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From: rlm@sunlight.Physics.UIowa.Edu (Robert Mutel)
Subject: Scientific graphing/analysis programs.
Organization: Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Iowa
Date: Fri, 1 Jan 1993 17:12:38 GMT

We use AXUM for DOS (v.2.0) and are fairly satisfied. The one feature I 
have yet to find in any of these programs is the ability to specify an
arbitrary
function to fit to a set of data points. The program should do a LSQ solution
with an correlation matrix for the coefficients. 

Does anyone know of a program which does this?
  
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From: john@ahuriri.gen.nz
Subject: Re: HELP!!!!!  TAPE!!!!  BACKUP!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Date: Sat, 26 Dec 92 15:05:20 GMT
Organization: Organisation? Where?
Reply-To: john@ahuriri.gen.nz
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.apps
Distribution: world
X-Newsreader: Simple News for Windows V1.1

In article <1992Dec26.165959.7556@netcom.com> <ergo@netcom.com> wrote:

  > On the other hand, the backup program is so unreliable as to be
  > unusable.  Too many undocumented "features", too difficult to use to
  > backup multiple drives, too many damn bugs.  Anybody know a
  > tape-oriented backup program for windows that doesn't suck?

My NDW 2.0 upgrade ran with my Iomega 250 tape as installed.  I don't
see what your problem is.  I use it to back up several drives across a
lantastic network with no problems at all.  Once it's set up all it takes
is a double click on the icon, shove in the tape and press start.  Much
easier to use than the Central Point backup that came with the drive.

I've never experienced any problems, no errors on compare, no failures
on restore.  Do we have different versions?

cheers, John

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From: banshee@cats.ucsc.edu (Wailer at the Gates of Dawn)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.apps
Subject: Modem sharing with Windows for Workgroups?
Date: 22 Dec 92 22:51:27 GMT
Organization: University of California, Santa Cruz
NNTP-Posting-Host: am.ucsc.edu


	Is it possible to share a modem with WfW?  Or is the connection
too slow?

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Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.apps
From: grego@netcom.com (greg huff)
Subject: Re: envelop printing in w
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  (408 241-9760 guest) 
Date: Fri, 25 Dec 1992 01:36:41 GMT

: Try disabling the "reverse print order" option in WfW 2.0. Though it is 
: convinient, it results in the phenomenon (sp?) you described. Worked for me.

that, or contact MS and have them send you the documentation on how to edit
the print macro so that you can keep the "reverse print order" on and still
print envelopes.

grego
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.apps
Subject: MS Access won't start (no disk space)?
From: alistair@myrddn.mits.com.au
Date: 22 Dec 92 13:12:24 +1000
Nntp-Posting-User: alistair

Whenever I try to start up MS Access I get the error:

	Not enough space on temporary disk.

and Access exits.  This seems unlikely as the disk has 64Mbytes free.
The manual suggests that the temporary disk be changed from within one
of the menu's, slightly difficult when Access can't be started!

Does anyone know how to get around this.  So far I have deleted Access
and reinstalled it, and searched for a reference to the temporary
disk in the .ini files, without success.

Thanks,

Alistair Grant

Internet:     alistair@mits.com.au
Alternate:    alistair%mits.com.au@ucsvc.ucs.unimelb.edu.au
From: palmer@icat.larc.nasa.gov (Michael T. Palmer)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.apps
Subject: Re: Donating software to, e.g., Soviet Union
Date: 22 Dec 92 21:10:42 GMT
Organization: NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA  USA
NNTP-Posting-Host: icat.larc.nasa.gov

cmenzel@kbssun1.tamu.edu (Chris Menzel) writes:

>I recall a campaign to collect software, computer books, etc. to send
>to countries where such items are in short supply.  I came into a
>complete copy of an older version of the MS assembler that I have no
                                          ^^^^^^^^^^^^
>use for, and this seems like an appropriate thing to do with it.  Any
>info appreciated.

Boy, the Cold War just isn't over for you, yet, is it?  :-)  What are
you trying to do... set back their software engineering skills by 20
years?

In all seriousness, this is a good idea.  But be sure that old versions
have not been UPGRADED, since upgrades require that the old versions be
destroyed (not passed along to your friends/coworkers/etc.).  We have a
big problem with this at work, and the contracts people are having fits.

-- 
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Voice: 804-864-2044,   FAX: 804-864-7793,   Email: m.t.palmer@larc.nasa.gov
RIPEM Public Key available soon --- Consider it an envelope for your e-mail
From: mike@spss.com (mike cornwall)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.apps
Subject: Re: Scientific graphic for Windows ?
Keywords: Graphic
Date: 30 Dec 92 22:16:07 GMT
Organization: SPSS Inc.

In article <1992Dec30.140257.7379@dmp.csiro.au> lachlan@dmp.csiro.au (Lachlan Cranswick) writes:

>things.  I haven't eliminated  the possibility
>of an intermittent hard-dick fault
                    ^^^^^^^^^
                    Yeah I know what you mean, I get that problem
                    a lot too! ;-)
>
>Lachlan.
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From: rwb00@avon.as (Robert W Beveridge)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.apps
Subject: Re: W4W to Word for Mac - Help!
Date: 22 Dec 92 00:32:49 GMT
Reply-To: rwb00@avon.as
Organization: Sun Microsystems


In article 18617@iti.org, cdj@iti.org (Chris D. Jennings) writes:
>
>I am not currently a Word user or a Windows user.  I am beginning to
>work with some people who use Macs (running Word) exclusively, and I
>want to be able to give them disks that they can read without losing
>all the text formatting.  Someone told me that this is possible by
>saving a file to disk from W4W and then simply opening the file in
>Word for the Mac.  Can anyone tell me whether this is true, and if
>not, what is the easiest way to get a file from a PC into Word for
>the Mac without losing much text formatting?
>
>Thanks in advance,
>- Chris (cdj@hela.iti.org)

I go back and forth between Word on a mac and Word for Windows by saving the file
in RTF format, and using Apple File Exchange to read/write DOS disks. It works
fine - though I haven't tried it with any really complicated formating...
From: carlos@carlos
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.apps
Subject: ATM + DASHBOARD = GPF
Summary: Dashboard crashes with ATM 2.5. Why?
Keywords: ATM. Dashboard, GPF, windows
Date: Fri, 1 Jan 93 19:05:17 -0500
Reply-To: carlos@infoserv.com
Organization: Dominguez UseNet, Brooklyn NY, USA

I cannot use Dashboard for WIN by HP as my shell with ATM 2.5
active.
 
The Dashboard doc's specify that under WIN 3.0 they won't work
together when DASH.EXE is the shell.
 
But I am running under 3.1, and other machines work fine on this
setup except mine. I've checked startup group files, config.sys,
autoexec.bat and the INI files. Nothing terrible.
 
Why won't it run?
 
email is welcome. flames are not! 

Watch your reply headers carlos@carlos is bogus.. Use SIG as a guide!


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From: diamond@vulcan1.edsg.hac.com (Warren R. Diamond)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.apps
Subject: Re: #$@$%Excel 4.0 Error - Not Enough Memory to run...
Date: 21 Dec 92 23:47:14 GMT
Reply-To: diamond@vulcan1.edsg.hac.com
Organization: Yoyodyne

>This bloody error "Not Enough Memory to run Excel" is driving me crazy. 
>It occurs after another Gen. Prot. Fault error or Page Fault error.  It
>doesn't let me run excel again unless I restart Windows which is very
>annoying.  I have a lot of memory and system resources left.  I'm running
>a 386 33 8 Megs ram, with a 3 M perm. swap drive in enhanced  mode. 
>Note:, I am not loading anything high (i.e. no EMM386.exe).
>
>Does anyone have any ideas...is this a bug ?
>

By any chance are you running an After Dark screen saver, in particular the
new Star Trek After Dark screen saver.  It has known memory leaks which
eventually use up most available memory.

If so try uninstalling it, just shutting it off doesn't stop the problem,
it needs to be taken off disk and out of the *.ini files.



Warren R. Diamond
diamond@vulcan1.edsg.hac.com
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Date: Thu, 31 Dec 92 08:51:29 MST
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.apps
Subject: GSX-240 Color printer driver for 3.1
Distribution: usa
Organization: Brigham Young University, Provo UT USA
From: bigdog@bones.et.byu.edu (Dan Canfield)

I just got ahold of a friends gsx-240 color printer to use for a
while, but don't have a windows 3.1 driver for it.  Can anyone help
with a bbs or ftp site where I can get it from?

Thanks

Dan Canfield
bigdog@bones.et.byu.edu

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From: sle@world.std.com (steve l edwards)
Subject: Re: DEC VAX/VMS RMS & MS Access
Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
Distribution: all
Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 09:05:29 GMT

Thanks for the info, but the client has RMS files and no interest in
moving the VAX stuff to RDB.

Still looking for a silver bullet...
From: gmf2@quads.uchicago.edu (gary michael feldman)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.apps
Subject: Post-it type prog. for Windows
Date: 29 Dec 92 00:29:19 GMT
Reply-To: gmf2@midway.uchicago.edu
Organization: University of Chicago Computing Organizations

I once received a bunch of ads for WIndows programs through
the mail.  Of course the only one i was interested in, I lost!!

It was a program that created Post-it's for your windows desktop,
you could put them anywhere, make them different colors. etc.
It even had a screen saver feature that left a "pad" of post-its
ont eh screen so people could leave you mesasges while you are gone.

DOes anyone know anything about this program or how to get it?
IT was pretty cheap if remember, like 10 or 20 $.  I have a shareware
program from CIS, 'pinup.zip', but it's not as good (no colors, screen
saver etc). 

Any help would be appreciated.
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.apps
From: h8915726@hkuxb.hku.hk (Medusa)
Subject: Re: how to add hslink to procomm for windows
Reply-To: h8915726@hkuxa.hku.hk
Organization: University of Hong Kong
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL4
Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 11:37:45 GMT

isc10192@nusunix1.nus.sg (KOH KHANG WEE) writes:
: 
: So anyone knows how to get hslink to work with procomm+ for windows ?
: need help on this.... thanks !
: 
	I don't think it's possible for *any* Windows comm. pgm. to
	install extra protocol driver. Since Windows keep tracks
	of who is using the COM port, if you use PC+/WIN and start
	up any program using same COM port in DOS/session, it
	asks which you to choose (or never, but either one will HANG!)
	and then give it to your choice.

--
Medusa
University of Hong Kong
H8915726@hkuxa.hku.hk
From: dwatson1@metz.une.edu.au (David Watson)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.apps
Subject: Prodigy and the World
Date: 21 Dec 92 13:11:30 GMT
Organization: University of New England, Armidale, Australia


Well as 1992 faades into history, so does the memory of my brother in
Spokane who can handle a fax card, a modem, but for some reason has
a great fear of ...."Email". Not all Email, just anything that can reach
beyond America.

He's hooked on something called Prodigy, must be a designer drug or something as he always says Prodigy will do everything. Except leave the
neighborhood. Now sources have it that, insert date here, is the launch for Prodigy to hook up to the rest of the world via, insert service here,.

Could someone tell me the date and the sevice to be used (Internet?).

Many Thanks!

Pleas mail responses as the techs that control the place are on holidays
till January 4. So I may find the news service wiped but the mail will
still be there, in theory.


Many Thanks and a Happy Christmas to all,

David Watson
dwatson1@metz.une.oz.au

Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.apps
From: weymouth@learn0.enet.dec.com (Don Weymouth)
Subject: Re: Printer driver needed
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation
Date: Sun, 3 Jan 1993 18:27:48 GMT


In article <725780372.0@ttlg.ttlg.UUCP>, Rick.Stangeland@ttlg.UUCP (Rick Stangeland) writes...
> 
> KT> Date: 15 Dec 92 20:55:21 GMT
> 
> 
> KT>  I need to get a printer driver for a Star Micronics Gemini 10-X
> KT> printer. None of the drivers that come with the Windows 3.1 distribution
> KT> will work. I have called Microsoft, and they have suggested that I try
> KT> any of the Epson FX series drivers. This did not work. 
> KT>  If you know the location of a driver on the net, please e-mail
>Try the Star Micronics BBS @ 714-454-6748. 
>I have found the printer drivers from star to be of rather poor quality but you may do better.
>        rs
> 
> * Origin: The Keep BBS * Edmonton, AB * -Windows- (403)450-1405 (42:100/19)

I just found the drivers on ftp.cica.indiana.edu in the
\pub\pc\win3\drivers\printer directory.

Don
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.apps
From: rwh@moose.cccs.umn.edu (RICHARD HOFFBECK)
Subject: Re: MS-EXCEL File format?
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41    
Reply-To: rwh@moose.cccs.umn.edu
Organization: Colon Cancer Control Study, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 16:33:00 GMT

In article <18777@mindlink.bc.ca>, Mischa_Sandberg@mindlink.bc.ca (Mischa Sandberg) writes:
> I would like to export a rather large table from a database to a
> spreadsheet (ca. 200x1000 cells, about 25% non-zero). This would be
> run on a 386 or 486 with 8Mb (albeit some taken up by Windows :-).
>  
> A few questions:
>  
> 1) Does this sound unreasonable? I am not familiar with EXCEL's
>         capacities, nor whether it can page in from a file, if it
>         has to. There are strings to place as labels, but the bulk
>         of the data are integer numerics.

I routinely load large datasets into Excel for doing quick tables with the
xtab command.  These are usually in the range of 8,000 x 30 or so. The only
hardwired limit that I know of is the 16K row limit.

>  
> 2) Am I right in assuming that I ought to go straight for EXCEL's
>         native file format, rather than WKS? I would like to plant
>         EXCEL formulae in with it, and don't want to subject our
>         clients with a long and tedious load-lotus-style-save-excel-style
>         step every time they import data.

Anything reasonable 'to keep the user out of it' works for me :-)

>  
> 3) Where can I get a reference on EXCEL's file format?
>  

Call MS and ask for the Excel Software Development Kit.  I believe it runs
about $50 including a disk with sample c source code.

--rick

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From: reiner@medusa.bioc.aecom.yu.edu (Peter D. Reiner)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.apps
Subject: QVT documentation format
Date: 29 Dec 92 16:23:42 GMT
Organization: Albert Einstein Coll of Medicine
Originator: reiner@medusa

How do I read the *.wri files in which QVT is documented?
All the editors and printers can't sense linefeeds!

Thanks
Peter Reiner
reiner@aecom.yu.edu
From: 5916rahmank@vms.csd.mu.edu ( )
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.apps
Subject: Re: Help with word2.0
Date: 2 Jan 1993 16:39:25 GMT
Organization: Department of EECE, Marquette University
Reply-To: 5916rahmank@vms.csd.mu.edu
NNTP-Posting-Host: vmsf.csd.mu.edu

In article <psm.725948577@murlibobo>, psm@mullian.ee.mu.OZ.AU (Phil Malin) writes:
->Hi all.
->
->I need some help with spacing in word for windows 2.0.  When I insert an
->equation which is a few lines long (say 5) I get some large spaces either
->above or below the equation inserted as well.  They're not part of the
->equation because when I click the equation a box surrounds the equation
->perfectly, but as part of the text I have these unsightly (and annoying)
->spaces.  Does anyone know the reason for this and if so how to fix it?
->
->Thanks in advance.
->
->p.s.  I hope my description makes sense!
->
->Phil Malin
->psm@mullian.ee.mu.oz.au
->

	This was a known bug in 2.0. It has been fixed in 2.0b, which you
	should be able to get free from Microsoft (if you are a registered
	user). Try 2.0b!

	-Anis.
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From: vince.maiocco@satalink.com (Vince Maiocco)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.apps
Subject: Re: HELP!!!!!  TAPE!!!!
Date: 3 Jan 93 11:29:00 GMT
Reply-To: vince.maiocco@satalink.com (Vince Maiocco)
Organization: Datamax/Satalink Connection * Ivyland, PA (215) 443-9434

DL>If you upgrade to Version 8.0 of PC Tools, you may notice that the 
DL>interference between the foreground and a background tape backup 
DL>under Windows seems to have lessened a bit. However, the folks at 
DL>Central Point seemed to have altered the file header of the tape 
DL>master file in the process, because an older backup tape cannot be 
DL>read by the newer application. 8-( Oh well. Hope this helps.

Thanx, Dave, I'll keep this in mind.

I seem to remember CP doing that "incompatibility" thing on two 
earlier versions of PCTools, as well.  Between you and me, I don't 
think much of the way they do things, but theirs is the only tape 
backup for Windows that I've been able to find that actually works.  
As soon as I find something else... it's outta here<G>.  And now, so 
am I.  Thanx, again.
L8r.



--- WinQwk 2.0 a#0
From: vince.maiocco@satalink.com (Vince Maiocco) 
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.apps
Subject: Help! Bizarre System Erro
Date: 26 Dec 92 09:02:00 GMT
Distribution: world
Organization: Datamax/Satalink Connection * Ivyland, PA (215) 443-9434
Reply-To: vince.maiocco@satalink.com (Vince Maiocco) 

BD>        It used to say "Cannot Read From Drive H." until I changed
BD>"Set temp=h:\" to "set temp=c:\" in the autoexec.bat. I've tried 
BD>changing the lastdrive=j line in config.sys to lastdrive=z

Perhaps there is a reference to drive J: in your PATH statement, or
a device= statement that refers to it?  Better yet, check the Win.INI
file, at the run= and load= lines, to see if they are calling apps on 
that drive.
Hope this halps.


--- WinQwk 2.0 a#0
From: roger@wateol.uwaterloo.ca (Roger De Abreu)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.apps
Subject: #$@$%Excel 4.0 Error - Not Enough Memory to run...
Date: 21 Dec 92 17:15:59 GMT
Organization: Earth Observations Lab/University of Waterloo
X-Xxmessage-Id: <A75B68323001361C@eolice.uwaterloo.ca>
X-Xxdate: Mon, 21 Dec 92 17:25:22 GMT
X-Useragent: Nuntius v1.1.1d11

This bloody error "Not Enough Memory to run Excel" is driving me crazy. 
It occurs after another Gen. Prot. Fault error or Page Fault error.  It
doesn't let me run excel again unless I restart Windows which is very
annoying.  I have a lot of memory and system resources left.  I'm running
a 386 33 8 Megs ram, with a 3 M perm. swap drive in enhanced  mode. 
Note:, I am not loading anything high (i.e. no EMM386.exe).

Does anyone have any ideas...is this a bug ?

Please post direct if possible...

Thanx in advance...rogman

P.S.  This has happened to several different machines in my lab
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.apps
From: gregd@mel1.geg.mot.com (Greg Davis)
Subject: Re: communication software for windows
Organization: Motorola, inc. - Scottsdale, AZ
Distribution: usa
Date: 02 Jan 93 03:30:34 GMT

>The program is called screen and use different sockets to set up different
>windows under completely independent shells. I use it oer a 2400bps line
>and runs OK.

There is another program which puts up an independent window under Microsoft
Windows 3.1 for each unix shell you are running.  It is called "Unix Windows"
or uw and is found on ftp.cica.indiana.edu.  A server program is required on
the unix machine, uwserver.tar.Z which can be found at wuarchive.wustl.edu
(I believe it is mirrored there).

Each window can be configured as a vt52 terminal or an adds(?) terminal.  It
is modelled after a product for the macintosh.  I expect it will be a much
nicer program when it can at least emulate a vt100 terminal.
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From: ergo@netcom.com (Isaac Rabinovitch)
Subject: HELP!!!!!  TAPE!!!!  BACKUP!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Organization: UESPA
Date: Sat, 26 Dec 1992 16:59:59 GMT

In <137610016@hpfcso.FC.HP.COM> mic@hpfcso.FC.HP.COM (Marc Clarke) writes:

>When I bought my copy of NDW 2.0, there was a mail-in card for a
>driver to support a Colorado Memory Systems tape for backup.  Yes, NDW
>2.0 can support a CMS Jumbo, but you have to obtain the special driver
>software from Symantec.  The standard NDW 2.0 floppies that come in
>the box do not support the CMS Jumbo.

That's weird.  When I bought 2.0 as an upgrade from Norton, it
included support for my Jumbo.  I didn't specifically ask for such
support, there were no extra driver disks to install or anything.

On the other hand, the backup program is so unreliable as to be
unusable.  Too many undocumented "features", too difficult to use to
backup multiple drives, too many damn bugs.  Anybody know a
tape-oriented backup program for windows that doesn't suck?

What I'd really like is the Unix solution:  a device driver that makes
the tape drive look like a disk drive.  (Believe me, I've used it, it
works.)  Anybody know of such a driver for Qic drives?  Anybody wanna
write one?
-- 

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