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From: elee969@elroy.uh.edu (Brown, William J.)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc
Subject: Questions on QEMM386
Date: 21 Jan 1993 13:50 CST
Organization: University of Houston
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: elroy.uh.edu
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41    

After loading the network (DECNET pathworks 4.0), Stacker, etc., I have
only about 350k of conventional memory left, not enough to run MS's
programmer's workbench.  I've heard of people using QEMM386 to free up
generous amounts of memory.  Can anybody give me comments on how QEMM386
works and what sort of improvement I should expect.

bill
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc
From: etxstfr@helix.ericsson.se (Stefan Frick)
Subject: Telix 3.20 totally locks up my PC
Reply-To: etxstfr@helix.ericsson.se
Organization: Ericsson Telecom, Printed Circuit Mfg.
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 09:47:04 GMT


I've just got a modem, and as the 3.20 version of Telix was released at
about the same time, I thought I'd give it a try.

However, it seems like some commands, ie. Alt-U, totally hangs the PC.
It will not even catch the 'three-finger salute', the only way to get out
of it is the reset button. This also happens when exiting Telix with the
Alt-X command. If this is a way to get people to register their copy,
I doubt many will do that...

Configuration:

386/25 SX, 8Mb, with DOS 5.0, Himem, Emm386 and Stacker 2.0

Supra FaxModem v32 connected to COM2, configured with 'modemcfg.exe', environment
variable set with 'SET TELIX=C:\UTILITY\TELIX'

Any clues?


-Stefan

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Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc,comp.os.ms-windows.misc
From: daryl@stone.oz.au (Daryl Sayers)
Subject: True color for S3 graphics engine wanted
Organization: Stone Microsystems, NSW, Australia
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 93 00:26:12 GMT

Hi all.

     I have just aquired a you beaut S3 chipset graphics engine called a
#9GXE. The problem is that it does not come with any trendy software. Does
anyone have some "True color" pictures and a displayer to view them.
Anything to show me the full capabilities of the card would be nice.
Also is there any bench testing utilities for speed eg: drawing circles,
block fills etc that I can measure against a standard VGA card.
These programs can be either under dos or ms-windows 3.1

Please email responce
Thanks in advance


daryl@stone.oz.au
From: prh@essence.demon.co.uk ("Peter R. Humphrey")
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc
Subject: Re: Way to simulate boot-up and prt msgs to a file?
Date: 27 Jan 93 23:12:05 GMT
Reply-To: prh@essence.demon.co.uk
Organization: Organization?  What organization?
X-Mailer: cppnews $Revision: 1.30 $

In article <1993Jan26.173204.46781@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu> miner@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu writes:

>I know (= I think) I can pause these messages by inserting pauses in
>autoexec.bat and by using PAUSEDEV or TPDEV to pause config.sys; but I
>don't want it to do this *every time* I boot up.

Why don't you just sit with your finger near the Pause key, ready to hit 
it when an interesting diagnostic appears?

-- 
Rgds

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Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc
From: prh@essence.demon.co.uk ("Peter R. Humphrey")
Subject: Re: Help needed using comm3&4 ports
Reply-To: prh@essence.demon.co.uk
Distribution: world
X-Mailer: cppnews $Revision: 1.30 $
Organization: Organization?  What organization?
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 18:36:20 +0000

In article <93021.35673.LJ01066@LMSC5.IS.LMSC.LOCKHEED.COM> LJ01066@LMSC5.IS.LMSC.LOCKHEED.COM writes:

>I need information on how to use comm ports 3&4 if I already have devices
>on 1&2.  What I really want to know is if I can put two modem cards in
>my system one on port 1 the other on port 2 and assign my mouse to be on
>comm 3 or 4.

Almost.  Put the modems on ports 1 and 3 or on ports 2 and 4.  That way, 
as long as they aren't in operation at the same time, you shouldn't get 
interrupt clashes.  Keep the mouse on its own interrupt.
 
COM1, COM3 share INT3
COM2, COM4 share INT4

-- 
Rgds

Peter Humphrey  |  prh@essence.demon.co.uk         | Voice 0932-343158
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From: Brian.Milner@brunel.ac.uk (Brian D Milner)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc
Subject: Hebrew for DOS?
Date: 25 Jan 93 14:53:48 GMT
Organization: Brunel University, West London, UK


I have two students here who've bought a notebook in Britain (from the 
Computer Centre Store on Campus), and they want to use Hebrew in DOS
and Wordperfect for DOS.

Anyone had any experience of this before? I looked in the DOS manual but 
it didn't list Hebrew as an available language. Do they need a special
PC? Do they need special software?

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From: s0522457@let.rug.nl (L.E. Plat)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc
Subject: Re: Comparison of ARJ 2.3 and PKZip 2.04 and 1.1 (Was: pkzip 2.04c uploaded to w)
Date: 21 Jan 93 15:21:59 GMT
Organization: Faculteit der Letteren, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, NL

>Subject: Re: Comparison of ARJ 2.3 and PKZip 2.04 and 1.1 (Was: pkzip 2.04c uploaded to w)
[STUFF DELETED]

>Mr. Jung has some speed to address, but PKWARE may address their bug 
>problems also.  For some reason, the copy I got from them seems to be 
>missing some of these bugs, but I'm also running a real straight setup.
>

I'd rather have a slow, but correct ARJ file than a fast, but sloppy
ZIP file. Especially when I've only got one copy.

Just my $.02.

Bert Plat
mail to: bplat@rugrcx.rug.nl
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc
From: d89-mta@nada.kth.se (Mns Tnneryd)
Subject: Latvian font for ms-dos
Organization: Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 10:39:35 GMT

Where can i find a Latvian font for ms-dos ???

/Mns
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc
From: istuart@nyx.cs.du.edu (Ian Stuart)
Subject: Re: Questions on QEMM386
X-Disclaimer: Nyx is a public access Unix system run by the University
	of Denver for the Denver community.  The University has neither
	control over nor responsibility for the opinions of users.
Organization: Nyx, Public Access Unix at U. of Denver Math/CS dept.
Date: Sat, 23 Jan 93 11:33:02 GMT

In article <21JAN199313503538@elroy.uh.edu> elee969@elroy.uh.edu (Brown, William J.) writes:
>After loading the network (DECNET pathworks 4.0), Stacker, etc., I have
>only about 350k of conventional memory left, not enough to run MS's
>programmer's workbench.  I've heard of people using QEMM386 to free up
>generous amounts of memory.  Can anybody give me comments on how QEMM386
>works and what sort of improvement I should expect.
>
>bill

assuming that you have 2MB (or more) or RAM, it is possible to get almost
700K of base memory {This figure was witnessed by a senior software
engineer!}. QEMM386 will (reach for the manual):

	Load TSRs into high memory;
	Load files and buffers into high memory;
	Load DOS into high memory;
	provide all extra memory as Extended or Expanded (or in combinations)

I saved 21K od base memory with my Mouse/Ansi Driver/Stacker 2/4dos giving
me 623K of base memory!


--
--- Kiz (aka Ian Stuart) istuart@nyx.cs.du.edu
	{ Chivalry is not dead! - Just the Horse }
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc,comp.sys.ibm.pc,comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
From: jre@zeos.com (Jim Erickson)
Subject: Re: Mixing HD Controllers??
Organization: Zeos International, Ltd
Distribution: usa
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 20:41:54 GMT

In article <1jmi4fINN3dq@sixgun.East.Sun.COM> awang@sunpix.East.Sun.COM (Angus Wang - Sun NC Development Center) writes:
>I am interested in purchasing a 486 system and was wondering if
>one could have more than one disk controller in a PC system of
>different types.  For example, if the package comes with a 200Meg
>IDE drive with dual FD connections, could I use another slot later
>and drop in a SCSI controller in and use SCSI HD/tape drive/CD-ROM,
>or would I have to remove the IDE controller & disk? This would help
>me decide whether to upgrade now or later.
>
>Thanks,
>
>Angus
>
>
>-- 
>North Carolina Development Center

   It varies greatly with the types and brands of controllers you intend on
using.  If you are planning to drop in a SCSI later, though, good SCSI
controllers will coexist with just about anything.  The Adaptec series, for
example, will automatically relocate its drives to be after your other drives.
Make sure the second controller you buy has an on-board BIOS that has this
capability and it should work great. 

---JRE---

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From: eesb2mm@dct.ac.uk
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc
Subject: Can you run an XT on it side? (among other things)
Date: 23 Jan 93 19:31:14 GMT
Organization: The Network.



Okay I have a PC XT, 256k memory with BIOS date 1982 or thereabouts, with IBM 
internal 10 MB hard disk drive. I have a couple of questions to ask:

	1) I'm a bit tight on space, so turned the machine on its side. This 
	   worked fine for a while, but recently I have been getting 'Disk
	   Boot Failure' and 'Data Error reading drive C:' errors. These errors
	   normally clear after a couple of retries, but am I causing damage to
	   the hard disk, or is it just a bit flakey on its side?

	2) Due to its age, I heard it is impossible to get a 386 motherboard 
	   and PSU in the case. If this is so, does anyone know where in the UK 
	   I could obtain a second-hand case ( and any other second hand items)
	   to suit a student budget? (Yes, I know about misc.forsale %-)

	3) If I do get new components for the machine, can anyone think of 
	   any ideas for using the old parts in some way?

I hope someone out there can help me with these questions. If you want, reply 
by e-mail, and I'll summarise if anyone wants to know the information.

Thanks, 

Malcolm.

--

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From: kraai4712@iscsvax.uni.edu
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc
Subject: Re: Way to simulate boot-up and prt msgs to a file?
Date: 27 Jan 93 08:53:22 -0600
Organization: University of Northern Iowa

In article <1993Jan26.173204.46781@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu>, miner@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu writes:
> There are times when you need to read the messages on the screen
> during boot-up.  I can slow down my computer by turning turbo off but
> sometimes that's not slow enough.

Hi, Ken!  How's the database search going?

Why simulate, just use what's already built in, <Ctrl-PrintScreen>.

When the computer starts it's reads of the CONFIG.SYS, toggle the printer on
(make sure your printer's on) and away it will go.  Don't forget to toggle it
off when it's done booting up.

Granted, it's not going to a file, but you do get hard copy of the real thing.

--jim
From: johnboyd@ocdis01.UUCP (John Boyd)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc
Subject: Re: Virus Collection for research!!!!!!
Date: 21 Jan 93 21:30:27 GMT
Organization: Tinker Air Force Base, Oklahoma

In article <216@complex.complex.is> frisk@complex.is (Fridrik Skulason) writes:
>
>Still, it may be worth a try...It might be the only way of shutting the
>boards down - or at least to drive them further underground.

Fridrik,

Anyone who has hung around this group for any length of time has seen
numerous requests like the one that started this particular thread.  I've
had a question nagging me for some time.  How _would_ someone who was
interested in the subject, who was legitimately trying to learn about the
subject, and not trying to build up a stockpile to do harm with, acquire
samples?  Who, or how would his identity and intent be validated.  I know
that there is an individual from Eastern Europe, Vesselin something, that
regularly posts on the subject of viruses, and writes software to work with
them.  How did we users come to trust him?  For that matter, speaking from
personal experience as to how *I* learned about this field, how did we
learn to trust you?  Everyone started out as a lesser known at some point.
When you first started distributing F-PROT, how did someone like me, who
was not directly involved with the field of virus research, but saw the
product discussed in various forums, know that they were getting a
legitimate program, and not another Trojan Horse?  How _does_ someone new
break into the field?  And on an associated note, back when Michaelangelo
was raging last year, one of my friends made an offhand comment about how
convenient it would be to create and loose a virus, and then sell a product
that just happened to eradicate it -- and he was thinking along the lines
of SCAN when he mentioned it.  

NOTE: NONE of this is a flame, none of this is to start a fight.  I'm
really interested in legitimate answers to the questions.  It's just been
nagging me for some time, and I've only now become curious enough to _post_
the questions. And PS, I really like your product, and appreciate your
efforts in the field.  Looking forward to your reply..

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From: bharris@hfglobe.intel.com (Bennie Harris)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc
Subject: Re: com 3 and irq 5
Date: 27 Jan 93 17:02:34 GMT
Article-I.D.: hfglobe.C1IvCB.Iy8
Distribution: comp
Organization: Intel Corporation

"norman mcnerney" <norman.mcnerney@canrem.com> writes:

>I was wondering if I could get some help with the following problem.

>My system is a - 486-33 with 16 megs memory
>               - OS/2 2.0 with the Service Pack and
>                 using SIO & VSIO v026, X00 v149a as fossil
>                 for each node.
>               - Two nodes running RA v.1.11 using two
>                 internal 2400 baud modems on COM1 & COM2
>                 standard IRQ's and addresses.
>               - another node (not up) using an external 2400
>                 baud modem (will switch to my 14,400 when the
>                 node works <grimace>).  This third node is
>                 COM3, IRQ5.

>In the Config.sys is(SIO v1.31 and 1.34 triedwith same result):
>DEVICE=C:\OS2\SIO.SYS (1,3F8,4) (2,2F8,3) (3,2E8,5)
>DEVICE=C:\OS2\VSIO.SYS

>CALL=C:\OS2\MODE.COM COM1:2400,N,8,1,,TO=OFF,XON=OFF,IDSR=ON,ODSR=ON,
><cont'd this line>  OCTS=ON,DTR=ON,RTS=ON
><the same thing for COM2 and COM3>

>In each nodes batch files (X00 v1.49)
> NODE 1: X00 E 1 B,0,2400
> NODE 2: X00 E 1 B,1,2400
> NODE 3: X00 2=2E8,5 B,2,2400 F=15 T=4096 R=4096
> 
>I've also tried activating X00 via Dos Device in the boxes Dos settings.
>On the node that won't work the initialization string is:
>AT L0 H0 S0=0 X4 V1 M3|
>My problem:

>Once I have the third node's port set up and run RA it won't
>initialize the modem.  The modem panel lights up the send and
>receive data indicators as it gets the initialization
>instructions from RA but it just doesn't work.  I can't figure
>this one (probably something simple I am missing.  Any help in
>resolving these problems would be appreciated (note, I am not
>interested in switching BBS software right now)
>I seem to be able to set Auto Answer on or off via the
>initialization which makes me think that RA isn't getting the 
>"modem ready" command or it isn't being sent to RA.
>---
> ~ DeLuxe}/386 1.12 #2814 ~ Crystal Gryphon BBS 416-429-1991 for RPG support
>--
>Canada Remote Systems  - Toronto, Ontario
>World's Largest PCBOARD System - 416-629-7000/629-7044

I don't have a direct answer to your problem but you may want
to post this to the comp.os.os2.misc newsgroup. You will probably
have a better chance with an answer to your problem,
Good luck.

-- Bennie Harris
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc
Subject: Scan V100
From: skriefal@eeyore.stcloud.msus.edu (Scott Kriefall)
Date: 21 Jan 93 23:33:54 -0600
Organization: St. Cloud State Univ., MN

A file claiming to be McAfee's Scan v. 100 has recently appeared on one
of the local bulletin boards.  As I have yet to see this file on any of
the major FTP sites (or even McAfee's own mcafee.com), I have some
reservations about its authenticity.  Anyone know for sure whether the
real thing is out yet, or whether this is yet another hack?

E-mail replies preferred, as I don't always get a chance to read this
group.

skriefal@eeyore.stcloud.msus.edu

Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc
From: istuart@nyx.cs.du.edu (Ian Stuart)
Subject: Re: Can you run an XT on it side? (among other things)
X-Disclaimer: Nyx is a public access Unix system run by the University
	of Denver for the Denver community.  The University has neither
	control over nor responsibility for the opinions of users.
Organization: Nyx, Public Access Unix at U. of Denver Math/CS dept.
Date: Sun, 24 Jan 93 14:41:23 GMT

In article <1993Jan23.193114.3033@dct.ac.uk> eesb2mm@dct.ac.uk writes:
>
>
>Okay I have a PC XT, 256k memory with BIOS date 1982 or thereabouts, with IBM 
>internal 10 MB hard disk drive. I have a couple of questions to ask:
>
>	1) I'm a bit tight on space, so turned the machine on its side. This 
>	   worked fine for a while, but recently I have been getting 'Disk
>	   Boot Failure' and 'Data Error reading drive C:' errors. These errors
>	   normally clear after a couple of retries, but am I causing damage to
>	   the hard disk, or is it just a bit flakey on its side?
>
Probably both! the hard disk is probably a full hight unit, with much less
mechanical strength that the newer units. Try leaving it on for a couple
of hours, then (having backed up your data) reformat the drive:
	debug
	 g=c800:5     <-- the BIOS routine for low leveling an XT drive

	fdisk
	format c:/s


>	2) Due to its age, I heard it is impossible to get a 386 motherboard 
>	   and PSU in the case. If this is so, does anyone know where in the UK 
>	   I could obtain a second-hand case ( and any other second hand items)
>	   to suit a student budget? (Yes, I know about misc.forsale %-)
>
Let me know too (*PLEASE*)

>	3) If I do get new components for the machine, can anyone think of 
>	   any ideas for using the old parts in some way?
>
If you are going to change large chunks of the machine, and the XT fill
work when you've finished, see if there is a charity project near you that
provides computing facilities for disables/housebound people (it's called
MicroBecon in Edinburgh)


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Date: Thu, 28 Jan 93 14:41:25 MST
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc
From: $dougn@sasb.byu.edu (Douglas R. Nebeker - MIS_SAS)
Subject: Re: 12 bit FAT?
Organization: Brigham Young University

In article <C1Ko0q.BE2@news.udel.edu> oliver@earthview.cms.udel.edu (Oliver Weatherbee) writes:
>Hi,
>
>  Yes another bonehead with a problem. I'm trying to set up a new IDE drive
>on my system and keep getting stack overflow problems. One strange thing I
>found is that the when I display partition information, under the system
>category it says I have FAT12 (12-bit file allocation problem). Does anyone
>have any idea why dos5.0 would do this and not set up a FAT16?
>
>thanks,
>  Oliver
>
>
DOS 5 can use either a 12 or 16 bit FAT.  If your drive has less than FF1h 
clusters, DOS will use a 12 bit FAT (thus giving you a little more space for 
data).  You'd have to have a pretty small partition to end up with a 12 bit 
FAT (less than 20 Meg) but I just created a small one and that's what I
ended up with.


______

Douglas R. Nebeker          Internet: supervisor@sasb.byu.edu
From: Colin_Douthwaite@equinox.gen.nz (Cfbd)
Subject: Re: need utility to unpack ZIP files
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL8]
Date: 23 Jan 93 09:13:47 +1200
Organization: Equinox Networks

CALT@SLACVM.SLAC.STANFORD.EDU wrote:
: I got some ZIP files. Could someone tell me where to get
: a utility to unpack them? Thanks in advance!

: Ching Shih
: shih@cithex.caltech.edu
You need PKUNZIP.EXE   Try a Shareware supplier because this program is
available on shareware. Your local Bulletin Board may have a copy in their
Files Area under MS-Dos files.
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc,comp.os.linux,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: prh@essence.demon.co.uk ("Peter R. Humphrey")
Subject: Re: SCSI performance / Adaptec vs Seagate
Reply-To: prh@essence.demon.co.uk
Distribution: world
Followup-To: comp.os.msdos.misc
X-Mailer: cppnews $Revision: 1.30 $
Organization: Organization?  What organization?
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 22:31:58 +0000

In article <C1FwFo.G63@jti.com> richb@jti.com (Richard Braun) writes:

>Using a simplistic disk performance test program provided by a drive
>manufacturer, I came up with the following surprising result:
>
>	The 8-bit Seagate ST02 is nearly 3 times faster than the
>	16-bit bus-mastering Adaptec 1542A.
>
>Why might this be?

Let me guess - the test program was published by Seagate?

-- 
Rgds

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Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc
From: dgm@corvus (David Matusow)
Subject: Re: need utility to unpack ZIP files
Organization: Online Communication Consultants
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 93 23:18:47 GMT

you can also get PD unzip.  this is at wuarchive in usernet/comp.binaries.ibm.pc/zip.

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Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc
From: jhigbee@cs.weber.edu (Jonathan C. Higbee)
Subject: msdos utilities for ftp mailing?
Keywords: msdos ftp via mail utilities
Organization: University of Utah Computer Center
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 93 03:36:15 GMT

Greetings:

I will shortly be without direct telnet access to the Internet or
Usenet and am searching for utilities I can use to easily unsplit and
decode binary ftp mail (ie:from ftpmail@decwrl.dec.com) on my 80386
under msdos.

If you know where I can obtain utilities like these for msdos,
please let me know.

Sincerely,


Jonathan Higbee

jhigbee@cs.weber.edu or icarus.weber.edu