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From: cee1@ra.msstate.edu (Charles Evans)
Subject: Re: Weird Bug(?) in Ami Pro 3.0 Spell-Checker
Organization: Mississippi State University
Date: Sun, 10 Jan 1993 20:35:16 GMT

In article <10JAN199312482320@trentu.ca> spowell@trentu.ca (STEFAN POWELL) writes:
>I tried it and it works fine for me.  No hang-ups.  I used both the
>American and British dictionaries and the word 'One' was not marked.
>
>Are you shure you didn's spell it '0ne'?
>Notice how close the O and the 0 key are on the keyboard?
>
>_______________________________________________________________________________
>   "Don't worry Ma'am.  We're university students, we know what we're doing."
>                                          --Stefan Powell - SPowell@TrentU.CA

Yes, I tried that, and made sure, and even tried to replace it with the choice
give 'One' (other things given were lik one only any, etc etc etc).

I had thought that I typed 0ne.. but nope, still trying to figger it out

-- 

      Charles E. Evans | This nation is in decay because we are more 
   cee1@ra.msstate.edu |  concerned with RIGHTS and LAWS instead of
cevans@abe.msstate.edu |             RIGHTS and WRONGS.
From: gronke@acpub.duke.edu (Paul Gronke)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.apps
Subject: ELM / Unix Mail Reader?
Date: 8 Jan 93 19:02:10 GMT
Organization: Duke University; Durham, N.C.

I think i saw this before...
 
We are running a number of PCs on a Novell network.  For the time
being, we have to retriev mail off of a Unix system (Dec  Ultrix, so
no NSF mail, only SMTP).  
 
I need to put people up on the unix mail system (probably elm).
However, I heard about a program for the PC (Windows, Dos?) which will
sign in for them, retrieve their mail folders, and bring it back down
to the PC.  So that people can handle mail locally (rather than
teaching them elm+emacs, etc).
 
Any help?  Please mail to:  GRONKE@ACPUB.DUKE.EDU
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.apps
From: govindg@ucunix.san.uc.edu (Girish Govind)
Subject: Almanac for Windows problem
Organization: University of Cincinnati
Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1993 18:27:10 GMT

I am trying the "Almanac for windows 3.0" filename alm30f.zip or alman30f.zip
depending upon whether you get it from oakland or the cica archive.

The filesizes are different. And both of them do not print. They flag an error
like unable to find "Dynalink". 

Is it that because it is shareware one cannot print from it until the amount
has been paid? I defintely would have wanted to try it out completely before I
send the money.

Am I missing something?

-- Girish Govind
   govindg@ucunix.san.uc.edu
From: weikl@ee3ds1.ilt.fhg.de (Dr.B.Weikl)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.apps
Subject: RTF export from AmiPro 3.0
Date: 7 Jan 1993 11:30:33 GMT
Organization: ilt-fhg
Distribution: world
Reply-To: weikl@ilt.fhg.de
NNTP-Posting-Host: ee3ds1.ilt.fhg.de
Keywords: RTF export AmiPro


Hi all,

I've problems to import RTF files created with AmiPro 3.0. There seem to be Lotus specific extension. The errors I get are:
%RTP-W-UNKCNTL, unknown RTF-control-word "\lotusoutlinelevel" encountered.
%RTP-E-ERRSTYLNO, error parsing style number 12.
%RTP-W-UNKCNTL, unknown RTF-control-word "\lotusoutlinelevel" encountered.
%RTP-E-ERRSTYLNO, error parsing style number 9.--
%RTP-E-ERRSTYLNO, error parsing style number 6.

Any ideas how to circumvent this besides using ASCII?

Thanks for your help!

-- Bruno
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Subject: Re: "Invalid measurement units" starting a Template?
From: thomas@datamark.co.nz (Thomas Beagle)
Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1993 03:00:20 GMT
Organization: Datamark International Ltd.

In article <1993Jan5.223103.11738@grace.cri.nz> mdlcpgs@lhn.gns.cri.nz writes:
>I have just got W4W 2.0 and have immediately run into problems with
>the templates. I tried the LETPRSON (or something, personal letter)
>and when I had completed entering my name etc in the initialising
>macro, the thing immediately complained about "invalid measurement
>units used". Now I didnt enter ANY measurement units to look to
>me like a bug in the initialisation macro. Note: I have setup
>Windows for Metric units. Is this a known bug? Better still a known
>fix so I dont have to hack around the macros?

While I really like Word for Windows 2.0, I have been less than
impressed by the macros and supplied templates.

Write your own templates and use theirs for ideas...


-- 
    Thomas Beagle | thomas@datamark.co.nz           Work: 64 4 233 8186
Datamark Intl Ltd | thomas@cavebbs.welly.gen.nz     Home: 64 4 499 3832
 Technical Writer | Yes, I do have long ears, a black nose, and a tail.
From: keith@sytex.com (Keith Attenborough)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.apps
Subject: W4W 2.0b, ToggleScribbleM
Date: Mon, 04 Jan 93 22:42:22 EST
X-Maildoor: WaflineMail 1.00r

Hello;
        Does anyone have any experience with ToggleScribbleMode in W4W
   2.0b?  I'm having a problem and haven't received a response from
   Microsoft yet.

        System info:  486/33, 8mgb RAM, EISA, ATI Ultra Graphics card
   w/1mgb VRAM, 15" flat screen non-interlaced w/.28mm dot pitch
   and 72mhz refresh running 600x800.  DOS 5.0, Win 3.1, Win for Pen
   1.0.

        Intro:  ToggleScribbleMode allows user to place "ink" on
   a W4W document when VIEW is set to Page Mode.  The ink remains as
   ink (as opposed to being automatically translated into text), is
   saved with the file and can be viewed on another system, even if that
   system is not equipped with Win for Pen.  The ink does not print, and
   is not visible in either VIEW Normal or VIEW Draft modes.

        Problem:  While ink is being placed, the last object drawn, any
   inked object in a horizontal line with the last object drawn and
   any inked object in a horizontal line the height of the curser bar
   and in line with the curser bar will "blink" off the screen for some
   random period of time, then reappear.  Other inked objects on other
   parts of the screen and any typed text remain unaffected.
        Ink placed on the doucment when NOT in ToggleScribbleMode does
   not show the same effect, though that ink remains in place only
   until writing is paused.  Once it writing is paused, the ink is
   translated into typed text.

         Solutions Proposed:  MS help line first proposed the problem
   might be connected to screen refresh rates, but at 72mhz and given
   the pattern, that proposal seems couter-intuitive.  No second
   solution has been offered.  The hardware manufacturer (Dell) also
   does not believe it is refresh rate related, but does not have an
   alternative suggestion.

        So -- any ideas?  This capability is important to the intended
    application, which is to allow senior managers to use Windows for
    Pen computing at the desktop to annotate documents, transmitted over
    the LAN, for action or for later correction by the author.
    Currently these managers handwrite notes and comments on hardcopy
    documents.

Thanks in advance!

Keith       Std Disclaimer -- still working on that tag line.
keith@sytex.com

                                
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From: dmsilev@athena.mit.edu (Daniel M Silevitch)
Subject: Re: Why Equation Editor in WFW 2.0 can't work
Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1993 14:08:55 GMT

In article <peter.2.726327387@cad.ee.ntu.edu.tw> peter@cad.ee.ntu.edu.tw (Peter R. Tattam) writes:
>Hello.
>    My Equation Editor in WFW2.0 can't work correctly. Some symbo like sigma 
>can't appear. And there is a message box saying that MT Extra font not 
>installed correctly. But I reinstalled several times. It still can't work.
>Please Give me a hint. THANKS !!!!
>
>Chu W.H
>EE, National Taiwan University, Taiwan
>email address: r81132@cs.ee.ntu.edu.tw

IT'S BACK! Is there anything that we can do to get Microsoft to fix this
highly annoying bug? For those who don't know, the correct fix for this bug
is to manually install the fonts through the Control Panel. Open up the Fonts
dialog, and delete the fonts MT Extra and Fences. DO NOT delete the disk files,
only the list entries. Now select Add, and add the fonts MT Extra Plain and
Fences Plain (Regular instead of Plain for 2.0b). Close the Control Panel, and
restart Word. The equation editor will now work correctly.

Daniel Silevitch                            dmsilev@athena.mit.edu
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
From: clay@panix.com (Clay Irving)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.apps
Subject: Re: DIAMOND SPEEDSTAR 24 X
Date: 10 Jan 93 10:24:20 GMT
Organization: PANIX Public Access Unix, NYC

In <1993Jan9.193025.6788@netcom.com> larryb@netcom.com (Laurence Badagliacca) writes:

>I purchased a 24X about two weeks ago.  The supplied drivers did not work 
>properly with 256 bit color at any resolution:  When using Word For Windows 
>2.0b a general protection fault was created when you select tools then the 
>last item on that menu [options or setup I think].  I left mail on DiamondStar
>support BBS and have not received any reply for about 2 weeks.  I returned the
>card.            

That's what one may call a "known bug" -- The GPF occurs only at the higher
resolutions.
-- 
Clay is the word and clay is the flesh                      | Clay Irving
Where the potato-gatherers like mechanized scarecrows move  | New York, NY
Along the side-fall of the hill--Maguire and his men.       | clay@panix.com
   -- Patrick Kavanagh 1905-1967                            | clay@garpac.com
From: richm@CIS.Prime.COM (Richard Mutter)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.apps
Subject: W3.1 Cardfile to Excel 3.0
Date: 7 Jan 93 09:09:50 GMT
Reply-To: richm@CIS.Prime.COM
Organization: Computervision R&D Ltd

Can anyone please tell me if it is possible to import Windows
Cardfile data into an MS Excel 3.0 Database and, if so, how to
do it? Thank you in advance.


Richard Mutter
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.apps
From: mjducey@rodan.acs.syr.edu (Matthew "The Daddy" Ducey)
Subject: Can I remotly control a windows based pc! (help)
Organization: Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 93 12:14:38 EST

What sofeware package will allow me to control a windows based pc over a modem?

Something like pc anywhere but for windows.

My problem is that I have to treminate a process, update the files and restart
it.  Help!

How can I do this?

Matthew

Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.apps
From: anderson@dseg.ti.com (John Anderson)
Subject: Re: Latest version of QVTnet?  Where or who?
Organization: TI-DSEG Spring Creek
Reply-To: anderson@dseg.ti.com
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 18:45:25 GMT

In article <j4+3b=k@rpi.edu> floydb@rpi.edu writes:
>In article <1993Jan11.021508.15924@datamark.co.nz> thomas@datamark.co.nz (Thomas Beagle) writes:
>I will soon have registered copies of QVT/Net for PC-NFS 4.0 and Windows
>3.1 (version 3.15?). Once registered I am curious if response times improve,
>it would make sense if they do.
> 
barry

Please let us know when you get it, and post it somewhere.

I have been waiting for 3.15 for months.  I am a registered user, but have never
received my free update.

anderson@dseg.ti.com (John Anderson)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.apps
From: ntaib@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (Iskandar Taib)
Subject: Re: Scientific graphic for Windows ?
Keywords: Graphic
Organization: Indiana University
Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1993 15:28:42 GMT

In article <29DEC199212493521@moose.cccs.umn.edu> rwh@moose.cccs.umn.edu writes:
>I've been looking at Origin from MicroCal.  It seems fairly complete and it can
>do error bars out of the box which is a big deal around here.  The other
>package that gets used by the folks in BioStat is SigmaPlot.  They do some
>reasonably sophisticated plotting, and there is a Windows version of SigmaPlot
>due out Real Soon Now -- in fact, if you buy the DOS version, they'll give you
>the Windows version for free ;-).  I think both run around $500 US.
>
>     Origin: MicroCal Inc, (413)586-7720
>     SigmaPlot : Jandel, Inc, (415)453-6700

You can get the Origin demo off cica. Does everything but can't save. Looks
pretty slick but does take up huge amounts of disk space! 9-)





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Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.apps
From: nnw@concurrent.co.uk (Neil Watson)
Subject: Re: Mouse in DOS boxes
Organization: Concurrent Computer Corporation, Slough, England
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 15:04:13 GMT

In article <sph0301.145.726792062@utsph.sph.uth.tmc.edu> sph0301@utsph.sph.uth.tmc.edu writes:
>I've noticed something strange recently while trying to use the mouse
>with DOS applications running in a window.  I tried this with three
>DOS applications (WordPerfect 5.1, Paradox 4.0 and Quattro Pro 4.0)
>and got different results with each one.
>
>Paradox: mouse works fine in a window
>
>Quattro Pro: mouse doesn't work at all in a window
>
>WordPerfect: I have two cursors on the screen, the normal mouse arrow and
>  also a block cursor - they sort of track each other but don't usually
>  coincide.  If I can get them to coincide or move the mouse so that the
>  block cursor is at the top of the screen, then clicking the mouse
>  button will activate the menu. Unfortunately, the block cursor is
>  usually about 1/4 inch below and to the right of the arrow cursor.
From what I recall, there's a .txt file with windows (readme.txt, maybe)
that describes how to make W3.1 work with various other things,
including the likes of WP4DOS and mice. I seem to recall that you have
to do a few things on the WP setup menu (accelleration and the like),
and make some specific alignment actions, and then all is well. It works
OK on my machine, though in fact I use a Logitech mouse.

Have a look rounds in the .txt files in \windows, failing that, try the
.wri files.

Good Luck,
Neil
-- 
Neil Watson, ESDG Product Support, Concurrent Computer Corp
G0BLD        227 Bath Road, Slough, Berks, SL1 4AX, England
             Phone: (+44) 753 513360  FAX: (+44) 753 513303 
(nnw@slough.ccur.com, nnw@concurrent.co.uk or 100021,3041 @ Compuserve)
From: sievertl@hpcc01.corp.hp.com (Lisa Sieverts)
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 17:47:37 GMT
Subject: Re: Weird Bug(?) in Ami Pro 3.0 Spell-Checker
Organization: the HP Corporate notes server
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.apps

I've had the same occurrence, though for me it was the word "password".
Just as the original poster mentioned, Amipro highlighted the word
"password" in my text, but one of the options for how to correct it was
"password". Amipro was reluctant to allow me to pass this word by,
either when I chose Skip, or when I chose to replace "password" with   
"password".  There is something wrong with the Amipro spell checker.
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.apps
From: spcberto@psyche.spc.uchicago.edu (Robert Osterlund)
Subject: Re: MS Word upgrade worth it?
Organization: University of Chicago, SSPPCC
Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1993 18:47:38 GMT

What I like most about W4W 2.0 over 1.0:

--better memory and system resources management
--smoother performance
--the envelope printing feature
--auto-zooming to match page width to screen width; also to fit an entire
  page on-screen (not print preview, the page is still editable)

Let me put it this way:  Was I satisfied with 1.0?  No.  But 2.0 is now
good enough that I may never upgrade.  (Unless version 2.0 breaks in a
future version of Windows and I am forced to upgrade.  Perish the thought!)

Bob Osterlund
berto@clio.spc.uchicago.edu
SSPPCC--University of Chicago

Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.apps
From: nuspljj@mentor.cc.purdue.edu (Joseph J. Nuspl Jr.)
Subject: MS-Access file format
Organization: Purdue University
Date: Sat, 9 Jan 1993 05:26:24 GMT

I recently was in a discussion with some people about MS-Access.  The
topic of Microsoft's unwillingness to reveal the specifics of the MDB
file format came up.  I was the only one defending MS in this Bill Gates
bash.

Access files are protected through permissions.  If the specs of the file
format were public knowledge and the files were in no way encrypted, anyone
could have access to the data by getting into the file by an external
program.

I think that this was Microsofts intention.  Any thoughts.


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"I'm a space cowboy!"				 	(317) 495 - 5302
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Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.apps
From: mjducey@rodan.acs.syr.edu (Matthew "The Daddy" Ducey)
Subject: Updating Remote Windows Site
Organization: Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 93 08:50:52 EST

Hello World,





I need help with updating software at a remote site while the application
 
is running.


While the remote system is running windows, I need to:


Download files to it.

Unzip them.
Terminate the windows application.
Update the files
Start the application again.


Do I need PC anywhere or a windows based application?


Help

Matthew
From: carlf@panix.com (Carl Fink)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.apps
Subject: Problem with Harvard Graphics for Windows
Date: 4 Jan 93 20:59:47 GMT
Organization: PANIX Public Access Unix, NYC


  Hi.  This should be an easy question.  I receive the following
error message whenever I try to load a file into Harvard Graphics for Windows
version 1.01 under Windows 3.1:
 
     Application Error
HGW caused a General Protection Fault in Module HGW.EXE at 0036:1E3B
 
 
  Since Microsoft cleverly doesn't have a list of error messages
in their documentation, I have no idea what this means.  Can someone
help me out?  Reply either here or via mail - panix.com is my preferred
address.
 
  Thank you very much.
-- 
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
Xref: sparky comp.os.ms-windows.apps:6780 comp.os.ms-windows.setup:2605
From: phil@seidel.ucsb.edu (Philip Papadopoulos)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.apps,comp.os.ms-windows.setup
Subject: Re: QUESTION: Mouse in a box - HOW???
Keywords: mouse
Date: 8 Jan 93 18:32:25 GMT
Followup-To: comp.os.ms-windows.apps

dudek@acsu.buffalo.edu (The Cybard=) writes:

>I have an Insight 486DX-33 with 4 MB RAM and an Insight MS-compatible
>mouse.  How do I get the mouse to work in DOS windows (ie: CADKEY, Quattro
>Pro 3, WP 5.1 for DOS)?  I read an article in WINDOWS magazine on how to do
>this, but it didn't work.  Any idea as to what the deal is?  Thanks.

You need version 8.X (I'm not completely sure how low X can be, and I'm not 
sitting at home in front of my PC to tell) of the Microsoft Mouse Driver.
It is available on one of the Windows 3.1 disks in compressed form.
(I think it is on disk 4).    To read it in, go to a DOS prompt
and type in "expand a:mouse.co_ mouse.com" this will produce the
required mouse driver.   Then just load it at boot up with your
autoexec.bat file.   It should then work fine.  I've had no trouble
using the mouse in a DOS window with quattro pro and edit (DOS5.0 editor).


-Phil
From: tvp@gibdo.engr.washington.edu (Tad Perry)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.apps
Subject: WinFax Pro 3.0 OCR Feature, Short Preliminary Review
Date: 9 Jan 93 19:20:33 GMT
Article-I.D.: gibdo.1993Jan09.190412.22717
Organization: unaffiliated
NNTP-Posting-Host: gibdo.engr.washington.edu


The conclusion first: Assuming you have a one or two time use for OCR
capabilities that you would like a cheap solution for, it's worth the
upgrade price of $49 + $10 shipping, especially if you have use of
some of the other new features of WinFax Pro (like the ability to
design and edit your own cover pages.)

In my case there were a couple of things I wanted to scan. Basically I
wanted to fax them to myself, OCR them and then have them online.  The
OCR feature with spell checking turned on, and then one pass with an
interactive spell-checker, produced text with about 1 mistake per
70-character line. That's pretty much in line with the 90-95% accuracy
claims. And this was on smallish text out of a book, the fax of which
looked bad. It was obvious that larger text in a sans serif font would
work really well. One complaint with the spell-checker is that
sometimes it will spell-check a word into an entirely wrong word
rather than giving up. This is especially true if the correct one
isn't in the spell-checking dictionary. Using a better spell-checker
later may be the way to go, but I haven't looked at it yet.

I was dissapointed with my first attempt at "scanning" in this manner.
But I got the results I describe above after playing with the OCR
configuration, the fine and resolution controls on the sending fax,
and using the "clean image" feature before doing OCR (there may be
more factors I haven't even found yet). In this way it was possible to
greatly affect the accuracy of the resulting text file and I was
fairly happy. I'm pretty sure it can be fine tuned even further
with a close reading of the documentation.

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               CompuServe:  70402,3020
               NIFTY-Serve: GBG01266
From: fgd3@nifty.UUCP (Fabbian G. Dufoe, III)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.apps
Subject: Re:  WinFAX PRO v3: OCR
Date: 3 Jan 93 16:48:27 EST
Distribution: world
Organization: Fabbian G. Dufoe, III

In article <1993Jan2.104356.90892@vaxc.cc.monash.edu.au> neiger@vaxc.cc.monash.edu.au (Neiger) writes:
>In article <1i2g26INN3lc@mirror.digex.com>, burgoyne@access.digex.com (J. Robert Burgoyne) writes:
>> In article <C0699s.A5r@hkuxb.hku.hk> h8915726@hkuxa.hku.hk writes:
>>>
>>>      I got WinFAX Pro v3 running, it's very good, but the OCR does
>>>      not seem live up to what I expect. It can recognise mostly
>>>      on courier font, once I change to other fonts, it seems
>>>      that the SPACE character is not recgonised at all, all
>>>      words scrabble into one. Any ideas?
>>
>> There are high end OCR products which don't do a whole lot better.

   I once played around with Perceive Personal (an OCR program that doesn't
get the highest marks) and a hand scanner.  It deciphered scanned images
with various fonts and achieved about a 90% accuracy rate.  If the Winfax
OCR program can't do that well I would say it is unsatisfactory.

   I've also used Calera (a very highly rated OCR program) with a Hewlett
Packard ScanJet and the results were around 95%-98% accurate.  OCR
technology still has a long way to go.

>> Convince the senders to just send you the file with a modem!

   An excellent idea if it is possible.  Life is a lot easier if you can
maintain everything in machine-readable form.

>I have been reading a review of Ultrafax from Z-Soft and it seems to be a better
>alternative.  In addition to OCR (which I personally believe may or may not work
>although the dealer reckons that it is 95% accurate) it also features

   Most OCR software I've seen claims a 95% accuracy rate.  That sounds
pretty good.  If you think about it, getting five characters wrong out of
every 100 read still requires a lot of manual correction.  Still, it is
better than having to retype the material by hand.

--Fabbian G. Dufoe, III
   350 Ling-A-Mor Terrace South   | GEnie:    F.DUFOE3
   St. Petersburg, Florida  33705 | internet: fgd3%nifty@tct.com
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