[435] in OS/2_Discussion
Warp help
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Andrew Twyman)
Thu Feb 23 02:59:54 1995
To: os2partners@MIT.EDU
Cc: kurgan@MIT.EDU
Date: Thu, 23 Feb 1995 02:59:19 EST
From: Andrew Twyman <kurgan@MIT.EDU>
Hiya everyone. I have several questions of varying levels of
impartance. Any help would be much appreciated.
1) I've been trying to get the MIT Scheme interpreter to work under Warp.
It runs under Windows using WIN32s. When I tried just running it, Windows
identified it as DOS program, and wouldn't run it. I thus assumed I had to
install the WIN32s system first (I had thought maybe it was included in Warp).
I did so, and it installed smoothly. The FreeCell game which comes with WIN32s
as a test works like a charm in WIN-OS/2 full screen and window sessions. The
Scheme interpreter, however, refuses to run. It pops up, shows a logo (inside
the Edwin window), flashes the cursor a few times, then freezes (Windows does,
not OS/2). It works fine if I reboot to DOS and run the same copy of Windows
there. I'm not sure what the problem could be, as WIN32s itself seems to be
okay. (Incedentally, after installing WIN32s, the 386-Enhanced section of the
CPanel keeps saying "Unable to initialize ports", and not letting me change
any settings except virtual memory settings. I'm not sure if this happens just
under OS/2 or everywhere. It may or may not be related.)
2) I recently found that anything I print from OS/2 comes out as random
spewage from the printer (including lots of form feeds, wasting lots of paper).
I didn't notice this for a long time because I don't really print too often. I
can print fine from DOS and DOS/Windows. Moving my PAS off of IRQ 7 hasn't
helped, and I assume that having it on DMA 7 isn't a problem (besides, Warp
printing doesn't need IRQs). I have a Panasonic KX-P1124i and I'm using the
specific driver for it from Warp. Any ideas?
3) Has anyone ever played with the optimization of the speed of swapfiles?
OS/2 says I should put it in the most-used partition of the least-used drive,
and in HPFS if possible. My question is, which is more important?
Does the type of hard drive matter? I have two standard IDEs and a
Fast-SCSI-2. My system is as follows:
HD1 (IDE) C: 170MB FAT Contains DOS stuff
HD2 (IDE) D: 120MB FAT Contains Windows stuff
HD3 (SCSI) E: 502MB HPFS Contains Warp, and OS/2 stuff
F: 502MB HPFS Is still mostly empty
Where should I put the swapfile? I'd probably rather not put it ion C
for space reasons. D or E would be the natural choices. D is probably less
used (unless I run lots of Windows stuff), but is IDE and FAT. E is SCSI and
HPFS, but has OS/2 on it.
4) This one's for a friend. Anyone have reccomendations on the best sound
card for Warp? He wants both good MMPM support and support for DOS games and
such. I know that the PAS-16 (I have one) can use its PAS and SB parts
separately, giving one to OS/2 and one to DOS. Do any other cards do this? Are
any other cards better overall?
Thanks in advance for any help.
Andrew
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