HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: lachlan@dmp.csiro.au (Lachlan Cranswick)
Subject: Re: Freelance Drivers
Organization: CSIRO Division of Mineral Products, Melbourne, AUSTRALIA
Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 07:14:40 GMT

st1ee@Rosie.UH.EDU writes:

>Does anyone know where I can get (preferably ftp) a driver for a Citizen
>GSX-140 for Freelance plus 3.01?
>Thanks,
>Bart DeLatte

How old is this printer??

I know that if you call Lotus here about any 3.01
queries they recommend you to buy Freelance 4.0.

I'm not sure if this implies that they are no longer
supporting (by writing new drivers) for Freelance 3.01.

If I could also recommend that you don't upgrade to 4.0
(unless you really have to)
as I think it is not as friendly as 3.01 (they do put in
a couple minor new things, but they have changed stuff
that makes it harder/less intuitive to use).

Just my opinions,  Lachlan.

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From: robert@alkymi.unit.no (Robert Schmidt)
Subject: Info on multitasking OEM MSDOS?
Organization: Norwegian Institute of Technology
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 93 16:54:13 GMT


I'd like to get in touch with people having experience with the multitasking
OEM MS DOS 4.x.  I read about this in 'Undocumented DOS' by Schulman et al.

What is required to run this DOS?  Any special hardware?

Where can one get a copy/trial version if available?

To what extent is it MS DOS 4.01 compatible?


Robert Schmidt
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
From: chandra@cannelloni.cis.ohio-state.edu (B Chandrasekaran)
Subject: TI 2000 laptop hd upgrade
Organization: The Ohio State University Dept. of Computer and Info. Science
Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1993 01:52:30 GMT

I have a TI 2000 laptop (one of the first low-weight laptops to come off the
line) with, alas, only a 20 MB HDD.  Does anyone know of a place which
upgrades the drives to 40 or 60 MB?
From: jornj@colargol.edb.tih.no (jornj)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Re: PKZ204C.EXE ???
Date: 9 Jan 93 21:21:40 GMT
Organization: Colargol, Trondheim College of Engineering
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL8]

Brian Fritz/ ADVISOR Russell (MAE) (rme81977@zach.fit.edu) wrote:
: I'm very sorry if this is the wrong group...but here goes...
: I recently was looking around on some FTP sites and I came across
: this file (PKZ204c.EXE).  I downloaded it to a floppy disk and 
: unzipped it and all seems pretty good...does anyone know if PKZIP
: released the new version yet??? Or this another trojan???
: -Brian

: -- 
: --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
:                              Brian D. Fritz
:                     Email Address: RME81977@ZACH.FIT.EDU
: --------------------------------------------------------------------------------

According to Vesselin Bontchev in comp.virus (who has examined the
program) and whose word i would trust, this is a not infected version
(and the latest official) of PkZip from PkWare.

Hope this will clarify.

Regards,
--
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Klostergt. 56, A36, 7030 Trondheim, Norway
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From: tb512958@longs.LANCE.ColoState.Edu (Ty Wesley Boyack)
Subject: 2.88 Megabyte Floppies
Date: Fri, 08 Jan 1993 00:33:19 GMT
Organization: Colorado State U. Engineering College
Keywords: 2.88, Floppies, Disk, Drive

I am looking at getting a 2.88 meg floppy drive, but have heard that the media is
something like $15 per disk.

I am curious how a standard 1.44 (high density) disk works if formated to the
2.88 size.  Something like the fact that 720's work fine as 1.44's if you punch a
hole in one side of the cartridge.

If anyone has a drive and would please try it, I thank you in advance.

You may need to find a physical difference in the diskettes themselves to get the
drive to think it is a 2.88 - I do not know.

Ty! Boyack
tb512958@longs.lance.colostate.edu
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From: zonnevel@dutiws.twi.tudelft.nl (B.J.Zonneveld.tel-015-622622)
Subject: WORD for WINDOWS: How to number chapter, paragraphs and subparas?
Organization: Delft University of Technology
Date: Sun, 10 Jan 1993 18:11:11 GMT

I've been trying a lot but I can't seem to find out how to number those
chapters, paragraphs and subparagraphs? Could anyone tell me, please mail me.

Thanx, Bart
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From: rdippold@cancun.qualcomm.com (Ron Dippold)
Subject: Re: PKZIP 2.04c Uploaded to wuarchive
Organization: Qualcomm, Inc., San Diego, CA
Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1993 18:38:06 GMT

pkz204c.exe has been reuploaded for those who want it.

Here's what I have from Scott Barlett:

I downloaded the file PKZ204C.EXE from wuarchive this morning
(1/5/93).  I rountinely run VSHIELD v99 on my machine and no virus
were detected.  However, a fellow worker tried the programs on a
machine that has Norton Anti-Virus (part of the Norton Desktop for
Windows 2.0 release) running and it reported that the PKUNZIP,
PKZIPFIX, and ZIP2EXE files were infected with a strain of the
'Maltese Ambebo' virus. I then ran SCAN v99 on the PK files with no
virus reported. Likewise FluProtect (FP_206A.ZIP), ThunderByte
(TBAV205.ZIP/VSIG9214.ZIP), and VirX (VIRX26.ZIP) reported no virus
present, but one did flag the files as having non-standard exe-headers
that could be either a program bug or a virus. The PKZIP files are
compressed with PKLITE 1.20 (which is more recent than the
PKLTE115.ZIP generally available) and this new exe compression could
be causing the false-positive reading. I will look for other possible
answers, but would appreciate if you could pass along anything you
might see or hear (I do monitor comp.compression and
comp.archives.msdos.announce). Thanks for posting the original file
though.
 
P.S. All indications are that it is a false-positive alarm. But I
thought you might be curious/interested in the possiblity of a Virus.

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too late.
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From: bt@neocad.com (Bruce Talley)
Subject: 1.44MB Floppies won't format
Organization: NeoCAD, Inc.
Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1993 01:58:38 GMT


I had a system where its floppy drive was badly misaligned.  It has been
replaced with one that works just fine.

My problem is that all the floppy's I had used in the bad drive had their
track-0 wiped out.  So now when I go "format a:" it returns with the error
message "Invalid media or Track 0 bad - disk unusable."  I've tried this
on 5 other PCs each giving the same result.  Any diskette that had been 
written on by the old misaligned drive gives the same formatting error even
when known working floppy drives are used to format these diskettes.

Is there any way to restore track-0 information???

I've tried "format a: /t80 /n18 /u" but to no avail.  I've also tried
the Norton Utilities disk doctor but with no success.  I even tried the
free-ware version of fdformat.exe which also failed.

I hate to throw 50 some odd diskettes in the trash if there is some way
of being able to format them once again.

Any suggestions out there???
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From: lachlan@dmp.csiro.au (Lachlan Cranswick)
Subject: Re: PKzip2.04c overlays for XtreeGold V2.5
Keywords: pkzip2.04c XTG NEEDED
Organization: CSIRO Division of Mineral Products, Melbourne, AUSTRALIA
Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 07:16:12 GMT

csnyder@bobcat.ent.ohiou.edu (Chris Snyder  UNDER-ECE) writes:

>I have Xtree Gold v2.5 (I think that is the correct version number) and
>was wondering if anyone has or knows where to find the overlays for the newest
>version of PKzip2.04c. Responce through Email is preferred.

>			Chris...

>			CSnyder@Bobcat.Ent.OhioU.Edu

>Thanks in advance.

I have sent email to pkzip about this and have not got a reply.

The thing I am worried about is will the new version read
all those old archive ZIP files that stretch back over two years.

Lachlan.
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From: mathias@solomon.technet.sg (Mathias Koerber)
Subject: Re: The Canon BJ-200 any experiences?
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL8]
Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1993 09:18:27 GMT

MUNN THOMAS JOSEPH (munn@a.cs.okstate.edu) wrote:
: I am planning on buying a printer, and have narrowed my choice down to
: two models:  The Canon bj-200 and the Hp-deskjet 500.  I have had
: extensive experince with the deskjet, but I really like the reviews
: I have seen on the bj 200.  Of especial importance to me is the relitive
: speed that the printer can manage under windows, and does it come with
: a windows driver?
I faced the same choice and took the BJ-200. Very nice, quite fast and to my eyes the quelity is better than that from a DJ500, but that might be subjective
since I own the BJ-200 and my brother the DJ500 :-)

The DJ-200 wan't packed with a Windows driver, but the dealer here copied
a driver disk for me. The driver on it seems OK.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
From: shenoy@iastate.edu (Shiva Shenoy)
Subject: Re: Excel question
Organization: Iowa State University, Ames IA
Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1993 16:07:53 GMT

In <C0CG0C.CGt@bcstec.ca.boeing.com> robs@bcstec.ca.boeing.com (Robert Sipe) writes:

>Greetings

>   What is the best group to post an Excel macro question?  Thanx
>in advance.

comp.apps.spreadsheets
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
From: malhotra@gemed (Deepak Malhotra)
Subject: Test. Please ignore.
Reply-To: malhotra@gemed.ge.com (Deepak Malhotra)
Organization: GE Medical Systems, Milwaukee,  WI
Distribution: milw
Date: Tue, 5 Jan 93 15:13:41 GMT
From: ah157@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Rob Henry)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Hard drive types again.
Date: 5 Jan 1993 19:05:27 GMT
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
Reply-To: ah157@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Rob Henry)
NNTP-Posting-Host: slc4.ins.cwru.edu




Could someopne please send me the hard drive types 1-15 for a 
phoenix bios from 1987 again?
I had them and someone said they were the ibm types????
Please leave mail.
From: endecotp@cs.man.ac.uk (Phil Endecott)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Utility to read Mac disks needed please
Date: 7 Jan 93 12:47:45 GMT

Does anyone have or know about a shareware/PD utility to run on a PC
to read Macintosh disks ?  Pointers to any ftp-able programs would
be appreciated.

Please reply by email

Many thanks,

--Phil.

endecotp@cs.man.ac.uk
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From: Richard.Kooijman@dnpap.et.tudelft.nl (Richard Kooijman)
Subject: Enlarging MS-Kermit's data space
Organization: Delft University of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 12:43:58 GMT


Hi,


I have a rather large key definition file for Kermit. Alas, Kermit
just doesn't make it to the last 4 definitions.

So, I picked up the MS-Kermit distribution from watsun and
enlarged the key definition buffers. But again, alas, Kermit seems
to be filled to the last byte. It is compiled in small memory model
and compiling it in large memory model would solve the problem, but
the TCP software is relying on the small mm.

Has anybody succeeded it doing this? It appears to me that there must
be other people with large key definitions. 

Any help greatly appreciated!



Richard.

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
From: reisert@sttng.mlo.dec.com (Jim Reisert)
Subject: Re: AM-TAX for the PC info request
Reply-To: reisert@sttng.mlo.dec.com (Jim Reisert)
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation -- Maynard, MA
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 19:44:31 GMT



On WSMR-SIMTEL20.ARMY.MIL:

Directory PD1:<MSDOS.TAXES>
 Filename   Type Length   Date    Description
==============================================
AMTAX92.ZIP   B  170798  911126  AM-TAX individual tax preparation for FY '92

Also available from SIMTEL's mirror sites.

- Jim

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
From: calboyd@atlas.cs.upei.ca (Larry Boyd)
Subject: Wanted: TSR for mouse to emul. stick.
Organization: University of Prince Edward Island
Distribution: na
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 04:36:53 GMT


      I'm looking for a TSR that will ket me use a mouse in wares
 that only give you options of keyboard or stick.

      E-Mail please. Many thanks in advance.


Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
From: gibsonst@sonoma.edu (Stephen Gibson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc,comp.os.ms-windows.misc
Subject: re: Are WordPerfect for Windows file portable to Macs ?????
Date: 13 Jan 93 02:08:27 GMT
Reply-To: gibsonst@sonoma.edu
Organization: Sonoma State University, Rohnert Park, CA


In article <79777@hydra.gatech.EDU> gt7692b@prism.gatech.EDU (Constantinos Malamas) writes:
>
>	The subject pretty much says it all. I am using WordPerfect 5.1 for
>Windows, but I lack a printer. On the other hand, there is a very nice
>Quadra cluster next door with WP for the Macs. Will the Mac WP read and accept
>a Windows WP file? If not, is there a way (perhaps a PD/SW program) to get
>around this?? Thanx in advance....
>
>
>
>Costas Malamas________________________________________________________________
>Georgia Institute of Technology
>Internet: gt7692b@prism.gatech.edu

Save your WPWin files in WP4.2 format.  Then load them into WPMac.  If I am 
not mistaken, WPMac does not read WP5.1 format files directly.


Stephen Gibson
System Support Specialist
Sonoma State Universtiy
eMAIL:  gibsonst@sonoma.edu
        Stephen.Gibson@sonoma.edu
From: trier@odin.ins.cwru.edu (Stephen C. Trier)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Re: BOOTP, pkt drivers, and ethernet board type
Date: 12 Jan 1993 21:15:23 GMT
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland OH (USA)
NNTP-Posting-Host: odin.ins.cwru.edu

For what it's worth, we solved the problem by distributing a whole bunch
of packet drivers on every machine, then putting the load line for each
card in the autoexec.bat and in a loaddrv.bat file we store in the same
directory as the packet drivers.

This is sufficient, considering that one needs not only the type of card
installed but its settings.  Also, we cannot mark hard drives read only.
In fact, their owners would be rather unhappy with us if we did that.

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From: slg@slgsun.att.com (The Idealistic Cynic)
Subject: Books on programming sound?
Organization: AT&T Bell Labs, Columbus, Ohio
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 18:03:07 GMT

I'd like to learn how to create nice sound/sfx/music on the PC.  I want
to be able to create sound for the major sound cards -- Adlib/SB/SBPRo
(to start out with) and the internal speaker.

Does someone have suggestions on what I could read to learn the above?
I've got BC++ 3.0, so stuff that uses Borland rather MC++ would be nice.

Thanks,

Sean.

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From: dman@netcom.com (Dallman Ross)
Subject: Utility to read old-O.S. Amiga disks on an IBM?
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  (408 241-9760 guest) 
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL8]
Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 09:10:46 GMT

Hopefully, freeware or shareware.  My friend wants to send me some
Amiga disks to read on my IBM.  He has the older operating system
that only writes single-sided disks, and I've heard I won't be able
to read it due to a slight difference in the way it writes the FAT.
Are there any programs out there that will let me read such disks
formatted on and old Amiga?

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From: antony@werple.apana.org.au (Antony Suter)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Re: PKzip2.04c overlays for XtreeGold V2.5
Date: 9 Jan 1993 01:00:19 +1100
Organization: werple public-access unix, Melbourne
NNTP-Posting-Host: werple.apana.org.au
Keywords: pkzip2.04c XTG NEEDED

lachlan@dmp.csiro.au (Lachlan Cranswick) writes:

>The thing I am worried about is will the new version read
>all those old archive ZIP files that stretch back over two years.

Err. Yes.
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From: HEAGYWS@ctrvax.Vanderbilt.Edu ()
Subject: Cursor in DOSSHELL?
Organization: Vanderbilt University
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 19:59:47 GMT
X-News-Reader: VMS NEWS 1.24

Why would the cursor in the dosshell program included with Dos 5.0 not
be visable?  It is working, but we can't see the cursor.  Other 
applications that use a mouse (even some that we run from within the
shell) display the mouse correctly.  Why can't we see it in the shell?
When we first started to use the shell the cursor was visable, then
one day it was just gone.

Please send any replies to  heagyws@ctrvax.vanderbilt.edu

Thanks...Win
=---------------------------------------------=


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From: lachlan@dmp.csiro.au (Lachlan Cranswick)
Subject: Re: DOS Graphics & Curve Fitting Software
Keywords: Graphics, Curve Fitting
Organization: CSIRO Division of Mineral Products, Melbourne, AUSTRALIA
Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1993 07:28:35 GMT

cheinan@access.digex.com (Cheinan Marks) writes:

>I am a Mac user who is trying to run some hardware that insists on
>being attached by DMA to a PC type machine.  I've got the programs to
>read the data and save it into a file in a nice format and I would
>like to graph and curve fit the data.  On the Mac, my package of
>choice would be KaleidaGraph, but a call to the publisher reveals that
>no such tool exists in the DOS world.

>My current solution is to read the data over on the Mac via sneakerNet
>and use KGraph, but I'd (*gulp*) prefer a pure DOS solution.

>Can anyone suggest DOS software to read a numerical datafile, graph it
>and curve fit it with a general non-linear fits?  It should display the
>fit over the data and provide the parameters.  It has to be able to
>deal with custom formats and to be able to discard the first N lines of
>data and choose different delimeters.  A crude programming language
>(like KGraph has) would be a BIG plus.  A Windows package is also OK.
>I am willing to spend up to $500-600 on this, so please feel free to
>suggest expensive solutions.

>Thanks all in advance.

>				Cheinan Marks


You might like to contact Jandel Tel: 415-453-6700 FAX 415-453-7769
about Sigma Plot 5.0 for DOS.  It can handle very big data files and can
precisely control everyting on the page.

I have not done much statistical or curve fitting with it 
but it can do the job and give the values it uses and display
it etc.  It also has its own pseudo programing language to do more
complex stuff.  It also has a true 3D graphing facility.


If you expect large data files, you would want a 486-33
with at least 4 Meg of RAM and it likes to see
expanded memory (load EMM386.exe in config.sys).

It also does batch printing.

Call Jandel, but if you want, send me one of the data files
via email and tell me what you want done with it.  I can
email the a HPGL or Postscript file printout back to you.

I am using Sigma Plot at the moment to do over 200 graphs
for a journal paper (only 20 or so will go in the final
draft) and wouldn't mind graphing something new for a distraction.
I really like this program myself.

PS:  There is also a MAC version of this software.

Lachlan.
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
From: montra@ghost.dsi.unimi.it (Paolo Montrasio)
Subject: WANTED: format of MS-DOS 720K floppy disk
Organization: Computer Science Dep. - Milan University
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 10:42:34 GMT

I'd like to know if there is an E-text document explaining the format
of MS-DOS 720 floppy disks, i.e.: main directory on sector X, trak Y,
side Z. The format of the directory is.... Format of files is...
etc etc

I need these information because I must write a program to read MS-DOS
disks on a different OS.

	Thank you in advance.

	Paolo Montrasio
	montra@ghost.dsi.unimi.it

	Please! replay by E-mail!
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