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UFO's OS/2 Warp Information Resources

Get to know and love OS/2!!!

Some fundamental OS/2 concepts Compiled by Peter Moylan A must read for all OS/2 users
OS/2 WARP's Config.sys file Insights] Written by IBM A good page on modifying OS/2's Config.sys
Exploring OS/2 Config.sys file By Esther Schindler,
PC Magazine March 12, 1996
A must read, very informative
Understanding the OS/2 Config.sys file By Esther Schindler,
PC Magazine May 14, 1996.
A must read, very informative.
CONFIG.SYS explanation By Rick Meigs A very comprehensive description of the CONFIG.SYS
OS/2 FAQ Compiled by Timothy F. Sipples A good FAQ for OS/2 Warp
The HPFS FAQ Compiled by Les Bell and Associates Pty Ltd Comprehensive info of OS/2's High Performance File System (HPFS)
Mouse hints and tips By IBM Information on mouse/pointer devices, hints & tips

Installation and Uninstallation Guide

Warp Installation Notes By Frank McKenney Very comprehensive guide on installing OS/2 WARP
Getting Warped by Lewis J. Waber , M.D., Ph.D
Another good installation guide for OS/2 WARP.
Installing OS/2 From a Harddisk drive by Tim Lauridsen If your CDROM won't work under OS/2, you can still install OS/2 Warp!!
OS/2 Warp Migration By IBM A good page to address many of the technical considerations when migrating to OS/2 V2.x thru Warp V4.
Installing Internet Support in OS/2 Warp Courtesy of PC Lube and Tune A guide to help you to connect to the net using OS/2 Warp v3
Kali for OS/2 By John D. Reinhold, OS2 e-Zine! vol 1 no 2 Playing games on the internet !!
Incorporate multiple operating systems on your PC By Sheryl Canter, PC Magazine, Dec 17, 1996 A good article on installing both WIN95 and OS/2 WARP on the same computer
The Linux "Linux-DOS-Win95-OS2" mini-HOWTO By Mike Harlan If you are crazy about installing all sort of OS for your computer, check out this page!
How to Make OS/2 and Windows 95 Coexist By Heath Phillipi, OS2 e-Zine! vol 1 no 3 Ditto as above
How to Install/Uninstall Programs in OS/2 By Paulo Mario Moraes, OS2 e-Zine! vol 1 no 7 Good article
Win 32s and Photoshop under OS/2 By Judy McDermott Very informative help page to get Photoshop running in WinOS2.
WinSock and OS/2 By Judy McDermott
Get those windows 3.xx based internet clients to work in WinOS2

Software problems With OS/2 WARP?

Rescue a damaged desktop By Jim Little, OS2 e-Zine! vol 1 no 7 Desktop corrupted? Desktop won't startup? Read this well

Hardware Problems

Tired of resolving hardware problems with OS/2 WARP?
OS/2 Soundcard Summary By Rod Smith A summary of information about sound cards for use under OS/2
The Official Unofficial Guide to Using the Creative Labs AWE32, SB32, and SB16 with OS/2 Warp By Colin Hildinger A very comprehensive page about Creative Labs sound cards
The Creative Lab's Sound Blaster for OS/2 drivers' bug list By Julien Pierre Get to know the bugs of your sound blaster drivers
WARP TV FAQ By Abbotsbury Software Ltd. UK Comprehensive page about watching TV right on your OS/2 desktop
OS/2 Warp and HP Scanners By Bjoslashn Tore Hoem Get your HP scanner to work with OS/2 WARP
OS/2 user's review of the HP Scanjet 5P
Deskscan II, H.P.Scanjet 5p and WINOS2 By R.M. Klippstein Installing Deskscan II (ver 2.3.1a) for color scanning with H.P.Scanjet 5p under WINOS2
Configuring New HP Deskjet and LaserJet Printers By Patrick G Horneker Get your HP printers to run under OS/2
CD-ROM drive unsupported by OS/2 By Kris Kwilas A good tip for all owners of odd cdrom drives
Large Hard Drives in OS/2 By Rod Smith Have a new high capacity drive and OS/2 won't recognize it? Read this article first.
HP CD Writers and OS/2 Warp FAQ Maintained by Fernando Cassia A good FAQ on all HP CD writers.
CD Changers and OS/2 Warp Maintained by Fernando Cassia Another good FAQ for CD-changers.
Removable Media Frequently Asked Questions List By Leon Grossman A good FAQ for all removable drives under OS/2 (cover Syquest and Zip drives)
OS/2 WARP and Iomega Zip Drives By Chris Wenham, OS2 e-Zine! vol 1 no 12 Short article on zip drives
Iomega Zip Drive Configuration By Curtis W. Rendon Has a section on formatting Zip disks for HPFS
Zip Drive Tips and Tricks for OS/2 Users By Patrick G. Horneker A comprehensive page for Iomega Zip drive and OS/2
Get a Real Modem By Rich Steiner WinModem does not work with OS/2? Find out why.
OS/2 Warp Hardware Compatibility Listing By IBM The place to visit if you are not sure that your hardware is compatible with OS/2 WARP
Calculators, PDAs and OS/2 WARP
The Newton OS/2 Connection] By Darrell Spice Jr. If you have an Apple Newton and OS/2 WARP, chances are that you need to see this page.
OS/2 Installation of PalmPilot Desktop By 3COM Corporation If you have the USR palmpilot PDA, then this is a must see!
Kermit 95 for OS/2 By Columbia University If you have the HP48 calculator, then you might want to take a look at this software
X48 HP48 emulator By Holger Veit Go get the most functional HP48 emulator on the net !
Requires either Xfree86/OS2 or Exceed for OS/2
Guide
The Warp Pharmacy The first place to visit when your OS/2 system is sick
IBM Personal Software Services Provides technical information and assistance for OS/2 Warp

Solutions From The Net

Please note that the summary on the right column does not not represent all the questions being asked in the article. I would strongly suggest that you visit each and every one article to find what you need.
Answers from OS/2 e-Zine! v1 n7
  • How can I get rid of the "Drive B" icon?
  • OS/2 would not boot, giving a TRAP error before it loaded the WPS and mentioning something about the SINGLEQ$ driver.
  • Is there any way to use JAOW to access Windows 95's long filenames when Warp is on its own HPFS partition?
  • How can I rig up OS/2 to play a given track on my CD-ROM at a given time?
Answers from OS/2 e-Zine! v1 n8
  • "Dial Other Internet Provider" does not set my modem to 115,200 when it initializes
  • How do I move menu items around?
  • After I installed the FixPak, my machine begins to load PC DOS 6.3, but then it locks up.
Answers from OS/2 e-Zine! v1 n9
  • Should I buy a Canon BJC 210 printer to use under OS/2 Warp?
  • I have lost the ability in Warp to read the OSO001.MSG file in its original location.
  • Whenever I open folders on my desktop there is a big delay and a lot of disk accessing.

Answers from OS/2 e-Zine! v1 n10

  • My URL folder has a bunch of plain text data files in it instead of URL objects.
  • I want my computer to page me at certain times everyday.
  • In order for my sound card to work under OS/2 I first have to boot into DOS then reboot into OS/2.
Answers from OS/2 e-Zine! v1 n11
  • Whenever I dial into my local ISP, I get strange errors reporting "invalid fcs" or something.
  • How can I generate a set of floppies so that I can then perform an OS/2 boot that will allow me to run minimum OS2 and DOS full screen sessions (not WIN-OS/2) with HPFS support?
  • I have been unable to use Ultimail Lite v2.10.010 to read mail
  • What is the best way to delete the Ultimail files?
  • How do I get rid of all the associations for the Windows Notebook (notebook.exe).
Answers from OS/2 e-Zine! v1 n12
  • Can you recommend a pen/tablet that will run under OS/2?
  • How to make Warp seamlessly open a Windows session in the background?
Answers from OS/2 e-Zine! v1 n13
  • How do I change the fonts used in Netscape/2?
  • Whenever I play a MIDI file, my AWE32 sound card comes out sounding like the old FM synthesis card instead of wavetable
Answers from OS/2 e-Zine! v1 n14
  • How I can get a Java enabled browser for OS/2?
  • I have Warp 4 and want to create boot disks which use the OAD.SYS driver so that my OS/2 session will access my Iomega drives (ZIP and Bernoulli).
Answers from OS/2 e-Zine! v2 n1
  • Where can I find out what each of the programs In the c:\tcpip\bin directory does?
  • I have PKUnzip but can't get any OS/2 ZIP files unzipped with it. Do you know where I can get an unzip utility that I can unzip with?
Answers from OS/2 e-Zine! v2 n2
  • Is there a way to back up the appointment book that comes with IBM Works without backing up the entire IBM Works suite or the whole disk?
  • How do I convince my Netscape Mail client, that I do not live in the Eastern Standard Time (EST) time zone.
Answers from OS/2 e-Zine! v2 n3
  • When I right-click an object and select "Create another" from the pop-up menu, I see multiple choices of "Folder", "New folder", etc., up to nine times for the same choice.
  • How to reset the WarpCenter back to the way it was when I installed Warp 4
  • Whenever I use Netscape Navigator/2, it looks fine itself, but it changes my system palette to some strange colors.
Answers from OS/2 e-Zine! v2 n5
  • How do I use Netscape 2.02 for OS/2 to access webpage requiring a minimum of Netscape v3.0 (or Internet Explorer v3.0) to view
  • After installing Navigator for OS/2 in my system, when I click on the Navigator (modem) object it tells me it can't find a LINKUP.EXE file
  • When I use Navigator it opens one of the default multimedia viewers (IB.EXE) to display GIFs and JPGs. This IB.EXE is a huge hog on my machine and slows things to a crawl.
Answers from OS/2 e-Zine! v2 n6
  • Is there any way to make FaxWorks Lite automatically start in "answer all calls" mode?
  • The COM.SYS device driver did not support 28,800 throughput on the modem, so I resorted to using SIO.SYS
Answers from OS/2 e-Zine! v2 n7
  • When IBM Works was installed, the program defaults to use the "X:\BONUSPAK\IBMWORKS\DATA" path for its data. How do I change that.
  • Can the OS/2 Peer support talk directly to the Win95 client, or whether a NOS like Lantastic for OS/2 is needed
  • How do you reset the system font back to Warp Sans (the new Warp font)?
Answers from OS/2 e-Zine! v2 n8
  • Is there a way to see how much storage space the Warp CD player uses for storage of CD titles and play lists? And if so, is there any way to edit that file to remove CD titles that I do not currently have?
  • The ATAPI Iomega Zip drive works if I dual boot to DOS or boot from a floppy session but without drivers, I can't use it in OS/2.
  • What files can I remove from OS/2 Warp 4 if I only want to do dialup networking and do NOT want to do any LAN networking?
Answers from OS/2 e-Zine! v2 n9
  • How to automatically back up critical data on the hard drive to reduce the frequency of making offline backups.
  • How do you use this "Locked Files" device driver and cause a file to be replaced?
  • I have a NEC 6x4 CD-ROM drive, with 4 drive slots. How do I assign drive letters W,X,Y,Z to my NEC 6x4 CD-ROM drive with 4 drive slots?
  • Is there any way to make the Precision LS-120 Internal drive work with Warp 4?
Answers from OS/2 e-Zine! v2 n10
  • How do I delete templates? They just won't go away!
  • I very often use OS/2 text windows. When I start the session I write "MODE CO80,40" to have more rows. My question is if I can do this automatically?
  • I have been looking into getting a 3D video card for my PC and one of the ones that I have liked is the Intergraph Intense 3D that uses the Rendition chip set. Do you know if there are any OS/2 drivers for this chip set?
  • How can I find out about OS/2 user groups? What groups are around? Who can I contact?
Answers from OS/2 e-Zine! v2 n12
  • In the dozen or so installs I have done, OS/2 always "greys out" the checkbox for XMS (it is checked, though).
  • I recently installed a new motherboard and when I booted OS/2 I got a trap in SINGLEQ$ right before the PMShell loaded.
  • Is it possible to set the Icons and Frame Controls in the WPS to 32x32 (icons) and generally smaller (frame controls) while using the Matrox Mystique?
  • My problem is that my Minolta WinLaser printer has no driver for OS/2 Warp 4 or 3. I have a driver for Windows 3.1x. Can I make it work?
  • I would like to remove all dos and win support from my Warp installation. Do you know of a list of the files from the CONFIG.SYS that I can remove?
Answers from OS/2 e-Zine! v3 n5
  • I purchased a new hard drive and I'm having difficulty getting it working right with OS/2
  • Boot manager always defaults to Windows 3.1
  • How do I download a .DLL extension file using Netscape for OS/2
Solutions from the net regarding internet and networking problems under OS/2
  • Compiled by John Summerfield

OS/2 Warp Device Drivers and Updates

D'sWorld Maintained by Indelible Blue A very convenient site for you to download all the updates for OS/2. Must see!
OS/2 Device Driver Depository Maintained by IBM The most comprehensive site to get new OS/2 drivers for your hardware devices
IBM Software Update Maintained by IBM The master list from IBM to upgrading your OS/2 WARP. Very comprehensive.
Master OS/2 Warp Update List Maintained by Team OS/2 Cincinnati Users Group The master list of all FREE updates to OS/2 Warp.
You can install all fixpacks to OS/2 using RSU (Remote Software Update)!
Team OS/2 Help Desk OS/2 Resource Library Maintained by Lori Martin Contains an OS/2 Resource Library Index
FixPak, What's a FixPak? By Thomas Chamberlain Good explanation of OS/2 FixPak
Applying Service to OS/2 Warp Maintained by Frank McKenney A very comprehensive guide to applying FixPak to OS/2
Epson's OS/2 WARP drivers Maintained by Epson Germany Custom drivers from Epson Germany. This site is in German.
OS/2 scanner drivers By Solution Technology Has OS/2 Twain device drivers for scanners
OS/2 sound card drivers archive Maintained by Rod Smith A very convenient place to find your sound card drivers for OS/2