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From: bazelmans@pcsnode.uucp (Rudy Bazelmans)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.apps
Subject: Re: STACKER W/RLL Drives
Date: Sat, 14 Nov 92 15:07:59 -0500
Organization: Progressive Computer Solutions

>  > |> I have been having problems getting stacker v2.0 to work on my RLL drive.
>  > |> Has anyone else out there had this problem, I is it just impossible ?

Stacker software shouldn't even realize that the drive is RLL versus MFM, SCSI,...

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From: dranch@ecst.csuchico.edu (David Ranch)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.apps
Subject: Re: Project help please..
Date: 20 Nov 92 23:34:16 GMT
Organization: California State University, Chico
NNTP-Posting-Host: flambe.ecst.csuchico.edu

Yes... I have a question for you.

I have a Netware Lite LAN using 1534 byte IPX data packets flowing over
a 10Mb/s 10Base-2 Ethernet NICs.  As network trafic has increase, I've come 
to the conclusion that a Netware 3.11 server would be ideal.

The question I have is how would I integrate the two netware lite client/host 
machines integrate to the 3.11 server?  The 3.11 can only pusblish its drives
but not accept other servers.  The other machines MUST be able to both 
subscribe and pushblish their drive volumes.  

Is 3.11 capible of all this via NetX or do I have to stay with a peer-2-peer
style LAN?

Thanks much!

David
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.apps
From: pinczowe@titan.trl.OZ.AU (Emanuel Pinczower)
Subject: Re: Word 4 Windows (insert file)
Organization: Telecom Research Labs, Melbourne, Australia
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 00:57:47 GMT

jlk@siesoft.co.uk (Jim Kissel) writes:
> Using word 4 windows ver 2.0.....
> 
> Does anyone know how to insert a file into and existing document without
> destroying the headers and footers in the document?
> 
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Jim Kissel                            Telephone +44 344 862 222
> Siemens Nixdorf Information Systems                 344 850 461 (Direct line)
> Systems Development Group             Fax       +44 344 850 401
> Nixdorf House                         Domain     jlk@siesoft.co.uk
> Oldbury, Bracknell, Berkshire                    j.kissel@xopen.co.uk
> RG12 4FZ  Great Britain               UUCP       ....{ukc,athen}!siesoft!jlk
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------

No worries... just Insert a Section Break continuous and insert the
file.



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* Emanuel Pinczower (pinczowe@titan.trl.OZ.AU) *    "The whole world 
* Telecom Research Labs, Clayton, Australia    *    is a very narrow
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.apps
From: mroussel@alchemy.chem.utoronto.ca (Marc Roussel)
Subject: GeoWorks
Organization: Department of Chemistry, University of Toronto
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 19:03:16 GMT

In article <By0yBs.59o@nic.umass.edu> quilty@titan.ucc.umass.edu
(Humberto Humbertoldi) writes:
>The bigger problem is one that one should
>basically blame on The Prince of Darkness over at Microsludge: namely,
>while there are a million third-party Windoze programs (some not
>available in other versions), there are ZERO third-party GeoWorks
>apps.

     Well, there is ONE:  Borland's Quattro spreadsheet which you can
either buy by itself or bundled with GeoWorks (the "Pro" package).  Note
that I know nothing about this except what I've read in the magazines,
so don't ask me :-).

				Marc R. Roussel
                                mroussel@alchemy.chem.utoronto.ca
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.apps
From: holbrook@apollo.HP.COM (Alan R. Holbrook)
Subject: 'All Possible Combinations' Algorithms
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 16:29:29 GMT
Organization: Hewlett-Packard Company, Chelmsford, MA
Keywords: combinations

Can someone provide me with an algorithm suitable for writing a program
to dump all possible combinations of 'n' elements taken 'm' at a time?
That is, given the string 'abcdefghijklmnop', I'd like to be able to produce
all possible combinations of, say, 'abcde', then of 'abcdf', or of 'cfilnop'
then 'aceghilmp', etc.  I think you get the idea.

I'm sure anyone who has taken any statistics knows the formula for doing
this, but I never took any statistics.

I know, by the way, that I'm talking ._!LOTS!_. of combinations.  I don't
really need to be able to print or file all of them, I just need to know
how to.

Oh, yeah, in case anyone is tempted to wonder, this isn't for a class or any
other kind of assignment.  Actually, I need to be able to demonstrate a point
to my wife...

Thanks,
Alan Holbrook
holbrook@apollo.hp.com
No .sig, I just post on impulse.
From: jemenake@zeus.calpoly.edu (Joe Emenaker)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.apps
Subject: WANTED: A program that reports accessed files
Date: 21 Nov 92 20:08:52 GMT
Followup-To: /dev/null
Organization: California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo

PC Magazine made a utility called RECORDER once that would tell you what
files had been accessed and whether they we read, written to, or
executed since the program was first run. Unfortunately, if the accessed
file is in a subdirectory, RECORDER just lists the subdirectory name.

I was wondering if there were any programs like this out there which
either did fully qualified pathnames or at least just the filename.

Reply by e-mail please.   
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Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.apps
From: fisher@sc2a.unige.ch
Subject: Re: 'All Possible Combinations' Algorithms
Organization: University of Geneva, Switzerland
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 11:02:27 GMT

In article <By0wH5.D3L@apollo.hp.com>, holbrook@apollo.HP.COM (Alan R. Holbrook) writes:
> Can someone provide me with an algorithm suitable for writing a program
> to dump all possible combinations of 'n' elements taken 'm' at a time?

Wrong group, but here it goes (in somewhat portable c):

#include <stdlib.h>
#include <stdio.h>

#define swapc(a,b) do {char tmp=(a); (a)=(b); (b)=tmp;} while(0)

unsigned choose (unsigned n, char *s, unsigned p, unsigned nb)
/* Select every possible combination of n chars out of s, printing them. */
/* warning: n must be <= strlen(s) !!! */
{
	char *c;

	if (n == 0)
	/* enough characters choosen, so print (incrementing nb) */
		printf("%5d: %.*s\n", ++nb, p, s);
	else
	/* select every possible next char and recurse */
		for (c = (s+p);  *c;  c++) {
			swapc(*c, s[p]);
			nb = choose(n-1, s, p+1, nb);
			swapc(*c, s[p]);
			}
	return nb;
}
/* simply call as: */
#define combine(n,s) choose(n,s,0,0)

void main(int argc, char *argv[])
{
	if (argc<3) {
		printf("Usage %s <nb> <string>\n", argv[0]);
		printf("Prints all combinations of <nb> chars out of <string>\n");
		}
	else
		combine (atoi(argv[1]), argv[2]);
}


Good luck,

Markus Fischer    Dpt of Anthropology, Geneva CH    fisher@sc2a.unige.ch
From: cs89cmh@brunel.ac.uk (Chris Holland)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.apps
Subject: Re: Plotting problem using PADS-PCB
Date: 15 Nov 92 16:28:58 GMT
Organization: Brunel University, Uxbridge, UK
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]


I had a similar problem printing to a plotter, and found that I had overlooked
the setting for flow-control, you don't mention the setting you have for flow
control, and by your problem I would guess it is set to none, try 'hardware
control'

Hope this helps - it sorted my problem out!

Chris
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.apps
From: pet@informatik.ee.edag.de (peter katzmann)
Subject: Logo for MS-DOS
Keywords: LOGO
Organization: edag
Date: Sat, 21 Nov 1992 16:04:53 GMT

High there,
i'm searching for a friend about a LOGO system on the IBm-PC. Does anyone 
know if there is a free logo system out there on any site or does you know 
any company who will sell it.
(it's simply the question does anytime exist any logo implementation on the 
pc?)
could you e-mail the answer to matthias.schmitt@crpht.lu with an cc to me or 
mail it directly to me and i forward it!
thanks in advance				pet
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.apps
From: ianst@qdpii.comp.qdpi.oz.au (Ian Staples)
Subject: Re: Freeware editor recommendation wanted
Keywords: VDE, Visual Display Editor
Organization: Qld Dept Primary Industries
Date: Sat, 21 Nov 1992 05:40:42 GMT

In article <9962@blue.cis.pitt.edu.UUCP> djbpitt+@pitt.edu (David J Birnbaum) writes:
>Can anyone recommend a good, simple freeware msdos text editor? It
>doesn't need a lot of fancy word processing features, but it does have
>to be able to produce standard ascii files with no special formatting

I am also interested in this.  I have been using VDE (version 1.51) which
is *excellent* and is free for private use (but see further below).
It is *very* quick because it does everything in memory.  But that is the
problem - it only handles files up to about 80k (it uses some internal
algorithm to reduce that to a standard 64k segment).  The default command
set follows traditional WordStar, which is also good for many people.

However, I need something that can handle files of any size within reason
(say up to about 400k) to process large data files.  While this can be
done with VDE 1.51, you have to "split" the large file into chunks first
(VDE provides a command to do this) and then recombine them later using
the DOS COPY command:  COPY a1+a2+a3...  bigfile            Gawd!
Apart from being painful, it is _very_ difficult to convince yourself
that it has all come together properly again - especially when you see
how arbitrarily VDE cut the thing into chunks to start with.

VDE is shareware available from PC-SIG and is commonly advertised by
shareware distributors.  The author requests a voluntary rego fee but
"there is no required registration fee" for individual use.  This may
have changed since a new version came out and I notice that an article
in the Canberra (Australia) PC Users Group magazine "Sixteen Bits"
(March 1992, pp.12-13) refers to a rego fee of $US50 for a site licence
of up to 20 copies.  The author's address [was?]:

	Eric Meyer
	410 12th Avenue SE, #139
	Norman,  OK  73071  USA		Compuserve [74415,1305]

(If Eric Meyer sees this and confirms his address, I will be happy
to send him a voluntary contribution.  I really like VDE for small
jobs such as writing letters.  It supports underline, italics, and
bold if your printer does; and has a few other "word processing"
features such as "centre line" ["center" for you yanks out there]
and variable tabs, L & R margins, page length, and line wrap, but it
is basically an ASCII editor so you can't use font sizes and that stuff.)

Cheers,  Ian S.

Addendum:  I just looked for VDE in _Encyclodedia_of_Shareware_ (3rd Ed.)
The PC-SIG disk number is #1273.  As for speed, it quotes an example of 
finding a string near the end of a 60k nondocument (i.e. plain ASCII) file:
WordStar 4 took 20 seconds, VDE took half a second (using an 8 MHz 8088).
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Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.apps
From: pvonk@scott.skidmore.edu (Pierre VonKaenel)
Subject: Re: Gradebook program
Organization: Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs NY, 12866
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 13:49:37 GMT

In article <92322.114716QUIST@NDSUVM1.BITNET> <QUIST@NDSUVM1.BITNET> writes:
>I am looking for a gradebook program which will allow for individual weighting
>by type of grade, eg. tests: 40%, assignments: 20%, etc.  GRADESCAN is the best
>I've seen so far, but doesn't allow for weighting.
>
>quist@vm1.nodak.edu


A good spreadsheet program with macros to initialize names, etc., to
curve grades on an exam, to plot distributions, etc. is far more
flexible than a canned gradebook program (if you're willing to spend
the time developing the spreadsheet template).  Plus some of the newer
spreadsheets have links to databases, thus you can move current grades
to the database at the end of each semester.  Just a thought.


-- 
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Math & CS Dept.		| Saratoga Springs, NY 12866 | (518)584-5000 Ext 2391

"Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes." Oscar Wilde
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.apps
From: rcw@teal.csn.org (Robert C. White Jr.)
Subject: Desparately Trying Various Remote Packages over Phone Lines
Organization: Colorado SuperNet, Inc.
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 00:31:40 GMT

I am trying to find some decent software to access my systems at work.
That means running Windows in 386 enhanced mode.  I've got to 14,400 V.42bis
modems running on either end.
So far I've tried:

PC Commute - This is so slow, buggy and awful I won't comment any further.
PC-Tools,    Windows hangs up the modem, and would never come up completely.
~$75 upgrade.

Close-Up  - I really like the "reliable link" aspect of this software - you
 ($160)     don't see any line noise.  However, when I run windows in 386
	    mode, the modem hangs up on me.  Also, I've had windows hang
	    a couple of times.  The "editor" functions to edit a modem
	    setup string are the most bizarre I've seen in any software 
	    package - virtually unuseable.  Also, changing from a "direct
	    connection" to a modem causes the software to reboot the system.
	    In my opinion, this is fairly buggy software.  The documentation
	    regarding use with windows is geared to 3.0 (!) and although there
	    are pounds and pounds of it, most of it is repetitive and useless.

I think vendors of such programs should have to use them before they sell
them.  The current trend towards ever buggier software is totally 
unacceptable.

Is anybody using such a program over a telephone line (not on a network)
for serious work?  Or is the market just full of clownware?

-- 
Robert C. White, Jr.					rcw@whitestar.com
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.apps
From: pvonk@scott.skidmore.edu (Pierre VonKaenel)
Subject: Re: 'All Possible Combinations' Algorithms
Organization: Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs NY, 12866
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 14:16:41 GMT

In article <1992Nov23.130227.1@sc2a.unige.ch> fisher@sc2a.unige.ch writes:
>In article <By0wH5.D3L@apollo.hp.com>, holbrook@apollo.HP.COM (Alan R. Holbrook) writes:
>> Can someone provide me with an algorithm suitable for writing a program
>> to dump all possible combinations of 'n' elements taken 'm' at a time?
>
>Wrong group, but here it goes (in somewhat portable c):
>

I certainly hope that Mr. Holbrook isn't a student looking for someone
to do his homework.  As an aside, I once discovered students roaming
our halls asking help on math problems.  Turns out they were from
another school getting answers for a take home exam!  The Internet now
provides unlimited possibilities !  :-)

-- 
Pierre von Kaenel	| Skidmore College	     | pvonk@skidmore.edu
Math & CS Dept.		| Saratoga Springs, NY 12866 | (518)584-5000 Ext 2391

"Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes." Oscar Wilde
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.apps
From: quilty@titan.ucc.umass.edu (Humberto Humbertoldi)
Subject: Re: PCTools 8 & DRDOS
Organization: University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 23:13:42 GMT

In article <7316@news.duke.edu> machteme@acpub.duke.edu (Mark Achtemeier) writes:
>Does anyone have any experience running the new version of PC Tools
>under DR DOS?  I have run into some nasty compatibility problems
>running an *old* (version 5.0, I think) version of PC Tools under
>DR DOS 6 with SuperStor compressed drives.  In particular
>
>    The disk usage reports, and the unfragmenter are useless because
>    they confuse the estimated (compressed) disk space figure
>    for the real one;

I don't use version 8.0 of PCTools, but only 7.1, so possibly the
answer will have changed.  However, I am pretty sure that you will not
be able to use ANY defragmenter except for the SuperStor one on a
superstor partition.  I've had indifferent to BAD experience running
CPS "diskfix" -- before I upgraded to SuperStor 2.0 from the DR-DOS
version, diskfix just didn't actually improve the fragmentation, but
didn't do any real damage either -- with SS2.0 diskfix actually
trashes the HD. (Don't ask me why I bother trying this, I know I can't
give a good answer).  Still this isn't really so bad -- the
optimization bundled with SuperStor works fine; it's not as feature
rich as Norton or PCTools, but it does the job.  Don't know anything
about your backup question, since I've had no similar problem.


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Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.apps
From: rlm@sunlight.Physics.UIowa.Edu (Robert Mutel)
Subject: Re: Gradebook program
Organization: Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Iowa
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 23:27:43 GMT

I have been using Micrograde for Windows (Chariot, 619-298-0202, about $99 I
seem to recall). It allows for weighting of individual components and is quite
easy to use. The documentation is excellent. I am very happy with it.

-- 
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Department of Physics and Astronomy
University of Iowa
Iowa City IA 52242

Telephone: 319-335-1950      FAX: 319-335-1753
Email: rlm@sunlight.physics.uiowa.edu  (internet) 
       iowa::rlm (span)
From: machteme@acpub.duke.edu (Mark Achtemeier)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.apps
Subject: PCTools 8 & DRDOS
Summary: Questions about Compatibility
Date: 23 Nov 92 22:07:35 GMT
Organization: Duke University; Durham, N.C.

Does anyone have any experience running the new version of PC Tools
under DR DOS?  I have run into some nasty compatibility problems
running an *old* (version 5.0, I think) version of PC Tools under
DR DOS 6 with SuperStor compressed drives.  In particular

    The disk usage reports, and the unfragmenter are useless because
    they confuse the estimated (compressed) disk space figure
    for the real one;

    The backup program does not seem to function reliably--it appears
    to save the files okay but restores are dicey with lots of lost
    files and intermittent inability to recognize the directory info.

Will I run into these same problems under PC Tools 8.0?

Thanks for any help you can give.  Please e-mail replies to:

Mark Achtemeier
machteme@acpub.duke.edu
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.apps
Subject: Gradebook program
From: <QUIST@NDSUVM1.BITNET>
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 11:47:11 CST
Organization: North Dakota Higher Education Computer Network

I am looking for a gradebook program which will allow for individual weighting
by type of grade, eg. tests: 40%, assignments: 20%, etc.  GRADESCAN is the best
I've seen so far, but doesn't allow for weighting.

quist@vm1.nodak.edu
From: fjohnson@nmsu.edu (Fred Johnson)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.apps
Subject: PeachTreeIII...?
Date: 16 Nov 92 15:16:58 GMT
Distribution: comp
Organization: NMSU Computer Science


Hi,

I was wondering if anyone knew of a newgroup that discusses
PeachTreeIII?  Is it ever talked about here?  Would this be a
propretary topic that wouldn't make the internet newsgroups?  

Thanks for you help.........

Fred....
--
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New Mexico State University,  Computing Services/CANTO,
Box 30001/Dept.3AT, Las Cruces, NM 88003-0001,  Phone: (505) 646-5381
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.apps
From: raicu@netcom.com (Eugen Raicu)
Subject: What is hypertext?
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  (408 241-9760 guest) 
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL5
Date: Sat, 21 Nov 1992 17:03:35 GMT

Please reply by email.
Thanks,
-- 
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raicu@netcom.com
1912 Addison Street Apt. 15, Berkeley, CA 94704-1128
(510) 644 3204
From: dfh@dwroll.att.com (D461-David_F_Haertig(Dave)83040)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.apps
Subject: Re: Floppy disk "image" software available?
Date: 16 Nov 92 17:53:42 GMT
Reply-To: dfh@dwroll.att.com
Originator: dfh@dwroll

From article <1992Nov13.214219.23677@iplmail.orl.mmc.com>, by steveg@iplmail.orl.mmc.com (Steve Gabrilowitz):
> In article <1992Nov12.165343.28056@news.yale.edu>, eric@suncis.ycc.yale.edu (Eric Bird) writes:
> |> I'm looking for software which will allow me to make "images" of floppy
> |> disks--i.e., copy all the contents of one disk into a single file, and then
> |> reproduce the disk, sector for sector, later on.

> Teledisk is the only software I know of that does what you want.

Diskdupe allows you to do this also.  I'm sure I downloaded it from
Simtel or one of it's mirror sites.  The program is fairly nice, but
the user interface requires you to enter stuff that the program should
really be able to guess.  But it's not that bad.

But that's not what made me dump it.  It's shareware - with a registation
price of $79 or something like that.  I'm sorry, but $79 for a program
that just copies floppies is a bit steep - no matter how well it copies
those floppies.  There's even a "professional" version that goes for
$150 or some other ridiculous price.

Dave Haertig
haertig@att.com
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.apps
From: benson@dcdwest.uucp (Peter Benson)
Subject: Wanted: tsr to increase keyboard buffer size
Organization: ITT Aerospace/Communications Division - West
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 92 17:31:46 GMT

Can anyone recommend a public domain tsr to increase the keyboard
buffer size to, say, 256.  There used to be one for DOS 3.1 or so, but
newer versions of DOS can't use it.

I will summarize to the net, but would appreciate e-mail responses.
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Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.apps
From: wade.a.yoder.7@nd.edu (Wade A. Yoder)
Subject: Help - Screen garbage
Organization: University of Notre Dame
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 15:31:04 GMT

Help....  I am looking for any possible assistance.

We have some PC's that are running a software product called Reflection, Hewlett-Packard
emulation software, that are getting garbage characters on the screen.  The facts concerning
the PC's and their configuration follow;

1. All of the PC's are connected to the Hewlett-Packard 3000 via a serial port, either Com1
or Com2. (the PC's are both Zenith 386sx's and DTK's each running at least 4MB ram)
2.  The pc's are also connected to a Novell 3.11 LAN and to the campus's backbone network
via ethernet.  We are running Clarkson Packet drivers to connect to the Novell server and
still have connectivity to IP software that we are also using. (ethernet cards are both Western
Digtial and 3Com)
3.  The Hewlett-Packard is the Model 3000, 980/100, running the 3.0 operating
environment. (Please bear with me as I am not an expert when it comes to the HP3000.)
4.  When we experience the garbage on these PC's the users can disconnect the network card
and the garbage goes away.
One of our staff thinks that the problem is related to the IRQ's of the Serial Prot and the
ethernet card.  He feels that since the network card is at IRQ 5 and the com port is at IRQ 3
that the network card is somehow invading into the com port and causing the garbage.

What makes the problem even worse is that it doesn't occur all of the time it is very
intermittent.

Any suggestions?????  Post or send directly to me.

Skip Yoder
Univ. of Notre Dame
yoder.7@nd.edu