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From: cornet@duteca3.et.tudelft.nl (Jan-Pieter Cornet)
Subject: DR-DOS diskcopy and diskcomp problems
Summary: bugs!
Keywords: DR-DOS, diskcopy, diskcomp, EMS, bugs
Organization: Delft University of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering
Date: Fri, 31 Jul 1992 10:27:29 GMT

I noticed that when copying disks using DR-DOS's (extended) diskcopy
program, the copied disks get corrupted if diskcopy has to swap to
EMS. Swapping to disk or to XMS goes fine, as far as I see, but EMS
has problems. This is with no TSRs, no peculiar device drivers but
an EMS driver resident, on a 286. Oh, it's DR-DOS 6.02, with the
april update installed (the one that circulates on the internet,
I haven't seen _any_ shop-available updates in Europe for DR-DOS 6)

This is with no TSRs installed, and with as few device drivers as
possible (EMS driver and screen saver). I have a 286 computer with
hardware EMS 4.0 memory, and I've extensively tested that EMS (and
I'm using DESQview normally around the clock, and that pretty much
uses the EMS... btw, same problems within DESQview, of course, but
also outside).

I didn't check diskcomp thouroughly, but I guess it has the same
problems (why doesn't diskcomp just calculate a CRC per sector?
seems good enough for me, and you don't run out of memory).

Did anybody else notice this? (On a 386, note that normally your
XMS and EMS come from the same pool, and diskcopy will choose
XMS over EMS).

I love the extra possibilities offered by the DR-DOS programs but
then I really assume that they also work... :/

-- Jan-Pieter
cornet@duteca.et.tudelft.nl
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc
From: fredf@microsoft.com (Fred Freeland)
Subject: Re: Command Recall programs
Date: 28 Jul 92 21:57:11 GMT
Organization: Microsoft Corporation

In article <5mVioB1w164w@infopls.chi.il.us> eck@infopls.chi.il.us (John Eckert) writes:
>I want everything!  I want STACK.COM  *AND*  F1 & F3!  
> 
>Is there a command-recall program which retains use of the F1 and F3 
>buffers?
> 

Yes, try Anarkey.



-- 
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Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc
From: spcsprin@cicero.spc.uchicago.edu (Yeow-Meng Thum)
Subject: MFM drive on ISA machine with IDE drive
Organization: U of Chicago, SSPPCC
Date: Fri, 24 Jul 1992 01:52:18 GMT

I have an MFM drive plus controller from an about-to-be-junked 286.
Is it easy to use this relatively slower drive on my ISA 486 with
an IDE drive?
From: stellabo@helix.cshl.org (Fred Stellabotte)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc
Subject: APL emulator for MS-DOS
Date: 27 Jul 92 17:56:20 GMT
Organization: Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory


Can anyone help ...??

I need to run VAX  APL on a VAX4000 model 5000 ..

I am having trouble bringing up a xterm or any window that
supports the APL fonts ..

Is there a MS-DOS terminal emulator that handles APL fonts ..??

I would even consider buying a APL terminal If it could be setup
to connect to the vax VIA TCP/IP or LAT or DECNET ..

Thanks for your help ..


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Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc
From: ankleand@mtl.mit.edu (Andrew Karanicolas)
Subject: Re: Help with Segmented Memory Architecture and Borland C++ (long)
Organization: MIT Microsystems Technology Laboratories
Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1992 03:55:43 GMT

I got an e-mail response from:
From <@mitvma.mit.edu:U20565@UICVM.BITNET> Tue Jul 21 22:22:28 1992
#. .
#What you should have purchased was a C compiler which comes with a DOS
#Extender. WATCOM C from guess who, WATCOM is one of the BEST optimizing
#compilers on the market. It will produce 32 bit DOS executables (the DOS
#Extdner makes this possible), 32 bit Windows executables, NOVELL Netware
#Loadable Modules (NLMs), OS/2 16 and 32 bit executables, and AutoCAD ADS
#an ADI applications (to extend AutoCAD Release 11).
#
#. .
#
#Mario Pacheco

Thanks for the reply Mario!  I tried to send e-mail but without luck.
Some quick followup questions:  Any idea of the phone number for
Watcom?  I saw that the "Programmer's Paradise" has Watcom C listed
for $629.  I need to see if we can get an educational discount though.
If I were to use something like Watcom C, would I essentially be able
to use existing code or does it require special function calls to make
use of the extended memory?  If anyone else has information relating
to this topic, please send e-mail.  

If there is sufficient interest, I will post a followup article.

Thanks again,

-- 
Andrew Karanicolas
MIT Microsystems Technology Laboratory
ankleand@mtl.mit.edu
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From: L.Chung@ee.surrey.ac.uk (L N Chung)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc,alt.binaries.pictures.utilities,comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc,comp.graphics
Subject: VESA driver for Trident 8900
Date: 21 Jul 92 17:47:23 GMT
Organization: University of Surrey, Guildford, Surrey, UK. GU2 5XH

Is there a VESA driver for a trident 8900 based card?
If so where can I find it ?

Thanks ?
-- 
--------------------------------------------------------------------------
L.N. Chung			Dept of Elec. Eng, University of Surrey,
(ees1lc@ee.surrey.ac.uk)	Guildford, Surrey, GU2 5XH. UK.
(l.chung@ee.surrey.ac.uk)	PHONE: +44 483 571281  FAX: +44 483 34139
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc
From: messina@netcom.com (Tony Porczyk)
Subject: Re: URGENTLY NEEDED .. PLEASE READ THIS ONE
Date: Fri, 31 Jul 92 09:04:07 GMT
Organization: Messina Software

bhatiasa@uther.calvin.edu (Sanjay G. Bhatia) writes:

>HI EVERYONE,
>	This may not be the right place for me to announce this one but I really need this one desperately.
>	I am looking for the game, PACMAN for Ms Windows or MS DOS.  I am sure that you have an idea of what I am looking for so if you have it, or know an ftp site where I can get it at, PLEASE do write to me and pass it on.
>	Thanks  a lot

Sanjay,

This is not really meant as a flame, but you're right, most of the groups
you posted it to are not the right place for it.  What is worse, however,
is that you posted it *separately* to each group instead of crossposting it.

t.
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc
From: bdowning@mary.fordham.edu (Brian Downing)
Subject: Re: SMARTDRIVE
Organization: Fordham University
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41    
Date: Thu, 30 Jul 1992 11:59:00 GMT
X-Posted-From: mary.fordham.edu
X-Posted-Through: sol.ctr.columbia.edu

In article <146.13.uupcb@uttsbbs.uucp>, kevin.fong@uttsbbs.uucp (Kevin Fong) writes...
>Does anyone know if a 5 meg cache using smartdrv (the one with Windows
>3.0/3.1 -- smartdrv.exe _not_ smartdrv.sys) is beneficial?  I was told
>that a 2 meg cache was about the limit of usefulness for smartdrv.
> 
>Kevin (kevin.fong%uttsbbs%boo@pacbell.com)
>   

 I have a 486 with 8 megs of which 2 is given to smartdrv. I tried
playing around with setting higher and found no noticable improvement
in access times. I tried starting Windows 3.1 with Norton Desktop as
my default shell, promptly exiting and restarting. I also tried
compiling 800K of C source code, touching the *.c files and recompling
again.  I didn't write any special code to test it though so I can
only give you my 'seat of the pants' impression, for me 2 megs is plenty.

Brian Downing   VAX User Assistant,  Fordham University, New York, New York
Internet: bdowning@mary.fordham.edu  Bitnet: bdowning@fordmulc.bitnet
void random_witticism(char *, ... ) { ... }

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From: nguyengp@net2.ICS.UCI.EDU (Tom Fan)
Subject: [HELP] Decompression Tool for *.lzh
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc,comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc,ics.general
Date: 28 Jul 92 05:51:33 GMT


Hi Netters,

I have no idea of how to decompress a *.lzh file.
Any pointer would help.

Thanks,
Tom Phan
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc
From: swispl@solomon.technet.sg (SW International)
Subject: WinQvt/Net version 2.61 Problem...
Organization: National University of Singapore
Date: Thu, 30 Jul 1992 11:09:31 GMT


I've got funny problem using WinQvt/Net version 2.61 under DOS 5.0 and
Windows 3.1. After several screens full of info, the entire Windows
environment goes totally crazy. The mouse cursor would have a life  of
its own etc, windows would automatically swap all over the place.
ie. total hell breaks loose.

Has anyone encountered this problem?

Does anyone know a fix for it?

Is there a later version of WinQvt/Net - and where can I ftp it?

Regards,

Alvino...

--
SW International Systems Pte Ltd     |  "I've got a plan so cunning 
    14, Science Park Drive           | you could put a tail on it and
    Singapore Science Park           | call it a weasel".. Black Adder
    Singapore 0511                   | 
    Tel: (65) 778-0066               |
    Fax: (65) 777-9401               | swispl@solomon.technet.sg
From: U20565@uicvm.uic.edu
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc
Subject: Scrollback buffer (TSR) for DOS, where?
Date: 22 Jul 92 02:36:45 GMT
Organization: University of Illinois at Chicago

I recently upgraded to DOS 5.0. One thing which I lost and I really regret
losing (one reason I was apprenhensive in upgrading) was a TSR I used with
DOS 3.3 called BUFFIT. This TSR allowed you to scroll back up to 32K worth
of text that was sent to the STD devices. This meant that if I compiled a
program and there were plenty of errors (command line compilation) and I
subsequently issued a DIR command and needed to see those errors I could
simply invoke the TSR with the HOTKEY and look back at the text which
scrolled off. Hence the term "scrollback buffer." Anyone using a decent
telecomm program like Procomm Plus, Telix, QMODEM, or Telemate will now
what I mean.

However because of the fact that programs use undocumented calls and thse
calls change every DOS version here and there this TSR no longer works.
I can't remember where I got it from, it is called BUFFIT. I have looked in
the archives for a similar name in various utility subdirs, but to no
avail. Even on a description basis, any decent scroll back buffer will do.
I hate having lost the functionality of that nifty TSR. It was FAST. But
I don't necessarily need that same program. Iterating, any decent scroll
back TSR will do.

It was especially useful for command line compilations after you entered
the editor to reedit your source. Invoking the hotkey you could scroll back
to the error messages while in the editor. I use DesqView 386 so most of the
time this was not necessary, but it helped for those quickie programs.

If anyone knows of where to find such a beast please respond directly if
you can.....

Thanks,
Mario Pacheco
From: don@ohm.york.ac.uk (Don Goodeve)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc
Subject: DOS box...
Keywords: IO redirection, Ethernet, TCP/IP
Date: 29 Jul 92 14:36:08 GMT
Organization: Electronics Department, University of York, UK

I am looking for some way of remote logging into a PC over TCP/IP.
I have two machines on my desk at the moment. One I need for day
to day work, the other is supporting some hardware that I use also
on a regular basis. The latter machine (PC dell386 running DOS4.0)
takes up a lot of space on the desk -- I would like to be able to
move it to a more suitable location but still be able to talk to
it directly. I would like to use the other machine as a front-end.

Both machines are on ethernet running TCP/IP. 

What would be nice is if my main machine (running UNIX) could
interface over the ether to the PC and run it as a remote machine.

Are there any utilities/device drivers available that would help
me achieve this goal. If there are where should I look. If there
are not, what technical difficulties do I need to overcome to
achieve this goal?

Thanks in anticipation

	Don

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|Don Goodeve		email: don@uk.ac.york.ohm |
|Adaptive Systems       tel : (+44) 904 432381    |
|Electronics Dept.      fax : (+44) 904 432335    |
|University of York  -----------------------------    
|UK                 | Give it to the Softboys....
 -------------------  
If only life were in an open D tuning...

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Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc
From: jld@datascope.com (Jay L. Davis)
Subject: Re: Upgrading an IBM PC
Organization: Datascope Corp.
Date: Thu, 30 Jul 1992 15:56:24 GMT

In article <1992Jul24.010213.10263@athena.mit.edu> ankleand@mtl.mit.edu (Andrew Karanicolas) writes:
>Hello,
>
>I've got an IBM PC (the real thing) in lab that I would like to use
>with an Audio Precision System One signal generator and DSP processor.
>
>The PC has 640K of memory and a 10M hard disk.  It has a monochrome
>Amdek monitor.  The machine is about 8 years old.
>
>(1) Can anyone tell me what kind of video output this PC has?  Is it
>among things like CGA, EGA or VGA?  If not, can the video be upgraded
>to something like VGA?
>
>(2) The machine has no mouse.  Can I add a mouse to this beast?
>
>(2) The PC is running MSDOS version 3.0  Would it be a good idea to
>upgrade to 5.0?  I have no room for windows on the hard disk however.
>
>Since a PC is required to operate the AP System One, I would like to
>use this machine as it seems to work fine.
>
>Please send e-mail if you can help.  Thank you.
>
>-- 
>Andrew Karanicolas
>MIT Microsystems Technology Laboratory
>ankleand@mtl.mit.edu


Its not worth doing too much with the machine. It would be cheaper to get
a new one (just leave it for the AP System One). The graphics that system
has is called MGA (monochrome graphics adapter). You could buy a VGA card
and montior easy enough along with a mouse. You could also upgrade to DOS 5.
The problem is that with only a 10 meg disk, you can't do to much. And
if you did get the disk space, youl'd find out just how slow the machine
really is (my old 6mhz AT seems like snail now). Its just not worth it when
you can get a 386SX for just over $1000 now (w/ a reasonable disk and VGA).

---Jay Davis
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc
From: pshuang@athena.mit.edu (Ping-Shun Huang)
Subject: Re: MSDos program descriptions.
Followup-To: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.archives
Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1992 20:22:52 GMT

 > I have browsed through a few FTP sites that have PC utils, but have
 > noticed that they lack a desciptive readme file

The best place to ask and discuss these issues would be the Follow-up
newsgroup I have set for this message (comp.binaries.ibm.pc.archives). A
number of the larger, better organized sites do indeed have this type of
organization. wuarchive.wustl.edu, for example, an excellent mirror FTP
site, has descriptive listings of the files it mirrors from
wsmr-simtel20.army.mil in the directory /mirrors/msdos/filedocs.

--
Ping Huang (INTERNET: pshuang@athena.mit.edu), probably speaking for himself

Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc
From: ellmenre@eva.fmi.uni-passau.de (Nils Ellmenreich)
Subject: DOS C-Compiler Comparison Wanted
Keywords: C
Organization: University of Passau, Germany
Date: Tue, 21 Jul 1992 14:38:27 GMT

Hi,
I am looking for computer magazine articles concerning a comparison of C-compilers. If you know a recent one (need facts about MS-C, Borland C++, 
Turbo C++, a.s.o.), please mail me!

-- 
Nils Ellmenreich                        Universit"at  Passau, Germany
Phone: +49 (0)851 82055                 E-Mail: ellmenre@eva.fmi.uni-passau.de
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc,alt.binaries.pictures.utilities,comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc,comp.graphics
From: otto@nevada.edu (Frederick J. Haab)
Subject: Re: VESA driver for Trident 8900
Organization: University of Nevada System Computing Services
Date: Tue, 21 Jul 1992 19:30:42 GMT

In article <1992Jul21.174723.2955@EE.Surrey.Ac.UK> L.Chung@ee.surrey.ac.uk (L N Chung) writes:
>Is there a VESA driver for a trident 8900 based card?
>If so where can I find it ?
>
>Thanks ?
>-- 
>--------------------------------------------------------------------------
>L.N. Chung			Dept of Elec. Eng, University of Surrey,
>(ees1lc@ee.surrey.ac.uk)	Guildford, Surrey, GU2 5XH. UK.
>(l.chung@ee.surrey.ac.uk)	PHONE: +44 483 571281  FAX: +44 483 34139


Yes, it should have come with the card...I have a 8900 and it came
with two utility disks, one had a vesa driver vesa.exe.  It is
copyrighted, so I can't give it away, but maybe you should just
contact Trident...a quick look through my users manual doesn't
reveal a phone number or address, though.

	-Fred
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc
Subject: Help needed with CONEX
From: a_millsbs@ccsvax.sfasu.edu
Date: 30 Jul 92 16:51:29 CST
Organization: Stephen F. Austin State University

Has anyone out there used the PD terminal program CONEX?

I am trying to get some ket redefinition done with this and I just cant seem to
get it right.  The english docs are REAL sparse and I dont know german so I am
just muddling through.

ANY help will be greatly appreciated.

Thanks in advance,

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Computer Center -- Technical Support,     Stephen F. Austin State University
a_millsbs@ccsvax.sfasu.edu                P.O. Box 13012 SFA Station
root@calvin.sfasu.edu                     Nacogdoches, TX  75962
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From: f51562@sakura.kudpc.kyoto-u.ac.jp (f51562)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc
Subject: How to unload TSR?
Date: 27 Jul 92 08:55:08 GMT
Organization: Data Processing Center, Kyoto University, Kyoto Japan.


How I can remove some TSR (without unload option) from memory ?

Thanx Martin
From: daveharv@pro-tiger.cts.com (Dave Harvey-SysAdmin)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc
Subject: Re: Managing Your Money, relative cost of upgrade vs purchase anew
Date: 23 Jul 92 13:18:11 GMT
Organization: Crash TimeSharing, El Cajon, CA

In <1992Jul1.032828.2979@ecsvax.uncecs.edu>
mvolo@ecsvax.uncecs.edu (Michael R. Volow) writes:


>. I always thought that $50/year was too much. As a result, this was
>the first year that I did not upgrade. Does anyone know what the cost
>of upgrading is now? If it's low enough I might do it.

I just bought a new copy of version 8 and included in the package was an
offer to become a "PLUS" member for $59.95 which includes the annual update
plus four MYM newsletters.  That appears the only way you can get the annual
update.   

  
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Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc
From: hurd@fraser.sfu.ca (Peter L. Hurd)
Subject: where do I go to ask....
Organization: Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C., Canada
Date: Sat, 25 Jul 1992 04:40:36 GMT

Hi, I'm having a bit of a hard time with my WP, I don't seem to have 
access to a newsgroup for WP, such as that for Desqview &c I can get 
here.  Can anyone tell me where I can drop a WP question?
 (Incidentally, I've got this Candian WP that uses the WP{WP}UK.LEX
lexicon, but when I run spell check, the damn think says can't find
WP{WP}US.LEX, and then when I tell it to use another lexicon (WP{WP}UN.LEX
one would assume) it passes everything as being correctly spelt.  So the
question is: How do I tell the damn program to use UK spelling not 
Benjamin Franklin's mess/lex?)
Thanks,
-P.

-- 
-- Pete Hurd, hurd@sfu.ca          |   Truth never set anyone free,          
Behavioural Ecology Research Group |   it is only doubt which will           
Dept.Biol.Sci., Simon Fraser Univ. |   bring mental emancipation.               
Burnaby B.C. V5A 1S6 Canada        |               -- Anton LaVey
From: y55j@vax5.cit.cornell.edu (Mike Duttweiler)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc
Subject: DOS 5.0 FIND command problems.
Date: 24 Jul 92 06:41:50 EDT
Distribution: comp
Organization: Cornell University

Since upgrading to DOS 5.0 I have been unable to use the FIND command. Doesn't    
seem to matter how my system is configured or how I am using FIND.  Anyone know
what might be going on or if there is a substitute utility?  Thanks.-- 
Mike Duttweiler
Internet: y55j@vax5.cornell.edu
...from far above Cayuga's waters.
From: jfreter@triton.unm.edu (The Myth)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc
Subject: Re: Command Recall programs
Date: 26 Jul 92 21:29:14 GMT
Organization: University of New Mexico, Albuquerque

In article <1992Jul26.161044.18718@usenet.ins.cwru.edu> axa12@po.CWRU.Edu (Ashok Aiyar) writes:
>
>In a previous article, eck@infopls.chi.il.us (John Eckert) says:
>
>>STACK.COM is a utility which saves your last 15 DOS commands for recall 
>>without re-typing.  
>> 
>>It works great!  But it disables the buffers which DOS provides at F1 and 
>>F3.  
>> 
>>I want everything!  I want STACK.COM  *AND*  F1 & F3!  
>> 
>>Is there a command-recall program which retains use of the F1 and F3 
>>buffers?
>
>MSDOS 5.0 comes with a TSR utility (DOSKEY.COM) that does precisely
>that.  I believe that DRDOS 6.0 has this built into the shell kernel.
>

There is an even better history option for dos.  It's called 4DOS.com (ver
4.0) that is compatible with DOS 3.x-5.0, Dr DOS 5.0/6.0.  It has a varible
history size that can be set to remember as many commands that you would 
wish to use.  f1/f3 aren't disabled, and the command-line editing is much
more flexible than the standard DOS's.  It will also complete filenames, 
match commands that you'd type previously with the same starting letter(s)
(that is, if you'd be operating for hours at the command line running
several commands, you can retreive any specific command easier than scrolling
through a list).  It supports aliases (much less disk space/RAM than batch
files),  has an enhanced, speedy batch language.

This program also ships with Norton utilities as N-DOS.  All it does is
replace command.com and adds many features (the manual is about 400 pages)
that aren't a standard part of MS DOS/DR DOS.
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc
From: pshuang@athena.mit.edu (Ping-Shun Huang)
Subject: Re: where do I go to ask....
Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1992 20:29:08 GMT

In article <hurd.712039236@sfu.ca> hurd@fraser.sfu.ca (Peter L. Hurd) writes:

 > Hi, I'm having a bit of a hard time with my WP, I don't seem to have 
 > access to a newsgroup for WP, such as that for Desqview [...]

comp.os.msdos.misc isn't *TOO* bad a place to post (it is, after all, a
.misc newsgroup), although I suspect .apps would be an even better place
for your question. There are a couple of newsgroups for various specific
text processors and editors, and on editors in general, but your problem
is closely tied to MS-DOS and therefore belongs in this hierarchy.

--
Ping Huang (INTERNET: pshuang@athena.mit.edu), probably speaking for himself

Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc