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Article #19Re: Problem with WIN-OS2
From: radams
Date: Wed, 26 Jun 1996 00:00
Date: Wed, 26 Jun 1996 00:00
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In <Pine.SOL.3.93.960621150635.12368A-100000@venice.rp.CSIRO.AU>, Matt Hyne <mhyne@rp.csiro.au> writes: >I have installed WIN-OS2 and OS/2 for windows and have the following >problems > >1. WIN-OS2 Word will see all my truetype fonts in Windows but I cannot see >any in WIN/OS2. Excel and Powerpoint can see them in both windows. >I have migrated both win.ini files (so all the fonts are defined) and >placed the winword.ini file into the C:\os2\mdos\winos2 directory. > >In WIN-OS2 I cannot see my comms port. I can see them from OS/2 and >normal windows. > >2. in the Windows from OS/2 4 Windows I cannot see any of my LPT ports - >windows/OS2 keeps telling me they are not installed. They work fine under >normal windows. > >Matt > >----------------------------------------------------------- >Matthew Hyne - Radio Systems Engineer >Commonwealth Scientific & Industrial Research Organisation >Division of Radiophysics > >Cnr Vimera & Pembroke Roads, Marsfield NSW, Australia > >Tel : (02) 372 4175 Fax : (02) 372 4490 >Pag : 132222 # 50489 Email : mhyne@rp.csiro.au > >WWW : http://www.rp.csiro.au/~mhyne/ >------------------------------------------------------------ Matthew, Not sure about your Word problem, but in order for Win-OS2 to see your comm ports, make sure that you are loading DEVICE=C:\OS2\MDOS\VCOM.SYS in your CONFIG.SYS. Rob Adams
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f69fe,d099a928f78f9c48 X-Google-Attributes: gidf69fe,public X-Google-Thread: 10a752,d099a928f78f9c48 X-Google-Attributes: gid10a752,public X-Google-Thread: 107fbf,d099a928f78f9c48 X-Google-Attributes: gid107fbf,public From: radams@postoffice.ptd.net Subject: Re: Problem with WIN-OS2 Date: 1996/06/26 Message-ID: <4qpvi7$1rc@ns2.ptd.net> X-Deja-AN: 162169086 references: <Pine.SOL.3.93.960621150635.12368A-100000@venice.rp.CSIRO.AU> organization: ProLog - PenTeleData, Inc. reply-to: radams@prolog.net newsgroups: comp.os.os2.setup,comp.os.os2,aus.computers.os2