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RAM installation problem under OS/2 explained?

As a possible explanation for this effect I'd suggest that the presence of a memory aperture from a local bus video card (either PCI or VLB) might be at fault. The address for the card's aperture is set when the drivers are installed (it's listed in the SVGADATA.PMI file). So upgrading from 8 to 32Mb could result in the old aperture address being inside the range of usable RAM.

This is just a guess - I'm not an OS/2 system guru - but as I understand it the aperture address varies from one chipset/card/manufacturer to the next. VLB bus users may suffer more because (AFAIK) the aperture is usually 'lower' in the address space. Resetting standard VGA mode, which does not use an aperture, enables the WPS to run and reinstalling the drivers re-runs SVGA.EXE, creating a new SVGADATA.PMI file with a new address for the aperture.

Dr. James Price


Answers from e-Zine! Drive B Removal Tip

In your Answers from e-Zine! column the procedure given [for removing Drive B from the Drives folder] is a bit lacking in detail.

The attribute must be set to "Object Title", Comparison to "is equal to", and Value to "Drive B" (capital D, B) for this to work. Thanks for the tip though.

Lars Hofstad


PMMail v1.5 Review in Issue #6

Written by Noah Summer in Issue #6:

"What about the cosmetics (gif 13.5k), you ask? PMMail v1.5 is certainly visually different from the original! As I mentioned, the program has been rewritten from the ground up and this includes new icons and a new chiseled look."

The fact is that the two authors of PMMail v1.5 actually COPIED the icons from the "Be Box" operating system. I think, Noah Summer should be aware of this and that a letter should be published about this. Robert Novitskey and Evan Goldring, the authors of PMMail, created a very nice Mail program that infringes trademarks of Be, Inc. OS/2 e-Zine! readers should be aware of the fact that the authors of PMMail are just copy-cat outlaws.

My 2 cents

Stephane Leclerc


Positive Press Reaction to Merlin Introduction

I am pleased to be able to contradict Scott Surbrook's lament (Letters to the Editor: Press reaction to Merlin - May 6, 1996) that neither InfoWorld nor PCWeek had paid any attention to IBM's recent announcements regarding Merlin. Both magazines, in fact, had very nice articles about Merlin in their April 29th issues, showing screen shots and playing up the VoiceType navigation capabilities. I appreciate the recent trend I've noticed, in these magazines and others, to exhibit a more informed (and consequently more positive) approach towards OS/2.

Ralph Cohen


WebExplorer Temp Directory Tip

I did what the you said to [in Heath's Tips, volume 1 number 7] and had the WebExplorer [program object] run from the explore.exe and not linkup.exe so it will delete the tmp files. But it still leaves them there.

gbolling@seidata.com


- You're right, it seems we erred. Following the instructions in Heath's Tips does the trick but we only tested it using copies of the newer WebExplorer v1.1b. This may not work at all for earlier versions of WebEx. The good news is that WebExplorer v1.1b seems to be stable and to fix the memory leak and other problems caused by earlier versions. It may still be too soon to tell for sure though. - editor.

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