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From: IANR009@UNLVM.UNL.EDU (D. Kirk Darnell)
Subject: Windows for Workgroups Beta (How to get?)
Organization: University of Nebraska
Date: Thu, 01 Oct 92 09:07:59 CST

Can someone tell me the approach to take to become a beta tester for WFW.
Thanks for your help...
 
 
 
 
 
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Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
From: tylerd@rintintin.Colorado.EDU (TYLER DAVID CHARLES)
Subject: Re: Weitek Power Video Card?
Keywords: Weitek Power 5086 Chip
Organization: University of Colorado, Boulder
Distribution: usa
Date: Tue, 29 Sep 1992 21:37:31 GMT

In article <1992Sep27.045712.14245@berlioz.nsc.com> my@berlioz.nsc.com (Mike Yip) writes:
>
>Hello,
>	I saw the Weitek Power video card (which uses the Weitek 5086 chip)
>is selling for $60 in Fry's Electronics.  Is it a good buy?  It seems much
>cheaper compare to the card with the S3-chip.  It mentioned a pretty big
>Window speed up compare to the normal SVGA cards.  Is it worth the money,
>or I should spend more than $200 to get the Diamond Stealth video card?
>What kind of performance do people get from it anyway?  Any winmark?

I don't know anything about the Weitek Power video card, but I use the
Aamazing VGA700 Windows accelerator board and am very pleased with it.

The price? $79!

It uses an AcuMos processor and actually speeds some applications more
than the high-dollar boards.

Read about it in the March 1992 PC World magazine, or call Aamazing at
(714) 255-1688 or (718) 667-8730 to find retail outlets.

I have no affiliation with Aamazing, I'm just a satisfied customer.

I haven't done any benchmarks on the board.  All I know is that my
screens update faster with 256 colors than they used to with 16!

One tip: You may need to get updated drivers for Windows 3.1 (mine came
with Win 3.0 drivers).  Call Aamazing and they'll send them to you at
no cost.

Dave
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
From: GOETZER@nvdv01.ind.e-technik.uni-stuttgart.de (MARTIN GOETZER)
Subject: Re: automatic
Organization: University of Stuttgart, IND (FRG)
Date: Thu, 1 Oct 1992 09:38:57 GMT
X-News-Reader: VMS NEWS 1.23

In <1992Oct1.033448.29261@zip.eecs.umich.edu> sybesma@quip.eecs.umich.edu writes:

> I have win3.1 and have several routine things that I do when
> I start windows.  E.g I have DOS programs in my startup, which
> need to be run, etc.
> 
> Is there anything that I could rig up so that it would trace my key
> presses and mouse clicks and save them and run them at startup?
> 
> 				Eric
> -- 
> Eric Sybesma
> University of Michigan
> sybesma@quip.eecs.umich.edu
> sybesma@maize.engin.umich.edu

I suppose you need to read your Windows manual about macro recorder.

- Martin Goetzer -

Internet: goetzer@nvdv.e-technik.uni-stuttgart.dbp.de
          goetzer@ds0ind5.bitnet
From: axa12@po.CWRU.Edu (Ashok Aiyar)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
Subject: Re: TrueType fonts in Windows Draw?
Date: 26 Sep 1992 22:38:31 GMT
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
Reply-To: axa12@po.CWRU.Edu (Ashok Aiyar)
NNTP-Posting-Host: thor.ins.cwru.edu


In a previous article, kudla@acm.rpi.edu (Robert Kudla) says:

>
>The Windows Draw package, which sells locally for about $80 and looks
>real good, with all kinds of scaling/rotating/bending/text wrapping
>functions and comes with a bunch of "outline fonts", seems like a real
>bargain, but before I buy it, I have to know: will it perform all its
>neato text functions on truetype fonts, or just its own proprietary
>ones?  The package, and all reviews I've seen to date (all of which
>seem to like it) do not make this clear. 

You can buy an update for Windows Draw that will let you do all
kinds of fancy things to TrueType fonts.  I bought the package
for $90 and paid $10 for the update (if I remember correctly).

I do not know if the original package that I got would let me
manipulate TrueType fonts, but I know that I have done things
like rotate, smooth, reshape and bezier re-shape characters on
the screen.  I assume that this is the sort of manipulation that
you refer to.

Ashok
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                          Ashok Aiyar
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                Visit the IBM-PC Sig on Freenet
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
From: David Ruggiero <osiris@halcyon.com>
Subject: Re: Arggh! PC-Speaker doesn't even want to *load*...solved! 
Originator: osiris@halcyon.com
Reply-To: osiris@halcyon.halcyon.com (David Ruggiero)
Organization: [none - why fight entropy?]
Date: Thu, 1 Oct 1992 21:56:21 GMT

dahls@fhydra.dnet.unit.no (Joern Yngve Dahl-Stamnes) writes:

>>I downloaded the latest versions of the PC-Speaker driver from the MS BBS
>>last night. It installed just fine, but after re-booting Windows, the TEST
>>button in the "driver setup" dialogue box was still dimmed (like the driver
>>wasn't installed at all), and none of the sounds in the control panel
>>SOUND menu would play. MS Product Support gave me no help, saying that...

>Have you selecte a .WAV file? I did have the same problem until I
>selected a .WAV file to play. Then the TEST button became active.

....and quite correct he was! (Thank you, Joern.)

Now, why I should have to load a .WAV file to even
*test* the driver is a bit beyond me (I guess I thought it would
have some internal, default sound). Everything now works fine.

So were can I find some archives of cool .WAV files? Anyone got some
favorite ftp sources?

David


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David Ruggiero  (osiris@halcyon.com)      Seattle, WA
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
From: djl@netcom.com (Dan Levin)
Subject: Compress Wave Files?
Keywords: Anyone Know How?
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  (408 241-9760 guest) 
Date: Wed, 7 Oct 1992 00:47:47 GMT

There exist a number of interesting techniques for
compressing digitized sound - you can read about
them in academic papers at any good library.  Does
anyone know of code that applies some of these
techniques to .wav files, either PD or product?

Academic work would be just fine, as would a pointer
to generic sound compression stuff that we could port
over.

Yours for floppy based digitized sound,

-- 
			***dan
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
From: grickett@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Gregory A Ricketts)
Subject: Window's Liscensure
Organization: The Ohio State University
Distribution: usa
Date: Sat, 26 Sep 1992 15:25:46 GMT


While installing Windows 3.1 I used my name only as the person to whom
the software was liscenced.  Upon discovering that Word for Windows uses
the liscencee's name as the author of the document, I now need to add my
girlfriend's name to the liscensure, since we both own and use the
software.  Is there anyway to change the liscensure short of re-installing
windows.
            Thanks in advance,
                              Greg.
From: viswanm@jade.CS.ORST.EDU (Mahesh Viswanathan)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
Subject: Re: Jumpy mouse pointer
Date: 1 Oct 92 20:21:01 GMT
Article-I.D.: CS.1992Oct01.202101.1806
Organization: Oregon State University, Corvallis Oregon



I have a jumpy mouse too, and it irritates the heck outta me.

Here's what happened with me:
Genius mouse (serial mouse)
bad cable... finally data line gave way ... and I resoldered it.

Now, the jumpiness is very much reduced...
I am using the genius mouse driver, not MS>

It still jumps, albeit infrequently.

Mahesh

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Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
From: luis@informatik.rwth-aachen.de (Luis M. Garcia Suarez)
Subject: Cinetic Mail Manager and PMAIL
Followup-To: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
Organization: RWTH Aachen
Date: Mon, 5 Oct 92 14:56:16 GMT


I'm trying to install the Cinetic Mail Manager (CMM) as a Windows-3.x-based
interface to a existing mail system. We are running PMAIL (Pegasus Mail)
and I'm not able to connect PMAIL to CMM because I don't know the
paremeters to invoke PMAIL as a single command (normally PMAIL is used
interactivelly by its dialog boxes).

Any solutions?


==============================================================================
Luis M. Garcia Suarez                   e-mail:
luis@informatik.rwth-aachen.de 
Aachen University of Technology                         tel.: ++49 241
8021434
Ahornstr. 55                                            fax.: ++49 241
8021429
D-5100 Aachen
From: matt@Turing.ORG (Matthew L. Kreger)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
Subject: Re: Which printer to get for MS Windows ???
Date: 30 Sep 92 22:33:40 GMT
Organization: The Turing Project, Charlottesville Virginia.

>sja@world.std.com (Stuart J Adams) writes:
>
>>I am trying to choose a laser printer to use primarily with MS Windows
>>and applications like MS Word/Excel for Windows. I can get an HP
>>compatible laser printer for a little of $600 vs a postscript printer
>>(that also is HP compat) for $1200-$1400. What are the advantages of
>>the latter ???? What does postscript give me that HP PCL does not ???
>
I bought a used HP LaserJet II (around $800) and a LaserMaster WinJet
controller (as low as $300) which I am absolutely delighted with.

I get 800 dpi Postscript (actually TrueImage--MS Postscript clone) and the
fastest Windows printing possible.  It does require a 386 w/ 8MB or better
but the faster your machine, the faster you can print. 
The WinJet also works with the HPIII (but not the IIP or IIIP)

Postscript allows you to print postscript graphics (which are vector
as opposed to bitmapped) giving you much cleaner output.  With ATM and
TrueType the type advantages of Postscript are basically that you can
be assured of compatibility with service bureaus.  Without Hi-res/graphics
or service bureau needs save a bundle and get an HP IIIP

-- 
Matt Kreger (matt@turing.org) is not affiliated with anyone. INFP
From: paulb@harlqn.co.uk (Paul Butcher)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.announce
Subject: Dropper version 0.4 on cica
Date: 5 Oct 92 10:13:03 GMT
Followup-To: comp.os.ms-windows.apps
Organization: Harlequin Ltd, Cambridge, UK

Dropper version 0.4 has been uploaded to ftp.cica.indiana.edu as drop_04.zip.

This version of Dropper includes the following improvements over version 0.3;

 o  Various internal limits increased to allow both more icons and more
    arguments to programs.
 o  Snap to Grid and Snap to Edge algorithms improved.
 o  Arrange now keeps existing arrangements as much as possible.
 o  "Run Once Only" option added.
 o  Misc. bug fixes.

Dropper is a small program which allows you to perform drag and drop to the
Window desktop.  It is similar to many of the NeXT-style icon bars around at
the moment.  Rather than requiring that drag and drop is performed to a strip
at the edge of the screen however, Dropper allows any part of the desktop to 
be used as a target.  Dropper requires Windows 3.1.

PaulB->msgCount++
From: hadgraft@eng2.eng.monash.edu.au (Roger Hadgraft, Civil staff, ext 4983)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.announce
Subject: A WfW Macro to create Windows Help files
Date: 7 Oct 92 00:47:49 GMT
Followup-To: comp.os.ms-windows.apps
Organization: Faculty of Engineering, Monash University

I have uploaded to ftp.cica.indiana.edu an evaluation copy of my Word for 
Windows macro for translating Word documents into Windows Help files (
assuming you already have the Help Compiler).

			Help Use Outline
			----------------

A Macro for translating Word files into Windows Help files

Introduction
------------

Tired of trying to build Windows Help files? 

Trying to maintain printed documentation as well as on-line help files?

This macro is for you!

Encapsulated in a Template file, HELPFILE.DOT for Word for Windows, the macro 
uses the document's outline structure (defined by the heading 1, heading 2, etc 
styles to build a hierarchically structured HLP file. Cross references can also 
be defined (but are only processed by the registered version - US$20=AUD$28 for 
registration - a mere pittance).

This macro means that you can take a standard Word file with appropriate styles,
and create a Windows Help file (assuming you have the Windows Help Compiler).

--
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Monash University, Clayton, Victoria, AUSTRALIA, 3168.
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e-mail: roger.hadgraft@eng.monash.edu.au
From: jeroenp@rulfc1.LeidenUniv.nl (Jeroen W. Pluimers)
Subject: Re: Books published disclosing undocumented features of Windows.
Organization: Dept. FMC, Gorlaeus Labs, Leiden University, The Netherlands
Date: Mon, 28 Sep 92 19:40:37 GMT

In article <2737@twg.bc.ca> bill@twg.bc.ca (Bill Irwin) writes:
>I read a small newspaper article describing a "furor" that was
>created recently by publications telling us things that Windows
>can do, which aren't described in the manual.  Does anyone know
>the names of these books?


Here they are:

Author: Tamura Jones
Title:  Undocumented Windows
        Beyond the Microsoft(R) Reference
        The Developer's Reference to undocumented and obscutre information
        about programming Windows
Publ.:  CAP GEMINI PUBLISING
ISBN:   90 71996 57 3
Pages:  about 420

Author: Andrew Schulman, David Maxey, Matt Pietrek
Title:  Undocumented Windows
        A Programmer's Guide to Reserved Microsoft(R) Windows API Functions
Publ.:  ADDISON WESLEY
ISBN:   0 201 60834 0
Pages:  about 740


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From: gedwards@ncratl.AtlantaGA.NCR.COM (Gordon Edwards)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.misc
Subject: Scrolling Two Listboxes with One ScrollBar
Date: 3 Oct 92 05:17:23 GMT
Article-I.D.: ncratl.9452
Organization: NCR Engineering and Manufacturing Atlanta -- Atlanta, GA

I'm pretty sure I saw this asked recently but I didn't save the article(s)
since I was still learning how to write my first Windows program, and didn't
know I might need to know how to do this...

I have a dialog box with two listboxes displayed side-by-side on the
screen.  I have the scrollbar on the left box hidden, and the scrollbar on
the right visible.

Each entry in the left listbox is related to the entry in the same position
in the right listbox.

What I'd like to so is when the scrollbar on the right listbox causes some
scroll action to occur in the right listbox, I'd like the left listbox
to perform the exact same type of scrollaction.  (IOW, if the right box
scrolls one line I'd like the left box to scroll one line).

Also, if the user selects an entry (double-clicks on an entry) in the
right listbox I'd like the left listbox to also receive the selection
messages so that the selected entry in both boxes is highlighted.

My problem is that I haven't been able to make the left listbox perform
the same actions that the right listbox takes.

I tried watching for the WM_VSCROLL message, then looking in HIWORD(lParam)
to figure out which box was told to scroll, and then using
SndDlgItemMsg() to send the same message to the other listbox (changing 
lParam to something like MAKELONG(LOWORD(lParam), IDD_LEFT_LISTBOX) 
but nothing seems to have happened.

I used Borland's WinSight program to watch messages flying around but
didn't even see the WM_VSCROLL messages sent/received anywhere.

Can anyone offer any hints, tips, clues as to what I'm not doing
right?

(I'm using Borland C++ 3.1, but I imagine the procedure is the same in
MSC).

Thanks,
   Gordon

-- 
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NCR Engineering & Manufacturing    |
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From: tardieu@aphrodite.enst.fr (Samuel Tardieu)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.misc
Subject: Communications under Windows
Keywords: communications,dialog,tpw,timeout
Date: 1 Oct 92 14:27:59 GMT
Organization: Telecom Paris, France

Hello hackers.

I have two beginners' questions, for TPW's programmers:
1) I have to write very quickly (a demonstration for a minister) a
   communication application under Windows. I want to wait for 
   datas on my serial port (with a given timeout) without consumming
   the whole CPU time.
2) I want to gray a button until three fields are filled. Is it possible
   with a derivate of the TDIALOG type ?

Thank you for all answers and examples. 
-- 
     Samuel TARDIEU  -  Telecom Paris  -  tardieu@enst.fr  -  (1) 45-81-71-97
From: "chris guilmartin" <chris.guilmartin@channel1.com>
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.misc
Subject: vb and dde's
Date: 29 Sep 92 04:36:53 EST
Reply-To: "chris guilmartin" <chris.guilmartin@channel1.com>
Distribution: comp
Organization: Channel 1 Communications

Carol Wang writes:

CW>i am trying to get VB to talk to XTALK, but every time i run my
CW>application i get "No foreign application responded to a DDE
CW>initiate".
CW>
CW>i have tried giving the full path name to the application (which
CW>worked in object vision), and for the sake of testing i tried setting
CW>up a link to excel which also didn't work, and had the same error
CW>message)
CW>
CW>in the click method of a button i try to link a textbox (log) and put
CW>the code:
CW>
CW>Log.LinkMode = 0
CW>Log.LinkTopic = "XTALK|[DIAL(PICLOGIN)]"
CW>Log.LinkMode = 1

I think you are confused as to what all the settings are. I do not know 
XTALK, but the data after the | in LinkTopic should be the topic. You
will have to look at XTALK's doc to find out what topics it recognizes.
Ditto with the LinkItem. You should set it before LinkMode=1. This then 
will cause XTALK to send something to Log.text.

It looks to me like [DIAL(PICLOGIN)] isn't a topic, but text which you 
should send to XTALK using a LinkExecute, after the link is established.
This should tell it to take that action.

The VB online help has an example program showing DDE to Excel. Search for 
'LinkTopic property'.

Hope this helps, and XTALK acts like most applications.



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Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.misc,comp.os.ms-windows.misc
From: cid@athena.mit.edu (Derek H Cedillo)
Subject: FileManager and Drop Drag (was: Re: drop and drag probs)
Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Date: Thu, 1 Oct 1992 21:18:50 GMT


I should have mentioned that I already tried the Filemanager.
But I think the problem is I dont have the standard file manager.
My sister somehow erased mine.  So I got wone from A BBS.
It works great, but I guess I lost
the Drag/Drop Options.  She did this on the disk when we moved.  So 
I have no way of getting it back short of getting a new windows disk.
Does Cica have the original or no?  thanks  i couldnt find it



Derek

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From: hodge@iccgcc.decnet.ab.com
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.misc
Subject: Re: Changing a window's title after creation
Date: 5 Oct 92 09:30:51 EST

In article <BvMnIJ.Cx7@alsvid.une.edu.au>, rbyrnes@alsvid.une.edu.au (Rod Byrnes) writes:
> Does anyone know how to change a window's title, after the window has
> already been created? I'm using Turbo Pascal for Windows. What I need
> to do is change a window's title after performing a 'SaveAs'. I can't
> find this anywhere in the documentation, but it is a pretty important
> topic. There must be a simple answer, but it is so frustrating trying
> to find it. Any help is greatly appreciated.

  Use the SetWindowText function.  (You probably already found this, 
right?)

++++  Bob Hodge  +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
+  I'm looking for Jim Meerbot! Please email me if you know him!   +
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.misc
From: carr@scinet.up.ac.za (Alan Carr)
Subject: Re: Using OWL DLL's in Visual Basic
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 1992 06:27:25 GMT
Organization: University of Pretoria
Keywords: BC++3.1, Visual Basic, DLL

>I've struck a problem trying to run a DLL generated from BC's OWL. (The DLL 
>I'm trying to get to work at this stage is the OWL example 'cdlgdll.prj', 
>which generates a DLL which can be used from a straight C program). The 
>problem is that the function definition causes the compiler to 
>generate prefix underscores in the DLL, and VB cannot handle functions 
>beginning with an underscore.
>
>I've tried correcting this by including a 'pascal' identifier in the 
>function definition, but this resulted in some spectacular system crashes.
>
>Can anyone offer a solution ?
>
>tku
>alan carr
>email: carr@scinet.up.ac.za

Late reply on this one. The problem solved itself. All that is necessary WAS 
the 'pascal' modifier. All that I can assume that happened was that VB 
clobbered dos or the windows file structure, because on rebooting later in 
the day everything worked fine. (maybe i've got a new virus).

Anyone wanting further info can contact me direct.

alan
email: carr@scinet.up.ac.za
From: jagrant@emr1.emr.ca (John Grant)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.misc
Subject: Re: Borland C++ v2.0 & v3.0
Date: 28 Sep 92 00:02:03 GMT
Organization: Energy, Mines, and Resources, Ottawa

...can't find the "windows.h" file."

Try <windows.h> instead.  <> are for 'system' files in known places (like in
the \include directory below where the compiler was installed.  "" is for your
own files.  Failing that, check the IDE options or your config files for the
list of directories in which to look.  The command line stuff uses -I
and -L flags for these options.  There is no difference in the name - it is
called windows.h for both 3.0 and 3.1.
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.misc