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From: ehammers@stein.u.washington.edu (Alison Blais)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.apps
Subject: Disney Sound Source
Date: 14 Oct 92 22:47:34 GMT
Article-I.D.: u.1992Oct14.224734.21782
Organization: University of Washington, Seattle

Does anyone know of any cool programs that can use the Sound Source?  Maybe
some stuff to play SND, VOC, etc. files?  I've got Wolfenstein 3-D, and the
Windows 3.1 driver for the Sound Source, but is there any other good stuff
out there?  Thanks.

Erick.
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.apps
From: cgordon@vpnet.chi.il.us (gordon hlavenka)
Subject: Re: Disney Sound Source
Organization: Vpnet Public Access
Date: Fri, 16 Oct 1992 03:54:26 GMT

 ehammers@stein.u.washington.edu (Alison Blais) writes:
>Does anyone know of any cool programs that can use the Sound Source?  Maybe
>some stuff to play SND, VOC, etc. files?

Try Modplay.  I've got versions 2.10 and 2.19 (both, because for some
reason 2.19 won't play some MODs that 2.10 will (???))  This is a
freeware MOD player for DOS.  It won't run under Windows, and it
doesn't run on my 4.77MHz XT, but it does fine on 386s.  Plays Amiga
MOD files (duh) and is really pretty remarkable.  Supports PC speaker,
Sound Source, SB, and a host of others.

-- 
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  Don't forget:  Dave Barry/Joe Walsh in November!
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From: yves@speedy.dev.cdx.mot.com (Yves Vidal)
Subject: PCB Design progams
Organization: Motorola Codex, Canton, MA
Distribution: comp.os.msdos.apps
Date: Fri, 16 Oct 1992 17:31:18 GMT
Followup-To: group or E-mail
Keywords: PCB

Hi everybody, 
I am looking for a software to design some small Printed Circuit Board
to run on my PC. I would like to get your opinions and advices on 
the existing PCB packages.

I am interested by multi layer design, automatic routing and placement
and I would like this program to ouput Gerber data and drive a laser
printer in the HP Laser Jet II format (or something else).

I have heard about Easy PCB distributed by a British company, but would 
appreciate hearing from real users.

Thanks in advance for your time.

Yves
From: 739chan1@gw.wmich.edu
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.apps
Subject: Out of memory in Speedisk
Date: 7 Oct 92 20:19:37 EST
Organization: Western Michigan University


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From: aml@world.std.com (Andrew M Langmead)
Subject: Re: communications programs ... pcAnywhere
Organization: The World @ Software Tool & Die
Date: Sat, 10 Oct 1992 15:35:38 GMT

lowe@fnx.uucp (Phill Lowe) writes:

>glanton@sctc.com (John Glanton) writes:

>>Has anyone had any experience with pcAnywhere, I am looking to buy a
>>communications program and needed to know if this one is good, bad.

>PCA III is a remote PC program.  That means that it is designed to do ONE
>thing only. It lets you use DOS programs on a remote (usually) DOS machine.
>The version III is DOS only, version IV is a windows product.

It is designed to do "remote control" type sessions, but it is also
designed to be a general purpose communications program, and I have
used it as such. (I bought it originally for remote control, I think
I would have made other choices if I just needed a comm. package.
Read that as I would have bought Telix or Procomm Plus.)

It has a wide variety of terminal types that it supports. It has a 
comprehensive scripting language, supports ZMODEM (like any 1990's
telecom package should.) INT 14 and direct COM1-4 (or custome IRQ/IO settings)
for serial ports. These features make it an option for someone looking for 
telecommunications. Given someone like me who needed both it is a good 
solution.

Bad points:
Menu structure is too complex. (or more complex than it needs to be.)

When echoing to the printer, it doesn't seem to send CR/LF at the end of line.
(making it next to worthless.)

When transfering with ZMODEM it will fail if the file name doesn't fit
into DOS's 8.3

Doesn't have an easy way of capturing to a text file.
-- 
|Andrew Langmead - A frustrated Mac/Unix programmer stuck in an MS-DOS job    |
|Usenet=aml@world.std.com      |S. O'Conner "We Live in a dangerous Age       |
|bix=a.langmead CI$=72411,1560 | To say how you feel is to lay your own grave"|
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From: markr@sound.cts.com (Mark B. Reinhold)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.apps,comp.sys.ibm.pc,comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Accupac
Summary: accupac software
Keywords: accupac
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 92 17:12:55 PDT
Organization: SDCT 1-619-461-3415

I am curious if anyone is using accupac for windows.

I would like to know of any problems that you are having with
it in any of the modules, especially the inventory, sales and
purchase orders.

Have you had any data corruption problems, how long have you run
it, how big the databases are, etc.

Thankyou for your time, I will summarize all mail.
From: rkim@sdcc13.ucsd.edu (Suro)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.apps
Subject: Lotus 1-2-3 v3.1 and Qpro v1
Date: 9 Oct 92 02:40:23 GMT

At work I use Lotus 1-2-3 v3.1 on an IBM PS/2 50Z, which has 1mb and
standard VGA monitor.  I find that when using 1-2-3 to link several
files to make one giant spreadsheet, the hard disk churns and churns
continously when I issue /file admin-link-refresh command.  To load
a 130kb worksheet, it takes about 1-2 minutes from the hard disk.
Recalculation (involving sums, avgs, etc) is surprisingly long,
as the results ripple slowly through the worksheet.

At home, I use Quattro Pro v1.  I use an AT clone (286-12), 1mb and
hercules monitor.  The same worksheet that takes forever to load is
loaded in seconds (about 10-20 sec.), any worksheet that is linked
to another is given a choice to refresh the link, or load the linked
worksheets, and recalcs are much faster.

Why is it that an older software has more capabilities, is faster,
and less frustrating than the new (and so-called better) software?

I find Qp is even faster than 1-2-3 v2.01 which is, as I hear, coded
largely in assembly.  

I keep finding myself bringing work home, because I can do it at
home faster, and produce the same output to take to work.

What have I learned?  I will eventually upgrade my PC (to at least
486SX-25 or 386-40 with upgrade options), and when I do, I'll know I
won't use 1-2-3.  


-- 
Robert W. Kim                            rkim@ucsd.edu
University of California, San Diego.     suro@ucsd.edu
"I'd love to go out with you, but I'm teaching my ferret to yodel." 
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.apps
From: makuta@ico.isc.com (Peter makuta)
Subject: Re: SUREFIRE document processor - what? where?
Summary: SUREFIRE is an integrated package that allows you to make
	 integrated (or smart) documents. It's available as shareware.
Keywords: word processor, document processor, editor, spreadsheet, dbase
Organization: Interactive Systems Corporation, Boulder, CO
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1992 21:09:16 GMT


SUREFIRE is a rather unique integrated package that allows you
to produce integrated documents, called Smart Documents.

Using Surefire, data bases and spreadsheets can be "edited" directly 
into a document. The document is formatted with pages, margins and 
headers. When a document is used, database (dBase compatible) access 
is done directly from within the document, and spreadsheets don't 
need to be restricted to a grid. Fields, whether used for data base 
access, spreadsheet calculations or both, can be interspersed 
anywhere within your text.  They can be within paragraphs and 
flow along as words scattered anywhere on any page of your 
document. Buttons can also be added to smart documents. Buttons can 
bring up other smart documents and link smart documents together. 
They can also be used to do specific calculations, operations 
invoving text, data base operations, and more. 

Surefire can be used to build rather complex "smart document 
applications". It can easily be used produce dBase front ends and
provide a lot of calculations at the same time.  SUREFIRE CONTACTS 
is a contact management system that is also available. It was built 
as a Smart Document application. 

SUREFIRE won "Best New Product" in the 1992 Shareware Industry Awards
and has also received "Editors Choice" from Shareware Magazine.

SUREFIRE and SUREFIRE CONTACTS are availbale as shareware from most
major Shareware catalogues. On Compuserve it's in the Business Appl
Library (lib 6) of the IBMAPP forum. (I don't know if it's on Internet)
You can also get the shareware version of SURIFIRE and SUREFIRE contacts
for $12 directly from the author. The phone number is (303) 786-8222. 

The registration fee for SUREFIRE is only $69 and worth every penny.
You get a 450 page manual and a bunch of Smart Document examples.

Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.apps
From: heller@piccomin.informatik.rwth-aachen.de (Manfred Heller)
Subject: looking for msdos project management software
Summary: Is there anybody to give me a pointer to project software?
Keywords: zeitgeist, project management
Organization: Rechnerbetrieb Informatik  /  RWTH Aachen
Date:  7 Oct 92 09:43:18 GMT

Hello there!

A friend of mine is asking me for a project management software called
zeitgeist (probably a german author wrote it) for the pc.

Is anybody out there who can tell me if it is in the public domain ?
I would be grateful if you could tell me the ip-number of an internet
site that keeps the package if it were so.

Even if it is shareware or you know of some other project management
kit available via internet, please let me know.

Please send short answers via E-Mail. If there is any public interest,
I will put excerpts of the answers into this newsgroup. 

Greetings

Manfred 

-- 
The more complex the mind, the greater the need for the simplicity of play.
-- Kirk, "Shore Leave," stardate 3025.8.

Kind regards...                                       Please send email to:
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From: cid@athena.mit.edu (Derek H Cedillo)
Subject: DR Dos 6.0 And DIR command
Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Date: Fri, 16 Oct 1992 18:39:08 GMT

Hi,
I just picked up DR dos 6.0 and I had a question.
When I DIR it lists the memory available at the end of
the directory listing.  But, what I would like to see is
the memory used in that directory also.  Is there a switch for
this?  Something else I can do?  This is my main gripe vs.
my current MS-Dos system.  Can someone layout some other
pros and cons.  I am anxious to use my superstor, but if
I do, I am stuck with DR Dos and can't "uninstall" it.
Any help is greatly appreciated.

Derek H Cedillo


Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.apps
From: timk@tdkcs.waterloo.on.ca (Tim Kuehn)
Subject: Drag & Dictate
Organization: TDK Consulting Services
Distribution: na
Date: Wed, 07 Oct 1992 20:39:25 GMT

I'm looking for a software app called "Drag and Dictate" or 
something like that. I believe it's used for voice recognition
input into Word Perfect.

If you know who manufactures this product and could drop me a line 
(email), I'd appreciate it.

Email please, I don't normally read this group.

Thanks!

<<<----+---------+-----+--------------+-----+---------------------------+-->>>
    +	Tim Kuehn   + 	TDK Consulting   +    (519)-888-0766	
    +	<><         + 	Services         +    timk@tdkcs.waterloo.on.ca 
<<<----+---------+-----+--------------+-----+---------------------------+-->>>
From: tvp@gibdo.engr.washington.edu
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.apps,comp.ms-windows.apps
Subject: FAX and OCR software suggestions requested
Summary: how to scan faxes and use as text within wordprocessing software
Date: 8 Oct 92 12:21:49 GMT
Article-I.D.: u.1992Oct8.122149.3795
Organization: clearer than blir

I know of a few hardware options that can be used for scanning text
such as the HP Scanjet and Scanjet plus but I have little knowledge of
OCR software. I also need information on FAX software. Therefore I
have a few questions.

1. Currently I use WinFax Pro for Windows. Is there any OCR software
   available that can work directly on the image data obtained to
   generate text that can be imported into your generic wordprocessor?
2. If I don't limit myself to WinFax Pro is there any FAX/OCR software
   combination available on the market that can do this for me? (I'm
   not limiting myself to Windows either.)
3. If I am stuck with a hardware solution, is there any hardware
   as good as or better than the Scanjet?

Any help would be greatly appreciated. Please e-mail responses to:

-- Tad Perry   Internet:    tvp@gibdo.engr.washington.edu
From: w8sdz@tacom-emh1.army.mil (Keith Petersen)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.apps
Subject: New mailing list for MS-DOS file upload announcements
Summary: SIMTEL20 and Garbo upload announcements
Keywords: simtel20,garbo,msdos,uploads,announcements
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 1992 07:34:15 GMT
Reply-To: w8sdz@tacom-emh1.army.mil (Keith Petersen)
Distribution: world
Followup-To: poster
Organization: The SIMTEL20 Archives

Announcing msdos-ann@TACOM-EMH1.Army.Mil, a ONE-WAY (moderated) mailing
list which is used by the Internet MS-DOS archive managers to announce
new additions to their collections.

To add yourself to the mailing list send e-mail to
listserv@TACOM-EMH1.Army.Mil with this command in the
body of the message:

subscribe msdos-ann

Please do not include a signature because it may confuse the server.
Send mail with the word  help  in the body of the message to get a
complete list of commands and their syntax.

If you later change your mind and wish to unsubscribe, send e-mail
from the same address where you were when you subscribed.  Send to
listserv@TACOM-EMH1.Army.Mil with this command in the body of the
message:

unsubscribe msdos-ann

This server is only for mailing lists.  It will not send program files.

Keith
--
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Internet: w8sdz@TACOM-EMH1.Army.Mil     or      w8sdz@Vela.ACS.Oakland.Edu
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Xref: sparky comp.os.msdos.apps:5101 comp.os.msdos.misc:5578 comp.os.os2:381
From: ian@vnet.ibm.com (Ian Stirling)
Date: Fri, 9 Oct 92 14:54:00 BST
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.apps,comp.os.msdos.misc,comp.os.os2,comp.os.so2.misc
Subject: Re: Problem with memory
Reply-To: ian@vnet.ibm.com
Organization: IBM UK Laboratories Ltd, Hursley, England
Disclaimer: This posting represents the poster's views, not those of IBM
News-Software: UReply 3.0

In <1992Oct08.201010.124214@ua1ix.ua.edu> totake@ho12.eng.ua.edu writes:
>There are two questions (problems) that I have, one is strictly OS/2 2.0
>related, the other one involves both OS/2 and MS-DOS 5.
>
>First the OS/2 2.0 problem.  I have recently upgraded my system memory from 8MB
>to 20MB (I swapped 4 1MB SIMMs for 4 4MB SIMMs).  However, OS/2 only recognizes
>the first 16MB and does not make use of the remaining 4MB.  Anybody know why?

Tom

The problem with OS/2 seeing only 16Mb has been discussed before.
If you have the "right" sort of machine then OS/2 2.0 will use all of
the memory.

There is a fix called GT16MB available by anonymous FTP from
software.watson.ibm.com which is a replacement OS2LDR and which will
allow OS/2 2.0 to use memory over 16Mb as paging space even if it cannot
use it for running programs in.

Ian Stirling                      Internet: ian@vnet.ibm.com
CICS/ESA Systems Facilities         Bitnet: ian at vnet
IBM UK Labs Ltd, Hursley,         IBMIPnet: ian@stirling.hursley.ibm.com
England, SO21 2JN                  IBMMail: GBIBMJWB at IBMMAIL
From: Deon.Strydom@p16.f1.n7104.z5.fidonet.org (Deon Strydom)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.apps
Subject: Re: Task Switcher
Date: 13 Oct 92 06:55:42 GMT
Article-I.D.: catpe.2592.2ADC624A
Organization: FidoNet node 5:7104/1.16 - The Catalyst BBS 1, Port Elizabeth

In a message of <Oct 12 20:57>, Mason (5:7104/2) wrote to All:

   >|> I'm looking for a program that does a context switch for dos 
   >|> applications.I want to be able to just press a key(F12) and switch from 
   >|> Wordperfectto another application and back again.
   >|> The ideal switcher would be rather small in size.
+   A more flexible and useful task-switcher (but still one that is
 M> +easy to use and doesn't use up system resources) is BACK&FORTH PRO;

Hi Mason,
Have you considered Desqview?  It's a perfect Task Switcher with the added benefit of multitasking thrown in.  And, to top it all, while Back&Forth's price is $69.95, I've seen many adverts in PC Mag for Desqview at $57-$60!

Groetnis (=cheers)
Deon


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From: fritz@fc.sde.hp.com (Gary Fritz)
Subject: FAX software?
Organization: HP SESD, Fort Collins, CO
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1.4 PL6]
Date: Sat, 17 Oct 1992 04:01:32 GMT

We've got a FAX/modem in our PC, and have been using the BITFAX software
from Bit Software.  Unfortunately it sucks.  Big-time.  The user interface
is really poor, it can't coexist with Windows, you can only send cheesy-
looking ASCII text -- and, lately, it *hangs* every time we try to receive
a FAX that's any longer than 2 pages.  And the customer support has been,
shall we say, less than useful.

So we're in the market for some decent FAX software.  We want something
that's Windows-compatible so 1) we don't have to exit Windows to receive
or send a FAX, and 2) we can send fonts, graphics, etc.

We've been thinking about WinFAX Pro or FAXit -- about $85 and $105
respectively if I remember right -- but I'd love to hear any experiences
with those or other packages.  OCR would be *wonderful*, but the packages
I've seen run about $250, and from what I read they don't work all that well.

Any comments, recommendations, stay-away-froms, or other advice?

Thanks!
Gary
fritz@hpfclrnp.sde.hp.com
From: S.Culverhouse@lut.ac.uk
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.apps
Subject: Re: Out of memory in Speedisk
Date: 8 Oct 92 09:49:04 GMT
Reply-To: S.Culverhouse@lut.ac.uk (Simon C++)
Organization: Loughborough University, UK.

In article <1992Oct7.201937.5686@gw.wmich.edu> 739chan1@gw.wmich.edu writes:
>>I have a very large SCSI disk of about 500 MB capacity running on a system
>>under MS-DOS 4.01, and I'm running out of memory in PC Tools Compress and

etc.......

>
>>Please send e-mail responses directly to me, as I do not normally read this
>>newsgroup.  Thanks in advance for any help on this matter!
>
>>Gary
>--
>>/ Gary A. Hildebrand                 Internet: gah@mew.mei.co.jp       \
>>/  Matsushita Electric Works, Ltd.   UUCP:     uunet!mew.mei.co.jp!gah \
>>/   13-2, Mita 5-chome, Minato-ku    Fax:      03-3451-0793            \
>>/    Tokyo 108, JAPAN                Tel:      03-3452-4941            \
>

I have a similar problem using PC-TOOLS Compress.  The only difference is that
my HD is only 120Mb and of that about 100Mb are used.  PC-TOOLS gives me out-of-
memory errors.  I can use Norton SD, but it takesa good hour to do the job,
whereas PC-TOOLS always takes about 1/4 of the time, and I would rather use it.
I always boot off a clean floppy before compressing, with only the very minimum
loaded, and never any disk TSRs such as caching systems.

Any suggestions, do later versions of PC-TOOL get around this ?  Any help
would be apreciated.  Thank you.
   
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                                                University of Technology
   Home System:   Hewlett Packard 9000/855      Loughborough
                  HP-UX,  Unix System V         LE 11  -  3HT 

   Mail address:  S.Culverhouse@uk.ac.lut       System name:  hpb
       or         culverho@uk.ac.lut.indigo     System name:  indigo

**************** Ich danke Ihnen fuer Ihre Aufmerksamkeit ! ********************
From: darkstar@pecan.cns.udel.edu (The Janitor Of Anarchy)
Subject: Re: How is Norton Desktop for DOS ?
Followup-To: comp.os.msdos.apps
Summary: Call Termenix
Keywords: i do no like green eggs and ham, sam i am...
Organization: The Green Circle Of Vengence
Distribution: na
Date: Sun, 11 Oct 1992 18:26:20 GMT

In article <rhoward.718578291@matd> rhoward@matd.gatech.edu (Robert L. Howard) writes:
>tennis@cs.mcgill.ca (Pascal PROULX) writes:
>
>>The title almost says it all. I'd like to know if Norton Desktop for DOS
>>is a good piece of software, which utilities come with it etc...
>
>Buggy as hell....
>
>The worst is that if you quit out of it your PC hangs.  I guess
>they intend for you to use it *ALL* the time....
>
>Robert
>--

[.sig deleted]

I haven't had any problems with it hanging on me when I exit out of it,
you might want to check your configuration.  I do like it alot, with the
exception that it is very large for what it does.  Granted I do like all
of the desktop stuff that it does, but 10 (9.something) is a little
large.  So after deleting all of the help files, etc, it looks much
better.  But all in all, I would recommend it...



	--Jerry



-- 

Jerry Alexandratos            | "What?  Even I can't always lose...
darkstar@freezer.cns.udel.edu |        --Bert
darkstar@bach.udel.edu        |
From: Deon.Strydom@p16.f1.n7104.z5.fidonet.org (Deon Strydom)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.apps
Subject: Word Perfect PRS w/ line draw chars
Date: 5 Oct 92 21:38:18 GMT
Article-I.D.: catpe.2542.2AD1D773
Organization: FidoNet node 5:7104/1.16 - The Catalyst BBS 1, Port Elizabeth

In a message of <Sep 30 21:06>, Richard Curzon (5:7104/2) wrote to All:

 RC> Is there a way to print a WP doc to a file and still see the 
 RC> frames around tables, and other line draw characters? 

Hi Richard,
I use a small shareware program with the name TO5.  It basically takes the WP 5 .1 file and converts it to ASCII, but unlike WP 5.1's own convertion this leaves "High ASCII" like foreign characters and line draw characters in.

Groetnis (=cheers)
Deon


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From: icsg0131@cs.montana.edu (Jeff)
Subject: Re: communications programs ... pcAnywhere
Organization: Montana State University, Dept. of Computer Science, Bozeman MT 59717
Date: Sat, 10 Oct 1992 08:28:32 GMT


I rate it very dependable and easy-to-use for most tasks.  I do backups
of the LAN at work with pca from home and it works fine.  We did have one
project however where we tried to make pcanywhere the communications package
for it and it simply didn't cut it at all!  This is version 4.03c that
I'm using so they might have changed it in v4.5 but it doesn't return
any error conditions to the parent process at all.  Just 0, if you can
find some way to use that.  I hear the "scripts" in v4.5 have been enhanced
quite a bit though so maybe they've overcome that problem, I know I complained
enough for about 5 customers so maybe they got tired of me calling and coded
it in.  

That's my two cents...

-- 
Jeff Benjamin   icsg0131@some.dead.emperor    
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.apps