HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: lev@ipxed5.nswses.navy.mil (Lloyd E Vancil)
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Need a tsr to switch keys in a game
Date: 16 Oct 92 18:15:01 GMT
Organization: NSWSES, Port Hueneme, CA


Anyone out there know of a way to capture the right left from the
joystick and change them to > and < respectively?

a tsr? patch?

Email Please....

Tnx

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Newsgroups: comp.misc
From: stevenf@m2xenix.psg.com (Steven Frazier)
Subject: Bar Codes for Unix Print Spoolers
Organization: Pacific Systems Group, Portland Oregon US
Date: Sun, 11 Oct 1992 00:53:16 GMT
Keywords: Bar Code for Unix Print Spoolers

I am looking for some program or code that someone has written that
would do bar codes and be embedded into a Unix print spooler.

For example, let's say you was sending the following info to the
printer:

John Doe
123 South Main Street
Anytown, CA 32393
~838383~


The spooler would send the normal print to the printer when it saw
a special character like "~"  it would "bar code" what was between 
the two special characters.

Please email me if you can help me out with this, thanks in advance
Steve
sfrazier@norstan.com




Newsgroups: comp.misc,comp.text
From: jwl8k@palm.cs.Virginia.EDU (Joseph W. Lavinus)
Subject: Re: Origin of QWERTY
Organization: University of Virginia Computer Science Department
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 1992 12:27:28 GMT

In article <1992Oct14.082344.4344@dde.dk> ct@dde.dk (Claus Tondering) writes:
>It is frequently claimed that the QWERTY-keyboard was originally
>designed so that frequently used letter combinations were close together.
>(This later turned out to be a bad idea, but that's another story.)
>
>My problem is, that I find this hard to believe.

The folklore I've always heard (I make no claims regarding its truth) is
that the keyboard was designed so that in the innards of the typewriter,
letters that were often hit consecutively were distant from one another
in the rack of letters that hits the paper, so that they wouldn't smack
into each other and get stuck (anyone who has used a mechanical typewriter
knows what I mean).  No human factors involved whatsoever.

Just my $0.02,

Joe
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______________________________________________________________________________
 Joseph W. Lavinus, University of Virginia        email: lavinus@virginia.edu
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From: whare@ac.dal.ca
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: ATI Vantage + GVC SVGA Monitor CONFLICTS! HELP!
Date: 10 Oct 92 12:07:03 -0300
Organization: Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada

This may not be the best newsgroup to post this in, and if it isn't
could someone please direct me to the proper newsgroup? Thanks. 
Here goes:

I have a 386/33 equipped with an ATI Vantage 1MB Card and a GVC SVGA
Interlaced 14" monitor. I am having problems.  You see, every so often
whites will turn to off-yellows and my screen will flicker as if there
isn't enough power to power it -- but that's not it...  What *is* the
problem? My Video card? my monitor? The connectors between them? This
problem is really starting to annoy me -- it looks like I am doing
major damage to my monitor -- what do I do? 

One more thing -- There is an EEPROM installation program that comes
with my ATI Vantage and there are many option/switches/parameters and
they might be configured wrong -- would that be it?

Thanks. 
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                                                  .......everything...........
From: jtrim@devnet.hac.com
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Need access to News
Date: 8 Oct 92 15:33:24 GMT
Reply-To: jtrim@devnet.hac.com ()
Distribution: ca
Organization: Hughes Aircraft Co., Fullerton, CA

Greetings,

I have been reading the news network for a couple of years and   
unfortunately I will be leaving the company I am currently working for.
I would like to keep reading the news. So the question is how do I do
this. The company I am going to work for does not have access to the 
outside world (arpanet). Is there some BBS I can join?

My area code is (714).

Thankx to all that reply
JR Trimark

Newsgroups: comp.misc
From: tfj@apusapus.demon.co.uk (Trevor Jenkins)
Subject: Suggestions Wanted: Public Domain Erotica/Censored Materi 
Distribution: world
Organization: Job hunters use Parachute
Date: Thu, 8 Oct 1992 18:46:10 +0000


In article <1992Oct7.222610.17164@netcom.com> noring@netcom.com writes:

> 
> 
> Hello,
> 
> First, some background, and then I'll get to my request:
> 
> Project Gutenberg is attempting to transcribe many classic books (which are
> now in the Public Domain because their copyrights have expired) into
> electronic text files.  At the end of this posting is given a legal summary
> of when a publication enters the Public Domain.
> 
> After talking to the Project leaders, I realized that there are many very
> good and worthwhile books that they may not transcribe (at least for a few
> years) because they are sensitive in some manner.  Examples include classic
> erotica such as Sir Richard Burton's translation of the "1001 Arabian Nights",
> certain translations of the "Kama Sutra", as well as often-censored books such
> as "Huck Finn".

The issue of what should be censored changes with each generation. What is
considered acceptable to discuss in public now was reviled even 25 years
ago. Witness the trial concerning D H Lawrence's "Lady Chatterly's
Lover"---well would YOU let your servants read it? :-) There are probably
many books which ought to be included in an archive somewhere. The criteria
for including or excluding them ought only to be made upon
"artistic/literary merit" not upon whether or not the material could be
offensive to someone. Having read Lady Chatterly I would NOT include it
because it is a poor book (as is much of what DHL had to carry, sorry say).

> And now my request:
> 
> I'd like to receive net.wisdom feedback and ideas as to what older, public
> domain books/texts (dealing with sensitive subjects such as erotica or texts
> that have been repeatedly censored for other reasons), should be transcribed
> and made available to the Internet (and effectively the world).

In the Nazi Germany in the forties such notable authors as Vera Brittian
were censored because of their views. I'd like to see her works included in
such an archive. However there is nothing erotic, sensual or purient in her
material.
 
> Whose law applies:

> When we distribute in the United States, U.S. law applies.  When we
> distribute to other countries, their law applies. That is why Peter
> Pan is marked for US distribution only.  It is public domain in the
> U.S. but not in the U.K.

I was under the impression that Peter Pan was out of copyright in the UK.
The tradition here is that those giving a performance of the play make over
the proceeds to the "Great Ormond Street Hospital"; last year GOSH was
worried that it's income would be dramticallly reduced as British theartes
staged PP and kept the monies for themselves.

-------------------------------------------------------------
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134 Frankland Rd, Croxley Green, Rickmansworth, WD3 3AU
email: tfj@apusapus.demon.co.uk
phone: +44 (0)923 776436

Newsgroups: comp.misc,comp.periphs,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware,comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc,comp.sys.misc
From: Winfried.Krueger@arbi.informatik.uni-oldenburg.de (Winfried Krueger)
Subject: Re: Seagate ST-251 Help
Organization: University of Oldenburg, Germany
Distribution: na
Date: Fri, 16 Oct 1992 07:51:03 GMT

shyguy@ocf.berkeley.edu (David S. Shy) writes:

[...]

>Why are there so much complaints about Seagate drives?  I also have a
>ST251 from about five years ago.  It's still humming along happily
>in my brother's XT... (maybe i can sell it one of these days as
>an antique...)

>I haven't had any problems since i acquired it... maybe i should consider
>myself lucky or something... 

You should consider yourself _very_ lucky: Lots of those parts don't even
reach an age of three years.

>David Shy
>shyguy@ocf.berkeley.edu

winnie.
Newsgroups: comp.misc,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: mrosen@nyx.cs.du.edu (Michael Rosen)
Subject: WANTED: Suggestions for high speed (14.4K) fax/modem
Organization: University of Denver, Dept. of Math & Comp. Sci.
Date: Fri, 9 Oct 92 00:57:54 GMT

I'm looking into buying a fax/modem with 14.4K modem speed.  What are
people's thoughts on the capabilities to process incoming calls,
utilize caller id, etc.?  I've heard that there are database programs
that can use the caller id to, say, pull up an image of the person
calling maybe.  If this is so, I may want to get one with CID
capability if I decide to utilize it at one point in the future.

The Gateway Telepath does not distinguish between incoming
fax/modem/voice calls and does not have caller id capability, so I
feel like spending more for one that does might not be such a bad idea.

How about internal vs. external?  With an internal I wouldn't have to
worry about another plug taking up my outlet.  Any other
advantages/disadvantages of either one?

Thanks,
Mike
--
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Tau Epsilon Phi - George Washington University		 a body good."
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Michael.Rosen@bbs.oit.unc.edu or @lambada.oit.unc.edu
Newsgroups: comp.misc,comp.periphs,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware,comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc,comp.sys.misc,uky.misc
From: jeffj@krfiny.uucp (J. Jonas)
Subject: Re: Seagate ST-251 Help
Summary: I've had bad luck, but be fair, not all Seagate is trash
Organization: Jeff's house of computer pieces
Distribution: na
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1992 15:44:30 GMT

In article <1992Oct12.171728.1772@news2.cis.umn.edu>
	weiss@staff.tc.umn.edu writes:
>I've had the ST-238R, the ST277R, and now the ST157R. The last two drives are
>prone to stiction . Seagate?? Never again. Not on your life.
>
>My Mitsubishi model 535 65mb RLL is quieter, cooler, and never sticks.

I've has a Seagate ST251 and ST225 die quite quickly and without warning.
Their low end, stepper motor stuff is not reliable.
With disk prices these days being so close, I'd rather spend a little
more for Conner Peripherals, Maxtor, HP or some brand name that's
rated high in quality.
Had I known that Gateway 2000 would have a one month delay my hard disk
order for the Western Digital disks, I would have paid a little more for
timely delivery of a better brand.

To be fair, didn't Seagate acquire what was CDC's Wren drive series?
Those are quite reliable, using linear motor actuators.
I believe that there really *are* reliable drives with the Seagate name.
It's just that the junk with the Seagate label has made it
harder to distinguish.

- jeffrey Jonas
jeffj@panix.com
-- 
-- 
Jeffrey Jonas

jeffj@synsys.uucp
Newsgroups: comp.misc
From: wiegand@rtsg.mot.com (Robert Wiegand)
Subject: Re: MARK-OF-THE-BEA$T bar-code$
Reply-To: motcid!wiegand@uunet.uu.net
Organization: Motorola Inc., Cellular Infrastructure Group
Date: Wed, 7 Oct 1992 13:57:54 GMT

mcelwre@cnsvax.uwec.edu writes:

>               The UPC bar-codes are probably the most blatant form of 
>          the "MARK OF THE BEA$T" so far, with the "NUMBER OF THE 
>          BEA$T", 666, ALREADY CODED INTO THEM.  Each of the so-called 
>          "guard patterns", pairs of thin lines spaced close together 
>          at the beginning, middle, and end of each full-length UPC 
>          bar-code, is IDENTICAL to one of the two codes for a 6. 

Get a life. If you actually took the time to check how bar codes
actually work you would know how foolish this claim is.

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Newsgroups: comp.misc,misc.consumers,misc.invest,misc.jobs.misc,misc.legal,misc.misc,misc.taxes
From: paulg@tplrd.tpl.oz.au (Paul Gittings)
Subject: Re: Perot's "Platform" Posted to the Usenet
Originator: paulg@sydrd19
Organization: Telectronics Pacing Systems
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 92 23:52:34 GMT


In article <1992Oct14.223604.20229@netcom.com>, noring@netcom.com (Jon Noring) writes:
> In all seriousness, I intentionally posted this notice worldwide since the
> outcome of U.S. Presidential elections does affect the world politics/economics
> to some extent (maybe not like they did 20-30 years ago, but they do).  Also,
> in this document, Mr. Perot discusses several foreign policy issues that are
> definitely of interest to readers outside of the U.S.  My motivation for
> posting the notice worldwide was strictly informational to our friends
> outside the U.S., and not because of arrogance or anything like that.
> 

Well I'm not for the USA (see sig) and I would be interested in what 
Mr. Perot has to say.  Can this document be got from an FTP site.

Cheers,
Paul Gittings
Telectronics Pacing Systems- 7 Sirius Rd, Lane Cove, NSW 2066, Australia
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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_ // Amiga users  | 61-2-4136963 (voice: work)----------------------------
\X/ make it happen| 61-2-4136868 (fax)       |A Welsh/Canadian/Australian
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
No matter how much I beg, Telectronics will not allow me to express any
opinions on its behalf.

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From: debeijer@cs.ucsd.edu (Richard de Beijer)
Newsgroups: comp.misc,comp.os.os2
Subject: address of Pritsker Corporation, USA
Keywords: address, phone number
Date: 9 Oct 92 04:33:34 GMT
Followup-To: comp.misc
Organization: CSE Dept., U.C. San Diego


I am looking for the address and telephone number of the
Pritsker Corporation.

This corporation develops (among others perhaps) a
simulationsystem called AIM that runs under OS/2 2.0.

Perhaps somebody in these newsgroups can give me their address and 
telephonenumber. Also, perhaps can anybody explain where this
abbreviation AIM stands for.

Please reply answers to my questions to my e-mail address

debeijer@cs.ucsd.edu


Thanks in advance.

Richard de Beijer
Computer Science & Engineering dept.
University of California, San Diego
9500 Gilman Drive
La Jolla, CA 92093-0114
USA

Disclaimer: general disclaimer applies, so opinions, if any,
            are entirely my own.
Newsgroups: comp.misc,misc.activism.progressive,misc.consumers,misc.education,misc.entrepreneurs,misc.invest,misc.jobs.misc,misc.legal,misc.misc,misc.taxes
From: noring@netcom.com (Jon Noring)
Subject: Perot's "Platform" Posted to the Usenet
Followup-To: alt.activism.d
Summary: I encourage everybody to read it.
Originator: rich@pencil.cs.missouri.edu
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  (408 241-9760 guest) 
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 1992 19:56:08 GMT

Perot's detailed stand on many issues was posted today in four parts to the
following newsgroups:

     alt.politics.perot
     alt.politics.elections
     talk.politics.misc

Subject: Perots Economic Plan


It apparently was excerpted from his best-selling book.  It is fairly long
when the four parts are combined, over 170K.  I'll admit that I am not sure
that the poster (it was not me) had permission to post this to Usenet, but
the "damage" has been done.  I'm sure Perot would like his views disseminated
to as large of an audience as possible, and the electronic ether is one of
Perot's more favored means of communication, bypassing the interpretation and
vagaries of the Press (tm).


Note:  I'm posting this notification here since Perot touches upon issues
pertinent to this newsgroup.


*****************************************************************************
IF (note the 'if') you cannot access the above newsgroups, I can e-mail the
document to you - just send me your request.  Please share it with others.
*****************************************************************************

Carefully read this document before deciding on who you will vote for
President come Election Day.  And of course, get off your kaziski (a.k.a.
butt) and VOTE!

Jon Noring

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From: jwc@netx.com (Jeff Comer)
Newsgroups: comp.misc,misc.consumers,misc.education,misc.entrepreneurs,misc.invest,misc.jobs.misc,misc.legal,misc.misc,misc.taxes
Subject: Re: Perot's "Platform" Posted to the Usenet
Date: 15 Oct 92 17:19:58 GMT
Followup-To: comp.misc
Organization: The Chaos Bobs

noring@netcom.com (Jon Noring) writes:
>Carefully read this document before deciding on who you will vote for
>President come Election Day.  And of course, get off your kaziski (a.k.a.
>butt) and VOTE!

hansm@cs.kun.nl (Hans Mulder) writes:
>I'd love to.  Trouble is, there are no elections in my country this year.
>Can I come over to your country and vote?

Even better Hans, why don't you come over and vote as proxy for the millions
of registered voters who will end up NOT voting this year? It will make the
turnout figures look a lot better.

-jc
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From: gt6698a@prism.gatech.EDU (Andrew Hobson)
Newsgroups: comp.misc,comp.text
Subject: Re: Origin of QWERTY
Date: 14 Oct 92 14:03:45 GMT
Followup-To: comp.misc
Organization: Georgia Institute of Technology

I have heard that part of the design of the keyboard was so that all of
the letters in the word typewriter are all on the top row of keys, 
allowing for easy demonstrations.  I have no idea as to the accuracy 
of this claim, though.

drew

-- 
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"He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already
earned my contempt.  He has been given a large brain by mistake,
since for him the spinal cord would fully suffice."   -- Albert Einstein
From: ray@bcstec.ca.boeing.com (Ray Allis)
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Re: Centipede poem
Date: 15 Oct 92 19:52:22 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: Boeing Computer Services, Seattle

bcc@lanai.Eyring.COM (Brian Cooper) writes:

>While studying various software analysis methods, I came to the conclusion that many methods
>treat any uncertainty by studying the system in finer and finer detail.  I was reminded of
>a poem (I think by Ogden Nash) about a centipede who was going along just fine until some
>wit asks him something like 'which leg goes after which?' and the poor critter in trying to
>study what something that was previously taking care of itself -- ends up with its legs
>all tangled up, lying in the ditch.  Now, from that little bit of info, can someone call
>up the reference, or better still the whole poem?  Thanks!

>-- 
>Brian Cooper	bcc@Eyring.COM
>Eyring Corp.	+1 801-375-2434 or 1 800 YES PDOS

"A centipede was happy, quite,
 Until a frog, in fun
 Said "Pray, which leg comes after which?"
 This raised his mind to such a pitch
 He lay distracted in the ditch
 Considering how to run."

I don't know who wrote it.  I read it in one of a series of books
for boys called "The Sugar Creek Gang" approximately 35 years ago.

I was interested in how minds and bodies worked.  This seemed to
me to be worth memorizing.

Ray Allis
ray@atc.boeing.com
Newsgroups: comp.misc,comp.periphs,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware,comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc,comp.sys.misc
From: russest@ampex.com (Steve Russell)
Subject: Re: Seagate ST-251 Help
Organization: Ampex Corporation, Redwood City CA
Distribution: na
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 1992 19:16:57 GMT

In article <1bgoe3INNr42@agate.berkeley.edu> shyguy@ocf.berkeley.edu (David S. Shy) writes:
>In article <1992Oct13.154430.19436@krfiny.uucp> jeffj@krfiny.uucp (J. Jonas) writes:
>>>prone to stiction . Seagate?? Never again. Not on your life.
>>>
>>>My Mitsubishi model 535 65mb RLL is quieter, cooler, and never sticks.
>>
>>I've has a Seagate ST251 and ST225 die quite quickly and without warning.
>
>Why are there so much complaints about Seagate drives?  I also have a
>ST251 from about five years ago.  It's still humming along happily
>in my brother's XT... (maybe i can sell it one of these days as
>an antique...)
>
>I haven't had any problems since i acquired it... maybe i should consider
>myself lucky or something... 
>
>David Shy
>shyguy@ocf.berkeley.edu
>

As a whole, Seagate was supposed to be a good drive vendor.

But they comprised the majority of the drive failures I've had to deal
with in a service capacity - something like 12 out of 15 failures were
sticky Seagates. The worst of it is that their tech support group denied
that a problem even existed with that model (and the 4038/51/96 series).

NOTE: these failures were in systems that were usually "on" 24-hours a day.

One of my home pc's has two-4096's and they work fine - but they are only
on when the kid's can't get to "my" pc (the one with the sound card!).

-steve
From: ychou@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Chou Yen)
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Boot strap
Date: 15 Oct 92 00:54:57 GMT
Article-I.D.: news.Bw517n.5LC
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana

I installed Coherent a while ago and it's boot strap rewrote my original
boot strap.  Well, no problem, I thought -- I had it copied.

Ha.  I've lost that copy and, since that time, have erased Coherent from
my system.  It irritated me that I still had the boot strap and I seemed to 
remember someone saying that if you erased your bootstrap, it would be 
automatically replaced by fdisk or something or the other.

Well, I erased my bootstrap BUT fdisk did not rewrite it.  I have a hard drive 
now that refuses to boot.  I've tried to reinstall DOS and manually put 
io.sys and msdos.sys on the hard drive but all with no luck.

Please, please, someone tell me where I can get some sort of program to 
replace my boot strap...!