HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: gleasont@lonex.rl.af.mil (Todd C. Gleason)
Subject: Re: What's holding up PKZIP v. 2.0 (message from PKWARE)
Organization: RL
Distribution: na
Date: Fri, 14 Aug 92 12:01:16 GMT

In article <9222515.21373@mulga.cs.mu.OZ.AU> warwick@mundil.cs.mu.OZ.AU (WarFish) writes:
>feg@cbnewsb.cb.att.com (forrest.e.gehrke) writes:
>
>>Could this be an especially energetic cosmic ray hitting a memory cell?
>
>The same memory cell every time?  :-)  (or at least the same position within
>any given 512 byte chunk)
>
>(Thanks to all those who have mailed me suggestions for finding a fix - I
>will respond to each when I have tried some of them out and am logged on
>from home so I can give specific answers to questions)
>
>				WarFish (Sengyo)

All right, enough is enough!  I don't think this talk about PKZIP 2.0 is
very interesting anymore, I suggest we move the discussion to another
newsgroup.  Perhaps sci.skeptic. . . .


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From: rglew@cs-acad-lan.Lakeheadu.Ca (R. J. Glew)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.apps
Subject: Symantec Address Requested
Date: 16 Aug 1992 16:58:50 GMT
Organization: Lakehead University

Does anyone have an E mail address for Symantec technical support?

At their suggestion, I tried NORTONTECH@SYMANTEC.COM but, no luck.

Any help would be appreciated.  Thanks.


R. Glew
Lakehead University.
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.apps,comp.os.msdos.misc
From: amichiel@rodan.acs.syr.edu (Allen J Michielsen)
Subject: Re: WARNING !!!!! MS WINDOWS 3.1 SmartDrive Problem
Organization: Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 92 23:19:20 EDT

In article@cs.mcgill.ca> tennis@cs.mcgill.ca (Pascal PROULX) writes:
>...Online BBS and is an important warning for all MS WINDOWS 3.1 users.
>"After considerable testing, I have discovered a major problem with the 
>version of SmartDrive included with Windows 3.1. The default installation
>of SMARTDRV.EXE enables write caching on your hard disks. Most often this
>is not a problem but, under certain circumstances, it could crash your hard
>disk. ...
>SOLUTION :
>Disable write-caching in SmartDrive. This is not a documented in the Windows
>...Original Line (substitute your own drive information)
>C:\WINDOWS\SMARTDRV.EXE
>Altered line to disable write-caching : (again, supply your own drive info)
>C:\WINDOWS\SMARTDRV.EXE C D E (list all hard drives)

>This modification will disable write-caching. You will get a minor slowdown
>in Windows, but it won't be too noticeable.

Better yet, setup windows to use a seperate partition, the size you want for
the swap file or so. Allow smartcache to write cache to this drive, then 
if this drive crashes you won't lose any information. (or very limited
info as the partition is smal and intended just for swap type files...

(aka set windows to swap to E, then
C:\WINDOWS\SMARTDRV.EXE C D
This disables write caching to drives c & d, but leaves it enabled to e.

al


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From: ICH211@DJUKFA11.BITNET (Thomas Heil)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.apps
Subject: Printer Drivers for MS Word 5.x
Date: 18 Aug 92 13:48:13 GMT
Organization: KFA  Forschungszentrum Juelich

Hello! Does someone know if there are places accessible via Internet
where I can find up-to-date printer drivers for MS Word 5.x? I know
that they can be retrieved from CompuServe, but I don't have access to that.
On the other hand: Can they be copied without violating any copyright law?
(I'd guess so since they are freely downloadable). In this (and only in this)
case maybe someone has the latest drivers for HP printers and the
PS drivers and can send them to me uuencoded.

/T.H.
--------------------------------+-------------------------------------------
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D-5170 Juelich       Germany    | Phone: +49 2461 61-6915
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.apps
Subject: Re: STATGRAPHICS 5.1 Help needed
From: lawrence@cmu.unige.ch
Date: 21 Aug 92 07:48:39 +0200
Organization: University of Geneva, Switzerland

In article <1992Aug20.100722.1@cmu.unige.ch>, lawrence@cmu.unige.ch writes:
> -- 
> I Purchased STATGRAPHICS 5.1 yesterday and installed it successfully. 
> Each time I try to access the display data module I need to reset the machine
> without seeing the data at all. I can't even update or edit an existing file
> although I can import and export. I have tried all combinations of DOS and
> himem, emm386, smartdrv, setver different machines(4) inc. 286, 386SX
> all to no avail.
> 
> I contacted the STSC hotline by FAX and by phone (From Switzerland!!!) but
> after a day I still have no response.
> 
> Can someone help me ????!
> 
> Thanks, Graham :-(
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Graham LAWRENCE, IUML, CMU Geneva Switzerland  e-mail lawrence@cmu.unige.ch
> Telephone (022) 702.55.80 Fax (022) 789.24.17 compuserve 100010,2020
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------
-- 
I managed to get a reply yesterday afternoon (after a second telephone call)
I t was a date trapping error. It works for a system date before the first of
May 1992. A patch is being sent.......

--------------------------------------------------------------------------
Graham LAWRENCE, IUML, CMU Geneva Switzerland  e-mail lawrence@cmu.unige.ch

Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.apps
From: jd@sunburn.uwaterloo.ca (John Donald x3821)
Subject: Wanted: redirect scrn output to file.
Originator: jd@sunburn.waterloo.edu
Organization: University of Waterloo
Distribution: na
Date: Thu, 20 Aug 1992 15:00:56 GMT

I'm looking for a dos program to redirect screen output
from a standard .bat file to an output file.  Does anybody
know of one that might help me out?

Thanks.

John Donald      jd@sunburn.uwaterloo.ca
		 jd@sunburn.waterloo.edu
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.apps
Subject: Re: Looking for note taking software
From: kl@isr.harvard.edu (Kun Lee)
Date: Fri, 21 Aug 92 20:33:18 GMT
Organization: Harvard University, Cambridge, MA

>  I'm looking for something to help out a friend who will be spending
>a year taking copious notes on his new laptop PC in various archives
>and musemums in Europe.
>  Specifically, we need a good note-taking package -- something that
>allows free-form text entry, with some kind of keyword and date
>searching feature.  I've looked in some recent PC Magazine indexes,
>but came up dry.  Any pointers would be much appreciated.
>
Check out NOTEBOOK II from Protem. It is a bibliographical database program
that allows 2000 characters free format text entry. I am not sure whether
2000 is correct, but surely larger than that if not correct. I don't have
the address of Protem at hand.

--
Kun Lee 
Dept of Sociology, Harvard Univ, Cambridge, MA 02138
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From: magnus@thep.lu.se (Magnus Olsson)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.apps,comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc,comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: What's holding up PKZIP v. 2.0 (message from PKWARE)
Date: 13 Aug 92 09:45:29 GMT
Organization: Theoretical Physics, Lund University, Sweden

In article <B3BDPB1w165w@infopls.chi.il.us> bleys@infopls.chi.il.us (Bleys Ahrens) writes:
>tony@disk.uucp (tony) writes:

>> 	Well, it's nice (I suppose), they want to iron out all the bugs, but
>> why do those of us still running 8088s have to suffer along with those with
>> better equipment than us.  Shouldn't there be _some_ small compensation for
>> having to _trudge_ along at 4.77 mHz?????  Why don't they just document the
>> anomalies in a READ.ME file and go ahead and post the product for everyone
>> else.  

>It amazes me that you would suggest a software developer should release
>a product with bugs this severe just because it will work on your PC.  I
>provide software support in a corporation with thousands of
>"fancy-schmancy" 386 and 486 PCs.  For us, they are the rule, not the
>exception.  I have enough problems to worry about without trying to
>explain to hundreds of users with licenses for PKZIP 1.1 that the free
>upgrade the have been waiting for since they bought the product five
>months ago doesn't run on their PC.  


What's also a big catch is thsi: Suppose PKWARE released a program
that worked on 88's and 286's, but crashed on some 386 amd 486
machines. Even if it were evre so well documented, do you really
believe that *all* (or ven a majority) of 486 owners would really read
this documentation, and abstain from running the program? of course
not! They'd try the program without reading the docs, or read the docs
and try the program anyway.

You could of course say that it would be their own fault if they got
problems. However, who do you think they'd blame? Sufficiently many
would blame the problem on PKWARE to give them a *serious* public
relations problem.

Of course, what PKWARE *could* do is to hack the program so it first
detects the type of processor, and then bypasses the troublesome DMA
sections if it's running on a 486. The loss in speed would hopefully
not be noticeable on such a fast machine. However, I don't blame them
for not releasing such an ugly hack...


Meanwhile, Tony, why don't you have a look at one of the other
excellent archivers out there? Try ARJ, for example; it's avaliable
from all major FTP sites and many BBS's.

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From: ludwig@sage.cc.purdue.edu (Mark Stephen Kidder)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.apps
Subject: Q&A Crashes with undocumented error
Date: 19 Aug 92 18:54:47 GMT
Distribution: usa

The Q&A here invariably crashes giving the error message
"Not enough disk space"  and also displays the error code
061e.  I have 58 Mb free on my harddrive, it isn't likely
that my 4600 record database is going to fill that up while
editing and entering information.  Whenever the crash occurs
We lose all information that we've entered (though the data
base itself is still intact).

Each record probably allocates about 500 bytes.  The other
to mention is that thsi is the network version of Q&A.
If anybody has any idea how to solve this problem, a 
suggestion would be greatly appreciated. 

Thanks!

Mark

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From: igrdb@informatik.tu-chemnitz.de (Ingo Gringer)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.apps
Subject: Help on DrawPerfect
Date: 12 Aug 92 11:27:13 GMT
Organization: tu-chemnitz

Hello everywhere, 

a friend of mine has a problem with more complex pictures in
DrawPerfect. Once created it seems as if the whole development process
is wading trough all definitions and deletions that ever take place
(like all ever saved versions). This takes a lot of time and is
senseless if he wants only the last state.

I hope that someone can help him. Please reply to my email-address.

Ingo
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From: chrisr@ersys.edmonton.ab.ca (Chris Ringe)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.apps,comp.os.msdos.misc
Subject: Re: CONFIG.SYS tactics
Date: Fri, 14 Aug 92 12:09:14 MDT
Organization: Edmonton Remote Systems #1, Edmonton, AB, Canada

rdhunt@triton.unm.edu () writes:

- Since my PC is soooo fast I need a program and/or tip on how
- to capture the screen output when booting the CONFIG.SYS file.
- (i.e. Can I redirect CONFIG.SYS output to a file?)
- 
- Please send tips to rdhunt@sandia.gov or post your replys.
- 
- Thanks,
- 
- The RICHMAN
- 
- 

Could one not do something like...

DEVICEHIGH=xxxxxxx.sys > C:\CAPTURE
DEVICEHIGH=yyyyyyy.sys > C:\CAPTURE

?? One would assume that this type of re-direction would still work.  I 
haven't tried this, but logically, it should.

Chris..

< SIG on Summer Holidays!! >
From: jimh@tcpbbs.pcn.org (UUCP SYSOP)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.apps
Subject: GIF2ANS2
Date: Mon, 17 Aug 92 00:35:28 EDT
Organization: TCP BBS, Cleveland, Ohio

Hi All, Any info on a file or program  GIF2ANS would be most helpful.  I 
would like to know.  A.) Is this PD/SHareware?  B.) Is the conversion from 
GIF to ANSI any good? and C.) Does anyone know where I might get this file 
(IF PD/Shareware) or Whio carries it if not.


###################################################################
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   or On the Cleveland Freenet         ac092@cleveland.Freenet.Edu 
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From: wall@hercules
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.apps
Subject: How to De write protect a stacker volume.
Date: 17 Aug 92 18:46:32 GMT
Reply-To: wall@hercules.uregina.ca ()
Organization: University of Regina, Regina, Saskatchewan

Murray Wall
From: nevries@accucx.cc.ruu.nl (Nico E de Vries)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.apps
Subject: Re: What's holding up PKZIP v. 2.0 (message from PKWARE)
Date: 19 Aug 92 13:56:05 GMT
Organization: Academic Computer Centre Utrecht

In <714210726.F00001@cloud.pub.uu.oz.au> hamish@cloud.pub.uu.oz.au (Hamish Moffatt) writes:

>Sunday August 09 1992 09:05, tony (tony@disk.uucp) wrote:

> >> During the development of PKZIP v. 2.0 for MS-DOS, PKWARE has
> >> discovered hardware faults in newer 80386 & 80486 computers.
> >> These faults can cause anomalies in the operation of PKWARE
> >> software as well as other software.

>The above quote from PKWare sounds a little unlikely. More likely they're trying
>to cover up for bugs they are taking forever to find..

Possible. The problem is real. They are also improving the product (faster
-es mode than for 1.93, little more compression, better user interface).

...

> t> should the makers of PKZIP have to withhold their product just because it
> t> won't run on a few fancy-schmancy machines that many of us don't own
> t> anyways???

>Good question.

It is indeed likely they use it as an excuse for other delays. PKZ 2.0 will
be released first week of september. Then we will all know.

>don't forget ARJ, btw. :-)

ARJ 2.30 is better (compression ratio, options, often speed) than PKZIP
1.10. ARJ 2.40 (beta running) will be comparable to PKZIP 2.0, ARJ 2.50
will probably be better (hard to say).

>Regards,
>Hamish


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Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.apps
From: bsteinke@es.com (Bruce Steinke)
Subject: Re: Wordperfect template needed for A5
Reply-To: bsteinke@es.com (Bruce Steinke)
Organization: Evans & Sutherland Computer Corp., Salt Lake City, UT
Date: Fri, 14 Aug 92 13:41:55 GMT

In article <14AUG199212040282@kubvx1>, jorna@kubvx1 (AEGEE-Tilburg, Remco Jorna) writes:
|> I'm looking for a template that will enable me to create a A5 booklet on WP5.1.
|> I know it's not difficult to create a template that will make two columns (or
|> anything similar) and formats your text in the right way, but I need one that
|> will put page 44 and page 1 on the same print-out so that the prints can be
|> transformed in the final booklet without having to cut and glue the correct
|> pages together.
|> 
|> Thanx,
|> Remco Jorna
|> JORNA @ KUB.NL

I have been looking for software that will do something similar. I maintain a
phone directory for local clubs. The directory page size is 1/4 sheet
(of 8 1/2 X 11). I need to print the pages out so they can be copied
double sided and folded up into a nice booklet.

According to Chris at "DISCOVERSOFT", their "TREESAVER" software will do just
this. I have not purchased it yet, but am considering it. TREESAVER seems to
have the features that you need. Check it out at:

	Discoversoft
	1516 Oak Street
	Alameda, CA 94501
	(510) 769-2902
	(510) 769-0149 FAX

I am not affiliated with Discoversoft in any way; just thought this might
fill your needs.

-Bruce

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From: cobb@cup.hp.com (Chris Cobb)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.apps
Subject: Re: Looking for simple backup software (to floppies).
Date: 19 Aug 92 15:58:37 GMT
Article-I.D.: cup.Bt8n1p.Cs6
Distribution: usa
Organization: Hewlett-Packard
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1scd1 PL4

avinash@sam.contex.com (Avinash Chopde) writes:
| Has anybody used Central Point's Backup software (it retails for
| $39 at a local store).
| ---------------------------
| Avinash Chopde         office : 617 246 1776x5582
| avinash@contex.com     (...!uunet!contex!avinash)

I've been using CP Backup for over a year now and have been quite
pleased. It's fast, flexable and configurable; I do recommend it.

Cheers,
Chris Cobb                    vmail: (408) 447-7136
CSY Engineering Support       email: cobb@cup.hp.com
Cupertino CA                  pager: I'm not telling
From: avinash@sam.contex.com (Avinash Chopde)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.apps
Subject: Looking for simple backup software (to floppies).
Date: 18 Aug 92 21:27:31 GMT
Distribution: usa


Its time to think about backups...
I have my 130M disk partitioned into three drives, and I need
software that will allow me to back each drive onto floppies.

Each drive has different back up requirements, so I definitely
need software that will allow me to keep track of the differing
backup frequencies.

I plan on doing complete backups every three--six months, and
incremental backups every day for one drive, and incremental backups
every week/month for the other drives.
I hope it is possible to do multiple incremental backups from the
previous complete backup---as different from incrementally backing up the
drive from the previous *incremental* backup.

I am looking for software < US$50, and have tried
out the shareware version on SIMTEL20 (MegaBack). It has  many features,
but I am looking for something much simpler....

Has anybody used Central Point's Backup software (it retails for
$39 at a local store).
Comments regarding backup software in general will be appreciated...
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Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.apps
From: wall@hercules ()
Subject: How to de write protect my stacker volume 
Reply-To: wall@hercules.uregina.ca ()
Organization: University of Regina, Regina, Saskatchewan
Date: Tue, 18 Aug 1992 15:34:44 GMT



Could some please give me the command that will let me un write 
protect my stacker volume and drive.  Thanks.  

Murray
From: chena@crs.cl.msu.edu (Antony Chen)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.apps
Subject: Re: No spell check for Win3.1 Write?!
Date: 13 Aug 92 23:32:51 GMT
Organization: Michigan State University

ken@batman.austin.ibm.com (Ken Goach) writes:


>I can't believe there's no spell checker for Write in
>Microsoft Windows 3.1! What's the deal? Do you have to
>pay extra for it?

>Sheesh - what a fumble!

You think they are gonna give you a full-featured Word Processing program
with Windows 3.1?  No way!  Sha!  And monkeys will fly out of my butt!
They want your money!  So instead, they created Word for Windows 2.0.
Pretty nice program.  It'll just cost ya arm and a leg, and perhaps some
other appendages.  Sorry.
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.apps
Subject: Re: Timed Macro Facility
From: pynq@quads.uchicago.edu (George Jetson)
Date: Fri, 21 Aug 1992 16:44:01 GMT
Reply-To: pynq@midway.uchicago.edu
Organization: D. J. Dougherty & Associates

In article <1992Aug17.192537.29220@NCoast.ORG> cmort@NCoast.ORG (Christopher Morton) writes:
>
>
>Can somebody point me in the direction of a keyboard utility with the following
>features:
>
>1. Plays back keystrokes stored in an editable ascii file.
>
>2. TSR (removeable if possible).
>
>3. Executes at a specified time.
>
>4. Delays between keystrokes can be manually adjusted by editing the ascii
>script file.
>
NEWKEY by Frank A. Bell (FAB software) does all this.

It is been around for a long time, but it is still a very good
(shareware) package.  It was, in fact, one of the first "shareware" packages.

Should be available at your better archive sites...

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From: hamish@cloud.pub.uu.oz.au (Hamish Moffatt)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.apps
Subject: What's holding up PKZIP v. 2.0 (message from PKWARE)
Date: 19 Aug 92 09:38:04 GMT

Sunday August 09 1992 09:05, tony (tony@disk.uucp) wrote:

 >> During the development of PKZIP v. 2.0 for MS-DOS, PKWARE has
 >> discovered hardware faults in newer 80386 & 80486 computers.
 >> These faults can cause anomalies in the operation of PKWARE
 >> software as well as other software.

 t>   Well, it's nice (I suppose), they want to iron out all the bugs, but

The above quote from PKWare sounds a little unlikely. More likely they're trying
to cover up for bugs they are taking forever to find..

 t> else.  I mean, afterall, I have d/l'd dozens of programs in the last three
 t> years which, after 2 hours of d/l time, I discover I can't run because the
 t> programs only run in EGA or VGA.  Nobody thinks about my hardship.

I know the feeling. While I am priviledged (compared to you :-) to have a 12MHz
286 machine, I do only have a CGA still, and the above really gets to me.
Luckily, programs to view files inside archives while they're still on the BBS
are becoming more popular, and on an Internet system, I can typically unzip the
file and check the docs in advance. Once I ftp'd the PC-GEOS demo from a slow
site (600K took a LONG time), only to find EGA/VGA req'd... at least I didn't
download it. If I ever write any graphical music software, rest assured it will
work on CGA :-)

 t> should the makers of PKZIP have to withhold their product just because it
 t> won't run on a few fancy-schmancy machines that many of us don't own
 t> anyways???

Good question.

don't forget ARJ, btw. :-)

Regards,
Hamish


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