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From: rab@sprite.berkeley.edu (Robert A. Bruce)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: simtel and cica archive CD-ROMs
Date: 15 Apr 92 20:47:04 GMT
Article-I.D.: agate.si4o8INNrke
Organization: University of California, Berkeley
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In article <1992Apr14.180012.657@cis.umassd.edu> darkwing@cis.umassd.edu writes:
>Recnently I read in some postings somewhere that there were CD-ROM versions
>of the cica.cica.indiana.edu windows3 archvie available on CD-ROM as
>well as the wsmr-simtel20.army.mil MSDOS archives on another CD-ROM...
>
>Does anybody know where I could get these CD-ROMs and what the cost is ?

Yes, I am the person that put this stuff on CD-ROM.  Here is a list of the
four discs that are currently available:

CICA MicroSoft Windows CD-ROM.  This disc contains 80 Megabytes of MicroSoft
Windows programs.  It includes hundreds of utilities, games, fonts, bitmaps,
etc.  All are written especially for Windows.  It includes the entire CICA
Windows collection from Indiana University.  This disc was made in March
1992.  The price is $24.95.

Simtel20 MSDOS CD-ROM.  This disc contains about 420 Megabytes of utilities,
programming tools, source code, technical documentation, etc.  It includes
the entire Simtel20 MSDOS Archive.  There is an index file in each directory,
and a master index file in the top directory, that describes each file.  This
disc was made in January 1992.  The price is $24.95.

X11R5 and GNU CD-ROM.  This disc contains all the X11R5 Window System sources,
including all the contributed software, all the GNU source code, the Usenet
comp.sources.x archives, and sparc binaries and libraries for the Gnu programs
and the X11R5 server and clients.  The X11R5 sources are at patch level nine.
This disc was made in February 1992, and is also distributed by the Sun User
Group.  The price is $39.95.

Source Code CD-ROM.  This disc contains the Usenet source archives, the
Simtel20 Unix-C Archive, and a large collection of MSDOS source code.  There
is a total of about 600 megabytes of source code.  It is mostly C, but also
has some pascal, lisp, c++, modula2, fortran, assembly, etc.  This disc was
made in March 1992.  The price is $39.95.

All of these discs are in ISO-9660 format, so they are readable on almost
any system.

Additional discs of the same title are half price.  Shipping and handling
is $5 (per order, not per disc) for US/Canada, and $10 for overseas.  If you
live in California, please add sales tax.  You can send a check or money
order to

    Bob Bruce
    1547 Palos Verdes, Suite 260
    Walnut Creek, CA  94596
    USA

Or you can order by MasterCard or Visa.  If you do not trust email
with your credit card number, you can call me at

	+1 800 786-9907
	+1 510 947-5996
	+1 510 947-1644 FAX

There will be other discs available soon.

    -bob
From: tanida@forseti.css.gov (Tom Tanida)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Tseng drivers at wuarchive
Date: 8 Apr 92 19:52:15 GMT
Reply-To: tanida@esosun.css.gov (Tom Tanida)

The Windows 3.1 Tseng video drivers are available at
wuarchive.wustl.edu, in /pub/MSDOS_UPLOADS:
-rw-r--r--  1 3007     archive    264448 Apr  7 12:15 et3-w31.zip
-rw-r--r--  1 3007     archive   1066483 Apr  7 12:17 et4-w31.zip

The first file is for the ET3000 boards.  The second is for the ET4000
boards.

These might help some of the "mysterious" problems that have been
occuring that some people have had with Win 3.1 (note device drivers
run at a lower ring level in the Windows kernel, and thus have
a much greater potential than normal Win apps to cause erratic
behavior).  Plus these drivers will give you mouse support in a DOS Window.

I've heard there is/will be a Tseng BBS- if it's in operation, maybe
somebody could post the phone #.  I don't have the time to mail the
drivers out to those who request, but I think wuarchive might have
a mail server (though I don't have any info on that since I just FTP).
I'll try to get the drivers onto cica once cica comes back to the
world of the living.  :-)

-Tom
tanida@esosun.css.gov
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From: pvonk@scott.skidmore.edu (Pierre VonKaenel)
Subject: Re: Why I'm sticking with Windows
Organization: Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs NY, 12866
Date: Thu, 16 Apr 1992 00:33:54 GMT

In article <1992Apr15.201720.3686@alw.nih.gov> donnel@helix.nih.gov (Donald A. Lehn) writes:
>/>  [another post...]
>/>So tell us Donald, what system will you be running NT on?
>
>Well lets see, the Silicon Graphics Indigo?, the microVax?, the Sun?, the new
>486?  perhaps even this Convex multiprocessor supercomputer?
>
>Gee, what an excellent question! I guess I just can't decide. Hmmmm!  What
>a dilemma.  Your right, perhaps I better see if I can get several free OS/2
>upgrades.  I might need quite a few first pages.  ;-)
>
>Windows NT - The one operating system that fits all.
>

[A serious question.... no flame intended...]

Would you seriously give up UNIX on all your gov't computers in your
department for NT?  Would the wizards let you do that???


-- 
Pierre von Kaenel	| Skidmore College	     | pvonk@scott.skidmore.edu
Math & CS Dept.		| Saratoga Springs, NY 12866 | (518)584-5000 Ext 2391

"Baseball is 90% mental, the other half is physical" - Yogi
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From: rscott@vineland.pubs.stratus.com (Richard Scott)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: NDW Backup Problem with WIN 3.1
Keywords: NDW NBW backup Norton Desktop
Date: 13 Apr 92 14:11:08 GMT

I installed WIN 3.1 this weekend and have been using it with no problems (my  
DeskJet 500 even printed the TrueType fonts with no hassles).  I was also able  
to do an incremental backup with the Norton Backup for Windows (under NDW 1.0)  
with no problems.  However, when I tried to do a full backup that required more  
than one floppy, it bombed and I got tossed out into DOS when NBW asked for and  
tried to detect the second floppy.  Anybody else have this problem and/or have  
a suggestion?  System is a CompuAdd 386/25Mhz, 8Mb RAM, 110Mb IDE hard drive,  
DOS 5.0.
-----
Richard Scott
Stratus Computer, Inc.
rscott@vineland.pubs.stratus.com
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From: rnguyen@netcom.com (richard nguyen)
Subject: Speak.exe and .wav files
Date: Wed, 15 Apr 92 19:29:56 GMT
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  (408 241-9760 guest) 



  Speak.exe ,wavepool.zip , voc2wav.zip and some others .wav files
  can be found ( ftp ) at wuarchive.wustl.edu:/pub/MSDOS_UPLOADS
  have fun :)

  rn


-- 


rnguyen@netcom.COM		Richard Nguyen

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From: rischarc@icd.ab.com (Charles M. Rischar)
Subject: Win3.1 and AMI PRO printing
Organization: Allen-Bradley Company, Inc.
Date: Fri, 17 Apr 1992 16:43:37 GMT

I have had AMI PRO 2.0 for about 6 months now, and have been quite pleased with
its operation with my Desk Jet 500 printer.  I recently upgraded to Win 3.1 and
everything still functions, but printing appears to be significantly slower.  Is
this just my imagination? 

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From: steveb@col.hp.com (Steve Bourgault)
Subject: Re: Win 3.1's Bad DeskJet 500 Driver (AAAARGH!)
Date: Fri, 10 Apr 1992 22:22:31 GMT
Organization: HP Colorado Springs Division

> 
> Anyways...back to a more constructive note...  Has anyone else gotten their
> DeskJet 500 or DeskJet + to work properly with 3.1?  Does anyone know how

    I pulled the new DeskJet drivers from cica a couple of weeks ago.
    This version is quite an improvement.  You need to disable the
    print manager when using it, but it is well worth it.  I have no
    problem printing TrueType, ATM, or Intellifont fonts in Win3.1
    with this new driver.  I don't know if cica is back on-line after
    having the disk problems, but if it isn't maybe one of the mirror
    sites has a copy

    Steve Bourgault
    steveb@col.hp.com



    DISCLAIMER: this message is my personal opinion and does not
    constitute the support, opinion or policy of my employer.
From: nevries@accucx.cc.ruu.nl (Nico de Vries.)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: Windows NT is Vaporware ( was Re: Why I'm sticking with Windows)
Date: 16 Apr 92 07:50:44 GMT
Organization: Academic Computer Centre Utrecht

In <1992Apr15.212538.7249@rsd0.rsd.dl.nec.com> randy@rss.dl.nec.com (Randy Bullard) writes:

>|> Well lets see, the Silicon Graphics Indigo?, the microVax?, the Sun?, the new
>|> 486?  perhaps even this Convex multiprocessor supercomputer?

>|> 
>|> Windows NT - The one operating system that fits all.

>Give me a break.  Windows NT is a promise, vaporware, hand waving, blah blah blah.
>Do you really think that people with the systems your listing above are going
>to drop their current OS (usually UNIX) for Windows NT?  Do you really think that
>Microsoft, a company with no real experience on any platform other than an Intel
>box, is going to rapidly develop an OS for every computer on the planet and that

Don't underestimate Windows/NT options. Microsoft has "bought" a lot of experts
from DEC and some others on this field who had already something like NT
(not meant for Windows but the major part already was there).

>applications written in this OS are going to be transparently portable across these
>platforms?  What fairy land are you living in?  I'll believe Windows NT and all that
>it promises after I see it, and no matter how neeto keen it is, I sincerely doubt it
>will make a real dent into any platform other than the intel box.  
The strongest point about NT is probably Microsoft marketting and that might
be a good reason other platforms switch as well. One univeral platform
for almost all platforms would have some big advantages for both users
and developpers after all.

>|> Donald A. Lehn, Ph.D.                      Phone: (301) 496-2885

>- Randy Bullard  -    Dallas, TX randy@rss.dl.nec.com

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From: gtj@goanna.cs.rmit.oz.au (Glenn T Jayaputera)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms,comp.windows.ms.programmer
Subject: OLE specification -- thank you Microsoft
Date: 7 Apr 92 14:36:34 GMT
Followup-To: poster
Organization: RMIT Department of Computer Science

Sometime ago I was posting news re:OLE specification.  Apparently I got
one reply which said that he will send me a copy of OLE.  Today I just got
those specifications + disk, which apparently was from Microsoft Corp.
I would like to thank you to the person who mailed and sent me the copy, I lost
your email address thus cannot say thanks directly to you.  Sorry to use this
bandwith..no choice!!

If you read this mail, can you please mail me..there are couple of questions I
would like to ask...

Thanks again...

 _--_|\     Glenn Jayaputera
/      \    gtj@goanna.cs.rmit.oz.au 
\_.--._/    Dept. of Computer Science, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology 
      v     Melbourne, Australia
From: lchang@eniac.seas.upenn.edu (Ling Chang)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: SPEAKER.EXE WORKS...SOMETIMES
Keywords: Win 3.1 speaker driver
Date: 17 Apr 92 19:29:19 GMT
Article-I.D.: netnews.74690
Organization: University of Pennsylvania

jcwasik@pbhyf.PacBell.COM (Joe Wasik) mentioned:

>I downloaded SPEAKER.EXE from CompuServe and found its twin brother
>SPEAK.EXE at anonymous ftp site bmgt-rt.umd.edu.  The latter also had
>a bunch of wav files.

>It works great when starting and stopping Windows.  I hear a bugle
>when Windows starts and Arnold's "I'll be back" when it's stopped.

>However, when I trigger other sound conditions, like exclamation,
>question mark, or asterisk, my pc goes mute.

>Anyone also noticed this?  Does it work for those of you with
>SoundBlaster cards?

Well, I found out some interesting things.  When first use the driver,
I got the same results.  Well, the important thing is to select the 
sounds in control panel and click ok..may want to try it twice.  Also,
check the location of you .wav files.

What I did is that since I have quite a few .wav files, I decided to
move them into a sub-director called C:\WINDOWS\WAV ; I use control panel
to change to the directory and select the sounds from there. I selected
one or two events and the rest of the events defaulted to other sound
files.  Click ok but I got the same phenomena as before.

Ok, to be comprehensive, check the win.ini file under [sounds].  Inside
you'll see the description of the events and the related sound files.
If your wav files are not in c:\windows, you can manually edit it (not
too dificult, use notepad) and add the directory to the files.  For
example:
[sounds]
SystemAsterisk=C:\WINDOWS\WAV\CHIMES.WAV,Asterisk
SystemHand=C:\WINDOWS\WAV\GLASS.WAV,Critical Stop
SystemDefault=,Default Beep
SystemExclamation=C:\WINDOWS\WAV\MEEPMEEP.WAV,Exclamation
SystemQuestion=C:\WINDOWS\WAV\CHIMES.WAV,Question
SystemExit=C:\WINDOWS\WAV\IBEBACK.WAV,Windows Exit
SystemStart=C:\WINDOWS\WAV\tada.wav,Windows Start

Then save it and things should be fine.  If you change the sounds again,
you usually don't have to edit the win.ini again because the sound icon
in control panel will default to the c:\windows\wav directory to find the
sounds.

Hope this helps,
Ling S. Chang
lchang@eniac.seas.upenn.edu
From: sarnold@bgsu.edu (G. Steve Arnold)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: Fastdisk or 32 bit access (retry)
Date: 17 Apr 92 06:12:49 GMT
Organization: Bowling Green State University B.G., Oh.

jgarland@kean.ucs.mun.ca writes:
> Anyway, does anyone have any information on fastdisk and a 
> microscience 1304 cylinder drive which uses dmdrvr.bin for 
> access to cylinders 1025 on up.  My 3.1 is  'in the mail' still,

	Depends on what type of INTERFACE your drive uses. From what 
I understand (FTFM), any drive except ESDI and SCSI, which require 
drivers to access the drives (PLEASE don't flame if I'm wrong about ESDI --
I have no direct experience) can use fastdisk, though one of my friends 
claims that his RLL can't take advantage. Obviously it works fine
on an IDE system. I have no Idea about MFM.

steve
 
-- 
   The only difference between a Communist        G. Steve Arnold
   and a Socialist is that the Socialist will     Dept. Math and Stats.
   only confiscate the resources that are         BGSU
   profitable.                                    sarnold@andy.bgsu.edu
                        "Keep circulating the tapes"
From: ede140r@monu6.cc.monash.edu.au (N. Michelis)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Printing on a OKI 390 manually in WIN 3.1
Date: 15 Apr 92 23:40:22 GMT
Organization: Monash University, Melb., Australia.

I am having problems printing manual sheet feed on my OKI 390 dot matrix
printer.  Win 3.1 only seems to want to print a document continuosly without
allowing me to pause at the end of each page.  Microsoft hasn't been much use
in solving my problem.  

I have narrowed it down to a driver problem but none of the 24 pin printer drivers work either when selecting the manual sheet feed option.

Has anyone else had this problem, If so , is it in fact a driver problem.  Where can I get an updated driver for the OKI 390.
From: daniel.campbell@cccbbs.UUCP (Daniel Campbell) 
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: RE: HOW MAKE DISKS INVISI
Date: 11 Apr 92 05:13:00 GMT
Distribution: world
Organization: Cincinnati Computer Connection BBS - Cincinnati, OH - 513-752-8248
Reply-To: daniel.campbell@cccbbs.UUCP (Daniel Campbell) 

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                
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From: wcn@cs.brown.edu (Wen-Chun Ni)
Subject: Re: MS Wins Apple suit!!!
Organization: Brown University Department of Computer Science
Date: Thu, 16 Apr 1992 02:43:04 GMT

In article <1992Apr15.224824.23864@cs.mcgill.ca> becap@cs.mcgill.ca () writes:
>  Computers:  MICROSOFT and Hewlett Win Ruling Over Apple ----
>  By  Stephen  Kreider Yoder Staff Reporter of The Wall Street
>  Journal
	<stuff deleted>

Even though Windows is not that good, I am glad that Apple didn't win.
This case is basically ridiculous: copy-righted look-and-feel? Give
me a break!
From: bakalov@WFUNET.WFU.EDU (Rudy Bakalov)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: re: HELP: Win 3.1-- THANX
Date: 7 Apr 92 21:35:32 GMT


        Thanks to everyone who answered my cry for help as well as everyone
who posted in the newsgroup.
        I managed to install Win 3.1 by simply deleteing all *.EXE files.
It seems to me that SETUP doesn't copy them if they already exist.
        Still, I don't know why I can run Win 3.1 in STANDARD mode with
386MAX when the MAX manual says I can't. Any idea?
        Also, SETUP dies when it tries to install the *.FON files from
disk #1. My solution-- copy disk #1 and disk #2 on the HD and run SETUP there.
It works fine.
        I am very pleased with Stacker so far-- I have no problems at all. No
READ-ONLY disks, etc. So, Stacker was didn't cause any problems when installing
Win 3.1.
        Thanks again for the help. Have fun with Win 3.1.
--
                        "Good Taste is Always an Asset"

| Rudy Bakalov, MBA Student
| Babcock Graduate School of Management, Wake Forest University, NC 27109
| Internet bakalov@ac.wfunet.wfu.edu
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From: stevek@hpfcmgw.FC.HP.COM (Steve Kauder)
Date: Tue, 14 Apr 1992 13:08:32 GMT
Subject: Re: Windows 3.0 and comm. ports 3 & 4
Organization: HP Fort Collins, CO
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms


I think you must have Windows 3.1 to support COM3 and COM4.

r's,

sk
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From: steveb@col.hp.com (Steve Bourgault)
Subject: Re: Win 3.1's Bad DeskJet 500 Driver (AAAARGH!)
Date: Mon, 13 Apr 1992 14:54:38 GMT
Organization: HP Colorado Springs Division

bradley@cs.utexas.edu (Bradley L. Richards) writes:
> 
>Being (a) new to Windows and hence (b) ignorant of font technologies, I have a
>simplistic question.  Can I use the true-type fonts in WordPerfect for Windows,
>using my DeskJet+ ?  If so, how do I install the fonts in WordPerfect, so that
>it knows how to handle spacing and so forth?  And how does it handle sending

    I am not familiar with WordPerfect for Windows - I use Word for
    Windows, but I assume that it will use the TrueType fonts also.
    Once you have installed the new driver on your system then all
    you should have to do is go into your application and point it
    at the new driver and then you should have access to the new
    fonts.  Everything (in terms of spacing, etc) will be taken care
    of for you.

    Steve Bourgault
From: magid@ocf.berkeley.edu (Paul Magid)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Genoa is a pompous slug!
Date: 15 Apr 1992 06:16:14 GMT
Organization: U. C. Berkeley Open Computing Facility
NNTP-Posting-Host: headcrash.berkeley.edu

A week or so ago I b*tched about Genoa's attitude and sluggishness with respect 
to producing Win 3.1 drivers.  This is to update that posting.  Today, I found
the "beta drivers" on their bbs.  I do not know but I think that they think 
that we are idiots,  (And herein lies the pomposity) because they have 
included a new install program but the drivers ARE THE SAME ONES THAT WERE
PREVIOUSLY AVAILABLE.  The drivers are dated the same and they exhibit the
same bugs that the old ones did.  (Same file size etc)  The drivers do 
not allow the new mouse in a dos window feature and they produce flaky results
when you press ctrl-alt-del.  (Just to name a few of the bugs)  I guess
that my urgings for you, the consumer, to lobby them has spurred them 
to act.  (Albeit not the kind of action I had in mind)  One thing is for
d*mn sure I am not going to buy a Genoa board the next time around, and
I would not recommend them to my worst enemy.  (The only reason I got the
board is b/c it came with the computer and I did not know any better)  It is 
now nine days after the official release of Win 3.1 and they as far as ever 
from producing the drivers.  This is infuriating b/c industry standards and
common marketing sense dictate that the drivers be ready by the date of 
release of Win3.1.  Once again I urge you to let Genoa know how you feel about
their behavior.	Their voice phone number is: 	408-432-9090
		Their BBs' # is:		408-943-1231

Paul

P.S.  If you do post a message on their BBS do not be surprised if you too
	are ignored as I have been repeatedly in the past.
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From: jokim@jarthur.claremont.edu (John H. Kim)
Subject: Re: Why go to 3.1 if 2.0 works
Organization: Harvey Mudd College
Date: Sun, 12 Apr 1992 06:06:41 GMT


More correction of OS/2 misinformation, etc. etc.:




jinli@dgp.toronto.edu (Jin Li) writes:

>UI for OS/2 is quite confusing and is very different from Windows 3.x
>If you run DOS, Windows 3.x and OS/2 app at the same time, you will
>be confused quickly and will likely get frustrated.
>There are lots of inconsistency within OS/2 and between Windows 3.x
>and OS/2.  e.g. in OS/2, left mouse btn is used for selection only and
>right mouse btn is for dragging.  In Windows 3.x, left btn is for selection
>and dragging.  You will have "fun" with this for hours.

Not true.  The default OS/2 setup is different from Windows (it uses
the right mouse button much more extensively).  BUT you can configure
nearly all the mouse button behaviors so it acts like Windows or the
Mac.  You can adjust lots of other things like how/where menus show up,
what each and every folder looks like when opened, what happens to
objects when you minimize them, etc.

Incidently, after playing with WPS for half a week, IMHO the interface
for OS/2 is *more* intuitive than the Mac, and much more than Windows.
Everything is an object, and you can perform actions on them accordingly.
Reports from OS/2 users indicate that at first, nearly everybody hates
the new interface.  But after a few days of use, everybody loves it.
-- 
John H. Kim                 | (This space to be filled when I
jokim@jarthur.claremont.edu | think of something very clever 
uunet!jarthur!jokim         | to use as a disclaimer)
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From: gunther@world.std.com (Gunther W Anderson)
Subject: Re: SoundBlaster Pro Drivers for Win 3.1
Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
Distribution: world 
Date: Tue, 14 Apr 1992 13:40:49 GMT

In regards to posting the drivers files to some archive site, the readme's
in the package specifically prohibit this.  Normally, I would ignore such
legalisms, but since Creative Labs are such neat people, I feel compelled
to honor their request.  Just keep being persistent at their BBS number or
Tech Support number, and you'll get through.  I did, and I'm no one special.

By the by, they will send you the drivers for something like $7 to cover
shipping, media, and bribing government officials.

Gunther
From: Mike.Jacobson@f32.n282.z1.tdkt.kksys.com (Mike Jacobson)
Sender: FredGate@tdkt.kksys.com
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: Matlab
Date: Fri, 10 Apr 1992 07:49:00 -0600

I just spoke with Math Works two days ago, they assured me that their 
newest 386 version (k, i think) will run under windows at the dos 
prompt.  Also, they informed me, that they are indeed working on a 
windows version of matlab, but it is not yet available.  A pre-release 
of the windows version is being used by the simulab program which, I 
understand, uses the windows version kernal.  The 386 version is free 
for the asking, if you are a registered user of course. mike.

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