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From: murf@spike.ucar.edu (John Murphy)
Subject: Re: Speaker.drv doesn't work
Organization: COMET/Univ. Corporation for Atmospheric Research, Boulder  CO
Date: Fri, 10 Apr 1992 15:31:14 GMT

In article <kua59cINNiqm@exodus.Eng.Sun.COM> aliceb@tea4two.Eng.Sun.COM (Alice Taylor) writes:
>I downloaded speak.exe from Genie and tried it out.  I installed
>it correctly and in the sounds dialog box all of the events, such
>as exclamation appear.  However, none of the sounds play from
>here or in the setup drivers box or when I run sound recorder.
>Strangely, on occassion, I do get a sound when Windows starts.
>I have no other sound board or sound device such as Wired for
>Sound.  386/25, 4mb, standard mode.
>
>Thanks in advance for any help or ideas.
>
>Brad Taylor (using Alice's account)

The reason Microsoft didn't distribute the speaker driver with win 3.1 
is that they couldnt make it work with every PC.  On about 10% of all
the machines that were tested, the speaker.drv either doesn't work at
all or works incorrectly.


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From: reza@Voyager.me.utexas.edu (Alireza Vali)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: W4W 2.0 & Grammatik Windows 2.0 incompatibility
Keywords: W4W 2.0,Grammatik Windows 2.0
Date: 7 Apr 92 00:33:43 GMT
Organization: Center for Space Research Imaging Lab, University of Texas at Austin

In article <1992Mar27.190318.10550@den.mmc.com> rarmstro@bigsky.den.mmc.com (Richard Armstrong) writes:
>In article <1992Mar26.204235.16883@midway.uchicago.edu>, berto@cicero.spc.uchicago.edu (Robert Osterlund) writes:
>|> With W4W 2.0, when I load the GMKWORD.DOC file from Grammatik for Windows,
>|> then try to install the Grammatik and FullSave menu options, it chokes
>
[stuff deleted]
>
>Bingo. I ordered 2.0 when I purchased MS Word for Windows, only to be
>as disappointed as you.  The only real workaround is to use Save-as,
>and save it in RTF (Rich Text Format). Then set Grammatik so that it
>
[more stuff deleted]
>
>All comments are hereby disclaimed.
>Richard Armstrong                Email:rarmstro@t4cma-gw.den.mmc.com



Forgive me for asking the obvious question.  Why not simply use the built
in grammer checker embedded in W4W 2.0?  Is it not adequate?  I've been
using it and have found it quite helpful and satisfactory.  If there is
any advantage in using Grammatik or any disadvantage in using the embedded
W4W grammar checker, I would be very interested in hearing about it.



From: calloway@hplvec.LVLD.HP.COM (Frank Calloway)
Date: Wed, 8 Apr 1992 12:42:39 GMT
Subject: Re: My opinion on 3.1
Organization: Hewlett-Packard Co., Loveland, CO
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms

Another opinion:  I installed Windows 3.1 yesterday and have yet to find
anything disappointing about it.  With a couple of *very minor* exceptions,
everythings works fine.  It's faster than 3.0, has some new features that
I'm finding useful (your mileage may vary on this one, of course), and
to me was well worth the $50.

Frank Calloway
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
From: ramzi@tigger.Colorado.EDU (Ramzi Al-Majid)
Subject: QEMM and WINDOWS HATE EACH OTHER ???
Keywords: n
Organization: University of Colorado, Boulder
Date: Sat, 11 Apr 1992 03:53:11 GMT

I am running QEMMand Windoes 3.0. Sometimes when I run a dos application
from within Windows, the screen blanks and then I get a message saying that
I need to remove QEMM and it asks me if I'd like to continue or reboot but
it will only respond to reboot. 

Any idea what is going on???

Thanks.

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From: linville@fritz.catt.ncsu.edu (John W. Linville)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: Windows 3.1 Resource Kit - is this useful?
Date: 15 Apr 92 00:06:59 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: NCSU CATT Prog

In article <1044@saxony.pa.reuter.COM> tar@pa.reuter.COM (Dan Tarnower) writes:
>And as far as so called "user-friendliness".  The reality is that
>computers have a level of complexity that no interface can fully
>eliminate.  As long as different people have different system
>configurations, different needs, and just the right to have things
>the way they want, individual configuration is required.

>John, you could go off on your own, and build a complicated environment,
>and try to sell it to people with the promise that it would only work
>on one hardware/software configuration of your choosing, and they can
>only use your choices of operation.  However, I don't think you'll make
>much of a living at it.

The point that I was trying to make is that installing Windows and making it
work with custom setups is not a job for the novice user.  Microsoft knows
this and that is why they offer the 'Resource Kit' for $20.  Yet, at the same
time Windows is touted for its ease of use and installation.

All of the tuning and tweaking of parameters I have done in OS/2 has been out
of having nothing better to do after all my work was done.  All of the tuning
I did under Windows was out of needing a better/faster/more stable environment
so that my work COULD get done.

John W. Linville



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From: twong@civil.ubc.ca (Thomas Wong)
Subject: Microsoft Publisher
Organization: Dept. of Civil Engineering, U.B.C., Vancouver, B.C., Canada
Date: Thu, 9 Apr 1992 22:08:23 GMT

Hello all. I'm seeking experience from those of you out there that uses
Miscrosoft Publisher. I have been looking for a package to print greetinng
cards or B'day cards, Thank yous.....etc. And I have seen Print Shop and
Print Manager. But alas, they are really made for dot matrix printers
and the print quality is very bad compared to what I can do on my laser
printer. But someone else mentioned that he's heard Publisher creates
greeting cards as well but had no experience with it. So my question
is, can it be done? How easily? Does it work like Print Shop where
all you have to do is define a picture for the cover, choose a border
style, type in some text, and do the same thing for the inside, and
away it goes, creating the card for you, so that all that needs done
afterwards is fold the paper up? I can use a drawing program but
how do I create say the border, and take care of the dimensions of
where everything is? It's easy enough to import clip arts and so
forth but the border creation and object alignments are very hard if
not too time consuming to do by hand. So it'd be great if Publisher
can do such a thing and function like Print Shop. And yet take
advantage of the resolution of my 300dpi laser printer.
Thanks in advance.

Thomas.
From: daveb@merlin.wpd.sgi.com (Dave Babcock)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Boo Hiss MicroSoft
Keywords: Marketing Scam
Date: 7 Apr 92 15:39:01 GMT
Article-I.D.: dragon.j8h2b9o
Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc.

Well my copy of Windows 3.1 didn't arrive on Monday by 10am as promised.

I called Microsoft (to get the Air Bill) and then Federal Express.  FedEx
told me it was shipped "ECONOMY" and in no way would it have gotten to me
by Monday 10am.  It will be delivered by Wednesday 4:30pm.

    Will I switch to OS/2?  No way, I'm a commited Windows developer/user.

    Will two days make much difference?  No.

    Would I have bought it at Egghead had I known the true delivery date?
    Possibly.

I know that my $8.50 shipping doesn't cover the full shipping cost and that
the upgrade order form only promised 4 - 6 weeks delivery.  But when I placed
the order I was told it was "guaranteed to be delivered by 10am Monday 4/6".

My gripe is that MicroSoft made a big deal and got a lot of free press on
the "All pre-ordered upgrades will arrive by 10am Monday" announcement.

It was a lie.

They didn't ship the upgrades (or at least mine and several other people I
know of) such that they could arrive as promised.  MicroSoft should get as
much press coverage over this "Marketing Scam" as they did over the original
announcement.

When IBM promises to deliver OS/2 by a certain date I know not to believe it.
When MicroSoft promises something I used to believe them.  I thought they had
more class.

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From: halderen@research.ptt.nl
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: MS Draw - WfW 4.0 - Postscript Problem
Date: 8 Apr 92 12:53:32 GMT

Dear Windows users,
 
I have been having difficulties with using the MS Draw program that came
with Word for Windows 2.0. Sometimes when i use dotted or dashed lines
in a drawing the whole picture suddenly becomes dotted or dashed. This
only happens when i print the picture on a Postscript printer. The picture
looks just fine on screen and on matrix-printers.
 
Does anyone else have this problem? I have already tried the postscript
drivers version 3.4, 3.4A and 3.4B. Nothing works though. Microsoft told
me that there could be a problem with my video driver (TRIDENT 8900c), but
i really cannot imagine that this the problem.
 
Alex Reijnierse
PTT Research Holland
email: A.A.Reijnierse@research.ptt.nl
From: joel@upchrch.UUCP (Joel Upchurch  )
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: Multimedia Periphs for 3.1
Date: Thu, 09 Apr 92 04:41:39 EDT
Organization: Upchurch Computer Consulting, Orlando FL

mjohnsto@jenny.shearson.com (Mike Johnston) writes:

> 
> Now that Win 3.1 is out and it has some support for Multimedia I'd
> like to get the peripherals that will enable me to use this nifty 
> feature. Getting a SoundBlaster Pro is almost a forgone conclusion
> but I wonder WHICH CD-ROM drive I should purchase. 
> 
> Does anyone have some recommendations?

The new NEC M Series are the fastest on the market by a long shot,
but if I had the money I'd spring for the Pioneer 6-CD Changer.
Changing CDs by hand all the time gets old real fast, even if you
have caddies for all of them. I sometimes get flashbacks to my
old Apple II. The cheapest prices on the Pioneers is around a grand.

(If your mail bounces use the address below. My map entry is new.)
Joel Upchurch/Upchurch Computer Consulting/718 Galsworthy/Orlando, FL 32809
joel@peora.ccur.com {uiucuxc,hoptoad,petsd,ucf-cs}!peora!joel (407) 859-0982
From: Darla@cup.portal.com (Kuby - Downs)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: Win 3.1
Date: 6 Apr 92 00:53:16 GMT
Organization: The Portal System (TM)

Microsoft's advertising deceitful? Well I hope not! I've invested a fortune
in software already!  I've read on this net that WFW 2.0 is NOT compatable
with the 3.1 Windows upgrade. If this is true, why haven't we heard this
0efore now?  Do you mean to tell me that Microsoft didn't even test it's
own products on 3.1? I find that very hard to believe.

>This is from the March 23rd issue of PC WEEK.
>It includes a list of software that "... may
>experience application errors, problems resizing
>windows and printing files.  User will either
>have to go to the application vendors to obtain
>upgrades or have to change system configuration
>options ...."

Also included on this list was PC Tools v7.1!  Can someone
tell me why in the ham sandwich I should spend $50.00 to
upgrade to 3.1 just so I can have MORE problems.. NO THANKS!


               Darla

         darla@cup.portal.com

 
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms,comp.apps.spreadsheets
From: tanu@beach.csulb.edu (     Tanu Kartawiria)
Subject: Re: Excel - How do you implement this simple functionality?
Organization: Cal State Long Beach
Date: Thu, 16 Apr 1992 06:20:29 GMT

In article <15395@drutx.ATT.COM> dfh@dwx3bs.att.com (D442-D. F. Haertig (Dave) x3040) writes:

>  I have what I think is a simple algorithm for Excel, but I can't seem
>  to get it right no matter what I do.  I am trying to count the number
>  of 7's in a range (at least in my simplified example here).  Any suggestions
>  would be appreciated.
>
>  What I have tried so far is a function macro (detailed below).  I pass the
>  macro a range ("tcol").  The macro is attempting to use cell A1 as a counter
>  for the number of 7's.  It then returns the counter upon completion.  Obviously,
>  cell A7 is not correct -- Excel doesn't like "A1 = A1 + 1" -- I wouldn't
>  expect it to either, this pseudo-syntax is just to illustrate what I am
>  trying to accomplish.
>  ....

If I understand you correctly, you don't need any macro to do that:
To count the number '7's in a range do this:
={sum(if(A1:D5)=7,1,0)}
Don't enter the curly bracket in the formula, instead hit <Ctrl-Enter>
in Windows or Command-Enter in Macintosh to enter this formula as ARRAY.

Hope it helps,
-- 
-tanu-
tanu@beach.csulb.edu
CSULB LIB LAB
From: andyross@infopls.chi.il.us (Andrew Rossmann)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Win 3.1 mostly OK here
Date: Sun, 12 Apr 92 20:07:26 CDT
Organization: INFOPLUS support, Wheeling, IL

  So far, I've had no serious problems with Win 3.1. I did an upgrade to
the same directory. ATM and TrueType get along fine. Things defintely do
seem to go faster.

  Of course, there were a few minor glitches:

  IdleWild 2.0 (screen saver that comes with the Entertainment Packs)
    The 'active' icon doesn't always work. Most often only the name is
visible. Sometimes the miniature screen works, but the icon is still
absent. Every once in awhile, it shows up complete. The saver itself works
fine.

  FM Player, driver version 1.00
    This program plays AdLib songs. It BOMBS (totally locks up the
computer, need to hit RESET) with an error message. The message varies.

  WinFract 16.11.
    At first it wouldn't work. It would launch, but nothing showed up. Task
Manager showed it there, but no icon or screen. For no apparent reason, it
now seems to work!!

  ATI VGA Wonder XL drivers
    I downloaded the drivers from ATI's BBS. Even though I had a 9600 baud
connection, SEVERE line noise made the modems drop to 4800. I ended up with
a 240 cps transfer rate.
    The README.1ST and the ZIP comment screen seem to say they are the
accelerator drivers. The self extracting .EXE (an LHARC file) and the
Install files are actually the VGA ones, though.
   The setup includes small and large font setups for ALL video modes,
including 640x480x16!  (it requires 512K, and may be faster than the stock
VGA.)  I noticed one quirk, the 640x480x32K Small Font driver seems to be
setting the font used for icon labels and such wrong.  It is much too big,
and is the same size as the 'Large' font setting.  The setup file is
correct, as far as I can tell. Also, SYSTEM.INI shows all of the fonts
being VGA.
  There is an entry for 800x600x32K commented out, but it doesn't work on
my card.
  The installation often wanted to find something on Windows disk #2, but
couldn't find it. I tried different ones, and it was on #1. I have the 1.4M
disks, if anyone wonders.

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Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
From: mjohnsto@jenny.shearson.com (Mike Johnston)
Subject: Multimedia Periphs for 3.1
Organization: Lehman Brothers
Date: Mon, 6 Apr 1992 17:03:11 GMT


Now that Win 3.1 is out and it has some support for Multimedia I'd
like to get the peripherals that will enable me to use this nifty 
feature. Getting a SoundBlaster Pro is almost a forgone conclusion
but I wonder WHICH CD-ROM drive I should purchase. 

Does anyone have some recommendations?

MJ
--
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Lehman Brothers         (212) 464-3061
"I was a reporter, and this worried me a great deal and I could not understand
how the devil I had gotten myself into such a fix." - Hesse
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
From: flicker@caen.engin.umich.edu (Scott Gregory Flicker)
Subject: Re: Help needed on WFW Equation
Date: Mon, 06 Apr 92 17:58:06 EDT
Organization: University of Michigan Engineering, Ann Arbor
Keywords: How to put equation numbers ???

In article <1992Mar31.185658.13326@gn.ecn.purdue.edu> ajun@gn.ecn.purdue.edu (Alexander W. Jun) writes:
>As a LATEX user, putting equations in WFW2.0 seems little more complicated
>to me.  When I use equation editor and embed the equation into the document,
>the usual process is that I center justify them and put equation numbers.
>But the problem is that I can not right justify the equation numbers with
>center justified equations...  How would I be able to get this?  Putting
>center justified equation with an equation number at the right had side of
>the  same line with the equation?  This is a very simple, automatic process in
>any TEX or TROFF based technical word processing, but without the same features
>about this equation numbering, WFW2.0 is not much of use for a technical word
>processing, like thesis or journal papers.....   ANY help on this subject is
>greatly appreciated.  Thank you in advance.
>

I have been able to center justify embedded equations and right justify equation
numbers.  You can even autonumber equations using a seq field.  The key is to 
use the proper tabs settings. you must add both tab marks.  You may also have
to place your right justified tab a little inside the right margin.  You can also
with very little effort create a wordbasic macro to properly format embedded equations
and autonumber.  


--
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Department of Chemical Engineering      
University of Michigan
Email   Flicker@caen.engin.umich.edu
From: bjorn@ludd.luth.se (Bjorn Fahller)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: Why I'm sticking with Windows
Date: 15 Apr 92 21:27:59 GMT
Article-I.D.: ludd.1992Apr15.212759.14520
Organization: Lule} H|gskolas datorf|rening ( Ludd )

In <1992Apr15.193548.3007@alw.nih.gov> donnel@helix.nih.gov (Donald A. Lehn) writes:

>Hey, I think I finally came up with a good reason to get my free OS/2 2.0
>upgrade.  (From the OS/2 1.3 version that came bundled with my PS/2 which I
>threw in the trash long ago.)  Perhaps when NT is released, Microsoft will
>give me a very big discount for trading in OS/2 2.0.  I think I'll get
>the free upgrade and stick it on my top shelf right next to my copies of IBM's
>Personal Editor, Professional Editor, Displaywrite, Filing Assistant and
>empty OS/2 1.3 binder where the first page will be avaliable for ripping
>out to send to Microsoft for my NT upgrade.  ;-)

Hmm. But then you'll have to upgrade your computer the very way you couldn't
afford yesterday. The only diff is that you'll have to upgrade it a bit
more... Weird this. And of course the number of apps (being one of the major
arguments against OS/2) being less. But of course you can use ALL those
winNT programs on the shelves (Sorry for the sarcasm, but I have a feeling
I heard someone mentione something such a month or two before release of
OS/2).

>--
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Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
From: pbright@ils.nwu.edu (Paul Brightbill)
Subject: HCI Guidelines in windows
Organization: Northwestern University
Date: Wed, 8 Apr 1992 21:14:07 GMT

Does anyone know if MicroSoft or some other group has come out with any press
releases or published any materials concerning Human Computer Interface
Guidelines in a Windows environment?  I'm interested in any information that
would be available.  PB  (pbright@ils.nwu.edu)
From: garcia-c@boa.cis.ohio-state.edu (carlos ernesto garcia)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: 3.1 PC Speaker
Date: 10 Apr 92 18:20:26 GMT
Organization: The Ohio State University, Department of Computer and Information Science

In article <945@esosun.UUCP> tanida@forseti.css.gov (Tom Tanida) writes:
>In article <odt7Iiu00YVXI2lV47@andrew.cmu.edu>, cj00+@andrew (Carl B Jabido) writes:
>>Okay, I've got the driver, but when does Windows actually use the
>>sounds?  I get exclamation, question boxes all the time, but none play
>>the sounds I configured.  One program, WinDock, which was designed for
>>3.1 (really well designed, I'm gonna register as soon as I scrape up the
>>dough), does use the sounds.  Does this mean that the program has to be
>>designed for 3.1?  If so, then why don't the sounds do anything in the
>>3.1 applets?
>
>Just because the dialog box has a big "?" in it doesn't mean the
>app programmer made the correct Win API system call that would generate
>the Win event which causes the sound to execute.  The API call has been
>there since Windows 2, I believe, but not everybody uses it- many
>design their own warning/query dialog boxes.  I hope you're at least
>getting sounds on startup and exit; that'll prove that it's working.
>
>-Tom
>tanida@esosun.css.gov

I have gotten the sounds to work.  I was just wondering is there any way
to create new events.  For example, opening and closing windows.  It would
be nice if one could define what ever events they would like.

Carlos
From: leadfoot@bigbootay.sw.stratus.com (Mark Curtis)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: Win 3.1 PC speaker MM driver?
Date: 9 Apr 92 00:25:26 GMT

In article <1992Apr8.160648.23577@beaver.cs.washington.edu>, bregel@cs.washington.edu (Aaron Bregel) writes:
|> In article <1992Apr8.024220.19380@crpmks.uucp> marcs@crpmks.uucp (Marc Snyder) writes:
|> >In article <198@bsc835bsc.edu> ehunt@bsc835bsc.edu (Eric Hunt) writes:
|> >>Does anyone know if Microsoft ever plans to, or has released previously in
|> >>the beta drops, a driver to allow .WAV files to be played through the regular
|> >>PC speaker?
|> >
|> >I dialed into the Microsoft BBS (the number listed on the back of that
|> >little pamphlet thing that came with Windows 3.1 -- with the tech support
|> >numbers on it) looking for something else, and found something called
|> >PCSPEAK.EXE (or something similar).  I downloaded it, installed it, and
|> 
|> It's called SPEAK.EXE.
|> 
|> >it lets you control how the speaker is toggled with interrupts.  Ah well,
|> >I said, I shut down Windows, and when I restarted it, I got the "Tada"
|> >music from my speaker.  Doesn't sound bad, but I'm still ordering my
|> >SoundBlaster Pro {8^).
|> 
|> You are limited to playing .WAV files through the Sound Recorder however but
|> it's better than no sound at all in my opinion.
|> 
It breaks sndtool.  Sndtool will not load its own PC speaker driver if
the MM PC speaker driver is loaded.  Sounder still works, so I don't know
what happened to sndtool.  Sndtool 2.4 gave me a GP error, 2.5 said it
couldn't load the driver said "Bad Karma".
From: john.will@satalink.com (John Will) 
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: RE: WHY I'M STICKING WITH
Date: 16 Apr 92 19:09:00 GMT
Distribution: world
Organization: SataLink Info Systems - Huntingdon Valley, PA - 215-364-3324
Reply-To: john.will@satalink.com (John Will) 

TO: donnel@helix.nih.gov
DA.Windows NT - The one operating system that fits all.

You really are a piece of work!  In the same paragraph you slam OS/2, an
operation system that's here and now, even with it's perceived faults, and
praise one of the most flagrant examples of vaporware that I've ever 
seen!  I hope your dreams come true, and you're stuck with Windows-NT,
you richly deserve it!
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