HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: msingh@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (The Supreme Commander)
Subject: Re: BAM350 problems
Summary: Bug fix coming to fix these Shareware problems
Organization: Indiana University
Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1993 16:57:07 GMT

> went and watched a movie.  When I came back and tried to load
> the data, I received a wrong version error.  I could find no
> mention of what this might be in the docs.  I dont know if
> this is a bug, or if the program is crippleware, or whatever.
> Has anyone else tried this program?

No not crippleware, but a bug. A bug fix will be released in a few
days to correct the Shareware problems. 

> The problem is easy to fix.  Each record stores the version
> number, 3.00.  However, the program version is 3.5.  Changing
> the 3.00 to 3.50 in my test file fixed the problem, but of
> course, adding more transactions adds the wrong version number
> and you are back at the beginning. 

Yes, that's correct. The program simply needs to check version
numbers, which users can easily modify. However, the problem appears
to be in the sort routine which was not correctly modified for v3.50.


> This seems like a really wierd problem.  I mean, it would seem
> to be impossible not to find this as a bug the second time
> you executed the program.

Actually, several different factors affect this bug, and therefore it
was not caught!

> I could not find an email address for the author in the docs 
> supplied.

Feel free to e-mail me at msingh@silver.ucs.indiana.edu for any
further help.

I appreciate the response that I have received from users, and I
*really* appreciate your patience.



				...Manu

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Newsgroups: comp.archives.msdos.d
From: ts@uwasa.fi (Timo Salmi)
Subject: Of Timo's email quoting on the news
Organization: University of Vaasa, Finland
Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 09:05:03 GMT

-From ts@uwasa.fi Fri 8 Jan 18:05:00 1993
-Subject: The public nature of garbo.uwasa.fi questions and answers 

This file is garbo.uwasa.fi:/pc/pd2/private.txt

Dear Fellow Computer Users,

I feel it advisable to inform the gentle garbo.uwasa.fi users of the
following matter concerning privacy / publicity.  I get very much
email concerning garbo.uwasa.fi files and problems and UseNet news. 
As an FTP archive site moderator I have to answer countless
questions and views from the users practically every day.  Quite
often these questions or views are of general interest or
applicability, and I often make selected questions and my answers
public in the /pc/pd2/post*.txt information files, and sometimes
even on the UseNet news.  The same goes for useful user feedback on
the programs on garbo.  Furthermore I may have to converse about
some users' questions with my fellow moderators at garbo.uwasa.fi
and other FTP sites. 

This means that unless prominently and unambiguously stated
otherwise by the sender (at the very beginning of the message,
please), or very obvious from the context or the contents, I
consider all email, all text in the upload announcements, and all
file uploads publicly available and publicly publishable material. 
I simply cannot and will not take the time to ask for the sender's
confirmation.  I hope you understand, and if you find this
unacceptable, then there is unfortunately no other possibility than
not to send email to me. 

Please particularly note that if you have kindly uploaded programs
to garbo.uwasa.fi, you should never put anything confidential in
your upload announcements to the garbo moderators.  If you have
something confidential to say about your upload, please use separate
email for that, and mark very, very clearly that you message is not
for public distribution. 

The reason for these practices is that we get so much email,
uploads, announcements, questions and views, that if we conversed
back and forth with each and everyone about their material and
messages, we would be totally swamped because we already are
stretched as we are.  I have to organize matters in a rational way
to be able to perform the moderator's functions, and making public
the interesting questions from users and the answers to their
queries is part of this. 

   All the best, Timo

..................................................................
Prof. Timo Salmi      Co-moderator of comp.archives.msdos.announce
Moderating at garbo.uwasa.fi anonymous FTP archives 128.214.87.1
Faculty of Accounting & Industrial Management; University of Vaasa
Internet: ts@uwasa.fi Bitnet: salmi@finfun   ; SF-65101, Finland
Newsgroups: comp.archives.msdos.d
From: pugh@skiing.cis.ohio-state.edu (Tom Pugh)
Subject: Re: pkz204c.exe is available (??)
Organization: The Ohio State University Dept. of Computer and Info. Science
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 04:42:19 GMT

	We obtained a copy of pkz204c.exe directly from the PKWARE bbs
so that we could put it up on our bbs.  We also asked about the hacked 
versions, and anything between v1.93 and 2.04 is a hack.  Whether I 
would trust the ftp version of pkz204c is a different story, but that
version is not a hack.
From: jfmcbray@sacam.OREN.ORTN.EDU (Jason F McBrayer)
Newsgroups: comp.archives.msdos.d
Subject: Re: Wanted: PC speaker driver for Windows 3.1
Date: 7 Jan 93 05:57:06 GMT
Organization: Oak Ridge National Laboratory
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL5

Steven Rush Fennell (srf6200@zeus.tamu.edu) wrote:
: Does anyone know where I can get a driver for the PC Speaker for windows?
: Thanks for any help...
: 
: Steve Fennell
: srf6200@zeus.tamu.edu

	There's one available in the Windows Drivers Library that you can
order from Microsloth.  Check your Windoze documentation for details. 
I've also seen it included in SPEAK.EXE, a self-extracting LZH archive on
Garbo and Wuarchive.  I don't recall what directories though.
	When you find it, don't expect too much out of it.  It's fine for
playing noise and simple sounds, like the ones included in Windows, but
voice samples mostly aren't worth your while.  I never even bothered
trying to play MIDI files over it.  You'd probably be better off in the
long run checking your local users group for a used SoundBlaster.  On the
other hand, the pc-speaker driver is free.

Jason F. McBrayer
Newsgroups: comp.archives.msdos.d
From: klingenbe_mj@indtech.it.ilstu.edu (The Stainless Steel Ratt)
Subject: Re: Russian word processors
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 93 11:56:52 EST
Reply-To: klingenbe_mj@indtech.it.ilstu.edu (The Stainless Steel Ratt)
Organization: Illinois State University

In article <1993Jan10.103101.7878@nntp.hut.fi>, tsand@vipunen.hut.fi (Tapio Sand) writes:
>In article <1ils71INNoo8@crcnis1.unl.edu> vporguen@unlinfo.unl.edu (victor porguen) writes:
>...
>>Believe it or not, the advent of MS Windows 3.1 has brought with it 
>>some blessings <g>. One of them is TrueType scalable fonts. The 
>...
>>dot-matrix printer!  And the good news gets better: there are now 
>>several free TrueType Cyrillic fonts, including a high-quality 
>>classical Cyrillic designed by Bill Tavolga and released to the 
>>public domain. 
>...
>
>Where? Are these available via FTP? If so, what site(s)? 
>Do you know the name of the file, I could then do an Archie search.
>
>Thanks in advance,
>-- 
>                                                           tsand@vipunen.hut.fi
>TEX disconnects, dial again for another session.
>D;+vC)?iH%"
>NO.CARRIER

I have a copy of this font set, the name of it is CYRWIN.ZIP but I forgot where
I copied it from.  It's a nice set of fonts (bold italic, etc...).  The only
problem that I have with it is if you use Word 2.0(a) make sure that
SmartQuotes are off or the "eh" (as in entot - this, that) will return a TM
mark or other character.  But other than that it's great.

vsego xoroshevo,



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From: vporguen@unlinfo.unl.edu (victor porguen)
Newsgroups: comp.archives.msdos.d
Subject: Re: pkz204c.exe is out, finally ...
Date: 7 Jan 1993 04:44:59 GMT
Organization: University of Nebraska--Lincoln	
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: unlinfo.unl.edu

w8sdz@tacom-emh1.army.mil (Keith Petersen) writes:

>kko@fraser.sfu.ca (Samuel Ko) writes:
>>Oooh... I finally got hold of an authentic copy of pkzip/unzip 2.04c ...
>[...]
>>-Password Encryption
>>
>>	Sensitive data files can be scrambled with password protection.
>>	The security of this feature has been significantly improved in
>>	PKZIP/PKUNZIP 2.04c.

And Keith Petersen promptly interjects:

>Due to the restrictions on the exporting of encryption technology, this
>program cannot be legally offered by any FTP site in the USA or Canada
>that can be accessed from other countries,

>We'll have to wait for an "Export Version", which will hopefully be
>supplied by PKWare as they did for PKZ110. 


Well, whatever the legalities, this great piece of junk called PKZIP
2.04c has had its "superior" encryption technology already broken
(by Paul Kocher, who posted his results on sci.crypt just yesterday).
He says he did it in half an hour.

Yeah, right, don't export it! It may cause the ruin of some foreign 
country ot something. In fact, why don't we just quietly erase the 
darn thing from _our own_ hard drives as well.

Newsgroups: comp.archives.msdos.d
From: robert@alkymi.unit.no (Robert Schmidt)
Subject: Re: PKZIP 204
Organization: Norwegian Institute of Technology
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 93 16:31:04 GMT

In article <1993Jan7.062312.8127@csus.edu>, sphughes@sfsuvax1.sfsu.edu (Shaun P. Hughes) writes:
> Having just run a benchmark test with a 2,123 K archive I achieved the
> following results.
> 
> PKZIP   2.04    495 K
> LHA     2.13    505 K
> ZOO     2.1     509 K
> HPACK   0.78    465 K

It seems like you forgot a very worthy competitor, namely ARJ...


Robert
Newsgroups: comp.archives.msdos.d
From: chris@chrism.demon.co.uk (Chris Marriott)
Subject: Re: archie updates 
Distribution: world
Organization: None
Reply-To: chris@chrism.demon.co.uk
X-Mailer: Simple NEWS 1.90 (ka9q DIS 1.19)
Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1993 22:56:27 +0000

In article <1993Jan4.184635.24169@cbnewsm.cb.att.com> evans1@cbnewsm.cb.att.com writes:

>How long does it take for the archie machines to be updated once new files
>have been installed on the ftp machines? Just wantin' to know.
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The file-name search on ARCHIE should always be <30 days out of date.
The keyword search, which has (so far as I know) to be updated manually,
is much less reliable.

Chris
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Newsgroups: comp.archives.msdos.d
From: ralphs@halcyon.com (Ralph Sims)
Subject: Re: Delay to Mirror Sites
Organization: Northwest Nexus Inc. (206) 455-3505
Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1993 15:25:18 GMT

gould@waterloo.hp.com (Dan Gould) writes:

>Does anyone know how long I should wait before attempting to FTP an archive
>from a mirror site?

We update our mirror of eff.org files twice a week, but there's generally
light traffic.  Our mirror of zeus.ieee.org takes place daily.

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From: PROPE2@ifens01.insa-lyon.fr (Damien Bonneton)
Newsgroups: comp.archives.msdos.d
Subject: bitmap picture -->tp6?
Date: 11 Jan 93 18:06:56 GMT
Followup-To: comp.archives.msdos.d
Organization: INSA  CENTRE INFORMATIQUE DU 1er CYCLE
X-Reposted-By: w8sdz@tacom-emh1.army.mil
Originator: w8sdz@tacom-emh1.army.mil

Is there anybody in there who could help me to display bitmap pictures
(PaintBrush , Windows Draw , Deluxe Paint ...  ) on the screen (vga) in
TURBO PASCAL 6.0 ?

Damien Bonneton
PROPE2@ifens01.insa-lyon.fr
Newsgroups: comp.archives.msdos.d
From: w8sdz@tacom-emh1.army.mil (Keith Petersen)
Subject: Re: Narc utility
Organization: The SIMTEL20 Archives
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 00:54:30 GMT

willis@evax0.eng.fsu.edu writes:
>    if there is anyone out there who can tell me whether or not the 
>    Narc facility for pc's is available through anonymous ftp, I would  
>    be glad to find out where the utility is.  Thanks in advance.

Directory PD1:<MSDOS.FILUTL>
 Filename   Type Length   Date    Description
==============================================
IDC40A.ZIP    B  135252  900728  Gary Conway's IDC shell & NARC archiver, v4.0a

An index of all files in the WSMR-SIMTEL20.Army.Mil MS-DOS collection
is available in two formats:

Directory PD1:<MSDOS.FILEDOCS>
 Filename   Type  Description
==============================================
SIMIBM.ZIP    B   Comma-delim list of all MSDOS files w/descrip.
SIMLIST.ZIP   B   Text format list of all MSDOS files w/descrip.

These files are updated every 7-10 days.  See AAAREAD.ME in that
directory for details. 

SIMTEL20 allows only nine ANONYMOUS FTP logins during weekday
prime time, 5am to 3pm Mountain Time (GMT-7), but 27 otherwise.

SIMTEL20 files are also available by anonymous ftp from mirror sites
OAK.Oakland.Edu (141.210.10.117), wuarchive.wustl.edu (128.252.135.4),
ftp.uu.net (137.39.1.9), nic.funet.fi (128.214.6.100), src.doc.ic.ac.uk
(146.169.3.7), nic.switch.ch (130.59.1.40), archie.au (139.130.4.6),
nctuccca.edu.tw (140.111.3.21), by e-mail through the BITNET/EARN file
servers, or by uucp from UUNET's 1-900-GOT-SRCS.  See UUNET file
uunet!~/info/archive-help for details.

OAK.Oakland.Edu is the most up-to-date mirror because I maintain it,
in addition to my duties at SIMTEL20.  I run OAK's mirror program
whenever new files are added at SIMTEL20.

Keith
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Internet: w8sdz@TACOM-EMH1.Army.Mil     or      w8sdz@Vela.ACS.Oakland.Edu
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Newsgroups: comp.archives.msdos.d,comp.compression
From: ts@uwasa.fi (Timo Salmi)
Subject: Re: $$ Is pkz204c worth the $$ ?
Followup-To: comp.compression
Organization: University of Vaasa, Finland
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 17:40:23 GMT

In article <16353@auspex-gw.auspex.com> wally@Auspex.COM (Wally Bass) writes:
>In article <1993Jan12.052426.9168@uwasa.fi> ts@uwasa.fi (Timo Salmi) writes:
>
>> ...  PKZIP is the dominant current standard.
>
>The dominant standard, I think, is something that can be decompressed
>with pkunzip 1.10. If someone comes out with something which can't

Fair enough.  But being able to unzip 1.10 files with 2.04C is not
totally insignificant.  Also, do not forget what Keith said about
the Info-ZIP products.  They can be used to unpack 2.04C files both
on Unix and on MsDos.  (To be accurate, on Unix the fully, all-out
compatible version of Info-ZIP's unzip is still on the way).  These
points do not contradict what you say, but should not be ingnored
either. 

>be decompressed by pkunzip 1.10, then it is no longer the dominant
>standard. Just because the files produced by this program have

At the moment you are most certainly right.  It will take some time
for the new version to disseminate (even assuming the the bugs will
be corrected). 

---

I have a CAM co-moderator's dilemma in here.  These discussions
concern a very intresting recent upload to an MsDos FTP archive and
problems of and views on the said program.  This makes this a fully
relevant subject in comp.archives.msdos.d.  However, since the most
discussions on this subject go on in comp.compression, I have
pointed the potential followups of this posting to comp.compression. 
That is anyway where this seems to be at right now. 

   All the best, Timo

..................................................................
Prof. Timo Salmi      Co-moderator of comp.archives.msdos.announce
Moderating at garbo.uwasa.fi anonymous FTP archives 128.214.87.1
Faculty of Accounting & Industrial Management; University of Vaasa
Internet: ts@uwasa.fi Bitnet: salmi@finfun   ; SF-65101, Finland
Newsgroups: comp.archives.msdos.d
From: rmccown@world.std.com (Bob McCown)
Subject: UNIX clone
Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
Distribution: usa
Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 02:59:11 GMT

Is there a shareware unix-type clone available for ftping?
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Newsgroups: comp.archives.msdos.d
Subject: Re: BAM350 problems
From: chris@actrix.gen.nz (Chris Double)
Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1993 10:28:44 GMT
Organization: Actrix Information Exchange

In article <1993Jan5.142834.10523@hou.amoco.com> zklf0b@gs144.hou.amoco.com (Fergason) writes:
> 
> I recently downloaded BAM350.ZIP from one of the mail servers.
> After playing with it a while, setting up an account, etc, I 
> went and watched a movie.  When I came back and tried to load
> the data, I received a wrong version error.  I could find no
> mention of what this might be in the docs.  I dont know if
> this is a bug, or if the program is crippleware, or whatever.
> Has anyone else tried this program?

Yes, I had this problem too.

I can't understand how this could have slipped past testing...as you
say, it always appear after a transaction is added, you exit the
program then go back in.   

At first I thought it may not have liked the fact that I was running
under OS/2 2.0 but I also tried under straight DOS...same problem.

> I could not find an email address for the author in the docs 
> supplied.

An email address is given in one of the *.DOC files for support. It
mentions it may not be a stable address and should only be used for
emergencies. (Sorry, I deleted it when I found it didn't work, so
can't check the email address).

Chris Double.
chris@actrix.gen.nz
Newsgroups: comp.archives.msdos.d
From: burtle@sunflower.cs.uiuc.edu (Bill Burtle)
Subject: day-planner sw recommendations?
Organization: University of Illinois, Dept. of Comp. Sci., Urbana, IL
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 22:02:27 GMT

What is a good shareware-type MSDOS program for "Day-Planner"
style time management & scheduling?

thanks

Newsgroups: comp.archives.msdos.d
From: willis@evax0.eng.fsu.edu
Subject: Narc utility
Organization: Famu/Fsu College of Engineering
Date: 6 Jan 93 16:08:50 EST



Hello,

    if there is anyone out there who can tell me whether or not the 
    Narc facility for pc's is available through anonymous ftp, I would  
    be glad to find out where the utility is.  Thanks in advance.

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Newsgroups: comp.archives.msdos.d
From: sjhodges@eos.ncsu.edu (STEVEN JAMES HODGES)
Subject: Wanted:
Originator: sjhodges@c00063-100lez.eos.ncsu.edu
Reply-To: sjhodges@eos.ncsu.edu (STEVEN JAMES HODGES)
Organization: North Carolina State University, Project Eos
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 20:18:13 GMT


	Program so I can play a .voc file when the computer boots up. I want to
put it in the autoexec.bat and when the computer loads up it will play a
.voc file. E-mail me if you know of a program or know what I can do to
set it up in my autoexec.bat file.
Newsgroups: comp.archives.msdos.d
From: fmontoya@frors65.circe.fr (Frederic Montoya)
Subject: Looking for MIDI stuff...
Reply-To: fmontoya@frors65.circe.fr (Frederic Montoya)
Organization: circe
Date: Thu, 07 Jan 93 09:24:30 GMT


Hello,

Could somebody provide me ftp sites to
download MIDI stuff for MSDOS ?

Thanks in advance and Hapyy New Year 1993...

Frederic
Newsgroups: comp.archives.msdos.d
From: s1110238@giaeb.cc.monash.edu.au (Lee Hollingworth)
Subject: Re: A better way to entice registrations
Keywords: Shareware registration Cyrillic editor Russian UK Thomson Cyril
Organization: Monash University, Melb., Australia.
Date: Sat, 9 Jan 1993 10:13:59 GMT

vporguen@unlinfo.unl.edu (victor porguen) writes:

>My feeling was that software crippling _detracts_ from potential
>registrations.

>Now comes the enticement: if you register the program, you get a set
>of keycap stickers that you can adhere to the keys, [...]

>This is crippling in reverse! Instead of *disabling* a feature of
>the program, the author offers an *addition* to it.  This is
>intelligent, positive marketing.
                       ^^^^^^^^^(just a marketing play on words)

What is the difference between disabling a feature and offering an
additional feature upon registration, just a few words?

If I say that upon registration you get the "spell checker" of an editor
I'm trying to distribute you think you are getting something extra.  If
I say the spell checker is disabled you feel like you are being ripped
off in the demo version...

>[...] but it does illustrate perfectly the difference between
>simply CRIPPLING an existing function (something any idiot can do)
>and offering a true ENHANCEMENT (something that takes a bit more
>imagination and inventiveness to devise.)

They are just worded differently, in the end you still only get the
"whole" package once you register!

Lee Hollingworth
s1110238@giaeb.cc.monash.edu.au
Newsgroups: comp.archives.msdos.d