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From: s9874203@titan.ucc.umass.edu (s9874203)
Subject: Re: gif to bmp conversion
Organization: University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Date: Tue, 18 Aug 1992 16:15:38 GMT

In article <1992Aug18.132035.24588@schbbs.mot.com> CENG51@maccvm.corp.mot.com (Craig Witkowski) writes:
>I have a program called GIF2BMP which does what you want.  Call me at
>201-447-7612 to set up a file transfer.

Is this the same one as that gif2bmp.zip in pub/pc/win3/desktop from
ftp.cica.indiana.edu? I tried it once...I tried to use paintbrush to view 
the converted bmp file, but piantbrush did not recognize the format!

H.Y.
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
From: dazz@monu6.cc.monash.edu.au (Mr D.K. Woodman)
Subject: TrueType fonts
Organization: Monash University, Melb., Australia.
Date: Fri, 21 Aug 1992 02:54:27 GMT

Is Windows able to make use of Postscript or Macintosh fonts or
do they need to be converted and if so how? This is an area that
I have never really understood.

any replies appreciated
dazz

Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
From: bx953@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (David R. Cohen)
Subject: CLOCK VISIBILITY -- THE SEQUEL
Reply-To: bx953@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (David R. Cohen)
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
Date: Tue, 18 Aug 92 14:40:16 GMT


Thanks to all who answered my clock icon visibility question.  Now I have a
follow up question.

It ends up that you can easily make the clock icon show up on your screen
every time you go into Windows 3.1 by merely drag-and-dropping the clock
icon into the Startup applications group.  And, in Windows 3.1, you can
choose the setting "always on top" so that the icon never hides behind your
active window.

As someone pointed out, however, better looking than the icon is the clock
program itself, made as small as possible.  By sizing the running
(non-minimized) clock program window as small as you can get it, choosing
fixedsys font, choosing digital readout, and choosing no title bar, a very
neat rectangle with the date and time is displayed.  This rectangle looks
especially nice (to me) in the upper right hand corner of the screen, just
to the left of the up-arrow/down-arrow buttons.

The problem is, I can't figure out how to get the **running clock program
window** to appear when I start windows; all I can get is the icon (which,
I admit, was my initial goal).  To get the small rectangle window, I have
to double-click the clock icon and reset the no-title-bar option.  What I'd
rather have, of course, is the small rectangle window running as soon as I
start windows.  I tried using the shift-alt-F4 to save settings (the
equivalent of win3.0's save settings on exit, without exiting) but that
didn't help.

Any more suggestions?

E-mail appreciated, thanks in advance.

David
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From: adam.pava@uttsbbs.uucp (Adam Pava)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
Subject: TTI14U.ZIP
Date: 17 Aug 92 20:53:00 GMT
Reply-To: adam.pava@uttsbbs.uucp (Adam Pava)
Organization: The Transfer Station BBS, Danville, CA - 510-837-4610/837-5591


Your 'TrueType Installer' program didnt seem to work... does it work for
you?  Cause I d/led it, and it seemed to be missing a file..
From: ruckman@oasys.dt.navy.mil (Christopher Ruckman)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
Subject: Re: Stanford Graphics vs. Cricket Graph
Date: 18 Aug 92 14:35:45 GMT
Reply-To: ruckman@oasys.dt.navy.mil (Christopher Ruckman)
Organization: Carderock Division, NSWC, Bethesda, MD

In comp.os.ms-windows.misc, eggenberger1@urz.unibas.ch writes:
>Hi, I'm looking for a scientific graph system for Windows 3.1.
>I heard of two such systems for Windows:
>Cricket Graph and Stanford Graphics. I already know Cricket Graph from the Mac
>but have no experience with Stanford Graphics, which is about 4 times
>more expensive than Cricket Graph. Is Stanford Graphics worth its price?
>I heard of some bugs in early versions of Stanford Graphics. Are these bugs
>fixed in the latest version?

3-D Visions is now shipping Version 2.0 of Stanford Graphics, which should
address all the major criticisms of earlier versions.  See my posting
in comp.os.ms-windows-apps, or call 3-D Visions at 1-800-SAY-GRAF.

-- 
Chris Ruckman, Ship Acoustics Department (Code 1941)
Carderock Division, Naval Surface Warfare Center 
ruckman@oasys.dt.navy.mil
From: sph0301@utsph.sph.uth.tmc.edu (Kate Wilson)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
Subject: Re: Running the PATHWORKS USE command in an MS-DOS Windows hangs system
Date: 18 Aug 1992 20:10:35 GMT
Organization: Univ. of Texas School of Public Health

In article <86.2A902A3B@efborg.hobby.nl> enno@efborg.hobby.nl (Enno Borgsteede) writes:

>16 Aug 92, Don Katz writes to All:

> DK> We are running Pathworks 4.1 (server and client) on a heap of PC's. I
> DK> find that when I am running Windows 3.1, if I open an MS-DOS window
> DK> and then run the Pathworks USE command in the window, the USE command
> DK> gives the correct output. If I then type exit, I receive a message
> DK> from Windows that
> DK> "The application was communicating on the network when you terminated
> DK> it. Windows was unable to restore the state of the network. You need
> DK> to restart your computer."

>I don't know what's going on, but I think that the best way to avoid is to
>use the Windows file manager. It has all commands that you need to connect
>or disconnect drives and printers. You have to installe Pathworks as a part
>of Windows first, off course.

The USE command works fine for me when I do it from a DOS window.  Using
File Manager also works as long as I'm trying to connect to a file service.
I can't connect to disk services from File Manager because the virtual
drives don't show up.

For what it's worth, I've seen the above error message when the Ethernet 
board was using the same interrupt as one of the COM ports (even if the
COM port wasn't being used for anything else)...
From: paulj@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu (pPAUL JEFFERSON)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
Subject: Com port trouble
Date: 20 Aug 92 14:09:05 CDT
Organization: University of Kansas Academic Computing Services

I am having trouble setting up my modem to work with Windows 3.1.  The
modem is on COM 3 and my mouse is on COM 1. Does anybody have any
ideas on how to get it to work. Thanks
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From: carter@cemvax.cem.msu.edu (Tom Carter)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
Subject: re: File Manager went black...
Date: 12 Aug 92 12:48:23 GMT
Organization: Michigan State University, East Lansing Michigan

In article <1992Aug12.092222.24476@polaris.utu.fi> wihuri@polaris.utu.fi (pauli '30' mikael) writes:
>Has someone seen this before:
>
>In Win 3.1 File Manager's directory and file windows (all three I had
>at the same time open) went black on white. Everything seems to work
>fine, but screen cannot show the names of the files and the
>directories... The Window title shows where I am and the commands from
>menu work fine also.
>
>I am using having open at the same time following applications:
>LANtastic for Windows (local area network), Clock, Dr. Watson, XVision
>(mainframe connection; writing this message), Program and File
>Manager.
>
>Hardware: 486, 16Mb memory.  Program Manager's About shows 5 715 Kb free
>(I am using 4 Mb for RAMDRIVE and 4Mb SMARTDRIVE double_buffer) and
>65% system resources free.
>
>Some kind of bug? Memory low?
>
>Pauli Wihuri
>Computing Centre
>University of Turku

Just a wild guess, but try resetting the Options Font... setting in File 
Manager. HTH
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From: dcdeno@rossini.berkeley.edu (D. Curtis Deno)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
Subject: Scientific graphics libraries in Windows
Keywords: graphics library Windows
Date: 17 Aug 92 23:36:12 GMT
Reply-To: dcdeno@rossini.berkeley.edu (D. Curtis Deno)
Organization: University of California, EECS Department, Berkeley

I am interested in the availability of graphics libraries I can use with my
Windows source code.  I would like to plot 1-4 variables vs a common x-axis
variable with autoscaling, labels, title...  I'd like tick marks and a grid
as well.  Where might I look? Thanks.

-- Curt Deno    dcdeno@united.berkeley.edu
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
From: elee969@elroy.uh.edu (Brown, William J.)
Subject: Re: Graphics accelarators for Micro-Channel
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41    
Organization: University of Houston
Date: Wed, 12 Aug 1992 14:58:00 GMT

In article <1992Aug11.164032.15672@usenet.ins.cwru.edu>, axa12@po.CWRU.Edu (Ashok Aiyar) writes...
> 
> 
>ATI supplies accelarator drivers at the following resolutions:
>640x480x256 colors
>800x600x256 colors
>1024x768x256 colors (large and small fonts)
 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^        

>1280x1024x16 colors
> 
> 
>Ashok
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>   		       axa12@po.cwru.edu
>		   aiyar@cwbio.bioc.cwru.edu
>                Visit the IBM-PC Sig on Freenet

What about 800x600x256 large fonts?  The normal fonts are just too fuzzy.

Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
From: philco@microsoft.com (Phillip Cooper)
Subject: Re: Windows .HLP file editor
Date: 14 Aug 92 16:39:27 GMT
Organization: Microsoft Corporation
Keywords: windows .hlp help editor

In article <young.4.713649109@cc1.unt.edu> young@cc1.unt.edu (David Young, Computing Center) writes:
>Does anyone know of a good software package for authoring Windows 3.1 .
>HLP files?  I've been looking for a while, but haven't run seen 
>anything.  Thanksin advance.
>
> - David 

A good combination that has always worked for me is Word for Windows 2.0
and the Windows Help Compiler.

Phil Cooper
From: RFowler@kelvin.jpl.nasa.gov (Robert A. Fowler)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
Subject: WinTV Warnings
Date: 13 Aug 92 13:34:42 GMT
Organization: Jet Propulsion Laboratory

WARNINGS:

I just got my WinTV card (its been on order for 3 weeks) and I was 
unpleasantly surprised at:

1. You have to order the video input cable as an Option (costs extra).

2. IT WILL NOT WORK (for video capture and other stuff) UNLESS YOU HAVE 
<15 MBYTES OF MEMORY (ISA strikes again), which is kind of hard to do 
when you only have 4x 4Mb sims (16Mbytes).  

3. It might not work with the ATI Graphics Ultra (I didn't get a picture, 
just a purple window and sound, but that might have been due to problem 2), 
I used the vga pass through cable, because the Ultra doesn't have a feature 
connecter, and I did try it with the MS VGA driver, the ATI 640x480x16/256 
driver and the 800x600x16/256 driver.
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From: fmag9694@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Fouad M. Abdel-Rahim)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
Subject: Re: Changing colors in winhelp
Date: 20 Aug 92 03:17:21 GMT
Article-I.D.: news.Bt9IGy.Jrs
Distribution: comp
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana

rice@ttd.teradyne.com writes:

>In article <yuval.713683461@shum>, yuval@huji.ac.il (Yuval rakavy) writes:
>> Good day!
>> 
>>  How does one change the colors of hyper-text link or popup help in WinHelp.
>> It seems that these colors are fixed to green which is very nice when working
>> in the default color scheme, but looks horrible (or actually bearly looks at
>> all) when the background color is not white.
>> 


>There are five color variables that you can define in WIN.INI. They are:

>[Windows Help]
>IFJumpColor=red-value green-value blue value (new panel in another help file)
>IFPopupColor=red-value green-value blue value (popup in another help file)
>JumpColor=red-value green-value blue value (new panel in same file)
>                                           (000 000 000 gets black on white)
>MacroColor=red-value green-value blue value (color of text which runs hlp macro)
>PopupColor=red-value green-value blue value (popup in same help file)
>                                            (000 000 000 gets black on white)

>values are ratios of color values from 000 to 255 with 000= minimum intensity
>and 255 = max intensity. Hope this helps.

>-- 
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   Why bother ? There is a tiny program that allows you to do that and much more   like: Change the icons label fonts, spacing, load=, run= ... and more, above    all, it's FREE:

   morecn.zip   [available at cica and other ftp sites]

   Good luck.
   _____________________________________________________________________________   
   Fouad Abdel-Rahim
   University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
From: pluto@cs.ucsd.edu (Mark Plutowksi)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
Subject: Re: Windows won't work with COM 2 modem?!
Date: 19 Aug 92 01:20:55 GMT
Distribution: na

mccall@mksol.dseg.ti.com (fred j mccall 575-3539) writes:

>In <1992Aug14.002744.2386@kakwa.ucs.ualberta.ca> apollo@ee.ualberta.ca (Apollo Wong) writes:

>>Hi netters,

>>My system has the mouse in COM 1 and a 2400 baud in using COM 2. However,
>>since Windows 3.0, I can't use any Windows' communcation program to
>>use the modem port. I set up port 2 as 2400n81 using Control Panel.

>>Has anyone got the fix to this problem? 


>Your problem is that you have both a modem and a COM port at IRQ3
>(which is what COM2 uses).  There is no way to fix this other than by
>changing either the modem or the serial port to another COM port.  If,
>as you say, you cannot change the settings on your multi-I/O card,
>then you cannot fix this (the other COM2 is living on the I/O card).
>The only other possibility is if you can set the modem up to be COM3
>or COM4 and use IRQ2 or IRQ5 for it.


>-- 
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> in the real world."   -- Mary Shafer, NASA Ames Dryden
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>Fred.McCall@dseg.ti.com - I don't speak for others and they don't speak for me.


Another solution is to change the IRQ that your modem uses. 
If you put it on Com2, it probably uses IRQ #3.  You can
change this (by setting jumpers on the modem card) to let
the modem use instead IRQ #5.  Your modem manual will tell
you how to set it to use IRQ #5.  Or, alternatively, you
can disable the Com 2 serial port and let the modem continue
to use IRQ 3.

IRQ 5 is normally used by LPT2, so you won't have a
conflict if you're not using LPT2. (Change this also in
your communication s/w if necessary.) 


= Mark


Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
From: GJAMES@HUSKY1.STMARYS.CA (GJames)
Subject: Wanted-1 Mb trident drivers
Organization: Saint Mary's University
Date: Wed, 12 Aug 1992 11:28:45 GMT

The suject says it all


Thanks
From: john.will@satalink.com (John Will)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
Subject: Re: Why DOS 5.0 for Windo
Date: 20 Aug 92 20:27:00 GMT
Reply-To: john.will@satalink.com (John Will)
Organization: Datamax/Satalink Connection * Ivyland, PA (215) 443-9434

FF.No, this does not work either.  The real problem is that SmartDrive
  .should NOT be permitted to load into the video UMB range of B000-B7FF.
  .If it loads here, it will die when Windows starts up.

Hmm... I've loaded it there, though I now use HYPERDISK, also loaded
into the B000-B7FF segment range.

FF.I have tried using the monoumb*.386 drivers, and they do not fix this
  .problem.  The solution is to not load SmartDrive high, or load it high
  .somewhere else.

My solution is not to load it at all!
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Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
From: lachlan@dmp.csiro.au (Lachlan Cranswick)
Subject: Re: Scientific graphics libraries in Windows
Keywords: graphics library Windows
Organization: CSIRO Division of Mineral Products, Melbourne, AUSTRALIA
Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1992 09:39:15 GMT

dcdeno@rossini.berkeley.edu (D. Curtis Deno) writes:

>I am interested in the availability of graphics libraries I can use with my
>Windows source code.  I would like to plot 1-4 variables vs a common x-axis
>variable with autoscaling, labels, title...  I'd like tick marks and a grid
>as well.  Where might I look? Thanks.

>-- Curt Deno    dcdeno@united.berkeley.edu


Try and look into Origin for Windows graphing software.

It has a couple of bugs in it but overall it is quite good.
It can import from lotus and ASCII.
It can also do error bars and scientific notation.

I mainly use this program for pseudo 3d "Waterfall Plots"
to display Powder X-ray Diffraction Spectra as they change
with time or temperature.  For other types of scientific graphs
I use SigmaPlot 5.0, but this is not a windows program.
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Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
From: ntaib@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (Iskandar Taib)
Subject: Re: Windows == OS
Organization: Indiana University
Date: Mon, 17 Aug 1992 17:30:12 GMT

In article <1992Aug03.091642.163545@zeus.calpoly.edu> jemenake@zeus.calpoly.edu (Joe Emenaker) writes:

>But still you can't deny that Windows is a slave to DOS' limitations. If
>you don't believe me, just try formatting a floppy with the file-manager.
>The whole system freezes until DOS kindly hands the processor back to
>Windows. Contrast that with, ooooh... say... OS/2. I can format a disk in
>drive A: AND in drive B: *SIMULTANEOUSLY* without any noticable loss of
>performance in my foreground-app.

This was true with 3.0, but not 3.1. 3.1 will allow you to format
diskettes while doing something else. 

Even with 3.0 I could format diskettes preemptively in a DOS window..
never did try two simultaneously though. 

>The thing that haunts me about DOS/Windows, is that Windows will crash if
>DOS crashes. And DOS crashes if one of your (often public-domain) device
>drivers crashes. The mental image this conjures up for me is that of an
>elephant standing on marbles; as long as you don't frighten it, the whole
>thing will avoid falling flat on it's face. This hierarchy (that being one
>in which each level of the OS is depending on a less robust, less stable
>one which runs underneath it) is unnerving to say the least.

I know its unfashionable to say so but Windows 3.1 is incredibly 
robust. On a machine that doesn't have hardware problems I've had
it going nonstop for weeks at a time. DOS isn't all that crash-
prone either, it was usually apps that caused crashes. I've rarely
had a machine crash at the C:\> prompt.

>Granted, Windows does go around MS-DOS to do many things (as it very well
>should), but it is still dependent upon DOS for disk-I/O and for EMS/XMS
>memory management.

Yes for disk I/O, no for XMS. 





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Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
Subject: more windows opti FAQs
From: edowdy@vax1.umkc.edu
Date: Thu, 20 Aug 1992 06:00:02 GMT
Organization: University of Missouri - Kansas City

Ok, thanks for being patient with these FAQs, here is another one:

	I had previously asked about optimizing windows, when going through my
win.ini file, i found 2 different sections (identical) setting up my HPIIIP
printer. Since the info found in each section is identical, can I del one
section and just leave the other?
Thanks again........
Eric Dowdy
University of Missouri
(graduate student in FAQs)
Xref: sparky comp.os.ms-windows.misc:2083 comp.os.ms-windows.setup:948 comp.os.msdos.misc:4734
From: milan@bcsaic.boeing.com (Milan Richter)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc,comp.os.ms-windows.setup,comp.os.msdos.misc
Subject: Questions to experts at Microsoft: which DOS 5.0 for PS/2
Date: 14 Aug 92 16:36:17 GMT
Distribution: na
Organization: Boeing Computer Services AI Center, Seattle

I have IBM PS/2 mod. 70-121 (20MHz 386DX), run Windows 3.1 and want to upgrade
my DOS 4.01 to MS-DOS 5.0. Went to Egghead and learned there is a PS/2 specific
version of DOS 5.0 upgrade (IBM DOS ???).
My questions to Microsoft, IBM, and other knowledgable experts:

1. Do I need to buy PS/2 specific version or will the generic version do?
2. What are the differences between those two products?
3. What advantage(s), if any, does Windows 3.1 take of DOS 5.0?
4. Assuming I buy DOS 5.0, are there any special settings for it or WIndows 3.1
   to make the best use of the machine? What are they?

Quick replies will be greatly appreciated. If sufficient amount of useful 
information arrives, I will summarize. Many thanks!

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Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
From: pettypi@gaul.csd.uwo.ca (Carl Pettypiece)
Subject: Looking for wave randomizer
Organization: Computer Science Dept., Univ. of Western Ontario, London, Canada
Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1992 05:26:46 GMT

Hello, netters!

   I have tonnes of .wav files that I like to have played for
various cues.  But for them to change I have to run Sound from
the Control Panel.  I'd like to have these sounds changed
automagically/randomly, preferably being allowed to select which
groups of sounds that a particular event the randomizer would
choose from.  Does such a beast exist?

   Also, is there a way to provide a sound for the Application
Violation event (the new UAE)?  I'm a bit masochistic (-:

   Reply to this newsgroup or via e-mail, no problem either way.

   Thanks.

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Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc