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In article <1993Jan26.061624.5448@mksol.dseg.ti.com> rloper@mksol.dseg.ti.com (robert l loper) writes:
>I recently installed the 2.1 beta, and have had some unusual problems lately
>(like tonight).
>Anyway...
>I tried to install some Windows 3.1 games seamlessly, and couldn't get 
>OS/2 to recognize them as Windows programs (I never could check WIN-OS/2
>settings).  Then I found I couldn't even load my WIN-OS/2 full screen
>session.  I managed to patch (create a DOS full screen session for
>WINOS2.COM), but I am wondering what happened.
>Also, I have had several lock-ups, and C-A-D wouldn't allow me to reboot;
>I had to reset.  The lockups mostly occurred when exiting processes
>(but not DOS...usually OS/2 icon views of directories)
>And lastly, has anyone used the SIO comm drivers
>with Procomm PLus for DOS and a ZOOM 14.4K FAXmodem?  I just
>installed them tonight, and while they seem to work ok, I am wondering
>if anyone else has had problems with them.

A lot of these problems sound similar to those experienced by people
who did not reformat prior to installing the 2.1 beta.  It is HIGHLY
recommended you do so.

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Is their an official email address to send bug reports to with the
2.1beta - I'm not looking for any support or workrounds etc, just that
I'd like to think I was being a useful beta-tester.

So far in a short play with 2.1b I've only found 3 problems, which having
read the README file are probably known problems.

1) AmiPro starts its help utility behind the main window ==> you need to
manually bring it back to the front - README mentions a similar problem
with starting apps from the program manager.

2) Start windows apps minimized doen't work - switches app type to DOS
which then fails. This looks like the problem described in the REAME
file.

3) I ran AmiPro seamlessly, it comes up maximized so I pressed button
to shrink it's size, then after doing somethings I minimized it. This
sort of worked, but a couple of areas were left blanked out on the
desktop which still acted as WINOS regions (I think these areas matched
the shape of the menus that pop up from AmiPros bottom bar buttons) -
i.e. I got the windows pointer when I moved the cursor into these
regions. I could bring AmiPro back from the  minimized window directory
and all was then fine again. I have not been able to reproduce this.
However, it looks as if in something in WINOS isn't always releasing
the areas of the desktop that it claims when an app gets minimized.

Another problem, which I think is probably my misunderstanding how
WPS works, is that if I associate *.SAM with AmiPro then I edit 
such a document by double clicking on the file icon. If I then minimize
AmiPro I have to double click on the AmiPro icon to bring it back. Double
clicking on the file icon doesn't work. This seems counter intuitive
(as the intuition is that I have opened the file and then minimized the
open file, hence I should be able to re-open the opened file by
double clicking on it) or am I expecting too much from WPS (and is 
the fact that I'm using a WINOS2 app relevant).

Other than that 2.1b feels a lot snappier than 2.0GA+SP and AmiPro seems
to work seamlessly much better than in 2.0SP where minimizing it caused
all sorts of problems.

Finally, I installed by reformatting the drive (having carefully saved
all Amipro .INI files which get stuck on the system disk :-). I tried
using WPSBKUP/WPSREST but this didn't seem totally successful so  I
recovered the original 2.1 setup and recustomized the desktop. For the
proper 2.1 release it is vital that you can pull over a previous 2.0
setup into 2.1 (including preserving any trash that windows programs
etc deposit on the system disk) - I didn't try installing over 2.0 as
my system partition is very tight for space so this may not have
worked.


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In article <1993Jan26.170423.25713@midway.uchicago.edu> sip1@midway.uchicago.edu writes:
>In article <1993Jan26.061624.5448@mksol.dseg.ti.com> rloper@mksol.dseg.ti.com (robert l loper) writes:
>>I recently installed the 2.1 beta, and have had some unusual problems lately
>>(like tonight).
>>Anyway...
>>I tried to install some Windows 3.1 games seamlessly, and couldn't get 
>>OS/2 to recognize them as Windows programs (I never could check WIN-OS/2
...
>
>Timothy F. Sipples      | READ the OS/2 FAQ List 2.0i, available from
>A lot of these problems sound similar to those experienced by people
>who did not reformat prior to installing the 2.1 beta.  It is HIGHLY
>recommended you do so.

I suggest reformatting the ENTIRE DISK, not just the install partition.  This
solved my install problem.  Several others have commented about this.  This
should be a 2.1b FAQ.

Keith R. Scidmore