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Subject: Info-IBMPC Digest V92 #68
Date: 5 Apr 92 06:56:21 GMT
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Info-IBMPC Digest           Sun,  5 Apr 92       Volume 92 : Issue  68 

Today's Editor:
         Gregory Hicks - Rota Spain <GHICKS@brl.mil>

Today's Topics:
                            Re: $25 Network
                         486/50 available yet?
                             Software MNP5
                         big cursor for Windows
                         Help w/SCSI Boot Drive
                  OMTI 5510 disk controller (V92 #45)
                       Info-IBMPC Digest V92 #45
                        Re: Memory Parity Errors
                       Re; big cursor for windows
                               snews 1.12
                   Re: want led indicator for d drive

Today's Queries:
                    ASCII test file comparisons ???
                           FAX modem software
                Problems with Boca AT Plus and HYPERPAD
                           PC/3270 and Mouse
                              PL/1 for PC
                           Closing Open Files
                            rbbs-pc problems
                             RGREP problem

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Date: Wed, 25 Mar 92 02:11:22 CST
From: Rob Roberts <knight@storm.tamu.edu>
Subject: Re: $25 Network

The $25 Network sets up virtual drives on both computers i.e you could
use the drives from either system.  It would be a viable alternative
for your system.

Also, check out msdos.network on Simtel or one of the mirror sites.
There are about 15 shareware packages that do the same thing.  Check
them out--and register the one that works best for you.

Rob Roberts
x075br@tamvm1.tamu.edu

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Date: 25 Mar 92 14:17:38 GMT
From: gtj@goanna.cs.rmit.oz.au (Glenn T Jayaputera)
Subject: 486/50 available yet?

Info-IBMPC@BRL.MIL writes:

>Info-IBMPC@BRL.MIL writes:

>>Does anyone know if the intel 486/50 is available yet?
>>If so , where from and how much?

>Yes!  I am typing this message on my 486/50 system...  My system (8 MB
>of RAM, 256K Cache, 40 MB HD, SVGA, etc., etc.) was $2740.

What is her landmark speed, mate??  I would like to get one, but I
heard that the early release of this 50Mhz chips got the bug.  Is it
true??  Does the motherboard look like the same as other slower speed
motherboard??  Or there are sometype of cooling system attached to it?

Glenn Jayaputera

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Date: Wed, 25 Mar 92 11:56:10 CET
From: Pim Clotscher <clotscher@coh.fgg.eur.nl>
Subject: Software MNP5

Hi, I am interested in MNP5 in software. Sechidis A. Lazaros
(GCAZ0501%GRTHEUN1.BITNET) mentioned a program 'mte20'

Who knows where to get this file? Is it shareware? I have looked at
WUARCHIVE simtel mirror in MSDOS.MODEM and did not see it.  any hints?

Thanx,
Pim Clotscher
Erasmus University Rotterdam - NL
E.R.C. - Computer Support Hoboken
E-mail (Internet): clotscher@coh.fgg.eur.nl


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Date: Wed, 25 Mar 92 11:56:50 CET
From: Pim Clotscher <clotscher@coh.fgg.eur.nl>
Subject: big cursor for Windows

Hi,
Eric Neuwirth asked in digest vol.92/46 a big cursor for windows:

PCMagazine Vol.11 no. 5 has a utility doing axactly what you ask for!

Regards,

Pim Clotscher
Erasmus University Rotterdam - NL
E.R.C. - Computer Support Hoboken
E-mail (Internet): clotscher@coh.fgg.eur.nl

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Date: 24 Mar 92 09:20:56 +0100
From: Jac Goudsmit <S89406316@hse.nl>
Subject: Help w/SCSI Boot Drive

>I have a Everex 3000D pc (similar to an IBM pc but purchased on the
>Army/Air Force's Unisys contract) with two floppy drives. I added two
>40m removable cartridge bernoulli box (Unisys/IOmega) drives using an
>SCSI host adapter.

>What do I need to do to boot from drive C: on the SCSI?

[Lots of stuff deleted...]

I'm skating on thin ice here, because I don't have any experience with
SCSI drives, but here's my answer anyway (not good news, I'm afraid).

But I gather from your original message that your drives run from a DOS
device driver, and that the SCSI drives are not recognized unless the
driver was loaded from the CONFIG.SYS.

That would make it impossible to boot from the hard disk.  To boot from
hard disk, the ROM BIOS in your system should be able to recognize the
hard disk. The normal procedure for a hard disk boot is for the BIOS to
load the first sector of the first track of the first side on the disk
and execute the code in it. But since the hard disk isn't recognized
until the device driver is loaded, BIOS is unaware of its presence and
will only start from the A: drive (or a hard disk that it DOES
recognize).

To be able to boot from the SCSI drive, I'd say it should have some
kind of ROM installed to make it recognizable by BIOS. But I don't know
if that is possible in your case...

Good luck anyway...

 Jac Goudsmit                          |
 Student, Information Technology       |
 Hogeschool Eindhoven, The Netherlands |
 (Eindhoven Polytechnic)               |
 S89406316@HSE.NL                      |
 Earn/Bitnet: S89406316%HSE.NL@HEARN   |

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Date: Tue, 24 Mar 92 08:22:08 MST
From: David Bear <IDDWB@asuvm.inre.asu.edu>
Subject: OMTI 5510 disk controller (V92 #45)

>Date: Thu, 12 Mar 1992 10:10 GMT +01:00
>From: "Kees de Groot, Information Systems Security" <DEGROOT@rcl.wau.nl>

>	Q1: is this OMTI 5510 disk controller an RLL-type?

I beleive the OMTI 5520 is the RLL controller -- (its been years since
I've seen one)

>	Q2: if yes, what is the meaning of all those tiny

They allow you to define head/cyl configuration.


David Bear
Office Automation
ASU COPP (602)965-8257
.. I think -- therefore I am a formal system -- I think?
IDDWB@ASUVM.INRE.ASU.EDU

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Date: Tue, 24 Mar 92 15:04:00 CST
From: Kevin Coulson <MARK033@unlvm.unl.edu>
Subject: Info-IBMPC Digest V92 #45

I just called the AMD 800 number that David Heck supplied.  I would say
that AMD is slightly p*ssed at him for releasing the info.  They
mentioned him by name and said that they had no packet to mail as
described by him.  They did offer to send some information however, I
would guess that they are not too pleased by this.  My guess is that
they are listening to the net (why not just post a denial???)

Unless you absolutely NEED the info, I'd pass on this one.
Cordially, Kevin

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Date: Mon, 23 Mar 92 13:19:29 EST
From: Buddy Murray <JMURRAY%UTCVM.bitnet@cunyvm.cuny.edu>
Subject: Re: Memory Parity Errors

     First, are you sure that you really have 1 Meg memory? I have a
286-10 with 640K, but if I change a jumper on my motherboard, I
suddenly have a full meg.

 (DOS's mem command sees the memory). Also visually check your memory.
I once got Parity Errors when I (accidentaly) put a chip in backwards.

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Date: Mon, 23 Mar 92 14:29:32 -0500
From: Howard Weiss <hsw@columbia.sparta.com>
Subject: Re; big cursor for windows

If you are using a Microsoft mouse (or compatible), get the latest
Microsoft mouse driver (version 8.1).  It provides multiple size mouse
pointers, colors (white, black, or transparent), pointer growth during
mouse acceleration, etc.  The driver was tailored for use on portables
with the Microsoft Ball-Point portable mouse.

Howard Weiss
Sparta, Inc.

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Date: Tue, 24 Mar 1992 00:10:28 EST
From: <weather@robot.rn.com>
Subject: snews 1.12

Are you aware of the recent posting of a product called snews to
comp.binaries.ibm.pc?  I include the first few lines of the doc file:

Simple NEWS 1.0 (SNEWS)

INTRODUCTION

    'Simple NEWS' is an news add-on for UUPC.  It is intended for use
as a leaf node and offers:

      - Threaded news reading.  This allows you to be much more
selective about what you read, enabling you to cover many more
newsgroups.

      - The when a cross-posted article is read the news-reader marks
all the other instances of the article as read too.

      - Separate rc files are kept for each user, which record the
individual articles that you have seen.  This is in contrast to some
readers which simply record the highest article number read.  The user
is defined, as for mail users, in the file pointed to by the UUPCUSRRC
environment variable.

      - Usual range of response facilities: follow-up news, reply by
mail, forward by mail, save article/thread to disk.

      - Articles are now stored in one file per newsgroup, rather than
one file per article.  This results in an enormous saving (up to 3:1)
in disk space on disks with with a default cluster size of 4kb per
cluster.

      - Processing of batched/compressed news.  Unbatched and
uncompressed are not processed.  Control messages are not processed.

      - Posting - Posts are unbatched and uncompressed.  You can only
post to your 'mailserv'.  You cannot feed another site.  Posting can
only be done from within the news reader SNEWS.  If you are looking for
something to feed other sites why not try Waffle?

      - 'Received date' oriented expire to maintain the news database.

    I looked at porting Tass and wnews, but in the end decided they
were far more effort than it was worth, as these news systems were more
complicated than was necessary for a single user (at a time) dos
implementation.  Especially when the PC is likely to be a leaf node.

    Generally the algorithms used are simple, but the speed is adequate
for a feed for several users, expiring after 5-10 days.  The main
bottleneck occurs during the 'expire' operation, which must rewrite the
entire news database.

    'Simple NEWS' was built rather quickly (and it shows in places :-)
to suit my own needs.  I'm distributing it in the hope you might find
it useful.

[etc...]

SBNwx weather account                       UUCP: uunet!trauma!robot!weather
Irmiger household                       Internet: weather@robot.rn.com
117 North Taylor Street                    Phone: (219) 288-4705
South Bend,  IN  46601            

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Date: Wed, 25 Mar 92 02:04:40 CST
From: Rob Roberts <knight@storm.tamu.edu>
Subject: Re: want led indicator for d drive

Regarding the second drive on the 386, most IDE interface cards have a
3- position jumper for the LED--one common and one connector for each
of the other drives.  Connect the black leads to the center jumper (or
splice it into the existing lead) and connect the read lead to the open
jumper pin.

A simpler solution, if the user has no need of his Turbo LED, is to
connect the Turbo LED leads in the same fashion to the IDE interface.
This would show the HD LED on for C drive and the Turbo LED on for D
drive.  Hope this helps.

Rob Roberts
x075br@tamvm1.tamu.edu

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Subject: Today's Queries:
Date: Wed, 25 Mar 92 10:36 EST
From: "Felix Kreisel (617)253-8625" <KREISEL@SPARK.PFC.MIT.EDU>
Subject: ASCII test file comparisons ???

Could you point out any public or commercial programs that can compare
two text files and note any differences.  This program is intended to
help with a desktop publishing project in checking through re-writes
and editing changes.  Thanks in advance.

Felix Kreisel (617)253-8625

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Date: Tue, 24 Mar 92 18:53:19 -0500
From: "(Marshall D. Abrams)" <abrams@smiley.mitre.org>
Subject: FAX modem software

I have a send-only external FAX modem.  The software I am using is
Quick Link 2 FAX (QL2FAX) by Smith Micro Software of Huntington Beach,
CA.  I would like to use different software because I have to reboot
without TSRs in order to use the FAX.  I will go one to describe the
situation, but if you know of another source of FAX software, shareware
if possible, I would be interested.

I tried to use the send/receive version of QL2FAX.  It won't control
the modem properly.  It thinks that the modem is not responding.  The
technical service rep at Smith says this is because the chip set in the
send-only and send/receive modems are different and incompatible.  Does
anyone know more about this?

Suggestions appreciated.

Sincerely,
 
Marshall D. Abrams
 *** abrams@mitre.org ***   Information Security Center                    
 telephone 703.883.6938     Intelligence and CINC Support Systems Div.   
 secretary 703.883.5397     The MITRE Corporation, Mail Stop Z202 
 facsimile 703.883.1397     7525 Colshire Drive, McLean, VA 22102-3481   

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Date: Mon, 23 Mar 92 13:17:25 EST
From: Victor Bagley IRM <BAGLEY@vtvm2.cc.vt.edu>
Subject: Problems with Boca AT Plus and HYPERPAD

I seem to be having a problem with a Boca AT PLUS board and a software
package called HYPERPAD.  When I invoke the expanded memory driver from
Boca the HYPERPAD software will not work.  If I don't use the memory
driver everything works fine.  This however defeats the purpose of
having expanded memory.  I have talked to Bright-Brill
Roberts(HYPERPAD) and they as of yet don't have a solution to the
problem.  I have even gotten the latest release of the memory driver
from BOCA installed but I still have the problem.

Anyone suggestions are welcome.
Thanks in advance.

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Date: 03/24/92 11:00:00 CET
From: ADI201%DKAKFK3.bitnet@cunyvm.cuny.edu
Subject: PC/3270 and Mouse

Hello,

I am using
  - IBM PS/2 Model 80
  - IBM 3278/79-Adapter Card
  - IBM 2 Button Mouse
  - MS-DOS 5.0
  - IBM Personal Communication/3270 Version 2.0

  - MVS/XA with TSO on a Mainframe
  - ISPF Version 3 for MVS

I am not using
  - MS-Windows

 I want to write an ISPF Application,
which uses CUA (Common User Access, a part of SAA). This should be no
problem. But I want to use the PC-Mouse to navigate the application.
That means, I want to move the Cursor with the mouse and use one button
instead of the ENTER or CurSel Key, like I can do on an IBM
Info-Window.

Does anyone want to do such silly things before ? Is there any
solution? 

Thanks in advance

Kernforschungszentrum Karlsruhe     | Bitnet: ADI201@DKAKFK3
Abt. HDI-RZ, Bernhard Verstege      | Phone: +49 7247 82-5665
D-W-7500 Karlsruhe 1                | Fax:   +49 7247 82-4972

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Date: 23 March 1992 09:42:39 CST
From: "Tom Kirke (312) 413-5539" <U33515@uicvm.uic.edu>
Subject: PL/1 for PC

Howdy!

Does anybody know where I can get a PL/1 compiler for PC?  Please save
bandwidth, respond to me, I will summarize to the list.

Tom Kirke                        |     All standard and non-standard
U33515@UICVM.BITNET              | disclaimers, declaimers, and claimers
U33515@UICVM.CC.UIC.EDU          |                apply.
U33515@UICVM.CC.UIC.EDU@INTERNET#|

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Date: 24 Mar 92 05:45:12 EST
From: SPITZER@cescc.bridgewater.edu
Subject: Closing Open Files

For one reason or another I am finding my system with some open files
which should have been closed by a TSR which has been removed.  I need
a method of closing DOS files that were left open by a '...not too well
behaved' application.

Specifically, I used Bitstream FaceLift in the TSR mode.  It opens a
file called FLWP.SYM.  When FaceLift is removed, the file is not
usually closed.  Sometimes a second attempt to remove the TSR will give
a "...not in memory" message and close the file, but other times the
file just stays open.

Does anyone have a method of closing DOS files which are left open?
I'm not into heavy duty ASM programming, so I'm looking for a simple
fix.  I realize that there is a danger in closing open files, but
that's a chance I'll have to take.

Actually, using QuarterDeck's Manifest to check on file status does a
good enough job to let one know what files are open and should be
closed, but there isn't a "Close file" tool.  I use MS-DOS version 5.0

Thanks for any help.
   Dan Spitzer     Bridgewater College       Bridgewater, VA  22812
      spitzer@cescc.bridgewater.edu

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Date: Tue, 24 Mar 92 18:10:43 PST
From: David A. Rickling <RICKLING@SJSUVM1.SJSU.EDU>
Subject: rbbs-pc problems

Hello,
     I have been trying to set up rbbs, I FTPed all the necessary files
from wuarchive (three times now) after un-arcing the files and trying
to run rbbs in Local mode I get the following error

Bad file mode in line 13663 of module RBBSSUB1 at address 1B3D:1A5D.

In re-reading the instructions I fould that RBBS-PC was originaly put
out in zip format. Also in the instructions it states that when
unzipping the files to use the -d paramater to extract all
subdirectories from the files.  No subdirectories are created when the
arced versions are uncompressed.  Should there be any?

     Also, I went looking for the ziped versions and they don't exist
in Archie, although they do in every other possable format!!!  Do they
exist somewhere on the net ( for ver 17.3) ?

     If anyone has any input I would be most thankful.

                         David A. Rickling
                         Computer Infromation Center
                         San Jose State University, Ca.

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Date: Thu, 26 Mar 92 0:26:50 WET DST
From: chermesh@chen.bgu.ac.il (Ran Chermesh)
Subject: RGREP problem

Hi,
I'm using Bob Stout's RGREP ver. 2.05a. On my Olivetti 286 (2 mb
memory) I've encountered a problem. Whenever I run a search of the
following type

RGREP -r2 "string" *.*

the system gets stuck with the following error message:

Memory allocation error
Cannot load COMMAND, system halted.

The only way I managed to identify is to impose a limit on the
file_list.  The following runs are successfully performed:

RGREP -r2 "string" a*.*
or
RGREP -r2 "string" *.a*

Is there a way to enable a comprehensive (*.*) search?

Ran Chermesh                                  E - M A I L
Behavioral Sciences Dept.                     ===========
Ben-Gurion University                  Internet: CHERMESH@BGUVM.BGU.AC.IL
Beer-Sheva 84105                                 CHERMESH@CHEN.BGU.AC.IL
Israel                                 Bitnet  : CHERMESH@BGUVM.BITNET
Phone: 972-57-461-115                  Fax: 972-57-32-766

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