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From: bicker@cbnewsi.cb.att.com (The Resource, Poet-Magician of Quality)
Subject: Re: Norton Desktop Quick Access Lost !
Reply-To: Brian.C.Kohn@att.com (The Resource, Poet-Magician of Quality)
Organization: The Internet
Date: Sat, 5 Sep 1992 13:22:32 GMT
Followup-To: comp.os.ms-windows.apps

In article <Bu2Hop.H2y@news.cso.uiuc.edu> jlb31348@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Jim Brain) writes:
>My laptop battery ran down while in windows and the system shut off while in
>windows.  When I brought it back up, I could see nthing wrong, but the quick
>access windows does not show uyp.  I have tried to coax it to reappear, to
>no avasil.  Does anyone know how to rewplace QA or how to get QA to reqppear.
>I know the NDW thinks the group is on-screen, but it is not.
>HELP ?

Pull down the *W*indow menu.  Then find "Quick Access" either at the
bottom of that menu, or select "more" and find it in the dialog window
displayed.  (See below if it is not there.)  This should activate the
window.  If it is off screen (which is a possibility) you would mess
with control-Move (ALT-space M) for a while and try to move it back on
screen. 

If that doesn't work, check out the NDW.INI file in your windows
directory (probably).  There's a section on [Quick Access] including a
line "MainPath=..." which indicates where to load Quick Access from.
Make sure the indicated file exists and isn't empty.  Then pull down
the *C*onfigure menu and select *P*references.  Then click on
*A*dvanced.  Make sure "Load Quick Access" is checked.

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Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.apps
From: cc_paul@rcvie.co.at (Wolf Paul)
Subject: W4W 2.0 not saving NORMAL.DOT
Reply-To: cc_paul@rcvie.co.at (Wolf N. Paul)
Organization: Alcatel Austria - Elin Research Center, Vienna
Date: Wed, 9 Sep 1992 09:42:14 GMT

I have run into a very annoying phenomenon when using WfW 2.0
under MS-DOS 4.01 and Windows 3.1.

When I make changes to the global macros and then either do a
"File->SaveAll" or try to quit WinWord, I get an error message
saying Word cannot save to a file open by another application.

I then need to do a "File->SaveAs" to a different filename,
with file type set to "Document Template", then make another
dummy modification to a global macro before it will actually
save NORMAL.DOT.

If I do not do a "File->SaveAs" and just exit, the old NORMAL.DOT
file has been removed, and the new one of course has not been
saved.

This happens identically whether or not I have loaded SHARE.EXE.

Any hints and/or explanation of what is going on?

Has this been fixed in 2.0a?
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Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.apps
From: ramirez@IASTATE.EDU (Richard G Ramirez)
Subject: Re: PowerPoint 3.0 and Microsoft Word 2.0a
Reply-To: ramirez@IASTATE.EDU (Richard G Ramirez)
Organization: Iowa State University
Date: Tue, 8 Sep 1992 20:36:11 GMT

> $$I'm working with Windows 3.1, PowerPoint 3.0, and Microsoft Word 2.0a.
> $$I want to import a table from a Word document into PowerPoint.
> $$Using the various data types listed under Paste Special results
> $$in either:
> $$
> $$    1. Only the contents of the cells.  I.e. the outline of the table is
lost.
> $$    2. An icon for Word which when double clicked opens Word on the
> $$       correct table.  When the slide is printed the
> $$       icon itself, not the table, is printed.
> $$
> $$Is there some trick I don't know about?
> $$
> $$Thanks in advance,
> $$Robert
> 
> Make sure you're using the same printer driver in both applications. Using
> different drivers causes problem 2 that you described above.
> 

I had the same problem.  Since I always use the same printer, this
problem should not have appeared.  What else can be wrong?
Xref: sparky comp.os.ms-windows.apps:2650 comp.sys.ibm.pc:511 comp.os.msdos.apps:4686
From: forestel@oasys.dt.navy.mil (J. Lauren Forestell)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.apps,comp.sys.ibm.pc,comp.os.msdos.apps
Subject: Re: OCR Software - Advice wanted
Date: 10 Sep 92 13:28:29 GMT
Reply-To: forestel@oasys.dt.navy.mil (J. Lauren Forestell)
Followup-To: comp.os.ms-windows.apps
Distribution: na
Organization: David Taylor Model Basin, Carderock Division, NSWC

In comp.os.msdos.apps, redmond+@cs.cmu.edu (Redmond English) writes:
>Hello,
>
>  I'm looking for some OCR software.  Could you give me some info?
>What I'd like to know is:
>
>1 ) Do you recommend a specific product?
>2 ) Warn against any?
>3 ) Any you've heard of (with Publisher + Phone # if possible)
>
>  I don't care if it runs under windows or DOS, but I'd slightly
>prefer windows.
>
>                       Thanks in advance,
>
>                              Red/.


I had experience with WordScan for Windows by Calera.  WordScan for 
DOS was very primitive.  WordScan has a lot of neat features, like when 
you are in edit mode (cleaning up a new scan) it has a mini-windows 
that blows up the actual scanned word that it questions so you can see 
exactly what the scanner saw.  Very trick. However, if you try to mix 
landscape pages in the same document with portrait, it gets flakey.  
When I contacted or local vendor (who was supposed to support the scanner 
and software) they suggested that they come out (at $100/hr, "it shouldn't 
take more than two hours to clean the scanner.") and fix the problem.  
See, the bottom of one page was being retained in ram and depositing 
the text on the following page (!).  I guess they were going to come 
out with a RAM-vac and clean it.  Anyhow, since they were clearly uninformed,
I called the local Calera rep and he said they were aware of the problem 
and suggested a couple of fixes I already tried, but I was alarmed that 
my vendor had not been made aware of the problem. The Calera rep also
told me that a fix was in the works, and that was some time in Feb. 
Anyhow, when you don't mix page sizes (11" with 14" with landscape) 
you should do fine.  The recognition was great.  But you should be aware 
that you need very clean copies for the OCR to be good.  If you have 
3rd generation copies where the characters are broken, touching, "bleeding," 
or otherwise less-than-perfect, you are going to have more mis-read characters
than will be feasible to correct.  WordScan will also de-columnize text 
very well. All in all I was impressed.
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.apps
From: ajmontal@eos.ncsu.edu (ANTONIO J MONTALVO)
Subject: Wanted: ps2(any other format) filter
Organization: NCSU Project Eos
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1992 20:35:47 GMT

I include postscript figures into W4W documents and it works fine except
that the document must be printed to see the results.  I would like to 
translate postscript into some other format (BMP, HPGL etc) so that
I can see and edit the figures that I include.  Do these filters exist?

Please email directly since I can't always keep up with this group.  I'll
summarize. 

Thanks
Tony
ajmontal@eos.ncsu.edu
Xref: sparky comp.os.ms-windows.apps:2788 comp.os.ms-windows.misc:3051
From: csw@cypress.com (Corey Wilner - FAE)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.apps,comp.os.ms-windows.misc
Subject: I can't read NUL from drive C. ERROR!
Date: 15 Sep 92 19:33:05 GMT
Reply-To: csw@cypress.com (Corey Wilner - FAE)
Organization: Cypress Semiconductor, San Jose, CA

Under Windows 3.1 (stacker and smartdrv running), I try to start up
Managing Your Money 8.0 from the PIF that MECA supplies and I get the error
message you see here:

I can't read NUL from the disk in drive C.
                 Hit return to continue

I can't hit return to continue because everythiing is locked up.  Only the
three fingered salute works.  Has to be a windows problem because MYM
works fine from DOS (but not from a windows DOS prompt, same error).
Anybody seen this.

By the way, Paradox 3.5 won't work either.  Says that the files parameter
is set too low in config.sys (files=60!!!).  Once again, works fine under
DOS but not under windows.

Please e-mail any words of wisdom as well as a post.

Thanks
Corey

csw@cypress.com
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.apps,comp.mail.misc
From: spies@quantum.de (Juergen Spies)
Subject: Wanted: Mail system with SMTP
Organization: Quantum Software GmbH, Munich, Germany
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL5
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1992 07:12:54 GMT

We are using the Unix based sendmail system with SMTP as mail backbone.
For our growing number of MS-Windows users we are looking for a mail system
which can coorperate with SMTP mail transfer agents.

We are using Novell-Netware and Novell-Lite for PC networking.

Any hints on products or public domain solutions are appreciated.

thank in advance
        Juergen Spies
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Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.apps
From: rdw1@rodan.acs.appstate.edu (Robert D Warren)
Subject: How to change Icons for Progman groups?
Summary: Need a copy of program to change icons for program manager groups
Keywords: icon progman group
Organization: Appalachian State University
Date: Mon, 14 Sep 1992 15:34:03 GMT

	I was wondering if anyone had a copy of the program that changes
icons for the groups in the program manager. If you would send me a
copy, or post it here I would appreciate it. Thanks in advance

								B
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Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.apps
Subject: MSD (was Re: What's Dr. Watson?)
From: cctr132@csc.canterbury.ac.nz (Nick FitzGerald, CSC, Uni. of Canterbury, NZ)
Date: 8 Sep 92 11:56:44 +1200
Organization: University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand

In article <k1qnvb-.friday@netcom.com>, friday@netcom.com (Carol
Anne Ogdin) writes:

[Stuff about DRWATSON deleted]
> The other great unsung program in Windows is MSD.EXE.  Just
> execute it from the DOS prompt to see everything you might want
> to know about you hardware/software environment.

You have to be clearer here.  "the DOS prompt" means -bare DOS-, not a
DOS prompt run from Program Manager.  I've never tried it under Standard
mode, but in a DOS box under Enhanced mode, MSD warns you that because
you're running Windows, it will only be able to tell you what Windows
will "let it see" (it gets things like extended and expanded memory
wrong - it "sees" what is set in the DOS prompt .PIF, etc).

> These two programs are so Microsoft's TechSupport people can
> diagnose problems (when they aren't so busy telling you its
> somebody else's problem or otherwise treating you like a dolt!)

... or trying to foist an even more bug-ridden upgrade on you as the
answer to your problem with their software.  I'm sure that MS put their
trainee salespeople on tech. support -- and use the threat of being sent
back there as a "performance incentive" once they make it into the real
salesforce.

Apologies to any MS tech support people reading this who really do take
their job seriously - you just aren't a large enough proportion of the
toatal (are you, Julie?).   8-)

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From: bkph@kauai.ai.mit.edu (Berthold K.P. Horn)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.apps
Subject: Cyrillic fonts
Date: 14 Sep 92 12:45:17 GMT


To: gilem@aix.rpi.edu (Michael R. Gile)
Subject: Cyrillic fonts

> From: gilem@aix.rpi.edu (Michael R. Gile)
> Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.apps
> Date: 7 Sep 92 14:27:32 GMT
> Organization: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY
> Nntp-Posting-Host: aix.rpi.edu
> 
> Does anyone know of any Cyrillic fonts that are available for
> windows?  TT is preferable, but I am also interested in Type-1.
> 
> Thanks,
> Mike
> 
> gilem@rpi.edu

Get the `AMS Font Set' from Y&Y in ATM compatible Adobe Type 1 format.
It includes six `Euler fonts', three math symbol fonts, and five Cyrillic
fonts. The latter includes Russian letters, as well as Serbian and some
archaic versions of letters. (AMS = American Mathematical Society).

******	Or try posting on comp.fonts instead! 	******

Y&Y are the `TeX without BitMaps' people (see ad in TUGboat):

	Y&Y makes DVIPSONE, DVIWindo, and fonts 
	- for use with TeX mostly -
	in fully hinted Adobe Type 1 format.

	Y&Y, 106 Indian Hill, Carlisle MA 01741  USA

(800) 742-4059  ---   (508) 371-3286 (voice)  ---  (508) 371-2004 (fax)


DISCLAIMER: relatives of respondent work at Y&Y...


Berthold K.P. Horn
Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy
From: gilem@aix.rpi.edu (Michael R. Gile)
Subject: Re: Microsoft bashing (was: Re: Some more misconceptions...)
Organization: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY
Date: Fri, 4 Sep 1992 19:50:23 GMT

In article <Bu2B1A.EB9@news.cso.uiuc.edu> walk@mrcnext.cso.uiuc.edu (Todd Walk) writes:
>>Well, I think this is short sided. If your clients need the best spreadsheet,
>>Excel is it - whatever you may think of Windows, Microsoft makes some excellent
>>application software. Are you serving your clients by refusing to suggest they
>>use what may be the best solutions available ?
>
>Excel is NOT the best spreadsheet.  Improv by Lotus is the best, but it's
>only on the NeXT.  Lotus has said that they wouldn't port it to windows
>unless windows somehow became much easier to program, but they would
>consider it for OS/2 if it sold enough copies (no idea how many that is).
>
>
>					Todd Walk
>					walk@mrcnext.cso.uiuc.edu
>

I'll have to second this, I don't have a next, but I've used Improv
before, and I wish that there was a spreadsheet like this for windows,
because it would give new life to spreadsheets, instead of minor improvements
of excel 4 over any other spreadsheet.

Mike
gilem@rpi.edu
From: tmhoff@oogoody.Corp.Sun.COM (Todd Hoff)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy
Subject: Re: Some premises
Date: 5 Sep 1992 19:00:26 GMT
Organization: Sun Microsystems, Inc.
Distribution: world
Reply-To: tmhoff@oogoody.Corp.Sun.COM
NNTP-Posting-Host: oogoody.corp.sun.com

>I'm sorry I got you so riled up, but as I stated before, I did a terrible
>job at trying to start up a pros-cons style of argument.
>Todd Walk
>					walk@mrcnext.cso.uiuc.edu

You did a fine job! It's just that a lot of people on the net enjoy
being jerks. I do at times as well. Just say what you want to say and
don't worry about how any one else takes it.
From: kab@s1.gov (Keith Benton)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy
Subject: Re: Oberon
Date: 15 Sep 92 15:01:57 GMT
Reply-To: kab@s1.gov
Organization: Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

In article 17053@wuecl.wustl.edu, ppc1@cec2.wustl.edu (Peter Pui Tak Chiu) writes:
>hi everyone...
>
>someone said Oberon is going to be the main OS on Workstations and PC's
>so should we say bye to win NT and os/2?
>what do you think???
>
>pete
>

I think that someone is trying to stir this group up because it's
gotten awfully quiet around here.

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From: sillett@edc3jr.gsph.pitt.edu (Robert L. Sillett)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy
Subject: When's the September NT Beta Due?
Date: 7 Sep 92 22:19:40 GMT
Organization: Epidemiology Data Center, University of Pittsburgh
Originator: sillett@edc3jr


Well it's now September and I'm wondering if the Microsoft's beta
release of Windows NT is still to be shipped this month.

Also does anyone know what "major" DOS/Windows programs will run under
NT?  (I certainly hope Windows 3.1 Write will no longer crash NT :-)

--- Bob

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Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy
From:  volt@kaskad.msk.su (Shirin Vladimir Voltovich)
Subject: Does anyone know tools for edit TT font ? 
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1992 13:22:03 GMT
Reply-To: volt@kaskad.msk.su
Organization: SV KASKAD
Keywords: TrueType Font create edit 
Summary: I want to buy tools for creat or edit TrueType font

Hi,
Please, say me how to creat or to edit Truetype font
or where I can buy tools for it ?
Sincerely,
Volt Simon

Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy
From: oneil@cwis.unomaha.edu (Sharon O'Neil)
Subject: Re: Does anyone know tools for edit TT font ? 
Keywords: TrueType Font create edit 
Organization: University of Nebraska at Omaha
Date: Sat, 12 Sep 1992 04:24:48 GMT

volt@kaskad.msk.su (Shirin Vladimir Voltovich) writes:

>Hi,
>Please, say me how to creat or to edit Truetype font
>or where I can buy tools for it ?
>Sincerely,
>Volt Simon

Well, right now the only packages I know of that will create or edit
Truetype fonts are a bit pricey.  There's a font converter which will 
change most font formats into a Truetype font.  (For example, a 
Postscript Type I into a Truetype.)  It's called Alltype and it's 
about sixty American dollars.  You can get it from most American mail
order software companies.  There are others which will actually let
you create fonts, like Fontographer.  That's quite expensive, around 
four or five hundred dollars but it is supposed to be quite nice.  
I don't know if Fontographer is available yet.  Also, I believe there
might be other programs that will mostly convert and maybe edit, though
not create new fonts that might be between 100-300 dollars. 

Unfortunately, I doubt if there will be any public domain or shareware
programs that will do what you want anytime soon.


Organization: Sophomore, Physics, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy,comp.os.os2.advocacy
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1992 16:42:04 -0400 
From: Faisal Nameer Jawdat <fj05+@andrew.cmu.edu>
Subject: Re: >16Mb support
	<1992Sep11.145639.7234@njitgw.njit.edu>

dic5340@hertz.njit.edu (David Charlap) writes:
> OS/2's method is to use the >16MB memory as cache space.  This has the
> same effect you speak of - it avoids disk accesses.  Disk writes are
> written to high-memory, and are committed to disk when there are some
> free CPU cycles (thanks to lazy writes).  Reads are fetched from
> memory whenever possible.

is this true of all systems or only ones with 24 bit dma addressing
ie
will an eisa system act the same as an isa system in this regard
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy,comp.os.os2.advocacy
From: philipla@microsoft.com (Phil Lafornara)
Subject: Re: Microsoft bashing (was: Re: Some more misconceptions...)
Date: 04 Sep 92 17:41:32 GMT
Organization: Microsoft Corporation
Distribution: na

In article <dlcogswe.715557252@vela> dlcogswe@vela.acs.oakland.edu (Dan Cogswell) writes:
>philipla@microsoft.com (Phil Lafornara) writes:
>
>>In article <92246.153543ANDY@MAINE.MAINE.EDU> Andrew T. Robinson <ANDY@MAINE.MAINE.EDU> writes:
>>>No one asked, but here are my opinions of Microsoft:
>                                ^^^^^^^^
>
>>>
>>>Microsoft is basically a corporate-sized ego with marketing muscle.  The
>>>debacle between IBM and MS with OS/2 was as far as I've ever been able to
>>>tell entirely an outgrowth of MS' greed, and not because there were
>>>technical issues that couldn't be resolved with stodgy old IBM.
>
>>     Please show evidence to support this claim.
>
>>					-Phil
>
>Phil, I'm not sure he needs to show evidence that he believes that.  I'm
>sure he does.
>

      Aargh.  My question was not related to the "here are my opinions"
portion - it was related to the "as far as I've been able to tell"
portion.  That implies that the poster has some information about the
split.  I'd like to know where that information came from.

					-Phil


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Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy
From: jld@datascope.com (Jay L. Davis)
Subject: Re: Microsoft bashing (was: Re: Some more misconceptions...)
Organization: Datascope Corp.
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1992 20:35:01 GMT

In article <nfzyfzf@rpi.edu> gilem@aix.rpi.edu (Michael R. Gile) writes:
>In article <Bu2B1A.EB9@news.cso.uiuc.edu> walk@mrcnext.cso.uiuc.edu (Todd Walk) writes:
>>>Well, I think this is short sided. If your clients need the best spreadsheet,
>>>Excel is it - whatever you may think of Windows, Microsoft makes some excellent
>>>application software. Are you serving your clients by refusing to suggest they
>>>use what may be the best solutions available ?
>>
>>Excel is NOT the best spreadsheet.  Improv by Lotus is the best, but it's
>>only on the NeXT.  Lotus has said that they wouldn't port it to windows
>>unless windows somehow became much easier to program, but they would
>>consider it for OS/2 if it sold enough copies (no idea how many that is).
>>
>>
>>					Todd Walk
>>					walk@mrcnext.cso.uiuc.edu
>>
>
>I'll have to second this, I don't have a next, but I've used Improv
>before, and I wish that there was a spreadsheet like this for windows,
>because it would give new life to spreadsheets, instead of minor improvements
>of excel 4 over any other spreadsheet.
>
>Mike
>gilem@rpi.edu

I havn't seen Improv. Could someone be more specific about what it can do
that the others can't?

---Jay Davis

Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy
From: stecker@gn.ecn.purdue.edu (Scott D. Stecker)
Subject: help w/ WFW 2.0 equation editor
Organization: Purdue University Engineering Computer Network
Date: Mon, 14 Sep 92 06:04:55 GMT

I know this question has been asked several times before, but I just recently
upgraded to Windows 3.1 and Word for Windows 2.0. I have a HP Deskjet 500
and a Compaq 33mHz 386 with 4mb ram, When I run the equation editor it comes
up with infamous "your printer does not not support the fences font or the
ms extra font" I thought that a while back somebody was able to get this
combination of printer/software to work? If so could they please tell me how
they got it to work, or email me the posting. Thanks very much.
  Scott Stecker
  stecker@gn.ecn.purdue.edu
.

Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.setup