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From: kra@cunixa.cc.columbia.edu (Kenneth R Aron)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Re: QEMM Help needed.  Thanks.
Summary: Its fixed
Date: 15 Sep 92 13:28:30 GMT
Article-I.D.: news.1992Sep15.132830.28812
Reply-To: kra@cunixa.cc.columbia.edu (Kenneth R Aron)
Distribution: usa
Organization: Columbia University


	Thanks to everyone who has sent and is still sending me
the fix to my problem.  Please stop :)

	The installer simply left off a zero from each of the hex
ranges. D00-E00 should have been D000-E000.  Everythings up and
running fine.  I actually have more conventional memory free than
when I started, don't ask me how...

Ken



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From: tklancar@galaxy.gov.bc.ca
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Re: Borland C++ vs Turbo C++
Date: 7 Sep 92 01:07:13 -0700
Organization: BC Systems Corporation

In article <1992Sep6.184924.3701@cc.umontreal.ca>, rahmanqi@ERE.UMontreal.CA (Rahman Qazi Ibadur) writes:
> Hello,
> 
>   I am thinking of buying TC++ or BC++. Can anyone tell me the diffrence between these two borland products.
> 
> Thanks
> 
> rahmanqi@brise.ERE.UMontreal.ca


I believe that Borland C++ includes the ability to create Windows programs,
whereas Turbo C++ does not.

Tony
From: v4194rvc@ubvmsb.cc.buffalo.edu (RON C. HAMILTON)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Upgrade 286 or Junk it.......
Date: 11 Sep 92 00:01:00 GMT
Organization: University at Buffalo
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41

I am pretty sure this question has been beat to death already but as a student
I want to make the best decision....

I am currently running a 286 (which has been outdated for some time).  I was
wondering if I should upgrade it (if at all possible) or junk it completely?

I am running VGA with 40 meg and two floppies (3.5 and 5.25) and they suit me 
fine but new softwares such as Windows doesn't like it...

Any help??

Ron C. Hamilton
V4194RVC@ubvmsc.cc.buffalo.edu
From: schin@acs.bu.edu (neil schier)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Physical Media Error????
Date: 8 Sep 92 20:15:03 GMT
Organization: Boston University, Boston, MA, USA
Originator: schin@acs.bu.edu

I seem to have problems with my laptop. The computer does not always (well
seldomly) recognize my b drive and finally it spat out the message:d

"Physical Media Error"

Any ideas?

Regards
Neil
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
From: fox@rei.com (Fuzzy Fox)
Subject: Re: New Stacker
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1992 18:25:09 GMT
Organization: Recognition Equipment, Inc.

kris@microware.com (Kris Hoffmeyer) writes:

>I don't understand how stacker does not have slack space...
>Stacker does allow you to set the file block size, but it installs
>at 8K blocks, right?  So if a file or it's last block is less than
>8K, the rest is "slack", isn't it?

It's true that DOS will not use this space, but Stacker is not DOS.
Stacker will store other data in the unused space.  This is a major way
that Stacker achieves its data compression.

The STACVOL file used by Stacker has 512-byte clusters internally.
Stacker tells DOS that it uses 8K clusters, but inside, where you can't
see, it uses 512-byte clusters.  DOS has the wrong idea about what is
actually going on in its clusters.

This raises the point that if a program expects to write data beyond the
EOF for a file (some virus protectors might do this), then these
programs will not work with Stacker.  Has anyone seen this behavior?

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From: spcberto@cicero.spc.uchicago.edu (Robert Osterlund)
Subject: Re: Opinions on Stacker
Organization: U of Chicago, SSPPCC
Date: Wed, 9 Sep 1992 21:27:06 GMT

Include me in the group of highly satisfied Stacker customers (so far).

I should mention an advantage that no one else has brought up:

Stacker will effectively double the size of any disk caches or RAM disks
you have (when reading/writing Stacker compressed files).  So, I have a
1-1/2 MB disk cache and a 1/2 MB RAM disk, but their effective sizes are
3 MB and 1 MB respectively.  It's like my 6 MB system really has 8 MB!

The only other thing I can add to this discussion is to advise that you
run SCHECK and, if you have it, Norton Disk Doctor (or a similar program)
at every system boot (automatically, from AUTOEXEC.BAT of course).  And do
regular backups.  It pays to be careful.

Bob Osterlund
berto@clio.spc.uchicago.edu
SSPPCC--University of Chicago

Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
From: ts@uwasa.fi (Timo Salmi)
Subject: Re: FTP sites
Organization: University of Vaasa, Finland
Date: Sat, 12 Sep 1992 22:46:03 GMT

In article <1992Sep12.182402.2878@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu> wang_dj@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu (David J Wang) writes:
>Could somebody please send me a list of archive sites for pc's?

  8469 Sep  9 23:59 garbo.uwasa.fi:/pc/pd2/moder14.zip

"If you do not know how to go about getting this material, users are
welcome to email me for the prerecorded garbo.uwasa.fi instructions
(long, circa 29Kb).  North American users are referred to the garbo
mirror on wuarchive.wustl.edu.  Australian users are referred to the
archie.au mirror.  The mirrors may lag occasionally, or might not
have all the files.  If you do not receive my reply within five
days, please ask your own site's system manager to construct a
returnable mail path for you".

..................................................................
Prof. Timo Salmi
Moderating at garbo.uwasa.fi anonymous FTP archives 128.214.87.1
Faculty of Accounting & Industrial Management; University of Vaasa
Internet: ts@uwasa.fi Bitnet: salmi@finfun   ; SF-65101, Finland
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc,comp.os.msdos.misc
From: sunderma@cs.scarolina.edu (Jack Sunderman)
Subject: Re: Handling keyboard macros in Telemate
Organization: USC  Department of Computer Science
Date:  8 Sep 92 19:20:13 GMT

nmiller@starbase.trincoll.edu (norman miller) writes:

>I've been trying out Telemate lately and I must confess that it
>beats MS-Kermit in one crucial respect: I can shift keyboard
>maps in midstream, something I have to do when shifting from the
>Vax (VT102) to our Suns (which seem to prefer ANSI--at least as far
>as the destructive backspace is concerned).

>Question: is there a way, when I do a rlogin from Vax to Sun, of
>shifting keyboard maps without going through the somewhat awkward
>procedure of Alt-M (twice) followed by choosing a new keyboard file?

Norman,

	I use the vt102 emulation on the Suns here most of the time. The
trick I use for creating a destructive backspace is the following:

At the Sun prompt (assuming unix os):

C-shell: Type the following two commands:

%set term=vt100
%stty erase <backspace>

Bourne Shell: Type the following three commands.

%TERM=vt100
%export TERM
%stty erase <backspace>

The first command(s) for both shells tells the shell what terminal type
you have. If you do not give these commands then unix will probably think
you are working on an ansi terminal.
The last command for both shells sets up the destructive delete. BTW- If
you are using the Bourne Shell I suggest you try switching to the
C-shell instead. 

I hope this helps.


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e-mail:    sunderma@usceast.cs.scarolina.edu

Disclaimer: Jack's views are solely his own and to be taken with a
	grain of salt.
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>Thanks in advance.

>Norman Miller
>nmiller@vax1.trincoll.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
From: hcp@csx.cciw.ca (H.C. Pulley)
Subject: Re: Upgrade 286 or Junk it.......
Organization: Canada Centre for Inland Waters
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1992 17:40:15 GMT

In article <9132@ncratl.AtlantaGA.NCR.COM> gedwards@ncratl.AtlantaGA.NCR.COM (Gordon Edwards) writes:
>In <92255.29667.J056600@LMSC5.IS.LMSC.LOCKHEED.COM> J056600@LMSC5.IS.LMSC.LOCKHEED.COM writes:
>>In <BuE01u.2q1@acsu.buffalo.edu>, Ron Hamilton writes:
>:>
>:>>I am pretty sure this question has been beat to death already but as a student
>:>>I want to make the best decision....
>:>>
>:>>I am currently running a 286 (which has been outdated for some time).  I was
>:>>wondering if I should upgrade it (if at all possible) or junk it completely?
>:>>
>:>>I am running VGA with 40 meg and two floppies (3.5 and 5.25) and they suit me
>:>>fine but new softwares such as Windows doesn't like it...
>:>>
>:>>Any help??
>:>
>:>For starters, you can get a new motherboard.  I don't know how much money you
>:>have to play with, but for running Windows on a fairly low budget, you could
>:>perhaps get a 386-40 motherboard with 4 MB on board for under $350.  The other
>
>I recently upgrade from a 286 to a 386-40 and got the motherboard for $199.

I did too.  Mine was $450 Can$ with 4MB RAM.

>You'll probably need a new case, most of the 286 cases (I think) are not
>built in such a way that the 386 board would fit correctly.  A new case with
>power supply is abour $75.

My case is a baby-AT.  The 386 motherboard is for a baby-AT.  It fits just
fine.  As long as you buy a motherboard compatible with your case you should 
be fine.

>You might also consider getting Stacker or something similair to increase 
>your disk space if you're going to be running huge applications like Windows.

I agree; Stacker 2.0 is a good idea.  With a 386-40 I don't even notice any
de/compression lag.

Harry
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From: gregp@bluemtn.COM (Greg Philmon)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Re: Borland C++ vs Turbo C++
Date: 8 Sep 92 17:04:15 GMT
Reply-To: gregp@bluemtn.UUCP (Greg Philmon)
Organization: blue mountain software

Someone asked the differences between Borland C++ and Turbo C++.  Many
responses followed.  Here's one more.

Borland C++ (BC) is considered the "professional" package, Turbo C++
(TC) is not.  

BC includes more powerful, standalone tools for developing, such as the 
excellent Turbo Debugger, profiler, etc.  BC is an optimizing (sp?) compiler,
TC is not.

If you're a professional developer, get BC, else get TC.  They usually 
are about $200 apart.

-- 
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
From: pvonk@scott.skidmore.edu (Pierre VonKaenel)
Subject: Re: EISA Board Compatibility
Organization: Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs NY, 12866
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1992 13:12:32 GMT

In article <1992Sep10.183339.18855@mksol.dseg.ti.com> mccall@mksol.dseg.ti.com (fred j mccall 575-3539) writes:
>In <1992Sep8.173226.10860@scott.skidmore.edu> mfrazer@scott.skidmore.edu (Matthew Frazer) writes:
>
>>EISA Boards have faster bus speeds to the card slots, but do I need to
>>buy all new EISA compatible cards, or can I use my old
>>cards in the EISA slots?
>
>They are not significantly faster (8.33 MHz vice 8 MHz).  The whole
                                    ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>idea behind EISA was that you could plug all your old cards into it
>and they would work.  They do.  There are, in fact, some things that
>you would be hard pressed to find an EISA card for.

Now I *am* confused!  I thought I just read a long thread last month
about EISA and how much faster the bus is, but some folks were worried
that putting an ISA card in the EISA machine would slow down that bus.
8.33 vs. 8 doesn't seem that much faster, and I'd swear the numbers
used for EISA were much higher.  Anyone?......




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Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
From: jnieber@unibase.Unibase.SK.CA (Jeff Niebergall)
Subject: JPEG to TGA
Organization: Unibase Telecom Ltd.
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1992 04:26:32 GMT

Can someone direct me to a ftp site for JPEG utilities that
operate on MS-DOS. I would like to be able to convert large
(2048X1366) JPEG files to Targa (.tga) or preferably compressed
Targa files.

Thanks, jnieber@unibase.unibase.sk.ca
From: agnew@gems.vcu.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: PC-Tools Magazine??
Date: 9 Sep 92 09:02:19 -0400
Organization: Medical College of Virginia

Hi NetWorld!
  I got in the mail a blurb for some magazine about pctools, now i wish
I'd gotten it.  Does anyone out there subscribe to it, and how do you
like it?

Thanks, Jim

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
From: gny@doe.carleton.ca (George N. Yaremchuk)
Subject: 1.44 floppy with old COMPAQ BIOS - how?
Organization: Dept. of Electronics, Carleton University
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1992 23:14:29 GMT

I have a COMPAQ 386/25 with a 1988 era BIOS.  It has a 1.44 floppy
installed which ran fine.  Then I changed the battery for the CMOS,
which destroyed the CMOS contents.  I then ran the COMPAQ Setup program
ver 6.2 to let it know the C: drive exists, etc.  However, setup auto-
detects the 1.44 as a 1.2 MB floppy, and won't let me manually change it.
The only response I get from the dealers is 'spend a$110 or so 
on a new BIOS. Probably a good idea, but it's not my machine.   I'd
prefer to do what was done previously, to fool the BIOS into thinking
there is a 1.44 floppy (as was presumably was done before).  Any help,
pointers, or setup software would be greatly appreciated.

GNY

PS. The machine owner is out of the country for a few months, so I'm
out of luck getting info from him.

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From: baysmn@feserve.cc.purdue.edu (mark bays)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: a good *cheep* diag program
Date: 11 Sep 92 19:05:14 GMT
Followup-To: aritcle by nina@?????? about diag program
Organization: Purdue University

I read an article asking for a diag. program to check the setup of a new PC 
to make sure it is as per. the vendors specs. A program called MSD comes
with Windows 3.1 that gives info on ports (com and lpt), irq's, installed
device drivers, and other important stuff. It can be found on the 'windows'
directory of anyone who has win 3.1(not 3.0, I think). Most people don't 
know it is there. It has been a great help to me when making IO hardware 
setup changes. And it is cheep(free) if you already have windows 3.1- and
if you dont, you should.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc,comp.os.os2.apps
From: lio@ornl.gov (MILLION D L)
Subject: Re: Good PC diagnostics software
Organization: Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1992 13:48:27 GMT

In article <1992Sep9.221429.6051@panix.com> nina@panix.com (Nina Yuan) writes:
>Can anyone recommend a good, comprehensive PC (DOS, Windows or OS/2)
>diagnostics package that does things like test memory, display IRQ's used,
>and so on.  I'd like to get one to make sure my new computer works as
>advertised, and for future reference.
>
>Any comments, suggestions or pointers greatly appreciated.  Thanks!
>
>-nhy

I recently asked a similar question in this space.  Based on the replies
I received, I bought Checkit V3.0 from Touchstone.  It seems to be a
fairly extensive set of diagnostics--it does memory, CPU and co-processor,
disk drives, serial and parallel ports, mouse, video, and so on.  It also
does benchmarks and has configuration reports.  I got it for $85 from 
PC Connection.

One thing I think it needs is an automatic screen blanker for those times
when you set it up to run memory tests overnight, or whatever.  I guess
you can always turn off the monitor while it runs, though.

Dan Million                     Internet:  milliondl@ornl.gov
From: ran@doc.ic.ac.uk (Robert A Nicholls)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Help on TCP/IP 3270 PC set-up
Date: 4 Sep 92 07:29:53 GMT
Organization: Department of Computing, Imperial College, University of London, UK.
NNTP-Posting-Host: swan.doc.ic.ac.uk

To start with let me state that I am a complete novice at this networking
game. This is to let you know at the level you should pitch your answers, if
any, to my following query.

Ok, here goes. What sort of set-up, both hardware and software, do I need to
connect a PC over a TCP/IP network to a 3270 based host. To make things more
complicated, the PC 3270 emulator needs to be running under Microsoft Windows
and it needs to be able to interact in some way with other third party Windows
software. Also, the software should allow multiple sessions.

For example, the PC receives data over the network, the PC without user
intervention interrogates a local database using the received data, which in
turn leads to a new request from the PC to the remote machine.

So how easy is it to do this?

Thanks for any pointers,
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
From: ice@skynet.uucp (Ice)
Subject: Re: Speaking of Window NT
Keywords: Microsoft, Window_NT, SLOW
Organization: Industrial Cybernetics
Date: Sat, 12 Sep 1992 23:28:36 GMT

In article <1992Sep4.164436.2290@cis.ohio-state.edu> cantor@iguana.cis.ohio-state.edu (scott eric cantor) writes:
>
>	Acceptable means as fast as OS/2 on an 8 meg 386/33.  Yes we are
>using a 486/33, and yes it has 16 megs.  If you'll notice, I was replying to
>a complaint from someone talking about a 486/50 with 32 Megs!  So it's
>clear that something unusual (not representative of most machines) is going
>on there.  NT on a 4meg 386 would be terrible.  Guess what?  So is OS/2, cause
>we tried that too.
>

Whose checked out Destiny by Univel (alliance b/n Unix System Labs and
Novell)? Unix System Five release 4.2 with the ability to run Windows
and supposedly OS/2 and DOS. Supposed to be runnable on a 386 with 4 megs
of ram, though more is recommended.

Bill Gates, you've had your time. Now back off and enjoy your earnings.
Keep out of an industry you no longer have the savvy to lead.

Ice()	ice@skynet.uucp...
From: Steven_P._Oliver@bearsden.UUCP (Steven P. Oliver)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Hyper P
Date: 10 Sep 92 01:44:48 GMT
Organization: The Bear's Den BBS   (715) 839-7997

Does anyone have any experience using the new protocol, Hyper P?  I want to
know how well it works and whether to put it on my BBS as an option.

-- Via DLG Pro v0.992
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
From: g89s9058@hippo.ru.ac.za (Shae-Guevara)
Subject: Re: Using full 1 Mb RAM on 286
Keywords: 286 memory LASTBYTE.SYS
Organization: Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa
Date: Mon, 14 Sep 1992 06:56:03 GMT

In <1992Sep9.201947.24270@en.ecn.purdue.edu> kwan@en.ecn.purdue.edu (Yik-Yin Edwin Kwan) writes:

>In article <1992Sep8.112045.371@topaz.comlab.ox.ac.uk> Peter.Breuer@prg.oxford.ac.uk (Peter Breuer) writes:

>[stuff deleted]

>>I reviewed lastbyte.sys for cbip.a a while back, and can certainly
>>recommend it. I have a 386, and can't speak for 286 owners, but it
>>works for me. It might be worth having a look at UMBDRVR.SYS too,
>>in the same directories on archive sites as LASTBYTE.SYS -- I have just a
>>suspicion that it might work for 286s, and someone will post if I'm
>>wrong there ...
>>
>>peter <ptb@uk.ac.ox.comlab>

>I have a 286 laptop but I can't install The Last Byte on it.  The program
>said I have a VL82C202 chip set and I need to set a motherboard jumper
>to make the extra memory available.  I tried the EXCLUDE= option but to
>no avail.

>The 384K above the conventional 640k on my machine is remapped to the
>top of extended memory (400000h - 460000h).  So I believe a full 4M
>is available, but 3M + 384K is in XMS.  Now I am using HIMEM.SYS in 
>MSDOS 4.01 and no EMS, and I have about 530K conventional memory available.

>Is it possible to load some of my device drivers (eg. mouse) or even
>part of DOS into the 3M + 384K and still be able to use them?  I have
>read something about LOADALL, and that HIMEM.SYS and some other drivers 
>are using it.  So I guess it may not be impossible.  But I am not a
>good enough hacker to do this myself ...

>I am not sure if there is really a jumper on the motherboard of my
>laptop.  Even if there is, I think setting it would cause me to lose
>some of the 4M.

Huh?  what  is  lastbyte.sys and where can I get it, it sounds
very interesting.

thanks
barry


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From: gude@uniwa.uwa.edu.au (David J W Emrich)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Re: Borland C++ vs Turbo C++
Date: 7 Sep 1992 22:56:48 +0800
Organization: The University of Westrn Australia
NNTP-Posting-Host: uniwa.uwa.edu.au

tklancar@galaxy.gov.bc.ca writes:

>In article <1992Sep6.184924.3701@cc.umontreal.ca>, rahmanqi@ERE.UMontreal.CA (Rahman Qazi Ibadur) writes:
>> Hello,
>> 
>>   I am thinking of buying TC++ or BC++. Can anyone tell me the diffrence between these two borland products.
>> 
>> Thanks
>> 
>> rahmanqi@brise.ERE.UMontreal.ca


>I believe that Borland C++ includes the ability to create Windows programs,
>whereas Turbo C++ does not.

I'm getting confused, Borland writes all the Turbo products, so isn't
Turbo C++ the same thing as Borland C++?

[dav]    aka
David Emrich
gude@uniwa.uwa.edu.au
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: fox@rei.com (Fuzzy Fox)
Subject: Re: Uninstalling Stacker.. grrrr...
Date: Sat, 12 Sep 1992 00:58:07 GMT
Organization: Recognition Equipment, Inc.

ntaib@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (Iskandar Taib) writes:

>Thanks to all the people who wrote. Apparently it 
>can't be done painlessly, and can only be done if you
>can back up the stacker volume.

The first statement is true, the last statment is not true, at least in
theory.  It is EASIER to backup and restore, but if you don't have any
secondary media, it is not possible.  However, I believe it is somewhat
foolish not to have a backup of your system at any time.  That being
said...

The SDEFRAG program has a /G option which can be used to shrink the size
of the Stacker drive.  If you use this option to free up as much space as
you can on the uncompressed drive, then you can copy lots of files from
the Stacker drive to the uncompressed drive.  This will free up space on
the stacked drive, and you can then run SDEFRAG/G again to free up some
more uncompressed space.  Repeat until all files are copied.

This is a very painful way to go, and does not have the security of the
backup/restore method if something goes wrong.  It is basically the
inverse operation of the automated Stacker INSTALL utility.

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