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From: bwong@beach.csulb.edu (Bradley Wong)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.apps
Subject: Ami Pro 3.0 bugs
Date: 30 Jul 92 15:03:40 GMT
Organization: Cal State Long Beach

I've already noticed a few "features" in Ami Pro 3.

In some of the documents I have been editing,  I've noticed that
in some cases, particularly with the first or second lines on a
page of justified text, deleting characters will mess up the
text to the point of having characters placed atop characters.
A refresh doesn't help. It takes a trip to "draft" move to fix 
the problem. There are also cases where inserting characters
briefly causes the line to extend into the right margin, leaving
a blank square that is not filled back in with a screen refresh.

I've also noticed that the new speller seems to have more problems
with words that include hyphination. The new speller also incorrectly
treats "true quotes" as non-characters and flags them -- the Ami Pro
2.0 speller did not do this.
From: eggenberger@csghsg5a.bitnet
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.apps
Subject: General Protection Fault with Grammatik 5
Date: 24 Jul 92 19:02:12 GMT
Organization: University of St.Gallen, Switzerland

Help,
I receive a general protection fault when I try to start Grammatik 5
from Ami Pro 2.0. Does anybody know why?
Thanks, Chips
From: motto@bsu-cs.bsu.edu (Michael Motto)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.apps
Subject: Mathematica and virtual memory
Date: 24 Jul 92 15:58:49 GMT
Organization: Dept of Math Sci Ball State University Muncie IN

We have a problem in our lab between the amount of virtual memory
available under Windows 3.1 and the amount of memory desired by
Mathematica 2.0.

We have several IBM PC's (386's) with 80 MB hard disks and at least 4 MB
of memory, with Windows 3.1 installed. Approximately half of the space on
the hard disks is free. Some machines have more than 4 MB of memory and
aren't causing as much trouble. We are not certain that we will be able to
purchase more memory for the 4 MB machines, and are hoping for another
solution.

The problem is that Windows 3.1, unlike 3.0, makes a decision as to the
recommended maximum size of the swap file based on the available space
(both hard drive and RAM), and although you may request a swap file larger
than this size, Windows _WILL NOT_ use virtual memory beyond the maximum
size which it recommended. Mathematica's memory requirements are so large
that this is a _SEVERE_ handicap. Our choice seems to be to use 3.1 and
have to little virtual memory left to do anything useful, or to switch
back to 3.0 and put up with a much larger number of UAE's.

Neither Microsoft nor WRI has been particularly helpful. Microsoft built
this feature in to "optimize" performance, and WRI seems to feel that one
can automatically obtain as much memory as one would like.

Does anyone else out there have any suggestions to get around this?
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.apps
Subject: CorelDraw 3.0 gobbles system resources!
From: goldsborough@brandonu.ca (Gordon Goldsborough)
Date: 25 Jul 92 18:33:31 CST
Organization: Brandon University

Hi gang,

I am having trouble with CorelDraw 3.0 running on Win 3.1, in that it
uses up my system resources within a very short period of time (usually
less than 15 minutes). It seems particularly bad when I've done a lot
of resizing of a large number of objects, or when I've imported a
picture from the clipboard.

I'd be interested in hearing if anyone else has experienced this
problem. Corel hasn't replied to my tech support call.

Gordon Goldsborough
Brandon University
goldsborough@brandonu.ca

Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.apps
From: steven@unipalm.co.uk (Steven Vincent)
Subject: Re: RCP from PC
Organization: Unipalm Ltd., 216 Cambridge Science Park, Cambridge CB4 4WA, UK
Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1992 13:40:50 GMT

RFowler@kelvin.jpl.nasa.gov (Robert A. Fowler) writes:

>I have multiple (~100) PCs conected to severaly ethernet network (TCP/IP), 
>along with Suns, Vaxes, & other proprietary computers.

>I can NCSA Telnet & FTP (and for a little while I could use QVT/Net) from my 
>pc to the other computers, but I can't find a way to RCP (transfer directory 
>structurs and files, not just files) form my pc to the other machines.

>With the ever pressent need to do regular backups, and the unwilliness of 
>my employer to forkout $350-$600 per PC for a tape backup upgrade, it would be 
>REAL nice to be able to backup PCs onto tape drives mounted on the Vaxes 
>or Modecomps (both have 8mm tape drives).

A site licence for ftp Inc's PC/TCP would cost a lot less that $350 per
PC. This would replace NCSA Telnet and provide you with a rcp, ftp and 
rmt / tar programs for use over a common TCP/IP stack that works with 
Windows. In the 2.1 version out Real Soon Now there will even be a
Windows FTP and VT220 modules. I know for a fact that the tar works fine with
Multinet on VMS, SunOS and AIX systems. (SCO needs the GNU Tar
distribution unfortunatly.) The rcp can do small amounts of recursion
but breaks on invalid DOS names on the Unix host. i.e. the lowest common
denominator.

>So if anyone knows of a shareware/freeware program to RCP from a PC please 
>Email me, (and post where to get it, others probable care about this too).

The alternative is Stan's Own Server - setup the PC as an NFS server,
mount it from the Unix box and backit up thatway. (One by one 
shuttle shuttle shuttle).

steven Vincent
Unipalm Tech Support
Cambridge

Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.apps
From: slice@gagme.chi.il.us (Steve Steiner)
Subject: Re: ATTN: Procomm Win Users!
Originator: slice@gagme
Organization: Gagme Public Access UNIX, Chicago, Illinois.
Date: Tue, 28 Jul 1992 14:27:09 GMT

In article <14qk4oINNp7u@darkstar.UCSC.EDU> banshee@cats.ucsc.edu (Wailer at the Gates of Dawn) writes:
>
>apeltone@smtplink.oulu.fi (Antti Peltonen) writes:
>>Could somebody who has downloaded the bugfix patch for Procmm + for Win
>>from Compuserve UPLOAD it to Cica (FTP-server).
>
>Done.  I have uploaded to ftp.cica.indiana.edu:pub/pc/uploads
>wpatches.com and wpatches.txt

Thats nice, and we thank you.  But for those of us that don't have ftp
capabilities could  kind sole please post the patch to a binaries group or
even here please.

>
>wpatches.com is a self extracting file.
>
>-- 
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From: djo20321@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Daniel J. Orum )
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.apps
Subject: Re: RCP from PC
Date: 22 Jul 92 20:23:13 GMT
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana

steven@unipalm.co.uk (Steven Vincent) writes:

>RFowler@kelvin.jpl.nasa.gov (Robert A. Fowler) writes:

>>I have multiple (~100) PCs conected to severaly ethernet network (TCP/IP), 
>>along with Suns, Vaxes, & other proprietary computers.

>>I can NCSA Telnet & FTP (and for a little while I could use QVT/Net) from my 
>>pc to the other computers, but I can't find a way to RCP (transfer directory 
>>structurs and files, not just files) form my pc to the other machines.

>>With the ever pressent need to do regular backups, and the unwilliness of 
>>my employer to forkout $350-$600 per PC for a tape backup upgrade, it would be 
>>REAL nice to be able to backup PCs onto tape drives mounted on the Vaxes 
>>or Modecomps (both have 8mm tape drives).

>A site licence for ftp Inc's PC/TCP would cost a lot less that $350 per
>PC. This would replace NCSA Telnet and provide you with a rcp, ftp and 
>rmt / tar programs for use over a common TCP/IP stack that works with 
>Windows. In the 2.1 version out Real Soon Now there will even be a
>Windows FTP and VT220 modules. I know for a fact that the tar works fine with
>Multinet on VMS, SunOS and AIX systems. (SCO needs the GNU Tar
>distribution unfortunatly.) The rcp can do small amounts of recursion
>but breaks on invalid DOS names on the Unix host. i.e. the lowest common
>denominator.

>The alternative is Stan's Own Server - setup the PC as an NFS server,
>mount it from the Unix box and backit up thatway. (One by one 
>shuttle shuttle shuttle).

There are also 2 other alternatives that come to my mind(maybe 3?).
If I recall, NCSA telnet supports rcp, and I know for sure that winqvt
net supports rcp. If NCSA telnet doesn't support rcp, I know for sure
that Clarkson Telnet, which is mostly NCSA with some nice features,
does support it......


Daniel J. Orum
University of Illinois
orum@uiuc.edu
From: visbieda@ubvmsb.cc.buffalo.edu (Christopher Bieda)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.apps
Subject: Re: Ami Pro - ascii conversion in DOS?
Summary: is there any such animal?
Date: 30 Jul 92 20:45:00 GMT
Organization: University at Buffalo
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41

In article <1992Jul27.210349.23624@uxa.ecn.bgu.edu>, mfprf@uxa.ecn.bgu.edu (Paul R. Falzer) writes...

>I'm an Ami Pro user who occasionally likes to work outside of M.S. Windows. 
>I'd really like to be able to convert files from .sam to .txt format.  I've
>looked at bulletin boards and shareware catalogs and haven't found anything. 
>Does anyone know whether such a program exists--and if so, where it might be
>found?

Paul, howzabout File/SaveAs/ASCII in AmiPro itself?  (Page 374 in the U.S.
documentation to Version 2.0.)  Seek not another utility to clog your hard 
disk, for self-discipline is cheaper than mass storage!
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.apps
From: leeh7@fel.tno.nl (E.w.a. van Leeuwen)
Subject: Re: PC-NFS login on startup
Organization: TNO Physics and Electronics Laboratory
Date: Thu, 30 Jul 92 07:08:27 GMT

blakeco@microsoft.com (Blake Coverett) writes:

>In article <1992Jul27.213353.9929@microsoft.com> garthb@microsoft.com (Garth Brown) writes:
>>I can't speak for PC-NFS, but most control panel functions
>>can be accessed on the command line of the control.exe program.
>>If you have windows 3.1, it's really easy.
>>
>>1. Drag the control panel into the "StartUp" group. This will
>>run the control panel application each time windows is started.
>>
>>2. Look at the properties of the Icon. try adding "printers" 
>>to the end of the command line. (I have no idea what the PC-NFS
>>command line would be, but you can probably work that one out).
>> (ie.: "CONTROL.EXE PRINTERS" on the command line) 

>Even better, if you use "control.exe whatever.cpl applet-title"
>you will just get the NFS dialog and the Control Panel will never
>appear.

Even worse: this does not work for PC-NFS. At least, not that I am 
ware of.

Of course, the easiest way is to start windows with
		WIN CONTROL NETWORK
but it will not show the login screen, nor does it postpone other
actions until a successful login has been performed. This is
useful when programmes (e.g. the filemanager) depend on the
user which logs in.

Perhaps "control.exe whatever.cpl applet-title" would help, but
I do not see which "applet-title" to use from which "whatever.cpl".


						Regards,
						
						Ed.

						
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From: rfutscher@pbs.org
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.apps
Subject: Winqvtnet and SLIP
Date: 29 Jul 92 21:37:15 EDT
Organization: PBS:Public Broadcasting Service, Alexandria, VA

   Can anyone tell me if Winqvtnet supports SLIP?  I read the docs that
are with Winqvtnet and there is no mention of SLIP.  Here at PBS we 
have a Tektronix VM700 video measurement set that you need to use FTP
to up/download files over a serial port.  We were looking at Chameleon
from NetManage,  until we saw the price!  Public television is poor.

Robert Futscher   rfutscher@pbs.org
From: dem@nhmpw2 (David E. Martin)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.apps
Subject: Cardfile File Format
Date: 27 Jul 92 22:20:53 GMT
Reply-To: dem@fnal.fnal.gov
Organization: Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory,  Batavia, IL,  USA


I would like to translate a phonebook file that is in flat ASCII to
the format used by Cardfile in Windows 3.1.  To do this I need to know
the file format that Cardfile uses.  Unfortunately, the only
way that I can get an answer from Microsoft is by investing in a
Compuserve account.  Does anyone have the file format or a better way
of finding it out?

David E. Martin
National HEPnet Management                      ||    Phone: +1 708 840-8275
Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory           ||    FAX: +1 708 840-2783
P.O. Box 500, MS 234; Batavia, IL 60510  USA   /  \   E-Mail: DEM@FNAL.FNAL.Gov
From: darrylo@hpnmdla.sr.hp.com (Darryl Okahata)
Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1992 07:01:24 GMT
Subject: Re: WP4WIN interim release
Organization: Hewlett-Packard, Santa Rosa, CA
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.apps

In comp.os.ms-windows.apps, Andrew_Sleight@dgaust.dg.oz writes:

> Wordperfect have released an interim release for WP4WIN.  I called WP
> and asked them what features/benefits there is in this release and 
> other than "drag and drop" of text blocks and "many bug fixes"
> there were vague. They are charging A$30 ( approx US$23 ) for this.

     I've seen some people complain on CompuServe that the interim
release has trouble (crashing?) handling documents with lots of
graphics.  People who have little or no graphics in their documents
don't seem to have any problems, but some people with a lot of graphics
in their documents seem to have problems.

     I don't have the interim release, and so I can't verify the above.
I plan on getting it someday, but I haven't yet ordered it.

     -- Darryl Okahata
	Internet: darrylo@sr.hp.com

DISCLAIMER (unoriginal): This message is the author's personal opinion
and does not constitute the support, opinion or policy of
Hewlett-Packard.  Any resemblance between the above views and those of
the author's employer, his terminal, or the view out his window are
purely coincidental.  Any resemblance between the above and his own
views is non-deterministic.  The question of the existence of views in
the absence of anyone to hold them is left as an exercise for the
reader.  The question of the existence of the reader is left as an
exercise for the second god coefficient.  (A discussion of
non-orthogonal, non-integral polytheism is beyond the scope of this
article.)
From: bjorh1+@pitt.edu (Reidar Bjorhovde)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.apps
Subject: SLIP / WinQVTnet
Date: 29 Jul 92 03:08:57 GMT
Organization: University of Pittsburgh

Hi all,

Can anyone tell me if they have used WinQVTnet successfully with a SLIP
connection?  I know that the option is there in the qvt_tcp.rc (or
whatever) file but I need to know if it is actually possible.

If not, can anyone recommend a decent SLIP program - I don't know too
much about SLIP and want to learn before I plunk down $350 for a 9600
baud modem...

Thanks


-- 
Ian D. Bjorhovde
bjorh1+@pitt.edu
Department of Materials Science & Engineering
University of Pittsburgh
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.apps
From: reeves@rocky1 (Malcolm Reeves)
Subject: Re: Recommendation for Windows Database Application
Reply-To: reeves@rocky1.usask.ca
Organization: University of Saskatchewan
Distribution: NA
Date: Sun, 26 Jul 1992 18:39:46 GMT

From article <Jul26.061605.1726@yuma.ACNS.ColoState.EDU>, by schipper@CS.ColoState.EDU (tom schipper):
> 
> Last I read Borland had no plans to port DBase to Windows.  They are releasing
> new versions of Paradox for Both Windows and DOS.  I had read that they plan
> to continue support for DBase as a DOS and possibly OS/2 platform.
>
Paradox is an excellent product and I wouldn't be surprised if Borland
decided to increase the support for Dbase files and try to support a
single database product. ParaBase perhaps ?

Anyway, Paradox is a good database with a lot going for it - like Paradox
Engine and PAL (the script language) - it would be worth checking out as 
a Windows application.

This is of course a vaporware recommendation :-)

Malcolm
 
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.apps,comp.periphs.printers
From: lawson@netsun (Jim Lawson)
Subject: Re: Printouts to fit Time management book ?
Organization: MDSSC-SSD
Reply-To: Lawson%ssdvax.decnet@lbgwy.mdc.com
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL4
Date: Mon, 27 Jul 1992 18:25:15 GMT
X-Posted-From: netsun.mdc.com
X-Posted-Through: sol.ctr.columbia.edu

: I'm currently telling the printer setup that I am printing on a 6.75 x 3.75
: page (I'm really using 8.5 x 11) and then I cut the page down.

I neglected to also say that I am printing on a HP Deskjet 500 printer.

Thanks again :-)

Jim
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.apps
From: wihuri@polaris.utu.fi (pauli mikael)
Subject: Re: WinFAX ?
Organization: University of Turku, Finland
Distribution: comp
Date: Thu, 23 Jul 92 07:26:50 GMT

colello@cheshire.oxy.edu (Robert Colello) writes:
>I have seen a patch from Delrina on my local BBS that is supposed to fix
>a problem with WinFax Pro and high speed modems.  Since I have a 2400 baud
>modem/9600 Fax I didn't need it myself so don't know if it works.  
> 
>I can try to get into the BBS and upload it to cica.  The file name was
>mod1.zip or something like that.  I'll post a follow-up when I get it
>uploaded if it is not already there.

Thank you very much!

Pauli Wihuri
From: seldner@hdi3sun.kfk.de (David Seldner)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.apps
Subject: Re: OpenAccess
Date: 23 Jul 92 14:25:50 GMT
Organization: Kernforschungszentrum Karlsruhe (Germany)

In article <698@tdat.teradata.COM>, syy@ElSegundoCA.ncr.com (Sang Y. Yum) writes:
|> 
|> [...]
|> 
|> I need a shareware utility called OpenAccess.  It is an Windows 3.x program
|> that lets you choose most recently selected filename.
|> 
|> I looked under /pub/pc/win3/uploads at ftp.cica.indiana.edu in vain.
|> 
Look under /pub/pc/win3/util, it's called axess103.zip

|> Thanks
|> 
No problem

|> Sang
|> 
-----
Dave
seldner@hdi3sun.kfk.de
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.apps
From: umdenbo0@ccu.umanitoba.ca (David A. Denboer)
Subject: Recipe Database for Win >3.0
Organization: University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada
Date: Tue, 28 Jul 1992 01:04:00 GMT

Can anyone tell me if there is a recipe database program for windows?

Thanks,
David A. denBoer
umdenbo0@CCU.UManitoba.CA
Musi Computer Products

Xref: sparky comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy:1520 comp.os.os2.advocacy:3159
Organization: Penn State University
Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1992 13:43:55 EDT
From: <F0O@psuvm.psu.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy,comp.os.os2.advocacy
Subject: Re: Windows 3.1 hardware requirements.
 <1992Jul21.195852.21303@infonode.ingr.com>
 <1992Jul22.184841.19225@polaris.async.vt.edu> <92205.091201F0O@psuvm.psu.edu>
 <BruIr8.Hx1@news.cso.uiuc.edu>

In article <BruIr8.Hx1@news.cso.uiuc.edu>, tamu@uxh.cso.uiuc.edu (Todd
Henderson) says:

>F0O@psuvm.psu.edu writes:

>>In article <1992Jul22.184841.19225@polaris.async.vt.edu>,
>>fred@polaris.async.vt.edu (Fred Homan) says:

>>>In article <1992Jul21.195852.21303@infonode.ingr.com>                       m
>bbrown@infonode.ingr.co
>>>(Bailey Brown) writes:
>>>>Windows takes up about half the space that OS/2 does (did, on my system).

>>>        Just a small reminder that people seem to forget a lot.  Windows is
>>>an operating *environment*.  OS/2 is an operating *system*.  You're
>comparing
>>>apples and oranges.  To rightfully compare them you need to add in the
>>>operating system that Windows is running over (under?).  A fair comparison
>>>between Windows size and OS/2 size would be comparing NT to OS/2, which can
>>>not be done at this time.


>>   Who said?  All the poster was saying is that Windows takes about half

>I think the point was that by the time you get rid of your windows, dos,
>memory managers, and all the junk you have to use to do work arounds the disk
>space will be much more comparable.  Maybe not the same, but comparable.

   Let's see.  On my system Windows takes up around 8 megs.  I have DOS
4.01, which takes up just a little over 1 meg.  So we're talking let's say
9.5 meg.  This is pretty much a minimal setup.  I don't have any "add-ons".
   What is the amount of space os/2 needs for a minimal setup?  From
figures I've heard it's around 16-18 meg.  I'd hardly call this comparable.

                                                                [Tim]
From: neilp@cs.hw.ac.uk (Neil Postlethwaite)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy
Subject: Re: Things a Mac should do but can't (Re: 1 Thing Windows can do but OS/2 can't.)
Date: 29 Jul 92 09:17:14 GMT
Organization: Dept of Computer Science, Heriot-Watt University, Scotland

In article <1992Jul28.045451.23056@cs.brown.edu> wcn@cs.brown.edu (Wen-Chun Ni) writes:
>In article <1992Jul28.023057.24197@cco.caltech.edu> nyet@cco.caltech.edu (n liu) writes:
>>
>>oh, a gcc/g++ port would be nice too.
>
>GNU is boycotting Apple. So, forget it.

Why as a matter of interest ??
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy
From: aad35939@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (A A DeGuzman)
Subject: Re: PC and Mac OEs (was Re: 1 Thing Windows can do but OS/2 can't.)
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1992 16:48:24 GMT

neilp@cs.hw.ac.uk (Neil Postlethwaite) writes:

[stuff deleted]

>Keyboard shortcuts. Have you used a Mac recently. I think your memory is
>failing. Use a Mac, take a look at all the shortcuts (esp in Word 5 for
>the Mac. Many of the shortcuts are different to Word for Windows. Does MS
>have a clue about look and feel !?). Finder has shortcuts aswell as do
>most/all Mac apps.

>Neil

And the worst part about it is that the Windows idea of keyboard-shortcuts
uses both the option key and the control. This may not seem like that big of
a deal, but on the Mac, all of the keyboard short-cuts use the command-key
(some also require command-shift). To access special font characters, I use
the option and control keys, so I can get nearly 255 characters directly from
the keyboard.

To get the same characters in Windows, I have to resort the DOS-way of use
the Alt+numeric keypad.

My gripe is that for our project, we use a special font the generates super
and subscripts, as well as other mathematical symbols all in one font. On
both the Mac and the NeXT, we get superscripts with shift-alt (NeXT) or
shift-option (Mac) and subscripts with alt and option. Since Windows uses
both the alt and ctrl keyboards, those key are unavailable. We had to write a
separate utility to enter text in our font, and have it pasted somewhere
else. It's a real pain . . .

(BTW, the reason we use our own font is that this is for Mathematica, which
doesn't include super and subscripts in it's formatting).

-- 
Alan A. DeGuzman
Calculus&Mathematica               Hobbes: "Do you believe there is a God?"
DISCLAIMER: "The University        Calvin: "Of course I do. There's someone out
can't afford my opinions."                  to get me!"
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