HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: paul@moore.com (Paul Maclauchlan)
Subject: Re: Deskjet 500C and Wordperfect 5.1
Organization: Moore Corporation Limited, Toronto ON, Canada
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL5
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 93 12:44:05 GMT

Robin van der Kuil (Robin.van.der.Kuil@p30.f506.n281.z2.interfhq) wrote:
: Does anyone has or know where I can find the printer-
: driver for the Deskjet 500c to work with Wordperfect 5.1
: I prefer an anonymous FTP site....

Here's the scoop from the WordPerfect BBS:


HP DeskJet 500C -- Why WordPerfect Hasn't Written a Driver

REVISED June 11, 1992

> Note:  The HP DeskJet 500C will print graphics in color in
         WordPerfect 5.1 for Windows as long as the Windows
         HP DeskJet 500C printer driver is selected.  Also,
         the Fast Graphics Printing option must be UNMARKED in
         WPWin.  The Fast Graphic Printing option is found in
         the Print Settings dialog box under File|Preferences|
         Print.  This information also applies to the HP PaintJet.

> Note:  There is a GSS driver available (file dated 3/4/92) for
         DrawPerfect 1.x and PlanPerfect 5.1 that supports the
         HP DeskJet 500C in eight colors.  This driver is NOT
         available for download, but may be ordered by calling
         DrawPerfect Support at 800-541-5098 or 801-226-8766.
         The GSS driver will NOT work in any other programs other
         than DrawPerfect or PlanPerfect.

Explanation:
Hewlett-Packard has released a printer called the HP DeskJet 500C.
The printer has two modes:  a monochrome mode and a color graphics
mode.  In the monochrome mode, the printer is identical to an
HP DeskJet 500.  When the color ink cartridge is installed, the
printer is a graphics-only printer.  Since WordPerfect does not
rasterize the whole page and send it out as a graphic, it is unable
to support the printer in color.  It was decided between
HP and WPCorp that WP would not ship an HP DeskJet 500C driver in
5.1 because users may assume color support is available.  Users who
need a driver should use the HP DeskJet 500 driver that currently
ships with WP.

Current shipping products that use the same printer drivers as
WordPerfect 5.1 (DrawPerfect 1.1, PlanPerfect 5.1, and
LetterPerfect 1.0) do not have the ability to support the printer
in the color mode.  See GSS information above.

Users are welcome to submit enhancement requests via the
WordPerfect BBS by sending a message to Dale Bodily, or by leaving
a message on CompuServe to WPC Enhancements [73447,754].  Please
include the product name in your request, as well as the enhancement
you would like to be added to a future release of the product
(e.g.  I would like to have a future version of WordPerfect support
color printing for the HP DeskJet 500C printer).

END OF FILE


Compuserve accounts can be sent Internet email.  WPC Enhancements
would be: 73447.754@compuserve.com


-- 
.../Paul Maclauchlan
Moore Corporation Limited, Toronto, Ontario (416) 364-2600
paul@moore.com   -or-  {...!uunet.ca,...!telly}!moore!paul
"Slow down, you move too fast.  You've got to make the morning last."/PS'66
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
From: bes38869@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (The Bard Duelak   )
Subject: HD lights flicker in Windows 3.1 ?
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 07:13:16 GMT

	I have a 386DX@40Mhz, w/ a Maxtor 7120A 130Mb Hd, and a
Cirrus GD54 video card.  I havent noticed this before, but when I enter
Windows, it seems to be taking longer for it to start up, and then when 
it finally does, Windows seems to be accessin the HD alot, and when it isnt
accessing the HD, the HD lights constantly flicker.  They dont do this
running under DOS.  I have even run the most recent version of scan on
all the files on the hard drive, and no viruses are reported.
	Has anyone had this problem, or know what is causing it and
how to stop it?  Please post, or reply by e-mail.

	Thanx in advance


-- Blair

-- 
|Blair Sandberg, student in | "If paper feathers are all it takes to fly,dont| 
|   Microbiology, at the    | you think we'd have heard about it before?"... | 
|  University of Illinois   | - "It takes an uncommon mind to think of these | 
| bes38869@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu | things, Hobbes."          -- Calvin and Hobbes |
Organization: Central Michigan University
Date: Tuesday, 26 Jan 1993 22:37:42 EST
From: <34MD4AK@CMUVM.CSV.CMICH.EDU>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Re: OAK video card problems

Although I have no personal experience with OAK video cards I
converse daily with a group of technicians and they have. Concensus
seems to be to throw away the card and get one by someone else.
I have a great respect for these guys so....
I would try another card if I were you. Tridents are very compatible
(8900C w/1mb) and fairly cheep although not a speed demon they are
acceptable. Good luck!


Rick LaFay               rlafay on BIX           ACIS Computers
(517) 773-6490                                   (616) 587-8827
Mt. Pleasant Mich.                               Mancelona, Mich.
During the week.                                 On Weekends.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc,comp.os.ms-windows.misc,comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.tools,comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.misc
From: prb@chinet.chi.il.us (Paul Botts)
Subject: Re: Gateway service problem (was Re: Nightmare experience with "Programmer's Paradise")
Organization: Chinet - Public Access UNIX
Distribution: na
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 05:04:25 GMT

In article <downs.62.727498154@helios.nevada.edu> downs@helios.nevada.edu (Lamont Downs) writes:
>>I have been a fan of Gateway 2000, but my fandom is waning.  The
>>shipped some software to me that, apparently, UPS lost.  My beef is
>>not with them using a second-rate shipping service (this is not
>>the first time I've had problems with UPS), but rather with the
>>fact that I can NEVER get through to their customer service
>>personnel.
>
>You might try their customer support on GEnie. Seems a shame to have to 
>subscribe to a commercial BB$ just to get tech support but I have seen a 
>number of situations in which a customer tried repeatedly to get through to 
>someone at GW2000 without success (in one case, all he wanted was a simple 
>jumper for one of his boards & was told tech support had to verify that he 
>was really missing the jumper first!), and after posting a message got 
>_immediate_ results from the GW sysop.
>
>Sigh. Probably the wave of the future.
>

I have had endless problems with their tech support, both in getting
through and in getting a correct answer (!). I have tried posting on
their own bbs, but apparently nobody at the company actually reads
anything on there - my onlyresponses were from other customers.
From: jlewis@indyvax.iupui.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: READ ONLY HardDrive Partition????
Date: 28 Jan 93 14:31:26 -0500

Does anyone know how to protect a local drive on a workstation from
being written to.  I would like one partition to be read only and the other
read/write.  The first partition should be able to goto R/W mode when
authorized.  Any ideas?  This is for a MS-DOS FAT format.

Thanks... Jeff

Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
From: lauusitalo@tnclus.tele.nokia.fi
Subject: Re: STACKER question
Organization: Nokia Telecommunications.
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 06:34:50 GMT

In article <1jmf90INN2uu@umbc4.umbc.edu>, marklc@umbc.edu (Mr. Mark L. Cohen) writes:
>You are slightly mistaken.  Himem.sys is only a memory manager.  It has nothing
>to do with the disk cache.  In order to disable your disk cache, all you
>need to do is to REM out the line that has to do with Smartdrive.  Then you
>will be all set.  
> 
Yep, I know it is memory manager but eliminating it is useful also because
that makes PC almost "clean". No high memory, no smartdrv, almost nothing
"unusual".

And it works with dos >=3.xx. Not depending on where smartdrive is loaded.


Lauri

-- 
-------------------------------------------------------------------
Lauri Uusitalo                 I          "Life is hard,          
lauri.uusitalo@ntc.nokia.com   I                then you die..."  
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
From: feld@ccu.umanitoba.ca (Michael Feld)
Subject: Please explain computer joke
Organization: University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
Distribution: na
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 19:47:00 GMT

"Dilbert"s nerdiness appeals to me; there, I've said it.  But I don't
alwsys catch his references.

In a recent strip, the humour lies in recognizing the acronyms buried
in a sentence reading, in part,
	"...SO, EITHER AN IBM 586 WITH 10 MEG RAM OR MAYBE A SPARC CPU
	ON A LAN...BUT WITH AI AND AVR COMBINED WITH BISON..."
But what do "AVR" and "BISON" refer to?
-- 
Michael Feld                  | E-mail: <feld@ccu.umanitoba.ca>
Dept. of Philosophy           | FAX: (204) 261-0021
University of Manitoba        | Voice: (204) 474-9136
Winnipeg, MB, R3T 2M8, Canada
From: khor@bnr.ca (Kyle Hor)
Subject: Re: Configuring a high end PC with multiple monitors !  HELP !!
Reply-To: khor@bnr.ca
Organization: Bell-Northern Research Ltd.
Distribution: na
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 21:10:36 GMT

In article <4605@cvbnetPrime.COM>, jtembulk@spica.prime.com (Jawahar Tembulkar) writes:
|> 
|> This will sound like we are regressing back to the mainframe paradigm :-(
|> However budgetary constraints are forcing us to consider the possibility of
|> configuring a PC network with a high end 486 with say 500 MB of disk, and
|> four or five SVGA monitors hanging off of it.  The rationale is that these
|> are not the principal machines for the user, and will be used only for word
|> processing and spreadsheets, etc.  Furthermore, all the data will be resident
|> on a single machine.

Do you want all the monitors to display the same screen output or different?
And only 1 keyboard for input?

...Kyle
From: jarnold@tixel.mv.com (Jon Arnold)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Fit lots of files on a floppy??
Date: 27 Jan 93 16:30:10 GMT
Reply-To: jarnold@tixel.mv.com

Environment: MS/DOS V5.0.  When one formats a 3.5" floppy disk (1.44MB),
at the end of the format (using DOS FORMAT) it tells you the total
disk space, the total available bytes on disk, 512 bytes in each
allocation unit, and 2847 allocation units available on disk.

I've got an application where I want to write a LOT of smaller files
(around 280 files, each file being around 3K bytes) to this floppy.
The total size required (280 * 3000) is clearly lessthan 1.44MB, yet
DOS won't let me do it.  Not an "insufficient disk space" message, but
a bogus message about "can't duplicate file entry".  I am assuming this
is because of the insufficient space for *directory* entries?

Is this logical?  If so, is there a way (I couldn't find one) to
increase the size of each allocation unit from 512 to some other
number?

Jon Arnold                        Phone: W: 603-883-1233
Nashua, New Hampshire             Fax:   W: 603-883-7350
                                         H: 603-883-6371

      "If you ain't the lead dog, the view never changes."
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
From: vsp@peewee (Vipul Patel)
Subject: Summary on 14" Monitors (repost)
Organization: Digital Equipment Corp.
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 15:41:37 GMT



	A couple of weeks back, I had requested info/opinions on
	NI color monitors from the netters. I have received a couple
	of responses. I also saw a few postings on various monitors.
	They liked Viewsonic 5e and MAG.

	Meanwhile, I did some research on my own. Here is a table
	with info on these monitors. If you have any comments or
	opinions about these and other monitors, please send me
	a mail. I will update a summary there after. All of the following
	monitors has resolution of 1024x768 with .28 or better.
	Hope this will help some of you.



	Vipul Patel
	vsp@unx.dec.com


===============================================================================
14 Inch Monitors:
=================

           CTX      MAG       Mitsubishi  NEC      Samsung   Seiko     ViewSonic

Model     5468NI    14S       DP 14       3FGx     SM 3n     1450      5E

Refresh                       72          60                           72
Rate(Hz)
in V range

Bandwidth           100       70          65        45        50       80
(MHz)

Diag View           12.23     11.78                          11.78     11.98
(inches)

Power               110       100                                      100
(watts)

Warrenty            P/L:1     P/L:2       P/L:1              P/L:1     P/L:1
(years)             CRT:2                 CRT/P:2

(H: kHz)            30-64     30-58       31-49      31/35   31-50     31-60
(V: Hz)             60-120    50-90       55-90      56-86   50-90     50-90

===============================================================================


	general disclaimer.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
From: dmbriggs@vela.acs.oakland.edu (BRIGGS DENNIS M)
Subject: TECHNICAL LOG SUPPORT
Organization: Oakland University, Rochester MI.
Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 18:17:33 GMT


I'm looking for software that supports my personal logbook system. While my
current system (big lab notebooks) works well for documentation, it's horrible
for retrieval. 

I doodle a lot in my logbooks -- lots of text, but also lots of
illustrations and equations, and circling text, margin notes, etc. I'd
like to preserve as much of that kind of freedom as possible, but add
the capability of *text search* to facilitate retrieval.

The closest I've seen so far to what I want is a good word processor
with a good draw program. But the cutting and pasting is not seamless
enough; I can't overlap the draw section with the text section; and I
can't draw sketches (don't ask me to sketch with a mouse!).

Got one suggestion for MathCad. Anybody got any ideas? Thanks.

--mikey 
P.S. Is this a good place to post stuff like this?
From: unicorn@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Adrian Castillo)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: General Protection Fault Error
Date: 22 Jan 1993 04:43:39 GMT
Organization: The University of Texas at Austin, Austin TX
NNTP-Posting-Host: dopey.cc.utexas.edu

I was wondering if someone could help me understand an error message
I have been receiving while using windows3.1. While using Quicken2.0, I get 
a 'General Protection Fault' everytime I exit the program after editing or
adding a transaction.  My questions are:
   1) What is a General Protection Fault and what is causing it?
   2) What can I do to fix the problem?
Please email at unicorn@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu.

Thanks in advance,
Adrian Castillo
From: yunson@lpf.umd.edu (Yunson Du)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Desperately need help on modem simulation
Date: 23 Jan 93 15:47:13 GMT
Organization: University of Maryland, College Park

Hi, all:

I am doing beeper simulation by using pc and modem to
connect to paging central service. Modem setting is (300, 8, n, 1)
Right now, I can direct modem to call. However, I can't get the
data from modem. I am supposed to get 'id=' prompt after connecting to
the paging central service. Please respond by email to
uctang@socrates.umd.edu as soon as possible. Thank you very much.

    yonghong  
-- 
yunson@kaos.umd.edu
Xref: sparky comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc:17181 comp.compression:4827 comp.os.msdos.apps:6262 comp.os.msdos.misc:7235
From: chandra@cis.ohio-state.edu (B Chandrasekaran)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc,comp.compression,comp.os.msdos.apps,comp.os.msdos.misc
Subject: Re: XtraDrive vs Stacker and Superstor
Date: 28 Jan 1993 08:14:41 -0500
Organization: The Ohio State University Dept. of Computer and Info. Science
NNTP-Posting-Host: cannelloni.cis.ohio-state.edu

In article <1993Jan28.121053.29988@fuug.fi> an7137@anon.penet.fi writes:

%
%If you have XtraDrive, please post experiences with it. Including
%how well it works with Windows, DOS, and games. I am looking
%for a disk compressor, but my friend had a lot of problems with
%Stacker 3. Thank you very much.
%

I have Xtradrv on my laptop and I use it under Windows. I haven't had
any problem so far, except perhaps some slowness, but even that is not
a clear cut thing.
From: P.A.Brooks-Johnson@newcastle.ac.uk (P.A. Brooks-Johnson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Re: Flow Charting Software
Date: 25 Jan 93 13:34:03 GMT
Organization: Computing Laboratory, U of Newcastle upon Tyne, UK NE1 7RU.


In article <727861159.1@ttlg.ttlg.UUCP>, Rick.Stangeland@ttlg.UUCP (Rick Stangeland) writes:
>I am in need of a software package that will run under DOS or Windows that will enable me to easily create flow charts.

{stuff deleted}

>I have heard that ABC Flowcharter for Windows is quite good (also quite expensive @ $479) but have never seen the program up and running.  Any advise would be greatly appreciated.
>
>        RS

I used ABC while working over the summer. It's good and I liked it. It is very easy to pick up and produces quality output. (I was using an old version). I'm not sure about exporting (I'm not familiar with WPerf), as it is windows you could easily paste the image to any windows image handler to convert formats (there are plenty of good shareware ones).
Is it worth $$$$, well how much do you want it??
If you want good (but always uniform, not a bad idea) charts...yes.
Hope I,ve helped.....
If you've got anymore questions, I'll try and help.

Peter.
(P.A.Brooks-Johnson@newcastle.ac.uk)
From: msp@msen.com (Jerry Foster)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Framework III For Sale
Date: 23 Jan 1993 04:05:31 GMT
Organization: Msen, Inc. -- Ann Arbor, Michigan
NNTP-Posting-Host: garnet.msen.com
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL8]

For Sale:

FrameWork III by Ashton Tate:

Integrated Spreadsheet, Database, Word Processor, and own programming
language.  Never used and still in original box.  List price 3 years ago
(when I won it) was $695.  Will sell for $85.

Email me, or call me (313)234-2915 in evenings, EST.  Thanks.


----------------------------------------------------------------------------
  //  Jerry Lee "3P"
\x/   e-mail: jfos@msp.com
From: ph12hucg@sbusol.rz.uni-sb.de (Carsten Grammes)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Re: Quantum 120at hdisk noise
Date: 27 Jan 1993 12:35:46 GMT
Organization: Universitaet des Saarlandes,Rechenzentrum
NNTP-Posting-Host: sbusol.rz.uni-sb.de

A vendor said to me (I don't know if it's right) that these Quantum
HD's have an internal Cache which is emptied/filled periodically.
I also do not understand why this has to be done regularly even in
the case of no access. Perhaps some error checking?


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From: cfgs@td2cad.intel.com (Rich Bersamin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Follow-up:  ProComm Plus Woes
Date: 22 Jan 93 15:55:24 GMT
Organization: Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA USA

In article <1993Jan21.032019.9452@netcom.com> tomd@netcom.com (Tom Dempster) writes:
>Rich Bersamin (cfgs@td2cad.intel.com) wrote:
>: 
>.  I can hear the connect
>:  but the problem is that I don't see anything on my screen which
>:  tells me this (i.e Connect 2400 or whatever). 
>
>I had precisely this problem for many weeks last year. Nothing I did with
>messing around with the init string, port selection, result codes, environment
>or anything else everyone suggested had any affect. Then the problem disappear-
>ed suddenly when, as a result of total disgust and lack of need, I stopped
>using Windows altogether. (V.3.0) Then one day about 8 months later I invoked
>Windows once to do something. After exiting Windows, I found that the problem
>had returned, just as before. (Again-this after 8 months of *flawless* modem
>performance) A warm re-boot at this point did not restore proper operation,
>however a cold restart did. Since then Windows has been entirely removed from
>the system. I dont know beans about this stuff; especially Windows config-
>uration gobbledy-gook, but I do know what works. 

Thanks for all the response to my ProComm Plus query.  It seems I had pretty
much the same problems as Tom Dempster (see above).  I tried running PCPLUS
again using the same setting I mentioned only this time I loaded DOS (5.0) off 
of floppy disk and everything worked just fine.  With this in mind I started
to play around with my autoxec.bat and config.sys files to see what was the
real cause.  I've narrowed it down to either 'running smartdrv' or 'loading
DOS into high mem'.  I'll keeping playing around though.  Thanks again.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
From: jmalloy@itsmail1.hamilton.edu (Joseph T. Malloy)
Subject: Re: HD lights flicker in Windows 3.1 ?
Organization: Hamilton College - Clinton, NY
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 19:28:07 GMT

In article <1993Jan25.181926.19241@donau.et.tudelft.nl> linstee@dutecaj.et.tudelft.nl (Erik van Linstee) writes:
>mechalas@gn.ecn.purdue.edu (John P. Mechalas) writes:
>
>>In article <C1EEq5.Ky1@news.cso.uiuc.edu> bes38869@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (The Bard Duelak   ) writes:
>>>	I have a 386DX@40Mhz, w/ a Maxtor 7120A 130Mb Hd, and a
>>>Cirrus GD54 video card.  I havent noticed this before, but when I enter
>>>Windows, it seems to be taking longer for it to start up, and then when 
>>>it finally does, Windows seems to be accessin the HD alot, and when it isnt
>>>accessing the HD, the HD lights constantly flicker.  They dont do this
>>>running under DOS.  I have even run the most recent version of scan on
>>>all the files on the hard drive, and no viruses are reported.
>>>	Has anyone had this problem, or know what is causing it and
>>>how to stop it?  Please post, or reply by e-mail.
>
>>How many buffers and files do you have set in your config.sys?  If you don't
>>have enough of either, Windows will be foreced to do a lot of disk accessing
>>(at least, that has been my experience).  I set 30 files and 15 buffers,
>>though your mileage may vary, if this is indeed the problem.
>
>Last time I looked (ages ago) windows keeps accessing the harddisk
>periodically (every3-5 seconds) even when it isn't touched.
>I never found a valid reason for it doing so.
>
When I boot Windows, hard drive activity stops afer startup and doesn't
occur again until I do something to require it.  If you're running a
program that automatically saves files in the background (word
processor, one of those post-it notes type utilities, spreadsheets --
all will do that if the options to do so are enabled), well, you'll see
a bit of disk activity from time to time.  It sounds like theoriginal
poster's configuration has somehow changed (do you have a disk cache?
How large is it?) or he's using one or more programs that require more
memory and so Windows swaps out to disk...

This may be the equivalent of a Windows Urban Legend, but I've heard
often enough of problems with Windows (mostly 3.0, I admit) that were
solved by increasing the number of file handles in config.sys to 50 or
60 or so.  If you have a disk cache, 15 buffers ought to be okay; if
not, the more the merrier.

Try Windows in standard mode and see how that goes, too...

Good luck!  

jmalloy@hamilton.edu

>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
From: mo@mg.stu.rpi.edu (Monish Gopinath)
Subject: Read if you work for the MIS dept.
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 06:51:57 GMT

I am trying to get some information on the issue of security in a MIS  
department for a paper I'm writing.

	(1) Is security an issue?
	(2) Why or why not?
	(3) How is it addressed in the dept.?
	(4) How is it implemented?

If you can give me any other information related to security I would  
appreciate it.
P.S. Could you include the size of your MIS dept. and (if you don't mind)  
the name of the organization you work for. Thank you.

REPLY DIRECTLY TO mo@mg.stu.rpi.edu