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- From: sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu (Timothy F. Sipples)
- Subject: Re: OS/2 2.1 beta bugs
- Message-ID: <1993Jan22.224025.29357@midway.uchicago.edu>
- Keywords: beta 2.1 bug
- Sender: news@uchinews.uchicago.edu (News System)
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- Organization: Dept. of Econ., Univ. of Chicago
- References: <1993Jan22.154843.26891@ucl.ac.uk>
- Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 22:40:25 GMT
- Lines: 44
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- In article <1993Jan22.154843.26891@ucl.ac.uk> ucgadkw@ucl.ac.uk (Dominik Wujastyk) writes:
- >1/ Repeated system hangs with Trap d when deleting files. Solved by
- > rem-ing out the deldir statment in config.sys. Annoying, since I
- > now can't retrieve deleted files.
-
- Known bug, and you've found the current workaround.
-
- You can use the Safe Delete utility (unsdel10.zip) available via
- anonymous ftp from ftp-os2.nmsu.edu if you really miss that feature.
-
- >2/ I can't print from winos2 3.1. I've installed the printer carefully
- > (HPLJ III), made it the default, diddled around generally, but still
- > no luck. When I start Write, I get a message that the printer isn't
- > connected (it *is*) or is wrongly installed, check print manager, etc.
- > I have done all I can think of, with no luck.
-
- Known bug. Workaround: use the HP LJ IIP driver in Win-OS/2.
-
- >3/ Nupop, the POP3 DOS client, causes some problems. It is a comms
- > program, and is talking to my modem on COM3. Sometimes it causes
- > the whole system to hang. (Yes, yes, I type ctrl+esc and wait
- > forever, etc.). Cold boot required. This happens when nupop attempts
- > to send mail out via modem.
- > Another problem is that the keyboard dies -- but not the mouse. With
- > the mouse I can continue to work with nupop, but the keys are completely
- > dead. Other sessions and windows are fine.
-
- Please report it on CompuServe, if you have an account. Use the
- command GO OS2USER and post to message area 16.
-
- >4/ the statement DEVICE=C:\OS2\COM.SYS (3,38E,4) in config.sys had the
- > bracketed stuff removed by the installation (beta over GA 2.0).
- > Actually, com3 worked without the () stuff in GA+SP, but it doesn't
- > in 2.1b.
-
- The installation routine is not yet up to par -- IBM recommends a
- reformat when you install 2.1 beta. They freeze the installation
- details very late in the development cycle.
-
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