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From:         Jim Nelson <jnelson@PLAINS.NODAK.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Why dos5? (Maybe not as ideotic as it sounds)

Sayeth Dan Stickel:
> What difference does the amount of "free" memory make when you use Windows
> programs only?  Your Windows programs will have access to all physical
> memory (and optional virtual memory as well).  I don't want to get into
> a big flame war, here, but I do have a specific question:
>
> Does the amount of free base DOS memory have any impact on Windows
> functionality?
> virtual memory

It doesn't really affect your virtual memory.  It can affect your
functionality.  Windows loads, in addition to itself, it loads several
of it's resource tables in to low memory.  You know, that less than 640k
that you have after dos is loaded.  If windows runs out of room for those
tables and what not, your functionality IS most definately affected.

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Date:         Fri, 22 Jan 1993 15:31:54 -0600
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Subject:      Re: Calligraphy fonts

From:   George G Galdiano
login as ftp or anonymous and use your userid as the password to get into most
ftp servers.

                 George G Galdiano
                 Programmer/Analyst I
                 CSC SIMS
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From:         Ludo Meyvis <FFAAG02@CC1.KULEUVEN.AC.BE>
Subject:      How to find a Frame in Winword

I imported a long Wordperfect 5.1 text in Winword. The text contains  about
500 'text frames', i.e. frames of unpredictable length, with unpredictable
contents. Now I would like to change something to the outlook of these frames,
but to my surprize I found out that Winword doesn't have a way to 'find' or
'go to' a frame. The 'replace' help informed me that I can look for
'circumflex' followed by a number to look for certain codes (footnote etc.),
but apparently there is no way to locate a frame. Or am I simply plain stupid?

I hope somebody out there has the answer to my question: how do I 'Find' or
'go to' a frame in Winword 2.0???

Ludo Meyvis
Catholic University of Leuven
Belgium
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From:         "Mr. R. Coates" <roysan@UXB.LIVERPOOL.AC.UK>
Subject:      Re: Prog HELP!

KE WALTON wrote:-
>
> Sorry I couldnt help, but If you manage to find a copy of the IBM Tech Series
> could you let me know, because I tried for months to find them !!

I've just been given a copy of the technical ref manual for the Amstrad 1640
which contains some info on the EGA system. If it has any useful info in it,
I'll get back to you.

Roy.

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Date:         Thu, 28 Jan 1993 12:34:06 CST
From:         Jim Nelson <jnelson@PLAINS.NODAK.EDU>
Subject:      Re: windows, os2, unix and the limits ofhuman patience

Sayeth BFJY000:
>
> Hello again,
>     I'm interested that given the plethora of available operating
>
> systems for pc's, is anyone taking the time to try out different
> operating systems for their computers? Or do people just accept the
> operating system given to them by the dealers? Granted, operating
> systems take both time and a considerable amount of patience to set
> up and get going, (just look at some of the comments regarding os/2
> installation) but does anyone make a concious, informed decision
> regarding what operating system their computer uses?

Here at The House, my roommate and I have a machine that has never really
seen DOS.  We had dos on it just long enough to install WinNT.  Several
hours later we decided that we didn't like NT, so we then installed OS/2
2.1 beta.  Up until yesterday, Linux and OS/2 were co-existing nicely.
Yesterday, we converted it all to Linux.  We are going to try 386BSD next,
after we put Linux through some toruture tests.

This is all on a spare 386sx that we cobbled together from some spare parts
I and some other people had lying around.

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Date:         Mon, 25 Jan 1993 08:51:59 -0500
From:         LINDA@NUHUB.BITNET
Subject:      Plug-In for Progman

I saw an interesting note about Plug-In, an add-on utility for Progman in
the current issue of Windows Magazine. Has anyone used this utility and is
it available on CICA yet? Thanks.

Doug Hanson linda@nuhub.acs.northeastern.edu
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Date:         Sun, 24 Jan 1993 17:05:35 -0600
Reply-To:     "Conrad J. Sabatier" <csabatier@nola.win.net>
From:         "Conrad J. Sabatier" <csabatier@NOLA.WIN.NET>
Subject:      Thanks

Thanks to all who replied to my "Am I still on this list???"
question.  Got some interesting new info about LISTSERV commands
from them.  The bounces from okway seem to have subsided at last,
but now I'm getting empty messages from something with "attmail"
in the address.  Can't remember the full address.  Is this coming
from this list or another?  Hard to tell.  Anyone else seeing this?

Conrad


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Date:         Thu, 28 Jan 1993 18:56:00 +0300
From:         GMACRI@ROEARN.BITNET
Subject:      Some information about POP3 Server

Dear colleagus,

i have a TCP/IP implementation for Win which is named WinQvt/Net. I installed
with success the program and it works.

I found on a documentation file a reference about POP3 server (a popmail for
Win version i think). I would like to know any information about this POP3.
Do you know where i could find them?

Thank you for your help.

Best wishes,
George
gmacri@roearn.bitnet
gmacri%roearn@vm.univie.ac.at
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Date:         Mon, 25 Jan 1993 13:04:48 -0600
From:         D-MOY@UMINN1.BITNET
Subject:      re: Network Connection

This is a response to Mark Allen's problem to run a network connection
under Windows...

If you run Windows in standard mode, you can safely execute your
batch files associated by an icon.  You will have to run you DOS
application full screen, as you'll be in standard mode.  But after
closing the application, the remaining commands for network usage
can be executed.

If you have more than one network connections going at the same
time, you'll have other problems.  Thats more than I can discuss
over the list.

Hope this helps.

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From:         "Ronald Glatz" <GLATZ@EAEPS1.TUWIEN.AC.AT>
Subject:      Re: Calligraphy fonts

> I don't recommend public domain fonts, mostly because I've had such terrible
> experience with them.  They're usually of very inferior quality.  I'd
> recommend you hop on down to your local computer software store and take a
> look at a few of the inexpensive Truetype collections.  (Ie. the Microsoft
> Truetype Font Pack, Keyfonts, Typecase, Infinitype, etc. etc. etc.)  You can
> get one of those for about thirty bucks or so and most have quite a few
> decent fonts.  (Being a Font Junkie, myself, I have Typecase I, Typecase II
> and Keyfonts.)  Advantages to these kinds of packages include the fact that
> you don't have to worry about missing characters -- they generally have the
> full ANSI set of characters.  Also, they tend to look nicer when you print on
> paper.
>
> Sharon
> oneil@cwis.unomaha.edu
>
You're completely right about the quality of most PD fonts and it is
very annoying for me German speaking user not to get the complete
ANSI character set. But I must add that the quality of the low cost
Truetype fonts doesn't match the quality of professional Type 1
("Postscript") fonts.

--Ron.




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Date:         Mon, 25 Jan 1993 09:55:51 -0400
From:         "G. Pentecost" <PENTECOST@BROOK.BITNET>
Subject:      Re: Slipstreaming Windows

Bob Cringely, the author of the column that reported slipstreaming of
Windows for Workgroups, reports that these files may have been changed:

          WFWNET.DRV
          NETDDE.EXE
          CLIPBRD.EXE
          CLIPSRV.EXE
          NDDEAPI.DLL
          MMTLHI.DRV

On behalf of the WIN3-L list -  Thanks, Bob!

Gregg.
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Date:         Mon, 25 Jan 1993 12:32:00 EDT
From:         JONES@EVMSVMS.BITNET
Subject:      Using a local and network printer at the same time.

This may not be possible, but what I am attempting to do is to have
a local printer (dot matrix) set to LPT1 and a network printer (laser)
set to print to LPT1:PRINTQ_0 over the LAN.

Currently, users only have the choice of the dot matrix on LPT1.  If
I add my laser and then connect it to the network, both printers
become connected to the print queue.  A user has to know how
to connect and disconnect from the network queue instead of just
selecting a printer.

Many thanks in advance for any assistance!

Walter Jones
Eastern Virginia Medical School
jones@evmsvms.bitnet
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Date:         Mon, 25 Jan 1993 12:16:25 PST
From:         "Vance M. Gloster" <gloster@INFERENCE.COM>
Subject:      Video Drivers for NT requiered
              25 Jan 1993 08:49:27 +0100
              <9301250903.AB07888@fourier.inference.com>

  I'm currently investigating the usefullness of Win-NT but have already
  some problems with the video drivers. In my machine is a Trident 8900
  installed with 1MB of RAM. I'm now in search for drivers to use this
  card with NT in the 256color mode. A try to install the 3.1 drivers didn't
  work. Does anybody know where I can obtain such drivers?
  Many thanks in advance

3.1 drivers do not work with NT.  At this point, unless you find a
driver included with NT you are probably out of luck.  Try contacting
Trident, but most manufacturers of older cards are not going to the
expense of writing NT drivers for them.  You can use the generic
640x480 16 color driver, but you will need to either wait and see if a
new driver is written or buy another card in order to use 256 colors.

Another source for NT stuff is at ftp.uu.net in the /vendors/microsoft
directory.

-Vance Gloster
 gloster@inference.com
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Date:         Tue, 26 Jan 1993 17:29:56 CST
From:         A20805@ITESO.BITNET
Subject:      Poblems with stacker, HELP!!!!

        I know it is not the rigth place to ask but I am desperate!!!!!

        My problem is as follows:

                I had editing a text file when I try to save it I get this
        error: HardWare Failure ESC cancel ENTER retry
        I press ESC but anyway the program continued saving the file, so
        I have to reboot the machine,when stacker revised the stacvol.dsk
        I get this error: STACVOL CORRUPTED press any key to continue
        The machine hang up when swapdisk run and now I cannot access my
        HD, I try CHKDSK and PCTOOLS they say stacvol is O.K, and anyway
        I cannot access the drive, I know I should backup often but I did not
        and I  have information I do not want to lose, What can I do?


        Please I need help!!!!!!!
        my addresses are:

        a20805@itesocci.gdl.iteso.mx (internet)
        a20805@itesocci (bitnet)

        Thanks in advanced.
From: rhughes@ucsd.edu (Richard J. Hughes)
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Subject: UltraFAX
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 22:37:46 GMT
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Review of UltraFAX

Z-Soft's UltraFAX program is one of the newest FAX programs for Windows.
This FAX program is unique in its ability to communicate binary files 
between two computers that are both running UltraFAX.  This is a terrific 
idea but the program has some serious (and some not so serious) problems in 
the current 1.0 release.

Keep your eyes open for future versions of this program, it looks like it 
could be a real winner.  In the meantime, I'm asking for my money back.

Serious bugs

1.	FAXing from Word 2.0, and its revisions a, b or c, is unreliable.  
	This unreliability is manifested in several ways.  In one 
	manifestation, all but the beginning of each line is lost when a 
	document is sent to UltraFAX.  Documents saved from Word cannot be 
	sent reliably using the UltraFAX transmission mode.  Z-Soft is aware 
	of problems FAXing from Word for Windows, although they believed 
	that this was corrected for revisions 2.0b and 2.0c of Word for 
	Windows.  My experience is that they were not corrected.

2.	ZSOFTVM.DLL, the dynamic link library for the FAX viewer, doesn't 
	always release its memory after closing.

Problems

1.	Manual receive is difficult to implement.  Manual send should also
	be added.

2.	In and Out boxes don't indicate baud rate and connect time.

3.	Phone number should be changed to "FAX number."

4.	In the edit cover page information window, enter is the hot key that
        initiates sending of the FAX.  The enter key should only be used to 
        start new lines in the editor.

Richard J. Hughes
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From:         "Thomas L. Blaskovics" <U2347@WVNVM.BITNET>
Subject:      Re: Dynamic Dialog Boxes

You might want to look at WINFORMS it is a subset of the Wordperfect for
Windows suite.  You can create any number of forms and link them(the forms)
to most of the major databases that are available.
HTH.

 Tom Blaskovics
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From:         SHADOW@JCSVAX1.BITNET
Subject:      Re: NT Boot problems

How does one get access to a NT beta version?

Nick.
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From:         COSULICH@AREA.TRIESTE.IT
Subject:      Printing Graphics in Excel 3

Hi everybody,
I have a problem in my office. We have some AST 386/sx 20 mhz, with 2MB RAM:
some of these have installed Windows 3.0 (italian version) and Excel 3.0
and work fine. Few weeks ago we upgraded to windows 3.1 and we begun to have
troubles in printing graphics: when we try to print a graphic, appears a
message "not enough memory". I think that Windows 3.1 cannot work fine
with Excel 3 with only 2 MB. (I tried it with aPC with 4MB and everything
was OK). Am I mistaking?
Thanks in advance
Ciao                    Guido

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Date:         Tue, 26 Jan 1993 13:46:23 CST
From:         A16905@ITESO.BITNET
Subject: Re: Change the shape and the color of cursor

If you are a programmer you can make a cursor with a resource editor. and
use the LoadCursor API function.

If you are a user. There are some shareware programs that will do it.
PLUG-IN, for example.

Shalom,
Memo
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Subject: WINA20.386 for Enhanced - Problems!!
Date: 23 Jan 93 19:23:04 -0500
Organization: Miami University Academic Computer Service"

Hello.  My name is Brian, and .. I am .. a .. Windows user.
  (Sorry, but after all those years that I have prophesized DOS over 
Windows in almost any situation, I felt I had to say that.)

Anyways, I have a question about 386 Enhanced installation of Windows 3.1.  I'm 
pretty sure that I have 386 enhanced installed because I am able to run 
non-Windows applications in a window.  BUT.  I have noticed many times that 
when I leave Windows a short message appears after it has successfully exited, 
just as I notice it, the screen clears and the message is never heard from 
again.

Well.  Today I decided to try my ability to pause the screen before it cleared 
when I exited.  (not easy on a 386-40.)  I finally was able to read it:

	"You must have the file WINA20.386 in the root of your boot
	 drive to run Windows in 386 Enhanced mode."

When I searched my drive for that file, it was nowhere to be found.  But I'm 
POSITIVE that I'm in 386 Enhanced.  Does anyone know what's going on?  Is it 
just a bug?  Am I running in Standard and NOT Enhanced?  Any help would be 
greatly appreciated.

Brian
  (P.S.  I still haven't completely deserted the DOS prompt for Windows.  There 
   are still MANY advantages that DOS has that Windows may never have.)

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From:         "Mr. R. Coates" <roysan@UXB.LIVERPOOL.AC.UK>
Subject:      Prog HELP!

Okay, I know this isn't the right list, but I'm getting DESPERATE!!

I need to know two things...

1. How to access video memory directly to write VERY fast graphics.

2. How to reproduce sampled sound through the PC speaker.

I am working in assembler.

1.  Having scoured computer bookshops, the best video reference I have found
    is Wilton's book which INSISTS that all graphics work be done via the
    graphics controller which is apallingly slow.  There must be another
    way - look at some of the PC games graphics!

2.  I have some sound samples which I would like to squirt out through the
    PC speaker. Novell once had a VIEWER.EXE prog which would do this even
    on a 4 MHz XT with very good quality. I have tried using pulse width
    modulation of the speaker control bits, and have also tried re-programming
    the sound timer. Both of these methods work but the quality is very
    scratchy and sounds clipped (despite scaling data).

I have my asbestos suit on just in case there are some serious flames, but
if anyone out there can help I'd be most grateful!!

Roy.

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Date:         Mon, 25 Jan 1993 09:54:47 EST
From:         Andy Mavrias <andym@550SHERB.LAN.MCGILL.CA>
Subject:      Re: Spreadsheets & Databases

I received a demo of a program that might do what you want. It's called
Monarch, and it's distributed by Personics Corporation, 63 Great Rd.,
Maynard MA 01754. They list an 800 number to get a 3 1/2 version of the
demo - 1-800-445-3311.

If you have FTP capabilities maybe I could send you a copy of my demo?

L8r!
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Date:         Wed, 27 Jan 1993 11:45:43 EST
From:         klatsy@SCHKOL.SCH.BME.HU
Subject:      Re: Poblems with stacker, HELP!!!!

  I had a situation like your two weeks ago.

  You have to try CHECK (or SCHECK if Stacker 2.0) and you have to ask for
a disk surface test. In my case it worked for half an hour and at the end
it listed my half winchester as being logically bad. I didn't have any better
idea, so I launced it again with the switch /F, and asked again the surface
test. At the end of it it asked if I want to erase the damaged files. First I
sad NO, but nothing happened, so next time (after the third half an hour) I
chose YES. This point I had a good working stacker drive, but half my files
I lost.
  I think this is the only thing you can do. After it save the files you need,
then (I think) you have to reinstall EVERYTHING. I deleted the whole stacker
drive, and even stacker, too.
  Oh, before everything you have to remove or 'rem out' the SSWAP line in your
config.sys file.

  Hope this help you. After all, that failure with my computer showed me to
save everything on the winchester. And I placed my 13MB UTIL subdirectory to
the unstacked drive, to reach the useful programs when stacker failes.

  Good luck,

  Klatsy        internet: klatsy@schkol.sch.bme.hu
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