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From: gfritz@ford.ecn.purdue.edu (Geoffrey M Fritz)
Subject: ramdrives, 4dos, stacker, and swapping -- HELP!!!
Organization: Purdue University Engineering Computer Network
Distribution: na
Date: Sun, 13 Dec 1992 01:41:15 GMT

Here's my problem.  I have a ramdrive installed on my system.  It occured to
me today that I could run Stacker (2.0) on it to get a little more milage for
my memory.  I had the Stacker install program stack the entire ramdrive.  I
knew that the STACVOL.000 file would be erased every tme I powerd off, so
I used ARJ to back it up on my hard drive.  No problem.  In my autoexec file
I just have the file replaced and the Stacker drive mounted every time the
machine boots.

Here's the catch.  I use 4DOS (v. 4.01), and I use the 4DOS.INI file to tell it
to use the ramdrive for it's swap files.  4DOS is initialized in my CONFIG.SYS
file, but the replacing of the STACVOL file (and mounting) doesn't occur until
autoexec is run.  I want to have the swap files on the stacked drive, but the
only way I can see to do that is to replace and mount the drive BEFORE 4DOS
is initialized -- but this is in config.sys!

Is there ANY way to run external commands from my config.sys file?  There
must be some utility program out there that can do this...

Am I missing something easy here?

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks.
-- Geoff

Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc
From: tsand@vipunen.hut.fi (Tapio Sand)
Subject: Re: A Frank Discussion on Piracy (Flames, Anyone? :-P )
Reply-To: tsand@vipunen.hut.fi (Tapio Sand)
Organization: Helsinki University of Technology
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1992 19:37:42 GMT

In article <BzE483.BAn@news.cso.uiuc.edu> dlanglan@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (super-dave) 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."

Not bad for the best archiver around.
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From: glad@ac.dal.ca
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc
Subject: Re: dos editor memory
Date: 15 Dec 92 01:03:23 -0400
Organization: Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada

> Hi, I was trying to load a gif file into ms-dos editor tomake some changes,
> and it loaded it up to 4609 lines and just said out of memory.
> I'm using windows.
> The file is 586000bytes big.
> I tried to take windows off the memory resident programs I decreased the number
> of buffers in config.sys, still not enough:I have 4MB of memory, and I'm using
> a 386DX 40 Mhz:what can I do?
> please reply by mail:
> ba@caslon.cs.arizona.edu(if replying before dec. 17)
> ece_0275@bigdog.engr.arizona.edu(if replying after dec 17)
> Thank you in advance
> MOUSSA>

DOS's EDITor loads itself and QBasic into conventional memory before loading
your text file, which leaves little room left over for anything else, 
especially a file that is almost 575kB.  Since you have 4MB of memory, make
sure that you are using HIMEM.SYS and EMM386.EXE (or some extended memory 
managers) so that you can actually use it; as you probably are aware, most
DOS programs don't directly access extended memory; they place calls to the
extended memory manager(s) for memory allocation, but DOS's EDIT is *not* one
of those programs.  It uses only conventional memory (to my knowledge), so
you will have to use another text editor that will allow you to load the
whole GIF into memory.  WP5.1 will allow you to do this with its Text In/Out
feature.  In WordPerfect, press CTRL-F5, select DOS Text (1), then select
Retrieve and type filename.gif.  To save back as DOS text, press ^F5 again
and select DOS Text, then select Save.

I believe any of the newer Norton editors will also use extended memory
for loading text files.

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From: wng@geop.ubc.ca (William Ng)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc
Subject: Help on selecting a CD-ROM
Date: 11 Dec 1992 22:29:10 GMT
Organization: University of B.C. Geophysics & Astronomy
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: gafs.geop.ubc.ca

I am thinking of getting a CD-ROM drive.  I was under the impression that 
all the CD-ROM drives are SCSI.  Is this correct?  I look into a few
brands, SoundBaster PRO Multi-media, NEC, and the Raven.  The NEC and
Raven come with there own SCSI adapters, and the SB PRO comes with the
sound card.  I have a SoundBaster 1.5 and a ALWAYS SCSI adapter in my
system already.  So I am thinking of just getting a bare CD-ROM drive.
I would like some advices on is this a good idea.  What is the 
difference between using the SB Pro CD-ROM and the NEC CD-ROM.  Is it
any advantages using CD-ROM from a sound card (SB PRO, UltraSound...)?
I talk to a lot sales people in town. None of them can give me a good
answer. I appreciate any comments.  Thanks in advance.

Please send command to wng@astro.ubc.ca
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc
Subject: Re:    MAC-in-DOS software, other conversion packages
From: CHEGC@LURE.LATROBE.EDU.AU (CROSS,Graeme)
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1992 00:18:44 GMT
Organization: La Trobe University
X-News-Reader: VMS NEWS 1.24

In <Dec15.045439.27775@yuma.ACNS.ColoState.EDU> terrel@CS.ColoState.EDU writes:

> 
>I have and use Mac-in-Dos (executable is clink.exe archive is macindos.???)
>for converting between Macintosh and DOS files.  Conversion works best from
>Mac to Dos because Dos only uses extensions to define file types.  When going
>the other direction, there are more difficulties in getting the Mac to 
>recognize what type of file it is.  Overall, I recommend mac-in-dos as I have
>found it useful.  I'm not sure where I got it, possibly at archive.umich.edu,
>but consult Archie for a definite answer.  If you would like more info from me,
>please mail me as I do not read this group often.
> 
> 

There was discussion about this a few months ago: Mac-In-Dos is a *COMMERCIAL*
program that was pirated and illegally loaded onto some FTP sites. All the
common FTP sites removed it as soon as they were made aware of the program's
status. If you are aware of the program's existence at an FTP site, please
inform the site's administrator so that the program can be removed. This saves
FTP sites from the risk of prosecution, etc.
If you have obtained Mac-In-Dos illegally, please do the right thing and
purchase a legal copy of what is reported to be an excellent product.

Thanks,

Graeme Cross
chegc@lure.latrobe.edu.au              No .sig today...
From: callison@uokmax.ecn.uoknor.edu (James P. Callison)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc
Subject: Telix Terminal emulators
Date: 13 Dec 92 06:25:18 GMT
Article-I.D.: constell.Bz6pu7.CFB
Organization: Engineering Computer Network, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK, USA

Are there any decent terminal emulators for use in Telix? I'm using
Telix 3.15, and I'd like to register it, but if it doesn't have any
decent terminal emulation available, there's not much point. 
I like  everything about Telix except it's terminal emulation, and
that's the most important part of a comm program for me...

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

				James

James P. Callison       Microcomputer Coordinator        OU Law Library 
Callison@aardvark.ucs.uoknor.edu   /\    Callison@uokmax.ecn.uoknor.edu
	constellation!biglaw!callison@mailhost.ecn.uoknor.edu
DISCLAIMER: I'm not an engineer, but I play one at work...
	Your self esteem is enhanced by remaining an ignoramus?
	Please! Let's call it "informationally impaired."
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Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc
Subject: PS files utilities wanted
From: Marco Simionato <simion@iveuncc.unive.it>
Date: 16 Dec 92 15:15:16 +0100
Distribution: world
Organization: University of Venezia (Italy)
X-UserAgent: Nuntius v1.1.1d9X-XXMessage-ID: <A754F8E78A010134@quadra.cicsd.unive.it>X-XXDate: Wed, 16 Dec 92 15:16:55 GMTLines: 8

I would need two such utilities for PostScript files:

- one to allow preview of a PS file
- another to extract pure text from a PS file

Does anything like this exist?

Please reply DIRECTLY, thanks.
From: pmorvill@jade.tufts.edu (Paul Morville)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc
Subject: Form Virus
Date: 20 Dec 92 18:57:42 GMT
Organization: Tufts University - Medford, MA
To: pmorvill@jade.tufts.edu

I work in an IBM lab at tufts and lately we've been have a great deal of
difficulty with the FORM virus.  It's a fairly harmless virus and usually
we can just remove it with Macafee, but sometimes (possibly only with
dos 5) we can't remove it from the boot sector.  Has anyone had any 
experience with this particular virus?  Why can't it be removed?  Replies
by mail would probably be best.

					Paul
Organization: Stanford Linear Accelerator Center
Date: Friday, 18 Dec 1992 14:26:04 PST
From: <HARVEY@SLACVM.SLAC.STANFORD.EDU>
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc
Subject: Re: Anonymous FTP Sites
 <1992Dec16.193034.20825@sarah.albany.edu>

oak.oakland.edu  pub/msdos
wuarchive.wustl.edu  mirrors/msdos


These are a couple of the Simtel mirror sites.

harold
From: Timothy.Brown@f119.n8012.z86.toadnet.org (Timothy Brown)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc
Subject: Re: pkunzip
Date: Fri, 11 Dec 92 08:50:00 cdt
Organization: FidoNet node 86:8012/119 - Millennium, O'Fallon MO

 -=> Quoting Moussa A. Ba to All <=-

 MAB> From: ba@cs.arizona.edu (Moussa A. Ba)
 MAB> Date: 10 Dec 92 07:02:00 GMT
 MAB> Message-ID: <27933@optima.cs.arizona.edu>
 MAB> Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc

 MAB> Hi I just downloaded pkunzip.exe to my home computer, and I'm having
 MAB> some  traoubles using it.
 MAB> the program seems to be caught up in some kind of an infinite loop:
 MAB> i.e. when i type for example:
 c:/>pkunzip filename.zip
 MAB> the computer just sits there, and blocks  everything until  I
 MAB> reinitialize it. Is it supposed to take a long time to unzip  (I use a
 MAB> 386DX 40Mhz) or am I doing
 MAB> something wrong.
 MAB> HELP WOULD BE GRETATLY APPRECIATED.
 MAB> Thank you in advance.
 MAB> please reply by email as i don't get to read news often:
 MAB> ba@caslon.cs.arizona.edu
 MAB> ece_0275@bigdog.engr.arizona.edu

 Hmmm.. possibly, there is an error in the zip file, you have a hacked version
 of PKZip, or possibly and out of date version.. depends on where the file
 came from, what version of PKZip you're using, and what speed are you.. EMail
 Me back here if possible, I don't have an internet address yet.. but I am on
 prodigy as BSTB64B.. i'm looking to get an account on Internet, but currently
 don't have one and am operating through a UUCP gateway.. Hope I can help,
 just send me the version of PKZip you're using, where you downloaded the file
 from, what speed was that board, and what type of modem you have (IF the file
 WAS downloaded).. and i'll get back to you as soon as possible.

                                                   -Tim Brown

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From: jonhuff@nlbbs.UUCP (Jonathan Huff)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc
Subject: Dumb question about hard disk space
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 92 21:41:04 GMT
Reply-To: jonhuff@nlbbs.UUCP
Distribution: world
Organization: The Northern Lights BBS * Portland, Maine * 207-761-4782 (v.32bis)


 In article <1992Dec16.054804.9833@qiclab.scn.rain.com> Leonard.Erickson@f51.n105.z1.fidonet.org writes:
 
 > 
 > miner@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu writes:
 > 
 > >I'm a relatively new MSDOS 5 user with a dumb question.
 > 
 > >I have a 105MB hard disk and I knew it was filling up, but was
 > >surprised recently when I was copying files onto it and I got an
 > >"insufficient disk space" message.  CHKDSK told me I still had about
 > >30MB left.  

    I may be coming in late on this thread, if so, please forgive...

    When the CHKDSK command was issued, did miner@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu happen
to notice if there were any 'lost clusters' reported.  I know that I've
checked my disk space with CHKDSK before and missed the line showing the
amount of space resulting from 'lost clusters'.  ...just a thought...
    If 'lost clusters' does turn out to be the problem, just run CHKDSK using
the /F parameter.  This will recover the lost clusters giving them filenames
of the format 'FILEnnnn.CHK', where nnnn starts at 0000 and increments by 1
for each lost cluster found.  Its then a matter of viewing those recovered
clusters to decide whether to keep the data or delete it.

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From: glad@ac.dal.ca
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc
Subject: MEMORY ALLOCATION ERROR???
Date: 14 Dec 92 01:36:04 -0400
Organization: Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada

Has anyone out there in DOSland ever had a nagging MEMORY ALLOCATION ERROR
CANNOT LOAD COMMAND, SYSTEM HALTED???  As I understand, it means that the
area of memory that DOS uses to track used/available memory has been corrupted,
but I've tried many different system configurations, including NO autoexec, and
no config, but I still get that damn message consistently with certain programs
(EXE & COM files) like Chessmaster 3000 when I try to shell-out to DOS and when
I load Norton's Scheduler TSR, among others.

Anybody have *any* helpful advice?  What the hek is going on?  Thanks in advance

Francis
From: ledwick@amsaa-cleo.brl.mil (Bill Ledwick)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc
Subject: Print Screen to file - possble?
Date: 11 Dec 92 17:54:19 GMT
Organization: U.S. ARMY MATERIEL SYSTEMS ANALYSIS ACTIVITY (AMSAA), APG, MD.

Simple question, I hope...
	Is there an easy way to cause print screen to go to
	a text file rather than the printer?
				Thanks, 
					Bill
From: ng4@husc10.harvard.edu (Ho Leung Ng)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc
Subject: quick c
Date: 14 Dec 92 23:32:38 GMT
Article-I.D.: husc10.ng4.724375958
Distribution: usa


   Can someone tell me the differences between v.5.0 and 7.0 of Microsoft
QuickC?  Please respond by email.  Thanks!

Ho Leung Ng
ng4@husc.harvard.edu
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 02:30:41 GMT

Richard_Robb@mindlink.bc.ca (Richard Robb) writes:

>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?

Richard,

You raise a good point about being taken advantage of by software/hardware
companies.  However, your second point is a popular myth that needs to be
refuted.  Yes, the pirating underworld does (every so often) suffer from a
virus infected program, but the penalties in the pirate community are
severe for those distributing it.  Case in point:  Pete Pirate uploads DOS
6.0 Beta to a Pirate BBS, but just before he u/l's it he infects it with
the whale virus.  Assuming he can encrypt the virus (unfortunately quite
easy) the program is now infected.  Bob Buccanner sits at home and says,
Wow! Dos 6.0 - and he d/l's it.  When Bob's computer crashes, he posts a
note to the sysop at the pirate BBS.  The sysop summarily kicks Pete off
his system.  Pirate Sysops are often well connected, and Pete finds
himself unable to connect to any BBS in his area.  With the fact that good
virus detection software available everywhere, and the fact that no Pirate
has all that many Pirating friends to throw away, Pirated programs are
generally safe.  Hey, if you play the game you take the risk :-).  I don't
need to tell you that people upload infected shareware too!

Feel free to respond,

Dave

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Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc
From: mmeltzer@wam.umd.edu
Subject: Re: diff between Ndos and 4Dos?
Reply-To: mmeltzer@wam.umd.edu
Organization: Workstations at Maryland, University of Maryland, College Park
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 23:41:04 GMT

In article <BzA2qs.52t@knot.ccs.queensu.ca> calvert@QueensU.CA (John  
Calvert) writes:
:-> Is there any functional difference between Ndos (Norton Utils)
:-> by Symmantec, and the 4Dos shareware?
:-> 
NDOS is a version of 4DOS that was released to Symantec so they could use  
it with NU 6.0.  I believe that NDOS is equal to version 3.03 of 4DOS  
(which is currently at version 4.01) with a few enhancements of its own.

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Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc
From: mccall@mksol.dseg.ti.com (fred j mccall 575-3539)
Subject: Re: OS/2 question
Organization: Texas Instruments Inc
Date: Fri, 11 Dec 1992 17:02:09 GMT

In <Bz2wD1.Ft8@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu> cmick@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (Baldy) writes:

>I am not very familiar with OS/2.  From what I understand (I don't know if
>this is correct) one thing it does is gets rid of the DOS's 640k memory problem.  I get tired of messing with EMM386 and all those other memory problems, just
>to run certain things.  Is it true that with OS/2 you don't have those 
>problems?  I have 4 megs of Ram, which I also understand isn't quite enough
>to run OS/2 effectivly, but I also get the feeling I'm not getting full use
>out of them.  

OS/2 doesn't have the memory limitations of MS-DOS.  When you run
programs in a DOS box, you simply tell the box how much
extended/expanded memory to make available to the application.  And
you probably need at least twice as much RAM.  4 MB really isn't
enough.  I've run OS/2 in 6 MB and it seems a little sluggish, even
there. 

>Also, do _all_ MSDOS applications run in OS/2?  I'm willing to get more ram
>for OS/2 if I don't have to worry about DOS's 640k memory problems.

No, it won't run all MS-DOs applications, but it will run most of
them.  The ones it won't run are things like programs that use their
own 32-bit extenders (like the DOS port of GNU C -- but there's a full
port of GCC for OS/2, so that's not a problem), things that use VCPI
for access to memory above 640k, some things that want to directly
access unusual hardware.  Note that the DOS box still has the 640k
limit -- that's inherent in the PROGRAMS.  However, there's a simple
graphical control page that you bring up where you specify how much
memory to give to what.

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From: beng@dorsai.com (ben ng)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc
Subject: Re: How to prevent shelling out?
Date: 20 Dec 92 16:07:41 GMT
Organization: The Dorsai Embassy, New York's Computer Consulate. +1.718.729.5018

fburton@nyx.cs.du.edu (Francis Burton) writes:

> 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.
> 
Use a binary editor and such for the COMSPEC within the file. If it
searches thru COMPSEC for COMMAND.COM then remove it.
OR
If you'd like to present a little message you can setup your own 
environmental variable that leads to a program you replace for 
COMMAND.COM
 
Ben Ng
beng@dorsaid.com
uupsi!dorsaidm!beng
1:278/706
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc
From: jav2d@faraday.clas.Virginia.EDU (Jason Adams Vanvalkenburgh)
Subject: NEEDED: Xtalk for Windows programers ref
Organization: University of Virginia
Date: Fri, 11 Dec 1992 20:36:47 GMT

I am looking for the script language (ie programmer's) reference
for Crosstalk for Windows 1.1 or 1.2.  I have to write a 
script or two, and I don't own Crosstalk (its for a project).

I am willing to pay for it, and some people never use it, right?

I hope.  Thanks a lot, and please e-mail replies.
--
					Jason A. vanValkenburgh
					University of Virginia '95
					jav2d@virginia.edu
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc,comp.sys.ibm-pc.misc
From: volker@vlsivie.tuwien.ac.at (Volker Hamann)
Subject: Problems with FTP Software's PC-TCP 2.1 and DRDOS 6.0
Reply-To: volker@vlsivie.tuwien.ac.at (Volker Hamann)
Organization: Technical University of Vienna
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 15:20:07 GMT


Hello!

I'm currently trying to install PC-TCP by FTP Software on some DRDOS 6.0 PCs.
Problems have come up when I tried to NFS-mount a UNIX filesystem with
InterDrive. I could perform the mount all well, but when I did a "dir" on
the NFS drive, it only showed plain files and no subdirectories and files
starting with ".". The funny thing is, I could easily change into directories
which I knew to be existing but not showing up with "dir".
The Windows filemanager shows the same behavior.

Has anybody had a similar problem? Is there an (easy) solution to it?
I'm grateful for any decent response.

Bye,

	Volker
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