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## OS/2 Tips

We scan the Web, Usenet and the OS/2 mailing lists looking for these gems. Have you run across an interesting bit of information about OS/2 or eComStation recently? Please share it with all our readers. Send your tips to tips@os2voice.org. If you are interested in joining a particular OS/2 mailing list, check out the VOICE Mailing List page for subscribing instructions for a large variety of existing lists - http://www.os2voice.org/mailinglists.html.

Editor's note: these tips are from OS/2-eComStation users and in some cases can not be verified by myself. Please heed this as a warning that if you are not sure about something, don't do it.

Feb 11, 2003 - Our first tip of the month is from Al Savage posted on comp.os.os2.apps regarding problems with printing in the latest GSView version with Ghostscript 8.00:

> This is going to have to go in a FAQ somewhere.

> I stole the below directly from Helge Blischke in comp.lang.postscript

> In the Options menu, switch off the "SAFER" option in GSView. The default is to deny file system write access.

> This problem is new with v8.00

Feb 13, 2003 - On news://news.rsj.de/rsj.de.support.cdwriter.os2, Sandra Seywald of RSJ Software GmbH responded to a question on how to use two CDR drives with RSJ CD Writer:

> You may use our cdattach program in the following way to access the second recorder: just call

> > `cdattach z: -d cdr:a.i`

> where

> > `a` has to be replaced with the adapter number of the SCSI adapter
> > `i` has to be replaced with the SCSI target id of the recorder

> e.g.

> > `cdattach z: -d cdr:0.2`

> if the recorder id connected to the first adapter with target id 2.

> It's not guaranteed that 0 is the adapter number to use, because that number depends on the adapter driver, number of SCSI chains on that adapter, ... . So just use the target id (that you know), and try different adapter numbers, starting from 0.

Feb 13, 2003 - Someone said on news://secnews.netscape.com/netscape.public.mozilla.os2 that they installed the installer version of Mozilla 1.3b over a zip version and Michael Kaply, the lead on the Warpzilla project responded:

> Don't ever do that.

> You can only install installer builds over one another.

Feb 16, 2003 - Frequently I see people having problems formatting UDF media. Here is a tip from the USBGuy on comp.os.os2.setup.storage that might be something to try:

> You need at least version 1.6.1 (of DANIS506.DMD) or you need to add the switch to not export the IDE drives as SCSI, I think that was /NO_SCSI. Problem is a bug in the OS2CDROM/UDF drivers combo which surfaces if a device is listed as SCSI. Versions > 1.6.1 only report devices as SCSI

> If OS2ASPI.DMD asks for the list and hence get around that bug in those drivers.

Feb 16, 2003 - On comp.os.os2.apps someone was asking about a patch for Colorworks 1.0 which had problems with systems running GRADD based video drivers. Klaus Staedtler did some looking around and here's what he found:

> http://pages.prodigy.net/michaln/os2/cw2gradd.html

Mar 4, 2003 - Voytek Eymont sent in the following tip after reading Tim Sipples' review of PDF viewers from the November 2001 VOICE Newsletter and noting Tim's concern about Acrobat Reader for OS/2 3.0 having a problem with newer PDF formats.:

> On Julian Thomas' site: http://jt-mj.net/os2.html

> " ...
> *** Get my command line utility fixpdf.zip that removes one specific backward-compatibility problem between Acrobat 4 Distiller and Acrobat 3 Reader. The symptom of this problem is the message "Could not find the ColorSpace named 'Cs9'" or Cs6, etc."

Mar 13, 2003 - On comp.os.os2.apps, dink offered the following tip that might speed up page loading on Mozilla:

> Make pages (especially ones with lots of graphics) load a ton faster by adding

> >     user_pref("network.http.max-persistent-connections-per-server", 8);

> to your prefs.js file

> Mozilla uses 2 by default, which might be good for a 56k modem connection but is really inefficient on a cablemodem/adsl line.

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