HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: passman@alliant.alliant.com (Shirley Passman)
Subject: Looking for info on database program called Portfolio
Organization: Alliant Computer Systems Corp.
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1992 17:14:48 GMT

The subject about says it.  I'm looking for a database program that
will handle graphics and text.  Something that would let you search
on the text and then would call up text with linked pictures that
could be downloaded to a PC. I've heard of a program called Portfolio
but can't find out any info on it.  Has anyone use it?  What do you
think of it.  Do you know of any other programs that do this?

Any information would be vastly appreciated.

-- Shirl
From: fenner@engcon.marshall.ltv.com (JWFENNER)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Re: Q: Are the Baud Rate and BPS same?
Date: 11 Sep 92 14:34:57 GMT
Reply-To: fenner@engcon.UUCP (JWFENNER)
Distribution: usa
Organization: LTV MEG, Dallas, TX

Baud rate and Bits per second are essentially the same thing.
For example, if you have a 2400 baud modem, you can transfer
2400 bits per second.  Bytes per second is another story, however.
Data sent over the modems is broken down as follows:

+-----------+-----------+-------------+
| START BIT | DATA BITS | STOP BIT(S) |
+-----------+-----------+-------------+

where START BIT is 1 bit, DATA BITS is generally 8 bits (without parity),
and STOP BITS is usually 1 bit.  These numbers can vary, but this is the
most common format used today.

What this means is that for each BYTE of data you send, you actually send
10 bits, not just 8.  So your effective BYTES PER SECOND would be 240 for
a 2400 baud modem.

Most of the newer modems also use compression techniques to help improve
the EFFECTIVE baud rate.

Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
From: barrus@cod.nosc.mil
Subject: Bacground Launcher for the PC?
Organization: Naval Ocean Systems Center, San Diego, CA
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1992 23:54:18 GMT

Bacground Launcher for the PC?

I am looking for a utility,commercial or shareware, the will 
launch programs on a set schedule and will run in the 
background.  I have looked at the cron like programs, but they 
seem to require that the utility be in the forground to work.
You cannot shell to DOS and have it still work.  They seem to 
be designed more for unattended machines than ones that are 
in use, which is what I am looking for.  I cannot use 
a Windows product as the foreground program will not run in 
Windows.
	What I am trying to do is to automatically ftp download 
data files in the background on a schedule while the forground 
program continues.  Perhaps there is some sort of background 
ftp product for the PC?  I appreciate any input.  Thanks

/Joseph Barrus
Barrus@cod.nosc.mil
 



Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
From: ndm1417@rigel.tamu.edu (MONTGOMERY, NOEL DAVIS)
Subject: Re: Stacker vs. SuperStor
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41    
Organization: Texas A&M University, Academic Computing Services
Distribution: usa
Date: Mon, 14 Sep 1992 18:22:00 GMT

In article <1992Sep14.155054.28622@rei.com>, fox@rei.com (Fuzzy Fox) writes...
>Scott.Johnson@FtCollinsCO.NCR.COM (Scott Johnson) writes:
> 
>>I think that
>>the latest SuperStor gives you the ability to write compressed floppies that
>>are readable by any machine, even without superstor
> 
>How can DOS read a compressed disk without loading a device driver to
>make sense of it?  Do they include a TSR routine on the floppy?
> 
>-- 
>#ifdef TRUE         | Fuzzy Fox                  fuzzy@netcom.com
>#define  TRUE   0   | a.k.a. David DeSimone      an207@cleveland.freenet.edu
>#define  FALSE  1   |
>#endif              |         How's my posting?  Call 1-800-ALT-FLAME

Yes, they give you a small utility to compress/decompress to the floppy.

Noel Montgomery

TAMU

Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
From: mbb@cbnewsb.cb.att.com (martin.brilliant)
Subject: Re: Borland C++ vs Turbo C++
Organization: AT&T
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1992 02:34:25 GMT

From article <1992Sep14.215452.24171@mksol.dseg.ti.com>, by mccall@mksol.dseg.ti.com (fred j mccall 575-3539):
> In <1992Sep11.034115.21253@cbfsb.cb.att.com> mbb@cbnewsb.cb.att.com (martin.brilliant) writes:
> [ about confusion about Turbo C++ vs. Borland C++, particuarly with regard
	to the stand-alone debugger ]
> 
> What version is that User's Guide you have?  I have one like that,
> too, that shipped with the Turbo C++ 1.0 PROFESSIONAL package (but the
> debugger is Turbo Debugger 2.0).  This is the package that is called
> BORLAND C++ 3.1, in its current incarnation.
> 
> [Presumably the Turbo Pascal line has a debugger -- do they share the
> same one?  In fact, they may still call it Turbo Debugger when it
> ships with the Borland C++ bundle -- my docs for that are at home, and
> I never paid any attention before.]

I'm not confused any more.  Apparently the Turbo C++ v1.0 Professional
I have is the last of its kind under that name.

The Debugger I have signs on as version 2.0.  The manual says it's for
C, Pascal, and assembler, and supports C++, and the user interface is
consistent with that.  I've never actually used it, though.  The
package as I got it (used) included manuals for both Debugger (1.0)
and Debugger 2.0; I thought that was a mistake.

							Marty
marty@hoqaa.att.com		hoqaa!marty
Martin B. Brilliant		(Winnertech Corporation)	
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
From: ts@uwasa.fi (Timo Salmi)
Subject: Re: XXX.ZOO files
Organization: University of Vaasa, Finland
Date: Wed, 16 Sep 1992 03:12:25 GMT

In article <15SEP199221540150@vms.huji.ac.il> rwerman@vms.huji.ac.il (ROBERT WERMAN) writes:
>I am sure this is a FAQ but I am suffering the pangs

Then you could try
112730 Jun 13 12:23 garbo.uwasa.fi:/pc/ts/tsfaq29.zip

"If you do not know how to go about getting this material, users are
welcome to email me for the prerecorded garbo.uwasa.fi instructions
(long, circa 29Kb).  North American users are referred to the Garbo
mirror on wuarchive.wustl.edu.  Australian users are referred to the
archie.au mirror.  For the Asian users there is the NCTUCCCA.edu.tw
mirror.  The mirrors may lag occasionally, or might not have all the
files.  If you do not receive my reply within five days, please ask
your own site's system manager to construct a returnable mail path
for you". 

..................................................................
Prof. Timo Salmi
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.sys.ibm.pc.misc
From: baysmn@feserve.cc.purdue.edu (mark bays)
Subject: com setup problems
Organization: Purdue University
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1992 21:19:05 GMT

Purdue supports a DATA OVER VOICE (DOV) system that makes it so that you can use
the phone for voice and hook up to their computer at the same time over the 
same line. As far as my problem goes, this device is just an external modem.

Here is the deal:

  I want to hook up both an internal modem and the DOV at the same time.
Not to be used at the same time, but so that I cam switch back and forth between
them using software instead of having to make hardware setup changes. I use 
Windows 3.1 so I want to be able to use this under the windows terminal program

 I tryed this setup:

 com1   irq4  mouse
 com2   irq3  DOV
 com3  empty
 com4   irq3  modem

This would work fine except that windows won't recgonize com4 at all
so I can't use the modem in terminal at all. But, even when it is running under
windows, bitcom recgonizes com4 no problem.

I guess what the problem comes down to is - can you make windows use com4?
if so, how? Or could I make it use com3 with irq3.

I have a BOCA IO board(ns16450 UART chips) that has jumpers that can set 
which irq's(3,4,5 or 7) connect to which com installed in a 286 home built
(M.C.T.mother board).

I can set which com the modem hooks up to but it jut uses standard irq's 
for the com to which it is commected

thanks in advance

   email to baysmn@feserve.cc.purdue.edu

Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
From: mbb@cbnewsb.cb.att.com (martin.brilliant)
Subject: Re: Borland C++ vs Turbo C++
Organization: AT&T
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1992 03:41:15 GMT

From article <1992Sep10.182949.18662@mksol.dseg.ti.com>, by mccall@mksol.dseg.ti.com (fred j mccall 575-3539):
> In <1992Sep10.150327.12901@cbfsb.cb.att.com> mbb@cbnewsb.cb.att.com (martin.brilliant) writes:
>>From article <1992Sep8.170415.24800@bluemtn.COM>, by gregp@bluemtn.COM (Greg Philmon):
>>> ....
>>> BC includes more powerful, standalone tools for developing, such as the 
>>> excellent Turbo Debugger, profiler, etc.  BC is an optimizing compiler,
>>> TC is not.
> 
>>I'm confused.  Maybe that only applies to the current release.  I bought
>>a used copy of Turbo C++ 1.0 which includes debugger, profiles, and
>>assembler, and I think it has optimization in the compiler....
> 
> Yes, you are confused.  Note the use of the phrase "stand-alone"
> above.  He's not talking about debugging from inside the IDE.  Also,
> Turbo C++ does indeed have SOME optimization -- BCC++ has a lot more. 

Not that confused.  I've never used it, but I have a User's Guide for
a standalone Turbo Debugger with its own UI.  Don't knock the Turbo
product any more than it deserves.

							Marty
marty@hoqaa.att.com		hoqaa!marty
Martin B. Brilliant		(Winnertech Corporation)	
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
From: rjg@garfield.cs.mun.ca (Russell Gladden)
Subject: ZOO Fixer, Screen Saver
Organization: CS Dept., Memorial University of Newfoundland
Date: Mon, 7 Sep 1992 16:03:48 GMT

I'm looking for a utility that will (attempt to) repair a corrupted ZOO
archive.  I have a ZOO file that contains several ARCed text files (it's a
long story...) but the first disk sector on which the ZOO originally resided
went bad, and got filled with a random character on a subsequent copy.  There
is only one file I want to extract from the archive, and it begins well into
the file.  Hence it's fully intact, but I need to reconstruct the start of the
ZOO so that the extractor won't choke on it.  Help!

Also, I'm looking for a DOS (non-Windows) screen saver that will properly
restore to a 50-line VGA text screen when it exits.  I'm running a terminal
program (Telix) in 50-line mode, and all the screen savers I've tried so far
(Explosive, Inner Mission, etc.) drop back into 25-line mode when a key is
pressed, requiring me to manually set the terminal back into 50-line mode
each time, and thereby cancelling the convenience of the screen saver in the
first place.  Switching to 50-line mode is no big deal with a simple BIOS
call, but nobody seems to check for it.

Any ideas, pointers, or hints on these topics would be gratefully accepted.

-- 
Russell J. Gladden : rjg@garfield.cs.mun.ca | "As the people here grow colder
134-B Patrick Street, St. John's /~~~~~~~~~~|  I turn to my computer, and
Newfoundland, Canada, A1E 2T1. /    Crisis? |  spend my evenings with it
Telephone: (709) 753-5463.   / What Crisis? |  like a friend..." -- Kate Bush.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
From: mag7351@tamsun.tamu.edu (Michael Goodlett)
Subject: ----- i8051 --- Need To Find Assembler ----------
Organization: Texas A&M University, College Station
Date: Sat, 5 Sep 1992 00:20:08 GMT


I'm one of a two student team doing a design project 
in preparation for graduation with a B.S. in Electrical Engineering.

What we are trying to find is a cross assembler for the i8051 that
will run on a PC or compatible.

The stock stuff that Intel sells is too much for the pocket book
and we were hoping to find a public domain assembler that would
suffice.  We will be using an EPROM burner for the final transfer
to the microcontroller.  If we can just get something that won't
break our bank acct, we'll consider buying it.

I've heard that there are C compilers/assemblers that may also do
the job so any info on those would be appreciated as well.

A reply via email would be better, but I'll check for
info in this newsgroup as well.

Thanks,

Mike Goodlett                          Texas A&M University
goodlett@ee.tamu.edu                   College Station, Texas
goodlett@eemips.tamu.edu         Hm:   409-693-8758
mag7351@tamsumma.bitnet          Wk:   409-845-7579


-- 
Mike Goodlett
goodlett@eemips.tamu.edu

Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
From: kris@microware.com (Kris Hoffmeyer)
Subject: Re: New Stacker
Organization: Microware Systems Corp., Des Moines, Iowa
Date: Mon, 14 Sep 1992 19:35:32 GMT

In article <1992Sep10.165416.14551@rei.com> fox@rei.com (Fuzzy Fox) writes:
>Steven_P._Oliver@bearsden.UUCP (Steven P. Oliver) writes:
>
>>And you can tell how much space is on your hard drive by doing a dir
>>or by using FS by Norton. 
>
>A quick note on Norton's FS -- It will tell you that there is unused
>slack space on the Stacker drive, but what Norton doesn't realize is
>that Stacker actually re-uses this slack space during its compression.
>So any figures you see on slack space are reported by unaware software.
>Stacker drives have very little slack space at all.
>
>-- 
>#ifdef TRUE         | Fuzzy Fox                  fuzzy@netcom.com
>#define  TRUE   0   | a.k.a. David DeSimone      an207@cleveland.freenet.edu
>#define  FALSE  1   |
>#endif              |         How's my posting?  Call 1-800-ALT-FLAME

I don't understand how stacker does not have slack space...
Stacker does allow you to set the file block size, but it installs
at 8K blocks, right?  So if a file or it's last block is less than
8K, the rest is "slack", isn't it?   I could see Norton's FS getting
confused and being inaccurate in reporting slack space, but how does
Stacker fix the "slack" issue...?

Just wondering... (curious...)
Kris.
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
From: frotz@dri.com (Frotz)
Subject: Re: DR DOS EMM386 Error
Reply-To: frotz@novell.com
Organization: Desktop Systems Group/Novell, Monterey CA/USA
Distribution: na
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 92 18:26:50 GMT

kmcvay@oneb.almanac.bc.ca (Ken Mcvay) writes:

]EMM386 is apparently forced - perhaps because of SSTOR being in use, so QEMM
]refuses to load, telling me another memory manager is already resident. If
]someone from novell.com can clarify this for me, I'd appreciate hearing from
]them, as I would indeed rather use QEMM...

I need to move on to real support issues right now, so I haven't read
the entire thread available right now, _but_ you mention using SSTOR.

The things that I need to see are:

The CONFIG.SYS on your bootable hard disk partition (non-compressed).
If you are loading DEVSWAP.COM, you will _not_ find it on drive C:, it
will probably be on drive D:. 

Next you'll need to find the file that this CONFIG.SYS CHAINs to with
"CHAIN=" and let us see it. 

Then, you'll need to show us the AUTOEXEC.BAT on your C: drive (this
is probably the one that you posted)... 

I suspect that the CONFIG.SYS that we saw is the wrong one because I
don't remember seeing the SSTOR.SYS driver (I could just be brain
damaged, but I'll check when I get another news timeslice). 
--
John "Frotz" Fa'atuai	frotz@novell.com		(email@domain)
Desktop Systems		uunet!novell.com!frotz		(bang address)
  Group/Novell		NOVELL:FROTZ  or  FROTZ@NOVELL	(MHS address)
c/o TS Dept.		408/645-2067			(vmail)
80 Garden Court		408/649-8209			(fax)
Monterey, CA  93940

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From: ram@en.ecn.purdue.edu (Robert A McGowan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: ATI Graphics Ultra Pro/+
Date: 10 Sep 92 19:02:17 GMT
Organization: Purdue University Engineering Computer Network


I recently called ATI about the Ultra Graphics Pro and the Ultra Graphics +.
Both of these adapters are not going to be shipped until the last week
in September.  Here is a summary of features that apply to both cards:

Available in ISA, EISA, Microchannel (not local bus)
1Meg ram is standard, upgradable to 2Meg
True Color (16.7 million) at 800x600
1024x768 at 65,000 colors (accelerated and noninterlaced)
basic functionality of Graphics Ultra

Ultra PRO:
Winmark of 25.5 million (existing Graphics Ultra is 9 million)
non-interlaced accelerated at 1280x1024 with 256 colors
uses VRAM
priced from $599 (from ATI)

Ultra +:
Winmark of 21 million
interlaced at 1280x1024 (I don't think it is accelerated)
uses DRAM
priced from $399

A local bus version is not available.  They did tell me that they do
make a local bus card for Gateway.  However, ATI would not tell me any
of the specs.  The people at Gateway did not know much about the card.
The only thing that they could tell me was that a ATI New Generation card
was going in the local bus of the 66Mhz DX2.  They said it was about
3 times faster than the Graphics Ultra.

----------------------------------
Bob McGowan
ram@en.ecn.purdue.edu
Standard Disclaimer - Not associated with any mentioned company.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
From: sheldon@iastate.edu (Steve Sheldon)
Subject: Re: Stacker vs. SuperStor
Keywords: Data Compression
Organization: Iowa State University, Ames IA
Distribution: usa
Date: Wed, 9 Sep 1992 14:01:56 GMT

In <BuA1Eu.480@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu> ezachris@cochiti.ucs.indiana.edu writes:


>I (too) am running out of diskspace and Stacker and SuperStor came to  
>mind. SuperStor will give you compressed floppies, which Stacker won't.

>Which is better?
>Any difference in performance (compression ration/speed)?


 I'm running SuperStor v2.04 on a 386SX/16 with a 80 Meg Western Digital
harddrive.  No problems, no noticeable speed decrease, and the superstored
floppies are rather nice at times.  I've been putting some of my smaller
software packages(like games mostly) on these floppies to save space on
my harddrive.

 IMHO, SuperStor is better, at least for me.  It gives equivalent performance
as Stacker, and I bought it for $50, vs. $99 for Stacker.

 You decide, but you won't go wrong either way.


-- 
Steve Sheldon         sheldon@iastate.edu
Iowa Cooperative Soil Survey Resource Unit
2142 Agronomy, Iowa State University  (515) 294-5429
From: carlf@panix.com (Carl Fink)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Re: File called "SUICIDE.IBM"
Date: 12 Sep 92 01:25:55 GMT
Organization: PANIX Public Access Unix, NYC


  I might point out that a file the extension of which is IBM can't be a 
(or contain a) virus, since it can't be executed under MS DOS.  Only
files ending in .COM, .EXE, or .SYS can ordinarily be executed.  Files
with other endings can be executed by other programs (i.e. .OVL, .DRV) but
I don't know of any viruses that attack overlays or video drivers or 
whatever.


-- 
==============================================================================
Carl Fink          carlf@panix.com, C.FINK4(GEnie), or CF427620I@LIUVAX.BITNET
  "Nothing so needs reforming as other people's habits"  -  Mark Twain
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
From: kpeck@gucis.cit.gu.edu.au (Keith Peck)
Subject: SUPER STORE
Organization: Griffith University, Brisbane, Australia.
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 92 03:32:24 GMT

I am considering buying a copy of superstor but before I do I want some feedback on what it is really like. Do some of you have trouble with this running. What sort of trouble is it.
Does it do the job properly?

Thanks in advance,

Keith...
Xref: sparky comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc:12607 comp.dcom.modems:13349
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc,comp.dcom.modems
Subject: Re: PC Fax Software for faxmodems
From: lchiu@animal.gcs.co.nz (Laurence Chiu)
Date: Mon, 14 Sep 1992 01:02:58 GMT
Organization: GCS Limited, Wellington, New Zealand

In article <rd6yxbj@rpi.edu> hsiaoe@barh1a.its.rpi.edu (Eric Hsiao) writes:
>Are there any decent FAX programs for IBM & compatibles?  I tried several
>programs, and they stink.  Blastfax from US Robotics is still buggy...
>I tried sending a fax the other day and for the date, it put
>SeptemberOctoberNovember 9, 1992... I try Winfax Pro, and if this is the
>best Windows fax program out there, then the PC is in big trouble.
>Winfax Pro has the barest essential functions to send a fax.  The program
>won't even let you preview a fax before sending it.  There are no desktop
>publishing features in it.  You can't preview your coverpage at all, and
>can only preview the other pages after it sends the fax (what's the point of
>PREview?)
>   Basically, I'm looking for a good FAX program that will let me compose
>a fax very much like the way I would do it with paper.  For example, some
>cut and paste features, using the mouse to draw lines and pictures on the
>page, custom place .PCX and embed other graphic formats onto the page (kinda
>like BBN Slate), place text where I want.  Basically, a fax program with
>some desktop publishing features would be really nice...it doesn't have to
>be Pagemaker quality, but at least have these basic features.  Composing
>faxes should be easy...Winfax Pro makes it a chore. (Can't imagine what
>regular Winfax is like...)
>-- 
I am a little puzzled by your comments. Since Winfax Pro installs as a
windows printer driver, you can do all of the above if your Windows
WP or DTP program can. Most can do the simple stuff you're describing
above. Then when you print the fax, it gets transmitted.
For example I regularly send faxes with a Bitmapped company logo
in the document together with a scanned image of my signature. I do this
via AmiPro but Word4Win etc. should also be no problem.
Both of the above programs have built in drawing packages.
While there is no explicit preview feature, you can always schedule the fax
to send later than time now, and then choose the Winfax View feature.
I just don't get it.

Laurence Chiu


Newsgroups: uiuc.emacs,comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
From: dan@math.uiuc.edu (Daniel R. Grayson)
Subject: Re: Using emacs under NCSA telnet
Reply-To: dan@math.uiuc.edu
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Distribution: il
Date: Sat, 5 Sep 1992 01:52:34 GMT

tony@director.beckman.uiuc.edu (Tony Rimovsky) writes:

>marca@ncsa.uiuc.edu (Marc Andreessen) writes:
>
>>   I am trying to use emacs under NCSA telnet, but I can no longer
>>   make marks, either with Ctrl-SPACE or CTRL-@. Any suggestions?
>
>Is this a known problem?  Is there a fix?
>Tony

The fix is this: put

	keymap=default.tbl

in config.tel just after the line

	name=default

and then put

	set key 703 \000

in the new file default.tbl.  I got this from Brad Clements
<bkc@omnigate.clarkson.edu>.

Sigh - why not include the ability to type all the ASCII characters in the
standard release?


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