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From: rlmeyering@beckman.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: NEED FAX/MODEM WITH CALLABLE INTERFACE!
Date: 15 Aug 92 18:13:28 GMT
Organization: Beckman Instruments, Inc.

***** PLEASE SEND RESPONSES VIA E-MAIL ******

Hi,

I am writing software that will utilize fax/modem boards to send/receive
faxs and data files. Does anyone have a recomendation for
the fax/modem boards... I want to buy boards that offer software that I can
call from my FOXPRO2 program, and that I can get meaningfull completion
status codes back from. Also, I would like to be able to setup the port/FAX
and MODEM from my program. Any ideas ???

Example of how I would like to implement this in my app:

	status=setup("FAX",.....)
	if !Status
		@ 10,10 say "Unable to setup FAX, request aborted"
		return .f.
	endif

	status=send("FAX","file.dat","714-888-3233")
        if !Status
		do case
			case status=BUSY
				.....
			case status=NOANSWER
				.....
			case status=INTERUPTED
				....
			case status=....etc...
				....
			otherwise
				...
		endcase
	else
		@ 10,10 say "Your FAX has been succesfully transmitted"
	endif

					Thanks for your help!

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   Beckman Instruments, Inc.         Phone: 714/961-3376
   2500 Harbor Bl. Mailstop X-12       FAX: 714/961-3351
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From: reisert@sttng.mlo.dec.com (Jim Reisert)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc,comp.os.msdos.apps,comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Why do people want PD software?
Date: 19 Aug 92 18:06:43 GMT
Reply-To: reisert@sttng.mlo.dec.com (Jim Reisert)
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation -- Maynard, MA


Several times a week, someone posts an article to a newsgroup asking
something like, "What's the best PD/shareware program to do XYZZY?"
Why don't they just ask, "What's the best program to do XYZZY?"  Why
is PD/shareware specifically requested?  Is it:

1.  People want to "try before they buy".
2.  People want the (usually) better prices and support of shareware
    vs. commercial software.
3.  Shareware is perceived as more readily available (FTP, etc.).
4.  People are opposed to supporting Microsoft or any of the other
    software giants, and would rather do business with "the little guy".
5.  People want software, but can get away with not paying for
    shareware.

Personally, I want the best software for the job, whether it's
shareware, freeware, commercial software, or something I have to sit
down and write myself.  My gut feeling (call me cynical) is that it's
tempting to obtain shareware to perform a task, and not register it.
After all, the hardware itself isn't a real money sink, it's the software.

I'd be interested in hearing your opinions on the subject.

- Jim  

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From: peter@global.hacktic.nl (Peter Busser)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc,comp.os.msdos.apps,comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: Why do people want PD software?
Date: Sat, 22 Aug 92 15:00:37 GMT
Organization: Global Village 1

reisert@sttng.mlo.dec.com (Jim Reisert) writes:

>1.  People want to "try before they buy".
>2.  People want the (usually) better prices and support of shareware
>    vs. commercial software.
>3.  Shareware is perceived as more readily available (FTP, etc.).
>4.  People are opposed to supporting Microsoft or any of the other
>    software giants, and would rather do business with "the little guy".
>5.  People want software, but can get away with not paying for
>    shareware.
6.  People want to play with sources.
7.  People don't want to be a captive of a certain software or hardware vendor

Greetings,
Peter Busser
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
From: sgilley@cbnewsl.cb.att.com (The Idealistic Cynic)
Subject: HELP!  Can't get 3.5 floppy to work!
Organization: AT&T Bell Labs, Columbus, Ohio
Distribution: na
Date: Sun, 16 Aug 1992 21:54:27 GMT
Keywords: Old system, new disk.

Need help from you PC (Compaq) and MSDOS Gurus out there...


Short story:

     I bought a 3.5 1.44M floppy for my system and can't get it to
     work.  The CMOS doesn't seem to recognise that drive type. I've
     tried using drivparm and driver.sys to redefine my drive, but
     it doesn't work -- when I try to tell it to do anything to
     drive b:, drive a:'s light comes on.  I can even format 
     in a:, but calling it b:.  During boot up, the 3.5's light
     does come on, so something is happening.

Somewhat longer story:

     In addition to the above, I'm hampered by the fact that I don't
     have a real diagnostics disk for my system.  The one I have seems
     to sort of work, but the 3.5 inch floppy won't pass the disks tests.
     This really doesn't worry me, as my second hard drive won't pass
     the disks tests, either, but works just fine.

     On another 3.5 I had yesterday I got the drive to actually format,
     but at the very end, it would say "Can't write BOOT" or something
     like that.  I could even read disks that had already been written
     and formatted -- but if I wrote to that disk, it was trashed.

     With this drive, as I said, DOS won't recognize it at all -- it
     just starts doing whatever with drive a:.  I can still run the tests,
     though (from diagnostics), and they get about halfway done before
     failing.

So, am I out of luck?  Just return it and resign myself to no 3.5 disk?
This system is a Compaq DeskPro 386/20 -- I don't know exactly how old,
as I bought it used, but the drive controller card says 1987.

Any help would be greatly appreciated...

Sean.

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From: rcbi110@muvms3.bitnet (R. ALAN MONROE)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: What's the Best PD term program?
Date: 14 Aug 92 10:11:28 GMT
Organization: Marshall University


The subject says it all...  My brother just bought a used xt laptop, and the
guy gave him QuickLinkII with it, but it is pretty crummy.

Any recommendations?

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
From: gude@uniwa.uwa.edu.au (David J W Emrich)
Subject: Re: Conner 120MB Disk
Organization: University of Western Australia
Date: Sat, 22 Aug 1992 16:10:43 GMT

timm@cds8158.Cadence.COM (Tim Marriott) writes:

>Hi,
>My PC Recently lost its CMOS memory that contained the information on my Conner 120 MB Disk.  The AMI
>BIOS that I have does not have a standard entry for this disk so it uses a custom entry.  Does anybody out there
>know the following information?
>   Number of Cylinders
>   Number of Heads
>   Number of Sectors

>In other words what are the settings I use to get my disk back?

>Thanks In Advance

>Tim

I'm not sure if mine is a conner, but it is a 120Meg drive,
Cyl x Hd x Sec =
935 x 16 x 17

Try that...

[dav]    aka
David Emrich
gude@uniwa.uwa.edu.au
From: thompson@atlas.socsci.umn.edu (T. Scott Thompson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Re: How do I send a binary file to a printer?
Date: 17 Aug 92 20:59:34 GMT
Reply-To: thompson@atlas.socsci.umn.edu
Distribution: na
Organization: University of Minnesota

georgew@tekig1.PEN.TEK.COM (George Walker) writes:

>I'm running Windows and I have a crummy printer, but I have access to
>another PC running DOS that has a laser printer.  If I do a "print to file"
>from my word processor under Windows, with the correct printer setup, and
>then take that file to the DOS machine, how do I print the file?  My DOS
>manual says that the DOS "print" command is only for text files.

>Thanks for any help.

Several posters have given _almost_ correct answers to this.  When you
get the file onto the computer with the "good" printer you should use

        copy <yourfilename> prn /b
           
Note the /b switch at the end!  If you leave it off then DOS will copy
bytes until it encounters a control-Z (end-of-file) character.  Since
the file might be in a binary format, this is not what you want.
(Believe me!  I speak from experience on this one.)  When you use /b
then DOS ignores control-Z's in the file, and copies the number of
bytes recorded in the filesize field in the directory entry for
<yourfilename>.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
From: dsharma@cs.anu.edu.au (Dharmendra Sharma)
Subject: A Problem with WordPerfect Version 5?
Organization: Computer Science Dept., Australian National University
Date: Tue, 18 Aug 1992 05:40:18 GMT

How can I default set the display size in WP5 environment? Currently, I
get the display size is about half that of the screen size. It seems
that the WP5 is not compatible with the earlier versions as it behaves
differently on previous WP files - maybe, the default settings are not 
compatible!
 
Many thanks
DS
From: wuwei@acf3.nyu.edu (Wei Wu)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Change the case of the machine.
Date: 15 Aug 92 20:41:42 GMT
Organization: New York University


 I don't know if this is the right group to ask.
 My machine is a 386 25Mhz in a baby-AT case. There are only 4 half
height drive bay. Now I am running out of drive bay, so I am thinking
about change to a bigger case. The thing I am not sure is that whether
the motherboard will restrict the kind of case I can use. What kind of
case can I use ?  I would like to use a mini-tower or tower case.
Any help is appreciated.

Wei Wu (wuwei@acf3.nyu.edu)
From: drice@ponder.csci.unt.edu (Keith Rice)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Re: How do I send a binary file to a printer?
Date: 14 Aug 92 18:56:26 GMT
Article-I.D.: ponder.drice.713818586
Distribution: usa
Organization: University of North Texas

In <6536@tekig7.PEN.TEK.COM> georgew@tekig1.PEN.TEK.COM (George Walker) writes:

>I'm running Windows and I have a crummy printer, but I have access to
>another PC running DOS that has a laser printer.  If I do a "print to file"
>from my word processor under Windows, with the correct printer setup, and
>then take that file to the DOS machine, how do I print the file?  My DOS
>manual says that the DOS "print" command is only for text files.

>Thanks for any help.

Try "COPY filename LPT1" or "TYPE filename > LPT1"

--
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Bus Computers, Out of Business??
From: dec_fouts@mec.ohio.gov
Date: 13 Aug 92 12:12:46 -0400
Organization: Metrop. Educ. Council, Columbus, OH

In the August issue of Computer Shopper, Page 272, a company named
"Bus Computer Systems" placed a ad for Local Bus 486 PC systems. The prices
were good so I ordered the 486DX-33Mhz S3 system Friday, 7-Aug-92.

Problem: I have been trying to contact the company for the past 4 days
         with no luck. Three of their phone numbers have been disconnected,
         and the 800 numbers forward to a cellular phone that does not
         accept incoming calls! 


QUESTION:

	Does anyone know anything about this company? 

	Bus Computer Systems
	NY, NY
	(800) 451-5279

Terry
From: craig@chepil.weru.ksu.edu (Stuart A. Craig)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Re: Mountain Computer Inc. Address/phone number needed!!
Date: 21 Aug 92 14:48:22 GMT
Organization: Kansas State University
NNTP-Posting-Host: chepil.weru.ksu.edu

robin@uhunix.uhcc.Hawaii.Edu (Robin Amano) writes:

>In article <1992Aug06.185941.3472@bmerh85.bnr.ca> csanii@bmera226.bnr.ca (Cyrus Sanii) writes:
>>Could someone please post here the address and phone number of
>>Mountain Computer Inc.(They are the ones who make the tape drives)
>>Thanks.


>Mountain Computer, Inc.
>360 El Pueblo Rd.
>Scotts Valley, CA  95066
>(408) 438-6650

Or is the original post referring to:

	Mountain Network Solutions, Inc.
	240 East Hacienda Avenue
	Campbell, CA  95008-6623
	(800) 458-0300
	(408) 379-4302  fax

(Mountain Network Solutions only makes tape drives)

-Stuart Craig
	(craig@eagle.me.ksu.edu)


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Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
From: wbennett@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (William F Bennett)
Subject: .Z files
Organization: The Ohio State University
Distribution: na
Date: Thu, 20 Aug 1992 21:23:58 GMT


     I am new to the IBM world and when I was perusing the ftp sites I ran 
across some files that I wanted that had a .Z extender. Can someone tell me 
what the  unarchival prog is for this extension and where to find it.

          Thanx in advance.
-- 
*******************************************************************************
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*********************  wbennett@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu  ********************
From: mrtaylor@access.digex.com (Mark Taylor)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Russian Language OCR (Q)
Date: 18 Aug 92 23:46:43 GMT
Organization: Express Access Online Communications, Greenbelt, MD USA

A collegue of mine is planing travel to the Moscow (Russia) archives.
Copiers are few and far between and even if you supply the paper the 
athorities may take the paper and not let you make copies anyway.
Her solution is to take a scaner hooked to her Toshiba laptop (unknown model)
and scan in the documents she needs.  She intends to leave the scaner there
when she leaves.
Questions:
Is there a DOS Optical Character Recognition program that can read Russian?
Does anyone have any recomendations on a robust, reliable, and lugable scaner?
Is this even practical?

Please respond by E-Mail as I dont read this group.
Thanks to all in advance.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
From: Steve.Withers@bbs.actrix.gen.nz
Subject: Re: Is there anyway one run a program in the background?
Organization: Actrix Information Exchange
Date: Sun, 16 Aug 1992 09:43:48 GMT

In article <14950017@hpdmd48.boi.hp.com> deanc@hpdmd48.boi.hp.com (Dean Cashen) writes:
> In comp.sys.ibm.pc / georged@sequent.com (George Dolbier):
> >I'm sorry you must have DOS confused with an operating system.   . . .
> 
> :-) :-)
> 
> >Please remember that dos is just a very well written system monitor. If
> >you want multi tasking for your pc, try unix or windows/NT.
> >
> >(Don't nobody give me any flack about windows or os/2 they just don't cut it)
> 
> You say OS/2 is no-go, but recommend windows/NT?  NT is *vaporware*.  It's
> not *out* yet, and what most of us know about it is marketing "info."  If
> OS/2 "don't cut it," how does an O/S that's non-existant?

I'll second that. I saw Windows/NT in alpha release a couple of days ago. No
DOS or OS/2 compatibility......but it could do 10 bezier curves. Very
useful.

Windows will multi-task fairly well as long as you don't mind re-booting the
machine every now and again and you don't expect too much of it. OS/2 is much
better and will handle many programs running simultaneously much more smoothly
than Windows. I've used it daily for 4 months after a year of Windows and I am
satisfied that OS/2 is the better system by a reasonably wide margin.
 
The OS/2 Windows has  OLE and parameter checking - the two main features of
Win3.1.
 
But recommending NT to anyone is like contracting the tooth fairy to write a
program for you. 
 
And UNIX! I want to get some work done, not spend the next year trying to
figure out how to get some work done.
 
Steve




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From: spielman@pender.ee.upenn.edu (Terence P. Spielman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Anyone have the music for Origin's Ultima 3 from the C64?
Date: 16 Aug 92 04:16:09 GMT
Reply-To: spielman@pender.ee.upenn.edu (Terence P. Spielman)
Organization: University of Pennsylvania

OK, here's a strange request....

What I would like to do is get a digital recording of all the musical
tracks (themes/songs) from the Commodore 64 version of Ultima III.
THat was the first Ultima I played, and to this day I remember some of the
music.  For reviewing fond memories, it would be great to have these songs
stored as .WAV, .VOC or some other files for playback on my IBM PC.  (and
sound-blaster of course).  Does anyone have an idea of how I may accomplish
this?  Origin doesn't offer the music in any format (I've asked) except to
order the original Ultima III for the Commodore 64.  Even if I did that I
wouldn't know how to get the music from the game.  (2 problems...
#1-I need to find my Ultima III, my old (last-seen as not-working) C64 and
1541 drive....finding all three and expecting them all to be in useful
condition is hopeless.
#2-The only thing I an think of doing is to take the audio output (need to
make that DIN cable that went to a Commodore monitor) and tape the output.
Then I can play it back through my SB to record it digitally.  This causes
2 problems in itself...1)I can only select the sound by playig the game and
getting the exact beginning and ens of songs may be difficult (I don't 
remember) and 2) The recording will most likely be of poor quality.

So does anyone have an idea of a solution?  Please email me as I don't
often read this group.  If you believe this should be reposted to a more
suitable newsgroup, let me know which one you feel will be most responsive.

Thanks.

Terence Spielman
spielman@pender.ee.upenn.edu
Organization: University of Maine System
Date: Friday, 21 Aug 1992 04:09:17 EDT
From: <IP25179@portland.caps.maine.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Upper Memory Area

  I want to use the Upper Memory Area.  All the manuals I've got say you have
  to use EMM386.SYS to gain access to it.

  So far, so good.  But:  I have a RamQuest 8/16 memory board installed and
  I have to use their expanded memory manager, MM816.SYS.  EMM386.SYS will not
  load if MM816.SYS is installed -- even if I use the /noems switch.  Neither
  can EMM386.SYS access the memory on the RamQuest board.

  Am I up a creek without a paddle, unable to use the Upper Memory Area, or
  does someone out there have any suggestions?  This happen to anyone else?

  Thanks, folks.
  -Iain Odlin
   "Is the IBM PC great design or what?" :) :) :)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
From: unruh@physics.ubc.ca (William Unruh)
Subject: Re: MORE comments on Win/TV card
Keywords: WinTV, windows, TV 
Organization: University of British Columbia, Vancouver, B.C., Canada
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1992 06:33:11 GMT

knaack@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (Robert John Knaack) writes:

>  	4. Are there any other cards out there that does the same thing?

In a TVM monitors brochure, they describe a card called the AVA-M02/M02
cards which are supposed to be able to show TV on a VGA ( the M02 in a
window) Does anyone know anything about these cards?
Bill Unruh
unruh@physics.ubc.ca

Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
From: roeschmf@craft.camp.clarkson.edu (Martin F. Roesch)
Subject: Re: OS/2, VERY cool!
Organization: Clarkson University
Date: Tue, 18 Aug 1992 05:27:49 GMT

mikem@travis.csd.harris.com (Mike McCole) writes:

>In article <165.2A8F4274@gisatl.fidonet.org> june@f308.n133.z1.FIDONET.ORG (Ed June) writes:
>-On <Aug 14 20:44>, Mike McCole of 1:133/411 wrote to All:
>-
>- MM- From: mikem@travis.csd.harris.com (Mike McCole)
>- MM> Date: 11 Aug 92 01:55:15 GMT
>- MM> Organization: Harris Computer Systems Division, Fort Lauderdale, FL
>- MM> Message-ID: <9167@travis.csd.harris.com>
>- MM> Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
>-
>- MM> All good games run under dos, OS/2 will cause you untold 
>- MM> grief trying to run games, it can be done but you have to tweak 
>- MM> for every little wierdness your games come up with.
>-
>-Funny, as high speed connections to the bbs are doin' they're thing RELIABLY, I can play, at the same time, any dos game I care to.
>-
>-I love it!
>-Oh, this on a 'low life' 20mHz '386 w/ 8mb memory...
>-
>-
>-
>---  
>-Ed June
>-
>-Fidonet:   1:133/308, Atlanta's OS/2 Users Group BBS, 404-471-1549

>Ed,

> Apparently you don't care to play DOS games that tax your hardware.
> Try that with the DOS game Ultima VII and post your results.

>  Mike

>__
>  mikem@travis.csd.harris.com  Mike McCole  305-973-5466
>  2101 W. Cypress Creek Road  Ft. Lauderdale FL 33309 MS 143
>  All opinions expressed are mine, not Harris Corporations.

Mike,
  Apparently  you don't think much about the way U7 was implemented.  It uses
a proprietary memory manager that doesn't get along with ANYTHING except 
plain vanilla DOS.  Try running U7 with QEMM386 running.  Now try it with
386MAX running.  Now try it with DOS 5.0 Himem and EMM386 running.  Notice a
pattern yet?  Try it under Windoze.  Try it under DR DOS 6.0s mem manager. 
If you pay attention, it won't work with any of them!  Game companies should
stick to making games, not reinventing the memory manager.  
  As to your assertion that OS/2 won't run games that tax the hardware, how
about Falcon 3.0D?  It runs under OS/2 just dandy, because it uses an already
established standard for memory management.  As a matter of fact many games
not only run well under OS/2, they run better than they do under DOS!
  

  Marty
    roeschmf@craft.camp.clarkson.edu

Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
From: pv9955@albnyvms.bitnet
Subject: Mag 14" monitor
Reply-To: pv9955@albnyvms.bitnet
Organization: University of NY at Albany
Date: Wed, 19 Aug 92 04:22:49 GMT

I posted this question on comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware but I got no responses.
I am about to buy a Standard computer.  I would like the Mag 15" monitor,
but limited funding will probably limit me to their Mag Clearview 14"
display instead.  Has anybody seen this monitor?  How does it compare with
a ViewSonic 5e monitor, which I would get if I were buying from Centrix 
(still a good possibility) ?

Please EMail responses.
Thank you,
Peter V.
From: locksley@cyberden.uucp (Aaron Brinton)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Re: OS2 graphics (was Re: Ares!?!, etc.)
Date: Fri, 14 Aug 92 21:55:59 PDT
Organization: Indescribable Creations

waynet@pendragon.CNA.TEK.COM (Wayne Turner) writes:

> In article <1992Aug12.035640.23399@sarah.albany.edu> pv9955@albnyvms.bitnet w
> >I would buy my second computer from Centrix (in fact I stil might), but they
> >use Tseng or S3 graphics, and OS2 is not fond with either.  Standard uses
> >ATI graphics, which I prefer for OS2.
> >Peter Volpe
> 
> Please elaborate on what you mean by "not fond with either" -- do you
> mean that the Tseng or S3 don't work at all with OS2 or that there
> is a performance hit, etc.?
> 
> Wayne

I would also like to know.  I'm running on the Orchid Prodesigner IIs 
with the 32k colors, and in 1024x768 with 256 colors... no problems.  
Have you looked for the individual drivers on any support boards for the 
card you have?

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