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- From: sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu (Timothy F. Sipples)
- Subject: Re: Funny Filenames and Video Weirdness in Task Switching
- Message-ID: <1992Aug26.010833.8902@midway.uchicago.edu>
- Keywords: os/2 filenames
- Sender: news@uchinews.uchicago.edu (News System)
- Reply-To: sip1@midway.uchicago.edu
- Organization: Dept. of Econ., Univ. of Chicago
- References: <1992Aug25.215412.13074@ee.ubc.ca>
- Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1992 01:08:33 GMT
- Lines: 51
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- In article <1992Aug25.215412.13074@ee.ubc.ca> tedc@ee.ubc.ca (ted chen) writes:
- >1) I seem to get filenames with semicolons and numbers appended to them. For
- > example, if I d/l a file into my download directory with filename foo.zip
- > then MOVE it (at both DOS and OS/2 command prompts) to another directory
- > for storage, I get some other copies of this file, of 0 byte size, with
- > names like foo.zip;1 foo.zip;2 foo.zip;3 etc clutterring up that directory.
- > Note that these copies are 0 bytes in length, most have correct dates
- > but some have dates of 1985(?). I cannot delete these files directly,
- > ie. del foo.zip;1 but must use wildcards. I can only see these files
- > in an OS/2 session, of course. What are these files and why are they
- > generated? How can I prevent it?
-
- Strange one -- I haven't heard of the problem. You can delete the
- files by enclosing the filename in quotes, however. Try:
-
- DEL "foo.zip;1"
-
- >2) If I have 2 Full Screen sessions going, one OS/2 (TE/2) and one DOS (VPIC)
- > there seem to be video problems when I switch between them. Here's the
- > process. Start up TE/2 download, switch away and open up a full screen
- > DOS session, run VPIC, display image, then switch back to TE/2. When
- > I switch back, the screen has gone bonkers and is filled with multicolour
- > blocks. If I switch back to TE/2 when I'm only in the VPIC character
- > based menu, it's no problem. What's going on here? Not enough video
- > memory? I have an ATI Graphics Ultra with 1 MEG (VSVGA enabled).
-
- IBM is aware of the problem, it seems. I believe there is an APAR on
- it, and it should be fixed in the CSD.
-
- In the meantime you can fix the problem, quite often, by opening a
- full screen DOS session and then closing it. Switch back to TE/2, and
- the screen should be restored to normal.
-
- >3) If I open an OS/2 Full screen session right after boot up, my monitor goes
- > into some interlaced mode which is quite undesirable. BUT if I first
- > open a DOS full screen session (and it goes into the proper NI mode) then
- > re-open an OS/2 Full screen session it goes into the correct mode. The
- > DOS FS session works right all the time, no matter when I open it, but the
- > OS/2 FS session doesn't work until I "initialize" it with a DOS FS session.
- > I believe my card has been set up correctly in all modes using the INSTALL
- > program supplied.
-
- See your README file -- some cards do, in fact, require this
- "initialization," and it is easy to perform automatically. Again,
- check the README file in your root directory for details.
-
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