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From: bdenton@cbnewsd.cb.att.com (robert.a.denton)
Subject: Norton Utilities 6.2
Organization: AT&T
Distribution: usa
Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1992 02:19:09 GMT
Followup-To: comp.os.msdos.apps

I have heard that Norton Utilities version 6.2 has been released.
Is this true?  If so does anyone know the differences between version
6.2 and version 6.01?  Any information would be greatly appreciated.
Please post any information to the net.

Carl Cochran	ctc@ihlpb.ih.att.com
From: mattel@auto-trol.com (Matt Telles)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.apps
Subject: Re: Borland C++ 4.0 (anyone heard??)
Keywords: C++ Borland
Date: 24 Jul 92 14:28:55 GMT
Organization: Auto-trol

In article <1992Jul23.093420.13381@sequent.com> furballs@sequent.com (Paul Penrod) writes:
>In article <1992Jul22.133435.18190@porthos.cc.bellcore.com> andys@rruxc.uucp (25651-say) writes:

Methinks that either Gateway is talking about the Paradox 4.0 release (in
August, I think) or they are referring to the OS2 32 bit compiler due 4th
quarter of this year...

Borland 4.0 in August?  Just say no.

Matt

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Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.apps
From: LEE_SOPHIA@pippen.ub.com
Subject: Need "Zoo" archiver
Summary: Need archiver that can handle '.zoo' archives
Keywords: "Zoo"
Organization: Ungermann-Bass
Distribution: comp.os.msdos.mis
Date: Fri, 31 Jul 1992 18:26:03 GMT

	Recently I got a file '.zoo' and I don't have the utility to 
decompress it. Please contact me at my e-maill address if you know how to 
get the archiver "Zoo" that can handle '.zoo' archives.Thanks


	my e-mail address

		leesop@sceng.UB.com
From: ted@helios.ucsc.edu (Ted Cantrall)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.apps
Subject: Re: Borland C++ 4.0 (anyone heard??)
Date: 22 Jul 1992 16:26:52 GMT
Organization: UCO/Lick Observatory
NNTP-Posting-Host: helios.ucsc.edu
Keywords: C++ Borland

*    Well currently I am still waiting for Borland C++ from Gateway
*which I recieved over two months ago...  Gateway is now telling me
*that they are waiting until the beginning of August to ship because
*Borland is releasing version 4.0 then...  Does anyone know what is
*going to be in 4.0??? 
--------------------------
Try asking Borland. Here are some of their addresses.

customer-support@borland.com 
bugs@borland.com
sidney@borland.com 

Good Luck!
                        -ted-

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From: pclark@ds5000.DAC.Northeastern.edu (Peter Clark)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.apps
Subject: Re: Stacker
Date: 30 Jul 92 14:58:57 GMT
Organization: Northeastern University, Boston, MA. 02115, USA

My personal, and lots of people that I know, experience with Stacker has been
that it has unexplicebly crashed, loosing all data in the 'stacker partition',
it has been known to overload voice-coils on some hard disks (I've seen it 
overload a coil on a Seagate), it has corrupted itself, and generally has
created more problems than it solved.

Of course, there are the cases where people have been running it forever and
never had one problem with it, but I do not know anyone personally (out of
15 people that I personally know are running it) who has not had a problem with
it in one way or another (including version 2.0).

The other thing to consider is what kind of data will you be storing on the
stacker partition?  Pre-compressed files (.ZIP, .ARC, .ZOO, .etc) will NOT
be compressed any further by using Stacker, so don't bother if you drive is
really populated with pre-compressed files, it will just be a lot of time for
negligable ammounts of space gain.

Just my $0.02.

Peter Clark
'Sometimes it IS better to just say NO!'  -  pclark@ds5000.DAC.northeastern.edu
From: jheath@CERIS.Purdue.EDU (Jim Heath)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.apps
Subject: DAK CDROM opinions
Date: 31 Jul 92 17:13:47 GMT
Organization: Center for Environmental and Regulatory Information Systems, Purdue University


I am contemplating buying one of those DAK (BSR) CDROMS and some
of the disks.  Has anyone out there bought one?  Did you like
it?
-- 
"Land of song, said the warrior bard,           Jim Heath
Though all the world betrays thee.
One sword, at least, thy rights shall guard, (The Minstrel Boy)
One faithful harp will praise thee."         (Thomas Moore)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.apps,comp.os.msdos.misc
From: juergenb@ecs.comm.mot.com (Juergen Bartels)
Subject: Clock-Speed-Switch doesn't work with EMM386
Organization: eng
Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1992 11:17:09 GMT

I have a '486 33 Mhz compatible. This has a switch to change the
CPU clock to 16 or 33 Mhz. This switch does not work when EMM386
is loaded. I only use EMM386 for UMB. EMS is disabled.

BIOS is made by AMI.

Anyone out there who knows the solution? Maybe I need a BIOS update?

Jurgen


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From: jfreter@triton.unm.edu (The Myth)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.apps
Subject: Re: SSTOR and Stacker question
Date: 23 Jul 92 16:26:12 GMT
Organization: University of New Mexico, Albuquerque

In article <14kfcdINNde1@agate.berkeley.edu> yuval@violet.berkeley.edu (Yuval Oren;B1E;26199;8436073;ZA87) writes:

I write:

>>Similar process for SuperStor.  One good thing about backing up the big file,
>>only (and not the physical drive), is that you can restore to any hard drive,
>>even one without SuperStor installed.  These programs and compressed files
>>are totally invisible to most disk I/O.  So, you can copy a file from a
>>compressed disk to a floppy and have the floppy version be totally uncomp-
>>ressed.
>
Yuval writes:

>Now I'm confused. What exactly is the big file on my "drive d:"? Say I
>back it up, and then my hard disk dies. So I want to restore it to a
>new one without installing Stacker on it. What would restoring this
>one file do? Would it just give me a big file on my new hard drive?
>How would I get to my files. And if I just restore Drive C, would that
>give me my files in compressed format?
>
>
When you restore that big file, you get it back.  All you have to do to
re-access the file is re-load the proper drivers into RAM.  That big file
contains all the files that you have compressed.  Basically what happens
is that the files you write to the disk are examined by the drivers.  The
drivers compress the files and store them more closely together (cluster
sizes are effectively smaller).  The net effect is that files that are
big in size take up fewer real sectors/clusters on the hard-disk.  There
is no easy way to tell exactly how big the compressed files are (without
using a calculator), since DOS thinks that the hard drive is around 2
times bigger.
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.apps
Subject: Help needed with CONEX
From: a_millsbs@ccsvax.sfasu.edu
Date: 30 Jul 92 16:50:00 CST
Organization: Stephen F. Austin State University

Has anyone out there used the PD terminal program CONEX?

I am trying to get some ket redefinition done with this and I just cant seem to
get it right.  The english docs are REAL sparse and I dont know german so I am
just muddling through.

ANY help will be greatly appreciated.

Thanks in advance,

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Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.apps
From: wright@epx.cis.umn.edu (Mark Wright)
Subject: Re: Stacker and Borland C++ 3.1
Organization: University of Minnesota
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1992 23:30:54 GMT

In article <2932@accucx.cc.ruu.nl> nevries@accucx.cc.ruu.nl (Nico E de Vries) writes:
>In <cee1.712010166@Isis.MsState.Edu> cee1@ra.msstate.edu (Charles Evans) writes:
>
>>wright@epx.cis.umn.edu () writes:
>
>>>Does anyone out there have Borland's C++ v3.1 (the 41 meg one!) on a "stacked"
>>>hard drive?  How much space does it end up using?  Will a stacked 40 meg drive
>>>be large enough?
>
>>>Mark Wright
>
>>Straight from Borland Customer Help:
>>Hard Disk Requirements:
>> 
>>42Mb for 2k allocation units
>>48Mb for 4k allocation units
>>57Mb for 8K allocation units <--- I suppose this is Stacker.
>
>No it isn't. Stacker does use data compression to reduce the actual
>disk space usage significantly. Stacker has an avarage compression
>of 1:2, due to the large amount of good compressible and small files
>a use of 21Mb or less is expectable for BC++ 3.1 on a stacked drive.
>Also notice one can save lots of HD space by not installing all of
>it.
>
>>Charles E. Evans
>
>
>Nico E. de Vries
>_ _
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> o   This text reflects MY opinions, not that of my employer BITECH.      
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>     Don't waste your time on complaining about my hopeless typostyle.
>
>"Unfortunately, the current generation of mail programs do not have checkers
> to see if the sender knows what he is talking about" (A.S. Tanenbaum)

Well, I just went out and did it.  Unfortunatly, Stacker won't tell me
how much space my files are really taking up, and SDIR doesn't handle
subdirectories, so I can't get an overall compression ratio for the whole
package (without sitting down and figuring it out anyway).  But just 
checking some of the directories it looks like Borland C++ 3.1 averages
around a compression ratio of 2:1 (just like Stacker claims).  By only
installing the DOS options, and by leaving off TASM and the profiler
I managed to pare it down to 16 meg (including Turbo Vision!), which I
figure only takes up around 8 megs of actual disk space.
	Anyway, if anyone cares, it looks like using Stacker will allow
those of us with only 40 meg HD's to use Borland's spiffy new compiler.

Mark Wright
wright@epx.cis.umn.edu
From: mayer@andromeda.rutgers.edu (Warren Mayer)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.apps
Subject: Info Request: DOS dbms that can handle ~150,000 records with video
Summary: I need info on a DBMS that can handle both text and image records
Keywords: video image dbms database
Date: 24 Jul 92 14:40:44 GMT
Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J.

I am posting this for a friend who lacks internet access.

We are both looking for a database management program which can handle upwards
of 150,000 records. These records will be a mix of text and video/scanned
images.  The program will be used in a museum for collections management and
the curators wish to store text descriptions along with a color photograph
(either scanned or taken via video) of the object. This program MUST meet the
following criteria:

* must handle the various types of data: text and video
* must run on either DOS or Windows
* MUST be fast in searching/retrieving/updating/sorting of the records
* must have flexible reporting features and formats (reports generated for
  Annual Reports, etc.)
* must be able to be used by both programmers and non-programmers alike

Please send any information to me directly:  mayer@andromeda.rutgers.edu
and/or post to this group. 

AdTHANKSvance

Warren Mayer
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Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.apps
From: bhatiasa@uther.calvin.edu (Sanjay G. Bhatia)
Subject: URGENTLY NEEDED .. PL. READ THIS ONE
Organization: Calvin College
Date: Fri, 31 Jul 1992 06:50:56 GMT


hI EVERYONE,
	This may not be the right place for me to announce this one but I really need this one desperately.
	I am looking for the game, PACMAN for Ms Windows or MS DOS.  I am sure that you have an idea of what I am looking for so if you have it, or know an ftp site where I can get it at, PLEASE do write to me and pass it on.
	Thanks  a lot

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Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.apps
From: alk2p@fermi.clas.Virginia.EDU 
Subject: AACK! Deleted *.* !
Organization: University of Virginia
Date: Thu, 30 Jul 1992 21:02:04 GMT

Are there public domain Norton-like undelete functions available
for a 286?

Worried in Virginia

Please e-mail
alk2p@virginia.edu




Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.apps
From: sjlai@fcit-c1.fcit.monash.edu.au (SIMON LAI)
Subject: WordPerfect v5.1 - 2 problems
Summary: Assistance with WordPerfect v5.1 wanted
Organization: FCIT, Monash University 
Date: Tue, 28 Jul 1992 04:24:11 GMT


I've used 5.1 for some time now (since its inception).  Have persevered with 
the crashes and strange behavior, though I'm beginning to think its time to 
change to something like TeX or similar.

Anyhow here are the problems, any help appreciated.

1)  When printing to a postcript printer via our Novell fileserver and
    the CAPTURE command, get a lot of Postcript Exception error messages.
    Sometimes this happens sometimes it doesn't.  Does not seem to be 
    related to the complexity of the document.

2)  Have just started to use Parallel-Protected columns for a thesis. Inside 
    these columns I can't seem to be able to create a footnote or a table.
    Eventually got around the table problem by creating a text box
    and creating a table inside that text box.  This worked fine for about
    5 minutes, but when moving the text box around, 5.1 hung (surprise,
    surprise).

Once again, help appreciated.

Simon "Thinking Seriously of Changing to something else" Lai.
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.apps
From: leary@progress.COM (James Leary)
Subject: Re: Stacker and Borland C++ 3.1
Organization: Progress Software Corp.
Date: Fri, 24 Jul 1992 20:58:09 GMT

wright@epx.cis.umn.edu () writes:

>Does anyone out there have Borland's C++ v3.1 (the 41 meg one!) on a "stacked"
>hard drive?  How much space does it end up using?  Will a stacked 40 meg drive
>be large enough?

I use Stacker on a 130MB drive (it roughly converts to about 210MB).  Borland C++ 3.1 as I remember the installation took up about 42MB; with a stacker partition, you are probably looking at over half your partition - not a lot of space.
I can tell you, however, that Stacker did a nice job compressing the Borland files.  hope this helps.

Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.apps,comp.os.msdos.programmer,comp.editor
From: juergenb@ecs.comm.mot.com (Juergen Bartels)
Subject: Re: Looking for good binary editor
Organization: eng
Distribution: usa
Date: Fri, 31 Jul 1992 11:44:59 GMT

In article <bs62qj.e8a@wang.com> pvr@wang.com (Peter Reilley) writes:
>
>	BEAV (Binary Editor And Viewer), is a full featured binary file 
>editor.	  Just about any operation that you could want to do to a binary 
>file is possible with BEAV.   You can insert or delete in the middle of 
>a file thereby changing it's size.   You can edit multiple files in 
>multiple windows and cut and paste between them.   You can display and 
>edit data in hex, octal, decimal, binary, ascii, or ebcdic formats.   You 
>can display data in byte, word, or long word formats in either Intel or 
>Motorola byte ordering.   You can send the formatted display mode to a 
>file or printer.

I recently check BEAV because I was looking also for an editor without
the 256 byte page behaviour. BEAV looked right, however the command key
handling is next to impossible. I needed to dig deep into the manual to find
out how to operate it. For a long time this was the first program I could
not find to exit it. I finally rebooted the PC. Many editors use easy
commands at least for simple opereations, but not BEAV.

My result: I deleted BEAV and still use FM. I don't need the advanced
           features anyway.

Jurgen


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Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.apps
From: wright@epx.cis.umn.edu ()
Subject: Stacker and Borland C++ 3.1
Summary: How much space does a STACKED Bor 3.1 take up
Organization: University of Minnesota
Date: Fri, 24 Jul 1992 06:15:09 GMT

Does anyone out there have Borland's C++ v3.1 (the 41 meg one!) on a "stacked"
hard drive?  How much space does it end up using?  Will a stacked 40 meg drive
be large enough?

Mark Wright
wright@epx.cis.umn.edu
From: news@comlab.ox.ac.uk
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.apps
Subject: Turbo C 2.00 compiler
Summary: Possible bug in fwrite?
Keywords: Turbo C compiler
Date: 27 Jul 92 12:50:12 GMT
Organization: Oxford University Computing Laboratory, UK

(Clenched teeth question)
Does anyone know if the Turbo C 2.00 libraries have a bug in fwrite or
fread or fstat?

Detail: I wasn't able to run my compilation of the SSPELL14.ZIP
sources (simtel and mirrors) because of a consistent system crash
somewhere in a pair of short routines which do nothing but fwrite, fstat and
fread. Of course I can't tell which of these really is buggy
because of the bug, but I can work around it. The sources are
guaranteed by the author to be compilable under MICROSOFT C, and are
supposed to be portable, so he and I both would like to know. I have
successfully compiled and run them under K&R unix compilers.

I'd just like to know for sure, before I sue for wasted time.

Autres b\^etes noires:
And while we're on the subject of Turbo C compilation - does anyone
know (a) if the system(command) call supports (1) redirects (2) pipes in the
comamnd string sent to the OS? I vaguely recall a posting in some
related newsgroup on a library to support these features, so I suspect
not?

And (b) I see that the spawnxx(path,arg0,..) functions pass the complete
argument list to the called procedure, *including arg zero*. So that might
answer a thread a while back about how to call a program and fool it into
thinking its name is different. But the examples in the manual seem
contradictory here. Anyone know what the protocol really is?

Peter <ptb@uk.ac.ox.comlab>
From: ptb@prg.ox.ac.uk (Peter Breuer)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.apps
Subject: Re: LISTS OF SHAREWARE PROGRAMS????
Summary: look in those same archive sites
Keywords: list software
Date: 24 Jul 92 15:21:27 GMT
Reply-To: ptb@prg.ox.ac.uk (Peter Breuer)
Organization: Oxford University Computing Laboratory, UK

In article <BruFzy.H14@news.cso.uiuc.edu> ritley@uiucmrl.bitnet () writes:
> I know there are many sites which maintain programs for the  PCs
>available via 'anonymous-ftp,' and I know there is a database utility
>(ARCHIE.MCGILL.CA, etc.) which can provide information
>about which 'ftp' sites have which programs.  However, it would be
>nice if there were a list of what shareware programs are available and
>what all they do.

A) Try looking _IN_ any of those selfsame achive sites! The top level
directory either contains a list like

	full-archive-list.Z (that's on uk.ac.ic.doc.src)
	or has a README telling you where the lists are, what format
	they are in, how to read them, etc.
or

B) read comp.binaries.ibm.pc.archives for monthly listings of new
material from several  archive moderators.

Yours, bewildered,
Peter
Xref: sparky comp.os.msdos.apps:4129 comp.os.ms-windows.apps:1533
From: shani@GENIUS.TAU.AC.IL (Oren Shani)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.apps,comp.os.ms-windows.apps
Subject: Looking for demo generators
Date: 28 Jul 92 08:22:14 GMT
Organization: Faculty of Engineering, Tel Aviv University

Hello. I am looking for demo generation applications, i.e programs that
generate some sort of animation movies, etc. I know that there is something
called "storyboard" and that are better things... so I would like to know
what's out there.

Thanks,


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Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.apps
From: w8sdz@tacom-emh1.army.mil (Keith Petersen)
Subject: Re: Wanted: Free RAM
Organization: The SIMTEL20 Archives
Date: Tue, 21 Jul 1992 04:54:24 GMT

visbieda@ubvmsb.cc.buffalo.edu (Christopher Bieda) writes:
>lmathews@lonestar.utsa.edu (Leanthony R. Mathews) writes...
>
>>I'm looking for a shareware or freeware program for the IBM
>>which will simulate ext or exp memory from the hard disk.
>
>Hmmm.  PC Magazine has long offered a freeware driver called EMS40.SYS that
>will emulate expanded memory on a hard drive.  Now, finding it will be the
>challenge, for most PC Magazine utilities are kept and distributed in
>compressed files...

The best place for files-wanted postings is comp.binaries.ibm.pc.wanted.
See comp.binaries.ibm.pc.archives for upload announcements.

WSMR-SIMTEL20.ARMY.MIL directory PD1:<MSDOS.SYSUTL>
 Filename   Type Length   Date    Description
==============================================
EMS40V11.ARC  B   34615  900222  Driver: use extended memory as EMS 4.0 memory

An index of all files in the SIMTEL20 MS-DOS collection is available
in two formats:

Directory PD1:<MSDOS.FILEDOCS>
 Filename   Type  Description
==============================================
SIMIBM.ARC    B   Comma-delim list of all MSDOS files w/descrip.
SIMLIST.ARC   B   Text format list of all MSDOS files w/descrip.

These files are updated weekly.  See AAAREAD.ME in that directory
for details.

SIMTEL20 files are also available from mirror sites OAK.Oakland.Edu
(141.210.10.117), wuarchive.wustl.edu (128.252.135.4), ftp.uu.net
(137.39.1.9), nic.funet.fi (128.214.6.100), src.doc.ic.ac.uk
(146.169.3.7) or archie.au (139.130.4.6), by e-mail through the
BITNET/EARN file servers, or by uucp from UUNET's 1-900-GOT-SRCS.
See UUNET file uunet!~/info/archive-help for details.

OAK.Oakland.Edu is the most up-to-date mirror because I maintain it,
in addition to my duties at SIMTEL20.  I run OAK's mirror program
whenever new files are added at SIMTEL20.

Keith
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