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Editor's note: these tips are from OS/2 users and in some cases can not be verified
by myself. Please heed this as a warning that if you are not sure about something,
don't do it.
Thanks to FX Communications, I finally connected to Bell Atlantic w/PPPoE on
OS/2.
The documentation is missing some pointers:
1. you don't configure DHCP for the Nic card you use to connect to the net
2. you do configure the nic to be an enabled lan interface (preferred to be Lan0)
using a manual IP and netmask. PPPoE's configuration files will overide these IP's
and netmasks when started and re-negotiate a new IP and mask. Make sure that the
Injoy Firewall's configuration files have 0.0.0.0 to have dynamic IP and dynamic
DNS configuration. Suggested manual IP could be 1.1.1.1 and 225.225.225.0. This
is done via the TCPIP configuration.
3. you apparently must remove all references to adaptors which are not Nic cards,
e.g., I had two such on my machine, an "No Adaptor" and a "IBM MAC
COM Port" adaptor. I removed both of these. I did not lose dial up to Inet
via Modem capability. You would remove the additional adaptors via MPTS.
4. Follow other Injoy configuration instructions so that the MTU size is 1492
and fragmented.
Netscape 4.6 in os/2 can seem slow compared to Win32 and linux. I suspect that
one of the main differences is the larger disk caching capacity of the other OSs.
I've managed to improve performance of several programs by effectively getting around
the 2MB hpfs cache limit using SVDisk, a ramdisk that can be made large and formatted
for HPFS.
I've set up an 8MB svdisk as the P drive:
In config.sys:
DEVICE=f:\svdiskd\SVDisk.sys 8192 512
CALL=f:\svdiskd\SVDC.EXE /i P:
And set as many temporary directories to the RAM drive as possible:
In config.sys:
SET TEMP=P:\TEMP
SET TMP=P:\TEMP
In autoexec.bat :
set tmp=p:\wincache
set temp=p:\wincache
In Netscape's edit\preferences\set disk cache to p:\nscache
These changes use RAM for swap space and speeds many processes.
The only thing I haven't figured out yet is how to get the os2.ini and os2sys.ini
files copied to and loaded from the RAM drive. [Editor: I remember reading about
this but have now lost the information].
The speedup in winos/2 and many other programs is noticeable. Monitoring the
free space on the SVDisk drive is key, because if it fills up, problems will happen.
SVDisk is shareware available at BMTmicro http://www.bmtmicro.com/catalog/svdisk.html
I've been using the demo so far, and have tried this method for about a week
of intensive work w/o problems.
Many OS/2 users subscribe to sites that are accessible only through the insertion
of a User ID and Password. I'm often asked, "how can I avoid being forced to
enter this each time I go to Warp City?"
So here's a trick we offer to our subscribers to avoid the annoying pop up menu
asking for their ID and Password:
Create a modified url bookmark that includes your own User ID and Password. We
offer this example to all members of Warp City but it can be used for ANY secure
site:
http://name:password@www.warpcity.com/members/
Of course, you replace the 'name:password' with your own. To set it as a bookmark:
highlight or mark the url above and hit 'copy' on your edit button. 'Paste' that
new url in your Netscape location box and change the 'name:password' to your codes
then hit enter. You'll go directly into the secure site and won't be asked for the
security codes. Once there bookmark the new modified url. Whenever you want to access
this particular secure site you can hit the new modified bookmark and you'll gain
entry right away!
If you use ANY secure site as your home page (many members of Warp City do this)
you can insert the url above (or the same type of url with any secure site) with
your ID and Password in the Edit --> Navigator --> location box. When Netscape
starts and calls your home page you'll gain entry to the secure site right away.
If you removed a previous 'archive' directory you're going to need to get rid
of (suggest renaming first just in case) the log files from the previous FP install.
Look in 'x:\os2\install' for the files:
LOGF0000.OS2
LOGSTART.OS2
LOGARCH.OS2
...and look in 'x:\mmos2\install' for the files:
LOGF0000.MPM
LOGSTART.MPM
LOGARCH.MPM
The 'readme' also mentions the file 'C:\CSF_SEL.000', but I've never run into
a problem involving it before. Also, don't worry if every file mentioned doesn't
exist, just remove those that do.
...Norm
Then Karen Mansbridge-Wood added:
I've seen it, but that usually exists when you've had a failed fixpack install.
In addition to removing the files you've mentioned, it is also a good idea to copy
syslevel.os2 from the original installation CD back into your os2/install directory.
If your syslevel file indicates a previously installed fixpack the installation
will generally look for an archive file. It doesn't hurt to delete service.log either.
1) click on the object
2) click button 2 to pop up the menu
3) click on "properties"
4) click on _File tab
Replace steps 1 to 3 by holding down Alt and double clicking on the object.
For anyone wondering if SDD beta xx supports xxx or has fixed xxx, the change
list is at:
http://www.scitechsoft.com/sdd2_changes.txt
The following is a little list of hints that I have found work:
As a part of the OS/2 helpdesk for the New Mexico Computer Society, I do get
a number of calls regarding Warp 4 installs. You may want to put the following
tips in your basket:
1. Don't let Warp 4 install any video driver except VGA. a) It may
not work, and b) you will probably wind up having to reset to VGA
anyway to install an updated driver.
2. Don't let Warp 4 install ANY printer driver. See #1.
3. Don't let Warp 4 install TCP/IP unless you really want Web Explorer,
Newsreader/2, UglyMail (oops), etc. After the install completes,
go back in the CD to x:\CID\IMG\TCPAPPS and run the install.exe.
This will let you do a selective install of TCP/IP.
4. You may find that Peer will install a little cleaner if you do not
install it with the initial install. After the initial install, go
to x:\CID\IMG\IBMPEER and run the peerrmt.exe.
Go to Adress Book Manager of PMMail>Tools>Search Adresses. If you look
in the options of:"Look in" you can also choose Bigfoot etc. However,
not all those databases seemed to function, when I tested, but some did like Bigfoot.
You just write the name of the person you are looking for and trigger Find and you
will get all similar alternatives. I think this feature was introduced with PMMail/2,
but I am not 100 % sure.
Yep. Use iptrace/ipformat to capture the ftp address and password. Unless the
password is dynamic, wget will work fine.
Editor note: If you have never used IPTRACE/IPFORMAT,
you can learn more by typing TCPHELP IPTRACE and/or TCPHELP IPFORMAT at an OS/2 command prompt. Basically IPTRACE writes all IP packets to a file (default name is IPTRACE.DMP). To stop
the trace just press ENTER, or CTRL-C. Then you can use IPFORMAT | MORE or IPFORMAT
> IPFORMATfilename to view the data collected which will
include ip addresses as well as data sent/received.
Boot again from your Install disks, with the CD in place. Exit to a command prompt,
navigate on the CD to \OS2IMAGE\DISK_6 (probably) and run LVM.EXE.
Hit "Enter".
Select "Create a new volume."
"Create a volume that does not need to be bootable"
"Create a compatibility volume"
"C:" (probably, assuming you installed to C:)
"Enter a name for the volume: Drive_C"
Then choose the disk and existing partition you had installed it to.
There are issues about bootable partitions that LVM might complain about, but if
you've got Boot Manager or System Commander installed, they don't seem to be a problem.
If you can't make this work, write me and I'll do some more experimentation here.
This mechanism is the only way to use Partition Magic with WSeB, and it allows
the only way I've found to "Detach" drives from LVM. If you try to Detach
a partition from within LVM, using the "Delete the volume" selection,
it actually Deletes the partition completely, the sorry bastid. So use PQM to resize
a partition, which keeps LVM from finding it again and giving it a drive letter,
then use LVM to reattach it.
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http://www.fontpool.com/category.html
http://members.dca.net/pheanix/index.htm
http://www.webfxmall.com/fonts/a1.html
http://www.chank.com/fuelfonts/
http://www.typeindex.com/
http://home.revealed.net/bwsoft/fonts.html
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From David Eckard's post on the OS/2 Discussion List:
Detach the rsu file
open netscape
file ->open page->choose file.
browse till you find the place where you put the afore mentioned rsu
file. press the open button
Just cut and paste the following into a new file called xr_m013.rsu and proceed
with the above. I haven't tried it since I'm not ready to apply FP13. Good Luck.
Mark
INSTALL_TYPE=R
INSTALL_PGM=ftpinstl.exe pristine
INSTALL_PARMS=service.boulder.ibm.com anonymous pspdist@vnet.ibm.com
ps/products/os2/rsu/xr_m013 FTP_SITE=service.boulder.ibm.com anonymous
pspdist@vnet.ibm.com PKG_FILE={
NAME=ps/products/os2/rsu/xr_m013/csf142.zip
UNZIP=Y
FILE_SIZE=1500000
UNZIPPED_SIZE=45000000
MODE=B
}
Unless this is a brand new install, most likely your CONFIG.SYS lines will have
to be trimmed. Any line over 256 characters will cause the Peer install program
to break. You can fix this by splitting up the lines and putting REM in front of
the extra lines. This usually applies to PATH, LIBPATH and DPATH. Make certain
that any directories required to boot your system are in the uncommented lines.
Be sure to further trim any commented lines so that they are all below 256 characters
in length.
If you have ever updated MPTS-TCP/IP, then the basic File and Print Networking
will blowup when it tries to install the base MPTS. Run x:\CID\IMG\IBMPEER\PEERRMT.EXE
off of the Warp4 CDROM? PEERRMT asks if you want to use your current MPTS and you
should respond Yes.
If you still have a problem, check the peer install log file in x:\IBMINST\LOGS\LOCINSTU\
to see what it reports as the problem?
CGI is the HTTP Common Gateway Interface, a standardized way to serve pages generated
on the fly by programs. On Unix, it's customary to treat files in particular directories
(i.e. cgi-bin) and files with the .cgi extension as CGI scripts; but identification
of CGI scripts is usually customizeable in the web server configuration (often,
on Windows / OS/2 / etc., the CGI extension is set to .exe and/or .cmd, and .pl
is also common when Perl is used for CGI scripting).