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- From: dvss!jtroy@udel.edu (Jay Troy)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
- Subject: First time OS/2 weirdnes and questions...
- Message-ID: <sNq0PB1w164w@dvss.UUCP>
- Date: Sat, 29 Aug 92 08:46:15 EDT
- Organization: Delaware Valley Solution Systems, Inc.
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- Well this week I had my first bout with some OS/2 weirdness (after 4 months
- of using it). A couple of days ago it froze on me. I waited to see if it
- was really off doing something, and it apparently wasn't. I rebooted, and
- to my surprise, my HPFS was neither corrupted nor rebuilt. I used the
- system for about 1/2 hour and the same thing happened. Same problem, same
- result. After another clean reboot, I ran the system for about 24 hours
- (it generally runs 24 hours/day).
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- I noticed yesterday eve that one of my folders had a black icon (a first
- for me). I installed the black icon fix a while back, so I was surprised
- to see it. The icon stayed black. I was screwing around with the system
- after that, and it locked up again. I rebooted (cleanly again?!?!?!) and
- everything seems fine about 15 hours later. The icon isn't black, and
- the system is humming.
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- This is pretty strange, but I think whatever it was has cleared itself
- up, maybe it was gas. Gee, maybe I'll just uninstall it, put it back
- on the shelf and reload MSDOS and Windows. Or maybe I'll just sit here
- and beat my face in with a brick over and over. I'll never understand
- the logic of "Gee there's a problem, I guess I'll just quit instead of
- trying to figure out what's wrong." OS/2 is the best thing for the
- desktop since color.
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- A couple of questions for the rumor mill:
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- 1) Has anyone heard of an addition of scalable fonts for PM? Kind of like
- DV/X sports? Is this in the works?
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- 2) Has anyone heard any further details about the late Aug/early Sept
- OS/2 2.0 Win/3.1 support release?
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- 3) Has anyone heard of a Motif/Open Look/X version of PM?
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- 4) How does the IBM X extension work, does it take over for PM, or convert
- the X calls to PM calls?
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- Jay Troy Delaware Valley Solution Systems, Inc.
- Computing Solutions for Business and Industry
- P.O. Box 190 // Claymont, DE 19703 // (302)798-DVSS
- Internet: ...!udel.edu!dvss!jtroy (jtroy@dvss.UUCP)
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