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From: lindemaj@HYDRA.ROSE-HULMAN.EDU (Andy Lindeman)
Subject: Re: comp.windows...
Reply-To: lindemaj@HYDRA.ROSE-HULMAN.EDU
Organization: Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology
Date: Sat, 25 Jul 1992 04:54:56 GMT

In article <1992Jul24.154931.21769@tijc02.uucp>, eri316@tijc02.uucp (Ed Ingraham         ) writes:
>I've seen several references to a comp.os.ms-windows newsgroup hierarchy. My
>site gets comp.windows.ms. Can anyone explain these newgroup differences?
>Am I missing something?
>
>Ed Ingraham
>Siemens Industrial Automation, Inc.        (615)461-2608 voice
>3000 Bill Garland Road                     (615)461-2174 fax
>P. O. Box 1255                             eri316%tijc02@uunet.uu.net
>Johnson City, Tennessee 37605-1255         71201,1376


Ed, You've probably recieved many replies to this, but just in case the
comp.os.ms-windows hierarchy started in late May to break up the
comp.windows.ms and comp.windows.ms.programmer groups.  As I remember, there
was a big arguement over placing the group in the .os hierarchy.  Anyway, the
groups are:
comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy
comp.os.ms-windows.apps
comp.os.ms-windows.misc
comp.os.ms-windows.setup
comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.misc
comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.tools
comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.win32

It has taken a while, but most of the traffic is now in the comp.os.ms-windows
hierarchy, so you will probably want to find a way to read those groups!  Hope
this helps.  Andy


Andy Lindeman

lindemaj@rosevc.rose-hulman.edu  <- preferred address
ajlindem@ucs.indiana.edu
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
From: zars10@trc.amoco.com (Andrew R. Slagle)
Subject: Moving Graphs from Excel to Windows
Originator: zars10@orca
Organization: Amoco Production Company, Tulsa Research
Date: Tue, 21 Jul 1992 20:26:25 GMT



When copying and pasting graphs from Excel (for windows) to Word (for windows)
the text becomes inevenly spaced (in fact unintelligible if any sizing of the
graph is done in Word).  I am using the True Type Arial font.

Any words of wisdom would be appreciated.

Thanks, Andy Slagle

 
From: gordon@hpcvia.CV.HP.COM (gordon_staley)
Date: Thu, 23 Jul 92 15:16:27 PDT
Subject: EPS Viewer Wanted
Organization: Hewlett-Packard Co., Corvallis, Oregon
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms

I am looking for a tool that runs under Windows 3.x for viewing and printing
EPS files.  There is no need for the tool to allow for manipulation of the
picture, I just want to be able to view it and optionally print it.

Thanks,
Gordon Staley

Hewlett Packard
Ink Jet Components Division
1040 N.E. Circle Blvd.
Corvallis, OR 97330
(503) 750-2102
FAX (503) 750-4400
gordon@hpcvia.cv.hp.com

Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms,comp.windows.ms.programmer,comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc,sci.astro,sci.space,sci.edu
From: rataski@akronb.aoo.dec.com (Tom Rataski)
Subject: Re: Testers for Astronomy  Lab:  NEW E-MAIL ADDRESS!!!
Reply-To: rataski@akronb.aoo.dec.com
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation, Akron, Ohio
Date: Tue, 21 Jul 1992 15:31:14 GMT


In article <1992Jul21.004739.22910@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>, ebergman@nyx.cs.du.edu (Eric Bergman-Terrell) writes:

*************************************************************************
* Sorry about the unreliable e-mail address.  I have a new one that     *
* should work: uunet!edoc9!erict                                        *
*************************************************************************

Sorry for posting this... The new address also bounces with user unknown.

Name:		Tom Rataski
US Mail Address: 495 Winfield Way, Akron, Ohio 44303
E-Mail Address: rataski@akronb.aoo.dec.com
Version of MS-Windows: V3.1
Version of MS-DOS: V5.0
CPU:	80486/25
Math Coprocessor (not required):
Memory: 8mb
Graphics Card: SVGA
Printer: various... dot matrix to ps

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Digital Equipment Corporation     
3500 Massillon Rd. Suite 100           twisted pair: (216) 896-6135 
Uniontown, Ohio 44685   USA	<----<<< Uniontown = Akron/Canton, Ohio
"I have problems enough speaking for myself let alone my employer"
From: ccasm@cc.newcastle.edu.au
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: Windows Workstation V4.1
Date: 29 Jul 92 03:37:17 GMT
Organization: University of Newcastle, AUSTRALIA

In article <carol.710378938@ee.uts.EDU.AU>, carol@ee.uts.edu.au (Carol Gibson) writes:
> cherryp@topaz.ucq.edu.au writes:
> 
>>In article <carol.710135344@ee.uts.EDU.AU>, carol@ee.uts.edu.au (Carol Gibson) writes:
>>> Just got some propaganda on Windows Worksatation 4.1. Has anyone out
>>> there used it? (or version 4?) Is it as good as it sounds? Is it 
>>> perfectly compatable with Windows 3.1 and all it's applications?
>>> 
>>> 	Carol Gibson
> 
>>Don't know where you get your propaganda, but that's what it is. Version 4.x is
>>quite a long way off. There will be a version 3.2around the end of the year
>>which will feature some network and mail primitives, but that's about it.
> 
> Ok - I'll tell you:  First I saw the following article in the June 1992,
> Australia/ New Zealand LAN magazine :-
> 
> "ENHANCED LAN SOFTWARE MAXIMISES WINDOWS 3.1
> 
> Windows 3.1 isn/t network-aware enough, according to Sydney based
> Software Suppliers. To overcome this frustration, Windows Workstation
> Version 4.1 has been designed to provide LAN administrators, system
> integrators and LAN value-added resellers with management tools to manage,
> maintain and support Windows 3.1 users on a network. The LAN product
> provides the ability to centrally create and dynamically update and
> control Windows and Windows-based applications."
> 
> I then got them to send me a fax which detailed version 4.0 and then
> all the extensions in 4.1 . So it *does* exist, and I'd still like to
> hear from anyone who's used it....
> 
> 	Carol
> 

Perhaps its just a Software Suppliers product, not a Microsoft product.
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
From: RFowler@kelvin.jpl.nasa.gov (Robert A. Fowler)
Subject: Re: how to paste between dos-windows?
Organization: Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1992 16:32:08 GMT

I>Please don't tell me to RTFM... I don't even have TFM. Thanks.

>Please email me, I don't read news very much.

>||     Ed Zhong                ||      I make my money work for me.
>||     ed@introl.com           ||      I work to make my money work for me.
        ^^^^^^^^^^^^^
   THIEF(?) THIEF(?) THIEF(?)

Flame 1: YOU DON'T HAVE THE MANUAL? (Can you say STOLEN copy of Windows?)  
If you don't have the manual you don't have a licence to use it so deleate 
it off of you harddisk until you buy it.  That hologram on the MS Windows 
manual the 'proof of ownership', I don't know about over version (Z-Nix 
etc.), but you should still have a manual if you have a legal copy, AND if 
you have someone else's old version (they upgraded to 3.1 and gave you 3.0) 
that is stolen copy, read the license agrement.   MS Windows is so cheap ($
49 discount price $99 list price) that there is no excuse for not buying a 
registered copy.  (I have 3 registerd copies, one for each of my computers).


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From: lape@cs.utk.edu (Bryon S. Lape)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Unattended Back-up...
Date: 27 Jul 92 18:58:25 GMT
Organization: University of Tennessee, Knoxville - CS Department
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: duncan.cs.utk.edu
Originator: lape@duncan.cs.utk.edu

	I need an unattended back-up programme to run under windows 3.1.
Our tape back-up uses the QIC-80 format.  If anyone knwos of such a beast,
please e-mail me.


Bryon Lape
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From: drahnier@bird.first.gmd.de (Reinhard Rasche)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: ET4000 drivers from Trident ColorView uploaded ftp.cica.indiana.edu
Date: 30 Jul 92 09:24:00 GMT
	<1992Jul29.165944.843@unvax.union.edu>
Organization: GMD-FIRST, Berlin
In-reply-to: mcwhirtj@unvax.union.edu's message of 29 Jul 92 16:59:44 GMT

... they work fine with my sigma legend II. and the turbo drivers are
real fast...
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Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
From: paul@panix.com (Paul Gatker)
Subject: Any info on ATI CRYSTAL FONTS for WINDOWS 3.1?
Date: Tue, 28 Jul 1992 21:51:17 GMT
Organization: PANIX Public Access Unix, NYC

 I just got an ATI 8514 Ultra and it is fantastic with windows. I have
heard that their crystal fonts aren't yet available for win3.1. Does
anyone have any info on if and when they may become available.

 Also, are the crystal fonts worthwhile as far as increasing the apparent
resolution of the screen fonts vs. the loss of redraw speed?

 As I understand it, there is a converter available that will take a post-
script font and make a crystal font from it. Does this procedure work
effectively when using windows as a dtp platform?

 Thanks for any info on crystal fonts and/or the ati 8514 ultra in general.

 ttyl;paul

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Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
From: knightf@infonode.ingr.com (Frank Knight)
Subject: Re: NT vs. UNIX
Organization: Intergraph Corporation, Huntsville, AL.
Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1992 18:47:03 GMT

In article <CFC5GMB@mailgzrz.tu-berlin.de> remke@cs.tu-berlin.de (Jan K. Remke) writes:
>In article <1992Jul21.223603.26154@unislc.uucp>, thayne@unislc.uucp (Thayne Forbes) writes:
>
>(...stuff deleted...)
> 
>> Things are obviously a lot different in Germany than they are here.
>> There is a preponderance of imperical evidence to suggest that nearly
>> all PCs are not used for games.  Equally so of Windows.  I will start
>> with the obvious sales figures of various retailers and distributors.
>> The last time I looked they all showed 'business' apps in ALL of the
>> top 10 titles (listed according to unit volume, not dollars).  Sure
>> there are a lot of games, and PCs and Winders do tend to make nice
>> game machines, but that is not what is selling.
>
>NOT only in Germany (I'm not German, I only live there, I'm DUTCH.),
>but all over Europe... PCs are the game machines of the kids here,
>that's about it. If the people in the U.S. of A. are not that far,
>(I mean using more sophisticated machines) then it's not my problem :-) ...
>
>Greetings:
>Jan
>
>PS: I use my PC for playing games and as a terminal for my sun SPARC/IPX.


This certainly brings up a question of availability of low-cost 
high-end PCs outside of the U.S.?>
From: ccasm@cc.newcastle.edu.au
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: Envelope printer for DJ500?
Date: 29 Jul 92 03:41:19 GMT
Organization: University of Newcastle, AUSTRALIA

In article <Jul05.234223.26085@yuma.ACNS.ColoState.EDU>, millerje@CS.ColoState.EDU (Jeff Miller) writes:
> Are there any programs for windows that will print envelopes on an 
> HP DeskJet 500 (through the envelope feed)?   It need not be fancy
> (mail lists or truetype), but I would appreciate if it were freeware.
> 

Try Word for Windows 2.0
There is even an Envelope Tool on the toolbar.
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms,comp.windows.x
From: kathy@ngc.com (Kathy Neuts)
Subject: What C++ class libraries are available for X and MS windows?
Summary: Need info on C++ class libraries for X and MS windows
Keywords: C++
Organization: Network General Corporation
Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1992 19:17:47 GMT

If this subject has been discussed before, I apologize for the rehash.

We are looking for a C++ GUI class library that is available for both
X and MS windows.  We would prefer a commercial product and one with
simple 2D graphics ( such as bar charts, graphing capabilities) but would 
consider any that are available. 

Does anyone out there know of such a product?  Please email the response
to me at  kathy@ngc.com instead of posting it.  I will then post a
summary if I receive several replys. 

Thanks in advance for the help.


		kathy@ngc.com


Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
From: ntaib@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (Iskandar Taib)
Subject: Re: Where is the FAQ for comp.windows.ms?
Organization: Indiana University
Distribution: usa
Date: Tue, 28 Jul 1992 15:58:05 GMT

In article <63771@hydra.gatech.EDU> gt8963a@prism.gatech.EDU (MCCARTNEY,JEFFREY ELWOOD) writes:
>Where is the FAQ for comp.windows.ms?

Check out the new newsgroups:

comp.os.ms-windows.misc
comp.os.ms-windows.apps
comp.os.ms-windows.setup

You'll find the FAQ there. This newsgroup was supposed to be dead 
long ago.





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From: bert.tyler@satalink.com (Bert Tyler)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: win3.1 won't recognise XG
Date: 27 Jul 92 21:05:00 GMT
Reply-To: bert.tyler@satalink.com (Bert Tyler)
Organization: SataLink Info Systems - Huntingdon Valley, PA - 215-364-3324

RW>A friend of mine has a problem with his PC: Windows 3.1
RW>won't recognise his XGA card.

All I can say is that it didn't have any problem with my XGA adapter.
Mine is an add-in adapter, though - which I understand is a bit
different from the XGA-on-the-motherboard setups that come with
some of the newer high-end PS/2s.

                   Bert Tyler   (bert.tyler@satalink.com)
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From: ruckman@oasys.dt.navy.mil (Christopher Ruckman)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: mouse freeze in win3.1
Date: 27 Jul 92 17:11:14 GMT
Reply-To: ruckman@oasys.dt.navy.mil (Christopher Ruckman)
Organization: Carderock Division, NSWC, Bethesda, MD

In comp.windows.ms, sinniah@wam.umd.edu (Shanthi Kumar Sinniah) writes:
>Hi Netters:
>I have a problem that seems to occur more frequently. Everytime, I exit
>from winqvt the mouse cursor seems to freeze and I have to reset the
>computer.  I have an internal modem set on the comp4 port with irq settings
>at 3 and the mouse is on com1. This problem did not appear earlier when
>I had the system working well.  It seems to have developed recently and
>I wonder what the problem is. I do have a logitech mouse and I   use the
>lmouse.com as the default to set up the mouse.  Any help is apreciated.

I have had similar problems using PCTCP Telnet with a Kensington Expert
mouse.  Sometimes I can recover by the following process:
   1) Ctrl-Alt-Del (this brings up warning screen)
   2) Esc (returns you to windows)
Often this will allow the system to recover.  Sometimes I also have
to do some mouse activity like move a window before I regain full control
of the screen.  Sounds crazy but it works.

Unfortunately, this is just a band-aid to cover the source of the problem.
Any other suggestions, anyone?

Chris Ruckman
Ship Acoustics Division, Code 1941
Carderock Division, Naval Surface Warfare Center
Bethesda, MD  20084-5000 USA
ruckman@oasys.dt.navy.mil
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
From: alistair@microsoft.com (Alistair Banks)
Subject: Re: NT bandwagon
Date: 30 Jul 92 07:08:51 GMT
Organization: Microsoft Corporation
Keywords: NT

In article <741@jahangir.UUCP> wayne@jahangir.UUCP (wayne) writes:
>
>     I am thinking about installing NT on my
>machine but I have a question first. I already
>have one hard disk with MS-DOS and unix partitions 
>on it. If I put NT on it's own seperate disk, could 
>NT live with this arrangement? Is there an NT version
>of fdisk.

Yes, Windows NT includes a multi-boot program which would allow
this

>     Also, is there an NT news group yet?

Yes, comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.win32 - this comp.windows.ms
hierarchy is defunct, replaced by the comp.os.ms-windows groups

Alistair
From: hilaryc@athena.mit.edu (Hilary A Coller)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: problem with PIFs
Date: 22 Jul 92 18:42:14 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology



hi all!

i am writing about a nagging problem that i encounter with windows
3.0.  the hardware: a 386-33Mhz, 4MB RAM, 120MB IDE HD; n orchid
prodesigner IIs svga card w/ 1MB RAM, sony cpd 1304 monitor.  i almost
always run windows, but also like to run some dos applications such as
smartcom exec (a comm program), and many more.  i also run ndw as a
windows "shell".

all that was strictly for setting the context.  in order to run the
dos appls in windowed mode (as opposed to full screen mode), i run
windows in the 386enh mode, and have setup .pif files them.  the
problem i face is that everytime i start a dos appl from windows (by
double clicking on the appropriate .pif file), the video display
freaks out.  the screen blanks for an instant, then i hear a click
from the rear of the monitor (the automatic video mode selection
relays, apparently), and then the screen reappears, but the video
display mode is totally different.

thus, if i had started off running windows in 800x600 non-interlaced
mode for instance, the display mode after starting the dos appl (which
*does* appear in its own window), appears to be 640x480 interlaced (i
notice a lot of screen flicker.)  further, as is only to be expected,
since the desktop (and all its elements) are now bigger in size, my
monitor only displays a part of the desktop now, spilling over the
sides of the monitor (i can get to see the whole thing by readjusting
the monitor controls.)

i tried starting from the 640x480 non-interlaced mode, and the results
are even more bizzare -- the screen now splits into two, and i see two
identical images of the desktop on my monitor, side-by-side!  there is
a way to restore the old state: run a dos-shell from windows

(the "dos-prompt" icon), and type "exit" at the c:\> prompt, wait as
the screen blanks momentarily, the monitor clicks and clacks, and
voila! there it is, the whole dektop in the correct display mode
again!

does anyone know what the hell is going on?  the problem appears to be
that whenever a "piffed" dos appl is started, my monitor gets a
message to change its settings.  do i have bad drivers from orchid?
i've tried both approaches that i can think of -- every combination of

settings in the pif-editor, and changing the display mode while in dos

(before starting windows) using the "xmode" program supplied by
orchid.  the only peaceable scheme for coexistance of windows and dos
appls appears to be to run dos appls in full-screen mode, but that is
clearly less than satisfying, as i am sure many of you will attest.

if others have faced this problem and have found their way around it,
would you please share your wisdom?  thanks in advance!

                                                                        
--madhu nott
From: fpeon@academ01.mty.itesm.mx (Francisco Peon)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Looking for a Font Editor.
Date: 21 Jul 92 18:16:03 GMT

Hi:

 I am wondering if exist in the net a public Domain Application for

editing a Font.  I would like to Create a font set.


                    Thanks in advanced!!!
                    
                    fpeon@academ01.mty.itesm.mx
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Printer Driver for Epson lx800
From: Andrew.Beetlestone@p0.f140.n772.z3.fido.nacjack.gen.nz (Andrew Beetlestone)
Date: 19 Jul 92 17:12:14 GMT
Organization: Infoboard BBS - Auckland - (09) 833-8788 - 

Anyone got a Epson Driver ? Please contact me..
From: klug@Software.Mitel.COM (Peter Klug)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: NT vs. UNIX
Date: 30 Jul 92 13:58:13 GMT
	<pathak-290792100430@virtual.mitre.org> <22928@oasys.dt.navy.mil>
Followup-To: comp.windows.ms
Organization: Mitel Corporation; Kanata, Ontario, Canada
In-reply-to: ruckman@oasys.dt.navy.mil's message of 29 Jul 92 17:38:20 GMT


In article <22928@oasys.dt.navy.mil> ruckman@oasys.dt.navy.mil (Christopher Ruckman) writes:

   Okay, you have a good point.  With a little training and a smooth OS,
   anyone should be able to benefit from simple multi-tasking such as background
   printing.  But when I think of multi-tasking, I think of the way *I*
   do multi-tasking:  program editor in a window, Designer modifying a
   WinWord illustration while the compiler crunches away in the background,
   et cetera ad nauseum.  To an experienced user, it's a natural way of working.
   But to a novice who barely knows a mouse from a menu, it's just too
   intimidating.

   I agree that background printing is essential.  But not many people
   need or want the power to have umpteen different programs running at
   once the way I usually do.  Hardware requirements should be scaled accordingly.


I see it mainly as a matter of cost.  If you can't afford the extra
cost for a better (multi-tasking in this case) O/S then most people
can get by quite nicely without it.  But when you say that "it's just
too intimidating", I think you're selling people a little too short.

My girlfriend was pretty much a technophobe only a year ago regarding
PCs.  She teaches children with learning disabilities.  Last summer
she had an opportunity to bring a MAC home for the summer.  She went
through the whole "painful" learning process.  Terrible mouse control,
didn't know what happened to her document, always getting
frustrated...  a whole raft of things.

Anyway, she survived and now feels quite comfortable using the MAC as
well as Windows on my PC.  I set her MAC up to use MultiFinder so now
she has multi-tasking capability after a fashion.  She uses it all the
time and I'm sure she doesn't realize that she is multi-tasking.  For
example, she'll be in MacWrite and want to edit another document but
not be sure where it is.  She'll click the MultiFinder icon and be put
back to the desktop to look for it and then return the same way.  I've
even seen her with more than two applications running simultaneously.

If the interface is transparent enough, even novices can multi-task.
Give the user a chance and he/she might surprise you.

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From: kwyatt@ccscola.Columbia (Kershner Wyatt)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: W4W Repost
Date: 21 Jul 92 17:23:43 GMT
Reply-To: kwyatt@ccscola.Columbia (Kershner Wyatt)
Distribution: world
Organization: NCR CCSD Columbia

This is being reposted to see if anyone has a simple answer.

In Word For Windows 2.0 running EGA on a 386/40 ATbus, is there a way to
get rid of the washed out white (instead of gray) in the selection area
of the screen and have the normal color selection I have with my VGA machine? 
Or is this just the benefits of having an EGA monitor.

Looks plain cheap.
-- 
Kershner Wyatt
kwyatt@ccscola.ColumbiaSC.ncr.com

My opinions are my own and aren't necessarily my employer's.