HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: jkubicky@cco.caltech.edu (Joseph J. Kubicky)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.programmer
Subject: How to get starting segment of a file?
Date: 22 Jan 1993 06:10:28 GMT
Organization: California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
NNTP-Posting-Host: punisher.caltech.edu



I want to know how to read the starting sector of a file.  I also
want to know how to create a sequential file of fixed length.  I want
to do all this so I can do more direct I/O to the disk and (hopefully)
realize some performance gains over normal DOS or C-lib file I/O functions.
Any references to good books on this sort of thing would also be 
appreciated.

Thanks,

Jay Kubicky

Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.programmer
From: card@sybus.com (James Card)
Subject: Re: Detecting disk change
Organization: Sybus Corporation, Largo, FL
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 23:13:09 GMT

In article <sankey.728153663@unixg.ubc.ca> sankey@unixg.ubc.ca (Todd Sankey) writes:
>
>  Is there any reliable way to detect if the floppy disk has been
>changed short of actually reading it?
>
>-- 
>		Todd Sankey
>		sankey@unixg.ubc.ca
>

Many of the new disk drives support a change line status indicator.
I am not sure offhand if there is a way to read this (other than
going directly to the floppy disk controller) so you will have
to research this yourself... but other drives such as the
360K drives do not support this feature.  What MS-DOS does is
to assume that if a disk drive was last accessed more than a
second ago, then they assume that the diskette has been changed
which is a pretty good assumption.  They picked a second because
apparently after several tests they found that the minimum average
time that a person takes to open a drive and remove the disk was
about 1 second.

Check the extended INT 13H calls that the AT's introduced to see
if you can read the disk change status indicator... and also to see
if a drive supports that feature.  I believe that there were 
function calls for both.

jC
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Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.programmer
From: johnh@borland.com (John Haskey)
Subject: Re: Shareware:  How well has Apogee fared?
Originator: johnh@genghis.borland.com
Organization: Borland International
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 18:58:50 GMT


>From: reaper@wixer.cactus.org (Keath Milligan)                      |-(1)
>Speaking of Apogee... Does anyone know how well their marketing strategy has
>paid off?

I saw a blurb on TV which reported that Apogee has about six employees and was
expecting to make several MILLION dollars this year if things continued to 
proceed smoothly....  That's serious bucks, folks...

								---john.
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Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.programmer
From: VAAGA@gribb.hsr.no (Vaaga, Hans Egil       7-93)
Subject: Sound effect program
Organization: Rogaland University Centre
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 13:01:55 GMT



Hi!

I don't know if this is the right group to send this letter, but 
I hope you can give me some help anyway.

I'm going to make a program in The Microsoft Windows enviroment. It's a 
tool that operates the synthesizer in a sound card (e.g. Pro Audio
Spectrum 16). It will make the card play sounds like an explosion, type-
writer click etc.

Does it exists programs like this? I'm also interested in books, magazines,
etc. that have conections to this program I'm going to make.

I hope somebody will answer me.


Hans Egil Vaaga
vaaga@gribb.hsr.no
Hans Egil Vaaga
Rogaland University Centre
vaaga@gribb.hsr.no
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.programmer
From: sandy@cs.montana.edu (Sandy Pittendrigh)
Subject: thanks for the solution
Organization: Dept. of Computer Science, MSU, Bozeman Mt 59717
	Thanks for several prompt responces. My spawned processes
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 16:06:27 GMT
From: joshua.horvath@hal9k.ann-arbor.mi.us (Joshua Horvath) 
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.apps
Subject: KA9Q
Date: 25 Jan 93 22:02:00 GMT
Distribution: world
Organization: HAL 9000 BBS, W-NET HQ, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
Reply-To: joshua.horvath@hal9k.ann-arbor.mi.us (Joshua Horvath) 

TO:comp.os.msdos.apps

I'm not sure if this is the best place for this but... does anyone know
how to use ka9q?  I'm under the impression that this program will allow
me to directly ftp through the merit network and my modem to my
computer... am I correct?  If yes, anyone know how to get it working
with a com port?

-Josh
                                                            
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From: gary.t.smith@sdrc.com
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.apps
Subject: Where to find DPATH.COM
Date: 28 Jan 93 13:08:41 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: Structural Dynamics Research


 I have obtained the shareware version of cobol650, and loaded it onto my PC.
When I go to compile a program, it looks for DPATH.COM on drive A:. The
documentation mentions that it is necessary to get DPATH.COM from the public
domain.

My question is, does anyone know where I might be able to ftp this file?

Thanks in advance.
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Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.apps
From: rhorner@ugly.UVic.CA (Roger  Horner)
Subject: Postscript files in WordPerfect 5.1
Keywords: Postscript WordPerfect
Organization: University of Victoria, Victoria, BC, Canada
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 93 21:38:06 GMT

I have access to a Sun laser writter on a unix workstation, and I am trying to
print WordPerfect 5.1 documents on this printer.  I tried selecting the HP
Laserjet II (Postscript) driver in WordPerfect and replaced the output to a
filename instead of lpt1.  I then uploaded the postscript file to the unix
machine with kermit in text mode and tried to print it.  The printer gave an
error message (C5 I think), and then removed the file from the queue without
printing anything.

I have a friend who successfully printed the a file created in MS-Word using a
similar technique.  I compared his and my postscript files and mine seems to
have a slightly different format, but both files can be displayed successfully
with ghostscript. 

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.  I can mail my postscript file
to anyone who would like to have a look at it.  Thank you.
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Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.apps
From: pvandoor@newssun.med.miami.edu (Pascal Vandooren)
Subject: Heard of SNAP?????
Organization: University Of Miami, Medical School
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 16:41:46 GMT


Anyone knows about SNAP ??
Supposed to be a DOS software on networks (networking.).
Please let me know at my email....
Thanx
Pascal
From: dfitts@carson.u.washington.edu (Douglas Fitts)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.apps
Subject: CodeView Snafu
Summary: Videomode messes with mouse, manipulates monitors
Keywords: 2-monitor debug MSC7.0  CV 4.00 _setvideomode() mouse PWB
Date: 24 Jan 93 00:46:29 GMT
Article-I.D.: shelley.1jsot5INN8g7
Distribution: usa
Organization: University of Washington, Seattle
NNTP-Posting-Host: carson.u.washington.edu

While debugging a MSC 7.0 (pre Win32) DOS program with CodeView 4.00 
running in a DOS box under Windows 3.1 enhanced mode with the 2-monitor 
option set I get the following behavior if I exit CV immediately after 
executing the MS extention _setvideomode():

_setvideomode() argument        behavior

_HRES16COLOR			Mouse works, but mouse cursor is 
_VRES16COLOR                    invisible in PWB.  Shelling to DOS 
                                and resetting the video mode to 3 
                                doesn't fix it.

_XRES16COLOR			Next execution of CV reverses the
				functions of the two monitors:
                                CV comes up on SVGA and C program
                                tries to run on mono monitor.

I haven't taken the latter case all the way to the _setvideomode()
function for fear it would damage my mono, but it's good
I was paying attention.  The hardware is a 486/33 clone with 
a ViewSonic 5+ monitor and Diamond SpeedStar SVGA with 1 MB and a
Treu Bleu mono adapter and monitor and MS mouse. 

The situation when running PWB from MSDOS 5.0 is worse:  As soon as
CV exits back to PWB, PWB reports an "Internal VM error PWB 3912" and
exits to DOS (probably reports this under Win also, but the video flips
so fast I can't read it).  Reloading PWB at this point still shows the 
invisible mouse cursor error (I didn't try _XRES, all this recompiling 
is a pain).  Only  ^<Alt-Del> gets the cursor back to normal.  

One solution is never to exit CV without allowing the C program to 
execute the call to _setvideomode(_DEFAULTMODE) often on cleanup.
Of course, this works only if the program makes it all the way to that
instruction.  Even if the program works well enough to exit normally 
(mine sometimes do :)) I'm often in such a hurry to fix a found
bug that I exit CV ASAP instead of letting the program exit normally 
first.  Frustration ensues.

Why can't CV read the state of the adapters on entry and restore them 
on exit just in case the program doesn't make it all the way to the 
cleanup (rhetorical question ;-( )!  What causes this behavior?  
Why is it different for _XRES?  Any ideas how to correct the problems 
inside PWB without exiting and reloading the program (Win) or doing the
boyscoutsalute (DOS)?  I have the Win32/NT beta but don't have a CDROM
yet so it's still on the disk.  Is this fixed in that version?

-- 
Doug Fitts
dfitts@u.washington.edu
First in Thirst
Xref: sparky comp.os.msdos.apps:6252 comp.os.ms-windows.apps:7596
Organization: The American University - University Computing Center
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 13:36:38 EST
From: <SAHRABI@auvm.american.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.apps,comp.os.ms-windows.apps
Subject:    ->POSTSCRIPT CAPABLE MAILING LIST MANAGER<-

I would appreciate any information anyone might have regarding
mailing list managers that can print to Postscript printers.  What
I have seen so far on the shelves at CompUSA and Egghead print either
to dotmatrix or Laserjet printers and none to Postscript printers.

Regards,

Sajjad Ahrabi
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.apps
From: fox@rei.com (Fuzzy Fox)
Subject: Re: Stacker 3: Can the driver be loaded high?
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 17:30:25 GMT
Organization: Recognition Equipment, Inc.

ry01@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu (ROBERT YUNG) writes:

>I'm thinking about getting Stacker 3, but I'm worried about the driver for
>this program being too big in memory. I've heard that it is over 40K in size.

>So, can I load the driver high with MS-dos 5? I have tons of UMB space. Thanks!

Yes.  It works great.  :)

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Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.apps
From: sppp@hippo.ru.ac.za (Prof P Piacenza)
Subject: Micro Tech Resources
Summary: Address request
Keywords: PC Microscope
Organization: Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 08:55:20 GMT







I need to contact MICRO TECH RESOURCES, the distributors of
PC MICROSCOPE.

I tried the following address: 122 East Pittsburgh St, 
Greensburg, PA 15601-9926

but my letter was returned as 'not deliverable as addressed, 
unable to forward'.

Can anyone help with a new address?

Please email to chpp@unitrix.utr.ac.za

Thank you.


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From: swf@tools3teradata.com (Stan Friesen)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.apps,comp.os.msdos.misc,comp.mail.misc
Subject: Re: Limiting access to a disk partition on IBM PC (seeking)
Date: 27 Jan 93 22:31:08 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: NCR Teradata Database Business Unit

Hello.

A friend of mine is now working for a small firm that has a network of PC's
running cc-mail for internal connectivity.  He is looking to find a way
to connect externally - preferably to internet, without spending lots
of maney.

So, does anybody know of any free (or low-cost) alternatives for this purpose.
[That is internet connectivity tools that are compatible with cc-mail].

Please *mail* me any responses - I do not read these groups regularly.

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Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.apps
From: jhochman@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Joshua M Hochman)
Subject: XMAS with HD????
Organization: The Ohio State University
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 18:37:40 GMT

    I thought I saw a message posted before about a utility that will let you 
use extra HD space as "imaginary" XMS or EMS memory.  Is this true, or am I 
just losing my mind?  If it is, does anyone use it?  How does it work and 
finally....WHERE CAN I FTP IT!

Thanks....Josh H.

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Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.apps
From: cat@eecom.gatech.edu (Huy Cat)
Subject: CD Speedway (any good???)
Organization: Computer Engineering Group, Georgia Tech, Atlanta, GA 30332-0250
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 20:39:04 GMT

Hi, I'm not sure this is the right newsgroup so if this article belongs 
somewhere else, please e-mail me.  

I'm considering buying a CD-ROM player.  I have noticed that CD Speedway has
had big claims that its cache is the 'greatest'.  Has anyone had any
with CD Speedway that they would like to share?  How well does it behave
with Windows 3.1.  Are their claims accurate?

Thanks

-- 
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School of Electrical Engineering
Georgia Institute of Technology
From: shrchin@susssys1.reading.ac.uk (Jonathan H. N. Chin)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.apps
Subject: Re: Where can I ftp Oberon?
Date: 22 Jan 93 22:40:09 GMT
Organization: University of Reading

cctr132@csc.canterbury.ac.nz (Nick FitzGerald, PC Software Consultant, CSC, UoC, NZ) writes:

>In article <1993Jan20.003844.5088@wkuvx1.bitnet>, haydedr@wkuvx1.bitnet
>(Ross Hayden) writes:
>> Does anyone know where I may obtain the complete Oberon OS?  From what
>> I understand, it's launched from the DOS prompt.  Am I right on this?

>Ummm -- not quite.  The Oberon OS is specifically designed for a
>particular workstation (developed at Wirth's university for their
>teaching labs ?).

Ummm -- not quite. While Oberon *was* designed for the Ceres workstation,
there *is* (was?) a version of the system for 386's that runs from the
dos prompt. I got it from neptune.ethz.ch in one of the subdirectories
of /Oberon.

Looking there now, I see that there appears to be a new version in the
file /Oberon/DOS386/system.exe. There is a readme.text file in the same
directory.

From the reports I've read on them, Oberon and Oberon-2 seem fairly elegant
languages (and I liked the decision to remove the "FROM file IMPORT thing;"
construct (I never used it in Modula-2 anyway)), but for some reason I took
an intense dislike to the system with its peculiar notion of windowing
(is this what plan9 has?) and never worked out how to proceed once I'd
closed all open windows on the screen. Maybe it would have grown on me if
I'd given it more time.

-jonathan

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Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.apps
From: hartnegg@sun1.ruf.uni-freiburg.de (Klaus Hartnegg)
Subject: Re: Unix style dd for DOS...
Organization: Rechenzentrum der Universitaet Freiburg, Deutschland
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 93 22:30:20 GMT

krouth@slee01.srl.ford.com (Kevin Routh) writes:

>I am looking for a Unix style "dd" program for DOS which would allow
>me to read and write to/from disk drives like you can on  a Unix
>machine.  For example:

>	dd if=/dev/floppy of=disk_image bs=16k

>to save the image of a diskette to a file named disk_image.  Thanks.

There are programs to do this but they don't have the name dd.
Example: dskrw237.zip in the dskutl directory of simtel.
This is one of the fastest that I am aware of.
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From: krouth@slee01.srl.ford.com (Kevin Routh)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.apps
Subject: Unix style dd for DOS...
Date: 25 Jan 1993 18:37:36 GMT
Organization: Ford Motor Company Research Laboratory
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X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL5

Hi,

I am looking for a Unix style "dd" program for DOS which would allow
me to read and write to/from disk drives like you can on  a Unix
machine.  For example:

	dd if=/dev/floppy of=disk_image bs=16k

to save the image of a diskette to a file named disk_image.  Thanks.

Kevin

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Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.apps
From: bwalker@IMD.Sterling.COM (Bruce Walker)
Subject: Request: Quicken 5.0 Tutorial (Commercial,Freeware,Shareware?)
Organization: Sterling Software
Distribution: usa
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 13:34:04 GMT
X-Md4-Signature: 728c22d3c93ef5df1a378287a08b4b7e

I am posting this for an uncle of mine who is 74 years old and just got
a 386/16 last year. He uses windows and DOS 5.0 but has Quicken 5.0
for DOS for his financial situation. He is looking for a tutorial
that could help him learn more without having to pay a consultant.

He would buy a good commercial product or video tape if it was highly
recommended (just doesn't want to waste his money on trash).

Two reasons I'm not helping him myself:
	1) He's in Grand Junction Colorado and I'm in Omaha Nebraska
	2) I don't know anything about Quicken 5.0

Thanks in advance!

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From: maurel@mimosa.unice.fr (Maurel Frederic)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.apps
Subject: Problem with stacker
Date: 26 Jan 1993 13:34:41 GMT
Organization: University of Nice-Sophia Antipolis
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: mimosa.unice.fr


 Hi,

  Yesterday, I tried to install Stacker(2.01) but at a moment 
I had this message

   screate error 35
   run chkdsk

  I ran chkdsk and even Compress (of PCTOOLS) and all was
OK.

 I don't know what can I do. Can you help me?

 Thanks in advance

 -- maurel@mimosa.unice.fr --
From: 2630jeuttera@vms.csd.mu.edu
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.apps
Subject: SB 2.0 and Carmen Sandiego
Date: 26 Jan 1993 15:23:43 GMT
Organization: Marquette University - Computer Services
Reply-To: 2630jeuttera@vms.csd.mu.edu
NNTP-Posting-Host: vmsa.csd.mu.edu

	I got a Sound Blaster 2.0 a month ago, and have been able
to get it to run with everything except Carmen SanDiego.  It starts
to run fine, and uses the SB.  As the program goes through the starting
scenarios, my system hangs.  The SB is set with the default settings and
the joystick port is disabled (I have one on a separate controller card).


						AJ
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.apps
From: bcamp42@ursa.calvin.edu (Bryan Camp)
Subject: HELP NEEDED: Looking for program PEROM
Organization: Calvin College
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 23:02:58 GMT

If ANYONE knows where I can find a program called PEROM, or any other program
that allows remote booting of diskless workstations, please respond via EMail
as soon as possible.  Having horrible problems setting up a LAN...

ANY info is greatly appreciated.


Thanks in advance,
Bryan

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From: ry01@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu (ROBERT YUNG)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.apps
Subject: Stacker 3: Can the driver be loaded high?
Date: 26 Jan 93 01:23:20 GMT
Organization: Lehigh University

I'm thinking about getting Stacker 3, but I'm worried about the driver for
this program being too big in memory. I've heard that it is over 40K in size.
I know it can use EMS to shrink itself down, but Stacker users say that EMS
can cause problems.

So, can I load the driver high with MS-dos 5? I have tons of UMB space. Thanks!
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From: drichard@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Darren R Richardson)
Subject: Close-Up
Organization: The Ohio State University
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 03:18:05 GMT

Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.apps
Subject: Close-Up
Summary: 
Followup-To: 
Distribution: world
Organization: The Ohio State University Dept. of Computer and Info. Science
Keywords: 

-- 
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 Ohio State University
 College of Engineering
 CIS Consultant
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.apps
From: wags@cimage.com (Bill Wagner /10000)
Subject: MKS RCS, Anyone with experience?
Reply-To: wags@cimage.com (Bill Wagner)
Organization: Cimage Corporation
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 93 15:11:09 GMT

I have been asked to evaluate different archive systems for PCs.  Does
anyone have any experience with MKS RCS?  I have the following specific
questions:

Are the files compatible with GNU RCS?  If so, which version?

Does it support binary files well?

Dow does it handle multiple users?  How many can it handle effectively?

Thanks in advance.


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