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From: goudswaa@fraser.sfu.ca (Peter Goudswaard)
Subject: Re: Difference between Non-win and win apps
Organization: Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C., Canada
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1992 23:56:48 GMT

toddwall@rock.concert.net (Todd R Wall -- Catholic Diocese of Raleigh -- Computer Services) writes:


>	My main goal in life is be be able to Zmodem download files and 
>do other constructive work at the same time.  After I fixed my problem w/
>800x600, I started experimenting w/ this goal.  When I run Procomm 2.4.2 as
>a non-windows app and any other non-windows app it freezes up Procomm.  When I
>turn off Exclusive and try it again, it tell me that exclusive needs to be on.
>And sometimes it tells me I don't have enought memory.  However, windows says 
>I have plenty free.  When I run procomm w/ any Windows App it works fine.  

>	So, to the root of my question...  

>		1) Why is it that Non-windows apps cannot take advantage of
>the Virtual memory provided in Windows 3.1?

I'll let someone else answer this one.

>		2) Is there anyway to make DOS run as a Windows App?

No.

>		3) Is my only solution to purchase the Windows versions of
>all of my favorite packages?

No.  Procomm 2.4.2 is pretty old -- if I'm not mistaken, wasn't v2.4.3 the
last public domain or shareware version?  You should upgrade to something
newer.  Because of a mix of DOS and Windows users on our networks, we use
only Procomm Plus Network (for DOS), and I sometimes use Procomm 2.0, both
running under Windows 3.1 very well.  As a matter of fact, I'm logged into
Simon Fraser University right now, a few hundred miles south of here, and
using PCPLUS Network full-screen under 3.1.  It's fast, and it works.


>		4) Is Desqview X or Windows NT a better solution?

If you can afford the platform to run NT or X, you can certainly afford
a new copy of Procomm!

>	I would be very interested in hearing what your opinions are.  

>	Thanks...




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Xref: sparky comp.os.ms-windows.misc:3031 comp.os.ms-windows.setup:1270
From: willimsa@unix1.tcd.ie (Gavin Williams)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc,comp.os.ms-windows.setup
Subject: Re: 800x600x256 on Win 3.1  (Solved)
Date: 15 Sep 92 10:09:31 GMT
Organization: Trinity College, Dublin

In <willimsa.716468379@unix1.tcd.ie> willimsa@unix1.tcd.ie (Gavin Williams) writes:
				     ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^  That's me:-)


>Hi,
>I am looking for the 640x480x256colours resolution, or the 
>800x600x256 resolution.  Unofortunately, once the driver has been
>changed, I cannot access the MSDOS prompt any more.  Every time I
>try it barfs and says, "Incorrect System Version, run Windows setup

Thanks to those who replied.
It seems that the problem was just that the drivers I got with Win31 were
win30 drivers.  I downloaded the new ones and they work fine.
From: ken@minster.york.ac.uk
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
Subject: Re: Corel Draw 3.0 CD-ROM Edition (Reviewed by Tony Thomas)
Date: 9 Sep 92 14:22:44 GMT
Organization: Department of Computer Science, University of York, England
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL5

Tony Thomas (aa699@cleveland.Freenet.Edu) wrote:
: Every computer program has bugs.  It is a question of whether or not the
: bugs are ones you can work around or ones that paralyze you.  Alas, I
: have found one bug in Corel that is very intermittent.  That is a far
: cry from describing it as "buggy as hell"!  

Fine. All programs do have bugs. Corel Draw is big. BUT... they should not
be shipping a package that an ordinary non-expert user like me is likely to
break. The import filters break very often, dumping the program. I had the
most horrible bug where Corel Draw wouldn't write to disk. Utterly refused.
An no, it was nothing to do with disk space. It was the save routine. I had
to export the file as WMF and re-import it after killing CorelDraw. Lucky I
thought of that. The export to TrueType fonts doesn't work more than 50% of
the time.

And no, I am not running windows 3.0. I am running an out of the box 3.1
system with very few wrinkles. Every other major package I have behaves
itself. Why not CorelDraw?

Add to this the atrocious user interface "features" (like why can't you set
the attributes of a whole load of text items together, instead of selecting
them individually, or why can't you set the default text font/size to be
persistent between invocations, or why trying to centre a piece of text
takes over a second on a fast 486, or why my text in Corel pictures always
comes out boldened compared to text generated from Word, or ....) and it's 
clear that CorelDraw 3.0 was rushed onto the market place without adequate 
testing. Which is why they are now shipping patches to it. I understand the 
market pressures on them to do this, but I really would appreciate a little 
more care. Perhaps I've been pampered by Microsoft products.. :-)

One final disclaimer: I _like_ CorelDraw. Fix the niggling user interface
problems, and fix the bugs, and you have the most impressive and useful
drawing program on the market. The shipping of a CD was an excellent move,
and shipping the video tape was inspired. I'll have to see if the latest
patch fixes the problems. 

Are the patches available by FTP? I can see I'll have to wait years for an
official patch disk to be mailed to me.

--
Ken Tindell             Internet      : ken@minster.york.ac.uk
Computer Science Dept., Local FTP site: minster.york.ac.uk
York University,        Tel.          : +44-904-433244         
YO1 5DD, UK             Fax.          : +44-904-432708
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From: albert@cs.uq.oz.au (Albert Ng)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
Subject: wav files in PC-speakers. Solution FOUND!!!!
Summary: wav files on PC-speakers. SOLUTION FOUND!!!
Keywords: wav pc speaker
Date: 7 Sep 92 00:27:32 GMT
Reply-To: albert@cs.uq.oz.au

Remember earlier I asked how to play the wav files armed
with only the PC-speaker. And I get a lot of replies on
that. But 99% said "if you find out tell me too!"
Luckly enough the 1% solved the problem!

Look for speak.exe on ftp.cica.indiana.edu in /pub/pc/win3/sounds
It is a selfextract zip file. In it is a driver by microsoft.
Install like any other drivers for win 3.1.

The result is not as good as a sound blaster card but if you
listen from a distance it is still acceptable. Good fun!

Thank you to Biep who provided the virtal infomation here!

Now that have been solved, can anyone tell me where can I 
find more wav files? I tried archie but no result!

Thanks
Albert
From: mcglob@usissc.DaytonOH.NCR.COM (Brian.McGloin)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
Subject: Re: Windows 3.1 Books
Date: 10 Sep 92 12:53:37 GMT
Reply-To: mcglob@usissc.DaytonOH.NCR.COM (Brian.McGloin)
Organization: DaytonOH.NCR.COM

In article <BuAC7p.9DB@wpi.WPI.EDU$  bigal@wpi.WPI.EDU (Nathan Charles Crowell) writes:
$ Hi. I was wondering if anyone out in net-land had any
$ advice on which of the Windows 3.1 "secrets" books
$ were worth the investment. The books I'm referring to
$ are ones that document .ini changes to optimize/enhance
$ Windows and tweak all of the performance possible out
$ of the Windows environment.
$ 
$ I feel pretty comfortable editing the system files for
$ Windows and playing around with less-than-normal settings,
$ so don't steer me away from books written for experienced
$ Windows users.
$ 
$ Nate
$ Nathan C. Crowell, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering/ACRL

I bought "Windows 3.1 SECRETS" by Brian Livingston. Great Book!  Includes a
boatload full of shareware.  Easy reading and could help anyone from a novice 
to an expert.

PC Magazine also has a good book. I was unaware of it at the time I purchased
the above book.  PC Mag had a book review of the Win 3.1 books a couple of 
issues ago.


Good luck!!!

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NCR Corp.		|  My wife and I are expecting our third child in March
USG/ISS-OLS		|  Our first two are girls named Erin and Meghan
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Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
From: rjhoffma@iastate.edu (Richard J. Hoffmann)
Subject: Re: PKUNZIP v.2.0 ??
Organization: Iowa State University, Ames, IA
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1992 17:58:14 GMT

In article <1992Sep11.141252.3073W@lumina.edb.tih.no> ketil@edb.tih.no writes:
>
>There is a file at ftp.cica.indiana.edu in the win3/sounds directory,
>called muzika.zip, that requires PKUNZIP v.2.0 for uncompressing,
>according to the info in the file. I haven't seen v.2 anywhere, but would
>very much like to decompress this file. Where can I find PKUNZIP 2.0,
>or alternatively, an uncompressed version of muzika.zip?


According to a message stamped on the outside of the manual for PKZip,
which I received about two weeks ago after finally registering, "PKZIP
version 2.0 for MS-DOS anticipated shipping date is within the next
several months due to hardware faults discovered in newer 80386 & 80486
machines."  I take this to mean that PKZIP version 2 is unavailable
unless you have a beta version.



>
>(If the answer is that v.2 is a fully commercial product rather than
>shareware, then I think it is a bad idea using it to compress files
>uploaded to anonymous ftp sites!)


-- 
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Department of Zoology & Genetics   Bitnet: rjhoffma%iastate.edu@isumvs
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From: john.will@satalink.com (John Will)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
Subject: PKUNZIP v.2.0 ??
Date: 12 Sep 92 15:01:00 GMT
Reply-To: john.will@satalink.com (John Will)
Organization: Datamax/Satalink Connection * Ivyland, PA (215) 443-9434

KA.There is a file at ftp.cica.indiana.edu in the win3/sounds directory,
  .called muzika.zip, that requires PKUNZIP v.2.0 for uncompressing,
  .according to the info in the file. I haven't seen v.2 anywhere, but would
  .very much like to decompress this file. Where can I find PKUNZIP 2.0,
  .or alternatively, an uncompressed version of muzika.zip?

PKZIP/PKUNZIP version 2.0 hasn't been released, so I don't know what they
really used to compress that file!
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Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
From: markg@county.lmt.mn.org (Mark Gilbert)
Subject: Full screen DOS box freezes
Summary: Looking for solution to minor Windows problem.
Organization: LaserMaster R&D, Minneapolis, MN  USA
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1992 01:22:12 GMT


Occaisonally when I am running Sage Professional Editor in a full-screen DOS 
box, the editor freezes for a few seconds.  It resumes if I hit alt-
enter to put the DOS box in a Window.

Does anyone know why a full screen DOS box would freeze momentarily?

Mark Gilbert
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc,comp.os.ms-windows.setup
From: willimsa@unix1.tcd.ie (Gavin Williams)
Subject: Installing Oak 800x600x256 driver on Win 3.1
Organization: Trinity College, Dublin
Date: Mon, 14 Sep 1992 10:59:39 GMT


Hi,
I have a problem changing the VGA driver for Win3.1 on my 486/33.
I have an OAK (067) card with 512k.  When I change the driver on
windows, the screen changes without any problem, etc.

I am looking for the 640x480x256colours resolution, or the 
800x600x256 resolution.  Unofortunately, once the driver has been
changed, I cannot access the MSDOS prompt any more.  Every time I
try it barfs and says, "Incorrect System Version, run Windows setup
again".  So, even though my hardware has no problems showing the higher
resolutions, the *ONLY* one that seems to work properly is the 
bog-standard 640x480x16 generic VGA one.

Has anyone got any ideas why this should happen?

BTW FWIW I've tried it with both the Windows 3.1 drivers supplied *with*
Windows, and the Windows 3.0 Drivers supplied with the Oak card (GA100).

Thanks,

Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
From: oneil@cwis.unomaha.edu (Sharon O'Neil)
Subject: Re: 2 questions about fonts
Organization: University of Nebraska at Omaha
Distribution: usa
Date: Sat, 12 Sep 1992 04:32:03 GMT

mcovingt@athena.cs.uga.edu (Michael A. Covington) writes:

>(1) Where can I get a TrueType font for Cyrillic (Russian)?

>(2) What do I need to do to create my own TrueType fonts
>    (or convert some other widely recognized kind into TrueType)?

Well, I know I saw an ad in an old PC Computing that had Cyrillic and other
exotic typefaces and I thought they were truetype, but they're Postscript.
The name of the company is Worldfont for Windows at 1-800-223-0123.  I 
have absolutely NO connection with this company whatsoever.  But at least
you might find what you're looking for.  It says nothing about how much 
they charge for their fonts.  I know that in the last Adobe ad I got in the
mail, they had Cyrillic as well.  So you might look into that.  Again, I
have no connection with Adobe either.  

To answer your second question -- there's a couple programs that will do
what you want.  I haven't bought or used either, but they're called
Alltype and Fontmonger.  The reviews I've read have been critical of 
Alltype and more favorable for Fontmonger, but I guess it really depends
upon what you're planning to use the fonts for.  When you convert a font
from one kind into another, you do lose some of the quality of the font.
(Although, from what I understand, public domain fonts sometimes come 
through the conversion better than before because some conversion programs
actually /add/ hinting to the font.)

Sharon O'Neil
oneil@cwis.unomaha.edu
From: jim@jimmc.chi.il.us (Jim McNicholas)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
Subject: True Type fonts and Memory!!
Date: 15 Sep 92 00:53:58 GMT
Article-I.D.: jimmc.N1a5qB2w165w
Reply-To: jim@jimmc.chi.il.us (Jim McNicholas)
Organization: Prime Time Productions Aurora, Illinois

Has anyone noticed that the more TT fonts they install windows has less 
and less memory available, or is it just me?  Windows 3.1 seems to take 
unreasonable amounts of time to load if I've got alot of TT fonts 
installed!!
Just wonderin'?
jim

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Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
From: kseah@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (K H Seah)
Subject: Re: HUGE swapfile??
Organization: Indiana University
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1992 10:07:21 GMT


The size of the swap file created by Windows is determined by
the available disk space.  If the swap file you have is
permanent, deleting it will cause Windows to warn you that
the swap file has been corrupted when you start a
subsequent session.  You can limit the amount of disk space
that Windows uses for its swap file by opening the Control
Panel, selecting the 386 Enchanced icon and then the
Virtual Memory button.

The drawback of a permanent swap file is that it stays on
your HD even when you've quit Windows.  It does, however,
give you a slight speed advantage [over a temp. one] when
you start up Windows.  In any case, 12M is a little
excessive unless you do some really heavy duty graphics
work.

Hope this helps.

- Hwee

Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
From: PRAETHE@YaleVM.YCC.Yale.Edu (Ethan Evan Prater)
Subject: PKZIP Co. Windows Unarchiver?
Organization: Yale University
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 92 14:14:00 EDT

I rember reading some months back in PC Magazine about a Windows program from
the people who make PKZip. It replaced Zip Manager, their earlier attempt at a
Windows front end. This new version was supposed not to have to shell to DOS
for un/archiving as well as supporting ARJ along with ZIP (maybe LZH too, I
don's know.
 
Does anyone know where this is available? I can't remeber the name of it for
the life of me, except that I think it did not start with Zip. I would assume
it's shareware, since Zip Manager is, but I'm not sure.
 
Thanks.
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Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
From: jeffb@audiolab.UWaterloo.ca (jeff bamford)
Subject: Re: HUGE swapfile??
Organization: Audio Research Group, University of Waterloo
Date: Mon, 14 Sep 1992 17:23:18 GMT

In article <1992Sep14.131810.16367@jupiter.sun.csd.unb.ca> cargibbs@atlas.cs.upei.ca (Rick Gibbs) writes:
>Hello All,
>
>	I have recently upgraded to Win 3.1 on my 386. It has a 120 meg HD,
>and 4 M RAM. 
>	It seems that Win is creating a huge (12 meg) file in my root
>directory with a Hidden attribute. This is on top of the amount of space
>Windows is taking up in its own subdirectories! I have deleted this file a
>couple of times, but Windows keeps re-creating it (however, not every time I
>use the software).
>Rick Gibbs		cargibbs@atlas.cs.upei.ca
>
	Sounds like you found Windows Swapfile.  It uses the hard disk 
to simulate RAM.  I forget exactly where but check your manual on 
Swapfile and it will tell you how to limit the size.  However, Windows
should erase it if you exit properly.  Never turn your computer off
without exiting Windows, if you do all those temp. files are not erased.
Jeff B.


Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
From: pact_ltd@uhura.cc.rochester.edu (Peter A. Schott)
Subject: Re: PKUNZIP v.2.0 ??
Organization: University of Rochester - Rochester, New York
Date: Sun, 13 Sep 92 01:38:01 GMT

I think that I downloaded that file and had no trouble at all unzipping it.
I used the windows unarchive, so that may have made a difference, but I doubt it.
You may want to check out the program.  It should be available at cica as well.
Good luck.	Pete Schott	pact_ltd@uhura.cc.rochester.edu

Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
From: rob@gbrmpa.gov.au (Rob McGill)
Subject: CGA drivers for win3.1????
Organization: Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1992 00:29:11 GMT

Well, the SVGA has gone up in smoke, and while it's away at
the doctor's the only loaner I could find was a CGA: works
fine in DOS, but I can't find any CGA drivers for Windows 3.1
Do they exist??? Can Windows 3.1 be run using a CGA???? More
importantly, is it worth while trying to do anything in graphics
mode on a CGA????
If anyone knows of an FTP site with Windows 3.1 CGA drivers, the
address would be greatly appreciated.

Email or post. Thanks in advance.


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From: kpm8447@tesla.njit.edu
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
Subject: Logitech Mouse update idea
Date: 10 Sep 92 13:27:06 GMT
Organization: New Jersey Institute of Technology

I recently purchased a Logitech mouse and have the mouse buttons program
working in windows with my buttons as "copy" and "paste" this works really
well.  The only problem I have found is that newer software (Excel 4.0,
 Corel 3.0, etc) are utilizing both buttons of a normal mouse.  I think the
mouseware software should be changed to make the middle button of the 3 button
mouse a "shift" key so you can use buttons 1 and 2 normal and to get 3 and 4
you hold down the middle.  Anyone else think this is worth while.
 - Kirk
(Hopefully a Logitech employee will read this and use the idea)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
From: mccall@mksol.dseg.ti.com (fred j mccall 575-3539)
Subject: Re: Memory parity error detected. SYSTEM HALTED.
Keywords: WINDOWS 3.1, CRASH
Organization: Texas Instruments Inc
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1992 16:21:06 GMT

In <1992Sep10.133717.21198@funet.fi> ms86817@cs.tut.fi (Matti Suokko (OH5MRM)) writes:

>	SYSTEM ERROR: Memory parity error detected. System halted.


>	What will cause the error message above ?
>	When I upgraded WIN 3.0 to WIN 3.1 it worked fine, but then
>	I formatted my HD and installed WIN 3.1 again, and 
>	now it crashes 50 times a day. 

This is generally caused by either bad memory or having memory with
different speed ratings (on some motherboards).  The reason it worked
when you did the update and not the full install is that when you just
do the update, Windows 3.1 install won't update some of the device
drivers and will use those that are already on the disk from Windows
3.0. 

>	Should I install 3.0 first and then upgrade it again to 3.1 ?
>	

Well, that would be an interim fix, but you really need to figure out
which of the new Windows drivers is stressing your memory and either
use a different driver or find the problem with the memory.  You lose
performance by using the older drivers (and it is the higher
performance of the new drivers that is causing your memory to fail
where it didn't before).

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Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
From: jzarin@nyx.cs.du.edu (Jason Zarin)
Subject: Windows speedup cards
Organization: University of Denver, Dept. of Math & Comp. Sci.
Distribution: usa
Date: Sat, 5 Sep 92 00:25:38 GMT


I have a 386sx with 4 megs of memory and a slow Trident svga card. 
Windows is PAINFULLY slow most of the time.

If I spend the $250-300 for a speedy Stealth-type card, how much of a
real-world speedup should I expect?  Will Windows run noticibly faster or
will just screen intensive tasks go quicker?

Anyone running a similar setup to mine who has had a similar experience
please respond.

Thanks

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Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
From: sgw@boy.com (Steven Warner)
Subject: PROCOMM for Winddows 1.01 maintenance release
Organization: Beach Systems / RTFM UN*X Solutions, Sunnyvale, CA, USA
Date: Sat, 05 Sep 1992 07:27:21 GMT

Datastorm Technologies is making a maintenance release of
PROCOMM for windows available on their public BBS.  The file
may be downloaded by anyone - no password required.

This release fixes many things, including the 'resource depletion'
problem, which causes unexpected crashing of the system.

A copy of version 1.00 must be already installed on the system
to be upgraded.

The bbs' numbers are 314 875-0503 and 314 875-0608.
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