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- From: sal8@po.cwru.edu (Steve Luzynski)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
- Subject: Re: trident and SP probs
- Message-ID: <sal8.242.724187833@po.cwru.edu>
- Date: 12 Dec 92 19:17:13 GMT
- References: <1992Dec11.152329.18408@husc3.harvard.edu>
- Organization: Case Western Reserve University
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- In article <1992Dec11.152329.18408@husc3.harvard.edu> mendels1@husc4.harvard.edu (Andrew Mendelsohn) writes:
- >From: mendels1@husc4.harvard.edu (Andrew Mendelsohn)
- >Subject: trident and SP probs
- >Date: 11 Dec 92 20:23:28 GMT
- >I find the new unofficial trident drivers quite nice, but i have one
- >problem: the desktop undergoes a shift in color when I open a seamless
- >window application or when using pmfract. Any suggestions?
-
- Problem??? People are still begging for that _feature_ on their still mostly
- unsupported cards...
-
- Seamless WinOS2 programs get to reprogram the pallette when they're in the
- foreground. That lets you do cool stuff like view .GIFs with their correct
- colors when using a WinOS2 program like WinGIF.
-
- > I have had a few problems since the service pack. Some communications
- >programs occasionally hang the machine (which can only be fixed by turning
- >off the modem--this immediately restores full control to the mouse,
- >keyboard, and screen). Is this due to some quirk in my using 16550 uarts.
- >NOte that this only happens with OS/2 comm programs and that I have not
- >added any special lines since installing the 16550 UARTs.
- > The second problem is with the WPS. It occasionally refuses to keep
- >all the info about a program, the worst being loss of the programs name,
- >it may be correlated with nearly filled FAT disks, because I was able to
- >prevent the problem with at least one program by moving its executables to
- >an HPFS volume.
-
- You're not screwing with the EAs after you install the programs are you?
- You also shouldn't move/copy/look at funny/etc. any OS/2 related program
- using native DOS since the EAs don't get updated.
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