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From: cslee@pds.nchu.edu.tw (Lee Chee Siong)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc
Subject: Wanted: Redirect LPTx to .PS file
Date: 15 Dec 92 09:08:08 GMT
Organization: NCHU Computer Center


   Is there any package that can redirect LPTx to a .PS format file?
   Any suggestion is appreciate.




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Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc
From: gbrand@qualcom.qualcomm.com (Graham Brand)
Subject: File "128" in directory - what is it?
Organization: Qualcomm, Inc., San Diego, CA
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 16:52:41 GMT

Here's a simple question for you gurus out there. Whenever I boot
my system and run windows (3.1) I notice an empty file named 128. 
If I remove it and run windows again it comes back. Does anyone know 
why this file is created? I am using a '386/25MHz, 2MB RAM, 105MB HD, 
DOS 5.0 and Windows 3.1.

Stumped,
-Graham Brand (gbrand@qualcomm.com)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc
From: cleslie@ho11.eng.ua.edu (Charles J. Leslie)
Subject: ANSI pictures
Keywords: ansi 
Organization: The University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 05:40:23 GMT

Does anybody know of any sites that have ansi pictures on them?
   I'm starting to take an interest in ANSI.

Thanks
 


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From: jdoll@cup.portal.com (Joe - Doll)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc,comp.os.msdos.apps
Subject: Catalog of Hard-to-Find PC Enhancements (Repost)
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 92 22:18:17 PST
Organization: The Portal System (TM)
Distribution: usa

"The Catalog of Personal Computing Tools for Engineers and Scien-
tists" lists hardware cards and application software packages for 
PC/XT/AT/PS/2 class machines.  Focus is on engineering and scien-
tific applications of PCs, such as data acquisition/control, 
design automation, and data analysis and presentation.  
  
If you would like a free copy, reply with your (U. S. Postal) 
mailing address.
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From: stu@Warren.MENTORG.COM (Stu Brown)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc,comp.binaries.ibm.pc.wanted
Subject: Wanted: Log shell session
Date: 17 Dec 1992 10:14:26 -0500
Organization: Mentor Graphics -- IC Group
NNTP-Posting-Host: stu.warren.mentorg.com

I would like to run a shell where I could record the input and output
so I could give someone a sample session they could reproduce. Here
might be s sample log file:

C> dir
FILE1  TXT  1024  12-14-92  5:42p
FILE2  TXT  1024  12-14-92  5:42p
FILE2  TXT  1024  12-14-92  5:42p
C>


Does someone know of such a shell or logging TSR in one of the PC archives?
-- 
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Mentor Graphics Corporation
I.C. Group, Warren NJ
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Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc
From: dlanglan@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (super-dave)
Subject: Re: A Frank Discussion on Piracy (Flames, Anyone? :-P )
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1992 23:14:42 GMT

>>"What we have here, is a failure to communicate." (Cool Hand Luke - A
>>movie with Paul Newman - rent it if you get the chance.)  If I had posted,
>>"Hello out there, I have 100 counterfeit copies of Stacker 3.0 for sale @
>>$20 a piece," then, the FBI, CIA, Green Berets, and SWAT would be pounding
>>on my door.  

>Uh, pardon me, but what we have here is a REAL failure to communicate.
>Where, pray tell, did I say that this law would or should apply to
>you, and that you could not or should not be discussing this issue?
>My response was to clarify what had been done recently for the
>gentleman who was apparently aware that the law had recently changed
>but didn't know the details of what it said.

>[If you can find such a statement on my part, I'll eat this terminal.] 

Sorry for the way you feel about piracy, Fred.  Not everone is as open
minded as I am.  I'll concede that you are right.  You never explicitly
said I should be jailed for my post.  For that, I apologize.  I think you
took my reply too seriously, however.  It was meant in a kind spirit, not
pedantically.  Sorry to irk you - "To each -- his own."

I really do think there are two sides to the piracy issue.  First side:
people who believe the copyright laws should remain intact.  Second side:
those who feel that the laws are unfair and should be changed.  'Nuff said.

"There are always two sides to every issue" - Anon.

Rock On,

Dave

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Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc
From: dlanglan@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (super-dave)
Subject: Re: A Frank Discussion on Piracy (Flames, Anyone? :-P )
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Distribution: usa
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 22:34:32 GMT

Quoted from super-dave (dlanglan@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu)

>> As stated above, I feel that some forms of software piracy are valid. 

>> shareware concept - If one likes and uses the software, one should
>> register (buy) it.  The distribution of cracked games on thousands of
>> BBS's across the country helps prevent the unsuspecting buyer from buying a
>> total lemon of a product.  How many times have you bought software only to
>> find out that the package is ten times better than the product?  Caveat
>> Emptor! 

evans1@cbnewsm.cb.att.com (Dan Evans) writes:

>You do raise some good points here. But with the onset of shareware, 
>demos released from the software publishers, and return polices from
>retailers like Egghead (30 day money back, no questions asked) your
>valid reasons should all be addressed by the manufacturers in short
>order. Those who do not will lose their buying market (at least in games).

>Personally I think that the shareware concept is the greatest thing since
>sliced bread.

Dan,

I very much agree.  So, basically what you're saying is that software piracy
actually helped the gaming market by forcing the software companies to 
release demos ;-).  My point exactly!  Before, the consumer was stuck with a
lousy game or application.  Now, because of the relative ease of obliged
counterfeit software, the companies are obliged to release demos.  Until
software companies are completely up-front with their customers, piracy
will be a viable alternative.

Who's the enemy of the state?  A guy who doesn't want to pay $350 up-front
for something he has no right to return or resell if it is of poor
quality, or the corporation that forces him to pay it?

Regards,

Dave

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Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc
From: mfw@mundil.cs.mu.OZ.AU (Michael John FEARN-WANNAN)
Subject: Microsoft Mouse Driver - where?
Summary: Where can I get version 8.2 of the MS mouse driver?
Keywords: microsoft mouse driver
Organization: Computer Science, University of Melbourne, Australia
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 11:48:29 GMT

I am trying to get hold of the latest MS mouse driver, version 8.2.
Can anyone tell me where I can find it? I can't see it in ftp.uu.net.

Thanks in advance,
Michael Fearn-Wannan
Department of Psychology
University of Melbourne
Australia

Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc
From: fox@rei.com (Fuzzy Fox)
Subject: Re: Stacker and Hyperdisk, but how? 
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 22:39:18 GMT
Organization: Recognition Equipment, Inc.

etxstfr@helix.ericsson.se (Stefan Frick) writes:

>The 'README.DOC' that came with stacker claims that Stacker and Hyperdisk can
>co-exist but they don't give any details, just that caching should be done
>towards the uncompressed part of the disk.

Um...Does Stacker perform an SSWAP function, thus swapping the
compressed and uncompressed drives?  This might confuse Hyperdisk.
Perhaps you should load it after Stacker has done it's SSWAP magic, or
maybe stop using SSWAP if it's not too much trouble.

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From: ky04@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu (KUN YU)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc
Subject: What to do with file0000.chk?
Date: 14 Dec 92 19:43:04 GMT
Organization: Lehigh University

I got "Serrious disk problem" from within Windows ocassionally. Then I reboot
 the machine. CHKDSK showed lost chains, I used chkdsk/f to recover 
them into files. But when I type file0000.chk, sometimes I can see some
binary codes, sometmes I got "error reading drive C" message. No bad sector
is show on chkdsk.

Does that mean file0000.chk is on bad sectors? If true, would  keeping the 
junk file there prevent getting into the bad sectors?


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Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc
From: dlanglan@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (super-dave)
Subject: Re: A Frank Discussion on Piracy (Flames, Anyone? :-P )
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1992 23:19:09 GMT

tsand@vipunen.hut.fi (Tapio Sand) writes:

>>people will use the games and never pay for them, but how many of you out
>>there have registered your PKZip? ARJ? CSHOW? Get the picture?

>Hmm. ARJ's help file says the following:

>"ARJ is free to use, copy, and distribute for non-commercial personal use if
> ARJ is not modified and no fee is charged for using, copying, or distributing
> ARJ except as noted in the license document."

Touche' :)  Make that PKZip and CSHOW.

Super-Dave
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc
Subject: Re: A Frank Discussion on Piracy (Flames, Anyone? :-P )
From: a_rubin@dsg4.dse.beckman.com (Arthur Rubin)
Date: 17 Dec 92 18:55:36 GMT
Organization: Beckman Instruments, Inc.

In <1992Dec17.140305.21762@scott.skidmore.edu> pvonk@scott.skidmore.edu (Pierre VonKaenel) writes:


>I recall reading an article in the Wall St. Journal the other day
>about the fact that piracy is now a federal offense (correct me if I
>don't have the exact label) and that many pirates are now pulling out
>of BBSs and otherwise curtailing their activities.  I'm sure this
>won't stop John Doe from copying a game from his friend, but the
>penalties are definitely more severe now.  Bad time to be starting
>this thread - and using names!

Piracy is a copyright violation.  Under a (relatively) new law, Large
copyright violations can be felonies.  (Large means, as I recall, making
at least 10 copies with a (total) value of $10,000.  (Value may be pretty
much wholesale, for software.)

I am not a lawyer.
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Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc
From: lachlan@dmp.csiro.au (Lachlan Cranswick)
Subject: Re: Packed file is corrupt?
Organization: CSIRO Division of Mineral Products, Melbourne, AUSTRALIA
Date: Fri, 11 Dec 1992 03:13:28 GMT

u5533129@ucsvc.ucs.unimelb.edu.au writes:


>On my home machine, if I set up my config to give too much free memory, I get
>the message "PACKED FILE IS CORRUPT" from a wide variety (but not all)
>software.

>Can anyone tell me where this message is genorated, and why?

>Thanks,

>Peter Summers

run programs that give this error
with the commandline -
loadfix  programname

Loadfix is a DOS 5 utility that make sure that programs do
not go into a low? section of memory that the other
DOS's never made available for programs.              
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From: sh09@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu (STEVEN HIGGINS)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc
Subject: Re: Help : Redirect file
Date: 19 Dec 92 05:18:34 GMT
Organization: Lehigh University

In article <1992Dec14.114305.1@brt.deakin.edu.au>, guac@brt.deakin.edu.au writes
:
>Hi Netter,
>
>I need a function in DOS 3.3 which redirect a print document to a file if
>there is no printer attached for the PC (or laptop). (i.e. It does not stop
>at "Retry Abort Fail ?")
>
>Anyone can give me any suggestion ?
>
>Thanks in advance !
>
>Cathy
>
    PC Magazine has a program out called PRN2FILE that will do what you want,
    and it's freeware.

    Regards,
-- 

~Steve
sh09@lehigh.edu
From: mjo@iao.ford.com (Mike O'Connor)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc
Subject: Optune the disk optimizer?  Anyone use it?
Date: 15 Dec 92 16:19:44 GMT
Reply-To: "Mike O'Connor" <mjo@fmsrl7.srl.ford.com>
Organization: Not an official spokesperson for Ford Motor Company
NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost

It used to be on a lot of FTP archives, but now it's not.  Is there
something wrong with it -- some bug or gotcha I should be aware of?

						...Mike
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From: Richard_Robb@mindlink.bc.ca (Richard Robb)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc
Subject: Re: A Frank Discussion on Piracy (Flames, Anyone? :-P )
Date: 18 Dec 92 01:34:03 GMT
Organization: MIND LINK! - British Columbia, Canada

Yes, we've all been screwed so often by the computer hardware/software
industries that we justifiably feel some satisfaction if we can recoup our
losses by sharing software that has been legally purchased.

But: aren't you worried that the virii are usually spread by piratii?
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc
From: chungy2@aix.rpi.edu (Yau Felix Chung)
Subject: System Configuration
Followup-To: chungy2@rpi.edu
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 22:25:08 GMT

Hello all!  I would like to optimize the memory usage in my system as
well as speed up loading windows and applications.  So far I think I have
optimized the memory usage but I am not sure.  Below is the my config.sys
and autoexec.bat; could someone tell me if there is anything I can do
to these files to improve system performance?

Using the configuration below, I have noticed the loading windows and
big applications like Ami Pro take fairly long.  I suspect that it might
be because I am using smartdrv.  Is there a faster caching program?

To save bandwidth, please reply to chungy2@rpi.edu

Any help would be appreciated.  Thanks.

-F.

Computer system:
	Gateway 2000 486-33 local bus
	8 megs of memory
	ATI Ultra Pro video
	ESDI harddrive with Ultrastor controller
	
********* Config.sys ************
device=d:\windows\himem.sys
dos=high,umb
device=d:\windows\emm386.exe ram 2048 
device=d:\windows\smartdrv.exe /e:1024 /b:512 /q
devicehigh=e:\mach32\vansi.sys
device=e:\mach32\rambios.sys
devicehigh=e:\ndw\nav&.sys /b
files= 35
buffers=10
stacks=9,256
shell=e:\dos\command.com e:\dos\ /e:512 /p
fcbs=1
lastdrive=g


********* Autoexec.bat *********
@echo off
rem e:\ndw\smartcan /on /skiphigh
rem e:\ndw\image
rem d:\windows\ad_wrap.com
rem d:\windows\ad-dos.com
e:\ndw\nav c:\
PATH e:\ndw;c:\;c:\aldus;c:\pm4;e:\batch;e:\dos;C:\STACKER
loadhigh e:\utility\mouse\mouse.com
loadhigh doskey /buffsize=8
set gsfonts=e:\gsfonts
set temp=f:\temp
prompt $p$g
From: sh09@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu (STEVEN HIGGINS)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc
Subject: Re: using multiple autoe
Date: 19 Dec 92 05:16:49 GMT
Organization: Lehigh University


In article <724108462.F00001@ocitor.fidonet>, Jay.Agnor@f2206.n124.z1.fidonet.or
g (Jay Agnor) writes:
>* In a message originally to All, John Gibney said:
>JG> Hiya, Ken!
>
>JG> -=> Quoting Forbus@ils.nwu.edu to All <=-
>
>JG> Fo> I end up using different configuations of equipment with my notebook
>JG> Fo> computer, and hence want to boot with different configuations
>JG> Fo> depending on what I'm doing.
>JG> Fo> Is there some clever utility that lets one switch between
>JG> Fo> multiple boot configurations
>JG> Fo> (i.e., allows multiple autoexec.bat and multiple config.sys files)?

>Check out Hans Salvisburg's Boot.Sys. It's an Association of
>ShareWare Programmers product. I use it to boot up with 5 different
>Config.sys and Autoexec.bat configurations via a menu at boot time.
>The author is Swiss but the program is available through the Public
>Software Library (Houston) and on lots of BBS's.

    PC Magazine also has a _FREE_ utility called MBOOT (Multi-Boot)
    that allows the selection of 4 different CONFIG/AUTOEXEC combinations.
    It is a little challenging to install, but seems to work well once you're
    done.  It probably doesn't have the capabilities of boot.sys, but the
    price is sure right.  I use it to boot for DPMI support, Emulation of
    Expanded Memory, and support for VCPI type programs.  (Anybody else have
    problems with EMM386 and some older protected mode programs)?


    
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From: sharp@mizar.usc.edu (Malcolm Sharp)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc
Subject: Real mode / Protected mode definition?
Date: 16 Dec 1992 11:56:03 -0800
Organization: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
NNTP-Posting-Host: mizar.usc.edu

I'd appreciate someone providing a definition of real mode and
protected mode.  I thought I understood the difference - until I
needed to explain it someone.  I looked in the MS-DOS 5.0 manual and
found nothing.  Is this something that usually involves Windows only?
The question came to me from someone who just bought a new compiler
that said he could compile either for real or protected mode.

Thanks in advance.

Malcolm Sharp

Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc
From: fburton@nyx.cs.du.edu (Francis Burton)
Subject: How to prevent shelling out?
Organization: Nyx, Public Access Unix @ U. of Denver Math/CS dept.
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 92 15:29:18 GMT

I have a program which I would like to run as a module in a
self-instruction class.  This particular program allows shelling
out to DOS by running a second instance of COMMAND.COM (I think).
Although most students would not abuse this facility, I would feel
safer if it was not possible to do this.

Does anyone have any ideas how this could be achieved?

Setting COMSPEC to something other than COMMAND.COM stops shelling,
but it also hangs the system when the program quits!

Thanks in advance,
  Francis Burton
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc
From: Richard.Kooijman@dnpap.et.tudelft.nl (Richard Kooijman)
Subject: Re: Telix Terminal emulators
Organization: Delft University of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 08:22:40 GMT

callison@uokmax.ecn.uoknor.edu (James P. Callison) writes:

>>If someone could point me towards a decent Telix emulation package,
>>I'd really appreciate it...

>What I really, REALLY would like is VT100 emulation for Telix, but
>I would settle for decent VT102 emulation...(and no, I can't use
>the VT52 emulation; it's actually worse than the VT102...)

>Any help would be appreciated...

Well, you didn't specify the problem you have. Maybe it is just 
a configuration option that is wrong.

Kermit has the best terminal emulation that I know of. You can't
insert existing terminal emulators into Telix, though. It's to 
Telix or not to Telix. The only thing you can try is to put Telix
into TTY mode and run a ANSI or VT100 like device driver for
your screen.
In TTY mode Telix doesn't interpret control sequences, it just sends
them to your screen where they hopefully will be captured by
your driver.

I use Kermit with external ZMODEM, and I am very happy with it.


Richard.
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From: glad@ac.dal.ca
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc,comp.os.msdos.programmer
Subject: Re: LASTDRIVE fiddling - CAN'T CHANGE IT AFTER STARTUP
Date: 15 Dec 92 00:41:38 -0400
Organization: Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada

> Anyone able to tell me how to mess with the messydos lastdrive parameter
> which can be set in config.sys ? I want to overcome a very boring
> "feature" of silverplatter "multiplatter" which absolutely insists that
> the lastdrive be set to J - this makes network login a pain and the
> cdserver is on the network. I can survive with a boot disk for access but
> it seems like a very clumsy way to use a very expensive piece of
> hardware/software. I'd like to write myself a utility to kludge the
> lastdrive temporarily while I access multiplatter, then undo the damage
> after I've finished.
> 

For each drive letter that is defined in your system, DOS sets aside an 88
byte block of memory to store info about the associated logical drive.  The
block is called the CDS, current directory structure, which tells DOS what
the current directory for the drive is, where DOS can find info about the
drive's physical characteristics, and whether the drive is a network drive.

So, with that in mind, you can see the difficulty in trying to change the
lastdrive environment variable; since DOS allocates the memory needed to
store environment information about drives when it reads config.sys file
on boot-up.  So, to my knowledge, you can't change the lastdrive after
the system starts.  Let me know if you find a way around this, though.

Francis 

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