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- FIRST EDITION (JUNE 1992)
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- NOTICES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . V
- Trademarks and Service Marks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . v
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- ABOUT THIS BOOK . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . VII
- Who Should Read This Book . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . vii
- How This Book Is Organized . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . vii
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- CHAPTER 1. INTRODUCTION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
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- CHAPTER 2. SERVICE AND SUPPORT INFORMATION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
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- CHAPTER 3. INSTALLATION CONSIDERATIONS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
- Upgrade Version of OS/2 2.0 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
- Reformatting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
- During Installation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
- After Successful Installation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
- Limited Availability Version . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
- HPFS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
- Deciding to Use . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
- HPFS Support Not Added during Installation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
- Partitioning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
- CONFIG.SYS (Automatic Update) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
- Mouse Does Not Work . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
- Mouse Driver (Changing Default) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
- Logitech Mouse Not Working After Installation . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
- Logitech Mouse Not Working after Dual-Boot Switch from DOS . . . . . . 8
- HP Mouse . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
- Other Mouse Not Working after Dual-Boot Switch from DOS . . . . . . . . 9
- LAN Installation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
- Response File Installation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
- Problems with Installation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
- LOGO Screen Problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
- With OAK Video Adapter (during Installation) . . . . . . . . . . . 10
- With Future Domain SCSI Controller (after Installation) . . . . . . 11
- Diskette Problems by Number . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
- Messages on Screen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
- C0000005 Displayed on Screen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
- COUNTRY.SYS File Cannot Be Found . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
- SYS1200 and EC=00BF on Screen with Dual Boot . . . . . . . . . . . 13
- Computer Beeps Constantly . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
- White Screen with Disk Light On Constantly . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
- White Screen after Installation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
- White Screen with an ATI Video Adapter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
- BIOS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
- Phoenix BIOS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
- AMI BIOS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
- Micronics System Board . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
- Gateway 2000 Computer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
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- Short Cut if Your Installation Procedure Stops . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
- Applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
- DOS or Windows Applications (before Running) . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
- Previous Application Not Migrated . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
- Windows Version 3.1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
- CD-ROM (Selective Install) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
- UNDELETE (Enabling) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
- Dual Boot Does Not Work . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
- Boot Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
- Boot Manager Menu Bypass . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
- Boot Manager with Dual Boot OS/2 Version 1.3 in a Partition . . . . . 18
- Non-IBM Computer with Two Drives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
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- CHAPTER 4. OS/2 WORKPLACE SHELL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
- Starting Up Your System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
- Using the Shell . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
- Icons, Tabs, or Bit Maps Do Not Appear . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
- Restoring the Desktop . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
- Recovering Icons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
- Using Executable Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
- Creating an Icon for an Application . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
- Changing the Color of Icon Title-Text . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
- Adding an OS/2 Window to the Desktop Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
- Changing a Default Folder View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
- Using the Minimized Window Viewer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
- Using Find . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
- Receiving an Incorrect DOS Version Message . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
- Receiving a SYS3176 Message . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
- Using ANSI Colors and Characters in DOS Sessions . . . . . . . . . . . 28
- Using HPFS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
- Shutting Down . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
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- CHAPTER 5. PRINTING CONSIDERATIONS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
- Configuring Your Computer for Printing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
- Hardware Adapters and IRQ Conflicts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
- PS/2 Direct-Memory-Access Parallel Ports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
- Configuring Printers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
- Cannon BubbleJet Printer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
- DeskJet, DeskJet+, DeskJet 500, and DeskJet 500C Printers . . . . . . 33
- HP LaserJet Printer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
- HP PaintJet and PaintJet XL Printers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
- IBM 3812, 3852, 5152, 5182, 5201-1, and 5216 Printers . . . . . . . . 33
- IBM 4019 and IBM 4029 (Automatic Emulation Switching Utility) . . . . 34
- IBM 4072 Execjet Printer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
- NEC P3200 Printer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
- NEC P6200 Printer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
- Star NX-1000 Printer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
- Non-Supported Printer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
- Accessing Lexmark International Bulletin Board Service . . . . . . . . 35
- Diagnosing Printing Problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
- Slow Printing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
- Unable to Print . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
- Printer Stops Printing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
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- Printer Worked under DOS, but Not under OS/2 2.0 . . . . . . . . . . 36
- Print Job Spooled but Does Not Print . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
- Printing Starts Only When DOS Application Stops . . . . . . . . . . . 37
- Print Job Split into Several Spool Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
- Can Print from DOS Application, but Cannot Print Elsewhere . . . . . 37
- Printer Worked under Windows, but Not under OS/2 2.0 . . . . . . . . 37
- Printing from a WIN-OS/2 Session . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
- LPTx and LPTx.OS2 Port Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
- Obtaining an LPT3.OS2 Destination . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
- Installing the IBM 4029 Laser Printer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
- Network Printing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
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- General Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
- Specific Applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
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- Swapper file . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
- File Systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
- DOS applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62
- Windows Applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62
- Application Usage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63
- Memory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63
- Hard Disk Space . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63
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- Optimizing WIN-OS/2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65
- Using Clipboard and Dynamic Data Exchange . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66
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- SVGA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71
- SVGA ON Utility Program . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72
- OS/2 SVGA Video Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72
- Additional SVGA Support Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74
- Dual Displays . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76
- Laptop LCD or Monochrome Plasma Displays . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76
- Graphics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76
- WIN-OS/2 Window and Full-Screen Sessions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76
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- Personal Computer Manufacturer (PCM) Systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81
- SCSI devices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82
- Adaptec and Future Domain SCSI Device Drivers . . . . . . . . . . . . 82
- OS2SCSI.SYS Device Driver . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83
- SCSI CD-ROM Support . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83
- SCSI Removable Media Support . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84
- SCSI Usage Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84
- AMI and CEI SCSI Adapters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85
- Always Technology SCSI . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86
- Additional Device Support Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86
- HP Scanjet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86
- Tape Drives (Adapter or SCSI) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86
- Tape Drives (Diskette Based) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86
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- IBM PS/2 Model 30-286 Upgrades . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87
- 50 MHz Systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87
- Logitech 3-Button Mouse . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87
- Aox Systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87
- Orchid Video Adapters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87
- ISA (Non-Micro Channel or Non-EISA) Bus Systems . . . . . . . . . . . 88
- Interrupt Problems on an ISA System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89
- COM3 or COM4 Support on an ISA system . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89
- Setting the Interrupt Request (IRQ) Level on an ISA System . . . . . 90
- Parallel-Port-Attached Device . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92
- Problems with Fax Adapters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92
- PS/2 External 5.25-Inch 1.2MB Diskette Drive . . . . . . . . . . . . 93
- IBM PS/2 Model 90 or 95 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93
- Formatting Diskettes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94
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- service. Evaluation and verification of operation in conjunction with other
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- This book is provided as an information source for the people installing and
- using OS/2 2.0. Some of the information in this book is intended for the
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- This book is organized as follows:
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- o Chapter 1, "Introduction" on page 1, provides a summary of the highlights
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- o Chapter 2, "Service and Support Information" on page 3, provides a
- summary of the electronic and voice support for the OS/2 2.0 product.
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- o Chapter 3, "Installation Considerations" on page 5, contains
- considerations before, during, and after installing OS/2 2.0.
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- o Chapter 4, "OS/2 Workplace Shell" on page 21, describes tips you might
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- o Chapter 5, "Printing Considerations" on page 31, includes printing tips
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- DOS, Windows, and OS/2 application compatibility validation in addition to
- stress, usability, and performance testing. While most users will not
- require the information in this document, it contains unique application
- compatibility information and other useful tips and techniques that might be
- helpful in specific situations. Some of the information is intended for the
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- and compatibility testing phases, which involved over 30,000 users of early
- versions. We want to share this information with you.
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- information and exchange messages with other OS/2 users, 24 hours a day. If
- you run into problems or simply need a question answered about OS/2 2.0,
- there are two ways to get help electronically: the new IBM BBS (Bulletin
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- 1-609-596-1267. This locator service allows you to enter an area code, and
- the voice unit responds with phone numbers of bulletin boards in your area.
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- to installing or using OS/2 2.0. The voice support is available for a
- no-charge, no-obligation, 60-day trial. To take advantage of this special
- offer, and receive additional details about the OS/2 Support Line, call
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- OS/2 product or the Local Area Network Server Version 2.0 product.
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- version (for example, because you purchased a larger hard disk), you must put
- an operating system on the hard disk. For example, if your previous
- operating system was DOS, start your computer with a DOS diskette, and then
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- the diskette over and slide the black tab up at the bottom right side so that
- the tab covers the square hole in the diskette. If the tab is missing, place
- a piece of tape over the hole. Covering the hole enables information to be
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- o If you formatted during installation, and the installation failed,
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- try to install again without formatting. If the installation fails
- again, you might want to back up any data files you need from the drive
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- you are advised to do so by an IBM dealer or representative. After
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- installing Dual Boot, in which case you must have DOS on the system before
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- installation and the swap drive on the same partition. The less memory you
- have, the larger the swap file you need, and, therefore, the larger the
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- with a REM statement if you click on AUTOMATICALLY UPDATE CONFIG.SYS AND
- AUTOEXEC.BAT during installation. Instead, click on USER EDIT CONFIG.SYS AND
- AUTOEXEC.BAT so you can copy your device-driver statements to your new
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- displayed while Diskette 2 is in the installation drive. If the Mouse panel
- is not displayed for you, OS/2 2.0 has been able to determine the correct
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- Serial Mouse driver, which is not the correct driver. To select the correct
- mouse driver, use the keyboard to select OS/2 SYSTEM, SYSTEM SETUP, SELECTIVE
- INSTALL, MOUSE in the System Configuration window, and then OK. Those steps
- install the default mouse driver, the PS/2 Style Pointing Device driver, that
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- and switch to OS/2 2.0, your mouse might be running in a mode set by a
- DOS-based mouse device driver. To correct the problem, type the following at
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- commands you would type ("MOUSE PC" and "BOOT /OS2"). For information about
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- 2. Copy HILMOU.SYS and NOEXBIOS.SYS to the C:\OS2 directory. (Those files
- are supplied by Hewlett-Packard.)
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- if it has a command for changing the mode. If so, try to reset the mouse to
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- Utility/2 (LIU/2), program package number 5799-PTC. To order the package,
- contact your IBM representative or an IBM dealer. The one-time charge is
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- o Problems while using specific installation diskettes (they are referenced
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- o Messages that are displayed on the screen
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- that follows. You must have a version of DOS on a DOS diskette or on your
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- DISKCOPY command to make the backup.) Do not change the file on your
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- OS/2 2.0. If the system stopped running with the LOGO screen displayed,
- there might be a conflict with the interrupt settings of your hardware
- devices. Check all interrupt-request (IRQ) settings on all your hardware
- devices and make sure that each one is using a unique IRQ. Future Domain
- controllers are shipped from the factory preset to use IRQ5. IRQ5, however,
- is the interrupt that is normally assigned to LPT2. Also, it is common for
- IRQ5 to be used by sound or communications adapters. You might not see a
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- drive of a non-IBM computer, there might be a problem with the features
- of the hard disk drive controller. If the controller has on-board disk
- caching, disable the caching. If the controller can do asynchronous
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- IBM PC/AT mode. You need to change the mode from XT to AT by changing
- the jumper for pin 34 on your 1.44MB diskette drive. Refer to the
- information that came with your computer or diskette drive to find out
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- VGA display might be causing the problem. If you have a VGA display,
- refer to the Guide to Operations for your VGA adapter. If the adapter
- has auto-sense capability, find out how to turn off this feature. If the
- adapter has a resolution available other than 640x480, make sure the mode
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- installation prompts you to insert Diskette 16, your drive A is not being
- recognized as a 1.44MB drive. You must set the Basic Input/Output System
- (BIOS) to recognize drive A as 1.44MB. Refer to the documentation that
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- computer dealer and request the engineering change announcement "ECA068".
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- o Find out if a diskette drive or a hard disk drive controller has an
- additional device attached to it, such as a tape backup. Disconnect the
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- own IRQ level. Refer to the operations manual that came with your
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- you have error code "EC=00BF" (meaning that the DOS environment cannot be
- created), check your CONFIG.SYS file. Make sure your virtual DOS device
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- installation, you might have a defective diskette drive controller or cable.
- Check the controller and cable for damage, and also check all their
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- a white screen and the disk light constantly on. If so, try switching the
- system board out of turbo mode, to reduce the speed of the computer. Refer
- to the documentation that came with your computer to find out how to change
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- activity, set the video adapter to 8 bits and move the adapter to an 8-bit
- slot. If possible, disable the auto-switching capability of the video
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- video ROM chip on the adapter. Contact ATI at 416-756-0711 to request an
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- OS/2 2.0 because of an old version of BIOS. Information is provided about
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- installation diskettes, or you see SYS2025 or SYS2027 displayed on the
- screen, you might have a problem because of BIOS from American Megatrends,
- Inc. (AMI) AMI. To find out, do the following:
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- 2. If the BIOS is from AMI, look for one of the following statements:
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- the BIOS date is indicated by mmddyy. Check your computer screen to see
- if the date is acceptable. If the BIOS is an older version, contact the
- dealer at your place of purchase for information about upgrading the
- BIOS. Or, contact Washburn & Co., the distributors of AMI BIOS products,
- at 716-248-3627.
- 4. If the BIOS has an acceptable date, you might have a problem because the
- keyboard controller is an old version. The controller must be version KF
- or later (for example, KG). In the previous statements, the keyboard
- controller is indicated by Kc and c. Check your computer screen to see
- if the keyboard controller is an acceptable version. If it is not,
- contact your computer dealer or Washburn & Co..
- 5. If the BIOS and keyboard controller are acceptable versions, you might
- have a problem because your hard disk drive is an old version. Check the
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- If your hard disk drive is an old version, contact the dealer at your
- place of purchase or the manufacturer for information about upgrading the
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- If your computer does not work properly, you might have revision E of a
- Micronics system board. That board contains an old version of BIOS. If you
- purchased the board from Gateway, contact Gateway 2000, Inc. at 800-523-2000
- and request an upgrade to revision F.
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- If you have an early version of a Gateway 2000 computer that does not work
- properly, your BIOS might be an old version. The company suggests that you
- replace the system board. Contact Gateway 2000, Inc. at 800-523-2000 for
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- correct the installation problem by adding a patch to your Installation
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- Ask a local IBM dealer, a friend, or a co-worker if you can use their
- computer for a few minutes. Take your OS/2 2.0 Installation Diskette
- and a blank, formatted, high-density 3.5-inch diskette with you.
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- Center at 800-237-5511 and request that a patched Installation Diskette be
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- 2. Double-click on COMMAND PROMPTS.
- 3. Double click on OS/2 WINDOW. You will see an OS/2 command prompt.
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- If the installation procedure stops before completion, you might be able to
- complete the installation without reusing all the installation diskettes.
- You do not have to use all diskettes again if the installation stopped after
- you were prompted to put the Installation Diskette in the drive the second
- time (after you are in the graphical installation). For example, if you were
- copying files from Diskette 9 on a 3.5-inch-diskette system, you could resume
- the installation at Diskette 9 after doing the following:
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- procedure stopped.
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- you have 3.5-inch installation diskettes. (Subtract the number from 18
- if you have 5.25-inch installation diskettes.) For example, if you were
- on Diskette 9 on a 3.5-inch system, the result would be 7.
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- of the diskette that was in the diskette drive when the installation
- procedure stopped. In the example, this is 9.
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- install panel. Click on OK, then INSTALL, and select all defaults.
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- example, this would be Diskette 9, the diskette that was being loaded
- when the installation procedure stopped.
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- install OS/2 2.0 are preserved.
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- ____________
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- Following is information about running DOS or Windows applications, or
- Windows Version 3.1. You can also find out what to do if any of your
- previous applications did not migrate during installation.
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- After installation, and before you run any DOS or Windows applications, shut
- down your system and restart it. You only have to do this once, immediately
- after you finish installing OS/2 2.0.
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- Occasionally, the Migrate Applications program might not find all
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- Windows directory that is found is from a Windows Version 3.1 environment,
- either change the DOS PATH to point to a Windows Version 3.0 environment, or
- select the default environment.
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- CD-ROM (SELECTIVE INSTALL)
- __________________________
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- If you install CD-ROM using the SELECTIVE INSTALL program, do not install any
- other options at the same time.
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- ___________________
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- To enable the UNDELETE command, delete "REM" from the beginning of the
- following statement in the CONFIG.SYS file:
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- _______________________
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- If you cannot dual boot (switch from DOS to OS/2 by typing "Boot /OS2"), you
- might have one or more active TSR (terminate and stay resident) or DOS cache
- programs. If so, end the programs before you switch to DOS.
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- ____________
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- Following is information about using the Boot Manager.
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- The Setboot utility program supports an immediate-restart function that will
- restart the system to the specified drive without going through the Boot
- Manager Menu. The parameter is /IBD:DRIVE, where DRIVE is the letter of a
- startable partition. For example, from the OS/2 command prompt, you can type
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- the Boot Manager is not present, then only drive C can be specified.)
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- If you are using Boot Manager, and one of your partitions contains OS/2
- Version 1.3 with Dual Boot, copy BOOT.COM from the OS/2 2.0 \OS2 subdirectory
- to the OS/2 Version 1.3 \OS2 subdirectory.
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- ________________________________
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- and a WD 506 clone), the second drive might not work properly after you
- install OS/2 2.0. If so, reformat that drive with DOS or OS/2 2.0.
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- Workplace Shell(*). For WIN-OS/2-specific topics, you should also refer to
- Chapter 8, "Windows Version 3.0 Programs Support" on page 65.
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- STARTING UP YOUR SYSTEM
- _______________________
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- o If you are using the file allocation table (FAT) file system, you should
- update your CONFIG.SYS file with the following statement to auto-check
- drive C (or your startable partition):
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- DISKCACHE=64,LW /AC:C
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- NOTE: This function is done automatically in the High Performance File
- System (HPFS).
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- o The Startup folder is the OS/2 Workplace Shell equivalent of the
- STARTUP.CMD file. Objects placed in a startup folder are started when
- the Desktop folder is opened. You cannot guarantee the order in which
- the objects are started.
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- NOTE: Place program objects in this folder instead of the executable
- program-file objects.
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- o If you want to prevent programs from automatically starting when the
- computer is restarted (for example, programs located in the Startup
- folder or programs that were running at the time the computer was shut
- down), do the following:
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- 1. Press Ctrl+Alt+Del to restart the computer.
- 2. When the mouse pointer appears, press Ctrl+Shift+F1.
- 3. Hold the keys for approximately 15 seconds, or until the desktop
- icons appear. (If the hard disk light stops during this time, your
- computer might be suspended. Release the keys quickly, and then
- resume holding the keys until the desktop icons appear.)
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- o The STARTUP.CMD file is started before the OS/2 Workplace Shell is
- started; therefore, you cannot start applications using this file if they
- require an initialized shell.
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- o If you want a customized system startup, you can update your CONFIG.SYS
- file with the following statements:
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- YES Default. Start all objects that were
- running at time of shutdown.
- NO Do not start any applications that were
- running at time of shutdown.
- STARTUPFOLDERSONLY Start objects only in the Startup folder.
- REBOOTONLY Start objects only if the OS/2 Workplace
- Shell is starting after resetting with
- Ctrl+Alt+Del or turning on the computer.
- This parameter can be used with one of the
- other parameters (for example, YES).
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- NOTE: In preparation for a situation where a faulty application
- suspends your computer, you might want to add the REM SET
- RESTARTOBJECTS=NO statement to your CONFIG.SYS file. Then,
- should an application fail to function, you can restart your
- system using the OS/2 Installation diskette, and then edit the
- CONFIG.SYS file and activate the statement by removing the
- word REM. When you restart your computer, the faulty
- application (and all others) are kept from restarting.
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- FOLDERS Folders are opened, including the Desktop folder.
- TASKLIST The Window List is opened.
- PROGRAMS Programs are opened.
- CONNECTIONS Re-creates the network connections established
- when you last logged on.
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- NOTE: This option is used to start parts of the OS/2 Workplace
- Shell. Eliminating any of the above in the list restricts
- users from accessing portions of the shell (for example,
- limiting a user to only a few applications).
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- ICONS, TABS, OR BIT MAPS DO NOT APPEAR
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- o Because of device-resource limitations, when too many applications are
- open, or when too many bit maps are visible on the screen, new icons,
- tabs, or other bit maps might not be drawn. To fix this situation, close
- unused folders and applications so their device resources can be used by
- other processes.
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- you start the operating system, you can reset the desktop to its default
- configuration by doing the following:
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- WARNING: THIS PROCEDURE REMOVES ANY DESKTOP CUSTOMIZATION DONE SINCE
- INSTALLING THE OPERATING SYSTEM.
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- 1. Press Ctrl+Alt+Del to restart the computer.
- 2. Before the OS/2 Logo panel appears, hold down Alt+F1 for 20 seconds.
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- renamed and replaced by the default installation versions in the
- \OS2\INSTALL subdirectory. If you have a STARTUP.CMD file, it also is
- renamed. This deactivates the startup feature.
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- RESTORING THE DESKTOP
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- If your desktop becomes damaged (for example, if you start a specific version
- of DOS and rearrange your hard disk, damaging either INI files or extended
- attributes), you must restore the initial INI and CONFIG.SYS files to restore
- the desktop. However, any modifications (such as shadows and associations
- created after installation) are lost and must be re-created. To restore the
- desktop, do the following to update your existing INI files:
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- 1. Restart your computer using the OS/2 Installation Diskette; then insert
- Diskette 1.
- 2. Press Esc to access an OS/2 full screen; then change to the \OS2
- directory.
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- MAKEINI OS2.INI INI.RC (and press Enter)
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- MAKEINI OS2SYS.INI INISYS.RC (and press Enter)
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- 4. Delete the hidden file WP ROOT. SF in the startable partition. Type:
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- ATTRIB -h -s -r "WP ROOT. SF" (HPFS) (and press Enter)
- or
- ATTRIB -h -s -r WP_ROOT._SF (FAT) (and press Enter)
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- DEL "WP ROOT. SF" (HPFS) (and press Enter)
- or
- DEL WP_ROOT._SF (FAT) (and press Enter)
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- If the above procedure does not fix the problem, do the following to recover
- the backup INI files. You will lose all your information, but the system
- should be restored.
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- 1. Press Ctrl+Alt+Del to restart your computer.
- 2. As soon as you hear a single beep, or you press Enter at the Boot Manager
- menu or power-on password prompt, press and hold Alt+F1. Hold these keys
- down until you hear rapid beeping.
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- If the preceding procedures do not fix the damaged desktop, do the following
- to re-create the INI files:
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- 1. Restart your system using the OS/2 Installation Diskette; then insert
- Diskette 1.
- 2. Press Esc to access an OS/2 full screen; then change to the \OS2
- directory.
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- 4. Re-create both files using the MAKEINI command. Type:
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- MAKEINI OS2SYS.INI INISYS.RC (and press Enter)
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- 5. Change to the desktop directory, OS!2_2.0_D (FAT) or "OS!2 2.0 DESKTOP"
- (HPFS).
- 6. Delete all subfolders (subdirectories) in this directory.
- 7. Change to the root directory.
- 8. Delete the hidden file WP ROOT. SF in the startable partition. Type:
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- ATTRIB -h -s -r "WP ROOT. SF" (HPFS) (and press Enter)
- or
- ATTRIB -h -s -r WP_ROOT._SF (FAT) (and press Enter)
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- or
- DEL WP_ROOT._SF (FAT) (and press Enter)
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- 9. Press Ctrl+Alt+Del. The desktop is reinstalled to its initial
- installation setup.
- 10. Shut down the system using the SHUT DOWN choice on the desktop pop-up
- menu.
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- NOTE: Use MAKEINI instead of the Alt+F1 key combination if you do not want
- to replace the CONFIG.SYS file and desktop. The install process
- places a copy of the original OS2.INI, OS2SYS.INI, and CONFIG.SYS
- files in the \OS2\INSTALL subdirectory. These are the same INI files
- created with MAKEINI. They will rebuild the desktop and set it to its
- initial installed state.
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- o If you lose a folder by moving it to a folder you are unable to access,
- you can recover the folder. From an OS/2 Window, use the MOVE command to
- relocate the folder (for example, the OS/2 System folder, "OS!2_SYS."),
- to the proper location.
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- black, there might have been a timing problem that occurred when a new
- icon was saved using the General page in the settings notebook. Try
- correcting the appearance by re-creating or re-storing the icon.
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- and .BAT) from their installed directories (for example, moving a
- program-file object from the Drives folder to a new location). Instead, you
- should create a new object that refers to the original, either a program
- object or a shadow; then you can move the new object to a location of your
- choice. (Program-object settings and shadow settings specify the location of
- the original program-file object.) To create a program object or shadow:
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- 1. Display the pop-up menu for the program-file object by moving the mouse
- pointer to it and clicking mouse button 2.
- 2. Click on CREATE ANOTHER or CREATE SHADOW.
- 3. Click on a folder for the new object; then click on CREATE.
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- NOTE: The CREATE ANOTHER choice, when used on a program-file object, creates
- a program object, not a program-file object.
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- If you want to create an icon for a DOS, Windows, or OS/2 application that
- does not have one, but has graphics within the application, do the following:
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- 1. Run the application in a window session.
- 2. When you see an icon-sized graphic that you would like to use as the icon
- to represent your program, size the window, making the image
- approximately the size of a desktop icon.
- 3. Click on the title-bar icon (in the upper-left corner of the window);
- click on MARK.
- 4. Mark the graphic.
- 5. Click on COPY to move the graphic to the clipboard.
- 6. Display the pop-up menu for the object by moving the mouse pointer to it
- and clicking mouse button 2.
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- 9. Click on CREATE ANOTHER to display the Icon Editor.
- 10. Click on FILE, click on NEW, click on ICON; then click on OK.
- 11. Click on EDIT, then PASTE to paste in your graphic. If necessary, use
- the Icon Editor to make any changes you want in the graphic.
- 12. Click on FILE, then SAVE to store the program name.ICO file in the same
- drive and directory as the program file (.COM or .EXE file).
- 13. Double-click on the title-bar icon to exit the editor.
- 14. From the settings notebook, click on FIND; then locate the saved .ICO
- file. (Clicking on DRIVES is the easiest search.)
- 15. Click on the icon; then save the file.
- 16. Exit the settings notebook. The original icon is replaced with the
- graphic from the application.
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- If you want to change the color of the title-text of all the icons in a
- folder, do the following:
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- 2. Double-click on SYSTEM SETUP.
- 3. Double-click on COLOR PALETTE.
- 4. Press and hold Ctrl; then, pressing and holding mouse button 2, drag a
- color to an icon. Drop the color; then release Ctrl.
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- If you want another method of accessing an OS/2 Window, you can add OS/2
- WINDOW as a new menu choice on the desktop pop-up menu. Do the following:
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- 1. Display the pop-up menu for the Desktop folder by clicking mouse button 2
- on an area not covered by any objects or windows.
- 2. Click on the arrow to the right of OPEN.
- 3. Click on SETTINGS; then click on the MENU tab.
- 4. From the ACTIONS ON MENU choices, click on CREATE ANOTHER.
- 5. In the Menu item name field, type OS/2 WINDOW.
- 6. In the PROGRAM NAME field, type C:\OS2\CMD.EXE (change to a different
- drive, if necessary).
- 7. Click on OK.
- 8. Double-click on the title-bar icon to close the notebook.
- 9. Display the Desktop folder pop-up menu again. "OS/2 Window" is added to
- the available menu choices. If you click on this choice, an OS/2 Window
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- 1. Display the pop-up menu for the folder by moving the mouse pointer to it
- and clicking mouse button 2.
- 2. Click on the arrow to the right of OPEN.
- 3. Click on SETTINGS; then click on the MENU tab.
- 4. Click on OPEN in the AVAILABLE MENUS field. The Menu Settings window is
- displayed.
- 5. In the DEFAULT ACTION field, click on the default you want.
- 6. Click on OK.
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- Each section of the notebook contains 1 page only.
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- start other programs, do not always minimize to the Minimized Window
- Viewer.
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- Page 2 does not exist in Find operations.
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- the name of the original object is changed.
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- If you receive the message "Incorrect DOS version" when trying to run a DOS
- application under OS/2 2.0, the application is using an old level of DOS on
- your computer. To fix the problem, update the DOS setting DOS_VERSION.
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- session or DOS application, refer to the section on SVGA support in
- Chapter 9, "Video/Graphic Support" on page 71. Additionally, try the
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- 2. Change the DOS setting for the object to "HW_ROM_TO_RAM to ON."
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- 3. Press Ctrl+Alt+Del to restart your computer and make the change active.
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- o If you formatted your installation drive with HPFS, you might not be able
- to access files in the Desktop folder from DOS or WIN-OS/2 applications.
- DOS and WIN-OS/2 applications use the FAT file system.
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- o If you are typing a command in the HPFS, you must include double
- quotation marks around the name of the subdirectory or file name if it
- contains blanks. For example, to change to the OS!2 2.0 Desktop
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- o In some low-resource situations, the final shutdown message might not
- appear after a shutdown is performed. To ensure that shutdown is
- complete, wait until all disk activity stops before turning off or
- restarting your computer by pressing Ctrl+Alt+Del.
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- 2. Press Up Arrow (A) to move the cursor to "OS/2 2.0 Desktop - Icon
- View"; then press Enter.
- 3. Press Ctrl+\ to deselect any selected icons.
- 4. Press Shift+F10 to display the pop-up menu for the desktop.
- 5. Press Down Arrow (V) to move the cursor to SHUT DOWN; then press
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- your system by pressing Ctrl+Alt+Del instead:
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- rearranged the icons you placed in specific positions on the screen.
- Restarting your system recovers your icon positions.
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- - If you opened several folders containing many icons, shut down will
- take a long time saving the positions of the icons. You might want
- to restart your system without doing a shut down as long as you are
- certain that you will not lose anything else of importance.
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- o If you shut down your system, but do not receive the message "Shutdown
- has completed. It is now safe to turn of your computer...", you should
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- information to help you diagnose printing problems.
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- CONFIGURING YOUR COMPUTER FOR PRINTING
- ______________________________________
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- On most AT bus (ISA) parallel ports, the configuration is done by either
- dual-inline package (DIP) switches or jumper settings. Most of the systems
- and adapters purchased have literature that explains the interrupt request
- (IRQ) level and port setting for each port. The following are standard
- parallel-port address and IRQ settings:
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- AT EISA/MC
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- 3BC/IRQ7 LPT1 3BC/IRQ7
- 278/IRQ5 LPT2 378/IRQ7
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- 378/IRQ7 LPT2 378/IRQ7
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- Dip switches and jumper settings reside on the system board or adapter in
- your computer. To change their configuration, do the following:
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- 1. Turn off your computer.
- 2. Remove the parallel-port adapter.
- 3. Configure the adapter on the board or card by adjusting the DIP switches
- and/or jumpers to set the parallel port to one of the industry standard
- combinations. Ensure that other adapters are not configured to use the
- same IRQ level (for example, the one assigned to the printer port).
- Sound, Musical Instrument Device Interface (MIDI), LAN, and serial
- adapters might be sharing these same hardware-interrupt levels and
- creating interference.
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- HARDWARE ADAPTERS AND IRQ CONFLICTS
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- AT bus (ISA) computers do not allow hardware-interrupt sharing; therefore,
- each adapter must be configured to a separate IRQ level to be able to work
- properly. Some adapters, such as SoundBlaster, are factory configured to
- IRQ7, or their accompanying instructions recommend that you configure them to
- IRQ7. This might be the same hardware-interrupt level as the first parallel
- port. If you intend to print, this conflict must be resolved. You might be
- able to use IRQ10 with SoundBlaster because it does not conflict with
- parallel ports (IRQ7,IRQ5) or IRQ5 if LPT2 is not being used. Refer to
- "Configuring Your Computer for Printing" on page 31 and "Setting the
- Interrupt Request (IRQ) Level on an ISA System" on page 90 for more
- information about possible parallel-port and IRQ settings.
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- Refer to the reference manual for your adapters to configure the IRQ levels
- for your parallel-ports (could be on the system board) and other adapters in
- your system.
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- If you have a Personal System/2(*) system that supports direct-memory-access
- (DMA) parallel ports, OS/2 2.0 can take advantage of it. The current systems
- with a DMA parallel port include PS/2 models 56, 57, 80-A21, 80-A31, 90, and
- 95. If you have one of these systems, ensure that the parallel-port
- arbitration level is set to SHARED7 (enabled). OS/2 2.0 will automatically
- take advantage of this feature; no additional OS/2 setup is required. If you
- are an OS/2 Version 1.3 customer with Corrective Service Diskette 5054 (or
- later) installed, and you have disabled the parallel-port arbitration level,
- you need to re-enable it in order for OS/2 2.0 to take advantage of the
- feature. Use the Reference Diskette shipped with the computer to view the
- system configuration, and then set the parallel-port arbitration level to
- SHARED7.
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- If you want to use a Cannon BubbleJet printer with OS/2 2.0, use one of the
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- o The BubbleJet BJ10E can emulate an IBM Proprinter x24E using the IBM42xx
- driver.
- o The BubbleJet BJC800 can emulate an Epson LQ2550 using the OS/2 Epson
- driver.
- o The BubbleJet LBP8 III+ can emulate an Epson LQ2550 or Proprinter x24E
- using the appropriate driver.
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- If you want to use a Deskjet, DeskJet+, DeskJet 500, or DeskJet 500C printer,
- install the Epson driver and then select HP DESKJET 500.
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- NOTE: The HP DeskJet 500C will not produce color output using the HP DeskJet
- 500 device support in the Epson printer driver.
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- If you are going to install the OS/2 HP LaserJet printer driver over an
- existing driver, be sure to delete all the old *.FNT files first. Delete the
- printer driver from the OS/2 Workplace Shell printer object, and respond YES
- when asked if the driver files should be deleted from the hard disk.
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- HP PAINTJET AND PAINTJET XL PRINTERS
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- These printers should use the Micrografx Paintjet printer driver
- (SMGXPJET.DRV) shipped with OS/2 2.0 on Printer Diskette 3.
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- Some applications, such as Aldus PageMaker, have problems printing multiple
- bit maps using this printer driver. If this occurs after the driver is
- installed, open the printer object settings notebook; then select
- PRINTER-SPECIFIC FORMAT on the Queues page.
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- IBM 3812, 3852, 5152, 5182, 5201-1, AND 5216 PRINTERS
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- Printer drivers were not shipped with OS/2 2.0 for IBM 3812, IBM 3852, IBM
- 5152, IBM 5182, IBM 5201-1, or IBM 5216 printers because they have been out
- of service for several years. However, you can use the printer drivers
- shipped with OS/2 Version 1.3. Download the printer drivers from CompuServe
- (located in Library 17), or use the IBM Electronic Device Driver Distribution
- system. (Refer to the order card in the OS/2 2.0 package.)
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- NOTE: The IBM 3812 printer can use the IBM 5152 printer driver by selecting
- 5152 compatibility mode in the 3812 printer. (For more information,
- refer to the documentation that came with your printer.)
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- For the IBM 4019 and 4029 printers, the beta version of the Automatic
- Emulation Switching (AES) Utility is available from the Lexmark International
- bulletin board service (BBS). The file is located in the Utilities directory
- and is called 40X95032.EXE. (For more information on the bulletin board,
- refer to "Accessing Lexmark International Bulletin Board Service" on
- page 35.)
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- If you have any problems accessing the Lexmark BBS, call Lexmark at
- 1-800-537-2540.
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- IBM 4072 EXECJET PRINTER
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- If you have an IBM 4072 Execjet printer, you might want to obtain the new
- beta version of the OS/2 IBM 42xx printer driver. The printer driver is
- available on the Lexmark bulletin board. The file is located in the Inkjet
- directory and is called OS24072.EXE. (For more information on the bulletin
- board, refer to "Accessing Lexmark International Bulletin Board Service" on
- page 35.)
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- NOTE: This is a beta driver; therefore, any problems should be reported to
- Lexmark International through their bulletin board service.
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- If you want to use a NEC P3200 printer, select EPSON driver; then select
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- If you want to use a NEC P6200 printer, select EPSON driver; then select
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- If you want to use a Star NX-1000 printer, select EPSON driver; then select
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- if your printer supports a more common printer in emulation mode; then
- install the corresponding printer driver.
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- ACCESSING LEXMARK INTERNATIONAL BULLETIN BOARD SERVICE
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- The phone number for the Lexmark bulletin board service is 1-800-453-9223.
- To access the BBS, select (N,8,1) for port settings, and use the XMODEM or
- ZMODEM protocols. Baud rates 1200 to 38400 are supported.
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- If you have any problems accessing the Lexmark BBS, call Lexmark at
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- This section describes the actions you can take to resolve some common
- printing problems.
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- SLOW PRINTING
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- If you have an AT bus (ISA) computer and your parallel printer prints slowly
- under OS/2, DOS, and WIN-OS/2 sessions, your parallel-port address and
- hardware-interrupt levels are not configured correctly. You need to
- reconfigure your hardware. Refer to "Configuring Your Computer for Printing"
- on page 31.
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- If you encounter printing problems with parallel ports (for example, nothing
- prints), ensure that you have installed the appropriate printer driver for
- your model printer. If the printer driver is correct, check the following:
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- o Check that your parallel ports are configured properly. Refer to
- "Configuring Your Computer for Printing" on page 31 for configuration
- settings.
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- o Verify that your printer cable meets parallel-port specifications. Some
- cables do not meet these specifications and can cause printing problems.
- (Cables that are longer than six feet in length are suspect. The
- six-foot cable-length problem is more evident on high-speed
- microprocessor systems.) Some cable manufacturers reduce the costs of
- their cables by not wiring all interface signals. This might not have
- been a problem under DOS, because DOS does not make use of all the
- signals within the parallel-port interface. However, some interface
- signals used to transmit data under OS/2 2.0 are not used when printing
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- printer-driver problem, interrupt problem, or cable problem, there might
- be a problem with your I/O adapter. Some older parallel-port adapters
- fail to generate hardware interrupts; therefore, they will not work with
- versions of the OS/2 operating system. These adapters usually work
- correctly under DOS, as DOS does not use hardware interrupts to print.
- The OS/2 2.0 operating system waits for the printer to send an interrupt
- when the printer is ready for more data. If your adapter does not
- generate interrupts, it must be replaced if you want to print under OS/2
- 2.0. If your printer-buffer light illuminates, or prints one character
- and then displays an error message (or otherwise behaves erratically),
- you might have an interrupt problem.
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- If your DOS application sending PostScript output stops printing, do the
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- 2. Open the printer-object settings notebook to the Queue page.
- 3. Turn off the PRINT WHILE SPOOLING check box.
- 4. Resend the print job.
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- while the printer is online by responding to the Retry message, your job
- might be damaged. To fix the problem, cancel the initial job, and resubmit
- it after resetting the printer.
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- If your printer worked under DOS, but does not work under OS/2 2.0, there is
- probably a problem with your hardware-interrupt level or printer cable.
- (Refer to "Unable to Print" on page 35.)
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- The spooler will not print a job until the application closes the print-data
- stream. Some DOS applications do not immediately close the print-data
- stream. If you see your print job as an icon with an arrow pointing to the
- document in the Job Icon View window, the job will not print. The arrow must
- point from the document to the print device. This will not occur until the
- application closes the data stream.
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- If your DOS print job does not begin printing until the application is
- stopped, the application has not closed the data stream. Use the DOS_DEVICE
- DOS setting to load the C:\OS2\MDOS\LPTDD.SYS device driver. Then, the
- PRINT_TIMEOUT DOS setting can be used to close the print job without having
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- If your DOS application print job is split into several spool files, you
- might need to disable the spooler to correct the problem. Some applications
- open and close the printer data stream for every character, line, or page.
- Disabling the spooler (using the Spooler object in the System Setup folder)
- is one way to correct this problem. Another alternative is to upgrade the
- application by contacting the manufacturer. If the problem occurs with
- complex printouts, you might increase the DOS setting PRINT_TIMEOUT value.
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- until you stop the DOS application, your DOS application is accessing the
- parallel-port hardware directly. OS/2 2.0 prevents two or more applications
- from simultaneously accessing the same parallel-port hardware. The second
- application must wait for the first application to stop, even if the second
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- installing OS/2 2.0, delete the printer driver and reinstall it under
- WIN-OS/2 using the WIN-OS/2 Control Panel.
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- the system, you might need to set the priority level higher using the
- Options menu in the WIN-OS/2 Print Manager.
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- spooler is active and the WIN-OS/2 printer does not use the Print Manager.
- (Disable using the Printer icon in the WIN-OS/2 Control Panel.) When the
- OS/2 spooler is active, WIN-OS/2 applications print directly to the OS/2
- spooler. Therefore, multiple print jobs can be spooled from one WIN-OS/2
- session or multiple WIN-OS/2 sessions. This does not apply to serial
- printers, because there is no spooling for COM devices to the OS/2 spooler
- (only to WIN-OS/2 Print Manager). If you are using LPTx but are unable to
- print from any other session, you must use LPTx.OS2 for WIN-OS/2 printing.
- If you are printing to a redirected port, you must use LPTx.OS2.
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- To enable support for LPT3.OS2, you need to configure an LPT3.OS2 destination
- that you can select from the ports listbox in the WIN-OS/2 Control Panel.
- You must shutdown your WIN-OS/2 session and edit the
- C:\OS2\MDOS\WINOS2\WIN.INI file. You need to add a "LPT3.OS2=" line
- following the "LPT2.OS2=" line in the ports section of the file. After
- saving the file, you can start the WIN-OS/2 session and Control Panel and
- then select the LPT3.OS2 destination.
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- o If you are installing the IBM4029 Windows PostScript printer driver for
- use in WIN-OS/2 sessions, do the following to avoid an invalid entry in
- the WIN.INI file.
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- 1. Double-click on CONTROL PANEL in the WIN-OS/2 session.
- 2. Double-click on PRINTERS.
- 3. Click on ADD PRINTER.
- 4. Click on UNLISTED PRINTER from the list of printers.
- 5. Insert Printer Driver Diskette 4 in drive A.
- 6. In the Files and Directories window, click on A.
- 7. Click on PSCRIPT.DRV from the files list. (The PostScript driver is
- installed.)
- 8. Click on CONFIGURE.
- 9. Click on the appropriate port.
- 10. Click on SETUP.
- 11. Click on IBM4029 (17 font, 600 dpi) from the list of printers.
- 12. Click on OK several times to remove the open windows.
- 13. Exit the Control Panel.
- 14. Save any changes; then exit the WIN-OS/2 session.
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- change the WIN.INI file in the OS2\MDOS\WINOS2 directory. Several lines
- in the file refer to the 4029 printer (for example, "IBM 4029 v52.3 (17
- Fonts, 600 Dpi"). Change the comma (,) to a colon (:).
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- o To improve the performance of viewing the contents of a network printer
- object, use a long refresh interval or set the interval to 0 (no
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- network printer-object template will not appear the next time you start
- the system. To make it reappear, move the network object back to the
- desktop and restart the system.
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- redirected to a network printer, you might need to use the LPTDD.SYS
- device driver. (Refer to "Printing Starts Only When DOS Application
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- modification. A few need specific attention, such as changes to DOS
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- GENERAL CONSIDERATIONS
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- Some categories of programs do not work correctly with OS/2 2.0 because of
- their design, or because they use undocumented interfaces, or because they
- perform restricted activities. The following list identifies these
- categories of programs:
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- o DOS extenders that require exclusive access to the 80386 control
- registers, such as the Virtual Control Program Interface (VCPI), are not
- supported because they would violate the integrity of the system. The
- DOS Protect-Mode Interface (DPMI 0.9), the Expanded Memory Specification
- (EMS), and the Extended Memory Specification (XMS) are supported.
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- o Programs that directly address the physical disk sectors to perform
- disk-write operations are not supported. These operations would violate
- the integrity of the system. This category includes most DOS UNDELETE
- programs.
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- o Some Windows programs make use of the Windows accessory programs, like
- the Calculator. If you already had Windows Version 3.0 installed and you
- did not format your hard disk when you installed OS/2 2.0, the accessory
- programs are on your hard disk and are supported by OS/2 2.0. However,
- the accessory programs are not part of the WIN-OS/2 environment included
- with OS/2 2.0.
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- o Programs (and hardware) that require the Windows Enhanced mode are not
- supported. This mode uses an unsupported memory-management method.
- Programs that run in the Windows Standard mode and Real mode are
- supported.
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- o Programs that manipulate the 80386 control registers, such as 386 DOS
- debuggers, are not supported; this would violate system integrity.
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- o Fax boards and programs that use more that 1000 interrupts per second
- (9600 baud or greater) are not supported. The following fax boards and
- programs contain timing sensitivities that might prevent reliable
- operation:
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- - Cardinal FAX
- - Practical Peripherals
- - Smartfax
- - Twincomm 24/96
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- keeps timing out, change the DOS settings as indicated below. If the
- first settings change does not fix the problem, change the next settings,
- and so forth.
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- 2. IDLE_SECONDS to 60, and IDLE_SENSITIVITY to 100
- 3. COM_HOLD to ON
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- If the DOS settings changes do not fix the problem, set PRIORITY_DISK_IO
- to NO in the CONFIG.SYS file.
-
- o If a TRAPD occurs in old DOS applications, and the CS:EIP register value
- is 150:00004912, then a protection fault has occurred in the OS/2 kernel.
- Use an HPFS partition as a workaround. A fix is forthcoming from IBM.
-
- Our testing has identified the following programs that perform one or more of
- the activities described above:
-
- o Ansel for Windows
- o Bound Checker (DOS)
- o Central Point Backup for Windows
- o Close-Up (Windows)
- o Desert Storm CD-ROM (Windows)
- o Distinct Back-Up (Windows)
- o DoDot 3.0 (Windows)
- o Fax Concentrator (DOS)
- o Magic-CV (DOS)
- o Mathematica 2.0 (Windows)
- o MusicPrinter Plus 4.0 (DOS)
- o OmniPage Professional 1.0 (Windows)
- o Oracle (DOS)
- (There is an OS/2 version of this program.)
- o Perceive for Windows
- o Phar-Lap DOS extenders prior to Version 4.0
- o Realizer 1.0 (Windows)
- o Sherlock Holmes CD-ROM (DOS)
- o Smartfax (DOS)
- o Soft-ICE (DOS)
- o Splash 1.01 (DOS)
- o Turbo Debugger (DOS)
-
- In addition to the restricted activities described previously, some general
- conditions you should be aware of are in the following list:
-
- o For more reliable DOS communications performance on slower systems, the
- combined baud rate should not exceed 9600 bps for one or more concurrent
- DOS applications.
-
- o You can improve the performance of DOS communications programs by using
- the 16450 or 16550 buffered communications chips.
-
-
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- o If you lose data using DOS communications software, set the
- PRIORITY_DISK_IO setting to NO in your CONFIG.SYS file, and the
- IDLE_SENSITIVITY setting to 100% in the DOS settings for the object.
-
- o Some DOS and Windows programs run correctly only in full-screen sessions.
- Any Windows program that does not use the Windows API to change the video
- mode should be run in a WIN-OS/2 full-screen session.
-
- o Some DOS and Windows programs must be installed or run in a
- "Specific-DOS" session; that is, in a session that was started by booting
- from an actual version of DOS.
-
- o Some programs run in OS/2 DOS or WIN-OS/2 sessions, but require that you
- install the program under DOS.
-
- o Windows programs cannot start DOS sessions or DOS programs.
-
- o DOS programs that use low-level file system calls cannot access HPFS
- disks.
-
- o Code-page-switching support is not available for graphics mode in DOS
- sessions.
-
- o Some DOS and Windows programs use security keys as protection against
- copyright infringement. The security key is a 25-pin connector that is
- connected to the parallel port of the computer on which the program is
- executing. The program checks to see if the connector is attached and,
- if the connector is not present, the program is assumed to be an illegal
- copy. When more than one DOS session is running one of these programs, a
- SYS1799 error can result. This occurs because the programs that use
- these security keys do not de-allocate the parallel port if a second
- session is started for a program that also requires the security key.
- This error is the result of a direct I/O parallel port contention
- mechanism that protects the user from possible data corruption. To
- disable this mechanism press Ctrl+Alt+PrtSc while the DOS session that
- first performed direct I/O to the parallel port has the keyboard focus.
-
- o Some of your Windows Multimedia Extension programs might not work
- correctly after being migrated to OS/2 2.0. Reinstall them under
- WIN-OS/2.
-
- o If the SYS0005 error "ACCESS DENIED" occurs when starting DOS programs,
- follow this procedure:
-
- 1. Shut down the system.
-
- 2. Insert the Installation Diskette into drive A.
-
- 3. Restart the system.
-
- 4. When prompted, remove the Installation Diskette, insert Diskette 1,
- and press Enter.
-
- 5. At the "Welcome to OS/2" screen, press Esc.
-
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-
- 6. Remove Diskette 1, and insert Diskette 2.
-
- 7. At the command prompt, type "CHKDSK C: /F:3 " and press Enter.
-
- 8. If you receive the error "cross-linked extended attribute", repeat
- the previous command until CHKDSK reports no errors.
-
- 9. After repeated attempts, if CHKDSK continues to report errors, note
- the names of the files related to the errors. Copy these files to a
- blank diskette and delete the files from the hard disk. Then, run
- CHKDSK again.
-
- 10. When CHKDSK reports no errors, copy the files back to their original
- location, and restart your system.
-
-
- SPECIFIC APPLICATIONS
- _____________________
-
- The following list provides information about the compatibility of specific
- programs with OS/2 2.0. This information is version specific; later versions
- of the same program might operate correctly. Some program manufacturers
- already have resolved incompatibility issues and have fixes available; these
- are noted.
-
- o ACTION! SAMPLER 1.0 (WINDOWS)
-
- - The DPMI_MEMORY_LIMIT WIN-OS/2 setting must be set to 5 or greater.
-
- o ADOBE TYPE MANAGER (WINDOWS)
-
- - When using an IBM 4029 printer in PPDS mode with Adobe Type Manager,
- some Windows programs may not function correctly. If this occurs, do
- not use the printer resident fonts. To disable printer resident
- fonts, bring up the control panel of the Windows Adobe Type Manager
- and ensure that the selection "Use Pre-built or Resident Fonts" is
- disabled.
-
- o AFTER DARK (WINDOWS)
-
- - To run in a WIN-OS/2 window session, change the object's settings to
- hide or minimize the icon to the desktop.
- - This program places a TSR (terminate and stay-resident) reference in
- the AUTOEXEC.BAT file when it is installed. To run in a WIN-OS/2
- window session, remove this reference from AUTOEXEC.BAT.
-
- o ALDUS PAGEMAKER 4.0 (WINDOWS)
-
- - The spelling checker cannot locate the dictionary.
- - Deselect the public setting to use the clipboard.
- - If you experience incorrect output when spooling Standard format
- files to the printer, set the printing to RAW mode. To do this, take
- the following actions:
- 1. Go to the Printer icon on the desktop.
- 2. Select OPEN, then SETTINGS, then QUEUE OPTIONS.
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- 3. Ensure that PRINTER SPECIFIC FORMAT is checked.
-
- o ALDUS PERSUASION 2.0 (WINDOWS)
-
- - Use the parallel ports to print.
- - Deselect the public setting to use the clipboard.
-
- o ARTS & LETTERS GRAPHICS EDITOR 3.1 (WINDOWS)
-
- - The DECIPHS utility program requires that a DOS session be started
- from the Windows environment; this is not supported.
- - To run in a WIN-OS/2 window, change the object's settings to minimize
- to the desktop.
- - The directory created by Arts & Letters is named A&L. The "&"
- character is a reserved character of the command shell, CMD.EXE; it
- is used for conjugated command lines. To change to the A&L directory
- with the CD command you must use one of two methods of quoting the
- directory name. The first method is to prefix the "&" in A&L with a
- ¬ (caret, shift 6):
- CD A¬&L
- The second method is to surround the entire directory name with
- quotation marks ("):
- CD "A&L"
- - If you are running Arts & Letters and you get a system error (a GDI
- trap), you must restart the operating system before running the
- program again. This is because the program left a portion of itself
- running when it ended and will not start a new copy of itself while
- that portion is running. This also means that when you restart the
- computer, Arts & Letters will start again automatically. It is
- recommended that you close the copy that is launched on system
- startup and start the program from its icon when you intend to run it
- in a window.
-
- o AUTOCAD VERSION 10 (DOS)
-
- - Close the program from the desktop.
- - If a TRAPD occurs, and the CS:EIP register value is 150:00004912,
- then a protection fault has occurred in the OS/2 kernel. Use an HPFS
- partition as a workaround. A fix is forthcoming from IBM.
-
- o AUTOCAD (OS/2)
-
- - Some of the background colors are set to an unusually pale color that
- does not show up well on XGA displays.
-
- o AUTOMANAGER 4.0 (DOS)
-
- - The version of the program that uses extended memory uses an
- unsupported DOS memory extender. Use the real-mode version.
- - The program expects COMMAND.COM to be in the root directory of drive
- C:\. Copy COMMAND.COM from the C:\OS2\MDOS directory to C:\.
-
- o BORLAND C++ 2.0 AND 3.0 (DOS)
-
-
-
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-
-
-
-
-
- - Set the DPMI_DOS_API DOS setting to ENABLED.
-
- o BORLAND TURBO C++ 2.0 (DOS)
-
- - The version of the program that uses extended memory uses an
- unsupported DOS memory extender. Use the standard version of the
- program.
-
- o BORLAND TURBO DEBUGGER 2.01 (DOS)
-
- - The version of the program that uses extended memory uses an
- unsupported DOS memory extender. Use the standard version of the
- program.
- - TD386, the 386 version of Turbo Debugger, manipulates the 80386
- control registers; this is not supported.
-
- o BORLAND TURBO DEBUGGER FOR WINDOWS (WINDOWS)
-
- - Run the program in a WIN-OS/2 full-screen session.
- - The screen is temporarily corrupted when this program is called from
- Turbo C++. The screen is restored on the first repaint (a repaint
- can be forced by clicking the mouse on several different windows).
-
- o BORLAND TURBO PASCAL 6.0 (DOS)
-
- - The version of the program that uses extended memory uses an
- unsupported DOS memory extender. Use the standard version of the
- program.
-
- o CENTRAL POINT BACKUP FOR DOS 7.1 (DOS)
-
- - Displays meaningless characters when running in a DOS window session.
- Run this program only in a DOS full-screen session.
-
- o CENTRAL POINT PC TOOLS DELUXE 7.1 (WINDOWS)
-
- - Many of the utility programs require starting a DOS session from the
- Windows environment; this is not supported. Start these programs
- from a separate DOS session.
- - The backup feature of this program performs in a manner similar to
- Central Point Backup for Windows, which is in the list of programs
- that perform restricted activities. If you experience difficulty
- backing up on a diskette, back up on an alternate device, such as a
- network drive or a tape drive.
-
- o COMMANDER KEEN (DOS)
-
- - Set the VIDEO_RETRACE_EMULATION DOS setting to OFF.
-
- o COMMUTE (WINDOWS)
-
- - When this program is installed under WIN-OS/2, the statement
- keyboard.drv=commkbd.drv is added to the SYSTEM.INI file. Change
- this statement to keyboard.drv=keyboard.drv.
-
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- o CONTROL ROOM 1.0 (DOS)
-
- - You must run this program in a DOS full-screen session for the screen
- blanking feature to work correctly.
-
- o CORELDRAW 2.0 (OS/2)
-
- - If you do a large amount of printing while in this program, it is
- possible that you might run out of system resources. To avoid this,
- you should periodically save your work and exit CorelDRAW, then
- restart the program and continue your work.
-
- o CORELDRAW 2.0 (WINDOWS)
-
- - Install the program in a DOS session.
- - Run the program in a WIN-OS/2 full-screen session.
-
- o CORELDRAW 2.1 (WINDOWS)
-
- - To install this program:
- - Start a DOS session.
- - Run FFIX /date (Note that "date" must be lowercase).
- - Run WINOS2 (from the command line).
- - Install the program.
- - Exit WIN-OS/2.
- - Run FFIX /u.
- - Run the program in a WIN-OS/2 full-screen session.
-
- o CROSSTALK (WINDOWS)
-
- - Run "MODE COMx BUFFER=OFF" from the command line, where x is the
- communications port you are using, before you run the program.
-
- o DBASE IV 1.1 (DOS)
-
- - If you receive a "too many files open" error message, set the
- DOS_FILES DOS setting to 30. Set the DOS_VERSION DOS setting to
- DBASE.EXE,5,0,255. With Hyperdisk, set DOS_VERSION to
- DBASE1.EXE,5,0,255.
- - When using Hyperdisk, you might have to adjust the EMS and XMS memory
- limits.
- - With the multi-user version, the program must be run in a
- Specific-DOS session.
-
- o DESIGNER (OS/2)
-
- - The MIRRORS.DLL that comes with this program must be installed in the
- program directory, as opposed to the C:\OS2\DLL directory, and the
- program must be started from this directory. This is because OS/2
- 2.0 comes with its own dynamic link library named MIRRORS.DLL.
-
- o DRAFIX CAD VERSION 1.11 (WINDOWS)
-
- - Run the program in a WIN-OS/2 full-screen session.
-
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-
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-
-
- o DRAFIX CAD VERSION 3.0 (WINDOWS)
-
- - Run the program in a WIN-OS/2 full-screen session.
-
- o DYNACOMM ASYNCHRONOUS OS/2 (OS/2)
-
- - The DLL's included with this product must not be in the same
- directory as the executable file. Put them in a separate directory
- and add that directory to the end of the LIBPATH.
-
- o ENHANCED EDITOR (OS/2)
-
- - The OS/2 Enhanced Editor supports up to 99 fonts. If additional
- fonts are installed, unpredictable results might occur.
- - In the online help for the enhanced editor, it states that you should
- contact your IBM representative for detailed information on how to
- program the editor. Instead, obtain this information from the IBM
- bulletin boards.
-
- o F-117A STEALTH FIGHTER 2.0 (DOS)
-
- - Set the VIDEO_RETRACE_EMULATION DOS setting to OFF.
- - If the program appears to stop at a blank screen soon after you start
- it, press ESC and the program will continue. Once you are past the
- opening screens, the program runs correctly.
-
- o F19 (DOS)
-
- - Set the HW_ROM_TO_RAM DOS setting to ON and the
- VIDEO_RETRACE_EMULATION DOS setting to OFF.
-
- o FASTBACK FOR WINDOWS (WINDOWS AND OS/2)
-
- - Use only Version 1.01, a no-charge upgrade from Fifth Generation
- Systems. To order, call 1-800-873-4384.
- - In the Options pull-down menu in the program, make sure that the
- Media setting is set to system default. (The other Media settings
- write to DMA device drivers, which have incompatibility problems.)
-
- o FASTBACK PLUS 2.1 AND 3.04 (DOS)
-
- - If you experience difficulty backing up on a diskette, back up on an
- alternate device, such as a network drive or a tape drive.
-
- o FASTLYNX 1.1 (DOS)
-
- - To use the serial port with this program, remove the
- DEVICE=C:\OS2\MDOS\VCOM.SYS statement from CONFIG.SYS. The parallel
- port works correctly.
- - Due to its high speed, the program sometimes fails to function. If
- this occurs, simply end the program; system integrity is not
- compromised. To minimize the possibility of this error condition,
- set the following DOS settings:
- HW_TIMER = ON
-
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- IDLE_SENSITIVITY = 100
- IDLE_SECONDS = 10
-
- o FORM PUBLISHER (WINDOWS)
-
- - Ensure that the program's printer driver is installed before running
- the program.
-
- o FORMBASE 1.2 (WINDOWS)
-
- - The SHARE statement is automatically added to AUTOEXEC.BAT during
- program installation. Use an editor to remove the SHARE command from
- AUTOEXEC.BAT.
- - When running this program and Lotus 1-2-3 in the same Windows
- session, this program must be started first.
-
- o FOTOMAN (WINDOWS)
-
- - Run the program in a WIN-OS/2 full-screen session.
-
- o FRAMEWORK III 1.1 (DOS)
-
- - The program expects COMMAND.COM to be in the root directory of C:\.
- Copy COMMAND.COM from the C:\OS2\MDOS directory to C:\.
- - Disable the program's print spooler; using it might cause an error.
-
- o HARVARD DRAW (WINDOWS)
-
- - When installing this program under WIN-OS/2, you will receive an
- error dialog box. Select OK in the dialog box and installation will
- complete successfully.
-
- o HARVARD GRAPHICS (WINDOWS)
-
- - When installing this program under WIN-OS/2, you will receive an
- error dialog box. Select OK in the dialog box and the installation
- will complete successfully.
- - When running in a window, the Color Selection windows are missing the
- Color Selection grid. Run the program in a WIN-OS/2 full-screen
- session.
-
- o HDC FILEAPPS 1.0 (WINDOWS)
-
- - The program uses the Windows Notepad for a README text file during
- installation. Indicate that you do not wish to read the file and
- installation will continue.
-
- o HP NEW WAVE 3.0 (WINDOWS)
-
- - Install the program under DOS. If you experience problems with
- program or session termination, set UseOS2shield=0 in SYSTEM.INI (in
- the \OS2\MDOS\WINOS2 directory on your start-up drive). If that does
- not help, run the program in a full-screen WIN-OS/2 session.
-
-
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-
-
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-
-
-
-
-
- o IBM 3363 OPTICAL DISK DRIVE*
-
- - The software for this product must be run in a Specific-DOS session
- that is started from drive A.
- - You should run only a small number of other processes when using this
- product.
-
- o IBM PC LAN SUPPORT PROGRAM (DOS)
-
- - If you close the DOS session that is running this program, you must
- first reset the token-ring adapter before you restart this session.
- To fix this problem, download RSTTOK.ZIP from the IBM BBS or from
- IBMFILES in CompuServe.
-
- o IBM PC/3270 V2.0* (DOS)
-
- - First, the program must be migrated using the OS/2 Migration utility
- program.
- - Then, in the Session Page of the DOS settings:
- - Select DOS FULL SCREEN or DOS WINDOW.
- - Set the VIDEO_MODE_RESTRICTION DOS setting to CGA.
- - Add "D:\â•’pathâ– DXMA0MOD.SYS" and "D:\â•’pathâ– DXMC0MOD.SYS" to the
- DOS_DEVICE DOS setting.
- - Then, in the Program Page of the DOS settings:
- - Set the Path and File Name to *.
- - Set the Parameters to /K d:\path\PC3270.BAT.
- - Set the Working directory to d:\path.
-
- o IBM PC/3270 V2.0* (OS/2)
-
- - First, the program must be migrated using the OS/2 Migration utility
- program.
- - Then, in the Session Page of the OS/2 settings:
- - Select DOS FULL SCREEN or DOS WINDOW.
- - Set the VIDEO_MODE_RESTRICTION DOS setting to CGA.
- - Then, in the Program Page of the DOS settings:
- - Set the Path and File Name to *.
- - Set the Parameters to /K d:\path\PC3270.COM.
- - Set the Working directory to d:\path.
-
- o IBM PC/3270 V2.0* (WINDOWS)
-
- - First, the program must be migrated using the OS/2 Migration utility
- program.
- - Then, in the Session Page of the WIN-OS/2 settings:
- - Add " /C PC3270WO.BAT" to the DOS_SHELL WIN-OS/2 setting.
- - Add "D:\â•’pathâ– DXMA0MOD.SYS", "D:\â•’pathâ– DXMC0MOD.SYS", and
- "D:\â•’pathâ– PCS802.SYS V=N" to the DOS_DEVICE WIN-OS/2 setting.
- - Set the "DOS_SHELL" setting to /C PC32700WO.BAT.
- - Set the "WIN-OS/2 window Separate session" or "WIN-OS/2 full
- screen" setting to ON (click on the check box until a check mark
- appears).
- - Then, in the Program Page of the WIN-OS/2 settings:
- - Set the Path and File Name to d:\path\PC3270.EXE.
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- - Set the Working directory to d:\path.
-
- o INTEL SATISFAXTION
-
- - The installation program displays the message "You have inserted the
- wrong diskette" when changing from disk one to disk two. After the
- error message is displayed, press Enter and the program will continue
- with installation.
- - At the end of installation of the Intel SatisFAXtion you are told to
- remove the diskette and press any key to reboot your machine.
- Instead, shut down the operating system and restart your computer.
- - If SatisFAXtion software is loaded into each DOS session, it might
- cause the fax to stop if another DOS session is started. Set up one
- DOS session to be used for faxing, and load the device driver and
- executable files only into that DOS session. To do this, take the
- following steps:
- 1. Edit AUTOEXEC.BAT.
- 2. Cut the last two lines referring to the Intel SatisFAXtion board
- to the clipboard and save the file (using DOS Command File for
- the file type).
- 3. Open a New file.
- 4. Paste the last two lines into the new file.
- 5. Save the new file as FAX.BAT, using DOS Command File as the file
- type.
- 6. Edit CONFIG.SYS and cut the last two lines relating to the Intel
- SatisFAXtion board to the clipboard (cut only the last line if
- you do not have a scanner installed).
- 7. Save the file using Plain Text as the file type.
- 8. In the Command Prompts folder, select a DOS Full Screen icon,
- press the CTRL key and mouse button 2 at the same time, move the
- mouse pointer to an empty area in the folder, and release the
- mouse button and the Ctrl key. This creates a copy of DOS Full
- Screen.
- 9. Put the mouse pointer over your new icon and press mouse button
- 2.
- 10. Click on the arrow next to OPEN, and select SETTINGS.
- 11. Go to the Session page and select the DOS SETTINGS push button.
- 12. Go to DOS_DEVICE and press mouse button 1. Then, move the mouse
- to the dialog area and press mouse button 1 (there should be a
- blinking cursor now).
- 13. Paste the text that you cut from the CONFIG.SYS file and select
- SAVE.
- 14. Go to the General page and replace the contents of the Title box
- with FAX (or whatever other title you choose).
- 15. If you want to edit the new session's icon, go to the General
- page and select the EDIT push button.
- 16. If you want to have this session start each time your system
- starts, move the icon to the Start Up folder.
- 17. Whenever you start this session, type FAX to run the FAX.BAT file
- before using the SatisFAXtion board. Use the fax board in only
- one session at a time.
- - If you install using this procedure and you receive error messages,
- install the program under DOS.
-
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- o KING'S QUEST (DOS)
-
- - Remove the DOS=HIGH statement, if one exists, from CONFIG.SYS or from
- the DOS_DEVICE DOS setting.
-
- o LAN SUPPORT PROGRAM DEVICE DRIVERS (DOS)
-
- - If you opened a DOS session with the DOS LAN Support Program (LSP)
- device drivers, and subsequently closed the session, you must ensure
- that the token-ring adapter is reset before using the LAN from
- another DOS session. To ensure that the token-ring adapter is reset,
- use RESETOKN.EXE or RESETOKN.SYS. These files can be retrieved from
- CompuServe by issuing GO IBMOS2 and downloading RESTKN.ZIP from
- SECTION 17, IBMFILES, or they can be retrieved from the IBM National
- Support Center Bulletin Board System by downloading RESTKN.ZIP.
- - The IBM token-ring adapter should be used by only one session at a
- time.
-
- o LANTASTIC 4.0 (DOS)
-
- - You might experience problems with this version of LANtastic. Use
- Version 4.1 instead. For more information, contact the ARTISOFT BBS
- at 602-293-0065.
-
- o LANTASTIC 4.1 (DOS)
-
- - Run this program in a Specific-DOS session. Set DOS_STARTUP_DRIVE
- DOS setting to the location of a DOS kernel to boot from.
- - If you are using Artisoft AE-2 or AE-3 adapters, set your adapters to
- 8-bit mode, as described in the adapter documentation.
-
- o LAPLINK PRO
-
- - Run "MODE COMx IDSR=OFF ODSR=OFF ORTS=OFF" from the command line,
- where x is the communications port you are using, before you run the
- program.
-
- o LAPLINK III 3.0 (DOS)
-
- - It is preferable that you use the parallel port. To use the serial
- port with this program, comment out the VCOM.SYS statement from
- CONFIG.SYS (by putting "REM " at the beginning of the line) and
- restart the computer. To use the serial port for other purposes,
- uncomment the lines in CONFIG.SYS and restart the computer.
-
- o LINKWAY MAMMALS (DOS)
-
- - Photomotion programs might exhibit some audio breakup and video
- hesitation during periods of CD ROM access.
-
- o LINKWAY PRESIDENTS (DOS)
-
- - Photomotion programs might exhibit some audio breakup and video
- hesitation during periods of CD ROM access.
-
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- o LOTUS 1-2-3 FOR WINDOWS 1.0 AND LOTUS 1-2-3 RELEASE 3.1 (WINDOWS)
-
- - Set the DPMI_MEMORY_LIMIT DOS setting to a minimum of 3MB.
- - After migrating the program to the Workplace Shell, copy the file
- 123W.INI to the \OS2\MDOS\WINOS2 directory (from the directory
- previously containing Windows 3.0).
- - If you plan to use this program, follow these steps:
- 1. Create a batch file called LOTUS.BAT which contains:
-
- @ECHO OFF
- CLS
- PROMPT $p$g
- PATH=X:\LOTUS
- SET 123MEMSIZE=2048
- ... (any other lines)
- 123.EXE (last line in file)
-
- 2. Open the Templates folder from the desktop. Select the Program
- Icon by single-clicking on it with the left mouse button. Drag a
- program template to the desktop using the right mouse button.
- 3. Single-click on the program template on the desktop with the
- right mouse button to reveal the Object menu. Select OPEN
- SETTINGS. A notebook display will be opened.
- 4. In the PROGRAM AND FILENAME field, enter:
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- x:\path\lotus.bat
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- 5. Select the SESSION Tab and click on the DOS FULL SCREEN radio
- button. Select the DOS SETTINGS push button.
- 6. Select or add the following DOS Settings:
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- DOS_UMB ON
- DOS_HIGH ON
- DOS_VERSION INSTALL.EXE,3,40,255
- 123.EXE,3,40,255
- LOTUS.EXE,3,40,255
- 123DOS.EXE,3,40,255
- ZAP.EXE,3,40,255
- INS.EXE,3,40,255
- DPMI_MEMORY_LIMIT 4 OR HIGHER
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- 7. Click on the General Tab, and add:
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- Title -> Lotus 123 (or whatever you choose)
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- Close the notebook by selecting CLOSE or double-clicking on the
- system menu.
- 8. Start the DOS session by double-clicking on the DOS full-screen
- icon.
- 9. From the A: prompt, type INSTALL to install the product.
- 10. Start the LOTUS Specific-DOS session by double-clicking on the
- LOTUS program object.
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- - If you experience installation problems, contact the Lotus
- Development Corporation. Lotus will provide a fix.
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- You can also download FLGOS2.ZIP from the IBM BBS or from IBMFILES in
- CompuServe, or download INSTAL.ZIP from the LOTUS section of
- CompuServe.
- - If you experience problems with the color, change the palette from
- the Freelance menus. Instructions on how to do this can be found in
- the Lotus Freelance Graphics for OS/2 User's Guide. A set of new
- default palettes for Freelance Graphics is available. These can be
- retrieved from CompuServe by issuing GO IBMOS2 and downloading
- PALETT.ZIP from SECTION 17, IBMFILES, or they can be retrieved from
- the IBM National Support Center Bulletin Board System by downloading
- PALETT.ZIP.
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- o LOTUS FREELANCE GRAPHICS FOR WINDOWS (WINDOWS)
-
- - The pointer to printer objects points to Screen Show instead of to
- the printer.
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- o LOTUS MAGELLAN 2.0 (DOS)
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- - The UNDELETE function in the program uses physical sector addressing,
- which is not supported. Use the OS/2 UNDELETE command.
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- o LOTUS NOTES (OS/2)
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- - To use Notes 2.x, you must delete the file QWC.EXE from the Notes
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- program directory. This file is used only for support in the field,
- and, therefore, its removal will not affect program execution.
-
- o MAGICORP (WINDOWS)
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- - Running this program with other programs in the same WIN-OS/2 session
- might cause a system halt. Run this program by itself in a WIN-OS/2
- full-screen session.
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- o MATHCAD 3.0 (WINDOWS)
-
- - To install this program:
- - Start a DOS session.
- - Run FFIX /date (Note that "date" must be lowercase).
- - Install the program (the installation program is a DOS program).
- - Run FFIX /u.
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- o MATHCAD 3.1 (WINDOWS)
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- - Set the DPMI_MEMORY_LIMIT DOS setting to 64 or greater.
- - Set the XMS_MEMORY_LIMIT DOS setting to 0.
- - Set the EMS_MEMORY_LIMIT DOS setting to 0.
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- - Set the VIDEO_RETRACE_EMUL setting to OFF and the HW_TIMER setting to
- ON.
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- o MORE WINDOWS (WINDOWS)
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- - If you use the Full-Page Paper White mode or Full-Screen Color mode,
- the screen might be disrupted. Avoid using these modes.
-
- o MS BOOKSHELF** - CD-ROM REFERENCE LIBRARY (DOS/MULTIMEDIA)
-
- - The program requires version 6.14 of the mouse device driver,
- MOUSE.COM, which comes with the product.
- - Animation programs might exhibit some audio breakup and video
- hesitation during periods of CD ROM access.
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- o MS CHART 3.0** (DOS)
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- - Install the program's mouse driver, and set MOUSE_EXCLUSIVE_ACCESS to
- ON.
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- o MS CODEVIEW** (DOS/OS/2)
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- - When using the protect-mode version, CVP 2.2 (for OS/2), trace
- through the source code, rather than through the assembler language.
- - In order for the program to work correctly, delete the PWBHLP.PXT
- help file.
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- o MS CODEVIEW FOR WINDOWS VERSION 3.0** (WINDOWS)
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- - Run the program in a WIN-OS/2 full-screen session.
-
- o MS EXCEL FOR DOS 2.1** (DOS)
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- - Set the XMS_MEMORY_LIMIT DOS setting to 0.
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- o MS EXCEL FOR OS/2 3.0** (OS/2)
-
- - The Help index and the Keyboard Help windows operate incorrectly.
- Avoid using these functions.
-
- o MS EXCEL FOR WINDOWS 3.0** (WINDOWS)
-
- - Deselect the public setting to use the clipboard.
- - When using dynamic data exchange (DDE), run it in the same WIN-OS/2
- session as the Windows program it is communicating with.
-
- o MS MONEY 1.0** (WINDOWS)
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- - Calls the Windows Calculator accessory program. Use the OS/2
- Calculator mini-application program in the Productivity folder.
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- o MS MSCDEX (DOS)
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- - Run the program in a specific-DOS session.
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- o MS QUICKC** (WINDOWS)
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- - Run the program in a WIN-OS/2 full-screen session.
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- o MS WINDOWS 3.0** (DOS)
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- - It is preferable that you run Windows programs under WIN-OS/2, which
- supports both Standard and Real mode Windows programs. If, however,
- you choose to run this program, run it in Real mode only.
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- o MS WORD (OS/2)
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- - You might have problems selecting items from the application menu,
- and the application appears to freeze. Call the Microsoft support
- number for their fix.
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- o MIRRORS III
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- - Run "MODE COMx BUFFER=OFF" from the command line, where x is the
- communications port you are using, before you run the program.
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- o NATIONAL GEOGRAPHICS MAMMALS (DOS)
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- - Photomotion programs might exhibit some audio breakup and video
- hesitation during periods of CD ROM access.
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- o NORTON BACKUP 1.2 (DOS)
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- - You might experience diminished performance when backing up to
- diskette.
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- o NORTON DESKTOP (WINDOWS)
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- - This program assumes that, if it is not the first program loaded,
- another desktop is running. Include the UseOS2shield=0 statement in
- SYSTEM.INI (in the \OS2\MDOS\WINOS2 directory on your start-up
- drive).
- - If you experience difficulty formatting a diskette, use the OS/2
- FORMAT command. If you experience difficulty backing up on a
- diskette, back up on an alternate device, such as a network drive or
- a tape drive.
- - Run the program in a WIN-OS/2 full-screen session.
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- o NORTON UTILITIES 5.0 (DOS)
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- - The UNDELETE functions require physical sector addressing, which is
- not supported. Use the OS/2 UNDELETE command.
- - The utility programs that manipulate the hard disk (for example,
- UNDELETE, UNFORMAT, DISKTOOL, CALIBRATE, the Disk Doctor, and the
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- used on floppy diskettes.
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- o PAINTSHOW PLUS 2.21 (DOS)
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- - Load the version of MOUSE.COM that comes with the program before
- starting the program.
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- o PARADOX 3.5 (DOS)
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- - The version of the program that uses extended memory uses an
- unsupported DOS memory extender. Use the standard version of the
- program.
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- o PEACHTREE COMPLETE III 5.0 (DOS)
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- - Set the DOS_FILES DOS setting to 60.
- - The program's Lookup function does not list all the companies that
- have been entered into the program's list of companies; it displays
- meaningless characters.
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- o PERFORM PRO 1.0 (WINDOWS)
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- - Run the program in a WIN-OS/2 full-screen session.
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- o PFS: FIRST CHOICE (DOS)
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- - When the program is run in a DOS window, the mouse pointer does not
- reflect tool selection.
- - Set the baud rate to 2400 or lower when using the communication
- feature.
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- o PFS: WINDOWWORKS 1.75 (WINDOWS)
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- - Run the program in a WIN-OS/2 full-screen session.
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- o PHOTOSTYLER (WINDOWS)
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- - Run the program in a WIN-OS/2 full-screen session.
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- o PM TERMINAL PROGRAM
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- - Make sure that the asynchronous communications driver, SASYNCDB.SYS,
- is not commented out on a REM statement in the CONFIG.SYS file.
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- o PUBLISHERS POWERPAK 2.1 (WINDOWS)
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- - Create the directory
- C:\OS2\MDOS\WINOS2\POWERPAK
- before running the installation batch file.
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- - Install printers from within the program, rather than during program
- installation.
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- o QUICKEN (DOS)
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- - Remove the DOS=HIGH statement, if one exists, from CONFIG.SYS or from
- the DOS_DEVICE DOS setting.
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- o QUICKEN FOR WINDOWS (WINDOWS)
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- - The program calls the Windows Calculator accessory program. Use the
- Calculator mini-application program in the Productivity folder.
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- o RISK (DOS)
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- - Do not use the program's shutdown function.
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- o SANTAFE MEDIA MANAGER (DOS)
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- - To install this program:
- - Start a DOS session.
- - Run FFIX /find (Note that "find" must be lowercase).
- - Install the program.
- - Run FFIX /u.
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- o SIDEKICK (OS/2)
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- - A printer must be installed and present on the desktop to use the
- Notepad.
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- o SIGNMASTER 5.11 (DOS)
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- - The plot/preview feature causes an illegal instruction to be issued.
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- o SOFT TERM (OS/2)
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- - In the Send File and Receive File windows, the first time the drive
- is changed,the Directory window updates incompletely. After the
- first time, the Directory window works normally.
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- o SOUNDBLASTER (DOS)
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- - The SBTEST utility program reports an incorrect DMA level during
- installation. Disregard the error message and continue with
- installation. The program will be installed correctly.
- - The PARROT program does not run in a DOS session.
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- o SPACE QUEST IV (DOS)
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- - Set DOS_BACKGROUND_EXECUTION to OFF so that the program is suspended
- when it is placed in the background.
- - Set up the program so that it does not use extended memory.
- - For best performance, run this program in a DOS full-screen session.
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- - For computers with a SoundBlaster card, change to the drive and
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- o SQLWINDOWS 3.0 (WINDOWS)
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- - The program accesses drive A at intermittent intervals. Keeping a
- scratch diskette or an empty diskette in drive A will save you from
- having to respond to "The A: device is not ready" error windows.
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- o STACKER 2.0 (DOS)
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- - This program does not run under OS/2 2.0. Stac Electronics has
- announced an OS/2 2.0 compatible version of Stacker that will be
- released later in 1992. Contact Stac Electronics for more
- information.
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- o THE WAY YOU WORK (DOS/WINDOWS)
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- - Install this program under DOS. Once installed, the program can be
- run in a DOS or WIN-OS/2 session.
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- o WINDOWS MULTIMEDIA EXTENSIONS (WINDOWS)
-
- - If you are running this program and another program that uses the
- audio adapter at the same time, unpredictable results might occur.
- - The OS/2 Multimedia Presentation Manager avoids this problem.
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- o WINFAX PRO (WINDOWS)
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- - Run this program only in a WIN-OS/2 full-screen session.
- - If you are using Dynamic Data Exchange (DDE), avoid switching away
- from the WIN-OS/2 full-screen session in which you are running;
- switching from the WIN-OS/2 session to another session might break
- the DDE link.
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- o WING COMMANDER II (DOS)
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- - If you are running on a slower computer, turn the sound option off.
-
- o WORDPERFECT FOR WINDOWS (WINDOWS)
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- - Change to the directory that contains WPWINFIL.EXE and run:
- FIXWP WPWINFIL.EXE.
- (To enable WordPerfect for Windows to run under DOS and Windows 3.0
- again, run UNFIXWP in a similar manner.)
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- o WORDPERFECT OFFICE 3.0 (DOS)
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- - Install the keyboard-enhancement utility program manually, after
- program installation, by adding it to CONFIG.SYS.
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- - The Zip Manager feature cannot find the zip file it is to act upon.
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- Following are some performance considerations that you should be aware of.
- For more performance guidelines, see the .Information and Planning Guide
- document that can be obtained through your point of purchase or retrieved
- through CompuServe.
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- The minimum memory requirement for OS/2 2.0 is 4MB. (This includes up to
- 128KB that is used on some systems for ROM to RAM remapping.)
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- Some systems use more than 128KB for other purposes, so less than the minimum
- required memory is available. On these systems, you might need another 512KB
- to 1MB to satisfy the minimum requirements. Check your system to see if it
- offers a way to return the memory so that you can return to the minimum
- requirement.
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- Users concerned with response times when using some system functions, such as
- loading programs, starting sessions, and switching between sessions, can
- improve performance by increasing system memory. If you are running on a
- constrained system (small hard disk, 16-MHz or less processor, 4MB of
- memory), an additional 2MB of memory will improve performance. In the entry
- memory system (4MB), the recommended file system is the FAT file system.
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- SWAPPER FILE
- ____________
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- The system automatically pre-allocates the SWAPPER.DAT file based on the size
- of installed memory. This is done to optimize performance and reduce disk
- fragmentation. To tune the size of the swapper file, see the information
- about SWAPPATH in the Command Reference.
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- In OS/2 2.0, the SWAPPER.DAT file is designed to shrink in size when the data
- segments are no longer needed, but does not shrink as expected. This problem
- has been fixed by IBM APAR PJ03686, available from CompuServe or the IBM BBS.
-
- Ignore any CHKDSK errors that might be reported on the SWAPPER.DAT file.
- These error indications are normal.
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- FILE SYSTEMS
- ____________
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- Many performance changes have been incorporated into OS/2 2.0 File Systems.
- Both file systems read ahead (for sequential I/O), lazy write to disk, and
- accept threshold parameters.
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- A disk cache size is preselected by the system based on installed memory,
- disk size, and file systems installed. The default for the entry memory
- system (4MB) is a cache size of 128KB. To tune the size of the disk cache,
- see the information about DISKCACHE in the Command Reference.
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- You can improve the performance of some DOS applications by adjusting the DOS
- settings. If the application does not require extended or expanded memory,
- these values can be set to zero. This will provide maximum performance.
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- Some DOS applications use polling techniques to poll the system for work. An
- example is an application that appears to be idle at an input prompt, but is
- in fact polling the keyboard looking for keystrokes. Use the IDLE
- SENSITIVITY choice to detect this occurrence and put the application to sleep
- when it is polling.
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- WINDOWS APPLICATIONS
- ____________________
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- Windows applications are generally started in one WIN-OS/2 session, unless
- specifically set to run in their own WIN-OS/2 session. If you use several
- applications simultaneously, you might want to increase the DPMI memory limit
- before starting the first application. The first application started
- determines the DPMI memory available for all subsequent Windows applications
- that are used.
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- In low-memory configurations, you can run multiple Windows applications in
- one WIN-OS/2 session. This reduces both memory and swapper-file requirements.
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- With a WIN-OS/2 window session, a new session is created every time you
- double-click on an active object. To restore the currently active object:
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- o Double-click on the minimized application object, or
- o Display the OS/2 Window List and double-click on the application name.
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- If you choose to migrate your Windows applications (at installation time or
- later using MIGRATE), most Windows applications will execute in one WIN-OS/2
- session. If you set up a Windows application and do not use MIGRATE, each
- program executes in its own WIN-OS/2 session.
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- If you are running Windows applications in a single WIN-OS/2 session, the
- Windows clipboard can be changed from PUBLIC to PRIVATE for increased
- performance. Setting it to PRIVATE means that it can be used in the single
- Windows environment only.
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- When a large volume of data is being sent to the clipboard in a WIN-OS/2
- Window session, you might receive the message:
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- Data not saved, possible memory or disk space error.
- This data not available in clipboard.
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- followed by the message:
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- Do you want to exit clipboard?
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- Selecting OK to the second message will make the clipboard private to that
- WIN-OS/2 session. Data that was previously sent to the public clipboard
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- applications seeing these messages.
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- When you exit from a WIN-OS/2 session, the system leaves the clipboard and
- DDE loaded. If you will not be returning to a WIN-OS/2 session, close both
- the clipboard and DDE. Use the PM Window List to see if they are active.
-
- To permanently disable public DDE and clipboard interchange between Windows
- applications and PM applications, and between Windows applications in
- separate WIN-OS/2 sessions, edit the \OS2\MDOS\WINOS2\SYSTEM.INI file. In
- the "bootâ– section you will find the names of these two programs in the
- SAVDMApps= line, the MAVDMApps= line, and the WOS2VDMApps= line. By removing
- the names of the programs from these lines, the programs will not be
- automatically started. Adding them back will cause them to be started the
- next time a WIN-OS/2 session starts up.
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- APPLICATION USAGE
- _________________
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- If you have an application that you always use, you can set up the
- application in the Startup folder to load when the system is started.
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- To avoid reloading frequently used applications, minimize the application
- after use and simply maximize it to use it again. You can find the
- application in the Window List or the Minimized Window Viewer.
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- If you use several different applications, the icons (objects) can be placed
- on the desktop or in a folder. The folder can be set to open when the system
- is restarted.
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- Close opened applications when you are not going to use them again.
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- Close folders that you do not need. Also, move commonly used functions out
- of folders and onto your desktop, and close the folders that contained the
- icons.
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- HARD DISK SPACE
- _______________
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- To save hard disk space, be certain to install only the functions you need.
- If you have installed the productivity aids and the games, and later only
- want a subset of these, delete all \OS2\APP and \OS2\APP\DLL files and use
- INSTALL to selectively install the items you want. Additionally, delete
- TUTORIAL.HLP in \OS2\HELP\TUTORIAL if you no longer need the tutorial.
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- OPTIMIZING WIN-OS/2
- ___________________
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- The following are tips for using your computer more efficiently in WIN-OS/2
- sessions:
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- o Current information for WIN-OS/2 window sessions in high-resolution video
- modes is available from CompuServe, the IBM National Support Center
- Bulletin Board System, the OS/2 Bulletin Board System, and IBMLINK.
-
- o If you are running Windows programs in WIN-OS/2 window sessions, you
- cannot have any statement in the AUTOEXEC.BAT file that prompts the user
- for input (for example, "Press any key to continue").
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- o Do not use the SETUP.EXE file shipped with Windows 3.0. Instead, use the
- SETUP.EXE file shipped with WIN-OS/2 to ensure your environment is
- properly configured for OS/2 2.0. Use the Selective Install program in
- OS/2 2.0 to change video device drivers for VGA, 8514, XGA, EGA, and CGA,
- and for mouse device drivers. To start Selective Install, double-click
- the icon for OS/2 System, then System Setup, then Selective Install.
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- o To decompress Windows device drivers supplied by equipment manufacturers,
- use the EXPAND.EXE utility program for WIN-OS/2 located on OS/2 2.0
- Diskette 9.
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- o Windows Version 3.1 is not compatible with OS/2 2.0, so you cannot run it
- in a WIN-OS/2 session. You can, however, run Windows 3.1 in a separate
- partition. Install Boot Manager, and partition your hard disk so that
- Windows 3.1 is in a partition separate from OS/2 2.0. Or, if you have
- DOS and Windows 3.1 already installed before you begin OS/2 2.0
- installation, consider installing OS/2 2.0 Dual Boot. With Dual Boot,
- you can shut down OS/2 2.0 and start up DOS/Windows to run programs that
- require Windows 3.1.
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- o If a Windows application does not work correctly in a WIN-OS/2 session,
- it is likely that the application files were not all migrated properly.
- To fix the problem, you can reinstall the application using a WIN-OS/2
- full-screen session. (Select RUN on the FILE menu of the Program Manager
- and use the command line there.) Or, if you know the specific files that
- are needed, you can copy them from the \WINDOWS directory to the
- \OS2\MDOS\WINOS2 directory.
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- o If you are running a WIN-OS/2 full-screen session and you have an 8514
- display, use DOS Settings to set VIDEO_8514A_XGA_IOTRAP to OFF and
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- WIN-OS/2 desktop in a full-screen session before switching back to the
- OS/2 desktop. If the session does not start successfully, close it, and
- then restart it.
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- o The value for VIDEO_SWITCH_NOTIFICATION should not be changed for an
- active WIN-OS/2 session.
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- o You cannot use the WIN-OS/2 Control Panel to change mouse buttons in
- WIN-OS/2 window sessions. Change mouse button settings from the OS/2
- desktop to affect the WIN-OS/2 mouse buttons in the WIN-OS/2 window
- environment. The WIN-OS/2 Control Panel can still be used for changing
- mouse buttons in WIN-OS/2 full-screen sessions.
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- o If you install the US English version of OS/2 2.0, and you want to change
- the system configuration to another country or language, run Selective
- Install to make the changes effective for OS/2. To make the changes
- effective for WIN-OS/2, start WIN-OS/2 in a full-screen session, open the
- Control Panel, and use the INTERNATIONAL choice to make your changes.
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- o If you start an application in a WIN-OS/2 session and receive the message
- "FATAL ERROR 0X0401", a problem occurred during migration of your Windows
- programs so that device statements in the SYSTEM.INI file were not
- updated from your \WINDOWS directory. Ensure that all device statements
- are correct in \OS2\MDOS\WINOS2\SYSTEM.INI.
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- o If you are running a WIN-OS/2 full-screen session with an XGA video
- device driver and your WIN-OS/2 icons are not clear, use the Control
- Panel to choose another color scheme for the WIN-OS/2 desktop.
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- o To improve performance, it is preferable to have only one server or
- client in a WIN-OS/2 session.
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- o If you have an XGA or 8514 display, keep the DDE server as an icon
- instead of opening it. Also, set the DOS setting
- VIDEO_SWITCH_NOTIFICATION to ON.
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- USING CLIPBOARD AND DYNAMIC DATA EXCHANGE
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- o If you use the Clipboard Viewer to cut, copy, or paste from a DOS or OS/2
- application to a Windows application, ensure that both the DOS or OS/2
- application and the Windows application are running before marking the
- text; otherwise, the copy might not be successful.
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- o The availability of Clipboard and Dynamic Data Exchange (DDE) functions
- can vary, depending upon the types of sessions you are running.
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- - In standard-mode full-screen WIN-OS/2 sessions, Clipboard and Dynamic
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- and Data Update are started. (Clipboard and Data Update are
- automatically started when you start a WIN-OS/2 session.)
- 2. On the OS/2 desktop, display the Window List.
- 3. Select Clipboard and Data Update.
- 4. Display a pop-up menu by clicking mouse button 2 on Clipboard or Data
- Update.
- 5. Select CLOSE.
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- Clipboard in the OS/2 sessions.
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- o In a WIN-OS/2 window session, the Clipboard and DDE icons are not
- available. You do not have access to the clipboard features.
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- However, if you want to use a private clipboard in WIN-OS/2 window
- sessions, you can remove !CLIPWOS2 from the SYSTEM.INI file (in the
- \OS2\MDOS\WINOS2 directory). The statements involved are those that
- begin with:
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- MAVDMApps=
- WOS2VDMapps=
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- All three occurrences of !CLIPWOS2 must be removed. It is advisable to
- back up the SYSTEM.INI file before making the changes, so that you can
- easily restore the original SYSTEM.INI if you decide to do so in the
- future.
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- WARNING: IF THE SYSTEM.INI FILE IS CHANGED INCORRECTLY, YOU MIGHT NOT BE
- ABLE TO USE WIN-OS/2. IF YOU ARE NOT FAMILIAR WITH WINDOWS .INI FILES,
- YOU MIGHT WANT TO ARRANGE FOR A PERSON WHO HAS WINDOWS TECHNICAL
- EXPERTISE TO MAKE ANY CHANGES IN THE SYSTEM.INI FILE.
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- o To disable Clipboard and DDE in a full-screen WIN-OS/2 session, do the
- following:
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- 2. Click mouse button 1 on the Clipboard icon to display the window
- menu.
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- 5. Repeat the previous steps to close the DDE Interchange Agent.
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- o If you experience slow performance when using a Windows application to
- copy data to the clipboard, consider the following information on
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- given to the clipboard. The actual data is rendered only when the PASTE
- menu choice is selected. Many Windows applications use this scheme when
- they copy data to the clipboard. However, to share data between WIN-OS/2
- and OS/2 sessions, the WIN-OS/2 clipboard receives all data from the
- application that copied the data to the clipboard, and then sends the
- data to other sessions. This process is time-consuming. You can decide
- whether or not you want to share data between WIN-OS/2 sessions.
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- If you do not want to share data, open the Clipboard icon in a WIN-OS/2
- full-screen session and turn off the PUBLIC CLIPBOARD choice on the
- OPTIONS menu bar choice; however, if you want to share some of the data
- between sessions, use the FILE EXPORT and IMPORT menu bar choices.
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- o If you are unable to paste data from the OS/2 clipboard to a WIN-OS/2
- session, you need to open the WIN-OS/2 session before you copy data from
- the OS/2 clipboard. The WIN-OS/2 session starts the OS/2 clipboard,
- which will send the data to the WIN-OS/2 clipboard. This problem will be
- fixed in a future release.
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- o If you cannot paste an icon from the OS/2 clipboard to a WIN-OS/2
- session, the icon file might be too large, or the application might not
- understand the device-independent bit map (DIB) format of the file. For
- example, icons created using the Icon Editor are not understood by some
- Windows applications, such as Microsoft Paintbrush. If your WIN-OS/2
- session is started first, you can view the icon in the OS/2 clipboard;
- however, you cannot paste it. The PASTE menu choice is grayed
- (unavailable).
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- o If you are running several applications concurrently (each doing Copy and
- Paste), you might receive from the clipboard pasted data that was
- supposed to go into another application. Suppose you copy data to the
- clipboard using Application 1, but do not paste it into its destination
- right away. While Application 1 is doing other work, you copy data from
- Application 2 to the clipboard, and you do not paste that data either.
- Later, you attempt to paste the Application 1 data from the clipboard.
- However, the only data that is pasted is from Application 2, not
- Application 1. This happens because the clipboard can hold data from
- only one cut or copy at a time. In this example, the copied data from
- Application 2 replaced the data from Application 1.
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- To avoid having this problem, always paste the cut or copied data into
- its destination application before you cut or copy data from another
- application to the clipboard.
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- o Vertical scrolling in the OS/2 clipboard does not work. It will be fixed
- in a future release. In the meantime, you can use Page Down and Page Up.
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- o When an application copies several sources of data to a public clipboard
- in different formats, and if one of the sources creates a rendering
- problem, no data is sent to other WIN-OS/2 sessions. In a future
- release, only the problem data will not be sent to the public clipboard.
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- o When a metafile is copied to the OS/2 clipboard, it is converted into a
- bit map, and then the image is enlarged. Only the center of the image is
- in the clipboard window. This will be fixed in future release.
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- o Metafiles in WIN-OS/2 and OS/2 are not compatible. If you copy a
- WIN-OS/2 metafile without bit map information to a public clipboard, it
- is converted to a device-independent bit map (DIB) so that it can be
- exchanged with an OS/2 session.
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- o If you want to use dynamic data exchange (DDE) using the PASTE LINK
- choice on the FILE menu of an application, consider the following
- information.
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- The clipboard should be set to Public. The client and server must
- "negotiate" the data format to initiate the DDE link. If this
- negotiation fails, some applications do not display any error message and
- no further action is taken. If this happens, try another menu choice
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- OS/2 2.0 fully supports EGA and VGA. Because of the highly graphical user
- interface provided by the Workplace Shell, use of OS/2 2.0 in CGA mode will
- be difficult and is not recommended. Applications designed for CGA mode are
- supported and can be run even when OS/2 2.0 is running in EGA, VGA, or SVGA
- mode. Resolutions above VGA (640x480x16 colors) are referred to as Super VGA
- (SVGA). However, the implementation of SVGA varies widely and requires
- different device drivers for different resolutions, as well as different
- adapters and systems. The OS/2 Installation program will correctly configure
- OS/2 2.0 and WIN-OS/2 drivers for 8514 and XGA. All SVGA adapters are
- supported in VGA mode with the VGA driver provided with OS/2 2.0.
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- SVGA
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- The base video system and virtual display device driver in OS/2 2.0 have been
- enabled for some of the most popular SVGA chips and boards. This support is
- required to switch between PM and DOS or WIN-OS/2 applications. Because of
- the many implementations and video modes, a limited number of video boards
- have been tested.
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- The following Super VGA boards have been tested and found to work with OS/2
- 2.0 for DOS applications that make use of SVGA modes:
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- o Orchid ProDesigner IIs by Orchid Technology (ISA and MCA versions)
- o Trident TVGA by Trident Microsystems, Inc. (8900b and c levels)
- o STB PowerGraph VGA by STB Systems, Inc.
- o Video Seven VRAM II, by Video Seven
- o Boca Super VGA by Boca Research Inc.
- o VGA Wonder XL Series by ATI Technologies, Inc.
- o Paradise VGA Professional by Western Digital Imaging
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- VGA support is designed to be generic for the Trident, Tseng, ATI, Headland,
- and Western Digital chipsets. It is likely that there are many more adapters
- which are supported that have not been tested.
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- The 8514 Ultra by ATI must be installed as an 8514 and as a primary display;
- it will default to high-resolution mode. You should update the following
- statement in your CONFIG.SYS file:
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- DEVICE=\OS2\MDOS\VVGA.SYS
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- DEVICE=\OS2\MDOS\VSVGA.SYS
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- Contact the manufacturer of your computer or SVGA video adapter to obtain
- device drivers and installation instructions if you want to run Windows or
- OS/2 applications in SVGA modes. Information about SVGA support will be
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- available on CompuServe, the National Support Center Bulletin Board System,
- the OS/2 Bulletin Board System, as well as many video-board and system
- manufacturers' bulletin boards.
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- We recommend you do NOT run the video-adapter test utility programs in OS/2
- 2.0 unless the manufacturer has explicitly verified that they run in OS/2
- 2.0.
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- Some video adapters require that the computer's DOS BIOS initialize the video
- adapter correctly. If you have one of these adapters, screen text might
- appear distorted in an OS/2 full-screen command prompt. To remedy this,
- start a DOS full-screen session, type EXIT, and then switch back to the OS/2
- full-screen session; the text should appear normal.
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- To automate this process, you can create a DOS batch file to run when you
- start your computer. Add the following statement to STARTUP.CMD:
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- START /FS /DOS DOSFS.BAT
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- Create the file, DOSFS.BAT, and place the following statement in it:
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- EXIT
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- SVGA ON UTILITY PROGRAM
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- If you have one of the video adapters listed on the previous page and want to
- run DOS or Windows applications that make use of SVGA, you must turn on OS/2
- 2.0 SVGA support. The OS/2 Installation program detects the type of video
- chip in the system; it cannot detect the type of adapter or system board that
- the video chip has been implemented on. You must determine that you have a
- supported configuration, and then explicitly enable SVGA.
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- To enable SVGA, type the following at a DOS full-screen command prompt:
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- SVGA ON
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- Then restart the system.
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- OS/2 SVGA VIDEO FILES
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- o \OS2\SVGADATA.PMI
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- This file indicates that SVGA support has been enabled with SVGA ON. The
- file contains data on the following:
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- - The video chipset of your SVGA adapter.
- - The SVGA modes, from the supported list, your adapter is capable of
- setting. The list of supported modes is:
- - 640x480/256 colors
- - 800x600/16 colors
- - 800x600/256 colors
- - 1024x768/16 colors
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- - The values in the video registers when the adapter is in each mode.
- This data is used by the OS/2 operating system to save and restore
- the registers to their proper state when switching between sessions
- with different SVGA modes set. This data file must be generated by
- typing SVGA ON at a DOS full-screen command prompt, because SVGA ON
- sets all the possible modes using the BIOS of the video adapter and
- then reads out the values of the registers into the .PMI file. If
- SVGA ON is run from a DOS window, the video virtualization of the
- operating system takes over, and the BIOS does not set the SVGA modes
- properly.
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- Even though two systems have the same video adapter, the same
- SVGADATA.PMI file does not work in both. The SVGADATA.PMI file has to be
- specific to each adapter/display setup.
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- o \OS2\SVGA.EXE
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- This is the utility program that generates the .PMI file and places it in
- the \OS2 subdirectory. The syntax is:
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- SVGA ON|OFF|STATUS
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- where ON creates the \OS2\SVGADATA.PMI file and enables SVGA support, OFF
- deletes the .PMI file, and STATUS returns the chipset type that your
- adapter appears to be to the operating system.
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- o \OS2\DLL\DISPLAY.DLL
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- This file determines what video resolution the desktop uses. This is the
- PM display driver. The equivalent file on a Windows system is the
- VGA.DRV (in the case of VGA) file. For the first release, SVGA systems
- will have a VGA display driver installed on their system. Already, SVGA
- drivers are available from most of the main board manufacturers.
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- o \OS2\DLL\BVHSVGA.DLL
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- This file is the Base Video Handler for the OS/2 operating system. Any
- OS/2 application that sets a video mode calls this DLL. In most cases,
- however, the only application that sets any video modes is the PM display
- driver and the MODE.EXE utility program (for setting 132-column modes).
- The first time this DLL would be called is after the OS/2 bit-map logo
- appears (PM starts up then). This DLL is specified in the CONFIG.SYS
- file as the following:
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- SET VIO_VGA=DEVICE(BVHVGA,BVHSVGA)
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- BVHVGA is used to set, save, and restore VGA modes; BVHSVGA is used for
- SVGA modes.
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- This is the virtual video device handler for DOS sessions. All calls to
- change the video mode from a DOS session are handled through this driver.
- The job of this driver is to allow the user to set an SVGA mode, and when
- the user switches away, to save the current state of the video adapter
- (its registers and its video RAM). Then, when the user returns to the
- DOS session, it restores the video adapter to its previous state. When
- there is no .PMI file (SVGA is OFF), this driver acts like a VGA driver,
- except for adapter-specific code in it to make sure the VGA modes work
- right on the SVGA adapter. Therefore, even if you do not want SVGA, you
- will probably want VSVGA.
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- o \OS2\MDOS\WINOS2\SYSTEM\VGA.DRV \OS2\MDOS\WINOS2\SYSTEM\SWINVGA.DRV
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- These are the WIN-OS/2 full-screen and WIN-OS/2 window session drivers,
- respectively. They determine what resolution WIN-OS/2 uses.
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- ADDITIONAL SVGA SUPPORT INFORMATION
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- o Over time, more display adapters and PC systems that offer SVGA will be
- tested. Refer to the bulletin boards mentioned previously, or to the
- manufacturers, for the latest support information.
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- o To make use of SVGA modes, you also must install Windows and Presentation
- Manager video display drivers.
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- o If you experience display errors on an SVGA-enabled system, try disabling
- SVGA support by typing SVGA OFF at a command line. This will delete the
- SVGADATA.PMI file. Then restart your system.
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- o In some SVGA displays, if you switch to the PM desktop while the screen
- is still drawing, you might experience display errors on the PM desktop.
- Switch back to the SVGA screen, allowing the drawing to complete, and
- then switch back to the PM desktop.
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- o Some screen resynchronization problems might exist in DOS or WIN-OS/2
- full-screen sessions. The problem is with how some SVGA adapters handle
- switching. IBM has created a new VSVGA.SYS file to correct this.
- Specifically, the problem occurs most frequently with Tseng chipsets.
- Video adapters using the Tseng ET4000 chipset with batch #TC6059AF have
- been identified to have this problem. The VSVGA.SYS file dated 4/8/92 or
- later should solve this problem.
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- o In the event of a TRAP000E when opening a DOS or WIN-OS/2 session on
- systems with 4MB of memory and SVGA adapters, you need to obtain the
- VSVGA.SYS driver replacement from IBM.
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- o In the event of a SYS3176 message when starting a DOS or WIN-OS/2 command
- prompt, try setting the HW_ROM_TO_RAM setting in the session to ON or
- changing the DOS_RMSIZE parameter in the session to 624 from the default
- 640. If this does not work, the VSVGA.SYS fix from IBM might resolve the
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- o A virtual desktop is a PM display driver that uses all of the adapter's
- video memory to store a desktop that is bigger than what is actually
- displayed. You could have 1024x1024 of desktop space, with only 640x480
- being displayed on the screen. You move to other portions of the desktop
- by dragging the mouse to the edge of the screen, which scrolls the
- desktop. Because of the way OS/2 2.0 is designed, this is an extremely
- quick operation and will be very smooth even on the slowest video
- adapters. The PM driver must be coded to support virtual desktops, and
- Trident is currently the only chipset to support it.
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- o Trident supports OS/2 2.0 and has SVGA Presentation drivers available for
- their SVGA boards. Trident's support number is 415-691-9211. They also
- have support bulletin boards where these drivers are available. For the
- West Coast, the number is 415-691-1016 and for the East Coast, the number
- is 203-483-0348.
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- o A WIN-OS/2 window session has the ability to run Windows Version 3.0
- programs on the desktop. The way it is achieved is by making a place in
- the desktop that the WIN-OS/2 window session driver writes to. Special
- code must be put into both the window session driver and the display
- driver to support this. Trident has produced 800x600/16 WIN-OS/2 window
- session drivers, and has been the only one to produce SVGA support for
- WIN-OS/2 window sessions so far.
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- o Questions about OS/2 support for adapters based on the S3 or TI chipsets
- have been asked. Adapters which are co-processed are the fastest, but
- also take the longest to develop software for. No manufacturers have
- announced dates yet for support of any of these adapters. The more these
- manufacturers are encouraged by owners of their adapters, the faster the
- support will arrive.
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- o In the event of some corruption when returning to a WIN-OS/2 full-screen
- session, set your VIDEO_SWITCH_NOTIFICATION in the DOS Settings to ON.
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- o Even in VGA, games in a DOS full-screen session are not optimized. Set
- your VIDEO_RETRACE_EMULATION in the DOS Settings to OFF.
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- o Some DOS applications in a window have color corruption. This is a
- limitation of the VGA desktop. The color palette of the DOS session has
- to be translated to PM, and the 640x480/16 desktop does not offer enough
- colors to do a good translation. The best solution is to use a 256 color
- PM driver or run the application in a DOS full-screen session.
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- o The graphics of some applications are corrupted when displayed in a
- window. These applications are probably using a non-standard VGA mode
- that the adapter can support, but that OS/2 2.0 does not.
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- o When you have SVGA ON, you can:
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- - Use 132 column modes in an OS/2 full-screen session
- - Take a window with an SVGA image in it and paste to the clipboard
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- o To enable the Windows 3.0 SVGA drivers in WIN-OS2, update the SYSTEM.INI
- file to point to a new Windows display driver, or just copy over the
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- that a Windows session in SVGA mode will only work if you have set SVGA
- ON.
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- o Many different SVGA boards have different interfaces and chipsets, each
- with their own characteristics. Some boards perform better with SVGA
- OFF.
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- DUAL DISPLAYS
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- In multiple XGA configurations, when you switch from DOS to the desktop, your
- system will not save and restore the hardware registers.
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- If your machine has an 8514 Ultra adapter and an OS/2 2.0 supported SVGA
- adapter, you will need to change the DEVICE= statement in your CONFIG.SYS
- file from VVGA.SYS to VSVGA.SYS.
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- LAPTOP LCD OR MONOCHROME PLASMA DISPLAYS
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- To change the color schemes for OS/2 system windows and create a more
- readable display image, change the Scheme Palette as follows:
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- 1. Use your Reference Diskette or hardware Setup program to set your
- hardware to VGA color, if possible.
- 2. Open the System folder.
- 3. Select SYSTEM SETUP.
- 4. Select SCHEME PALETTE.
- 5. Select the monochrome scheme in the right-hand column.
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- This procedure will optimize the color scheme for gray-scale usage, and also
- provide a good set of colors for a VGA desktop presentation.
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- GRAPHICS
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- Several fonts have been enhanced in OS/2 2.0. Some existing applications use
- inappropriate font metrics to scale their text. In some cases, the text
- becomes clipped because it no longer fits the available space.
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- WIN-OS/2 WINDOW AND FULL-SCREEN SESSIONS
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- When running a WIN-OS/2 full-screen session with an 8514 adapter in high
- resolution (8514.DRV) mode, do not switch to a different session while an
- application is updating the screen or displaying the hourglass.
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- The following is a procedure for enabling WIN-OS/2 full-screen sessions to
- run in high-resolution (XGA) mode while the Workplace Shell Desktop and
- WIN-OS/2 window sessions run in medium-resolution (VGA) mode. The procedure
- assumes you are not familiar with the SYSTEM.INI and WIN.INI files.
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- 1. Install OS/2 2.0 for medium resolution VGA.
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- The next step requires that you make backup copies of your SYSTEM.INI and
- WIN.INI files. DO NOT SKIP THIS STEP. It is assumed that you have a
- diskette or tape backup copy of your system; instructions follow for a
- backup in the directory only.
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- Open an OS/2 Window from the Command Prompts folder in the OS/2 System
- folder. At the â•’C:\â– prompt, type the following and press Enter:
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- COPY WIN.INI WIN.BAK
- COPY SYSTEM.INI SYSTEM.BAK
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- Before making changes to the files, be sure the desired high-resolution
- Windows device drivers and fonts are loaded in the system.
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- 3. Check the \OS2\MDOS\WINOS2\SYSTEM directory for the desired
- high-resolution display device driver. In this example, the XGA.DRV
- device driver is used. Checking this directory reveals that this device
- driver is not loaded. (The device driver might be loaded already, if the
- system was installed in high-resolution mode and then Selective Install
- was run to return to VGA mode.)
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- For XGA, the diskettes need to be searched for WINXGA and *G.FON. The
- following shows the sequence of entries:
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- DIR A:WINXGA
- DIR A:*G.FON
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- No XGA drivers were on this diskette, but one of the font files was.
- Although the font file is not in a bundle of files, it is still in packed
- format and must be unpacked.
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- The files are packed with their standard target directory coded into the
- packed file. To copy the file to the system disk in the proper
- directory, just run the Unpack utility program.
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- UNPACK A:SYMBOLG.FON
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- This procedure continues until all of the scalable fonts are unpacked.
- These fonts are:
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- contains the WIN-OS/2 XGA.DRV and three XGA fonts.
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- With all of the required driver and font files on the system disks, the
- next step is to modify the SYSTEM.INI file.
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- 4. Edit the SYSTEM.INI file and find the following line:
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- display.drv=vga.drv
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- 5. This line specifies the device driver WIN-OS/2 is to use in full-screen
- sessions. Change this line to point to the high-resolution device driver
- that was unloaded in the steps above. In this example, the device driver
- is XGA.DRV. The modified line should look like the following:
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- Helv 8,10,12,14,18,24 (VGA res)=HELVE.FON
- Tms Rmn 8,10,12,14,18,24 (VGA res)=TMSRE.FON
- Courier 10,12,15 (VGA res)=COURE.FON
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- Helv 8,10,12,14,18,24 (XGA res)=HELVG.FON
- Tms Rmn 8,10,12,14,18,24 (XGA res)=TMSRG.FON
- Courier 10,12,15 (XGA res)=COURG.FON
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- When these changes have been made and the INI files saved, the system is
- ready for running Windows applications in WIN-OS/2 window sessions (VGA mode)
- and WIN-OS/2 full-screen sessions (high-resolution mode).
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- For 8514 displays, you must delete the following line from CONFIG.SYS:
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- o COURF.FON
- o TMSRF.FON
- o HELVF.FON
- o SYMBOLF.FON
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- 1. Windows application developers should note that their debuggers work in
- full-screen sessions only. If you have a dual-display setup (8514+VGA),
- install OS/2 2.0 for the 8514 as primary display with no secondary
- display. This will allow your Turbo Debugger for Windows (TDW) or
- CodeView for Windows (CVW) to run in a full-screen session on the VGA
- display while the WIN-OS/2 session runs full screen on the 8514. For
- CVW, make sure to use the /8 option. Quick C runs on the same display as
- WIN-OS/2. If you use Quick C, you don't need a special video
- configuration.
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- 2. Installing OS/2 2.0 in this way will allow PM to run on the 8514, and
- your full-screen debugger to run on the VGA. It also will provide a
- "stereo" effect for all full-screen sessions; both the 8514 and VGA
- displays will show the same picture, unless a full-screen application
- takes advantage of video-specific features.
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- The following sections provide information about hardware device support in
- OS/2 2.0.
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- PERSONAL COMPUTER MANUFACTURER (PCM) SYSTEMS
- ____________________________________________
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- OS/2 2.0 is supported on personal computers with an 80386 SX (or compatible)
- or later microprocessor, with at least 4MB of memory and a 60MB hard disk
- with 15MB to 30MB of free space.
-
- IBM is currently testing personal computer manufacturer (PCM) systems for
- compatibility with OS/2 2.0. The compatibility test verifies 18 key
- functions of OS/2 2.0. Test results are based on selected model
- configurations provided by the manufacturers. While testing is continuing,
- current compatibility information about tested systems is available through
- your dealer or Marketing Representative, as well as through the following
- online services.
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- o Prodigy, Jump Computer Club, in Windows and OS/2 topic. (To join
- Prodigy, call 1-800-Prodigy.)
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- o CompuServe, G IBMOS2, in Library 17, PCMTAB.TXT. (To join CompuServe,
- call the appropriate phone numbers for your area, or Membership Service
- at 1-800-848-8199, and ask for representative 239.)
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- o IBM National Support Center Bulletin Board System (NSC BBS). This
- service is available 24 hours a day, on a toll-call basis, with no access
- charge, to anyone in the world who has a modem,
- asynchronous-communication software, and a switched telephone line. (The
- modem should be set for 8 data bits, 1 stop bit, no parity, and the
- standard transmission speed from 1200 to 9600 baud.)
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- To access the NSC BBS, call (404) 835-6600.
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- o IBM Link. Eligible customers can obtain installation and usage
- assistance through IBM Link Question Support. To obtain information
- about eligibility, contact your local Branch Office or Marketing
- Representative.
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- NOTE: The compatibility test information is provided for information
- purposes only. IBM MAKES NO WARRANTY, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, WITH
- RESPECT TO THE OPERATION OF THE PERSONAL COMPUTERS LISTED THROUGH THE
- ABOVE SOURCES
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- o ProComm+ SCSI disk adapters (Micro Channel) are not supported by OS/2
- 2.0. You should contact the manufacturer for any details on OS/2
- support.
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- o Some SCSI adapters have jumper pins which can be set to either
- synchronous or asynchronous mode. There have been noted problems such as
- no icons appearing or slow hard disk performance. This can be attributed
- to the SCSI adapter and hard disk not being set to the same synchronous
- or asynchronous settings. Either way, they must match. Be sure these
- are set properly.
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- o The early versions of the IBM 16-bit SCSI adapters may experience
- problems and report, erroneously, that the device is not functioning.
- This can be corrected by replacing the SCSI adapter with an adapter with
- updated microcode.
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- o Adaptec SCSI adapters do not currently support drives larger than 1GB.
-
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- ADAPTEC AND FUTURE DOMAIN SCSI DEVICE DRIVERS
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- Device support for the following Adaptec and Future Domain SCSI adapters is
- shipped with OS/2 2.0. When any of the following adapters is installed in a
- workstation, its presence is normally detected automatically, and the
- appropriate device support is subsequently installed.
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- For reference, the names of the device drivers that support each adapter are
- provided in the following table:
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- +-------------------------------------+-------------------------------------+
- | SCSI ADAPTER OR INTERFACE | DEVICE DRIVER |
- +-------------------------------------+-------------------------------------+
- | Adaptec A/C 6260 | AHA152X.ADD |
- +-------------------------------------+-------------------------------------+
- | Adaptec AHA 1510 | AHA152X.ADD |
- +-------------------------------------+-------------------------------------+
- | Adaptec AHA 1520/1522 | AHA152X.ADD |
- +-------------------------------------+-------------------------------------+
- | Adaptec AHA 1540/1542 | AHA154X.ADD |
- +-------------------------------------+-------------------------------------+
- | Adaptec AHA 1640 | AHA164X.ADD |
- +-------------------------------------+-------------------------------------+
- | Adaptec AHA 1740/1742/1744 | |
- +-------------------------------------+-------------------------------------+
- | (Standard mode operation) | AHA154X.ADD |
- +-------------------------------------+-------------------------------------+
- | (Enhanced mode operation) | AHA174X.ADD |
- +-------------------------------------+-------------------------------------+
- | Future Domain TMC-850/860/875/885 | FD8XX.ADD |
- +-------------------------------------+-------------------------------------+
- | Future Domain TMC-1660/1670/1680 | FD16-700.ADD |
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- | Future Domain MCS-600/700 | FD16-700.ADD |
- +-------------------------------------+-------------------------------------+
- | Future Domain TMC-850IBM | FD850IBM.ADD |
- +-------------------------------------+-------------------------------------+
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- The TMC-850/860/875/885 and TMC-850IBM adapters will not be detected when the
- adapter's BIOS is disabled. You can manually install this support in your
- system by following the steps below.
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- NOTE: xxxxxxxx.ADD should be replaced with the file name of the
- device-driver file you want to install.
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- 1. Locate Installation Diskette 8, which contains the file, DASDDRVS.
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- 2. Insert the diskette in drive A.
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- 3. Change the current directory to the root directory of the startup drive.
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- 4. Type: UNPACK A:DASDDRVS \OS2 /N:XXXXXXXX.ADD
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- 5. Add the following line to the CONFIG.SYS file:
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- BASEDEV=xxxxxxxx.ADD
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- 6. Restart the system.
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- OS2SCSI.SYS DEVICE DRIVER
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- Older versions of the OS/2 operating system used the device driver SCSI.SYS.
- This has been replaced by OS2SCSI.SYS. OS2SCSI.SYS is provided in the \OS2
- directory of the startup partition. Old CONFIG.SYS entries of the form
- "DEVICE=SCSI.SYS" should be replaced by the entry "BASEDEV=OS2SCSI.SYS."
- Normally, this is done automatically but inspect your CONFIG.SYS file if you
- suspect SCSI problems.
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- The OS2SCSI.SYS device driver is required for a number of SCSI CD-ROM
- devices, SCSI Read/Write Optical devices, and SCSI Tape devices.
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- SCSI CD-ROM SUPPORT
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- The SCSI CD-ROM support built into OS/2 2.0 has some manufacturer-specific
- dependencies at this time. Support has been verified for IBM and Toshiba
- SCSI CD-ROM drives. If your CD-ROM is either SCSI with no other devices
- attached or is non-SCSI, you might get it to work by using an external DOS
- session (VMBOOT by using the DOS Program setting, DOS_STARTUP_DRIVE ).
- Information about the support and verification of additional manufacturers'
- drives will be made available at a later date.
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- Full-function support is not yet available for SCSI hard disk drives that
- support removable media. Examples of this class of device include the
- Bernoulli drives manufactured by IOMEGA, and the removable-media drives
- manufactured by SyQuest Technology.
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- Although OS/2 2.0 recognizes these drives, it will treat media as large
- diskettes. You will be able to format for the FAT file system only. You
- will not be able to partition or start up from the media, and partitioned
- media will not be recognized.
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- If the IBMINT13.I13 driver is used to control these units, the drive will be
- treated as a hard disk. In this case, the cartridge must be in the drive at
- startup time, and you will need to use the Shutdown procedure to remove the
- cartridge from the drive.
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- Bernoulli 44MB and 89MB drives work if connected to Adaptec, Future Domain,
- IBM, or any adapter other than the Bernoulli adapter. The drive will work as
- a large diskette but cannot be used as a startup drive. Customers should
- call IOMEGA for status on an update for their adapter.
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- If Seagate SCSI controller model ST-01 or ST-02 is present, it must be the
- only disk controller present. Conflicts exist between this controller and
- MFM and RLL disk controllers.
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- If you experience some problems with a Western Digital WD7000 SCSI adapter,
- contact Future Domain for assistance.
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- SCSI USAGE NOTES
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- Following are a number of notes about usage, and about potential
- compatibility problems with the microcode levels on various adapters and
- devices.
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- ADAPTER: All Adaptec adapters
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- (1) Might produce contention problems with the
- diskette drive controller on fast computers.
- (2) Do not support drives of 1GB or larger.
- (3) Must have SCSI hard disks configured as
- SCSI target ID 0 or 1 to be able to
- start up from that hard disk.
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- ADAPTER: Adaptec AHA-154x
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- DRIVE: IBM 0661 - 320MB SCSI
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- (Drives 80, 81). For OS/2 2.0, the drive can be used but not
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- standard mode (AHA-154x emulation). Instead, the AHA-174x
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- adapter should be configured in enhanced mode. This mode is
- supported by the OS/2 2.0 drivers, and the problem does not
- occur when the adapter is operating in enhanced mode.
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- ADAPTER: Future Domain TMC-850/860/875/885 w/BIOS revision level 7.0.
- Future Domain TMC-1660/1670/1680 w/BIOS revision level 2.0.
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- SYSTEM: IBM Models 35 and 40
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- NOTE: When the Future Domain adapter is controlling the startup
- diskette, it will produce the message, "Disk read error has
- occurred" when you attempt to start the Installation Diskette.
- Contact Future Domain for a free BIOS upgrade.
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- ADAPTER: Seagate ST-01, ST-02
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- NOTE: Causes contention with MFM and RLL drives. The ST-01 or ST-02
- should be the only drive controller installed. This problem
- is being investigated.
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- ADAPTER: Western Digital WD7000
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- NOTE: Newer adapters seem to be supported while older ones are not.
- Western Digital is now owned by Future Domain. Contact Future
- Domain for assistance.
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- AMI AND CEI SCSI ADAPTERS
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- AMI "Fast Disk" and AMI "Fast Disk II" SCSI adapters are incorrectly
- recognized as Adaptec adapters. The CEI Cumulus C5640B SCSI Micro Channel
- adapter has the same problem. If you have one of these adapters in your
- system, do the following:
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- o At the final restart after the installation is completed, delete from the
- CONFIG.SYS file any line with "BASEDEV=AHA1xxx.ADD" (where x can be any
- character).
- o Ensure the line, "BASEDEV=IBMINT13.I13," appears in the CONFIG.SYS file.
- This line should have been placed there by system installation.
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- If you are experiencing OS/2 problems either at installation time or after,
- (such as a TRAP 000D) and your system has an Always Technology IN-2000 SCSI
- adapter, the BIOS on the adapter might be the problem. If the BIOS revision
- level is 3.06A or 3.20 (as shown during the system self-test), you should get
- the BIOS on the adapter upgraded. The current BIOS level is VCN:1-02 and
- works with OS/2 2.0. If you require this upgrade, you might also need an
- upgrade to a companion 8-pin serial PROM chip which must have a revision
- level of 2.5-2.7. Always Technology support can be reached at 818-597-9595.
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- ADDITIONAL DEVICE SUPPORT INFORMATION
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- The following contains useful information about OS/2 2.0 support for the
- specified devices.
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- HP SCANJET
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- If you get an error saying that you cannot access your HP scanner, and you
- are using an ISA (AT-style) bus machine, your adapter switches need to be set
- to 1010.
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- If you are using a PS/2 computer, you must use the Reference Diskette to set
- the adapter to ROM addresses C8000-CBFFF and I/O address to 268-26F. In both
- cases, you also need to set the DOS Setting for the DOS session for
- EMS_FRAME_LOCATION to AUTO.
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- TAPE DRIVES (ADAPTER OR SCSI)
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- The only tape drives that have been tested at this point are IBM tape drives.
- If no other device is connected to the SCSI bus on its adapter or the tape
- adapter, then you might be able to get your drive to work in an external DOS
- (VMBOOT) session.
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- If the tape drive worked under OS/2 version 1.x and the device is written to
- ASPI, IBM is currently working on support for your device. IBM does not
- provide third-party device drivers for peripherals. Refer to your peripheral
- manufacturer for OS/2-specific support.
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- TAPE DRIVES (DISKETTE BASED)
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- IBM or IRWIN tape drives are supported. Applications are PMTAPE or PS2TAPE.
- Easy Tape from Maynard Backup Systems is scheduled for future release.
- Contact Maynard for information.
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- For Colorado Jumbo tape drives connected to a floppy controller, you must
- setup a DOS Startup session from a diskette image and run the tape backup
- program from it. To do this, you need to refer to the topic "Starting DOS
- from an image file" in the Master Help Index.
-
- The Colorado Jumbo Tape program allows you to specify some hardware and
- software settings to be used when backing up files. The CONCURRENT DISK/TAPE
- OPERATION option must be set to No. To change the option, start the program
- and select the Utilities menu (F3); then select SOFTWARE SETUPS (F6). Change
- the option to N.
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- IBM PS/2 Model 30-286 upgrades to a 386 microprocessor are not supported.
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- 50 MHZ SYSTEMS
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- There have been some intermittent problems using 50 MHz systems with AT-style
- bus computers with a mouse. The mouse can get out of synchronization. Input
- will function through the keyboard and the mouse, but to avoid possible
- problems, shutdown the system and restart to resynchronize the mouse.
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- LOGITECH 3-BUTTON MOUSE
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- The Logitech 3-button bus mouse is supported as a 2-button mouse. It is
- treated as a Microsoft 2-button bus mouse.
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- A Logitech serial mouse with 3 buttons behaves as expected in DOS sessions.
- In a Presentation Manager session, however, there might be different and more
- limited functions assigned to the buttons. There are no standards for the
- functions of 3-button mice.
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- If your computer has an Aox add-in processor card and you encounter problems
- either installing or starting up your OS/2 system, you can call Aox support
- and ask for the latest "flash-prom" code upgrade.
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- ORCHID VIDEO ADAPTERS
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- Orchid is working on OS/2 drivers for their video adapters. For more
- information, you can reach Orchid's bulletin board service at:
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- o 510-683-0327 for 2400 baud, parameters n,8,1
- o 510-683-0555 for 9600 baud, parameters n,8,1
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- Some customers with AT-bus (ISA) systems might have disk controllers that are
- not recognized or supported by OS/2 2.0. OEM drivers for their disk
- controller might not yet be available. Symptoms include:
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- o Very slow installation
- o Very noisy hard disk during installation
- o FDISK errors
- o Disk not recognized
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- IBM has a new IBM1S506.ADD disk driver available that will fix many of these
- problems. It can be obtained from any of the sources described in Chapter 2
- "Service and Support Information." In the event you cannot get this new file,
- or if the new file does not solve your particular problem, you might do the
- following:
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- 1. Use DOS to edit the CONFIG.SYS file on Diskette 1 in the 2.0 package.
- Change the line
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- BASEDEV=IBM1S506.ADD
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- REM BASEDEV=IBM1S506.ADD
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- 2. Insert the Installation Diskette and proceed with the installation
- through the first five diskettes.
- 3. After Diskettes 1 through 5 are processed, you are asked to reinsert the
- Installation Diskette. DO THIS. After copying some files from the
- Installation Diskette, you are asked to remove it and press Enter to
- restart. DO NOT DO THIS. LEAVE THE INSTALLATION DISKETTE IN THE DRIVE.
- 4. Press Enter with the Installation Diskette in the drive. This will start
- up the Installation Diskette. You will be asked to insert Diskette 1.
- DO THIS. Watch the screens carefully. You will see a screen that tells
- you (on the lower left) to press Esc to exit. When you see this, press
- Esc.
- 5. You are now at a command line. Enter the following commands:
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- RENAME C:\OS2\IBM1S506.ADD IBM1S506.XXX
- COPY C:\OS2\IBMINT13.I13 C:\OS2\IBM1S506.ADD
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- NOTE: If C is not the drive you are installing to, adjust the commands
- accordingly.
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- system, and the installation program will continue from where it left
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- On an ISA system, having a shared interrupt-request line can cause problems.
- ISA systems have what are called "edge triggered" interrupts whereas Micro
- Channel and EISA systems use "level sensitive" interrupts. "Edge triggered"
- interrupts can only be sensed for a very short period of time. If a second
- interrupt arrives from another adapter while the first interrupt is still
- being processed, the second interrupt will be lost. In your computer system,
- this situation can lead to various difficulties such as printers that do not
- seem to print smoothly or reliably, or communications sessions where some
- characters are getting lost.
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- However, with single-tasking systems such as DOS, the two adapters that are
- sharing the interrupt might never cause any real problems because they might
- never be in use at the same time. OS/2 2.0, however, presents a different
- set of problems. If you have multiple serial communications adapters, there
- is a greater probability that you might try to use two or more of them at the
- same time. If some of them have previously been set up using shared
- interrupts, problems can occur that probably didn't happen in DOS.
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- OS/2 2.0 can detect that an interrupt line is shared and will not allow
- simultaneous use. Assume that COM1 and COM3 are sharing Interrupt Request
- line 4 (IRQ4). If you try to use both COM ports at the same time, the OS/2
- operating system will not allow the second one to start. A well-written OS/2
- communications program will recognize that the port cannot be opened and an
- error message will be displayed. A DOS application, however, is unprepared
- to respond to this unfamiliar situation. It will probably suspend, waiting
- for the port that will not open.
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- Another potential source of trouble is having multiple hardware adapters that
- are sharing the same I/O address. The various hardware adapters in your
- computer must have their own addresses. Consider what might happen, for
- example, if the commands that were meant for your printer were instead routed
- to your disk drive.
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- adapters have their own unique I/O addresses and IRQ assignments.
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- The original ISA machine (the IBM PC-AT) allowed for the definition of up to
- four serial communication ports. However, there has never been any hardware
- architectural standard that defined the I/O port addresses or Interrupt
- Request (IRQ) lines associated with communication ports 3 or 4.
-
- Over the years, a convention has developed that places the port addresses for
- COM3 and COM4 at 03E8 and 02E8 respectively. This is a generally accepted
- convention, but not a standard. Check the documentation and the settings of
- the adapters in your system to verify your hardware environment.
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- After you have checked and set the I/O and IRQ values on your COM ports or
- internal modems, you must add this information to the communications
- device-driver (COM.SYS) statement in the CONFIG.SYS file.
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- the COM ports are. ProComm software, for example, has a configuration screen
- that enables you to specify these settings. If the application, operating
- system, and hardware are not in agreement, then the application will not run.
-
- OS/2 COM ports do not need to be defined in sequence. It is acceptable to
- have a COM4 without having a COM3. DOS, however, might have difficulty if
- there is a gap in the port definition. To avoid confusion for DOS, you can
- define COM ports that do not have any physical adapters attached in the
- COM.SYS statement. These substitute definitions will serve as placeholders.
- COM1 and COM2 are assumed to have standard values and do not need to be
- explicitly set up unless you want to set some non-standard values to
- accommodate your particular configuration.
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- To enable COM3 or COM4 on an ISA system, place the following in the
- CONFIG.SYS file:
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- DEVICE=X:\OS2\COM.SYS (n,a,i) (n,a,i)
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- where
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- X = the drive where OS/2 is installed
- n = the COM port that you are attempting to access
- a = communications port I/O address (03E8, 02E8, for example)
- i = IRQ level, which is usually a jumper setting on the I/O adapter
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- For example, to specify that COM3 is at address 03E8 on IRQ5 and that COM4 is
- at address 02E8 on IRQ10, use the following statement (assuming that OS/2 is
- installed on drive C):
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- DEVICE=C:\OS2\COM.SYS (3,03E8,5) (4,02E8,10)
-
- The I/O address and IRQ level should be noted in the documentation that came
- with your adapter. Either or both might be fixed values or can be set to a
- range of values via jumpers or switches. In some cases you might find that
- the values are fixed or that the range of settings available to you is
- insufficient to avoid the sharing conflict. In that case, you must purchase
- a different, more versatile adapter or accept that you cannot use both
- adapters at the same time.
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- use for COM3 or COM4 port adapters to avoid shared interrupts.
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- these are already being used. Most are already in use because they are the
- the standard settings for the more common devices. These standard settings
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- on the original IBM-PC. If you have an older, 8-bit adapter whose
- documentation states that it uses IRQ2, be aware that this will
- actually be interpreted as IRQ9 when plugged into the 16-bit ISA bus.
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- The IRQ levels shown as "open" have no established, standardized use. When
- setting the IRQ values on your COM3 or COM4 ports, you are likely to find
- these levels available to use without conflict with some other adapter.
- Furthermore, if you don't have two parallel ports installed, IRQ5 might be
- usable for some other purpose, such as COM3 or COM4. Be cautious about doing
- this because it might cause a problem later if you decide to install a second
- parallel port. In addition, some other non-standard device might already be
- using IRQ5.
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- When trying to manage the IRQ levels of your various hardware adapters to
- avoid conflicts, you may find that your 8-bit adapters cause problems.
- Except for IRQ9, only 16-bit adapters are configurable to use IRQ levels
- higher than 7. A glance at the IRQ table will also show that the
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- conflicts. For example, the SoundBlaster adapter is configured at the
- factory to use IRQ7. IRQ7, however, is the standard assignment for LPT1, the
- first printer port. This conflict might not be apparent with DOS because DOS
- printing typically does not use the interrupt line. OS/2 2.0, however,
- requires it, and the hidden conflict can become the source of printing
- problems. It is also fairly common to discover that the interrupt feature on
- your parallel port adapter does not work. In DOS, this might not have any
- effect. In OS/2 2.0, however, your printer might be very erratic or not work
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- or SCSI device) that does not work in a DOS session, it might be because
- interrupt IRQ7 is not reflected in the session. Your device might
- attempt to use the parallel-port feature and is prevented from doing so.
- OS/2 developers are working on a solution for this limitation.
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- o Some security devices (known as dongles) attached to a parallel port do
- not work properly with OS/2 2.0. The DOS application that uses the
- device can start from one DOS session only. An error message appears
- when you try to start additional copies of the application. You can
- press Ctrl+Alt+Print Screen to release access to the parallel-port
- software prior to starting the second copy of the DOS application.
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- (For more information, refer to "Unable to Print" on page 35)
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- When certain fax adapters are operating as ordinary modems, they might
- operate correctly yet fail to work correctly as a fax device in a DOS
- session. The probable cause of the trouble is the VCOM.SYS device driver.
- VCOM.SYS might be introducing timing distortions into those hardware commands
- that are used to control the fax device but are not a part of normal
- asynchronous communications.
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- Because there are no standards established for fax controls, it might be that
- the only solution is to acquire an OS/2-based fax device driver and
- application software. Your fax adapter manufacturer might have information
- on sources and availability of OS/2 based software.
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- Without purchasing new software, you can try removing the VCOM.SYS statement
- from your CONFIG.SYS file. This might allow your fax adapter to work
- properly but might have other undesirable side effects. One of the functions
- of VCOM.SYS is to provide a performance assist. Without VCOM.SYS, you might
- have to use a reduced baud rate. Also, some applications, such as Prodigy,
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- instances, it might not be the right action for you.
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- adapter so that only part of your system detects it. Then, place all
- operation into a single DOS session. This is possible on an ISA system if
- you can set up your fax adapter as COM3 or COM4. Since there are no
- standards for COM3 or COM4 on an ISA system, OS/2 2.0 will not recognize the
- adapter unless it is defined for the system in the CONFIG.SYS file (See the
- section "COM3 or COM4 Support on an ISA System" found earlier in this
- chapter).
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- indicate either COM3 or COM4. Use a setting that is available and that does
- not conflict with other adapters. Leave VCOM.SYS in your CONFIG.SYS
- definition but do not define the fax adapter settings to the COM.SYS device
- driver. When OS/2 2.0 starts up, it will not recognize the fax adapter, but
- the normal communications ports will still get the benefit of having VCOM.SYS
- available.
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- Next, set up a DOS session so that it loads the DOS application software that
- you use for faxing and also the DOS device driver used to control the fax
- adapter if it came with a special driver. Check your documentation to be
- sure. This single DOS session should now be able to operate your fax adapter
- normally.
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- In some cases, this still might not work. If the DOS application treats the
- adapter as a COM port instead of directly accessing the hardware, then DOS
- will not recognize the adapter either. The only problem with this
- configuration is that this single DOS session controls the adapter. Other
- DOS or OS/2 sessions will not be able to access it at all.
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- IBM is working on a fix to alleviate this problem, but the best solution will
- be to use OS/2-specific device drivers and applications, especially where
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- If you cannot get the external 5.25-inch 1.2MB diskette drive to work on a
- PS/2 computer, install the device driver that comes with the drive into the
- \OS2 directory in the startup partition. The device driver is called
- EXT5DD.SYS. Change your CONFIG.SYS file statement to read \OS2\EXT5DD.SYS
- instead of \OS2\EXTDSKDD.SYS.
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- If you are experiencing problems with your Model 90 or 95, ensure your system
- is at the latest engineering change (EC) level. Your IBM service
- representative can assist you.
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- difficulty identifying memory parity errors such as TRAP 0002, forcing you to
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- part number 84F9356, contact your IBM representative to assist you with a
- replacement.
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- If your Model 90 is experiencing intermittent memory errors, ECA084 might
- apply if the part number of your memory riser card is N33F4905 or 84F9356.
- Again, your IBM representative can assist you with a replacement.
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- For both Model 90 and 95 computers, you must ensure that you have matched
- pairs of single in-line memory modules. This means that each pair of single
- in-line memory modules, as described in your technical reference manual, must
- be matched in memory size and speed. Mixing these modules can cause some
- computers to report memory errors.
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- If you have a non-Micro Channel system with a 5.25-inch drive, and its
- 3.5-inch drives all support media sense, your 5.25-inch drive will format
- diskettes at 720MB. Previously formatted 1.2MB diskettes will read and write
- correctly. A fix for this problem can be obtained from the electronic
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- +----------+ AT bus IRQ levels 31
- | NUMERICS | ATI video adapter (white screen
- +----------+ problem) 14
- AutoCAD 45
- 38XX printers 33 AutoManager 4.0 45
- 51XX printers 33 automatic emulation switching 34
- 52XX printers 33
- 8514 display 65
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- +---+ basic input/output system (BIOS),
- old version
- Action! Sampler 1.0 44 AMI 14
- adapters, configuring for Gateway 2000 15
- printing 31 Micronics system board 15
- Adobe Type Manager 44 Phoenix 14
- AES 34 BBS 3
- After Dark 44 beeping (constant during diskette
- Aldus changing) 13
- PageMaker 4.0 44 bit maps not appearing 22
- Persuasion 2.0 45 Boot Manager 65
- Aldus PageMaker 33 Boot Manager tips 18
- AMI BIOS, old version 14 Borland
- ANSI colors and characters 27 C++ 2.0 and 3.0 45
- Aox systems 87 Turbo C++ 2.0 46
- application Turbo Debugger 2.01 46
- creating an icon for 25 Turbo Debugger for Windows 46
- error message 27 Turbo Pascal 6.0 46
- application considerations 41 BubbleJet printer 33
- general 41 bulletin board systems support 3
- specific 44
- application tips
- DOS and Windows, shut down after +---+
- installation 17 | C |
- migration did not work 17 +---+
- using Windows 3.1 17
- application usage C0000005 (system error message) 12
- performance considerations 63 CD-ROM (using Selective Install) 18
- applications Central Point
- automatic startup 21 Backup for DOS 7.1 46
- Arts & Letters Graphics Editor PC Tools Deluxe 7.1 46
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- country settings 66 desktop
- language 66 adding an OS/2 window 26
- mouse button settings 66 restoring damaged 23
- characters in DOS sessions 27 details view 26
- clipboard device support information
- closing 67 50MHz systems 87
- public/private 66 Aox systems 87
- scrolling 68 fax adapters 92
- color HP Scanjet 86
- ANSI colors and characters in ISA bus systems 88
- DOS 27 Logitech mouse 87
- changing icon title-text 26 Orchid video adapters 87
- COM3/COM4 support on an ISA parallel-port-attached device 92
- system 89 PS/2 external 5.25-inch 1.2MB
- command prompt 26 diskette drive 93
- Commander Keen 46 PS/2 model 30-286 87
- commands 28 PS/2 model 90 or 95 93
- COMMUTE 46 tape drives 86
- CompuServe 3, 65 device support, SCSI
- CONFIG.SYS file 22, 27 Adaptec and Future Domain 82
- CONFIG.SYS, automatically Always Technology adapters 86
- updating 7 AMI SCSI adapters 85
- configuring CD-ROM 83
- IBM 4029 Laser Printer 38 ProComm and SCSI disk adapters
- printers 32 (Micro Channel) 82
- Control Room 1.0 47 device-driver statements, adding to
- copy/paste 66 CONFIG.SYS file 7
- copying metafiles 69 devices, configuring printers 32
- CorelDRAW diagnosing
- 2.0 47 workplace shell problems 21
- 2.1 47 diagnosing printing problems 35
- COUNTRY.SYS, cannot find file disk drive not working 19
- (message) 13 disk drive support, SCSI
- Crosstalk 47 Bernoulli 84
- customizing Seagate 84
- default folder view 26 SyQest 84
- system startup 21 Western Digital 84
- cut/paste 66 disk light constant with white
- screen 13
- DISKCACHE command 62
- +---+ display adapter support
- | D | additional SVGA information 74
- +---+ debuggers 79
- dual displays 76
- Data Update, closing 67 laptop LCD or monochrome plasma
- dBase IV 1.1 47 displays 76
- decompressing device drivers 65 SVGA 71
- Designer 47 WIN-OS/2 window and full-screen
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- DOS applications executable, moving 25
- performance considerations 62 OS2.INI file 22, 23
- DOS applications, shut down after OS2SYS.INI file 22, 23
- installation 17 STARTUP.CMD file 21, 22
- DOS version message 27 Find Results folder 27
- Drafix CAD finding objects 27
- Version 1.11 47 folder
- Version 3.0 48 adding an OS/2 window 26
- dual boot 65 changing default view 27
- does not work (no error changing displayed view 26
- message) 18 changing icon title-text 26
- EC-00BF error message 13 Find Results 27
- in a partition with OS/2 1.3 18 minimized window viewer 27
- SYS1200 error message 13 OS/2 System, not appearing 22
- DynaComm Asynchronous OS/2 48 Startup 21
- Dynamic Data Exchange Form Publisher 49
- public/private 66 formatting diskettes on non-Micro
- Channel systems 94
- FormBase 1.2 49
- +---+ FotoMan 49
- | E | Framework III 1.1 49
- +---+ Future Domain SCSI Controller 11
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- electronic support 3 +---+
- Enhanced Editor 48 | G |
- Execjet Printer 34 +---+
- executable files 23
- Gateway 2000 BIOS, old version 15
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- F-117A Stealth Fighter 2.0 48
- F19 48 hard disk space
- Fastback performance considerations 63
- for Windows 48 Harvard
- Plus 2.1 and 3.04 48 Draw 49
- FastLynx 1.1 48 Graphics 49
- FAT file system hDC FileApps 1.0 49
- typing commands 28 High Performance File System (HPFS)
- fatal error 0X0401 66 considerations 6
- fax adapter problems 92 HP mouse not working
- file names 28 HP New Wave 3.0 49
- file systems HPFS
- performance considerations 61 accessing files 28
- files typing commands 28
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- | I | SYS1200 (message) 13
- +---+ SYS2025 (message) 14
- SYS2027 (message) 14
- I/O adapter 36 system error messages 12
- IBM 3363 Optical Disk Drive 50 white screen 13
- IBM PC LAN Support Program 50 ZEOS 15
- IBM PC/3270 V2.0 50 installing
- icon non-IBM mouse 7
- changing color of title text 26 OS/2 2.0 in a partition 7
- changing folder view 26 installing applications 65
- creating for an application 25 Intel SatisFAXtion 51
- icons interrupt levels, setting 90
- recovering 24 interrupt problems on an ISA
- recovering icon positions 29 system 89
- icons not appearing 22 IRQ levels for printers 31
- icons, unclear 66 ISA bus systems 88
- incorrect DOS version 27 ISA IRQ levels 31
- installation problems
- AMI BIOS, old version 14
- applications did not migrate 17 +---+
- beeping (constant during diskette | K |
- changing) 13 +---+
- C00000005 (system message) 12
- COUNTRY.SYS not found 13 King's Quest 52
- disk light constant 13
- diskette 1 12
- diskette 16 12 +---+
- diskette 3 12 | L |
- diskette 6 12 +---+
- DOS and Windows, shut down after
- installation 17 LAN adapters 31
- dual boot does not work (error LAN Support Program Device
- message displayed) 13 Drivers 52
- dual boot does not work (no error LANtastic
- message) 18 4.0 52
- dual boot in a partition with 4.1 52
- OS/2 1.3 18 LapLink III 3.0 52
- EC=00BF (message) 13 Laplink Pro 52
- Future Domain SCSI Controller 11 LaserJet Printer 33
- Gateway 2000, old BIOS 15 Limited Availability version of OS/2
- LOGO screen, at 10 2.0 6
- Micronics system board, old Linkway
- BIOS 15 Mammals 52
- non-IBM computer with two Presidents 52
- drives 19 Logitech mouse 87
- OAK adapter 10 Logitech mouse not working 8
- Phoenix BIOS, old version 14 LOGO screen, installation
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- 1-2-3 for Windows 1.0 53 Money 1.0 55
- 1-2-3 Release 3.1 53 MSCDEX 55
- Freelance Graphics for OS/2 53 Project for Windows 1.0 56
- Freelance Graphics for QuickC 56
- Windows 54 Windows 3.0 56
- Magellan 2.0 54 Word 56
- Notes 54 music adapters 31
- LPTx and LPTx.OS/2 ports 37
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- National Geographics Mammals 56
- MAGICorp 54 NEC printers 34
- MAKEINI 23 Norton
- Mathcad Backup 1.2 56
- 3.0 54 Desktop 56
- 3.1 54 Utilities 5.0 56
- memory not able to print 35
- performance considerations 63
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- metafiles 69 | O |
- Micro-Channel IRQ levels 31 +---+
- Micronics system board, old BIOS 15
- MicroProse Civilization 54 objects
- migrating applications changing icon title-text 26
- error following 66 creating icon 25
- in WIN-OS/2 full-screen 65 Find Results 27
- migration did not work during minimized window viewer 27
- installation 17 startup 21
- minimized objects 27 off-line printer, resending print
- minimized window viewer 27 job 36
- Mirrors III 56 Orchid video adapters 87
- More Windows 55 OS/2 Support Line 3
- mouse device drivers 65 OS/2 System folder 22
- mouse not working OS/2 Window, adding to desktop
- HP 8 menu 26
- Logitech 8 OS2.INI file 22
- MS OS2SYS.INI file 22
- Bookshelf 55
- Chart 3.0 55
- Codeview 55
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- PaintJet Printers 33 COUNTRY.SYS not found 13
- PaintShow Plus 2.21 57 disk light constant 13
- Paradox 3.5 57 DOS and Windows, shut down after
- parallel-port IRQ levels 31 installation 17
- partitioning for OS/2 2.0 7 dual boot does not work (error
- Paste Link 69 message displayed) 13
- pasting data from wrong dual boot does not work (no error
- application 68 message) 18
- pasting icons 68 dual boot in a partition with
- PCM systems OS/2 1.3 18
- compatibility support 81 EC=00BF (message) 13
- system requirements 81 Gateway 2000, old BIOS 15
- Peachtree Complete III 5.0 57 Micronics system board, old
- Perform Pro 1.0 57 BIOS 15
- performance considerations 61 non-IBM computer with two
- personal computer manufacturer (PCM) drives 19
- systems 81 Phoenix BIOS, old version 14
- PFS PS/2 P70 (COUNTRY.SYS) 13
- First Choice 57 second disk drive not working 19
- WindowWorks 1.75 57 SYS1200 (message) 13
- Phoenix BIOS, old version 14 SYS2025 (message) 14
- Photostyler 57 SYS2027 (message) 14
- PM Terminal Program 57 system error messages 12
- PostScript printer driver, white screen 13
- IBM4029 38 ZEOS 15
- Print Manager, WIN-OS/2 session 37 program
- print-data stream 36 error message 27
- printer cables 35 program objects 21, 23, 25
- printer does not work properly 35 program-file objects 21, 23, 25
- printer prints slowly 35 programs
- printer stops printing 36 disabling automatic startup 21
- printing Publishers PowerPak 2.1 57
- 4029 Laser printer 38
- configuring devices 32
- configuring your computer 31 +---+
- diagnosing printing problems 35 | Q |
- DMA parallel ports 32 +---+
- hardware adapters 32
- I/O adapter 36 Quattro Pro 3.0 57
- model considerations 32 Quicken 58
- network considerations 39 Quicken for Windows 58
- non-supported printers 34
- WIN-OS/2 considerations 37
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- Soft Term 58
- real-mode WIN-OS/2 66 sound adapters 31
- recovering icons 24 SoundBlaster 58
- reformatting SoundBlaster adapter 32
- Limited Availability version 6 Space Quest IV 58
- when to reformat 5 spooled job does not print 36
- removable media support, SCSI 84 spooled job split into several
- response file for 5.25-inch files 37
- diskettes 9 SQLWindows 3.0 59
- restoring desktop 23 Stacker 2.0 59
- Risk 58 Star printer 34
- running Windows applications 65 starting applications 21
- starting up your system 21
- startup folder 21
- +---+ STARTUP.CMD 22
- | S | STARTUP.CMD file 21
- +---+ super VGA (SVGA) 71
- support information 3
- SantaFe Media Manager 58 Support Line, OS/2 3
- SCSI compatibility notes 84 SVGA support
- SCSI device support super VGA boards 71
- Adaptec and Future Domain 82 TI chipsets 74
- Always Technology adapters 86 Trident chipsets 74
- AMI SCSI adapters 85 Tseng chipsets 74
- CD-ROM 83 utility program, SVGA on 72
- ProComm and SCSI disk adapters video files 72
- (Micro Channel) 82 SWAPPATH command 61
- SCSI disk drive support swapper file 61
- Bernoulli 84 SWAPPER.DAT file 61
- Seagate 84 SYSTEM.INI 66, 67
- SyQest 84
- Western Digital 84
- Selective Install 65 +---+
- serial adapters 31 | T |
- service information 3 +---+
- Setboot (utility program for
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- settings view 26 tape drives
- SETUP.EXE 65 Adapter or SCSI 86
- shadow 25 Colorado jumbo 87
- shadows 23 diskette based 86
- sharing data The Way You Work 59
- between WIN-OS/2 sessions 67 tree view 26
- shell troubleshooting 21 troubleshooting
- Shredder 22 workplace shell problems 21
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- changing country settings 66
- changing language 66
- Clipboard and DDE 67
- Export/Import 68
- icons, unclear 66
- mouse button settings 66
- real-mode 66
- window session 67
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- using version 3.1 17
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- high-resolution modes 65
- performance considerations 62
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