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From: charvel@salzo.Cary.NC.US (Jeff Cogswell)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
Subject: Re: DOES A 387 HELP WIN/3.1?
Date: Sun, 03 Jan 93 10:42:29 EST
Organization: SalzoBoard BBS

michael@glia.biostr.washington.edu (Michael) writes:

> In <1992Dec29.151718.6115@mksol.dseg.ti.com> mccall@mksol.dseg.ti.com (fred j
> >In <1992Dec29.004615.20098@netcom.com> ergo@netcom.com (Isaac Rabinovitch) w
> >>In <1992Dec28.185555.16798@mksol.dseg.ti.com> mccall@mksol.dseg.ti.com (fre
> >>>In <1992Dec22.194817.25666@kodak.kodak.com> thomas@acadia.Kodak.COM (Thoma
> >>>>    "A Friend" told me that an 80387 would help Windows/3.1  run  faster
> >>>>    because there are a lot of floating point calculations involved.
> >>>>    Can anyone verify this?
> >>>No, because it isn't true.  A math coprocessor will do absolutely
> >>>nothing to improve Windows performance.
> 
> >>*Almost* true.  
> 
> >Well, no.  What I said is exactly true.
> 
> Ah but he was referring to what the first person said.  And he meant that
> the idea had merit but didn't apply in this case.  You are being over
> defensive.
> 
> True, but this explanation does serve to explain why the reasoning may
> be sound in many cases but not in this one.  Relax.  Just because someone
> answers a question differently, doesn't mean that you need to defend your
> first answer.  No one attacked you. :)
> 
>     Michael Stanley (michael@glia.biostr.washington.edu)

I'm posting this rather than mail it so everyone can see.  I'm sure
there are many other people who get sick of reading such defensive
postings.  Michael's right.  "No one attacked you."  The fact is,
Windows is so large, even Petzold doesn't know everything there is
about it.  When someone says "I'm right" he/she is just asking for
trouble.  There's always exceptions to the rule, especially in a
complex multitasking environment.  Besides, unless the people claiming
to be exactly right have completely traced through the assembly code
comprising Kernal, GDI, User, and all other modules, then they can
not say with certainty that they are exactly right.

Come on, everyone.  We all have weaknesses. 

Jeff Cogswell
charvel@salzo.Cary.NC.US

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From: mark@ocsmd.ocs.com (Mark Wilson)
Subject: SLOOOW Keyboard
Organization: Online Computer Systems, Inc.
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL5
Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 13:15:49 GMT

Dumb question #986:

Sometimes when I'm doing a lotta stuff in a DOS box under Windows 3.1,
things that are probably causing LOTS of disk access and thus exercising
SMARTDRV, which I have running on all 3 drives, the keyboard input
simply doesn't appear for a relatively long time (like 15 seconds or more),
then plots, while the next batch of keys are ALSO delayed.    Something
is apparently buffering the keyboard input while other things go
on (like flushing buffers, perhaps?)  Anyway, it's just odd, and
I was wondering if any Windows Guru out there could tell me the real cause;
IS it SMARTDRV, and if so, why?  This is NOT a complaint, just a query.
It happens relatively seldom, and I can live with it; I'm just curious.

Thanks!

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From: rsrodger@wam.umd.edu (Yamanari)
Subject: Travelmate HELP
Organization: University of Maryland, College Park
Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1992 14:00:29 GMT

I am in need of Windows 3.1 drivers for the TI Travelmate 3000 (386SX-20,
1 meg VGA) since I'm finally getting a color external monitor and want
to use either more colorful 640x480 modes or higher resolution modes
(800x600, 1024x768--?colors). 

If you them, or know where I could get them, please mail me an FTP site,
or zip and uuencoded mail me, or anything!!
 
Thank you!

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Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
From: mccall@mksol.dseg.ti.com (fred j mccall 575-3539)
Subject: Re: COM3 and IRQ5
Organization: Texas Instruments Inc
Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 13:30:27 GMT

In <1992Dec29.200728.9094@doug.cae.wisc.edu> jong-min@cae.wisc.edu (Jong-Min Park) writes:

>In article <1992Dec28.185430.16687@mksol.dseg.ti.com> mccall@mksol.dseg.ti.com (fred j mccall 575-3539) writes:
>>In <L2s3VB1w165w@bluemoon.use.com> gerry@bluemoon.use.com (Gerard M. Foley) writes:
>>
>>>   I find that my terminal program QModem 4.2 appears to have COM3 and 
>>>IRQ5 selected.  The manual for the modem refers only to the standard 
>>>......
>>>   If anyone can post a simple explanation of IRQ's and serial ports, I 
>>>for one will appreciate it.
>>
>>Ok, simple explanation.  Any piece of hardware that needs to request
>>Some software gets upset if you try to do that.
>>......
>>So, anyway, what people often do is to set COM3 and COM4 to unused
>>IRQ's.  The two most commonly used are IRQ5 (which is normally LPT2,
>>......
>>-- 
>>"Insisting on perfect safety is for people who don't have the balls to live
>> in the real world."   -- Mary Shafer, NASA Ames Dryden
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>>Fred.McCall@dseg.ti.com - I don't speak for others and they don't speak for me.

>Why do some programs (e.g. a Naval Observ. timekeeping program running under
>Windows) lets you choose COM1-4 ports while fixing IRQs to default (IRQ4 for
>COM3, IRQ3 for COM4)? I hope application programs let you choose both COM1-4
>and IRQs (unless they don't use interrupts, but I doubt it).

Most do.  In point of fact, Windows will let you change the addresses
and IRQs associated with COM ports, so I'm not sure just what problem
you're having with the particular program you mention (I've never used
that one).  Windows application programs won't, of course, since they
aren't supposed to be talking directly to the hardware in the first
place (and don't need to change them, since Windows takes care of that
for all of them).

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Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc,comp.dcom.lans
From: alex@grian.cps.altadena.ca.us (Alex Pournelle)
Subject: W4Wg vs. ARCnet vs. NetWare?
Organization: College Park Software, Altadena, CA
Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 02:23:16 GMT

I've sent a note to Microsoft about this subject but haven't heard back
yet (not surprising, since their FAX and letter unit is quite slow).
Basically, my question is, can NetWare 2.x and Windows for Workgroups
coexist on top of an ARCnet network?  The W4Wg manual says no, but I've
also hear that W4Wg doesn't coexist with NetWare properly anyway, so I
thought I'd get everyone's experience.

Thanks in advance.

	--Alex
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Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
From: Richard_Robb@mindlink.bc.ca (Richard Robb)
Subject: Precise Positioning in Ami Pro 3.0
Organization: MIND LINK! - British Columbia, Canada
Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 19:13:14 GMT

Is there some way to get Ami Pro 3.0 to print text beginning at a precisely
defined position, say, beginning 3.14 inches from the top of the page and
2.76 inches from the left margin?  With WordPerfect this is very easy to do
using Advance codes.  But I haven't been able to figure out a way to
accomplish this with Ami Pro, and the manual isn't any help.  I need to fill
in pre-printed forms, but don't want to go back to WordPerfect.  Any Ami Pro
experts out there who might have the answer?  Many thanks.

Richard
From: paschall@utdallas.edu (Dwayne Paschall)
Subject: Re: WANTED: Info about Windows NT for new user..
Reply-To: $USER@utdallas.edu
Organization: The University of Texas at Dallas
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 18:20:43 GMT

On the otherhand, I've been running NT since the July release. The latest bea release 
is much improved. I reliably run both 32-bit and 16-bit Windows apps. One comparison 
that I DON'T see made very often between OS/2 and Windows is the number and quality  
of applications avaliable for both. OS/2 has yet to spawn near the number of apps. 
that is CURRENTLY avaliable for Windows. BTW, most current Windows apps WILL work 
under NT. The only one that I have that won't is Central Point Backup for Windows. 
this is because CPB makes direct disk access. This is a no-no under NT and subsequently 
causes a GPF.

Overall, I would say that NT is a viable operating system in its current release. And 
for $69, you get an operating system, a 32-bit C/C++ compiler with online docs, as well 
as postscript and WRITE formant documentation for the whole thing.
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From: fox@rei.com (Fuzzy Fox)
Subject: Re: Idlewild screen savers
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 18:20:58 GMT
Organization: Recognition Equipment, Inc.

nathans@pacifier.rain.com (Nathan Silva) writes:

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

Try renaming the *.IW files to *.SCR.

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Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
From: mccall@mksol.dseg.ti.com (fred j mccall 575-3539)
Subject: Re: How to install stacker (was Re: Stacker Misleads)
Organization: Texas Instruments Inc
Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1992 18:22:44 GMT

In <PS.92Dec19121419@pellava.uta.fi> ps@uta.fi (Pertti Suomela) writes:

>In article <1992Dec1.181224.161@wam.umd.edu> rsrodger@wam.umd.edu (Yamanari) writes:

>> 	Stacker allows you to stack your boot drive.  If you do this,
>                                              ^ partition, I assume
>> 	you are _asking_ for trouble (at worst) or a heck of a lot
>> 	of hassle (at least--try installing QEMM and running optimize
>> 	with your boot disk stackered.  Yes, it can be done, but it's
>> 	much EASIER to do it this way--so you lose a few megs..) .

>I have a Maxtor 7213 IDE drive (about 210 Mb formatted) which I have
>only one partition on. I have left about 15 Mb unstackered for files
>necessary for booting and for windows swap file. I have given the rest
>of the partition (about 195 Mb) to stacker and it produces now about
>390 Mb space and the whole setup works just fine. I do not understand,
>why I shouldn't do it like this.

Which one is your C: drive after the boot completes; the unstacked 15
MB or the stacked 390 MB?

[In other words, do you have an SSWAP driver loaded for drive C?]

If you have let Stacker 'swap' the drives, so that your 390 MB stacked
drive is seen as C, you are simply asking for trouble (IMHO).

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Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
From: night@halcyon.com (Brent Olson)
Subject: I need Tseng ET-3000 Win 3.1 drivers
Summary: Anyone upload them to a ftp site???
Organization: Northwest Nexus Inc. (206) 455-3505
Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 22:37:28 GMT

Subject says it all really.

I need the Tseng ET-3000 windows drivers.  I am right now
using the VGA drivers that come with windows; but, I would
really like to see 256 colors.

If someone knows of an ftp site or something, please direct
me to their address, I can get them myself.

I have the ET-4000 drivers, and obviously, they don't work...
I tried.

Please e-mail or post to this group if you think anyone else
would be interested.

Email me at...

	night@halcyon.com
	Brent Olson

Thanks in advance...
From: jt2@prism.gatech.EDU (TROSTEL,JOHN M)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
Subject: CGA Fonts in Windows
Date: 30 Dec 92 03:37:54 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: Georgia Institute of Technology

I currently am running windows on my new 386 board but, for the momnet
must remain with a CGA monitor and card.  I have got the CGA drivers
from the supplemental display driver disks but the text on a number of
screens is too LARGE! For instance, the Windows Setup Screen fills up 
more than the full screen and will not move enough to see the bottom.
(Which, of course is good, as it keeps the control bar within reach of the
mouse) Several other screens extend off the left or right margins of the \
screen, mainly as a result of the text being TOO BIG.  Is there a fix to this?
Or do I just suffer until I scrape up enough dough for a REAL monitor, ie.
VGA or SVGA ??????

Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
From: tspila@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Tim Spila {Romulan})
Subject: Increasing cursor size...
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 03:10:59 GMT

Using a laptop computer, the cursor in windows can be hard to see.
Specifically, the cursor that is used in WordPerfect for Windows.  I was
wondering if there was anyway in windows to increase the mouse pointer
and/or the I-beam cursor that is used in so many windows apps.  I think
the I-beam is windows based, and not WordPerfect based.  

If there is someway to do this in windows, how?  Or is there a shareware
or freeware program that can modify the cursor?

Thanks,

Tim.
From: rabussea@dess.greco-prog.fr (Denis Rabusseau)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
Subject: Os/2 vs Dos
Keywords: OS/2
Date: 19 Dec 92 12:53:31 GMT
Reply-To: rabussea@dess.greco-prog.fr (Denis Rabusseau)
Organization: LaBRI

Under my 486 DX2/50 with 8MB RAM, Dos applications run twice faster
than under DOS 5.0 and Smartdrive (Last version) . But windows application
run as faster as my old 286 12mghz.  Compatibility with windows isn't
as good as IBM tells it.

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From: anoosh@mips.com (Anoosh Hosseini)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
Subject: xlat850.bin format?
Date: 30 Dec 92 18:37:27 GMT
Organization: SGI/MIPS
NNTP-Posting-Host: wildcat.mti.sgi.com
Originator: anoosh@wildcat.mti.sgi.com

Windows uses xlat850.bin to translate characters form a  DOS which is using
code page 850 (Latin 1) to ANSI. I could not find any documentation on the
tables. An object dump revealed 2 tables, though I could not decipher the
relationship encoded to be 850->ANSI or ANSI->850. Any help would be 
appreciated.

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Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
Subject: Re: DOES A 387 HELP WIN/3.1?
From: jdcarmack@miavx1.acs.muohio.edu
Date: 1 Jan 93 21:59:24 -0500
Organization: Miami University Academic Computer Service"

In article <1992Dec29.175519.16238@nynexst.com>, fischman@nynexst.com (Gary Fischman) writes:
> In article 26667@wam.umd.edu, crh@wam.umd.edu (Craig Hinners) writes:
>>mccall@mksol.dseg.ti.com (fred j mccall 575-3539) writes:
>>>
>>>But that isn't a matter of *WINDOWS* performance; it's a specific
>>>program.  That's not what he asked about.
>>>
>>OK, I'll bite.  How can you run *WINDOWS* without running a specific
>>program?  Seems to me that if he was asking about *WINDOWS* performance
>>he was referring to *WINDOWS* applications, not changing the wallpaper.
>>
> 
> 
> I'm gonna jump in here and agree with Fred.  The performance of the application
> is different from the performance of the WINDOWS environment.  No matter how an
> application is written, the overhead introduced by the OS is essentially the same.
> The fact is, a numeric coprocessor does nothing for the WINDOWS environment.  It 
> will only help an application which requires number crunching.
> 
> I get the feeling you're making a  concerted effort to belittle and flame Fred.  It
> really isn't necessary.
> 

I have to agree that the statement was taken out of context, to say the 
least.  It would be similar to asking how you can run DOS without running
a specific program.

Now for something constructive:  Has anyone had any success with those
accellerator cards for Windows?  I, myself, would believe that a new
video card with larger memory would be the answer, however there might
be some using the accellerator cards with success.  At any rate, one
of those answers would probably point the original poster in the 
right direction.

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From: law30129@nusunix1.nus.sg (GNANASIHAMANI KANNAN)
Subject: Re: How do I change group icons?
Organization: National University of Singapore
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]
    
   There's no direct way within Windows to change the Prog Grp icons
   BUT I did come across this Shareware prog in CICA which would allow
   you to change that icon.  Sorry - cant remember the subdirectory
   the file is located in.
   Just in case you dont know CICAs ftp address, its 129.79.20.84.
Date: Fri, 1 Jan 1993 07:42:51 GMT

   Hope that helps.

   KANNAN
   NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE
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From: mccall@mksol.dseg.ti.com (fred j mccall 575-3539)
Subject: Re: How to install stacke
Organization: Texas Instruments Inc
Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 16:32:49 GMT

In <5786.1100.uupcb@satalink.com> john.will@satalink.com (John Will) writes:

>FJ>I've never done it to myself because I never ran SSWAP on my machine.
>FJ>I've seen a number of people around here hose themselves with it,
>FJ>though.  Why make things unnecessarily complex so you can load another
>FJ>device driver?

>If you knew anything about SSWAP, you'd know it's a transient, in other
>words, it occupies zero bytes.  Not exactly a huge problem, no?  I've
>been here for months, I've never seen any significant Stacker problems
>mentioned that were the result of using SSWAP.

And if you knew anything, you'd know that just because you personally
haven't seen problems doesn't mean they can't or don't exist,
particularly given your lengthy "for months" presence "here", wherever
"here" may be.

I HAVE personally seen such problems, having been exposed to Stacker
on quite a number of machines over somewhat more than "months", and it
makes no difference to me whether SSWAP permanently takes up space in
the driver chain or not.  I suppose I should rephrase that slightly,
though, given the number of people who seem to be looking for a fight.
I haven't seen STACKER problems, either.  What I've seen are machines
that won't boot because things are on the 'wrong' partition at boot
time, software that won't work for similar reasons, users who are
confused about what to fix and where, things being hosed by
'automatic' installation procedures that change things without telling
the user (or that tell the user, but the user is confused as to which
is really his boot drive), etc.

Do what you want.  Good luck.

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From: ttoupin@zephyr.cair.du.edu (Tory Toupin)
Subject: AUX Problems in Windows 3.1
Originator: ttoupin@zephyr.cair.du.edu
Organization: University of Denver
Date: Fri, 25 Dec 92 17:24:34 GMT

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comp.os.ms-windows.misc                      


HELP :

On occasion I get an "Unable to write to AUX" message in Windows 3.1.  I can't
find any reference to such a message in the Windows Resource Reference(s)
and related documentation.

I have AMI Bios (1990?), 386/33, 4Meg Ram,  serial ports, INTEL MathCo.

The problem started after I got the serial cards installed.  The original
installation screwed up the INTs and used the wrong adrses (i.e. COM1=COM2=COM3).

Any help appreciated.

Thanks in advance,

Ed Toupin
toupine@casi.cba.du.edu
ttoupin@zephyr.cair.du.edu
From: dcoleman@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Daniel M. Coleman)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
Subject: Re: 24-bit mode of ATI Ultra Pro ***VLB***
Date: 31 Dec 92 23:08:46 GMT
Distribution: na
Organization: The University of Texas at Austin, Austin TX

In article <mcdonald.16@aries.scs.uiuc.edu> mcdonald@aries.scs.uiuc.edu (J. D. McDonald) writes:
>>them quite serious (who needs to print, anyway????)  
>I don't understand this  ... how does the video driver affect printing?

Good question.  I just know that it does. Printing is fine from VGA, 8514,
Crystal Fonts, and mach 8 Ultra modes, but is messed up in mach 32 modes.  I 
have a Panasonic KX-P1124i, and very recent Windows drivers for the printer
(11/92) I believe.  Many of the Epson and IBM 24 pin printer drivers do not
work properly either.  I have had some luck with the Epson LQ-2500, but that
only supports 360x180 dpi output, which is really stupid looking considering
the nonquare logical dot shape.  True type fonts printed in this mode are most
heinous looking.

>If anyone else has bug reports, please post. I've FAXed my two bugs to both

I've tried calling ATI and Gateway, but they really haven't seemed interested
in the specific details of what goes wrong.

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