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From: wdunn@ecs.umass.edu
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc
Subject: Re: MSdos 5.0 install disk
Date: 7 Apr 92 20:14:59 GMT

Hy,
  One word,
  Diskcopy,
wanta know why,
Eact secor by sector copy,
latta,
Haplo
In article <1992Apr6.081241.5055@fwi.uva.nl>, wijkstra@fwi.uva.nl (Marcel Wijkstra (i87)) writes:
> Recently, I tried upgrading from 4.01 to 5.0. For safety reasons, I copied
> the 5.0 installation disks with PCshell. But somehow these backups won't
> work: DOS 4.01 says something like 'Non-system disk'...
> When taking a closer look at the first disk, it appeared that the first
> entry in the dir was IO.SYS, but MSDOS.SYS was NOT the second. In fact,
> PCshell included MSDOS.SYS in its dir sort (which it did not with IO.SYS,
> and neither with C:\DOS\MSDOS.SYS).
> I moved MSDOS.SYS to the second entry, but still no succes...
> Could someone tell me what goes wrong???
> 
> P.S. The original DOS 5.0 disks posed no problems at all. But the above
> makes my backup useless.
> 
> Marcel
> 
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> |X|	     Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science	
>  X	       University of Amsterdam   The Netherlands
From: wijkstra@fwi.uva.nl (Marcel Wijkstra (i87))
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc
Subject: MSdos 5.0 install disk
Date: 6 Apr 92 08:12:41 GMT
Organization: FWI, University of Amsterdam

Recently, I tried upgrading from 4.01 to 5.0. For safety reasons, I copied
the 5.0 installation disks with PCshell. But somehow these backups won't
work: DOS 4.01 says something like 'Non-system disk'...
When taking a closer look at the first disk, it appeared that the first
entry in the dir was IO.SYS, but MSDOS.SYS was NOT the second. In fact,
PCshell included MSDOS.SYS in its dir sort (which it did not with IO.SYS,
and neither with C:\DOS\MSDOS.SYS).
I moved MSDOS.SYS to the second entry, but still no succes...
Could someone tell me what goes wrong???

P.S. The original DOS 5.0 disks posed no problems at all. But the above
makes my backup useless.

Marcel

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From: gtj@goanna.cs.rmit.oz.au (Glenn T Jayaputera)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc,comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: How to trick DOS?
Date: 7 Apr 92 14:50:11 GMT
Followup-To: poster
Organization: RMIT Department of Computer Science

Hi, I have an app program that was hardcoded to look at e:\x\y\z.dat
unfortunately I donot have e: drive.  Can somebody tell me how to trick
DOS so I can redirect the program to look to other location.  I read somewhere
that some had done it, but could not recall how...

thank you
glenn jayaputera
From: yap@minnie.cs.su.OZ.AU (9029357- Peter Burn- Yet another Plague)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc
Subject: Re: dosshell
Keywords: dosshell
Date: 15 Apr 92 07:14:29 GMT

In article <4665@cluster.cs.su.oz.au>, yap@minnie.cs.su.OZ.AU (9029357- Peter Burn- Yet another Plague) writes:
|> I have just installed MS DOS 5.0 on our no frills 386-sx machine.
|> However, while dosshell worked fine on DOS 4.0(1?), when run now
|> it kills the keyboard... The computer responds to NOTHING typed on
|> the keyboard, even if you exit from dosshell, until the machine is
|> re-started. The mouse still works tho.
|> 
|> Does anybody have any suggestions ???
|> 
|> thanks in advance.
|> Peter
   



I fixed the problem by loading the default set-up values of the bios.
I still find it curious that it only affected the keyboard while
using dosshell.
From: vsg8098@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Venkat Swaminathan)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc
Subject: Question about booting...
Keywords: booting
Date: 7 Apr 92 16:06:14 GMT
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana

For some time now when do a cold boot and try to run NCSA Telnet 2.3.03 it
just hangs. I have to to a warm boot (Ctl-Alt-Del) to restore the computer.
If I run NCSA Telnet again (after the warm boot) it runs fine. If I run some
other program (like QPro, XTree Gold etc.) abd interrupt the program with
a warm boot and then run NCSA Telnet, it runs fine. 

My theory is that a warm boot set/resets something...could anyone explain the
difference and what happens when I do a Ctl-Alt-Del. Or if you could provide
pointers to the info....

Please reply by email

Thanks.

Venkat
[venkat@uiuc.edu]
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From: sasegb@toklas.unx.sas.com (Elizabeth Brownrigg)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc
Subject: Simulating keyboard input
Date: 9 Apr 92 14:47:08 GMT
Organization: SAS Institute Inc.
Originator: sasegb@toklas.unx.sas.com
X-Bytes: 488

DOS 5.0:

I've got a screen saver program that's initialized in my
autoexec.bat file during startup.  The program displays
an introductory screen that disappears only when it receives
input from the keyboard.  I'd like to put a statement
in my autoexec.bat file that simulates a keystroke from
the keyboard, so I don't have to hit a key to get the
program to finish loading, and the rest of the autoexec statements
to be executed.

Is there any way I can do this?

Thanks for your help.
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc
From: bcasavan@uokmax.ecn.uoknor.edu (Brent Casavant)
Subject: Re: BORLAND C++ 2.0 Piracy (Software Publisher's Association Hotline)
Organization: Engineering Computer Network, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK
Distribution: ca
Date: Mon, 13 Apr 1992 22:06:09 GMT

In article <1992Apr08.130103.14500@highlite.uucp> burgoyne@highlite.uucp (J. Robert Burgoyne) writes:
>To report any incidents of piracy, call the Software Publisher's Association
>in Washington, D.C.
>
>The number is:	1-800-388-PIR8  or
>		1-800-388-7478

I have a very sincere/sarcastic (I can't decide which) question.  Why on
earth does SPA crack down so hard on piracy?  I used some of their stuff
(First Choice) in high school for class and it was horrible.  There is
plenty of better SW/PD/FW stuff out there than SPA puts out.  In fact, I
really have to question the intelligence of anyone who pirates these
programs ;-).

Just an observation/rhetorical question. . .

Still wonderin'
Brent Casavant
bcasavan@uokmax.ecn.uoknor.edu
From: daniel.campbell@cccbbs.UUCP (Daniel Campbell)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc
Subject: POSSIBLY A FAT PROBLEM  -
Date: 11 Apr 92 04:59:00 GMT
Reply-To: daniel.campbell@cccbbs.UUCP (Daniel Campbell)
Organization: Cincinnati Computer Connection BBS - Cincinnati, OH - 513-752-8248

-> I use DOS 5.o on my 286 with a newly installed HD. I did a lot of DEL
-> and RMDIR and copied new stuff onto the HD. Everything worked fine. I
-> CHKDSK 'ed to see
Did you run FDISK; partition the new drive, then run FORMAT and format
the drive? When you first got it that is? Is your MB BIOS set correctly
for the new drive installed?
                                             
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc
From: chin@cs.sfu.ca (( Fred Chin ))
Subject: Hyperdisk - Can anyone explain this.
Organization: Simon Fraser University
Distribution: na
Date: Tue, 14 Apr 1992 22:24:22 GMT


I've just download a copy of hyperdisk from wuarchive and try it on my system.
a 386SX 16Mhz PS/2. The performance I got from SI disk benchmark is 1.7, and the
AT 286 index listed by SI is 2.1. I tried the advance 386 and extended
version, both gaves me the same index(i.e.1.7). With samrtdrv, I get 5.6.
What's wrong???

Fred Chin
.

Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc
From: german@nd.edu (chad.w.german.1)
Subject: Passing parameters
Organization: University of Notre Dame
Date: Fri, 10 Apr 1992 21:05:12 GMT

At the command prompt if I type this set command trying to pass the "a" 
and "p" parameters everything is fine:

set G_TEL=c:\gopher\telapp.exe %a %p

BUT if I include the above set command in a .BAT file  
the problem occurs:

1) I execute the .BAT file
2) type "set"

The result on the set command is:

G_TEL=c:\gopher\telapp.exe p

Any suggestions...........
Thanks.... Please send reply to chad.w.german.1@nd.edu or post to the group
From: scdorcy@lims01.lerc.nasa.gov (JAMES DORCEY)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc
Subject: Re: comp.windows.news is NOT for Windows news.
Date: 14 Apr 92 14:30:00 GMT
Article-I.D.: lims01.14APR199209302044
Organization: NASA Lewis Research Center
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41

In article <703168353snx@n5ial.chi.il.us>, jim@n5ial.chi.il.us (Jim Graham) 
writes...

>actually, it's windows 3.1 that isn't compatible with DR DOS 6.0,
>and not the other way around, IMHO.  let's be sure we put the blame
>where it belongs, and not on DRI, who WANTED to do something about
>it, but someone wouldn't let them.  :-)

>ok, here's my question now --- has microslop managed to fix their
>little compatibility problem with other OSs?  can they now run with
>my choice for dos, as opposed to trying to force me to use their
>version and only their version?

>anyways, I'd be curious to hear if ms has actually fixed their little
>problem.  anyone know?

While definitely not speaking for Microsoft or anyone else as far as that 
goes, Microsoft's position on this appears to be that MS-DOS is the 
industry standard and that it is the responsibility of other DOS 
manufacturers to make their version of DOS 100% compatible with MS-DOS.  
Windows 3.1 was developed by Microsoft to work with MS-DOS and its quirks.  
From everything that I've read, DR and MS take a different approach to 
memory management (with is better is a moot point in this post) and the 
compatibility problems between DR DOS and Win 3.1 appear to be due to this 
difference.  The point is, Win. 3.1 did not work with DR DOS (prior to the 
fix) because DR DOS is not identical to MS-DOS.

To my knowledge, Microsoft has no intention to "fix their little 
compatibility problem with other OSs" because they appear to view this as 
not being their problem.  Windows 3.1 is designed to work with MS-DOS - 
anything beyond this is not Microsoft's responsibility.  Your choice is 
either to forego the use/purchase of Windows 3.1, switch DOSs, or wait for 
a fix from your DOS manufacturer.

Jim Dorcey
A happy user of DR DOS 6.0 for 8 months, since Microsoft refused to correct 
a known problem with MS-DOS 5.0.
From: jrd@bnr.co.uk
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc
Subject: Epson P-80X help?
Date: 7 Apr 92 13:34:14 GMT
Reply-To: jrd@bnr.co.uk ()
Organization: BNR Europe Limited, London Road, Harlow, Essex, GB


I have recently obtained a second-hand Epson P-80X printer (with manuals).
It is a protable, battery-powered, thermal 24-"pin" printer.
I can get it to print OK with DOS, (e.g. "copy file lpt1"), but
unfortunately, no software packages seem to have heard of it -
particularly, WordPerfect 4.2 and Windows 3.0.

Anyone know if another printer definition is close enough to this to use?
There a a whole load of Epson printer types defined for both packages, but
trying a couple at random (FX-80, etc.) didn't produce any more success
than "generic DOS printer".

The printer supports pica, expanded and compressed typefaces, plus italics,
underlining and emphasis (bold).  Anyone got one of these (nice) printers?
Anyone suggest what to do next (other than fiddle with the definitions
til it works)? I have the manuals, so I can figure the escape sequences to
send to turn features on and off, but it'll take a lot of time.

	Any ideas?

	Thanks,
			-jrd

        John Davis  ( J.R.Davis@bnr.co.uk +44 (0)279 429531 Ext 3618 )
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc
From: ankleand@mtl.mit.edu (Andrew Karanicolas)
Subject: Quatech PXB-721
Organization: MIT Microsystems Technology Laboratories
Date: Sat, 11 Apr 1992 04:48:17 GMT

Hello,

I have inherited a Quatech PXB-721 72 digital I/O card for use in a
Dell PC386.  Does anyone have any C routines for talking to this card
or know where I could anonymous ftp such code?  Thanks,

-- 
Andrew Karanicolas
MIT Microsystems Technology Laboratory
ankleand@mtl.mit.edu
From: jclei@sage.cc.purdue.edu (Jason Lei)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc
Subject: Re: OS/2 2.0 Question
Summary: If I have only 40Mb of hard disk space........
Date: 15 Apr 92 04:29:45 GMT
Organization: Purdue University Computing Center

In article <1992Apr14.225445.25307@ncsu.edu> linville@garfield.catt.ncsu.edu (John W. Linville) writes:

>...... other lines deleted......
>The first Beta of OS/2 2.0 that I ran was on a 386/16 with 5 Mb of ram, and I
>have run that same Beta on a 386/20 with 4 Mb of ram.  I found it to be quite
>...... other lines deleted......

My hard drive is only 40Mb in size, other than upgrading to a bigger drive,
is it possible to install and use OS/2 2.0?


Jason Lei
From: wanderer@athena.mit.edu (Conroy Lee)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc
Subject: Re: OS/2 v2.0 - Not as great as I thought
Date: 13 Apr 92 18:50:15 GMT
Article-I.D.: athena.1992Apr13.185015.26822
Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology

In article <moore.703183723@pv34c1.vincent.iastate.edu>, moore@iastate.edu (Brian J Moore) writes:
|> In <it1.703155114@Isis.MsState.Edu> it1@ra.msstate.edu (Tim Tsai) writes:
|> 
|> >  People seem to forget that 30 megs of HD space include Windows and
|> >DOS, not to mention all the applets.  I believe a minimal OS/2 system
|> >was something like 8 megs.  See comp.os.os2.misc for more details.
|> 
|> Yes, but all of my software (as luck would have it) runs under DOS and Windows,
|> not OS/2.  I don't have the resources to run out and replace them with PM apps.
|> 

huh? if you use up 30 megs of HD space, you will be able to run all of your DOS
and Windows software... and OS/2 multitasks DOS apps better than Windows does..
The only problem is that you'd need more than a 40 meg hard drive to do this..

Conroy Lee
From: sexonbd@sage.cc.purdue.edu (Benjamin David Sexson (Ben))
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc
Subject: Re: Windows 3.1 and Stacker
Keywords: windows,stacker
Date: 14 Apr 92 22:47:22 GMT
Organization: Purdue University Computing Center

I use Stacker with Windows 3.0 with no problem.  I would assume it
would work with 3.1
				later,Ben Sexson
				sexonbd@sage.cc.purdue.edu
From: etl0@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu (ERIC TODD LANDRIEU)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc
Subject: Re: Simulating keyboard input
Date: 10 Apr 92 02:50:12 GMT
Organization: Lehigh University

>I've got a screen saver program that's initialized in my
>autoexec.bat file during startup.  The program displays
>an introductory screen that disappears only when it receives
>input from the keyboard.  I'd like to put a statement
>in my autoexec.bat file that simulates a keystroke from
>the keyboard, so I don't have to hit a key to get the
>program to finish loading, and the rest of the autoexec statements
>to be executed.
>
>Is there any way I can do this?
>
If the program doesn't try to use the standard DOS device calls when checking
the keyboard(I would guess that it wouldn't by the nature of the application),
then you can use simple file redirection.  Let's say your program is XXX.EXE,
and it requires the user to input a key to finish loading.  Change the
Autoexec line from:
          c:[path]\XXX
to:
          c:[path]\XXX <XXXINPUT.DAT
You then write a simple one character file XXXINPUT.DAT to be the keyboard
stroke.  The contents of the file will be considered input to the program from
the keyboard.
The only caveat, as alluded to earlier, is if the program uses normal DOS
standard I/O keyboard input.  The screen saver would end up still looking in
the file for the next character(not bothering with the keyboard), putting you
in a bad position.
                                       Eric Landrieu

                                       
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From: jim@n5ial.chi.il.us (Jim Graham)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc
Subject: comp.windows.news is NOT for Windows news.
Date: 13 Apr 92 20:07:04 GMT
Organization: Me? Organized? Hah! :-)

In article <1992Apr10.151037.449@cs.columbia.edu> bm@cs.columbia.edu writes:

> such as the article I grabbed the above Newgroups line from:
>  
>         *** DR DOS 6.0 NOW WINDOWS 3.1 COMPATIBLE ***

actually, it's windows 3.1 that isn't compatible with DR DOS 6.0,
and not the other way around, IMHO.  let's be sure we put the blame
where it belongs, and not on DRI, who WANTED to do something about
it, but someone wouldn't let them.  :-)

ok, here's my question now --- has microslop managed to fix their
little compatibility problem with other OSs?  can they now run with
my choice for dos, as opposed to trying to force me to use their
version and only their version?

(oh, and yes, I did mean to imply that microslop is the one with the
compatibility problem....  *IF* they'd given DRI the chance to do
something about it, then it would just be *A* compatibility issue.....
but since they won't let anyone else have info to fix this, microslop
*ALONE* is at fault, and are the ones who couldn't manage to make things
work......IMHO.)

of course, I personally don't care for windows at all --- I'll wait
till I can get X11R5 to compile on my pc.... :-)  :-)  so this is
purely an academic question....well, almost.  if, in fact, microslop
did do something about the compatibility issue, I'd have to say that
maybe someone there is getting their act together and learning a thing
or two about how to be more interoperable.

anyways, I'd be curious to hear if ms has actually fixed their little
problem.  anyone know?
   --jim

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From: gt4719b@prism.gatech.EDU (Dave Frascone)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc,comp.os.msdos.programmer,comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Dbase file loosing character in header on 13th of month
Date: 14 Apr 92 18:36:30 GMT
Followup-To: comp.os.msdos.misc
Organization: Georgia Institute of Technology


Every day, I upload a database file to a mainframe, using Kermit.  

On the thirteenth of every month, the received database header changes size.

Has anyone ever heard of this problem or know of any fixes?


Thanks,

dave

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From: johnson@spectra.com (boyd johnson)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc
Subject: Re: want to disable ctrl-P key (MS-DOS 5 & $DOS 4.0)
Date: 6 Apr 92 21:28:14 GMT
Article-I.D.: spectra.1992Apr6.212814.4185
Organization: Spectragraphics Corporation

In article <a_rubin.701975082@dn66> a_rubin@dsg4.dse.beckman.com (Arthur Rubin) writes:
>In <norbert.701693880@rwthi3> norbert@ikki.informatik.rwth-aachen.de (Norbert Kiesel) writes:
>
>>Hello,
>>does anybody knows a way to stop ctrl-P from tyring to print?
>>I have no printer, so I always get an "A)bort...". 

How about PRN2FILE, the PC MAG utility to redirect printer output to a
file?  You may be able to use NUL as the filename, thus not writing it
anywhere.  Of course, nothing else could print then either.

Available on SIMTEL:
Directory PD1:<MSDOS.PRINTER>PRN2FILE.ARC  B   14451  871216  Redirect
						printer to disk (w/asm)

>>What I really want
>>is to rebind ctrl-P to the previous-line command of 4DOS (same as UP).

Why not just use the up arrow for previous command that is built into
4DOS?


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Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc
From: macheske@aero.org (Richard M. Macheske)
Subject: Need help with modem
Organization: The Aerospace Corporation, El Segundo, CA
Distribution: usa
Date: Thu, 16 Apr 1992 17:47:40 GMT


I'm having problems with my modem configuration and need some help.

Configuration:

486/33
Telebit T1600 modem or Hayes V series modem
Procomm Plus 2.01   or Windows Terminal package

I can call out fine...Neither modem will answer an incoming call.
I believe I have everything set up correctly.

Any help would be appreciated...Any guess would be helpfull.

Please respond by email...Thanks in advance.
Rick Macheske
macheske@aero.org
From: colburn@tessa (alex colburn)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc
Subject: Re: Multiple Graphics Cards on a PC?
Date: 7 Apr 92 13:44:42 GMT
Organization: University of Iowa, Image Analysis Facility

In article <1992Apr7.041232.21696@qiclab.scn.rain.com> 70465.203@compuserve.com writes:
>mike@x.co.uk (Mike Moore) writes:
>
>>I have a particularly specialised need in that I would *really* like to
>>be able to have two video cards attached to a single PC bus, each card
>>controlling independently addressable monitors.
>
>It's easy, with some restrictions.
>
>If you have (for example) a VGA monitor, your second monitor can *only*
>be a TTL Monochrome monitor attached to a Hercules Compatible graphics
>card. Ditto if your primary monitor is EGA (with EGA or CGA monitor)
>
Not quite,  you can also use a 8514 such as the ATI 8514 Ultra, or 
a TIGA or NUMBER NINE.....  As long as the BASE address doesn't
conflict with VGA.

Alex.

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From: nfs0294@dsacg2.dsac.dla.mil (Glen Midkiff)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc
Subject: Re: DOS error 4
Date: 7 Apr 92 14:12:37 GMT
Organization: Defense Logistics Agency Systems Automation Center, Columbus

From article <1992Apr6.200736.16477@cc.umontreal.ca$, by nadeau@JSP.UMontreal.CA (Nadeau Jean-Claude):
$ In article <92097.142830BOYDJ@QUCDN.QueensU.CA$ BOYDJ@QUCDN.QueensU.CA (Jeff Boyd) writes:
$$
$$I'm receiving the message "DOS error 4" when attempting to open a group
$$of database files. My DOS 5.0 manual doesn't seem to have a list of
$$system messages, and I have no idea what this message means.
$$
$$Any ideas?
$$
$$
$$jeff
$ 
$ 	Something like too much files opened.  Check the line FILES= in
$ 	your CONFIG.SYS.

Also, if the process you are running is a CLIPPER application, you
need to set an environment variable SET CLIPPER = Fxx where xx is
the number of files to be opened.  When executed the Clipper 
application will use the LESSER of the FILES statement in 
CONFIG.SYS or the environment variable.  I believe you have to be 
running DOS 3.3 or above to have more than 20 files open.
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