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From: chrisk@pcx.ncd.com (Chris Kessel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Re: Stacker ate my hard disk again. : ( help....
Date: 16 Dec 92 17:15:16 GMT
Article-I.D.: pcx.1992Dec16.171516.2631
Organization: Graphic Software Systems, Beaverton, OR

In article <1992Dec16.102254.4521@cs.joensuu.fi> jpehko@cs.joensuu.fi (Juha Pehkonen) writes:
>fox@rei.com (Fuzzy Fox) writes:
>>My experience seems to indicate that Stacker is as (un)stable as the
>>person using it.
>
>so, I guess that makes me _very_ un    le :-)
>                                   s  b
>                                    ta
I've used Stacker (2.0 I think) for about 6 months will 0 problems.  No
lost files, not corrupted files.  I've got a 200 meg drive with a 1 
non-stacked drive and five 25 meg stacked volumes (which ends up being
about 50 megs after stacker).  The partitioning was kind of stupid, but
I didn't partition it (partitioned by a relative who set the system up
for me) and it works, so I leave it alone.  

The only problem I can whine about is there are a couple of apps that don't
want to work with a memory manager and when that's the case I usually have to
disable stacker to leave enough low memory free to run those apps (as well
as load the app on my non-stacked partition).

My .02 worth,
Chris
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
From: duchad@aix02.ecs.rpi.edu (David Benedict Ducharme)
Subject: Re: Stacker 3.0 Questions
Keywords: Stacker 3.0
Organization: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 07:03:11 GMT

In article <Bz6tCw.Cv@news.cso.uiuc.edu> mlandaue@ux4.cso.uiuc.edu (Michael C Landauer) writes:
>
>[I orginally posted this on comp.os.msdos.apps, but I haven't gotten a
>response so I reposted it here]
>
>I am considering buying Stacker 3.0 as my 40MB hard drive is almost full.
>I would like to ask a couple questions to those who have used this product.
>
>1.  What improvements were made from version 2.0?
>
>2.  Has anyone encountered any bugs?
>
>3.  Are there any programs that don't work with it?
>
>4.  To anyone using it with a 40MB hard drive:  How much space did it add?
>
>Thanx in advance!
>Merry Xmas!
>
>
>Mike Landauer
>mlandaue@ux4.cso.uiuc.edu
>
>------------------------------------------------------------
>|                                                          |
>|           "Oh, hell, I dunno." - Bono (U2)               |
>|                                                          |
>------------------------------------------------------------
>
>
in addition I was wondering if, and how much Stacker affects the programs
that are running.  Does it slow it down,

Also, when you are storing to a tape backup, say a Colorado 250 Jumbo,
how is the data saved.  If I originally have a 160 meg drive, and
Stack it, will I be able to backup the "320 Megs" of the 160 
drive.


Thank you

duchad@rpi.edu
.


Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
From: liberato@dri.com (Jimmy Liberato)
Subject: Re: 286 EMS emulator needed
Reply-To: liberato@drivax.mry.novell.com (Jimmy Liberato)
Organization: Novell/Desktop Systems Group, Monterey Development Center
Date: Sun, 13 Dec 92 22:56:11 GMT

Jim_Johnson@abcd.Houghton.MI.US (Jim Johnson) writes:

>Above Disc will allow a 286 machine to use either extended memory or the
>hard drive to create the fiction of expanded memory.

The original poster was actually looking for Upper Memory Block (UMB) usage 
even though he asked about expanded memory (EMS).  By far the vast majority of
286 systems in use are incapable of providing UMBs without some sort of hardware
intervention such as a large-frame (e.g., AST Rampage) EMS card.  Methods such
as the above which put a 64K page frame into conventional memory (below 640K)
are counter productive to the goal of increasing overall memory because driver
and page frame will DECREASE available conventional memory by about 90K.

--
Jimmy Liberato   liberato@drivax.mry.novell.com
                 ...uunet!drivax!liberato


 

Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
From: RJB@jhuvm.hcf.jhu.edu (Rodney Baker)
Subject: Computer Programs to help Law Students
Organization: Johns Hopkins University
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 20:35:11 GMT

Hello,

I am looking for a last minute x-mas gift for my wife who is in her
1st year of law school.  Does anyone know of a store where I might
find some software for our 386 MS-DOS machine that could help her
throughout her school career?

I live in between Baltimore and Washington D.C. (Glen Burnie if that
means anything :-)  If you can actually recomend a software package,
I'd be doubly appreciative!!!

My e-mail address is rjb@jhuvm.hcf.jhu.edu.

Thanks in advance to anyone and everyone who responds to this last
minute plea for help!!!


- Rodney Baker
  The Johns Hopkins University
  E-mail: rjb@jhuvm.hcf.jhu.edu

Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
From: mccall@mksol.dseg.ti.com (fred j mccall 575-3539)
Subject: Re: Need help with ".Z" files...
Organization: Texas Instruments Inc
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 20:07:00 GMT

In <1992Dec14.195419.5747@pcx.ncd.com> chrisk@pcx.ncd.com (Chris Kessel) writes:

>In article <torresce.724340604@craft.camp.clarkson.edu> torresce@craft.camp.clarkson.edu (Alex "Mystic" Soto) writes:
>>comptec91006@camins.camosun.bc.ca (Michael Botten) writes:
>>
>>>This question doesn't really have much to do with this newsgroup, but I
>>>suspect someone here will know the answer.  So here goes nothing...
>>
>>>What needs to be done to files ending in '.Z'  (eg. filename.ext.Z) to make
>>>them usable?  I assume they are archived.  I guess I just need to know the
>>>name of the archiver so I can get it from an FTP server somewhere.
>>
>>Actually, doesn't .Z mean they are tar'ed?  I think compressed or packed is
>>small .z
>>If it is tared together, you will have to go into UNIX and untar it by
>>typing: tar xvf filename.ext.Z
>>In case I'm wrong, you can also do a 'man tar'
>>	Hope this helps.
>>		Mystic
>>(alex.soto@analog.com)

>There is also a .Z extension for a certain DOS compression program (just
>called compress I think).  It's used by some people because of it's 
>Windows compatibility (I guess pkzip isn't (or wasn't) windows compatible).
>You don't have to be in Windows to uncompress, but you do have to have the 
>compress program.

Sorry, but not quite correct.  The .Z extension is the result of the
*UNIX* 'compress' program.  The DOS 'compress' that you see is a port
of that.  

[Note that it also has nothing to do with 'tar', except that some
variants of tar will run compress on the resulting tarfile for you.] 

-- 
"Insisting on perfect safety is for people who don't have the balls to live
 in the real world."   -- Mary Shafer, NASA Ames Dryden
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Fred.McCall@dseg.ti.com - I don't speak for others and they don't speak for me.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
From: sct2m@Virginia.EDU ("Sean Christopher Timm")
Subject: Re: Help!!! No red on VGA color monitor
Organization: University of Virginia
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 18:13:07 GMT

zchen@phys.ksu.edu  writes:
> 
> I recently started to have some problem with my VGA color monitor. When
> I turn on the power of the computer, everything would be OK. After
> about a few minutes, there will be no red on the monitor. Other
> functions will be just fine. But the screen looks funny, I mean,
> colorwise. After the computer stays on for a couple of hours, the red
> will come back. I first thought it was the video card and I bought one
> (another way to waste money). I still have the same problem so it is
> not the video card. The computer and monitor is a 3 year-old 286. It
> has been very lightly used. I use it mostly as a terminal and play
> games. Please help me out. Thanks in advance.
> 
> 
> --
> _____________________________________________________________________________
> -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Zheng Chen
> zchen@phys.ksu.edu

A friend of a friend had the same problem about this time last
year.  I beleive that he found the problem to be a virus.

-Sean Timm
From: franks@hpuamsa.neth.hp.com (Frank Slootweg CRC)
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 15:18:09 GMT
Subject: Re: Multitasking (was Re: Msdos 5.0 Vs Drdos 6.0)
Organization: Hewlett-Packard, The Netherlands
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc

mikew@hpwarha.wal.hp.com (Michael Williams) writes:

> Well, I know exactly what he means!  I've been using DR-DOS 6.0 at home
> for over a year, and I have yet to hear a satisfactory explanation from
> DRI/Novel about why floppy disk access is so slow.  The MS-DOS system at
> work is MUCH faster, as is my home system when I boot it under MS-DOS.

  I find that hard to believe, because this is actually a DR DOS
*feature* (in the positive sense of the word), but if you say so ...

  Anyway, here is why:

From: franks@hpuamsa.neth.hp.com (Frank Slootweg CRC)
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 14:39:13 GMT
Subject: Re: Re: Re: MSDOS 5.0 vs DRDOS 6.0
Organization: Hewlett-Packard, The Netherlands
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc

duck@nuustak.csir.co.za (Paul Ducklin) writes:

> IMHO, there are 2 ways to go with DOS right now -- either DR-DOS 6.0
> or MS-DOS 3.30. A few hassles I've had with DR's offering have
> annoyed me: "slow" floppy drives [why, BTW?]; ...
[deleted]
>				  Interestingly, most of the cool
> utils from DR-6.0 work fine under MS-3.30 [eg: SUPERPCK, ...

  Only the *first* access (after insertion) to a floppy is slow because
DR DOS 6.0 reads in the whole FAT for later faster access. This is
documented in one of the information files on Novell's BBS and FTP
system (no pointers handy, but can try to find them).
[deleted]
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
From: rnichols@cbnewsg.cb.att.com (robert.k.nichols)
Subject: Re: Is FDFORMAT OK? (Was: double to high density diskette convert??)
Organization: AT&T
Date: Sat, 12 Dec 1992 01:32:25 GMT

In article <1992Dec11.204253.26900@cs.mcgill.ca> spader@statler.cs.mcgill.ca (Yoo-Shin LEE) writes:
>I'd also like to know about programs such as FDformat which allow you 
>to format for 2 mbs on a hd disk.  Are they safe and reliable?
>I have a friend who used to always fdformat(2meg) his disks and use the
>double hole punch routine.  His 1.44 meg drive is screwed now and doesn't
>copy reliably.  I think it is because of his abuse of the above methods.
...

FDFORMAT is OK.  It still records are the rated bit density of the
media.  It really doesn't have much choice, since the hardware enforces
the transfer rate based on the media type.  There is one potential
danger for 5.25" drives only.  In a 5.25" HD drive, FDFORMAT can put 80
tracks on a 360K disk that would normally have only 40 tracks.  If you
try to access such a disk without the FDREAD TSR loaded, you can bang
the seek mechanism against the stop, since the controller will be set
up to double-step to accommodate the standard 360K disk format.

As for punching a hole to convert 3.5" DD disks to HD, that will cause
data to be recorded unreliably, but it shouldn't hurt the drive unless
plastic debris was left inside the shell (from drilling, rather than
punching, the hole).

Bob Nichols
AT&T Bell Laboratories
rnichols@ihlpm.ih.att.com
From: evansj@crs.cl.msu.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: *** COMMENTS ON FAST-MICRO OR TC COMPUTING ??? ***
Date: 16 Dec 92 20:54:23 GMT
Organization: Michigan State University
NNTP-Posting-Host: crs.cl.msu.edu


Netters,
    As the title suggests, I'm looking for personal comments regarding the
two mail order companies TC computing and Fast Micro.  Both seem to have
good prices for the system I want (486dx 33, 8 ram, 200 hd).  I am seriously 
looking at Fast Micro's VLB systems.

Thanks in advance.

please e-mail
evansj@crs.cl.msu.edu
--
Jeff Evans - evansj@crs.cl.msu.edu 
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
From: olson@mydual.uucp (Kirtland H. Olson)
Subject: CORRECTED IBM PC Joystick Diagram and More Data
Keywords: CORRECTION JOYSTICK VALUES SCHEMATIC DIAGRAM
Reply-To: olson%mydual.uucp@alliant.com
Organization: The Harvard Group, 01451-0667
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1992 01:46:03 GMT

On Fri Nov 20 08:27:04 EST 1992, message <1992Nov19.174707.8487@mydual.uucp>
I posted a schematic with a confusing error.  Correct version follows:

You can attach two joysticks to the controller.  Each joystick follows
this wiring diagram:

                   +------------------ 1,9 +5VDC
                   |                   
                   +---/\/\/\-- 0-100K
                   |     ^
                   |     |    X-coord
                   |     +------------ 3,11 Timer
                   |                   
                   +---/\/\/\-- 0-100K
                           ^
                           |  Y-coord
                           +---------- 6,13 Timer

                   +------------------ 2,10 To 1k Pullup
                 | o  #1 Button
                 | o
                   +------------------ 4,12 GND

                   +------------------ 7,14 To 1k Pullup
                 | o  #2 Button
                 | o
                   +------------------ 4,12 GND

Pins 1-7 Are for Joystick A, pins 9-14 are for joystick B.  You can also
use paddles, having only one 0-100K pot and one button per controller. 
The data show up in the same place but are named differently.  Here's a
chart of the the byte at 201H:

Bit     |  7  |  6  |  5  |  4  |  3  |  2  |  1  |  0  |
Joystick|B-#2 |B-#1 |A-#2 |A-#1 | B-Y | B-X | A-Y | A-X |
Paddle  |  D  |  C  |  B  |  A  |  D  |  C  |  B  |  A  |
Pin     | 14  | 10  |  7  |  2  | 13  | 11  |  6  |  3  |
Device  |<-------Buttons------->|<------Resistors------>|

Explanation and additional info:

Well, it confused me--so I got it wrong.  The buttons *do not* go to
one-shots.  On the card, each button connects through 1000 Ohms to      
+5VDC, through 51pF to ground, and to one input of the 74LS244 bus driver.  

Here's what the tech reference says:

The four digital inputs each have a 1-kilohm pullup resistor to +5 Vdc. 
With no drives on these inputs, a 1 is read.  For a 0 reading, the
inputs must be pulled to ground.

The trigger button inputs are read by an In from address hex 201.

Now as to the real position of the one-shots, they are on the resistor
inputs to convert resistance to delay time.  

My thanks to geir.pedersen@usit.uio.no for questioning the prior post
and makeing me realize my error.  My apologies to the rest of you.

-- 
Kirtland H. Olson                     olson%mydual.uucp@alliant.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
From: fox@rei.com (Fuzzy Fox)
Subject: Re: DOS Flashing cursor
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 23:15:19 GMT
Organization: Recognition Equipment, Inc.

chrisw@castle.ed.ac.uk (C Walton) writes:

>Anyone know how to turn off that DOS flashing cursor ??

I think it's generated by the hardware, and there is no way to stop it
flashing.

-- 
#ifdef TRUE        | Fuzzy Fox (a.k.a. David DeSimone)       fuzzy@netcom.com
#define  TRUE   0  |
#define  FALSE  1  |  "You have been recruited by the Star League to defend
#endif             |     the Frontier against Xur and the Kodan Armada."
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
From: downs@helios.nevada.edu (Lamont Downs)
Subject: Re: Stacker 3.0 Questions
Organization: UNLV
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 03:33:08 GMT


>If you were asking about improvements to 2.0 then look previous postings
>where was a notify about these. Someone said that speed was better but
>compress ratio has not changed (at least substantionally).

If you're willing to sacrifice a _small_ bit of speed for greater 
compression, you can supposedly get up to 10% more space. In my own 
experience, when I went to 3.0 and restacked I gained about 8 extra megs on 
one 135MB stacker drive, and 4 on another of roughly equal size (the lower 
figure was because the second drive has a lot of GIFs among other things). I 
have a 486/33 and have not noticed any speed penalty, though if you have a 
slower processer your experience might be a bit different.

I do find the utilities a lot easier to use, since everything can now be 
done from Windows (which I use a lot). Stacker does require you to disable 
Fastopen before "optimizing" (defragmenting) a stacker drive, a minor 
nuisance which you'd think they could have built a way around. I have not 
found any software incompatibilities, either with Windows or DOS programs. I 
also like being able to use stacked and unstacked floppies interchangeably 
without a lot of rigamarole about "mounting" and "demounting" drives.

Lamont Downs
downs@helios.nevada.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
From: jasonp@bungee.NoSubdomain.NoDomain (Jason Pascucci)
Subject: XYWrite->AnythingElse
Organization: Prime Computer R&D
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 19:16:11 GMT

Are there any programs which will transform XYWrite documents
to something a little more portable? (XYWrite2PostScript would
be most perferable.:)

I don't have XYWrite, and the $445 pricetag in ComputerShopper
for XYWrite3.0 is insane for what it appears to do. I'm
getting some documents in either Ascii or XYWrite format,
and I'd prefer to keep any pleasant formatting
that has been worked on, but I'll just take the ASCII
if it's too much of a pain. 

Thanks!
--
Jason R. Pascucci
jasonp@primerd.prime.com
Engineer, OSS, CVServices, ComputerVision

Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
From: torresce@craft.camp.clarkson.edu (Alex "Mystic" Soto)
Subject: Re: Need help with ".Z" files...
Organization: Clarkson University
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 13:43:24 GMT

comptec91006@camins.camosun.bc.ca (Michael Botten) writes:

>This question doesn't really have much to do with this newsgroup, but I
>suspect someone here will know the answer.  So here goes nothing...

>What needs to be done to files ending in '.Z'  (eg. filename.ext.Z) to make
>them usable?  I assume they are archived.  I guess I just need to know the
>name of the archiver so I can get it from an FTP server somewhere.

Actually, doesn't .Z mean they are tar'ed?  I think compressed or packed is
small .z
If it is tared together, you will have to go into UNIX and untar it by
typing: tar xvf filename.ext.Z
In case I'm wrong, you can also do a 'man tar'
	Hope this helps.
		Mystic
(alex.soto@analog.com)

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: Problem with 3.5" floppy drive (help!)
From: showalter@acs.harding.edu
Date: 18 Dec 92 08:16:56 -0500
Reply-To: showalter@acs.harding.edu
Distribution: na
Organization: Harding University

In article <1992Dec18.022913.19683@zip.eecs.umich.edu>, joy@quip.eecs.umich.edu (Chien-Chung Chen) writes:
>In article <1992Dec17.183812.7317@pony.Ingres.COM> bonobo@Ingres.COM (David Victor) writes:
>>I just bought a new 486SX-25 clone system, and I'm pretty happy with it, 
>>except for one thing: 
>>
>>I do a "DIR B:" (B: is my 3.5" floppy drive) on disk #1, and get a valid 
>>file listing.
>>
>>I take out disk #1 and replace it with disk #2, which is known to have
>>different files on it (verified on 2 other machines).
>>
>>I do a "DIR B:" again, and I get the *same* file listing as I had on my
>>disk #1!
>>
>>If I reboot the machine and do a "DIR B:" on disk #2, I see the correct
>>listing of the contents of disk #2 (which again supports my contention
>>that disk #1 and disk #2 have different files on them).
>>
>>In other words, my directory listing is the same for every disk I insert
>>into drive B: forever, until I reboot.  Can anyone tell me what's going
>>on?  Thanks for any help!!
>>
>>-David Victor
>
David, I've been maintaing the micros here at school for about 3 years and
I've seen the problem you describe a dozen times or so. So far every single
one has been fixed by replacing the ribbon cable between the drive and
controller. I've also been told by TEAC that the "DC" jumper on the drive
must sometimes be changed....take it off if it's there and vice versa.
Good luck.

Phil
From: carlf@panix.com (Carl Fink)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Feedback on Fastmicro computers
Date: 17 Dec 92 20:39:17 GMT
Organization: PANIX Public Access Unix, NYC


  I was just hoping to get the wisdom of the Net on Fastmicro
computers - a friend of mine is thinking of buying one of their
computers.  So:  any horror stories?  Any "great service" stories?

  Thanks.
-- 
Carl Fink          carlf@panix.com, C.FINK4(GEnie), or CF427620I@LIUVAX.BITNET
  "Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our
  inclinations, or the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter
  the state of facts and evidence"     --      John Adams
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
From: esaffle@gmuvax2.gmu.edu (Ed Saffle)
Subject: Re: Need help with ".Z" files...
Organization: George Mason University, Fairfax, Va.
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 19:17:45 GMT

In article <torresce.724340604@craft.camp.clarkson.edu> torresce@craft.camp.clarkson.edu (Alex "Mystic" Soto) writes:
>comptec91006@camins.camosun.bc.ca (Michael Botten) writes:
>
>Actually, doesn't .Z mean they are tar'ed?  I think compressed or packed is
>small .z

  Nope.  the .Z is for compressed format.  You need an uncompress from unix
or something that'll do a similar job.  The .z (small z) is for unix pak
programs.  Tar doesn't actually add an extension, but mst people will add an
extension of .tar so that when compressed you get the .tar.Z extension.  

Ed
From: lippd@urz.unibas.ch
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Word5 in Novell-Net
Date: 15 Dec 92 14:08:58 MET
Organization: University of Basel, Switzerland

I don't know if anyone out there's still working on word5 but as a matter of
fact I need to do so. The little (or big) problem with it is, that in the
network we are using (Novell 386) it does not work properly for all users, that
means that if you want to print something on the network-printer all of the
users (except of one) have to leave the program in order to get the file
printed. If they don't leave the file rests in the print-queu in status
"adding".
	
	In a special Novell-Netware book I read that there's a special setup.exe (for
using word5 in the network) that can configure word5 for each user. I copied
this from the original word5-disks but doesn't work - it cuts me off the net !!
	
	On the local harddisks there are subdirectories c:\worduser in which
there are (among others) the files mw.ini, standard.dfv but I can't change
them. (by the way this is for each station, not for each users !!!!)

So can anyone help me out off this problem, even if it is not up to date  ????

Thanks a lot and merry Xmas
				dani


P.S.: E-mail would be preferable!
 
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