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From: linville@garfield.catt.ncsu.edu (John W. Linville)
Subject: Re: The uses of Windows? (was Re: Someone explain this to me...)
Organization: NCSU CATT Prog  
Date: Mon, 13 Apr 1992 20:31:49 GMT

In article <563@arrlhq.UUCP> jbloom%arrlhq.UUCP@uhasun.hartford.edu (Jon Bloom) writes:
>In comp.os.msdos.misc, Steve.Withers@bbs.actrix.gen.nz writes:
>>As for DOS apps running slowly in DOS Windows - you probably haven't uned your
>>PIFs to run as well as they might. A PIF in the background with the default 50
>>units of system resource will run like a dog. Up it to 200 and watch the
>>difference! It will run like it was on a 4.77m xt. Give it more and it will
>>run faster still - slowing down others, but at least you have the option of
>>favouring the tasks you want to run well. The only limit is the capacity of
>>your processor and the amount of RAM you have.
>
>Another fix for the slowdown in some DOS apps is to disable the
>"Dectect idle time" checking in the "advanced" PIF editor window.
>One of the users here complained because Borland Sprint took 5 seconds
>to do a particular search-and-replace under DOS and *9 minutes* under
>Windows 3.0.  Turning off the idle-time check solved that problem.

The problem with this fix, and all the other fixes for slow DOS boxes under
Windows, is that in order to speed-up the DOS app, you sacrifice the rest of
the system.  If Windows were truly pre-emptive, this would not be the case.

John W. Linville




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Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc
From: scdorcy@lims01.lerc.nasa.gov (JAMES DORCEY)
Subject: Re: OS/2 2.0 Question
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41    
Organization: NASA Lewis Research Center
Date: 15 Apr 1992 10:00 EST  

In article <1992Apr15.054559.13849@athena.mit.edu>, wanderer@athena.mit.edu 
(Opus) writes...
>hmm i still need to figure out quoting, but the question was whether 40
>megs is enough to run os/2.. I'd have to say, realistically, the answer
>is no.. if you want windows/dos compatibility, it will take up 32 megs of
>hard drive space...

Is the 32 meg number based on a Beta version or the actual GA release?  
Most of what I've seen in the rags and on the net indicate 18-20 meg 
average, 30 max (if you load all of the drivers - most of which you don't 
need).  Still a pretty sizeable chunk of a 40 meg drive.

JD
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc
From: phil@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (Phil Howard)
Subject: CONFIG.SYS BUFFERS=
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Wed, 8 Apr 1992 20:12:36 GMT

Does anyone know how to get above the CONFIG.SYS BUFFERS=99 limit?
I think I need around 144.
Xref: sparky comp.os.msdos.misc:3087 comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc:7334
From: v119llqq@ubvmsd.cc.buffalo.edu (Thomas J Dillman)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc,comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Re: Help needed on NDOS and LIST
Date: 8 Apr 92 18:31:00 GMT
Organization: University at Buffalo
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41

In article <LowViB5w164w@batpad.lgb.CA.US>, mike@batpad.lgb.CA.US (Mike Batchelor) writes...
>fsspr@acad3.alaska.edu (Sean P. Ryan, Hardcore Alaskan) writes:
> 
>> Now, maybe I should RTFM here, but what workarounds can I pursue with
>> this?  I was thinking of renaming LIST.COM to something else and using
>> that name as the command to access the Buerg program, but are there any
>> other things I can do?  I couldn't find anything that would allow me to
>> disable the NDOS LIST, which is my preferred alternative.
> 
>Put this in your alias file:
> 
>list *c:\util\list (or whatever the directory is on your system)
> 
>The asterisk stops the alias loop which would result by aliasing
>list (alias) to list (the program).

From what I know NDOS is Norton's Port of 4DOS.
If so, try the command :
SETDOS /I- LIST
This should disable the internal List command and force 4DOS to look for 
a program named LIST


			Hope this helps
				Thomas J. Dillman
From: dmckeon@hydra.unm.edu (Denis McKeon)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc
Subject: Re: Possibly a FAT problem  -- help needed
Date: 7 Apr 92 20:38:50 GMT
Article-I.D.: lynx.#bqjwnb
Organization: Connemara - Computing for People
X-Mailer: Mail User's Shell (7.2.3 5/22/91)
Status: OR

ky04@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu (KUN YU) writes:
>
>I use DOS 5.o on my 286 with a newly installed HD. I did a lot of DEL and RMDIR
>and copied new stuff onto the HD. Everything worked fine. I CHKDSK 'ed to see
>a lot of lost chains and then the probelm arose.
>
>The previously removed subdir all re-appeared, some of which I have never seen.
>But the directory list seems obviously wrong,-- a file is 22 Mb and marked HSR.
>The contents of the previously removed subdir are unreadable, the file names
>are made of strange characters. I couldn't delete the files, or remove the
>subdirs. When I used del *.*, it would ask me for (y/n)?, I said y, and it
>responded 'not deleted'.  I have duplicate subdirs, e.g., two DOS subdirs.
>Any fix besides re-format?

Perhaps you can fix by extensive use of attrib & del & chkdsk & then
reinstalling as needed.  Re-formatting might be easier overall.

A possible cause is confusion between fastopen (and/or disk cache programs)
and the directory removal/recreation process.  I had a somewhat similar result
using a directory rename utility while fastopen was in place, roughly:

    <ren dir olddir>	# pseudo-DOS equivalent of directory rename
    mkdir dir
    cd dir		# fastopen put me in the wrong "dir" ("olddir")
    xcopy a: . /s	# xcopy appeared to run fine, but chaos ensued

Now I avoid (re-)using directory names that might conflict in this way.
Also, if I rename a lot of directories, or do a lot of prune and graft,
I usually reboot soon thereafter, certainly before doing a lot of file 
system mkdirs or file creates.  This might be overly cautious.
Suggestions are welcome.

On a related topic, is there any point (under DOS 5.0 on a 
standalone 386DX w/ 115MB C: & 75MB D: partitions on 1 hard drive)
in using share.exe and fastopen.exe as well as smartdrv.sys?

--
Denis                                   Good.   Fast.   Cheap.
dmckeon@hydra.unm.edu                       Pick two.
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc,comp.protocols.appletalk
From: mblum@chaos.cs.brandeis.edu (Cerebus)
Subject: AFP file server software for PCs?
Keywords: afp,msdos,pc,file,server
Organization: Brandeis University
Date: Sun, 12 Apr 1992 16:57:45 GMT

I have a 386/25 running MSDOS 5 hooked up to an AppleTalk/LocalTalk
network.  I am unable to use it as a file server, because I lack the
necessary software.  Does anyone know if AFP software for PC
compatibles exists, and whether there is any shareware that will do
it.  If no shareware exists for this purpose, what commercial software
that does this is good, and how do I go about getting it?

Please respond via e-mail.

Thanks in advance.

-- Matt
Matt "Matt" Blum  		mblum@chaos.cs.brandeis.edu

The city, 1:00am. People in their rooms, asleep, lonely, depressed.
One of them gets the urge to pet a small, furry animal.  That's where
I come in.  My name's Friday.  I carry a badger.
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc
From: wanderer@athena.mit.edu (Opus)
Subject: Re: OS/2 2.0 Question
Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Date: Wed, 15 Apr 1992 05:45:59 GMT

hmm i still need to figure out quoting, but the question was whether 40
megs is enough to run os/2.. I'd have to say, realistically, the answer
is no.. if you want windows/dos compatibility, it will take up 32 megs of
hard drive space..

Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc
From: libove@libove.det.dec.com (Jay Vassos-Libove)
Subject: Read QIC-150 Wangtek (NOT SCSI) tape under DOS?
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation, Detroit Ultrix Resource Center
Date: Thu, 9 Apr 1992 19:58:40 GMT

I posted about this last week but most people mistook my question
for saying that I had a SCSI tape drive - I do not.

I have a Wangtek 5150 interfact QIC-150 tape drive, which means
that I need a Wangtek 5150 device driver for DOS to read it.

Any information leading to the location or even purchase of a
data-moving tool between QIC-150 tapes written on Unix and
getting the data off on DOS will be greatly appreciated.

I do not have the option of moving the data over a network -
I need a driver for that tape device and hopefully some code
that can read a format that I can write to the tape on a Unix
machine I have with a similar tape drive.

Please reply via email, and I will summarize.

Thanks!
--

Jay Vassos-Libove                  libove@libove.det.dec.com
Digital Equipment Corporation      decwrl!libove.det.dec.com!libove
Open Systems Resource Center       Opinions? They're mine, mine, all mine!
Farmington Hills, Michigan         and D.E.C. Can't have 'em!
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc
From: comptec91055@camins.camosun.bc.ca
Subject: hlp network id software routine
Organization: Camosun College
Date: Wed, 15 Apr 1992 03:25:22 GMT



		Hello Hardware gurus and hackers:

			I am attempting to write a small routine which can be
executed on any pc that returns information on the resident network card (type
mem. cap. etc.)  (assembly/c routine).. My problem is that I am unsure of which
interrupts the card takes over when it is installed, whether or not these inter-
rupts are from the dos vector table or directly from the cpu, and how they can
be used to access card info.  If anyone has the time I would very much appreciate
 any information that could be provided.  I will send anyone that responds a copy
of the final program which does a series of hardware checks and verifications
on the pc, including nice output (not that anyone responding would need this,
but what the heck..)   If there are any ideas could you please e-mail them.
 			Thanks in advance,
	
			D. Rozee
From: li@GAUSS.CASR.FAU.EDU (Charlie Li)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc
Subject: DOSSHELL Command Prompt and Mouse Wierdness
Date: 14 Apr 92 15:22:43 GMT
Article-I.D.: gauss.9204141522.AA09597

These are 2 separate questions:

1.  DOSSHELL Command Prompt

For MS-DOS 4.01, the DOSSHELL.BAT has a command line switch to
enable/disable the Shift-F9 Command Prompt feature.   But I couldn't
disable Shift-F9 on MS-DOS 5.0's DOSSHELL.  I looked into DOSSHELL.INI but
cannot find any hint.   I know that on the DOS world, there is actually no
way to block users to access DOS Prompt.  I am just trying to make casual
user harder to do it in our lab (PCs are shared among quite a few people),
and this gives user a feeling of "accessing DOS prompt is discouraged".

Can anyone tell me how to disable the command prompt?  I looked into the
manual, just couldn't find the answer.

2.  Mouse moves wierd

I have a Microsoft mouse on COM1 of a DTK 386/25 running MS-DOS 5, QEMM 386
and Pathworks network.  Mouse driver is MOUSE.COM came with DOS 5, dated
5/91.  However the mouse, used to work well before I install QEMM 386,
started to "Jump", it is hard to point to some where and click, it flicking
little bit.  I checked the mouse ball, it is clean.  I am wondering is
there any command switch for MOUSE.COM I can use to make this work better,
or anything to do with QEMM386 switch?

Thanks a lot.

Charlie Li
Center for Applied Stochastics Research, Florida Atlantic University
From: heinicke@uwovax.uwo.ca (Allan Heinicke)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc
Subject: Norton + Superstore/Stacker: OK ??
Date: 8 Apr 92 19:19:55 EST

Is it safe to use (for example) Norton Utilities disk
manipulating programs such as Norton Disk Doctor or Calibrate
on a disk that has been compressed with Superstor (which is bundled
with DR-DOS). I imagine (?) the answers for Superstor and Stacker 
would be the same, but if there is a difference, it's Superstor I'm
interested in.

These programs store the information in a partition in ONE LONG
file, and at bootup you load device drivers (via config.sys) that
interpret the long file as a `normal' DOS partition. If you comment 
out the device driver + reboot DRDOS just sees the one long file.




Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc
From: geo@cunyvms1.gc.cuny.edu
Subject:  Demacs and EMM386.EXE. Incompatible? 
Reply-To: geo@cunyvms1.gc.cuny.edu
Organization: Computer Center, CUNY Graduate School, New York NY 10036
Date: Wed, 15 Apr 1992 04:13:01 GMT


 Hi to all!

I cannot make demacs to run with emm386.exe.
My 486sx gives the message
   "CPU must be in REAL (not V86) mode so this program to run"
Do you know what this exactly means?
I had configured emm386 with noems
ie without expanded memory so to loadhigh
devices and system.
I finally managed to make it run using only XMS but 
the memory fall down to 544K.
Do you know if DEMACS run with emm386 and if yes what 
am I doing wrong? (the manual says explicitly that it 
is emm386 compatible...)

Thanks in advance.
I will summarize if there is much interest.

K.
*************************************
Konstantinos Georgatos
Department of Mathematics
Graduate School and University Center
City University of New York
33W 42nd Street,NY,NY 10036
GEO@CUNYVMS1.BITNET or GEO@CUNYVMS1.GC.CUNY.EDU
*************************************
Xref: sparky comp.os.msdos.misc:3115 comp.lang.pascal:2838
From: phys169@csc.canterbury.ac.nz
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc,comp.os.msdos.misc,comp.lang.pascal
Subject: Re: Need a Screen DUmp Utility
Date: 10 Apr 92 10:49:13 +1200
Summary: Turbo Pascal units for graphics screen to PostScript file or printer
Reply-To: M.Aitchison@csc.canterbury.ac.nz,john@banach.WPI.EDU
Followup-To: comp.sys.ibm.pc,comp.lang.pascal,comp.os.msdos.misc,comp.sys.progra
Keywords: Turbo Pascal Graphics Screen Print PostScript
Organization: University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand

In article <JOHN.92Apr9152022@banach.WPI.EDU>, john@banach.WPI.EDU (John F Stoffel) writes:
> 	I need a program to take screen dumps of a Turbo Pascal 6.0 -

You can get two Turbo Pascal units from the pub/pascal directory of our local
ftp host: newton.phys.canterbury.ac.nz [132.181.40.1]; they are...

graphprint.pas - prints a graphics screen (that your T.P. program presumably
                 created with the graph unit or whatever) to a printer or to
                 a file.  Supports Postscript, HP Laserjet, IBM/Epson matrix
                 and some others. The resolution is as chunky as your screen
                 of course.

postscript.pas - use it instead of the graph unit (has the same calls as TP5
                 provides, because *it* calls graph procedures/funtions) and
                 it outputs the PostScript commands to draw the lines, text,
                 etc as well as displaying on the screen.  You can then play
                 the the PS file, encapsulate it, whatever. The resolution's
                 as good as the printer can do - instead of a copy of screen
                 pixels.

These two are free-but-if-you-use-'em-commercially-please-acknowledge type of
software. They may have bugs (the second one has a few limitations), but have
been used around here for a while.  They're always getting updated, so if you
have any suggestions they might get incorporated, but please don't distribute
any alterred versions yourself.

Hope they help,
Mark Aitchison, Physics, University of Canterbury, New Zealand.
From: MDS128@psuvm.psu.edu
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc
Subject: Error while running at 33 Mhz
Date: 15 Apr 92 19:16:19 GMT
Organization: Penn State University

I've been having a problem running at 33 Mhz but not at 16 Mhz on my 386.
I have a "Turbo" button that activates the 33Mhz mode, and whenever I
switch to this mode, the computer locks.  In this mode, the computer
won't even boot.  One hint:  the Turbo light stays faintly on in 16 Mhz
mode - might this mean something?
This problem was intermittent for about 2 days, and now it's constant.
When it first started, I was getting errors from QEMM when I tried to
switch modes.  Now the computer accepts no keyboard input and simply
freezes when switched to 33 Mhz, even if switched back to 16 Mhz.
If ANYONE has any idea why this might be happening, please let me know.
I'm a student and cannot afford to send them my computer for maintenance.
Thanks in advance,
Mike Smith
From: nadeau@JSP.UMontreal.CA (Nadeau Jean-Claude)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc
Subject: Re: DOS error 4
Date: 6 Apr 92 20:07:36 GMT
Organization: Universite de Montreal

In article <92097.142830BOYDJ@QUCDN.QueensU.CA> BOYDJ@QUCDN.QueensU.CA (Jeff Boyd) writes:
>
>I'm receiving the message "DOS error 4" when attempting to open a group
>of database files. My DOS 5.0 manual doesn't seem to have a list of
>system messages, and I have no idea what this message means.
>
>Any ideas?
>
>
>jeff

	Something like too much files opened.  Check the line FILES= in
	your CONFIG.SYS.


-- 
Jean-Claude Nadeau, ing.	<nadeau@JSP.UMontreal.CA>
Services informatiques		<nadeau@ERE.UMontreal.CA>
Universite de Montreal		<nadeau@UMTLVR.BITNET>
Tel. (514) 343-6111,ext 5234	Fax  (514) 343-2155
Organization: Queen's University at Kingston
Date: Monday, 6 Apr 1992 14:28:30 EDT
From: Jeff Boyd <BOYDJ@QUCDN.QueensU.CA>
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc
Subject: DOS error 4


I'm receiving the message "DOS error 4" when attempting to open a group
of database files. My DOS 5.0 manual doesn't seem to have a list of
system messages, and I have no idea what this message means.

Any ideas?


jeff

From: Marc.Costaldi@f2050.n391.z1.FidoNet.Org (Marc Costaldi)
Sender: UUCP@p0.f1060.n391.z1.FidoNet.Org
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc
Subject: os/2
Date: 11 Apr 92 14:40:00 EST

Anyubody out there run os/2 on their home computer???? if so, would just 
like to know if you like it, and what you think of it.. considering
chagning 
over,, want some input though,, thanks..


Marc.Costaldi@f2050.n391.z1.fidonet.org

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From: jmann@vineland.pubs.stratus.com (Jim Mann)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc
Subject: Re: Microsoft (Was Re: Someone explain this to me...)
Date: 15 Apr 92 12:41:28 GMT
Reply-To: jmann@vineland.pubs.stratus.com

In article <14APR199213022170@lims01.lerc.nasa.gov>  
scdorcy@lims01.lerc.nasa.gov (JAMES DORCEY) writes:
> In article <2185@transfer.stratus.com>, jmann@vineland.pubs.stratus.com 
> writes...
> >Frankly, I have used Microsoft products and 
> >found them to be, by and large, solid products and, in at least
> >a couple of cases (Word for Windows, Word for DOS, Excel) the best
> >of class.
> 
> I guess that I'll put my flame-thrower back in its holster and simply  
state 
> "Your Mileage May Vary."
> 
> JD
> (while muttering "Word for DOS - best of class????")

By "best of class" in this case I meant "best DOS (non-Windows)
word processor.  Word was better than Word Perfect and light years
ahead of Word Star.  But then again, I think any word processor
that requires you to use a key template (Word Perfect <= 5.0) rather
than having menu choices on-screen is brain dead to begin with.

--
Jim Mann                                       
jmann@vineland.pubs.stratus.com 
Stratus Computer
From: ky04@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu (KUN YU)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc
Subject: Re: MSdos 5.0 install disk
Date: 9 Apr 92 17:41:52 GMT
Organization: Lehigh University

In article <17435.29e202c3@ecs.umass.edu>, wdunn@ecs.umass.edu writes:
>Hy,
>  One word,
>  Diskcopy,
>wanta know why,
>Eact secor by sector copy,
>latta,
>Haplo

No! <diskcopy> won't work. The diskcopy'ed disks will not boot. There must be
some protection mechanism in the distribution disk to prevent diskcopy.

>In article <1992Apr6.081241.5055@fwi.uva.nl>, wijkstra@fwi.uva.nl (Marcel Wijks
tra (i87)) writes:
>> Recently, I tried upgrading from 4.01 to 5.0. For safety reasons, I copied
>> the 5.0 installation disks with PCshell. But somehow these backups won't
>> work: DOS 4.01 says something like 'Non-system disk'...
>> When taking a closer look at the first disk, it appeared that the first
>> entry in the dir was IO.SYS, but MSDOS.SYS was NOT the second. In fact,
>> PCshell included MSDOS.SYS in its dir sort (which it did not with IO.SYS,
>> and neither with C:\DOS\MSDOS.SYS).
>> I moved MSDOS.SYS to the second entry, but still no succes...
>> Could someone tell me what goes wrong???
>>
>> P.S. The original DOS 5.0 disks posed no problems at all. But the above
>> makes my backup useless.
>>
>> Marcel
>>
>> --
>> /\/\\/\//\/\\/\//\/\\/\//\/\\/\//\/\\/\//\/\\/\//\/\\/\/
>>  X      Marcel Wijkstra         (wijkstra@fwi.uva.nl)
>> |X|       Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science
>>  X          University of Amsterdam   The Netherlands
>
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Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc
From: fornax@vlsi10.WPI.EDU (Psychadelic Dan!)
Subject: Re: Someone explain this to me...
Organization: Woosta Polyteknik Instatoot
Date: Sat, 11 Apr 1992 05:01:28 GMT


In the article <1992Apr11.005823.18377@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> in comp.os.msdos.misc,
jknepley@isis.cs.du.edu (Ranseus (Jim Knepley)) blurts out profusely:
:-) I don't care to use either program (DR DOS 6.0 and DESQView for
:-) me), but I grow tired of the constant media attention that
:-) Microsoft gets over what are COMPLETELY SUPERIOR products.
:-) There's a reason Mac users laugh at Windows, and it ain't the cute
:-) icons.  It was all the same with DR DOS, and people believed
:-) Microsoft.  Folks, the time for action has come.  Boycott
:-) Microsoft for the useless egomaniacs that they are (well, Bill
:-) Gates specifically).  Maybe they'll get the message...

	KUDOS!!  Windoze is a waste.  Try using it to switch between
ACAD, WP5.1, and Lotus 3.1... NOT!  I tried it out for awhile, being
the adventurous type, but after it crashing my system, being flaky, a
disk and memory hog, I said screw it.  A simple 12k PD menu system
that I have is much more reliable and does it's job quite well.  No
hassles, or any of this other garbage with Windoze.
	Please correct me if I'm wrong, but I find that most people
use Windows simply to switch between applications, and it hasn't been
until recently that there have actually been useful programs that run
in the windowing environment.  That might cause a trend towards people
using programs like that.. i.e. Lotus for windoze 1.0 and WP 4
windoze, but at a few hundred bucks a pop, it's unlikely in the near
future.
	Overall, I find that using straight MS-DOS batch files to
access programs is about the quickest, fastest, less memory dependent
way to run a program, not to mention that the user has to understand
a few basic concepts of the computer that their working on.

								-Dan
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc
From: burgoyne@highlite.uucp (J. Robert Burgoyne)
Subject: Re: BORLAND C++ 2.0 Piracy (Software Publisher's Association Hotline)
Organization: Gotham Communications Research, Laurel, MD
Distribution: ca
Date: Wed, 08 Apr 1992 13:01:03 GMT

To report any incidents of piracy, call the Software Publisher's Association
in Washington, D.C.

The number is:	1-800-388-PIR8  or
		1-800-388-7478
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc