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Date:         Mon, 25 Jan 1993 11:09:54 PST
From:         Jim Tunnicliffe <tunny@INFERENCE.COM>
Subject:      Re: 256 colors...

> Hello everyone,
>
> Can anybody explain the following:
>
> I'm using Win 3.1 w/TSENG ET4000 based card... When in a 256 color mode this
> strange thing happens: if I try to open more than one session of a GIF viewer
> and display only 256 color pictures the only one that looks OK is the one in t
 he
>    active window.As soon as I switch to another viewing session the old active
> session drops down to what looks like 16 color and now the new active session
> looks ok...
>
> So,does anybody have a clue what happens here?
>
> Thanks,Nick.

Nothing strange about it.

In 256-color mode, you've got (you guessed it) 256 different colors to work
with.  You get to choose which 256 out of a much larger number of colors that
your machine is capable of generating, and you can change which set of 256
is active at a given time, but YOU ONLY GET 256.  This is known as "color
mapping", where a number (in this case an 8-bit value, from 0-255) is used
as an index into a "color map" which holds the actual color value to display.
If you have two 256-color pictures with different color maps (different sets
of colors) there's no way they can both be displayed with the correct colors.
Windows does the most reasonable thing, and switches the color map to fit
whatever picture you have in the active window, which means that some of the
colors elsewhere may be mapped into something else.  (By the way, the other
picture is still displayed in 256 colors, not 16, but the colors are probably
quite inappropriate.)

If this explanation doesn't make sense, send me private email and I'll be
happy to elaborate.

        - tunny
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Date:         Tue, 26 Jan 1993 14:18:33 EST
From:         CXCA000 <CXCA@MUSICA.MCGILL.CA>
Subject:      Obrigado

Caro Carlos Henrique,
Obrigado pela ajuda.
Mudando de assunto, se voce me permite: pelo seu e-mail eu vejo que voce
e' da USP. Pois eu gostaria de saber se e' possivel obter os "e-mails"
de pessoas de determinados departamentos. Particularmente, estou interes
sado em saber se e' possivel que o pessoal do Departamento de Filosofia
 -    com quem quero entrar em contato - tenha algum e-mail address (ou
uma lista deles) o qual eu possa acessar.Obrigado outra vez.
Cicero Araujo <cxca@musica.mcgill.ca>
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Date:         Wed, 27 Jan 1993 07:20:21 -0600
From:         jkm2120@BML4380.CPG.CDC.COM
Subject:      PaintBrush Died

In the process of capturing some NT screen dumps for use in a PowerPoint
presentation I was going to use PaintBrush to twiddle a few bits.  When I
would lasso an area to be moved or copied the cursor refused to change to
the hand shape which allows the move/copy, etc.  The same operation on other
machines works fine.  I finally copied a new version of Paintbrush to my
Windows directory, but it fails in the same way.  Other programs like
Corel PhotoPaint and Dr Halo work fine, as do all of my other programs!

Are there some other files that could have gotten messed up to cause this
symptom?  I've looked in win.ini and can see no proble with the PainBrush
section, nor do I see any other files that seem to be related.

Thanks for any suggestions you may come up with...

Jack.Marshall@cdc.com
Arden Hills, MN
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Date:         Tue, 26 Jan 1993 22:48:29 PST
From:         "Vance M. Gloster" <gloster@INFERENCE.COM>
Subject:      Viewing WPWIN files
              27 Jan 1993 01:38:44 -0500
              <9301270635.AA14513@fourier.inference.com>

  Does anyone know of a shareware or cheap wordperfect file viewer which runs
  under Microsoft Windows. We are using WP and it is too slow to load over the
  network. One possibility is to use a utility to view a simplified, read-only
  view of the file quickly.

Norton Desktop's viewer supports this, I believe.  The old Norton
Commander for DOS also had this feature.  Not too bad in a 50 line DOS
window under enhanced mode.

-Vance Gloster
 gloster@inference.com
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Date:         Wed, 27 Jan 1993 10:24:21 +0000
From:         KE WALTON <K.E.Walton@BRADFORD.AC.UK>
Subject:      Re: Prog HELP!

On Tue, 26 Jan 1993, Mr. R. Coates wrote:

>
> Okay, I know this isn't the right list, but I'm getting DESPERATE!!
>
> I need to know two things...
>
> 1. How to access video memory directly to write VERY fast graphics.
>
etc

The video memory in all modes upto vga, is just a chunk of up to 256K of
mem located imediatley above the 640K barrier, and can be directly written to.

The book I use is :-

The new Peter Norton Programmers Guide To the IBM PC & PS/2

isbn 1-55615-131-4

Hope this helps

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Date:         Tue, 26 Jan 1993 08:14:15 -0600
From:         Erek Adams <92ADAMS@HANNA2.NLU.EDU>
Subject:      RE: QVT 4.78 -communication program

-> Does anybody know how to get QVT 4.78 to work with a BocaModem UltraPerfomanc
 e
-> 14.4k.... I've tried all sorts of init string combinations... nothing works..
 .
-> All that happens is I get the message connected then the progam kind of freez
 es.
-> Any help would be welcome!

I've got no clue as to why it does not work.  With my modem, a Identity 9600
(or GVC SM96), it does the same thing.  I have not had a chance to test it with
a slower modem, so does anyone know if it can handle 9600+ speeds?

I hope someone can help.  I'd like to have a decent term pacakge that was
Windows oriented.

-> Thanks,Nick.
->
-> (you can get QVT 4.78 from Simtel-20 and it's quite a good comm program despi
 te
-> this problem that I have... it worked fine with the 2400bps modem I had befor
 e)

Or from Cica.


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Date:         Mon, 25 Jan 1993 10:27:00 EST
From:         YEE-TAK FUNG <FUNG@CCF3.NRL.NAVY.MIL>
Subject:      subscription

Can any one tell me as how to subscribe to the WIN3-L mailing list?
                                                Tak Fung
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Date:         Mon, 25 Jan 1993 12:24:30 PST
From:         "Vance M. Gloster" <gloster@INFERENCE.COM>
Subject:      Spawnl(), execl(), or fork() under Windows.
              24 Jan 1993 16:07:53 GMT
              <9301250834.AB07854@fourier.inference.com>

  I am using BC++ 3.0 and trying to write a simple program to generate a
  dialog box with radio buttons which in turn select an application to
  execute.  I am finding that there is no spawn...(), exec...(), or
  fork() functions useable under Windows! Or am I simply missing
  something in the DOCS!  I would find it VERY hard to believe that
  Windows does not support child processes (not only that plenty of
  other Windows apps do -- but also that it is a pseudo-multitasking
  environment).

WinExec is the function that you want.  You can even pass it a
parameter telling the application what state it should come up in
(minimized, maximized, normal, hidden).  Not all applications pay
attention to this, however.

-Vance Gloster
 gloster@inference.com
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Date:         Wed, 27 Jan 1993 11:05:18 -0500
From:         William.C.Boyd@CYBER.WIDENER.EDU
Subject:      Reply to PROBLEMS IN PRINTING GRAPHICS IN EXCEL3

> I received an answer, and I controlled free space on HD, and they have about
> 5 or 6 MB of disk free (and I think it's enough).
> Now I really don't know what I have to try.
> Please help me
> Thanks in advance
> Ciao            Guido

Well I'm running Excel 4.0, and it *requires* 2Mb of RAM. This means that
you can't be running anything else if you're going to run Excel. I believe
this is also the case with Excel 3.0. If it ran fine on the machine with 4MB
this confirms my suspicion that this is the case. Either run windows *real*
lean, increase your swapfile, or buy two more megs. BTW, I've only had this
problem when printing graphics.
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Date:         Mon, 25 Jan 1993 09:44:00 CET
From:         XEZ1@IAEA1.BITNET
Subject:      Re: Changing a "Windows" DOS prompt?

You need to add the following line in your AUTOEXEC.BAT file:
SET WINPMT=(your prompt)
replace (your prompt) with what you want to display as your DOS prompt
in a DOS box under WINDOWS.
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Date:         Tue, 26 Jan 1993 09:42:31 CET
From:         Espen Haakonsen <FGL92016@NOBIVM.BITNET>
Subject:      Re: Internal stack overflow.
              25 Jan 1993 20:38:16 +0200 from <LIOREN1@WEIZMANN.WEIZMANN.AC.IL>

On Mon, 25 Jan 1993 20:38:16 +0200 Yossi Oren said:
>>My notebook has halted three times today. I get the message:
>>                          Internal stack overflow
>>                          System halted
>>
>>What's the source of this error ?
>>             Hardware error ?
>>                 Software error ?
>Howdy, Espen.
>the internal stack usually overflows if you type too fast (try tressing pause
>five or six times quickly).  If you keep getting this, specify a STACKS=n,s
>where n is the number of stacks (you start with 9), and s is their size (128)
>in your CONFIG.SYS .
>Note that if this doesn't work, you should have to relax and work more slowly.
>Tata,
>Yossi.

Thanks Yossi |
Your explanation sure makes sense to me. The errors occur when running several
applications under Windows. The systems slow down so much that it hardly
responds to keyboard input. Or so it seems | I guess I have caused the errors
myself by pressing the keyboard too many times in order to get response. You
know, when Window run r....e...a..l..l..y  slow, it responds to key strokes
everu now and then only. That's when I start hitting the keys |


I've never experienced this problem running multiple applications under OS/2.
Is this due to multitasking ?    :-)   (No offense Yossi |)

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Date:         Wed, 27 Jan 1993 07:50:58 -0500
From:         Steve Stern - GE/AIT BI-North <SMSTERN@C5VT.SYR.GE.COM>
Subject:      Problems with Telnet Window Display

Is anyone out there in Windows land using the Chameleon/NFS
package?  It's a great package, but I have an annoying problem
with Telnet windows.  When I open a Telnet window, often it
adds extra spaces in a line so that

a line that should look like this

will be displayed as:

a line that sh     ould look like this

This occurs in connections to both Unix and VMS systems, so I
think the problem is on my end.

Interestingly, if I click twice on the offending line, the
extraneous spaces are closed up, but the extra text remains at
the right side of the line.

It seems to be independent of font or window size.  Is this
a known bug?  Support from the vendor on previous questions
has been less than adequate, so if anyone has any suggestions - thanx.

Steve Stern
GE Aerospace
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Date:         Thu, 28 Jan 1993 10:57:19 -0600
From:         Gili Mendel <mendel@BIT.CSC.LSU.EDU>
Subject:      W4W 2.0 Equation Fonts

Hi there,

   I added a postscript printer (Apple Laser Writer) and my Equation complain
that I am missing Fonts.


   Are those Fences, Extra MT and such fonts for the Apple could be put
without re-installing W4W ?


                   Please reply direct to
                        mendel@bit.csc.lsu.edu


                                        Thanks,
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Date:         Tue, 26 Jan 1993 09:48:12 EST
From:         "ROGER B. @ (812) 855-3475" <PARKS@UCS.INDIANA.EDU>
Subject:      RE: Using a local and network printer at the same time.

Tuesday, January 26, 1993  9:45am

We use several network printers in addition to local desktop dot matrix.
Dot matrix on LPT, network laser on LPT2, network laser with postcript
on LPT3, etc.  There is a CAPTURE utility which must be installed that
directs output [other than LPT1] to correct print Q.

roger (parks@indiana.edu)
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From:         Rob Lussenburg <LUSSENBURG@RULBUR.LEIDENUNIV.NL>
Subject:      Re: WANTED FORUM FOR MS VISUAL BASIC

>
> DOES ANYONE KNOWS A FORUM FOR DISCUSSING MICROSOFT VISUAL BAISC SUBJETS?
>
> thanks
>
To the networker who asked the above question, and to the other subscribers
who would want the same thing as he/she does:

There _IS_ a Visual Basic discussion list. It is quite useful as well. The
relevant information to join it follows:

        list address:           VISBAS-L@TAMVM1
        LISTSERV address:       LISTSERV@TAMVM1

To join, you send mail to the LISTSERV address containing no subject, and as
the first (and last, and only) line:

SUBSCRIBE VISBAS-L [your first name, initial or whatever] [your last name]

But you probably knew this already, as you are a subscriber to this list!


Sincerely,

Rob Lussenburg
Rijksuniversiteit Leiden
the Netherlands
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From: GORDONM@DENISON.BITNET (Michael Gordon)
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Subject: Re: MS-Write File Viewer
Date: 26 Jan 93 16:48:00 GMT
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>
>I'm in need of an application that can view MS-Write created files in read-only
>mode.  Anyone have a clue?  source code would be great!
>

        Norton Desktop and XTREE/Windows both do this, but I don't know
whether this capability can be unbundled.

Michael D. Gordon
CIS: 71053,471
Internet: gordonM@cc.denison.edu
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Date:         Tue, 26 Jan 1993 15:19:00 N
From:         Sune Karlsson <STSK@SEHHS.BITNET>
Subject:      Re: How to find a frame in Winword

The following WordBasic macro should be able to locate the frames
in your document. It uses the WordBasic command CommandValid and the
fact that you can only format a Frame while you are in it to determine
if you are in a frame or not. With a long document this is probably
pretty slow, but it will find all the frames!
To speed things up you could replace "CharRight" with "LineDown" but
this way you might miss some frames.


Sub Main

While CommandValid("FormatFrame") <> - 1 And CmpBookmarks("\Sel",
"\EndOfDoc") > 0
      CharRight
Wend
If CommandValid("FormatFrame") Then
      MsgBox "In Frame!"
ElseIf CmpBookmarks("\Sel", "\EndOfDoc") = 0 Then
      MsgBox "No Frame found!"
EndIf

End Sub

Hope this helps
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Date:         Tue, 26 Jan 1993 08:35:47 PST
From:         Jim Tunnicliffe <tunny@INFERENCE.COM>
Subject:      Re: 256 colors.

Mr Timothy Green <me21tg@SURREY.AC.UK> wrote:
> As further comment about Windows in 256 colours, I found that some times
> a 256 colour wallpaper and a differently mapped 256 colour picture could
> be displayed correctly! This was using a Trident 8900c card with 1Mb.

This can only happen if the actual number of unique colors being used by
both images does not exceed 256.  It's *possible* that Windows is sophisticated
enough to substitute colors from the existing colormap when it decides they
are "close enough", and thus reduce the number of unique colormap entries
required (at some loss of accuracy), but each pixel on the screen is stored
in memory as just one byte (8 bits).  This is then used to index into a table
of 256 color values (someone said these are 24-bit values, but I don't know
that that's necessarily true -- probably depends on the DAC, etc.).  In any
case, there's NO WAY (in 256-color mode, of course) to have pixels of more
than 256 different colors on the screen simultaneously.  (OK, on my old Atari
800, it was possible to hook into the horizontal retrace interrupts and make
changes to color maps and such in the middle of tracing the screen, but even
if such tricks are possible on a PC, it wouldn't account for what Mr. Green is
describing...)

        - tunny
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Subject:      Change the shape and the color of cursor

can you tell me how to ?

panayiotis stokas - cbdz117f@ossa.ccf.auth.gr
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Date:         Mon, 25 Jan 1993 17:18:15 CST
From:         Darrin Wait <WAITD@COLUMBIA.DSU.EDU>
Subject:      NT Boot problems

Dear Windows-NT users:

    Is ther any NT beta (october) user that has encountered the error
"cannot find NTLDR".  I have be having the problem for the last few days.
What are the most important files in the root of the C drive that I could
have over wrote when I restored my old HD.

    Oh ya.  I am running NT on a shared DOS partition.  The machine has
more than enough memory and disk space.

    I FTP'd a boot workaround disk and now I can get into NT and DOS from
floppies, but when I try to run most of the WIN16 programs it give me an
error about my AUTOEXEC.BAT.  Does any only have any suggestion?

P.S.  How long before the next BETA?
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Date:         Thu, 28 Jan 1993 07:16:47 -0600
From:         B_FERHAT@TRHUN.BITNET
Subject:      OSs.

I *do* choose my OSs when I have the chance. I use DOS and Windows
(BTW, Windows is not an OS in the strict usage of the term, it's an
operating environment. NT is surely one.) for everyday jobs. I keep a
pet OS/2 2.0 for playing around, as well as Minix, a Unix descendant.
In the days of my youth (when we had 8086s) I used to keep CP/M, too.
Each one has its advantages and its disadvantages. If someone asked
me which one I like the best, I would say "None - I like the variety."
Now if I could only afford a Mac, an Amiga and an Atari ST...

        b_ferhat@trhun aka Ferhat Savci (BSc. Computer Science)

professor, n., one who talks in someone else's sleep.
From: stever@ces.cwru.edu (Steven M. Ruegsegger)
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Subject: Changing a "Windows" DOS prompt?
Date: 24 Jan 1993 03:09:58 GMT
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Hello.  I have seen it in a magazine, but now cannot find it.  How do you
create a new DOS prompt for a DOS window within Windows 3.1?  It is a 
parameter within system.ini I believe.

Thanks in advance!
Steve Ruegsegger
smr2@po.cwru.edu


-- 
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