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From: cantor@boa.cis.ohio-state.edu (scott eric cantor)
Subject: Re: DOS 6.0?
Organization: The Ohio State University, Department of Computer and Information Science
Date: Fri, 14 Aug 1992 16:11:09 GMT

In article <168439947.SDENARO@vm.poly.edu> SDENARO@vm.poly.edu writes:
>In article <TGUEZ.92Aug13183937@jade.tufts.edu>
>tguez@jade.tufts.edu (Name) writes:
>>
>>        Is it true that soon we shall see DOS 6.0?  I heard that
>>Microsoft is coming up with this.  Is this true?  What can be added to
>>DOS 5.0 that justifies a 6.0 and not a 5.1?  True multi-tasking
>>perhaps?  Can anyone comment about this?
> 
>Perhaps a 32bit re-write; with hooks to make Windows faster?
> 
> 
>--
>SAL DENARO      "Live Fast, Die Young, Hack 'C'"

	Unfortunately, none of the above!  The last I saw (in PC Week),
DOS 6.0 is pretty much DOS 5.0, with more of those Central Point/Norton
licensed jobs added in.  It'll have PC Tools Anti-Virus, and Norton Backup
plus some kind of data compression program (not Stacker, as was reported
a while ago because the company refused to license Stacker to MS).

	That's about it I think!  Still no MOVE command? 6^)

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From: vcurley@zeus.calpoly.edu (Vince Curley)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
Subject: Re: Mine Sweeper cheating
Date: 14 Aug 92 15:50:36 GMT
Organization: California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo

In article <1992Aug13.141630.29300@amhux2.amherst.edu> pdchapin@amhux1.amherst.edu (Paul Chapin) writes:
>Is it just my imagination, or is it true that you never hit a mine on
>your first pick at the expert level?  This makes some sense - what's the
>point of blowing somebody up before they even start - but it implies
>that the minefield is not layed out completely before you start.  That
>raises the question, when is the minefield layout completed?

It is not your imagniation.  If by chance you happen to step on a mine
on your first click the mine will be moved to the upper right hand
corner of the grid.  If there is already a mine there it will scan the
first line for the first open space and put the mine there.  The board
is completely set up when you start a new game, and moving one mine is
really no big deal.  Good luck...

Vince

ps - my score on Expert is about 120 and I can do it in the 130s
consistantly.   In case you care.

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From: ishida@ucsu.Colorado.EDU (Da Phantom)
Subject: printing to a specific printer
Summary: none
Keywords: printing specific
Organization: University of Colorado, Boulder
Date: Tue, 18 Aug 1992 15:05:36 GMT


Does anyone know how to make an application print to specific printer other than
the default printer?  Any help appreciated.  Email or post thanx


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From: vcurley@zeus.calpoly.edu (Vince Curley)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
Subject: Re: Win 3.1 & ATI Driver(s)
Date: 14 Aug 92 15:54:53 GMT
Organization: California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo

In article <1992Aug12.231334.12270@meaddata.com> marc@meaddata.com (Marc Kuperstein) writes:
>I have tried to connect with ATI's BBS and had no success.  I need to
>download drivers for their video cards.
>
>Anyway, I have set my modem an 8N1 at 19.2, 9.6, and 2.4 -- I can't
>seem to get anything legible.  It looks like a parity problem and/or
>baud rate.  I have changed the settings around ... still no luck.
>
>Marc Kuperstein                                         (513) 865-1028   

I couldn't connect either but after about a million calls (all at 44 cents
each!) I gave up on the 9600 and just went with 2400.  I had it set at
8N1 and I had to tell my modem not to try to negotiate speed or protocol.
In other words, I had to turn the thing into the hunk of junk modem that
I just got rid of!  Needless to say, I was not pleased.  BTW =
I get the same crap from the Borland BBS.  Maybe it's just me?  Nah!

Vince

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From: pdchapin@amhux1.amherst.edu (Paul Chapin)
Subject: Re: Mine Sweeper cheating
Organization: Amherst College, Amherst MA
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1992 14:16:30 GMT

Is it just my imagination, or is it true that you never hit a mine on
your first pick at the expert level?  This makes some sense - what's the
point of blowing somebody up before they even start - but it implies
that the minefield is not layed out completely before you start.  That
raises the question, when is the minefield layout completed?
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc,rec.games.misc,comp.sys.ibm.pc.games,comp.os.ms-windows.misc
From: evans1@cbnewsm.cb.att.com (Dan Evans)
Subject: unwanted music from SuperTetris -- you decide
Organization: AT&T
Distribution: na
Date: Fri, 21 Aug 1992 17:56:00 GMT
Keywords: tetris games windows music

I recently installed Supertetris for windows and liked the game except for one
thing. Here is portion of the letter I sent to the internet address listed on
the documentation (76004.2144@compuserve.com) for contacting Spectrum Holobyte.

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

Dear Spectrum Holobyte,

I recently purchased Supertetris for Windows.

Now that I have installed it, every time I start (and stop) windows I get
some stupid music.  I'm sure that this was intentional on your part but now
I want to know how to disable that music yet retain the sound while playing
ST. If that is not possible I am willing to disable the ST sounds completely
and play it in silence.

I find it deeply disturbing that a company would even consider messing
around with the computer environment outside the realm of their
program. After all, why stop with just sound? Why not just plop a
nice graphics image on the screen every time windows is started?
If other companies follow suit, pretty soon folks will need to wade
through dozens of billboards before they can get any thing done.

[ I deleted the rest from the original to keep me out of trouble. ]


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

I'm sure that Spectrum Holobyte would glady accept any input from their
customers. If there is enough opinion either way I'm sure that they will take 
this into account in their 1992 product line.

What do all of you think? I know the people at Spectrum Holobyte read
netnews. 

I'll step off the soapbox now. Thanks for your time.
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From: r3mjb@VAX1.CC.UAKRON.EDU (Michael J Brumbelow)
Subject: TEST
Summary: n/a
Organization: The University of Akron, Akron, Ohio
Date: Sat, 15 Aug 1992 15:11:31 GMT

This is a test


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From: goh@frith.egr.msu.edu (Yang Chong Goh)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
Subject: Re: Procomm
Date: 18 Aug 92 01:28:29 GMT
Organization: Michigan State University

anderson@hg.uleth.ca writes:

>I have recently seen several people talking about Procomm for windows.  Is
>a shareware product still.  If so could someone direct me to an FTP site for
>it.  Thanks
>ANDERSON@HG.ULETH.CA

Correction to my previous reply :

I meant Procomm For Windows IS NOT and will never be a shareware.


Yang Chong Goh (Peter)
Computer Science		Email : goh@cps.msu.edu (Internet)
Michigan State University	Voice : (517)3374099
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
From: leary@progress.COM (James Leary)
Subject: Re: TCP/IP DLL for Windows 3.1?
Organization: Progress Software Corp.
Date: Tue, 18 Aug 1992 13:24:40 GMT

ken@minster.york.ac.uk writes:

>Does anyone out there know of a product which gives a TCP transport to
>Windows 3.1 apps (via a DLL hopefully) which (even more hopefully) conforms
>to the winsock protocol?

Novell's LAN Workplace for DOS
Wollogong's TCP/IP Utilities

These are two that have DLL's for support of TCP/IP transports. (We at
Progress have written our software to support these from within Windows).

Regards,

Jim Leary

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From: rene@hardy.u.washington.edu (Rene Magritte)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc,comp.os.ms-windows.apps
Subject: 50 line modes in DOS windows
Summary: Trying to get more than 25 lines/page in full-screen DOS sessions
Keywords: 50 lines
Date: 13 Aug 92 05:45:19 GMT
Organization: University of Washington


	I prefer using a DOS comm prog with Windows for most of my
stuff, but I really hate the way that it puts it in 25 line mode.  I
like for my eyeballs to hurt and all that, so could somebody tell me
how I might get my various DOS apps to appear in their 50 line glory?
Yes, I know what ANSI is, so perhaps I make a pif that points to a bat
file or something?  I don't know.  I am meager.  Someone, please
enlighten me. 
 
 	So many thanks,
 
rene@hardy.u.washington.edu
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
From: xmas@uxa.ecn.bgu.edu (Mark A. Stevens)
Subject: Re: calendar starting on monday?
Keywords: calendar,microsoft,ms-windows,sunday,monday
Organization: Educational Computing Network
Date: Thu, 20 Aug 1992 15:37:06 GMT

In article <1992Aug20.140949.6631@jet.uk> jpj@jet.uk (Jean-Paul V Jeral) writes:
>The OSI standard specifies that a week starts monday,
>i.e monday is defined as the first day of the week,
>sunday the 7th (there is no zeroth).

Whoever said, the USA follows international standards? ;-)

>So why is Microsoft so obstinate in starting its
>'calendar' Window program on Sundays? I thought that would
>be corrected in 3.1 but nothing has changed (I mean this
>should be an option). I otherwise find the program useful.

See above, since MS in the USA.

>Has someone figured out how to (binary path?) set it for
>starting on mondays or has a special version?

Look at the shareware program Almanac 3.0. It can be found on
ftp.cica.indiana.edu.  It allows you to choose the beginning day of the
week and lots of other niceties, too.
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Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
From: s9874203@titan.ucc.umass.edu (s9874203)
Subject: Re: Park the Disk
Organization: University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Date: Tue, 18 Aug 1992 22:12:35 GMT

In article <86466@netnews.upenn.edu> jer@eniac.seas.upenn.edu (Joel Ratsaby) writes:
>
>Does anyone know of a program that parks
>the disk, for Windows 3.0 ?
>
>

There is one, winpark.zip, in pub/pc/win3/util from
ftp.cica.indiana.edu. No document in it.

H.Y.
From: bx953@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (David R. Cohen)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
Subject: gif to bmp the easy way
Date: 21 Aug 92 03:10:16 GMT
Reply-To: bx953@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (David R. Cohen)
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH


I know I'm coming to the gif-to-bmp thread a little late, but I have this
suggestion.  When I'm in WinGif, I retrieve a file I've decoded, say 
picture.gif, and view it.  Then, while still in WinGif, I hit File Save. 
What happens is that the file gets saved as picture.bmp!  This picture.bmp
file can then be pulled up in paintbrush, no problem.  You'll now have both
picture.bmp and picture.gif.  They seem to look the same when you are
running 256 colors on SVGA, although there may be some very slight color
change or "graininess" change.

Hope this helps.

david
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Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
From: weinkam@fraser.sfu.ca (James Lawrence Weinkam)
Subject: Re: Windows == OS
Organization: Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C., Canada
Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1992 17:33:33 GMT

weinkam@fraser.sfu.ca (James Lawrence Weinkam) writes:

>>>Granted, Windows does go around MS-DOS to do many things (as it very well
>>>should), but it is still dependent upon DOS for disk-I/O and for EMS/XMS
>>>memory management.

>>Yes for disk I/O, no for XMS. 

>You mean that to run windows I do not need to load himem.sys.  If this is
>true then why would the windows setup program add himem.sys to my config.sys
>file since windows does not need it to run.

I should add that windows grabs the available memory from dos, and then 
does its own memory management.  Windows does manage the memory, but 
still uses dos at the start to grab the memory.
From: mwhanley@rodan.acs.syr.edu (Hanley)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
Subject: TrueType fonts
Date: 18 Aug 92 18:45:03 GMT
Organization: Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY


	I had read earlier that it was possible to use Mac TT fonts
in Windows.  The procedure seemed quite simple so naturally I 
discarded it.  I tried downloading a Mac TT font and unbinhexing
it, but it had a resource fork in it so I was stopped right there.
So if anyone could tell me if and how Mac TT fonts can be used in
Windows, please let me know.  Thanks in advance.

Matthew Hanley
Systems Programmer
Syracuse University
mwhanley@mailbox.syr.edu
From: medlin@srcvax.cem.msu.edu (Stephen Medlin)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
Subject: Re: changing color of highlighted text in WinHelp
Date: 20 Aug 92 21:11:36 GMT
Reply-To: medlin@srcvax.cem.msu.edu (Stephen Medlin)
Distribution: usa
Organization: MSU_Chemistry

In article <56984@mentor.cc.purdue.edu>, konrad@mace.cc.purdue.edu (Bill Konrad) writes:
>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 

Bill,
     I just downloaded from WUARCHIVE.WUSTL.EDU (I used this mirror 
site, so I am not sure where the original is, but I believe that it is 
SIMTEL) MORECN.ZIP which stands for More Control Panel.  This is a 
really nice addition to the control panel.  One option is to set all 
of the help colors.  Just one day of use and I recommend it strongly.  
Let me know if you can't find it and I (or someone else) can find the 
exact directory/ftp site for you.

     		********* Stephen Medlin *********
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
Subject: Re: ICONS
From: edowdy@vax1.umkc.edu
Date: Thu, 20 Aug 1992 04:27:31 GMT
Organization: University of Missouri - Kansas City

In article <721.5.uupcb@uttsbbs.uucp>, ken.kohut@uttsbbs.uucp (Ken Kohut)  writes:
> 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
>                                                     



	Would just zipping the files into a single zip file work? I thought I
had seen alot of icon files zipped together on some ftp site.

Eric Dowdy
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
From: eretherf@mcs.kent.edu (Eric Von Retherford)
Subject: Mouse pointer editor.
Originator: eretherf@Chaos.mcs.kent.edu
Organization: Kent State University
Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1992 14:27:19 GMT

Is there an editor that will let you edit the mouse pointer? Maybe import
a small .bmp file?

thanks

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From: eaton@madrone.eecs.ucdavis.edu (William Eaton)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
Subject: S3 Accelerator Chips- good for NT?
Date: 19 Aug 92 20:12:00 GMT
Organization: U.C. Davis - Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science



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Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
From: etxfln@eos.ericsson.se (Fredric Lonngren)
Subject: Re: Re:CLOCK icon visibility -- help please
Reply-To: Fredric.Lonngren@eos.ericsson.se (Fredric Lonngren)
Organization: Ericsson Telecom AB
Date: Tue, 18 Aug 1992 09:45:04 GMT

If you are talking about the 3.1 clock you _can_ keep it always on top.
Go into the window menu ( the one under the - sign top left, or the menu
the icon provide). Check the last option ' Always on top '.
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From: goudswaa@fraser.sfu.ca (Peter Goudswaard)
Subject: Re: Print Manager Woes
Organization: Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C., Canada
Date: Wed, 12 Aug 1992 17:16:50 GMT

dyoung@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Donn C Young) writes:

>I've just installed an Intel SatisFAXtion board in my 486 clone. The 
>board came with a crippled version of Intel FAXability software for 
>Windows where you set up the fax as a printer device. Nice to fax stuff 
>from WfW etc. Howsomever, when someone faxes stuff to my machine, the 
>Intel software hangs onto the document, makes you "save" it as a *.DCX 
>file. Then, you've got to break it up into *.PCX files using a DOS 
>command (outside Windows). Then, I import the images into WfW or 
>Paintbrush and print.

>My problem: I've got this one page WfW document with a single PCX image 
>(about 200K). When I go to print the damn thing, Print Manager keeps 
>halting with the dreaded stop sign and a message that says "The printer 
>on LPT1 is not responding. Check the printer or increase the 
>Transmission Retry value (it's 120 sec.) ... and resume the print 
>queue."  What's going on???  After 12 minutes pm says its completed 44% 
>of 202K and crashes again.

>I have a 486/50 clone with 16 Mb ram with a HP Laserjet III w/2Mb 
>optional memory in addition to its stnd 1 Mb internal memory and a 
>official HP Postscript cartridge.  I'm running Win 3.1 and WfW 2.0.
>Why does this thing balk at a measly little 200K file?? Why does print
>manager take 15+ minutes to send this thing over a parallel port??
>With all that memory I thought it'd be zapped over in no time at all.

>Any help will be greatly appreciated.

>Donn Young, Biostatistics Unit     dyoung@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu
>OSU Cancer Center                  614/293-3075

Just a guess, but what happens if you disable the print manager?

Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
From: jmeyers@ecst.csuchico.edu (Jeff Meyers)
Subject: Multitasking priorities
Organization: California State University, Chico
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1992 00:48:21 GMT

Using windows 3.1 on a 386 or higher (386 enhanced mode), what does
the screen saver do to the multitasking priorities?  That is, when
the screen saver (the built in one) activates, does it become the
"foreground" application, or is it considered "background"???


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From: dmkwiedo@apgea.army.mil (Darius M. Kwiedorowicz <dmkwiedo>)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
Subject: Re: Graphics accelarators for Micro-Channel
Date: 13 Aug 92 18:18:31 GMT
Organization: Edgewood

In article <168408FD2.BHOLMES@cms.cc.wayne.edu> BHOLMES@cms.cc.wayne.edu ("Brian Holmes, WSU/C&IT") writes:
>Are there any Graphics accelerators for Micro-Channel
>besides those from Genoa?  They said they won't be able
>to ship for quite a while so I need another vendor.
>Thanks in advance!

Yes, the ATI 8514/Ultra (not to be confused with the ATI Graphics
Ultra).  It is a "flip-flop" card with ISA connectors on one side and
MCA on the other.  It requires a separate VGA card.  It connects to
your VGA card through the video connector on the VGA's edge.

It is my understanding that this card has the same performance specs
(other than VGA and no mouse port) as does the Graphics Ultra.
From: hmolotsi@pollux.svale.hp.com (Hugh Molotsi)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
Subject: Re: Procomm
Date: 18 Aug 92 16:40:11 GMT
Organization: Hewlett Packard CPCD, Sunnyvale CA

> I have recently seen several people talking about Procomm for windows.  Is
> a shareware product still.  If so could someone direct me to an FTP site for
> it.  Thanks

Nope, you must lay down the mulla for it ($149 list, ~$100 retail).

hugo
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