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From: bsardis@netcom.com (Barry Sardis)
Subject: Re: How to use Entended memory effectively
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  (408 241-9760 guest) 
Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1992 07:29:05 GMT

mbb@cbnewsb.cb.att.com (martin.brilliant) writes:

>From article <1992Dec23.055024.23706@netcom.com>, by bsardis@netcom.com (Barry Sardis):
>> ctoth@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Christopher M Toth) writes:
>> ..
>>>	I have 16 megs of memory on my system, and I want to use it to
>>>run drivers and other programs there as well as have some left over ...
>>>....  I read the MSDOS manual and tried it, but it doesn't
>>>really work. I was hoping I could make my system run really fast with 16
>>>megs. btw, I have a 486dx 33.....
>> ....
>> The best that I've been able to determine is to get a real OS - UNIX, OS/2, 
>> NT. The problem is that DOS can't address beyond 1MB....

>A compromise is QEMM386 or something like that.  Microsoft's EMM386
>doesn't use get the most out of your expanded memory.  For instance,
>EMM386 sets aside some expanded memory for use as simulated expanded
>memory.  Quarterdeck's QEMM386 doesn't do that - unused memory is
>simultaneously available as either extended or expanded memory,
>whatever your software is looking for.  It's also easier to use for
>efficient high-loading of resident software.

As I understand things, EMM386 reserves 64KB of the high memory area 
and then pages stuff in as required, out of extended memory. I reserved 
256K of extended memory with EMM386 and was able to load two Corel 
optical (CD-ROM and WORM) drivers into expanded memory (they won't 
go into the upper memory area). I am now able to run everything I have 
and have almost enough conventional memory to run the few remaining 
DOS programs (only one wants more than I have without eliminating 
something). 

Are you saying that QEMM386 will allow me to allocate extended memory 
and load all my drivers and TSRs into either UMBs or expanded memory 
and provide me more conventional memory than I currently can get? 
If it does, I'll buy it.

>> ....   DOS can't address beyond 1MB. There is supposedly 
>> 384K between 640K and 1MB for loading things "high", but this area is 
>> also used for display memory, BIOS, and mapping some boards ....

>True.  There's no way to get around that limitation, but there are
>better ways than Microsoft's to do the best you can within it.

>I use DESQview/386 (which includes QEMM386 and DESQview on my 4 MB
>386SX.  It gives me reasonably good memory management as well as
>multitasking of DOS applications.  With a 16 MB 486, you can run a
>multitasking OS (instead of a multitasking executive within a
>single-tasking OS), but you might make your system slower.

If I weren't running DOS applications, I wouldn't have a problem 
since Win 3.1 has a reasonable enough virtual memory system.


>							Marty
>marty@hoqaa.att.com		hoqaa!marty
>Martin B. Brilliant		(Winnertech Corporation)	
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
From: mccall@mksol.dseg.ti.com (fred j mccall 575-3539)
Subject: Re: Stacker 3.0 read errors: Summary
Organization: Texas Instruments Inc
Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 21:59:10 GMT

In <shopsis.55@panther.adelphi.edu> shopsis@panther.adelphi.edu (Charles Shopsis) writes:

>Earlier this week, I posted a message about read errors that I
>encountered after upgrading from Stacker 2 to stacker 3.  I
>received a number of responses from people having similar
>problems, and two suggested solutions.  The first one is the one
>I tried (deleting the /EMS on the stacker command line, so that
>stacker does not try to cache in expanded memory) and it did the
>job.  Following are the two suggested solutions and messages from
>other sufferers of the problem.

Hmmm.  This works for me with no problem (with QEMM 6.03).


>1. From: bing@zinc.cchem.berkeley.edu (Bing Ho)
>My friend recently bought Stacker 3.0 and managed to figure out
>what was wrong (at least for his machine).  He mentioned that the
>use of a 386 memory manager and running Stacker 3.0 with the /ems
>option caused disk read/write errors.  He switched to the upper
>memory or conventional memory configuration and mentioned that
>any problems were completely fixed.
>I think that Stacker 2.0 had this problem with qemm as well, but
>it was less frequent.

The only problem I was aware of between Stacker and QEMM involving
/EMS was if you tried to use ST:F Stealth.  The problem there can be
corrected by doing what optimize tells you (adding the DBF parameter
to QEMM to make it trap INT13 accesses to EMS memory and buffer them
itself).  Otherwise, you can turn off the /EMS switch on Stacker to
eliminate the problem.

-- 
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 in the real world."   -- Mary Shafer, NASA Ames Dryden
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
From: shopsis@panther.adelphi.edu (Charles Shopsis)
Subject: Stacker 3.0 read errors
Organization: Adelphi University - Node: Boole
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 18:21:09 GMT

I've been using stacker 2.0 for a while and was very happy with it.
When Stacker 3.0 came out I was psyched.  Now I know.. if it
ain't broke.. don't fix it.

My system is a Northgate 386/20 with 4 Mb of RAM and two 65 Mb
(before stacking) RLL hard disks.  I move back and forth between
Win 3.1 and DOS 5.0.

After I installed stacker 3 I re-stacked my disks to take
advantage of its improved compression (I got an extra 3 or 4 Mb
on each disk). I then started getting "read errors" from some
programs.  Often the errors weren't fatal; I'd get a message
about a read error, and then the program would manage to read
its code or data and continue to run.

One program, the gif viewer VPIC version 5.1, wouldn't load under
windows, reporting a read-write error.  It would still load from
DOS, or under windows running in standard mode.

Another program (the Miracle piano teacher) gave non-fatal read
errors under windows or DOS, but the errors ceased when I copied
the program from one hard disk to the other (D to C), and then
recopied it to the original drive.  I tried this same procedure
on VPIC and it did not help; it still gives me read errors
under windows and not at the DOS prompt.

WordPerfect 5.1 for DOS gives transient read errors when running 
as a DOS task under Win 3.1, but not when running from the C prompt.
WordPerfect 5.1 for windows gave me the error once when I was
resizing a graphic; it then locked up.

I've run chkdsk, stacker's check utility, and done a surface
scan of the hard disks and no errors are reported.

This appears to be some kind of subtle timing type problem..as
if the data isn't being uncompressed fast enough, so that the
program asking for it momentarily "thinks" that there's been a
disk read error.  BTW, the problem is *not* corrected by using
stacker 3.0's tuner.  It occurs whether I opt for maximum
compression, or minimum compression and maximum speed.

I sure would appreciate advice on this.  Does anybody know if
its possible to "downgrade" from stacker 3 to stacker 2?  I know
you can unstack a drive completely under 3.0, but I've been
using 2.0 for a while, and no longer have enough space on my
drives to unstack them.

Thanks for reading through this tale of woe.

Charles Shopsis, Dept. Chemistry, Adelphi University
shopsis@auvax1.adelphi.edu       or        shopsis@panther.adelphi.edu
From: nnw@concurrent.co.uk (Neil Watson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Re: Stacker ate my hard disk again. : ( help....
Date: 21 Dec 92 10:33:10 GMT
Organization: Concurrent Computer Corporation, Slough, England

In article <1992Dec16.211411.16924@gn.ecn.purdue.edu> mechalas@gn.ecn.purdue.edu (John P. Mechalas) writes:
>In article <92351.29836.J056600@LMSC5.IS.LMSC.LOCKHEED.COM> J056600@LMSC5.IS.LMSC.LOCKHEED.COM writes:
>>
>>Aye, 'tis true that the "three-fingered salute" in the middle of an app will
>>giving you the "Updating allocation map..." message.  I've also encountered
>>a "volume damaged" (aka "you should have backed up your hard drive, dummy)
>>error on doing so--twice.  After the second time I scrapped Stacker and
>>have had no more bad sectors arise (version 2.0).
>
>>What happens when a program hangs up, though?  You can't exit normally and
>>gracefully.  You have no choice but to reset the machine.  I always tried to
>>avoid needing to turn the machine off while programs were actively running,
>>but it wasn't possible 100% of the time.
>
>I have programs hang all the time on me...and I am constantly rebooting 
>while on a Stacker volume.  As long as the app in question wasn't in the middle
>of a read/write exercise, you are okay.  

I think that John's last sentence is the key: as long as you
don't reboot in the middle of a write (or before the write gets done, if
you're using caching) then you'll probably not do any _serious_ damage.
I presume that if you've updated a file (and completed the update), but
not closed it, then the file is OK, its just the allocation information
that is inconsistent (I seem to recall that some parts of UNIX - I'm
thinking of NFS - only update the file information on close as well).

I suspect that MOST applications don't actually hang up (often) halfway
through a write, and that, because of this, we (collectively) don't
OFTEN see the "corrupted" flavour of failure (or write protection as
stacker does it). When you're writing to a file, then you're in the
commonly executed DOS code (however good that is....) and that it works
most of the time. I also suspect that unless you end up completely
corrupting memory, then even when a program is looping (read "hung"),
then its likely that the timer interrupts that drive cache writes get
executed still, so it probably still works. Maybe we should all be
switching off write caching in any case....?

Neil.

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G0BLD        227 Bath Road, Slough, Berks, SL1 4AX, England
             Phone: (+44) 753 513360  FAX: (+44) 753 513303 
(nnw@slough.ccur.com, nnw@concurrent.co.uk or 100021,3041 @ Compuserve)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
From: mdoerner@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Mike R Doerner)
Subject: D.A.T. tape breakage
Organization: The Ohio State University
Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 03:30:20 GMT

	My friend works at a construction firm that uses AutoCAD and saves
it's drawings to the network server during the course of the day. Later
that evening they are backed up on a D.A.T. tape and kept on file in case
someone needs an old drawing or a revision needs to be made. Well, today
one of his D.A.T. tapes broke with several important drawings on it. He
went to radio shack and got a tape splicing kit and repaired the tape.
When he went back to retrieve the drawings, the software told him that
there were too many bad sectors, and the tape was unuseable. He was
wondering if there is any way to retrieve ANY of this data or is it
completely lost? There is about one Gig of data on the tape, and only
about a half inch missing, and a foot crinkled. Thank You.
-- 
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From: mulvey@blurt.oswego.edu (Allen Mulvey, SUNY, Oswego, NY)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc,misc.misc
Subject: Re: Need Help With Creating a Word Perfect Function
Date: 21 Dec 92 21:28:32 GMT
Organization: SUNY College at Oswego, Oswego, NY

In article <1gqej7INN3m7@gw.home.vix.com>, shedevil@vix.com (Anne P. Mitchell JD) writes:
> [And why isn't there a Word Perfect newsgroup??]

Good question!

... deletions 
> Therefore the function I would like to enable is something by which
> when I save a document in "anne\smith", the file will also
> automatically be saved in "client\smith".
... deletions

There are several ways you could do this. One is to always save with a 
macro which would do the following:

1 - prompt for a filename if one does not exist ({system}name~ will tell 
you the name, check for a null)
2 - save the file to the default directory
3 - save the default directory in a variable ({system}path~ will give you 
the path of the file
4 - shell to dos
5 - copy the file to the "master" directory

Using the system variable will allow one network macro to function from any 
client on the net. The macro could also save the file twice but as you have 
probably already discovered the last used path becomes part of the filename 
and could cause confusion if the file is saved several times. By using the 
DOS COPY command you avoid setting any internal WordPerfect variables to 
point to the master directory. You may not need to use the {system}path~ 
variable if you run WordPerfect from the requested directory but it will be 
necessary if you use the WordPerfect setup to specify the location of text 
files as other than the actual DOS default directory. I would use it in 
either case just to be safe.

			Allen Mulvey
			mulvey@blurt.oswego.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
From: mbb@cbnewsb.cb.att.com (martin.brilliant)
Subject: What speed 387sx do I need?
Organization: AT&T
Date: Sat, 26 Dec 1992 02:51:16 GMT

I want a used 387SX, but I don't know what speed I need.

I have a 386SX with an AMD CPU running at 33 MHz.  The mainboard
manual says it's a P9HN on the cover, and P9-H inside, and of course
there is no company name or address.  The manual was not completely
updated to reflect the 33 MHz model; it says the coprocessor runs
synchronously on the 16, and asynchronously on the 20 and 25.
According to the manual, it has an OPTi 82C283 chipset, and Norton SI
says the AMI BIOS is dated 12/12/91.

Does anybody know enough about this rig, or rigs like it, to guess
what speed of 387SX I need, so I don't have to go to the local
dealer and buy a new one at retail?

							Marty
marty@hoqaa.att.com		hoqaa!marty
Martin B. Brilliant		(Winnertech Corporation)
From: jorr@wtcp.DaytonOH.NCR.COM (Jim Orr)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Archie Info / FAQ ...
Keywords: archie
Date: 22 Dec 92 21:43:27 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: NCR Corporation - Dayton, OH USA


Hey Netters,

Does anyone have info or the FAQ for how to use the
archie database for FTP?  I had some stuff on it 
and can't find it anymore.

Please email to jim.orr@DaytonOH.NCR.COM

Many Thanks !!

Jim Orr
NCR Corp.
Dayton, OH
From: jkh@whisker.lotus.ie (Jordan K. Hubbard)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Handy Tip: WHEN DEALING WITH STAC ELECTRONICS (Stacker), USE FAX!
Date: 24 Dec 92 03:47:11 GMT
	<DLA.92Dec16071120@se05.wg2.waii.com>
	<1992Dec17.105310.1@tnclus.tele.nokia.fi>
	<92358.150935U5CAB@wvnvm.wvnet.edu>
Organization: Lotus Development Ireland

I also had some problems with Stacker 2.0 and QEMM.  I called Stac Electronics
and, due to the fact that I was overseas and dealt with a different customer
rep, got straight through (Ironic, no?).  HOWEVER, what we basically agreed
was that they fax me a list of things to try and I fax back any problems.

Well, we went about 3 rounds with the FAX and they were always careful
to get back to me within a day.  Eventually, my problem was fixed and
we all lived happily ever after (well, about 2 weeks later I decided
that stacking was really the wrong solution to the problem and simply
bought a much bigger drive, but that's another story).

Your mileage may differ, but I always had good luck with fax.  Saved
a fortune on (my) phone bills too.


				Jordan
--
Jordan Hubbard		Lotus Development Ireland	jkh@whisker.lotus.ie
I DO NOT SPEAK FOR LOTUS - IT HAS PLENTY OF LAWYERS TO DO THAT FOR IT ALREADY
From: lauusitalo@tnclus.tele.nokia.fi
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Why HD led stays on and world stops for a while?
Date: 28 Dec 92 10:15:07 GMT
Organization: Nokia Telecommunications.


        I have Seagate 65MB RLL + Stacker 2 and I am having this
        odd problem. Sometimes on second partition HD led turns on
        and everything stops for few (5 - 20) seconds. Then it continues
        without problem. It depends which programs I am using. Some
        does it never but eg. Wing Commander 2 was a pain, because
        every minute it stopped and it happened mostly in battles
        so it was quite annoying.

        I have DTC RLL controller. Could it has something to do with
        Stacker???

        Friend of mine has similar problems but he has SCSI with
        100 MB HD without Stacker so it may be other cause?

        Who-know-let-me-know! ugh
        
        Thanks
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From: franks@hpuamsa.neth.hp.com (Frank Slootweg CRC)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Re: UNIX's for PC
Date: 29 Dec 92 08:48:02 GMT
Organization: Hewlett-Packard, The Netherlands


  Not UNIX, but if you just want a UNIX-like environment (i.e. UNIX-like
commands,, etc.) for a single user, then you might consider to purchase
the MKS Toolkit for MS-DOS from Mortice Kern Systems. Highly
recommended.

Frank Slootweg, UNIX support person and PC owner.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
From: rjones@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Ronald Jones)
Subject: Address of Reply Corp
Organization: The Ohio State University
Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 14:39:59 GMT


Could someone give me the address or telephone number of Reply, of
San Jose, CA. They make replacement motherboards for IBM PS/2 s.
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From: I.A.Inman@newcastle.ac.uk (I.A. Inman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Re: IBM FTP Sites
Date: 22 Dec 92 12:52:30 GMT
Organization: University of Newcastle upon Tyne, UK, NE1 7RU

silver@fraser.sfu.ca (Craig Silver) writes:

>yonerjp@brandonu.ca (Jerome P. Yoner) writes:

>>Greetings, all!

>>I was wondering if someone out there could Email me a current listing on some
>>good IBM FTP sites.  I am interested in ANY types of software as I am updating
>>my current selection and is wondering what else is out there...

>I have a list of dos ftp sites in ~silver/ftp called dos.ftp.sites.  I
>use the first one quite often (oak.oakland.edu).

>Also, do you know about the archie sites?  If not and you're
>interested (they're databases of files at various ftp sites), let me
>know and I'll write you a blurb. 
>-- 

>----------------------------------------------------------------------
>Craig Silver	           Computer Science at Simon Fraser University
>silver@sfu.ca (Internet)   Burnaby, B.C., Canada

Try:

		pdsoft.lancs.ac.uk

They've got a fair selection of stuff in.

MERRY CHRISTMAS AND A HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!!
From: sas@apap4.pap.univie.ac.at
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Re: HELP: Borland C/C++ 3.1
Date: 30 Dec 92 15:04:17 GMT
Followup-To: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Distribution: usa
Organization: Vienna University Computer Center

In article <Dec.16.16.19.16.1992.9395@remus.rutgers.edu>, byu@remus.rutgers.edu (Bob Yu) writes:
> 
> Hello,
> 	I am interested in buying Borland C++ 3.1 with Applications,
> but I am somewhat confused...  What are the differences between two
> different version of same software?  There are Educational/Acadamic
> version (I can get it for ~$250) and Commercial/Regular version (I can
> get it for ~$500).
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> Bob.
> -- 
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>       Rutgers University --- Rutgers College --- College of Engineering
> 			   byu@remus.rutgers.edu
>         Computer Engineering + Psychology = Artificial Intelligence
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------

At least here (in AUSTRIA) the difference is:

	exactly   ZERO  !!!  :-)

good luck
	A. Sarras
From: Robert.Osada@f308.n133.z1.FIDONET.ORG (Robert Osada)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: ibm5160 kb
Date: 23 Dec 92 02:04:06 GMT
Organization: FidoNet node 1:133/308 - Information Overloa, Riverdale GA

got an old ibm xt 5160 it works till you try to use the keyboard.
Anyone knowledgeable on how to fix or find a replacement board.  It is an old friend to old/young to die.  Little kids still like its slow pace!


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From: pegasus@grex.ann-arbor.mi.us (Patricia Snyder-Rayl)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Advertise your BBS in CONNECT
Date: 29 Dec 92 00:12:29 GMT
Organization: GREX Public Access Unix +1 313 761 3000



                    Advertise Your BBS in CONNECT!

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perspective, showing how to get the most from the places you call.  The
first bi-monthly issue of CONNECT will be available in March, 1993.
Deadline to get your BBS advertised in the premier issue of CONNECT is
January 31, 1993.

Issue after issue, CONNECT shows you how to get the most from the
commercial online services you're using -- CompuServe, Delphi, America
Online, Prodigy, GEnie and BIX. With columnists on staff to cover these
services in depth, you'll find CONNECT a valuable resource.

But CONNECT doesn't stop there. BBS callers also receive a wealth of
information from each issue. All varieties of computer platforms are
covered in the pages of CONNECT, as are the many different types of
bulletin board software and services found on these computers. Articles
spotlighting BBSes in specific cities or similar categories (such as
medical BBSes or handicapped-related systems) appear regularly.

Signing up your BBS is very simple and inexpensive. CONNECT offers a
choice of a one-line entry or a service ad, giving you blocks of 280
characters, to promote your BBS. 

For more information, and a copy of the BBS advertising form, please
contact Patricia Snyder-Rayl at 3487 Braeburn Circle, Ann Arbor, MI
48108, phone 313-973-8825, or via CIS (70007,4640), Delphi and GEnie
(unicornpub) or Internet (pegasus@grex.ann-arbor.mi.us).
From: mcphail@dataco.UUCP (Alex McPhail)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Where is Spectra Publishing?
Date: 21 Dec 92 21:38:32 GMT
Reply-To: mcphail@dataco.UUCP (Alex McPhail)
Organization: Canadian Marconi Company (Datacomm), Ottawa, Ontario

I tried phoning Spectra Publishing (PowerBasic) in Florida, but their 
three phone numbers are disconnected.  Have they gone under?


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