--------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 113 OS/2 Ref: F5G00710 Date: 04/29/98 From: WILL HONEA Time: 08:53pm \/To: DERRICK NEVE (Read 4 times) Subj: Finally warped! Derrick Neve wrote to John Angelico on 04-25-1998 DN> JA> I have 2 machines and when we message each other, we discover DN> JA> that the popup box (and equivalent Text version for DOS DN> JA> sessions) lacks that most essential productivity tool... a DN> JA> Reply button. DN> DN> I know, isn't it crazy? DN> DN> If you find a way around it, publish here, ok? Do I have an odd version, or is there really a 'Reply to' item on the 'Messages' menu item???? 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: F5G00711 Date: 04/29/98 From: WILL HONEA Time: 08:58pm \/To: DERRICK NEVE (Read 4 times) Subj: Modem share Derrick Neve wrote to Jeff Dunlop on 04-28-1998 DN> OK, thanks. That is how I'm set up here but I had wanted a second DN> OS/2 machine to fax from WordPro (Win) using the modem on the first DN> machine. I can use Faxworks on the first machine fine as you wrote DN> but can't get it to work uder WinOS2. If this is the machine with Faxworks (OS/2) running and setup as LPT3, then have you Win apps print to 'IBM ProPrinter X24e on LPT3.OS2'. Works for me. 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: F5G00712 Date: 04/29/98 From: DON WOODALL Time: 11:19pm \/To: CHARLES GAEFKE (Read 4 times) Subj: Re: 1024 cylinder In a message dated 04-29-98, Charles Gaefke said to Don Woodall: CG>DW> That is your problem. All bootable partitions must be CG>DW> entirely, completely with the first 1,024 logical cylinders for CG>DW> the BIOS to see the partition and boot it. CG> CG> For *ANY* operating system? CG> Charles Yes, for *ANY* operating system! Don Woodall ___ * MR/2 * Windows NT? New Technology? I don't think so... --- Maximus/2 2.02 * Origin: OS/2 Shareware BBS, telnet://bbs.os2bbs.com (1:109/347) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 113 OS/2 Ref: F5G00713 Date: 04/29/98 From: DON WOODALL Time: 11:38pm \/To: ROY J. TELLASON (Read 4 times) Subj: maint partition size In a message dated 04-28-98, Roy J. Tellason said to Charles Gaefke: RT>Charles Gaefke wrote in a message to Roy J. Tellason: RT> RT> CG> On or about 26 Apr 98 20:35:10, Roy J. Tellason said RT> CG> something about "maint partition size" to All. My reply: RT> RT>RJ> Anybody care to pass along their thoughts on a good size for a maintenance RT>RJ> partition? RT> RT> CG> I squeezed Warp 3 onto a 75 meg partition, with 10 megs free RT> CG> for a swap file. Warp 4 I got onto a 90 or so. RT> RT>Hmm. I was thinking along the lines of about 80, so I'm not RT>too far off. Yours is the first response I've seen to that RT>so far, let's see what others think as well. RT> Roy Think I installed Warp 3 in a 40MB partition with my essential OS/2 utilities. But that was with and advanced installation and then UNchecking EVERY option. No DOS support, NO windows support, etc. It would boot up, I could go to a command line and run "CHKDSK" and the tape backup program, and that was about it. Don Woodall ___ * MR/2 * Chocolate: the-only-foodgroup. All others are necessary evils. --- Maximus/2 2.02 * Origin: OS/2 Shareware BBS, telnet://bbs.os2bbs.com (1:109/347) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 113 OS/2 Ref: F5G00714 Date: 04/29/98 From: HERBERT BUSHONG Time: 08:49am \/To: DENIS TONN (Read 4 times) Subj: crashed programmes reloa ::> There is a keystroke that can be used during the shell startup to ::> temporarily disable the shell auto restart, but I can't rememnber what Denis, It's CTRL+SHIFT+F1. Once the desktop kicks in (hourglass/clock-thingy shows up), hold it until the desktop finishes loading. Herbert Bushong harchon@centuryinter.net [TEAM OS/2] Blackbeard's BBS Intelec: 239:600/0 Fido: 1:19/19 http://www.intelec.com/software/ --- RM 1.31 2508 xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx[This tagline was censored]xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx * Origin: Blackbeard's BBS - Ville Platte, LA - 318-468-3385 (1:19/19) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 113 OS/2 Ref: F5G00715 Date: 04/29/98 From: TORSTEN BALLE KOEFOED Time: 08:53pm \/To: ALAN LO (Read 4 times) Subj: cd rom? Hi there ALAN! Replying to a message of ALAN LO to All: AL> I use Alfons, Leech, and Dido (for win 3.11). Alfons and Leech AL> can rip a song in about the same time it takes to play the song... AL> pitiful. =< Not really. There are a number of reasons, why grabbing is slower than reading standard data. The main reason is, that the CD-audio format contains no error correction (it is capable of reporting reading errors, though). The (stupid) explanation to this is, that the small errors that would occur playing an audio-CD would not be audible (in practice this is not true). So to make shure to read an audio-CD right, the drive has to re-read some of the data several times. Some of the software is also one of the reasons for slower grabbing. I don't now about Alfons but Leech has a jitter-correction algorithm, which obviously slows down reading. What is jitter, then? When requesting a sector from an audio-CD, there's no way to enshure the data you get from the CD is starting in the right block. This means that the sectors you read may overlap a bit or even lack some data. This is avoided by the correction-algorithm in Leech, thus giving you the exact data of the CD. Unfortunately, this also slows down grabbing, since more data must be read. So, if you don't care about the accuracy of the grabbed data, then use Dido for speed. If you do care, use Leech. Yours etc. Torsten Balle Koefoed --- FleetStreet 1.22+ * Origin: Waiting for the punchline... (2:238/202.3) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 113 OS/2 Ref: F5G00716 Date: 04/29/98 From: KEITH KOTTWITZ Time: 12:47pm \/To: WILL HONEA (Read 4 times) Subj: Re: fiddling with instal Hi Will, WH> The only meaningful test to me is 'how much can I do how fast'. With I hear ya. As I get older, I find my machines are doing it faster than I can think it and the gap is *widening* :) WH> neighborhood of 40 meg. Of course there is some benefit of additional WH> memory, especially for real memory hogs like the Visual Builder WH> (shudder), but there does seem to be a point of diminishing returns. I see some individual programs that seem to take advantage of the extra memory better that others. I'm not enough of a programer to know why but I do notice it. Unfortunatly, it's not the programs that I use the most. I still feel like some adjusting is in order but that will come in time. WH> when the NIC's drivers load OK but it doesn't see the net - cable WH> disconnected, unterminated, etc., OR when the setup has gotten fouled WH> up and it tries to use the wrong connector on a multi-interface board. I'm starting to think it's the latter. I did a fresh new reinstall just o see what happens with no fixpacks installed and now everthing seems to load and start except the last line in my congig.sys: DEVICE=C:\IBMCOM\MACS\NE2000WC.OS That comes up using the generic drivers from hobbes. I get the sys1201 message that the driver didn't load and now it just can't start the equester. I was thinking it was an uncompatable clone as I tried it with plug&pray enabled and disabled. When I'm adding file and print shareing, it does find the card but I do have to change the settings to IRQ10 (SB now on 5) and an I/O address of 280. When I boot to dos and run the set up program, this is what the card is reporting. I plan on persuing this further in the OS2LAN echo. I feel like I'm real close now :) BTW, I did change the cable and terminators. ttyl... Keith Kottwitz KeithK@infoave.net --- RENEGADE 05-11 EXP\ CDRMAIL v1.20. * Origin: Taz's Pad BBS * Hamlet, NC * 910.205.0398 (1:3655/7) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 113 OS/2 Ref: F5G00717 Date: 04/29/98 From: KEITH KOTTWITZ Time: 12:47pm \/To: DON WOODALL (Read 4 times) Subj: Re: OS/2 install: almost Hi Don, DW> That is "logical" 1,024 cylinders. You probably have "LBA" DW> or some such set to on in the BIOS for the 3.2G drive so it was DW> reporting the whole complete drive within the 1,024 cylinder limit DW> to the BIOS. Yes, LBA is set to on. Both oses were on the same machine. I have since cleaned warp 3 off and gone with warp 4. ttyl... Keith Kottwitz KeithK@infoave.net --- RENEGADE 05-11 EXP\ CDRMAIL v1.20. * Origin: Taz's Pad BBS * Hamlet, NC * 910.205.0398 (1:3655/7) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 113 OS/2 Ref: F5G00718 Date: 04/30/98 From: CHARLES GAEFKE Time: 02:00am \/To: ROY J. TELLASON (Read 4 times) Subj: Re: 6.4 gig EIDE RJ> A good bit more horsepower than I've got here, unfortunately. I *did* up RJ> box from 8M to 16M before I even thought about installing Warp here, but f RJ> what I can see I'm going to have to take that up a bit further yet before I RJ> get decent performance out of it. The 6.4 gig really flies because my motherboard supports UltraDMA. It's twice as fast as my other drives. Another peculiarity - I got an Acer 32x UltraDMA CDROM as well. I could not get it to work unless it was set as master. If I had it set as slave my HDD light stayed on continously and would not boot past the OS/2 logo. I thought it'd be best if it was secondary slave (no sandwiching), but no go unless it's a secondary master. I'm not complaining.. C. Gaefke [lotl2@steelcity.net] [CDRMAIL Author] --- Renegade 98-111a/CDRMail v1.21b * Origin: LOTL/2 * (412)931-4825 * www.steelcity.net/~lotl2 (1:129/230) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 113 OS/2 Ref: F5G00719 Date: 04/29/98 From: KENNETH ABRAMS Time: 11:42pm \/To: ROY J. TELLASON (Read 4 times) Subj: OS/2 install: almost her Hello Roy! 28 Apr 98 10:16, Roy J. Tellason wrote to Kenneth Abrams: RT> Which I guess means that when I get around to sticking that new 6.4G RT> drive in this box I need to make both my normal boot partition _and_ RT> any maintenance partition nearer the beginning of the drive... Wherever your bios can see without drivers. All Boot Manager really does is redirect the boot process to a user-selected partition, it's still up to the bios to find that partition and the os to actually boot from it. RT> Speaking of "other than the first physical drive", if I go ahead and RT> do that install and stick BM on there first thing, am I going to be RT> able to use my _current_ boot partition (on what's then going to be RT> the second physical drive) to continue to boot my current setup? If If you're referring to an existing OS/2 installation, the problem you'll have is drive letters. You should probably be able to reinstall (perhaps on top and keep current setup) and correct that, however. If you're referring to your DOS/DV setup, no, DOS is pretty insistent about booting from that first disk and first primary partition (often referred to as C:). My maintenance partition currently resides on a primary partition at the beginning of an 850M WD drive installed as a slave on my primary IDE channel (drive d:, normally). However, I've never actually installed OS/2 on the second drive, the maint. partition was created by BOOTOS2. Kenneth (kabrams@erols.com) --- GoldED/2 2.50+ * Origin: Lexington Park, Maryland (1:109/921.67)