HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: mcdonald@aries.scs.uiuc.edu (J. D. McDonald)
Subject: Re: PMAN15.ZIP - True color image editor for MS Windows
Organization: UIUC SCS
Date: Sat, 2 Jan 1993 21:47:58 GMT

In article <9301011101.kp25904@tacom-emh1.army.mil> potap@stoik.sensor.zgrad.su (Igor) writes:

>My shareware true color image editor for MS Windows is now available
>from WSMR-SIMTEL20.Army.Mil:

>Picture Man v.1.5 is an image editor designed for manipulating true
>color images. 

And indeed it is. And a very nice one indeed, a really excellent product.

>Magic wand
          ^
However, the program refers to this as a "magic wang" (!)

Doug McDonald


Newsgroups: comp.archives.msdos.d
From: bart@netcom.com (Harry Bartholomew)
Subject: Re: background PC->PC file transfer ?
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  (408 241-9760 guest) 
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL5
Date: Fri, 1 Jan 1993 08:18:56 GMT

	In the June 8, 1992 issue of Microtimes, on p.68 ... 224
	Birrell Walsh describes doing this IN THE BACKGROUND and
	much more using Deskview and The Deskview Companions.
	I don't have a complete issue handy, so go find the address
	to ask for a reprint, unless your library archives Microtimes.

						Luck	Bart

Xref: sparky comp.archives.msdos.d:121 comp.binaries.ibm.pc.archives:5218 comp.dcom.modems:18426
From: geoff@zswamp.UUCP (Geoffrey Welsh)
Newsgroups: comp.archives.msdos.d,comp.binaries.ibm.pc.archives,comp.dcom.modems
Subject: Re: *** WHAT'S THE BEST COMM PROTOCOL {LONG SUMMARY} ***
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 92 23:55:03 EST
Organization: Izot's Swamp

gtoal@pizzabox.demon.co.uk (Graham Toal) writes:

> Your summary missed a less obvious one but one that clearly wins as 'best'
> on all criteria except perhaps raw download speed and availability:
> tcp/ip - over either slip or ppp - can't be beaten by kermit, zmodem, or
> the rest.  You can just do *so* much more with it...

   Yup, just about everything, except the one thing that the user probably 
wants to do: download from a BBS.

   I'm willing to bet that IP also has a higher ease*cost constant for DOS 
users (of which, unfortunately, I am still one).  For instance, does anyone 
know if there's some way to get IP to live under my DesqView and be accessible 
from tasks running under DV?  Sure, I could buy DV/X, which is (1) more 
expensive than DV/386; (2) more memory hungry, which I can afford even less; 
(3) TCP/IP-oriented (e.g. has anyone used DV/X with SLIP or PPP?)

  Geoffrey Welsh, 7 Strath Humber Court, Islington, Ontario, M9A 4C8 Canada
geoff@zswamp.uucp, [xenitec.on.ca|m2xenix.psg.com]!zswamp!geoff (416)258-8467
                Now I've lost everything, I give to you my soul
           And the meaning of all that I believed before escapes me
                  In this world of none, no thing, and no one
                            - Genesis, _Afterglow_
Newsgroups: comp.archives.msdos.d
From: ts@uwasa.fi (Timo Salmi)
Subject: Re: Telix v3.20
Organization: University of Vaasa, Finland
Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 07:46:45 GMT

In article <kko.725094405@sfu.ca> kko@fraser.sfu.ca (Samuel Ko) writes:
>I don't find too much improvements of ver. 3.20 over ver. 3.15 ...

I, too, was first disappointed, but then I noticed the
improvement in the upload system.  I think the point and shoot
method that has been augmented it rather nice, and makes it worth
upgrading to 3.20 especially if you upload heavily. 

There is one thing which I have yet to check.  The old Telix
confused ansi escape sequences and the [ scandinavian character in
keybord/screen translations.  I have to test if the bus is still
there.  (MsKermit handles the translation correctly).

I don't like the unfortunate trend of added nags, though.  There is
now one at each end.  Of course the Telix nag is rather mild
compared to some others encountered recently. 

   All the best, Timo

..................................................................
Prof. Timo Salmi      Co-moderator of comp.archives.msdos.announce
Moderating at garbo.uwasa.fi anonymous FTP archives 128.214.87.1
Faculty of Accounting & Industrial Management; University of Vaasa
Internet: ts@uwasa.fi Bitnet: salmi@finfun   ; SF-65101, Finland
Newsgroups: comp.archives.msdos.d
From: cgordon@vpnet.chi.il.us (gordon hlavenka)
Subject: File sizes please?
Organization: Vpnet Public Access
Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 16:33:17 GMT

For those of us who lack ftp access (and must therefore use mail
servers) it would be nice to see file _sizes_ included in the
announcements.  This would save the embarassment of receiving multi-MB
mail messages at user-supported UUCP sites.

How do I know that Joe Greatprogrammer's shareware "cd" replacement
utility doesn't include a 600-page manual, shipped as BMP images?

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Xref: sparky comp.archives.msdos.d:111 comp.binaries.ibm.pc.archives:5214
From: bill@solaria (Bill Neisius)
Newsgroups: comp.archives.msdos.d,comp.binaries.ibm.pc.archives
Subject: Re: *** WHAT'S THE BEST COMM PROTOCOL ***
Date: 22 Dec 92 20:00:46 GMT
Reply-To: bill@solaria.hac.com
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]

Joseph G. Toth Jr. (toth@tellabs.com) wrote:
: In article <1992Dec21.181829.4391@porthos.cc.bellcore.com> dml7@navaho.cc.bellcore.com (lee,danny) writes:
: Kermit always uses a standard set of ASCII characters for transmitting
: the data (even in binary format?) that is immune to the problems that
: arise using the other transfer formats when the data being transferred
: is a XON, XOFF or any of a number of other control characters used in
: text flow/format control.  This makes kermit the format of choice for
: users who have there system connected to a data network via a terminal
: server or 4-line rs-232 connection that does not have hardware flow
: control, thus requiring XON/XOFF flow control.
: 
: I have looked at the man page and help output for xmodem, and do not
: see any way of altering it to avoid the XON/XOFF problem.  If it's
: there, I'm sure we'll hear about it.

The RZSZ version of Zmodem allows a '-e' option on send to 'escape' the
XON/XOFF characters.  This works fine for sending from a Unix machine,
to a PC running DSZ or GSZ.  Unfortunately, DSZ/GSZ can only receive
escaped protocol...there is no command to send with escape...so it
becomes a one-way transfer.

I've looked at a few other comm programs (txzm220, zcommexe, ...) which
might support escaped protocol, but so far, none of them seem to be
compatible with RZSZ.  Qmodem might handle it, but I haven't tried the
upload yet...

If Kermit is more compatible with it's various implementations, and can
support XON/XOFF, it may well be the best comm protocol...


Bill Neisius
bill@solaria.hac.com
Newsgroups: comp.archives.msdos.d
From: ts@uwasa.fi (Timo Salmi)
Subject: Re: Bug in Telix 3.20 found.
Organization: University of Vaasa, Finland
Date: Fri, 25 Dec 1992 08:08:44 GMT

-Subject: Re: Bug in Telix 3.20 found.
-To: wixer!space@cs.utexas.edu (space)
-Date: Fri, 25 Dec 1992 10:06:45 +0200 (EET)
-From: ts

> another bug report...<sorry, don't have access to mail to exis>...when <cntrl>
> -j out of telix 3.20 in any directory other than the "telix" directory, ie:
> dir that telix is installed, you will lose your your graphic config control...
> ie, am running on a vga mono, <which makes it difficult to see ansi
> colors>, and since my config for telix has these colors set so that i can, it
> is irritating to lose those colors...

Thank you for your feedback.

> i would appreciate if this bug report be conveyed to exis, and a return mail
> left me on the consequence...thanks timo...

I do not have their email address, and I am afraid that I can't act
as a courier.  Instead I'll just put this reply to
comp.archives.msdos.d.  The surface address seems to be in the
opening message of Telix:

     deltaComm Development, PO Box 1185, Cary, NC  27512-1185  USA
Support (919)-460-4556      Sales (800)-TLX-8000     FAX (919)-460-4531
 Telix Support BBS - (919)-481-9399 - 14.4 HST & v.32bis/2400/1200 bps

> randomiser

Please don't take this the wrong way, but I almost did not reply at
all, because even if I run an anonymous FTP site I am increasingly
hesitant about answering (semi-)anonymous email.  I may even start
discarding anonymous email automatically in the future because I
already have quite of lot of regular email.  No big deal, though,
and certainly no flame involved.  Just for general information. 

   All the best, Timo

..................................................................
Prof. Timo Salmi      Co-moderator of comp.archives.msdos.announce
Moderating at garbo.uwasa.fi anonymous FTP archives 128.214.87.1
Faculty of Accounting & Industrial Management; University of Vaasa
Internet: ts@uwasa.fi Bitnet: salmi@finfun   ; SF-65101, Finland
From: ts@uwasa.fi (Timo Salmi)
Newsgroups: comp.archives.msdos.d
Subject: Re: Telix v3.20
Date: 26 Dec 92 08:32:10 GMT
Organization: University of Vaasa, Finland

In article <1hgq2gINNl2o@crcnis1.unl.edu> vporguen@unlinfo.unl.edu (victor porguen) writes:
>Professor Salmi advises using his POPSCReen and PUSHSCReen utilities 
>from a batch file to get rid of the new Telix's nag screens. This 
>is based on an incomplete understanding of how the Telix program 
>displays its screen nagging.  Telix.exe doesn't return control to 

No.  There is nothing wrong with my understanding, this time.  My
advice was is not based on a misunderstanding how this works. 
Rather it is based on doing things in a responsible way.  I my
original posting I carefully tried to convey that I am *NOT*
sanctioning beating the shareware concept with questionable
practices like patching the product to circuvent its intentional
limitations.  I know perfectly well that my method does not remove
the goodbye screen from Telix.  Nor is it meant to, but to restore
the original screen.  I think that you missed the big picture, even
if technically you are right in a strict sense. 

I often err, and misunderstand things all the time.  But this was
not one of those frequent cases.

   All the best, Timo

..................................................................
Prof. Timo Salmi      Co-moderator of comp.archives.msdos.announce
Moderating at garbo.uwasa.fi anonymous FTP archives 128.214.87.1
Faculty of Accounting & Industrial Management; University of Vaasa
Internet: ts@uwasa.fi Bitnet: salmi@finfun   ; SF-65101, Finland
Newsgroups: comp.archives.msdos.d
From: munn@a.cs.okstate.edu (MUNN THOMAS JOSEPH)
Subject: Re: URGENT need for a MAC-to-PC ATM or TT font translator!
Organization: Oklahoma State University
Date: Mon, 28 Dec 92 08:51:54 GMT

From article <1hluhgINNpa8@crcnis1.unl.edu>, by vporguen@unlinfo.unl.edu (victor porguen):
> The program called Font Monger, by Ares Software, can convert
> Adobe Type 1 fonts to True Type Windows 3.1 Fonts and viceversa.
> Does automatic hinting. Also has some problems (i.e., it isn't a 
> really flexible font editor like Fontographer) but the translation 
> is completely automatic and works OK.
> 
> Not shareware, though... costs over $120, if I remember correctly...
> don't quote me on the price however.
> 

The price is around $240.00

   

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Newsgroups: comp.archives.msdos.d
From: fox@rei.com (Fuzzy Fox)
Subject: Re: *** WHAT'S THE BEST COMM PROTOCOL ***
Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 19:59:21 GMT
Organization: Recognition Equipment, Inc.
Keywords: modem, zmodem

ptb@eng.cam.ac.uk (P.T. Breuer) writes:

>So - what's the trick??? Which unix source are you using, Timo? (There
>are several PD versions to choose from). And what are the black magic words
>that I ought to know?

It could well be that the trouble is not with the Unix box, but with
whatever terminal server or Telnet or whatever is between you and the
Unix box.  Of course, if you're connected directly, I'm at a loss.

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From: tak@bohr.physics.purdue.edu (Todd A. Keaffaber)
Newsgroups: comp.archives.msdos.d
Subject: "Punch-Clock" for DOS
Keywords: DOS
Date: 21 Dec 92 13:30:07 GMT
Organization: Purdue University Physics Department


	I am looking for program that lets my hourly employees clock-in and
clock-out on the computer and thus keeping track of their hours.  Also, I would like to
know about programs that can perform payroll.  Any help would be appreciated.


					Thanks,
					Todd

					tak@bohr.physics.purdue.edu
From: abhalla@infopls.chi.il.us (Arun Bhalla)
Newsgroups: comp.archives.msdos.d
Subject: FTP by mail
Date: Mon, 28 Dec 92 22:41:25 CST
Organization: INFOPLUS support, Wheeling, IL

How can I get a directory listing of a directory on SIMTEL?
How might I also have a file I select mailed to me from SIMTEL?

Arun Bhalla

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Newsgroups: comp.archives.msdos.d
From: ts@uwasa.fi (Timo Salmi)
Subject: Re: Telix v3.20
Organization: University of Vaasa, Finland
Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 17:00:07 GMT

In article <1992Dec23.074645.8259@uwasa.fi> ts@uwasa.fi (Timo Salmi) writes:
>There is one thing which I have yet to check.  The old Telix
>confused ansi escape sequences and the [ scandinavian character in
>keybord/screen translations.  I have to test if the bug is still
>there.  (MsKermit handles the translation correctly).

To answer my own question.  No, this feature has not been remedied. 
What a pity.

..................................................................
Prof. Timo Salmi      Co-moderator of comp.archives.msdos.announce
Moderating at garbo.uwasa.fi anonymous FTP archives 128.214.87.1
Faculty of Accounting & Industrial Management; University of Vaasa
Internet: ts@uwasa.fi Bitnet: salmi@finfun   ; SF-65101, Finland
Newsgroups: comp.archives.msdos.d,comp.binaries.ibm.pc.archives
From: fsahmed@casbah.acns.nwu.edu (Farhan Ahmed)
Subject: Re: *** WHAT'S THE BEST COMM PROTOCOL ***
Organization: Northwestern University, Evanston Illinois.
Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1992 11:04:15 GMT

In article <23DEC92.11575292.0072@VM1.MCGILL.CA> BGAA@MUSICT.MCGILL.CA (BGAA000) writes:
>
>Zmodem is fine and dandy at 2400 baud and slower but if you're up to
>9600 and higher, then try Ymodem-G. I consistently get 50 cps higher
>than with Zmodem.  Also, there's a new protocol that just came out
>called Zyrion which gives up to 150 cps higher than a Zmodem transfer
>at a 14.4 connection.
>
>Tony Kwan
>bgaa@mcgillb


Is the new protocol "Zyrion" available for anonymous ftp?

Farhan

Newsgroups: comp.archives.msdos.d
From: kko@fraser.sfu.ca (Samuel Ko)
Subject: Re: Relocating recent upload announcements
Organization: Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C., Canada
Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 10:09:12 GMT

ts@uwasa.fi (Timo Salmi) writes:

>>I remember reading a message about a GIF view/editor, you said it was a gif
[...]

>>viewer to set the news standards for gif viewers (or something like that).

>In fact I only copied the original upload announcement, and then
>referred to it.  Thus the claim was not mine, nor does it present my
>opinnions in any way.  If I copy an uploader's announcement, it has
>little to do with wheteher I agree or disagree with the uploaders
>views. 

Or why not follow Keith's way of posting? ... It is almost a norm for a
moderator to post articles in the names of the uploaders / submitters ...
So you don't take away their fames ... :) And the readers won't be mistaken
that you endorse the views/assertions of the authors / uploaders ... And
it is simply easier to read messages without the quotes ( > ) ...

S A M U E L
From: alberg@netlan.jpr.com (Al Berg)
Newsgroups: comp.archives.msdos.d
Subject: Re: Looking for pgm to disable certain keystrokes
Keywords: TSR keyboard
Date: Sat, 02 Jan 93 10:29:02 EST
Distribution: world
Organization: NETLAN, Inc. - LANLINK ONLINE - New York City

ts@uwasa.fi (Timo Salmi) writes:
> 
> I don't know, but what a good idea.  I think I'll write such a TSR
> in the near future.  I already have such TSRs for disabling some of
> the more exotic keys.  These are alt-ctr-del, the CapsLock key, and
> the PrintScreen key (the last is not a TSR, actually). 

I'll keep an eye out for it!  In the mean time, I did find a program 
called KeySwap on Oak.oakland.edu in /pub/msdos/keyboard/keysw12.zip 
which seems to do what I want.  I'll be testing it on Monday to see if it 
can coexist with the witches brew of TSRs we're using at the site.

Thanks
Al


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Newsgroups: comp.archives.msdos.d
From: rmccown@world.std.com (Bob McCown)
Subject: Address help?
Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
Distribution: all
Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 16:39:53 GMT

Can anyone help me find out where 130.49.2.61 is?  there's a file on
there, a chinese-language file called dngdng12.zip, that I would like to
get, but I can't FTP to it.  My ftp server just hangs up, and then times out.
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Newsgroups: comp.archives.msdos.d,comp.binaries.ibm.pc.archives
From: ts@uwasa.fi (Timo Salmi)
Subject: Re: *** WHAT'S THE BEST COMM PROTOCOL ***
Followup-To: comp.archives.msdos.d
Organization: University of Vaasa, Finland
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 19:55:26 GMT

In article <1992Dec21.181829.4391@porthos.cc.bellcore.com> dml7@navaho.cc.bellcore.com (lee,danny) writes:
>i'm having trouble deciding which communications protocol package to
>use on my pc.  i was using kermit and still using it.  however,
>someone mentioned to me that zmodem was much better and faster.

The answer is rather unambiguously zmodem.  If one speaks of the
different telecommunications packages, there are many of them in
use, and the opinnions can be quite divided.  But as for file
transfers zmodem seems to dominate in actual usage.  I am not being
partisan, but rather observing the current practice.

If one goes down to details, all transfer protocols have their
proponents, and if you can lay your hands on kermit with long
packages, it is fair, too.  But it has one drawback which I don't
like at all.  That is that it does not preserve the file's date
stamp in the transfer.

Followups directed to comp.archives.msdos.d only which is replacing
comp.binaries.ibm.pc.archives. 

   All the best, Timo

..................................................................
Prof. Timo Salmi      Co-moderator of comp.archives.msdos.announce
Moderating at garbo.uwasa.fi anonymous FTP archives 128.214.87.1
Faculty of Accounting & Industrial Management; University of Vaasa
Internet: ts@uwasa.fi Bitnet: salmi@finfun   ; SF-65101, Finland
From: etmelag@dcrosby15.ericsson.se (Louis Lagendijk)
Newsgroups: comp.archives.msdos.d
Subject: Tape streamer software?
Date: 23 Dec 92 20:56:26 GMT
Organization: Ericsson Telecom, Stockholm, Sweden

I am looking for some (PD/freeware/shareware) software to drive
my SCSI tape streamer. The streamer is connected to a ST-01
Seagate host adapter. 
Is there a driver and something like a tar program available
to drive this streamer/ host adapter set?

Merry Xmas.
Louis
Newsgroups: comp.archives.msdos.d
From: ts@uwasa.fi (Timo Salmi)
Subject: Re: MATHSP11.ZIP - Mathshop: A game-like math drill for age 6-12
Organization: University of Vaasa, Finland
Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1992 13:44:39 GMT

In article <9212270210.kp16047@tacom-emh1.army.mil> sputnik!arthur@netcom.com (Arthur Liu) writes:
>I have uploaded to WSMR-SIMTEL20.Army.Mil:
>pd1:<msdos.education>
>MATHSP11.ZIP    Mathshop: A game-like math drill for age 6-12
>
>The MATHSHOP was written for kids (6-13) who really want to sharpen
>their math skills.  It is menu driven, with hot keys.  There are 12

I like the idea of programs of this kind (even if I don't play
myself), since they teach both the actual subject and basic computer
usages.  This one is a good example of both the sides.  Besides the
drill it has a stundard type menu driven interface.  I have obtained
this to Garbo as well. 

  37458 Dec 18 13:40 garbo.uwasa.fi:/pc/educgames/mathsp11.zip

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Prof. Timo Salmi      Co-moderator of comp.archives.msdos.announce
Moderating at garbo.uwasa.fi anonymous FTP archives 128.214.87.1
Faculty of Accounting & Industrial Management; University of Vaasa
Internet: ts@uwasa.fi Bitnet: salmi@finfun   ; SF-65101, Finland
From: u912078@daimi.aau.dk (S|ren Erland Vest|)
Newsgroups: comp.archives.msdos.d
Subject: Re: ftp.ulowell.edu will be down on 1/4/92
Date: 2 Jan 93 13:00:58 GMT
Organization: DAIMI: Computer Science Department, Aarhus University, Denmark

Isn't it a LITTLE late to announce that??????? I mean >'92< ????!!!!???? :)


Happy gaming,
S

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Newsgroups: comp.archives.msdos.d
From: kko@fraser.sfu.ca (Samuel Ko)
Subject: Re: Telix v3.20
Organization: Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C., Canada
Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 07:06:45 GMT

alix@iastate.edu (L.A. Melloy) writes:

>I just got into wuarchive to download and test the new version of Telix, and
>discovered it wasn't where I was told it would be (in /pub/MSDOS_UPLOADS).
>Can anyone help me?

You can find tlx320-{1,2,3,4} in pub/msdos/telix at oak.oakland.edu ...  
or /pc/termprog at garbo.uwasa.fi ...

I don't find too much improvements of ver. 3.20 over ver. 3.15 ...
Probably deltaComm has to do a lot of works so Telix can compete
with Telemate which is far more technically superior ... (Yes, Telemate
is a Canadian product :) ... Some figures from ftp sites and BBSes show
Telemate is 10 times more popular than Telix ... :)

Samuel ... a smart bozo ...