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From: magne@ddm1.ddm.st.statoil.no (Magne Maehre)
Subject: Automatic load w/params.
Reply-To: magne@ddm1.ddm.st.statoil.no (Magne Maehre)
Organization: Statoil DDM, Norway
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 11:55:50 GMT


Is there any way one can load a program at startup (using the
LOAD= line in WIN.INI) that has parameters?  I need to start
an application with a few switches and a filename as parameters,
but Windows won't accept it.  Any way to work around the problem?

-Magne
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.setup
Distribution: world
From: David_Gibbs@fourd.com
Organization: 4th Dimension BBS
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 14:46:14 EST
Subject: Driver for Tseng 3000 VGA???

Does anyone know where to get a Win3.1 driver for a VGA board using the Tseng
ET3000 chipset?  The company is in Korea (out of phone range even if I had a
number).  The board will display 256 colors in DOS, but only 16 in Windows.  Any
ideas?

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From: banshee@cats.ucsc.edu (Wailer at the Gates of Dawn)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.setup
Subject: Windows for Workgroups and 3Com 3c501?
Date: 6 Nov 1992 00:44:56 GMT
Organization: University of California, Santa Cruz
NNTP-Posting-Host: am.ucsc.edu


	Anyone gotten a 3Com 3c501 etherlink card to work with WfW?  The
system with an Etherlink II went perfectly but I can't get the Etherlink
to work. 

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Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.setup
Distribution: world
From: dcrawford@fourd.com (Dan Crawford)
Organization: 4th Dimension BBS
Date: Sun, 08 Nov 1992 17:52:18 EST
Subject: Re: Can Win 3.1 see HPFS long

At work we have several OS/2 machines with PFS and occassionally I connect from
one of the DOS machines.  What I see is an 8.3 concatenation of the HPFS name
and all my DOS & Windows 3.1 applications work fine accessing the data.

FYI: This is using OS/2 Lan Manager.

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From: ccasted@prism.gatech.EDU (Edward Deering Boykin)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.setup
Subject: Fonts change possible
Date: 6 Nov 92 21:03:19 GMT
Organization: Georgia Institute of Technology

I am running Windows 3.1. I want to know if I can change the font used in
the wokspace?? If so , how. It may bein the manual but I can't find it
.Oh is there a FAQ for this newsgroup? I am new here.



Ed Boykin
ccasted@prism.gatech.edu

Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.setup
From: opdycke@mail  (Don Opdycke)
Subject: Re: Windows Calendar Acc.
Nntp-Software: PC/TCP NNTP
Organization: Loral Data Systems
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 22:17:17 GMT

In article <1du2tlINN4qj@uwm.edu> retzer@convex.csd.uwm.edu (Joe J Retzer) writes:

    
    I would like to have the calendar app. from the accessories group open
    automatically when I enter windows. This can be done by just dragging
    the icon into the startup group. The problem, however, is I'd like
    
         (1) a particular calendar file opened each time, as opposed to 
             defaulting to the empty "untitled" one.
    
         (2) the "monthly" view enabled, again as opposed to the default
             "daily" one.
    
    I've checked the manual and it does not discuss either of these two points,
    or at least I couldnt find it 8-).
    
    Any advice would be greatly appreciated,
                    
                           Thanks in advance,
                                  Joe

Joe
    
This will help solve problem #1 above. 

1.  Click on the Calendar icon in the startup group.
2.  Click [File] menu in the Program Manager window.
3.  Click Properties.  The command line entry should show CALENDAR.EXE.
4.  Edit the command line entry to include your desired calendar filename,
    e.g.  CALENDAR.EXE yourcal.cal.

I have not tried additional command line switches such as would be required
for problem #2. However, the above solution works for me.

					Good Luck,

					Don
From: Arnaud.Girsch@fifi.univ-lyon1.fr
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.setup
Subject: Mouse in Dos Apps windowed
Date: 10 Nov 92 19:33:44 GMT
Organization: INSA Informatique (Grasp), Lyon, France
NNTP-Posting-Host: aedi.insa-lyon.fr


Howdy ...

   I've just installed a new video driver for my Paradise 512k. I've found it
with ftp on cica .... Now I can get the option "Fonts ..." in the left corner
menu ... But I can't use the mouse in Dos Apps windowed ...
   Do I need something else ??

   I'm using mouse.sys v.8.00 in Dos ... Do I need a newer version ?

   Thanx in advance !!

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From: robert@hektar.welly.gen.nz (Robert Ruthven)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.setup
Subject: Win 3.1 with 16Mb of RAM - HELP!
Date: Thu, 05 Nov 92 09:35:46 GMT
Reply-To: robert@hektar.welly.gen.nz
Distribution: world
Organization: Strange Software


In article <1992Nov4.191236.3964@ucsvc.ucs.unimelb.edu.au> u2005681@ucsvc.ucs.unimelb.edu.au writes:

 > I've never posted to this newsgroup before so please excuse me
 > if I ask stupid questions.

Okay dokey.  Don't worry, I don't bite.. ;-)

 > I have a 486SX-25 with 16Mb of RAM. What is the optimum configuration
 > to get Windows 3.1 to run fastest?
 > 
 > How much should I specify the size of the SmartDrive to be?

I would suggest dumping SmartDrive and getting something serious like
HyperDisk or Norton Cache.  They're much faster (IMHO) and a little more
configurable.  Regardless, the optimum size of a cache is around 2M -
otherwise a lot of time is spent looking through the cache for data.

 > Is there a way of writing temp files to a RAM drive?

Yes!  But don't!  There is *no* advantage in putting your temporary files in
a RAM drive (in fact Microsoft recommend against it), as you are using
memory to give swap space.  Also, the amount of space on a RAM drive is
more limited than your average hard drive... 8-)

It would be more efficient (and faster, probably) to leave your swap
files on your hard drive and keep your memory for memory.


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Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.setup
From: 5rtrtrt@cbnewsf.cb.att.com (richard.e.stealey)
Subject: Re: Canon Bubble Jet Driver for Windows
Keywords: Canon bubble jet
Organization: AT&T
Distribution: na
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 19:47:50 GMT


We have had success using the BubbleJet BJ10e with the IBMProprinter 
24 drivers in Windows.
I can't guarantee that it will do everything for you but at least it is 
sane.


Rick
From: mos11@cus.cam.ac.uk (Mark Scase)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.setup
Subject: Suppressing Ctrl-D when printing postscript
Date: 9 Nov 92 15:43:23 GMT
Organization: U of Cambridge, England

I've seen this question asked before - indeed it is a FAQ *but* I
have not seen it answered so please don't flame me.

I'm using Windows 3.1 with the postscript driver 3.53 and I would
like all print jobs to have the Ctrl-D removed from the top *and*
the bottom of the print file.

If you insert ctrld=0 in the printer section of win.ini then the
Ctrl-D at the top of the file disappears but the one at the bottom
remains.  Can you get rid of the Ctrl-D at the bottom?  If so, how?

I have spoken to Microsoft in the UK and they say that CtrlD=0 gets
rid of both of them.  I told them that it only got rid of the first
one but they didn't believe me!

Thanks for any help,
Mark
-- 
Dr M.O. Scase,                     email:  mos11@cus.cam.ac.uk
Dept of Experimental Psychology,
University of Cambridge,
Downing Street, Cambridge, CB2 3EB, UK.
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.setup
From: from@nork.auc.dk (From Danmark!)
Subject: Re: TSENG Video Card
Organization: NKEDBBF
Date: 11 Nov 92 18:49:42

In article <1dr8ksINNjd5@master.cs.rose-hulman.edu> swartzjh@HYDRA.ROSE-HULMAN.EDU writes:

>I just bought a new Tseng ET4000 Hi Color card. I looked on ftp.cica.indiana.
>edu and there are about 6 or 7 different Tseng driver packages up there.
>Does anyone know which one is the best for this card.  I would like to 
>play with the 32k colors, but I am really just looking for a fast 
>800x600 256 color driver.  Thanks for your help.
>
>			   Jeff Swartz

Go with the et4turbo-package. I did!!

from

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Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.setup
From: niru@cc.gatech.edu (Nirupama Mallavarupu)
Subject: Installing vi on MS-WINDOWS 3.1
Reply-To: niru@cc.gatech.edu (Nirupama Mallavarupu)
Organization: College of Computing
Distribution: usa
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 17:50:26 GMT

I am having a problem installing vi (visual editor of UNIX)
version of DOS on MS-Windows 3.1. 

After I specify the PIF file for it, and I open a file
using vi, I get an error on the command line of the 
file saying " error see documentation - file.a  ..."
I have no file.a anywhere to refer to.

It works fine when I set it in "exclusive" mode and
also saves the contents and edits alright. But sometimes
it pops up this error message on the command line of the
file. 

I tried increasing the XMS, EMS and swap file size. It 
didn't help. 

Can anybody tell me what the problem could be ?

Thanks

Niru.
					
					-New User (newuser@cc.gatech.edu)
From: damien@reg.triumf.ca (DAMIEN GALLOP)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.setup
Subject: Re: I did a silly thing...Made a little boo boo..
Date: 12 Nov 1992 10:21 PST
Organization: TRIUMF: Tri-University Meson Facility
Distribution: comp
NNTP-Posting-Host: reg.triumf.ca
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41    

In article <BxM03I.EBA@cen.ex.ac.uk>, PVossler@cen.ex.ac.uk (P.J.Vossler) writes...
> 
>I tried to setup windows for a different video card, Hee hee, I made a boo 
>boo. The driver I chose doesn't work and now I can't get windows to work at
>all.
>etc.

From DOS, just set default to \WINDOWS, and run SETUP. You can then reselect
the correct video driver (at least VGA 640x480, if all else fails), and
then get back on the air.  
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.setup,comp.os.ms-windows.misc
From: yfwu@Uz.nthu.edu.tw (EE U780935)
Subject: Re: Windows with 2M RAM 
Organization: National Tsing Hua University (HsinChu)
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 09:45:06 GMT

lari@saadi.berkeley.edu (Francesco Lari) writes:
> I got a friend with a 386-SX/33MHz and 2M of RAM, 80M HD. 
> Is it possible to run Windows with this configuration? 
Yes! You can run Windows in 386 Enhanced Mode in this configuration.

> I understand it is going to be pretty slow, but she is just going to use 
> simple word processing programs like Word. Do you think she will be 
> able to run it? 
*Simple* word processing like WORD ?????  Word is *not* a simple word processing
If you run Word in this configuration, the display speed will be very very very
very very very very slow. (7 verys = 7 seconds per character display speed)

So if you want to run Word, upgrade your memory to 8MB or more, upgrade your
PC to 486DX33 or 486DX2-33 or more.........
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 e-mail: yfwu@uz.nthu.edu.tw                     Dept. of Electric Engineering
                                                 Hsin-Chu City, 300
 Like MS Visual Basic most!                      Taiwan, ROC
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Xref: sparky comp.os.ms-windows.setup:1885 comp.os.ms-windows.apps:4582 comp.os.ms-windows.misc:4404
From: szhang@bcm.tmc.edu (Shide Zhang)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.setup,comp.os.ms-windows.apps,comp.os.ms-windows.misc
Subject: Is is possible to close a win by a single clicking?
Followup-To: poster
Date: 6 Nov 1992 20:26:21 GMT
Organization: Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Tx
NNTP-Posting-Host: bcm.tmc.edu
Keywords: Close win, single click, control box

Hi!, there,

Is it possible to close a window in MS-Windows31 by a **Single Clicking**
on the control-menu box, which is located on the upper-left corner of a
window? 

I usually do not use the control-menu to move/size/min/max a window, I
only use it to close and quit a window, so I hope I can do it by a single
click just like on Mac.

Is there any way?

Any help will be greatly appreciated

szhang@bcm.tmc.edu
From: 5916rahmank@vms.csd.mu.edu (K. M. A. Rahman)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.setup
Subject: Re: ***> MS.WINDOWS 3.1 ----- HELP !!!!!!!
Date: 10 Nov 1992 15:58:38 GMT
Organization: Marquette University - Computer Services
Reply-To: 5916rahmank@vms.csd.mu.edu
NNTP-Posting-Host: vmsa.csd.mu.edu

-In article <1992Nov10.003007.3842@wkuvx1.bitnet>, beelewm@wkuvx1.bitnet writes:
->*********************** HELP *************** HELP *******************
->
->Anyone,
->	Let me apologise for my spelling up front, it is late and I am
->frustrated.  I have a BIG problem and hope someone can help.  
->
->My problem:
->	I baught a 486dx/33Mhz from a company called D.C.P. (discount
->computer paradise) about 4 months ago.  along with it came M.S.
->Windows and dos 5.  About 3 weeks ago I started getting error messages
->saying that it was unable to read my "USER.EXE" file or it could not
->find my "HIMEM.SYS" file, and would then crash.  A few days later, it
->started crashing when I tryed to load it (windows).  I have tryed to
->re-install it about 7 times (plus 4 times tonight) and still it will
->not load.  the only thing I can tell that is funny is, there is a  
->16 Meg swap file called "386spart.par" in my root directory, yes you
->read right, 16 Meg's.  I have plenty of memory to run it (633 k
->standard w/ 4 Meg's total.  I do not think it is my "autoexec.bat" or
->my "config.sys" files, I have tryed every possible combination I or
->anyone else in the Computer department could think of.
->	To top it all off, today, I tryed to call the technical
->support line for D.C.P. and the opperator said that not only was their
->tech. support line _disconnected_, but so was their _pruchase line_.
->
->	Any help, advice, sympathy, pity, or donations, would be
->greatly appreciated.
->
->Thanks,
->
->Catch 22 ------------ Marc Beeler ------------ Beelewm@wkuvx1.bitnet
->
->p.s. ************ HELP !!!!!     >8-(
->
->

	I had similar problem. The way I fixed it was to reinstall
	windows froma scratch in a _different directory_ than the
	one you already have on your hard disk. I was told that
	once the kernel gets corrupt, reinstallation in the same
	directory does not help (I donno why).

	If you don't have a lot of staff on the HD, you may reformat
	the HD before reinstallation.

	-Anis.
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.setup
From: perfred@gullregn.idt.unit.no (Per Fredrik Solberg)
Subject: Re: HP Deskjet 500: Any Good???
Organization: Div. of CS & Telematics, Norwegian Institute of Technology
Date: 11 Nov 92 10:17:38

In article <690@usissc.DaytonOH.NCR.COM> mcglob@usissc.DaytonOH.NCR.COM (Brian.McGloin) writes:

> I just bought a new Gateway 486sx-25 w/8MB memory, 170 MB HD, and Telepath
> modem, and I'm considering buying a decent, quiet print.  I can't afford a 
> laser printer, so I was considering the HP Deskjet 500.  A CompUSA store
> in nearby Cincinnati had them on sale for $375.
>
> I use Windows 3.1 a lot and I'm wondering how this printer works
> under Windows?


I have a DeskJet 500C, and I'm very satisfied with it. I've used it
for printing letters, spreadsheets, charts, and graphics, all from
Windows applications. It works just fine; the driver that comes with
the printer is easy to install, and delivers satisfactory performance.
The printer also comes with drivers for a number of DOS programs and a
set of scalable soft-fonts (I'm not sure if these are for Windows
only).

Output quality is highly dependent the paper quality. HP's special
DeskJet paper is best, it provides excellent print quality; plain
paper provides good, but slightly jagged, quality. Note that not all
types of plain paper are equally well suited for the DeskJet, you
should experiment with different types of paper to arrive at the best
result (or ask someone who has already done this).


Per Solberg
pso@si.no / perfred@idt.unit.no
Xref: sparky comp.os.ms-windows.setup:1898 comp.sys.novell:9179
From: d89os@efd.lth.se (Ola Sigurdson)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.setup,comp.sys.novell
Subject: Re: Can Win 3.1 see HPFS long names?
Summary: Question about long file names
Date: 8 Nov 92 18:52:59 GMT
Organization: Lund Institute of Technology, Sweden

In article <1992Nov06.221639.22527@microsoft.com> blakeco@microsoft.com (Blake Coverett) writes:

>Windows in general and FileManager in particular has support for long file
>names (ala HPFS) however it relies on the network driver to provide
>the implementation.  If you were looking at an HPFS share from a LanMan
>server you would see the long file names, but it would appear that the
>NetWare driver for Windows does not provide the required LFN functions.
>
>-Blake

DOes this mean that the applications can use long filenames too?
Some applications (like Coreldraw 3.0) seem too check for the 8.3 pattern
and reject anything that looks different. Will they work with
long file names (using a appropriate network driver of course) ?

Ola Sigurdson | Internet: d89os@efd.lth.se |
[Hi! I'm a mutant .signature virus. Let me kill your old .signature virus.]
From: Arnaud.Girsch@fifi.univ-lyon1.fr
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.setup
Subject: Mouse in Dos Apps windowed ...
Date: 10 Nov 92 19:38:36 GMT
Organization: INSA Informatique (Grasp), Lyon, France
NNTP-Posting-Host: aedi.insa-lyon.fr


Howdy ...

   I've just installed a new video driver for my Paradise 512k. I've found it
with ftp on cica .... Now I can get the option "Fonts ..." in the left corner
menu ... But I can't use the mouse in Dos Apps windowed ...
   Do I need something else ??

   I'm using mouse.sys v.8.00 in Dos ... Do I need a newer version ?

   Thanx in advance !!


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Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.setup
From: deb@spectra (David Barrett)
Subject: Re: Need windows 3.1 driver for mouse systems bus mouse
Organization: University of Hawaii, Dept. of Electrical Engineering
Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1992 08:05:24 GMT

What version is your mouse.com/mouse.sys?  I think the version that works
from microsoft is ver 7.1.  I'm assuming a microsoft mouse here.  Sorry if
yours is different.  I have many for microsoft and logitek.

dB
From: paul@ace.acadiau.ca (Paul Steele)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.setup
Subject: Windows NT Installation Problem
Date: 12 Nov 92 19:47:20 GMT
Distribution: na
Organization: Acadia University

I am attempting to install Windows NT but haven't gotten very far.  When I 
boot up the floppy it does a few things then gives the following error:

TRAP 0000000E ================= PAGE FAULT ===================

** At linear address E84539C2 

It includes a dump of the registers as well.  The problem occurs while 
reading txtsetup.inf.

The PC is a clone DX2 33/66 with a sony cdrom drive and a future domain scsi 
controller, 16 megs of ram and a 120 meg hard disk.  The error is not 
mentioned anywhere in the brief documentation.  Does anyone have any idea 
what it might mean?

___
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Wolfville, Nova Scotia, Canada, B0P 1X0  Internet: Paul.Steele@acadiau.ca
From: retzer@convex.csd.uwm.edu (Joe J Retzer)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.setup
Subject: Windows Calendar Acc.
Date: 12 Nov 1992 17:05:57 GMT
Organization: University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee
Reply-To: retzer@convex.csd.uwm.edu
NNTP-Posting-Host: 129.89.7.30
Originator: retzer@convex.csd.uwm.edu


I would like to have the calendar app. from the accessories group open
automatically when I enter windows. This can be done by just dragging
the icon into the startup group. The problem, however, is I'd like

     (1) a particular calendar file opened each time, as opposed to 
	 defaulting to the empty "untitled" one.

     (2) the "monthly" view enabled, again as opposed to the default
	 "daily" one.

I've checked the manual and it does not discuss either of these two points,
or at least I couldnt find it 8-).

Any advice would be greatly appreciated,
		
		       Thanks in advance,
			      Joe

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Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.setup
Subject: review of accelerator cards?
From: edowdy@vax1.umkc.edu
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 18:10:49 GMT
Organization: University of Missouri - Kansas City

Hi folks, 
	There is alot of renewed talk about accelerator cards for windows
now that they have been out for a while and there are new technology advances
with them (local bus, wnengine etc.). I too have a Trident board on my 486dx
and yes even on a 486 it is slooow.

	My question, since there is so much new talk about accelerator cards
among the windows news groups, does anyone know of  comprehensive review of them
and new prices? There were some reviews months ago, but things have changed
so much (as they always do) that I am sure they are outdated.

Thanks
Eric