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From: mjensen@BBN.COM (Martin Jensen)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
Subject: Expanded memory DOS app under Windows
Date: 12 Nov 92 17:06:49 GMT
Reply-To: mjensen@BBN.COM (Martin Jensen)
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Sorry if this has already showed up ... problems with posting software :-(

    My neighbor is running a video titler (dos) program on a '486 machine
    with 8Mb memory.  When trying to load a complex graphic when running
    from under windows, the app complains about not enough memory.
    Running the same app from dos allows these same graphics to load ok.

    The docs indicate the app will run on '286 as well as '386/'486
    platforms so I assume it is using expanded memory.  Both himem and
    emm386 are loaded.  With my limited understanding of dos memory models
    (just 'cause the world ain't flat, doesn't mean memory models
    shouldn't be!) I don't even know if a virtual 8086 machine under
    windows can access expanded memory.

    Any help, advice, unsubstantiated rumors, etc are certainly welcome.

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Organization: Penn State University
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 11:43:06 EST
From: darren karns <DWK110@psuvm.psu.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
Subject: Re: Release of NT?
 <9174@blue.cis.pitt.edu.UUCP> <1992Nov11.182032.7128@odin.corp.sgi.com>

Just curious,
         if you don't have a CDRom could you some how copy the files onto
floppies an use NT or does it have to be run from the CDRom?

                         Thanx
                         Darren Karns
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
From: roland@spock.uucp (David A. Braun)
Subject: Re: 24-bit Color
Organization: Choate Rosemary Hall
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 01:33:06 GMT

In article <BxGv02.E29@cs.uiuc.edu> stangel@cs.uiuc.edu (Mike Stangel) writes:
>There's something else I don't understand.  Why 24-bit color?
>24 is not a power of 2, and from what I've heard the human eye
>can only distinguish something like 87,000 different colors.
>Seventeen bits would accomplish this, and 16 comes close enough
>that you'd probably not know the difference.  Anyone?
>
>Mike
>
What do you mean 24 is not a power of two... we mean 2^24... that's 2 to the
24th i.e. the 24th power of two... pretty simple, eh?  AND, the human eye can
see (although I don't think my eyes can) about 18million colors... but 16.75
is dam close enough.

Roland.


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 Extended memory... Expanded memory..."!! !!"UNRECOVERABLE APPLICATION ERROR"!!
 Well it worked with DOS, and it doesn't with OS2...  Must be
 the OS... The fact that the BIOS was HARDWIRED incorrectly couldn't
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Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
From: Thomas Dachsel <GERTHD@mvs.sas.com>
Subject: MEWIN background color
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 09:44:00 GMT
Organization: SAS Institute Inc.

Hi,
MicroEMACS 3.11c for Windows question:
I find the background color "cyan" not very good...
is it possible to change this without having to re-compile
the sources?
Is there a newer release than 3.11c? FTP site?
Thanks for help! Please answer by e-mail to GERTHD@MVS.SAS.COM
Regards
Thomas
 
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Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
From: yfwu@Uz.nthu.edu.tw (EE U780935)
Subject: Re: Need TrueType *Kanji*
Organization: National Tsing Hua University (HsinChu)
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 05:26:07 GMT

jmeyers@ecst.csuchico.edu (Jeff Meyers) writes:
> I need some fonts that have the Japanese Kanji for some papers/flyers/
> research I'm doing...  Prefer TrueType format, might be able to deal with
> something else.
You can buy DynaLab's Fonr Generator Card Japanese Version, or just buy
DynaLab's Golden Butterfly Chinese Font Generator Card, it supports Japanses
Font also.

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From: kpm8447@tesla.njit.edu
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
Subject: Latest Pixfolio version?
Date: 5 Nov 92 13:26:58 GMT
Organization: New Jersey Institute of Technology

Does anyone know what the latest version of Pixfolio is?
(and where to get it and the .zip name)
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Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: dhess@Xenon.Stanford.EDU (Drew William Hess)
Subject: Re: ATI Ultra Pro vs. #9GXe
Keywords: ati ultra pro #9gxe number nine video accelerators
Organization: CS Department, Stanford University, California, USA
Distribution: comp
Date:  8 Nov 92 17:26:52 GMT

ricker@garfield.catt.ncsu.edu (Patrick Lyerly) writes:

>dhess@Xenon.Stanford.EDU (Drew William Hess) writes:

>>Maybe we should write PC Magazine and others who use the Winbench suite
>>to warn them of this possibility.  Hopefully they'll develop a benchmark
>>that reflects real system performance, say by taking a couple of 
>>applications and timing how long it takes to perform everyday operations.
>>Even if the hardware vendors are not skewing their WINMARK results,
>>a benchmark like this one would give the consumer a more accurate picture
>>anyways.

>I think they already do this.  They usually show benchmarks with programs
>such as Lotus and Microsoft being shown.  Just look at some of the
>graphs when they review a product.

Well, I guess I wasn't very clear about what I meant.  I mean that PC Mag
and the others should come up with a new way of benchmarking *video*
performance for individual machines.  (i.e. WINMARK is possibly no longer
a benchmark with any integrity.)  This could be done by examining how
long it takes Corel Draw to do a redraw, how long it takes Excel to draw
a graph, etc.  They may do this for individual software products, but
then they're comparing software, not hardware.  I'm talking about a new
way to benchmark and compare hardware platforms, specifically video 
performance.  Last time I checked (Sept. 15 is the last comprehensive
system review -- DX2-50's), PC Magazine only offers low-level benchmarks
when reviewing systems.

Byte does a decent job of giving application benchmarks, I think.

>ricker@garfield.catt.ncsu.edu

-dwh-
dhess@cs.stanford.edu

Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
From: charon@diana.cair.du.edu (Chuck)
Subject: True Type/Wordperfect/Character mapping
Organization: University of Denver, Denver, Colorado
Distribution: usa
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 92 02:25:24 GMT

  Hey there all!  I've got a few problems that I need some answers for.


  1)  I'm using wordperfect for windows.  I'm using the widows printer
	driver so that I will be able to use True Type fonts.  The
	problem that I keep having is that when I try to create a text
	box with double lines in ALWAYS prints it as a solid(thick) line.
	However, if i switch to the wordperfect printer driver it prints out
	like it's supposed to, but i don't get to use my True Type fonts.

  2) My second problem has to do with character mapping (in wordperfect).
	When I try to use a special character and I press <alt + 0143> I don't
	get the correct character.  However if I use the Write accessary 
	that comes with windows it works fine.

  Any suggestions on how to remedy these problems, and how to get maximum 
  preformence from my printer, would be greatly appreciated.

  BTW...I'm using the Panasonic KX-P1180 laser printer, which immulates the
  HP IIP.  I'm using the HP printer driver till Panasonic sends me the Windows
  printer driver.


Thanks

Spaz  charon@zephyr.cair.du.edu
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
From: yfwu@Uz.nthu.edu.tw (EE U780935)
Subject: Re: Scientific font for windows 3.1
Organization: National Tsing Hua University (HsinChu)
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 04:24:14 GMT

Sorry! After I check the 256 TrueType fonts included in Corel Draw 3.0 CD-ROM,
I found no font you want. I think the only way to use the symbol in Windows is
draw it by yourself. Too bad........................

Sorry for not helping you.

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Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc,comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.tools,comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.misc
From: scstech@solomon.technet.sg (Arthur Lim)
Subject: Routines for Zooming a DIB ?
Organization: Singapore Computer Systems Ltd
Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1992 09:17:57 GMT

Hi,

Is there some routines that will allow me to perform some zooming operations
on DIBs without messing up the final image ? I followed the examples in the
developer-network but the image seem to get messy and unrecognizable. Are
there any other routines that can do the same job safely ?

Thanks in advance.



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From: rick@sundance.SJSU.EDU (Richard Warner)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
Subject: Re: Adaptec SCSI Device Driver for Win3.1
Date: 9 Nov 92 17:11:54 GMT
Organization: San Jose State University - Math/CS Dept.

darrylo@hpnmdla.sr.hp.com (Darryl Okahata) writes:

>In comp.os.ms-windows.misc, rkl@cbnewsh.cb.att.com (kevin.laux) writes:

>> >      If I don't do this, ASPI4DOS and Windows works fine.
>>
>> 	You crashed Windows and are trying to blame the disk corruption on
>> the ASPI4DOS driver?  Aw, come on.
>>
>> 	How are you switching shells?  Do you exit Windows, edit System.ini
>> changing the SHELL= to Progman.exe, startup Windows again, then install the
>> software?  If you're running Progman from Windows with your other shell
>> running as well, I can see why this would happen all the time.
>>
>> 	Doctor, Doctor!  It hurts when I do this!

>     Chill out.  The problem really is with ASPI4DOS/Windows.

Geez, have you tried something revolutionary like trying the WinASPI
driver from Adaptec?  ASPI4DOS is a *REAL* mode driver, and has to
deal with CPU mode and a lot of other crap.  WinASPI is a protected
mode interface ....  

>     As part of another test, I eliminated *ALL* spurious lines out of
>config.sys and autoexec.bat, *DELETED* *ALL* of C:\WINDOWS, rebooted my
>machine using the minimal config.sys and autoexec.bat, and tried
>reinstalling Windows *FROM* *SCRATCH*.  Windows crashed and trashed my
>hard disk if I used ASPI4DOS.  I then had to run chkdsk/f to fix the
>disk.  If I use the unsupported SCSIHA.SYS driver, everything works
>fine, but I lose access to the ASPI drivers, which I need if I ever want
>to attach a CDROM.

>     In case you still think that I'm an idiot, the above was also done
>under the following circumstances:

>* MSD*S 5.0 was loaded low (no UMBs).  Absolutely nothing was loaded
>  into high memory.

>* EMM was excluded in the range A000-DFFF.

>* STACKS were maxed out at 64,512.

>* FILES and BUFFERS were set to 40.

>     During other attempts, I've also tried replacing the motherboard
>(from a 25Mhz 386 to a 33MHz 486) and pulling out all unnecessary cards
>(serial/parallel I/O, soundcard, etc.).  Tonight, I'm probably going to
>swap out my video card (it's highly unlikely that this could cause any
>problems, but it does have provision for using an interrupt).

>     -- 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.)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
From: s_fuller@iastate.edu (Steve Fuller)
Subject: B&W ET4000 drivers????
Organization: Iowa State University, Ames IA
Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1992 23:58:15 GMT

For reasons only known to myself, I was wondering if there exist
any B&W ET4000 drivers for Windows 3.1. if any one knows where
these are at or where I can get them, please email me and I will
be most appreciative...

Steve Fuller

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From: dhw10@RUTS.ccc.amdahl.com (David H. Wang)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
Subject: background copy, format
Date: 6 Nov 92 00:47:30 GMT
Reply-To: dhw10@RUTS.ccc.amdahl.com (David H. Wang)
Organization: Amdahl Corporation, Sunnyvale CA

Hi,

  I was wondering if there is a program(s) that will work under Windows that
would let me format and copy disks or files in the background.

Thank you,

Dave
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
From: PRAETHE@YaleVM.YCC.Yale.Edu (Ethan Evan Prater)
Subject: Re: TrueType Palatino font anywhere?
Organization: Yale University
Date: Sat, 07 Nov 92 14:37:24 EST

In article <721082529snx@apusapus.demon.co.uk>
tfj@apusapus.demon.co.uk (Trevor Jenkins) writes:
 
>I'm trying to print a MAC-Word document with W4W! The original author(s)
>used Palatino as the font, nice as this font maybe it is not known to my
>``PostScript'' printer (A DEC LN03-R) nor is there a Palatino font on the
>PC. As this is for MY use and the PC is the company's buying ATM and maybe
>one of its font packs is out of the question.
>
>So does anyone know if there is a TrueType version of this font anywhere
>that I can ftp?
 
I don't know if there's a FAQL for this group, but this should be at the top
if it.
 
Microsoft's TrueType Font Pack, originally marketed just with Windows 3.1 but
now available seperately, has all of the PostScript fonts (with different
names) and a few others. Palatino is called Book Antiqua; I have Adobe's
Type 1 Palatino and the Microsoft equivalent -- there is virtually no
difference. What difference there is, as far as can tell, is just in a few
letter stylings, not actual quality.
 
The font pack is in general of really good quality and it's very cheap. If you
need TrueType Palatino, this is a good place to find it.
 
--Ethan Evan Prater
From: cwilder@eis.calstate.edu (Charlotte Wilder)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
Subject: NT Questions
Date: 13 Nov 92 02:46:53 GMT
Organization: Calif State Univ/Electronic Information Services

Hi, I was wondering if NT (for you beta testers and Microsoft employees
out there) had a native mode (32/64 bit depending on platform) command
line interface or shell (NOT just a DOS emulator).  If it doesn't, is
there one planned?  If not planned, why not?  If it does have one, can you
use interchangable "shells" like unix (ie: a choice between "sh" and
"csh"), and does it have an extensive shell "script" language (no .BAT
here!).  Also, I was wondering on the NT filesystem, does NT have case
sensitive filenames/commands (ie: unix type filenames, not DOS all
upper/lowercase filenames), and what about file extensions... are they the
same (ie: .EXE, .BAT, etc...) or are they obsolete now (ie: unix like, a
executable bit is set).  Also, assuming that since NT is running on
R4000's, NT is geared for 64 bit mode,, yes?  Thanks for listening...
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
From: (Tim Keitt)
Subject: re: PSCRIPT.DEV patch for windows 3.1
Date: Fri, 06 Nov 92 20:54:29 GMT
Organization: University of New Mexico, Albuquerque NM
Reply-To: tkeitt@algodones.unm.edu

In article <1992Nov6.134753.23259@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> phart@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Patrick S Hart) writes:
>Hi,
>   I am looking for a patch called PSCRIPT.DEV for windows 3.1.  This is 
>suppossed to omit the ^D char when you save a documenmt as a postscript file.  
>I was told that I could find it at ftp.indiana.edu, however I could not seem to
>find it.  Can anyone tell me where this mysteries patch may reside.
>
>Thanks,
>P.

I had this problem as well. If you put the line CtrlD=0 in your
win.ini in the [postscript] section (or whatever section your
printer setup appears), windows will suppress the Ctrl-D in the
output. This seems to cause my setup to print an extra blank page
but, its much nicer than many pages of postscript code. I think
this info can be found in the printers.wri file.

--
Timothy Keitt
tkeitt@algodones.unm.edu



Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
From: fox@rei.com (Fuzzy Fox)
Subject: Re: Using Adlib to run waves on Windows
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 18:59:43 GMT
Organization: Recognition Equipment, Inc.

han-esther@yale.edu (Esther Han) writes:

>When I run a *.mid file on the Media player, it plays fine,
>but when I try to run the Sound Recorder, it says there is no sound driver
>installed and to go into the Control Panel and install it.  Well, the Adlib
>driver *is* installed.

The AdLib drivers from Microsoft will NOT play digitized sound (*.WAV),
but only MIDI music (*.MID).  You will have to get a third-party driver.

I believe the driver you want is called ADLIBW.ZIP, and can be found at
ftp.cica.indiana.edu, in the /pub/pc/win3/sounds directory.

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From: darrylo@hpnmdla.sr.hp.com (Darryl Okahata)
Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1992 19:38:32 GMT
Subject: Re: Re: Adaptec SCSI Device Driver for Win3.1
Organization: Center for Primal Scream Therapy
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc

In comp.os.ms-windows.misc, rkl@cbnewsh.cb.att.com (kevin.laux) writes:

> >      If I don't do this, ASPI4DOS and Windows works fine.
>
> 	You crashed Windows and are trying to blame the disk corruption on
> the ASPI4DOS driver?  Aw, come on.
>
> 	How are you switching shells?  Do you exit Windows, edit System.ini
> changing the SHELL= to Progman.exe, startup Windows again, then install the
> software?  If you're running Progman from Windows with your other shell
> running as well, I can see why this would happen all the time.
>
> 	Doctor, Doctor!  It hurts when I do this!

     Chill out.  The problem really is with ASPI4DOS/Windows.

     As part of another test, I eliminated *ALL* spurious lines out of
config.sys and autoexec.bat, *DELETED* *ALL* of C:\WINDOWS, rebooted my
machine using the minimal config.sys and autoexec.bat, and tried
reinstalling Windows *FROM* *SCRATCH*.  Windows crashed and trashed my
hard disk if I used ASPI4DOS.  I then had to run chkdsk/f to fix the
disk.  If I use the unsupported SCSIHA.SYS driver, everything works
fine, but I lose access to the ASPI drivers, which I need if I ever want
to attach a CDROM.

     In case you still think that I'm an idiot, the above was also done
under the following circumstances:

* MSD*S 5.0 was loaded low (no UMBs).  Absolutely nothing was loaded
  into high memory.

* EMM was excluded in the range A000-DFFF.

* STACKS were maxed out at 64,512.

* FILES and BUFFERS were set to 40.

     During other attempts, I've also tried replacing the motherboard
(from a 25Mhz 386 to a 33MHz 486) and pulling out all unnecessary cards
(serial/parallel I/O, soundcard, etc.).  Tonight, I'm probably going to
swap out my video card (it's highly unlikely that this could cause any
problems, but it does have provision for using an interrupt).

     -- 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: hardiman@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (Paul V Hardiman)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
Subject: Re: Wanted: Multiple Clipboard Archive
Date: 6 Nov 1992 18:25:20 GMT
Organization: Computing Services Division, University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee
NNTP-Posting-Host: 129.89.7.4

In article <5NOV199214144137@trentu.ca> spowell@trentu.ca (Stefan Powell) writes:
>Can anybody tell me where I can get a multiple clipboard storage thingy like on
>the Mac? 
>
>Something that I can paste text, bitmaps, etc. to that will save them on disk
>to be recalled later.
>
>___________________________________
>
> Stefan Powell - SPowell@TrentU.CA
>___________________________________


In PC Magazine a few issues back there was an article on a program
called CLIPSTAC which does just what you want for text.  It is a free
utility available from CompuServe (ZiffNet).

If you need extensive graphics support, a program called SCRAPBOOK+
will suit your needs.  This is a commercial product, but pretty
inexpensive.  I can't recall who markets it, but if you're interested
I'll look it up.