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From: ntaib@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (Iskandar Taib)
Subject: Re: DOES A 387 HELP WIN/3.1?
Organization: Indiana University
Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1993 17:18:38 GMT

In article <1992Dec29.175519.16238@nynexst.com> fischman@nynexst.com writes:

>I'm gonna jump in here and agree with Fred.  The performance of the
>application >is different from the performance of the WINDOWS
>environment.  No matter how an >application is written, the overhead
>introduced by the OS is essentially the same.  >The fact is, a numeric
>coprocessor does nothing for the WINDOWS environment.  It >will only
>help an application which requires number crunching. 

No argument, but I think apps that use the coprocessor are a 
bit more numerous than we think. There was a similar discussion 
almost a year ago and someone reported a speedup in Word 2.0
when he added a copro. Why would a wordprocessor use floating 
point? Well, perhaps for microjustification? Or kerning? Or one
of the myriad other things that involve page layout? I'll bet
Pagemaker does too.


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From: richardg@idca.tds.philips.nl (Richard Grear)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
Subject: Re: Problems with winfax
Date: 5 Jan 93 14:55:25 GMT
Reply-To: richardg@nofssrv.syssup.tds.philips.nl (Richard Grear)
Disclaimer: This is not necessarily the opinion of anyone else

In <1993Jan5.012640.26693@sobeco.com> jpichett@sobeco.com (Jacques-Bertrand Pichette) writes:

>In <C0Az8n.Aqt@news.udel.edu> piper@bach.udel.edu (Jon Malenfant) writes:

>>	I am having problems installing Winfax Pro 2.0.  I get an
>>	application error from windows during installation.  It
>>	Also, is there any other fax programs for windows that are
>>	suggested?


>No.  Winfax is one of the best on the market right now.

>J.B.P.
Sorry J.B.P. do you mean "No, Winfax is one of the best.." or "the best"?

I have used WinfaxPro and FaxNOW and preferr FaxNOW. I would suggest you have a play with it (I believe evaluation copies are available).

Richard
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Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
From: j.craick@trl.oz.au (John Craick)
Subject: Problems with Win 3.1 HP LJIII pscript driver
Organization: Telecom Research Laboratories
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 08:08:29 GMT


My current Msoft Win 3.1 postscript printer driver for the HP 
Laserjet IIISI seems to insist on making the first line of PS output the 
string :

"Esc%-12345@PJL ENTER LANGUAGE = Postscript"

The next line is %!PS-ADOBE etc. which is more reasonable.

This looks like an attempt to set the printer to postcript mode - which 
it's already in anyway. When passed thru various bits of our Unix 
network, the effect is that the postcript code gets printed 
out rather than the text I actually want. If that first nasty line is 
deleted from the output, then everything prints properly.

SO, does anyone know how to suppress this first line - by some form of 
switch or option setting in win.ini or from the printer set up dialog 
under control panel ? - or any means for that matter. Fiddling with the 
network isn't an option at the moment.

Any advice appreciated.

Regards

John Craick

j.craick@trl.oz.au
From: rick@sundance.SJSU.EDU (Richard Warner)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
Subject: Re: How can I read Photo CD pictures
Date: 5 Jan 93 16:15:36 GMT
Organization: San Jose State University - Math/CS Dept.

iceman@sequent.com (Ian Evans) writes:

>What applications are available that can read CD ROM XA compliant
>"Photo CD" files under Windows???

>I want to put some photgraphs on photo cd and then read them into
>a presentation.

>Thanks!!!

As far as I know the only major one is CorelDraw/CorelPaint/CorelShow,
Version 3 Rev B or higher.  Contenders should be catching up (soon).

One other caution; many PhotoCD's are multisession and very few 
CD-ROM drives are multisession (yet).  So if you are having
photos transferred and do not have a multisession capable drive,
make sure that the service bureau does it all in one session or
you will only be able to read some of the photos.

>-- 
>Ian C. Evans					Sequent Computer Systems Inc.
>Senior Systems Administrator			15450 S.W. Koll Parkway
>Architecture & Technology			MS=RHE1-895
>iceman@sequent.com				Beaverton, OR  97006-6063
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
From: ntaib@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (Iskandar Taib)
Subject: Re: SOME NT QUESTIONS...
Organization: Indiana University
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 17:02:44 GMT

Two questions:

At this point in time, how good is

1) SVGA (Tseng ET4000) support
2) Novell netware support



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From: wew@naucse.cse.nau.edu (Bill Wilson)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
Subject: Postscript & Winqvt LPR
Date: 7 Jan 93 18:32:55 GMT
Organization: Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff AZ

I am having some problems with Windows for Workgroups and
the printing of postscript output files over LPR in Winqvt/net.
I am using Wordperfect for Windows and am using the pscript
Windows driver.  I print to a file so that I can LPR to 
our Apple Laserwriter printer that is on the net.  I can
print just fine if the printer is attached to me directly,
however, when I LPR the file it comes out as postscript commands.
I did notice that an extra control-d is inserted at the head
of the file.  I can't seem to get rid of it in the print jobs
even using the directions given in the printers.wri file.
Does LPR in Winqvt/net do anything strange to the files?
BTW, if the file is transported to another system and printed
with another LPR program, it comes out fine.

Thanks!

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Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
From: ddc@nyquist.bellcore.com (Daniel Chukurov 21324)
Subject: Re: Superstor VS. Stacker...You Make The Call
Organization: Bellcore
Date: Mon, 4 Jan 93 22:39:26 GMT

In article <C0CB31.M49@unix.portal.com> neptune@shell.portal.com (Dwayne R Farley) writes:
>>>>> The other half is for games like Ultima. Should I compress the 'work'
>>>>> part of the drive and leave the game part alone (i.e. partition) ? I
>>>>> know many games will not work with the compression programs like Ultima.
>>>>> 
>>>>>  Please give me your views and experience with these programs...
>>>>> 
>
>Greetings!
>
>I don't have any experience with Ultima, but using SuperStor, the game
>Castle Wolfenstein has problems with the speed of the decompression.
>I'm assuming this is the problem because I hadn't had it when I ran
>Wolf on an uncompressed drive.  I imaging the game constantly loads
>it's mazes from the HD. So any games that run in real time and load
>data from the HD will probably be affected.
>
>Hope this helps!
>
>Dwayne Farley
>neptune@netcom.com
>
>

Well, I am using a SSTOR also (the one from DRDOS 6.0) on two machines
and neither one of them has a problem with WOLF3d, but I have not tried
the Castle Wolfenstein (is it a same game?).

All in all the SSTOR works, but if you have the money for a bigger disk
go for it. Do not trust any compression programs, unless you do the regular
backups.

Regards,  DDC.

Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: dem21178@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Dan Montroy)
Subject: Re: Random Win 3.1 GP faults-help!
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Sat, 9 Jan 1993 22:02:23 GMT

Thanks to everyone for all the mail and suggestions.  I'll definitely look in
to getting some decent memory chips.

Dan

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University of Illinois
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Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
From: yxl5388@ultb.isc.rit.edu (Fractalman)
Subject: System sounds gone? Help?
Originator: yxl5388@ultb
Organization: Imperial Klingon Fleet
Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1993 13:13:50 GMT


Hi all, I noticed that the system sounds for my Windows has disappeared.
Opening the Sound icon in Control Panel revealed that I have nothing in
the Events box. Where has the events gone to and how can I get them back
without re-installing Windows? Thanks in advance for any help and a happy
new year to everyone.

=Fractalman

Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
From: cs_micko@uxmail.ust.hk (Michael Chan Ho Ming)
Subject: Re: reboot from windows3.1
Organization: Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL8]
Date: Sun, 10 Jan 1993 17:39:04 GMT

M Petit (peti@semt2.smts.cea.fr) wrote:
: Is there any executable that enables to reboot the computer
: from within windows ? If yes, where can I get it ?

: -- 
: Marc Petit     DMT/SEMT/TTMF
: Tel         :  (1) 69 08 52 85
: EMail       :  peti@semt1.smts.cea.fr
There  is shareware called TaskMan. 
It is a good taskmanager replacer.
It can : exit , restart windows, and REBOOT.
You can get it at ftp.cica.indiana.edu in the directory of:
/pub/pc/win3/util
Filename is tm101.zip

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From: john.lechmanik@uttsbbs.uucp (John Lechmanik) 
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
Subject: Free Memory
Date: 4 Jan 93 22:58:00 GMT
Distribution: world
Organization: The Transfer Station BBS, Danville, CA - 510-837-4610/837-5591
Reply-To: john.lechmanik@uttsbbs.uucp (John Lechmanik) 


JS>	Why does windows say that I have over 6MB 
JS>free memory when I only have 4MB in my system. Is there
JS>some file that I have to change for windows to be aware
JS>of the correct value.

        How about a simple answer.... How big is your virtual memory file? 
 I bet it is 2MB hence the 6MB of available free memory...

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From: rhb@hotsand.cnet.att.com (54312 - Richard H Brandwein)
Subject: Re: America Online (and similar systems)
Reply-To: rich.brandwein@att.com
Organization: AT&T Bell Labs - Holmdel, NJ
Distribution: usa
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 17:36:03 GMT
Originator: rhb@hotsand


In article <1993Jan5.204913.9051@jmb2.jmb.com>, sstern@jmb2.jmb.com (Steven D. Stern) writes:
|> re CIM for Windows
|> 
|> There'a a "pre-release" version available.  I believe it's $10, but comes
|> with a $10 usage credit.  It will soon be downloadable from CIS:WCIMSUPPORT.
|> 
|> I've been using it for several months.  It's CIM for Windows, not a navigator
|> like OZCIS or TAPCIS or AUTOSIG.  (I understand that's in the works, though.)	

It's available by mail for $25 with a $25 usage credit.  I received it
yesterday and tried it out.   I had a hard time getting myself to 
log off; it's a fantastic interface with nice bells and whistles.

One thing I must say is that it seems to be *much* faster than
the DOS CIM interface.  There must be some fairly effecient 
caching mechanism built in.

I'm also on AOL but I think I'm going to get off of that.  I really
like the look and feel of the interface, but:

	1) it's too expensive compared to compuserve
	2) it doesn't have nearly as many groups as compuserve
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From: bo@horus.cem.msu.EDU (Bo Peng)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
Subject: Re: New SpeedStar 24X drivers!!!!!!!!
Date: 11 Jan 93 01:53:34 GMT
Organization: Michigan State University
NNTP-Posting-Host: horus.cem.msu.edu

> In <1993Jan9.114120.1156@ultb.isc.rit.edu> yxl5388@ultb.isc.rit.edu (Fractalman) writes:
> 
>>Hi all.. I was just calling BBS's and I saw that they have the Diamond
>>SpeedStar 24X drivers version 2.03! And it's marked as (12/92). So I
>>immediately tried to call Diamond's BBS but have not been able to get
>>through yet. Does anyone have this yet? Does it fix the stupid bug with
>>the icons? If no one has it yet and if I get it I'll send it up to cica.
> 

If all the problems with 2.02 were fixed by a change of 0.01 in version number,
I could die in complete satisfaction seeing version 3.0. I expect it to offer
REAL, not virtual, reality at least.

Bo Peng
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
From: robert@slipknot.rain.com (Robert Reed)
Subject: Re: Corel 3.0 prints no landscape?
Reply-To: robert@slipknot.rain.com.UUCP (Robert Reed)
Organization: Home Animation Ltd.
Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 23:39:14 GMT

In article <rb.726492455@bambam> rb@dasc.nl (Remco Bruijne) writes:
|
|I am a satisfied Corel Draw 3.0 user, but landscape pictures keep
|printing portrait when I print via PostScript(tm) files (I do not have
|a PS printer at home).

I just tried it with my Laserwriter NT and Corel 3.0 and it worked fine.  You
must remember not only to check the Print-to-File box, but also to go into
printer setup and select landscape mode there as well.  (It is not sufficient
just to set landscape mode in the page setup dialog.)  

In my test, I printed a normally portrait oriented image to a file (a .PRN
file), and then sent that postscript directly to the printer.  The image came
out correctly oriented in landscape format.
________________________________________________________________________________
Robert Reed			Home Animation Ltd.		503-656-8414
robert@slipknot.rain.com	5686 First Court, West Linn, OR 97068

FBI and Florida authorities finally arrested Paul E. Flasher, 45, who had been
sentenced to five years in prison in 1980 for grand theft but who had never been
jailed.  Flasher said, truthfully, that he had gone home from the sentencing
hearing in Tampa in 1980 and "sat tight," just as his lawyer had instructed,
waiting for notification to report to prison.  The authorities then forgot about
him for 12 years.
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From: gibsonst@sonoma.edu (Stephen Gibson)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
Subject: re: ASCII textfile printer driver
Date: 7 Jan 93 00:11:29 GMT
Reply-To: gibsonst@sonoma.edu
Organization: Sonoma State University, Rohnert Park, CA


In article <1id8cjINNhhe@matt.ksu.ksu.edu> droufa@matt.ksu.ksu.edu (Donald J Roufa) writes:
>Does anyone know of or have access to a MS-Windows 3.x printer driver
>which can be used to print plain ASCII text to a disk file for
>purposes of transmitting the files via email and/or other electronic
>media?  The printer should strip all print attributes (bold,
>underline, italics, super- and subscripting, etc.) so as not to garble
>the textfile.  Unfortunately, the "Generic/Text Only" printer driver
>supplied with Windows 3.1 attempts to implement some of the attributes
>the best ways that it can.  For example, if Windows text is bold, then
>the Generic printer driver overprints it three times by issuing a
>carriage return without a line feed.  While this is nice when using a
>printer, it really messes up a textfile saved to disk.
>
>If you know where or how I can obtain such a "vanilla" printer driver
>for Windows 3.1, please respond to me by Email at the address below.
>Thanks much for your help.
>
>--
>    Don Roufa        DROUFA@MATT.KSU.KSU.EDU
>Division of Biology  Kansas State Univ.   Manhattan, KS  66506
>
>

Pardon me, but wouldn't it be easier to use your applications "Save As... 
Text" option (or something similar).  Or you could use a text editor such as 
Notepad, or NDW's Desktop Editor, or even a shareware text editor.  What 
benefits does printing ASCII text to disk give you?

Stephen Gibson
System Support Specialist
Sonoma State Universtiy
eMAIL:  gibsonst@sonoma.edu
        Stephen.Gibson@sonoma.edu
From: tnsturm@cip.informatik.uni-erlangen.de (Torsten Sturm)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
Subject: Re: Help! NT == fastest crash in the West
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 10:41:44 GMT
Organization: CSD., University of Erlangen
NNTP-Posting-Host: faui00c.informatik.uni-erlangen.de

uad1077@dircon.co.uk (Ian Kemmish) writes:



>I'm trying to install (October's) NT, and at the point where the kernel
>starts up for the first time, I get:

>Fatal system error:  0x0000000A

>IRQL expected to be less or equal.

>appearing on the screen after a short fraction of a second.

What kind of harddisk do you have installed ?

Some atbus disks such as the seagate st3283a make problems
with the current prerelease due to the mapping scheme of 
the seagate controller !
A workaround is to use those disks only as slaves but not
as boot disks!

Another problem could be there if you use an unsupported scsi
harddisk controller !

Always remember : NT is in prerelease state !

Hope that helps !
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From: john.will@satalink.com (John Will)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
Subject: Re: windows lan for hi-sp
Date: 11 Jan 93 10:51:00 GMT
Reply-To: john.will@satalink.com (John Will)
Organization: Datamax/Satalink Connection * Ivyland, PA (215) 443-9434

AK>Lantastic Z works with windows, and it supports modems. They recommend
AK>a high speed modem for performance reasons.

Lantastic-Z does NOT work in enhanced mode, it stops the machine in it's
tracks!
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Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
From: dmsilev@athena.mit.edu (Daniel M Silevitch)
Subject: Re: Help: Formulas in Word
Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 12:54:35 GMT

In article <4tWP9005fN00AL5@ldb-mb.ldb.comlink.de>, m.bannach@ldb.comlink.de (Matthias Bannach) writes:
|> ## Nachricht vom 07.01.93 weitergeleitet
|> ## Ursprung : BPBURKE%ATHENA.MIT.EDU@UUCP.ZER
|> ## Ersteller: M.BANNACH@LDB.comlink.de
|> 
|> Hello bpburke,
|> 
|> You wrote on 05.01.93 at 15:10 to the Board /IN/COMP/OS/MS-WINDOWS/MISC
|> about "Help: Formulas in Word":
|> 
|> > I'm looking for information to help my brother fromat formulas for his
|> > thesis (which is due real soon!).  He has just simple math equations to
|> >
|> > I'm not sure what version of Word he is using, but he is using Windows 3.0
|> > Would it be helpful to upgrade to 3.1 to get the TT fonts for this
|> Try W4W version 2.0 it includes an equation editor which supports 100% mouse
|> funktions and is easy to use.
|> 
|> > Any and all suggestions would be helpful.
|> It's not a lot, but ....
|> > Thanks,
|> > -Brian
|> 
|> no problem Matthias
|> 
|> Oh annother Information, there is someone using W4W at the MIT too !
                                                          ^^^^^^^^
The MIT; I'll have to remember that. We usually just call it MIT, or Hell :)

|> It's :
|> 
|> Daniel Silevitch                            dmsilev@athena.mit.edu
|> Massachusetts Institute of Technology
|> 

Why, thank you.

Word (2.0a) is my word processor of choice, but I don't use it very much
for equations, because the interface is rather clunky, I would much rather
edit equations inside the body text than bring up a seperate programs. Well, 
there's always LaTeX...

In answer to the question about TT fonts, it is useful to upgrade to Win3.1.
TrueType is a very useful feature, but the main attraction of Win3.1 is that
it is more stable than 3.0. Definitely upgrade.

Daniel Silevitch                             dmsilev@athena.mit.edu
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
From: ntaib@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (Iskandar Taib)
Subject: Re: HELP: Windows disappear as soon as it starts!
Organization: Indiana University
Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1993 17:29:01 GMT

In article <1hluibINNpfu@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu> aj923@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (P. J. Remner) writes:
>
>In a previous article, seamin@icaen.uiowa.edu (Seyamak Amin) says:

>>I tried to reinstall both DOS and Windows. During the windows
>>setup procedure (on Disk 2) before I get any Windows screen the
>>setup process stops and gives me the following error message:
>>
>>Standard Mode: Fault in MS-DOS Extender.
>>EC=0000 CS=0053 IP=2B9A AX=0500 ...
>> ...

>But seriously,  it sounds like a HIMEM.SYS problem.  Fortunately, I had
>the same problem with my no-name 486SX/25 with 4Mb RAM and a 105Mb hard
>disk.  Unfortunately, I forgot how I solved it.  :-(

If you haven't tried this already, 

1) remark out the himem.sys line
2) delete himem.sys off the root of the hard drive
3) delete Windows completely
4) reinstall Windows

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From: droufa@matt.ksu.ksu.edu (Donald J Roufa)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
Subject: ASCII textfile printer driver
Date: 5 Jan 1993 18:16:19 -0600
Organization: Kansas State University
NNTP-Posting-Host: matt.ksu.ksu.edu

Does anyone know of or have access to a MS-Windows 3.x printer driver
which can be used to print plain ASCII text to a disk file for
purposes of transmitting the files via email and/or other electronic
media?  The printer should strip all print attributes (bold,
underline, italics, super- and subscripting, etc.) so as not to garble
the textfile.  Unfortunately, the "Generic/Text Only" printer driver
supplied with Windows 3.1 attempts to implement some of the attributes
the best ways that it can.  For example, if Windows text is bold, then
the Generic printer driver overprints it three times by issuing a
carriage return without a line feed.  While this is nice when using a
printer, it really messes up a textfile saved to disk.

If you know where or how I can obtain such a "vanilla" printer driver
for Windows 3.1, please respond to me by Email at the address below.
Thanks much for your help.

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Division of Biology  Kansas State Univ.   Manhattan, KS  66506           


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