HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: vsp@peewee.enet.dec.com (Vipul Patel)
Subject: HELP: ATI Integra AND some techical Q
Keywords: ATI, monitors
Reply-To: vsp@peewee.enet.dec.com (Vipul Patel)
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation
Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1993 20:35:02 GMT



	What kind of chip does ATI Integra use?
	Any review/feedback on it? I would like to
	use it with either Mitsubishi DP14 or ViewSonic 5E.


	While looking at some specs of various monitors,
	I came across a few terms/things that I did not understand.
	There must be someone who understands the way monitors
	works.

	1) How are the horizontal/vertical frequencies play
	   a role in the display on a non-interlaced monitors?

	2) Most of the newer monitors provide "autoscanning"
	   or an automatic adjustment with the horizontal and
	   vertical frequencies. How does this work with the
	   video cards?

	3) What is the "bandwidth" in the context of monitors?
	   e.g. NEC 3FGX has 65 MHz, MAG 14H is 100 MHz.

	4) A different number of colors may be displayed at
	   different resolution and for different video standards
	   (EGA,VGA,SVGA etc). Is this limitation on part of the
	   monitors and/or video cards?
	

	Thanks,


	Vipul
	vsp@unx.dec.com
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From: ekman@netcom.com (Crossly the Glad-Eyed Bear)
Subject: Re: PKZIP 2.04c Uploaded to wuarchive
Organization: Home for the Terminally Infirm
Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1993 01:48:22 GMT

Ok, one data point.  I downloaded pkz204c.exe from wuarchive and ran it.
It self-extracted normally, with apparently correct authentication.

I ran both pkzip and pkunzip with no problems.  I then rebooted my
system.

If there's a virus in there, it's a delayed action one; I see no
evidence of it.
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From: wngai@bonnie.ics.uci.edu (Wayne Ngai)
Subject: Printing from Unix machine to printer attached to PC terminal
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Organization: Univ. of Calif., Irvine, Info. & Computer Sci. Dept.
Date: 8 Jan 93 19:56:38 GMT

	Hi!  I was wondering if there is/are any existing program(s) out
there that would allow for a PC terminal to print a file on the Unix
machine to the local printer that's attached to the PC terminal. e.g.
say I'm hook up to a Unix machine via modem, and I want to print a
file on the Unix machine to my PC printer.  Is there anyway of doing
that without having to download the file to my PC and do some
conversion to printout the file?  i.e. sending the print job to
printer attached to terminal.  If there is such a program, could some
kind soul please tell me where and how can I get a hold of it?

THANKS IN ADVANCE!!!
--Wayne
From: tamura@toda.ricoh.co.jp (Hiroshi Tamura)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: INFO NEEDED !  : details of EISA bus Spec.
Date: 12 Jan 93 01:17:29 GMT
Distribution: comp
Organization: RICOH Toda Technical Center, Kanagawa


Thanks,

  I have posted in this group for the first time, and I don't know which group is
appropriate for my following question. I am sorry if this group is not. 

  I would like to know the details of EISA bus and I have the following 3 books or
something.

  1  EISA SPECIFICATION  Ver3.12  BCPR Services Inc.
  2  Inside the EISA Computers  Tony Dowden  Addison-Wesley Publishing Company,Inc.
  3  EISA System Architecture  Tom Shanley  MindShare Press.

Could you show me other good books or somethig to know it much more ?
Alternatively, if I could understand these 3 ones perfectly, don't I need other ones ?
According to this no.1 book, there seems to be some guides or references about EISA
configuraion language. 

  It is difficult to get the information of EISA bus in Japan. A few days ago I went to
big bookstores in Tokyo which deal with a lot of foreign books to look for, but 
I could not find.

  I would very much appreciate your ansewring it.

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RICOH COMPANY, LTD.
Toda Technical Center
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From: dreyer@eis.cs.tu-bs.de (Stefan Dreyer)
Subject: Printer-driver for F&A
Keywords: F&A, Canon BJ-330
Organization: TU Braunschweig,Informatik,EIS,West Germany
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 12:09:40 GMT

Help for F&A

Does anyone have a printer-driver for F&A for the Canon-Bubblejet 330 ?
I am also interested in informations about making an own printer-driver.

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From: jlee@leland.Stanford.EDU (Joseph Chee-Yoon Lee)
Subject: 387 co-processor emulation software?
Organization: DSG, Stanford University, CA 94305, USA
Distribution: usa
Date: Sat, 9 Jan 93 07:29:22 GMT

I have a 386 PC, but no 387 math co-processor.  I have a program
which is enhanced by the addition of the co-processor, but I don't
have the dough to buy one.  I'm wondering if there is any software
out there (free SHAREWARE, hopefully) that can emulate the co-processor
and fool programs into thinking there is one there.  I don't care that
much about speed.  Just need something cheap.  If it is available on
an ftp site, please give me the address.  Thanks a lot!

Joe

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From: dhartge@mitre.org
Subject: Re: Can't DSZ RZ anymore!!
Organization: The MITRE Corporation
Distribution: U.S.
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 17:12:56 GMT

In article <1993Jan3.102515.9793@panix.com> carlf@panix.com (Carl Fink) writes:
>
>  The message you reproduce indicates that you tried to download a file
>which either had the same name as a file you already had, or the
>name of a subdirectory you already had.  Unless you give the correct
>command-line flag, DSZ won't overwrite existing files.
>-- 
>Carl Fink          carlf@panix.com, C.FINK4(GEnie), or CF427620I@LIUVAX.BITNET
>  "Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our
>  inclinations, or the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter
>  the state of facts and evidence"     --      John Adams
>
GSZ has a flag ( don't remember what offhand) that causes any duplicate file
names to be changed (as I recall it changes the extension to 001, 002...).  Is
that feature available in DSZ?

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From: chandra@cannelloni.cis.ohio-state.edu (B Chandrasekaran)
Subject: Re: Parallel port as input port
Organization: The Ohio State University Dept. of Computer and Info. Science
Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 14:04:59 GMT

In article <1993Jan8.054952.9570@nuscc.nus.sg> scip2060@nusunix1.nus.sg (SARDJONO INSANI) writes:
>
>Hi,
>Is is possible to set the parallel port of PC as input port? Has
>anybody tried this or know of other methods of transferring data
>one byte at a time to the PC?
>
>Thanks
>
>
I was talking with a company called Komputerwerk, 1-800-423-3400, about
upgrading the harddisk on my laptop, and the man said that they sell a
harddisk which works off the parallel port.  The HD gives you another
parallel port for the printer, so you can still print when you use it.
He said that the 100 MB HD will cost $560.  I forgot to ask him the
speed, but I suspect that it would be much slower than the regular
disc drive speeds.  More knowledgeable people might comment on this.
From: bo09+@andrew.cmu.edu (Brock Eugene Organ)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Wanted: IBM PC TIFF MS FORTRAN code
Date: 6 Jan 93 12:31:40 GMT
Article-I.D.: andrew.cfGprAK00WB4875ZUc
Organization: Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA

I am currently involved in a project to implement
scanned bitmaps in a real time data collection program.
The program is written in MS FORTRAN on the IBM PC.

Does anyone know where I can find a TIFF reader,
or a good explanation on how to write one? (I have the
format,  but don't understand how it works.)

Thanks,

Brock
*****************************************************************************
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Department of Psychology,  Carnegie Mellon University

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From: "Ken Rawlings" <krawling@mango.ucs.indiana.edu>
Subject: Re: Byte's Amiga 4000 review...
Followup-To: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Summary: Another former Amiga lover.
Organization: Indiana University, Bloomington
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 23:28:38 -0500

[I've redirected followups to this article to c.s.a.a, which is where
 this thread probably belongs. ]

In article <sheldon.726028193@pv141b.vincent.iastate.edu> sheldon@iastate.edu (Steve Sheldon) writes:
> While an '040 gives it some horsepower, and so does the bus architecture. 

	Just thought i'd chime in as another Amiga user that jumped
ship. I got my 1000 in 1986, and in fact it was the machine I cut my
teeth programming on. I didn't have much problem finding application
development tools for it(Manx C was fairly spiffy for its time), and the
ease of programming with windows was a godsend compared to the mac. I
used to brag to my friends that the Amiga was "Twice the power of a PC
for half the price".

	That was 1986. Times have changed.

	With every new release of the OS and new hardware I became more
and more beleagured by Commodore not keeping up technologically. In 1987
we were hearing wonderful things about the "Ranger", with it's
sophisitcated 24-bit graphics and memory-protection. By the time I
finally gave up on the Amiga, the top of the line machine(the 3000) didn't
support memory protection(sorry, derivitives of GOMF don't cut the
mustard), and to make matters worse, the graphics weren't much better
than the 1000(EHB standard, and a flicker fixer).

	Like many other people I know, the evolutionary(not
revolutionary) development efforts by Commodore, combined with PC's
becoming a commodity item, finally broke the camels back and I bought a
PC with comparable horsepower to a 3000, for half the price. [Yes, I
know 3000's are getting cleared out now, but i'm talking 2 years ago
even _with_ the educational discount] Since then the situation has only
gotten worse. Now when friends ask why I don't have an Amiga anymore,
the response is, "It's half the computer, at twice the price". :-(

	There you have it. The original poster wanted to know what PC
users think of the state of Amiga's, well i've been on both sides of the
fence extensively. I have to agree with the original developers of the
Amiga. They held a funeral for the Amiga(casket and all) once they
realized what Commodore was going to do with their wonderful machine.

						Regards,
							Ken

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From: D1SAR@VM1.CC.UAKRON.EDU (Steve Rimar)
Subject: Clone Companys info.
Organization: The University of Akron
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 14:27:26 GMT

Please let me know if you have any information about the following
computer companys products:
FastMicro, Insight, Occidental, Swan and the NEC READY 486's.
Thanks for any info.
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From: carlf@panix.com (Carl Fink)
Subject: Re: Can't DSZ RZ anymore!!
Organization: PANIX Public Access Unix, NYC
Distribution: U.S.
Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 01:49:08 GMT

In <1993Jan7.171256.19619@linus.mitre.org> dhartge@mitre.org writes:

>In article <1993Jan3.102515.9793@panix.com> carlf@panix.com (Carl Fink) writes:
>>
>>  The message you reproduce indicates that you tried to download a file
>>which either had the same name as a file you already had, or the
>>name of a subdirectory you already had.  Unless you give the correct
>>command-line flag, DSZ won't overwrite existing files.
>>

[my sig deleted]

>GSZ has a flag ( don't remember what offhand) that causes any duplicate file
>names to be changed (as I recall it changes the extension to 001, 002...).  Is
>that feature available in DSZ?

  Yes.  It's -c.
-- 
Carl Fink          carlf@panix.com, C.FINK4(GEnie), or CF427620I@LIUVAX.BITNET
  "Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our
  inclinations, or the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter
  the state of facts and evidence"     --      John Adams
From: frisk@complex.is (Fridrik Skulason)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Re: Request for location of best&latest virus checker/killer
Date: 10 Jan 93 11:59:04 GMT
Organization: Frisk Software International, Iceland

am66@cunixa.cc.columbia.edu (Alexander Maldutis) writes:


>Hi!  I would like to know what is the best, most comprehensive public domain
>or shareware viruschecker and killer, and an ftp site that has it.  I have
>decided that I should strat scanning my dls.

Well, even though I would like to say that our scanner (F-PROT) was the best,
the fact is that no single scanner is the "best" in every sense.  It depends
on exactly which combination of features you are looking for.  Most scanners
will detect most of the viruses you are ever likely to encounter - that is the
100 or so viruses that are spread "in the wild" (out of a total of over
2000 different MS-DOS viruses).  They may differ with respect to the
capabilities of the TSR portion, disinfection capability, and other such
features.

Actually, the best approach for you might be to download 2 or three scanners
from a site such as oak.oskland.edu (/pub/msdos/trojan-pro).  There you will
find F-PROT (version 2.06a), SCAN (version 99, I think), TBscan and possibly
a few others.

-frisk

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
From: tji@nwu.edu (Tamara Iversen)
Subject: looking for a lost company
Organization: Northwestern University
Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1993 22:13:31 GMT

I am looking for a company that used to be located in Mountain View in CA
but no longer seems to be there.  They are called CommSoft and their former
address was something like: 2257 Old Middle...., Mountain View, CA 94043. 
Phone number was: 415-967-1900.  They used to come out with this program
called Roots which is used for building family trees and such.

A friend of mine in Norway is very interested in getting version 4.0 of
this program but his attempts to call have not been successful.  Can
someone help me?

Sincerely,

Tamara Iversen
tji@nwu.edu
From: bt@neocad.com (Bruce Talley)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Re: 1.44MB Floppies won't format
Date: 7 Jan 93 18:49:27 GMT
Organization: NeoCAD, Inc.



I borrowed a bulk eraser and zapped all of my 50 bad diskettes
and have been able to format every one.  --> No more "track-0"
errors during formatting.

Many thanks to all of you who responded to my original posting.
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From: frisk@complex.is (Fridrik Skulason)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Re: PKZip > 1.1: Why bother?!?!
Date: 6 Jan 93 21:31:16 GMT
Organization: Frisk Software International, Iceland

J056600@LMSC5.IS.LMSC.LOCKHEED.COM writes:

>   What wonderful new advances are in the newer versions (1.93, 2.04, 3.05)
>of PKZip?  Better compression, perhaps?

Probably, yes...but maybe not that much better.  The primary reason to have
the new version is of course so that you can handle files you might receive
from somebody else, if they are packed with the new version.

-frisk
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
From: tsand@vipunen.hut.fi (Tapio Sand)
Subject: Re: The Canon BJ-200 any experiences?
Reply-To: tsand@vipunen.hut.fi (Tapio Sand)
Organization: Helsinki University of Technology
Date: Sat, 9 Jan 1993 07:49:29 GMT

Is there a FTP site anywhere that would have a DOS Wordperfect 5.1
driver for BJ-200?
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From: runyan@cup.hp.com (Mark Runyan)
Subject: Re: Help - Stacker and other Hard Disk Programs.
Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 16:07:57 GMT
Organization: HP, Cupertino, CA, USA
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1.8 PL6]

billtcat@ac.dal.ca wrote:
>I recently bought a 386sx computer with an 80M hard drive. Some friends of mine
>have told me about some hard drive doubling programs (ie. Stacker). I am aware
>in the past Stacker has had some problems. Have they fixed these bugs? and 
>are there other better "Stacker"-like programs out there that would do the 
>job better?
>	Also, do "Stacker"-like programs slow the computer significantly?

There are other "Stacker-like" programs available.  At the moment, I can
only remember "Double disk" and "SuperStor".  I use Stacker 3.0 and I don't
notice any significant slow down on my 386sx 80M hard drive.  Accessing the
stacker disk is reasonably fast (no I haven't run bench marks).  But, be
aware that Stacker also sells hardware that can do the Stacking for you
if you find the software emulation too slow.  While I haven't tried that
route, I would expect a piece of hardware to be quite a bit faster than
the software emulation.

BTW, various rumors indicate that DOS 6.0 (should it ever come out) would
have a disk doubling program within it.  Perhaps others can expand on that
rumor.

Mark Runyan

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From: dmsilev@athena.mit.edu (Daniel M Silevitch)
Subject: Re: PKZIP V3.05 problems
Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 13:37:37 GMT

In article <SLAMBERG.93Jan7150650@mato.cc.lut.fi> slamberg@lut.fi (Samu Lamberg) writes:
>
[deleted]
>
>PKZip 2.x has not been released. The latest official version
>is 1.1. There has been a alfa/beta version 1.93 but not 2.x.
>

Incorrect. Version 2.04c was officially released just a few days ago, and
is now available at garbo, among other places. Features improved compression
algorithm and support for multi-volume archives.

> It's too easy to place trojan horses
>   into software. Way too easy.  Why do people trust such
>   obvious traps?
>
>Errare humanum est. I suggest sending this program to the authors of
>McAfee and F-prot.
>
>samu

Daniel Silevitch                                dmsilev@athena.mit.edu
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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From: scip2060@nusunix1.nus.sg (SARDJONO INSANI)
Subject: Parallel port as input port
Organization: National University of Singapore
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]
Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 05:49:52 GMT


Hi,
Is is possible to set the parallel port of PC as input port? Has
anybody tried this or know of other methods of transferring data
one byte at a time to the PC?

Thanks



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From: bern@Uni-Trier.DE (Jochen Bern)
Subject: How to Erase a Floppy without Computer (was: Pizza Hut erases diskettes)
Originator: bern@kleopatra
Organization: Theor. CS, FB IV / CS, Univ. of Trier, Germany (Internet TI.Uni-Trier.DE)
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 15:24:42 GMT

I think that a mayor Part of the Theme is still not mentioned. OK, first my
.02 to the Points you mentioned ...

Static magnetic Fields: That's hard to use as Erase Mechanism since static
   magnetic Fields are quite limited in Strength. I was told that a "Wed-
   ding Ring" equipped with a Cobalt Magnet can be used to destroy Flop-
   pies, but you have to rub the Floppy (5.25", at that Time) to achieve
   this.

Alternating magnetic Fields: This gets more dangerous. Alternating Fields
   are able to penetrate through Materials which might filter out static
   Fields. See below.

Mailing Floppies: Since there are other Dangers to a Floppy when it gets
   sent by Mail, it is probably wrapped into several Layers of whatever
   Material. This is good enough to ward off static Fields, I think; Those
   famous two Subwoofers maybe excepted. Designated Floppy Mail Enclosures
   often include an Aluminium Plate in Order to require Arnold the Postman
   to bend or fold them. :-) If I'm not very much mistaken, this Plate
   might protect the Disk even if it's on the OTHER Side of the Disk
   since Aluminium "pushs back" magnetic Fields (can somebody please
   check this?). As mentioned by others, 3.5" are generally harder to magne-
   tize than 5.25".

TV Sets and Monitors: POSITIVELY DANGEROUS, properly shielded ones excepted.
   I once put another TV Set to my CP/M Computer and kept wondering why my
   Floppies kept going bad ... Since there was no Hard Disk, I had to sacri-
   fice my Boot Floppies one after the other ... Finally, I had to have a
   Boot Floppy mailed (from some 100km away :-( ) in Order to get my Box
   back to work!

The REAL Dangers:
   a) Temperature. Since I use PC 5.25" Floppies, there was only ONE which
      got damaged beyond Repair; It had been in my Briefcase on a cold
      Winter Day. Others have produced interesting Art Products by leaving
      the Floppy close to a Heating Device.
   b) Bending and Folding, especially for 5.25" ones. There were Guys erasing
      their Data by simply giving the Keyboard a Push.
   c) Office Guys which tend to treat Floppies like Sheets of Paper (with
      Punchers or Staplers). Gotten better with 3.5", too.

Regards,
								J. Bern
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