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From: tom@incom.de (Thomas Staudte)
Subject: Re: ----------For Sale or Trade----------
Reply-To: tom@in.sub.org
Organization: Thomas Staudte EDV-Beratung, Germany
Date: Tue, 21 Jul 1992 10:43:41 GMT

In article <1992Jul13.153715.1281@gnv.ifas.ufl.edu>  
mschweder@gnv.ifas.ufl.edu (Mark Schweder) writes:
>  I have the following items for sale or trade:
> 
>    * Adobe Type Manager 1.0
>    * CorelDraw 1.2, 2.0 & 2.01
>    * Crosstalk Mk.4 1.1
>    * dBASE IV 1.0 & 1.1
>    * DesignCAD 3D 3.1
>    * Excel 2.0, 2.1 & 3.0
>    * Expanz Disk Expander Card 1.2, 2.0 & 2.1
>    * Grammatik for Windows 2.0
>    * MathCAD 2.0 & 2.5
>    * ScanMan Hand Scanner with Ansel 1.0 & PC Paintbrush Plus 1.12
>    * Suncom Joystick
>    * Windows 2.1 & 3.0
>    * Word Exchange
>    * Word for Windows 1.0 & 1.1
> 
>  I have the original disks and manuals for all the software and I'm  
getting rid 
>  of this stuff because I have upgraded to the highest level available or  
no  
>  longer need or desire to possess these items. If you would like to buy  
any of
>  these items, give me an offer. If you would like to trade, I'm looking  
for a 
>  386/33 or better mother board and a high capacity IDE hard disk.
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Mark,

If I'm understanding you correctly, you want to sell the books and disks  
of program you've upgraded to the most recent release. If that's true, you  
would be wise if you'd check your licence agreements and/or upgrade  
informations.

Whenever you upgrade you are [more or less directly] told to destroy the  
manuals and disks of the old version, if you don't have to send them back  
anyway. What you're trying to do is to sell illegal copies of programs.

Tom
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
From: dont@klic.rain.com (Don taylor)
Subject: Reading Word Perfect 5.1 file with 5.0
Organization: KLIC
Distribution: na
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1992 06:06:51 GMT

Have WP5.0.  Was sent a file `presumably' created with 5.1.

I can `look' at the file with 5.0 without a problem but when
I try to read the file with 5.0 to edit it I get "incompatible
format".  Is there anything I can do about this, short of the
upgrade to 5.1?

Please reply by email if possible.

Thanks
Don Taylor
503-235-6853
dont@klic.rain.com
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From: thoh@tekig5.pen.tek.com (Tho Dong Hoang)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Gravis game board
Date: 28 Jul 92 23:10:08 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: Tektronix, Inc., Beaverton,  OR.


     Greeting
     I bought a used Gravis game board without a manual. This board has
     a adjustable knob attached to a cable. Does anyboby know what this
     knob does and how to use this knob ?. Thanks in advance.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Re: 4dos version 4.01 vs ndos version 6.01
From: Steve.Withers@bbs.actrix.gen.nz
Date: Sun, 26 Jul 1992 13:04:05 GMT
Organization: Actrix Information Exchange

In article <14sppkINN66m@network.ucsd.edu> nbeck@weber.ucsd.edu (Nathaniel Beck) writes:
> I currently use ndos 6.01 (off norton 6 distribution). I gather than
> ndos if 4dos. I just downloaded 4dos 4.01. Is this a significant
> improvement over ndos 6.01?
> 

ndos started out as 4dos version 3.0. Whether 4dos v4.01 and ndos v6.01 are
any different is a good question. 

Norton has licensed 4dos under the name of ndos.
 
Steve
 
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From: thompson@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Re: OS/2 and ET4000 cards
Date: 28 Jul 92 19:06:53 CDT
Organization: University of Kansas Academic Computing Services

In article <1992Jul28.173432.15706@infonode.ingr.com>, palmerc@abulafia.b21.ingr.com (Christopher M. Palmer) writes:
> I was reading one of John Dvorak's columns in a PC magazine where he
> was discussing the joys and pitfalls of running OS/2.  In an
> annoyingly offhand remark, he says that OS/2 doesn't like Trident
> ET4000 SVGA cards.  I am about to purchase a system that has a Trident
> ET4K card in it.  While I am buying the machine to run Windows, I
> would like to keep my OS/2 options open.  What is this mysterious
> incompatibility problem?  Is it just a scarcity of OS/2 drivers, or is
> there something deeper?
> 

Some of the newer ET4000 cards will go out of sync when you try to bring
up a DOS or Windows fullscreen or window in OS/2.  There is a fix 
available on the OS/2 ftp site (I think hobbes.??).

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From: hutchinson@watson.bms.com (ROBERT HUTCHINSON)
Subject: Re: WordPerfect Password Problem
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.4-b1  
Organization: Bristol Myers Squibb Pharmaceutical Research Institute
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1992 14:30:00 GMT

    My problem has been solved.  My thanks to everyone who responded.

Bob Hutchinson
From: stella@gandalf.rutgers.edu (Ricky Suave Stella)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Re: Modem Use and Phone Calls
Date: 22 Jul 92 21:28:13 GMT
Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J.

berger@atropa (Mike Berger) writes:

>hst001@muvms3.bitnet (Donna J. Spindel) writes:
>>Is there a way to set up a computer that is running on a modem so that when a
>>call is coming in on the phone line being used, a signal will appear on the
>>monitor to alert the computer user that there is a call?  Please reply to my
>>e-mail address. Thanks.
>*----
>This is a trick question, right?  When the phone line is being used,
>a call can't come in.
>--

Did you ever heard of call waiting???

Is that the case Donna?  If it is, chances are the connection will be lost and
you'll have beeps and garbage on the screen.



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From: cb@tamarack13.timbuk (Chris Brewster)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Re: OS/2 and ET4000 cards
Date: 28 Jul 92 21:37:55 GMT
Organization: pubs
In-reply-to: palmerc@abulafia.b21.ingr.com's message of Tue, 28 Jul 1992 17:34:32 GMT

Christopher M. Palmer writes:

   I was reading one of John Dvorak's columns in a PC magazine where he
   was discussing the joys and pitfalls of running OS/2.  In an
   annoyingly offhand remark, he says that OS/2 doesn't like Trident
   ET4000 SVGA cards.  I am about to purchase a system that has a Trident
   ET4K card in it.  While I am buying the machine to run Windows, I
   would like to keep my OS/2 options open.  What is this mysterious
   incompatibility problem?  Is it just a scarcity of OS/2 drivers, or is
   there something deeper?                ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

It's just a driver issue.  I fault IBM for not having the driver ready
earlier, but you can run OS/2 in VGA mode with no trouble.  There are
drivers for ET4000, but in one way or another they're not the
full-fledged driver that can do seamless Windows and other things that
they should do.  I expect the full-strength driver will be out with the
September bugfix release (whatever they're calling it).  If you're
interested in OS/2, be sure to read the comp.os.os2.misc group.  ET4000
issues come up repeatedly there.

Chris Brewster
cb@cray.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
From: vu0350@bingsuns.cc.binghamton.edu (allen lutins)
Subject: Re: Seagate ST251 INfo needed
Organization: State University of New York at Binghamton
Date: Fri, 24 Jul 1992 19:22:35 GMT

In article <BrwFIy.3uA@news.cso.uiuc.edu> djr48312@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (X X) writes:
>
>Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
>Subject: Seagate ST251 Info needed
>
>Im swapping a hard drive from an older machine into a newer one for a friend
>of mine.  I need all the info to put in CMOS on the newer machine.  Anyone
>know the head, track, etc. count for the Seagate ST251 hard drive?


From the _Universal Installation Handbook_ by Seagate:

                        ST-251  ST-251-1
Formatted Capacity (MB)   42      42
Read/Write Heads          6       6
Data Cylinders:           820     820
Step Pulse Range (u-sec): 3-200   3-200
Access Time (msec):       40      28
Write Precomp (cyl.):     N/A     N/A
Reduced Write Current     N/A     N/A
Power (Watts):            11      12

...hope this helps...


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From: erh0362@tesla.njit.edu (Elliotte Rusty Harold)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Downloading PostScript files from PC to Apple LaserWriter
Date: 23 Jul 92 21:35:15 GMT
Organization: New Jersey Institute of Technology


	How would one download a PostScript file from a DOS box to an original 
Apple LaserWriter in such a manner that the PostScript gets interpreted as 
PostScript rather than as ASCII text?  i.e. is there a DOS or Windows (but 
preferably DOS) equivalent to SendPS or LaserWriter Utility?  E-mail replies 
appreciated.

Elliotte Rusty Harold		Department of Applied Mathematics
elharo@m.njit.edu		New Jersey Institute of Technology
erh0362@tesla.njit.edu		Newark, NJ 07103
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
From: rgaudre@triton.unm.edu (Ron Gaudreau)
Subject: Re: MSDOS 5.01
Date: Tue, 28 Jul 92 16:10:14 GMT
Organization: University of New Mexico, Albuquerque

In article <151cvoINNl5q@agate.berkeley.edu> bho@ocf.berkeley.edu () writes:
>I have just heard from a friend that MS-DOS 5.01 is out in beta and
>will be forthcoming!  Has anybody heard anything about this purported
>upgrade and exactly what is Microsoft promising this time around?
>
>Also, I have heard, again from the same friend, that Norton Utilities
>has had a maintenance update to 6.02.  Now, again, what is ole
>Peter Norton have for us in store now?
>
>Any information about his would be great.
> 

I'm not sure if they have already sent it out to some beta sites yet. I just got
the paperwork in the mail to sign up to possibly be a beta site. ( I assume
its because I was a windows 3.1 beta site) The letter said that they will be
selecting sites later in the year. 

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
From: mmaston@netcom.com (Michael Maston)
Subject: Re: Microsoft C question
Date: Thu, 23 Jul 92 00:46:47 GMT
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services (408 241-9760 guest)
Distribution: usa

Sounds like you exceeded the capacity of the memory model you are set
to compile for (I think you are set to the TINY mode which tries to crunch
all you program into one segment (64K)).  The easiest solution is to set
your memory model option to the next higher mode (if I had one of refs here
with me I would tell you which it is, but it should be obvious), which should
be in your compile/link option settings.  Not really a big problem.

Michael Maston
GTE Government Systems
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
From: drice@ponder.csci.unt.edu (Keith Rice)
Subject: Re: 1701 hard-drive error
Keywords: 1701, hardrive
Organization: University of North Texas
Distribution: usa
Date: Tue, 21 Jul 1992 05:21:18 GMT

In <36353@uflorida.cis.ufl.edu> ggs@reef.cis.ufl.edu (Gary Sanders) writes:

>The 1701 harddrive error just happened to me today in my compaq portable.
>It was caused by the hard drive power cable making a bad connection.
>I reseated the plug, but that did not work at first.  I had to clean out the
>connector and scratch it a little.  If this is your problem, then you will
>notice that you dont hear the hard drive spinning up when you turn the
>computer on.  Try claening the connector and checking the voltage ( or using
>a different connector if available ).

I also had a 1701 error on my Compaq Portable.  The hard drive motor wouldn't
spin. I had to nudge the motor's flywheel to get it to run. The drive lasted
for about 9 more months or so before it finally went south on me.

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From: berger@atropa (Mike Berger)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Re: Modem Use and Phone Calls
Date: 22 Jul 92 19:12:18 GMT
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana

hst001@muvms3.bitnet (Donna J. Spindel) writes:
>Is there a way to set up a computer that is running on a modem so that when a
>call is coming in on the phone line being used, a signal will appear on the
>monitor to alert the computer user that there is a call?  Please reply to my
>e-mail address. Thanks.
*----
This is a trick question, right?  When the phone line is being used,
a call can't come in.
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From: s_tucker@forsyth.wsnc.org
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Re: phone # of Stac Electronics?
Date: 21 Jul 92 20:38:42 EST
Organization: Forsyth County, Winston-Salem  NC

In article <1992Jul20.144240.2989@desire.wright.edu>, lhong@desire.wright.edu writes:
> 
> 
> Hello there,
> 
> I would like to get the phone number of Stac Electronics which manufactured
> the Stacker 2.0.  I would greatly appreciate you

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support through Stac's forum on COmpuserve.  If all else fails I believe they
are located in Carlsbad, CA

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From: bartz@electron.rutgers.edu (Ed Bartz)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Color Graphics Terminal Emulation?????
Keywords: Terminal,Graphics.
Date: 22 Jul 92 14:03:50 GMT
Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J.


	Does anybody know of a terminal emulator that can do color 
graphics (I couldn't name a color graphics terminal off hand, but
I have used them a few times).  The worst part is, is has to run
on a 12 mhz 286/Ega system.  
	Please Email replys to bartz@physics.rutgers.edu.
				
					Thanks in advance,
						Ed Bartz
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From: esudh@warwick.ac.uk (Flint)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: URGENT!!! HELP NEEDED WITH INT 24 FAILURE OVERRIDE !!!!
Date: 23 Jul 92 20:11:30 GMT
Organization: Computing Services, Warwick University, UK


HI!

	I have a very urgent request for help concerning Microsoft C/
Quick C, Ms-Dos and INT 24 Failures.

Working for BT I have come across a need to write a database system with 
a fair degree of disk access. However, I need either a method of
formatting the stderr stream or a method of replacing the INT 24 vector
with one of my own.

I'd prefer a vector redirection based solution, but I cannot for the life of me
get the program to work as it should (it compiles..)

	At present I am (have tried) copying the old interrupt vector 
so it can be restored later , then substituting my own vector address
pointing to a simple routine that simple returns, maybe printing an error
 message first.

Even compiling without the stack checking (as required in the Turbo C
environment) the program seems to either ignore my interrupt vector
completely, or executes my routine then freezes.

All I need is something that will return a value of zero somehow without
the humungous error messages that usually occur, and without the
press so and so to continue or abort etc...

If ya can help email me as soon as you can...This database has to be finished 
soon. Ack. You could say the critical errror handler has gone critical.

Many thanks,

	Ian Coggins,
	Comp systems Engineer.
	esudh@csv.warwick.ac.uk
     or ic@dcs.warwick.ac.uk
Organization: TECHNION - Israel Institute of Technology.
Date: Thursday, 23 Jul 1992 19:06:44 IST
From: Jacques J. Goldberg <PHR00JG@TECHNION.BITNET>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Re: Modem Use and Phone Calls
 <92204.225318RFM@psuvm.psu.edu>

Ok I am no phone expert but I would guess that the flash signal comes from
La Plus Belle thru something else than the 2 middle wires on your RJ11
connector. Now any modem passes all wires over anyway to the phone socket
on the modem, so if you would leave a phone that has such a flash light open,
assuming you have the extra warning service, you would SEE it on your phone.
You also would probably hear for free the lovely chat between your modem and
its remote mate. This is also certainly true if you connect a phone in
parallel with the modem: after you are conncted, lift the phone and watch
the flash...And if it works, tell me that I guessed right: such service does
not exist yet on my exchange, so that I can't try it.
From: peter@global.hacktic.nl (Peter Busser)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Amiga <--> PC diplomacy 
Date: Sun, 19 Jul 92 22:04:13 GMT
Distribution: world
Organization: What organization???


In article <1992Jul21.204217.15732@ucsu.Colorado.EDU> chuj@horton.Colorado.EDU writes:

  > That's quite funny, since PC mag did a review on how the 040-25 matches
  > up to a DX2 486-50, the 486 blew the doors off the 040.
Why has the 040 doors? And who cares about a 486 blowing off the doors of a
040? Is that significant? Does it say anything about the work one can do with
such a beast?

  > And look at your specs bud!
I don't have specs.

  > According to BYTE mag, the 040-25 runs with 2.4 MFLOPS, and then
  > the 486-33 does 2.6 MFLOPS w/o a weitek 4167.
  > Then look at your MIPS, etc...
I don't have MIPS.

BTW, wasn't MIPS acronym for Meaningless Instructions Per Second? Wonder what
MFLOPS meant though... C'mon guys, what good does this comparing of meaningless
numbers do to anyone?

Greetings,
Peter Busser
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From: Jim_Johnson@abcd.Houghton.MI.US (Jim Johnson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Re: help : which is better MSDOS 5.0 or DRDOS 6.0
Distribution: world
Date: 29 Jul 92 08:40:59 EST
Organization: Amiga BitSwap Central Dispatch

I have installed MSDOS 5.0 on several machines and DRDOS 6.0 on one (mine).
I can't give you an all inclusive - "choose this one" type of response. 
Both are significantly better than their predecessors.  I would like to
make a point though - both versions of DOS are aimmed at 386/486 machines. 
They both give you much more conventional memory if you can stuff code into
all the nooks and crannies available to remappable memory (386/486).  On a
286 machine or an 8086 with expanded memory, I think DRDOS 6.0 has a bit
more flexibility for memory useage than MSDOS 5.

I've heard that MSDOS 5.0 is a bit faster, but I haven't installed both
DOSes on the same machine running the same applications, so I really can't
say whether or not this is true.

DRDOS 6.0 comes with a much better set of utilities (I removed many of the
little PD .COM files from my hard drive that I've have used for years), but
keep in mind that BASIC in whatever form is useful for a lot of quick and
dirty tasks and MSDOS 5.0 comes with QBasic and DRDOS has no included
programming language.  From what little I have used DRDOS's graphical
shell, it appears to be a stripped down version of GEM - which was quite
popular.

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From: listl@Informatik.TU-Muenchen.DE (Andreas Listl)
Subject: Suppress Booting by Ctrl-Alt-Delete
Keywords: Booting, Ctrl-Alt-Delete
Originator: listl@sunbayer28.informatik.tu-muenchen.de
Organization: Technische Universitaet Muenchen, Germany
Date: Tue, 28 Jul 1992 07:18:23 GMT


Hello,

I am looking for a TSR-Program (TSR = Terminate and stay resident) which 
prevents the computer of beeing booted, if someone presses Ctrl-Alt-Delete.
A small C-Program would be fine.

Please send hints or solutions per e-mail to:
                 
                      listl@informatik.tu-muenchen.de

Thanks, Andy.
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From: pkoch@news.weeg.uiowa.edu (Peter F Koch)
Subject: Setup Disk for PS/2 Model 50?
Organization: University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, USA
Distribution: usa
Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1992 13:24:55 GMT

Where can I find or purchase a setup disk for an IBM PS/2 Model 50?