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From: sumargoh@serss0.fiu.edu (H. Sumargo)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.apps
Subject: A Device Driver that Can Map any LPT# Port to a Network Port
Keywords: Network
Date: 15 Apr 92 01:09:56 GMT
Distribution: World
Organization: Florida International Univ.



I have a 386-20 attached to the network through ethernet card.  What I wowuld like to do is to be able tp print from any DOS application either directly to the network printer or through a redirection from the LPT# port to the network printer.  Does any of you out there happen to know where I can find such device driver?  Please send you response to sumargoh@serss0.fiu.edu

Thank you.
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From: dea@informix.com (Robert Dea)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.apps,comp.os.msdos.programmer,comp.windows.ms,comp.windows.ms.programmer
Subject: Re: MS C/C++ v7 - need info
Date: 13 Apr 92 23:03:02 GMT
Organization: Informix Software, Inc.

In article <3535@cruzio.santa-cruz.ca.us> aki@cruzio.santa-cruz.ca.us writes:
>
>
>The best part about MS C/C++ 7.0 is the UPGRADE PRICE.  $139.  I asked
>Microsoft if they wanted a disk or a manual page;  the answer to which was NO.
>According to the MS salesdroid all you need to do to certify an upgrade is to
>sign a (postage paid) card and send it back to them.  Cool.  The Win<>OS/2
>wars are making it cheaper for us regular guys to hack around the PC.
>
>Aki.
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They did not tell you that if you want printed documentation you need
to come up with an additional $150.00. So if you add the two together
it comes out to $279.00. Not such a good deal after all!!!!

I'll stay with Borland!!
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From: jwbutler@mentor.cc.purdue.edu (J.W.)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.apps,comp.os.msdos.misc,comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Re: Address of PKWARE, Inc.??
Date: 13 Apr 92 18:18:53 GMT
Followup-To: comp.os.msdos.apps
Distribution: usa
Organization: Purdue University

In <928@evapc.UUCP> eva@evapc.UUCP (Eva Marie Allen) writes:

>Does anybody have the address of PKWARE, Inc.? 


Courtesy of PKWARE at Comdex:

     PKWARE Inc.
     9025 N. Deerwood Drive
     Brown Deer, WI 53223

Joe

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From: smith@canon.co.uk (Mark Smith)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.apps,comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc,comp.os.msdos.misc,comp.windows.ms,comp.windows.misc
Subject: Re: Does 387 speed up Win 3.1?
Date: 15 Apr 92 08:53:31 GMT
Organization: Canon Research Centre Europe Ltd

bbrown@b11.ingr.com (Bailey Brown) writes:
> I read somewhere that a 387 coprocessor speeds up windows 3.1.
> Not just applications like Excel, but windows itself.  
> Is this true?   Why would Windows be using floating point
> anyway?

The newsgroup comp.windows.news is for the discussion of the
NeWS window system from Sun Microsystems.  It has nothing to
do with Microsoft Windows.  Please don't crosspost there.

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From: linville@garfield.catt.ncsu.edu (John W. Linville)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.apps
Subject: Re: A personal perspective on choosing OS/2 2.0
Date: 9 Apr 92 02:43:15 GMT
Organization: NCSU CATT Prog

In article <1992Apr8.204023.21962@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu> rschmidt@copper.ucs.indiana.edu (roy schmidt) writes:
>
>   devolder@matt.ksu.ksu.edu (Eric DeVolder) quotes
>   ross@kaos.b23b.ingr.com:
>>>John, where do you get these "statistics"???
>
> (and more statements from a real-world business user.)

(and more statements from a defender of the 'good enough' attitude)

>Then Eric goes one to say:
>
>>but most people who read these groups are familiar with mulitasking OS's such
>     ^^^^^^^^^^^
>>as UNIX, and despise moving back to a PC that has a single-user, single-process
>>OS retarding their productivity.
>
>I find it absolutely amazing that OS/2 evangelists are on *every* DOS
>and Windows newsgroup, night and day, screaming and yelling about OS/2,

Many of the 'OS/2 evangelists' about which you are complaining are new OS/2
users who are discovering just how superior OS/2 is to DOS and Windows in both
technical and practical ways.  They just want to share their discoveries with
those who rely on the highly-biased reports from the trade rags and have been
mislead.

>making unwarranted claims and broad sweeping statements like the above.
>Ross was objecting to exactly this kind of hyperbole -- Eric, have you
>surveyed *most people who read these groups* or a good, statistically
>sound sample thereof to determine whether they are familiar with UNIX or
>other multitasking OSs?  Do they truly "despise" their single-user PC?

Since Usenet groups are generally read from Unix or other multitasking OSs,
I think it is safe to assume that most of the readers here have a familiarity
with at least one OS that is superior to DOS.

>I agree with Ross -- Horse Hooey!!

That just means that you are as close-minded as he is.

>Do some research, Eric.  The people who are using their PCs for business
>(and I don't mean the business of writing apps) might be able to relate
>to you some advice on what is and is not relevant to them.

Is increased productivity relevant?

>In the meantime, WHY DON'T YOU OS/2 FANS GO BACK TO
>comp.os2.os2.os2.os2.gottalovit.trash.windows AND DISCUSS AMONG
>YOURSELVES HOW MUCH YOU LOVE UNIX!!!

As I have said before, I will respond to any question or false statement 
regarding OS/2 that I can answer.  (BTW, who said that we love Unix?  It is
Bill Gates who want to make Windows into Unix.)

>Your posts are not on the topic of this group, and a flaming big breach of
>nettiquette! 
>the operating system.

If the posts contain info about DOS/Windows (good or bad) then they are not off
topic or a breach of nettiquette.

John W. Linville



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From: valley@gsbsun.uchicago.edu (Doug Dougherty)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.apps
Subject: Re: $50 for an UPGRADE!!!!!
Date: 14 Apr 92 19:55:14 GMT
Organization: University of Chicago Computing Organizations

dorsai@iear.arts.rpi.edu (gregory d moncreaff) writes:

>i don't think that most people believe that windows 3.1 is a patch

>a patch is a minor change to fix an individual problem
>when microsoft shipped 3.0a (or 3.01 if you like numbers) to
>correct certain network problems, that was a patch

I wonder if that means that you are an MS supporter or an MS basher.

It would probably have been better marketing to have called 3.1 4.0.
In that case, no one would have complained about either the price or the
extreme bugginess of 3.0.  Yup, I think they really screwed up on this
one...

The real point of all this is, of course, to bring Windows & DOS into
version number compliance.  Surely a DOS 5.1 is just around the corner.
If they had done as I suggest, they would be within 1.1 right now...

And, as we all know, with Microsoft, quality is job 1.01...
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Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.apps,comp.os.msdos.programmer,comp.windows.ms,comp.windows.ms.programmer
From: ddoherty@ics.uci.edu (Donald Doherty)
Subject: Re: MS C/C++ v7 - need info
Reply-To: ddoherty@ics.uci.edu (Donald Doherty)
Organization: Univ. of Calif., Irvine, Info. & Computer Sci. Dept.
Date: Tue, 14 Apr 1992 18:00:31 GMT

In article <1992Apr13.230302.16747@informix.com> dea@informix.com (Robert Dea) writes:
>
>They did not tell you that if you want printed documentation you need
>to come up with an additional $150.00. So if you add the two together
>it comes out to $279.00. Not such a good deal after all!!!!
>

MS C/C++ 7.0 comes with over 5500 pages of printed docs!  The $150 is for
an additional 5000 plus pages of docs that go with the SDK which is
included in full with C/C++ (except for the printed docs).  All of the
online docs are included.

I'd say its a good deal.

Don

Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.apps
From: aa344@yfn.ysu.edu (Joseph Maruschek)
Subject: Re: DR-DOS Installation HORRORS!  HELP....
Reply-To: aa344@yfn.ysu.edu (Joseph Maruschek)
Organization: St. Elizabeth Hospital, Youngstown, OH
Date: Fri, 17 Apr 1992 06:44:30 GMT


In a previous article, rice@ttd.teradyne.com () says:

>  As far as loading high, you should have a memory manager loaded (himem.sys
>or the like). Without it, nothing will load high. 

I'd like to post a few notes here about DR-DOS's memory
management in order to clear up some confusion about when and
where you are able to 'load things high'.

These notes only apply to using DR-DOS's memory management
programs, so if you use another system such as QEMM, these notes
don't apply, but they might help you gain more insight into what
is really happening.  I'll try to compare DR-DOS's system with
MS-DOS just so you can see the differences.

The two main drivers that DR-DOS uses for memory management are
HIDOS.SYS and EMM386.SYS.  I'll talk about HIDOS.SYS first.  The
main purpose of HIDOS.SYS is to take the DR-DOS kernel out of
conventional memory and 'load it high'.  Note that I mean the
kernel, not COMMAND.COM.  On 286 machines and above, this usually
results in the kernel being loaded in the High Memory Area (HMA).
Another function of HIDOS.SYS is to provide XMS memory (extended
memory).  Note that you can use another driver, such as
HIMEM.SYS, to provide XMS service and still use HIDOS.SYS to load
the kernel into the HMA with no problem.  Yet another function of
HIDOS.SYS is to provide Upper Memory Blocks (UMBs) if your
computer has one of the recognized chip sets or LIM 4.0 memory
(expanded memory).  HIDOS.SYS cannot provide UMBs using the
features of the 386 (and above) chip, nor can it make extended
memory into expanded.  HIMEM.SYS, Microsoft's similarly named
driver only provides XMS memory.  Note that you cannot load anything
else into an UMB (which is what most people mean when they say
'loading high') unless you have one of the recognized chip sets
or a 386 or better machine.  It is possible to put some stuff in
the HMA like COMMAND.COM with the /MH switch.

The EMM386.SYS driver, unlike Microsoft's EMM386.EXE, duplicates
all of HIDOS.SYS's functions with the sole exception that it will
only work on 386 or better machines.  That means you can almost
always load programs or drivers into UMBs when you use
EMM386.SYS.  EMM386.SYS also will turn extended memory into
expanded memory, and still provide XMS memory.  With MS-DOS, you
need to install HIMEM.SYS first in order to use EMM386.EXE.  Not
so with DR-DOS.  

Gee, I didn't mean to get so long-winded, but I wanted to make
sure I hit on all the important points.  See, even if you have a
8088 machine but have a LIM 4.0 memory board, you can load some
stuff high with HIDOS.SYS using UMBs.  MS-DOS can do no such
thing.
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From: thomasg@epx.hscs.umn.edu (Thomas Gasser)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.apps,comp.os.msdos.programmer,comp.windows.ms,comp.windows.ms.programmer
Subject: Re: MS C/C++ v7 - need info
Date: 7 Apr 92 16:39:17 GMT
Article-I.D.: epx.thomasg.466
Organization: Department of Neurosurgery, University of Minnesota

In article <10125@goanna.cs.rmit.oz.au> gtj@goanna.cs.rmit.oz.au (Glenn T Jayaputera) writes:

>Hi..
>  I am thinking to buy MS C/C++ v7.  I would like to program in C++ and for
>  windows apps.  I am wondering if MS C/C++ v7 contains EVERYTHING that one
>  needs to build a windows program.
>  Do I need to buy SDK again??
>  What is the latest version of SDK?? v4 or v3.1?

>many thanks in any kind of pointers


> _--_|\     Glenn Jayaputera
>/      \    gtj@goanna.cs.rmit.oz.au 
>\_.--._/    Dept. of Computer Science, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology 
>      v     Melbourne, Australia 


Can't speak for MS c/c++ but Borland 3.0 includes every thing to do Windows.

Thomas Gasser                                          
(612) 624-4427
Dept of Neurosurgery     
University of MN      
THOMASG@EPX.HSCS.UMN.EDU
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.apps,comp.os.msdos.misc
From: jbuchana@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (James M Buchanan)
Subject: Sounds with my SBPRO, *.cmf and *.rol, HELP ME PLEASE!
Organization: The Ohio State University
Date: Mon, 13 Apr 1992 18:57:17 GMT

     I finally dolled out the bucks to buy thew sound blaster pro card, and am 
anxious to start collecting sounds.  I found a ftp site with .rol and .cmf 
files.  How do I use these files?  Do they have to be unarchived in anyway?  Do
they need to be converted?  If so, is there a program I need?

     All responses are appreciated.

     Matt

     jbuchana@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.apps
From: coulman@cs.Usask.CA (Randy Coulman)
Subject: SUMMARY: Virus Protection Programs
Reply-To: coulman@cs.Usask.CA
Organization: University of Saskatchewan
Date: Thu, 16 Apr 1992 22:19:02 GMT

Thanks to all who responded to my query about Virus Protection
Programs.  Everyone who responded suggested I try F-PROT.  It is
available at oak.oakland.edu:/pub/msdos/trojan-pro/fp-203a.zip,
as well as other places.  It is updated quite frequently.  As for
pricing, it is free for personal use, $1/machine for commercial
use (min $20), with a 25% discount to educational institutions.
For a service industry license, there is a flat fee of $500.

I was also warned that it is best to use two different programs
just to be safe.

Thanks again,
Randy
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From: jcmorris@mwunix.mitre.org (Joe Morris)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.apps,comp.os.msdos.programmer,comp.windows.ms,comp.windows.ms.programmer
Subject: Re: MS C/C++ v7 - need info
Date: 15 Apr 92 14:19:19 GMT
Article-I.D.: mwunix.jcmorris.703347559
Organization: The MITRE Corporation

michael@resonex.com (Michael Bryan) writes:

>In article <1992Apr14.122159.5648@wes.on.ca> tomh@wes.on.ca (Tom Haapanen) writes:
>>dea@informix.com (Robert Dea) writes:
>>> They did not tell you that if you want printed documentation you need
>>> to come up with an additional $150.00. So if you add the two together
>>> it comes out to $279.00. Not such a good deal after all!!!!
>>
>>The only manuals not included with C/C++ 7.0 are the Windows 3.1 SDK manuals.
>>At least as of version 2.0, Borland didn't include them, either.

>Are you sure about MSC 7.0 including all manuals except the SDK?  This is
>not what I understood from my roommate, who uses MSC for work, and is
>going to upgrade soon.  I also find it very hard to believe that they would
>charge $150 for just the SDK manuals!  I'm willing to be convinced otherwise,
>but my belief swings against you right at this moment.

I called MS yesterday since after seeing all of these postings I was
wondering why I haven't seen any upgrade notices.  The MS response is
that the upgrade offers will be shipped late this week.

While I was on the phone, I asked about the issues in this thread.  The
response was:

 * The upgrade to C7 includes the SDK code.

 * The upgrade to C7 includes the printed manuals for the C language
   component (I didn't think to verify that they've put the library
   reference back into the base product...).  It comes with machine-readable
   documentation for the SDK, but no hard copy.

 * The SDK hard copy manuals will cost $150

 * There is *no* break offered to users who have both C6 and SDK 3.0.

So far, this matches what has already appeared in this thread.  Now...

 * Registered users of the 3.0 SDK will be sent an upgrade offer for the
   SDK only.  This upgrade will be $150, and *will* include the printed
   SDK documentation.

 * Within the next two weeks registered DDK users will receive an upgrade
   solicitation.  I didn't get the price for this.

Note that according to this if you have both C6 and SDK 3.0 you can
either upgrade C6 to C7 and buy the extra SDK manuals, or upgrade C6
to C6 and upgrade SDK 3.0 to SDK 3.1 for the same price (possibly plus
an additional $6 or so for shipping the upgraded SDK).

Joe Morris
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From: ddoherty@ics.uci.edu (Donald Doherty)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.apps,comp.os.msdos.programmer,comp.windows.ms,comp.windows.ms.programmer
Subject: Re: MS C/C++ v7 - need info
Date: 15 Apr 92 09:17:09 GMT
Reply-To: ddoherty@ics.uci.edu (Donald Doherty)
Organization: Univ. of Calif., Irvine, Info. & Computer Sci. Dept.

In article <1992Apr14.082538.16300@resonex.com> michael@resonex.com (Michael Bryan) writes:
>
>Are you sure about MSC 7.0 including all manuals except the SDK?  This is
>not what I understood from my roommate, who uses MSC for work, and is
>going to upgrade soon.  I also find it very hard to believe that they would
>charge $150 for just the SDK manuals!  I'm willing to be convinced otherwise,
>but my belief swings against you right at this moment.
>

5000 plus pages makes a lot of manuals, and just for the SDK (I understand
that the cost of buying the manuals from your local bookstore would add up
to around $250).

Don
From: v999s3bz@ubvmsb.cc.buffalo.edu (---roach---)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.apps
Subject: seismo--fax/modem/phone switch
Date: 12 Apr 92 21:14:00 GMT
Organization: ---Roach Motel---
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41


sorry i am posting this. Seimo, your email is bouncing back
to me.

some of you guys may find following information useful too.

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*automatically directs auto fax,modem & voice
*no need for a dedicated fax line-it lets your fax
share your current phone line
*unattended operation
*caller can switch between fax and phone on a single line
*line protection gives you a busy signal, preventing line
interruption until line is clear
*easy installation
*rings multiple extension phones
*compatible with all domestic phone systems,answering machines
and fax machines
*operates on tone & pulse phones
*u.l. listed
*model #:6500
*factory new!

damark price us $99.99
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tel: 1-800-729-9000
visa,mastercard,discover,amex.

note: this is not a sales call, i am only posting for seismo
      because i can't get hold of him via email.  i don't work
      for damark.  i bought one of the swithes and forwarding
      information to seismo.
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.apps
From: btf57346@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Bohr)
Subject: Re: HOT NEWS! DOS 5.1 + STACKER....
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Fri, 10 Apr 1992 14:18:39 GMT

jknepley@isis.cs.du.edu (Ranseus (Jim Knepley)) writes:


>>... end the 640K barrier
>   Oh, so DOS 5.1 will be protected mode?  Sorry, not gonna buy it.

>>... [seems like DOS might be doing this just to catch up with DR-DOS 6.0
>>     and its data compression on the fly.]
>   Seems that way, doesn't it...

>>... countless other things that DOS should have.. how about a REAL
>>    ANSI.SYS driver
>   Just what constitutes a "REAL" driver?  Every ANSI.SYS I've seen works
>   fine.  I use Ziff Davis' because it can uninstall, but that's trivial...

>>chuck


>Later,
>  Jim

I agree!!!!  How wants a protected mode os.  I have enought problems
with that running Qemm, now the operating system would run like that TO!?

No way.  Sorry

Byron
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Organization: Queen's University at Kingston
Date: Thursday, 9 Apr 1992 10:17:40 EDT
From: Jeff Boyd <BOYDJ@QUCDN.QueensU.CA>
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.apps,bit.listserv.sas-l
Subject: SAS 6.07 transport files to DBMSCOPY


(I'm posting this for the signer below)

I am trying to convert a SunOS SAS 6.07 dataset into a transport
file which is readable by DBMSCOPY version 2.0.

This version of DBMSCOPY doen't recognize SAS 6.07, so I tried putting
out a version 5 transport file (using 6.07) via procs CPORT and XCOPY.

Unfortunately, I've had no success in creating a transport file which
DBMSCOPY can recognize.  Any help in solving this problem would greatly
be appreciated.  Please address any suggestions to:

        marina@casemix.epid.queensu.ca

Thank you, in advance, for your help!


Marina Djurfeldt
Case Mix Research
Queen's University
Kingston, Ontario, Canada.

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From: aki@cruzio.santa-cruz.ca.us
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.apps,comp.os.msdos.programmer,comp.windows.ms,comp.windows.ms.programmer
Subject: Re: MS C/C++ v7 - need info
Date: Sun, 12 Apr 92 10:36:26 PDT
Reply-To: aki@cruzio.santa-cruz.ca.us



The best part about MS C/C++ 7.0 is the UPGRADE PRICE.  $139.  I asked
Microsoft if they wanted a disk or a manual page;  the answer to which was NO.
According to the MS salesdroid all you need to do to certify an upgrade is to
sign a (postage paid) card and send it back to them.  Cool.  The Win<>OS/2
wars are making it cheaper for us regular guys to hack around the PC.

Aki.
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Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.apps,comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc,comp.os.msdos.misc,comp.windows.ms,comp.windows.news,comp.windows.misc