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From: schwartz@ils.nwu.edu (Diane Schwartz)
Subject: Windows dll with perspective
Followup-To: schwartz@ils.nwu.edu
Keywords: thanks
Organization: The Institute for the Learning Sciences
Date: Fri, 21 Aug 1992 22:12:42 GMT


Does anyone know of a Windows dll with functions such as
perspective, skew, distort, etc.  I'm using Windows 3.1
under DOS.

Please email me directly instead of posting to this group.

Thanks,

-diane
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From: jmann@vineland.pubs.stratus.com (Jim Mann)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc
Subject: Re: WARNING !!!!! MS WINDOWS 3.1 SmartDrive Problem
Date: 18 Aug 92 13:54:48 GMT
Reply-To: jmann@vineland.pubs.stratus.com

In article <1992Aug17.202907.12273@schbbs.mot.com>  
P70008@waccvm.corp.mot.com (Bill Nelson) writes:
> The following article was taken from the PC WORLD ONLINE via the  
America
> Online BBS and is an important warning for all MS WINDOWS 3.1  
users.
> 
> The following information was passed on to PC WORLD ONLINE by PCW  
George,
> (George Campbell, a PC WORLD Editor).
> 
> "After considerable testing, I have discovered a major problem with  
the
> version of SmartDrive included with Windows 3.1. The default  
installation
> of SMARTDRV.EXE enables write caching on your hard disks. Most  
often this
> is not a problem but, under certain circumstances, it could crash  
your hard
> disk. A typical situation is described below 

I think the funniest thing about this is that it took him
"considerable testing" to discover something that was a
documented behavior of smartdrv.  You'd think, if he thought
he were having a problem with smarddrv, would at least have
looked at the manual.  Heck, he didn't even have to go
that far.  If you type smartdrv/s  it tells you that it's doing
write caching.   Makes me glad I don't bother with PC World,
given this level of expertize there.


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From: chena@crs.cl.msu.edu (Antony Chen)
Newsgroups: socs.misc,comp.os.msdos.misc,comp.os.msdos.apps,mtl.general
Subject: Re: WARNING !!!!! MS WINDOWS 3.1 SmartDrive Problem
Date: 13 Aug 92 23:40:04 GMT
Organization: Michigan State University


That's not the end of it.  The new SmartDrive that comes with Windows 3.1
SUCKS!  It gave me such a headache because I always got errors when I tried
to download files.  The Write Cache would mess up the timings that my
comm program had.  And it's not that my computer is too slow (I have a
486-50).  Just turn the SmartDrv write cache off and save yerself a lot of
headaches.  Believe me.

Those stupid people at Microsoft.  First, they come up with a runt OS called
MS-DOS and keep modifying it so they can trick the consumer into thinking
it is actually semi-efficient. (It's not efficient, you just gotta spend the 
big bucks for a fast computer.)  Then, they come out with the ugliest looking
flight simulator out there (who like those graphics anyways?).  Now, they
come out with Windows. Their biggest trimuph.  Multi-tasking my butt.
AND WHAT?!  Bill Gates is the richest executive out there.  Life can be so
ironic.
From: doug@hparc0.aus.hp.com (Doug Parsons)
Date: Mon, 17 Aug 1992 03:25:12 GMT
Subject: Re: XMS always 3mb<Ext Mem
Organization: HP Australasian Response Centre (Melbourne)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc
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Mark -

Many thanx.  I have the manual (actually I have 2 of 'em) but for some stupid
reason I didn't even think to rtfm.  

Will add the extension.

Now my only problem is how to tell QEMM that a pc has >16mb of memory.  I've
looked in the CMOS, but see CF00 tucked in the EXT MEM area.  My PC's setup
program can detect the full 32mb, so I assume that this is non-standard and
so QEMM must not be looking in the extended CMOS area to find out if there's
any more memory.
I've tried booting without QEMM, but DOS's MEM command only shows 16mb. I've
tried HIMEM and the EISA option, but it still only sees 16mb.

Oh well.

douginoz.
From: mcs66@cas.org (Peg Steensland)
Subject: hard drive lost  - divide overflow error
Followup-To: Peg Steensland
Organization: Chemical Abstracts Service
Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1992 16:50:39 GMT

Hello netters,

I recently began hooking up a Toshiba 3301E CDROM to my vintage 1986 XT.  I was 
not successful in getting the thing to talk to a  TMC 850 Future Domain board, but in
the process of trying I ended up reformatting my SCSI D-F drive for the FD board.  The
C drive (MFM Miniscribe 20 MB on its own controller) had been working fine with the
Seagate SCSI board up until this - it now seems to have disappeared!!!

I ca do C: and get there, but  dir gives an error message divide overflow.  Nor can I 
type any C file known to be in the root directory.  But I can key a:park and it will
park 2 heads.  I can also key F:  from C and it will go there.

I cannot use fdisk from A to check out the disk and the nu command from Norton Utilities
will not work either altho it works fine on other disks.

Natually, I used compression software on C to compress my D+ drive and then used PCtools
PCbackup (6.0) to backup the D+(SCSI) drive.  I can put Pctools 7.1 back on D+ to do
some work (if I knew what to do).

Can anyone direct me to how I might restore use of the C drive hopefully with the files
that I did not touch, intact.  If this is not the right group, could someone redirect me.

Oh - I talked to Toshiba and they said the FD SCSI board is not standard in its pincouts. 
I have written to FD with the serial # but  have not heard anything. 

I have also tried booting from a diskette that has no *.sys or *.bat - just the system 
command file and that does not work (this on the advice of the store that sold me the
hard drive a few years ago - no doc - it just came in a box and I left with hand written
instructiosn on formatting it.)

Yes, I finally got the Toshiba working with a Trantor interface (parallel to SCSI) but of 
course, much of the software wants to create directories on the C drive that  doesn't
entirely exist!  And only one of the 5 packages that came with the drive will run 
without putting config files to the C drive.

Thanks - email to me would be most efficient but the net is OK too.

Peg Steensland
mcs66@cas.org
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc
From: plotkin@cs.stanford.edu (Serge A. Plotkin)
Subject: Re: How to Un write protect a stacker volume
Organization: Stanford, CS Dept.
	<1992Aug19.144120.27518@klaava.Helsinki.FI>
	<1992Aug19.212156.19397@nosc.mil> <1992Aug20.145620.17443@rei.com>
Distribution: comp.os.msdos.misc
Date: 20 Aug 92 10:01:53

 In order to un-write protect the stacker drive
you should

run sdefrag /fd:<the name of the stacker volume file>

then run chkdsk
then scheck
and then you might have to repeat chkdsk/scheck combination.


works for me every time....

-serge
From: bill@az.stratus.com (Bill Everts)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc
Subject: Re: What can you tell me about SLIP
Date: 21 Aug 92 23:44:26 GMT

In article <1992Aug21.172048.2455@regina.cs.uregina.ca>  
wall@hercules.cs.uregina.ca writes:
> Can anyone give me some information on how I can obtain this for my 
> msdos machine and interface it with the university Unix machine.
> 
> What is the Actual definition of SLIP and how does it work.  Is it
> now a standard protocal.
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Murray
SLIP stands for Serial Line Internet Protocol. In a nutshell, using an  
"ordinary" async dialup connection, your machine will look as if it is  
connected to the dialed-to systems local area network. This gives you ftp,  
telnet, etc access to the other network.  I use Chameleon under Windows 3.1 for  
the software and a DSI modem at effectively 19.2 to connect to a NetBlazer.

I don't know what your University provides on their side for you to connect to.

I hope that helps.
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Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc
From: reichert@rtsg.mot.com (Charles H. Reichert)
Subject: Re: Let's start a DR-DOS newsgroup- All in favor- say aye!
Organization: Motorola Inc., Cellular Infrastructure Group
Distribution: usa
Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1992 15:30:37 GMT

evans1@cbnewsm.cb.att.com (Dan Evans) writes:


>I vote yes to the DR DOS newsgroup.

>It provides a forum for all the complants I've seen over this group
>about SuperStor and DR DOS 6.0 crashing systems and causing corruption
>on the hard drive.  I haven't had a lot of respect for DR since I pulled
>GEM off my system.

Huh?  DR-DOS 6.0 crashing systems?  I guess I must have been sleeping
the past months.  I follow DR-DOS postings as much as I can and 
haven't anything specific to DR DOS as an OS causing crashes.  Most have
been due to cockpit error.  No flame intended...just haven't noticed
any major bugs.  Mine works great except not happy with Diskopt.

After doing DiskOpt on a SSTOR compressed drive and then looking at
it again with Norton's SD ver 4.5 I see many holes, misplaced areas.
Doing SD on the same drive cleans it up.  

I agree that a DR-DOS news group should be formed.

	Chuck Reichert


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Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc,comp.os.msdos.apps
From: adelaine@milton.u.washington.edu (Alison Blais)
Subject: Re: WARNING!!!! major problem with vi and possibly every other app around! (was: help I don't understand write caches like smartdrive 3.1)
Organization: University of Washington, Seattle
Date: Mon, 17 Aug 1992 02:32:16 GMT

>The other day I was editing a file with vi and I quit using :q!
>
>I lost ALL my changes!!!! I belive this to be a major problem with vi.
>
>I've heard lots of other programs do this too.
>-- 
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>nyet@aerospace.aero.org

Is this a joke or what?  Some kind of test-post to weed out the morons?
:q! _means_ quit and ignore changes, doesn't it?

If it's a joke, I get it.  If it's not, one of us needs to do some learning.

Erick.
adelaine@milton.u.washington.edu
ehammers@inson.fhcrc.org

Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc
From: as789@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Francisco J. Diaz)
Subject: MSDOS question
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, (USA)
Date: Sat, 15 Aug 92 13:08:45 GMT


Hi All! I have a small question...Is there any utility that
modifies COMMAND.COM so that it lets the user give longer file
names? Or at least make DOS work that way...I wonder if it is
possible to have such long filenames using plain DOS instead of
OS/2 or Windows/Norton Desktop combo....Thanks! :-)
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Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc
From: wall@hercules.cs.uregina.ca ()
Subject: What can you tell me about SLIP
Keywords: DOS5
Reply-To: wall@hercules.uregina.ca ()
Organization: University of Regina, Regina, Saskatchewan
Date: Fri, 21 Aug 1992 17:20:48 GMT

Can anyone give me some information on how I can obtain this for my 
msdos machine and interface it with the university Unix machine.

What is the Actual definition of SLIP and how does it work.  Is it
now a standard protocal.

Thanks

Murray
From: ganesh@madras.sybase.com (Ganesh Sundaresan)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc
Subject: Re: Let's start a DR-DOS newsgroup- All in favor- say aye!
Date: 19 Aug 92 18:24:05 GMT
Organization: Sybase, Inc.

Me too.

I've been a very satisfied DR-DOS 6.0 user ever since I got
a great deal on it earlier this year. I recently upgraded to
a nameless 486-33 w/ 4 Meg and mainly run Geoworks Pro,
Quattro Pro (it came with Geoworks) and Turbo C++. I get
blazing performance and great functionality with all of these. 

So who's doing the call for votes?

- Ganesh.
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From: lape@cs.utk.edu (Bryon S. Lape)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc,comp.os.msdos.programmer,comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc,comp.sys.tandy
Subject: CD ROM DRIVERS NEEDED!!!!!!!!
Date: 18 Aug 92 20:12:37 GMT
Organization: University of Tennessee, Knoxville - CS Department
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: duncan.cs.utk.edu
Originator: lape@duncan.cs.utk.edu


	I need new drivers for our Amdek Laserdrive-1 CD-ROM.  If anyone
knows where I can get them or wherer they might be, or what Amdek's number
is, please let me know.  Thanks.


Bryon
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From: hartung@crl.ucsd.edu (Jeff Hartung)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc
Subject: Re: Optimizing 386SX-16's for Windows
Summary: Graphics Accelerators will make a BIG difference...
Keywords: Windows graphics cards SVGA accelerators speed
Date: 19 Aug 92 21:20:33 GMT
Distribution: na
Organization: University of California, San Diego

>In article <Bsu89r.3K6@cs.dal.ca>, goldrick@ug.cs.dal.ca (Majeed  Goldrick) writes:
>> Hi everyone,
>> 
>> I am doing a bit of work for an office with a bunch of 386SX 16MHz machines.
>> They are using monochrome monitors (!!!).I would like to get them going on
>> some Windows applications, but it would seem to me that this would be 
>> extremely slow in the current setup.  The question is - how can I optimize
>> these machines for Windows at a reasonable price.  Do I:
>> 
>> 1) Buy new vga/svga cards/monitors for them - how much faster would
>>    this make them?

In article <1992Aug19.152337.1@cc.curtin.edu.au> tsuanian@cc.curtin.edu.au writes:
>VGA cards may make the machines more usable, (colors, people like
>colors).  SVGA is'nt a good idea, it slows the machines down
>by alot, (it needs to squeeze alot more info across the bus than
>VGA). As to weather it's cost effective, dunno thats a HCI problem
>I think

This is a bit of an oversimplification.  First, although the amount of data
that moves across the bus is greater for a SVGA than a monochrome card, the
SVGA is likely a 16-bit card, the Herc is certainly not.  Furthermore, the
drivers and the hardware for most SVGA cards (even cheap ones) is optimized
for the Windows environment.  In most cases, a well optimized driver can make
a WORLD of difference, and I'm sure that the Herc. drivers are not going to be
all that well written, seeing that they are in low demand as a GUI device.

In addition, there are several cards out, including the numerous S3 based
cards (such as the Diamond Stealth, Orchid Fahrenheit 1280, etc.) and other
cards (e.g., ATI's Graphics Ultra) that have a "graphics accelerator"
included.  The main difference between a graphics accelerator and a true
graphics coprocessor is that the former has a fixed set of functions (such as
BitBlt, filled rectangle, line and vector draw, hardware cursor, etc.),
whereas the latter is programmable.  You can pick up an accelerated card for
about $250 if you shop around a little.

I run Windows at home on a 20 MHz 386SX, and since installing an Orchid F1280
card, it has gone from a barely usable cripple to a machine that rivals DX
machines with faster clock speeds in how fast it handles the GUI.  (Other
things, such as multitasking, are still a little weak, of course.)

I'd also like to add to the previous author's comments that more RAM can make
a world of difference as well.  I'd recommend 6-8 Mb, if you can afford it.  4
is an absolute minimum for most applications.


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Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc
From: s310@brems.ii.uib.no (Chris Tveit)
Subject: TeX, LaTeX
Organization: University of Bergen, Norway
Date: Fri, 21 Aug 92 10:35:13 GMT

Where can I find the newest version of the TeX-system and
LaTeX for my PC (ms-dos) ??

What is the best TeX-printer-driver for my HP DeskJet 500 , and 
where can I find it ??


Chris.
From: brand@wet.UUCP (Graham Brand)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc
Subject: Missing extended memory!?!
Date: 12 Aug 92 16:50:22 GMT
Organization: Wetware Diversions, San Francisco

I have a simple question for the msdos wizards out there! I have a
'386/25MHz system with 2MB RAM and DOS 5.0. My motherboard allows
the upper 384KB of RAM to be moved above the 1MB boundary so that I
have 1.44 MB of RAM available to be used.

I have set up my system with a 512KB disk cache (using smartdrv)
and 384KB of expanded memory (using emm386). I have also set up DOS
to run in upper memory (using DOS= HIGH). This should leave me with
512KB of extended memory. However, mem /c only shows about 270kB!
Does anyone know where the rest has gone?

Cheers,
-Graham Brand (..!hoptoad!wet!brand)

P.S. No answers saying to get more RAM, please!!
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc
From: pitaro@sneezy.sanders.lockheed.com (Michael Pitaro)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc
Subject: Re: Comdex Show 92
Date: 12 Aug 92 14:46:24 GMT
Reply-To: pitaro@rocket.sanders.com
Organization: Lockheed Sanders, Inc.
In-reply-to: tbt@iti.gov.sg's message of 12 Aug 92 02:37:44 GMT

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Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc,comp.os.ms-windows.misc
From: duzan@braindamaged.cis.udel.edu (Gary D. Duzan)
Subject: Re: Why DOS 5.0 for Windows 3.1 ???
Organization: Your Organization Could Be Here!
Date: Sat, 15 Aug 1992 22:08:53 GMT

In article <sauron.713912919@femto.engr.mun.ca> sauron@nano.engr.mun.ca (Patrick Ryan) writes:
=>fox@rei.com (Fuzzy Fox) writes:
=>
=>>milan@bcsaic.boeing.com (Milan Richter) writes:
=>
=>>Under a DOS 5 shell from Windows 3.1 you can have as much as 600K free,
=>>with the proper setup.
=>
=>If your use something like QEMM with it as well, the savings go a bit
=>higher.  I can get 610464 bytes of memory free, and that's with
=>soundcard drivers, mouse driver, ANSI...  I'm impressed.
=>
   Just make sure that you don't load SMARTDRV.EXE high. When I first
set up 3.1 it was crashing quite regularly, which rather annoyed me since
it was supposed to be more stable than 3.0. I traced the problem to
SMARTDRV and 3.1 has behaved itself pretty well since then. (I'm still
looking forward to poking around with OS/2 2.0, but that is another
story. :-)

                                        Gary Duzan
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Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc
From: fox@rei.com (Fuzzy Fox)
Subject: Re: How to Un write protect a stacker volume
Date: Thu, 20 Aug 1992 14:56:20 GMT
Distribution: comp.os.msdos.misc
Organization: Recognition Equipment, Inc.

discar@nosc.mil (Joe Discar) writes:

>>>Could some please give me the command that will let me un write 
>>>protect my stacker volume and drive.  Thanks.  

>Boot up a regular DOS (or comment out the .SYS's in the config.sys).  There
>will be a hidden file (I forget the name) that represents the Stacker volume
>(you can use an disk utility to see it)--change the file's attribute from
>read only to r/w.  

---> THIS IS TOTALLY WRONG!  DO NOT PERFORM THE ABOVE OPERATION!!! <---

Stacker write-protects the hard drive when it finds a serious error in
the data tables that it uses.  Use the programs CHKDSK (from DOS) and
SCHECK (from Stacker) to fix the disk, and it will not be write
protected anymore.

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From: doug@hparc0.aus.hp.com (Doug Parsons)
Date: Mon, 17 Aug 1992 07:09:46 GMT
Subject: Re: XMS always 3mb<Ext Mem
Organization: HP Australasian Response Centre (Melbourne)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc
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Hey !!

I've just read both my manuals on QEMM, and there isn't any mention of
EMBMEM= or EMB-anything.  I've got a manual from QEMM 5.x, and the one for
QEMM 6.0.

What version of the manual have you got?  Must be newer; I logged onto the
Quarterdeck BBS, but didn't find anything useful.  I also checked their
fax articles, but didn't see anything relevent.

Makes me wonder what other undocumented additions there are...

l8r

douginoz.
From: gcs@edsi.plexus.COM (Greg C. Steiner)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc
Subject: Re: Let's start a DR-DOS newsgroup- All in favor- say aye!
Date: 17 Aug 92 04:27:26 GMT
Article-I.D.: edsi.1992Aug17.042726.12671
Organization: Enterprise Data Systems Incorporated, Appleton WI


>> Concerning DRDOS 6.0, what's the process for starting a
>> new newsgrou Would someone like to take that responsibility
>> to find out?                 Do you lie the name: 
comp.os.drdos?
>>  
>>   
>> Comments?    
>>                                 
> 
>I second that notion -- I
>would appreciate a seperate newsgroup for DRDOS.  COMP.OS.DRDOS
>sounds just fine.     

Count me in!  does it matter that I'm not on 6.0?  
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc
From: jbharvey@nyx.cs.du.edu (Justin  Harvey)
Subject: PC Speaker
Organization: Nyx, Public Access Unix @ U. of Denver Math/CS dept.
Date: Fri, 14 Aug 92 00:24:21 GMT


Could someone please tell me where to get a driver or TSR that
will completely silence a PC Speaker?  I have used a program named
Silence but it only makes the sound stacato.  This is for a
regular Wang PC running MS-DOS 5.0

Any info would be appreciated,

Justin Harvey

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