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I backed everything up on my new RAM DISK!!! --- Maximus/2 2.02 * Origin: OS/2 Shareware BBS, telnet://bbs.os2bbs.com (1:109/347) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 113 OS/2 Ref: F5G00675 Date: 04/28/98 From: WILL HONEA Time: 08:58pm \/To: JOHN ANGELICO (Read 4 times) Subj: "New" Find John Angelico wrote to Will Honea on 04-27-1998 JA> Which raises the question - why do I suspect that Warp 4 INI files JA> are more fragile than Warp 3? I've had just the opposite experience here. Got a System Analyst contract with a company here that decided to stick with Warp 3 while they moved to NT - still in the future after 2+ years - and I've spent more time straightening out the Warp 3 .INI's than anything else. Since the contract runs until they finally convert, I'm doing my level best to keep Warp 3 (several hundred desktops) plugging as long as I can. I've only had 1 real problem with Warp 4 and that was caused by a brand new drive starting to shed sectors - right in the middle of the OS/2 boot partition, of course - to the point that it failed during a write to the system .INI's. Now THAT was a mess worthy of the name! Will Honea --- Maximus/2 2.02 * Origin: OS/2 Shareware BBS, telnet://bbs.os2bbs.com (1:109/347) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 113 OS/2 Ref: F5G00676 Date: 04/28/98 From: WILL HONEA Time: 09:03pm \/To: ROY J. TELLASON (Read 4 times) Subj: desktop popup Roy J. Tellason wrote to Will Honea on 04-28-1998 RT> Another example of that is the shutdown process. Before, I'd end RT> up with nothing but a blank blue screen more often than not, and I RT> ended up figuring that once all apparent (disk and other) activity RT> had stopped that it was okay to turn it off. Now, RT> I get that message that it's okay to turn it off within a RT> reasonable period of time. What change did this? Who knows? I would advise you to get CHECKINI and/or INIMAINT and purge your INI files regularly, especially while you are 'playing around' with the system. You can get some really screwy results if they get too garbaged up with outdated info. BTW, one quick way to hang the WPS is to open an icon view of a folder with lots of files, then do a bunch of mucking around while it's trying to paint the icons. Frequently, the WPS takes the attitude "I'm busy! come back tomorrow!". Will Honea --- Maximus/2 2.02 * Origin: OS/2 Shareware BBS, telnet://bbs.os2bbs.com (1:109/347) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 113 OS/2 Ref: F5G00677 Date: 04/28/98 From: WILL HONEA Time: 09:11pm \/To: ROY J. TELLASON (Read 4 times) Subj: install fun Roy J. Tellason wrote to Will Honea on 04-28-1998 RT> WH> Not sure about the card you have, but to use my SB16, I have to RT> WH> go into Windows and install sound for Winodows before it's seen RT> WH> by both OS/2 and Winos2. RT> RT> Can you be more specific here? Get the Windows drivers for your sound card. Open a Winos2 session and run SETUP - just as you would under normal windows. RT> So that means I need to go into settings and give it RT> exclusive access to it when it wants it? Nope, it will do that anyway :-{ What it means is that you make sound OPTIONAL for all Winos2 sessions and live with the bitch screens (3 of 'em) if the sound card is busy when you open one. As for you 'unexpected DOS error', I seem to recall that you tried to install some Win program and things got screwy after that. Probably got a partial install of Win32s1.30 - darned programs want to put it on whether you want it or not - with the result some of your WIN system files are garbled. Best way to fix it probably to use SELECTIVE UNINSTALL to remove WINOS2 support, then re-install that. Will Honea --- Maximus/2 2.02 * Origin: OS/2 Shareware BBS, telnet://bbs.os2bbs.com (1:109/347) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 113 OS/2 Ref: F5G00678 Date: 04/28/98 From: WILL HONEA Time: 09:25pm \/To: DENIS TONN (Read 4 times) Subj: OS/2 Memory Management Denis Tonn wrote to Will Honea on 04-27-1998 Thanks, Denis. That confirmed most of what I figured was going on, altho the 'preswap' had not occurred to me. The one thing I was really unsure about was whether the system ever did a true 'garbage collection' to compact the swap file - you seemed to indicate that this was a low priority task, which makes perfectly good sense to me. I was really looking for some more background in answer to the persistent complaints about the swap file not shrinking - as if it should instantly reflect a decrease in memory demand. The TCP/IP/LAN leak seems to persist in the latest fixes under some unusual but repeatable conditions - the author of InJoy found a case last week where afinet.sys grabbed an additional 16k every time a specific sequence was followed - but it's not a big worry. I'm sure he reported it. I know that the TCP/IP stack got a really thorough going over in the last few months with lots of memory leak APARs reported and fixed. With up times of 30-60 days, I have no real problems but I appreciate your confirmation of the reasonableness of a very slow and possibly incomplete shrinkage of the swap file after an overcommit caused it to grow. Thanks. Will Honea --- Maximus/2 2.02 * Origin: OS/2 Shareware BBS, telnet://bbs.os2bbs.com (1:109/347) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 113 OS/2 Ref: F5G00679 Date: 04/29/98 From: STEVE BARNES Time: 12:02am \/To: ALL (Read 4 times) Subj: OS/2 game at more stores! Just got back from Babbages and Stardock's Entrepreneur game is there too. Lady at the store said it was selling really well too. I highly recommend this game, it's top notch and has OS/2 and Windoze versions in the same box. --- Maximus/2 2.02 * Origin: OS/2 Shareware BBS, telnet://bbs.os2bbs.com (1:109/347) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 113 OS/2 Ref: F5G00680 Date: 04/23/98 From: TONY PATER Time: 11:00am \/To: WILL HONEA (Read 4 times) Subj: Back to Basics ! -=> Quoting Will Honea to Tony Pater <=- WH> Tony Pater wrote to All on 04-17-1998 TP> 1. Netscape.... pushes cpu out to 100% and everything grinds to TP> almost a halt; site navigations are.... well, a torture. TP> I've installed the latest from version from IBM (February '98), TP> Cache's are 2.5m for ram and 4.5 for disk. WH> An oinker, to be sure. Just for info, go into the Netscape options, WH> general, I believe, and set images to draw AFTER loading. You still WH> get the CPU load, but it's over sooner. See if that makes a WH> difference in perceptible speed. OK...thanks for that Will. I've reverted back to Web-Navigator; to hell with Netscape. And if any site doesn't permit 'non-frames' they can eff-off. I did install FixPack 6 to see if there was a stability problem/fix for Netscape, it didn't make any difference here so I've wiped Netscape ..... anyone know what's the score with 'Opera' ? WH> Leave the '.' and/or '.\' paths in the path statements - they save you WH> lots of grief. Remember that OS/2 follows the rule of current WH> directory first then the path (except for .DLL :<( ). Be VERY careful WH> with the LIBPATH line - you can tune but it can be tricky since there WH> are occasions when you have multiple DLL's with the same name. Don't WH> go too farr off the deep end, however, since the system knows what WH> DLL's are loaded and will not spend much time at all looking once the WH> program loads. Basically, tuning paths is a exercise in LOAD time WH> speed, not runtime. Wilco...... WH> Problem is, Netscape is VERY CPU intensive during draw. Best way to WH> speed that up is with a faster video card - even my generic S3 is an WH> order of magnitude faster than the old Trident... Solved it...... by junking Netscape. Regards Tony Sydney, Oz Thu 23/04/1998 23:09:00 ... 4dos/4os2.. under Warp 4 --- FMail/Win32 1.22+ * Origin: Cyberia: You know you want it. [02-9534-1702] (3:712/848) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 113 OS/2 Ref: F5G00681 Date: 04/29/98 From: ROY J. TELLASON Time: 10:34am \/To: THOMAS W. MUELLER (Read 4 times) Subj: install fun Thomas W. Mueller wrote in a message to Roy J. Tellason: RJT> So how do I fix it? TWM> Install Win95. ;-) No way! :-) email: roy.j.tellason%tanstaaf@frackit.com --- * Origin: TANSTAAFL BBS 717-432-0764 (1:270/615)