HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: jenk@microsoft.com (Jen Kilmer)
Subject: Re: Hard disk size, partition table
Date: 11 Nov 92 07:39:17 GMT
Organization: Microsoft Corporation

In article <1992Nov10.214010.7272@aio.jsc.nasa.gov> mulcihy@sweetpea.jsc.nasa.gov David Mulcihy writes:
>I had two logical drives and wanted to make one larger logical drive.
>Using a binary editor I changed the partition table and the number of
>sectors on the drive. However DOS does not think the drive is any larger
>than before. Where does DOS get the information about the size of the
>drive? 
From the Bios Parameter Block (aka BPB) in the first sector of the
logical drive. The MS-DOS Programmer's Reference and most other
programmer-oriented MS-DOS books will have the layout.

However, if you are enlarging the logical drive, the file table 
won't be big enough. The True Fix (TM) involves reformatting. Don't
just reformat, tho, it'll use the old size from the BPB (sigh). I would
suggest zeroing the boot sector using a sector editor, then formatting.
Yes, this erases your info.  Or you *could* go into the BPB and 
change the allocation unit size to something big enough that the
current file table could access the whole disk, then manually update
your file system to reflect the new structure.  

note #1: when you delete partitions with FDisk, the old boot sector
and file table are erased, avoiding this problem. 

note #2: to zero the boot sector of C: with debug, use the following commands:

f 200 l 200 0
w 200 2 0 1
q

Of D:, the W command would be "W 200 3 0 1", of E:, "W 200 4 0 1", etc.


-jen
not speaking for microsoft
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc
From: bsteinke@dsd.es.com (Bruce Steinke)
Subject: Re: Can I Laserprint from DOS Command Line?
Followup-To: comp.os.msdos.misc
Reply-To: bsteinke@dsd.es.com (Bruce Steinke)
Organization: Evans & Sutherland Computer Corp., Salt Lake City, UT
Date: Thu, 5 Nov 92 21:25:40 GMT

In article <1992Nov5.154129.2698@netcom.com>, geo@netcom.com (George Pontis)
writes:
|> cooneys@gw.wmich.edu writes:
|> 
|> >I got a new laser printer (RealTech 9 ppm) hooked up to a 
|> >Mac and a PC. On the PC, the printer works fine from Windows 
[...]

[George's response...]

I use an HP LaserjetIIIp. In my case, I can either go offline & hit formfeed
or I send a ^L to the print (I have a file with nothing but ^L in it for this
purpose).

-Bruce
-- 
  Bruce F. Steinke                  | "Never know when you're going to
  bsteinke@dsd.es.com               |  need a good piece of rope."
  Evans & Sutherland Computer Corp. |               Sam Gamgee
  Salt Lake City, Utah              |
  < Speaking only for myself, unless otherwise noted. >
Xref: sparky comp.os.msdos.misc:6045 comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware:29108
From: adler@nic.cerf.net (Bruce Adler)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Floppy drive pin34 problem?
Date: 6 Nov 92 22:21:59 GMT
Followup-To: comp.os.msdos.misc
Organization: CERFnet

My B: drive on my msdos3.3 machine has started acting funny. If I insert
a floppy in it and do a DIR command and then insert another floppy and
do another DIR command then the output of the second DIR command is
the same as the first (yes, they should be different).

I'm guessing that the "disk change" signal on pin34 is no longer working
correctly.

I have two questions:

1. Does anyone have a diagnostic program which can verify that the
pin34 disk change signal is working or not working?

2. Is there any way to force msdos3.3 to ignore the pin34 signal and
always throw away its buffer contents? If so, can I do this on my B:
drive and not affect my A: drive?

Note: this is a vanilla 386 clone box, and I'm not running any special
disk caching programs or drivers.

adler@cerf.net
From: chris@hpsgrt1.sgp.hp.com (Christopher KOH)
Date: Wed, 4 Nov 1992 06:04:38 GMT
Subject: A Dual-Tasking DOS Compatible OS
Organization: APCD, Hewlett-Packard Singapore
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc

Hello,

I'm looking for a DOS compatible OS which can handle a IO task (e.g. phone,
fax,printer...) in the background and an application in the foreground. Has
anyone try Embedded DOS or RTXDOS or RxDOS or .... Thanks ahead.

Regards,
Chris

P.S. If anyone from General Software reading this message, I'd love to talk to
     you.
From: fergnani@cadlab.sublink.org (Sandro Fergnani)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc
Subject: Address of Symantec
Date: 6 Nov 92 11:16:40 GMT
Organization: CAD.LAB S.p.A., Bologna, Italia

Doeas anyone knows how to contact Symantec's tech support ??

Many thanks in advance.
  Sandro Fergnani
-- 
Email: fergnani@cadlab.sublink.org                   Phone: ++39 (51) 6130360
CAD.LAB s.p.a., v. Ronzani 7/29, Casalecchio, Italia   Fax: ++39 (51) 6130294 
From: franks@hpuamsa.neth.hp.com (Frank Slootweg CRC)
Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1992 10:26:07 GMT
Subject: Re: CHKDSK question
Organization: Hewlett-Packard, The Netherlands
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc

fritz@fc.sde.hp.com (Gary Fritz. Hi Gary!) writes:

> I think the earlier advice is what we'll try:  go back to SMARTDRV
> and see if it keeps happening.  We originally went to NOW! because
> DOUBLEDISK (the Stacker-like disk compressor we tried before getting D:)
> couldn't co-exist with SMARTDRV.

  That is odd. As far as I know DOUBLEDISK will be bundled with the
upcoming MS-DOS 6.0. I hope that this bundled version will co-exist with
SMARTDRV.

Frank Slootweg
From: w8sdz@tacom-emh1.army.mil (Keith Petersen)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc
Subject: Mailing list for MS-DOS file upload announcements
Summary: SIMTEL20 and Garbo upload announcements
Keywords: simtel20,garbo,msdos,uploads,announcements
Date: Sun, 8 Nov 1992 18:55:19 GMT
Reply-To: w8sdz@tacom-emh1.army.mil (Keith Petersen)
Distribution: world
Followup-To: poster
Organization: The SIMTEL20 Archives

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From: meiser@cps.msu.edu (Matthew E Meiser)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc
Subject: Re: 3.5" floppy on ibm pc/XT......
Date: 5 Nov 92 20:13:52 GMT
Reply-To: meiser@cps.msu.edu (Matthew E Meiser)
Organization: Dept. of Computer Science, Michigan State University
Originator: meiser@caspian.cps.msu.edu

In article <eJwoTB2w165w@willard.UUCP> ninja@willard.UUCP writes:
> 
>  To use a 3.5 " floppy on an IBM PC/XT, you need...
> 
>  : a new bios chip for the machine
>  : high density 8 bit floppy controller card
>  : dos 3.30 and above....
> 
> I had to install one on my first PC/XT also....

I installed one on my old XT-compatible last year and all I needed was a 
controller with a built in bios to control the floppy. I think the card 
only cost about $25 from a place in computer shopper. The card was able 
to run high density drives even with an old bios which only supported 360k
drives.
From: un032176@wvnvms.wvnet.edu
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc
Subject: Need help with Modem programs for IBM
Date: 12 Nov 92 01:16:52 GMT
Organization: West Virginia Network for Educational Telecomputing




     Hello,
        I was wondering if someone could give me a hand.  I have an OLD ibm
     portable personal computer with 256k of RAM *cry*.  I need a good modem
     program that will run on this much memory.  I currently have procomm (no
     zmodem or i would like it) and qvt(zmodem but no backscroll).  My
     requirments are:

     1) MUST have zmodem
     2) MUST have backscroll ability (the more the better)
     3) MUST have at least a vt100 emulation and any other vt's higher than
        100 would be gladly accepted (would be really nice to have a 320)

     If anybody has any information on where I could obtain a program like this
     PLEASE inform me soon (I hate having to change back and forth between my
     two programs so often--now I need zmodem--now I need backscroll--now I
     need zmodem--It gets very monotonous.)

     Thanks for any info available.
From: dosm@stein.u.washington.edu (Charles Klement)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc
Subject: RE:Hard Disk Question
Date: 10 Nov 92 02:40:42 GMT
Article-I.D.: u.1992Nov10.024042.2490
Organization: University of Washington, Seattle

Thank you to All who responded on my Question about the ST-257A hard disk.
Unfortuneately I accidently typed in the wrong number, it was supposed to
be a ST157A but we worked that out in the end.

again thanks to all who responded.
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc
From: cosham@yoyo.cc.monash.edu.au (Mark Cosham)
Subject: Re: Ramdrive
Organization: Monash University, Melb., Australia.
Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1992 15:49:03 GMT

In <gVXwTB1w164w@jwt.UUCP> bbs-hrick@jwt.UUCP (Rick Harrison) writes:

>I only have the condensed version of DOS version 4 documentation.
>It does not explain how to use the RAMDRIVE.SYS file.  Putting
>the line "DEVICE=C:\DOS\RAMDRIVE.SYS" in my CONFIG.SYS file gets
>me a RAM disk which is only 64k in size.  How can I specify a
>larger size for it?  Any help will be greatly appreciated.

Did you also notice that the ramdrive is in conventional memory?
Ok, the syntax is something like the following.  Please forgive me, but
I use DOS 5, so this may not work in all earlier versions.

device=RAMDRIVE.SYS <size> </e> </a>

where size is the size in Kb of the disk,
/e specifies extended memory
/a specifies expanded memory. (It could be /x, I'm not sure..)

Good luck,
	Mark Cosham

-- 
 Practice random kindness and senseless acts of beauty.
-----------> <-------> <-------> <-------> <-------> <-------> <-----------
 Mark Cosham   Monash University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
    cosham@yoyo.cc.monash.edu.au
From: your-email-addr@a1.mscf.upenn.edu (JESSE M. GOLDMAN)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc
Subject: Wanted: Script writer
Date: 11 Nov 92 21:04:43 GMT
Followup-To: comp.os.msdos.misc
Organization: University of Pennsylvania

I'm looking for a PC compatible script writing program.
Please post names and locations of these if they exist.  Thank you
From: ci922@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Duane A. Paulson)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc
Subject: Re: Need help with Modem programs for IBM
Date: 12 Nov 1992 02:52:26 GMT
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
Reply-To: ci922@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Duane A. Paulson)
NNTP-Posting-Host: hela.ins.cwru.edu


In a previous article, un032176@wvnvms.wvnet.edu () says:

>
>
>
>     Hello,
>        I was wondering if someone could give me a hand.  I have an OLD ibm
>     portable personal computer with 256k of RAM *cry*.  I need a good modem
>     program that will run on this much memory.  I currently have procomm (no
>     zmodem or i would like it) and qvt(zmodem but no backscroll).  My
>     requirments are:
>
>     1) MUST have zmodem
>     2) MUST have backscroll ability (the more the better)
>     3) MUST have at least a vt100 emulation and any other vt's higher than
>        100 would be gladly accepted (would be really nice to have a 320)
>
>     If anybody has any information on where I could obtain a program like this
>     PLEASE inform me soon (I hate having to change back and forth between my
>     two programs so often--now I need zmodem--now I need backscroll--now I
>     need zmodem--It gets very monotonous.)
>
>     Thanks for any info available.
>

Commo.com is a small (40K) telecom program with all of the above. I believe
the current version is commo53.zip.
-- 
Duane Paulson
ci922@cleveland.freenet.edu
duane.paulson@pcb.batpad.lgb.ca.us
From: speedy@engr.latech.edu (Alfred "Speedy" Mercer)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc
Subject: Re: Password protection
Summary: Password protection for a PC
Keywords: password
Date: 5 Nov 92 16:59:50 GMT
Organization: Louisiana Tech University

In article <27621@castle.ed.ac.uk> cbarton@festival.ed.ac.uk (C Barton) writes:


>Is there a way/utility that will let me password protect a PC running
>DOS 5 and windows 3.0. I would like it so that when the machine is
>turned on it asks for a password before fully booting up and also the
>ability to lock up the machine for short periods (coffee breaks) while
>in windows.

The BEST is PC-VAULT.  This program has proven to be bullet-proof for me.
A word  of caution though . . . IT WORKS WELL!  DO NOT FORGET YOUR PASSWORD!

It is available directly from:

PC-Vault Hard Disk Protection System  -  Version 4.4w
(C)Copyright 1987,90 by Johnson Computer Systems, Inc.
20 Dinwiddie Place, Newport News VA.  (804) 872-9583

 ******************************* DISCLAIMER *********************************
  My employer doesn't even KNOW I am posting this much less approve or agree
                                  with it!
From: ndowney@ccvax.ucd.ie
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc
Subject: Connor Peripherals (Low-level reformat)
Date: 12 Nov 92 10:16:31 GMT
Organization: University College Dublin

Does anyone out there have a contact number for "Connor Peripherals". I 
think that they manufacture my harddisk (or mayby just the controller). 
The reason I am trying to contact them is to see if they might have a
low-level reformat program for my rather old HDD, which is beginning to
act oddly at times.

Any help would be appreciated,

Niall (in  Dublin).

NDOWNEY@CCVAX.UCD.IE

Xref: sparky comp.os.msdos.misc:6026 comp.sys.ibm.pc:808 comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc:14430
Organization: Arizona State University
Date: Thursday, 5 Nov 1992 21:42:54 MST
From: James Cassidy <IFJXC@ASUACAD.BITNET>
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc,comp.sys.ibm.pc,comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject:    Books on PC memory and DOS

Could anyone recommend a book on utilizing memory on the PC.  The MS-Dos
manual is good, but I still have some questions.  I am also looking for
a good book on dos.  I am a moderately experienced user, if that helps.

Thanks,
Jim"extended, expanded, high, upper, arrrggghhh" Cassidy

ifjxc@asuvm.inre.asu.edu or
ifjxc@asuacad.bitnetor
Cassidy@envmsa.eas.asu.edu
From: frisk@complex.is (Fridrik Skulason)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc
Subject: Re: Hard disk size, partition table
Date: 11 Nov 92 01:26:01 GMT
Organization: Frisk Software International, Iceland

mulcihy@sweetpea.jsc.nasa.gov David Mulcihy writes:

>I had two logical drives and wanted to make one larger logical drive.
>Using a binary editor I changed the partition table and the number of
>sectors on the drive. However DOS does not think the drive is any larger
>than before. Where does DOS get the information about the size of the
>drive? 

Assuming that you have changed the partition table correctly, it would
probably be enough just to run FORMAT - a larger partition means that you
must update the boot sector, and create bigger FATs.

-frisk
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc
From: tapc1@syma.sussex.ac.uk (Naamat F. Naom)
Subject: dos 6 .. When ??
Organization: University of Sussex
Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1992 15:16:00 GMT

Hi there! 
           Does any body have any idea when (approximately) dos 6 is
	   going to be released? Has there been any announcements made
	    by Microsoft or IBM ?

Thank you very much

Namat F. Naom
School Of Engineering
University Of Sussex
U.K.
tapc1@central.sussex.ac.uk

-- 
Namat F. Naom
School Of Engineering
University Of Sussex

Xref: sparky comp.os.msdos.misc:6030 comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc:14438
From: sfm@manduca.neurobio.arizona.edu (Stephen Matheson)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc,comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Re: Books on PC memory and DOS
Date: 6 Nov 92 06:23:19 GMT
Organization: University of Arizona UNIX Users Group

From article <92310.214254IFJXC@ASUACAD.BITNET>, by IFJXC@ASUACAD.BITNET
(James Cassidy):
> Could anyone recommend a book on utilizing memory on the PC.  The MS-Dos
> manual is good, but I still have some questions.  I am also looking for
> a good book on dos.  I am a moderately experienced user, if that helps.
> 
> Thanks,
> Jim"extended, expanded, high, upper, arrrggghhh" Cassidy

I must give the highest recommendation to "DOS 5 Techniques and
Utilities", a PC Magazine book by Jeff Prosise.  It's 1000+ pages
with an entire chapter on memory management.  I learned more about
DOS in a few hours with this book than in the rest of my life...
Includes a disk full of incredibly useful utilities, and even walks
through the use of assembly language, something I'm personally not
up to yet.  Check it out -- you'll never read the DOS manual again.

It costs $40 list -- I got mine for $30 + $5 shipping from Public
Brand Software (they have an 800 number, but I don't have it here;
Email me if you want).

--

Steve Matheson   Program in Neuroscience   University of Arizona
sfm@neurobio.arizona.edu
From: mueller@gdc.com (Martin Mueller)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc
Subject: Wanted - Construction Estimator
Date: 5 Nov 92 19:11:57 GMT
Organization: General DataComm Ind. Inc., Middlebury, CT 06762
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]



I am looking for an ftp site that has a program to do 
home layout, construction plans, and produce a basic
material list with cost estimates.

Anybody know where I can find one?


--
Martin Mueller
General DataComm
Middlebury, CT  06762-1299
(203) 758-1811 x7565
mueller@gdc.com
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc
Subject: Re: Is dos 6.0 gonna multitask? Or have no memory barrier????
From: phys169@csc.canterbury.ac.nz
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 04:42:11 GMT
Organization: University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand

In article <5575@krafla.rhi.hi.is>, einari@rhi.hi.is (Einar Indridason) writes:
> In <130@complex.complex.is> frisk@complex.is (Fridrik Skulason) writes:
> 
>>baloo@mik.uky.edu (kevin s coupal) writes:
> 
>>>Is dos 6.0 gonna multitask, and do away with the 640k memory barrier?

Rumours have MSDOS 7 as breaking the 640Kb barrier (and breaking old software,
I guess), and DRDOS 7 doing multitasking and to some extent breaking the 640K
barrier.  You could get Unix (Linux is pretty good, and free, and has DOS
emulation available), or OS/2.

You might be able to get away with MS-Windows on top of DOS. You might even be
able to use MS- or DR-DOS 5 or 6 to go a little way past 640K if you're only
missing by about 100Kb, and assuming you have a 386 or better. 
 
Oh yes, and concurrent DR-DOS; that's been out for a while. Goodness knows who
uses it though; I think some process control applications do, but not much
else? Somebody else might like to tell us what it can do.
 
>> I mean, DOS is a single tasking, single user, program loader.
> It doesn't have any wildcard expansions build in.  Every program must
> expand the wildcards for it self. 
>
You can improve on the built-in wildcard expansion with something like wild
unix. But overall, you're right - DOS has been let stagnate for ages. It seems
to be chugging along now at a good speed (late, but at least going in the right
direction).
 
Mark Aitchison.
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc
From: jenk@microsoft.com (Jen Kilmer)
Subject: Re: 3.5" floppy on ibm pc/XT......
Date: 06 Nov 92 03:52:38 GMT
Organization: Microsoft Corporation

In article <Bx76p6.JA3@acsu.buffalo.edu> dudek@acsu.buffalo.edu (The Cybard=) writes:
>ninja@willard.UUCP writes:
>
>> 
>>  To use a 3.5 " floppy on an IBM PC/XT, you need...
>>  : a new bios chip for the machine
>>  : high density 8 bit floppy controller card
>>  : dos 3.30 and above....
>
>There is an easier way. Put this line in your config.sys:
>
>driveparm=^A^A^A/d:X /c /f:Y
>             ^
>            /|\   Refer to your DOS manual for the proper values of X and Y.
>             |     
>             |
>             +--- insert three control-A characters here.  Edlin works best.
>             

Drivparm was added in MS-DOS 3.20; MS-DOS 3.30 added 1.44M support.

There is a bug in the 3.30 IO.SYS CONFIG.SYS parser which makes it
not recognize drivparm as a CONFIG.SYS command. This was fixed in
MS-DOS 3.30a, or, as above, you can work around it.

Only problem with drivparm is that it is BIOS-dependent. Drivparm
makes MS-DOS treat the drive as what you specified with drivparm.
So if you specify using drivparm that your 3.5" floppy drive is
3.5", MS-DOS will treat it as such, and if you ask, say, to format
a floppy in that drive (using FORMAT or whatever) MS-DOS will ask
the BIOS to format a disk in that 3.5" drive. 

Some BIOSes will then format the disk in the 3.5" drive.
Other BIOSes will not know how to handle that sector/track combination
that DOS asked for, or will try to confirm that MS-DOS is giving it the
'correct' values for the type of drive, and when the BIOS notices
that MS-DOS gave it 'bogus' values, it will [in a manner of speaking]
have a good laugh at DOS and tell it to jump off a cliff. 3.5"??
That's a [whatever the BIOS thinks it is], DOS, don't be stupid.

-jen
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc,comp.sys.ibm.pc
From: scarnie@esk.compserv.utas.edu.au (Stuart George Carnie)
Subject: Re: Why does ctrl-P give "Write Fault Error ..." and hang the system?
Organization: University of Tasmania at Launceston
Date: Fri, 6 Nov 92 12:00:44 GMT

Well, ^P is an "echo to printer" command, and normally if you have a printer
installed, anything sent to the STDIO(Standard Input/Outut) will be automaticall
dumped to the printer.

I've just shelled to DOS, and pressed ^P (with the printer off), and have
found that the best way to turn it off is to ^P again (this really toggles
dumping to the printer on/off). After you press ^P, just ^Break to stop the
Abort, Retry message.

Anyway, hope it helps.

Cheers
Stuart
-- 
scarnie@esk.compserv.utas.edu.au

"On a distant planet, a creature strums his guitar..." {:-)
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