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From: larry.koester@execnet.com (larry koester)
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Subject: creating windows help
Date: 9 Apr 92 06:37:59 GMT
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TC>I just got one of Microsoft's wonderful upgrade notices, about what
TC>the Professional Toolkit for Visual Basic. The ad says that it has
TC>the Help Compiler, and all you need is a word processor that can

    There is supposed to be a Rich Text Editor of some kind included
    with this Toolkit according to the liturature.  It wasn't anymore
    specific than that however.

    Larry
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Date:         Wed, 8 Apr 1992 08:21:57 EDT
From:         "Harry Yeatts" <HYEATTS@VTVM1.BITNET>
Subject:      Re: Reply to Re: Re: EXCEL UPDATE
              7 Apr 1992 16:59:15 -0500 from
              <Scott.R.Barnett@CYBER.WIDENER.EDU>

As a couple of people have already stated, BTW means "by the way."

One of the things I found most fascinating when I joined this list last
year was the number of abbreviations (like "BTW") being used. I've been
thinking of compiling a glossary of such terms. Anyone wishing to can
send me examples of these abbreviations and I'll post my findings later
(and even keep a running list if anyone is interested). This may not be
a Windows subject, per se, but it might be a help in communicating with
each other...and that couldn't hurt.


BTW: If anyone can think of suitable additions to our netter's abbreviation
lexicon, send that on too. (Example: HTH = Hope this helps)

Harry Yeatts                          INTERNET: VTVM1.CC.VT.EDU
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Posted-Date:  13 Apr 92 16:04 EDT
Acknowledge-To:  Vince Scarafino <Scarafino@MULTICS-A.PMS.FORD.COM>
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Date:         Mon, 13 Apr 1992 16:01:00 EDT
From:         Vince Scarafino <Scarafino@MULTICS-A.PMS.FORD.COM>
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              (WIN3-L@UICVM.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.e)"

 >Date:  13 April 1992 14:05 edt
 >From:  Network_Mailer.Daemon (WIN3-L@UICVM.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.e)

  ......

 >From: Ramiro Quintana Merino <NCD99060%UFRJ.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu>
 >Subject:      Corrupt swapfile Warning message
 >To: Multiple recipients of list WIN3-L <WIN3-L%UICVM.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu>

  ......

 >
 >P.S.: I'm running Windows 3.0 on a 386sx/16, with NDW 1.0 as shell.
 >I also run ATM 1.0 and After Dark in the background.

It is important that you have nothing else running in the background
when you invoke the swapfile command under Windows 3.0 in real mode.

Vince
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Date:         Wed, 8 Apr 1992 17:46:00 EST
From:         Michael Gordon <GORDONM@DENISON.BITNET>
Subject:      Re: TrueType Fonts

>
>I was afraid I should have been more specific.  I'm a licensed 3.0 owner and
>want to purchase the upgrade plus the TrueType software that Microsoft is
>offering but want it at the best possible price.  Before I take the $99
>offer from Microsoft, I want to determine whether any other vendor has the
>same package for less.  So far all the offers seem to be either the
>upgrade alone or a full 3.1 package.  No one seems to have the same TrueType
>add-on as Microsoft.
>
        I'll try again: MicroWarehouse is offering the "same TrueType add-on
as Microsoft" and they are asking $89 for it, which is less than what
Microsoft is asking.

Michael D. Gordon
gordonM@cc.denison.edu
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Date:         Thu, 9 Apr 1992 09:52:48 CST
From:         Gaynor Kybett <KYBETT@MAX.CC.UREGINA.CA>
Subject:      Re: DOS startup directories in Win 3.1
              8 Apr 1992 23:32:00 EDT from <Scarafino@MULTICS-A.PMS.FORD.COM>

>>Has anyone noticed that when you launch DOS apps in 3.1 that windows seems to
>>the startup directory box in the pif editor.  I have been having a problem

>Windows 3.1 adds support for "Working Directory".  Could the Windows
>directory be the default chosen if you don't specify a working
>directory?  This is only a guess on my part, since I haven't any
>experience with 3.1.

Working Directory is a line item under File Properties in Program Manager.
You should put the starting directory name there for each icon.
The guess is correct - the default is the windows directory.

Gaynor Kybett                                   kybett@max.cc.uregina.ca
University of Regina, REGINA, Saskatchewan, Canada
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Date:         Mon, 6 Apr 1992 13:07:19 BST
From:         Barry_Wood@VME.NOTT.AC.UK
Subject:      Re: crazy

I also cannot escape the list with UNSUBSCRIBE or SIGNOFF. Please could
somebody remove me from the list?
Barry Wood
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Date:         Mon, 6 Apr 1992 16:10:15 -0600
From:         "Lindsey Lawwill,CA0072, Computing Affairs,
              (618)453-6262" <CA0072@SIUCVMB.BITNET>
Subject:      Wierdest undocumented feature in W4W.

 *** Reply to note of 04/06/92 15:39
 Vic, your message must apply to W4W2.0 - I tried it with my current version and
 it did nothing...however I must have messed up 'spiff' - whatever it is!

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Date:         Mon, 13 Apr 1992 09:50:27 CST
From:         Gaynor Kybett <KYBETT@MAX.CC.UREGINA.CA>
Subject:      Re: What's meaning of WORDSCAN?
              13 Apr 1992 11:52:31 -0800 from <m8042620@MIS.NSYSU.EDU.TW>

>    What is the WORDSCAN meaning?  Is anyone tell me your experience?  thanks!

WORDSCAN is a program from Calera Recognition Systems used with a scanner to
read printed text and convert it into machine readable format for any of the
more common word processors (or just ASCII text).  I use it with the Hewlett
Packard Scanjet.

Gaynor Kybett                                   kybett@max.cc.uregina.ca
University of Regina, REGINA, Saskatchewan, Canada
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Date:         Mon, 13 Apr 1992 14:23:00 EDT
From:         Michael Gordon <GORDONM@DENISON.BITNET>
Subject:      FastDisk

>
>The 32-bit (fastdisk) access is for all disk i/o when running windows in the
>enhanced mode.
>
>As has been noted, this is for only selected harddrives/controller
>combinations.  Currently this means WD compatible controllers.
>
>Hope this helps.
>
>Ermine Todd III
>Todd@ac.grin.edu

        Ermine,
Are you sure about this? I just got off the phone with Norton and they were
quite adamant that fastdisk is only for a permanent swapfile.
        Michael
Michael D. Gordon
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Date:         Thu, 9 Apr 1992 09:07:00 MDT
From:         Vic Garside <INTVIC@ENG.MED.UTAH.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Win 3.1 DiamondCo. drivers?

   Ok netland, I know it's a bit early to be asking this, but has anybody
   succeeded in finding the NEW windows 3.1 version drivers for Diamond
   Co's Tseng 4000 based cards?  Their BBS was supposed to have them as
   of today (4/6), but they've been BUSY for literaly the last 10hrs or
   so ;-(  Anyways, if anybody has already gotten them and/or knows if
   they're up on the net anywhere yet, I'm sure MANY users of this
   popular group of video boards would be happy to know about it.

   -Thanks,
   -Diego Gallina (dgallina@epas.utoronto.ca)

Has anyone posted these drivers to a Internet source yet?   I have been
trying to get the drivers off the Diamond BBS for the last week but now luck.

                                         Thanks.
Vic Garside
intvic@eng.med.utah.edu
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Date:         Mon, 6 Apr 1992 13:52:03 CDT
From:         Moore <moore@EMAIL.NCSC.NAVY.MIL>
Subject:      Fahrenheit 1280 vs Windows 3.0 (er, 3.1)
X-To:         win3-l@uicvm.uic.edu

Greetings.

A week ago, I sent a message describing a problem I was having with
Windows 3.0 and Word for Windows 2.0a with the 1280x768 256 color
mode of Orchid's Fahrenheit 1280 video accelerator.  I've since
found out a couple of things:

The problem happens on both a KLH 386/40 with an IDE drive and a
Unisys 386/25 with a SCSI.  It *only* happens in standard mode, not
in 386 Enhanced mode.

I can cause a system lock up by exiting Visual Basic if there's wall-
paper hung.

The system hangs in *any* resolution mode of the 1280 except 640x480.

The problem does not occur with Win3.1 using the current video driver
from Orchid (which you would think wouldn't work with 3.1 but so far,
so good).  Orchid says they're distributing updated video drivers via
their BBS, and will do a mass mailing to registered owners next month.

I received a couple very good suggestions, first to reinstall Windows
and second to try 386Enh (I'd been running in standard mode on my 386
to get better performance).  Thanks for the suggestions, friends!

May everyone's 3.1 upgrade go smoothly.

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Date:         Thu, 9 Apr 1992 09:32:42 BST
From:         Ian Calvert <CALVERIA@IBM3090.COMPUTER-CENTRE.BIRMINGHAM.AC.UK>
Subject:      RE: Pigged off Microsoft User!

I would agree that the Which Computer Show OS/2 machines did appear to be
quite slow.  The label on the one I had said it was a 486, but the main
problem it had with regard to speed was the hard disk.  It appear to take
a long time to fire up the even accessory type programs that were loaded
on it.   That's just my opinion and maybe OS/2 is doing something real
clever while its loading the programs, it just didn't seem very impressive
in terms of speed.


/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/Original message\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\
 Maybe they also have slow computers in your country... I just saw OS2 2.0
 at Comdex/Windows World in Chicago and it ran reasonably fast on 386 and
 486 machines.

 John

 P.S. Win 3.0 ran reasonably fast also!
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Date:         Mon, 13 Apr 1992 12:49:13 BRA
From:         Ramiro Quintana Merino <NCD99060@UFRJ.BITNET>
Subject:      Corrupt swapfile Warning message

    I receive this warning message every time I start Windows 3.0. Some
days ago I read in the user's guide that allocating a permanent swapfile
to work with Windows would increase its performance.
    I followed the procedure explained in the user's guide: after cleaning
the hard disk with Norton Disk Doctor (ndd), I ran Norton Speedisk to get
a large contiguos disk area available. So far, so good. When I started
Windows in real mode in order to run swapfile.exe, Norton Desktop (wich is
my Windows shell) warned me that it was starting Program Manager (ProgMan)
my 386 got frozen.
    After changing my Windows shell back to ProgMan I started Swapfile and
it reported an error. Since then I was unable to revert the swapping back
to temporary and I keep getting the "Corrupt Swap File Warning" that I
mentioned before.

    Now, when I start Swapfile using ProgMan as shell in real mode I get
a warning saying that my swapfile is corrupted and that I should run
swapfile.exe again to have this problem corrected. The problem is that
when I start it the second time, Windows freeze and I have to reset the
machine.

    I've created a permanent swapfile in a friend's computer with no
problems. Am I missing something ? Do anyone have had these problems ?
Any help would be very much appreciated ...  I can run Windows normally
right now (it uses temporary swap files) but the warning is very annoying.
    I don't know if I have a defective version of swapfile.exe. Any help
appreciated.

Thanks in advance,
Ramiro Quintana
Bitnet Address: NCD99060@UFRJ

P.S.: I'm running Windows 3.0 on a 386sx/16, with NDW 1.0 as shell.
I also run ATM 1.0 and After Dark in the background.
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Date:         Wed, 15 Apr 1992 20:00:22 EDT
From:         "Thomas L. Blaskovics" <U2347@WVNVM.BITNET>
Subject:      ATI Ultra

Does anybody know if the ATI-ULTRA will support a SONY 1302 monitor??

 Thanks,
 Tom Blaskovics
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Date:         Mon, 6 Apr 1992 19:05:13 -0400
From:         Diego Gallina <dgallina@EPAS.UTORONTO.CA>
Subject:      Re: Wierdest undocumented feature in W4W.
              CA0072, Computing Affairs," at Apr 6, 92 4:10 pm

>
>  *** Reply to note of 04/06/92 15:39
>  Vic, your message must apply to W4W2.0 - I tried it with my current version
+ and
>  it did nothing...however I must have messed up 'spiff' - whatever it is!
>
>  **********     ++  HERE COMES DAYLIGHT SAVINGS TIME ++     ***********
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>  * Lindsey C Lawwill                                                  *
>  * Development Center Manager        Southern Illinois University     *
>  *   (618) 453-6262                  Computing Affairs - Wham Bldg    *
>  * BITNET:  CA0072@SIUCVMB           Carbondale, IL  62901-4622       *
>  *--------*---------*---------*---------*---------*---------*---------*
>

Hmmm...  in WFW 2.0A I get the author/company credits, but no Word
Perfect Bashing.  Seems like a funny thing to bother taking out... ;-)

-Diego Gallina (dgallina@epas.utoronto.ca)
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Date:         Tue, 14 Apr 1992 10:14:26 CDT
From:         "Stanley S. Shannon" <sshannon@HA06.ENG.UA.EDU>
Subject:      multiple child windows

	What's the trick to having more than one child window of the same type
appear on the screen at the same time?  I am attempting to call documents in
response to the selection of the document's title from a list box and have
several of the documents, each in a separate window, on the screen at once for
examination.  I have tried several techniques but each time when I try to call
a second window the application crashes.  Thanks.   Stan Shannon.
sshannon@buster.eng.ua.edu.
From: edwong@csa.bu.edu (Edward Wong)
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Subject: 32bit disk access
Date: 8 Apr 92 17:56:55 GMT
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Organization: Boston University

Is it good to use the 32 bit disk access feature on win 3.1?
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Date:         Tue, 7 Apr 1992 09:41:00 EST
From:         dkrasnow@NSF.GOV
Subject:      ATI Graphics Ultra and screensaver (ScreenPeace)

> ...   But, subsequently, my screen would go completely blank.  No
> amount of banging on the keyboard would bring my video back,
> although it was obvious that my CPU was still working.  The only way
> I could get video back was to reboot.  After a great deal of
> experimentation, it appears that the shareware screensaver
> ScreenPeace is the cause of the problem.  Since unloading it,
> everything's been fine.  Running another screensaver is also fine.
> I might mention that ScreenPeace itself could run for some time
> before I suddenly lost video.  Anyone have a similar experience?  An
> explanation?

ScreenPeace was an early, buggy version "shareware" program which
developed into a commercial product, "Intermission", which I have been
running since the fall of 1990.

I had numerous problems when I used ScreenPeace, but only one very
minor one with Intermission under Windows 3.0. (At the time I was told
it was a Windows 3.0 bug, and apparently that was true, since it went
away with 3.1.) I am not using the ATI board, so I can't specifically
respond to your problem.

BTW, the author, Anthony Anderson, asked BBS owners to remove
ScreenPeace from their BBS's quite a while ago.

Dave Krasnow
dkrasnow@nsf.gov  (BITNET: DKRASNOW@NSF)
Disclaimer: I have no interest in any of the products other than as a
user.
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Date:         Mon, 6 Apr 1992 12:27:03 EDT
From:         "Kris Beatty" <krisb@WESTFORD.CCUR.COM>
Subject:      Re: 3.1 *AND* 3.0 on same machine
              06 Apr 92 10:33:52 -0000.
              <9204061136.aa25265@masscomp.westford.ccur.com>

Never tried it, but I have done similar things with other
products by creating two seperate directories and use two different
autoexec.bat files setting path and other related parameters to
the appropriate path.

kris beatty
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Date:         Tue, 7 Apr 1992 22:49:00 EDT
From:         Vince Scarafino <Scarafino@MULTICS-A.PMS.FORD.COM>
Subject:      Re: Reply to Re: Re: EXCEL UPDATE
X-To:         Microsoft Windows Version 3 Forum
              <WIN3-L%UICVM.BITNET@UGA.CC.UGA.EDU>
              CYBER.WIDENER.EDU"

 >Date:  7 April 1992 17:59 edt
 >From:  Scott.R.Barnett at CYBER.WIDENER.EDU
 >Subject:  Reply to Re: Re: EXCEL UPDATE

 >What does BTW stand for?  You can send me the reply directly if you do not
 want
 >to send it to the list.  Thank you.
 >
 >Scott Barnett
 >pysrbarnett@cyber.wdiener.edu

By the way

Vince
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Date:         Wed, 8 Apr 1992 09:24:00 EDT
From:         Vince Scarafino <Scarafino@MULTICS-A.PMS.FORD.COM>
Subject:      Re: Windows 3.1 vs Windows NT
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              <WIN3-L%UICVM.BITNET@UGA.CC.UGA.EDU>
              Innovation CEnter"

 >Date:  8 April 1992 01:26 edt
 >From:  George Gavathas - Athens Innovation CEnter <ggavath at
 LEON.NRCPS.ARIADNE-T.G>
 >Subject:  Re: Windows 3.1 vs Windows NT

 >> NT will utilize separate address spaces for each of its processes,
 >> providing a higher level of robustness.  It will be harder to crash, and
 >> could thus be a better development environment than 3.1.  NT will also
 >> provide symmetric multiprocessor support, which would make a difference
 >> if you have more than one processor in your PC and like to run lots of
 >
 >        Does that means that it will be able to utilize transputers ?
 >
 >        Is there any rumor about going multi  user ?
 >
 >
 >                                        George---

I'm afraid I don't know what transputers are.

Windows NT is single user at this time.  The APIs are supposedly being
designed to be extensible to a multi-user environment.

Vince
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Date:         Sat, 11 Apr 1992 08:36:00 CST
From:         KARCZIR@AUDUCVAX.BITNET
Subject:      Test

Hi,
I've posting questions for the last three days, my VAX/VMS mail had
confirmed that postings have been distributed on the list but I haven't
seen any. It used to be that my own postings were coming back to me
from the list, had something changed lately?
FYI, I got latest? (March 92) version of Virus Scan for Windows and works
just fine in the 3.1
Here my questions again:
How to use Archie from the Bitnet, our Telnet is only campus wide?
Does somebody has the PCSOUND.DRV and feels like sharing with me?
TIA Irek Karcz
Industrial Design Dept., Auburn University
karczir@auducvax
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Date:         Mon, 6 Apr 1992 09:18:57 PDT
From:         "Vance M. Gloster" <gloster@INFERENCE.COM>
Subject:      [rhilger@KPMG.CO.AT: Re: 3.1 prices]
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    Does anybody know which fonts are in the True-Type pack?
    I need equivalent TT fonts for Univers (WN) and CG Times for the
    HP III printer.

The basic package of Windows 3.1 has the fonts you are looking for.
The equivalent of Univers is called Arial, the equivalent of CG Times
is called Times New Roman.  Both are TrueType.  The TrueType pack
contains additional fonts.  I am using these fonts on a LJIII and they
look great!  They make full use of the LJIII's enhanced dot
resolution.

-Vance Gloster
 gloster@inference.com
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Date:         Thu, 9 Apr 1992 16:42:27 BST
From:         "Mr. P.G. McIntyre" <PHILMAC@LIVERPOOL.AC.UK>
Subject:      Re: Pigged off Microsoft User!

Current conversion rate for pound to dollar is about 1.76. Not very good
prices Microsoft!!!!
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Subject: Re: An incredible deal
From: andyb@wndrsvr.la.ca.us (Andy Brager)
Date: Tue, 7 Apr 1992 09:04:54 GMT
Organization: Wonder Server - Public Access for SoCal

dhawan@vax1.umkc.edu writes:

>486-33 Compa Deskpro/M
>200MB SCSI Hard Drive
>256 color SVGA monitor
>Graphics accelerator for Windows
>8MB RAm
>Dataproducts Laser printer w/ color option
>NEC Multisync 5Fg monitor (17" diagonal)
>Bernoulli external Hard drive
>9600 baud Qblazer modem
>Fotoman digital camera
>Stacker 2.0
>DOS 5 and Windows 3.1

>Any two of the following
>Visual Basic
>Excel 3.0
>Wierd Perfec 5.1
>Action!
>FoxPro 2.0
>Norton Desktop for Windows

>ALL total market price (suggested)  $19,832
>Sale price (special offfer from PC/Computing Mag):  $1,278.43

It's some sort of weird scam.  I called and they go on and on about
this great deal with this guy cackling the whole time.  Really weird.
Then he says "Sucker.  This is a timesharing deal and you've been had"
or some such deranged drivel.  Anybody know of a good place to report
the idiot?

Andy

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