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From: abraham@iesd.auc.dk (Per Abrahamsen)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.misc,news.groups
Subject: Re: Comp.windows.reog (Re: What in the world happened to this group?)
Date: 4 Oct 92 16:14:05 GMT
	<1992Sep30.231447.23413@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU>
	<id.2BRT.LZK@ferranti.com>
Organization: Mathematics and Computer Science, Aalborg University


In article <1992Sep30.231447.23413@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU>
gl8f@fermi.clas.Virginia.EDU (Greg Lindahl) writes:

> A wee bit of overkill.

>>>>> On 2 Oct 92 18:42:12 GMT, peter@ferranti.com (peter da silva) said:

peter> Well, nothing less has worked, long term.

Agreed, allthough Greg Lindahl did a good job.

peter> Looked like there was quite a bit of discussion. Oh, not at the level of
peter> comp.lang.misc (AKA comp.lang.flame.c), but appropriate for a misc group
peter> in a properly divided hierarchy.

Will you post a RFD?
Newsgroups: comp.windows.misc
From: zxmhv01@mailserv.zdv.uni-tuebingen.de (Volker Hollmann)
Subject: avoid executing of autostart
Organization: Comp. Center (ZDV) U of Tuebingen, FRG
Date: Sun, 27 Sep 1992 21:39:52 GMT

hi,
does anybody know the "hotkey"
to avoid the execution of the 
autostart group.

thank's for help

volker

Newsgroups: comp.windows.misc
From: tomj@pnet16.cts.com (Tom Jenkins)
Subject: Tseng ET4000 Drivers?
Organization: People-Net [pnet16], NCTAMS EASTPAC
Date: Mon, 5 Oct 1992 18:36:07 GMT

So, now that I have the hardware, where does one go to obtain the drivers for
Win3.1?  Perhaps some kind soul can e-mail me copy?

--Tom

UUCP: humu!nctams1!pnet16!tomj
ARPA: humu!nctams1!pnet16!tomj@nosc.mil
INET: tomj@pnet16.cts.com
From: magid@ocf.berkeley.edu (Paul Magid)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.misc
Subject: Pif settings and the high memory area
Date: 4 Oct 1992 01:12:58 GMT
Organization: U.C. Berkeley Open Computing Facility
NNTP-Posting-Host: planecrash.berkeley.edu

My computer is strange.  Ever since I installed my GENOA (Do not buy from this
crappy company) 8800 I have had the mouse on drugs problem.  The only way for 
me to solve this is by checking the "Uses high memory area" check box in all
the pifs of the dos boxes I run.  Now my question  is: can I make the "uses 
high memory area" option globally the default so that if I start up a dos 
program that does not have a pif I will not see the infuriating mouse bug.
In other words I am looking for a win.ini or system.ini setting that will
solve this problem.

Thanks a ton in advance.


Paul


Newsgroups: comp.windows.misc,news.groups
From: peter@ferranti.com (peter da silva)
Subject: Re: Comp.windows.reog (Re: What in the world happened to this group?)
Organization: Xenix Support, FICC
Date: Fri, 2 Oct 1992 18:42:12 GMT

In article <1992Sep30.231447.23413@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> gl8f@fermi.clas.Virginia.EDU (Greg Lindahl) writes:
> In article <id.DANT.887@ferranti.com> peter@ferranti.com (peter da silva) writes:
> >I think it's time for a grand reorganization, here's my proposal:

> A wee bit of overkill.

Well, nothing less has worked, long term.

> My humble opinion, as the self-apointed savior,
> (retired) of comp.windows.misc, is that there is so little misc
> traffic about windowing systems that that group has little purpose. I
> was able to redirect most of the confused Microsoft Windows users to
> the correct group by sending them email, but no appropriate discussion
> appeared on comp.windows.misc.

Looked like there was quite a bit of discussion. Oh, not at the level of
comp.lang.misc (AKA comp.lang.flame.c), but appropriate for a misc group
in a properly divided hierarchy.
-- 
Peter da Silva                                          `-_-'
Ferranti Intl. Ctls. Corp.                               'U` 
Sugar Land, TX  77487-5012
+1 713 274 5180                           Heb jij vandaag je wolf al geaaid ?
From: jms@informix.com (Jack Stephens)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.misc
Subject: PCX format decriptions ?
Date: 29 Sep 92 20:09:41 GMT
Distribution: ba
Organization: Informix Software, Inc.

I'm interested in importing some PCX graphics files into a line manipulation/
rendering program.  Does anyone have a source for (a) a speciification for
the PCX format or (b) PD software to reduce PCX input to a line/coordinate
system ?

Thanks.


Jack
-- 
 -------------------------------------------------------------------------
| Jack Stephens                                         jms@informix.com  |
| Performance Analysis  "And the wind sang a song of longing and need     |
| Informix Software                    as the road rolled out before me." |
Organization: University of Maine System
Date: Thursday, 1 Oct 1992 13:47:13 EDT
From: <IO20049@MAINE.MAINE.EDU>
Newsgroups: comp.windows.misc
Subject: extentions

I recently purchased a cd-rom unit and have found that there are more
extentions, then I ever imagined.  I run the unit through windows
quite a bit of the time, and would like to know more about the
extentions which windows uses.
Could anyone please help me to figure out the meanings of all of the

different dos extentions that are used.  I quickly become confused
with all of the different extentions, such as .gif, .bat., .zap, .wav,
.pic, and so forth.  If anyone is able to provide me with some insight
as to the meaning of the different extentions, as well as how they are
compatible, and what can be done to make two different file types
compatible, I would appreciate it.  If anyone knows of a book that has
a good explaination of these, then I owuld appreciate knowing its
name and author and where I could aquire it.


In need of enlightenment!!!!!

Lucas Baxter
IO20049@MAine
Newsgroups: comp.windows.misc
From: isc10192@nusunix1.nus.sg (KOH KHANG WEE)
Subject: Changing Icon Fonts on NDW 2.0
Organization: National University of Singapore
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]
Date: Sun, 27 Sep 1992 02:19:58 GMT

Hi !

I posted a question about changing icon fonts for windows 3.1 and got
lots of responses, and they work, so thanks to all those who responded.
I recently switched to Norton Desktop For Windows 2.0, but the settings
for the change of fonts for Windows is not the same ad NDW ! Anyone out
there know how to change the icon fonts of NDW 2.0 ?

thanks for the help in advance !

regards

Jerry Koh
From: sietec@infohh.rmi.de (Sietec Consulting)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.misc,comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: Modem Problems with Windows 3.1
Date: 26 Sep 92 13:18:01 GMT
Organization: INFO.box Hamburg

In <Bu84G4.DA5@cs.dal.ca> gajewski@ug.cs.dal.ca (Andy) writes:

>I just bought a 486-50, 8Mb Ram, 130MB HD. I set up dos 5.0, windows 3.1
>and Norton Desktop 1.0. Most stuff works fine except for my modem.
>I can use the modem software when I am not in windows. If I am in windows,
>I get a one charachter delay, so that is no good to me. I tried using other
>software such as that telcom for win or Pro Com Plus. PCPlus will not even
>work outsede of windows. I got com 4 selected on the board, but win reads it
>as com 3. I have a Cardinal 2400 - Fully Haynes Compatible. Most programs
>will connect but the writing is messed up, no matter what I change. (I am not
>new to computers, and I tried all modes, emulations, etc). Also I noticed
>that my mouse does not want to work properly, i.e. it sometimes locks up when
>I exit a non-win application. Also I find that that Notron Desktop makes the
>start up very slow, about twice as long as the program manager.

I had the same problem with a modem card configured as COM4.
The problem obviously lies with the interrupts: the defaults
are COM1:IRQ 4, COM2:IRQ 3, COM3:IRQ 4, COM4:IRQ 3.
Now, if your mouse and your modem port use the same interrupt
(or any other two devices), you probably have that kind of
phenomenon. I now placed my mouse at COM2 and my modem at
COM3. (COM4 and COM1 are never used at the same time as
COM2 and COM3 - so it works quite well.)
Try to change your ports accordingly.

Bye, Ralf.
-- 
< Dr. Ralf Wiegandt                                             >
< SIETEC Consulting Frankfurt                                   >
< Herrnrainweg 5, D-6050 Offenbach, GERMANY                     >
< E-Mail: sietec@infohh.rmi.de                                  >
Newsgroups: comp.windows.misc
From: vsck@cbnewsf.cb.att.com (subhash.c.kapoor)
Subject: missing text while text while printing
Organization: AT&T
Distribution: usa
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 1992 15:34:29 GMT


I am using xwd and xpr to print my windows on to a postscript
printer. Whenever the color of the text in a window 
is closer to white, I do not see the actual
text on the print out. However, if the color of the
text is black, the text does appear on the print out. 

I already know two solutions:
a)  Change the window properties.
    The problem is that my
    users will not like this solution.
b)  Change the application code to
    paint foreground text in black color only.
    Too late.

Is there any other solution?
Does anyone has a copy of xwd and/or xpr?

Thanks.

                Subhash Kapoor (att!mtnet1!vsck) 
                (908 957 6223)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.misc
From: sci30139@nusunix1.nus.sg (TAN CHYE HEE)
Subject: HP Dashboard
Organization: National University of Singapore
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]
Date: Mon, 5 Oct 1992 13:36:35 GMT

Hey,..

Anyone out there using a desktop manager by Hewlet Packard called
Dashboard? It great, but I seem to have a little problem. If I run it in
the super-vga mode, 1024X768 256 colours, it has very small fonts, to
the extent of being unreadable.
I heard that there is a patch for it. Does anyone have it? Or can
someone give me the ftp site to get it?


>Wolvie<
From: arb@mizarvme (Allan R. Batteiger)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.misc
Subject: Re: BIG PROBLEM WITH WINDOWS 3.0 and 3.1 !!!!!!!!
Keywords: WINDOWS
Date: 25 Sep 92 14:46:31 GMT
Organization: Mizar, Inc.

ehrmann@kaa.informatik.rwth-aachen.de (Guido Ehrmann) writes:

>If I try to access to Diskette-drive the System hangs on !
>(Yes the system gets completely down and I can do nothing against it !)
>This happens if I try to use a Disk from Progman and also if i try this from
>another Application !
>(With normal DOS the Drives work perfectly , only in windows trouble !!!!)
>In 3.1 I trieb the following :

I had the same problem!!  It turns out that on my system also a 16mhz 386
the BIOS had to be updated.  There were no error mesages about the bios
being out of date or to old, the suggestion came from my hardware vendor
of the SCSI/floppy controller. 

-- 

Allan R. Batteiger
OS-9 Project Leader
Mizar Digital Systems		email: sun!texsun!mizarvme!arb
Xref: sparky comp.windows.misc:1521 news.groups:18550
From: gl8f@fermi.clas.Virginia.EDU (Greg Lindahl)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.misc,news.groups
Subject: Re: Comp.windows.reog (Re: What in the world happened to this group?)
Date: 30 Sep 92 23:14:47 GMT
Organization: Department of Astronomy, University of Virginia

In article <id.DANT.887@ferranti.com> peter@ferranti.com (peter da silva) writes:

>I think it's time for a grand reorganization, here's my proposal:

A wee bit of overkill. My humble opinion, as the self-apointed savior,
(retired) of comp.windows.misc, is that there is so little misc
traffic about windowing systems that that group has little purpose. I
was able to redirect most of the confused Microsoft Windows users to
the correct group by sending them email, but no appropriate discussion
appeared on comp.windows.misc. The minute that I stopped sending lots
of email, the confused MS Windows users reappeared.

It's dead, Jim. If you want to attempt to revive it, volunteer to take
over the cwm FAQ.
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
From: randy@ms.uky.edu (Randy Appleton)
Subject: Interviews
Date: Thu, 1 Oct 1992 04:41:16 GMT
Organization: University Of Kentucky, Dept. of Math Sciences

I'm tinking of doing a bit of programming with Interviews.  Is there
anything that I should know about this that I cannot get from the
docs?  Does anyone have any interesting experoences they'd like to share?
Finally, is there some better package out there?


-Thanks
-Randy

Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
From: shmdgljd@rchland.vnet.ibm.com (Jay Schmidgall)
Subject: Re: MWM popup problem
Date: Tue, 06 Oct 1992 20:07:41 GMT
Reply-To: jay@vnet.ibm.com
Disclaimer: This posting represents the poster's views, not necessarily those of IBM
Organization: IBM Rochester, MN

In article <1992Oct6.175851.201@riacs.edu>, rsmith@pioneer.arc.nasa.gov (Roger Smith RCS) writes:
|> The problem is that this program is working under every window manager
|> except MWM.  When the program is run under MWM, and the "main" window
|> is iconified, the popup window will never popup until the main window
|> is deiconified.

That's the way mwm works; I don't think there is anything you can do to
change that.

|> Any Suggestions?  

Make the popup a toplevel shell in it's own right instead of a dialog
shell.  I'm not sure that will do it, as it may still be grouped with
your application toplevel shell.

You might try setting the XWMHints (I think) for that shell (popup or
toplevel) so that it is not grouped with your application toplevel shell. 

-- 
: jay          jay@vnet.ibm.com    My opinions and ideas, not my employer's.
: shmdgljd@rchland.vnet.ibm.com    (c) Copyright 1992.  All rights reserved.
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
From: nosmo@ximage.COM (Vince Kraemer)
Subject: Wcl problem (I wonder where my widgets are)
Reply-To: nosmo@ximage.com
Organization: The Internet
Date: Tue, 29 Sep 1992 18:14:04 GMT

I have hacked a version of the standard resource interpreters (Ori/Mri)
to allow me to choose visuals etc. (Basically, I have broken up the call
to XtInitialize into its component parts.)

When I start up my application "normally" only the applicationShell
appears. If I set wcTrace to True, I get:

Wcl  New Root: test_decodispl of class ApplicationShell
Wcl   managed: test_decodispl.bb of class Bulletin
Wcl Warning: test_decodispl.bb.cancel_decompress.wcCreate resource missing - need class or constructor
Wcl   managed: test_decodispl.bb.prev of class OblongButton
Wcl   managed: test_decodispl.bb.next of class OblongButton
Wcl   managed: test_decodispl.bb.exit of class OblongButton
Wcl   managed: test_decodispl.bb.disp_area of class Stub
Calling XtRealizeWidget()

(I know that the warning is telling me that the popup doesn't exist -
but will that really matter wrt the creation and management of the other
children?) 

Has anyone else encountered this behavior?

BTW: I have encountered this problem using OpenWindows 3/OLIT (SunOs
     4.1.2) and AIXWindows/Motif (under AIX 3.2 on RS/6000)

Thanks
Xref: sparky comp.windows.x:17396 comp.windows.open-look:4011 comp.lang.c:14478 comp.lang.c++:14468 comp.sources.testers:50
From: danodom@matt.ksu.ksu.edu (Dan Odom)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x,comp.windows.open-look,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.c++,comp.sources.testers
Subject: Re: To C or not to C...
Date: 2 Oct 1992 19:56:42 -0500
Organization: Kansas State University
NNTP-Posting-Host: matt.ksu.ksu.edu

wutcd@chemnitz.guug.de (Joerg Wunsch) writes:

>No sorry, i remember an introducing document of gcc which states that
>this compiler is believed to be portable to any _32bit_ machine. But,
>do you know anyone running a 8086 nowadays (Laptops exclued)??? Most
>of the DOS boxes are sleeping 32 bitters, so the DJGCC will do what
>you're looking for.

   There is a version of GNU C++ 2.1(?) that will run under MS-DOS
on [34]86 machines.
-- 
Dan Odom
Kansas State University
danodom@matt.ksu.ksu.edu
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
From: tonyf@peacock.ims.com (Antonio Freixas)
Subject: RE: Color string to nearest match converter?
Reply-To: tonyf@ims.com
Organization: Integrated Measurement Systems, Inc.
Date: Mon, 28 Sep 1992 14:51:40 GMT

In article <920925083648.21c00207@TGV.COM>, mahan@TGV.COM (Patrick L. Mahan) writes:
|> #
|> #Before I write it could somebody help me out and send me the code
|> #for a converter that takes a string (matching one of the entries
|> #in rgb.txt) and returns the nearest matching color available in
|> #the current colormap if it cannot get that exact color.  I imagine
|> #it should be quite easy to do, just request the contents of the
|> #entire colormap using XQueryColors and then scan it. If you've
|> #already written this please could I have a copy?
|> #
|> 
|> George,
|> 
|> Have you ever tried: XAllocNamedColor()?
|> 
|> From "X Window System" by Robert Scheifler & James Gettys, Third edition
|> 
|>   "To allocate a read-only color cell using a color name and return the
|>    closest color supported by the hardware in RGB format, use 
|>    XAllocNamedColor" (p 122).
|> 
|> XAllocNamedColor() looks up the color by name and returns both the
|> closest RGB values supported by the hardware and the exact RGB values.

I can't help kibbitzing.

I believe that the "closest color supported by the hardware" is not
the same as the "closest color in the colormap".  The former has to do
with the fact that you can specify 256 levels for the red gun, but the
hardware may only support four levels.

So the matching algorithm is to knock off the insignificant bits of
the RGB values and then look for an EXACT match in the colormap.  If
there isn't any, XAllocNamedColor returns a status of 0.

It would still be handy to have a function that returns the closest
color in the colormap, although someone would have to define
"closest".

					         -- tonyf@ims.com
					       (503) 626-7117 x1349
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
From: wcs@anchor.ho.att.com (Bill Stewart +1-908-949-0705)
Subject: Re: How do you create a greeting message on the root window?
Organization: New Jersey Re-Education Facility for the Differently Clued
Date: Thu, 1 Oct 1992 02:55:04 GMT

In article <01GPBX0J7V1U001B5C@ICNUCEVX.CNUCE.CNR.IT> EB@CNUCE.CNR.IT writes:
   Recently I was staring at my SS while OpenWindows was 
   starting up and a question came to my mind:
	   How is the initial greeting message created?

If you mean the window that comes up and says

	(SUNLOGO) OpenWindows
                  Version 3.0

on your system, and

	(SUNLOGO)	Don't Panic!

in nice friendly letters on my system, the file is
	/usr/openwin/share/etc/NeWS/paintroot.ps

--
				Pray for peace;      Bill
#Bill Stewart 908-949-0705 wcs@anchor.ho.att.com AT&T Bell Labs 4M312 Holmdel NJ
# Trickle-Down Economics: Giving money to government bureaucrats 
#	and hoping some will trickle down to the people who need help.
From: pbd@runyon.cim.cdc.com (Paul Dokas)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Problems building ./extensions/lib/PEX
Date: 30 Sep 92 19:06:55 GMT
Organization: ICEM Systems, Inc.

I'm trying to build X11R5 with PEX on a 386BSD machine (386-40, 8MB
memory, 43MBswap) and I'm having problems in ./extensions/lib/PEX.

First of all, I untarred the raw MIT distribution (mit-[1234].??) and
applied the following patches:  mit patches 1-13, X386 1.0.1 and the
386BSD patches to X386 1.0.1  Then I did a "make World >& world.log"
and a "tail -f world.log" to watch it.

After several hours of compiling, I noticed that while doing a "make
all" in ./extensions/lib/PEX that whenever it tried to compile a *.c
file that included ../include/cpx.h that gcc would complain about
running out of VM (the message is "in ../include/cpx.h:  virtual
memory exhausted")

Does anyone have any ideas as to why this might be happening.  I find
it very hard to believe that a very lightly loaded machine (no NFS, or
other hungry daemons and a small kernel) is using 43MB of swap when
doing a "gcc -c" on ./archive/ar_ops.c.

BTW, this is my *second* attempt at building X11R5 from a clean dist-
ribution.  The first time built successfully with PEX, input extensions,
Type1 fonts and there were *no* VM problems.

I understand that the problem is most likely on the 386BSD side and not
the X11R5 side of things, but I just want to be sure.  If you've seen
a similar problem with the ./extensions/lib/PEX then please tell me
about them.
-- 
#include <std.disclaimer>
#define FULL_NAME                          "Paul Dokas"
#define EMAIL                              "pbd@runyon.cim.cdc.com"
/* we are realizing infinite possibilities in exchange for our soul */
From: wgsaxena@sdrc.com (Rajiv Saxena)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: MIT miscellaneous X extensions.
Keywords: multibuffering Extensions in X , dials, shape
Date: 2 Oct 92 20:48:06 GMT
Organization: SDRC


	We got some MIT X extensions for our IBM RS/6000 machines.
 Having compiled  the lib "libXextSam.a" cleanly and building the
 X server I am wondering what are the extension keywords for the
 various extensions like multibuffering etc.  By keywords I mean
  something which goes with the xinit command, like "pex" in the case
  below.

	 xinit -x pex (to start X server with PEX extension)  

 There are some executables which make use of multibuffering extensions
  but would not fire up because the Xserver is not running with these
  extension.

	
  Would someone out there know about such extensions and how to
  invoke the X server with them.

  Thanks ,
		Rajiv Saxena  

-- 
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Rajiv Saxena                    wgsaxena@sdrc.com	   |
2000 Eastman Dr.		513-576-5906  (Office)	   |
Milford OH 45150            	513-753-0076  (after-hours)|
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From: purtilo@cs.umd.edu (Jim Purtilo)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: copy/paste in openwin
Date: 4 Oct 92 00:17:21 GMT
Organization: U of Maryland, Dept. of Computer Science, Coll. Pk., MD 20742


Hi, new reader of this group, so please excuse if this is a common
question and send FAQ as appropriate.....

I'm looking for a way to combine the "copy" and "paste" operations
into one keystroke/function key/mouseoperation/whatever, rather than
two operations as now in the supplied shelltool.  I've monkeyed with
mapi in .ttyswrc and xmodmap and a dozen other things, without any
success so far.    Suggestions?

Thanks much --

Jim
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
From: savchenk@cgi.COM ("Alex Savchenko")
Subject: Re: Problems using translations : (
Organization: The Internet
Date: Fri, 2 Oct 1992 18:55:50 GMT