.  This changed in PM4 where you don't
get to find it until you install PQMagic -- which you can only do
under Windows.  Suppose you want it to create a partition for Windows
-- or don't plan on installing Windows at all?  Does PM5 continue the
"Catch 22" built into PM4?

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From: [e-mail]                            13-Nov-99 00:01:18
  To: All                                               13-Nov-99 03:31:18
Subj: Re: David H. McCoy

From: David H. McCoy <[e-mail]>

In article <382bf79f$1$yrgbherq$[e-mail]>, [e-mail]
says...
>David H. McCoy <[e-mail]> said:
>
>>>>Would you like pictures of her and me together? She is one great piece of
>>>>ass.
>
>Yes and include your address and phone number,  so I can send the pictures
>and everything on to the FBI and USPS Inspectors.

Why? They want a piece of here too? Heck, why not? I'm there is more than
enough of your mom to go around and I'm not the jealous type.

>>>Are you an out-patient?
>>>
>>>Its been a long time since I've had Abnormal Psychology, but your constant
>>>obsession with your pee pee is a manifestation of a serious derangement
>>>that needs treatment.
>
>>I'll pass this on to your mom. She does fit your description. But heck,
>>she  certainly knows how to have a good time. Did you know that she is
>>able to place  here feet on her own shoulders?
>
>>Incredible!!
>
>>Tonight, I think that I'll drag her around by her hair before sticking it
>>to  her!
>
>At this point a normal person would shut up and go away. Since you persist
>I can only assume that _YOU ARE CRAZY_ and should be isolated to protect
>society, or at least the children where you are.

I don't believe that it is crazy to feel the way I do about your mom.

>I think the quickest way to accommodate this is with the help of the feds.
>So if you will just send everyone here all the dirty pictures you have,
>I'm reasonably sure we can have you some place warm by next week.

The only warm place I wish to be is in your mom's waiting arms. There are few
things better than when she screams out my name! She's into fantasy also.
Tonight, she will play the evil stepmother and I will be Cinderfella.


>_____________
>Ed Letourneau <[e-mail]>
>
>

--
---------------------------------------
David H. McCoy
dmccoy@EXTRACT_THIS_mnsinc.com
---------------------------------------

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From: [e-mail]                                13-Nov-99 04:43:09
  To: All                                               13-Nov-99 03:31:18
Subj: Re: Partition Magic 5.0 upgrade

From: [e-mail]

In <8NO1LLldNq1r-pn2-0dNd8XsjBPdj@localhost>, [e-mail] (Jan
Swartling) writes:
>
>It's not a question whether there is a OS/2 version or not. (There is no
>native OS/2 version, since the one in PM3).

        Actually, it was, since you specifically stated that you
ran an OS/2 version.  That Partition Magic still handles HPFS
partitions was never in doubt (at least here, I can't speak for
others).
        The useful information that came out of this was that
they provide a way to make a bootable diskette for the DOS version.
I wonder if they mentioned that on the box... if they did, I
missed it.
        Now I know that at need I can go out and buy the sucker and
not suffer too much fuss, since I'm not running OS/2 in protected
mode only and so can run the (DOS) makedisk.bat file.

        Thanks for the info!

-----
Greg Thoman:  The opinions expressed herein are mine alone, and I am
              solely irresponsible for them.

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From: [e-mail]                                13-Nov-99 04:53:22
  To: All                                               13-Nov-99 03:31:18
Subj: FrameMaker for OS/2 (not...)

From: [e-mail]

In <382bc8f5$2$avgroveq$[e-mail]>, [e-mail]
(Barry Mann) writes:

        In apparent reference to FrameMaker:
>
>The CD contains native OS/2 and Win95 versions.

        I have cause to doubt that.  As a FrameMaker customer, I was
quite disappointed when Adobe bought them prior to the version 5
rollout and axed the OS/2 version.  I bugged 'em about this and
was told "sorry, no OS/2".

        If there actually is an OS/2 version on the CD, I'd sure
like to know why they didn't tell anybody.  I specifically informed
them that purchase of any native OS/2 version would be immediate,
but I've still got my money and still have no OS/2 FrameMaker.

        If any version of FrameMaker was released that contained
an OS/2 version on the CD, can anybody tell me _exactly_ which
version(s) had this?  I could believe maybe an alpha or a beta,
but _released_?

-----
Greg Thoman:  The opinions expressed herein are mine alone, and I am
              solely irresponsible for them.

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From: [e-mail]                                     12-Nov-99 21:10:21
  To: All                                               13-Nov-99 03:31:18
Subj: Re: Quicken 98 to end Quicken Credit Card transaction downloads

From: Douglas Houck <[e-mail]>

The latest error message is
"cannot find winsock.dll."

Be sure you have the SET ETC=x:\tcpip\dos\etc
and the location of tcpip\dos\bin in your PATH
statement in your AUTOEXEC.BAT file.  There are a
number of similar statements needed in your
CONFIG.SYS files, but since you seem to be able to
get an IP address under OS2 I'm assuming that part
is working correctly.

I also just picked up the setup.bat and revision 2
patch.exe for Quicken
98.  Is that for Quicken 98 Deluxe, and, if so, do
you know how to install
it and if it's the latest revision?  j

I haven't used those two files, but it's makes no
difference if you have Deluxe or the regular Q98.
I got my files from within Q98 as described at the
Intuit site.

You need two files to update Q98.  They are:
Q98U1TO3.EXE            1,062,080
Q98U3TO4.EXE               260,032

I don't know why Intuit doesn't just give out the
files.  If you need them drop me a line and I will
attach them to an e-mail.

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From: [e-mail]                           13-Nov-99 05:16:28
  To: All                                               13-Nov-99 03:31:18
Subj: Re: Netscape Communicator 4.61 -- Almost too embarrassed to ask.

From: [e-mail] (Lorne Sunley)

On Fri, 12 Nov 1999 17:52:02, [e-mail] wrote:

> I used Communicator 4.04 with success for Java.  When I installed 4.61, I
lost
> Java support.  The message is "Your browser is not running Java.  Either
turn
> Java support on or get a Java Compatible browser."
>
> Preferences (in 4.61) has all Java options checked: enable Java, enable Java
script,
> etc.  If I type Java -version at an OS/2 prompt, I'm told I'm running Java
version
> 1.1.6.  I don't use any other Java apps, so I can't tell if it's just a
Netscape
> problem or not.
>
> Maybe I missed something in the README, but I didn't find anything helpful.
> Suggestions what to do?
>

You need Java version 1.1.7 or 1.1.8 for Netscape 4.61

The current version 1.1.8 (with or without patches) is much
faster than version 1.1.6

Lorne Sunley

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From: [e-mail]                                 13-Nov-99 02:29:06
  To: All                                               13-Nov-99 03:31:18
Subj: Re: Comm/2 v4.61 easter egg

From: [e-mail]

In <O9iXPTTUtRJe-pn2-okE8C4msuIP2@localhost>, [e-mail] (Mark Mellin)
writes:
>
>-OR- unload Communicator and run the old IBM WebEx thingy, it will
> SAVE YOU TONS OF VERY IMPORTANT BYTES !!!
>

It also works better, and if it were modernized a LOT of us would rather
use it. I like a new Netscape better than no Netscape, but WebEx is still
far superior to ANY Netscape.

>
>Mark Mellin
>

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From: [e-mail]                                 13-Nov-99 03:47:12
  To: All                                               13-Nov-99 03:31:18
Subj: Re: Comm/2 v4.61 easter egg

From: [e-mail]

In <[e-mail]>, "Jeffrey S. Kobal"
<[e-mail]> writes:
>Bob Germer wrote:
>
>> Chill out! The little egg takes less than 4K bytes. If you want to
>> complain, complain about aaaaa.exe which is installed every time you load
>> Warp. That little egg takes up about 99K.
>>
>> Anyone remember the key combination to run this one?
>
>Ctrl-Alt-Shift-O after clicking on the WPS desktop.
>

ya know . . . after reading the Budster's post I thought all this torrent
in the WC was a little humorous. The I read this post and tried Ctrl-
Alt-Shift-O, and a multicoloured thingy whizzed past taking along
with it E.EXE as well as access to any DOS session, requiring a reboot
and mucking up some running background sessions which I couldn't
access to shut down cleanly. Suddenly this wasn't so cute. I wonder
how much more reliable OS/2 would be without a bunch of Easter Eggplant
clogging up its arteries.  I love the cute stuff too, but now . . maybe during

installation would be a better time to do little tricks, then leave the code
OUT of our running computers ? Future interactions with other cute stuff
are hard to predict - sacrificing stability and speed for cute doesn't really
cut it. If you don't believe me look at WIndows !

>Jeffrey S. Kobal
>IBM Corporation
>
>

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From: [e-mail]                                 13-Nov-99 04:58:28
  To: All                                               13-Nov-99 03:31:18
Subj: Re: NS 4.61GA on WSeB and german Umlauts: Font Problem

From: [e-mail]

In <[e-mail]>, Michael Kaply
<[e-mail]> writes:

>I have no idea at all what you are referring to. The codepage it is running
>in is irrelevant.

that is sort of what I was referring to . . . as you're an IBM'er, not just a
Netscapegoat perhaps you can enlighten us international users:

IBM these days is very gung-ho in "internationalization" as we've all noticed
watching the thirty megs or so that go into new directories when we upfix.
Sounds great ! until one actually tries to DO something involving foreign
languages. At that point the hapless user finds that none of this does
anything
useful due to several problems. There is no way in OS/2 to work with dbcs
characters in codepage 437 or 850. One has to set up two codepages and switch
to 1381 or 950 to work in Chinese. Oops, you can't even work with both styles
of characters because you ONLY get two codepages - english, traditional, and
simplified would take three codepages. Not allowed.  This doesn't even touch
on the problems enumerated recently elsewhere caused by using two codepages
on one system, where files written in one codepage can be unaccessible or
undeletable from the other page. This is just the beginning of the troubles
caused by the codepage / locale-aware system . . . so earlier in this thread
I was surprised to see that Netscape can at least *read* from different
codepages without being started in a secondary codepage session. Ergo,
there must be SOME other method to deal with multiple languages than that
codepage abortion system.

I will admit to a lot of frustration with this . . IBM is officially very
outspoken
on the subject of Global This and Global That and eCommerce trading global-
wide : but if you try to actually DO any of this you are in for a shock. There
is
a poster elsewhere who has mentioned that there are a lot of  un- or poorly
documented requirements to writing a proper OS/2 multi-lingual app - even the
esteemed Nick Knight of MR/2 ICE fame has not been successful - dbcs files
do not work correctly in MR/2 ICE, and his is one of the better programs. I
went
so far as to try to purchase dbcs Warp 4 - you can NOT buy it in the US. In
fact,
of the five places my IBM contact kindly sent me, two asked if *I* could buy
a few extra copies for them next time I was in Beijing !!

so, in short, since Netscape can at least display foreign codepages from a
domestic one, what the heck is going on ? Why can crummy-ass Windows,
the os for brain-dead gamers, do dbcs while OS/2, the product of an acclaimed
international *business-oriented* solution-provider, cannot ? Macintosh
has no problem, NeXT, dead for five years now, has no problems with dbcs.
Why are we stuck with this stupid codepage non-answer ?

Sorry for getting hot under the collar - actually, I'm sort of looking for
real technical answers to what's going on here. The real question is probably
buried in verbiage, so it is left at the end from Post #1.

and thanks for taking your time to answer questions here in public - it's
much appreciated, even if we do rant and rave sometimes  :-)

>On an OS/2 Warp 4 850 system with FixPak 5 or greater applied, using the
>Times New Roman Mt 30 font, you can see:
>
>Japanese, Greek, Cyrillic, etc. etc.
>
>There is no need for codepage switching by the user.
>
>When we create the font in the app, we tell the OS what codepage we
>need. You don't have to do anything.
>

>Mike Kaply
>IBM
>

>>so how *does* a program such as Netscape correctly display pages in German,
>>in Rumanian, in Simplified Chinese when the app is opened from a codepage
>>437 or 850 environment ?
>

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From: [e-mail]                     13-Nov-99 08:20:05
  To: All                                               13-Nov-99 05:13:20
Subj: Re: Comm/2 v4.61 easter egg

From: "Jeffrey S. Kobal" <[e-mail]>

Doug Darrow wrote:

> So, Jeff, are you guys going to fix the bad memory leak problem with
> the 128-bit version of v.4.61 before the end of the year, or are we to
> be forced to buy a Software Choice Support package to get the fix?

(1) What bad memory leak problem?

(2) I myself probably won't be fixing it, nor would I expect
anyone on my team to do so.  It will be up to the service
and maintenance folks, and then only if it's something that
has actually been reported to them as a severe problem.

(3) I wouldn't expect to see a Communicator fixpack
before the end of the year, but you never can tell.

(4) The way the situation has been described, you won't
have to pay to get fixpacks even after the new year.
Software Choice distributes whole software packages,
not fixpacks... fixpacks come from a different source.

Jeffrey S. Kobal
IBM Corporation


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From: [e-mail]                     13-Nov-99 08:23:27
  To: All                                               13-Nov-99 05:13:20
Subj: Re: Netscape Communicator 4.61 -- Almost too embarrassed to ask.

From: "Jeffrey S. Kobal" <[e-mail]>

[e-mail] wrote:

> Preferences (in 4.61) has all Java options checked: enable Java, enable Java
script,
> etc.  If I type Java -version at an OS/2 prompt, I'm told I'm running Java
version
> 1.1.6.

Java 1.1.6 is not supported in Netscape Communicator 4.61
for OS/2.  In order to use Java with the browser, you must
install Java 1.1.7 or a higher 1.1.x version.

Jeffrey S. Kobal
IBM Corporation


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From: [e-mail]                           13-Nov-99 08:44:02
  To: All                                               13-Nov-99 05:13:20
Subj: Re: Linkwiz

From: [e-mail]

In <[e-mail]>, on 11/12/99
   at 10:44 AM, [e-mail] (M.P. van Dobben de Bruijn) said:

>PCX's website seems to be defunct with a standard page that was installed
>by the (new?) ISP I think. Did you try to reach them by phone etc?
>Recently I saw that Indelible Blue still has them in the catalogue, but I
>doubt if shelling  out 125 USD for a new full version (I suppose that
>upgrades may be a problem over IB) would be what you like now.
>Nevertheless, thought I should mention it.

>Missing files in certain sub-directories you mention as a problem. I very
> recently learned that there is a problem with FP11.......

Thanks for the  comments about PCX. I hadn't thought of telephoning them -
I guess that's what the internet does to us these days!!  I would not
necessarily object to paying for a new version if it worked properly!
I'll check out Indelible Blue.  Thanks for that.

As to the missing files problem, it has been with me since the beginning
and I don't think it is a problen with FP11 though, like you, I have
noticed other things. Clearlook now doesn't find certain directories on my
machine and Sundial have suggested that this might be related to FP11.  I
have FP12 but haven't had a chance to put it on yet.

Dave Lister


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From: [e-mail]                                         13-Nov-99 08:00:15
  To: All                                               13-Nov-99 10:28:21
Subj: Re: cannot find winsock.dll - Quicken 98

From: Anssi Saari <[e-mail]>

[e-mail] writes:

> In <[e-mail]>, on 11/11/99
>    at 06:28 PM, Anssi Saari <[e-mail]> said:
>
> >> f:\tcpip\dos\etc, which is listed as "set etc=" in autoexec.bat.  Quicken
> >> is set for direct internet connection.
>
> >Winsock.dll needs to be in your (DOS) path, not %etc%.
>
> So should I stick it in c:\os2\mdos\winos2?

If that's in your path, but why not the default location in
c:\tcpip\dos\bin? And add that to your path in autoexec.bat.

--
Anssi Saari - [e-mail]

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From: [e-mail]                                         13-Nov-99 08:07:04
  To: All                                               13-Nov-99 10:28:21
Subj: Re: Best Rewritable CD for OS2

From: Anssi Saari <[e-mail]>

[e-mail] (Gideon Singer) writes:

> I am planning on installing a RWCD in the new year. Is there any
> consensuse as to which is the best unit to install for OS2/W98 setup?

I don't think so. I like my Ricoh MP7040S since it's software
upgradeble to 7060S, i.e. from 4x writing to 6x writing. Probably hard
to find now though, since the 7060 has replaced the 7040.

It does have one problem, though. I couldn't read multi-session CDs in
the Ricoh in OS/2. That is, until I patched os2cdrom.dmd. For some
reason, that file contains a list of drive brands and if your drive
brand, isn't on the list, OS/2 only shows the first session on a
multi-session disc. I understand this 'problem' concerns Yamaha drives
as well.

Available CD writing software isn't much for OS/2. There's RSJ, which
is expensive and for SCSI drives there's a Unix port, cdrecord.

--
Anssi Saari - [e-mail]

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From: [e-mail]                                 14-Nov-99 03:53:06
  To: All                                               13-Nov-99 10:28:22
Subj: Re: Comm/2 v4.61 easter egg

From: [e-mail] (Richard Steiner)

Here in comp.os.os2.apps, "Jeffrey S. Kobal" <[e-mail]>
spake unto us, saying:

>(2) I myself probably won't be fixing it, nor would I expect
>anyone on my team to do so.  It will be up to the service
>and maintenance folks, and then only if it's something that
>has actually been reported to them as a severe problem.

I've always wondered why some companies keep support and development
staff separate and some don't.  We didn't when I worked at Unisys, and
we don't (at least in my group) at NWA.

Isn't there an advantage to having the folks who ported the original
code do the bug squashing as well?  Or am I missing something?

--
   -Rich Steiner  >>>--->  [e-mail]  >>>---> Bloomington, MN
     OS/2 + BeOS + Linux + Solaris + Win95 + WinNT4 + FreeBSD + DOS
      + VMWare + Fusion + vMac + Executor = PC Hobbyist Heaven! :-)
          P-1 CUR ALLOC 3867562....756G      HELLO AGAIN GREGORY

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From: [e-mail]               13-Nov-99 06:42:03
  To: All                                               13-Nov-99 10:28:22
Subj: Re: IBM WAKE UP

From: "Kim Cheung" <[e-mail]>

On Fri, 12 Nov 1999 16:10:16 -0500, Brad BARCLAY wrote:

>    I unfortunately don't have an answer (and I really wish I did...), but
>is there *anything* keeping any of these companies from using VAC++
>v3.0, which doesn't seem to have the limitations these groups are
>talking about (most of IBM's OS/2 products are compiled with VAC++ v3.0

I believe so.   The annoucements from these companies talked about that.

>AFAIK, and many of them are significantly bigger than any of the above
>mentioned products)?

3.0 wasn't that great to start with - with a half baked integration with the
WPS, and a tendency to self-destruct.   But of course, when compared to 4.0,
it's heaven.

4.0 is REALLY terrible.


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From: [e-mail]                           13-Nov-99 12:59:20
  To: All                                               13-Nov-99 10:28:22
Subj: Re: Comm/2 v4.61 easter egg

From: [e-mail] (Magnus Olsson)

On Fri, 12 Nov 1999 23:25:54, [e-mail] wrote:

> Yes, I paid for Warp 4, and Warp 3, and OS/2 2.11.
Same here (except for 2.11, which i have never used)

-
all the best
                  Magnus

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From: [e-mail]                                 13-Nov-99 13:53:21
  To: All                                               13-Nov-99 12:46:02
Subj: Re: Partition Magic 5.0 upgrade

From: [e-mail] (Jan Swartling)

On Sat, 13 Nov 1999 04:43:18, [e-mail] wrote:

> In <8NO1LLldNq1r-pn2-0dNd8XsjBPdj@localhost>, [e-mail] (Jan
Swartling) writes:
> >
> >It's not a question whether there is a OS/2 version or not. (There is no
> >native OS/2 version, since the one in PM3).
>
>         Actually, it was, since you specifically stated that you
> ran an OS/2 version.  That Partition Magic still handles HPFS
> partitions was never in doubt (at least here, I can't speak for
> others).

Greg,

sorry about that. Let me rephrase it to "...easy to run the version for
OS/2 included..."

Jan Swartling
 Blue Soft

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From: [e-mail]                                 13-Nov-99 13:53:21
  To: All                                               13-Nov-99 12:46:02
Subj: Re: Partition Magic 5.0 upgrade -- still need Win before DOS?

From: [e-mail] (Jan Swartling)

On Sat, 13 Nov 1999 04:35:16, [e-mail] wrote:

> PM3 was nice in that they had the DOS text mode right on the CD where
> you could get it -- PQMAGICT.EXE.  This changed in PM4 where you don't
> get to find it until you install PQMagic -- which you can only do
> under Windows.  Suppose you want it to create a partition for Windows
> -- or don't plan on installing Windows at all?  Does PM5 continue the
> "Catch 22" built into PM4?

swansona,

It believethey have abandonded the text version in PM5. Instead you get
the opportunity to create a Rescue diskett either from DOS or from
Windows. You can create the DOS directly from the CD, but in order to do
it from windows I believe you have to first install the program. So there
is no "Catch 22" situation.

Jan Swartling
 Blue Soft

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From: [e-mail]                                 13-Nov-99 13:53:19
  To: All                                               13-Nov-99 12:46:02
Subj: Re: Partition Magic 5.0 upgrade

From: [e-mail] (Jan Swartling)

On Thu, 11 Nov 1999 11:05:21, Tony Wright <[e-mail]> wrote:

> Jan Swartling wrote:
>
> > On Tue, 9 Nov 1999 02:14:44, "Hal Murray" <[e-mail]> wrote:
> >
> > >  I tried Partition Magic 4 on my OS/2 drive and it destroyed my
> > > extended partition. So I went back to Partition Magic 3 text version.

> > Arer you sure that your extended partition was destroyed? It might just
> > have been converted to a "0F" partition type, which OS/2 don't recognise.
> > It's easy to restore to the previous "05"-partition type by running the
> > included PTEDIT program.
>
> Jan,Might this also depend on the revision level of PMagic he was using? I
> had to update to PM 4 from V3 for a 10.8Gb IDE and the upgrade CD was
> apparently 4.1 (or 4.01 perhaps).I also downloaded PTEDIT in anticipation of
> having to correct this very problem you referred to...
> However, cursory tests on re-creatings the Extended partition table appeared
> to always result in it correctly being defined as 05'X'

Well, all I know is that when you resize or create an extended partition
(I believe over 524MB) PM4 creates it as an "0F" partition. Since, sadly
to say,  Powerquest seem to have dropped all further development for the
OS/2, it seem unlikely that this will changes in any new versions. In PM3
you could disable the FAT32 options, in PM4 it seem to be hardcoded. The
only way I have found to change the partitoin type is by using the
included PTEDIT

> > And I wouldn't call version 4 (or version 5) OS/2 incompatible. I find it
> > quite easy to run the included OS/2 version from diskette. You can choose
> > between a graphics and a text version.
>
> Oh dear....apparently more confusion/ambiguity?What included OS/2 version on
> what specific major version of PM?

Let me rephrase the above to "..included version for OS/2...". It's the
DOS graphical version (which runs under both DOS and in a OS/2 DOS
session) you get by running the MAKEDISK.BAT.

> In any event while not disbelieving "Hals" original observation that PM 4
> "allegedly destroyed" his extended partitions I think far more detail would
> be required

I just offered a possible solution to a probabel cause. I know that many
people have had similar experiances.

> Perhaps downloading/applying the service patch from PowerQuest site might
> resolve these symptoms he previously observed?

It is always a good idea to use the latest updates, which for PM3 is v3.05
and for PM4 is version 4.01.

Jan Swartling
 Blue Soft


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From: [e-mail]                                 13-Nov-99 13:53:20
  To: All                                               13-Nov-99 12:46:02
Subj: Re: Partition Magic 5.0 upgrade

From: [e-mail] (Jan Swartling)

On Fri, 12 Nov 1999 12:26:26, [e-mail]       (John
Thompson) wrote:

> This MAKEDISK.BAT is one of the things I kept trying to get
> Powerquest to change during the PM v5 betas.  Even though  they
> provide the bootable DR-DOS diskette image to run PM from a
> floppy boot, the fact that they insist on using a .BAT file to
> create the diskettes means that you need to have DOS support on
> your OS/2 machine to create the diskettes.  I tried to convince
> them that simply making another copy of MAKEDISK.BAT on the CD
> but naming it to MAKEDISK.CMD would allow the diskettes to be
> created in a native OS/2 session.  By the end of beta 2 I thought
> I had convinced them.  But I see there's still no MAKEDISK.CMD
> file there.
>
> I also suggested using the LOADDSKF.EXE program to create
> diskettes directly from images (like they do for the linux
> diskette creation, using "dd") but that didn't get too far.  In
> any case, if you have a PROTECTONLY=YES OS/2 installation you can
> still create the needed bootable diskettes using the linux
> instructions and the OS/2 port of the "dd" command, found in the
> GNU File Utilities package.
>

John ,

I fully agree that it would have been nice (and also an extremely simple
thing for Powerquest to do) if they would have included an .CMD version of
the MAKEDISK.BAT file. I have no idea if it is common to run
PROTECTONLY=YES and by this exclude the possibility to run DOS-programs,
but there are obviously those who use this switch. You can of course, just
make a DOS bootable diskette from any DOS system and then just copy the
appropriate files from the PM CD.

Jan Swartling
 Blue Soft

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From: [e-mail]                               13-Nov-99 06:20:16
  To: All                                               13-Nov-99 12:46:02
Subj: Re: FrameMaker for OS/2 (not...)

From: [e-mail]

[e-mail] said:

I figured he was trying to say Describe came on a CD with OS2 & Wincrap
versions.

I think eveyone was angry with Adobe for killing the OS2 version, and I'm
100% certain the cause was pressure from Microsoft because there is no
other answer that makes sense.

The good news is that versions 5.0/1 run better under WinOS2 then they did
under windows, and (for my use) I've never seen anything in version 5.5
[haven't looked for 6.] that was worth the upgrade. -- I've wondered a few
times if Adobe has held back development  because it would impinge on the
Word 7/8/9/10/ etc. market. And we know M$ is capable of eating their
young.

In any event, 5.0 was a solid version and the last one to come from Frame
Technology. Its a keeper if you've got it.


>>The CD contains native OS/2 and Win95 versions.

>        I have cause to doubt that.  As a FrameMaker customer, I was
>quite disappointed when Adobe bought them prior to the version 5 rollout
>and axed the OS/2 version.  I bugged 'em about this and was told "sorry,
>no OS/2".

>        If there actually is an OS/2 version on the CD, I'd sure like to
>know why they didn't tell anybody.  I specifically informed them that
>purchase of any native OS/2 version would be immediate, but I've still
>got my money and still have no OS/2 FrameMaker.

>        If any version of FrameMaker was released that contained an OS/2
>version on the CD, can anybody tell me _exactly_ which  version(s) had
>this?  I could believe maybe an alpha or a beta, but _released_?

>-----
>Greg Thoman:  The opinions expressed herein are mine alone, and I am
>              solely irresponsible for them.

_____________
Ed Letourneau <[e-mail]>

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From: [e-mail]                                   13-Nov-99 14:45:19
  To: All                                               13-Nov-99 12:46:02
Subj: Re: Injoy: wont transmit a particular file

From: [e-mail] (Vit Timchishin)

On Fri, 12 Nov 1999 18:08:40, Tim [e-mail] (Tim Stephen) wrote:

>     I have injoy 1.1 with IP masquerading turned on on a warp 4 fixpack
> 11 system.  Recently I noticed that Injoy won't allow a at least a
> couple of files to download into my system either through FTP or
> netscape browser.  The files are little graphics files that exist on our
> web server (which has a T1 connection).  The files display/download
> properly on all other systems that access them with ftp or http but not
> on the injoy system.  They display/download properly when the injoy
> system is connected via IBM dialer rather than injoy.  They are small
> files (~15K or less).  Injoy shows an unusual amount of FCS invalid
> messsages as they are being accessed.
>
>     Any ideas??
Try SafeFire PPP (http://www.lgs.kiev.ua) It has all key features of In-Joy
plus
more (CCP, callback).

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From: [e-mail]                             13-Nov-99 16:03:20
  To: All                                               13-Nov-99 12:46:02
Subj: Re: Embellish File-Open Problem?

From: Oliver Ebert <[e-mail]>

Hi Peter,

> Of the 13 directories in the root
> of my E-drive only 10 show up.
> Anyone else noticed such a problem problem?
Here's the same. Of the 15 directories in the root of my HD only 11
show up.
I don't know why. I noticed this problem accidently because I wanted
to load a file from a directory not shown in the »Open file« dialog.
With the »save file« dialog it is the same.
I am running version 2.02b.
Anybody out there who can solve this problem or can tell me why it
exists?

Bye says
Oliver



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From: [e-mail]                     13-Nov-99 15:18:04
  To: All                                               13-Nov-99 12:46:02
Subj: Re: Comm/2 v4.61 easter egg

From: "Jeffrey S. Kobal" <[e-mail]>

Richard Steiner wrote:

> Isn't there an advantage to having the folks who ported the original
> code do the bug squashing as well?  Or am I missing something?

There are certainly good arguments to be made for
that model, but there are advantages to both.  In
our development environment, there is more of a
focus on job skills (development, testing, customer
situation debugging, etc.) than on specific product
skills.  "Developers" move from development
project to development project... testers do the
same between testing projects... etc.

Jeffrey S. Kobal
IBM Corporation


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From: [e-mail]                           13-Nov-99 15:29:07
  To: All                                               13-Nov-99 12:46:02
Subj: Re: Embellish File-Open Problem?

From: [e-mail] (Lorne Sunley)

On Sat, 13 Nov 1999 16:03:40, Oliver Ebert <[e-mail]>
wrote:

> Hi Peter,
>
> > Of the 13 directories in the root
> > of my E-drive only 10 show up.
> > Anyone else noticed such a problem problem?
> Here's the same. Of the 15 directories in the root of my HD only 11
> show up.
> I don't know why. I noticed this problem accidently because I wanted
> to load a file from a directory not shown in the εOpen file⌐ dialog.
> With the εsave file⌐ dialog it is the same.
> I am running version 2.02b.
> Anybody out there who can solve this problem or can tell me why it
> exists?

This is probably the "archive" bit set on the directory error.

There were a number of posts on this topic. Basically the
problem is that FP 11 (?) sets the "archive" bit on a directory
file and a number of programs cannot handle the presence
of that bit. You can probably get rid of the problem by
using the ATTRIB command to set the bit off with

ATTRIB -A directory-name

where "directory-name" is the directory that you have the
problem with.

Lorne Sunley



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From: [e-mail]                                      13-Nov-99 16:31:03
  To: All                                               13-Nov-99 16:36:24
Subj: danish charachters

From: [e-mail] (Steen Bondo)

Hi all

Using timEd for email+news - I have a little problem with æ╜åÆ╛Å(
aeoeaaAEOEAA). The problem are the ╜╛(oeOE)s, they are shown at
recipients as 'cent' and 'yen' charachters. It must be timEd's
translation that has a failure here, because I read them OK - also the
ones from my self.

If the recipient has:
    Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"
    Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
He should see them right, but no.!

Anyone has a fix for timEd's <readmaps.dat/writmaps.dat> ??
Or <ISO_IBM.CHS/IBM_ISO.CHS> ??
--
Steen

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From: [e-mail]                                 13-Nov-99 18:00:19
  To: All                                               13-Nov-99 16:36:24
Subj: Re: Partition Magic 5.0 upgrade -- still need Win before DOS?

From: [e-mail] (Bruce LaZerte)

On Sat, 13 Nov 1999 04:35:16, [e-mail] wrote:

>  PQMAGICT.EXE.  This changed in PM4 where you don't
> get to find it until you install PQMagic -- which you can only do
> under Windows.  Suppose you want it to create a partition for Windows
> -- or don't plan on installing Windows at all?

Yah, this really ticked me off with V4. Especially since I downloaded the
upgrade (24MB?) and had to run through all that wincrap just to unzip it
and get about 3-4MB of core DOS programs.

It's a company I love to hate.

WIsh they just sold a plain DOS zipped version for OS/2, Linux, whatever
users.

----------------------
Bruce LaZerte
Muskoka,Ontario,Canada
freshwat at muskoka dot com

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From: [e-mail]                                 13-Nov-99 08:58:21
  To: All                                               13-Nov-99 16:36:24
Subj: Re: Quicken 98 to end Quicken Credit Card transaction downloads

From: [e-mail]

In <[e-mail]>, Mark Hood <[e-mail]> writes:

>Intuit has informed me through the mail that in order to continue
>downloading credit card transactions from Quicken Credit Card issued by
>Travelers Bank I would have to upgrade to Quicken 2000 Deluxe by November
>15.  Quicken 98 is the last 16-bit version of Quicken, so it is the last
>version that will run in Win-OS2.
>
>I've communicated with the support people and it seems unlikely that a patch
>will be issued for Quicken 98 to allow it to continue transactions with
>their new server, but they didn't rule it out.  If no patch will be
>available, it seems my options are to either get an account with a big bank
>like Wells Fargo that supports on-line banking directly with Quicken 98, or
>boot into a W32 OS for Quicken 2000.


as they say, money talks and something else walks -- if your current
bank won't go to the trouble to come up with a Win 3.1 program, then tell
them you'll leave and why. Obviously they don't want your business that badly.
Perhaps if enough people stand up for choice we'll get it. We certainly won't
get anything but a large reamer by doing whatever we're told. Bring out
the cattle cars, we're almost ready to go !

>
>-- Mark Hood


--
härad ængravvåd

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From: [e-mail]                                   13-Nov-99 21:28:05
  To: All                                               13-Nov-99 16:36:24
Subj: PHMon beta release

From: "Peter Engels" <[e-mail]>

HI OS/2 user,

you can find a beta release of PMHMon on my homepage. This freeware
utility monitors the supply voltages, temperatures and fans of the main
board. It is a PM application.

http://www.uni-bonn.de/~uzs0ad



This OS/2 system uptime is 04 hours, 10 minutes and 59 seconds.
--
MfG / Regards

    Peter Engels


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From: [e-mail]                                 13-Nov-99 20:13:15
  To: All                                               13-Nov-99 19:47:01
Subj: Re: cannot find winsock.dll - Quicken 98

From: [e-mail]

In <[e-mail]>, Anssi Saari <[e-mail]> writes:
>[e-mail] writes:
>
>> In <[e-mail]>, on 11/11/99
>>    at 06:28 PM, Anssi Saari <[e-mail]> said:
>>
>> >> f:\tcpip\dos\etc, which is listed as "set etc=" in autoexec.bat.
Quicken
>> >> is set for direct internet connection.
>>
>> >Winsock.dll needs to be in your (DOS) path, not %etc%.
>>
>> So should I stick it in c:\os2\mdos\winos2?
>
>If that's in your path, but why not the default location in
>c:\tcpip\dos\bin? And add that to your path in autoexec.bat.

been a long time since I did a DOS sockets app . . but don't you
also need to make sure there is only ONE winsock.dll anywhere on
your system ? Somehow the computer which perennially "cannot find
such-and-such dll" is a whizz at finding winsock.dll anywhere you
hide a copy ! (but not to use, only to make trouble)

or am I just having another Senior Moment ?

>
>--
>Anssi Saari - [e-mail]
>

--
härad ængravvåd

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From: [e-mail]                                  13-Nov-99 21:45:11
  To: All                                               13-Nov-99 19:47:01
Subj: Re: FrameMaker for OS/2 (not...)

From: "Jaime A. Cruz, Jr." <[e-mail]>

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I guess no one remembers that almost two weeks after Adobe announced they
were discontinuing development of FrameMaker/2 (according to Martin Warnett
who was one of the developers at the time, it was ready for beta test!!),
Adobe had a joint announcement with Microsoft over a new "OpenType" font
technology.

Coincidence?  What do you think?

On Sat, 13 Nov 1999 06:20:32 -0500, [e-mail] wrote:

>[e-mail] said:
>
>I figured he was trying to say Describe came on a CD with OS2 & Wincrap
>versions.
>
>I think eveyone was angry with Adobe for killing the OS2 version, and I'm
>100% certain the cause was pressure from Microsoft because there is no
>other answer that makes sense.
>
>The good news is that versions 5.0/1 run better under WinOS2 then they did
>under windows, and (for my use) I've never seen anything in version 5.5
>[haven't looked for 6.] that was worth the upgrade. -- I've wondered a few
>times if Adobe has held back development  because it would impinge on the
>Word 7/8/9/10/ etc. market. And we know M$ is capable of eating their
>young.
>
>In any event, 5.0 was a solid version and the last one to come from Frame
>Technology. Its a keeper if you've got it.
>
>
>>>The CD contains native OS/2 and Win95 versions.
>
>>        I have cause to doubt that.  As a FrameMaker customer, I was
>>quite disappointed when Adobe bought them prior to the version 5 rollout
>>and axed the OS/2 version.  I bugged 'em about this and was told "sorry,
>>no OS/2".
>
>>        If there actually is an OS/2 version on the CD, I'd sure like to
>>know why they didn't tell anybody.  I specifically informed them that
>>purchase of any native OS/2 version would be immediate, but I've still
>>got my money and still have no OS/2 FrameMaker.
>
>>        If any version of FrameMaker was released that contained an OS/2
>>version on the CD, can anybody tell me _exactly_ which  version(s) had
>>this?  I could believe maybe an alpha or a beta, but _released_?
>
>>-----
>>Greg Thoman:  The opinions expressed herein are mine alone, and I am
>>              solely irresponsible for them.
>
>_____________
>Ed Letourneau <[e-mail]>
>

Jaime A. Cruz, Jr.

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From: [e-mail]                              13-Nov-99 22:07:10
  To: All                                               13-Nov-99 19:47:01
Subj: ns461: Contacting host....

From: James Moe <[e-mail]>

Hello,
    Sometimes NS will get to the stage of "Connect: Contaction host
:<whatever>..." and wait there forever. Usually it times out with http
404.
    Anyone know what happens on the infinite wait?


--

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

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From: [e-mail]                               13-Nov-99 17:38:07
  To: All                                               13-Nov-99 19:47:01
Subj: Re: FrameMaker for OS/2 (not...)

From: [e-mail]

>I guess no one remembers that almost two weeks after Adobe announced they
>were discontinuing development of FrameMaker/2 (according to Martin
>Warnett who was one of the developers at the time, it was ready for beta
>test!!), Adobe had a joint announcement with Microsoft over a new
>"OpenType" font technology.

>Coincidence?  What do you think?

No I didn't forget. I just think it is more interesting that Adobe has
left out things that would be logical to add in if you really wanted to
compete in the office making documents. e.g., you would add in
functionally to allow the use of Frame for document construction with
seamless import and export of documents with Word.


_____________
Ed Letourneau <[e-mail]>

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From: postmaster@[127.0.0.1]                            13-Nov-99 17:17:29
  To: All                                               13-Nov-99 21:18:19
Subj: Re: PHMon beta release

From: postmaster@[127.0.0.1]

In <[e-mail]>, on 11/13/99
   at 09:28 PM, "Peter Engels" <[e-mail]> said:

>you can find a beta release of PMHMon on my homepage. This freeware
>utility monitors the supply voltages, temperatures and fans of the main
>board. It is a PM application.

>http://www.uni-bonn.de/~uzs0ad

FWIW, when I start it up, I get a warning: "Cannot find a monitoring IC."

I click "OK," the Health Monitor window opens up, and my system freezes The
pointer freezes on the "wait" pointer, if you know what I mean, then I use
WatchCat to kill the Health Monitor).


--
GK

FrodoJRR at Interaccess dot com
OS/2 Version 4.00 FixPack 12
There are 33 Processes with 121 Threads.
This machine's uptime is 0d 8h 34m 25s 132ms.


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From: jkross@[e-mail]                   15-Nov-99 17:32:16
  To: All                                               15-Nov-99 14:46:24
Subj: Lost Multisession CD Reading , WAS: Best Rewritable CD for OS2

From: jkross@[e-mail] (John Ross)

In message <[e-mail]> - Anssi Saari <[e-mail]> writes:
:>
:>[e-mail] (Gideon Singer) writes:
:>
:>> I am planning on installing a RWCD in the new year. Is there any
:>> consensuse as to which is the best unit to install for OS2/W98 setup?
:>
:>I don't think so. I like my Ricoh MP7040S since it's software
:>upgradeble to 7060S, i.e. from 4x writing to 6x writing. Probably hard
:>to find now though, since the 7060 has replaced the 7040.
:>
:>It does have one problem, though. I couldn't read multi-session CDs in
:>the Ricoh in OS/2. That is, until I patched os2cdrom.dmd. For some
:>reason, that file contains a list of drive brands and if your drive
:>brand, isn't on the list, OS/2 only shows the first session on a
:>multi-session disc. I understand this 'problem' concerns Yamaha drives
:>as well.

I also seem to have lost the ability for my "Cyberdrive" IDE 12X CD-Rom to
read multisession
Photo CD's .(Warp 4 FP 12 and several FP before that)
If the change is due to the os2cdrom.dmd how might I get it back?

(The cd-rom will read multisession cd's in Wind98.)
 It is a minor inconveinience but I have been wondering what happened.


Thank-you

-john ross

http://www.oxford.net/~jkross

Remove "@I_hate_spam" from address to reply....


--
"Usenet is like a herd of performing elephants with diarrhea --
massive, difficult to redirect, awe-inspiring, entertaining, and a
source of mind-boggling amounts of excrement when you least expect
it."[e-mail] (1992)

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From: [e-mail]                                     15-Nov-99 17:54:15
  To: All                                               15-Nov-99 14:46:24
Subj: Re: Accounting application

From: [e-mail] (Don Morse)

In message <[e-mail]> - "Roberto F.
Salomon" <[e-mail]> writes:
:>
:>I am looking for an accounting application for a small/medium sized
business.
:> Does anyone know of a true OS/2 app to do the job?
:>
:>


Well, I can say to stay away from Cybercomm's Accucount/2.  Apparently they
were nothing but a band of theives who collected money for a pre-release beta,
never delivered and now don't even respond to requests for explanations or any
sort of proof they ever intended to produce a product.

They still have a web site up hawking their software programming business.
I'd avoid it like the plague based on past performance.  I'd also notify other
OS/2 users to steer clear of them.....

Don't be fooled by the claims of the beta progressing nicely.  The same
verbage has been on the site for about a year now.

I'm using MYOB under Win-OS/2.  I would prefer a native OS/2 product, and I
was hoping that Accucount/2 would fill the bill.  My Mistake...


don


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From: [e-mail]                               15-Nov-99 13:00:11
  To: All                                               15-Nov-99 14:46:24
Subj: cdrecord/2 new ver

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

get the new version @
http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Sector/5785/cdrecord/cdrecordmain.htm

it can now do bit-perfect copies of audio cds!

totally free



- dink ( http://dink.org )



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From: [e-mail]                 15-Nov-99 18:10:22
  To: All                                               15-Nov-99 14:46:24
Subj: Re: Partition Magic 5.0 upgrade -- still need Win before DOS?

From: [e-mail] (Ken Walter)

On Mon, 15 Nov 1999 04:55:38, [e-mail] wrote:

[...]
>just out of curiosity I'd LOVE to see the books of these companies
>who tell us how impossibly expensive it is to support more than just
>Winshit. Mebbe my cantankerous old soul would be shocked at how
>well ISV's pay their programmers and how many humans are scurrying
>to keep up with the fast-paced technical advances in Windows alone . . .
>but I'd bet a year's earnings that there's two programmers and a
>part-time kid from the local j.c. doing the work at a lot of these cash-
>strapped enterprises.  Some of the heads of these companies buy homes
>in my county - the last one was in the area of twenty million dollars.
>Coulda supported at least one or two OS/2 programmers on that, I think.
>

Companies support Micro$oft, Apple, Linux and many other version of
Unix
All the excuses for not supporting OS/2 are/were lame.
I far as I am concerned it must include some arm twisting by the
gang$ter
no matter how much they deny it.

Ken Walter

Remove -zamboni to reply
All the above is hearsay and the opinion of no one in particular

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From: [e-mail]                                    15-Nov-99 19:55:28
  To: All                                               15-Nov-99 20:08:21
Subj: Re: Netscape 4.04 Wanted

From: "Rolf Garske" <[e-mail]>

The sudden silent death of file downloads is a feature of
Netscape on other platforms also. I am also seeing this
with version 4.7 on Windows-NT. Version 4.6 did it also.

For downloads, I remember that Version 2.02 for OS/2 was rock solid. It
almost never gave Me this problem.

On Fri, 12 Nov 1999 10:10:51 +0000 (GMT), Roland Pinches wrote:

:>I'm seeing similar problems with Netscape, although not quite to the same
:>extent! Certainly I've had lots of problems with creating and moving mail
:>folders and also reading newsgroup articles, but I can't say I've had any
:>problems with multitasking.
:>
:>This led me to go and buy PMMail2.1 and PMINews. No problems with mail and
:>newsgroups now :-)
:>
:>However, Netscape always seems to crap out when downloading large files ie:
:>Java 1.1.8. It just stops. No errors, no messages, just stops as if it has
:>finished downloading the whole file but has typically only downloaded about
:>1Mb. Command line FTP still works ok, but I can't find the java download
area
:>on service.boulder.ibm.com....
:>
:>Netscape also gives me problems with with Java, hence my desire to get 118.
:>Recently there was an announcement from Snowstorm Software about a new
module
:>for their screen saver. When I try to access their web site, it starts a
java
:>app which kills my machine. My only option is to hit the reset button on the
:>front of my PC as even CTRL-ALT-DEL doesn't work. I got around it eventually
:>by switching off Java within Netscape, but I wouldn't say that is an ideal
:>solution!
:>
:>Thanks for listening to our gripes!
:>Any thoughts??
:>
:>Roly.
:>
:>>
:>>Troubles? Oh only a few .........................
:>>
:>>(1) Rename Mail Folders Netscape crashes out
:>>(2) Delete Mail Folders Netscape crashes out
:>>(3) Copy Mail Folder ...................
:>>(4) Move .....................
:>>(5) Unable to delete Newsgroup msgs .............
:>>(6) Flagging Newsgroups to delete fails
:>>(7) Purge Newsgroups fails
:>>(8) Purge will also cause Netscape to crash
:>>(9) Does not download Newgroups unless I use synchronise
:>>(10 Totally ignores any settings and likely to crash at any time.
:>>(11) A product that builds one's confidence (sic)
:>>(12) All files have to be xxxxxxxx.xxx because Netscape is MSDOS. Odd that
:>>the WIN95/98 product supports WIN98 long file names but we just get the
:>>MSDOS supported file structure ..................
:>>
:>>This is only a little catalogue there are many end users who experience
:>>keyboard lock ups and so on. The list goes on. It can not be claimed that
:>>Netscape is a major product - it's poorly written and unstable. Better to
:>>start from scratch and not write an MSDOS application and then tweak it  to
:>>become a third rate product. No I don't expect a 100 per cent perfect
:>>product. In fact the only thing that can be said for this MSDOS crossover
:>>(perhaps another app dependent on Open Doc) from WIN95/98 is it can pick up
:>>mail I can write mail, and can browse the web - beyond that the software
:>>sucks - but sadly has no real flavour.
:>>
:>>All these errors are due in part to (for me) with doscall1.dll something
:>>that I would have expected to have been picked up in beta testing. I'm
:>>running Warp-4 100% HPFS fixpak 9 uk. There are other issues - even with no
:>>programmes running with 48Mb RAM Netscape creates a 32MB swap file - my
:>>default size 8192Mb. As for multitasking forget it MSDOS is a single
tasking
:>>operating system and Netscape is just that.
:>>
:>>Netscape OS/2 behaves like leaded jelly and has no crispness. I have boot
:>>manager so I can compare performance on the same machine. When I compare it
:>>with the MSDOS version for WIN98 Netscape runs faster, crisper and does not
:>>crash out. Which begs the question: Why do we always get third rate
products
:>>ported from MSDOS? I ask myself why is it that a 16bit application with a
:>>few 32bit dlls running on a 8/16bit operating system with a few more 32bit
:>>dlls  in a nice GUI (WIN95/98) will always out perform the third rate we
end
:>>up with?
:>>
:>>So for my own personal use at home if you have a copy of comm404.exe a more
:>>stable and less "jelly" like product let me know! Oh btw I've stuck by OS/2
:>>for the past five years and will continue to use it at home, commercially
we
:>>are giving it up.
:>>
:>>Have a happy and profitable day!
:>>
:>>Regards,
:>>
:>>David
:>>________________________________________________________________
:>>David Cooper - Chairman Green-Base Exchange Ltd - Green-Base Shopping Ltd.
:>>Waste Recovery + Cleaner Production Technologies = Environmentally Friendly
:>>Products = Profits. That's Our Business - Make It Yours!
:>>
:>>
:>>
:>>
:>
:>
:>

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From: [e-mail]                             15-Nov-99 15:18:24
  To: All                                               15-Nov-99 20:08:21
Subj: Re: Comm/2 v4.61 easter egg

From: [e-mail] (Mark Dodel)

You guys are all daft.  It's just a javascript page.  You all probably
use microcrap with it's hidden flight simulator garbage and no-one
bitches about that total waste.    I don't use microcrud anything, and
I happen to like Netscape 4.61 and it's secret little author race
page.

Why don't you folks pick on something that is of some real import,
like why IBM can't fix VAC++ 4.0 so developers could actually finish
some new applications for OS/2.

Mark

On Sun, 14 Nov 1999 23:10:53, [e-mail] (R. G. Newbury) wrote:

-)On Fri, 12 Nov 1999 07:00:30, "Jeffrey S. Kobal"
-)<[e-mail]> wrote:
-)
-)> Well, then, let's just say that it's "traditional" for software
-)> engineers to put their name into what they write, to credit
-)> those who put their time and effort -- and often heart --
-)> into the project.  We also use our authors page to list the
-)> people that had a hand in the project (perhaps not with
-)> the development directly... but with some part of the life
-)> of the product) as a way of thanking them for contributing
-)> and giving them some credit as well.
-)>
-)> Credit... recognition... pride... motivation.  Sometimes a
-)> little pat on the back can go a long way towards improving
-)> how a person produces.
-)>
-)> Jeffrey S. Kobal
-)> IBM Corporation
-)
-)Fine, then put in a page (or 2) of TEXT which lists the people who
-)deserve the credit.
-)
-)But don't start it with a MYST-like puzzle and don't fill it with
-)piles of jumping screens and animated crap,
-)
-)I'm with Buddy: it is an insult to your customer to HIDE the damn
-)thing. and make the program into bloatware.
-)
-)And it sure as hell is an insult to YOU as a programmer if your
-)company won't let you do it in the open with a TEXT page but will
-)nudge-nudge, wink-wink LET you get away with 'almost' hiding the damn
-)thing. Who's fooling whom here? I've NEVER heard of a programmer who
-)was fired for putting in an egg.... Maybe they should be.
-)
-)As to putting an egg into the hardware on a modem, maybe it actually
-)fits into the 'extra' space at the end of the ROM. Then again why
-)didn't they use that space to make the error messeges more meaningful.
-)
-)Geoff
-)
-)
-)
-)
-)Disclaimer: Unless explicitly mentioned otherwise, I speak for and
-)have always spoken for the company I work for. I am the fool company I
-)work for.


//---------------------------------------------------------
// From the Desk of: Mark Dodel, RN, BSN, MBA
//             Healthcare Computer Consultant
//                   [e-mail]
//    http://home.ptd.net/~madodel
//
//  For a VOICE in the future of OS/2
//             http://www.os2voice.org/index.html
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From: [e-mail]                               15-Nov-99 22:55:02
  To: All                                               15-Nov-99 20:08:21
Subj: Re: NS 4.61 Memory Leak & System Freeze

From: [e-mail]

Alan,
The easiest thing to try is to go into the preferences and set all your CACHE
to 0.
If this fixes the problem, then get SCACHE. It is easy to install and a lot
quicker.
Brian


n <[e-mail]>, [e-mail] (Alan Boritz) writes:
>This 9/99 "refresh," is really getting to be offensive.  NS 4.61 is causing
>the swap file to grow from a 142 meg initial size.  Running it about a dozen
>times will corrupt the system enough to crash it.  Running the message editor
>in any session will more than likely crash the system, but unlike the last
>release, the desktop will not unfreeze without a three-finger salute. Here's
>the popuplog for the last crash:
>
>11-14-1999  13:34:41  SYS3170  PID 01b5  TID 0001  Slot 009f
>F:\NETSCAPE\PROGRAM\NETSCAPE.EXE
>00000000
>00000000
>EAX=6d101294  EBX=157a0d1c  ECX=1649ce56  EDX=00000080
>ESI=17c170cc  EDI=13e8d93c
>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:1bd3b4ba  CSACC=d0df  CSLIM=1fffffff
>SS:ESP=0053:007c6484  SSACC=d0f3  SSLIM=1fffffff
>EBP=007c64b4  FLG=00012206
>
>------------------------------------------------------------
>
>11-14-1999  13:34:41  SYS3171  PID 01b5  TID 0001  Slot 009f
>F:\NETSCAPE\PROGRAM\NETSCAPE.EXE
>00000000
>00000000
>EAX=6d101298  EBX=1648ce3c  ECX=1649ce57  EDX=00000080
>ESI=00000000  EDI=13e8d93c
>DS=0053  DSACC=d0f3  DSLIM=1fffffff
>ES=0053  ESACC=d0f3  ESLIM=1fffffff
>FS=150b  FSACC=00f3  FSLIM=00000030
>GS=0000  GSACC=****  GSLIM=********
>CS:EIP=005a:1bd3b4ba  CSACC=d0df  CSLIM=1fffffff
>SS:ESP=004a:007fef38  SSACC=d0d3  SSLIM=1fffffff
>EBP=007fef68  FLG=00012202
>
>------------------------------------------------------------
>
>11-14-1999  13:34:41  SYS3170  PID 01b5  TID 0001  Slot 009f
>F:\NETSCAPE\PROGRAM\NETSCAPE.EXE
>00000053
>6d10129c
>P1=1649ce58  P2=00000080  P3=007c6488  P4=1bd3b4ba
>EAX=6d10129c  EBX=16489aa4  ECX=1649ce58  EDX=00000080
>ESI=00000004  EDI=13e8d93c
>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:1bd3b4ba  CSACC=d0df  CSLIM=1fffffff
>SS:ESP=0053:007c6458  SSACC=d0f3  SSLIM=1fffffff
>EBP=007c6488  FLG=00012202

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From: [e-mail]                           15-Nov-99 21:23:10
  To: All                                               15-Nov-99 20:08:22
Subj: DB2/2.1 Connectivity problems between OS/2 and NT

From: "Jette Hannibal" <[e-mail]>

OS/2 warp connect 3.0 (Revision 8.264) via TCP/IP or NetBios.

I think that the problem resides in the layer between the operating system
and the database management system. But for now I am stopped cold without a
clue on where to go.

I'm positive that the TCP/IP configurations are correct on both client and
databaseserver. I have inserted port configurations in services files  as
well as host names in the hosts files on both server and client. The OS/2
workstation (with the DB2 database) has a fixed IP adress which is
conneceted to the NNAME in the hosts file on both databaseserver and client.
The database is cataloged as remote.

I have tried the connection with NetBios as well. But the problem seems to
be the same. The client or client enabeler can not resolve the name and IP
adress to get a connection to the database whatever it is done from the
databaseserver (OS/2 workstation) or the client (NT 4.0. workstation)

I'm open to all suggestions

You are welcome to email me on [e-mail]

Sincerely

Kim





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From: [e-mail]                         15-Nov-99 20:01:28
  To: All                                               15-Nov-99 20:08:22
Subj: Re: Problem with PSF/2

From: Siobhan Perricone <[e-mail]>

In article <SKfw30zmCGmZ-pn2-gT3Zy3utrdhH@localhost>,
  doug.bissett"at"attglobal.net (Doug Bissett) wrote:
> On Fri, 12 Nov 1999 17:38:48, Siobhan Perricone
> <[e-mail]> wrote:

> I think the first thing you need to do, is determine, exactly which
> part of the system is failing. I see four major areas:
> 1) The  originating machine, may be sending incorrect data (unlikely,
> since your backup machine is working). If you have two originating
> machines, and they all fail, it would not, likely, be this.
> 2) The input  queue (where the failing machine stores it's input)
> could be messed up. Try copying a file from there to the system that
> is working, to see if the job gets printed properly.
> 3) PSF/2 could be messed up. Check all of the settings (compare to the
> working machine).
> 4) The printer driver may be messed up. Put the printers on hold, and
> display the output from PSF/2 on the screen, to see if the data looks
> correct.

Ok, I'm in the process of attempting this, but I need a little more
help in the practical aspects of testing.  I currently have the working
server hooked up to the printers and the network.  I had EDS send up a
smallish job, it has spooled into the EDS queue on the working server
(WS).

I have a keyboard and mouse hooked up to the non-working server (NWS),
but no network connections at this point.  What I wanted to do was move
the EDS job from the WS to the EDS queue on the NWS, then use PSF/2 to
transform it to one of the printers, and have it print out (after
plugging in the wire to the printers, of course).

Where I'm stumped is in how to execute the transfer of the file.  I
*cannot* network the two servers together, that is physically
impossible.  So I was going to try copying the file onto disk (it's not
that big) and putting it onto the other server.  That's all well and
good, but I don't know where the file is on the WS, or how to copy it
into the NWS so that it'll appear in the EDS queue.

I suspect this is a gap in my OS/2 knowledge.  Can you help me with
that?

> >  I've got a strange problem and I'm hoping that someone here will
have
> > a suggestion for something I could look at or try to figure out
what's
> > wrong.
> >
> > I have a PC (not a server) running OS/2 Warp 4 FP 10 and IBM/Pennant
> > Print Services Facility/2.  The PC has two network cards.  One card
is
> > connected to a network with other computers, through which the jobs
> > come.  The second card is only connected to 3 IBM 3160 printers.
This
> > machine does nothing but print jobs.
> >
> > There are two computers that send jobs to this print server.  One
is an
> > image server running on Unix, the other is on a Netware network (we
> > call it the EDS machine).  We have to run a special program that
starts
> > up a netware queue in order to receive the jobs from the EDS
machine.
> > The command for that is:
> >
> > start nwpsf2 qr=qrdr nwq=ibmprnt_eds os2q=eds
> >
> > This starts up the queue thingie and it shunts jobs into the EDS
> > queue.  We then use PSF/2 to transform the jobs while sending them
to
> > another print queue for one of the three printers.
> >
> > The problem is that when the jobs come out of the printer, they
aren't
> > printed properly.  We're getting garbage characters inserted at the
top
> > of the page, and it looks like it's inserting something at the end
of
> > each line that causes it to wrap weirdly, so that the items that are
> > supposed to be in table format, with lines around them, are all
funky
> > looking and take up twice as much space (as does everything else).
> >
> > I tried restarting the computer a couple of times and that doesn't
> > help.  It does this on all three printers, yet jobs from the image
> > server come out just fine on all three printers.  I've had them
resend
> > the job a couple of times, and it comes out the same each time.
> >
> > Here's the kicker.  I have another computer with the same set up
that
> > we use as a back up when this one is on the fritz, and when the jobs
> > get sent to *that* one, they print out fine.
> >
> > This just started a couple of days ago.  Before that it was printing
> > out the EDS jobs fine.  Does anyone have a suggestion for a place to
> > start looking?

--
Siobhan Perricone
PC Technician
Alltel Information Services
(I only speak for myself, not for Alltel)


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From: [e-mail]                                  15-Nov-99 15:31:07
  To: All                                               15-Nov-99 20:08:22
Subj: Re: Comm/2 keeps bringing down my system.

From: [e-mail]

In <[e-mail]>, on 11/14/99 at 10:24 PM,
   Bill Powers <[e-mail]> said:



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

>To all and Steve,

>error on exiting which would disappear with a tap on the enter key. Nc461
>otoh crashes within minutes of starting and it doesn't care what the url
>is.It usually hangs the system. I run w4 fp9 on an Octek Rhino9 mb, cyrix
>686 120, 430HX. Popuplog reports sys3175 and mentions either pmmerge.dll
>or netscape.exe in the last line.

>Is there a solution?

>[e-mail]

Perhaps.  I guessed in some posts with Ivan Adzubei in Moscow that the
problem with NS 461 crashes were related to ----get this---- Pmmerge.dll
and the intel HX chipset.  This is because I remembered that we had the
same MB.  In our case an ASUS with the HX chipset. Great MB.

But...I still have FP5 running and do not have any problems with NS
crashing.  In fact it is solid as can be.  Those of you who have FP12
installed are apparently suffering.  Understand I do not know what the
relationship between the HX chipset and pmmerge.dll in FP12 is ...

However, Irv,  the well known owner of the fixtool posted a revised
pmmerge.dll on testcase.  That is gone by now but can be gotten slowly
from Ivan's page in Moscow.  Reports form Moscow indicated some
improvement.

--
----------------------------------------------------
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Monroe Chasson
[e-mail]
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From: [e-mail]                            15-Nov-99 21:19:00
  To: All                                               15-Nov-99 20:08:23
Subj: Re: Partition Magic 5.0 upgrade -- still need Win before DOS?

From: [e-mail]

In <[e-mail]>, [e-mail] (Richard Steiner) writes:
>Here in comp.os.os2.apps, "/2 User" <[e-mail]> spake unto us,
saying:
>
>>On Sun, 14 Nov 1999 03:04:21 GMT, John Thompson wrote:
>>
>>>It just strikes me as ironic that a company that originally made
>>>its name in the OS/2 market can have forgotten its origins so
>>>completely.
>>
>>Has any one ever let them know this?
>
>I've written them several times with comments to that effect, and I've
>gotten some interesting responses as well (one person was relatively
>apologetic but said that the market was Windows and I really couldn't
>disagree).
>
>--
>   -Rich Steiner  >>>--->  [e-mail]  >>>---> Bloomington, MN
>     OS/2 + BeOS + Linux + Solaris + Win95 + WinNT4 + FreeBSD + DOS
>      + VMWare + Fusion + vMac + Executor = PC Hobbyist Heaven! :-)
>           Second childhood?  I haven't finished with the first one.
I have found the at least for disk with more than 1024 cylinder,
Partition Magic V5.0 will not work while V3.0 works like a charm.
Ran the V5.0 from a Dos/Win3.1 partition, V3.0 from an OS/2 partition.


Tod Morcott
Consultant: OS/2 Programming, Java
2303 Louis Road
Palo Alto, CA 94303
650-856-6771

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From: [e-mail]                          14-Nov-99 10:32:28
  To: All                                               15-Nov-99 20:08:23
Subj: Re: Partition Magic 5.0 upgrade

From: "John Getsoian" <[e-mail]>

On Fri, 12 Nov 1999 22:58:18 GMT, Buddy Donnelly wrote:

>By the way, the latest update to V-Com's System Commander Deluxe, version
>4.031, the multi-boot utility, now includes some partition editing tools
>that appear to allow you to change the partition type manually. As well as
>geometries, boundaries, etc. Very dangerous power to have, but it's there.
>Along with the standard v.4 stuff that duplicates many PQMagic partition
>functions.

BootIt (Terabyte Unlimited) is another bootmanager that provides a
pretty good set of partition management tools. On the plus side, it's
OS2 and Linux friendly, on the downside I'd have to say it would be a
bit daunting for the inexperienced.




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From: [e-mail]                               15-Nov-99 17:20:07
  To: All                                               15-Nov-99 20:08:23
Subj: Re: Partition Magic 5.0 upgrade

From: "/2 User" <[e-mail]>

On Mon, 15 Nov 1999 03:45:43 GMT, [e-mail] wrote:

>        There is no OS/2 version (later than 3.x), period.  As always,
>Parition Magic will handle HPFS partitions (among others).  As usual, OS/2
>provides pretty good support for DOS apps _if_ the user wants that & hasn't
>turned it off.  I bring that up because the discussion indicates a DOS
>system or system emulating DOS _must_ be used to create the bootable
>Partition Magic for DOS diskette.  Thus, the DOS version of Partition Magic
>will provide use of the program for many (most?) OS/2 users.

What about Partition it? Will it handle OS/2 partitions? Not that I need it,
I have PM 3.


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From: [e-mail]                               15-Nov-99 17:22:12
  To: All                                               15-Nov-99 20:08:23
Subj: Re: Partition Magic 5.0 upgrade -- still need Win before DOS?

From: "/2 User" <[e-mail]>

On Mon, 15 Nov 1999 02:57:54 GMT, John Thompson wrote:

>I suggested they include a text OS/2 version, preferably
>updated to include ext2 support.  I don't have v3 here and I
>don't recall if it includes a text-mode OS/2 executable, but PM
>v2 certainly did (I still use it here).

Yes ver3 has the GUI as well as text mode, I think you need to load
viocalls.dll of course to use them.


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From: [e-mail]                          15-Nov-99 21:48:27
  To: All                                               15-Nov-99 20:08:23
Subj: Re: Netscape 4.04 Wanted

From: "Roland Pinches" <[e-mail]>

For the time being I'm leaving java alone. I've disabled it in the browser
and can't say I've really noticed much loss! More important to me is getting
my CDRW working again, which will require DOS to flash the firmware - which
is easier said than done when I don't have *ANY* FAT partitions and my
attempts at building a DOS boot disk with SCSI support are failing badly :(
Netscape is just one in a list of niggles I have with WSeB...

Thanks for the update anyway, I'll be back!!

Roly.

On Mon, 15 Nov 1999 19:55:56 +0100 (ECT), Rolf Garske wrote:

>The sudden silent death of file downloads is a feature of
>Netscape on other platforms also. I am also seeing this
>with version 4.7 on Windows-NT. Version 4.6 did it also.
>
>For downloads, I remember that Version 2.02 for OS/2 was rock solid. It
>almost never gave Me this problem.
>
>On Fri, 12 Nov 1999 10:10:51 +0000 (GMT), Roland Pinches wrote:
>
>:>I'm seeing similar problems with Netscape, although not quite to the same
>:>extent! Certainly I've had lots of problems with creating and moving mail
>:>folders and also reading newsgroup articles, but I can't say I've had any
>:>problems with multitasking.
>:>
>:>This led me to go and buy PMMail2.1 and PMINews. No problems with mail and
>:>newsgroups now :-)
>:>
>:>However, Netscape always seems to crap out when downloading large files ie:
>:>Java 1.1.8. It just stops. No errors, no messages, just stops as if it has
>:>finished downloading the whole file but has typically only downloaded about
>:>1Mb. Command line FTP still works ok, but I can't find the java download
area
>:>on service.boulder.ibm.com....
>:>
>:>Netscape also gives me problems with with Java, hence my desire to get 118.
>:>Recently there was an announcement from Snowstorm Software about a new
module
>:>for their screen saver. When I try to access their web site, it starts a
java
>:>app which kills my machine. My only option is to hit the reset button on
the
>:>front of my PC as even CTRL-ALT-DEL doesn't work. I got around it
eventually
>:>by switching off Java within Netscape, but I wouldn't say that is an ideal
>:>solution!
>:>
>:>Thanks for listening to our gripes!
>:>Any thoughts??
>:>
>:>Roly.
>:>
>:>>
>:>>Troubles? Oh only a few .........................
>:>>
>:>>(1) Rename Mail Folders Netscape crashes out
>:>>(2) Delete Mail Folders Netscape crashes out
>:>>(3) Copy Mail Folder ...................
>:>>(4) Move .....................
>:>>(5) Unable to delete Newsgroup msgs .............
>:>>(6) Flagging Newsgroups to delete fails
>:>>(7) Purge Newsgroups fails
>:>>(8) Purge will also cause Netscape to crash
>:>>(9) Does not download Newgroups unless I use synchronise
>:>>(10 Totally ignores any settings and likely to crash at any time.
>:>>(11) A product that builds one's confidence (sic)
>:>>(12) All files have to be xxxxxxxx.xxx because Netscape is MSDOS. Odd that
>:>>the WIN95/98 product supports WIN98 long file names but we just get the
>:>>MSDOS supported file structure ..................
>:>>
>:>>This is only a little catalogue there are many end users who experience
>:>>keyboard lock ups and so on. The list goes on. It can not be claimed that
>:>>Netscape is a major product - it's poorly written and unstable. Better to
>:>>start from scratch and not write an MSDOS application and then tweak it
to
>:>>become a third rate product. No I don't expect a 100 per cent perfect
>:>>product. In fact the only thing that can be said for this MSDOS crossover
>:>>(perhaps another app dependent on Open Doc) from WIN95/98 is it can pick
up
>:>>mail I can write mail, and can browse the web - beyond that the software
>:>>sucks - but sadly has no real flavour.
>:>>
>:>>All these errors are due in part to (for me) with doscall1.dll something
>:>>that I would have expected to have been picked up in beta testing. I'm
>:>>running Warp-4 100% HPFS fixpak 9 uk. There are other issues - even with
no
>:>>programmes running with 48Mb RAM Netscape creates a 32MB swap file - my
>:>>default size 8192Mb. As for multitasking forget it MSDOS is a single
tasking
>:>>operating system and Netscape is just that.
>:>>
>:>>Netscape OS/2 behaves like leaded jelly and has no crispness. I have boot
>:>>manager so I can compare performance on the same machine. When I compare
it
>:>>with the MSDOS version for WIN98 Netscape runs faster, crisper and does
not
>:>>crash out. Which begs the question: Why do we always get third rate
products
>:>>ported from MSDOS? I ask myself why is it that a 16bit application with a
>:>>few 32bit dlls running on a 8/16bit operating system with a few more 32bit
>:>>dlls  in a nice GUI (WIN95/98) will always out perform the third rate we
end
>:>>up with?
>:>>
>:>>So for my own personal use at home if you have a copy of comm404.exe a
more
>:>>stable and less "jelly" like product let me know! Oh btw I've stuck by
OS/2
>:>>for the past five years and will continue to use it at home, commercially
we
>:>>are giving it up.
>:>>
>:>>Have a happy and profitable day!
>:>>
>:>>Regards,
>:>>
>:>>David
>:>>________________________________________________________________
>:>>David Cooper - Chairman Green-Base Exchange Ltd - Green-Base Shopping Ltd.
>:>>Waste Recovery + Cleaner Production Technologies = Environmentally
Friendly
>:>>Products = Profits. That's Our Business - Make It Yours!
>:>>
>:>>
>:>>
>:>>
>:>
>:>
>:>
>
>_____________________________________________________________________________
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From: [e-mail]                              15-Nov-99 15:56:27
  To: All                                               15-Nov-99 20:08:23
Subj: Re: Partition Magic 5.0 upgrade -- still need Win before DOS?

From: [e-mail] (Jerry Lapham)

In <[e-mail]>, on 11/15/99
   at 04:48 AM, [e-mail] (Richard Steiner) said:

> Here in comp.os.os2.apps, "/2 User" <[e-mail]> spake unto us,
> saying:

> >On Sun, 14 Nov 1999 03:04:21 GMT, John Thompson wrote:
> >
> >>It just strikes me as ironic that a company that originally made
> >>its name in the OS/2 market can have forgotten its origins so
> >>completely.
> >
> >Has any one ever let them know this?

> I've written them several times with comments to that effect, and I've
> gotten some interesting responses as well (one person was relatively
> apologetic but said that the market was Windows and I really couldn't
> disagree).

I suspect that it would have been possible to have written the ext2fs
support as a DLL which could run with OS/2 PQM 2.x or 3.x but that MS
and/or IBM discouraged the idea.  Of course, except for the marketing
considerations, it probably would make sense for PQM to have *only* the
DOS version which could be distributed as a single bootable floppy.
That's the safest way to use it, no matter what operating system you run.

    -Jerry
--
============================================================
Jerry Lapham, Monroe, OH
E-Mail: [e-mail]
Written Monday, November 15, 1999 - 03:56 PM (EST)
============================================================
MR/2 Ice tag:  How do they get the deer to cross at the signs?

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From: [e-mail]                       15-Nov-99 22:37:16
  To: All                                               15-Nov-99 20:08:23
Subj: Re: Quicken 98 to end Quicken Credit Card transaction downloads

From: [e-mail] (Jim Backus)

On Fri, 12 Nov 1999 01:05:49, Mark Hood <[e-mail]> wrote:

<snip>

> I've communicated with the support people and it seems unlikely that a patch
> will be issued for Quicken 98 to allow it to continue transactions with
> their new server, but they didn't rule it out.  If no patch will be
> available, it seems my options are to either get an account with a big bank
> like Wells Fargo that supports on-line banking directly with Quicken 98, or
> boot into a W32 OS for Quicken 2000.

A UK subsidiary looking after its customers better than the American
parent? that must be a first!  I received a CD which included a Win
3.1 version of Quicken 98 with a covering letter explaining that the
Quicken 6 I run is not y2k compliant.

I haven't tried it yet - I'm going to get all my records up to date on
Q6 first and then do a couple of backups.

Suggest you other OS/2 ers chase up Quicken for your free updates.

Jim Backus  OS/2 user because it's better
bona fide replies to jimb(at)jita(dot)demon(dot)co(dot)uk
http://www.jita.demon.co.uk

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From: [e-mail]                                15-Nov-99 18:04:17
  To: All                                               15-Nov-99 20:08:23
Subj: && Information Auction - Sell What You Know - Buy What You Dont )) &&

From: [e-mail]

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From: [e-mail]                 15-Nov-99 18:02:14
  To: All                                               16-Nov-99 05:11:16
Subj: Re: Netscape 4.04 Wanted

From: [e-mail] (Raphael Tennenbaum)

"Rolf Garske" <[e-mail]> wrote:

>The sudden silent death of file downloads is a feature of
>Netscape on other platforms also. I am also seeing this
>with version 4.7 on Windows-NT. Version 4.6 did it also.
>
>For downloads, I remember that Version 2.02 for OS/2 was rock solid. It
>almost never gave Me this problem.

When 2.02 was current, there were anywhere from 20-60% fewer
people on the world wide web.  I suspect this may have a bit
more to do with stalled downloads than anything else.  <g>



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

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From: [e-mail]                  16-Nov-99 00:23:13
  To: All                                               16-Nov-99 05:11:16
Subj: Re: DB2/2.1 Connectivity problems between OS/2 and NT

From: <[e-mail]>

Can I recommend cutting down on the newsgroups?  I've set follow-ups to
comp.databases.ibm-db2 only, as it seems to be the only world-wide
newgroup that it is completely on-topic for.

In comp.databases.ibm-db2 Jette Hannibal <[e-mail]> wrote:
> OS/2 warp connect 3.0 (Revision 8.264) via TCP/IP or NetBios.

> I think that the problem resides in the layer between the operating system
> and the database management system. But for now I am stopped cold without a
> clue on where to go.

> I'm positive that the TCP/IP configurations are correct on both client and
> databaseserver. I have inserted port configurations in services files  as
> well as host names in the hosts files on both server and client. The OS/2
> workstation (with the DB2 database) has a fixed IP adress which is
> conneceted to the NNAME in the hosts file on both databaseserver and client.

The dbm cfg parameter, IIRC, that is relevant is the SVCENAME, not
NNAME.  That alone may cause the problem.

> The database is cataloged as remote.

> I have tried the connection with NetBios as well. But the problem seems to
> be the same. The client or client enabeler can not resolve the name and IP
> adress to get a connection to the database whatever it is done from the
> databaseserver (OS/2 workstation) or the client (NT 4.0. workstation)

I assume that, from the machine that will be the DB2 client, you can
"ping" the server.  That is,

  ping db2.server.com

doesn't complain.  If you're using NetBIOS, however, the command to try
is more along the lines of "net view \\db2server".  As long as this
command doesn't tell you it can't find the other system, you should be
okay.

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From: [e-mail]                               15-Nov-99 19:58:25
  To: All                                               16-Nov-99 05:11:16
Subj: Re: Netscape 4.04 Wanted

From: "/2 User" <[e-mail]>

Well I missed the original poster. But if you want it I still have a
compressed .exe on my HD.

[e-mail]


~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
"I tend to stay away from the Advocacy groups to avoid the WindTrolls"
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~


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From: [e-mail]                                15-Nov-99 19:40:24
  To: All                                               16-Nov-99 05:11:16
Subj: Re: DB2/2.1 Connectivity problems between OS/2 and NT

From: [e-mail] (Jerry McBride)

In article <VbZX3.1051$[e-mail]>,
"Jette Hannibal" <[e-mail]> wrote:
>OS/2 warp connect 3.0 (Revision 8.264) via TCP/IP or NetBios.
>
>I think that the problem resides in the layer between the operating system
>and the database management system. But for now I am stopped cold without a
>clue on where to go.
>
>I'm positive that the TCP/IP configurations are correct on both client and
>databaseserver. I have inserted port configurations in services files  as
>well as host names in the hosts files on both server and client. The OS/2
>workstation (with the DB2 database) has a fixed IP adress which is
>conneceted to the NNAME in the hosts file on both databaseserver and client.
>The database is cataloged as remote.
>
>I have tried the connection with NetBios as well. But the problem seems to
>be the same. The client or client enabeler can not resolve the name and IP
>adress to get a connection to the database whatever it is done from the
>databaseserver (OS/2 workstation) or the client (NT 4.0. workstation)
>
>I'm open to all suggestions
>

Well.. you said you were open...

I tried DB2 and never got passed some really stupid setup problems. This was
on Wseb...

My solution? I dropped it like a rock and went with mSQL and then eventually
moved it all to mySQL. Setup is a breeze, security good and... run's great.


--

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*            Sometimes, the BEST things in life really ARE free...
*
*       Get a FREE copy of NetRexx 1.151 for your next java project at:
*
*                     http://www2.hursley.ibm.com/netrexx
*
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From: [e-mail]                                16-Nov-99 14:15:28
  To: All                                               16-Nov-99 05:11:16
Subj: ispell help?

From: [e-mail]

Greetings,

Are there any OS/2 users out there who have
successfully gotten ispell running and would
be willing to help me get started with it?

So far, I've downloaded the distribution
(isp31b2.zip), moved everything to usr\ispell
as instructed, and made a hash file for english.med.
But now, whenever I try to run ispell (from
the command line--I'm not using emacs),
all I get is a core dump.

I can't figure out where to go from here:
  ispell -h
gives lots of command line options, but the
documentation doesn't describe them.

Thanks for your time,

Jeff

Prof Jeff Miller
Dept of Psychology
University of Otago
Dunedin, New Zealand
International FAX: [phone]
[e-mail]
http://psy.otago.ac.nz:800/staff/miller/welcome.htm

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From: [e-mail]                          16-Nov-99 10:25:16
  To: All                                               16-Nov-99 05:11:16
Subj: Re: Netscape 4.04 Wanted

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

On Mon, 15 Nov 1999 19:55:56 +0100 (ECT), Rolf Garske wrote:

:>The sudden silent death of file downloads is a feature of
:>Netscape on other platforms also. I am also seeing this
:>with version 4.7 on Windows-NT. Version 4.6 did it also.
:>
:>For downloads, I remember that Version 2.02 for OS/2 was rock solid. It
:>almost never gave Me this problem.

I actually sat and watched Netscape 4.61 while it was
downloading a file. The percentage complete figure
was about 67% and the time remaining was just over
a minute but the blue progress indicator had reached
100% and that was when it died.

Cheers

Wayne

Next week I'll be watching paint dry :-)

******************************************************
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]                                  15-Nov-99 18:07:29
  To: All                                               16-Nov-99 05:11:16
Subj: Re: cannot find winsock.dll - Quicken 98

From: Mark Hood <[e-mail]>

[e-mail] writes:
> In <[e-mail]>, on 11/12/99
>    at 05:55 PM, Mark Hood <[e-mail]> said:
>
> >> >Winsock.dll needs to be in your (DOS) path, not %etc%.
> >> So should I stick it in c:\os2\mdos\winos2?
>
> >I have it in c:\tcpip\dos\bin.
>
> I wound up putting it there, since I saw there was another dll file
> already in that directory.  I don't know how it got into \tcpip\dos\etc.
>
> I still can't get Quicken to connect to the internet, though.

I can think of only one more thing -- I seem to recall that the OS2 version
of the resolv file will work without the "domain" keyword, while the DOS
version requires it, so verify that you have a domain specified as the first
line of the DOS resolv file.

Also, do any other DOS tcp/ip apps work, such as Netscape?  You might be
able to narrow down the scope of the problem to the Quicken installation
itself if it's the only Win-OS2 app that fails.

Good luck -- Mark Hood

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From: [e-mail]                              16-Nov-99 03:22:13
  To: All                                               16-Nov-99 05:11:17
Subj: Re: cannot find winsock.dll - Quicken 98

From: [e-mail]

In <[e-mail]>, on 11/15/99
   at 06:07 PM, Mark Hood <[e-mail]> said:

>I can think of only one more thing -- I seem to recall that the OS2
>version of the resolv file will work without the "domain" keyword, while
>the DOS version requires it, so verify that you have a domain specified
>as the first line of the DOS resolv file.

It's there.  As for your other question, I'll have to try a dos app.


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From: [e-mail]....               16-Nov-99 04:10:10
  To: All                                               16-Nov-99 05:11:17
Subj: Re: Comm/2 keeps bringing down my system.

Message sender: [e-mail]

From: [e-mail] (Jim Nuytens)

On Fri, 12 Nov 1999 17:18:41, [e-mail] wrote:

> PS.  If you are thinking of changing MBs you would be wise to stick with
> ASUS.  They seem to be the only one to have an OS2 compatible BIOS.

Well, if you can still find them, I'd suggest the FIC 503+. I run Warp
4 on that board with an AMD K6-2-350 and 128 RAM.

FWIW, I haven't seen this NS/2 problem at all on my system. I'm up for
days on end running the seti@home program.


"The bureaucratic mentality is the only constant in the universe."
Dr. McCoy to Kirk / Star Trek IV:The Voyage Home

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From: [e-mail]                    16-Nov-99 04:19:12
  To: All                                               16-Nov-99 05:11:17
Subj: Re: cdrecord/2 new ver

From: [e-mail] (John Hong)

dinkmeister ([e-mail]) wrote:
: get the new version @
: http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Sector/5785/cdrecord/cdrecordmain.htm

: it can now do bit-perfect copies of audio cds!

    Is MKIOFS capable of copying an entire CDROM now?  I'm sort of
waiting for that...  It seems that I can only make an image of something
on my HD, not just take the contents from a CDROM.

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From: [e-mail]                          15-Nov-99 11:01:10
  To: All                                               16-Nov-99 05:11:17
Subj: Re: PHMon beta release

From: Bennie Nelson <[e-mail]>

I tried to access your website, but could not reach it.  For
which hardware is your utility written?

I am looking for a utility to read the Genesys cpu, voltage,
and fan info from a DFI motherboard using the VIA MVP3
chipset.

Regards,
Bennie Nelson

Peter Engels wrote:
>
> HI OS/2 user,
>
> you can find a beta release of PMHMon on my homepage. This freeware
> utility monitors the supply voltages, temperatures and fans of the main
> board. It is a PM application.
>
> http://www.uni-bonn.de/~uzs0ad
>
> This OS/2 system uptime is 04 hours, 10 minutes and 59 seconds.
> --
> MfG / Regards
>
>         Peter Engels

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From: [e-mail]                               16-Nov-99 03:18:03
  To: All                                               16-Nov-99 05:11:17
Subj: Re: cdrecord/2 new ver

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

On 16 Nov 1999 04:19:24 GMT, John Hong wrote:

>dinkmeister ([e-mail]) wrote:
>: get the new version @
>:
http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Sector/5785/cdrecord/cdrecordmain.htm
>
>: it can now do bit-perfect copies of audio cds!
>
>    Is MKIOFS capable of copying an entire CDROM now?  I'm sort of
>waiting for that...  It seems that I can only make an image of something
>on my HD, not just take the contents from a CDROM.

It should, try this:

mkisofs -J -l -L x:/ | cdrecord -v dev=1,0 -data -

x: being the cd to copy, 1,0 is scsi id 1..
see the cdrecord/2 faq on the cdrecord/2 page for more info


- dink ( http://dink.org )





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From: [e-mail]                                       16-Nov-99 10:45:19
  To: All                                               16-Nov-99 05:11:17
Subj: Re: PHMon beta release

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From: [e-mail]                                16-Nov-99 09:42:03
  To: All                                               16-Nov-99 05:11:17
Subj: Re: PHMon beta release

From: Petric Frank <[e-mail]>

Hello Peter,

i've tested this tool with a DFI VIA MVP (ATX) board. After starting it
pops up a dialog box telling me that the chip was not detected. After
pressig OK (the only option) the main window appaers with a white client
area. After that the WPS locks up. The only way i got my PC running is
to reboot with the 'three finger salute'.

BTW: I don't know which monitor chipset is used on my motherboard. The
DFI tech support is not very productive on this question. They told me
that the health unit is part of the VIA chipset (which i can't believe).
Is there anyone to give me more info ?

regards
  Petric

Peter Engels wrote:
>
> HI OS/2 user,
>
> you can find a beta release of PMHMon on my homepage. This freeware
> utility monitors the supply voltages, temperatures and fans of the main
> board. It is a PM application.
>
> http://www.uni-bonn.de/~uzs0ad
>
> This OS/2 system uptime is 04 hours, 10 minutes and 59 seconds.
> --
> MfG / Regards
>
>         Peter Engels

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From: [e-mail]                                   15-Nov-99 23:32:03
  To: All                                               16-Nov-99 05:11:17
Subj: Re: PHMon beta release

From: "Peter Engels" <[e-mail]>

Hi Bennie,

On Mon, 15 Nov 1999 11:01:21 -0500, Bennie Nelson wrote:

[...]

>I am looking for a utility to read the Genesys cpu, voltage,
>and fan info from a DFI motherboard using the VIA MVP3
>chipset.
>
The thing seems to be more complicated, then I thought first :-(

Obviously there are more then one monitoring IC out there and they all
live at different port addresses :-(

So at the moment, I state the following :

PMHMon will work with an ASUS P5A-B board, Rev 1.4, may be there are
some other's, I don't know.

I will have a look at the datasheet of this IC and maybe a future
release will support it. At the moment, I think, I will cancel the
project :-(

The program should also work with boards using an older LM78 chip on
port 290H. All others seems not to be working at the moment.

This OS/2 system uptime is 00 hours, 24 minutes and 27 seconds.
--
MfG / Regards

    Peter Engels


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From: [e-mail]                                     16-Nov-99 09:57:27
  To: All                                               16-Nov-99 10:39:06
Subj: Re: cdrecord/2 new ver

From: "Michel SUCH" <[e-mail]>

On Tue, 16 Nov 1999 03:18:06 -0500 (EST), dinkmeister wrote:

>On 16 Nov 1999 04:19:24 GMT, John Hong wrote:
>
>>dinkmeister ([e-mail]) wrote:
>>: get the new version @
>>:
http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Sector/5785/cdrecord/cdrecordmain.htm
>>
>>: it can now do bit-perfect copies of audio cds!
>>
>>    Is MKIOFS capable of copying an entire CDROM now?  I'm sort of
>>waiting for that...  It seems that I can only make an image of something
>>on my HD, not just take the contents from a CDROM.
>
>It should, try this:
>
>mkisofs -J -l -L x:/ | cdrecord -v dev=1,0 -data -
>
>x: being the cd to copy, 1,0 is scsi id 1..
>see the cdrecord/2 faq on the cdrecord/2 page for more info
>
>
>- dink ( http://dink.org )
>
>
>
>
>

Hi,

You could also try the cdcopy package that comes with cdrecord/2 and
automatically chooses all parameters for you.
It uses leech to copy audio tracks and mkisofs for data tracks.
Michel SUCH - Team OS/2 FRANCE
ICQ # 51654489


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From: [e-mail]                                    15-Nov-99 05:54:10
  To: All                                               16-Nov-99 10:39:06
Subj: Re: NS 4.61 Not Communicating with Dialer

From: [e-mail] (James Knott)

In article <[e-mail]>,
"Michael W. Wernicki" <[e-mail]> wrote:
>Hello,
>
>It seems after the installation of Staroffice 5.1 my Internet connection
>
>was lost. The dialer seems to work; however, the applications using the
>dialer are unable to access the Internet. One timing application gives
>out a message that a server cannot be accessed.
>
>Most likely some DLL was replaced by Staroffice. By the way, Star office
>
>could not access the Internet.

What happens if you start the dialer manually?  Do those apps now
work?  Any program object that starts the dialer, in fact starts
LINKUP.EXE and passes the app file name to LINKUP.  What happens when
you try to run these apps?

--
E-mail [e-mail]
_________________________________________________________________________
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]                                 16-Nov-99 13:05:19
  To: All                                               16-Nov-99 10:39:07
Subj: Re: ispell help?

From: [e-mail]

Hi Jeff,

    miller> So far, I've downloaded the distribution (isp31b2.zip),
    miller> moved everything to usr\ispell as instructed, and made a
    miller> hash file for english.med.  But now, whenever I try to run
    miller> ispell (from the command line--I'm not using emacs), all I
    miller> get is a core dump.

I did the port you mention. I suspect that you either use an outdated
emx (unlikly because the port is now years old ;-), or, have not set
the emvironement variables correctly. Ispell needs all those vars like
HOME, TMP, ETC, SHELL, TERM, INIT, etc. etc. I.e. the stuff usually
needed to run unix-progs. Ispell speicifically needs DICTDIR

If you have set those according to the readme and you still have
troubles: check the way you used the slashes in the pathnames. Ispell
needs the unix-way i.e.:

        SET DICTDIR=g:/usr/ispell

other than that, it should just run fine. BTW, there is also a newer
dos-exe . Check out the link given on bonk (see signature).

        Cheers

                Uli

--
    Uli Wortmann           Fax (Switzerland) (1) 632  1080
    Dept. of Geology       Fon                        3694
    ETH-Zuerich    http://www.erdw.ethz.ch/~bonk/bonk.html
    Visit the SPOC-team at http://www.spoc.ethz.ch

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From: [e-mail]                               16-Nov-99 12:30:04
  To: All                                               16-Nov-99 10:39:07
Subj: Hostname?

From: [e-mail]  (R.W. Hutchinson)

    I have always had the message "[main] couldn't determine hostname" from
my "dialup" application. Lately I have had a couple of WWWebsites that used to
provide useful information give me an error message: "Get an upgraded browser
which supports the Host name."
    It occurs to me that the two might be related. How does one feed a host
name into the system, such that the browser or other component of the Internet
Connexion Pack will send it out on demand? Does one feed it into config.sys,
or into
startup.cmd, or where? What is the precise command syntax, also?
--------------------------------------------------------------
"I would predict that there are far greater mistakes waiting
to be made by someone with your obvious talent for it."
Orac to Vila. [City at the Edge of the World.]
-----------------------------------------------
R.W. Hutchinson. | [e-mail]

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From: [e-mail]                                   16-Nov-99 13:36:03
  To: All                                               16-Nov-99 10:39:07
Subj: PMHMon - try again please

From: "Peter Engels" <[e-mail]>

Hi,

I just downloaded the zip archive from my homepage, and now I see what
is wrong : this is a very very old version, which should never been
released. I don't know, how this file could ever reach my homepage.

I have now uploaded the correct version, so try again please. At the
moment only WinBond W83781D and National LM78 chips at port 290h are
supported.

Sorry...

This OS/2 system uptime is 00 hours, 38 minutes and 44 seconds.
--
MfG / Regards

    Peter Engels


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From: [e-mail]                                 16-Nov-99 12:39:11
  To: All                                               16-Nov-99 10:39:07
Subj: Re: Accounting application

From: [e-mail] (Mooo)

[e-mail] (Don Morse) wrote:

>Well, I can say to stay away from Cybercomm's Accucount/2.

I cant find reference to these guys anyplace but a few wisps of info
on some really out of date IBM pages - who's links go nowhere I might
add.

For my own curiosity, could you give me their url?


>I'm using MYOB under Win-OS/2.  I would prefer a native OS/2 product, and I
>was hoping that Accucount/2 would fill the bill.  My Mistake...

Well...I was doing this too, but the GST (Australia) and Y2K readiness
leave something to be desired and all new versions are win32 only.....

Arrgg!!!

I'm so desperate I've been thinking of contracting someone to write
something for me in Starbasic for use under Staroffice.

Craig

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From: doug.bissett"at"attglobal.net                     16-Nov-99 17:24:06
  To: All                                               16-Nov-99 20:09:23
Subj: Re: Hostname?

From: doug.bissett"at"attglobal.net (Doug Bissett)

On Tue, 16 Nov 1999 12:30:08, [e-mail]  (R.W. Hutchinson)
wrote:

>     I have always had the message "[main] couldn't determine hostname" from
> my "dialup" application. Lately I have had a couple of WWWebsites that used
to
> provide useful information give me an error message: "Get an upgraded
browser
> which supports the Host name."
>     It occurs to me that the two might be related. How does one feed a host
> name into the system, such that the browser or other component of the
Internet
> Connexion Pack will send it out on demand? Does one feed it into config.sys,
or into
> startup.cmd, or where? What is the precise command syntax, also?
> --------------------------------------------------------------
> "I would predict that there are far greater mistakes waiting
> to be made by someone with your obvious talent for it."
> Orac to Vila. [City at the Edge of the World.]
> -----------------------------------------------
> R.W. Hutchinson. | [e-mail]
>

I don't know if this is what you are looking for, but stick something
like this:
SET HOSTNAME=HOSTNAME
in your CONFIG.SYS (I don't think it matters where, but in with other
networking, or TCP/IP, stuff would make sense).

If that doesn't help, look in the TCP/IP Command reference. There are
a couple of other references to hostname in there.

Hope this helps
******************************
From the PC of Doug Bissett
doug.bissett at attglobal.net
The " at " must be changed to "@"
******************************

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From: doug.bissett"at"attglobal.net                     16-Nov-99 17:24:07
  To: All                                               16-Nov-99 20:09:23
Subj: Re: Problem with PSF/2

From: doug.bissett"at"attglobal.net (Doug Bissett)

On Tue, 16 Nov 1999 13:32:31, Siobhan Perricone
<[e-mail]> wrote:

> Ok, I think I figured this out.  I zipped up the file on the WS (after
> I figured out which it was) and put it on a floppy, then copied it into
> the spool directory for the EDS queue on the NWS.  I unzipped it and
> the job appeared in the EDS queue after I rebooted the computer.
> NOthing I could do before that (refreshing, closing and opening the
> queue) would make it appear.  Then I tried printing it and got the same
> garbage.  Here's what it looks like:
>
> At the top of the page it has a bunch of numbers and letters that
> normally don't print, and it looks like the font it's being printed in
> is "too big" or "too spread out" and that causes the lines to be longer
> than they're supposed to be.  As a result, the lines wrap where they
> shouldn't.  So every page is twice the size.
>
> This file prints just fine from the other server.  Though, when I
> double click on it to view it while it's in the EDS queue, it looks on
> the screen like I've just described.  When I transform it to the
> printer queue (using PSF/2) it is no longer possible to double click on
> the job and have it display because it tells me there are null
> characters in it.  This is the same on both the working and non-working
> print servers.
>
> I'm wondering if a font file got corrupted or something.  I really
> don't want to have to copy every font file over again, that was a major
> pain in the butt.  Any more ideas?
>

OK, it appears that the print jobs are getting to the machine ok. That
leaves you two places where the job is getting messed up. 1) PSF/2 may
have a problem, or 2) your printer driver is messed up.

I don't know anything about PSF/2, but I have seen printer drivers get
messed up from time to time. I would suggest reinstalling the print
driver (that should be relatively easy). The instructions should be
with the printer driver installation software. You should check at:
 http://service.software.ibm.com/os2ddpak/html/index.htm
to see if there may be a new driver for your printers.

After you reinstall, it may be necessary to change some settings
(perhaps you should try this first). Be aware that MOST OS/2 printer
drivers have two places to put the settings. 1) Right mouse click the
printer icon-> Properties-> Printer driver-> double click the icon in
the Default printer driver box, and look around (what you find there
will depend on the printer, and the driver. You may want to compare
that to the working machine. 2) Right mouse click the printer icon->
Properties-> Printer driver-> Job properties (the button between the
two windows). This is, usually, the same as the other settings, but,
apparently, are stored in a different place, and are used in a
different context.

If that doesn't help, you will need to go through PSF/2. There may be
some settings that are incorrect, or you may need to reinstall the
whole thing.

I have no idea what else might be causing your problem.

Good luck...
******************************
From the PC of Doug Bissett
doug.bissett at attglobal.net
The " at " must be changed to "@"
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From: [e-mail]                               16-Nov-99 17:54:11
  To: All                                               16-Nov-99 20:09:23
Subj: Re: Hostname?

From: [e-mail]  (R.W. Hutchinson)

>On Tue, 16 Nov 1999 12:30:08, [e-mail]  (R.W. Hutchinson)
>wrote:
>
> Quotedl    It occurs to me that the two might be related. How does one
>feed a host
>Quotedlname into the system, such that the browser or other component of the
Internet
>QuotedlConnexion Pack will send it out on demand? Does one feed it into
config.sys, or into
>Quotedlstartup.cmd, or where? What is the precise command syntax, also?
>
>It should appear in your config.sus
>
>"SET HOSTNAME=your hostname"
>
>and in your HOST file. if you have dynamic IP use
>
>"0.0.0.0    hostname"
>

    Thanks. I now no longer get the "unable to find host name" message.
On the Other hand, I now get a "you appear not to have a valid connexion to
the
Internet" message from the pesky WWWebsite. What is a "HOST file." Do I have
one? If not, where do I create it, and what should it contain? I am running
OS/2 3.0 on this machine, and OS/2 4.0 on another one, so answers valid for
either setup would be welcome.
--------------------------------------------------------------
"I would predict that there are far greater mistakes waiting
to be made by someone with your obvious talent for it."
Orac to Vila. [City at the Edge of the World.]
-----------------------------------------------
R.W. Hutchinson. | [e-mail]

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From: [e-mail]                             16-Nov-99 18:04:29
  To: All                                               16-Nov-99 20:09:23
Subj: Re: Accounting application

From: [e-mail] (Mark Dodel)

http://www.cei.nu/ is their main site.  Accucount is under Software.
 I also paid for the beta, and it's been more like 2-3 years of
endless promises.  I gave up  over a year ago of ever expecting to see
even a beta let alone a final product.  As bad as microslop is, they
at least release their buggy software.

Mark

On Tue, 16 Nov 1999 12:39:22, [e-mail] (Mooo) wrote:

-)[e-mail] (Don Morse) wrote:
-)
-)>Well, I can say to stay away from Cybercomm's Accucount/2.
-)
-)I cant find reference to these guys anyplace but a few wisps of info
-)on some really out of date IBM pages - who's links go nowhere I might
-)add.
-)
-)For my own curiosity, could you give me their url?
-)
-)
-)>I'm using MYOB under Win-OS/2.  I would prefer a native OS/2 product, and I
-)>was hoping that Accucount/2 would fill the bill.  My Mistake...
-)
-)Well...I was doing this too, but the GST (Australia) and Y2K readiness
-)leave something to be desired and all new versions are win32 only.....
-)
-)Arrgg!!!
-)
-)I'm so desperate I've been thinking of contracting someone to write
-)something for me in Starbasic for use under Staroffice.
-)
-)Craig


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//             Healthcare Computer Consultant
//                   [e-mail]
//    http://home.ptd.net/~madodel
//
//  For a VOICE in the future of OS/2
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From: [e-mail]                               16-Nov-99 18:58:10
  To: All                                               16-Nov-99 20:09:23
Subj: NS 4.61 video corruption w/ TP770 + OS/2

From: [e-mail]

I'm running Netscape 4.61 (128 bit encryption) on my Thinkpad 770 (233MHz
w/ 96MB) under OS/2 4.0 fixpack 10.

I'm seeing video corruption in the window text if I scroll up or down.  I also
see
video corruption of the vertical scroll bar itself.  I just downloaded the
most
recent copy of NS 4.61 from IBM's site and have also installed the most recent
copy of the video drivers from the TP device driver matrix.

I still see the video corruption.  As it is NS 4.61 is useless to me.  If
anyone has
any suggestions to try I'd be grateful.  Thanks.

Jeff

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From: [e-mail]                               16-Nov-99 14:30:15
  To: All                                               16-Nov-99 20:09:24
Subj: Re: Palm Pilot

From: Brad BARCLAY <[e-mail]>

rj friedman wrote:
> And there was a third question which was: "How do I go about
> export an address book from Organizer to the Palm Pilot?"
>
> Is there a way to do this (or from some other address book)
> yet? I know you developed a method for it to be done - but
> has anyone picked up the ball on this that you know of?

    Not yet AFAIK.  The address book wrapper class is done (although not
sufficiently tested).  Once I get v1.1 out the door I might sit down and
write a CSV (Comma Seperated Value) import/export jConduit for the
Address Book in order to provide a base-level compatibility with most
PIMs, but to do it right someone neds to write a jConduit to do this
work.

    I personally am already too busy trying to get v1.1 out the door to
work on anything like this at the same time - so if anyone out there who
knows some Java who would like to step up to the plate and take on the
job, I'd love to hear from you :)

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]                           16-Nov-99 13:38:20
  To: All                                               16-Nov-99 20:09:24
Subj: Re: NS 4.61 video corruption w/ TP770 + OS/2

From: Michael Kaply <[e-mail]>

The latest 770 video drivers should fix that.

Mike Kaply
IBM

[e-mail] wrote:

>I'm running Netscape 4.61 (128 bit encryption) on my Thinkpad 770 (233MHz
>w/ 96MB) under OS/2 4.0 fixpack 10.
>
>I'm seeing video corruption in the window text if I scroll up or down.  I
also see
>video corruption of the vertical scroll bar itself.  I just downloaded the
most
>recent copy of NS 4.61 from IBM's site and have also installed the most
recent
>copy of the video drivers from the TP device driver matrix.
>
>I still see the video corruption.  As it is NS 4.61 is useless to me.  If
anyone has
>any suggestions to try I'd be grateful.  Thanks.
>
>Jeff

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From: [e-mail]                                    16-Nov-99 11:21:12
  To: All                                               16-Nov-99 20:09:24
Subj: Re: Comm/2 keeps bringing down my system.

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

On Mon, 15 Nov 1999 15:31:15 -0500, [e-mail] wrote:

>I guessed in some posts with Ivan Adzubei in Moscow that the problem
>with NS 461 crashes were related to ----get this---- Pmmerge.dll
>and the intel HX chipset.  This is because I remembered that we had the
>same MB.  In our case an ASUS with the HX chipset. Great MB.
>
>But...I still have FP5 running and do not have any problems with NS
>crashing.  In fact it is solid as can be.  Those of you who have FP12
>installed are apparently suffering.  Understand I do not know what the
>relationship between the HX chipset and pmmerge.dll in FP12 is ...
>
>However, Irv,  the well known owner of the fixtool posted a revised
>pmmerge.dll on testcase.  That is gone by now but can be gotten slowly
>from Ivan's page in Moscow.  Reports form Moscow indicated some
>improvement.

Hi, Monroe et al -

It seems to be some kind of memory leak--likely related to FP #12 since
only a relatively-few NS4.61 users seem to be experiencing it.

I got the improved pmmerge.dll from Ivan's site and *think* it may have
improved operations somewhat; but the memory leak remains when NS4.61 is
open.  I can watch the swap-file contents grow by about 8k every two
seconds, even with no other activity.  Ultimately, the swap file gets to
about 20 megs and physical memory down to about 500k, at which point the
systems refuses to do anything more (even shut down), despite the
availability of HD space for further swap-file growth.

I don't know what chipset I have.  It's an AMI Enterprise-IV EISA VLB
motherboard, and AMI didn't deign to identify the chipset in the docs.

I'm continuing to experiment and monitor the memory/swap-file behavior
in an effort to identify the specific circumstances in which this
problem occurs.

Jack P.


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From: [e-mail]                 16-Nov-99 15:15:22
  To: All                                               16-Nov-99 20:09:24
Subj: Netscape desktop URL object association

From: [e-mail] (Raphael Tennenbaum)

For whatever reason when I've installed Netscape I never
changed the default url object type to Netscape from
WebExplorer.  Now I'd like to, partly to be able to click on
a desktop URL object and launch NS -- instead of WebEx which
still comes up.  Is there a part of the install script I can
cut which will do this for me?  I had tried Henk's ASSOEDIT
but the URL filetype seems to be resisting my efforts to
change it over.

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

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From: [e-mail]                 16-Nov-99 13:56:25
  To: All                                               16-Nov-99 20:09:24
Subj: Re: Netscape desktop URL object association

From: [e-mail]

In <[e-mail]>, on 11/16/99
   at 03:15 PM, [e-mail] (Raphael Tennenbaum)
said:


>URL object and launch NS -- instead of WebEx which still comes up.  Is
>there a part of the install script I can cut which will do this for me?
>I had tried Henk's ASSOEDIT but the URL filetype seems to be resisting my
>efforts to
>change it over.

You can do this with an INI file editor.  The changes are to
WPUSRDEFAULTSETTINGS.  You might be able to just do a refresh install of
NS.

Steven

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From: [e-mail]                                    16-Nov-99 22:42:16
  To: All                                               16-Nov-99 21:31:09
Subj: Gradd

From: [e-mail] (DiiN)

I installed Gradd077.dsk and Gradd080.exe, but that drivers don't work
with my Matrox mga-g200 agp. Before loading the desktop it stops with a
blinking cursor.
Can someone please confirm that the Scitech drivers work with a Matrox
mga-g200 agp and perhaps are working fine with the Hauppauge tv card?
TIA

--

The Big and Slow Dino's already died out
so naturally NT will die out as well...

Groetens, Dieter.

***Email  [e-mail] (Dieter)
***Netmail 2:280/815.16

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From: [e-mail]                             16-Nov-99 17:06:28
  To: All                                               16-Nov-99 21:31:09
Subj: Re: IBM WAKE UP

From: Chuck Davis <[e-mail]>

It's too late for IBM to wake up.  IBM has made so many strategic
miscalculations of the PC platform that they are beyond number.  They are
presently engaged in another serious miscalculation.  Someone of Lou's
minions has succeeded in convincing him the day of the PC is gone!  What
is happening with the Linux desktop is strong repudiation of IBM's
approach to the PC market.  One of the confused IBM execs in an interview
at linuxtoday.com admits IBM is trying to understand _why_ there is so
much hype about Linux.  Linux is almost _entirely_ "C/C++" based.  IBM is
so oogly over Java that they have withdrawn their VA C+++ compiler for
OS/400 from marketing!  I predict the next C/C++ announcement out of IBM
will be the withdrawal of VAC++ for OS/2 and then even for NT!  I assume
they still have a non-visual version of the product for the AS/400 since
the OS is "C" based, but at least the marketing withdrawal is indicative
that IBM has decided C/C++ is a thing of the past just like PCs are a
thing of the past.  Subsequent announcements will be the withdrawal of
IBM PCs from marketing -- only servers are needed anymore -- the day of
the PC is gone, you know.  Lou told you, you fool!

If you want to stay in the IBM world you have choices:

    1)  Java on OS/2, windoze, Linux, AS/400, S/390 or AIX; then
    2)  Java on windoze, Linux, AS/400, S/390 or AIX.

The current AS/400 System Handbook says "Java is the strategic language
for the AS/400".  Who cares the OS is written in "C"?   Who cares 98% of
all AS/400 programming is done with RPG? The world is going to Java!
Yea, just like the world is staying away from PCs in droves!

Man, that was cathartic!!  :)

dinkmeister wrote:

> Development for Smack!, Staroffice and MainActor has been
> screwed a bit because of the buggy VAC++ 4.0 compiler!  sheesh!
>
> Is this your way of finally killing off all the OS/2 users/developers?
>
> I wanna know..

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From: [e-mail]                         16-Nov-99 13:32:15
  To: All                                               17-Nov-99 00:49:20
Subj: Re: Problem with PSF/2

From: Siobhan Perricone <[e-mail]>

In article <80pori$htt$[e-mail]>,
  Siobhan Perricone <[e-mail]> wrote:

> > I think the first thing you need to do, is determine, exactly which
> > part of the system is failing. I see four major areas:
> > 1) The  originating machine, may be sending incorrect data
(unlikely,
> > since your backup machine is working). If you have two originating
> > machines, and they all fail, it would not, likely, be this.
> > 2) The input  queue (where the failing machine stores it's input)
> > could be messed up. Try copying a file from there to the system that
> > is working, to see if the job gets printed properly.
> > 3) PSF/2 could be messed up. Check all of the settings (compare to
the
> > working machine).
> > 4) The printer driver may be messed up. Put the printers on hold,
and
> > display the output from PSF/2 on the screen, to see if the data
looks
> > correct.
>
> Ok, I'm in the process of attempting this, but I need a little more
> help in the practical aspects of testing.  I currently have the
working
> server hooked up to the printers and the network.  I had EDS send up a
> smallish job, it has spooled into the EDS queue on the working server
> (WS).
>
> I have a keyboard and mouse hooked up to the non-working server (NWS),
> but no network connections at this point.  What I wanted to do was
move
> the EDS job from the WS to the EDS queue on the NWS, then use PSF/2 to
> transform it to one of the printers, and have it print out (after
> plugging in the wire to the printers, of course).
>
> Where I'm stumped is in how to execute the transfer of the file.  I
> *cannot* network the two servers together, that is physically
> impossible.  So I was going to try copying the file onto disk (it's
not
> that big) and putting it onto the other server.  That's all well and
> good, but I don't know where the file is on the WS, or how to copy it
> into the NWS so that it'll appear in the EDS queue.
>
> I suspect this is a gap in my OS/2 knowledge.  Can you help me with
> that?

Ok, I think I figured this out.  I zipped up the file on the WS (after
I figured out which it was) and put it on a floppy, then copied it into
the spool directory for the EDS queue on the NWS.  I unzipped it and
the job appeared in the EDS queue after I rebooted the computer.
NOthing I could do before that (refreshing, closing and opening the
queue) would make it appear.  Then I tried printing it and got the same
garbage.  Here's what it looks like:

At the top of the page it has a bunch of numbers and letters that
normally don't print, and it looks like the font it's being printed in
is "too big" or "too spread out" and that causes the lines to be longer
than they're supposed to be.  As a result, the lines wrap where they
shouldn't.  So every page is twice the size.

This file prints just fine from the other server.  Though, when I
double click on it to view it while it's in the EDS queue, it looks on
the screen like I've just described.  When I transform it to the
printer queue (using PSF/2) it is no longer possible to double click on
the job and have it display because it tells me there are null
characters in it.  This is the same on both the working and non-working
print servers.

I'm wondering if a font file got corrupted or something.  I really
don't want to have to copy every font file over again, that was a major
pain in the butt.  Any more ideas?

> > >  I've got a strange problem and I'm hoping that someone here will
> have
> > > a suggestion for something I could look at or try to figure out
> what's
> > > wrong.
> > >
> > > I have a PC (not a server) running OS/2 Warp 4 FP 10 and
IBM/Pennant
> > > Print Services Facility/2.  The PC has two network cards.  One
card
> is
> > > connected to a network with other computers, through which the
jobs
> > > come.  The second card is only connected to 3 IBM 3160 printers.
> This
> > > machine does nothing but print jobs.
> > >
> > > There are two computers that send jobs to this print server.  One
> is an
> > > image server running on Unix, the other is on a Netware network
(we
> > > call it the EDS machine).  We have to run a special program that
> starts
> > > up a netware queue in order to receive the jobs from the EDS
> machine.
> > > The command for that is:
> > >
> > > start nwpsf2 qr=qrdr nwq=ibmprnt_eds os2q=eds
> > >
> > > This starts up the queue thingie and it shunts jobs into the EDS
> > > queue.  We then use PSF/2 to transform the jobs while sending them
> to
> > > another print queue for one of the three printers.
> > >
> > > The problem is that when the jobs come out of the printer, they
> aren't
> > > printed properly.  We're getting garbage characters inserted at
the
> top
> > > of the page, and it looks like it's inserting something at the end
> of
> > > each line that causes it to wrap weirdly, so that the items that
are
> > > supposed to be in table format, with lines around them, are all
> funky
> > > looking and take up twice as much space (as does everything else).
> > >
> > > I tried restarting the computer a couple of times and that doesn't
> > > help.  It does this on all three printers, yet jobs from the image
> > > server come out just fine on all three printers.  I've had them
> resend
> > > the job a couple of times, and it comes out the same each time.
> > >
> > > Here's the kicker.  I have another computer with the same set up
> that
> > > we use as a back up when this one is on the fritz, and when the
jobs
> > > get sent to *that* one, they print out fine.
> > >
> > > This just started a couple of days ago.  Before that it was
printing
> > > out the EDS jobs fine.  Does anyone have a suggestion for a place
to
> > > start looking?
>
> --
> Siobhan Perricone
> PC Technician
> Alltel Information Services
> (I only speak for myself, not for Alltel)
>
> Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
> Before you buy.
>

--
Siobhan Perricone
PC Technician
Alltel Information Services
(I only speak for myself, not for Alltel)


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From: [e-mail]                          16-Nov-99 09:30:00
  To: All                                               17-Nov-99 00:49:20
Subj: Re: PHMon beta release

From: Bennie Nelson <[e-mail]>

Thanks for the reply.  If you do get a beta version
that includes support for the Genesys chip, I'm available
for testing.

Regards,
Bennie Nelson

Peter Engels wrote:
>
> Hi Bennie,
>
> On Mon, 15 Nov 1999 11:01:21 -0500, Bennie Nelson wrote:
>
> [...]
>
> >I am looking for a utility to read the Genesys cpu, voltage,
> >and fan info from a DFI motherboard using the VIA MVP3
> >chipset.
> >
> The thing seems to be more complicated, then I thought first :-(
>
> Obviously there are more then one monitoring IC out there and they all
> live at different port addresses :-(
>
> So at the moment, I state the following :
>
> PMHMon will work with an ASUS P5A-B board, Rev 1.4, may be there are
> some other's, I don't know.
>
> I will have a look at the datasheet of this IC and maybe a future
> release will support it. At the moment, I think, I will cancel the
> project :-(
>
> The program should also work with boards using an older LM78 chip on
> port 290H. All others seems not to be working at the moment.
>
> This OS/2 system uptime is 00 hours, 24 minutes and 27 seconds.
> --
> MfG / Regards
>
>         Peter Engels

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From: [e-mail]                            16-Nov-99 15:32:24
  To: All                                               17-Nov-99 01:54:22
Subj: Re: Comm/2 keeps bringing down my system.

From: Steve Drewell <[e-mail]>

On Mon, 15 Nov 1999 [e-mail] wrote:

ε Perhaps.  I guessed in some posts with Ivan Adzubei in Moscow that the
ε problem with NS 461 crashes were related to ----get this---- Pmmerge.dll
ε and the intel HX chipset.  This is because I remembered that we had the
ε same MB.  In our case an ASUS with the HX chipset. Great MB.

Are these odd problems related solely to the HX chipset? My motherboard
(Tyan Titan-III) has a 430FX chipset.

Cheers,
Steve

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


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From: [e-mail]                          16-Nov-99 16:23:00
  To: All                                               17-Nov-99 01:54:22
Subj: Re: Hostname?

From: [e-mail]

On Tue, 16 Nov 1999 12:30:08, [e-mail]  (R.W. Hutchinson)
wrote:

 Quotedl    It occurs to me that the two might be related. How does one
feed a host
Quotedlname into the system, such that the browser or other component of the
Internet
QuotedlConnexion Pack will send it out on demand? Does one feed it into
config.sys, or into
Quotedlstartup.cmd, or where? What is the precise command syntax, also?

It should appear in your config.sus

"SET HOSTNAME=your hostname"

and in your HOST file. if you have dynamic IP use

"0.0.0.0    hostname"

or if static IP

" STATIC IP address  hostname"

 you might also put:

"127.0.0.1  localhost"

in the same file if you want to enable your loopback capability

Good luck








                         _\\|//_    Pssst!
                       (` o-o ') /
        ---------ooO-(_)-Ooo------------

The Box said, "Requires Windows95 or better."
I use better, much better thank you...

Warped with OS/2 4.0 at FP 8 and Java 1.1.7A
_______________________________________
M   i   k   e   "D a B u l l"     H   a   r   r   i   s

_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/
Undernet
#OS/2: Chanop
#Soundoff: Manager
#Computech: Chanop
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From: [e-mail]                                16-Nov-99 16:48:19
  To: All                                               17-Nov-99 01:54:22
Subj: Re: Palm Pilot

From: [e-mail] (rj friedman)

On Mon, 15 Nov 1999 15:17:58, Brad BARCLAY
<[e-mail]> wrote:

ε> 2 questions:
ε>
ε> Where does it store the data it backs up?

ε    The backups are stored in a file called <your Palm username>.backup,
εand are generally stored either in the directory you specify in the
ε"jsyncman.home" property (more on this in a bit), or in "user.home",
εwhich under OS/2 tends to be the \JAVA11 directory IIRC.

ε> Can you create a command file and launch this from an icon?  (I'm about to
ε> try....)

ε    You certainly can.  Just create a program object, select "JAVAPM.EXE"
εas the program to run, and then select the following as the parameters:
»
ε    -Djsyncman.home=X:\my_directory
εCA.BrockU.cosc.PalmPilot.jSyncManager.JSyncManager


And there was a third question which was: "How do I go about
export an address book from Organizer to the Palm Pilot?"

Is there a way to do this (or from some other address book)
yet? I know you developed a method for it to be done - but
has anyone picked up the ball on this that you know of?


________________________________________________________

[RJ]                 OS/2 - Live it, or live with it.
rj friedman          Team ABW
Taipei, Taiwan       [e-mail]

To send email - remove the `yyy'
________________________________________________________

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From: postmaster@[127.0.0.1]                            16-Nov-99 19:18:02
  To: All                                               17-Nov-99 03:37:14
Subj: Re: Palm Pilot

From: postmaster@[127.0.0.1]

In <[e-mail]>, on 11/15/99
   at 10:17 AM, Brad BARCLAY <[e-mail]> said:

>The backups are stored in a file called <your Palm username>.backup, and
>are generally stored either in the directory you specify in the
>"jsyncman.home" property (more on this in a bit), or in "user.home", which
>under OS/2 tends to be the \JAVA11 directory IIRC.
>

I found that mine created a directory d:\home and that's where it's storing
all of my *.backup information.  I don't know why, but that's fine with me.
When I tried the option you suggested (with the properties before the
command line -- I didn't copy them over here), no *.backup file was
created.

This works great.

I do find that I have to reset the options every time I launch the program
(e.g. set it to backup, high speed transfer, etc.).

--
GK

FrodoJRR at Interaccess dot com
OS/2 Version 4.00 FixPack 12
There are 30 Processes with 112 Threads.
This machine's uptime is 3d 10h 34m 36s 984ms.


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From: [e-mail]                                 16-Nov-99 21:04:29
  To: All                                               17-Nov-99 03:37:14
Subj: NS4.61 turns all of the pictures blue...

From: Scott Tietjen <[e-mail]>

Ok, this one may be a bit wierd.  Immediately after I installed NS4.61
(off of WarpUp!) on my Warp4fp11/12 system, I noticed that every image
(.gif & .jpg), especially if they were clickable links, turned blue.
Not just the edge around it, the whole image became blue.  (I think I
tried changing the link color from blue to some different shade, and the
blue overlay on the images became that shade.)

Now, if I do something like rightclick, then select Save Image As, then
use the save as dialog box to "wipe" over the top of the blue, then
cancel the box, the images go back to normal full color.  Likewise, if I
can scroll the image off the top or bottom of the page, when it comes
back it's back to normal color.  (Or at least the part of the image that
made it off screen.)

Anyone heard of this?  Thanks muchly.
    -- Scott Tietjen

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From: [e-mail]                               17-Nov-99 03:22:06
  To: All                                               17-Nov-99 03:37:15
Subj: Re: Best Rewritable CD for OS2

From: [e-mail]

In <[e-mail]>, Anssi Saari <[e-mail]> writes:

So please share with us, how did you patch it?

David


>[e-mail] (Gideon Singer) writes:
>
>> I am planning on installing a RWCD in the new year. Is there any
>> consensuse as to which is the best unit to install for OS2/W98 setup?
>
>I don't think so. I like my Ricoh MP7040S since it's software
>upgradeble to 7060S, i.e. from 4x writing to 6x writing. Probably hard
>to find now though, since the 7060 has replaced the 7040.
>
>It does have one problem, though. I couldn't read multi-session CDs in
>the Ricoh in OS/2. That is, until I patched os2cdrom.dmd. For some
>reason, that file contains a list of drive brands and if your drive
>brand, isn't on the list, OS/2 only shows the first session on a
>multi-session disc. I understand this 'problem' concerns Yamaha drives
>as well.
>
>Available CD writing software isn't much for OS/2. There's RSJ, which
>is expensive and for SCSI drives there's a Unix port, cdrecord.
>
>--
>Anssi Saari - [e-mail]
>

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From: [e-mail]                                  16-Nov-99 22:37:21
  To: All                                               17-Nov-99 03:37:15
Subj: Re: Comm/2 keeps bringing down my system.

From: [e-mail]

In <80sbh6$frj$[e-mail]>, on 11/16/99 at 11:21 AM,
   J. N. Pfisterer <[e-mail]> said:

>On Mon, 15 Nov 1999 15:31:15 -0500, [e-mail] wrote:

>>I guessed in some posts with Ivan Adzubei in Moscow that the problem
>>with NS 461 crashes were related to ----get this---- Pmmerge.dll
>>and the intel HX chipset.  This is because I remembered that we had the
>>same MB.  In our case an ASUS with the HX chipset. Great MB.
>>
>>But...I still have FP5 running and do not have any problems with NS
>>crashing.  In fact it is solid as can be.  Those of you who have FP12
>>installed are apparently suffering.  Understand I do not know what the
>>relationship between the HX chipset and pmmerge.dll in FP12 is ...
>>
>>However, Irv,  the well known owner of the fixtool posted a revised
>>pmmerge.dll on testcase.  That is gone by now but can be gotten slowly
>>from Ivan's page in Moscow.  Reports form Moscow indicated some
>>improvement.

>Hi, Monroe et al -

>It seems to be some kind of memory leak--likely related to FP #12 since
>only a relatively-few NS4.61 users seem to be experiencing it.

You should get Theseus to check memory leaks since it is designed for it.

>I got the improved pmmerge.dll from Ivan's site and *think* it may have
>improved operations somewhat; but the memory leak remains when NS4.61 is
>open.  I can watch the swap-file contents grow by about 8k every two
>seconds, even with no other activity.  Ultimately, the swap file gets to
>about 20 megs and physical memory down to about 500k, at which point the
>systems refuses to do anything more (even shut down), despite the
>availability of HD space for further swap-file growth.

>I don't know what chipset I have.  It's an AMI Enterprise-IV EISA VLB
>motherboard, and AMI didn't deign to identify the chipset in the docs.

No we are talking about Pentium (PCI) motherboards.


>I'm continuing to experiment and monitor the memory/swap-file behavior
>in an effort to identify the specific circumstances in which this
>problem occurs.

>Jack P.

Of course I cheerfully admit to not knowing anything about this stuff.  I
am just hoping to get Irv to  take a look at it since I will have to
install FP12 so as to get to Y2K.

--
----------------------------------------------------
------
Monroe Chasson
[e-mail]
-----------------------------------------------------------
MR2ICE reg#51

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From: [e-mail]                                  16-Nov-99 22:40:28
  To: All                                               17-Nov-99 03:37:15
Subj: Re: Comm/2 keeps bringing down my system.

From: [e-mail]

In <[e-mail]>, on 11/16/99 at
03:32 PM,
   Steve Drewell <[e-mail]> said:

>On Mon, 15 Nov 1999 [e-mail] wrote:

>ε Perhaps.  I guessed in some posts with Ivan Adzubei in Moscow that the
>ε problem with NS 461 crashes were related to ----get this----
>Pmmerge.dll ε and the intel HX chipset.  This is because I remembered
>that we had the ε same MB.  In our case an ASUS with the HX chipset.
>Great MB.

>Are these odd problems related solely to the HX chipset? My motherboard
>(Tyan Titan-III) has a 430FX chipset.

>Cheers,
>Steve

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

Who knows.   It is just a guess, although the FX is I believe closely
related.

--
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------
Monroe Chasson
[e-mail]
-----------------------------------------------------------
MR2ICE reg#51

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From: [e-mail]                              17-Nov-99 04:05:01
  To: All                                               17-Nov-99 03:37:15
Subj: Re: Hostname?

From: James Moe <[e-mail]>


"R.W. Hutchinson" wrote:
>
> [ ... ]
>         Thanks. I now no longer get the "unable to find host name" message.
> On the Other hand, I now get a "you appear not to have a valid connexion to
the
> Internet" message from the pesky WWWebsite. What is a "HOST file." Do I have
> one? If not, where do I create it, and what should it contain? I am running
> OS/2 3.0 on this machine, and OS/2 4.0 on another one, so answers valid for
> either setup would be welcome.

    It was typo. he should have written HOSTS. It is in the x:\mptn\etc
directory. It is normally administered by the TCPIP configuration
program. There should be shadow of that in your System Setup folder.
    If not, here is an excerpt from mine:

127.0.0.1             localhost
192.68.132.2          station2
192.68.132.3          station1

Just type it in. The filename is HOSTS with no extension.

--

sma at rtd dot com
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From: [e-mail]                              17-Nov-99 04:09:00
  To: All                                               17-Nov-99 03:37:15
Subj: Re: Gradd

From: James Moe <[e-mail]>


DiiN wrote:
>
> I installed Gradd077.dsk and Gradd080.exe, but that drivers don't work
> with my Matrox mga-g200 agp. Before loading the desktop it stops with a
> blinking cursor.

    Occasionally this works: In CONFIG.SYS move the video drivers to
right after the DOS stuff, and before the network stuff. Can't hurt,
might help.

> Can someone please confirm that the Scitech drivers work with a Matrox
> mga-g200 agp and perhaps are working fine with the Hauppauge tv card?

    The SciTech drivers work with the g200/agp. I do not know about
Hauppauge.

--

sma at rtd dot com
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From: [e-mail]                 16-Nov-99 22:00:07
  To: All                                               17-Nov-99 03:37:15
Subj: Re: Netscape desktop URL object association

From: [e-mail] (Raphael Tennenbaum)

[e-mail] wrote:

>In <[e-mail]>, on 11/16/99
>   at 03:15 PM, [e-mail] (Raphael Tennenbaum)
>said:

>You can do this with an INI file editor.  The changes are to
>WPUSRDEFAULTSETTINGS.  You might be able to just do a refresh install of
>NS.
>
>Steven

Thanks, Steven, that fixed it.

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

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From: [e-mail]                              16-Nov-99 18:57:18
  To: All                                               17-Nov-99 03:37:15
Subj: isp's & os/2

From: [e-mail]

I am a former user of ibm.net, now attglobal, and am looking for another
isp that supports os/2 or has shareware/freeware that would allow me to
use os/2 to connect.  I am curren;y on a trial with earthlink.  I've
already found out that they will time disconnect while I'm downloading a
file and nothing else; ibm.net didn't do that.

Help

What are my options?  Point me to the faq if there is one?

johnny chell


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From: [e-mail]                           17-Nov-99 05:33:08
  To: All                                               17-Nov-99 03:37:15
Subj: Re: Gradd

From: [e-mail] (Lorne Sunley)

On Tue, 16 Nov 1999 21:42:33, [e-mail] (DiiN) wrote:

> I installed Gradd077.dsk and Gradd080.exe, but that drivers don't work
> with my Matrox mga-g200 agp. Before loading the desktop it stops with a
> blinking cursor.

The GRADD 077 and 080 drivers do not work with the Matrox
G200 or G400 cards.

> Can someone please confirm that the Scitech drivers work with a Matrox
> mga-g200 agp and perhaps are working fine with the Hauppauge tv card?

From personal experience I can say that the Scitech drivers work
with the VCAFILT extension driver that is used by the Hauppauge
cards. They work with the ATI 3D Rage II C, Matrox Millenium II
and the Matrox G400.

AFAIK (second hand reports) the Scitech drivers work
with the G200 card.

Lorne Sunley

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From: [e-mail]                               17-Nov-99 00:44:22
  To: All                                               17-Nov-99 03:37:15
Subj: Re: Netscape desktop URL object association

From: Duane Chamblee <[e-mail]>

[e-mail] wrote:
>
> In <[e-mail]>, on 11/16/99
>    at 03:15 PM, [e-mail] (Raphael Tennenbaum)
> said:
>
> >URL object and launch NS -- instead of WebEx which still comes up.  Is
> >there a part of the install script I can cut which will do this for me?
> >I had tried Henk's ASSOEDIT but the URL filetype seems to be resisting my
> >efforts to
> >change it over.
>
> You can do this with an INI file editor.  The changes are to
> WPUSRDEFAULTSETTINGS.  You might be able to just do a refresh install of
> NS.

You can edit it without an INI editor...

Open the settings for a URL object. On the "browser" page, set the "path
and filename" to NETSCAPE.EXE.

Press the "set default" button.

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From: [e-mail]                          17-Nov-99 12:59:12
  To: All                                               17-Nov-99 03:37:15
Subj: Re: Gradd

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

On Tue, 16 Nov 1999 22:42:33 +0100, DiiN wrote:

:>I installed Gradd077.dsk and Gradd080.exe, but that drivers don't work
:>with my Matrox mga-g200 agp. Before loading the desktop it stops with a
:>blinking cursor.
:>Can someone please confirm that the Scitech drivers work with a Matrox
:>mga-g200 agp and perhaps are working fine with the Hauppauge tv card?
:>TIA

Same thing happened with my G400. The SDD drivers
installed just fine but I couldn't understand the jargon
well enough to set the refresh rates and centering so
I'm back with the Matrox drivers for now. Obviously I'm
unable to use my Hauppauge card under Warp :-(

Cheers

Wayne

******************************************************
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]                          10-Nov-99 13:27:16
  To: All                                               17-Nov-99 03:37:15
Subj: Re: Comm/2 v4.61 easter egg

From: [e-mail] (Buddy Donnelly)

On Wed, 10 Nov 1999 06:49:06, "Jeffrey S. Kobal"
<[e-mail]> a ┌crit dans un message:

> Nenad Milenkovic wrote:
>
> > I've just found out this, I don't know if it's OS/2
> > version specific, but it looks like it is.
>
> Yes, it is only in the OS/2 version of Communicator 4.61  :)
snip
> > Useless but interesting. :)
>
> As most easter eggs are!  Congrats on finding it!

With all due respect, this is crap.

All easter eggs are grotesque wastes of resources, neither helpful nor
harmless, just useless lines of code buried inside the original copy of
program source then writ large by being compiled and multiplied over every
copy of the program in use everywhere around the planet all at the same
time, taking up HD space on millions (?) of machines at once and then
carried forward for many years to come, taking up extra RAM every day when
the program loads, and for all we know just standing around in there
getting in everybody else's way like a blind dog at a picnic.

[And worst of all, they're just put there *only* as private conceits,
Letterman-show smirky stuff, allowing an overcaffeinated secret chuckle to
pass between the perhaps underpaid and probably undersocialized cubicled
geeks who wrote them,  boob-shocking by remote control with an unlabeled
button to push and wow the gaggles of slack-jawed yokels in greasy gimme
hats wandering in sluggish bewilderment like Alabama flutter-moths from the
bright lights of one booth to the bright lights of another booth on some
county fair carney-show midway. "Hey, lookey, Mamma, over here, lookey
this! Huh-watch heah when I cuh-lick heah!"]

So how about, instead, a change in standards: make us proud of you for
being good modern intelligent helpful slick and fast (Lamborghini-style)
OS/2 coders and leaving that crap out altogether, or at least if you find
you can't help yourself late of some night, putting them in a
/PROGRAM/WASTED.DLL we can track down and deregister or unlock and erase,
like those useless Advantis DLLs I still get physically sick over when they
pop back up after a fresh OS/2 install? (Remember, your Netscape /PROGRAM
directory alone is nearly 7,000,000 bytes, while other OS/2 browsers need
less than half of that to work, and I'm still using RAM strips I paid $30
per MB for, so it's easy enough to work out how much that extra code pains
me.)

Or am I out of step with the marketplace here? Y'all want everybody's
systems everywhere loaded down with junk like this, instead of having trim,
solid, stable, secure, fast-working browsers? All in favor, raise your
cotton candy cones over your empty heads and wave them.


--

Good luck,

Buddy

Buddy Donnelly
[e-mail]


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From: [e-mail]                      17-Nov-99 08:33:18
  To: All                                               17-Nov-99 10:26:29
Subj: Re: NS4.61 turns all of the pictures blue...

From: Thomas Kellerer <[e-mail]>

Are you using TrueColor? (16M colors?) When I was using TrueColor I had
the same effect. After switching back to 65535 colors everything worked
fine (the main reason for switching back were several crashes of
Netscape, which were gone too)

Regards
Thomas

Scott Tietjen wrote:
>
> Ok, this one may be a bit wierd.  Immediately after I installed NS4.61
> (off of WarpUp!) on my Warp4fp11/12 system, I noticed that every image
> (.gif & .jpg), especially if they were clickable links, turned blue.
> Not just the edge around it, the whole image became blue.  (I think I
> tried changing the link color from blue to some different shade, and the
> blue overlay on the images became that shade.)
>
> Now, if I do something like rightclick, then select Save Image As, then
> use the save as dialog box to "wipe" over the top of the blue, then
> cancel the box, the images go back to normal full color.  Likewise, if I
> can scroll the image off the top or bottom of the page, when it comes
> back it's back to normal color.  (Or at least the part of the image that
> made it off screen.)
>
> Anyone heard of this?  Thanks muchly.
>         -- Scott Tietjen

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From: [e-mail]                             16-Nov-99 23:59:25
  To: All                                               17-Nov-99 10:26:29
Subj: Netscape Team:  FIX THIS!

From: Jeff Welton <[e-mail]>

I like to peruse the latest job listings at:

http://www.sfna.com/cgi-bin/employment.pl

but when using Communicator/2 v4.61 the listings
run off the right side of the screen.  They should
wrap at the right screen edge.

I complained to to the SFGate webmaster but he
says there is no problem that he can see.  He says
the problem is attributable to Communicator/2
version 4.61.

So I fired up NS v2.02 and took a look.  It's true!
In NS v2.02 the job listings display correctly and
the text information wraps itself mid-screen!

Before a refresh is issued I am asking the Netscape
Team (Mike Kapley, et all) to check out this problem
associated with v4.61 and correct it as quickly as
possible.  If it is happening here then it must be
happening at other sites too.

Jeff

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From: [e-mail]                                 17-Nov-99 08:54:24
  To: All                                               17-Nov-99 10:26:29
Subj: Re: Hostname?

From: [e-mail] (David LaRue)

  If you type the command 'hostname' from an OS/2 command shell it most likely
will not return a name.  You need to configure your system so that this
program
returns the name of the IP address you are connected at.  There are several
places that things could be wrong.

  If you have a static IP address then the problem is most likely a missing
host
name in the tcpcfg.exe settings or in the .\etc\hosts file.  I'll presume that
you
are like most of us and have a dynamic address given by your ISP when you
dial in.

  For me, the problem was my \mptn\etc\hosts file.  This should list your
gateway address first and if a loop back address exists it should be last.
Mine looks like the following:

198.128.0.1    myhost
127.0.0.1    localhost

  Als make sure tcpcfg.exe, or the HOSTNAME environment variable in
CONFIG.SYS, is also set to 'myhost'.  Choose any name you like.  I use the
in-joy dialer and 198.128.0.1 is my broadcast address.

  Try this and see if that helps.

  Good luck,

  David LaRue

In <80riog$i6p$[e-mail]>, [e-mail]  (R.W. Hutchinson)
writes:
>    I have always had the message "[main] couldn't determine hostname" from
>my "dialup" application. Lately I have had a couple of WWWebsites that used
to
>provide useful information give me an error message: "Get an upgraded browser
>which supports the Host name."
>    It occurs to me that the two might be related. How does one feed a host
>name into the system, such that the browser or other component of the
Internet
>Connexion Pack will send it out on demand? Does one feed it into config.sys,
or into
>startup.cmd, or where? What is the precise command syntax, also?
>--------------------------------------------------------------
>"I would predict that there are far greater mistakes waiting
>to be made by someone with your obvious talent for it."
>Orac to Vila. [City at the Edge of the World.]
>-----------------------------------------------
>R.W. Hutchinson. | [e-mail]
>

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From: [e-mail]                          17-Nov-99 13:16:09
  To: All                                               17-Nov-99 10:26:29
Subj: How can I convert 32bit linear pointer to 16bit Seg:Offs one to pass to

From: Alexey Smirnov <[e-mail]>

Hi!
    I am an russian programmer who wrote a SysInfo/2 PM utility
(ftp://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/os2/util/system/sysinfo0038.zip).
    Now I want to solve a problem with calling any Dos16 functions from
my PM programm. The matter is that I use SpeedSoft Siby to craete a
SysInfo/2, so I cant call Dos16 functions natively (without a pointer
conversion). That is why I ask you to help me wrote a function that will
do such conversion. May be, I can find that function (or, macro) in
Watcom CPP ?

Best regards, Alexey Smirnov.

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From: [e-mail]                                  17-Nov-99 10:51:23
  To: All                                               17-Nov-99 10:26:29
Subj: Crystalizer TidalWave128 Sound card

From: [e-mail] (Stan Goodman)

I have this soundcard, which I am trying to install in my Supermicro P6SBA
motherboard, running Warp4/FP10. I have been unsuccessful in this, and have
run a number of experiments with help from the people on the Crystal chip
design team, which show that IRQ5 (the IRQ assigned, according to RMVIEW,
to the card's codec) is not being received by the card.

Before I got this card, I was using a AWE32value soundcard, which was using
the same IRQ lines, and installed in the same slot. It worked, whereas the
Crystal card doesn't.

The card was tested by the vendor from whom I bought it, before he shipped
to me.

Before I return the card to the vendor, I would like to take one more crack
at making it work, but I have no clue what might be wrong with it or
theinstallation. If anyone can offer advice, I would be very grateful.

-------------
Stan Goodman
Qiryat Tiv'on
Israel

E-mail sent to [e-mail] will, of course, not reach me. Sorry.
Send E-mail to: domain: hashkedim dot com, username: stan.


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From: [e-mail]                                 17-Nov-99 12:46:25
  To: All                                               17-Nov-99 10:27:00
Subj: Re: Palm Pilot

From: [e-mail]

Hi Brad

    Brad>     Not yet AFAIK.  The address book wrapper class is done
    Brad> (although not sufficiently tested).  Once I get v1.1 out the
    Brad> door I might sit down and write a CSV (Comma Seperated
    Brad> Value) import/export jConduit for the Address Book in order
    Brad> to provide a base-level compatibility with most PIMs, but to
    Brad> do it right someone neds to write a jConduit to do this
    Brad> work.

Hmmh, most PIMs (at least with os/2) use a db3 or db5
file-format. IRCC, someone has already developed a java-class to
access dbase files. Would't that be esier?

        Cheers

                Uli

--
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    Dept. of Geology       Fon                        3694
    ETH-Zuerich    http://www.erdw.ethz.ch/~bonk/bonk.html
    Visit the SPOC-team at http://www.spoc.ethz.ch

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From: [e-mail]                                  17-Nov-99 07:41:06
  To: All                                               17-Nov-99 10:27:00
Subj: ADSL high speed connection

From: [e-mail]

Are there any inherent reasons why OS/2 TCPIP can't be used in conjunction
with a ADSL high speed connection to the internet.

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From: [e-mail]                                17-Nov-99 07:05:14
  To: All                                               17-Nov-99 10:27:00
Subj: Re: Best Rewritable CD for OS2

From: [e-mail] (Jerry McBride)

So please share with us, how did you patch it?

--- SNIP ---

>It does have one problem, though. I couldn't read multi-session CDs in
>the Ricoh in OS/2. That is, until I patched os2cdrom.dmd. For some
>reason, that file contains a list of drive brands and if your drive
>brand, isn't on the list, OS/2 only shows the first session on a
>multi-session disc. I understand this 'problem' concerns Yamaha drives
>as well.
>

As a Yamaha user, I'm interested in this also. I haven't burned a multisession
cd on it yet and haven't tried to access a multisession rom either. But if it
ever comes to pass, I'd like to know how...

Using a hex editor and browsing os2cdrom.dmd I can easily find the brand names
that Anssi mentions. As far as I can tell, all that needs to be done is over-
writing one of the existing brand names with "YAMAHA" and that should do the
trick... What makes me uncertain is that some specific drive models are
mentioned in the file also... Does my Yamaha drive need to be listed that way
also? If so, what do I add in there... 4416, CDR4416, etc.?

We'll see...

Keep me posted on this one, Please? :')


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From: [e-mail]                                17-Nov-99 06:51:07
  To: All                                               17-Nov-99 10:27:00
Subj: Re: IBM WAKE UP

From: [e-mail] (Jerry McBride)

In article <[e-mail]>,
Chuck Davis <[e-mail]> wrote:
>It's too late for IBM to wake up.  IBM has made so many strategic
>miscalculations of the PC platform that they are beyond number.  They are
>presently engaged in another serious miscalculation.  Someone of Lou's
>minions has succeeded in convincing him the day of the PC is gone!  What
>is happening with the Linux desktop is strong repudiation of IBM's
>approach to the PC market.  One of the confused IBM execs in an interview
>at linuxtoday.com admits IBM is trying to understand _why_ there is so
>much hype about Linux.  Linux is almost _entirely_ "C/C++" based.  IBM is
>so oogly over Java that they have withdrawn their VA C+++ compiler for
>OS/400 from marketing!  I predict the next C/C++ announcement out of IBM
>will be the withdrawal of VAC++ for OS/2 and then even for NT!  I assume
>they still have a non-visual version of the product for the AS/400 since
>the OS is "C" based, but at least the marketing withdrawal is indicative
>that IBM has decided C/C++ is a thing of the past just like PCs are a
>thing of the past.  Subsequent announcements will be the withdrawal of
>IBM PCs from marketing -- only servers are needed anymore -- the day of
>the PC is gone, you know.  Lou told you, you fool!
>

I've never used the Visual C tool from IBM and probably never will. So as to
its' demise... so what? As far as I can tell version 4.0 of that tool is as
buggy as worm infested apple anyway. If 3.0 still get the job done, then it's
the tool that will be used.

Besides, there's always GCC to carry us through... Not as pretty, but it has
tremendous advantages.

As for Linux. If IBM doesn't realize it or not, I can see a day when Linux
will take over the PC market... server as well as client. About the only
players that won't change are those too entrenched in some other OS. Linux is
still in its' infancy, but boy is it growing up...

>If you want to stay in the IBM world you have choices:
>
>    1)  Java on OS/2, windoze, Linux, AS/400, S/390 or AIX; then
>    2)  Java on windoze, Linux, AS/400, S/390 or AIX.
>

If IBM get's its' "Java is the platform", it won't matter what you run... just
as long as it's a compliant JVM... you're in. IBM had better keep that in
mind.

>The current AS/400 System Handbook says "Java is the strategic language
>for the AS/400".  Who cares the OS is written in "C"?   Who cares 98% of
>all AS/400 programming is done with RPG? The world is going to Java!
>Yea, just like the world is staying away from PCs in droves!
>
>Man, that was cathartic!!  :)
>

Yeah... and a bit nearsighted also. Unless of course there's something we
don't
know... like a new version of JAVAOS or perhaps a JVM of sorts that run's
directly on silicon... Then it really woudn't matter what OS you have under it
as there would be none.

Who knows where this is all going? I certainly don't and I'm not real happy at
all with IBM's choice of direction.



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From: [e-mail]                               17-Nov-99 08:08:16
  To: All                                               17-Nov-99 14:38:16
Subj: Re: isp's & os/2

From: [e-mail]

I have lived in that 3% of the country where the national isp's didn't
have local access.  When I moved to SE Virginia, I chose att worldnet as a
trial.  After the initial setup, I've had no problems with disconnection,
dropped lines, etc.  I'm using Warp 3, Fixpack 39, Injoy Dialer and
MR2/ICE.

Good luck.


In <[e-mail]>, on 11/16/99
   at 06:57 PM, [e-mail] said:

>I am a former user of ibm.net, now attglobal, and am looking for another
>isp that supports os/2 or has shareware/freeware that would allow me to
>use os/2 to connect.  I am curren;y on a trial with earthlink.  I've
>already found out that they will time disconnect while I'm downloading a
>file and nothing else; ibm.net didn't do that.

>Help

>What are my options?  Point me to the faq if there is one?

>johnny chell


--
-----------------------------------------------------------

Robert Underwood - [e-mail]
OS/2 Warp 3.0 (Fixpack 39): MR2/ICE 1.69 (Registered)

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From: [e-mail]                                  17-Nov-99 13:31:00
  To: All                                               17-Nov-99 14:38:16
Subj: XFree86 on ATI Rage 3d IIc AGP card?

From: [e-mail] (Chris Hall)

I've been unsuccessful in trying to get an AGP ATI Rage 3d IIc card with
8M of video ram to run at all with the latest (3.3.5) XFree86. Superprobe
correctly identifies the card. If I try to use the XF86_Mach64.exe server, I
get
the following message:

Mach64: PCI: Mach 64 Rage IIc rev 122 Aperture@ 0xe6000000 Register@0xe5000000
Block I/O @ 0xd000
XF86ReadBIOS: Bios map failed, addr=c0000, rc=87

After that, a fatal server error.

It seems that the server is probing memory or port locations, and is getting a
BIOS
error code. Could there be ISA conflicts? (I have an ethernet card at c0000).
The docs suggest adding a Membase variable, but that doesn't change things.
Trying XG86_SVGA does not work either, even if I tell XF86Config that it only
has 1 M of memory. The VGA server only partially "works"; a screen comes up
but only half is desktop (distorted at that) and the rest is a mess. Any
pointers
would be appreciated. This card works fine with ATI drivers (OS/2 and
Win-OS/2),
gradd 0.8, and even sdd 7 beta 9, so it is possible to use the card. I just
can't get
XFree86 to start.

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]                              17-Nov-99 08:57:16
  To: All                                               17-Nov-99 14:38:16
Subj: Re: isp's & os/2

From: [e-mail]

In <[e-mail]>, on 11/16/99
   at 06:57 PM, [e-mail] said:

>I am a former user of ibm.net, now attglobal, and am looking for another
>isp that supports os/2 or has shareware/freeware that would allow me to
>use os/2 to connect.  I am curren;y on a trial with earthlink.  I've
>already found out that they will time disconnect while I'm downloading a
>file and nothing else; ibm.net didn't do that.

>Help

>What are my options?  Point me to the faq if there is one?

>johnny chell

For the time being I installed a DSL line from Flashcom.net.  Only
$89/month and 760k DL speed.  A simple network card connects to the
external modem.  Add 4 tcp/ip addresses to the built in OS/2 tcp/ip
software and boom, you're done.

Will have to find a different alternative when I finish restoring my house
in another few years.  Think I will look at a cable modem then since they
are supposed to be installed the same way.

Roland

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From: [e-mail]                             17-Nov-99 08:52:27
  To: All                                               17-Nov-99 14:38:16
Subj: Re: Crystalizer TidalWave128 Sound card

From: Dan Holmes <[e-mail]>

> The card was tested by the vendor from whom I bought it, before he shipped
> to me.
>
> Before I return the card to the vendor, I would like to take one more crack
> at making it work, but I have no clue what might be wrong with it or
> theinstallation. If anyone can offer advice, I would be very grateful.
>
Who did you buy this from?  I would like one.
--
-------------------
Dan Holmes
Integrated Visual Systems, Inc.
voice 704-847-3379
fax   [phone]
mailto:[e-mail]
work -> http://www.ivsi.com
play -> http://www.geocities.com/heartland/hollow/3097

Insert Disclaimer:
Most of the time i think for myself, at least that is what
they tell me.

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From: [e-mail]                                       17-Nov-99 16:03:17
  To: All                                               17-Nov-99 14:38:16
Subj: Re: XFree86 on ATI Rage 3d IIc AGP card?

From: radu <[e-mail]>

I have a friend which has an ATI board ( with an 128 in it's name) and she
uses for
XFree86/Linux a X server from SUSE, which is not included in the 3.3.5
distribution. If
you have such a board, you're sadly out of luck for a while.
If Holger Veit (it seems to me that He's the author of this excelent OS/2
port) gets the
sources for that server, he will probably be able to resolve the problem. SUSE
guys used
to release the sources for X servers, didn't they?
Wish you WarpX soon!
Radu


Chris Hall wrote:

> I've been unsuccessful in trying to get an AGP ATI Rage 3d IIc card with
> 8M of video ram to run at all with the latest (3.3.5) XFree86. Superprobe
> correctly identifies the card. If I try to use the XF86_Mach64.exe server, I
get
> the following message:
>
> Mach64: PCI: Mach 64 Rage IIc rev 122 Aperture@ 0xe6000000
Register@0xe5000000
> Block I/O @ 0xd000
> XF86ReadBIOS: Bios map failed, addr=c0000, rc=87
>
> After that, a fatal server error.
>
> It seems that the server is probing memory or port locations, and is getting
a BIOS
> error code. Could there be ISA conflicts? (I have an ethernet card at
c0000).
> The docs suggest adding a Membase variable, but that doesn't change things.
> Trying XG86_SVGA does not work either, even if I tell XF86Config that it
only
> has 1 M of memory. The VGA server only partially "works"; a screen comes up
> but only half is desktop (distorted at that) and the rest is a mess. Any
pointers
> would be appreciated. This card works fine with ATI drivers (OS/2 and
Win-OS/2),
> gradd 0.8, and even sdd 7 beta 9, so it is possible to use the card. I just
can't get
> XFree86 to start.
>
> 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]                                17-Nov-99 08:14:07
  To: All                                               17-Nov-99 14:38:16
Subj: Re: ADSL high speed connection

From: Bill Horne <[e-mail]>

It works for me.

Bill Horne

[e-mail] wrote:
>
> Are there any inherent reasons why OS/2 TCPIP can't be used in conjunction
with a ADSL high speed connection to the internet.

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From: [e-mail]                                   17-Nov-99 07:47:19
  To: All                                               17-Nov-99 14:38:16
Subj: Re: Netscape Team:  FIX THIS!

From: Marvin Volz <[e-mail]>

Under "View" have you checked "Wrap Long Lines?"

MTV

Jeff Welton wrote:

> I like to peruse the latest job listings at:
>
> http://www.sfna.com/cgi-bin/employment.pl
>
> but when using Communicator/2 v4.61 the listings
> run off the right side of the screen.  They should
> wrap at the right screen edge.
>
> I complained to to the SFGate webmaster but he
> says there is no problem that he can see.  He says
> the problem is attributable to Communicator/2
> version 4.61.
>
> So I fired up NS v2.02 and took a look.  It's true!
> In NS v2.02 the job listings display correctly and
> the text information wraps itself mid-screen!
>
> Before a refresh is issued I am asking the Netscape
> Team (Mike Kapley, et all) to check out this problem
> associated with v4.61 and correct it as quickly as
> possible.  If it is happening here then it must be
> happening at other sites too.
>
> Jeff

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From: [e-mail]                                17-Nov-99 08:19:21
  To: All                                               17-Nov-99 14:38:16
Subj: Re: isp's & os/2

From: Bill Horne <[e-mail]>

While living in San Jose, I used ATT for about a year. I used Win95 to
set up the account, then transferred the info to OS/2. I used the DOIP
dialer with PPP to connect. It worked fine. It still worked when I
switched to Injoy. I gave up on ATT after a bit because they were having
a difficult time in the area. Connections were difficult to obtain and
frequently dropped. However, my son is living in the same area today,
connecting to ATT with an analog modem over an ISDN line (don't ask) and
it works just fine.

Bill Horne

[e-mail] wrote:
>
> I am a former user of ibm.net, now attglobal, and am looking for another
> isp that supports os/2 or has shareware/freeware that would allow me to
> use os/2 to connect.  I am curren;y on a trial with earthlink.  I've
> already found out that they will time disconnect while I'm downloading a
> file and nothing else; ibm.net didn't do that.
>
> Help
>
> What are my options?  Point me to the faq if there is one?
>
> johnny chell

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From: [e-mail]               17-Nov-99 14:23:00
  To: All                                               17-Nov-99 14:38:16
Subj: Re: Netscape Team:  FIX THIS!

From: "Jan Danielsson" <[e-mail]>

[...]
>Before a refresh is issued I am asking the Netscape
>Team (Mike Kapley, et all) to check out this problem
>associated with v4.61 and correct it as quickly as
>possible.  If it is happening here then it must be
>happening at other sites too.

Have you reported it "the official way"?


 /j



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From: [e-mail]                                       17-Nov-99 16:30:27
  To: All                                               17-Nov-99 14:38:16
Subj: Re: XFree86 on ATI Rage 3d IIc AGP card?

From: radu <[e-mail]>

I apologize for my previous useless reply, I've checked out and the ATI
Rage 3d IIc AGP card should be supported by Mach64 server.

The SUSE X server I was talking about supports the ATI Rage 128, ATI
Rage Fury, ATI Xpert99, ATI Xpert128, ATI Xpert2000, ATI All-in-Wonder
128, ATI Rage Magnum boards.
Radu



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From: [e-mail]                           17-Nov-99 15:25:24
  To: All                                               17-Nov-99 14:38:17
Subj: Re: Best Rewritable CD for OS2

From: [e-mail] (Lorne Sunley)

On Wed, 17 Nov 1999 12:05:29, [e-mail] (Jerry McBride)
wrote:

>
> So please share with us, how did you patch it?
>
<lots of snip>

The easiest way is to download the device driver development
kit from http://service.software.ibm.com/ddk/ and change
the source code for os2cdrom.dmd and re-compile it.

You have to register,, but there is no cost and there
is a copy of MASM 6 and MSC 6 available to do the
compile.

Lorne Sunley

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From: [e-mail]                           17-Nov-99 15:35:03
  To: All                                               17-Nov-99 14:38:17
Subj: Re: How can I convert 32bit linear pointer to 16bit Seg:Offs one to pas

From: [e-mail] (Lorne Sunley)

On Wed, 17 Nov 1999 10:16:18, Alexey Smirnov
<[e-mail]> wrote:

> Hi!
>     I am an russian programmer who wrote a SysInfo/2 PM utility
> (ftp://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/os2/util/system/sysinfo0038.zip).
>     Now I want to solve a problem with calling any Dos16 functions from
> my PM programm. The matter is that I use SpeedSoft Siby to craete a
> SysInfo/2, so I cant call Dos16 functions natively (without a pointer
> conversion). That is why I ask you to help me wrote a function that will
> do such conversion. May be, I can find that function (or, macro) in
> Watcom CPP ?
>

There are a number of 32 to 16 bit address conversion
functions in the "devhelp" group.

You may have to download the device driver development
kit from http://service.software.ibm.com/ddk/ to get the
headers that you need.

Lorne Sunley


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From: [e-mail]                                 17-Nov-99 15:33:14
  To: All                                               17-Nov-99 14:38:17
Subj: Re: XFree86 on ATI Rage 3d IIc AGP card?

From: [e-mail] (Holger Veit)

On Wed, 17 Nov 1999 16:03:34 +0200, radu <[e-mail]> wrote:
>I have a friend which has an ATI board ( with an 128 in it's name) and she
uses for
>XFree86/Linux a X server from SUSE, which is not included in the 3.3.5
distribution. If
>you have such a board, you're sadly out of luck for a while.
>If Holger Veit (it seems to me that He's the author of this excelent OS/2
port) gets the
>sources for that server, he will probably be able to resolve the problem.
SUSE guys used
>to release the sources for X servers, didn't they?

Will be likely in 3.3.6.

Holger

--
If Microsoft is ever going to produce something that does not suck,
it is very likely a vacuum cleaner.

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From: [e-mail]                      18-Nov-99 02:21:16
  To: All                                               17-Nov-99 14:38:17
Subj: Netscape font size and stylesheets

From: "Khairil Yusof" <[e-mail]>

Is it just me or is Netscape 4.61's fonts one size larger then normal
for stylesheets?

Eg.

font-size: small is 10pt Helvetica
font-size: x-small is 8pt Helvetica

8pt is readable on OS/2 but unreadable in Netscape on Linux/Mac (too
small)

However <font size=2> is 8pt Helvetica in OS/2 but is 10pt Helvetica
on Netscape (and therefore reable too) on Linux and Mac.

It's making it difficult to design pages cause what I see is not what
other people see and that's 99% of the computer using population :)




----------------------------------------
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From: [e-mail]                           17-Nov-99 15:46:24
  To: All                                               17-Nov-99 14:38:17
Subj: Re: ADSL high speed connection

From: [e-mail] (Lorne Sunley)

On Wed, 17 Nov 1999 12:41:12, [e-mail] wrote:

> Are there any inherent reasons why OS/2 TCPIP can't be used in conjunction
with a ADSL high speed connection to the internet.

Works for my brother and for one of my clients.

Caveat - the ADSL link must have an external device that is
connected to a regular Network Interface Card.

The OS/2 machine treats this as it treats any LAN
TCP/IP connection. This means that you must have
a version of OS/2 that has LAN support, Warp 3 Connect
Warp 4, Warp Server 4, Warp Server for e-Business.

I have heard some ugly reports that some ADSL ISP's
are using PPP over Ethernet for their ADSL service.
This is not supported by the standard TCP/IP stack,
but the Injoy products do support it. http://www.fx.dk

Lorne Sunley


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From: [e-mail]                                  17-Nov-99 15:46:20
  To: All                                               17-Nov-99 14:38:17
Subj: Re: XFree86 on ATI Rage 3d IIc AGP card?

From: [e-mail] (Chris Hall)

Radu:

Thanks for the reply. From another post in another newsgroup, I found out
that the bios scan in 3.3.5 is broken and Holger's suggestion to someone was
to use the Mach64 server from 3.3.1. I've tried this and I almost can get
there.
First, if I go all 3.3.1, the video is corrupted but readable. If I go 3.3.5
but with
the 3.3.1 server, I get a grey screen, but no X apps start (can't get a window
manager). Sigh. Getting closer though.

Chris

In <[e-mail]>, radu <[e-mail]> writes:
>I apologize for my previous useless reply, I've checked out and the ATI
>Rage 3d IIc AGP card should be supported by Mach64 server.
>
>The SUSE X server I was talking about supports the ATI Rage 128, ATI
>Rage Fury, ATI Xpert99, ATI Xpert128, ATI Xpert2000, ATI All-in-Wonder
>128, ATI Rage Magnum boards.
>Radu
>
>
>


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]                 17-Nov-99 10:49:22
  To: All                                               17-Nov-99 14:38:17
Subj: Re: isp's & os/2

From: [e-mail] (Raphael Tennenbaum)

[e-mail] wrote:

>In <[e-mail]>, on 11/16/99
>   at 06:57 PM, [e-mail] said:
>
>>I am a former user of ibm.net, now attglobal, and am looking for another
>>isp that supports os/2 or has shareware/freeware that would allow me to
>>use os/2 to connect.  I am curren;y on a trial with earthlink.  I've
>>already found out that they will time disconnect while I'm downloading a
>>file and nothing else; ibm.net didn't do that.
>
>>Help
>
>>What are my options?  Point me to the faq if there is one?
>
>>johnny chell
>
>For the time being I installed a DSL line from Flashcom.net.  Only
>$89/month and 760k DL speed.  A simple network card connects to the
>external modem.  Add 4 tcp/ip addresses to the built in OS/2 tcp/ip
>software and boom, you're done.
>
>Will have to find a different alternative when I finish restoring my house
>in another few years.  Think I will look at a cable modem then since they
>are supposed to be installed the same way.
>
>Roland


A friend of mine who works in telecomm suggests that for the
long and short term both, DSL is a better bet than cable,
fwiw.

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

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From: [e-mail]                             17-Nov-99 08:08:13
  To: All                                               17-Nov-99 14:38:17
Subj: Re: IBM WAKE UP

From: Chuck Davis <[e-mail]>

That's not a future event.  It is happening "as we speak"!  Follow
linuxtoday.com
for a few days and you'll be amazed at what is happening all over the world
with
Linux.  I hate to leave OS/2 but finally there _is_ an alternative.
Additionally,
it's an alternative with a future that even the IBM/Microsoft monopoly can't
kill!

IBM does not wish to acknowledge Linux as anything more than a server
platform.
But the fact is that most of the people using Linux are using it as their
desktop.  Additionally, it has a "world class" (whatever that is) C/C++
compiler
(that knows what a 64 bit integer is!) that comes "in the box".

Jerry McBride wrote:

As for Linux. If IBM doesn't realize it or not, I can see a day when Linux

> will take over the PC market... server as well as client. About the only
> players that won't change are those too entrenched in some other OS. Linux
is
> still in its' infancy, but boy is it growing up...

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From: [e-mail]                                         16-Nov-99 22:40:28
  To: All                                               17-Nov-99 14:38:17
Subj: Re: Lost Multisession CD Reading , WAS: Best Rewritable CD for OS2

From: Anssi Saari <[e-mail]>

jkross@[e-mail] (John Ross) writes:

> In message <[e-mail]> - Anssi Saari <[e-mail]> writes:
> :>
> :>[e-mail] (Gideon Singer) writes:
> :>
> :>> I am planning on installing a RWCD in the new year. Is there any
> :>> consensuse as to which is the best unit to install for OS2/W98 setup?
> :>
> :>I don't think so. I like my Ricoh MP7040S since it's software
> :>upgradeble to 7060S, i.e. from 4x writing to 6x writing. Probably hard
> :>to find now though, since the 7060 has replaced the 7040.
> :>
> :>It does have one problem, though. I couldn't read multi-session CDs in
> :>the Ricoh in OS/2. That is, until I patched os2cdrom.dmd. For some
> :>reason, that file contains a list of drive brands and if your drive
> :>brand, isn't on the list, OS/2 only shows the first session on a
> :>multi-session disc. I understand this 'problem' concerns Yamaha drives
> :>as well.
>
> I also seem to have lost the ability for my "Cyberdrive" IDE 12X CD-Rom to
> read multisession
> Photo CD's .(Warp 4 FP 12 and several FP before that)
> If the change is due to the os2cdrom.dmd how might I get it back?
>
> (The cd-rom will read multisession cd's in Wind98.)
>  It is a minor inconveinience but I have been wondering what happened.

As far as I know, the problem I described concerns SCSI drives
only. But, maybe you can edit "Cyberdrive" or whatever your drive
identifies itself as into os2cdrom.dmd and see if it makes a
difference.

--
Anssi Saari - [e-mail]

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From: [e-mail]                 17-Nov-99 09:03:21
  To: All                                               17-Nov-99 16:33:03
Subj: Re: Netscape desktop URL object association

From: [e-mail]

In <[e-mail]>, on 11/17/99
   at 12:44 AM, Duane Chamblee <[e-mail]> said:

>Open the settings for a URL object. On the "browser" page, set the "path
>and filename" to NETSCAPE.EXE.

>Press the "set default" button.

Thanks for reminding me.  Had a memory failure. :)

Steven


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Warp4/FP11
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From: [e-mail]                 17-Nov-99 09:09:13
  To: All                                               17-Nov-99 16:33:03
Subj: Re: Bootable disk with Networking and Peer

From: [e-mail]

In <809hmt$4k$[e-mail]>, on 11/09/99
   at 04:21 PM, [e-mail] (Frank V. Schubert) said:

>Now, I have seen several posts that indicate I should run ThinLaps to put
>networking onto the diskettes.  However, this doesn't seem to me to be
>enough.  It occurs to me that I would actually need to have PEER
>installed.

You could probably get it to work, but it's not easy, as you have found,
and it's overkill.  Use SRVIFS which provides the limited remote drive
mapping you need.  This is what's used by the Warp Remote Install feature.
All the code you need is in the \CID\SRVIFS on your Warp CD.  The
documentation, casguide.inf, is somewhere in the IBMLAN directory tree.

HTH,

Steven


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Warp4/FP11
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From: [e-mail]                                   17-Nov-99 12:37:23
  To: All                                               17-Nov-99 16:33:03
Subj: Major Update of MR/2 ICE Coming!

From: Nick Knight <[e-mail]>

Major Update of MR/2 ICE Coming!

Knightware, Inc. is delighted to announce the upcoming release of a major
update to its award-winning Internet E-mail package.  Version 2.0 of the
popular OS/2 shareware MR/2 ICE will shortly be available for general
release with a number of major enhancements.

For more info on MR/2 ICE, please see http://nick.secant.com/mr2ice.htm.
This page offers a FAQ, sample screen shots, converters, a Utilties
section and a wealth of other information.

Among the enhancements offered over the prior 1.x versions are
significant performance enhancements for large E-mail folders, major
additions to the long list of configuration options, and a host of
additional features requested by MR/2 ICE users.  These include
sizeable/configurable columns, aged trash, regex as an option for filter
criteria and some overall performance improvements.   Version 2.0 is also
fully Y2K compliant.

Version 2.0 will be registerable by first-time users at a cost of $40 US.
Existing, registered v1.x users can upgrade for $20 US using the
"upreg.doc" file included with the distribution zip file.  Site license
upgrades will be available.

Note that v1.x keys will not be recognized by a v2.0 install.

Initially released almost 4 years ago, MR/2 ICE has been the E-mail choice
of many OS/2 users, and has undergone continuous improvement and
enhancement.

Nick
--
-----------------------------------------------------------
Nick Knight  <[e-mail]>       http://nick.secant.com
Senior Software Engineer
Secant Technologies, Inc.             http://www.secant.com
-----------------------------------------------------------

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From: [e-mail]                        17-Nov-99 18:21:00
  To: All                                               17-Nov-99 16:33:03
Subj: Re: Gradd

From: [e-mail] (Alex Taylor)

[I've set the followups to comp.os.os2.setup.video, for reasons which
should be obvious.]

On Tue, 16 Nov 1999 22:42:33 +0100, DiiN <[e-mail]> wrote:
> I installed Gradd077.dsk and Gradd080.exe, but that drivers don't work
> with my Matrox mga-g200 agp. Before loading the desktop it stops with a
> blinking cursor.

That is correct.  IBM's GRADD driver distributions do not work with
MGA-G200 or G400 cards.  "MGAGRADD" appears to be only for older (Mil-II
and previous) cards, and "GENGRADD" won't work either.

If you want GRADD, you have to use the Scitech drivers.

> Can someone please confirm that the Scitech drivers work with a Matrox
> mga-g200 agp and perhaps are working fine with the Hauppauge tv card?
> TIA

Yes, the Scitech drivers work, and quite well, too.  My Hauppauge TV card
works (with the Abbotsbury drivers) with these.  The picture quality is
MUCH better than with the Matrox drivers, and CPU performance is improved
as well.

However... I did have to reinstall the Abbotsbury WinTV drivers after
switching to Scitech, and then edit CONFIG.SYS as described in the
GRADD.DOC that comes with said drivers.

Also, you must use either StWTV or YADTV/2 to get the improved TV quality.
These are both essentially free, but be warned that they seem a bit less
stable using the GRADD drivers.  (StWTV garbled the picture, and YADTV
kept crashing if I didn't follow a very precise order for turning on the
TV window.)

Of course, all of these things are still very much under development, so
expect them to improve over time.

--
-----------------------------------------------------------------
 Alex Taylor                  BA - CIS - University of Guelph
 [e-mail]   http://eddie.cis.uoguelph.ca/~alex
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From: [e-mail]                               17-Nov-99 13:41:25
  To: All                                               17-Nov-99 16:33:03
Subj: Re: Crystalizer TidalWave128 Sound card

From: Brad BARCLAY <[e-mail]>

Stan Goodman wrote:
>
> I have this soundcard, which I am trying to install in my Supermicro P6SBA
> motherboard, running Warp4/FP10. I have been unsuccessful in this, and have
> run a number of experiments with help from the people on the Crystal chip
> design team, which show that IRQ5 (the IRQ assigned, according to RMVIEW,
> to the card's codec) is not being received by the card.
>
> Before I got this card, I was using a AWE32value soundcard, which was using
> the same IRQ lines, and installed in the same slot. It worked, whereas the
> Crystal card doesn't.
>
> The card was tested by the vendor from whom I bought it, before he shipped
> to me.

Hi Stan:

    I don't know if this will work or not, but it's probably worth trying
out anyway.  Check the media which came with your motherboard (diskette
or CD-ROM) and/or your motherboard manufacturers website to see if they
have a Flash BIOS utility available.  Many of these utilities allow you
to clear out the plug and play information (ESDI?).  Wipe out the PnP
information, and reboot.  This will allow your motherboard to re-assign
the IRQ's for all of your devices.

    Next, while booting into OS/2, use ALT-F1 at the "blob", and select
"Full Hardware Detection" (F6 IIRC).  This will force OS/2 to redetec
all of your hardware for its plug and play subsystem.

    Hopefully after doing both of these things your audio card will be
properly assigned an IRQ, and will work correctly :).

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]                               17-Nov-99 13:34:23
  To: All                                               17-Nov-99 16:33:03
Subj: Re: Palm Pilot

From: Brad BARCLAY <[e-mail]>

postmaster@[127.0.0.1] wrote:
> I found that mine created a directory d:\home and that's where it's storing
> all of my *.backup information.  I don't know why, but that's fine with me.
> When I tried the option you suggested (with the properties before the
> command line -- I didn't copy them over here), no *.backup file was
> created.

    Interesting - considering there is no code in the jSyncManager to
create directories :).  The user.home Java property must be pointing
there, and the JVM must be creating it when the file is being
generated.  Interesting :).

> This works great.
>
> I do find that I have to reset the options every time I launch the program
> (e.g. set it to backup, high speed transfer, etc.).

    This was a bug fixed in one of the v1.1 betas.  I released v1.1 beta 12
last night - you can download it from:

        http://yaztromo.idirect.com/java-pilot-dev.html

    v1.1 gets rid of the "High speed transfer" (which is 19.2kbps), and
allows you to select a bps rate, from 9600 up to 115.2kbps, so you can
get even faser synchronizations.  v1.1 also fixes alot of bugs, improves
alot of functionality, and adds a bunch of new features :).

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]                               17-Nov-99 13:31:09
  To: All                                               17-Nov-99 16:33:03
Subj: Re: Palm Pilot

From: Brad BARCLAY <[e-mail]>

[e-mail] wrote:
> Hmmh, most PIMs (at least with os/2) use a db3 or db5
> file-format. IRCC, someone has already developed a java-class to
> access dbase files. Would't that be esier?

    I hadn't heard about such a class - and yes, using it would be easier
for applications which support this sort of database format.  However,
being able to read/write the data in the PIM's native format (or
something it can import/export) is only part of the job in creating a
jConduit - the really tricky part is in the actual synchronization
logic.

    However, as a first step someone could use such a dbase class to allow
for import/export of whole address books and date books etc., and the
add synchronization logic later to handle how new, modified and deleted
records are synchronized.

    If you know where this dbase class is available, please let me know :).

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]                 17-Nov-99 19:42:02
  To: All                                               18-Nov-99 14:35:21
Subj: Re: IBM WAKE UP

From: [e-mail] (Ken Walter)

On Wed, 17 Nov 1999 16:08:26, Chuck Davis <[e-mail]>
wrote:

>That's not a future event.  It is happening "as we speak"!  Follow
linuxtoday.com
>for a few days and you'll be amazed at what is happening all over the world
with
>Linux.  I hate to leave OS/2 but finally there _is_ an alternative.
Additionally,
>it's an alternative with a future that even the IBM/Microsoft monopoly can't
kill!
>
>IBM does not wish to acknowledge Linux as anything more than a server
platform.
>But the fact is that most of the people using Linux are using it as their
>desktop.  Additionally, it has a "world class" (whatever that is) C/C++
compiler
>(that knows what a 64 bit integer is!) that comes "in the box".
>
>Jerry McBride wrote:

Now if they would take the desktop they were porting from OS/2 to the
PowerPC
and move it to Linux!


Ken Walter

Remove -zamboni to reply
All the above is hearsay and the opinion of no one in particular

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From: [e-mail]                                   17-Nov-99 21:04:23
  To: All                                               18-Nov-99 14:35:21
Subj: Re: Gradd

From: [e-mail] (Hardy Griech)

On Tue, 16 Nov 1999 22:42:33 +0100, [e-mail] (DiiN) wrote:
:
> Can someone please confirm that the Scitech drivers work with a Matrox
> mga-g200 agp and perhaps are working fine with the Hauppauge tv card?
:

At least I can confirm, that GRADD is not working with the G200
chipset.  I've already made the painful (what's wrong with my
system?  Did any Fixpack fail?) experience some time ago...

Hardy

--
VSoup Homepage:                       http://home.pages.de/~vsoup/

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From: postmaster@[127.0.0.1]                            17-Nov-99 15:45:15
  To: All                                               18-Nov-99 21:42:12
Subj: Re: Major Update of MR/2 ICE Coming!

From: postmaster@[127.0.0.1]

In <3832e87f$1$avpx$[e-mail]>, on 11/17/99
   at 12:37 PM, Nick Knight <[e-mail]> said:

>Version 2.0 will be registerable by first-time users at a cost of $40 US.
>Existing, registered v1.x users can upgrade for $20 US using the
>"upreg.doc" file included with the distribution zip file.  Site license
>upgrades will be available.

>Note that v1.x keys will not be recognized by a v2.0 install.

Okay, Nick.  I'm in!

Just say when and where to send the check.

Online registration preferred, if possible.

--
GK

FrodoJRR at Interaccess dot com
OS/2 Version 4.00 FixPack 12
There are 29 Processes with 116 Threads.
This machine's uptime is 4d 7h 2m 2s 976ms.


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From: postmaster@[127.0.0.1]                            17-Nov-99 15:59:16
  To: All                                               18-Nov-99 21:42:12
Subj: Re: Palm Pilot

From: postmaster@[127.0.0.1]

In <[e-mail]>, on 11/17/99
   at 01:34 PM, Brad BARCLAY <[e-mail]> said:

>This was a bug fixed in one of the v1.1 betas.  I released v1.1 beta 12
>last night - you can download it from:

>        http://yaztromo.idirect.com/java-pilot-dev.html

>    v1.1 gets rid of the "High speed transfer" (which is 19.2kbps), and
>allows you to select a bps rate, from 9600 up to 115.2kbps, so you can get
>even faser synchronizations.  v1.1 also fixes alot of bugs, improves alot
>of functionality, and adds a bunch of new features :).

Brad,

Do I need to do anything special to upgrade, like reboot?

I basically copied the new jsyncman.jar over the old one, and I now get
this error message:

***No Serial Port Handler Found!!!

For more information on serial port handlers, and links for downloading,
please visit the jSyncManager homepage at:

                  http://yaztromo.idirect.com/java-pilot.html

Note:  this error is also generated if you select "Cancel" from the
       COM port selection dialog the first time you run the program. Press
"Ok" to exit.

--
GK

FrodoJRR at Interaccess dot com
OS/2 Version 4.00 FixPack 12
There are 30 Processes with 119 Threads.
This machine's uptime is 4d 7h 16m 5s 164ms.


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From: [e-mail]                            17-Nov-99 23:10:20
  To: All                                               18-Nov-99 21:42:12
Subj: Odin Public Alpha 5

From: "Adrian Gschwend" <[e-mail]>

The Odin development team is proud to announce the availability of
the Public Alpha 5 release (19991116). A lot has happened since the
last public release in April 1998 so we encourage everyone interested
in running the latest 32bit Windows applications on OS/2 to download
this alpha release and check it out.

Note that this is still an alpha version meaning that it will most
likely not be able to run your software or only partially run it but
still it can be really useful!

Download the latest alpha from:

  ftp://ftp.os2.org/odin/OdinAlpha5.zip

You can find more information on the official Odin web site at:

  http://www.netlabs.org/odin/

This page is currently being updated and there will be an application
compatibility database very soon where you can report your
experiences.

NOTE: We are still looking for talented developers to join this great
open source freeware project! We know that we will make it possible
to run virtually any Win32 program under OS/2 but the more developers
we have, the sooner we will reach this goal!

Odin is the name of the project and software that allows users to run
Win32 (Windows 95 and Windows NT) applications in OS/2 Warp operating
system natively.



---
Adrian Gschwend
@ OS/2 Netlabs

ICQ: 22419590
[e-mail]
-------
The OS/2 OpenSource Project:
http://www.netlabs.org


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From: [e-mail]                             17-Nov-99 16:29:10
  To: All                                               18-Nov-99 21:42:12
Subj: Re: How can I convert 32bit linear pointer to 16bit Seg:Offs one to pas

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

On Wed, 17 Nov 1999 15:35:06 GMT, Lorne Sunley wrote:

>There are a number of 32 to 16 bit address conversion
>functions in the "devhelp" group.
Yes. Use them! Also, if you're programming for Aurora (or Warp 4 FP13+) you
can use the KEE functions, too. See Holger Veit's web page.  DON'T just
assume that you can do some "quick and dirty" translation from 16:16<->32 bit
addresses, since this fails with packed code selectors.


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From: [e-mail]                       18-Nov-99 00:32:24
  To: All                                               18-Nov-99 21:42:12
Subj: Java 1.1.8 and Netscape 4.16 Trap 000d

From: "Cees van Veelen" <[e-mail]>

Hi

I am having a serious problem running java applets in Netscape 4.61.
First I installed Netscape 4.61 over 4.04. Then I installed java1.1.8 over
1.1.7.
This gave a problem. So I removed Java 1.1.7, updated FI to the most recent
version (1.2.5), deleted everything that had to do with java 1.1.7 and
installed 1.1.8. (runtime, font and samples)
Now I have the following situation:
The samples run fine with the 'Java Applet Viewer from HTML', but if I open a
sample in Netscape I get a Trap 000d. The same happens if I drag a URL from
the 'URL's from samples' to the Java Applet Viewer from URL. The applet
starts to load, but trap's about half the load time.
The install program of java 1.1.8 gave the following classpath:
.\.;F:\JAVA11\LIB\SecMa.jar;
If anyone knows what to do about this problem, I would be very happy.

Cees van Veelen, Amsterdam
[e-mail]
Remove the characters: NOSPAM to reply


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From: [e-mail]                           17-Nov-99 23:29:01
  To: All                                               18-Nov-99 21:42:12
Subj: Re: Best Rewritable CD for OS2

From: [e-mail] (Gideon Singer)

On Fri, 12 Nov 1999 17:38:36, [e-mail] (Gideon Singer)
wrote:

-> I am planning on installing a RWCD in the new year. Is there any
-> consensuse as to which is the best unit to install for OS2/W98 setup?
->

How does the above pretain to my original question as to the best RWCD
for OS2?

Gideon Singer
Webpage: members.home.net:80/gsinger
Remove the 'nospam' to email

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From: [e-mail]                                    17-Nov-99 23:55:25
  To: All                                               18-Nov-99 21:42:12
Subj: Re: How can I convert 32bit linear pointer to 16bit Seg:Offs one to pas

From: Peter Fitzsimons <[e-mail]>

Alexey Smirnov wrote:
>
> Hi!
>     I am an russian programmer who wrote a SysInfo/2 PM utility
> (ftp://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/os2/util/system/sysinfo0038.zip).
>     Now I want to solve a problem with calling any Dos16 functions from
> my PM programm. The matter is that I use SpeedSoft Siby to craete a
> SysInfo/2, so I cant call Dos16 functions natively (without a pointer
> conversion). That is why I ask you to help me wrote a function that will
> do such conversion. May be, I can find that function (or, macro) in
> Watcom CPP ?
>

Watcom (with a few bugs, which version are you using?) will do the
translations automatically if you prototype the 16 bit functions
properly (ie: with _Far16).

Can you give a code example of something that is failing?

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From: [e-mail]                           18-Nov-99 00:11:04
  To: All                                               18-Nov-99 21:42:12
Subj: Re: Best Rewritable CD for OS2

From: [e-mail] (Gideon Singer)

On Wed, 17 Nov 1999 23:29:03, [e-mail] (Gideon Singer)
wrote:

-> On Fri, 12 Nov 1999 17:38:36, [e-mail] (Gideon Singer)
-> wrote:
->
-> -> I am planning on installing a RWCD in the new year. Is there any
-> -> consensuse as to which is the best unit to install for OS2/W98 setup?
-> ->
->
-> How does the above pretain to my original question as to the best RWCD
-> for OS2?
->

Sorry for the confusion I may have caused. I was referring to the
articles that were posted to my original post of which is the best
RWCD unit for OS2 and all I got was some articles which did not
address the question at all.

So is there anyone who "wants to stick their neck out" and tell me "in
their opinion" which is the best RWCD for OS2?

Gideon Singer
Webpage: members.home.net:80/gsinger
Remove the 'nospam' to email

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From: [e-mail]                             11-Nov-99 17:38:00
  To: All                                               18-Nov-99 21:42:12
Subj: Re: Partition Magic 5.0 upgrade

From: [e-mail] (Edward Germain)

On Thu, 11 Nov 1999 11:22:22, [e-mail] (Jan Swartling) wrote:

> On Thu, 11 Nov 1999 03:59:50, [e-mail] (Edward Germain)
> wrote:
>
> > Partition Magic 5 does not respect the very clear, published and
> > strict rules that OS/2 uses to create logical partitions.  It simply
> > will not work reliably.  You can verify this:
>
> Ed,
>
> What response did you get from Powerquest when you reported this?
>
> Jan Swartling
>  Blue Soft

Two technicians told me to return the software.  One of them said it
was unlikely that it would get fixed.  Both agreed there was no way
Partition Magic would work on Warp 4 with an 18-gig disk under the
scenario I reported above.  I sent in a bug report (perhaps through
one of the tech people, I don't recall).

A friend, a computer expert who writes video drivers, was the one who
explained the algorithm that OS/2 requires for writing partitions and
who concluded that the _only_ possible explanation for Partition
Magic's ability to write partitions that FDisk can't read is that it
does not respect these published standards.  When I proposed this as
THE solution to the second technician, he did not disagree, but
immediately suggested I return the product.

--Ed Germain
[e-mail]


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From: [e-mail]                                17-Nov-99 18:02:07
  To: All                                               18-Nov-99 21:42:12
Subj: Re: NS 4.61 Memory Leak & System Freeze

From: John M Price PhD <[e-mail]>

In comp.os.os2.apps article <[e-mail]>
[e-mail] wrote:
: Alan,
: The easiest thing to try is to go into the preferences and set all your
CACHE to 0.
: If this fixes the problem, then get SCACHE. It is easy to install and a lot
quicker.

From where?  What is the URL for that?


--
John M. Price, PhD                                     [e-mail]
Life: Chemistry, but with feeling!      |      PGP Key on request or FTP!
  Email responses to my Usenet articles will be posted at my discretion.
Comoderator: sci.psychology.psychotherapy.moderated          Atheist# 683
                     Syndicate Section III - Number 1

The ancient Poets animated all sensible objects with Gods of Geniuses,
calling them by the names and adorning them with the properties of
woods, rivers, mountains, lakes, cities, nations, and whatever their
enlarged & numerous senses could perceive. And particularly they
studied the genius of each city & country, placing it under its mental
deity. Till a system was formed, which some took advantage of and
enslav'd the vulgar by attempting to realize or abstract the mental
deities from their objects; thus began Priesthood. Choosing forms of
worship from poetic tales. And at length they pronounc'd that the Gods
had order'd such things. Thus men forgot that all deities reside in
the human breast.
    - William Blake  "The Marriage Of Heaven And Hell"

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From: [e-mail]                    18-Nov-99 02:37:16
  To: All                                               18-Nov-99 21:42:12
Subj: Re: Lost Multisession CD Reading , WAS: Best Rewritable CD for OS2

From: [e-mail] (John Hong)

Anssi Saari ([e-mail]) wrote:

: > I also seem to have lost the ability for my "Cyberdrive" IDE 12X CD-Rom to
: > read multisession
: > Photo CD's .(Warp 4 FP 12 and several FP before that)
: > If the change is due to the os2cdrom.dmd how might I get it back?
: >
: > (The cd-rom will read multisession cd's in Wind98.)
: >  It is a minor inconveinience but I have been wondering what happened.

: As far as I know, the problem I described concerns SCSI drives
: only. But, maybe you can edit "Cyberdrive" or whatever your drive
: identifies itself as into os2cdrom.dmd and see if it makes a
: difference.

    Anyone tried using the OS2CDROM.DMD replacement driver?  It's at
hobbes.  Normally has a "jj....zip" in front of its file name.


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From: [e-mail]                                 17-Nov-99 22:07:19
  To: All                                               18-Nov-99 21:42:12
Subj: Re: NS4.61 turns all of the pictures blue...

From: Scott Tietjen <[e-mail]>

Nope -- I've only got an older 1MB video card, and it barely has enough
for 1024x768 at I believe 256 colors.  (For those who care, the rest of
the box is a 486DX33 motherboard with an Evergreen 133 replacement
processor, 32MB memory.)
    -- Scott


Thomas Kellerer wrote:
>
> Are you using TrueColor? (16M colors?) When I was using TrueColor I had
> the same effect. After switching back to 65535 colors everything worked
> fine (the main reason for switching back were several crashes of
> Netscape, which were gone too)
>
> Regards
> Thomas

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From: [e-mail]                                  18-Nov-99 03:07:12
  To: All                                               18-Nov-99 21:42:12
Subj: FileManager\2 lockups

From: [e-mail] (Stephen Gaspar)

I used FM/2 on my old computer (Warp 4, no FPs) daily without problems.
On my new box (FP9) FM/2 locks mouse and keyboard as soon as the mouse
passes over any control button in the FM/2 window.  Can't even get into
WatchCat or do CAD, or get register information.  Tried FM/2 v.2.56 and
3.01, same story with both.  The only WPS add-on running is FMTASKBAR.

I mailed the author of FM/2 about this, but no reply.

Has anybody else heard of FM/2 freezing the system?   Any suggestions to
make it work right?  I'm pretty attached to the program, once I finally
got used to it, and would hate to give it up.


--
Steve Gaspar         ***********************************************
Philadelphia         **************** I HAS SPOKEN  ****************
[e-mail]     ******************    -- Mammy Yokum    *******

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From: [e-mail]                                 17-Nov-99 22:16:16
  To: All                                               18-Nov-99 21:42:13
Subj: Re: isp's & os/2

From: Scott Tietjen <[e-mail]>

I myself use Prodigy Internet.  The problem, of course, is that to sign
up for the service the first time, you've got to be on a Win95 machine,
as their software doesn't grok OS/2 under any circumstances.  However,
once you get over that hurdle (it can be a borrowed machine, or one from
work if you have a modem, or whatever is available), it's been a breeze
to use Injoy to dial in (99.9% connection at 53.3KBPS), Netscape for
most everything else, the rest of the IBM tools work fine (recommend the
Lan versions over the Modem versions).  Plus, if you prepay a year in
advance, you get unlimited service for $15.70 a month ($189 a year), and
local phone number all around the country -- hopefully in your area.
1-800-PRODIGY, or http://www.prodigy.net
Good luck.
    -- Scott Tietjen


[e-mail] wrote:
>
> I am a former user of ibm.net, now attglobal, and am looking for another
> isp that supports os/2 or has shareware/freeware that would allow me to
> use os/2 to connect.  I am curren;y on a trial with earthlink.  I've
> already found out that they will time disconnect while I'm downloading a
> file and nothing else; ibm.net didn't do that.
>
> Help
>
> What are my options?  Point me to the faq if there is one?
>
> johnny chell

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From: [e-mail]                               17-Nov-99 19:39:10
  To: All                                               18-Nov-99 21:42:13
Subj: Re: Best Rewritable CD for OS2

From: [e-mail]

>So is there anyone who "wants to stick their neck out" and tell me "in
>their opinion" which is the best RWCD for OS2?

What do you expect people to say? If a drive works, it works.  Figure out
the software you want to use, and pick a supported drive.



_____________
Ed Letourneau <[e-mail]>

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From: [e-mail]                                      17-Nov-99 22:43:25
  To: All                                               18-Nov-99 21:42:13
Subj: Re: isp's & os/2

From: "Arnold Jones" <[e-mail]>

Scott Tietjen <[e-mail]> wrote in message
news:[e-mail]...
> I myself use Prodigy Internet.  The problem, of course, is that to sign
> up for the service the first time, you've got to be on a Win95 machine,
> as their software doesn't grok OS/2 under any circumstances


Pay Prodigy and get from them a user name and password, their dial-up phone
number (make sure it's a local phone number), DNS number, mailhost
(000.000.000.000), and news server (000.000.000.000). Once you have all this
information, you add the new account in "Dial Other Internet Providers" (I
think that's what is called). That's all there is to it. I've done this with
an ISP who didn't know what OS/2 is, and it worked.

Though, on the other hand, if you do get Win9X, Internet Explorer 5 with
Outlook Express, you may never again go back to surf the net  with OS/2 and
Netscape because the above mentioned products are by far faster and better
than Netscape ever was IMHO.


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From: [e-mail]                                17-Nov-99 23:16:25
  To: All                                               18-Nov-99 21:42:13
Subj: Re: Major Update of MR/2 ICE Coming!

From: [e-mail]

postmaster@[127.0.0.1] said:
>>Version 2.0 will be registerable by first-time users at a cost of $40 US.
>>Existing, registered v1.x users can upgrade for $20 US using the
>>"upreg.doc" file included with the distribution zip file.  Site license
>>upgrades will be available.

>Okay, Nick.  I'm in!

I'm in too.

>Just say when and where to send the check.

I understand it will be at BMT shortly.

Jim L
Remove XX from address to Email
Crooks and kooks will get guns regardless of laws.


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From: [e-mail]                         18-Nov-99 04:35:00
  To: All                                               18-Nov-99 21:42:13
Subj: Re: isp's & os/2

From: [e-mail] (Dave Tholen)

Scott Tietjen writes:

> the rest of the IBM tools work fine (recommend the Lan versions over
> the Modem versions).

My understanding is that the LAN versions are the same as the Modem
versions.  The difference is that a little program (LINKUP.EXE) is run
to check for a network connection before launching the tool, whose
executable file name is given as an argument to LINKUP.

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From: [e-mail]                            18-Nov-99 04:57:24
  To: All                                               18-Nov-99 21:42:13
Subj: Re: Netscape Team:  FIX THIS!

From: [e-mail] (Merlin)

In message <[e-mail]> - Marvin Volz <[e-mail]>
writes:
:>
:>Under "View" have you checked "Wrap Long Lines?"

huh?  exactly where is this?


:>
:>MTV
:>
:>Jeff Welton wrote:
:>
:>> I like to peruse the latest job listings at:
:>>
:>> http://www.sfna.com/cgi-bin/employment.pl
:>>
:>> but when using Communicator/2 v4.61 the listings
:>> run off the right side of the screen.  They should



page loads fine for me here..  what screen res are you at.  I'm at 1280x1024
and actually, there's white space on either side of the listings...




__________________________________
merlin of OS/2 on Merlin, fp12,
  TCP/IP 4.1, Java 1.1.8
       Emtec News
   www.blackpalace.com
[e-mail] ICQ 245937
__________________________________

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From: [e-mail]                     18-Nov-99 05:25:02
  To: All                                               18-Nov-99 21:42:13
Subj: Re: Netscape Team:  FIX THIS!

From: "Jeffrey S. Kobal" <[e-mail]>

Jeff Welton wrote:

> I like to peruse the latest job listings at:
>
> http://www.sfna.com/cgi-bin/employment.pl
>
> but when using Communicator/2 v4.61 the listings
> run off the right side of the screen.  They should
> wrap at the right screen edge.

This would depend on the size of your browser window.
The tables on the listing-pages are hard-coded to 600
pixels wide; if your window is narrower than 600 pixels,
the page will run off the right side of the window, with
a scrollbar to view what won't fit within the window.

Jeffrey S. Kobal
IBM Corporation


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From: [e-mail]                                17-Nov-99 22:42:20
  To: All                                               18-Nov-99 21:42:13
Subj: Re: Netscape Team:  FIX THIS!

From: [e-mail] (Will Honea)

On Wed, 17 Nov 1999 07:59:50, Jeff Welton <[e-mail]>
wrote:

> I like to peruse the latest job listings at:
>
> http://www.sfna.com/cgi-bin/employment.pl
>
> but when using Communicator/2 v4.61 the listings
> run off the right side of the screen.  They should
> wrap at the right screen edge.
>
> I complained to to the SFGate webmaster but he
> says there is no problem that he can see.  He says
> the problem is attributable to Communicator/2
> version 4.61.
>
> So I fired up NS v2.02 and took a look.  It's true!
> In NS v2.02 the job listings display correctly and
> the text information wraps itself mid-screen!
>
> Before a refresh is issued I am asking the Netscape
> Team (Mike Kapley, et all) to check out this problem
> associated with v4.61 and correct it as quickly as
> possible.  If it is happening here then it must be
> happening at other sites too.
>
> Jeff

Not to be contrary, but 4.61 handled word wraps on that listing from
courier/NT Roman 8 pt to 20 pt with wraps adjusting according to the
font.  It did run over at 24 pt but at that size the search dialog
boxes on Hobbes are at least half off the screen and I get something
like 7 or 8 lines of text top to bottom on a page.

Will Honea <[e-mail]>

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From: [e-mail]                                18-Nov-99 00:56:16
  To: [e-mail]                            18-Nov-99 21:42:13
Subj: Re: Netscape Team:  FIX THIS!

To: [e-mail]
From: Mark Schlegel <[e-mail]>

Merlin wrote:
>
> In message <[e-mail]> - Marvin Volz <[e-mail]>
> writes:
> :>
> :>Under "View" have you checked "Wrap Long Lines?"
>
> huh?  exactly where is this?

"Wrep Long Lines" on my copy of Comm 4.61 GA is the sixth
menu item on the View pull-down, just under "View Attachment Inline"
Where the View is the third menu item from the left on the main bar.

Isn't it like that on yours?

mark


> merlin of OS/2 on Merlin, fp12,

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From: jtd_nospam@pgh_nospam.net                         18-Nov-99 01:02:05
  To: All                                               18-Nov-99 21:42:13
Subj: Need process killer, priority changer, desktop restart

From: "John Dow" <jtd_nospam@pgh_nospam.net>

I have Process Commander and CAD Commander, both of which are getting
obsolete.
There's a lot of discusion about PC not working well with Warp 4 FP 12. No
discussion of
CAD Commander, but it doesn't seem it's been upgraded for a while either.

My question is, what should I use in order to:

1) kill processes
2) change priorities (PC's IDLE still usable?)
3) restart the desktop

John


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From: [e-mail]                          18-Nov-99 17:50:00
  To: All                                               18-Nov-99 21:42:13
Subj: Re: Netscape Team:  FIX T

From: [e-mail] (ROBIN HINDE)

Jeff Welton <[e-mail]> wrote:

JW>I like to peruse the latest job listings at:

JW>http://www.sfna.com/cgi-bin/employment.pl

JW>but when using Communicator/2 v4.61 the listings
JW>run off the right side of the screen.  They should
JW>wrap at the right screen edge.

Same problem as I asked about weeks ago - viewing
http://www.theregister.co.uk gives exactly the same fault. Nobody else
comfirmed the same fault, so I've basically stuck with 2.02 as a
result and assumed I'd have to live with that.

Good to hear this problem isn't unique to my system, but I would ask
more politely if I was going to ask for it to be fixed :-)

cheers

---
 * OLX 2.1 TD * ([e-mail]      3:771/1680)

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From: [e-mail]                                  17-Nov-99 16:51:28
  To: All                                               18-Nov-99 21:42:13
Subj: Re: Best Rewritable CD for OS2

From: Tony Wright <[e-mail]>

[e-mail] wrote:

> In <[e-mail]>, Anssi Saari <[e-mail]> writes:
>
> So please share with us, how did you patch it?

Probably with trivial ease....While you await the definitive answer why not
indulge in some initiative, a little dangerous adventure perhaps and
experiment yourself?
By inference from Anssi's statement: Take a hex editor (after backing up
original OS2CDROM.DMD first and ensuring your alternative means to boot are
still functional<g>) look near top of file and observe first section with
the brand names listed in 8 byte field padded with blanks and delimited by
null and then next section for make/model with 24 byte fields again padded
with blanks and delimited with null.
Select brand you're not using and overtype ensuring correct padding and
field length retained. Optionally (cos I'm obviously guessing<vbg>) do same
with make/model if necessary.....
Ensure relevant Device Manager driver is renamed/used and reboot......

In the unlikely event your system gets utterly shafted, then make a mental
note to be a little more methodical in your backup philosophy next
time<g>....

> David
>
> >[e-mail] (Gideon Singer) writes:
> >
> >> I am planning on installing a RWCD in the new year. Is there any
> >> consensuse as to which is the best unit to install for OS2/W98 setup?
> >
> >I don't think so. I like my Ricoh MP7040S since it's software
> >upgradeble to 7060S, i.e. from 4x writing to 6x writing. Probably hard
> >to find now though, since the 7060 has replaced the 7040.
> >
> >It does have one problem, though. I couldn't read multi-session CDs in
> >the Ricoh in OS/2. That is, until I patched os2cdrom.dmd. For some
> >reason, that file contains a list of drive brands and if your drive
> >brand, isn't on the list, OS/2 only shows the first session on a
> >multi-session disc.

Ah well done Mr Saari! - you appear to have identified the cause of that
specific restriction that I futilely intimated to Sam Deitweiler over a year
ago without any success.....<vbg>.He presumably deemed it so obvious that it
didn't warrant an answer and the person I was setting it up for was quite
satisfied with shuffling drivers around as a kludgy solution! :-(

> I understand this 'problem' concerns Yamaha drives
> >as well.

and Phillips....and Hew... and... <g>

> >
> >Available CD writing software isn't much for OS/2. There's RSJ, which
> >is expensive and for SCSI drives there's a Unix port, cdrecord.

The "inference" above that RSJ was not for SCSI drives was presumably not
intended I hope and purely just my comprehension problem in young Anssi's
slightly ambiguous statement?Presumably "available" implies you can no
longer obtain Gear and Unite versions except via "old  stock" or
used/auctions? Unite being defunct and not knowing whether Gear still
bothers including OS/2 in it's multiplatform CD or is even still in the
business itself?
So as the same friend that I setup a CD RW for a year or so ago is having to
look at replacing his (intermittently) mechanically defective SCSI unit
soon, what OS/2 CD R/W software now comes bundled with appropriate SCSI
hardware (or IDE if he is reluctantly forced to go that route)?  I suspect
the answer is none.....but....?
Alternatively does the last Gear 3.x and Unite versions still work with some
of the more popular(Yamaha?) and reliable latest SCSI drives(albeit without
being capable of writing some of the latest recording extension formats
obviously)?

Now I could test a potential retailers initiative and ask them that specific
question, but I suspect I won't even get past the inevitably predictable:
"Whats OS/2, Sir?" response!...... <yawn>  :-(

> >
> >--
> >Anssi Saari - [e-mail]
> >

--
Rgds Tony W   Email: [e-mail]

"humanum est errare: To err is human
.... and to fail is to be a Project Manager...
...but to foul things up completely needs a computer!"



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From: [e-mail]                    18-Nov-99 10:03:08
  To: All                                               18-Nov-99 21:42:13
Subj: Re: Netscape Team:  FIX T

From: [e-mail]

I see the same problem with The Register if that's any help - multiple
machines, multiple display drivers.

Colin Haynes

On Thu, 18 Nov 1999 05:50:00, [e-mail] (ROBIN HINDE)
wrote:

> Jeff Welton <[e-mail]> wrote:
>
> JW>I like to peruse the latest job listings at:
>
> JW>http://www.sfna.com/cgi-bin/employment.pl
>
> JW>but when using Communicator/2 v4.61 the listings
> JW>run off the right side of the screen.  They should
> JW>wrap at the right screen edge.
>
> Same problem as I asked about weeks ago - viewing
> http://www.theregister.co.uk gives exactly the same fault. Nobody else
> comfirmed the same fault, so I've basically stuck with 2.02 as a
> result and assumed I'd have to live with that.
>
> Good to hear this problem isn't unique to my system, but I would ask
> more politely if I was going to ask for it to be fixed :-)
>
> cheers
>
> ---
>  * OLX 2.1 TD * ([e-mail]      3:771/1680)
>


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From: [e-mail]                                 18-Nov-99 11:32:06
  To: All                                               18-Nov-99 21:42:13
Subj: Re: Palm Pilot

From: [e-mail]

    Brad>     However, as a first step someone could use such a
    Brad> dbase class to allow for import/export of whole address
    Brad> books and date books etc., and the add synchronization logic
    Brad> later to handle how new, modified and deleted records are
    Brad> synchronized.

    Brad>     If you know where this dbase class is available,
    Brad> please let me know :).

        http://www.leo.org/pub/comp/os/os2/leo/database/index.html

description is at

http://www.leo.org/cgi-bin/leo-peek.pl/pub/comp/os/os2/leo/
        database/xdbfj18f.zip?xbasej/readme

it is unfortunatly not free :-(

        Uli
--
    Uli Wortmann           Fax (Switzerland) (1) 632  1080
    Dept. of Geology       Fon                        3694
    ETH-Zuerich    http://www.erdw.ethz.ch/~bonk/bonk.html
    Visit the SPOC-team at http://www.spoc.ethz.ch

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From: [e-mail]                                   18-Nov-99 11:56:17
  To: All                                               18-Nov-99 21:42:13
Subj: Re: Netscape Team:  FIX THIS!

From: "Simon Gronlund" <[e-mail]>

On Thu, 18 Nov 1999 00:56:33 -0500, Mark Schlegel wrote:

:>Merlin wrote:
:>>
:>> In message <[e-mail]> - Marvin Volz <[e-mail]>
:>> writes:
:>> :>
:>> :>Under "View" have you checked "Wrap Long Lines?"
:>>
:>> huh?  exactly where is this?
:>
:>"Wrep Long Lines" on my copy of Comm 4.61 GA is the sixth
:>menu item on the View pull-down, just under "View Attachment Inline"
:>Where the View is the third menu item from the left on the main bar.
:>
:>Isn't it like that on yours?

Open up the browser window, there is not this option. Wrap option is found
under Messenger though. But if that option works with the browser I don't
know ;-)

Simon


===========================================================================
Simon Grönlund                         |  Member of Swedish OS/2 User Group
Home: [e-mail]                  |  http://www.os2ug.se/
KTH:  [e-mail]
WWW:  http://www.d.kth.se/~d97-sgr/
Computer Science @ Royal Institute of Technology


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From: [e-mail]                              18-Nov-99 14:04:05
  To: All                                               18-Nov-99 21:42:13
Subj: Re: os/2 under linux, win9x or NT

From: [e-mail] (Anthony)

<[e-mail]> wrote:
>Hi folks,
>
>is there a possibility to run os/2 appl (32Bit). under linux, win9x or NT.
>-Because I have a very big customer who has to provide the possibility to
>run win32 and os/2 appl. on the same machine.
>-OS/2 as desktop platform is death! I have this info from IBM directly. I
>think there must be a lot of another companies with the same problem
>
>vmware dose not support os2 yet(if enough interested party are asking for
>vmware will build in the os/2 support),
>bochs doese also not support os2 (I've no statement from bochs at present).
>.
>is there something else?.

First of all, vmware doesnt seems to know what kind of O/S you are
booting in it.  I have seen people running MacOS, Windows9x, NT
in vmware under Linux - you just have to have at least 128M ram and
a 500Mhz+ processor.

The "vmware does not support os/2" thing probably means there
is no OS/2 binary for vmware.

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From: [e-mail]                          18-Nov-99 19:17:20
  To: All                                               18-Nov-99 21:42:14
Subj: Re: Netscape Team:  FIX THIS!

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

On Thu, 18 Nov 1999 00:56:33 -0500, Mark Schlegel wrote:

:>"Wrep Long Lines" on my copy of Comm 4.61 GA is the sixth
:>menu item on the View pull-down, just under "View Attachment Inline"
:>Where the View is the third menu item from the left on the main bar.
:>
:>Isn't it like that on yours?
:>
:>mark

I have neither "Wrep Long Lines" (sic) nor "View Attachment
Inline" under the View menu in my copy of Comm 4.61

Cheers

Wayne

******************************************************
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]                                   18-Nov-99 13:00:23
  To: All                                               18-Nov-99 21:42:14
Subj: Re: Difference of Warp4 and Warp for e-commerce?

From: [e-mail] (Kenkahn)

>What is the difference between Warp 4 and OS/2 Server SMP for
>e-Commerce?

Other than the extra LAN/Network 'stuff' that comes with it, WARP Server
for E-Business (aka Aurora) is WARP4 at the FixPack 10 level.

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From: [e-mail]                           18-Nov-99 14:46:09
  To: All                                               18-Nov-99 23:54:08
Subj: Re: Difference of Warp4 and Warp for e-commerce?

From: [e-mail] (Lorne Sunley)

On Thu, 18 Nov 1999 13:00:47, [e-mail] (Kenkahn) wrote:

> >What is the difference between Warp 4 and OS/2 Server SMP for
> >e-Commerce?
>
> Other than the extra LAN/Network 'stuff' that comes with it, WARP Server
> for E-Business (aka Aurora) is WARP4 at the FixPack 10 level.

Warp 4 does not have SMP support.
WSeB has SMP support

Warp 4 does not have the JFS file system
WSeB has JFS

Warp 4 has the bonus pack of applications
WSeB does not have the bonus pack

Warp 4 costs 260 US$
WSeB costs 1700 US$

Warp 4 supports 512 MByte application address space
WSeB supports 3 GByte application address space

Lorne Sunley


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From: [e-mail]                        18-Nov-99 15:36:09
  To: All                                               18-Nov-99 23:54:09
Subj: Re: Difference of Warp4 and Warp for e-commerce?

From: [e-mail] (Alex Taylor)

On Thu, 18 Nov 1999 14:46:19 GMT, Lorne Sunley <[e-mail]>
wrote:
> > >What is the difference between Warp 4 and OS/2 Server SMP for
> > >e-Commerce?
> >
> > Other than the extra LAN/Network 'stuff' that comes with it, WARP Server
> > for E-Business (aka Aurora) is WARP4 at the FixPack 10 level.
>
> Warp 4 does not have SMP support.
> WSeB has SMP support
>
> Warp 4 does not have the JFS file system
> WSeB has JFS
>
> Warp 4 has the bonus pack of applications
> WSeB does not have the bonus pack
>
> Warp 4 costs 260 US$
> WSeB costs 1700 US$
>
> Warp 4 supports 512 MByte application address space
> WSeB supports 3 GByte application address space

Just to add a few more, based on IBM's documentation...

Warp 4 does not support booting past the 1024-cylinder boundary.
WSeB supports booting past the 1024-cylinder boundary (anyone confirm this?).

Warp 4 has OpenDoc, VoiceType, Ultimedia.
WSeB has none of the above.

Warp 4 gives its version as 4.0 plus service level.
WSeB gives its version as 4.5 (plus service level).

According to rumour, WSeB supports Joliet-3 CDs.  Warp 4 did not as of
FixPak 10 (not sure if it does now, though).


This is fun, any more?

--
-----------------------------------------------------------------
 Alex Taylor                  BA - CIS - University of Guelph
 [e-mail]   http://eddie.cis.uoguelph.ca/~alex
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From: [e-mail]                 18-Nov-99 15:47:18
  To: All                                               18-Nov-99 23:54:09
Subj: Re: Netscape Team:  FIX T

From: Wim Wauters <[e-mail]>


ROBIN HINDE wrote:
Jeff Welton <[e-mail]> wrote:

JW>I like to peruse the latest job listings at:

JW>http://www.sfna.com/cgi-bin/employment.pl

JW>but when using Communicator/2 v4.61 the listings
JW>run off the right side of the screen.  They should
JW>wrap at the right screen edge.
> Same problem as I asked about weeks ago - viewing

> http://www.theregister.co.uk gives exactly the same fault. Nobody else
> comfirmed the same fault, so I've basically stuck with 2.02 as a
> result and assumed I'd have to live with that.

Oops ! Does it help if I confirm the above to somebody/someone ?
Let me know, I browse http://www.theregister.co.uk daily.
We are talking about the webpage not being fitted to the netscape window
with, right ?

OS/2 forever !

Wim Wauters

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From: [e-mail]                 18-Nov-99 15:56:19
  To: All                                               18-Nov-99 23:54:09
Subj: Re: Netscape Team:  FIX THIS!

From: Wim Wauters <[e-mail]>


Mark Schlegel wrote:

> Merlin wrote:
> >
> > In message <[e-mail]> - Marvin Volz <[e-mail]>
> > writes:
> > :>
> > :>Under "View" have you checked "Wrap Long Lines?"
> >
> > huh?  exactly where is this?
>
> "Wrep Long Lines" on my copy of Comm 4.61 GA is the sixth
> menu item on the View pull-down, just under "View Attachment Inline"
> Where the View is the third menu item from the left on the main bar.
>
> Isn't it like that on yours?

That's the composer or newsreader menu.
I think the problem at hand here is about the browser (navigator itself),
and unfortunatedly there are no wrapping options for that one (not in the view
menu anyway).

I sometimes get it (dependant on particular pages) on www.byte.com.
The text does not wrap, so I have to cut-&-past into an editor that knows how
to rewrap text.

OS/2 forever !

Wim Wauters

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From: [e-mail]                           18-Nov-99 16:11:10
  To: All                                               18-Nov-99 23:54:09
Subj: Re: Difference of Warp4 and Warp for e-commerce?

From: [e-mail] (Lorne Sunley)

On Thu, 18 Nov 1999 15:36:19, [e-mail] (Alex Taylor)
wrote:

> On Thu, 18 Nov 1999 14:46:19 GMT, Lorne Sunley <[e-mail]>
wrote:
> > > >What is the difference between Warp 4 and OS/2 Server SMP for
> > > >e-Commerce?
> > >
> > > Other than the extra LAN/Network 'stuff' that comes with it, WARP Server
> > > for E-Business (aka Aurora) is WARP4 at the FixPack 10 level.
> >
> > Warp 4 does not have SMP support.
> > WSeB has SMP support
> >
> > Warp 4 does not have the JFS file system
> > WSeB has JFS
> >
> > Warp 4 has the bonus pack of applications
> > WSeB does not have the bonus pack
> >
> > Warp 4 costs 260 US$
> > WSeB costs 1700 US$
> >
> > Warp 4 supports 512 MByte application address space
> > WSeB supports 3 GByte application address space
>
> Just to add a few more, based on IBM's documentation...
>
> Warp 4 does not support booting past the 1024-cylinder boundary.
> WSeB supports booting past the 1024-cylinder boundary (anyone confirm
this?).
>
> Warp 4 has OpenDoc, VoiceType, Ultimedia.
> WSeB has none of the above.
>
> Warp 4 gives its version as 4.0 plus service level.
> WSeB gives its version as 4.5 (plus service level).
>
> According to rumour, WSeB supports Joliet-3 CDs.  Warp 4 did not as of
> FixPak 10 (not sure if it does now, though).
>
>
> This is fun, any more?

Warp 4 does not have LVM
WSeB has LVM (Logical Volume Manager)
- no more magic moving drive letters

Lorne Sunley

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From: [e-mail]                                   18-Nov-99 08:20:29
  To: All                                               18-Nov-99 23:54:09
Subj: Re: isp's & os/2

From: Alex Smariga <[e-mail]>

On Tue, 16 Nov 1999 18:57:37 -0800, [e-mail] wrote:

>I am a former user of ibm.net, now attglobal, and am looking for another
>isp that supports os/2 or has shareware/freeware that would allow me to
>use os/2 to connect.  I am curren;y on a trial with earthlink.  I've
>already found out that they will time disconnect while I'm downloading a
>file and nothing else; ibm.net didn't do that.
>
>Help
>
>What are my options?  Point me to the faq if there is one?
>


Johnny,

Check out Earthlink.net.  Since day one, they've always supported OS/2.
I've been with them for 5 or 6 years, and their tech support actually
can answer os/2 questions, even listed on their help desk.

Alex


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From: [e-mail]                          18-Nov-99 16:05:01
  To: All                                               18-Nov-99 23:54:09
Subj: Re: os/2 under linux, win9x or NT

From: [e-mail] (Kevin Croxen)

On Thu, 18 Nov 1999 14:04:10 +0800, Anthony <[e-mail]> wrote:
>First of all, vmware doesnt seems to know what kind of O/S you are
>booting in it.  I have seen people running MacOS, Windows9x, NT
>in vmware under Linux - you just have to have at least 128M ram and
>a 500Mhz+ processor.
>
>The "vmware does not support os/2" thing probably means there
>is no OS/2 binary for vmware.


Wrongo.... "Vmware does not support OS/2" means that OS/2 cannot
be successfully loaded as a guest OS on Vmware 1.0 for Windows NT
nor as a guest OS on Vmware 1.1.2 for Linux. Period.

And, yes, I'm a registered user of Vmware for Linux myself and have
attempted for amusement both to install OS/2 2.x, Warp 3 & 4 in a VM
and to boot already installed OS/2 on raw FAT partitions to go along
with various flavors of Windows (NT and 9x) and other Linux
distributions that I run on this fashion. Doesn't work. When Vmware says
"no support for OS/2 at present", they mean it.

Cheers,

--Kevin

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From: [e-mail]                                         17-Nov-99 18:36:21
  To: All                                               18-Nov-99 23:54:09
Subj: Re: Best Rewritable CD for OS2

From: Anssi Saari <[e-mail]>

[e-mail] writes:

> In <[e-mail]>, Anssi Saari <[e-mail]> writes:
>
> So please share with us, how did you patch it?

I used a hex editor and changed the first occurrence of TEXEL to
RICOH.

--
Anssi Saari - [e-mail]

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From: jkross@[e-mail]                   18-Nov-99 18:54:18
  To: All                                               18-Nov-99 23:54:09
Subj: Re: Lost Multisession CD Reading , WAS: Best Rewritable CD for OS2

From: jkross@[e-mail] (John Ross)

In message <[e-mail]> - Anssi Saari <[e-mail]> writes:
:>
:>jkross@[e-mail] (John Ross) writes:
:>
:>> :>It does have one problem, though. I couldn't read multi-session CDs in
::>>
:>> I also seem to have lost the ability for my "Cyberdrive" IDE 12X CD-Rom to
:>> read multisession
:>> Photo CD's .(Warp 4 FP 12 and several FP before that)
:>> If the change is due to the os2cdrom.dmd how might I get it back?
:>>
:>> (The cd-rom will read multisession cd's in Wind98.)
:>>  It is a minor inconveinience but I have been wondering what happened.
:>
:>As far as I know, the problem I described concerns SCSI drives
:>only. But, maybe you can edit "Cyberdrive" or whatever your drive
:>identifies itself as into os2cdrom.dmd and see if it makes a
:>difference.
:>
:>--
:>Anssi Saari - [e-mail]
:>

I received a sugggestion to try jjscdrom_19991108.zip from hobbes.

I'll try it and reprt back.

-john

http://www.oxford.net/~jkross

Remove "@I_hate_spam" from address to reply....


--
"Usenet is like a herd of performing elephants with diarrhea --
massive, difficult to redirect, awe-inspiring, entertaining, and a
source of mind-boggling amounts of excrement when you least expect
it."[e-mail] (1992)

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From: jkross@[e-mail]                   18-Nov-99 18:50:13
  To: All                                               18-Nov-99 23:54:09
Subj: Re: Lost Multisession CD Reading , WAS: Best Rewritable CD for OS2

From: jkross@[e-mail] (John Ross)

In message <80vopd$prl$[e-mail]> - [e-mail]
(John Hong) writes:
:>
:>Anssi Saari ([e-mail]) wrote:
:>
:>: > I also seem to have lost the ability for my "Cyberdrive" IDE 12X CD-Rom
to
:>: > read multisession
:>: > Photo CD's .(Warp 4 FP 12 and several FP before that)
:>: > If the change is due to the os2cdrom.dmd how might I get it back?
:>: >
:>: > (The cd-rom will read multisession cd's in Wind98.)
:>: >  It is a minor inconveinience but I have been wondering what happened.
:>
:>: As far as I know, the problem I described concerns SCSI drives
:>: only. But, maybe you can edit "Cyberdrive" or whatever your drive
:>: identifies itself as into os2cdrom.dmd and see if it makes a
:>: difference.
:>
:>    Anyone tried using the OS2CDROM.DMD replacement driver?  It's at
:>hobbes.  Normally has a "jj....zip" in front of its file name.
:>
:>

I looked under "CDROM"

The current file is called  jjscdrom_19991108.zip .

I'll give that a try and see what happens.

-john ross

http://www.oxford.net/~jkross

Remove "@I_hate_spam" from address to reply....


--
"Usenet is like a herd of performing elephants with diarrhea --
massive, difficult to redirect, awe-inspiring, entertaining, and a
source of mind-boggling amounts of excrement when you least expect
it."[e-mail] (1992)

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From: [e-mail]                             18-Nov-99 11:16:27
  To: All                                               18-Nov-99 23:54:09
Subj: Re: isp's & os/2

From: Chuck Davis <[e-mail]>

Why leave attglobal?  They have same OS/2 dialer, same price, same service,
etc.


[e-mail] wrote:

> I am a former user of ibm.net, now attglobal, and am looking for another
> isp that supports os/2 or has shareware/freeware that would allow me to
> use os/2 to connect.  I am curren;y on a trial with earthlink.  I've
> already found out that they will time disconnect while I'm downloading a
> file and nothing else; ibm.net didn't do that.
>
> Help
>
> What are my options?  Point me to the faq if there is one?
>
> johnny chell

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From: [e-mail]                             18-Nov-99 20:19:27
  To: All                                               18-Nov-99 23:54:09
Subj: Cdrecord/2 installation

From: "Jan Hartman" <[e-mail]>

Hi!

I downloaded what I need to install cdrecord/2,
and Audio/DataCDCreator.

This included

aspir101.zip and nice.zip (alt. spe.zip) for cdrecord/2
and audiocdcreator_034.zip for CDCreator.

However, I do not understand how to install neither of them.
Could anyone please give me a clear step-by-step help
about this? The documentation, as far as I can see, is of
no help.

Thanks,

/ Jan



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From: [e-mail]                                 18-Nov-99 11:18:04
  To: All                                               18-Nov-99 23:54:09
Subj: Re: Netscape Team:  FIX T

From: John Mandeville <[e-mail]>

The page for The Register (both the frameset and the primary frame) have
HTML problems that may or may not be contributing to the problem.  It
entire horizontal width will display when maximized on a 1024x768
screen, though prehaps that's not all that helpful to you.  Browsers are
supposed to degrade gracefully in the face of bad HTML, but there are
many bad HTML coders out there that cause serious problems for browser
authors.

I didn't try to validate the job search page (validation can be done at
http://validator.w3.org ).  It does, however, however, have a minimum
width of 600 pixels hard-coded into it.  That's one of the costs of
using tables.

John Mandeville
jemandy at earthlink dot net

Wim Wauters wrote:
>
> ROBIN HINDE wrote:
> Jeff Welton <[e-mail]> wrote:
>
> JW>I like to peruse the latest job listings at:
>
> JW>http://www.sfna.com/cgi-bin/employment.pl
>
> JW>but when using Communicator/2 v4.61 the listings
> JW>run off the right side of the screen.  They should
> JW>wrap at the right screen edge.
> > Same problem as I asked about weeks ago - viewing
>
> > http://www.theregister.co.uk gives exactly the same fault. Nobody else
> > comfirmed the same fault, so I've basically stuck with 2.02 as a
> > result and assumed I'd have to live with that.
>
> Oops ! Does it help if I confirm the above to somebody/someone ?
> Let me know, I browse http://www.theregister.co.uk daily.
> We are talking about the webpage not being fitted to the netscape window
> with, right ?
>
> OS/2 forever !
>
> Wim Wauters

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From: [e-mail]                                 18-Nov-99 11:53:18
  To: All                                               18-Nov-99 23:54:09
Subj: Java AIM problem launching Netscape

From: John Mandeville <[e-mail]>

The Java version of AOL Instant Messenger (AIM) won't launch Netscape.
It tells me that its attempt to launch a browser has failed, to make
sure I have enough system resources (not the problem), etc.  Is this a
known problem?  Does anyone know if it works on other problems?  JStreet
Mailer (another Java program) will launch netscape for me with no
problem.

John Mandeville
jemandy at earthlink.net

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From: [e-mail]                                     18-Nov-99 21:53:04
  To: All                                               18-Nov-99 23:54:10
Subj: Re: Netscape Team:  FIX THIS!

From: "David D. Huff Jr." <[e-mail]>

I checked the site, it is very poorly done. Even with HotJava it is
almost unreadable. Too bad, it looks like it could have some valuable
information for people seeking a job. It seems as though the source
documents were done with a combination of hard and soft carriage
returns. Like the people filling out a form online, some hit return some
let it wrap. Forcing it to left justify is pretty harsh as well.

I would not blame Netscape or the IBM crew for not being able to fix
that travesty. And don't tell me it looks good with NS2.02 because those
pages really stink.

Jeff Welton wrote:

> I like to peruse the latest job listings at:
>
> http://www.sfna.com/cgi-bin/employment.pl
>
> but when using Communicator/2 v4.61 the listings
> run off the right side of the screen.  They should
> wrap at the right screen edge.
>
> I complained to to the SFGate webmaster but he
> says there is no problem that he can see.  He says
> the problem is attributable to Communicator/2
> version 4.61.
>
> So I fired up NS v2.02 and took a look.  It's true!
> In NS v2.02 the job listings display correctly and
> the text information wraps itself mid-screen!
>
> Before a refresh is issued I am asking the Netscape
> Team (Mike Kapley, et all) to check out this problem
> associated with v4.61 and correct it as quickly as
> possible.  If it is happening here then it must be
> happening at other sites too.
>
> Jeff

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From: [e-mail]                                18-Nov-99 22:03:20
  To: All                                               18-Nov-99 23:54:10
Subj: Re: ADSL high speed connection

From: [e-mail] (Gary Crossno)

In message <qpkdVVNoMoTk-pn2-5IQDysFMrmdd@tcpserver> -
[e-mail] (Lorne Sunley)Wed, 17 Nov 1999
15:46:48 GMT writes:
:>
:>On Wed, 17 Nov 1999 12:41:12, [e-mail] wrote:
:>
:>> Are there any inherent reasons why OS/2 TCPIP can't be
used in conjunction with a ADSL high speed connection to the
internet.
:>
:>Works for my brother and for one of my clients.
:>
:>Caveat - the ADSL link must have an external device that
is
:>connected to a regular Network Interface Card.
:>
:>The OS/2 machine treats this as it treats any LAN
:>TCP/IP connection. This means that you must have
:>a version of OS/2 that has LAN support, Warp 3 Connect
:>Warp 4, Warp Server 4, Warp Server for e-Business.
:>
:>I have heard some ugly reports that some ADSL ISP's
:>are using PPP over Ethernet for their ADSL service.
:>This is not supported by the standard TCP/IP stack,
:>but the Injoy products do support it. http://www.fx.dk
:>
:>Lorne Sunley
:>
:>

So, if I have a peer to peer setup (OS2/Win98/Linux), can I
just connect the ADSL device to the hub?

Gary Crossno

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From: [e-mail]                      18-Nov-99 12:25:17
  To: All                                               18-Nov-99 23:54:10
Subj: Re: Need process killer, priority changer, desktop restart

From: [e-mail]       (John Thompson)

In <[e-mail]>, "John Dow"
<jtd_nospam@pgh_nospam.net> writes:

>I have Process Commander and CAD Commander, both of which are getting
obsolete.
>There's a lot of discusion about PC not working well with Warp 4 FP 12. No
discussion of
>CAD Commander, but it doesn't seem it's been upgraded for a while either.
>
>My question is, what should I use in order to:
>
>1) kill processes

I use GO.EXE ftp://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/os2/util/process/go_15.zip

>2) change priorities (PC's IDLE still usable?)

"renice" ftp://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/os2/util/process/renice2.zip

>3) restart the desktop

"resetwps.exe" from Henk Kelder's most excellent WPTOOLS package
ftp://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/os2/util/system/wptool29.zip

-John ([e-mail])

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From: [e-mail]                              18-Nov-99 22:27:06
  To: All                                               18-Nov-99 23:54:10
Subj: Re: Netscape Team:  FIX THIS!

From: [e-mail]

In <[e-mail]>, on 11/18/99
   at 12:56 AM, Mark Schlegel <[e-mail]> said:

>> huh?  exactly where is this?

>"Wrep Long Lines" on my copy of Comm 4.61 GA is the sixth
>menu item on the View pull-down, just under "View Attachment Inline"
>Where the View is the third menu item from the left on the main bar.

I'm not the questioner, but that's not on mine - there's no "Wrap Long
Lines" under "View."  There isn't even the other option you mention above.

Does the View menu change with different pages?

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From: [e-mail]                                 18-Nov-99 12:43:23
  To: All                                               18-Nov-99 23:54:10
Subj: Dani S506.add on Warp4

From: [e-mail]

I have installed Warp4 on my Toshiba 440cdt with FP12. It is running great. I
had installed Dani S506 driver on my warp 3 machine and it improved
performance substantially.
I have tried !sms, !shutdown switches, turning off smart.exe, all with no
success. I have read and applied her documentation to the best of my ability.
As best as I can understand the report from DiskInfo the driver should work.
Am I missing something fundamental or does anyone have a suggestion?
Steve

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From: [e-mail]                        18-Nov-99 16:42:20
  To: All                                               18-Nov-99 23:54:10
Subj: Memory Recovery Tool?

From: Felix Miata <[e-mail]>

When Netscape crashes, memory disappears, never to be restored to the
available pool without a reboot. I estimate this is somewhere around
5-10 Mb per crash, but it doesn't happen after every crash. It also
seems to happen just by using Netscape for more than a couple hours or
so without exiting and restarting it. Since I use it for news, mail and
browsing, this isn't so easy to remember to do. I reboot before swapper
growth is evident, usually when free RAM gets down below 30 Mb with
Netscape loaded. Swapper is set very small and I have 128 Mb RAM.

Is there some utility that will find zombie memory and make it available
again? I looked on Hobbes, but none of what I found seemed designed to
address this.
--
He who walks with the wise grows wise, but a companion of fools suffers
harm.                Proverbs 13:20 NKJV

 Team OS/2

Felix Miata  ***  http://mrmazda.members.atlantic.net

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From: [e-mail]                             18-Nov-99 14:43:18
  To: All                                               18-Nov-99 23:54:10
Subj: Re: Odin Public Alpha 5

From: [e-mail] (Dominique Pivard)

On Wed, 17 Nov 1999 22:10:41, "Adrian Gschwend"
<[e-mail]> wrote:
>
> Download the latest alpha from:
>   ftp://ftp.os2.org/odin/OdinAlpha5.zip

Just in case someone is wondering, it's about 1.1 MB in size.

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From: [e-mail]                             18-Nov-99 16:07:28
  To: All                                               18-Nov-99 23:54:10
Subj: Re: Netscape Team:  FIX THIS!

From: Jeff Welton <[e-mail]>

"Jeffrey S. Kobal" wrote:

> Jeff Welton wrote:
>
> > I like to peruse the latest job listings at:
> >
> > http://www.sfna.com/cgi-bin/employment.pl
> >
> > but when using Communicator/2 v4.61 the listings
> > run off the right side of the screen.  They should
> > wrap at the right screen edge.
>
> This would depend on the size of your browser window.
> The tables on the listing-pages are hard-coded to 600
> pixels wide; if your window is narrower than 600 pixels,
> the page will run off the right side of the window, with
> a scrollbar to view what won't fit within the window.
>
> Jeffrey S. Kobal
> IBM Corporation

Thanks for the reply Jeff and if I was a bit too harsh I'm
sorry (others have pointed that out).

I have a 21" monitor and have it set to 1024X768.  The
site recently changed hands with the sale of the newspaper
itself and prior to that, the listings were displayed properly.
It was very easy to just mark and paste a fax number into
PMFax and fire off a resume.

When the newspaper made the change the first few days
the listings were fine but after that they began to sail
off the right hand side of the page.  I used composer
to create a 600 pixel table box and then copied the
displayed listings into the table so I could read them
without effort.  The information you provide above
about the site using a 600 pixel table in their html
coding isn't being picked up by 'my' Communicator 4.61
for some reason.  Maybe it does in the Windows version
but not in my OS/2 version.

I complained several times to the new webmaster and he
finally replied back saying he had received no complaints
and asked what browser I was using.  When I said Communicator
for OS/2 v4.61 he replied the problem was with the browser,
not his site or his html coding.

I thought that baloney but decided one evening to fire up
NS/2 2.02 and see how it appeared.  The listings came up
and wrapped correctly.  That makes me believe the problem
is within Communicator 4.61 itself.  So I went to check for
a "wrap text" feature but could only find it in Messenger,
not for the browser itself (could we add one please?).

So now, instead of copy/paste into Composer I open NS/2
and read them.  It is just frustrating to have to use two
browsers for what should be a one browser job.

I am relieved to know the problem is one that others have
experienced (i.e., The Register) because I was beginning
to think it was my system or my release of C/2.  You'd
think the listings on a 21" screen at 1024X768 couldn't
possibly be so long as to run off the right side of the
screen - but they do!

Thanks for all the replies.  I now know the problem is an
acknowledged one and hope the next refresh offers a
correction of some kind.

Thanks to everyone for the responses!

Jeff


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From: [e-mail]                                18-Nov-99 20:41:23
  To: All                                               18-Nov-99 23:54:10
Subj: Re: Difference of Warp4 and Warp for e-commerce?

From: [e-mail] (Jerry McBride)

In article <T1VY3.67817$[e-mail]>,
[e-mail] (Alex Taylor) wrote:

-- snip --

>According to rumour, WSeB supports Joliet-3 CDs.  Warp 4 did not as of
>FixPak 10 (not sure if it does now, though).
>

Can you post a cdrom title that actually uses j3 for it's format? I'd like to
try that one under wseb...


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From: [e-mail]                             18-Nov-99 21:50:22
  To: All                                               18-Nov-99 23:54:10
Subj: Re: Crystalizer TidalWave128 Sound card

From: "David McKenna" <[e-mail]>

On Wed, 17 Nov 1999 10:51:46 GMT, Stan Goodman wrote:

>I have this soundcard, which I am trying to install in my Supermicro P6SBA
>motherboard, running Warp4/FP10. I have been unsuccessful in this, and have
>run a number of experiments with help from the people on the Crystal chip
>design team, which show that IRQ5 (the IRQ assigned, according to RMVIEW,
>to the card's codec) is not being received by the card.
>
>Before I got this card, I was using a AWE32value soundcard, which was using
>the same IRQ lines, and installed in the same slot. It worked, whereas the
>Crystal card doesn't.
>
>The card was tested by the vendor from whom I bought it, before he shipped
>to me.
>
>Before I return the card to the vendor, I would like to take one more crack
>at making it work, but I have no clue what might be wrong with it or
>theinstallation. If anyone can offer advice, I would be very grateful.
>
>-------------
>Stan Goodman
>Qiryat Tiv'on
>Israel
>
>E-mail sent to [e-mail] will, of course, not reach me. Sorry.
>Send E-mail to: domain: hashkedim dot com, username: stan.
>
>
    Stan,

   I have used one of these cards for over a year in a SuperMicro MoBo
(P6SKS) and it is probably the best sound card currently for OS/2 ( I also
previously had an AWE32 - itself pretty good).

   First - if you have any other OS installed - does it work on that? If so,
then hardware problems can be eliminated  - if not then you have to at least
consider the possibility of faulty hardware. Otherwise...

   The first thing to do is make sure your computers' BIOS has any setting
for a PNP operating system turned OFF. This is especially important if you
have multiple OS's installed, but even with only one it will most likely save
you a few headaches. If you change this, reboot, hit <Alt-F1> at the OS/2
blob, choose <F5> (hardware detect) and see if that does it. If not...

   The next thing to do is go to OS/2 System > System Setup > Install/Remove
and choose 'Selective Uninstall'. After the uninstall program starts, check
the box next to 'Multimedia Software Support'. Then click on 'Uninstall'.
This will uninstall all multimedia software, including all attempts at
installing drivers along with any old drivers.  After rebooting, make sure to
delete the X:\MMOS2 folder (X is the drive with MMOS2 on it). This will also
delete other multimedia software ( the Netscape Plugin Pack comes to mind,
other sound or video drivers, codecs etc. too) so be aware you may have to
re-install some other software later - look out for multimedia stuff that no
longer works. The object here is to get the sound card to work.

   Now reboot again. You will need your OS/2 Warp 4 installation CD-ROM. Go
to OS/2 System>System Setup>Install/Remove and choose 'Selective Install'.
Click on the 'Multimedia Device Support' icon (choose 'none' for sound card),
then 'next' to the page with 'Multimedia Software Support' - make sure it is
checked. Continue through and let the install proceed.

   After rebooting from the Multimedia install, install the sound card driver
from Crystal (ver. 2.08 is the latest, I believe). Let it use the defaults
(IRQ5 is one of the default settings if I'm not mistaken). Reboot once again,
and at the OS/2 blob, hit <Alt-F1>, then choose <F5> to do a complete
hardware detection. At this point the card should work. If not, check the
OS/2 hardware manager (or RMVIEW) to see if a sound card is detected. If it
is, but doesn't work, you may have a conflict with either an IRQ (look at the
serial ports in the hardware manager) or an I/O address (again, look in the
hardware manager). All of these can be changed in the CONFIG.SYS file on the
line which loads the sound card driver (read the Crystal sound card docs -
they are pretty good).

   You will also have to re-install any other multimedia software now -
Netscapes' plugin pack, other multimedia drivers and codecs etc. Whichever
fixpack you are at will also need to be re-installed. If using the OMNI
printer driver, that too will need to be updated to the most recent one you
used.

   Of course, you may have already done this... If not, and you just don't
want the hassle, the AWE32 is a reasonably good card. Just make sure it works
correctly when you put it back in *before* you return the TidalWave  :)

Dave McKenna


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From: [e-mail]                                18-Nov-99 21:47:21
  To: All                                               18-Nov-99 23:54:10
Subj: Re: Cdrecord/2 installation

From: [e-mail] (Jerry McBride)

In article <[e-mail]>,
"Jan Hartman" <[e-mail]> wrote:
>Hi!
>
>I downloaded what I need to install cdrecord/2,
>and Audio/DataCDCreator.
>
>This included
>
>aspir101.zip and nice.zip (alt. spe.zip) for cdrecord/2
>and audiocdcreator_034.zip for CDCreator.
>
>However, I do not understand how to install neither of them.
>Could anyone please give me a clear step-by-step help
>about this? The documentation, as far as I can see, is of
>no help.
>

Jan...

I don't use nice, spe or the interface programs, but I do use cdrecord... :')

Make a permanent directory for cdrecord and aspi. Unzip both distros to their
respective directories. Go to your boot partition, use a text editor like
Tedit
and load the config.sys in it. Search for OS2ASPI and add a line before it
that
points to ASPIROUT.SYS. It should look like something below. Also be sure that
the "/ALL" switch is on the OS2ASPI.DMD line like the example...

REM **** SCSI SETUP ****
DEVICE=D:\TOOLS\CDRECORD\ASPI\ASPIROUT.SYS
BASEDEV=OS2ASPI.DMD /ALL

As for cdrecord, there's no .dll's to worry about, but you do HAVE to HAVE an
EMX runtime installed somewhere... :')

Just read the docs real well, print them out if you need and see how they
go up against the following tid-bits...

To blank (erase) a CDRW:
cdrecord dev=x,x,x -blank=fast

To blank a CDRW for multisession later on:
cdrecord dev=x,x,x -multi -blank=fast

To write a CDR(W):
cdrecord dev=x,x,x -speed=x cd.raw

To write a CDR(W) as multisession:
cdrecord dev=x,x,x -speed=x -multi cd.raw

To create a raw cd image:
mkisofs -a -d -J -l -L -N -o cd.raw /d:thispath/thispath etc.

The above line turns on "Joliet 2 long file name" support and to read the
cd created with this you must have one of the later cdfs.ifs installed with
the
"/W" switch on the line in config.sys. It'll look like:

IFS=C:\OS2\BOOT\CDFS.IFS /W

Any of the later fixpaks will have the new cdfs.ifs in it.

Cheers,

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From: [e-mail]                      19-Nov-99 15:42:02
  To: All                                               19-Nov-99 03:31:19
Subj: Re: Need process killer, priority changer, desktop restart

From: "Khairil Yusof" <[e-mail]>

On Thu, 18 Nov 1999 01:02:10 -0500 (EST), John Dow wrote:

>1) kill processes
Top  - a nice program that shows processes and kills them in a vio window

Priority Master has a 100% CPU use check that launches a time critical 31
window
that you can use to kill a process that's hogging the CPU.

>2) change priorities (PC's IDLE still usable?)

See Priority Master.. I find it great to launch specific applications at the
right
priorities like my server daemons.

>3) restart the desktop

See WPTOOLs by Henk Kelder.. resetwps works most of the time :) Though he's
planning something better. If there was a utility that could guarantee a clean
restart of
the WPS when it goes awry.. it will be one of the solutions that will keep my
OS/2
running 24/7 with heavy desktop application use.



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From: [e-mail]                            18-Nov-99 21:58:23
  To: All                                               19-Nov-99 03:31:19
Subj: Re: Netscape Team:  FIX THIS!

From: Chuck McKinnis <[e-mail]>

I think the problem may be in the page and not in Communicator.  On the
pages that I compose (using Home Page Publisher), if you view the html
in an editor, there are no carriage returns in any of the text lines,
and Netscape will wrap the lines as necessary to fit the width of your
window.  To see what I mean, go to http://pws.prserv.net/mckinnis/ and
start playing with the right boundary of your screen.  The text will
wrap to fit the new window size.

Jeff Welton wrote:
>
> I like to peruse the latest job listings at:
>
> http://www.sfna.com/cgi-bin/employment.pl
>
> but when using Communicator/2 v4.61 the listings
> run off the right side of the screen.  They should
> wrap at the right screen edge.
>
> I complained to to the SFGate webmaster but he
> says there is no problem that he can see.  He says
> the problem is attributable to Communicator/2
> version 4.61.
>
> So I fired up NS v2.02 and took a look.  It's true!
> In NS v2.02 the job listings display correctly and
> the text information wraps itself mid-screen!
>
> Before a refresh is issued I am asking the Netscape
> Team (Mike Kapley, et all) to check out this problem
> associated with v4.61 and correct it as quickly as
> possible.  If it is happening here then it must be
> happening at other sites too.
>
> Jeff

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

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From: [e-mail]                            18-Nov-99 22:39:04
  To: All                                               19-Nov-99 03:31:20
Subj: Re: Downloading files

From: Chuck McKinnis <[e-mail]>

You will love AWGet and WGet.  Visit
http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Vista/7567/software/english/awget.html
and, if necessary
http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/cgi-bin/h-search?key=wget

"David I. Smith" wrote:
>
> My ISP only allows me to be logged on for an hour at a time.  Because of
> this, I am precluded from downloading large files.
>
> Is there by chance any software available that will enable me partialy
> to download a file, then disconnect, then reconnect and resume the
> download.  Such software is available for Windows 95, but I don't know
> about OS/2.
>
> Please e-mail me any responses.  Thank you.

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

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From: [e-mail]                               19-Nov-99 05:25:17
  To: All                                               19-Nov-99 03:31:20
Subj: Re: Best Rewritable CD for OS2

From: [e-mail]

In article <NymHBqo6l1K2-pn2-XFrYyCl60eBd@cr1003178-
a.crdva1.bc.wave.home.com>,
  [e-mail] (Gideon Singer) wrote:
> Sorry for the confusion I may have caused. I was referring to the
> articles that were posted to my original post of which is the best
> RWCD unit for OS2 and all I got was some articles which did not
> address the question at all.
>
> So is there anyone who "wants to stick their neck out" and tell me "in
> their opinion" which is the best RWCD for OS2?

All right, I will...  I shopped around for brands to consider. There
were three brands that I followed. "T" brand Teac? expensive I was told
but very good. The other two were Yamaha and Ricoh. I bought a Ricoh
because I found a good sale on at the time.  $201 with shipping for the
7040S. I have read emails and news posts that several were successful
with each of the three RW drives.  I'll install it when I get my fixed
freq monitor set up for Warp for ebusiness.


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From: [e-mail]                                    12-Nov-99 17:15:07
  To: All                                               19-Nov-99 03:31:20
Subj: Re: Memory full??

From: Bob McLellan <[e-mail]>


[e-mail] wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I have the problem that at some point OS/2 tells me that it cannot start
> any programs or modules, because the memory is full.  The first thing I
> notice most of the time is, that I hear the error-tones from DragText
> and I cannot drag anything. So I though DragText may be responsible, but
> this time I couldn't connect to any host with Netscape 4.61, it told me
> "no such domain: www.zdnet.com" (where I wanted to look up about the M$
> trial).
>
> I have 98 MB in total which are all recognized by OS/2 and this
> phenomenon seems to take place, when I have about 14 MB free (as MemSize
> tells me). I also have 71 MB of unused swap-space left. I tried the > 64
> MB switch in the BIOS, at first it was disabled (from my 32 MB times
> where I didn't have these problems ;-) ), but now it is enabled and I
> still have this problem.
>
> Perhaps someone has an idea?
>
> Greetings,
>         Peter.

One thing that can kill drag is the objdata.dll (hammer and screwdriver)
that comes with Feature Installer. If I copy one of these objects all drag
is dead. However, the problem seems to be fixed with the lastest Feature
Installer (maybe because there are no more h and s objects).
Message saying 'no such domain ...' does not sound like the memory problem.
If it is a transient problem it may have been a glitch in the ISP
nameserver; I had a similar problem with IBM's Redbook site that came right
by itself. Try command line 'host' etc to nail it.
Not enough memory is just the application getting a bum steer from the
system. Paging and virtual memory ensure that there is always enough memory,
even on a tiny machine. Maybe you have a DLL out of sync. Have a look in
service.log for anything odd.

--
------------------------------------------------------
Bob McLellan
The Little Blue Kiwi
OS/2 Solutions for New Zeland


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From: [e-mail]               19-Nov-99 01:02:22
  To: All                                               19-Nov-99 03:31:20
Subj: Re: Difference of Warp4 and Warp for e-commerce?

From: "Kim Cheung" <[e-mail]>

On 18 Nov 1999 13:00:47 GMT, Kenkahn wrote:

>>What is the difference between Warp 4 and OS/2 Server SMP for
>>e-Commerce?
>
>Other than the extra LAN/Network 'stuff' that comes with it, WARP Server
>for E-Business (aka Aurora) is WARP4 at the FixPack 10 level.

No, that's not quite true.    Aurora is "based on Warp4" - but there are
major structural changes to meet the needs of a server.

There is tremendous pressure to unify the three kernels though.


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From: [e-mail]                      14-Nov-99 20:57:27
  To: All                                               19-Nov-99 05:24:20
Subj: Re: Partition Magic 5.0 upgrade -- still need Win before DOS?

From: [e-mail]       (John Thompson)

In <[e-mail]>, "/2 User"
<[e-mail]> writes:

>On Sun, 14 Nov 1999 09:25:15 -0600, postmaster@[127.0.0.1] wrote:
>
>>Is it really that costly to make another version?

I really don't know; I'm not a software developer.  But I'm sure
the costs they consider include not only development but support
also.

>>Did they give you an
>>OS/2 version to try in the beta period?

No.  What I got was beta of the intended release product.  It
included Win32 and DOS executables, boot diskette images, scripts
to install the product and create the diskette images, and
documentation (multipe languages, in PDF format).

>They could just rebadge the GUI version from PM 3. At least if you needed PM
>it would still have a GUI interface.

I suggested they include a text OS/2 version, preferably
updated to include ext2 support.  I don't have v3 here and I
don't recall if it includes a text-mode OS/2 executable, but PM
v2 certainly did (I still use it here).

-John ([e-mail])

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From: [e-mail]                          19-Nov-99 21:59:00
  To: All                                               19-Nov-99 10:23:01
Subj: Re: Netscape Team:  FIX T

From: [e-mail] (ROBIN HINDE)

[e-mail] wrote:


CO>I see the same problem with The Register if that's any help - multiple
CO>machines, multiple display drivers.

Thanks, that really is a great help - I don't have to sit here thinking
I have missed something so obvious that nobody else can even be
bothered commenting on it:-)

BTW, I have the same problem at

http://z.extreme-dm.com/tracking/nph-summarys.cgi?tag=nzpca

Every other version of NS - on OS/2, Win95 and Linux displays these
pages correctly, it is only NS/2 4.61 that gives problems.

CO>On Thu, 18 Nov 1999 05:50:00, [e-mail] (ROBIN HINDE)
CO>wrote:

CO>> Jeff Welton <[e-mail]> wrote:
CO>>
CO>> JW>I like to peruse the latest job listings at:
CO>>
CO>> JW>http://www.sfna.com/cgi-bin/employment.pl
CO>>
CO>> JW>but when using Communicator/2 v4.61 the listings
CO>> JW>run off the right side of the screen.  They should
CO>> JW>wrap at the right screen edge.
CO>>
CO>> Same problem as I asked about weeks ago - viewing
CO>> http://www.theregister.co.uk gives exactly the same fault. Nobody else
CO>> comfirmed the same fault, so I've basically stuck with 2.02 as a
CO>> result and assumed I'd have to live with that.
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From: [e-mail]                            19-Nov-99 09:50:20
  To: All                                               19-Nov-99 10:23:01
Subj: Update - Re: Comm/2 keeps bringing down my system.

From: Steve Drewell <[e-mail]>

After applying the "unofficial pmmerge.dll fix", I'm sorry to say that my
machine died again after about 4 days uptime whilst using Comm/2. Apart
from running the RC5DES client, I have used the machine for less than 8
hours in the past 4 days which makes it even more of a sad case that it
won't stay up.

So, what's the best course of action to solve this annoying problem?
Remove FP12 or just replace pmmerge.dll with a previous version (if so,
which)? Is FP12/pmmerge.dll the likely source of the problem or is it
Comm/2?

Cheers,
Steve

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

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From: [e-mail]                            19-Nov-99 12:05:14
  To: All                                               19-Nov-99 10:23:02
Subj: Re: Netscape Team:  FIX T

From: Mogens Beltoft <[e-mail]>

ROBIN HINDE wrote:
>
> [e-mail] wrote:
>
> CO>I see the same problem with The Register if that's any help - multiple
> CO>machines, multiple display drivers.
>
> Thanks, that really is a great help - I don't have to sit here thinking
> I have missed something so obvious that nobody else can even be
> bothered commenting on it:-)
>
> BTW, I have the same problem at
>
> http://z.extreme-dm.com/tracking/nph-summarys.cgi?tag=nzpca

Before I get flamed, let's set the record straight ;)

I guess you complain about Communicators inability to resize tables.
If this is not the case please disregard the following.

Viewing the source for that page reveals that everything is in a table,
and each table entry has a 'nowrap' entry, and that many of the table
fields has a character both before and after the word in the field.
The character is ascii 0xA0, I don't know what that does, but that
might account for the width of the table.

Anyway, tables can be set to have a certain width in either percent or
pixels, which means that you can create a table that can't be adjusted
by Communicator.

> Every other version of NS - on OS/2, Win95 and Linux displays these
> pages correctly, it is only NS/2 4.61 that gives problems.
>
> CO>On Thu, 18 Nov 1999 05:50:00, [e-mail] (ROBIN HINDE)
> CO>wrote:
>
> CO>> Jeff Welton <[e-mail]> wrote:
> CO>>
> CO>> JW>I like to peruse the latest job listings at:
> CO>>
> CO>> JW>http://www.sfna.com/cgi-bin/employment.pl
> CO>>
> CO>> JW>but when using Communicator/2 v4.61 the listings
> CO>> JW>run off the right side of the screen.  They should
> CO>> JW>wrap at the right screen edge.
> CO>>
> CO>> Same problem as I asked about weeks ago - viewing
> CO>> http://www.theregister.co.uk gives exactly the same fault. Nobody else
> CO>> comfirmed the same fault, so I've basically stuck with 2.02 as a
> CO>> result and assumed I'd have to live with that.

The same might be the problem here, i.e. predefined fixed table size.
                 _____
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From: [e-mail]                                19-Nov-99 08:58:15
  To: All                                               19-Nov-99 14:29:29
Subj: Re: ADSL high speed connection

From: Bill Horne <[e-mail]>


Gary Crossno wrote:
... deleted ...
>
> So, if I have a peer to peer setup (OS2/Win98/Linux), can I
> just connect the ADSL device to the hub?
>
> Gary Crossno

Sure, as long as your hub supports the speed of the ADSL modem. Mine was
a "Fast" Ethernet hub, and would not connect to the 10Base-T port of the
Alcatel 1000 modem. I bought a dusl speed auto sensing switch. Works
very well.

Bill Horne

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From: [e-mail]                        19-Nov-99 16:04:17
  To: All                                               19-Nov-99 14:29:29
Subj: Re: Difference of Warp4 and Warp for e-commerce?

From: [e-mail] (Alex Taylor)

On Thu, 18 Nov 1999 20:41:46 -0500, Jerry McBride <[e-mail]> wrote:
> >According to rumour, WSeB supports Joliet-3 CDs.  Warp 4 did not as of
> >FixPak 10 (not sure if it does now, though).
>
> Can you post a cdrom title that actually uses j3 for it's format? I'd like
to
> try that one under wseb...

Unfortunately, I don't know one.  Best suggestion I can come up with is to
burn a Joliet-format CD using Adaptec EZ-CD Creator under Windows.  I'm
99% certain that produces Joliet-3 CDs.

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 [e-mail]   http://eddie.cis.uoguelph.ca/~alex
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From: [e-mail]                             19-Nov-99 10:58:16
  To: All                                               19-Nov-99 14:29:29
Subj: RSJ CD Writer installation problem

From: "Jan Hartman" <[e-mail]>

Hi!

I tried to install the RSJ CD Writer demo.
However, the computer hang during boot.
I get a black screen before the WPS is supposed
to load.

I have a Plextor 8/2/20 CDRW, and a
Plextor CDrom (40x), both SCSI.
I have an Adeptec 2940 SCSI-card,
and I run Warp 4, Swedish, fixpak 6 on a
PentiumPro 200, 128 mb ram, Mattrox Mill I PCI-
card.

Any ideas what to do?

Thanks,

/ Jan
===================================================
Jan Hartman
Filosofiska institutionen/Department of Philosophy
Lunds Universitet/Lund University
Kungshuset, Lundagård                                  [phone]
S-222 22 Lund                                              fax +46-(0)46
2224424
Sweden
E-mail: [e-mail]


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From: [e-mail]                           19-Nov-99 20:50:01
  To: All                                               19-Nov-99 16:52:01
Subj: Re: RSJ CD Writer installation problem

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

In <[e-mail]>, on 11/19/99
   at 10:58 AM, "Jan Hartman" <[e-mail]> said:

Did you set "Synchronous negotiations" to "Disabled" and "Max Transfer
Rate" to 5Mb/sec in your SCSI BIOS Setup, as per RSJ/Adaptec FAQ?

Cheers,
Ivan

>I tried to install the RSJ CD Writer demo.
>However, the computer hang during boot.
>I get a black screen before the WPS is supposed
>to load.

>I have a Plextor 8/2/20 CDRW, and a
>Plextor CDrom (40x), both SCSI.
>I have an Adeptec 2940 SCSI-card,
>and I run Warp 4, Swedish, fixpak 6 on a
>PentiumPro 200, 128 mb ram, Mattrox Mill I PCI-
>card.

>Any ideas what to do?

>Thanks,

>/ Jan
>===================================================
>Jan Hartman
>Filosofiska institutionen/Department of Philosophy
>Lunds Universitet/Lund University
>Kungshuset, Lundag rd                                  [phone]
>S-222 22 Lund                                              fax +46-(0)46
>2224424 Sweden
>E-mail: [e-mail]


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"Ivan Adzhubei" <[e-mail]>
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From: [e-mail]                           19-Nov-99 17:51:26
  To: All                                               19-Nov-99 16:52:01
Subj: Re: Comm/2 keeps bringing down my system.

From: Matt Hickman <[e-mail]>

In article <382ab284$1$vina$[e-mail]>,
  "Ivan Adzhubei" <[e-mail]> wrote:
>
> 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

I assume this is a fix for Warp 4.0.  I am hoping to find one for
Warp Server -- which has a base of 3.0

--
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]                                    19-Nov-99 18:03:14
  To: All                                               19-Nov-99 16:52:01
Subj: Re: Bootable disk with Networking and Peer

From: [e-mail] (Bob Eager)

On Wed, 17 Nov 1999 17:09:27, [e-mail] wrote:

> All the code you need is in the \CID\SRVIFS on your Warp CD.  The
> documentation, casguide.inf, is somewhere in the IBMLAN directory tree.

System Setup -> INstall/Remove -> Remote Install

then ask it to make diskettes. Kill the server after that.

That will give you a set of diskettes you can hack if required.
--
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]                                    19-Nov-99 10:59:14
  To: All                                               19-Nov-99 16:52:01
Subj: Re: Update - Re: Comm/2 keeps bringing down my system.

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

On Fri, 19 Nov 1999 09:50:40 +0000, Steve Drewell wrote:

>After applying the "unofficial pmmerge.dll fix", I'm sorry to say that my
>machine died again after about 4 days uptime whilst using Comm/2. Apart
>from running the RC5DES client, I have used the machine for less than 8
>hours in the past 4 days which makes it even more of a sad case that it
>won't stay up.
>
>So, what's the best course of action to solve this annoying problem?
>Remove FP12 or just replace pmmerge.dll with a previous version (if so,
>which)? Is FP12/pmmerge.dll the likely source of the problem or is it
>Comm/2?

Had somewhat similar experience.  I don't leave my machine running long
enough to crash, but observed a continuing, serious memory leak in NS461
even after installing the replacement pmmerge.dll.  I then ran across a
report in one of the OS/2 on-line pubs saying that it could be a problem
with the NS cache in certain circumstances--apparently the use of
proxies in my case.  The recommended cure, which seems to be working for
me: Set Netscape Memory Cache to "0".  Disk Cache can remain in use.

You might want to give it a try.

Jack P.


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From: [e-mail]                           19-Nov-99 13:01:03
  To: All                                               19-Nov-99 16:52:01
Subj: Re: isp's & os/2

From: Bob Germer <[e-mail]>

On <eQKY3.31442$[e-mail]>, on 11/17/99 at
10:43 PM,
   "Arnold Jones" <[e-mail]> said:

> Though, on the other hand, if you do get Win9X, Internet Explorer 5 with
> Outlook Express, you may never again go back to surf the net  with OS/2
> and Netscape because the above mentioned products are by far faster and
> better than Netscape ever was IMHO.

Even if I agreed about the speed, which I vehemently do not, Win 9x, OE
and IE are far, far, far, far, far, far, far, far slower when one factors
in the time spent reformatting and reinstalling after that sad trio allows
a virus to infect your system. Not only that, after all the work
reinstalling, running your backup software to restore data can and
frequently does re-introduce the virus. If you are using Word, your Word
files may restart the virus when you access them.

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Bob Germer from Mount Holly, NJ - E-mail: [e-mail]
Proudly running OS/2 Warp 4.0 w/ FixPack 12
MR/2 Ice Registration Number 67
Aut Pax Aut Bellum
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From: [e-mail]                             19-Nov-99 14:29:05
  To: All                                               19-Nov-99 16:52:02
Subj: Re: ADSL high speed connection

From: Dan Holmes <[e-mail]>

>
> The only problem in my mind about using ADSL is that my local phone
> company has switched from the Standard DHCP to PPPoE, this is a new
> protocol which has not yet been approved and while the phone company
> would have supplied a Win95 version and their techies pointed me to a
> Linux Beta version, neither they nor I could find and OS/2 version.
> While I would then be able to connect under Win95 or Linux, both of
> which are aboard my machines, my main business system is OS/2, so I
> stayed with cable modem.

I just saw that FX Communications has/will have a PPPoE for
OS2.
--
-------------------
Dan Holmes
Integrated Visual Systems, Inc.
voice 704-847-3379
fax   [phone]
mailto:[e-mail]
work -> http://www.ivsi.com
play -> http://www.geocities.com/heartland/hollow/3097

Insert Disclaimer:
Most of the time i think for myself, at least that is what
they tell me.

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From: [e-mail]                           19-Nov-99 18:53:21
  To: All                                               19-Nov-99 16:52:02
Subj: PMMail spam filters

From: [e-mail] (Gideon Singer)

Any spam filters for Pmmail available?

Gideon Singer
Webpage: members.home.net:80/gsinger
Remove the 'nospam' to email

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From: [e-mail]                                   19-Nov-99 18:54:16
  To: All                                               19-Nov-99 16:52:02
Subj: Re: isp's & os/2

From: [e-mail] (Clive Dove)

On Thu, 18 Nov 1999 03:16:33, Scott Tietjen <[e-mail]> wrote:

> I myself use Prodigy Internet.  The problem, of course, is that to sign
> up for the service the first time, you've got to be on a Win95 machine,
> as their software doesn't grok OS/2 under any circumstances.  However,
> once you get over that hurdle (it can be a borrowed machine, or one from
> work if you have a modem, or whatever is available), it's been a breeze
> to use Injoy to dial in (99.9% connection at 53.3KBPS), Netscape for
> most everything else, the rest of the IBM tools work fine (recommend the
> Lan versions over the Modem versions).  Plus, if you prepay a year in
> advance, you get unlimited service for $15.70 a month ($189 a year), and
> local phone number all around the country -- hopefully in your area.
> 1-800-PRODIGY, or http://www.prodigy.net
> Good luck.
>     -- Scott Tietjen
>
>
> [e-mail] wrote:
> >
> > I am a former user of ibm.net, now attglobal, and am looking for another
> > isp that supports os/2 or has shareware/freeware that would allow me to
> > use os/2 to connect.  I am curren;y on a trial with earthlink.  I've
> > already found out that they will time disconnect while I'm downloading a
> > file and nothing else; ibm.net didn't do that.
> >
> > Help
> >
> > What are my options?  Point me to the faq if there is one?
> >
> > johnny chell

Have you considered cablemodem.  I was a user of ibm.net but switched
to cablemodem when my monthly usage started to go into overtime and my
internet bills started to go out of sight.  I am using Shaw cable and
am running it under OS/2, Linux and Win95.  The system uses TCP/IP
with DHCP servers so it is standard internet connection.

Shaw will not support OS/2 or Linux, but as it is a standard TCP/IP
Ethernet system, there was no problem setting up my adaptor or stack
on either system.

The system can be set up as if it is a lan.

Shaw supplied me with a 3Com 3c900 ethernet card.

I was considering using an ADSL modem with my phone company at the
same price ($39.95 Canadian) but Sympatico has switched to PPPoE
instead of DHCP, which I consider to be a non-standard and not yet
settled protocol.  Sympatico was prepared to provide the PPPoE for
Win95 and was able to point me to a Linux version, but I was unable to
find an OS/2 version.

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From: [e-mail]                                   19-Nov-99 19:02:17
  To: All                                               19-Nov-99 16:52:02
Subj: Re: ADSL high speed connection

From: [e-mail] (Clive Dove)

On Thu, 18 Nov 1999 22:03:41, [e-mail] (Gary Crossno) wrote:

> In message <qpkdVVNoMoTk-pn2-5IQDysFMrmdd@tcpserver> -
> [e-mail] (Lorne Sunley)Wed, 17 Nov 1999
> 15:46:48 GMT writes:
> :>
> :>On Wed, 17 Nov 1999 12:41:12, [e-mail] wrote:
> :>
> :>> Are there any inherent reasons why OS/2 TCPIP can't be
> used in conjunction with a ADSL high speed connection to the
> internet.
> :>
> :>Works for my brother and for one of my clients.
> :>
> :>Caveat - the ADSL link must have an external device that
> is
> :>connected to a regular Network Interface Card.
> :>
> :>The OS/2 machine treats this as it treats any LAN
> :>TCP/IP connection. This means that you must have
> :>a version of OS/2 that has LAN support, Warp 3 Connect
> :>Warp 4, Warp Server 4, Warp Server for e-Business.
> :>
> :>I have heard some ugly reports that some ADSL ISP's
> :>are using PPP over Ethernet for their ADSL service.
> :>This is not supported by the standard TCP/IP stack,
> :>but the Injoy products do support it. http://www.fx.dk
> :>
> :>Lorne Sunley
> :>
> :>
>
> So, if I have a peer to peer setup (OS2/Win98/Linux), can I
> just connect the ADSL device to the hub?
>
> Gary Crossno
>

The only problem in my mind about using ADSL is that my local phone
company has switched from the Standard DHCP to PPPoE, this is a new
protocol which has not yet been approved and while the phone company
would have supplied a Win95 version and their techies pointed me to a
Linux Beta version, neither they nor I could find and OS/2 version.
While I would then be able to connect under Win95 or Linux, both of
which are aboard my machines, my main business system is OS/2, so I
stayed with cable modem.

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From: [e-mail]                            19-Nov-99 19:12:19
  To: All                                               19-Nov-99 16:52:02
Subj: Re: Netscape Team:  FIX THIS!

From: Alan Beagley <[e-mail]>

I've noticed that the text on the Stardock home page spills over teh
right hand side now too -- as of the last few days. I'm using NS 4.61 GA
(128-bit encryption).

Alan


Jeff Welton wrote:
>
> "Jeffrey S. Kobal" wrote:
>
> > Jeff Welton wrote:
> >
> > > I like to peruse the latest job listings at:
> > >
> > > http://www.sfna.com/cgi-bin/employment.pl
> > >
> > > but when using Communicator/2 v4.61 the listings
> > > run off the right side of the screen.  They should
> > > wrap at the right screen edge.
> >
> > This would depend on the size of your browser window.
> > The tables on the listing-pages are hard-coded to 600
> > pixels wide; if your window is narrower than 600 pixels,
> > the page will run off the right side of the window, with
> > a scrollbar to view what won't fit within the window.
> >
> > Jeffrey S. Kobal
> > IBM Corporation
>
> Thanks for the reply Jeff and if I was a bit too harsh I'm
> sorry (others have pointed that out).
>
> I have a 21" monitor and have it set to 1024X768.  The
> site recently changed hands with the sale of the newspaper
> itself and prior to that, the listings were displayed properly.
> It was very easy to just mark and paste a fax number into
> PMFax and fire off a resume.
>
> When the newspaper made the change the first few days
> the listings were fine but after that they began to sail
> off the right hand side of the page.  I used composer
> to create a 600 pixel table box and then copied the
> displayed listings into the table so I could read them
> without effort.  The information you provide above
> about the site using a 600 pixel table in their html
> coding isn't being picked up by 'my' Communicator 4.61
> for some reason.  Maybe it does in the Windows version
> but not in my OS/2 version.
>
> I complained several times to the new webmaster and he
> finally replied back saying he had received no complaints
> and asked what browser I was using.  When I said Communicator
> for OS/2 v4.61 he replied the problem was with the browser,
> not his site or his html coding.
>
> I thought that baloney but decided one evening to fire up
> NS/2 2.02 and see how it appeared.  The listings came up
> and wrapped correctly.  That makes me believe the problem
> is within Communicator 4.61 itself.  So I went to check for
> a "wrap text" feature but could only find it in Messenger,
> not for the browser itself (could we add one please?).
>
> So now, instead of copy/paste into Composer I open NS/2
> and read them.  It is just frustrating to have to use two
> browsers for what should be a one browser job.
>
> I am relieved to know the problem is one that others have
> experienced (i.e., The Register) because I was beginning
> to think it was my system or my release of C/2.  You'd
> think the listings on a 21" screen at 1024X768 couldn't
> possibly be so long as to run off the right side of the
> screen - but they do!
>
> Thanks for all the replies.  I now know the problem is an
> acknowledged one and hope the next refresh offers a
> correction of some kind.
>
> Thanks to everyone for the responses!
>
> Jeff

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From: [e-mail]                              20-Nov-99 07:20:24
  To: All                                               19-Nov-99 16:52:02
Subj: Re: PMMail spam filters

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

On Fri, 19 Nov 1999 18:53:43 GMT, Gideon Singer wrote:

>Any spam filters for Pmmail available?
>
>Gideon Singer
>Webpage: members.home.net:80/gsinger
>Remove the 'nospam' to email

Go to account / account settings / filters / new

name it 'spam deletion' or 'garbage collection' - you get the idea.
press complex radio button, paste (for example)

(header.from="[e-mail]") |
(header.from="ispam.com") |
(header.from="ispam.net") |
(header.from="moneynow.com") |
(header.from="answerme.com") |
(header.from="best-deal-magazines.com") |
(header.from="bigdeal.net") |
(header.from="bulkmail.net") |
(header.from="[e-mail]") |
(header.from="casndrrasecret.com") |
(header.from="cockring.com") |
(header.from="cocktails-n-dreams.com") |
(header.from="consumermoney.com") |
(header.from="cyberpromo.com") |
(header.from="dontdelay.com") |
(header.from="eager4u.com") |
(header.from="email4you.com") |
(header.from="emailadvertisingusa.now") |
(header.from="erotic4u.com") |
(header.from="exoticbabes4u.com") |
(header.from="freestuff4u.com") |
(header.from="getstartedhomebased.com") |
(header.from="goddesseswaiting.com") |
(header.from="greatoffer.com") |
(header.from="hotgrrls.com") |
(header.from="hunks4u.com") |
(header.from="imarketdirect.com") |
(header.from="internet-income.com") |
(header.from="intimatedesires.com") |
(header.from="keepmailing.com") |
(header.from="lewd4u.com") |
(header.from="livekinkysex.com") |
(header.from="lust2thous.com") |
(header.from="lust4u.com") |
(header.from="luv2cu.com") |
(header.from="markettheworld.com") |
(header.from="mass-email.com") |
(header.from="nastymail.com") |
(header.from="obscene4u.com") |
(header.from="ooolalala.com") |
(header.from="peepshow.com") |
(header.from="phsychicfriends.net") |
(header.from="phychicfriend.com") |
(header.from="pleasure4u.com") |
(header.from="porno4u.com") |
(header.from="psychicfriend.net") |
(header.from="readytopartybaby.com") |
(header.from="replybyphone.com") |
(header.from="respondback.com") |
(header.from="sensual4u.com") |
(header.from="sensuousexotics.com") |
(header.from="seriousincome.com") |
(header.from="sexysearch.com") |
(header.from="showuthemoney.com") |
(header.from="sultry4u.com") |
(header.from="takealook.com") |
(header.from="wealth.kit.net") |
(header.from="xtc4u2c.com")

into the window displayed . .

type = imcoming,
actions = delete message,
and select remote and local copy

works like a bought one!

Mick



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From: [e-mail]                                         18-Nov-99 20:37:04
  To: All                                               19-Nov-99 16:52:02
Subj: Re: Best Rewritable CD for OS2

From: Anssi Saari <[e-mail]>

Tony Wright <[e-mail]> writes:

> [e-mail] wrote:
>
> > In <[e-mail]>, Anssi Saari <[e-mail]> writes:
> >
> > So please share with us, how did you patch it?
>
> Probably with trivial ease....

Good answer :)

> Ah well done Mr Saari! - you appear to have identified the cause of that
> specific restriction that I futilely intimated to Sam Deitweiler over a year
> ago without any success.....<vbg>.He presumably deemed it so obvious that it
> didn't warrant an answer and the person I was setting it up for was quite
> satisfied with shuffling drivers around as a kludgy solution! :-(

I can't really take the credit for this, since I got the hint from the
porter of cdrecord, Chris Wohlgemuth.

Anssi

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From: [e-mail]                                  19-Nov-99 20:46:00
  To: All                                               19-Nov-99 16:52:02
Subj: Re: Update - Re: Comm/2 keeps bringing down my system.

From: Steve Drewell <[e-mail]>

On Fri, 19 Nov 1999 at 10:59 -0800, J. N. Pfisterer <[e-mail]>
wrote:

>Had somewhat similar experience.  I don't leave my machine running long
>enough to crash, but observed a continuing, serious memory leak in NS461
>even after installing the replacement pmmerge.dll.  I then ran across a
>report in one of the OS/2 on-line pubs saying that it could be a problem
>with the NS cache in certain circumstances--apparently the use of
>proxies in my case.  The recommended cure, which seems to be working for
>me: Set Netscape Memory Cache to "0".  Disk Cache can remain in use.

>You might want to give it a try.

Unfortunately, I'm using SmartCache as a proxy and have Netscape's memory
cache and disk cache set to zero already due to the 100% CPU problem which
was discussed a short while ago. Nevertheless, thanks for your advice.

Cheers,
Steve
--
Steve Drewell             (Remove x. from address to reply)
_____________________________________________________________
Using IBM OS/2 Warp 4 running 26 processes with 137 threads.
Machine uptime is 1 day, 12 hours, 29 mins and 56 secs.
_____________________________________________________________


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From: [e-mail]                                         18-Nov-99 20:25:04
  To: All                                               19-Nov-99 20:18:03
Subj: Re: Best Rewritable CD for OS2

From: Anssi Saari <[e-mail]>

[e-mail] (Gideon Singer) writes:

> Sorry for the confusion I may have caused. I was referring to the
> articles that were posted to my original post of which is the best
> RWCD unit for OS2 and all I got was some articles which did not
> address the question at all.

That's fundamental to Usenet. It's annoying sometimes, but in the end,
people will talk about what they want to talk about and which might
not be what you want to talk about.

> So is there anyone who "wants to stick their neck out" and tell me "in
> their opinion" which is the best RWCD for OS2?

Well, in my completely subjective opinion, the Ricoh MP7040S is the
best, for the reason that it's the only CD writing drive I've had. I
picked that particular model since it has SCSI interface, supports
CD-Text and overburning, but those features I haven't used in OS/2 and
don't know if they are usable here either. Cdrecord maybe supports
CD-Text, but I don't know how to use it...

As a bonus, the MP7040S can be upgraded to MP7060S by software, which
means 6x write speed on CDR instead of 4x. Pretty cool, but doesn't
always work.

--
Anssi Saari - [e-mail]

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From: [e-mail]                      19-Nov-99 23:40:22
  To: All                                               19-Nov-99 21:29:19
Subj: Re: NS4.61 turns all of the pictures blue...

From: [e-mail] (Dr. Peter Gegenheimer)

On Wed, 17 Nov 1999 02:04:59, Scott Tietjen <[e-mail]> wrote:

τ Ok, this one may be a bit wierd.  Immediately after I installed NS4.61
τ (off of WarpUp!) on my Warp4fp11/12 system, I noticed that every image
τ (.gif & .jpg), especially if they were clickable links, turned blue.
τ Not just the edge around it, the whole image became blue.  (I think I
--snip--
--snip--
= Likewise, if I
τ can scroll the image off the top or bottom of the page, when it comes
τ back it's back to normal color.  (Or at least the part of the image that
τ made it off screen.)

* In a followup posting you said you had a 1Mb video card. I have exactly the
same problem on an Aptiva with 1 Mb video memory (Trident) which is set to 256

colors. This problem is specific to NS 4.61, and I'm convinced it's related to

the video color depth. My solution is going to be adding more video RAM or a
newer card w/ 2 Mb RAM.

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| University of Kansas        |"When you have excluded the impossible, |
| 2045 Haworth Hall           |  whatever remains, however improbable, |
| Lawrence  KS  66045-2106    |  must be the truth."      S. Holmes    |
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From: [e-mail]                            19-Nov-99 17:14:25
  To: All                                               19-Nov-99 21:29:19
Subj: Re: PMMail spam filters

From: Chuck McKinnis <[e-mail]>

These guys change so often that it's hard to keep the filter updated.  I
have been using the beta of Junk Spy from Sundial (the Relish folks),
and it seems to do a pretty good job.

Gideon Singer wrote:
>
> Any spam filters for Pmmail available?
>
> Gideon Singer
> Webpage: members.home.net:80/gsinger
> Remove the 'nospam' to email

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

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