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From: leonard@qiclab.scn.rain.com (Leonard Erickson)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc
Subject: Re: Why doesn't msdos have a rename-directory command?
Date: 29 Sep 92 19:03:41 GMT
Article-I.D.: qiclab.1992Sep29.190341.29574
Reply-To: 70465.203@compuserve.com
Distribution: na
Organization: SCN Research/Qic Laboratories of Tigard, Oregon.

mcohen@amsaa-cleo.brl.mil (Marty Cohen) writes:

>There is a rename-file command.  One would think that all
>you would have to do to rename a directory would be to
>change the entry in the parent directory.  It's strange
>that there are so many move-file commands; I would have
>thought that that would be a more difficult problem.
>I.e., to move a file you have to check whether it is
>going to the same directory; if so, you just rename it.
>Otherwise you must either copy the contents to a new
>file in the new directory and fiddle with the entry to
>fix the date and other attributes - or you must move the
>directory entry itself, probably a dangerous option.

Actually, the "rename file" function in MS-DOS will rename
directories too. *And* it is the basis for all the "move file"
routines when moving the file on the same volume.

The problem isn't MS-DOS. It's COMMAND.COM. Any other shell for
DOS will let you rename directories with no problem (you just execute
rename file with the directory bit set on the file attributes of
the source file)

Many "MS-DOS" problems are due *solely* to the limitations of
COMMAND.COM. Get a decent shell. If you want to retain compatiblity
with COMMAND.COM get 4dos. Otherwise get the MKS shell or any of
a host of others.


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Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc
From:  alex@elcom.ivano-frankivsk.ua (Karpenko Alexey Valentinovich)
Subject: Re: Uninstall Stacker 2.0
Reply-To: alex%elcom.ivano-frankivsk.ua@USSR.EU.NET
Organization: Small Venture ElCom, Ivano-Frankivsk, Ukraine
Date: Fri,  2 Oct 92 10:19:46 -0500 

     Hello!
>   Has somebody tried to uninstall Stacker 2.0?
>   How can I do this?
>   Is it possible to lose data?
     I have this problem too.
     But  I can  offer  only   one  method  for solution of this
problem: copy   Your  _stacked_ drive to  floppy  disks or other
hard dist(no stacked). Other method I can not find!

Alex

P.S. Sorry, my English is very bad.

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From: mwicks@eleceng.uct.ac.za (Matthew Wicks)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc
Subject: DOS5.0 EDIT ON DOS3.3
Summary: HOW CAN DOS5.0 EDIT.COM BE USED ON DOS3.3
Keywords: EDIT
Date: 1 Oct 92 11:13:15 GMT
Article-I.D.: eleceng.mwicks.19
Organization: University of Cape Town

Can I use the dos5.0 edit.com on a machine running dos3.3?
If so, what changes would be necessary?
Thanks.
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc
From: jenk@microsoft.com (Jen Kilmer)
Subject: Re: Upgrading DOS from LAN
Date: 27 Sep 92 04:59:29 GMT
Organization: Microsoft Corporation
Distribution: usa
Keywords: upgrade, dos, lan

In article <1992Sep17.231323.15541@wam.umd.edu> dtalley@wam.umd.edu (David Talley) writes:
>This is the plan:  A company I work for during the summer has something like
>2000 PS/2's all connected to various LANs on a fiber backbone.  Just about
>all of these PS/2's have IBM DOS 4.0 and the company would like to upgrade
>all of them to IBM DOS 5.0.

oops....

>Can anybody think of a way to upgrade the machines to 5.0 from the LAN
>*without* having to go to each on?

Well, to upgrade to 5.0 using the MS-DOS 5 Upgrade (which is designed
to handle this sort of thing :-) simply copy all the files from all
the disks to a directory on a server.

Then each user can connect to that server and run Setup. No sweat.

-jen
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc,comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
From: sknkwrks@unlv.edu (Scott Alfter)
Subject: Re: Quality of DR-DOS 6 (was BEWARE SUPERSTOR!!!!!!)
Keywords: DR DOS, SSTOR, SUPERSTOR
Organization: Skunk Works Software Co.
Date: Mon, 28 Sep 92 07:43:23 GMT

In article <N7mPRB1w165w@hale.cts.com> willy@hale.cts.com (Tom Williams) writes:
>IMHO, DR DOS 6.0 has but the one failing.  Who wrote SuperStor?  I 
>understand that the Stacker folks did, and the two utilities are 
>extremely similar.  Maybe THEY are the ones who need to make the 
>correction.

Addstor wrote SuperStor; Stac wrote Stacker.  Maybe the current
version of SuperStor has been fixed; you'd have to buy it separately.
I didn't bother with it, though, since I run a BBS on my system and
95%+ of the files are ZIPs, ARJs, GIFs, JPGs...they're already
compressed and SuperStor can't do much more with 'em.

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Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc
From: fox@rei.com (Fuzzy Fox)
Subject: Re: Uninstall Stacker 2.0
Date: Fri, 2 Oct 1992 14:22:20 GMT
Organization: Recognition Equipment, Inc.

bruhn@uxe.wu-wien.ac.at (Peter Bruhn ) writes:

>Has somebody tried to uninstall Stacker 2.0?

I'm sure that many people have.

>How can I do this?

The method with the least headaches is to do a full backup, remove
Stacker, then restore the backup.  Backups are always a great idea in
any case.

>Is it possible to lose data?

There's always a chance.  That's why you do a backup.

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From: knepley@CS.ColoState.EDU (Ranseus (Jim Knepley))
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc,comp.sys.ibm.pc,comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Re: Quality of DR-DOS 6 (was BEWARE SUPERSTOR!!!!!!)
Keywords: DR DOS, SSTOR, SUPERSTOR
Date: 5 Oct 92 16:14:46 GMT
Distribution: na
Organization: Colorado State University

In article <1094@wspcrd.PeachtreeCityGA.ncr.com> charlesr@wspcrd.PeachtreeCityGA.ncr.com (Charles Rutledge) writes:
>
>A word of caution when getting the full SuperStor package.  The Version 2
>package may not be fully compatable with the one in DR DOS (at least it
>wasn't for me).  After installing, I decided to try out a few of the
>utilities -- such as Recompress, which is suppost to yield a better
>compression ratio.  During the process, something bad happened and I
>got an error not described in the book.  My drive lost three directories
>and the SuperStor fix-disk utils were never really able to clear up the
>problem.

I also had this problem, but I only lost 1 directory and I got it back
using Norton and the SSTOR utilities.

>To make matters worse, DR DOS's CHKDSK would not work at all with SuperStor
>Version 2.  (Yes, I have the April update for DR DOS installed.)   CHKDSK
>would go start and say it was checking the SuperStor drive and then lock up
>solid.  Ended up saving what I could and reformating the drive.

CHKDSK worked fine for me with v2 of SSTOR.  No problems at all, XDIR
acted as it always did, too.
 
Really, all this talk about the quality of DR DOS is pretty silly.  I've
been running it for a while now and have had no problems with DR DOS at
all.  There have been some other programs (such as SSTOR) that had the
odd problem, but nothing I wasn't able to fix in 10-15 minutes.

Jim


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From: cs@ib.cc.rl.ac.uk (C. Stratford)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc
Subject: Re: Expand DOS prompt?
Date: 6 Oct 92 07:28:33 GMT
Organization: Rutherford Appleton Laboratory

In article <92276.140844ISSSEG@BYUVM.BITNET> ISSSEG@BYUVM.BITNET writes:

>Appearantly DOS prompt only allows 128K (characters).  I need to know
>how to expand DOS prompt beyond 128K using DOS and not some external
>utility or application like 4DOS.

128K characters?  That's some prompt.  What could you put in that?  Let's
see, the directory name, the date, the time, the exact location of the
computer, the user's telephone number.  I wonder what other useful 
information could be put in there?

    Chris.
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From: mickeyf@vnet.ibm.com (Mickey Ferguson)
Date: Thu, 1 Oct 92 12:54:05 PDT
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc
Subject: Re: Problem removing directory
Organization: Rolm
Disclaimer: This note represents my views, not those of Rolm or IBM
News-Software: UReply 3.0

In <1992Oct1.170655.2023@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> Harvey G Shulman writes:
>I'm unable to delete an empty subdirectory from my disk.

Could it be that there are hidden files in the directory, or that it has
sub-directories?  Try to cd into the directory, then dir /ah to look for
hidden files.  If there are any, that should show them.

Mickey Ferguson -- Rolm -- FergusoM at scrvm2 -- mickeyf@vnet.ibm.com
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc
From: kholland@hydra.unm.edu (Kiernan Holland)
Subject: Re: file name extensions
Date: Tue, 06 Oct 92 18:50:59 GMT
Organization: University of New Mexico, Albuquerque

In article <92275.134457IO20049@MAINE.MAINE.EDU> IO20049@MAINE.MAINE.EDU writes:
>Could anyone please help me to figure out the meanings of all of the
>different dos extentions that are used.  I quickly become confused
>with all of the different extentions, such as .gif, .bat., .zap, .wav,
>.pic, and so forth.  If anyone is able to provide me with some insight
>as to the meaning of the different extentions, as well as how they are
>compatible, and what can be done to make two different file types
>compatible, I would appreciate it.  If anyone knows of a book that has
>a good explaination of these, then I owuld appreciate knowing its
>name and author and where I could aquire it.
>
>In need of enlightenment!!!!!
>
>Lucas Baxter
>IO20049@MAine

.gif is the Graphics Interchange Format. It was developed by 
	 compuserve under H&R Block to help users share graphical 
	 data more easily. Initially, Compuserve wanted it to be used 
	 a a way for people to get an idea what a certain piece of 
	 software would look like on their computer. Instead, 
	 it has been used for a global graphics conversion 
	 and compression format and is probably the most common
	 graphics format among all, on any computer.

.bat A text-file that is said to be a batch file, where commands
	 are executed to do certain complex chores on MSDOS.
	 On a PC, the autoexec.bat is the startup-sequence 
	 or resource file that helps you customize your
	 environment.

.zap and .pic

	 Who the heck knows. It is a uknown format, well to me that is.
	 I bet .zap is a compression format and .pic is a graphics
	 format. But for .pic there is many formats that have 
	 that extension.     

.wav Sound waveforms it sounds like. You could call these
	 samples, or the data that your computer would use to make 
	 it sound like a MAC or some rap song.
From: leonard@qiclab.scn.rain.com (Leonard Erickson)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc
Subject: Re: Reading Japanese disks
Date: 6 Oct 92 11:23:14 GMT
Article-I.D.: qiclab.1992Oct6.112314.895
Reply-To: 70465.203@compuserve.com
Organization: SCN Research/Qic Laboratories of Tigard, Oregon.

dlittle@sscvx1.ssc.gov (DENNIS LITTLE) writes:

>Recently, one of the contractors we have in Japan has started
>sending us strangely formatted disks (at least by US standards)
>which are quad density.  The disks contain .dbf files that we 
>need to be able to use, but as of yet, I haven't found a way to
>get them from the original format to a 1.44 or 720k floppy.
>I can tell that the disk does have the files on it with norton
>utilities, but I can't seem to copy them... any suggestions?

Try using a 1.2 meg drive, and adding a DRIVER.SYS statement 
to your config.sys. Set 2 heads, 80 tracks, 9 sectors per track. 
That should give you a "new" drive letter mapped to that drive and allow
reading the disks.
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From: vojta@powdermilk.berkeley.edu (Paul Vojta)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc
Subject: Re: Why doesn't msdos have a rename-directory command?
Date: 28 Sep 1992 18:22:16 GMT
Organization: U.C. Berkeley Math. Department.
Distribution: na
NNTP-Posting-Host: powdermilk.berkeley.edu

In article <1992Sep27.180821.9768@spang.Camosun.BC.CA> dbarker@spang.Camosun.BC.CA (Deryk Barker) writes:
>In article <1992Sep27.050311.23650@microsoft.com> jenk@microsoft.com (Jen Kilmer) writes:
>>In article <9031@amsaa-cleo.brl.mil> mcohen@amsaa-cleo.brl.mil (Marty Cohen) writes:
>>>
>>>There is a rename-file command.  One would think that all
>>>you would have to do to rename a directory would be to
>>>change the entry in the parent directory.  

To rename the directory, yes.  To move it, you also need to change its
link for `..'.

>There has been a rename directory system call for a long time (since
>DOS 2?).

Since DOS 3.  A call of the same number (I believe) existed in DOS 2,
but it only handled files.

--Paul Vojta, vojta@math.berkeley.edu
From: sjm2458@bcstec.ca.boeing.com (Steve McCarthy)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc
Subject: Tweaking EMM386.SYS for max conventional memory
Date: 2 Oct 92 18:16:43 GMT
Organization: Boeing Computer Services, Seattle


   In trying to tune my system, I am using DOS 5.0's HIMEM.SYS and
EMM386.SYS to load as much into upper memory blocks (UMB's) to
free up as much conventional memory as possible.  In general, I find
documentation confusing, and even contradictory as to what constitutes
UMB's.

   Specifically, following the recommendations that came with FALCON 3.0
for freeing up maximum memory, I have configured EMM386 as follows:

           DEVICE=EMM386.SYS 1024 RAM FRAME=E000

   Sure enough, I can load drivers, mouse, etc., into high memory, leaving
about 615K free of conventional memory.

   My questions are these:
 
1.  What is the significance of setting the page frame (FRAME=E000)?

2.  In DOS, how does setting aside (1024K) of expanded (?) memory affect
    memory availability to applications?

3.  I noticed that running a DOS shell in Windows (3.1) and doing a 
    mem/c gives totally different results than in regular DOS.  What
    does Windows do with the expanded/extended memory?

   BTW, I have a Gateway 486/50DX2, 8M ram, 200M IDE.
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From: viswex@ubvmsb.cc.buffalo.edu (Bob Wexler)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc
Subject: Re: Comunication programm
Date: 3 Oct 92 02:28:00 GMT
Organization: University at Buffalo
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41

In article <1992Oct2.131812.10083@wisipc.weizmann.ac.il>, jhsegal@wiscon.weizmann.ac.il (Livy) writes...

>  Does anyone knows if there exists any comunication programm for DOS,which
>have the possibility to set the speed to MORE than 19200 Bauds.It have
>to be shareware,and to exist somewhere on ftp.

MOST current versions of communications packages, including those distributed
via shareware (Telix, Qmodem, Telemate, etc.) are capable of setting the
computer-to-modem baud rate at 38400 or higher.

You do understand that that rate is just between YOUR computer and YOUR modem,
yes?  And that you obviously cannot transfer between your modem and the other
modem and any rate higher than the lower of the two highest rates those modems
were designed to handle?

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From: korpela@rocket.ssl.berkeley.edu (Eric J. Korpela)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc
Subject: Re: PROBLEM: Stacker / Smartdrive
Date: 29 Sep 1992 22:54:00 GMT
Organization: Cal Berkeley-- Space Sciences Lab
NNTP-Posting-Host: rocket.ssl.berkeley.edu
Summary: Norton 5.0 FILESAVE clobbers STACKER drives.

In article <1992Sep27.172528.862@unine.ch> Louis.Egger@bota.unine.ch writes:
>Hi!
>
> Since a few days STACKER is turning me into a mad PC User. >:-[]
>
> Well i'm going to expose ( as clearly as possible ) my problem.
>
> I 'Stacked' my Hard disk ( 100 MB -> 200 MB ) and for many months had no 
>troubles at all. Recently I put an erase-protect (The EP from Norton) on my 
>stacked drive and a disk-cache (SmartDrv.exe from Microsoft) on my uncompressed
>drive. It all worked fine for several weeks BUT SUDDENLY my stacked drive get
>Write-Protected by the program STACKER and since then i can only read my 
>stacked drive (absolutely unpossible to write (or delete) a file on that drive)
>8-o
>

I ran into a very similar problem with Norton 5.0's FILESAVE program.
When FILESAVE went to purge some files, the drive light stayed on
far too long, so I got nervous and hit the big red switch.  On
reboot the drive was OK except for some FAT errors on the stacked
partition and (get this) a bad cluster.  

I scanned the unstacked drive and there were no bad clusters there.
The FAT errors were eventually fixable with NDD and NDD was able to 
mark the bad cluster as bad.  

I played around with DISKEDIT for a while, trying to fix the bad cluster.
All that was required was rewriting the bad cluster.  My guess is that
FILESAVE was attempting a nasty direct write, and suceeded in writing
directly.  STACKER looked at what was written and saw it failed a checksum
and flagged any read attempt with an error.

Fortunately I was still able to write in the STACKER partition.

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Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc
From: mreese@nyx.cs.du.edu (Mike Reese)
Subject: Re: Problem removing directory
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	of Denver for the Denver community.  The University has neither
	control over nor responsibility for the opinions of users.
Organization: Nyx, Public Access Unix at U. of Denver Math/CS dept.
Date: Sat, 3 Oct 92 03:34:11 GMT

In article <19921001.133422.254@almaden.ibm.com> mickeyf@vnet.ibm.com (Mickey Ferguson) writes:
>In <1992Oct1.170655.2023@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> Harvey G Shulman writes:
>>I'm unable to delete an empty subdirectory from my disk.
>
>Could it be that there are hidden files in the directory, or that it has
>sub-directories?  Try to cd into the directory, then dir /ah to look for
>hidden files.  If there are any, that should show them.
>
>Mickey Ferguson -- Rolm -- FergusoM at scrvm2 -- mickeyf@vnet.ibm.com


In 4DOS, try the following:

     DEL directory /SXYZ

That should do the trick.
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From: hshulman@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Harvey G Shulman)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc
Subject: UPDATE 2: Problem removing directory
Date: 6 Oct 92 13:47:38 GMT
Article-I.D.: magnus.1992Oct6.134738.29805
Organization: The Ohio State University

More suggestions but no solution.  Several people suggested that the
unerasable subdirectories may themselves have read-only attribute
set.  Not so.  Attempts to list the contents of c:/ with dir /a:rhs
reveal only ibmbio.com and ibmdos.com.  I can also set and unset these
attributes for the affected directories without altering their 
invulnerability to the RD command.  Attempts to list the CONTENTS
of these directories, e.g. CD LDOS, dir /a:rhs or dir *.*, report
0 bytes in 0 files, or 0 bytes in 2 files ("." and "..").  

I am beginning to suspect supernatural forces here, perhaps using
the superstor device driver as their vehicle.  

Harvey Shulman
Ohio State University
  
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc
From: malcolm@muir.demon.co.uk ("Malcolm S. Muir")
Subject: Re: printing PS files 
Distribution: world
Organization: Muir
Reply-To: malcolm@muir.demon.co.uk
X-Mailer: Simple NEWS 1.90 (ka9q DIS 1.18)
Date: Sun, 27 Sep 1992 12:08:01 +0000


In article <1a3rt9INNc5@agate.berkeley.edu> tchnd-au@garnet.berkeley.edu writes:

>Is there any simple way to print a postscript file onto a laser
>printer? Do I need a special little program? If I try just printing
>it, I get the postscript source.

Errr... use a postscript laser printer :-)

In fear of telling you the obvious postscript is a printer command
language. A postscript printer has a cpu in it which interprets the
instructions of the postscript source you are seeing and prints the
resulting output.

If you want to print postscript on a 'normal' printer you will need some
form of postscript interpreter. Ghostscript is a PD one (GNU) and there
are a couple of pay-up-front_ware ones - Freedom of the Press and Goscript
as I recall.

None of these fit the description of 'little programme' however !

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From: latesh@genghis.borland.com (Latesh Bhatia)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc
Subject: "PC-Anywhere" info...
Summary: PC-Anywhere
Keywords: PC-Anywhere, Remote Computing
Date: 1 Oct 92 23:30:29 GMT
Followup-To: latesh@borland.com
Organization: Borland International
Originator: latesh@genghis.borland.com

Hi!

I was wondering if anyone out there has some info on the product
"PC Anywhere".  I'm specifically looking for:

    1. Company Name
    2. Address
    3. Phone Number or Email address

and finally:
    
    4. Would it have any problems remotely loading my network
       packet driver i.e. 3COM 3C501, v9.2, and also the IPX/SPX driver.


Thanx,

Latesh

                     ***** latesh@borland.com *****
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From: gwni@troi.cc.rochester.edu (G. Wayne Nichols)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc,comp.sys.ibm.pc,comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Re: Quality of DR-DOS 6 (was BEWARE SUPERSTOR!!!!!!)
Keywords: DR DOS, SSTOR, SUPERSTOR
Date: 5 Oct 92 21:41:00 GMT
Distribution: na
Organization: University of Rochester - Rochester, New York

Novell tech support warns about using SuperStor 2.0's Recompress
feature with compressed volumes created by DRDOS's version of SSTOR.
They also warn about using their DISKOPT with SuperStor 2.0.
CHKDSK may not work, either, if I recall.
(Their recommendation is to back up the compressed volume,
delete the compressed volume, recreate under SuperStor 2.0,
and restore the compressed volume's data).
So I backed up my 240 MB compressed volume to floppies,
and used Recompress anyway. No problems occurred.
In fact, CHKDSK had been hanging checking the internal SSTOR info,
and now it works again.
I haven't tried DISKOPT, but PC Tool's Compress continues to work fine.

So I gues in SOME situations you MAY have problems with CERTAIN combinations.
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc