HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: wiegand@rtsg.mot.com (Robert Wiegand)
Subject: Re: Which is faster Qbasic or GWBasic
Reply-To: motcid!wiegand@uunet.uu.net
Organization: Motorola Inc., Cellular Infrastructure Group
Distribution: usa
Date: Tue, 1 Sep 1992 18:31:04 GMT

cwatters@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Coyt D Watters) writes:

>That's pretty much the question.  Is QBASIC (supplied with DOS 5.x) faster
>than the equivalent GWBASIC program?

>Before some joker jumps in a tells me I should use a "real language" like
>C or Pascal:

>I am porting a large collection of programs written for the Commodore 64
>(the best low budget computer ever invented) in BASIC to the PC.  I have
>time to do some minor conversion, but not complete rewrite.

>Since I have both BASICS, I want to use the faster one - I don't need all
>the QBASIC bells and whistles (like mouse support and the new editor).

>Email or Postings gladly accepted.
>-Coyt

Someone please correct me if i'm wrong - but I believe Qbasic is compiled
while GWbasic is interpreted. This would make Qbasic much faster.
It also means that once you compile the programs you don't need Qbasic
to run them.

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
From: eyring@cc.utah.edu
Subject: Looking for "save the current state of memory" TSR
Organization: University of Utah Computer Center
Date: 25 Aug 92 17:20:44 MDT


A short time ago I saw an ad for a PC TSR which would save the current state
of memory to a disk file.  I expect that it would also reload that file into
memory.  I can't remember where I saw the ad (as I remember is was a commercial
product). 

Anyone know what this is?  Thanks in advance.
-- 
>Bob Witmer
>Eyring Corp., Flight Simulation Div.
>Salt Lake City, Utah
>eyring@cc.utah.edu
From: peter@global.hacktic.nl (Peter Busser)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Re^2: THE MOST TASTELESS OS (MSDOS)
Keywords: Unknown
Date: Sat, 22 Aug 92 23:49:49 GMT
Organization: Global Village 1

lachlan@dmp.csiro.au (Lachlan Cranswick) writes:

>>I guess you have not really looked at the guts of unix have you.... 
>>You should not open yourself to snipers by comparing DOS to UNIX. They are
>>just not compareable.
>Right on Bro!!!

>Would anyone out there in net-land
>flame me for suggesting that the
>above above BOZO has never had to install
>or maintain a UNIX system.
Not flaming, but you obviously have never installed Linux. It's even more
easy to install than DOS. Partitioning is the most difficult, but everything
else is a matter of starting an install script and answering >a few< questions.
I mean a few and easy, like: "Do you really want to install GCC now?" etc.

FYI, Linux is a free (in the sense of the GNU GPL) UNIX clone for (E)ISA 386
and up machines. It has most of the goodies of a real UNIX system, like X11R5,
UUCP, GCC/G++/GDB (which is also able to optimize for the 486), SCSI support
(a dozen different controlers), math coprocessor emulation, you can read/write
and even format MS-DOS floppies, etc. There is even a beta XENIX emulation
availlabe. It's really quite good, even though it is still in the beta stadium
and it doesn't have networking yet.

> Unix may be
>good if you have someone else to keep
>it going for you (i.e. the systems manager)
>but try installing it!!!  At least DOS is relatively simple but -
... but - you've never seen Linux.

>In Summary:-

>UNIX sucks, DOS sucks, Windows NT sounds
>like it SUCKS.  In the not to distant future,
>I will be finding out is OS2 sucks the hard way.
>OS2 may be the only way to utilize a PC poperly.
Nope, just FTP Linux from tsx-11.mit.edu or nic.funet.fi, install it. It's free
so what is there to lose???

>Any suggestions on OS2 whether it is worth trying out.
I don't know. I've used v1.3 and I liked it until I began using Linux.

BTW, don't believe what I say, tune in on comp.os.linux and find out for your-
self. Or FTP Linux from tsx-11.mit.edu or nic.funet.fi, it's there for your
hacking pleasure.

Greetings,
Peter Busser
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
From: boltz@chopin.psu.edu (Mark Boltz)
Subject: OS/2 2.0 - almost, but not quite
Followup-To: OS/2 why not? 
Keywords: os's, windows, microstuff, bananas 
Organization: Penn State University
Date: Thu, 03 Sep 92 20:16:52 GMT

Having used a copy of OS/2 2.0 (the final release) on a friend's 386DX-25, I
must say that IBM has come a long way, but have some stuff to work out.  Even
tho the machine had 8MB, it was almost constantly swapping stuff to disk when
asked to do more than about 4 tasks at once.  (At least it has multi-tasking.)
The biggest problem I have with this, aside from wear and tear, is the swap
file created grows as applications are started, but won't shrink after closing
them; rather only after shutdown.  Another small problem I noticed, that IBM
should be correcting already from what I understand, is the incompatability withthe new Windows 3.1.  Some newer programs had real problems running in a
OS/2 WIN window.  Plus, OS/2 being a 'protected' system (so one crash doesn't
crash all the progs), you run into problems with programs that want to manage
memory (like Windows in Extended mode).  The BOOT manager is nice, but does
it really have to take up a whole 1MB of space?
And the video drivers (only available at the time was 600x320) suck.  Get some
people to get some decent drivers for the popular graphics cards like the
Diamond Stealth and Tseng ET4K.

----
Boltz
boltz@vivaldi.psu.edu
"This has been a paid political announcement."

Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
From: comm117@unixg.ubc.ca (Chin)
Subject: Splitting up large files
Organization: University of British Columbia, Vancouver, B.C., Canada
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1992 00:08:25 GMT

I have a large file (>1.6MB) that I need to split up into 4 smaller pieces.
I know that there are programs available that will split the file up.  Can 
someone please tell me the name of the program as well as an FTP site (incl/
subdirectory) so that I can grab it?

email me at GAVIN@phdlab.commerce.ubc.ca, NOT to the above address.

- Gavin
From: peters@CS.ColoState.EDU (eric peters)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Re: why does everybody hate microsoft?
Date: 28 Aug 92 05:50:27 GMT
Organization: Colorado State University, Computer Science Department

In article <1992Aug27.182818.42613@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu> thompson@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu writes:
>In article <1992Aug27.031845.3397@dmp.csiro.au>, lachlan@dmp.csiro.au (Lachlan Cranswick) writes:
>> stephen@eggneb.astro.ucla.edu (Stephen Schimpf) writes:
>> 
>> 
>> What about the 15 Meg of RAM Word for Windows 2
>> takes up.  Sounds like damm crappy ineffecient
>> code to me.
>
>Word uses 15 megs of RAM?  You mean Hard disk space.  And 15 megs
>seems to be around the norm for high end word processors now.  Don't
>get me wrong, I dislike Microsoft, too.  Ami Pro 3.0 is tons better
>than Word for Windows.  Just wanted to point out the inconsistency.
>
>> -- 
>>   Lachlan Cranswick  -  CSIRO             _--_|\  lachlan@dmp.CSIRO.AU
>-- 
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gee, WordPerfect only takes up 4 megs of my disk... and i like it a lot
better than Word, and it doesn't run under windows.

-- 
Eric Peters   
peters@CS.Colostate.EDU  
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
From: wcn@cs.brown.edu (Wen-Chun Ni)
Subject: Re: why does everybody hate microsoft?
Organization: Brown University Department of Computer Science
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1992 18:54:37 GMT

In article <1992Aug26.133221.25721@rz.uni-karlsruhe.de> ralf@ubka.uni-karlsruhe.de (Ralf Grohmann) writes:
>Because they want to make people stay with DOS/WIN
>
>And they don't adhere to standards, namely they introduced
>TrueType instead of using the common PostScript in their
>Win31 -- adds great confusion to the marketplace.

One more example: the Microsoft mouse, which is badly designed with 2
buttons and different protocols. In addition, the unreliable mouse
is overpriced. I am abandoning the MS mouse coming with my Gateway
for a better (yet cheaper), say, Genius mouse.




Wen-Chun Ni
From: PHYLLIS.ERCK-POOLE@OFFICE.WANG.COM ("Phyllis Erck-Poole")
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: DEST Scanner Model 651
Date: 4 Sep 92 16:16:33 GMT
Organization: Mail to News Gateway at Wang Labs

I have a DEST Scanner Model 651 which is no longer being supported by
DEST.  Does anyone have any experience with more recent drivers that
might work with this scanner either with Windows or DOS applications.
The latest driver that I have, worked with old old PageMaker running
under Windows 2.0.

                        Thanks,
                        Phyllis

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From: kyrie@coos.dartmouth.edu (Thomas S. Marlowe)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Re: Popular IBM FTP sites
Date: 28 Aug 92 08:04:23 GMT
Organization: Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH

gcl0@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu (# Texas Stalker #) writes:

>Hi.

>I'm pretty new to the PC world, can somebody give me names to some of the
>more popular or often updated anonymous ftp sites for PC's?

>Thanx.

>GL

I'm not new to FTP sites, but I do know that the list 
currently provided is for shit.  I have gone through most
ftp sites up to ee.umr.edu and most of the sites are either
closed dwown or not of much use.  Does anyone have a revised
list of *good* ftp sites for teh IBM and for the MAC?

I have been making one myself, but it is a long
way coming and I really don't have the time.

TSM
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc,comp.os.msdos.apps,comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
From: rahardj@ccu.umanitoba.ca (Budi Rahardjo)
Subject: Re: What is the best anti-virus program???
Organization: University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada
Date: Fri, 28 Aug 1992 13:11:52 GMT

I use FPROT because our university licenced the program :-)
(I think if you use it for personal usage, you don't have to pay).

[and it's fast to install during boot up... not like vshield which takes
a while to scan the memory. But this is just a personal preference]

-- budi
-- 
Budi Rahardjo <rahardj@ccu.umanitoba.ca>
Unix Support - Computer Services - University of Manitoba
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
From: phygansl@nuscc.nus.sg (Gan Seum-Lim (Mr))
Subject: Re: PPD file for Newgen Image5000 postscript printer
Organization: National University of Singapore
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1992 01:37:56 GMT

Sorry guys, the PPD file I am looking for is supposed to be used with
the Newgen Turbo/PS350 postscript printer.
I got the impression that it was an Image5000 because of the name that
was given by the printer itself in a call-up. The manual and the casing
both stated that it is a Newgen Turbo/PS350.

Please, if you know where I can find the PPD file for this printer, send
an e-mail to me.

Thanks !
From: u5533129@ucsvc.ucs.unimelb.edu.au
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Re: What is the best anti-virus program???
Date: 1 Sep 92 06:34:43 GMT
Organization: The University of Melbourne

> and not just new ones.  But because these are normally rare instances, you'll
> probably find that other factors are just important - like the speed of search
> or the fact that F-Prot doesn't necessarily make enough "noise" about a virus
> if you put it in a large autoexec.bat file and other things clear the screen
> before you look at it.

Try putting the statement IF ERRORLEVEL 1 PAUSE after it.

Peter
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
From: wongs@vccsouth20.its.rpi.edu (Stephen Kingwin Wong)
Subject: cache multiple hard drives
Summary: how to cache more than one hard drive
Organization: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY
Distribution: usa
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1992 16:21:30 GMT

I have a IBM PS/2 55SX with one 30 meg hard drive that is stackered and one
other hard drive.  The 30 meg drive is drive c/d while the other hard drive
is drive e.  Currently, I am using PC-CACHE (the version that comes with
PCTOOLS 7.1) to cache the 30 meg drive (drive d, the uncompressed portion of
the drive) .  I would like to cache both hard drives with PC-CACHE.  Can I do
this and, if so, how do I have to modify my config.sys and/or autoexec.bat
files?

Steve


Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
From: larsen@unislc.uucp (Steve Larsen)
Subject: Re: Best modem program w/VT102 and zmodem transfers?
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL5
Organization: Unisys Corporation SLC
Date: Wed, 2 Sep 1992 21:59:46 GMT

Sullivan Beck (beck@qtp.ufl.edu) wrote:
: I am looking for the best modem program for my PC.  I don't care too
: much if it's PD, shareware, or commercial (though I'd prefer PD or
: shareware), but I have to be able to run at least a demo of it to try
: it out before I'll buy it.
: 
: The features I'm looking for are:
: 
:   Good VT102 emulation (I'll settle for VT100 if necessary).  I have
:   to be able to log into the Sun computers I work on and run emacs.
:   I've been using QM for a while and I like it except that it starts
:   acting a bit flakey when I go to use emacs.  If someone else out
:   there has gotten QM to work, please let me know and I'll spend a bit
:   more time playing with the settings.
: 
:   It has to support zmodem file transfers.
: 
:   It would be real nice if I could redefine part or all of my keyboad.
: 
: That's all.  Everything else is pretty much optional.
: 
: If anyone has any suggestiongs, please email me.
: 
: S. Beck (beck@qtp.ufl.edu)


Try unicom.  It is a shareware program that I beleive you can ftp from
ftp.cica.indiana.edu.  It is a great program.





Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
From: bkpipa@eos.ncsu.edu (BRIAN KEITH PIPA)
Subject: HELP! Printer info needed FAST!
Originator: bkpipa@c00559-1403br.eos.ncsu.edu
Reply-To: bkpipa@eos.ncsu.edu (BRIAN KEITH PIPA)
Organization: North Carolina State University, Project Eos
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1992 21:27:28 GMT


I need any/all info on the following printers
Especially needed info -

        1. Worth (new or used)
        2. Ribbon availabity
        3. Reliability
        4. Support by software - are there drivers for it?
        5. Number of fonts it can print (NLQ,etc.)
	6. Print Speed

Okidata microline 193 Plus
Okidata u93 microline
Okidata microline 192
IBM proprinter XL
Panasonic KX P1180
NEC Spinwriter 8800
Epson FX 286e

Reason:

These will be auctioned Saturday and I need to
decide which one(s) to bid on and how much to bid.

Please e-mail (before SAT 8/29) me ANY info you can provide.

Thanks!
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From: bigfoot@pro-gallup.cts.com (Darren McDaniel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: About the Courier Modem
Date: 25 Aug 92 06:09:35 GMT
Organization: ProLine [pro-gallup]

Well I seem to have been mistaken in assuming that this modem was a Dual
Standard.. it in actuality a Courier HST (With ASL).. Strange tho that it
would accept the commands for the dual standrd...  Ohh well there goes my
hopes of connecting to Cserve at 9600...  sheesh...


Thanks anyways...
Darren
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
From: westphal@iscnvx.lmsc.lockheed.com (Dorothy Westphal)
Subject: Data storage info needed
Organization: Lockheed Missiles and Space Co.
Distribution: usa
Date: Fri, 4 Sep 92 15:31:53 GMT


We are assembling a brief guide for our users
who have been using various mainframes or
workstations, and wish to switch to a different
machine. We are including some comparison tables
on data representation on five workstations and 
two mainframes, primarily for FORTRAN programmers
(yes, they still exist!). I have been digging through the
manuals, and I have not been able to find the
following on the IBM workstation (we have Powerstation 340):

1. is bit storage bit alignment 0 to 31, right to left?        
2. is a character constant stored left to right or right to left?

Thanks in advance for any help.
-- 
Dorothy Westphal, Sunnyvale, Calif. % Just when things are going your way...%
westphal@iscnvx.lmsc.lockheed.com   %               they get even better!   %
From: dudek@acsu.buffalo.edu (David T. Dudek)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Re: 1024K on an XT?
Date: 27 Aug 92 18:29:02 GMT
Organization: UB

If you can find one around, I have this card called the "AMS [for Advanced
Memory System] HiCard2" which allows you to load drivers, TSR's, RAM-disks
and print spools into the area between 640k and 1024k.  It runs fine on my
WaveMate 286 XT Bullet Board, but you have to be careful as to which
drivers you load into high memory (esp. mouse drivers).  I really don't
know if you can buy one new anywhere though.  One more thing, it will not
allow a LIM 4.0 memory card to work if it is installed.


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Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
From: mskaff@uuisis.isis.org (Mark Skaff)
Subject: IBM vs. Amiga: What are the facts?
Organization: International Shared Information Service (Ottawa)
Date: Sat, 29 Aug 92 22:39:27 GMT

Can someone who is highly (or just knows something) knowledgable in IBM and 
Amiga please tell me a few facts about why IBM really is better? I do know 
some myself, but I need some help in this. For example, what is faster; A 
68030-40 vs. 486dx-33? And What type of IBM do you need to get the 
multitasking capablities of an A500? And other things that could help. 
Please sned me answers in mail, ebcause I don't want a debate to begin in 
here! Thanks.

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mskaff@tsaroth.isis.org                              Ottawa, Ontario
From: swaliff@afterlife.ncsc.mil (Steve Aliff)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Re: DC2120 tapes: mail order advice needed
Date: 31 Aug 92 22:19:29 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: The Great Beyond

In article <1992Aug19.115713.20834@afterlife.ncsc.mil> swaliff@afterlife.ncsc.mil (Steve Aliff) writes:
>
>I'm looking for a good mail-order source of 3M DC2120 tapes in small
>quantities. If anyone has any experiences to the good or bad, please
>let me know.
>-- 
>Steve Aliff (swaliff@afterlife.ncsc.mil [144.51.1.1])

I didn't get much of a response to this inquiry, except that several
folks asked that I post what I did find out. I picked the 4 vendors
with the best prices listed in the most recent Computer Shopper,
they were:

MDS, 800-457-5461, $18.20
Diskette Connection, 800-451-1849, $18.95
ET Valueline, 800-395-1000, $20.99
CMO, 800-233-8950, $22.00

ET didn't answer the phone; CMO wanted $5 S&H, MDS $6.00, DC $4.00.
I ordered 2 3M DC2120s from Diskette Connection at 4:30pm EDT on
Friday for $37.90 + $4.00 S&H = $41.90. The UPS truck delivered them
today (Monday). I'm pleased.

Usual caveats... no connection.. satisified customer..etc.
-- 
Steve Aliff (swaliff@afterlife.ncsc.mil [144.51.1.1])
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
From: ehobbs@nmt.edu (Eric Hobbs)
Subject: Experiences with Quantex Microsystems?
Organization: New Mexico Institute of Mining & Technology
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1992 05:02:42 GMT

Has anybody out there had any experiences, good or bad, with Quantex
Microsystems?  I am looking to buy a 386-40 and they seemed to have a 
decent system for a decent price.

How is their quality of components?  Which brands do they use?


Thanks for any help,

Eric A. Hobbs
ehobbs@JUPITER.nmt.edu

Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
From: DUENTSCH@dosuni1.rz.uni-osnabrueck.de
Subject: Monitor evaluation software needed
Organization: University of Osnabrueck, FRG
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1992 06:53:29 GMT

Does anyone know of software which will tell me the vertical and horizon-
tal frequencies of a monitor and whether it is (non-) interlaced?
I want to find out whether I got what I have ordered (and paid for).
Any help is appreciated.
 
Ivo Duentsch, Univ. Osnabrueck, Germany
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc,comp.os.msdos.apps,comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
From: andreas@dutedib.et.tudelft.nl (A.A.Buykx)
Subject: What is the best anti-virus program???
Organization: Delft University of Technology
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1992 14:25:19 GMT


Hello,

I recently downloaded f-prot.exe and I downloaded earlier virscan. Now my
question is (I am a novice in *anti* virus programs):
   Which one of these, or which other program should I use to 
   protect my beloved computer from being crunched by some virus.

Thanks for your help, Andreas
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
From: Seokmin Ahn <smahn@vx.cis.umn.edu>
Subject: Test
Organization: University of Minnesota
X-Useragent: Nuntius v1.1
Distribution: usa
Date: Fri, 28 Aug 1992 15:47:21 GMT