HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: mcdan@berlioz.nsc.com (Eric McDaniel)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.win32
Subject: Registry woes
Date: 6 Jan 93 18:32:52 GMT
Organization: National Semiconductor Corporation, Santa Clara

I'm having a problem making changes to the registry on my machine.
I can log in as administrator and use regedit to make changes, but
when I reboot all the changes are gone.  I've tried to change
permissions, add & delete keys, add and delete values -- nothing
seems to persist across reboots.

This is on a Dell System 425E with 12MB RAM, running the October
Beta release.  It is extremely slow running NT, but I see no
reason for the problems I'm having.  I have no problems doing
all the above operations on my other machine, a Compaq 486/50L.

Any suggestions?

-Eric McDaniel
mcdan@berlioz.nsc.com
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.win32
From: tomh@wes.on.ca (Tom Haapanen)
Subject: Re: ATI VGA Wonder+ Driver for Windows NT
Organization: Waterloo Engineering Software
Date: Mon, 04 Jan 1993 11:17:41 GMT

wales@ringss.enet.dec.com writes:
> 	Note that you can use the VGA Wonder+ with Windows NT in standard VGA
> resolution.   One other problem is that the mouse port on the card is not
> recognised.   I hope they get that sorted out soon as, to me, getting my mouse
> working is more important than high-res at the moment.

Really?  I have an ATI Ultra with a Microsoft mouse plugged into its mouse
port, and it works quite well with both the stock VGA/Inport drivers, and
with ATI's beta drivers.  Is the VGA Wonder+ mouse port not the same?

Of course, those beta Ultra drivers are not terribly fast yet...

[ \tom haapanen    "i don't even know what street canada is on" -- al capone ]
[ tomh@wes.on.ca                   "trust the programmer" -- ansi c standard ]
[ waterloo engineering software      "to thine own self be true" -- polonius ]
From: tad@wrq.com (Tad Marshall)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.win32
Subject: Re: SLIP network interface(s) for TCP/IP ?
Date: 13 Jan 93 03:50:46 GMT
Article-I.D.: shelley.1j03imINN3hq
Organization: Walker Richer & Quinn, Inc., Seattle, WA
NNTP-Posting-Host: elmer.wrq.com

In article <1993Jan12.180216.4511@watson.ibm.com> oleg@watson.ibm.com (Oleg Vishnepolsky) writes:
>
>I was not able to find any references to SLIP in documentation. 
>Is it supported ?
>
>Oleg Vishnepolsky

There is no SLIP included in the beta, but there are people (third-partys)
working on it.  Likewise for PPP.

-- Tad
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.win32
From: donp@niaid.nih.gov (Don Preuss)
Subject: Re: Tape Backup on NT
Organization: National Institutes of Health
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 19:37:31 GMT

eli@Metaphor.COM (Eli Lauris) writes:


>I am trying to set up periodic, automated tape backups from NT machine.  The NT's backup tool does not seem to include any scheduling features.  However, the meager help information implies that you can run backups from batch file.  

>Has anyone succeeded to automating tape backups on NT ?  I'd appreciate any information on this subject.

From what I've been led to believe, NT won't ship with Scheduling features in the
tape backup. For that you need to buy a 3rd party package like Maynard's. In the
next beta tho, I hear there will be cron type features so all hope may not be lost.

donp
>Eli Lauris
>eli@metaphor.com
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.win32
From: craigdo@microsoft.com (Craig Dowell)
Subject: Re: ftp.uu.net ~/OS2toWin/book2.zip is bad
Date: 04 Jan 93 23:40:57 GMT
Organization: Microsoft Corporation

In article <1993Jan1.170417.18372@rulway.LeidenUniv.nl> jeroenp@rulfc1.LeidenUniv.nl (Jeroen W. Pluimers) writes:
>
>On ftp.uu.net in the /vendor/microsoft/OS2toWin/book2.zip has
>a length of zero. 
>
>Doesn't look good to me :)

Pretty impressive compression

Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.win32
From: alistair@microsoft.com (Alistair Banks)
Subject: Re: 16-bit Windows Sockets for Oct '92 Win32 SDK for Windows NT
Date: 06 Jan 93 20:14:38 GMT
Organization: Microsoft Corporation

In article <1993Jan5.165200.1110@solaris.rz.tu-clausthal.de> hochstae@allfiwib1.wiwi.uni-marburg.de (Christoph H. Hochstaetter) writes:
>
>Do you by chance also have a working NETBIOS-Api for the WIN16 subsystem?
>NETBIOS-Calls do work under DOS, but not under WIN16 (INT 0x5C and
>NetBiosCall both fail)

Check your installation details - the netbios calls are indeed in
the oct beta release, and are used here daily by our mail front
end, which we all rely on just to exist at Microsoft! -- Alistair
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.win32
From: hochstae@allfiwib1.wiwi.uni-marburg.de (Christoph H. Hochstaetter)
Subject: December 1992 compatibility list
News-Software: IBM OS/2 PM RN (NR/2) v0.16g by O. Vishnepolsky and R. Rogers
Reply-To: hochstae@allfiwib1.wiwi.uni-marburg.de (Christoph H. Hochstaetter)
Organization: Techn. Univ. Clausthal
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 15:43:58 GMT

I have uploaded the December 1992 compatibility list to ftp.cica.indiana.edu.
I put it to /pub/pc/win3/uploads. The filename is 1292hw.zip.

Christoph
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From: mike.walsh@compart.fi (Mike Walsh) 
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.win32
Subject: RE: WINDOWS NT OCTOBER BE
Date: 8 Jan 93 10:27:00 GMT
Distribution: world
Organization: ComPart BBS, Helsinki-Finland, +358 0 506 3329 (14 lines V.32bis)
Reply-To: mike.walsh@compart.fi (Mike Walsh) 

Dwight already knows about the lack of October releases in Scanidinavia
because I've been boring him with similar tales in Compuserve for quite
some time, and a Dane who attended the Brussels NT conference with 3
colleagues and also still hasn't got the October beta has done likewise.
I know Dwight himself would love to help, but unfortunately the MS
system seems to mean that it's beyond his control and unfortunately in
the hands of MS Sweden (nuff said ?).
As both Germany and UK people got their October CDROMs in December (!),
the old excuses about a problem with distribution via Ireland are null
and void. So the ball is clearly in the Swedish court - we all knew
their tennis was collapsing, but this is rediculous !     Mike
                                
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Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.win32
From: kevin@edscom.demon.co.uk (Kevin Broadey)
Subject: How to start up TCP/IP at boot time?
X-Attributions-By: Supercite 2.2
X-Disclaimer: These opinions are mine: others available on request.
Organization: EDS-Scicon, Milton Keynes, UK
X-Newsreader: GNUS 3.14.1
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 09:05:10 GMT


I know this can be done, but I've forgotten the magical incantation...

Using the Registry Editor you can modify an attribute in

    HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/SYSTEM/ControlSet001/Services/TcpipSvc

that starts up TCPIP at boot time, just as if you'd typed

    net start tcpipsvc

What is the attribute and what is its value?

BTW  I'm still using the JULY build of NT - Microsloth haven't managed
to deliver the October build yet.

Thanks in advance
Kevin
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From: kurrasch@en.ecn.purdue.edu (Peter 'You bet your sweet bippy' Kurrasch)
Subject: Re: os/2 2.0 and windows nt on single pc
Summary: The two may exist together
Keywords: NT OS/2 together
Organization: Purdue University Engineering Computer Network
Distribution: usa
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 93 23:27:21 GMT


Yes!  It is possible to use both--I have done so for the past four months!
The trick was to make the OS/2 boot sector appear to be a DOS boot sector.
I am assuming that the problem is discovered during the wonderful install
process, in which case, I will have to think of another way to help--I had
some extra tools at the time which helped a lot.  At any rate, here is what
I had:

A 312MB (or so) SCSI disk was made as one partition and formatted as FAT.  I
did this using a DOS (5.0) bootable floppy with FDISK and FORMAT on it.  I
then installed OS/2 2.0 using the generic process (keeping the FAT file
system).  I then installed NT using a non-standard technique (I can't
remember what I did four months ago, because once it worked, I didn't have
to repeat the process), and also using some special tools.  Once I was done,
I had OS/2 2.0 and Windows NT installed; the NT boot sector was in place;
the OS/2 boot sector had been saved to a file called BOOTSECT.DOS (note that
it is NOT BOOTSECT.OS2!); and everything appeared to be happy.  I was able
to selectively boot either NT or OS/2 using the NT select boot menu.

If this doesn't help, perhaps a more creative way would work--let me know.
If everything is installed, maybe changing the name of the BOOTSECT from
.OS2 to .DOS (found in the root directory) might help.  I am rather
skeptical on this one, and make sure you are using FAT or HPFS in case
something happens.

Now, to completely get rid of that nasty NT boot sector, either use SYS if
you want DOS, or use the SYSINSTX.COM (I think that is right) found on
either disk 1 or disk 2 of the OS/2 install set--it is NOT in any OS/2
directory by default.  This is the program that OS/2 setup uses to make your
harddisk OS/2 bootable in the first place.

As a side, note that in this case I did not use the OS/2 boot manager, nor
the OS/2 dual boot feature.  Also, I do not use the funky path names seen in
NT's BOOT.INI file.  I always change them to a dos-standard path:

i.e., from SCSI(1)RDISK(4)PARTITION(?)   or whatever
      to C:\    or whatever
(Make sure you still have a name in the quotes.)

Last word of caution:  this stuff can be a real pain, and for convenience
(and sanity), I suggest using the FAT file system for now, and keeping a
DOS-bootable floppy close by (with a text editor and some good utilities on
it).

Let me know how y'all fare--not responsible for systems that become hosed!
Happy hacking!

Peter Kurrasch
kurrasch@ecn.purdue.edu
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.win32
From: hochstae@allfiwib1.wiwi.uni-marburg.de (Christoph H. Hochstaetter)
Subject: Re: WindowsNT: something like smartdrive?
News-Software: IBM OS/2 PM RN (NR/2) v0.16 by O. Vishnepolsky and R. Rogers
Reply-To: hochstae@allfiwib1.wiwi.uni-marburg.de (Christoph H. Hochstaetter)
Organization: Techn. Univ. Clausthal
Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1993 01:26:09 GMT

In <1993Jan4.171030.345@csghsg5a.bitnet> lmebold@csghsg5a.bitnet writes:
>
>Is there a software-driver like smartdrive in windows 3.1 for WinNT?

No, Windows NT has only a single cache for all tasks, that could need
caching. OS/2 for instance has one cache for HPFS, one for FAT, one for
CD-ROM, one for network, etc. All these caches are static in size and
may consume too much memory. E.g. the CD-ROM cache is still there, although
you have not used the CD-ROM for hours.

Windows NT has only one cache and its size changes dynamically depending
on resource utiliziation, especially main memory. A major usage for the
cache is disk-caching of course. You can monitor cache usage by using the
performance monitor of the NT SDK and add some of the cache items to your
graph.

>If so - does anyone know, wheter a cache-controller or the software-
>solution is faster running WinNT?

A caching disk controller speeds up disk I/O of course, but it can only
be used for that single purpose. On the other hand there is no CPU time
required for controlling this cache.

>As long as you run DOS/Windows it seems to be better to have a
>uncached-controller and using smartdrive instead.

Don't trust any benchmarks here. They always give better results for
software caches, since they read from memory, that does not go through
your ISA bus.

Christoph
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Internet: hochstae@allfiwib1.wiwi.uni-marburg.de       | D-W-3550 Marburg
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Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.win32
From: goyal@cs.scarolina.edu (Sanjay Goyal)
Subject: Is there a Speedstart 24X Driver for Win NT ?
Organization: USC  Department of Computer Science
Distribution: comp
Date:  3 Jan 93 03:23:22 GMT

Does anybody have access to a Win NT driver for the Diamond Speedstart 24X ?

An e-mail would be appreciated.

Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.win32
From: hallyb@globbo.enet.dec.com (John Hallyburton)
Subject: Re: Toshiba 3301 and Adaptec 1542b
Organization: Twin Peaks Municipal Software Works
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 18:01:24 GMT


msieber@csghsg5a.bitnet writes...
>TOSHIBA CD ROM 3301 with ADAPTEC 1542B
> [...]
>Well when I tried to install the drivers for DOS, I
>couldn't find a driver for the CD ROM with the 
>Adaptec-Adapter. (If I had taken the FD, there would 
>have been a driver, but I took the Adaptec because
>of NT.)

I solved this problem by purchasing the ASW-410 software package made
by Adaptec.  Unfortunately, Adaptec will not sell to end users, so I had
to call up distributors until I found one who would sell to me (Tech PC,
Manchester NH, 603-641-4889).  Cost ~$70.  Includes the ASPI driver, MSCDEX
and I don't know what else.  Perhaps it's sold mailorder, too.
--
						"The Smart Money was on Goliath"
						John Hallyburton 43 55'N 71 45'W
Xref: sparky comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.win32:2707 gnu.emacs.help:5264
From: pez@hitl.washington.edu (Pez)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.win32,gnu.emacs.help
Subject: status of GNU Emacs for Windows/NT ?
Followup-To: comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.win32
Date: 6 Jan 93 03:16:28
Organization: industrial dance music appreciation society
Distribution: na
NNTP-Posting-Host: 128.95.74.50


ok, i'm sure someone's working on it...

what's the status of GNU Emacs for Windows/NT ???

(i'm aware of the micro emacs port to the non-NT windows, as mentioned in
the FAQ.  is there anything else?)


Thanks!
-daniel
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pez@hitl.washington.edu
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.win32
From: martin@iastate.edu (Martin R Calsyn)
Subject: Re: News/UUCP possible from Windows NT?
Organization: Iowa State University, Ames, IA
Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1993 15:59:29 GMT

In article <1992Dec31.174132.5412@dbased.nuo.dec.com> coffler@dbased.enet.dec.com (Jeff Coffler) writes:
> [...]
>I'd like (if possible) to start using Windows NT for this sort of activity.
>Does anyone know if C-news is being ported to Windows NT?  I know of some
>UUCP packages under DOS, but most of these don't seem very robust (at least
>in comparison to UUCP under UNIX).  Does anyone know of the status of UUCP
>access on Windows NT?
>
>I've heard (in this group) of an NNTP-based Windows NT newsreader that someone
>is working on (it's shareware). That would, of course, serve as a newsreader if
>the NNTP server code runs under Windows NT.  Any ideas if it does?  What about
>MAIL via UUCP?

We're in the process of porting INN (InterNet News - a one-piece
replacement for CNews, NNTP, et al) to NT.  It should be complete in
early to mid February.  UUCP news and mail transport will be included.
The initial cut of the service runs as a detached process, though in its
final form it will likely be an NT service.  A cron-like job scheduler
is included for launching the support utilities.

The news reader is rapidly nearing completion.  It should be available
for download within two weeks.  It is similar in functionality to xrn,
but includes more (and simpler) gui-based subscription management and
article viewing and posting options.

A 16-bit single-threaded (Windows 3.1) version of the reader will follow
as soon as I can get a hold of a 16-bit winsock DLL.

If I can get access to the hardware, MIPS versions will also follow.

Current plans are for all of the above to be distributed as
fully-functional shareware.

-- 
Martin R. Calsyn                                   martin@iastate.edu
Software Innovations Incorporated                  voice: (515) 232-9196
P.O. Box 644                                              (800) 728-1525
Ames, Iowa 50010                                   fax:   (515) 233-6209
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.win32
From: hochstae@allfiwib1.wiwi.uni-marburg.de (Christoph H. Hochstaetter)
Subject: Re: NT C compiler
News-Software: IBM OS/2 PM RN (NR/2) v0.16g by O. Vishnepolsky and R. Rogers
Reply-To: hochstae@allfiwib1.wiwi.uni-marburg.de (Christoph H. Hochstaetter)
Organization: Techn. Univ. Clausthal
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 14:50:17 GMT

In <5293@ceylon.gte.com> jts1@harvey.gte.com (James Smith) writes:
>From the company Phar Lap you can get QuickStart 2.0 (FOR FREE!!!),which
>will permit one to use the Windows NT tools (C++, etc.) and the WIN32s
>libraries to generate 32-bit Windows 3.1 applications!  Later, one can
>compile & link with the WIN32 for NT.
>
>Phar Lap
>60 Aberdeen Ave.
>Cambridge, MA 02138
>617-661-1510
>617-876-2972 FAX

The product is FREE?! Great to hear that. Is there a chance to get it
via anonymous ftp from anywhere?

Christoph
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From: tad@wrq.com (Tad Marshall)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.win32
Subject: Re: Registry woes
Date: 7 Jan 1993 22:05:39 GMT
Organization: Walker Richer & Quinn, Inc., Seattle, WA
NNTP-Posting-Host: elmer.wrq.com

In article <1993Jan7.172723.11607@imec.be> claest@imec.be (Tony Claes) writes:
>
>Hello,
>
>I have used the last NT Beta, and think it is not usefull in practice
>for the moment. In Theory it is a nice system, but I am afraid that this
>is of no use for the real life;
>
>Lets face it that OS/2 is for the moment the best PC operating system.

I know that there are a lot of happy OS/2 2.0 users out there because I
hear from them all the time.  But for me, I have NT running on five machines
and OS/2 2.0 refuses to run on three of them ... and I haven't tried the
other two!  In my opinion, if you don't have an IBM PS/2, you have a high
probability of problems installing OS/2.  Add that to your pro/contra list ...

-- Tad
From: tad@wrq.com (Tad Marshall)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.win32
Subject: Re: CYRIX Chips and NT
Date: 5 Jan 93 02:28:46 GMT
Article-I.D.: shelley.1iarouINNhp1
Organization: Walker Richer & Quinn, Inc., Seattle, WA
NNTP-Posting-Host: elmer.wrq.com

In article <1993Jan4.133739.17787@telesciences.com> mobrien@telesciences.com (Mark W O'Brien) writes:
>Are there any compatibility issues with the CYRIX CPU chips in operating
>with NT?

I can't swear that there are NO problems, but NT seems to be quite happy
running on a PC Brand machine I bought recently.  This particular machine
is using a Cyrix CPU.

-- Tad
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.win32
From: f88hv@efd.lth.se (Henrik Vallgren)
Subject: Re: Windows NT October Beta
Organization: Lund Institute of Technology, Sweden
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 21:07:19 GMT

In article <tomwii.726388097@Minsk> tomwii@Minsk.docs.uu.se (Tomas Wiiand) writes:

>Why dosen't the developers in Sweden get their copy?

Because Microsoft Sweden didn't keep track of who bought the
July version !!!

Henrik Vallgren
f88hv@efd.lth.se
From: gunnelj@curie.CS.ORST.EDU (John A. Gunnels)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.win32
Subject: Two beginner's questions
Summary: Naive
Date: 5 Jan 93 17:07:51 GMT
Followup-To: comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.win32
Distribution: usa
Organization: Computer Science Department, Oregon State University
NNTP-Posting-Host: curie.cs.orst.edu

I was finally able to (non-graphically) install the October beta
on my system and I have a few questions.  I apologize for the fact
that these are not really "programmer" questions (but there does
not seem to be any other newsgroups for NT).

1.  Is there supposed to be ANYTHING in system.ini?  Mine contains
    absolutely nothing.  If it wouldn't be too much trouble (and if
    system.ini is NOT supposed to be empty) could someone send me
    a copy of theirs?

2.  The S3 drivers seem to work very nicely with my Stealth card
    but moving stuff around does not seem to happen as fast as
    under Windows.  Why is that?


Thank you,
John A. Gunnels

s
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.win32
From: oleg@watson.ibm.com (Oleg Vishnepolsky)
Subject: PROBLEM TO FIX: TCP/IP ARP packets on token ring, hardware type
Date: Fri, 08 Jan 1993 15:02:04 GMT
News-Software: IBM OS/2 PM RN (NR/2) v0.16g by O. Vishnepolsky and R. Rogers
Disclaimer: This posting represents the poster's views, not necessarily those of IBM
Organization: IBM T.J. Watson Research Center

Hardware type of ARP packets should be 6 (IEEE 802 Network)
according to RFC 1042. Currently it is set to 4 which is
Proteon Token Ring. This precludes interoperation with
a few RFC1042 compliant implementations including but not
limited to AIX 3.2.

Oleg Vishnepolsky
From: garyng@gnct.com (Gary Ng)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.win32
Subject: Re: One Small Problem
Date: Sat, 09 Jan 93 21:19:06 HKT
Organization: Global Network Communication Technology Co.

jdickins@cs.umr.edu (James Dickinson) writes:

> Hello All,
> 
> I have installed both NT (Oct.) and OS/2 (2.1 Beta) installed on the same
> hard drive ( using the Boot Manager to switch between them ). NT is on the
> C: (FAT) and OS/2 is on the D: (HPFS). Both systems run fine when booted (
> thanks to the trick of zeroing out the BM id). The problem is that NT, after
> booting does not recognize the d:, Disk Manager says unknown file system.
> And if I try to go to the d: at a prompt I get a message that d: does not
> exist. The funny thing is that while booting, as NT goes through its various
> messages looks at the d: and says "File type is HPFS" and "Volume is clean".
> Under OS/2 the c: is totally visible.
> 
> Is this a problem with my system or is this a side effect of trying to run
> NT and OS/2 on the same drive? I would appreciate it if anyone could give me
> some insight into this problem.
> Thanks,
> Jim

I have the same problem too. My guess is that you install NT first then
OS2. I have done it this way and NT can't see the HPFS volume. However, if
I do it the other way(OS2 then NT), NT can see the HPFS and everything is OK.


-gary


garyng@gnct.com (Gary Ng)
GloCom BBS - The BBS brings usenet/internet to Hong Kong Public (852)4925025
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.win32
From: hill@netcom.com (Tom Hill)
Subject: Re: WindowsNT: something like smartdrive?
Organization: Netcom Online Communications Services (408-241-9760 login: guest)
Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1993 07:13:39 GMT

In article <1993Jan5.012609.18294@solaris.rz.tu-clausthal.de> hochstae@allfiwib1.wiwi.uni-marburg.de (Christoph H. Hochstaetter) writes:

>>As long as you run DOS/Windows it seems to be better to have a
>>uncached-controller and using smartdrive instead.
>
>Don't trust any benchmarks here. They always give better results for
>software caches, since they read from memory, that does not go through
>your ISA bus.
>

Um, but IMHO they give better results for your applications, too, for exactly
the same reason...

Tom Hill
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.win32