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From: callaci@bcserv.wustl.edu (Callaci (Tom))
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.setup
Subject: Need help with ADLib driver
Date: 1 Oct 92 21:37:54 GMT
Organization: Washington University in Saint Louis, MO USA
Distribution: na
NNTP-Posting-Host: bcserv.wustl.edu
Summary: I would like to know what to do in order to play .wav files...
Keywords: adlib, windows, sound, .wav

I am looking for help setting up the sound drivers in order to play the .wav
files and use the sound accessories in Win3.1.
None of the system sounds are available with the ADlib driver installed.
Any suggestions?
Thanks,
Tom

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From: dp2r+@andrew.cmu.edu (Denise Pullen)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.setup,comp.os.ms-windows.misc
Subject: Re: Trident 3.1 drivers and 8800 Trident Cards
Date: 5 Oct 92 15:29:14 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: Drama, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA

Excerpts from netnews.comp.os.ms-windows.setup: 5-Oct-92 Re: Trident 3.1
drivers and.. by Iskandar Taib@silver.ucs 
> Trident cards are the scourge of Windows users. The only thing they're
> good for is for shooting holes through them. 

I don't think that this is entirely true. I have an 8900 and have no
problems with it and windows. However, if and when I get another card,
it will be an accelerator of much higher quality.

-D-
Organization: Stanford Linear Accelerator Center
Date: Tuesday, 29 Sep 1992 07:58:51 PST
From: <JMH@SLACVM.SLAC.STANFORD.EDU>
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.setup
Subject: Getting more than 4 grays from VGA Mono

I am using a VGA Mono monitor. I KNOW that it can display more than
4 shades of gray, but all I can setup with control panel is
4 solid grays plus mixed shades. I have some software I need to run that
needs 16 levels of grays, at the pixel level. How does one get these
additional gray levels?    Jim    JMH@SLACVM.STANFORD.EDU
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.setup,comp.os.ms-windows.misc,comp.periphs.printers
From: af954@yfn.ysu.edu (Maoee Tsen)
Subject: Is ANSI X3.62 Windows 3.1 Printer driver available
Reply-To: af954@yfn.ysu.edu (Maoee Tsen)
Organization: St. Elizabeth Hospital, Youngstown, OH
Date: Fri, 2 Oct 1992 15:02:15 GMT


Is ANSI X3.62 Windows 3.1 Printer driver available?

I have one QMS SmartWriter( Which is not smart) and would like to use it
with Windows.  QMS does not have any device driver for the SmartWriter.
The SmartWriter emulate Epson FX-80(resolution 144X120) and ANSI X3.62
commands.  Please let me know where I can find the printer driver if there
is one :-)   Thanks in advance.

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Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.setup
From: macole@wam.umd.edu (Mario A. Cole)
Subject: Re: win3 16550 UART support
Organization: University of Maryland, College Park
Date: Tue, 29 Sep 1992 19:49:59 GMT

In article <80729@ut-emx.uucp> ich@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Ing-Chin Hwang) writes:
>All these discussions on 16550 UART support on Win3.1 really confuse
>me. Can we have the answer straight once and for all.
>
>If I'm running Procomm 1.01, on Win3, with a 16550 UART, and an ext.
>v32bis modem.
>
>        A. Is the window com.driver taking advantage of the 16550? 
>        If yes, is the default driver good? 
>        if no, 
>                is there a better PD/shareware driver?
>                if yes, where can I get it?
>                if no, I'll get the Turbocomm, end of the story.
>        

I may be wrong....but I don't think that a 16550 needs to be acknowledged by
Windows.  In other words, your modem should be connected to the card with the
16550 chip.  Therefore, the modem interacts directly with the 16550, whether or
not you are in DOS or Windows.  I just check to see that MSD recognizes the
16550 in COM2. 

>        B. Assume the above problem is solved, i.e., Win does know and
>           make good use of 16550, does procomm also make good use, or
>           it really doesn't matter.    
>

If the above is correct...I wouldn't matter.

>        C. Assume the above combination is no good, what's a good
>           terminal program that will let me do max. background file
>           transfer(zmodem) on win3?
>        

I have Procomm for Windows and a 16550 and I do file transfers while playing
solitare or while at the DOS prompt (full screen).  It does lower my average
CPS but that's because I am running all this on a 386-25...I've seen a 486-50
run Aldus Freehand while transferring with no loss what-so-ever.  So I assume
that the speed of your computer has alot to do with your background performance.


>If a previous posting on the crappy Window driver and the response
>from MS are all true, what kind of high praise one can expect on the
>New Technology(NT)??? 

Good question...
>-- 
>Ing-Chin Hwang, ich@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu

Mario


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From: katz@lourie.und.ac.za (Moran Katz)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.setup
Subject: Improve startup speed
Date: 2 Oct 92 14:50:14 GMT
Article-I.D.: shrike.1ahnj6INN5im
Organization: University of Natal (Durban), South Africa
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[ Article crossposted from comp.os.ms-windows.misc ]
[ Author was Moran Katz ]
[ Posted on 2 Oct 1992 14:47:46 GMT ]

Hi

When starting up Windows, it seems to take FOREVER to display the programme
manager.  The background pops up in a few seconds, but I have to wait for
between 30 - 60 s for the prog. man. to appear.  This is much slower than the
other machines I run WIndows on.

Technical details:  Windows 3.1
                    486DX-50  (256K internal cache)
                    32 Mb RAM (10Mb Ramdrive, 2Mb Smartdrive, rest extended)
                    1Gb Micropolis HD
                    ATI Graphics Ultra (512K, 1Mb on co-pro -- emulating 8514/a)
                    
It has been suggested that Windows is initialising some resource or the other,
but I don't know what it would want to initialise.  I have nothing on the
load=   line in my win.ini file.

I do remember Windows complaining that it could not run Smartdrive as some file
was missing, but I don;t know what file that was.  Anyway, the message only
popped up once, and has not been seen since.  

Another possiblity is that as I am running HDILOAD, and running the ATI graphics
accelerator in full 1024*768*256 mode, that there could be hassles.

Please help! My startup time is much slower than my 486-33!!!

Thanks
Moran
From: jpaul@locus.com (James Hensley)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.setup
Subject: Trident TVGA drivers
Summary: 1024 x 768 mode flickers
Keywords: Trident, SVGA, TVGA
Date: 30 Sep 92 17:55:46 GMT
Organization: Locus Computing Corporation, Los Angeles, California

I have a 386 DX 25mhz, Trident TVGA with 1 meg, and running windows 3.1.
I got the Trident drivers from cica, and installed them under windows in
1024x786 mode.  Everything works fine, but the image flickers.  The manuals
don't mention this, as far as I've found.  Should I try a lower resolution?
Is this a known problem, and if so, is there a fix?

Thanks in advance
James
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From: pk64380@kaarne.cs.tut.fi (Kuusisto Pasi Petri,,,SIG,64380)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.setup
Subject: Re: Where has my memory gone?
Date: 1 Oct 1992 07:05:15 GMT
Organization: Technical University of Tampere, Dep. of Computer Science ,Finland 
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: kaarne.cs.tut.fi

From article <BvELvn.E55@watserv1.uwaterloo.ca>, by dave@phonon.uwaterloo.ca (Dave A. B. Dobson):
> Hi folks,
> 
> Here's my situation: DOS 5.0, Windows 3.1, 386sx with 2MB of memory.
> I normally run Windows after booting DOS into the HMA and loading two
> TSR's (not into UMBs). Running in standard mode, Windows has 710KB
> free after loading. Fine, I realize Windows is a memory pig and I
> accept that.
> 
> But...
> If I run EMM386 with the noems option and load the DOS TSR's into UMBs,
> DOS, of course, has more memory free, but Windows (after loading) has
> only 530KB free. Why is that? Does Windows use the memory in 640K-1024K
> if EMM386 isn't using it?
> 
> Thanks for the help!
   Yes, I think Windows places as much of its kernel in the upper
   mem'ry as it can. At least on my machine mem/c reports 0 bytes 
   available after starting W's.

--
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From: iroberts@pietro.ua.oz.au (Ian Roberts)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.setup
Subject: Equation Editor and TT Fonts
Summary: Does it work?
Date: 28 Sep 92 23:57:06 GMT
Organization: Department of Physical and Inorganic Chemistry, University of Adelaide
NNTP-Posting-Host: pietro.pichem.adelaide.edu.au

I had hoped that I wouldn't need to join the throng of people having trouble
with Equation Editor but then I removed Adobe Type Manager...

Having upgraded to Windows 3.1 I have decided to work with TT fonts rather than
ATM fonts. I have had Equation Editor running with ATM with no error messages. I
am unable to install it now so that it works with TT fonts. I am continually
getting two messages:

        1       that fences font is unavailable on default printer...
        2       that MT extra font is unavailable on default printer...

These two fonts _are_ installed (as TT fonts using Control Panel|Fonts) but
Equation Editor fails to find them. I have repeatedly tried re-installing EE
using the Word fod Windows v2 install program but to no avail.

The current default printer is a LaserWriter IINT which I have been using
successfully for many months. I have tried re-installing it and I have also
tried installing a different printer as the default with the same result.

I think that the arrangements for installing EE are a shambles with insufficient
information provided in the manuals.

Please help me!

-----------------------------------------------------------------------
Ian Roberts (iroberts@pichem.adelaide.edu.au)   Dept of P & I Chemistry
                                                Univesity of Adelaide
                                                Australia
From: dmittleman@misvax.mis.arizona.edu (Daniel Mittleman)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.setup
Subject: Re: Using mouse in Win3.1 DOS window?
Date: 30 Sep 92 18:06:00 GMT
Distribution: world,local
Organization: University of Arizona MIS Department
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41

In article <jcmorris.717866695@mwunix>, jcmorris@mwunix.mitre.org (Joe Morris) writes...
>dmittleman@misvax.mis.arizona.edu (Daniel Mittleman) writes:
> 
>>In article <SBATE.92Sep28143508@rich.atl.ge.com>, sbate@atl.ge.com writes...
>>>According to my Win3.1 manual, the mouse can be used with non-Windows
>>>applications running in a DOS window. The manual says to either put
>>>mouse.com in your autoexec.bat file or mouse.sys in your config.sys
>>>file. I've tried this and it doesn't seem to work. My mouse has it's
>>>own driver "amouse.com". Could this be the problem? Any help would be
>>>appreciated.
> 
>>    I have been told that the mouse only works when the dos window is full
>>    screen.  This matches my personal observations of having my mouse work
>>    for me when I make the dos window full screen but it does not work when
>>    I have it be a small window.
> 
>Mice work in windowed DOS sessions *only* if both the mouse driver and the
>display driver are written to Windows 3.1 standards.  Any drivers which
>haven't been revised since early 1992 are suspect.  
> 
>Downlevel drivers will provide mouse services only in full-screen DOS 
>windows (exactly like Windows 3.0 did).
> 
>The mouse and video drivers supplied with Windows 3.1 are (of course)
>3.1 compliant, but any drivers from other sources should be checked
>with the vendor.
> 
    Thanks for all the responses.  I received several email responses along the
    lines of the Scott Berger message:
    -----
From:	SMTP%"sberger@sedona.intel.com" 30-SEP-1992 08:20:57.97

	Just so you know: you can use a mouse in a smaller window
*IF* you're using either a micrsoft mouse or a logitech mouse. There
are new logitech and microsoft mouse drivers on the Win31 disks, but
they dont get installed, you have to expand them out by hand.
    -----
    Apparently the new Logitec driver and the new Microsoft driver (8.20)
    work.  I have been trying the Microsoft driver this morning but so far
    no luck.  Anyway, this has answered my questions, I hope it helps SBate
    who posted the original question.

    d
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From: cee1@ra.msstate.edu (Charles Evans)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms,comp.os.ms-windows.setup,comp.os.ms-windows.misc
Subject: Re: How to start in 386 enhanced mode ?
Date: 7 Oct 92 01:07:38 GMT
Organization: Mississippi State University

In article <BvBGGL.4o4@NCoast.ORG> brown@NCoast.ORG (Stan Brown) writes:
>In article <1992Sep28.084311.18791@a.cs.okstate.edu> saeed@a.cs.okstate.edu (SAEED FAISEL) writes:
>>I have a 386/40 compatible & win 3.1.
>>
>>1. How can I want always start windows in 386 enhanced mode ?
>>
>>2. How can I make windows to make most use of the 4 MB ram ?
>>   I am currently using the following config.sys
>>
>>	DEVICE=C:\DOS\HIMEM.SYS
>>        DOS=HIGH,UMB
>>        DEVICE=C:\DOS\EMM386.SYS 1024 RAM
>>        . . .
>>
>Your two questions have the same answer.  Change RAM to NOEMS.
>
>Note to everybody:  It's really worth spending some time with the
>chapters in the DOS 5 and Win 3.1 user's guides on configuring and
>optimizing the system.  
>

but the thing is, Borland C++ 3.1 will not load in DOS (at least on
my 386/40) with QEMM386 with the NOEMS switch

my usuall setyup is device=qemm.sys ram noems .. is there someting
wrong with using both switches, well hen i took NOEMS off, BC++ (DOS)
workds fine.. and that was also in the little install booklet in the
BC++ pacakgae... ? any ideas?

>-- 
>Stan Brown, Oak Road Systems                      brown@Ncoast.ORG
>Cleveland, Ohio, USA


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From: <KCHAN@ESOC.BITNET>
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.setup
Subject: Re: Using mouse in Win3.1 DOS window?
Distribution: world,local
 <29SEP199218440782@misvax.mis.arizona.edu> <jcmorris.717866695@mwunix>

You need a MS mouse driver version 8.0 or later. Don't know about other
mice. How to get MS mouse driver version 8.0 (legally?) - contact MS customer
service on (800)-426-9400.
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Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.setup
From: fox@rei.com (Fuzzy Fox)
Subject: Re: 32 bit access & SCSI drives
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 1992 19:09:07 GMT
Organization: Recognition Equipment, Inc.

kbm8572@summa.tamu.edu (BRYAN MILLIGAN) writes:

>I am having a great deal of trouble with Windows 3.1
>especially in regards to the use of a swap file.

Your problem probably has something to do with DMA confusing Windows.
You should load the ASPI4DOS or ASPIEDOS driver, which contains a UVDS
driver, and if necessary, include the /double_buffer switch on
SmartDrive (if you think you really *must* have SmartDrive).

My SCSI system works with just the ASPI driver (fails without it), but a
colleague has a similar setup and requires the ASPI driver and the
/double_buffer.  Both of us use Adaptec controllers.

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From: gardner_a@kosmos.wcc.govt.nz (Andy Gardner)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.setup
Subject: Postscript Printer Control Win 3.1
Date: 6 Oct 1992 14:47:03 GMT
Organization: Wellington City Council (Public Access), Wgtn, Nz
Reply-To: gardner_a@kosmos.wcc.govt.nz
NNTP-Posting-Host: kosmos.wcc.govt.nz

When printing to a postscript printer from Windows, Windows
inserts a Ctrl-D at the start and end of the file before
sending it to the printer.  THis is a printer reset for
postscript printers.

If you do not require a printer reset at the start of the 
document, you can put a line "CtrlD=0" in the WIn.ini in
the printers description area.

This is just dandy, but I need to get rid of the Ctrl-D
at_the_end of the document, as it is causing big problems
with my printer sharing device (ie resetting it before the
whole job has been sent to the printer).

Does anybody know of a line that can be added to WIN.INI
that will stop Windows inserting the Ctrl-D at the end 
of the print job?

Thanks
Andy Gardner       
Wellington, New Zealand
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.setup,comp.os.ms-windows.misc
From: rnichols@cbnewsg.cb.att.com (robert.k.nichols)
Subject: "Big" problems with document printing
Followup-To: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
Summary: Can't print ornate fonts in large sizes
Keywords: font printer driver
Organization: AT&T
Date: Sat, 3 Oct 1992 18:16:59 GMT

I'm having a problem getting complex, ornate fonts to print in large
point sizes.  These are fonts typically used for decorative initial
letters in the first paragraph of a chapter, and they need to be
printed in at LEAST 56-point to appear as anything but an amorphous
blob (64-point would be preferable).

It appears that the printer driver barfs on the high complexity, and
the characters show up as a bold box only, even though they may be
displayed properly on the screen.  In _really_ large sizes (72-points
and up), even the screen display is just a rectangle.  The problem
seems related to the complexity, rather than just the size; a "simple"
font will print at 72-point with no problem.

I had assumed that the problem was just one of the many shortcomings of
the MS_Windows "Write" program, but I recently picked up Power Up's
TextAppeal(tm), and get exactly the same behavior (even when printing
the characters rotated or otherwise distorted -- this I find
surprising).

I am printing on a Panasonic KX-P1124i, and I think I have the latest
drivers from MS's BBS:

	PAN24E.DRV      04-24-92
	UNIDRV.DLL      06-29-92

By reducing the dot density (360x360 -> 180x360 -> 180x180) I can get
to a somewhat larger size before failure (perhaps 36-point).  Switching
to a simpler driver (1124i -> 1124 -> Epson LQ850) also helps slightly,
but not nearly enough.

Can anyone suggest a way around this problem.  If there is a word
processing program that gets around this, please tell me which one.  I
(obviously) want to get away from "Write", but I don't want to shell
out the bucks for a full-featured word processor and find that I still
have the same problem.

Followups via email or to comp.os.ms-windows.misc (or by mental telepathy,
if you feel up to it -- I'm looking for anything at this point).

Bob Nichols
AT&T Bell Laboratories
rnichols@ihlpm.ih.att.com
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.setup
From: ezachris@zuni.ucs.indiana.edu
Subject: Genoa 800x600x32K driver wanted
Organization: Indiana University
Date: Fri, 2 Oct 1992 20:20:59 GMT


I have a VCOM 486/dx50 Local Bus with a 24bit TrueColor SVGA card that  
uses Genoa drivers under Windows. Does anyone know where I can get the 

GENOA 800x600x32K driver for Windows 3.1?
               
Thanks in Advance!!!


E. Zachrisen
ezachris@cherokee.ucs.indiana.edu
From: dave@frackit.UUCP (Dave Ratcliffe)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.setup
Subject: Re: IBM 4019 Printing - WIN 3.1
Summary: Really?
Date: 26 Sep 92 02:35:23 GMT
Organization: Data Factory Services, Harrisburg, Pa.

In article <1992Sep21.232136.10913@waikato.ac.nz>tte@waikato.ac.nz writes:
>Advice:

>Anyone out there trying to get Windows printing on a IBM 4019 Laser Printer
>will get no end of problems.

>Solution:
>
>When you set up the printer drivers, set the default as HP Laser Jet Series II,
>and whe you turn on the printer, hold in the FONT button as the power switch is
>turned on.  This will put the printer into HP LJ Series II emulation.  You will
>now have no probs


Hmmmmm.... I have installed Windows 3.1 on no less than 5 machines at
work, all of which are connected to IBM 4019 laser printers. 

They all work flawlessly using the 4019 drivers.

I wonder where I went wrong? :)

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From: gcasaus@vesta.unm.edu (Greg Casaus)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.setup
Subject: Shell to DOS, Stealth Drivers
Keywords: Rookie, impulsive
Date: 6 Oct 92 14:22:10 GMT
Article-I.D.: lynx.9lfpgs=
Organization: University of New Mexico, Albuquerque

I'm fairly new to the world of Windows, and I also have the habit of shooting
first and aiming later.  As a result I have loaded what appear to be duplicate
drivers for my Stealth video card into my clone 486-50.  How do I remove all
non MS drivers so that I can start over?

Question 2:  trying to open a DOS session by clicking on the DOS icon blanks my
screen, flashes a message to quick to read, and returns to Windows.  Any suggestions as to what might be wrong?

Greg Casaus
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.setup
Subject: Stack Error
From: <TMVANDER@MTUS5.BITNET>
Date: Saturday, 3 Oct 1992 15:30:59 EST
Organization: Computing Technology Services, Michigan Technological Univ.

I was wondering if anyone could tell me why my machine is giving me a stack
error whenever i try to load mathematica for windows?  I've tried any and
all settings of stacks= in config.sys, and I've tried several dozen different
ways to load my memory managers.  My system is a 486SX-25 with 4 mb of ram.
I have a swap file of 6 mb.  Any and all help would be appreciated.
Please E-mail your responces to me directly at tmvander@major.cs.mtu.edu
because we don't have a reliable readnews server.  Thank you in advance.

Todd Vander Woude
tmvander@major.cs.mtu.edu




From: reed@hpcc01.corp.hp.com (Perry Reed)
Date: Tue, 6 Oct 1992 14:50:15 GMT
Subject: Re: 32bit disk access?
Organization: Hewlett Packard Co. / PGP