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From: hampe@mailgate.wiwi.uni-marburg.de (J. Felix Hampe)
Subject: drive letter for cdrom: free choice?
Organization: Philipps-University-Marburg
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 18:13:31 GMT

Hi,
integrating the purple beta for NT (including LanMan f NT) in our network 
based on LanMan 2.1a brought a problem: an additional  lokaly attached 
cdrom drive will always choose the next free drive letter available (here 
E:), Now E: and F: are used for network drives and a lot of procedures 
assume this situation. Therefor I would like to choose a different drive 
letter (say Z:) for the attached CDROM. Is there any chance to get it????
Thanks for any hints,

Felix


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Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.win32
From: mbb@litwin.com (Mark Beyleveld)
Subject: Re: POSIX interface/Access to WIN32 calls
Organization: Litwin Process Automation
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 13:39:19 GMT

I have encountered similar problems. I looked at the command shell under
NT and decided that it was inadequate for any serious work. I understand
that compatibility with DOS placed severe restrictions on what could be
done, and that there are many different concepts of ideality.

So, I set out to port the public-domain Korn shell to NT. The problem that
I encountered was that none of the subsystems has the full set of system
calls required. A combination of the native NT API and the POSIX subsystem
does, but, as I found out, this creates an executable that dies with a 
system error as soon as it is invoked.

My desire is not to debate, but get useful work done. Any suggestions,
Microsoft?

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From: stefan@olson.acme.gen.nz (Stefan Olson)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.win32
Subject: Re: Official Support & bug-reporting on Compuserve only
Date: Sun, 24 Jan 93 12:22:09 +1200

In <1993Jan20.161553.21972@microsoft.com> alistair@microsoft.com (Alistair Banks) writes:
>In the meantime, I hope that some unofficial presence, and an admittedly
>not complete or up-to-date ftp.uu.net ftp site is useful - the ftp site
>will be updated again soon, and our facilities for accessing our ftp site
>should improve soon as well

I, for one would like MS to continue and improve support on the internet.
Having an MS Ftp site is also very useful...

...Stefan

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From: rion@Ingres.COM (Rion Cassidy - RADS 1001/2)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.win32
Subject: Re: How to re-install flex boot?
Date: 26 Jan 93 20:26:34 GMT
Reply-To: rion@Ingres.COM (Rion Cassidy - RADS 1001/2)
Organization: Ask Computer Systems Inc., Ingres Division, Alameda CA 94501

I sure hope that Microsoft has noticed the frequency with which this question
has come up and decided to finally put that simple little batch file right
on the CD in this next release...  >:-)

Rion


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Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.win32
From: samiam@netcom.com (Scott Moore)
Subject: Re: Pascal compiler for NT
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  (408 241-9760 guest) 
Distribution: usa
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 02:55:29 GMT

jagrant@emr1.emr.ca (John Grant) writes:

>	Borland has an EEP (Early Experience Program) for their C++
>	for NT (I guess this is some sort of beta release).  Perhaps
>	they also have EEP for their Pascal.  I don't use Pascal,
>	but isn't Borland Pascal the de facto best (on Intel)?

Borland does not seem to be pushing their Pascal towards NT. Note that
creating an NT compiler is not just a matter of rewriting the libraries.
You must come up with a whole new code generator (32 bits). 
I also note that Borlands products are in complete disregard of the ISO and
ANSI standards (despite statements to the contrary in their manuals).

                                        [sam]
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From: jbg@qualcom.qualcomm.com (Jeff Gehlhaar)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.win32
Subject: Porting Win 3.1 apps to NT
Summary: Porting to NT
Keywords: porting
Date: 26 Jan 93 20:04:14 GMT
Organization: Qualcomm, Inc., San Diego, CA

I have a Win 3.1 compliant program, and am exploring the possibility of
porting it to NT. I am a little unclear about how difficult and/or
benefitial this will be to me.

My current application (16-bit win 3.1) runs rather poorly in NT. Since
it uses the 3.1 API, if I were to recompile it under NT, would I have
a noticeable performance increase, or must the 3.1 API calls be replaced by
NT equivalents to achieve the gain?

Thanks for any help.

Jeff Gehlhaar
PC Eudora Development Team
QUALCOMM Incorporated
jbg@qualcomm.com
From: tad@wrq.com (Tad Marshall)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.win32
Subject: Re: Novell Requester for NT x86
Date: 27 Jan 1993 23:50:14 GMT
Organization: Walker Richer & Quinn, Inc., Seattle, WA
NNTP-Posting-Host: elmer.wrq.com
Keywords: IPX NT NOVELL NETWARE

In article <1993Jan26.222101.1347@netcom.com> jmbrown@netcom.com (John M. Brown) writes:
>Available at ftp.novell.com in novlib/01  file called NWNT.ZIP
>
>THis file contains the basic stuff to have a NT x86 box connect to 
>a Novell File Server.

I couldn't find this directory on ftp.novell.com ... I logged in as anonymous.
Is there a longer path, or is it gone, or does anonymous have no access to
it?  Or did I do something wrong?

Tad
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.win32
From: chris@chrism.demon.co.uk (Chris Marriott)
Subject: Re: REQUIREMENTS TO RUN NT - HELP 
Distribution: world
Organization: None
Reply-To: chris@chrism.demon.co.uk
X-Mailer: Simple NEWS 1.90 (ka9q DIS 1.19)
Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 17:50:02 +0000

In article <1993Jan22.224431.25788@microsoft.com> johnhall@microsoft.com writes:

>In article eng10056@nusunix1.nus.sg (LAU YIN CHENG) writes:
>| I am currently haveing a 486DX-33 system with 4MB memory and the system
>| is of 16-bit bus structure.
>| 
>| Can NT run on a 16-bit bus structure?
>| Does Win32 need a 32-bit structure?
>
>a 16-bit bus  (ISA for Industry Standard Architecture, the IBM AT
>bus) has 16 data bits and 24 address bits.  Yes, you can add memory
>to 16Mb but you may have to replace your current memory entirely
>depending upon your computer design.
>

All that means is that you can't address memory above 16MB on the ISA bus.
Most (all?) modern ISA motherboards let you have >16MB RAM on the board,
rather than the bus.  My own fairly elderly 486/33, for example, lets you
have 32MB on the motherboard; my friend's 486/50 lets you go to 64MB, etc.

Best wishes,

Chris
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Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.win32
From: zrepachol@cc.curtin.edu.au
Subject: Re: Oct. beta and DTC3290 SCSI host ?!?
Organization: Curtin University of Technology
Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 20:47:33 GMT

In article <1ien67INNqle@mozz.unh.edu>, pss1@kepler.unh.edu (Paul S Secinaro) writes:
...
> I get a fatal error 0x69.  Several people on the net have informed me
> that this error indicates that NT can't communicate with the
> controller properly (i.e. it's an incompatible/unsupported
> controller).
> 
He, he he, IE.NFW Path lost to partner... Wondered where this would pop up. :-)

~Paul
From: storm@cs.mcgill.ca (Marc Wandschneider)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.win32
Subject: Re: How to re-install flex boot?
Date: 27 Jan 93 18:41:15 GMT
Article-I.D.: cs.C1Izws.Aw8
Organization: SOCS - McGill University, Montreal, Canada

In article <1k31j3EINNk51@uni-erlangen.de> tnsturm@cip.informatik.uni-erlangen.de (Torsten Sturm) writes:
>hochstae@allfiwib1.wiwi.uni-marburg.de (Christoph H. Hochstaetter) writes:
>
>
>>I have the BOOTSECT utility from CI$. I will upload it to cica tomorrow.
>
>CICA has closed its upload area. 

	I find the easiest thing to do is to put the JULY NT Beta CD Back
in the Drive, and just cd \dos2nt, and then look at the dos2nt.bat file,
and use the command line that starts with something like:

.\install\debug .\install\boot.sec < .\install\something.something

This line restores it quite quickly.

ToodlepiP!
Marc 'em.
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From: tnsturm@cip.informatik.uni-erlangen.de (Torsten Sturm)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.win32
Subject: Re: SQL-Server available for NT?
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 09:49:24 GMT
Organization: CSD., University of Erlangen
NNTP-Posting-Host: faui00a.informatik.uni-erlangen.de

hochstae@allfiwib1.wiwi.uni-marburg.de (Christoph H. Hochstaetter) writes:

>Microsoft has announced SQL-Server for NT

Oracle has announced Oracle Ver. 7 for NT.
Gupta  has announced ports of their SQL-products for NT 

Torsten
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Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.win32
From: mac@cs.colorado.edu (Mark A. Carlson)
Subject: Re: Novell Requester for NT x86
Keywords: IPX NT NOVELL NETWARE
Organization: Colorado Open Systems Consortium, Boulder, CO
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 18:24:02 GMT


Try netwire/novlib/01/nwnt.zip. (at ftp.novell.com)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.win32
From: sasdxk@skyhawk.unx.sas.com (Dave Kolb)
Subject: Fatal System Error 0x0000006B
Originator: sasdxk@skyhawk.unx.sas.com
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 20:27:07 GMT
Organization: SAS Institute Inc.


Could someone tell me more about the following installation error?

   Fatal System Error: 0x0000006B
   Phase 1 process initialization error.

I was isntalling on a new Bernoulli 150 box with an internal switch
set to "fixed disk" mode.  If this works, this will be real nice for
folks that have to boot old/new versions of different OS' on their
systems.

I have a PS/2 95 with an IBM 1990 SCSI adapter installed and 16M.

I have successfully installed DOS and OS/2 2.0 onto the 150M
cartridges using no special drivers - the PS/2 setup just sees
a 150M scsi drive.  Setup does not show the drive as removable.

So therefore I would argue that the Bernoulli 150 should be
supported by Windows NT to the extent that WNT supports the
IBM SCSI adapter - which of course is not real consistent per
my past experience with the October release.

Thanks for any help,

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SAS Campus Drive - J206       Phone:      (919) 677-8000 x6827
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Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.win32
From: hochstae@allfiwib1.wiwi.uni-marburg.de (Christoph H. Hochstaetter)
Subject: Re: Network problems.
News-Software: IBM OS/2 PM RN (NR/2) v0.17 by O. Vishnepolsky and R. Rogers
Reply-To: hochstae@allfiwib1.wiwi.uni-marburg.de (Christoph H. Hochstaetter)
Organization: Philipps-University Marburg, Germany
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 11:24:31 GMT

In <1j4cprINNce8@news.cerf.net> glasgow@nic.cerf.net (Michael Glasgow) writes:
>I am having trouble using TCP/IP on NT.  When I try to st
>the TCP/IP service with "net start tcpip", I get the following
>message.
>
>Sysetm error 1068 has occurred
>
>The dependency service or group failed to start.
>
>I am new to NT, and am not sure what the dependecy service is,
>or why it won't start.  Any help would be appreciated.
>

A dependency service is another Service, that needs to run, when you
start a specific service. Since your problem is TCP/IP related, it is
most obvious, that your network card is not initialized correctly.
Check IRQ, I/O Addr and RAM Addr.

>Also, how do you go about restoring the default configuration
>from the Emergency Repair Disk.  I have been having Video problems,
>and occassionally lose my video.  It would be nice to be able to
>restore the configuration from the floppy without having to
>reinstall NT.
>

Insert the NT boot disk and from the menu choose "(R)epair a damaged
NT system". You will be prompted to insert the emergency repair disk.

Christoph
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Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.win32
From: robert@koko.csustan.edu (Robert Zeff)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.win32,comp.windows.ms
Subject: New version of Spice for Windows / Windows NT uploaded
Date: 22 Jan 93 17:22:37 GMT
Organization: CSU, Stanislaus

I uploaded a bug fix of my spice circuit simulator for 
Windows NT / Windows 3.1

If your target system is Windows NT, get the spice41.txt, spice41.zip,
& spice42.zip

If your target system is Windows 3.1, also get spice43.zip, which contains
the Win32s components necessary for running Windows NT binaries on a
Windows 3.1 system.

You can get it at wuarchive.wustl.edu.
(ftp.cica.indiana.edu is full for now)

It's in the /pub directory.  Don't get the spice4.zip, which is old.


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From: Jean-Francois.Fortin@ttlg.UUCP (Jean-Francois Fortin)
Sender: postmaster@ttlg.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.win32
Subject: DPMI 0.9
Date: 25 Jan 93  13:40:22 mst

When I use PkZip I get the message
DPMI 0.9 detected
This is running under windows, what is DPMI?

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Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.win32
From: johnhall@microsoft.com (John Hall)
Subject: Re: 16-bit Windows 3.1 vs Win32s thunking
Date: 27 Jan 93 00:10:35 GMT
Organization: Microsoft Corporation

In article dspascha@eos.ncsu.edu (DAVID SCOTT PASCHAL) writes:
| If all processes share the same address space, ... 

Every Windows 32 process has a unique (non-shared) address space.

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Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.win32
From: johnhall@microsoft.com (John Hall)
Subject: Re: Memory management from Unix to Win32
Date: 27 Jan 93 00:15:45 GMT
Organization: Microsoft Corporation

In article yikes@netcom.com (Michael Brill) writes:
| As far as the UI goes, I'm not going to worry about now.  What I
| am worried about is memory management.  I've scanned through the
| Windows docs and understand how memory management works there
| (getting handle, locking, operating, unlocking) and I'm looking
| for an established scheme to make the port seamless between Unix
| and Windows/Mac.
| 
| Does targeting Win32 make life any easier for me?

With Win32, just use malloc() and free() ignoring all the other
Windows management stuff (so yes, it makes life much easier).
BTW: LocalAlloc() and LocalFree() are identical to malloc() and
free() on Windows 32 systems.


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Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.win32
From: dwightm@microsoft.com (Dwight Matheny)
Subject: Re: New ATI NT drivers on Compuserve
Date: 25 Jan 93 21:12:08 GMT
Organization: Microsoft Corp.

There is a message from ATI this morning warning people not to use the new
version 6 of the ATI NT drivers, but to wait for version 7 which is coming
soon. Not sure what was wrong.

-Dwight
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.tools
From: gregde@microsoft.com (Greg Demichillie)
Subject: Re: borlandc++ and MSC++ DLLs
Date: 21 Jan 93 18:13:54 GMT
Organization: Microsoft Corporation

In article <749@lax.lax.pe-nelson.com> twbrown@PE-Nelson.COM (Tom W. Brown) writes:
>Currently the _only_ solution is to recompile the library (i.e. whoever
>does this must have source code) using the BC3.1 compiler to generate a
>Borland compatible version of the DLL.  This is why most 3rd party DLL's
>either come with source or ship different flavors of the DLL depending on
>which compiler is being used.
>

Correct.  This is one of the many reasons that I don't think it's a 
good idea to export a C++ interface via DLL.  The other problems are
that any distinction between public and private is lost, all member
functions are available and that any change in the size of objects or
their interfaces means that you not only have to recompile the DLL but
any clients apps as well.  This negates one of the biggest advantages
of DLLs in the first place.

If you want to implement a DLL in C++, that's great.  But you really
should just export a C language interface.


-Greg



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Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.tools
From: yikes@netcom.com (Michael Brill)
Subject: Memory management from Unix to Windows
Organization: Netcom Online Communications Services (408-241-9760 login: guest)
Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 04:14:55 GMT


I'm developing an app on the NeXT that I'd like to take the bulk
of to either Windows and/or Macintosh.  I think I know how to 
port everything but the UI and memory management.  Note that the
pieces of the app I want to port are just plain old ANSI C.

As far as the UI goes, I'm not going to worry about now.  What I
am worried about is memory management.  I've scanned through the
Windows docs and understand how memory management works there
(getting handle, locking, operating, unlocking) and I'm looking
for an established scheme to make the port seamless between Unix
and Windows/Mac.

Any ideas?  Thanks, ...Michael Brill (yikes@netcom.com)

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From: grouptec@source.asset.com (David M. Tannen)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.tools
Subject: Rapid prototyping tools
Date: 27 Jan 93 21:13:42 GMT
Distribution: comp.os.msdos.programmer
Organization: Asset Source for Software Engineering Technology


Help.  I am trying to find out some information about rapid-prototyping
database and GUI tools for MS-Windows.  If anyone has some actual
experience with the following tools please let me know:  Databoss (C or 
Pascal version), ORIN (from Objective Relational Interface), FoxPro, etc.

What I am looking for is the productivity increase achieved by using these
tools as compared to traditional languages (C, C++ or Pascal).

I have a project that would normally take 5 man years to do, but I only
have 5 months (and I have lots of documents to provide also).  So any
help would be appreciated.

Please reply to my email address (grouptec@source.asset.com) and include
my name (this is a "shared" corporate account)..

Thanks in advance

David Tannen
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From: terry.harris@almac.co.uk (Terry Harris)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.tools
Subject: UN: *BIG* problems with *
Date: 24 Jan 93 19:01:00 GMT
Reply-To: terry.harris@almac.co.uk (Terry Harris)
Organization: Almac BBS Ltd. +44 (0)324 665371

LF>> Lo and Behold - whenever the second monochrome video card
  >> is plugged into its slot, my main monitor slows down by at least 40%. Whene
  >> it is removed, the system behaves normally.

LF>Only if you could get a 16-bit mono (MDA or Hercules comp.) video card,
  >and those are real hard to come by.

LF>If anyone out there got a pointer to any such adapter, I'd really
  >appreciate a hint !

I have had this problem for some time and there may be a
workaround for some. On some VGA cards it is possible to force
them back into 16 bit mode.

This also forces the system to think the mono card is 16 bit so
the attribute bytes don't get written to it (although some things
manage to write to them, I have a full screen flashing mono
display next to me now, wish I knew how so I could clear it!).

For Trident cards it is possible to force them into 16 bit mode using
the TVGACRTC.SYS driver.

I use an ATI graphics ultra clone at the moment and I can toggle
16 bit mode from the command line

to force 8 bit mode:-
mov dx,1ce
mov ax,20b3
out dx,ax
int 20

and load ax with 00b3 to force 16 bit mode. The 1ce is the ultra
control port address which you are supposed look in the video BIOS
for (can't remember exactly how).

Cheers Terry...
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From: galenr@hpgrla.gr.hp.com (Galen Raben)
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 18:10:00 GMT
Subject: Re: VizBasic for Windows: Professional - what's the real scoop?
Organization: Hewlett-Packard, Greeley, CO