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From: chungy2@aix.rpi.edu (Yau Felix Chung)
Subject: Re: UMB_DRVR causes HIMEM to abort
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1992 23:57:01 GMT

>  I was testing different memory managers for speed, and here's the results: Test machine is a 386SX 16Mhz with 4Mb Ram, MS-DOS 5.0 (except for DR DOS test), using PC Magazine Benchmarks ver 6.0.
>
>All results are in kilobytes per second.
>                           MS-DOS 5  UMB_DRVR                       QEMM 6.01
>           TESTS           EMM386    ver 5.22   DRDOS 6   QEMM 6.01 +stealth* 
>Conventional memory read   1495.61   1381.11    1426.46   1159.24   1488.37
>Conventional memory write  1495.61   1381.11    1419.40   1159.24   1488.37
>Expanded memory Read        488.08     11.77     183.67    398.83    506.93
>Expanded memory Write       490.89     11.77     184.67    410.17    506.93
>  
>  * With Stealth enabled my HERC screen redraws were a lot slower than usual.
>==========================================================================
>
>Groetnis (=cheers)
>Deon
>
Thanks for the info.  Would anyone know where I can ftp UMB_DRVR ver 5.22
or ver 5.3?  wuarchive.wustl.edu only has version 5.20.  By the way, I have
a micronics board and the documentation says that as of version 5.20 it
may support it.


-F.
.


From: franks@hpuamsa.neth.hp.com (Frank Slootweg CRC)
Date: Mon, 7 Sep 1992 12:29:20 GMT
Subject: Re: DR DOS v6/STOR Question
Organization: Hewlett-Packard, The Netherlands
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc

ygoland@edison.seas.ucla.edu (The Jester) writes:

> The only 'funny' thing we can find is that chkdsk tends to give
> REALLY bad estimates. I know it uses a 2:1 estimate but it does
> things like say we have 7 megs of free space when we only have 100k.

  This is normal when your disk is becoming full. An example: Suppose
you SSTOR a 20MB physical partition. CHKDSK will use a 2:1 estimate for
the compression factor and will say that this disk can store 40MB.
Suppose that you now store some files which would take 27MB if they were
not compressed and that SuperSTOR can compress these files with an
average compression factor of 1.5:1. So these files physically take
18MB, so physically there is 2MB left. CHKDSK will however report in the
following way :

40MB "total disk space"  (i.e. the *estimated* capacity)
27MB "in ... files"      (i.e. the *uncompressed* size of the files)
13MB "available on disk" (i.e. "total - used")

  So CHKDSK reports "available" as "total - used", but physically there
is only 2MB left, which is the number which SSTOR will report. IMHO this
is not a CHKDSK deficiency, but just a side effect of the transparency
which SuperSTOR provides.

  If you want to know how much disk space is actually/physically
available, then run SSTOR, or do a DIR and divide the reported number of
available bytes by 2 (the estimated compression factor).

Frank Slootweg
From: Jan-Inge_Flucht@f203.n901.z92.badnet.bad.se (Jan-Inge Flucht)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc
Subject: Rumor about MS/DOS ver 6.0
Date: Sat, 12 Sep 92 00:07:53 +0000
Reply-To: Jan-Inge_Flucht@f203.n901.z92.badnet.bad.se (Jan-Inge Flucht)
Distribution: world
Organization: Lottas TCL Vasterhaninge 
OD-Comment-To: All

 
is going around. Is there anyoune who knows if there are a beta- 
verson coming up ?? 
 
rgds / 
 
+++ Author: Jan-Inge Flucht,  internet jan-inge_flucht@bad.se 
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From: mr@ogre.cica.indiana.edu (Michael Regoli)
Subject: Re: PC-MODEM column #3
Organization: Indiana University
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1992 14:42:26 GMT

In <14994@mindlink.bc.ca> Jeremy_Reimer@mindlink.bc.ca (Jeremy Reimer)
writes: 

>Note to readers:  This is the third in a series of monthly
>columns about the IBM PC world, in the style of the PC
>MAGAZINE columnists.  Done on a whim, and totally
>freelance, this article should be taken at face value.
>Comments, criticisms etc. welcome.

>==========================================================================
>PC-MODEM MAGAZINE Vol 0 Issue 2                                August 1992
>==========================================================================
> ...stuff deleted...

>        But the nightmares were just beginning.  For some reason which
>Windows experts still can't explain, my favorite DOS comm program,
>Telix, simply won't run in a window in 386 enhanced mode, or indeed any
>mode. 

This is false.  Plain and simple.

I've been running Telix 3.15, in a window, under Windows 3.1, in 386
enhanced mode, on a 20Mhz 386sx for months now.  No troubles at all.

Here's my .PIF file.

begin 644 telix.pif
M(G5496QI>"`@("`@("`@("`@("`@("`@("`@("`@(""``H``0SI<5$5,25A<
M5$5,25@N15A%`"`@("`@("`@("`@("`@("`@("`@("`@("`@("`@("`@("`@
M("`@("`@("`@$```("`@("`@("`@("`@("`@("`@("`@("`@("`@("`@("`@
M("`@("`@("`@("`@("`@("`@("`@("`@("`@("`@`$8(V`7N(P```0!"!KTT
M:S?J>QDA7@A&")8``@!"!D(&``````$`O32#-YZ`GH`9(98`!`!"!E`3MP$0
M`$DC`````````"&?````E@`(`"$\4!.B-Z8+`0"]-+4WXUD9(0$`X#?C61DA
ME@`&`"$\4!/-2P<X@Q*C;^`W@Q*C;U`3(3P^`0`````M`$4`X/\^`1XX?G26
M``(`(3Q0$[TT]S=<!'YTE@`"`"$\4!.]-`<X7`1<!!DAE@`"`"$\4!,"`"$\
MO30A.*I%J@``34E#4D]33T94(%!)1D58`(<!``!Q`5=)3D1/5U,@,C@V(#,N
M,`"C`9T!!@````````!724Y$3U=3(#,X-B`S+C``__^Y`6@`@`+(`!`G]`$`
M!`````0```(P``"N`````````````(<,`)03,!(!`"]O`"`@("`@("`@("`@
M("`@("`@("`@("`@("`@("`@("`@("`@("`@("`@("`@("`@("`@("`@("`@
%("`@("``
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end


>I tried numerous PIF file configurations, made sure to use the
>command-line switch B to use BIOS for screen writes 

I doubt this is necessary.  I do find, however, that it's helpful to
put the "O" on the command line.  I frequently leave my modem
connected as I work throughout the day.  Clicking on the Telix icon
pops up a window and with the "O" switch, Telix won't disconnect my
session as it tries to initialize the modem.

I'd give it another try.

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From: Rick.Schryvers@psycho.fidonet.org (Rick Schryvers)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc
Subject: Re: low level format
Date: Sat, 05 Sep 92 00:00:00 EDT
Organization: Psycho: The Usenet<->Fidonet Gateway of St. Pete Florida

To: bjorndahl@augustana.ab.ca 
 On 09-05-92 bjorndahl@augustana.ab.ca wrote to All... 
 
 > That is good to know.  Now, what about something like SpinRite?  The 
 > one 
 > time I tried SpinRite on an IDE drive that seemed to be having 
 > problems 
 > (which we later traced to something entirely different) SpinRite said 
 > it couldn't do a low level format, but could do serious pattern 
 > testing and 
 > would relocate blocks that looked like they were going bad.  That 
 > would be 
 > about the same thing as Jerry's experience, no?  On the other hand, I 
 > know 
 > folks who swear that a SpinRite diskette should never even be in the 
 > same room as an IDE drive! :-) 
 >  
   I've talked with numerous technicians at various hard drive manufacturers  
   what I've been told is this: 
    Low level formating IDE drives can be done safely to 90% of all IDE hard  
    disks.  Kalok actually recommends low level formatting kalok drives about  
    once per year or so.  Most other hard disk manufacturers recommend that you 
    check with their tech support before doing it as design changes are made 
    after documentation is printed and therefore may not be completely up todate. 
 
 
 
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From: tsand@vipunen.hut.fi (Tapio Sand)
Subject: Re: Floppy blues and 8088s...
Reply-To: tsand@vipunen.hut.fi (Tapio Sand)
Organization: Helsinki University of Technology
Date: Wed, 9 Sep 1992 07:24:47 GMT

In article <1992Sep6.190838.842@ccsvax.sfasu.edu> z_rasmusseam@ccsvax.sfasu.edu writes:
>Ok, of all the crazy things someone could do... I bought a new 5.25" HD drive
>for an old 8088 computer.  Well, I can't get it to work on that computer...
>It works like a dream on my other computer.  So far I've tried drive.sys, but

The problem isn't the computer, but the floppy disk controller.
A normal XT controller can manage 360K, and with the help of
driver.sys 720K. That's all. However, you can buy floppy controllers
for the XT that can manage 1.2M and 1.44M also.
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From: draper@ais.org (Patrick Draper)
Subject: Lantastic, Dr. DOS and Lancache
Organization: UMCC
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1992 18:22:59 GMT

Sorry if this is the wrong newsgroup for this discussion.

On Lantastic networks, I'm having trouble using Lancache with any of the
delayed write options turned on. When they are, the network is very
unreliable. When they are off, the network is rock solid.

I've verified this on many different networks, with many different cards,
etc. All behave the same. The manuals make no mention of any problems with
using write caching on a server machine.

Does anyone else have these problems?

Thanks in advance,

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From: Deon.Strydom@p16.f1.n7104.z5.fidonet.org (Deon Strydom)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc
Subject: Re: DRDOS: Lost command.com on stacked c: drive
Date: Sun, 06 Sep 92 07:37:58 GMT
Organization: FidoNet node 5:7104/1.16 - The Catalyst BBS 1, Port Elizabeth

In a message of <Sep 05 14:09>, Mike West (5:7104/2) wrote to All:

 MW> CONFIG.SYS, COMMAND.COM and SSTOR driver in that space and delete
 MW> the DEVSWAP.COM from the config file.  This will give you a small

 MW> Personally, I really don't see why anyone would want to bother 
 MW> with the DEVSWAP with the boot drive since you have to reserve some
 MW> space anyway and 1MB is not going to cost very much.  Plus you
 MW> don't have to worry about  the DEVSWAP driver sucking up memory.

Hi Mike,
I use DoubleDisk and found that not only does the DDSWITCH driver use memory, but SMARTDRIVE 4.0 get's VERY mixed up with it.  I did the same as what you suggest (no switching), and eevrything works perfectly.

Groetnis
Deon


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From: jpolak@vax.oxford.ac.uk
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc
Subject: PostScript Cartridges for IIIP
Date: 8 Sep 92 09:49:58 GMT
Organization: Oxford University VAX 6620

I want to upgrade my HP LJIIIP (3Mb) to PostScript using a font
cartridge. At the moment I am considering the Pacific Page PE/PEXL 
and HP's own offering.

Does anyone have any advice and/or relevant experiences to report?

TIA

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From: sph0301@utsph.sph.uth.tmc.edu (Kate Wilson)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc
Subject: Re: DOS 5.0 missing previous exe ?
Date: 10 Sep 1992 13:37:10 GMT
Organization: Univ. of Texas School of Public Health

In article <1992Sep9.195317.3298@ncsu.edu> dspascha@eos.ncsu.edu (DAVID SCOTT PASCHAL) writes:
 
>|> >I would like to know what happened to the redir.exe in the current 
>|> >version DOS 5.0 ? My DOS 5.0 didn't come with a redir.exe.
>
>|> DOS 5.0 doesn't have it because there is no "redir.exe" as part of
>|> *any* DOS version that I've ever seen. (2.0, 2.1, 3.0, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3)
>
>Hi.  There IS a REDIR.EXE in DOS 4.0 (at least PC-DOS 4.0).  There are also
>two other programs that seem to relate to networking: IFSFUNC.EXE and
>FILESYS.EXE.  There also seems to be an undocumented CONFIG.SYS command
>IFS (possibly relating to IFSFUNC and Installable File Systems), but I don't
>know exactly what all this is for.  Any ideas anyone?



My original DOS4.01 diskettes have IFSFUNC.EXE and FILESYS.EXE but NO
REDIR*.* ... I've never seen a redir.exe file except with network
software.


kate wilson
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From: hartung@crl.ucsd.edu (Jeff Hartung)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc,comp.os.msdos.programmer
Subject: Re: 2 monitors
Date: 10 Sep 92 23:24:53 GMT
Organization: University of California, San Diego

In article <exuptr.478.716144921@exu.ericsson.se> exuptr@exu.ericsson.se (exuptr@exu.ericsson.se) writes:
>In article <3557@ra.nrl.navy.mil> miner@hightop.nrl.navy.mil (Les Miner) writes:
>>Here's another good one, can you run more than 2 hard drives on a 386?
>
>That's easy.  Use SCSI.

You don't need to have a SCSI drive/card to have two hard drives.  It is quite
possible in most cases to daisy chain a second hard drive onto and existing
IDE drive.  This occasionally doesn't work with pairs of drives from different
manufacturers, but almost always works with drives from the same manufacturer.
Furthermore, compatibility between various IDE drives has improved quite a bit
over the last couple of years.

I have a Connor "170 Mb" (seems to have 162 Mb to me >:0| ) is happily
coexisting with a Western Digital 40 Meg.  The former has its jumpers set so
it is the master disk, the latter is set as the slave.  Never had any problems
with either one.


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Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc
From: pjz@gtech.com (Phillip J. Zannini)
Subject: Need Help Desk Softwarea Information
Organization: GTECH Corporation, West Greenwich, RI
Distribution: comp.os.msdos.apps,comp.os.msdos.misc,comp.unix.misc,comp.unix.questions,comp.sources.unix
Date: Mon, 14 Sep 1992 16:51:34 GMT



Hello!  Please forgive me if I have inadvertently posted to the
wrong group.

I am looking for Help Desk software that will run on PC's (DOS 5)
using pc-nfs, on Sun systems using PC-NFS Telnet.

If anyone could help me I would be greatly appreciated.  Please
mail me at the address included.  Again. . .

Thanks,
Doc
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Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc
From: wefuchs@cip.informatik.uni-erlangen.de (Werner Fuchs)
Subject: Re: FAXING via a PC
Organization: CSD., University of Erlangen
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1992 13:31:35 GMT

holland@dutiws.tudelft.nl (Gerhard den Hollander) writes:

>I have a PC with a 2400 baud modem,
>I want to use this PC as a fax.

>What are my options ?
>prefered option a priogram which leds me send ascii files,
>via my 2400baud modem like it's a fax message.
>()Dunno if this is technically possible,

Sorry, it's not possible. You need a special FAX-modem because
it uses another modulation. 
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From: Art_Beyersdorfer@edtng.uwp.edu (Art Beyersdorfer)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc
Subject: qemm/qram
Distribution: world
Date: 11 Sep 92 13:47:18 CST
Organization: Electric Dreams: The Next Generation BBS

I would like some information about the two programs, qemm and qram.  Both
of those programs are from Quarterdeck, and I would appreciate finding out
what those programs do, and how well they work.

Specifically for myself, I am running a very vanilla 286, 2meg of ram, no
LIM or other expanded memory drivers.  I would still like to be able to do
some memory management, but because of the age of my processor, I have not
found anything that I thought would work, or, if it worked, it used up so
much of my 640k, that applications would start to fail.

I had always understood that qemm would not work on a 286, but have
recently been told that it will.  In any case, is it worth trying either of
those programs, and, if so, which one might make more sense for my system? 
And, even more specific, what is it they are designed to do, and what do
they really do?

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From: Jeremy_Reimer@mindlink.bc.ca (Jeremy Reimer)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc
Subject: Re: PC-MODEM column #3
Date: 13 Sep 92 06:14:55 GMT
Organization: MIND LINK! - British Columbia, Canada
Distribution: world

Re: Telix under Win 3.1

I realize SOME people have gotten it to run, it is just that I haven't.  And
NOT for a lack of trying.  It may be a weird system configuration, some IRQ
conflict with the modem port, but I can't belive this.  Why?  Because it runs
fine under Desqview.  Of course, a hell of a lot more things run under Desqview
than Windows, but that's another matter.


Thanks for the .PIF though, I'll try it.  If it doesn't work, however, I WON'T
be surprised.


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From: chbl@sbustd.rz.uni-sb.de (Christian Blum)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.programmer,comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Re: Can I Intercept Stuff Going To A Printer Into A file.??
Date: 14 Sep 92 15:50:31 GMT
Organization: Studenten-Mail, Rechenzentrum Universitaet des Saarlandes

hjanssen@cbnewse.cb.att.com (hank janssen) writes:
> For all you MSDOS wizards out there. Maybe a stupid question.
> I have an application that prints out data from a very old DB system.
> I need to get the output of a list from the database in a flat file.
> (THe database is very old, and i have no DB access routines)
> 
> I can print pre-made lists. But they always go to the printer.
> Is there aneasy way for me to intercept the stuff going to the printer
> and route it to go to a file.
> 
> The program directly prints to the printer port.

Depends highly on how the program accesses the printer port. If it
uses API interrupt 17h, it is possible (but tricky). If it writes
directly to the printer port... bad luck. If it uses the appropriate
DOS handle, it's quite easy.

To intercept INT 17h using a TSR program is rather easy, but writing
the characters to a file isn't, because DOS is not reentrant. Best
write the characters into a buffer, then quit the application and
write the data to a file.

If the program uses the DOS printer handle, simply close it and re-open it
with function 3Ch. Then call the application as a child program
via function 4Bh (?, look it up in R. Brown's list).

Both ways require a certain level of experience in assembler
programming.

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From: rvs@parst1.UUCP (Roelof van Suilichem)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.programmer,dla.pc
Subject: Re: Assembly Language and Turbo C
Date: 7 Sep 92 18:40:18 GMT
Organization: Paradigm Systems Technology

In article <856@hq.dla.mil> fazc016@hq.dla.mil (Don Costello) writes:

>[ Sorry for the length of this posting but I've exhausted all other
>possiblities including reading the Turbo C manual ]

[...wants source to reboot a PC...]

You obviously have not exhausted the possibility of the FAQ! :(

Part 3 contains what you want (Q701?).  Have a look at that, because 
apart from just booting your machine, it contains code to try and flush
write-through caches, which is *VERY* important.

Hope this helps.

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From: jhaide@novell.com (Janos Haide)
Subject: Re: studying executables
Organization: Novell, Inc. --Austin
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1992 22:45:11 GMT

In article <BuDB8o.3rK@ireq.hydro.qc.ca> beaurega@ireq.hydro.qc.ca (Denis Beauregard) writes:
>What you want to do is reverse engineering and is usually illegal.
>Nobody cares about what you do in your basement, but some will
[...]
>As for a good tool to do that, because of the context, you may be limited
>to either a good debugger or some hard to find programs.  
Eh ? How 'bout Sourcer ?

Janos
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From: zzang@stat.ufl.edu (Zhuo Zang)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.programmer,comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: BC++2.0 lseek problem(ALSO:lseek() question)
Date: 13 Sep 92 14:07:05 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: University of Florida
Originator: zzang@manta

In article <1992Sep13.043839.8659@waggen.twuug.com> alpha@waggen.twuug.com (Joe Wright) writes:
>Using open() and read() and lseek() will usually guarantee
>non-portability.  These are OS functions, not C functions.
>More specifically, they are Unix functions and not MSDOS
>functions.  I strongly reccommend fopen(), fseek(), etc.
>
>That aside, the main reason that seek doesn't work the same
>on Unix text files and DOS text files is that DOS uses two
>characters, \r\n, to terminate a line while Unix uses only \n.

but when we use open("foo.c", O_RDONLY|O_TEXT) in MSDOS,
(the O_TEXT bit is default, I put here just for emphasizing)
open() is supposed to skip the \r, so shouldn't have any problem.
it turns out the open() in TEXT mode has problem in BC++2.0

>So the DOS text file has a few more characters in it than
>the Unix one.
>
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