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- From: sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu (Timothy F. Sipples)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
- Subject: Re: OS/2 Suggestions??
- Message-ID: <1993Jan1.225524.23210@midway.uchicago.edu>
- Date: 1 Jan 93 22:55:24 GMT
- References: <1992Dec29.204609.4532@ultb.isc.rit.edu>
- Sender: news@uchinews.uchicago.edu (News System)
- Reply-To: sip1@midway.uchicago.edu
- Organization: Dept. of Econ., Univ. of Chicago
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- In article <1992Dec29.204609.4532@ultb.isc.rit.edu> jks4675@ritvax.isc.rit.edu writes:
- >You guys who think the regular version of OS/2 is badly documented are
- >more than welcome to figure out Extended Services.
- >Listen to this one...
- >"if you have a COM02.SYS device driver in CONFIG.SYS, make sure it is
- >placed after the UPSDRV.OS2 statement in CONFIG.SYS. Otherwise, the
- >UPS service will not start successfully."
- >-->No comment as to whether or not you need this COM02.SYS thing.
- >"Note: In order to use the Uninterruptible Power Supply Service, you
- >must install the COM02.SYS device driver. You can install this driver
- >during base operating system installation [BZZZT...WRONG] or you can
- >copy the driver from another server [Presumably a server that was
- >anointed by the OS/2 god with a file that is on NONE of the disks]."
- >I'd rather have no documentation than the crap that these guys
- >churned out. Each manual has little gems like this in it.
- >Incidentally, the second quotation was IN THE SAME MANUAL but about
- >40 pages after the first one. Go figure.
- >Maybe IBM should hire some people from HP to write the docs.
- >Now if I could only find this imaginary COM02.SYS file....
-
- In the above passages, read: COM.SYS when COM02.SYS is mentioned.
- COM02.SYS is specific to PS/2s running OS/2 1.x. COM.SYS is the OS/2
- 2.0 COM driver.
-
- Extended Services 1.0 was designed to run on both OS/2 1.3 and OS/2
- 2.0, so I suppose documenting ES presents a bit of a challenge.
-
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