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From: dszpiro@student.business.uwo.ca (Daniel A. Szpiro)
Subject: Re: AfterDark & Procomm for Windows
Organization: University of Western Ontario
Date: Fri, 14 Aug 1992 23:33:15 GMT

shopsis@auvax1.adelphi.edu (Charles Shopsis) writes:

> In article <1992Aug14.172419.5326@linus.mitre.org>, ll@linus.mitre.org (Leona
> >I have noticed that if AfterDark 2.0 is in the Startup Group and Procomm for
> >Windows 1.0 is active, that when AfterDark times out (and the screen show
> >should begin) the entire monitor screen goes dark, and I can't do anything
> >except hit the RESET button on the computer.
> >
> >Does anyone else have this problem?  And a solution?  Thanks.
> >-------------------------------------------
> >Leonard Lau    Internet: ll@linus.mitre.org
> 
> I load afterdark in my win.ini on the run= line (or is it the load = line?;
> sorry I don't recall).  Anyway, when Procomm for Windows is running, afterdar
> will not activate, even if no file transfer is occurring.  Thus I don't get t
> screen show, but I also don't get the lock-up.
> 

After Dark places a file called AD_PREFS.INI in your WINDOWS
directory. In this file there is a section called something like "COMM
ports to monitor." Its probably a good idea to tell After Dark to
ignore the COMM port your modem is set-up on. If you don't After Dark
will not work, as in the above case with Charles, or may work
incorrectly, which may be Leonard's problem.

Reagrds,

Danny

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From: ehunt@bsc835bsc.edu (Eric Hunt)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.apps
Subject: Re: Any recommendations for Windows communications apps / w/Unix?
Keywords: Windows Communications Apps, Windows, Unix
Date: 17 Aug 92 02:35:38 GMT
Organization: Birmingham-Southern College

In article <1992Aug14.190523.17777@tc.fluke.COM>, moriarty@tc.fluke.COM (Jeff Meyer) writes:
> I'm looking for any opinions you might have on a good, reliable Windows app
> for communications and terminal emulation, particularly to be used for
> logging into Unix systems.  Back when I was on a Macintosh, there was this

I found the best program for Unix communication to be WinQVT 4.x - I forget the
latest version right now. It has everything you mentioned you needed, plus
ZMODEM transfer protocol. It's a very good VT220 emulator.

Secondly, I would suggest you use Procomm Plus/Win, but it can take a little
getting used to. It has a stronger dialing directory, and more terminal 
emulations.
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From: knorris@vax1.umkc.edu
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.apps
Subject: Hypercard & Windows ???
Date: 12 Aug 92 18:22:20 GMT
Organization: University of Missouri - Kansas City

Does anyone know of hypercard software for Windows?  I have the
names of two products ("Toolbook" and "Plus") which supposedly allow
you to port over Mac Hypercard material and run it under Windows, but
I cannot find any info on these.  Anyone out there have any advice?
Thanks for any help.

Kent
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.apps,comp.os.ms-windows.misc
From: hiew@cs.uwa.oz.au (HIEW Hong Liang)
Subject: Music Symbols Font under Windows ?
Organization: Dept. Computer Science, University of Western Australia.
Date: Fri, 14 Aug 1992 07:56:52 GMT

Hi,
	I am looking for a Windows' font which includes musical symbols.
I was wondering if any such font exists in public domain. I have the
CorelDraw version but I don't know how to convert the font file to a
normal Windows font file. Can anyone offer any help?

	Thanks in advance.

hiew.
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.apps
From: btbg1194@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Bradley T Banko)
Subject: Auto Load in Windows 3.0?
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Distribution: na
Date: Tue, 18 Aug 1992 17:12:25 GMT

Anybody still using Windows 3.0?  I am trying to figure out how to get
auto load/run applications to load their init files.  These are the
standard Windows applications Calendar and Terminal mainly.
I have added the startup files to the "property" command line under
the program manager, and the init files load when the applications are
loaded manually, but not when the applications are started automatically
by adding them to the "load=" or "run=" lines of the "win.ini" file.

I will keep looking for an FAQ file about this, but would appreciate 
email responses in the meantime to:  b-banko@uiuc.edu.

Thanks!

Brad Banko


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Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.apps,comp.infosystems.gis
From: simpsons@leland.Stanford.EDU (james disanto)
Subject: Re: Windows mapping packages
Keywords: mapping windows
Organization: DSG, Stanford University, CA 94305, USA
Distribution: comp
Date: Fri, 14 Aug 92 00:04:43 GMT

There are several low end packages which will be comming out 
before Christmas.  Etak incorporated in Menlo Park has mapping
libraries in DLL form so people can build their own mapping
applications.  For more information on Etak and Helix send
e-mail to ramaa@etak.com..
From: velasco@cs.ucsd.edu (Gabriel Velasco)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.apps
Subject: Re: WP for Windows or Word?
Date: 16 Aug 92 03:48:20 GMT

The business division at this University has a site license for
several hundred users.  Usually, the man in charge of deciding what
software every one of his departments should use goes with the PC
Magazine Editor's Choice.  WP for Windows was an exception.  Even
though we have large site licenses for Windows Excel, he chose to stay
with WP for Windows as the division-wide word processor.  The main
reasons were a good learning curve for previous users of WP and
excellent support.  I'm not sure I would have made the same choice
because, generally, the reviews for WP Windows haven't been good and
it sure seemed like a fast port to windows when I first messed around
with it.  I'm not sure if Microsoft Word can import WP files, but that
certainly would have also been a deciding factor since the division
has probably 100 or so gigabytes of WP files already.

I think people who are used to WP for DOS and have lots of resources
invested in it have a much greater motivation for sticking with their
Windows product.  People who are new to computers and are starting off
in Windows might want to go with a product that's more "Windowey".
They both seem to be very stong, flexible, stable products.

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Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.apps,comp.databases
From: bruhn@exaib.wu-wien.ac.at ( Peter Bruhn )
Subject: Re: dBFast
Organization: Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration
Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1992 13:32:05 GMT

> 1. Can I use dBFast to make .EXE files for royalty-free distribution,
>    just like with VB?

Your source code is compiled to an intermediary code, that is interpreted
by a run time module. If you start a compiled program, the run time module
will be invoked and interpret the intermediaty code. Distribution is
royalty-free.

> 2. Is there any DLL commercially available for it to speak some
>    SQL with SyBase SQL server running on AT&T Unix System V R4?

I have got no idea.

DbFast seems to work quite well, but there are some weak points that should
be mentioned:

1. The documentation is really very poor. As far as dbase commands are concerned
   this is no big problem. Just use your dbase docs. But as soon as you want
   to use additional commands of dbFast (e.g. to do all the Windows stuff),
   you will suffer from the bad docs: Some commands are not even mentioned,
   the arguments of some commands are not explained, so you will have to guess
   what they mean and what you can use as argument (this is especially tricky
   for arguments that ask for text). I don't know anything about books on
   dbFast (Computer Associates doesn't know either, but they promised to check
   it out). So if some kind soul could give me information on additional
   literature on dbFast, I would be more than thankful.

2. Generating individual reports is a tricky task, especially if you want
   to produce a report with a lot of lines and boxes (printing these reports
   gets quite slow, by the way). If you want to use the print manager, you
   will not be able to change the orientation of the output (Computer
   Associates simply says it is not possible). So I am looking for a DLL
   that does this work (Again I would be very thankful if someone sent me
   information, if such a DLL already exists or how I could implement it
   in Borland C(++).)

3. The support of Windows-fonts could be better. There are 15 different
   fonts or sizes. But there is no support for centering or deleting these
   fonts. E.g. if you want to delete a font that is bigger than the standard-
   font, you will have to delete more than one line.

But I hope the new version 2.0 that is supposed to come up soon, will eliminate
at least a part of these problems. I suppose this will be necessary to
compete with programs like Dbase for Windows.
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.apps
From: bsteinke@es.com (Bruce Steinke)
Subject: Re: WP for Windows or Word?
Reply-To: bsteinke@es.com (Bruce Steinke)
Organization: Evans & Sutherland Computer Corp., Salt Lake City, UT
Date: Fri, 14 Aug 92 16:39:29 GMT

In article <0095F13C.2CF87560@srcvax.cem.msu.edu>, medlin@srcvax.cem.msu.edu (Stephen Medlin) writes:
|> In article <1992Aug13.162152.5826@news.nd.edu>,
|> rwilliam@mozart.helios.nd.edu (richard williams) writes: 
|> >>without too much trouble. However, I was astonished to see that WordPerfect
|> >>for windows looked more like a character based program than a WYSIWYG
one.

Must have been in draft mode. I use WP4Win quite a bit and it is definitely a
WYSIWYG program.

|> > [stuff deleted...]
|> 
|> Just a quick comment.  Richard is correct about the reviewers.  I just 
|> wanted to let you know that there was a fairly recent review of Win 
|> word processors in PC Mag. (Feb. 25, 1992 11(4), pp.113-174).  Just to 
|> quote a couple of lines from their review:
|> 
|>      The best parts of WordPerfect for Windows are those that were written 
|>      for Windows, such as the program's innovative file management feature 
|>      and its button bar.  Evertything in the package that works like the 
|>      DOS version seems awkaward, including its unzoomable editing screen, 
|>      its inability to let you edit a full-page image, its incomplete use of 
|>      fonts and similar products, and its code-based formatting that seems 
|>      awkard and archaic in a GUI environment.  (p. 116)
|> 

I recently got the interim release of WP4Win and it has zoom capability.
This release also added text drag and drop or copy and drop.

As far as use of fonts, I use the WIndows 3.1 driver and ATM (Adobe Type
Manager). WP4Win sees all of the some 60 or so fonts (+ TrueType) that I have
installed, and uses them with ease. Scaling, bolding, underlining, etc. are a
snap. I use FrameMaker at work, so that is the only thing I have to compare.
The only item that I personally wish WP4Win had, is a linkable text box
feature Like Frame has.

As far as code based formatting, I find it useful to be able to locate those
codes using REVEAL CODES so I can delete just what I want.

Anyway, this is just my perspective. No flames, just a happy user.


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Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.apps
From: mporter@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Matthew D Porter)
Subject: Winfax Pro and sharing COM1/COM3
Summary: Is there a patch to allow COM sharing under Win 3.1 enhanced mode?
Keywords: 3.1 WinFax patch COM sharing
Organization: The Ohio State University
Date: Sun, 16 Aug 1992 21:13:32 GMT

Hello,

     I installed my new faxmodem (Gateway Telepath) on my second system (built
from pieces parts, not a Gateway).  Anyway COM1 has mouse COM2 has serial 
printer so I wanted to set up the faxmodem to utilize COM3.  Crosstalk for 
Windows shared COM1/3 nicely under Win 3.1.  WinFax Pro, however insists that 
the "current" (meaning 3.0) version of Windows does not support interrupt 
sharing.  I am set up using COM3/IRQ5 at 3EFh.  My question is:  is there a 
patch to correct this problem for Winfax Pro?  The install program claims it 
cannot find the modem because I am sharing interrupts in enhanced mode.  Please
tell me if I'm wrong, but, I'm positive that Winfax Pro can find my faxmodem 
with the proper patch for Win 3.1.

Thanks for your help,

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Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.apps
From: tau@ee.ubc.ca (AU TRI BANG)
Subject: Re: WP for Windows or Word?
Organization: University of BC, Electrical Engineering
Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1992 06:07:22 GMT

In article <cchapman.115.714074768@matd.gatech.edu> cchapman@matd.gatech.edu (Charles H. Chapman) writes:
>In article <1992Aug17.080928.1@bigez> dmmatt@bigez (Mike Mattix) writes:
>
>Stuff deleted...
>
>>...  My kingdom for reveal codes!!
>
>
>Exactly!  *All* word processors have hidden codes, even Word.  In Word
>the codes are totally hidden.  Formatting is much easier when you have
>the option to *see* the codes and control exactly where they are placed.

    That's what I thought, too.  But when I saw someone format a document
in WORD with such ease, I got to thinking that maybe it's my own incompetence.
Could it be that we find formatting without seeing the codes hard because
we learned it that way?  I once asked a Word user to use WP, and he said
that formatting is "weird" in WP (he didn't use reveal codes).
  
    I find that new users prefer WordWin to WPWin.  Only WPDos users
like WPWin.  Maybe the next version of WP will change all that.
From: ruckman@oasys.dt.navy.mil (Christopher Ruckman)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.apps
Subject: Re: Stanford Graphics 2.0 now available
Date: 18 Aug 92 18:24:49 GMT
Reply-To: ruckman@oasys.dt.navy.mil (Christopher Ruckman)
Organization: Carderock Division, NSWC, Bethesda, MD

In comp.os.ms-windows.apps, rhoward@matd.gatech.edu (Robert L. Howard) writes:
... stuff deleted ...
>So in other words, they are shipping some major bug fixes and
>some (hopefully) performance improvements.  Oh, by the way they
>threw in a couple of new features so that they could charge me
>for it.

I agree.  They never should have released the bug-ridden 1.00, or even
1.01.  *This* release should have been the initial release.  But that's
the software business for you.  I, for one, will reserve judgement until
I see the new release.  I don't mind one bit paying the extra $29.95
*IF* the software lives up to expectations.


-- 
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Carderock Division, Naval Surface Warfare Center 
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From: lebowitz@krypton.Mankato.MSUS.EDU (Robert J. Lebowitz)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.apps
Subject: Re: WPWIN converts W4WIN to greek?!
Date: 16 Aug 92 02:00:02 GMT
Organization: Mankato State University
In-reply-to: edm@cunyvms1.gc.cuny.edu's message of 15 Aug 92 19:25:55 GMTLines: 10

Ed:  I had a similar problem when I started using Word for windows.  I believe
that I was able to simply change the font for the document by selecting the 
entire document (ctrl-5 on the numeric pad) and then changing the font and 
point size.  

Rob
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Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.apps
From: xmas@uxa.ecn.bgu.edu (Mark A. Stevens)
Subject: WinPost 3.1a, WinTools 1.0a & Windows 3.1
Organization: Educational Computing Network
Date: Mon, 17 Aug 1992 15:35:35 GMT

When I ran WinPost 3.1a under Wintools 1.0a and Windows 3.0, everything
was fine, but now that I've switched to Windows 3.1, after I start up
WinPost, the windows/items in the WinTools BigSky virtual screen blink
about once per second until I close WinPost.

Has anyone else seen this behavior and have a fix or suggestion?

Higgy (WinPost developer) I'm trying to get registered, but
bureaucracies are notably slow.
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Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.apps
From: ntaib@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (Iskandar Taib)
Subject: Re: WinQVT 2.7?
Organization: Indiana University
Date: Thu, 20 Aug 1992 01:17:50 GMT

In article <1992Aug14.014708.33776@datamark.co.nz> tfarmer@datamark.co.nz (Thomas Farmer) writes:

>Well, the FTP server in 2.6 and 2.7 works fine. I often use it to pick
>up files from an RS/6000 and a OS/2 box running TCP/IP 1.2.

I'll have to try 2.6 again, and 2.7. If you are picking _up_ files
then you are using the client, not the server. The problem I had
with 2.3 and 2.5 was that I was having trouble logging in from PCs
across campus. The net.consensus was that it worked just fine if 
the machine you were FTP'ing from was defined as a host in the qvt_-
tcp.rc file.


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Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.apps
From: shenoy@iastate.edu (Shiva Shenoy)
Subject: Re: Rockford 2.0
Organization: Iowa State University, Ames IA
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1992 00:35:37 GMT

In <shenoy.713650098@pv0220.vincent.iastate.edu> shenoy@iastate.edu (Shiva Shenoy) writes:

>In <1992Aug12.190516.112@news.weeg.uiowa.edu> tdugan@odie.weeg.uiowa.edu (Tim Dugan) writes:

>>  Does anybody know where I might be able to FTP a business card creator
>>program called ROCKFORD.  I saw it written about in the Augest 1992 issue
>>of PC World.  I have checked cica to no avail.  It is suppose to be on
>>ComuServe but I don't have an account.  Any info would be helpfil.

>It is in the pub/pc/win3/uploads dir as rckfrd.zip or something close to
>that at ftp.cica.indiana.edu.
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Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.apps
From: adelaine@milton.u.washington.edu (Alison Blais)
Subject: Procomm for Windows
Organization: University of Washington, Seattle
Date: Fri, 14 Aug 1992 19:05:11 GMT

Is Procomm for Windows commercial or Shareware?  If the latter, where
can it be found?  Thanks.

Erick.

Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.apps
From: mbk@netcom.com (Miles Kehoe)
Subject: Printing on Novell net from win3.1
Date: Thu, 20 Aug 92 03:27:31 GMT
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  (408 241-9760 guest) 
Summary: Laserjet loses characters after printing a few pages on netware
Keywords: PRINTER PROBLEMS

I'm using a small net running novell 3.11 on a 386/20 with lots of
memory (ok, not *LOTS* but enought - 8 Meg RAM) and everything is
fine for the first dozen or so pages I print to the net printer from
the windows 3.1 client.

It *looks* like novell is not keeping track of what truetype sets
need to be downloaded.. because typically what will happen
is that after a bunch of pages, characters start disappearing.
No 'e' will print, a 'v' will print with a line in the middle of
it horizontally thru the letter, etc. ALL of the affected
character are mucked up or gone so I'm *thinking* it's
in the downloading of fonts.

1) Has anyone else seen and SOLVED this problem?

2) Do you have any IDEA of what might be happening?

Thanks in advance.. post or email are fine! I'll summarize
what I learn.

Miles

Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.apps
From: sybesmer@uther.calvin.edu (Eric W Sybesma)
Subject: Winpoker
Summary: How do you play Winpoker
Keywords: Winpoker
Organization: Calvin College
Date: Wed, 12 Aug 1992 12:07:39 GMT

I picked up winpoker (winp.exe) off of wuarchive, and I was curious
how to play.  All that I get is 5 cards, and then that I try to
bet and the thing beeps at me.  What are the rules?

				Eric Sybesma

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Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.apps
From: tfarmer@datamark.co.nz (Thomas Farmer)
Subject: Re: W4W saving
Date: Thu, 20 Aug 1992 20:30:23 GMT
Organization: Datamark International Ltd.
Keywords: W4W

In article <1992Aug20.024607.24995@sserve.cc.adfa.oz.au> liats3@cspyr1.cs.adfa.oz.au (LIANG TIAN) writes:
>  I have a document which W4W refuse to save, saying it is
>too large, I tried spliting it into 2 but both parts can't be saved,
>same problem. I saved the file when it was just a little smaller, so
>this is ridiculous. I am really pissed off with it and will really
>appreciate if someone can email the solution, if any, to me.

Well, it's a bug.

Last time it happened to me, I got around it by selecting the entire
document, cutting it and then pasting it into another version of Word
for Windows that I had loaded up. It saved from that one.

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