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ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 1. Introduction ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ

                                 September 1993
                                Volume 1 Number 4

Note:  The views expressed in this newsletter are not necessarily the views
       held by the MMOUG or it's members. Don't agree with something you've
       read here? Write and tell us about it!


ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 2. Mid Missouri OS/2 Users Group ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ

The MMOUG meets on the third Wednesday of each month, meeting at the Columbia
IBM office on even months and at the Jefferson City office on odd months. Click
below for more information.

                                September Meeting
                             What you missed in July
                                Details on MMOUG


ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 2.1. September Meeting Announcement ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ

When:          September 15, 1993 at 4 PM

Where:         Jefferson City IBM Office (See directions)

Activities:    A representative of WordPerfect Corporation will be on hand to
               demonstrate the new WordPerfect for OS/2 5.2.

Directions:

Jefferson City IBM Office
One Elm Plaza
Jefferson City, MO 65101
314-634-0200

From Columbia:

Highway 63 South to Highway 54 West (across the bridge) to (be careful, this is
still a dangerous intersection) Highway 50 East. Go through lights at MO. Blvd,
Broadway, Jefferson, Madison and Monroe

Take the CLARK AVENUE exit off of Highway 50. Turn right onto Clark Ave, THEN
make an almost immediate left onto ELM Street. Take Elm Street to IBM. IBM will
be on the left.

  Eastland     Highway
 /         Patrol     Elm Street
McDonalds________   HQ    ________________
|       IBM\___________/         |
|______________________________________________\_______
         Highway 50           Clark Ave Exit

Thanks to Gary Pool for providing these directions.


ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 2.2. What you missed at the last meeting! ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ

The "real" number for the OWM Jeff City Point is 634-0393. It's up and running,
with free access for MMOUG members.  If you have any problems with this system,
feel free to drop a note here to me or Phillip.

Tom Stuart and David Irovic from DataStorm (makers of ProComm) visited with us
and discussed several aspects of running PC+ and PW (ProComm for Win) under
OS/2.

Here are some DOS settings to use:

          HW_TIMER = ON
          COMM_HOLD = ON
          IDLE_SECONDS = 60
          IDLE_SENSITIVITY (as low as 40, they suggest 100).

 If you're planning on using COM3 or COM4, make sure they're declared in the
 CONFIG.SYS in the following manner (assuming you're using COM.SYS):

  DEVICE=C:\OS2\COM.SYS (3,addr,irq) (4,addr,irq)

 (addr is the base address in hex, and irq is the IRQ to use).  Under OS/2,
 IRQ7 is used for the printer. Generally, IRQ5 is used for COM3.

 If you're encountering errors installing the Windows version of ProComm, here
 are some tips:  If you get a "Fatal Exit Error", then there's a good chance
 that you may be missing the LZEXPAND.DLL and/or a valid COMMDLG.DLL in your
 \OS2\MDOS\WINOS2 directory.  You can manually copy these files to overcome the
 error.  Note that this error usually only pops up while trying to install
 using OS/2 2.0. Version 2.1 has all the required objects in the Windows
 directory, and you shouldn't have a problem installing.

 Interestingly, DataStorm has performed some testing and has discovered that
 they can obtain up to 1000 CPS at 9600 baud using the Windows version (PW)
 with a *16450* UART chip (non-buffered) under OS/2 2.1.  This makes OS/2 look
 even better than before, especially for communication applications.

 When prompted for info on an OS/2 version of ProComm, Tom replied that
 DataStorm is a market-driven company.  If people want an OS/2 version, they'll
 make one.  Feel free to let them know what you'd like to see in an OS/2
 version.  Here's 3 ways: to make your voice heard:

          Compuserve: (GO DSTORM) send a message to 72250,3463
          Voice: Call their tech support at [phone]
          Fax: Tech support fax is at [phone]

 If you represent more than one person, make sure and mention how many people
 you DO represent!  Every person counts!

 GIVEAWAYS!
 Diane Kehl won a free copy of Lotus' 123 for OS/2. Several people won coffee
 mugs, shirts, and other prizes.

 GIVEAWAYS TO BE!
 Here's a short list of things to be GIVEN AWAY in the NEAR future:

          ToolWorks CD Game Pack
          NEC Adobe Type Gallery LJ (CD)
          Kiplinger's CA-Simply Money
          Clear and Simple's Performance Tuning 2.1
      and MORE!

 NEXT MEETING
 Looks like the next MMOUG meeting will be at 4pm Wed, Sept 15th, at the Jeff
 City IBM office.  These meetings are open to all!  Feel free to stop by and
 check us out!


ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 2.3. MMOUG Information ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ

Mid Missouri OS/2 Users Group

Current Officers:

Phillip Wilson - President
Diane Kehl - Vice President
Robert Shelley - Treasurer
Shawn Frazier - Membership Secretary
David Finch - Recording Secretary
Woody Sturges - BBS Officer
Dale Hackemeyer - Information Officer

Official MMOUG BBS:

OS/2 Woodmeister - [phone] (1:289/27)
Jeff City Point - [phone] (MMOUG Members only)

MMOUG Mailing Address:

Mid Missouri OS/2 Users Group
P.O. Box 30645
Columbia, MO 65205-0645

MMOUG Internet E-mail Address:

[e-mail]


ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 3. Presidential Corner ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ

Welcome to the Mid-Missouri OS/2 Users Group Newsletter.  I hope you find it a
beneficial one to you in your home as well as in your office.  We are growing
steadily, and are already over 20 members strong.  If you check the BBS
officers section you will find quite a few new developments in the area of our
expansion of BBS access.  We have a group of Officers that are doing a great
job.  I would like to thank our Treasurer Robert Shelley for taking the double
duty of Membership officer as well until we were lucky enough to latch onto
Shawn Frazier.  Last month's Datastorm presentation was received very
enthusiastically from everyone who attended.  Don't forget if you received a
software product as a prize from the drawing you are to upload your personal
review of the prize.  Otherwise I get to badger you until you do. <Grin>

We will have an exciting meeting next month with our next guest speaker (read
other sections to see who <g>) and more giveaway drawings for members who are
present.  We are also going to vote on becoming a member of the Association for
PC User Groups.  I believe it will allow us access to more information of
interest to you our members.

If you have any suggestions or comments on how the Mid-Missouri OS/2 Users
Group might better serve you and our other members please feel free to leave a
message in the User group forum on the BBS nearest you.  Thank you for support.

Phillip Wilson
President,
Mid Missouri OS/2 Users Group


ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 4. The Latest from the BBS Side... ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ

The Latest from the BBS Side...

Just a few things this time...

IBM has officially released their 256 color S3 drivers.  These drivers appear
to work flawlessly on most S3-based video cards and go up to 1280 resolution.
If you've been waiting, wait no more.  The file is a free download, available
as S3-256.DSK. I'm using the drivers on my Orchid VA/VLB running at
1024x768x256 without a hitch.  Seamless Windows work excellent!

IBM has also just released the first beta of their 64k color (!) S3 drivers.
This file (also free) is available as S3-64K.DSK.  This version is a little
rough at 1024 resolution, but appears to work much better at 800 and lower.
These drivers offer TRUE color at up to 1024 resolution.  Though not done,
they're fun to at least look at if you've got the time.

There have been a number of great files show up lately.  If you haven't checked
them out, you're missing out on some good stuff. And, as always, drivers and
patches show up weekly.

Finally, I've bumped up subscribers to get 1.5M of download credit per day.
This allows all subscribers (including MMOUG members) to get ANY file off the
BBS. Just another benefit of being a subscriber, or MMOUG member!

Woody Sturges
BBS Officer
Mid Missouri OS/2 Users Group


ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 5. Setting up IBM's TCP/IP with OS/2 ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ

    Guide to getting started with OS/2 networking using IBM's TCP/IP software

                                By Dean Pentcheff

                         [e-mail]

Table of Contents:

  1. Purpose and introduction
  2. Request for more information
  3. Some terminology
  4. Selecting parts of the IBM TCP/IP packages
  5. Preparing to hook up to a TCP/IP network
  6. Installing IBM's TCP/IP Package
  7. Installing the driver for the network adapter
  8. Initial tryout
  9. Downloading CSDs (bug fixes)
 10. A few reminders
 11. Security concerns
 12. Tuning your setup
 13. Interesting TCP/IP software you can download
 14. Good luck

  A1. Appendix I: Coexistence of TCP/IP with Netware
  A2. Appendix II: Supplementary information on SLIP
  A3. Appendix III: Setting up LaMail

 Note:  This document was produced for use with IBM TCP/IP for OS/2 Version
        1.2.1. Version 2.0 of the TCP/IP product was recently released. This
        document does NOT reflect any changes that may be introduced with the
        new version. Dean has said he might produce an updated version of this
        document in the future, but it's on the back burner for now.


ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 5.1. Purpose and introduction ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ

                            Purpose and introduction

The purpose of this document is to:

  1. Orient someone who has heard a bit about networking on OS/2, but can't yet
     hold an entire conversation in three to five letter networking acronyms
     ("So, Bob, how's TCP/IP coming along today?" "Well, Jane, NFS if fine, but
     I'm having trouble with FTP."  "Have you installed the CSDs?"  "Yes, but
     can you ping over SLIP before sending a job to LPD?"....).

  2. Help a new networker install the IBM TCP/IP networking package and some of
     its more popular additional modules.

 I'm no networking pro, but I've managed to start a working network system
 using OS/2 and IBM's TCP/IP offerings.  It took me long enough to sort it all
 out.  I hope I can save someone else the trouble.

 I make no guarantees that the following is entirely correct!  It's based on my
 experiences.  PLEASE correct me by mailing me your comments if you find
 anything misleading or wrong.  Please send me additional hints based on your
 own experiences that you feel would be helpful to put into this document.

 N. Dean Pentcheff
 Biological Sciences
 Univ. of South Carolina
 Columbia SC 29208 (803-777-8998)

 Internet addresses:
 [e-mail]
 [e-mail]


ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 5.2. Request for more information ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ

                          Request for more information

Please let me know of improvements I can make to this document! Notable gaping
holes that I notice (hint, hint) are:

  1. Performance tuning - success stories and failure stories are both equally
     welcome.

  2. Other useful network software - surely some net.geeks have some nifty
     utilities and addons that make a networked OS/2 system more of a joy.

  3. Tricks and tips that you've discovered.


ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 5.3. Some terminology ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ

                                Some terminology

TCP/IP is the name of a communications protocol - it defines a way for
computers to chat with each other.

(PC)NFS is a family of products from several vendors that use TCP/IP on a PC,
generally under the DOS operating system.  Note that PC/NFS is a specific
product marketed by SunSoft (the (PC)NFS name has been adopted as a generic
name for that type of product).  (PC)NFS is not addressed in this document -
you may have heard about it from DOS systems.  The programs described here do
what PC/NFS on DOS does (and more).

Ethernet is a specific hardware protocol for computer communications. For
example, a 3Com 3C503 card is a (very cheap and popular, if not screamingly
fast) Ethernet board for PCs.  Using it (and appropriate software) you can
connect a PC to an Ethernet TCP/IP network.  TCP/IP is just one of many
communication protocols that can run atop Ethernet.  For example, a Novell
Netware network running the IPX protocol could run on the same Ethernet - same
hardware, just different protocols.

Token-Ring is another hardware protocol in common use.  IBM's TCP/IP package
supports both Ethernet and Token-Ring network adapters.

FTP is a "file transfer protocol" that runs on top of TCP/IP (there are
implementations of FTP for pretty much any computer that can talk TCP/IP,
making it a lingua franca for file exchange - it's not pretty but it works).

Telnet is a defined way for TCP/IP-speaking computers to set up terminal
sessions between each other so that you can actually log onto a remote computer
and interact with your account there.

SLIP stands for serial line IP.  It defines a way that you can connect to a
TCP/IP network over a serial line (via a phone modem, for example).  Serial
communications is slower than a direct network connection, but can sometimes be
useful.  IBM's TCP/IP packages does support SLIP.

CSD is IBM's word for a publicly distributed bug fix package.  Note that CSDs
obsolete prior CSDs.  That is, application of any later CSD will take care of
everything that was done by earlier CSDs.  You don't have to apply the whole
chronological string of CSDs, just the most recent one.  God help you if you
install an earlier CSD over a later one (IBM sure won't help you).


ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 5.4. Selecting parts of the IBM TCP/IP packages ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ

                   Selecting parts of the IBM TCP/IP packages

IBM sells a bunch of pieces, many of which are optional, for TCP/IP networking.
Following is a brief summary of them.  Note that all of the following come with
both 1.2 Mb 5-1/4" and 1.44 Mb 3-1/2" disks in the same package (you don't need
to specify medium).

-- TCP/IP Base Program (Part #02G6968).  Price: US$131.  You need this in order
to use any of the other following parts.  It gives you the software to connect
your Ethernet or Token Ring card to a network, plus a few character-oriented
programs (Telnet, FTP, ping, etc.).  It's sort of equivalent to the public
domain NCSA Telnet package for DOS.

-- NFS Kit (Part #02G6970).  Price: US$95.  This gives your OS/2 system the
ability to serve as both a client and a server for sharing disk space using
Sun's NFS (Network File System) protocol.  In other words, you can mount disks
over the network that are physically attached to other minicomputers or OS/2
systems as though they were attached to your computer.  Conversely, you can
make parts of your OS/2 computer's disks available for sharing by others.  With
this package (along with the Base Program), you've got the makings of a small
local area network that can share disk space and printers.

-- X-Windows System (Part #02G6980).  Price: US$95.  This gives your OS/2
system the ability to display output (and relay input) to X programs running on
other computers.  X-Windows is a standardized way for programs (mostly on
Unix-based systems) to put graphics on the screen and interact with the user.
X terminology is a bit peculiar: the program doing the work is called the
"client"; the program doing the display is called the "server".  This package
allows your OS/2 system to be an "X server", but not an "X client": you can
display and interact with X programs running elsewhere, but you can't run an X
program on your OS/2 system and have its results displayed elsewhere.

-- X.25 Networking (Part #?).  Enables X.25 communications from your OS/2
system.  I have no exposure to this product, so I won't comment. I assume
you'll know if you need it.

-- Source code and programming packages.  If you're ordering these you sure as
hell don't need me giving you hints on what to do.

And finally, where to order.  Peculiarly, IBM often seems unaware that they
sell this product.  So far, people have had the best luck with calling:
1-800-IBM-2-YOU (1-800-436-2968).  Another IBM order line (1-800-IBM-CALL)
apparently knows about the product but likes to charge you more money (?!).


ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 5.5. Preparing to hook up to a TCP/IP network ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ

                    Preparing to hook up to a TCP/IP network

Once you have the TCP/IP base package, you can be a full-blown node on the
Internet.  To do that, you _must_ contact a local system adminstrator on the
network to which you will physically connect your OS/2 machine.  He or she must
give you an Internet number.  Choosing one at random is unlikely to work and is
exceedingly antisocial (since it may well disrupt others' use of the network).

You can probably select your own cute name for your machine, unless there is an
iron-fisted net administrator who enforces a naming convention.  As examples,
our lab works on crab behavior, so our PCs are called "fiddler" and "cancer".
The last place I worked had a lot of people working on marine larvae, so they
had "cypris", "zoea", "actinula", etc.

When you decide on a name and send it to your Local Network Guru, also ask the
following questions:

 o What will my machine's full Internet name be (e.g.
   fiddler.biol.scarolina.edu for the machine at which I'm sitting)?

 o What is my IP address (e.g. 123.234.221.112 as a totally fictitious
   example)?

 o Is this network subnetted?  If so, what's the subnet mask (e.g.
   255.255.255.0)?

 o Is there a non-default broadcast address?  If so, what is it?

 o What is the IP address of a default router for me to use?

 o What are the IP addresses of three domain nameservers?

 And, before you start the software installation, do yourself a favor. Open up
 your machine and take a good look at the network adapter card. Write down any
 strap or switch options that are set.  You'll probably need them later when
 you do the software configuration of the driver for TCP/IP.


ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 5.6. Installing IBM's TCP/IP Package ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ

                         Installing IBM's TCP/IP Package

All the documentation comes with the Base Program.  The other packages just
consist of a folder with disks.

It is not initially clear how to proceed, so here's enough to get you going:

Begin with the manual "TCP/IP Version 1.2.1 for OS/2 (Refresh): Installation
and Maintenance".  You install the TCP/IP software first, then the specific
driver software for your Ethernet or Token Ring board.

There's a nice little configuration program called ICAT (Installation and
Configuration Automation Tool).  As per instructions, stick in disk 1 and run
ICAT from an OS/2 command line.

Push the "Install" button first.  It will give you the opportunity to install
any/all of the options you've ordered (base package, NFS, X-Windows, X.25, and
source packages).  Check off whatever boxes you want and feed disks as
requested.  Go ahead and install everything you've got.

Once everything has been copied to disk, push the "Configure" button of ICAT.
Now comes the fun stuff.  I'm assuming you have the documentation, so I'll just
give you some hints based on what I did. There's a numbered list of 6
configuration things to do.  We'll run down the list.

  1. Configure Network Interface Parameters.  You probably only have one
     Ethernet or Token Ring board in your computer, so you only have to fill in
     half this screen (the other half is for another board - and up to two more
     on a "Next Screen").  Your IP address is whatever was issued to you by
     your Friendly Local Network Adminstrator.  If he/she told you anything
     about a "Subnet Mask", enter it appropriately.  Leave "Broadast" and
     "Destination Address" blank (unless you've been explicitly instructed
     otherwise).  For that matter, leave the rest of the screen untouched
     unless told otherwise.  Don't forget to check the little "Enabled" box in
     the top left corner.  When done, press the "Menu" button to return to the
     main Configure menu.

  2. X.25 Parameters.  You're on your own here (I haven't done this), but it
     looks straightforward - stick in your IP address.

  3. SLIP Parameters.  This is if you're going to use a serial port for access,
     instead of a network adapter (SLIP = Serial Line Internet Protocol).  Fill
     in the IP address, and the rest is like setting up the dialer in a
     communications program.

  4. Automatic Starting of Services.  Again, the following are reasonable
     defaults if (a) you haven't been told otherwise; and (b) you have the
     software involved.

          DO enable the inetd super server - this is one program which runs all
          the time and spawns off some of the other network service programs on
          an as-needed basis.  This way they don't all have to be started at
          once.

          If you want yourself or others to be able to Telnet into this
          machine, enable the Telnet server (BUT SEE NOTES BELOW - THIS CAN BE
          A REAL SECURITY RISK).  This does not influence your ability to
          telnet out of this machine to other machines.

          If you want to be able to access files on this machine from other
          machines using the FTP protocol, enable the FTP server. This does not
          influence your ability to use FTP on your machine to access other
          machines.  (SEE NOTES BELOW - THIS IS A POTENTIAL SECURITY RISK).

          Unless you know otherwise, DO NOT enable TFTP.

          I lean towards not enabling rexec and rsh unless there's a compelling
          reason to do so.  THESE ARE A REAL SECURITY RISK. Again, this does
          not affect your ability to rexec or rsh from your OS/2 machine to
          other machines.

          If you are going to make a printer attached to your computer
          available to other computers (i.e. your machine will be a network
          print server), enable the lpd server.  NOTE: To prevent lpd from
          printing a banner and control file before each document, set lpd to
          run in the "Foreground" (not via inetd), and type in "-b -c" (without
          the quotes) in the blank for arguments.  This is particularly
          important if you have a Postscript printer (since the banner and
          control files are in ASCII, not Postscript, they will mysteriously
          stuff the printer).

          If you've got the X-Windows stuff, enable it (leave the "Parameters"
          as it is).

          If you're into online typing to people, enable Talk, but honestly,
          why not just use the phone?

          Enable the NFS Server if you want other people to access your hard
          disk (SEE SECURITY NOTES BELOW).

          Enable NFSCTL if you want to be able to mount other machines' disks
          (but note that they must allow you to do so).

          If you have the IP address of a default router on your network, you
          can skip enabling the automatic routing server "routed". If you
          couldn't get such an address from the Local NetNerd, go ahead and
          enable the automatic routing server "routed".  (See some further
          remarks on this below in the "Tuning" section.)

          FINALLY, if you're going to receive mail directly onto your machine,
          enable "sendmail".  If you're already receiving mail on another
          machine, this is FAR more trouble than it's worth (in my opinion).
          With the other software you've got, you'll easily be able to read
          your mail on another machine, so why bother with all the sendmail
          setup stuff (which is relatively fierce)?

  5. Configure Services.  I'm going to give hints based on my slightly
     net.paranoid approach.  See the security notes below for some details.

          Put one and only one entry in the FTP Access Protection: anonymous.
          (But see further notes in the "Security concerns" section below.)

          If you're doing X-Windows, X Host Authorization gets the name of the
          machine(s) on which your X "clients" (e.g. main programs) will run.

          In the X Client Display Variable, enter your OS/2 machine's IP
          address (or Internet name, whichever).  Not the name of the host to
          which you will be connecting, but this very OS/2 machine's address.
          Follow the IP address or machine name with ":0" (without the quotes
          of course).  For example, I entered: fiddler.biol.scarolina.edu:0

          Fill in the timezone in standard Unixoid format.  See page 95 of the
          manual for some of the more popular timezones.

          If you will use another machine's printer, enter that machine's name
          and its printer's name.

          If you took my advice on rexec, enter nothing in the rexec username
          and password.

          Enter nothing in the password field for telnet (BUT SEE THE SECURITY
          NOTES BELOW).

          Enter your machine's name in the Hostname field (just the very first
          part of the name: "fiddler" in the case of
          "fiddler.biol.scarolina.edu").  Enter the rest of the name in the
          Domain Name field ("biol.scarolina.edu").

          Type in (correctly!) the IP numbers of the (up to) three local
          nameserver machines your Always Cheerful Network Adminstrator gave
          you.

  6. Routing Information.  If you have the IP address of a default router,
     enter it here.  Follow the keypress instructions to insert an entry.
     Toggle the "Route Type" field using space, leave "Route Destination"
     blank, type in the IP address into "Router", and leave "Metric count" at
     1.  If you do _not_ have the IP address of a default router, make sure you
     enabled the "routed" daemon.  Then check below in the "Tuning" section to
     see how you can find out your default router's address later, insert it
     here, and dispense with "routed."

     When this is done, go ahead and "Exit" all the way out of the ICAT
     program, reassuring it that you really do want it to write this stuff to
     disk as it quits.


ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 5.7. Installing the driver for the network adapter ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ

                  Installing the driver for the network adapter

Installing the driver for the network adapter

Once you finish with all that nonsense, you will realize that you haven't told
the software anything about the network adapter you've got. Time to turn to the
"LAN Adapter and Protocol Support Introduction and Configuration Guide".  Cram
in the LAPS disk, and, from an OS/2 command prompt, start up the "LAPS" program
from the floppy.

The following discussion assumes you will be using a network adapter card
(either Ethernet or Token-Ring).  If you will be using SLIP (IP over a serial
line with a modem), I suspect things may be a bit different, but I don't know,
I've never tried (as in: "Can you play the violin?"  "I don't know, I've never
tried").  See Appendix A2 below for some supplementary information on SLIP.  I
don't use it, so I haven't tested this, but give it a whirl.  For now, we'll
continue to assume that you're using a network adapter card...

First do the "install" to copy in the software.  Next, go to the configuration
part.

What you do is simple: pick one from column A and one from column B.  In fact,
IBM has made it simpler still - there's only one choice in column B (but you
still have to explicitly pick it).  Choose your network adapter from the
Network Adapters list (select and "Add" it).  (If your network adapter isn't on
the list, see the remarks a few paragraphs below here.)  Then choose the only
choice (IBM TCP/IP) from column B. You've now declared that your network
adapter number 0 (the first one) is of a particular type, and it will run
TCP/IP.

Now highlight the adapter name in the Current Configuration window and press
"Edit".  Now's your chance to make sure that the hardware options on your
adapter match up with the software's idea of them.  Change anything that needs
changing.  When in doubt, leave it as it was. Notably, you should probably
leave the "Network Adapter Address" blank.  That number is supplied by the
board hardware unless you enter an overriding number here.

Once you're done with the configuration, press "OK" and the proper
configuration will be copied in.

What if your network adapter isn't "supported"?  That is, you didn't see it on
the LAPS list.  Odds are good that it really is supported.  First of all, check
the documentation - your adapter may emulate an adapter that is in the LAPS
list.  If so, you're home free.  If not, you need to get hold of an "NDIS
driver" for your adapter.  There may be one on a disk that came with the card.
Alternatively, you may be able to find one on the ftp-os2.cdrom.com archive
(see the section on downloading CSDs in this document to see how to access the
archive).

Once you've got the NDIS driver, you'll need to do a little hand editing of
some configuration information.  The following description is edited from some
advice posted to the Usenet group comp.os.os2.networking by Kai-Uwe Rommel
([e-mail]) regarding the popular 3Com Etherlink III
card (a very fast, excellent Ethernet card, by the way).  I haven't done this
myself, so I don't know how easy it will be to adapt these instructions to
other cards, but take a look at this and see how it goes...

     NDIS drivers for DOS and OS/2 come included with the Etherlink III card.
     I'm not sure if the LAPS install program of the TCP/IP package allows
     "other cards" to be installed, but otherwise simply install the Etherlink
     II drivers first. Then, before rebooting, copy ELNK3.OS2 from the
     Etherlink III driver floppy to the same location where ELNKII.OS2 is and
     replace ELNKII.OS2 in config.sys by ELNK3.OS2. In the protocol.ini in
     \IBMCOM, add

          [ELNK3_nif] DriverName = ELNK3$

     right below the [ELNKII_nif] section and replace

          Bindings = ELNKII_nif

     in the [TCPIP_nif] section by

          Bindings = ELNK3_nif

     and it should work after rebooting. You may want to boot DOS and run the
     3C509 program from the Etherlink III driver disk to set up the card to use
     an IRQ > 8 (i.e. IRQ 10, for example) and set the "client type" to a
     better suited one (you can choose DOS client, Windows or OS/2 client or
     server). If you install the Etherlink III in EISA machines, run the 3C509
     program to switch the card into EISA mode (yes it has one although it is
     an ISA card) and use the EISA setup program and the config files on the
     Etherlink III driver disk to configure it. See Appendix E in the Etherlink
     III manual.


ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 5.8. Initial tryout ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ

                                 Initial tryout

Are ya feelin' lucky?  Hope so.  Quit out of LAPS.  Do the standard OS/2
Shutdown.  Make sure your network adapter is actually plugged into a network.
Cross fingers and toes.  Start up OS/2.

It will take much longer to boot as five zillion networking programs crank up.
Lots of them will put screens up as they come on.  Once things are up, you can
minimize these screens.  Meanwhile, they will tell you of your progress.

If things really choke and you don't get a boot, well, you knew the job was
dangerous when you took it.  Get an OS/2 guru to boot from a floppy for you and
REM out the line in "startup.cmd" that says "CALL C:\TCPIP\BIN\TCPSTART.CMD".

Assuming things more-or-less come up, try things out.  First, from an OS/2
command line, try a ping to yourself.  In my case, that's "ping
fiddler.biol.scarolina.edu".  You should get a series of one-liners once a
second informing you that you've sent 64 bytes to yourself and received it.
Press Control-C to quit that.  If, after you enter your ping command, you get
nothing (the command just hangs there), you've got a problem: you're unable to
find yourself.  Check your machine name and Internet number using ICAT, and
make sure your network adapter board is properly set up, and the correct
parameters are set using LAPS.

One thing you'll want to try (but DON'T) is to double-click on the cute little
INETD icon.  Don't do it.  You'll get a textmode screen with Inetd's potential
clients listed.  That's it.  No menus.  No nothing. It makes you feel like DOS
is back.  Press Alt-Tab or Alt-Esc to get the hell out of there.  Memorize
this, because one day you'll do it accidentally anyway.

Try telnetting to your local host.  Try an FTP file transfer.  Once FTP file
transfers work, I advise you to take the following step next, before doing much
more playing.

Note: unless you've started telnetd and/or ftpd (or have them set to start from
inetd), don't try to telnet and/or ftp to yourself!


ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 5.9. Downloading CSDs (bug fixes) ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ

                          Downloading CSDs (bug fixes)

My system almost-kinda-sorta worked (flakey is the word that comes to mind).
Following application of the bug fixes, it works very smoothly.  So, to avoid
wasting time, apply the bug fixes early. Following is the scoop on how to do
this.

DON'T BE INTIMIDATED BY THE LENGTH OF THIS SECTION!  Because the CSDs change
with time, this section is verbose to cover different contingencies.  It's
really quite straightforward in practice.  Install the bug fixes - you'll be
very happy you did.

      1. For neatness' sake, make a subdirectory called "csd" (well, don't
         listen to me about it, call it "rosebud" if you want).  Do a "cd" to
         that directory (all this is done from an OS/2 command line).

      2. Give the command:  ftp ftp-os2.nmsu.edu

      3. If that doesn't work ("host unknown" or "network unknown") you've got
         a problem with domain name resolution.  MAybe routed.exe isn't running
         or you have a bad DNS nameserver entry?  Ignore that for now, but fix
         it later.  Try giving the command:  ftp 128.123.35.151

      4. Log in as user anonymous, with your full login ([e-mail]) as
         password.  Yeah, you don't really have a user name ("joe") since
         you're on a single-user machine.  Make one up.  For my machine, for
         example, I might enter "[e-mail]" (without the
         quotes).

      5. Give something like the following FTP commands [things in square
         brackets are my comments, not parts of the commands]:

                    binary
                    cd os2/ibm/tcpip  [get to the directory with fixes]
                    get tcpcsd1.exe   [Base TCP/IP package patches]
                    get tcpcsd2.exe
                    get basecsd.doc   [how to install Base CSDs]
                    get nfscsd1.exe   [if you've got NFS]
                    get nfscsd.doc   [how to install NFS CSDs]
                    get pmxcsd1.exe   [if you've got X-Windows]
                    get pmxcsd.doc   [how to install X-Windows CSDs]

     You may find that some of the CSDs have filenames ending in ".zip" instead
     of ".exe".  If so, do the following as well:

                    cd /os2/2_x/archiver
                    get unz50x32.exe  [Info-ZIP unzipper for unpacking]

     Quit from FTP with the following command:

                    bye

     Of course, this will be out of date soon.  Just look for the most recent
     CSD packages in the directory and snarf them.  Likewise for the Info-Zip
     unzipper.  You should also check the directories "/os2/new" and
     "/uploads": new uploads go there first and may not have made it to the
     patches directory yet.  If there are several different CSDs for products
     you have, download them all.  Unpack them (see below) each separately on
     your machine and check the comments in the installation scripts for the
     latest date.

      6. Unpack the suckers.  If you got the unzipper program, just just run
         unz50x32.  It will unpack itself into the unzip program.  Each CSD
         release seems to be slightly differently packaged, so I'll just give
         some general guidelines here.  You can probably install them from your
         hard disk, without having to copy them onto floppies (though they are
         usually designed to be installed from floppies).  Make a subdirectory
         for each type of CSD (for example, I made subdirectories "base",
         "nfs", and "pmx") under the directory where you have the zip files.
         Then unpack each bundle into its appropriate subdirectory.

         If the CSD filename ends in ".exe", things are easy: it will unpack
         itself into its component files.  For example, to unpack the Base
         packages, I'd do the following:

                    mkdir base
                    cd base
                    ..\tcpcsd1
                    ..\tcpcsd2

     If the CSD filename ends in ".zip", you have to explicitly use the unzip
     program to unpack the file.  For example (if the CSD files were called
     "tcpcsd.base1.zip" and "tcpcsd.base2.zip"):

                    mkdir base
                    cd base
                    ..\unzip  ..\tcpcsd.base1
                    ..\unzip  ..\tcpcsd.base2

     Normally, the unzipping leads to the creation of 5-50 updated programs and
     files, one of which is an installation script (ending in ".cmd"). In some
     cases, the zip files will unzip into one or two monolithic ".exe"
     programs.  These aren't really standalone programs, but are self-unpacking
     zip files.  If, when you're done unpacking the first level of zip files,
     you only have one or two huge ".exe" files and you DO NOT HAVE ANY FILES
     THAT END IN ".CMD" (i.e. you don't have an installation script yet), check
     to see if the couple of huge programs are actually zip files in disguise.
     To do that, run the listing function of unzip.exe.  For example, to check
     a hypothetical file "basecsd.exe", try running:      ..\unzip  -v
     basecsd.exe  If the unzip program barfs, it's not a zip file.  If you get
     a nice listing of lots of filenames, you can unzip the archive by simply
     running the program.  For example:

                    basecsd

     Don't do any of this fussing if there's a ".cmd" file in the directory
     from your inital unzipping - that's probably the installation script which
     will take care of the next level of unzipping for you.

      7. Check the installation scripts.  I've found two types.  One is a
         pretty elaborate script that quite neatly checks your system out and
         installs the CSDs from the hard drive directory.  These longer scripts
         are over 100 lines long.  If there are just a few files that need
         copying, there may be a short script instead.  In some cases, these
         short scripts are "hardwired" to copy from the A: drive (tacky!).  A
         quick edit of any offending lines takes care of the problem.  For
         example, changing the line:

                    copy 'A:nfsctl.exe' BASE'\bin\nfsctl.exe'

     to read:

                    copy 'nfsctl.exe' BASE'\bin\nfsctl.exe'

     converts the command so that it will run from the hard drive instead of
     needing to be put on a floppy.

      8. Now you've got your CSDs (bug fixes) on disk, ready to install.  You
         have to first REM out a couple of lines in your startup scripts, then
         reboot.  Otherwise, OS/2 will refuse to let you update programs that
         are currently running.  Using your favorite editor, edit your
         c:\config.sys. Find the line that runs CNTRL.EXE.  Insert REM
         (followed by a space) before it.  Save the file (as Plain Text, if
         you're asked).  I found that I also had to edit the file
         c:\startup.cmd and REM out the line that reads "CALL
         C:\TCPIP\BIN\TCPSTART.CMD".

         Now reboot.

         Why not do all this before even rebooting once?  Because applying the
         CSD depends on a lot of networking environment that is set up in the
         main config.sys file, so you've got to have booted with the networking
         stuff installed but REMed out for the CSD to apply properly.

      9. If you're lucky, IBM will have included a "*.doc" file that will give
         you some hints on how to install each CSD.  If so, read the file, and
         read the hints in the next paragraph.  Between them all, decide how to
         install the CSDs.

         In the absence of an official "*.doc" file, you're on your own.  Each
         CSD has its own handy install script.  Go to each CSD's subdirectory
         and run the something-or-other.CMD file.  For example, for the Base
         Package it might be basecsd.cmd; for NFS it might be nfscsd.cmd; for
         X-Windows it might be installx.cmd (thanks for the consistency, guys).
         Or it may be called something new and exciting.  Basically all that
         these do is copy over a bunch of new versions of programs on top of
         the old ones.  As far as I can tell, they don't meddle with
         initialization setups.  [Late note on that - one of the newer CSDs
         does install a new xinit.cmd, but quite politely informs you that it
         is moving your old one to "xinitbak.cmd".]

     10. With your trusty editor, remove the REMs from config.sys and
         startup.cmd.

     11. Reboot OS/2 to a far less bugfull networking setup.

     12. Periodically check in at ftp-os2 for new CSDs.  Apply as above and
         they will overwrite whatever is needed to bring you up to date.  Note
         that later CSDs make earlier CSDs obsolete: each CSD is complete.  You
         do NOT need to install the whole chronological string of CSDs to get
         up to date.  The latest CSD will do everything that any earlier CSDs
         did.


ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 5.10. A few reminders ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ

                                 A few reminders

If you want to mount part of a Unix box's disk, the Unix machine will need an
entry in its /etc/exports file describing what you're allowed to mount.
Similarly, your OS/2 system's \tcpip\etc\exports file will have to list systems
you allow to mount your disks (SEE SECURITY NOTES BELOW).

If you want to redirect printer output from your machine to an LPD program on
some other machine, you'll have to start up an lprmon process for each of the
printer ports you wish to redirect.  See the manual for the syntax.  The trick
is where to put the startup commands.  If you don't mind seeing the lprmon
windows appear at boot time, edit the file \startup.cmd and insert the
command(s) there.  That's a better solution than putting them in
\tcpip\bin\tcpstart.cmd, since tcpstart.cmd gets clobbered if you rerun ICAT to
reconfigure your setup.  If you are going to edit your tcpstart.cmd file anyway
(see the section below on tuning for reasons you might do that), go ahead and
stick them into tcpstart.cmd.

Note that there's a weirdness associated with lprmon: it apparently cannot
monitor a port that has a larger-than-default buffer size.  So make sure that
you check the PRINTMONBUFSIZE in your \config.sys.  For any port(s) on which
you will run lprmon make sure that the buffer size is left on the default
setting (134).  For example, a vanilla version should be:
PRINTMONBUFSIZE=134,134,134


ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 5.11. Security concerns ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ

                                Security concerns

You are now a node on the Internet (assuming you've hooked up to an
Internet-worked network).  That means you have to be security conscious. You
don't have to be an international bank to be chosen as a victim. There really
are people out there trying to break into whatever computers they can.  You
don't want to leave yourself open to that.

Furthermore, if your computer is ever broken into, you stand a far better
chance of getting sympathetic help if you didn't leave it wide open in the
first place.  If I leave my door open and someone walks in and takes things,
they are still doing wrong, but I'd be more likely to get sympathetic help had
I locked the door.

I will outline the approach I've taken to setting up our OS/2 systems. I AM NOT
A UNIX OR NETWORK SECURITY EXPERT.  Just for good measure, I'll say that again:
I AM NOT A UNIX OR NETWORK SECURITY EXPERT.  I've done enough reading to know
that (a) it matters; and (b) security holes can be very subtle.  So don't
necessarily believe what I'm recommending.  I welcome comments (but I will not
open a debate on the morality of computer breakins).

      1. Enable Telnet but only with the real password option.  The default
         password option offered is very weak.  It requires a single password
         that is readable by anyone who has access to the system.  VERY WEAK.
         But, buried deep is a better solution.  On page 72-73 of the
         Installation and Maintenance Manual is the description of how to set
         up telnet to require a Unix-style password file.  Now, Unix-style
         passwords are far from hyper-secure, but they're better than a
         clear-text "password"!  Perversely, IBM doesn't provide you with a
         program to make the passwd file: you'll need to copy an /etc/passwd
         file from a Unix host.  But you've probably got a login on a Unix
         machine - you can use its password file.

         Follow the directions to install the passwd file and shuffle in a
         different version of the login.exe program on OS/2.

         In general, don't depend on any of the so-called "passwords" that
         appear in environmental varibles.  World-visible passwords are a (bad)
         joke.

      2. Disable incoming FTP except for the very restricted "anonymous"
         account.  Your TRUSERS file should look like this:

                    user:  anonymous
                    rd:   c:\anonymous
                    wr:   c:\anonymous

     Make sure to create the directory c:\anonymous.  Someone can stuff your
     system by filling disk's c:\anonymous directory with garbage, but that's
     relatively benign.  If that's a problem, remove "c:\anonymous" from the
     "wr:" field.  How can anyone FTP a file into your machine if you don't
     even let them have ftp write access to "\anonymous"?  With this setup, a
     really trusted user can have an entry in the Unix-style passwd file. Then
     she or he can telnet into your machine and run FTP on your machine to suck
     the file in.

     Don't have anything else in the TRUSERS file.  The idea of unencoded
     passwords is ludicrous.

     [Supplementary note added later:] Perhaps the above approach is a little
     harsh.  It turns out that FTP will not allow reading or writing of the
     TRUSERS file.  Hence, you _could_ put other entries into the TRUSERS file
     and an FTP-logged-in person couldn't pilfer the TRUSERS file itself.  NOTE
     however, that TRUSERS will be accessible to any NFS or Telnet users, so
     passwords there are still available.  You decide. Personally, it makes me
     too nervous.

      3. Don't enable the rexecd server.  It depends on clear-text passwords in
         the environment or in the NETRC file.  People can Telnet in through
         the passwd-protected telnet, then execute the command.  Same goes for
         the rshd server.

         Come on.  Do you really want Joe Unwashed-behind-the-ears to be able
         to do "rexec yourmachine del c:\*"?  And then giggle a bit.  Yup, that
         could happen.

      4. Don't enable the TFTP daemon "tftpd" unless you really need it for
         some obscure reason.  FTP does the job.

      5. Vanilla NFS is well known to be full of security holes.  You'll notice
         the tight security demanded by the Unix host: give it a UID and GID
         number and that's who you are.  Cute.  I'd be very wary about giving
         write permission to my disk.

     REMEMBER: THERE ARE NO ACCESS CONTROLS ONCE SOMEONE HAS ACCESS TO YOUR
     OS/2 SYSTEM.  No files are protected from reading or deletion.  Once
     someone is into your system, they can happily read any of your setup files
     in \tcpip\etc (which could [if you're naive] contain real live readable
     passwords).  They can also read your \config.sys and tcpstart.cmd files,
     in case they missed a password or two.

     The only people I want to have write access to my system are people who've
     passed the (really minimal!) test of having logged in past the
     Telnet-with-Unix-style-passwords.


ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 5.12. Tuning your setup ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ

                                Tuning your setup

Following are a few hints and suggestions that may help your networking system
work better.  Where I remembered, I've attributed suggestions to the people who
suggested them.  In most cases, these suggestions appeared on the Usenet
newsgroup comp.os.os2.networking.  I have edited many/most of these for
conciseness and format, so I'm to blame if I've screwed them up (sorry).  My
apologies to those whom I forgot!

      1. If you edit any of the installation scripts yourself, note that IBM
         uses an undocumented syntax.  They use "attrib file parameters"
         instead of "attrib parameters file".  This works fine unless you use
         4OS2 (a command-line enhancer).  If you do, start up an unenhanced cmd
         shell first.  ([e-mail] (Helmer Aslaksen))

      2. After the initial thrill wears off, you'll wish there was some way to
         get OS/2 to stick all the networking windows into the Minimized Window
         Folder automatically at boot time.  Following is a scheme for doing
         so. The basic idea is to stop tcpstart.cmd from being run in the
         \startup.cmd script (running it as a "Startup" folder object instead)
         and get all the programs started minimized, instead of as normal
         windows.  ([e-mail] (Timothy F. Sipples),
         [e-mail] (Helmer Aslaksen), others) .

         a. Edit \startup.cmd and put a REM in front of the line that runs the
            tcpstart.cmd script.  Add an "exit" to the end of the \startup.cmd
            file (if you want its window to vanish, too).  In fact (if nothing
            else is started in that file) instead of editing it, you can just
            move it to \startup.old and forget about it.

         b. From the desktop, open the "OS/2 System" object, then the "Startup"
            object within that.

         c. From the "Drives" object, open up directories until you have an
            icon view of the \tcpip\bin directory.  Click the right mouse
            button once on the \tcpstart.cmd script.  Using the resulting popup
            menu, create a shadow of the object, selecting the "Startup" window
            to be its location.  The reason for doing A-C is that things in the
            "Startup" folder start up late enough in the boot process that they
            start after the Minimized Window Viewer is in place.  Otherwise,
            you get icons across the bottom of the desktop (eeeeww!).

         d. Now edit the file \tcpip\bin\tcpstart.cmd.  Wherever you see a
            "start ..." line, change it to "start /min ...".  That will cause
            the programs to start minimized.  NOTE: Check this file again any
            time you run ICAT: your changes may get blown away so that you'll
            have to reinsert the "/min"s.

         e. For any line in tcpstart.cmd that starts "call ...", edit the
            script that gets called.  In those scripts, again change "start
            ..." lines to "start /min ...".  Check this also after running
            ICAT.

      3. Some of the networking software doesn't actually need to be run as a
         subprocess of a "cmd" process.  For these cases, rather than issuing a
         "start ..." or a "start /min ..." to kick them off, you can issue a
         "detach ...".  For some processes (ones that have certain requirements
         for interaction with keyboard and display), this won't work.
         Experiment with it, though, you can save some memory that way.  I've
         found that it works with lprmon, lpd (run standalone, not via inetd),
         portmap, and nfsd.  It does not work with telnetd.  I think it works
         with inetd itself, but if inetd starts telnetd for you, then telnetd
         is stuffed.  Hence, I gave up on inetd.  Others, you're on your own...

      4. If you have already put a default router's IP address into your
         configuration, you're probably not running routed.  If you are running
         routed, however, you may be able to discover what your default router
         is, insert its address, and stop running routed.  After you've been
         doing network things for a while (including pinging or ftping some
         remote sites), give the following command from an OS/2 command window:

          netstat -r

     Look for an entry that begins with "default".  You guessed it: use that IP
     address as your default router address.  Use ICAT to edit your network
     configuration: turn off "routed" and configure the default router's IP
     address into the Routing Information section.  (Routed information:
     [e-mail] (Andre Asselin))

      5. The networking software sucks memory.  If you have 8 Mb or less of
         memory, your performance will go down noticeably (but far from
         fatally) as OS/2 swaps things in and out more often.  Don't need the
         TELNET server?  Close it.  Don't need the FTP server?  Shut it down.
         Don't need the TALK daemon?  Get rid of it.  Mailer unnecessary?
         Leave it aside.  Only use X Windows occasionally?  Start up the PMX
         daemon "by hand" when you need it.  That said, we find that full blown
         TCP/IP does quite well in (true) 9 MB.  The extra megabyte appears to
         make all the difference in the world.  If you don't run with
         everything but the kitchen sink, 8 MB is viable.  The 2.1 release
         should improve on that even more [since IBM is making efforts to make
         the OS/2 base use up less memory].  Pay attention to cache sizes, by
         the way: a disk cache that is too large will actually decrease
         performance. ([e-mail] (Timothy F. Sipples))  Our
         experience is that beefing up our systems to 16 Mb made things run
         _far_ more nimbly: the near-continual disk grinding stopped and the
         agonizing pauses went away.


ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 5.13. Interesting TCP/IP software ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ

                           Interesting TCP/IP software

There is a plethora of free software available on the Internet.  One of the
largest repositories of OS/2 software is the machine: ftp-os2.cdrom.com.
Access it using anonymous FTP.  That is, connect to it using ftp (give the
command: ftp ftp-os2.cdrom.com) and give the user name "anonymous" (without the
quotes) when prompted for a user ID. When prompted for a password, give your
email address.  See the manual entries on the FTP program for more details.
Also see part (8) of this document for an example of downloading some files
using FTP.

Following are some pointers to useful TCP/IP-oriented programs (and some other
"indispensables") that can be downloaded from ftp-os2 or other archive sites.
The filenames are indented under the names of the directories under which they
are found on ftp-os2 - locations may vary on other archives.  A "*" for the
filename indicates that there are several files in that directory that are
relevant.

pub/os2/all/info/faq/
    *       The OS/2 Frequently Asked Questions (with answers!)
pub/os2/ibm/ews/
    gopher.zip   PM client for the Internet Gopher Client
    goserv.zip   A Gopher Server protocol for OS/2 2.x
pub/os2/2_x/network/
    nistime.zip  Update time/date from NIST Internet server
    os2gofer.zip  Gopher client for OS/2 PM (requires VREXX & TCP/IP)
    os2nosv4.zip  TCP/IP for OS/2 (via SLIP) - text-based
    passwd.zip   IBM TCP/IP passwd file maintenance utilities
    slip20b1.zip  Better performing SLIP for IBM TCP/IP 1.2.1
    tcpstart.txt  This document you're reading now!
    tn_enh11.zip  Enhancement for IBM OS/2 2.0 telnet daemon
    wsos21.zip   Novell Netware Requester 2.01 for OS/2, Disk 1 of 3
    wsos22.zip   Novell Netware Requester 2.01 for OS/2, Disk 2 of 3
    wsos2d.zip   Novell Netware Requester 2.01 for OS/2, Disk 3 of 3
    nsd202.zip   Novell Service Diskette (NSD #2) for WorkStation Kit
pub/os2/2_x/network/ndis/
    *       NDIS drivers for many Ethernet cards
pub/os2/all/network/ndis/
    *       NDIS drivers for many Ethernet cards
pub/os2/ibm/tcpip/
    *       Home of "official" IBM bug fixes to TCP/IP
pub/os2/2_x/patches/
    *       Home of more CSDs and bug fixes
pub/os2/2_x/unix/unixutil/
    elvis172.zip  Elvis 1.7, a vi clone (for Unix devotees)
    xfeel11.zip  A utility to make PM behave like X-Windows


ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 5.14. Good luck ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ

                                    Good luck

That's about it for now, folks.  Read the IBM manuals - they're actually not
too bad.  Not hold-your-handish, but most of what you need is (somewhere) in
there.

Best of luck with networking.  Maybe we'll ping each other one day...


ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 5.15. Appendix I: Coexistence of TCP/IP with Netware ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ

                 Appendix I: Coexistence of TCP/IP with Netware

Personally, it's hard for me to believe, but apparently there's this other
networking scheme out there by this little startup called Novell...  I haven't
needed to interact with a Novell network, but lots of people do.  I've
collected some of the postings from the Usenet newsgroup comp.os.os2.networking
that address this issue.  I hope that they will help you get things working if
you need to access TCP/IP and Novell.

I have edited the text for brevity and consistency, so please pardon any errors
I may have introduced in the process.  Thanks go entirely to the original
posters of these messages - I've done nothing but copy their work.

From: [e-mail]
Organization: IBM Boca Programming Center
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 93 23:53:32 GMT

Install the NetWare requester. Then install LAN Adapter Protocol Support
(LAPS). This came with your TCP/IP disks. Choose NetWare Requester support if
it is available. Next install TCP/IP Support.

If your version of LAPS offered NetWare requester support, double click on the
NetWare line and a dialog will appear. The first line will be for the universal
address of your Ethernet card.  Enter that number and exit LAPS.  Alternately,
you can edit the LANADDRESS = line in \IBMCOM\PROTOCOL.INI

If LAPS did not have NetWare support, you must follow the directions in Chapter
6 of the NetWare Requester for OS/2 manual.

Good luck!

From: [e-mail] (David L. Burke)
Organization: UNC Educational Computing Service
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 23:54:56 GMT

Hope this stuff helps, guys.  It was a bitch, but I got Requester to work with
TCP/IP for OS/2 1.2.1.  Below are The Big Three:  CONFIG.SYS, NET.CFG, and
PROTOCOL.INI.

Before I say anything else, I hope to hell that after making these changes that
your machine doesn't boot up with a register dump or some stupid message like
"unable to locate Country.sys," or anything else which stops you in your
tracks.  Please make sure you have a floppy boot disk handy (I prefer
makeboot.cmd myself.)  Good luck.

General points:  Don't let ICAT or LAPS alter your config.sys.  Add the
appropriate lines and include \TCPIP... and \IBMCOM...  in the necessary path
statements.

Setup:  I'm using an NE2000 NIC (there's a NE2000.NIF on hobbes for LAPS).
This setup works with 2.1b (as long as OS/2 is not loaded on Drive E: for some
wierd reason).  I'm superstitious about the INET.SYS and IFNDIS.SYS files,
making sure I use the same ones with each new install.  Don't have any idea why
that is though.

* * * * * *
* CONFIG.SYS  (Notice that all the TCPIP and IBMCOM stuff is at the end of
*       the file, after the requester stuff.)
* * * * * *
IFS=D:\OS2\HPFS.IFS  /CACHE:512 /CRECL:4 /AUTOCHECK:D
PROTSHELL=D:\OS2\PMSHELL.EXE
SET USER_INI=D:\OS2\OS2.INI
SET SYSTEM_INI=D:\OS2\OS2SYS.INI
SET OS2_SHELL=D:\OS2\CMD.EXE
SET AUTOSTART=PROGRAMS,TASKLIST,FOLDERS,CONNECTIONS
SET RUNWORKPLACE=D:\OS2\PMSHELL.EXE
SET COMSPEC=D:\OS2\CMD.EXE
LIBPATH=.;D:\OS2\DLL;D:\OS2\MDOS;D:\;D:\OS2\APPS\DLL;D:\NETWARE;
D:\TCPIP\DLL;D:\IBMCOM\DLL;D:\TALKTHRU\PROGRAMS;
SET PATH=D:\OS2;D:\OS2\SYSTEM;D:\OS2\MDOS\WINOS2;D:\OS2\INSTALL;
D:\;D:\OS2\MDOS;D:\OS2\APPS;L:\OS2;P:\OS2;D:\NETWARE;D:\TCPIP\BIN;
D:\IBMCOM;d:\tools\utilities;D:\TALKTHRU\PROGRAMS;
SET DPATH=D:\OS2;D:\OS2\SYSTEM;D:\OS2\MDOS\WINOS2;D:\OS2\INSTALL;
D:\;D:\OS2\BITMAP;D:\OS2\MDOS;D:\OS2\APPS;D:\NETWARE;D:\IBMCOM;
SET PROMPT=$i[$p]
SET HELP=D:\OS2\HELP;D:\OS2\HELP\TUTORIAL;D:\TCPIP\HELP;
SET GLOSSARY=D:\OS2\HELP\GLOSS;
SET IPF_KEYS=SBCS
PRIORITY_DISK_IO=YES
FILES=20
SET DIRCMD=/O:GN
DEVICE=D:\OS2\TESTCFG.SYS
DEVICE=D:\OS2\DOS.SYS
DEVICE=D:\OS2\PMDD.SYS
BUFFERS=30
IOPL=YES
DISKCACHE=512,LW
MAXWAIT=3
MEMMAN=SWAP,PROTECT
SWAPPATH=D:\OS2\SYSTEM 2048 2048
BREAK=OFF
THREADS=256
PRINTMONBUFSIZE=134,134,134
COUNTRY=001,D:\OS2\SYSTEM\COUNTRY.SYS
SET KEYS=ON
REM SET DELDIR=C:\DELETE,512;D:\DELETE,512;
BASEDEV=PRINT01.SYS
BASEDEV=IBM1FLPY.ADD
BASEDEV=IBM1S506.ADD
BASEDEV=OS2DASD.DMD
SET BOOKSHELF=D:\OS2\BOOK
SET EPMPATH=D:\OS2\APPS
SET FAXPM=D:\OS2\APPS
REM DEVICE=D:\OS2\APPS\SASYNCDA.SYS
PROTECTONLY=NO
SHELL=D:\OS2\MDOS\COMMAND.COM D:\OS2\MDOS /P /E:1024
FCBS=16,8
RMSIZE=640
DEVICE=D:\OS2\MDOS\VEMM.SYS
DOS=LOW,NOUMB
DEVICE=D:\OS2\MDOS\VDPX.SYS
DEVICE=D:\OS2\MDOS\VXMS.SYS /UMB
DEVICE=D:\OS2\MDOS\VDPMI.SYS
DEVICE=D:\OS2\MDOS\VWIN.SYS
DEVICE=D:\OS2\MDOS\VCDROM.SYS
REM DEVICE=D:\OS2\PCMCIA.SYS
REM DEVICE=D:\OS2\MDOS\VPCMCIA.SYS
DEVICE=D:\OS2\MDOS\VMOUSE.SYS
DEVICE=D:\OS2\POINTDD.SYS
DEVICE=D:\OS2\MOUSE.SYS SERIAL=COM1
DEVICE=D:\OS2\COM.SYS
DEVICE=D:\OS2\MDOS\VCOM.SYS
CODEPAGE=437,850
DEVINFO=KBD,US,D:\OS2\KEYBOARD.DCP
SET VIDEO_DEVICES=VIO_SVGA
DEVICE=D:\OS2\MDOS\VSVGA.SYS

REM --- NetWare Requester statements BEGIN ---
DEVICE=D:\NETWARE\LSL.SYS
RUN=D:\NETWARE\DDAEMON.EXE
DEVICE=D:\NETWARE\NE2000.SYS
DEVICE=D:\NETWARE\IPX.SYS
DEVICE=D:\NETWARE\SPX.SYS
RUN=D:\NETWARE\SPDAEMON.EXE
rem DEVICE=D:\NETWARE\NMPIPE.SYS
rem DEVICE=D:\NETWARE\NPSERVER.SYS
rem RUN=D:\NETWARE\NPDAEMON.EXE NP_COMPUTERNAME
DEVICE=D:\NETWARE\NWREQ.SYS
IFS=D:\NETWARE\NWIFS.IFS
RUN=D:\NETWARE\NWDAEMON.EXE
DEVICE=D:\NETWARE\NETBIOS.SYS
RUN=D:\NETWARE\NBDAEMON.EXE
DEVICE=D:\NETWARE\VIPX.SYS
DEVICE=D:\NETWARE\VSHELL.SYS
REM --- NetWare Requester statements END ---

REM  Below is all the TCPIP and IBMCOM stuff (not before!)
DEVICE=D:\IBMCOM\LANMSGDD.OS2 /I:D:\IBMCOM
DEVICE=D:\IBMCOM\PROTMAN.OS2 /I:D:\IBMCOM
rem  DEVICE=D:\IBMCOM\MACS\NE2000.OS2 /I:D:\IBMCOM

DEVICE=D:\NETWARE\ODINSUP.SYS
RUN=D:\IBMCOM\PROTOCOL\NETBIND.EXE
RUN=D:\IBMCOM\LANMSGEX.EXE

SET ETC=D:\TCPIP\ETC
SET TMP=D:\TCPIP\TMP
DEVICE=D:\IBMCOM\PROTOCOL\IFNDIS.SYS
DEVICE=D:\IBMCOM\PROTOCOL\INET.SYS
RUN=D:\TCPIP\BIN\CNTRL.EXE

SET VIO_SVGA=DEVICE(BVHVGA,BVHSVGA)
DEVINFO=SCR,VGA,D:\OS2\VIOTBL.DCP


* * * * * *
* NET.CFG  (nothing special here)
* * * * * *
Link driver ne2000
  protocol ipx 8137 ethernet_ii
  frame ethernet_ii
  int 5
  port 360
  node address 1B198826

netware requester
  preferred ecu_joyner_library

protocol odinsup
  bind ne2000

link support
  buffers 16 1514


* * * * * *
* PROTOCOL.INI (Don't worry about the LAPS settings during install.  They
*        only write to the PROTOCOL.INI as far as I know.)
* * * * * *
[PROT_MAN]
 DriverName = PROTMAN$

[IBMLXCFG]
 NE2000_nif = NE2000.nif
 TCPIP_nif = TCPIP.nif

;*----------------------------------------------*
;*------------- PROTOCOL SECTION ---------------*
;*----------------------------------------------*

[TCPIP_nif]
 DriverName = TCPIP$
; Bindings = NE2000_nif
 Bindings = NE2000

;*----------------------------------------------*
;*--------------- MAC SECTION ------------------*
;*----------------------------------------------*

[NE2000]

[NE2000_nif]
 DriverName = MS2000$
 IOBASE = 0x360
 INTERRUPT = 5

From: [e-mail] (Don Loflin)
Organization: The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas
Date: 28 Jan 1993 08:55:21 -0600

I found the following settings to be the most crucial, especially the "protocol
odinsup / bind ne2000" part, which the ODINSUP readme claimed was optional if
you only had 1 ODI driver loaded (e.g. it would bind to the only driver found).

* * * * *
* NET.CFG
* * * * *
protocol odinsup
  bind ne2000

* * * * *
* PROTOCOL.INI
* * * * *
[TCPIP_nif]
 Bindings = NE2000

From: [e-mail] (Helmut Meyhoefer)
Organization: Computing Center
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 13:38:27 GMT

This is my configuration for CM, TCPIP and NW Requester with NSD201.  No
problems.

* * * * *
* CONFIG.SYS
* * * * *

IFS=C:\OS2\HPFS.IFS /CACHE:384 /CRECL:4 /AUTOCHECK:CDE

REM ******* LAPS:
RUN=C:\OS2\INSTALL\IBMLANLK.EXE C:\OS2\INSTALL\IBMLANLK.LST

RUN=C:\OS2\XCOPY.EXE C:\OS2\OS2*.INI E:\OS2\IniSave
PROTSHELL=C:\OS2\PMSHELL.EXE
SET RESTARTOBJECTS=STARTUPFOLDERSONLY
SET USER_INI=C:\OS2\OS2.INI
SET SYSTEM_INI=C:\OS2\OS2SYS.INI
SET OS2_SHELL=C:\OS2\CMD.EXE
SET AUTOSTART=PROGRAMS,TASKLIST,FOLDERS
SET RUNWORKPLACE=C:\OS2\PMSHELL.EXE
SET COMSPEC=C:\OS2\CMD.EXE
LIBPATH=.;C:\OS2\DLL;C:\MUGLIB\DLL;C:\OS2\MDOS;E:\CMLIB\DLL;C:\;C:\OS2\APPS\DLL
;C:\IBMCOM\DLL;E:\NETWARE;E:\TCPIP\DLL;
SET
PATH=C:\OS2;C:\OS2\CMD;C:\MUGLIB;C:\OS2\SYSTEM;D:\SYSTEM;C:\OS2\MDOS\WINOS2;E:\
CMLIB;E:\CMLIB\APPN;C:\OS2\INSTALL;C:\;C:\OS2\MDOS;C:\OS2\APPS;L:\OS2;P:\OS2;E:
\NETWARE;E:\TCPIP\BIN;
SET
DPATH=C:\OS2;C:\MUGLIB\DLL;E:\CMLIB;E:\CMLIB\APPN;C:\OS2\SYSTEM;C:\OS2\MDOS\WIN
OS2;C:\OS2\INSTALL;C:\;C:\OS2\BITMAP;C:\OS2\MDOS;C:\OS2\APPS;C:\IBMCOM;E:\NETWA
RE;L:\OS2;
SET PROMPT=$e[32;40m$e[1mrc=$r [$p] $i$e[0m
SET HELP=E:\CMLIB\APPN;C:\OS2\HELP;C:\OS2\HELP\TUTORIAL;E:\TCPIP\HELP;
SET GLOSSARY=C:\OS2\HELP\GLOSS;
SET THE_HELP=D:\OS2\UTILS\THE\OS2.HLP
SET THE=D:\OS2\UTILS\THE\PROFILE.THE
SET DIRCMD=/O:GN
PRIORITY_DISK_IO=YES
FILES=20
DEVICE=C:\OS2\R0CSDD.SYS

REM ******* LAPS:
DEVICE=C:\OS2\INSTALL\IBMLANLK.SYS C:\OS2\INSTALL\IBMLANLK.LST
DEVICE=C:\IBMCOM\LANMSGDD.OS2 /I:C:\IBMCOM
DEVICE=C:\ibmcom\protman.os2 /I:C:\ibmcom

DEVICE=C:\OS2\TESTCFG.SYS
DEVICE=C:\OS2\DOS.SYS
DEVICE=C:\OS2\PMDD.SYS
BUFFERS=30
IOPL=YES
DISKCACHE=64,LW
MAXWAIT=3
MEMMAN=SWAP,PROTECT
SWAPPATH=E:\SWAPSPACE 2048 4096
BREAK=OFF
THREADS=256
PRINTMONBUFSIZE=134,134,134
COUNTRY=049,C:\OS2\SYSTEM\COUNTRY.SYS
SET KEYS=ON
SET DELDIR=C:\DELETE,512 D:\DELETE,1024 E:\DELETE,1024
BASEDEV=PRINT02.SYS
BASEDEV=IBM2FLPY.ADD
BASEDEV=IBM2ADSK.ADD
BASEDEV=OS2DASD.DMD
SET BOOKSHELF=C:\OS2\BOOK;
SET EPATH=C:\OS2\APPS
DEVICE=C:\OS2\APPS\SASYNCDB.SYS
PROTECTONLY=NO
SHELL=C:\OS2\MDOS\COMMAND.COM C:\OS2\MDOS /E:1000/P
FCBS=16,8
RMSIZE=640
DEVICE=C:\OS2\MDOS\VEMM.SYS
DEVICE=C:\OS2\MDOS\VMOUSE.SYS
DOS=LOW,NOUMB
DEVICE=C:\OS2\MDOS\VDPX.SYS
DEVICE=C:\OS2\MDOS\VXMS.SYS /UMB
DEVICE=C:\OS2\MDOS\VDPMI.SYS
DEVICE=C:\OS2\MDOS\VWIN.SYS
DEVICE=C:\OS2\MDOS\VCDROM.SYS
DEVINFO=SCR,VGA,C:\OS2\VIOTBL.DCP
SET VIDEO_DEVICES=VIO_VGA
SET VIO_VGA=DEVICE(BVHVGA)
DEVICE=C:\OS2\MDOS\VVGA.SYS
CODEPAGE=850,437
DEVINFO=KBD,GR,C:\OS2\KEYBOARD.DCP
DEVICE=C:\OS2\POINTDD.SYS
DEVICE=C:\OS2\MOUSE.SYS
DEVICE=C:\OS2\COM.SYS
DEVICE=C:\OS2\MDOS\VCOM.SYS
DEVICE=C:\OS2\MDOS\ANSI.SYS

REM Protokollierung einschalten:
DEVICE=C:\OS2\LOG.SYS
RUN=C:\OS2\SYSTEM\LOGDAEM.EXE

REM ********* Netware Requester ***************
REM --- NETWARE REQUESTER STATEMENTS BEGIN ---
DEVICE=E:\NETWARE\LSL.SYS
RUN=E:\NETWARE\DDAEMON.EXE
DEVICE=E:\NETWARE\TOKEN.SYS
DEVICE=E:\NETWARE\ROUTE.SYS
DEVICE=E:\NETWARE\IPX.SYS
DEVICE=E:\NETWARE\SPX.SYS
RUN=E:\NETWARE\SPDAEMON.EXE
DEVICE=E:\NETWARE\NWREQ.SYS
IFS=E:\NETWARE\NWIFS.IFS
RUN=E:\NETWARE\NWDAEMON.EXE
DEVICE=E:\NETWARE\VIPX.SYS
DEVICE=E:\NETWARE\VSHELL.SYS
DEVICE=E:\NETWARE\ODINSUP.SYS
REM --- NETWARE REQUESTER STATEMENTS END ---

REM ********* Communications Manager ***************
DEVICE=C:\ibmcom\protocol\LANDD.OS2
DEVICE=C:\ibmcom\protocol\LANDLLDD.OS2
DEVICE=E:\CMLIB\ACSLDLAN.SYS
RUN=C:\OS2\EPW.EXE
RUN=C:\ibmcom\protocol\landll.exe
DEVICE=E:\CMLIB\APPN\CMKFMDE.SYS
DEVICE=C:\IBMCOM\PROTOCOL\IFNDIS.SYS
DEVICE=C:\IBMCOM\PROTOCOL\INET.SYS

REM ******* TCPIP
SET ETC=E:\TCPIP\ETC
SET TMP=E:\TCPIP\TMP
RUN=E:\TCPIP\BIN\CNTRL.EXE

REM ******* LAPS:
RUN=C:\ibmcom\protocol\netbind.exe
RUN=C:\ibmcom\lanmsgex.exe

REM ******* TCPIP
SET XFILES=E:\TCPIP\X11
SET USERNAME=
SET HOSTNAME=
SET TELNET.PASSWORD.ID=

CALL=CMD.EXE


* * * * *
* NET.CFG
* * * * *

Link Driver token
  frame token-ring
  frame token-ring_snap
  node address 400031741015

Link Support
  buffers 14 4210

protocol odinsup
  bind token

protocol stack ipx
  sessions 50
  Sockets 64

PROTOCOL STACK SPX
  Abort Timeout 30000
  Verify Timeout 3000
  Listen Timeout 6000
  Send Timeout 6000
  Retry Count 20
  Sessions 50

Netware Requester
  cache buffers 20
  sessions 8
  request retries 20
  preferred server server_name

Netware Spooler
  copies 1
  keep
  size 8
  banner
  form feed


* * * * *
* PROTOCOL.INI
* * * * *

[PROT_MAN]
 DriverName = PROTMAN$

[IBMLXCFG]
 TCPIP_nif = TCPIP.nif
 LANDD_nif = LANDD.NIF

[TCPIP_nif]
 DriverName = TCPIP$
 Bindings = TOKEN

[LANDD_nif]
 DriverName = LANDD$
 Bindings = TOKEN

From: [e-mail] (Roger de Reus)
Organization: Mikroelektronik Centret, DTH, Denmark
Date: Thu, 10 Jun 93 12:11:44 METDST

One suggestion for your document: Since you refer to ftp.nmsu.edu to get the
CSD's for TCP/IP, you may as well refer to the same place to get the latest
Netware release (/pub/os2/2_x/network/novell) and documentation.

Here the (excerpts) of the configuration files. I have TCP/IP (with X11) and
Netware (finally) running simultaneously over one single 3COM 3C503 card. I did
not use the configuration programs (ICAT and LAPS) but manually edited the
files. Note that all the ELINKII stuff is commented out. I was happy when
things  finally worked out, and did not try more. Probably  lots  of
extraneous code lying around. Did not get things running  by  automatically
routing, so explicitly added a default gateway in  the  routing command (last
line of this file).

Hope this will get some people getting ahead quicker  than  I did. Credits
should  go  to  the  Hobbes  ftp   server (ftp-os2.nmsu.edu) which made the
latest changes to both  TCP/IP and Netware software available (and now supplies
all  the  OS/2 goodies on CD-ROM for $25,-, I believe---grab  it  you  American
guys), Kerry Sesker ([e-mail])  who  supplied me with some
configuration files I could start with,  and  Prof.  Mike Thompson (Cornell
University), who pointed  me  to  ftp-os2 for the Novell software update.

* * * * *
* CONFIG.SYS (relevant parts)
* * * * *

LIBPATH=...;C:\TCPIP\DLL;C:\USR\NETWARE;C:\IBMCOM\DLL;
SET PATH=...;C:\TCPIP\BIN;...;C:\USR\NETWARE;C:\IBMCOM;
SET DPATH=...;C:\USR\NETWARE;C:\IBMCOM;
SET HELP=...;C:\TCPIP\HELP;

REM --- TCP/IP and NetWare Requester statements BEGIN ---
DEVICE=C:\IBMCOM\PROTMAN.OS2 /I:C:\IBMCOM
DEVICE=C:\IBMCOM\LANMSGDD.OS2 /I:C:\IBMCOM
SET ETC=C:\TCPIP\ETC
RUN=C:\TCPIP\BIN\CNTRL.EXE
SET XFILES=C:\TCPIP\X11
SET DISPLAY=reus026.mic.dth.dk:0
SET TZ=CET
SET LPR_SERVER=mic.dth.dk
SET LPR_PRINTER=ps
SET HOSTNAME=reus026
SET LANG=Da_DK
SET NWLANGUAGE=ENGLISH
DEVICE=C:\USR\NETWARE\LSL.SYS
RUN=C:\USR\NETWARE\DDAEMON.EXE
DEVICE=C:\USR\NETWARE\3C503.SYS
DEVICE=C:\USR\NETWARE\ODINSUP.SYS
DEVICE=C:\USR\NETWARE\IPX.SYS
DEVICE=C:\USR\NETWARE\NWREQ.SYS
IFS=C:\USR\NETWARE\NWIFS.IFS
RUN=C:\USR\NETWARE\NWDAEMON.EXE
RUN=C:\IBMCOM\PROTOCOL\NETBIND.EXE
RUN=C:\IBMCOM\LANMSGEX.EXE
DEVICE=C:\USR\NETWARE\VIPX.SYS
DEVICE=C:\USR\NETWARE\VSHELL.SYS
DEVICE=C:\IBMCOM\PROTOCOL\INET.SYS
DEVICE=C:\IBMCOM\PROTOCOL\IFNDIS.SYS
rem DEVICE=C:\IBMCOM\PROTOCOL\ELINKII.OS2
REM --- TCP/IP and NetWare Requester statements END ---


* * * * *
* NET.CFG
* * * * *

cache buffers = 40
file handles = 120
max tasks = 60
pb buffers = 10
preferred server = mic
show dots on

link driver 3C503
  frame ethernet_802.3
  frame ethernet_ii
  frame ethernet_802.2
  frame ethernet_snap
  node address 02608c8c04eb
  protocol ipx 0 ethernet_802.3

link support
  buffers 15 4210
  mempool 4096

protocol odinsup
  bind 3c503

protocol stack IPX
  bind 3c503

protocol tcpip
  ip_address 129.142.64.205
  ip_router  129.142.6.16
  ip_netmask 255.255.0.0
  tcp_sockets 8
  udp_sockets 8
  raw_sockets 1
  nb_sessions 4
  nb_commands 8
  nb_adapter  0
  nb_domain

netware requestor
  cache buffers 20
  displayharderrors no
  preferred server mic

netware spooler
  no banner
  no form feed


* * * * *
* PROTOCOL.INI
* * * * *

[PROT_MAN]
 DriverName = PROTMAN$

[IBMLXCFG]
; ELNKII_nif = ELNKII.nif
 TCPIP_nif = TCPIP.nif

;*----------------------------------------------*
;*------------- PROTOCOL SECTION ---------------*
;*----------------------------------------------*

[TCPIP_nif]
 DriverName = TCPIP$
 Bindings = X3C503


;*----------------------------------------------*
;*--------------- MAC SECTION ------------------*
;*----------------------------------------------*

[X3C503]

;[ELNKII_nif]
; DriverName = ELNKII$
; netaddress = "02608C8C04EB"
; interrupt = 3
; ioaddress = 0x300
; transceiver = "ONBOARD"
; maxtransmits = 8
; xmitbufs = 2


* * * * *
* TCPSTART.CMD (initializes also X11)
* * * * *

@echo off
echo CONFIGURING TCP/IP .....
CALL C:\TCPIP\BIN\SETUP.CMD
echo ..... FINISHED CONFIGURING TCP/IP
echo STARTING THE TCP/IP PROCESSES .....
rem start pmx -nocopyright -staticcolor -k 102
CALL C:\TCPIP\BIN\XINIT.CMD -staticcolor -k 102
echo   ..... X System Server Started
rem call nfsstart
rem echo   ..... Network File System Client Started
echo ..... FINISHED STARTING THE TCP/IP PROCESSES
echo .....  EXITING TCPSTART.CMD  .....


* * * * *
* SETUP.CMD (called by TCPSTART)
* * * * *

route -fh
arp -f
ifconfig lan0 129.142.64.205 netmask 255.255.0.0
route add default 129.142.6.16 1


ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 5.16. Appendix II: Supplementary information on SLIP ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ

                 Appendix II: Supplementary information on SLIP

Rather than editing matter that I don't fully understand, I've included this
dialog essentially verbatim.  It is Dave Bolen, author of a SLIP driver
(alternative to IBM's own) replying to SLIP configuration questions from Don
Lindbergh.  Dave Bolen's SLIP driver is presently still in the testing stage,
but users reporting in the comp.os.os2.networking newsgroup are uniformly
glowing in their reviews of it.

At the time of writing, Bolen's slip driver can be had via anonymous FTP from
ftp.ans.net in file /pub/misc/slip20a3.zoo.

In any case, the following notes should give you a _lot_ of information about
SLIP connections in general, as well as information that may be specific to
Dave's drivers.

From: [e-mail] (Don A.B. Lindbergh)
Date: Wed, 17 Feb 93 14:04:06 EST
Message-Id: <[e-mail]>
X-To: [e-mail]
Subject: Re: TCP/IP, SLIP, Beat 2.1 Setup Questions (LONG)

Ok, I'm sending you what Bolen sent me.  He has sent me two replies. The first
is pretty much *it* as far as what you're probably interested in.  It is long
and has diagrams :)  The second piece is an attempt at further clarification.
I also included the first piece of mail from a gentlemen trying to help me put
the final piece in place, using ROUTED.  I basically haven't been able to get
it to work (I think) because of:

1. not much time
2. incorrect syntax

There will undoubtably be some more email from him, after which I predict the
light will shine on me, the angles will sing, and I will actually have a full
blow slip home system going......

Oh, near the end of Bolen's first note is an 'off the cuff' 'untested' method
of using 'arp -s' to 'publish' a network card to do routing.  I wasen't able to
get this to work for me, it may be I'm doing something wrong.  I intend to at
least confirm with him that this method *does* in fact work.  It seems I will
be using either this method or ROUTED as getting a static route added for my
SLIP subnet may be a hassle (Bolen talks about all this).

So, truthfully, I'm not quite out of the woods yet, but I wanted to send you
what he sent me, because it seems he has told me pretty much everything.  I
figured it's better to send you more than you need rather than edit it down
myself.  If you like, I'll forward what I get and wrap it up when I get it
really working.  Your stuff was invaluable to me when I was trying to get
tcp/ip going.

--Don Lindbergh [e-mail]

From [e-mail] Mon Feb 15 16:41:48 1993
To: [e-mail] (Don A.B. Lindbergh)

>REQUEST FOR HELP, somewhat lengthy.....

Well, let's see what we can do...

Warning - your request may have been lengthy, but these answers get real long
sometimes :-)

>I'm really unclear on how to setup at home for SLIP.  I've read over >EVERY
occurance of 'slip' in the TCPINFO doc's, I don't get it....

Part of the difficulty explaining this sort of stuff is that if you get generic
enough in your explanation to cover anyone's case, the explanation becomes
vague enough to be less than helpful :-)

For example - you don't give any actual IP addresses in your supplied office
and home configurations, and yet it is likely the actual IP addresses (and
routing between them) that is the problem.

So - for these examples, I'll use some explicit IP addresses that we use here
at ANS - hopefully, it will not be difficult to translate their use into your
own addresses.

Let's take the office machine.  In my case, it has two interfaces - an ethernet
(lan0) and com1 (sl).  The important elements for packet flows are the
addresses of the interfaces, and the routes that the machine has to specific
hosts or networks.

Let's say the office LAN is 147.225.10.x, and my machine has the address
147.225.10.18.  Thus, subnet 10 of network 147.225 (a class B network) is
dedicated to the office ethernet.  There is a default router on the office lan,
147.225.10.1, that I should send packets to when I don't know where to send
them.  The subnet mask for my LAN is 255.255.255.0.  Also, I have a nameserver
at 147.225.10.1.

Now let's say that I choose subnet 11 for my SLIP connection.  You can't give
hosts at the far end of the SLIP link an address in subnet 10 since the rest of
your LAN all think that subnet 10 hosts are directly connected to the ethernet
itself.  (This isn't completely true, but it's tricky to work around, so let's
say it is true for now).  It is possible, as your example showed, to have your
office machine be 147.225.10.18 on both interfaces, but is often clearer if you
give it an address in the same subnet as the far end of the link. Let's say in
my case, I've made the office machine 147.225.11.1 on the sl interface, and my
home machine is going to be 147.225.11.2.

Thus, you end up with the following configuration:

       -+-
        |
        |    +----------------+        +--------------+
   LAN    |    | Office Machine |        | Home Machine |
        |    | -- -- -- -- -- |  Phone Line  | -- -- -- --  |
        |    |         | 147.225.11.x |        |
147.225.10.x  +------| lan0     sl |--------------| sl      |
        |  .18 |         | .1     .2 |        |
        |    +----------------+        +--------------+
        |
       -+-

Now I don't think you've had a problem getting to this stage of everything,
even though your addresses may be different.  The next big problem is getting
packets to flow where you want.

In this example, hosts on the 147.225.10 network don't have a problem talking
to one another.  They all know that anything in 147.225.10 should be on the LAN
wire.  They also know a default router at 147.225.10.1.  If I did a "netstat
-r" on your office machine, I would find an entry like:

  Office with LAN:

    destination   router      intrf (interface)

    default     147.225.10.1   lan0
    147.225.10.0   147.225.10.18  lan0

or in other words - packets heading to anything on 147.225.10 would go through
my local interface to the LAN, lan0, while anything else also goes out over
lan0, but it gets sent to the 147.225.10.1 host, which should know what to do
with it.

That's just the LAN.  Once you start SLIO and create the "sl" interface, and
ifconfig the appropriate addresses, your routing table will look like the
following:

  Office with LAN and SLIP:

    destination   router      intrf (interface)

    default     147.225.10.1   lan0
    147.225.10.0   147.225.10.18  lan0
    147.225.11.2   147.225.11.1   sl

which is the same as before except that traffic for host 147.225.11.2 will go
over the serial interface.  If you use the same address for your office machine
on lan0 as on sl, the above would be the same except the router field would
show 10.18 in both the lan0 and sl cases.

Now, to finish off the scenario, on your home machine all you did is configure
the sl interface - nothing else is running.  That gives you a routing table
like the following:

  Home with SLIP:

    destination   router      intrf (interface)

    147.225.11.1   147.225.11.2   sl

Now, given the differences in IP address, I think that's the state you've been
able to get to in your experiments.  Or, to add this routing information to my
original picture, my hosts would look configured something like the following:

       -+-
        |
        |    +----------------+        +--------------+
   LAN    |    | Office Machine |        | Home Machine |
        |    | -- -- -- -- -- |  Phone Line  | -- -- -- --  |
        |    |         | 147.225.11.x |        |
147.225.10.x  +------| lan0     sl |--------------| sl      |
        |  .18 |         | .1     .2 |        |
        |    +----------------+        +--------------+
        |  <-- 147.225.10
        |  <-- default
        |       147.225.11.2 -->    <-- 147.225.11.1
       -+-

Ok.  Presuming you're still with me :-)  Here's where you begin to run into
problems.  As long as you are on your office machine, you'll be fine.  If you
try to send packets to someone on the LAN, the route for 147.225.10 will work
and you'll find them.  If you try to send packets to your home machine, it will
go out over the serial interface and find it.  If you send packets somewhere
else, they'll go to the default router, which will get them there.  And, since
your office machine is part of your LAN, packets will find their way back to
you since the rest of the LAN (and outside networks) know how to reach your
147.225.10 addresses.  Nameserver stuff will work fine too, since the
nameservers are presumably on your LAN, so queries are just like other LAN
traffic.

The home machine has some problems however.  Once you get SLIP running there,
you should be able to ping your office machine's address over the SLIP link.
In other words, in my example, a "ping 147.225.11.1" would work, and I could do
things like FTP to the office machine.  But that's the only communication that
works.

The problem with other hosts is routing related.  For example, let's say that
your home host tried to talk to the default router, 147.225.10.1.  On your home
machine you only know how to reach 147.225.11.1, so when you use the 10.1
address, your home machine doesn't know how to get there.  That's where you get
the "no route to host message".  It is telling you it doesn't know where to
send packets for hosts other than 147.225.11.1.

Now that's an easy one to fix.  Add a default route on your home box pointing
to your office box.  Then, if you try to use an address that the home machine
doesn't know about, it will still send it to the office machine.  The office
machine will then either know about it (if it's part of 147.225.10, such as
your nameserver), or it will forward it on to *its* default router,
147.225.10.1.

This is only part of the problem, however.  That solves the outgoing packets
from your home machine, but it doesn't fix the case of packets coming back in
to your home machine.  For example, your home machine will now know how to send
a packet to the nameserver that you use in your office, but the nameserver
won't know how to send the packet back to the home machine.  The nameserver
will know that 147.225.10 addresses are on the LAN, but it won't know what to
do with a 147.225.11 address.

There are a few ways to fix this.  What you really need to do is to get all the
other hosts on your LAN to know that subnet 147.225.11 is routed through you,
and that they should send packets to you for those addresses.  This is not
normally practical, however, since a number of owners of hosts are involved.

Another alternative is for everyone to run a routing daemon (such as the ROUTED
that came with the TCP/IP package), which lets your machine announce to the
other machines that it has the SLIP route, and then they know where to send the
packages.  Again, this may not be reasonable as everyone may not want to or be
able to run a routing daemon.

Probably the easiest thing for you to do is to get whoever administers the
default router to add a static route for your SLIP subnet to that router.
Then, since everyone else on the LAN defaults to that router, when it gets
packets for your SLIP host it will forward them back to you.  Often, it will
also issue a redirect to the hosts telling them where they should have really
sent the packets.

So to summarize - your problems are likely twofold.  One, that your home host
doesn't know to default to the office host for stuff that it doesn't have an
explicit route to.  And two, that the hosts on the LAN (or the outside world
for that matter) don't know to use you to reach your home host.  You need to
solve both of those routing problems before you can see packets flowing between
your home host and any other IP attached host.

In terms of the configurations you posted:

>OFFICE MACHINE SETUP.CMD:
>route -fh
>arp -f
>ifconfig lan0 myipaddress netmask 255.255.255.0
>REM ifconfig lan1
>REM ifconfig lan2
>REM ifconfig lan3
>start slio.exe
>sliowait
>ifconfig sl myipaddress otherpcaddress
>route add default myrouter 1

This should be fine.  In general, I don't expect your office machine would have
any problems.  It's the one machine in this whole configuration that knows just
what is going on, and how to reach everyone it needs to reach.

>HOME MACHINE SETUP.CMD:
>route -fh
>arp -f
>REM ifconfig lan0 myipaddress officeipaddress netmask 255.255.255.0
>REM ifconfig lan1
>REM ifconfig lan2
>REM ifconfig lan3
>start slio.exe
>sliowait
>ifconfig sl myipaddress officeipaddress

This is fine.

>route add host officeipaddress officerouter

You don't need this.  ifconfig'ing sl will automatically add this route to your
routing tables.  What you do need is a statement:

    route add default officeipaddress 1

to let the home host pass all other packets through to the office as well.

And you need the office machines (or default router) to know about your home
address too.

If this sounds convoluted, it's because it's a lot harder to write about and
explain than just to do - at least I find it that way.

If you've stuck with me this far, I'll also throw in a way you can cheat with
your SLIP address and make the rest of your office LAN think your home machine
is right on the LAN - thus avoiding the need to tell them about routing or get
your default router to change.

Some of this is off the cuff - I don't think I've done this explicitly myself
yet, although it should work fine.

What you do first is get another LAN address for your home SLIP machine - in my
case, let's say it was 147.225.10.19.  You then configure everyone just as
before, including the default route on your home SLIP machine.  You end up with
the following:

  Office with LAN and SLIP:

    destination   router      intrf (interface)

    default     147.225.10.1   lan0
    147.225.10.0   147.225.10.18  lan0
    147.225.10.19  147.225.10.18  sl


  Home with SLIP:

    destination   router      intrf (interface)

    default     147.225.10.18  sl
    147.225.10.18  147.225.10.19  sl

For your office machine, any packets to host 147.225.10.19 (your home host)
will go over the serial line.  All other packets for 147.225.10 hosts will go
over the LAN interface.  And anything else will be put over the LAN interface
to the default router also on the LAN.

For your home machine, packets to your office machine will go over the serial
interface, and packets to anything else will first be passed to your office
machine (over the serial interface) for handling.

Now the only rub is getting machines on the LAN to talk back to your home
machine.  The problem is that those machines will think (since it has a
147.225.10 address) that your home machine is directly connected to the LAN.

What happens on the LAN is that other machines issue ARP (Address Resolution
Protocol) requests to translate an address (147.225.10.19 in this case) into a
hardware level address (such as a token ring or ethernet adapter address).
Packets are then sent over the LAN to that hardware address.  For most
machines, they answer for their own address, and give their hardware address.
Obviously, your home machine can't do that in this case since it isn't attached
directly to the LAN.

So what you do is tell your office machine to answer for your home machine.
You use the "arp" command to "publish" a permanent arp entry for your home
machine.  The entry will use your office machine's hardware address as the arp
answer.  Then, other machines in the office will use your office machine's
hardware address on the LAN when sending packets to your home machine - so the
packets will end up on the office machine.  The office machine will look at the
actual IP address and recognize that it should go down the serial link to the
home machine.  This entire process is called "Proxy ARPing", and is often
supplied as an automatic process in SLIP servers or routers - we'd just be
doing it in a more manual fashion.

To set up the arp entry, you need to figure out your hardware address. You can
either do this by looking at the LANTRAN.LOG file in your LAPS directory
(normally C:\IBMCOM).  It should have a line like:

"Adapter 0 is using node address 10005A82501A   (...)"

Or, check someone else's machine that has recently exchanged traffic with you
and do an "arp -a" and look for your address as in:

    hardware address     IP address
    10005A82501A       147.225.10.18

In either event, you want to know your 12-digit hexadecimal hardware address.
Once you know that, you can stuff an entry for your home machine in your arp
table with the command:

    arp -s 147.225.10.19 10:00:5A:82:50:1A pub

which will permanently "publish" an arp entry for your home machine. From now
on, other machines on the LAN will think that your home machine is right on the
ethernet (or token ring) itself, although your office machine will actually be
routing packets through the serial link to the home machine.

Note that if you are on a token ring, you need to use a bitwise reversed
address (shown in the LANTRAN.LOG file as the token ring format on the same
line as the adapter node address).

I think that's about it.  Like I said - it's more complicated to explain than
it really is.  I hope this helps more than it confuses. I'd suggest also trying
to find a local support person at your site that may be able to help out with
the routing issues.  Or, if you have some sort of central SLIP server facility,
it will probably be easier to make use of that, as the routing issues will most
likely have already been addressed for that server.

-- David

From [e-mail] Tue Feb 16 18:37:53 1993
To: [e-mail] (Don A.B. Lindbergh)
Subject: Re: TCP/IP, SLIP, Beat 2.1 Setup Questions (LONG)

Don,

.
> I had no idea that the slip connection ip addresses
> should have a different subnet than the 'real'
> lan ip addresses.

Yeah - the problem is that while you can get it partially working without using
a different subnet, you really need the separate subnet for proper operation
(barring proxy arp solutions).  The reasons for this are rooted in the
fundamentals of how IP routing is handled, which can be daunting topic for
those new to IP networking (or even old hands :-)).  Couple this with the fact
that most IP office users don't necessarily know the subnetting and routing
scheme in place at their site, and it becomes even more fun.

(At the risk of repeating info from my previous message)

I think it starts to become more understandable - and explainable - if you make
believe you are a machine on your LAN.  Let's say I'm on your LAN as address
138.68.31.50.  My machine has a routing table telling me where to send packets
for particular destinations, as:

  destination 134.68.31.0 gateway 134.68.31.50
    (anything on 134.68.31 goes out onto my local LAN
     via my LAN interface, and gets my LAN address on it
     as the source address)
  destination default gateway 134.68.31.103
    (anything else goes to the specified gateway.  To reach
     that gateway, I use my previous route to reach the LAN)

Now I'm in good shape - I know how to reach machines on the LAN, and those off
your LAN.  Now say that friendly Don - you - down the hall (with his machine
134.68.31.25) add a SLIP link, and gives your home machine address
134.68.31.26.  You sets things up so that if you type "ping 134.68.31.50" from
home, the packets reach my machine in the office.  So far so good - the problem
is where do I send the answer? I need to reach 134.68.31.26, which according to
my routing table is right on my LAN.  I therefore try to send it right over the
LAN, but there's no machine there with that address.

Now I personally can fix that problem by adding a specific (static) route to my
machine that says:

    destination 134.68.31.26 gateway 134.68.31.25

which says that if I need to reach the specific machine 31.26, I send it to
your office machine.  Anything else in 134.68.31 follows the old rule and goes
directly to the LAN.  Now I can communicate with everyone including your home
machine.  Of course, this solution doesn't scale well, and it doesn't help you
from home since you have to get everyone else (or at least the default gateway)
to add the route.  Thus the rest of my previous note :-)

> He says getting something like a
> static route added to our subnet requires calling someone else, which
> is not a huge problem, but if we did this, hopefully we could add this
> slip subnet ONCE and that one addition would work for all our group
> who want to use slip.  I would like to try your suggestions about
> permanently publishing an arp entry first I think.....

Having a dedicated SLIP subnet and a primary SLIP router is in fact the way
many sites (including ours) handles the issue.  For single SLIP connections
into individual office machines a proxy arp solution may be the simplest and
most effective - although it does require manual configuration - and you still
have to get yourself allocated an extra address in the LAN subnet.

> Some further comments and questions....

Ok.

> I know, I questioned the wisdom of publicly posting all my ip
> addresses, on the other hand, who really cares and what if they did
> right?  I've at least got password entry's for telnet and ftp....

Actually, that's a pretty prudent idea, and not so strange, especially when
posting to such a large list.  I don't have much of a problem myself as the
addresses I've used are protected by a security firewall, so external hosts
can't reach those subnets of 147.225 anyway.

Since your address is in fact exposed to the outside world, it's not
unreasonable to avoid publishing it in such a wide forum.

> I tried this briefly last night, but apparently it's a whole other
> lesson to get this damned thing to work.  I don't really understand
> *who* these manuals are written for.....

You'd be surprised - the IBM stuff really isn't all that bad when you see what
else is out there.  Of course, routing daemons are in fact another whole world
of information, of which ROUTED is one of the simplest daemons.  I could start
another whole book on handling routing daemon issues, but since it's unlikely
your entire LAN will start listening to RIP broadcasts, I think I'd just bypass
this option for now.  Even if you do run ROUTED and config everything right, it
only fixes things for people who are also listening for the information that
you are then broadcasting.

> As per my comments earlier, is this something we can do once and will
> then work for a number of people? ie if we pick subnet 41 for slip,
> then programmers using slip will be
>
> 134.68.41.1
>      .2
>      .3 etc?

It depends on how you are servicing the SLIP connections.  As long as there is
a single host that is responsible for all of the SLIP users, then yes - this
will work fine.  For example, here at ANS, we use subnet 2 for SLIP - all SLIP
users get 147.225.2.x addresses.  Our primary machines have a static route for
147.225.2.0 into our Annex terminal server (that handles the SLIP users) at
147.225.10.40.

If however, each user is going to handle his or her own SLIP connection into an
office machine, it gets a little tricker.  Given that changing a centrally
administered host is probably harder, what I would suggest is telling those
responsible for the site router to send all SLIP (134.68.41.x) traffic to one
particular host - pick someone's office machine, or some central machine that
you manage.  Then, as individual programmers set up SLIP links to a new
machine, add a static route to the machine you manage for that SLIP link.
Then, traffic from LAN or external hosts heading for SLIP home users will first
go to the central machine you manage, which will then forward it on to the
appropriate office machine handling the link.  This will represent an
additional hop, but for the amount of traffic generated by SLIP it won't be
much.

Also depending on the central machine of yours, it can send a redirect message
to the site router, telling it the real machine to send the SLIP traffic to.
So it can "learn" to avoid the extra hop.  I'm pretty sure that OS/2 (and most
Unix platforms) send a redirect by default, but don't hold me to that.

> Ah, here's where it gets fun, this would be a good hack......
> I'll try this and let you know.  By the way, I keep hearing about your
> super nifty alternate slip drivers, should I try those?  Dave are you
> holdin' out on me?  :)  One guy said I could find them at ftp.ans.net

Well, yes, I do have "super nifty alternate slip drivers" :-) I wasn't really
holding out on you - getting my drivers wouldn't have solved your problem as it
was routing and addressing related.  Also, my driver is technically alpha code
so I don't generally recommend it to just anyone yet.  Of course, it's alpha
mostly because I'm too backlogged to do the final cleanup and call it beta, so
it's actually quite stable at this point.

If you're interested - you can anonymously ftp the driver from ftp.ans.net in
the file /pub/misc/slip20a3.zoo.  This has the driver, several utilities, and a
readme that should get you up and running. My driver both performs better than
the standard IBM driver (better performance while using less CPU) as well as
including support for header compression and priority queueing.  This yields
better interactive performance over a SLIP link.

The driver does require OS/2 2.0, and TCP/IP 1.2.1 at least at CSD level 2252.
(You can always get the latest CSD from ftp-os2 if you have an earlier version
of TCP/IP - check SYSLEVEL)

The below is today's first installment from a gent attempting to help me put
the final piece in place.... ROUTED

From [e-mail] Wed Feb 17 13:12:00 1993
To: [e-mail]
Subject: Re: TCP/IP, SLIP, Beat 2.1 Setup Questions (LONG)

I was going to suggest Bolen's stuff.  He is _most_ knowledgeable.

The secret appears to be as follows:

The ifconfig statement _must_ have your home ip address and the office (slip)
machine ip address.  Use a netmask of 255.255.255.0 make sure you set the mtu
in ifconfig (and in slip.cfg if you use Bolen's driver).

Now: in order to get at any other machine on your office net, you must tell
your home machine where on the office LAN is the nameserver.  You use the OS2
ROUTE command to do this.  What you do in it is to a) clear the previous
entiries (-fh flag), then b) set up as 'default' the ip address of the name
server on your office LAN  This means that when at the OS2 end you mention a
machine on your office lan athat is other than the machine to which you are
directly connected via slip, the request will be routed by your office PC to
that name server, which will do the address resolution.  The test for
connection is to use the 'ping' command at your home end.

If you default route to the nameserver, you should be able to ping any machine
on the internet.  I tested it by pinging local machines here, and then finally
hobbes.  It replied!

I'm at the office so I don;t have access to my rexx scripts.  If you are still
having problemsa, I'll send them to you.

I agree the manuals are ghastly.  Luckily I have a bunch of Unix TCPIP experts
here to help me, (we have 4 dept. lans with about 100 Sun workstations, 4 file
servers, 3 compute servers etc. etc. here)  but even they took a while to
figure it out.  I asked, but there is no good book on TCPIP or X11.  You learn
it by recursively reading assorted ill-written documents, and asking someone
who knows. I've been around long enough to have used IBM manuals back in the
'50s and '60s, so I'm resigned to this situation :-)

Prof. Donald Jardine
Software Technology Laboratory
Comp. Sci. Dept.
Queen's Univ. Kingston Ont.
Ph [phone] Fax [phone]


ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 5.17. Appendix III: Setting up LaMail ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ

                         Appendix III: Setting up LaMail

This is a product that I don't use, but [e-mail] kindly
sent me a document that he prepared for his users there.  I've excerpted and
edited from that.  Hence I am definitely to blame for errors of omission and
comission in the following suggestions...

      1. Installation:  You will want to check off "Sendmail" and "LaMail" in
         the ICAT "Automatic Starting of Services" setup section (see (5)
         section 4. above).

      2. Customize your LaMail configuration: In the LaMail screen, select
         Options/Set Note Options, then:

                    Personal Options
                      1. Your login or userid (e.g. dean)
                      2. Your hostname (e.g. fiddler.biol.scarolina.edu)
                    Note Header
                      1. Check "Add Subject Line"
                      2. Recommend checking "Long Address Format"
                    Note Options
                      1. Signature file: You can create a plain-text file that
                        contains some address information about yourself.  It will
                        be automatically appended to your outgoing mail.  For an
                        example, see the three lines at the end of section (0) of
                        this document (that's my .signature file contents).  At this
                        point, enter the name of the plain-text file that holds your
                        signature information.

      3. Send some test mail: Send some mail to someone who's email address you
         are sure will work.  Ask them to send you a reply.  It may be helpful
         if you are in adjoining offices so you can ask each other if it
         worked...

      4. Delivery notification: There's no such thing as registered mail with
         SMTP (the mail services that Internet mail uses).  But sometimes if
         mail cannot be sent to the recipient, LaMail will pop-up with the
         rejected mail item.

      5. Note editor:  The LaMail editor is built upon the OS/2 Enhanced Editor
         (EPM).  Most users would be more familiar with the OS/2 System Editor.
         To configure the LaMail editor to resemble the System Editor more
         closely do the following while editing a note:

           Select: Options/Preferences:
             Deselect: Advanced Marking Select:  Stream Editing
          Select: Options/Save

      6. How to forward a note:  While you are reading/editing a note (i.e. the
         box title begins "Note") hit Ctrl-I.  In the command dialog box,
         either click on an existing command in the top half (if there are any
         shown) or type a forward command in the lower half (e.g.  FORWARD
         [e-mail]).  Edit the command in the bottom half
         and then select OK.  This will bring up a standard LaMail Create Note
         menu with the forwarded note included.  Edit the subject and other
         header lines as usual and select Send to actually forward the mail.
         LaMail will keep a copy of the command in its history file for the
         next time you select the command option.

      7. Spelling check:  To check the spelling of an outgoing note, select the
         Options/Proof menu item.  Note that the spelling checker appears to
         have some bugs.  Sometimes it gets confused and flags even common
         words (e.g. "is").  At other times, it appears to just hang.  You may
         want to verify the location of the following LaMail files by choosing
         the Options/Preferences/Settings/Paths menu:

          US dictionary (normally \tcpip\bin\us.dct) Personal dictionary

      8. Folders:  At installation, the ALL folder is the default folder for
         notes.  A copy of your outgoing mail is automatically stored in the
         default folder.  You can create multiple folders (e.g., and OUT folder
         or organize folders by subject).  You can also associate folders with
         individuals in your NICKNAME.NAM file.  Within each folder, the
         appearance of mail items can be customized (color and order of fields,
         etc.).  Each folder can have a distinct icon associated with it.
         Create the icons using the OS/2 icon editor and save them in
         \tcpip\lamail as xxxxxx.ICO where xxxxxx is the name of the folder
         that you want associated with the icon.

      9. Sendmail:  Sendmail is the background process to LaMail that actually
         sends and receives SMTP messages.  This normally should be running all
         the time, although it can (and probably should) be minimized on the
         screen.  In general, there is nothing you can do in this session.  If
         you need to shut sendmail down, you can terminate it by switching to
         that session and hitting Ctrl-C.  This will bring you back to the OS/2
         command prompt where you  can type EXIT to close the session.

     10. Join some mailing lists:  The Internet has hundreds of mailing lists
         on every conceivable topic.  Good ones include ietf-announce (for
         Internet Task Force announcements), the OS/2 mailing lists, new-list
         (a mailing list that announces new mailing lists!), and many other
         computer and non-computer-specific lists.  The Internet master list of
         mailing lists can be retrieved via anonymous FTP from ftp.nisc.sri.com
         as netinfo/interest-groups.  Because this is such a large file (over
         one million bytes uncompressed), it should be retrieved only on an
         exception basis.  Do NOT print the mailing list index.

     11. Be sure to include your Internet mailing address on your
         correspondence and business cards.  Because many recipients may not be
         entirely familiar with internetwork addressing, and may have accounts
         on alternate services (MCI, Genie, etc.), make sure to be explicit.
         Tell them that it is an Internet address and be sure to give your
         entire address.  For example, I'd give the following information:

         Internet: [e-mail]


ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 6. Software Showcase ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ

                                 Performance 2.1
                              Extended Desktop 1.4
                                    Watchdog


ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 6.1. Performance 2.1 ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ

                                 Performance 2.1

                             Review By H. E. Summers

Performance 2.1 is a collection of REXX programs that modify your config.sys
per IBM's tuning suggestions to help improve performance. While Performance 2.1
seems like a bargain at $29, many of the utilities are simply not very useful
unless you are VERY novice. Some of them are downright dangerous, like the
program to remove all HPFS programs! While the utilities are marginally useful
and the book lays out the performance information more clearly than the manuals
from IBM, I would not recommend buying Performance 2.1 even for those wanting
to learn Rexx.


ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 6.2. Extended Desktop 1.4 ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ

                              Extended Desktop 1.4

                            Review By Dale Hackemeyer

Extended Desktop is an IBM Employee Written program that greatly enhances
control of the desktop in OS/2 2.x (you MUST have the Service Pack installed if
you're running on 2.0).

Extended Desktop is a WPS Class DLL for the "ExtendedDesktop" object class,
which is a subclass of the "WPDesktop" object class.  Its purpose is to extend
the functions of the OS/2 2.x Desktop object.

Extended Desktop extends the OS/2 2.x WPS Desktop to:

      1. Optionally remove Arrange & Sort from the Desktop context menu.
      2. Align groups of icons on the Desktop vertically or horizontally.
      3. Snap-to-Grid with user defined Grid Spacing.
      4. Precisely position individual icons on the Desktop from the Settings
         Notebook
      5. Precisely position individual icons on the Desktop from C or REXX.

 To install you simply run the install program and reboot. All your desktop
 settings and icon arrangements are unchanged. Only when you bring up the
 desktop Settings notebook do you see the  additions. Should Extended Desktop
 not meet your needs, there is a un-install program included.

 I think this program is a must for any serious user of the Workplace Shell,
 especially if you're like me and like to arrange groups of icons in different
 places all over the desktop.

 You can find Extended Desktop 1.4 in the file EXDESK.ZIP on the OS/2
 Woodmeister BBS [phone].


ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 6.3. Watchdog ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ

                                    Watchdog

                             Review By H. E. Summers

Do you have a hangup using OS/2? That is, does the mouse still work but nothing
happen when you click? If so, try adding WATCHDOG to your system. It can detect
the WPS locking up (while OS/2 is still working) and reboot the WPS without
rebooting OS/2. This IBM employee written software (EWS) is useful even under
the much improved OS/2 2.1 if you are running on an ISA PC where WPS has
problems. Watchdog is avalible from Woody's BBS as WDOG10.ZIP.


ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 7. OS/2 Tips & Techniques ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ

                                   WPS Tricks
                             Toolbox in SAS for OS/2


ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 7.1. WPS Tricks ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ

Here's a neat trick which has been thoroughly discussed on Compuserve, but I
don't see mentioned here.

Call up the window list, hold down the shift key, double click on the Desktop
item, and your desktop will minimize itself!  Apps will continue, and Ctrl-Esq
will recall the Window List, allowing you to bring up any open windows and work
with them as usual.  Sometimes it's nice to hide all those objects and focus on
what you're doing.

Next, on the Desktop item on the Window List, hold down Ctrl, and double click
the right button.  Now the desktop's title bar appears, and you can move it
around!  Two ways to remove the title  bar:  (1) Reboot; (2) open the minimized
window viewer, minimize the desktop, recall the viewer, Arrange if you don't
see the desktop icon, RMB the icon for its menu, select Restore.

William Marvin,  Fidonet OS/2 conference.  


ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 7.2. Toolbox in SAS for OS/2 ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ

If you want to change the default icons available in the default toolbox, use
the Toolbox Editor. To bring up the Toolbox Editor, select EDIT TOOLBOX from
the OPTIONS in the menu bar. Alternatively you can issue the TOOLEDIT display
manager command.

To add your own icon to the Toolbox, folow these steps:

  1. Create an icon. What I did was download a zip file with tons of icons from
     ftp anonymous at ftp-os2.cdrom.com and edited one with the OS/2 Icon
     Editor.
  2. Mark and copy your new icon to the clipboard.
  3. Open the Toolbox Editor and select the icon that you want to replace by
     clicking on it.
  4. Choose PASTE to move your icon from the clipboard into the Toolbox Editor.
  5. Enter the text string you want to associate with the tool (e.g. Insight).
  6. Save your changes, you can save temporarely using the APPLY button or
     permanently using the SAVE button.

 Enjoy,

 Arturo Barrios / OIT User Services


ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 8. New Products! ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ

OS/2 Software recently announced or released:

                                Back In A Flash!
                                    BakupWiz
                          2nd Ed. of OS/2 2.1 Unleashed
                             OS/2 Computing Magazine
                                  REXX Handbook
                                S3 Video Drivers


ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 8.1. Back In A Flash! ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ

From the Fidonet OS2 conference.

From: Robert Montgomery

                           Back In A Flash! (aka BIAF)
                     32-bit File Backup and Archival Utility

                           Demonstration Version 1.00

                             A product of CCT, Inc.
                              111 3rd Avenue South
                              Minneapolis, MN 55401
                                 [phone]

Some more to report. I have purchased the registered version. I have talked
with the author, Brad Benson. Very nice, knowledgeable OS/2 programmer that
works for a big company called CCT, does programming for them. Did BIAF on his
own time and when he brought it to work to run on his IBM MCA, his boss (a very
wise Paul Druckman, President, of CAD/CAM Technology, Inc.) suggested they
market it. And the rest as they say is history.

I have run it on three machines, all clones with OS/2 2.1, and MFM, ESDI and a
SCSI. The backup to the floppy works perfectly for backing up the desktop
configuration to one diskette and doing a command line restore. Superb and
clearly worth the price of the product. The desktop can be very personal and
unique with OS/2 and rebuilding it a pain. With BIAF, no problem.

Only major problem has been backing up to more than one floppy and doing a
command line restore. Has some sort of bug that causes it too fail. But inside
OS/2 2.1, running the restore with the GUI part, works wonderfully. Brad knows
about this as of last week and will look into it. This is not a major flaw, but
it is annoying.

Ah, to save the best for last. BIAF can save to another partition, or to any
directory on a hard drive or across a LAN (the LAN was not tested by me, since
I have no LAN). 38MB can compress to about a 25MB file. Very fast, varies with
hard drive speed and cpu, but best was 7MB/min to about 3MB/min with
compression on.

Here is what the dir/w of the saved files looks like at the dos prompt

C:\OS2BACK>dir/w

 The volume label in drive C is CJODY.
 The Volume Serial Number is 3F49:1BD0
 Directory of C:\OS2BACK

[.]       [..]       DESKTOP.001   FULL.001
    4 file(s)  25069336 bytes used
          228212736 bytes free

Note that two files exist, one called desktop.001 and the other full.001.
Desktop.001 is just the critical files that can restore the desktop. And
full.001 is a complete OS/2 restore. If these files are kept "safe", in my
case, stored on C:\os2back directory with OS/2 on my d: drive, as simple
reformat of D: and the insert the disk install and disk 1 of os/2, esc to
command line, run cctrest desktop.001 c:\os2back or run cctrest
full.001c:\os2back, and in a matter of minutes, D; is restored form c:. Simply
amazing to watch, and it ran flawlessly on all three very different machines.

This has countless variations. Imagine saving this backup file, either
desktop.001 or full.001 or whatever you might configure (and BIAF will let you
do anything) and the using a DOS, fat based backup to tape of these files. In
the event of a disaster, just reformat, set up the original drive
specifications, restore the desktop.001 or full.001 to the right area on C:
(which is C:\os2back in my case, it could be any you want, boot the two os/2
diskettes, the install and disk one, run cctrest.exe as above, and voila!
Complete restore! I have done it, works beautifully!

So now, here is the new suggestion, for the beginner, who needs a generic
hardware setup that will work on many machines and be "portable". Get a SCSI
based cdrom that works with OS/2 2.X and the trantor SCSI Plus cable, then
install OS/2 2.1. Make a backup with BIAF, and then get one of those nice
parallel port backup machines like trakker, connect it to the parallel port
direct or to the Trantor parallel port  and backup the BIAF files to tape. In
the even of a "crash", no problem. Just use the cdrom to reinstall the OS/2 2.1
from CDROM, and redo the customized desktop saved in desktop.001, or just
restore the full OS/2 from the full.001 file restore by the tape machine hooked
to the parallel port, then run BIAF command line restore (cctrest.exe) and
restore the entire OS/2 2.1 operating system.

The variations are endless, limited only by ones imagination.

MY OS/2 installs are pretty standardized now, since use boot manager, with a
C"FAT and D:HPFS. I run C: drive as FAT, allows use of "real" DOS, with all the
versatility I need, then install OS/2 2.1 on D:HPFS, enjoying OS/2 on HPFS (a
real treat). I save my BIAF backup files on the cdrive in a directory called,
appropriately, C:\os2back. Then I can reinstall anytime I want back to D:HPFS
and leave my C:DRIVE alone, safe and secure. The reverse is true as well, save
my C:DRIVE on a C:\DOSBACK or D:\DOSBACK and use BIAF to restore the entire DOS
back to my C:FAT drive.

So there you have it, one of many solutions for the OS/2 user that allows the
use of there present hardware. And it allows the "neophyte" OS/2 user to
graduate into OS/2 without the "fear" of no backup and avoid the expense of
upgrading all their equipment just to run OS/2 2.1. The new user (or old) can
keep their old Colorado, or other FAT backup system, knowing that with BIAF,
they can backup the BIAF backup files with ease.

So let me know what you think. And finally, lets support this excellent
product.

Highly recommended.

Price? $29.00 intro $49.00 final. Worth it!


ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 8.2. BakupWiz ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ

PCX Announces the Release of OS/2 BakupWiz

San Diego, CA, August 4, 1993 PCX announced today that OS/2 BakupWiz will be
released for general sale on August 16, 1993.

OS/2 BakupWiz is a comprehensive Backup/Restore program that takes full
advantage of OS/2's many advanced features. Typical OS/2 configurations include
a large amount of fixed disk storage which requires a backup system capable of
effectively backing up large amounts of data. OS/2 BakupWiz's backup capacity
is only limited by the current state of the art in backup devices.

A long list of SCSI tape devices is supported by OS/2 BakupWiz. These range
from 150 megabyte 1/4" cartridge devices to multi gigabyte 4 and 8 millimeter
devices to automated tape loading devices with capacities in excess of 100
gigabytes. OS/2 BakupWiz will work with all SCSI adapter cards that are
supported by OS/2.

Being a character mode OS/2 program, OS/2 BakupWiz is capable of fully
restoring the users OS/2 boot partition, thus saving the time that would
normally be required to manually reinstall the operating system from diskette
or CDROM. OS/2 BakupWiz also supports OS/2's extended attributes, long file
names, and the High Performance File System.

While OS/2 BakupWiz is PCX's first entry into the ever growing OS/2
marketplace, BakupWiz has a long history in the DOS market. BakupWiz for DOS,
marketed directly by PCX, is also resold and bundled under private label by
various SCSI board manufacturers.

The software ships on 3.5 inch diskettes. Retail price is $189.00. PCX is
offering an introductory price of $129.00 until September 30, 1993. Due to
customer demand, PCX has started accepting orders for OS/2 BakupWiz for
shipment beginning August 16, 1993.

PCX, founded in 1982, develops and markets personal computer software and is
firmly committed to the OS/2 platform. In addition to OS/2 BakupWiz, PCX also
markets BakupWiz for DOS and performs consulting services under contract. PCX
specializes in the development of device drivers and utilities for OS/2, DOS,
and Netware.

For more information, contact PCX at 3525 Del Mar Heights Road, Suite 313, San
Diego, CA 92130, phone: [phone], fax: [phone].


ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 8.3. 2nd Edition of OS/2 2.1 Unleashed ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ

Second edition of OS/2 2.1 Unleashed Announced

NORRISTOWN, PA, June 1, 1993 Productivity Solutions Book Division announced
today availability of the second printing of OS/2 2.1 Unleashed.  The first
printing sold out in just 6 weeks placing this book among the fastest selling
and most popular of available OS/2 books.  In the forword to the second
printing James Cannavino, IBM Senior Vice-President and General Manager
Personal Systems said, "the authors span our industry and possess years of
experience with the OS/2 operating system.  Several of the authors are members
of the original OS/2 design and development team, bringing an unequaled level
of OS/2 knowledge to a single book."  The book was also praised by Lee Reiswig,
President of IBM Personal Software Products Division, during official launch
announcements of the OS/2 2.1 operating system on May 18.

David Moskowitz, President of Norristown, PA firm, Productivity Solutions, with
David Kerr of IBM are the featured authors, with 11 additional contributing
authors including Rick McGuire head of the IBM REXX Language Development Group
and Mike Perks, Advisory Programmer for OS/2 Technical Planning.  Scott Kliger
of the OS/2 development team at Word Perfect Corporation was the primary
technical editor of the book. Kliger was previously a member of the IBM OS/2
Development Team in Boca Raton, Florida.

What readers around the world say
First published at the end of February, 1993,  thousands of OS/2 users heard
about OS/2 2.1 Unleashed from discussions in on-line services such as
CompuServer, Internet, Fido Net as well as at OS/2 User Group meetings and
technical conferences around the world.

According to David Cittadini, Senior Consultant of Price Waterhouse of
Wellington, New Zealand, "The three most important ideas I picked up from this
book were about using and controlling the Workplace Shell, tuning the system
and video subsystems.  These ideas are missing in lots of other books."  Andy
Yu, Senior Technical Analyst of the BC Systems Corporation of Victoria, B.C.
Canada, "I enjoyed reading the book very much.  It's an excellent reference
book on OS/2 for both advanced and beginner users.  If I had this book on Day
1, it would have saved me **lots** of time!"  Software developer president, Lee
W. Wiley of International Expert Systems of Houston, Texas, "Your book is
great!  Your explanation of system configuration, setup and tuning answered
questions which we have been wondering about for over a year.  This alone is
well worth the price of OS/2 2.1 Unleashed."

According to David Kerr, "in writing my sections I set out to document
information not properly described in any other book.  All of the other authors
did the same thing." This attention to detail paid off.  One reader, Steve
Gallagher, IBM Team OS/2 member in North Carolina says, "I have read probably a
dozen books on OS/2, but OS/2 2.1 Unleashed is the only one that 'made the cut'
and sits next to my computer at work."  Paul Duncanson, President of the Los
Angeles OS/2 Users group says, "I've been programming OS/2 for over 5 years,
and am amazed at the amount of new information for me in this book!"

Best Source for Tips and Tricks
The book is 1134 pages in 18 chapters and includes a disk of 8 of the best
shareware utilities for OS/2.  There are many techniques and tricks about OS/2
2.0 and 2.1 which are not documented, or inadequately documented anywhere else.
Readers can troubleshoot their Windows 3.1 and DOS Applications as well as
discover ways to prevent problems. According to David Moskowitz, "we included
tips and tricks that are useful to almost everyone who uses or supports OS/2
from beginner to power-user.  Even the person who only uses OS/2 2.1 to
multitask DOS and Windows applications will find usable information in the
book.  All the contributors wanted to make this _the_ OS/2 2.1 reference book."

Pricing and Availability
Price is $34.95, plus shipping and handling.  Telephone or fax orders for the
book can be placed by calling Productivity Solutions:  215-631-5685 or fax:
215-631-0414.  All books ordered from Productivity Solutions are signed by
featured author David Moskowitz.  The publisher is SAMS Publishing,

ISBN No. 0672-30240-3.


ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 8.4. OS/2 Computing Magazine ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ

MILLER FREEMAN LAUNCHES OS/2 COMPUTING

SAN FRANCISCO Miller Freeman, Inc.  today announced the launch of OS/2
COMPUTING MAGAZINE out of its San Francisco headquarters.

OS/2 COMPUTING is focused on users and system administrators who work with
IBM's OS/2 operating system on a daily basis.  "OS/2 COMPUTING represents
another step in developing a well-rounded group of top-notch computer and
electronics magazines here at Miller Freeman," said Don Pazour, Vice-President
of Miller Freeman's High-Tech Division.

Ted Bahr, Group Publisher of the company's Electronics/Design Group, was named
Publisher of OS/2 COMPUTING, and added, "No major publishing company is
currently serving those individuals and corporate users and systems
administrators who have chosen OS/2 as their operating system. OS/2 users are
hardcore enthusiasts and OS/2 COMPUTING will be serving a definite need in this
growing market."

The first issue of OS/2 COMPUTING will hit newsstands in mid-November 1993, and
will be distributed at Fall Comdex in Las Vegas.  Monthly publication begins
with the February 1994 issue.  OS/2 COMPUTING will be distributed through paid
subscriptions and on newsstands.  "We believe paid circulation is important in
satisfying advertisers' needs to reach a qualified audience," Bahr explained.
OS/2 COMPUTING will be audited as soon as possible.

Effective immediately, Miller Freeman has appointed Alan Zeichick as
Editor-in-Chief of OS/2 COMPUTING.  "OS/2 is the most popular 32-bit operating
system for IBM-compatible personal computers," Zeichick said.  "Members of the
OS/2 user community, whether individuals, small businesses, or large
corporations, are looking for a dedicated source of information about how to
maximize their productivity."

Miller Freeman's High-Tech Division also publishes Dr. Dobb's Journal, OS/2
Developer, Cadence Magazine, UNIX Review, LAN Magazine, Software Development,
Embedded Systems Programming, Database Programming & Design, Microsoft Systems
Journal, and AI Expert.  It is also the sponsor of high-technology conferences,
including Autodesk University, Software Development Week, Embedded Systems
Conference, Computer Security Conference, Electronic Imaging, and Business
Software Solutions (formerly the Windows & OS/2 Conference).  A wholly owned
subsidiary of United Newspapers plc, Miller Freeman, Inc. publishes 32 other
magazines and is the third largest producer of trade shows and technical
conferences in North America.

CONTACT: TED BAHR, 415-905-2269.

ALAN ZEICHICK, 415-905-2382, CompuServe 76703,756

Miller Freeman Inc., 600 Harrison St., San Francisco, CA 94107


ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 8.5. REXX Handbook ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ

REXX Reference Summary Handbook Announcement

Good News:
     The REXX Reference Summary Handbook is available for shipping. We are
     accepting orders beginning on Tuesday, August 10, 1993.

 Bad News:
     Our friendly bank has informed us that since C F S Nevada, Inc. is
     accepting orders for the Handbook via electronic mail, we qualify as a
     mail order business and, as such, they have made the requirements for us
     to provide Master Card / Visa services, prohibitive.

 Therefore, we are forced to require a check (personal or business) or money
 order. Checks MUST be in U.S. funds drawn on a U.S. bank or the order will be
 returned, unprocessed.

 This 112 page, pocket sized guide details all of the instructions and
 functions in SAA REXX distributed with OS/2. It also describes all of the
 functions included in the REXXLIB and RXWINDOW external function packages
 available from Quercus Systems - the Personal REXX developer.

 I think that anyone involved with REXX, from curious beginners to people who,
 like me, first began using REXX (or EXEC2) under VM/370 or VM/SP on IBM
 mainframes, will find the Handbook to be a constant "keyboard-side" companion.
 I realized the need for the handbook when, even after writing REXX programs
 for close to ten years, I found myself still reverting to the REXX manuals for
 confirmation of things such as the order or format of function parameters, the
 format of the value returned by a function, etc.

 The handbook has a 20 page, cross referenced index, that will allow the novice
 REXX user and the REXX veteran alike to easily locate a needed function as
 well as identifying the various functions which deal with a particular
 subject.

 The Handbook has been accredited by IBM for use of the official OS/2 logo and
 C F S Nevada, Inc. is a member of the IBM Independent Vendor league.

 The price is $9.35 plus $2.00 per copy shipping & handling. Nevada residents
 must add 7% ($0.65) sales tax. Quantity discounts are available for dealers as
 well as a special program for user groups being available.

 Checks should be made payable to C F S Nevada, Inc. and mailed to:

     953 E. Sahara Avenue, Suite 9B Las Vegas, Nevada 89104-3012

 Inquiries may be directed to C F S Nevada, Inc. at:

  702-732-9616 voice
  702-732-3847 FAX
  72200,347 CompuServe
  (1:209/705) FIDO

 Please note your CompuServe ID, Internet address or FAX number on your order.
 Orders will be processed in the sequence they are received and the Handbook
 will be shipped within 10 business days of the receipt of your order.


ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 8.6. S3 Video Drivers ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ

S3 Video Driver Announced for OS/2 2.1

August 11, 1993

The S3 video device driver support is now available for OS/2* 2.1! This means
that OS/2 users now have access to even better graphics, faster video and
higher resolution in a proven and reliable operating environment.

"The S3 video driver is designed to provide OS/2 users with seamless support
for accelerated video graphics and advanced color resolution," says Wally
Casey, director of marketing for PSP. "The new driver ensures compatibility
with the S3 technology shipping in today's newer PCs."

The OS/2 2.1 S3 video driver supports the following resolutions and colors:

640 x 480 x 256 colors
800 x 600 x 256 colors
1024 x 768 x 256 colors
1280 x 1024 x 256 colors

PC manufacturers, such as the IBM PC Company and Dell Computer Corporation,
will begin shipping the OS/2 2.1 S3 driver with their systems.  The S3 driver
has also been tested on and is compatible with many industry leading S3 adapter
cards.

The S3 driver is available from multiple electronic download services,
including Internet and CompuServe, or can be ordered on diskette for $15 (cost
+ shipping and handling) by calling 1-800-3IBM-OS2.  It is located on
software.watson.ibm.com on the Internet, and in OS2SUPPORT, Library 17, IBM
files on CompuServe.  The file name is S3-256.DSK.

                   15 Questions & Answers About the S3 Driver

  1. Does the S3 driver exploit the accelerated functions of the S3
     Corporation's chipsets?

     This display driver takes advantage of the hardware acceleration
     capabilities of S3 Corporation's 86C801/86C805 and 86C928 chip sets.  It
     conforms to the OS/2 32-bit flat memory model and is designed to function
     as a 32-bit Presentation Manager (PM) display driver under the OS/2 32-bit
     graphics engine subsystem.

  2. Which resolutions are supported?

     The S3 display driver supports the following resolutions/colors and OS/2
     full-screen columns/rows:

                               640 x  480 x 256 colors
                               800 x  600 x 256 colors
                               1024 x  768 x 256 colors
                   1280 x 1024 x 256 colors (min 2MB video memory)

                               OS/2 full screen 132,25
                               OS/2 full screen 132,43

  3. What other features does it support?

    o OS/2 PM Palette Manager
    o Software Motion Video
    o Static mode change.

  4. When will it be available?

     It will be available August 9, 1993, via electronic download.  It will be
     available on diskette via the 1-800-3IBM-OS2 number approximately two
     weeks later.

     PC manufacturers, such as the IBM PC Company and Dell Computer
     Corporation, will begin shipping the OS/2 2.1 S3 driver with their
     systems.  In addition, IBM will add this S3 driver to shrink-wrapped
     packages of OS/2 2.1.

  5. Where will it be available?

     The driver is available via multiple electronic download services,
     including CompuServe and Internet, or can be ordered on diskette for $15
     (cost + shipping and handling) by calling 1-800-3IBM-OS2.

     It is located on software.watson.ibm.com on the Internet, and in
     OS2SUPPORT, Library 17, IBM files.  The file name is S3-256.DSK.

  6. Does IBM fully support this driver?

     Yes.  It is covered by the same support plan as the OS/2 2.1 product.

  7. The 256-color driver is now available.  Does IBM intend to enhance the
     driver to include additional colors, ie., 65K and 16M (true color)?

     It is IBM's intent to enhance the current driver to support additional
     colors.  Beta-level code will continue to be made available electronically
     as additional function is added.

  8. Did IBM develop this driver?

     Personal Systems Programming views our customer requirements for OS/2
     drivers supporting the leading video chip sets as a top priority.  We
     invested in developing this driver to satisfy these requirements.

  9. This driver is compatible with which versions of OS/2?

     This driver is compatible with OS/2 2.1, and it is covered by the terms
     and conditions of the the Program License Agreement for the OS/2 2.1
     product.

 10. Does this driver support less than 1 MB of video memory?

     No, a minimum of 1MB of video memory is required.

 11. Is this a seamless driver, ie., does it support Windows and OS/2
     applications running side by side in windows on the desktop?

     Yes.

 12. Is this a fully 32-bit driver?

     Yes.

 13. Are there any functional restrictions?

     This display driver may not support ALL S3 adapters or systems with EVERY
     chip set.  The S3 display driver has been tested on and is compatible with
     the S3 adapters or systems with the chip sets indicated in parentheses.
     Additional adapters or systems may be added as testing continues in the
     future.

          Actix            (801)
          Actix            (928)
          Diamond Stealth 24      (801)
          Diamond Stealth 24 LB    (805)
          Diamond Stealth Pro     (928)
          Diamond Stealth Pro LB    (928)
          Orchid Fahrenheit 1280    (801)
          Orchid Fahrenheit 1280 Plus (801)
          Metheus           (928)
          Video 7 Win.Pro       (801)
          IBM ValuePoint        (805)
          Dell 433/L          (805)
          Dell 433/M          (805)
          Dell 466/L          (805)

 14. How do I install it?

     With an easy-to-use command file.  Instructions are in the accompanying
     README file.

 15. Is this the same driver that is available from the S3 Corporation?

     No, this driver is the generally available version of the S3 driver that
     has been in beta test on IBM bulletin boards.  In addition, a 16-bit
     driver for the S3 chip has been available from the S3 Corporation.

 * Indicates trademark of the International Business Machines Corporation.


ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 9. OS/2 Bookshelf ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ

Books useful to the OS/2 user:

PM Programming for COBOL Programmers

Thinking Person's Guide to OS/2 2.1

OS/2 2.1 Installation, Configuration, and Use


ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 9.1. PM Programming for COBOL Programmers ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ

 Title:     OS/2 Presentation Manager Programming for COBOL Programmers
 Author:    Robert B. Chapman
 ISBN:      0-89435-439-6 (QED Publishing Group)
 Price:     $39.95 with diskette
 Pub date:  January 1993
 Contents:  Introduction. Presentation Manager. Create PM environment and a
            window. Display information in a window. Displaying real
            information. Menu bar, dialog box, icon, and accelerator table.
            Multiline entry, listbox, combo box, radio buttons, check boxes.
            Modeless dialog boxes. Multiple windows. Help processing via IPF.
            Printing a PM report. Introducing SQL I/O. Dynamic link libraries.
            Sample programs compile and execute environment. PM subroutine
            calls (The PM API). PM messages, styles, classes, and codes.
            Glossary. Index.


ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 9.2. Thinking Person's Guide to OS/2 2.1 ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ

 Title:     Thinking Person's Guide to OS/2 2.1
 Author:    Maria E. Tyne
 ISBN:      0-89435-467-1
 Price:     $24.95
 Pub date:  June 1993
 Contents:  Introduction. Using Objects. Windows. On-line information. Desktop
            pop-up menus. Object pop-up menus. Open-settings for objects.
            Open-settings for programs. Extended menu selection. OS/2 system
            folder. Customizing the system. Installation features. Palettes.
            Using templates. Printer and shredder. Helpful hints. Conclusion.
            Index.


ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 9.3. OS/2 2.1 Installation, Configuration, and Use ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ

 Title:     OS/2 2.1 Installation, Configuration, and Use
 Author:    Doug Azzarito
 ISBN:      0-89435-456-6
 Price:     $34.95
 Pub date:  August 1993
 Contents:  Introduction. OS/2 requirements. Installing OS/2. Introduction to
            the Workplace Shell. Migrating applications. DOS under OS/2.
            Windows under OS/2. OS/2 applications. Command-line interfaces. The
            productivity programs. Advanced features. Glossary. Index.


ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 10. Other Sources ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ

Other places to locate OS/2 information:

                                OS/2 User Groups
                                   OS/2 BBS's
                               OS/2 Internet Sites


ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 10.1. OS/2 User Group Directory ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ

This OS/2 User Group listing is provided courtesy of David Sichak, Editor of
the San Diego Users Group Newsletter. Thanks David!

                             User Group Introduction
                            Australia - Glen Waverly
                              Ontario - Bailieboro
                                Quebec - Montreal
                              Saskatchewan - Regina
                        United Kingdom - Gloucestershire
                                  South Africa
                                     Sweden
                               California - Fresno
                          California - Huntington Beach
                            California - Los Angeles
                             California - Sacramento
                             California - San Diego
                           California - San Francisco
                              Connecticut - Enfield
                              Connecticut - Darien
                              Delaware - Wilmington
                              Florida - Boca Raton
                               Florida - Tampa Bay
                            Illinois - North Chicsgo
                              Indiana - Fort Wayne
                             Indiana - Indianapolis
                             Louisiana - Baton Rouge
                             Massachusetts - Boston
                             Michigan - Grand Rapids
                             Minnesota - Minneapolis
                                Nebraska - Omaha
                               New Jersey - Orange
                             New York - Westchester
                             North Carolina - Durham
                                  Ohio - Akron
                                Ohio - Cleveland
                               Pennsylvania - Erie
                              Tennessee - Knoxville
                            Texas - Dallas-Ft. Worth
                               Wisconsin - Madison


ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 10.1.1. User Group Introduction ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ

We try to list known OS/2 User Groups whenever we get the information. Of
course, we can't be responsible if the information proves to be unreliable --
you, the reader are our best source of this information.

And we're learning of more and more OS/2 user groups across the country and
even around the world every week.  It's been slow, but we have made some
contacts and we may be able to exchange information and articles in the future.
If you're travelling and have some free time, stop in on one these meetings.
If you know of another OS/2 user group, drop us a line and we'll mention them.
Remember, we'll list them all in the INF file each time.  And thanks!


ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 10.1.2. Australia - Glen Waverly ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ

                          Victorian OS/2 Developers SIG
                              Contact:  Jon Wright
                                5 Brighton Street
                           Glen Waverly, Victoria 3150
                                    Australia
                             CompuServe:  100032,776


ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 10.1.3. Ontario - Bailieboro ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ

                             Kawartha Computer Club
                           Contact:  Cedric Silvester
                                      RR #1
                               Bailieboro, Ontario
                                 Canada KOL 1B0
                       Note:  OS/2 SIG is part of the KCC
                          Phone: BBS -- [phone]


ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 10.1.4. Quebec - Montreal ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ

                            Montreal OS/2 Users Group
                           Contact:  Gilbert Lefebvre
                                    IBM Tower
                              10214 Peloquin Avenue
                                  Montreal, QC
                                     H2C 2J8
                                     Canada
                          Meets:  7:00pm, 3rd Wednesday
                   Phone:  Voice -- [phone] (evenings)
                     Netmail:  Programmer's Quest 1:167/110

The Montreal OS/2 Users Group held their first meeting on February 17.  Gilbert
reported that their first meeting had over 70 persons in attendance.  They're
real happy to see the interest in OS/2. Please note that this group does not
expect to meet during June, July and August.


ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 10.1.5. Saskatchewan - Regina ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ

                       Regina Saskatchewan OS/2 User Group
                            Contact:  Robert Shiplett
                                   Cooperators
                             1920 College Avenue 5W
                          Regina, Saskatchewan  S4P 1C4
                                     Canada


ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 10.1.6. United Kingdom - Gloucestershire ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ

                          International OS/2 User Group
                               Contact:  Mike Gove
                                  Barton House
                                   Cirencester
                            Gloucestershire  GL7 2EE
                                       UK
                             Phone: - [phone]
                          Phone: - [phone] (FAX)
                            Phone: - (UK) 0285-641175
                    Note: - Also home to OS/2 Solution Centre


ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 10.1.7. South Africa ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ

                        OS/2 User Group of South Aftrica
                                  P.O. Box 875
                                  Halfway House
                               1685  South Africa


ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 10.1.8. Sweden ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ

                            Swedish OS/2 Users Group
                         The Cruiser BBS, [phone]


ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 10.1.9. California - Fresno ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ

                                 Fresno OS/2 SIG
                             (Fresno PC Users Group)
                    Contact:  Sandeleh Francis [phone]
                       Contact:  Rod Jessen [phone]
                                  Meetings at:
                               1425 Shirley Circle
                                Clovis, CA  93611
                           Meets:  7:30pm, last Monday
                    Phone BBS -- Wild Side BBS [phone]
                 Phone BBS -- Clovis Connection  [phone]

They are a part of the Fresno PC Users group which meets the first Monday of
the month at the Ramada Inn at Hwy 41 and Shaw Avenue in Fresno at 7:30pm.


ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 10.1.10. California - Huntington Beach ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ

                         Orange Coast IBM PC Users Group
                                    OS/2 SIG
                            Contact:  Dave Lorenzini
                          17632 Metzler Lane, Suite 211
                              Huntington Beach, CA


ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 10.1.11. California - Los Angeles ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ

                          Los Angeles OS/2 Users Group
                            Contact:  Paul Duncanson
                                3008 Texas Avenue
                             Simi Valley, CA  93063
                             Phone:  [phone]
                          Meets:  3rd Thursday @ 6:30pm
                                       IBM
                             21041 Burbank Boulevard
                               Woodland Hills, CA


ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 10.1.12. California - Sacramento ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ

                           Sacramento OS/2 Users Group
                             Contact:  Charlie Kotan
                                       IBM
                                400 Capitol Mall
                                 Sacramento, CA
                        Meets:  First Wednesday @ 7:00pm
                             Phone: - [phone]
                             CompuServe - 70110,254


ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 10.1.13. California - San Diego ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ

                            San Diego OS/2 User Group
                             Contact - Craig Swanson
                                 P.O. Box 13346
                            La Jolla, CA  92039-3346
                           Meets - 7pm on 3rd Thursday
                            Meets at -- IBM @ LaJolla
                           8845 University Center Lane
                              San Diego, CA  92122
                         Phone - Voice -- [phone]
                         Phone - BBS  -- [phone]

The San Diego OS/2 User Group has participated in the San Diego Computer Fair
in which over 18,000 people attended over a three day weekend last September.
This group has started an OS/2 newsletter with the goal of providing
information to not only OS/2 users but also to others who are interested in
learning more.  Our aim is to also develop the newsletter so that it becomes a
community effort among the OS/2 user groups and SIGs.

Past meeting topics have included presentations by IBM's Ultimedia for OS/2;
Lotus demonstrating beta versions of 1-2-3 and Freelance Graphics for OS/2; an
introduction to REXX, demo of the December OS/2 2.1 beta along with Visual
REXX; Eddie Miller, one of the authors of "OS/2 2.1 Unleashed" sharing insights
into the OS/2 mini-applets; and, local OS/2 developer Jeannine Wolf discussing
the OS/2 Config.SYS file and providing tips.


ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 10.1.14. California - San Francisco ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ

                            Bay Area OS/2 User Group
                              Contact - Guy Scharf
                            Software Architects, Inc.
                                2163 Jardin Drive
                            Mountain View, CA  94040
                   Meets -  4th Monday @ at IBM Mountain View
                        Phone -  Voice -- [phone]


ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 10.1.15. Connecticut - Enfield ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ

                           New England OS/2 User Group
                              Contact:  Dave Pinard
                              145 Candlewood Drive
                               Enfield, CT  06082
                         Phone: Voice -- [phone]
                          Phone: BBS -- [phone]


ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 10.1.16. Connecticut - Darien ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ

                             Darien OS/2 Users Group
                           Contact:  Steven J. Palmer
                                75 Rings End Road
                                Darien, CT  06820


ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 10.1.17. Delaware - Wilmington ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ

                        Delaware Valley OS/2 Users Group
                             Contact:  Chuck Gaglia
                               1120 Webster Drive
                              Wilmington, DE  19803


ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 10.1.18. Florida - Boca Raton ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ

                         OS/2 Users Group of Boca Raton
                             Contact:  Doug Azzarito
                                    Meets at:
                                PC Systems Store
                             2855 S. Congress Avenue
                                Delray Beach, FL
                    Meets on 2nd Thursday of the month at 7pm
                          Phone:  BBS -- [phone]
                         Phone:  Voice -- [phone]


ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 10.1.19. Florida - Tampa Bay ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ

                            Tampa Bay OS/2 User Group
                              Contact:  Paul Wylie
                           M. Bryce & Associates, Inc.
                                777 Alderman Road
                             Palm Harbor, FL  34683
                          Phone: Voice - [phone]
                          Phone: FAX -- [phone]
                         Meets: - 1st Tuesday @ 3:00pm.
                                    Meets at:
                                       IBM
                    3109 W. Martin Luther King, Jr. Boulevard
                                    4th Floor
                                    Tampa, FL


ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 10.1.20. Illinois - Chicago ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ

                      North Suburban Chicago OS/2 User Group
                           Contact - James R. Schmidt
                         Meets - William M. Mercer, Inc.
                               1417 Lake Cook Rd.
                              Deerfield, IL  60015
                    Meets - 5.30pm Tues preceding 3rd Thurs.
                         Phone - Voice -- [phone]


ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 10.1.21. Indiana - Fort Wayne ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ

                           Fort Wayne OS/2 User Group
                           Contact - Stephen Gutknecht
                               Fort Wayne, Indiana
                        Meets -  Central Soya on Cook Rd.
                            Meets -  7pm, 2nd Tuesday
                  Phone -  Voice -- [phone] (Bus. Hrs.)
                         Phone -  BBS  -- [phone]


ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 10.1.22. Indiana - Indianapolis ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ

                              Indy OS/2 Users Group
                              Contact:  Jay Schultz
                            350 E. New york Suite 300
                             Indianapolis, IN  46204
                          Phone: Voice - [phone]


ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 10.1.23. Louisiana - Baton Rouge ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ

                          Baton Rouge OS/2 users Group
                             Contact:  David Arbour
                               16726 Bristoe Avnue
                             Baton Rouge, LA  70816
                             Phone: - [phone]


ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 10.1.24. Massachusetts - Boston ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ

                          Boston Area OS/2 User's Group
                                      (BCS)
                    Contact:  Marcia Gulesian [phone]
                                  Meetings at:
                           IBM Boston Computer Center
                                One Copley Place
                                   Boston, MA
                          Meets:  7:00pm, first Tuesday

Meeting location is near Back Bay and Copley train stations.  From the Mass.
Turnpike East, exit 22 (Copley Square Lane) - first left onto Dartmouth St.
Next left onto Huntington Ave.  Enter COPLEY PLACE PARKING on left.  Parking is
free when you spend $5 and have your parking ticket validated in any restaurant
or store at Copley Place and enter the garage after 5:00pm.


ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 10.1.25. Michigan - Grand Rapids ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ

                          West Michigan OS/2 User Group
                                       IBM
                             2900 Charlevoix Dr. SE
                                Grand Rapids, MI


ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 10.1.26. Minnesota - Minneapolis ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ

                            Minnesota OS/2 User Group
                           Contact:  Marcus Krumpholz
                                  IBM Building
                             650 Third Avenue South
                                 Minneapolis, MN
                         Meets last Thursday each month
                                7:00pm - 10:00pm
                             Voice:  [phone]
                               BBS: [phone]

ISV's wishing to do a presentation can contact Marcus Krumpholz at (612)
869-7956.  Registrations for meetings are requested and can be done by calling
[phone] and then asking for course code "OS2".  The IBM building is
shared with First Bank on Third Avenue south between South Sixth Street and
South Seventh Street.  Parking is recommended at Northstar Center (1 block
west), Pillsbury Center (1.5 blocks north), Hennepin County Government Center
(diagonally across street) and Court Park (2 blocks north).


ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 10.1.27. Nebraska - Omaha ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ

                             Omaha OS/2 Users Group
                             Contact:  Joe Peterson
                                  7724 Fort St.
                                Omaha, NE  68134


ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 10.1.28. New Jersey - West Orange ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ

                      Northern New Jersey OS/2 Users Group
                    Contact:  Jason H. Perlow [phone]
                                Meetings at:  IBM
                               300 Executive Drive
                                 West Orange, NJ
                         Meets:  7:00pm, second Tuesday
                          INFO:  Phone:  [phone]

This group is affiliated with the Westchester OS/2 Users Group.


ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 10.1.29. New York - Westchester ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ

                          Westchester OS/2 Users Group
                      Contact:  Craig Smith [phone]
                                  Meetings at:
                                       IBM
                              2000 Purchase Street
                                  Purchase, NY
                         Meets:  7:00pm, second Tuesday
                          INFO:  Phone:  [phone]

Westchester was instrumental in getting IBM's OS/2 featured on the PBS Computer
Chronicles show in March.


ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 10.1.30. North Carolina - Durham ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ

                            Triangle OS/2 User Group
                           Contact -- Steve Gallagher
                                  IBM Building
                          4800 Falls of The Neuse Road
                                    Room 5074
                             Durham, North Carolina
                          Meets --  7.30pm, 3rd Tuesday
                        Phone --  Voice -- [phone]
                        Internet --  [e-mail]


ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 10.1.31. Ohio - Akron ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ

                         Northeast Ohio OS/2 User Group
                                       IBM
                                 3 Cascade Plaza
                                   Akron, Ohio
                              Contact:  Gary Smiley
                             Phone:  [phone]
                             CompuServe:  75600,1737


ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 10.1.32. Ohio - Cleveland ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ

                            Cleveland OS/2 User Group
                                       IBM
                                Bond Ct. Building
                                     2nd Fl
                                   E. 9th St.
                                 Cleveland, Ohio


ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 10.1.33. Pennsylvania - Erie ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ

                             Computer Users of Erie
                                    OS/2 SIG
                             Contact:  Tom Kuklinski
                              3928 Sassafras Street
                                 Erie, PA  16508
                             Phone:  [phone]
                             Phone:  [phone]


ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 10.1.34. Tennessee - Knoxville ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ

                          East Tennessee PC User Group
                                    OS/2 SIG
                            Contact:  Arnold Sprague
                               808 Fairfield Drive
                            Knoxville, TN  37919-4109


ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 10.1.35. Texas - Dallas - Fort Worth ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ

                       Dallas-Forth Worth OS/2 User Group
                            Contact -  Toby Pennycuff
                           CompuServe ID -  70007,6267
                               1211 Wilshire Blvd.
                            Arlington, TX  76012-4623

                                    Meets at:
                              American Airlines HQ
                             4255 Amon Carter Blvd.
                                  Arlington, TX
                      Meetings - Time and dates not listed.


ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 10.1.36. Wisconsin - Madison ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ

                            Madison OS/2 Users Group
                       Contact:  Tom Ender or Donn Tolley
                              2703 Rolling View Rd.
                            Stoughton, WI  53589-3386


ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 10.2. OS/2 BBS's ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ

This BBS listing is provided courtesy of  David Sichak, Editor of the  San
Diego Users Group Newsletter. Thanks David!

                                BBS Introduction
                                    Australia
                                     Belgium
                                     Canada
                                     Denmark
                                     France
                                     Germany
                                      Italy
                                   Netherlands
                                     Norway
                                    Singapore
                                   Switzerland
                                 United Kingdom
                                     Arizona
                                   California
                                    Colorado
                                   Connecticut
                                    Deleware
                                     Florida
                                     Georgia
                                     Hawaii
                                    Illinois
                                     Indiana
                                     Kansas
                                    Louisiana
                                    Maryland
                                    Michigan
                                    Minnesota
                                    Missouri
                                   New Jersey
                                     Nevada
                                    New York
                                 North Carolina
                                      Ohio
                                    Oklahoma
                                     Oregon
                                  Pennsylvania
                                 South Carolina
                                    Tennessee
                                      Texas
                                    Virginia
                                   Washington


ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 10.2.1. BBS Introduction ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ

Well, I am trying to update this file in an expedient way so it doesn't become
too stale when I include it in the INF version.  But I'm trying to catch up on
a backlog.  I've got the list in an Rbase for OS/2 database file right now, so
all I need to do is figure out a way to create a report that does much of my
INF coding for me.

Next month, I'd look for a few more additions. And by all means keep Dave
Fisher posted on your BBS's if he's still keeping his list up and current.
Without him, we wouldn't be able to include as much as we do.

This listing is for the BBS junkie in you who needs to have a phone bill treat
once in a while <G>.  Or bored to death while you're travelling.

Our listing is based on a rather extensive listing put together by Dave Fisher
of OS/2 type Bulletin Boards.  Space limits this month prevent us from listing
all the details he has for each BBS, but we've tried to include a couple from
every state in the US (Notice and hint to you sysops...not all states are
represented.) and a few foreign countries, too.

Dave Fisher's list is a compilation of OS/2 BBS's across the world.  If you
wish to make an addition or correction to his list, he's asked that you please
netmail your BBS information to Dave Fisher at LiveNet, 1:170/[e-mail].

For the newsletter, I've sorted the in alphabetical order by Country for the
international ones and by state for those in the USA to make it easier to find
one close to you.  His file has other details related to these BBS's but we
didn't have room, okay?  The file we're using showed that the last update was
September 7, 1992.

Does anyone know if this list of his is being kept up to date?  I hope to
expand it more next month; ran out of time.  But I've got his list in a
database right now and I'll be able to code that list a lot easier next month.

Hope you find this inclusion useful.  Large phone bills are not my fault...!!!


ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 10.2.2. Australia ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ

                                  Graham Stair
                                  3M Australia
                                 [phone]
                                    Australia

                                   Alan Salmon
                                 PC User's Group
                                 [phone]
                                    Australia

                                 Norbert Fuerst
                             The Styrian OS/2 Jumbo
                                 [phone]
                                    Australia

                                   Bill Bolton
                             Software Tools Mail Exc
                                 [phone]
                                    Australia

                                   Bill Bolton
                             Software Tools Mail Exc
                                 [phone]
                                    Australia

                                   Felix Tsang
                                Programmer's BBS
                                 [phone]
                                    Australia

                                   Alan Salmon
                                 PC User's Group
                                 [phone]
                                    Australia

                                   Ian Watson
                                OZ-Share OS/2 BBS
                                 [phone]
                                    Australia


ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 10.2.3. Belgium ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ

                                 Bas Heijermans
                              Moving Sound OS/2 BBS
                                  [phone]
                                     Belgium

                                   Benoit HUON
                               Os/2 MANiA BELGIUM
                                  [phone]
                                     Belgium

                                 Danny Bruggeman
                                    Hellfire
                                  [phone]
                                     Belgium

                                 Bas Heijermans
                              Moving Sound OS/2 BBS
                                  [phone]
                                     Belgium


ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 10.2.4. Canada ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ

                                   Kevin Lowey
                              Univ. of Saskatchewan
                                 [phone]
                                     Canada

                                   Evan Smith
                                     ECS Net
                                 [phone]
                                     Canada

                                    Ian Evans
                                 Baudeville BBS
                                 [phone]
                                     Canada

                                  Herbert Tsui
                                   BBS Council
                                 [phone]
                                     Canada

                                  Jerry Stevens
                                  The Locutory
                                 [phone]
                                     Canada


ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 10.2.5. Denmark ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ

                                  Rene Carlsen
                            OS/2 Task and FrontDoor H
                                  [phone]
                                     Denmark

                                 Jorgen Ollgaard
                                    Josti-BBS
                                  [phone]
                                     Denmark

                                 Jorgen Ollgaard
                                    Josti-BBS
                                  [phone]
                                     Denmark


ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 10.2.6. France ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ

                                Emmanuel Sandorfi
                             Os/2 MANiA (Help Maximu
                                 [phone]
                                     France


ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 10.2.7. Germany ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ

                                 Ulrich Roeding
                                      BOX/2
                                 [phone]
                                     Germany

                                 Peter Kaszanics
                                    APOLONIA
                                 [phone]
                                     Germany

                                 Peter Kaszanics
                                    APOLONIA
                                 [phone]
                                     Germany

                                 Peter Plischka
                                   IBM Mailbox
                                 [phone]
                                     Germany

                                 Peter Kaszanics
                                    APOLONIA
                                 [phone]
                                     Germany

                                 Peter Plischka
                                   IBM Mailbox
                                 [phone]
                                     Germany

                                  Chris Leuder
                                   Zaphod BBS
                                 [phone]
                                     Germany

                                  Chris Leuder
                                   Zaphod BBS
                                 [phone]
                                     Germany

                                   Kalle Braun
                                  Terrania City
                                 [phone]
                                     Germany

                                   Oliver Lass
                                   LRZ-System
                                 [phone]
                                     Germany

                                   Oliver Lass
                                   LRZ-System
                                 [phone]
                                     Germany

                                   Harald Kipp
                                   OS/2 Point
                                 [phone]
                                     Germany

                                Karlheinz Kissel
                                 The_File_Store
                                 [phone]
                                     Germany

                                 Juergen Berger
                                JERRY'S OS/2-BBS
                                 [phone]
                                     Germany

                              Oliver Schwabedissen
                                   MoonFlower
                                 [phone]
                                     Germany

                                 Richard Clement
                                  OS/2 Express
                                 [phone]
                                     Germany

                                 Michael Breukel
                                 PC Softbox OS/2
                                 [phone]
                                     Germany

                                Romeo Bernreuther
                                    CCWN-BOX
                                 [phone]
                                     Germany

                                  Markus Noller
                                  Second Source
                                 [phone]
                                     Germany

                                  Juergen Fritz
                                 CheckPoint OS/2
                                 [phone]
                                     Germany

                                  Thomas Tegel
                                     The CAT
                                 [phone]
                                     Germany


ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 10.2.8. Italy ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ

                                  Luigi Ravina
                                  Italy Network
                                 [phone]
                                      Italy

                                Roberto Sonzogni
                             Runnin' with The Devil
                                 [phone]
                                      Italy

                               Pasquale Cantiello
                                 FastForward BBS
                                 [phone]
                                      Italy


ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 10.2.9. Netherlands ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ

                                   Peter Smink
                               BBS The Experiment
                                 [phone]
                                   Netherlands

                                   Dave Jones
                               The TJD Support BBS
                                 [phone]
                                   Netherlands

                                  Joop Mellaart
                                    INFOBOARD
                                  [phone]
                                   Netherlands

                                Marcel Stikkelman
                                    PC-Square
                                  [phone]
                                   Netherlands


ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 10.2.10. Norway ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ

                                  Terje Slydahl
                                   PerlePorten
                                  [phone]
                                     Norway


ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 10.2.11. Singapore ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ

                                   Ivan Leong
                                Miqas/2 Singapore
                                  [phone]
                                    Singapore


ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 10.2.12. Switzerland ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ

                                    Alex Wyss
                             Gepard's Oracle Zuerich
                                  [phone]
                                   Switzerland

                                 Michael Buenter
                               MICS OS/2 Paradise
                                  [phone]
                                   Switzerland

                                 Ernesto Hagmann
                                     PC-Info
                                 [phone]
                                   Switzerland


ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 10.2.13. United Kingdom ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ

                                    Mike Gove
                                   MonuSci BBS
                                [phone]
                                 United Kingdom

                                    Phil Tuck
                               The TJD Support BBS
                                 [phone]
                                 United Kingdom


ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 10.2.14. Arizona ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ

                                  Mike Mahoney
                                Emerald Isle, The
                                 [phone]
                                     Arizona

                                   Frank Ward
                                 Encounter, The
                                 [phone]
                                     Arizona


ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 10.2.15. California ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ

                                 Patrick O'Riva
                                AsmLang and OS/2
                                 [phone]
                                   California

                                Michael Cummings
                               Zzyzx Road OS/2 BBS
                                 [phone]
                              El Cajon, California

                                  Craig Swanson
                                 OS/2 Connection
                                 [phone]
                              San Diego, California

                                  Chuck Gilmore
                                   Magnum BBS
                                 [phone]
                                   California

                                 Michael Nelson
                                   SeaHunt BBS
                                 [phone]
                                   California

                                 Michael Nelson
                                   SeaHunt BBS
                                 [phone]
                                   California


ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 10.2.16. Colorado ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ

                                 William Herrera
                                  Cuerna Verde
                                 [phone]
                                    Colorado

                                  Randy Edwards
                                Socialism OnLine!
                                 [phone]
                                    Colorado

                                    OS/2 BBS
                                     Denver
                                  [phone]
                                    Colorado

                                   OS/2 Source
                                     Denver
                                  [phone]
                                    Colorado


ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 10.2.17. Connecticut ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ

                                   Chris Regan
                             Storm Front - OS/2, The
                                 [phone]
                                   Connecticut

                                   Felix Tang
                                 Excelsior, The
                                 [phone]
                                   Connecticut

                                   Emmitt Dove
                                    Fernwood
                                 [phone]
                                   Connecticut

                                  Steve Lesner
                                   Bullet BBS
                                 [phone]
                                   Connecticut

                                  Steve Lesner
                                   Bullet BBS
                                 [phone]
                                   Connecticut

                                  Rob Schmaling
                                     Caladan
                                 [phone]
                                   Connecticut

                                   Don Dawson
                                 Treasure Island
                                 [phone]
                                   Connecticut

                                   Bob Morris
                               Ascii Neighborhood
                                 [phone]
                                   Connecticut

                                   Bob Morris
                               Ascii Neighborhood
                                 [phone]
                                   Connecticut


ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 10.2.18. Deleware ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ

                                   John Tarbox
                                 Singer Bear BBS
                                 [phone]
                                    Deleware

                                  Scott Street
                               Space Station Alpha
                                 [phone]
                                    Deleware


ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 10.2.19. Florida ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ

                                  Mark Wheeler
                                 SandDollar, The
                                 [phone]
                                     Florida

                                   Rusty Plant
                                  The 19th Hole
                                 [phone]
                               Pensacola, Florida

                                    Don Bauer
                                  OS2 Exchange
                                 [phone]
                                     Florida

                                  Chris Wolcott
                                The Outer Limits
                                 [phone]
                              Gulf Breeze, Florida

                                   Kathy Todd
                            The Apothecary's Archives
                                 [phone]
                              Gulf Breeze, Florida

                                  Richard Todd
                         The Disintegrated Circuit OS/2
                                 [phone]
                              Gulf Breeze, Florida


ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 10.2.20. Georgia ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ

                                       IBM
                             IBM National Support Ce
                                 [phone]
                                     Georgia

                                       IBM
                             IBM National Support Ce
                                 [phone]
                                     Georgia

                                     Ed June
                              Information Overload
                                 [phone]
                                     Georgia


ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 10.2.21. Hawaii ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ

                                  Craig Oshiro
                             Ghostcomm Image Gallery
                                 [phone]
                                     Hawaii


ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 10.2.22. Illinois ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ

                                    Bill Cook
                             GREATER CHICAGO Online!
                                 [phone]
                                    Illinois

                                Bogie Bugsalewicz
                                   I CAN! BBS
                                 [phone]
                                    Illinois


ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 10.2.23. Indiana ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ

                                  Mike Phillips
                                 Catacombs, The
                                 [phone]
                                     Indiana

                                   Jay Tipton
                                 Play Board, The
                                 [phone]
                                     Indiana


ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 10.2.24. Kansas ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ

                                   Troy Majors
                                  Byte Bus, The
                                 [phone]
                                     Kansas


ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 10.2.25. Louisiana ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ

                                   Stan Brohn
                             HelpNet of Baton Rouge
                                 [phone]
                                    Louisiana

                                  Jim Sterrett
                              Padded Cell BBS, The
                                 [phone]
                                    Louisiana


ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 10.2.26. Maryland ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ

                                  James Chance
                                 Last Relay, The
                                 [phone]
                                    Maryland


ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 10.2.27. Michigan ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ

                                   Dave Shoff
                              Cornerstone BBS, The
                                 [phone]
                                    Michigan


ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 10.2.28. Minnesota ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ

                                  Brady Flowers
                                 Oberon Software
                                 [phone]
                                    Minnesota


ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 10.2.29. Missouri ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ

                                  Woody Sturges
                              OS/2 Woodmeister, The
                                 [phone]
                                    Missouri


ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 10.2.30. New Jersey ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ

                                   Bob Germer
                                Capital City BBS
                                 [phone]
                                   New Jersey

                                   Mike Fuchs
                              Dog's Breakfast, The
                                 [phone]
                                   New Jersey


ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 10.2.31. Nevada ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ

                                   Kerry Flint
                                 Caddis OS/2 BBS
                                 [phone]
                                     Nevada

                                  Dennis Conley
                               Communitel OS/2 BBS
                                 [phone]
                                     Nevada


ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 10.2.32. New York ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ

                                   Mikel Beck
                              Kind Diamond's Realm
                                 [phone]
                                    New York


ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 10.2.33. North Carolina ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ

                                 Thomas Bradford
                                  Backdoor BBS
                                 [phone]
                                 North Carolina

                                   Richard Lee
                                Psychotronic BBS
                                 [phone]
                                 North Carolina


ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 10.2.34. Ohio ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ

                                   Mark Lehrer
                               Akron Anomoly, The
                                 [phone]
                                      Ohio


ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 10.2.35. Oklahoma ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ

                                  Bill Schnell
                                 Asylum BBS, The
                                 [phone]
                                    Oklahoma

                                 Scott Dickason
                                      BBS/2
                                 [phone]
                                    Oklahoma


ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 10.2.36. Oregon ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ

                                   Bill Taylor
                             Integrated Media Servic
                                 [phone]
                                     Oregon

                                 Paul Breedlove
                                    Multi-Net
                                 [phone]
                                     Oregon


ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 10.2.37. Pennsylvania ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ

                                 Louis F. Ursini
                                  Quantum Leap
                                 [phone]
                                  Pennsylvania

                                   Ed Barboni
                                  System-2 RBBS
                                 [phone]
                                  Pennsylvania


ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 10.2.38. South Carolina ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ

                                  Paul Beverly
                              PMSC OnLine Resource
                                 [phone]
                                 South Carolina


ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 10.2.39. Tennessee ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ

                                   Operand BBS
                                   Lonnie Wall
                                 [phone]
                                    Tennessee

                                  Edward Owens
                               Looking Glass, The
                                 [phone]
                                    Tennessee


ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 10.2.40. Texas ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ

                                   Robert McA
                                    Live-Wire
                                 [phone]
                                      Texas

                                   Doug Palmer
                                  Rock BBS, The
                                 [phone]
                                      Texas

                                  David Dozier
                                Roach Coach, The
                                 [phone]
                                      Texas

                                   Ken Rucker
                                 RucK's Place/2
                                 [phone]
                                      Texas


ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 10.2.41. Virginia ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ

                                  Pete Norloff
                                 OS/2 Shareware
                                 [phone]
                                    Virginia

                                  Pete Norloff
                                 OS/2 Shareware
                                 [phone]
                                    Virginia

                                   Bill Andrus
                              Systems Exchange, The
                                 [phone]
                                    Virginia

                                   Joe Salemi
                                 Max's Doghouse
                                 [phone]
                                    Virginia


ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 10.2.42. Washington ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ

                                 Adolph Weidanz
                              The Gold Pegasus BBS
                   Running Maximus/Binkley using OS/2 Versions
                                 [phone]
                                Fidonet: 1:350/35
                            Eznet: 255:1206/101 and 0
                              Bremerton, Washington

                                  LeRoy DeVries
                             Sno-Valley Software Exc
                                 [phone]
                                   Washington

                                 Rodney Lorimor
                                  Gecko Control
                                 [phone]
                                   Washington

                                   Todd Riches
                                Alternate Reality
                                 [phone]
                                   Washington


ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 10.3. OS/2 Internet Sites ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ

               Information on Internet resources supporting OS/2.

                                  Mailing Lists
                                    FTP Sites
                           Usenet Sites and Newsgroups

This list is maintained by Dale Hackemeyer. Please e-mail any additions or
corrections you might have to him at  [e-mail].


ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 10.3.1. Electronic Mailing Lists ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ

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Γöé                 Γöé                                 Γöéthe group who can grant          Γöé
Γöé                 Γöé                                 Γöésubscriptions.                   Γöé
Γö£ΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓö╝ΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓö╝ΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöñ
ΓöéUTOS2-L@UTKVM1   Γöé[e-mail]           ΓöéDiscussion of OS/2 at UTK.       Γöé
Γöé                 Γöé                                 ΓöéSubscribe by sending a message toΓöé
Γöé                 Γöé                                 ΓöéLISTSERV@xxx (where xxx is the   Γöé
Γöé                 Γöé                                 Γöépart of the list address after   Γöé
Γöé                 Γöé                                 Γöéthe @) with SUB UTOS2-L name     Γöé
Γöé                 Γöé                                 Γöé(where name is your first and    Γöé
Γöé                 Γöé                                 Γöélast name).                      Γöé
Γö£ΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓö╝ΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓö╝ΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöñ
ΓöéN/A              Γöé[e-mail]          ΓöéDiscussion group dealing with    Γöé
Γöé                 Γöé                                 Γöémultimedia aspects of OS/2. To   Γöé
Γöé                 Γöé                                 Γöésubscribe to the digest version, Γöé
Γöé                 Γöé                                 Γöésend email to                    Γöé
Γöé                 Γöé                                 Γöé[e-mail]    Γöé
Γöé                 Γöé                                 Γöéwith SUBSCRIBE Mmos2-L firstname Γöé
Γöé                 Γöé                                 Γöélastname in the BODY of the mail.Γöé
Γöé                 Γöé                                 ΓöéTo subscribe to the bounce       Γöé
Γöé                 Γöé                                 Γöéversion, send email to           Γöé
Γöé                 Γöé                                 Γöé[e-mail]    Γöé
Γöé                 Γöé                                 Γöéwith SUBSCRIBE Mmos2-Digest      Γöé
Γöé                 Γöé                                 Γöéfirstname lastname in the BODY ofΓöé
Γöé                 Γöé                                 Γöéthe mail.                        Γöé
ΓööΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓö┤ΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓö┤ΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÿ

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receiving mail from a list participant, and then sending a copy of that message
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address to handle subscriptions and cancellations. Never send requests to
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to bring your problem to attention.

For more information, please ask you site administrator or sysop.


ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 10.3.2. FTP Sites ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ

OS/2 related FTP sites:

ΓöîΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓö¼ΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓö¼ΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÉ
ΓöéNAME:                     ΓöéIP ADDRESS:      ΓöéDirectory & Notes:               Γöé
Γö£ΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓö╝ΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓö╝ΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöñ
Γöéftp-os2.nmsu.edu          Γöé128.123.35.151   Γöé/os2 (mirror of cdrom.com)       Γöé
Γö£ΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓö╝ΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓö╝ΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöñ
Γöéftp-os2.cdrom.com         Γöé192.153.46.69    Γöé/os2 (mirror of ftp-os2.nmsu.edu)Γöé
Γö£ΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓö╝ΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓö╝ΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöñ
Γöésoftware.watson.ibm.com   Γöé129.34.139.5     Γöé/pub/os2                         Γöé
Γö£ΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓö╝ΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓö╝ΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöñ
Γöémtsg.ubc.ca               Γöé137.82.27.1      Γöé/os2                             Γöé
Γö£ΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓö╝ΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓö╝ΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöñ
Γöéluga.latrobe.edu.au       Γöé131.172.2.2      Γöé/pub/os2 (mirror of cdrom.com)   Γöé
Γö£ΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓö╝ΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓö╝ΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöñ
Γöémsdos.archive.umich.edu   Γöé141.211.32.2     Γöé/msdos/os2                       Γöé
Γö£ΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓö╝ΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓö╝ΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöñ
Γöéfunic.funet.fi            Γöé128.214.6.100    Γöé/pub/os2                         Γöé
Γö£ΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓö╝ΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓö╝ΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöñ
Γöéftp.ieee.org              Γöé140.98.1.1       Γöé/pub/fidonet/os2                 Γöé
Γö£ΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓö╝ΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓö╝ΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöñ
Γöéboombox.micro.umn.edu     Γöé134.84.132.2     Γöé/pub/gopher/os2                  Γöé
Γö£ΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓö╝ΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓö╝ΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöñ
Γöéftp.3com.com              Γöé129.213.128.5    Γöé/adaptors/drivers                Γöé
Γö£ΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓö╝ΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓö╝ΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöÇΓöñ
Γöéftp.germany.eu.net        Γöé192.76.144.75    Γöé/pub/comp/os2                    Γöé
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Γöéftp.luth.se               Γöé130.240.18.2     Γöé/pub/pc/os2                      Γöé
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Γöésun0.urz.uni-heidelberg.deΓöé129.206.100.126  Γöé/pub/os2                         Γöé
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Γöétethys.rz.uni-osnabrueck.dΓöé131.173.17.10    Γöé/pub/os2                         Γöé
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Γöéworld.std.com             Γöé192.74.137.5     Γöé/src/os2                         Γöé
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Other FTP sites of interest

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Γöértfm.mit.edu              Γöé18.70.0.226      ΓöéFAQ lists                        Γöé
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Γöécs.uwp.edu                Γöé131.210.1.4      ΓöéMusic related stuff              Γöé
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Γöéwuarchive.wustl.edu       Γöé128.252.135.4    ΓöéLots of other stuff              Γöé
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Γöésaffron.inset.com         Γöé192.94.75.2      ΓöéSounds (various formats)         Γöé
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Γöéprep.ai.mit.edu           Γöé18.71.0.38       Γöé/pub/gnu                         Γöé
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Γöéftp.uu.net                Γöé192.48.96.2      Γöé/usenet  (e.g.)                  Γöé
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About FTP.
FTP stands for "File Transfer Protocol" and is the standard protocol on the
Internet for transfering files. With a fast, direct internet connection,
download speeds can approach 32Kbs under light network load. The sites listed
allow "anonymous" logons. When prompted for a User name when logging in, enter
ANONYMOUS and then enter your e-mail address as your password. This assists the
administators at the remote site in tracking usage of the site.

Don't forget that you're downloading from someone else's computer, someone who
has to pay for and use that computer. Given the global reach of the internet,
even though you may be downloading at 4am, it could be noon at the site you're
downloading from. To avoid putting more of a load on a machine someone may
depend on for work during the day, try to only download sometime other than
9-5, remote time.

The last couple of letters in the remote sites address can help you determine
where your downloading from. The last 2 to 3 letters indicate the location of
the site:

     .de  Germany
     .au  Australia
     .ca  Canada
     .fi  Finland
     .uk  United Kingdom


ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 10.3.3. Usenet News ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ

NNTP usenet servers:

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Γöémont.cs.missouri.edu    Γöé128.206.100.208  ΓöéLocal to University of Missouri Γöé
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Γöésol.ctr.columbia.edu    Γöé128.59.64.40     ΓöéHuge place. Takes a long time   Γöé
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For information on OS/2 multimedia features, including MMPM/2 and Ultimotion.

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For all questions relating to setup, installation, and driver support under
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comp.os.os2.bugs
For the discussion and reporting of OS/2 bugs (flaws).

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For the discussion of OS/2 compared with other products, marketing, and
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comp.os.os2.networking
For any OS/2 questions dealing with networking.

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For any OS/2 questions dealing with OS/2 versions prior to OS/2 2.0.

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For talk about porting software from other environments to OS/2.

comp.os.os2.programmer.misc
For discussion of any other OS/2 programming issues.

comp.os.os2.apps
Discusses DOS, Windows, and OS/2 applications running under OS/2.

comp.os.os2.announce
Carries important OS/2 announcements.  This newsgroup is moderated -- you
cannot ask a question here.

comp.binaries.os2
If you do not have ftp access you can obtain OS/2 software using this
newsgroup.  This newsgroup is also moderated.

comp.os.os2.beta
For discussion of beta releases of OS/2 (versions of OS/2 that are released for
testing purposes by IBM and that you cannot buy in stores).

comp.os.os2.misc
For general OS/2 discussion. Post here only if none of the above categories
fits.


ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 11. From the Wire ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ

A selection of messages about OS/2 seen fleeting across the wires on Fidonet
and Internet.

                            Demand ProComm for OS/2!
                          More on Stacker for OS/2 fix
                              OS/2 vs. NT Revisited


ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 11.1. Demand ProComm for OS/2! ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ

From the Fidonet OS2 conference

From: Woody Sturges
Subj: ProComm for OS/2!

Our OS/2 user group met yesterday and we had a couple of the staff from
Datastorm tech support, makers of ProComm Plus, talk to us about running
PC+/DOS and PC+/Win under OS/2.

Of course, talk came around an OS/2 version of ProComm. Datastorm, like most
companies, is market driven.  The gentlemen said that if enough people were to
ask for it, it would get done.

Now's your chance!  They acknowledged that they're listening, all we have to do
is let them know that we're out here.  Here's how you can contact Datastorm and
let them you would like to see an OS/2 version of PC+.  Feel free to mention
specifics! Character mode?  Presentation manager?  Special features? Leave a
note, fax, or call the numbers below!

     Compuserve, GO DSTORM, Leave a message to 72250,3463 (David Irovic)

     Tech Support, Voice [phone]

     Tech Support, Fax [phone]


ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 11.2. More on Stacker for OS/2 fix ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ

From the OS/2 Woodmeister Public Message area.

From: Phillip Wilson

I found this on CIS regarding the fixes for Stacker for OS/2:

     Sb: STAC Patch
     Fm: Stac Electronics 75300,2755
     To: ALL

     All,

     To determine if you need the Patch for Stacker for OS/2 use the following.

     If your Serial number has 1AH or 1BH then you should request the patch by
     PRIVATE MAIL to ROGER HICKS 74250,1407. Include your Serial number in the
     request.  Any requests without serial numbers will be rejected.

     If your Serial number has 1CH in it then you already have the patch.

     Hope this helps

     STAC Product Support


ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 11.3. OS/2 vs. NT Revisited ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ

From the Fidonet TEAM-OS2 conference.

From: Pete Norloff
Subj: OS/2 still without competition

Recently I had the privilege of attending a head-to-head demonstration of OS/2
2.1 and Windows NT.  While the demo probably didn't contain the same level of
excitement of the shoot-out done recently for the Houston PC User Group, it was
an excellent demonstration of the state of the two products.

Since I'm already fairly familiar with OS/2 and content with the features and
function of the operating system, I felt that it was important to familiarize
myself with the new release from Microsoft.  If nothing else, NT will serve to
give IBM some competition in the operating system business and hopefully cause
those responsible for OS/2 to continue to advance the feature set.

The presentation was sponsored by Bohdan Associates Inc. and held in a
Bethesda, Maryland hotel.  Both IBM and Microsoft were given an hour for their
presentation followed by a half hour question and answer session.  OS/2 was
presented very well and most of the audience seemed to be reasonably familiar
with the product.

I made notes during the Microsoft part of the presentation. This is a
condensation of those notes.

The Microsoft presenter seemed to be reasonably familiar with the product and
seemed to be giving us a pitch somewhere between an honest tour of the features
and a snake oil sales job.

We were told that "NT is Windows" and that because of that there will be no
learning curve.  I suspect that we'll be hearing a lot more of this selling
point in the future.  The salesman described NT as "having everything that is
in Windows 3.1" and used this as the justification for trying to convince us
that Windows NT 1.0 is really version 3.1.

If you haven't done so yet, you really need to have a look at the document
"Windows NT and OS/2 2.1: The advantages of Windows NT for Today's
Client-Server Computing" and the subsequent rebuttal document from IBM entitled
"IBM PSP Rebuttal to the Microsoft Document Windows NT and OS/2 2.1...".
{EDITOR'S NOTE: See the August 1993 issue of the MMOUG Newsletter for the IBM
PSP Rebuttal} With these two documents, you begin to get a flavor for the truth
stretching that Microsoft seems inclined to try to foist off on us.  It was
surely in this same spirit of "lie and hope no one notices" that the MS
salesman began telling us that the "majority of OS/2 apps today are character
based apps".

On the subject of native NT applications, we were told that there are currently
1200 ports from 16 bit Windows and that 3600 new applications were currently
being developed from scratch.  Of these 3600, 2300 were "in house,
business-specific apps."

As a part of the demo, the MS salesman started trying to bring up SQL Server
for NT.  As the software package displayed the same error messages several
times and seemed to be bringing the machine to a standstill, another
participant asked if NT was available now and if what we were looking at was
the generally available code. We were assured that NT had "shipped" to
manufacturing and that we were indeed seeing the final version of Windows NT
Advanced Server. As the MS rep finally gave up on showing SQL Server, he told
us that "with SQL Server running, is has a tendency to completely take over the
machine".  Someone asked a few moments later what level of machine he was
demoing on we were informed that this was a 486/33 with 24 MB of memory.

"The target for NT is Client-Server."

"C2 security cannot be shut off."  NT is "C2 certifiable" -- not certified.
someday, maybe.

We saw Intergraph demoed.  It was painfully slow.  There's no way anyone would
have wanted to run this package on this platform. The MS rep told us it "runs
much better on a RISC machine".  I certainly hope so.

The question came up again later when NT started faltering again about the code
we were actually seeing and this time we were told that this was not the final
version of NT but rather a late beta. Quite a number of attendees started
murmuring at this point because this was a direct contradiction of the MS rep's
earlier declaration that this was final, shipping code that we were seeing.
"Lie and hope no one notices."

At the end of the MS presentation, during the question and answer session for
both reps, an attendee stood up and asked the MS rep how long he was going to
be made to wait for an object oriented user interface from Microsoft.  The rep
told him that it wouldn't be here until some time in 1994 and he even hedged on
his response that far in the future.  He mentioned that the future offerings,
whenever they arrive, will be based to some degree on Microsoft's OLE 2.0, etc.
There was a long pause and the IBM rep simply said "and if you'd like to have
all that now...".  The audience erupted in applause.


ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 12. MMOUG mailbag ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ

Mail sent to us about the User Group and what we're doing.

                                  Marc Clemente
                                   Mat Kramer
                                  MAJ Bart Cook


ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 12.1. Marc Clemente ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ

Date: Sun, 25 Jul 1993 11:20 CST
From: "MARC F. CLEMENTE" <[e-mail]>
Subject: MMOUG
To: [e-mail]

Hi.  I heard about the MMOUG.  I was wondering if you could give me a bit of
information on it.  What is it?  When is the next meetingg, and where?  What do
I have to do to be a member?  What do I get for becoming a member?

As you can see from my internet address, I am (relatively) close, and I am
interested in what you guys are doing.

Thank you,

Marc

Date:     Sun, 25 Jul 93 13:37:52 CDT
From:     Dale Hackemeyer <UC545502@MIZZOU1>
Organization: University of Missouri at Columbia
Subject:    Re: MMOUG
To:      "MARC F. CLEMENTE" <[e-mail]>
In-Reply-To:  Your message of Sun, 25 Jul 1993 11:20 CST

On Sun, 25 Jul 1993 11:20 CST you said:
>Hi.  I heard about the MMOUG.  I was wondering if you could give me a
>bit of information on it.  What is it?  When is the next meetingg, and
>where?  What do I have to do to be a member?  What do I get for becoming
>a member?
>

We're a non-profit group dedicated to supporting all users of OS/2. We meet on
the third Wednesday of each month at 4:00pm, meeting at the Columbia IBM office
on even months and at the Jefferson City IBM office on odd months. Everyone is
welcome to attend our meetings, and a $30 check entitles you to a one year
membership. Right now joining nets you a OS/2 2.0 Birthday T-shirt and 1hr /
1meg a day on our BBS, currently the OS/2 Woodmeister, which carries all the
Fidonet OS/2 conferences, as well as an extensive OS/2 file collection. We also
are putting out a newsletter in .INF format for viewing under OS/2. We
currently don't have a printed newsletter to help keep costs down, however we
voted at the last meeting to start sending out either a postcard or a single
letter sized bulletin to all members. We've also been having giveaways at the
meetings which only members are eligible to win. So far we've given away
PMFOCUS, Stacker for OS/2 and DOS, OS/2 2.1 Unleashed, World Atlas CDROM, OS/2
2.0, and other assorted OS/2 books and promo items.

We're currently working on setting up a point BBS in Jefferson City that
mirrors the Woodmeister (located in Columbia) so our Jeff City members don't
have to make long distance calls.

We had our first meeting in April with an OS/2 2.0 birthday party, as well as
laying some groundwork for the group with the election of officers, deciding
meeting times, etc.

At the May meeting a reprensentative of Information Builders demoed PMFOCUS, a
PM application for building interactive database applications.

At the June Meeting a representative of DeScribe Corporation demoed their
premier OS/2 word processor, DeScribe 4.0.

At the July meeting, Ben Hoffman, one of the local higher-ups in IBM Personal
Software Products gave a talk on OS/2 and PSP in general.

Coming up at the August meeting we'll have a member of Datastorm's Technical
Support team coming in to give tips on running Procomm for DOS or Windows run
well under OS/2. We'll also be having a demo of Offline Mail readers for OS/2,
and rumor has it we'll be giving away a copy of Lotus 123 for OS/2.

>As you can see from my internet address, I am (relatively) close, and
>I am interested in what you guys are doing.

It's good to hear from you and to know the word is getting out that we're here.
If you haven't seen our newsletter, try ftp'ing to ftp-os2.cdrom.com and look
in /pub/os2/2_x/info/newsltr for the June newsletter and in /pub/os2/incoming
for the July issue. The files are MM0693.ZIP and MM0793.ZIP.

If your ever around Columbia or Jeff City on the 3rd Wednesday of the month,
feel free to drop in and join us!

Dale Hackemeyer  


ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 12.2. Mat Kramer ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ

From: Mat Kramer <[e-mail]>
To: Dale Hackenmeyer <[e-mail]>
Subject: Hi from Minnesota

Hi Dale,

I was looking at your MMOUG newsletter (INF version), and I just thought I'd
connect, since I do the Minnesota OS/2 User Group newsletter (Threads).  Your
INF newsletter looks really nice -- do you have a hardcopy version?  We have a
hardcopy version done with DeScribe, and I'm in the process of writing macros
to help me in the conversion from DeScribe to IPF.  Do you have any of that
process automated?

We currently have only been putting the DeScribe version online, but as of the
coming month, I"m going to take charge of the distribution, and I'll put a TXT
version out there along with an INF, if I get it done.

Also, do you have any policy for re-use of your articles?  We would
occasionally like to re-publish your articles is that would be OK with you. Of
course, you could then do the same.

Hope to hear from you later,

Mat Kramer, MekTek

Date:     Thu, 05 Aug 93 11:16:43 CDT
From:     Dale Hackemeyer <UC545502@MIZZOU1>
Organization: University of Missouri at Columbia
Subject:    Re: Hi from Minnesota
To:      Mat Kramer <[e-mail]>
In-Reply-To:  Your message of 03 Aug 93 20:35:44 EDT

On 03 Aug 93 20:35:44 EDT you said:
>I was looking at your MMOUG newsletter (INF version), and I just thought I'd
>connect, since I do the Minnesota OS/2 User Group newsletter (Threads).  Your
>INF newsletter looks really nice -- do you have a hardcopy version?  We have
>a hardcopy version done with DeScribe, and I'm in the process of writing
>macros to help me in the conversion from DeScribe to IPF.  Do you have any of
>that process automated?

Thanks, always glad to hear positive feedback. I downloaded your May and June
issues last night, and I'm impressed. We don't have a hard copy version, but
plan on starting a monthly mailing of postcards with the latest group info,
meeting reminder, and how to get the latest copy of the online newsletter.
We're trying to save as much money as possible since we just formed in April
and want to spend the money we have carefully.

I don't have any conversion macros, but I've made up 2 small C programs that
convert ASCII text to IPF format and back again. Nothing fancy, one just
converts critical characters such as : and & to their IPF counterparts and adds
:p. on blank lines. The other strips all IPF tags and converts symbols back to
their ASCII counterparts. I'd be happy to get you a copy of them if you think
they'd help out.

>Also, do you have any policy for re-use of your articles?  We would
>occasionally like to re-publish your articles is that would be OK with you.
>Of course, you could then do the same.

Your welcome to reprint our articles as long as you give credit to the author,
and possibly mention that it came from our newsletter. I'd love to be able to
use some of your articles as well. I've created an area on our BBS just for
that purpose. I've even started uploading the IPF source to some articles and
the Internet, BBS, and User Group listings. You might take a look there for
some stuff too.

Let me know if you need any help!

Dale Hackemeyer 


ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 12.3. MAJ Bart Cook ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ

Date:   Wed, 11 Aug 93 11:42:04 KOR
From:   "MAJ Bart D. Cook" <[e-mail]>
To:    Dale Hackemeyer <[e-mail]>
Subject:  MMOUG

Dale:

I am a very new OS2 user (got it about 2 weeks ago). I have been in touch with
Timothy Sipples and several other people via e-mail while in the process of
deciding to move to OS2.

I have a CD drive, and the Hobbes OS2 CD from Walnut Creek, which is where I
first saw your newsletter. I have just obtained the July edition from ftp.cdrom
(or some such).

Thank you for the detailed information about how to subscribe to the various
electronic mailing lists (new in the July issue). I have sent subscriptions to
about 4 of them.

However, in both this and the previous newsletter, you give a group of
newsgroups. I asked Mr. Sipples how to go about making use of these groups, but
he didn't know. Can you tell me, or perhaps put in a paragraph in the next
newsletter, about how to get the information in the various newsgroups? Is it a
subscription process, like the mailing lists? Are the newsgroups on an FTP site
somewhere? I have no idea how it works.

Thank you in advance for your time and effort. I have enjoyed the newsletters
very much, and have gotten some good tips from them. Keep up the good work. I
might join the MMOUG, but the commute from Korea for the monthly meetings might
be a bit much.

Bart D. Cook [e-mail]

Date:     Thu, 12 Aug 93 11:01:45 CDT
From:     Dale Hackemeyer <UC545502@MIZZOU1>
Organization: University of Missouri at Columbia
Subject:    Re: MMOUG
To:      "MAJ Bart D. Cook" <[e-mail]>
In-Reply-To:  Your message of Wed, 11 Aug 93 11:42:04 KOR

On Wed, 11 Aug 93 11:42:04 KOR you said:
>   I am a very new OS2 user (got it about 2 weeks ago). I have been in
>touch with Timothy Sipples and several other people via e-mail while in
>the process of deciding to move to OS2.

Glad to hear you made the move. I did so about a year ago and haven't looked
back.

>   I have a CD drive, and the Hobbes OS2 CD from Walnut Creek, which
>is where I first saw your newsletter. I have just obtained the July
>edition from ftp.cdrom (or some such).

Didn't even realize we were on the new Hobbes CD. Neat!

>   Thank you for the detailed information about how to subscribe to
>the various electronic mailing lists (new in the July issue). I have
>sent subscriptions to about 4 of them.

No problem. I've subscribed to most of them myself as well.

>   However, in both this and the previous newsletter, you give a group
>of newsgroups. I asked Mr. Sipples how to go about making use of these
>groups, but he didn't know. Can you tell me, or perhaps put in a
>paragraph in the next newsletter, about how to get the information in
>the various newsgroups? Is it a subscription process, like the mailing
>lists? Are the newsgroups on an FTP site somewhere? I have no idea how
>it works.

The newsgroups are like a netwide bullentin board system. You don't have to
subscribe, but you do need a site that carries the newsgroups and will let you
have access (my listing in the newsletter gives a few that let you on as a
"guest").  This is where things get tricky. A lot of it depends on what kind of
computer you use (to access the internet), and whether or not you've got the
software to access the newsgroups. You've obviously got internet access (both
mail and FTP), so all you really need is software. What kind of computer system
do you do your email and ftp on?  I access the newsgoups (aka "Usenet") through
either an IBM mainframe or a NeXT workstation. If you have access to one of
these types of computers I might be able to help. If not, you're best bet would
be to ask around there and see if anyone else there knows of a way (assuming
you haven't gone this route already :) ).

>   Thank you in advance for your time and effort. I have enjoyed the
>newsletters very much, and have gotten some good tips from them. Keep
>up the good work. I might join the MMOUG, but the commute from Korea
>for the monthly meetings might be a bit much.

You're welcome! The best part about doing it is getting mail from people like
yourself in far off places who somehow got a copy. I've got the August issue
done and it should be on ftp-os2.cdrom.com in the incoming directory by this
weekend. Look for it next week.

Get back to me with some more info on your internet access and I'll see if I
can't help you find a way to Usenet.

Dale Hackemeyer

Date:   Fri, 13 Aug 93 10:34:02 KOR
From:   "MAJ Bart D. Cook" <[e-mail]>
To:    Dale Hackemeyer <[e-mail]>
Subject:  Re: MMOUG

Dale:

Thanks for the quick return. I am a computer professional for the US Army, have
been since 1985, but I am relatively new to the world of global communications.
I have used e-mail for several years, but haven't really dug into it until
lately. It is a real interesting experience to be able to tele-communicate with
folks like yourself, and hook up to other computers around the world using ftp
and telnet, but you know that.

>The newsgroups are like a netwide bullentin board system. You don't have
>to subscribe, but you do need a site that carries the newsgroups and
>will let you have access (my listing in the newsletter gives a few
>that let you on as a "guest").

>This is where things get tricky. A lot of it depends on what kind of
>computer you use (to access the internet), and whether or not you've
>got the software to access the newsgroups. You've obviously got
>internet access (both mail and FTP), so all you really need is
>software. What kind of computer system do you do your email and ftp on?
>

I work on an Everex 386-25. I use it to access, for e-mail purposes, an Intel
320 e-mail sub-host running in my office, which runs MMDF-II as its mail
transfer agent. So e-mail comes to my desktop. At home I still have a lowly
16MHz 386SX (Packard Bell) that I am using the play with OS2. I am working on a
way to convince my wife that I "need" a 486DX2 66MHz machine for play! I use a
DOS program called Telemate (a really neat shareware comm program, and I have
used Procomm, Procomm+, Procomm+ for Windows, Telix, and a few others) for most
direct access, and I use a DOS program called PC Max-E-Mail to handle my
e-mail. (This is kind of an Army standard e-mail front end.)

For ftp and telnet and other direct access to the Internet resources, I have a
login on a Sperry (Unisys) 5000-95 minicomputer, which serves as the e-mail
host for several thousand US users here in the Seoul-based US military
community. It is behind a gateway. My Everex PC runs DOS 5.0, the Intel runs
Xenix, and the Sperry runs Unix SVR3.2 (I think).

Anyway, I suspect that, if I can telnet or ftp to a host that allows guest
logins, I can access the newsgroups, if I know how.

Thanks for your help.

Bart Cook

Date:     Sun, 15 Aug 93 16:03:55 CDT
From:     Dale Hackemeyer <UC545502@MIZZOU1>
Subject:    Re: MMOUG
To:      "MAJ Bart D. Cook" <[e-mail]>

Bart,

OK, you just reminded me that you CAN telnet into certain gopher servers that
carry the USENET newsgroups. After a bit of searching around, I found a site in
Korea that carries USENET! (I was even able to login and read the news from
here).

Try telneting to: gopher.nic.nm.kr
    Login as: gopher

If it has trouble recognizing you terminal type, try forcing vt-100 (how you
would do this with your telnet, I don't know).

Once in, you should have menu entries to choose from, and the path to USENET is
as follows:

Top level menu: USENET Newsgroups
         USENET Newsgroups
          comp
           os
            os2

Once your at this level you should see most if not all of the OS/2 Newsgroups.

Give this a try and let me know if it works. Good luck!

P.S. I still haven't uploaded the new newletter yet. Should be there in a few
more days.

Dale Hackemeyer

Date:   Fri, 20 Aug 93 14:48:50 KOR
From:   "MAJ Bart D. Cook" <[e-mail]>
To:    Dale Hackemeyer <[e-mail]>
Subject:  Re: OS2-L

Dale:

My experience with OS2 is getting weirder. Am having troubles with the PAS16
sound board that I think are effecting the entire system. At least I got an
e-mail address for Media Vision as a result of a posting to the Mmos2-L list.

I am really happier on my work machine with DOS5/Win3.1 than with OS2 at home
right now, and I was happier with DOS5/Win3.1 at home. But, I had growing pains
with Windows, and worked through those, so I figure it is just time and
knowledge. I have ordered the OS2 Unleashed book, and hopefully these mailing
lists will get me straight. It just isn't as smooth as I think it would need to
be for IBM to really replace DOS/Windows in the near term.

Oh well, I thought it would be an adventure, and I have been right so far.

Bart

Date:     Sun, 22 Aug 93 13:48:24 CDT
From:     Dale Hackemeyer <UC545502@MIZZOU1>
Organization: University of Missouri at Columbia
Subject:    OS/2...
To:      MAJ Bart Cook <[e-mail]>

>   My experience with OS2 is getting weirder. Am having troubles with
>the PAS16 sound board that I think are effecting the entire system. At
>least I got an e-mail address for Media Vision as a result of a
>posting to the Mmos2-L list.

I've heard of various problems with the PAS16, but never really paid too much
attention since I haven't got one. When does the problem occur? Is it in a DOS
program or are when you're using MMPM/2? Both? Are you running a CDROM off of
it's SCSI port? I know some of the troubles I've seen in the past had something
to do with the drivers. I'm not sure if they're fixed yet or not.

>   I am really happier on my work machine with DOS5/Win3.1 than with
>OS2 at home right now, and I was happier with DOS5/Win3.1 at home. But,
>I had growing pains with Windows, and worked through those, so I figure
>it is just time and knowledge. I have ordered the OS2 Unleashed book,
>and hopefully these mailing lists will get me straight. It just isn't
>as smooth as I think it would need to be for IBM to really replace
>DOS/Windows in the near term.

Really? What are the things that make you feel better about DOS/Win3.1 than
OS/2? I know you have an Everex 386-25, but how much memory do you have? Do you
run the OS/2 Multimedia extensions? What kind of video card do you have and
what resolution and color depth are you running it at? How much HD space do you
have? How do you have it partitioned? What programs do you run and depend on
the most?

Also, give me some info on the work machine as well so we can compare the two.

>   Oh well, I thought it would be an adventure, and I have been right
>so far.

Yeah, OS/2 can be an adventure at first, but a little practice and some fine
tuning can really make a difference. Get back to me about the stuff above and I
can probably give you some tips to improve.

Dale Hackemeyer