HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: donn@uunet.uu.net (Donn Seeley)
Subject: Mac 1.44 MB floppy to DOS (or Unix) conversion tools?
Organization: Wasatch Mountain Club, Salt Lake City
Distribution: comp
Date: Wed, 15 Apr 1992 01:48:11 GMT

Hi.  I'm on the board of the Wasatch Mountain Club here in Salt Lake,
and since I work for a computer software company, I got delegated to
look into a computer problem for the Club...

Basically I have the inverse problem to one that has been discussed to
death under the title 'Apple MAC reads IBM 1.44 MB Floppys?'  I need to
find out how to extract files from Mac 1.44 MB floppies under DOS
(and/or Unix and/or BSD).  Here is the situation:

  +	The Club will get contributions for its newsletter from members
	in the form of floppies.  Club members have Macs and PCs.

  +	The floppies may be Macintosh or DOS format 1.44 MB, and the
	files may contain Microsoft Word, Wordperfect, MacWrite, Lotus
	or Excel data (or even, God forbid, ASCII :-).  Ideally these
	file formats could all be converted to run under DOS document
	processors or spreadsheets (respectively :-).

  +	A stipulation is that the software must be stand-alone: we
	can't solve the problem by putting the Club's PC and a Mac on a
	network together, and we can't assume that files can be shipped
	by electronic mail to the Club.  We can't assume that the Club
	could buy a Mac just for the purpose of file conversion.

  +	Commercial (but cheap) software is fine, although freeware or
	shareware is of course interesting too.

The Club is really just interested in conversion tools that run under
DOS; I asked about Unix and BSD because I run BSD/386 at home (of
course) and I would like to be able to read the same floppies that
the Club gets.

Please mail responses to me at donn@bsdi.com.

Donn Seeley  /  BSDI Outdoor Recreation Dept., Utah Office
From: ts@uwasa.fi (Timo Salmi)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Re: arc
Date: 12 Apr 92 05:20:18 GMT
Organization: University of Vaasa, Finland

In article <1992Apr11.033403.6075@unlv.edu> jablin@unlv.edu (Doug Jablin) writes:
>I need some kind of way to extract arc files. Anyone know where I can
>find a site that has one?

Unless the files have been compressed with the fully commercial ARC
7.0 please see below. 

"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), Keith Petersen (w8sdz@vela.acs.oakland.edu) for
SIMTEL20 information, or Craig Warren (ccw@archie.au) for Oceanian
garbo mirror information.  North American users are advised first to
search on SIMTEL20 or its mirrors OAK.Oakland.Edu, ftp.uu.net, or
the SIMTEL20 & garbo mirror wuarchive.wustl.edu.  Oceanian users are
referred to archie.au.  Some of the mirrors may lag occasionally, or
might not have all the files."

...................................................................
Prof. Timo Salmi
Moderating at garbo.uwasa.fi anonymous ftp archives 128.214.87.1
School of Business Studies, University of Vaasa, SF-65101, Finland
Internet: ts@chyde.uwasa.fi Funet: gado::salmi Bitnet: salmi@finfun
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
From: vu0350@bingvaxu.cc.binghamton.edu (allen h. lutins)
Subject: Re: 2nd hard drive installed. Light stays on?????
Organization: Heavy stuff on bottom; light stuff on top
Date: Thu, 16 Apr 1992 05:05:00 GMT

In article <1992Apr15.113000.2152@stat.appstate.edu> baughmankr@stat.appstate.edu writes:
>
>I'm trying to connect a new but used hard drive (a 42 meg Seagate STS-251)
>with my other hard drive (another STS-251) in my 286 clone. [...] 
>
>The problem I had at this point was the drive light staying on one or the
>other hard drives, whether I was accessing it or not.

...so what's the problem?  :^)    ...this is classic '286 + Seagate
MFM behavior...i've installed a few of these, & although the disks
work absolutely flawlessly (well, as flawlessly as possible for a
Seagate MFM drive :), the lights stay on.  Solution? Two:

1) Mount the drive on one of the inner bays where the access light is
   covered by a panel...out of sight, out of mind!

2) Easier method (thanks to Click & Clack Tappet): electrical tape mask...
   need i say more?

...now if the drive ain't workin' right, that's a whole nother
story...
-- 
***************************************************************************
Don't like my .sig?  Dial (800)NULL-DEV|  allen h. lutins
                                       |  vu0350@bingvaxu.cc.binghamton.edu
"Individualists of the world, Unite!"  |  VY8934@bingvaxa.bitnet
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Re: America Online... offline and still being billed...
From: dhawan@vax1.umkc.edu
Date: 4 Apr 92 15:12:21 CST
Organization: University of Missouri-Kansas City

In article <1992Mar17.115420.1@mdcbbs.com>, ivler@mdcbbs.com (J.M. Ivler    ivler@mdcbbs.com) writes:
> I used to have AOL when I purchased GEOWorks. I have since removed GEO from my 
> system (why have both that and windows?) and am wondering if I can get SW that 
> allows me to just connect to AOL. If so, where? If not, then how do I stop the 
> AOL billing on my creditcard.
> 

Sure you can...two ways to fix that:

Call AOL customer service and have them send them the runtime for Geoworks that
will allow you to connect to AOL

or

If you still have access to AOL, place an order for an update of the software
for yourself.

Either way you should be up and running in a couple of weeks.

Tej
From: john.will@satalink.com (John Will)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: PROMPRO 8 SOFTWARE NEEDED
Date: 11 Apr 92 15:00:00 GMT
Article-I.D.: satalink.1224.1092.uupcb
Reply-To: john.will@satalink.com (John Will)
Organization: Satalink Info Systems - Huntingdon Valley, PA - 215-364-3324

TO: klimasewski@fccvde.enet.dec.com
KK.I am looking for some software that will allow me 
  .to use my LOGICAL DEVICES Prompro-8, prom programmer with my 
  .computer.

I think what you need is a simple communications program, as I recall
that programmer just accepts ASCII data in several formats, Intel Hex
and Motorola 'S' record format.
---
 . KingQWK 1.05 . A closed mouth gathers no feet.
From: mle@ausom.oz.au (Michael Levine)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Best Site
Date: 17 Apr 92 01:50:42 GMT
Organization: AUSOM - The Apple Users Society of Melbourne

Could you please advise of the best site to obtain PD for clones - especailly
for Windows?
Michael
-- 
_Auto-Reply Does Not Work - use InterNet mle%ausom.oz@sol.cc.deakin.oz.au_
__Michael Levine Apple IIgs PD Librarian for AUSOM - Apple Users Society__
_______Of Melbourne, PO Box 1071, Narre Warren MDA, Australia 3805________
___________"Semel Ratus Sum Me Erravisse Sed Sic Ratus Erravi"____________
From: linstee@duteca.et.tudelft.nl (Erik van Linstee)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Re: 486 AT's speed
Date: 16 Apr 92 08:57:09 GMT
Organization: Delft University of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering

tony@sparc5.src.ncu.edu.tw (Anthony Li) writes:

>Hi all netters:
>I recently bought a new mother board (486-33 256K/cache), and I found
>the oscillator's frequency is 33.0MHz (triggle CPU), what's the
>difference between a osc. of 33.333MHZ and 33.0MHz . Did a 33.0MHz osc.
>only triggle CPU in 32.5MHz and a 33.333MHz osc. triggle CPU on 33MHz?

What is 'triggle'??

>Regards,
>Tony

>-- 
>>>> Anthony Li <Li3, Shih4 Hao2><Li:fruit's Name><Shih:Scholar><Hao:Hero>   <<<
><<< Institute of CSEE, National Central Univ, Chungli, Taoyuan, Taiwan, ROC >>>
><<< Bitnet:	U230700@twncu865.bitnet					    <<<
>>>> Internet:	U230700@ncu865.ncu.edu.tw oper2@ncuee.ncu.edu.tw	    >>>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc,comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
From: pkss@cbnewsm.cb.att.com (philip.k.sikora)
Subject: memory/disk cache
Organization: AT&T
Date: Fri, 17 Apr 1992 13:12:55 GMT
Followup-To: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Keywords: cache

I'm confused about two areas: memory cache, disk cache

1. memory cache - Can too much impact performance? I was thinking of
upgrading my SRAM from 64K to 256K.  When I was taking a computer
architecture class, the professor showed how more memory could actually
decrease performance but his claim was that you could never have enough
cache.  But within the last few months there was an article in BYTE that
claimed that too much cache could cause performance hits.  Any thoughts?

2. disk cache - Could the issues above apply here too?  Now that I've just
upgraded to DOS 5.0 and WIN 3.1 I'm faced with deciding how much disk cache
to allocate in memory.  DOS says 2 meg - Norton 6.0 says all extra.

I could try some benchmarking (which I will probably do anyway) with
whatever application I intend to run, but it won't save me from buying
the replacement SRAM and I'm trading in the old SRAM so it would be hard
to go back again.  Anyway...
From: dxper@dtek.chalmers.se (Per Anders Olausson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Re: Atari ST disks <-------> IBM DOS disks ?
Date: 8 Apr 92 10:40:24 GMT
Organization: Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg Sweden

schuster@panix.com (Michael Schuster) writes:

>720K 3.5" diskettes formatted on a PS/2 can be read and written by a 1040ST
>having a double sided drive.

>1040ST-formatted diskettes are =mostly= IBM compatible, especially if the
>ST is using TOS 1.4 or higher. There are some old utilities around that
>will create 100% IBM-compatible diskettes on the ST; these date mostly
>from the 1980's before TOS 1.4; if you need one let me know and I can
>probably dig one up.

  What about the "ST harddisk layout"...is it the same as the one used on
IBM-compatible systems? Can I eg. move a ST formatted harddisk over to a PC
without having to reformat it?

  Anyone having done that before?

pao
--
-------------------------------Andrew Olausson--------------------------------
------------------------------Systems Architect-------------------------------
----------------------------dxper@dtek.chalmers.se----------------------------
--------------------------------pao@proxxi.se---------------------------------
From: lmjm@doc.ic.ac.uk (Lee M J McLoughlin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Wanted: info on leased line interface card
Date: 8 Apr 92 22:20:11 GMT
Organization: Dept. of Computing, Imperial College, London. U.K.

I'm looking for a card that is, preferably, British Telecom approved
and capable of driving a 64Kbits/sec leased line (synchronous, X21,
V35- I think, I've not got my notes on the interface at the moment).
This is to sit in a 386/486 on an ISA bus.

Any pointers greatfully received.

	Thanks

-- 
--
Lee McLoughlin.                          Phone: +44 71 589 5111 X 5085
Dept of Computing, Imperial College,     Fax: +44 71 581 8024
180 Queens Gate, London, SW7 2BZ, UK.    Email: L.McLoughlin@doc.ic.ac.uk
From: john.will@satalink.com (John Will)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: MEMORY HELP NEEDED
Date: 13 Apr 92 14:06:00 GMT
Reply-To: john.will@satalink.com (John Will)
Organization: Satalink Info Systems - Huntingdon Valley, PA - 215-364-3324

TO: shl@ais.org
SL> When I used Procomm and WordStar 5.5 I could call WordStar with Alt A 
SL>from Procomm.  Having upgraded to Procomm Plus and WordStar 7.0 I get a 
SL>Not Enough Memory message when trying to call WordStar with Alt A.  I've 
SL>got 3 Meg RAM in this 386SX, use Dos 5.0. 
SL> ...
SL>It seems like I should be able to get enough conventional memory 
SL>to run WordStar from within Procomm Plus.  Is there anything else 
SL>I can do here?  Would QEM386 do the trick?  I suppose I could 
SL>install Windows, but that seem excessive to get done what I'm 
SL>looking to do.

Obviously, one or the other, or perhaps both, require more memory in the
later releases.  I use WordStar 4.0 for programming, I don't know what
the newer ones require, they're still in the boxes they came in. :-)
---
 . KingQWK 1.05 . [0mThe [30minvisible [37mtagline.
From: gandalf@dworkin.ccs.northeastern.edu (frustrated user)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: any foxpro problems with novell?
Keywords: foxpro ibm pc novell aargh!
Date: 13 Apr 92 19:46:05 GMT
Organization: College of Computer Science, Northeastern University
Originator: gandalf@damon.ccs.northeastern.edu

Hi there. 

I was wondering if anyone had any problems with running FoxPro+ stuff on a
Novell network. If so, is there any way to correct the problem?

Specifically, I have a very large foxpro program that runs the voice mail 
system in my office, and since it went up (last wednesday) it's been pretty
unstable, crashing periodically and screwing up the indexes. The author claims
none of his other users are having any similar problems, but none of them are
running it on a network (as I am) either.

Please email response directly to gandalf@dworkin.ccs.northeaster.edu

Thanks a lot,
		Tom
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc,rec.games.misc,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: ong@a.cs.okstate.edu (ONG ENG TENG)
Subject: Re: Soundblaster (not pro) hangs with Digital I/O
Organization: Oklahoma State University
Date: Tue, 14 Apr 92 18:33:18 GMT

From article <kum1amINN9mc@news.bbn.com>, by saustin@bbn.com (Steve Austin):
> I have a Sounblaster (V1.5 with the 2.0 software) in my no-name
> 386-33MHz system.  The problem that I am having is that it hangs
> when using digitized sound.  I have taken everything out of the
> bus except the video card (Super VGA) and the HD/FD controler.
> Everything is fine, however, when emulating the Adlib.
> 
> My suspicion is centered on the DMA, since I have tried all
> IRQ lines and IRQ7 does no seem to be used by anything else.
> Is it likely that either the video card or the disc controller
> are intefering with the Soundblaster?

Your problem has been discussed many times before in this group and solutions
are available.  Please check if FAQ has it.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
From: yates@alexia.lis.uiuc.edu (Kent Yates)
Subject: PC <-> MAC Conversion
Summary: One way to read Mac disks on a PC
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Wed, 15 Apr 1992 18:23:12 GMT

In <1992Apr15.014811.9839@uunet.uu.net> donn@uunet.uu.net (Donn Seeley) writes:

>Basically I have the inverse problem to one that has been discussed to
>death under the title 'Apple MAC reads IBM 1.44 MB Floppys?'  I need to
>find out how to extract files from Mac 1.44 MB floppies under DOS
>(and/or Unix and/or BSD).  Here is the situation:

>	files may contain Microsoft Word, Wordperfect, MacWrite, Lotus
>	or Excel data (or even, God forbid, ASCII :-).  Ideally these
>	file formats could all be converted to run under DOS document
>	processors or spreadsheets (respectively :-).

>  +	A stipulation is that the software must be stand-alone: we
>	can't solve the problem by putting the Club's PC and a Mac on a

>  +	Commercial (but cheap) software is fine, although freeware or
>	shareware is of course interesting too.

We solved this problem with 2 packages. Central Point Option board, 
is a board that is inserted in series with your current disk controller
cable and floppy drive, and has software to read/write/format
Mac disks in a PC drive. To make the file conversions from one
Wordprocessor to another, we use Software Bridge (Systems Compatibility
Corporation) which converts from a huge number of formats to others,
including Mac WordPerfect, Mac Word, and MacWrite. My understanding
is that software alone cannot do the Mac-to-PC format conversion due
to the differential way Macs format the diskette to take advantage of
greater data capacity per degree of angular rotation on the OUTSIDE of
a diskette versus the INSIDE tracks. So the controller card itself has
to be capable of differentially controlling the writing/reading of data.
From: lebowitz@krypton.Mankato.MSUS.EDU (Robert J. Lebowitz)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Logon security software
Date: 15 Apr 92 20:25:38 GMT
Article-I.D.: krypton.LEBOWITZ.92Apr15152538
Distribution: comp
Organization: Mankato State University

A coilleague of mine has had students accidentally erase his root directory
on two occasions.  AS a result, he is looking for software to limit access 
to the PC he makes available to students in his lab.  In particular, he'd 
like something which logs usage to a file on the harddrive and requires a
password for logon.  Can anyone suggest a product or shareware program that
accomplishes these things?

--
Robert J. Lebowitz           Internet         lebowitz@krypton.mankato.msus.edu
Mankato State University     VOX              (507) 389-2540
Mankato MN 56002-8400
From: comptec91055@camins.camosun.bc.ca
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: network id soft.
Date: 15 Apr 92 00:24:05 GMT
Organization: Camosun College



		Hello Hardware gurus and hackers:

			I am attempting to write a small routine which can be
executed on any pc that returns information on the resident network card (type
mem. cap. etc.)  (assembly/c routine).. My problem is that I am unsure of which
interrupts the card takes over when it is installed, whether or not these inter-
rupts are from the dos vector table or directly from the cpu, and how they can
be used to access card info.  If anyone has the time I would very much appreciate
 any information that could be provided.  I will send anyone that responds a copy
of the final program which does a series of hardware checks and verifications
on the pc, including nice output (not that anyone responding would need this,
but what the heck..)   If there are any ideas could you please e-mail them.
 			Thanks in advance,
	
			D. Rozee
From: mickeyf@vnet.ibm.com (Mickey Ferguson)
Date: Wed, 15 Apr 92 09:58:40 PDT
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Re: xyz.SYS or xyz.COM: which is better ?
Organization: Rolm Systems
Disclaimer: This note represents my views, not those of Rolm Systems or IBM
News-Software: UReply 3.0

In <805@grivel.une.oz.au> George Antony writes:
>Who knows the answer for this:
>
>Some software come both in a device-driver and executable file form.
>The former belongs in the CONFIG.SYS, while the latter can be loaded
>either on startup from the AUTOEXEC.BAT, or later.
>
>Assuming that  one wants to load, say, the mouse driver on startup anyway,
>is SYS better than COM, or vice versa, or it does not matter ?

That depends on the program involved, and any other device drivers and
TSRs you load.  Some programs require that they are the first to catch an
interrupt line, and some require to be the last.  If that matters with your
particular program, that will help decide the issue.  Also, you may have
other device drivers which must run before or after your program, and the
same could hold true for TSRs of yours.

In general, though, for a mouse driver it's probably best to load it in as
early as possible, so use the device driver.

Mickey Ferguson -- Rolm Systems -- FergusoM at scrvm2 -- mickeyf@vnet.ibm.com
From: levenson@romulus.rutgers.edu (Joel Levenson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Looking for the following programs...
Date: 11 Apr 92 00:22:44 GMT
Organization: Mass Spectroscopy Support Facility @ CAFT


1) Business Plan Package by Oasis

2) Business Planner 3.0 by Enfin Software

3) Business Planning Model by Accounting Professional Software

If anyone knows where any of these programs could be purchased, I
would appreciate it.

Please send E-Mail since I don't always catch each individual thread,
even if I posted, so E-Mail is preferred.  Thanks in advanced.

Joel
-- 
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
| Joel Levenson				     levenson@remus.rutgers.edu    |
|                                            levenson@gandalf.rutgers.edu  |
|                                            jlevenso@cue.bc.ca            |
| Center for Advanced Food Technology	     joel@caft1.rutgers.edu        |
|									   |
| Trying to understand the Macintosh Computer.				   |
| (Gee, this is a little bit more complex than I thought.)		   |
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
From: lane@cs.dal.ca (John Wright/Dr. Pat Lane)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Old question about Procomm Plus's VT100 emulation
Date: 10 Apr 92 05:18:13 GMT
Distribution: na
Organization: Math, Stats & CS, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, Canada

I've been using Procomm Plus lately and noticing that working in the 'vi'
editor is really screwed up.  Anything involving cursor movement more
than one character seems to leave the cursor in the wrong place forcing
you to do a ^L to re-draw the screen.  It might have something to do with
tabs but 'stty -tabs' doesn't seem to cure it.  I'm using VT102 emulation
in Procomm Pluys ver 1.1B and 'tset vt102' under SunOS Release 4.1.1.

This used to work fine with Procomm 2.4.2 using the VT100 emulation and
'tset vt100'.

I seem to recall lots of discussion about this problem back when Procomm
Plus first came out, so sorry if this is a FAQ, but hopefully someone can
send me some info about this problem.  Thanks.

PS.  Please mail me a copy of anything you post in response to this as
I'll likely miss it in the news due to short expiration time at this site.

-- 

John Wright      ////////////////////////   If it's not Scottish, it's CRAP!!!
Post: c/o Dr Pat Lane, Biology Dept, Dalhousie U, Halifax N.S., CANADA B3H-4H8 
Internet: lane@cs.dal.ca   Uucp: lane@dalcs.uucp or {uunet watmath}!dalcs!lane
From: billr@iplmail.orl.mmc.com (Bill Richmond)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Help with DR DOS
Date: 14 Apr 92 19:22:16 GMT
Organization: Martin Marietta


	Here's the situation: 
I have a 80meg partition that's compressed with the
SSTOR and when I do a chkdsk see a line saying
something to the effect of
	37681400 bytes in SuperStor Drive Reserved Units
This has only happened within the last week & I can't figure
out why I have "lost" 37meg.
If anyone has any input, please leave me email.

 _______________________________________________________________________
|                   |                                                   |
|      """""""      | Right now I'm having amnesia and deja vu at the   |
|      |_/ \_|      | at the same time.                                 |
|     (|[O O]|)     |---------------------------------------------------|
|      |  \  |      |Science is material.  Religion is immaterial.      |
|      (  `' )      |---------------------------------------------------|
|       \ O /       |                                                   |
|        \_/        |The total intelligence on the planet is a constant;|
| billr@orl.mmc.com |the population is growing.                         |
|___________________|___________________________________________________|
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.rt
From: rcf@coco.ms.washington.edu (Richard Fairfield)
Subject: X11R5 on AOS 4.3 RT
Organization: Univ of Wash , Math Sciences Computing Center
Date: Mon, 13 Apr 1992 21:52:27 GMT


A couple of months ago I tried to get X11R5 working on our RTs which run
the last update of AOS 4.3. It appeared from the R5 release notes and from
comments in some config files that AOS is not supported under R5 but I tried
anyway. 

After a couple of failed attempts I asked for help in this newgroup. I got a
few suggestions that helped the "make World" get a little farther along than
before and I found out about two versions of an R5 server for RTs. But I was
never able to successfully compile the R5 clients, let alone the servers, and
I eventually gave up.

Now I am ready to try again. But first I'd like to know if anyone has actually
succeeded in compiling the X11R5 clients (or one of the servers) for an RT
running AOS. If so, I'd sure like to know how you did it.

Binaries might be of some use but I really need sources because we have a lot
of local mods that I need to incorporate.

I have been monitoring this group for a while and have seen several postings
about X11R5 under AIX. But if there have been any lately about X11R5/AOS I
missed them.

					Thanks to anyone who can help,

					Richard Fairfield
					Math Sciences Computing Center
					University of Washington
					206-685-2303
					rcf@ms.washington.edu
Xref: sparky comp.sys.ibm.pc.rt:276 gnu.gcc.help:1085