HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: jinho@iti.gov.sg (Tan Jin Ho)
Subject: Wanted: PC Windows Email for Unix Mail
Organization: Information Technology Institute, National Computer Board, S'pore.
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 1992 03:25:22 GMT


I am looking for an MS Windows-based Email application program that runs on
top of standard PC TCP/IP networks and uses SMTP and/or POP. (ie. it can
read and send UNIX mail).

Any pointers would be greatly appreciated.


Tan Jin Ho
jinho@iti.gov.sg
From: jmann@vineland.pubs.stratus.com (Jim Mann)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
Subject: Re: MICROSOFT IS STACKING THE DECK!
Date: 13 Oct 92 14:34:17 GMT
Reply-To: jmann@vineland.pubs.stratus.com

In article <92287.091613SASTPH@vm.sas.com> SASTPH@vm.sas.com writes:
> In article <1992Oct12.185104.1@vax1.umkc.edu>, edowdy@vax1.umkc.edu  
says:
> >        I just read an article about Microsoft. Apparently  
microsoft
> >has written in "secret codes" to the dos. Essentially these codes  
guarantee
> >that software packages that are not microsoft's will run slower  
and less
> >effeciently than microsoft's because they do not have access to  
these codes!
> >There is apparently much evidence from many companies that  
overwhelmingly
> >proves this is the case.
> >
> (More details omitted.)
> >
> >Can anybody verify this through other sources?
> >
> 
> I'd be very interested in reading the original article.  Can you  
post just
> exactly where you read this?

I doubt that the original poster had his facts straight in terms
of "secret codes."  I think he muddied and misunderstood what
he'd read. More likely the article discusses Microsoft's use
of undocumented DOS calls in their programs.  Other companies
that haven't bought books like Undocumented DOS probably don't
have access to these calls.


--
Jim Mann            
Stratus Computer   jmann@vineland.pubs.stratus.com
From: sichermn@beach.csulb.edu (Jeff Sicherman)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
Subject: Resizing DOS Windows
Date: 16 Oct 92 21:36:42 GMT
Organization: Cal State Long Beach


  It seems like this oughta be a RTFM problem, but I can't find it in any
of the manuals or books on windows:

  How do you change the size of a DOS (application) window. They all seem
to want to be one, same size and the control menu or other sizing mechanisms
don't work. In particular, the border expand a little and then snaps back to
it's original configuration. Is there something I'm missing: a system setting
or special tool ?




-- 
Jeff Sicherman
up the net without a .sig
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
From: artc@bacchus.epps.kodak.com (Art Campbell)
Subject: Re: Font conversions
Reply-To: artc@bacchus.atex.kodak.com
Organization: Atex Publishing Systems, Inc.
Distribution: usa
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1992 13:27:29 GMT

In article <1992Oct10.061329.2890@grian.cps.altadena.ca.us>, morris@grian.cps.altadena.ca.us (Mike Morris) writes:
|> I'm in need of a utility that can take an Adobe Type 1 font or a
|> COrelDraw font file and convert it to a TT font for Win3.1
|> 
|> Anybody got any suggestions?  This is a one or two-time thing for a
|> friend, so an expensive product is not practical.
|> 
I've been eyeing ads for Font Monger, which purports to do this,
but I haven't felt the need yet, so I haven't really checked it out.

Has anyone in netland bought a copy yet?

Art
-- 
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   DoD 358                                  _Real_ BMWs have just two wheels.
    "... In my opinion, there's nothing in this world beats a '52 Vincent 
     and a redheaded girl." -- Richard Thompson
                      All the usual disclaimers apply.
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
From: mwhanley@rodan.acs.syr.edu (Hanley)
Subject: Question concerning Window's Screensaver
Originator: mwhanley@rodan.acs.syr.edu
Organization: Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY
Date: Thu, 8 Oct 92 17:30:17 EDT


     Is it possible to make the Window's screensaver settings
read-only?  The problem is that many users have discovered that
using the Marquee screensaver they can print anything they want,
however distasteful it may be.  Also several users are setting the
password protection on.  These problems are erased every time
the machine is re-booted, but this is not an acceptible answer
to me.
     Two solutions I've worked in my head would be 1) To mark
system.ini read-only or 2)  Remove the MAIN.CPL and use a
third party screensaver.  I'm leary about both because you
lose some functionality and I'm not sure what problem might
arise (especially on a network)
     I was looking for some sort of switch setting you could
put in an ini file, similar to NoSaveSettings in PROGMAN.INI.
Of course, other solutions are welcome.  Thanks in advance.

-matt
mwhanley@mailbox.syr.edu
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc,comp.os.ms-windows.setup
From: mattd@cltr.uq.oz.au (Matthew Deshon)
Subject: Re: Need Screen Blanker for Windows...
Organization: Centre for Language Teaching and Research, Uni of Queensland, AUSTRALIA.
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 1992 05:27:10 GMT

moncrg@iear.arts.rpi.edu (gregory d moncreaff) writes:

>In article <1992Oct13.204125.21345@news2.cis.umn.edu> rjg@umnstat.stat.umn.edu (Robert J. Granvin) writes:
>>
>>Anyways, I need a screen blanker which will run under Windows.  Our new
>>system is active just about 24 hours a day, and I can't afford to leave
>>an image on the screen permanently and burn those brand new non-interlaced
>>phosphors.  :-)
>>
>isn't there a screen saver built into windows 3.1?

Sure is.  Go to the Main group, open the Control Panels group, then open
Desktop.  About halfway down on the left is the screensaver setting.  Not a
huge selection, but it works for me.  I like Mystify :-)

Matt, who just re-installed 3.1 after an unfortunate accident with
Glockenspiel C++ :-(

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From: imj1@cunixa.cc.columbia.edu (Imad M Jureidini)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
Subject: Dragging full windows as on the NeXT
Date: 15 Oct 92 00:38:34 GMT
Organization: Columbia University

Hi!
	I was wondering whether it was possible to get the windows under
 windows 3.1 to be dragged entirely, like on the NeXTs.
Thanx!
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* imj1@cunixa.cc.columbia.edu			    Imad "Hexabyte" Jureidini *
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From: ckalin@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (Christopher Allen Kalin)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
Subject: Video driver for Windows
Date: 7 Oct 1992 16:55:17 GMT
Organization: Computing Services Division, University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: 129.89.7.4
Originator: ckalin@csd4.csd.uwm.edu

This is my first news post, so please excuse me if I posted it in the wrong
place.

I am looking for a video driver for Windows 3.1 that will allow my Paradise
VGA Plus card to display 640x400 in 256 colors.  This card is VESA
compliant, and I am running several games which take advantage of this mode,
such as Links 386, and V For Victory.  I cannot access the Paradise phone
number or BBS, so I'm completely lost.

Thank you in advance.

Send replies to: Ckalin@csd4.csd.uwm.edu
From: paul@ace.acadiau.ca (Paul Steele)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
Subject: Re: Converting Mac TTF-Fonts to Windows TTF ?
Date: 15 Oct 92 11:50:22 GMT
Organization: Acadia University

>2) How to convert them to use with Windows 3.1 (if needed) ?
>
I have a Mac program which will convert TTF fonts to/from windows font 
files.  It seems to work fine for the fonts I've tested it on.  Its called 
TT-Converter.  If you can't find it I can put it on our ftp server.

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Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
From: sam4628@zeus.tamu.edu
Subject: Re: DOS Graphics programs in
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41    
Organization: Texas A&M University, Academic Computing Services
Date: Fri, 16 Oct 1992 17:41:00 GMT

In article <3808.1100.uupcb@satalink.com>, john.will@satalink.com (John Will) writes...
>KW.Has anybody been able to make a DOS program that runs in graphic mode run
>  .inside of a window on Win 3.1  in 386 mode?  I know I'm supposed to be able
>  .to do it, but I can't.
> 
>It's a function of the video drivers, so far the ONLY ones I've seen from
>anywhere that work are the original 16 color Microsoft ones.  After seeing
>it run with those, I can see why it's not a top priority with other 
>vendors, it's like watching paint dry!  Can you spell slooooooooooooooooow!
>---
> . KingQWK 1.05 # 97 . I can't use Windows.  My cat ate my mouse.
>                                                                                             

I ran Quattro Pro 3.0 (DOS) in WYSIWYG mode in a window using 640x480x256
Paradise graphics and in 386 enhanced mode.  It does crawl, and it's a 
real pain to have to scroll the window over to get to the spreadsheet
scroll bars! I only did it once just to see if it would work (it did)
and then forgot it.  (BTW now I have QPro/Win and love it)

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| sam4628@zeus.tamu.edu              | distributing swords is no basis |
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From: hawk@hpavla.avo.hp.com (Dave Hawk)
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1992 18:21:17 GMT
Subject: Re: Ada Interface to Windows
Organization: Hewlett-Packard Avondale Division
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc

In comp.os.ms-windows.misc, mfeldman@seas.gwu.edu (Michael Feldman) writes:

> Meridian has a compiler now available with Windows libraries.
> (Don't ask me what the price is; I don't know.) Call 1-800-221-2522.

> Mike Feldman

I have purchased a copy of this and haven't played around with it much yet,
but I am at least initially a bit disappointed in the way Meridian has
implemented it.  I had been hopeing for a well thought out Ada style 
package which somehow encapsulated (and buried) all of the C-style hacking
that is required currently to produce a Windows program.  I realize that
designing such a package (and doing it right) is non-trivial, but it would 
have been a major contribution to Windows programming.  I was hopeing for
a contribution on the order of what Borland's OWL class hierarchies have
done for their Pascal and C++ languages.  It seems Ada should have even
more potential.

Instead Meridian implemented what they call an "intentionally thin" interface
in which the C-style Windows functions are called more or less directly and
the Ada programmer still has to hack up the C-style parameters.  They had
some good reasons for going this way (they can ski off of all of the existing
Windows documentation such as Petzold, someone that already knows Windows
can learn things faster, and they don't need to produce as much documentation), 
but the net effect is that we can now write our programs in Ada - but they
are still C programs.  Very little of Ada's type-checking capabilities come
into play.  I am not sure Meridan's offering provides any reason to switch
to Ada development for Windows from any of the other languages that are
now available.

I would agree that even if they did provide such a package that I would
want what they did provide as an escape hatch for which I need to do
something unusual.  Borland provides a complete interface to all of the
Windows API in addition to OWL.  A typical program is 90% OWL and 10%
direct API calls. 

David Hawk
Hewlett-Packard Co.
Avondale, PA.
From: jmann@vineland.pubs.stratus.com (Jim Mann)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
Subject: Re: MICROSOFT IS STACKING THE DECK!
Date: 13 Oct 92 16:18:13 GMT
Reply-To: jmann@vineland.pubs.stratus.com

In article <trussell.718986203@cwis> trussell@cwis.unomaha.edu (Tim  
Russell) writes:
> 
>     What's your point?  This was reported widely in the trade rags,  
and has
> been documented quite thoroughly in a book on Windows secrets.  

And what's your point?  That Microsoft uses undocumented system
calls (which ARE documented in a number of books such as the 
one you mention)?   Is there any system out there that doesn't
have undocumented calls/features/commands that are, from time
to time, used in-house?

I think it's
> crap that Microsoft gets away with shit like this, and you can be  
damned
> sure the FTC is taking notes in a big way.  I'm going to laugh my  
head off
> when Microsoft gets pinned to the wall and broken up like Bell was.   
They
> asked for it, and quotes like Gates' sure don't help.
> 

I doubt it will happen.  Microsoft does not have a monopoly
on small computer operating systems or in small computer
applications.  In operating systems, there are machines running
Unix and the Mac OS.  If you don't like DOS, go to one of those.
There are apps that compete with any MS app.  If Microsoft has
such an advantage, why does WordPerfect outsell Word?  Any
judge would laugh an anti-trust suite out of court if the
competors claimed a) unfair advantage but b) their apps are 
bigger sellers than the ones they claim have the unfair
advantage.


--
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Stratus Computer   jmann@vineland.pubs.stratus.com  
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc,comp.os.ms-windows.setup
From: rjg@umnstat.stat.umn.edu (Robert J. Granvin)
Subject: Need Screen Blanker for Windows...
Organization: School of Statistics, University of Minnesota
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1992 20:41:25 GMT

If there's a FAQ, I can't find it...

Anyways, I need a screen blanker which will run under Windows.  Our new
system is active just about 24 hours a day, and I can't afford to leave
an image on the screen permanently and burn those brand new non-interlaced
phosphors.  :-)

I strongly prefer an "active" screen blanker like "explosiv.com" which 
makes it apparent without question that the system is physically on. 
However, I'll take anything that blanks the screen after a set period
of time.

Any help/pointers to applications very much appreciated.

email please!

-- 
Robert J. Granvin                                       School of Statistics
rjg@umnstat.stat.umn.edu                             University of Minnesota
From: RSPEIRS@130.187.170.178 (RON SPEIRS)
Subject: Trouble with Symbol TT Font in WordPerfect
Organization: Evans & Sutherland Computer Corp.
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1992 20:41:24 GMT
X-News-Reader: VMS NEWS 1.11

I am having trouble with the Symbol True Type font which came with the
Windows 3.1 upgrade.  This font appears on the screen and prints OK when
using Write or Paintbrush.  But it does not work in WordPerfect 5.1 for
Windows.  
     1.  The entry for the Symbol TT font does not appear in the font list.
     2.  There are 4 entries for a Symbol font (normal, italic, bold, and
         bold-italic) in the font list.
     3.  When one of these non-TT Symbol fonts is chosen, the proper
         characters appear on the screen, BUT they don't appear in Print
         Preview and they don't print on the printer.  Instead, their
         ASCII equivalents print.
I have tried removing and re-installing the Symbol TT font, but nothing
changes.  Does anyone have any ideas?

Another, possibly related problem:  I recently bought 72 share-ware
True Type fonts from The Software Lab.  They all print OK, but none show
up in Print Preview.

PS:  The Symbol TT font problem predates the share-ware TT font problem.

Ron Speirs, Evans & Sutherland Computer Corp., Salt Lake City, Utah
From: rmt@dstos3.dsto.gov.au (Russell Thamm)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
Subject: Re: Looking for wysiwyg Postscript Viewer for Win3.X
Date: 13 Oct 92 15:32:58 GMT
Organization: DSTOS

In article <19693.2ad45f4b@ul.ie> brehonyt@ul.ie writes:
>Subject: Looking for wysiwyg Postscript Viewer for Win3.X
>From: brehonyt@ul.ie
>Date: 8 Oct 92 16:18:18 GMT



>I am looking for a good postscript viewer for Windows 3.x, wysiwyg ( what
>you see is what you get) if possible. Is there a freeware/shareware PS
>viewer available through anynomous somewhere ?. Thanks in advance.

>Tom.

>+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>+    Tom Brehony, CSIS Dept,       +       Ph : +353-61-333644 Ext 5024     +
>+    University of Limerick,       +       Email :brehonyt@ul.ie            +
>+    Ireland                       +              brehonyt@itdsrv1.ul.ie    +
>+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

Try Ghostscript. It is on SIMTEL and mirrors in the <msdos.postscript>
directory. Get GS252WIN.ZIP plus the fonts archive. The documentation is a 
bit sparce but the software is free and works well. 

The manual page for the Unix version is the only documentation worth using.
I don't know which archive it is in (not GS252WIN.ZIP). 

Good Luck
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From: kevin@edscom.demon.co.uk (Kevin Broadey)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
Subject: Icon gravity app?
Date: 12 Oct 92 15:36:16 GMT
Reply-To: Kevin Broadey <kbroadey@edscom.demon.co.uk>
Organization: EDS-Scicon, Milton Keynes, UK
X-Disclaimer: These opinions are mine: others available on request.

I don't like the way iconised apps always drift to the bottom left of my
screen.  I'd like them to drift to the right and go up the side.

Anyone know of a prog that will do this?

I use Norton Desktop at the moment but I'm willing to change.

TIA

Kevin
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
From: SINARRWB@admin.uh.edu (BELL, ROBERT W.)
Subject: Re: 3.0 Printing Annoyance, and IRQ problems...
Organization: University of Houston Administrative Computing
Date: Thu, 8 Oct 1992 00:50:02 GMT
X-News-Reader: VMS NEWS 1.20

In <1992Oct7.203842.15560@menudo.uh.edu> SINARRWB@admin.uh.edu writes:

> Hola All,
> 
> 1.      This might be a simple question, or not.  I am having some
>     annoyance printing from 2 applications in Windows 3.0.  When I 
>     try to print from one application I get a the DEVICE CONFLICT
>     message telling me another application has control of the LPT1
>     device, and asking me if I want this application to take control
>     of the device (whick of course I do...).   Is there a work around
>     to avoid these conflicts, or make it automatically pass control to 
>     the application trying to print.  Shrug.  Any info or insight would
>     be appreciated.

Ok, ignore this post, I found the solution.  Imagine, it was in the
manuals to my chagrin.  Under "Setting Options for Running in 386 Enhanced
Mode, Handling Device Contention"... Never Warn, Idle 2...Grin..
RTFM..RTMF man...I did, I did..

Bob
From: jer@pender.ee.upenn.edu (Joel Ratsaby)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
Subject: Sound on Win 3.1
Date: 9 Oct 92 00:05:07 GMT
Reply-To: jer@pender.ee.upenn.edu (Joel Ratsaby)
Organization: University of Pennsylvania


What kind of sound capabilities are availble for Win 3.1 ?
What is required for that ? what is a sound board ?
Can sounds be generated from the regular speaker ?
Is MIDI related to this issue ?
I have a MIDI interface for a synthesizer (ROLAND).
I can clearly use it using some sequenceer program, however
I do not believe I can use it for generating sounds using
the speaker .

thanks

--Joel

email: jer@ee.upenn.edu, jer@eniac.seas.upenn.edu
Phone: (215) 898-1858
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
From: tww40334@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Tom Wentworth)
Subject: win 3.1 problem
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Thu, 8 Oct 1992 01:48:58 GMT

I use a logitech compatible mouse and driver and every time I run either
my own terminal program or the one supplied with windows,  my mouse dies
and sometimes the computer locks up.  Then, if I "ctrl-alt-del" my driver
tells me that the driver can't be installed.  My guess is that my modem
(com3) is somehow interfering with my mouse (com2).  

Can anybody help me out?



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From: storm@cs.mcgill.ca (Marc WANDSCHNEIDER)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc,comp.os.ms-windows.apps
Subject: Running software for only a couple of hours
Date: 11 Oct 92 18:45:46 GMT
Organization: McGill University, Montreal, Canada



I was just wondering if there was some way I could have an app launched
automatically at a certain time every day, and then killed a certain number
of hours later that same day.

I want to run WinFax Pro for 4 hours a day, M-F, and haven't read far enough
into the manuals to see if IT does it alone, but I got to thinking that
there are a couple of other cases I wouldn't mind doing this for as well...

Thoughts????

TOodlepiP!
Marc 'em.
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              regarded as a criminal offense.  -- E. W. Dijkstra
From: GJF106@psuvm.psu.edu (Greg Fazzaro)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
Subject: Win3.1 info needed
Date: 12 Oct 92 22:52:18 GMT
Article-I.D.: psuvm.92286.185218GJF106
Organization: Penn State University

I need some help. I have to do a proposal paper for my english class here at
PSU. I am doing it on whether someone lookin to upgrade from DOS should get
Windows3.1 or OS/2 2.0. The paper will deal with power, ease-of-use, user-
friendliness, hardware requirements. The user will be an average engineering
college student. Please e-mail me your comments on Windows 3.1 (nothing on NT
please), why you like it, what it does for you, etc. Also, does anyone know the
 number for Microsoft where I can get product literature? If you can't e-mail,
please post a response to this article. I would like this information ASAP, but
 the paper isn't do for 1.5 months.



                                         Thanks is advance,


                                               Greg
From: kumagic@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu (Stephen R. Figgins)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
Subject: SuperStor Pro crashing my windows.
Date: 14 Oct 92 23:26:13 CDT
Organization: University of Kansas Academic Computing Services

Is anyone out there using the SuperStor Pro package?

I tried using the Pro drivers on my SuperStor 2.0 mountable file.  
Everything appeared to be working fine, but windows would crash
frequently and unexpectedly.  I finally just removed it, and replaced
my 2.0 drivers.  All my windows crashes ceased.  

your thoughts are appreciated.

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