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From: roper@halcyon.com (Michael Roper)
Subject: Re: Which printer to get for MS Windows ???
Organization: Amaze Inc., Kirkland WA
Date: Thu, 8 Oct 1992 19:42:37 GMT

Isaac Rabinovitch writes:

> So the question boils down to, How much fancy printing are you gonna
> do?
> 
> By the way, you seem to be assuming that you need a laser printer with
> PCL (or some other page description language).  If you're willing to
> put up with slightly lower quality (for most applications you can't
> tell the difference) and much lower speed, consider an inkjet printer.
> An HP DeskJet 500, for example goes for $400 these days, and its
> operating cost is about 4 cents a page (less for draft-quality
> output), as opposed to 10 cents for a laser.  If you want color
> output, you'll still be cheaper than a laser printer, which can't do
> color printing at all.
> 
> As for PCL, it's not a necessity for Windows.  It may speed things up,
> but even the stupidist bitmap printers do OK with Windows.
> Furthermore, a simple-minded printer can print anything you
> application can draw on your screen, because the GDI-to-printer
> translation is straightforward.  With a fancier printer, you have to
> hope that whoever wrote the printer driver anticipated what you're
> trying to do (an unusual font, rotated text, etc.).  Then again, most
> printer drivers have caught up with what Windows can do.
> -- 
> 
> 	ergo@netcom.com 			Isaac Rabinovitch
>         {apple,amdahl,claris}!netcom!ergo	Santa Cruz, CA
> 	
> 	You will be assimilated.  Resistance is futile.
> 		

just a cautionary note.  if you have applications that do even simple
graphics (like line drawing), the deskjet can be trouble under windows.
hp has had a lot of trouble getting this driver right.  in the past
year, literally dozens of printing bugs have crossed my desk that are
marked 'deskjet only.'  it -has- gotten better (hp continually updates
their drivers), but if you go with the deskjet, make sure you ask hp
for the latest driver available.  it works well.  the one that shipped 
with win 3.1 does not.

michael roper
amaze inc.
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
From: steveha@microsoft.com (Steve Hastings)
Subject: Re: MICROSOFT IS STACKING THE DECK!
Date: 16 Oct 92 05:28:15 GMT
Organization: Microsoft Applications Division

In article <rdippold.719001794@qualcom> rdippold@qualcom.qualcomm.com (Ron Dippold) writes:
>If anyone else here remembers back into antiquity, Borland learned how
>to make TSRs, specifically their best-selling Sidekick, by
>disassembling Microsoft code - the TSR functions were undocumented,
>yet used by Microsoft.

Note that the only Microsoft product that used those calls was DOS itself.
It was PRINT.COM that they reverse-engineered.  No Microsoft applications
used that -- there never was a Sidekick-type product from Microsoft.

It is not considered bad manners for a product to have undocumented ways of
talking to itself.
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From: mcdonald@aries.scs.uiuc.edu (J. D. McDonald)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
Subject: Re: Mixing portrait & landscape in WfW2.0?
Date: 11 Oct 92 14:58:24 GMT
Distribution: na
Organization: UIUC SCS

In article <#bxzf#m@rpi.edu> kudla@acm.rpi.edu (Robert Kudla) writes:


>Hi.  All I want to do is have the masthead for my newsletter (with a
>logo in .WMF format and two rows of TrueType text) run up the left
>hand side of the page, with a line "under" it, and then have two
>columns of text running down the page normally.  Subsequent pages
>would have either two or three columns of text with .WMF's and text
>frames thrown in here and there. 

>Here are the methods I've tried:

>1. Framing the text part and the logo, and rotating each of them.
>Unbelievably, you can't rotate frames, even of .WMF's.  

Windows just doesn't like to do this.

The best solutions:

1) as suggested, print the logo once, landscape, and use physical
   scissors, physical glue, and there you go into a copy machine or
   as camera ready copy.

2) if a Postscript printer, print the logo to encapsulated Postscript,
   hack that by hand (actually edit the PS code) to rotate it, and
   paste that in your document. Luckily ou'll have to horrible hassle 
   of the rotation only once. And its a bitch getting it positioned
   properly.

Doug McDonald
From: john.will@satalink.com (John Will) 
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
Subject: DOS Graphics programs in
Date: 16 Oct 92 03:06:00 GMT
Distribution: world
Organization: Datamax/Satalink Connection * Ivyland, PA (215) 443-9434
Reply-To: john.will@satalink.com (John Will) 

KW.Has anybody been able to make a DOS program that runs in graphic mode run
  .inside of a window on Win 3.1  in 386 mode?  I know I'm supposed to be able
  .to do it, but I can't.

It's a function of the video drivers, so far the ONLY ones I've seen from
anywhere that work are the original 16 color Microsoft ones.  After seeing
it run with those, I can see why it's not a top priority with other 
vendors, it's like watching paint dry!  Can you spell slooooooooooooooooow!
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Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
From: reimert@mamacass.etdesg.trw.com (Scott P. Reimert)
Subject: Re: MICROSOFT IS STACKING THE DECK!
Organization: TRW Inc., Redondo Beach, CA
Date: Sat, 17 Oct 92 00:30:02 GMT

I'm not what one would call Pro-MicroSoft, but I'd *hate* to see the government
put their collective fingers into this, in the form of some sort of anti-trust
litigation. As I understand it, they are looking into it now.

For a "government of the people, by the people, and for the people," our
government is getting WAY out of hand, and way to powerful. Look what they
did to Xerox, and IBM. Or on another front, look at all the civil liberties
that are suspended every day by the DEA under the guise of the "drug war."

I don't necessarily have a solution, but I think there is enough government
intervention in our lives already without MicroSoft getting investigated and
probably acted upon by a government agency.

	Scott

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Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
From: mccall@mksol.dseg.ti.com (fred j mccall 575-3539)
Subject: Re: Is there a NT group?
Organization: Texas Instruments Inc
Date: Fri, 16 Oct 1992 17:44:33 GMT

In <1992Oct9.114551.5775@ais.com> bruce@ais.com (Bruce C. Wright) writes:

>In article <9OCT199201460450@venus.tamu.edu>, tcf9033@venus.tamu.edu (FREY, TONY C) writes:
>> 
>>  Title says it all.

>There's comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.win32, but I don't think there
>is a user-oriented NT group.  Since NT isn't an officially-released
>product yet, I guess there hasn't been a need felt for it yet.

>BTW the entire comp.windows.ms hierarchy has been moved to a new
>comp.os.ms-windows.* hierarchy, along with new groups like the win32
>group mentioned above.  The comp.windows.ms hierarchy is scheduled to
>go away in a couple months - you might want to check out those other
>groups.

Seems like most of the pro-NT people hang out in comp.os.os2.advocacy
(unfortunately).  

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From: weiss@ada.seas.ucla.edu (Michael Weiss)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
Subject: Re: Multimedia authoring tool
Date: 12 Oct 92 18:04:56 GMT
Organization: SEASnet, University of California, Los Angeles

In article <Bvprq7.Frp@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> varkki@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (Varkki George) writes:
>Are there available any high-level authoring tools for creating multimedia
>Windows applications? Essentially, I am looking for the Windows
>equivalent of Supercard (for the Mac).

It sounds like you're looking for PLUS from Spinnaker.  The programming
language is almost identical to HyperTalk, and it's basically like HyperCard
2.0 with color.

Hope this helps.
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Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
From: eric@telebit.com (Eric Smith)
Subject: Keyboard mapping utility?
X-Disclaimer: Everything I write is false.
Organization: Telebit Corporation
Date: 15 Oct 92 17:42:12

Has anyone heard of a good keyboard remapping utility for Windows 3.1?
Public domain would be great, shareware would be OK, and if need be I'll even
pay money.

The two main things I want to do are:

1)  Get control-space to generate a NULL ('\000')

2)  Swap the caps lock and control keys

I've got a utility to do this for DOS, but since Windows uses the Int 9
keyboard interrupt vector directly, I don't know what to use for Windows.

Thanks!
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
Subject: Re: Improve startup speed
From: pmacfar@eis.calstate.edu (Paul MacFarlane)
Date: Mon, 12 Oct 1992 13:33:51 GMT
Organization: Calif State Univ/Electronic Information Services

In the Windows FAQ I recall reading something about slow startups when the
mouse is not on COM1.  Apparently, Windows tests and retests for COM1
before going on to COM2. Perhaps this is the problem you're having.
-Paul
From: dj@ekcolor.ssd.kodak.com (Dave Jones)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
Subject: Re: Painting in 256 color
Date: 8 Oct 92 17:35:06 GMT
Article-I.D.: pixel.1992Oct8.173506.2292
Organization: :noitazinagrO
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]

Perry Reed (reed@hpcc01.corp.hp.com) wrote:
: > / hpcc01:comp.os.ms-windows.misc / john.will@satalink.com (John Will) /  9:25 am  Oct  6, 1992 /
: > PR.I believe this is because Windows can only handle 16 colors even when
: >   .your display can handle 256.
: > 
: > HUH?  It's the applications that have the color limitations, if you have
: > a 256 color driver, most decent applications will recognize that fact.
: >
: Windows itself only uses 16 colors (it dithers to get the rest), except
: when displaying a BMP.
Actually Windows reserves up to 20 colors for its own use.  In 16 color
systems like VGA it takes all the available palette for itself, and
you're SOL if you want to define a palette color of your own (even if
the display driver supports palettes, which standard VGA doesn't).  In 256
color systems the first 10 and last 10 entries in the 'physical' palette
are reserved for Windows and the Palette Manager (that part of the
software which decides who gets palette entries) won't give them up to
any old application.  Entries in the remaining part of the palette are
assigned to applications on request.  The number of reserved slots can
be reduced to two by appropriate function calls.

Apart from displaying bitmaps Windows makes all its colors using the
reserved part of the palette, hence the dithering found even in the
Colors dialog.  It may be possible to make the Colors dialog use
non-reserved palette entries if you call it from your own application,
but as used by most Windows apps it only uses the reserved colors.

: Paintbrush can only edit with 16 colors, although it can display BMPs
: with 256 colors.
: 
It's true: Paintbrush's own Edit Colors dialog creates colors by
dithering from the reserved set.  When it sets bits into the image
the dithering is preserved.
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From: mm@pico.qpsx.oz.au (Manuel Mall)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
Subject: Fast SVGA cards/drivers for WIN 3.1?
Date: 14 Oct 92 05:38:04 GMT
Organization: QPSX Communications LTD, Perth, Western Australia.
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL4

We are currently planning to replace all our existing 286 and 386
PCs with 486/50 PCs running Windows 3.1.

I am looking for advice on what is/are the best performing SVGA
cards and drivers under Windows 3.1. There is most likely not a
simple answer to this question, but I recall it has been discussed
before. If someone out there has a summary of those previous discussions
could you please email it to me.

Thanks

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Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc,comp.windows.ms
From: mmeltzer@wam.umd.edu
Subject: Word vs WordPerfect
Reply-To: mmeltzer@wam.umd.edu
Organization: Workstations at Maryland, University of Maryland, College Park
Date: Sun, 11 Oct 1992 02:48:15 GMT


For those of you out there that have used the latest versions of both of
these word processors, what are your opinions on them?  Which one
do you like better?

For those of you who use one or the other, what are your opinions?

Thanks!

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From: gerry@bluemoon.rn.com (Gerard M. Foley)
Subject: Re: Looking for a BRIDGE game (via ftp) ?
Organization: Blue Moon BBS ((614) 868-998[024])
Date: Fri, 09 Oct 92 09:46:29 EDT

desjarly@JSP.UMontreal.CA (Desjardins Lyne) writes:

> Hi !
> 
> I'm new to this newsgroup and I was wondering if someone could help me.
> 
> I'm looking for a BRIDGE game (yes, the card game) with Windows.
> Do you know an address (via ftp) that I can get it ?? 
> 
> Please, respond via e-mail !
> 
> Thanks a lot !
> 
> Lyne
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Would an inquiry on rec.games.bridge help you?

gerry@bluemoon.rn  My amateur radio callsign is K8EF, and my
packet radio address is K8EF@W8CQK.OH.USA.NA
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc,comp.windows.ms,comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.misc
From: tomh@wes.on.ca (Tom Haapanen)
Subject: MODERATOR WANTED for Windows binaries group
Organization: Waterloo Engineering Software
Date: Fri, 16 Oct 1992 20:29:18 GMT
Followup-To: poster


There haven't been any real objections to the Request for Discussion for
comp.binaries.ms-windows, so I expect to go ahead with a Call for Votes
in two weeks' time.

However, in order to proceed with a CFV, we need a moderator.  I've done
it before and might volunteer now if I weren't too busy making a living :),
but as it is, I have to decline.  I can, however, provide advice on what
needs to be done, as well as real-life experience on the workload.

If you're willing and interested in doing your bit for the betterment of
mankind :), please reply to me by email.  It'd be good to have some expe-
rience with Internet (I assume anyone reading this has Windows exprience),
and it'd be even better if you are directly connected to the Internet.

If there are multiple volunteers, we'll figure out a peaceful selection
process somehow!

[ \tom haapanen    "i don't even know what street canada is on" -- al capone ]
[ tomh@wes.on.ca                   "trust the programmer" -- ansi c standard ]
[ waterloo engineering software      "to thine own self be true" -- polonius ]
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
From: rdippold@qualcom.qualcomm.com (Ron Dippold)
Subject: Re: MICROSOFT IS STACKING THE DECK!
Organization: Qualcomm, Inc., San Diego, CA
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1992 18:43:14 GMT

edowdy@vax1.umkc.edu writes:

>MICROSOFT IS STAACKING THE DECK!!
>	I just read an article about Microsoft. Apparently microsoft
>has written in "secret codes" to the dos. Essentially these codes guarantee
>that software packages that are not microsoft's will run slower and less
>effeciently than microsoft's because they do not have access to these codes!
>There is apparently much evidence from many companies that overwhelmingly
>proves this is the case.

>Can anybody verify this through other sources?

Microsoft has been doing this forever.  You can check out Undocumented
DOS and Undocumented Windows for all the calls.

If anyone else here remembers back into antiquity, Borland learned how
to make TSRs, specifically their best-selling Sidekick, by
disassembling Microsoft code - the TSR functions were undocumented,
yet used by Microsoft.

They're just using their position as "OS" provider to give them a
boost in their applications sales.  As far as Microsoft dirty tricks
go, this is pretty mild.
-- 
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Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
From: brown@NCoast.ORG (Stan Brown)
Subject: Re: Environment space: how to adjust?
Organization: Oak Road Systems, Cleveland Ohio USA
Date: Wed, 7 Oct 1992 11:08:54 GMT

In article <Bvny0C.4K0@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu> ntaib@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (Iskandar Taib) writes:
>Does each DOS session inherit the same environment space from
>config.sys? I was having a problem with SAS - as it starts up 
>it flashes the message "Out of environment space". Doesn't 
>seem to cause any problems afterwards, but..

DOS sessions inherit the amount of environment space that is _in use_
not the max amount reserved by CONFIG.SYS.

You can SET a variable to a long string before entering Windows, then
SET it to nothing in the DOS session, though this is a  bit cumbersome.

I believe that in PIF editor you can put /e:8192 or whatever as optional 
parameter for the DOS session to force it to have a larget environment
space, but I'm not in Windows now and can't try it.
DOS session
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Cleveland, Ohio, USA
From: furballs@sequent.com (Paul Penrod)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
Subject: Re: MICROSOFT IS STACKING THE DECK!
Date: 14 Oct 92 08:17:01 GMT
Article-I.D.: sequent.1992Oct14.081701.3675
Organization: Sequent Computer Systems Inc.

In article <7171@transfer.stratus.com> jmann@vineland.pubs.stratus.com writes:
>In article <92287.091613SASTPH@vm.sas.com> SASTPH@vm.sas.com writes:
>> In article <1992Oct12.185104.1@vax1.umkc.edu>, edowdy@vax1.umkc.edu  
>says:
>> >        I just read an article about Microsoft. Apparently  
>microsoft
>> >has written in "secret codes" to the dos. Essentially these codes  
>guarantee
>> >that software packages that are not microsoft's will run slower  
>and less
>> >effeciently than microsoft's because they do not have access to  
>these codes!
>> >There is apparently much evidence from many companies that  
>overwhelmingly
>> >proves this is the case.
>> >
>> (More details omitted.)
>> >
>> >Can anybody verify this through other sources?
>> >
>> 
>> I'd be very interested in reading the original article.  Can you  
>post just
>> exactly where you read this?
>
>I doubt that the original poster had his facts straight in terms
>of "secret codes."  I think he muddied and misunderstood what
>he'd read. More likely the article discusses Microsoft's use
>of undocumented DOS calls in their programs.  Other companies
>that haven't bought books like Undocumented DOS probably don't
>have access to these calls.
>

Undocumented DOS calls have been the order of the day for many
years. Microsoft press makes a mint publishing texts on them. I
know, I have bought some of their material, plus books from Sybex,
Hayden, etc. with the intent and purpose of keeping the playing
field level. Also, none of these books neglect to mention that the
undocumented calls work for only certain versions of DOS and that
Microsoft can, and does, change the interface to suit the needs of
the next revision of DOS.

This was one of the items Jim Manzi screamed foul over when he
complained to the FTC about Microsoft. 



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From: Greg.Reinacker@FtCollins.NCR.COM
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
Subject: Re: Is there a shareware job control app out there?
Date: 12 Oct 92 07:45:39 GMT
Reply-To: Greg.Reinacker@FtCollinsCO.NCR.COM
Followup-To: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
Organization: NCR Microelectronics, Ft. Collins, CO
In-reply-to: pluto@cs.ucsd.edu's message of 7 Oct 92 21:16:09 GMT

>>>>> On 7 Oct 92 21:16:09 GMT, pluto@cs.ucsd.edu (Mark Plutowksi) said:

-> Is there a shareware program that will allow me to 
-> schedule windows apps?  Preferably, one that will
-> let me compose a script of applications to be run in
-> sequence, so that when 1 app finishes, the next begins.

Try Clocker, available on cica as /pub/pc/win3/util/clock101.zip.

  (disclaimer: I wrote this program, so of course I am biased!)

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Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
From: troyb@stat.ufl.edu (Troy Bleeker)
Subject: Windows Title Screen--Bypassing
Organization: University of Fl, Department of Statistics
Distribution: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
Date: 14 Oct 92 09:05:13

Is there any way to bypass the opening title screen for windows 3.1 when
I start the program.
Please e-mail me or post responses.

troyb@stat.ufl.edu

Troy
Xref: sparky comp.os.ms-windows.misc:3900 comp.sys.novell:8313
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc,comp.sys.novell
Subject: Windows App. Killer for Netware
From: hilbig_t@qis.dofasco.ca
Date: 16 Oct 92 13:42:10 GMT
Organization: Dofasco Inc, Hamilton, Ont. Can.
Nntp-Posting-User: hilbig_t


THE PROBLEM:

We are seeing some licensing problems using MS-Windows clients accessing 
programs on our (Novell) fileserver.  Before we had Windows, our DOS 
menuing system (ie Saber Menu) only allowed one program to be run at a time.
This worked out well since a server with 100 users would only need (say)
a WordPerfect license for 30 nodes, since no more than 30 people would ever
by using WP *AT ANY ONE TIME*.

Now that several people are using Windows, we find them starting several 
applications at a time and only utilizing one.  Before, our WP user had
to exit WP before he could run his (say) Harvard Graphics program; leaving
a WP node license to be used by someone else.  Now, our Windows user is
tying up two (or more) licenses.  Often our user will switch between tasks
frequently, and/or cutting and pasteing between applications (as Windows
was intended); but ofter the background application just sits dormant for
hours (even days -- although Windows seems to take care of that problem
itself ;-) ).

MY QUESTION:

Does anyone know of a software package that monitors application files 
stored on a Novell fileserver and can trigger a clients Windows session to 
terminate unused applications?

Thanks, Tom Hilbig

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From: Elliot_Jaffe@transarc.com
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
Subject: Termcap/Terminfo entry for "Terminal"
Date: 15 Oct 92 06:57:01 GMT
Article-I.D.: transarc.gerMOx000k00FISER7
Organization: Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA

Does anyone know/have a termcap/terminfo entry for the Windows Terminal
emulator.  It has reasonable fonts, but I can't find a good termcap
entry.

I'm using a RS6000 with AIX 3.2, and I've tried terminfo entries for
ANSI, vt100, and assorted variations.

Thanks,
Elliot