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From: russed@marcus.its.rpi.edu (Daniel Pereicich Russell)
Subject: Turbo C++ 3.0
Keywords: Turbo C++, DPMI
Distribution: usa
Date: Mon, 13 Apr 1992 01:37:15 GMT

	Turbo C++ 3.0 uses DPMI, so DV doesn't like it.  The patch for
BC++ 3.0 (DPMIFI.ZIP) doesn't work and I don't know enough about the
innards of the stuff to mess around with the code.  Any ideas?
	Thanks,
 dan
=====
Dan Russell	russed@rpi.edu

Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.desqview
From: jamie@[128.127.2.100]  (Jamie O'Keefe)
Subject: Re: Help with DESQ key / Mouse progs in window
Nntp-Software: PC/TCP NNTP
Organization: FTP Software, Inc., Wakefield, MA
Date: Tue, 07 Apr 1992 07:12:30

In article <6588@lee.SEAS.UCLA.EDU> donlee@watson.seas.ucla.edu (Donald C. Lee) writes:

 >For example, I am running PcTools that uses the mouse (in the desq window)
 >but I cannot switch to another desq window by clicking on the background.
 >
 >What is the DESQ key, what does it do?

Just hit the alt key.  This will pop up a desqview menu.  You can
then use the up/down arrows to select options.

jamie
--
Jamie O'Keefe		FTP Software, Inc.	Technical Support
From: sarima@tdatirv.UUCP (Stanley Friesen)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.desqview
Subject: Re: The Use of DV/X
Date: 10 Apr 92 17:32:36 GMT
Reply-To: sarima@tdatirv.UUCP (Stanley Friesen)
Organization: Teradata Corp., Irvine

In article <1992Apr07.175333.4056@ecst.csuchico.edu> michael@ecst.csuchico.edu (Michael Perelman) writes:
|I benefit a great deal from Desqview, but I mostly work on a stand-alone-
|non-networked pc.  Does DV/X have much to offer me?

Ditto for me - what does DV/X have other than X protocol?

This becomes especially critical since it appears that the
Developers' Kit will be priced out of reach, so I will not actually
be able to develope X applications as I had intended.
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Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.desqview
From: uli@decum.enet.dec.com
Subject: Re: DV/X Has 2 Strikes Against It (was Re: pcweek, what a joke!!!)
Keywords: dv/x pcweek ziff-davis Zortech ACE MIPS OSF
Reply-To: uli@decum.enet.dec.com
Organization: Digital Equipment GmbH    Hoerselbergstr. 3  D-8000 Muenchen 80    Germany
Date: Fri, 10 Apr 1992 10:43:38 GMT


>1) Inadequate Compiler Support - you obviously need 32bit mode code
>to do anything interesting in X. This isn't DV's fault. The problem
>is that none of the popular MS-DOS C compilers generate 32bit code.
>Again, this isn't DV's fault but I doubt many people are going to
>buy Metaware C just to run DV/X. At the Sun/Expo DV was saying they're
>going to get something going with WATCOM and Zortech but again,
>WATCOM is too expensive for the masses and Zortech isn't popular
>enough, although it might turn into an alternative if Symantec
>markets it properly.
..
>2) Unclear Marketing ...
..
>What will really kill DV/X will be if somebody comes out with
>a good X port (server + clients) for OS/2 or Windows/NT at a reasonable
>price. I have a strong feeling that this will happen.


Just consider it as the kings (or cheapest?) way out of the kid computing land.

I for myself will use it on MS-DOS 4.0 (though I've Windows 3.0),
and it will DEFINITELY be the very last SW I buy for the Intel box.

(ok, I'm a Zortech C++ 3.0 user, and I'm betting on ACE/MIPS/OSF)
From: bodoh@xraylith.wisc.edu (Daniel J. Bodoh)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.desqview
Subject: Re: Upgrade or not?
Date: 8 Apr 92 00:35:02 GMT
Article-I.D.: xraylith.1992Apr8.003502.27573
Organization: Center for X-ray Lithography, UW-Madison

In article <1992Apr6.185322.9650@news.larc.nasa.gov> hookerj@tab00.larc.nasa.gov (John R. Hooker) writes:
>I was hoping someone would explain the benefits of upgrading to 2.4.

2.4 offers better network support. DV/386 comes with QEMM 6.0, which has
been significantly enhanced -- it'll give you up to 210K of high memory.	
I'd suggest getting the DV/X introductory offer at $100...
-- 
Daniel J. Bodoh, Elect & Comp Engr grad student at the University of Wisconsin
bodoh@xraylith.wisc.edu   DECNET: cxrl::bodoh   FIDONET: Daniel Bodoh 1:121/99
From: gunars@spss.com (Gunars V Lucans)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.desqview
Subject: standalone dv/x
Date: 16 Apr 92 16:05:06 GMT
Organization: SPSS Inc.


If DV/X is run standalone without any of the networking stuff, how
does it compare with DV/386 in terms of speed and available memory in
a window?
--
Gunars V. Lucans  --  gunars@spss.com  --  SPSS Inc, Chicago, USA
From: griffin@hogbbs.scol.pa.us
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.desqview
Subject: DV/X on standalone PC
Date: 12 Apr 92 20:56:08 GMT
X-Maildoor: WaflineMail 1.00r

CC>I have been using QEMM/DV for a long time, and I plan to continue using
CC>it.  However, OS/2 is out, and from what I have heard, it has DOS-compatible
CC>"boxes" with pre-emptive multi-tasking.  So, how are multi-tasking DOS
CC>applications compared on these two platforms?

OS/2 blows QEMM/DV away, there is no comparison.  The OS/2 offers true
pre-emptive multitasking, while the DV only based on poor DOS.  Take a
example, if you format floppy drive and download files on the
background communication, the OS/2 goes so smooth that you even don't
notice there are two tasks runs in the same time.  While the same
tasks on DV, you'll see the background communication stops and waiting
for DOS job (floppy formatting) to finish before the background regain
the DOS CPU share..
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Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.desqview
From: michael@ecst.csuchico.edu (Michael Perelman)
Subject: The Use of DV/X
Organization: California State University, Chico
Date: Tue, 07 Apr 1992 17:53:33 GMT

I benefit a great deal from Desqview, but I mostly work on a stand-alone-
non-networked pc.  Does DV/X have much to offer me?

Thanks

Michael Perelman.
From: portuesi@tweezers.esd.sgi.com (Michael Portuesi)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.desqview
Subject: DV/X and the 8514
Date: 6 Apr 92 22:17:10 GMT
Article-I.D.: zola.j7ihji4
Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc.

Hey there,

I'm considering buying a 386 or 486 system expressly so
I can run DV/X.  (I currently run DV on a 8086 laptop, so
it's not a candidate for DV/X).

Some friends of mine here at Silicon Graphics (talented
X server hackers that they are) tell me that the 8514
display has excellent hardware support for X, and that
a server written to use those features should have excellent
performance (much higher than a stock SVGA card).

Does anybody know if DV/X is tuned to take advantage
of the  8514 display card?  If someone is having a technical
discussion with the folks at Quarterdeck, could they check
on this little detail?

Thanks,

m.


Michael Portuesi   Silicon Graphics, Inc.   portuesi@sgi.com
From: donlee@watson.seas.ucla.edu (Donald C. Lee)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.desqview
Subject: Help with DESQ key / Mouse progs in window
Date: 5 Apr 92 20:05:44 GMT
Organization: SEASnet, University of California, Los Angeles

Help,

I have looked though the FAQ lists but I havent found the answer to
this simple question.

I'm new to Desqview and so far it seems to work very well.  How do
I get to the desqview menu that has the Switch To Window/Open/Close
options *IF* I am running a program that is using the mouse?

For example, I am running PcTools that uses the mouse (in the desq window)
but I cannot switch to another desq window by clicking on the background.

What is the DESQ key, what does it do?

Really appreciate the help,
Donn


--
Donn C. Lee

> donlee @ seas.ucla.edu
> t-donlee @ ingate.microsoft.com
From: valley@gsbsun.uchicago.edu (Doug Dougherty)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.desqview
Subject: Re: Received my DV/X
Date: 13 Apr 92 04:04:40 GMT
Organization: University of Chicago Computing Organizations

I also want to echo that one very annoying thing about DV/X is that most
(all?) of the Rearrange stuff is gone - like changing colors, reviving
the mouse, tuning performance, etc.  Sometimes the colors you get
when you open a window, particularly a DVSI window, are really gacky!

Maybe DVSI WN should have a colors command, to change the colors in a
window by remote control...  (Is this possible?)
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Xref: sparky comp.os.msdos.desqview:1660 comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware:13644
From: jmaynard@oac.hsc.uth.tmc.edu (Jay Maynard)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.desqview,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: New VGA card steps on my 3C503 Ethernet card
Date: 12 Apr 1992 14:43:21 GMT
Followup-To: poster
Organization: UT Health Science Center Houston


Having discovered that DESQview/X has problems with EGA cards, I decided that
now was the time to upgrade to a VGA. I bought a Trident TVGA9000 with 512K
RAM, installed it in my system, and after building an adapter cable for my
video monitor, everything ran fine, including DV/X in 800x600 (with some
screen size tweaking) and 640x480 modes...that is, until I went to TELNET to
my Unix box. It turns out that, no matter where I install my 3C503 Etherlink
II in the memory map (and changing the ARAM= parameter appropriately on the
QEMM line in CONFIG.SYS), the video adapter appears to collide with it - the
3C503 packet driver reports a problem with the shared RAM. If I switch back to
the EGA, the Ethernet card works as it should, but I lose DV/X' nice features.
I'm running DV/X 1.00, QEMM/386 6.03 (as supplied with DV/X) with ST:M,
I=0C00-0FFF, I=B000-B7FF, RAM, ROM, and ARAM=DC00-DFFF parameters, MS-DOS
5.00, version 9 of the packet driver, and a Mylex 386SX-16 motherboard with
7.5 MB of RAM. 

Any ideas? Do I need to fiddle with the QEMM configuration? Is the VGA broke?
The manual says to tell Windows 3.0 in 386 Enhanced mode to exclude A000-DFFF;
is this a sign of a misdesigned VGA? The manual has no information on Trident
Microsystems, the claimed manufacturer; how can I get in touch with them?

Please reply by email; I'll post a summary if there's interest.
-- 
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         "Grow up children. Purchase lives." -- Geoff Collyer
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.desqview
From: burton@asdsun.larc.nasa.gov (John Burton)
Subject: Re: Help with DESQ key / Mouse progs in window
Organization: NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA  USA
Date: Tue, 7 Apr 1992 16:58:19 GMT

In article <bill.702650669@chaos.cs.umn.edu> bill@chaos.cs.umn.edu writes:
>rslarsen@oregon.uoregon.edu (Ron Larsen) writes:
>
>>In article <6588@lee.SEAS.UCLA.EDU> donlee@watson.seas.ucla.edu (Donald C. Lee) writes:
>>>I'm new to Desqview and so far it seems to work very well.  How do
>>>I get to the desqview menu that has the Switch To Window/Open/Close
>>>options *IF* I am running a program that is using the mouse?
>>>What is the DESQ key, what does it do?
>
>>Try using the ALT key, alone.  That should pop up your Desqveiw window from 
>>inside a mouse using program.
>
>>(The ALT key is the DESQ key, and functions identically to the middle mouse 
>>key.)
>
>i believe (if memory serves right) that the default is both alt keys
>
>--
>bill@chaos.cs.umn.edu
 
The default (on DV-386 2.42/6.02 on my system anyway) is either of the ALT
key alone, not both alt keys together...

John


Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.desqview
From: bodoh@xraylith.wisc.edu (Daniel J. Bodoh)
Subject: Re: MetaWare High C / PharLap / DJGPP / GO32 / DESQview / MS WIN
Organization: Center for X-ray Lithography, UW-Madison
Date: Sun, 12 Apr 92 13:47:54 GMT

In article <kug6ijINNm76@neuro.usc.edu> merlin@neuro.usc.edu (merlin) writes:
>I have several questions about the best approach to developing 32 bit image
>processing applications to the MSDOS environment.  Perhaps some people in
>this newsgroup could provide some advice which would help our efforts.

It sounds like you need DESQview/X...

>Where can I acquire current copies of
>DJGPP and GO32?  Has this compiler been updated to incorporate the GCC 2.0
>updates? 

1.06 does GCC 2.0 and is available in Alpha form from grape.ecs.clarkson
(I think).  It will work under DESQview, but probably will not work
with the X Libraries in DV/X.

>Is there a 387 emulator available 
>for use with DJGPP generated binaries on 386 PC's absent 387 coprocessors?

Yep!

>Is there any support in DESQview or other available
>library for the 8514/a graphics environment?  What do people do in general
>for high resolution video drivers under DESQview?

DESQview doesn't directly support anything above 800x600.  But
DESQview/X claims that it will support 8514/a.

>This would facilitate
>porting a large number of free image processing and utility codes from
>the unix environment to the DOS environment.

This is exactly what DESQview/X is all about.
-- 
Daniel J. Bodoh                          Windows is dead! Long live DESQview/X!
bodoh@xraylith.wisc.edu or via Fidonet: Daniel Bodoh 1:121/99
From: sloane@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu (Bob Sloane)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.desqview
Subject: Re: Call for DesqView/X conference
Date: 6 Apr 92 14:46:00 CDT
Reply-To: SLOANE@UKANVAX.BITNET
Organization: University of Kansas Academic Computing Services

In article <92094.234710U20565@uicvm.uic.edu>, <U20565@uicvm.uic.edu> writes:
> Seeing that even with DesqView just being released, it is going to generate
> much discussion perhaps there should be an independent conference for
> DesqView/X.
> 
> This only makes sense, that way people will not have to weed through the
> postings constantly discerning DesqView/X from DesqView/386. Sure they are
> related, but some people may not care about the up and coming deluge of
> postings, questions, etc., which will probably border on more of a UNIX
> conference (for obvious reasons) than it will on DesqView 386.

This seems like overkill at the present time. Over the last three
weeks there have been only 147 articles posted to the group.  I
don't think "weeding" through seven articles per day is that much
trouble.  Why not save this proposal until the traffic gets up to
around 40-50 articles per day, and then propose it again.
-- 
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Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.desqview
From: A4422DAB@vm.univie.ac.at (Erich Neuwirth)
Subject: Re: My Mouse Can't Dance
Organization: University of Vienna
Date: Tue, 7 Apr 1992 23:14:39 GMT

------------------------- Original Article -------------------------
From: hen3ry@cactus.org (Henry Velick)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.desqview
Subject: My Mouse Can't Dance


Here's one for all the DV mavens in the audience: I've been using
DV/QEMM for a couple of years now, most recently on a 486-33 under
DOS 5 and 4DOS. Upgraded a while back to 2.42/6.02. Few problems.
Love it.

Last week, I finally put a mouse on my system. A Logitech Series 9
serial mouse, to be precise. If I tell DV (via setup) that I have
variant 3, that is, "Logitech (w/o MS driver)" then a mouse cursor
will appear on all screens and menus, but will not respond to any
mouse movement or button presses. If, instead, I load the MS
driver (in low memory, since it won't load high, grr), and tell DV
to use variant 2 (MS driver w/any of a multitude of rodents), the
mouse works fine, albeit with less RAM available than should be.

It seems to me, from the manual and the setup program, that my
mouse should work w/o the driver hogging any memory at all. Anyone
got any ideas why it doesn't?

- Henry

make sure you have the latest version of the Logitech mouse driver.
it should be version 6.0. I remebre similar problems,
but upgrading the mous driver helped.

erich neuwirth
From: forrest@nobozo.CS.Berkeley.EDU (Jon Forrest)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.desqview
Subject: DV/X Has 2 Strikes Against It (was Re: pcweek, what a joke!!!)
Keywords: dv/x pcweek ziff-davis
Date: 9 Apr 92 16:27:06 GMT
Article-I.D.: agate.s1r8qINN1cs
Organization: University of California at Berkeley
NNTP-Posting-Host: nobozo.cs.berkeley.edu

In article <2347@accucx.cc.ruu.nl> nevries@accucx.cc.ruu.nl (Nico de Vries.) writes:
>
>When I received the small booklet about DesqView/X a long time ago I
>thought it would be the OS of the future (or program manager to avoid
>DV/X is not an OS flames). It looked superior and if it had run it
>would have been superior. I had already some planning on software for
>the system. 
[... stuff removed]
>I no longer believe in DV/X althought I have been a believer for quite
>a long time. I am afraid many people will agree with me.

I have similar feelings. The way I see it, DV/X has several strikes
against it.

1) Inadequate Compiler Support - you obviously need 32bit mode code
to do anything interesting in X. This isn't DV's fault. The problem
is that none of the popular MS-DOS C compilers generate 32bit code.
Again, this isn't DV's fault but I doubt many people are going to
buy Metaware C just to run DV/X. At the Sun/Expo DV was saying they're
going to get something going with WATCOM and Zortech but again,
WATCOM is too expensive for the masses and Zortech isn't popular
enough, although it might turn into an alternative if Symantec
markets it properly.

2) Unclear Marketing - all the discussion of networking options
and configurations on this group are probably just a sample of what
will be asked by prospective customers. I wonder if the typical salesperson
will be able to answer these questions.

What will really kill DV/X will be if somebody comes out with
a good X port (server + clients) for OS/2 or Windows/NT at a reasonable
price. I have a strong feeling that this will happen.

-- 
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From: mp52+@andrew.cmu.edu (Matthew Edward Patton)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.desqview
Subject: DV/X and FTPsoft's PC/TCP
Date: 6 Apr 92 23:35:39 GMT
Organization: Freshman, Math/Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA

Does anyone know if DV/X can communicate it's Xwindowing protocoll over
FTPsoft's PC/TCP software?  I can get acess to a Novell network, but
being able to use this widely supported communications protocoll would
be a BIG plus.  Further help on network support much appreciated.



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Crunchy on the outside and a chewy center."
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Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.desqview
From: hartnegg@sun1.ruf.uni-freiburg.de (Klaus Hartnegg)
Subject: Re: WANTED: Distributor DV/X in EUROPE/GERMANY
Organization: Rechenzentrum der Universitaet Freiburg, Deutschland
Date: Sat, 11 Apr 92 16:54:44 GMT

arnd@informatik.rwth-aachen.de (Arnd Gehrmann (Tel:4564,Raum:4203)) writes:

>Is someone here, who can tell me the address of an distributor
>for DesqView/X in europe (spec. in germany)?
>greetings from Aachen, a town near the belgium boarder!

Quarterdeck Office Systems GmbH
Willstaetter Strasse 15
D-4000 Duesseldorf 11

Technical support:
Tel: 0211/59790-40
Fax: 0211/59790-60

Product info, upgrades:
Tel: 0211/597900
Fax: 0211/594126

(source: quarterdeck journal 4/92)

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Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.desqview
From: chris@blarney.MIT.EDU (T Christopher Murphy)
Subject: Re: My DV/X ordering experience
Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Date: Mon, 6 Apr 1992 19:31:10 GMT

I spoke to Quarterdeck today, and their TCP/IP package is an interface
between DV/X and the TCP/IP kernal, so you need both.  The package
supports FTP's and Novell's TCP/IP kernals.

Christopher Murphy, N1HQL   |    
MIT Network Services        |
tmurphy@mit.edu             |
From: Ralf.Brown@B.GP.CS.CMU.EDU
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.desqview
Subject: Re: DV/X and Modem
Date: 8 Apr 92 11:47:58 GMT
Organization: Carnegie Mellon University School of Computer Science
Originator: ralf@B.GP.CS.CMU.EDU

In article <1992Apr7.183721.28551@athena.mit.edu>, chris@blarney.MIT.EDU (T Christopher Murphy) wrote:
}Both TCP/IP kernals supported by DV/X, FTP's and Novell's, can with
}appropriate work be make to work with SLIP.  So assuming you have a
}SLIP link you can dial into, DV/X can be used over the modem.  I plan

This is beginning to sound expensive....  DV/X + $200 TCP/IP manager +
whatever the TCP/IP kernal costs + whatever the SLIP option for the
kernal costs.

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From: portuesi@tweezers.esd.sgi.com (Michael Portuesi)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.desqview
Subject: Re: DV/X and the 8514
Date: 7 Apr 92 16:37:09 GMT
Reply-To: portuesi@tweezers.esd.sgi.com (Michael Portuesi)
Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc.

In article <Tq9TiB5w164w@batpad.lgb.CA.US>, Mike Batchelor writes:
portuesi@tweezers.esd.sgi.com (Michael Portuesi) writes:
|> Does anybody know if DV/X is tuned to take advantage
|> of the  8514 display card?

|According to my DV/X fact sheet, it does indeed support
|the 8514/A adapter.

I knew that already.  What I wanted to know was whether
or not they took advantage of the special hardware features
of the 8514, such as hardware bit-blit, that would make it
a much faster display for X rendering than a stock SVGA card.

|But who wants an interlaced 1024x768x256 display when
|you can get a non-interlaced display using SVGA for a
|lot less money?

See above.  I'm wouldn't be surprised to find non-interlaced
8514-compatible cards out there.


m.

Michael Portuesi   Silicon Graphics, Inc.   portuesi@sgi.com
From: Ralf.Brown@B.GP.CS.CMU.EDU
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.desqview
Subject: Re: DV/X on standalone PC
Date: 13 Apr 92 12:03:58 GMT
Organization: Carnegie Mellon University School of Computer Science
Originator: ralf@B.GP.CS.CMU.EDU

In article <gate.aoy5iB1w164w@hogbbs.scol.pa.us>, griffin@hogbbs.scol.pa.us wrote:
}OS/2 blows QEMM/DV away, there is no comparison.  The OS/2 offers true
}pre-emptive multitasking, while the DV only based on poor DOS.  Take a
}example, if you format floppy drive and download files on the
}background communication, the OS/2 goes so smooth that you even don't
}notice there are two tasks runs in the same time.  While the same
}tasks on DV, you'll see the background communication stops and waiting
}for DOS job (floppy formatting) to finish before the background regain
}the DOS CPU share..

You're using the wrong formatter.  As I'm typing this in Qedit under
DESQview-386, I am formatting a floppy and downloading files over a
14400 dialup with the serial port locked at 38400 bps (I'm getting about
1595 cps throughput, versus about 1610 when running the download from
the Unix system as the only task on my machine).  There is NO noticable
degradation in processing speed in Qedit, though I would notice very
slight delays on disk accesses.

I've also run the formatter and downloads together with VGA graphics.
Granted, there was a noticable slowdown, but there is a slowdown anytime
two background tasks are chugging along, even without one of them formatting
floppies.

So run, don't walk, to your nearest SIMTEL20 mirror and grab FDFORM18.ZIP.

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