THE WELCH COMPANY
440 Davis Court #1602
San Francisco, CA 94111-2496
415 781 5700


S U M M A R Y


DIARY: August 16, 1994 10:36 AM Tuesday; Rod Welch

Adam and Jeff here to configure cpu with Banyon.

1...Summary/Objective
......Config.sys
.Original Config.sys
2...Memory & SDS


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CONTACTS 
0201 - IBM OS/2                           407 443 2000
020101 - Mr. Jesus Rodriguez
020102 - Dep:  6F8A (ZIP 1024) DOS App "Debug" Specialist =407 443 0452
020103 - Technical Support   =800 992 4777 fax 407 443 6940
0202 - PG&E Computer & Network Opr        415 973 6309 fax 8527
020201 - Mr. Adam G. Wong
020202 - Network Specialist, Room 2201B, Mail Code B22A =415 973 8527
0203 - PG&E VP Power System               415 223 4504 fax or 800...
020301 - Mr. Jeff A. Steinberg; Rm 2319; Mail Code B23B =415 223 4504

SUBJECTS
Proposal, Contract & Support
Network Access Procedures
SDS Workstation
Network Access/Interface, OS2
LAN, Banyan ethernet, 940810
3x647,psh  Banyan Network
Config.sys
Memory Management

1010 -    ..
1011 - Summary/Objective
1012 -
101201 - Followed up work at ref SDS 16 0000.
101202 -
101203 - Completed configuring PG&E network to boot up on my cpu under os2.
101204 - Still need to configure an icon folder and solve printer interface
101205 - problem.
101206 -
101207 -
101208 -  ..
1013 -
1014 -
1015 - Progress
1016 -
101601 - Called and left message for Jeff to call on when he is coming by this
101602 - morning.
101603 -
101604 -
101605 -  ..
1017 -
1018 -
1019 - 1322 Adam and Jeff
1020 -
102001 - Adam re-installed Banyan Vines in the directory "Vines".  He removed
102002 - the ban directory.  The string to log-on in an OS2 folder is:
102003 -
102004 -                  cd\vines
102005 -                  ban /nl
102006 -                  z: login temp@tspm@ps /pass:temp
102007 -
102008 -          ...should this really be temp2@tspm@ps [????]
102009 -
102010 -           [That turned out to be true, per ref SDS 12 line 47.]
102011 -
102012 -
102013 -       ..
102014 -      Config.sys
102015 -
102016 -      Saved the existing file as:
102017 -
102018 -                      config.old
102019 -
102020 -         ...however there is another file it looked like Adam created
102021 -         called:
102022 -
102023 -                      config.agw
102024 -
102025 -              Config.old ref OF 4 line 70, is dated 940816 which is the
102026 -              day the work was done (today) and the date of config.agw
102027 -              is 940813.  So I am somewhat confused about which is the
102028 -              "original" file modified by Adam today.
102029 -              ..
102030 -              It appears he saved the original to config.agw,
102031 -              ref OF 3 line 70; then when the thing was installed, the
102032 -              Banyan Vines program made another change, which then
102033 -              created the config.old file.
102034 -
102035 -                   ..
102036 -                  Save Original Config.sys
102037 -
102038 -                  I put config.agw for safe keeping in following
102039 -                  directory, so when the project is over, we can
102040 -                  restore things:
102041 -
102042 -                             c: os2 install config.agw
102043 -
102044 -                   Saved Banyan config.sys to:
102045 -
102046 -                             c: os2 install config.ban
102047 -
102048 -                   Decided to save config.old also, because it may be
102049 -                   an intermediate step needed; so we have:
102050 -
102051 -                             c: os2 install config.old
102052 -                   ..
102053 -                   I then deleted the redundant config.x files in
102054 -                   root directory.
102055 -
102056 -         The new config.sys has the commands at the end of the file,
102057 -         beginning at ref OF 5 line 80; except there are three new
102058 -         lines below the Files=20 line, ref OF 5 line 25 calling
102059 -         commands in directory:
102060 -
102061 -                      c:\ibmcom
102062 -
102063 -         It also looks like the libpath statement has been changed to
102064 -         include c:\vines at line ref OF 5 line 16.
102065 -
102066 -
102067 - We looked at the record at ref SDS 14 line 118, where IBM reports
102068 - Banyan must be booted in a vm mode.  This does not seem to be correct.
102069 -   ..
102070 -   Adam was able to log onto the network by manually entering the
102071 -   above commands in an os2 window.
102072 -
102073 -
102074 -
102075 -  ..
1021 -
1022 -
1023 - OS2 Folder
1024 -
102401 - After Adam and Jeff left, I created an os2 folder to execute the
102402 - above commands.
102403 -
102404 - Initially, I could not get ban.exe to boot up in a folder.  I then
102405 - tried using a template for an os2 program, and moving to the desktop.
102406 - I loaded ban.exe in it and it worked.
102407 -
102408 -
102409 -  ..
102410 - Memory & SDS
102411 -
102412 - Banyan under OS2 All DOS and Windows apps, still have 752K of RAM.
102413 -
102414 -
102415 -  ..
1025 -
1026 -
1027 - 1448 called IBM to configure folder
1028 -
102801 - How do we make a folder to call an os2 program.  Talked to Christian.
102802 -
102803 - He had difficulty getting me connected to technical support in Austin
102804 - for some reason.  He said their system was having problems.
102805 -
102806 -
102807 -  ..
1029 -
1030 -
1031 - 1557 talked to Tanya
1032 -   ..
103201 - She is familiar with Banyan Vines.  Initially, Tanya recommended
103202 - using a rexx method she called:
103203 -
103204 -                     sys_create_object
103205 -
103206 -
103207 -
1033 -

SUBJECTS
REXX
Editor

1205 -   ..
120501 - Upon discussion, we decided to first try simply creating an os2
120502 - batch file, which needs an extension, "cmd."  We evidently have to use
120503 - the os2 editor to do this, because that is the only thing rexx will
120504 - read.
120505 -
120506 -    [This turned out not to be true, our DOS Medit editor is okay, just
120507 -    need a cmd extension, per ref SDS 17 line 119.]
120508 - ..
120509 - Created a three line file, thus:
120510 -
120511 -                  cd\vines
120512 -                  ban /nl
120513 -                  z: login temp2@tspm@ps /pass:temp
120514 -
120515 -   ...this boots and sort of runs, but after we get logged on to the
120516 -   network the window is closed.  It is not clear where it goes.
120517 - ..
120518 - Looks like we may need a switch to keep the thing open.
120519 -
120520 -
120521 -
120522 -
1206 -

SUBJECTS
OS2, Configuration, Path for OS2 Windows
OS2 Installation on CPU #3, Config.sys

1405 -   ..
140501 - Decided to try adding the sds path to the os2 windows libpath
140502 - statement, so we when we log onto the network, it is automatically in
140503 - the path.
140504 -
140505 -
140506 -
140507 -  ..
1406 -
1407 -
1408 - config.sys
1409 -
140901 - Line 16 - appended to this line:
140902 -
140903 -               c:\sd\01
140904 -
140905 -   ...later changed to insert above on the "path" line, below libpath.
140906 -
140907 -   [This worked per ref SDS 18 line 52.]
140908 -
140909 -
1410 -

SUBJECTS
Printer
Extra sheet with pcl

1505 -   ..
150501 - Asked Adam and Jeff if they have any ideas about why we are
150502 - getting an extra sheet of paper from the printer, per ref SDS 15 line
150503 - 162.
150504 -
150505 - They did not have any suggestions on this point.
150506 -
150507 -     [On 940823 got solution. ref SDS 19 0001
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