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From: pf@bilbo.bio.purdue.edu (Paul Furbacher)
Subject: Re: Page numbering in Word/Win
Organization: Purdue University
Distribution: comp.os.ms-windows.apps
Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 08:15:19 GMT

In article <1992Dec28.190659.13569@organpipe.uug.arizona.edu>, 
  ianbjor@helium.gas.uug.arizona.edu (Ian D. Bjorhovde) writes:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I was wondering if there is a way to do reverse numbering in Word - I
> want to number the pages of my table of contents:  v iv iii ii i...
> 

What a novel idea! What comes after "i" indicated by your 
use of ellipsis?  Can you have "-i" as a number in this 
scheme?  

Have I had too much time off for the holiday to figure out
your reasoning for reverse page numbering?  Sounds like a
pretty goofy scheme.  

To answer your question: the only way to do this, to my
knowledge, is to "insert|breaks|section-break|next-page"
for each page, then "insert|page numbers|format|
number-format|i-ii-iii-iv||page-numbering|start-at|X"
where X is the page number.  Each section gets its own
page number, one page per section.  Its rather manual,
but since your approach is, let's say, non-standard (or
I'm just showing my ignorance -- please disabuse me of
it if you can), the programmers/designers probably
never gave it much thought to make this feature automatic.

Too many other things to pay attention to while programming
word: somehow the idea of non-modal "Find" and "Replace"
dialog boxes got lost in the translation from the Mac to
the PeeCee.  Just one of a host of oddities with W4W.

Have fun getting that scheme past any thesis format office or
editor/publisher!

PF

.  Paul Furbacher
.  Dept. of Biological Sciences
.  Purdue University
.  West Lafayette, IN  47907-1392
.  pf@bilbo.bio.purdue.edu

Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.apps
From: rjhoffma@iastate.edu (Richard J. Hoffmann)
Subject: Re: Windows and NCSA telnet....
Organization: Iowa State University, Ames, IA
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 23:13:15 GMT

In article <mcdonald.614@aries.scs.uiuc.edu> mcdonald@aries.scs.uiuc.edu (J. D. McDonald) writes:

[other options deleted]

>3) The best way, and the only reliable way if you want to run the 
>   packet driver from DOS once and for all, is to load the packet driver 
>   there (no -w switch), then outside Windows, load Pktmux, the packet
>   multiplexor. INSIDE windows run a batch file that loads a Pktdrv
>   (from the pktmux package), then telnet, and finally unloads the pktdrv.
>   This allows running Telnet, ftp, Trumpet, and lpr, all at once,
>   inside Windows. Outside Windows you can also run NFS too.

I have now gotten pktmux up and running, and it works as billed.  I can
now run NCSA's Telnet and ftp concurrently, and I can have WinQVT/Net active
at the same time.  I have done exactly what is suggested above, loading
pktdrv through the batch file used to start Telnet or ftp through the
Windows *.pif, then unloading it at the end of a session.  I have found
that the pktdrv sometimes stays busy, even though I unload it after
exiting.  This means that beginning another Telnet session fails.  I
have found that I can avoid this by executing pktmux /r before reloading
pktdrv, but I wonder why the port (or whatever it's called) stays busy
sometimes.  No big deal, but I'm trying to understand how this
multiplexer works.

Dick



-- 
Richard J. Hoffmann                Internet: rjhoffma@iastate.edu
Department of Zoology & Genetics     Bitnet: rjhoffma%iastate.edu@isumvs
Iowa State University                 Voice: (515) 294-8075
Ames, Iowa 50011
From: steve.silverwood@filebank.cts.com (Steve Silverwood) 
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.apps
Subject: NDW2 Bug?
Date: 21 Dec 92 06:24:00 GMT
Distribution: world
Organization: The File Bank BBS - Fallbrook, CA  619-728-4318
Reply-To: steve.silverwood@filebank.cts.com (Steve Silverwood) 

 >From: chris47@uxb.liv.ac.uk (Mr. C. Brown)
 >Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.apps
 >Subject: NDW2 Bug?
 >Message-ID: <ByJM9I.F4r@compsci.liverpool.ac.uk>
 >Date: 30 Nov 92 19:03:18 GMT
 >
 >Ive just installed Norton Desktop For Windows version 2 and all my icon
 >titles have shrunk.
 >Under plain Windows I have in the [desktop] section of the win.ini file a
 >line IconTitleSize=14. All my icons are easy to read.
 >Along comes NDW2 and every icon title in a window shrinks to the original
 >default Windows size ie bleedin' small. But icons minimized to the desktop
 >has easy to read titles of the size I want!
 >Any guesses?
 >
 >Chris Brown
 >chris47@uxb.liv.ac.uk

What screen driver are you using?  On the 800x600 SVGA and the 640x480
VGA drivers, both appear the same size.

//Steve//

/----------------------------+---------------------------------------\
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|Computer Associates         |CompuServe: 76703,3035                 |
|300 Corporate Point, 2nd Fl.|     Voice: (310)348-4448              |
|Culver City, CA  90230      |       FAX: (310)348-7701              |
+----------------------------+---------------------------------------+
|The opinions expressed here are solely my own, mainly because nobody|
|else would want them....                                            |
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Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.apps
From: jong-min@cae.wisc.edu (Jong-Min Park)
Subject: QVTNET on Novell Netware TCP/IP?
Organization: U of Wisconsin-Madison College of Engineering
Date: 29 Dec 92 19:52:20 CST

Can QVTNet run under Novell Netware 3.x's tcpip/odi? What would the proper
setup be?

Otherwise, should I just use Clarkson drivers and pktipx.com instead of
ODI drivers? Will this enable QVTNET to coexist with Novell network?
From: maurit@nrtc.nrtc.northrop.com (Mark Aurit <maurit>)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.apps
Subject: Any Wingz users out there?
Date: 26 Dec 92 23:06:58 GMT
Reply-To: maurit@nrtc.nrtc.northrop.com (Mark Aurit <maurit>)
Organization: Northrop Research & Technology Center, Palos Verdes, CA

Subject line says it all! Have a few questions that I could use
some advice on.
Thx, Mark
maurit@nrtc.northrop.com
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.apps
From: pf@bilbo.bio.purdue.edu (Paul Furbacher)
Subject: Re: Margin on second page in Word for Windows
Organization: Purdue University
Distribution: comp.os.ms-windows.apps
Date: Sat, 26 Dec 1992 07:03:58 GMT

> THOMASG@epx.cis.umn.edu (Thomas D. Gasser) writes:
> ...
> : Is there any way to automaticly change the margins for the second page?  We 
> : use letterhead for the first page (3" margin) and plain paper (1" margin) 
> : for the second.  


I'm joining this thread a bit late, therefore I might 
suggest something which has already been said.

Commonly, when the first page starts at an offset down 
from the document-wide top margin -- such as with letter
head, or chapter beginnings in thesis formats -- it is
most efficient to leave the margin alone and vary 
either the *line height* or the *before* setting for the
first paragraph on the first page.  In your situation,
the first paragraph is the first line of the address of 
the person to whom you are writing.  Make a style for 
exactly that situation and once it's done in one letter,
it will be a mindless exercize to do it in any future 
letters which use letter head.

Our letter head requires an offset of an additional 1.5"
from the top margin (1").  Therefore, I defined the "LetterHead"
style to have a Format|Paragraph description of "line spacing:
exactly" with "At:" set to 1.5".  It's formalized as a 
style in the template.  If you don't want to add it to
the template, keep at least one dummy letter around with 
this style and merge that dummy's styles the first thing 
you do before typing the new letter.

What, you don't use styles?  Hopefully, you do.  If you
don't, you ought to just dust off the typewriter.  Don't 
spend another dime on wordprocessor upgrades.

PF
From: akm@atlantix.cs.uoregon.edu (Anant Kartik Mithal)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.apps
Subject: Re: Where to get "Virtual Screen for Win-3.1?"
Date: 3 Jan 93 22:14:32 GMT
Article-I.D.: cs.1993Jan3.221432.22369
Organization: University of Oregon Computer and Information Sciences Dept.


Some of the virtual screen/desktop managers available at cica are
bigdesk and its associated backmenu. Bigdesk is the virtual desktop
manager, which gives you multiple screens, and backmenu is a menu that
works when you click on the desktop.

Included with the windows resource kit (wrk), is topdesk, which is
what I use. It can be configured to remember which application is run
in which window, so it forms a neat menuing system. A problem with
topdesk is that you can't get it to forget only one application window
location that it has remembered, so you have to delete all the ghosts
that it remembers. (Or perhaps I don't quite know how to work it yet.)

I'd recommend topdesk, having used both it and bigdesk. I have a
topdesk strip running across the top of my screen, so that it sits
where the title bar of the application would come in full screen mode.
I can get by without seeing the title bar. It therefore doesn't take
up any additional desktop space for me, and it gives me access to 15
virtual screens.

One thing I can't remember is what the name of the WRK file is. Anyone?

cheers,

kartik
-- 
If you quote my article remember to trim it down to the essentials.
Anant Kartik Mithal, 				akm@cs.uoregon.edu
Network Manager, Ph.D. Student			(503)346-3989
Comp. Science, U of Oregon, Eugene, OR 97403  	(503)346-5373 (fax)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.apps
From: gerry@pizzabox.dialogic.com (Gerry Lachac)
Subject: Searching for WorldTime-type Clock Application
Organization: Dialogic Corporation
Date: Mon, 28 Dec 92 22:58:28 GMT

On the Mac there is a utility called WorldTime that lets you display
multiple clocks with the current time in various places on the globe.

Does anyone know of a similar utility for Windows?

-gerry


Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.apps
From: law30129@nusunix1.nus.sg (GNANASIHAMANI KANNAN)
Subject: Re: Windows tif viewer/printer
Organization: National University of Singapore
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]
Date: Fri, 1 Jan 1993 07:37:55 GMT

Kelly Thompson (kelly@searchtech.com) wrote:
: Does anyone know of a tif viewer that can also print
: these tifs ?
: 
: Thanx in advance,
: 
: Kelly
: -- 
: -------------------------------------------
:   Kelly Thompson (kat@asti.com)            |
:   Applied Software, Inc.	           |
:   1908 Cliff Valley Way 

   I've come across quite a few progs that will view/print TIFF files.

   SHAREWARE : Graphics Workshop
               Paintshop Pro - excellent
   
   COMMERCIAL :  Imageprep
                 Hijaak for Windows

   Personally, when I deal with TIFFs, I just import them directly into
   Amipro 3.0 - its got a great Image Enhancing Function - alter 
   brightness/contrast etc.

   Hope that helps.

   KANNAN
   NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE
From: dob@selinix%einoed.in-berlin.de (Dirk Brzezinski)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.apps
Subject: Urgent help with cyrillic fonts needed
Date: Tue, 29 Dec 92 01:53:40 GMT
Organization: d()b 's link to reality

hi folks,
I desperately need cyrillic fonts for windows 3.1.
I have tried ATM, doesn`t work, then Cyrwin, no luck.
Seems they only work with win3.0.
Does anybody know any solution?

Replies to dob@selinix%einoed.in-berlin.de please,
as I am not always reading this group.

thanx in advance,

dob
===
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.apps
Subject: enlarging pc+fw screenDEREGISTER
From: edowdy@vax1.umkc.edu
Date: 29 Dec 92 21:18:09 CST
Organization: University of Missouri - Kansas City
NNTP-Posting-Host: vax1.umkc.edu

This may be a stupid question but in pc+fw the actual screen where the text
is is fairly small. In fact there is a 1/2 or maore of an inch all the way
around it! Can I make the creen bigger ? I like the pretty pattern but
this seems like a baltant waste of space.

Eric Dowdy

sorry of r the mispelling I am still trying to get it setup and I do not
have a delette key working right now. I am trying to fix tahat in my c
vt emulation also.

Thanks in advance
From: 5916rahmank@vms.csd.mu.edu ( )
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.apps
Subject: Re: Stacker 3.0 woes
Date: 21 Dec 1992 19:18:52 GMT
Organization: Department of EECE, Marquette University
Reply-To: 5916rahmank@vms.csd.mu.edu
NNTP-Posting-Host: vmsa.csd.mu.edu

In article <shopsis.50@panther.adelphi.edu>, shopsis@panther.adelphi.edu (Charles Shopsis) writes:
.>
.>After I installed stacker 3.0 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.
.>
.>Thanks for reading through this tale of woe.
.
.> ... deletion...
.>Charles Shopsis, Dept. Chemistry, Adelphi University
.>shopsis@auvax1.adelphi.edu       or        shopsis@panther.adelphi.edu

 	Did you reinstall the complaining programs? Doing that might
	cure the problems.

	-Anis.
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.apps,comp.os.ms-windows.setup
From: yxl5388@ultb.isc.rit.edu (Fractalman)
Subject: Re: MS Word problem with Diamond Speedstar 24X
Originator: yxl5388@ultb
Keywords: Diamond Speedstar 24X
Organization: Rochester Institute of Technology
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 23:46:34 GMT

In article <1h5bsiINNpbn@transfer.stratus.com> cbarr@coyote.sw.stratus.com (Chris Barr) writes:
>re: in MSW, selecting Tools/Options causes General Protection error #xxxx.  

The problem happens not just in Word for Windows but in MANY other
Microsoft (and other) apps where 'large icons' are used. Many of
Microsoft's programs' SETUP programs use these icons and they don't work
with the SpeedSTAR 24X. Luckily I still have version 1.01 of their
drivers and I switched back to those drivers and everythign works
perfectly.

=Fractalman
From: vince.maiocco@satalink.com (Vince Maiocco)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.apps
Subject: QVT documentation format
Date: 31 Dec 92 19:18:00 GMT
Reply-To: vince.maiocco@satalink.com (Vince Maiocco)
Organization: Datamax/Satalink Connection * Ivyland, PA (215) 443-9434

PD>How do I read the *.wri files in which QVT is documented?

Use the WRITE program that came with windows.
If you trashed it, better get it off your install disks, 
because you're gonna be getting a lot of Win utilities that 
have their Doc files in .wri format.
L8r.


--- WinQwk 2.0 a#0
                                                                                              
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.apps
From: pact_ltd@uhura.cc.rochester.edu (Blade)
Subject: Re: Procomm 1.00 update?
Organization: University of Rochester - Rochester, New York
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 92 07:48:49 GMT


About the patch for Procomm Plus for Windows, check out ftp.cica.indiana.edu
in the pub/pc/win3/upload/NOV92 (not too sure about the NOV part) and look
for a program called maint1.exe; this is the self-extracting archive of the
patches for PCPlus/Win.
-- 
Pete Schott                    pact_ltd@uhura.cc.rochester.edu

I don't have to have a 4.0 GPA to succeed in life because I'm good enough,
I'm smart enough, and doggone it, people like me.
From: ez003045@hamlet.ucdavis.edu (Jake Speed)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.apps
Subject: Re: Margin on second page in Word for Windows
Date: 23 Dec 92 23:53:54 GMT

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Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.apps
From: eng10056@nusunix1.nus.sg (LAU YIN CHENG)
Subject: SoundBlaster 2.0 Win Drv- Problems
Organization: National University of Singapore
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]
Date: Fri, 25 Dec 1992 17:01:43 GMT

Hi there,  I have been facing problems with the sb 2.0 drivers for
windows 3.1 (lastest).  After I install the drivers using the readme.1st
file, the drivers only work for a while.

What happens is that after the
system after played say 12 wav files,  the speakers keeps on generating
the same wave over and over again.

When I tried to quit,, the system hangs.  The system had to to be
rebooted using CRTL-ALT-DEL.

I have check my system.ini and win.ini files and found that they are
ok...

Anybody out there facing this problem?
Any advice or suggestions?


Please help,

PS: My system is a 486dx-33 with 4MB ram.
From: bigal@wpi.WPI.EDU (Nathan Charles Crowell)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.apps
Subject: Memory size
Date: 26 Dec 1992 05:45:07 GMT
Organization: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
NNTP-Posting-Host: wpi.wpi.edu

This isn't strictly a Windows question, but I just installed 16MB
of more RAM into my computer (for a total of 20MB) and was wondering
if anyone could tell me what my machine should report for the amount
of extended memory available.

With the 4MB setup, it said "640K Base 3092K Extended". This makes
sense (taking away 384K for the upper memory area, this adds up to
4MB). Now, it says "640K Base 15104K Extended". This seems too low.
I checked that I set the DIP switches right, and I did (for 20MB with
4MB in Bank 0 and 16MB in Bank 1).

Is this what the computer should say? Or should it be something like
"640K Base 19000K Extended"?

Please answer by e-mail.

Thanx in advance,
Nate

BTW, Thanx to everyone who helped with the Excel problems...it turned
out to be a corrupt .EXE file.
From: yoneda@info.kawasaki-steel.co.jp (Yoneda)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.apps
Subject: Chemistry Software for Windows
Date: 22 Dec 92 10:23:04 GMT
Distribution: comp
Organization: Integrated Systems & Electronics division, Kawasaki-Steel


Does anyone know chemistry software for windows?
In Macintosh World, I knew some of the software,"ChemDraw"
and "Chem 3D Plus",etc...
But I don't know about Windows software.

Please E-Mail me about the software information.

Thanks.
--
----------
Tadashi YONEDA :KAWASAKI STEEL Co.
               :Engineering & Technology Department
               :Integrated Systems & Electronics Division
E-mail address :yoneda@info.kawasaki-steel.co.jp
From: carter@cemvax.cem.msu.edu (Tom Carter)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.apps
Subject: Re: Margin on second page in Word for Windows
Date: 28 Dec 92 13:20:32 GMT
Organization: Michigan State University, Chemistry Dept., E. Lansing, MI
NNTP-Posting-Host: photon.cem.msu.edu

In article <BzuuAM.8v0@mentor.cc.purdue.edu> pf@bilbo.bio.purdue.edu (Paul Furbacher) writes:
>> THOMASG@epx.cis.umn.edu (Thomas D. Gasser) writes:
>> ...
>> : Is there any way to automaticly change the margins for the second page?  We 
>> : use letterhead for the first page (3" margin) and plain paper (1" margin) 
>> : for the second.  
>
>
>I'm joining this thread a bit late, therefore I might 
>suggest something which has already been said.
>
>Commonly, when the first page starts at an offset down 
>from the document-wide top margin -- such as with letter
>head, or chapter beginnings in thesis formats -- it is
>most efficient to leave the margin alone and vary 
>either the *line height* or the *before* setting for the
>first paragraph on the first page.  In your situation,
>the first paragraph is the first line of the address of 
>the person to whom you are writing.  Make a style for 
>exactly that situation and once it's done in one letter,
>it will be a mindless exercize to do it in any future 
>letters which use letter head.
>
>Our letter head requires an offset of an additional 1.5"
>from the top margin (1").  Therefore, I defined the "LetterHead"
>style to have a Format|Paragraph description of "line spacing:
>exactly" with "At:" set to 1.5".  It's formalized as a 
>style in the template.  If you don't want to add it to
>the template, keep at least one dummy letter around with 
>this style and merge that dummy's styles the first thing 
>you do before typing the new letter.
>
>What, you don't use styles?  Hopefully, you do.  If you
>don't, you ought to just dust off the typewriter.  Don't 
>spend another dime on wordprocessor upgrades.
>
>PF

I think the simplest thing to do is choose the "different first page" option
in the View Header/Footer dialog, then set the first page header position
(the "From edge setting in the same dialog) to be, say, 3.25 inches. 
The following page headers can be deleted or set to have a smaller margin 
value. These settings can be saved in a template, also.

For more info, search the online help for "headers: creating and editing", 	
or the manual, page 580 (version 2.0x).

===========================================================================
|        Tom Carter                    |     carter@cemvax.cem.msu.edu    |
|  Michigan State University           |     carter@msucem.bitnet         |
|    Chemistry Department              |                                  |
===========================================================================
From: rscott@vineland.pubs.stratus.com (Richard Scott)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.apps
Subject: MS Access Performance
Date: 30 Dec 1992 15:46:19 GMT
Organization: Stratus Computer Inc, Marlboro MA
NNTP-Posting-Host: attila.pubs.stratus.com

Anyone played around with Microsoft Access enough yet to figure out how to get  
some performance out of it (or what kinds of things cause big performance  
hits)?  I've got a simple database that I had previously implemented in MS  
Excel and am attempting to port to Access.  It has 3 tables linked by  
relationships.  The smallest is about 40 records and the largest maybe 2,000  
records.  The records would be about 150 bytes at most.  All the fields used in  
queries have been indexed.

I'm running this on a 25MHz 386 with 8Mb memory (1.5Meg is RAMDisk) and a 110Mb
IDE drive, Norton Cache, DOS 5.0, Windows 3.1, and it is S-L-O-W.  Even opening  
a form based on a query of the smallest table (40 70-byte records) takes around  
20 seconds.
-----
Richard Scott
Stratus Computer, Inc.
rscott@vineland.pubs.stratus.com
From: maurit@nrtc.nrtc.northrop.com (Mark Aurit <maurit>)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.apps
Subject: Re: CA_Realizer
Date: 26 Dec 92 23:19:34 GMT
Reply-To: maurit@nrtc.nrtc.northrop.com (Mark Aurit)
Organization: Northrop Research & Technology Center, Palos Verdes, CA

In article <1056.317.uupcb@filebank.cts.com> steve.silverwood@filebank.cts.com (Steve Silverwood) writes:
> >Does anyone have any experience with CA_Realizer?  It's a VisualBasic
> >competitor (they SAY it's better, surprise), available for a limited
> >time for ONLY $99!  Should I get it?  What say you?

As usual, depends on what you are going to use it on.
We're putting together an EIS, and in evaluating alternative software
products decided to use Realizer (back when the owner was Within
Technologies). Our C programmers were able to learn it very quickly -
as it supports C-like subroutines - and its a much more productive
development environment than C.
What we REALLY liked were its very good imbedded graphics (also
has some other embedded features like spreadsheets that look good).
This lack of graphics, by the way, is the reason we couldnt take
Visual Basic seriously (tho Microsoft tried to tell us to use
Excel for this - get real). Pretty good support for 3rd party
libraries.
What I dont like about it is that, when you get right down to it, its
still a programming language. Has a forms generator that we dont use,
too simplistic. Purely procedural code - but an inexpensive way to
get into Windows programming with no runtime royalties.
And, its not cross platform - which is why we're not going to use
it anymore.
Mark