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From: jfreter@triton.unm.edu (The Myth)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
Subject: Re: Speeding up Windows
Date: 3 Sep 92 19:17:26 GMT
Organization: University of New Mexico, Albuquerque

In <1992Sep3.040823.9415@wam.umd.edu> macole@wam.umd.edu (Mario A. Cole) writes:

>Nope...Stacker compresses (or tries to) everything...whatever is on the stacker
>drive will have too be decompressed first...hence, any disk i/o operations will
>take a tad bit longer.  Of course, if you have files that are loaded in all at
>once..then you can save space by keeping them on the stacker drive.  I keep all
>of my windows apps on the stacker drive...except for windows itself and Norton
>Desktop.


Well, Stacker/Superstore/etc. don't always slow down disk I/O.  In some
cases it actually speeds things upCertain data file types (like
ascii, database, wordprocessing, and bit maps) get compressed up to 16:1
by these programs.  Decompression takes very little time to do, all the
computer has to do is replace short pieces of "code" with the real data.

My point is that if you're trying to read in a huge database into RAM
and you have a slower hard drive, you might actually be able to access
the data faster if its been compressed (i.e. time to read in a file
1/16th the size + time to expand file to normal length < time to read
in uncompressed file).  I have tried this with a 286/12 2 MB RAM and
found that accessing a database of names and addresses was about 20%
fatser when the data came from a superstore drive than it did when I
moved the file to the non-compressed section and uninstalled the driver.
From: matcsp@nuscc.nus.sg (Chan Shih-Ping)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
Subject: Looking for review of FrameMaker
Date: 26 Aug 92 00:55:21 GMT
Organization: National University of Singapore

Subject says almost all.  Is FrameMaker for windows already shipping?
Can someone post or e-mail a review? Thanks.
From: alu@cbnewsk.cb.att.com (Alan Lustiger)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
Subject: Where to get Win Help compiler?
Date: 26 Aug 92 17:37:57 GMT
Organization: AT&T Engineering Research Center

I need a copy of the Microsoft Windows Help Compiler. 
Microsoft sells a "Visual Basic Help Utility" for $50:
does this include the full Help Compiler? Is there
any other package out there that includes the Help
Compiler cheap? (I know that Doc-To-Help does, but that
costs $250.) 

Please e-mail me and I'll summarize if there is interest.
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From: sproles@pine.circa.ufl.edu (SPROLES)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc,comp.os.ms-windows.setup
Subject: Re: RAM drive under Windows
Keywords: RAMdrive
Date: 23 Aug 92 22:54:53 GMT
Reply-To: sproles@pine.circa.ufl.edu
Followup-To: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
Distribution: na
Organization: University of Florida  (ufl.edu)
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.3-4

>A while back, I posted a request about a RAM disk driver that
>would work under windows.
> 
>I got several responses, several of which suggested alternatives
>involving disk caching.  While I appreciate the suggestions, my
>situation really requires a RAM drive.
> 
>Anyone have any other suggestions?
> 
>Cal.

Cal, This month's (Sept,1992) issue of PC COmputing has an
article on RAM disks for Windows, starting on page 170.
 This sounds like what you asked about.

Good luck, 


Sproles@pine.circa.ufl.edu







Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc,alt.binaries.sounds.d,alt.binaries.sounds.misc,comp.sys.ibm.pc.soundcard
From: hieronym@informatik.uni-wuerzburg.de (Andreas Hieronymus)
Subject: Covox driver for windows 3.1
Originator: hieronym@dec5
Organization: University of Wuerzburg, Germany
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1992 13:32:12 GMT

Hi folks,

maybe this is an FAQ, but i'm not a frequently reader of these
newsgroups. (sorry :-))

My problem:

I need a driver for ms-windows 3.1, which supports a covox plug in the
parallel port. The plug is actually a simple D/A-converter. Many 
sound programms support this type of playing sounds via a parallel
port, e.g. modedit, stream tracker, playbwc, scoptrax. I hope there
is a driver for ms-windows 3.1 which supports covox to use the
multimedia extensions for playing e.g. midi-files. 

Can anybody give me a hint where to get this driver?

Thanks 
Andreas

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Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
From: bakalov@ac.wfunet.wfu.edu (Rudy M. Bakalov)
Subject: NEEDED QMS PS-1700 driver for Windows 3.1
Organization: Columbia University Center for Telecommunications Research
Keywords: needed, QMS
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1992 17:18:45 GMT
X-Posted-From: ac.wfunet.wfu.edu
X-Posted-Through: sol.ctr.columbia.edu


        Hi:
        I would appreciate of someone e-mail me or point me to driver
for QMS PS-1700 printer.
        The normal PostScript drivers work just fine but they cannot
control the resolution, the full duplex, and all of the neat features
of the printer.
        Thanks in advance.
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From: john.will@satalink.com (John Will) 
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
Subject: Re: Speeding up Windows
Date: 3 Sep 92 18:36:00 GMT
Distribution: world
Organization: Datamax/Satalink Connection * Ivyland, PA (215) 443-9434
Reply-To: john.will@satalink.com (John Will) 

MA.>Wouldn't putting Windows on a stacker drive speed up performance?  
  .
  .Nope...Stacker compresses (or tries to) everything...whatever is on the 
  .stacker drive will have too be decompressed first...hence, any disk 
  .i/o operations will take a tad bit longer.

You seem to conveniently ignore the fact that you're only reading about
60% as much data from the disk, assuming a typical Stacker compression.
On most 386 and above machines, software Stacker's overhead isn't really
noticeable, some folks actually claim an increase in disk access speed.
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From: Stephen Gibson
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
Subject: re: WinQVT 2.7 and SLIP
Keywords: slip winqvt
Date: 2 Sep 92 20:23:47 GMT
Article-I.D.: nic.1992Sep2.132348.2565
Organization: Sonoma State University, Rohnert Park, CA

I need the same info as well (need for a good SLIP driver).

Stephen Gibson
gibsonst@sonoma.edu
From: st_waldman@zodiac.dsto.oz.au
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
Subject: Re: Scientific Graphics Libraries
Date: 23 Aug 92 23:08:33 GMT
Organization: D.S.T.O. Aeronautical Research Laboratory

There is a library called DIG FOR WINDOWS that provides many different
types of graphs for plotting under Windows. It comes with C source code
in Microsoft/Borland flavours (you choose one or the other when you buy
it). It has support for 3-D wiremesh plots and hidden line plots. It does
linear, semilog, log/log, log plots of linear data, multiple Y-axes,
polar and smith charts.

It also comes in a DOS version, with support for various types of printers
and plotters. Support for different graphics cards is also provided in a
separate VID library.

The company with this product is

   Chirp Technical Services
   PO Box 551
   Del Mar
   CA 92014-0551
   USA
   Tel: +1 619 632 9510

They advertise in Dr Dobbs Journal, and I have also seen ith elsewhere.
Their software can also be purchased from The Connection mail order 
company.

Witold Waldman
WITOLD@HOTBLK.DSTO.GOV.AU
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
From: tony2@prefect.uucp (21131-gozdz)
Subject: Re: .sig
Organization: Bellcore, Livingston, NJ
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 92 23:41:42 GMT

In article <17u7u7INNg6d@darkstar.UCSC.EDU> banshee@cats.ucsc.edu (Wailer at the Gates of Dawn) writes:
>
                         [balast deleted]

>2,3,5,7,13,17,19,31,61,89,107,127,521,607....| banshee@ucscb.BITNET        |
        ^
Are you biased against 11? or just careless :^)

T.
Organization: University of Maine System
Date: Sunday, 30 Aug 1992 12:05:50 EDT
From: <IO70935@MAINE.MAINE.EDU>
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
Subject: Mapping User Coordinates

Looking for information on how to map a user coordinate system into the client
area in general. I working on a data acqusistion system for windows w/ a real t
ime display. How do I graph data between an integer x1,y1 and x2,y2. Any exampl
es or Referances would be very helpful.
                          <Tex>
From: carter@cemvax.cem.msu.edu (Tom Carter)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
Subject: Re: WNQVTNET - Help
Date: 27 Aug 92 21:38:25 GMT
Organization: Michigan State University, East Lansing Michigan


In article <sbjie.3.0@engr.psu.edu> sbjie@engr.psu.edu (Sanjay Joshi) writes:
>In article <17il3eINNp71@matt.ksu.ksu.edu> droufa@matt.ksu.ksu.edu (Donald J Roufa) writes:
>>Subject: Re: WNQVTNET - Help
>>From: droufa@matt.ksu.ksu.edu (Donald J Roufa)
>>Date: 27 Aug 1992 08:25:02 -0500
>>sbjie@engr.psu.edu (Sanjay Joshi) writes:
>>
>>>HI,
>>
>>>I am having some problems with using wnqvtnet, especially when using the
>>>gateway and namesever.  No matter what i specify to telnet it always
>>>logs me into the namesever.
>>
>>>Can someone using the namesever and gateway in thier qvt_tcp.rc file
>>>send me copy of the file, so i can see what i am doing wrong.
>>
>>>Also, I have been playing with version 2.1, is there a newer version
>>>around. and where can I get it.
>>
>>>Thanks,
>>
>>>sanjay joshi.
>>
>>
>>I have been using wnqvtnet for over a year and am quite happy with it.
>>The two additions that I would like to see them make involve expanding
>>the POP3 mail server to include a few more ammenities (such as the
>>ability to insert the message received during the editing of a reply)
>>and, although this is major, the ability to emulate an Xterminal.
>>From what you describe, I would bet that there are errors in your
>>"qvt_tcp.rc" file.  Finally, the current version of wnqvtnet is 2.7,
>>available on "ftp.cica.indiana.edu" in the subdirectory
>>"/pub/pc/win3/uploads".
>>
>>Don Roufa
>>-- 
>>    Don Roufa        DROUFA@MATT.KSU.KSU.EDU
>>Division of Biology  Kansas State Univ.   Manhattan, KS  66506           
>>
>>
>I looked in ftp.cica.indiana.edu, but could not find wnqvtnet version
>2.7. (infact i did not find any version of wnqvtnet).
>
>Any other ideas, where I should look.
>
>thanks,
>
>sanjay joshi.

It has recently been moved:

directory: \pub\pc\win3\util

file: qvtnet27.zip

Have a party! :)
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From: kevinz@storage.tandem.com (Kevin P. Ziegler)
Subject: Running graphical DOS apps in windows
Followup-To: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
Organization: Tandem Computers Inc.
Distribution: usa
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1992 22:57:04 GMT

I am have problems running most of my VGA DOS applications in Windows 3.1
using 386 enhanced mode.  All of the apps run fine full-screen, but when
I try to run them in separate windows I get an error message stating that
the applications can not run in the background or in a window.  I saw this
all the time using Windows 3.0, but I thought that Windows 3.1 was supposed
to allow graphical DOS applications to run in windows on the desktop.  The
weird thing is, when I use the standard video driver that came with Windows
3.1,
the applications DO run successfully in windows, but with the colors all
messed up (the driver is 16-color but the apps are 256-color).

Is this problem directly related to the video driver?  I have a Compudyne
1024
VGA card, which I believe is actually made by STB.  I've tried the new STB
video drivers for 3.1, but they give the same error.  If any of you STB
video
card users have any clue what is happening, I'd appreciate any help.
From: jegm@cody.esd.sgi.com (Jim Morris)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
Subject: New HP DeskJet Drivers are available for win3.1
Keywords: HP deskjet win3.1 drivers
Date: 31 Aug 92 19:17:31 GMT
Reply-To: jegm@esd.sgi.com
Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc.

The new drivers are available from HP. These are meant to fix the
win3.1 compatibility problems with various win3.1 Apps.

I saw them on CIS. Could someone upload them to an FTP site please??


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From: gt4627b@prism.gatech.EDU (gt4627b Matthew Kramer)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
Subject: George Bush in Ami-Pro 3.0 for Windows
Date: 27 Aug 92 16:57:25 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: Georgia Institute of Technology

In one of the files supplied with AmiPro 3.0 for Windows,
the message "RE-Elect George Bush" appears. Check it out with
a hex file dump.

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From: doug@hparc0.aus.hp.com (Doug Parsons)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
Subject: Re: Procomm/Windows & Zmodem
Date: 27 Aug 92 07:24:12 GMT
Organization: HP Australasian Response Centre (Melbourne)
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Well, another update... I've tried this on a 486/33U and have the same
problem.  Of course, I moved the stacker card into it, so that may be the
common denominator.  I'll try removing it when I can and try again.

Just seems plain stupid that Windows wouldn't temporarily halt the flow of
data through the serial ports when it does a disc io.  I'd a thought that's
why you tell it to use h/w and/or s/w handshaking.

douginoz.
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
From: psyhtjs@unicorn.nott.ac.uk (T.Sneath)
Subject: Re: Undocumented win.ini settings
Organization: Cripps Computing Centre, University of Nottingham
Date: Sat, 29 Aug 92 09:03:08 GMT

The Windows 3.1 Resource Kit is available from ftp.cica.indiana.edu in
directory /pub/pc/win3/wrk. (or from wuarchive.wustl.edu in the mirrors
subdirectory).

Regards,

Tim Sneath

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From: tfisher@CERIS.Purdue.EDU (Tom Fisher)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
Subject: Re: Cica.Cica.indiana.edu
Date: 3 Sep 92 13:56:19 GMT
Organization: Center for Environmental and Regulatory Information Systems, Purdue University

From article <3SEP199204085389@zeus.tamu.edu>, by css0860@zeus.tamu.edu (Steve Suehs - Switzerland Bound!):
> 
> 
> 
> Can someone tell me what the deal is with cica.cica.indiana.edu?
>
The deal is the address name changed.  The new name (and this is
not a typo) is ftp.cica.indiana.edu
From: scst52@csc.liv.ac.uk (Mr. A.M. Blanchard)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
Subject: TrueType fonts out of win\system
Date: 24 Aug 92 12:56:03 GMT
Organization: Computer Science, Liverpool University

I currently have over 300 TrueType fonts, thanks to Corel, which together
with their .FOT files makes my \WINDOWS\SYSTEM directory a bit crowded.
What I would like to know is this: I know it is possible to move fonts
out of the SYSTEM directory by specifying a path in the SYSTEM.INI entry,
but I am not sure whether:

    *  The font directory should be added to my path
    *  I can move both .FOT & .TTF files out of SYSTEM
    *  This will give a noticable performance boost (the crunch)

What I would like to do is have several font directories, classified by
type (ie symbol, serif, sans & decorative say) so that when I requested
a font Windows does not have to plow through >700 files to find it.  I
shall be using short directory names however, to keep WIN.INI compact.


Finally I have a few quickies about TrueType:

    *  Does Windows check that all the fonts are present when it starts
       up?  It seems to because I have sorted my directory using PC Tools
       to put .FOT & .TTF files at the end, with Windows supplied fonts
       first so Windows should load quicker (it doesn't).

    *  What *are* .FOT files?  They seem to be mini programs (MZ header)
       Couldn't they be combined into a single file?  I am loosing 3k
       of disk space on each file (OK, 1Mb ain't much) which is a bit of
       a waste.

Mail prefered

Thanks,

   Andy

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Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
From: linstee@dutecaj.et.tudelft.nl (Erik van Linstee)
Subject: Re: Windows == OS
Organization: Delft University of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1992 16:30:29 GMT

heathh@cco.caltech.edu (Heath Ian Hunnicutt) writes:

>tguez@jade.tufts.edu (Name) writes:

>>In article <1992Aug25.040007.5898@cco.caltech.edu> heathh@cco.caltech.edu (Heath Ian Hunnicutt) writes:

>>Well it was my guess that there is something like malloc underneath.
>>You put it nicely, "internal abstraction," everythig in windows API
>>seemed to be aimed at an "internal abstraction." (I might add that
>>they done a pertty good job at that).  However, this is nothing more
>>than the definition of over 600 primitives-- My point will be come
>>clearer as you read ahead.

	[stuff deleted]

>Unix.  You stated that since it doesn't switch stacks, it is not
>really multitasking.  Well, I've got news for you:  All apps
>have their own stack that the scheduler switches them to before
>dispatching them.   They also have their own local heap, their own
>data segment, etc.,

>If I have misrepresented your views, sorry.  I'd like to quote you,
>but my fumble-fingeredness got the better of me.  And if the
>point I represented above was something I read somewhere else, and
>attributed to you, sorry again.

>Heath

>-- 
>On Saturday, April 18, 1992, this .sig became self-aware.


Bollocks all, if Windows were to be an OS it'd be a bloody daft one.
Ever hear of an OS you can quit and still have a functioning machine?!
Windows IS a shell with a GUI,a large one though. The only reason
Windows features the large amount of functionalism a lot of you
take as proof for it to be an OS is because DOS is even less competent.
Consider this, if DOS wasn't the farce it is but an advanced operating
system like it should have been and Windows would be the GUI it is
running on top of this DOS. This DOS would now feature functions for
memory and resource management Windows would still have to offer them
to its applications if only to pass them directly to DOS. Hence the
current API is no proof at all of it being an OS. It is just another
layer in a machines hierarchy. The fact that it must and can bypass
DOS for functionality DOS doesn't provide is only proof of the
incompetence of DOS.

Well, this should prolong this thread for another few weeks :-)

Cheers
Erik


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Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
From: ntaib@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (Iskandar Taib)
Subject: Re: Help! Windows Apps Load Own Executables
Organization: Indiana University
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1992 17:59:24 GMT

In article <1992Aug24.172245.23576@pixel.kodak.com> dj@ssd.kodak.com (Dave Jones) writes:
>In article <1992Aug23.205840.22654@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> bmakuch@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Brian A Makuch) writes:
>>
>>Help, all of my windows apps try to load their own 
>>executibles when they start. Windows Write, Notebook, even
>>Turbo Pascal all try.
>>
>>Can I remedy this without reinstalling windows? Does anyone
>>know what causes this?
>>
>This is a confusing post.  If you mean, how do you start them as
>icons without executing them, the answer is : Windows won't do this.
>Use a third-party tool like Dropper, WinDock or Norton Desktop.

Heheheh...

I can't figure out what he needs either, but he can perhaps
dump the icons into the startup folder, then use the Minimize
On Startup option under Options. 

If he just wants an icon before he starts up, he's staring at 
the Program manager already...



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