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Date:         Sun, 27 Sep 1992 00:49:47 PDT
From:         "Vance M. Gloster" <gloster@INFERENCE.COM>
Subject:      Does Co-Processor Speed up Windows"s Performance?
              26 Sep 1992 16:11:00 EDT
              <9209262005.AA16664@fourier.inference.com>

  I have a simple question maybe someone already asked.
  I tried to buy a 80387 math co-processor for my 386-33 MHz AT clone machine.
  But does math co-processor speed up Windows 3.1's performance?
  Any advice will be great appreciated.

No.  This will speed up certain applications (like Excel and AutoCAD)
which use a coprocessor if available, but Windows itself does not use
it, so this will not help.

When people talk about a coprocessor helping Windows performance they
normally mean a graphic coprocessor like the ATI Ultra, Diamond
Stealth VRAM, or Orchid Farenheit 1280.  The use of a fast graphics
card will make a noticable difference in Windows performance.  The
cards mentioned above are in a similar price range to a math
coprocessor.

-Vance Gloster
 gloster@inference.com
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Date:         Wed, 30 Sep 1992 16:48:09 EST
From:         "NATHAN BRINDLE" <NBRINDLE@INDYCMS.BITNET>
Subject:      Re: games on windows

It seems to have depended on what version you got and when.  We got a
bundle from IBM that had Windows 3.0 pre-installed with the Windows
Entertainment Package.  I upgraded my own 3.0 (which only had solitaire
and reversi) to 3.1 and actually LOST reversi and gained minesweeper.  And
my upgrade came direct from MS!  Go figure.

I really believe that it's a function of when you got it and via what
means that determines which games you get.  I've just reinstalled the
WEP from the one computer that had it onto the ones I supervise that
didn't.  I don't know whether that's legal or not, but I'm not sure I care.

Actually, I'm kind of fond of Tetris and Taipei in the WEP...all those
other solitaire games are kind of redundant.

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Date:         Mon, 28 Sep 1992 14:15:24 EST
From:         ARMAND@UCC.UWINDSOR.CA
Subject:      Windows NT

   Hi Folks!

 I have just been informed by by boss that MS has announced, Windows NT
 will not be released until probably 1st quarter 1993.  Not supprising.

 By the way, I have also read that Windows NT is not realy being
 aimed at the single user, rather at the file server level or greater.
 It's funny, kind of like listening to the weather report from various
 radio stations, but what you may read about Windows NT greatly depends
 upon the magazine from which it is read.....


                             Armand Gaudette
                             University of Windsor
                             Canada
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From: Terry Cato
Subject: re: Print Screen under Win 3.1
Organization: Oregon State University Student Housing
Date: Fri, 2 Oct 1992 17:34:19 GMT

In article <DGH.38.717965153@herald.divinity.yale.edu> DGH@herald.divinity.yale.edu (Duane Harbin) writes:
>If this is a FAQ, I apologize.
>
>I would like to be able to do a screen dump to the printer in a DOS app 
>running under Windows 3.1. Is there any way to get the dump to go to the 
>printer rather than to the Clipboard?
>
>Thanks.
>Duane Harbin
>Information Services Librarian
>Yale Divinity School Library
>409 Prospect Street
>New Haven, CT 06511-2108 USA
>203.432.5289
>DGH@Herald.Divinity.Yale.Edu
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Date:         Sun, 27 Sep 1992 00:33:25 +1000
From:         "Maurice H. Rich." <M.Rich@ENS.GU.EDU.AU>
Subject:      Kermit for Windows ?? Latest Version ?? ...

Hi Folks,
	 a couple of quick questions while we are discussing Kermit.
Kermit for windows :

	is there yet a version that supports greater than VT102 emulation ??

	What is the most recent version ??

	Does the Windows version yet work over Packet Drivers and/or ODI ??

Thanks in anticipation of your many helpfull answers.


Maurice H. Rich		maurice@gu.edu.au   	| M.Rich@ens.gu.edu.au
Technical Officer   (Computing)			| Ph  +61 7 875 7163
Faculty of Environmental Sciences		| Fax +61 7 875 7459
Griffith University,  Nathan,  Brisbane,   QLD,   Australia.  4122


On Fri, 25 Sep 1992, David Radanovic, IRC Help Desk wrote:

> From: David Radanovic, IRC Help Desk <IRMCN400@SIVM.BITNET>
> Subject: Freeze Ups
>
> I, and a few others, have been experiencing periodic freeze ups when executing
> Kermit 3.0 from Windows 3.1. Only a cold boot will reset the computer after
> freezing. Has this happened to anyone else? Anybody have any suggestions?
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Date:         Wed, 30 Sep 1992 10:27:09 PDT
From:         "Vance M. Gloster" <gloster@INFERENCE.COM>
Subject:      Sound blaster/win 3.1
              30 Sep 1992 09:31:38 CST
              <9209301434.AA24788@fourier.inference.com>

  Sometimes when I exit windows My sound blaster starts squealing. I
  set the exit sound to none, same problem. It only happens about every
  5-6th time. I down loaded the latest version of the driver when I
  first got the sound card 4 months ago, Same problem.

Check your video card.  If you have interrupt 2 connected (for EGA
compatibility) disconnect it.  Interrupt 2 is also used to cascade the
2nd interrupt controller, and sometimes the Soundblaster gets fooled
into thinking it was something for it when the video card gets an
interrupt.

-Vance Gloster
 gloster@inference.com
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Date:         Mon, 5 Oct 1992 10:13:00 MET
From:         Rob Lussenburg <LUSSENBURG@RULBUR.LEIDENUNIV.NL>
Subject:      Re: Windows Benchmark Programs

On Thu, 1 Oct 1992 13:35:01 CST, jim ducey <UCIC321@UNLVM.BITNET> wrote:

> .....
>
> Does anyone know where these may be available via ftp. Also, any
> suggestions on other benchmark programs that could be useful and
> are readily available would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.
Sarah Bush expressed her interest also.

Sarah, Jim,

You'll no doubt know about the pair of little programs WINDSOCK.EXE and
WINDSKRM.EXE, don't you? These programs give a very attractive display of the
CPU performance, relative to some standard types: my 386SX gives only half
the performance to be expected of a 12 MHz 286 :-( , it tells you the size of
the free heap and the swapfile, it can do a video and disk test (on my system
the video rates 'poor' :-( and the disk rates almost 'OK' :-|  ) and it
displays the resources you're using (memory, GDI heap and user heap). All
displays are ribbon displays (like the speedometer of a 1957 Cadillac) and a
digital display (red digits, black background). Information is refreshed
every second or so. Lastly, there is a very informative Help file included.
I obtained the programs from CICA in a single ZIP file called WNSK12.zip.


Sincerely,

Rob Lussenburg
Rijksuniversiteit Leiden
the Netherlands
LUSSENBURG@RULBUR.LeidenUniv.nl
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Date:         Thu, 1 Oct 1992 08:51:00 CDT
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Subject:      PaintShopPro101

 Version 1.01 of Paint Shop Pro can be found at Simtel/mirror sites in
 the msdos archives - msdos/windows3/pspro101.zip....
  Walter Knopf
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Date:         Fri, 2 Oct 1992 19:48:31 PDT
From:         Darla@CUP.PORTAL.COM
Subject:      QUATTRO PRO for WINDOWS

Hi All,

This is my first post to this list but I feel I must share this
just to possibly save someone from making the same mistake.

I ordered Borland's Quattro Pro for Windows via an offer that came
in the mail. When it arrived.. I happily took it out of the
package and read over the requirements.. I was ready..

I began to install the program.. I got the message.. Quattro Pro
for Windows will ONLY RUN ON A 386 or higher processor!! Nowhere
in the documentation is/was this stated.

I have a 286 with 3 megs of memory and have been using Windows 3.1
since it came out. I have Word For Windows, Procomm for Windows,
Object Vision and many other commercial packages that run without
problem.

I think it was a negligent oversight on the part of Borland not to
inform users of the requirements in the advertisement/order form
that they sent out.. or at least have them on the box..

Thank you for listening..
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Date:         Wed, 30 Sep 1992 08:39:55 ITA
From:         AFCO73@IRMFAO01.BITNET
Subject:      CICA and its mirror site through BITNET/EARN

Good-day,

   Would someone know how to get to CICA and its mirrored sites through Bitnet?

Johnny Hua
FAO of the UN
Rome, Italy
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From: swesterback@tnclus.tele.nokia.fi
Subject: Re:Inkjet or Laser Printer?
Organization: Nokia Telecommunications.
Date: Fri, 2 Oct 1992 14:09:19 GMT

In article <WIN3-L%92100113303084@UICVM.BITNET>,         K119GG@TAMVM1.BITNET writes:
> From:   George G Galdiano
> 
> I was very close to buying a 500c, but decided against it because "black"
> was really a very dark green and the output was not quite as nice as a
> laser.

I don't belive that. The DJ500C has a separate ink cartridge for black and 
another for 3-color (CMY). And as far as i know the black ink is really 
black. The only problem is that you have to change cartridge every now 
and then if you don't want to consume all three colors just to print 
(greenish) black.

I will buy this 300dpi printer as soon as i get something to pay with.
Another possibility is one of canons printers (max A3, 380dpi?) but it 
costs a little to much.

Sten
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Test the utility at WSMR-SIMTEL20.Army.mil::pd1:<msdos.dirutl>swxd303d.zip
NB! I am working, but not speaking for Nokia Telecommunications!
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Date:         Tue, 6 Oct 1992 01:00:00 EDT
From:         kgift%cclink.draper.com@SURNAME.DRAPER.COM
Subject:      Windows Driver for IBM 3852 Jetprinter

    If anyone knows where a Windows 3.x driver is for the IBM 3852
    inkjet color printer, I would also be interested.  I have called
    the local Boston office for IBM, who referred me to the local
    office of LexMark, who were not able to help me.  This brings up
    the general question of how one can find someone to write a
    Windows device driver for a device that is old or out-of-date?
    Is there a thriving business (or opportunity) for this kind of
    thing?

    As a workaround, I have done the following.  I obtained
    Ghostscript V2.4.1 for DOS and modified its HP Paintjet driver to
    make it work for the IBM printer.  This allows me to
    select a color postscript printer driver that Windows
    already has.  I tell it to print to an Encapsulated
    Postscript File (EPS), and later I run Ghostscript to
    actually print it.   Ghostscript is a Level 1 (and most of Level
    2) Postscript interpreter that uses the computer's CPU to do the
    image rasterizing.  It is covered under the GNU software
    licensing, and therefore the source code is available freely on
    the Internet.  I found that it was not too difficult to modify
    their Paintjet driver, although you do need a Borland C compiler
    to use their Make files.  I would be happy to provide the IBM
    jetprinter driver to anyone who wants it, providing you don't make
    too much fun of my C coding!  I will probably try to send it to
    the appropriate maintainers of the DOS Ghostscript when I find the
    time.

    By the way, I rather like this printer.  For the current cost
    (less than $200), it gives decent 84x84dpi color graphics
    printing.




                                        -- Kevin Gift

    "Everyone should strive to learn before they die what they are
    running from, and to, and why."
         -- James Thurber, 'Further Fables for Our Times'
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Date:         Tue, 29 Sep 1992 08:39:44 -0400
From:         zimmer@GW.WMICH.EDU
Subject:      Re: Still working on the VT320 emulation on Procomm

> When you logon to the VAX, are you telling the VAX you are emulating a
> VT320? i.e. SET TERM/VT320.  I used to have a problem too, but when I put
> this line in my LOGIN.COM things started working better.  By default,
> the VAX assumes you are emulating a VT100.

The VAX assumes what the VAX system managers tell it to assume. At our
site, the VAX assumes nothing, i.e., terminal type is set to UNKNOWN unless
you issue the SET TERM... command.

W  WWW   WWW  MM   MMM   UU  UUU  U      Roy Zimmer
W  WW    WW  MM    MM    UU  UUU  U      zimmer@gw.wmich.edu
W  W  W  W  MM  M  M  M  UU  UUU  U      University Computing Services
W    WW    MM  MM    MM  UUU     UU      Western Michigan University
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Date:         Tue, 29 Sep 1992 07:52:02 -0400
From:         Jameson Spence <jess@NEXUS.YORKU.CA>
Subject:      Re: tcp-ip software

>
> What Windows TCP-IP software are you refering to?  Is this something
> commercial or shareware?  Just curious, I use QVTNet for Windows.
>
> -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Bob Kane                   Internet: bob@worms-emh2.army.mil (IP 134.235.9.2)
> TechDyn Systems               Voice: (049) 6241-487306   (WORMS, GERMANY)
> CMR 421, BOX 706                Fax: (049) 6241-49560
> APO AE 09056                    CIS: 71054,2661

The windows software I am running currently is an older version of LAN
Workplace. Is there decent shareware for TCP-IP under Windows?

....Jamie

Jameson Spence
Information Administrator
Telecommunications, 017D Steacie
York University (Ext #22717)
Toronto Canada
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Date:         Wed, 30 Sep 1992 14:17:00 EST
From:         PATRICK1@NIEHS.BITNET
Subject:      DOS Apps Under Windows

I have a fairly standard Windows questions that deals with .PIF files and
allocating CPU time to programs running under Windows.  I'm sure this
information is in my users manual, but I'm too lazy to look for it.  My
question is this:  is it possible to get Windows to give 100% of the CPU usage
to an application?  I would like to run a game that runs under MS-DOS from
Windows.  The game is graphics intensive and, although I can get it to run
under Windows now, it runs a lot slower than it does under DOS.  I realize this
may just be a limitation of Windows, but I was wondering if there was a proper
.PIF file setting that would allow the game to work at the same speed as it
does under DOS.  I'm running Windows 3.1 in enhanced mode on a 486-33 machine
with 4 MB of memory.  I appreciate any suggestions you can give me or possibly
the location of a FAQ list that answers this question.

Kevin Patrick
PATRICK1@NIEHS.BITNET
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Date:         Sun, 27 Sep 1992 13:49:12 -0500
From:         "Something terribly original." <SCHERERB@CARLETON.EDU>
Subject:      ATI Ultra Pro graphics accelerators

There are actually two different versions of the card, but I foget what the
difference between them is.

Anyway, the cards are definitely not just local bus; according to their
advertisement in (PC Mag, was it?), there are both ISA and EISA versions
available.

So: answer one question, ask another:
Does anyone have an opinion as to whether it's going to make a significant
difference to put the new ATI cards on a local bus?  (The reason I ask is that,
in theory, the way the cards work is by drastically reducing the bandwidth
needed to get data from the CPU to the monitor.  So is it going to make a big
difference to increase the available bandwidth?)

Bill Scherer
InterNet: SCHERERB@CARLETON.EDU
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Subject: RE: Inkjet or Laser Printer?
Date: 2 Oct 92 13:14:29 GMT
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I've recently purchased a HP Deskjet 500.  I decided on it
basically because of cost.  It was hundreds less than any
lazer.  Also the long term cost should be less because the
ink cartridges are cheaper than lazer toner cartridges.
The TrueType fonts work fine.  So do graphics.  And it only has
16k of memory.

I reccomend it.
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Date:         Mon, 5 Oct 1992 18:38:28 -0600
From:         STRASHEA@ZENO.MSC.COLORADO.EDU
Subject:      Re: PCX and Visual Basic

I believe Graphics Workshop does a fairly good job of converting pcx files.

Have you tried to read the graphics files into PAINT, copying them to the
clipboard and then pasting directly into the picture box in Visual Basic?
That may just work, but I haven't tried it myself.
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From: moret@disuns2.epfl.ch (Pierre Moret)
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Subject: W4W 2.0
Date: 1 Oct 92 13:29:00 GMT
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Organization: Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne


I have a friend who a problem with W4W 2.0 on a 486/50, 4Mb, win 3.1, VGA.

When using some combination of fonts/sizes, the right margin can't be
justified. He has sometimes complete words out of the margin!!! For example,
Arial/10 causes that sort of strange thing, but Arial/11 is perfect.

Has someone any idea??? I'm working with W4W 2.0 too, and saw the same 
problem, but only on screen, on my old Epson FX-105, it's correctly printed.
BTW, his printer is a DeskJet 500.

Thanks.


--Pierre     moret@di.epfl.ch
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Date:         Sat, 26 Sep 1992 10:28:55 PDT
From:         "Vance M. Gloster" <gloster@INFERENCE.COM>
Subject:      It's friday.. Stupid Question.
              24 Sep 1992 22:50:10 AST
              <9209250245.AA12320@fourier.inference.com>

	  Sorry for this, but this is  a problem for me. I developed an
  application with SDK (I bought it when Windows 3.1 doesn't exist) and
  MS-C 5.0. It worked fine for Windows 3.0 but for Windows 3.1 doesn't.

It would help if you could be more specific.  What happens?  Your best
bet is to upgrade the compiler to a more recent version so you can get
Codeview for Windows (a debugger).  This is probably cheaper than
buying a debugger outright.

I do not know what your application does, but the most incompatible
area of Windows 3.1 is fonts.  If you are doing anything with fonts,
it is entirely possible that the TrueType fonts are fouling you up.
You could try (experimentally) deleting the TrueType fonts from your
machine to see if this is the problem.

SmartDrive is also quite different.  Try disabling it.

The Microsoft Developer CD has a very long hypertext document called
"Application Compatibility Checklist for Microsoft(R) Windows[TM]
version 3.1"  I was unsuccessful in trying to get the meat of it into
an ASCII file to mail.  You might try to obtain the disc.

-Vance Gloster
 gloster@inference.com
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