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From: cpw8034@sigma.tamu.edu (ALAN CHIPIN WEN (409)693-2924)
Subject: Amiga2000HD Workstation (2 monitors,A2320,2.0,SCSIhd, more!)
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41    
Organization: Texas A&M University, Academic Computing Services
Date: Mon, 14 Sep 1992 06:00:00 GMT

Amiga 2000HD System:
  o NEC Multisync II Monitor  (.28mm dot pitch)
  o A2320 Display Enhancer Video Card  (VGA Ouput/ flicker fixer)
  o A2091 SCSI Controller w/ 42Mb Quantum Hard Drive
  o 2.04 Kickstart 512k ROM and Workbench Operating System
  o 12" Magnavox High Resolution Secondary Monitor
  o ECS Agnus for 1Mb of Chip RAM/  3 Mb Total RAM
  o (2) Internal  3 1/2" Disk Drives
  o Two Mice, Mouse Master, & Sega Compatible 2-Button Joystick
  o Tons of Games, Animations, Music, & Utilities
  o All Manuals, Documentation, and Cables included

This system is readily equiped to handle excellent video and graphic
work as well any other application you can dream of... 3D, DTP, etc.
Every component is in excellent condition and if preferred, installation,
personal setup, and customization will be provided at your convenience.

Complete Workstation:    $1350  o.b.o.

Call Alan at (409) 693-2924
or through E-Mail at CPW8034@ZEUS.TAMU.EDU
From: lhb6v@FARADAY.CLAS.VIRGINIA.EDU (Laura Hayes Burchard)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Getting a modem to autoanswer
Date: 15 Sep 92 23:06:44 GMT


I have a feeling that I'm overlooking something simple, but I am
having trouble getting a Bitfax modem to autoanswer.  We got it
about a year ago, but didn't get around to setting it up until
now. In the meantime, we lost the manual.

I've loaded the RECVFAX into background memory, on autoanswer,
and tried using Alt-Y in Procomm, but in neither case will it
pick up the phone.  Do I have to reset dip switches to have it do
so?  (This is a Dell PC compatible, which requires unscrewing the
cover to get at the boards, so I'm not eager to crack it open
until I know.)

If this isn't the correct group, I'll take directions on which
one to go to. 

Laura
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From: steve@europa.esd.sgi.com (Motorin' Flarey Henderson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware,comp.sys.laptops
Subject: Re: PC laptop advice requested
Date: 15 Sep 92 17:50:24 GMT
Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc.  Mountain View, CA

In <1992Sep15.044407.10739@leland.Stanford.EDU> davidw@jessica.Stanford.EDU (David J. Whelan) writes:

>Does anyone have any recommendations for a fast, color PC laptop?
>General requirements include support for an internal faxmodem and
>ports for a mouse and external monitor.  Price is not really an issue,
>but around $4000 is probably a ceiling (and spending less would be
>much better).  I've heard that the Toshiba 4400 is a good system--what
>is comparable to this?

There really is nothing comparable to this!  The only drawback to the 4400SXC
is that it is heavier than most notebooks at 7.5 lbs.  You can pick one up
in the area (try Connecting Point on El Camino near California) for around
$3800.  It is the only active matrix color notebook with a 486, and has the
longest battery life.  In this price range there is also the Compaq Lite-25C
(6.5lbs), the Sharp 8800 series (5.9 lbs), and NEC 386SLC (7lbs).  These
three use the 386SL processor at 25MHZ, except for the Sharp, which is at
20MHZ.  The battery life is quite a bit less, and they don't weigh that much
less.  They are also quite a bit slower.

There are passive matrix color notebooks under $3000, but the screen quality
is poor.  

I would strongly suggest you get your hands on the August issue of PC Magazine.
They did an extensive review on 80 notebooks and portables, including color
machines.   Also, stop by Connecting Point and check out the
machines.  They have the best selection, and have fairly decent prices. They
sell notebook computers and peripherals.

>Thanks,
>David J. Whelan
>davidw@jessica.stanford.edu


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Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
From: adam@symcom.math.uiuc.edu (Adam H. Lewenberg)
Subject: MS-DOS editor for big files.
Organization: Math Dept., University of Illinois at Urbana/Champaign
Distribution: usa
Date: Sat, 5 Sep 1992 01:25:21 GMT

Could someone direct me to a free or shareware editor for MS-DOS that
can handle BIG files (at least 400K). It can be very primitive
otherwise. 
                   Thanks, Adam H. Lewenberg
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
From: fox@rei.com (Fuzzy Fox)
Subject: Re: Stacker vs. SuperStor
Date: Mon, 14 Sep 1992 15:50:54 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: Recognition Equipment, Inc.

Scott.Johnson@FtCollinsCO.NCR.COM (Scott Johnson) writes:

>I think that
>the latest SuperStor gives you the ability to write compressed floppies that
>are readable by any machine, even without superstor

How can DOS read a compressed disk without loading a device driver to
make sense of it?  Do they include a TSR routine on the floppy?

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
From: khioe@mona.jpl.nasa.gov (Kent Hioe)
Subject: What is the best (good) program for send/receive Fax.
Followup-To: khioe@juno.jpl.nasa.gov
Keywords: Fax program
Organization: jpl
Date: Wed, 9 Sep 1992 21:06:51 GMT


Hi, does any one have any idea which best FAX program available in the market ?
How about WINFAX PRO ? Would any user of WINFAX PRO give any comment ?
Is it able to read any Word processor file ? such as, WINWORD 2.0, WordPerfect
and other popular word processor ?


Thank you for your help.


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khioe@juno.jpl.nasa.gov
From: slimick+@pitt.edu (John C Slimick)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Plotter Parts
Date: 6 Sep 92 22:43:26 GMT
Distribution: na
Organization: University of Pittsburgh
Originator: slimick@pmax1.cis.pitt.edu


A local retired person wants to get his HP 9862 Plotter
running again. Can anyone provide information on where
he could find spare parts or units to cannibalize?

Please respond via email, and thx in advance.

John Slimick
slimick@unix.cis.pitt.edu
From: johnson@spectra.com (boyd johnson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Re: Stacker vs. SuperStor
Keywords: Data Compression
Date: 9 Sep 92 23:03:24 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: Spectragraphics Corporation

In article <BuA1Eu.480@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu> ezachris@cochiti.ucs.indiana.edu writes:
>
>I (too) am running out of diskspace and Stacker and SuperStor came to  
>mind. SuperStor will give you compressed floppies, which Stacker won't.

Bzzzzt! wrong answer.  Stacker 2.0 will give you compressed floppies, but
you need to do a command-line mount of each floppy you insert.
I don't know about the SSTOR equivalent.
The DR DOS version of SSTOR requires some conventional memory, which
Stacker 2.0 and SSTOR 2.0 do not require on a 386.

>Which is better?
>Any difference in performance (compression ration/speed)?

They're functionally not much different.  The utilities are somewhat
different, and preferences are probably very subjective.

BTW, if this gets out into the world, please reply via email, since none
of my articles for the past month seem to have made it onto the
Internet.   Thanks in advance!

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From: cantor@iguana.cis.ohio-state.edu (scott eric cantor)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Re: Speaking of Window NT
Keywords: Microsoft, Window_NT, SLOW
Date: 14 Sep 92 15:44:25 GMT
Organization: The Ohio State University Dept. of Computer and Info. Science

In article <1992Sep12.232836.11107@skynet.uucp> ice@skynet.uucp (Ice) writes:
>
>Whose checked out Destiny by Univel (alliance b/n Unix System Labs and
>Novell)? Unix System Five release 4.2 with the ability to run Windows
>and supposedly OS/2 and DOS. Supposed to be runnable on a 386 with 4 megs
>of ram, though more is recommended.
>
>Ice()	ice@skynet.uucp...
>

	We're getting a beta soon.  I've never heard the name Destiny, though.
I was calling it UnixWare.  It sounds interesting, but my boss is no big fan
of Unix, so he sees it as the merging of two evils, Unix and Netware.
If the DOS and Windows support is good, it could be interesting.  I hadn't
heard about the OS/2 support.  Is that just character-based 1.x stuff or full
2.0 compatibility?  That'd be a neat trick.

	I'm a little concerned about some of the things they're leaving out
though.  Unix without TCP/IP seems a little lame.  Also they got rid of
a lot of advanced utilities that normally come with Unix.  I assume it comes
with X11, because they offer both Motif and OpenLook managers.

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
From: mccall@mksol.dseg.ti.com (fred j mccall 575-3539)
Subject: Re: Desqview/X -- Opinions?
Keywords: Desqview, multi-tasking, stuff, slunge
Organization: Texas Instruments Inc
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1992 22:32:43 GMT

In <mirage.716509864@camelot> mirage@camelot.bradley.edu (Jeffrey Hoffman) writes:


>I am interested in the opinions of those who have seen/used Desqview/X.

>I have no prior experience with Desqview, so I would appreciate comparisons
>with Windows.  Any details, features or shortcomings would be very helpful.

>Is it worth the money?  Is OS/2 a better choice?  More stable?

I bought it when it first came out, loaded it briefly, and then pulled
it off.  I do, however, use the QEMM that came with it, which works
very well.

I found DV/X (on my machine) to be both slow and unstable.  I was also
rather disappointed that in order to get it so that it could talk to a
UNIX box running X, I would have had to spend hundreds more dollars.

OS/2 is definitely the better choice.  I have also messed with it and
found it to be much more reliable and stable.  It, too, is somewhat
slow, but this is expected to improve in the October/November time
frame when the update package for it is released (32-bit graphics
engine, Windows 3.1 compatibility, various performance enhancements).
Were it me, I would go with OS/2.

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
From: djakman@fwi.uva.nl (Kemal Djakman)
Subject: Strength of Mechanical Structure program wanted
Organization: FWI, University of Amsterdam
Date: Sun, 13 Sep 1992 20:16:05 GMT

I'm looking for a PC program (shareware or commercial) which can help 
with the calculation of the strength of a mechanical structure. Maybe 
something like a dynamic finite element analysis program?
 
The structure being considered is an oil-field pumping unit, which is
mostly made of steel.
 
If anybody knows something, please mail me at: djakman@fwi.uva.nl
Any help would be appreciated.
 
---kemal---
From: Jim_Johnson@abcd.Houghton.MI.US (Jim Johnson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Re: SUPERSTOR
Distribution: world
Date: 10 Sep 92 23:39:32 EST
Organization: Amiga BitSwap Central Dispatch

Until I recently purchased a much larger HD, I ran the version of SuperStor
included with DRDOS 6.0.  In fact, I was running it on a 20meg parallel
port connected HD.  It ran just fine.  DRDOS 6.0 documentation does warn
you against using any disk optimization software other than DISKOPT (comes
with DRDOS 6.0) on the SuperStor partition.  I personnally like Norton, but
it was a small price for what I gained in disk space.

If I keep adding stuff to my current drive, I will probally re-install
SuperStor.

-- Via DLG Pro v0.995

Jim Johnson-
*** Remember, they're only tools - Not a way of life! ***
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
From: gsroka@leland.Stanford.EDU (Gregory Sroka)
Subject: Re: File called "SUICIDE.IBM"
Organization: DSG, Stanford University, CA 94305, USA
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 92 20:20:15 GMT

In article <BuDM74.KBv@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu> ntaib@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (Iskandar Taib) writes:
>In article <ygPsqB1w164w@mma.guild.org> al@mma.guild.org (Al Steane) writes:
>>A friend of mine mentioned that he had been cleaning up the disc on his
>>machine and found a file in his root directory called SUICIDE.IBM taking about
>>50k bytes. He immediately ran SCAN to check for viruses but found nothing. Has
>>anyone else found this file on their machines? Can you tell me where it comes
>>from and whether it is benign or malignant?
>
>Have him TYPE the file. Could be a prank. Does he have friends
>who use Macs?
>

Are there any Mac users who really know how to create a text file on an IBM-PC?
(*GASP*) I'm stunned by the thought ...

Maybe his PC was listening to Ozzy Osbourne tunes and decided to end it all...

Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
From: ejhupper@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu (Eric Huppertz)
Subject: Hi-res windows wallpaper files
Date: Sun, 06 Sep 1992 03:34:08 GMT
Organization: Illinois State University


I am looking for an ftp site to download hi-resolution (256 color,
640x480) vga wallpaper files for windows.  I already have one very
cool one called "Seascape.bmp", from a file called sanctu.zip.

Where can I get hold of these?  Is there an ftp site for windows
related files?  Or if there is a package I could purchase, would
anyone be kind enough to let me know.

Thanks in advance!

Cheers,
-Eric

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Organization: Johannes Kepler University Linz - Computing Center
Date: Wednesday, 9 Sep 1992 16:41:09 CDT
From: <K390670@ALIJKU11.BITNET>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: INDUSTRY LEADERS JOINTLY BASH CLONERS

In a move that is expected to reduce the 500+ clone makers to about 50+,
leading PC manufacters like IBM, DEC, Compaq etc. have jointly
developed a 486-50 machine that will sell for *less* than $1000.

The machine, called TIGER 2, features:
   486-50
   4 MBytes RAM
   AT-BUS IDE hard disk
   a.m.m.

If anyone knows more, please do post it in this newsgroup.
(I have been told the little I know about TIGER 2 by a DEC employee.)

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc,comp.sys.ibm.pc.programmer
Subject: Borland TurboVision for C++ development tools
From: srlncnc@gopher.dosli.govt.nz (Chris Crook)
Date: Wed, 9 Sep 1992 23:16:25 GMT
Organization: Department of Survey and Land Information, New Zealand


Does anyone know of tools for generating skeleton code and data structures
for TurboVision dialog boxes?

I am developing a small TurboVision application using Borland C++ +
Application Framework.  Setting up and maintaining dialog boxes and the
related data structures could easily become a headache if I don't get them
right first time.

If you know of any tools to help automate this process I would be very
interested to hear of them.

Thanks in advance
Chris Crook


Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
From: alawrenc@sobeco.com (a.lawrence)
Subject: Re: How many people program?
Reply-To: alawrenc@sobeco.com
Organization: Lawrence & Assc.
Distribution: usa
Date: Sat, 5 Sep 92 10:37:07 GMT

In <2dwy14c@rpi.edu> cougar@acm.rpi.edu (Erik Collin) writes:


>A friend and I were chatting and the question of how many people
>that own PCs do any of their own programming?  This question could 
>be answered in a number of ways depending on what you consider 
>"programming".  In this case lets define programming as the use of
>a language such as BASIC, Pascal, C, COBOL, Lisp and the like.  Things
>such as DBase don't count.  There is also the question of just who we 
>want to include in our group of users.  Should people like secretaries 
>who use a PC to do word processing and spread sheets be counted?  Should 
>people that are requiered to program (like students) be counted?  
>I dunno...

I wouldn't count out dBase if I were you.  Some organizations have paid me
very good money to write programs for them in dBase (in the thousands of
dollars).

What about macro writing for applications like Lotus, Excel, Word Perfect
or MS-Word.  Sure most user's just record a few keystokes, but I have
also seen a $50,000 package written entirely in Lotus Macros.

>Lets do this:  What percentage people that buy a PC of any type for home 
>use end up writing their own programs in one of the above mentioned 
>languages?  And, what percentage use a language other than BASIC?

>My guesses (I really have nothing to base this on):
>   all languages: 20%
>   all languages excluding BASIC: 10%

>Your guess?  Comments?  Flames?

My guess would be that less than 2% of the people who buy a PC type
computer for home use do any kind of programming more complicated than
recording a few keystrokes or writing a very simple batch file.  Most
cann't go beyond the menu system setup by the computer store or a friend.

-- 
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From: schin@acs.bu.edu (neil schier)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Does anyone know of a a good laptop repairman in the boston area
Date: 9 Sep 92 16:07:01 GMT
Organization: Boston University, Boston, MA, USA


Hello

My Bondwell 386sx blew a fuse 
and the hard drive is fucked up. Does anyone know of a reliable repairman
in the Boston area 

Thanks in advance
From: bx304@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Jeff Epler)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Re: New Stacker
Date: 15 Sep 1992 01:15:35 GMT
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
Reply-To: bx304@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Jeff Epler)
NNTP-Posting-Host: hela.ins.cwru.edu


In a previous article, kris@microware.com (Kris Hoffmeyer) says:

>In article <1992Sep10.165416.14551@rei.com> fox@rei.com (Fuzzy Fox) writes:
>>
>>A quick note on Norton's FS -- It will tell you that there is unused
>>slack space on the Stacker drive, but what Norton doesn't realize is
>>that Stacker actually re-uses this slack space during its compression.
>>So any figures you see on slack space are reported by unaware software.
>>Stacker drives have very little slack space at all.
>
>I don't understand how stacker does not have slack space...
>Stacker does allow you to set the file block size, but it installs
>at 8K blocks, right?  So if a file or it's last block is less than
>8K, the rest is "slack", isn't it?   I could see Norton's FS getting
>confused and being inaccurate in reporting slack space, but how does
>Stacker fix the "slack" issue...?

Stacker internally allocates in 512-byte clusters.  So, for an 8192-byte
cluster, compression can be 1.0:1 (Takes at least 15x512+1 bytes to
store) to 16.0:1 (Takes <=512 bytes to store).

Incidentally, it appears that Stacker (And possibly superstor) uses this
to help inflate its compression figures.  SCHECK reports the file space
as number of clusters used, which is a 4096-byte average per file.  So
on my drive (Mostly ZIPS, I know I'm silly.) it claims 1.4:1 compression
but it's only about 1.1:1 right now.

I'm less satisfied with stacker now than I was before I realized this
inflation of its compression figure... <sigh>
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
From: ntaib@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (Iskandar Taib)
Subject: Re: File called "SUICIDE.IBM"
Organization: Indiana University
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1992 19:01:52 GMT

In article <ygPsqB1w164w@mma.guild.org> al@mma.guild.org (Al Steane) writes:
>A friend of mine mentioned that he had been cleaning up the disc on his
>machine and found a file in his root directory called SUICIDE.IBM taking about
>50k bytes. He immediately ran SCAN to check for viruses but found nothing. Has
>anyone else found this file on their machines? Can you tell me where it comes
>from and whether it is benign or malignant?

Have him TYPE the file. Could be a prank. Does he have friends
who use Macs?






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From: burch@rhps.UUCP (Lee Burch)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc,comp.sys.ibm.pc.programmer
Subject: Re: Looking for better spawn function for Borland C++
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 92 15:48:34 PDT
Organization: CrissySoft Incorporated

srlncnc@gopher.dosli.govt.nz (Chris Crook) writes:

> 
> I am programming using Borland C++ and I am looking for a bigger and better
> version of the spawn function.  What I want to be able to do is run another
> program and give it nearly all the available memory, then return to my
> original program more or less exactly as I left it.
>
> Any other suggestions would be welcome!
> 
> Thanks in advance
> Chris Crook
> 
  generally avalible you can find drop in spawn replacements that
swap to disk or memory.  one that comes to mind is spawno40.zip
but there are several.  I know as a fact that w-u archive has
theem as well as simtel 20.  for reference w-u archives address
is 128.252.135.4.  the only example of a swap to disk function
with source I am aware of is in the WWIV BBS but unfortunately
the source is not shareware (requires registration).


Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
From: jpehko@cs.joensuu.fi (Juha Pehkonen)
Subject: Re: What HD?
Organization: University of Joensuu
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1992 08:10:38 GMT

Steven_P._Oliver@bearsden.UUCP (Steven P. Oliver) writes:
>The chances of you haveing purchased a 386 with a SCSI drive in it are
>slim, very slim indeed..Almost all clones made today come with IDE
>controllers and cards in them, especially if the HD is smaller than 130meg.

Boy oh boy, am I proud to own one :-) Then again I bought my computer
over two years ago. SCSI with a 85Mb HD.

Juice
jpehko@cs.joensuu.fi