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From: donnel@helix.nih.gov (Donald A. Lehn)
Subject: Re: Windows 3.1 -> fuck it!!!
Organization: National Institutes of Health, Bethesda
Date: Thu, 9 Apr 1992 13:41:46 GMT

In article <THOMAS.92Apr8172951@sorley.cogsci.ed.ac.uk> thomas@uk.ac.ed.cogsci writes:
/>In article <1160@ais.com> bruce@ais.com writes:
/>
/>
/>>  chips as you might expect but PAL CPU support chips).  Apparently 3.1
/>>  happened to exercise the faulty chips a bit more strenuously.  
/>
/>  You can say that again. 3.1 finally found a faulty chip in my machine
/>  that 3.0. couldn't care less about.  I wish I could, too. 
/>
/>     
/>      Is there any low-level diag software about, preferably ftp-able?
/>
/>  
/>  Windows exits fatally claiming to have suffered a "Memory Parity
/>  error".(Yes, I am in the process of swapping my memory in and out to
/>  eliminate the foul SIMM (is a SIMM to blame in the frist place??),
/>  but that's tedious to say the least.

I hope that you are not having the same problem I just encountered with
an IBM PS/2 Model 80.  I installed Windows for the first time on a
Ps/2 Model 80 with 2 mb ram and after an hour I got the "Memory Parity
Error".  I shut down the machine and after five minutes turned it back
on in order to run the IBM Diognostics disk.  After running some of the
tests, the machine just died - it wouldn't reboot or anything.  I got
the tech staff to haul it to the shop and they told me that the cpu was
fried.  It seams that Windows was just too much for the virginal cpu (it
had never run in protected mode before).  The motherboard was sent off
to IBM 3 weeks ago for repair and I have yet to get it back. (So much for
IBM's claim that they have to charge more for their systems because they
are more dependable and are more quickly serviced.)  

Don

P.S.  In the last 2 months, my 3 PS/2 Model 80's have gone through 3
8513 monitors, 2 IBM mice and an external floppy drive.  Arghhh!

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Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms,comp.windows.misc
From: mccreary@sword.eng.hou.compaq.com (Ed McCreary)
Subject: Re: Windows NT
Organization: Compaq Computer Corp.
Date: Wed, 8 Apr 1992 14:05:16 GMT

In article <grendel.702658219@harry.cis.ksu.edu.cis.ksu.edu> grendel@cis.ksu.edu (Stephen Spencer ) writes:
..stuff about Windows NT deleted...
>Sorry, but if I can't sit down with MASM and put together a simple (or complex)
>program for Windows together, then there's a problem.  As a students I can't
>afford to buy the developer's addition for Windows just for the libraries
>and the various other linkage necessary.  I find it odd (and will probably not
>find it at all in future versions) that MASM 6.0 has the capability to 
>assemble object code for OS/2 (from what I understand it only takes a quick
>pass through OS/2's linker to create a relatively neat 32-bit binary) but
>makes no effort to allow for Windows development.  Its all very tight and
>neat, I suppose, for the end user, but if future software engineers are able 
>to participate in lower-cost platforms (that are just as capable), what will
>future software be developed under?
>

You could go the Borland route and get either TurboC++ for Windows or
Turbo Pascal for Windows.  Either can be had for < $150.  I like
to consider myself a fairly competent programmer, but I'd *never* 
try to program windows under assemble.  Geesh, it's hard enough under
C.

On a related note, I recently read that Microsoft's compiler products
will no longer support OS/2.  Sigh...
--
McCreary@sword.eng.hou.compaq.com     Computers are like Old Testament gods;
Me? Speak for Compaq?  Yeah, right.   lots of rules and no mercy.
                                                             Joseph Campbell
From: gwe3409@bcsaic.UUCP (Gerald Edgar)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: True Type Hebrew Fonts Wanted
Keywords: Hebrew, Fonts, True Type, Windows 3.1
Date: 10 Apr 92 16:41:08 GMT
Organization: Boeing Computer Services ATC, Seattle

I have tried to track down Hebrew type fonts for True Type. I did find
that Data-cal has them for Adobe Type Manager (if you are interested-
800-223-0123), but $200 for a few fonts seems too high for my low volume
use - I could write out what I want with a paint program. I called
Microsoft Windows Technical support - they refered me to their
international product support division. No fonts - they said -
"you could call Microsoft Israel" for the windows package. All I need is
a few fonts- Does anyone know of such a source? Doesn't anyone at
Microsoft see an opprotunity to package their foreign language fonts?
They could SELL their Hebrew, Arabic, Russian, and ??? fonts.

Barring Microsoft packaging their fonts- who in Israel does mail order
for windows 3.1 that includes Hebrew support (if 3.1 does include 
it).

Gerald W. Edgar                  "I was gratified to be able to 
206-865-4291                      answer promptly. I said I don't
gwe3409@bcsaic.boeing.com         know."   Mark Twain
From: eac@world.std.com (Eric A Cottrell)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Floppy Problems on Win 3.1 Upgrade Setup
Summary: Error messages from floppy with Win 3.1 setup
Keywords: Windows 3.1 Floppy Problem Upgrading
Date: 14 Apr 92 19:47:27 GMT
Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA

Hello All,
I am having trouble upgrading from windows 3.0 to 3.1. Two problems occured.
 
1.) The Dos mode of setup works great. When it switches to run the windows
mode of setup the hd is very active. The screen blanks and the HD light comes
on for about 30 seconds, then goes out for about a minute, then on for about
30 seconds and this cycle repeats. After the second or third cycle the
window's mouse cursor appears, but it cannot be moved. If I run setup again
it says that user.exe could not be loaded during the last install.
 
Something happened so only problem #2 occurs now:
2) Setup will error and say the door is open on the 3.5 disk drive.
Ejecting out the disk and reseating will not help. It will also popup
with a message that says to put disk 1 or disk 2 in the drive. The right
disk is in the drive, but it cannot reconize the disk. The point at which
these things occur is different each time I run the setup program.
 
I tried to install windows from scratch (No 3.0 present) using a different HD
and controller and the same problem occured.
 
My System:
16 MHz 386SX using C&T NEAT chipset and 4 megs of DRAMS.
AMI 386 Bios Plus dated 09/15/1989 with a model number of ENSX-6086-091589-K8
Paradise 1024P VGA setup as an 8 bit card in an 8 bit slot
Logitech Series 7 Bus Mouse with 3 buttons and using the version 5.01 driver
DTC Model 7280 PC-AT 1:1 Interleaved HD/Floppy controller
Mitsumi 3-1/2" disk drive as A: and Mitsumi 5-1/4" disk drive as b:
Seagate 77 mb ST-4096 Hard Disk.
73 Eric eac@world.std.com
From: rbk@sequent.com (Bob Beck)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Windows 3.1 Resource Kit - is this useful?
Date: 13 Apr 92 18:14:41 GMT
Article-I.D.: sequent.1992Apr13.181441.6133
Distribution: usa
Organization: Sequent Computer Systems Inc.

I got my official Windows 3.1 upgrade over the weekend, installed fine.  A
bunch of advertising came with it, and one part is for the "Windows 3.1
Resource Kit" for $19.95 plus shipping/etc.  Does anyone have this and/or can
comment on it - is this useful?  What's in it?  Is it worth $19.95 +
shipping?

Thanks in advance.
-- 
Bob Beck			rbk@sequent.com
Sequent Computer Systems	(503)578-9809
From: lindemaj@HYDRA.ROSE-HULMAN.EDU (Andy Lindeman)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: The new Cica
Date: 14 Apr 92 20:37:00 GMT
Reply-To: lindemaj@HYDRA.ROSE-HULMAN.EDU
Organization: Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology

Now that cica is back up on a new machine, I'm wondering if it is 
dedicated solely to anonymous FTPing and will be online 24 hrs?
Also, what will be the max number of anonymous logins allowed?
In case anybody is wondering, the new address is ftp.cica.indiana.edu
From: Norman.Russell@f43.n140.z1.fidonet.org (Norman Russell)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: QWK Msg Reader for WIN3
Date: Tue, 07 Apr 92 04:07:02 cst
Organization: FidoNet node 1:140/43 - U of S Computing Se, Saskatoon Sask

Does anybody know of a QWK message reader for Windows? 
 
 
   Norm     (norman.russell@f43.n140.z1.fidonet.org) 
 
 
... OFFLINE 1.35 * A seminar on Time Travel will be held 2 weeks ago 

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Standard Disclaimers Apply...
From: fahole@cc.usu.edu
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: NLINK.EXE anyone?
Date: 9 Apr 92 11:45:49 MDT
Organization: Utah State University

Does anyone know where NLINK.EXE can be found?
I downloaded the novell.exe file from the microsoft BBS and NLINK is not
in the file.  Win 3.1 requires that I update my ipx.com file and provides
this nifty utility to do it with one catch, you have to have NLINK.exe.
I assumed that it was a Novell product since MS did not include it but a
phone call to Novell determined that it is a MS product.
It doesn't show up in the users guide index, or on any diskettes that I can
tell.  I can't update my IPX.com without it and can only run in standard mode
with my old ipx.
Any suggestions appreciated.
-- 
David Hole                  FAHOLE@USU
Utah State University       FAHOLE@CC.USU.EDU
Logan, UT                   Just say snow!
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
From: af774@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Chad Cipiti)
Subject: DRWATSON.EXE   ??????
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, (USA)
Date: Wed, 15 Apr 92 21:32:08 GMT


I recently found a program, DRWATSON.EXE, in my Windows 3.1 
 directory.  Apparently it checks for errors.  It's from
 Microsoft, but there is no documention that I can find in the
 manual for it.
AAnyone know exectly what it is?

Thanks

Chad Cipiti
af774@cleveland.freenet.edu
From: packman@tamuts.tamu.edu (Wally Strzelec)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: Trident New Drivers?
Date: 13 Apr 92 12:58:25 GMT
Distribution: comp
Organization: Texas A&M University, College Station

In article <1992Apr11.154342.11642@vax5.cit.cornell.edu> hzh@vax5.cit.cornell.edu writes:
>I am using Trident 8900 super vga card with Windows 3.0 without any problems.
>But recently I switched to Win 3.1 and I can't use my 256 color drivers
>anymore.  Do I need a new driver from Trident?  I tried calling Trident BBS.

On their BBS, they have a new driver for Win 3.1.  It is in the beta
library and takes about 25 min at 2400 baud.  I was able to get
through twice *early* Saturday morning.


	Wally Strzelec
	Texas A&M University
	Unix System Administrator
	packman@tamuts.tamu.edu



Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
From: jcyu@leland.Stanford.EDU (Jeff Yu)
Subject: Re: Using TrueType Fonts Supplied by Applications
Keywords: TrueType, Windows 3.1, PowerPoint, Windows Draw, incompatible, fonts
Organization: DSG, Stanford University, CA 94305, USA
Date: Fri, 17 Apr 92 05:29:07 GMT

I forgot to mention that I am now using the SCREEN bitmap fonts supplied with
my IBM 4019E LaserPrinter w/ Postscript (rather than the ATM fonts, since
I don't have ATM) under Windows 3.0.  I am also using SoftType (Academic 
version) (actually I can't tell whether or not it is doing anything).
I would like to erase all of these bitmap fonts when I install Win 3.1
(or is that too much to ask?)  Windows and emTeX/LaTeX are hogging precious
disk space!!

Thanks again,

Jeff Yu
jcyu@leland.stanford.edu
From: jset_cif@troi.cc.rochester.edu (Jeff Setzer)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: How to move TrueType fonts (long)
Keywords: Windows 3.1 TrueType fonts
Date: 17 Apr 92 16:16:09 GMT
Organization: University of Rochester - Rochester, New York

In <1992Apr17.042055.17081@techbook.com> pkwong@techbook.com (Phil Wong) writes:

<stuff deleted>

>2.  Copy the TT fonts from \WINDOWS\SYSTEM to \TTFONTS.  A single TT font
>    consists of a font metric file (.FOT extension) and a font header file
>    (.TTF extension).  You need to copy both files of each font to \TTFONTS.
>    After verifying the copy process, delete the TT fonts (.FOT and .TTF)
>    from the \WINDOWS\SYSTEM directory.

<more stuff deleted>

>    If you get a directory listing of \WINDOWS\SYSTEM, you will find those
>    TT fonts again, even though you deleted them in Step 2 and unchecked
>    the copy fonts box in Step 4!  The twist here is that only the .FOT
>    files are present, with no .TTF files to be seen.  If you erase the
>    .FOT files in \WINDOWS\SYSTEM, the TT fonts stop working.  If you
>    delete the .FOT files in \TTFONTS, the TT fonts still work!  This would
>    seem to imply that .FOT files have to stay in \WINDOWS\SYSTEM,  although
>   .TTF files could reside elsewhere.  This isn't what we want at all, so
>    what's going on?

I have a question about TT fonts, then.  I just downloaded and installed all
of the fonts in ftp.cica's truetype directory...only the .TTF files were
included in the .zip files.  I thought I'd have a problem with that, but I
tried anyway...and they work fine!  What gives?  No .FOT files, but they
display on the screen fine, scale fine, and print fine.

So what's the deal with .FOT files?
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Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
From: add@newshub.sdsu.edu (James D. Murray)
Subject: Re: Win3.1 and DR-DOS 5.0 problems...
Organization: San Diego State University, College of Sciences
Date: Wed, 8 Apr 1992 19:11:50 GMT

rfs0838@zeus.tamu.edu (SCHAFFTER, RODNEY FRANK, JR) writes:
>
> 	 In PC Week Spencer says that 3.1 runs under DR-DOS 6.0 now if it 
> is installed under MS-DOS 5.0, so that may be an option, if you can trust
> a Katt. 
> 

	I don't quite get that.  Install MS-DOS 5.0, then install Windows 3.1,
then install DR-DOS 6.0, *OR* install MS-DOS 5.0, then install DR-DOS 6.0, 
then install Windows 3.1?

	Is Katt suggesting that Windows 3.1 won't run properly if it
determines the OS is DR-DOS 6.0?
-- 



Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
From: richhsia@crowe.seas.ucla.edu (Richard P. Hsia)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Multimedia questions ...
Date: 17 Apr 92 18:12:29 GMT
Distribution: na
Organization: SEASnet, University of California, Los Angeles

I have a Pro-audio Spectrum card from Media Vision. I read somewhere that
there was software to give it some compatibility with the Sound Blaster. If
this is true, where can I get this?

Also, is there a multi-media player for windows that allows simultaneous
play of both MIDI and WAV files? The auidolnk program included with the PAS 
allows this, but the media player that comes with Windows 3.1 doesn't seem to.
Any help?

Richard
From: bagby@amante.Eng.Sun.COM (Dave Bagby)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: Windows NT - is it a Unix "remix"?
Date: 13 Apr 92 20:52:49 GMT
Reply-To: bagby@amante.Eng.Sun.COM
Organization: Sun Microsystems
NNTP-Posting-Host: amante.eng.sun.com

More information re NT is available on Compuserve - check out the MSWin32 forum, also the
prelim API specs are avail from MS press in two volumes and are in most of my local
computer oriented book stores.

Dave
From: sarnold@bgsu.edu (G. Steve Arnold)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: 4DOS: Windows 3.1 casualty?
Date: 15 Apr 92 20:09:51 GMT
Organization: Bowling Green State University B.G., Oh.

bill@solaria.SCG.HAC.COM (Bill Neisius) writes:

> I can't seem to get 4DOS to run under Windows 3.1.  The window opens,
> and responds properly to internal commands like 'dir' and 'cd' ...
> but as soon as an external command is entered, the whole machine
> Any suggestions?


	Make sure you're running the 4dos command line using the .pif 
file which comes with 4dos 4.0. Hope this helps


steve

-- 
   The only difference between a Communist        G. Steve Arnold
   and a Socialist is that the Socialist will     Dept. Math and Stats.
   only confiscate the resources that are         BGSU
   profitable.                                    sarnold@andy.bgsu.edu
                        "Keep circulating the tapes"
From: gottlieb@woodstock.acslab.umbc.edu (Robert Gottlieb)
Subject: Paradise drivers for 3.1?
Organization: University of Maryland Baltimore County, Mathematics Department
Distribution: comp
Date: Wed, 15 Apr 1992 15:26:53 GMT


I've seen alot of posts for ATI, and other video cards, but how
about Paradise?  Any new drivers from them?  Does anyone know of
either a BBS (toll free or in the MD,DC,VA area), or ftp site?
Thanks in advance.

Robert Gottlieb
gottlieb@umbc4.umbc.edu

Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
From: pvonk@scott.skidmore.edu (Pierre VonKaenel)
Subject: Re: Novell and IPX
Organization: Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs NY, 12866
Date: Thu, 16 Apr 1992 00:52:44 GMT

In article <thomasg.503@epx.hscs.umn.edu> thomasg@epx.hscs.umn.edu (Thomas Gasser) writes:
>
>If you are using the PDIPX from intel there is a new version out.  If you 
>updated the old one with the IPX.OBJ that can with Windows it did as you 
>said locked up the machine.
>

Nope... have not used PDIPX.  Not sure what it's for.  Background....
When we recently switched from token ring to ethernet, I did a lot of
reading-up on the Clarkson packet drivers.  But when the computerr
center bought the cards for us (from Cabletron), I discovered that
Cabletron suppled their own drivers (Clarkson compatible, I guess,
since NCSA Telnet and a host of other PD software works with the
driver).  To generate IPX.COM, I just added Cabletron's software to
the WSGEN files and generated IPX.  Everything worked.  Now, I've
substituted MS' IPX.OBJ and regenerated.  Do I need PDIPX??  Is NETX
MS' generic file to replace NETx (x=3,4,5..))?


-- 
Pierre von Kaenel	| Skidmore College	     | pvonk@scott.skidmore.edu
Math & CS Dept.		| Saratoga Springs, NY 12866 | (518)584-5000 Ext 2391

"Baseball is 90% mental, the other half is physical" - Yogi
From: aruggeri@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Anthony R. Ruggeri)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Wave Editor
Date: 15 Apr 92 16:18:33 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: Princeton University
Originator: news@ernie.Princeton.EDU

The Microsoft MDK (Multimedia Development Kit) includes a program
called WaveEdit, which has additional capabilities above and beyond
the Sound Recorder included with Windows 3.1, such as stereo and
custom recording.  Does anyone know where I can get a copy of this
program, without buying the whole MDK as I am not a developer?
If there is some FTP site somewhere that has this sort of thing I
would really like to know.
-- 
---------------------------------------------------------
Anthony R. Ruggeri         aruggeri@phoenix.princeton.edu
   Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey
 "May you live in interesting times." -Chinese curse
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
From: tanlimco@unixg.ubc.ca (John Jay Tanlimco)
Subject: Re: bgates joke
Organization: University of British Columbia, Vancouver, B.C., Canada
Date: Mon, 6 Apr 1992 18:06:22 GMT

In article <1992Apr3.163657.20508@cs.mcgill.ca> becap@cs.mcgill.ca (Brian CAPSON) writes:
>
>Take this with a grain of salt, it's obviously a forgery. Bill Gates'
>login name at Microsoft isn't bgates, but billg. I can't imagine that
>he'd waste his time reading the OS/2 newsgroup anyway...
>

OK, the login name of Bill Gates isn't bgates nor gatesb nor billg.
The only Gates at microsoft.com is a Lee Gates, does anybody know for
sure the email address of Bill Gates?


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Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
From: garygm@leland.Stanford.EDU (Gary Brainin)
Subject: Event sounds (was Re: SPEAKER.EXE WORKS...SOMETIMES)
Keywords: Win 3.1 speaker driver
Organization: Stanford Law School, Stanford University
Date: Fri, 17 Apr 92 21:10:23 GMT


   It may be a function of what version of a particular app you're
using.  If the app makes its own exclamation box (for instance) rather
than calling the Win3.1 function, then there's no sound.

			-Gary
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Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
From: ulisses@ldgo.columbia.edu (ulisses mello)
Subject: Where is MTSYMBOL.TT ?
Keywords: WfW2; equation editor; truetype
Organization: Lamont-Doherty Geological Observatory
Date: Mon, 13 Apr 1992 19:56:47 GMT


     After upgrading to win3.1 and reinstalling WfW2 I notice that there
is no MTSYMBOL font anymore. Needless to say that all my documents with
embedded equations look very crazy with stars everywhere. The W4W2 replaced   
the MTSYMBOL font by the plain SYMBOL.          
     What is the point ? Different fonts now ? Why didn't they used the
plain symbol font before ?
     Any ideas ?


ulisses
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ulisses@lamont.ldgo.columbia.edu
From: scdrye@descartes.uwaterloo.ca (Stephen Drye)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: WP4W and Win3.1 printer problems!
Date: 10 Apr 92 12:46:04 GMT
Distribution: na
Organization: University of Waterloo

Help!

I just installed Windows 3.1, and when I started up WP4W, it announced
that it was updating printer information, chugged along for a while,
and then UAE'd (sorry, GP faulted) with win2wrs caused a GP fault
in krnl286.exe.

This means I can't select a Windows printer driver! Help! I want to use
TrueType!

Has anyone else seen this?  WordPerfect Tech support hadn't a clue, but
the person I was talking to didn't have Win3.1.  

The workaround that I found was to use the 3.0 drivers, but the new ones
are much faster!

Thanks, 
Steve Drye

PS: this is with the epson, panasonic, and deskjet drivers.
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