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From: cs5059@albnyvms.bitnet
Subject: epson driver for oki
Reply-To: cs5059@albnyvms.bitnet
Organization: University of NY at Albany
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 92 06:41:00 GMT

Hello out there,
I am in need of some information in regard to choosing the right
driver for my Okidata Microline 320 Dot Matrix.
The Windows 3.1 driver for this printer doesn't work for reasons
unknown.  It is hard to describe the problem but imagine this...
When it prints a line of large fonts the top half and bottom half 
of the letters don't line up.  for example...  |
                                                |__ 
should be      |
               |__   the letter 'L'

I am now using an epson ex1000 mono driver and it is better.  If 
anyone has any suggestions for a better driver to choose, or
can explain why I am having this problem, I'd really appreciate it.
thanks
From: john.will@satalink.com (John Will) 
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
Subject: Re: Should I leave it on?
Date: 17 Dec 92 11:57:00 GMT
Distribution: world
Organization: Datamax/Satalink Connection * Ivyland, PA (215) 443-9434
Reply-To: john.will@satalink.com (John Will) 

CP>Your friend is correct.  Most "wear and tear" on a fixed disk occurs
CP>during power-up.

Actually, the most frequent cause of disk drive failure I've seen is
bearing failure, and that's not from turning them on. :-)  It was only
the Seagate 25x and 27xR series that you had to leave on all the time! :-)

CP>It uses a fair amount.  Look up the wattage of your power supply.  It will
CP>probably be around 200 watts (similar to leaving on 2 lamps, but nothing
CP>like an oven or clothes dryer).

The 200 watts is a maximum power output, that's not what the supply is
actually drawing, it depends on the system configuration.  If you really
want to know what it's using, you either have to calculate all the loads
and know the efficiency of the power supply, or do it the easy way and
just connect a wattmeter to the input.  I've done this, and a fully loaded
486DX system with two floppies, 850mb hard drive, DAT tape, CD-ROM, and
7 of 8 expansion slots used draws just over 100 watts from the power line,
figuring 80% efficiency of the power supply, it's really only using around
80 watts.  I'm glad it isn't the power supply rating it uses, because this
tower has a 375 watt supply!!!
---
 . KingQWK 1.05 # 97 . She won't last forever, so why buy her a diamond?
From: hillyer@rrc.chevron.com (Martin J. Hillyer,(510)242-3123)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
Subject: Re: AMAZE DAILY PLANNER FOR WINDOWS
Date: 18 Dec 92 19:08:05 GMT
Reply-To: hillyer@rrc.chevron.com
Organization: Chevron, Richmond, California

In article 8808@lhdsy1.lahabra.chevron.com, hillyer@rrc.chevron.com (Martin J. Hillyer,(510)242-3123) writes:
>In article 13430@dekalb.dc.peachnet.edu, mark@dekalb.dc.peachnet.edu (Mark Stephen Miller) writes:
>>In article <1992Dec9.225352.9952@leland.Stanford.EDU> aelman@cs.stanford.edu writes:
>>>kuby2u@aol.com writes:
>
>----stuff deleted-----
>
>>My experience was much like Adam's.  I received my Far Side mug no problems.
>>I have however, received the upgrade to the 2.0 version of the planner.  IMHO,
>>the 2.0 version is light years better than the original.  Amaze has also
>>cleaned up the text on the cartoons so that it looks much better in SVGA modes.
>>The total cost for the upgrade plus the 1993 Far Side cartoons was 34.95.
>>(14.97 for version 2.0, 14.98 for the Far Side 1993, and 5.00 shipping)
>>Try calling 1-800-395-1546 and asking for extension PC1.  They were very
>>helpful to me both times I called.  (once to order and once to inquire about
>>shipping date)
>>Good Luck!!!
>
>Yes, good luck indeed!  I ordered my upgrade to 2.0 over a month ago and still don't
>heve it.
>
>just another data point from a dissatisfied customer.
>
>Martin
>
In the interest of fairness, I must follow up this post to say that the morning after
I posted this note, there was a note in my mailbox from Michael Roper offering an
explanation for the problem and an undertaking to fix it.  As I replied to him, if all 
software companies were this responsive to their customers, we'd all be better off.
Thanks again to Michael!!

Martin




Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
From: shenoy@iastate.edu (Shiva Shenoy)
Subject: Re: VBRUN200.DLL (for VB 2.0 apps) - WHERE??
Organization: Iowa State University, Ames IA
Distribution: comp
Date: Sun, 13 Dec 1992 19:49:47 GMT

In <oneil.724271074@cwis> oneil@cwis.unomaha.edu (Sharon O'Neil) writes:

>This is true.  Applications written in Visual Basic 2.0 must have the 
>2.0 DLL in order to run.  The 2.0 DLL will run programs written in both 1.0
>and 2.0.

That is not true. You cannot run 1.0 apps using the 2.0 dll. 

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Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc,comp-os.msdos.misc,misc.forsale
From: T104244@r3vm.dsd.trw.com
Subject: TERRIBLE SERVICE FROM ALDUS...BEWARE
Organization: TRW Electronic Systems Group
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 18:33:18 GMT

Hi,
I'm usually a very reasonable person, but I've just had the worst experience
with ALDUS CUSTOMER RELATIONS AND TECHNICAL SUPPORT.  I just bought Aldus
Pagemaker for Windows and ran into a bad install disk.  I call the number
on the registration card, wait about 15 minutes (non-toll free number)
to get through to CUSTOMER RELATIONS (which the card says to call for
replacement disks if defective)...they say that I have to talk to technical
support first to confirm that the disks are bad...come on guys ...I got a
abort, retry, fail...if that doesn'' tell you that the disk is bad, you better
go back to school...so the guy transfers me to tech. support where I again
have to wait...then I get through, tell my story...and the guy puts me on
hold for another 10 mintues (all being charged to my phone bill)...what
do they care right?!  Then the guy says that they're coming out with a
new version of pagemaker in January and that he suggest I upgrade (which
of course will cost me another $99) and where he will have to transfer me
back to Customer relations to do...do you get the feeling that I'm getting
the run-around?  Now I've been on the phone over 30 mintues.  I'm sorry
I just hung-up at that point because the call probably cost me $30 to
washington and it was apparent that Aldus was NOT going to give me any
real support.
BEWARE in buying any new Aldus products..they're support is TERRIBLE...
maybe I'm going overboard, but I'm pissed off!  Let me release
my steam over the internet..worldwide.  at least that's satisfying
even though I still have a non-working copy of Pagemaker.
Anyone out there interested in a copy of Pagemaker for Windows with a
bad install disk..I'll sell it cheap.
 
Ernie
From: darlaiam@aol.com
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
Subject: (none)
Date: 17 Dec 1992 02:39:24 -0600
Organization: UTexas Mail-to-News Gateway
NNTP-Posting-Host: cs.utexas.edu

From root Thu Dec 17 03:39:18 1992
From: darlaiam@aol.com
X-Mailer: America Online Mailer
To: comp-os-ms-windows-misc@cs.utexas.edu
Subject: Amaze Daily Planner
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 92 03:39:18 EST

Hi All!

I'd just like to post a follow-up to my original post regarding the Amaze
daily planner.

After posting my experience, I rec'd a message from the head of the company,
Michael Roper.

Within 2 days I had my upgrade and my mousepad! I'm overjoyed!

Version 2.0 of Amaze Daily Planner is fantastic! 

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From: gt7692b@prism.gatech.EDU (Constantinos Malamas)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc,comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: A Begginer's problem with Windows 3.1 and memory management...
Date: 18 Dec 92 20:03:50 GMT
Followup-To: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
Organization: Georgia Institute of Technology


	I recently installed Windows 3.1 on my 486DX33 and I have to admit
--being a command-line buff-- that I was impressed... However I cant seem
to be able to finetune memory management...My problem is this: I tried 
running Win with qemm-386 version 5, but windows hung on exiting. I also
tried running it w/ emm386 and the same thing happened. Now I am running
plain old himem.sys and everything is working fine, but I cant say I am
pleased with available conventional memory, so I want to run some memory
manager... What is the best way to configure this --if any-- ???
Should I use Smartdrive and how?? Is there an incompatibility problem 
between these apps or is there a problem w/ my machine --its a 'lego'...--
I would appreciate any kind of input on this... Thanx in advance...


Costas Malamas________________________________________________________________
Georgia Institute of Technology
Internet: gt7692b@prism.gatech.edu
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
From: miser@stein.u.washington.edu (Robert Fulwell)
Subject: Re: icons, icons, icons
Organization: University of Washington, Seattle
Date: Sat, 19 Dec 1992 10:15:39 GMT

In article <BzH7Jz.5x6@news.cso.uiuc.edu> mheniff@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (mike) writes:

>icondrw.zip, showicon.zip, etc.  I got the file moreicon.zip which has 400
>icons.  They are decent but don't get them if you're hurting for disk space.


When considering the problem of storing icons a friend of mine found a prog,
(forget the name, sorry) that stores them as exe's and let's you export the
image to your favorite icon editor in order to use it.  Basically you run the
program and this program displays the icons neatly so you can use the ones
you want to export and customize/whatever.  This method turns out to be more
efficient than storing the equivalent icons as .ico files.

However, we hit upon the idea of storing them as gifs instead.  Most people
have some kind of Gif/BMP viewer (wingif is excellent shareware) and all you
have to do is assemble the icons in a paint program (like paintbrush!) then
when you're done convert them to GIFs.  This method is perhaps 1/8th the
size of storing as .exe's which are themselves more efficient than storing
icons normally.  Plus this has the added bonus of allowing the user to
organize the icons into categories by the GIF filename.  This works rather
well actually.  _I_ don't plan to have a whole floppy FULL of icons anymore
since they will now fit into a few small GIF files.

Oh, btw, trimming the GIF's closely helps a lot too.

Any comments?

Rob.

Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
From: Trent A. Basarsky
Subject: qemm & 640K barrier 
Reply-To: tab@iastate.edu
Organization: Iowa State University, Ames IA
Date: Sat, 19 Dec 1992 22:29:28 GMT


  I am having problems with a tip that was given to me in the book
entitled "Windows 3.1 Secrets".  On page 246 the author goes into
exciting detail on how one can overcome the 640K barrier in a DOS
session if the DOS application is only text based.
  Specifically, the author claims QEMM has a utility called VIDRAM.com
that reallocates the memory area on your video card so it is now
available as conventional memory.  Sounds great!  Indeed, if you 
run the utility from only the DOS prompt and stay at the prompt you do
indeed grab another 96K of conventional memory!  However, if you take
the author's advice and try this technique in windows, it fails 
miserably.  I keep getting error messages that state I can not successfully
write to the video display.  I have tried almost every permutation
of the PIF file that I use to start this DOS session, but to no
avail.
  The really annoying thing is that the author states that he routinely
uses this approach to successfully run 1-2-3 and other DOS text 
applications.
  Has anyone else had success with this tip?  I am running a 486-50
with 16 MB ram, 2 SCSI drives, network connections, and a pile of 
device drivers to interface to a confocal microscope.  I need as much 
conventional memory as I can eke out of this system.  I am using WIN 3.1
and Norton Desktop 2.0.
  I would be most interested to know if anyone else has attempted this
tip, and if it does work, what the system configuration was.  Please
reply e-mail (and on this group for the benefit of others)

Thanks

Trent   
__________________________________________________________________
Trent A. Basarsky			Internet : tab@iastate.edu
Signal Transduction Training Group	  	
Iowa State University
Ames, Iowa 50011


Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
From: johnm@cortex.physiol.su.oz.au (John Males)
Subject: Latest ET3000 windows drivers
Organization: Department of Physiology, University of Sydney, NSW, Australia
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 09:57:58 GMT


Hello, 

My question is, after looking at the windows drivers files, what is the LATEST
version of the TSENG ET3000 video drivers, where can they be found, and what 
is the filename?

I think it may be about time some of the old versions are deleted, for the sake
of making things. Who wants to beta test something if the final releasis 
already out?


Anyway, thanks if you can help,

John
From: msk9@po.CWRU.Edu (Mahesh S. Khot)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
Subject: Re: Idlewild screen savers
Date: 17 Dec 1992 14:23:25 GMT
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
Reply-To: msk9@po.CWRU.Edu (Mahesh S. Khot)
NNTP-Posting-Host: slc5.ins.cwru.edu


In a previous article, nathans@pacifier.rain.com (Nathan Silva) says:

>
>Just a quick question: How can I use my "IdleWild" screen savers with
>Windows' built-in screen saver module?
>
>* Nate *
>(nathans@pacifier.rain.com)
>
>-- 
> -------------------------------------------
>| Nathan Silva                              |
>| nathans@pacifier.rain.com                 |
> -------------------------------------------
>

Move the idle wild files along with its .dll file to the windows directory
and choose from the control panel- desktop to select the saver you'd like
to use.

Mahesh
-- 
The King of Queen (rock group) is dead / But their music still lingers.
euphemism:  famous dummies =  Madam Tussade's Wax Museum. 
Still at Case msk9@po.cwru.edu
From: john.will@satalink.com (John Will) 
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
Subject: Re: Should I leave it on?
Date: 17 Dec 92 11:57:00 GMT
Distribution: world
Organization: Datamax/Satalink Connection * Ivyland, PA (215) 443-9434
Reply-To: john.will@satalink.com (John Will) 

TH>I do shut mine off when I leave the house due to the slight, but
TH>"if it happens - expensive" risk of fire. The monitor would be the most
TH>likely cause of fire. In fact I have heard of this happening.

I have SEEN this happen!  Not once, but twice, both times it was the
same model of Samsung EGA monitor!  The fire never got out of the case,
the HV supply would go and burn a hole in the PCB, very smelly! :-(
---
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From: iikkap@mits.mdata.fi (Iikka Paavolainen)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
Subject: Re: latex for windows
Date: 20 Dec 92 09:21:35 GMT
Organization: Microdata Oy, Helsinki, Finland

In article <BCHEN.92Dec18171751@yoyodyne.WPI.EDU> bchen@yoyodyne.WPI.EDU (Bi Chen) writes:
>
>I gave up window word processor and came back to LaTeX sometime ago. No
>word processor has the typesetting capacity as LaTeX or TeX, espcially
>in cross reference. However, LaTex does not allow you to change, say,
>from a two colum style into one on the same pager. Is there a forum for 

Comparing a word processor and a Tex program is quite unfair, as a word
processor is meant for a different purpose. How about trying a desktop publish-
ing program?


>LaTeX on internet so I can ask netter question?
>
>Thanks in advance.
>
>Bi Chen
>
>


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Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
From: ddavis@osiris.cso.uiuc.edu (Dave Davis)
Subject: Mailing from Windows for Workgroups Question
Summary: How does return receipt from Win for Workgroups Work?
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 03:50:26 GMT

In a recent demo put on by Microsoft, the representatives were describing the
e-mail capabilities of the product.  One item which caught my attention was
the mention of a return receipt feature which provides the ability for a user
to get a response back after a message is successfully delivered.  (It was not
clear whether the message was sent upon receipt of the message by the target
machine or when the message was actually read).  The MS rep said that the
executable code to provide the return receipt was part of the sent message and
was executed by the target machine.  Is this indeed the case?  I was not able
to follow-up on the issue due to the group environment of the demo, but this
causes nagging concerns.  Can anyone provide more details on how this works
and what protections are built in to prevent potential abuse? 

Thanks,

dave
ddavis@osiris.cso.uiuc.edu

Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
From: amf@ecs.soton.ac.uk (Andrew Fountain)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
Subject: Re: Windows Hebrew font
Date: 20 Dec 92 23:02:07 GMT

In <18273@mindlink.bc.ca> Jack_Marissen@mindlink.bc.ca (Jack Marissen) writes:

>Is there anyone out there who knows of a Hebrews font that is available
>for MS-Windows that I can download?  I need one in the next few weeks.
>Thanks.

WinGreek is a package for Windows that supports Hebrew. It includes
a range of Hebrew fonts and the keyboard goes from right to left.
It is shareware, you can download it from cica.
--
Andrew

-- 
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amf@artsci.utoronto.ca (Canada)      Dept of Electronics and Computer Science
Fax: +44 703 593045                  University of Southampton
Tel: +44 703 592831                  Southampton  SO9 5NH  England
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
From: scott@unixland.natick.ma.us (Scott Evernden)
Subject: Re: AdLib added to Win 3.1
Organization: Unixland Public Access Unix & Think_Tank BBS
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 15:19:38 GMT

In article <1ggmcmINNb1f@iskut.ucs.ubc.ca> hook@geog.ubc.ca (Chris Hook) writes:
>Can someone please tell me how to activate an AdLib sound board that
>I've just added to my 486.
>...
>By the way, I now get a Control Panel MIDI icon, but still nothing
>operative in the Control Panel Sounds section.

Add the Adlib driver via Control Panel's Drivers applet first, before
fiddling w/ Sounds...

-scott
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
From: schuck@fraser.sfu.ca (Bruce Jonathan Schuck)
Subject: NDW -- is there a way to run it from a network drive???
Reply-To: Bruce_Schuck@sfu.ca
Organization: Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C., Canada
Date: Sat, 12 Dec 1992 04:05:45 GMT

Is there a way to run NDW from a network drive and only have a few
essential files on my C: drive?

Windows allows it with  setup /n 

Word for Windows has a workstation option where it only copies *one*
file or creates *one* on my C: drive.

How about NDW?

If it doesn't, I may have to go back to Windows 3.1 -- arggghhh!

Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
From: jbennett@netcom.com (Joseph Bennett)
Subject: DEC's SETHOST and Win3.1
Summary: Getting mouse lock-up
Keywords: SETHOST, DEC
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  (408 241-9760 guest) 
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 20:21:11 GMT

We are having an interesting problem using DEC's SETHOST program (a DOS
application) with MSWin 3.1.  It run's OK (either via DEPCA or COMx), but
when we come out of it, the mouse cursor is hung, and will not move.  It 
seems to happen with different kinds of mice, different display devices,
..etc.  Has anyone been able to use SETHOST under MS-Win 3.1?

If you have or have any suggestions, please e-mail me at jbennett@netcom.com.

Thanks much.

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From: wslee@almond-frost.ai.mit.edu (Whay Sing Lee)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
Subject: Re: Should I leave it on?
Date: 16 Dec 1992 19:11:18 GMT
Organization: MIT Artificial Intelligence Lab
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: almond-frost.ai.mit.edu



In article <831@blue.cis.pitt.edu>, cap@mb5000.anes.upmc.edu (chris pilewski) writes:
|>  
|> |> Should I quit win3.1 when
|> |> I leave the comp. on for a while (I can't see why, but thought I'd ask
|> |> to be safe)?
|> 
|> This is not necessary.  Just running Windows (without any programs running)
|> does not increase the system load.
|> 

	you might want to make sure all the files you are working on have 
been properly saved before you leave though .. nasty things could happen to
the power supply when you are not around , and I bet it's no fun trying
to recover your data from the windows swap file  ....  [ and for that matter,
it's the same for whatever OS/application you run ... save those files .. ]




whay.
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
From: ls116@cunixa.cc.columbia.edu (Lei  Shao)
Subject: Re: AfterDark incompatibilities ????
Reply-To: ls116@cunixa.cc.columbia.edu (Lei  Shao)
Organization: Columbia University
Date: Sat, 19 Dec 1992 20:51:04 GMT

In article <8948@lee.SEAS.UCLA.EDU> amichael@edison.seas.ucla.edu (Michael A. Chu) writes:
>Hi,
>
>   I was wondering if someone can help me.  I am new to this newsgroup so 
>please don't flame me if this has been asked before.  
>
>   My problem is with the Afterdark Screen Saver and my video adapter/monitor.
>Some if the modules seem to do bad things to the colors when running Windows.
>Most of the time when the screen saver comes on and I hit a key to get back to
>Windows the screen is in black and white.  I think it is a problem with After
>Dark since it only happens with it.  I've already tried contacting the makers
>of After Dark and they gave me the run around.  Finally, they said it must be
>the VGA card.  I would have liked to have talked to the place where I bought 
>the computer, but I guess the economy has forced them out of business.  I     
>think the card is a 1 Meg Paradise Card though.  Is there anyway of fixing
>this ??  Is anyone else have similar problems, since I thought Paradise was
>a pretty popular video card ????  Please help if you can.
>
Make sure that the video driver you are using supports 256 color mode. As far
as I know, paradise only has 256 color drivers in 640x480 and 800x600 mode.
I'm using the 1024x768x16 driver. So if I use those AfterDark modules requiring
256 colors, my screen will go to B&W after I return to windows. I've tried to
use those modules with the 256 color drivers and they worked fine. Since I like
1024x768 resolution a lot and 16 colors is OK for me, so my solution with this
problem is just not to use those 256 color modules coming with AfterDark.
Hope this help.

>Thanks in advance,
>
Good luck.

>Michael
>
>(amichael@seas.ucla.edu)
Lei Shao
ls116@cunixa.cc.columbia.edu
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc