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From: ald@clipper.ingr.com (Al Date)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.pcgeos
Subject: Re: GeosCrash!
Date: 16 Apr 92 17:32:55 GMT
Organization: Intergraph Advanced Processor Division - Palo Alto, CA

In article <1992Apr7.105837.20399@access.digex.com> andy@access.digex.com (Andrew M Cohn) writes:
>
>Excuse me if this has been discussed earlier; we just started getting this
>newsgroup here, and there is no backlog of messages to read through...
>
>GWE crashes a lot. Both the new and previous versions. This happens not when
>the program is in use, but during loading GWE apps and during saving/exiting.
>Any suggestions?  The only alterations I have made was to put a few icons
>in the trashcan...things like AOL, for instance.  Thanks!


I assume this is on an IBM-PC, in which case, you need to be sure
you have FILES=120 in your config.sys. 

--Al Date
(ald@clipper.clipper.ingr.com)
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From: rgt@kepler.unh.edu (Richard G Tomasso)
Subject: Geodraw to PS printing
Organization: University of New Hampshire  -  Durham, NH
Date: Mon, 13 Apr 1992 18:33:14 GMT

Anyone know which driver to use to print a geodraw doc to a file that
can be printed on a printserver 40?

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From: rgt@kepler.unh.edu (Richard G Tomasso)
Subject: Re: PostScript files and GeoWrite.
Organization: University of New Hampshire  -  Durham, NH
Date: Mon, 6 Apr 1992 19:15:16 GMT

Does anyone know which postscript driver I should use so I can print out
to a DEC printserver 40? I tried the first few on the menu and nothing worked.
I don't need to print directly, I'm using the "print to file" option and
uploading the file to my account.
I've also got access to an ln03r in case anyone knows how to deal with that.
thanks.

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From: uds@artemis.cs.wayne.edu (Seetamraju)
Subject: Problems with Re-Installing GWE ...
Organization: Wayne State University
Distribution: usa
Date: Sat, 11 Apr 1992 07:19:40 GMT

I initially had a complete install, which ate up 25% of my HD space.  Later
I did a minimal install, to try to recover atleast 1.5 meg from my 20Meg HD.

And Lo Behold, all the files from th efull-install were there intact !!

I had to manually remove most of them (by trial and error) -- if GWE squeeked
I unerased the file, else I removed the file for good.

BUT THE BLESSING IN DISGUISE WAS THAT, I STILL HAVE THE SPELLLING CHECKER
AVAILABLE IN THE MINIMAL INSTALL !!.  In fact I also retained the vines and
bricks backgrounds.  But there is always the fear that I deleted a file
(perhaps a overlay file) that would be needed during some crucial point.

Is there anyone with a similar experience?  Others / GWE Gurus - could you 
help me out....		I have a GWE ver 1.2 (not the pro).

Seetamraju, Uday Bhaskar Sarma
(email : seetam @ ece7 . eng . wayne . edu)
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From: joneswd@NeXTwork.Rose-Hulman.Edu (William D. Jones)
Subject: Importing to Geos
Reply-To: joneswd@NeXTwork.Rose-Hulman.Edu (William D. Jones)
Organization: Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology
Date: Tue, 14 Apr 1992 18:27:34 GMT

This is a two part question.

1) This is an old question, but here it is again.  I was wondering how to  
open a Postscript file in Geos.  I would like to import files that I have  
worked on on a NeXTstation.

2) Whenever I import .tiff files into Geodraw the pictures come up in  
reverse video sort of like a negative effect.  Has anyone else had this  
problem?

Thanks,

David Jones
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From: devivo@netapp.tay2.dec.com (Paul M. DeVivo )
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.pcgeos
Subject: Re:Equations and Drawing
Date: 8 Apr 92 12:51:28 GMT
Reply-To: devivo@tay2.dec.com
Organization: Digital Equipment Corp, Littleton, MA

>2.  How to re edit a drawing that has been pasted to the GeoWrite ? 

Once you have a anything from GeoDraw pasted into GeoWrite it is
considered an object, just the same as a letter from a font.  Therefore
you can't edit it inside of GeoWrite.  Inside of GeoWrite you can only
arrange objects (like letters) on the page.
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From: quaalude@netcom.com (George Mealer)
Subject: Re: Geos/TaskMAX Crash Recovery
Date: Mon, 13 Apr 92 04:15:36 GMT
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  (408 241-9760 guest) 
Distribution: usa

scls_ss@troi.cc.rochester.edu (Eric Scoles) writes:
: General interest question, for Educational Purposes Only:
: 
: I was fiddling with TaskMAX this morning, checking to see if I could get
: the DOS session to show up on the Express Menu in GeoPro, and by George it
                                                                   ^^^^^^
                                                                   ^^^^^^
: worked (I guess I knew it would, but it always a pleasant surprise when
: something goes like it's supposed to).
: --
: Eric Scoles			:	-----------------------------
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: --------------------------------:	      for Civilized People
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You're welcome.  :-)

I know...but I had to.  ::grin::

--
George Mealer      quaalude@netcom.com

"Only by attempting the absurd can you achieve the impossible."
From: scls_ss@uhura.cc.rochester.edu (Eric Scoles)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.pcgeos
Subject: Re: Quick access to DOS buttons
Keywords: Geos, Ensemble
Date: 15 Apr 92 16:21:03 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: University of Rochester - Rochester, New York

In <1992Apr15.150945.8842@cbnewsk.cb.att.com> krw@cbnewsk.cb.att.com (keith.r.smith) writes:

>In article <1992Apr15.100025.10866@edsi.plexus.COM> calb@edsi.plexus.COM (Calvin Bolwerk) writes:
>>murphy@polari.com writes:
>>
>>>I have the Pro version of Ensemble and was wondering if anyone knows
>>>of a clever way to get to the DOS buttons from the professional workspace
>>>Express Menu button.  I hate to have to go back to the welcome screen and
>>>then to the DOS buttons if there is a simpler way.  Thanks for any help.
>>
>>>                                    Joe Murphy
>>>                             email: murphy@polari.com
>>
>>	Currently there is no known way of doing this.  It is supposed 
>>to be in version 2.0.

>There is a "workaround" though.
>What you do is to create batch files to launch your dos programs.
>That is essentially what the DOS Room does anyway. Put these batch
>files in your \geoworks\world directory, and voila', you have
>bypassed the Welcome screen.

>Keith

Also, just to make sure that this gets said:

If you use DR-DOS 6.0(1?) with TaskMAX, you _can_ get DOS as a "task" in the
Express menu; you could then just use batch files or aliases to run whatever
you want.

I've been testing 4dos 4.0; I've been setting up a 4dos task under TaskMAX,
and then running Geos in a second task, and haven't had a problem yet.  It
seems to speed up the shell-out trememdously (but then, I've got 4MB of RAM,
so I'm not sure what it owuld seem like in 1 or 2 MB).
From: a036450@rd821.UUCP (Bob Goldrich)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.pcgeos
Subject: Re: GeoWrite FAQs
Date: 8 Apr 92 12:31:01 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: The Gleason Works, Rochester New York

: PRINTING:  
: I hear people here talking about "printing to file", but I can't figure
: out how to do it.  Sure, Geos makes _nice_ 9-pin printouts, but I'd like to
: be able to take my copy to another printer -- say, a laser or a 24-pin.  (If
: this is a funciton of "Save as", that helps to explain why I don't know
: about it -- "Save as" is disabled in the demo.)

I believe that printing to a file output is available only for postscript.
The option to print to file is visible in the "Print Document" dialog, but
only when you have a postscript printer selected.

: SELECTING:
: Is it really true that you can only select all of the text in a whole
: document by <shift>-<down-arrow> scrolling through the whole thing?  Other
: than setting up formats for an empty document and "Insert[ing] as text", has
: anybody found a workaround for this?

Try this: keep your mouse cursor on one word and click many times quickly.
Each click will highlight successivly more text.  I think it works like 
this: click 1:nothing, 2:word, 3:paragraph, 4:document.  

Hope this helps.
                     -Bob
From: scls_ss@troi.cc.rochester.edu (Eric Scoles)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.pcgeos
Subject: GeoComm & _joe_ Problem
Keywords: joe, GeoComm, Terminal
Date: 6 Apr 92 06:25:37 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: University of Rochester - Rochester, New York


There's been a thread here for about a week regarding a problem with GeoComm
in VT100 emulation and vi (where vi was running off some SPARCserver, I
gathered).  Since I don't use vi and we have failry vanilla Unix systems
here (a Sun and a Solbourne, both running Sun OS), I didn't pay a whole lot
of attention, BUT -- now it has happened to me, with _joe_.

When I try to delete a whole line with ^Y in joe, Geos -- not GeoComm, but
all of Geos -- blows cookies (I love that phrase) in a very big way. 
"Unexecutable Kernel instruction", or something like that.

So:  Do most people out there think this is a vt100 emulation problem?  If
so, would using one of the other emulations solve the problem -- i.e., has
anyone tried that?  (It would be nice if it were one which allowed full
screen apps -- vt52 doesn't -- so which ones do?  Wyse 50?  TVI 950?  IBM
3103?)  Any suggestions?


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From: joneswd@NeXTwork.Rose-Hulman.Edu (William D. Jones)
Subject: Postscript to Geos
Reply-To: joneswd@NeXTwork.Rose-Hulman.Edu (William D. Jones)
Organization: Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology
Date: Thu, 9 Apr 1992 18:04:58 GMT

Okay, we've talked about saving files in the Postscript format for  
transport to different machines.  I was wondering if there was a way to  
bring Postscript files to GEOS.

I have access to a NeXTstation and would like to be able to create  
documents on the NeXT, save them in a Postscript file and import them into  
GEOS.  Has anyone had any success with this?

I'd like to use programs like Adobe Illustrator, WordPerfect for NeXT, and  
various others.

I have a 386/25 with 2M ram and a 110M hd if it matters.

Thanks 
David Jones
Organization: University of Illinois at Chicago
Date: Thursday, 9 Apr 1992 00:07:09 CDT
From: tom mckibben 2 <U51773@uicvm.uic.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.pcgeos
Subject: Re: GeoWorks V2 info sought

In article <1992Apr1.153551@netapp.tay2.dec.com>, devivo@netapp.tay2.dec.com
(Paul M. DeVivo ) says:
>
>Hmm.  I didn't get any response to my earlier equest, so I'll try again.
>
>1.  What's the story on the V2 discussion on AOL?  I don't have a
>subscription.
>
>2.  Does anyone know anything about the goals of V2, what functionality will
>be available, and when we can expect its release?
>--
I've only been following the discussion concerning the SDK so I'll tell you
what I've learned from that so far.

I,ve heard that it is due to be out in the third quarter of this year which
probably means this summer or fall. And that the version 2.0 will make use of
the protected mode of 386 and 486 cpu's. The impression I get is that it will
be a major upgrade to 1.2 though I don't think they're going to abandon the
lower end machines.

Most of the debate has been concerning the possible need for two machines to
develop software for GEOS using the SDK. Whether the SDK will require this or
not is unknown to me at this time. The reason for two machines has something
to do with using one machine to monitor the other to analyse crashes and
conflicts during software development.

Finally, and no surprise, the development language will be C. That's all I
know for now. If anyone knows more or I've made mistakes then please post
corrections.

thomas mckibben 2                      | 1. One thing at a time.
university of illinois at chicago      | 2. First things first.
Crispy: u51773@uicvm                   | 3. Know what you're doing.
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From: baker@hpspkla.spk.hp.com (Bill D. Baker)
Date: Wed, 8 Apr 1992 15:07:10 GMT
Subject: Geo Pro Demo by Mail ?
Organization: Hewlett Packard Company, Spokane, Wa.
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.pcgeos

  I have purchased a new PC and I have had my fill of Microsoft and would like
to check out other GUI's than MS Windows.  I read about obtaining a working
model of Geoworks Pro for $9.95 from the local retailers of same but when I
talked to the local stores they acted like I was speaking a foreign tongue!
(I have terrible luck in finding salesmen who are remotely knowledgable about
their products.)

  My question is: Can I order the demo by mail, and from where?

Thank you for your time!

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From: rossco@IASTATE.EDU (Ross Stenersen)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.pcgeos
Subject: GEOS FTP and fonts from Genie
Date: 17 Apr 92 20:29:58 GMT
Reply-To: rossco@IASTATE.EDU (Ross Stenersen)
Organization: Iowa State University


Since we now have an anonymous FTP site for GeoWorks could someone who has
access to both Genie and FTP put some of the fonts from Genie on the ftp site?
(That is, if this is legal and they are really shareware/public domain.)

The ftp site is ecst.csuchico.edu (132.241.1.2).

Thanks

rossco
rossco@iastate.edu
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From: dtaylor@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Douglas A Taylor)
Subject: Re: Third pary software
Organization: The Ohio State University
Date: Mon, 6 Apr 1992 19:03:55 GMT


All I can say is -- yay!  It's about time!
-- 
   Doug Taylor                         |   Nothing real can be threatened.
   The Ohio State University           |   Nothing unreal exists.
   doug-taylor+@osu.edu                |            - A Course in Miracles
From: etl0@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu (ERIC TODD LANDRIEU)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.pcgeos
Subject: Re: Geodraw to PS printing
Date: 15 Apr 92 01:52:59 GMT
Organization: Lehigh University

>Anyone know which driver to use to print a geodraw doc to a file that
>can be printed on a printserver 40?
>
If you are ever in doubt with a postscript printer(and a printserver 40 is a
postscript printer), simply use the "Postscript compatable" printer driver.
This, I assume, should work with any Postscript printer.
                                   Eric Landrieu

                                   
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               ===============================================
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                                                 -Ellis Fuls
Organization: University of Illinois at Chicago
Date: Wednesday, 8 Apr 1992 23:39:55 CDT
From: tom mckibben 2 <U51773@uicvm.uic.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.pcgeos
Subject: Re: Additional fonts for Geos
Distribution: usa

In article <1992Mar27.192902.11346@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu>,
abilenko@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Arkady Bilenko) says:
>
>        I was wondering where I could get additional fonts for my PC Geos
>version (sorry if it has been brought up before).  Also, is there a cyrillic
>font for
>Geos?  Any information will be appretiated.  Thanks
>        Arkady

GeoWorks sells three extensive font libraries for use with Ensemble and Pro
and there is also a Nimbus Font converter included with version 1.2 that will
allow you to convert URW fonts for use as well. I don't know much about fonts
so you probably should check around to see if the fonts you want are available
in the URW format.

hope this helps...tom

thomas mckibben 2                      | 1. One thing at a time.
university of illinois at chicago      | 2. First things first.
Crispy: u51773@uicvm                   | 3. Know what you're doing.
Extra Crispy: u51773@uicvm.cc.uic.edu  | 4. Jane! Stop this crazy thing!
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From: etl0@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu (ERIC TODD LANDRIEU)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.pcgeos
Subject: Re: Geos and QEMM
Date: 11 Apr 92 01:53:50 GMT
Organization: Lehigh University

>
>OH, whenever he tried to run the Demo with QEMM, he would get a "incorrect
> DOS version" error.  He is running a 386/20 with MS-DOS 5.0 and 6 megs of
> memory.
>
Sounds like his demo is based on the GWE 1.0 product.  This one would check
for DOS version, and was not too keen on 5.0 yet.  Try using SETVER, and you
should be able to use your demo.

As for the QEMM problems, I've never had a problem using v6.0 with any version
of GEOS(1.0, 1.2, Pro).  If you let us know about the version of QEMM you are
using and how it is configured, the problem should be easier to solve.
                                      Eric Landrieu

                                      
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From: scls_ss@troi.cc.rochester.edu (Eric Scoles)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.pcgeos
Subject: Geos/TaskMAX Crash Recovery
Summary: Why does it actually _work_?
Keywords: Geos, TaskMAX, DR DOS, task switching
Date: 13 Apr 92 03:11:18 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: University of Rochester - Rochester, New York

General interest question, for Educational Purposes Only:

I was fiddling with TaskMAX this morning, checking to see if I could get
the DOS session to show up on the Express Menu in GeoPro, and by George it
worked (I guess I knew it would, but it always a pleasant surprise when
something goes like it's supposed to).

Anyway, after futzing around a bit, I did something very intensive (I
printed a 30 pg. document to a Postscript file), then tried to switch to my
DOS task (WordPerfect) after it was done "printing".  Geos crashed -- only
way out was <ctrl>-<alt>-<del>.

HOWEVER, when I did that, it simply unloaded Geos. (!)  That particular DOS
session was still functional, even.  I just deleted it and went back to
WordPerfect.  As far as I was able to tell, the memory was unfragmented.  (A
friend of mine claims to have been able to make Geos crash and bind up great
amounts of conventional memory, requiring reboot.)

I was fairly impressed.  Does anybody out there feel up to explaining,
roughly, why it is that this crash recovered so gracefully?  And whether the
"blame" lies with Geos, TaskMAX, DR DOS, or all three?
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From: rtyu@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Rafael T Yu)
Subject: GeoWorks 1.2 and Pro differences
Organization: The Ohio State University
Date: Wed, 15 Apr 1992 03:11:58 GMT


   I'm new to this newgroup, and this subject may already been discused in this
newsgroup.   But, I purchase GeoWorks V1.2 recently and I'm just hearing about
the GeoWorks Pro.  Is there any differences between V1.2 and Pro?  Is there a
way to upgrade (cheap)?  Any help will be apreciated...

Rafael...
rtyu@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu


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From: uds@artemis.cs.wayne.edu (Seetamraju)
Subject: Changing Default Directory ...
Organization: Wayne State University
Distribution: usa
Date: Sat, 11 Apr 1992 07:09:11 GMT

In article <1992Apr10.132544.8860@cbnewsk.cb.att.com> krw@cbnewsk.cb.att.com (keith.r.smith) writes:
>As a space-saving measure, I moved all of the files and directories under
>		c:\geoworks\document\
>			to
>		d:\geoworks\document\
>Anyway, the "document directory" button still points to:
>		c:\geoworks\document\
>I would like to change it , if possible, so that the button points to:
>		d:\geoworks\document\
>Has anybody done this?

Maybe join (DOS) command might help, if nothing else works.  It is a complex
solution and a Ghoulish solution, but it is a solution.

join  d: c:\geoworks\document

make a sub-directory for GWE files, and other sub-dirs for other
uses of your D: drive.

Did you get better solutions -- if you did, please post them on the net.

Seetamraju, Uday Bhaskar Sarma
(email : seetam @ ece7 . eng . wayne . edu)
From: williams@unccvax.uncc.edu (dr williams)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.pcgeos
Subject: Geos and QEMM
Keywords: QEMM, Desqview
Date: 10 Apr 92 15:01:43 GMT
Article-I.D.: unccvax.4562
Reply-To: williams@unccvax.uncc.edu
Organization: University of North Carolina at Charlotte


	A friend of mine has had problems running PCGeos Demo with QEMM installed.
Is there a way around this and/or does the newer "full-blown" versions allow
 the use of this.  He also could not run the Demo with any of his TSR's 
installed, bnut I think that is still a problem with QEMM and not with the 
TSR's themselves.

Anyone else had a problem like this.

OH, whenever he tried to run the Demo with QEMM, he would get a "incorrect
 DOS version" error.  He is running a 386/20 with MS-DOS 5.0 and 6 megs of 
 memory.

Thanks,

Dewey Williams
williams@unccvax.uncc.edu
From: magidj@cellbio.duke.edu (Jonathan Magid)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.pcgeos
Subject: Re: Window + GeoWorks Ens
Date: 6 Apr 92 21:47:06 GMT
Organization: Duke University Medical Center, Dept. of Cell Biology

In article <1992Apr2.234324.14536@cs.wayne.edu> uds@artemis.cs.wayne.edu (Seetamraju) writes:
>have people used geoworks as a task within windows or DOS5.0?
>
>I am proposing to buy, 4 megs of RAM, inaddition to the basic 1meg
>my magnavox 286 has.  I have to use atleast two programs at any

i have tried using geos within windows 3.0, just out of curiosity
with no extended attempts, but the two times i tried it the box (a 25mhz
zeos 386) wedged and had to be cold booted.

windows on the other hand can be run from geos! :)

jonathan.

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