HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: delahunt@adobe.com (Jim DeLaHunt)
Subject: Re: PS Level 2 drivers?
Summary: I don't think you need one
Organization: Adobe Systems Incorporated
Date: Fri, 21 Aug 1992 06:26:20 GMT

In article <1992Aug19.135150.26661@dartvax.dartmouth.edu> 
geoffb@Dartmouth.EDU writes:
>
>We've just added a couple of Apple Laserwriter IIg's ... Apple
>suggests that we need a postscript level 2 compatible driver but I have
>been told that Microsoft is reluctant to admit that the problem exists.

Well, first I'd suggest you call Microsoft and ask them :-).

But I'd be very surprised if you *needed* a PostScript Level 2 compatible
driver.  The LaserWriter IIg is very compatible with the LaserWriter II NTX.
If you just tell the driver you have a LaserWriter NTX everything should
be fine.

You might want to ask both the Windows Program Manager and the Word for 
DOS Program Managers to update their drivers to support both the 
LaserWriter IIg and PostScript Level 2.  Some Level 2 features can
dramatically improve performance.

Hope this helps,
	--Jim DeLaHunt, Developer Support, Adobe Systems Incorporated	
delahunt@adobe.com	...!{apple,decwrl}!adobe!delahunt      +1-415-962-3790
From: konrad@mace.cc.purdue.edu (Bill Konrad)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
Subject: changing color of highlighted text in WinHelp
Date: 16 Aug 92 18:02:07 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: Purdue University

I have Windows 3.0 on a 286 and find the default color for highlighted
text in Help to be very hard to read. I haven't been able to figure
out any way to change it. Control panel color setup choices doesn't
seem to have this element in its list.

Is there any way to change this color?

I have a VGA monitor. 

-- 
Bill Konrad
konrad@mace.cc.purdue.edu 
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
From: dszpiro@student.business.uwo.ca (Daniel A. Szpiro)
Subject: Stacker, Windows, Swapfile, & Defrag
Organization: University of Western Ontario
Date: Wed, 12 Aug 1992 14:22:33 GMT

Hi,

I have a question regarding Stacker and the Windows 3.1 permanent swapfile
and I hope someone can help.

When I originally installed Stacker I left enough room on the unstacked
portion of my hard disk for a 6M permanent swapfile for Windows. Recently
I had to install more files on the unstacked portion and I had to remove
the swapfile to do so. Later, after deleting many of these files, I tried
reinstall the swapfile. Even though the unstacked portion of my hard disk
is now LARGER than it was before, Windows will not allow me to create the
same 6M swapfile.

I think the problem is that the files left on the unstacked portion of my
hard drive have left insufficient contiguous space to recreate the 6M
permanent swapfile.

Stacker's SDEFRAG utility will defragment the stacked drive, but will not
operate on the unstacked portion. Norton's SPEED DISK won't stop with the
small, unstacked portion of my hard drive and is a no-no with Stacker.

So, my question is how can I defragment the files on the unstacked portion
of my hard drive only, and leave the stacked portion alone?

Any tips or advice will be greatly appreciated.

Thanks in advance,
Danny

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Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
From: jfreter@triton.unm.edu (The Myth)
Subject: Re: Park Disk
Date: Thu, 20 Aug 92 14:47:48 GMT
Organization: University of New Mexico, Albuquerque

In article <86601@netnews.upenn.edu> jer@eniac.seas.upenn.edu (Joel Ratsaby) writes:
>
I mailed the following:

>There are many different parking programs for pc's.  But you need to remember
>one thing,  EXIT WINDOWS BEFORE TURNING OFF THE PC.  Windows keeps a couple
>of files open while it's running.  If you shut off the pc while windows is 
>up, it is possible that those files can become cross-linked and thrash the
>hard disk.
>
>So, to answer your question, there are no *WINDOWS* hard drive park programs.
>But, on simtel, in the disk utilities dir, there are some DOS parking
>programs.
>
>
Joel asks:

>What about WinPark in ftp.cica.indiana.edu ?
>
>It seems to run OK for Windows 3.0. Is it 
>still dangerous ?
>
I wouldn't use it.  When a computer is shut down with any files open (beyond
command.com or 4dos.com and their like), it is intirely possible for any
files on the hard disk to become cross-linked and thrashed.  This won't
happen on every machine/drive out there, but can happen.  My supervisor
used to shut off his computer without exiting windows 3.1, until one
day he ran chkdsk and found 60 cross-linked files.  It took him a few
hours to un-cross link them manually (Norton wouldn't work, since those
files were affected).

The safest thing to do would be to exit windows, then park the hard disk.
This will reduce the chance of corrupting the FAT to nearly zero.

Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
From: ins434u@aurora.cc.monash.edu.au (D. May)
Subject: Using Borland Custom Control LIbrary
Organization: Monash University, Melb., Australia.
Date: Wed, 12 Aug 1992 23:47:20 GMT


I have this problem with TPW.  I am learning how to do TPW's menus, dialogs, etcwith Resource Workshop  - and am joggin through it with Neil Rubenking's
Turbo Pascal book.

I always thought that Resource Workshop was pretty cool because you could
access Borland's nice-looking dialogs, etc.  However, I have just found out
(from reading Rubenking's book) that unless BWCC.DLL is loaded (i.e. if you're
doing something like running Resource Workshop) your nice custom control
dialogs don't load up properly.

I tried it this morning and he was right.  But he says, instead of using
WObjects and StdDlgs, use the units WObjectB and StdDlgB - wait a minute...
I don't think I have those units (it would stand to reason - because I pur-
chased TPW when they bundled WRT with it.  My Resource Workshop comes with
TC++ for Windows).  Apparently, you have to use these units to build a
stand-alone program./

So - I was wondering if anyone can help me - by telling how to get them or
if they can get them to me or whatever!!!!!!!

Anyway ... at least I can still do dialogs - even though they'll be as 
boring as watching paint dry...


Thanks.

Daniel May
2nd year Sci/Law
Monash University, Australia, Earth
From: eggenberger1@urz.unibas.ch
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
Subject: Stanford Graphics vs. Cricket Graph
Date: 18 Aug 92 14:03:28 MET
Organization: University of Basel, Switzerland

Hi, I'm looking for a scientific graph system for Windows 3.1.
I heard of two such systems for Windows:
Cricket Graph and Stanford Graphics. I already know Cricket Graph from the Mac
but have no experience with Stanford Graphics, which is about 4 times
more expensive than Cricket Graph. Is Stanford Graphics worth its price?
I heard of some bugs in early versions of Stanford Graphics. Are these bugs
fixed in the latest version? 
Please send recommendation to:


Florian Eggenberger		             eggenberger1@urz.unibas.ch
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
From: teera@emunix.emich.edu (Teerawat Pawittranon)
Subject: ATI Windows 3.1 1,024x768 Crystal Font
Date: Sat, 15 Aug 92 21:59:26 EDT
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Hi All,

After I got my Windows 3.1 to work with the new ATI 1,024x768 w/ Crystal
Font (I didn't like it too much).  Then, I changed it back to regular ATI
Ultra 1,024x768 (and 800x600 and 640x480).  The problem occurs, I can't exit
out to DOS or run DOS apps from Windows.  The message said "Run setup
again".  Does anyone experience the same problem?  BTW, if I change the
display back to 1,024x768 w/ Crystal or to 8514/a or VGA, the problem will
go away.  May be I need to redo all my ATI drivers setup?

Tee

Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
From: RAICER@LSTC2VM.stortek.com (Bob Raicer)
Subject: Printing to a file - problems with TrueType
Organization: StorageTek SW Engineering
Date: Fri, 14 Aug 1992 21:18:01 GMT

Occasionally I have the need to create a print image file
when using my Windows based word processor (AmiPro 2.0)
and ultimately create a floppy to be carried to another
machine for transcription to a printer.  The documents
being produced in this manner use TrueType fonts
exclusively.
 
To do this I defined (via the Control Panel, Printers, Setup
dialogs) an HP LaserJet Series II with 4.5MB as being
"connected" to a file.  In the setup options I have *not*
selected the "Print TrueType as Graphics" option.
 
I have observed that when I "print" to this virtual printer, the
the created file consists totally of graphics orders (that is,
it appears as if the page image was essentially rasterized)
and thus is very, very large.
 
I would have expected (and preferred) to have the file contain font
definitions and ordinary HPPCL orders selecting the various fonts
as required.
 
Is there some way to achieve what I want?  It would really be nice
if the file did not contain the font definitions at all, but
instead referenced the fonts by characteristics (the way HP recommends
in their programming references for the Series II) such that the
fonts could be preloaded in the target printer.
 
Any help here would be greatly appreciated.
 
Bob
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From: diskount@micromed.com (don hirschfeld)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc,comp.graphics
Subject: Re: NEED TO CONVERT GIF TO W4W PIC FORMAT
Date: 12 Aug 92 11:54:56 GMT
Organization: Micro-Medic  - +1 408 279 5240 - Public Access

sassoj@vccsouth22.its.rpi.edu (John J. Sasso Jr.) writes:

> 
>    Does anyone know of a program for the PC which will convert a GIF format
> file to a .BMP or any other picture file format that is compatible with
> Microsoft's Word for Windows?  If there is something I can grab from an ftp 
> site, I would like to know.
> 
>                   Thanks,
>                  John
> 

There are several pd programs like WinGif and gif2bmp on PC BBS's.
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
From: s9874203@titan.ucc.umass.edu (s9874203)
Subject: Re: 800x600x256 Windows Driver for Trident
Organization: University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Distribution: usa
Date: Fri, 21 Aug 1992 02:45:42 GMT

In article <1992Aug20.214843.7649@wam.umd.edu> macole@wam.umd.edu (Mario A. Cole) writes:
>In article <1992Aug20.120612.1@vax1.umkc.edu> edowdy@vax1.umkc.edu writes:
>>> 
>>>>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
>>> 
>>Where can we get winspeed drivers? Do they work OK with trident?
>>Thanks
>>
>>Eric
>
>They work fine with trident...but I can't remember where I got them.  I have
>both Win 3.0 and 3.1 drivers somewhere.  I sort of lost track of them since
>changing cards...but now I have a trident card at work also...let me see if
>I can locate them.  
>
>Mario
>
>

Please post it when you locate them. I am also interested in this
driver. Thank you.

H.Y.


Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
From: howard@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca (Howard Betel)
Subject: Norton Desktop hiding something?
Organization: Department of Computer Science, McMaster University
Date: Sun, 23 Aug 1992 01:07:04 GMT

I was recently playing around with my new copy of NDW and took a looksy
at the about box.  I was typing all sorts of keys trying to see if 
something was hidden there, like in Windows.  Well I must of done something
because the word Viper29 came up.  I can't seem to consistently repeat
it.  I did a complete search for Viper29 and it showed up in two places, one
of which was the Norton DLL.  After browsing it I found a whole bunch of
quotes which seem to  be from the development team.  There also were some
words of congratulations.  Anyone figure out how to get NDW to display
them?
--
-- 
Howard Betel                                    Howard@maccs.dcss.McMaster.CA
Dept of Computer Science                     ...!unet!utai!utgpu!maccs!howard
McMaster University
From: jer@eniac.seas.upenn.edu (Joel Ratsaby)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
Subject: Park the Disk
Date: 18 Aug 92 21:40:02 GMT
Organization: University of Pennsylvania


Does anyone know of a program that parks
the disk, for Windows 3.0 ?
From: ken.kohut@uttsbbs.uucp (Ken Kohut) 
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
Subject: ICONS
Date: 18 Aug 92 18:05:00 GMT
Distribution: world
Organization: The Transfer Station BBS, Danville, CA - 510-837-4610/837-5591
Reply-To: ken.kohut@uttsbbs.uucp (Ken Kohut) 

Can anyone suggest a program that can take individual icon files and
create a file like iconlib.zip that is a collection of icons.

I have many icons i have created and need some way to manage them.

Ken
From: reza.naima@uttsbbs.uucp (Reza Naima) 
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
Subject: Digitized Voice in Window
Date: 9 Aug 92 17:10:00 GMT
Distribution: world
Organization: The Transfer Station BBS, Danville, CA - 510-837-4610/837-5591
Reply-To: reza.naima@uttsbbs.uucp (Reza Naima) 

AI>Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
AI>From: anderson@mayo.edu (Alfred I. Anderson)
AI>Subject: Digitized Voice in Windows 3.1
AI>Message-ID: <anderson.20.712940848@mayo.edu>
AI>Date: Tue, 4 Aug 1992 15:07:28 GMT
AI>
AI>We're going to try prototyping a project where, in the Windows 3.1 
AI>environment, we'll try to capture a short voice dictation (few 
AI>seconds 
AI>long).  We'll want to compress this (if possible) and store it.  
AI>We'll also 
AI>need to retrieve it, uncompress it and play it back.
AI>
AI>
AI>1) This must have been done before by many people - do you have any 
AI>advice 
AI>before I give it a try?  Did you use the SoundBlaster?  Did you 
AI>develop in 
AI>Visual Basic?
AI>
AI>2) Has anyone tried to capture voice somehow convert it to a .WAV 
AI>file and 
AI>then play that voice back through the speaker of the PCs?  Is there 
AI>sufficient fidelity for the voice to be intelligible?
AI>
AI>If there are a number of responses, I'll be happy to summarize for 
AI>the net.
AI>

  There is a public domain (shareware maby?) driver which lests you play 
music through the PC speaker.  The quality is exelent for that little 
speaker.  It plays all the WAV files that came with windows using that 
recorder program.  If you would like a copy of it, just tell me how to 
get it to you.

Reza Naima
reza.naima@uttsbbs.uucp

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Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
From: david@dxcern.cern.ch (David Foster)
Subject: Re: Windows NT DDK and October conference announcement
Organization: CERN European Laboratory for Particle Physics
Date: Fri, 21 Aug 1992 06:24:33 GMT

What is the relationship between this conference and the "Fourth Annual
Windows International Developers Conference and Exposition" which, in
the announcement in front of me, is October 26-30 in SANTA CLARA, San
Francisco !! Which are the "offical" or "best" conferences to attend. I also
heard that the "International Windows and OS/2 conference" was supposed to
be in Boston, November - at least thats what it says in the Windows Resource
Kit I have. Any help would me MUCH appreciated.

  cheers David.
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
From: CENG51@maccvm.corp.mot.com (Craig Witkowski)
Subject: Re: gif to bmp conversion
Organization: Motorola
Date: 19 Aug 1992 11:30:51 CDT

I'm a little new to this net mail scene and I couldn't find a path
to get the file psp10.zip that Denise mentioned in her mail.  I would
like a copy of this program,  but can't get it through the net due to
my system interface (direct to a system/370).

Please drop me a line to know how I can get a copy through a PC
dialup.
From: eastwood@inline (David Eastwood)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
Subject: Trident and DTC
Date: 14 Aug 92 20:11:15 GMT
Distribution: usa

Could some kind soul provide me with either telephone numbers
or addresses (or even both) for Trident or DTC? I'm trying to
get hold of all the stuff I *should* have got when I bought 
the machine, like docs and utility disks..... 

In answer to the obvious question, yes, I have approached the 
dealer, but to no avail. Any further attempts would be more
hassle than I am prepared to endure :-(

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eastwood@sybase.com                                     Emeryville, CA.
From: aviray@zeus.calpoly.edu (Alex(is) Viray)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
Subject: Windows 3.1 & TN3270
Date: 12 Aug 92 15:46:34 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo

Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
Subject: Windows 3.1 & TN3270
Summary: System locks up when task switching or exiting TN3270 
Distribution: usa
Organization: California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo
Keywords: TN3270  WINDOWS 3.1  

Currnently we are using Novell 3.11 with it's TCP/IP transport to communicate 
with our campus network.  

Windows 3.1 is used as our user interface and so we would like to eliminate
Novell's menuing system and go directly into windows and run our applications from there.

Whenever we want to make a connection to any of our IBM hosts we use the TN3270 program.  The problem is that sometimes the workstation would blank out and lockup that we would have to power down the workstation.  Sometimes if and when we could exit out of TN3270, to return to windows, we would receive an EMM386 error.

We are using 3com's 3c523 NIC on a PS/2 Model 55sx.  I thought the problem was
related to the NIC and I talked to a tech support rep from there.  His response
was to set the EMMExclude, in system.ini, equal to the packet address of the NI
C.  Also set the X parameter in EMM386 equal to the same address.  The problem with the X parameter in EMM386 was that the starting address was to high!  AFter looking at the configuration on the 55sx, the NIC packet address is D8000-Dffff.Refering to the Dos manual tells me that this is too high.

Does anyone know what is wrong, or has heard of this problem?  

Please respond to aviray@pan.calpoly.edu
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
From: buccb@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (butler carlos dion)
Subject: Re: Mathematica vs MathCAD
Keywords: MAthematica MAthCAD
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Date: Thu, 20 Aug 1992 16:49:51 GMT

	As far as number crunching and programming are concerned,
Mathematica wins over MathCad hands down, but Mathematica 2.0 for 
Windows is buggy as hell. 2.1 was compiled last week and should
be out any moment now. Many bugs were fixed and the interface
works a lot better. The ability for Mathematica to port it's       
results over to W4W is questionable, at best.
	Providing, you are not seeking a very extensive symbolic
math system, a very good argument can be made for MathCad. The
interface is a lot easier to get along with. It seems a lot less
buggy. I would be highly surprised if you couldn't integrate it's
results with W4W (or any other package for that matter). It seems
to have been designed for Windows as opposed to a crude port/hack
of a Mac interface (like Mathematica).
	Another thing to be considered is hardware. I don't recall
what system you said you were using, but if it runs Windows, it will
run MathCad. This is not true for Mathematica. Mathematica is a no-
go without and math co-processor and I wouldn't dare start it up 
with anything less than 8mb RAM and a phat virtual memory disk.
MathCad didn't even seem half as hogish.

-- 
   		     Carlos Dragonslayer Butler
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        University of Illinois 	     (217) 373-4781 Pager
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Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
Subject: Re: WINSPEED DRIVERS LOCATION (not?)
From: edowdy@vax1.umkc.edu
Date: Sat, 22 Aug 1992 00:25:28 GMT
Organization: University of Missouri - Kansas City

In article <1992Aug21.222204.7088@wam.umd.edu>, macole@wam.umd.edu (Mario A. Cole) writes:
> 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
> 

	Actually I think I goofed. What was given to me was not drivers,
rather it was a simple windows analysis program. From what I can tell there
are no drivers here, simply a small exe file to be executed from windows.

	Sorry, I spoke before I tested. Unless there is a misunderstanding here
concerning what this was, I think I pulled down the wrong program. I pulled
down winspeed.lzh, not winspeed.zip.  Nevertheless, I thought we were talking
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 what
it was in the first place.

Anyone got any idea where the winspeed drivers can be located?

Mario, any input?

Thanks.........Eric 
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