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                  Mid-Missouri OS/2 Users Group Newsletter


                               September 1993
                             Volume 1 Number 4


NOTE: The views expressed in this newsletter are not necessarily the views
      held by the MMOUG or it's members. Don't agree with something you've
      read here? Write and tell us about it!



Mid Missouri OS/2 Users Group
=============================

The MMOUG meets on the third Wednesday of each month, meeting at the Columbia
IBM office on even months and at the Jefferson City office on odd months.


September Meeting Announcement
==============================

When:        September 15, 1993 at 4 PM

Where:       Jefferson City IBM Office (See directions)

Activities:  A representative of WordPerfect Corporation will be on hand
             to demonstrate the new WordPerfect for OS/2 5.2.

Directions:
----------

Jefferson City IBM Office
One Elm Plaza
Jefferson City, MO 65101
314-634-0200

Highway 63 South to Highway 54 West (across the bridge) to
(be careful, this is still a dangerous intersection) Highway 50 East.
Go through lights at MO. Blvd, Broadway, Jefferson, Madison and Monroe

Take the CLARK AVENUE exit off of Highway 50.
Turn right onto Clark Ave, THEN
make an almost immediate left onto ELM Street.
Take Elm Street to IBM. IBM will be on the left.

  Eastland         Highway
 /                 Patrol         Elm Street
McDonalds________    HQ       ________________
|             IBM\___________/                |
|______________________________________________\_______
                 Highway 50                     Clark Ave Exit

Thanks to Gary Pool for providing these directions.


What you missed at the August meeting:
=====================================

The "real" number for the OWM Jeff City Point is 634-0393.
It's up and running, with free access for MMOUG
members.  If you have any problems with this system, feel
free to drop a note here to me or Phillip.

Tom Stuart and David Irovic from DataStorm (makers of
ProComm) visited with us and discussed several aspects of
running PC+ and PW (ProComm for Win) under OS/2.

Here are some DOS settings to use:

HW_TIMER = ON
COMM_HOLD = ON
IDLE_SECONDS = 60
IDLE_SENSITIVITY (as low as 40, they suggest 100).

If you're planning on using COM3 or COM4, make sure
they're declared in the CONFIG.SYS in the following manner
(assuming you're using COM.SYS):

DEVICE=C:\OS2\COM.SYS (3,addr,irq) (4,addr,irq)

(addr is the base address in hex, and irq is the
IRQ to use).  Under OS/2, IRQ7 is used for the printer.
Generally, IRQ5 is used for COM3.

If you're encountering errors installing the Windows version of ProComm,
here are some tips:  If you get a "Fatal Exit Error", then
there's a good chance that you may be missing the
LZEXPAND.DLL and/or a valid COMMDLG.DLL in your
\OS2\MDOS\WINOS2 directory.  You can manually copy these
files to overcome the error.  Note that this error usually
only pops up while trying to install using OS/2 2.0.
Version 2.1 has all the required objects in the Windows
directory, and you shouldn't have a problem installing.

Interestingly, DataStorm has performed some testing and
has discovered that they can obtain up to 1000 CPS at 9600
baud using the Windows version (PW) with a *16450* UART
chip (non-buffered) under OS/2 2.1.  This makes OS/2 look
even better than before, especially for communication
applications.

When prompted for info on an OS/2 version of ProComm, Tom replied that
DataStorm is a market-driven company.  If people want an
OS/2 version, they'll make one.  Feel free to let them know
what you'd like to see in an OS/2 version.  Here's 3 ways:
to make your voice heard:

Compuserve: (GO DSTORM) send a message to 72250,3463
Voice: Call their tech support at [phone]
Fax: Tech support fax is at [phone]

If you represent more than one person, make sure and
mention how many people you DO represent!  Every person
counts!

GIVEAWAYS!

Diane Kehl won a free copy of Lotus' 123 for OS/2.
Several people won coffee mugs, shirts, and other prizes.

GIVEAWAYS TO BE!

Here's a short list of things to be GIVEN AWAY in the NEAR future:

ToolWorks CD Game Pack
NEC Adobe Type Gallery LJ (CD)
Kiplinger's CA-Simply Money
Clear and Simple's Performance Tuning 2.1
and MORE!

NEXT MEETING

Looks like the next MMOUG meeting will be at 4pm Wed,
Sept 15th, at the Jeff City IBM office.  These meetings are
open to all!  Feel free to stop by and check us out!


Mid Missouri OS/2 Users Group Information:
=========================================

Current Officers:
----------------
Phillip Wilson - President
Diane Kehl - Vice President
Robert Shelley - Treasurer
Shawn Frazier - Membership Secretary
David Finch - Recording Secretary
Woody Sturges - BBS Officer
Dale Hackemeyer - Information Officer

Official MMOUG BBS:
------------------
OS/2 Woodmeister - [phone] (1:289/27)
Jeff City Point - [phone] (MMOUG Members only)

MMOUG Mailing Address:
---------------------
Mid Missouri OS/2 Users Group
P.O. Box 30645
Columbia, MO 65205-0645

MMOUG Internet E-mail Address:
-----------------------------
[e-mail]


Presidential Corner
===================

Welcome to the Mid-Missouri OS/2 Users Group Newsletter.  I
hope you find it a beneficial one to you in your home as
well as in your office.  We are growing steadily, and are already over
20 members strong.  If you check the BBS officers section you
will find quite a few new developments in the area of our
expansion of BBS access.  We have a group of Officers that
are doing a great job.  I would like to
thank our Treasurer Robert Shelley for taking the double duty of
Membership officer as well until we were lucky enough to
latch onto Shawn Frazier.  Last month's Datastorm
presentation was received very enthusiastically from
everyone who attended.  Don't forget if you received a
software product as a prize from the drawing you are to
upload your personal review of the prize.  Otherwise I get
to badger you until you do. <Grin>

We will have an exciting meeting next month with our next
guest speaker (read other sections to see who <g>) and more
giveaway drawings for members who are present.  We are also
going to vote on becoming a member of the Association for PC
User Groups.  I believe it will allow us access to more
information of interest to you our members.

If you have any suggestions or comments on how the
Mid-Missouri OS/2 Users Group might better serve you and
our other members please feel free to leave a message in the
User group forum on the BBS nearest you.  Thank you for
support.

Phillip Wilson
President,
Mid Missouri OS/2 Users Group


The Latest from the BBS Side...
===============================

Just a few things this time...

IBM has officially released their 256 color S3 drivers.  These drivers
appear to work flawlessly on most S3-based video cards and
go up to 1280 resolution.  If you've been waiting, wait no
more.  The file is a free download, available as S3-256.DSK.
I'm using the drivers on my Orchid VA/VLB running
at 1024x768x256 without a hitch.  Seamless Windows work
excellent!

IBM has also just released the first beta of their 64k
color (!) S3 drivers. This file (also free) is available as
S3-64K.DSK.  This version is a little rough at 1024
resolution, but appears to work much better at 800 and
lower.  These drivers offer TRUE color at up to 1024
resolution.  Though not done, they're fun to at least look
at if you've got the time.

There have been a number of great files show up lately.  If you haven't
checked them out, you're missing out on some good stuff.
And, as always, drivers and patches show up weekly.

Finally, I've bumped up subscribers to get 1.5M of
download credit per day.  This allows all subscribers
(including MMOUG members) to get ANY file off the BBS.
Just another benefit of being a subscriber, or MMOUG member!

Woody Sturges
BBS Officer
Mid Missouri OS/2 Users Group


Setting up IBM's TCP/IP with OS/2
=================================


  Guide to getting started with OS/2 networking using IBM's TCP/IP software


                             By Dean Pentcheff
                     [e-mail]

Table of Contents:

( 1.) Purpose and introduction
( 2.) Request for more information
( 3.) Some terminology
( 4.) Selecting parts of the IBM TCP/IP packages
( 5.) Preparing to hook up to a TCP/IP network
( 6.) Installing IBM's TCP/IP Package
( 7.) Installing the driver for the network adapter
( 8.) Initial tryout
( 9.) Downloading CSDs (bug fixes)
(10.) A few reminders
(11.) Security concerns
(12.) Tuning your setup
(13.) Interesting TCP/IP software you can download
(14.) Good luck

(A1.) Appendix I: Coexistence of TCP/IP with Netware
(A2.) Appendix II: Supplementary information on SLIP
(A3.) Appendix III: Setting up LaMail


NOTE: This document was produced for use with IBM TCP/IP for OS/2 Version
      1.2.1. Version 2.0 of the TCP/IP product was recently released. This
      document does NOT reflect any changes that may be introduced with
      the new version. Dean has said he might produce an updated version
      of this document in the future, but it's on the back burner for now.



( 1.) Purpose and introduction
==============================

The purpose of this document is to:

1. Orient someone who has heard a bit about networking on OS/2, but
   can't yet hold an entire conversation in three to five letter
   networking acronyms ("So, Bob, how's TCP/IP coming along today?" "Well,
   Jane, NFS if fine, but I'm having trouble with FTP."  "Have you
   installed the CSDs?"  "Yes, but can you ping over SLIP before sending a
   job to LPD?"....).

2. Help a new networker install the IBM TCP/IP networking package and
   some of its more popular additional modules.

I'm no networking pro, but I've managed to start a working network
system using OS/2 and IBM's TCP/IP offerings.  It took me long enough
to sort it all out.  I hope I can save someone else the trouble.

I make no guarantees that the following is entirely correct!  It's
based on my experiences.  PLEASE correct me by mailing me your comments
if you find anything misleading or wrong.  Please send me additional
hints based on your own experiences that you feel would be helpful to
put into this document.

N. Dean Pentcheff
Biological Sciences
Univ. of South Carolina
Columbia SC 29208 (803-777-8998)

Internet addresses:

[e-mail]
[e-mail]


( 2.) Request for more information
==================================

Please let me know of improvements I can make to this document!
Notable gaping holes that I notice (hint, hint) are:

1. Performance tuning - success stories and failure stories are
   both equally welcome.

2. Other useful network software - surely some net.geeks have some
   nifty utilities and addons that make a networked OS/2 system more of a
   joy.

3. Tricks and tips that you've discovered.


( 3.) Some terminology
======================

TCP/IP is the name of a communications protocol - it defines a way for
computers to chat with each other.

(PC)NFS is a family of products from several vendors that use TCP/IP on
a PC, generally under the DOS operating system.  Note that PC/NFS is a
specific product marketed by SunSoft (the (PC)NFS name has been adopted
as a generic name for that type of product).  (PC)NFS is not addressed
in this document - you may have heard about it from DOS systems.  The
programs described here do what PC/NFS on DOS does (and more).

Ethernet is a specific hardware protocol for computer communications.
For example, a 3Com 3C503 card is a (very cheap and popular, if not
screamingly fast) Ethernet board for PCs.  Using it (and appropriate
software) you can connect a PC to an Ethernet TCP/IP network.  TCP/IP
is just one of many communication protocols that can run atop
Ethernet.  For example, a Novell Netware network running the IPX
protocol could run on the same Ethernet - same hardware, just different
protocols.

Token-Ring is another hardware protocol in common use.  IBM's TCP/IP
package supports both Ethernet and Token-Ring network adapters.

FTP is a "file transfer protocol" that runs on top of TCP/IP (there are
implementations of FTP for pretty much any computer that can talk
TCP/IP, making it a lingua franca for file exchange - it's not pretty
but it works).

Telnet is a defined way for TCP/IP-speaking computers to set up
terminal sessions between each other so that you can actually log onto
a remote computer and interact with your account there.

SLIP stands for serial line IP.  It defines a way that you can
connect to a TCP/IP network over a serial line (via a phone modem,
for example).  Serial communications is slower than a direct network
connection, but can sometimes be useful.  IBM's TCP/IP packages does
support SLIP.

CSD is IBM's word for a publicly distributed bug fix package.  Note
that CSDs obsolete prior CSDs.  That is, application of any later CSD
will take care of everything that was done by earlier CSDs.  You don't
have to apply the whole chronological string of CSDs, just the most
recent one.  God help you if you install an earlier CSD over a later
one (IBM sure won't help you).


( 4.) Selecting parts of the IBM TCP/IP packages
================================================

IBM sells a bunch of pieces, many of which are optional, for TCP/IP
networking.  Following is a brief summary of them.  Note that all of
the following come with both 1.2 Mb 5-1/4" and 1.44 Mb 3-1/2" disks in
the same package (you don't need to specify medium).

-- TCP/IP Base Program (Part #02G6968).  Price: US$131.  You need this
in order to use any of the other following parts.  It gives you the
software to connect your Ethernet or Token Ring card to a network, plus
a few character-oriented programs (Telnet, FTP, ping, etc.).  It's sort
of equivalent to the public domain NCSA Telnet package for DOS.

-- NFS Kit (Part #02G6970).  Price: US$95.  This gives your OS/2 system
the ability to serve as both a client and a server for sharing disk
space using Sun's NFS (Network File System) protocol.  In other words,
you can mount disks over the network that are physically attached to
other minicomputers or OS/2 systems as though they were attached to
your computer.  Conversely, you can make parts of your OS/2 computer's
disks available for sharing by others.  With this package (along with
the Base Program), you've got the makings of a small local area network
that can share disk space and printers.

-- X-Windows System (Part #02G6980).  Price: US$95.  This gives your
OS/2 system the ability to display output (and relay input) to X
programs running on other computers.  X-Windows is a standardized way
for programs (mostly on Unix-based systems) to put graphics on the
screen and interact with the user.  X terminology is a bit peculiar:
the program doing the work is called the "client"; the program doing
the display is called the "server".  This package allows your OS/2
system to be an "X server", but not an "X client": you can display and
interact with X programs running elsewhere, but you can't run an X
program on your OS/2 system and have its results displayed elsewhere.

-- X.25 Networking (Part #?).  Enables X.25 communications from your
OS/2 system.  I have no exposure to this product, so I won't comment.
I assume you'll know if you need it.

-- Source code and programming packages.  If you're ordering these you
sure as hell don't need me giving you hints on what to do.

And finally, where to order.  Peculiarly, IBM often seems unaware
that they sell this product.  So far, people have had the best
luck with calling: 1-800-IBM-2-YOU (1-800-436-2968).  Another IBM
order line (1-800-IBM-CALL) apparently knows about the product
but likes to charge you more money (?!).


( 5.) Preparing to hook up to a TCP/IP network
==============================================

Once you have the TCP/IP base package, you can be a full-blown node on
the Internet.  To do that, you _must_ contact a local system
adminstrator on the network to which you will physically connect your
OS/2 machine.  He or she must give you an Internet number.  Choosing
one at random is unlikely to work and is exceedingly antisocial (since
it may well disrupt others' use of the network).

You can probably select your own cute name for your machine, unless
there is an iron-fisted net administrator who enforces a naming
convention.  As examples, our lab works on crab behavior, so our PCs
are called "fiddler" and "cancer".  The last place I worked had a lot
of people working on marine larvae, so they had "cypris", "zoea",
"actinula", etc.

When you decide on a name and send it to your Local Network Guru, also
ask the following questions:

o What will my machine's full Internet name be (e.g.
  fiddler.biol.scarolina.edu for the machine at which I'm
  sitting)?

o What is my IP address (e.g. 123.234.221.112 as a totally
  fictitious example)?

o Is this network subnetted?  If so, what's the subnet mask
  (e.g.  255.255.255.0)?

o Is there a non-default broadcast address?  If so, what is it?

o What is the IP address of a default router for me to use?

o What are the IP addresses of three domain nameservers?

And, before you start the software installation, do yourself a favor.
Open up your machine and take a good look at the network adapter card.
Write down any strap or switch options that are set.  You'll probably
need them later when you do the software configuration of the driver
for TCP/IP.


( 6.)Installing IBM's TCP/IP Package
====================================

All the documentation comes with the Base Program.  The other packages
just consist of a folder with disks.

It is not initially clear how to proceed, so here's enough to get you
going:

Begin with the manual "TCP/IP Version 1.2.1 for OS/2 (Refresh):
Installation and Maintenance".  You install the TCP/IP software first,
then the specific driver software for your Ethernet or Token Ring board.

There's a nice little configuration program called ICAT (Installation
and Configuration Automation Tool).  As per instructions, stick in disk
1 and run ICAT from an OS/2 command line.

Push the "Install" button first.  It will give you the opportunity to
install any/all of the options you've ordered (base package, NFS,
X-Windows, X.25, and source packages).  Check off whatever boxes you
want and feed disks as requested.  Go ahead and install everything
you've got.

Once everything has been copied to disk, push the "Configure" button of
ICAT.  Now comes the fun stuff.  I'm assuming you have the
documentation, so I'll just give you some hints based on what I did.
There's a numbered list of 6 configuration things to do.  We'll run
down the list.

1. Configure Network Interface Parameters.  You probably only have one
   Ethernet or Token Ring board in your computer, so you only have to fill
   in half this screen (the other half is for another board - and up to
   two more on a "Next Screen").  Your IP address is whatever was issued
   to you by your Friendly Local Network Adminstrator.  If he/she told you
   anything about a "Subnet Mask", enter it appropriately.  Leave
   "Broadast" and "Destination Address" blank (unless you've been
   explicitly instructed otherwise).  For that matter, leave the rest of
   the screen untouched unless told otherwise.  Don't forget to check the
   little "Enabled" box in the top left corner.  When done, press the
   "Menu" button to return to the main Configure menu.

2 . X.25 Parameters.  You're on your own here (I haven't done this),
   but it looks straightforward - stick in your IP address.

3. SLIP Parameters.  This is if you're going to use a serial port for
   access, instead of a network adapter (SLIP = Serial Line Internet
   Protocol).  Fill in the IP address, and the rest is like setting up the
   dialer in a communications program.
4. Automatic Starting of Services.  Again, the following are
   reasonable defaults if (a) you haven't been told otherwise; and (b) you
   have the software involved.

      DO enable the inetd super server - this is one program which
      runs all the time and spawns off some of the other network
      service programs on an as-needed basis.  This way they don't
      all have to be started at once.

      If you want yourself or others to be able to Telnet into this
      machine, enable the Telnet server (BUT SEE NOTES BELOW - THIS
      CAN BE A REAL SECURITY RISK).  This does not influence your
      ability to telnet out of this machine to other machines.

      If you want to be able to access files on this machine from
      other machines using the FTP protocol, enable the FTP server.
      This does not influence your ability to use FTP on your machine
      to access other machines.  (SEE NOTES BELOW - THIS IS A
      POTENTIAL SECURITY RISK).

      Unless you know otherwise, DO NOT enable TFTP.

      I lean towards not enabling rexec and rsh unless there's a
      compelling reason to do so.  THESE ARE A REAL SECURITY RISK.
      Again, this does not affect your ability to rexec or rsh from
      your OS/2 machine to other machines.

      If you are going to make a printer attached to your computer
      available to other computers (i.e. your machine will be a
      network print server), enable the lpd server.  NOTE: To prevent
      lpd from printing a banner and control file before each
      document, set lpd to run in the "Foreground" (not via inetd),
      and type in "-b -c" (without the quotes) in the blank for
      arguments.  This is particularly important if you have a
      Postscript printer (since the banner and control files are in
      ASCII, not Postscript, they will mysteriously stuff the
      printer).

      If you've got the X-Windows stuff, enable it (leave the
      "Parameters" as it is).

      If you're into online typing to people, enable Talk, but
      honestly, why not just use the phone?

      Enable the NFS Server if you want other people to access your
      hard disk (SEE SECURITY NOTES BELOW).

      Enable NFSCTL if you want to be able to mount other machines'
      disks (but note that they must allow you to do so).

      If you have the IP address of a default router on your network,
      you can skip enabling the automatic routing server "routed".
      If you couldn't get such an address from the Local NetNerd, go
      ahead and enable the automatic routing server "routed".  (See
      some further remarks on this below in the "Tuning" section.)

      FINALLY, if you're going to receive mail directly onto your
      machine, enable "sendmail".  If you're already receiving mail
      on another machine, this is FAR more trouble than it's worth
      (in my opinion).  With the other software you've got, you'll
      easily be able to read your mail on another machine, so why
      bother with all the sendmail setup stuff (which is relatively
      fierce)?

5. Configure Services.  I'm going to give hints based on my slightly
   net.paranoid approach.  See the security notes below for some details.

      Put one and only one entry in the FTP Access Protection:
      anonymous.  (But see further notes in the "Security concerns"
      section below.)

      If you're doing X-Windows, X Host Authorization gets the name
      of the machine(s) on which your X "clients" (e.g. main
      programs) will run.

      In the X Client Display Variable, enter your OS/2 machine's IP
      address (or Internet name, whichever).  Not the name of the
      host to which you will be connecting, but this very OS/2
      machine's address.  Follow the IP address or machine name with
      ":0" (without the quotes of course).  For example, I entered:
      fiddler.biol.scarolina.edu:0

      Fill in the timezone in standard Unixoid format.  See page 95
      of the manual for some of the more popular timezones.

      If you will use another machine's printer, enter that machine's
      name and its printer's name.

      If you took my advice on rexec, enter nothing in the rexec
      username and password.

      Enter nothing in the password field for telnet (BUT SEE THE
      SECURITY NOTES BELOW).

      Enter your machine's name in the Hostname field (just the very
      first part of the name: "fiddler" in the case of
      "fiddler.biol.scarolina.edu").  Enter the rest of the name in
      the Domain Name field ("biol.scarolina.edu").

      Type in (correctly!) the IP numbers of the (up to) three local
      nameserver machines your Always Cheerful Network Adminstrator
      gave you.

6. Routing Information.  If you have the IP address of a default
   router, enter it here.  Follow the keypress instructions to insert an
   entry.  Toggle the "Route Type" field using space, leave "Route
   Destination" blank, type in the IP address into "Router", and leave
   "Metric count" at 1.  If you do _not_ have the IP address of a default
   router, make sure you enabled the "routed" daemon.  Then check below in
   the "Tuning" section to see how you can find out your default router's
   address later, insert it here, and dispense with "routed."

When this is done, go ahead and "Exit" all the way out of the ICAT
program, reassuring it that you really do want it to write this stuff
to disk as it quits.


( 7.) Installing the driver for the network adapter
===================================================

Once you finish with all that nonsense, you will realize that you
haven't told the software anything about the network adapter you've got.
Time to turn to the "LAN Adapter and Protocol Support Introduction and
Configuration Guide".  Cram in the LAPS disk, and, from an OS/2 command
prompt, start up the "LAPS" program from the floppy.

The following discussion assumes you will be using a network adapter
card (either Ethernet or Token-Ring).  If you will be using SLIP (IP
over a serial line with a modem), I suspect things may be a bit
different, but I don't know, I've never tried (as in: "Can you play the
violin?"  "I don't know, I've never tried").  See Appendix A2 below for
some supplementary information on SLIP.  I don't use it, so I haven't
tested this, but give it a whirl.  For now, we'll continue to assume
that you're using a network adapter card...

First do the "install" to copy in the software.  Next, go to the
configuration part.

What you do is simple: pick one from column A and one from column B.  In
fact, IBM has made it simpler still - there's only one choice in column
B (but you still have to explicitly pick it).  Choose your network
adapter from the Network Adapters list (select and "Add" it).  (If your
network adapter isn't on the list, see the remarks a few paragraphs
below here.)  Then choose the only choice (IBM TCP/IP) from column B.
You've now declared that your network adapter number 0 (the first one)
is of a particular type, and it will run TCP/IP.

Now highlight the adapter name in the Current Configuration window and
press "Edit".  Now's your chance to make sure that the hardware options
on your adapter match up with the software's idea of them.  Change
anything that needs changing.  When in doubt, leave it as it was.
Notably, you should probably leave the "Network Adapter Address"
blank.  That number is supplied by the board hardware unless you enter
an overriding number here.

Once you're done with the configuration, press "OK" and the proper
configuration will be copied in.

What if your network adapter isn't "supported"?  That is, you didn't see
it on the LAPS list.  Odds are good that it really is supported.  First
of all, check the documentation - your adapter may emulate an adapter
that is in the LAPS list.  If so, you're home free.  If not, you need to
get hold of an "NDIS driver" for your adapter.  There may be one on a
disk that came with the card.  Alternatively, you may be able to find
one on the ftp-os2.cdrom.com archive (see the section on downloading
CSDs in this document to see how to access the archive).

Once you've got the NDIS driver, you'll need to do a little hand editing
of some configuration information.  The following description is edited
from some advice posted to the Usenet group comp.os.os2.networking by
Kai-Uwe Rommel ([e-mail]) regarding the popular
3Com Etherlink III card (a very fast, excellent Ethernet card, by the
way).  I haven't done this myself, so I don't know how easy it will be
to adapt these instructions to other cards, but take a look at this and
see how it goes...

   NDIS drivers for DOS and OS/2 come included with the Etherlink
   III card. I'm not sure if the LAPS install program of the TCP/IP
   package allows "other cards" to be installed, but otherwise
   simply install the Etherlink II drivers first. Then, before
   rebooting, copy ELNK3.OS2 from the Etherlink III driver floppy
   to the same location where ELNKII.OS2 is and replace ELNKII.OS2
   in config.sys by ELNK3.OS2. In the protocol.ini in \IBMCOM, add

      [ELNK3_nif]
      DriverName = ELNK3$

   right below the [ELNKII_nif] section and replace

      Bindings = ELNKII_nif

   in the [TCPIP_nif] section by

      Bindings = ELNK3_nif

   and it should work after rebooting. You may want to boot DOS and
   run the 3C509 program from the Etherlink III driver disk to set
   up the card to use an IRQ > 8 (i.e. IRQ 10, for example) and set
   the "client type" to a better suited one (you can choose DOS
   client, Windows or OS/2 client or server). If you install the
   Etherlink III in EISA machines, run the 3C509 program to switch
   the card into EISA mode (yes it has one although it is an ISA
   card) and use the EISA setup program and the config files on the
   Etherlink III driver disk to configure it. See Appendix E in the
   Etherlink III manual.


( 8.) Initial tryout
====================

Are ya feelin' lucky?  Hope so.  Quit out of LAPS.  Do the standard
OS/2 Shutdown.  Make sure your network adapter is actually plugged into
a network.  Cross fingers and toes.  Start up OS/2.

It will take much longer to boot as five zillion networking programs
crank up.  Lots of them will put screens up as they come on.  Once
things are up, you can minimize these screens.  Meanwhile, they will
tell you of your progress.

If things really choke and you don't get a boot, well, you knew the job
was dangerous when you took it.  Get an OS/2 guru to boot from a floppy
for you and REM out the line in "startup.cmd" that says "CALL
C:\TCPIP\BIN\TCPSTART.CMD".

Assuming things more-or-less come up, try things out.  First, from an
OS/2 command line, try a ping to yourself.  In my case, that's "ping
fiddler.biol.scarolina.edu".  You should get a series of one-liners
once a second informing you that you've sent 64 bytes to yourself and
received it.  Press Control-C to quit that.  If, after you enter your
ping command, you get nothing (the command just hangs there), you've
got a problem: you're unable to find yourself.  Check your machine name
and Internet number using ICAT, and make sure your network adapter
board is properly set up, and the correct parameters are set using
LAPS.

One thing you'll want to try (but DON'T) is to double-click on the cute
little INETD icon.  Don't do it.  You'll get a textmode screen with
Inetd's potential clients listed.  That's it.  No menus.  No nothing.
It makes you feel like DOS is back.  Press Alt-Tab or Alt-Esc to get
the hell out of there.  Memorize this, because one day you'll do it
accidentally anyway.

Try telnetting to your local host.  Try an FTP file transfer.  Once FTP
file transfers work, I advise you to take the following step next,
before doing much more playing.

Note: unless you've started telnetd and/or ftpd (or have them set
to start from inetd), don't try to telnet and/or ftp to yourself!


( 9.) Downloading CSDs (bug fixes)
==================================

My system almost-kinda-sorta worked (flakey is the word that comes to
mind).  Following application of the bug fixes, it works very
smoothly.  So, to avoid wasting time, apply the bug fixes early.
Following is the scoop on how to do this.

DON'T BE INTIMIDATED BY THE LENGTH OF THIS SECTION!  Because the CSDs
change with time, this section is verbose to cover different
contingencies.  It's really quite straightforward in practice.  Install
the bug fixes - you'll be very happy you did.

1. For neatness' sake, make a subdirectory called "csd" (well, don't
   listen to me about it, call it "rosebud" if you want).  Do a "cd" to
   that directory (all this is done from an OS/2 command line).

2. Give the command:  ftp ftp-os2.nmsu.edu

3. If that doesn't work ("host unknown" or "network unknown") you've
   got a problem with domain name resolution.  MAybe routed.exe isn't
   running or you have a bad DNS nameserver entry?  Ignore that for now,
   but fix it later.  Try giving the command:  ftp 128.123.35.151

4. Log in as user anonymous, with your full login ([e-mail]) as
   password.  Yeah, you don't really have a user name ("joe") since you're
   on a single-user machine.  Make one up.  For my machine, for example,
   I might enter "[e-mail]" (without the quotes).

5. Give something like the following FTP commands [things in square
   brackets are my comments, not parts of the commands]:

      binary
      cd os2/ibm/tcpip   [get to the directory with fixes]
      get tcpcsd1.exe    [Base TCP/IP package patches]
      get tcpcsd2.exe
      get basecsd.doc    [how to install Base CSDs]
      get nfscsd1.exe    [if you've got NFS]
      get nfscsd.doc     [how to install NFS CSDs]
      get pmxcsd1.exe    [if you've got X-Windows]
      get pmxcsd.doc     [how to install X-Windows CSDs]


   You may find that some of the CSDs have filenames ending in ".zip"
   instead of ".exe".  If so, do the following as well:

      cd /os2/2_x/archiver
      get unz50x32.exe   [Info-ZIP unzipper for unpacking]

   Quit from FTP with the following command:

      bye


   Of course, this will be out of date soon.  Just look for the most
   recent CSD packages in the directory and snarf them.  Likewise for the
   Info-Zip unzipper.  You should also check the directories "/os2/new"
   and "/uploads": new uploads go there first and may not have made it to
   the patches directory yet.  If there are several different CSDs for
   products you have, download them all.  Unpack them (see below) each
   separately on your machine and check the comments in the installation
   scripts for the latest date.

6. Unpack the suckers.  If you got the unzipper program, just just run
   unz50x32.  It will unpack itself into the unzip program.  Each CSD
   release seems to be slightly differently packaged, so I'll just give
   some general guidelines here.  You can probably install them from your
   hard disk, without having to copy them onto floppies (though they are
   usually designed to be installed from floppies).  Make a subdirectory
   for each type of CSD (for example, I made subdirectories "base", "nfs",
   and "pmx") under the directory where you have the zip files.  Then
   unpack each bundle into its appropriate subdirectory.

   If the CSD filename ends in ".exe", things are easy: it will unpack
   itself into its component files.  For example, to unpack the Base
   packages, I'd do the following:

      mkdir base
      cd base
      ..\tcpcsd1
      ..\tcpcsd2

   If the CSD filename ends in ".zip", you have to explicitly use the
   unzip program to unpack the file.  For example (if the CSD files were
   called "tcpcsd.base1.zip" and "tcpcsd.base2.zip"):

   mkdir base
   cd base
      ..\unzip  ..\tcpcsd.base1
      ..\unzip  ..\tcpcsd.base2

   Normally, the unzipping leads to the creation of 5-50 updated programs
   and files, one of which is an installation script (ending in ".cmd").
   In some cases, the zip files will unzip into one or two monolithic
   ".exe" programs.  These aren't really standalone programs, but are
   self-unpacking zip files.  If, when you're done unpacking the first
   level of zip files, you only have one or two huge ".exe" files and you
   DO NOT HAVE ANY FILES THAT END IN ".CMD" (i.e. you don't have an
   installation script yet), check to see if the couple of huge programs
   are actually zip files in disguise.  To do that, run the listing
   function of unzip.exe.  For example, to check a hypothetical file
   "basecsd.exe", try running:

      ..\unzip  -v  basecsd.exe

   If the unzip program barfs, it's not a zip file.  If you get a nice
   listing of lots of filenames, you can unzip the archive by simply
   running the program.  For example:

      basecsd


   Don't do any of this fussing if there's a ".cmd" file in the directory
   from your inital unzipping - that's probably the installation script
   which will take care of the next level of unzipping for you.

7. Check the installation scripts.  I've found two types.  One is a
   pretty elaborate script that quite neatly checks your system out and
   installs the CSDs from the hard drive directory.  These longer scripts
   are over 100 lines long.  If there are just a few files that need
   copying, there may be a short script instead.  In some cases, these
   short scripts are "hardwired" to copy from the A: drive (tacky!).  A
   quick edit of any offending lines takes care of the problem.  For
   example, changing the line:

      copy 'A:nfsctl.exe' BASE'\bin\nfsctl.exe'

   to read:

      copy 'nfsctl.exe' BASE'\bin\nfsctl.exe'

   converts the command so that it will run from the hard drive instead of
   needing to be put on a floppy.

8. Now you've got your CSDs (bug fixes) on disk, ready to install.  You
   have to first REM out a couple of lines in your startup scripts, then
   reboot.  Otherwise, OS/2 will refuse to let you update programs that are
   currently running.  Using your favorite editor, edit your c:\config.sys.
   Find the line that runs CNTRL.EXE.  Insert REM (followed by a space)
   before it.  Save the file (as Plain Text, if you're asked).  I found
   that I also had to edit the file c:\startup.cmd and REM out the line
   that reads "CALL C:\TCPIP\BIN\TCPSTART.CMD".

   Now reboot.

   Why not do all this before even rebooting once?  Because applying the
   CSD depends on a lot of networking environment that is set up in the
   main config.sys file, so you've got to have booted with the networking
   stuff installed but REMed out for the CSD to apply properly.

9. If you're lucky, IBM will have included a "*.doc" file that will
   give you some hints on how to install each CSD.  If so, read the file,
   and read the hints in the next paragraph.  Between them all, decide how
   to install the CSDs.

   In the absence of an official "*.doc" file, you're on your own.  Each
   CSD has its own handy install script.  Go to each CSD's subdirectory
   and run the something-or-other.CMD file.  For example, for the Base
   Package it might be basecsd.cmd; for NFS it might be nfscsd.cmd; for
   X-Windows it might be installx.cmd (thanks for the consistency, guys).
   Or it may be called something new and exciting.  Basically all that
   these do is copy over a bunch of new versions of programs on top of the
   old ones.  As far as I can tell, they don't meddle with initialization
   setups.  [Late note on that - one of the newer CSDs does install a new
   xinit.cmd, but quite politely informs you that it is moving your old
   one to "xinitbak.cmd".]

10. With your trusty editor, remove the REMs from config.sys and
    startup.cmd.

11. Reboot OS/2 to a far less bugfull networking setup.

12. Periodically check in at ftp-os2 for new CSDs.  Apply as above and
    they will overwrite whatever is needed to bring you up to date.  Note
    that later CSDs make earlier CSDs obsolete: each CSD is complete.  You
    do NOT need to install the whole chronological string of CSDs to get up
    to date.  The latest CSD will do everything that any earlier CSDs did.


(10.) A few reminders
=====================

If you want to mount part of a Unix box's disk, the Unix machine will
need an entry in its /etc/exports file describing what you're allowed
to mount.  Similarly, your OS/2 system's \tcpip\etc\exports file will
have to list systems you allow to mount your disks (SEE SECURITY NOTES
BELOW).

If you want to redirect printer output from your machine to an LPD
program on some other machine, you'll have to start up an lprmon process
for each of the printer ports you wish to redirect.  See the manual for
the syntax.  The trick is where to put the startup commands.  If you
don't mind seeing the lprmon windows appear at boot time, edit the file
\startup.cmd and insert the command(s) there.  That's a better solution
than putting them in \tcpip\bin\tcpstart.cmd, since tcpstart.cmd gets
clobbered if you rerun ICAT to reconfigure your setup.  If you are going
to edit your tcpstart.cmd file anyway (see the section below on tuning
for reasons you might do that), go ahead and stick them into
tcpstart.cmd.

Note that there's a weirdness associated with lprmon: it apparently
cannot monitor a port that has a larger-than-default buffer size.  So
make sure that you check the PRINTMONBUFSIZE in your \config.sys.  For
any port(s) on which you will run lprmon make sure that the buffer size
is left on the default setting (134).  For example, a vanilla version
should be: PRINTMONBUFSIZE=134,134,134


(11.) Security concerns
=======================

You are now a node on the Internet (assuming you've hooked up to an
Internet-worked network).  That means you have to be security conscious.
You don't have to be an international bank to be chosen as a victim.
There really are people out there trying to break into whatever
computers they can.  You don't want to leave yourself open to that.

Furthermore, if your computer is ever broken into, you stand a far
better chance of getting sympathetic help if you didn't leave it wide
open in the first place.  If I leave my door open and someone walks in
and takes things, they are still doing wrong, but I'd be more likely to
get sympathetic help had I locked the door.

I will outline the approach I've taken to setting up our OS/2 systems.
I AM NOT A UNIX OR NETWORK SECURITY EXPERT.  Just for good measure, I'll
say that again:  I AM NOT A UNIX OR NETWORK SECURITY EXPERT.  I've done
enough reading to know that (a) it matters; and (b) security holes can
be very subtle.  So don't necessarily believe what I'm recommending.  I
welcome comments (but I will not open a debate on the morality of
computer breakins).

1. Enable Telnet but only with the real password option.  The default
   password option offered is very weak.  It requires a single password
   that is readable by anyone who has access to the system.  VERY WEAK.
   But, buried deep is a better solution.  On page 72-73 of the
   Installation and Maintenance Manual is the description of how to set up
   telnet to require a Unix-style password file.  Now, Unix-style passwords
   are far from hyper-secure, but they're better than a clear-text
   "password"!  Perversely, IBM doesn't provide you with a program to make
   the passwd file: you'll need to copy an /etc/passwd file from a Unix
   host.  But you've probably got a login on a Unix machine - you can use
   its password file.

   Follow the directions to install the passwd file and shuffle in a
   different version of the login.exe program on OS/2.

   In general, don't depend on any of the so-called "passwords" that appear
   in environmental varibles.  World-visible passwords are a (bad) joke.

2. Disable incoming FTP except for the very restricted "anonymous"
   account.  Your TRUSERS file should look like this:

      user:  anonymous
      rd:    c:\anonymous
      wr:    c:\anonymous


   Make sure to create the directory c:\anonymous.  Someone can stuff your
   system by filling disk's c:\anonymous directory with garbage, but that's
   relatively benign.  If that's a problem, remove "c:\anonymous" from the
   "wr:" field.  How can anyone FTP a file into your machine if you don't
   even let them have ftp write access to "\anonymous"?  With this setup, a
   really trusted user can have an entry in the Unix-style passwd file.
   Then she or he can telnet into your machine and run FTP on your machine
   to suck the file in.

   Don't have anything else in the TRUSERS file.  The idea of unencoded
   passwords is ludicrous.

   [Supplementary note added later:] Perhaps the above approach is a
   little harsh.  It turns out that FTP will not allow reading or writing
   of the TRUSERS file.  Hence, you _could_ put other entries into the
   TRUSERS file and an FTP-logged-in person couldn't pilfer the TRUSERS
   file itself.  NOTE however, that TRUSERS will be accessible to any NFS
   or Telnet users, so passwords there are still available.  You decide.
   Personally, it makes me too nervous.

3. Don't enable the rexecd server.  It depends on clear-text passwords
   in the environment or in the NETRC file.  People can Telnet in through
   the passwd-protected telnet, then execute the command.  Same goes for
   the rshd server.

   Come on.  Do you really want Joe Unwashed-behind-the-ears to be able to
   do "rexec yourmachine del c:\*"?  And then giggle a bit.  Yup, that
   could happen.

4. Don't enable the TFTP daemon "tftpd" unless you really need it for
   some obscure reason.  FTP does the job.

5. Vanilla NFS is well known to be full of security holes.  You'll
   notice the tight security demanded by the Unix host: give it a UID and
   GID number and that's who you are.  Cute.  I'd be very wary about giving
   write permission to my disk.

REMEMBER: THERE ARE NO ACCESS CONTROLS ONCE SOMEONE HAS ACCESS TO YOUR
OS/2 SYSTEM.  No files are protected from reading or deletion.  Once
someone is into your system, they can happily read any of your setup
files in \tcpip\etc (which could [if you're naive] contain real live
readable passwords).  They can also read your \config.sys and
tcpstart.cmd files, in case they missed a password or two.

The only people I want to have write access to my system are people
who've passed the (really minimal!) test of having logged in past the
Telnet-with-Unix-style-passwords.


(12.) Tuning your setup
=======================

Following are a few hints and suggestions that may help your networking
system work better.  Where I remembered, I've attributed suggestions to
the people who suggested them.  In most cases, these suggestions
appeared on the Usenet newsgroup comp.os.os2.networking.  I have edited
many/most of these for conciseness and format, so I'm to blame if I've
screwed them up (sorry).  My apologies to those whom I forgot!

1. If you edit any of the installation scripts yourself, note that IBM
   uses an undocumented syntax.  They use "attrib file parameters" instead
   of "attrib parameters file".  This works fine unless you use 4OS2 (a
   command-line enhancer).  If you do, start up an unenhanced cmd shell
   first.  ([e-mail] (Helmer Aslaksen))

2. After the initial thrill wears off, you'll wish there was some way to
   get OS/2 to stick all the networking windows into the Minimized Window
   Folder automatically at boot time.  Following is a scheme for doing so.
   The basic idea is to stop tcpstart.cmd from being run in the
   \startup.cmd script (running it as a "Startup" folder object instead)
   and get all the programs started minimized, instead of as normal
   windows.  ([e-mail] (Timothy F. Sipples),
   [e-mail] (Helmer Aslaksen), others)

   a. Edit \startup.cmd and put a REM in front of the line that
      runs the tcpstart.cmd script.  Add an "exit" to the end of the
      \startup.cmd file (if you want its window to vanish, too).  In
      fact (if nothing else is started in that file) instead of
      editing it, you can just move it to \startup.old and forget
      about it.

   b. From the desktop, open the "OS/2 System" object, then the
      "Startup" object within that.

   c. From the "Drives" object, open up directories until you have
      an icon view of the \tcpip\bin directory.  Click the right mouse
      button once on the \tcpstart.cmd script.  Using the resulting
      popup menu, create a shadow of the object, selecting the
      "Startup" window to be its location.  The reason for doing A-C
      is that things in the "Startup" folder start up late enough in
      the boot process that they start after the Minimized Window
      Viewer is in place.  Otherwise, you get icons across the bottom
      of the desktop (eeeeww!).

   d. Now edit the file \tcpip\bin\tcpstart.cmd.  Wherever you see
      a "start ..." line, change it to "start /min ...".  That will
      cause the programs to start minimized.  NOTE: Check this file
      again any time you run ICAT: your changes may get blown away
      so that you'll have to reinsert the "/min"s.

   e. For any line in tcpstart.cmd that starts "call ...", edit the
      script that gets called.  In those scripts, again change "start
      &period.&period.&period." lines to "start /min ...".  Check this also after running
      ICAT.

3. Some of the networking software doesn't actually need to be run as a
   subprocess of a "cmd" process.  For these cases, rather than issuing a
   "start ..." or a "start /min ..." to kick them off, you can issue a
   "detach ...".  For some processes (ones that have certain requirements
   for interaction with keyboard and display), this won't work.
   Experiment with it, though, you can save some memory that way.  I've
   found that it works with lprmon, lpd (run standalone, not via inetd),
   portmap, and nfsd.  It does not work with telnetd.  I think it works
   with inetd itself, but if inetd starts telnetd for you, then telnetd is
   stuffed.  Hence, I gave up on inetd.  Others, you're on your own...

4. If you have already put a default router's IP address into your
   configuration, you're probably not running routed.  If you are running
   routed, however, you may be able to discover what your default router
   is, insert its address, and stop running routed.  After you've been
   doing network things for a while (including pinging or ftping some
   remote sites), give the following command from an OS/2 command window:

      netstat -r

   Look for an entry that begins with "default".  You guessed it: use that
   IP address as your default router address.  Use ICAT to edit your
   network configuration: turn off "routed" and configure the default
   router's IP address into the Routing Information section.  (Routed
   information: [e-mail] (Andre Asselin))

5.The networking software sucks memory.  If you have 8 Mb or less of
   memory, your performance will go down noticeably (but far from fatally)
   as OS/2 swaps things in and out more often.  Don't need the TELNET
   server?  Close it.  Don't need the FTP server?  Shut it down.  Don't
   need the TALK daemon?  Get rid of it.  Mailer unnecessary?  Leave it
   aside.  Only use X Windows occasionally?  Start up the PMX daemon "by
   hand" when you need it.  That said, we find that full blown TCP/IP does
   quite well in (true) 9 MB.  The extra megabyte appears to make all the
   difference in the world.  If you don't run with everything but the
   kitchen sink, 8 MB is viable.  The 2.1 release should improve on that
   even more [since IBM is making efforts to make the OS/2 base use up
   less memory].  Pay attention to cache sizes, by the way: a disk cache
   that is too large will actually decrease performance.
   ([e-mail] (Timothy F. Sipples))  Our experience is that
   beefing up our systems to 16 Mb made things run _far_ more nimbly: the
   near-continual disk grinding stopped and the agonizing pauses went
   away.


(13.) Interesting TCP/IP software
=================================

There is a plethora of free software available on the Internet.  One of
the largest repositories of OS/2 software is the machine:
ftp-os2.cdrom.com.  Access it using anonymous FTP.  That is, connect to
it using ftp (give the command: ftp ftp-os2.cdrom.com) and give the user
name "anonymous" (without the quotes) when prompted for a user ID.
When prompted for a password, give your email address.  See the manual
entries on the FTP program for more details.  Also see part (8) of this
document for an example of downloading some files using FTP.

Following are some pointers to useful TCP/IP-oriented programs (and
some other "indispensables") that can be downloaded from ftp-os2 or
other archive sites.  The filenames are indented under the names of the
directories under which they are found on ftp-os2 - locations may vary
on other archives.  A "*" for the filename indicates that there are
several files in that directory that are relevant.

pub/os2/all/info/faq/
        *             The OS/2 Frequently Asked Questions (with answers!)
pub/os2/ibm/ews/
        gopher.zip    PM client for the Internet Gopher Client
        goserv.zip    A Gopher Server protocol for OS/2 2.x
pub/os2/2_x/network/
        nistime.zip   Update time/date from NIST Internet server
        os2gofer.zip  Gopher client for OS/2 PM (requires VREXX & TCP/IP)
        os2nosv4.zip  TCP/IP for OS/2 (via SLIP) - text-based
        passwd.zip    IBM TCP/IP passwd file maintenance utilities
        slip20b1.zip  Better performing SLIP for IBM TCP/IP 1.2.1
        tcpstart.txt  This document you're reading now!
        tn_enh11.zip  Enhancement for IBM OS/2 2.0 telnet daemon
        wsos21.zip    Novell Netware Requester 2.01 for OS/2, Disk 1 of 3
        wsos22.zip    Novell Netware Requester 2.01 for OS/2, Disk 2 of 3
        wsos2d.zip    Novell Netware Requester 2.01 for OS/2, Disk 3 of 3
        nsd202.zip    Novell Service Diskette (NSD #2) for WorkStation Kit
pub/os2/2_x/network/ndis/
        *             NDIS drivers for many Ethernet cards
pub/os2/all/network/ndis/
        *             NDIS drivers for many Ethernet cards
pub/os2/ibm/tcpip/
        *             Home of "official" IBM bug fixes to TCP/IP
pub/os2/2_x/patches/
        *             Home of more CSDs and bug fixes
pub/os2/2_x/unix/unixutil/
        elvis172.zip  Elvis 1.7, a vi clone (for Unix devotees)
        xfeel11.zip   A utility to make PM behave like X-Windows


(14.) Good luck
===============

That's about it for now, folks.  Read the IBM manuals - they're actually
not too bad.  Not hold-your-handish, but most of what you need is
(somewhere) in there.

Best of luck with networking.  Maybe we'll ping each other one day...


(A1.) Appendix I: Coexistence of TCP/IP with Netware
====================================================

Personally, it's hard for me to believe, but apparently there's this
other networking scheme out there by this little startup called
Novell...  I haven't needed to interact with a Novell network, but lots
of people do.  I've collected some of the postings from the Usenet
newsgroup comp.os.os2.networking that address this issue.  I hope that
they will help you get things working if you need to access TCP/IP and
Novell.

I have edited the text for brevity and consistency, so please pardon any
errors I may have introduced in the process.  Thanks go entirely to the
original posters of these messages - I've done nothing but copy their
work.



From: [e-mail]
Organization: IBM Boca Programming Center
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 93 23:53:32 GMT


Install the NetWare requester. Then install LAN Adapter Protocol Support
(LAPS). This came with your TCP/IP disks. Choose NetWare Requester
support if it is available. Next install TCP/IP Support.

If your version of LAPS offered NetWare requester support, double click
on the NetWare line and a dialog will appear. The first line will be for
the universal address of your Ethernet card.  Enter that number and exit
LAPS.  Alternately, you can edit the LANADDRESS = line in
\IBMCOM\PROTOCOL.INI

If LAPS did not have NetWare support, you must follow the directions in
Chapter 6 of the NetWare Requester for OS/2 manual.

Good luck!



From: [e-mail] (David L. Burke)
Organization: UNC Educational Computing Service
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 23:54:56 GMT


Hope this stuff helps, guys.  It was a bitch, but I got Requester to
work with TCP/IP for OS/2 1.2.1.  Below are The Big Three:  CONFIG.SYS,
NET.CFG, and PROTOCOL.INI.

Before I say anything else, I hope to hell that after making these
changes that your machine doesn't boot up with a register dump or some
stupid message like "unable to locate Country.sys," or anything else
which stops you in your tracks.  Please make sure you have a floppy boot
disk handy (I prefer makeboot.cmd myself.)  Good luck.

General points:  Don't let ICAT or LAPS alter your config.sys.  Add the
appropriate lines and include \TCPIP... and \IBMCOM...  in the necessary
path statements.

Setup:  I'm using an NE2000 NIC (there's a NE2000.NIF on hobbes for
LAPS).  This setup works with 2.1b (as long as OS/2 is not loaded on
Drive E: for some wierd reason).  I'm superstitious about the INET.SYS
and IFNDIS.SYS files, making sure I use the same ones with each new
install.  Don't have any idea why that is though.

* * * * * *
* CONFIG.SYS  (Notice that all the TCPIP and IBMCOM stuff is at the end of
*             the file, after the requester stuff.)
* * * * * *
IFS=D:\OS2\HPFS.IFS  /CACHE:512 /CRECL:4 /AUTOCHECK:D
PROTSHELL=D:\OS2\PMSHELL.EXE
SET USER_INI=D:\OS2\OS2.INI
SET SYSTEM_INI=D:\OS2\OS2SYS.INI
SET OS2_SHELL=D:\OS2\CMD.EXE
SET AUTOSTART=PROGRAMS,TASKLIST,FOLDERS,CONNECTIONS
SET RUNWORKPLACE=D:\OS2\PMSHELL.EXE
SET COMSPEC=D:\OS2\CMD.EXE
LIBPATH=.;D:\OS2\DLL;D:\OS2\MDOS;D:\;D:\OS2\APPS\DLL;D:\NETWARE;
D:\TCPIP\DLL;D:\IBMCOM\DLL;D:\TALKTHRU\PROGRAMS;
SET PATH=D:\OS2;D:\OS2\SYSTEM;D:\OS2\MDOS\WINOS2;D:\OS2\INSTALL;
D:\;D:\OS2\MDOS;D:\OS2\APPS;L:\OS2;P:\OS2;D:\NETWARE;D:\TCPIP\BIN;
D:\IBMCOM;d:\tools\utilities;D:\TALKTHRU\PROGRAMS;
SET DPATH=D:\OS2;D:\OS2\SYSTEM;D:\OS2\MDOS\WINOS2;D:\OS2\INSTALL;
D:\;D:\OS2\BITMAP;D:\OS2\MDOS;D:\OS2\APPS;D:\NETWARE;D:\IBMCOM;
SET PROMPT=$i[$p]
SET HELP=D:\OS2\HELP;D:\OS2\HELP\TUTORIAL;D:\TCPIP\HELP;
SET GLOSSARY=D:\OS2\HELP\GLOSS;
SET IPF_KEYS=SBCS
PRIORITY_DISK_IO=YES
FILES=20
SET DIRCMD=/O:GN
DEVICE=D:\OS2\TESTCFG.SYS
DEVICE=D:\OS2\DOS.SYS
DEVICE=D:\OS2\PMDD.SYS
BUFFERS=30
IOPL=YES
DISKCACHE=512,LW
MAXWAIT=3
MEMMAN=SWAP,PROTECT
SWAPPATH=D:\OS2\SYSTEM 2048 2048
BREAK=OFF
THREADS=256
PRINTMONBUFSIZE=134,134,134
COUNTRY=001,D:\OS2\SYSTEM\COUNTRY.SYS
SET KEYS=ON
REM SET DELDIR=C:\DELETE,512;D:\DELETE,512;
BASEDEV=PRINT01.SYS
BASEDEV=IBM1FLPY.ADD
BASEDEV=IBM1S506.ADD
BASEDEV=OS2DASD.DMD
SET BOOKSHELF=D:\OS2\BOOK
SET EPMPATH=D:\OS2\APPS
SET FAXPM=D:\OS2\APPS
REM DEVICE=D:\OS2\APPS\SASYNCDA.SYS
PROTECTONLY=NO
SHELL=D:\OS2\MDOS\COMMAND.COM D:\OS2\MDOS /P /E:1024
FCBS=16,8
RMSIZE=640
DEVICE=D:\OS2\MDOS\VEMM.SYS
DOS=LOW,NOUMB
DEVICE=D:\OS2\MDOS\VDPX.SYS
DEVICE=D:\OS2\MDOS\VXMS.SYS /UMB
DEVICE=D:\OS2\MDOS\VDPMI.SYS
DEVICE=D:\OS2\MDOS\VWIN.SYS
DEVICE=D:\OS2\MDOS\VCDROM.SYS
REM DEVICE=D:\OS2\PCMCIA.SYS
REM DEVICE=D:\OS2\MDOS\VPCMCIA.SYS
DEVICE=D:\OS2\MDOS\VMOUSE.SYS
DEVICE=D:\OS2\POINTDD.SYS
DEVICE=D:\OS2\MOUSE.SYS SERIAL=COM1
DEVICE=D:\OS2\COM.SYS
DEVICE=D:\OS2\MDOS\VCOM.SYS
CODEPAGE=437,850
DEVINFO=KBD,US,D:\OS2\KEYBOARD.DCP
SET VIDEO_DEVICES=VIO_SVGA
DEVICE=D:\OS2\MDOS\VSVGA.SYS

REM --- NetWare Requester statements BEGIN ---
DEVICE=D:\NETWARE\LSL.SYS
RUN=D:\NETWARE\DDAEMON.EXE
DEVICE=D:\NETWARE\NE2000.SYS
DEVICE=D:\NETWARE\IPX.SYS
DEVICE=D:\NETWARE\SPX.SYS
RUN=D:\NETWARE\SPDAEMON.EXE
rem DEVICE=D:\NETWARE\NMPIPE.SYS
rem DEVICE=D:\NETWARE\NPSERVER.SYS
rem RUN=D:\NETWARE\NPDAEMON.EXE NP_COMPUTERNAME
DEVICE=D:\NETWARE\NWREQ.SYS
IFS=D:\NETWARE\NWIFS.IFS
RUN=D:\NETWARE\NWDAEMON.EXE
DEVICE=D:\NETWARE\NETBIOS.SYS
RUN=D:\NETWARE\NBDAEMON.EXE
DEVICE=D:\NETWARE\VIPX.SYS
DEVICE=D:\NETWARE\VSHELL.SYS
REM --- NetWare Requester statements END ---

REM  Below is all the TCPIP and IBMCOM stuff (not before!)
DEVICE=D:\IBMCOM\LANMSGDD.OS2 /I:D:\IBMCOM
DEVICE=D:\IBMCOM\PROTMAN.OS2 /I:D:\IBMCOM
rem  DEVICE=D:\IBMCOM\MACS\NE2000.OS2 /I:D:\IBMCOM

DEVICE=D:\NETWARE\ODINSUP.SYS
RUN=D:\IBMCOM\PROTOCOL\NETBIND.EXE
RUN=D:\IBMCOM\LANMSGEX.EXE

SET ETC=D:\TCPIP\ETC
SET TMP=D:\TCPIP\TMP
DEVICE=D:\IBMCOM\PROTOCOL\IFNDIS.SYS
DEVICE=D:\IBMCOM\PROTOCOL\INET.SYS
RUN=D:\TCPIP\BIN\CNTRL.EXE

SET VIO_SVGA=DEVICE(BVHVGA,BVHSVGA)
DEVINFO=SCR,VGA,D:\OS2\VIOTBL.DCP


* * * * * *
* NET.CFG  (nothing special here)
* * * * * *
Link driver ne2000
   protocol ipx 8137 ethernet_ii
   frame ethernet_ii
   int 5
   port 360
   node address 1B198826

netware requester
    preferred ecu_joyner_library

protocol odinsup
    bind ne2000

link support
    buffers 16 1514


* * * * * *
* PROTOCOL.INI (Don't worry about the LAPS settings during install.  They
*               only write to the PROTOCOL.INI as far as I know.)
* * * * * *
[PROT_MAN]
 DriverName = PROTMAN$

[IBMLXCFG]
 NE2000_nif = NE2000.nif
 TCPIP_nif = TCPIP.nif

;*----------------------------------------------*
;*------------- PROTOCOL SECTION ---------------*
;*----------------------------------------------*

[TCPIP_nif]
 DriverName = TCPIP$
; Bindings = NE2000_nif
 Bindings = NE2000

;*----------------------------------------------*
;*--------------- MAC SECTION ------------------*
;*----------------------------------------------*

[NE2000]

[NE2000_nif]
 DriverName = MS2000$
 IOBASE = 0x360
 INTERRUPT = 5




From: [e-mail] (Don Loflin)
Organization: The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas
Date: 28 Jan 1993 08:55:21 -0600


I found the following settings to be the most crucial, especially the
"protocol odinsup / bind ne2000" part, which the ODINSUP readme claimed
was optional if you only had 1 ODI driver loaded (e.g. it would bind to
the only driver found).

* * * * *
* NET.CFG
* * * * *
protocol odinsup
    bind ne2000

* * * * *
* PROTOCOL.INI
* * * * *
[TCPIP_nif]
 Bindings = NE2000




From: [e-mail] (Helmut Meyhoefer)
Organization: Computing Center
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 13:38:27 GMT


This is my configuration for CM, TCPIP and NW Requester with NSD201.  No
problems.

* * * * *
* CONFIG.SYS
* * * * *

IFS=C:\OS2\HPFS.IFS /CACHE:384 /CRECL:4 /AUTOCHECK:CDE

REM ******* LAPS:
RUN=C:\OS2\INSTALL\IBMLANLK.EXE C:\OS2\INSTALL\IBMLANLK.LST

RUN=C:\OS2\XCOPY.EXE C:\OS2\OS2*.INI E:\OS2\IniSave
PROTSHELL=C:\OS2\PMSHELL.EXE
SET RESTARTOBJECTS=STARTUPFOLDERSONLY
SET USER_INI=C:\OS2\OS2.INI
SET SYSTEM_INI=C:\OS2\OS2SYS.INI
SET OS2_SHELL=C:\OS2\CMD.EXE
SET AUTOSTART=PROGRAMS,TASKLIST,FOLDERS
SET RUNWORKPLACE=C:\OS2\PMSHELL.EXE
SET COMSPEC=C:\OS2\CMD.EXE
LIBPATH=.;C:\OS2\DLL;C:\MUGLIB\DLL;C:\OS2\MDOS;E:\CMLIB\DLL;C:\;C:\OS2\APPS\DLL
;C:\IBMCOM\DLL;E:\NETWARE;E:\TCPIP\DLL;
SET
PATH=C:\OS2;C:\OS2\CMD;C:\MUGLIB;C:\OS2\SYSTEM;D:\SYSTEM;C:\OS2\MDOS\WINOS2;E:\
CMLIB;E:\CMLIB\APPN;C:\OS2\INSTALL;C:\;C:\OS2\MDOS;C:\OS2\APPS;L:\OS2;P:\OS2;E:
\NETWARE;E:\TCPIP\BIN;
SET
DPATH=C:\OS2;C:\MUGLIB\DLL;E:\CMLIB;E:\CMLIB\APPN;C:\OS2\SYSTEM;C:\OS2\MDOS\WIN
OS2;C:\OS2\INSTALL;C:\;C:\OS2\BITMAP;C:\OS2\MDOS;C:\OS2\APPS;C:\IBMCOM;E:\NETWA
RE;L:\OS2;
SET PROMPT=$e[32;40m$e[1mrc=$r [$p] $i$e[0m
SET HELP=E:\CMLIB\APPN;C:\OS2\HELP;C:\OS2\HELP\TUTORIAL;E:\TCPIP\HELP;
SET GLOSSARY=C:\OS2\HELP\GLOSS;
SET THE_HELP=D:\OS2\UTILS\THE\OS2.HLP
SET THE=D:\OS2\UTILS\THE\PROFILE.THE
SET DIRCMD=/O:GN
PRIORITY_DISK_IO=YES
FILES=20
DEVICE=C:\OS2\R0CSDD.SYS

REM ******* LAPS:
DEVICE=C:\OS2\INSTALL\IBMLANLK.SYS C:\OS2\INSTALL\IBMLANLK.LST
DEVICE=C:\IBMCOM\LANMSGDD.OS2 /I:C:\IBMCOM
DEVICE=C:\ibmcom\protman.os2 /I:C:\ibmcom

DEVICE=C:\OS2\TESTCFG.SYS
DEVICE=C:\OS2\DOS.SYS
DEVICE=C:\OS2\PMDD.SYS
BUFFERS=30
IOPL=YES
DISKCACHE=64,LW
MAXWAIT=3
MEMMAN=SWAP,PROTECT
SWAPPATH=E:\SWAPSPACE 2048 4096
BREAK=OFF
THREADS=256
PRINTMONBUFSIZE=134,134,134
COUNTRY=049,C:\OS2\SYSTEM\COUNTRY.SYS
SET KEYS=ON
SET DELDIR=C:\DELETE,512 D:\DELETE,1024 E:\DELETE,1024
BASEDEV=PRINT02.SYS
BASEDEV=IBM2FLPY.ADD
BASEDEV=IBM2ADSK.ADD
BASEDEV=OS2DASD.DMD
SET BOOKSHELF=C:\OS2\BOOK;
SET EPATH=C:\OS2\APPS
DEVICE=C:\OS2\APPS\SASYNCDB.SYS
PROTECTONLY=NO
SHELL=C:\OS2\MDOS\COMMAND.COM C:\OS2\MDOS /E:1000/P
FCBS=16,8
RMSIZE=640
DEVICE=C:\OS2\MDOS\VEMM.SYS
DEVICE=C:\OS2\MDOS\VMOUSE.SYS
DOS=LOW,NOUMB
DEVICE=C:\OS2\MDOS\VDPX.SYS
DEVICE=C:\OS2\MDOS\VXMS.SYS /UMB
DEVICE=C:\OS2\MDOS\VDPMI.SYS
DEVICE=C:\OS2\MDOS\VWIN.SYS
DEVICE=C:\OS2\MDOS\VCDROM.SYS
DEVINFO=SCR,VGA,C:\OS2\VIOTBL.DCP
SET VIDEO_DEVICES=VIO_VGA
SET VIO_VGA=DEVICE(BVHVGA)
DEVICE=C:\OS2\MDOS\VVGA.SYS
CODEPAGE=850,437
DEVINFO=KBD,GR,C:\OS2\KEYBOARD.DCP
DEVICE=C:\OS2\POINTDD.SYS
DEVICE=C:\OS2\MOUSE.SYS
DEVICE=C:\OS2\COM.SYS
DEVICE=C:\OS2\MDOS\VCOM.SYS
DEVICE=C:\OS2\MDOS\ANSI.SYS

REM Protokollierung einschalten:
DEVICE=C:\OS2\LOG.SYS
RUN=C:\OS2\SYSTEM\LOGDAEM.EXE

REM ********* Netware Requester ***************
REM --- NETWARE REQUESTER STATEMENTS BEGIN ---
DEVICE=E:\NETWARE\LSL.SYS
RUN=E:\NETWARE\DDAEMON.EXE
DEVICE=E:\NETWARE\TOKEN.SYS
DEVICE=E:\NETWARE\ROUTE.SYS
DEVICE=E:\NETWARE\IPX.SYS
DEVICE=E:\NETWARE\SPX.SYS
RUN=E:\NETWARE\SPDAEMON.EXE
DEVICE=E:\NETWARE\NWREQ.SYS
IFS=E:\NETWARE\NWIFS.IFS
RUN=E:\NETWARE\NWDAEMON.EXE
DEVICE=E:\NETWARE\VIPX.SYS
DEVICE=E:\NETWARE\VSHELL.SYS
DEVICE=E:\NETWARE\ODINSUP.SYS
REM --- NETWARE REQUESTER STATEMENTS END ---

REM ********* Communications Manager ***************
DEVICE=C:\ibmcom\protocol\LANDD.OS2
DEVICE=C:\ibmcom\protocol\LANDLLDD.OS2
DEVICE=E:\CMLIB\ACSLDLAN.SYS
RUN=C:\OS2\EPW.EXE
RUN=C:\ibmcom\protocol\landll.exe
DEVICE=E:\CMLIB\APPN\CMKFMDE.SYS
DEVICE=C:\IBMCOM\PROTOCOL\IFNDIS.SYS
DEVICE=C:\IBMCOM\PROTOCOL\INET.SYS

REM ******* TCPIP
SET ETC=E:\TCPIP\ETC
SET TMP=E:\TCPIP\TMP
RUN=E:\TCPIP\BIN\CNTRL.EXE

REM ******* LAPS:
RUN=C:\ibmcom\protocol\netbind.exe
RUN=C:\ibmcom\lanmsgex.exe

REM ******* TCPIP
SET XFILES=E:\TCPIP\X11
SET USERNAME=
SET HOSTNAME=
SET TELNET.PASSWORD.ID=

CALL=CMD.EXE


* * * * *
* NET.CFG
* * * * *

Link Driver token
   frame token-ring
   frame token-ring_snap
   node address 400031741015

Link Support
   buffers 14 4210

protocol odinsup
   bind token

protocol stack ipx
   sessions 50
   Sockets 64

PROTOCOL STACK SPX
   Abort Timeout 30000
   Verify Timeout 3000
   Listen Timeout 6000
   Send Timeout 6000
   Retry Count 20
   Sessions 50

Netware Requester
   cache buffers 20
   sessions 8
   request retries 20
   preferred server server_name

Netware Spooler
   copies 1
   keep
   size 8
   banner
   form feed


* * * * *
* PROTOCOL.INI
* * * * *

[PROT_MAN]
 DriverName = PROTMAN$

[IBMLXCFG]
 TCPIP_nif = TCPIP.nif
 LANDD_nif = LANDD.NIF

[TCPIP_nif]
 DriverName = TCPIP$
 Bindings = TOKEN

[LANDD_nif]
 DriverName = LANDD$
 Bindings = TOKEN




From: [e-mail] (Roger de Reus)
Organization: Mikroelektronik Centret, DTH, Denmark
Date: Thu, 10 Jun 93 12:11:44 METDST


One suggestion for your document: Since you refer to ftp.nmsu.edu to
get the CSD's for TCP/IP, you may as well refer to the same place to
get the latest Netware release (/pub/os2/2_x/network/novell) and
documentation.

Here the (excerpts) of the configuration files. I have TCP/IP (with
X11) and Netware (finally) running simultaneously over one single 3COM
3C503 card. I did not use the configuration programs (ICAT and LAPS)
but manually edited the files. Note that all the ELINKII stuff is
commented out. I was happy when things  finally worked out, and did not
try more. Probably  lots  of  extraneous code lying around. Did not get
things running  by  automatically routing, so explicitly added a
default gateway in  the  routing command (last line of this file).

Hope this will get some people getting ahead quicker  than  I did.
Credits   should   go   to   the   Hobbes   ftp    server
(ftp-os2.nmsu.edu) which made the latest changes to both  TCP/IP and
Netware software available (and now supplies  all  the  OS/2 goodies on
CD-ROM for $25,-, I believe---grab  it  you  American guys), Kerry
Sesker ([e-mail])  who  supplied me with some
configuration files I could start with,  and  Prof.  Mike Thompson
(Cornell University), who pointed  me  to  ftp-os2 for the Novell
software update.

* * * * *
* CONFIG.SYS (relevant parts)
* * * * *

LIBPATH=...;C:\TCPIP\DLL;C:\USR\NETWARE;C:\IBMCOM\DLL;
SET PATH=...;C:\TCPIP\BIN;...;C:\USR\NETWARE;C:\IBMCOM;
SET DPATH=...;C:\USR\NETWARE;C:\IBMCOM;
SET HELP=...;C:\TCPIP\HELP;

REM --- TCP/IP and NetWare Requester statements BEGIN ---
DEVICE=C:\IBMCOM\PROTMAN.OS2 /I:C:\IBMCOM
DEVICE=C:\IBMCOM\LANMSGDD.OS2 /I:C:\IBMCOM
SET ETC=C:\TCPIP\ETC
RUN=C:\TCPIP\BIN\CNTRL.EXE
SET XFILES=C:\TCPIP\X11
SET DISPLAY=reus026.mic.dth.dk:0
SET TZ=CET
SET LPR_SERVER=mic.dth.dk
SET LPR_PRINTER=ps
SET HOSTNAME=reus026
SET LANG=Da_DK
SET NWLANGUAGE=ENGLISH
DEVICE=C:\USR\NETWARE\LSL.SYS
RUN=C:\USR\NETWARE\DDAEMON.EXE
DEVICE=C:\USR\NETWARE\3C503.SYS
DEVICE=C:\USR\NETWARE\ODINSUP.SYS
DEVICE=C:\USR\NETWARE\IPX.SYS
DEVICE=C:\USR\NETWARE\NWREQ.SYS
IFS=C:\USR\NETWARE\NWIFS.IFS
RUN=C:\USR\NETWARE\NWDAEMON.EXE
RUN=C:\IBMCOM\PROTOCOL\NETBIND.EXE
RUN=C:\IBMCOM\LANMSGEX.EXE
DEVICE=C:\USR\NETWARE\VIPX.SYS
DEVICE=C:\USR\NETWARE\VSHELL.SYS
DEVICE=C:\IBMCOM\PROTOCOL\INET.SYS
DEVICE=C:\IBMCOM\PROTOCOL\IFNDIS.SYS
rem DEVICE=C:\IBMCOM\PROTOCOL\ELINKII.OS2
REM --- TCP/IP and NetWare Requester statements END ---


* * * * *
* NET.CFG
* * * * *

cache buffers = 40
file handles = 120
max tasks = 60
pb buffers = 10
preferred server = mic
show dots on

link driver 3C503
   frame ethernet_802.3
   frame ethernet_ii
   frame ethernet_802.2
   frame ethernet_snap
   node address 02608c8c04eb
   protocol ipx 0 ethernet_802.3

link support
   buffers 15 4210
   mempool 4096

protocol odinsup
   bind 3c503

protocol stack IPX
   bind 3c503

protocol tcpip
   ip_address 129.142.64.205
   ip_router  129.142.6.16
   ip_netmask 255.255.0.0
   tcp_sockets 8
   udp_sockets 8
   raw_sockets 1
   nb_sessions 4
   nb_commands 8
   nb_adapter  0
   nb_domain

netware requestor
   cache buffers 20
   displayharderrors no
   preferred server mic

netware spooler
   no banner
   no form feed


* * * * *
* PROTOCOL.INI
* * * * *

[PROT_MAN]
 DriverName = PROTMAN$

[IBMLXCFG]
; ELNKII_nif = ELNKII.nif
 TCPIP_nif = TCPIP.nif

;*----------------------------------------------*
;*------------- PROTOCOL SECTION ---------------*
;*----------------------------------------------*

[TCPIP_nif]
 DriverName = TCPIP$
 Bindings = X3C503


;*----------------------------------------------*
;*--------------- MAC SECTION ------------------*
;*----------------------------------------------*

[X3C503]

;[ELNKII_nif]
; DriverName = ELNKII$
; netaddress = "02608C8C04EB"
; interrupt = 3
; ioaddress = 0x300
; transceiver = "ONBOARD"
; maxtransmits = 8
; xmitbufs = 2


* * * * *
* TCPSTART.CMD (initializes also X11)
* * * * *

@echo off
echo CONFIGURING TCP/IP .....
CALL C:\TCPIP\BIN\SETUP.CMD
echo ..... FINISHED CONFIGURING TCP/IP
echo STARTING THE TCP/IP PROCESSES .....
rem start pmx -nocopyright -staticcolor -k 102
CALL C:\TCPIP\BIN\XINIT.CMD -staticcolor -k 102
echo     ..... X System Server Started
rem call nfsstart
rem echo     ..... Network File System Client Started
echo ..... FINISHED STARTING THE TCP/IP PROCESSES
echo .....  EXITING TCPSTART.CMD  .....


* * * * *
* SETUP.CMD (called by TCPSTART)
* * * * *

route -fh
arp -f
ifconfig lan0 129.142.64.205 netmask 255.255.0.0
route add default 129.142.6.16 1


(A2.) Appendix II: Supplementary information on SLIP
====================================================

Rather than editing matter that I don't fully understand, I've included
this dialog essentially verbatim.  It is Dave Bolen, author of a SLIP
driver (alternative to IBM's own) replying to SLIP configuration
questions from Don Lindbergh.  Dave Bolen's SLIP driver is presently
still in the testing stage, but users reporting in the
comp.os.os2.networking newsgroup are uniformly glowing in their reviews
of it.

At the time of writing, Bolen's slip driver can be had via anonymous
FTP from ftp.ans.net in file /pub/misc/slip20a3.zoo.

In any case, the following notes should give you a _lot_ of information
about SLIP connections in general, as well as information that may be
specific to Dave's drivers.


From: [e-mail] (Don A.B. Lindbergh)
Date: Wed, 17 Feb 93 14:04:06 EST
Message-Id: <[e-mail]>
X-To: [e-mail]
Subject: Re: TCP/IP, SLIP, Beat 2.1 Setup Questions (LONG)


Ok, I'm sending you what Bolen sent me.  He has sent me two replies.
The first is pretty much *it* as far as what you're probably interested
in.  It is long and has diagrams :)  The second piece is an attempt at
further clarification.  I also included the first piece of mail from a
gentlemen trying to help me put the final piece in place, using
ROUTED.  I basically haven't been able to get it to work (I think)
because of:

1. not much time
2. incorrect syntax

There will undoubtably be some more email from him, after which I
predict the light will shine on me, the angles will sing, and I will
actually have a full blow slip home system going......

Oh, near the end of Bolen's first note is an 'off the cuff' 'untested'
method of using 'arp -s' to 'publish' a network card to do routing.  I
wasen't able to get this to work for me, it may be I'm doing something
wrong.  I intend to at least confirm with him that this method *does*
in fact work.  It seems I will be using either this method or ROUTED as
getting a static route added for my SLIP subnet may be a hassle (Bolen
talks about all this).

So, truthfully, I'm not quite out of the woods yet, but I wanted to
send you what he sent me, because it seems he has told me pretty much
everything.  I figured it's better to send you more than you need
rather than edit it down myself.  If you like, I'll forward what I get
and wrap it up when I get it really working.  Your stuff was invaluable
to me when I was trying to get tcp/ip going.

--Don Lindbergh
[e-mail]


From [e-mail] Mon Feb 15 16:41:48 1993
To: [e-mail] (Don A.B. Lindbergh)


>REQUEST FOR HELP, somewhat lengthy.....

Well, let's see what we can do...

Warning - your request may have been lengthy, but these answers get
real long sometimes :-)

>I'm really unclear on how to setup at home for SLIP.  I've read over
>EVERY occurance of 'slip' in the TCPINFO doc's, I don't get it....

Part of the difficulty explaining this sort of stuff is that if you get
generic enough in your explanation to cover anyone's case, the
explanation becomes vague enough to be less than helpful :-)

For example - you don't give any actual IP addresses in your supplied
office and home configurations, and yet it is likely the actual IP
addresses (and routing between them) that is the problem.

So - for these examples, I'll use some explicit IP addresses that we
use here at ANS - hopefully, it will not be difficult to translate
their use into your own addresses.

Let's take the office machine.  In my case, it has two interfaces - an
ethernet (lan0) and com1 (sl).  The important elements for packet flows
are the addresses of the interfaces, and the routes that the machine
has to specific hosts or networks.

Let's say the office LAN is 147.225.10.x, and my machine has the
address 147.225.10.18.  Thus, subnet 10 of network 147.225 (a class B
network) is dedicated to the office ethernet.  There is a default
router on the office lan, 147.225.10.1, that I should send packets to
when I don't know where to send them.  The subnet mask for my LAN is
255.255.255.0.  Also, I have a nameserver at 147.225.10.1.

Now let's say that I choose subnet 11 for my SLIP connection.  You
can't give hosts at the far end of the SLIP link an address in subnet
10 since the rest of your LAN all think that subnet 10 hosts are
directly connected to the ethernet itself.  (This isn't completely
true, but it's tricky to work around, so let's say it is true for
now).  It is possible, as your example showed, to have your office
machine be 147.225.10.18 on both interfaces, but is often clearer if
you give it an address in the same subnet as the far end of the link.
Let's say in my case, I've made the office machine 147.225.11.1 on the
sl interface, and my home machine is going to be 147.225.11.2.

Thus, you end up with the following configuration:

              -+-
               |
               |      +----------------+              +--------------+
     LAN       |      | Office Machine |              | Home Machine |
               |      | -- -- -- -- -- |  Phone Line  | -- -- -- --  |
               |      |                | 147.225.11.x |              |
147.225.10.x   +------| lan0        sl |--------------| sl           |
               |  .18 |                | .1        .2 |              |
               |      +----------------+              +--------------+
               |
              -+-


Now I don't think you've had a problem getting to this stage of
everything, even though your addresses may be different.  The next big
problem is getting packets to flow where you want.

In this example, hosts on the 147.225.10 network don't have a problem
talking to one another.  They all know that anything in 147.225.10
should be on the LAN wire.  They also know a default router at
147.225.10.1.  If I did a "netstat -r" on your office machine, I would
find an entry like:

   Office with LAN:

        destination     router          intrf (interface)

        default         147.225.10.1    lan0
        147.225.10.0    147.225.10.18   lan0


or in other words - packets heading to anything on 147.225.10 would go
through my local interface to the LAN, lan0, while anything else also
goes out over lan0, but it gets sent to the 147.225.10.1 host, which
should know what to do with it.

That's just the LAN.  Once you start SLIO and create the "sl"
interface, and ifconfig the appropriate addresses, your routing table
will look like the following:

   Office with LAN and SLIP:

        destination     router          intrf (interface)

        default         147.225.10.1    lan0
        147.225.10.0    147.225.10.18   lan0
        147.225.11.2    147.225.11.1    sl


which is the same as before except that traffic for host 147.225.11.2
will go over the serial interface.  If you use the same address for
your office machine on lan0 as on sl, the above would be the same
except the router field would show 10.18 in both the lan0 and sl cases.

Now, to finish off the scenario, on your home machine all you did is
configure the sl interface - nothing else is running.  That gives you
a routing table like the following:

   Home with SLIP:

        destination     router          intrf (interface)

        147.225.11.1    147.225.11.2    sl


Now, given the differences in IP address, I think that's the state
you've been able to get to in your experiments.  Or, to add this
routing information to my original picture, my hosts would look
configured something like the following:

              -+-
               |
               |      +----------------+              +--------------+
     LAN       |      | Office Machine |              | Home Machine |
               |      | -- -- -- -- -- |  Phone Line  | -- -- -- --  |
               |      |                | 147.225.11.x |              |
147.225.10.x   +------| lan0        sl |--------------| sl           |
               |  .18 |                | .1        .2 |              |
               |      +----------------+              +--------------+
               |  <-- 147.225.10
               |  <-- default
               |            147.225.11.2 -->      <-- 147.225.11.1
              -+-


Ok.  Presuming you're still with me :-)  Here's where you begin to run
into problems.  As long as you are on your office machine, you'll be
fine.  If you try to send packets to someone on the LAN, the route for
147.225.10 will work and you'll find them.  If you try to send packets
to your home machine, it will go out over the serial interface and find
it.  If you send packets somewhere else, they'll go to the default
router, which will get them there.  And, since your office machine is
part of your LAN, packets will find their way back to you since the
rest of the LAN (and outside networks) know how to reach your
147.225.10 addresses.  Nameserver stuff will work fine too, since the
nameservers are presumably on your LAN, so queries are just like other
LAN traffic.

The home machine has some problems however.  Once you get SLIP running
there, you should be able to ping your office machine's address over
the SLIP link.  In other words, in my example, a "ping 147.225.11.1"
would work, and I could do things like FTP to the office machine.  But
that's the only communication that works.

The problem with other hosts is routing related.  For example, let's
say that your home host tried to talk to the default router,
147.225.10.1.  On your home machine you only know how to reach
147.225.11.1, so when you use the 10.1 address, your home machine
doesn't know how to get there.  That's where you get the "no route to
host message".  It is telling you it doesn't know where to send
packets for hosts other than 147.225.11.1.

Now that's an easy one to fix.  Add a default route on your home box
pointing to your office box.  Then, if you try to use an address that
the home machine doesn't know about, it will still send it to the
office machine.  The office machine will then either know about it (if
it's part of 147.225.10, such as your nameserver), or it will forward
it on to *its* default router, 147.225.10.1.

This is only part of the problem, however.  That solves the outgoing
packets from your home machine, but it doesn't fix the case of packets
coming back in to your home machine.  For example, your home machine
will now know how to send a packet to the nameserver that you use in
your office, but the nameserver won't know how to send the packet back
to the home machine.  The nameserver will know that 147.225.10
addresses are on the LAN, but it won't know what to do with a
147.225.11 address.

There are a few ways to fix this.  What you really need to do is to
get all the other hosts on your LAN to know that subnet 147.225.11 is
routed through you, and that they should send packets to you for those
addresses.  This is not normally practical, however, since a number of
owners of hosts are involved.

Another alternative is for everyone to run a routing daemon (such as
the ROUTED that came with the TCP/IP package), which lets your
machine announce to the other machines that it has the SLIP route, and
then they know where to send the packages.  Again, this may not be
reasonable as everyone may not want to or be able to run a routing daemon.

Probably the easiest thing for you to do is to get whoever administers
the default router to add a static route for your SLIP subnet to that
router.  Then, since everyone else on the LAN defaults to that router,
when it gets packets for your SLIP host it will forward them back to
you.  Often, it will also issue a redirect to the hosts telling them
where they should have really sent the packets.

So to summarize - your problems are likely twofold.  One, that your
home host doesn't know to default to the office host for stuff that it
doesn't have an explicit route to.  And two, that the hosts on the LAN
(or the outside world for that matter) don't know to use you to reach
your home host.  You need to solve both of those routing problems
before you can see packets flowing between your home host and any
other IP attached host.

In terms of the configurations you posted:

>OFFICE MACHINE SETUP.CMD:
>route -fh
>arp -f
>ifconfig lan0 myipaddress netmask 255.255.255.0
>REM ifconfig lan1
>REM ifconfig lan2
>REM ifconfig lan3
>start slio.exe
>sliowait
>ifconfig sl myipaddress otherpcaddress
>route add default myrouter 1


This should be fine.  In general, I don't expect your office machine
would have any problems.  It's the one machine in this whole
configuration that knows just what is going on, and how to reach
everyone it needs to reach.

>HOME MACHINE SETUP.CMD:
>route -fh
>arp -f
>REM ifconfig lan0 myipaddress officeipaddress netmask 255.255.255.0
>REM ifconfig lan1
>REM ifconfig lan2
>REM ifconfig lan3
>start slio.exe
>sliowait
>ifconfig sl myipaddress officeipaddress


This is fine.

>route add host officeipaddress officerouter


You don't need this.  ifconfig'ing sl will automatically add this
route to your routing tables.  What you do need is a statement:

        route add default officeipaddress 1


to let the home host pass all other packets through to the office as
well.

And you need the office machines (or default router) to know about
your home address too.

If this sounds convoluted, it's because it's a lot harder to write
about and explain than just to do - at least I find it that way.

If you've stuck with me this far, I'll also throw in a way you can
cheat with your SLIP address and make the rest of your office LAN
think your home machine is right on the LAN - thus avoiding the need
to tell them about routing or get your default router to change.

Some of this is off the cuff - I don't think I've done this explicitly
myself yet, although it should work fine.

What you do first is get another LAN address for your home SLIP machine
- in my case, let's say it was 147.225.10.19.  You then configure
everyone just as before, including the default route on your home SLIP
machine.  You end up with the following:

   Office with LAN and SLIP:

        destination     router          intrf (interface)

        default         147.225.10.1    lan0
        147.225.10.0    147.225.10.18   lan0
        147.225.10.19   147.225.10.18   sl


   Home with SLIP:

        destination     router          intrf (interface)

        default         147.225.10.18   sl
        147.225.10.18   147.225.10.19   sl


For your office machine, any packets to host 147.225.10.19 (your home
host) will go over the serial line.  All other packets for 147.225.10
hosts will go over the LAN interface.  And anything else will be put
over the LAN interface to the default router also on the LAN.

For your home machine, packets to your office machine will go over the
serial interface, and packets to anything else will first be passed to
your office machine (over the serial interface) for handling.

Now the only rub is getting machines on the LAN to talk back to your
home machine.  The problem is that those machines will think (since it
has a 147.225.10 address) that your home machine is directly connected
to the LAN.

What happens on the LAN is that other machines issue ARP (Address
Resolution Protocol) requests to translate an address (147.225.10.19
in this case) into a hardware level address (such as a token ring or
ethernet adapter address).  Packets are then sent over the LAN to that
hardware address.  For most machines, they answer for their own
address, and give their hardware address.  Obviously, your home
machine can't do that in this case since it isn't attached directly to
the LAN.

So what you do is tell your office machine to answer for your home
machine.  You use the "arp" command to "publish" a permanent arp entry
for your home machine.  The entry will use your office machine's
hardware address as the arp answer.  Then, other machines in the
office will use your office machine's hardware address on the LAN when
sending packets to your home machine - so the packets will end up on
the office machine.  The office machine will look at the actual IP
address and recognize that it should go down the serial link to the
home machine.  This entire process is called "Proxy ARPing", and is
often supplied as an automatic process in SLIP servers or routers -
we'd just be doing it in a more manual fashion.

To set up the arp entry, you need to figure out your hardware address.
You can either do this by looking at the LANTRAN.LOG file in your LAPS
directory (normally C:\IBMCOM).  It should have a line like:

"Adapter 0 is using node address 10005A82501A    (...)"


Or, check someone else's machine that has recently exchanged traffic
with you and do an "arp -a" and look for your address as in:

        hardware address        IP address
        10005A82501A            147.225.10.18


In either event, you want to know your 12-digit hexadecimal hardware
address.  Once you know that, you can stuff an entry for your home
machine in your arp table with the command:

        arp -s 147.225.10.19 10:00:5A:82:50:1A pub


which will permanently "publish" an arp entry for your home machine.
From now on, other machines on the LAN will think that your home
machine is right on the ethernet (or token ring) itself, although your
office machine will actually be routing packets through the serial
link to the home machine.

Note that if you are on a token ring, you need to use a bitwise
reversed address (shown in the LANTRAN.LOG file as the token ring
format on the same line as the adapter node address).

I think that's about it.  Like I said - it's more complicated to
explain than it really is.  I hope this helps more than it confuses.
I'd suggest also trying to find a local support person at your site
that may be able to help out with the routing issues.  Or, if you have
some sort of central SLIP server facility, it will probably be easier
to make use of that, as the routing issues will most likely have
already been addressed for that server.

-- David


From [e-mail] Tue Feb 16 18:37:53 1993
To: [e-mail] (Don A.B. Lindbergh)
Subject: Re: TCP/IP, SLIP, Beat 2.1 Setup Questions (LONG)


Don,
.
> I had no idea that the slip connection ip addresses
> should have a different subnet than the 'real'
> lan ip addresses.

Yeah - the problem is that while you can get it partially working
without using a different subnet, you really need the separate subnet
for proper operation (barring proxy arp solutions).  The reasons for
this are rooted in the fundamentals of how IP routing is handled,
which can be daunting topic for those new to IP networking (or even
old hands :-)).  Couple this with the fact that most IP office users
don't necessarily know the subnetting and routing scheme in place at
their site, and it becomes even more fun.

(At the risk of repeating info from my previous message)

I think it starts to become more understandable - and explainable - if
you make believe you are a machine on your LAN.  Let's say I'm on your
LAN as address 138.68.31.50.  My machine has a routing table telling
me where to send packets for particular destinations, as:

   destination 134.68.31.0 gateway 134.68.31.50
        (anything on 134.68.31 goes out onto my local LAN
         via my LAN interface, and gets my LAN address on it
         as the source address)
   destination default gateway 134.68.31.103
        (anything else goes to the specified gateway.  To reach
         that gateway, I use my previous route to reach the LAN)


Now I'm in good shape - I know how to reach machines on the LAN, and
those off your LAN.  Now say that friendly Don - you - down the hall
(with his machine 134.68.31.25) add a SLIP link, and gives your home
machine address 134.68.31.26.  You sets things up so that if you type
"ping 134.68.31.50" from home, the packets reach my machine in the
office.  So far so good - the problem is where do I send the answer?
I need to reach 134.68.31.26, which according to my routing table is
right on my LAN.  I therefore try to send it right over the LAN, but
there's no machine there with that address.

Now I personally can fix that problem by adding a specific (static)
route to my machine that says:

       destination 134.68.31.26 gateway 134.68.31.25


which says that if I need to reach the specific machine 31.26, I send
it to your office machine.  Anything else in 134.68.31 follows the old
rule and goes directly to the LAN.  Now I can communicate with
everyone including your home machine.  Of course, this solution
doesn't scale well, and it doesn't help you from home since you have
to get everyone else (or at least the default gateway) to add the
route.  Thus the rest of my previous note :-)

> He says getting something like a
> static route added to our subnet requires calling someone else, which
> is not a huge problem, but if we did this, hopefully we could add this
> slip subnet ONCE and that one addition would work for all our group
> who want to use slip.  I would like to try your suggestions about
> permanently publishing an arp entry first I think.....

Having a dedicated SLIP subnet and a primary SLIP router is in fact
the way many sites (including ours) handles the issue.  For single
SLIP connections into individual office machines a proxy arp solution
may be the simplest and most effective - although it does require
manual configuration - and you still have to get yourself allocated an
extra address in the LAN subnet.

> Some further comments and questions....

Ok.

> I know, I questioned the wisdom of publicly posting all my ip
> addresses, on the other hand, who really cares and what if they did
> right?  I've at least got password entry's for telnet and ftp....

Actually, that's a pretty prudent idea, and not so strange, especially
when posting to such a large list.  I don't have much of a problem
myself as the addresses I've used are protected by a security
firewall, so external hosts can't reach those subnets of 147.225 anyway.

Since your address is in fact exposed to the outside world, it's not
unreasonable to avoid publishing it in such a wide forum.

> I tried this briefly last night, but apparently it's a whole other
> lesson to get this damned thing to work.  I don't really understand
> *who* these manuals are written for.....

You'd be surprised - the IBM stuff really isn't all that bad when you
see what else is out there.  Of course, routing daemons are in fact
another whole world of information, of which ROUTED is one of the
simplest daemons.  I could start another whole book on handling
routing daemon issues, but since it's unlikely your entire LAN will
start listening to RIP broadcasts, I think I'd just bypass this option
for now.  Even if you do run ROUTED and config everything right, it
only fixes things for people who are also listening for the
information that you are then broadcasting.

> As per my comments earlier, is this something we can do once and will
> then work for a number of people? ie if we pick subnet 41 for slip,
> then programmers using slip will be
>
> 134.68.41.1
>          .2
>          .3 etc?

It depends on how you are servicing the SLIP connections.  As long as
there is a single host that is responsible for all of the SLIP users,
then yes - this will work fine.  For example, here at ANS, we use
subnet 2 for SLIP - all SLIP users get 147.225.2.x addresses.  Our
primary machines have a static route for 147.225.2.0 into our Annex
terminal server (that handles the SLIP users) at 147.225.10.40.

If however, each user is going to handle his or her own SLIP
connection into an office machine, it gets a little tricker.  Given
that changing a centrally administered host is probably harder, what I
would suggest is telling those responsible for the site router to send
all SLIP (134.68.41.x) traffic to one particular host - pick someone's
office machine, or some central machine that you manage.  Then, as
individual programmers set up SLIP links to a new machine, add a
static route to the machine you manage for that SLIP link.  Then,
traffic from LAN or external hosts heading for SLIP home users will
first go to the central machine you manage, which will then forward it
on to the appropriate office machine handling the link.  This will
represent an additional hop, but for the amount of traffic generated
by SLIP it won't be much.

Also depending on the central machine of yours, it can send a redirect
message to the site router, telling it the real machine to send the
SLIP traffic to.  So it can "learn" to avoid the extra hop.  I'm
pretty sure that OS/2 (and most Unix platforms) send a redirect by
default, but don't hold me to that.

> Ah, here's where it gets fun, this would be a good hack......
> I'll try this and let you know.  By the way, I keep hearing about your
> super nifty alternate slip drivers, should I try those?  Dave are you
> holdin' out on me?  :)  One guy said I could find them at ftp.ans.net

Well, yes, I do have "super nifty alternate slip drivers" :-) I wasn't
really holding out on you - getting my drivers wouldn't have solved
your problem as it was routing and addressing related.  Also, my
driver is technically alpha code so I don't generally recommend it to
just anyone yet.  Of course, it's alpha mostly because I'm too
backlogged to do the final cleanup and call it beta, so it's actually
quite stable at this point.

If you're interested - you can anonymously ftp the driver from
ftp.ans.net in the file /pub/misc/slip20a3.zoo.  This has the driver,
several utilities, and a readme that should get you up and running.
My driver both performs better than the standard IBM driver (better
performance while using less CPU) as well as including support for
header compression and priority queueing.  This yields better
interactive performance over a SLIP link.

The driver does require OS/2 2.0, and TCP/IP 1.2.1 at least at CSD
level 2252.  (You can always get the latest CSD from ftp-os2 if you
have an earlier version of TCP/IP - check SYSLEVEL)

The below is today's first installment from a gent attempting to help me put
the final piece in place.... ROUTED


From [e-mail] Wed Feb 17 13:12:00 1993
To: [e-mail]
Subject: Re: TCP/IP, SLIP, Beat 2.1 Setup Questions (LONG)


I was going to suggest Bolen's stuff.  He is _most_ knowledgeable.

The secret appears to be as follows:

The ifconfig statement _must_ have your home ip address and the office
(slip) machine ip address.  Use a netmask of 255.255.255.0 make sure
you set the mtu in ifconfig (and in slip.cfg if you use Bolen's
driver).

Now: in order to get at any other machine on your office net, you must
tell your home machine where on the office LAN is the nameserver.  You
use the OS2 ROUTE command to do this.  What you do in it is to a) clear
the previous entiries (-fh flag), then b) set up as 'default' the ip
address of the name server on your office LAN  This means that when at
the OS2 end you mention a machine on your office lan athat is other
than the machine to which you are directly connected via slip, the
request will be routed by your office PC to that name server, which
will do the address resolution.  The test for connection is to use the
'ping' command at your home end.

If you default route to the nameserver, you should be able to ping any
machine on the internet.  I tested it by pinging local machines here,
and then finally hobbes.  It replied!

I'm at the office so I don;t have access to my rexx scripts.  If you
are still having problemsa, I'll send them to you.

I agree the manuals are ghastly.  Luckily I have a bunch of Unix TCPIP
experts here to help me, (we have 4 dept. lans with about 100 Sun
workstations, 4 file servers, 3 compute servers etc. etc. here)  but
even they took a while to figure it out.  I asked, but there is no good
book on TCPIP or X11.  You learn it by recursively reading assorted
ill-written documents, and asking someone who knows. I've been around
long enough to have used IBM manuals back in the '50s and '60s, so I'm
resigned to this situation :-)

Prof. Donald Jardine
Software Technology Laboratory
Comp. Sci. Dept.
Queen's Univ. Kingston Ont.
Ph [phone] Fax [phone]


(A3.) Appendix III: Setting up LaMail
=====================================

This is a product that I don't use, but [e-mail]
kindly sent me a document that he prepared for his users there.  I've
excerpted and edited from that.  Hence I am definitely to blame for
errors of omission and comission in the following suggestions...

1. Installation:  You will want to check off "Sendmail" and "LaMail"
   in the ICAT "Automatic Starting of Services" setup section (see (5)
   section 4. above).

2. Customize your LaMail configuration: In the LaMail screen, select
   Options/Set Note Options, then:

    Personal Options
        1. Your login or userid (e.g. dean)
        2. Your hostname (e.g. fiddler.biol.scarolina.edu)
    Note Header
        1. Check "Add Subject Line"
        2. Recommend checking "Long Address Format"
    Note Options
        1. Signature file: You can create a plain-text file that
           contains some address information about yourself.  It will
           be automatically appended to your outgoing mail.  For an
           example, see the three lines at the end of section (0) of
           this document (that's my .signature file contents).  At this
           point, enter the name of the plain-text file that holds your
           signature information.

3. Send some test mail: Send some mail to someone who's email address
   you are sure will work.  Ask them to send you a reply.  It may be
   helpful if you are in adjoining offices so you can ask each other if it
   worked...

4. Delivery notification: There's no such thing as registered mail
   with SMTP (the mail services that Internet mail uses).  But sometimes
   if mail cannot be sent to the recipient, LaMail will pop-up with the
   rejected mail item.

5. Note editor:  The LaMail editor is built upon the OS/2 Enhanced
   Editor (EPM).  Most users would be more familiar with the OS/2 System
   Editor.  To configure the LaMail editor to resemble the System Editor
   more closely do the following while editing a note:

   Select: Options/Preferences:
   Deselect: Advanced Marking
   Select:   Stream Editing
   Select: Options/Save

6. How to forward a note:  While you are reading/editing a note (i.e.
   the box title begins "Note") hit Ctrl-I.  In the command dialog box,
   either click on an existing command in the top half (if there are any
   shown) or type a forward command in the lower half (e.g.  FORWARD
   [e-mail]).  Edit the command in the bottom half
   and then select OK.  This will bring up a standard LaMail Create Note
   menu with the forwarded note included.  Edit the subject and other
   header lines as usual and select Send to actually forward the mail.
   LaMail will keep a copy of the command in its history file for the next
   time you select the command option.

7. Spelling check:  To check the spelling of an outgoing note, select
   the Options/Proof menu item.  Note that the spelling checker appears to
   have some bugs.  Sometimes it gets confused and flags even common words
   (e.g. "is").  At other times, it appears to just hang.  You may want to
   verify the location of the following LaMail files by choosing the
   Options/Preferences/Settings/Paths menu:

   US dictionary (normally \tcpip\bin\us.dct) Personal dictionary

8. Folders:  At installation, the ALL folder is the default folder for
   notes.  A copy of your outgoing mail is automatically stored in the
   default folder.  You can create multiple folders (e.g., and OUT folder
   or organize folders by subject).  You can also associate folders with
   individuals in your NICKNAME.NAM file.  Within each folder, the
   appearance of mail items can be customized (color and order of fields,
   etc.).  Each folder can have a distinct icon associated with it.
   Create the icons using the OS/2 icon editor and save them in
   \tcpip\lamail as xxxxxx.ICO where xxxxxx is the name of the folder that
   you want associated with the icon.

9. Sendmail:  Sendmail is the background process to LaMail that
   actually sends and receives SMTP messages.  This normally should be
   running all the time, although it can (and probably should) be
   minimized on the screen.  In general, there is nothing you can do in
   this session.  If you need to shut sendmail down, you can terminate it
   by switching to that session and hitting Ctrl-C.  This will bring you
   back to the OS/2 command prompt where you  can type EXIT to close the
   session.

10. Join some mailing lists:  The Internet has hundreds of mailing
    lists on every conceivable topic.  Good ones include ietf-announce (for
    Internet Task Force announcements), the OS/2 mailing lists, new-list (a
    mailing list that announces new mailing lists!), and many other
    computer and non-computer-specific lists.  The Internet master list of
    mailing lists can be retrieved via anonymous FTP from ftp.nisc.sri.com
    as netinfo/interest-groups.  Because this is such a large file (over
    one million bytes uncompressed), it should be retrieved only on an
    exception basis.  Do NOT print the mailing list index.

11. Be sure to include your Internet mailing address on your
    correspondence and business cards.  Because many recipients may not be
    entirely familiar with internetwork addressing, and may have accounts
    on alternate services (MCI, Genie, etc.), make sure to be explicit.
    Tell them that it is an Internet address and be sure to give your
    entire address.  For example, I'd give the following information:

        Internet: [e-mail]



Software Showcase:
=================
                             Performance 2.1

                         Review By H. E. Summers

Performance 2.1 is a collection of REXX programs that modify your
config.sys per IBM's tuning suggestions to help improve
performance. While Performance 2.1 seems like a bargain at $29,
many of the utilities are simply not very useful unless you are
VERY novice. Some of them are downright dangerous, like the program
to remove all HPFS programs! While the utilities are marginally
useful and the book lays out the performance information more
clearly than the manuals from IBM, I would not recommend buying
Performance 2.1 even for those wanting to learn Rexx.


                           Extended Desktop 1.4

                        Review By Dale Hackemeyer

Extended Desktop is an IBM Employee Written program that greatly enhances
control of the desktop in OS/2 2.x (you MUST have the Service Pack installed
if you're running on 2.0).

Extended Desktop is a WPS Class DLL for the "ExtendedDesktop" object class,
which is a subclass of the "WPDesktop" object class.  Its purpose
is to extend the functions of the OS/2 2.x Desktop object.

Extended Desktop extends the OS/2 2.x WPS Desktop to:

     1. Optionally remove Arrange & Sort from the Desktop context menu.
     2. Align groups of icons on the Desktop vertically or horizontally.
     3. Snap-to-Grid with user defined Grid Spacing.
     4. Precisely position individual icons on the Desktop from the Settings
        Notebook
     5. Precisely position individual icons on the Desktop from C or REXX.

To install you simply run the install program and reboot. All your desktop
settings and icon arrangements are unchanged. Only when you bring up the
desktop Settings notebook do you see the  additions. Should Extended Desktop
not meet your needs, there is a un-install program included.

I think this program is a must for any serious user of the Workplace
Shell, especially if you're like me and like to arrange groups of icons in
different places all over the desktop.

You can find Extended Desktop 1.4 in the file EXDESK.ZIP on the OS/2
Woodmeister BBS [phone].


                                 Watchdog

                         Review By H. E. Summers


Do you have a hangup using OS/2? That is, does the mouse still work
but nothing happen when you click? If so, try adding WATCHDOG to
your system. It can detect the WPS locking up (while OS/2 is still
working) and reboot the WPS without rebooting OS/2. This IBM
employee written software (EWS) is useful even under the much
improved OS/2 2.1 if you are running on an ISA PC where WPS has
problems. Watchdog is avalible from Woody's BBS as
WDOG10.ZIP.


OS/2 Tips & Techniques
======================

WPS Tricks
----------

Here's a neat trick which has been thoroughly discussed on Compuserve,
but I don't see mentioned here.

Call up the window list, hold down the shift key, double click on the
Desktop item, and your desktop will minimize itself!  Apps will continue,
and Ctrl-Esq will recall the Window List, allowing you to bring up any open
windows and work with them as usual.  Sometimes it's nice to hide all those
objects and focus on what you're doing.

Next, on the Desktop item on the Window List, hold down Ctrl, and double
click the right button.  Now the desktop's title bar appears, and you can
move it around!  Two ways to remove the title  bar:  (1) Reboot; (2) open
the minimized window viewer, minimize the desktop, recall the viewer,
Arrange if you don't see the desktop icon, RMB the icon for its menu, select
Restore.

William Marvin,
Fidonet OS/2 conference.


Toolbox in SAS for OS/2
-----------------------
If you want to change the default icons available in the
default toolbox, use the Toolbox Editor. To bring up the Toolbox
Editor, select EDIT TOOLBOX from the OPTIONS in the menu bar.
Alternatively you can issue the TOOLEDIT display manager command.

To add your own icon to the Toolbox, folow these steps:

Create an icon. What I did was download a zip file with tons of
icons from ftp anonymous at ftp-os2.cdrom.com and edited one
with the OS/2 Icon Editor. Mark and copy your new icon to the clipboard.
Open the Toolbox Editor and select the icon that you want to
replace by clicking on it. Choose PASTE to move your icon from the
clipboard into the Toolbox Editor. Enter the text string you want to
associate with the tool (e.g. Insight). Save your changes, you can save
temporarely using the APPLY button or permanently using the SAVE button.

Enjoy,

Arturo Barrios / OIT User Services


New Products!
=============

OS/2 Software recently announced or released:


Back In A Flash!
----------------
From the Fidonet OS2 conference:

From: Robert Montgomery

Back In A Flash! (aka BIAF)
32-bit File Backup and Archival Utility

Demonstration Version 1.00

A product of CCT, Inc.
111 3rd Avenue South
Minneapolis, MN 55401
[phone]

Some more to report. I have purchased the registered version. I have
talked with the author, Brad Benson. Very nice, knowledgeable OS/2
programmer that works for a big company called CCT, does programming
for them. Did BIAF on his own time and when he brought it to work to
run on his IBM MCA, his boss (a very wise Paul Druckman, President, of
CAD/CAM Technology, Inc.) suggested they market it. And the rest as
they say is history.

I have run it on three machines, all clones with OS/2 2.1, and MFM,
ESDI and a SCSI. The backup to the floppy works perfectly for backing
up the desktop configuration to one diskette and doing a command line
restore. Superb and clearly worth the price of the product. The
desktop can be very personal and unique with OS/2 and rebuilding it a
pain. With BIAF, no problem.

Only major problem has been backing up to more than one floppy and
doing a command line restore. Has some sort of bug that causes it too
fail. But inside OS/2 2.1, running the restore with the GUI part,
works wonderfully. Brad knows about this as of last week and will look
into it. This is not a major flaw, but it is annoying.

Ah, to save the best for last. BIAF can save to another partition, or
to any directory on a hard drive or across a LAN (the LAN was not
tested by me, since I have no LAN). 38MB can compress to about a 25MB
file. Very fast, varies with hard drive speed and cpu, but best was
7MB/min to about 3MB/min with compression on.

Here is what the dir/w of the saved files looks like at the dos prompt

C:\OS2BACK>dir/w

 The volume label in drive C is CJODY.
 The Volume Serial Number is 3F49:1BD0
 Directory of C:\OS2BACK

[.]             [..]            DESKTOP.001     FULL.001
        4 file(s)   25069336 bytes used
                   228212736 bytes free

Note that two files exist, one called desktop.001 and the other
full.001. Desktop.001 is just the critical files that can restore the
desktop. And full.001 is a complete OS/2 restore. If these files are
kept "safe", in my case, stored on C:\os2back directory with OS/2 on
my d: drive, as simple reformat of D: and the insert the disk install
and disk 1 of os/2, esc to command line, run cctrest desktop.001
c:\os2back or run cctrest full.001c:\os2back, and in a matter of
minutes, D; is restored form c:. Simply amazing to watch, and it ran
flawlessly on all three very different machines.

This has countless variations. Imagine saving this backup file, either
desktop.001 or full.001 or whatever you might configure (and BIAF will
let you do anything) and the using a DOS, fat based backup to tape of
these files. In the event of a disaster, just reformat, set up the
original drive specifications, restore the desktop.001 or full.001 to
the right area on C: (which is C:\os2back in my case, it could be any
you want, boot the two os/2 diskettes, the install and disk one, run
cctrest.exe as above, and voila! Complete restore! I have done it,
works beautifully!

So now, here is the new suggestion, for the beginner, who needs a
generic hardware setup that will work on many machines and be
"portable". Get a SCSI based cdrom that works with OS/2 2.X and the
trantor SCSI Plus cable, then install OS/2 2.1. Make a backup with
BIAF, and then get one of those nice parallel port backup machines
like trakker, connect it to the parallel port direct or to the Trantor
parallel port  and backup the BIAF files to tape. In the even of a
"crash", no problem. Just use the cdrom to reinstall the OS/2 2.1 from
CDROM, and redo the customized desktop saved in desktop.001, or just
restore the full OS/2 from the full.001 file restore by the tape
machine hooked to the parallel port, then run BIAF command line restore
(cctrest.exe) and restore the entire OS/2 2.1 operating system.

The variations are endless, limited only by ones imagination.

MY OS/2 installs are pretty standardized now, since use boot manager,
with a C"FAT and D:HPFS. I run C: drive as FAT, allows use of "real"
DOS, with all the versatility I need, then install OS/2 2.1 on D:HPFS,
enjoying OS/2 on HPFS (a real treat). I save my BIAF backup files on
the cdrive in a directory called, appropriately, C:\os2back. Then I
can reinstall anytime I want back to D:HPFS and leave my C:DRIVE
alone, safe and secure. The reverse is true as well, save my C:DRIVE
on a C:\DOSBACK or D:\DOSBACK and use BIAF to restore the entire DOS
back to my C:FAT drive.

So there you have it, one of many solutions for the OS/2 user that
allows the use of there present hardware. And it allows the "neophyte"
OS/2 user to graduate into OS/2 without the "fear" of no backup and
avoid the expense of upgrading all their equipment just to run OS/2
2.1. The new user (or old) can keep their old Colorado, or other FAT
backup system, knowing that with BIAF, they can backup the BIAF backup
files with ease.

So let me know what you think. And finally, lets support this
excellent product.

Highly recommended.

Price? $29.00 intro $49.00 final. Worth it!


BakupWiz
--------
PCX Announces the Release of OS/2 BakupWiz

San Diego, CA, August 4, 1993 PCX announced today that OS/2
BakupWiz will be released for general sale on August 16, 1993.

OS/2 BakupWiz is a comprehensive Backup/Restore program that takes
full advantage of OS/2's many advanced features. Typical OS/2
configurations include a large amount of fixed disk storage which
requires a backup system capable of effectively backing up large
amounts of data. OS/2 BakupWiz's backup capacity is only limited by
the current state of the art in backup devices.

A long list of SCSI tape devices is supported by OS/2 BakupWiz. These
range from 150 megabyte 1/4" cartridge devices to multi gigabyte 4
and 8 millimeter devices to automated tape loading devices with
capacities in excess of 100 gigabytes. OS/2 BakupWiz will work with
all SCSI adapter cards that are supported by OS/2.

Being a character mode OS/2 program, OS/2 BakupWiz is capable of
fully restoring the users OS/2 boot partition, thus saving the time
that would normally be required to manually reinstall the operating
system from diskette or CDROM. OS/2 BakupWiz also supports OS/2's
extended attributes, long file names, and the High Performance File
System.

While OS/2 BakupWiz is PCX's first entry into the ever growing OS/2
marketplace, BakupWiz has a long history in the DOS market. BakupWiz
for DOS, marketed directly by PCX, is also resold and bundled under
private label by various SCSI board manufacturers.

The software ships on 3.5 inch diskettes. Retail price is $189.00.
PCX is offering an introductory price of $129.00 until September 30,
1993. Due to customer demand, PCX has started accepting orders for
OS/2 BakupWiz for shipment beginning August 16, 1993.

PCX, founded in 1982, develops and markets personal computer software
and is firmly committed to the OS/2 platform. In addition to OS/2
BakupWiz, PCX also markets BakupWiz for DOS and performs consulting
services under contract. PCX specializes in the development of device
drivers and utilities for OS/2, DOS, and Netware.

For more information, contact PCX at 3525 Del Mar Heights Road, Suite
313, San Diego, CA 92130, phone: [phone], fax: [phone].


2nd Edition of OS/2 2.1 Unleashed
---------------------------------
Second edition of OS/2 2.1 Unleashed Announced

NORRISTOWN, PA, June 1, 1993 Productivity Solutions
Book Division announced today availability of the second
printing of OS/2 2.1 Unleashed.  The first printing sold out
in just 6 weeks placing this book among the fastest selling
and most popular of available OS/2 books.  In the forword to
the second printing James Cannavino, IBM Senior Vice-President and
General Manager Personal Systems said, "the authors span our
industry and possess years of experience with the OS/2
operating system.  Several of the authors are members of the
original OS/2 design and development team, bringing an
unequaled level of OS/2 knowledge to a single book."  The
book was also praised by Lee Reiswig, President of IBM
Personal Software Products Division, during official launch
announcements of the OS/2 2.1 operating system on May 18.

David Moskowitz, President of Norristown, PA firm,
Productivity Solutions, with David Kerr of IBM are the
featured authors, with 11 additional contributing authors
including Rick McGuire head of the IBM REXX Language
Development Group and Mike Perks, Advisory Programmer for
OS/2 Technical Planning.  Scott Kliger of the OS/2
development team at Word Perfect Corporation was the primary
technical editor of the book. Kliger was previously a member
of the IBM OS/2 Development Team in Boca Raton, Florida.

What readers around the world say
First published at the end of February, 1993,  thousands
of OS/2 users heard about OS/2 2.1 Unleashed from discussions
in on-line services such as CompuServer, Internet, Fido Net
as well as at OS/2 User Group meetings and technical
conferences around the world.

According to David Cittadini,
Senior Consultant of Price Waterhouse of Wellington, New
Zealand, "The three most important ideas I picked up from
this book were about using and controlling the Workplace
Shell, tuning the system and video subsystems.  These ideas
are missing in lots of other books."  Andy Yu, Senior
Technical Analyst of the BC Systems Corporation of Victoria,
B.C. Canada, "I enjoyed reading the book very much.  It's an
excellent reference book on OS/2 for both advanced and
beginner users.  If I had this book on Day 1, it would have
saved me **lots** of time!"  Software developer president,
Lee W. Wiley of International Expert Systems of Houston,
Texas, "Your book is great!  Your explanation of system
configuration, setup and tuning answered questions which we
have been wondering about for over a year.  This alone is
well worth the price of OS/2 2.1 Unleashed."

According to David Kerr, "in writing my sections I set
out to document information not properly described in any
other book.  All of the other authors did the same thing."
This attention to detail paid off.  One reader, Steve
Gallagher, IBM Team OS/2 member in North Carolina says, "I
have read probably a dozen books on OS/2, but OS/2 2.1
Unleashed is the only one that 'made the cut' and sits next
to my computer at work."  Paul Duncanson, President of the
Los Angeles OS/2 Users group says, "I've been programming
OS/2 for over 5 years, and am amazed at the amount of new
information for me in this book!"

Best Source for Tips and Tricks
The book is 1134 pages in 18 chapters and includes a
disk of 8 of the best shareware utilities for OS/2.  There
are many techniques and tricks about OS/2 2.0 and 2.1 which
are not documented, or inadequately documented anywhere else.
Readers can troubleshoot their Windows 3.1 and DOS
Applications as well as discover ways to prevent problems.
According to David Moskowitz, "we included tips and tricks
that are useful to almost everyone who uses or supports OS/2
from beginner to power-user.  Even the person who only uses
OS/2 2.1 to multitask DOS and Windows applications will find
usable information in the book.  All the contributors wanted
to make this _the_ OS/2 2.1 reference book."

Pricing and Availability
Price is $34.95, plus shipping and handling.  Telephone or
fax orders for the book can be placed by calling Productivity
Solutions:  215-631-5685 or fax: [phone].  All books
ordered from Productivity Solutions are signed by featured
author David Moskowitz.  The publisher is SAMS Publishing,

ISBN No. 0672-30240-3.


OS/2 Computing Magazine
-----------------------
MILLER FREEMAN LAUNCHES OS/2 COMPUTING

SAN FRANCISCO Miller Freeman, Inc.  today announced the launch of
OS/2 COMPUTING MAGAZINE out of its San Francisco headquarters.

OS/2 COMPUTING is focused on users and system administrators who work
with IBM's OS/2 operating system on a daily basis.  "OS/2 COMPUTING
represents another step in developing a well-rounded group of
top-notch computer and electronics magazines here at Miller Freeman,"
said Don Pazour, Vice-President of Miller Freeman's High-Tech
Division.

Ted Bahr, Group Publisher of the company's Electronics/Design Group,
was named Publisher of OS/2 COMPUTING, and added, "No major publishing
company is currently serving those individuals and corporate users and
systems administrators who have chosen OS/2 as their operating system.
OS/2 users are hardcore enthusiasts and OS/2 COMPUTING will be serving
a definite need in this growing market."

The first issue of OS/2 COMPUTING will hit newsstands in mid-November
1993, and will be distributed at Fall Comdex in Las Vegas.  Monthly
publication begins with the February 1994 issue.  OS/2 COMPUTING will
be distributed through paid subscriptions and on newsstands.  "We
believe paid circulation is important in satisfying advertisers' needs
to reach a qualified audience," Bahr explained.  OS/2 COMPUTING will
be audited as soon as possible.

Effective immediately, Miller Freeman has appointed Alan Zeichick as
Editor-in-Chief of OS/2 COMPUTING.  "OS/2 is the most popular 32-bit
operating system for IBM-compatible personal computers," Zeichick
said.  "Members of the OS/2 user community, whether individuals, small
businesses, or large corporations, are looking for a dedicated source
of information about how to maximize their productivity."

Miller Freeman's High-Tech Division also publishes Dr. Dobb's
Journal, OS/2 Developer, Cadence Magazine, UNIX Review, LAN Magazine,
Software Development, Embedded Systems Programming, Database
Programming & Design, Microsoft Systems Journal, and AI Expert.  It is
also the sponsor of high-technology conferences, including Autodesk
University, Software Development Week, Embedded Systems Conference,
Computer Security Conference, Electronic Imaging, and Business
Software Solutions (formerly the Windows & OS/2 Conference).  A wholly
owned subsidiary of United Newspapers plc, Miller Freeman, Inc.
publishes 32 other magazines and is the third largest producer of
trade shows and technical conferences in North America.

CONTACT: TED BAHR, 415-905-2269.

ALAN ZEICHICK, 415-905-2382, CompuServe 76703,756

Miller Freeman Inc., 600 Harrison St., San Francisco, CA 94107


REXX Handbook
-------------
REXX Reference Summary Handbook Announcement

Good News:
     The REXX Reference Summary Handbook is available
     for shipping. We are accepting orders beginning on
     Tuesday, August 10, 1993.

Bad News:
     Our friendly bank has informed us that since
     C F S Nevada, Inc. is accepting orders for the
     Handbook via electronic mail, we qualify as a mail
     order business and, as such, they have made the
     requirements for us to provide Master Card / Visa
     services, prohibitive.

Therefore, we are forced to require a check (personal or
business) or money order. Checks MUST be in U.S. funds drawn on a
U.S. bank or the order will be returned, unprocessed.

This 112 page, pocket sized guide details all of the instructions
and functions in SAA REXX distributed with OS/2. It also
describes all of the functions included in the REXXLIB and
RXWINDOW external function packages available from Quercus
Systems - the Personal REXX developer.

I think that anyone involved with REXX, from curious beginners to
people who, like me, first began using REXX (or EXEC2) under
VM/370 or VM/SP on IBM mainframes, will find the Handbook to be a
constant "keyboard-side" companion. I realized the need for the
handbook when, even after writing REXX programs for close to ten
years, I found myself still reverting to the REXX manuals for
confirmation of things such as the order or format of function
parameters, the format of the value returned by a function, etc.

The handbook has a 20 page, cross referenced index, that will
allow the novice REXX user and the REXX veteran alike to easily
locate a needed function as well as identifying the various
functions which deal with a particular subject.

The Handbook has been accredited by IBM for use of the official
OS/2 logo and C F S Nevada, Inc. is a member of the IBM
Independent Vendor league.

The price is $9.35 plus $2.00 per copy shipping & handling. Nevada
residents must add 7% ($0.65) sales tax. Quantity discounts are
available for dealers as well as a special program for user
groups being available.

Checks should be made payable to C F S Nevada, Inc. and mailed
to:

953 E. Sahara Avenue, Suite 9B
Las Vegas, Nevada 89104-3012

Inquiries may be directed to C F S Nevada, Inc. at:

702-732-9616 voice
702-732-3847 FAX
72200,347 CompuServe
(1:209/705) FIDO

Please note your CompuServe ID, Internet address or FAX number on
your order. Orders will be processed in the sequence they are
received and the Handbook will be shipped within 10 business days
of the receipt of your order.


S3 Video Drivers
----------------
S3 Video Driver Announced for OS/2 2.1

August 11, 1993

The S3 video device driver support is now available for OS/2* 2.1!
This means that OS/2 users now have access to even better graphics,
faster video and higher resolution in a proven and reliable operating
environment.

"The S3 video driver is designed to provide OS/2 users with seamless
support for accelerated video graphics and advanced color resolution,"
says Wally Casey, director of marketing for PSP. "The new driver
ensures compatibility with the S3 technology shipping in today's newer
PCs."

The OS/2 2.1 S3 video driver supports the following resolutions
and colors:

640 x 480 x 256 colors
800 x 600 x 256 colors
1024 x 768 x 256 colors
1280 x 1024 x 256 colors

PC manufacturers, such as the IBM PC Company and Dell Computer
Corporation, will begin shipping the OS/2 2.1 S3 driver with their
systems.  The S3 driver has also been tested on and is compatible with
many industry leading S3 adapter cards.

The S3 driver is available from multiple electronic download services,
including Internet and CompuServe, or can be ordered on diskette for $15
(cost + shipping and handling) by calling 1-800-3IBM-OS2.  It is located
on software.watson.ibm.com on the Internet, and in OS2SUPPORT, Library
17, IBM files on CompuServe.  The file name is S3-256.DSK.

15 Questions & Answers About the S3 Driver


 1. Does the S3 driver exploit the accelerated functions of the S3
    Corporation's chipsets?

    This display driver takes advantage of the hardware acceleration
    capabilities of S3 Corporation's 86C801/86C805 and 86C928 chip
    sets.  It conforms to the OS/2 32-bit flat memory model and is
    designed to function as a 32-bit Presentation Manager (PM) display
    driver under the OS/2 32-bit graphics engine subsystem.

 2. Which resolutions are supported?

    The S3 display driver supports the following resolutions/colors and OS/2
    full-screen columns/rows:

    640 x  480 x 256 colors
    800 x  600 x 256 colors
    1024 x  768 x 256 colors
    1280 x 1024 x 256 colors (min 2MB video memory)

    OS/2 full screen 132,25
    OS/2 full screen 132,43

 3. What other features does it support?

    OS/2 PM Palette Manager
    Software Motion Video
    Static mode change.

 4. When will it be available?

    It will be available August 9, 1993, via electronic download.  It
    will be available on diskette via the 1-800-3IBM-OS2 number
    approximately two weeks later.

    PC manufacturers, such as the IBM PC Company and Dell Computer
    Corporation, will begin shipping the OS/2 2.1 S3 driver with
    their systems.  In addition, IBM will add this S3 driver
    to shrink-wrapped packages of OS/2 2.1.

 5. Where will it be available?

    The driver is available via multiple electronic download
    services, including CompuServe and Internet, or can be ordered on
    diskette for $15 (cost + shipping and handling) by calling
    1-800-3IBM-OS2.

    It is located on software.watson.ibm.com on the Internet,
    and in OS2SUPPORT, Library 17, IBM files.  The file name is
    S3-256.DSK.

 6. Does IBM fully support this driver?

    Yes. It is covered by the same support plan as the OS/2 2.1 product.
    The 256-color driver is now available.

 7. Does IBM intend to enhance the driver to include additional colors,
    ie., 65K and 16M (true color)?

    It is IBM's intent to enhance the current driver to support
    additional colors.  Beta-level code will continue to be
    made available electronically as additional function
    is added.

 8. Did IBM develop this driver?

    Personal Systems Programming views our customer requirements for
    OS/2 drivers supporting the leading video chip sets as a top
    priority.  We invested in developing this driver to satisfy
    these requirements.

 9. This driver is compatible with which versions of OS/2?

    This driver is compatible with OS/2 2.1, and it is covered by the
    terms and conditions of the the Program License Agreement for the
    OS/2 2.1 product.

10. Does this driver support less than 1 MB of video memory?

    No, a minimum of 1MB of video memory is required.

11. Is this a seamless driver, ie., does it support Windows and OS/2
    applications running side by side in windows on the desktop?

    Yes.

12. Is this a fully 32-bit driver?

    Yes.

13. Are there any functional restrictions?

    This display driver may not support ALL S3 adapters or systems
    with EVERY chip set.  The S3 display driver has been tested on
    and is compatible with the S3 adapters or systems with the chip
    sets indicated in parentheses.  Additional adapters or systems
    may be added as testing continues in the future.

    Actix                       (801)
    Actix                       (928)
    Diamond Stealth 24          (801)
    Diamond Stealth 24 LB       (805)
    Diamond Stealth Pro         (928)
    Diamond Stealth Pro LB      (928)
    Orchid Fahrenheit 1280      (801)
    Orchid Fahrenheit 1280 Plus (801)
    Metheus                     (928)
    Video 7 Win.Pro             (801)
    IBM ValuePoint              (805)
    Dell 433/L                  (805)
    Dell 433/M                  (805)
    Dell 466/L                  (805)

14. How do I install it?

    With an easy-to-use command file.  Instructions are in the accompanying
    README file.

15. Is this the same driver that is available from the S3
    Corporation?

    No, this driver is the generally available version of the S3
    driver that has been in beta test on IBM bulletin boards.  In
    addition, a 16-bit driver for the S3 chip has been available from
    the S3 Corporation.

* Indicates trademark of the International Business Machines Corporation.


OS/2 Bookshelf
==============
Books useful to the OS/2 user:

PM Programming for COBOL Programmers
------------------------------------
Title:    OS/2 Presentation Manager Programming for COBOL Programmers
Author:   Robert B. Chapman
ISBN:     0-89435-439-6 (QED Publishing Group)
Price:    $39.95 with diskette
Pub date: January 1993
Contents: Introduction. Presentation Manager. Create PM environment and a
window. Display information in a window. Displaying real information. Menu
bar, dialog box, icon, and accelerator table. Multiline entry, listbox,
combo box, radio buttons, check boxes. Modeless dialog boxes. Multiple
windows. Help processing via IPF. Printing a PM report. Introducing
SQL I/O. Dynamic link libraries. Sample programs compile and execute
environment. PM subroutine calls (The PM API). PM messages, styles,
classes, and codes. Glossary. Index.

Thinking Person's Guide to OS/2 2.1
-----------------------------------
Title:    Thinking Person's Guide to OS/2 2.1
Author:   Maria E. Tyne
ISBN:     0-89435-467-1
Price:    $24.95
Pub date: June 1993
Contents: Introduction. Using Objects. Windows. On-line information.
Desktop pop-up menus. Object pop-up menus. Open-settings for objects.
Open-settings for programs. Extended menu selection. OS/2 system folder.
Customizing the system. Installation features. Palettes. Using templates.
Printer and shredder. Helpful hints. Conclusion. Index.


OS/2 2.1 Installation, Configuration, and Use
---------------------------------------------
Title:    OS/2 2.1 Installation, Configuration, and Use
Author:   Doug Azzarito
ISBN:     0-89435-456-6
Price:    $34.95
Pub date: August 1993
Contents: Introduction. OS/2 requirements. Installing OS/2. Introduction to
the Workplace Shell. Migrating applications. DOS under OS/2. Windows under
OS/2. OS/2 applications. Command-line interfaces. The productivity programs.
Advanced features. Glossary. Index.


Other Sources
=============
Other places to locate OS/2 information.


OS/2 BBS's
==========

This BBS listing is provided courtesy of David Sichak, Editor of the
San Diego Users Group Newsletter. Thanks David!

BBS Introduction
----------------
Well, I am trying to update this file in an expedient way so it doesn't
become too stale when I include it in the INF version.  But I'm trying
to catch up on a backlog.  I've got the list in an Rbase for OS/2 database
file right now, so all I need to do is figure out a way to create a report
that does much of my INF coding for me.

Next month, I'd look for a few more additions. And by all means keep Dave
Fisher posted on your BBS's if he's still keeping his list up and current.
Without him, we wouldn't be able to include as much as we do.

This listing is for the BBS junkie in you who needs to have a
phone bill treat once in a while <G>.  Or bored to death while
you're travelling.

Our listing is based on a rather extensive listing put together by
Dave Fisher of OS/2 type Bulletin Boards.  Space limits this month
prevent us from listing all the details he has for each BBS, but we've
tried to include a couple from every state in the US (Notice and hint
to you sysops...not all states are represented.) and a few foreign
countries, too.

Dave Fisher's list is a compilation of OS/2 BBS's across the
world.  If you wish to make an addition or correction to his list,
he's asked that you please netmail your BBS information to Dave
Fisher at LiveNet, 1:170/[e-mail].

For the newsletter, I've sorted the in alphabetical order by Country
for the international ones and by state for those in the USA to
make it easier to find one close to you.   His file has other details
related to these BBS's but we didn't have room, okay?  The file
we're using showed that the last update was September 7, 1992.

Does anyone know if this list of his is being kept up to date?  I hope
to expand it more next month; ran out of time.  But I've got his list
in a database right now and I'll be able to code that list a lot
easier next month.

Hope you find this inclusion useful.  Large phone bills are not my fault...!!!


Australia
---------

Graham Stair
3M Australia
[phone]
Australia

Alan Salmon
PC User's Group
[phone]
Australia

Norbert Fuerst
The Styrian OS/2 Jumbo
[phone]
Australia

Bill Bolton
Software Tools Mail Exc
[phone]
Australia

Bill Bolton
Software Tools Mail Exc
[phone]
Australia

Felix Tsang
Programmer's BBS
[phone]
Australia

Alan Salmon
PC User's Group
[phone]
Australia

Ian Watson
OZ-Share OS/2 BBS
[phone]
Australia


Belgium
-------

Bas Heijermans
Moving Sound OS/2 BBS
[phone]
Belgium

Benoit HUON
Os/2 MANiA BELGIUM
[phone]
Belgium

Danny Bruggeman
Hellfire
[phone]
Belgium

Bas Heijermans
Moving Sound OS/2 BBS
[phone]
Belgium


Canada
------

Kevin Lowey
Univ. of Saskatchewan
[phone]
Canada

Evan Smith
ECS Net
[phone]
Canada

Ian Evans
Baudeville BBS
[phone]
Canada

Herbert Tsui
BBS Council
[phone]
Canada

Jerry Stevens
The Locutory
[phone]
Canada


Denmark
-------

Rene Carlsen
OS/2 Task and FrontDoor H
[phone]
Denmark

Jorgen Ollgaard
Josti-BBS
[phone]
Denmark

Jorgen Ollgaard
Josti-BBS
[phone]
Denmark


France
------

Emmanuel Sandorfi
Os/2 MANiA (Help Maximu
[phone]
France


Germany
-------

Ulrich Roeding
BOX/2
[phone]
Germany

Peter Kaszanics
APOLONIA
[phone]
Germany

Peter Kaszanics
APOLONIA
[phone]
Germany

Peter Plischka
IBM Mailbox
[phone]
Germany

Peter Kaszanics
APOLONIA
[phone]
Germany

Peter Plischka
IBM Mailbox
[phone]
Germany

Chris Leuder
Zaphod BBS
[phone]
Germany

Chris Leuder
Zaphod BBS
[phone]
Germany

 Kalle Braun
Terrania City
[phone]
Germany

Oliver Lass
LRZ-System
[phone]
Germany

Oliver Lass
LRZ-System
[phone]
Germany

Harald Kipp
OS/2 Point
[phone]
Germany

Karlheinz Kissel
The_File_Store
[phone]
Germany

Juergen Berger
JERRY'S OS/2-BBS
[phone]
Germany

Oliver Schwabedissen
MoonFlower
[phone]
Germany

Richard Clement
OS/2 Express
[phone]
Germany

Michael Breukel
PC Softbox OS/2
[phone]
Germany

Romeo Bernreuther
CCWN-BOX
[phone]
Germany

Markus Noller
Second Source
[phone]
Germany

Juergen Fritz
CheckPoint OS/2
[phone]
Germany

Thomas Tegel
The CAT
[phone]
Germany


Italy
-----

Luigi Ravina
Italy Network
[phone]
Italy

Roberto Sonzogni
Runnin' with The Devil
[phone]
Italy

Pasquale Cantiello
FastForward BBS
[phone]
Italy


Netherlands
-----------

Peter Smink
BBS The Experiment
[phone]
Netherlands

Dave Jones
The TJD Support BBS
[phone]
Netherlands

Joop Mellaart
INFOBOARD
[phone]
Netherlands

Marcel Stikkelman
PC-Square
[phone]
Netherlands


Norway
------

Terje Slydahl
PerlePorten
[phone]
Norway


Singapore
---------

Ivan Leong
Miqas/2 Singapore
[phone]
Singapore


Switzerland
-----------

Alex Wyss
Gepard's Oracle Zuerich
[phone]
Switzerland

Michael Buenter
MICS OS/2 Paradise
[phone]
Switzerland

Ernesto Hagmann
PC-Info
[phone]
Switzerland


United Kingdom
--------------

Mike Gove
MonuSci BBS
[phone]
United Kingdom

Phil Tuck
The TJD Support BBS
[phone]
United Kingdom


Arizona
-------

Mike Mahoney
Emerald Isle, The
[phone]
Arizona

Frank Ward
Encounter, The
[phone]
Arizona


California
----------

Patrick O'Riva
AsmLang and OS/2
[phone]
California

Michael Cummings
Zzyzx Road OS/2 BBS
[phone]
El Cajon, California

Craig Swanson
OS/2 Connection
[phone]
San Diego, California

Chuck Gilmore
Magnum BBS
[phone]
California

Michael Nelson
SeaHunt BBS
[phone]
California

Michael Nelson
SeaHunt BBS
[phone]
California


Colorado
--------

William Herrera
Cuerna Verde
[phone]
Colorado

Randy Edwards
Socialism OnLine!
[phone]
Colorado

OS/2 BBS
Denver
[phone]
Colorado

OS/2 Source
Denver
[phone]
Colorado


Connecticut
-----------

Chris Regan
Storm Front - OS/2, The
[phone]
Connecticut

Felix Tang
Excelsior, The
[phone]
Connecticut

Emmitt Dove
Fernwood
[phone]
Connecticut

Steve Lesner
Bullet BBS
[phone]
Connecticut

Steve Lesner
Bullet BBS
[phone]
Connecticut

Rob Schmaling
Caladan
[phone]
Connecticut

Don Dawson
Treasure Island
[phone]
Connecticut

Bob Morris
Ascii Neighborhood
[phone]
Connecticut

Bob Morris
Ascii Neighborhood
[phone]
Connecticut


Deleware
--------

John Tarbox
Singer Bear BBS
[phone]
Deleware

Scott Street
Space Station Alpha
[phone]
Deleware


Florida
-------

Mark Wheeler
SandDollar, The
[phone]
Florida

Rusty Plant
The 19th Hole
[phone]
Pensacola, Florida

Don Bauer
OS2 Exchange
[phone]
Florida

Chris Wolcott
The Outer Limits
[phone]
Gulf Breeze, Florida

Kathy Todd
The Apothecary's Archives
[phone]
Gulf Breeze, Florida

Richard Todd
The Disintegrated Circuit OS/2
[phone]
Gulf Breeze, Florida


Georgia
-------

IBM
IBM National Support Ce
[phone]
Georgia

IBM
IBM National Support Ce
[phone]
Georgia

Ed June
Information Overload
[phone]
Georgia


Hawaii
------

Craig Oshiro
Ghostcomm Image Gallery
[phone]
Hawaii


Illinois
--------

Bill Cook
GREATER CHICAGO Online!
[phone]
Illinois

Bogie Bugsalewicz
I CAN! BBS
[phone]
Illinois


Indiana
-------

Mike Phillips
Catacombs, The
[phone]
Indiana

Jay Tipton
Play Board, The
[phone]
Indiana


Kansas
------

Troy Majors
Byte Bus, The
[phone]
Kansas


Louisiana
---------

Stan Brohn
HelpNet of Baton Rouge
[phone]
Louisiana

Jim Sterrett
Padded Cell BBS, The
[phone]
Louisiana


Maryland
--------

James Chance
Last Relay, The
[phone]
Maryland


Michigan
--------

Dave Shoff
Cornerstone BBS, The
[phone]
Michigan


Minnesota
---------

Brady Flowers
Oberon Software
[phone]
Minnesota


Missouri
--------

Woody Sturges
OS/2 Woodmeister, The
[phone]
Missouri


New Jersey
----------

Bob Germer
Capital City BBS
[phone]
New Jersey

Mike Fuchs
Dog's Breakfast, The
[phone]
New Jersey


Nevada
------

Kerry Flint
Caddis OS/2 BBS
[phone]
Nevada

Dennis Conley
Communitel OS/2 BBS
[phone]
Nevada


New York
--------

Mikel Beck
Kind Diamond's Realm
[phone]
New York


North Carolina
--------------

Thomas Bradford
Backdoor BBS
[phone]
North Carolina

Richard Lee
Psychotronic BBS
[phone]
North Carolina


Ohio
----

Mark Lehrer
Akron Anomoly, The
[phone]
Ohio


Oklahoma
--------

Bill Schnell
Asylum BBS, The
[phone]
Oklahoma

Scott Dickason
BBS/2
[phone]
Oklahoma


Oregon
------

Bill Taylor
Integrated Media Servic
[phone]
Oregon
------

Paul Breedlove
Multi-Net
[phone]
Oregon


Pennsylvania
------------

Louis F. Ursini
Quantum Leap
[phone]
Pennsylvania

Ed Barboni
System-2 RBBS
[phone]
Pennsylvania


South Carolina
--------------

Paul Beverly
PMSC OnLine Resource
[phone]
South Carolina


Tennessee
---------

Operand BBS
Lonnie Wall
[phone]
Tennessee

Edward Owens
Looking Glass, The
[phone]
Tennessee


Texas
-----

Robert McA
Live-Wire
[phone]
Texas

Doug Palmer
Rock BBS, The
[phone]
Texas

David Dozier
Roach Coach, The
[phone]
Texas

Ken Rucker
RucK's Place/2
[phone]
Texas


Virginia
--------

Pete Norloff
OS/2 Shareware
[phone]
Virginia

Pete Norloff
OS/2 Shareware
[phone]
Virginia

Bill Andrus
Systems Exchange, The
[phone]
Virginia

Joe Salemi
Max's Doghouse
[phone]
Virginia


Washington
----------

Adolph Weidanz
The Gold Pegasus BBS
Running Maximus/Binkley using OS/2 Versions
[phone]
Fidonet: 1:350/35
Eznet: 255:1206/101 and 0
Bremerton, Washington

LeRoy DeVries
Sno-Valley Software Exc
[phone]
Washington

Rodney Lorimor
Gecko Control
[phone]
Washington

Todd Riches
Alternate Reality
[phone]
Washington



OS/2 User Group Directory
=========================

This OS/2 User Group listing is provided courtesy of David Sichak, Editor
of the San Diego Users Group Newsletter. Thanks David!

User Group Introduction
-----------------------

We try to list known OS/2 User Groups whenever we get the information.
Of course, we can't be responsible if the information proves to be
unreliable -- you, the reader are our best source of this information.

And we're learning of more and more OS/2 user groups across the
country and even around the world every week.  It's been slow, but we
have made some contacts and we may be able to exchange information and
articles in the future.  If you're travelling and have some free
time, stop in on one these meetings.  If you know of another OS/2
user group, drop us a line and we'll mention them.  Remember, we'll
list them all in the INF file each time.  And thanks!

Australia - Glen Waverly
------------------------

Victorian OS/2 Developers SIG
Contact:  Jon Wright
5 Brighton Street
Glen Waverly, Victoria 3150
Australia
CompuServe:  100032,776


Ontario - Bailieboro
--------------------

Kawartha Computer Club
Contact:  Cedric Silvester
RR #1
Bailieboro, Ontario
Canada KOL 1B0
Note:  OS/2 SIG is part of the KCC
Phone: BBS -- [phone]


Quebec - Montreal
-----------------

Montreal OS/2 Users Group
Contact:  Gilbert Lefebvre
IBM Tower
10214 Peloquin Avenue
Montreal, QC
H2C 2J8
Canada
Meets:  7:00pm, 3rd Wednesday
Phone:  Voice -- [phone] (evenings)
Netmail:  Programmer's Quest 1:167/110


The Montreal OS/2 Users Group held their first meeting on February
17.  Gilbert reported that their first meeting had over 70 persons
in attendance.  They're real happy to see the interest in OS/2.
Please note that this group does not expect to meet during June,
July and August.

Saskatchewan - Regina
---------------------

Regina Saskatchewan OS/2 User Group
Contact:  Robert Shiplett
Cooperators
1920 College Avenue 5W
Regina, Saskatchewan  S4P 1C4
Canada


United Kingdom - Gloucestershire
--------------------------------

International OS/2 User Group
Contact:  Mike Gove
Barton House
Cirencester
Gloucestershire  GL7 2EE
UK
Phone: - [phone]
Phone: - [phone] (FAX)
Phone: - (UK) 0285-641175
Note: - Also home to OS/2 Solution Centre


South Africa
------------

OS/2 User Group of South Aftrica
P.O. Box 875
Halfway House
1685  South Africa


Sweden
------

Swedish OS/2 Users Group
The Cruiser BBS, [phone]


California - Fresno
-------------------

Fresno OS/2 SIG
(Fresno PC Users Group)
Contact:  Sandeleh Francis [phone]
Contact:  Rod Jessen [phone]
Meetings at:
1425 Shirley Circle
Clovis, CA  93611
Meets:  7:30pm, last Monday
Phone BBS -- Wild Side BBS [phone]
Phone BBS -- Clovis Connection  [phone]


They are a part of the Fresno PC Users group which meets
the first Monday of the month at the Ramada Inn at Hwy 41 and Shaw
Avenue in Fresno at 7:30pm.

California - Huntington Beach
-----------------------------

Orange Coast IBM PC Users Group
OS/2 SIG
Contact:  Dave Lorenzini
17632 Metzler Lane, Suite 211
Huntington Beach, CA


California - Los Angeles
------------------------

Los Angeles OS/2 Users Group
Contact:  Paul Duncanson
3008 Texas Avenue
Simi Valley, CA  93063
Phone:  [phone]
Meets:  3rd Thursday @ 6:30pm
IBM
21041 Burbank Boulevard
Woodland Hills, CA


California - Sacramento
-----------------------

Sacramento OS/2 Users Group
Contact:  Charlie Kotan
IBM
400 Capitol Mall
Sacramento, CA
Meets:  First Wednesday @ 7:00pm
Phone: - [phone]
CompuServe - 70110,254


California - San Diego
----------------------

San Diego OS/2 User Group
Contact - Craig Swanson
P.O. Box 13346
La Jolla, CA  92039-3346
Meets - 7pm on 3rd Thursday
Meets at -- IBM @ LaJolla
8845 University Center Lane
San Diego, CA  92122
Phone - Voice -- [phone]
Phone - BBS   -- [phone]


The San Diego OS/2 User Group has participated in the San Diego
Computer Fair in which over 18,000 people attended over a three day
weekend last September.  This group has started an OS/2 newsletter
with the goal of providing information to not only OS/2 users but also
to others who are interested in learning more.  Our aim is to also
develop the newsletter so that it becomes a community effort among the
OS/2 user groups and SIGs.

Past meeting topics have included presentations by IBM's Ultimedia for
OS/2; Lotus demonstrating beta versions of 1-2-3 and Freelance
Graphics for OS/2; an introduction to REXX, demo of the
December OS/2 2.1 beta along with Visual REXX; Eddie
Miller, one of the authors of "OS/2 2.1 Unleashed"
sharing insights into the OS/2 mini-applets; and, local OS/2
developer Jeannine Wolf discussing the OS/2 Config.SYS
file and providing tips.

California - San Francisco
--------------------------

Bay Area OS/2 User Group
Contact - Guy Scharf
Software Architects, Inc.
2163 Jardin Drive
Mountain View, CA  94040
Meets -  4th Monday @ at IBM Mountain View
Phone -  Voice -- [phone]


Connecticut - Enfield
---------------------

New England OS/2 User Group
Contact:  Dave Pinard
145 Candlewood Drive
Enfield, CT  06082
Phone: Voice -- [phone]
Phone: BBS -- [phone]


Connecticut - Darien
--------------------

Darien OS/2 Users Group
Contact:  Steven J. Palmer
75 Rings End Road
Darien, CT  06820


Delaware - Wilmington
---------------------

Delaware Valley OS/2 Users Group
Contact:  Chuck Gaglia
1120 Webster Drive
Wilmington, DE  19803


Florida - Boca Raton
--------------------

OS/2 Users Group of Boca Raton
Contact:  Doug Azzarito
Meets at:
PC Systems Store
2855 S. Congress Avenue
Delray Beach, FL
Meets on 2nd Thursday of the month at 7pm
Phone:  BBS -- [phone]
Phone:  Voice -- [phone]


Florida - Tampa Bay
-------------------

Tampa Bay OS/2 User Group
Contact:  Paul Wylie
M. Bryce & Associates, Inc.
777 Alderman Road
Palm Harbor, FL  34683
Phone: Voice - [phone]
Phone: FAX -- [phone]
Meets: - 1st Tuesday @ 3:00pm.
Meets at:
IBM
3109 W. Martin Luther King, Jr. Boulevard
4th Floor
Tampa, FL


Illinois - Chicago
------------------

North Suburban Chicago OS/2 User Group
Contact - James R. Schmidt
Meets - William M. Mercer, Inc.
1417 Lake Cook Rd.
Deerfield, IL  60015
Meets - 5.30pm Tues preceding 3rd Thurs.
Phone - Voice -- [phone]


Indiana - Fort Wayne
--------------------

Fort Wayne OS/2 User Group
Contact - Stephen Gutknecht
Fort Wayne, Indiana
Meets -  Central Soya on Cook Rd.
Meets -  7pm, 2nd Tuesday
Phone -  Voice -- [phone] (Bus. Hrs.)
Phone -   BBS  -- [phone]


Indiana - Indianapolis
----------------------

Indy OS/2 Users Group
Contact:  Jay Schultz
350 E. New york Suite 300
Indianapolis, IN  46204
Phone: Voice - [phone]


Louisiana - Baton Rouge
-----------------------

Baton Rouge OS/2 users Group
Contact:  David Arbour
16726 Bristoe Avnue
Baton Rouge, LA  70816
Phone: - [phone]


Massachusetts - Boston
----------------------

Boston Area OS/2 User's Group
(BCS)
Contact:  Marcia Gulesian [phone]
Meetings at:
IBM Boston Computer Center
One Copley Place
Boston, MA
Meets:  7:00pm, first Tuesday


Meeting location is near Back Bay and Copley train stations.  From
the Mass. Turnpike East, exit 22 (Copley Square Lane) - first left
onto Dartmouth St.  Next left onto Huntington Ave.  Enter COPLEY
PLACE PARKING on left.  Parking is free when you spend $5 and have
your parking ticket validated in any restaurant or store at Copley
Place and enter the garage after 5:00pm.

Michigan - Grand Rapids
-----------------------

West Michigan OS/2 User Group
IBM
2900 Charlevoix Dr. SE
Grand Rapids, MI


Minnesota - Minneapolis
-----------------------

Minnesota OS/2 User Group
Contact:  Marcus Krumpholz
IBM Building
650 Third Avenue South
Minneapolis, MN
Meets last Thursday each month
7:00pm - 10:00pm
Voice:  [phone]
BBS: [phone]


ISV's wishing to do a presentation can contact Marcus Krumpholz at
[phone].  Registrations for meetings are requested and can
be done by calling [phone] and then asking for course code
"OS2".  The IBM building is shared with First Bank on Third Avenue
south between South Sixth Street and South Seventh Street.  Parking
is recommended at Northstar Center (1 block west), Pillsbury Center
(1.5 blocks north), Hennepin County Government Center (diagonally
across street) and Court Park (2 blocks north).

Nebraska - Omaha
----------------

Omaha OS/2 Users Group
Contact:  Joe Peterson
7724 Fort St.
Omaha, NE  68134


New Jersey - West Orange
------------------------

Northern New Jersey OS/2 Users Group
Contact:  Jason H. Perlow [phone]
Meetings at:  IBM
300 Executive Drive
West Orange, NJ
Meets:  7:00pm, second Tuesday
INFO:  Phone:  [phone]


This group is affiliated with the Westchester OS/2 Users Group.

New York - Westchester
----------------------

Westchester OS/2 Users Group
Contact:  Craig Smith [phone]
Meetings at:
IBM
2000 Purchase Street
Purchase, NY
Meets:  7:00pm, second Tuesday
INFO:  Phone:  [phone]


Westchester was instrumental in getting IBM's OS/2 featured on the
PBS Computer Chronicles show in March.

North Carolina - Durham
-----------------------

Triangle OS/2 User Group
Contact -- Steve Gallagher
IBM Building
4800 Falls of The Neuse Road
Room 5074
Durham, North Carolina
Meets --  7.30pm, 3rd Tuesday
Phone --  Voice -- [phone]
Internet --  [e-mail]


Ohio - Akron
------------

Northeast Ohio OS/2 User Group
IBM
3 Cascade Plaza
Akron, Ohio
Contact:  Gary Smiley
Phone:  [phone]
CompuServe:  75600,1737


Ohio - Cleveland
----------------

Cleveland OS/2 User Group
IBM
Bond Ct. Building
2nd Fl
E. 9th St.
Cleveland, Ohio


Pennsylvania - Erie
-------------------

Computer Users of Erie
OS/2 SIG
Contact:  Tom Kuklinski
3928 Sassafras Street
Erie, PA  16508
Phone:  [phone]
Phone:  [phone]


Tennessee - Knoxville
---------------------

East Tennessee PC User Group
OS/2 SIG
Contact:  Arnold Sprague
808 Fairfield Drive
Knoxville, TN  37919-4109


Texas - Dallas - Fort Worth
---------------------------

Dallas-Forth Worth OS/2 User Group
Contact -  Toby Pennycuff
CompuServe ID -  70007,6267
1211 Wilshire Blvd.
Arlington, TX  76012-4623

Meets at:
American Airlines HQ
4255 Amon Carter Blvd.
Arlington, TX
Meetings - Time and dates not listed.


Wisconsin - Madison
-------------------

Madison OS/2 Users Group
Contact&olon.  Tom Ender or Donn Tolley
2703 Rolling View Rd.
Stoughton, WI  53589-3386


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 └─────────────────┴─────────────────────────────────┴─────────────────────────────────┘

 About electronic mailing lists.
 Electronic "mailing lists" are large group discussions held via electronic mail (e-mail). These lists require that you have
 either BITNET or Internet e-mail access (which one depends on the particular list). Generally the list works by receiving
 mail from a list participant, and then sending a copy of that message to all the people subscribed to the list. On very
 active mailing lists this can result in a deluge of e-mail. Some lists avoid this problem by having "digests", where each
 day all the messages sent to the list are saved and then sent out in a single large piece of e-mail at night. Generally
 a mailing list has two e-mail addresses: the mailing list proper, and an administrative address to handle subscriptions
 and cancellations. Never send requests to subscribe or unsubscribe to the main address unless you can find no other
 way to bring your problem to attention.

 For more information, please ask you site administrator or sysop.


OS/2 related FTP sites:
----------------------

 ┌──────────────────────────┬─────────────────┬─────────────────────────────────┐
 │NAME:                     │IP ADDRESS:      │Directory & Notes:               │
 ├──────────────────────────┼─────────────────┼─────────────────────────────────┤
 │ftp-os2.nmsu.edu          │128.123.35.151   │/os2 (mirror of cdrom.com)       │
 ├──────────────────────────┼─────────────────┼─────────────────────────────────┤
 │ftp-os2.cdrom.com         │192.153.46.69    │/os2 (mirror of ftp-os2.nmsu.edu)│
 ├──────────────────────────┼─────────────────┼─────────────────────────────────┤
 │software.watson.ibm.com   │129.34.139.5     │/pub/os2                         │
 ├──────────────────────────┼─────────────────┼─────────────────────────────────┤
 │mtsg.ubc.ca               │137.82.27.1      │/os2                             │
 ├──────────────────────────┼─────────────────┼─────────────────────────────────┤
 │luga.latrobe.edu.au       │131.172.2.2      │/pub/os2 (mirror of cdrom.com)   │
 ├──────────────────────────┼─────────────────┼─────────────────────────────────┤
 │msdos.archive.umich.edu   │141.211.32.2     │/msdos/os2                       │
 ├──────────────────────────┼─────────────────┼─────────────────────────────────┤
 │funic.funet.fi            │128.214.6.100    │/pub/os2                         │
 ├──────────────────────────┼─────────────────┼─────────────────────────────────┤
 │ftp.ieee.org              │140.98.1.1       │/pub/fidonet/os2                 │
 ├──────────────────────────┼─────────────────┼─────────────────────────────────┤
 │boombox.micro.umn.edu     │134.84.132.2     │/pub/gopher/os2                  │
 ├──────────────────────────┼─────────────────┼─────────────────────────────────┤
 │ftp.3com.com              │129.213.128.5    │/adaptors/drivers                │
 ├──────────────────────────┼─────────────────┼─────────────────────────────────┤
 │ftp.germany.eu.net        │192.76.144.75    │/pub/comp/os2                    │
 ├──────────────────────────┼─────────────────┼─────────────────────────────────┤
 │ftp.luth.se               │130.240.18.2     │/pub/pc/os2                      │
 ├──────────────────────────┼─────────────────┼─────────────────────────────────┤
 │ftp.uni-kl.de             │131.246.9.95     │/pub/pc/os2                      │
 ├──────────────────────────┼─────────────────┼─────────────────────────────────┤
 │ftp.uni-stuttgart.de      │129.69.1.12      │/pub/soft/os2                    │
 ├──────────────────────────┼─────────────────┼─────────────────────────────────┤
 │ftp.usask.ca              │128.233.3.1      │/pub/archives/os2                │
 ├──────────────────────────┼─────────────────┼─────────────────────────────────┤
 │ifcss.org                 │129.107.1.155    │/software/os2                    │
 ├──────────────────────────┼─────────────────┼─────────────────────────────────┤
 │luga.latrobe.edu.au       │131.172.2.2      │/pub/os2                         │
 ├──────────────────────────┼─────────────────┼─────────────────────────────────┤
 │ma2s2.mathematik.uni-karls│129.13.115.2     │/pub/lisp/clisp/os2              │
 ├──────────────────────────┼─────────────────┼─────────────────────────────────┤
 │mcafee.com                │192.187.128.1    │/pub/antivirus                   │
 ├──────────────────────────┼─────────────────┼─────────────────────────────────┤
 │mtsg.ubc.ca               │137.82.27.1      │/os2                             │
 ├──────────────────────────┼─────────────────┼─────────────────────────────────┤
 │nic.switch.ch             │130.59.1.40      │/mirrors/os2                     │
 ├──────────────────────────┼─────────────────┼─────────────────────────────────┤
 │novell.com                │137.65.4.1       │/netwire/novfiles/client.kit/os2 │
 ├──────────────────────────┼─────────────────┼─────────────────────────────────┤
 │plaza.aarnet.edu.au       │139.130.4.6      │/micros/os2                      │
 ├──────────────────────────┼─────────────────┼─────────────────────────────────┤
 │rhino.microsoft.com       │131.107.1.121    │/LANMan/OS2xBeta                 │
 ├──────────────────────────┼─────────────────┼─────────────────────────────────┤
 │rs3.hrz.th-darmstadt.de   │130.83.55.75     │/pub/machines/os2                │
 ├──────────────────────────┼─────────────────┼─────────────────────────────────┤
 │software.watson.ibm.com   │129.34.139.5     │/pub/os2                         │
 ├──────────────────────────┼─────────────────┼─────────────────────────────────┤
 │sprite.cica.indiana.edu   │129.79.26.102    │/pub/pc/borland/c/os2            │
 ├──────────────────────────┼─────────────────┼─────────────────────────────────┤
 │src.doc.ic.ac.uk          │146.169.2.1      │/computing/systems/os2           │
 ├──────────────────────────┼─────────────────┼─────────────────────────────────┤
 │sun0.urz.uni-heidelberg.de│129.206.100.126  │/pub/os2                         │
 ├──────────────────────────┼─────────────────┼─────────────────────────────────┤
 │tethys.rz.uni-osnabrueck.d│131.173.17.10    │/pub/os2                         │
 ├──────────────────────────┼─────────────────┼─────────────────────────────────┤
 │world.std.com             │192.74.137.5     │/src/os2                         │
 └──────────────────────────┴─────────────────┴─────────────────────────────────┘

 Other FTP sites of interest

 ┌──────────────────────────┬─────────────────┬─────────────────────────────────┐
 │NAME:                     │IP ADDRESS:      │NOTES:                           │
 ├──────────────────────────┼─────────────────┼─────────────────────────────────┤
 │rtfm.mit.edu              │18.70.0.226      │FAQ lists                        │
 ├──────────────────────────┼─────────────────┼─────────────────────────────────┤
 │cs.uwp.edu                │131.210.1.4      │Music related stuff              │
 ├──────────────────────────┼─────────────────┼─────────────────────────────────┤
 │wuarchive.wustl.edu       │128.252.135.4    │Lots of other stuff              │
 ├──────────────────────────┼─────────────────┼─────────────────────────────────┤
 │saffron.inset.com         │192.94.75.2      │Sounds (various formats)         │
 ├──────────────────────────┼─────────────────┼─────────────────────────────────┤
 │sounds.sdsu.edu           │130.191.224.2    │Sounds (.au format)              │
 ├──────────────────────────┼─────────────────┼─────────────────────────────────┤
 │watsun.cc.columbia.edu    │128.59.39.2      │/kermit/b                        │
 ├──────────────────────────┼─────────────────┼─────────────────────────────────┤
 │prep.ai.mit.edu           │18.71.0.38       │/pub/gnu                         │
 ├──────────────────────────┼─────────────────┼─────────────────────────────────┤
 │ftp.uu.net                │192.48.96.2      │/usenet  (e.g.)                  │
 └──────────────────────────┴─────────────────┴─────────────────────────────────┘

 About FTP.
 FTP stands for "File Transfer Protocol" and is the standard protocol on the Internet for transfering files. With a fast,
 direct internet connection, download speeds can approach 32Kbs under light network load. The sites listed allow
 "anonymous" logons. When prompted for a User name when logging in, enter ANONYMOUS and then enter your e-mail
 address as your password. This assists the administators at the remote site in tracking usage of the site.

 Don't forget that you're downloading from someone else's computer, someone who has to pay for and use that
 computer. Given the global reach of the internet, even though you may be downloading at 4am, it could be noon at the
 site you're downloading from. To avoid putting more of a load on a machine someone may depend on for work during
 the day, try to only download sometime other than 9-5, remote time.

 The last couple of letters in the remote sites address can help you determine where your downloading from. The last 2
 to 3 letters indicate the location of the site:

      .de  Germany
      .au  Australia
      .ca  Canada
      .fi  Finland
      .uk  United Kingdom



NNTP usenet servers:
-------------------
 ┌────────────────────────┬─────────────────┬────────────────────────────────┐
 │NAME:                   │IP ADDRESS:      │NOTES:                          │
 ├────────────────────────┼─────────────────┼────────────────────────────────┤
 │mont.cs.missouri.edu    │128.206.100.208  │Local to University of Missouri │
 ├────────────────────────┼─────────────────┼────────────────────────────────┤
 │sol.ctr.columbia.edu    │128.59.64.40     │Huge place. Takes a long time   │
 ├────────────────────────┼─────────────────┼────────────────────────────────┤
 │umd5.umd.edu            │128.8.10.5       │No posting allowed as guest     │
 ├────────────────────────┼─────────────────┼────────────────────────────────┤
 │raven.alaska.edu        │137.229.10.39    │No posting allowed as guest     │
 └────────────────────────┴─────────────────┴────────────────────────────────┘

 These OS/2 newsgroups are available:

 comp.os.os2.multimedia
 For information on OS/2 multimedia features, including MMPM/2 and Ultimotion.

 comp.os.os2.setup
 For all questions relating to setup, installation, and driver support under OS/2.

 comp.os.os2.bugs
 For the discussion and reporting of OS/2 bugs (flaws).

 comp.os.os2.advocacy
 For the discussion of OS/2 compared with other products, marketing, and "politics."

 comp.os.os2.networking
 For any OS/2 questions dealing with networking.

 comp.os.os2.ver1x
 For any OS/2 questions dealing with OS/2 versions prior to OS/2 2.0.

 comp.os.os2.programmer.porting
 For talk about porting software from other environments to OS/2.

 comp.os.os2.programmer.misc
 For discussion of any other OS/2 programming issues.

 comp.os.os2.apps
 Discusses DOS, Windows, and OS/2 applications running under OS/2.

 comp.os.os2.announce
 Carries important OS/2 announcements.  This newsgroup is moderated -- you cannot ask a question here.

 comp.binaries.os2
 If you do not have ftp access you can obtain OS/2 software using this newsgroup.  This newsgroup is also
 moderated.

 comp.os.os2.beta
 For discussion of beta releases of OS/2 (versions of OS/2 that are released for testing purposes by IBM and that
 you cannot buy in stores).

 comp.os.os2.misc
 For general OS/2 discussion. Post here only if none of the above categories fits.


From the Wire
=============
A selection of messages about OS/2 seen fleeting across the wires on
Fidonet and Internet.

Demand ProComm for OS/2!
------------------------
From the Fidonet OS2 conference

From: Woody Sturges
Subj: ProComm for OS/2!

Our OS/2 user group met yesterday and we had a couple of
the staff from Datastorm tech support, makers of ProComm
Plus, talk to us about running PC+/DOS and PC+/Win under
OS/2.

Of course, talk came around an OS/2 version of ProComm.
Datastorm, like most companies, is market driven.  The
gentlemen said that if enough people were to ask for it, it
would get done.

Now's your chance!  They acknowledged that they're listening, all we have
to do is let them know that we're out here.  Here's how you
can contact Datastorm and let them you would like to see an
OS/2 version of PC+.  Feel free to mention specifics!
Character mode?  Presentation manager?  Special features?
Leave a note, fax, or call the numbers below!

  Compuserve, GO DSTORM, Leave a message to 72250,3463 (David Irovic)
  Tech Support, Voice [phone]
  Tech Support, Fax [phone]


More on Stacker for OS/2 fix
----------------------------
From the OS/2 Woodmeister Public Message area.

From: Phillip Wilson

I found this on CIS regarding the fixes for Stacker for
OS/2:

    Sb: STAC Patch
    Fm: Stac Electronics 75300,2755
    To: ALL

    All,

    To determine if you need the Patch for Stacker for OS/2 use the
    following.

    If your Serial number has 1AH or 1BH then you should request
    the patch by PRIVATE MAIL to ROGER HICKS 74250,1407.
    Include your Serial number in the request.  Any requests
    without serial numbers will be rejected.

    If your Serial number has 1CH in it then you already have
    the patch.

    Hope this helps

    STAC Product Support


OS/2 vs. NT Revisited
---------------------
From the Fidonet TEAM-OS2 conference.

From: Pete Norloff
Subj: OS/2 still without competition

Recently I had the privilege of attending a head-to-head
demonstration of OS/2 2.1 and Windows NT.  While the demo probably
didn't contain the same level of excitement of the shoot-out done
recently for the Houston PC User Group, it was an excellent
demonstration of the state of the two products.

Since I'm already fairly familiar with OS/2 and content with the
features and function of the operating system, I felt that it was
important to familiarize myself with the new release from
Microsoft.  If nothing else, NT will serve to give IBM some
competition in the operating system business and hopefully cause
those responsible for OS/2 to continue to advance the feature set.

The presentation was sponsored by Bohdan Associates Inc. and
held in a Bethesda, Maryland hotel.  Both IBM and Microsoft were
given an hour for their presentation followed by a half hour
question and answer session.  OS/2 was presented very well and most
of the audience seemed to be reasonably familiar with the product.

I made notes during the Microsoft part of the presentation.
This is a condensation of those notes.

The Microsoft presenter seemed to be reasonably familiar with
the product and seemed to be giving us a pitch somewhere between
an honest tour of the features and a snake oil sales job.

We were told that "NT is Windows" and that because of that there
will be no learning curve.  I suspect that we'll be hearing a lot
more of this selling point in the future.  The salesman described
NT as "having everything that is in Windows 3.1" and used this as
the justification for trying to convince us that Windows NT 1.0 is
really version 3.1.

If you haven't done so yet, you really need to have a look at
the document "Windows NT and OS/2 2.1: The advantages of Windows
NT for Today's Client-Server Computing" and the subsequent rebuttal
document from IBM entitled "IBM PSP Rebuttal to the Microsoft
Document Windows NT and OS/2 2.1...". {EDITOR'S NOTE: See the August
1993 issue of the MMOUG Newsletter for the IBM PSP Rebuttal}
With these two documents, you begin to get a flavor for the truth
stretching that Microsoft seems inclined to try to foist off on us.
It was surely in this same spirit of "lie and hope no one notices"
that the MS salesman began telling us that the "majority of OS/2 apps
today are character based apps".

On the subject of native NT applications, we were told that
there are currently 1200 ports from 16 bit Windows and that 3600
new applications were currently being developed from scratch.  Of
these 3600, 2300 were "in house, business-specific apps."

As a part of the demo, the MS salesman started trying to bring
up SQL Server for NT.  As the software package displayed the same
error messages several times and seemed to be bringing the machine
to a standstill, another participant asked if NT was available now
and if what we were looking at was the generally available code.
We were assured that NT had "shipped" to manufacturing and that we
were indeed seeing the final version of Windows NT Advanced Server.
As the MS rep finally gave up on showing SQL Server, he told us
that "with SQL Server running, is has a tendency to completely take
over the machine".  Someone asked a few moments later what level
of machine he was demoing on we were informed that this was a
486/33 with 24 MB of memory.

"The target for NT is Client-Server."

"C2 security cannot be shut off."  NT is "C2 certifiable" -- not
certified.  someday, maybe.

We saw Intergraph demoed.  It was painfully slow.  There's no
way anyone would have wanted to run this package on this platform.
The MS rep told us it "runs much better on a RISC machine".  I
certainly hope so.

The question came up again later when NT started faltering again
about the code we were actually seeing and this time we were told
that this was not the final version of NT but rather a late beta.
Quite a number of attendees started murmuring at this point because
this was a direct contradiction of the MS rep's earlier declaration
that this was final, shipping code that we were seeing.  "Lie and
hope no one notices."

At the end of the MS presentation, during the question and
answer session for both reps, an attendee stood up and asked the
MS rep how long he was going to be made to wait for an object
oriented user interface from Microsoft.  The rep told him that it
wouldn't be here until some time in 1994 and he even hedged on his
response that far in the future.  He mentioned that the future
offerings, whenever they arrive, will be based to some degree on
Microsoft's OLE 2.0, etc.  There was a long pause and the IBM rep
simply said "and if you'd like to have all that now...".  The
audience erupted in applause.


MMOUG mailbag
=============
Mail sent to us about the User Group and what we're doing.

Marc Clemente
-------------

Date: Sun, 25 Jul 1993 11:20 CST
From: "MARC F. CLEMENTE" <[e-mail]>
Subject: MMOUG
To: [e-mail]

Hi.  I heard about the MMOUG.  I was wondering if you could give me a
bit of information on it.  What is it?  When is the next meetingg, and
where?  What do I have to do to be a member?  What do I get for becoming
a member?

As you can see from my internet address, I am (relatively) close, and
I am interested in what you guys are doing.

Thank you,

Marc


Date:         Sun, 25 Jul 93 13:37:52 CDT
From:         Dale Hackemeyer <UC545502@MIZZOU1>
Organization: University of Missouri at Columbia
Subject:      Re: MMOUG
To:           "MARC F. CLEMENTE" <[e-mail]>
In-Reply-To:  Your message of Sun, 25 Jul 1993 11:20 CST


On Sun, 25 Jul 1993 11:20 CST you said:
>Hi.  I heard about the MMOUG.  I was wondering if you could give me a
>bit of information on it.  What is it?  When is the next meetingg, and
>where?  What do I have to do to be a member?  What do I get for becoming
>a member?
>


We're a non-profit group dedicated to supporting all users of OS/2. We meet
on the third Wednesday of each month at 4:00pm, meeting at the Columbia
IBM office on even months and at the Jefferson City IBM office on odd months.
Everyone is welcome to attend our meetings, and a $30 check entitles you
to a one year membership. Right now joining nets you a OS/2 2.0 Birthday
T-shirt and 1hr / 1meg a day on our BBS, currently the OS/2 Woodmeister,
which carries all the Fidonet OS/2 conferences, as well as an extensive
OS/2 file collection. We also are putting out a newsletter in .INF format
for viewing under OS/2. We currently don't have a printed newsletter to
help keep costs down, however we voted at the last meeting to start sending
out either a postcard or a single letter sized bulletin to all members.
We've also been having giveaways at the meetings which only members are
eligible to win. So far we've given away PMFOCUS, Stacker for OS/2 and DOS,
OS/2 2.1 Unleashed, World Atlas CDROM, OS/2 2.0, and other assorted OS/2
books and promo items.

We're currently working on setting up a point BBS in Jefferson City that
mirrors the Woodmeister (located in Columbia) so our Jeff City members
don't have to make long distance calls.

We had our first meeting in April with an OS/2 2.0 birthday party, as well
as laying some groundwork for the group with the election of officers,
deciding meeting times, etc.

At the May meeting a reprensentative of Information Builders demoed PMFOCUS,
a PM application for building interactive database applications.

At the June Meeting a representative of DeScribe Corporation demoed their
premier OS/2 word processor, DeScribe 4.0.

At the July meeting, Ben Hoffman, one of the local higher-ups in IBM
Personal Software Products gave a talk on OS/2 and PSP in general.

Coming up at the August meeting we'll have a member of Datastorm's
Technical Support team coming in to give tips on running Procomm for
DOS or Windows run well under OS/2. We'll also be having a demo of
Offline Mail readers for OS/2, and rumor has it we'll be giving away
a copy of Lotus 123 for OS/2.


>As you can see from my internet address, I am (relatively) close, and
>I am interested in what you guys are doing.


It's good to hear from you and to know the word is getting out that we're
here. If you haven't seen our newsletter, try ftp'ing to ftp-os2.cdrom.com
and look in /pub/os2/2_x/info/newsltr for the June newsletter and in
/pub/os2/incoming for the July issue. The files are MM0693.ZIP and MM0793.ZIP.

If your ever around Columbia or Jeff City on the 3rd Wednesday of the month,
feel free to drop in and join us!

Dale Hackemeyer


Mat Kramer
----------

From: Mat Kramer <[e-mail]>
To: Dale Hackenmeyer <[e-mail]>
Subject: Hi from Minnesota

Hi Dale,

I was looking at your MMOUG newsletter (INF version), and I just thought I'd
connect, since I do the Minnesota OS/2 User Group newsletter (Threads).  Your
INF newsletter looks really nice -- do you have a hardcopy version?  We have
a hardcopy version done with DeScribe, and I'm in the process of writing
macros to help me in the conversion from DeScribe to IPF.  Do you have any of
that process automated?

We currently have only been putting the DeScribe version online, but as of
the coming month, I"m going to take charge of the distribution, and I'll put a
TXT version out there along with an INF, if I get it done.

Also, do you have any policy for re-use of your articles?  We would
occasionally like to re-publish your articles is that would be OK with you.
Of course, you could then do the same.

Hope to hear from you later,


Mat Kramer, MekTek


Date:         Thu, 05 Aug 93 11:16:43 CDT
From:         Dale Hackemeyer <UC545502@MIZZOU1>
Organization: University of Missouri at Columbia
Subject:      Re: Hi from Minnesota
To:           Mat Kramer <[e-mail]>
In-Reply-To:  Your message of 03 Aug 93 20:35:44 EDT

On 03 Aug 93 20:35:44 EDT you said:
>I was looking at your MMOUG newsletter (INF version), and I just thought I'd
>connect, since I do the Minnesota OS/2 User Group newsletter (Threads).  Your
>INF newsletter looks really nice -- do you have a hardcopy version?  We have
>a hardcopy version done with DeScribe, and I'm in the process of writing
>macros to help me in the conversion from DeScribe to IPF.  Do you have any of
>that process automated?

Thanks, always glad to hear positive feedback. I downloaded your May and
June issues last night, and I'm impressed. We
don't have a hard copy version, but plan on starting a monthly mailing
of postcards with the latest group info, meeting reminder, and how
to get the latest copy of the online newsletter. We're trying to save
as much money as possible since we just formed in April and want to
spend the money we have carefully.

I don't have any conversion macros, but I've made up 2 small C programs
that convert ASCII text to IPF format and back again. Nothing fancy,
one just converts critical characters such as : and & to their IPF
counterparts and adds :p. on blank lines. The other strips all IPF
tags and converts symbols back to their ASCII counterparts. I'd be
happy to get you a copy of them if you think they'd help out.

>Also, do you have any policy for re-use of your articles?  We would
>occasionally like to re-publish your articles is that would be OK with you.
>Of course, you could then do the same.

Your welcome to reprint our articles as long as you give credit to the
author, and possibly mention that it came from our newsletter. I'd love
to be able to use some of your articles as well. I've created an area on
our BBS just for that purpose. I've even started uploading the IPF source
to some articles and the Internet, BBS, and User Group listings. You
might take a look there for some stuff too.

Let me know if you need any help!

Dale Hackemeyer


MAJ Bart Cook
-------------

Date:     Wed, 11 Aug 93 11:42:04 KOR
From:     "MAJ Bart D. Cook" <[e-mail]>
To:       Dale Hackemeyer <[e-mail]>
Subject:  MMOUG

Dale:

I am a very new OS2 user (got it about 2 weeks ago). I have been in
touch with Timothy Sipples and several other people via e-mail while in
the process of deciding to move to OS2.

I have a CD drive, and the Hobbes OS2 CD from Walnut Creek, which
is where I first saw your newsletter. I have just obtained the July
edition from ftp.cdrom (or some such).

Thank you for the detailed information about how to subscribe to
the various electronic mailing lists (new in the July issue). I have
sent subscriptions to about 4 of them.

However, in both this and the previous newsletter, you give a group
of newsgroups. I asked Mr. Sipples how to go about making use of these
groups, but he didn't know. Can you tell me, or perhaps put in a
paragraph in the next newsletter, about how to get the information in
the various newsgroups? Is it a subscription process, like the mailing
lists? Are the newsgroups on an FTP site somewhere? I have no idea how
it works.

Thank you in advance for your time and effort. I have enjoyed the
newsletters very much, and have gotten some good tips from them. Keep
up the good work. I might join the MMOUG, but the commute from Korea
for the monthly meetings might be a bit much.

Bart D. Cook
[e-mail]


Date:         Thu, 12 Aug 93 11:01:45 CDT
From:         Dale Hackemeyer <UC545502@MIZZOU1>
Organization: University of Missouri at Columbia
Subject:      Re: MMOUG
To:           "MAJ Bart D. Cook" <[e-mail]>
In-Reply-To:  Your message of Wed, 11 Aug 93 11:42:04 KOR

On Wed, 11 Aug 93 11:42:04 KOR you said:
>    I am a very new OS2 user (got it about 2 weeks ago). I have been in
>touch with Timothy Sipples and several other people via e-mail while in
>the process of deciding to move to OS2.

Glad to hear you made the move. I did so about a year ago and haven't
looked back.

>    I have a CD drive, and the Hobbes OS2 CD from Walnut Creek, which
>is where I first saw your newsletter. I have just obtained the July
>edition from ftp.cdrom (or some such).

Didn't even realize we were on the new Hobbes CD. Neat!

>    Thank you for the detailed information about how to subscribe to
>the various electronic mailing lists (new in the July issue). I have
>sent subscriptions to about 4 of them.

No problem. I've subscribed to most of them myself as well.

>    However, in both this and the previous newsletter, you give a group
>of newsgroups. I asked Mr. Sipples how to go about making use of these
>groups, but he didn't know. Can you tell me, or perhaps put in a
>paragraph in the next newsletter, about how to get the information in
>the various newsgroups? Is it a subscription process, like the mailing
>lists? Are the newsgroups on an FTP site somewhere? I have no idea how
>it works.

The newsgroups are like a netwide bullentin board system. You don't have
to subscribe, but you do need a site that carries the newsgroups and
will let you have access (my listing in the newsletter gives a few
that let you on as a "guest").

This is where things get tricky. A lot of it depends on what kind of
computer you use (to access the internet), and whether or not you've
got the software to access the newsgroups. You've obviously got
internet access (both mail and FTP), so all you really need is
software. What kind of computer system do you do your email and ftp on?

I access the newsgoups (aka "Usenet") through either an IBM mainframe
or a NeXT workstation. If you have access to one of these types of
computers I might be able to help. If not, you're best bet would be
to ask around there and see if anyone else there knows of a way
(assuming you haven't gone this route already :) ).

>    Thank you in advance for your time and effort. I have enjoyed the
>newsletters very much, and have gotten some good tips from them. Keep
>up the good work. I might join the MMOUG, but the commute from Korea
>for the monthly meetings might be a bit much.

You're welcome! The best part about doing it is getting mail from people
like yourself in far off places who somehow got a copy. I've got the August
issue done and it should be on ftp-os2.cdrom.com in the incoming directory
by this weekend. Look for it next week.

Get back to me with some more info on your internet access and I'll see
if I can't help you find a way to Usenet.

Dale Hackemeyer


Date:     Fri, 13 Aug 93 10:34:02 KOR
From:     "MAJ Bart D. Cook" <[e-mail]>
To:       Dale Hackemeyer <[e-mail]>
Subject:  Re: MMOUG

Dale:

Thanks for the quick return. I am a computer professional for the
US Army, have been since 1985, but I am relatively new to the world of
global communications. I have used e-mail for several years, but
haven't really dug into it until lately. It is a real interesting
experience to be able to tele-communicate with folks like yourself, and
hook up to other computers around the world using ftp and telnet, but
you know that.

>The newsgroups are like a netwide bullentin board system. You don't have
>to subscribe, but you do need a site that carries the newsgroups and
>will let you have access (my listing in the newsletter gives a few
>that let you on as a "guest").

>This is where things get tricky. A lot of it depends on what kind of
>computer you use (to access the internet), and whether or not you've
>got the software to access the newsgroups. You've obviously got
>internet access (both mail and FTP), so all you really need is
>software. What kind of computer system do you do your email and ftp on?

I work on an Everex 386-25. I use it to access, for e-mail purposes, an
Intel 320 e-mail sub-host running in my office, which runs MMDF-II as
its mail transfer agent. So e-mail comes to my desktop. At home I still
have a lowly 16MHz 386SX (Packard Bell) that I am using the play with
OS2. I am working on a way to convince my wife that I "need" a 486DX2
66MHz machine for play! I use a DOS program called Telemate (a really
neat shareware comm program, and I have used Procomm, Procomm+,
Procomm+ for Windows, Telix, and a few others) for most direct access,
and I use a DOS program called PC Max-E-Mail to handle my e-mail. (This
is kind of an Army standard e-mail front end.)

For ftp and telnet and other direct access to the Internet resources,
I have a login on a Sperry (Unisys) 5000-95 minicomputer, which serves
as the e-mail host for several thousand US users here in the
Seoul-based US military community. It is behind a gateway. My Everex PC
runs DOS 5.0, the Intel runs Xenix, and the Sperry runs Unix SVR3.2 (I
think).

Anyway, I suspect that, if I can telnet or ftp to a host that allows
guest logins, I can access the newsgroups, if I know how.

Thanks for your help.

Bart Cook


Date:         Sun, 15 Aug 93 16:03:55 CDT
From:         Dale Hackemeyer <UC545502@MIZZOU1>
Subject:      Re: MMOUG
To:           "MAJ Bart D. Cook" <[e-mail]>

Bart,

OK, you just reminded me that you CAN telnet into certain gopher servers
that carry the USENET newsgroups. After a bit of searching around, I
found a site in Korea that carries USENET! (I was even able to login and read
the news from here).

Try telneting to: gopher.nic.nm.kr
        Login as: gopher

If it has trouble recognizing you terminal type, try forcing vt-100 (how
you would do this with your telnet, I don't know).

Once in, you should have menu entries to choose from, and the path to
USENET is as follows:

Top level menu: USENET Newsgroups
                  USENET Newsgroups
                    comp
                      os
                        os2

Once your at this level you should see most if not all of the OS/2 Newsgroups.

Give this a try and let me know if it works. Good luck!

Dale Hackemeyer


Date:     Fri, 20 Aug 93 14:48:50 KOR
From:     "MAJ Bart D. Cook" <[e-mail]>
To:       Dale Hackemeyer <[e-mail]>
Subject:  Re: OS2-L

Dale:

My experience with OS2 is getting weirder. Am having troubles with
the PAS16 sound board that I think are effecting the entire system. At
least I got an e-mail address for Media Vision as a result of a
posting to the Mmos2-L list.

I am really happier on my work machine with DOS5/Win3.1 than with
OS2 at home right now, and I was happier with DOS5/Win3.1 at home. But,
I had growing pains with Windows, and worked through those, so I figure
it is just time and knowledge. I have ordered the OS2 Unleashed book,
and hopefully these mailing lists will get me straight. It just isn't
as smooth as I think it would need to be for IBM to really replace
DOS/Windows in the near term.

Oh well, I thought it would be an adventure, and I have been right
so far.

Bart


Date:         Sun, 22 Aug 93 13:48:24 CDT
From:         Dale Hackemeyer <UC545502@MIZZOU1>
Organization: University of Missouri at Columbia
Subject:      OS/2...
To:           MAJ Bart Cook <[e-mail]>

>    My experience with OS2 is getting weirder. Am having troubles with
>the PAS16 sound board that I think are effecting the entire system. At
>least I got an e-mail address for Media Vision as a result of a
>posting to the Mmos2-L list.

I've heard of various problems with the PAS16, but never really paid too
much attention since I haven't got one. When does the problem occur?
Is it in a DOS program or are when you're using MMPM/2? Both? Are you
running a CDROM off of it's SCSI port? I know some of the troubles I've
seen in the past had something to do with the drivers. I'm not sure if
they're fixed yet or not.

>    I am really happier on my work machine with DOS5/Win3.1 than with
>OS2 at home right now, and I was happier with DOS5/Win3.1 at home. But,
>I had growing pains with Windows, and worked through those, so I figure
>it is just time and knowledge. I have ordered the OS2 Unleashed book,
>and hopefully these mailing lists will get me straight. It just isn't
>as smooth as I think it would need to be for IBM to really replace
>DOS/Windows in the near term.

Really? What are the things that make you feel better about DOS/Win3.1
than OS/2? I know you have an Everex 386-25, but how much memory do you
have? Do you run the OS/2 Multimedia extensions? What kind of video card
do you have and what resolution and color depth are you running it at?
How much HD space do you have? How do you have it partitioned?
What programs do you run and depend on the most?

Also, give me some info on the work machine as well so we can compare
the two.

>    Oh well, I thought it would be an adventure, and I have been right
>so far.

Yeah, OS/2 can be an adventure at first, but a little practice and some
fine tuning can really make a difference. Get back to me about the stuff
above and I can probably give you some tips to improve.

Dale Hackemeyer