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From: "quarterdeck canada" <quarterdeck.canada@canrem.com>
Subject: dvx questions
Reply-To: "quarterdeck canada" <quarterdeck.canada@canrem.com>
Organization: Canada Remote Systems
Distribution: comp
Date: 23 Jan 93 19:23:19 EST

DM>1.  Intermittent lockups.

DM>Fairly frequently (once an hour or so), when starting up a new program (e.g.
DM>Help), the whole system just locks up.  I get the watch mouse cursor frozen
DM>in place, and have to reset the machine.  Any clues where to look for
DM>problems?

Try increasing Common Memory in DESQview/X Setup.  Some more details
would be helpful; do you have lots of windows open when this happens?
None at all?  Does it happen with regular DOS apps, or with DESQview/X
specific apps?

DM>2.  The font used in the scalable DOS window is too skinny for my taste.
DM>How can I change it?

Your taste?  Changing that would certainly be easier than changing the
font in the DOS window. <wry grin>  There are three issues that made us
choose this font.  First, it had to be a monospaced font; otherwise
those high-order ASCII characters that are used for drawing lines and
boxes on the screen wouldn't necessarily be of the proper pitch
vis-a-vis the other characters on the screen.  Second, the font had to
have those high-order ASCII characters in it; most fonts don't, it
seems.  Third, the font we chose (Adobe Letter Gothic Bold) look better
than the other fonts that filled the first two criteria.  Making a font
look good at all possible display sizes can be tricky, and this was the
best compromise.  Although a determined hacker with lots of free time
could probably work it out, you're best to consider this font as
hard-wired.

DM>3.  When I try to set the "Close on exit" choice for a program by editing
DM>the button, whatever choice I make appears to be saved as Auto.  I wanted it
DM>to be No, because one program was aborting, and I didn't have time to read
DM>the error message.

This is odd.  Do you toggle the setting with the mouse or with the space
bar?  If only one, have you tried the other?

Regards,

Michael Bolton
Tech Support
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Subject: Re: DV/X and FTP's PCTCP
From: mike@batpad.lgb.ca.us (mike batchelor)
Date: Sat, 23 Jan 93 08:01:47 PDT
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Organization: The Batchelor Pad
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quairoli@cs.widener.edu (Patrick J. Quairoli) writes:
>
> we have recently tried to install DV/X and the TCP/IP network manager
> on an IBM model 90.  DV/X installed fine, but it kept claiming that
> PCTCP did not have the interface, or the host names setup.  DV/X
> suggested to recheck the IPCUST.SYS and the IFCUST.SYS; the problem is
> that FTPs new version 2.10 does not require you to load or even use
> these two files, the new version looks at a variable and a file called
> PCTCP.INI   i can 't get DV/X to even install any part of the network
> manager, as soon as it sees something missing it bombs and doesn't
> give you the  oportunity to input the information that you need, and
> it is not very specific either.
> 
> note, i've tried using the .SYS files and i still get the same error,
> and the information on what it is missing is lame.

The information it asks for is exactly what it needs.  Currently, DV/X
does not support the new init scheme in PCTCP 2.1x.  FTP has included
a backwards compatibility feature in 2.1x, until 3rd party developers
can support the new scheme.  You have to configure PCTCP to use
ifcust.sys and ipcust.sys, not pctcp.ini, to initialize itself.  Set
Useoldinitscheme=Yes in pctcp.ini, and I bet your network fails as
soon as you try to load it.  If this happens, then you haven't
configured ipcust.sys and ifcust.sys with any information about your
host.

Actually, you can have PCTCP use the new init scheme, but you still
need to load ifcust.sys and ipcust.sys /after/ configuring them with
the information for your host (what Setup asked for in the Big Red
Box).  DV/X still uses ipcust.sys and ifcust.sys to get this
information.  Very shortly, it won't anymore.  But for now, you need
to use ipconfig and ifconfig to load your host information in their
.sys files.

See chapter 46 of your PCTCP manual for more info about how to
configure the .sys files.



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From: silvia@rcf.rsmas.miami.edu
Subject: MS-DOS 6.0
Reply-To: silvia@rcf.rsmas.miami.edu
Organization: RSMAS
Date: Sun, 24 Jan 93 16:04:26 GMT

I received MS-DOS 6.0 about a month ago and was trying to get QEMM 6.02 to work with it but the best i got was what
From: as789@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Francisco J. Diaz)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.desqview
Subject: Help, Tame questions...
Date: 26 Jan 1993 12:27:12 GMT
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio (USA)
NNTP-Posting-Host: hela.ins.cwru.edu


 Hi All! I'm using DV386 with QEMM v6.02 in my 386 system and
would like to know if, since I use the shareware version of Tame
(2.61), I also need to specify any max keypolls in every .DVP
file when using dvpedit. Some people have told me that this is
innnecesary since Tame does the same job and even better..Is it
true? Should I leave those fields blanked? I have read the docs
but I'm confused about all this. Can any1 help me out? 
Thanks a lot! :-)
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From: hurd@fraser.sfu.ca (Peter L. Hurd)
Subject: what TCP/IP do I need for this set-up?
Organization: Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C., Canada
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 12:06:49 GMT

Hi there,
   I"ve recently joined a lab with a LAN consisting of a SPARCs10 and a
couple of PS/2s ethernetted to it with Sun"s PC-NFS.  I am to connect 
my PC to this.  I"ve got me this DV/X and guess that the TCP/IP is
what I need.  Now, what else do I need?  Do have to get a specific DV/X
TCP/IP package or is there only one kind?  Is the fact that the windoze
loving crew with the PC-NFS thing on this LAN going to screw up my
plans of Xing to the sparcs?  Do I need to know more about the hardware
that"s in place before I can get solid answers to these questions?  For
instance, the telnet rigging seems to involve a lot of coaxial cable,
I gather this is pretty archaic, does it matter?
  Much thanks in advance,
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From: "ken smith" <ken.smith@channel1.com>
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.desqview
Subject: dv386 and drdos
Date: 21 Jan 93 12:35:46 EST
Reply-To: "ken smith" <ken.smith@channel1.com>
Distribution: comp
Organization: Channel 1 Communications


On 01-19-93 Dexter Lagrand typed the following regarding DV386 AND DRDOS

>I am looking for experiences using Desqview 386 with DRDOS 6.0.
>We have been having conflicts between our network software (10NET)
>and DV386.  Also when trying to use BigDOS we get a protection error.

I have been using DRDOS6 and DV386 (QEMMM 6.01, DV 2.41) since DRDOS 6 
came out.

No problems at all.


Ken

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From: nagamati@caldera.usc.edu (Romklau Nagamati)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.desqview
Subject: Re: Assembling the DV API w/TASM
Date: 21 Jan 1993 22:41:48 -0800
Organization: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
NNTP-Posting-Host: caldera.usc.edu

In article <595@rri.UUCP> potter@rri.UUCP (Mark Allen Potter) writes:
>a high price tag and you want to have them work of developing).  QD however
>falls down even more here, charging even more for support (and it an't cheep
>for developers support).
>					Potter
>					rri!potter@vtserf.cc.vt.edu

This is probably not relate to this newsgroup but since we're on the subject.
Does anyone have any clue how much MS and BI's developer support cost? I
heard it ain't cheap...but really how much?

Ron N.



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From: "quarterdeck canada" <quarterdeck.canada@canrem.com>
Subject: qemm, dr dos 6.0 vs.
Reply-To: "quarterdeck canada" <quarterdeck.canada@canrem.com>
Organization: Canada Remote Systems
Distribution: comp
Date: 23 Jan 93 19:23:21 EST

FS>I have a 486 with 8MB of memory.  I normally run DV and when I want to
FS>run Windows I do it inside of DV, Windows runs in Standard mode.
FS>(BTW it works quite well).  Last night, I tried to run Windows in 386
FS>mode (win /3).  I got told that there was not enough memory.  When running
FS>MFT I have 614K of conventional memory and 5500K of Extended memory.
FS>If I increase the conventional memory to 625K then Windows will run.

One almost expects Windows error messages to mean almost anything but
what they say, and this one is no exception.  How did you increase the
memory, however?  Was it by removing a TSR?  If so, which one?

FS>Is there some known interaction with DR DOS, QEMM,4DOS and Windows?
FS>I am running DR DOS 6.0 with the patch that allows Windows 3.1 to
FS>install, QEMM 6.01, 4DOS 4.01 and Windows 3.1.

FS>In QEMM I exclude the LAN adapter card (D000-D2FF) and have ST:F stealthing
FS>on.  I load high the Satisfaxtion driver, IPX, NETBIOS and REDIR.  The
FS>Mouse driver and CASMGR (for the Satisfaxtion card) low.

It's an odd LAN adapter that has a 12K buffer on it -- more typically
they're 8 or 16K.  Try increasing the size of this EXCLUDE -- D000-D3FF.
Is CASMGR using EMS?  Do things work better if it does not use EMS?  A
complete copy of your CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT files might be more
helpful here.

Try adding

systemrombreakpoint=false
emmexclude=a000-efff

to the [386 Enh] section SYSTEM.INI file in the Windows directory.  If
this doesn't work, download the files WINFLOW.TEC and WIN31.TEC,
available on the Quarterdeck BBS at (310) 314-3227, Compuserve (!GO
QUARTERDECK), or large local BBS systems, and also via our Q/FAX fax
retrieval service; from the handset of your fax machine, call (310)
314-3214, or in Canada, (416) 665-5070.

FS>Thanks for any help or leads you can give.  I've talked to Microsoft, they
FS>say to run MS-DOS.

Instead of Windows?  There's a first.  <joke!>

Regards,

Michael Bolton
Tech Support
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From: "quarterdeck canada" <quarterdeck.canada@canrem.com>
Subject: using dvx as a x-wind
Reply-To: "quarterdeck canada" <quarterdeck.canada@canrem.com>
Organization: Canada Remote Systems
Distribution: comp
Date: 23 Jan 93 19:23:22 EST

DS>I am interested in finding out if using Q'deck's X-Libs etc, I can do Unix
DS>style X-windows development on my DOS based PC. I need to do X-Windows prog.
DS>at home and do not want to setup Unix/X at home - it is a pain - and with
DS>DV/X I can still use my DOS programs.

DS>If so, what products do I need from Q'deck - besides their $50 package cont-
DS>aining Xlibs and GCC + manuals (??).  Will Windows 3.1 run (with Multimedia
DS>extensions?) under DV/X. How much room would this take up - i.e. DV/X + GCC +
DS>Xlibs? If so, then I think I just found my GUI of choice. Who do I call?

Windows 3.1 will most certainly run under DESQview/X -- either
direct/full-screen, or in an X Window; how well the multimedia
extensions will do in an X Window is open to question.  Everything that
you describe above -- compiler, XLibs, and DESQview/X -- should take
between 15 and 20MB on your drive when unpacked.

DS>I have had a lot of experience with PC OSes, but many things (like VCPI vs
DS>DPMI) in the DOS world are confusing and unnecessary obfuscated. I am really
DS>looking forward to using a more familiar GUI that will allow me do to all my
DS>DOS work (at-matlab, mathematica 2.0, mathCAD 2.5 etc) and still allow me the
DS>luxury of toying with more familiar Unix-y X-Windows apps.

DS>I would also appreciate any info on how I go about ordering this stuff.
DS>ALso, I would like to request a response from QuarterDeck about this.

For ordering information, contact

Quarterdeck Office Systems
150 Pico Boulevard
Santa Monica, California
90405

Customer Service (800) 354-3222
Technical Support (310) 392-9701

Regards,

Michael Bolton
Tech Support
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From: vla@ccadfa.cc.adfa.oz.au (Louis Verhagen)
Subject: Re: UN: Timeslicing?
Organization: Australian Defence Force Academy, Canberra, Australia
Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1993 00:24:29 GMT

3386838@Jeff-Lab.QueensU.CA (Wes Garland) writes:

>In article uupcb@almac.co.uk, shakib.otaqui@almac.co.uk (Shakib Otaqui) writes:
>>  I have just seen a user report that said OS2SPEED messed up the
>>  CMOS on his system:  the date was changed and, worse, so was the
>>  AMI BIOS password.  He's had to disconnect the CMOS battery to
>>  regain access, and re-enter all the data.

>But if he had read his BIOS manual, he would have realised that there
>are two pins on the motherboard that you can short momentarily. They
>will cause a CMOS DATA INVALID message (but its not), which will
>force it *not* to ask you for a password, but dump you into setup.
>Set your new password, and presto.

I just reread my manuals to find this info. But I couldn't find
any info on the bios chip. Clones nowadays don't come with so
much information anymore. Maybe the friend of Shakib had
the same problem?

Greetings
Louis

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From: notarus@uiuc.edu (Mark Notarus)
Subject: Re: DESQview/X problems
Originator: notarus@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu
Reply-To: notarus@uiuc.edu (Mark Notarus)
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 14:05:53 GMT

tstark@access.digex.com (Timothy M. Stark) writes:
}    Since I have DELL 310 (slow 16 Mhz 386SX) with two megabytes of main
}memory, DV/X is very slow. When 256-color display server was installed, I moved

 That's your problem.  DV/X uses about 2MB of memory for display stuff
when using the 256 color server...and about a meg when in 16 color mode.
What that means for you, is that you need more actuall ram and *MUCH*
less swap from disk.

 mark
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From: alewis@gibbs.oit.unc.edu (Andrew Lewis)
Subject: Re: QDPMI?
Keywords: Quarterdeck BBS, QDPMI 1.01, QEMM
Organization: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 03:50:34 GMT

wuarchive.wustl.edu has QDPMI 1.01 (which implements the DPMI spec 0.9) in
the /mirrors/ directory somewhere, either under windows or under qtrdeck.
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.desqview
From: books@fsunuc.physics.fsu.edu (Roger Books)
Subject: Re: QDPMI?
Organization: FSU nuclear physics
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 93 13:50:25 GMT

In article <books.216.0@fsunuc.physics.fsu.edu> I wrote:
>
>I see mention of QDPMI here.  Is it released and, if so, where do I get
>it.  I assume it lets you run DPMI programs.
>

Thanks for the response.  I found it on several places, Mostly simtel
mirrors.

Roger
books@fsunuc.physics.fsu.edu
From: Richard.Solomon@ColoSpgs.NCR.COM (Richard Solomon)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.desqview
Subject: BOOTP under Novell TCP/IP Transport for DOS????
Date: 27 Jan 93 14:14:54 GMT
Organization: NCR Microelectronics

In article <1993Jan25.183415.5284@ornl.gov> fea@ornl.gov (FREELS J D) writes:
>I just received my long-awaited free copy of the subject software.
>I haven't tried it yet.

	I got mine yesterday, almost exactly 5 count'em *FIVE* months after
I ordered it (yes I'm unhappy).  Upon perusing the manual it appears that
there is no BOOTP client support...... I have some 30+ users running with
BOOTP to configure them.  I refuse to switch, especially with most of those
users soon to be on a new subnet -- i.e. getting all new IP addresses!

	Does anyone know of a PD or 3rd party BOOTP client for the Novell
Transport?  Does the full LanWorkPlace include BOOTP client support?  (If so
does Quarterdeck plan to offer it?)  Or did I just miss the information in
that oh-so-exhaustive documentation??????

Thanks in advance for any info,
Richard

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From: jjwu@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (James J Wu)
Subject: Re: DESQview/X memory problem
Followup-To: Re: DESQview/X memory problem
Summary: need more memory...
Keywords: DESQview/X memory compaq
Organization: The Ohio State University
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 19:14:13 GMT
Expires: Fri, 26 Feb 1993 05:00:00 GMT

Raymond,
     From the reviews I've read about dvx, you need more memory to run any 
applications.  When quarterdeck says 4MB RAM minimum, they mean it.  The 4 MB 
of RAM allows you to run dvx and little else.  If you run manifest while under 
dvx (you should be able to, it doesn't need much memory) and select desqview 
from the menu, it should tell you what memory is used and available. some other
manifest features may provide you with some more info.
     I'm running DV/X on a computer with 8 MB of RAM and am able to do quite a 
bit, but I still sometimes find it's still not enough.
     Another solution would be to use QDPMI 1.01 (Quarterdeck's version of the 
DOS protected mode interface) to access virtual memory... it will cause your 
system to slow down quite a bit and generate a lot of wear on your hard drive, 
but it would be your most inexpensive solution.
     james
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From: "quarterdeck canada" <quarterdeck.canada@canrem.com>
Subject: mouse movement crashi
Reply-To: "quarterdeck canada" <quarterdeck.canada@canrem.com>
Organization: Canada Remote Systems
Distribution: comp
Date: 23 Jan 93 19:23:19 EST

>In article <rmbult01.726982414@starbase.spd.louisville.edu> rmbult01@starbase.spd.louisville.edu (Robert M. Bultman) writes:
>>I am having problems with mouse movement crashing (seemingly) dvx.
RM>< stuff deleted >

>Possibly more to the point, at least for the first problem; what kind of
>mouse are you using and what driver/revision #?  Also, does it matter what
>program you quickly drag the mouse over, or si it just moving the mouse fast
>at all?

RM>I am using a Logiteck (sp?) mouse.  I amunsure right now of the version
RM>number (I'll know this evening).  In answer to the second question, I have
RM>only been running, and developing, my program under dvx.  The only other
RM>program I run is gcc in a dos window.  The program is a large electromagnetics
RM>visualizatio package, and has a lot of lengthy numerical subroutines.  Would
RM>the length of the subroutine have anything to do with it or the fact that I am
RM>using a lot of floating point (double precision)?  The code seems to work
RM>fine on the HP 9000/700 machines at school.  Although it is interesting to
RM>note that when I initially ported the program to dvx, djgcc caught several
RM>bugs that the HP compiler went right over.

RM>I also use dos's edit to edit my program files.  I use dos 5.0.  The mouse
RM>movement doesn't seem to bother ms-edit or gcc at all.  In fact, I occasionaly
RM>play the puzzle game while doing a recompile.  This is what leads me to
RM>beleive that my code is at fault.  However, I can't for the life of me
RM>track down this bug.  And the code does work, viirtually unmodified under
RM>HP unix on the 9000/700.

Are you by any chance using v. 1.08 of GO32, the GNU DOS Extender (or
more to the point, is your ported program using it)?   Version 1.09 had
some fixes for similar problems.

Regards,

Michael Bolton
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From: dennisb@dancer.cc.bellcore.com (basiaga,dennis j)
Subject: QEMM/Desqview Diskette Error
Organization: Bellcore, Livingston, NJ
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 93 23:41:42 GMT

I'm having a particular problem and don't know whether its related to 4DOS
or Desqview.  My machine is an IBM PS/2-55sx 4mb RAM, with Desqview/386 v2.42,
QEMM 6.02, 4DOS 4.01 revision D, and HyperDisk v4.51.

The problem occurs when I open a DOS window in Desqview and attempt to write
to a diskette that is write-protected.  I get a "DOS PROMPT" window with the
message "Write protect error writing drive A - Select Retry Abort Fail".
If I remove the write protect tab from the diskette and select "Retry"
everything work correctly.  If while in the same DOS window session I change
diskettes and attempt to copy files to this new diskette I get another
"DOS PROMPT" window with the message "Invalid disk change error reading
drive A - Select Retry Abort Fail".  This problem persists even if I completely
back out of Desqview and must reboot to clear this error.  No problems occur
if I repeat this scenario without ever getting into Desqview to begin with.
(This problems occurs with my internal 3.5" drive, I've not experimented
with my external 5.25" drive)

In my setup for the DOS window in Desqview I reserve 2k of system memory -
which has solved other problems I have had related to diskettes.
  
Does anyone know what is causing this ? or what the solution is ?

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