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From: tomh@wes.on.ca (Tom Haapanen)
Subject: Re: Text scrolling speed in ProcommPlus/Win
Organization: Waterloo Engineering Software
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 12:07:50 GMT

> bgupta@micro.caltech.edu (Bhusan Gupta) writes:
>> I recently got ProcommPlus for Windows (1.01) and started using it. The only 
>> problem is that the scrolling speed is too slow.  I am running it on a 
>> 486(dx266) with a ati ultra pro (30M winmarks). What tricks do I have at my 
>> disposal to speed up the scrolling? I have tried various fonts only to see 
>> no big improvement. Any hints?

I use the original Graphics Ultra both on a 386/40 (ProComm Plus with a 
v.32bis modem), and a 486/33 (TCP/IP based terminal emulator).  Scrolling
is just wonderful.  

I suspect that you need to set "Terminal Update" to "Fast" under Procomm's
Setup -> Terminal.  Doing single-character updates doesn't do wonders for
the display speed.

banshee@cats.ucsc.edu (Wailer at the Gates of Dawn) writes:
> Let this be a warning to those who might buy based on a "winmark" rating
> alone.  Test real applications before you buy or have an option to return.

IMHO WinMarks are useless as it's far too narrow a benchmark.  One of my
Ultras was originally a Paradise WD-based accelerator, which WinMarked 
better than the Ultra.  In real use, though, it was sluggish, and scrolled
horribly slowly -- and had buggy drivers (maybe Diamond wrote them?).  I
returned it, paid another $150 and got an Ultra.

[ \tom haapanen    "i don't even know what street canada is on" -- al capone ]
[ tomh@wes.on.ca                   "trust the programmer" -- ansi c standard ]
[ waterloo engineering software      "to thine own self be true" -- polonius ]
From: Casey.Vanloo@ttlg.UUCP (Casey Vanloo)
Sender: postmaster@ttlg.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.apps
Subject: RE: TAR FOR DOS OR WINDOW
Date: 01 Jan 93  14:58:53 mst

>     I am looking for a TAR utility for DOS or Windows that can read
>     standard UNIX TAR format on 1/4" cartridge tapes.  I am running
>     a QIC150 tape drive controlled by an Adaptec 1542 SCSI board.  
      
>     Any ideas?
      
>     Mike Stanbro
      
Hi Mike, I have what you need here. The filename in tar.zip .

    Via Silver Xpress V3.01

 * Origin: Alberta Express RBBS-PC (403) 471-6763 14.4 HST (42:100/41)
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From: mikelo@cecil.mentorg.com (Mike Lottridge)
Subject: Cross Talk For Windows Answer Script
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 20:01:21 GMT
Organization: Mentor Graphics
Keywords: 
Followup-To: 

I'm having trouble with the upload option in the 
answer script. Someone can call in, select the download 
option, and download files ok (although they have to 
enter the full path name to the file, the list 
directory option knows the default directory and 
lists it fine, but download doesn't use the default 
name). But if they select upload, with zmodem, the 
system hangs. They are using a MAC, btw.
From: chris.mcmahan@nitelog.com (Chris Mcmahan) 
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.apps
Subject: DROP
Date: 30 Dec 92 16:21:00 GMT
Distribution: world
Organization: Nitelog BBS - Monterey, CA - 408-655-1096
Reply-To: chris.mcmahan@nitelog.com (Chris Mcmahan)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.apps
Subject: A public domain uninstall program?
From: edowdy@vax1.umkc.edu
Date: 3 Jan 93 16:20:00 CST
Organization: University of Missouri - Kansas City
NNTP-Posting-Host: vax1.umkc.edu

Happy NEW YEAR everyone!

A quick question: Does anyone know of an uninstall program that is public
domain? I have seen one (can't remember the name) for around $40 commercially.

Thanks

Eric D.
U of Mo.
From: banshee@cats.ucsc.edu (Wailer at the Gates of Dawn)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.apps
Subject: Re: QPro for Win: A Mega Resource Hog? - BUGS?
Date: 22 Dec 1992 05:24:03 GMT
Organization: University of California, Santa Cruz
NNTP-Posting-Host: am.ucsc.edu


lachlan@dmp.csiro.au (Lachlan Cranswick) writes:
>Also, how does this resources hogging affect Windows?
>Is it just an asthetic thing that apps should not
>hogg resources.
I run QPW effectively on a 386/25 with 8 meg of memory.  Though the
marketing slime say 4 meg is required, 8 is needed to make things
happy.

>Sorry if this has been asked before but whenever
>a DOS app gets ported to Windows, there is a worry
>about how much is has been maimed by the experience.
QPW is _not_ a port.  It is 100% new code.  QPW is all C++, QproDos
is currently in modula-2.
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From: tom@vpnet.chi.il.us (Tom Hansen)
Subject: Re: Lotus ORganizer quest
Organization: Vpnet Public Access
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 15:01:31 GMT

In article <1992Dec21.002745.28060@midway.uchicago.edu> gmf2@midway.uchicago.edu writes:
>I am thinking about buying a FIlofax/Daytimer as well
>as Lotus organzier. ANyone know how you can print out
>paper to put in the hardversions? (i.e. must you get special
>paper, is it hard to to get, expensive, etc) Oh yeah, i have
>a DJ500 printer.
>
>Any comments about this program by email are greatly apprecitaetd.
>

	The Daytimer Catalogue has laser sheets which work just fine
	in the Deskjet.  Two pages/sheet, 125 sheets for approx $10.
	I use it with The Desktop Set for Windows (kind of like the
	Lotus product, but I like it a lot better) and it does a great
	job.  I don't know what kind of support the Lotus Organizer
	has for these sheet sizes.  Suggest you compare with the
	Desktop Set for features before you buy software.  Also, make
	sure you buy the correct size paper for you Daytimer. I use
	"K", and don't know that it's available in all sizes.

	Tom

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From: law30129@nusunix1.nus.sg (GNANASIHAMANI KANNAN)
Subject: Re: Corel vs. ATM vs. Windows fonts - help!
Organization: National University of Singapore
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]
       
Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 06:59:53 GMT

      i'll try and help u with Question 1.

       I dont't know about the method you tried but I was successfully
       able to rename some True Type fonts using a liitle DOS sharaware
       app I found in CICA.  I think its in the Fonts subdir.  The 
       description in the INDEX file is quite clear.


       KANNAN
       NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE
From: bneale@access.digex.com (Brian Neale)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.apps
Subject: WinFax Pro 3.0 Wont Send
Date: 29 Dec 1992 21:46:11 GMT
Organization: Express Access Online Communications, Greenbelt MD USA
NNTP-Posting-Host: access.digex.com
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL3


Just got WinFax Pro 3.0.  It seems to receive okay, but it fails after the
first page when sending. I am using a Zoom VFX External 14.4 Fax Modem. 
It's on WinFax's modem list in it's configuration program.  

Has anyone else had any problems with WinFax Pro 3.0?  Any comments
appreciated.
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Brian Neale 
bneale@access.digex.com
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From: mic@hpfcso.FC.HP.COM (Marc Clarke)
Date: Sun, 27 Dec 1992 20:25:06 GMT
Subject: Re: HELP!!!!!  TAPE!!!!  BACKUP!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Organization: Hewlett-Packard, Ft. Collins, CO
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.apps

You must have gotten a more up-to-date copy of NDW 2.0 than I did.
Glad to hear the tape backup comes as part of the package now.  Sad to
hear it does not work.  I guess I will hold off buying a CMS Jumbo for
a while until Symantec gets their s**t together for supporting it.
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.apps
From: rsrodger@wam.umd.edu (Yamanari)
Subject: Re: WinFAX PRO v3: OCR
Organization: University of Maryland, College Park
Date: Sat, 2 Jan 1993 19:55:52 GMT

In article <rhughes.27.0@ucsd.edu> rhughes@ucsd.edu (Richard J. Hughes) writes:
>I purchased WinFAX Pro v2 and never received an upgrade offer to v3, nor do 
>I see any upgrades offered in the stores.  I just purchased a copy of 
>ZSoft's UltraFAX program for $86, inclusive of tax.  This program really is
>*great*.  I now see posted here that upgrades to WinFAX Pro 3 are available 
>for $49 plus s&h (why do they always sock it to us with the additional 
>shipping and handling?), perhaps $60 then.  I doubt it compares well to 
>UltraFAX.
>
>Providing both sender and recipient are running UltraFAX, you have the best 
>of both worlds, as you can send binary files at 9600 baud on 96/24 baud 
>modems.  How come no-one else thought of this?  


	Intel has offered this capability on the SatisFaxtions since day 1.


>The OCR component seems 
>reasonably capable, with omnifont recognition, although Calera's FAX Grabber 
>is better (albeit a pain in the rear to use).  You can also scan directly 
>into UltraFAX using a multitude of scanners.


	Ahh.  Anyone want to do a test?  I was pretty impressed with Faxgrabber
	when it came to handling a variety of proportional fonts.  OTOH, 
	it is absolutely *miserable* at handling noise.


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From: Jim.Garven@utxvm.cc.utexas.edu (James R. Garven)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.apps
Subject: Re: W4W to Word for Mac - Help!
Date: 26 Dec 92 20:36:33 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: Department of Finance, The University of Texas at Austin

In article <1992Dec21.231401.18617@iti.org> cdj@iti.org (Chris D. Jennings) writes:
>From: cdj@iti.org (Chris D. Jennings)
>Subject: W4W to Word for Mac - Help!
>Date: 21 Dec 92 23:14:01 GMT
>
>I am not currently a Word user or a Windows user.  I am beginning to
>work with some people who use Macs (running Word) exclusively, and I
>want to be able to give them disks that they can read without losing
>all the text formatting.  Someone told me that this is possible by
>saving a file to disk from W4W and then simply opening the file in
>Word for the Mac.  Can anyone tell me whether this is true, and if
>not, what is the easiest way to get a file from a PC into Word for
>the Mac without losing much text formatting?
>
>Thanks in advance,
>- Chris (cdj@hela.iti.org)

I regularly work with a colleague who uses Word for the MAC, version 5.0, 
and I use Word for Windows 2.0.  The trick is to save in W4W  2.0 format on 
both platforms.  Apparently the converter for the MAC which translates W4W 2.
0 files is superior to the converter for the PC which translates Word for 
the MAC version 5.0.  If you use these versions of the programs, there is 
only very minimal adjustments which must be made, even on very long 
documents featuring extensive graphics.  However, earlier versions on either 
platform don't work that well together; e.g., forget about translating W4W 2.
0 equations into Word for the MAC version 4.0

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From: law30129@nusunix1.nus.sg (GNANASIHAMANI KANNAN)
Subject: Amipro 3.1 - Info ??
Organization: National University of Singapore
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]
Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 13:35:53 GMT

      I've been using Amipro  3.0 for a while and was wondering
      whether it would be worth the hassle to upgrade to ver 3.1.
      What new feature are in 3.1 or is it just a bug fix - and
      if so , what bugs were fixed

      Thanks !
From: terry@spcvxb.spc.edu (Terry Kennedy, Operations Mgr.)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.apps
Subject: Re: STAR TREK: After Dark screen saver EATS IT!!
Date: 22 Dec 92 08:21:24 GMT
Followup-To: comp.os.ms-windows.apps
Distribution: usa
Organization: St. Peter's College, US

In article <24551@hacgate.SCG.HAC.COM>, diamond@vulcan1.edsg.hac.com (Warren R. Diamond) writes:
> Has anyone else had some memory unavailable problems, mysterious crashes,
> while using After Dark?

  I've had a _very_ bad experience with their so-called "customer service".
I bought AD 2.0 for my system, which has a Matrox Impression 1024 card (it's
1024x768, 24-bit "true color"). I found various problems with AD and called
them up to ask about it. I was expecting them to give me some story about how
it was a Matrox driver problem. However, they were candid and admitted that
it was their problem. They said they had no idea how to fix the problem, even
though they had some cards in-house that demonstrated the problem. The tech
went on to say "be glad you don't have 2.0A - it would refuse to run on that
card".

  I sent their CEO a letter saying that I found their response unacceptable,
and that a company that develops a software package should either expect to
be able to correct bugs, or note on the package that it doesn't work with some
common video cards. I got back a "thank you for your comments" FAX saying that
I should buy ST 1.0 from them, even though it _still_ doesn't work with 24-bit
(and some 256-color) video cards. They completely ignored my complaints.

  I sent a return letter that basically said "I'll buy another one of your
products when Hell freezes over". Idiots.

	Terry Kennedy		Operations Manager, Academic Computing
	terry@spcvxa.bitnet	St. Peter's College, Jersey City, NJ USA
	terry@spcvxa.spc.edu	+1 201 915 9381
From: ruckman@oasys.dt.navy.mil (Christopher Ruckman)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.apps
Subject: How to run QVTNet w/ PCNFS, DIS_PKT9 ??
Date: 29 Dec 92 14:01:01 GMT
Reply-To: ruckman@oasys.dt.navy.mil (Christopher Ruckman)
Organization: Carderock Division, NSWC, Bethesda, MD

Please, some help from someone familiar with DIS_PKT9??

I have PC-NFS 4.0, and would like to try out QVTNet 3.03.  I have
(successfully, I think) installed PC-NFS to run using NDIS.  Now I need
to install DIS-PKT9, but when it runs it gives an error message that
reads "interrupt vector for packet driver not specified in PROTOCOL.INI".

My PROTOCOL.INI contains the following:

[Protocol Manager]
drivername=PROTMAN$
[EtherLink]
drivername=ELNKII$
ioaddress=0x310
interrupt=2
[NFS-NDIS]
drivername=NFSLINK$
bindings=EtherLink

Is there some other place where the interrupt needs to be specified?

Any hints/advice would be welcomed!

Chris
From: timborn@cbnewsd.cb.att.com (timothy.d.born)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.apps
Subject: Disjoint 'Glossary' in MS Word for Windows
Date: 28 Dec 92 18:04:42 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: AT&T

In MS Word for Windows, a persons name & address go into a glossary.
The glossary seems to be bound to the template type (personal letters
have a glossary disjoint from block letters, disjoint from semi-block 
letters, etc.).  After poking around, I see where they have hidden 
the glossary information.

Seems to me, names & addresses is an independent concept from the style 
of letter.

Does anyone have a method of merging these glossaries together in some 
fashion?  All I can come up with is a program that rips them out of the
binaries, sort/merge & reinserts them back.  It is far more risky than 
I like.  I'm actually hoping someone has a more straightforward answer.

Email replay preferred.

-tim
t.born@att.com
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.apps
From: rfarman@beta.lanl.gov (Richard F. Farman)
Subject: Re: Scientific graphing/analysis programs.
Organization: Los Alamos National Laboratory
Date: Fri, 1 Jan 1993 18:24:52 GMT

In article <C06qH2.4uE@space.physics.uiowa.edu> rlm@sunlight.Physics.UIowa.Edu (Robert Mutel) writes:
>We use AXUM for DOS (v.2.0) and are fairly satisfied. The one feature I 
>have yet to find in any of these programs is the ability to specify an
>arbitrary
>function to fit to a set of data points. The program should do a LSQ solution
>with an correlation matrix for the coefficients. 
>
>Does anyone know of a program which does this?
>  
>-- 
>Robert Mutel
>Department of Physics and Astronomy
>University of Iowa
>Iowa City IA 52242
>
>Telephone: 319-335-1950      FAX: 319-335-1753
>Email: rlm@sunlight.physics.uiowa.edu  (internet) 
>       iowa::rlm (span)


Yes, Number Cruncher Statistical System. If you would like the phone no.,
contact me via email and I'll send it to you monday.
From: god@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.apps
Subject: What does W4W 2.0 convert best?
Date: 20 Dec 92 23:00:07 CST
Organization: University of Kansas Academic Computing Services

I'm trying to figure out what word processor formats Word4W 2.0
converts best.  Write?  Word Perfect doesn't seem to work too well,
And they didn't even include a converter for their own Works program
(which is rather cute for a Microsoft app).  How about Word for DOS
4.0?

I'm also trying to figure out why Windows 3.1 doesn't properly justify
text when I use the Roman R cartridge on my Deskjet.  If I switch to
bold in mid sentence for a word or two, it screws up the
justification.

Thanks.

John D. Altevogt                                  Altevogt@UKANVM
Department of Sociology                    God@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu
University of Kansas                        (913) 542-2096 (home)
Lawrence, KS 66045                           (913) 864-4111 (off)

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From: jhall@dante.nmsu.edu (HALL)
Subject: Re: QVT documentation format
Organization: New Mexico State University
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]
Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 18:20:20 GMT

Peter D. Reiner (reiner@medusa.bioc.aecom.yu.edu) wrote:
: How do I read the *.wri files in which QVT is documented?
: All the editors and printers can't sense linefeeds!
: 
: Thanks
: Peter Reiner
: reiner@aecom.yu.edu

Try the Write editor that comes with windows.  Print the document from
there and everything comes out fine.
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.apps
From: mswitkes@ralph.cs.haverford.edu (Mike Switkes)
Subject: Re: W4W to Word for Mac - Help!
Organization: Swarthmore College
Date: Sun, 3 Jan 1993 02:27:30 GMT

Actually, if you do the conversion on the mac, the pictures stay intact but
you lose any special attributes that they had; for example, the grouping of 
a draw object isn't retained.  However, the graphics are there.  I do this 
routinely as the only printing I have access to is on a Mac network and I've
found that it's usually best to port the pictures over in some other format
and then paste them into Word on the mac, it just seems to give better results.

Hope that helps,

Mike


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From: akm@atlantix.cs.uoregon.edu (Anant Kartik Mithal)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.apps
Subject: Re: Bibliographer/reference manager
Date: 31 Dec 92 06:59:57 GMT
Article-I.D.: cs.1992Dec31.065957.29928
Organization: University of Oregon Computer and Information Sciences Dept.


The "state of the art" bibliography manager (what ever that means...)
is Procite. I believe the latest verision is 2.0, and it runs on both
DOS as well as the Mac. Not sure what the latest version on the Mac
is, though. I've used an earlier version, and it is very good. It is
the defacto standard used by librarians (according to a couple of
librarians I talked to), and many CD rom databases will output their
searches in Procite format. Neat for including CD Rom / other searches
into your bibliography.

Procite will also read in searches from many on-line systems, such as
Dialog. It can then do in-text searches and generate a bibliography
for you. This means that in your article, you can say things like

	"such as tudies of pointing devices, [Card, English & Burr 
	1978], "

and on scanning the document, Procite will include the correct
reference, or if it is not sure, all references that match that, and
you can then delete all the unnecessary ones.

UNFORTUNATELY... procite doesn't run as a windows app, runs fine in a
window. 

Another alternative is Endnote, which was originally written for the
mac, and is supposed to be a much simpler / easier to use and cheaper
version. I believe there is now a windows version of Endnote, but I'm
not 100% sure of that.

Hope this helps,

kartik

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From: burgoyne@access.digex.com (J. Robert Burgoyne)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.apps
Subject: The Video Blaster Card -- Can it be used for making commercials?
Date: 21 Dec 1992 23:51:47 GMT
Organization: Express Access Online Communications, Greenbelt, MD USA
NNTP-Posting-Host: access.digex.com
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL3

Is it possible to do the following with the Video Blaster:

	1) Input an NTSC signal into the Video Blaster
	2) Create a slide show w/ Freelance for Windows
	3) Overlay the NTSC input signal onto the slideshow, and 
	4) Get an NTSC output signal to record onto videotape

with the goal of being able to make 1/2 decent looking commercials?

If the VB can't do it, what's the next cheapest way to do it?

Thanks.


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From: shenoy@iastate.edu (Shiva Shenoy)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.apps
Subject: Re: MS-W4W 2.0
Keywords: word scrolling
Date: 22 Dec 92 14:41:35 GMT
Organization: Iowa State University, Ames IA

In <8184@news.duke.edu> bhs@neuro.duke.edu (Brennan Stephens) writes:


>  Forgive me if this is a FAQ.  Does anyone know how to slow down scrolling in
>Word for Windows?  Whenever I try to scroll down it zips by at mach 2.  Any 
>advise for a novice?

Methinks your mouse is on steroids! Seriously, it could be due to either the
mouse or video drivers. Make sure you have the latest (for Win 3.1).
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