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Date:	Wed, 8 Oct 2003 18:19:13 PDT7
From:	Ray Davison <raydav@charter.net >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: Live Help Desk at Chapman, Nov

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Steven Levine wrote:
>
>>IF live help is Nov 2, and IF someone would like to investigate why my
>>primary machine is OS/2 unfriendly, before I toss the MB, I can bring at
>>least a couple monitors.
>
>
> Sounds like fun? to me. We might learn something interesting.
>
OK, so that you can prepare, things that don't work under OS/2:

Cannot install OS/2. Tried several UpDateCD disks that worked on other
machines, also tried eCs 1.1. Don't recall exactly where it failed.
Cloned OS/2 on this machine from another machine. Seems to work OK in
general except for the following.

System Commander does not put OS/2 on it's menu if OS/2 was the last OS
booted. V-Comm says "yes, they know, happens on SOME machines". OS
Selector by Acronis is OK.

All versions of Snap come with a new version of VSVGA.SYS. I have to
revert to the original 1996 version or cannot get a DOS window.

WordPerfect DOS cannot get a cursor in a DOS window; even with 1996
VSVGA.SYS. Can however, open full screen and then change to window and
keep cursor.

I can print a text file from a command line, but any attempt to print
from a GUI - drag-drop, Warpzilla\Print - is ignored by the printer. I
have tried with the print job box open. An object appears and then
disappears, but the printer doesn't respond. It is connected to LPT1.
I get the same result across the network from another machine.

Partition Magic 3.0-3.05 for OS/2 won't run; it's OK on other machines.
It does work with 256M RAM rather than 512M. Others have encountered
this. Seems like something that OS/2 should fix.

All the above, where applicable, work OK under DRDOS and W98SE.

ECS P4VXASD2
1.7G Celeron
2X 256M SDRAM, also space for 2 DDR
Various IDE HDD, plugin, master 1 & 2
2 FDD
100M IDE Zip, slave
IDE CDROM, slave
SB Live, Uni
Aceex V.92 external

Ray

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