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From: bsardis@netcom.com (Barry Sardis)
Subject: Re: Suggestions for Form Software wanted
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  (408 241-9760 guest) 
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 05:43:36 GMT

bilee@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Billy Lee) writes:


>I'm looking for suggestion on what form software
>might be the best to use.  I've been using a word
>processing program and just editing a copy of the
>form and inserting the appropriate words.

>Problem is, the forms have gradually been getting
>more and more complex and others in my group that
>do this are beginning to have difficulty.

>I'd like to find something a little more graceful,
>like a program that will ask the appropriate questions
>and then merge the responses with a copy of the form or
>a program that allows you to fill out a virtual copy of
>the form in WYSIWYG mode on the screen.

>Any help would be appreciated.

>Thanks

Not knowing what your specific requirements are, Delrina's 
PerForm Pro Plus is probably the best on the market.

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
From: rjt@dcs.warwick.ac.uk (Richard)
Subject: Memory parity error - Would SIMM re-insert help solve ?
Organization: Department of Computer Science, Warwick University, England
Distribution: eunet
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 08:58:36 GMT


I have just put together a 386 PC from a kit.  I installed 4MB SIMMS memory
in bank 0.  When running some programs I get the message (with description)

Parity Error ???  -  Use memory diagnostic software such as AMIDIAG, to
		     find and correct memory problems.

As the computer is brand new I wonder if it would perhaps solve the problem
if I remove the SIMMS and re-insert them carefully into the motherboard
( or would this be a fruitless exercise).  Also where would I get hold
of AMIDIAG as no software disk was supplied with my machine ( or is
some equivalent program available from an ftp site somewhere)

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks from  Richard (rjt@dcs.warwick.ac.uk)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
From: Michael.Kohne@launchpad.unc.edu (Michael Kohne)
Subject: Unix's for the 386/486
Organization: University of North Carolina Extended Bulletin Board Service
Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 15:13:19 GMT

I am looking for a unix for the 386/486. I will be running the system as a 
dial-up service with probably about 8 lines to start, more to come later.
I know of the following 'unix-type' os. I would like to know who I contact
about these, any experiences good/bad you've had with these, and any others
that I have missed.
One other thing, I intend to use SCSI hard drives for this system, and I've
heard that some unix's can't install directly to SCSI drives, so I'd love 
to hear about any installation/setup problems you've had.

Pleasee reply via e-mail, I will post a summary when the number of new
replies starts to fall off. 

The unix's I know to exist:
linux
SCO unix
coherent
Xenix


Thank you
Michael Kohne
House of the Techno-Discordians, Aquatic Amusements Division

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From: pss1@kepler.unh.edu (Paul S Secinaro)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware,comp.os.msdos.misc
Subject: Expanding the size of a disk partition
Date: 28 Jan 1993 21:55:04 GMT
Organization: University of New Hampshire  -  Durham, NH
NNTP-Posting-Host: kepler.unh.edu

Assuming I have removed all the other partitions on the hard disk, is
there any way to safely increase the size of the primary C: partition
without losing any data?  Are there any reliable utilities that will
do this?

In case it matters, I'm using a Maxtor Panther P0-12S 1.2GB SCSI hard
disk and a DTC 3290HD SCSI EISA controller.  I have a primary
partition of 200MB and an 800MB extended partition (DOS 5.0 format).
I'd like to expand the primary to at least 400MB.

Thanks!

Paul

-- 
Paul Secinaro
pss1@kepler.unh.edu
Synthetic Vision and Pattern Analysis Laboratory
UNH Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering
From: dmkasten@redorc.chi.il.us (Bowie Poag)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Re: Reading AMIGA disks...
Date: 23 Jan 93 14:57:55 CST
Organization: Red Oracle Bbs/Network

In article <1993Jan12.112120.17856@news.uit.no>, perk@stud.cs.uit.no (Per-Ivar
Knutsen) writes:
>Anyone have a program that enables you to read amiga diskettes on a pc...The
>amiga have something called cross-dos...Anything similar to the PC???
> 
>  



I think MSDOS floppy drives are physically incapable of reading AmigaDOS
disks.. A standard Amiga 3.5" disk contains 880K, as compared to MSDOS's 720K..
I know for a fact that an Amiga has no problem downgrading its drives to read
MSDOS format--I do it all the time when porting images and documents to the
IBM's at my college's computer lab. Wether the reverse is true, I find
unlikely.

Any Amiga can read DOS formatted disks at both 360K and 720K--The new high-end
Amiga workstations such as the Amiga 4000 have a 1.76 meg floppy built in as
standard, and can be used to read IBM 1.44 meg disks.

Your best bet would be to find an Amiga user to do it for you, rather than
searching endlessly for a DOS program to do the same task--There are an
abundance of cross-filesystem readers / writers for the Amiga.. CrossDOS is
just one of them, and is built into Release 2.1 and 3.0 of the Amiga operating
system.



        +-----------------------------------------------------------+
        |o|              I think, therefore I Amiga.              |=|
        +-----------------------------------------------------------+
        | Douglas Michael Kasten (DMK) | Amiga 2000HD/5 with a tiny |
        |  dmkasten@redorc.chi.il.us   | little 21" Toshiba monitor.|
        +------------------------------+----------------------------+
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
From: cgordon@vpnet.chi.il.us (gordon hlavenka)
Subject: Re: Please explain computer joke
Organization: Vpnet Public Access
Distribution: na
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 18:28:15 GMT

 feld@ccu.umanitoba.ca (Michael Feld) writes:
>"Dilbert"s nerdiness appeals to me; there, I've said it.  But I don't
>alwsys catch his references.

Send mail to "scottadams@aol.com"; he draws Dilbert and included his
email address in a recent strip.

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----------------------------------------------------
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Vote straight ticket Procrastination party Dec. 3rd!
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
From: olson@mydual.uucp (Kirtland H. Olson)
Subject: Re: Info on Seagate ST-412 Hard-drive
Keywords: Seagate, harddrive
Reply-To: olson%mydual.uucp@alliant.com
Organization: The Harvard Group, 01451-0667
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 18:25:40 GMT

In article <108133@bu.edu> phillyg@acs.bu.edu (Khoa Nguyen) writes:
>I recently picked up this drive at an auction...
>If anyone knows what kind of drive this is
>and the settings for it, I would be grateful.

ST-412 is a FH 5.25" MFM hard drive.
10 MB 306 cyl 4 hd 307 rwc 128 wpc 17 spt

Good Luck,

        --Kirt




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Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
From: pv9955@gemini
Subject: Computer Problem... please help
Reply-To: pv9955@gemini
Organization: University of Albany, SUNY
Date: Sat, 23 Jan 93 18:35:43 GMT

I think I deserve this punishment.
Back in June, my family bought a Gateway2000 486sx25.  It is a fine computer.
Then in September I bought a very similar computer from Standard (only 
because I did not want the huge Gateway case in my dorm room-- and Gateway
did not yet offer the baby case for their 486 line).
I never compared the computers side by side, but the Gateway just FEELS
faster and better built (mostly attributed to the Western Digital hard drive
which is much faster than the Maxtor in my Standard).
So all Winter I was saying how much faster (and cheaper) the Gateway is.
Then, the last day before I left to come back to school, it died.

What is happening is that when it is turned on, the three indicator lights
flash on, and then everything turns off.  No fan spinning; no hard drive.
Gateway Tech Support said they cannot send an On-Site technician to my home
because they do not do "troubleshooting."  I will first have to find the
problem, and they will send me a replacement part.  Only if it is a big job
will they send someone to do the work.

Okay, now to the point...
What could be the problem ?
At first I thought it could be the power supply, but I doubt it since the
lights do come on for a brief moment.
Gateway Tech support said it could be an expansion card shorting out the
motherboard (I have three:  the Gateway modem, ATI Ultra, and I/O card).
I really hope the modem is the problem, because that is the easiest fix.
I was also told that the "riser" board holding the expansion cards could be
the problem, or it might be the motherboard itself.
What other possibilities might there be ?  How would I go about finding the
problem (other than removing expansion cards one at a time) ?
Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
Please EMail responses to PV9955@albnyvms.bitnet

Thank you,
Peter Volpe
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
From: bilee@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Billy Lee)
Subject: Suggestions for Form Software wanted
Organization: The Ohio State University
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 15:40:20 GMT


I'm looking for suggestion on what form software
might be the best to use.  I've been using a word
processing program and just editing a copy of the
form and inserting the appropriate words.

Problem is, the forms have gradually been getting
more and more complex and others in my group that
do this are beginning to have difficulty.

I'd like to find something a little more graceful,
like a program that will ask the appropriate questions
and then merge the responses with a copy of the form or
a program that allows you to fill out a virtual copy of
the form in WYSIWYG mode on the screen.

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks
From: Sheldon.Sawatzky@f886.n2000.z12.misgate.gmi.org (Sheldon Sawatzky)
Sender: uucp@misgate.gmi.org
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Procomm Plus script help
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 10:02:00 -0700

DWM>I have been trying to transfer files between two computers using
DWM>Procomm Plus, and have been thwarted. I have to call from one
DWM>computer to the other for both sending and receiving of files.
DWM>(The goal is to swap the files back and forth as updates occur- it's
DWM>not often enough to warrant a network.) To do this, in the sending case,
DWM>I basically tell the remote computer to switch directories, receive
files,
DWM>switch dirs again and receive files again. In the receiving case I do the
DWM>same algorithm by executing a remote script. However, it is messed up by
DWM>the behavior of zmodem, which recognizes incoming files, and then doesn't
DWM>do any actual downloading. Here are the scripts:

DWM>Sending files:

DWM>SENDFILE ZMODEM "C:\BARROW\*.*"
DWM>SENDFILE ZMODEM "C:\BARROW\DATA\*.*"

DWM>SENDFILE ZMODEM "C:\BARROW\DATA\*.*"

To use ZMODEM with ProCOMM do not use SENDFILE.  For an upload, the
command line should read:

DOS "ZMODEMU C:\BARROW\DATA\*.*"

For a download, the line should read:

DOS "ZMODEMD C:\BARROW\DATA\*.*"

DWM>Oh- and there is not a problem becuase of zmodem's file overwriting
DWM>protection. I move the files to another directory before I start this,
DWM>so the two directories are empty.

In your ZMODEMD.BAT file put the -c switch (DSZ -c).  Files will not
be overwritten but given new sequential extensions.


 * Origin: Taiwan Misionary BBS - Taichung, TAIWAN (12:2000/886)

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From: kevinc@aupair.cs.athabascau.ca (Kevin Crocker)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc,comp.os.os2.misc,comp.databases
Subject: Re: Please name any good Accounting shareware
Date: 22 Jan 93 22:31:55 GMT
Followup-To: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Distribution: na,local

f67709907@violet.ccit.arizona.edu (Greg Franklin) writes:

>>>In article <C10sq8.H6p@ccu.umanitoba.ca>, umnoor@ccu.umanitoba.ca (Nasir Ahmed Noor) writes:
>>>>
>>>>I am looking for a good accounting package (shareware). Could you please
>>>>name any along with the ftp site. I would prefer one with good documentation
>>>>giving some intro to accounting.

>If you don't limit yourself to shareware, you could check out Intuit's
>QuickBooks.  This is a version of Quicken customized for small businesses'
>accounting needs, and has a look-and-feel similar to Quicken's.  I helped
>a friend set it up, and the manual was quite good in delivering an intro
>to accounting.

I use Quickbooks for my computer consulting company.  It works very
nicely.

Kevin
PRof. of Finance
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
From: sct@beta.lanl.gov (Stephen Tenbrink)
Subject: Re: Computer Problem... please help
Organization: Los Alamos National Laboratory
Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1993 21:37:34 GMT

In article <1993Jan23.183543.12329@sarah.albany.edu> pv9955@gemini writes:
>I think I deserve this punishment.
>Back in June, my family bought a Gateway2000 486sx25.  It is a fine computer.
>...then it died.
>
>What is happening is that when it is turned on, the three indicator lights
>flash on, and then everything turns off.  No fan spinning; no hard drive.
>Gateway Tech Support said they cannot send an On-Site technician to my home
>because they do not do "troubleshooting."  I will first have to find the
         ------------------------------
>problem, and they will send me a replacement part.  Only if it is a big job
>will they send someone to do the work.
>


Waite a minute!!  What good is having "on-site" technical support if they
don't troubleshoot?  I may have been naive, but what is the "on-site"
support for except to fix something you cannot identify?  Am I wrong??  If
this is the case, then we've been dupped by the claim.

-Steve Tenbrink
sct@lanl.gov
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From: phil@tgf.tc.faa.gov (Phil Willows)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc,comp.os.ms-windows.misc,comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.tools,comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.misc
Subject: Re: Nightmare experience with "Programmer's Paradise"
Date: 27 Jan 93 22:56:44 GMT
Distribution: na
Organization: FAA Technical Center, Pomona, NJ
NNTP-Posting-Host: offserv2.faa.gov

timhu@ico.isc.com (Timothy Hu) writes:

>I thought that you had to live within 50 miles of where you bought the
>merchandise in order for the credit card company/bank to help you. Is
>this wrong?


>-- 
>Timothy Hu timhu@ico.isc.com	 | The intelligence (or lack of) expressed
>Interactive Systems Corporation  | above does not necessarily reflect
>Resource Solutions International | that of anyone else.

Yes.  If you contact your credit card company immediately (and in writing)
they will usually go to the wall with you.

I had a problem with an outfit called "Main Street Computer."  I ordered
a (then) top of the line Panasonic KXP-1624 printer.  It never arrived
and they had billed the credit card company;  They were in New Hampshire
and I am in New Jersey ( a tad more than fifty miles I'd say).

I contacted Main Street and was given nothing but BS.  I then contacted
VISA.  On the second bill from VISA was a credit for the printer and
 accumulated interest.

I then bought it from Computability.  NO PROBLEMS.  Happy ever since.
From: Tim.Tyler@f886.n2000.z12.misgate.gmi.org (Tim Tyler)
Sender: uucp@misgate.gmi.org
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Stacker Vs. superstor
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 21:03:00 -0700

To: worm@sage.cc.purdue.edu (Ryan Bowles) 
 On 01-21-93 RYAN BOWLES wrote to ALL... 
 
 RB> >>Does anyone have any advice or info regarding the hard disk 
 RB> compression 
 RB> >>programs - Stacker and/or Superstor?  
 RB> >> 
 RB> >>Has anyone experienced any bad side effects caused by the 
 RB> installation 
 RB> >>of either program. I have heard and suspect that the PC's is slowed  
 RB> >>because of the constant decompressing and compressing. 
I have been using the version of Superstore that comes with Dr Dos 6 for about
 
six months on a 386 notebook.  I had some about three times.  The first two  
times just running CHKDSK /f fixed everything.  The last time CHKSDSK /f 
truncated all files on the drive to just over 8k.  Still don't know what the 
problem is.  I have recently reinstalled it leaving 10MB uncompressed so far 
so good (only two weeks - with fingers crossed).  I don't see any slow down 
though. 
 
 RB> >> 
 RB> >>Does Windows work happily with them? 
 RB> > 
 RB> >I've used Stacker 2.0 & 3.0 for about a year & have had no problems. 
With Windows your virtual memory file must be on a non-compressed drive  
otherwise it will goof things up.  Also a friend told me that you need to 
make sure and not crash during Windows session as this will also do strange 
things to your compressed drive. 
 
 
 
... OFFLINE 1.42 * * Tim Tyler, Christians In Action, Taiwan 

 * Origin: Taiwan Misionary BBS - Taichung, TAIWAN (12:2000/886)

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From: jmann@vineland.pubs.stratus.com (Jim Mann)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc,comp.os.ms-windows.misc
Subject: Summary: HP Deskjet 500C vs. 550C
Date: 21 Jan 1993 18:08:54 GMT
Organization: Stratus Computer Inc, Marlboro MA
Reply-To: jmann@vineland.pubs.stratus.com
NNTP-Posting-Host: gondolin.pubs.stratus.com


I received a number of replies on the HP 500C vs. 550C question
I posted a couple of days ago. Thanks to all who replied.

The major difference between the two is that, while both come
with two cartridges (color and black), the 550C has both
installed at once, and can thus use both in the same printout.
The 500C only holds one cartridge at a time; you have to change
them. (A simple procedure, that takes less than 10 seconds.) Thus,
you can only use one cartridge for any particular print job. 
For color print jobs that need some black, the black is a combination
of the colors (and isn't quite black, but a very dark green).

The 550C can apparently also print slightly farther into the
margins, and has a bigger buffer.

One other note on the 500C: when the black cartridge is installed,
it is essentially a 500 (the HP black only inkjet), 
and prints as well as a 500.

Approximate prices (at CompUSA):

500   $380   
500C  $495
550C  $695

Based on all this, I bought a 500C.  This is for home use, and
I couldn't justify $200 given that the color, for me, was a toy
(it was only a bit more than the black printer, so it would
be fun to have and use every now and then).  If I were
producing lots of color graphics for presentations, I'd
probably have gone with the 550C. But, since I don't use
color very often, and the cartridges really are easy to 
change, I'm quite happy with the 500C.

---
Jim Mann            
Stratus Computer   jmann@vineland.pubs.stratus.com  

Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
From: downs@helios.nevada.edu (Lamont Downs)
Subject: Re: STACKER question
Organization: UNLV
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 02:38:36 GMT

In article <1993Jan21.104210.17130@jupiter.sun.csd.unb.ca> jswilson@mta.ca (SCOTT_WILSON) writes:
>From: jswilson@mta.ca (SCOTT_WILSON)
>Subject: STACKER question
>Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 10:42:10 GMT
>How can I turn off my cache on my computer... Stacker
>when you go into compress the drive says to turn off the disk cache
>when compressing the drive
>I use Himem.sys and smartdrv.sys
>
>thanks in advance
>Scott Wilson
>JSWILSON@MTA.ca
Is it the disk cache or FASTOPEN it's complaining about? I know Stacker 3.0 
will refuse to do disk optimization, etc. if FASTOPEN is running (just REM 
it out and reboot).
downs@helios.nevada.edu
From: gcook@horus.cem.msu.EDU (Greg Cook|xxxxxx)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Re: What language was it written in?
Date: 28 Jan 93 03:45:33 GMT
Distribution: na
Organization: Michigan State University
NNTP-Posting-Host: horus.cem.msu.edu

From article <436@dprmpt.UUCP>, by larry@dprmpt.UUCP (Larry):
> How can you tell what language was used to produce a .EXE file?  Is
> there some tell-tale indicator in the program that indicates whether
> it was written in Assembler, C, Pascal, etc.?  If so does anyone know
> of a program that can be used for this purpose?  Many thanks.

Actually, it's hard to say since there are utilities which will convert
.bat and .com files to .exe files.


     Gregory R. Cook         |  INTERNET:    gcook@horus.cem.msu.edu
 Department of Chemistry     |               cookgreg@student.msu.edu
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc,comp.os.ms-windows.misc,comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.tools,comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.misc
From: shopsis@panther.adelphi.edu (Charles Shopsis)
Subject: Re: Font Packages
Organization: Adelphi University - Node: Boole
Distribution: na
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 01:33:08 GMT

In article <C15oIL.9xz@harpo.dev.uga.edu> cstripli@harpo.dev.uga.edu (Cletus Stripling) writes:

>Hi....

>Can anyone recommend a soft font package that can be used with HP LaserJet
>and compatiable printers.  The font package should be able to generate fonts
>on the fly, have multiple typefaces and be compatiable with DOS applications
>such as WordPerfect 5.1 as well as Microsoft Windows 3.1.

>Any suggestions?

>Thanks, Cletus
>-- 
>************************************************************
>* Cletus Stripling              cstripli@harpo.dev.uga.edu *
>* The University of Georgia     cstripli@uga.cc.uga.edu    *
>************************************************************

A program called Morefonts does all that you ask, and very well!  If you're 
using WP for Windows, the 5.2 upgrade comes with a coupon for Morefonts for
$29.00, an icredible bargain IMHO.  Morefonts will also let you get True 
Type fonts with the WordPerfect printer driver in WPWIN, and its completely 
compatible with Adobe Type Manager 2.02 and 2.5 and True Type.

Highly recommended.

Charles Shopsis, Dept. Chemistry, Adelphi University
shopsis@panther.adelphi.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
From: jswilson@mta.ca (SCOTT_WILSON)
Subject: STACKER question
Reply-To: jswilson@mta.ca
Organization: Mount Allison U, Sackville, N.B. Canada 
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 10:42:10 GMT

How can I turn off my cache on my computer... Stacker
when you go into compress the drive says to turn off the disk cache
when compressing the drive
I use Himem.sys and smartdrv.sys

thanks in advance
Scott Wilson
JSWILSON@MTA.ca
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc