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From: SINARRWB@admin.uh.edu (BELL, ROBERT W.)
Subject: 3.0 Printing Annoyance, and IRQ problems...
Organization: University of Houston Administrative Computing
Date: Wed, 7 Oct 1992 20:38:42 GMT
X-News-Reader: VMS NEWS 1.20

Hola All,

1.      This might be a simple question, or not.  I am having some
    annoyance printing from 2 applications in Windows 3.0.  When I 
    try to print from one application I get a the DEVICE CONFLICT
    message telling me another application has control of the LPT1
    device, and asking me if I want this application to take control
    of the device (whick of course I do...).   Is there a work around
    to avoid these conflicts, or make it automatically pass control to 
    the application trying to print.  Shrug.  Any info or insight would
    be appreciated.


2.       Ok, here is the deal.  Windows 3.0, mouse com1, serial com2,
    have serial card...  I want/need to install an additional serial
    card to attach an external modem to it.

    com1: irq4   Mouse..
    com2: irq3   Serial Connection (to a Vax)
    com3: irq4   Serial Connection (to a modem, dial-out)
    com4: irq3

        I need to be able to use my mouse, and both serial ports !
    What can I do in this situation ??  I know I could go buy a
    new mouse with its own card, and/or internal modem(?).  Is there
    anything else I can do ??  And, could someone clue me in as to
    WHY there is this current irq mapping ???  Can it be hacked ?

Bob
From: ergo@netcom.com (Isaac Rabinovitch)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
Subject: Re: Which printer to get for MS Windows ???
Date: 7 Oct 92 18:22:35 GMT
Article-I.D.: netcom.1992Oct7.182235.6278
Organization: UESPA

In <BvB2Kp.M8C@world.std.com> sja@world.std.com (Stuart J Adams) writes:

>I am trying to choose a laser printer to use primarily with MS Windows
>and applications like MS Word/Excel for Windows. I can get an HP
>compatible laser printer for a little of $600 vs a postscript printer
>(that also is HP compat) for $1200-$1400. What are the advantages of
>the latter ???? What does postscript give me that HP PCL does not ???


I've never used a PS printer, but I have the impression that PS can be
more of a pain than its worth.  One magazine writer (David Gerrold, of
"Trouble with Tribbles" fame) reports waiting hours for a lenghty
prinout to be processed by a WfW/PS setup, only to find
software/printer negotiations had failed early on and WfW had been
spinning its wheels early on!  This sort of problem can be solved, but
it's indicative of the kind of hassle you get when you add that kind
of complexity to your system.

Why bother with PS at all?  If you're doing a lot of fancy graphics
and typography, PS supposedly can speed things up drastically and give
you better quality output.  For example, if you're going to draw 50
boxes, a bitmap or vector printer needs a *lot* of data, which is
difficult to generate/interprete properly.  Whereas the same data in
postscript is the algorithmic equivalent of "to draw a box, use four
right-angle lines.  draw 50 boxes", which is not only faster but is
more likely to come out the way you want.

So the question boils down to, How much fancy printing are you gonna
do?

By the way, you seem to be assuming that you need a laser printer with
PCL (or some other page description language).  If you're willing to
put up with slightly lower quality (for most applications you can't
tell the difference) and much lower speed, consider an inkjet printer.
An HP DeskJet 500, for example goes for $400 these days, and its
operating cost is about 4 cents a page (less for draft-quality
output), as opposed to 10 cents for a laser.  If you want color
output, you'll still be cheaper than a laser printer, which can't do
color printing at all.

As for PCL, it's not a necessity for Windows.  It may speed things up,
but even the stupidist bitmap printers do OK with Windows.
Furthermore, a simple-minded printer can print anything you
application can draw on your screen, because the GDI-to-printer
translation is straightforward.  With a fancier printer, you have to
hope that whoever wrote the printer driver anticipated what you're
trying to do (an unusual font, rotated text, etc.).  Then again, most
printer drivers have caught up with what Windows can do.
-- 

	ergo@netcom.com 			Isaac Rabinovitch
        {apple,amdahl,claris}!netcom!ergo	Santa Cruz, CA
	
	You will be assimilated.  Resistance is futile.
		
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From: pluto@cs.ucsd.edu (Mark Plutowksi)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc,comp.os.ms-windows.apps
Subject: Is there a shareware job control app out there?
Summary: Need to sequence several jobs
Date: 7 Oct 92 21:16:09 GMT
Followup-To: comp.os.ms-windows.misc


Is there a shareware program that will allow me to 
schedule windows apps?  Preferably, one that will
let me compose a script of applications to be run in
sequence, so that when 1 app finishes, the next begins.

Thanks,

= Mark
From: Ashley@wang.com (Don Rivard)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
Subject: Re: MICROSOFT IS STACKING THE DECK!
Date: 16 Oct 92 13:56:39 GMT
Organization: Wang Labs Lowell Labs

In article <79npb7@lynx.unm.edu> tkeitt@algodones.unm.edu (Timothy Keitt) writes:
>From: tkeitt@algodones.unm.edu (Timothy Keitt)
>Subject: Re: MICROSOFT IS STACKING THE DECK!
>Date: Wed, 14 Oct 92 04:06:08 GMT
>In article <1992Oct12.185104.1@vax1.umkc.edu>, edowdy@vax1.umkc.edu writes:
>|> MICROSOFT IS STAACKING THE DECK!!
>|>  
>|> 
>|> 	I just read an article about Microsoft. Apparently microsoft
>|> has written in "secret codes" to the dos. Essentially these codes guarantee
>|> that software packages that are not microsoft's will run slower and less
>|> effeciently than microsoft's because they do not have access to these codes!
>|> There is apparently much evidence from many companies that overwhelmingly
>|> proves this is the case.
>|> 
>|> 	Essentially these codes affect windows products as much and maybe even
>|> more.  Products that do not have access to these codes would appear to run
>|> slower and less effeciently than microsoft products, similarly, this makes
>|> microsoft software (WORD, EXCELL etc...) will run more effeciently 
>|> appearing to be "better" software than others say WORDPERFECT.
>|> 
>|> 	This may explain some of the reasons why WordPerfect appears to run
>|> much less effeciently (if in doubt see all the complaints in the various
>|> newgroups) than Word 2.0.
>|> 
>|> Bill Gates reaction?: Apparently his response was similar to the following; 
>|> "Yeah, we probably did that, but if we did, ...so what."
>|> 
>|> Can anybody verify this through other sources?
>
>I think you may be confusing the situation of
>MS using undocumented windows API calls. MS
>has acknowleged using some undocumented windows
>calls in their software products (something they
>denied until someone got around to reverse
>engineering the code). I think the offical
>responce was the 1) the calls were outdated
>anyway; and 2) it was the programmers acting
>on their own -- MS never officially knew about
>it.
>
>I think we should be carefull not to persecute MS
>too quickly. Any OS has undocumented features -- its
>the only way to maintain standards. Another factor to
>consider is that windows programs spend up to 60% of
>their time in the API, which get distributed with
>windows itself (as DLL's), not with WW or Excel.
>
>There's no doubt the MS has an advantage in windows
>developement, but you also have to consider the quality
>of software they deliver on the Mac (Excel I believe
>has an overwhelming market share). You can't really
>disect whats the inside advantage and whats simply
>good programing.
________________________________________________________________>
>What amazes me most is how buggy (some) MS windows programs
are! You'd think they'd have it wired by now.`
________________________________________________________________>
>T.
Could not have said it better myself!!!!!
From: Greg.Reinacker@FtCollins.NCR.COM
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
Subject: Re: SpeedStar 24x evaluation
Date: 12 Oct 92 07:54:27 GMT
Reply-To: Greg.Reinacker@FtCollinsCO.NCR.COM
Distribution: world
Organization: NCR Microelectronics, Ft. Collins, CO
In-reply-to: john.will@satalink.com's message of 8 Oct 92 09:44:00 GMT


-> STB PowerGraph   (800x600x16) VGA464S.DRV, "ET4000        " Winmark=2,002,538 
-> Diamond SS24x    (800x600x16) HVGA800.DRV, "SpeedStar 24X " Winmark=6,854,047 
-> Diamond SS24x   (800x600x256) WSPDPSF.DRV, "SpeedStar 24X " Winmark=11,436,698 

Just for comparison, I also have this card.  I have it in a 386DX/25,
and got the following results:

Diamond SS24x    (800x600x16) HVGA800.DRV, "SpeedStar 24X " Winmark=3.9M
Diamond SS24x   (800x600x256) WSPDPSF.DRV, "SpeedStar 24X " Winmark=6.7M

As an aside, I replaced an Oak VGA board, which performed at 0.92M
WinMarks at 800x600x16.

One more thing about the benchmarks above - although they show that the
256 color driver is faster than the 16 color in terms of WinMarks, text
scrolling is slower.  Here are the system font scrolling results, on my
system:

  Oak VGA        800x600x16    10924 cps
  Diamond SS24x  800x600x16    38546 cps
  Diamond SS24x  800x600x256   13235 cps

Anyone with a faster system have scrolling results?  I'd be interested
to hear what they were...

--
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NCR Microelectronic Products Division   VoicePlus 464-1289
2001 Danfield Court                     Greg.Reinacker@FtCollinsCO.NCR.COM
Fort Collins, CO  80525
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
From: paul@ace.acadiau.ca (Paul Steele)
Subject: Adlib or Sound Blaster - Which one?
Organization: Acadia University
Distribution: na
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 1992 18:18:38 GMT

I want to get better sound output on my PC.  I'm primarily want it for games 
but also in Windows 3.1.  Should I spend more and go with Sound Blaster, or 
will an Adlib card be adequate for games/windows use.  I am not interested 
in midi stuff.

___
Paul Steele, Network Services Manager              902-542-2201x660
Acadia University, Computer Centre            FAX: 902-542-4364
Wolfville, Nova Scotia, Canada, B0P 1X0  Internet: Paul.Steele@acadiau.ca
From: shieh@acsu.buffalo.edu (Geoffrey S. Shieh)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
Subject: Help (DEC lps40 driver wanted)
Keywords: help printer driver
Date: 9 Oct 92 02:24:45 GMT
Article-I.D.: acsu.Bvu1DA.6Jr
Organization: UB

Help!
Does anyone know if there is a DEC Lps40 printer driver for Win3.1?
Thanks.

Geoff Shieh
shieh@acsu.buffalo.edu
From: bryan@stiatl.salestech.com (Bryan Donaldson)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
Subject: Re: Environment space: how to adjust?
Date: 7 Oct 92 12:59:03 GMT
Organization: Sales Technologies, Inc.

ntaib@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (Iskandar Taib) writes:

>In article <ieong.718329048@sfu.ca| ieong@fraser.sfu.ca (Kim Ieong) writes:
>|Each DOS session has a default of 256 bytes of environment space.  If you
>|want to increase the environment space, you have to edit the DOSPRMPT.PIF
>|using the PIF Editor.  Here is the procedure to increase the environment
>|space for your DOS session:
>|
>|[process of editing the dosprompt PIF]
>Supposing you want to run a DOS app using another PIF file, though,
>can you specify /e:1024 in the app's PIF file or will just changing 
>it in DOSPRMT.PIF work?


No, what you'd do is edit the SYSTEM.INI file, and under the [NonWindowsApp]
label add the line:

CommandEnvSize=1024

That'll change the other DOS applications environment.


-- 
Bryan Donaldson                    gatech!stiatl!bryan
Sales Technologies, Inc            or maybe bryan@STIATL.SALESTECH.COM
3399 Peachtree Rd, NE               If one is born into an era of decadence,
Atlanta, GA  (404) 841-4000         one may as well enjoy it while it lasts.
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From: cfs@cowpas.waffle.atl.ga.us (Charles Stephens)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc,comp.os.ms-windows.apps
Subject: Re: Is there a shareware job control app out there?
Date: 8 Oct 92 20:10:33 GMT
Organization: COW Pastures

pluto@cs.ucsd.edu (Mark Plutowksi) writes:

> Is there a shareware program that will allow me to 
> schedule windows apps?  Preferably, one that will
> let me compose a script of applications to be run in
> sequence, so that when 1 app finishes, the next begins.

        WinCron, I believe it's on cica...

--
Charles Stephens,
cfs@cowpas.waffle.atl.ga.us
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
From: hm@opus40.ix.de (Harald Milz)
Subject: Re: X-windows for windows 3.1
Organization: iX-Redaktion
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1992 12:13:20 GMT


In article <1992Oct12.082538.24780@ericsson.se>, etxaek@callisto.ericsson.se ( Anders Ekholm TG/HU) writes:
|> I need to run X-windows over a modem 9600/14400 against a SUN SPARC station 1.
|> I will be running the X-windows (the graphics, client/server ?) on a 386/486
|> system under windows 3.1 and connect to the SUN station by a US-Robotics modem
|> in the PC end.
|> 
|> In the SUN end there are a modem server which connects to the SUN station
|> by telnet or rlogin.
|> 
|> Which software should I be running to do this ?
|> 
|>                      /Anders


Try HCL-eXceed/W or XVision or PC-Xview. PC/NFS is required. I don't know 
whether modem coupling allows what you want.
-- 

|Dipl.-Ing. Harald Milz                   |    EMail:		hm@ix.de |
|iX - Multiuser Multitasking Magazin      |    FAX:    +49 511 547 47 33 |
|D-3000 Hannover 61, Helstorfer Str. 7    |    Tel.:   +49 511 547 47 66 |
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
From: jcmorris@mwunix.mitre.org (Joe Morris)
Subject: Re: S: Windows 3.1 Driver for Summasketch MM1201
Organization: The MITRE Corporation
Date: Wed, 7 Oct 1992 19:09:48 GMT

thot@desert.in-berlin.de (Marcus Klische) writes:


>I am search for a driver for Summasketch Digitizer under windows 3.1.
>There is a driver in the packet, but this is only a driver for win 3.0
>If I want to install this one, the setup-programm ask me where is the
>oem-driver.

>Question one. can someone send me the driver ???

Yes: Summagraphics.  I don't know if they have a rep in Europe but
if you send them a request they will send you (free) the new 3.1
drivers.

Joe Morris / MITRE
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
From: brown@NCoast.ORG (Stan Brown)
Subject: Re: Inserting extended character into WfW document: help please!
Organization: Oak Road Systems, Cleveland Ohio USA
Date: Wed, 7 Oct 1992 11:04:07 GMT

In article <1992Oct5.130016.2961@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> Francis Burton writes:
>I would like to use the filled triangle character (decimal 30;
>Ctrl-^) from the "Modern" font in a WfW document. 
>However, I cannot copy it to the Sample Text box, and hence into
>my document.

Word for Windows will deal only with character numbers 32-255.

If you have access to Microsoft's TrueType Font Pack for Windows,
characters 228 and 229 in Lucida Bright Math Italic are filled triangles
pointing to left and right; 115 and 116 in Monotype Sorts are filled
triangles pointing up and down.

-- 
Stan Brown, Oak Road Systems                      brown@Ncoast.ORG
Cleveland, Ohio, USA
From: hm@opus40.ix.de (Harald Milz)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
Subject: Re: MICROSOFT IS STACKING THE DECK!
Date: 16 Oct 92 08:56:08 GMT
Organization: iX-Redaktion


Nice if there were real standards. Actually, MS not always sticks
to their own "standards".
-- 

|Dipl.-Ing. Harald Milz                   |    EMail:		hm@ix.de |
|iX - Multiuser Multitasking Magazin      |    FAX:    +49 511 547 47 33 |
|D-3000 Hannover 61, Helstorfer Str. 7    |    Tel.:   +49 511 547 47 66 |
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
From: cliff@engin.umich.edu (clifford  kaminsky)
Subject: Mouse in a DOS window, graphics in a window
Date: Fri, 16 Oct 92 11:59:35 EDT
Organization: University of Michigan Engineering, Ann Arbor
Distribution: us

Hi.  I'm using a cheapo mouse that can switch between Microsoft and Mouse
Systems mode.  I keep it in Mouse Systems mode because I like using all
three buttons for some things.  I use the Mouse Systems on COM2 driver in
Windows, and I use the driver that came with the mouse in my AUTOEXEC.BAT.
I have the latest version of the real Mouse Systems driver (but I'm not
using it).  I'm running a 386/33 clone so it uses the virtual device driver.
Is there some way I can use the mouse inside a DOS window?

Also, I know it's been asked before, but:
I'm using the Trident video drivers for Windows 3.1, with a 1M Trident 8900.
How can I get DOS graphics to run in a window?

Thanks in advance,
Cliff
From: unixlan+@pitt.edu (Wei-ming William Lin)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
Subject: Wanted: MSC 6.0a (Yes, !! 6.0a !!)
Date: 7 Oct 92 22:40:19 GMT
Organization: University of Pittsburgh


Hi Folks,

I know this is not the best place to do so, but I need your help!!

Don't say I am crazy.  Yes, I need your olde version of MSC!!  My old libraries
can support nothing but MSC 6.0, so.....  If you have a copy of MSC 6.0a
gathering dust in your shelf, now is the best time to send it out.  It does not
have to be in the mint condition, but at least descent.  Manuals must be 
complete.  And if you still have your registration card, that will be perfect 
(although not necessary).  Just remember, IT MUST BE 6.0a, NOT 6.0.  Please 
reply by e-mail.  Thanx in advance.

Willie

"UNIX(tm), X & LAN --- The Promise of the Future!!"
"And OS/2 V2.0!!"

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Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
From: rsrodger@wam.umd.edu (Robert Stephen Rodgers)
Subject: Re: Font conversions
Organization: University of Maryland, College Park
Distribution: usa
Date: Sat, 10 Oct 1992 11:45:25 GMT

In article <1992Oct10.061329.2890@grian.cps.altadena.ca.us> morris@grian.cps.altadena.ca.us (Mike Morris) writes:
>I'm in need of a utility that can take an Adobe Type 1 font or a
>COrelDraw font file and convert it to a TT font for Win3.1

Alltype, from those ghouls who brought you the lacking Publishers PowerPak and FastFonts, will do the job.  

At least, it can convert Adobe Type-1 to TT and TT to Type-1.  It also handles Nimbus-Q, Geoworks, Adobe Type-3, and Speedo.

I wish they'd add real Intellefont and Compugraphic outline, but.. Anyway, it runs about $80 or so in your average computer store, and seems pretty well written (note:  DO NOT USE THE AUTOINSTALL OPTION FOR WINDOWS!), which is a great contrast to they're other products.  

Unfortunately, it _cannot_ convert the Corel Draw 2.0 wfn files (which were unhinted and cludgy anyway) NOR can it convert the Corel Draw 3.0 TT files, since Corel seems to have used a strange method to make them (I haven't run across another vendor--Microsoft, Bitstream, etc--who's fonts cause problems).  

This "encoding" or whatever is probably the same reason why a lot of people have trouble getting the Corel fonts to work properly sometimes in other Windows programs--drop outs, garbage, etc..

A
A
A
A

Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
From: oliver@earthview.cms.udel.edu (Oliver Weatherbee)
Subject: Re: MICROSOFT IS STACKING THE DECK!
Reply-To: oliver@earthview.cms.udel.edu
Organization: Marine Studies, University of Delaware
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1992 16:19:57 GMT

In article 718986203@cwis, trussell@cwis.unomaha.edu (Tim Russell) writes:
> hodge@iccgcc.decnet.ab.com writes:
> 
> >In article <1992Oct12.185104.1@vax1.umkc.edu>, edowdy@vax1.umkc.edu writes:
> >> MICROSOFT IS STAACKING THE DECK!!
> >>  
> >>  [ paragraphs of paranoid delusions deleted...]
> 
> >  I just love the fall, when the freshmen find the netnews...
> 
>     What's your point?  This was reported widely in the trade rags, and has
> been documented quite thoroughly in a book on Windows secrets.  I think it's
> crap that Microsoft gets away with shit like this, and you can be damned
> sure the FTC is taking notes in a big way.  I'm going to laugh my head off
> when Microsoft gets pinned to the wall and broken up like Bell was.  They
> asked for it, and quotes like Gates' sure don't help.
> 
> --
>    Tim Russell                 Omaha, NE              trussell@unomaha.edu
>       "Who can doubt that pleasure is the only goal of a reasoned life?"
>                                                    -- Epicurus

The latest development that I have heard, i.e. unsubstantiated, is that an
antitrust suit is already in the works and further developments are expected
by the end of the month.

To those who find these stories unbelievable: ignorance is bliss, second only
to blind faith.
From: Stephen Gibson
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
Subject: Re: Qvtnet 2.8, where? ARCHIE FAQ
Date: 15 Oct 92 02:01:36 GMT
Organization: Sonoma State University, Rohnert Park, CA


In article <Bw4D7H.LvH@m2.dseg.ti.com> anderson@dseg.ti.com (John Anderson) writes:
>In article <1992Oct14.131721.7313@cfa203.harvard.edu> mcn@cfa203.HARVARD.EDU (Charley Noecker, Prec Astron) writes:
>
>
>Archie on QVt turns up nothing for 2.8, I've tried it.
>
>I am a registered users and I haven't received an upgrade
>since the one they sent with my registration.
>

Join the club, dude.  But I did find v2.8 at ftp.cica.indiana.edu in the 
pub/pc/win3/uploads directory.  Download qvtnetsx.exe (qvtnet28.zip is 
corrupted!!!) and you should be fine.

P.S.:  I'm currently using the news reader to post this message.  Happy 
computing!

Stephen Gibson
Sonoma State University
eMail:  gibsonst@sonoma.edu OR
        Stephen.Gibson@sonoma.edu
From: rme81977@zach.fit.edu (Brian Fritz/ ADVISOR Russell (MAE))
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
Subject: Windows Com Ports
Date: 15 Oct 92 15:43:00 GMT
Article-I.D.: winnie.4325
Organization: Florida Institute of Technology, Melbourne USA

Help!
	I'm using Telemate 3.01 within windows.  My mouse is set on
COM 1 and my modem is set on COM 4.  My mouse works fine when the modem,
is dialing....but as soon as it connects the mouse locks up...
The Irq on the modem (COM 4 is 3) and the Mouse (COM 1 is 4).  Why 
is this happening??? I have not other com ports installed...I remember
a while back there were some options I could add to system.ini such
as COM4IRQ=3, or COM3BASE=3...if someone has these options...could you
please forward them to me?
				Thank You,
						Brian

-- 
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
                             Brian D. Fritz
                     Florida Institute of Technology
                           Melbourne, FL 32901
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
From: thssoxo@iitmax.iit.edu (Oleg Ostrozhansky)
Subject: PostScript printer 400 DPI question
Organization: Illinois Institute of Technology
Date: Wed, 7 Oct 92 14:03:21 GMT

Does anyone know how I can configure a postscript printer in Win3.1 to
400 DPI?  My only choice in the Resolutions box is 300.  Do I need an
update for PSCRIPT.DRV?

Thanks for help.		Oleg
				thssoxo@iitmax.iit.edu

P.S. e-mail replies are most appreciated.