🚀 go-pugleaf

Hi!

  I've been running IBM OS/2 for a few years, but I just started having
a couple of problems I've never seen or heard of before. (I'm running
OS/2 Warp "Full pack" on an AMD486DX2-66 "clone" PC with 16 MB RAM,
Cirrus Logic SVGA [1MB], Buslogic caching IDE controller, 1.2 GB and
340 MB hard drives):

  1) It used to be that if I was in an "OS/2 Prompt" session, if I tried
to run a DOS program from the command line, it would simply open up a DOS
session and run the program. Now it starts to open a DOS "window" and then
stops with the following error message...any ideas?:


SYS3170: A program in this session encountered a problem and
cannot continue.

EXPLANATION: The process was ended because the program generated
an unhandled fatal user (non-system) exception through DosRaiseException.

ACTION: If you purchased this program, contact the supplier of the
program.  If you are the developer of this program, refer to the
information in the register.


  2) All of a sudden, for no reason I can think of, about a couple of
weeks ago I started having trouble with viewing/editing text in certain
OS/2 programs, eg, PM Mail, ZED editor, etc. Sometimes the onscreen
text looks fine, sometimes it's mixed with ASCII "garbage" characters,
sometimes it starts out fine then the ASCII junk appears after I scroll
down or at some random point when I begin editing, etc. It's driving me
NUTS! (I've had a heck of a time keeping up with my e-mail because of
this!)

  3) If you bring up the Fonts Pallette onscreen, it says you can change
the screen font "globally" simply by holding down the Alt key,
right-mouse-clicking the font you want, and dragging the pointer (to
the desktop?). This works with most programs, but some applications
seem to insist on using Time Roman Bold (or whatever that "generic"
system font is). I can change come of these applications' screens to
another font, but the next time they open, it's back to that same
old "default" system font. Is this just the way OS/2 Warp works or is
there any way to do what I want?

  Any suggestions, comments or ideas are extremely welcome (and please
send e-mail in case I happen to miss your reply in this newsgroup).

  I've twiddled with my CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT files in unsuccessful
attempts to fix the above problems, but to no avail. In case it somehow
helps, here's my current CONFIG.SYS:


IFS=C:\OS2\HPFS.IFS /CACHE:64 /CRECL:16 /AUTOCHECK:CD
DISKCACHE=64,LW,32,AC:C+D
RUN=C:\OS2\CACHE.EXE /MAXAGE:7500 /DISKIDLE:60000 /BUFFERIDLE:60000
BASEDEV=IBMKBD.SYS
BASEDEV=PRINT01.SYS
BASEDEV=IBM1FLPY.ADD /V
BASEDEV=IBM1S506.ADD /V
BASEDEV=XDFLOPPY.FLT /V
BASEDEV=IBMINT13.I13
BASEDEV=OS2DASD.DMD /V
SET USER_INI=C:\OS2\OS2.INI
SET SYSTEM_INI=C:\OS2\OS2SYS.INI
SET OS2_SHELL=C:\OS2\CMD.EXE
SET AUTOSTART=TASKLIST,FOLDERS
SET RUNWORKPLACE=C:\OS2\PMSHELL.EXE
set comspec=c:\os2\mdos\command.com c:\os2\mdos
rem SET COMSPEC=C:\OS2\CMD.EXE
SHELL=C:\OS2\MDOS\COMMAND.COM C:\OS2\MDOS
SET PATH=C:\OS2;C:\OS2\SYSTEM;C:\OS2\DLL;C:\OS2\MDOS;C:\OS2\MDOS\WINOS2;C:\OS2\INSTALL;C:\;C:\OS2\APPS;C:\MMOS2;C:\TCPIP\BIN;C:\OS2\UTIL;C:\OS2\UTIL\ZIP;C:\VB;C:\VB\VBSB2E;C:\MMOS2\VIEWER\BIN;C:\OS2\IBMWORKS;D:\DOS\UTIL;D:\DOS\UTIL\NU;D:\DOS\UTIL\XT;C:\OS2\MDOS\WINOS2\WINWORD;c:\tcpip\web\bin;C:\MMOS2\INSTALL;C:\OS2\BOOT;C:\OS2\UTIL\GULITE;C:\os2\SM2;c:\OS2\UTIL\VDOS;D:\;D:\DOS;D:\DOS\UTIL;C:\TCPIP\IDGSAM;.;..;
SET DPATH=.;C:\OS2;C:\OS2\SYSTEM;C:\OS2\DLL;C:\OS2\MDOS;C:\OS2\MDOS\WINOS2;C:\OS2\INSTALL;C:\;C:\OS2\BITMAP;C:\OS2\APPS;C:\MMOS2;C:\MMOS2\INSTALL;C:\MMOS2\VIEWER\DATA;C:\OS2\UTIL\GULITE;C:\OS2\SM2;C:\OS2\BOOT;..;
LIBPATH=.;..;C:\OS2\DLL;C:\OS2\MDOS;C:\;C:\MMOS2\DLL;C:\TCPIP\DLL;C:\OS2\UTIL;C:\OS2\IBMWORKS;C:\os2\SM2\DLL;C:\OS2\UTIL\GULITE;C:\ART\BITWARE;C:\OS2\MDOS\WINOS2\SYSTEM;
rem DEVICE=C:\MMOS2\INSTALL\IBMLANLK.SYS C:\MMOS2\INSTALL\MMLOCKED.LST
SET PROMPT=$E[1;33m$D$_$I[$P]$S
SET HELP=.;C:\OS2\HELP;C:\OS2\HELP\TUTORIAL;C:\MMOS2\HELP;C:\TCPIP\HELP;C:\VIEWER\HELP;C:\OS2\IBMWORKS;C:\OS2\APPS\HAOS2;c:\tcpip\web\help;C:\OS2\MDOS\WINOS2;C:\os2\SM2;C:\TCPIP\UMAIL;C:\os2\util\HWISLEVL;..;.\HELP;..\HELP;
SET GLOSSARY=C:\OS2\HELP\GLOSS;
SET IPF_KEYS=SBCS
SET KEYS=ON
SET BOOKSHELF=C:\OS2\BOOK;C:\MMOS2;C:\OS2\UTIL\GULITE;..;.;C:\OS2\UTIL\WATCHCAT;
SET SOMIR=C:\OS2\ETC\SOM.IR;C:\OS2\ETC\WPSH.IR;C:\OS2\ETC\WPDSERV.IR
SET SOMDDIR=C:\OS2\ETC\DSOM
SET EPMPATH=C:\OS2\APPS;
SET MMBASE=C:\MMOS2;
SET DSPPATH=C:\MMOS2\DSP;
SET ETC=C:\TCPIP\ETC
SET TMP=D:\TEMP
SET TEMP=D:\TEMP
SET WORKPLAC=C:\MMOS2\VIEWER
SET VIEWER=C:\MMOS2\VIEWER
SET IBMWORKS_INI=C:\OS2\IBMWORKS
SET TZ=EST5EDT
SET GU=C:\OS2\UTIL\GULITE
SET USERNAME=bbattles
SET LOCKPCRC=C:\OS2\SCASE\LOCKPCRC
SET EHSDATA=C:\os2\SM2\DATA
SET EHSWORK=C:\os2\SM2\TEMP
SET EHSNLPS=C:\os2\SM2\DICT
SET FKZTEUS=C:\os2\SM2\TEUS
SET CMMPATH=C:\OS2\APPS\CENVI
PROTSHELL=C:\OS2\PMSHELL.EXE
PRIORITY_DISK_IO=YES
BUFFERS=50
IOPL=YES
MAXWAIT=2
MEMMAN=SWAP,PROTECT
SWAPPATH=C:\TEMP\ 2048 60000
THREADS=200
PRINTMONBUFSIZE=134,134,134
COUNTRY=001,C:\OS2\SYSTEM\COUNTRY.SYS
PROTECTONLY=NO
CODEPAGE=437,850
IOPL=YES
FILES=60
BREAK=OFF
FCBS=4,2
RMSIZE=640
DOS=HIGH,UMB
DEVICE=C:\OS2\MDOS\ANSIPLUS\ANSIPLUS.SYS
DEVICE=C:\OS2\MDOS\VEMM.SYS
DEVICE=C:\OS2\MDOS\VXMS.SYS /UMB
DEVICE=C:\OS2\MDOS\VDPMI.SYS
DEVICE=C:\OS2\MDOS\VDPX.SYS
DEVICE=C:\OS2\MDOS\VWIN.SYS
DEVICE=C:\OS2\MDOS\VW32S.SYS
DEVICE=C:\OS2\MDOS\VAPM.SYS
DEVICE=C:\OS2\BOOT\TESTCFG.SYS
DEVICE=C:\OS2\BOOT\DOS.SYS
DEVICE=C:\OS2\BOOT\PMDD.SYS
rem DEVICE=C:\OS2\BOOT\APM.SYS
DEVICE=C:\OS2\BOOT\POINTDD.SYS
DEVICE=C:\OS2\BOOT\MOUSE.SYS
DEVICE=C:\OS2\MDOS\VMOUSE.SYS
DEVICE=C:\OS2\SIO\SIO.SYS (COM4)
DEVICE=C:\OS2\SIO\VSIO.SYS
DEVICE=C:\MMOS2\SSMDD.SYS
DEVICE=C:\MMOS2\R0STUB.SYS
DEVICE=C:\OS2\APPS\SYSIOS2.SYS
DEVICE=C:\TCPIP\BIN\INET.SYS
DEVICE=C:\TCPIP\BIN\IFNDISNL.SYS
rem DEVICE=C:\TCPIP\BIN\VDOSTCP.VDD
rem DEVICE=C:\TCPIP\BIN\VDOSTCP.SYS
DEVICE=C:\OS2\FAXWORKS\FMD.SYS L
rem DEVICE=C:\OS2\MDOS\VCOM.SYS
DEVINFO=KBD,US,C:\OS2\KEYBOARD.DCP
RUN=C:\TCPIP\BIN\CNTRL.EXE
rem RUN=C:\TCPIP\BIN\VDOSCTL.EXE
RUN=C:\OS2\ANSI.EXE
SET NCDEBUG=4000
rem *** 3 environment variables for PMView
SET pmview_ini=C:\os2\apps\pmvu\pmview.ini
SET pmview_help=C:\os2\apps\pmvu\
SET pmview_filter=C:\os2\apps\pmvu\filters
DEVINFO=SCR,VGA,C:\OS2\BOOT\VIOTBL.DCP
SET VIDEO_DEVICES=VIO_SVGA
DEVICE=C:\OS2\MDOS\VSVGA.SYS
DEVINFO=SCR,VGA,C:\OS2\VIOTBL.DCP
SET VIO_SVGA=DEVICE(BVHVGA,BVHSVGA)



   Thanks!

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