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From: moorerr@msu.edu (richard r. moore)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.desqview
Subject: Re: Desqview Mark and Transfer with FTP's TCP/IP
Summary: clarifications
Keywords: FTP, TCP/IP
Date: 9 Oct 92 20:35:26 GMT
Organization: Computer laboratory, michigan state university

In article <5956@dove.nist.gov> livigni@bldrdoc.gov (David livigni 303-497-5898) writes:
>From: livigni@bldrdoc.gov (David livigni 303-497-5898)
>Subject: Re: Desqview Mark and Transfer with FTP's TCP/IP
>Summary: clarifications
>Keywords: FTP, TCP/IP
>Date: 5 Oct 92 22:24:09 GMT

>In article <1992Oct02.234750.8687@qdeck.com>, garyrich@qdeck.com (Gary Rich) writes:
>> In article <5882@dove.nist.gov> livigni@bldrdoc.gov (David livigni 303-497-5898) writes:
>> >I can not mark and transfer text to my ethernet window on this
>> >machine, and was hoping someone out there has solved the problem.
>> >When I attempt to transfer text to the ethernet window, the first
>> >character is sent and it hangs.  I think I tried all the "Keyboard
>> >Conflict" settings for the ethernet window, but nothing worked.
>> >Any Ideas?
>> >

FTP.inc, PC/TCP software, at least at the v2.05 pl4 and below, reads the 
keyboard directly, it does not go thru bios or anything else.  It is a very 
nasty program with regard to the keyboard.  It does not permit ANY other 
program to "mess" with it's keyboard.  Even the "hot-key" option in TN does 
not seem to help.

Many years ago, we modified TN3270 to be more polite in its usage of the 
keyboard after our many complaints to FTP,inc. fell on deaf ears.  
Unfortunately, we have not (yet) done the same thing to TN.

With our modified TN3270, the mark and transfer text does work.

So, my suggestion would be to complain to FTP,inc.  perhaps they might 
eventually listen.
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.desqview
From: D.Burns@massey.ac.nz (David Burns)
Subject: Latest version of QEMM386
Summary: Wanted info on latest version of QEMM386
Keywords: QEMM386 Updates
Organization: Massey University, Palmerston North, New Zealand
X-Reader: NETNEWS/PC Version 2c
Date: Fri, 9 Oct 92 01:06:11 GMT

What is the latest version of QEMM386?  As a registered of user of several
versions of QEMM, I'm displeased that I don't receive update notices.  Is
this lack of notification common?
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Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.desqview
From: wspain@morgan.ucs.mun.ca (William Spain)
Subject: Re: Disapearing Cursor
Organization: Memorial University of Newfoundland
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 1992 11:29:20 GMT

In article <1992Oct13.211009.5881@zooid.guild.org> Andrew McCallum <andrewm@zooid.guild.org> writes:
>    I use OLX under DESQview.
>
>    When I reply, OLX loads up Qedit to edit my reply file.  Sometimes while
>it does that, I switch to another window to take a look at what's happening.
>When I come back, I can still edit everything ok, but my underscore cursor
>is sitting in one place.  This is annoying becuase I can't see where I'm
>editing a line from within the line.
>
This happens to me when running QBASIC v4.0  (pre DOS 5.0).  Cursor movement is
normal until I run the program.  If the program fails, still no problem, but,
if the program executes successfully, DV (or something) swallows the cursor and
I have to either use the mouse (which I hate!) or terminate QBASIC and start
again.  Any ideas?

Bill Spain
Memorial University of Newfoundland

Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.desqview
From: aml@world.std.com (Andrew M Langmead)
Subject: Re: any special way?
Organization: The World @ Software Tool & Die
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 1992 15:41:11 GMT

silvia@rcf.rsmas.miami.edu writes:

>I would like to know if there is any specific way of telling a program it is running under DesqView. If so, how? Does DOS have any specific interrupts for this process.


>          Manolo

If all you want is for the program to know if DESQview is active or not, 
you can use the information in Appendix J of the DESQview user manual.
(Perform an INT 21, AX=2B01H, CX=4445H, DX=5351H; if DESQview is not
present, AL returns 00FFH. If DESQview is present, AH is the major version
number, AL is the minor version number.)

To use other DESQview API features (multiple windows, multiple tasks per
process, field mode keyboard input, inter-process communication, etc.)
you can look at:

Ralf Brown's Interrupt list. (At Simtel20 in <MSDOS.INFO> files named 
INTER32A.ZIP, INTER32B.ZIP, and INTER32C.ZIP. Or at Simtel20 mirror sites.)

The DESQview specific extract of Ralf Brown's Interrupt list. (In the 
Simtel20 directory <MSDOS.DESQVIEW> as DVINT32.ZIP

Ralf Brown's Turbo C DESQview library (DVGLU101.ZIP)

Quarterdeck's DESQview API development tools (available through Quarterdeck
or software retailers. The API Reference Manual is $25.00. The API Toolkit
(available in C, Pascal, BASIC, Clipper, and dBase flavors) costs $100, and
includes the API Reference Manual, language library and manual, the Panel 
Design Tool (screen painter,) API debugger (break or trace at API calls,
understands multiple tasks per process) and DESQview.
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Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.desqview
From: jamie@vax.ftp.com  (Jamie O'Keefe)
Subject: Re: pc/tcp 2.1
Nntp-Software: PC/TCP NNTP
Organization: FTP Software, Inc., Wakefield, MA
Date: Fri, 09 Oct 1992 16:08:01

In article <oep_mnC00iUyI6f4Y5@andrew.cmu.edu> Matthew Edward Patton <mp52+@andrew.cmu.edu> writes:

The kernel now supports Expanded memory.  You may configure multiple
routers and it will fall back to the next router if your current
router goes down.  The the highest MTU size of a connection is
"discovered" for connections over a router(s).  The kernel now reads
an ascii text file (pctcp.ini) instead of the old .sys files.

We added four windows applications:

	WTNVT
	WFTP
	WPING
	WINET - for stats
  
We added kerberos support to rsh, rcp, and rlogin.  Tar and rmt as
well if I recall correctly.

InterDrive (Client-NFS) is now half the size it was before (55K vs
30K).  It is slightly faster.

We support tunneling of Novell IPX through IP.

Better install.

Much better, but also heavier, documentation. :)

I hope this helps,

jamie
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Phone: 01-617-246-2920	Fax: 01-617-245-7943	Email: jamie@ftp.com

Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.desqview
From: thor@arrakis.denver.co.us (Robert B. Hood)
Subject: DV/X-PC/TCP 2.05 pl4 "leakage" problem
Reply-To: thor@arrakis.denver.co.us
Organization: Bob's Programming Paradise, Lakewood, CO, USA
Date: Mon, 12 Oct 1992 17:41:22 GMT

I sent Tech Support a FAX last Friday on this problem, so I
can't complain yet that they haven't gotten back to me; I'm
just posting the problem here in case anybody else has had
a similar problem.

I am using DV/X 1.02 and PC/TCP 2.05 pl4 to access a SG
IRIS minicomputer over our Ethernet backbone which is also
supporting a multi-server NetWare 3.11 network.  My '486 has
a 3Com 3C503 card (damn I miss my WD8003!), and I am running
the multi-protocol IPX so that I can have my cake and eat...er,
have my NetWare and TCP/IP connections concurrently.  I have
set up this multi-protocol configuration several times before,
so I am completely confident that the combination is working
perfectly (and it does so from stand-alone MS-DOS).

Two problems:  1) I'm getting sporadic "3"s in my keyboard input
while I'm in DV/X (doesn't occur in MS-DOS), and 2) when I open a
TELNET or FTP connection to the IRIS (using DV/X's TELNET or FTP,
not PC/TCP's), I get a "leakage" problem that causes every few
keystrokes to pop up the DV/X main menu.

Problem #2 really takes off when I run `ico' (an X client that
animates a wire-frame cube in a window) on the IRIS.  When this
client is running I cannot even get *out of* the DV/X main menu!
I've attempted to change the key sequences that activate the
DV/X main menu, but the reduction in frequency was negligible.

These problems still occur when I run a straight TCP/IP connection
(no IPX/NETX loaded).

Anybody?  Thanks in advance.

Bob
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From: joet@dcatlas.dot.gov (Joe Trott)
Subject: Re: Conventional memory available - Desqview vs. Windows 3.1
Organization: U.S Dept. of Transportation
Distribution: na
Date: Thu, 8 Oct 1992 18:02:05 GMT


I wouldn't know what Windoze leaves available, for I will not corrupt my
system and/or waste the disk space for it, but in DV I have 595K free _with_
TSRs loaded (I use Stealth:F).  I suggest you run OPTIMIZE, and use the
/STEALTH parameter to perform Stealth testing on your system.  This could
free up steaming gobs of memory that DV can use.
Oh, I have DOS=HIGH in my config.sys.

-JTT
From: tufte@plains.NoDak.edu (J. Tufte)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.desqview
Subject: Qdeck plans for Dv/X
Date: 12 Oct 92 05:03:36 GMT
Article-I.D.: plains.21138
Distribution: usa
Organization: North Dakota Higher Education Computing Network

Can anyone at Qdeck tell me (us) if there are any plans in the works to 
support more SVGA boards at the high resolutions?  I'm specifically
wondering if there is any plan to support any of the 24bit color boards
that have recently come on the market.  I'd like to purchase the
ATI Vgawonder 24XL 24bit board, but if I can't run dv/x on it, it
wouldn't be worth as much to me as, say a Prodesigner IIs, which is about
the same price, but not 24bit.

thanks.

Jerod Tufte  ...  just ordered a system that is capable of running DV/X!!
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.desqview
From: pynq@quads.uchicago.edu (George Jetson)
Subject: Re: Postscript viewers
Keywords: ps & dvx
Reply-To: pynq@midway.uchicago.edu
Organization: D. J. Dougherty & Associates
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 1992 20:41:57 GMT

In article <1992Oct14.181629.12234@doug.cae.wisc.edu> bodoh@cae.wisc.edu (Daniel Bohoh) writes:
>
>Yes, I have ported Ghostscript to run under DVX as an X client.  However
>I have not yet released it because it is still buggy.  You can get
>ghostscript for the PC from SIMTEL, but it won't be an X app.

Not that this has anything to do with DV, but while we are talking about
GhostScript, let me ask this:

	Is there any way to make it not require you to press return
	after each page, when you are printing a document?

Currently, I do:

	gs386 -sDEVICE=laserjet foobar.ps

then fill up the keyboard buffer with returns.  I have to periodically
go back and fill it up again, to keep it from pausing.

I am not a PostScript jock, so I am not interested in editing the
program/document to keep this from happening - if there is a command
line switch, I would be happy.

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Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.desqview
From: support@qdeck.com (Technical Support)
Subject: Re: Minor keyboard problem, and big problem with QD [ :) ]
Organization: Quarterdeck Office Systems, Santa Monica CA
Date: Thu, 08 Oct 1992 16:17:47 GMT

In article <books.14.0@fsunuc.physics.fsu.edu> books@fsunuc.physics.fsu.edu (Roger Books) writes:
>Does anyone know of a way I can make the backspace key send a Del?  I would
>prefer to keep the Ctrl-h mapped to Ctrl-h (help in emacs) but when I log
>onto a remote system my backspace key doesn't work properly any more.  This
>is not a big thing but it is annoying to have to use backspace in DOS and
>the delete key when logged into Unix/VMS.  Oh, this is under DV/X.

You can modify the KBDxx.TXT files in your DVX\SERVER subdirectory. It's
pretty straightforward; just change the Backspace references to Delete, and
vice-versa. Oh yeah... Make a Backup! (I learned the hard way...)
This will change the references for everything running under the X-server,
by the way. (If you just want to change it for the unix machine, use stty)

>The big problem:  Quarterdeck, I was going to buy DV-386 for my home 
>machine, then you had to go and release the X-libraries for DJGCC.  Now I 
>have to come up with the money to upgrade my 2MB 386SX to a 4MB 386DX and 
>buy a VGA monitor, then buy DV/X.  This is really annoying. :)

Gee, we're real sorry about that. :-)

Seriously though, if you are intending to do any serious programming
or application porting, even 4 megs won't be enough. We mention that as
a minimum, but _strongly_ reccomend 8 megs or more. Even on my machine
with 8 megs, compiling within DVX makes the Gnu compiler go into virtual
memory, and that slows the compile down considerably. You _want_ 8 megs
or more. Believe me.

>PS. For the humor impaired the last sentance of the second paragraph is a 
>joke.  Note the smiley at the end.

Tom Bortels - Quarterdeck Office Systems - Internet Support 
    For questions or Technical Support, write to support@qdeck.com

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    For questions or Technical Support, write to support@qdeck.com

Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.desqview
From: dickw@IASTATE.EDU (Richard Wallingford)
Subject: Non-X applications in a DVX dos window
Reply-To: dickw@IASTATE.EDU (Richard Wallingford)
Organization: Iowa State University
Date: Mon, 12 Oct 1992 20:11:29 GMT

What causes some non X-windows DOS graphics applications to run inside
the DOS X-window and others to run outside (after blanking
the screen)?   Do the graphics go to the X-window if they are created 
by calls to the BIOS, and to the overall PC screen if they use 
the VGA registers directly?

Also, I'm using a MS-windows program (image processing) which *requires* 
the MS windows driver for my Orchid Prodesigner II VGA card.  When I 
run WINX, the image processing software gets confused because of the 
desqview driver.  It doesn't seem to realize that there are enough
bits per pixel.  Any suggestions?
 
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From: bi927@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Yi Jin)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.desqview
Subject: DV/X forsale
Date: 11 Oct 1992 03:24:19 GMT
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio (USA)
NNTP-Posting-Host: hela.ins.cwru.edu


DESQview/X for sale. $100, OBO. unregistered. Original packaging. 

--Yi
From: john@csrnxt1.ae.utexas.edu (John R. Schutz)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.desqview
Subject: DV/X + SLIP, etc.
Date: 16 Oct 92 05:16:56 GMT
Article-I.D.: csrnxt1.john.719212616

I am considering purchasing DV/X, and I was wondering if someone out
there could fill me in on whether or not I would be able to do what I
would like to do.  I can have a SLIP connection with a machine here at
the Uni, but it's a major hassle to go and try to hog time on a Sun
Sparc to use X, so I was looking to get it running on my PC.  But I'd
still like to use the network, and, even better, be able to run
programs across the network with my PC as the display.  Does DV/X
support SLIP in this way?  Can I run X programs on the Suns and
display to my PC if I'm connected through SLIP?  Any pointers, etc,
appreciated.

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From: dsa1+@andrew.cmu.edu (Daniel Stephen Stellenberg)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.desqview
Subject: Help in C
Date: 16 Oct 92 06:12:28 GMT
Article-I.D.: andrew.8ergrAW00WBLE21kgI
Organization: Sophomore, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA

I wrote a set of programs in C using Quick C and the API Library.
Program A starts and renames it's mailbox.
Program B starts, finds the mailbox of A and sends it mail.

Program B consists of basically three functions:
    1.)  Desqview initialization stuff... get mailbox object, win object...
    2.)  Send the mail
    3.)  main

If I have all three functions in one file, everything works fine.
If I have each function in it's own separate file, declaring the object
pointers as global ulong in the file with main, and extern ulong in
the other files.... I can only send mail from within the
initialization function.  The program halts with a programmer error
if I try and send mail from either main or the send mail function.
Again, everything works correctly when I have the functions in one file.
It's when I try to modularize that theproblems start.

-dan
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.desqview
From: support@qdeck.com (Technical Support)
Subject: Re: Quarterdeck refuses to answer my E-mail!!!!!!
Organization: Quarterdeck Office Systems, Santa Monica CA
Date: Mon, 12 Oct 1992 17:56:16 GMT
Keywords: QEMM, customer support

In article <44821@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU> geoff@pinoko.berkeley.edu writes:
>I have sent several desperate messages to support@qdeck.com almost two  
>weeks ago and have still not received any responses.  I have severe  
>problems (machine lockup and file corruption) with QEMM. All the obvious  
>troubleshooting procedures (e.g. NO everything flags) do not work.
>
>As anyone ever gotten a response after E-mailing to QuarterDeck?
>
>Should I just give up trying to get QEMM to work?  (It is totally useless  
>in its current form.)
>
>Or should I give up on Quarterdeck in general?

The only record of contact I have with you is a reply I sent about a month
ago. I havn't seen anything in my incoming mailbox since then from you.
Did you recieve my reply? Are you sending things that are getting diverted
to the twilight zone somewhere? 

I'm sorry you're having problems getting through, but I can only answer
mail that actually gets delivered, and the internet is not 100% reliable
(and our mailer is less so...). If anyone out there is having trouble
with the email support (because of long delays, bouncing mail, or
whatever) please don't hesitate to give our tech support line a call, or
send us a fax at (310) 314-3214. In addition, if you do send mail, be
sure to include a good return address. At a rough guess, I would say
5% of the mail I send out gets bounced because of a bad address. If you
include a phone number also, if the mail bounces I can at least give
you a call if it bounces...

-- 
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    For questions or Technical Support, write to support@qdeck.com

Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.desqview,comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.tools,comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.misc,gnu.misc.discuss
From: pynq@quads.uchicago.edu (George Jetson)
Subject: Re: MS Windows 3.1 supports <BOTH> DPMI and VCPI specifications ???
Reply-To: pynq@midway.uchicago.edu
Organization: D. J. Dougherty & Associates
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 1992 23:34:01 GMT

In article <1992Oct14.210127.20590@osf.org> kenny@osf.org (Kenneth Crudup) writes:
>
>I can state that the DJGPP DOS extender GO32 will *not* work under Windows
>3.1., at least not with QEMM 6.02 installed (ROM RAM ST:M).

It only states this a couple of times in the README.

In addition, DJ ends up saying it about once a week in the mailing list.

Of course, given that this is the DV group, I should not have to point
out that it is easy to run Windows and DJGPP on the same machine at the
same time, simply by running them both under DV.

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From: sc67+@andrew.cmu.edu (Seth Andrew Covitz)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.desqview
Subject: Help Getting Started
Date: 8 Oct 92 16:42:31 GMT
Organization: Freshman, MCS general, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA

Dear whoever,
  I have a 486/33 clone, a 2400 baud modem, all of the TCP/IP software from
CMU, Desqview/
and ProCommPlus. Before I buy a token ring card, I'd like to test the X-windos
environment on my PC using my connection with my modem. I have hooked up to 
Andrew with my modem before many times, but obviously it is no X-windows 
environment. If someone could tell me how to set this up, or configure my
software to think I have a token ring or somehow fool it so I could test it.
This information would be greatly appreciated.
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.desqview
From: books@fsunuc.physics.fsu.edu (Roger Books)
Subject: Minor keyboard problem, and big problem with QD [ :) ]
Organization: FSU nuclear physics
Date: Wed, 7 Oct 92 15:29:19 GMT

Does anyone know of a way I can make the backspace key send a Del?  I would
prefer to keep the Ctrl-h mapped to Ctrl-h (help in emacs) but when I log
onto a remote system my backspace key doesn't work properly any more.  This
is not a big thing but it is annoying to have to use backspace in DOS and
the delete key when logged into Unix/VMS.  Oh, this is under DV/X.

The big problem:  Quarterdeck, I was going to buy DV-386 for my home 
machine, then you had to go and release the X-libraries for DJGCC.  Now I 
have to come up with the money to upgrade my 2MB 386SX to a 4MB 386DX and 
buy a VGA monitor, then buy DV/X.  This is really annoying. :)

Roger

books@fsunuc.physics.fsu.edu



PS. For the humor impaired the last sentance of the second paragraph is a 
joke.  Note the smiley at the end.
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.desqview