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From: strider@acm.rpi.edu (Greg Moore)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.setup
Subject: Re: windows banner
Date: 19 Aug 92 00:31:07 GMT
Distribution: comp.os.ms-windows.setup
Organization: The Voice of Fate

In article <SBELLAN.92Aug18151259@claude.ma30.bull.com> sbellan@claude.ma30.bull.com (Simon Bellan) writes:
>
>Hi,
>
>
>I am running windows 3.1 on my PC. and every time I startup windows,
>it takes 1.5 minutes just sitting and showing me Windows 3.1 banner.
>
>Is there any way I can tell windows to avoid the banner and keep
>going? This willsave sometimes while comming up.
>
	Yes, there are several ways you can avoid looking at the banner.
You can even have your own logo.  But it won't save any time.  Windows
is NOT just sitting there as you think.  Take a look at one of the
recent issues of PC Magazine.  It lists several ways of eliminating
the banner, but makes the same point.

>Thank You for any help.
>
>
>S. Bellan
>
>
> ============================================================================
> == B. Simon Bellan    	                  Bull HN Information Systems Inc. ==
> == TEL:(508)294-3731                     300 Concord Road, MA30-857       ==
> == FAX:(508)294-3054		          Billerica,   MA 01821            ==
> == S.Bellan@ma30.bull.com						   ==
> ============================================================================
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>
> ============================================================================
> == B. Simon Bellan    	                  Bull HN Information Systems Inc. ==
> == TEL:(508)294-3731                     300 Concord Road, MA30-857       ==
> == FAX:(508)294-3054		          Billerica,   MA 01821            ==
> == S.Bellan@ma30.bull.com						   ==
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Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.setup
From: damien@reg.triumf.ca (DAMIEN GALLOP)
Subject: Re: Seeking OAK VGA drivers for win 3.1
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41    
Keywords: Oak, video, driver
Organization: TRIUMF: Tri-University Meson Facility
Date: Fri, 21 Aug 1992 09:08:00 GMT

In a previous article, Chris Hand requested the whereabouts of an Oak
640x480x16 video driver, and I seconded it. I have since received other
similar requests by email. To summarize: file 67_win31.zip is available at:

	wuarchive.wustl.edu	/mirrors2/win3/drivers/video	and
	ftp.cica.indiana.edu	/pub/pc/win3/drivers/video (I think).

However it does not contain the x16 driver. I have found that the standard
VGA driver supplied with WIN31 works perfectly. In my case, the mouse was
disabled in a DOS window. Following an earlier thread, I suspected the video
driver to be out of date. In fact, at installation WIN31 did not update my
MOUSE driver. I did it manually as follows:

	From Disk #4: EXTRACT A:MOUSE.SY_  C:\WINDOWS\MOUSE.SYS		or
		      EXTRACT A:MOUSE.CO_  C:\WINDOWS\MOUSE.COM

with appropriate changes in CONFIG or AUTOEXEC as required. And voila!

Many thanks to those who wrote. All the best. Damien

email: damien@reg.triumf.ca

Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.setup
From: chuckb@milton.u.washington.edu (Chuck Bass)
Subject: Re: 2 problems: Printer and Equation Editor (WORD20)
Organization: University of Washington
Date: Fri, 14 Aug 1992 23:51:48 GMT

atreyus@lascar.puc.cl (Marcelo Vasquez IIC) writes:

>Hi Friends: I have two problems in my system. I downloaded the driver for my IBM2391 printer and when i print with it, it prints without skipping half a line avery 3 lines, so the prints have narrow characters every 2 lines ? Any idea?
>The other    problem  I think you have already discussed it. I can't make the integral symbol to display. It prints a BIG Z instead of the integral. I don't know if it is that my window program runs with the spanish keyboard or what. Any idea on this also?
>Thanks a lot for your help

>Marcelo Vasquez R.
>atreyus@lascar.puc.cl

Hola,

For the integral printing the big Z I would be sure that the
font that you are using is in fact the symbol font that the
equation editor is supposed to use.  Check the docs

Hasta luego amigo,

Chuck Bass (using all the spanish I know in one mail message)

Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.setup
From: braun@mailhost.aa.cad.slb.com (Matthew Braun)
Subject: Trident TVGA Windows 3.1 driver???
Organization: Schlumberger CAD/CAM in Ann Arbor, MI
Date: Thu, 20 Aug 1992 00:03:27 GMT

Does anyone out there have a video driver for a Trident TVGA 8900C Video
Card?  I bought one of those cheap 1024x768 1 meg boards and of course
it only came with Windows 3.0 drivers, which work, but is incredibly
slow (it is like running win3.0, imagine that!).  I would really like to
get an updated Windows 3.1 driver if it exists.

I think the company that makes this particular card is Quadtel, but any
other card that uses the Trident 8900 chip should be equivalent.

Any info would be appreciated,

Matthew.

----------------
braun@falcon.aa.cad.slb.com
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.setup
From: prb@chinet.chi.il.us (Paul Botts)
Subject: Re: HELP! 256 color for Windows 3.1???
Organization: Chinet - Public Access UNIX
Date: Mon, 17 Aug 1992 18:07:45 GMT

In article <1992Aug14.083828.18273@jet.uk> cpg@jet.uk (Dr Chris P Gatcombe) writes:
>In <1992Aug12.202345.7212@wam.umd.edu> qian@wam.umd.edu (Yong Qian) writes:
>
>>In article <1992Aug12.143336.2041@msdhsv.ingr.com> ahmad@norooz.b17a.ingr.com writes:
>>>
>>>I do not agree. I have a 1MB card (Trident) and still have the same problem.
>>>I can use Trident W3.0 disk and install 800X600 256 color driver. But
>>>if I use any 256 color from windows 3.1 setup I get the blank screen.
>>>
>>>-----------------------------
>
>>Yeh. I can only get 800x600 16 colors from my 1MB Trident 8900C. 256 colors
>>and 1024x768 mode make the screen blank and hang.
>
>I have a 486 with the Trident 8900c (1Mb), and I have installed _ALL_
>the trident drivers (and the standard windows vga drivers) at one time
>or another while benchmarking my system, and I have _NEVER_ had any
>problems :-). My monitor is an AOC 14" interlaced type. I currently
>have installed a beta version of the trident 800x600x256 driver (I only
>put it on two nights ago, so it is early days - but it seems fine).
>I think that the 800x600x256 driver is the best compromise for my
>system, as 1024x768x256 is too small to use for any length of time,
>especially on my monitor. (I like 256 colour bitmaps for windows
>wallpaper!)
>

I have that card on machines both at home and at work, one running
640x480x256, the other 800x600x256, both with the beta WIN3.1 drivers
downloaded from Trident's bbs. Both are working mostly fine, although I
do get an annoying little bug where if I minimize PageMaker and then
maximize it, it comes up in wierd colors. Otherwise, no probs. These are
386s, by the way.
From: spcberto@cicero.spc.uchicago.edu (Robert Osterlund)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.setup
Subject: Re: QEMM 6.02 + Win3.1 Problems and corrupted .grp files....
Keywords: QEMM
Date: 20 Aug 92 18:53:30 GMT
Article-I.D.: midway.1992Aug20.185330.667
Distribution: inet
Organization: U of Chicago, SSPPCC

In article <6394@kielouta.fi> f1sami@uta.fi (Samu Mielonen) writes:
>
>Since installing Qemm 6.02 to my system with Windows 3.1 I have been
>constantly confronted with the following message : "The xxx caused a general
>protection fault... Please close application."
>
>I have installed Qemm according to Windows readme files, according to the
>software manuals and the QemmWin problem solver database. Nothing has
>helped.
>
>My Qemm parametres are: RAM ROM X=B000-B7FF
>
>and I am running win3.1 in 386 mode with no funny device drivers (except
>smartdrive :-) no tsr programs. I have activated the shadow ram option 
>from my AMI BIOS setting and I have 256K cache (external, hardware) active.
>
If you have activated shadow ram with your BIOS, the ROM parameter in your
QEMM invocation is unnecessary, I believe.  (Further, if memory serves me,
you need to specify a range of addresses with the ROM parameter.)  Beyond
that, you may need to exclude additional UMBs.  Don't forget to exclude
these (using the EMMExclude= setting) in your Windows SYSTEM.INI as well.
Brian Livingston's "Windows 3.1 Secrets" advises adding two lines to your
SYSTEM.INI 386Enh section (again, this is from memory, so pardon me if I get
it wrong):

SystemROMBreakPoint=false
VCPIWarning=false
>
>The other oddity I have been unable to solve is the mystery of corrupted
>.grp files. Sometimes when starting windows, it reports that: "The xxx.grp
>has bee damaged. Please recreate it." or something similar.
>
>Once again I have tried disabling write cache (smartdrive active as cache),
>turning off 32-bit disk operations, checking my HD for defects etc to no
>avail. I must stress that these problems are not due to power failures or
>switching off computer at ill times. The problem occurs quite randomly, but
>often enough to be annoying. No viruses are present in the system. This
>problem was also manifesting itself before the installation of Qemm.
>
I had the same problem with corrupted .GRP files until I loaded the DOS
SHARE program in my AUTOEXEC.BAT.  Try adding the line:

SHARE /F:2048 /L:20

(Also, I have since switched to an alternate Windows shell that doesn't use
either the Program Manager or GRP files, but that's another story.)

Recently I mucked around with my system and managed to generate all sorts of
weird problems, many of them disk-related.  Eventually, through many hours
of patient analysis, and with lots of good reference manuals near at hand
(the Windows Resource Kit, the QEMM manual, the DOS & Windows manuals,
John Goodman's excellent book "Memory Management for All of Us," and the
aforementioned "Windows 3.1 Secrets"), I was able to fix everything.
But it can be frustrating.  Good luck!

Bob Osterlund
berto@clio.spc.uchicago.edu
SSPPCC--University of Chicago
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.setup,comp.os.ms-windows.misc
From: dc@ntuix.ntu.ac.sg (Doreen Chua)
Subject: Print driver for Canon Laser Shot printer
Reply-To: dc@ntuix.ntu.ac.sg.UUCP (Doreen Chua)
Organization: Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1992 12:26:59 GMT


Hello all:

	I currently own a Canon Laser Shot B406 S laser printer and would
like to connect it to my 486Dx/33 PC and window 3.1. However, I don't seem
to be able to find any printer driver that in Win 3.1. My Canon Laser Shot
printer can print using LIPS III language. LIPS (LBP Image Processing System)
is Canon's own printer language for its laser printer family.
	Does anybody has this driver? If yes please kindly send a copy for me.
If no, could you please redirect me to any source that you think probable.
I remember reading something about a Microsoft's BBS or anonmous FTP site for
drivers, if yes could I get that info too?
	Thank you very much for your time.


Best regards.


DC...

Nanyang Technolgical University of Singapore
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.setup
From: damien@erich.triumf.ca (DAMIEN GALLOP)
Subject: Seeking OAK VGA driver for win 3.1
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41    
Keywords: Oak, VGA, VGA.DRV
Organization: TRIUMF: Tri-University Meson Facility
Date: Tue, 18 Aug 1992 15:47:00 GMT

In <1992Aug15.130153.10199@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> CH asks, Anyone know where to
find an updated Oak 640x480 driver for Windows? I would also like to know.
There is no such animal in the usual places. Thanks. Damien
From: Jeremy_Reimer@mindlink.bc.ca (Jeremy Reimer)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.setup
Subject: Windows 3.1, ATM 2.0, and Winword 2.0 PROBLEMS
Date: 23 Aug 92 07:42:59 GMT
Organization: MIND LINK! - British Columbia, Canada
Distribution: world

I recently installed ATM 2.0 under Win3.1.  Previously I had been using
TrueType fonts.  The program installed fine just as the manual said it should,
and when Windows rebooted I saw the ATM logo with the version number 2.0 and
the type (32-bit) mode, and the ATM control center was also available on the
desktop.

However, I could not get Word to use these new fonts.  I tried turning off
TrueType, but then Word only recognized the system fonts in the font list.  I
tried going into Print Setup... and clicking on OK but the ATM fonts refused to
appear.

I am using the Epson 9-pin driver for Windows 3.1.  A similar setup worked fine
under Win 3.0/ATM 1.0/Winword 1.1.  Why can't I use these fonts with my new
setup (I deleted all my old Win 3.0 stuff before installing Win 3.1, and was
going to use TrueType fonts but I wasn't happy with them).

Does anyone have any suggestions?


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Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.setup
From: atreyus@lascar.puc.cl (Marcelo Vasquez IIC)
Subject: 2 problems: Printer and Equation Editor (WORD20)
Organization: Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL5
Date: Fri, 14 Aug 1992 19:17:05 GMT

Hi Friends: I have two problems in my system. I downloaded the driver for my IBM2391 printer and when i print with it, it prints without skipping half a line avery 3 lines, so the prints have narrow characters every 2 lines ? Any idea?
The other    problem  I think you have already discussed it. I can't make the integral symbol to display. It prints a BIG Z instead of the integral. I don't know if it is that my window program runs with the spanish keyboard or what. Any idea on this also?
Thanks a lot for your help

Marcelo Vasquez R.
atreyus@lascar.puc.cl
From: f1sami@uta.fi (Samu Mielonen)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.setup
Subject: QEMM 6.02 + Win3.1 Problems and corrupted .grp files....
Date: 19 Aug 92 14:11:00 GMT
Distribution: inet
Organization: University of Tampere, Finland


I am not sure whether this is the right newsgroup for this kind of
questions so please send me answer by e-mail if the forum isn't correct.

Since installing Qemm 6.02 to my system with Windows 3.1 I have been
constantly confronted with the following message : "The xxx caused a general
protection fault... Please close application."

I have installed Qemm according to Windows readme files, according to the
software manuals and the QemmWin problem solver database. Nothing has
helped.

My Qemm parametres are: RAM ROM X=B000-B7FF

and I am running win3.1 in 386 mode with no funny device drivers (except
smartdrive :-) no tsr programs. I have activated the shadow ram option 
from my AMI BIOS setting and I have 256K cache (external, hardware) active.

If any of you could help me out on this, I would really appreciate it  as
my Windows environment has turned out to be totally useless (even though
my DOS now runs better than ever).


The other oddity I have been unable to solve is the mystery of corrupted
.grp files. Sometimes when starting windows, it reports that: "The xxx.grp
has bee damaged. Please recreate it." or something similar.

Once again I have tried disabling write cache (smartdrive active as cache),
turning off 32-bit disk operations, checking my HD for defects etc to no
avail. I must stress that these problems are not due to power failures or
switching off computer at ill times. The problem occurs quite randomly, but
often enough to be annoying. No viruses are present in the system. This
problem was also manifesting itself before the installation of Qemm.


Any help would be appreciated


Samu Z. Mielonen, University of Trancendental, Finland

--
Samu Z. Mielonen
f1sami@uta.fi
"Flush your head."
From: dtl@hpcuhe.cup.hp.com (Dean Lindsay)
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1992 21:30:38 GMT
Subject: Re: Windows 3.1 crashes on old 386 with non IDE controller.
Organization: Hewlett Packard, Cupertino
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.setup

Chuck Bass writes:

  >We recently brought our machine to maintainence because int was
  >crashing intermitantly in Win. 3.1.  This is an old 386 with
  >1989 AMI BIOS.  (I don't recall what motherboard).  It has been
  >in for a week now after withstanding swapped memory, BIOS,
  >motherboard and now they say that a non-IDE drive is the
  >culprit.  
  >

The Win 3.1 resource kit says that 1989 AMI BIOS has a problem
with intermittent crashes (I'm going by memory).  It is in the
section near the front called known BIOS problems.  It also
says that 1991 AMI BIOS has this problem as I recall.  What BIOS
did they swap into it?  A number of BIOS anomolies are listed
in this section of the resource manual.

I have 1990 AMI BIOS.  I wonder why my 386DX intermittently
crashes in MS-DOS sessions now that I have installed a Texel SCSI
CD-ROM on a DTC 3280A controller?

Dean Lindsay
From: jliukkon@klaava.Helsinki.FI (Juha-Matti Liukkonen)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.setup
Subject: Re: New? Trident Drivers (8/15/92)
Date: 20 Aug 92 15:40:45 GMT
Distribution: comp.os.ms-windows.setup
Organization: University of Helsinki

In <1992Aug20.000535.1@vax1.umkc.edu> edowdy@vax1.umkc.edu writes:

>Secondly, is it currently better to use the windows "plain vanilla" svga
>drivers instead of tridents beta drivers for 800x600 resoluation? Has anyone
>had better luck either way?

The README file with the new beta drivers says that one should use the
Windows generic 800x600x16 driver, and only if it doesn't work, then use
the beta driver. Don't know why so, because I've experienced no
difference when I tried 'em both...

-- 
               Juha Liukkonen, aka jliukkon@cc.helsinki.fi
       University of Helsinki, Dept. of Paranormal Investigations
           "Trust me, I know what I'm doing." - Sledge Hammer
From: tte@waikato.ac.nz
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.setup
Subject: Data Products Driver fr Win 3.1
Date: 17 Aug 92 21:05:33 +1200
Organization: University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand

Does anyone happen to know when Data Products will be coming out with an
updated printer driver for the Dataproduct 1560 Lazer Printer.  I have setup
art room machines with Windows 3.1 but I cannot seen to make Ture Type fonts
appear in the list of available fonts. Bit of a problem really.


Also, does anyone know where I can download any more true type fonts from i.e.
shareware legal ones

TAAA

Terry Evans
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.setup
From: qian@wam.umd.edu (Yong Qian)
Subject: Re: HELP! 256 color for Windows 3.1???
Organization: University of Maryland, College Park
Date: Wed, 12 Aug 1992 20:23:45 GMT

In article <1992Aug12.143336.2041@msdhsv.ingr.com> ahmad@norooz.b17a.ingr.com writes:
>
>I do not agree. I have a 1MB card (Trident) and still have the same problem.
>I can use Trident W3.0 disk and install 800X600 256 color driver. But
>if I use any 256 color from windows 3.1 setup I get the blank screen.
>
>-----------------------------

Yeh. I can only get 800x600 16 colors from my 1MB Trident 8900C. 256 colors
and 1024x768 mode make the screen blank and hang.



Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.setup
From: cassidy@cps.msu.edu (John J Cassidy)
Subject: Re: HELP: setup.exe gone from c: \win31\
Originator: cassidy@indian.cps.msu.edu
Reply-To: cassidy@cps.msu.edu (John J Cassidy)
Organization: Dept. of Computer Science, Michigan State University
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 92 20:04:14 GMT

In article <1992Aug13.105712.24690@echo.philips.nl> johnj@echo.philips.nl (John Janssen) writes:
>Please can somebody help me:
>
>After installing Borland C++ and changing the international stuff
>in windows 3.1 I tried to start setup by double clicking on it,
>but it wouldn't start up anymore.
>
>The message says something like cannot find setup.exe.
>I inspect the windows directory and I noticed that the file
>(and maybe others?) is no longer there.
>
>How do I get the file(s) back?
>The manual doesn't say anyhting about this,
>and I cannot find the file on the windows floppys.
>(I also wouldn't have known how to get it right from there,
>as the files are no straight files on the floppy).
>
>Anybody can give me a help?
>
>BTW, the setup program has been accessible from windows last
>week, if that does matter (it just disappeared).
>
>Thanks
>
>John
>-- 
>John Janssen         Email: johnj@echo.tds.philips.nl
>The Netherlands      or:    John.Janssen@atehv.bso.nl
>Work: +31 40 756425 
>Home: +31 77 513177  Atari Mega STE, PC 386 SX, MIDI, Astrology, C

	Well, I'm not sure that this will be of any help but setup.exe
is THE file that you use to install windows, therefore it should be on
the first or second disk.  If it is compressed it will look like
setup.ex_.  And what I do is copy the expand.exe program that Windows
uses anyway, copy the archived file and then type "expand setup.ex_".

Like I said, I'm not sure I've been of any help.

	John J Cassidy		Cassidy@indian.cps.msu.edu
	~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
From: cadizht@csgrad.cs.vt.edu (Horacio Cadiz)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.setup
Subject: Re: key accents in WinWord2.0
Keywords: accents, winword
Date: 13 Aug 92 15:40:18 GMT
Organization: VPI&SU Computer Science Department, Blacksburg, VA


        *** I goofed when I wrote the following ***

>  These accent marks are available on different keyboards and languages.
>', `, and ^ are available on the Spanish keyboard.  I now forget what
>keys they are mapped to but try those keys after P and L.  
>  Defining the keyboard and the language is done under the "International"
>setting in the setup.  The drivers are found in Disk#2 of Win 3.1
                ^^^^^                            ^^^^^^

   That should be the Control Panel and Disk 3.  Be sure to experiment
with the keyboard.  The characters for the digits and the punctuation
marks would be different from the marks on the keyboard.  

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Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms,comp.os.ms-windows.setup,comp.os.ms-windows.misc
From: skarp@leland.Stanford.EDU (George Marino Skarpelos)
Subject: What is Bus Mastering or Bus Sharing
Organization: DSG, Stanford University, CA 94305, USA
Distribution: Worldwide
Date: Mon, 17 Aug 92 16:27:59 GMT


Could someone please e-mail me a short description as to what bus mastering is.

Anything would be appreciated.


George M. Skarpelos
skarp@leland.stanford.edu
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.setup
From: bicker@cbnewsi.cb.att.com (The Resource, Poet-Magician of Quality)
Subject: Re: Stacker, Windows, Swapfile, & Defrag
Reply-To: Brian.C.Kohn@att.com (The Resource, Poet-Magician of Quality)
Organization: The Internet
Date: Wed, 12 Aug 1992 13:49:04 GMT
Followup-To: comp.os.ms-windows.setup

In article <k3aePB2w165w@student.business.uwo.ca> dszpiro@student.business.uwo.ca (Daniel A. Szpiro) writes:
>So, my question is how can I defragment the files on the unstacked portion
>of my hard drive only, and leave the stacked portion alone?

There are many commerical products to do this, Norton's SpeedDisk,
which is bundled with the Norton Utilities and with Norton Desktop,
comes to mind. 

If you're looking for a cheaper solution, get a whole bunch of floppy
disks, and copy everything off the hard drive onto the floppies (be
careful if you take your root directory files and DOS directory files
off) and then copy them back.

-- 
Brian Charles Kohn               using !bicker's account
Poet-Magician of "Quality"       E-MAIL: bicker@hoqax.ATT.COM
    'Hope, not fear, is the most positive advocate of action.' - S.R. Lawhead
                   Stamp Out "SO": "RP" = "Romantic Partner"
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.setup