OS2 system bug reports, fixes and work-arounds.

2 problems I've found…..

I’m pretty sure I have all the latest patches.

#1 problem:

I’ve had problems with minimizing and restoring DOS text programs that
I’ve run directly from an icon. With Telemate, if I press Alt-Esc to
get out of the full-screen mode, and then go back, the screen is
blank. Then if I make it into a window, it’s a bunch of graphic
garbage. Also, Norton Utilities (the menu) gets blinking text that was
supposed to be high-intensity, when I do the same thing. The funny
thing is, though, that if I go manually into a DOS shell and THEN run
a program, everything is fine.

#2 problem:

This is with Win-OS/2. I just installed AmiPro 3.0, and when I try to
run the Quickstart Tutorial, it says something like "the tutorial will
not run with the large system font installed."

I am running a 486/33, 8MB with an Orchid ProIIs (ET4000) video board
in 1024×768 NI mode.

Suggestions?

Yuval

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2 Responses to “2 problems I've found…..”

  1. admin says:

    : This is with Win-OS/2. I just installed AmiPro 3.0, and when I try to
    : run the Quickstart Tutorial, it says something like "the tutorial will
    : not run with the large system font installed."

    I ran into a somewhat different problem with the AmiPro tutorial. It
    started all right, but quickly lost its place, became disoriented, and
    crashed. No message about "large system font[s]," though. AmiPro
    documents seem to work just fine; I think there was just something about
    the tutorial that my system didn’t like.

    Perhaps by pure coincidence, the DeScribe (native OS/2) readme file
    looks like a mess on my system, with letters crammed together or
    duplicated and bits of text fractured and strewn about the page. But no
    problems with my own DeScribe documents.

    Cheers,

    David

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  2. admin says:

    >I’ve had problems with minimizing and restoring DOS text programs that
    >I’ve run directly from an icon. With Telemate, if I press Alt-Esc to
    >get out of the full-screen mode, and then go back, the screen is
    >blank. Then if I make it into a window, it’s a bunch of graphic
    >garbage. Also, Norton Utilities (the menu) gets blinking text that was
    >supposed to be high-intensity, when I do the same thing. The funny
    >thing is, though, that if I go manually into a DOS shell and THEN run
    >a program, everything is fine.

    I had this problem and solved it by using the vvga.sys and/or the vsvga.sys
    from the December beta.  Email me if it doesn’t work and I can give you
    more details.

    –Don Lindbergh II

    da…@lhc.nlm.nih.gov
    not a spokesperson for nlm