HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: "quarterdeck canada" <quarterdeck.canada@canrem.com>
Subject: qb4.5 call interruptx
Reply-To: "quarterdeck canada" <quarterdeck.canada@canrem.com>
Organization: Canada Remote Systems
Distribution: comp
Date: 23 Jan 93 19:23:20 EST

EH>I haven't had time to play around with the protection levels yet, since
EH>each time it crashes I have to reboot, through all my disk checkers and
EH>environment selection stuff.  Here's the problem:  I have a programme in
EH>QuickBASIC 4.5 that uses the CALL Interruptx command to access mouse control
EH>information, and turn the mouse arrow on and off.  This works just hunky
EH>dory under DOS, but crashes everything under DV.  I can't ctrl-alt-del to
EH>just close that window, I have to ctrl-shft-del to reboot the whole thing.
EH>Will a higher protection level help?  Or is there another way to access
EH>the mouse interrupts?

Are you setting Writes Text Directly, Displays Graphics, and Virtualize
Text and Graphics all to Y for this window?

Regards,

Michael Bolton
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From: Eric.Thockler@aedi.insa-lyon.fr (Eric.Thockler)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.desqview
Subject: Voice based applications under DV38O6
Date: 25 Jan 1993 14:04:12 GMT
Organization: Departement Informatique, INSA Lyon, France.
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: aedi.insa-lyon.fr

 We are planning to develop a voice based application using Dialogic D4x hardware under DesqView 386. Has anyone already develop such application ? 
If yes, what problems have you encountered ?
How did you managed them ?

How does DesqView handle hard interrupt ? 
Using a resident driver for Dialogic boards, will it be 'seen' by all tasks ?

We need HELP!!! Thanks a lot...
From: mike@batpad.lgb.ca.us (mike batchelor)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.desqview
Subject: Re: Multiple windows apps at the same time (how)?
Date: 23 Jan 93 04:14:49 GMT
Organization: The Batchelor Pad
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bfw@matrix.com (Byron F. Warner) writes:
>
> 
>         I would like to know how have multiple users run windows
> on different displays at the same time.  Whenever I start windows
> with 'rsh saturn winx', i get windows to come up.   But after that
> I can't run anything else, Desqview/X puts up a message saying
> File Not Found or No Password if I try to run something else while
> windows is running.  I would like to have multiple
> people running windows apps at the same time. Can this be done?

The only legal way to do it is to buy a separate copy of Windows for
each user, and have them install their own copy on the DV/X machine,
in their own directory.  Something less than that could probably be a
violation of the license agreement for the Windows software.

Aside from that consideration, you should be able to do it if you can
find out which files two copies of Windows cannot share, set up each
user with their own directory containing those un-sharable files, and
figure out how to tell the Windows running in a skeleton directory
where the real directory with the shared files is located.
Probably for executables, all you need to do is set the path.  For
drivers and other things like that, you can probably set those up in
the .ini files.  Whatever can't be setup that way, probably needs to
be made available in the skeleton user directories.  An important
consideration is, where is each copy putting its temp files?

I imagine it's not too different from setting up a network version to
handle multiple users.  Perhaps a network version of Windows is what
you need.

I'm also assuming you have enough memory for multiple copies of
Windows to run in.



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From: quairoli@cs.widener.edu (Patrick J. Quairoli)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.desqview
Subject: DV/X and FTP's PCTCP
Date: 22 Jan 1993 10:08:27 -0500
Organization: Widener University CS Department, Chester PA
Distribution: usa
NNTP-Posting-Host: wilma.cs.widener.edu
Summary: DVX doesn't notice pctcp.ini

we have recently tried to install DV/X and the TCP/IP network manager
on an IBM model 90.  DV/X installed fine, but it kept claiming that
PCTCP did not have the interface, or the host names setup.  DV/X
suggested to recheck the IPCUST.SYS and the IFCUST.SYS; the problem is
that FTPs new version 2.10 does not require you to load or even use
these two files, the new version looks at a variable and a file called
PCTCP.INI   i can 't get DV/X to even install any part of the network
manager, as soon as it sees something missing it bombs and doesn't
give you the  oportunity to input the information that you need, and
it is not very specific either.

note, i've tried using the .SYS files and i still get the same error,
and the information on what it is missing is lame.

_____________________________________________________________________________
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Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.desqview
From: tckaspar@iastate.edu (Thomas C Kaspar)
Subject: Follow-up on WP5.1 spellchecker crashing in DV
Organization: Iowa State University, Ames, IA
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 17:21:15 GMT

Thank you to all of you who tried to help me with this problem.  As several of you suggested I checked my version date, which was 8-20-90, and updated to the 3-09-92 version.  This seems to have solved my problem, at least the same circumstances and files that crashed the program before I updated don't do it now.


Tom Kaspar
National Soil Tilth Lab
Ames, IA
tckaspar@iastate.edu or A5.KAS@isumvs.iastate.edu

Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.desqview
From: ulrick@mp.cs.niu.edu (David Ulrick)
Subject: .DVPs wanted for CUTCP and GOPHER
Organization: Northern Illinois University
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 16:15:42 GMT

I'm running Clarkson's CUTCP 2.2TN under DV 2.26, QEMM 5.11, and DOS 4.01
mostly with success (yes, I know my software is ancient--I'll have to get my
employer to get new releases sometime).  I normally run it in conjunction with
Attachmate Extra! v1.41.  In other words, I'm running two heavy-duty 
communications programs concurrently.  This normally works quite alright as
long as I don't open or close any windows while either the CUTCP or the Extra!
window is open.  Once I do so, however, I can be assured that my machine will
hang sometime later.  I don't seem to have this problem if I don't run CUTCP.

Therefore, I'd be interested in seeing any .DVP (along with CONFIG.SYS,
AUTOEXEC.BAT, etc.) files you folks may have set up to get CUTCP to work.
I'm basically using a modified version of the .DVP shown in the DESQVIEW.DOC
(?) file that comes with the Crynwr packet drivers.  I run Tame 3.00 in my
CUTCP window; it doesn't seem to be able to do any good in the Extra! 
window.  My workaround in the meantime, of course, is to open all of the
windows I'll need at startup and to leave them alone.  Of course, this
makes DV Tree quite a bit less useful than it would otherwise be.

On a slightly related note, has anyone managed to get the PC Gopher II
client to work under DV?  It seems to hang my PC after it displays the
desktop but before the clock is displayed.  Again, the usual collection
of .DVP and files would be appreciated.

Thanks!
Dave Ulrick
ulrick@mp.cs.niu.edu
From: wlaite@carina.unm.edu (Winter Laite LAW)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.desqview
Subject: Re: Ahead VGA, 204a ROM, 386. DV won't install. Fixes?
Date: 25 Jan 1993 13:25:30 GMT
Organization: University of New Mexico, Albuquerque
NNTP-Posting-Host: carina.unm.edu

Got the file ahead.zip. Works. Sorry to have
wasted anybody's time.

Thanks,
Winter
From: enk2@po.cwru.edu (Erik Kovach)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.desqview
Subject: New to Deskview...few easy questions
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 03:51:42 GMT
Organization: Case Western Reserve University
NNTP-Posting-Host: b62711.student.cwru.edu

As the subject says I am new to Desqview/X and have a few questions that I 
would like to ask...

1) Desqview/X allows running Microsoft Windows in a window, but I cannot run 
   this from pure DOS without crashing.  What did Desqview do to Windows?  
   Is there a way to run Windows under Desqview AND Dos?

2) Where may I find Trident and other video drivers for DesqView/X?  I run 
   the included 800x600x16 drivers now.
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.desqview
From: silvia@rcf.rsmas.miami.edu
Subject: Compaq Pro Linea
Reply-To: silvia@rcf.rsmas.miami.edu
Organization: RSMAS
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 93 22:20:22 GMT

I having a problem with a friend 486/25SX Prolinia by Compaq.
When Qemm 6.02 goes to run the optimize it locks up the computer and the A: stays lit.
I have to reboot the computer and then restart it with the old config.sys and Autoexec.bat. 
The Computer's components: 4megs, 486/25sx, VGA, 120megs HD, & Compaq DOS.
From what I know i would venture to say it was the Compaq DOS. But I'm not sure.
Any help would be appreciated. Oh the dos Version is 5.0.


        Manolo
From: potter@rri.UUCP (Mark Allen Potter)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.desqview
Subject: Re: Assembling the DV API w/TASM
Date: 21 Jan 93 14:45:57 GMT
Organization: Recognition Research Inc., Blacksburg, VA

In article <1993Jan20.172321.25003@news.nd.edu> jim@stargate.helios.nd.edu (Jim McCusker) writes:
>Potter:
>
> I DO have the Doc's for the CAPI, but it doesn't say anything about 
>assembling with TASM. (probably because of the age of the manual, it's about
>three years old now).  Anyway, the presumption of guilt on users asking
>questions that may be lumped into the RTFM category doesn't always mean
>that they aren't a valid owner of the API, so such snide remarks ought to
>be left out of this newsgroup. 

I DO HERE BY PUBLICLY APOLOGISE FOR THE ACUSATION. 

I didn't mean to acuse, only to question.  Though I realize how the message was
going to come across later that day after I sent it.  But it was too late to do
anything about it.  With the news feed we have, one looses control of a message
about two minutes after one posts.  I'm sorry the message was received that
way.  When you asked If I had the CAPI manual I just took it the wrong way.  I
tryed to word the message that maybe I'm miss understanding (which I was), but
it still was too acusatory.  I ment to only question, but still assume
inocence and answer the question as best I could (not very).  I sorry for the
message.

>(Anyway, QD could use as many developers
>as they can get,  developers usually translate into MULTIPLE customers)
>IMHO, companies like QD, M$, Borland should not make their development 
>products their cash-cows.

I agree, QD could use as much help as possible.  I agree that many companies do
seem to charge offly high prices for there development tools.  (There are some
notable exeptions:  QD resent lowering of the API toolkits.  QD release of the
DVX library of DJGPP to the public.  MS Windows NT SDK for $69 (Agreed the one
needs a lot of HW and it won't include the final compiler but its a good
start).  However I also can see some of these compainies point of view, in that
support for development tools is expensive (The only people how can support the
developement tools well are your developers.  However your developers call for
a high price tag and you want to have them work of developing).  QD however
falls down even more here, charging even more for support (and it an't cheep
for developers support).
					Potter
					rri!potter@vtserf.cc.vt.edu
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.desqview
From: jjwu@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (James J Wu)
Subject: Re: QDPMI?
Followup-To: Re: QDPMI?
Summary: Revised Quarterdeck BBS phone number / QEMM required
Keywords: Quarterdeck BBS, QDPMI 1.01, QEMM
Organization: The Ohio State University
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 21:53:53 GMT
Expires: Fri, 26 Feb 1993 05:00:00 GMT

The number I gave in an earlier post for the Quarterdeck BBS came from the 
Quarterdeck Passport technical support manual that came with my copy of DV/X.  
The number has since been changed due to changed area codes for the region.  
The new number is (310) 314-3227.

Also, QDPMI only works with QEMM.

     james
From: kf8nh@kf8nh.wariat.org (Brandon S. Allbery)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.desqview
Subject: Re: DV386 Settings for using a Colorado 250???
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 93 19:34:16 EST
Distribution: world
Organization: Brandon S. Allbery's Personal System

joet@dcatlas.dot.gov (Joe Trott) writes:
> With the above caveats about live backup firmly in mind, you can try turning
> simultaneous tape/disk activity OFF.  Unfortunately, I think you will find
> that your tape backup will slow to miserably unacceptable speeds.

Well, no; a program could still change a file out from under the backup by
sneaking in while the backup program was reading the disk.  Unless you mean
"read a file completely into memory, turn off disk access, then write it to
tape", which would cause major problems for large files.

++Brandon

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Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.desqview
From: kemp@convex.com (Phil Kemp)
Subject: Re: DESQview/X problems
Organization: CONVEX Computer Corporation, Richardson, Tx., USA
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 01:18:06 GMT
X-Disclaimer: This message was written by a user at CONVEX Computer
              Corp. The opinions expressed are those of the user and
              not necessarily those of CONVEX.

In <1k0ofkINNm3j@digex.digex.com> tstark@access.digex.com (Timothy M. Stark) writes:

>    I installed Novell LAN Workplace on my PC after I installed DV/X software.
>I looked for a way to attach DV/X to ODI interface driver but I can't find a 
>way to set it up. Have I re-install DV/X software or is there any way to attach
>DV/X to ODI interface system?

Have you installed the network drivers of dv/x. If so go back in and
run setup. Then try and install a network....

>    Since I have DELL 310 (slow 16 Mhz 386SX) with two megabytes of main
>memory, DV/X is very slow. When 256-color display server was installed, I moved
>my mouse device and DV/X responsed me about 5 seconds later and moved its
>pointer to other place. When 16-color display server was installed, DV/X 
>responsed faster. With both display servers, DV/X was very slow. For example,
>I opened a window, DV/X took several minutes to open a window completely!
>Also DV/X sometimes hung up and did not response anything execpt the mouse
>pointer after it was loaded!

>    Do you have any solutions about all problems? If so, I will appericate
>that. Thanks you!

2 megabytes is really not enough to run dv/x. Well some would quibble
with that. Go buy more memory. 4 meg is minimum. 8 is optimal. I
upgraded to 16 and I'm really happy. If you can/don't want to increase
your memory try standard vga, 16 colors. The X server 'caches' the
video memory so that is why low color/low resolution is the best for
low memory systems...

Good Luck.
PK
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Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.desqview
Subject: Re: QEMM/Desqview Diskette Error
From: mike@batpad.lgb.ca.us (mike batchelor)
Date: Sat, 23 Jan 93 07:39:04 PDT
Distribution: world               
Organization: The Batchelor Pad
X-Newsreader: NWREADER [version 3.00 BETA13]

dennisb@dancer.cc.bellcore.com (basiaga,dennis j) writes:
>
> I'm having a particular problem and don't know whether its related to 4DOS
> or Desqview.  My machine is an IBM PS/2-55sx 4mb RAM, with Desqview/386 v2.42,
> QEMM 6.02, 4DOS 4.01 revision D, and HyperDisk v4.51.
> 
> The problem occurs when I open a DOS window in Desqview and attempt to write
> to a diskette that is write-protected.  I get a "DOS PROMPT" window with the
> message "Write protect error writing drive A - Select Retry Abort Fail".
> If I remove the write protect tab from the diskette and select "Retry"
> everything work correctly.  If while in the same DOS window session I change
> diskettes and attempt to copy files to this new diskette I get another
> "DOS PROMPT" window with the message "Invalid disk change error reading
> drive A - Select Retry Abort Fail".  This problem persists even if I completely
> back out of Desqview and must reboot to clear this error.  No problems occur
> if I repeat this scenario without ever getting into Desqview to begin with.
> (This problems occurs with my internal 3.5" drive, I've not experimented
> with my external 5.25" drive)

Do you have Hyperdisk configured to cache floppy disks?  This is the
default.  Add f:- to the hyperdisk command line and try it again.



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Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.desqview
From: cws9669@ultb.isc.rit.edu (C.W. Southern)
Subject: Stacker 3.0 and Desqview/X
Reply-To: cws9669@ultb.rit.edu ()
Organization: Rochester Institute of Technology
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 01:43:55 GMT

Does Desqview/X run on stacker 3.0 drivers?

chris.

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From: ralf+@cs.cmu.edu (Ralf Brown)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.desqview
Subject: Re: Novell TCP/IP Transport for DOS
Keywords: dvx,tcp/ip,dos
Date: 26 Jan 93 06:03:43 GMT
Article-I.D.: cs.C1G66B.L4y.2
Organization: School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon

In article <1993Jan25.183415.5284@ornl.gov> fea@ornl.gov (FREELS J D) writes:
}I just received my long-awaited free copy of the subject software.

Ditto.  Does anybody know of an ODI-compliant SLIP driver?  I remember seeing
a shim to put a packet-driver interface on an ODI driver, but not the reverse.





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Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.desqview
From: mdj@mullian.ee.mu.OZ.AU (matthew douglas james)
Subject: FAQ - where to find ?
Keywords: FAQ
Organization: Computer Science, University of Melbourne, Australia
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 13:00:10 GMT

As the subject says: where can I find a FAQ on Desqview (in particular
Desqview/X) ?

Thanks to anyone ! (please email replies)

Matthew James
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.desqview
From: mcastle@cs.umr.edu (Michael R Castle)
Subject: Re: DV386 Settings for using a Colorado 250???
Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 02:18:40 GMT
Organization: University of Missouri - Rolla, Rolla, MO

In article <TR1sXB9w165w@kf8nh.wariat.org> kf8nh@kf8nh.wariat.org (Brandon S. Allbery) writes:
>joet@dcatlas.dot.gov (Joe Trott) writes:
>> With the above caveats about live backup firmly in mind, you can try turning
>> simultaneous tape/disk activity OFF.  Unfortunately, I think you will find
>> that your tape backup will slow to miserably unacceptable speeds.
>
>Well, no; a program could still change a file out from under the backup by
>sneaking in while the backup program was reading the disk.  Unless you mean
>"read a file completely into memory, turn off disk access, then write it to
>tape", which would cause major problems for large files.

Eh?  doesn't do file locking?  That's stupid!  I could understand not getting
the correct directory structure (unless of course, you can lock the root
directory and say "NO! you can read but not write!!!!"), but there is no
execuse for a backup program no to lock files (especially under multitasking
and multiuser environments such as windoze, desqview, and lans).

mrc
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Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.desqview
From: books@fsunuc.physics.fsu.edu (Roger Books)
Subject: QDPMI?
Organization: FSU nuclear physics
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 93 19:47:01 GMT

I see mention of QDPMI here.  Is it released and, if so, where do I get
it.  I assume it lets you run DPMI programs.

Roger
books@fsunuc.physics.fsu.edu
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.desqview
From: "quarterdeck canada" <quarterdeck.canada@canrem.com>
Subject: prodesigner ii video
Reply-To: "quarterdeck canada" <quarterdeck.canada@canrem.com>
Organization: Canada Remote Systems
Distribution: comp
Date: 23 Jan 93 19:23:20 EST

ME>I am having some difficulty with DV/X in 1024*786 -256 video mode.
ME>I works fine in in the lowest resolution video but after switching
ME>to the highest, to take advantage of xv, I found that it would cause
ME>video problems when I would bring up a program in a DOS window.
ME>Procomm+ for instance, the intro screen would come up fine, but
ME>when I would go into the terminal the window would split into three
ME>parts. Other programs that did not mess up the video would just lock up
ME>my computer.   Any solutions that might be offered would be greatly
ME>appreciated.

ME>o Mother board:     No Name 386/40
ME>o Video board:      Orchid ProDesigner II / 1meg

The ProComm problem is a known problem with no presently known solution,
other than not running the 256-color server on the ET4000 chipset (which
the ProDesigner uses) or not running ProComm, both of which are likely
to be undesirable to you.  Quarterdeck Support is aware of the problem
and is looking at it.  Configuring ProComm for a different video mode
could conceivably help, but probably not.

What were the other programs involved in the other problems (which I
suspect are unrelated to the ProComm problem)?

Regards,

Michael Bolton
Tech Support
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Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.desqview
From: bergman@panix.com (Mark Bergman)
Subject: DVANSI Help needed
Organization: Panix Public Access Internet & Unix, NYC
Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 21:33:34 GMT

Environment:
	486, DV386, Expert VGA card, MKS Toolkit

I don't seem to be able to load dvansi.com in a window as
per the manual. Opening a MKS Kornshell shell window (my
normal environment) and then executing DVANSI.COM promptly
hangs the machine. No combination of DEVICE.COM statements
works: using DEVICE DVANSI in the window causes a complaint
about DVANSI being a block device that must be loaded in my
config.sys. Various combinations of DEVICE and DVANSI
statements in my config.sys either lock up the machine,
usually after appearing to dump the contents of the
executable to the screen and often producing Exception 13
errors, or are simply rejected as incorrect statements.

When I use a 
	DEVICE=c:\qemm\loadhi.sys /r:2 c:\etc\drivers\tansi.sys
statement in my config.sys to load the ansi driver supplied
with my vidio card, it apparently load, and MFT reports the
driver in memory. However, the driver does not appear to be
available in a DV window. Running a program that requires an
ANSI driver produces a screen full of control sequences.

The same set up (MKS Shell, tansi driver loaded high)
without DV lets me run this program correctly.

Any suggestions? The manual is very skimpy re. DVANSI, 1
paragraph without an example isn't much help.


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