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From: frisk@complex.is (Fridrik Skulason)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc
Subject: Proto-T (Was Re: PKZip 3.05 VIRUS LETTER FROM LAST FALL)
Date: 6 Jan 93 08:12:32 GMT
Organization: Frisk Software International, Iceland

worley@a.cs.okstate.edu (WORLEY LAWRENCE JA) writes:

>  I have received several requests for me to post this.  It is a copy of
>some e-mail I received on approximately 10-15-92.  I circulated a few copies
>around at the time, and most people regarded it as a hoax.

It is.   There is a virus called Proto-T, but it is just a variant of the
Civil War II virus, and was detected as such (at least by some anti-virus
programs such as my own F-PROT) when it was discovered.  The virus found in
some hacked versions of PkZip is a different one - totally unrelated.

There is nothing at all remarkable about this virus, and the author of the
original posting is either trying to spread disinformation or just simply
does not know the slightest thing about viruses.

This is just one of the 1500+ viruses that are not likely to affect anybody.

There have been rumours recently of other viruses named Proto-T, but as far
as I can see there is nothing at all to worry about.

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From: imes@boa.cis.ohio-state.edu (jeffrey imes)
Subject: Re: PKZip 2.04c uploaded to wuarchive
Organization: The Ohio State University Dept. of Computer and Info. Science
Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1993 23:41:32 GMT

>>According to wuarchive this version is infected with the Maltese Amoeba
>>virus. It is no longer available.
>
>Norton Anti-Virus is getting a false detection of the Maltese Amoeba.
>It will be available periodically.

Well, contrary to other people's reports, I was very definately infected with
the Maltese Amoeba virus.  Fortunately, I was able to get a friend to load a
new system into my comp, plus the fact that I deleted the infected files out
of my system before any more damage could be done.

Well here's the damage.  My DOS files are gone.  Totally scrambled.  Also, as
a point of interest, the file I received was pkz204.exe and when uncompressed
the files passed the verification checks.  Which leads me to believe that the
virus I had was shipped in the original.  Yep, you know what that means.

Well, enough for here.  Write back on e-mail to me if you have any question as
to whether there is a virus on this file.
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From: aea@cacs.usl.edu (Edwin Alexander)
Subject: Re: HOW TO USE '/' INSTEAD OF
Organization: The Center for Advanced Computer Studies
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Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 18:10:13 GMT

kraai4712@iscsvax.uni.edu writes:
: In article <3952454412.23@inode.com>, jig1@inode.com writes:
: > S I recall seeing some time ago a description of how to set up MS-DOS so
: >   it uses '/' instead of '\' for the path separator.  Now that I want to
: >   do this, I can't find the information, though I've looked all through
: >   the manual.  Can someone spare a clue?
: > 
: > 
: > Yes there was a way, some environmental variable to be defined as /
: > instead of \, but unfortunately MS-DOS version 5.0 and up will have the
: > backslash (\) hardcoded so it will be no longer possible to switch.
: 
: Huh?  I don't remember any environment variable solution to this.  All I ever
: saw were patches to command.com that "hard coded" the "/", rather than the "\".
: 
: Caution, this solution may make Novell Netware think you have a virus!!!
: --jim


When I asked this question last year, I was informed of an undocumented interrupt that
changes the delimiter.  I tried it, and it worked, but then every program that required
a '/' for a switch suddenly wouldn't work correctly.  I had to go back to what it
originally was.

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From: ninja@willard.atl.ga.us (Sonic Druid)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc
Subject: Graphics lib/Patch for Turbo C++ and/or Quick Basic
Date: Tue, 05 Jan 93 00:56:19 EST
Organization: Willard's House BBS, Atlanta, GA -- +1 (404) 664 8814

 
  I'm looking for either a graphics library or a patch for
Turbo C++ or Quick Basic, but preferrably Turbo C++,
which would allow me to use more than 1 foreground color or 
2 colors total in the  [ 640 x 200 ] CGA graphics mode....
 
  All I have available to use for my application is a CGA card/monitor
and the application will be icon/mouse driven, so the more colors
I have available the better....
 

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From: miner@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc
Subject: How to disable computer's bell?
Date: 9 Jan 93 03:53:20 CST
Organization: University of Kansas Academic Computing Services

How to disable computer's bell? (Keeps waking my wife...)

-Ken
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From: francis@ac.dal.ca
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc
Subject: Re: pkzip 2.04c uploaded to w
Date: 9 Jan 93 13:33:57 -0400
Distribution: comp
Organization: Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada

> PKWare says that this is the legitimate release, and it is not infected.
> 
> The reports of virus infection are coming from people using older versions 
> of Norton Antivirus.  Later versions report (correctly) no virus.
> 
> While PKZip 2.04c may have a lot of problems (typical of Phil Katz, he 
> released it with a bunch of power user options [DPMI, XMS, EMS all enabled 
> unless you turn them off using obscure switches] defaulting to on, so that 
> it is likely to crash Windows 3.1 and OS/2 DOS boxes) it is not infected 
> by any virus.

For what it's worth, I have been using the latest release of PKZip 2.04c
for over a week with various files and have had no problems, and am quite
impressed by the speed; of course, it may have something to do with the
fact that I use a 486DX/33.

Francis

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From: Brian.Milner@brunel.ac.uk (Brian D Milner)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc
Subject: Microsoft mouse driver switches?
Date: 5 Jan 93 11:41:43 GMT
Organization: Brunel University, West London, UK


        Does anyone know what the command line switches are for the 
Microsoft mouse driver v.8.20 ?

        Mine installed with a switch /Y , but I don't know what it means.

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From: slamberg@lut.fi (Samu Lamberg)
Subject: Re: Is there a way to log the results of interactive programs?
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 21:13:20 GMT
Organization: Lappeenranta University of Technology, Finland

In article <ZyZ7wB1w165w@tcscs.UUCP> tcscs!zeta@src.honeywell.com (Gregory Youngblood) writes:
   On vms systems you could spawn a new login session and have that session logged
   to a disk file.  This was particularly useful because is let people test 
   their programs interactively, while logging the results to a file which
   could be easily viewed or printed.

   I dont want to have to use PRINT SCREEN to do this, or to open have the printer
   do everything as I go along, I'd like this in a file.


   Is there a way to do this in OS/2 or MSDOS5?

   Thanks
   Greg

In msdos you could either use some printerspooler to write everything on
disk. Or get 4dos, it has it's internal command tee. And it's a _very_
good pgm otherwise too. It saves memory, includes history, on-line help 
and a lot more.

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From: evans1@cbnewsm.cb.att.com (Dan Evans)
Subject: Re: Using HD disks as DD disks
Organization: AT&T
Distribution: usa
Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1993 20:56:10 GMT
Keywords: disks, disk drive

In article <1hb8h7INN4t6@flop.ENGR.ORST.EDU> villalj@xanth.CS.ORST.EDU (John Villalovos) writes:
>In article <1992Dec23.202219.114@cbnewsm.cb.att.com> evans1@cbnewsm.cb.att.com (Dan Evans) writes:
>>In article <jeric.67@berkp.uadv.uci.edu> jeric@berkp.uadv.uci.edu (Jeric Woo) writes:
>>>
>
>Yes there are physical differences in the media.  The differences are more
>apparent on 5.25" diskettes then on 3.5".
>
>>The LD drive heads are larger then the HD heads.  As a result the LD heads
>>are reading more then one track at a time on the HD disk. Track 0 isn't
>>bad, it's just smaller then the LD drive is capible of reading it.
>
>I don't believe that is correct.  If you look at a floppy disk they aren't
>composed of tracks of magnetic media.  The media is a continuous (sp?)
>coating on the disk.

I wasn't refering to the actual media coating on the disk. I was refering to 
the track width of the formatted tracks on the disk. There are areas on a
floppy that although are coated with the magnetic material, are not written
with data. 

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From: amoroso@ghost.dsi.unimi.it (paolo amoroso)
Subject: Help for up. from DR DOS to MS-DOS 5.0
Keywords: DRDOS MSDOS upgrade
Organization: Computer Science Dep. - Milan University
Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 08:54:38 GMT
Summary: Need help for upgrading from DR DOS 3.41 to MS-DOS 5.0


I have a 20 MHz 386DX laptop (OLIDATA 8100V) with 2 Mb of RAM. It has a
120 Mb hard disk (AT bus) on which I installed two operating systems in
two different partitions:

- DR DOS 3.41 (Digital Research) in a 95 Mb partition (drive C:);
- COHERENT 4.0.1 (Mark Williams), a UNIX clone, in a 25 Mb partition.

I would like to purchase the MS-DOS 5.0 upgrade package. My questions
are: can MS-DOS 5.0 use the DR DOS partition and its files as it is? Do I
have to reformat the partition during the installation of the upgrade?
Any suggestion is well accepted. Thanks in advance.

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From: cgordon@vpnet.chi.il.us (gordon hlavenka)
Subject: Re: How to disable computer's bell?
Organization: Vpnet Public Access
Date: Sun, 10 Jan 1993 00:27:45 GMT

miner@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu writes:
> How to disable computer's bell? (Keeps waking my wife...)

 zeta%tcscs@src.honeywell.com writes:
>To be very neat about, assuming you don't need the
>turbo switch for much, unplug the turbo switch wires from the mother board
>and run the wires for the speaker through it.  [I dont know if the last it
>possible, but it would be neat.]

This is exactly how my system has been set up for over a year now.
Works great!

Now, on my PDP-8, I did this by removing the gong from the ASR-33 :-)

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From: nevries@accucx.cc.ruu.nl (Nico E de Vries)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc
Subject: Re: PKZip 2.04c uploaded to wuarchive
Date: 5 Jan 93 16:40:23 GMT
Organization: Academic Computer Centre Utrecht

In <rdippold.726230755@cancun> rdippold@cancun.qualcomm.com (Ron Dippold) writes:

>[Sorry, this should have been part of the crosspost, but I missed this group]

>I have uploaded PKZip 2.04c to wuarchive.wustl.edu in the
>pub/MSDOS_UPLOADS directory.  It's pkz204c.exe and pkz204c.txt.

According to wuarchive this version is infected with the Maltese Amoeba
virus. It is no longer available.

>Before any flames start, this is downloaded directly from the
>PKWareBBS.  So is this announcement:

Then your system might be virus infected. Please verify this.


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From: msprague@superior.mcwbst311b (Mike Sprague)
Subject: Re: IBM XT upgrade
Followup-To: IBM XT upgrade
Organization: Xerox
Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1993 14:24:15 GMT

> If you want a much greater performance improvement and are willing
> to spend a few more dollars consider buying a 386SX mother-board.
> Then you will have all the power of a 386 at the lowest possible
> price.  Don't bother with a 286 upgrade.

I have to disagree with that.  The needs of a church PC usually cover
things like word processing and keeping track of records.  A 286 will
fit the bill quite nicely, and will cost very little.  As long as your
not trying to use windows, and assuming you want to upgrade the XT,
a 286 will do quite nicely.  (Well, Windows will work on the 286, but
what's the point.)

If you _do_ have the money (and/or need) to upgrade to a 386, don't
bother with the 386SX!  A 386DX will cost very little more, and will
run quite a bit faster.  The 286 gives you pretty good bang for the buck,
as does a lower end 386 (at the higher end, you might was well get the
486SX).  The 386SX is not really worth looking at anymore, unless you
can find a good used motherboard really cheap.

			~ Mike  (sprague.wbst311@xerox.com)
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From: hm@opus40.ix.de (Harald Milz)
Subject: Re: Run 33MHz CPU at 40/50MHz?
Organization: iX-Redaktion
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 17:35:30 GMT


In article <1993Jan6.162636.9927@ac.dal.ca>, francis@ac.dal.ca writes:
|> I have a 486DX/33MHz system, and I have been told by the manufacturer that
|> the motherboard is upgradeable to 50MHz by plugging in a new crystal and CPU.
|> 
|> Question:  	Is it possible to plug in (say) a 40MHz or even a 50MHz crystal
|> 		into the board *without* replacing the old (33MHz) CPU? 
|> If so, is there a performance improvement or will the 486DX 33MHz chip just
|> burn itself out, ie, has it been internally hardwired for the specified clock
   ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^                             ^^^^^^^^^
burn out: veeeery probably.
hardwired: not directly. The chip's power consumption does not
allow for higher frequencies. In priciple, the shorter the switching 
times of the CMOS transistors, the less the power consumption will
be (which occurs mainly during the hi-to-lo and vv. transition). 
Switching times are a random result in the manufacturing process,
so that all chips from 33 to 50 MHz are born from the same fab. They
are selected for frequencies thereafter. Intel shot the bird: When
having problems with their 486DX at higher frequencies, thus producing
many chips that wouldn't work even at 25 MHz, they un-bonded the co-pro
and named the result 486SX-20. 
  
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From: mark@ocsmd.ocs.com (Mark Wilson)
Subject: Re: Memory-searcher
Organization: Online Computer Systems, Inc.
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Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1993 18:46:25 GMT

A friend is looking for a DOS utility which will search memory,
both low and high, and report if a particular program has been
loaded.  For instance, if the utility is called "findprog",
you might enter "findprog mytsr" to see if "mytsr" has been loaded.
Does anyone know of a utility like this?  Even better if it
returns the address, I suppose, but the simple fact of its
existence or non-existence being returned would be sufficient.
(He's setting up networks and wants, as I understand it, to
be able to test for drivers which someone else may or may not
have loaded. I have NO DETAILS on this, it's just a paraphrase
of what he told me, and he doesn't have Internet access yet.)

A possible kludge to obviate the necessity of using a utility
like the above would be to use MARK and RELEASE, but his versions
are REAL old... does anyone have the latest versions of these?

PLEASE no flames, this is for a friend as I said... email,
respond here, or call the 800 number below.  THANKS!


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From: ketter@gaul.csd.uwo.ca (Michael A. Ketter)
Subject: Re: Graphics lib/Patch for Turbo C++ and/or Quick Basic
Organization: Computer Science Dept., Univ. of Western Ontario, London, Canada
Date: Sun, 10 Jan 1993 19:46:34 GMT


I believe you're refering to the inability of TC++ (and I assume QBasic)
to allow you to specify two colours.  This is a problem with the CGA
adapter and not with any of these programs.  The background colour is
always black for a true-blue CGA card and the foreground can be any
of the 16 available colours (set with the setbkcolor() procedure).
I think it is possible with other cards to remap the 0 (black) colour
to something else; I think I did it with an old Tandy EX once...but then
I think your article stated that you have a CGA.  Not sure about the
last part anyways.

Hope this helps,
M. A. Ketter

P.S.  Sorry didn't include previous article.  Must have goofed that
up.

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From: bathurst@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Bruce Bathurst)
Subject: Re: IBM XT upgrade
Originator: news@nimaster
Organization: Princeton University
Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 16:14:31 GMT

In article <1993Jan7.032313.6224@vpnet.chi.il.us>
cgordon@vpnet.chi.il.us (gordon hlavenka) writes:

[SNIP,SNIP]

>So, he upgraded his _286_ to Windows 3.1, and it's now even more
>slothful than before.  So he traded in the machine on a 386DX/40.

[SNIP,SNIP]

I did something similar--twice--in recommending 1992 MS-DOS software
to people with 286's: the Norton Desktop for DOS, and Lotus Works.
(I hadn't bought software for my 8088 in years; what did I know.)  Well,
I got them both to run these at usable speeds, but the AT's are so
highly tuned you can almost hear them resonate.

The $3 Ad packets on the news stand say a 25 Mhz 486 is the minimal
machine now.  The 386 is a micro-mainframe; and companies like
Microsoft never even offered an operating system for it, there was no
demand for 32-bit memory or devices (other than video). People are
buying 486's for simple ICONS and WYSIWYG word processing.  I
panicked: "I can't useful things on my 8088!  Thousands of lemmings
can't be wrong!"

They weren't: new commercial wares, even for DOS, won't run on 286's.
(A hark back to those romantic days when IBM sold both mainframe
hardware and software.)

The solution is to buy DOS shareware--or used, older versions of
commercial software--and a simple program for writing menus.

BTW, I discovered DR-DOS comes with a cute optional interface of ICONS
and windows (in selectable color schemes) that works nicely with its
task switcher.  I've used UNIX for years.  How often do I run programs
in the background, rather than stop them and switch to another?
Almost never.

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From: stephan@cis.rand.org (Stephan DeSpiegeleire)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc,comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: How to compose extended characters?
Date: 11 Jan 93 11:23:44 GMT
Reply-To: stephan@cis.rand.org (Stephan DeSpiegeleire)
Organization: RAND, Santa Monica CA

Can anybody explain to me why I can no longer compose extended  characters
(like  French  e acute and so) by using my alt-key and some code?  Is this
because I upgraded to DOS 5.0 or because of some TSR that I am running  or
what?  (I'm  adding a copy of my autoexec.bat and config.sys) And how do I
get back that capability?  Any help would be greatly appreciated

Here comes my autoexec.bat:

echo off
ver
enhkbd
set esppro=c:\retc\esppro
set editor=c:\rbin\esp.exe
set comspec=c:\command.com
set pcplus=c:\pcm
astclock/m
sotacach /hard on /dos 16
path=c:\;c:\dos;\ut\km;c:\ut\fb;c:\ut\nu;\ut\pctls;c:\wp51;\pc;\db;c:\123;c:\ut\vs;c:\bf;D:\STACKER;;C:\AN3
ALARM -K 3
explosiv -
nc

And this is my config.sys:

shell=c:command.com  /E:512 /P
device=ansi.sys
DEVICE=DMDRVR.BIN
device=c:\dos\driver.sys /d:0 /f:0
files=35
buffers=25
DEVICEhigh=D:\STACKER\STACKER.COM D:\STACVOL.DSK C:\STACVOL.DSK
DEVICEhigh=D:\STACKER\SSWAP.COM D:\STACVOL.DSK
DEVICEhigh=D:\STACKER\SSWAP.COM C:\STACVOL.DSK /SYNC
device=c:\sota286i.sys
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From: evans1@cbnewsm.cb.att.com (Dan Evans)
Subject: Re: Using DD disks as HD disks?
Organization: AT&T
Distribution: usa
Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1993 19:32:32 GMT
Keywords: disks, disk drive

In article <1993Jan5.001013.15268@engage.pko.dec.com> ssmith@ncdel.enet.dec.com (Sheldon E. Smith) writes:
>
>From this and other things said, can I use (cheaper) 3 1/2 DD disks in my HD
>drive without problems?   Assuming I ADD THE SECOND HOLE?
>

As long as they format to the full 1.44 MB I don't see why not. But you
wouldn't catch me doing that for a hard drive backup. I may just be paranoid.


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