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Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
From: jt@fuw.edu.pl (Jerzy Tarasiuk)
Subject: Re: File splitters ?
Organization: Warsaw University Physics Dept.
	<m14430.718046717@mwunix>
Date: Fri, 9 Oct 1992 15:24:13 GMT

ARJ can pack files and write its output in sizes suitable for floppies.
If need move large files from one hard disk to another and don't have
enough floppies for BACKUP, use ARJ :-).
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
From: jt@fuw.edu.pl (Jerzy Tarasiuk)
Subject: Re: IRQ Usage - Info needed
Organization: Warsaw University Physics Dept.
Date: Fri, 9 Oct 1992 16:13:59 GMT

>>>>> On 5 Oct 92 18:13:20 GMT, tpradeep@cs.tamu.edu (Pradeep K Tapadiya) said:
Pradeep> What I need to find out is which IRQs are being used in my PCs and
Pradeep> by whom? The system utilities I have (386MAX ASQ, Microsoft MSD,
Pradeep> and Norton SI) just assume that IRQ 3 is being used by COM2 (I guess).
Pradeep> Also, its hard to find out the availability of IRQs through these
Pradeep> utilities.
IRQs assignment:
0 - Timer, 1 - Keboard, 2 - Reserved, 3 - COM2, 4 - COM1,
5 - Fixed Disk (XT only) or LPT2, 6 - Floppy, 7 - LPT1.
Can read port 21h (0x21, $21 depending on language) in a program
or using DEBUG. If a bit has value 0, the IRQ is surely used.
If it is 1, it is not used at this time. Bit 0 (lowest) <-> IRQ0.
On AT there is also second interrupt controller and it uses IRQ2
itself (since IRQ2 is always busy on AT). Read port 0A1h to get
info what of its IRQs are used. If a card using IRQ2 is put in AT,
it uses IRQ9 instead (but software must know which IRQ is really
used to clear the bit 1 in port 0A1h). IRQs 8,13 and 14 are used
for Real Time Clock, Coprocessor and Fixed Disk Controller.
Another way to check if IRQ is used is to get corresponding INT
vector (08h..0Fh for IRQ 0..7, 70h..77h for IRQ 8..15) - if it
points to *invalid interrupt* address, IRQ is not used. This is
also a way to check what program uses the IRQ (but a program can
remove its name from memory to save space...). There is a MAPMEM
utility from TurboPower Software which shows such information.
But: there are communication programs which doesn't restore
interrupt vectors for IRQ's 3/4 after finishing (they only set
a bit in port 21h) since MAPMEM would tell interrupt is used...
From: davidb@sirius.astro.uiuc.edu (David Bell)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Can't write to hard disk - help!
Date: 8 Oct 92 23:36:38 GMT
Article-I.D.: news.BvttL3.3to
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana

I got a disk error that has somehow caused my hard drive to become
write protected.  chkdsk /f won't work, norton disk doctor won't work,
they both want to write to disk and can't.  I'm using stacker and the
unstacked drive is fine.  how can I get my disk back, preferably without
reformatting (or would that be a problem too)?

Dave Bell
belld@uxh.cso.uiuc.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
From: dmsilev@athena.mit.edu (Daniel M Silevitch)
Subject: Re: SX and DX ? 386 and 486 ?
Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Date: Mon, 12 Oct 1992 12:08:26 GMT

In article <1992Oct12.111637.8156@brt.deakin.edu.au>, guac@brt.deakin.edu.au writes:
|> Hi all,
|> 
|> I'm confused by systems : 386SX, 386DX, 486SX and 486DX.
|> 
|> I was told the difference between SX and DX is a math-coprocessor, that is the
|> SX does not have the math coprocessor but the DX has. However I found my 
|> friend's 486SX-33 has a math-coprocessor when I use Norton to check.(He does
|> not put anything on board after bought it.)
|> 
|> Anyone can help me to clearify these configurations ?
|> 
|> Thanks in advance !
|> 
|> Cathy

The difference between the 386SX and 386DX is different from the difference
between the 486SX and the 486DX :-) The 386DX is a 32 bit chip that communicates
with the outside world at 32 bits. The 386SX is internally a 32 bit chip, but
only uses a 16 bit bus. This gives the DX a major edge in I/O speed over the SX.
Neither of these chips have coprocessors built in; Intel makes 387DX and 387SX
chips at a variety of speeds. The 486DX and 486SX are both 64 bit internal chips
that have 32 bit buses. The difference between these is that there is a
coprocessor built in to the DX (as part of the CPU chip), which has been removed
in the SX. There is a 487 chip that serves as a coprocessor for the SX, but since
you say that nothing was added to the system, my guess is that Norton isn't
intelligent enough to tell the difference between a 486SX and 486DX, and assumes
that all 486 systems have coprocessors.

Daniel Silevitch                                      dmsilev@athena.mit.edu
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Xref: sparky comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc:13727 rec.music.synth:16646
From: glenn@sloth.ncsl.nist.gov
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc,rec.music.synth
Subject: Re: How fast is the P5 chip?
Date: 16 Oct 92 15:08:23 GMT
Reply-To: glenn@sloth.ncsl.nist.gov
Followup-To: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Distribution: comp
Organization: N.I.S.T
Posting-Front-End: Shinbun -- the OpenLook newsreader




I have a text book "Desktop Computers" by Richard Henle & Boris
Kuvshinof that does a small comparison of the 8088, 8086, 80186, 80286,
80386, 80486, 80586, & 80786 (Yes that's right the'786 speculated due
sometime in the year 2000).  The 386 runs around 5 MIPS (Million
Instructions Per Second), the 486 runs around 15 MIPS and the 586
around 150 Mips.  The 586 will have a typical clock speed of around 100
Mhz.  The 786 is listed with 256 data lines, 64 bit addresses running
around 2000 MIPS or 2 GIPS with a typical clock speed of 250 MHz.  What
does all of this mean in practicality?  Well to quote the text some
more, "Power will have to be defined after they arrive and are put to
use."


Rob G.
glenn@sloth.ncsl.nist.gov


Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
From: jt@fuw.edu.pl (Jerzy Tarasiuk)
Subject: Re: HELP - Hidden files
Organization: Warsaw University Physics Dept.
Date: Fri, 9 Oct 1992 15:34:49 GMT

>>>>> On 4 Oct 92 01:13:10 GMT, romana@bsu-cs.bsu.edu (Diane M. Muszalski) said:
Diane> I am trying to find a way to delete a hidden file on a IBM 236 machine
Diane> running DOS 4.0.  The file is a junk file and the dos manual I have
Diane> gives no information as to how to delete the file.

Are you sure it is junk? Ususally files are hidden to protect them
from accidental deleting. If you are sure, use ATTRIB -H filename
to make the file not-hidden. If it is readonly, use ATTRIB -R.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
From: pv9955@albnyvms.bitnet
Subject: New ATI cards
Reply-To: pv9955@albnyvms.bitnet
Organization: University of NY at Albany
Date: Mon, 12 Oct 92 00:29:10 GMT

Has anybody tried any of the new ATI Ultra Mach 32 cards, with the 24 bit
color graphics engine ??
Will ATI offer an upgrade for the current Ultra ?  (I want 24 bit color, but
do not want to give up the coprocessor).

Thanks you,
Peter V.
From: sam_s@NeXT.com (Sam Streeper)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: bios lies about number of heads on disk
Date: 15 Oct 92 07:07:25 GMT
Reply-To: sam_s@NeXT.com

My bios says that my hard disk has 64 heads.  This is a lie because my drive  
has 8 heads, but it is necessary because you when you request a sector you send  
the (head, cylinder, and sector) and each of these parameters is 8 bits,  
meaning a maximum of 256 cylinders even though big drives could have many more.

I would like to write a program that can calculate the values for (head,  
cylinder, and sector) the bios would use for fetching a particular absolute  
sector.  The trick is that this program will not be able to call the bios to  
get the bios's fudged up values for the number of heads to the disk.  (This  
will be a program that creates an FDISK compatible boot sector from an  
alternate (non-dos) operating system.)

Anybody have any ideas or experience with this?  Email is appreciated in case I  
miss a post here.  Thanks!

-sam

--
Opinions expressed herein are not those of my employer.  They're not even
mine.  They're probably wrong besides.  How did they get in here, anyway?
From: mauritz_c@spcvxb.spc.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Zeos/Award biod problem (help?!)
Date: 8 Oct 92 19:54:32 GMT
Organization: SPC Community Access System

The f**king Award bios in my Zeos 486-33 (upgradable) pc has
this annoying habit of scrambling itself and rendering my machine
useless until I take the machine apart and reset the cmos (disconnect
and reconnect the battery).  Does anyone else have this problem
with their Zeos machine?  Is there a better solution than putting
in a toggle switch on the case to zap the cmos (and remembering all
the settings)?  It seems to happend whenever a program is designed
to cause a warm reboot, but it also happens whevever I have a brown
out.

Any info would be greatly appreciated.

Chris
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
From: pinesoft@netcom.com (Pine Software)
Subject: Re: Wanted: PC Email on Windows for Unix Mail
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  (408 241-9760 guest) 
Date: Thu, 8 Oct 1992 19:24:06 GMT

In article <1992Oct7.022336.25710@iti.gov.sg> jinho@iti.gov.sg (Tan Jin Ho) writes:
>
>I am looking for an MS Windows-based Email application program that runs on
>top of standard PC TCP/IP networks and uses SMTP and/or POP. (ie. it can
>read and send UNIX mail).
>
>Any pointers would be greatly appreciated.
>
>
>Tan Jin Ho
>jinho@iti.gov.sg
>

We at Pine software have developed a package which works with the three
most popular TCP/IP stacks, PCNFS, FTP's PCTCP, and Wollongong's WINTCP.
I will include the recent product announcement below

Date: 8/5/92 
PINE SOFTWARE
PO Box 3041 Stanford, CA  94309
(415) 962-8687, e-mail pinesoft@netcom.com (Internet) 

Pine Software, Inc. is pleased to introduce Open Systems Mail(TM) 
for Microsoft(TM) Windows(TM).  Open Systems Mail is a fully 
featured, easy-to-use electronic mail application designed or IBM 
PCs and compatibles running Microsoft Windows/DOS-based TCP/IP 
client protocols.  This product is one of the only electronic mail 
products for MS Windows that truly conforms to open systems and 
standards (SMTP, TCP/IP, RFCs).


The following is a list of  planned future enhancements:


    - Program icon will indicate arrival of new mail while minimized

    - Tool and status bar for improved functionality and ease-of-use

    - Allow user to send and receive binary attachments in accordance
      with MIME specification

    - A new version designed for use with portable computers and modems

    - A Macintosh equivalent for MacTCP

Open Systems Mail_ is available now, directly from Pine Software.  
Please contact us for more information.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
From: mboone@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Michael B Boone)
Subject: Buying a PC
Organization: The Ohio State University
Distribution: usa
Date: Wed, 7 Oct 1992 14:27:35 GMT

I'm looking into buying a 386DX/40 system.  Basically, what I'd like to
know is how much faster it is than a 386SX/25 and how much slower is it
than a 486SX/25?  Oh yeah, the thing also has a 64K cache.

Am I better off spending extra money to get a 486 system?  Are all 386's
gonna be obsolete soon?

Please email me if you can give me some info.  Thanks.
Mike.
From: mccall@mksol.dseg.ti.com (fred j mccall 575-3539)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Re: 486SX to 486DX
Date: 16 Oct 92 21:30:43 GMT
Organization: Texas Instruments Inc

In <1bf9bpINNs9i@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu> ci084@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Brent E Paddon) writes:

>Could anyone possibly tell me if it is possible to upgrade a 486SX
>to a 486DX ??

No, the pinouts of the two chips are different.  With a 486SX (blech),
your options are to by an 'Overdrive' chip to put in the 'Feature
Socket' or to buy a '487 chip (which is really a 486DX with yet a
different pinout) and plug it into your coprocessor slot.

>If it is, do you have to replace the CPU (ie are most CPU's soldered in?),
>or are there sockets provided for 387's or something?

There is a 'Feature Socket'.  If you don't have one, you may have a
socket for a 487.  If you have neither of those sockets (which may be
one and the same -- my interest in the piece of marketing cruft that
Intel invented with the '486SX' is pretty limited), then you are a
small, New England fish.

[In other words, you are scrod.]

-- 
"Insisting on perfect safety is for people who don't have the balls to live
 in the real world."   -- Mary Shafer, NASA Ames Dryden
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Fred.McCall@dseg.ti.com - I don't speak for others and they don't speak for me.
From: jmalloy@itsmail1.hamilton.edu (Joseph Malloy)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Re: Windows Telecom module and Kermit
Date: 10 Oct 92 03:52:18 GMT
Organization: Hamilton College - Clinton, NY

In article <1992Oct8.171008.7077@usl.edu> cab6944@usl.edu (Brasseaux Carl A) writes:
>I have been told that the telecomm module in Windows 3.1 is capable
>of emulating Kermit.  Is this true?  And is it as capable/robust as
>Kermit itself?  Thanks.
>Carl Brasseaux
>
If you mean emulating the comm program, well, it's somewhat similar, I
suppose.  If you mean supporting the Kermit file transfer protocol, yes,
it does and it worked well for me.  But I think the Windows 3.x comm
program ("Terminal") is going to disappoint: it's the most basic of comm
programs and not nearly as configurable as a good program should be.
And it supports only xmodem and kermit for down/uploads...but if you're
just trying out Windows, it'll give you a sense of what it's like to
multitask...
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
From: covey@us-es.sel.de (David Covey US/ESS3)
Subject: Re: How are unmovable files created?
Organization: SEL-Alcatel LTS Dept. US/ES
Date: Fri, 16 Oct 92 13:14:43 GMT

In article <1992Oct15.145752.29919@tamsun.tamu.edu>, tpradeep@cs.tamu.edu (Pradeep K Tapadiya) writes:
|> Howdy netters,
|> 
|> While running Norton's speeddisk (SD), I saw two .exe files being
|> marked as unmovable. I compared the attributes of these two files
|> with other .exe files in the same directory. All of them are
|> marked as ___A. Then what makes these two files unmovable?
|> 
|> I copied these two files to another drive, deleted the files from
|> current drive, and copied them back. Again these two files appear
|> to be unmovable when viewed from SD (though the attributes are still ___A).
|> 
|> Thinking that there could be a problem with copy routine, I then
|> wrote my own copy routine and repeated the above steps with my
|> version. Still the same results.
|> 
|> Can someone tell me why these two .exe files are being marked as
|> unmovable? 
|> 
|> The other unmovable files I see through SD are io.sys and msdos.sys
|> which have _HS_ attributes. I think I need to leave these files as
|> unmovable for proper booting of MSDOS. Is my assumption correct?
|> 
|> Thank you for your help.
|> 
|> Pradeep
|> tpradeep@cs.tamu.edu


I have a similar problem.  Some nasty graphics program I tried out set up a file called "B" which I can't do a thing with.  NOTHING will move it or delete it even though I deleted the program a long time ago.  I've grafted the directory it's in (which of course I can't delete) to my TEMP directory and called it "crap".  No solution but do I really want to re-format the hard disk and install all that software again?

Wouldn't it be nice if computers did what they were supposed to and nothing else?

Regards

David Covey
From: David.Norman@ttlg.UUCP (David Norman)
Sender: postmaster@ttlg.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: How to x-change file w/MAC
Date: 08 Oct 92  08:29:06 mst

Hello Jim!

30 Sep 92 21:32, Jim Brannan wrote to All:

 JB> From: jbrannan@hprpcd.rose.hp.com (Jim Brannan)
 JB> ie.concordia.ca!sifon!charnel!olivea!spool.mu.edu!sdd.hp.com!scd.hp.com!hp
 JB> l extra!hpcc05!hpyhde4!hpycla!hpergfg2!hprdash!hprpcd!jbrannan Newsgroups:
 JB> comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc Subject: How to x-change file w/MAC Organization: HP
 JB> Roseville Site
 JB> @Message-ID: <510005@hprpcd.rose.hp.com>
 JB> Date: 30 Sep 92 21:32:57 GMT
 JB>
 JB> Anyone know the secret on how to get a file from an IBM-PC (in this case
 JB> an HP Vectra) to an Apple MAC?  Rules: these PCs are not on any common
 JB> network, but both have 3.5" floppy drives.  Is there a way to do this
 JB> via floppy disk?
 JB>
 JB> Please help,
 JB> Thanks,
 JB> Jim Brannan
 JB>
 JB> -+- Fred-Uf 1.8k
 JB>  + Origin: Passed through TTLG:  UUCP <> ProgNet gateway (42:1000/2.0)
 JB>

You can get a copy II Pc option Board from Centerl Point Software. It will reas and write Mac disks.

David

 * Origin: Dave's Place - Edmonton Alberta (42:100/37)
From: leoh@hcxio.hdw.csd.harris.com (Leo Hinds)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Re: Wanted: PC Windows Email for Unix mail
Date: 16 Oct 92 19:12:39 GMT
Organization: Harris Computer Systems Division, Ft. Lauderdale FL
NNTP-Posting-Host: hcxio.hdw.csd.harris.com

In article <1992Oct15.032123.2836@iti.gov.sg> jinho@iti.gov.sg (Tan Jin Ho) writes:
>
>I am looking for an MS Windows-based Email application program that runs on
>top of standard PC TCP/IP networks and uses SMTP and/or POP. (ie. it can
>read and send UNIX mail).

A fairly recently introduced product is "Open Systems Mail" from Pinesoft 
(pinesoft@netcom.com) it list for about $130 and uses pop3 and/or NFS nounted 
drives.

On "ftp.cica.indiana.edu" you can get the shareware "Cinetic Mail Manager" that uses the TCP/IP transport's rsh to send mail & NFS mounted drive to read.


-- 
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
From: bsteinke@dsd.es.com (Bruce Steinke)
Subject: MODEM Comments Please
Followup-To: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Reply-To: bsteinke@dsd.es.com (Bruce Steinke)
Organization: Evans & Sutherland Computer Corp., Salt Lake City, UT
Distribution: usa
Date: Fri, 16 Oct 92 13:30:47 GMT

I think I posted this to the wrong group yesterday, so I'll try again here.

I am considering the purchase of a new modem. I am not a modem expert by any
means so any information would be greatly appreciated. The modem I am looking
at is from Zeos:

>- Cardinal 14,400 v32bis Internal Modem with v42 bis, MNP, Send & Receive Fax
>- High Speed Hayes compatible modem - 57,600 max data throughput.
>- Full duplex 14,400 bps to CCITT V32bis standard.
>- V42, V42bis, & MNP 1-5 error correction & 4:1, 2:1 data compression.
>- FAX: Group III Fax send and receive up to 14,400 data rates.
>- Both Class 1 and Class 2 fax command set support.
>- PC/XT/AT compatible half card. Assignable COM 1-4. IRQ 2-5.
>- 2 telephone jacks.
>- DSP Signal Processing
>- 16550 UART
>- Rockell Data Pump.
>- Quicklink for Windows/DOS Fax and Data Communications.
>- 195.00 dollars.

I currently use Winfax software (and would like to continue using it).

Any comments, good/bad experiences, explanation of what all the protocols
mean, would be GREATLY appreciated. Thanks in advance.

-Bruce
-- 
< Speaking only for myself, unless otherwise noted. >
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From: jcrowder@morse.cns.vt.edu (Jeff Crowder)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: printing on the road
Date: 7 Oct 92 15:29:49 GMT
Followup-To: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Organization: Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA


My brother owns a pest control business.  He wants a system which will
handle his (simple) record keeping, billing, etc.  Here's the rub; he
wants to be able to take the pc on the road with him in his truck and
do his paperwork on-site which INCLUDES printing estimates and
Inspection Reports.  He needs to do everything from the cab of his
truck.

Is there a luggable with a built-in printer which can operate on battery
or 12 volt dc power?

What other portable pc/portable printer combinations might be
appropriate?

I suggested he might be able to just use a fax card (since most of his
clients have fax machines) but he is concerned about access to phone
lines from the field.  Can the typical fax/modem card work via cellular
phone and/or pay phone?

Please reply to jcrowder@morse.cns.vt.edu

Thanks,

Jeff
From: 9028528@ul.ie
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Expanded memory manager for a 80286
Date: 14 Oct 92 18:58:07 GMT
Organization: University of Limerick, Ireland

Can anybody recommend an expanded memory manager for an Olivetti 80286?
I need it to map memory in my 640k-1024k region of memory.  I'm currently 
running Stacker which is eating up about 40k of conventional memory.  If I get
a manager Qram by Quarterdeck should be able to load it high?

Thanks in advance,
Pearse.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc