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From: cbrooker@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (Craig Brooker)
Subject: COM and 386 Enhanced
Organization: Indiana University, Bloomington IN.
Distribution: na
Date: Mon, 6 Apr 1992 22:11:27 -0500

I am having a hard time configuring my COM ports for 386 Enhanced
mode.  I know I have to add some lines to my system.ini, but I'm not
sure what.  Any help would be greatly appreciated.

-Craig Brooker

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From: feustel@netcom.com (David Feustel)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms,comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: Why go to 3.1 if 2.0 works
Date: 12 Apr 92 15:53:59 GMT
Article-I.D.: netcom.09vj14#.feustel
Organization: DAFCO: OS/2 Software Support & Consulting

prs@turing.acs.virginia.edu (Phillip R. Scarr) writes:

>(David Hobbs) writes:
>>I've been reading the OS/2 newsgroups the last week where everyone is
>>just ga-ga over 2.0.  IF (and the key here is IF) OS/2 will multitask
>>DOS, Windows, and OS/2 Preemptively, why should anyone upgrade to Win 3.1?

Exactly what I asked myself while driving home with my Windows 3.1 upgrade.
Since I couldn't come up with a good answer, I returned the upgrade
for a refund.
-- 
David Feustel N9MYI, 1930 Curdes Ave, Fort Wayne, IN 46805. (219)482-9631
= Candidate Bush wouldn't recognize principle if he were standing upon it =
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From: 890139w@aucs.acadiau.ca (John Weatherbie)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms,comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: Tastes gross/more fattening (repost (last attempt only got ~1 site))
Keywords: (hex encoded ASCII) 3A 2D 29
Date: 7 Apr 92 15:43:39 GMT
Organization: Acadia University

teverett@jarthur.claremont.edu (Toby Everett) writes:

>In article <1992Apr7.051700.10839@midway.uchicago.edu> chi9@midway.uchicago.edu writes:
>>0.0333333333333, which gives us the astounding answer that Windows 3.0 is 1.5
>>of an operating system!                                                   ^^^

>	Which is what many people have been saying all along.  Windows is only
>one half an operating system.  :-)
>        --Toby Everett

Any idiot who thinks that Windows is an operating system needs a kick to the head.  An operating system doesn't require another operating system to be installedto work.  Does Windows do this, didn't the last time I checked. Maybe it's in
the manual, let me check.  Nope not there either, must be in a txt file. Hmm 
don't see it.  Must not be able to do it. Guess it's not an operating sytem,
everyone hear that, IT IS NOT AN OPERATING SYSTEM!!. DOS is an operating system,
OS/2 is a great operating system, Windows is a program that runs under OS/2 and DOS. Get it right!!! Buy OS/2 and forget the term UAE.
john
  

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Acadia University, Wolfville, NS, Canada                |"Jim, I'm a Doctor not                                                         |a bricklayer"
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From: murf@spike.comet.ucar.edu (John Murphy)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: SMARTDRV 4.0 again.
Date: 8 Apr 92 19:56:20 GMT
Organization: COMET/Univ. Corporation for Atmospheric Research, Boulder  CO

Thankyou for the few replies to my problem with SMARTDRV 4.0....
but I need to clarify a couple of things...It happens whether I am in
windows.  Also someone pointed out that it could be the delay for the write back cache.  I guess this is possible but once the data is written that shouldn't
happen again if the machine is idle...right??  If I don't even touch the
machine I get strange activity every few minutes. (no its not a virus)


--
John Murphy			murf@comet.ucar.edu
UCAR/COMET			(303) 497-8494
PO Box 3000
Boulder CO 80307-3000
From: bielski@skyler.mavd.honeywell.com (Walt Bielski)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: Differences between Norton's Desktop version 1.0 and version 2.0?
Date: 11 Apr 92 20:47:54 GMT
Article-I.D.: skyler.1992Apr11.144754.1
Organization: Honeywell Systems & Research Center

In article <1992Apr11.003407.11148@usenet.ins.cwru.edu>, axa12@po.CWRU.Edu (Ashok Aiyar) writes:
> 
> I currently use NDW 1.0 as my shell.  Could someone who has used NDW 1.0,
> and now uses NDW 2.0 tell me more about the enhancements in the latter?
> 
> Additionally, does anyone know whether Symantec is offering a cheaper
> upgrade to registered users of version 1.0?


I called Symantec yesterday about this. I was told that the NDW 2.0 upgrade is
$49 plus $8 s&h. They are going to send me slick sheets and a demo disc. The
person I spoke to quoted some things from a "what's different about 2.0" sheet;
full 3.1 compatibility (does this mean 1.0 isn't compatible :-)), better
network awareness (whatever that means), a limited version of the Norton
AntiVirus, more (19, I think) file viewer filters, and some other things that I
don't remember now. One thing that they had planned to include but did not was
a version of the backup program that handled tape drives :-(. All the Symantec
rep would say to me was that there was a card in the box explaining that this
was not present in the current version, but she did not know if this meant that
they would ship it free to customers when it was availble. Hope this helps.

Walt Bielski

These are my opinions, not Honeywell's.
From: cs70453u@brando.Pikku2 (Marko Niskanen)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Sigma VGA Legend II drivers for win 3.1
Date: 13 Apr 92 14:11:36 GMT
Distribution: comp
Organization: /home1/tu/cs70453u/.organization

Is there a ftp-site from where I could get drivers  to windows 3.1 for
my Sigma VGA Legend II. I  saw a posting  that said  there  is drivers
available for   Tseng ET-4000. Dos  this mean  all  cards   which have
et-4000 chip could use these drivers?

- Marko Niskanen -
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms,comp.os.msdos.programmer,comp.os.msdos.apps,comp.windows.ms.programmer
From: msmith%peruvian.utah.edu@cs.utah.edu (Matthew Smith)
Subject: Re: MS C/C++ v7 - need info
Date: 15 Apr 92 14:43:20 MDT
Followup-To: msmith@peruvian.utah.edu (Matt Smith)
Organization: University of Utah CS Dept

In article <1992Apr14.122159.5648@wes.on.ca> tomh@wes.on.ca (Tom Haapanen) writes:
>
>An upgrade from BC++ 2.0 to BC++ 3.0 (including Application Frameworks) costs
>$199 US.  An upgrade from either MSC (any version) or BC++ (any version) to 
>C/C++ 7.0 (including MFC) costs $139.  
>
>At the minimum, Microsoft is at least as good a deal.  And unless Borland now
>includes the (Windows 3.0?) SDK manuals, Microsoft is actually cheaper.

However, Borland also includes source code to their library with the upgrade
to 3.0.  Everything but the graphics library that is... 

However, that's a good deal I think.  

Matt Smith
msmith@peruvian.utah.edu
Dept. of Computer Science
University of Utah1

From: stevek@hpfcmgw.FC.HP.COM (Steve Kauder)
Date: Tue, 14 Apr 1992 13:16:43 GMT
Subject: Re: Master Tracks Pro and Windows 3.1 - HELP!
Organization: HP Fort Collins, CO
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms

>In comp.windows.ms, rhysling@ucsu.Colorado.EDU (RHYSLING MICHAEL S) writes:
>
>    I just upgraded to Windows 3.1.  Overall, I'm pretty pleased but I can't
>    get Master Tracks Pro to work anymore.  I get the feeling I need to do
>    something with the Midi Mapper utility in Windows but I'm not sure.
>
>    The Midi setup menu in Master Tracks Pro changed after I installed 
>    Windows 3.1!  Instead of listing my MQX-32m interface, it showed the
>    Soundblaster and the Midi Mapper as choices but I couldn't get anything
>    to work.
>
>    Has anyone managed to make these two work together or do I need to call
>    Passport :( ?
>
>    Please reply via e-mail.
>
>    Thanks,
>    Kieran
>    rhysling@ucsu.colorado.edu

Kieran,

I think I'll reply on the net in case others can use this.

I run both Encore and MTPro.  I had the same problem you did.  If I remember,
I solved it by copying the relevant section from the Win3.0 win.ini file
to the new Win3.1 win.ini file.  I think it was about four lines and 
probably had some [mpu401.drv] in it.  Sorry, I'm at work and don't have
the file to access here.

Encore was entirely garbled up after the upgrade.  I have an "8 step"
workaround that made it usable.  Any reader can drop me a note and I'll
sent it to them.  Passport knows it's a problem.  Their technical support
was of some very minimal help here, but they still knew a lot less than
I did.

R's,

Steve Kauder                        Phone: 303-229-3541 
UTD Support and Learning Products   Unix Mail: stevek@hpfcmgw.fc.hp.com

"Computers, Music, Astrology, The Course in Miracles, what's next??"
From: Darla@cup.portal.com (Kuby - Downs)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: SuperBar Shareware Program
Date: Sun, 12 Apr 92 05:26:06 PDT
Organization: The Portal System (TM)
Distribution: world

What is the latest version of Superbar?
Has it been tested with 3.1 Windows yet? I think I remember seeing a versi
of SuperBar on Genie, is it available there or AOL?

Thanks in advance for the info..
BTW, how much memory/resources does it eat?

                                     Darla
                                darla@cup.portal.com
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
From: jkb@ms.uky.edu (Keith Burton)
Subject: Re: Need ATI VGA Wonder drivers
    <1992Apr10.175649.9948@cas.org>
Date: Sat, 11 Apr 1992 04:56:58 GMT
Organization: University Of Kentucky, Dept. of Math Sciences
X-Bytes: 

kxh26@cas.org (Kenneth D. Huffman) writes:

>BTW: Is there a difference between the ATI VGA Wonder and the ATI VGA Wonder
>XL drivers?

>Ken
Yes, there are different drivers for the Wonder XL, Wonder and Wonder+. However
ATI distributes the drivers for all three cards in one package, so if anyone
out there has "WIN31VGA.EXE" from the ATI BBS, you've got them all. 

If you do have "WIN31VGA.EXE", please send me a copy. In exchange for a copy,
I will be happy to handle distributing it until I can upload it to cica.

Keith Burton
From: robert@solan.unit.no (Robert Schmidt)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: More TrueType fonts??
Date: 16 Apr 92 18:58:15 GMT
Organization: Norwegian Institute of Technology


Does any known ftp site provide some more sets of TrueType fonts for
Windows 3.1?   I found some (on wuarchive maybe?), but these were at least
half a year old, and quite alot of them were incomplete (lots of characters
missing)...

-- 
Regards from Robert Schmidt, PC C/asm is my game, fast graphics is my 
pain  -  Watch for my VGA/SB demo!
     e-mail to robert@solan.unit.no
 snail-mail to Stud.techn. Robert Schmidt, stud.post 170,
               Norwegian Institute of Technology, Trondheim, NORWAY
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
From: kadie@herodotus.cs.uiuc.edu (Carl M. Kadie)
Subject: Re: Win 3.1: mouse.sy_ and mouse.co_, how to decompress?
Organization: University of Illinois, Dept. of Comp. Sci., Urbana, IL
Date: Sat, 11 Apr 1992 19:48:49 GMT

sarnold@bgsu.edu (G. Steve Arnold) writes:

>
>	The program is either decomp.exe or expand.exe (different MS
>program packages will use either
[...]


It is expand.exe (not "compress" as I said)

- Carl
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Carl Kadie -- kadie@cs.uiuc.edu -- University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
From: skelly@bucknell.edu (sean kelly `94)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: SoundBlaster Pro Drivers for Win 3.1
Date: 14 Apr 92 17:15:12 GMT
Distribution: world
Organization: Bucknell University, Lewisburg, Pa.

Soundblaster Pro drivers are also available on the Microsoft BBS.

-Sean
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
From: shenoy@iastate.edu (Shiva Shenoy)
Subject: Re: W4W 2.0 & Excel Printing Problems
Keywords: Adobe Type Manager Bitstream Facelift Word for Windows Excel
Organization: Iowa State University, Ames IA
Distribution: na
Date: Sun, 12 Apr 1992 22:10:42 GMT

In <1992Apr12.195900.22215@cbnewsj.cb.att.com> drv@cbnewsj.cb.att.com (dennis.r.vogel) writes:

>I'm having considerable problems printing from Word for Windows 2.0
>and Excel 3.0 under Windows 3.1.  I'm running ATM 2.0 and Bitstream
>Facelift (I forgot the version).  It doesn't seem to matter whether
>ATM or Facelift are "active" or not--the same problem occurs.

>When I try to print I get the following message on my screen:

>		System Error

>	Memory parity error detected.
>	System halted.

>and the system locks up tight.  Only a hard reboot will get the system
>running again; ctrl-alt-del does nothing.  Diagnostics don't show
>any memory problems.

>The maddening thing is that it isn't entirely repeatable.  That is,
>under Excel I had a file with a Facelift font in it and it hung; tried
>again after rebooting with a different Facelift font and it printed
>fine.  Under Word, choosing a Postscript printer to a file sometimes works
>and sometimes doesn't. Almost all of the time printing to the printer
>doesn't work.

>I'm not running anything too exotic here--DOS 5.0 and QEMM (forgot the
>version here but not the latest).  No TSRs and no other programs running
>under Windows.  Machine is a Gateway 386/33 with 8 Meg; printer is a
>Panasonic KXP1124.  I had installed Windows 3.1 in a new directory to get rid
>of any old drivers and things, then reinstalled Word and Excel.  I then
>copied the files from the original Word and Excel main directories to
>get all my templates and spreadsheets as well as updates to the installed
>templates.  I don't think this should cause any problems--I did not copy
>any old DLL files over from the old Windows directory.

If you don't have Excel 3.0a, you should call MS and get the free upgrade
from 3.0. It will solve all your printing problems.

-- 
Shiva Shenoy                           | e-mail: shenoy@iastate.edu 
2066 Black,                            | Office: (515)-294-0082
Dept. of Aero. Engg. & Engg. Mechanics | Home  : (515)-296-7640
Iowa State University, Ames, IA 50010  |
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
From: donnel@helix.nih.gov (Donald A. Lehn)
Subject: Re: Why I'm sticking with Windows
Organization: National Institutes of Health, Bethesda
Date: Wed, 15 Apr 1992 19:35:48 GMT

Hey, I think I finally came up with a good reason to get my free OS/2 2.0
upgrade.  (From the OS/2 1.3 version that came bundled with my PS/2 which I
threw in the trash long ago.)  Perhaps when NT is released, Microsoft will
give me a very big discount for trading in OS/2 2.0.  I think I'll get
the free upgrade and stick it on my top shelf right next to my copies of IBM's
Personal Editor, Professional Editor, Displaywrite, Filing Assistant and
empty OS/2 1.3 binder where the first page will be avaliable for ripping
out to send to Microsoft for my NT upgrade.  ;-)


--
Donald A. Lehn, Ph.D.                      Phone: (301) 496-2885
Bldg.37 Rm 3D20                            FAX:   (301) 496-8419
National Cancer Institute / NIH            Email: donnel@helix.nih.gov
Bethesda MD 20892
From: cdonnell@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Chris E Donnell)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Dr.Dos 6 upgrade at ftp?
Date: 10 Apr 92 18:02:07 GMT
Article-I.D.: magnus.1992Apr10.180207.25868
Distribution: usa
Organization: The Ohio State University

Could somebody who has the upgrade put it on an ftp site to make it easy for 
all of the other Dr.Dos users.  I am sure thousands of people like myself would
really appreciate it.  I bought Dr.Dos a few months ago and didn't send in the 
regestration form.  I am doing that today.
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
From: jcmorris@mwunix (Joe Morris)
Subject: Re: AfterDark 2.0 - ? 256 colours
Organization: Mitre Corporation, McLean VA
Date: Wed, 8 Apr 1992 20:47:01 GMT

In article <92092.075805SASTPH@vm.sas.com>, SASTPH@vm.sas.com (Tim Hunter) writes:
> Not that anybody asked, but I just installed AfterDark 2.0.  I'm an unabashed
> fan of this program, and signed up for version 2.0 immediately upon receiving
> my upgrade notice.

When did you get your upgrade notice?  Based on comments on the net it 
sounds like the upgrades have been out for a while, but I've not seen
anything from Berkeley...

Joe Morris
From: jbayer@ispi.COM (Jonathan Bayer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc,comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: Loading a Mouse High
Keywords: mouse, memory, management, high
Date: 15 Apr 92 01:36:28 GMT
Followup-To: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Distribution: na
Organization: Intelligent Software Products, Inc.

jimm@cbnewsi.cb.att.com (james.mumper) writes:
>It appears that no matter what I do I cannot load my mouse driver into high
>memory.  I am running DOS5 and WIN3.1 on a 386SX with 4MB of Memory.  IN my
>config.sys I load HIMEM.SYS followed by EMM386.SYS NOEMS.  Then I load several
>drivers into high memory and all except mouse.sys loads high.  I still have
>over 44KB of high memory area left, but the mouse will NOT load high.  I have
>tried to load only the mouse driver into high memory by REM'ing out the other
>drivers and it still won't go.  Is there some way to determine what is going

The mouse driver probably uses more than 44 KB when starting up, and then
releases what it doesn't need.  DOS 5.0 does not know about the releasing
of memory, and loads the mouse driver low.

See my notes below regarding QEMM.

>On a related note, I am interested in purchasing a memory manager.  Now that
>WIN3.1 is out and the dust is beginning to settle, can anyone recommend a
>safe, compatible package.  I am leaning towards QEMM or 386MAX, but don't
>know which is preferred.

QEMM will solve your problem. It has many different features, including being
able to load a driver high that may initially require more memory than seems
to be available.

I have no connection with Quarterdeck except for being a very satisfied 
user.

JB
-- 
Jonathan Bayer		Intelligent Software Products, Inc.
(201) 248-1853		37 Winthrop Rd. 
jbayer@ispi.COM		Edison, NJ   08817
From: gmf2@quads.uchicago.edu (gary michael feldman)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: DESKJET 500
Date: 5 Apr 92 23:42:56 GMT
Reply-To: gmf2@midway.uchicago.edu
Organization: University of Chicago Computing Organizations

Well WordPerfect Corp. finally got me a new version of the HP
DJ driver.  Now I can print; this new driver has a cute
little box with dots moving .....it seems to take a long time
though, is it me??

My main question: Is it possible to have top and bottom margins
smaller than .5 inches?????? I keep trying to use 1/4 inch
margins and WP changes them to 1/2.  What's the deal?

Gary
From: bruce@ais.com
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: Cricket and Win3.1 compatibility
Date: 15 Apr 92 11:45:31 GMT
Organization: Applied Information Systems, Chapel Hill, NC

In article <92103.174910MALLETP@QUCDN.QueensU.CA>, MALLETP@QUCDN.QueensU.CA writes:
> I was considering purchasing Cricket Graph for Windows so I called one
> of those mail order places and asked if Cricket was compatible with
> Windows 3.1. He told me that there are FEW applications that are
> compatible. Since I am currently awaiting MicroSoft's delivery of 3.1
> I would like to know if there is any truth to this. I was under the
> impression that all applications compatible with Windows 3.0 would
> also be compatible with 3.1. If not, I'll be sure to cancel my order
> to MicroSoft. If anybody knows whether or not 3.0 applications are
> compatible with 3.1 or if anybody has any comments/reviews of Cricket
> Graph for Windows, I would really appreciate a posting or E-mail.
> Thanks in advance

I don't know specifically about Cricket Graph but have been using 3.1
for over 6 months (various beta versions).

I suspect that either you misunderstood him or he misunderstood your
question, _or_ he was badly misinformed.

There are a FEW apps that have problems with 3.1, but the vast majority
will work with it.  A few of them (especially shareware apps) may not
handle TrueType very well, or other minor problems, but most work just
as well under 3.1 as they did under 3.0.  (You may find that you need to
do a "font install" for the app to recognize TrueType fonts, for example,
before it will see them ... W4W 1.1 for example).

What I suspect that he meant, or thought you were asking for, was whether
there were very many apps that REQUIRED 3.1, or whether there were very
many apps that took much advantage of the new features of 3.1 if they were
run on it (two separate issues).  That statement is probably true for now,
but as time goes on more apps will become 3.1-aware.

About the only app I know about that is totally useless with 3.1 is hDC's
First Apps Memory Viewer.  (The rest of the hDC First Apps work fine).
But I found that micro-app to be of marginal utility under 3.0 anyway, and
don't miss it particularly.  I'm sure hDC has a revision in the works (if
it isn't out already ...).

Bruce C. Wright
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
From: mmshah@im.lcs.mit.edu (Milan Shah)
Subject: Re: Number of OS/2 2.0 orders (was Re: Why go to 3.1 if 2.0 works)
Organization: MIT Lab for Computer Science
	<2379@accucx.cc.ruu.nl> <1992Apr13.171421.17859@alw.nih.gov>
	<2395@accucx.cc.ruu.nl> <54571@hydra.gatech.EDU>
Date: Tue, 14 Apr 1992 19:00:22 GMT


>OS/2 hasn't been released for 14 days and there are
>already 2,000,000 orders for the program (mostly Windows 3.0 owners BTW).
>IBM currently has only one problem, where to get diskettes :-) (actually
>this problem really exists BTW).

Not to offend anyone, but I bet that number is skewed. Simple Math. IBM 
has been taking orders through their 800 number (I believe that's the only
place you can order it as of now) for about 10 days. That boils down to
about 200,000 orders / day. Assuming 10 hr days, that's 333 orders/min.
Assuming an order takes about 10 minutes to take, it would imply IBM has
about 3,000 people taking orders.

I believe (from information posted to the OS/2 group) that there are about
100 people taking orders. The Wall Street Journal reported some time back
that most of the _initial_ calls to IBM's hotline were from people clamoring
for their _free_ OS/2 1.x to 2.0 upgrade.

This post is not a reflection on the quality of either OS/2 or Win 3.1. Its
simply an excersize in putting things in perspective. 


Milan
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: re: WinFaxPro, FaxGrabber and Norton Desktop 2 $85 deal
From: stefan@olson.acme.gen.nz (Stefan Olson)
Date: Fri, 10 Apr 92 12:31:16   Y

hughesr@SANDNET.UCSD.EDU (Richard Hughes) writes:

>           Stefan Olson asks if I am sure this deal includes NDW2.
>           Yup, I am +positive+!

Thanks for the great info!!

Is there anyone out there using NDW 2.0 on a 286?? (Dare I ask... :-) )
because if I bought it, which I think I will, it will have to be fast
enough on a 286...

Also, does NDW 2 come with Norton Speeddisk??

Thanks,
Stefan


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