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From: djbpitt+@pitt.edu (David J Birnbaum)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc
Subject: Formatting a 3.5" HD diskette to 720K - broken?
Date: 12 Nov 92 19:50:31 GMT
Organization: University of Pittsburgh

I thought I'd never want to format a 720K 3.5" diskette again, but I'm
trying to use diskcopy to back up some software distributed in that
format. OS/2 refuses to comply. I'm using a HD diskette that OS/2 was
happy to format at 1.44K. I wiped that formatting clean with a bulk
eraser before trying to reformat at lower density. The results:

1) If I click on the drive icon, select format, and set the density to
720K, the first 50% goes smoothly. The drive then begins to chug. After
several seconds, the bar grudging slips a little beyond 50%. The drive
then chugs forever, making no progress, until I abort.

2) If I use an OS/2 window and type 'format a: /n:9' (following
instructions), the first 50% goes smoothly, then the chugging starts,
then we creep up to 56%, and there we chug until I abort.

3) If I use a DOS window and the appropriate parameters, the formatting
reaches 100% and then apports with a "DMA across 64K" error message.
Selecting 'retry' doesn't help. The disk is unreadable when I abort the
format.

4) If I use a DOS window and run fdformat version 1.8 with the /f:720
option (normal 720K format, with no funny stuff), I get the same error
message as in #3. Using the /A (BIOS) option doesn't help.

All of the above are reproducible and were tried with multiple diskettes
(which, as I mentioned, were easily formatted to 14.4K).

Anyone know what gives?

Thanks,

David

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Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc
From: dmurdoch@mast.queensu.ca (Duncan Murdoch)
Subject: Re: Is dos 6.0 gonna multitask? Or have no memory barrier????
Keywords: dos 6
Organization: Queen's University
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 14:56:06 GMT

In article <5575@krafla.rhi.hi.is> einari@rhi.hi.is (Einar Indridason) writes:
>I mean, DOS is a single tasking, single user, program loader.
>It doesn't have any wildcard expansions build in.  Every program must
>expand the wildcards for it self. 

No, I think you must be thinking of Unix.  DOS does have wildcard expansion
in the FindFirst/FindNext services.  In Unix it's up to the shell to do it.

If you want, you could write a DOS shell that did the expansion itself, but 
the loss of the ability to have positional parameters is a pretty big cost 
to pay.

This is one place where DOS got it right, and Unix got it wrong.  Of course, 
DOS only got it half-right:  the wildcards aren't nearly as flexible as they 
should be.

Duncan Murdoch
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Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc
From: u910826@bruny.cc.utas.edu.au (Louis        siuoL)
Subject: Re: Anti-Piracy by Serial Number ?
Organization: University of Tasmania, Australia.
Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1992 07:38:27 GMT

john@fl_gator.b17a.ingr.com (John Eason) writes:

>Hello,

>  I noticed with DOS 5.0 that each floopy and hard disk has a unique
>  serial number. I would like to access this serial number from code.
>  If my code could check the number against a known serial number
>  I could detect whether the user has copied my code to another disk.
>  I am trying to hinder the piracy of my software as you might have
>  guessed. If anyone has any info it would be greatly appreciated.

>  Email is prefered. Thanks.

Nice idea,
but it's a pity it's so easy to change - try Diskedit from Norton Utils 6

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Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc
From: geo@netcom.com (George Pontis)
Subject: Re: Can I Laserprint from DOS Command Line?
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  (408 241-9760 guest) 
Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1992 15:41:29 GMT

cooneys@gw.wmich.edu writes:

>I got a new laser printer (RealTech 9 ppm) hooked up to a 
>Mac and a PC. On the PC, the printer works fine from Windows 
>and from WordPerfect 5.1 in the DOS world.

>However, I can no longer print from the DOS command line, as 
>I used to be able to do with my old dot matrix printer. When 
>I try to (either by Print Screen command, or a PRINT 
>command) the data light on the printer flashes, but nothing 
>else happens.

> ...

>Anybody got any idea? I'll be grateful.

The problem is that when you press PrtScr, or try to print from the command
line, you are sending the printer TEXT. The printer needs a Postscript file,
which amounts to that same text with a Postscript header and trailer. There
is probably a TSR program that you can load that will fix the PrtScr key.
To print from the command line, there are several programs that you can use
that will take the text and wrap it up with a header and trailer. Most have
other convenient features like allowing you to set margins and text fonts.

I have a QMS PS410 that looks at the incoming data, and then either sends it
to the PostScript interpreter, or emulates an HP LaserJet II. If your printer
has a similar feature, then perhaps all you would have to do is enable the
non-postscript emulation.

George
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Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc
From: fisher@sc2a.unige.ch
Subject: Re: echo >> gives erroneous results
Organization: University of Geneva, Switzerland
Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1992 10:20:53 GMT

In article <1992Oct23.225646.6288@rei.com>, fox@rei.com (Fuzzy Fox) writes:
> eric@prodigal.psych.rochester.edu (Eric Hansen) writes:
> 
>>I have the following command in a batch file:
> 
>>echo ccc >> c:\autoexec.bat
> 
>>This *should* append the string "ccc" to the end of the autoexec.bat file
>>in root dir of my c drive.  Instead, it does nothing.
> 
> Does AUTOEXEC.BAT have a Ctrl-Z character at the end?

Probably...

The solution to trick DOS into removing it is to use:

	echo ccc > to_add.tmp
	copy autoexec.bat + to_add.tmp
	del to_add.tmp

This should work regardless of the number of ^Z in the file, but
everything after the last ^Z will be lost, of course!

Markus Fischer    Dpt of Anthropology, Geneva CH    fisher@sc2a.unige.ch
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc
From: bdm3@Ra.MsState.Edu (Billy D. McNair)
Subject: Space in Filename
Organization: Mississippi State University
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 18:59:55 GMT

Is this not as simple as:
   del file?.txt
just put a '?' where the space is....

Dewayne
From: rnichols@cbnewsg.cb.att.com (robert.k.nichols)
Subject: Re: [HELP] Memory lost???
Summary: Top 384K of 1st MB is no longer being remapped.
Organization: AT&T
Date: Sun, 8 Nov 1992 22:52:19 GMT

In article <1992Nov8.140148.6306@monu1.cc.monash.edu.au> eda803z@monu1.cc.monash.edu.au writes:
...
>I just upgraded my 386DX-40 to 8MB RAM, but when the machine boot up,
>it reports to have only 7808KB instead of 8192KB (8MB).  Does anyone know
>what is wrong with it?  Thanks

There is nothing wrong.  The "missing" 384KB is that area of memory
between 640K and 1MB.  This address range is used for ROM BIOS, video
adapters, etc.  Unoccupied blocks in this range are usable as Upper
Memory Blocks or EMS page frames (yuck).  Many chip sets have a feature
that allows the RAM underlying this area to be remapped so that it can
be used as extended memory.  Generally, this is only done when the
total equipped memory is 1 or 2 MB.  So, when you expanded to 8MB, you
lost the ability to remap this area.

If you are using DOS 5.0 and do not require expanded memory services,
you can "LOADHIGH" device drivers into the UMBs.  The memory that is
hidden behind ROMs or video adapters, however, is unusable.

Bob Nichols
AT&T Bell Laboratories
rnichols@ihlpm.ih.att.com
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From: miner@hightop.nrl.navy.mil (Les Miner)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc,comp.os.msdos.apps
Subject: Re: Which files do I need to run WP 5.1 from a Ramdisk?
Date: 10 Nov 92 16:29:52 GMT
Article-I.D.: ra.BxIDtt.14L
Distribution: na
Organization: Naval Research Labs (Washington DC)

In article <BxDJKF.L33@andy.bgsu.edu> jzawodn@bgsu.edu (jeremy zawodny) writes:
>I would like to run wordperfect 5.1 off of a ramdisk (on my laptop) and
>need to know which files must be in the ramdisk to keep wp from accessing
>the hard drive.  Assume that I am not going to do any spell checking or
>any of that stuff.
>
>Thanks in advance,
>
We had a similar incident at the lab.  What we suggested is that you either
contact Wordperfect & ask them or use LetterPerfect which is a smaller version
of WP.  It funcitions about the same just does'nt have all the features of
the full package.

Hope this helps.


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From: mvidov@athena.mit.edu (Mark E Vidov)
Subject: Stacker and path
Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1992 21:49:02 GMT

This may be dumb, or even in the manual but I haven't been able to do it:

How do I add directories on the stacked drive to my path? They are currently
not recognized when I set path=d:\subdir;... in my autoexec.bat.
From: messina@netcom.com (Tony Porczyk)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc
Subject: Re: Can I Laserprint from DOS Command Line?
Date: 5 Nov 92 18:07:55 GMT
Article-I.D.: netcom.1992Nov5.180755.14859
Organization: Messina Software

cooneys@gw.wmich.edu writes:

>I got a new laser printer (RealTech 9 ppm) hooked up to a 
>Mac and a PC. On the PC, the printer works fine from Windows 
>and from WordPerfect 5.1 in the DOS world.
>However, I can no longer print from the DOS command line, as 
>I used to be able to do with my old dot matrix printer. When 
>I try to (either by Print Screen command, or a PRINT 
>command) the data light on the printer flashes, but nothing 
>else happens.

Is it postscript?  Then you have to get some sort of software
translator.  A bunch of them is available PD.

t.
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc
From: dmurdoch@mast.queensu.ca (Duncan Murdoch)
Subject: Re: Is dos 6.0 gonna multitask? Or have no memory barrier????
Keywords: dos 6
Organization: Queen's University
Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1992 14:54:27 GMT

In article <rdippold.721598010@qualcom> rdippold@qualcom.qualcomm.com (Ron Dippold) writes:
>They're still playing catch-up with DR-DOS.  People have been saying
>that DOS 7 multitasks and breaks the 640K barrier.  I claim it'll
>never happen.  There have to be other people here who remember way
>back when DOS 3.x was king, and DOS 4 was going to "Have multitasking
>and break the 640K barrier!" 

In fact, there were two completely different DOS 4's.  One was released only 
in Europe, and did do multitasking.  The other was developed by IBM, and 
didn't.  Only descendants of the IBM version were ever released in North 
America.

Duncan Murdoch
dmurdoch@mast.queensu.ca
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From: bjorn.myrland@sipaa.sintef.no (Bjorn Myrland)
Subject: How to read 720kB 5.25" floppies
Organization: SINTEF
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 17:23:52 GMT

A colleague of mine found some old 5.25" DD floppy disks recently 
containing some files that she needs. However, the floppies turned out to be 
formatted to 720kB, most likely on one of our long gone Olivetti PCs. None 
of our current PCs are able to reads this format, and Norton Utilities did 
not help much either. Can someone give me a clue here? Is it only a matter 
of loading the proper boot sector information onto the disk, or could I use 
DRIVER.SYS in any way? Any handy utilities out there?
All suggestions welcome! 

Bjorn.

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From: jzawodn@bgsu.edu (jeremy zawodny)
Subject: Which files do I need to run WP 5.1 from a Ramdisk?
Organization: Bowling Green State Univ.
Distribution: na
Date: Sun, 8 Nov 1992 01:45:50 GMT

I would like to run wordperfect 5.1 off of a ramdisk (on my laptop) and
need to know which files must be in the ramdisk to keep wp from accessing
the hard drive.  Assume that I am not going to do any spell checking or
any of that stuff.

Thanks in advance,

Jeremy

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Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc
From: ebb7683@venus.tamu.edu (BLACKMAN, EDWARD B)
Subject: Re: \ and /
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41    
Organization: Texas A&M University, Academic Computing Services
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 00:43:00 GMT

In article <BxGtBJ.6qM@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu>, mkohlhaa@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (mike) writes...
>Hi.  I just recently got a 486 (after having and Amiga for a long time) and
>am very annoyed at having to use "\" where I had always used "/".  Could 
>someone recommend a utility or other solution that will equate
>my handy / key to a \, but only will in DOS?  I thought
>about reassigning the key, but I was afraid that the output would
>still then be a "\" when I was connected to a Unix system.

Check out 4DOS (current release: 4.01D).  It's a command.com replacement, and 
will allow use of / in place of \, and has MANY other advantages over plain old
command.com.

Ed

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Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc
From: mulcihy@sweetpea.jsc.nasa.gov David Mulcihy
Subject: Hard disk size, partition table
Organization: McDonnell Douglas Space Systems Company
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 21:40:10 GMT

I had two logical drives and wanted to make one larger logical drive.
Using a binary editor I changed the partition table and the number of
sectors on the drive. However DOS does not think the drive is any larger
than before. Where does DOS get the information about the size of the
drive? 

Thanks,
David Mulcihy
mulcihy@sweetpea.jsc.nasa.gov
From: mueller@gdc.com (Martin Mueller)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc
Subject: Re: Help--Space in filename..can't read/write/copy
Date: 10 Nov 92 10:01:45 GMT
Organization: General DataComm Ind. Inc., Middlebury, CT 06762
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]

> In <Bwy4xn.Ktu@watserv1.uwaterloo.ca> Roger De Abreu <roger@wateol.uwaterloo.ca> writes:
> >Help !  An underline(space) was put into one of my filenames (eg.
> >cos_102.txt) and 
> >now I can't read or copy the file.   Anyone know how I can correct the
> >filename or
> >at least retrieve the data.
> 

Many point and shoot menu programs allow you to rename files that may 
have gotten unusual characters in the file name. Norton utilities or 
xtpro are the ones I use and either one would allow you to rename
that file.

BTW it is possible that there is an unseen or unusual character in the 
file name. A common trick is to add a space in the middle or at the end of 
a files name. Since dos will ignore a standard space (20H) these spaces
are created by using an <alt>number key sequence. It looks like a normal space
but the file cannot be copied/renamed/deleted using a space created with the 
space bar.

If you can get a hex dump of the directory entry you will be able to determine
exactly which characters must be entered to manage your file.

good luck
		M^2
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From: kellys@orac.holonet.net (Kelly Schwarzhoff)
Subject: Locking out sectors
Organization: HoloNet (BBS: 510-704-1058)
Date: Sun, 8 Nov 1992 03:54:13 GMT

The HD I use to run my BBS (opus) has a lot of bad sectors, and everytime opus
runs into it, it gives one of those "Bad Sectors - R)ety, F)ail",etc errors.
Does anyone know of a way to lock ou;the bad sectors, using some disk utility
like Nortun or something?  I'm using MS-Dos 5.0, BTW.
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From: dfraser@csws19.ic.sunysb.edu (David W Fraser)
Subject: Re: .qag extension?
Organization: State University of New York at Stony Brook
Date: Sun, 8 Nov 1992 04:17:25 GMT

In article <1992Nov8.020802.2796@sbcs.sunysb.edu> dfraser@csws19.ic.sunysb.edu () writes:
>
> Does anyone know what the .qag extension is for?  I found several files in my
>windows directory with this extension that seem to be named after my different 
>program groups(like main.qag).  These type of files appeared on my Uncle's
>system before a virus wiped out his drive.
>Are they supposed to be there or could they be a part of a virus?
>
>Any help would be greatly appreciated!
>
>Dave


Thanks to everyone who responded!  Turns out they are part of norton desktop.  


dave
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From: kxj6@po.CWRU.Edu (Kijin Jung)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc
Subject: Stacker and XtraDrive
Date: 7 Nov 1992 00:07:37 GMT
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
Reply-To: kxj6@po.CWRU.Edu (Kijin Jung)
NNTP-Posting-Host: thor.ins.cwru.edu


Hello, I own Stacker 2.0 but I've never permanently installed it
on my hard disk because of reliablity problems. I also find it VERY
awkward to have an extra compressed drive created for each uncompressed
logical drive that exists. I have C: D: E: and F: partitions on two
drives - Stacker then creates G: H: I: and J: !

Lately, I've heard some sketchy information on IIT's XtraDrive, but
it looks promising. For those who have it, could you comment on it's
compatibility with Window's swapfile, and whether I can use PC Tools'
Compress or Norton's defragger on an XtraDrive compressed disk? For
those who say that it is slow, _how_ slow? And if I understand correctly,
XtraDrive does not require you to have an uncompressed partition?

Thanks in advance...
                -Kijin


Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc
From: bern@Uni-Trier.DE (Jochen Bern)
Subject: Re: Help--Space in filename..can't read/write/copy
Originator: bern@kleopatra
Organization: Theor. CS, FB IV / CS, Univ. of Trier, Germany (Internet TI.Uni-Trier.DE)
Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1992 18:59:19 GMT

In <Bwy4xn.Ktu@watserv1.uwaterloo.ca> Roger De Abreu <roger@wateol.uwaterloo.ca> writes:
>Help !  An underline(space) was put into one of my filenames (eg.
>cos_102.txt) and 
>now I can't read or copy the file.   Anyone know how I can correct the
>filename or
>at least retrieve the data.

OK, I think this is worth a longer Posting ...

MSDOS inherited its internal Structure, i. e. Procedures, from two different
OSes: CP/M and Unix. CP/M was the former Standard for PC-sized Machines, but
it didn't support (Sub)Directories. Unix did. This lead to the Fact that most
internal Procedures for File and Directory Handling exist TWICE, one Version
based on CP/M and one on Unix. The CP/M-flavored Procedures use File Control
Blocks (FCBs) to access Files and an additional "cd" Procedure to switch
Dirs; They DON'T support Access to a File without cding to its Dir. The Unix-
style Procedures use so-called Handles, identifying Numbers, just like Process
Numbers or something of this Kind; They ALWAYS ALLOW absolute or relative
Paths in the Filename.

FCBs receive Filenames (remember: No Paths) in a 11-Byte Field. You are free
to fill in WHATEVER Bit Pattern you like. FCB Procs are, thus, able to create
Files with illegal Names - and to access them.

Handle Procs use File Names only once (when assigning a Handle to the Object).
Upon this, they allow Paths and, thus, must parse the String they received.
This makes the Usage of illegal File Names impossible.

NOW WE COME TO THE SOLUTION OF THE PROBLEM:

There are two basically different Approaches:

1) Use Programs which look at the Directory as the Object to work upon and are
   able to alter the Name of an Entry. Examples: Norton Utilities, PC Tools,
   and all other Flavors of Disk Editors.

2) Use Programs which access the File as their Object BUT USE FCB ROUTINES.
   They will be able to access the File in any Way you like. This includes:
   -- Very old XTree Versions (preceding XTree Pro, I think)
   -- All Programs compiled with Turbo Pascal (well, at least prior to TP 5.0)
   (Anybody got a bigger List?)

Final Advice: I don't know what your MSDOS Version is, nor what it uses ITSELF.
If it uses FCBs, there SHOULD be a Way to access the File without additional
Software. If it doesn't, CHKDSK should recognize the "lost File" and rename
it to C:\FILE0000.CHK, which would probably be the easiest Way.

Hope that helps,
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Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc
From: eda803z@monu1.cc.monash.edu.au
Subject: [HELP] Memory lost???
Organization: Monash University, Australia.
Date: Sun, 8 Nov 1992 14:01:48 GMT

Hi all,

I just upgraded my 386DX-40 to 8MB RAM, but when the machine boot up,
it reports to have only 7808KB instead of 8192KB (8MB).  Does anyone know
what is wrong with it?  Thanks

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From: axa12@po.cwru.edu (Ashok Aiyar)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc,comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Re: .qag extension?
Date: Sun, 8 Nov 1992 02:51:19 GMT
Organization: CWRU School of Medicine
Distribution: comp
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Summary: Norton's Desktop for Windows & Quick Access Groups
Keywords: QAG, NDW

In article <1992Nov8.020802.2796@sbcs.sunysb.edu> 
	dfraser@csws19.ic.sunysb.edu () writes:

> Does anyone know what the .qag extension is for?  I found several files in 
>my windows directory with this extension that seem to be named after my 
>different program groups(like main.qag).  These type of files appeared on 
>my Uncle's system before a virus wiped out his drive.
>Are they supposed to be there or could they be a part of a virus?

QAG = quick access group

Your uncle and you evidentally use Norton's Desktop for Windows as your 
Shell inplace of Program Manager.

Ashok
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                         CWRU Medical School
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