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- From: maynard@esther.msc.cornell.edu (Maynard J. Handley)
- Subject: Re: Damned good recovery
- Message-ID: <1992Aug13.135134.19106@msc.cornell.edu>
- Sender: news@msc.cornell.edu
- Organization: Cornell-Materials-Science-Center
- References: <GKUSHMER.92Aug11130348@jade.tufts.edu> <Gary.Woodman.606.713670434@anu.edu.au>
- Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1992 13:51:34 GMT
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- >Hangs every time unless you make the changes to SVGADATA.PMI as described
- >in
- >the Trident drivers README.
- >
- >>So I pulled out my disks and went for the reinstall
- >
- >Not necessary - just EXPAND (or is it UNPACK?) the default DISPLAY.DLL
- >from
- >the installation disk (which one? depends on your media size) - it goes
- >into \OS2\INSTALL. Then boot from floppy and COPY
- >C:\OS2\INSTALL\DISPLAY.DLL
- >to \OS2\DLL, and reboot. Your system will come up in standard VGA, and you
- >>can go back to playing with the Trident drivers. Fun, isn't it?
-
- I'm a Mac user who simply follows the competition out of interest, but
- something I wonder about. Isn't OS/2 supposed to come with HPFS which means
- you can use decent filenames that use upper and lower case and spaces, have
- file types attached and can be reasonably long? If so, why are you people
- all using these ridiculous names like SVGADATA.PMI? Do you realize how
- childish thsi makes your OS look? I might at some point switch to OS/2, but
- certainly not while all public evidence I see of it makes it look like ist
- still has all the gorgeous DOS file system features as far as the user is
- concerned.
-
- Maynard Handley
-