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From: ebergman@nyx.cs.du.edu (Eric Bergman-Terrell)
Subject: Upload Astronomy Lab for MS Win 3.x
Organization: Nyx, Public Access Unix @ U. of Denver Math/CS dept.
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 92 14:36:40 GMT

If you are willing to upload Astronomy Lab version 1.13 to an ftp site 
or bbs, I'd like to e-mail you a uuencoded .zip file of the program.

You must be able to handle a ~500k e-mail message containing the uuencoded
program.  After uploading the program, please send me instructions on how
users can upload the program.

...

Astronomy Lab is an astronomy program for MS Windows 3.X.  
Astronomy Lab produces 7 movies that simulate a host of 
astronomical phenomena, 15 graphs that illustrate many 
fundamental concepts of astronomy, and 14 reports that 
predict the most important astronomical events.  All 
movies, graphs, and reports are customized for the user's 
time zone and location.  The entire User's Guide is 
available as on-line help.  This is version 1.13.
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.apps
From: tom@vpnet.chi.il.us (Tom Hansen)
Subject: Re: Desktop Manager
Organization: Vpnet Public Access
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1992 18:06:15 GMT

In article <GJAMES.124@HUSKY1.STMARYS.CA> GJAMES@HUSKY1.STMARYS.CA (GJames) writes:
>I am going to download a desktop manager/ program manager replacement from 
>CICA. Is there one that is a lot better than the others. 

	I'm sold on Sloop Manager.  Brought it back from CICA a few
	months ago, and have been using it ever since.  It allows
	nested program groups and has a user configured drop menu for
	all your favorite apps (this replaces hot keys, which it
	doesn't do).  The most often used commands are radio buttons
	right on each menu (change icon, add item, add folder,
	properties, etc).  It even imports progman groups.  It's
	shareware....$30, and I was promised that the next release due
	out in a month or so would be free if your registration was
	recent.

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Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.apps
From: leeh7@fel.tno.nl (Ed van Leeuwen)
Subject: Re: Which Word Processor?
Organization: TNO Physics and Electronics Laboratory
Date: Wed, 2 Sep 1992 11:26:29 GMT

govendep@cc.und.ac.za (Pooven Govender) writes:

>Hi there,

>We are presently pondering on which windows wordprocessor to choose and 
>support on our university.  We are thinking of looking into Ami Pro, 
>WordPerfect for Windows and MS Word, but we don't have any benchmarks on 
>which to evaluate.  Please forward any suggestions to me directly.  The dos 
>based wordprocessors that are currently in use are XyWrite and 
>WordPerfect 5.1.  We assume that most people moving to windows with consider 
>purchasing at least a 386 SX 16 with a least 4 MB Ram.

Perhaps you could include FrameMaker for Windows as well. The workstation
version is very popular; the Windows version has just come out. Please
contact sales@frame.com for further information.



					Regards,

					Ed.

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Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.apps,comp.sys.laptops
From: mccall@mksol.dseg.ti.com (fred j mccall 575-3539)
Subject: Re: LapLink-type SW for Windows?
Organization: Texas Instruments Inc
Distribution: na
Date: Tue, 1 Sep 1992 21:52:30 GMT

In <1992Aug27.134046.13131@das.harvard.edu> gordy@endor.uucp (Robert Gordy) writes:

>In article <l3bn69j.jfh@netcom.com> jfh@netcom.com (Jack Hamilton) writes:
>>In article <l9nlnuINNm2u@boogie.cs.utexas.edu> swisher@cs.utexas.edu (Janet M. Swisher) writes:
>>>I'm looking for an application to do LapLink-type transfers between a
>>>laptop and desk machine(s).  Both computers will be running Windows.
>>>I know I could run LapLink in a DOS window under Windows, but I just
>>>hate, hate, hate dealing with DOS windows.  Is there some Windows
>>>application out there that has the same basic functionality?

CAN you run LapLink in a DOS window under Windows?  I have never been
able to make this work with the (older) version of LapLink that I
have; it crashes Windows every time when you do the connection to the
other machine.

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Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.apps
From: seldner@hdi3sun.kfk.de (David Seldner)
Subject: Re: Almanac problems
Keywords: Almanac
Organization: Kernforschungszentrum Karlsruhe (Germany)
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1992 13:26:57 GMT

In article <kaustell.53@viikki.Helsinki.FI>, kaustell@viikki.Helsinki.FI (KIM OLAVI KAUSTELL (MATEK)) writes:
|> 
|> I started testing the Almanac v. 3.0d for a week ago, and I'm very likely 
|> going to register it. Just one question: How do I get Almanac to run as an 
|> icon (the clock rectangle in the lower right corner) after startup ? I've 
|> tried to put the startup command of it in both load= and run= -sections, but 
|> neither helps. I think it worked one time; I just can't get it to work 
|> anymore.
|> Or is this a feature to be cleared after registration ?
|> 

Don't think so. I started testing it 2 days ago and had no problems.
I installed Almanac in the Startup-Group and in "Properties" I checked
the box "as icon" (or whatever the English expressions are - I've got 
the German Windows version). The Almanac starts up as an icon, if it
was iconized when I left windows before.

But I'm encountering another problem. I wanted to print the monthly
calendar for September. The first time was no problem, but after changing
a few things (adding holidays, etc...) I couldn't print anymore ("invalid
date or range"). Printing August was okay.
Is this going tobe cleared after registration?

|> Greetings
|> 
|>                         y-=p Kim Kaustell p=-y

Regards
dave
seldner@hdi3sun.kfk.de
From: vampire@mcl.ucsb.edu (Kevin Laird)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.apps
Subject: Re: W4W Macro? (Wordstar)
Keywords: W4W Macro Wordstar
Date: 1 Sep 92 17:50:33 GMT

In <1992Sep1.055649.20014@leland.Stanford.EDU> chetter@leland.Stanford.EDU (chet pager) writes:


>So, does no-one know of a Macro file created by one of us Wordstar addicts
>which will make Word for Windows 2.0a emulate wordstar?
>	Please email response to chetter@leland.stanford.edu
>(thanks!)
>

Word for Windows allows you to setup keystrokes for commands. Since W4W
doesn't have the exact same commands the functionality would not be
quite the same, but it would probably be close. If you wanted it to be
exactly the same, you could probably set up macros for those commands
which did not have exact equivalents. An example which comes to mind is
^KQ. 

Hope this helps.

Kevin Laird
From: PRAETHE@YaleVM.YCC.Yale.Edu (Ethan Evan Prater)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.apps
Subject: Re: Norton Desktop and non-multi-tasking
Date: 4 Sep 92 12:37:50 GMT
Organization: Yale University

Isn't there a shareware program at cica that will copy and format disks in the
background? I think it's called something like dc111.zip or fc111.zip. I don't
know what directory it's in, but it advertises itself as a single pass disk
copier that works in the background. I tried it out a long time ago but didn't
like it because it slowed down the system quite a bit. Check this out if
you want to format or copy in the background.
 
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Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.apps
From: t-ericj@microsoft.com (Eric Johnson)
Subject: Re: Norton Desktop and non-multi-tasking
Date: 31 Aug 92 23:04:01 GMT
Organization: Microsoft Corporation

In article <2AA1711C.7857@ics.uci.edu> ddoherty@ics.uci.edu (Donald Doherty) writes:
>In article <1992Aug30.045247.5459@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> sshapiro@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Stewart D Shapiro) writes:
>>I have just installed the Norton Desktop for Windows 2.0.  I noticed
>>that if you use the desktop to format a floppy, the mouse cursor
>>becomes trapped in the format window, and you can't switch to another
>>application, etc.  This seems to  prevent any multi-tasking when
>>formatting, which is rather strange.  This is one time when one would
>>like to do something else during the operation.  Am I missing
>>something, or is this a "feature" of the program?
>>
>>
>
>That is not a feature of NDW but is a feature of MS Windows.  The multi-
>tasking under Windows (without getting into semantic arguments about the
>term multi-tasking) is limited in that certain I/O work takes full control.
>Most particularly disk I/O.
>
>You will notice that you get an hour glass icon while reading in long files
>or saving long files in addition to formatting, et cetera.  You must move
>to either Windows NT or OS/2 to be able to continue work while doing these
>things.
>
>Don
> 
>

That simply isn't true. The Windows API allows a program to take full 
control of resources, and many do for disk operations to make these operations 
faster. This is what is happening when the hourglass icon is on. In fact, 
I am formatting a disk in the background as I write this article, in fact,
in a DOS window. The hourglass is not a system-level thing -- it is put in
there speciafically by the programmer when he wants to prevent task     
switching. Norton has apparantly done this, but it is not the fault of 
windows.

Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.apps
From: jimmy@namao.ucs.ualberta.ca 
Subject: MODELESS dialog boxes
Organization: University of Alberta
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1992 16:01:52 GMT


Environment: 386, Windows 3.1, Borland C++ 3.1, OWL

I am trying to create a dialog box in Borland C++ 3.1 by the following call:
  GetApplication()->ExecDialog(new UIEditInterruptsDlg(this, SD_MyDialogBox));

Everything works fine and I get a modal dialog box. How would I change it to
a modeless dialog box ? Do I need to make changes to the .cpp only or do I
have to fiddle with the resources as well. Would you happen to have sample
code that implements a simple modeless dialog box ?

Thanks,
Jimmy
P.S. Please email...
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From: c23st@kocrsv01.delcoelect.com (Spiros Triantafyllopoulos)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.apps
Subject: Re: Wnqvtnet screen scroll i
Date: 4 Sep 92 20:34:03 GMT
Organization: Delco Electronics Corp.

In article <009601C7.CC916A00@vms.csd.mu.edu> 5916rahmank@vms.csd.mu.edu writes:
>	But if one compares the WinQVT 4.78 with win100, for instance,
>one sees there is a significant difference in scrolling speed between
>these two programs (with identical hardware). Doesn't this reflect
>something on the performance of WinQVT? Or I'm missing something...

Excellent observation. 

I have compared it to, say, Crosstalk for windows and there's no
comparison also. Crosstalk is MUCH faster. (system is Gateway 486/33).

And while I'm mildly flaming QVT, why are these features missing:

o	Ascii Upload, like Kermit's Transfer. That's the most serious
	problem with it in my humble opinion.

o	Timer for session (maybe it is there, not sure)

or, why does QVT (not net) occasionaly grabs the mouse and does not
let me click on other windows? Several occations where I was transfering
a file and tried to play solitaire, only to have the thing beep at
me every time I clicked.

Spiros



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From: mike-b@hpfcso.FC.HP.COM (Michael Bishop)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.apps
Subject: Datacomm: Need 120 chars by 38 lines
Date: 31 Aug 92 16:29:05 GMT
Organization: Hewlett-Packard, Fort Collins, CO, USA

I'm sure this is a frequently asked question, so I apologize upfront.

I'm looking for a reliable, easy-to-use terminal emulator for Windows
3.1 that allows more flexibility than the standard 80x24 screen size.
I would like to have a 120 character by 38 line screen, which is what
I'm used to using at work.

I've tried Unicom which has a wonderful GUI.  It allows up to 132
characters per line, but sadly you can only have 24 lines.  :-(

Does anyone know if Crosstalk, Telix, or Procomm support greater 
than 80 columns and 24 lines?

Thanks for helping.

Michael Bishop
Hewlett-Packard Company
Internet: mike-b@fc.hp.com
From: apland@mala.bc.ca
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.apps
Subject: CROSSTAB in EXCEL 4 on a network
Date: 31 Aug 92 16:48:54 -0700
Organization: Malaspina College

We just received and placed on a Novell network server, Excel 4.0.  Some
nice new features!  While playing with it I found that it would choke while
calculating a CROSSTAB.  A call to MS support determined that it is a known
bug (while executing a crosstab Excel tries to write to the read-only 
system directory and unless you make it read-write you are sol).  Anyway,
it took me over 30 minutes of hanging on the line to find this out and
the tech person was unable to take my name into a database for shipping 
the fix when it gets ready.  Instead she suggested I phone back periodically to 
find out when it is ready.  Well, I don't want to pay for that.  Would one of
you MS guys please announce in one of these groups when the crosstab fix
for excel becomes available and where we can pick it up please?
In the meantime, if anyone finds a workaround that doesn't require changing
the system directory to read-write, please post.
Thanks

Ron
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.apps
From: ddoherty@ics.uci.edu (Donald Doherty)
Subject: Re: Norton Desktop and non-multi-tasking
Reply-To: ddoherty@ics.uci.edu (Donald Doherty)
Organization: Univ. of Calif., Irvine, Info. & Computer Sci. Dept.
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1992 01:08:44 GMT

In article <1992Aug30.045247.5459@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> sshapiro@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Stewart D Shapiro) writes:
>I have just installed the Norton Desktop for Windows 2.0.  I noticed
>that if you use the desktop to format a floppy, the mouse cursor
>becomes trapped in the format window, and you can't switch to another
>application, etc.  This seems to  prevent any multi-tasking when
>formatting, which is rather strange.  This is one time when one would
>like to do something else during the operation.  Am I missing
>something, or is this a "feature" of the program?
>
>

That is not a feature of NDW but is a feature of MS Windows.  The multi-
tasking under Windows (without getting into semantic arguments about the
term multi-tasking) is limited in that certain I/O work takes full control.
Most particularly disk I/O.

You will notice that you get an hour glass icon while reading in long files
or saving long files in addition to formatting, et cetera.  You must move
to either Windows NT or OS/2 to be able to continue work while doing these
things.

Don
 

Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.apps
From: lam836@cucs18.cs.cuhk.hk (Lam Lai Yin Savio)
Subject: Telix.fon -> Procomm for Win format
Organization: Faculty of Engineering, The Chinese U. of Hong Kong
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1992 03:04:07 GMT

	Does anyone know if such a converter exists?

	Please reply via e-mail, thanks.

Savio Lam
e-mail: lam836@cucs18.cs.cuhk.hk
Xref: sparky comp.os.ms-windows.apps:2337 comp.os.ms-windows.misc:2582
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.apps,comp.os.ms-windows.misc
Subject: Re: Genoa 5400 Drivers
From: Shaun Wetzstein <NU158739@NDSUVM1.BITNET>
Date: Monday, 31 Aug 1992 14:25:55 CDT
Distribution: world
Organization: North Dakota Higher Education Computer Network

I'm not sure about the 5400 and win3.1, however you can call thier BBS at (408)
943-1231 and look there.

Shaun Wetzsteim
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.apps
From: rdr@attics.rn.com (Dean Riddlebarger)
Subject: Re: Has anyone used Micrografx Draw?
Organization: Ameritech Information Systems
Date: Fri, 04 Sep 92 16:18:21 GMT

anf@pesun.ncsu.edu (Andre N. Fredette) writes:

>1. Arrow heads on the end of lines
>2. More shapes
>3. Curved lines
>4. More control over rotating/repositioning objects

Draw does all of this, although your point 4 is a bit vague.  

>Can anyone tell me how Micrografx Windows Draw fits this bill?  Are
>there any other alternatives?

We have Freelance (DOS-based version), Harvard (DOS-based), Corel Draw
for Windows, the WFW 2.0 applets, and Micrografx Draw.  We have to 
produce conceptual network design drawings all the time (we'll tell
you how to enhance or design your network....for a rather hefty fee),
and I prefer to be able to suck my drawing output directly into WFW
for the final document.  Draw 3.0 with OLE hooks straight into WFW 2.0,
so the option appears in the Insert->Object menu.

For the money (<$90 if look shop around) I would say that Draw is
exactly what Micrografx claims- "Fun, Fast, and Friendly".

   
<*>  Dean Riddlebarger                   Once in a while              <*>
<*>  Ameritech Information Systems        You get shown the light,    <*>
<*>  rdr@attics.rn.com                   In the strangest of places   <*>
<*>  317-488-3067 (w)                     If you look at it right.    <*>
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.apps
From: ehobbs@nmt.edu (Eric Hobbs)
Subject: Re: Ami Pro 3.0 Reviews?
Organization: New Mexico Tech
Date: Tue, 1 Sep 1992 16:21:39 GMT

I'm  planning on getting a 386-40/ 4mb sometime soon and I am seriously
looking at Ami Pro 3.0 as my main WP.  I have some questions, though.
How quick is it on the above system?  Can you output to a PostScript
file?

Thanks.

Eric A. Hobbs
ehobbs@JUPITER.nmt.edu

Xref: sparky comp.os.ms-windows.apps:2272 comp.sys.laptops:3318
From: jfreter@triton.unm.edu (The Myth)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.apps,comp.sys.laptops
Subject: Desklink, was: Re: LapLink-type SW for Windows?
Date: 27 Aug 92 21:25:36 GMT
Distribution: na
Organization: University of New Mexico, Albuquerque

In article <l9qaqqINNse2@boogie.cs.utexas.edu> swisher@cs.utexas.edu (Janet M. Swisher) writes:
>
>I called PC Connection this morning to see if they have DiskShare;
>they said they don't, but they do have something from Travelling
>Software called DeskLink.  Can anybody tell me what that is?
>
Desklink is a program that allows one to mount the physical drives of one
pc as logical drives on another.  It comes with 2 connectors (9-pin and
24-pin on each) and a length of phone cable (like the modular cables, not
a null-modem) to connect the adaptors.  It supporst up to 115 Kbps transfer
between the two.  It will even let you transfer the files to/from a Super-
stored drive from/to a non-superstore drive.

The only trouble I had was getting it to work with windows.  I never bothered
to configure the com ports on the 386 windows box to allow the 115 kbps.  I
have since sold the 286 that I was using as a terminal and a 5-1/4" drive
(the 386 now has both) so I've not doen further fiddling.

It comes with a manager program that will allow one to tag selective files/
dirs on any drive and move/copy them to another drive (physical or logical).
It also allows an update feature-- that is, it will replace the older
version of a file on one computer's disk with a newer version on the other's
disk(s).

Other features:
can mount the printer connected to LPT1-3 on computer A as a logical printer
on computer B-- the remote printer will show up as any LPT on the local
pc.
pop-up talk box that allows two-way communications
print spooling (DOS only)
supports up to 100 feet of cabling


No mention in the manual os OS/2 or of Windows 3.x, so it is of no use
to aid configuring.

BTW, I have version 2.0, I don't know if this has been updated.
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.apps
From: spcberto@cicero.spc.uchicago.edu (Robert Osterlund)
Subject: Re: Norton Desktop and non-multi-tasking
Keywords: NDW
Organization: U of Chicago, SSPPCC
Date: Wed, 2 Sep 1992 23:11:32 GMT

In article <2AA1711C.7857@ics.uci.edu> ddoherty@ics.uci.edu (Donald Doherty) writes:
>In article <1992Aug30.045247.5459@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> sshapiro@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Stewart D Shapiro) writes:
>>I have just installed the Norton Desktop for Windows 2.0.  I noticed
>>that if you use the desktop to format a floppy, the mouse cursor
>>becomes trapped in the format window, and you can't switch to another
>>application, etc.  This seems to  prevent any multi-tasking when
>>formatting, which is rather strange.  This is one time when one would
>>like to do something else during the operation.  Am I missing
>>something, or is this a "feature" of the program?
>>
>>
>
>That is not a feature of NDW but is a feature of MS Windows.  The multi-
>tasking under Windows (without getting into semantic arguments about the
>term multi-tasking) is limited in that certain I/O work takes full control.
>Most particularly disk I/O.
>
>You will notice that you get an hour glass icon while reading in long files
>or saving long files in addition to formatting, et cetera.  You must move
>to either Windows NT or OS/2 to be able to continue work while doing these
>things.
>
>Don
> 
>
While doing backups using Norton Backup for Windows (included with NDW), I
am able to multi-task (e.g., run Windows Terminal) and task switch with no
problems.  NBW will format diskettes before backing up to them, but again
this does not shut down multi-tasking.  So, it is NOT true that diskette
I/O under Windows takes full control of the machine and precludes multi-
tasking.

On the other hand, I am puzzled why the NDW Format Diskette program exhibits
the behavior described above.  If Backup allows multi-tasking, why not
Format Diskette?

Bob Osterlund
berto@clio.spc.uchicago.edu
SSPPSS--University of Chicago