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From: bob.gries@ggcs.org (Bob Gries) 
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.misc
Subject: CardFile's file format
Date: 27 Jan 93 18:13:00 GMT
Distribution: world
Organization: Golden Gate Computer Society BBS - Marin, CA - 415-927-1216
Reply-To: bob.gries@ggcs.org (Bob Gries) 


JB.Hi all,
  .  I'm looking for a specification on CardFile's file format. Can anybody
  .help?

Isn't this demonstrated to some degree in the VB 1.0 Cardfile clone
application that was provided?  If you can't find it in v2.0 I'm sure I
could send it to you.

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From: Ilkka Priha <priha@tik.vtt.fi>
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.misc,comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.tools
Subject: BC++ 3.1/ATI problem, please repost
Date: 27 Jan 1993 11:44:28 GMT
Organization: VTT/TIK
Distribution: world
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X-XXDate: Wed, 27 Jan 93 13:44:33 GMT

I missed the solution to the ATI video problem with Borland C++ (only the
subject field is available in our News Server). Could someone please send
me the summary posting by Steve McCarthy or the just the solution.

-- Ilkka
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From: tello@racquet.csee.usf.edu (Ivan Tello)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.misc
Subject: Re: 3dctl
Date: 19 Jan 93 19:18:59 GMT
Reply-To: tello@racquet.csee.usf.edu (Ivan Tello)
Organization: University of South Florida, Department of Computer Science and Engineering

Hi, does anybody know where I can get the file(s) for spell checking and
grammar
checking for spanish for the Word for Windows word processor?...
If you know would you please let me know where I can get it and how?

Thanks in advance.

Ivan Tello
tello@racquet.csee.usf.edu
From: dewerk@yosemite.csufresno.edu (<< Dragon >>)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.misc
Subject: .ICO inside .EXE
Keywords: icon files, exe, include, extract
Date: 25 Jan 93 19:54:43 GMT
Organization: California State University, Fresno


does anyone know how to include or even extract icon files from
ms-windows executables...  e.g. the icons in the program manager's .exe

thanks in advance...


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From: pk64380@kaarne.cs.tut.fi (Kuusisto Pasi Petri,,,SIG,64380)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.misc
Subject: Re: Ctl3d source, anyone?
Date: 28 Jan 1993 11:39:08 GMT
Organization: Technical University of Tampere, Dep. of Computer Science ,Finland 
Distribution: world
Reply-To: pk64380@kaarne.cs.tut.fi
NNTP-Posting-Host: kaarne.cs.tut.fi
Originator: pk64380@kaarne.cs.tut.fi

From article <1993Jan28.044100.22125@monu6.cc.monash.edu.au>, by sloth@yoyo.cc.monash.edu.au (Andrew Bulhak):
> I seem to recall that a while ago, Microsoft were giving away source for
> their Ctl3d library. Does anyone still have this? If so, and if it's not
> illegal, could you mail it to me? Thanks.
> 
> 	- acb

   Me too! Or post it! Or just tell where to anon-ftp ...

Thanks,

-zi

Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.win32
From: jagrant@emr1.emr.ca (John Grant)
Subject: Re: Pascal compiler for NT
Organization: Energy, Mines, and Resources, Ottawa
Distribution: usa
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 03:32:13 GMT

In article <1993Jan27.025529.5346@netcom.com> samiam@netcom.com (Scott Moore) writes:
>jagrant@emr1.emr.ca (John Grant) writes:
>
>>	Borland has an EEP (Early Experience Program) for their C++
>>	for NT (I guess this is some sort of beta release).  Perhaps
>>	they also have EEP for their Pascal.  I don't use Pascal,
>>	but isn't Borland Pascal the de facto best (on Intel)?
>
>Borland does not seem to be pushing their Pascal towards NT. Note that
>creating an NT compiler is not just a matter of rewriting the libraries.
>You must come up with a whole new code generator (32 bits). 
>I also note that Borlands products are in complete disregard of the ISO and
>ANSI standards (despite statements to the contrary in their manuals).
	The DDVT incompatibility is well-known - what are some of
	the other ISO & ANSI conflicts?

(ps: 'samiam' - one of my favourite books :)
-- 
John A. Grant						jagrant@emr1.emr.ca
Airborne Geophysics
Geological Survey of Canada, Ottawa
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.win32
From: dspascha@eos.ncsu.edu (DAVID SCOTT PASCHAL)
Subject: Re: 16-bit Windows 3.1 vs Win32s thunking
Originator: dspascha@c00029-118dan.eos.ncsu.edu
Reply-To: dspascha@eos.ncsu.edu (DAVID SCOTT PASCHAL)
Organization: North Carolina State University, Project Eos
Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1993 22:11:59 GMT


In article <1993Jan22.080936.23324@microsoft.com>, alistair@microsoft.com (Alistair Banks) writes:
|>The huge pointers you refer
|>to are quite different from the 32-bit addressing used by Windows NT
|>and Win32s+Win3.1 - the 386 in fact has 16-bit segments, and optionally
|>16-bit or 32-bit offset registers. The huge mode you refer to uses
|>16:16 addressing, while Windows NT & Win32s use 16:32 - but that would
|>be 48-bit addressing, right? Well no, because we set the 16-bit
|>segment registers to zero, so cs=ds=es=gs=fs=0, and we just use
|>32-bit addressing - this is a portable concept, particularly to
|>RISC systems which don't have "segment" registers a la x86

If all processes share the same address space, then what keeps one process from
trashing memory belonging to other processes or the operating system?  Separate
page tables for different tasks?

Tschuess,
David Paschal
From: toddy@uni-paderborn.de (Thomas Rose)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.win32
Subject: Tseng 1024x768 256
Date: 25 Jan 1993 16:51:42 GMT
Organization: Uni-GH Paderborn, Germany
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: joe.uni-paderborn.de

Hi !

Where can i find Tseng Drivers ET4000

         1024x768  256

          800x600  256

         1280x1024 256



for Windows NT !

          Toddy@uni-paderborn.de
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.win32
From: david@quintus.com (David Connelly)
Subject: S3 drivers and Diamond Stealth
Organization: Quintus Corporation, Palo Alto, CA
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 08:12:25 GMT

Does anyone know how to get 70mhz refresh in 1024x768x8 mode with the S3 drivers provided in the Oct
Beta? The card is a Diamond Stealth, but I can only get 60mhz refresh.

	Thanks,

	David

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From: kcurtis@mekong.engin.umich.edu (Keith Curtis)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.win32
Subject: Re: What is Net DDE? Is it in NT?
Date: 26 Jan 1993 21:44:54 GMT
Organization: University of Michigan Engineering, Ann Arbor
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: mekong.engin.umich.edu
Originator: kcurtis@mekong.engin.umich.edu


Any official or unofficial notes on when we will be getting the next SDK update?

Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.win32
From: alistair@microsoft.com (Alistair Banks)
Subject: Re: POSIX interface/Access to WIN32 calls 
Date: 28 Jan 93 00:52:40 GMT
Organization: Microsoft Corporation

Win32, OS/2 & Posix are the only subsystems in Windows NT - the Win16
and MS-Dos support are virtual machines written to use the Win32
API (plus some helper functions) - they're not subsystems in of
themselves

POSIX compatibility and upwards compatibility from Windows are
mutually exclusive options, and likewise POSIX & OS/2
compatibility - OS/2 & Windows co-compatibility is the closest
to being possible. SO we could have produced a new API
incompatible with any of the above, or choose the route we have
and keep the US Govt happy with true POSIX compatibility, and
serve OS/2 & Windows customers with true compatibility

-- Alistair

Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.win32
From: sramsdell@ws19.ips.iacd.honeywell.com (Steve Ramsdell)
Subject: Re: POSIX interface/Access to WIN32 calls
Organization: Honeywell Industrial Automation & Control
Distribution: comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.win32
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 93 15:29:10 GMT

In article <1993Jan25.190746.4106@mkseast.uucp>, you write:
|> chris@chrism.demon.co.uk (Chris Marriott) writes:
|> >*Three* different subsystems?  There's:
|>
|> Not to belabour my point in an earlier posting, but...:
|>
|> >    Win32
|>  Yup, a binary compatability box makes sense for old binaries...
|> >    Win16 ("WOW")
|>  Yup, a binary compatability box makes sense for old binaries...
|> >    DOS
|>  Yup, a binary compatability box makes sense for old binaries...
|> >    OS/2
|>  Yup, a binary compatability box makes sense for old binaries...
|> >    Posix
|>  Huh?  There are no existing Posix binaries for the subsystem, you
|>  have to build them on NT.  Why not just extend the NT API
|>  sufficiently.  (Because it will make the NT API hairier?  That
|>  doesn't seem to have been a concern so far in NT :-))
I think you miss a major point.  Yes, Win32 could have been extended to
include Posix-like calls, but that would not have been a pure Posix
environment.  It would have been like all the various vendor flavors
of Unix - supposedly compatible until you get into the small details
that make porting between them such a pain.

You also said:
|> (Instead, no doubt, they are adding the support required for the Posix
|> primitives in the subsystem via another raft of undocumented NT API's...)
The Posix subsystem makes use of the microkernel services, which are not
published interfaces yet, but will be when the microkernel stabilizes
(supposedly in second or third release of NT).  Their intention was to build
a microkernel base on which could be built subsystems to support many
different operating system environments.

My personal opinion on the Posix subsystem is that Microsoft had two purposes
in mind: to prove the microkernel concept by supporting the Open System
environment, and to be able to claim Posix compliance to be able to sell
into government bids.

-- 

Steve Ramsdell
Honeywell, Inc., Phoenix, AZ
sramsdell@ips.iacd.honeywell.com
From: toddy@uni-paderborn.de (Thomas Rose)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.win32
Subject: Re: X-Windows and NT
Date: 22 Jan 1993 12:03:39 GMT
Organization: Uni-GH Paderborn, Germany
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: lippe.uni-paderborn.de

Has someone used this X11 Library up to now ?


         T. Rose
         (toddy@uni-paderborn.de)
From: muzo@waffle.sns.com (muzaffer kal)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.win32
Subject: GNU tools for NT ???
Date: 24 Jan 93 22:06:32 GMT
Organization: Systems'n'Software

Systems'n'Software, Fremont, CA  94539-6669
Date: Sun, 24 Jan 93 14:05:35 PST
Organization: Systems'n'Software, Fremont, CA  94539-6669

I remember having read about a GNU port to NT a while ago. Is someething 
happening on this issue? Who was the company ?
 
Muzaffer

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Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.win32
From: schiers@mcshh.Hanse.DE (Carsten Schiers)
Subject: Re: ATI Graphics Ultra + Drivers?
Organization: Point of Presence & MCS Hamburg
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 22:22:50 GMT

storm@cs.mcgill.ca (Marc WANDSCHNEIDER) writes:

>I seem to recall somebody mentioning once that there ARE drivers available for
>the ATI GUP cards for NT.  Can somebody point me to where these might be..?

e.g. in the ATI BBS or at CS. Latest release is called MXXNT6.ZIP.

CU Carsten.

Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.win32
From: pjdm@chmeee.enet.dec.com (Peter Mayne)
Subject: Re: POSIX interface/Access to WIN32 calls 
Reply-To: Peter.Mayne@cao.mts.dec.com
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 02:32:29 GMT


In article <1993Jan25.190746.4106@mkseast.uucp>, dale@mkseast.uucp (Dale Gass) writes:
>	Huh?  There are no existing Posix binaries for the subsystem, you
>	have to build them on NT.  Why not just extend the NT API
>	sufficiently.  (Because it will make the NT API hairier?  That
>	doesn't seem to have been a concern so far in NT :-))

POSIX is not about binary compatibility, it's source code compatibility.

Consider the problem in extending the Win32 API (not the NT API). A
file in POSIX doesn't have the same semantics as a file in Win32. A
POSIX process is *definitely* not the same as a Win32 process: it also
has different semantics. For instance, what happens if you create a
process with a Win32 call, and then use a POSIX call to find that
process' parent, because Win32 processes don't have parents?

To cut a long story short, the two *environments* are incompatible. The
APIs can't be mixed. The Win32 API just isn't POSIX compliant, and
can't be extended in such a way that is can be. Neither could the POSIX
API be extended to be Win32 compliant, let alone trying to support OS/2,
DOS, and whatever else comes along in the future. It's impossible.

There's no doubt that it's neater the way it's been done.

>-dale
>-- 
> Dale Gass, Mortice Kern Systems, Atlantic Canada Branch
>Business: dale@east.mks.com, Pleasure: dale@mkseast.uucp

PJDM
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Digital Equipment Corporation   |
Canberra, ACT, Australia        | "AXP!": Bill the Cat

Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.win32
From: tom@ssd.csd.harris.com (Tom Horsley)
Subject: Re: POSIX interface/Access to WIN32 calls 
Organization: Harris Computer Systems Division
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 13:03:48 GMT
	<727810939snz@chrism.demon.co.uk> <1993Jan25.190746.4106@mkseast.uucp>
	<1993Jan28.005240.10823@microsoft.com>

I agree with the folks that say the POSIX API should be POSIX, the whole
POSIX, and nothing but POSIX :-). (However, as POSIX defines more and more
standards, I would hope that Microsoft would continue to upgrade the POSIX
API to be compliant -- I am thinking of things like the soon to be standard
realtime POSIX extensions including threads, timers, etc (maybe you already
have this - I don't run NT yet, so I don't know any details)).

If you want to write your main application using the POSIX API and still get
a graphical interface, I suggest you write it as a multiple process
application, using interprocess communication to a separate program which
implements the user interface.

Not only does this make your main application pure POSIX (and therefore very
portable), but it cleanly separates it from the interface (thus providing
you with an opportunity to write an X interface, an emacs version 19
interface, a Win32 interface, etc...).

In fact, I believe there is already a pubically available toolkit for X
which implements this model (although I can't for the life of me remember
what it is called). Porting the interface half of this to Win32 might be an
interesting exercise...
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From: bruce@bruce.bgs.com
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.win32
Subject: Debugging version of Windows 3.1 ???
Date: 27 Jan 1993 15:46:53 GMT
Organization: BGS Systems, Waltham MA
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: bruce.bgs.com
Summary: does it exist?

In sifting through the Borland C++ for Windows documentation of Win3.1 API
calls (as part of doing some heavy testing with MS Test, but that's a different
story), I've come across a couple references to a "debugging version" of
Win3.1.

Does such a beast exist?  And if so, what must one do to obtain it?  It sounds
as if it would be VERY useful to our development efforts here...

Thanks-
Bruce Howells,  bgs!bruce@uunet.uu.net   (currently, subject to change)
                (if the above fails, beh@acs.bu.edu) 
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.win32
From: pjdm@chmeee.enet.dec.com (Peter Mayne)
Subject: Re: POSIX interface/Access to WIN32 calls
Reply-To: Peter.Mayne@cao.mts.dec.com
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation
Distribution: comp
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 07:03:14 GMT


In article <1993Jan18.205847.13264@sobeco.com>, rcroteau@sobeco.com (r.croteau) writes:
>Hi,
>
>	I Haven't loaded NT yet but I'm already preparing for it.  There's
>one thing that bothers me and I haven't able to find an answer to this, maybe
>somebody out there can help me.  Can I in some way make WIN32 calls from
>a POSIX compiled application.  The reason I ask is that I intent to write some
>functions that will be SVR4 equivalents but are not defined under POSIX.1 and 
>I need WIN32 based calls to mimick them. I've done the same thing under OS/2
>and I don't see why there would be any problems but I rather know before
>I dive into it.

No, you can't mix subsystems. You'll have to use a communication mechanism
(eg RPC).

PJDM
--
Peter Mayne                     | My statements, not Digital's.
Digital Equipment Corporation   |
Canberra, ACT, Australia        | "AXP!": Bill the Cat

Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.win32
From: hochstae@allfiwib1.wiwi.uni-marburg.de (Christoph H. Hochstaetter)
Subject: Re: early public-domain ftpd for windows nt
News-Software: IBM OS/2 PM RN (NR/2) v0.17f by O. Vishnepolsky and R. Rogers
Reply-To: hochstae@allfiwib1.wiwi.uni-marburg.de (Christoph H. Hochstaetter)
Organization: Philipps-University Marburg, Germany
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 19:52:21 GMT

In <1993Jan20.174007.4239@telesoft.com> holder@telesoft.com (Robert L. Holder @ignite) writes:
>In <C15DKB.AyI@news.iastate.edu> martin@iastate.edu (Martin R Calsyn) writes:
>
>>In article <yt#shp-@microsoft.com> Alistair Banks <alistair@microsoft.com> writes:
>>>You'll find it on ftp.uu.net in the ~ftp/tmp directory, in the
>>>nt-ftpd.zip file, together with sources.
>
>>This is the same name I was given for downloading it and unless it's
>>been renamed recently, you'll actually find it under
>>~/ftp/tmp/ntftpd.zip
>
>Is this available with anon uucp access? How about CI$?
>I don't have access to anon ftp.

If you don't have anonymous ftp access, you may want to try
ftpmail@decwrl.dec.com. Send the word "help" in the first line of
the mail body to get instructions, how to use it. Anyone with a
valid domain-style address can use it.

Christoph
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From: jeff@claw.clearpoint.com (Jeffrey J. Griglack)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.win32
Subject: Re: Does SCSI tape work in Oct release?
Date: 27 Jan 93 18:43:09 GMT
	<1993Jan25.115851.9337@solaris.rz.tu-clausthal.de>
Reply-To: jeff@claw.clearpoint.com
Organization: Clearpoint Research, Hopkinton, MA

On Mon, 25 Jan 1993 11:58:51 GMT, hochstae@allfiwib1.wiwi.uni-marburg.de (Christoph H. Hochstaetter) said:
C> News-Software: IBM OS/2 PM RN (NR/2) v0.17 by O. Vishnepolsky and R. Rogers

C> In <1993Jan15.152659.17107@galileo.cc.rochester.edu> ctne_ltd@uhura.cc.rochester.edu (Chris Newbold) writes:
>Does the October release work with SCSI tapes? When I run the backup
>program, I get a message that "No tapes are connected or they are not
>turned on." If I select the "configure hardware" option from the menu,
>my tape drive appears as one of the selections, but it still doesn't work.
>
>I'm running a beta SCSI miniport driver from DTC for my 3290 host. Could
>this be the problem?
>
C> You need a specific driver for your tape beside the SCSI-Controller
C> driver. Currently only PYTHON DAT-Tapes (HP DAT, Archive DAT) are
C> supported. We already tried 'stubbing out' the code for the detection
C> of the tape model, but it didn't work.

I'm a little new to this, so excuse me if I missed something, but:

Aren't you supposed to be able to send stuff to a generic SCSI tape
device which will send SCSI commands and data to your tape drive?  You
shouldn't need anything special for each tape drive type.  The drive
will notify the generic driver that it is coming to the end of the
tape or that it has problems (like Unix systems).  Do I need a
different driver for every brand and type of SCSI disk drive, or do I
just need a driver for a brand controller and a generic block access
device?  If I need a driver for the tape drive (something Exabyte is
not likely to provide) I may as well be running DOS!
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Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.win32
From: jody@shell.com (Jody Winston)
Subject: reentrant Win32 functions
Organization: Shell Development Company, Bellaire Research Center, Houston, TX
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 15:10:55 GMT

Which Win32 functions are reentrant and where is this documented?

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Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.win32
From: greg@maxwell.ansoft.com (Greg Kochaniak)
Subject: Test
Organization: Ansoft Corporation
Distribution: comp
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 13:39:07 GMT

This is a test, please ignore.
--
Greg Kochaniak
Ansoft Corp., Pittsburgh PA, USA
greg@ansoft.com
From: db@argon.Eng.Sun.COM (David Brownell)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.win32
Subject: Re: POSIX interface/Access to WIN32 calls
Date: 21 Jan 1993 16:59:43 GMT
Organization: SunSoft
NNTP-Posting-Host: argon

> >	  Can I in some way make WIN32 calls from
> >a POSIX compiled application.
> 
> No, you can't mix subsystems.

I've heard this before ("can I both POSIX and WIN32 APIs" seems to
be a FAQ), but never a rationale.  What's the point of preventing use
of standard (POSIX) APIs and others (WIN32, ...) in one program?

I'm not after a "because that's the way it's built" answer, but rather
one that explains why that's a supposed to be good thing.

- Dave

-- 
David Brownell                        db@Eng.Sun.COM.
Distributed Object Management

Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.win32
From: chris@chrism.demon.co.uk (Chris Marriott)