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From: Norman.Russell@f43.n140.z1.fidonet.org (Norman Russell)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Installing Et4000 Driver
Date: 13 Apr 92 10:13:04 GMT
Organization: FidoNet node 1:140/43 - U of S Computing Se, Saskatoon Sask


  
 On 04-12-92 John Will wrote to All...   
   
 JW>  ....  There are a couple of self extracting files   
 JW> on the Microsoft BBS, each about 600kb in size, they are TSENG1.EXE,   
 JW> TSENG2.EXE, and TSENG3.EXE, 16 colors, 256 colors, and 32k colors    
 JW> respectively.   
    
I was wondering if the TSENG Video Drivers mentioned here are   
available for FTP somewhere, other than the Microsoft BBS? 
I have not yet checked cica (still dead?)   
   
   
   Norm   
 
... OFFLINE 1.35 * Anthony's Law of Force:  Don't force it, get a larger hammer. 

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Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
From: IANR009@UNLVM.UNL.EDU
Subject: WinQVTnet for Token Ring??
Organization: University of Nebraska
Date: Thu, 09 Apr 92 09:15:46 CST


Is there a way to get winqvtnet to use a token ring network (a special
version or driver?)?  Any help on this topic would be appreciated.  Thanks
in advance.

Kirk Darnell
University of Nebraska
ianr009@unlvm.unl.edu

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From: terryfry@access.digex.com (Terry Fry)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms,comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: Tastes gross/more fattening (repost (last attempt only got ~1 site))
Keywords: (hex encoded ASCII) 3A 2D 29
Date: 10 Apr 92 04:22:29 GMT
Organization: Express Access Online Communications, Greenbelt, Maryland USA

In article <1992Apr8.022751.21871@leland.Stanford.EDU> aaron@jessica.stanford.edu (Aaron Wallace) writes:
>In article <890139w.702661419@aucs> 890139w@aucs.acadiau.ca (John Weatherbie) writes:
>Just a question: If I were to write an OS/2 app with the following code in
>it, what would happen (let's assume 16-bit PM api)
>
>xor	ax, ax		<- wait--is this code in a code segment?
>mov	ds, ax		<- selector 0 is typically invalid

Right here is where the Trap 00D would happen, a VIO pop up would give
you all registers at the time of the fault, stating the process ID ect
and that this process was terminated.


>mov	bx, 0ffffh	<- and what if the segment is < 64K
>mov	[bx], ax	<- and who says we can write to it, past the hard end

 You never get here.

>Okay, maybe it's not called a UAE, but it's some kind of processor fault.
>Or OS/2 is lying to you (there are three potential faults in this code).
>Or the memory protection isn't turned on.
>
>Reality check: most Win apps which UAE under Windows will do something
>similar under OS/2 2.0.  The difference may be that OS/2 2.0 recovers more
>gracefully; this has to be tested in the field first.  The fact is that
>in most cases a UAE is saying that the application did something bad, typically
>loading an invalid segment register, read/writing past the end, or
>writing into a read-only place.  Changing the OS to OS/2 can't fix a bad
>app (i.e. one that doesn't quite get its far arithmetic right).
>

>Admittedly, there are cases where conditions cause Windows itself to
>UAE, such as low memory or programs passing bad parameters to Windows.
>There are also a few bugs in the Windows kernel which cause UAEs.
>Undoubtedly, there are bugs in Win 3.1's kernel and OS/2 2.0s.

  First, I don't know of any condition where OS/2 would itself generate
a protection fault.  It wouldn't have compiled under its own rules like
that.  
  Second, while Windows will "UAE" and sit or stop none of the other tasks
under OS/2 will be affected.

Besides, its now how code is protected its what's protected.  Windows
uses a single GTD for all descriptors.  OS/2 uses LDT's for each
thread.  Put it this way... OS/2 "describes" what's to be protected
much more specificaly.
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
From: hamilton@nwnexus.WA.COM (Dick Hamilton)
Subject: Re: Events in Windows3.1
Organization: Northwest Nexus Inc. (206) 455-3505
Date: Mon, 13 Apr 1992 23:56:08 GMT

>"What other (if any) events can be assigned sound in   
> Win 3.1?"

With Power Launcher 2.0 you can assign any midi, wav, or
hDC sound to any event or macro.  An enhanced command can
contain a call to the function "hDCPlaySound" in the            
HDCLIB.DLL file.  In addition, the Power Toolbox contains
a Sound button that serves as a drag-and-drop target. 
hDC Power Launcher is available from hDC Computer Corp, 
call 206 885 5550 for more information.


Dick
From: ashwath@gn.ecn.purdue.edu (Ashwath Ram)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Someone please mail me Speedstar SVGA drivers for 3.1
Date: 17 Apr 92 01:07:40 GMT
Organization: Purdue University Engineering Computer Network


Hi guys, could someone possesing the new Diamond Speedstar drivers
please post them on cica or mail them to me, my modem is down
and so can`t access the BBS. Thanks in advance.


Ashwath Ram
ashwath@gn.ecn.purdue.edu
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
From: lisbon@vpnet.chi.il.us (Gerry Swetsky)
Subject: PC Magazine - 04/28/92
Organization: Vpnet Public Access
Date: Sun, 12 Apr 1992 05:34:38 GMT

Don't miss this issue if you've installed Win3.1 or are thinking about
it.  The magazine is *packed* with helpful information for Windows
users.  A great investment!

I picked up my issue at Comdex.  It may not be on the stands for
awhile.

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From: rm2hoffm@descartes.waterloo.edu (Raymond Hoffmann)
Subject: Media Vision Pro Audio Spec. for Win 3.1 Drivers
Keywords: Pro Audio Spectrum, Win 3.1, Drivers
Organization: University of Waterloo
Distribution: na
Date: Wed, 15 Apr 1992 17:19:01 GMT


I own a Media Vision Pro Audio Spectrum audio board, and
would like to run it under Windows 3.1.

Apparently the appropriate drivers are available on the
Media Vision BBS, with the filename 'mwindrvs.zip'.  I
don't have access to a modem, but I do have access to
Internet.  Does anyone know if this file has been uploaded
on an internet machine accessible by anonymous ftp?  If it
is, please post or email me where this file is located.
Or, if you have the drivers, could you either post them to
a machine, or e-mail them to me?

Also, Media Vision has some software available to make
the Pro Audio Spectrum more SoundBlaster compatibile,
if anyone knows of this software is available on an
internet machine, please e-mail me the location of these
too.  (The file name for this software is 'sb2mv.zip').
Thanks for any help.

Raymond Hoffmann

rhoff@hq.crad.dnd.ca (prefered account until April 23,1992)

   OR

rm2hoffm@descartes.waterloo.edu
From: tjonz@Sun.COM (Todd Jonz)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: Windows NT - is it a Unix "remix"?
Date: 14 Apr 92 01:34:33 GMT
Organization: Sun Microsystems, Mountain View, CA
NNTP-Posting-Host: caliban.corp.sun.com

In article <1992Apr11.011344.7778@ncsu.edu>, eagle@catt.ncsu.edu (Daniel
L'Hommedieu) writes:

	> From what I have read of NT, it sounds as if Microsoft wants to
	> reinvent Unix.  NT, from what I have seen...er, read...seems to
	> be Mach with a Windows API on it, instead of NeXTstep

I believe this to be essentially correct.  According to the grapevine that
I've heard on the topic, Microsoft hired an entire engineering project team
that had been working on a Mach-based product at DEC when the project was shut
down.  IF this is the case, it might explain why there's a lot more substance
to NT today than anyone would otherwise have expected.

						-- Todd
From: frank@algol.bsa.de (Frank Huemme)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: V32bis under Windows ?
Date: 11 Apr 92 09:23:20 GMT
Distribution: comp
Organization: BSA

Is there a Communication Programm runnign under Windows 3.1 that is fast
enough for V32bis (14400) Zmodem-transfers. I have tried telix and
telemate in a Dos-box on my 486/33 with 16550. Both of them slow down the
transfer-rate with zmodem < 1000 CPS. ( >=1600 CPS plain Dos ). Unicom30c
for Windows give me 1500 CPS, but only if you do nothing else on the
maschine.

		Frank
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From: gottlieb@umbc4.umbc.edu (Robert Gottlieb)
Subject: Win 3.1/386 Enh/Swapfile/Stacker
Organization: University of Maryland Baltimore Campus
Date: Fri, 10 Apr 1992 04:48:25 GMT


Hi all,

I have an interesting problem.  I loaded up the upgrade for windows 3.1
and it ran no problems. (even over NDW 1.0).  So then I looked around
and decided to put a swap file on my c drive.  Only problem, was
that it was a stacker drive, so I had to clean some files off to
give me some space.  So I created the swap file, and tried to run
windows (which is on drive d), and it started up, but then tried
to read from drive c and just hung.  So I decided to get rid of
the stacker drive, and the swap file and start over. BIG MISTAKE!
It didn't do a thing.  I tried reinstalling windows, and it still
didn't help.  So basically I can run in standard mode no problem.
But if I try to run in enhanced, it'll try to read from drive C
and just hang there.  I even deleted the .par files and looked
through the *.ini files that had anything about swapfiles in 'em
and got rid of anything after the ='s.  Anyone have any ideas as
to what I can do next?  

System Info: Dell 320sx, 4 meg ram, svga 800x600, 105 meg hardcard,
41 meg harddrive, microsoft mouse.

Config.sys:

FILES=30
BUFFERS=5
DEVICE=d:\DOS\SETVER.EXE
SHELL=d:\COMMAND.COM /P /E:1024
DEVICE=C:\HIMEM.SYS
device=C:\EMM386.EXE
devicehigh=d:\dos\atdosxl.sys
DOS=HIGH, UMB
DEVICE=D:\STACKER\STACKER.COM /EMS D:\STACVOL.DSK
DEVICE=D:\STACKER\SSWAP.COM D:\STACVOL.DSK
DEVICE=C:\SMARTDRV.EXE
STACKS=9,256


Autoexec.bat:

C:\SMARTDRV.EXE
SET PCPLUS=D:\PCPLUS\
PROMPT $p$g
loadhigh d:\virus\vshield
loadhigh d:\virus\vshield1
set mouse=D:\MOUSE
loadhigh D:\MOUSE\cpanel
PATH D:\MOUSE;d:\WINDOWS;d:\ndw;d:\amipro;d:\DOS;d:\pkzip;d:\zoo;d:\pkpak;d:\util;d:\norton;d:\WP51\;c:\;d:\;d:\borlandc\bin
image d:
SET TEMP=d:\DOS
d:
menu


Thanks in advance to all who reply.

Robert Gottlieb
gottlieb@umbc4.umbc.edu
From: mpolen@gelato.mips.com (Michael Polen)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: Getting DOS to run in a window with Windows 3.0
Date: 14 Apr 92 23:06:41 GMT
Distribution: na
Organization: MIPS Computer Systems, Inc.
NNTP-Posting-Host: gelato.mips.com

In article <1992Apr14.203310.176@cs.mcgill.ca>, clump@cs.mcgill.ca () writes:
|> Every time I attempt to switch a DOS session from full-screen
|> to windowed, Windows complains that high-res applications cannot
|> run in a window. This happens regardless of what i'm doing in
|> the DOS window. I've tried disabling video shadow ram, not using
|> the supplied (dos) device driver for the video card, changing
|> the video mode before i invoke windows, and almost every
|> reasonable permutation between. I've also tried fiddling with
|> most PIF settings with no success.
|>   Someone posted a problem similar to this, and found the solution
|> to be adding a "/y" switch to their mouse driver. I've tried
|> this ("unrecognized command switch"), as well as simply
|> not installing the mouse driver at all -- no luck.
|>   Windows IS running in Enhanced mode. The machine is
|> a 386 clone, DOS 5.0, ATI VIP graphics card,  4meg of
|> memory, Logitech serial mouse (with an ANCIENT driver
|> i admit, but the driver supplied with windows complains
|> that the mouse is not a microsoft mouse and refuses to load).
|> 
|>   Perhaps the solution is to fork over the cash for Windows 3.1,
|> but i would like to know if anyone out there has a similar
|> problem, and how they've dealt with it.
|> 
I have found the same thing under 3.1.  I am not sure that a high-res
graphics program that assumes it has full control of the entire screen's
pixels can be logically mapped into a window.  This may be a logically
undoable task.  I am equally interested in any solution.
From: stevey@cs.washington.edu (Stephen Yegge)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: Pause before you consider OS/2 (was Re: Win 3.1 not THAT great.)
Date: 10 Apr 92 19:16:41 GMT
Article-I.D.: beaver.1992Apr10.191641.18414
Organization: Computer Science & Engineering, U. of Washington, Seattle

In article <DEMILLO.92Apr10140113@egeus.juliet.ll.mit.edu> demillo@juliet.ll.mit.edu ( Robert DeMillo ) writes:
>In article <1992Apr8.204645.15482@cis.ohio-state.edu> chawdry@cis.ohio-state.edu (rehan nisar chawdry) writes:
>>
>> On a 386, you have to be all but blind not to consider (read CONSIDER)
>> OS/2 2.0.  I'm no fan of IBM and have never bought an IBM product, but for $49
>> I couldn't resist.  Plus, even if I don't want it, Windows 3.1 and its apps
>> will be able to run on the same screen as OS/2 (by June 92, update is free).
>> My all-time favorite program Ami Pro will be converted into a multithreaded,
>> multitasking monster word processing app.  Stacker will be available soon, and
>> so will a 32-bit SVGA graphic engine.  I just hope OS/2 is closer to my
>> expectations than Windows 3.1 was.
>
>> -- Rehan --
>
>Well...before you consider...
>
>According to InfoWorld:
>
>OS/2 2.0 will *not* be compatable with Windows 3.1

  The free update coming in June will allegedly fix this.

>OS/2 2.0 will *not* support SVGA or XGA graphics modes. (The
>	 above poster's comments about OS/2 supporting a 32-bit 
>	 SVGA engine, notwithstanding.)

   That's not IBM's problem.  The manufacturers of the boards will
come out with drivers soon after the initial release; you can count
on it.

>OS/2 2.0 Windows emulation will support only one Windows application
>         per Window, and they are several orders of magnitude slower
>	 than just running in Windows. You can switch OS/2 2.0 to
>	 full screen Windows mode, and your Windows performance
>	 goes way up.

  *WINDOWS* only supports one windows application per window.  You
just open up a bunch of them.  

>OS/2 2.0 will not support full-blown pre-emptive multitasking for
>         another 12-18 months. (Not sure what they meant by this,
>	 but it didn't smell right.) At that time, Windows NT
>	 will be on the scene.

   It's still better than what 3.1 has to offer.

>
>Moral: If you are buying OS/2 for OS/2...great. Do it..multithreading
>       is a good thing, and OS/2 has it. If you are buying OS/2 
>       'cuz you want to run mostly Windows applications in OS/2's
>       PM...you might want to rethink that.

   I'll agree with this.
>
>
>
>
>
>--
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>   MIT Lincoln Lab 		| Also Internet: rjd@brown.cs.edu
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>
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>

Steve Yegge
stevey@cs.washington.edu
From: s902114@minyos.xx.rmit.oz.au (Zen [Stuart Bishop])
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Dos boxes in a window - Really Weird Error (tm)
Date: 15 Apr 92 22:59:02 GMT
Organization: RMIT Computer Centre, Melbourne Australia.

How is this for a cute problem. After upgrading from my pitiful '286 
(and re installing windows 'cause I had deleted unwanted drivers to save 
space), I was all ready to run dox BOXES.

Unfortunately, the following occurs.

If I try to open a normal, simple dos window, I get an error message
indicating that the shell is trying to access a hi-res graphics mode.

I then switch to full screen mode, and the text is invisible. Resetting
the VGA mode will fix the problem.

HOWEVER, if I originally open the window in full screen mode, then alter
the settings to  operate in a window, then it operates just as it should. 
Just like I have had it working on other machines.

I am running a '486SX, 40M Voicecoil HD, Stacker 2.0.
Done of the other drivers I have installed are the problem, as the problem
is still there when I boot up with a clean system. Unfortunately, I can
not test without stacker due to a severe lack of Hard Disk space.
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Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
From: petesk@microsoft.com (Pete SKELLY)
Subject: Re: Windows an OS? [was Re: STRAW POLL: ...]
Date: 06 Apr 92 01:01:58 GMT
Organization: Microsoft Corp.

In article <92090.122348CXF111@psuvm.psu.edu> Charles Fee <CXF111@psuvm.psu.edu> writes:
>
<Gibberish as to why windows is not an OS because it uses DOS for its file
system services>
>

Well, so windows uses DOS as its filesystem.
HMMM, OS/2 uses a driver for its filesystems.  So does mach, NT, ...
So I guess they aren't OS's either.

If MS were to package DOS with windows as its filesystem driver, then
would it be an OS.

What if I were running MACH, and I purchased a filesystem driver from
an ISV.  Would my mach be an OS.

Frankly, I think this Windows is/isn't an os argument really doesn't have
much of a point.  Windows gives me enought of the OS-like services that
I need to run my windows applications, and that's all I need.  I suspect
that most real users don't care whether windows is academically an os or not.
They just want to use it to get their work done.

petesk@microsoft.com
My Opinions...
From: gmf2@quads.uchicago.edu (gary michael feldman)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: AMiPro Questions
Date: 5 Apr 92 23:41:07 GMT
Reply-To: gmf2@midway.uchicago.edu
Organization: University of Chicago Computing Organizations

Being frustrated with WPWin, I decided to get the working model
of AMiPro.  A couple questions:

1. How much Ram do you really need? I have 2 megs right now. WIll
it be as slow as WPWin with only 2 megs?

2. Can the ATM be used as iff you bought it separately? If so
it seems like a good deal.

3. Amipro claims to import WP files.  I tried this with the 
working model. I imported a heavily formated resume, and
it came in really different.  I tried all 3 options in the
"apply styles" dialog box and no luck.

4.  THe working model shows fonts in red that i don't have.
What is the deal???

Thanks.

Gary
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From: pbrown@csgrad.cs.vt.edu (Patrick R. Brown)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms,comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: Tastes gross/more fattening (was Is Windoze an OS?, and about OS/2
Date: 8 Apr 92 10:57:04 GMT
Followup-To: comp.windows.ms
Organization: Virginia Tech, Department of Computer Science
In-reply-to: chi9@quads.uchicago.edu's message of 6 Apr 92 10:21:16 GMT

In article <1992Apr6.102130.6975@midway.uchicago.edu> chi9@quads.uchicago.edu (Lucius Chiaraviglio) writes:

   Now, since what is an 0.05 addition to OS/2 2.0, which is a whole
   operating system, is an 0.0333333333333 addition to Windows 3.0, we
   must (in order to determine the operating system content of Windows
   3.0) divide 0.05 by 0.0333333333333, which gives us the astounding
   answer that Windows 3.0 is 1.5 of an operating system!

Extending this logic gets you into trouble, though, since we can conclude:

 * Windows 2.11 is 1.055 of an operating system, and
 * Windows 1.0 is even 0.5 of an operating system.

I wonder how much MS would charge me for an ``upgrade'' from OS/2 2.0
to Win 2.11?

Pat
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                                                Virginia Tech,  Blacksburg, VA
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From: jmann@vineland.pubs.stratus.com (Jim Mann)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: CICA's new address and IP number
Date: 15 Apr 92 17:30:49 GMT
Reply-To: jmann@vineland.pubs.stratus.com

In article <1992Apr15.133119.24814@usenet.ins.cwru.edu> axa12@po.CWRU.Edu  
(Ashok Aiyar) writes:
> 
> There was a request for CICA's new address and IP number.
> 
> It is FTP.CICA.INDIANA.EDU (129.79.20.84)
> 
Is it still limited to off-hours, or can you access it between
9 and 5 now?

--
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jmann@vineland.pubs.stratus.com 
Stratus Computer
From: bregel@cs.washington.edu (Aaron Bregel)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Cica is up!!
Date: 14 Apr 92 07:01:55 GMT
Organization: Computer Science & Engineering, U. of Washington, Seattle

The news has not reached here if a note has been posted but cica is back up
under the NEW name ftp.cica.indiana.edu

I uploaded the MS speak.exe as speak.zip.  These files will allow you to use
your PC speaker with win 3.1 but it does not work on all speakers.

I also uploaded reversi.zip which is a new 3.1 version that I got off of the 
MS BBS.  I hope that I am not breaking the legal argreements but I could find
nothing that said do not repost on other BBS.

Aaron Bregel
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
From: heathh@cco.caltech.edu (Heath Ian Hunnicutt)
Subject: WinQVT 4.77 under Win 3.1
Organization: California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
Date: Tue, 7 Apr 1992 23:25:00 GMT

	The following are just my observations/opinions:
	3.1 has drastically improved the reliability/robustness of 
WinQVT, including during the download procedure that the original
poster mentioned.  Based on the wide variety of crashing that I ahve
heard reports of when people were downloading with WinQVT 4.77, and
running Windows in Enhanced mode, I would guess that some pointer is
the culprit.  Either 3.1 thwarts the errant pointer, or (more likely)
returns a NULL pointer as an error flag, where it did not before.

	Regardless, 3.1 is a much more stable program, and I have been
able to explain in hindsight many of my UAEs under 3.0 by exercising
all my applications and seeing when and where they do what.  Example:
I am using a CPU usage monitor, and after reading its "About" box
3 times, if I open any other application that uses the timer messages
(e.g., Clock) I get a "CPUUSE caused a General Protection Fault in module
CPUUSE at 0003:017E."  If I run Dr. Watson, I even get stack dumps!
(In drwatson.log, of course.)  Now, I would never have guessed at this 
problem before, but now I know.  Nifty.

See ya,
Heath


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