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From: mblum@chaos.cs.brandeis.edu (Cerebus)
Subject: Windows 3.1 and Stacker
Keywords: windows,stacker
Organization: Brandeis University
Date: Tue, 14 Apr 1992 16:21:49 GMT

I have just started using Windows 3.1, but, because my hard drive is
rapidly becoming full, I am considering getting Stacker.  Before I do,
however, I need to know if Stacker will work properly with Windows.  I
know Windows bypasses many parts of the machine to run programs--will
it bypass Stacker, too, and try to run the compressed programs in
their compressed form, thereby causing problems?

Does anybody know whether this will work?  Before I spend $100 on
Stacker, I need to know.

Thanks in advance.

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From: valley@gsbsun.uchicago.edu (Doug Dougherty)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc
Subject: Re: need to make a bootable floppy from network drive
Date: 9 Apr 92 00:41:46 GMT
Organization: University of Chicago Computing Organizations

cctr132@csc.canterbury.ac.nz (Nick FitzGerald, CSC, Uni. of Canterbury, NZ) writes:
>IFF you have NetWare 3.11 use the "map root" business to "fudge" the
>system dir to look like a root - works well for me in a similar
>situation where a prog looks in a "hardwired" root-relative dir for
>particular files.

>If you don't have 3.11 you may have to resort to one of the disk-image
>copier programs.  These store a whole diskette image in a file and can

Isn't it easier to just make a RAM disk and copy the system files there?

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Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc
From: tporczyk@novell.com (Tony Porczyk)
Subject: Re: Help on 4DOS please...
Organization: Novell, Inc.
Date: Fri, 10 Apr 1992 19:53:54 GMT

ry01@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu (ROBERT YUNG) writes:

>Look in the latest Pc-mag and you'll see an article on 4dos. A side picture
>shows a list of files with certain files in color based on their extension.
>Anybody know how to do this? Thanks!!!!

Yes.  You can set it up in 4DOS.INI, it is an exclusive feature to 4DOS 4.0.
Check in the manuals, it's well explained.

Tony
From: henry.tan@cccbbs.UUCP (Henry Tan)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc
Subject: Stack config settings, Does it Work?
Date: 15 Apr 92 10:55:00 GMT
Reply-To: henry.tan@cccbbs.UUCP (Henry Tan)
Organization: Cincinnati Computer Connection BBS - Cincinnati, OH - 513-752-8248

TO: jdz1@Ra.MsState.Edu

From: cccbbs!henry.tan@uceng.uc.edu

-> when I placed the following commands in my config.sys file, DOS5.0
-> didn't like it!!!!!
-> stacks=1,128
-> What's wrong with it? Does anyone else mess with it? What advantages
-> would

The syntax is STACKS=n,s
n = 0 or any number between 8 through 64; s=0 or any number between 32
and 512.
That's why your setting is illegal.
However, the default setting is Stacks=0,0 for most IBMB PC, PC/XT, and
IBM portable. For other systems the default is Stacks=9,128.
Sometimes, you do need to specify for certain hardware interrupts. Just
keep in mind that the higher the values for n and s are, the more
conventional memory will be used.
From: pspeer@cradle.UUCP (Sysop)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc
Subject: Re: Windows 3.1 and Stacker
Keywords: windows,stacker
Date: Wed, 15 Apr 92 00:30:56 EDT
Organization: Cradle BBS - Columbus, OH

sexonbd@sage.cc.purdue.edu (Benjamin David Sexson (Ben)) writes:

> I use Stacker with Windows 3.0 with no problem.  I would assume it
> would work with 3.1
> 				later,Ben Sexson
> 				sexonbd@sage.cc.purdue.edu 

I have been using it for about 2 weeks with Win 3.1 with no problems.

Pat
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc
From: geeslin@vms.ocom.okstate.edu
Subject: Re: HIMEM/EMM386
Organization: College of Osteopathic Medicine, O.S.U.
Date: Mon, 13 Apr 1992 22:36:42 GMT

In article <1992Apr12.204757.24633@colorado.edu>, ramzi@tigger.Colorado.EDU (Ramzi Al-Majid) writes:
> i loaded both himem and emm386 using the device command in config.sys but
> how do i load the mouse driver, doskey, adn the antivirus for example in
> high memory???
> 
> thanks
	Say, did your system come without a manual, too?  Seems like that's
	happened to a _lot_ of folks!
	R*
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From: daniel.campbell@cccbbs.UUCP (Daniel Campbell) 
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc
Subject: LABELING OF DRIVES
Date: 11 Apr 92 05:07:00 GMT
Distribution: world
Organization: Cincinnati Computer Connection BBS - Cincinnati, OH - 513-752-8248
Reply-To: daniel.campbell@cccbbs.UUCP (Daniel Campbell) 

-> and a 3.5" named B.     I'd prefer that the 3.5" floppy be named A so
-> I can boot from it (the system only boots from A or the hard disk).
Several things to try:
1> Reverse the cable connectors on the drives.
2> If the MB has a accessible BIOS, access it and set the drives to the
correct size the cable is connected to.
3> Remove the terminating resistor on the present drive B and place it
on the presnt drive A.
See if these steps will do it.
From: sumargoh@serss0.fiu.edu (H. Sumargo)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc
Subject: A Driver to Redirect LPT# to a Network Port
Keywords: Network
Date: 15 Apr 92 00:53:55 GMT
Organization: Florida International Univ.


I am looking for a device driver that will redirect any LPT# port to the network port such that if I print to the port, it will be redirected to a designated network printer.  Please send you response to sumargoh@serss0.fiu.edu

Thank you.
From: daniel.campbell@cccbbs.UUCP (Daniel Campbell)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc
Subject: 720K IN 1.2MB DRIVE
Date: 11 Apr 92 04:56:00 GMT
Reply-To: daniel.campbell@cccbbs.UUCP (Daniel Campbell)
Organization: Cincinnati Computer Connection BBS - Cincinnati, OH - 513-752-8248

-> I want to use 720k in my 1.2MB drive, I can format the diskettes, but
-> I can't read them after they are formatted. I only get messages like
720K in a 1.2M drive? Hun? A 1.2M drive can format and read 360K disks.
A 1.44M drive can read and write 720K disks.
                                                                                                                          
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc,comp.unix.misc,comp.binaries.ibm.pc.wanted
From: libove@libove.det.dec.com (Jay Vassos-Libove)
Subject: read a Unix tar tape on MS-DOS
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation, Detroit Ultrix Resource Center
Date: Mon, 6 Apr 1992 23:02:51 GMT

I want to be able to read a QIC-150 tape on the Wangtek (Cipher) 5150
tape drive attached to my PC (which normally runs Unix) that was written
in Unix "tar" format (actually, any format, I can probably find a way
to write it, and any tape format up to QIC-150).

Can anyone help me find this please?

Please reply via email and I will summarize -- I can't keep up with
all of these newsgroups :}

Thanks!!!
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From: "stephen dawson" <stephen.dawson@canrem.com>
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc
Subject: os/2 2.0 question
Date: 12 Apr 92 15:26:59 EST
Reply-To: "stephen dawson" <stephen.dawson@canrem.com>
Distribution: comp
Organization: Canada Remote Systems

Brent R. Eubanks writes

BR>Can you do true multitasking of DOS boxes with OS/2?   Can I, for
BR>example, use Telix to download files in one window, unzip them at the
BR>msdos command line in another window, and run a newly aquired
BR>application in the third.

Yes.

In fact, if you have the hardware, OS/2 2.0 can run 240 DOS apps at
the same time!

    STEPHEN
    ^^^^^^^    :-)  Look through the Windows and you will see OS/2!

 stephen.dawson@canrem.com
 Entered 04-12-92 at 1:12pm in Downsview, Ontario

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Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc
From: huot@cray.com (Tom Huot)
Subject: Re: Redirect lpt1 to <file>
Organization: Cray Research, Inc.
Distribution: usa
Date: 7 Apr 92 15:40:57 CDT

In article <1992Apr07.194521.73566@yuma.acns.colostate.edu> mglacy@lamar.ColoState.EDU writes:
>Please excuse if this is an FAQ: I'd like a generic way to redirect
>output from an application from lpt1|2 to a file.  Obviously, many
>(e.g., word-processing) programs provide this feature, but I'd
>like some way to do this when the application does not provide
>for such redcirection. I can't figure out any standard DOS
>way to do this; I'd thought of some trick involving tweaking
>port addresses or something.  
>
I have a program called vprint.exe which will do just that. I wish I 
could remember where I got it. You might find it on a local BBS. I'm
fairly sure that's where I got it. I used it with my laptop, so it wouldn't
hang up if I accidentally hit the Print Scrn key or something. I might
try and upload it to wuaarchive if it is not there already.

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From: mbb@cbnewsb.cb.att.com (martin.brilliant)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc
Subject: Re: The uses of Windows? (was Re: Someone explain this to me...)
Date: 13 Apr 92 15:39:50 GMT
Article-I.D.: cbfsb.1992Apr13.153950.24649
Organization: AT&T

From article <1992Apr13.005048.17603@actrix.gen.nz>, by Steve.Withers@bbs.actrix.gen.nz:
>> ....
> I use Windows on a 386. I like being able to do several tasks at the same time
> - like download a large file from a BBS, while I'm writing a letter in
> Microsoft Word and printing labels or reports for a local voluntary
> organisation I do work for. Without Windows, I would have to do these things
> one after the other (except maybe the printing)....

You don't need Windows for that!  I run an XT clone!  COMM (a.k.a.
ByteComm) downloads files in the background, and meanwhile I have most
of conventional RAM free to do anything else I want, as long as it
doesn't use the COM port.  Alternatively, I can load DoubleDos, and
run any of a variety of communications programs in one partition,
while using Microsoft Word 4.0 (which runs easily in about 256K) in
the other.  I can even download, print, and interact with DOS, all at
the same time, using neither Windows nor a 5-digit processor!

> As a task switcher Windows is
> a waste. Use DRDOS6's TASKMAX if you want a task switcher. For multi-tasking,
> though, Windows is good. Cheap on resource (compared to os2/2 and the like)
> and easy to use. 

DOS 5.0 has a task switcher that works on an XT, but swapping to disk
is slow, and Microsoft Word gets confused if it's running in graphics
mode.  (I'm surprised; Microsoft MS-DOS should be compatible with
Microsoft Word - maybe I have the wrong versions.)  I haven't tried it
since I added expanded memory; it might work better now.  And there
are other task switchers available for DOS, if that's what you want.

> As for DOS apps running slowly in DOS Windows - you probably haven't uned your
> PIFs to run as well as they might. A PIF in the background with the default 50
> units of system resource will run like a dog. Up it to 200 and watch the
> difference! It will run like it was on a 4.77m xt. Give it more and it will
> run faster still - slowing down others, but at least you have the option of
> favouring the tasks you want to run well. The only limit is the capacity of
> your processor and the amount of RAM you have.

I hate PIFs.  Tuning the OS shell to run your apps is exactly the
wrong way to go.  The shell should get out of the way and let you
run.  One thing I like about DoubleDos is that the tuning parameters
are tied to partitions, not applications.  Once you've set them,
either you can run a given application, or you can't - no mystery.

							Marty
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Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc
From: jmann@vineland.pubs.stratus.com (Jim Mann)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc
Subject: Re: Microsoft (Was Re: Someone explain this to me...)
Date: 14 Apr 92 15:16:40 GMT
Reply-To: jmann@vineland.pubs.stratus.com

In article <kuch73INNn4q@alhena.usc.edu> ajayshah@alhena.usc.edu (Ajay  
Shah) writes:
> 
> Helped by good marketing and rampant stupidity, Microsoft
> has convinced a lot of peasants that it is the ultimate provider
> of software.  It will take a while getting them off this position.

Ah, yes, and all you superior folks who know better will tell all
us peasants what to do!  Jeesh.  Do you always assume that
anyone who disagrees with you is some sort of idiot who doesn't
know any better?  Frankly, I have used Microsoft products and 
found them to be, by and large, solid products and, in at least
a couple of cases (Word for Windows, Word for DOS, Excel) the best
of class.


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Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc
From: it1@ra.msstate.edu (Tim Tsai)
Subject: Re: OS/2 v2.0 - Not as great as I thought
Organization: Mississippi State University
Date: Mon, 13 Apr 1992 08:51:54 GMT

ujabanco@uxa.ecn.bgu.edu (John Abanco) writes:
>It was a real pain. And then I spent another 30 minutes installing the
>next 15 disks. 30 megs of HD space, 8 megs of memory? Sheesh. Windows
>3.1 only needs 10 Megs of HD space, 4 megs of memory. And I can still
>run SpeedStor/Dr-DOS and save even more space.

  People seem to forget that 30 megs of HD space include Windows and
DOS, not to mention all the applets.  I believe a minimal OS/2 system
was something like 8 megs.  See comp.os.os2.misc for more details.

  Tim
From: henry.tan@cccbbs.UUCP (Henry Tan)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc
Subject: MSdos 5.0 install disk
Date: 7 Apr 92 14:53:00 GMT
Article-I.D.: cccbbs.867.74.uupcb
Reply-To: henry.tan@cccbbs.UUCP (Henry Tan)
Organization: Cincinnati Computer Connection BBS - Cincinnati, OH - 513-752-8248

TO: wijkstra@fwi.uva.nl

From: cccbbs!henry.tan@uceng.uc.edu  (henry tan)

-> Recently, I tried upgrading from 4.01 to 5.0. For safety reasons, I
-> copied the 5.0 installation disks with PCshell. But somehow these
-> backups won't work: DOS 4.01 says something like 'Non-system disk'...
-> When taking a closer look at the first disk, it appeared that the
-> first

You cannot copy the installation disk and for that matter all the MSDOS
5.0 upgrade disks with PCShell. You cannot copy them onto the harddrive
and use them because the MSDOS 5.0 upgrade disk contains compressed
files. If you want to be safe simply make a backup copies of the
upgrade disks and then install the upgrade from your backups using the
"Insll" or "SSetup" command as provided on the Installation
disk.
Tussen twee haakjes, de zogenaamde "upgrade" disks werken alleen als men
al een oude versie Msdos heeft, omdat ze geen alleen staande programs
bevatten. Als men de volle MSDos 5.0 heeft dan hoeft men niet eerst een
oude versie van Dos te hebben.
Good Luck !
                                                                                 
From: franks@hpuamsa.neth.hp.com (Frank Slootweg CRC)
Date: Tue, 14 Apr 1992 09:33:50 GMT
Subject: Re: Norton + Superstore/Stacker: OK ??
Organization: HP-Sales Office-The Netherlands
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc

Allan Heinicke writes:

> I'm not sure all the bases have been covered. I'm interested in things
> like NDD or Calibrate not for use as defragmenters, but as tools to 
> check the surface and if necessary lock out bad sectors or do a low
> level format in a non-destructive way.  

  Adding to Jan-Pieter Cornet's excellent comments on the uselessness
and potential data-loss danger from surface check/correct operations, I
have some comments on the use of Norton's NDD and PC-Tools 6.0 DISKFIX
on a DR DOS 6.0 SSTORed disk partition :

  At a certain moment I tried DISKFIX just for kicks and it reported

[quote]
                      ERROR
There is corrupted information in the directory
tree structure.
SYMTOMS:  chkdsk may report errors, files may be
in-accessable, and/or some directory information
may appear incorrect.
    Do you want to correct this problem now?
		  YES         NO
[unquote]

  Of course at first I answered "NO". CHKDSK of DR DOS and NDD did not
report any errors. After consulting with a friendly netter (and making
backup :-)), I ran DISKFIX again and answered "YES". Whatever the
problem was, DISKFIX apparently was able to fix it and I have had no
problems since.

  For your information: Besides using DISKFIX and NDD as "better
CHDSK-like programs", I used the following utilities on my SSTORed
partition without any problems :

- DR DOS 6.0 DISKOPT (recommended, see Jan-Pieter's comments)
- Norton SD (*not* recommended, see Jan-Pieter's comments)
- PC-Tools COMPRESS (*not* recommended, see Jan-Pieter's comments)

- PC-Tools DISKFIX media surface
- PC-Tools PCSHELL, Disk, Verify Disk
- PC-Tools COMPRESS Surface Analysis
- Norton DT (/F, /D and /B)
- Norton NDD D: /COMPLETE

  As Jan-Pieter described the latter group of surface *check* operations
are basically useless and any *corrections* made by these programs
can/will cause loss of data.

Frank Slootweg
From: mstaben@visual.spk.wa.us (Matt Staben)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc
Subject: Re: Help on 4DOS please...
Date: 13 Apr 92 07:02:42 GMT
Organization: The Visual Market Public Access Site - Spokane, WA

In article <1992Apr10.202936.3273@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> rlarson2@uxh.cso.uiuc.edu (Bob Larson) writes:
>In <1992Apr10.164133.49181@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu> ry01@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu (ROBERT YUNG) writes:
>
>>Look in the latest Pc-mag and you'll see an article on 4dos. A side picture
>>shows a list of files with certain files in color based on their extension.
>>Anybody know how to do this? Thanks!!!!
>>-- 
>There is an environment variable called colordir which controls this.
>It's expained in the 4dos help listing for dir.
>
>
>----------------------
>Bob Larson
>blarson@uiuc.edu

Look in the HELP (online) file 
for input on this.  (4DOS.INI).  A bug I've found is that you need to
have an explicit CR at the end fo 
of the file.  (**#*@#$ VI!) Here's mine:

HELPPATH=C:\4DOS
UMBENVIRONMENT=YES
UMBLOAD=YES
EDITMODE=INSERT
COLORDIR=EXE COM:black on cyan;LSP:black on green;BAT:BRIGHT WHITE ON BLACK
EDITMODE=INSERT

This should help you out...

mstaben@visual.spk.wa.us
From: jclei@sage.cc.purdue.edu (Jason Lei)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc
Subject: Can OS/2 2.0 GA be installed on 40 Mb (Was Re: OS/2 2.0 Question)
Summary: Can OS/2 2/0 GA be installed on a 40 Mb hard drive?
Keywords: OS/2, GA, installation, hard drive
Date: 15 Apr 92 15:42:18 GMT
Followup-To: comp.os.os2.misc
Organization: Purdue University Computing Center

In article <1992Apr15.133724.1886@ncsu.edu> linville@garfield.catt.ncsu.edu (John W. Linville) writes:
>I would have to recommend a bigger drive, but it might be possible to survive
>on 40 Mb if you didn't require DOS/Windows support and/or you could survive on
>the OS/2 applets.  The betas used to require a 60 Mb drive.  I don't know if
>that is true about GA or not.
         ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Can anybody verify this?  Yes, I do need to run DOS programs, but maybe I can
sacrifice Windows.  And I also hate the price and effort for upgrading to a
bigger drive.  Thanks.


Jason
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc,comp.unix.misc,comp.binaries.ibm.pc.wanted
From: detlev@tpki.toppoint.de (Detlev Habicht)
Subject: Re: read a Unix tar tape on MS-DOS
Organization: Toppoint Mailbox e.V.
Date: Wed, 08 Apr 1992 09:28:17 GMT

libove@libove.det.dec.com (Jay Vassos-Libove) writes:

>I want to be able to read a QIC-150 tape on the Wangtek (Cipher) 5150
>tape drive attached to my PC (which normally runs Unix) that was written
>in Unix "tar" format (actually, any format, I can probably find a way
>to write it, and any tape format up to QIC-150).

>Can anyone help me find this please?

>Please reply via email and I will summarize -- I can't keep up with
>all of these newsgroups :}

>Thanks!!!
>--

>Jay Vassos-Libove                  libove@libove.det.dec.com
>Digital Equipment Corporation      decwrl!libove.det.dec.com!libove
>Open Systems Resource Center       Opinions? They're mine, mine, all mine!
>Farmington Hills, Michigan         and D.E.C. Can't have 'em!

I have the same problem. But i need it for cpio! Any ideas.
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From: cctr132@csc.canterbury.ac.nz (Nick FitzGerald, CSC, Uni. of Canterbury, NZ)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc
Subject: Re: Error while running at 33 Mhz
Date: 16 Apr 92 12:15:48 +1200
Organization: University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand

In article <92106.151619MDS128@psuvm.psu.edu>, <MDS128@psuvm.psu.edu>
writes:
> I've been having a problem running at 33 Mhz but not at 16 Mhz on my 386.
> I have a "Turbo" button that activates the 33Mhz mode, and whenever I
> switch to this mode, the computer locks.  In this mode, the computer
> won't even boot.  One hint:  the Turbo light stays faintly on in 16 Mhz
> mode - might this mean something?
> This problem was intermittent for about 2 days, and now it's constant.
> When it first started, I was getting errors from QEMM when I tried to
> switch modes.  Now the computer accepts no keyboard input and simply
> freezes when switched to 33 Mhz, even if switched back to 16 Mhz.
> If ANYONE has any idea why this might be happening, please let me know.
> I'm a student and cannot afford to send them my computer for maintenance.

Sounds like flakey RAM to me.  Get your machine checked out by a good
tech.  The Turbo light is more than likely -not- implicated.  These
symptoms are typical of RAM with too slow a refresh for the speed it is
running at.

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