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From: ljnelson@unix.amherst.edu (LAiRD j. NeLSoN)
Subject: Avoid ZEOS
Organization: Amherst College
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL7]
Date: Sat, 12 Dec 1992 19:04:13 GMT

[ Article crossposted from comp.misc ]
[ Author was ljnelson@unix.amherst.edu ]
[ Posted on Fri, 11 Dec 1992 04:26:04 GMT ]

Just a quick experience my roommate has had with ZEOS International:

On November 12th he bought a 486/50 upgrade--a new mother board to be dropped
into his existing 386/16.  The sale was completed in a snap, and he shipped
the computer off.  They promised a 10 day turnaround, assuring him that 
the swap would be relatively simple.

It is now December 11th, and he still has not received his computer back.
Customer service has been absolutely reprehensible, passing the buck and
the responsibility for all the mindless shuffling of paperwork to practically
every department.  He has been told on two or three separate occasions that
the computer would be shipped back to him "today, or tomorrow at the latest."
On each of these occasions he has been assured that the computer was "in 
repair" and was undergoing its 24 hour burn-in test.  Fedex deliveries have
been promised and have not materialized.  Within two or three days, ZEOS will
have held on to his computer for 30 days, after which they are required to 
ship it back or replace it by law.

That such an otherwise apparently respectable company should be so lacking in
supporting its customers seems ridiculous to me; I thought reputation was
more important than that.  Here, at least, are two people who will never 
deal with ZEOS again.

Responsibility, apparently, is nowhere to be found; everyone whom my roommate
has contacted has claimed that they are not involved in the process: from sales
to customer service to repair.

Miserable response and "support" such as this is what gives mail order its
bad name.  I have recommended to others on campus who are thinking of buying
computers to avoid ZEOS; I would do the same for *anyone*.

LAiRD

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From: jmann@vineland.pubs.stratus.com (Jim Mann)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Re: PRODIGY New and improved STILL SUCKS, HORRIBLE as before
Date: 18 Dec 92 20:18:48 GMT
Reply-To: jmann@vineland.pubs.stratus.com
Organization: Stratus Computer Inc, Marlboro MA
NNTP-Posting-Host: gondolin.pubs.stratus.com

In article <1992Dec18.194659.3619@pony.Ingres.COM> brucek@Ingres.COM  
(Bruce Kleinman) writes:

> 
> The fact that we find so much to criticize indicates that many of  
the
> other problems various folks have brought up do indeed exist, but  
there
> simply is no censorship based on the objective content of the  
messages.

Wrong. Prodigy shut down a group of Incest Survivors, because
they found the topic offensive.


--
Jim Mann            
Stratus Computer   jmann@vineland.pubs.stratus.com  
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From: fordke@infonode.ingr.com (Keith Ford)
Subject: Re: PKzip 2.01??? What it is???
Organization: Intergraph Corporation, Huntsville, AL.
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 18:28:46 GMT

>        Has anybody heard about PKZIP 2.01???? I got it and I
>        wonder how it fits in PKzip's other versions. I thought
>        that last version was something about 1.93 or so.

As I understand it, the last formal relase of PKZIP is 1.1.
The 1.93 is a beta that has yet to be officially released.
I've also heard of some 2.X versions that are actually trojans
that will damage your disk.  Be wary.
-- 
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From: crh@hpcvaac.cv.hp.com (Ron Henderson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Re: Magazines for PC: Which is better?
Date: 11 Dec 92 19:29:57 GMT
Article-I.D.: hpcvaac.1992Dec11.192957.18165
Organization: Hewlett-Packard Company, Corvallis, Oregon USA

In article <1gak35INNitn@darkstar.UCSC.EDU>, ted@helios.UCSC.EDU (Ted Cantrall) writes:
|> In article <1992Dec11.125234.11746@cs.unca.edu> fauerbac@ivy.cs.unca.edu (John Fauerbach) writes:
|> ->c188-cr@po.berkeley.edu (Chua Hak Lien) writes:
|> ->: Which PC magazine is best for someone mainly interested in programming?
|> ->: What exactly is the difference b/w PC Computing, PC Sources, PC Magazine
|> ->: and PC World?
|> ->: 
|> ->: Any info would be appreciated, as I can't subscribe to them all.. =)
|> --------------
|> IMHO, none of the mentioned mags are for programmers. A lot of mags deal
|> heavily in reviews. There are programming specific mags such as The C Users
|> Journal. I can`t think of any other titles off hand but I know there are
|> several.

Another is Computer Language...

Ron crh@cv.hp.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
From: sinniah@wam.umd.edu (...)
Subject: Autocad R12 and Autoshade 2.0
Organization: University of Maryland, College Park
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 04:20:37 GMT

 Hi,

I need some information regarding Autocad R12.  If one buys Autocad R12
then does one still need Autoshade 2.0?  Or is Autoshade 2.0 much
better than the shade features in Autocad R12?   I know that  R11
did not support shade features and one had to buy the Autoshade 2.0
seperately.  Any information on this would be helpful.  Thanks in
advance and please email me if you know about this.

Kumar Sinniah


Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
From: Andrew McCallum <andrewm@zooid.guild.org>
Subject: Re: Stacker ate my hard disk again.  :(  help....
X-To: .
Organization: The Zoo of Ids
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 03:14:00 GMT

From ftw33616@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (.)
>does stacker 3.0 have any of these problems?

    Better; Read Errors.


    Or so my friend tells me.  He's using a 286, and I still have to get a
copy myself.  I can always return it, or sell it off.  His computer is kinda
screwed anyways as well.

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From: franks@hpuamsa.neth.hp.com (Frank Slootweg CRC)
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 14:59:23 GMT
Subject: Re: DR DOS disk compression with MSDOS
Organization: Hewlett-Packard, The Netherlands
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc

sknkwrks@howlin.cs.unlv.edu (Scott Alfter) writes:

> The version of SuperStor included with DR DOS, however, does have some
> problems.  Under certain circumstances, data files can overwrite the
> FAT and whatever else is at the beginning of your compressed volume,
> which can really ruin your whole day. :-)

  There is that urban legend again. Every now and then it pops up and
when people ask "Did you really have such a problem?" or in other ways
ask for information or confirmation, then deadly silence follows.

  Data corruption is no joke. If you say that some product corrupts your
data, then, I think, you should back up that statement or not make it.
I'm afraid that "Under certain circumstances" is a little too thin to
ruin a companies reputation.

  I have been using the version of SuperStor included with DR DOS for
some 9 months without any problem, and yes I have totally filled up my
SSTORed partition many times (if that is what you mean by "Under certain
circumstances").
Xref: sparky comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc:15715 comp.graphics:12798 comp.binaries.ibm.pc.wanted:7847
From: tim@gold.iss.nus.sg (Tim Poston)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc,comp.graphics,comp.binaries.ibm.pc.wanted
Subject: Re: Bambi meets Godzilla -- bambi1.uu
Keywords: bambi ansi vt100 animation
Date: 9 Dec 92 06:48:16 GMT
Reply-To: tim@iss.nus.sg (Tim Poston)
Organization: Institute of Systems Science, NUS, Singapore

On a UNIX workstation
 cat
is much too fast, but you get a good idea of the animation with
 more.

Tim

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
From: chaplin@keinstr.uucp (Roger Chaplin)
Subject: Whatever happened to DataWorld?
Organization: Keithley Instruments, Cleveland, Ohio
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL8]
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 21:16:59 GMT


In late 1990 I purchased a DataWorld LP320 laptop computer.  I tried to
call them today to inquire about a new battery, and have come to the
conclusion that they are no longer in business - they don't show up in
_Computer Shopper_ B-(

Does anyone know what happened?  Did some other company purchase their
product line?

Please respond via e-mail - address in the .sig is correct.

-- 
Roger Chaplin / Instruments Division Engineering / "Though I'd been lost now I
chaplin@keinstr.uucp / CI$: 76307,3506          / felt I was found when He
#include <disclaimer.h>                        / looked at me with His
#include "disclaimer.h" /* cover all bases */ / forgiving eyes." - Michael Card
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: boltz@chopin.psu.edu (Mark Boltz)
Subject: ATI Ultra Pro - Opinions Sought
Organization: Penn State University
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 92 17:42:11 GMT

HI

I'm looking for owners/users of the ATI Ultra Pro for their opinions on this
card.  Have any of you had problems?  Has ATI been helpful in resolving those
problems?  What's the average retail price for the Ultra Pro right now?
Does it work well?  Is it easy to install (jumper settings, etc.)?

Please send opinions to the address below...
thanx

------------------------                        ------------------------------
boltz@vivaldi.psu.edu                         The Pennsylvania State University
"Buster" Boltz, Toonster Extraordinare                "...no relation"
"Dost thou not know, my son, with how little wisdom the world is governed?"
					Count Oxenstierna (1583-1654)
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From: slemons@lime.EBay.Sun.COM (Steven Lemons)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Re: Stacker ate my hard disk again. NOT!
Date: 15 Dec 1992 05:06:04 GMT
Organization: Sun Microsystems, Inc.
Distribution: world
Reply-To: slemons@lime.EBay.Sun.COM
NNTP-Posting-Host: lime.ebay.sun.com


Like several other users, I had been using version 1.x of Stacker since
it came out, with no problems that could be attributed to the program.
"Unstable" is not a fair characterization of this software.

	.	.	.

I put off upgrading, since $49+ seemed out of line for an upgrade to
software in this price range. (And with several products now competing
in this market, this is probably the last time Stacker will be able to
soak its users for this amount.)

Regardless, I've just upgraded to version 3. This version is definately
quicker on my pc, though I'm not sure that they have managed to
increase the level of compression much.

One potential problem is the setup program. It works fine for the most
part, but it expects to be able to install the entire upgrade into the
directory in which the current Stacker program resides. Now, I don't
know about version 2, but version 1 only required you to leave a very
small (100k?) portion of the disk uncompressed.

So let's say that you left only the minimum amount of space
uncompressed, putting stacker.com there, and the remainder of the
Stacker programs onto the compressed volume. When you go to install
version 3, it of course wants to put everything into the same directory
with stacker.com.  Unfortunately, there isn't room, and the setup
program doesn't give you the option of changing the install directory -
it simply says to make more room, and run setup again. Well, there is
no way of making more room, if the Stacker volume is occupying all but
100k of the disk. We're talking "major problem with the setup program"
here.

It is possible to get around this "little" problem with the setup
program, but one would expect more from version 3 of a product that is
the leader in its field. This setup program puts (some) users into precisely 
the position in which they are likely to make a mistake, and perhaps
damage their existing stacked volume.


Steve Lemons
From: graves@jemez.eece.unm.edu (John Graves)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: HOW 2... PC Batch Programming
Date: 15 Dec 92 18:23:26 GMT
Organization: University of New Mexico, Albuquerque

I'm frustrated...

Is it just me, or is DOS Batch worthless.?..

Is there a way to read input from a user(More than 1 char) and put
it into a var?

I have Norton Batch Enhancer, but this isn't much of an enhancement.

Is there a way to extract characters from a variable? ie array $1[5]?

Is there a package on the internet that will help with this?

Thanks in advance...
Please send email to graves@jemez.eece.unm.edu


-John
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From: sigma@degas.ipl.rpi.edu (Kevin Martin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Re: Msdos 5.0 Vs Drdos 6.0
Date: 16 Dec 92 17:42:52 GMT

mikew@hpwarha.wal.hp.com (Michael Williams) writes:
>In article <724113082.F00003@misgate.gmi.org> Chuck.Johnston@f886.n2000.z12.misgate.gmi.org (Chuck Johnston) writes:
>>I do no what you mean abut S-L-O-W floppy access, but never connected it with
>>switching to DRDOS 6.0. Do YOU know the reason?
>Well, I know exactly what he means!  I've been using DR-DOS 6.0 at home
>for over a year, and I have yet to hear a satisfactory explanation from
>DRI/Novel about why floppy disk access is so slow.  The MS-DOS system at
>work is MUCH faster, as is my home system when I boot it under MS-DOS.

This has been discussed many times here before, and no, there never has
been a good explanation.  In any case, I've found two situations which
alleviate the problem:

1) Strangely, the first floppy access in a Windows DOS Box is slightly
faster than outside Windows, although it's still rather slow.

2) Running SuperPCKwik with all the "Fast" options makes an enormous
difference.  You'll forget there was ever a problem.

3) OK, THREE situations.  Formatting disks with FDFORMAT will generally
make sequential disk accesses (large file read/writes) faster, but probably
doesn't do much for the first access.

-- 
Kevin Martin
sigma@ipl.rpi.edu
"I told you I'd shoot, but you didn't believe me! WHY didn't you BELIEVE me?!"
From: av@uta.fi (Arto V. Viitanen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Re: Need help with ".Z" files...
Keywords: compress, pack, tar
Date: 17 Dec 92 13:34:44 GMT
Organization: University of Tampere, Finland

In article <torresce.724340604@craft.camp.clarkson.edu> torresce@craft.camp.clarkson.edu (Alex "Mystic" Soto) writes:
>comptec91006@camins.camosun.bc.ca (Michael Botten) writes:
>
>>This question doesn't really have much to do with this newsgroup, but I
>>suspect someone here will know the answer.  So here goes nothing...
>
>>What needs to be done to files ending in '.Z'  (eg. filename.ext.Z) to make
>>them usable?  I assume they are archived.  I guess I just need to know the
>>name of the archiver so I can get it from an FTP server somewhere.
>
>Actually, doesn't .Z mean they are tar'ed?  I think compressed or packed is
>small .z
>If it is tared together, you will have to go into UNIX and untar it by
>typing: tar xvf filename.ext.Z


You have mixed three programs. Tar (I think it stands for Tape ARchiver) is
program, which generates archive-file, i.e. a file containing several files.
Normally its extension is .tar (if it is not stored on a tape or cartidge).
Compress is a file, which converts a file to another, which takes less bytes.
Its extension is .Z. Pack is another program, which packs a file to another.
Its extension is .z (note lowercase). Compress files are expanded using
uncompress program, and pack files using unpack program.

It is normally to compress tar -file with compress, so that it would not take
so much storage. These files will have normally extension .tar.Z. I normally
use following command:

	zcat filename.tar.Z | tar xvf -

where zcat expands the .Z to the standard output, which is then redirected
thru pipe to the tar program. 

Some anonymous ftp sites, which are on operating systems which do not support
filenames with two dots, use extension .tar-z for compressed tar files. Some
anonymous ftp sites can generate compressed tar files on the run, so that
when you say

	get directory

you receive a file called directory.tar.Z

>(alex.soto@analog.com)


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University Of Tampere,				   	           av@cs.uta.fi
Finland
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
From: dave@startide.ctr.columbia.edu (David M. Weinreich)
Subject: Powerbox Systems
Organization: Columbia University Center for Telecommunications Research
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 03:29:45 GMT
Distribution: usa
X-Posted-From: startide.ctr.columbia.edu
NNTP-Posting-Host: sol.ctr.columbia.edu

Does anyone know anything (for better or for worse), about
Powerbox Systems and their computers.

-Dave
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From: cavlier@xamiga.linet.org (Jon)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: I.B.M.
Date: 12 Dec 92 00:58:42 GMT
Reply-To: cavlier@xamiga.linet.org
Organization: Amiga Graphics Association BBS
X-BBS-Software: EXCELSIOR! V0.974

All I want to say is the I.B.M. is coming up with a new computer to compete 
with amiga
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
From: maniac@sonny-boy.cs.unlv.edu (Eric J. Schwertfeger)
Subject: Any FTP'able Kiddie programs out there?
Reply-To: maniac@sonny-boy.cs.unlv.edu (Eric J. Schwertfeger)
Organization: UNLV Computer Science and Electrical Engineering
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 92 04:41:50 GMT


I'm looking for software for a little girl.  I'd appreciate any
pointers anyone can give.  Thanks in advance.

-- 
Eric J. Schwertfeger, maniac@cs.unlv.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
From: ghost@opal.cs.tu-berlin.de (Hartmut Kuehn)
Subject: ATI and Eizo T560iT ?
Organization: Techn. University of Berlin, Germany
Date: Sun, 13 Dec 1992 01:09:54 GMT

Hi all !

I plan to buy the ATI Pro 2 and the Eizo T560iT.
Recently someone told me that the Eizo does 70 HZ at 1280x1024,
the ATI does 72 HZ at 1280x1024.
Is this a problem for the monitor ?
If so, can I adjust the card to do 70 Hz at 1280x1024 ?

Thanks and bye

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc,comp.binaries.ibm.pc.wanted
From: pynq@quads.uchicago.edu (Jeremy Mathers)
Subject: Re: 286 EMS emulator needed
Reply-To: pynq@midway.uchicago.edu
Organization: D. J. Dougherty & Associates
Distribution: na
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1992 15:06:34 GMT

In article <1992Dec10.005633.20469@midway.uchicago.edu> oze3@midway.uchicago.edu writes:
>In article <SKNKWRKS.92Dec9101855@howlin.cs.unlv.edu> sknkwrks@howlin.cs.unlv.edu (Scott Alfter) speaks the cold truth:
...
>>emulate EMS on a 286 will get you nowhere.  You need either (1) a 286
>>that provides 4.0 EMS capability in hardware (like mine--C&T SCAT),
>>(2) an EMS memory card (probably hard to come by), or (3) a 386SX or
>>better processor.
...
>Acculogic sells at least one version of a memory expansion card,
>the RAMpAT/16 which will provide up to 16M of hardware supported 
>LIM4.0 EMS memory.  I got mine from JDR Microdevices and it works just
>fine.  So, now I've got 5M in my little ol' 286.

There is also the Sota Pop board and the All Chargecard, but the
question is, "At what cost?"  These board cost $200 - $300.  For the
same money, you could just buy a 386SX motherboard and be done with it.

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
From: mechalas@gn.ecn.purdue.edu (John P. Mechalas)
Subject: Re: Stacker ate my hard disk again.  :(  help....
Organization: Purdue University Engineering Computer Network
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 92 16:38:01 GMT

In article <1992Dec14.150447.4552@fcom.cc.utah.edu> dks8475@u.cc.utah.edu (David Kenneth Slack/Music) writes:
>
>I have been running Stacker 2.0, and I've had no problems at all with it. 
>When I ran the earlier version I would run into those kind of problems,
>but 2.0 is (IMHO) 100% more stable than 1.x.  I'm sure 3.0 wouldn't be
>LESS stable.  <smile>
>
>Good luck...

Actually, I have been running 1.x because I have other things to spend my
money on than the upgrades, and have neevr had *any* problems with it
whatsoeevr.  On the other hand, I keep seeing the horror stories about
2.0 write-protecting the volumes.
   I don't think Stacker itself is unstable...either the 1.x or 2.0 or 3.0
versions, in so much as the comation of Stacker + some operating systems +
some drivers + some motherboards is unstable.  In other words, it no more
unstable than any other program.

-- 
John Mechalas                                          "I'm not an actor, but
mechalas@gn.ecn.purdue.edu                                 I play one on TV."
Aero Engineering, Purdue University                     #include disclaimer.h
From: thly@pe.chalmers.se (Thomas Lydhig)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Novell modem resource???
Date: 20 Dec 92 23:14:09 GMT
Organization: Chalmers University of Technology

At Work we have Novell v2.16 network and 15 PC:s connected. We have two HP-
laserjet printers connected. We also has two Motorola modems connected to
one PC, but we allways have to use that computer to use the modems. Everyone
on my work uses some kind of remote connection to use that modem-computer but
it's sloooow... I would like to have the modems as resource like the printers
are!!! Is there any software for this???
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