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From: leonardo@babbage.seas.ucla.edu (Leonardo E. Blanco De Freitas)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.apps
Subject: Re: ROOMS by Xsoft: any comments (good/bad)?
Keywords: ROOMS xsoft review
Date: 10 Nov 92 18:51:31 GMT
Followup-To: comp.os.ms-windows.apps
Organization: SEASnet, University of California, Los Angeles

In article <syny.720811707@crux1.cit.cornell.edu> syny@crux1.cit.cornell.edu (R Craig Stevenson) writes:
>Does anybody have any experience with the ROOMS for Windows software
>put out by Xsoft (Xerox)?  I'd appreciate any comments about this
>software.
>
>I liked what I saw on their Lisp machines and am curious to see if it
>is as good under MS-DOS.
>
>Thanks,
>Craig Stevenson		<== my signature

I've used Rooms for some time, and here is what's good about it:

1) The general idea is great. By having several desktops, you can organize
   your applcations in a way similar to the way you arrange your files in
   sub-directories. For example, you can have a "Communications Room",
   where your favorite communications program is running (Terminal? :) ),
   a "Games Room", where Solitaire, Reversi and Minesweeper are running,
   a "Utilities Room", where you can run you utilities (duh!!!), etc.
   This really helps, because you don't have a lot of overlapping windows
   in any single desktop (which some times is a nuisance).
2) Aside from the advantages of multiple desktops, Rooms can launch several
   applications for you at startup time (or whenever you run Rooms),
   functioning as a sort of "autoexec.bat". The difference between this
   and the "run=" line in win.ini is that win.ini doesn't recall the
   position of the windows when they were last used, whereas Rooms does...
3) You can have several different arrangements of rooms (called suites),
   so that you can customize the system for different situations, or
   different people.

Now, what's bad about it:

1) In order to have several applications running at the same time, you
   must have a lot of memory. When I had 2Mb, the thing was slow, but
   after I upgraded to 8Mb, Rooms really proved to be a good tool.
   Of course, I believe 4Mb would be fine...
2) On the other hand, you may choose to have icons that launch the
   applications, instead of the actual applications running, but to do
   that you really don't need Rooms (Norton Desktop, for example, would
   do a much better job at that), so that you really need those 4Mb.
3) Even though the interface is reasonably good (using iconic "doors" to
   move from one room to the other), nothing compares to clicking the
   window you want only once and still being able to see the window you
   were working on before, all very fast. It turns out that Rooms doesn't
   switch from room to room very fast.
4) Finally, there are a few bugs, especially with the procedure that
   copies/moves windows from one room to the other, but is is basically
   a problem with the user interface; no data is lost in the process.

Hope this helps...

--------------------

Leonardo Blanco

Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.apps
From: james@library.nrl.navy.mil (James King)
Subject: Re: Micrografx Designer and Windows 3.1
Keywords: Fonts
Organization: NRL
Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1992 13:42:18 GMT

In article <1992Nov3.090810.21711@ugle.unit.no> kristian@Siri.Unit.NO (Kristian Martinsen) writes:
>From: kristian@Siri.Unit.NO (Kristian Martinsen)
>Subject: Micrografx Designer and Windows 3.1
>Keywords: Fonts
>Date: 3 Nov 92 09:08:10 GMT
>When I installed Win 3.1, A problem with Designer version 3.1 occured: 
>When I'm writing text the font is symbol! Fortunatly it switches back to 
>the choosen font when I am finnished writing, but it is annoying to have to
>read greek letters when writing. Nobody else I have talked to have this problem,
>even though we are useing the same Designer version with the same configurations 
>via our decnet. 
>
>Can anybody help me out?
>
>(BTW: will there be a new Designer version out soon?)
>
>Thanks in advance!
>
>Kristian.

I had a similar problem with WordPerfect for Windows, it would use the 
symbol font when I opened a file that was created with the old 5.1 DOS.  I 
could do a global change the whatever font, but it was annoying.  It ended 
up that WPWIN could not support TrueType fonts that well.  It could be a 
similar problem here.  Didn't Micrografx come out with a Win 3.1 enabled 
version?  Something about adding OLE support?

Anyway, regarding the new Designer, it is in alpha stage right now and I 
will be beta testing it soon.  From what I hear, they are doing a MAJOR 
rework of the interface!  Problem is, when I see it, I won't be able to say 
anything anymore (Non-disclosure)!  Oh well, hope this helps.
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.apps
From: cmclark@dri.com (Chip Clark)
Subject: Re: Music editor
Reply-To: cmclark@drivax.mry.novell.com
Organization: Desktop Systems Group/Novell, Monterey CA/USA
Date: Fri, 13 Nov 92 19:14:25 GMT

davide@sabrina.dei.unipd.it (Davide 'aie' Melan) writes:


]Is there any Win3.1 app outthere that can edit MIDI file?
]I'm looking for a prog that can read and write MIDI file and can  drive a
]midi sequencer.

Yes,  SongWrite is one of the best little programs for reading and 
writing MIDI files.  It doesn't write them in MIDI format but will
translate them to that format an works very will driving a MIDI
sequencer.

Mike Hulett wrote the program and it is out of Boston, I think.  
Advertised in most of the trade magazines.  I have tried all the others
(Finale, Music Printer Plus, Top Note) and this is by far the best
simply becasue of it's simplicity.  The others do more but Songwrite
is powerful enough to get the job done.

Chip
cmclark@novell
From: jzempel@morpheus.wustl.edu (John Zempel)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.apps
Subject: Re: Windows for Workgroups and TCP/IP (QVTNET or PC/TCP)
Date: 11 Nov 92 19:45:48 GMT
Organization: Washington University in Saint Louis, MO USA
Distribution: na
NNTP-Posting-Host: morpheus.wustl.edu
Keywords: telnet ftp qvtnet qvt qpc wfwg

>Where can I get that? ... In my case (SUN's pc-nfs) I can use packet drivers
>(unofficially of course - thanks Geoff) & if DIS_PKT9.DOS will fool WFWG - then
>I might be all set.

It turns out that Windows for Workgroups and PC-NFS can both use NDIS, but
that PC-NFS 4.0 has an earlier version that is incompatible with the version
in WfWG.

John
From: reedj@hplsla.hp.com (Reed Jacobsen)
Date: Mon, 2 Nov 1992 16:21:01 GMT
Subject: Re: Fonts and Excel text boxes
Organization: HP Lake Stevens, WA
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.apps

>/ hplsla:comp.os.ms-windows.apps / sichermn@beach.csulb.edu (Jeff Sicherman) /  5:47 pm  Oct 31, 1992 /
>  There appears to be something I don't quite understand about fonts in
>Excel (V3.0) and the difference between text in cells and text in text
>boxes.
>
>  In particular, If I select a font, size, and style for a given cell
>and it fits quite well, when I create a text box for the same area 
>(edges of the text box congruent with cell borders) and try to use the 
>same font, size and style for identical text, it both displays and
>prints as too large for the box (which had the same dimensions as the
>cell). I am using horizontal and vertical centering for the text but
>the effect seems to be the same for all positionings.
>
>  Explanations ? Overrides ?
>
>
>-- 
>Jeff Sicherman
>up the net without a .sig
>----------

Jeff,
In a cell with Align Vertical Bottom (the default), the bottom of the text
always aligns with the bottom of the cell; and if you make the cell too
short, the top of the text gets truncated.  In a text box with Text Align 
Vertical Bottom, Excel always leaves a certain amount of leading at the top
above the text.  I don't know why they behave differently; they just do.
This is only noticable if you are "crowding" the font so it doesn't have
the normal leading above the text.

I do have a couple of workarounds.  One is to leave the text in a cell but
put a border around it.  (Consider the "shaded" border you can find on the
Drawing toolbar.  The downside of this method is that the cell must still
align with the grid.

The other workaround is to put the text into a cell, then use the Camera
tool (from the Utility toolbar) and paste a picture of the cell.  This
looks a lot like a text box, but it is really a picture.  You can move this
object around on the grid.  You can even "unlink" the picture from the 
original cell so you don't have to keep that cell around: Select the picture,
then select everything in the formula bar (it is usually a cell reference) 
and delete it. The downside of this method is that you can't edit the text
in the picture directly.  If you leave it linked to a cell of to the side,
you can edit that text, which will change the linked picture.  If you clear
the link, you can just re-create the picture if you need to change it.

Hope this helps,
Reed Jacobson
Author of Excel Trade Secrets (Que)





Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.apps
From: te1002@sees.bangor.ac.uk (Martin Lukasek)
Subject: Corel Draw newsgroup ???
Organization: University of Wales, Bangor
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL5
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 16:12:28 GMT

I am looking for newsgroup interested in CorelDraw! Can anyone help me ?

Martin

Please E-mail to te1002@sees.bangor.ac.uk

Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.apps
From: lesv@ppvost.ericsson.se (Lennart Svensson)
Subject: Macro in W4W problem
Reply-To: lesv@ppvku.ericsson.se
Organization: Ericsson Programatic Sweden AB
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 20:32:14 GMT

I wonder why Microsoft in their translation of the W4W to local languages
have translated all the keywords in the MACROs

The problem is that in my company we're using W4W in 3 different languages
English, Swedish and Norwegian.

Is there maybe any program which translates macros from one language to another.
Please e-mail directly so I do not miss the answers.


Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.apps
From: mag@nexus.yorku.ca (Michael Gilbert)
Subject: Procomm:  how to send a tilde
Summary: Can a tilde be put into a meta-key or script?
Keywords: tilde procomm
Reply-To: mag@nexus.yorku.ca
Organization: York University
Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1992 14:14:43 GMT


Is there any way, e.g., using quotes or etc., to include a ~ in a
Procomm script or meta key?  I would like to be able to turn off my
signature with a metakey and this requires the command, ~S!.  But
since the '~' is the pause command, it is always read that way.

Thanx in advance.
From: Don.Bueltmann@f119.n8012.z86.toadnet.org (Don Bueltmann)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.apps
Subject: Re: Help with ndw 2.0
Date: Tue, 03 Nov 92 23:27:00 cdt
Organization: FidoNet node 86:8012/119 - Millennium, O'Fallon MO


I have the following entry in my config.sys file DEVICE=c:\ndw\nav_.sys
In my autoexec.bat I have nav c:\d:\
I have had no problems with these entries.



... Take my advice, I don't use it anyway.
    Blue Wave/QWK v2.10


--- WM v2.04/92-0495
 * Origin: Millennium BBS (314) 281-8481 (86:8012/119)
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From: carlos@dorsai.com (Carlos Domenguez)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.apps
Subject: REPOST: Eclipse Fax 1.2
Summary: It hates my Boca 14,4 FaxModem
Keywords: BOCA,Eclipse,Faxmodem,windows
Date: 11 Nov 92 14:56:54 GMT
Article-I.D.: dorsai.1992Nov11.145654.13330
Distribution: usa
Organization: The Dorsai Embassy +1.718.729.5018
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL4

Eclipse Fax just doesn't want to communicate at high speeds with my
Boca 14,4. I can send at 9600, but only receive at 2400. 

Eclipse blames the rockwell chipset Boca used. Boca blames Eclipse
for writing a shoddy app. Delrina's WINFAX PRO worked fine, but had
none of the creature comforts that Eclipse offers,(clearview (tm) )
 
Even after installing the upgrade to 1.2, Performance still sucks!
 
Anyone know a workaround? I'm ordering winfaxpro3 anyway as soon
as it ships so this may be a moot point, but all help is appreciated..
 
e-mail is great! posts are appreciated, flames are not....

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e-mail/ carlos@dorsai.com or carlos@mindvox.phantom.com or at a site near you!

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From: c23st@kocrsv01.delcoelect.com (Spiros Triantafyllopoulos)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.apps
Subject: keyboard remapper for windows needed
Date: 5 Nov 92 14:50:52 GMT
Organization: Delco Electronics Corp.


Hi folks,

I'm looking for a keyboard remapper for Windows 3.1. Here's the problem.

I'm using fonts for foreign languages which co-exist with the normal
english windows fonts. That is, Windows uses the lower 128 chars and
my foreign font uses the upper. A simple windows keyboard driver 
accepts a combination like CTRL-SHIFT-F1 and CTRL-SHIFT-F2 to switch
between the upper and lower banks and thus between English and the
other language (Greek).

This works fine, BUT. The keyboard mappings on the font SUCK EGGS. That
is, they assume I'm in Greece and have been using a Greek QWERTY for
20 years or so. Since I'm used to a different transliteration (phonetic),
this drives me CRAZY. For example, every time I want to use a Greek
'y' I use 'u' which produces a different letter. Ditto for many others.

So what I really want is a re-shufflable key map so when I hit 'u'
I get whatever I'm accustomed to, not whatever is the standard. The software 
I use is usually Word for Windows 2.0. I tried to do macros of all letters
:-) but WfW won't let me redefine LETTERS or printables.

Any solutions will be appreciated. As it is right now, every other 
key I press while writing Greek is the <expletive> backspace.

Spiros
-- 
Spiros Triantafyllopoulos                    c23st@kocrsv01.delcoelect.com
Software Technology, Delco Electronics       striantafyll@kosds1.gm.hac.com
GM Hughes Electronics, Kokomo, IN 46904      [A Different Kind of Disclaimer]
From: 5916rahmank@vms.csd.mu.edu (K. M. A. Rahman)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.apps
Subject: Re: How do I print very BIG letters?
Date: 10 Nov 1992 15:32:20 GMT
Organization: Marquette University - Computer Services
Reply-To: 5916rahmank@vms.csd.mu.edu
NNTP-Posting-Host: vmsa.csd.mu.edu

->In <1992Nov9.182753.24377@aplcen.apl.jhu.edu> rubin@procon.jhuapl.edu (Don Rubin) writes:
->>I have read that TrueType fonts can be scaled up to
->>999 points. I need to print some numbers about 8" high.
-> ^^^^^^^^^^
->>The font size selection dialog boxes in Windows Write,
->>notepad or WP for Windows. Suggestions?

	You can do that with WfW. Go to 'insert' -> 'object' ->
	'wordArt'. Insert something. Then it can be scaled to
	_any_ size by using mouse in your doc window.

	-Anis.
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.apps
From: conrad@macro.viewlogic.com (Conrad Fernandes)
Subject:  Program to run CD-ROM for audio purposes
Originator: conrad@macro
Keywords: CD-ROM  audio  listening
Organization: Viewlogic Systems, Inc.
Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1992 00:27:44 GMT


	Can anyone out there help me by providing or pointing me to 
software that can run an audio CD  in  a CD-ROM for listening pleasure ???

	One more thing; is there sofware for 
a) running  under  DOS (but not tying up the CPU)   ?
b) running under Windows (I think this  exists)      ?

	Thanks in advance!

-- Conrad Fernandes
Viewlogic Systems         cfernandes@viewlogic.com

-- 
==============================================================================
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  Viewlogic Sys,              |            ... not too many summer days left!
  Marlboro  MAss             \_/       
  (508) 480-0881
From: paulh@odetics.com (Paul Hodgetts)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.apps
Subject: Re: (Programmer's) text editor that reads/writes UNIX files? (SUMMARY)
Date: 5 Nov 92 19:12:22 GMT
Organization: Odetics, Inc., Anaheim, CA

In article <1992Oct29.121112.17662@umbc3.umbc.edu> ehanson@umbc5.umbc.edu (Mr. Erik Hanson; ARTS-SCI (UGRAD)) writes:
>
>Well, I thought other people might like to know what I found out about
>programmer's text editors for Windows tht read and write UNIX files.
>
>The only editor that reads and writes UNIX files right now is MegaEdit.
>MegaEdit is basically featureless and not free, but it can open really
>big files (according to the documentation).
>

  You missed out on the best Windows programmer's editor yet released!
Codewright from Premia Corp. will read and write Unix files.  It also
has a huge list of impressive features which I'll refrain from listing
so this doesn't turn into an advertisement.  I have no association
with Premia other than as a very satisfied user.  Contact them at:

Premia Corp.
1075 NW Murray Blvd., Suite 268
Portland, Oregon  97229
Phone:  (503) 647-9902

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| Odetics Inc., Broadcast Division |         uunet!odetics.com!paulh |
| 1515 S. Manchester Ave.          | phone:  (714) 774-2200 ext 3793 |
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From: leeh7@fel.tno.nl (Ed van Leeuwen)
Subject: Re: W4W - Half Folio Format for Page
Organization: TNO Physics and Electronics Laboratory
Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1992 12:16:39 GMT

dickerso@fester.dell.com (Russell Dickerson - X2787) writes:

>I am trying to publish a newsletter using W4W 2.0.  Is there any way to
>get it to print the pages for half-folio (8 1/2X11 Portrait, divided into 2 pages and stapled in the center)?  I tried using the booklet program from the
>Simtel archives but it wont work with V2.0.  If not, is there a way to get 
>WFW to print crop markers on a page smaller than an 8 1/2 x 11 page?  I have
>built a template for the 5 x 8 1/2 half-folio page size but it prints in the
>center of the page so its hard to trim it out.

Set the orientation to landscape.
Set the gutter to half the page (in this case 11"/2=5.5"). This should
do the trick. I am using it all the time.
Print the first half of your document and insert thes pages back into
the printer to get the other half printed.



					Regards,

					Ed.

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FEL-TNO                               |  TNO Physics and Electronics Laboratory
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From: apland@mala.bc.ca
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.apps
Subject: Re: Table in W4W 2.0
Date: 10 Nov 92 09:44:01 -0700
Organization: Malaspina College

In article <1992Nov10.080851.1061@atri.curtin.edu.au>, fischer@atri.curtin.edu.au (S G Fischer) writes:
> Does anybody know how to produce a table in W4W 2.0 that looks something
> like the one shown below :
> 
> +------+------+
> |      |      |
> |      | Text |
> | Text |      |
> |      +------+
> |      |      |
> +------+ Text |
> |      |      |
> |      +------+
> | Text |      |
> |      | Text |
> |      |      |
> +------+------+
> 
> Any help would be much appreciated.
> 
> 
> Stephen Fischer

The only way I know how to do this is by extending the cells on the right/left
into the column on the left/right and hide the gridlines.  This means that the
text will have to cross two cells.

eg.

 +------+------+
 |      |      |
 |      | Text |
 | Text |      |
 |......+------+
 |      |      |
 |      | Text |
 +------+..... |
 |      |      |
 |      |      |
 |......+------+
 | Text |      |
 |      | Text |
 |      |      |
 +------+------+

Ron
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.apps
Subject: Re: VESA (or Trident 8900-C) driver for 1024x768x256 wanted
From: edowdy@vax1.umkc.edu
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 18:15:14 GMT
Organization: University of Missouri - Kansas City

In article <1992Nov10.002404.4795@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>, ddennis@nyx.cs.du.edu (Dave Dennis) writes:
> 
> Several questions to help me solve this @#*$& Trident 8900-C problem:
> 
> - Has Microsoft created a standard driver for Windows in 1024x768x16 and 
>   1024x768x256?  Where is it (site - directory - actual filename)?
> - What exactly does VESA stand for? Is it a standard that some cards conform to?
> - Are the standard VGA and "Super-VGA (800x600) Windows drivers VESA?
> - Is there a shareware VESA driver for Windows at 1024x768x16 and/or 
>   1024x768x256?
> 
> I have:
> 
> 386DX-33
> Trident 8900-C 1 meg video board (a few programs tell me it's a VESA board)
> Micro-Q Non-interlaced 1024x768x256 monitor
> Windows 3.1 / DOS 5.0
> 
> 
> Dave 
> (ddennis@nyx.cs.du.edu)

Dave I use the "new drivers" from cica which are labeled tvgaw31a.zip and
*b.zip. They work fine, though I think all of us trident owners should get
together and buy in quantity a good card so we can get a discount.
Eric
From: davei@comp.lancs.ac.uk (Mr D Ingles)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.apps
Subject: Re: WinQVT/Net 2.85
Date: 5 Nov 92 22:13:02 GMT
Organization: Department of Computing at Lancaster University, UK.

In article <Bx3DK7.H1t@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu> dbasinge@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu (Mike Basinger) writes:

>I think it has been changed to 
>qnet_285.zip

I have found that Winqvtnet won't work if I use the qvt_tcp.rc template
supplied with version 2.85. It works fine if I use the template from ver 2.6.

What happens is as soon as I run the program, windows bombs out and I
end up at the dos prompt. 

Anyone else found this ?

DAvei
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.apps
From: anderson@dseg.ti.com (John Anderson)
Subject: Program to produce boarders from text.
Organization: TI-DSEG Spring Creek
Reply-To: anderson@dseg.ti.com
Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1992 16:15:49 GMT

I am looking for a program that will let me enter text and have it appear as a wrap
around boarder that I can use around the outside of documents such as postcards or
letters.  Does anyone know of such a program?

I also am looking for suggestions on good TrueType and Clip Art packages that they 
have used and recommend.

Thanks

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