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From: l_luciano@da.mob                                  26-Sep-99 08:28:19
  To: All                                               26-Sep-99 10:15:04
Subj: Re: How to Get the IBM Bonus Pack telephone to work??

From: l_luciano@da.mob (Stan Goodman)

I had this very problem. It's very easy to solve. Place the line:

mode com3 dtr=on

in your STARTUP.CMD file, (using the right COM port number, of course).


On Sat, 25 Sep 1999 21:54:10, wswain@erinet.com wrote:

> Hi;
> 
> I have not had to use the phone/address book found in the IBM Works folder
> in the past.  I use Injoy as my regular dialer, Procomm to get to my local
> library and MR2ICE as my mailer along with NETSCAPE 4.04 to handle the
> Internet.
> 
> Recently, however, I found myself in a position where using the phone book
> and telephone capability in the IBM Works folder would be very helpful to
> several tasks I need to perform.  But it doesn't work and I have no idea
> why.
> 
> Background:
> 
> I run Warp 4, FixPack 11.  
> 
> In "PIM Preferences" I have configured the modem (I use com 4 for various
> reasons) and set the various strings.  The modem is a Cardinal (hayes
> compatible) 56K. 
> 
> I have a valid telephone number in the telephone book.  Highlight it and
> the "call" button goes from gray to black.  I click on it and the next
> window opens showing the proper telephone number with "use modem" box
> checked.  When I click on "dial" the next window opens and shows that it
> is dialing.  BUT NO DIALING TAKES PLACE.
> 
> If I set the com port to com 2 the result is "unable to initialize modem"
> which one would expect.
> 
> Okay, there is something not going somewhere.  Anybody know of anything to
> fix this?  I remember vaguely, when I was running Warp 3 there was some
> discussion as to this occurring and there was a solution put forth but I
> was not interested at the time.  I would have thought by this stage that
> the code would be okay.
> 
> I do have "Hardware detect- ON."
> There is no problem getting Injoy to dial out
> There is no problem getting Procomm to dial out.
> HALITE will not dial out although it, too, shows dialing.
> 
> Failing getting the IBM phone book to work, does anyone know of a good OS2
> substitute?
> 
> Thanks in advance for your help.
> 
> 
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Whit
> -- 
> -----------------------------------------------------------
> wswain@erinet.com
> 
> This message written:   Saturday, September 25, 1999 - 05:52 PM
> 
> -----------------------------------------------------------
> 

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Stan Goodman
Qiryat Tiv'on
Israel

Spammers are getting smarter; email sent to l_luciano@da.mob will not reach
me. Sorry.
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From: bobg.REMOVEME.@pics.com                           26-Sep-99 07:21:23
  To: All                                               26-Sep-99 10:15:04
Subj: Re: IBM Anti Virus

From: Bob Germer <bobg.REMOVEME.@pics.com>

On <37ED0DFB.B9E5B16A@netscapeonline.co.uk>, on 09/25/99 at 07:01 PM,
   Jonphillips <jonphillips@netscapeonline.co.uk> said:

> I would like to say that, yes there is information on the US site about
> and OS/2 client, available only as part of the full suite!, but there is
> no information at all on the UK site (where I live).
> I did e-mail Symantec, who said that I would quilify for an upgrade if I
> provided them with certain information. Since then I mailed the info I
> thought they'd want but heard NOTHING at all back from them.
> Now I can't find I link to contact the UK sysmantec only telephone
> numbers, which is useless when I'm at work all day.

> Can anyone tell me if  they have been able to get the NAV for OS/2 in
> the UK?? I understand it is suppost to be on the same packs as what you
> can buy from the stores (so far these don't include it), and I'm annoyed
> to think I may have to pay full price!

You will have to pay far more than you think if you cannot get a free
upgrade from IBMAV. You have to buy a CD with server and clients for
several OS's, not just OS/2.

Here in the US, the best price is $207 or around 130 Pounds Sterling. In
addition you must buy user licenses at $39 or about 25 Pounds with a
minimum purchase of 10 licenses.

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Bob Germer from Mount Holly, NJ - E-mail: bobg@Pics.com
Proudly running OS/2 Warp 4.0 w/ FixPack 9
MR/2 Ice Registration Number 67
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From: kaushik@heppc1.uta.edu                            26-Sep-99 20:06:01
  To: All                                               26-Sep-99 19:55:10
Subj: How to make "Hardware Detection" the default choice in OS/2 Warp 4.0

From: kaushik@heppc1.uta.edu

I have a SoundBlaster compatible SoundPro chip on my new motherboard.
So far, I have only been able to get sound to work under OS/2 by
choosing F5, Full Hardware Detection, from the OS/2 Recovery screen.
Choosing F6 or Esc (doing nothing) does not configure sound with usable
IRQ/DMA!  Is there any way to make F5 the default choice during reboot?


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From: srd@x.mcmail.com                                  26-Sep-99 23:19:17
  To: All                                               26-Sep-99 21:23:23
Subj: Re: How to make "Hardware Detection" the default choice in OS/2 Warp 4.

From: Steve Drewell <srd@x.mcmail.com>

On Sun, 26 Sep 1999 at 20:06 GMT, kaushik@heppc1.uta.edu wrote:

>I have a SoundBlaster compatible SoundPro chip on my new motherboard. So
>far, I have only been able to get sound to work under OS/2 by choosing
>F5, Full Hardware Detection, from the OS/2 Recovery screen. Choosing F6
>or Esc (doing nothing) does not configure sound with usable IRQ/DMA!  Is
>there any way to make F5 the default choice during reboot?


Go into the Hardware Manager properties and under the Detection Level tab,
change the default setting to Full Hardware Detection.

Cheers,
Steve

-- 
Steve Drewell             (Remove x. from address to reply)
_____________________________________________________________
Using IBM OS/2 Warp 4 running 24 processes with 131 threads.
Machine uptime is 0 days, 6 hours, 0 mins and 10 secs.
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From: drogers@pobox.com                                 27-Sep-99 01:13:11
  To: leshalter@earthlink.net                           27-Sep-99 04:11:04
Subj: Re: EarthLink?

To: leshalter@earthlink.net
From: drogers@pobox.com

In article <7sb0mm$bnt$1@holly.prod.itd.earthlink.net>,
  leshalter@earthlink.net (Les Halter) wrote:

[long snip]

> Earthlink is owned by Sprint and the info you need can be found at
> http://help.earthlink.net/techsupport/other/os2/menu2.html

Earthlink is a public company, owned by shareholders. One of them is
Sprint, which owns about 25% of Earthlink stock. They're the largest
shareholder (last I checked), but they don't "own" the company, in the
way most people would say it. Aside from that, Earthlink and Sprint have
co-marketing that can make it look like they're the same company. The
company was founded by Scientologists, but the company's CEO (the guy in
charge of day-to-day operations), is not a Scientologist.

I have some doubts about the legitimacy of the Cipriano affidavit
(available at http://www.lermanet.com/reference/cipriano.htm); if it's
true, it would be enought for me to never do business with Earthlink.
Then again, the allegations it sounds pretty outrageous. Plus, the
non-Scientologists who are in control of most of the company's
operations would almost certainly know that something not-right was
going on. OTOH, Scientology is a dangerous group that had stolen
documents from the FBI back in the 1970s (resulting in criminal
convictions), and doing what was described in the affidavit with an ISP,
even a publicly-held one, might be more trivial than infiltrating the
FBI.


Peace,


<> David


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  To: All                                               27-Sep-99 04:11:04
Subj: Re: Download Ia.n.i.!!! It's SPAM !!

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From: News@The-Net-4U.com                               27-Sep-99 16:05:09
  To: All                                               27-Sep-99 16:32:17
Subj: Re: How to make "Hardware Detection" the default choice in OS/2 Warp 4.

From: News@The-Net-4U.com (M.P. van Dobben de Bruijn)

> kaushik@heppc1.uta.edu wrote:

> I have a SoundBlaster compatible SoundPro chip on my new motherboard.
> So far, I have only been able to get sound to work under OS/2 by
> choosing F5, Full Hardware Detection, from the OS/2 Recovery screen.
> Choosing F6 or Esc (doing nothing) does not configure sound with usable
> IRQ/DMA!  Is there any way to make F5 the default choice during reboot?

I wouldt prefer to find a way to make one detection persistent to the
next restart as every time hw-detection at boot is a time-consuming
process. But you might be able to that after you had a correct detection
for on of two time with other options in this panel (see the answer) also.

Right-click on a free space of the desktop. Select System Setup. The
System Setup window opens. Right-Click on the Hardware Manager,
select Properties. The Notebook with properties for Hardware Manager
opens. On the first panel in plain view at that moment you will find pull-
down options for both "Default" and "At next restart only" HW-detection.
The default selection will be carried on to every future restart. After that
has worked (and your system has a correct HW-log) you may be able to
set it back to no hardware detection, unless something else (i.e. Winblows
Plug and Pray) fiddles with your hardware's settings between restarts of
course.

Regards from Leeuwarden
Peter van Dobben de Bruijn
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From: engs0011@sable.ox.ac.uk                           27-Sep-99 19:57:08
  To: All                                               27-Sep-99 21:33:15
Subj: Re: Help, 2400 sucks! Need V.90 modem suggestions

From: engs0011@sable.ox.ac.uk (Ian Johnston)

George Czerw (gczerw@home.No-Spam.com) wrote:

: Save yourself the agony of messing around with an internal and just 
: get a good old-fashioned, EXTERNAL modem.  I've been using US Robotics
: (now 3 Com) Courier V-everythings for years at home and in large-scale
: business modem pools (24x7 operation), and they've been great and have
: had no downtime. 

My Courier was bought as 28.8 and has been upgraded three times - it's now
a rock-solid and utterly dependable v90. However ... at the last upgrade it 
lost the ability to send faxes, and always gives an error halfway through 
the first page. Not that I send faxes often, but it is annoying.

Ian

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From: gczerw@home.No-Spam.com                           28-Sep-99 03:07:25
  To: All                                               28-Sep-99 04:30:21
Subj: Re: Help, 2400 sucks! Need V.90 modem suggestions

From: gczerw@home.No-Spam.com (George Czerw)

On Mon, 27 Sep 1999 19:57:16, engs0011@sable.ox.ac.uk (Ian Johnston) 
wrote:

> George Czerw (gczerw@home.No-Spam.com) wrote:
> 
> : Save yourself the agony of messing around with an internal and just 
> : get a good old-fashioned, EXTERNAL modem.  I've been using US Robotics
> : (now 3 Com) Courier V-everythings for years at home and in large-scale
> : business modem pools (24x7 operation), and they've been great and have
> : had no downtime. 
> 
> My Courier was bought as 28.8 and has been upgraded three times - it's now
> a rock-solid and utterly dependable v90. However ... at the last upgrade it 
> lost the ability to send faxes, and always gives an error halfway through 
> the first page. Not that I send faxes often, but it is annoying.
> 
> Ian

Ian:

Don't have that problem.  Send Faxes all the time.  1) Did you try 
re-flashing it?
2) Is it possible that something in your fax software setup (eg. fax 
type, modem init strings, etc.) changed without your knowing it?

George

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From: rsteiner@visi.com                                 28-Sep-99 01:48:13
  To: All                                               28-Sep-99 05:15:29
Subj: Re: DOIP in Warp 3?

From: rsteiner@visi.com (Richard Steiner)

Here in comp.os.os2.comm, williamd1@ibm.net (williamd1)
spake unto us, saying:

>On Sat, 25 Sep 1999 14:45:28 -0400, mcbrides@erols.com (Jerry McBride)
>wrote:
>
>>Over here I use ATZ as my setup
>>string and my modem works great under OS/2, Linux and Solaris...
>
>Would "prefix" be the same as your "setup" string? If so I'm using
>ATDT for that.

Pardon me for jumping in, but "ATDT" would be a dialing command -- "AT"
for attention (precedes all commands for modems conforming to the Hayes
command set), "D" for dial, and "T" for tone dialing.

When Jerry uses ATZ, I suspect he's actually using a series of settings
that he has stored previously in the modem (probably via AT&W).  The
actual "ATZ" command tells the modem to return to the settings stored
in NRAM or NVRAM.  I did the same thing he does with my Courier.  :-)

>The rest is Init #1: AT&F.

AT&F generally restores factory settings.  Not a bad INIT string for
USR modems, and probably works well with others (depending on what the
manufacturer thought were good settings).

>Init #2: ATE0Q0S0=0V1X1&C1&D2.

That's a lot more complex (and probably modem-specific).

>So is InJoy better, or just flashier?

The InJoy dialer does a LOT of things that DOIP doesn't, but whether or
not that's valuable depends on the features you're looking for.

I've not used it for a while myself, since I use ADSL now, but I found
it to be a valuable enough dialer to register a couple of years ago.  I
mainly liked the tracing facilities InJoy had and the fact that it could
perform a recommection automagically when the connection dropped.  And
also the fact that I could auto-start various things when I connected.

-- 
   -Rich Steiner  >>>--->  rsteiner@visi.com  >>>---> Bloomington, MN
     OS/2 + Linux + BeOS + FreeBSD + Solaris + WinNT4 + Win95 + DOS
      + VMWare + Fusion + vMac + Executor = PC Hobbyist Heaven! :-)
        Right now I'm having amnesia and deja vu at the same time

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From: News@The-Net-4U.com                               01-Oct-99 09:55:10
  To: All                                               01-Oct-99 10:28:09
Subj: Re: PMFax WinClient's log with ugly fonts

From: News@The-Net-4U.com (M.P. van Dobben de Bruijn)

> Once you open the Log-Window (press F2) you'll on one
> Windows machine the font is readable on the other machine
> its unreadable (looks like some non-proportional font with some-
> what 4 or 5 pouint in size). Any idea?

Hardly sounds like an OS/2 problem <g> so why posting it
also to os2.bugs and os2.apps? But let me give it a try. Is
Win not automatically substituting fonts if it does not find the
requested font on the machine it runs on? Perhaps the font 
in use at the good-looking machine (yuk, can hardly believe
seeing myself writing that its Windows after all <VBG>) is not
on the other machine? So Windows do's a bad job substituting?

Regards from Leeuwarden
Peter van Dobben de Bruijn
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