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From: [e-mail]                               13-Nov-99 01:21:20
  To: All                                               13-Nov-99 00:33:04
Subj: Re: OS/2 Warp & Windows 98

From: [e-mail] (Frank)

On Fri, 12 Nov 1999 00:35:33, [e-mail] (Patrick
Fitzgerald) wrote:

> Can I have Windows and OS/2 running on my computer at the same time.
> If so could someone please give me a reference to where I get the
> information on how to do that

Not At The Same Time !!
There's a world of difference between WindLose an OS/2 .
However, it is possible to make WindLose 32 fat drive aproachable to
OS/2, so you can exchange/use datafiles in
the operating system OS/2 and the DosShell WindLose.

It's called " Henk Kelders Fat32 extension"
If you want it, get it from my hp :
HTTP://MEMBERS.XOOM.COM/FRANKLYWARE

(mind to view my "config.sys" file)

It works great !!
As been said in the newsgroup, you'll never use WindLose for anything
productive again.


The box said:"Requires Windows 95/98, NT or better" .......... So I
too installed OS/2.


Reply per Email to [e-mail]

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From: [e-mail]                              12-Nov-99 19:46:09
  To: All                                               13-Nov-99 00:33:04
Subj: Re: OS/2 Warp Fixpacks

From: [e-mail] (Jerry Lapham)

In <[e-mail]>, on 11/12/99
   at 08:22 AM, Irv Spalten <[e-mail]> said:

> One word of information, Warp 3 Base and Warp 3 Connect will only allow
> FP's up to 40 to be applied to it. FP 41 or 42 will fail with 'No
> Products Found to Service' being returned.

Unless you use a hex editor on SYSLEVEL.OS2 to make it look like Warp
Server.  And then you'll need to install FP 32 first because FP 41 or 42
don't include driver updates.

    -Jerry
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E-Mail: [e-mail]
Written Friday, November 12, 1999 - 07:46 PM (EST)
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MR/2 Ice tag:  "My guitar is broken," Tom fretted.

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From: [e-mail]                              12-Nov-99 21:28:25
  To: All                                               13-Nov-99 00:33:04
Subj: Re: Help installing Warp 3

From: [e-mail] (Jerry Lapham)

In <80frej$gdg$[e-mail]>, on 11/12/99
   at 01:44 AM, Christopher J Houle <[e-mail]> said:

> Can someone help me install Warp on my system.

> I currently have several problems:

> 1. Fdisk could not recognize my > 4 gb drive. I was able to surmount
> this by downloading the drivers from ibm and including it on install
> disk 1.

> 2. I am unable to install all of the drivers from the driver file onto
> disk one because they wont fit. Is there any way around this ?

Delete some of the obviously proprietary drivers that don't apply to your
system from both the floppy and from CONFIG.SYS.  If just deleting them
doesn't work, replace them with zero-length files of the same name.

> 3. After getting disk 6 to install, the machine reboots and is just
> locked up in dead black space. It will not go any further.

Do you have "SET COPYFROMFLOPPY=1" in the CONFIG.SYS?  If you were
installing from CD and you didn't have this, it would copy the old drivers
to your hard disk so that when install rebooted your system the drivers
couldn't handle your > 4 gb drive.  I don't know whether this would apply
when installing from floppies or not.

    -Jerry
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E-Mail: [e-mail]
Written Friday, November 12, 1999 - 07:51 PM (EST)
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From: [e-mail]                         12-Nov-99 15:04:06
  To: All                                               13-Nov-99 00:33:04
Subj: Re: Installing Warp 4 upgrade on a machine without previous OS/2

From: [e-mail] (Greg Lewis)

Thanks much for the quick replies!  Much help. :)

Greg

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From: [e-mail]                               12-Nov-99 08:22:12
  To: All                                               13-Nov-99 00:33:04
Subj: Re: OS/2 Warp Fixpacks

From: Irv Spalten <[e-mail]>

First, look in OS2\INSTALL for RSUINST.LOG. You'll see the reason for
failure there.

If you D/L'ed and UNZIP'ed, and allowed the files to be kept, you can go
back to the $RSUTMP$ directory and restart using 'OS2SERV'.

One word of information, Warp 3 Base and Warp 3 Connect will only allow
FP's up to 40 to be applied to it. FP 41 or 42 will fail with 'No
Products Found to Service' being returned.

Irv

Patrick Fitzgerald wrote:
>
> I tried to apply the  fixpack update using the Remote Software update
> over the internet.
>
> After well over an hour of file transfer the update began and then
> crapped out because IIRC my syslevel was wrong. Unfortunately I did
> not record the message becuse I thought their would be log file - but
> I can not find one
>
> I now have a directory with many megabytes of the fixpack files. My
> OS/2 is version 3 - blue spine and  has never had any fix packs
> applied.
>
> What should I do now ??
>
> patricK
>
> Big Green Riding Hood
> Shipley is anti democracy

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From: [e-mail]                               12-Nov-99 08:19:01
  To: All                                               13-Nov-99 00:33:04
Subj: Re: difference between OS/2 warp server and OS/2 warp 4..

From: Irv Spalten <[e-mail]>

Correction. Warp Server is based on Warp 3, not Warp 4.

Irv Spalten

[e-mail] wrote:
>
> In article <[e-mail]>,
>   [e-mail] (Christopher) wrote:
> >       to all the OS/2 user out there, could anyone tell me that what
> > is the difference between OS/2 Warp server and OS/2 Warp 4?
>
> One is around $150 and server is about $750. Server fully contains
> Warp 4 with in it. Server has SMP (for dual intel chips) Can operate
> as a network server if desired.
>
> There are more features, anyone care to add to list?
>
> Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
> Before you buy.

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From: [e-mail]                          12-Nov-99 15:42:14
  To: All                                               13-Nov-99 00:33:04
Subj: Re: Unable to run any TCPIP program

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

On Fri, 12 Nov 1999 00:16:09, Paul Arnott <[e-mail]>
wrote:

:I looked for setloc1 using the find utility then copied it to the os/2
:directory. It worked after this,but i have no idea why it couldn't find it in
:the first place.

 Because x:\IBMI18N\DLL isn't in your libpath as it should be. tcp/ip
wasn't installed correctly.

:Yuk Lun Chan wrote:
:
:> Hello,
:>
:> I have installed the basic Warp 4.0 frist before installing TCP/IP service
:> in my box (I always has problem when install the basic system and TCP/IP in
:> the same time). I have all the program icon as usual. But when I try to run
:> anyone of these TCP/IP program, it always prompt for incorrect path. Then I
:> try to run them from the OS/2 command prompt. An error says that it cannot
:> find SETLOC1. I want to know what is this and how can I install it from the
:> CD.
:>
:> Thank you very much!
:>
:> Yuk Lun Chan
:


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From: [e-mail]                        12-Nov-99 16:12:24
  To: All                                               13-Nov-99 00:33:04
Subj: Re: difference between OS/2 warp server and OS/2 warp 4..

From: [e-mail] (Alex Taylor)

On Fri, 12 Nov 1999 03:59:05 GMT, [e-mail] <[e-mail]>
wrote:
> >     to all the OS/2 user out there, could anyone tell me that what
> > is the difference between OS/2 Warp server and OS/2 Warp 4?
>
> One is around $150 and server is about $750. Server fully contains
> Warp 4 with in it. Server has SMP (for dual intel chips) Can operate
> as a network server if desired.

No, Server does NOT contain Warp 4, it contains Warp 3.  Also, only
versions have SMP support.  The original poster was asking about Warp
Server 4, not Warp Server for e-business.

For the original poster, the Warp product tree goes like this:

OS/2 Warp (version 3)
OS/2 Warp Connect.  Consists of:
    - OS/2 Warp version 3 at FixPak 7 level
    - IBM LAN Requester version 4 and IBM Peer version 1
    - MPTS v2.6 and TCP/IP v3
OS/2 Warp Server (version 4).  Consists of:
    - OS/2 Warp version 3 at FixPak 9 level
    - IBM LAN Server version 5
    - IBM LAN Requester version 5
    - MPTS v5 and TCP/IP v3.1 (v3.5 in SMP version)
    - HPFS386 file system (Advanced version only)
    - SMP support (SMP version only)
OS/2 Warp 4, a.k.a "Merlin":
    - OS/2 Warp version 4
    - IBM LAN Requester version 5 and IBM Peer version 4
    - MPTS v5.1 and TCP/IP v4
    - IBM Java Development Kit v1.0.2
OS/2 Warp Server for e-business, a.k.a "Aurora":
    - OS/2 Warp version 4.5
    - SMP support
    - Latest versions (?) of LAN Requester and LAN Server
    - MPTS v5.5 and TCP/IP v4.2
    - IBM Java Development Kit v1.1.7
    - Netscape Communicator v4.04
    - a whole $#!% load of other stuff

Warp 3 is no longer sold by IBM.  Ditto Warp Connect.
Warp Server 4 costs several hundred dollars, depending on version.
Warp 4 costs about $250.
Warp Server for e-business costs about $1700.

Warp Server 4, although an earlier OS version than Warp 4, can be
made roughly equivalent in functionality with all the latest fixes.
It's still overkill for a desktop system, since you get a commercial-level
LAN server with it as well (but not as many consumer-oriented toys).
But if you got it for free...

(Actually, you could probably sell it and buy a couple copies of Warp 4
with the proceeds.)

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From: [e-mail]                                  12-Nov-99 16:28:26
  To: All                                               13-Nov-99 00:33:04
Subj: Re: DSL setup questions

From: [e-mail] (David T. Anderson)

On Thu, 11 Nov 1999 23:38:25, [e-mail] (Will Smith)
wrote:

>   Basicly, what is required for both software and hardware to
> prepare an OS/2 system for a DSL hookup.  I am seriously
> considering doing this before the end of the year and wonder
> what networking protoclols and hardware my system will need
> to be ready for PacBell to hook ne up.  Their tech support
> people have no ideas what is required for an OS/2 system.

Basically, you will need to be running either Warp 3 Connect or Warp
4, and have a network interface card installed and correctly
configured,

Assuming that you will be using an external ADSL 'modem', all that
remains is to plug the proper DNS names and numbers and subnet numbers
into the TCPIP Config notebook, and you'll be away to the races.  The
ADSL installer should be able to give you a written list of the
settings you will need to input...it may take a little trial-and-error
to get them in the right spots.

ADSL is good...and worth the extra effort to get set up...

David T. Anderson
Calgary, Alberta
http://www.agt.net/public/dtander/

Using ProNews/2 for OS/2 Warp

**NOSPAM**  To email me, remove the 's' from my address...

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From: [e-mail]                               12-Nov-99 15:35:10
  To: All                                               13-Nov-99 00:33:04
Subj: Sound Cards and OS/2

From: [e-mail] (Richard A Crane)

Can anyone comment on the working off/difficulties in
getting  working any of the following: ISA AW37-3D cyrstal
chipset card: PCI AW230 4280 Cyrstal Chipset card; or Yamaha
YME744 card or Aztech 368 DSP PCI card?
Richard A Crane
Barrister & Solicitor
slightly altered email (anti-spamming) rcrane AT
octa4.net.au
OR rcrane AT attglobal.net

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From: [e-mail]                                  12-Nov-99 16:06:19
  To: All                                               13-Nov-99 00:33:04
Subj: Re: Sound Cards and OS/2

From: [e-mail] (Jerry Prather)

In message <[e-mail]>
- [e-mail] (Richard A Crane)12 Nov 1999 15:35:20 GMT
writes:
:>
:>Can anyone comment on the working off/difficulties in
:>getting  working any of the following: ISA AW37-3D cyrstal
:>chipset card: PCI AW230 4280 Cyrstal Chipset card; or Yamaha
:>YME744 card or Aztech 368 DSP PCI card?

I recently acquired an AW230 card.  There were no instructions
for OS/2 anywhere in the installation phamphlet or the CD that
came with it.  On the AOpen site there is (supposedly) a driver
for OS/2.  I downloaded it, and called AOpen tech support to
confirm that it was in fact an auto-unpack file (I don't like
clicking on .exe files without knowing what's going to happen).
But when I double click on the file, I get a very Win 3.1 looking
error box that says "Unexpected DOS error 23".  Phone tech
support at AOpen said that I'd better contact Taiwan about it.  I
sent an E-mail to AOpen in Taiwan about the problem about two
days ago, but have not yet received a response.


Jerry Prather                    [e-mail]

"Many religions are worth dying for; no religion is worth killing
for."
                    - Me (circa 1998)

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From: [e-mail]                        12-Nov-99 15:29:24
  To: All                                               13-Nov-99 00:33:05
Subj: Re: Warp Connect Across LAN Domains

From: [e-mail] (Alex Taylor)

On Fri, 12 Nov 1999 05:49:28 GMT, Lorne Sunley <[e-mail]>
wrote:
> > >I'm afraid I don't really know... we're getting a bit beyond my
> > >expertise here.  I was not aware of any limitation in OS/2 LAN
> > >Requester about subnets.  It could also have something to do with
> > >the domain you're connecting to.
> >
> >         In fact, it does.  My initial guess that the subnet was
> > the problem was incorrect.  In fact, I'm trying to cross LAN
> > domains.

I was wondering if this might be the problem...

> >         For machines on the same LAN domain this does indeed
> > work.  The reason I didn' know that earlier is that the LAN domain
> > I (must) dial into isn't the one containing the resources I need.
> > Thus, I need
> >    NET USE W: \\machine.somewhere.aroundhere.atwork\share
> > and don't seem to be able to do it.  By the way, I wanted to
> > use names, not numeric IP addresses, and only tried using a numeric
> > IP address when the normal kind of command described above didn't
> > work.

Dotted names are still IP names, not NetBIOS names, as far as I know...
Which isn't to say that it can't work, but it won't if the raw IP
address doesn't either...

> >         If all will please forgive the reference, I can do exactly
> > what I'm after here on Windows NT and even cite a different user ID
> > and password for the distant domain, if appropriate.  I'd like to
> > think that OS/2 hasn't been left behind in this area.  That's why
> > I wonder if some fix level might add the capability.

We did this regularly at my former client.  See below...

> >         I can see various machines on the same LAN domain, none
> > of which is of interest.  What I can't find is any way to browse
> > other LAN domains or connect to resources on them (things I can do
> > on NT, but I want OS/2).
>
> In order to view machines on another domain you need
> to have that domain name listed in the OTHDOMAINS
> parameter in the IBMLAN.INI file. This lets the
> net view command display the other domain's
> machines.
>
> The OTHDOMAINS parameter is listed in the [requester]
> section at the beginning of the file.
>
> AFAIK each domain in the list has to separated by a comma
> ie: othdomains=domone, domtwo
>
> This presumes that your RFCNAMES.LST has the IP
> addresses of the servers in that domain, or you have
> some other method that provides routing to the
> other sub-net for access to the servers through
> TCPBEUI.

Wow, you learn something new every day.  I guess the guys I was working
with had this set up already.

> I think that the User ID and password on the second
> domain has to be the same as the one you log into, unless
> you use the NSC (Network Services Co-ordinator)
> (I think that is what the multiple ID password control
> program is called).

I don't know much about NSC, but I do know that you normally need
identical UserIDs and passwords on both domains.

Otherwise, you'll get an access error if you try connecting.

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From: [e-mail]                           12-Nov-99 17:59:29
  To: All                                               13-Nov-99 00:33:05
Subj: Re: Sound Cards and OS/2

From: [e-mail]

I'd suggest getting the drivers for the AW230 card from Cirrus Logic's
website.

The AW230 sound card uses a CS4280 chipset.  You can download OS/2 drivers for

the card http://www.cirrus.com/drivers/audiodrv/os2.html

>:>Can anyone comment on the working off/difficulties in
>:>getting  working any of the following: ISA AW37-3D cyrstal
>:>chipset card: PCI AW230 4280 Cyrstal Chipset card; or Yamaha
>:>YME744 card or Aztech 368 DSP PCI card?
>
>I recently acquired an AW230 card.  There were no instructions
>for OS/2 anywhere in the installation phamphlet or the CD that
>came with it.  On the AOpen site there is (supposedly) a driver
>for OS/2.  I downloaded it, and called AOpen tech support to
>confirm that it was in fact an auto-unpack file (I don't like
>clicking on .exe files without knowing what's going to happen).
>But when I double click on the file, I get a very Win 3.1 looking
>error box that says "Unexpected DOS error 23".  Phone tech
>support at AOpen said that I'd better contact Taiwan about it.  I
>sent an E-mail to AOpen in Taiwan about the problem about two
>days ago, but have not yet received a response.
>
>
>Jerry Prather                    [e-mail]

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From: [e-mail]                                      12-Nov-99 13:33:13
  To: All                                               13-Nov-99 00:33:05
Subj: Re: DSL setup questions

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

On 11 Nov 1999 23:38:25 GMT, Will Smith wrote:

:>  Basicly, what is required for both software and hardware to
:>prepare an OS/2 system for a DSL hookup.  I am seriously
:>considering doing this before the end of the year and wonder
:>what networking protoclols and hardware my system will need
:>to be ready for PacBell to hook ne up.  Their tech support
:>people have no ideas what is required for an OS/2 system.
:>
:>Bill

Warp 4 or Warp 3 Connect; install TCP/IP (making sure, of course, you have
a supported Ethernet card) and that should be it.

Bell Atlantic just sent me the machine's IP address, the gateway,
nameservers, etc - you just fill in the necessary info in the TCP/IP
configuration and you're off to the races.  Once the cable comes out
of the DSL modem, it's just an Ethernet link to TCP/IP



Frank Field
[e-mail]
O-


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From: [e-mail]                                  12-Nov-99 19:12:20
  To: All                                               13-Nov-99 00:33:05
Subj: Re: Sound Cards and OS/2

From: [e-mail]

In <80hkiu$9mp$[e-mail]>, on 11/12/99
   at 05:59 PM, [e-mail] said:


>I'd suggest getting the drivers for the AW230 card from Cirrus Logic's
>website.

>The AW230 sound card uses a CS4280 chipset.  You can download OS/2
>drivers for  the card http://www.cirrus.com/drivers/audiodrv/os2.html

>>:>Can anyone comment on the working off/difficulties in
>>:>getting  working any of the following: ISA AW37-3D cyrstal
>>:>chipset card: PCI AW230 4280 Cyrstal Chipset card; or Yamaha
>>:>YME744 card or Aztech 368 DSP PCI card?
>>
>>I recently acquired an AW230 card.  There were no instructions
>>for OS/2 anywhere in the installation phamphlet or the CD that
>>came with it.  On the AOpen site there is (supposedly) a driver
>>for OS/2.  I downloaded it, and called AOpen tech support to
>>confirm that it was in fact an auto-unpack file (I don't like
>>clicking on .exe files without knowing what's going to happen).

Just change .exe to .zip and you can view the contents with zipme or
something similar. I have used the AW35/AW37/Pro with no problems. In fact
the AOpen cards (Crystal chipsets) are my favorites. My new pet  favorite
is the Aureal Vortex cards. There are OS/2 drivers for the AU8820 only.
Excellent sound for $19.00. The specs are superior to all Creative Live!
incarnations. Imagine that. I use line-out through a Crown tube amp/preamp
 and it is totally silent. No hiss, no hum. Check it out side by side with
the Creative and the card with the superior sound quality is immediate
apparent.... Aureal. (The Aureal Vortex2 Super Quad PCI with real digital
output is only  $48.00 at www.bunta.com) This is the spec card that the
Turtle Beach Quadzilla is based on. The $38.00 AU8830 Vortex2 is the spec
card for the  Turtle Beach Montego II (and Diamond MX300) and has Quad
output too. The drivers are now OpenSource so I am sure new OS/2 drivers
should pop-up  soon.

>>But when I double click on the file, I get a very Win 3.1 looking
>>error box that says "Unexpected DOS error 23".  Phone tech
>>support at AOpen said that I'd better contact Taiwan about it.  I
>>sent an E-mail to AOpen in Taiwan about the problem about two
>>days ago, but have not yet received a response.
>>
>>
>>Jerry Prather                    [e-mail]

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From: [e-mail]                                  12-Nov-99 19:19:00
  To: All                                               13-Nov-99 00:33:05
Subj: Re: Sound Cards and OS/2

From: [e-mail] (Jerry Prather)

In message <80hkiu$9mp$[e-mail]> -
[e-mail]12 Nov 1999 17:59:58 GMT writes:
:>
:>
:>I'd suggest getting the drivers for the AW230 card from Cirrus Logic's
website.
:>
:>The AW230 sound card uses a CS4280 chipset.  You can download OS/2 drivers
for
:>the card http://www.cirrus.com/drivers/audiodrv/os2.html

Aha!  Thanks!  I had looked at the cirrus site (I think) but I
didn't know the chipset designation.  OTOH, there's a rather
large chip on the board with that letter combination on it, so I
guess I should have figured it out. :-(

Jerry Prather                    [e-mail]

"Many religions are worth dying for; no religion is worth killing
for."
                    - Me (circa 1998)

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From: [e-mail]                           12-Nov-99 19:25:20
  To: All                                               13-Nov-99 00:33:05
Subj: Re: os warp version 3?

From: [e-mail] (John Hong)

Martin Brown <[e-mail]> writes:

>>         However, if DOS applications are important than I would stop with
>> FP39.  FP40 and up have so far broken some things whereas DOS is
>> concerned (ie. DOS_VIDEO_MODE).

>Please tell me more...  any other display quirks in FP40 or FP42 are
>particularly interesting.

    The equivelent fixpak of 42 on Warp 4 is fixpak 12, apparently
there is a memory leak there due to the PMMERGE.DLL file.  It wouldn't
surprise me if FP42 has that, too.  Right now the best FP that I have
found is FP39.

>Also there are a handful of old 16bit PM applications which will not run on
>Warp 4.0 because of some improvements made to the PM API.  Is there a
>limit to the highest Warp 3 fixpack that will still work correctly with
>these older applications ?

    Only way is the find out for yourself.  I don't run any 16-bit
OS/2 PM applications.  FP32 was the first fixpak for Warp 3/Connect to
offer Y2K fixes, but fixpaks since that time have also added some others.
FP39/40 are where the main Y2K issues have been solved.  FP41 only added a
Y2K fix of the backup.exe/restore.exe function which I don't think anyone
uses anymore since they can only backup/restore onto floppies which makes
it kind of useless.

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From: [e-mail]                                13-Nov-99 05:10:02
  To: All                                               13-Nov-99 03:31:18
Subj: Re: Warp Connect Across LAN Domains

From: [e-mail]

In <qpkdVVNoMoTk-pn2-1yNodVgTPGpw@tcpserver>, [e-mail] (Lorne
Sunley) writes:
>
>In order to view machines on another domain you need
>to have that domain name listed in the OTHDOMAINS
>parameter in the IBMLAN.INI file. This lets the
>net view command display the other domain's
>machines.
>
>The OTHDOMAINS parameter is listed in the [requester]
>section at the beginning of the file.
>
>AFAIK each domain in the list has to separated by a comma
>ie: othdomains=domone, domtwo
>
>This presumes that your RFCNAMES.LST has the IP
>addresses of the servers in that domain, or you have
>some other method that provides routing to the
>other sub-net for access to the servers through
>TCPBEUI.

        Aha!  I'll see how I do with this tidbit.

>I think that the User ID and password on the second
>domain has to be the same as the one you log into, unless
>you use the NSC (Network Services Co-ordinator)
>(I think that is what the multiple ID password control
>program is called).

        The manual calls it Network Sign-on Coordinator/2,
I think.  I'll study up on it and see whether it can help
me.  I hadn't picked up any hint that it might help with
simultaneous multiple-domain usage, but I'll see what I
can learn.

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From: [e-mail]                            13-Nov-99 03:34:05
  To: All                                               13-Nov-99 03:31:18
Subj: Re: Logitech Cordless MouseMan Wheel in OS/2?

From: [e-mail]

In <[e-mail]>, Anssi Saari <[e-mail]> writes:
>Brad BARCLAY <[e-mail]> writes:
>
>>     I won't promise anything, but AFAIK all of the scroll mice use the same
>> protocol, so it should work without much troubles.
>
>Well, that seems likely, but I did find someone in Deja who wasn't
>able to make the other Logitech's cordless mouse to work. I mailed him
>and he said he gave up and got a mouse with a cord instead.
>
>--
>Anssi Saari - [e-mail]

The earlier Logitec Cordless RF mice work beautifully on OS/2, as well
as with the ROSE switchers for multiple computer bank installations.
Mine uses just the plain serial port mouse driver.  All these older RF
Logitec mice use a 9600 baud serial port setup.

Very early versions of the WARP 4.0 system seem to have been ill-written
to handle IRQ's for serial port work higher than IRQ-7.  I think that
the mouse drive was written to correct that and as far as I knowk even
IRQ 15 seems to work with FP 8 here.

I, too have wondered what the results of the scroll RF version will be.
At some time, I's sure, I will see my mouse go feets up and it will be
what to do time!


--> Sleep well; OS2's still awake! ;)

[e-mail]
[e-mail]

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From: [e-mail]                                12-Nov-99 21:13:24
  To: All                                               13-Nov-99 03:31:18
Subj: Re: difference between OS/2 warp server and OS/2 warp 4..

From: [e-mail] (Will Honea)

On Fri, 12 Nov 1999 03:59:05, [e-mail] wrote:

> In article <[e-mail]>,
>   [e-mail] (Christopher) wrote:
> >     to all the OS/2 user out there, could anyone tell me that what
> > is the difference between OS/2 Warp server and OS/2 Warp 4?
>
> One is around $150 and server is about $750. Server fully contains
> Warp 4 with in it. Server has SMP (for dual intel chips) Can operate
> as a network server if desired.
>
> There are more features, anyone care to add to list?

Server - unless you get Warp Server for eBusiness - is based on Warp
3, not 4.  The SMP version is available for Warp Server Advanced -
about $1250 - and not for the entry level.  I don't think it's
restricted to dual processors only.  Warp Server 4 (repeat - Warp 3
based) is an excellent server with about any facility you might want.
It will handle hundreds of clients at a time if you use adequate
hardware and has been around long enough to have shaken out most of
the bugs.

Warp 4 is a client only.  It has a competent Peer server capability
but falls far short of being a full server.

Warp Server for eBusiness is new.  List price is about $1700.
Supports multiple processors ( supposedly up to 64, but that sounds
like marketing to me - ever see such a beast?), journaling file
system,  4gb per process memory, etc.  WSeB is for serious server
needs but it will have a few growing pains.

Will Honea <[e-mail]>

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From: [e-mail]                            12-Nov-99 23:30:02
  To: All                                               13-Nov-99 03:31:18
Subj: Re: Installing Warp 4 upgrade on a machine without previous OS/2

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

Like Annie said, Warp4 doesn't check for previous version.  I've installed my
upgrade several times over the years on a freshly formatted drive.  you should
have
NO problems.

Nelson

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From: [e-mail]                            12-Nov-99 23:35:06
  To: All                                               13-Nov-99 03:31:18
Subj: What printer to get?

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

I'm finally graduating from my old Canon BJC-210 to a new printer.  Can
anyone suggest a color inkjet that will work in Warp 4 either using
current drivers, or setting it up as an older printer?
The Lexmark Z-series don't have OS/2 drivers.  I figured Lexmark would
since they're owned by IBM.  So much for that idea.
HP?  Dunno.
Canon?  Haven't checked yet.
So, any suggestions are appreciated.  Thanks in advance.

Nelson

PS - It would be nice if it worked in Linux too.

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From: [e-mail]                                   12-Nov-99 21:58:00
  To: All                                               13-Nov-99 03:31:18
Subj: Re: What printer to get?

From: [e-mail]

Lexmark 5770

I have an epson 400 and all the drivers for it are pathetic. I am told
that the higher number series are better, but I borrowed a friend's 5770,
and I can't wait until I can buy one. Gorgeous color prints.

John

>I'm finally graduating from my old Canon BJC-210 to a new printer.  Can
>anyone suggest a color inkjet that will work in Warp 4 either using
>current drivers, or setting it up as an older printer? The Lexmark
>Z-series don't have OS/2 drivers.  I figured Lexmark would since they're
>owned by IBM.  So much for that idea.
>HP?  Dunno.
>Canon?  Haven't checked yet.
>So, any suggestions are appreciated.  Thanks in advance.

>Nelson

>PS - It would be nice if it worked in Linux too.

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From: [e-mail]                              13-Nov-99 06:22:21
  To: All                                               13-Nov-99 03:31:18
Subj: Re: Sound Cards and OS/2

From: James Moe <[e-mail]>


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

    The error means you tried to run a win9x/nt program in win31.
    Try running UNZIP.EXE on it.

--

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From: [e-mail]                              13-Nov-99 09:23:21
  To: All                                               13-Nov-99 10:28:22
Subj: Re: What printer to get?

From: [e-mail]

On Sat, 13 Nov 1999 04:58:01, [e-mail] wrote:

>
> Lexmark 5770
>
> I have an epson 400 and all the drivers for it are pathetic. I am told
> that the higher number series are better, but I borrowed a friend's 5770,
> and I can't wait until I can buy one. Gorgeous color prints.
>
> John

John,

please excuse my butting in but I looked at the 5770 and it did not
seem to have a driver.  The 5700 does and the 5000 (which I own)does
but isn't the 5770 the one with the direct scanner thingo?

Also I do believe there are some ZXX drivers.

I'm very happy with the 5000 but the one thing I do not understand is
that the 5700 and 3200 are 1200x1200 and the 5000 is 1200x600 but they
all use the same cartridges?

Regards

Paul in Canberra Australia

>
> >I'm finally graduating from my old Canon BJC-210 to a new printer.  Can
> >anyone suggest a color inkjet that will work in Warp 4 either using
> >current drivers, or setting it up as an older printer? The Lexmark
> >Z-series don't have OS/2 drivers.  I figured Lexmark would since they're
> >owned by IBM.  So much for that idea.
> >HP?  Dunno.
> >Canon?  Haven't checked yet.
> >So, any suggestions are appreciated.  Thanks in advance.
>
> >Nelson
>
> >PS - It would be nice if it worked in Linux too.
>
> >--
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> >this message. If you are using a Microsoft program to view this message,
> >be forewarned that I am not responsible for any harm you may encounter as
> >a result.
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>
>
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From: [e-mail]                                 13-Nov-99 12:02:00
  To: All                                               13-Nov-99 10:28:22
Subj: Re: Sound Cards and OS/2

From: [e-mail] (Mooo)

[e-mail] (Richard A Crane) wrote:

>Can anyone comment on the working off/difficulties in
>getting  working any of the following: ISA AW37-3D cyrstal
>chipset card:

Dont know about the 3D version but the original ISA AW37 (4235 crystal
set) works fine.


> PCI AW230 4280 Cyrstal Chipset card;

Also works fine with the latest drivers from crystal.


> or Yamaha
>YME744 card

Have not tried this one.

> or Aztech 368 DSP PCI card?

Works to a degreem but does not support winos2 sound.

Craig

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From: [e-mail]                                 14-Nov-99 04:01:02
  To: All                                               13-Nov-99 10:28:22
Subj: Re: Real Modem

From: [e-mail] (Richard Steiner)

Here in comp.os.os2.setup.misc, Don McLeod <[e-mail]>
spake unto us, saying:

>I have a 3Com/USR Internet Voice/Fax modem. I can't get the thing to run
>under OS/2 Warp 4. It's NOT a WINMODEM. I can get it to run fine under
>DOS, or Linux, but not Warp 4. Does anyone have any suggestions?

Which COM port and IRQ is it configured for?  Is it an internal or an
external modem?

--
   -Rich Steiner  >>>--->  [e-mail]  >>>---> Bloomington, MN
     OS/2 + BeOS + Linux + Solaris + Win95 + WinNT4 + FreeBSD + DOS
      + VMWare + Fusion + vMac + Executor = PC Hobbyist Heaven! :-)
              ...and then she pressed the ctrl key...  :-)

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From: [e-mail]                           13-Nov-99 13:57:02
  To: All                                               13-Nov-99 12:46:02
Subj: Re: os warp version 3?

From: Martin Brown <[e-mail]>

John Hong wrote:

> Martin Brown <[e-mail]> writes:
>
> >>         However, if DOS applications are important than I would stop with
> >> FP39.  FP40 and up have so far broken some things whereas DOS is
> >> concerned (ie. DOS_VIDEO_MODE).
>
> >Please tell me more...  any other display quirks in FP40 or FP42 are
> >particularly interesting.
>
>         The equivelent fixpak of 42 on Warp 4 is fixpak 12, apparently
> there is a memory leak there due to the PMMERGE.DLL file.  It wouldn't
> surprise me if FP42 has that, too.

Now *that* is interesting. I didn't mention it, but the failure mode I am
seeing
is a SYS3182 floating point stack exception in PMMERGE.DLL when these 16bit
multitasking apps start.
Probably an unrelated fault but also in the same DLL. Did they make a lot of
changes in there ?

>  Right now the best FP that I have found is FP39.

Will try that one shortly.

> >Also there are a handful of old 16bit PM applications which will not run on
> >Warp 4.0 because of some improvements made to the PM API.  Is there a
> >limit to the highest Warp 3 fixpack that will still work correctly with
> >these older applications ?
>
>         Only way is the find out for yourself.

Yes - that's in progress. I was hoping to short circuit the tedious binary
chop
process if someone has already been through this excercise.

>  I don't run any 16-bit OS/2 PM applications.  FP32 was the first fixpak for
> Warp 3/Connect to
> offer Y2K fixes, but fixpaks since that time have also added some others.

> FP39/40 are where the main Y2K issues have been solved.

What important Y2K problems or gotchas are still in 38 then ?
I have the APAR lists, but the problem is they don't tell the whole story.

Regards,
Martin Brown

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From: [e-mail]                           13-Nov-99 16:19:11
  To: All                                               13-Nov-99 12:46:02
Subj: Re: OS/2 & >64 MB Detection on new boards

From: Karen Field <[e-mail]>


"Timothy J. Bogart" wrote:
> This seems a bit puzzling.  Back in 94 or so, I had the
> problem with an ALR, and thought it was funny that
> I wound up setting the BIOS setting to "NT" to
> get it to work.  Now I never tried NT on the machines,
> but of course, this implies that would not work?  Or
> that NT and OS/2 differentiated at some point?

Right - NT/Win9x use a completely different style of BIOS call to
get memory information now; you can check the WWW site listed earlier
in this thread, looking for INT 15H; AX=8820 or 8810, as I recall....

Frank Field
[e-mail]
O-

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From: [e-mail]                                   13-Nov-99 15:51:01
  To: All                                               13-Nov-99 12:46:02
Subj: Re: OS/2 Warp & Windows 98

From: [e-mail] (wbg)

Patrick Fitzgerald ([e-mail]) wrote:
: I am so frustrated at not being able to run some things with OS./2
: Warp, version 3, that I have ordered Windows 98 SE.

: Can I have Windows and OS/2 running on my computer at the same time.

The distinction, as others have pointed out, is that they can occupy the
same box at the same time, but only one can *run* at a time.

Boot Manager is the answer, but not the whole answer. For that you must
have Partition Magic. The safest way to have Da Virus and Warp coexist
is to actually assign them each their own C: partition, of which only one
obviously can be active at any one time. This absolutely ensures that
Da Virus is incapable of seeing, much less mucking about with, OS/2.

I say that because I cannot speak with any real certainty to the possibly
expanded mucking-about capacities of Virus98 as distinguished from Virus95.
I know that 95 cannot see, or even recognize the existence of, HPFS
partitions. Can't assure you of the same safety with 98. The beauty is,
if you set up Da Virus on FAT16, rather than FAT32 (disk space is so
cheap, and long filenames are nice but not IMO really necessary) then
OS/2 can read and write to your Virus partitions (except, obviously,
the Virus's C: if you have also setup Warp on a C:) but Da Virus cannot
touch Warp. At all. Assuming you use HPFS for it.

A warning that is not intuitively obvious; when you install 95 or 98
over an existing Boot Manager installation (which you *will* be doing if
you sequence things appropriately) you'll get a snippy (and outright lying)
caution msg from Da Virus implying that if you continue with the Virus
install, Boot Mangler will be trashed and forever unusuable. It's a
filthy, dirty, deliberate lie from those fine, upstanding folks
in Redmond. All 98/95 does is simply set the BM partition inactive.
On next restart, you simply boot from floppy and use FDISK to set
Boot Mangler's partition active again. You'll not have to deal with
the problem until the next time you have to reinstall Da Virus.

For what it's worth, here's how mine is organized:

    DRV    FS    LTR    NAME

    0    --    --    Boot Manager
    0    FAT16    C:    Da Virus V95
    0    FAT16    C:    NovellDos 7
    0    FAT16    D:    DOS/Win apps, data
    0    HPFS    E:    Warp 4
    0    HPFS    F:    Warp applications
    0    HPFS    G:    Games
    0    HPFS    H:    Warp data, downloads
    1    EXT2        Linux RH5.2

BTW I have LILO in the root Linux partition, where it is called
by Boot Mangler. Seems to work just fine.


Brewster
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From: [e-mail]                                13-Nov-99 18:44:02
  To: All                                               13-Nov-99 16:36:24
Subj: Re: Diamond Viper V770 Ultra OS/2 and Xfree86

From: [e-mail] (Duncan Munro)

I modified xf86config to use a software cursor. xfree86/2 works fine
intil i switch to the os/2 desktop. When I switch back to xfree86/2
the system freezes when I try to use the mouse. bummer...

Duncan

On Fri, 12 Nov 1999 11:19:13 GMT, [e-mail] (Duncan Munro)
wrote:

>Installing a colour mouse pointer helps but it doesnt fully cure the
>problem. If I start xfree86/2 3.3.3  then switch back to the os/2
>desktop the mouse curser will redisplay but not in winos2!
>more seriously, If I try to click on the xfree86/2 cde desktop the
>system freezes and I have to C-A-D to restart (does a clean shutdown
>though). I'm using a diamond viper 550 (tnt 128 16megs ram).
>
>I suspect the solution willl be to use a software cursor with
>xfree86/2 but I'm not sure how to do that.
>
>Duncan
>
>On Thu, 04 Nov 1999 15:01:50 -0500, John Youells
><[e-mail]> wrote:
>
>>Greg O'Sullivan <[e-mail]> wrote:
>>
>>>I just installed OS/2 and Xfree86 on a machine with a V770
>>>32MB video card. (Nvidia TNT2 ultra based).
>>>
>>>I used the Nvidia GRADD drivers from their web site.
>>>I only get 60Hz refresh rate, seems to work OK
>>>
>>>I also installed Xfree86 3.3.5 which works OK but when
>>>I switch back to the OS/2 desktop the mouse cursor is
>>>invisible.
>>>
>>>Anyone got any ideas to solve these problems,
>>>refresh rate and missing mouse cursor?
>>>The mouse cursor is making X a one way trip
>>>for me at present.
>>>
>>>Greg O'Sullivan
>>>gjo at deakin dot edu dot au
>>
>>
>>  I don't run XFree86 under OS/2 but I would suggest that you try loading a
>>color mouse cursor set under OS/2 and see what happens. (I do have
experience
>>with Nvidia's gradd driver and 60Hz ;)
>>
>>
>>
>>John Youells
>>LifeStream Computing
>

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From: [e-mail]                                13-Nov-99 13:57:19
  To: All                                               13-Nov-99 16:36:24
Subj: FDisk problem after Linux

From: "Alex Bell" <[e-mail]>

I have just tried to do a custom  install of Red Hat Linux 5.2 on my ThinkPad
385XD. So far as I know I installed LILO into the root partition.  When I
boot  the computer Boot Manager comes up as usual, with the preset BootOS2
and OS/2 options on the menu.  There are also three other partitions on the
menu, but I don't know what they are.

When I call FDisk from OS/2 or from the BootOS2 partition or the BootOS2
flopies there is a sys3175 error, and when I press OK there is a sys1811
error with a message that there is a software trap at 000D.

Now what do I do?

Regards, Alex


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From: [e-mail]                             13-Nov-99 14:33:03
  To: All                                               13-Nov-99 16:36:25
Subj: Re: FDisk problem after Linux

From: Alan Beagley <[e-mail]>

I've just been through a similar problem with RH Linux 6.1.

As far as I have been able to make out, the only way to have Linux and OS/2
cohabit amicably is to create the desired Linux partitions using OS/2 FDISK,
then
select "expert" mode when you are installing Linux, and use the Linux fdisk to
change the type of the OS/2-created partitions to Linux (type 82 or 83, as
needed).

Alan


Alex Bell wrote:

> I have just tried to do a custom  install of Red Hat Linux 5.2 on my
ThinkPad
> 385XD. So far as I know I installed LILO into the root partition.  When I
> boot  the computer Boot Manager comes up as usual, with the preset BootOS2
> and OS/2 options on the menu.  There are also three other partitions on the
> menu, but I don't know what they are.
>
> When I call FDisk from OS/2 or from the BootOS2 partition or the BootOS2
> flopies there is a sys3175 error, and when I press OK there is a sys1811
> error with a message that there is a software trap at 000D.
>
> Now what do I do?
>
> Regards, Alex

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From: [e-mail]                          13-Nov-99 20:13:18
  To: All                                               13-Nov-99 16:36:25
Subj: Re: Suspend mode?

From: [e-mail] (e-frog)

Dave ([e-mail]) wrote:


: I grabbed an ATX case and wondering how well OS/2 handles the suspend/deep
: sleep stuff.
: It could realy make thing nice.  The boots time is considerable.

I have a FIC 503+ and I plugged in an ATX supply. It didn't work. I mean
the supply didn't shut off and restoring from sleep mode caused all sorts
of problems and I had to reboot. (looked like the mouse was stuck and
jumpy and yup, got the new scrollms.exe drivers). Though I might attribute
this fact to my AceCad pen tablet.

I have OS/2 installed on a Toshiba laptop and the susped/resume works fine
from there. Seems to be about a < 10 sec. delay before it "fully" wakes
up.


Isaac

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From: [e-mail]                    13-Nov-99 21:30:27
  To: All                                               13-Nov-99 19:47:02
Subj: Re: What printer to get?

From: [e-mail] (John Hong)

Nelson and Satasha Williams ([e-mail]) wrote:

: The Lexmark Z-series don't have OS/2 drivers.  I figured Lexmark would
: since they're owned by IBM.  So much for that idea.

    I think you had better look again.  Z51 and Z32 both have OS/2
driver support.  Z11 does not since it is marketed as a low-end cheap
solution (and no one running OS/2 is supposed to be cheap. ;-).

: HP?  Dunno.

    HP 880 can work under both OS/2 and Linux.

: Canon?  Haven't checked yet.

    Canon BJC-4400, 2000, 6000 can all work under OS/2 and also Linux.

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From: [e-mail]                                13-Nov-99 17:13:16
  To: All                                               13-Nov-99 19:47:02
Subj: Re: FDisk problem after Linux

From: "Alex Bell" <[e-mail]>

On Sat, 13 Nov 1999 14:33:07 -0500, Alan Beagley wrote:

Thanks, Alan, but that's not really what I'm looking for.  My main priority
to get OS/2 FDisk working again.  I don't care if I have to delete Linux, as
long as my OS/2 system works without any problem.

>I've just been through a similar problem with RH Linux 6.1.
>
>As far as I have been able to make out, the only way to have Linux and OS/2
>cohabit amicably is to create the desired Linux partitions using OS/2 FDISK,
then
>select "expert" mode when you are installing Linux, and use the Linux fdisk
to
>change the type of the OS/2-created partitions to Linux (type 82 or 83, as
>needed).
>
>Alan
>
>
>Alex Bell wrote:
>
>> I have just tried to do a custom  install of Red Hat Linux 5.2 on my
ThinkPad
>> 385XD. So far as I know I installed LILO into the root partition.  When I
>> boot  the computer Boot Manager comes up as usual, with the preset BootOS2
>> and OS/2 options on the menu.  There are also three other partitions on the
>> menu, but I don't know what they are.
>>
>> When I call FDisk from OS/2 or from the BootOS2 partition or the BootOS2
>> flopies there is a sys3175 error, and when I press OK there is a sys1811
>> error with a message that there is a software trap at 000D.
>>
>> Now what do I do?
>>
>> Regards, Alex
>



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From: [e-mail]                           13-Nov-99 17:42:11
  To: All                                               13-Nov-99 19:47:02
Subj: Need CDRW help - again!

From: "Gail Koontz" <[e-mail]>

After asking for opinions, I ordered two Yamaha CDRW drives from Indelible
Blue - an internal EIDE to replace one of the IDE CD-ROMs on my husband's
machine and an external SCSI to do dual duty between my computer and the
"community" portable. I've kept checking, and they have always showed up as
back ordered. Exactly a month after the original order (when the law says
they have to tell me something), I got a note saying the internal drive had
been discontinued and suggesting a Sony drive as a replacement. Since that
wasn't high on my list of needs I declined so that I could think about it and
asked whether the other drive was ready to be shipped. At that point I got a
second note saying, in effect, "Oh, by the way, that one is no longer
available either; would you like to order something else?"

I had originally thought it would be a good idea to order a "matched pair."
Is this simply a strange notion on my part, or would it truly produce fewer
problems in using the output from one drive on the other one? I think I've
identified a Yamaha internal EIDE drive (CRW4416E) that's available from
another vendor. I know I can get a Yamaha external SCSI drive (CRW6416SXZ)
easily. (At this point, I'm not inclined to give the business to Indelible
Blue, even if they are supporters of OS/2. I think making me wait a month for
something they surely knew they would never ship was inexcusable.)

Two questions:

Should I still aim for a "matched pair," or would any EIDE drive do as well?

Is there a problem with the Yamaha drives if I want to create and read
multi-session CDs? I ask this because of this comment from Anssi Saari: "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." If there really is a problem, will
I have any trouble finding out how to patch that file? Or should I get some
other brand entirely?

Thanks for any help!


Gail Koontz        Retired in my home state
836 Mallard Rd.         . . . and loving it!
Cocoa, FL 32926    [e-mail]



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From: [e-mail]                     15-Nov-99 17:38:20
  To: All                                               15-Nov-99 14:46:25
Subj: >64MB Memory: A fix from our favorite OS/2 programmer...

From: [e-mail]


Daniela Engert has once again come through in spades for the OS/2 user...

Behold!
ftp://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/incoming/patchldr.zip
(to be moved to:
ftp://hobbbes.nmsu.edu/pub/os2/system/patches/patchldr.zip)

:)

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From: [e-mail]                        15-Nov-99 12:35:27
  To: All                                               15-Nov-99 14:46:25
Subj: Re: Help Please, Cable modem

From: Jon Cleveland <[e-mail]>

Well, I have tried just about everything I know to do and it still will not
see
the network.
If anyone else has any suggetstions please let me know. I will try anything at
this point.
I just don't know what else to try to make the DHCP work. I appreciate any and
all help.

Thank You


Jon Cleveland




> >J Christopher Kennedy wrote:
>
> > In <[e-mail]>, on 11/14/99
> >    at 04:30 PM, "Jon C." <[e-mail]> said:
> >
> > >I can't ping anything. If I choose Manual instead of DHCP and I configure
> > >the IP address, router address etc,
> > >after I reboot I can ping the IP address but nothing else. What am I
> > >missing? I gone over and over this
> >
> > You must enter the correct domain name in the domain name field of the
> > tcp/ip notebook.  You would get this from your cable company ISP.  I am on
> > @Home, and my domain name is not home.com, but olmpi1.wa.home.com.
Without
> > this configured correctly the system just sits here playing stupid, and
> > only allows pinging of IP's but not anything else.
>  --------------------------------------------------------------
>

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From: [e-mail]                                  15-Nov-99 17:39:01
  To: All                                               15-Nov-99 14:46:25
Subj: Re: Max open files when running MSC 6.0 compiler

From: [e-mail] (Yuri Dario)

On Wed, 10 Nov 1999 10:21:20, [e-mail] wrote:

> How can I get around this problem so I don't need to keep one computer
> in the old Warp3 just for compiling (all computers in the network
> running the system have Warp4)?

try adding

    SET SHELLHANDLESINC=30

to your config.sys: replace 30 with the number of file handles to add
to your current configuration (usually 20).

Bye,

    Yuri Dario

/*
 * member of TeamOS/2 - Italy
 * http://www.quasarbbs.com/yuri
 */

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From: [e-mail]                                15-Nov-99 10:20:07
  To: All                                               15-Nov-99 20:08:22
Subj: Re: Please Help with Yamaha SCSI CD-ReWritable Drive.

From: [e-mail] (Jerry McBride)

In article <[e-mail]>,
"Roland Pinches" <[e-mail]> wrote:
>I have decided that this drive, Yamaha 4416S, doesn't work with WSeB. It
>worked fine with Warp 4.0 but I cannot get past loading the Adaptec driver
>when I have my CDRW powered on (it's an external model). Under Warp 4.0 this
>wasn't a problem :-(    Of course it could be the Adaptec SCSI that is the
>problem....
>

Roland,

I've had my share of nits with Wseb. What I would suggest trying is copying
the scsi driver(s) from the 4.0 box to the Wseb box and reboot. Uhh... make
a backup first... :')

Over here, the Wseb supplied drivers for our bus mice and com.sys simply
refuse
to work. Also, we've noticed some really weird characters being displayed
where
time, date and other information should be displayed. It's such an annoyance,
I took the Wseb box offline and replaced it with old-but-true Lanserver 4.0.

Lanserver works... and works... and works...

In Wseb for instance, clicking open netscape on Wseb, going to page setup and
looking
at the margin settings... instead of seeing numbers, garbage is displayed and
once you open page setup, your netscape printing support is destroyed... It's
not a netscape specific problem as this "bug" is sprinkled all though Wseb.

Some days Wseb is perfect, some days all it wants to display is trash and it's
total hell.


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*
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*
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From: [e-mail]                                15-Nov-99 10:15:26
  To: All                                               15-Nov-99 20:08:22
Subj: Re: Please Help with Yamaha SCSI CD-ReWritable Drive.

From: [e-mail] (Jerry McBride)

In article <382f7ba2$2$ureafzbqrfgvy$[e-mail]>,
[e-mail] wrote:
>Does anyone Have any experience (good/bad/neither) with these Yamaha
>models under OS/2?
>
>YCRW4416S 4X4X16 SCSI CD-ReWritable Drive
>YCRW6416S 6X4X16 SCSI CD-ReWritable Drive
>

I have one 4416S on my personal OS/2 machine client and one 4416S on a Wseb
server.

They both run flawlessly, burning both CDR and CDRW via CDRECORD. IMHO the
6416
just isn't worth the extra bucks. You be better off buying the 4416 and
spending the difference that a 6416 costs on extra media...

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*
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*
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From: [e-mail]                          15-Nov-99 12:43:11
  To: All                                               15-Nov-99 20:08:23
Subj: Re: Real Modem

From: Zachariah McLeod <[e-mail]>

No, I can't

Richard Steiner wrote:

> Here in comp.os.os2.setup.misc, Zachariah McLeod <[e-mail]>
> spake unto us, saying:
>
> >According to Windows 98 it's on COM 1, the interrupt is 4, and the address
> >is 3F8. Is the DMA than interrupt or the address?
>
> A modem shouldn't use a DMA.  The other information (IRQ and base addr)
> sure looks standard to me for something using COM1.
>
> Can you see the modem using the DOS software in a VDM?
>
> --
>    -Rich Steiner  >>>--->  [e-mail]  >>>---> Bloomington, MN
>      OS/2 + BeOS + Linux + Solaris + Win95 + WinNT4 + FreeBSD + DOS
>       + VMWare + Fusion + vMac + Executor = PC Hobbyist Heaven! :-)
>           Two wrongs don't make a right -- but three LEFTS do!!


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From: [e-mail]                                  15-Nov-99 21:34:24
  To: All                                               15-Nov-99 20:08:23
Subj: OS/2 + 128Mb ram on MSI 6167 motherboard

From: "Ad van Poppel" <[e-mail]>

On my new system, an AMD Atlon on a MSI 6167 motherboard, with one DIMM
128Mb ram OS/2 cannot recognized more than ñ64Mb of ram.
When I use the option in the BIOS (OS2 or non-OS2) that the OS is OS/2
then there is no more than 16Mb of ram.
So I put the option on non-OS2.
OS/2 isn't installed on this system, I have moved the harddisks and so
other to the new machine.
Is this possible the answer to the problem and I have to re-install
OS/2 on the new machine so it recognized the full 128Mb of ram?

Greetings,
Ad.

OS/2....the choice of a happy generation!


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From: [e-mail]                          15-Nov-99 15:25:12
  To: All                                               15-Nov-99 20:08:23
Subj: Re: Please Help with Yamaha SCSI CD-ReWritable Drive.

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

On Mon, 15 Nov 1999 14:37:06 GMT, Lorne Sunley wrote:

>On Mon, 15 Nov 1999 12:08:03, "Roland Pinches"
><[e-mail]> wrote:
>
>> I have decided that this drive, Yamaha 4416S, doesn't work with WSeB. It
>> worked fine with Warp 4.0 but I cannot get past loading the Adaptec driver
>> when I have my CDRW powered on (it's an external model). Under Warp 4.0
this
>> wasn't a problem :-(    Of course it could be the Adaptec SCSI that is the
>> problem....
>>
>Have you tried using the Adaptec driver you are using under
>Warp 4. WSeB has one the later versions of the Adaptec
>drivers that appear to cause annoying problems with some
>of the SCSI cards.
>
>Lorne Sunley
>
The driver I am using is the same as under Warp 4.0. I have tried previous
versions and all exhibit the same problem. This is the driver I'm using
currently (taken from a directory listing):

21-01-99  11:48a    138380         219  AIC78U2.ADD

This is version 3.02 of the driver as downloaded from the ASUS site, since it
is an Asus motherboard. It is the same as the driver that can be downloaded
from the Adaptec site too.

Not sure if I've tried the driver that comes with WSeB since I upgraded my
machine from Warp 4 to WSeB, rather than doing a fresh install. I'll check
this out...


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From: [e-mail]                               15-Nov-99 09:34:16
  To: All                                               15-Nov-99 20:08:23
Subj: Re: Please Help with Yamaha SCSI CD-ReWritable Drive.

From: [e-mail]

In article <382f7ba2$2$ureafzbqrfgvy$[e-mail]>,
  [e-mail] wrote:
> Does anyone Have any experience (good/bad/neither) with these Yamaha
> models under OS/2?

> YCRW4416S 4X4X16 SCSI CD-ReWritable Drive
> YCRW6416S 6X4X16 SCSI CD-ReWritable Drive

> e-mail replies are greatly appreciated.

Hi

I have a 6416s, and a Tekram DC390U2W. I haven't had the drive long
enough yet to test it thoroughly, I haven't tried at all to record
anything with either Linux or Solaris.

It comes with Adaptec recording software for Win32, which seems to work
OK. It also comes with jumpers and a single connection SCSI cable
(SCSI-2, 10Mbyte/sec).

On OS/2, the software choice seems to be either RSJ ($$$) or
cdrecord/mkisofs. The latter seems to work. However, to date I haven't
succeeded in creating a multisession disk that OS/2 can read other than
the 1st session. Perhaps this is a limitation of the decrepit cdfs.ifs.

I haven't yet tried the demo version of RSJ.

Regards
Paul


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From: [e-mail]                          15-Nov-99 22:10:16
  To: All                                               15-Nov-99 20:08:23
Subj: Re: Please Help with Yamaha SCSI CD-ReWritable Drive.

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

Jerry,

In another posting, Eric Olson suggested that I flash the firmware on my
CDRW. Once I finally found the update files on the Yamaha web site (I must be
going blind!), I downloaded the latest flash and then set about building a
DOS boot disk with SCSI support. This is turning out to be a painfull
experience (I haven't used DOS for a *long* time) as I don't have any FAT
partitions on my system, so I'm trying to build everything onto a diskette. I
hate DOS...

Hopefully the firmware update will fix the problem as it specifically
addresses problems with identifying the CDRW at boot time. I hope it is all
worth it....

I have already tried the driver from Warp 4.0 and it hasn't made any
difference.

As for other problems with WSeB, I've not had too many. Java isn't too good
in Netscape 4.61 and the SMP performance didn't make as much difference as
I'd hoped for in the upgrade from Warp 4.0 (1 x 400MHz PII) to WSeB (2 x
400MHz PII), but generally it is exceptionally stable and does everything I
want. There are problems but I'm getting around them, however painfull :-)

Thanks,
Roly.


On Mon, 15 Nov 1999 10:20:15 -0500, Jerry McBride wrote:

>In article <[e-mail]>,
>"Roland Pinches" <[e-mail]> wrote:
>>I have decided that this drive, Yamaha 4416S, doesn't work with WSeB. It
>>worked fine with Warp 4.0 but I cannot get past loading the Adaptec driver
>>when I have my CDRW powered on (it's an external model). Under Warp 4.0 this
>>wasn't a problem :-(    Of course it could be the Adaptec SCSI that is the
>>problem....
>>
>
>Roland,
>
>I've had my share of nits with Wseb. What I would suggest trying is copying
>the scsi driver(s) from the 4.0 box to the Wseb box and reboot. Uhh... make
>a backup first... :')
>
>Over here, the Wseb supplied drivers for our bus mice and com.sys simply
refuse
>to work. Also, we've noticed some really weird characters being displayed
where
>time, date and other information should be displayed. It's such an annoyance,
>I took the Wseb box offline and replaced it with old-but-true Lanserver 4.0.
>
>Lanserver works... and works... and works...
>
>In Wseb for instance, clicking open netscape on Wseb, going to page setup and
looking
>at the margin settings... instead of seeing numbers, garbage is displayed and
>once you open page setup, your netscape printing support is destroyed... It's
>not a netscape specific problem as this "bug" is sprinkled all though Wseb.
>
>Some days Wseb is perfect, some days all it wants to display is trash and
it's
>total hell.
>
>
>--
>
>******************************************************************************
*
>*            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
*
>******************************************************************************
*
>
>/----------------------------------------\
>| From the desktop of: Jerome D. McBride |
>|         [e-mail]             |
>\----------------------------------------/
>
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>



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From: [e-mail]                           15-Nov-99 22:09:18
  To: All                                               15-Nov-99 20:08:23
Subj: Re: OS/2 + 128Mb ram on MSI 6167 motherboard

From: [e-mail] (Lorne Sunley)

On Mon, 15 Nov 1999 20:34:48, "Ad van Poppel" <[e-mail]>
wrote:

> On my new system, an AMD Atlon on a MSI 6167 motherboard, with one DIMM
> 128Mb ram OS/2 cannot recognized more than ñ64Mb of ram.
> When I use the option in the BIOS (OS2 or non-OS2) that the OS is OS/2
> then there is no more than 16Mb of ram.
> So I put the option on non-OS2.
> OS/2 isn't installed on this system, I have moved the harddisks and so
> other to the new machine.
> Is this possible the answer to the problem and I have to re-install
> OS/2 on the new machine so it recognized the full 128Mb of ram?
>

Obtain the patch created by Daniela Engert that has
been uploaded to http://hobbes.nmsu.edu

It's called patchldr.zip and it is in the /pub/new directory right
now.

Unzip it and follow the directions to patch the OS2LDR
program and it should detect all your RAM

Lorne Sunley

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From: [e-mail]                           13-Nov-99 13:36:17
  To: All                                               15-Nov-99 20:08:23
Subj: Re: Setting up all the stuff I need for Merlin

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

In <[e-mail]>, on 11/12/99
   at 12:26 AM, [e-mail] (Will Honea) said:

>> I have downloaded the secure version of NC 4.61, I am downloading the
>> JDK 1.1.8 and the Java runtime to go with it. I still have the VAJava
>> to load, and I am trying to figure out the fixes for that. It looks
>> from the web pages I've seen that I need the Feature Installer to
>> install the Java stuff I downloaded, but I need Netscape to use the
>> Feature Installer, but I need to have Java installed before getting
>> Netscape going. This is nearly circular, unless there are portions
>> I can install to get, uh, around that. I figure maybe the best route
>> is to install VAJava, which likely has with it whatever I need to get
>> Netscape going, so that I can then install the FI, which will let me
>> install the new JRE and JDK over the top of the toolkit that VAJava
>> requires. Have I got that right? And once I have all THAT going,
>> where do I go to get that Java Media tool and the new Java-based
>> mail tool?

>Like you said: Whew!  OK, Warp 4 installed, good start. FP12 is next,
>but get DD01 (they pulled the device driver upgrades out of the base
>FP about fp10 or 11).  Next, uninstall Java 1.02
>(OS2\INSTALL\INSTALL\Installed features, uninstall from the icon).
>Boot.  Install Netscape 4.61 (no, it doesn't REQUIRE Java or FI).
>Next is FI 1.25, then Java 1.1.8.  There is a note in the readmes
>about a netscape\program\java\118 directory - read that since the
>install probably missed it.  Tells you what to copy where.

This is no longer an issue with Comm 4.61 (it was - but with Comm 4.04,
as Java readme tells). Comm 4.61 has Java 1.1.8 layer installed by
default, you do not need to worry about it.

Cheers,
Ivan

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From: [e-mail]                     15-Nov-99 23:12:14
  To: All                                               16-Nov-99 05:11:16
Subj: Re: OS/2 + 128Mb ram on MSI 6167 motherboard

From: [e-mail]

In article <[e-mail]>,
  "Ad van Poppel" <[e-mail]> wrote:

<snip>

Get and apply: ftp://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/new/patchldr.zip

-Steven Hunter                *OS/2 Warp 4 * |But on the other hand...|
[e-mail] *AMD K6-2 400* |There's 5 more fingers. |


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From: [e-mail]                    16-Nov-99 04:54:25
  To: All                                               16-Nov-99 05:11:17
Subj: IDE Hard Drive upgrade. Please help.

From: [e-mail]

Does anyone Have any experience with the most recent high capacity IDE
hard drives under OS/2?

I'd like to replace my current 6GB with something in the 20GB to 37GB
range.

I am inclined to buy the WD Caviar models, past experiences has been very
good. But all sugestions are welcome.

e-mail replies are greatly appreciated.

TIA
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From: [e-mail]                    16-Nov-99 04:46:01
  To: All                                               16-Nov-99 05:11:17
Subj: Re: Please Help with Yamaha SCSI CD-ReWritable Drive.

From: [e-mail]

In <382f7ba2$2$ureafzbqrfgvy$[e-mail]>, on 11/15/99
   at 03:23 AM, [e-mail] said:

>Does anyone Have any experience (good/bad/neither) with these Yamaha
>models under OS/2?

>YCRW4416S 4X4X16 SCSI CD-ReWritable Drive
>YCRW6416S 6X4X16 SCSI CD-ReWritable Drive

>e-mail replies are greatly appreciated.
>
>TIA


Thank You everyone for your responses, your help is greatly appreciated. I
will order the YCRW6416S it's only five dollars more.
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From: [e-mail]                            16-Nov-99 00:14:13
  To: All                                               16-Nov-99 05:11:17
Subj: Re: What printer to get?

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

Thanks to all for the replies.  I've checked the Device Driver site and have
decided to go with either a Canon or HP.  I was looking at the HP 712C and
812C, but they weren't listed.  But the HP 695C is listed, and it doesn't
look too bad. Again, thanks!!

Nelson

Nelson and Satasha Williams wrote:

> I'm finally graduating from my old Canon BJC-210 to a new printer.  Can
> anyone suggest a color inkjet that will work in Warp 4 either using
> current drivers, or setting it up as an older printer?
> The Lexmark Z-series don't have OS/2 drivers.  I figured Lexmark would
> since they're owned by IBM.  So much for that idea.
> HP?  Dunno.
> Canon?  Haven't checked yet.
> So, any suggestions are appreciated.  Thanks in advance.
>
> Nelson
>
> PS - It would be nice if it worked in Linux too.
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From: [e-mail]                           16-Nov-99 07:39:15
  To: All                                               16-Nov-99 05:11:17
Subj: Re: What printer to get?

From: [e-mail] (John Hong)

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

>Thanks to all for the replies.  I've checked the Device Driver site and have
>decided to go with either a Canon or HP.  I was looking at the HP 712C and
>812C, but they weren't listed.  But the HP 695C is listed, and it doesn't
>look too bad. Again, thanks!!

    What do you intend on using it for?  If you want photos then you
will have to look at the supported Lexmark and Epson models.  If for
general purpose than the HP 695/697, Canon BJC-4400 would do just fine
(not to mention they should be running pretty cheap nowadays since they
have since been replaced, HP 610/612 and Canon BJC-2000/2010).
    If you had the money I would myself go with the Canon BJC-6000.
Individual inkjet tanks and it prints really fast.

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From: [e-mail]                             15-Nov-99 11:15:27
  To: All                                               16-Nov-99 05:11:17
Subj: Re: Diamond Viper V770 Ultra OS/2 and Xfree86

From: [e-mail]    (Michael Taylor)

> >>Greg O'Sullivan <[e-mail]> wrote:
> >>
> >>>I just installed OS/2 and Xfree86 on a machine with a V770
> >>>32MB video card. (Nvidia TNT2 ultra based).
> >>>
> >>>I used the Nvidia GRADD drivers from their web site.
> >>>I only get 60Hz refresh rate, seems to work OK
> >>>
> >>>I also installed Xfree86 3.3.5 which works OK but when
> >>>I switch back to the OS/2 desktop the mouse cursor is
> >>>invisible.
> >>>

I installed the Scitech drivers and it works properly.
The Scitech drivers did not properly identify the V770 but that
problem is fixed for the next beta.

Anyway even the VBE/VESA default stuff works well on the V770
and the mouse cursor is still visible when switching back to
the OS/2 desktop.

Another big plus is that the mouse cursor doesn't get all
jerky when scrolling in OS/2 Windows (eg long directory
listings). At last real hardware mouse cursors in OS/2!

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From: [e-mail]                               16-Nov-99 10:14:17
  To: All                                               16-Nov-99 05:11:17
Subj: PCMCIA Card Services Drivers

From: Bruce Diesel <[e-mail]>

Hi,

I have a laptop with a PCMCIA bus based on the TI 1220 chipset.  I
cannot get Warp to recognise this.  Any ideas?

Thanks,

Bruce Diesel

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From: [e-mail]                   11-Nov-99 18:33:15
  To: All                                               16-Nov-99 10:39:06
Subj: Re: ThinkPad 600E & 3Com 3C589 PCMCIA  *PROBLEMS*

From: Christian =?iso-8859-1?Q?S=F6derlund?= <[e-mail]>

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Orest Skrypuch wrote:
>
> Well the 600E's arrived, and I'm busy installing Warp. These need to
> access our local network (NetBios & TCPIP), so getting the PCCard
> (PCMCIA) set up is paramount. I'm using 3Com 3C589C PCMCIA cards,
> previously used in TP560's.
>
> Well, to my horror I can not get the 600E to handshake with the
> network.
>
> I've reinstalled a bare Warp install now a couple of times, installed
> FP11, updated the MTPS and Peer services and the TCPIP stacks to the
> latest.
>
> I've installed Warp/peer services/TCPIP on a number of ThinkPads now,
> so that was a snap to run through.
>
> Then to that fresh setup I install the 600E PCCard drivers downloaded
> from the IBM device driver site, they are dated Sept 99. I then
> reconfigure the adapter to 3Com Etherlink PCCard family and attach the
> OS/2 NetBios and TCPIP protocols. (I have to install this as a second
> step, because the 600E's PCMCIA is not available in the base Warp4
> install)
>
> I start the PC Card director, it recognizes the 3C589 PCMCIA lan card.
> I then logon to Peer services, but there is no communication. I can't
> see any of the new TP600E's resources from other machines, and opening
> up "File and Print Client Resource Browser" on the 600E shows only the
> TP600E listed. I also canNOT "ping" out to the network, although
> pinging the TP600E *itself* works.
>
> During boot up there are no error messages, or drivers skipped.
>
> Hot swapping the 3C589 to an older TP560 gets access to the network as
> normal, so it is not a card or cabling issue.
>
> I booted into Win98 on that new TP600E, and set it up for TCPIP on our
> intranet, and was able to ping out to another machine, which I guess
> proves out the base hardware. (notebook/PCMCIA slots/cabling/hub etc.)
>
> I'm sure that this is something really simple, but just a new twist on
> the new 600Es.
>
> Can anyone suggest what the needle in the haystack is?
>
> Any suggestions for testing this out further?
>
> HELP!
>
> * Orest
>
> * Orest
>
>           ~~~
> ows |at| netcom |dot| ca

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From: [e-mail]                              16-Nov-99 07:23:22
  To: All                                               16-Nov-99 10:39:07
Subj: Re: IDE Hard Drive upgrade. Please help.

From: Michael W. Cocke <[e-mail]>

I have a WD 20 Gb sitting in a box right now - no luck getting it to
work under Warp 4 or WSeB.  To be fair, however, haven't had much time
for it lately.  I heard that either the danis506.add or the newest
(possibly not yet released) IBM1S506.add driver is required.


On Tue, 16 Nov 1999 04:54:50 GMT, [e-mail] wrote:

>
>Does anyone Have any experience with the most recent high capacity IDE
>hard drives under OS/2?
>
>I'd like to replace my current 6GB with something in the 20GB to 37GB
>range.
>
>I am inclined to buy the WD Caviar models, past experiences has been very
>good. But all sugestions are welcome.
>
>e-mail replies are greatly appreciated.
>
>TIA
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From: [e-mail]                                 16-Nov-99 12:42:01
  To: All                                               16-Nov-99 10:39:07
Subj: Re: Please Help with Yamaha SCSI CD-ReWritable Drive.

From: [e-mail] (Mooo)

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

>I have decided that this drive, Yamaha 4416S, doesn't work with WSeB. It
>worked fine with Warp 4.0 but I cannot get past loading the Adaptec driver
>when I have my CDRW powered on (it's an external model). Under Warp 4.0 this
>wasn't a problem :-(    Of course it could be the Adaptec SCSI that is the
>problem....

Got one of these SCSI drives running under WSeB on an Adaptec 1542 no
problems so far.


Craig

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From: [e-mail]                           16-Nov-99 13:31:07
  To: All                                               16-Nov-99 20:09:23
Subj: Re: IDE Hard Drive upgrade. Please help.

From: "Mark L. Kahnt" <[e-mail]>

[e-mail] wrote:
>
> Does anyone Have any experience with the most recent high capacity IDE
> hard drives under OS/2?
>
> I'd like to replace my current 6GB with something in the 20GB to 37GB
> range.
>
> I am inclined to buy the WD Caviar models, past experiences has been very
> good. But all sugestions are welcome.
>
> e-mail replies are greatly appreciated.
>
> TIA
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Another wander down memory lanes - I remember when 16 of us made use of
a machine with 100 MB total disk space and 2 MB RAM to develop and
compile half a dozen different interpreters and the equivalent compiler
versions (where applicable - there can't really be an APL compiler) -
1983 at Watcom (back then it was WatCom). I remember running PCs with
128 KB and floppies...

I recently worked with a large life insurance company that lives on its
database, and the data for the entire mainframe, plus application code,
and source for those applications, lived on 22 GB (but mainframes don't
need anywhere near as much code to implement GUIs). Not that I'd try to
run the same setup off a PC, mind you ;) - it probably couldn't handle
500 simultaneous active users.

It all goes back to the difference in uses - I make use of background
wallpaper in Jpeg format (1024x768 Truecolour) that is still larger than
any of the executables we were producing at Watcom. I did a quick
"Hello, World!" program in a few different compilers recently, using
only standard linkages and runtime libraries, and the resulting code was
larger than many of the interpreter executables we were writing at
Watcom (except for gcc under Linux, which knew to use the libraries). In
my day, these large executables were known as sloppy coding and memory
planning.
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portion of the Reply to: value.

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From: [e-mail]                        16-Nov-99 17:22:01
  To: All                                               16-Nov-99 20:09:24
Subj: Re: Please Help. Warp 3 and fixpak 40

From: [e-mail] (Alex Taylor)

I sent a similar reply yesterday, but I can't confirm that it ever got
posted.  I apologize if this message is a duplicate.

On 15 Nov 1999 03:53:28 GMT, Bob Dehn <[e-mail]> wrote:
> I have a base OS/2 install with Warp 3.0 on a Novell token ring network
> running at 16 mbps (using Novell requester 2.12). I installed fixpak 40 to
> bring it up to Y2K compliance and now I can not get to the network. I have
> noticed that when OS/2 is loading, the card is running at 4 mbps. I have
> flashed the firmware on the card, upgraded the bios on my IBM PC350, tried
> the latest driver, and even forced the card to use 16 mbps (turned PNP off,
> set speed, turned auto sense off, etc). OS/2 is still forcing it to use 4
> mbps. If I backout the fixpak, the problem goes away! Has anyone seen this
> before? How would I contact IBM about this? ANY HELP WOULD BE GREATLY
> APPRECIATED!!!

Is either of the "force adapter" data rate settings set?  You could try
playing with those.

Run MPTS.EXE, choose "Configure", then "Configure" for LAN adapters and
protocols, and "Edit" (for the current adapter).  Look for options like
"Force adapter to 16Mbs".  (Of course, make sure "Force adapter to 4Mbs"
is not set.)

That's about all I can suggest, though.
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From: [e-mail]                        16-Nov-99 17:26:07
  To: All                                               16-Nov-99 20:09:24
Subj: Re: How do you "fix-up" an HPFS partition to boot?

From: [e-mail] (Alex Taylor)

On Tue, 16 Nov 1999 08:08:41 -0800, Greg Christopher <[e-mail]>
wrote:
> I thought I had my new 15 gig IDE working, but after I xcopied all the
> files
> to the new G drive using xcopy, it wouldn't boot.
>
> The kernal and loader were there too; they just don't seem to be in the
> right
> place.
>
> What I need is something like what the SYS command does for DOS/Windows,
> but only for OS/2. I am afraid these two key hidden files are not in the
> right location on the HPFS partition.

I believe the program you need is called SYSINSTX (I think it's a .COM
file).  I know almost nothing about it or how it works.  I would be VERY
careful when using it (for all I know it could wipe the entire
partition)...

It's on the OS/2 install floppies if it's not on the hard drive.

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From: doug.bissett"at"attglobal.net                     16-Nov-99 17:24:09
  To: All                                               16-Nov-99 20:09:24
Subj: Re: modem setup help please

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

On Wed, 10 Nov 1999 22:59:30, [e-mail] wrote:

> I have just moved into a house, and have not upacked anything, which means
> I can't find my PC books and I would like to know the command to disable
> V90 protocol on my USR modem.
>
> If anyone has that info handy, I would appreciate the help. Bad enough I
> lost my 56K access, but the lines  here are so bad, I don't even bother
> with the web stuff, just email and news. I am hoping that if I disable the
> V90, I can at least get a 2K connection.
>
> Thanks a lot for any help.
>
> Regards,
>
> John
>

Open a terminal program, and type "ATS$" (no quotes), and it will tell
you the register settings.

AT$ will tell you more settings, including ATA$, ATD$, and ATS$.

Hope this helps...
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From: [e-mail]                             16-Nov-99 09:48:02
  To: All                                               16-Nov-99 20:09:24
Subj: Re: Installation Problem with Warp

From: [e-mail]

In <[e-mail]>, on 11/14/99
   at 06:39 PM, "Stefan Pelz" <[e-mail]> said:

Try moving the DVD to secondary master or primary slave.
RJF

>Hi all,

>I'm having problems installing Warp4 on a Gateway Solo 9300. During
>installation disk1, a internal error is reported (not a trap). The
>installation disks have been updated with the lates IDE support for large
>hard drives (IBM1S506, OS2DASD, etc).

>When pressing ALT-F2 during the boot blob, IBM1FLPY.ADD is
>the last driver displayed.
>If I rem out IBM1FLPY.ADD, IBM1S506 is the last one.
>If I rem out this one too, it seems to proceed just before the "insert
>disk 2" screen. The display flashes like when changing the video mode and
>afterwards the internal error is displayed.

>Then I used BOOTOS2 to create two boot diskettes on my desktop machine.
>The first disk loads all device drivers (incl. IBM1FLPY and IBM1S506) and
>proceeds until the "remove disk from drive A" screen. A beep sounds and
>the system locks up. No C-A-D possible.

>I also tries to disable the power management in the BIOS and changing PCI
>IRQ assignment. Doesn't help.

>System is:
>Gateway Solo 9300
>PII at 400 MHz
>Toshiba 6,4 GB HD (Master on 1st IDE port)
>TORiSAN DVD drive (Slave on 2nd IDE port)
>ATI Mobility-P graphics
>64 MB RAM

>Any suppestions?

>Regards,
>    Stefan



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From: [e-mail]                                  16-Nov-99 19:12:05
  To: All                                               16-Nov-99 20:09:24
Subj: Athlon & OS/2

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

Whelp,

I guess it's time to throw out the ol' Cyrix, and reward a few
manufacturers for being insightful enough to actually market their
products as being OS/2 compatible.

The AMD Athlon appears to be a "must".  Does anybody have any input as
to which chipset (AMD Irongate, or otherwise) is best suited to OS/2.
I've heard that the killer combo is the AMD northgate with the Ali
southgate. is there any particular reason for this to be "specially"
sweet?

Anybody making, or preparing to make an Athlon Mobo with SCSI on the
Mobo?

Matrox's G400 seems to be the best in breed for OS/2 video. Any of these
g400's have a TV out that fuctions through bios rather than drivers (as
many of the ATI PC2TV cards did)?

Sound (dirty question, huh?) anybody making a high quality PCI soundcard
that has good WIN-OS2 drivers?

Thanks!!

--
"Windows N.T."  ........OS/2 for the masses?


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From: [e-mail]                     16-Nov-99 19:47:16
  To: All                                               16-Nov-99 20:09:24
Subj: Re: How do you "fix-up" an HPFS partition to boot?

From: "Trevor Hemsley" <[e-mail]>

On Tue, 16 Nov 1999 08:08:41 -0800, Greg Christopher wrote:

->I thought I had my new 15 gig IDE working, but after I xcopied all the
->files
->to the new G drive using xcopy, it wouldn't boot.
->
->The kernal and loader were there too; they just don't seem to be in the
->right
->place.
->
->What I need is something like what the SYS command does for DOS/Windows,
->but only for OS/2. I am afraid these two key hidden files are not in the
->right location on the HPFS partition.

Not needed really. Boot records are built  into the HPFS file system and
are put there when you format the partition. The only time I can think of
that you might need to run SYSINSTX.COM to replace them is if you are
using Warp 3 and don't have a recent fixpack version of UHPFS.DLL in your
LIBPATH when you format the drive. Running SYSINSTX in this situation from
an OS/2 system that has a version of UHPFS.DLL from fixpack 37 or higher
should make it work (fixpack 37 may not be needed but that was the one I
used when I tested). Warp 4 has the fix in it at base level.

You need to use XCOPY s: t: /H/O/T/S/E/R/V to do the copy in the first
place BTW.


Trevor Hemsley, London, UK
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From: [e-mail]                            16-Nov-99 20:05:10
  To: All                                               16-Nov-99 20:09:24
Subj: Re: Help Please, Cable modem

From: Alan Beagley <[e-mail]>

I read the original message and the replies with great interest because I
was just about to get cable modem Internet access through OptimumOnline
(service of Cablevision in NY/CT), which officially supports only Windoze
and MacOS.

When I initially got connected using Win98, the "host name" shown in
winipcfg was "The Beagley family," the same as the name I had entered as the
registered user for Win98. This was obviously not a real host name that I
could enter into OS/2, so perhaps what you see in winipcfg is not correct
either. No doubt I would eventually have called OptimumOnline to find out
the Host Name, but I happened to surf (still running under Win98) a site
that said "Welcome, guest at xxyyzzqq" -- where "xxyyzzqq" was recognizable
as the host name. I then entered this on the "Option 12" line in the
DHCPCD.CFG file.

Of course, not every Web site will greet you like this, and I no longer
recall which one that greeted me like this, but one wayof getting the info
is to go to
http://www.hackerwhacker.com, select "personal scan" and enter your e-mail
address. You will then get back an e-mail with a scan code to enter to
enable your security scan. I found that the e-mail i recieved also contained
this weird alphanumeric host  name.

Alan


"Jon C." wrote:

> I know this has been talked about alot, and I have checked the available
> url's, but I am still having
> trouble getting OS/2 to connect to the network. I know Time Warner uses
> DHCP. I went into win98
> ran winipcfg and retrieved all the settings. I go into OS/2 tcpip,
> configure it for DHCP, set the router address
> etc. When I reboot it says "DHCP client did not get settings. Will still
> try in background". And then
> I can't ping anything. If I choose Manual instead of DHCP and I
> configure the IP address, router address etc,
> after I reboot I can ping the IP address but nothing else. What am I
> missing? I gone over and over this
> at least 20 times and still nothing. I am in Charlotte North Carolina
> using Time Warner Cable.
> Oh, and I am using a 3Com Etherlink III 509b-TP NIC. I have upgraded
> MPTS to version 5.4, and have
> configured it for tcpip. Can someone please help?

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From: [e-mail]                           16-Nov-99 21:27:15
  To: All                                               16-Nov-99 20:09:24
Subj: Re: Help Please, Cable modem

From: [e-mail] (Lorne Sunley)

Hi

Just a dumb question, but, what do you get on OS/2 when you
type HOST x.x.x.x (where x.x.x.x is your currently assigned IP
number). You can get the IP address through NETSTAT -a

This should be the host name that is assigned to your machine
to obtain the IP address through DHCP.

Of course I have no idea if Windows includes a HOST command
or a NETSTAT command so that may not be a useful method
of determing the name.

Lorne Sunley

On Tue, 16 Nov 1999 20:05:20, Alan Beagley <[e-mail]>
wrote:

> I read the original message and the replies with great interest because I
> was just about to get cable modem Internet access through OptimumOnline
> (service of Cablevision in NY/CT), which officially supports only Windoze
> and MacOS.
>
> When I initially got connected using Win98, the "host name" shown in
> winipcfg was "The Beagley family," the same as the name I had entered as the
> registered user for Win98. This was obviously not a real host name that I
> could enter into OS/2, so perhaps what you see in winipcfg is not correct
> either. No doubt I would eventually have called OptimumOnline to find out
> the Host Name, but I happened to surf (still running under Win98) a site
> that said "Welcome, guest at xxyyzzqq" -- where "xxyyzzqq" was recognizable
> as the host name. I then entered this on the "Option 12" line in the
> DHCPCD.CFG file.
>
> Of course, not every Web site will greet you like this, and I no longer
> recall which one that greeted me like this, but one wayof getting the info
> is to go to
> http://www.hackerwhacker.com, select "personal scan" and enter your e-mail
> address. You will then get back an e-mail with a scan code to enter to
> enable your security scan. I found that the e-mail i recieved also contained
> this weird alphanumeric host  name.
>

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From: [e-mail]                 17-Nov-99 00:39:25
  To: All                                               16-Nov-99 21:31:09
Subj: looking for mainboard recommendations

From: [e-mail] (mark davidson)

i'm looking to upgrade to a mainboard that [1] supports udma at 66 mhz
and [2] can cache more than 64 mb ram.  type of cpu isn't important as
long as it meets the 2 objectives.  any recommendations will be
appreciated.

thanks/regards, .. mark davidson

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From: [e-mail]                                     17-Nov-99 00:44:09
  To: All                                               16-Nov-99 21:31:09
Subj: trap error & partition size over 2047MB

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

Is there any reason why I will receive a "Trap000d" error during the
installation process (formating process to be exact) if I set the partiation
over 2047MB?  Same limitation as DOS?

If I set the partition size to 2047Mb or less, installation complete without
problem.

It is OS/2 version 2.0 by the way.  And I have to same result with or
without the newer ibm1s506.add file.

Thanks

Ron


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From: [e-mail]                                  16-Nov-99 13:50:02
  To: All                                               17-Nov-99 00:49:20
Subj: Re: Help Please, Cable modem

From: [e-mail] (Duncan Way)

On Mon, 15 Nov 1999 17:35:54, Jon Cleveland
<[e-mail]> wrote:

# Well, I have tried just about everything I know to do and it still will not
see
# the network.
# If anyone else has any suggetstions please let me know. I will try anything
at
# this point.
# I just don't know what else to try to make the DHCP work. I appreciate any
and
# all help.
#
# Thank You

I had a similar problem when setting up RoadRunner.
I switched my nic to another slot and presto! all was well.

Duncan Way

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From: [e-mail]                          16-Nov-99 14:18:10
  To: All                                               17-Nov-99 00:49:20
Subj: Re: modem setup help please

From: [e-mail] (Kevin Croxen)

Depending on the make of modem,    +MS=11    or   +MS=11,,,,,   (with the 5
commas) in the init string should compel the modem to attempt to connect at
33,600 or below.

--Kevin




On Wed, 10 Nov 1999 15:59:30 -0700, [e-mail] <[e-mail]> wrote:
>I have just moved into a house, and have not upacked anything, which means
>I can't find my PC books and I would like to know the command to disable
>V90 protocol on my USR modem.
>
>If anyone has that info handy, I would appreciate the help. Bad enough I
>lost my 56K access, but the lines  here are so bad, I don't even bother
>with the web stuff, just email and news. I am hoping that if I disable the
>V90, I can at least get a 2K connection.
>
>Thanks a lot for any help.
>
>Regards,
>
>John
>
>
>

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From: [e-mail]                             16-Nov-99 08:39:12
  To: All                                               17-Nov-99 00:49:20
Subj: Re: IDE Hard Drive upgrade. Please help.

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


[e-mail] wrote:
>
> Does anyone Have any experience with the most recent high capacity IDE
> hard drives under OS/2?
>
> I'd like to replace my current 6GB with something in the 20GB to 37GB
> range.

I just installed a 13.5 GB IBM 7200 rpm drive without a problem.  It
installs just like a 130 MB drive, just a larger partition(s) :).  I
used the DANIS506.ADD driver rather than the IBM1S506.ADD driver but the
need for this is a function of the controller chipset (AMD Irongate/VIA)
in my case rather than the disk drive.

>
> I am inclined to buy the WD Caviar models, past experiences has been very
> good. But all sugestions are welcome.
>
> e-mail replies are greatly appreciated.
>
> TIA
> --
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From: [e-mail]                          16-Nov-99 16:46:10
  To: All                                               17-Nov-99 00:49:20
Subj: Re: Please Help with Yamaha SCSI CD-ReWritable Drive.

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

The problem with my Yamaha CDRW4416S was the firmware level. Once it had been
bought up to the latest level, WSeB recognised it with no problems at all.

In case anyone else is thinking about going through the same process, I have
one piece of advice: the flash update/utility that is downloaded from Yamaha
is a WINZIP self extracting executable. It will require a flavour of Windows
to extract it. This is a bit odd since it is labelled as the DOS download
suitable, allegedly, for Unix and other OS's. If I didn't have a copy of
WinNT 4 on another machine I wouldn't have been able to extract the files.
So, that makes sense then...

The only other problems I had were self inflicted ie: trying to create a DOS
boot diskette with SCSI support for an Adaptec 2940 controller when I
actually have an Adaptec 7890 Ultra2 SCSI embeded controller! DOH!

Thanks to everyone that gave me suggestions on this.

Roly.

On Tue, 16 Nov 1999 12:42:02 GMT, Mooo wrote:

>"Roland Pinches" <[e-mail]> wrote:
>
>>I have decided that this drive, Yamaha 4416S, doesn't work with WSeB. It
>>worked fine with Warp 4.0 but I cannot get past loading the Adaptec driver
>>when I have my CDRW powered on (it's an external model). Under Warp 4.0 this
>>wasn't a problem :-(    Of course it could be the Adaptec SCSI that is the
>>problem....
>
>Got one of these SCSI drives running under WSeB on an Adaptec 1542 no
>problems so far.
>
>
>Craig



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From: [e-mail]                           16-Nov-99 16:16:01
  To: All                                               17-Nov-99 00:49:21
Subj: Keyboard Problem during Warp Installation

From: "Stefan Pelz" <[e-mail]>

Hi,

I tried to boot my new Gateway 9300 notebook from a set of
diskettes, but when CMD.EXE is executed, the keyboard doesn't
work anymore. The keyboard works during boot, i.e. I can press
ALT-F2 to display the device drivers.
The same diskettes boot just fine on my desktop system. However, the
desktop has an old-fashioned DIN keyboard connector, and I would assume
that the notebook's keyboard uses an internal PS/2 port. Does this make
any difference?

Extract from CONFIG.SYS:

COUNTRY=049,C:\OS2\SYSTEM\COUNTRY.SYS
CODEPAGE=850,437
DEVINFO=KBD,GR,C:\OS2\KEYBOARD.DCP
BASEDEV=IBMKBD.SYS

(BTW: What is the KBDBASE.SYS driver (found on installation disks) good
for?)

When I use a plain DOS 4.01 boot-disk, the keyboard works just fine.
However, when the command shell appears, the characters "@@@" with
each @ preceeded by an "up arrow" appears on the command prompt.
It looks like the keyboard send these characters without a key being pressed?
May this confuse the OS/2 keyboard driver?

Any help appreciated.
Thanks,
    Stefan.



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From: [e-mail]                                16-Nov-99 08:08:20
  To: All                                               17-Nov-99 00:49:21
Subj: How do you "fix-up" an HPFS partition to boot?

From: Greg Christopher <[e-mail]>

I thought I had my new 15 gig IDE working, but after I xcopied all the
files
to the new G drive using xcopy, it wouldn't boot.

The kernal and loader were there too; they just don't seem to be in the
right
place.

What I need is something like what the SYS command does for DOS/Windows,
but only for OS/2. I am afraid these two key hidden files are not in the
right location on the HPFS partition.

ANy ideas?

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From: [e-mail]                        16-Nov-99 16:53:15
  To: All                                               17-Nov-99 00:49:21
Subj: Re: Help Please, Cable modem

From: [e-mail] (Alex Taylor)

On Mon, 15 Nov 1999 12:35:54 -0500, Jon Cleveland
<[e-mail]> wrote:
> Well, I have tried just about everything I know to do and it still will
> not see
> the network.
> If anyone else has any suggetstions please let me know. I will try anything
at
> this point.
> I just don't know what else to try to make the DHCP work. I appreciate any
and
> all help.

What service level is your TCP/IP running at?

I couldn't get DHCP to work on a Warp machine on our NT domain here, until
I did the following:
 - installed WR08610
 - installed WR08620
 - copied \mptn\samples\etc\dhcpcd.cfg to \mptn\etc\

But I don't know if the only important part was the last one, or if
WR08620 is required (I know it updates the DHCP client).

This sample DHCPCD.CFG file is different from the one included with the
base Warp 4 DHCP client: it appears to include several parameters designed
for compatibility with additional DHCP servers.

It is included in MPTS fix WR08610 (this is the "converged" stack which
upgrades you to the 4.1 TCPIP stack).  If you have it installed, try
replacing your current DHCPCD.CFG file with this sample one (better back
up your old one first) - again, the file is \MPTN\SAMPLES\ETC\DHCPCD.CFG

If you don't have MPTS WR08610 installed, you might want to see if you
can just get the sample config file and see if it works.  See if you can
get the file from somewhere; I suppose one of us could post it here if
necessary.

If the new config file doesn't work, you may need MPTS update WR08620
(which requires you have WR08610 installed).

The reason I don't simply suggest you install 8610 and 8620 (if you don't
already have them) is that I know lots of people have had serious problems
with them.  They work beautifully on some machines, and totally mess up
some others.

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 [e-mail]   http://eddie.cis.uoguelph.ca/~alex
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From: [e-mail]                          16-Nov-99 16:54:02
  To: All                                               17-Nov-99 00:49:21
Subj: Re: How do you "fix-up" an HPFS partition to boot?

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

You will need to use a tool like SYSINSTX.COM. On my machine it is in the
c:\os2\install\bootdisk directory. Unfortunately I'm not sure what the syntax
for this command is (help sysinstx failed to produce anything).

I wouldn't recommend xcopying an entire system from one drive to another
because of these sort of problems, however, other people have told me that if
you use a certain combination of switches with the XCOPY command system files
should be put in the correct place. What switches did you use with XCOPY ?

Roly.

On Tue, 16 Nov 1999 08:08:41 -0800, Greg Christopher wrote:

>I thought I had my new 15 gig IDE working, but after I xcopied all the
>files
>to the new G drive using xcopy, it wouldn't boot.
>
>The kernal and loader were there too; they just don't seem to be in the
>right
>place.
>
>What I need is something like what the SYS command does for DOS/Windows,
>but only for OS/2. I am afraid these two key hidden files are not in the
>right location on the HPFS partition.
>
>ANy ideas?



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From: [e-mail]                             16-Nov-99 09:55:23
  To: All                                               17-Nov-99 01:54:22
Subj: Re: Keyboard Problem during Warp Installation

From: [e-mail]

In <[e-mail]>, on 11/16/99
   at 04:16 PM, "Stefan Pelz" <[e-mail]> said: Try placing
the line BASEDEV=IBMKBD.SYS before those you enumerated.

RJF

>Hi,

>I tried to boot my new Gateway 9300 notebook from a set of
>diskettes, but when CMD.EXE is executed, the keyboard doesn't work
>anymore. The keyboard works during boot, i.e. I can press ALT-F2 to
>display the device drivers.
>The same diskettes boot just fine on my desktop system. However, the
>desktop has an old-fashioned DIN keyboard connector, and I would assume
>that the notebook's keyboard uses an internal PS/2 port. Does this make
>any difference?

>Extract from CONFIG.SYS:

>COUNTRY=049,C:\OS2\SYSTEM\COUNTRY.SYS
>CODEPAGE=850,437
>DEVINFO=KBD,GR,C:\OS2\KEYBOARD.DCP
>BASEDEV=IBMKBD.SYS

>(BTW: What is the KBDBASE.SYS driver (found on installation disks) good
>for?)

>When I use a plain DOS 4.01 boot-disk, the keyboard works just fine.
>However, when the command shell appears, the characters "@@@" with each @
>preceeded by an "up arrow" appears on the command prompt. It looks like
>the keyboard send these characters without a key being pressed? May this
>confuse the OS/2 keyboard driver?

>Any help appreciated.
>Thanks,
>    Stefan.




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From: [e-mail]                        16-Nov-99 18:14:18
  To: All                                               17-Nov-99 01:54:22
Subj: Re: How do you "fix-up" an HPFS partition to boot?

From: [e-mail] (Alex Taylor)

On Tue, 16 Nov 1999 16:54:05 +0000 (GMT), Roland Pinches
<[e-mail]> wrote:
> You will need to use a tool like SYSINSTX.COM. On my machine it is in the
> c:\os2\install\bootdisk directory. Unfortunately I'm not sure what the
syntax
> for this command is (help sysinstx failed to produce anything).
>
> I wouldn't recommend xcopying an entire system from one drive to another
> because of these sort of problems, however, other people have told me that
if
> you use a certain combination of switches with the XCOPY command system
files
> should be put in the correct place. What switches did you use with XCOPY ?

Just as a note: I've been told that using the switches
        /H /O /T /S /E /R /V
with XCOPY will give you the most accurate and complete copy possible,
although I don't know if it can copy a bootsector in this way.

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 [e-mail]   http://eddie.cis.uoguelph.ca/~alex
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From: [e-mail]                             16-Nov-99 18:26:04
  To: All                                               17-Nov-99 01:54:22
Subj: Re: How do you "fix-up" an HPFS partition to boot?

From: [e-mail] (osmo vuorio)

In article <[e-mail]>, Greg Christopher <[e-mail]>
says:
>
>I thought I had my new 15 gig IDE working, but after I xcopied all the
>files
>to the new G drive using xcopy, it wouldn't boot.

For some magic reason..

for me the 1.6Gb ==>6.4GB copywork was a challenge with OS/2.
PartitionMagic versions did not handle the case. Even floppy
(with updated drivers) started did not make the bootable os/2
partition. The solution was Info-Zip for os/2 - and even with
this the floppy started chkdsk /f and sysinstx was necessary.

Hard pc life..

Osmo

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From: [e-mail]                         16-Nov-99 20:49:26
  To: All                                               17-Nov-99 03:37:14
Subj: Re: Please Help with Yamaha SCSI CD-ReWritable Drive.

From: [e-mail] (Peter McMorran)

In <[e-mail]>, on
11/16/99
   at 04:46 PM, "Roland Pinches" <[e-mail]> said:

>The problem with my Yamaha CDRW4416S was the firmware level.
>Once it had been bought up to the latest level, WSeB recognised
>it with no problems at all.

>In case anyone else is thinking about going through the same
>process, I have one piece of advice: the flash update/utility
>that is downloaded from Yamaha is a WINZIP self extracting
>executable. It will require a flavour of Windows to extract it.
>This is a bit odd since it is labelled as the DOS download
>suitable, allegedly, for Unix and other OS's. If I didn't have a
>copy of WinNT 4 on another machine I wouldn't have been able to
>extract the files. So, that makes sense then...

Hi Roly,

I haven't looked at that Yamaha update (I have the 4416S 1.0g
firmware in a plain zip file) but you can usually unzip
self-extracting executables. Try unzip -l on it. unzip reports an
error for something unknown at the beginning -- that's the unzip
program -- then processes the rest of the image with no problem.

Cheers,
Peter

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From: [e-mail]                           17-Nov-99 01:55:23
  To: All                                               17-Nov-99 03:37:15
Subj: Re: trap error & partition size over 2047MB

From: [e-mail] (Lorne Sunley)

On Wed, 17 Nov 1999 00:44:19, "RonY" <[e-mail]> wrote:

> Is there any reason why I will receive a "Trap000d" error during the
> installation process (formating process to be exact) if I set the partiation
> over 2047MB?  Same limitation as DOS?
>
> If I set the partition size to 2047Mb or less, installation complete without
> problem.
>
> It is OS/2 version 2.0 by the way.  And I have to same result with or
> without the newer ibm1s506.add file.
>

If you are using a FAT partition the maximum size of any
FAT partition is 2047MByte.

If this is an HPFS partition it "should" allow for greater
than 2047 MByte sizes.

The only thing is, when I was using OS/2 v2.0 the biggest
hard drive I was using was 650 Mbyte so I can't say
that there is not a 2047 MByte limit.

Lorne Sunley

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From: [e-mail]                                  16-Nov-99 21:04:03
  To: All                                               17-Nov-99 03:37:15
Subj: XFree86/OS2 and my Matrox Mystique won't get along

From: "Lowell O. Turner" <[e-mail]>

Hello,

  In keeping with the suggestions in the (multiple) readme files and the
FAQ, I'll make this as concise as possible.

  The card is a Matrox Mystique 220 with 4Mb.  The monitor is a Philips
107s 17".  The Matrox BIOS is 1.8.37 (upgraded recently from the web
site).  When the system comes up, the screen looks like a smeared inkjet
page.  There are streaks of black (and white) with the underlying
desktop image highly enlarged.  The initial screen (the tarter (??)
bitmap) shows up clearly although the image is compressed horizontally.
The streaks show up once the desktop is drawn.  This happens at all
resolutions.

  I tried PCIProbe2 as suggested in the FAQ and it has absolutely no
effect.  The readme.mga file has no information and gives the impression
that the Mystique should work perfectly.  The only startup dialog
anomaly is a line that says:

(--) SVGA: PCI Matrox MGA 1064SG rev 3, Memory @ 0xe0000000, 0xe1000000
xf86ReadBIOS: BIOS map failed, addr=c0000, rc=87

  Does anyone have a clue as to what I should do to get this thing
working?


TIA,



--

===========================================================
Lowell O. Turner
EE wanna be
George Mason University
Fairfax, VA

[e-mail]
http://www.nyx.net/~lturner/
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From: [e-mail]...               16-Nov-99 21:06:23
  To: All                                               17-Nov-99 03:37:15
Subj: Re: How do you "fix-up" an HPFS partition to boot?

Message sender: [e-mail]

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

On Tue, 16 Nov 1999 08:08:41 -0800, Greg Christopher wrote:

>I thought I had my new 15 gig IDE working, but after I xcopied all the
>files
>to the new G drive using xcopy, it wouldn't boot.
>
>The kernal and loader were there too; they just don't seem to be in the
>right
>place.
>
>What I need is something like what the SYS command does for DOS/Windows,
>but only for OS/2. I am afraid these two key hidden files are not in the
>right location on the HPFS partition.
>
>ANy ideas?

SYSINSTX.COM

It doesn't exist on your OS/2 partition.  Run it from the OS/2 CD, or an
OS/2 boot disk.

Run it while booted from the version of OS/2 who's startup files you need.


--
 - Mike

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


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From: [e-mail]                              17-Nov-99 03:54:02
  To: All                                               17-Nov-99 03:37:15
Subj: Re: looking for mainboard recommendations

From: James Moe <[e-mail]>


mark davidson wrote:
>
> i'm looking to upgrade to a mainboard that [1] supports udma at 66 mhz

    Just about any will do this. I am using epox MBs. DFI and ASUS are
also highly recommended.


> and [2] can cache more than 64 mb ram.

   !!???!? I do not believe it is possible for a PC mainboard to do
this. The largest I have heard recently is 2 MB. Though I have heard
discussion of a third level cache for the pentium3 and amd k7; even so,
those were in the 8 MB max range.
    Have you yourself heard of this kind of MB with such a large cache?
How much RAM were you planning on having then? 2 GB?


--

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From: [e-mail]....               17-Nov-99 04:23:25
  To: All                                               17-Nov-99 03:37:15
Subj: Re: looking for mainboard recommendations

Message sender: [e-mail]

From: [e-mail] (Jim Nuytens)

On Wed, 17 Nov 1999 00:39:51, [e-mail] (mark
davidson) wrote:

> i'm looking to upgrade to a mainboard that [1] supports udma at 66 mhz
> and [2] can cache more than 64 mb ram.  type of cpu isn't important as
> long as it meets the 2 objectives.  any recommendations will be
> appreciated.

If you can find them, I'd suggest the FIC 503+ (AT style) or the FIC
2013 (ATX style) boards. 1MB cache handles 128MB RAM nicely and Warp 4
sees all the RAM.


"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]                                17-Nov-99 03:29:05
  To: All                                               17-Nov-99 03:37:15
Subj: Re: How do you "fix-up" an HPFS partition to boot?

From: [e-mail] (Michael Cole)

This procedure will make the drive bootable:

copy SYSINSTX.COM from the first OS2 installation disk (ie the very
first disk - not the disk labled DISK 1) to the root of the partition

copy UHPFS.DLL from OS/2 Disk 2 to the root of the partition

change to the partition where you copied the files

execute:
    SYSINSTX  'partitionDriveLetter':

be sure to check that the IFS line has been added as the very first
line (with no empty lines above it) to the config.sys for this (now
bootable) partition, if it isn't add it:

IFS=drive:\OS2\HPFS.IFS /CACHE:256 /CRECL:4 /AUTOCHECK:driveLetters



Michael Cole

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From: [e-mail]                               17-Nov-99 03:51:02
  To: All                                               17-Nov-99 03:37:15
Subj: Re: Hostname?

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

>> 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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to be made by someone with your obvious talent for it."
Orac to Vila. [City at the Edge of the World.]
-----------------------------------------------
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From: [e-mail]                 16-Nov-99 23:24:00
  To: All                                               17-Nov-99 03:37:15
Subj: Re: XFree86/OS2 and my Matrox Mystique won't get along

From: [e-mail] (Raphael Tennenbaum)

"Lowell O. Turner" <[e-mail]> wrote:

>Hello,
>
>  In keeping with the suggestions in the (multiple) readme files and the
>FAQ, I'll make this as concise as possible.
>
>  The card is a Matrox Mystique 220 with 4Mb.  The monitor is a Philips
>107s 17".  The Matrox BIOS is 1.8.37 (upgraded recently from the web
>site).  When the system comes up, the screen looks like a smeared inkjet
>page.  There are streaks of black (and white) with the underlying
>desktop image highly enlarged.  The initial screen (the tarter (??)
>bitmap) shows up clearly although the image is compressed horizontally.
>The streaks show up once the desktop is drawn.  This happens at all
>resolutions.
>
>  I tried PCIProbe2 as suggested in the FAQ and it has absolutely no
>effect.  The readme.mga file has no information and gives the impression
>that the Mystique should work perfectly.  The only startup dialog
>anomaly is a line that says:
>
>(--) SVGA: PCI Matrox MGA 1064SG rev 3, Memory @ 0xe0000000, 0xe1000000
>xf86ReadBIOS: BIOS map failed, addr=c0000, rc=87
>
>  Does anyone have a clue as to what I should do to get this thing
>working?
>
>
>TIA,
>

How did you install the driver?  Probably you reset to VGA,
then reinstalled.  If not, that's what you should do.  If it
still doesn't work, I think the Matrox drivers have a
utility that will remove all traces of the install (it's a
cmd file, I think X:\MGA\OS2\UNINSTAL.CMD, if I'm not
mistaken).  Run that -- it doesn't return any values to the
command line, I think, so don't run it twice because it
screws things up.  Then try starting over again.  Worth
trying until someone who really knows comes up with a better
idea.

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

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From: [e-mail]                             16-Nov-99 21:57:22
  To: All                                               17-Nov-99 03:37:15
Subj: Re: looking for mainboard recommendations

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

mark davidson wrote:
>
> i'm looking to upgrade to a mainboard that [1] supports udma at 66 mhz
> and [2] can cache more than 64 mb ram.  type of cpu isn't important as
> long as it meets the 2 objectives.  any recommendations will be
> appreciated.


The ASUS K7M with the Athlon processor is a very sweet OS/2 platform.
Has UDMA/66 that works and is supported by the DANIS506.ADD driver.  And
OS/2 sees all of the memory over 64 MB.

>
> thanks/regards, .. mark davidson

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From: [e-mail]                                17-Nov-99 01:33:07
  To: [e-mail]                                       17-Nov-99 03:37:15
Subj: Re: looking for mainboard recommendations

To: James Moe <[e-mail]>
From: Mark Schlegel <[e-mail]>

James Moe wrote:
>
> mark davidson wrote:
> >
> > i'm looking to upgrade to a mainboard that [1] supports udma at 66 mhz
>
>     Just about any will do this. I am using epox MBs. DFI and ASUS are
> also highly recommended.
>
> > and [2] can cache more than 64 mb ram.
>
>    !!???!? I do not believe it is possible for a PC mainboard to do
> this. The largest I have heard recently is 2 MB. Though I have heard
> discussion of a third level cache for the pentium3 and amd k7; even so,
> those were in the 8 MB max range.
>     Have you yourself heard of this kind of MB with such a large cache?
> How much RAM were you planning on having then? 2 GB?
>
> --
>
> sma at rtd dot com
> Remove ".spam-not" for email

You misunderstood him, he doesn't mean the SRAM cache
is 64MB, but that the cache is caching a system DRAM
that is > 64MB, the SRAM cache doing that is a lot smaller..
probably more like 512 KB.

Mark

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From: [e-mail]                                17-Nov-99 00:13:11
  To: All                                               17-Nov-99 03:37:15
Subj: Re: looking for mainboard recommendations

From: [e-mail] (Will Honea)

On Wed, 17 Nov 1999 03:54:05, James Moe <[e-mail]> wrote:

>    !!???!? I do not believe it is possible for a PC mainboard to do
> this. The largest I have heard recently is 2 MB. Though I have heard
> discussion of a third level cache for the pentium3 and amd k7; even so,
> those were in the 8 MB max range.
>     Have you yourself heard of this kind of MB with such a large cache?
> How much RAM were you planning on having then? 2 GB?

I think he's talking about the L2 cache being able to cache more than
64 MB of RAM, not the size of the cache itself.  Intel TX and some
other chip sets had this limitation.  Anything with later Intel chip
sets should work.  Certainly, the VIA and SIS chipsets will cache
more.  My FIC board with VIA chips allows up to 2 MB of L2 caches and
will supposedly cache up to 1 GB of RAM (or was that 2 GB - whatever
it was, it exceeded my wallet capacity).

Will Honea <[e-mail]>

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From: [e-mail]                            17-Nov-99 06:04:23
  To: All                                               17-Nov-99 03:37:16
Subj: Need Disk 1 of Win/OS2 Blue Spine

From: [e-mail]

My Disk 1 of Win/OS2 Blue Spine has somehow gotten
corrupted, and no Backup.
Also Disk 4 maybe.
Have also OS2 plain which is now installed.
Untill I can get these disks

So if anyone wants to E-mail or Mail...will pay a little.
Just rem they are XDF disks and have to be copied that way.

Unless someone knows if there is another way.


Thanks,

    Vishanti


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From: [e-mail]                                16-Nov-99 23:06:12
  To: All                                               17-Nov-99 03:37:16
Subj: Re: How do you "fix-up" an HPFS partition to boot?

From: Greg Christopher <[e-mail]>

osmo vuorio wrote:
>
> In article <[e-mail]>, Greg Christopher <[e-mail]>
says:
> >
> >I thought I had my new 15 gig IDE working, but after I xcopied all the
> >files
> >to the new G drive using xcopy, it wouldn't boot.
>
> For some magic reason..
>
> for me the 1.6Gb ==>6.4GB copywork was a challenge with OS/2.
> PartitionMagic versions did not handle the case. Even floppy
> (with updated drivers) started did not make the bootable os/2
> partition. The solution was Info-Zip for os/2 - and even with
> this the floppy started chkdsk /f and sysinstx was necessary.
>
I thought info-zip was just the company that makes zip and unzip.

What is info-zip, and do you know where it would be on hobbes?

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From: [e-mail]                                16-Nov-99 23:10:04
  To: All                                               17-Nov-99 03:37:16
Subj: Re: How do you "fix-up" an HPFS partition to boot?

From: Greg Christopher <[e-mail]>

> Not needed really. Boot records are built  into the HPFS file system and
> are put there when you format the partition.

RIght! I vaguely remembered that, so I thought I could just do the copy.
Not so, I guess.

> The only time I can think of
> that you might need to run SYSINSTX.COM to replace them is if you are
> using Warp 3 and don't have a recent fixpack version of UHPFS.DLL in your
> LIBPATH when you format the drive. Running SYSINSTX in this situation from
> an OS/2 system that has a version of UHPFS.DLL from fixpack 37 or higher
> should make it work (fixpack 37 may not be needed but that was the one I
> used when I tested). Warp 4 has the fix in it at base level.

This is warp 4. The Fixpack on the partition is 11; however, can't speak
for
the boot floppies! How to update those? I imagine somehow using somthing
in
os2\bootdisk.

I am thinking; maybe I also need to reinstall Bootmanager So it can
point correctly to my partition. Its a big drive.

>
> You need to use XCOPY s: t: /H/O/T/S/E/R/V to do the copy in the first
> place BTW.

I'm sure I got the ones necessary for this.

Keep hidden and system attributes; verify, empty directories too (such
as the desktop!) and also keep extended attributes; overwrite if
necessary.

This is just how unimaint does desktop backups; I knew it should work
for the drive.

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From: [e-mail]                                 17-Nov-99 01:15:07
  To: All                                               17-Nov-99 10:26:29
Subj: Re: >64MB Memory: A fix from our favorite OS/2 programmer...

From: [e-mail] (Richard Steiner)

Here in comp.os.os2.misc, [e-mail]
spake unto us, saying:

>Daniela Engert has once again come through in spades for the OS/2 user...

Wow!  She's good!!  Can we elect her Queen of OS/2 or something?  :-)

--
   -Rich Steiner  >>>--->  [e-mail]  >>>---> Bloomington, MN
     OS/2 + BeOS + Linux + Solaris + Win95 + WinNT4 + FreeBSD + DOS
      + VMWare + Fusion + vMac + Executor = PC Hobbyist Heaven! :-)
                     Hail Eris! All Hail Discordia!

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From: [e-mail]                                 17-Nov-99 08:59:26
  To: All                                               17-Nov-99 10:26:29
Subj: Re: looking for mainboard recommendations

From: [e-mail] (David LaRue)

  Mark,

  I've been using DFI's P2XBL/D and P2XBL/S boards.  Both of these have had
no problems with the memory problems reported lately.  They support udma
but I use only SCSI-I/II/III devices so I can't vouch for the udma quality.
They
aren't mainboards, but they do work well with OS/2.  I was looking at
mainboards too for a long time.  The on board SCSI support is what moved me.
That may not be of any use to you though.

  Good luck,

  David LaRue

In <[e-mail]>,
[e-mail] (mark davidson) writes:
>i'm looking to upgrade to a mainboard that [1] supports udma at 66 mhz
>and [2] can cache more than 64 mb ram.  type of cpu isn't important as
>long as it meets the 2 objectives.  any recommendations will be
>appreciated.
>
>thanks/regards, .. mark davidson

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From: [e-mail]                             16-Nov-99 23:13:04
  To: All                                               17-Nov-99 10:26:29
Subj: Re: How do you "fix-up" an HPFS partition to boot?

From: Greg Christopher <[e-mail]>

Greg Christopher wrote:
>
> I thought I had my new 15 gig IDE working, but after I xcopied all the
> files
> to the new G drive using xcopy, it wouldn't boot.
>
> The kernal and loader were there too; they just don't seem to be in the
> right
> place.
>
> What I need is something like what the SYS command does for DOS/Windows,
> but only for OS/2. I am afraid these two key hidden files are not in the
> right location on the HPFS partition.
>
> ANy ideas?

Thanks all for the sysinstx pointers. All I remembered was it had an X!
of course, it wasn't even on the hard disk so I didn't find it. :(

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From: [e-mail]                                16-Nov-99 10:03:29
  To: All                                               17-Nov-99 10:26:29
Subj: Re: PCMCIA Card Services Drivers

From: "Axel Schmidt" <[e-mail]>

On Tue, 16 Nov 1999 10:14:35 +0200, Bruce Diesel wrote:

:>Hi,
:>
:>I have a laptop with a PCMCIA bus based on the TI 1220 chipset.  I
:>cannot get Warp to recognise this.  Any ideas?
:>
:>Thanks,
:>
:>Bruce Diesel
:>


H,

Have a look at:

     http://www.os2ss.com/users/DrMartinus/notebook.htm


Axel
-------------------------------------------------------------------------
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http://www.assoftware.de



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From: [e-mail]                                  17-Nov-99 08:32:25
  To: All                                               17-Nov-99 10:26:29
Subj: Re: XFree86/OS2 and my Matrox Mystique won't get along

From: [e-mail] (Holger Veit)

On Tue, 16 Nov 1999 21:04:06 -0500, Lowell O. Turner <[e-mail]> wrote:
>Hello,
>
>  In keeping with the suggestions in the (multiple) readme files and the
>FAQ, I'll make this as concise as possible.
>
>  The card is a Matrox Mystique 220 with 4Mb.  The monitor is a Philips
>107s 17".  The Matrox BIOS is 1.8.37 (upgraded recently from the web
>site).  When the system comes up, the screen looks like a smeared inkjet
>page.  There are streaks of black (and white) with the underlying
>desktop image highly enlarged.  The initial screen (the tarter (??)
>bitmap) shows up clearly although the image is compressed horizontally.
>The streaks show up once the desktop is drawn.  This happens at all
>resolutions.
>
>  I tried PCIProbe2 as suggested in the FAQ and it has absolutely no
>effect.  The readme.mga file has no information and gives the impression
>that the Mystique should work perfectly.  The only startup dialog
>anomaly is a line that says:
>
>(--) SVGA: PCI Matrox MGA 1064SG rev 3, Memory @ 0xe0000000, 0xe1000000
>xf86ReadBIOS: BIOS map failed, addr=c0000, rc=87

Use the 3.3.3.1 server (with PCIProbe2). The BIOS read code is
broken in 3.3.5.

Holger

--
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it is very likely a vacuum cleaner.

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From: [e-mail]                             17-Nov-99 08:26:17
  To: All                                               17-Nov-99 10:26:29
Subj: Re: Help Please, Cable modem

From: [e-mail]

Well, I am back on my ISDN account now, because I now have the
cable modem hooked up to the machine that is destined to be a
router, but I am having mucho troubles.

But to answer your question: if I enter

  host <ip-address>

I get :

 xx.xx.xx.xx = dial54.ppp.datatone.com


Now for my current problem:

I had the router-machine on the LAN with the other machines,
and all could ping each other (the addresses are all of the
form 192.168.xx.xx). But only one of that machine's two network
interfaces was configured.

Now that I have configured the other interface for DHCP and
connected the cable modem to that interface, I can ping
addresses "out there", but the router can no longer ping the
other machines, and they can no longer ping the router. I have
set the default route on the machines to the IP address of the
"LAN side" network card.

Alan


In article <qpkdVVNoMoTk-pn2-yoqVbUpfxHNN@tcpserver>,
  [e-mail] (Lorne Sunley) wrote:
> Hi
>
> Just a dumb question, but, what do you get on OS/2 when you
> type HOST x.x.x.x (where x.x.x.x is your currently assigned
IP
> number). You can get the IP address through NETSTAT -a
>
> This should be the host name that is assigned to your machine
> to obtain the IP address through DHCP.
>
> Of course I have no idea if Windows includes a HOST command
> or a NETSTAT command so that may not be a useful method
> of determing the name.
>
> Lorne Sunley
>
> On Tue, 16 Nov 1999 20:05:20, Alan Beagley
<[e-mail]>
> wrote:
>
> > I read the original message and the replies with great
interest because I
> > was just about to get cable modem Internet access through
OptimumOnline
> > (service of Cablevision in NY/CT), which officially
supports only Windoze
> > and MacOS.
> >
> > When I initially got connected using Win98, the "host name"
shown in
> > winipcfg was "The Beagley family," the same as the name I
had entered as the
> > registered user for Win98. This was obviously not a real
host name that I
> > could enter into OS/2, so perhaps what you see in winipcfg
is not correct
> > either. No doubt I would eventually have called
OptimumOnline to find out
> > the Host Name, but I happened to surf (still running under
Win98) a site
> > that said "Welcome, guest at xxyyzzqq" -- where "xxyyzzqq"
was recognizable
> > as the host name. I then entered this on the "Option 12"
line in the
> > DHCPCD.CFG file.
> >
> > Of course, not every Web site will greet you like this, and
I no longer
> > recall which one that greeted me like this, but one wayof
getting the info
> > is to go to
> > http://www.hackerwhacker.com, select "personal scan" and
enter your e-mail
> > address. You will then get back an e-mail with a scan code
to enter to
> > enable your security scan. I found that the e-mail i
recieved also contained
> > this weird alphanumeric host  name.
> >
>
>


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From: [e-mail]                               17-Nov-99 22:58:27
  To: All                                               17-Nov-99 10:27:00
Subj: Mouse problems: random clicks

From: Aaron Lawrence <[e-mail]>

Hi all,

Any ideas on this one? I thought some kind of IRQ conflict (though it
seems like a very specific error...)...

When I had my basic serial mouse, I used to occasionally get random
mouse clicks. Mostly I just thought it was me accidentally really
clicking the buttons, because it happened quite rarely.

Then I bought this MS Intellimouse Explorer (the optical one). Still
using the same driver, now I get *lots* of random mouse clicks, clearly
without me touching the buttons.

This seems to correspond with other activity, e.g. hard drive, moving
windows etc, but not always. Basically whenever I least want it to!

There is no problem under Windows (95, NT4), with or without MS' fancy
intellipoint software.

I've also tried loading the scroll-wheel mouse support, but although
that has mostly worked (can use the wheel) it has not solved this other
problem.

TIA

Aaron

System:

Warp 4 FP6
PII, 128 Ram
Viper 550 TNT Video (but currently running in VGA :-( )

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From: [e-mail]                               17-Nov-99 12:07:16
  To: All                                               17-Nov-99 10:27:00
Subj: Re: True Type Fonts in Warp 4?  HOW???

From: [e-mail] (Csaba Raduly)

[e-mail] (Christopher E. Souter) wrote in
<[e-mail]>:

>Hi, everyone!
>
>Thank you for such quick replies!
>
>Your help is greatly appreciated!
>
>Best regards
>Chris Souter
>(Australia)
>[e-mail]
>
>
>Shane Baker wrote:
>>
>> On Mon, 08 Nov 1999 14:19:39 +1000, Christopher E. Souter wrote:
>>
>> >I recently upgraded from Warp 3 to Warp 4.
>> >
>> >One reason why I did this is because I understood that,
>> >among other things, Warp 4 is supposed to support True
>> >Type fonts.
>> >
[snip]
>> Font Pallette -> Edit Font -> Add  ..... and then select the fonts
>> from the source.
>>

Isn't the font palette limited to eight entries ?

Csaba
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From: [e-mail]                                    17-Nov-99 07:06:10
  To: All                                               17-Nov-99 10:27:00
Subj: Re: looking for mainboard recommendations

From: [e-mail] (Dan Casey)

In article <[e-mail]>,
[e-mail] (mark davidson) wrote:
>i'm looking to upgrade to a mainboard that [1] supports udma at 66 mhz
>and [2] can cache more than 64 mb ram.  type of cpu isn't important as
>long as it meets the 2 objectives.  any recommendations will be
>appreciated.
>
>thanks/regards, .. mark davidson

Unfortunatley, the type of processor DOES matter. For Socket 7
(Pentium, AMD K6, K6-2, and Cyrix), the only Intel chipset that would
cache more than 64 Mb of RAM was the old HX, which is no longer
produced, and only available on very outdated mainboards.

VIA and SiS chipsets will cache more than 64 Mb of RAM, and work well
with OS/2, provided you use Dani's IDE Drivers (DANIS506.ADD from
Hobbes).

Pentium III Mainboards with Intel chipsets will cache more than 64 Mb
of Ram.

Athlon (AMD K7 processors) need a patch to the OS2LDR file, also from
Dani, and also available at hobbes, in order for OS/2 to even see more
than 64 Mb of RAM in the system. Once that patch is applied, all of
the ram should be recognized. I say *should* because the patch has
only been available for about 5 days, and all reports have been
positive, so far.

In short, the Socket 7 mainboards are the only ones with limitations
on the amount of RAM that can be cached, so processor type does make a
difference.

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From: [e-mail]                 17-Nov-99 08:02:12
  To: All                                               17-Nov-99 10:27:00
Subj: Re: looking for mainboard recommendations

From: mark davidson <[e-mail]>

On 17 Nov 1999 00:13:23 -0700, [e-mail] (Will Honea) wrote:

you are correct.  as i'm intel-stupid, might you be able to list which
of their chipsets does not suffer the memory caching limitation of the
TX series?

thanks/regards, .. mark davidson

>I think he's talking about the L2 cache being able to cache more than
>64 MB of RAM, not the size of the cache itself.  Intel TX and some
>other chip sets had this limitation.  Anything with later Intel chip
>sets should work.  Certainly, the VIA and SIS chipsets will cache
>more.  My FIC board with VIA chips allows up to 2 MB of L2 caches and
>will supposedly cache up to 1 GB of RAM (or was that 2 GB - whatever
>it was, it exceeded my wallet capacity).
>
>Will Honea <[e-mail]>



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From: [e-mail]                           17-Nov-99 06:48:01
  To: All                                               17-Nov-99 10:27:00
Subj: DeScribe and System Default Printer

From: "Gail Koontz" <[e-mail]>

In the Printer Setup dialog, DeScribe has a checkbox for system default
printer. On my system it is set to
FXPRT for some reason, which I certainly wouldn't use as a default. I've
looked everywhere I can think of,
and I can't figure out how to set the system default printer either in
DeScribe itself or for the system. The
only default I can find is the one the sets the default driver for a
particular printer.

Does anyone know how to do this? Thanks!


Gail Koontz        Retired in my home state
836 Mallard Rd.         . . . and loving it!
Cocoa, FL 32926    [e-mail]



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From: [e-mail]                                       17-Nov-99 12:17:13
  To: All                                               17-Nov-99 10:27:00
Subj: WSEB problems.

From: filippo sartori <[e-mail]>

A few problems encountered while installing WSEB (WARP 5)

System description:
GIGABYTE MOBO
ATHLON 500
128MB ram
2*27Gbyte IBM ide hard disks
DVD
SBLASTER 128
ATI AIW 128 16 MB ram  used with Scitech Display Doctor.

(old ISA ethernet card 3COM etherlink III)

1) MOBO problem recognizing memory
FIXED: thanks to Daniela Engert

2) VFAT FS driver does not work: locks os2 during boot

3) 3COM nic driver traps os2 during boot on DOSCALLS

4) DOS window and Windows seamless do not start but take up all
resources
CPU load 100%. With difficulty can be killed.

All the rest seems to work:
FAT32 working OK
Netscape working OK


I will report in the future on more

Regards:
Filippo Sartori



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From: [e-mail]                              17-Nov-99 13:41:27
  To: All                                               17-Nov-99 14:38:16
Subj: Re: Athlon & OS/2

From: [e-mail]

Have an Adaptec 2940U2W with LVD
drives and the Biostar M7MKA
motherboard and they are not
compatible.  Emailed Biostar
yesterday about it.  With the SCSI
BIOS enabled (for it to BOOT from
SCSI), the machine hangs.  Terrible
problem.  AMD site recommends the
Biostar and Gigabyte GA-7IX for the
Athlon 700.

Also, OS/2 only recognizes 64 of 128
meg.  Suppposedly occurs with ACPI
enabled and AMI BIOS.  This happened
on an FIC SD11 board.

Good luck and e-mail me with your
results.

[e-mail]

In article
<[e-mail]>,
  "[e-mail]"
<[e-mail]> wrote:
> Whelp,
>
> I guess it's time to throw out the
ol' Cyrix, and reward a few
> manufacturers for being insightful
enough to actually market their
> products as being OS/2 compatible.
>
> The AMD Athlon appears to be a
"must".  Does anybody have any input
as
> to which chipset (AMD Irongate, or
otherwise) is best suited to OS/2.
> I've heard that the killer combo
is the AMD northgate with the Ali
> southgate. is there any particular
reason for this to be "specially"
> sweet?
>
> Anybody making, or preparing to
make an Athlon Mobo with SCSI on the
> Mobo?
>
> Matrox's G400 seems to be the best
in breed for OS/2 video. Any of
these
> g400's have a TV out that fuctions
through bios rather than drivers (as
> many of the ATI PC2TV cards did)?
>
> Sound (dirty question, huh?)
anybody making a high quality PCI
soundcard
> that has good WIN-OS2 drivers?
>
> Thanks!!
>
> --
> "Windows N.T."  ........OS/2 for
the masses?
>
>



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Before you buy.

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From: [e-mail]                             17-Nov-99 08:52:04
  To: All                                               17-Nov-99 14:38:16
Subj: Re: DeScribe and System Default Printer

From: "John W. Kennedy" <[e-mail]>

Gail Koontz wrote:
>
> In the Printer Setup dialog, DeScribe has a checkbox for system default
printer. On my system it is set to
> FXPRT for some reason, which I certainly wouldn't use as a default. I've
looked everywhere I can think of,
> and I can't figure out how to set the system default printer either in
DeScribe itself or for the system. The
> only default I can find is the one the sets the default driver for a
particular printer.
>
> Does anyone know how to do this? Thanks!

It's system-wide, having nothing to do with Describe.  You don't mention
which version of OS/2 you're running, so I've got to be a bit vague.  Do
whatever you have to do to get a printer icon or icons.  (In Warp 4, one
way would be to right-click on the printer mini-icon, so as to open the
"Printers" folder.)  Right-click on one of them.  Click on "set default"
or "choose default" or something like that....

--
-John W. Kennedy
[e-mail]
Compact is becoming contract
Man only earns and pays.  -- Charles Williams

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From: [e-mail]                                     17-Nov-99 14:41:03
  To: All                                               17-Nov-99 14:38:16
Subj: Re: trap error & partition size over 2047MB

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

Thank Lorne,

I guess I can't expect too much from a >7 years old operation system :-)


..Ron

Lorne Sunley wrote in message ...
>On Wed, 17 Nov 1999 00:44:19, "RonY" <[e-mail]> wrote:
>
>> Is there any reason why I will receive a "Trap000d" error during the
>> installation process (formating process to be exact) if I set the
partiation
>> over 2047MB?  Same limitation as DOS?
>>
>> If I set the partition size to 2047Mb or less, installation complete
without
>> problem.
>>
>> It is OS/2 version 2.0 by the way.  And I have to same result with or
>> without the newer ibm1s506.add file.
>>
>
>If you are using a FAT partition the maximum size of any
>FAT partition is 2047MByte.
>
>If this is an HPFS partition it "should" allow for greater
>than 2047 MByte sizes.
>
>The only thing is, when I was using OS/2 v2.0 the biggest
>hard drive I was using was 650 Mbyte so I can't say
>that there is not a 2047 MByte limit.
>
>Lorne Sunley
>


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From: [e-mail]                                  17-Nov-99 09:54:19
  To: All                                               17-Nov-99 14:38:16
Subj: Re: XFree86/OS2 and my Matrox Mystique won't get along

From: "Lowell O. Turner" <[e-mail]>

Sorry, I think you misunderstood my use of the word "system"  Actually, I
meant the X window system, but thanks for replying.

Raphael Tennenbaum wrote:

> "Lowell O. Turner" <[e-mail]> wrote:
>
> >Hello,
> >
> >  In keeping with the suggestions in the (multiple) readme files and the
> >FAQ, I'll make this as concise as possible.
> >
> >  The card is a Matrox Mystique 220 with 4Mb.  The monitor is a Philips
> >107s 17".  The Matrox BIOS is 1.8.37 (upgraded recently from the web
> >site).  When the system comes up, the screen looks like a smeared inkjet
> >page.  There are streaks of black (and white) with the underlying
> >desktop image highly enlarged.  The initial screen (the tarter (??)
> >bitmap) shows up clearly although the image is compressed horizontally.
> >The streaks show up once the desktop is drawn.  This happens at all
> >resolutions.
> >
> >  I tried PCIProbe2 as suggested in the FAQ and it has absolutely no
> >effect.  The readme.mga file has no information and gives the impression
> >that the Mystique should work perfectly.  The only startup dialog
> >anomaly is a line that says:
> >
> >(--) SVGA: PCI Matrox MGA 1064SG rev 3, Memory @ 0xe0000000, 0xe1000000
> >xf86ReadBIOS: BIOS map failed, addr=c0000, rc=87
> >
> >  Does anyone have a clue as to what I should do to get this thing
> >working?
> >
> >
> >TIA,
> >
>
> How did you install the driver?  Probably you reset to VGA,
> then reinstalled.  If not, that's what you should do.  If it
> still doesn't work, I think the Matrox drivers have a
> utility that will remove all traces of the install (it's a
> cmd file, I think X:\MGA\OS2\UNINSTAL.CMD, if I'm not
> mistaken).  Run that -- it doesn't return any values to the
> command line, I think, so don't run it twice because it
> screws things up.  Then try starting over again.  Worth
> trying until someone who really knows comes up with a better
> idea.
>
> --
> Ray Tennenbaum        '99 YZF-R6
> readme@ http://www.ray-field.com

--

===========================================================
Lowell O. Turner
EE wanna be
George Mason University
Fairfax, VA

[e-mail]
http://www.nyx.net/~lturner/
http://mason.gmu.edu/~lturner3/


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From: [e-mail]                           17-Nov-99 22:12:24
  To: All                                               17-Nov-99 14:38:17
Subj: Full Window Drag - How to Enable?

From: "Julian Lit" <[e-mail]>

I have recently installed Warp4 & FP12.  How do I enable full window drag?

Thanks.


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From: [e-mail]                          17-Nov-99 08:34:21
  To: All                                               17-Nov-99 14:38:17
Subj: Re: Full Window Drag - How to Enable?

From: "Annie K." <[e-mail]>

On Wed, 17 Nov 1999 22:12:48 +0800, Julian Lit wrote:

:I have recently installed Warp4 & FP12.  How do I enable full window drag?

 Right click on the desktop, choose 'System Setup,' 'User Interface,'
'Window Manipulation,' check box 'Full Window Dragging.'

--
Klaatu barada nikto


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From: [e-mail]                 17-Nov-99 10:53:10
  To: All                                               17-Nov-99 14:38:17
Subj: Re: XFree86/OS2 and my Matrox Mystique won't get along

From: [e-mail] (Raphael Tennenbaum)

"Lowell O. Turner" <[e-mail]> wrote:

>Sorry, I think you misunderstood my use of the word "system"  Actually, I
>meant the X window system, but thanks for replying.

I felt pretty stupid when I saw Holger V.'s reply this
morning -- anytime other than the end of a long day I
probably would've recognized PCIProbe as belonging to Xfree
-- but I hoped I could sort of sneak away without anyone
noticing.  But you're welcome just the same, Lowell!!! :)


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

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From: norrisg@spam_free_linkline.com                    17-Nov-99 07:50:21
  To: All                                               17-Nov-99 14:38:17
Subj: Re: Mouse problems: random clicks

From: "Graham C. Norris" <norrisg@spam_free_linkline.com>

If a serial connection, it sounds like a duff com port, if a PS2
connection, a duff one of them. Bad hardware can generate spurious
interrupts etc.. Depending on your configuration you may find moving
cards around from one slot to another cures some interference.

Graham.

--
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From: norrisg@spam_free_linkline.com                    17-Nov-99 07:52:19
  To: All                                               17-Nov-99 14:38:17
Subj: Re: XFree86/OS2 and my Matrox Mystique won't get along

From: "Graham C. Norris" <norrisg@spam_free_linkline.com>

Holger Veit wrote:
> >(--) SVGA: PCI Matrox MGA 1064SG rev 3, Memory @ 0xe0000000, 0xe1000000
> >xf86ReadBIOS: BIOS map failed, addr=c0000, rc=87
>
> Use the 3.3.3.1 server (with PCIProbe2). The BIOS read code is
> broken in 3.3.5.
>
> Holger

Can I assume this would fix a very similar problem I'm having with an
ATI card? I.e. 3.3.5 claims it can't read the BIOS?

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From: [e-mail]                  17-Nov-99 15:33:06
  To: All                                               17-Nov-99 14:38:17
Subj: Which CDRW drive is supported?

From: [e-mail] (Rambod Larijani)

Hi,

I am about to buy an internal CDRW drive and was wondering which one has
OS/2 drivers? I have heard positive things about the Mitsumi and Yamaha
drives from non-OS/2 users.

Thank you.

Rambod Larijani

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From: doug.bissett"at"attglobal.net                     17-Nov-99 18:33:16
  To: All                                               17-Nov-99 16:33:03
Subj: Re: True Type Fonts in Warp 4?  HOW???

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

On Wed, 17 Nov 1999 12:07:33, [e-mail] (Csaba Raduly)
wrote:

> Isn't the font palette limited to eight entries ?
>
> Csaba
> --

It will only display 8 at one time, but you could have thousands of
fonts installed behind the display. Clicking Edit Font allows you to
select which font (and the size) to display, in the selected
posistion, from all of the installed fonts. All of the installed fonts
will be available to any program that supports changing fonts.

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: [e-mail]                 17-Nov-99 13:36:02
  To: All                                               17-Nov-99 16:33:03
Subj: Re: looking for mainboard recommendations

From: mark davidson <[e-mail]>

On Wed, 17 Nov 1999 07:06:21 -0500, [e-mail] (Dan Casey) wrote:

>In article <[e-mail]>,
>[e-mail] (mark davidson) wrote:
>>i'm looking to upgrade to a mainboard that [1] supports udma at 66 mhz
>>and [2] can cache more than 64 mb ram.  type of cpu isn't important as
>>long as it meets the 2 objectives.  any recommendations will be
>>appreciated.

>Unfortunatley, the type of processor DOES matter. For Socket 7
>(Pentium, AMD K6, K6-2, and Cyrix), the only Intel chipset that would
>cache more than 64 Mb of RAM was the old HX, which is no longer
>produced, and only available on very outdated mainboards.

understood ... what i meant is that the type of cpu doesn't matter to
me in terms of upgrading.  i've used socket 7 exclusively in the past
but am more than willing to switch if the new cpu type/mainboard meets
the 2 requirements.

thanks/regards, .. mark davidson


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From: [e-mail]                                17-Nov-99 17:58:02
  To: All                                               17-Nov-99 16:33:03
Subj: Re: XFree86/OS2 and my Matrox Mystique won't get along

From: [e-mail] (Holger Veit)

On Wed, 17 Nov 1999 07:52:38 -0800,
    Graham C. Norris <norrisg@spam_free_linkline.com> wrote:
>Holger Veit wrote:
>> >(--) SVGA: PCI Matrox MGA 1064SG rev 3, Memory @ 0xe0000000, 0xe1000000
>> >xf86ReadBIOS: BIOS map failed, addr=c0000, rc=87
>>
>> Use the 3.3.3.1 server (with PCIProbe2). The BIOS read code is
>> broken in 3.3.5.
>>
>> Holger
>
>Can I assume this would fix a very similar problem I'm having with an
>ATI card? I.e. 3.3.5 claims it can't read the BIOS?

Right. The code is shared among all servers, which is why I am rather
reluctant to provide a fix and uploading 30MB of new 3.3.5 X servers.
I am aware of this problem, to be fixed 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]                             17-Nov-99 18:44:29
  To: All                                               17-Nov-99 16:33:03
Subj: Re: Which CDRW drive is supported?

From: [e-mail] (osmo vuorio)

In article <[e-mail]>, [e-mail]
(Rambod Larijani) says:

>I am about to buy an internal CDRW drive and was wondering which one has
>OS/2 drivers? I have heard positive things about the Mitsumi and Yamaha
>drives from non-OS/2 users.

Get used with scsi,

Osmo

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From: [e-mail]                            17-Nov-99 18:57:24
  To: All                                               17-Nov-99 16:33:03
Subj: Re: Help Please, Cable modem

From: Alan Beagley <[e-mail]>

I found the problem: somehow my PROTOCOL.INI file had become screwed up,
with both interfaces bound to the same ethernet adapter. Once I figured
that out (having noticed that when I tried to ping other machines on
lthe LAN I saw the activity lights on the cable modem blinking) and
restored a saved version of the file, all was well again.

I have ordered a license and "registration key" for the InJoy
Gateway/Firewall program, so I should soon be in business. The
unregistered demo version permits only one user besides the gateway
machine itself, and it definitely works.

I did try the FREESCO linux-based router-on-a-floppy, but I coudn't get
it to work. I'm using Warp 4 (no Fixpacks yet) on the gateway machine.

Alan

[e-mail] wrote:

> Well, I am back on my ISDN account now, because I now have the
> cable modem hooked up to the machine that is destined to be a
> router, but I am having mucho troubles.
>
> But to answer your question: if I enter
>
>   host <ip-address>
>
> I get :
>
>  xx.xx.xx.xx = dial54.ppp.datatone.com
>
> Now for my current problem:
>
> I had the router-machine on the LAN with the other machines,
> and all could ping each other (the addresses are all of the
> form 192.168.xx.xx). But only one of that machine's two network
> interfaces was configured.
>
> Now that I have configured the other interface for DHCP and
> connected the cable modem to that interface, I can ping
> addresses "out there", but the router can no longer ping the
> other machines, and they can no longer ping the router. I have
> set the default route on the machines to the IP address of the
> "LAN side" network card.
>
> Alan
>
> In article <qpkdVVNoMoTk-pn2-yoqVbUpfxHNN@tcpserver>,
>   [e-mail] (Lorne Sunley) wrote:
> > Hi
> >
> > Just a dumb question, but, what do you get on OS/2 when you
> > type HOST x.x.x.x (where x.x.x.x is your currently assigned
> IP
> > number). You can get the IP address through NETSTAT -a
> >
> > This should be the host name that is assigned to your machine
> > to obtain the IP address through DHCP.
> >
> > Of course I have no idea if Windows includes a HOST command
> > or a NETSTAT command so that may not be a useful method
> > of determing the name.
> >
> > Lorne Sunley
> >
> > On Tue, 16 Nov 1999 20:05:20, Alan Beagley
> <[e-mail]>
> > wrote:
> >
> > > I read the original message and the replies with great
> interest because I
> > > was just about to get cable modem Internet access through
> OptimumOnline
> > > (service of Cablevision in NY/CT), which officially
> supports only Windoze
> > > and MacOS.
> > >
> > > When I initially got connected using Win98, the "host name"
> shown in
> > > winipcfg was "The Beagley family," the same as the name I
> had entered as the
> > > registered user for Win98. This was obviously not a real
> host name that I
> > > could enter into OS/2, so perhaps what you see in winipcfg
> is not correct
> > > either. No doubt I would eventually have called
> OptimumOnline to find out
> > > the Host Name, but I happened to surf (still running under
> Win98) a site
> > > that said "Welcome, guest at xxyyzzqq" -- where "xxyyzzqq"
> was recognizable
> > > as the host name. I then entered this on the "Option 12"
> line in the
> > > DHCPCD.CFG file.
> > >
> > > Of course, not every Web site will greet you like this, and
> I no longer
> > > recall which one that greeted me like this, but one wayof
> getting the info
> > > is to go to
> > > http://www.hackerwhacker.com, select "personal scan" and
> enter your e-mail
> > > address. You will then get back an e-mail with a scan code
> to enter to
> > > enable your security scan. I found that the e-mail i
> recieved also contained
> > > this weird alphanumeric host  name.
> > >
> >
> >
>
> Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
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From: [e-mail]                        17-Nov-99 18:59:22
  To: All                                               17-Nov-99 16:33:03
Subj: Re: Which CDRW drive is supported?

From: [e-mail] (Alex Taylor)

On Wed, 17 Nov 1999 15:33:12 GMT, Rambod Larijani
<[e-mail]> wrote:
> I am about to buy an internal CDRW drive and was wondering which one has
> OS/2 drivers? I have heard positive things about the Mitsumi and Yamaha
> drives from non-OS/2 users.

CD-RWs all follow the same basic standard, meaning all you need is a
generic ASPI router driver for either IDE/ATAPI or SCSI drives (however,
there is no free IDE ASPI driver - see below).  If you have an ASPI driver
for SCSI CD-RWs, _all_ SCSI CD-RWs should work, barring proprietary
extensions or buggy firmware.

I'd advise getting a SCSI CD-RW drive if at all possible.  There's a free
ASPI router available for SCSI CD-RWs, which lets you use the free (if
somewhat difficult) CDRecord/2 software.

If you get an IDE/ATAPI CD-RW, your only option is the RSJ software
package, which is supposed to be really nice and easy to use, but is very
expensive.

As for specific drives, I know Yamaha drives work under OS/2, although
some models have required firmware updates.

I have a Yamaha SCSI 6416s, and it's worked OK so far.

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 [e-mail]   http://eddie.cis.uoguelph.ca/~alex
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From: [e-mail]                              17-Nov-99 20:01:11
  To: All                                               18-Nov-99 14:35:21
Subj: Re: True Type Fonts in Warp 4?  HOW???

From: James Moe <[e-mail]>


Csaba Raduly wrote:
>
> Isn't the font palette limited to eight entries ?
>
    Only in the drag-n-drop window. The actual number of fonts that can
be installed is effectively infinite. The more fonts installed, the more
RAM that is used (and disk space, of course).

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From: [e-mail]                             17-Nov-99 11:52:17
  To: All                                               18-Nov-99 14:35:21
Subj: Re: looking for mainboard recommendations

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


Dan Casey wrote:
>
> In article <[e-mail]>,
> [e-mail] (mark davidson) wrote:
> >i'm looking to upgrade to a mainboard that [1] supports udma at 66 mhz
> >and [2] can cache more than 64 mb ram.  type of cpu isn't important as
> >long as it meets the 2 objectives.  any recommendations will be
> >appreciated.
> >
> >thanks/regards, .. mark davidson
>
> Unfortunatley, the type of processor DOES matter. For Socket 7
> (Pentium, AMD K6, K6-2, and Cyrix), the only Intel chipset that would
> cache more than 64 Mb of RAM was the old HX, which is no longer
> produced, and only available on very outdated mainboards.
>
> VIA and SiS chipsets will cache more than 64 Mb of RAM, and work well
> with OS/2, provided you use Dani's IDE Drivers (DANIS506.ADD from
> Hobbes).
>
> Pentium III Mainboards with Intel chipsets will cache more than 64 Mb
> of Ram.
>
> Athlon (AMD K7 processors) need a patch to the OS2LDR file, also from
> Dani, and also available at hobbes, in order for OS/2 to even see more
> than 64 Mb of RAM in the system. Once that patch is applied, all of
> the ram should be recognized. I say *should* because the patch has
> only been available for about 5 days, and all reports have been
> positive, so far.

Note that this patch is not required if you use the ASUS K7M Athlon
motherboard.



>
> In short, the Socket 7 mainboards are the only ones with limitations
> on the amount of RAM that can be cached, so processor type does make a
> difference.
>
> --
> **************************************************************
> *  Dan Casey                                                 *
> *  President                                                 *
> *  V.O.I.C.E. (Virtual OS/2 International Consumer Education *
> *  http://www.os2voice.org                                   *
> *  Abraxas on IRC                                            *
> *  http://members.iquest.net/~dcasey                         *
> *  Charter Associate member, Team SETI                       *
> *  Warpstock 99 in Atlanta  http://www.warpstock.org         *
> **************************************************************
> *  E-Mail (subject: Req. PGP Key) for Public Key             *
> **************************************************************

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From: [e-mail]                              17-Nov-99 20:04:01
  To: All                                               18-Nov-99 14:35:21
Subj: Re: looking for mainboard recommendations

From: James Moe <[e-mail]>


Mark Schlegel wrote:
>
>
> You misunderstood him, he doesn't mean the SRAM cache
> is 64MB, but that the cache is caching a system DRAM
> that is > 64MB, the SRAM cache doing that is a lot smaller..
> probably more like 512 KB.
>
    Urk! Quite so.

--

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

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From: [e-mail]                            17-Nov-99 19:01:16
  To: All                                               18-Nov-99 14:35:22
Subj: Re: Help Please, Cable modem

From: Alan Beagley <[e-mail]>

To follow up on my earlier reply to you, I find that typing "host <IP
address>"
does not always give the same result. E.g., I have seen both

   d186-10.rslyny.optonline.net

and

   d186-13.rslyny.optonline.net

 -- with different IP addresses (dynamic, not static).

Alan


Lorne Sunley wrote:

> Hi
>
> Just a dumb question, but, what do you get on OS/2 when you
> type HOST x.x.x.x (where x.x.x.x is your currently assigned IP
> number). You can get the IP address through NETSTAT -a
>
> This should be the host name that is assigned to your machine
> to obtain the IP address through DHCP.
>
> Of course I have no idea if Windows includes a HOST command
> or a NETSTAT command so that may not be a useful method
> of determing the name.
>
> Lorne Sunley
>
> On Tue, 16 Nov 1999 20:05:20, Alan Beagley <[e-mail]>
> wrote:
>
> > I read the original message and the replies with great interest because I
> > was just about to get cable modem Internet access through OptimumOnline
> > (service of Cablevision in NY/CT), which officially supports only Windoze
> > and MacOS.
> >
> > When I initially got connected using Win98, the "host name" shown in
> > winipcfg was "The Beagley family," the same as the name I had entered as
the
> > registered user for Win98. This was obviously not a real host name that I
> > could enter into OS/2, so perhaps what you see in winipcfg is not correct
> > either. No doubt I would eventually have called OptimumOnline to find out
> > the Host Name, but I happened to surf (still running under Win98) a site
> > that said "Welcome, guest at xxyyzzqq" -- where "xxyyzzqq" was
recognizable
> > as the host name. I then entered this on the "Option 12" line in the
> > DHCPCD.CFG file.
> >
> > Of course, not every Web site will greet you like this, and I no longer
> > recall which one that greeted me like this, but one wayof getting the info
> > is to go to
> > http://www.hackerwhacker.com, select "personal scan" and enter your e-mail
> > address. You will then get back an e-mail with a scan code to enter to
> > enable your security scan. I found that the e-mail i recieved also
contained
> > this weird alphanumeric host  name.
> >

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From: [e-mail]                                  17-Nov-99 18:25:23
  To: All                                               18-Nov-99 14:35:22
Subj: Re: XFree86/OS2 and my Matrox Mystique won't get along

From: [e-mail] (Chris Hall)

In <[e-mail]>, [e-mail] (Holger Veit)
writes:
>On Wed, 17 Nov 1999 07:52:38 -0800,
>    Graham C. Norris <norrisg@spam_free_linkline.com> wrote:
>>Holger Veit wrote:
>>> >(--) SVGA: PCI Matrox MGA 1064SG rev 3, Memory @ 0xe0000000, 0xe1000000
>>> >xf86ReadBIOS: BIOS map failed, addr=c0000, rc=87
>>>
>>> Use the 3.3.3.1 server (with PCIProbe2). The BIOS read code is
>>> broken in 3.3.5.
>>>
>>> Holger
>>
>>Can I assume this would fix a very similar problem I'm having with an
>>ATI card? I.e. 3.3.5 claims it can't read the BIOS?
>
>Right. The code is shared among all servers, which is why I am rather
>reluctant to provide a fix and uploading 30MB of new 3.3.5 X servers.
>I am aware of this problem, to be fixed in 3.3.6.
>
>Holger
>
>--
>If Microsoft is ever going to produce something that does not suck,
>it is very likely a vacuum cleaner.
>

Holger:

I had a similar problem with an ATI Rage 3d IIc AGP card with 8M on it. I get
the
bios fail with the 3.3.5 server. I can try running the 3.3.1 server with a
3.3.5 install,
but all the apps complain that server isn't running. All I get is a grey
screen.

OK, so I wipe 3.3.5 and try 3.3.1. Now I can get a screen, a window manager
comes
up, etc., but every window shows up twice (2nd one shifted to the right). No
playing around with xvidtune seems to help. Any thoughts on getting this card
to run in 3.3.1? Suggestions for which card to specify (the rage 3d IIc isn't
in the 3.3.1 list)?

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 21:26:08
  To: All                                               18-Nov-99 21:42:12
Subj: How to determine NIC IRQ used?

From: [e-mail]

One of my most pesky recurrent problems with WARP 4 is that the NIC
interrupt choice isn't shown in the Hardware operation in the SETUP
folder..

Further, on older boxes, you never get to see the roster of interupts
that have been picked for these non PNP cases..

Too, many of the drivers to set up older cards like the D-LINK cards,
can't be run while OS/2 is running to check them and I don't always have
a bootable DOS disk with the setup on it to use before I start OS/2 as
well..

Is there any way to get a handle on what IRQ the NIC is using from a
command line prompt in OS/2, or from a click on the desktop?  It would
make it a heck of a lot easier picking setup choices in the older boxes
if you knew in advance what the NIC had done!!

Thanks gang..

--> Sleep well; OS2's still awake! ;)

[e-mail]
[e-mail]

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From: [e-mail]                                  17-Nov-99 21:43:00
  To: All                                               18-Nov-99 21:42:12
Subj: Re: XFree86/OS2 and my Matrox Mystique won't get along

From: [e-mail] (Chris Hall)

In <LqCY3.1255$[e-mail]>, [e-mail] (Chris Hall)
writes:
>In <[e-mail]>, [e-mail] (Holger Veit)
writes:
>>On Wed, 17 Nov 1999 07:52:38 -0800,
snip

>
>Holger:
>
>I had a similar problem with an ATI Rage 3d IIc AGP card with 8M on it. I get
the
>bios fail with the 3.3.5 server. I can try running the 3.3.1 server with a
3.3.5 install,
>but all the apps complain that server isn't running. All I get is a grey
screen.
>
>OK, so I wipe 3.3.5 and try 3.3.1. Now I can get a screen, a window manager
comes
>up, etc., but every window shows up twice (2nd one shifted to the right). No
>playing around with xvidtune seems to help. Any thoughts on getting this card
>to run in 3.3.1? Suggestions for which card to specify (the rage 3d IIc isn't
in the 3.3.1 list)?

Replying to my own post, a clean install of 3.3.3.1 (that's a lot of 3's) does
work
with the Rage 3D IIc. The server from that install won't work with 3.3.5, so
I'll
wait for 3.3.6 to come out to get a new server.


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 20:30:22
  To: All                                               18-Nov-99 21:42:12
Subj: Re: Which CDRW drive is supported?

From: [e-mail] (Rambod Larijani)

Thank you very much for the explanation. I was going
to get an IDE drive but considering the driver situation
I should go the SCSI route, which means getting a SCSI
adapter. I wonder if there are ever going to write
os/2 drivers for IDE CDRW drives?

I would have paid for the RSJ drivers but $330 is waaay out
of my price range!

Thanks again.

Rambod



In article <AWCY3.64287$[e-mail]>,
   [e-mail] (Alex Taylor) wrote:
>
>CD-RWs all follow the same basic standard, meaning all you need is a
>generic ASPI router driver for either IDE/ATAPI or SCSI drives (however,
>there is no free IDE ASPI driver - see below).  If you have an ASPI driver
>for SCSI CD-RWs, _all_ SCSI CD-RWs should work, barring proprietary
>extensions or buggy firmware.
>
>I'd advise getting a SCSI CD-RW drive if at all possible.  There's a free
>ASPI router available for SCSI CD-RWs, which lets you use the free (if
>somewhat difficult) CDRecord/2 software.
>
>If you get an IDE/ATAPI CD-RW, your only option is the RSJ software
>package, which is supposed to be really nice and easy to use, but is very
>expensive.
>
>As for specific drives, I know Yamaha drives work under OS/2, although
>some models have required firmware updates.
>
>I have a Yamaha SCSI 6416s, and it's worked OK so far.
>

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From: [e-mail]                          18-Nov-99 00:40:08
  To: All                                               18-Nov-99 21:42:12
Subj: Re: True Type Fonts in Warp 4?  HOW???

From: [e-mail] (Buddy Donnelly)

On Wed, 17 Nov 1999 12:07:33, [e-mail] (Csaba Raduly) a ┌crit
dans un message:
> [snip]
> >> Font Pallette -> Edit Font -> Add  ..... and then select the fonts
> >> from the source.
> >>
>
> Isn't the font palette limited to eight entries ?

Each Font Palette is, but you can create as many more Font Palettes objects
as you want, and any of them will access the complete list of Installed
Fonts via the
Edit Font | Add dialog.

Not many applications accept dragged fonts very well for anything other
than the appearance of control buttons and menus, but I'm happy to say that
DeScribe is one of the best. It's really easy to create a Font Palette
customized for a particular document style, say, "Monthly Newsletter", and
keep it in a "Work Area" folder along with the template for that document
style, so that the "Newsletter Fonts Palette" opens when you start work on
your Newsletter. You can then make use of the Font Palette's ability to
drag fonts along with point size and extra attributes like Underline, and
any text that is hilited will instantly change to display the newly
assigned font.


--

Good luck,

Buddy

Buddy Donnelly
[e-mail]


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From: [e-mail]                                17-Nov-99 17:32:04
  To: All                                               18-Nov-99 21:42:12
Subj: Re: Which CDRW drive is supported?

From: "Matt Walsh" <[e-mail]>

I got an IDE- CD-RW  and bought the RSJ program download for $180 from
Indelible Blue.  I figured the IDE Drive (a yamaha in a Pacific box) was only
$99 on sale and so what I paid in software I saved in hardware and it works
fine.  I'm happy.

On Wed, 17 Nov 1999 15:33:12 GMT, Rambod Larijani wrote:

>Hi,
>
>I am about to buy an internal CDRW drive and was wondering which one has
>OS/2 drivers? I have heard positive things about the Mitsumi and Yamaha
>drives from non-OS/2 users.
>
>Thank you.
>
>Rambod Larijani


Matt Walsh  El Paso, TX
Computin' & Shootin' in the dust.


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From: [e-mail]                                     18-Nov-99 02:22:19
  To: All                                               18-Nov-99 21:42:12
Subj: Re: Setting up all the stuff I need for Merlin

From: Rob Hamilton <[e-mail]>

In <382d3fbb$2$vina$[e-mail]>, "Ivan Adzhubei"
<[e-mail]> writes:
>In <[e-mail]>, on 11/12/99
>   at 12:26 AM, [e-mail] (Will Honea) said:
<snip>
>Like you said: Whew!  OK, Warp 4 installed, good start. FP12 is next,
>>but get DD01 (they pulled the device driver upgrades out of the base
>>FP about fp10 or 11).  Next, uninstall Java 1.02
>>(OS2\INSTALL\INSTALL\Installed features, uninstall from the icon).
>>Boot.  Install Netscape 4.61 (no, it doesn't REQUIRE Java or FI).
>>Next is FI 1.25, then Java 1.1.8.  There is a note in the readmes
>>about a netscape\program\java\118 directory - read that since the
>>install probably missed it.  Tells you what to copy where.
>
>This is no longer an issue with Comm 4.61 (it was - but with Comm 4.04,
>as Java readme tells). Comm 4.61 has Java 1.1.8 layer installed by
>default, you do not need to worry about it.
>

Ok, I'm back. I've been through the FP12 install, the XR_D001 install
and I installed NC4.61, which all worked fine. However, I went through
dejanews to find out about installing Java 1.1.8, and seem to have
messed it up pretty badly.

I saw a note that said to remove everything that looked like Java on
my system, so I deleted the JAVAOS2 directory and removed everything
with the letters "JAVA" from the CONFIG.SYS file. Missed the 118
directory in Netscape, but that's for later.....I installed FI 1.2.5, after
CSF1.41, and then attempted to install Java 1.1.8....

According to the FI doc, I created a root-level directory for the stuff I
was going to install with FI; it said the name didn't matter, so I gave it
a descriptive name (I know, this is probably part of the problem...) like
SoftwareChoice. FISETUP is a subdirectory. I then unzipped the javaintk
file into another directory (ok, from the documentation I thought that
software was going to be installed _into_ the SoftwareChoice directory)
and tried the install. Netscape came up, with the proper screens, I selected
English, and it continued. I was however only able to select the drive on
which the runtime stuff was to be installed, which I picked as E:, and
the only other active checkbox was for the toolkit documentation. Nothing
else. I was able to set a directory for the documentation, so I did that
and ran it, and that was it. It ran to completion. I knew that there should
have been a new folder in Programs, but nothing. So, I tried again. I got
the READFI and MAKEFI programs from Hobbes, created an empty FI.INI
file, and retried the installation. Same result. Now I figured out finally
from
what I was reading elsewhere (and the fact that FI was creating a new
directory for Java, JAVA11) that I was supposed to have unzipped the
javaintk file into Feature1 under the SoftwareChoice directory where
FISETUP resided, so I moved that stuff, and retried the install. Same
result. I uninstalled what I had installed, blew away the JAVA11 directory,
deleted the 118 directory from PROGRAMS\JAVA\CLASSES, and then
noticed the Installed Features subdirectory under OS2\INSTALL. There was
a Java directory, which attempted to install new Java stuff, which of
course was now missing. There was also an installed Java feature, which
pointed to a new long-gone JAVAOS2 directory. Figuring I was ready, I
uninstalled that stuff, CHECKINI to cleanup the INI files, and retried. EXACT
same result, only the runtime (0.1M) and documentation (7.somethingMB).
Now, no 118 directory under PROG...\CLASSES, so I redid the NC461 install
and it replaced that. According to the Java 118 doc, if the checkboxes are
disabled for certain of the Java features in the install, I've downloaded
the wrong guy. Fine. Blew away what all I had, downloaded javaintk
again made sure everything was uninstalled, CHECKINI, unzip javaintk into
the Feature1 subdirectory, start the install, and plunk, same result. Only
the runtime and doc, no toolkit. And when I install the runtime stuff,
nothing seems to work, i.e, I can't issue the "java" command to see what
version I have up. CLASSPATH has .\. and that's all, and now I'm looking
at the loopback thing. (127.0.0.1 goes into the "resolve" file?)

And Netscape says Unsupported Java Version. Duh.

Clearly there's some nook and/or cranny I haven't checked. Fortunately,
this isn't the worst problem I've had with OS/2 in 10 and a half years; just
the one I seem to be least able to fix.....

Any help is appreciated; thanks in advance.

Rob
[e-mail]

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From: [e-mail]                    18-Nov-99 02:44:00
  To: All                                               18-Nov-99 21:42:12
Subj: Re: Athlon & OS/2

From: [e-mail] (John Hong)

[e-mail] wrote:

: Also, OS/2 only recognizes 64 of 128
: meg.  Suppposedly occurs with ACPI
: enabled and AMI BIOS.  This happened
: on an FIC SD11 board.

    Daniela Engert has made a patch for that problem, it is available
at Hobbes (patchldr.zip).  What is wrong with your formatting anyway?


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From: norrisg@spam_free_linkline.com                    17-Nov-99 19:19:06
  To: All                                               18-Nov-99 21:42:13
Subj: Re: XFree86/OS2 and my Matrox Mystique won't get along

From: "Graham C. Norris" <norrisg@spam_free_linkline.com>

Holger Veit wrote:
> >Can I assume this would fix a very similar problem I'm having with an
> >ATI card? I.e. 3.3.5 claims it can't read the BIOS?
>
> Right. The code is shared among all servers, which is why I am rather
> reluctant to provide a fix and uploading 30MB of new 3.3.5 X servers.
> I am aware of this problem, to be fixed in 3.3.6.

Thanks! Any ETA for 3.3.6? From some other posts it sounds as though
I'll do best to wait for it if it will be fairly soon.

Graham.

--
*-* Please remove spam free prefix before replying *-*

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From: [e-mail]                 17-Nov-99 22:31:12
  To: All                                               18-Nov-99 21:42:13
Subj: Re: Setting up all the stuff I need for Merlin

From: [e-mail] (Raphael Tennenbaum)

Rob Hamilton <[e-mail]> wrote:

>geschnipt...
>Any help is appreciated; thanks in advance.
>
>Rob
>[e-mail]


This may be no help at all, but the inestimable Henk Kelder
posted this a month or so ago, and it may be worth trying:



Just found the cause of the problems and solved it (at least
for myself)

The problem is in x:\OS2\INSTALL\IF.INI (where x is your
boot drive)

This file appearantly keeps a list of all installed
features. Per installed feature it keeps the WPS internal
objecthandle of the directory where the feature installer
has stored it's install information (note: not the installed
feature, but just the info about it).

On my PC two entries pointed to incorrect directories. I
manually changed the entries to the correct values and
bingo: JAVA 1.1.8 suddenly installs without a problem.

To scan IF.INI for which locations it contains please
download:

http://www.os2ss.com/information/readfi.exe
http://www.os2ss.com/information/WPTOOLS.NEW

and place this in \OS2\INSTALL

And rename WPTOOLS.NEW on your machine to WPTOOLS.DLL.
(Note: this is a newer version as in WPTOOLxx.ZIP and is NOT
compatible with the one in that archive. So make sure you
keep the one from the archive)

The run READFI. This will read all entries in IF.INI and
show to what paths it points.

They should all be in \OS2\INSTALL or a subdirectory from
it.

Henk
>
> John,
>
> Don't know the cause, but I have exactly the same problem.
>
> Also, After this failed installation, my \OS2\BOOK directory suddenly is
> called:
> '7 OS/2 Java Internationalization - Inventory'
>
> Henk
>
> John Mandeville wrote:
> >
> > I've tried installing Java 1.1.8, but the installation fails after all
> > the files are copied.  It tells be to check
> > x:\os2\install\wpinstal.log.  After adding x:\Java11\rmi-iiope to the
> > path, it gives the message "**NULLID"" :: Exception -1073741819 returned
> > to instthrd.c 7301".  Not knowing what exception -1073741819 is, I'm
> > don't know what to do next.  It got far enough that some of my Java apps
> > run OK, but others do not.  Ideas?

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

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From: [e-mail]                           18-Nov-99 03:47:02
  To: All                                               18-Nov-99 21:42:13
Subj: Re: Athlon & OS/2

From: [e-mail] (Lorne Sunley)

On Thu, 18 Nov 1999 02:44:00, [e-mail] (John
Hong) wrote:

> [e-mail] wrote:
>
> : Also, OS/2 only recognizes 64 of 128
> : meg.  Suppposedly occurs with ACPI
> : enabled and AMI BIOS.  This happened
> : on an FIC SD11 board.
>
>     Daniela Engert has made a patch for that problem, it is available
> at Hobbes (patchldr.zip).  What is wrong with your formatting anyway?
>
>

Scott Garfinkle from IBM has also made a new version of
os2ldr available FOR WARP 4 FP 12 ONLY that can
be downloaded from

ftp://testcase.boulder.ibm.com/ps/fromibm/os2/e820ldr.zip

Lorne Sunley

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From: [e-mail]                          18-Nov-99 05:42:29
  To: All                                               18-Nov-99 21:42:13
Subj: Re: Setting up all the stuff I need for Merlin

From: [e-mail] (Buddy Donnelly)

On Thu, 18 Nov 1999 03:31:24, [e-mail] (Raphael
Tennenbaum) a ┌crit dans un message:

snip
>
> This may be no help at all, but the inestimable Henk Kelder
> posted this a month or so ago, and it may be worth trying:

(Henk?)
>
> Just found the cause of the problems and solved it (at least
> for myself)
>
> The problem is in x:\OS2\INSTALL\IF.INI (where x is your
> boot drive)
snip
>
> To scan IF.INI for which locations it contains please
> download:
>
> http://www.os2ss.com/information/readfi.exe
> http://www.os2ss.com/information/WPTOOLS.NEW

All good info and new to me but I get 404's on those URLs, and don't see
any links at the SS website to get me these files. Any better pointers?


--

Good luck,

Buddy

Buddy Donnelly
[e-mail]


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From: [e-mail]                                     18-Nov-99 07:59:10
  To: All                                               18-Nov-99 21:42:13
Subj: Re: Setting up all the stuff I need for Merlin

From: Rob Hamilton <[e-mail]>

In <[e-mail]>,
[e-mail] (Buddy Donnelly) writes:
>On Thu, 18 Nov 1999 03:31:24, [e-mail] (Raphael
>Tennenbaum) a écrit dans un message:
>
>snip
>> http://www.os2ss.com/information/readfi.exe
>> http://www.os2ss.com/information/WPTOOLS.NEW
>
>All good info and new to me but I get 404's on those URLs, and don't see
>any links at the SS website to get me these files. Any better pointers?
>
Aaah, it was close. He meant:

http://www.os2ss.com/information/kelder/readfi.exe
http://www.os2ss.com/information/kelder/makefi.exe
http://www.os2ss.com/information/kelder/wptools31.zip

The readfi.exe will read the FI.INI file and tell you what you have
basically already installed with the Feature Installer, makefi will
make an empty one so you can restart with FI, and the WPTOOLS31
package includes checkini, wpsbkp and other stuff, specifically
the WPTOOLS.DLL that you need for makefi. I know all this because
I already tried this and am still at square 1. But from looking in dejanews,
I'd say this helped a lot of people already.

R;

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From: [e-mail]                               18-Nov-99 22:07:14
  To: All                                               18-Nov-99 21:42:13
Subj: Re: Mouse problems: random clicks

From: Aaron Lawrence <[e-mail]>

It's PS/2, but as I said doesn't happen in Windows of either flavour, so
probably not hardware.
Thanks for the thought.

"Graham C. Norris" wrote:
>
> If a serial connection, it sounds like a duff com port, if a PS2
> connection, a duff one of them. Bad hardware can generate spurious
> interrupts etc.. Depending on your configuration you may find moving
> cards around from one slot to another cures some interference.
>
> Graham.
>
> --
> *-* Please remove spam free prefix before replying *-*

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From: [e-mail]                                       18-Nov-99 10:59:00
  To: All                                               18-Nov-99 21:42:14
Subj: Re: WSEB problems.

From: filippo sartori <[e-mail]>


filippo sartori wrote:

> A few problems encountered while installing WSEB (WARP 5)
>
> System description:
> GIGABYTE MOBO
> ATHLON 500
> 128MB ram
> 2*27Gbyte IBM ide hard disks
> DVD
> SBLASTER 128
> ATI AIW 128 16 MB ram  used with Scitech Display Doctor.
>
> (old ISA ethernet card 3COM etherlink III)
>
> 1) MOBO problem recognizing memory
> FIXED: thanks to Daniela Engert
>
> 2) VFAT FS driver does not work: locks os2 during boot
>
> 3) 3COM nic driver traps os2 during boot on DOSCALLS
>
> 4) DOS window and Windows seamless do not start but take up all
> resources
> CPU load 100%. With difficulty can be killed.
>
> All the rest seems to work:
> FAT32 working OK
> Netscape working OK
>
> I will report in the future on more
>
> Regards:
> Filippo Sartori

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From: [e-mail]                                  18-Nov-99 14:26:23
  To: All                                               18-Nov-99 23:54:08
Subj: Re: looking for mainboard recommendations

From: [e-mail] (Chris Hall)

In <[e-mail]>,
[e-mail] (mark davidson) writes:
>i'm looking to upgrade to a mainboard that [1] supports udma at 66 mhz
>and [2] can cache more than 64 mb ram.  type of cpu isn't important as
>long as it meets the 2 objectives.  any recommendations will be
>appreciated.
>
>thanks/regards, .. mark davidson

It's always a good idea to pop over to www.indelible-blue.com and check out
the MB's there. They tend to sell for the OS/2 and Linux crowd.

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]                             18-Nov-99 14:02:27
  To: All                                               18-Nov-99 23:54:08
Subj: Re: Which CDRW drive is supported?

From: [e-mail] (Ron Gibson)

On Wed, 17 Nov 1999 18:59:44, [e-mail] (Alex Taylor)
wrote:

> I'd advise getting a SCSI CD-RW drive if at all possible.  There's a free
> ASPI router available for SCSI CD-RWs, which lets you use the free (if
> somewhat difficult) CDRecord/2 software.

Does anyone have experience with the SmartandFriendly kit?  I've seen a
few nice comments about it and the price is right.

BTW, I'm not one who believes that top dollar means top performance or
reliability (see HP).

                      email: [e-mail]

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From: [e-mail]                        18-Nov-99 16:56:09
  To: All                                               18-Nov-99 23:54:09
Subj: Re: Which CDRW drive is supported?

From: [e-mail] (Alex Taylor)

On Wed, 17 Nov 1999 20:30:44 GMT, Rambod Larijani
<[e-mail]> wrote:
> Thank you very much for the explanation. I was going
> to get an IDE drive but considering the driver situation
> I should go the SCSI route, which means getting a SCSI
> adapter. I wonder if there are ever going to write
> os/2 drivers for IDE CDRW drives?

We can always hope, although we can't count on anything these days...

> I would have paid for the RSJ drivers but $330 is waaay out
> of my price range!

It's significantly cheaper from Indelible Blue (I think it's on sale for
about $180 - electronic delivery).  Still costly, but possibly worth it.

I guess you could weigh that against the increased cost of a SCSI CD-RW +
adapter.  SCSI drives do tend to be more reliable overall, though.

Like I said, SCSI allows you to use the free CDRecord + mkisofs software,
but it is command-line software, which you may not be comfortable with.
Several people have written GUI front ends for it, though, which may make
it somewhat easier.

I'd suggest downloading and looking at CDRecord (it's on Hobbes), and
seeing if you might be comfortable with it.  Maybe check out some of
the available GUIs as well.

In any case, if you go SCSI you have a choice (CDRecord or RSJ) -
although if you then decide to go RSJ you'll have spent more money.
(On the other hand, I'd personally never recommend an IDE CD-RW
anyway.)

--
-----------------------------------------------------------------
 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 15:37:17
  To: All                                               18-Nov-99 23:54:09
Subj: Re: Which CDRW drive is supported?

From: [e-mail] (Rambod Larijani)

$180 sounds more reasonable. It is worth considering.

Thanks.

R. Larijani

In article <zjnyfuryceepbz.fld59l0.pminews@news-server>,
   "Matt Walsh" <[e-mail]> wrote:
>I got an IDE- CD-RW  and bought the RSJ program download for $180 from
>Indelible Blue.  I figured the IDE Drive (a yamaha in a Pacific box) was only
>$99 on sale and so what I paid in software I saved in hardware and it works
>fine.  I'm happy.
>
>On Wed, 17 Nov 1999 15:33:12 GMT, Rambod Larijani wrote:
>
>
>
>Matt Walsh  El Paso, TX
>Computin' & Shootin' in the dust.
>
>

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From: doug.bissett"at"attglobal.net                     18-Nov-99 18:55:00
  To: All                                               18-Nov-99 23:54:09
Subj: Re: How to determine NIC IRQ used?

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

On Wed, 17 Nov 1999 21:26:16, [e-mail] wrote:

> One of my most pesky recurrent problems with WARP 4 is that the NIC
> interrupt choice isn't shown in the Hardware operation in the SETUP
> folder..
>
> Further, on older boxes, you never get to see the roster of interupts
> that have been picked for these non PNP cases..
>
> Too, many of the drivers to set up older cards like the D-LINK cards,
> can't be run while OS/2 is running to check them and I don't always have
> a bootable DOS disk with the setup on it to use before I start OS/2 as
> well..
>
> Is there any way to get a handle on what IRQ the NIC is using from a
> command line prompt in OS/2, or from a click on the desktop?  It would
> make it a heck of a lot easier picking setup choices in the older boxes
> if you knew in advance what the NIC had done!!
>
> Thanks gang..
>
> --> Sleep well; OS2's still awake! ;)
>
> [e-mail]
> [e-mail]
>

The only way I have found, is to run the NIC setup program. It would
be nice if the manufacturers would update their drivers to be
resource manager aware so they would display the information, but I
suspect that isn't going to happen. At least we have OS/2 drivers,
even if they are a pain in the A__.

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: [e-mail]                              17-Nov-99 20:30:07
  To: [e-mail]                            18-Nov-99 23:54:09
Subj: Re: Need Disk 1 of Win/OS2 Blue Spine

To: [e-mail]
From: "Hans Andrießen" <[e-mail]>

[e-mail] schrieb:
>
> My Disk 1 of Win/OS2 Blue Spine has somehow gotten
> corrupted, and no Backup.
> Also Disk 4 maybe.
> Have also OS2 plain which is now installed.
> Untill I can get these disks
>
> So if anyone wants to E-mail or Mail...will pay a little.
> Just rem they are XDF disks and have to be copied that way.
>
> Unless someone knows if there is another way.

Did you have a look on?:
cdinst.bat
also
cdinst.com
it generates for you an new set of installation-discs.

bye/2
Hans

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From: [e-mail]                                   18-Nov-99 17:22:09
  To: All                                               18-Nov-99 23:54:10
Subj: Re: Which CDRW drive is supported?

From: [e-mail]

>although if you then decide to go RSJ you'll have spent more money. (On
>the other hand, I'd personally never recommend an IDE CD-RW anyway.)

And that would be because of ......

performance?

reliability?

can't do as much as a scsi?

Do you have any personal experience.

I ask out of curiosity, not to attack your opinion. :) The only thing I
can think of as different is the throughput, so if you have more to add,
please fill us in.

Thanks,

John



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From: [e-mail]                                   18-Nov-99 17:18:14
  To: All                                               18-Nov-99 23:54:10
Subj: Re: Which CDRW drive is supported?

From: [e-mail]

In <zjnyfuryceepbz.fld59l0.pminews@news-server>, on 11/17/99 at 05:32 PM,
   "Matt Walsh" <[e-mail]> said:

>I got an IDE- CD-RW  and bought the RSJ program download for $180 from
>Indelible Blue.  I figured the IDE Drive (a yamaha in a Pacific box) was
>only $99 on sale and so what I paid in software I saved in hardware and
>it works fine.  I'm happy.

Matt,

Would you mind expanding on your experiences with your CD player, either
in the group, in pmail?

I want one, but I don't have scsi, nor a desire to deal with it :) but I
haven't heard anything about the performance of the IDE devices. I would
love to hear your opinions of the speed, reliability, what you use it for,
and what you think of the RSJ software.

The more details you can stand to write about, the better. <g>

I would surely appreciate it. ~$300 would be okay with me if it actually
works and does what I need.

Thanks a lot,

John

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From: [e-mail]                                19-Nov-99 01:49:17
  To: All                                               18-Nov-99 23:54:10
Subj: Partitions

From: "George Barrowcliff" <[e-mail]>

I recently bought some IBM PC300GL 550MHz 17GB systems that came with NT.

I configured the first few with Boot Manager, kept the NT partition at 2GB,
put Warp 4
in another 2GB FAT primary partition and included a 2GB FAT extended
partition.

How large can I make this D: partition under Warp 4?

TIA GWB


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From: [e-mail]                            19-Nov-99 01:59:01
  To: All                                               18-Nov-99 23:54:10
Subj: Re: How to determine NIC IRQ used?

From: [e-mail]

In <SKfw30zmCGmZ-pn2-EIfdP4lIxq6Z@localhost>, doug.bissett"at"attglobal.net
(Doug Bissett) writes:

>On Wed, 17 Nov 1999 21:26:16, [e-mail] wrote:
>

>> One of my most pesky recurrent problems with WARP 4 is that the NIC
>> interrupt choice isn't shown in the Hardware operation in the SETUP
>> folder..
>>
>> Further, on older boxes, you never get to see the roster of interupts
>> that have been picked for these non PNP cases..
>>
>> Too, many of the drivers to set up older cards like the D-LINK cards,
>> can't be run while OS/2 is running to check them and I don't always have
>> a bootable DOS disk with the setup on it to use before I start OS/2 as
>> well..
>>
>> Is there any way to get a handle on what IRQ the NIC is using from a
>> command line prompt in OS/2, or from a click on the desktop?  It would
>> make it a heck of a lot easier picking setup choices in the older boxes
>> if you knew in advance what the NIC had done!!
>>
>> Thanks gang..
>>
>> --> Sleep well; OS2's still awake! ;)
>>
>> [e-mail]
>> [e-mail]
>>
>

>The only way I have found, is to run the NIC setup program. It would
>be nice if the manufacturers would update their drivers to be
>resource manager aware so they would display the information, but I
>suspect that isn't going to happen. At least we have OS/2 drivers,
>even if they are a pain in the A__.
>
>Hope this helps...

>From the PC of Doug Bissett

A mouse under the chair sent me an Email answer..  Simple ..  Change to
the IBMINST directory in an OS/2 session window.

    Run OS2SNIFF.EXE

        Problem solved ..

           So's to help all here..

--> Sleep well; OS2's still awake! ;)

[e-mail]
[e-mail]

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From: [e-mail]                                  18-Nov-99 21:18:15
  To: All                                               18-Nov-99 23:54:10
Subj: Re: XFree86/OS2 and my Matrox Mystique won't get along

From: "Lowell O. Turner" <[e-mail]>

3.3.1 works.  Unfortunately, I had to use the "no_accel" option since nothing
I
did could keep the fix the multiple mouse arrows and pop up windows that would
not
completely draw.  Oh well, I'll make due with this util 3.3.6 comes out.
Thanks
again for the speedy reply.

Holger Veit wrote:

> On Tue, 16 Nov 1999 21:04:06 -0500, Lowell O. Turner <[e-mail]>
wrote:
> >Hello,
> >
> >  In keeping with the suggestions in the (multiple) readme files and the
> >FAQ, I'll make this as concise as possible.
> >
> >  The card is a Matrox Mystique 220 with 4Mb.  The monitor is a Philips
> >107s 17".  The Matrox BIOS is 1.8.37 (upgraded recently from the web
> >site).  When the system comes up, the screen looks like a smeared inkjet
> >page.  There are streaks of black (and white) with the underlying
> >desktop image highly enlarged.  The initial screen (the tarter (??)
> >bitmap) shows up clearly although the image is compressed horizontally.
> >The streaks show up once the desktop is drawn.  This happens at all
> >resolutions.
> >
> >  I tried PCIProbe2 as suggested in the FAQ and it has absolutely no
> >effect.  The readme.mga file has no information and gives the impression
> >that the Mystique should work perfectly.  The only startup dialog
> >anomaly is a line that says:
> >
> >(--) SVGA: PCI Matrox MGA 1064SG rev 3, Memory @ 0xe0000000, 0xe1000000
> >xf86ReadBIOS: BIOS map failed, addr=c0000, rc=87
>
> Use the 3.3.3.1 server (with PCIProbe2). The BIOS read code is
> broken in 3.3.5.
>
> Holger
>
> --
> If Microsoft is ever going to produce something that does not suck,
> it is very likely a vacuum cleaner.

--

===========================================================
Lowell O. Turner
EE wanna be
George Mason University
Fairfax, VA

[e-mail]
http://www.nyx.net/~lturner/
http://mason.gmu.edu/~lturner3/


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From: [e-mail]                                19-Nov-99 03:38:23
  To: All                                               19-Nov-99 03:31:19
Subj: Re: HELP !!! Second Partition problem.

From: "Chris Youngs " <[e-mail]>

What type of PC is this. Some had to have a BIOS translator to see anything
>528MB. Also, OS/2 V3 had to be installed in the first partition, below the
1024MB limit, This may not be a concern for V4.

----------
In article <[e-mail]>, "Ghassan Barbour"
<[e-mail]> wrote:


> Hi everybody,
>
> I just installed OS/2 Warp4, on a 2.6GB Hard Drive, that I slipped into two
> partitions (50%).
> The problem is that I can't get the second partition to be recognized !!! I
> have Floppy A/B, a HD (C) and a CD-ROM (D) , NO SECOND PARTITION !!!!!
>
>
> Please, could you reply to my e-mail [e-mail]
>
> Thanks a lot.
>
>

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From: [e-mail]                                19-Nov-99 03:38:27
  To: All                                               19-Nov-99 03:31:19
Subj: Re: OS/2 Warp & Windows 98

From: "Chris Youngs " <[e-mail]>

OS2 comes with boot manager. To use this you must create a 1MB partition for
Boot Manager and 2 primary (C) drives for your OSes. I've done this SEVERAL
times . You create the partitions and add them to the menu for boot up. You
must then install each OS separately. Do Windows first. You must set the
partitions as installable. The Boot Manager partition MUST be set STARTABLE.
Select a partition as installable, then load your OS...It takes a long time.
I did this on a DX2-50 with windows95 & OS/2. You use each OS separately. At
one time I had 2 "C" drives with a common "D" drive for both OSes and and
"E" drive with OS2's HPFS. Pretty cool setup actually...Drop me a note if
you have a hangup. I kept and old copy of OS2 2.1 setup that actually had a
better procedural description than Version 3..... Good Luck...

----------
In article <[e-mail]>,
[e-mail] (Patrick Fitzgerald) wrote:


> I am so frustrated at not being able to run some things with OS./2
> Warp, version 3, that I have ordered Windows 98 SE.
>
> Can I have Windows and OS/2 running on my computer at the same time.
>
> If so could someone please give me a reference to where I get the
> information on how to do that
>
> Thanks
>
> patricK
>
> Big Green Riding Hood
> Shipley is anti democracy

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From: [e-mail]                                19-Nov-99 03:38:27
  To: All                                               19-Nov-99 03:31:19
Subj: comm error message

From: "Chris Youngs " <[e-mail]>

I am getting a DosRaiseException error message running a DOS comm program.
I've set the program to use COM1 only. I've set it up as full screen,
Priority32 and so forth. Is this a setting problem ?? Any help would be
great !!

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From: [e-mail]                                19-Nov-99 03:38:28
  To: All                                               19-Nov-99 03:31:19
Subj: mouse in dos

From: "Chris Youngs " <[e-mail]>

I am using procom and would like NOT to have the session even recognize the
mouse. Can this be done ?? If the mouse is moved it beeps and drives my
fellow office mate NUTS !!

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From: [e-mail]                                18-Nov-99 22:07:17
  To: All                                               19-Nov-99 03:31:19
Subj: Re: Which CDRW drive is supported?

From: "Matt Walsh" <[e-mail]>

On Thu, 18 Nov 1999 17:18:29 -0700, [e-mail] wrote:

>
>>I got an IDE- CD-RW  and bought the RSJ program download for $180 from
>>Indelible Blue.  I figured the IDE Drive (a yamaha in a Pacific box) was
>>only $99 on sale and so what I paid in software I saved in hardware and
>>it works fine.  I'm happy.
>
>Matt,
>
>Would you mind expanding on your experiences with your CD player, either
>in the group, in pmail?
>
>I want one, but I don't have scsi, nor a desire to deal with it :) but I
>haven't heard anything about the performance of the IDE devices. I would
>love to hear your opinions of the speed, reliability, what you use it for,
>and what you think of the RSJ software.
>
>The more details you can stand to write about, the better. <g>
On Thu, 18 Nov 1999 17:18:29 -0700, [e-mail] wrote:

>I want one, but I don't have scsi, nor a desire to deal with it :) but I
>haven't heard anything about the performance of the IDE devices. I would
>love to hear your opinions of the speed, reliability, what you use it for,
>and what you think of the RSJ software.

Well, I have SCSI, but I just found this Pacific Data drive on sale for $129
with a $30 rebate (which I did get) and so I got it for backup purposes.  It
installed easily as I have only one IDE hard drive, so I just stuck it in my
tower (be sure you have a space for it) and plugged in the power and connected
the unused IDE connector between the board and the hard drive. I had another
CD-ROM as the main drive on my secondary IDE and didn't touch it.  I booted
and
the computer saw it immediately as a CD-RW in Bios and OS/2 recognized it as
an
IDE CD-ROM.  So I had 2 CD-ROMs at that point.

Then I downloaded the RSJ (be sure to get version 2.84 or higher) and
installed
it on the 30 day free trial.  It puts a new CD-RW driver in config.sys and you
reboot.  I had no problem and it immediately recognized my CD-RW and my
CD-ROM.
 When you start the CD-Writer program it gives you a menu on 3 pages plus a
page of program title and version.  Before you start I would read the pdf
(acrobat) booklet accompanying the program.  I put a CD-RW disk in and checked
the Recorder tab on the program.  I didn't even bother to do a test so I
unclicked test, left the speed on 2X (which hogs my AMD K6-2/300 when
finalizing) and  clicked on apply button.  You must click the apply button
before after unclicking test and before attaching the CD or you will do
endless
useless tests.  After clicking apply I went to the General tab and hit the
Attach button.  I left RAM at either 2048 kb and it was fine.

After the program said I was attached as Z:  I went to a OS/2 window and typed
"format z:"   without the quotes and hit enter.  It says  "The type of file
system for the disk is cdwfs."   Then I type "chkdsk z:" and it says several
paragraphs which say the disk is clean and has 670,200 K free and I am ready.

Then I xcopy directories or disks  (I use about 10 1 gig size disks instead of
1 large disk) to z: and the drives whirr awhile.  When the prompt says the
files are copied I go back to the RSJ CD-Writer control and in General page
click on Finalize.  It takes 10 to 15 minutes and closes the disk.   I take it
out and check it on my other CD-ROM (which has to be faster than 20 X  to have
the right version innards to read CD-RW disks) and, holy cow, it works.

I just bought a box of 10 CD-RW disks for $20 and fill them up with backups of
everything and once a month back up each disk again.  I also use the Dreckback
program to zip up all my disks.

2 things I learned.  1) be sure to unclick test and then click apply before
attaching or it won't work.
2) When you screw up a disk (you will) so it will not attach, just go to the
CDWFS directory in an OS/2 window and type "trackcpy"  without quotes.  At the
> prompt type "blank cdr: 0" without quotes and enter.  It clears the disk and
then you type "quit" to get out of the session.  Then you restart at the
beginning again of the set up and do your disk again.

Hope this helps. I'm quite happy with the setup.


Matt Walsh      OS/2 Outpost
El Paso, TX    Computin' & Shootin' in the dust.


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From: [e-mail]                                  19-Nov-99 05:52:14
  To: All                                               19-Nov-99 03:31:20
Subj: Re: Athlon & OS/2

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

GGPalmer
thanks for the advice.

regarding the 64 meg dilemma, thats a mobo problem, not an OS/2 specific
problem  check http://www.maximumpc.com then the link for the Athlon
mobo's for specific fixs to this problem. I'll let you know what else I
find, but it'll be christmas bonus time before I actually buy. I usually
spend 1-2 months shopping for compatibility whenever I put together an
OS/2 system, that way the day I take it home is the day I am happy:-)

[e-mail] wrote:

> Have an Adaptec 2940U2W with LVD
> drives and the Biostar M7MKA
> motherboard and they are not
> compatible.  Emailed Biostar
> yesterday about it.  With the SCSI
> BIOS enabled (for it to BOOT from
> SCSI), the machine hangs.  Terrible
> problem.  AMD site recommends the
> Biostar and Gigabyte GA-7IX for the
> Athlon 700.
>
> Also, OS/2 only recognizes 64 of 128
> meg.  Suppposedly occurs with ACPI
> enabled and AMI BIOS.  This happened
> on an FIC SD11 board.
>
> Good luck and e-mail me with your
> results.
>
> [e-mail]
>
> In article
> <[e-mail]>,
>   "[e-mail]"
> <[e-mail]> wrote:
> > Whelp,
> >
> > I guess it's time to throw out the
> ol' Cyrix, and reward a few
> > manufacturers for being insightful
> enough to actually market their
> > products as being OS/2 compatible.
> >
> > The AMD Athlon appears to be a
> "must".  Does anybody have any input
> as
> > to which chipset (AMD Irongate, or
> otherwise) is best suited to OS/2.
> > I've heard that the killer combo
> is the AMD northgate with the Ali
> > southgate. is there any particular
> reason for this to be "specially"
> > sweet?
> >
> > Anybody making, or preparing to
> make an Athlon Mobo with SCSI on the
> > Mobo?
> >
> > Matrox's G400 seems to be the best
> in breed for OS/2 video. Any of
> these
> > g400's have a TV out that fuctions
> through bios rather than drivers (as
> > many of the ATI PC2TV cards did)?
> >
> > Sound (dirty question, huh?)
> anybody making a high quality PCI
> soundcard
> > that has good WIN-OS2 drivers?
> >
> > Thanks!!
> >
> > --
> > "Windows N.T."  ........OS/2 for
> the masses?
> >
> >
>
> Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
> Before you buy.

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From: [e-mail]                                    13-Nov-99 10:01:20
  To: All                                               19-Nov-99 03:31:20
Subj: Re: Setting up all the stuff I need for Merlin

From: Bob McLellan <[e-mail]>


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

> Hey folks, I'm going to beg your assistance here.
>
> I've been running Warp for several years, and now that I'm getting
> back into OS/2 development again I am upgrading to Merlin and getting
> the latest versions of the development tools to install. The problem
> is that I've been working in a totally different environment lately,
> and haven't kept up on the technology, so I'm having some difficulty.
> I've got VACpp V3, and I have an as-yet uninstalled copy of VAJava,
> and I want to go to the latest Netscape, and I want to do something
> about that old PostRoad I was running... wait, let me tell you where
> I am.
>
> I downloaded FP12, and CSF 1.41 first. Then I installed Warp V4, an
> interesting experience that went _MUCH_ more smoothly after I disabled
> the hardware sensing. Note that I had been running Warp V4 at work for
> a few years, so I was reasonably familiar with the installation
> procedures and the software itself. However, at home I have no network
> card, so I was surprised that I was required to configure MPTN and a
> NULLNDIS mac, even though I initially decided not to install TCP/IP.
> Once I had the system stabilized, particularly getting my ZOOM modem
> recognized and working with SIO, I installed sound support, and TCP/IP.
> Once those all worked, I installed the fixpack, which went remarkably
> smoothly, and still permitted my system to work. (I had been unable to
> install fixpacks on Warp V3 because it blew away the video, so I had
> been running on Warp V3 for _many_ years without any fixes. Solid as a
> rock.)
>
> Ok, after getting FP12 loaded, I downloaded the latest fixes for DB2/2
> and VACpp V3. I figured I had to get DB2/2 installed first, so the
> data access pieces for VACpp would install. So, DB2/2 is installed and
> its fixes, and VACpp is installed and its fixes. Next is -- ?
>
> I have downloaded the secure version of NC 4.61, I am downloading the
> JDK 1.1.8 and the Java runtime to go with it. I still have the VAJava
> to load, and I am trying to figure out the fixes for that. It looks
> from the web pages I've seen that I need the Feature Installer to
> install the Java stuff I downloaded, but I need Netscape to use the
> Feature Installer, but I need to have Java installed before getting
> Netscape going. This is nearly circular, unless there are portions
> I can install to get, uh, around that. I figure maybe the best route
> is to install VAJava, which likely has with it whatever I need to get
> Netscape going, so that I can then install the FI, which will let me
> install the new JRE and JDK over the top of the toolkit that VAJava
> requires. Have I got that right? And once I have all THAT going,
> where do I go to get that Java Media tool and the new Java-based
> mail tool?
>
> Just wondering....
> (Whew!)
>
> Rob

 More bits you might need (mostly cluttered around IBM's service/boulder
sites)

The device driver fixpack. These were taken out of FP12. Note you must run
FIXTPREP.
Fixpack 8 for VAC++
Read the new problem determination docs provided by the fixpacks re dumps
and traces. Many new goodies here. Get back to me if you would like an INF
version.
FFST c22 and FP02 fixpacks
Get the CHKLOG (?) program mentioned in the fixpack readme.

--
------------------------------------------------------
Bob McLellan
The Little Blue Kiwi
OS/2 Solutions for New Zeland


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From: [e-mail]                                 19-Nov-99 00:42:12
  To: All                                               19-Nov-99 05:24:20
Subj: Nvidia  TNT2  video refresh rate?

From: Ron Venema <[e-mail]>

Hi all, I have a Nvidia TNT2 video card installed on Warp 4. The card
works great, but I can't change the refresh rate from 60 hz. Any help
would be greatly appreciated. Btw, I'm using 1024x768  in Win98 and
Linux and am able to use 72 hz.

Thanks in advance

RV
[e-mail]

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From: [e-mail]                 19-Nov-99 22:09:12
  To: All                                               19-Nov-99 10:23:02
Subj: Question: OS/2 updates on CD?

From: James Gasson <[e-mail]>

Where can I get CD which has all the OS/2 stuff from IBM's ftp site?
In particular:
* Fix Paks
* Device drivers (PostScript, SoundBlaster)
* Patches (RT-MIDI MPU401, large hard drives)
* Updates (Novell Netware)
* Programmes (Netscape and plugin pack, Java, Acrobat Reader)
* employee written software (VREXX)

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From: [e-mail]                        19-Nov-99 11:58:01
  To: All                                               19-Nov-99 10:23:02
Subj: OS/2 Vs Java 1.1.8

From: [e-mail]

Hi,  I'm attempting to install Java onto an OS/2 Machine at work but I'm not
getting very far, and I was hoping someone out there might be able to
help.!!!  My problem is when I go to run the INSTALL program (for JDK or JRT)
it loads netscape where you choose your language, I do this then another page
loads and then I get this error message

    "Unable to locate or create Feature
    Install object.  Make sure that the
    RESPONSE file for this feature is
    Located in the current working
    directory."

  Does anyone have a clue what this means ?

The setup is
    OS/2 V4.0 type 0c
On drive F (HPFS) I have this directory structure

    F:\
    F:\feature
    F:\feature\Fisetup            (Version 1.25)
    F:\feature\java            (Where I have extracted the d/l archieve)


If anyone has any suggestions I would be most grateful!!! I tried ringing IBM
about it but I got told they don't support OS/2 anymore.!!!!

Thanks a lot

Mark

([e-mail])


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From: [e-mail]                             19-Nov-99 14:32:21
  To: All                                               19-Nov-99 14:29:29
Subj: (No subject)

From: [e-mail] (Ron Gibson)

For the record let me state that I'm clueless about C. It looks like
voodoo to me.  FORTRAN, BASIC, I understand.  C, not.

Think it's possible to port the recently released open source code for a
LINUX SoundBlaster Live to OS/2 and make it work?

I just compiled the driver yesterday and it works fine, but no bells and
whistles of course.

                      email: [e-mail]

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From: [e-mail]                           19-Nov-99 08:49:25
  To: All                                               19-Nov-99 14:29:29
Subj: Re: (No subject)

From: "Terry Haimann" <[e-mail]>

Yes, as long as it doesn't call any specific unix routines, procedures or
programs.  And if it accesses any files, remember to change the back-slash to
a forward-slash.

On 19 Nov 1999 14:32:42 GMT, Ron Gibson wrote:

>For the record let me state that I'm clueless about C. It looks like
>voodoo to me.  FORTRAN, BASIC, I understand.  C, not.
>
>Think it's possible to port the recently released open source code for a
>LINUX SoundBlaster Live to OS/2 and make it work?
>
>I just compiled the driver yesterday and it works fine, but no bells and
>whistles of course.
>
>                      email: [e-mail]
>



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From: rjerant@no_spam,austin.rr.com                     19-Nov-99 15:01:06
  To: All                                               19-Nov-99 14:29:29
Subj: Re: (No subject)

From: rjerant@no_spam,austin.rr.com (Rich Jerant)

On 19 Nov 1999 14:32:42 GMT, [e-mail] (Ron Gibson) wrote:

>For the record let me state that I'm clueless about C. It looks like
>voodoo to me.  FORTRAN, BASIC, I understand.  C, not.
>
>Think it's possible to port the recently released open source code for a
>LINUX SoundBlaster Live to OS/2 and make it work?
>
>I just compiled the driver yesterday and it works fine, but no bells and
>whistles of course.
Yea it should be easier than porting from Win95/98 source. But I would
wait a few more weeks, the folks at RedHat tell me  "a cleaned up
version should be out soon that gets rid of a lot of the
windows-esque pain and obfuscation."

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From: [e-mail]                             19-Nov-99 15:08:09
  To: All                                               19-Nov-99 14:29:29
Subj: Open Source SBLive code

From: [e-mail] (Ron Gibson)

On Fri, 19 Nov 1999 13:49:50, "Terry Haimann" <[e-mail]>
wrote:

> >For the record let me state that I'm clueless about C. It looks like
> >voodoo to me.  FORTRAN, BASIC, I understand.  C, not.
> >
> >Think it's possible to port the recently released open source code for a
> >LINUX SoundBlaster Live to OS/2 and make it work?
> >
> >I just compiled the driver yesterday and it works fine, but no bells and
> >whistles of course.

> Yes, as long as it doesn't call any specific unix routines, procedures or
> programs.  And if it accesses any files, remember to change the back-slash
to
> a forward-slash.

Well  wouldn't know what was specific to UNIX and what wasn't. I guess it
would take some sort of translator or manual tranlation and an OS/2 C
compiler.

OK. Some of you guys that are C gurus get going and post it on Hobbes :-)

                      email: [e-mail]

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From: [e-mail]                                19-Nov-99 17:04:13
  To: All                                               19-Nov-99 14:29:29
Subj: Re: (No subject)

From: radu <[e-mail]>

Take a look at this:
 http://www.os2ss.com/warpcast/wc4387.html
Radu

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From: [e-mail]                        19-Nov-99 16:46:13
  To: All                                               19-Nov-99 14:29:29
Subj: Re: (No subject)

From: [e-mail] (Alex Taylor)

On Fri, 19 Nov 1999 17:04:27 +0200, radu <[e-mail]> wrote:
> Take a look at this:
>  http://www.os2ss.com/warpcast/wc4387.html

Actually, I think you mean
  http://www.os2ss.com/warpcast/wc4399.html


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From: [e-mail]                        19-Nov-99 16:38:10
  To: All                                               19-Nov-99 14:29:29
Subj: Open source Creative sound drivers was Re: (No subject)

From: [e-mail] (Alex Taylor)

On 19 Nov 1999 14:32:42 GMT, Ron Gibson <[e-mail]> wrote:
> For the record let me state that I'm clueless about C. It looks like
> voodoo to me.  FORTRAN, BASIC, I understand.  C, not.
>
> Think it's possible to port the recently released open source code for a
> LINUX SoundBlaster Live to OS/2 and make it work?
>
> I just compiled the driver yesterday and it works fine, but no bells and
> whistles of course.

It should certainly be possible, inasmuch as the Linux driver reveals
the necessary programming details.

Much of the actual code would no doubt have to be rewritten, though,
as drivers rely heavily on hooking into the kernel, and Linux has a very
different kernel architecture than OS/2.

AFAIK, anyway.  I do know C, but I know virtually nothing about low-level
programming like kernels and device drivers.

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From: [e-mail]                                 19-Nov-99 15:21:27
  To: [e-mail]                          19-Nov-99 14:30:00
Subj: Re: Full Window Drag - How to Enable?

To: [e-mail]
From: [e-mail]

In article <[e-mail]>,
  "Annie K." <[e-mail]> wrote:
>  Right click on the desktop, choose 'System Setup,' 'User Interface,'
> 'Window Manipulation,' check box 'Full Window Dragging.'
>
> --
> Klaatu barada nikto

Thanks for the tip. BTW, What is "Klaatu barada nikto"?


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From: [e-mail]                                  19-Nov-99 15:38:02
  To: All                                               19-Nov-99 14:30:00
Subj: Re: OS/2 Vs Java 1.1.8

From: [e-mail] (Frank Beythien)

On Fri, 19 Nov 1999 11:58:02, [e-mail] wrote:

> Hi,  I'm attempting to install Java onto an OS/2 Machine at work but I'm not
> getting very far, and I was hoping someone out there might be able to
> help.!!!  My problem is when I go to run the INSTALL program (for JDK or
JRT)
> it loads netscape where you choose your language, I do this then another
page
> loads and then I get this error message
[...]
> The setup is
>     OS/2 V4.0 type 0c
> On drive F (HPFS) I have this directory structure
>
>     F:\
>     F:\feature
>     F:\feature\Fisetup            (Version 1.25)
>     F:\feature\java            (Where I have extracted the d/l archieve)

Is F: your os2/2 bootdrive? AFAIK fi should be installed on the
bootdrive.
Did you run fisetup out of f:\feature\fisetup before trying java
install?

CU/2
--
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From: [e-mail]                        19-Nov-99 17:09:29
  To: All                                               19-Nov-99 14:30:00
Subj: Re: Which CDRW drive is supported?

From: [e-mail] (Alex Taylor)

On Thu, 18 Nov 1999 17:22:19 -0700, [e-mail] <[e-mail]> wrote:
> >although if you then decide to go RSJ you'll have spent more money. (On
> >the other hand, I'd personally never recommend an IDE CD-RW anyway.)
>
> And that would be because of ......
> performance?
> reliability?
> can't do as much as a scsi?
>
> Do you have any personal experience.
>
> I ask out of curiosity, not to attack your opinion. :) The only thing I
> can think of as different is the throughput, so if you have more to add,
> please fill us in.

I've had some admittedly minimal experience with an IDE CD-writer, and it
was somewhat unreliable in my opinion.  (It was an HP.)

More significant is performance/throughput.  It allows better multitasking
during a burn.  It reduces chance of errors & buffer underruns, at least
if you're coming off a SCSI source drive as well.  (I'm not sure about
IDE-to-SCSI, but I imagine that would be better than IDE-to-IDE.)

Also, if you're doing DAE (ripping audio tracks) you'll want a SCSI drive
to do it from.  IDE drives tend to introduce flaws in the audio quality.
Ideally, you'd do a straight SCSI-to-SCSI copy, but if you have just one
SCSI drive - the CD-RW - you can at least use that to rip the tracks onto
the hard drive, then swap in a CDR and record them back.

In addition, most people already have two IDE devices, meaning that a new
IDE CD-RW is likely to end up sharing an IDE channel, which won't help
performance any.

Finally, everyone and their cousin seems to make IDE CD-writers these
days.  Given a random selection, my feeling is that a SCSI drive is more
likely to be decent quality than an IDE.

I don't know, I guess I feel there are just enough reasons to recommend
SCSI over IDE to make it a good rule.  At least, that's my line and I'm
sticking to it. :)

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From: [e-mail]                                  19-Nov-99 16:43:14
  To: All                                               19-Nov-99 14:30:00
Subj: Re: Full Window Drag - How to Enable?

From: [e-mail] (Chris Hall)

In <813pud$p1l$[e-mail]>, [e-mail] writes:
>In article <[e-mail]>,
>  "Annie K." <[e-mail]> wrote:
>>  Right click on the desktop, choose 'System Setup,' 'User Interface,'
>> 'Window Manipulation,' check box 'Full Window Dragging.'
>>
>> --
>> Klaatu barada nikto
>
>Thanks for the tip. BTW, What is "Klaatu barada nikto"?
>
>
>Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
>Before you buy.

It's what Patricia Neal is coached to say (by Michael Rennie) to Gort the
robot
in the movie "The Day the Earth Stood Still". It comes in handy as well.
First,
she doesn't get toasted by Gort, and 2nd, Klaatu (Rennie) gets brought back
from
the dead. Neat trick, if you can do it.

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]                             19-Nov-99 17:15:06
  To: All                                               19-Nov-99 16:52:01
Subj: Who posts hardware ratings?

From: [e-mail] (Ron Gibson)

Does anyone know of a site that rates hardware for PC's similar to the
magazine Consumer Reports?

I've tried a few sites and found a few ratings but either the list of
hardware is very spotty or it's a nightmare wading through all of the
links.

BTW, I hope the wide cross posting doesn't annoy anyone but this
has been one of the most frustrating things I've searched for on the
net.

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From: [e-mail]                        19-Nov-99 17:20:08
  To: All                                               19-Nov-99 16:52:01
Subj: Re: Partitions

From: [e-mail] (Alex Taylor)

On Fri, 19 Nov 1999 01:49:34 GMT, George Barrowcliff <[e-mail]>
wrote:
> I recently bought some IBM PC300GL 550MHz 17GB systems that came with NT.

I'm envious.  I got to use a PC300 at work for a while, and it is a truly
sweet machine.  Runs OS/2 like a charm, too.


> I configured the first few with Boot Manager, kept the NT partition at 2GB,
> put Warp 4
> in another 2GB FAT primary partition and included a 2GB FAT extended
> partition.
>
> How large can I make this D: partition under Warp 4?

If it's formatted FAT, 2Gb max.  I assume it's FAT so that you can share
with NT?  If you have NT 3.51, you can install PINBALL.SYS from the CD,
which lets (so I hear) NT 3.x and 4.x read HPFS partitions - then you
could format D: as HPFS, which has a limit of something like 2Tb.

If you have a way of making NT read FAT32, you could use that instead,
although you'd then have to use a third-party FAT32.IFS driver for OS/2.

Unfortunately, FAT is pretty much the "greatest common factor" when it
comes to sharing filesystems between OS/2 and NT with vendor-supported
options.

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From: [e-mail]                             19-Nov-99 17:15:05
  To: All                                               19-Nov-99 16:52:01
Subj: Re: OS/2 Warp & Windows 98

From: [e-mail] (Ron Gibson)

On Fri, 19 Nov 1999 03:38:54, "Chris Youngs " <[e-mail]> wrote:

> OS2 comes with boot manager.  To use this you must create a 1MB
> partition for

Picking nits here but it might be a lot larger.  It's a whole cylinder
and depends on drive geometry.  In my case BM occupies 7 megs on a 6.4
Gig HDD.  In any event it is actually the smallest primary partition you
can make.

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From: [e-mail]                             19-Nov-99 20:19:04
  To: [e-mail]                 19-Nov-99 16:52:02
Subj: Re: Question: OS/2 updates on CD?

To: James Gasson <[e-mail]>
From: Geert Stevens <[e-mail]>

the other side of the world :
http://www.mensys.nl

Geert

James Gasson schreef:

> Where can I get CD which has all the OS/2 stuff from IBM's ftp site?
> In particular:
> * Fix Paks
> * Device drivers (PostScript, SoundBlaster)
> * Patches (RT-MIDI MPU401, large hard drives)
> * Updates (Novell Netware)
> * Programmes (Netscape and plugin pack, Java, Acrobat Reader)
> * employee written software (VREXX)
>
> --
> [e-mail]

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From: [e-mail]                     19-Nov-99 18:15:15
  To: All                                               19-Nov-99 16:52:02
Subj: Re: OS/2 Vs Java 1.1.8

From: "Trevor Hemsley" <[e-mail]>

On Fri, 19 Nov 1999 11:58:02 GMT, [e-mail] wrote:

->Hi,  I'm attempting to install Java onto an OS/2 Machine at work but I'm not
->getting very far, and I was hoping someone out there might be able to
->help.!!!  My problem is when I go to run the INSTALL program (for JDK or
JRT)
->it loads netscape where you choose your language, I do this then another
page
->loads and then I get this error message
->
->    "Unable to locate or create Feature
->    Install object.  Make sure that the
->    RESPONSE file for this feature is
->    Located in the current working
->    directory."
->
->  Does anyone have a clue what this means ?

I think you get this if you forgot to run

javaintk -di -ov

and just ran it without any switches.


Trevor Hemsley, London, UK
([e-mail] or [e-mail])



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From: doug.bissett"at"attglobal.net                     19-Nov-99 19:30:22
  To: All                                               19-Nov-99 16:52:02
Subj: Re: How to determine NIC IRQ used?

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

On Fri, 19 Nov 1999 01:59:03, [e-mail] wrote:

> In <SKfw30zmCGmZ-pn2-EIfdP4lIxq6Z@localhost>, doug.bissett"at"attglobal.net
(Doug Bissett) writes:
>
> >On Wed, 17 Nov 1999 21:26:16, [e-mail] wrote:
> >
>
> >> One of my most pesky recurrent problems with WARP 4 is that the NIC
> >> interrupt choice isn't shown in the Hardware operation in the SETUP
> >> folder..
> >>
> >> Further, on older boxes, you never get to see the roster of interupts
> >> that have been picked for these non PNP cases..
> >>
> >> Too, many of the drivers to set up older cards like the D-LINK cards,
> >> can't be run while OS/2 is running to check them and I don't always have
> >> a bootable DOS disk with the setup on it to use before I start OS/2 as
> >> well..
> >>
> >> Is there any way to get a handle on what IRQ the NIC is using from a
> >> command line prompt in OS/2, or from a click on the desktop?  It would
> >> make it a heck of a lot easier picking setup choices in the older boxes
> >> if you knew in advance what the NIC had done!!
> >>
> >> Thanks gang..
> >>
> >> --> Sleep well; OS2's still awake! ;)
> >>
> >> [e-mail]
> >> [e-mail]
> >>
> >
>
> >The only way I have found, is to run the NIC setup program. It would
> >be nice if the manufacturers would update their drivers to be
> >resource manager aware so they would display the information, but I
> >suspect that isn't going to happen. At least we have OS/2 drivers,
> >even if they are a pain in the A__.
> >
> >Hope this helps...
>
> >From the PC of Doug Bissett
>
> A mouse under the chair sent me an Email answer..  Simple ..  Change to
> the IBMINST directory in an OS/2 session window.
>
>     Run OS2SNIFF.EXE
>
>         Problem solved ..
>
>            So's to help all here..
>
> --> Sleep well; OS2's still awake! ;)
>
> [e-mail]
> [e-mail]
>

Hmmm. Doesn't work for me. It says it can't find any cards, but my
network still works (Must be a MAGIC card <g>).
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From: doug.bissett"at"attglobal.net                     19-Nov-99 19:30:24
  To: All                                               19-Nov-99 16:52:02
Subj: Re: Question: OS/2 updates on CD?

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

On Fri, 19 Nov 1999 10:09:24, James Gasson
<[e-mail]> wrote:

> Where can I get CD which has all the OS/2 stuff from IBM's ftp site?
> In particular:
> * Fix Paks
> * Device drivers (PostScript, SoundBlaster)
> * Patches (RT-MIDI MPU401, large hard drives)
> * Updates (Novell Netware)
> * Programmes (Netscape and plugin pack, Java, Acrobat Reader)
> * employee written software (VREXX)
>
> --
> [e-mail]
>
>

I doubt if you can get all of that stuff, on CD,  anywhere. I have
always found that a CD goes out of date very quickly, and all of the
new stuff is on the internet.

Check out:
http://www.os2ss.com/
for Fix Packs (and, perhaps, a couple of other things that might be on
the CD). The latest fix packs should be at:
ftp://ftp.software.ibm.com/ps/products/
and follow the links to what you want a fix pack for.

I would recommend getting device drivers from the Device Driver web
site:
http://service.software.ibm.com/os2ddpak/html/index.htm
It is almost always best to get the latest driver, which may not be on
a CD.

Large hard drives, is not a patch, it is on the Device driver site.

RTMIDI etc. try:
http://strange.thetaband.com/~madbrain/software.html
(This one may be out of date).

Novel??? Don't know.

Netscape etc. Try:
http://service.boulder.ibm.com/asd-bin/doc/en_us/catalog.htm

Employee written software. Hmm I seem to have lost that one. Anybody
else??? I doubt if you will ever see this on a CD.

Other good places to look for stuff:
http://www.leo.org/archiv/software/os2/index_grouped.html
http://www.os2bbs.com/os2news/Communicator.html
http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Vista/7567/software/english/ind
ex.html
http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/
http://www.alphaWorks.ibm.com/Home/
http://www.labyrinth.net.au/~dbareis/index.htm
http://www.gt-online.com/~bri/
http://www.os2ss.com/information/kelder/index.html
http://www.musthave.com/
http://www.tstonramp.com/~freiheit/index.shtml
http://www.hitsquad.com/smm/programs/Ceres_SoundStudio_os2/
http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Horizon/6780/main.html

There are MANY more.

Hope this helps...
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From: [e-mail]                             19-Nov-99 18:43:12
  To: All                                               19-Nov-99 16:52:02
Subj: Re: How do you "fix-up" an HPFS partition to boot?

From: [e-mail] (osmo vuorio)

In article <[e-mail]>, Greg Christopher <[e-mail]>
says:

>What is info-zip, and do you know where it would be on hobbes?

You may begin from

http://www.cdrom.com/pub/infozip/Zip.html#OS2

The os/2 operating system can be zip'ped and unzip'ped
from the os/2 floppy started command line interface.

There are/has been a bit different file versions.

Osmo

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From: doug.bissett"at"attglobal.net                     19-Nov-99 19:30:22
  To: All                                               19-Nov-99 16:52:02
Subj: Re: Partitions

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

On Fri, 19 Nov 1999 01:49:34, "George Barrowcliff"
<[e-mail]> wrote:

> I recently bought some IBM PC300GL 550MHz 17GB systems that came with NT.
>
> I configured the first few with Boot Manager, kept the NT partition at 2GB,
> put Warp 4
> in another 2GB FAT primary partition and included a 2GB FAT extended
> partition.
>
> How large can I make this D: partition under Warp 4?
>
> TIA GWB
>
>

If it is a FAT partition, 2 gigs (the largest size that a FAT
partition can be under any OS platform).

Hope this helps...
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From: [e-mail]                                 19-Nov-99 22:43:24
  To: All                                               19-Nov-99 21:29:20
Subj: Re: Who posts hardware ratings?

From: [e-mail] (David LaRue)

  The best place I've found is Tom's Hardware.  Search for "Toms Hardware"
on Yahoo or try http://www.tomshardware.com.  Basically he collects info
from all systems and OSs.  You can compare everything from CPUs to mobos.

  Enjoy,

  David

In <eleS4DQ3N6dS-pn2-wwGdfM37skRS@localhost>, [e-mail] (Ron
Gibson) writes:
>Does anyone know of a site that rates hardware for PC's similar to the
>magazine Consumer Reports?
>
>I've tried a few sites and found a few ratings but either the list of
>hardware is very spotty or it's a nightmare wading through all of the
>links.
>
>BTW, I hope the wide cross posting doesn't annoy anyone but this
>has been one of the most frustrating things I've searched for on the
>net.
>
>                      email: [e-mail]
>

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