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From: dszpiro@student.business.uwo.ca (Daniel A. Szpiro)
Subject: Re: WINSPEED DRIVERS LOCATION (not?)
Organization: University of Western Ontario
Date: Sat, 22 Aug 1992 04:34:58 GMT

kingw@fraser.sfu.ca (King Rio Wong) writes:

> edowdy@vax1.umkc.edu writes:
> 
> >down winspeed.lzh, not winspeed.zip.  Nevertheless, I thought we were talkin
> >about
> >drivers which improved screen redraws, to be used in place of or along side
> >our current trident drivers. I may not have looked far enough here on this
> >program, but I don't see any drivers right off.
> 
> >Anyway, my fault. I think I got the wrong program, unless I misunderstood wh
> >it was in the first place.
> 
> >Anyone got any idea where the winspeed drivers can be located?
> 
>     Isn't Winspeed (the software windows accelerator) commercial software?
> I've seen it being sold in a local software store, too.
> 
> Timothy
> 

Every mention I have seen of WinSpeed (the video drivers, not the benchmarking
utility) has mentioned that they are commercial software and NOT shareware.

Danny

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dszpiro@student.business.uwo.ca (Daniel A. Szpiro)
Western Business School  --  London, Ontario
From: mcw4@jaguar.uofs.edu
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
Subject: Re: Sound Driver?
Date: 12 Aug 92 22:19:46 GMT
Organization: University of Scranton

In article <0eVP9se00WBK02pFso@andrew.cmu.edu>, mc7i+@andrew.cmu.edu (Mark William Cundik) writes:
> 
> I have heard that there is a sound driver available that will allow
> Windows 3.1 to use the internal speaker. Does anybody know if this is
> true, and if so where to get a copy?

Yeah, it's true.  You can get it through anonymous FTP from CICA
(ftp.cica.indiana.edu).

Look for SPEAK.EXE in the pub/pc/win3/sounds directory.

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From: brad@bach.udel.edu (Brad Cain)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
Subject: WANTED -- Info on fastest ET-4000 Drivers
Date: 12 Aug 92 14:06:31 GMT
Organization: University of Delaware

I know that there are a couple of drivers for ET-4000 based
video cards.  I am wondering, just like everyone else with
an ET card, which video drivers are the fastest.  I thought
I saw a post on here last week about someone running benchmark
tests to see what was the fastest, but I haven't seen the results.
I would appreciate any info/experiences with the different
drivers floating around. (E-mail me, or post if it's good info)

(BTW -- I have a Diamond Speedstar w 1/meg)

thanks,
brad
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brad@bach.udel.edu                "A heaven, I'd get with a hope"-New Order 
None of my ideas have anything to do with U of D...     ..most certainly!!!
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
From: macole@wam.umd.edu (Mario A. Cole)
Subject: Re: WINSPEED DRIVERS LOCATION
Organization: University of Maryland, College Park
Date: Fri, 21 Aug 1992 22:22:04 GMT

In article <1992Aug21.123008.1@vax1.umkc.edu> edowdy@vax1.umkc.edu writes:
>The location of the winspeed drivers is in Japan:
>
>isfs.kuis.kyoto-u.ac.jp
>
>You could also try archie (if available) to see if it is anywhere else.
>archie -r winspeed.zip
>
>Eric Dowdy
>University of Missouri

That's it!  Japan!!!!!  That's where I got the drivers from!  Thanks Eric.
In fact you just saved me from digging through my disk library (semi-
catalogued).  Well, folks...use it in good health.

Mario

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Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
From: bpearson@alias.com (Brian Pearson)
Subject: Re: Win 3.1 & ATI Driver(s)
Organization: Alias Research, Inc., Toronto ON Canada
Date: Fri, 14 Aug 1992 12:52:24 GMT

In <1992Aug12.231334.12270@meaddata.com> marc@meaddata.com (Marc Kuperstein) writes:

>Help!!!
>
>I have tried to connect with ATI's BBS and had no success.  I need to
>download drivers for their video cards.
>
>Anyway, I have set my modem an 8N1 at 19.2, 9.6, and 2.4 -- I can't
>seem to get anything legible.  It looks like a parity problem and/or
>baud rate.  I have changed the settings around ... still no luck.
>
>Clearly I am missing something!!!
>
>Can anyone help point me in the right direction?
>
>Thanks in advance.
>
>Marc
>

I call ATI's BBS fairly regular without any problems.  The modem they're
using, on the BBS, is a ATI 9600/etc configured 8N1.  If my memory serves
me correctly it supports V.32 and V.42bis at 9600bps, V.22bis at 2400bps,
Bell 212A and V.22 at 1200bps and of course Bell 103 at 300bps.  It does
not support any speeds above 9600bps.  I normally use V.42bis at 9600bps.

I hope this helps.  Otherwise you can phone their support line and they
will ship you a diskette with the new drivers on it.

--------------------|                    ///\
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Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
From: kramer@news.miami.edu (Jack Kramer)
Subject: Re: Scientific graphics libraries in Windows
Keywords: graphics library Windows
Organization: University of Miami, RSMAS
Date: Sat, 22 Aug 92 15:17:53 GMT

In article <1992Aug19.093915.6136@dmp.csiro.au> lachlan@dmp.csiro.au (Lachlan Cranswick) writes:
>dcdeno@rossini.berkeley.edu (D. Curtis Deno) writes:
>
>>I am interested in the availability of graphics libraries I can use with my
>>Windows source code.  I would like to plot 1-4 variables vs a common x-axis
>
>Try and look into Origin for Windows graphing software.
>

I have seen the ads for ORIGIN and it looks good.  I don't remember
seeing anything on the availability of source, object or DLL libraries?
Are they included with or available for ORIGIN.

I was a very happy user of GraphiC for DOS sci graph programming.  If
anything similar to it or Quinn-Curtis is available for MS Win I would
like to hear about it also.

jack

Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
From: briancap@microsoft.com (Brian Capson)
Subject: WinDock registrations
Date: 22 Aug 92 01:40:33 GMT
Organization: Microsoft Corporation

Subject: WinDock registrations

First let me appologize for being so unaccessible for the last little
while. I moved twice (once between provinces and once between
countries),  lost internet access, and only recently got it back.
During that time, I've been at the mercy of Canada Post properly
forwarding my mail (something which they don't seem to care too much
about, surprise, surprise). The result of this is that if you sent me
mail and I didn't respond, it's not because I'm trying to brush you
off, but because I never received it. Everyone who registered WinDock
was sent a registered copy by email if they sent me their address
(internet or compuserve), or by regular mail if they did not. If
anyone has not received their copy, then  I will certainly send them
another one. I apologize for the delays, but circumstances were
beyond my control. In the meantime, my new (and hopefully final)
address is:

Brian Capson
4285 148th Ave NE,  I-205
Bellevue, WA 98007

(h) (206) 885-7326
(w) (206) 936-2244

internet: briancap@microsoft.com

Feel free to contact me if you're having any problems or questions,
or you did not receive your copy of WinDock.

Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
From: hurley@epcot.spdc.ti.com (Brian Hurley)
Subject: Re: LOTS OF ADVICE SOUGHT
Organization: TI Semiconductor Process and Design Center
Date: Sun, 23 Aug 1992 09:17:45 GMT

In article <BtF75p.n15@chinet.chi.il.us> prb@chinet.chi.il.us (Paul Botts) writes:
>
>Inspired in large part by my wife's needs as a free-lance graphic
>designer, we are about to buy a new home computer (I am slightly stunned
>to discover that our 386-25 with 80meg hard drive is getting strained,
>but at least the hardware prices keep dropping, sigh). Anyway, there are
>a couple of key decision points that I'd like to throw out on the floor
>for comment and discussion, and maybe get a good flame war or two
>going...-;)
>
>1) Since my wife needs to deal with spot and process color, and start
>moving into scanned photos, our present 256-color SVGA card and monitor
>just doesn't cut it. Speed is an issue here, too (the current card drags
>in the more intensive WIndows apps like Corel Draw). I have researched this

I think that your selection here is just fine.   I do remember that the first
4FG's did have problems, but I think they have that corrected.



>
>2) Regarding a scanner: what should we look for in a scanner? Say, for
>black-and-white, as opposed to color? Are these cheap hand-held scanners
>claiming to do 256 shades of gray worth a damn, perhaps at least for
>line art and drawings? What kind of dpi rating is considered the minimum
>to be useful for light professional use?

For REAL good scanning (if you can afford it) get a flatbed scanner.


>
>3) Other than daisy-chaining peripherals, is there a reason to get a
>SCSI hard drive instead of IDE? I though there was a speed boost, but
>the salesmen say it ain't so, say a good IDE drive will be just as fast
>as a SCSI one, and save the $200 cost of the SCSI controller.

IDE is just fine.  The Maxor 7213 which is a 213M 15ms HD is selling for the
450-500 range (Sept, Computer Shopper).  This is one of the first times that
I'll agree with a salesman, It's not worth the money to goto SCSI.  Unless you
need GIGS of storage.  One thing that I most always recommend to people that
do DTP is get a removeable storage device.  Iomega, Syquest, or even
flopical. That gives you the ability to store 20-90 Megs on one disk and store
it away.  






>
>
>Okay, that;s a lot of questions, so any feedback about any partcular
>points would be most welcome. If you don't want to post (though I'm sure
>others will be interested in a discussion of these points), email would
>be fine; after a bit I'll summarize the consensus, if any, and report on
>what we finally decide to buy and wh
>
>Thanks in advance!
>Paul Botts
>prb@chinet.chi.il.us


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From: cbarton@festival.ed.ac.uk (C bBarton)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
Subject: Win 3.1 drivers for GENOA SVGA
Summary: Where can I get drivers for a GENOA svga board.
Keywords: GENOA SVGA
Date: 18 Aug 92 08:04:18 GMT
Distribution: comp


 Where can I get drivers for win 3.1 that will allow me to get the full
potential of the GENOA card. I tried a set of win 3.0 drivers but they
didn't seem  to work. 
                      Craig Barton@ed.ac.uk
From: v065hjku@ubvmsd.cc.buffalo.edu (Jason Osborne)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
Subject: Re: Creating True Type Fonts?
Date: 13 Aug 92 16:07:00 GMT
Organization: University at Buffalo
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41

>I am trying to find a way to create a True Type font that resembles the 
>IBM character set.  It seems as if there is none available at any of the 
>usual FTP sites, so I may have to create one.  Is there a way to convert 
>ATM fonts to Truetype?  

there are several commercial programs available for the mac, and for the 
IBM, I assume.  Fontmonger is the one I have heard the most about, but 
there seem to be several others with similar titles.  BTW- there are 
some fonts which in my mind do tend to look like the IBM screen font,
available in truetype.  Unfortunately, they are only available through 
the UPA, because I haven't figured out what I'm doing wrong trying to
upload them to IBM ftp sites (I am running on a mac).

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Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
From: vscarafi@eccdb1.pms.ford.com (Vincent F. Scarafino)
Subject: Re: SCSI drives and Windows (problems)
Originator: news@pms001
Organization: Ford Motor Co.
Date: Fri, 21 Aug 1992 20:29:12 GMT

claborne@npg-sd.SanDiegoCA.NCR.COM (Chris Claborne) writes:
> In <18AUG199210434176@summa.tamu.edu> kbm8572@summa.tamu.edu (BRYAN MILLIGAN) writes:
> 
> 
> >	I have a 386/33 with an Adaptec 1542A SCSI controller, a 120MB Maxtor,
> >installed Windows 3.1:
> >	1.  Creation of a permanent swap file causes Windows to be unstable
> >	    (lost groups, numerous crashes, a lot of general protection
> >	    faults, etc.).
> >	2.  I think that the new SMARTDRV.EXE is causing erratic behavior in
> >	    programs when I'm not in Windows.
> >	3.  SMARTDRV.EXE does not behave according to the documentation.  There
> >	    is no way for me to disable the write-cache; it's either all or
> >	    none.
> >Has anyone else with a similar setup had these problems, or (better yet) does
> >anyone have a fix?  BTW I'm using the ASPI driver from Adaptec not AHA1540.SYS. 
> Ther is a problem with smart drive if you don't start it like:
>   device=C:\WIN3\SMARTDRV.EXE /double_buffer
> 
> Do you have the /double_buffer in ther?
> 
> 
>     2
> == C  ==
> chris.claborne@sandiegoca.ncr.com                    CI$: 76340.2422

You must specify the double_buffer option in your config.sys file because
the controller and Windows can't be working in the same memory buffers
at the same time.  Each makes assumptions that the other invalidates.  With
my Adaptec controller, I also could not load the smartdrv command HIGH.
However, with double buffering and smartdrv loaded LOW, I have had no
problems.

Vince
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
Subject: Windows Talk
From: rrmill@skcla.monsanto.com
Date: 13 Aug 92 08:08:00 GMT
Organization: Searle, Skokie, IL
Nntp-Posting-User: rrmill



I would like to find some GOOD, EASILY UNDERSTOOD articles 
and/or books on Windows, but not about Windows programming per se.  
I'd like to give a talk on what the Window concept is all about.  
I've been reading about it in  my Borland C++ book and it gives 
a brief, but good, description of how to create a Windows executable 
having created a regular  executable.  (It mentions about a resource 
file, a .res, but fails to give an example of one, which I would 
like to see.)


Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
From: s9874203@titan.ucc.umass.edu (s9874203)
Subject: GIF viewer for Windows: WinGif
Organization: University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Date: Mon, 17 Aug 1992 23:23:28 GMT

Some netters mentioned that wingif is a pretty good gif viewer for
windows. However, when I downloaded it form ftp.cica.indiana.edu (in
pub/pc/win3/desktop, btw), I found that it is just a beta release.
Has the real one been released? And I found that many functions are
disabled. For instance, after I opened a gif file, I pulled down Edit
menu item and found that all functions except "edit pallete" and "copy"
are disabled. I wonder why.
From: tsikos@siemens.com. (Constantine J Tsikos)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
Subject: Looking for W4W 2.0a macro that will "speak" highlighted text.
Keywords: W4W, WfW, SoundBlaster, Macro
Date: 19 Aug 92 15:15:55 GMT
Organization: Siemens Corp. Res., Inc.

I am looking for a W4W 2.0 macro that will "speak" 
highlighted text using a SoundBlaster Pro.
Any help or pointers will be appreciated.

THX,

Costas Tsikos
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
Subject: Re: 800x600x256 Windows Driver for Trident
From: edowdy@vax1.umkc.edu
Date: Thu, 20 Aug 1992 18:06:12 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: University of Missouri - Kansas City

> 
>>Has anyone tried WinSpeed, and is it worth it with a Trident 8900 card?
> 
> Yes, I had it before I bought my Diamond Stealth card...I worked beautifully..
> It increased my screen redraw speed tremendously.  I would highly recommend
> a windows accelerator card (like my Stealth card) but if you don't have the
> dough...go for the Winspeed drivers...
> 
> have fun...and good luck
> Mario
> 
> -- 
> Mario A. Cole			     |  HJ Ford Associates Incorporated
> macole@wam.umd.edu		     |  1111 Jeff Davis Hwy Suite 808
> University of Maryland College Park  |  Crystal City, Arlington, VA 22202
> (301) 868-9249 		             |  (703) 553-5580

Where can we get winspeed drivers? Do they work OK with trident?
Thanks

Eric
From: kaojh@eecs.nwu.edu (Jung-Hong Kao)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
Subject: Window NT
Date: 16 Aug 92 04:20:00 GMT
Organization: EECS Department, Northwestern University

Does anybody know where I can find an article regarding to introduction of Window
NT. Thank you.
From: qiang@cubmol.bio.columbia.edu (Qiang Zheng)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
Subject: Re: Mine Sweeper cheating
Date: 20 Aug 92 18:52:36 GMT
Organization: Columbia University


 
Followup-To: 
Distribution: 
Organization: Columbia University, Dept. of Biological Sciences.
Keywords: 
I can not believe there is somebody out there still playing MINE game.
After I tried the MINEHELP program and saw how much better a computer can
do than human, I never play MINE again.  In addition, you never be able to
beat the computer rec. of 30 sec. for EXPERT lever.  No sense to play MINE
again.  Don't try MINEHELP (freeware) if you want the MINE alive.
:x
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
From: rick@sundance.SJSU.EDU (Richard Warner)
Subject: Re: Apology to the author of gif2bmp
Organization: San Jose State University - Math/CS Dept.
Date: 21 Aug 92 16:57:31 GMT

s9874203@titan.ucc.umass.edu (s9874203) writes:

>   In article <1992Aug18.132035.24588@schbbs.mot.com> CENG51@maccvm.corp.mot.com (Craig Witkowski) writes:
>>   >I have a program called GIF2BMP which does what you want.  Call me at
>>   >201-447-7612 to set up a file transfer.
>>

>I wrote:
>>   Is this the same one as that gif2bmp.zip in pub/pc/win3/desktop from
>>   ftp.cica.indiana.edu? I tried it once...I tried to use paintbrush to view 
>>   the converted bmp file, but piantbrush did not recognize the format!
>>

>Having received a netter's email claiming that gif2bmp works fine, I
>tried this program the second time. I used it to convert two gif
>files to bmp files, and paintbrush DID dispay the bmp files, in 16 color
>though. Sorry to Craig for inaccuracy.  So that is the problem with the
>gif file (it is baywatch1.gif I downloaded from wuarchive.wustl.edu :-)
>BTW, why is the converted bmp file is in 16 colors rather than 256
>colors? Either of the bmp files I got by converting a gif file by WinGif
>or gif2bmp is not in 256 colors. Could anyone enlighten me on this
>matter? Thanks in advance.

I have not had any problems with reduction in color information with this
conversion.  When you choose Save, do you just specify the name as
xyz.BMP or do you click on the 'Format >>' button?  If you do the latter
you will get a dialog box that will enable you to select the format and
if it is BMP then then number of bits for color.  Make sure that you select
'8 bmp' for 256 colors.

>H.Y.
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
From: s9874203@titan.ucc.umass.edu (s9874203)
Subject: Apology to the author of gif2bmp
Organization: University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Date: Tue, 18 Aug 1992 18:39:26 GMT

   In article <1992Aug18.132035.24588@schbbs.mot.com> CENG51@maccvm.corp.mot.com (Craig Witkowski) writes:
>   >I have a program called GIF2BMP which does what you want.  Call me at
>   >201-447-7612 to set up a file transfer.
>

I wrote:
>   Is this the same one as that gif2bmp.zip in pub/pc/win3/desktop from
>   ftp.cica.indiana.edu? I tried it once...I tried to use paintbrush to view 
>   the converted bmp file, but piantbrush did not recognize the format!
>

Having received a netter's email claiming that gif2bmp works fine, I
tried this program the second time. I used it to convert two gif
files to bmp files, and paintbrush DID dispay the bmp files, in 16 color
though. Sorry to Craig for inaccuracy.  So that is the problem with the
gif file (it is baywatch1.gif I downloaded from wuarchive.wustl.edu :-)
BTW, why is the converted bmp file is in 16 colors rather than 256
colors? Either of the bmp files I got by converting a gif file by WinGif
or gif2bmp is not in 256 colors. Could anyone enlighten me on this
matter? Thanks in advance.

H.Y.

Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
From: s9874203@titan.ucc.umass.edu (s9874203)
Subject: More on WinGif, the gif viewer for Windows
Organization: University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Date: Tue, 18 Aug 1992 15:01:04 GMT


After I post an article "complanining" about WinGif, I received two
emails. Both of them asked me whether I had wingif14.zip. Yes, it is
wingif14.zip that I downloaded. In the document wingif.txt the author
says it is a beta release and the real released is to be out soon!

In the last post I said many functions in wingif were disabled, now I
know what is wrong with it (well, sort of ). That is because the gif
file I opened is too large (~600K). In
fact, when I tried to convert the large gif file to bmp file, the
program says it can't save the file ( gif is converted by saving in this
program). When I open a relatively small gif file, all the functions are
active. But actually I can't use most of resize functions, because
whenever I use them, I get "out of memory" error. I guess the program
would be nicer if it can use extended or expanded memory. 

Now there is another
problem: I convert the gif file to bmp file by saving and then I use
painbrush to view the bmp file. Alas, the bmp image doesn't
have so many colors as the gif file does. In fact, the image is the same
as the one I get from gif file in VGA 16 dither mode. Can it be fixed?

H.Y.
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
From: chris@zork.cc.binghamton.edu (Chris Peck)
Subject: How to get WIN 3.0 Multimedia extensions
Reply-To: chris@zork.cc.binghamton.edu
Organization: State University of New York at Binghamton
Date: Wed, 12 Aug 1992 15:30:14 GMT

I just got Bookshelf for Windows & discovered that it requires either
Windows 3.1 or 3.0 & Multimedia extensions - care the extensions available
for ftp or download somewhere?  
-thanks
 chris
PS - I'm not going to upgrade to 3.1 quite yet, so that's not an option...
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chris@zork.cc.binghamton.edu   Chris Peck, SUNY Binghamton, NY 13901
From: vonwaadn@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
Subject: Task List - not displaying program
Date: 22 Aug 92 10:15:50 CDT
Organization: University of Kansas Academic Computing Services

Does anybody know how to keep an active Windows program from appearing
in the task list?  After Dark has this capability -- you minimize the
icon and the program will execute but is not listed in the task list.

E-mail replies are apprecaited.  Thanks!

Mark
vonwaadn@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc