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From: 92636828s@csghsg5a.bitnet
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.apps,comp.os.ms-windows.misc
Subject: Re: SoundBlaster 2.0 Win 3.1 Drivers...
Date: 15 Dec 92 16:21:00 GMT
Distribution: world
Organization: University of St.Gallen, Switzerland

In article <1gagviINNkpg@chnews.intel.com>, sberger@sedona.intel.com (Scott Berger) writes:
> 
> In article <Bz2Gsp.Bps@undergrad.math.waterloo.edu>, ttocek@undergrad.math.waterloo.edu (Tomas Tocek) writes:
>> >> ...about copyrighted drivers.....
>> >Why on earth would anyone make their drivers not freely distributable?
>> >They're not charging for them, so what's the point?  It doesn't seem to 
>> 
>> copyright and free distribution are 2 different things.....SB drivers
>> are copyrighted=means that whoever made them reserves the right to
>> copy them/sell them/modify them/etc....
>> since they are available on a free BBS, I assume they are distributed
>> free,i.e. the owner of the copyright decided to give them out for free.
> 
> 	Another reason springs to mind. Creative Labs certainly
> doesnt want to give their software to people who make hardware
> compatible sound cards. They want the competition to make and
> bear the cost of writing the sound drivers for their products.
> 
>  
> -- 
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> -----------------------------------------------------------------------

The Windows 3.1 drivers for Soundblaster Pro 3 are available at cica,
so why aren't the drivers for Soundvlaster 2.0 ?
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Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.apps
From: wolfi@opal.cs.tu-berlin.de (Wolfgang Schwanke)
Subject: Re: Videoblaster only works in Low Resoluti
Organization: Techn. University of Berlin, Germany
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 02:50:28 GMT

rkl@cbnewsh.cb.att.com (kevin.laux) writes:

>In article <1992Dec15.214516.23335@cs.tu-berlin.de>, wolfi@opal.cs.tu-berlin.de (Wolfgang Schwanke) writes:
>> Actually this is not the case. The output of the VGA card is going through the
>> normal socket on the rear of your computer back into the videoblaster.
>> There the two signals are mixed on *analogue* level in the blaster.
>> The VGA monitor has to be connected to the videoblaster instead of the VGA
>> card because of this.
>
>	Actually this *is* the case.  There is the normal VGA output through
>its 15 pin connector, but this is *not* connected to the VB card.

I own a VB plus where I had to make that connection, and hence my assumption
(I admit it's an assumption, not solid knowledge). So two connections between
the VGA board and the VB: one using the feature connector, one using the
monitor output of the VGA. If my assumption was wrong, what's the second
(monitor cable) connection needed for?

>The VGA
>feature connector is used to feed *digital* data to the VB card, which has
>duplicated the VGA's 256 DAC registers.  You are correct in that the two
>signals are mixed on an analog basis and that the monitor is connected to
>the VB card.
>
>> The blaster uses chroma key, all magenta (pink) coloured parts of the VGA
>> screen are overwritten with the TV image. The WinVideo prog. just displays
>> a magenta window into the VGA, all the mixing is done later.
>> 
>> If for you create a magenta surface (say using Paintbrush) and move it where
>> the video window should be, you can see the video "through" the overlaying
>> window.
>
>	The VB card does indeed use chroma keying, but magenta is probably
>just the default key color, as it can use *any* of 256 keys (and I say 'keys'
>because the value is 0 to 255 and is the index into the DAC registers, each
>of which can hold one of 2 to the 18th colors (6 bit RGB triplets)).
>
>> The feature connector is merely used for synchronising both cards (I think).
>
>	Not exactly, see above.


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Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.apps
From: Marcus Platts
Subject: Printing with a bubbles!!!!
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 15:30:45 GMT
Organization: The University of Birmingham, United Kingdom

==============================================================================


Is there anybody that can help me.......

I have Win 3.1, a 386SX, 30Mb of FREE disk space, 4Mb and (unfortunatly) a
Cannon BJ-10ex.  I say unfortunatly because when I try to print it has phases
where it screws up.  This normally involves sliding the top half of a line to
the left had side of the paper.  My temp directory resides in a huge void of
hard disk space and still the problem strikes!!!!


If anybody can help please mail me!!
Also if anybody has a BJ-10ex WORKING please mail me.

All help appriciated

Marcus Platts.
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.apps
From: rick@sjsumcs.sjsu.edu (Richard M. Warner)
Subject: Re: Postscript Printing Problems: W4W, Lotus4W
Keywords: postscript
Organization: San Jose State University, Math & CS
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 18:51:14 GMT

In article <1g9886INNh3q@uniwa.uwa.edu.au> alister@arch.uwa.oz.au (Alister Swingler) writes:
>Path: sjsumcs!octopus!satyr!apple!ames!olivea!uunet!munnari.oz.au!uniwa!alister
>From: alister@arch.uwa.oz.au (Alister Swingler)
>Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.apps
>Subject: Postscript Printing Problems: W4W, Lotus4W
>Keywords: postscript
>Message-ID: <1g9886INNh3q@uniwa.uwa.edu.au>
>Date: 11 Dec 92 05:16:54 GMT
>Organization: The University of Western Australia
>Lines: 32
>Here's the situation:
>
>We have our pc's hooked into a sun network through PCNFS 4.0
>and print from windows 3.1 through Newsprint 1.0 to a Sparc printer.
>
>This works fine from Corel Draw 3.0, but gives quite odd results
>from Word 2 and Lotus. Often in printing from word the required font
>will drop out for the first few lines of a page, or on alternating
>pages.
>
>Also tables will not print properly: only about the bottom 6th of
>the characters are visible.
>
>There is a similar problem in printing tables from Lotus: the text
>arranged in the tables is imaged at what looks like about 2pt rather
>than 12.
>
>I did hear something about the windows truetype to postscript being 
>dodgy enough for Corel Systems to write their own. Could this have
>something to do with the problem?
>
>Can anyone shed some light on this?

You have a bigger problem here.  You are not using PostScript, you
are running NeWS - Sun's clone of PostScript.  Like all clones, it
has some differences from the original.  I have found it to be rather
inconsistent in some regards.  Since you are running NeWSPrint 1.0
I will assume that you are also running OpenWindows 2.0 on the Sun's.
Since the NeWS interpreter is in OpenWindows, you might have a better
time with a more up-to-date version.  If you can, upgrade to OpenWindows
3.0 and/or NeWSPrint 2.0 (tell NeWSPrint that you do not have OW and
it will install a mini-OW 3.0 for its interpreter/RIP).


>Thanks in advance,
>		  Alister.
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From: ccr@quasar.genrad.com (Chris C. Reis)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.apps
Subject: Problem with loading CD Rom audio
Date: 15 Dec 1992 07:26:02 -0500
Organization: GenRad, Inc.
NNTP-Posting-Host: quasar.genrad.com

	Hi all,
I just got myself an early Xmas present(justified by saying the kids will
use the encyclopedia), a PAS-16 multimedia upgrade kit with NEC multispin
drive. So far, its seems to be working fine and once I reclaim some of my
memory back, I should be able to run some Dos games through my soundcard.
But for now, I am trying to play CD audio through Media Player under Win 3.1.
I had to load, unload, and reload the MCICDA.drv under Control Panel 3 times
before Media Player would recognize a CD-Rom. Well now it finally works, but 
only for that Windows session. If I log out of Windows, or shut down machine
and reboot, and try to access Cd audio again, Media Player complains about an
"an undetectable problem loading CDICDA". If I go back to Control Panel, and
try to reload the CD audio driver, I get the message "There is driver already
loaded" asking me if I want to reload or use existing driver. If I use exist-
ing driver, again, I am all set for that session. I checked Save Configuration
and am using Norton Desktop 2.0 as my shell. I had to disable NDW to load the 
Windows drivers as one of the errata sheets said. I then restored NDW as my 
shell. Does anyone have a hint? Please?
		Thank You
		Chris

Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.apps
From: kewta@solomon.technet.sg (Kew Tow Ann)
Subject: Windows WIN386.swp file
Organization: TECHNET, Singapore
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL8]
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 07:20:30 GMT

I noticed that as we run more and more windows applications in Windows 3.1,
the WIN386.swp file gets bigger and bigger. This is so even as after the
applications are closed. Does anyone have any idea how the space could be
'freed'? Is there any sort of 'garbage collection'?
How about Windows NT - does it exhibit this characteristic?

Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.apps
From: Rick_Turnbull@mindlink.bc.ca (Rick Turnbull)
Subject: Re: W4W problems - saving files
Organization: MIND LINK! - British Columbia, Canada
Date: Sat, 19 Dec 1992 16:00:24 GMT

Are you closing the original document after pasting?
Are you cutting and pasting, or are you copying and pasting?
Do you have lots of memory in your machine?
Do you have lots of room on the diskette that you are saving to?
Word for windows has a nasty habit of saving tmp files to the floppy -- a
problem that has seemed to be fixed in version 2.0b.

Merry Christmas
From: pkedrosk@student.business.uwo.ca (Paul S. Kedrosky)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.apps
Subject: Re: QPro for Win: A Mega Resource Hog?
Date: 15 Dec 92 23:53:29 GMT
Organization: University of Western Ontario

lindor@eng.umd.edu (Lindor Eric Henrickson) writes:

> 
> In article <Va8TVB3w165w@student.business.uwo.ca>, pkedrosk@student.business.
> >Hiya, I just installed QPro for Win and am taken somewhat aback by the
> >hunger that this thing has for FSR. I started the program with 83% FSR
> >and after opening it and minimizing it I was down to _52%_!!. Holy
> >appetite Batman!! Ami Pro 3.0 only takes in about 5% for chrissake.
> 
> I've experience basically the same!  Qpro4win definitely bogs down my system.
> especially when I try to plot graphs with many points.  I like the features o
> the product, but its definitely a resource hog!  Hopefully Borland will fix t

I just got off the phone with Borland where the engineer agreed with
me, QPro is a real resource hog. He was fairly unabashed about that so
I pointed out that I thought that it wasn't necessarily a desirable
feature. He agreed and said that the problem can become acute if you
do much with graphics in QPro or other Windows programs when QPro is
running. He asked for my telephone number and said that Borland was
aware of the problem and might have some solution in the next "little
while".

Nice program but I'm not impressed with its appetite for resources.

Paul






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Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.apps
From: hollen@megatek.UUCP (Dion Hollenbeck)
Subject: Hypertext
Organization: Megatek Corporation, San Diego, California
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 16:01:10 GMT

I am interested in hearing from people who have used hypertext
applications in Windows, especially Lotus Smart Text.  I want to be
able to access articles on various topics in widely separated
directories from a common interface.  There should be some way of
indicating that there is an image or images associated with the text
and be able to display the image.

Thank you very much.

-- 
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Senior Software Engineer                      megatek!hollen@uunet.uu.net
Megatek Corporation, San Diego, California    ucsd!megatek.uucp!nollen
From: mike-b@hpfcso.FC.HP.COM (Michael Bishop)
Date: Sat, 19 Dec 1992 00:06:15 GMT
Subject: ATI Ultra Plus
Organization: Hewlett-Packard, Fort Collins, CO, USA
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.apps

Does anyone know is the ATI Graphics Ultra Plus (with 2MB of DRAM)
supports 1280x1024 resolution with 256 colors?  I'm considering trading
in my Diamond Stealth 24X for the ATI card and I'm looking for opinions
about ATI products.

Thanx.

Michael Bishop
Hewlett-Packard Company
Internet: mike-b@fc.hp.com
CompuServe: 71552,1341
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.apps
From: jmmaye@monsanto.com (Jim Mayer)
Subject: Re: NDW 2.0 Is Tape Backup available?
Organization: Monsanto
Date: Fri, 11 Dec 1992 22:07:02 GMT

In article <1992Dec10.130627.1975@aplcen.apl.jhu.edu> rubin@procon.jhuapl.edu (Don Rubin) writes:

>In article <jimcole-091292162350@mace701.mv.us.adobe.com>, jimcole@adobe.com (Jim Cole) writes:
....

>I had a very similar experience BUT I got the problem solved after much
>bitching.Now NBW works great for me with the Jumbo 250. I have been doing
>nightly backups for weeks without problems.

   I have only a single tape drive, not two in the same machine.  I have
not had any problems with NBW... I have been very pleased with it.  I
have used it with an ArchiveXL (Gateway 2000 486/33) and with an
Iomega tape 250 (Compaq Deskpro 486/33M).  Backups and formats even run well 
in the background.  I would recommend Norton Backup highly.

>I still have a problem with SCHEDULER (which I use to kick off the
>backup) aborting with a "C runtime error". Does anyone else have
>this problem. I have not gotten much help from Sumantec and will
>try to turn up the heat. BTW I have never gotten any newsletters or
>updates from them, does anyone else?

   I have been using a shareware program WCRON (registered).  It has the 
advantage of keeping a log file of events and somewhat more flexible 
scheduling.  I had problems with the Norton SCHEDULER program and Windows 3.
1 drivers for my Compaq Qvision video card.  
   I remember that Symantec sent me a free, unrequested update for Norton 
Utilities ver 6.0.  I was impressed with that.  I occasionally get a flyer 
when they want to sell me an update (NDW v1.0 to v2.0) or their anti-virus 
program.

Jim Mayer
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.apps
From: "james gillen" <james.gillen@canrem.com>
Subject: vanishing headers/footers
Reply-To: "james gillen" <james.gillen@canrem.com>
Organization: Canada Remote Systems
Distribution: comp
Date: 17 Dec 92 07:41:23 EST

This is not a problem of inserting a file - this is a GENUINE BUG in
Word for Windows.

Periodically, working in only one document and not merging anything from
anywhere, the headers and footers disappear and the document repaginates
(if this option is on).

This has happened to me at least two dozen times - and is so aggravating
that I often store a shadow copy of the file with a different name while
working with it to recover from the problem (open shadow copy and copy
back the headers and footers).  I'm thinking of actually writing a macro
to automate this (ugh!).

By the way, to avoid the insert file header/footer trash problem, you
can insert a section break/next page before the merge and it keeps the
new headers and footers in the insert file from disturbing the old
header/footers.

A realted bug to the above - often the font in the headers changes
between page flips in the same document.  Lately it has taken to
replacing my Lucida with Wingdings!  This also has repagination
consequences.  Oh well, maybe 2.0x will fix these annoyances.
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Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.apps
From: mike@ulinf0.unil.ch (Michael Bloch)
Subject: PMail for Windows ?
Organization: HEC, University of Lausanne, Switzerland
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 15:52:00 GMT

Some time ago, there was talk about a forthcoming version of PMail
for Windows. Any news ? Is it out, is it planned ?
Do you have info, or a contact point ?

Thanks, Michael
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Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.apps
From: "james gillen" <james.gillen@canrem.com>
Subject: windows for workgroups
Reply-To: "james gillen" <james.gillen@canrem.com>
Organization: Canada Remote Systems
Distribution: comp
Date: 20 Dec 92 23:08:33 EST

W4W does not require any network card or networking software.  If you
install it without a network card (a BIG list is supported) it will give
an error at startup and then continue.  Of course, you can do any
resource sharing if you are not network connected.

Assuming you want W4W to connect to other machines, W4W does not require
any other NOS to be present.  It is a peer to peer networking product
underneath the covers of W3.1.  All the resource sharing, mail and
calendaring your heart desires is included.

It will co-exist nicely with Novell and LanMan etc. should you want a
real NOS.

However, there are limitations in the straight out of the box product.
Microsoft will be selling add-ons that extend the networking
flexibilities of the product, to support a mail postoffice,
inter-workgroup mail, etc.



By the way, W4W almost shipped with a serial/parallel driver, to do
networking with a close 2nd machine.

Release postponed until later.

W4W does its networking using NetBEUI over NDIS, but Microsoft folks I
know have hacked a TCP/IP stack underneath NetBEUI and allowed their W4W
workgroup to get real extended.
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Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.apps
From: f3w@mentor.cc.purdue.edu (Mark Gellis)
Subject: Re: AmiPro or Word Perfict ??????
Organization: Purdue University Computing Center
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 13:15:21 GMT

Ditto.  Use Ami Pro 3.0.  It's great!  :)



Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.apps,comp.os.msdos.apps
From: phil@dnbf01.bram.cdx.mot.com (Phil Longstaff)
Subject: Re: Tax Software
Reply-To: phil@dnbf01.bram.cdx.mot.com (Phil Longstaff)
Organization: Motorola Codex, Mississauga, Ontario
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 19:30:34 GMT

In article <rick.724609688@sundance>, rick@sundance.SJSU.EDU (Richard Warner) writes:
|>phil@dnbf01.bram.cdx.mot.com (Phil Longstaff) writes:
|>
|>>In article <1g026eINNduu@transfer.stratus.com>, jmann@vineland.pubs.stratus.com (Jim Mann) writes:
|>>|>This year, for the first time, I plan to use software to prepare
|>>|>my taxes. Is there any "best" package, or are all the major
|>>|>ones (Turbo Tax, MacInTax for Windows) pretty good?
|>
|>>A few weeks ago in PC magazine, Dvorak had an article about tax software,
|>>saying that they could differ by up to a factor of 2 when calculating taxes
|>>(e.g. you owe $4000 instead of $2000).  I don't remember which s/w was better,
|>>but you should check it out if possible.
|>
|>He did not say that one was better than the others; he merely pointed out 
|>the study that showed the discrepancy and made some comments about how 
|>'loose' the U.S. tax code is, with a lot of things open to interpretation.
|>Different interpretations == different bottom line figures.
|>
|>>Phil
|>

I did not mean to imply that any tax calculation program was better than any
other program.  I just wished to warn people that blindly entering numbers
may not yield the most advantageous results, since different packages will
produce widely varying results.

Is there a "best" package?  I would assume that the one which gives the lowest
bottom line while still following legal interpretations would be considered by
most people as "best".

Phil
From: f67700241@violet.ccit.arizona.edu (Greg Franklin)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.apps
Subject: Re: Zip Shell?
Date: 12 Dec 92 08:29:42 GMT
Distribution: world,local
Organization: University of Arizona
Nntp-Posting-User: f67700241

In article <1992Dec11.175909.28821@csc.ti.com>, simon@wotangate.sc.ti.com (Jean-Yves Simon) writes:
> In article 10423@news.ysu.edu, ad749@yfn.ysu.edu (Rob Bakos) writes:
>>
>>Does anyone know of a good zip/unzip method for windows?
> 
> Yes, try get your hands on winzip32, it's the best I have ever seen.
> Don't know if winzip32 is located in an Ftp site. I d'l winzip32
> from a local BBS in Houston, it's a very good zip archiver.

I second this recommendation.  Besides ZIP, it handles LZH and ARC.

What's more, the author, Nico Mak, includes a Compuserve address.  Using a
standard method to email from Internet, I sent suggestions for improving
the product and got a nice response back in under one day.  Impressive.

It is shareware ($29) worth paying for.
-- 
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f67700241@ccit.arizona.edu   sensitive positions and have a tremendous impact
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From: Darla@cup.portal.com (Kuby - Downs)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.apps
Subject: Re: Progman Question (No Free Resources!)
Date: Sun, 20 Dec 92 06:04:06 PST
Organization: The Portal System (TM)
Distribution: world

John,**B0800000000022d

=>I consistently run two programs -- Procomm+/Win and AmiPro 3.0.
=>After a few hours of use (min. 4 hours, max. 7 hours), I have to
=>shut down Windows and restart because my free resources in
=>progman have slowly been drained away by running these programs.

How many resources do you have on startup?  That's the first thing
to check. It should be at least 75% You are using Windows 3.1 yes?

I'm not sure the amt of resources AP uses, but Procomm for Windows
surely doesn't use that much.


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