HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: leo@rulhp2.leidenuniv.nl (L. Mekenkamp)
Subject: Re: BORLAND C++ FOR SALE
Organization:  Dept. of Mathematics and Computer Science ; Univ. of Leiden ; the Netherlands
Date: Mon, 4 Jan 93 19:10:41 GMT


>I HAVE THE FOLLOWING BRAND NEW, NEVER OPENED PROGRAMES WITH ALL DOC, AND
>REGISTERATION FOR SALE. PRICES INCLUDE SHIPPING VIA UPS OR REGISTERED MAIL IN
>THE USA.
>
>BORLAND TURBO C++ 3.1 $100
>BORLAND C++ 3.0  $150
>BORLAND C++ WITH FRAME APPLICATION 3.0 $250
>BORLAND QUATTRO PRO $100
>
>RESPOND IF YOU ARE INTERESTED IN.
>
>THANKS!
>JOSEPH NAVAIE

Yeah, and I sell great computers at a great price, but I do not spoil bandwith
SCREAMING THAT I WANT TO SELL STUFF, and so shouldn't you. Wasn't there a
remark in the netiquette about commercial use of the net???

Leo


Leo Mekenkamp
Leiden University, The Netherlands
Mekenkamp@RulWinWST.Leidenuniv.NL
	     ^^^
No MS connection, believe me...
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.apps
Subject: Re: WANTED: Family tree software recommendations
From: <LIBSJR@BYUVM.BITNET>
Date: Wednesday, 6 Jan 1993 16:42:28 MST
Distribution: usa
Organization: Brigham Young University

The program that you referred to in your post that is produced by the Mormon
Church is Personal Ancestoral File (PAF).  The Program does the following:

      Pedigree Charts
      Family Group Sheets
          Allows for notes to be added and edited
      Charts
          Ancestry, Decendency,  and Ahnentafel charts
      Lists
          by individual, marriage, or place
          showing possible record problems, ie mother was 5 when child was born
          surname frequency, end-of-line individuals, individuals without re-
          corded parents,
      Allows custom designing of reports
      Check for possible duplicate entries
      And more

It allows for your line to pass through brothers of the same family with-
out crashing.  Also, it doesn,t take much room -- about 1.3 megs for the
programs and very little for the database. I have about 15000 names saved in
less than 1.44 megs.

The program contains a research data filer which I have not had the time to
learn how to use, but the rest of the program is very simple to use.

The program costs less than $40.00 and can be obtained from the LDS distri-
bution center.  Their number is 1-800-537-5950.  If that number only works
in Utah, their address is
              1999 W. 1700 S.
              Salt Lake City, UT  84104
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.apps
From: jenk@microsoft.com (Jen Kilmer)
Subject: missing MS-DOS manual != pirated software
Date: 10 Jan 93 07:07:01 GMT
Organization: Microsoft Corporation

In article <4947@wet.UUCP> rick@wet.UUCP (Rick Rutledge) writes:
>Among the many things documented in your DOS manual (which you wouldn't have
>if your DOS is pirated, i.e., stolen, of course)....

FYI, Microsoft does not always include a manual when an MS-DOS license
is purchased. For example, purchasing a "license pack" gives the purchasee
the legal right to put a copy of MS-DOS on a computer and a coupon to send
in if you want to arrange purchase of a manual. This is designed for large
corporate environments.

Also, Microsoft does not require OEM [Original Equipment Manufacturers] 
licensees [for example, Compaq, ZDS, Dell, Gateway] to include manuals
and/or disks when they sell MS-DOS to their customers. Most of them do,
but many of them want the option.  This is partly because MS-DOS has
been around 10 years and a lot of buyers *now* either feel that they 
"know enough" they don't need the manual, or they have another book
on MS-DOS, or their company has 3 other MS-DOS manuals, or whatever.

If you walk into a store and pick up a copy of the MS-DOS 5 Upgrade, 
it'll have a manual. But if you buy a new machine, you may have to
ask for it [and probably pay for it too].

The following is to the best of my knowledge as a member (or,
corporate drone/dweeb) in the MS-DOS product group and former
MS-DOS/Windows support dweeb. But I ain't officially speaking for
microsoft and if they changed this policy last Tuesday I wasn't
notified <grin>. And this certainly doesn't say anything about 
other OS manufacturer's policies.

-jen
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From: mmedina@halcon.dpi.udec.cl (Mario Medina C.)
Subject: Re: Limiting access to a disk partition on IBM PC (seeking)
Date: Mon, 04 Jan 93 19:36:02 GMT
Organization: Universidad de Concepcion, Concepcion - Chile
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Followup-To: comp.os.msdos.apps,comp.os.msdos.misc,comp.os.msdos.programmer

David Tal (GSRGAAO@TECHNION.BITNET) wrote:
>                                                 30.12.92
>
>
>     I am looking for a utility program for the following application:
> At the Technion we have an IBM computer available for student use, which
> has on it a C: hard disk which contains programs for student instruction.
> The same computer also has a D: partition on the same hard disk, which is
> needed for faculty use only.
>
>     I should like to have a program which will allow students access to
> the C:  partition (with password?), but at the same time will not allow
> access to the D:  disk partition.  This is a little like on the VMS or
> UNIX systems where one can set read, write, or execute access to any
> individual file, but in my case I want the access to be limited to an
> entire directory or disk drive.  Of course there must be some other way,
> whereby the faculty can access the D:  drive, via password or other
> means.
>
>     If anybody has such a program, I would be grateful if he would send
> it to me.  Or if available via anonymous FTP, if you could give me the
> location and file name.    Many thanks.
>
>                               David Tal, Departement of General Studies,
>                               Technion    Haifa, Israel
>
>                               GSRGAAO@TECHNION.TECHNION.AC.IL
>

	
I have two solutions for you :
i) Use the Norton Utilities DISKREET program. This one builds a hidden,
encrypted partition accesible only oby those who know the password.
	It is, I think, the way to go.
ii) I once saw a program to do this at oak.oakland.edu, which allowed
you to create a protected partition.Lost the name, though
	
--
Mario R. Medina Carrasco                              mmedina@renoir.die.udec.cl
Depto. Ing.Electrica                                  mmedina@halcon.dpi.udec.cl
Univ. de Concepcion
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 \                   - "I know you, you used to be big"                       /
  \            - "I am big, it's the pictures that got smaller"              /
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Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.apps
From: jerryd@PROBLEM_WITH_INEWS_GATEWAY_FILE (Jerry Donovan)
Subject: Re: missing MS-DOS manual != pirated software
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 19:43:17 GMT
Organization: Hewlett-Packard / Boise, Idaho

Add the group of novice users who have the manual but haven't the 
slightest idea where to look.  My parents used to fit this mode of 
operation.  If someone didn't show them where to look, they didn't have
a clue.  They had the manuals, but found them to large and techy to
be useable by them.  (or so they thought)  Some persons posting to
this forum might identify with this situation.
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.apps,comp.os.msdos.misc,comp.os.msdos.programmer
From: eduard@htsa.aha.nl (Eduard Beijnes)
Subject: Re: Limiting access to a disk partition on IBM PC (seeking)
Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 13:52:59 GMT
Organization: Hogeschool van Amsterdam, The Netherlands, E.E. & C.S. Dept.

In article <1993Jan6.000409.17761@rei.com> fox@rei.com (Fuzzy Fox) writes:
>David Tal (GSRGAAO@TECHNION.BITNET) writes:
>
>>     I should like to have a program which will allow students access to
>> the C:  partition (with password?), but at the same time will not allow
>> access to the D:  disk partition.
>
>DR DOS has this capability (password-protecting a partition or directory
>or file or whatever), if you don't mind buying DR DOS.
>
>-- 
>#ifdef TRUE        | Fuzzy Fox (a.k.a. David DeSimone)       fuzzy@netcom.com
>#define  TRUE   0  |
>#define  FALSE  1  |  "911 Emercency Rescue Service - Can you hold, please?"
>#endif             |

I lost my original copy of DR-Dos 6 so i could test it anymore (i use dos 5)
but if you run diskedit (norton) you can select the MBR and change
the field describing the partition type into a number which is used
when the partition is not protected.

So the proctetion sucks.


Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.apps
From: t36253b@saha.hut.fi (Aali-Petri Alikoski)
Subject: Borland C++ 3.1 on a lan ?
Organization: Helsinki University of Technology, Finland
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 11:44:23 GMT

Has anybody installed Borland C++ 3.1 compiler on a lan environment so
that the actual program files are in a shared directory on server and
each user/project/etc has own setup etc files on a private directory ?
Is there a simple solution that can be done also with the windows
environment ?

(Please e-mail the answers as i don't frequently read this newsgroup.)

Aali-Petri Alikoski
-----
 Aali-Petri Alikoski
 Student                           | Microcomputer Expert
 Helsinki University of Technology | Neste Corporation,Chemicals,Finland
From: franks@hpuamsa.neth.hp.com (Frank Slootweg CRC)
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 10:45:38 GMT
Subject: Re: Limiting access to a disk partition on IBM PC (seeking)
Organization: Hewlett-Packard, The Netherlands
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.apps

eduard@htsa.aha.nl (Eduard Beijnes) writes:

> I lost my original copy of DR-Dos 6 so i could test it anymore (i use dos 5)
> but if you run diskedit (norton) you can select the MBR and change
> the field describing the partition type into a number which is used
> when the partition is not protected.
> 
> So the proctetion sucks.

  A system with *unprotected* tools like diskedit on it is unprotected,
period. DR DOS or its security features can not alter that. But with DR
DOS one can protect (set a password on) tools like diskedit too and make
the system reasonably safe. And indeed the proctetion sucks, but the
protection is not too bad! :-)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.apps
From: sumargoh@widget.fiu.edu (H. Sumargo)
Subject: Software Dealer for PaintBrush and PCBrush
Reply-To: sumargoh@fiu.edu
Organization: FIU Electrical & Computer Engineering
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 20:03:24 GMT

Does anyone know the phone number and address of the companies that sell the
follwing sofware:
     1. PaintBrush 4.0
     2. PC Brush (latest version).

If you happend to know, please kindly response to sumargoh@fiu.edu
Thank you very much for your help.
From: franks@hpuamsa.neth.hp.com (Frank Slootweg CRC)
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 09:32:05 GMT
Subject: Re: DRDOS & Links & Config Question
Organization: Hewlett-Packard, The Netherlands
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.apps

derwin@mach2.wlu.ca (Daryl Erwin) writes:

> Has Homer SImpson would say..."Please...Please...Please!!!"
> 
> I am running DR DOS 6 (and patch) with 10 meg memory on a 386
> with SSTOR drive.  
> 
> Links (not 386) doesnt want to run with any of the sound options turned
> on.  The sounds is all garbled then it crashes upon attempting
> to speak?
> 
> I have similar/identical problems with Hardball3.
> 
> Can someone help me with the (D)config.sys and config.sys files
> 
> Obviously the only real line in there would be the EMM386.SYS so
> what parameters work for you?

  Perhaps your problem does not have anything to do with DR DOS 6.0 or
its EMM386.SYS or SuperSTOR: You do not mention which soundcard, if any,
you use, but this weekend I found that I got a scenario similar to yours
(i.e. a system hang after a short sound when trying a stroke) *if*

- I do *not* have a links.cfg file,

*and*

- I use the *default* configuration for my Soundblaster (i.e. the
  default hardware configuration for the card itself and the default SB
  configuration for Links (non-386)).

  If I do have a links.cfg file, configured for the default SB
configuration, then I get a system hang after a very short part of the
intro music.

  Reason:

  The default hardware configuration for the SB, as set by the factory,
uses interrupt number 7 (IRQ7), but Links uses *another* default (forgot
which, I think 3). You can change the interrupt number that Links uses
with the "SELECT SOUND BLASTER INTERUPT NUMBER" [sic] menu of the
SETBLAST program. Select choice 4, IRQ7.

  If this does not help, then first try with Links set to use the PC
speaker and let us know the results. If you have a SB, then you can also
configure Links for Adlib mode. In Adlib mode the IRQ setting is
apparently not relevant.

> Obviously the only real line in there would be the EMM386.SYS so
> what parameters work for you?

  For my 2MB 386DX (HP Vectra QS/16) with DRDOS 6.0 and SSTORed D
partition :

DEVICE=C:\DRDOS\EMM386.SYS /F=AUTO /K=AUTO /B=FFFF /R=AUTO

  With this configuration Links defaults to use expanded memory.

  Hope this helps.

Frank Slootweg
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.apps,comp.databases,comp.text
From: krc@wam.umd.edu (Kevin R. Coombes)
Subject: Wordperfect and bibliographies
Summary: Is there a good reference manager?
Keywords: Wordperfect, reference manager, bibliography
Organization: University of Maryland, College Park
Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1993 15:52:09 GMT

Hi. I'm looking for some suggestions. I'd like a "reference manager"
that works with Wordperfect 5.1 for DOS. I'd like to be able to maintain
a database of references that will eventually be added to the bibliography
of one or more papers. Ideally, I want to accomplish the following:

1) Assign each reference a label. The label can be used in the documents
that will be prepared using Wordperfect. Eventually, these labels should
expand in the paper to a bracketed citation like [1] or [AZ].

2) It should be possible, given the Wordperfect document with labels,
to fetch the appropriate references from the database and put them into
the bibliography. In particular, references in the database that are not
used in the paper should not be included in the bibliography.

3) It should be possible to sort the bibliography either alphabetically
by author or chronologically (by first reference in the paper).

4) Citations in the body of the paper should be able to expand either to
a numeric reference,an alphabetical reference, or possibly to something
like [Author, 1991].

5) Refernces are of different types---for examples, books, book chapters,
and journal articles. It should be possible to format all of these
appropriately. It shopuld also be relatively easy to change the format.

Does such a product exist? I'm willing to spend some money, so I will
consider commercial, shareware, or freeware products, provided they
can do what I want.

Thanks for your advice,
Kevin Coombes <krc@math.umd.edu>
From: dlinder@cse.unl.edu (Daniel Linder)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.apps
Subject: Re: WANTED: Family tree software recommendations
Date: 10 Jan 1993 18:32:43 GMT
Organization: University of Nebraska--Lincoln	
Distribution: usa
NNTP-Posting-Host: cse.unl.edu

fr@compu.com (Fred Rump from home) writes:
>Before you shell out $40 take a look at shareware that is a bit better IMHO. 
>Not that shareware is free but at least you get periodic improvements that are 
>not subject to the crawling bureaucracy of the LDS. 
>You may write to the author of Brothers Keeper directly at
>75745.1371@compuserve.com
>It always helps when one can go right to the horse's mouth with questions and 
>suggestions.

  I'll also stand behind Brothers Keeper.  My mom is big into our family 
geneology, and so far she has over 1700 people entered into our database.
Matter of fact, my father purchased the latest version for her as a Christmas
present this year..  
  BK is easy to use, and holds quite a bit of information.  Highly reccomended.

  Later,

  DAn

--
| Dan Linder - Comp. Eng. - Senior    |"If there's nothing wrong with me,      |
| dlinder@cse.unl.edu                 | there must be something wrong with     |
| University of Nebraska - Lincoln    | the universe!" Bev Crusher-Remember Me |
| Disclaimer: My university does not listen to me, why would I speak for them? |
From: ted@helios.UCSC.EDU (Ted Cantrall)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.pcgeos
Subject: Re: 5 AM Deductive Logic (Re: Pentop Field Widening)
Date: 5 Jan 93 16:04:49 GMT
Organization: UCO/Lick Observatory
NNTP-Posting-Host: helios.ucsc.edu

->2) GEOS 2.0 _is_ supposed to run penstuff on palmtops.
->3) Introduction of a product running GEOS 2.0 should be either _preceded_, or
->   followed _very_ rapidly, by introduction of GEOS 2.0 itself.  (So as to
->   keep owners of non-palmtops from becoming disgruntled or envious. ;)
->a) They're intro-ing a GeoPalmtop and (if they're sane) will intro GEOS 2.0
->   with, or right after, it...
->-Shag (who has been awake too long to be thinking like this!)
--------------
I thought John or David might have jumped on this (maybe they will later), but 
since they haven't, I get the chance to flail about with it.
I remember reading about GW 2.0 and pentops that it is the GW kernal that will
be the pentop engine, not the whole of GW 2.0. Think about it: how would you
click-drag with a stylus? But if you/we will be able to, the GW kernal will
mean that a full version of GW will be what runs best on the pentop.
	semi-coherant mumblings by:	-ted-
----------------------------Univ Calif @ Santa Cruz----------------------------
ted@helios.ucsc.edu |"He has showed you, O man, what is good; and what does the
W (408)459-2110     |Lord require of you but to do justice and to love kindness
H (408)423-2444     |and to walk humbly with your God?" Micah 6:8 (RSV)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.pcgeos
From: johnm@cory.Berkeley.EDU (John D. Mitchell)
Subject: Re: GEOS company song? (Re: GEOS 2.0 release date?)
Keywords: humor
Organization: University of California, at Berkeley
Date: Sat, 9 Jan 1993 21:55:38 GMT

In article <9301090813.aa20405@pandora.sf.ca.us> <pcgeos-list@pandora.sf.ca.us> writes:
[...]
>               A company song ? When did SONY buy Geowoks? What kind
>    of exercises do you guys do in the morning.

Well, I'm usually only awake in the morning if I've been working all night
so I tend to run up and down the hall a few times to restore blood to my
extremities.  :-)  Otherwise, I'm excersising my right to a few hours of
sleep.  :-? :-)

John
johnm@cory.Berkeley.EDU
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.pcgeos
From: dtaylor@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Douglas A Taylor)
Subject: Re: How to convert .000 pictures to .PCX/.TIF ??
Reply-To: doug-taylor+@osu.edu
Organization: The Ohio State University
Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1993 18:30:29 GMT

In article <1993Jan6.170818.22050@sun1.ruf.uni-freiburg.de> eysen@sun1.ruf.uni-freiburg.de (Gunther Eysenbach) writes:
>Hello geos-experts,
>
>I'm still desperately looking for a possibility to export
>a GeoDRaw-File (.000-extension) into a more common graphics-
>format (for example PCX).

Two suggestions:

1) (You may have already tried this.)  If you have GWE 1.2 or GW Pro,
go into the Extras subdirectory of the World directory and use the
Screen Dumper utility to take a snapshot of your drawing (assuming it
all fits on one screen) and save it to PCX format.

2) Anonymous ftp to mir.eco.utexas.edu (128.83.172.17), cd to the
/pub/geos directory, and download the file BKGD2PCX.ARJ.  This is a
DOS program that converts GEOS background files to PCX format.  You
simply convert your GeoDraw picture to be a background file (more on
that in the next paragraph), exit to DOS, and run BKGD2PCX.  Access
times for mir.eco.utexas.edu are 6pm to 8am Central Standard Time (I
think that translates to midnight - 2pm GMT).

To convert a GeoDraw drawing to a background file, you first "select"
the drawing in GeoDraw.  Then use the Edit menu to cut or copy it to
the clipboard.  Then start up Preferences and select Background.
Click on the "Get background from clipboard" button, and GEOS will
convert your drawing into a background file.

Hope this helps.

-- 
   Doug Taylor                         |   Nothing real can be threatened.
   The Ohio State University           |   Nothing unreal exists.
   doug-taylor+@osu.edu                |            - A Course in Miracles
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.pcgeos
From: johnlee@crash.cts.com (John Wiley)
Subject: CES revelations
Organization: CTS Network Services (crash, ctsnet), El Cajon, CA
Date: 09 Jan 93 22:49:44 PST


Hey, Shag!

I just returned from CES in Las Vegas, having actually played with one
of the two prototypes for the "Zoomer."  

I'd be happy to tell you more about it.

But you must beg.  |)

...and not expect too much, since I've signed the dreaded non-disc.

Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.pcgeos
From: johnm@cory.Berkeley.EDU (John D. Mitchell)
Subject: Re: GWE Engineers just kids?
Organization: University of California, at Berkeley
Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 01:03:18 GMT

In article <1993Jan7.075650.3020@sfu.ca> mtichy@fraser.sfu.ca (Martin
Tichy) writes:
>I read some message on Geoworks Fido net Echo that the Geoworks
>engineers were really young.  Is this true?  I mean I don't hold
>anything against a programmer just because he's a kid or something.
>If he has talent, it'll show, regardless of his age.  I'm
>pretty young too but I was just curious this little rumour.  It'll
>give me some motivation if it's true!

GeoWorks hires many engineers right out of school.  The current range of
full time engineers is somethin like 22 to late 30's.

John

Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.pcgeos
From: gw.tony@genie.geis.com
Subject: Quickstart vs. POS
Reply-To: <pcgeos-list@pandora.sf.ca.us>
Organization: Pandora Systems	
Date: Sat, 9 Jan 1993 06:36:58 GMT
Originator: pcgeos-list@pandora.sf.ca.us

A slight correction, aimed at Donald Simard.
 
The GeoWorks QuickStart package IS GeoWorks Pro without the QPSE
related material. It's basically GeoWorks Ensemble 1.2.8.
 
The Personal Office Series products, (GeoWorks Writer, GeoWorks
Designer, and GeoWorks Desktop) are the subsets of the GeoWorks Pro
package.
 
Tony
 
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.pcgeos
From: mhirsch@volkl.princeton.edu (Michael Hirsch)
Subject: Re: DRDOS 6.0 vs. 6.01 for PRO, and "Import" (?)
Originator: news@nimaster
Organization: Princeton University Department of Computer Science
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 17:12:30 GMT

>>>>> On Sat, 09 Jan 93 13:14:26 GMT, jeff@eng.umd.edu (Jeffrey Frey) said:

Jeff> I just got the economy version of DRDOS 6.0 from Surplus
Jeff> Software ($29 + $4 "S + H") and want to install it with PRO on a
Jeff> new laptop.[Unfortunately the economy DRDOS comes only on 3.5"
Jeff> discs and since you have to install it from your A drive, it
Jeff> won't go on my desktop]. Last year during part of the DRDOS
Jeff> discussion someone talked about a 6.01 version.  If I
Jeff> communicate with DRDOS themselves, what should I ask for?  If I
Jeff> don't get it how will I know, when I run PRO?

Call up DR and sak for the latest "update".  When I called they denied
anything called 6.01, but admitted there were newer versions.  I think
the latest is 4/92 but 12/91 is what I think you need to interface
with GeoWorks correctly.

Btw, when you call you can sak them to change the media.  I, too, bout
it on 3.5", but I called to get the new update and asked for 5.25".
No problem.
--


Michael D. Hirsch		mhirsch@cs.princeton.edu    
Computer Science Department	Voice: (609) 258-1751       
Princeton NJ, 08544		FAX:   (609) 258-1771       
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