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From: st1vn@jane.uh.edu (Fontenot, Kenneth)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
Subject: startup
Date: 15 Dec 1992 15:53 CST
Organization: University of Houston
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: jane.uh.edu
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41    

Does anyone know of starting windows with the /D: switch? It is 
supposed to change a certain aspect of the SYSTEM.INI file.
I want to change the display driver to VGA.DRV. I currently have 
another display driver installed. I do not want to go to the 
setup everytime I want to change display drivers.



             Kenneth    st1vn@jetson.uh.edu

Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
From: kak1@birch02.cray.com (Kevin Kramer)
Subject: Installing program groups and items - HOW?
Originator: kak1@birch02
Organization: Cray Research, Inc.
Date: 14 Dec 92 10:44:11 CST


I am looking into installing programs into windows (3.1).  What I want 
to do is when the file (that I have previously compressed and split over
multiple floppies) is put back together again and decompressed onto 
the hard drive I would like to then add a new program group and program 
item so that when windows is started up it will have the program I installed 
reprented with its own group and icon.  I was going to make a little batch
file to do this, but could not figure out how to make the group and icon
for windows.  Any suggestions?  If this is a RTFM question, let me know.
I have looked TFM over but must admit that I didn't read it from cover to
cover (ie: the index didn't help)

Thanks,
Kevin
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
From: oneil@cwis.unomaha.edu (Sharon O'Neil)
Subject: Re: VBRUN200.DLL (for VB 2.0 apps) - WHERE??
Organization: University of Nebraska at Omaha
Distribution: comp
Date: Sun, 13 Dec 1992 18:24:34 GMT

walver@kielo.uta.fi (Ville V. Walveranta) writes:


>        I just received a VisualBASIC application that has been compiled
>        using VisualBASIC 2.0. According to the documentation I have to
>        have VBRUN200.DLL in my \windows -directory in order to run the
>        program.

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.

>        I roamed through all ftp-sites I know with no success. Not in
>        cica, not in wuarchive Simtel20-mirrors, not in garbo, not in
>        nic.funet.fi, not anywhere!! I checked all the files that
>        started with vb*.* - no luck!

If I'm not mistaken, someone has already uploaded VBRUN200.DLL to ftp.cica.
indiana.edu.  However, in case you haven't noticed, none of the uploads
made after November 15 have made it on to the directories at cica.  There's
probably several hundred uploads that are still waiting to be sorted out.
I'd give the folks at cica some time, since this is probably finals time for
them and they probably have more important things to do right now.  

>        Please let me know where I could find this file. Preferrably via
>        ftp. Thanks!

Have you tried searching through archie?  

Sharon
oneil@cwis.unomaha.edu

Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
From: dmsilev@athena.mit.edu (Daniel M Silevitch)
Subject: Re: Wierdness when installing a new driver!
Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1992 12:57:24 GMT

In article <1gm1hrINNgn8@athena.sdsu.edu>, cs108069@pandora.sdsu.edu (John DeRose) writes:
|> Thanks Microsoft for making me feel like a complete idiot!  When I go to install
|> a new driver through the Control Panel (Apple ripoff!) it asks me to insert the
|> disk with the driver or type the path.  I do this and it comes back with the same
|> damn dialog!  I've tried every (?) combination of path, drive, etc. and it still
|> treats me like a fool!  MS Word v2.0a install program does this to me too!
|> 
|> I'm really starting to miss my Mac IIcx...I't may not have calculated ask quickly,
|> but I sure as hell didn't spend as much time trying to get the damn thing to work!
|> --
|> John DeRose				cs108069@pandora.sdsu.edu
|> Computer Science Undergrad

Could you be more specific about what you did; i.e. what driver etc. That way
there is a good chance that someone will be able to help you. BTW, I installed
Word 2.0 and 2.0a without seeing the kind of problem that you describe. (There's
that nasty EqnEdit Font bug tho...)


Daniel Silevitch                                   dmsilev@athena.mit.edu
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
From: rab@sprite.berkeley.edu (Robert A. Bruce)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
Subject: New CICA Microsoft Windows CD-ROM -- $25
Date: 17 Dec 92 08:09:41 GMT
Organization: University of California, Berkeley
NNTP-Posting-Host: sage.berkeley.edu

A new CICA Microsoft Windows CD-ROM is available.  It contains the
entire MS Windows archive from ftp.cica.indiana.edu.  There is about
200 megabytes of zipped files and another 350 meg of the same stuff
unzipped.  There are index files included for several BBS's including
pcboard, opus, RBBS and spitfire.

If you want to see what is on the disc, you can ftp the index.txt and
and readme.txt from cdrom.com (192.153.46.254) in /pub/cdroms/cica.

The disc is available for FREE to anyone that has contributed any of
their own work to the cica collection.  Just email me your name, address,
and the name of the program(s) that you wrote.  Overseas addresses are ok.

If you are not a contributing author, the price is $25.  S&H is $5 for
US/Canada/Mexico, and $10 for overseas.  If you live in California, please
add sales tax.  You can pay by check, money order, Visa/MC/Amex, gold
bullion, small unmarked bills, etc.

        Bob Bruce
        Walnut Creek CDROM
        1547 Palos Verdes Mall, Suite 260
        Walnut Creek, CA  94596
        1 800 786-9907
        1 510 947-1644 FAX
        rab@cdrom.com

Many of the programs on this disc are shareware, and require seperate payment
to the author for continued use.  If you are dissatisfied with the disc for
any reason you can return it for a full refund.

If you would like a list of other CD-ROM titles, you can ftp the latest list
from cdrom.com:/pub/catalog.

	-bob
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
From: martin@iastate.edu (Martin R Calsyn)
Subject: Crippleware?  (was Re: Usenet news for Windows NT)
Organization: Iowa State University, Ames, IA
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 19:47:13 GMT

In article <1992Dec17.180450.25130@cognos.com> smithb@cognos.com (Brad Smith) writes:
>In article <724570036snx@dartac.demon.co.uk> sjr@dartac.demon.co.uk writes:
>>In article <BzBJ02.59x@news.iastate.edu> Martin R Calsyn writes:
>>
>>> The reader will likely be distributed as shareware with posting
>>> available when the product is registered.
>>
>>I understand your reasons for making posting available only when registered.
>>However, please reconsider. [...]

I've also been frustrated to download a product only to find that
it's only half there.  I'll give this some further consideration.
Perhaps I'll try a carrot instead of the stick and offer (expanded)
documentation and free upgrade(s) to registrants --  maybe even source.

All of my prior products have been contract or commercially-marketed
products.  This is my first shareware release.  Anyone have any figures
on what sort of registration rates one can expect?  Crippleware vs. not?
I realize this is hard to pin down unless you know the exact number of
downloads.

I'm really not trying to be greedy here.  This has been quite a fun
project to develop.  Tell me your experiences!  Maybe this crippleware
route is truly an unneccessary annoyance.

-- 
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Software Architect, Project Vincent                PP ASEL, AOPA, EAA	
Iowa State University Computation Center           voice: (515) 294-9889 
Ames, Iowa 50011                                   fax:   (515) 294-1717
From: mike-b@hpfcso.FC.HP.COM (Michael Bishop)
Date: Sat, 19 Dec 1992 00:07:04 GMT
Subject: ATI Ultra Plus
Organization: Hewlett-Packard, Fort Collins, CO, USA
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc

Does anyone know is the ATI Graphics Ultra Plus (with 2MB of DRAM)
supports 1280x1024 resolution with 256 colors?  I'm considering trading
in my Diamond Stealth 24X for the ATI card and I'm looking for opinions
about ATI products.

Thanx.

Michael Bishop
Hewlett-Packard Company
Internet: mike-b@fc.hp.com
CompuServe: 71552,1341
From: "ron kulick" <ron.kulick@execnet.com>
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
Subject: soundblaster 2.0 win 3.1
Date: 18 Dec 92 17:26:35 EST
Reply-To: "ron kulick" <ron.kulick@execnet.com>
Distribution: ch
Organization: Executive Networks Information

          In article <1992Dec10.170726.14072@u.washington.edu>
     ehammers@stein.u.washington.edu (Erick Hammersmark) writes...


EH>Why on earth would anyone make their drivers not freely distributable?

They are freely *distributed*, I just called the Creative Labs BBS and
d/l 3 files for divers.
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Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 13:17:19 EST
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Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
Subject: Help deskjet 500c driver needed

i am running windows 3.1 and trying to find the
proper drivers for the deskjet 500c..called
microsoft, and hewlett-packard, but lines are
always busy, or i am put on hold for eternity..
anyone know a source for the above mentioned printer
driver?? thanks in advance and happy holidays!
From: scottb@sun1x.actc.res.utc.com (Scottb)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
Subject: Re: Problem, need ideas...
Date: 16 Dec 92 01:16:33 GMT
Organization: United Technologies Research Center

I have had similair problems with Windows 3.0 in the past.  Re-installing
Windows has always solved it for me.  Perhaps you might want to try deleting
all of windows - ie. \windows\*.*, \windows\system\*.* and then reinstalling.
Also, see if you can get it to work without copying the ini files from the
other machine.  If it works, then copy them and go from there.  Sorry, but
I really dont have any other ideas at the moment.
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From: jdr@acs.bu.edu (Jay Rosenbaum)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
Subject: System Error: Cannot Read Drive C:
Date: 20 Dec 92 01:28:19 GMT
Organization: Boston University, Boston, MA, USA

OK...This is a VERY strange one.

I've been running Windows 3.1 for a long time, generally with no problems.
I use Stacker, 4DOS/NDOS, all flawlessly...until now.

Suddenly, the other day, when I tried to pop up a DOS program from
within windows, I get the dreaded white box, and it says:

		System Error
            Cannot Read Drive C:
             CANCEL     RETRY

RETRY gets me nowhere.  CANCEL after a few tries, gets rid of the box.

Then the DOS program runs FLAWLESSLY!  No errors.  No problems.  No
Crashes.

Then, when I quit the program...same routine.  Cancel gets rid of the
box and it's like nothing ever went wrong.

I have noticed no other problems...under Windows or straight DOS.

What's going on here?  Granted, there are worse problems, but this is
ANNOYING.  Could I have possibly deleted something?  Changed an INI
setting?  What's up?

I would appreciate any help you can give me.

Thanks in advance...

-- 
			   Jay D. Rosenbaum
			    jdr@acs.bu.edu
From: walver@kielo.uta.fi (Ville V. Walveranta)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
Subject: VBRUN200.DLL (for VB 2.0 apps) - WHERE??
Date: 13 Dec 92 10:45:23 GMT
Reply-To: walver@uta.fi (Ville Walveranta)
Distribution: comp
Organization: University of Tampere, Finland


        I just received a VisualBASIC application that has been compiled
        using VisualBASIC 2.0. According to the documentation I have to
        have VBRUN200.DLL in my \windows -directory in order to run the
        program.

        I roamed through all ftp-sites I know with no success. Not in
        cica, not in wuarchive Simtel20-mirrors, not in garbo, not in
        nic.funet.fi, not anywhere!! I checked all the files that
        started with vb*.* - no luck!

        Please let me know where I could find this file. Preferrably via
        ftp. Thanks!

        -- Willy
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Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
From: dillenbu@bert.eecs.uic.edu (John Dillenburg)
Subject: MS Word and Epson Action Laser II
Keywords: Epson, Action Laser II, MS Word
Organization: University of Illinois at Chicago
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 15:43:45 GMT

Could anyone tell me the pros and cons of using an Epson Action Laser II
with Word for Windows?  Any problems?  I'll be using it for writing my
thesis, so there will be mostly text with a few graphs thrown in.

Thanks!!


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Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
From: GeraldR@sunfish.ratsys.com (Gerald Ruderman)
Subject: Re: Crippleware?  (was Re: Usenet news for Windows NT)
Organization: Rational Systems, Inc.
Date: Sat, 19 Dec 1992 00:39:58 GMT

In article <BzF5Ms.ML9@news.iastate.edu> martin@iastate.edu (Martin R Calsyn) writes:
>>>> The reader will likely be distributed as shareware with posting
>>>> available when the product is registered.

>I've also been frustrated to download a product only to find that
>it's only half there.  I'll give this some further consideration.
>Perhaps I'll try a carrot instead of the stick and offer (expanded)
>documentation and free upgrade(s) to registrants --  maybe even source.

>I'm really not trying to be greedy here.  This has been quite a fun
>project to develop.  Tell me your experiences!  Maybe this crippleware
>route is truly an unneccessary annoyance.

I've downloaded editors that are crippled by not allowing saving work. They 
are useless to evaluate since you can't use them for anything but browsing. 
While I read much more than I post I still see this as pretty useless since 
posting (seems to me) to have many special issues in each installation.

If you really want to cripple it limit the number of news groups you can 
read or put up annoyance screens.

Gerald Ruderman                                   geraldr@ratsys.com
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
From: jting@cayley.uwaterloo.ca ()
Subject: Re: stacker 2.0 vs 3.0
Summary:  Stacker 2.0 user
Organization: University of Waterloo
Date: Sat, 12 Dec 1992 03:06:34 GMT
From: jdr@acs.bu.edu (Jay Rosenbaum)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
Subject: Re: Request- Hebrew TERMINAL font / Israeli MS-Win info
Keywords: Hebrew font
Date: 20 Dec 92 21:24:57 GMT
Organization: Boston University, Boston, MA, USA

In article <BzD41s.5K2@nic.umass.edu> shmueli@titan.ucc.umass.edu (Avinoam Shmueli (Avi)) writes:
>Hello,
>
>This message intended specifically for Israeli or Hebrew-oriented Win 3.1
>users out there: your input will be appreciated!
>
>Request: Is there a special Israeli edition of MS-Windows? If so, what
>         special features and support does it offer? If not, is there
>         at least a special Hebrew-compatible font for windowed DOS
>         applications out there?

Last year I bought some ATM Windows fonts from Kaballah Software.
Included were fonts for windowed DOS sessions.  They worked well for
my purposes.  However, they were specific, I think, to Windows 3.0.

I know that they upgraded to TT and Win 3.1.  I have not, however,
upgraded yet (I've been a little busy).  I would imagine that they
upgraded the DOS window fonts, as well.

They can be reached at:

8 Price Dr.
Edison, NJ  08817
(908) 572-0891
72657.366@compuserve.com

I don't work for them, but they've been very helpful in the past, and
they have a catalog that they will send to you...

-- 
			   Jay D. Rosenbaum
			    jdr@acs.bu.edu
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: harp@martha.utcc.utk.edu (harp)
Subject: Color printing options for our group
Keywords: HP deskjet ms-windows
Organization: University of Tennessee Computing Center
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 14:08:54 GMT

Hello all,
	I am currently on the market for a low-cost color printer for our
group.  I am currently considering either the DeskJet550C or the Deskwriter
equivalent to it.  What we would really like to do is throw the printer
onto our network and setup a Novell print queue to it.  So here is the
question:  Are there any networking options for the Deskjet550c?  I know we
can buy an ethernet printing device that will make it a network printer,
but that will cost a bit.  

	My other question is for anyone thats seen a Deskwriter550C.  If we do
head in this direction because of the built-in networking (localtalk), what
contortions will we have to engage in to be able to print from PCs (mainly
windows) to this printer?  New drivers?  Or are the two printers basically
identical in function?

Sean Harp
University of Tennessee
From: Greg.Reinacker@FtCollins.NCR.COM
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
Subject: Re: MS Word and Epson Action Laser II
Date: 17 Dec 92 14:08:53 GMT
Reply-To: Greg.Reinacker@FtCollinsCO.NCR.COM
Organization: NCR Microelectronics, Ft. Collins, CO
In-reply-to: dillenbu@bert.eecs.uic.edu's message of 14 Dec 92 15:43:45 GMT

>>>>> On 14 Dec 92 15:43:45 GMT, dillenbu@bert.eecs.uic.edu (John Dillenburg) said:

-> Could anyone tell me the pros and cons of using an Epson Action Laser II
-> with Word for Windows?  Any problems?  I'll be using it for writing my
-> thesis, so there will be mostly text with a few graphs thrown in.

I've been using an Action Laser II for primarily this purpose, and I
highly recommend it.  Print quality and speed are both excellent,
especially considering the price.

I haven't had any problems at all...

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From: john.will@satalink.com (John Will) 
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
Subject: Re: ALT-TAB from DOS box
Date: 14 Dec 92 03:25:00 GMT
Distribution: world
Organization: Datamax/Satalink Connection * Ivyland, PA (215) 443-9434
Reply-To: john.will@satalink.com (John Will) 

ML>Since no keys (such as ALT-TAB) are reserved in the DOS prompt PIF,
ML>Windows should see and trap the ALT-TAB and switch tasks (which it does
ML>before the TSR is loaded).

Maybe if you'd tell us what TSR we're talking about we'd have a better
idea what's going on.  It sure sounds like it's grabbing something that
won't let Windows switch tasks, hard to say...
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Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
Subject: Re: Star Trek...The screen saver
From: edowdy@vax1.umkc.edu
Date: 15 Dec 92 12:23:29 CST
 <4700@cruzio.santa-cruz.ca.us> <1992Dec6.010323.13515@utkux1.utk.edu> <ByuM3M.C22@magna.com>
Organization: University of Missouri - Kansas City
NNTP-Posting-Host: vax1.umkc.edu

In article <ByuM3M.C22@magna.com>, doc@magna.com (Matthew J. D'Errico) writes:
> In article <1992Dec6.010323.13515@utkux1.utk.edu> harp@martha.utcc.utk.edu (harp) writes:
>>In article <4700@cruzio.santa-cruz.ca.us> pierce@cruzio.santa-cruz.ca.us writes:
>>>
>>>that eats up resources: lottsa TT fonts (I have about 110 installed right
>>>now, and I GOT to thin that out!  Its eating over 60% of my GDI resource
>>>pool up!!!
>>>
>>
> 
> TT does indeed eat up resources...  But you have to have been running an
> application that will load the font table to do so.  I've converted my
> fonts all to ATM, because Adobe handles the resources better (I've got over
> 400 fonts loaded on my system -- with TT, I was down to 60%, and with
> Adobe I'm seldom below 75%)...
> 

I am confused, I thought TT fonts take up less space (both disk and memory)
atm fonts. Could someone give us users a quick rundown on the differences
between the two regarding memory reqs., disk space, and overall effiecency?

Thanks
From: arron@waikato.ac.nz
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
Subject: 3.1 Screen Savers and EGA
Date: 18 Dec 92 13:43:39 +1300
Organization: University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand

Does anyone know if there is aproblem using Windows 3.1 'Flying Windows' screen
saver with an EGA display. All I am getting is lots of colourful dots, similar
to the normal star travel saver.

I have also just got heaps of Shareware savers of similar types from FTP, and
they all do the same thing.

Ta heaps,
Arron.

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Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
From: nathans@pacifier.rain.com (Nathan Silva)
Subject: Idlewild screen savers
Organization: Pacifier BBS
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 00:43:28 GMT


Just a quick question: How can I use my "IdleWild" screen savers with
Windows' built-in screen saver module?

* Nate *
(nathans@pacifier.rain.com)

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From: edwong@acs.nntp-read.bu.edu (Edward Wong)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
Subject: Re: Epson Action Laser II - anyone used it for printing TrueType ?
Date: 19 Dec 92 18:17:22 GMT
	<GREG.REINACKER.92Dec15161103@gershwin.FtCollins.NCR.COM>
Organization: Boston University Information Technology Boston, MA USA
In-reply-to: Greg.Reinacker@FtCollins.NCR.COM's message of 15 Dec 92 16:11:03 GMT

>>>>> On 15 Dec 92 16:11:03 GMT, Greg.Reinacker@FtCollins.NCR.COM said:

-> I have an Action Laser II, and I'm very happy with it.  To answer your
-> questions, as far as I know, Epson doesn't even have drivers for this
-> printer.  All over the manual they just say to use HP Laserjet IIp
-> drivers.

NO, NO.  They have a driver on their bulletin board packed together with
the drivers for other epson laser printers.  But I say it's the same as
LJ2p though.
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Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
From: mheniff@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (mike)
Subject: Re: games
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 16:20:17 GMT

In article <1992Dec11.174546.29999@sarah.albany.edu> cs5059@albnyvms.bitnet writes:
>I am looking for a game to give to my brother
>for a present.  I don't know what to get.  Can
>anyone tell me thier favorite game, windows or
>dos.  thanks,  Larry.  
>
>P.S. $40-$60

I personally like Commander Keen and Duke Nukem (by Apogee Software) which
are DOS versions and are sorta like Super Mario or something.  I think the
first version of Keen is shareware too.
Mike

Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc