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From: rion@Ingres.COM (Rion Cassidy (x3357) OGT)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.win32
Subject: cpu thermometer
Date: 19 Aug 92 22:36:36 GMT
Reply-To: rion@Ingres.COM
Organization: Ask Computer Systems Inc., Ingres Division, Alameda CA 94501


I was looking at the CPU thermometer that comes with the development tools.
It has three bars labelled U, K, and T.  I guess that is for User, Kernel,
and Task switch.  Does anyone (e.g. Microsoft) know for sure?

The scale on these bars goes from 0-100.  At first I thought this meant
percent of CPU time, but then noticed that they normally add up to well
over 100.  During a compile, U ranges from 30-80, K from 5-40, and 
T from 80-100.

What is this thing telling me?

Rion
From: heller@netcom.com (MAMA DAEMON)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.win32
Subject: Re: Compuserve Access
Date: 21 Aug 92 20:51:04 GMT
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services (408 241-9760 guest)

Bert Tyler:
> I use TAPCIS, an MS-DOS-based shareware package that completely
> automates (and minimizes) my Compuserve access.  Other folks prefer
> the freeware ATO package.  Both packages are designed to minimize
> your pay-by-the-minute access time, and both packages do an excellent
> job of it.

  Thanx for the info.  I really wasn't just calling with only a modem, but
  using Compuserve's PC package on one of my co-worker's machines.  I really
  didn't care for all the searching one had to do to find a specific subject,
  like FAQs.  However TAPCIS really sounds like the ticket, especially the
  part about grabbing messages to read offline.  As I learn my way around,
  it won't be so painful, right?? <sorta grin>

  I'll grab that off this weekend and check it out.

  Thanx Again!

  Debbie Heller (deb@zehntel.com)
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Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.win32,comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy
From: blakeco@microsoft.com (Blake Coverett)
Subject: Re: Questions and comments on Windows NT
Date: 12 Aug 92 21:36:31 GMT
Organization: Microsoft Canada Inc.

In article <ernest.713473475@milton> ernest@milton.u.washington.edu (Theodore Deffenbaugh) writes:
>I thought Xenix's OEM was Santa Cruz and MS was a VAR.  What is
>MS's input?  One or two percent?  It sorta sounds like an MS
>employee wants to take credit for something they didn't write, but
>I know that MS would never want to give that impression.  (So I'd
>thought we'd clear it up now.)

SCO is (I think entirely) responsible for Xenix these days, but they
licensed it from MS in the first place.  I seem to recall that Microsoft
Xenix was running on Altos machines before there was an IBM-PC or MS-DOS
and way before SCO came into being.  Another random data point, MS owns
20% of SCO.

-Blake
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Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.win32
From: wwen@medici.trl.OZ.AU (Wilson X. Wen)
Subject: DPMI (Window 3) not yet supported ????
Organization: Telecom Research Labs, Melbourne, Australia
Date: Fri, 14 Aug 1992 03:32:24 GMT

When I try to run Emtex386 (a PC version of LaTex) in a DOS/4DOS
window in WINDOWS 3.0/3.1, it always complains:

DPMI (Window 3) not yet supported.

Can anybody tell me what does this mean? Is there any way to get
around this?

Thanks in advance.

W.Wen

PS. It does not complain when I run EmTex186.

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AI Systems, Telecom Research Labs.   Clayton, Vic 3168, Australia.
Email: w.wen@trl.oz.au, Tel: (61-3) 253-6273, Fax: (61-3) 253-6173
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From: samf@yosemite.dell.com (Sam Fuller)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.win32
Subject: PWB on NT
Date: 14 Aug 92 16:18:22 GMT
Organization: Dell Computer Corporation

It seems to me that at one time I PWB actually appeared in the
\mstools\bin directory of my NT system.  I don't know how it got there
and I haven't been able to get it back.  I have several CD's from
Microsoft, namely the July '92 SDK, the latest HCT and the DDK CD.
I've looked through all of them and I can't seem to find it again.  (My
system crashed hard shortly after I 'discovered' PWB).  

Now I wonder if it was all just a bad dream.  I'am not a real bin fan of
PWB but for editing code I prefer it immensely to MEP.

Sam

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Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.win32
From: alistair@microsoft.com (Alistair Banks)
Subject: Re: Does C/C++ compiler do templates?
Date: 21 Aug 92 02:29:05 GMT
Organization: Microsoft Corporation

In article <1992Aug19.004450.2769@src.honeywell.com> dicks@cfsmo.honeywell.com writes:
>I just read that the Microsoft C/C++ 7.0 compiler (the one in the
>stores) does not implement the Cfront 2.1 specification and therefore
>does not fully support templates (but simulates templates using some
>preprocessor macro wizardry). But what about the version included
>in the NT pre-release?
>

The C/C++ compiler in the Win32 SDK is based on C7 technology today -- Alistair
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.win32
From: rupertb@is.morgan.com (Rupert Brown)
Subject: Re: SoftPC Error Message:
Organization: Morgan Stanley - IS
Date: Fri, 21 Aug 1992 06:32:51 GMT

From running Excel 3/4 (win apps) or pkunzip (dos app)
On a Compaq 386/33L with 16MB ram they run fine
On a PS/2 model 70 with 10MB ram I get a SoftPC error 

I suspect its a memory thing in that SoftPC needs a minimum amount of 'real' memory to run in.
If I can scrounge some more memory for the PS/2 I'll let you know whether
this is the case.
From: heller@netcom.com (MAMA DAEMON)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.win32
Subject: tcpipsvc enable
Summary: enabling TCP/IP under NT
Date: 20 Aug 92 23:14:38 GMT
Article-I.D.: netcom.77#nrfk.heller
Organization: Teradyne ATWC

We've been having a heck of a time getting the TCP/IP software configured.
Here are the specifics:

	Western Digital 8003EP network card, soft configure as:

	IRQ 		  5
	I/O Base Adx 	240
	RAM Base Adx	0xe000

This setup works under DOS, no problems.  However, in NT, using the Network
Control Panel Applet to install the card and driver and the TCP/IP software
doesn't seem to be working.  There are no error messages, it seems to install
OK, says that NT must be rebooted for the changes to take effect.

After a reboot, in the "MSDOS" window, we've tried running the "net start
tcpipsvc" comamnd.  Error msgs:

	The dependancy service failed to start.

Next we tried to runt ftp.exe, and the error msg gives more info:

	ERROR:  cannot open services database file C:\winnt\system\drivers\etc -
	\services
	ftp: ftp/tcp: unknown service.

Upon investigation the \etc directory doesn't even exist.  Shouldn't this have 
been made when the TCP software was installed.  What if the first time I 
installed it it was wrong?  It won't let me remove it, and I don't know what
suite of programs it comprises to do it manually and start over.


Getting our net up and running is very important.  Any help would be appreciated.

Please post or email (email is preferred, it's quicker)

THANX!!

Debbie Heller
deb@zehntel.com or heller@netcom.com


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From: grant@tagart.enet.ayo.dec.com (Iain Grant)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.win32
Subject: MICROSOFT NT STAFF PLEASE READ
Date: 19 Aug 92 11:10:56 GMT
Reply-To: grant@tagart.enet.dec.com (Iain Grant)
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation, TSG FIS


I have been browsing through the slide presentations given on the July CD-ROMs
and in the strategy presentation it mentions NEW Windows NT related products
specifically Installation Service.

This is of GREAT interest to me at the moment. Is there any way of obtaining
information on this. If there is could you get in touch and let mt know.

Iain Grant			| Internet:	grant@tagart.enet.ayo.dec.com
Digital Equipment (Scotland) Ltd
TSG Group
From: perkins@gamma1.ltn.dec.com (Eric Perkins)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.win32
Subject: SCSI Adapter Question:
Date: 20 Aug 92 19:48:07 GMT
Reply-To: perkins@gamma1.ltn.dec.com (Eric Perkins)
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation

Has anyone tried the Data Technologies 3280 SCSI controller?
I have a place which claims that they have tried this controller
and have it working with Windows-NT, but I would like a non-computer
seller to verify that they have it working.

Does anyone know anything about this controller? Does it support
hard disks? Will I be able to connect any SCSI hard disk to 
this controller and have it work?

Does anyone know of any good sources for the controllers that
are listed in the Compatibility pages?

-- Thanks, Eric
From: SXMRP@orca.alaska.edu (Michael R. Platzke)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.win32
Subject: Re: Microsoft NT staff please read
Date: 20 Aug 92 16:20:34 GMT
Organization: University of Alaska Computer Network

In article <1992Aug20.064316.12957@microsoft.com> alistair@microsoft.com (Alistair Banks) writes:
>From: alistair@microsoft.com (Alistair Banks)
>Subject: Re: Microsoft NT staff please read
>Date: 20 Aug 92 06:43:16 GMT


>timeframes - until then, compuserve, or a friend with compuserve, are the
>only official support routes.

I think this question has been asked before, but I could'nt find it so here
goes:  what is the policy of downloading stuff off of Compuserve and
reposting it on the internet.  I plan to renew my Compuserve membership
real soon now and would be willing to load some stuff up to an anonymous
server.  Mind you it would be a limited amount of stuff (cause I'm a poor,
underpaid student), but something is better than nothing.  Would this be
forbidden by any MS policy?  This question is not directed specifically at
Alistair, but if anyone could at least direct me to someone who would know
the answer it would be appreciated.
  
>Gripes and flames are not needed - I'm on
>your side - I'm here, right? -- Alistair

Very much so.  If no one has said it lately, thank you for all the support
and help that you give on this newsgroup.  I think there are many of us out
here who appreciate it.

-Michael R. Platzke (sxmrp@orca.alaska.edu)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.win32
From: nitin@Ingres.COM (Nitin Borwankar)
Subject: Re: Microsoft NT staff please read
Reply-To: nitin@Ingres.COM (Nitin Borwankar)
Organization: Ask Computer Systems Inc., Ingres Division, Alameda CA 94501
Date: 13 Aug 92 18:32:31 GMT

In article <183052@pyramid.pyramid.com> atam@pyrps5.eng.pyramid.com (Alexander Tam) writes:
>There are a lot of people,including myself, out here on the internet network
>don't have access to Compuserve. If NT is really going to compete with UNIX,
>you have to let someone on the UNIX network know what you are doing. Please
>post ALL the articles, bug report form, Q&A, announcements,etc. you put in
>Compuserve to somewhere on internet. You may either post them to
>comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.win32 or open another news group. Do you 
>understand?

I am not an MS employee and this is not a reply to the above post.
However, I have wondered about this too and wonder whether there are any
copyright isuues involved in cross posting stuff from Compuserve over
here.
If it was simultaneously posted to both places so that it was not taken
*from* Compuserve and then posted here, the copyright issues don't apply
if they exist.  I'm not sure that "copyright" is the right word to use. 
It's just that some BBS's and conferencing systems have regulations on
what can be taken and posted elsewhere.

Earlier someone posted FAQ's from Compuserve here and this made me wonder.
Alistair, any comments ?

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From: samf@yosemite.dell.com (Sam Fuller)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.win32
Subject: Can't get NE3200 to be properly recognized
Date: 12 Aug 92 23:00:03 GMT
Organization: Dell Computer Corporation


I loaded NT on a system with an NE3200 card.  The initial installation
didn't seem to mind it and everything seemed to work fine.  However, when
I tried to start network services I got a server error message like this:

-Server Error 2008 
-The server couldn't not (sic) open a mailslot. Server alerts are disabled.

While perusing the event log I found these other error messages which I believe
are related to the Server Error.

-CPISetup reported the following error (1073) while setting up NE3200

and

-The description for event id (2018) in source (computer_name) could not be
-found.  It contains the following instertion string(s). NE320001

This message seemed to think that the computer was named NE320001 and the
network card was named "test" which is the label I applied to the computer.

I don't believe that I did anything out of the ordinary in setting things up.
Does anyone out there have a clue as to what's going on?

Thanks in advance.

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Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.win32
From: kevin@edscom.demon.co.uk (Kevin Broadey)
Subject: Text editor for Windows NT on a MIPS processor
Organization: EDS-Scicon, Milton Keynes, UK
Date: Fri, 14 Aug 1992 09:40:23 GMT

Can anyone point me to a decent text editor that will run under Windows NT on a
MIPS processor?  I'm surviving with Notepad and a version of Multipad that I'm
slowly getting the bugs out of.  Trouble is, neither of them can handle big
files (a few thousand lines - you know how it is with Windows code written in
`C' - all those switches and cases).

At the moment I'm resorting to editing on a PC and transfering the file to the
NT box using WalkNet (i.e. 3.5" disk!)

Any help would be much appreciated.
-- 
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Mail:	Wavendon Tower, Wavendon, Milton Keynes, MK17 8LX, England
E-mail: kbroadey@edscom.demon.co.uk
Phone:	+44 908 284198 or +44 908 585858 ext 4198
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.win32
From: mcnally@wsl.dec.com (Mike McNally)
Subject: Re: Missing WIN32 SDK CD-ROMs?
Organization: DEC Palo Alto
Distribution: usa
Date: 20 Aug 92 15:59:19 GMT

brian%jaguar.cs.utah.edu@cs.utah.edu (Brian Sturgill) writes:
>If you attended the NT conference, in addition to the SDK CD-ROM, you
>got 2 additional ones.

That's news to me and the other five people from this office that
attended the NT conference in San Francisco in July.  We got 1 (one)
(uno) (ein) CD.

Is there a way to get the others?

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From: pam@vandi.ars.cl (Pablo Ahumada M.)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.win32
Subject: Win32 for Windows 3.1
Distribution: world
Organization: Ars Innovandi (El arte de innovar)
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1992 20:20:53 CST


Hi,

Sorry if these questions have been answered in some FAQ.

Can I use Win32 to develop an 32 bit application for Windows 3.1 now ?

Is C 7.0 generating 32 bit code now ?

I am using WATCOM 9.0 and its debbugger is completly unfriendly,
and I would like change to a 32 bit compiler with better
developping environment.

Thanks.

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Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.win32
From: vscarafi@eccdb1.pms.ford.com (Vincent F. Scarafino)
Subject: Re: FILETIME and Pope Gregory XIII 
Originator: news@pms001
Organization: Ford Motor Co.
Date: Sat, 22 Aug 1992 17:05:06 GMT

alistair@microsoft.com (Alistair Banks) writes:
> In article <714170346snx@apusapus.demon.co.uk> tfj@apusapus.demon.co.uk (Trevor Jenkins) writes:
> >
> >In article <KEVIN.92Aug18150139@buffalobill.edscom.demon.co.uk> kevin@edscom.demon.co.uk writes:
> >
> >> Okay, I've got to ask this one.  Sorry if it's an FAQ, but MicroSoft have
> >> really set themselves up for it...
> >> 
> >> The documentation for the FILETIME structure says it holds the number of 100ns
> >> intervals since January 1st, 1601.
> 
> Just FYI - the next update of the kit will change the date & time
> Win32 APIs - we've moved everything to a universal time, so that
> issues like time stamps on shared files servers throughout the world
> dont hurt anymore -- Alistair

Sounds good.  Will individual processes be able to specify the (local) time
zone they want the date & time routines to display?

Vince
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.win32
From: andrewgo@microsoft.com (J. Andrew Goossen)
Subject: Re: 32 gdi, floats -> coprocessor?
Date: 14 Aug 92 05:50:17 GMT
Organization: Microsoft Corporation

In article <th+y+7g@rpi.edu> moncrg@aix02.ecs.rpi.edu (Gregory Donald Moncreaff) writes:
>in Petzold's discussion of the 32bit gdi for
>windows nt, it is revealed that gdi makes
>use of floats for such things as bezier
>curves and transformations
>(september microsoft journal)
>
>does this mean it is time to get a floating
>point coprocessor (for those of us without
>486dx's)?
>
>how does windows floating point emulator
>compare to having actual hardware?

NT does not require a math coprocessor on an x86 machine.  GDI 
uses its own floating point routines; their performance is 
comparable to using a '387 (the '387 is sort of slow, and GDI 
doesn't require the 80 bits accuracy the '387 works with
internally).

On a Mips machine, GDI uses the built-in floating point.

Floating point is used mostly for the transforms.  None is used
for the Bezier curves.

andrewgo@microsoft.com

Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.win32
From: alistair@microsoft.com (Alistair Banks)
Subject: Re: SoftPC Error Message:
Date: 20 Aug 92 06:33:14 GMT
Organization: Microsoft Corporation

In article <1498@sousa.ltn.dec.com> perkins@gamma1.ltn.dec.com (Eric Perkins) writes:
>Several times while using the July release of Windows-NT on an Intel
>80486 machine I have seen a message box pop up indicating that there
>was an error xxx in file xxx where the file was named with a name like
>D:\xx\softpc\xxx.
>
>I did not write down the exact text of the error message or file, but I 
>now find it curious that I would be executing a part of NT that had to 
>do with the SoftPC stuff. I though that SoftPC code only ran on 
>non-Intel machines.
>
>Can someone at Microsoft clear this up?
>- When running NT on Intel machines what if any role does SoftPC code
>   play?
>
>My understanding is that Win-16 apps run in their own process and 
>communicate with the win-32 kernel, while Win-16 apps running on 
>non-Intel machines a running as a SoftPC process which is communicating
>with the win-32 kernel.

Yes, this is weird to me as well. We use the v86 mode on x86 machines,
and Insignia's technology on RISC machines - if you can be more
specific about the condistions and reports, I'll ask around

Alistair
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.win32
From: robertre@microsoft.com (Robert Reichel ms2)
Subject: Re: Meanings of NT boot-up error codes?
Date: 11 Aug 92 02:58:04 GMT
Organization: Microsoft Corp.

In article <18f67834@p4.f36.n245.z2.fidonet.org> Norbert_Unterberg@softstream.fido.de (Norbert Unterberg) writes:
>Make shure that your hard disk has enough *contigous, unfragmented* disk space 
>to hold the paging file! After we had made enough room (>> 20 MB) and run 
>Norton Speed Disk, NT came up without any error message. So 20 MB of free hard 
>disk space for the swap file is one part of the game, the other is that this 
>space must be unfragmented.

While I'm happy to hear that this solved your problem, there is
no requirement that the space for the paging file be unfragmented.
The paging file is just a file, honest.

Of course, you may see better performance if your paging file
can be on a nice contiguous area, but probably not much.

I would suggesting just trying to have a fair chunk of free
disk space (as mentioned >20M) available when first trying to
boot the system.  Once the page file is established, it will
be overwritten on subsequent boots, so you don't have to worry
about it after that.
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Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.win32
From: johnhall@microsoft.com (John Hall)
Subject: Re: NT hang?
Date: 20 Aug 92 17:03:35 GMT
Organization: Microsoft Corporation


I run Word for Windows 2.0, Excel 4.0, Powerpoint 3.0, and
CIM (Compuserve Information Manager -- a Dos app) on Windows NT.
[Yes, the PDC build.]  These things do have occasional problems
(mostly Word).  In 5 hrs of work with these tools I probably get
1 Gp fault from Word that doesn't impact the rest of the system.
[I stopped using Brief for OS/2, I am now using Slick for Windows
NT.  I also run the development tools.  The only reason I drop
into Windows 3.1 these days is to run my Gif viewers which require
256 colors :).]

However, it *is* listed as alpha software and your mileage may
vary.

The 'MS-DOS' prompt is not really a MS-DOS prompt at all.  It is the
Windows NT command prompt and it will run apps from any of 
the subsystems.  -- Windows 32, Windows 3.1, MS-Dos, Char mode
OS/2, and [comming to a machine near you] Posix.

My machine is a 486/33 ISA Gateway with 16mb of memory.  I run
the FAT file system on a SCSI hard drive.

In article <1992Aug19.005634.8357@pony.Ingres.COM> rion@Ingres.COM (Rion Cassidy (x3357) OGT) writes:
| In article <1935237a@p4.f36.n245.z2.fidonet.org> Norbert_Unterberg@softstream.fido.de (Norbert Unterberg) writes:
| >
| >My experience is that NT runs rather stable as long as you do not start the 
| >windows or msdos subsystem. As soon as you execute a 16 bit dos or windows 
| >application, NT becomes unstable, runs out of memory etc.
| >
| >It's just what microsoft said. This NT release is ONLY a development platform 
| >for 32 bit applications. Neither the DOS nor the Windows subsystem is finished 
| >or fully testet.
| >
| 
| How are we supposed to run the development tools without opening a window?
| This thing that says "MS-DOS prompt" actually runs 'cmd.exe'. I'm still
| not sure if this is a true DOS window or just capable of executing DOS
| apps, but I know I have to open it to use the debuggers and compiler.
| When you say its stable if you do not run the windows subsystem, I sure
| hope you mean the Win 3.1 subsystem!
| 


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