HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: blakeco@microsoft.com (Blake Coverett)
Subject: Re: Can Win 3.1 see HPFS long names?
Date: 06 Nov 92 22:16:39 GMT
Organization: Microsoft Canada Inc.

In article <1992Nov3.180900.197@kahuna.asc-yf.wpafb.af.mil> nieland_t@kahuna.asc-yf.wpafb.af.mil writes:
>Someone told it is possible to have a Windows 3.1 machine recognize HPFS file 
>names on a Novell server with such a namespace loaded.  Just loading the 
>OS2.NAM module and adding the namespace to the volume doesn't allow such (the 
>server already has unix and mac name spaces added and long filenames from thos 
>file systems), so it must not be automattic if such exists.  
>
>Can Windows 3.1 attached to servers with HPFS name spaces see the longer names 
>under FileManager or such?

Windows in general and FileManager in particular has support for long file
names (ala HPFS) however it relies on the network driver to provide
the implementation.  If you were looking at an HPFS share from a LanMan
server you would see the long file names, but it would appear that the
NetWare driver for Windows does not provide the required LFN functions.

-Blake
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Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.setup
From: msbendts@mtu.edu (MICHAEL SCOTT BENDTSEN)
Subject: Wanted:Apple LWIIg driver for WIn3.1
Organization: Michigan Technological University
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 06:58:43 GMT

I am looking for an updated version of the postscript driver for 
Windows 3.1 which would include a setup for the Apple LaserWrtier
IIg printer.  Currently, we are using the Apple LaserWriter choice,
but with the new ROM update on the printer, it takes forever to
chew through the print jobs.  Our IIg on the Mac network flies 5x
faster with the newest Apple driver, and I am hoping to get this
beast up to speed.

Any ideas?

Mike

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Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.setup
Subject: Re: Canon BJ-300
From: cs272017@eeyore.stcloud.msus.edu (cs272 user 017)
Date: 8 Nov 92 21:53:16 -0600
Organization: St. Cloud State Univ., MN


> You can use the one that comes with Windows 3.1 (unidrv.dll I think).
> Use Control Panel to install.

Thanks for the suggestion.  I'll check it out...

Scott Kriefall
cs272017@eeyore.stcloud.msus.edu


Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.setup
From: david@datamark.co.nz (David Rowland)
Subject: Re: Mouse in Dos Apps windowed
Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1992 00:41:35 GMT
Organization: Datamark International Ltd.

In article <1992Nov10.193344.15557@fifi.univ-lyon1.fr> Arnaud.Girsch@fifi.univ-lyon1.fr writes:
>
>Howdy ...
>
>   I've just installed a new video driver for my Paradise 512k. I've found it
>with ftp on cica .... Now I can get the option "Fonts ..." in the left corner
>menu ... But I can't use the mouse in Dos Apps windowed ...
>   Do I need something else ??
>
>   I'm using mouse.sys v.8.00 in Dos ... Do I need a newer version ?
>

You guessed it. Try version 8.20 which comes with MS-WINDOWS 3.1.
This is not the default mouse driver windows boots with when there is
no mouse driver present though.

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Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.setup
From: 5rtrtrt@cbnewsf.cb.att.com (richard.e.stealey)
Subject: Re: trident 8900c 1meg
Summary: Why is Trident so popular?
Keywords: trident, windows, svga
Organization: AT&T
Distribution: na
Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1992 14:38:25 GMT

Stephen Gibson writes, regarding Trident cards:

> 
> Save your money.  Trident cards are NOTORIOUSLY slow.  You will not be 
> satisfied with the performance.  Add on an additional $100 and get a Diamond 
> SpeedSTAR 24X (no flames, please).  Even with some bugs, the SpeedSTAR 24X 
> is light years ahead of the Trident-based cards.
> 
> Stephen Gibson
> Sonoma State University

It seems like this is very good advice, based on what I have been reading 
here.  I think my experience is fairly typical of buyers who buy clone PCs.
Heres  summary of what many of us find in the clone marketplace -

CPU - there are great values in high end 386s, or 486 motherboards.
       and not much difference in price between them
case and power supply - go for what you need, ( for lots of space
       get a tower, etc.)
hard drive - fantastic performance in the ide drives.  $325 for 125 meg, 
       or $550 for 200 meg
keyboard - $35 gets you a cheap feeling, but adequate KBD
memory - $30-35 per meg
Then when you get down to video, what do you do?  The clone shop gives
you a choice of 512 k or 1 meg SVGA cards, and a choice of non-interlaced
or interlaced monitor.  1 meg goes with the higher resolution and costs
$20 bucks more so you go for the 1 meg.  You have probably just purchased
a dreaded Trident 8900 card!  (for about $70).  For another $130 you
could have a Diamond Stealth accelerator card, or for about $150 I am
told, you could get a 24X. (Based on what a friend told me they were 
selling for at NJ PC show last week.)

Question:  If all of us Trident owners make the jump up to Diamond
cards, whats the difference between the 24X for $150 and the Speedstar
for $200?  And what  does someone offer me for the Trident?

Rick



Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.setup,comp.os.ms-windows.misc
From: aelman@Xenon.Stanford.EDU (Adam Elman)
Subject: Re: Windows with 2M RAM 
Organization: CS Department, Stanford University, California, USA
Date:  9 Nov 92 20:36:55 GMT

lari@saadi.berkeley.edu (Francesco Lari) writes:

>Hi, 

>I got a friend with a 386-SX/33MHz and 2M of RAM, 80M HD. 
>Is it possible to run Windows with this configuration? 
>I understand it is going to be pretty slow, but she is just going to use 
>simple word processing programs like Word. Do you think she will be 
>able to run it? 
>		      Thanks, 
>			  FRANCESCO 

It's certainly possible, but I'd recommend upgrading to 4MB as soon as
possible.  The performance will be better with 4MB, and since memory
is selling for $30-40/MB right now, it's not too bad a deal.

Adam Elman
aelman@cs.stanford.edu
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.setup
Subject: ---> looking for new GENOA video drivers <---
From: guggen@sc2a.unige.ch
Date: 11 Nov 92 11:10:45 +0200
Organization: University of Geneva, Switzerland


I am looking for a new win 3.1 video driver for the 
GENOA 5400 graphic card.
 
The one I currently use (dated 1991, taken at CICA) does not allow
to have DOS windows in high resolution mode (1024X768).
I have no access to their BBS (and besides phone communications
would be too expensive from Europe).
 
I should be grateful if someone could send their last driver to CICA 
(ftp ftp.cica.indiana.edu or ftp 129.79.20.84) or explain how
to have a DOS window in high resolution mode.

		Thanks


				Nicolas Guggenheim
				Cardiology Center
				University of Geneva
				Switzerland 

				guggen@sc2a.unige.ch 
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.setup
From: im14u2c@buhub.bradley.edu (Joseph Zbiciak)
Subject: Keyboard lockups
Organization: Bradley University
Date: Mon, 9 Nov 92 03:33:26 GMT

Can anybody help me?  I have a problem with my keybnoard locking 
up in Windwos v3.1.  But, the mouse is still available when the
keyboard is locked.  A strange side effect of the whole thing is
that I *usually* cannot launch new programs and I *sometimes*
cannot exit the POrogram Manager.  I've tried almost everything I
can think of to fix this, but to no avail.  If anybody can help
me, PLEASE EMAIL ME!!!  Windows is great for running certain
background tasks, (esp a DOS box running DOORWAY, so that my slow
PC can *pretend* to be fast by having some access to my 386
processor), but I can't get it to work reliably... Any help would
be GREATLY APPRECIATED.  Somebody told me that some magazine had
an article that mentioned this problem and its causes, but he
could not remember WHICH or what month or anything... just that
he'd seen it.

ANY HELP WOULD BE GREATLY APPRECIATED!!!  PLEASE EMAIL ME !!!

Thanks in advance!  

--joseph zbiciak   im14u2c@camelot.bradley.edu
  ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^<-notice that the unix capitalizer daemon got
me...
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.setup
From: mikej@access.digex.com (Mike Jacobs)
Subject: Fault in MS-DOS Extender
Keywords:  windows 3.1 setup failure
Organization: Mike's House of Fun
Date: Sun, 8 Nov 1992 11:05:12 GMT

hey people, I could use a little help.

I'm attempting to install Windows 3.1, it gets through tot he third disk
where it's just copying files, but when it attempts to actually load
windows, it say:

  Standard Mode: Fault in MS-DOS Extender.
then it shows the values of a bunch of registers.

I read that this might have been caused by my vga stuff, but I took out
the card and hooked up a CGA, and it did the same thing.

any ideas would be appreciated.


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From: echi@mead.cisco.com (Eric P. Chi)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.setup
Subject: Re: trident 8900c 1meg
Date: 11 Nov 1992 21:27:26 GMT
Organization: cisco Systems, Menlo Park, California, USA
NNTP-Posting-Host: mead.cisco.com
Keywords: trident, windows, svga

In article <BxB1oH.JG1@mentor.cc.purdue.edu> nordstro@mentor.cc.purdue.edu (billy nordstrom) writes:
>is the trident 8900c svga 1meg card good for
>windows?  and is $70 appropriate to pay for 
----- Staff deleted ----

I've no problem with Trident. I'm using it in 1024x748 256 colors mode under
MS WINDOWS 3.1. Unless you demand the best and are willing to pay big bulk,
I think this is enough.

Eric.


Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.setup
From: abutler@ariel.demon.co.uk (Tony Butler)
Subject: Speeding up windows
Distribution: world
Organization: Megadodo, Inc.
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 20:36:35 +0000

I have some spare cash at the moment (lucky me!) and I'm thinking of
upgrading my system to spped up windows a bit. My current setup is as
follows:- 386 DX-20, 4Mb RAM,105 MB Hard disk, crap VGA card.
The options I am considering are as follows (only one of them though!):
1) Upgrade my motherboard (to 386-40 or 486SX-20)
2) Add an extra 4MB of memory to my system
3) Buy a Hard Disk cache controller with 2.5 MB on board
4) Get a decent graphics board - my current one is a 1989 model, so
 *anything* should be better than that, but what would I go for???

I run Excel, Word, and a few dos boxes - BC++ / Comms software etc.

So guys & gals - what is the best way to improve my system
performance???????



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From: h235_003@ccvax.ucd.ie (ARE WE HAVING FUN YET)
Newsgroups: comp.os.coherent
Subject: UK Keyboard '#' problem
Date: 13 Nov 92 00:34:03 GMT
Organization: University College Dublin


(At last!  my news access is back <g>)


I'm having a slight problem with my keyboard setup under Coherent 4.0.0.
My keyboard is a slightly non-standard UK 102 Key model - the non-standard
bit being Key_14.  On my kbd, 14 is the '#' (shift '~') character, where as
that UK driver with coherent has key_14 undefined.

I've tried tweaking the driver to include this key (and remove the '#' key
it's already defined) but I *cannot* get it to work!  Has anyone got any
suggestions ???


 
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Newsgroups: comp.os.coherent,comp.unix.questions
From: jboggs@news.weeg.uiowa.edu (John D. Boggs)
Subject: rz problems at 9600 baud
Organization: University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, USA
Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1992 15:02:48 GMT

Has anyone experienced problems using rz/sz at 9600 baud?  I just
bought a 9600 baud modem and am experiencing problems I've never had
before (at 2400).  I give my remote host the sz command, then call rz
using minicom's receive feature, and the computer proceeds to give me
all sorts of error messages one after the other (sometimes getting some
data in between, so eventually I *might* get the file, but probably slower
than at 2400!)  The errors are:

     Data subpacket too long
     Bad CRC
     Garbage count exceeded
     Got ERROR
     Bad data subpacket
     Bad escape sequence

With Bad CRC as the most prevalent.  Any help anyone can give is greatly 
appreciated.  I paid 300 bucks for this modem and I want to be able to
use it!

Modem is a Practical Peripherals 9600SA.

-John D. Boggs     john-boggs@uiowa.edu


Newsgroups: comp.os.coherent
From: kilroy@acme.gen.nz (earthbound misfit, I)
Subject: Re: Installing Coherent 4.0.1A, and at wit's end...
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 92 12:40:36 GMT
Organization: ACME BBS - Public Access Usenet, Palmerston North, New Zealand

marktn@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (It's Me!) writes:

> > kranitz@mr.med.ge.com (Wes Kranitz 4-6857 MRCE) writes:
> >
> > > Is it only me, or has anyone else noticed that while Coheren
> > > and the rotating "/" is occuring, A periodic "Buy Cohware!" 
> > > It's so fast it's almost impossible to see.
> > 
> > Yep, it's there... Hmmm... last I heard subliminal advertising
> 
> Subliminal advertising IS illegal.  The periodic 'buy' messages from
> Mark Williams Company concerns me.  If this was taken to court, could
> some-one sue MWC?

If you can see it it's not subliminal.

Sheesh! Doesn't anyone have a sense of humour any more? At least some people
at MWC do, and IMNSHO that's a Good Thing.

							- k
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"Jub'er lbh pnyyvat n obmb?"
From: udo@umunk.GUN.de (Udo Munk)
Newsgroups: comp.os.coherent
Subject: Re: W-News Help Needed
Date: 11 Nov 92 22:25:15 GMT
Organization: Udo Munk's private BBS
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]

Louis Giliberto (magus@drktowr.chi.il.us) wrote:
: 
: Sorry if you saw this before, but I wasn't sure my post got out...
: 
: I'm having trouble with W-News (the previous COherent port, not the
: latest).  My history file is out of control (like 2 megs now...).
: 
: I thought expire was supposed to prune it as it went along...Or
: do we track it and prune it ourselves like the log files?
: 
: The problem is that if a "cancel" message comes in, it takes it like
: 4 minutes to process the message since it has to go through 1 meg of
: news (on the off-the-cuff-average).
: 
: Does everyone else prune it by hand/cron/on a regular basis, or is
: something wrong with my setup?

There isn't something wrong with your setup. The only program removing
entrys from the history file is cancel. Expire doesn't remove lines
from the history. At the moment you've to reduce the size of history
manually with an editor, or use awk, sed or tail. Always remove the
oldest entrys from the top of the file! Wnews 3.2 will come with
a program, which can be runned from the crontab every day, which
reduces the history file to entrys for the last 14 days.
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Newsgroups: comp.os.coherent
Subject: Anybody installed TeX?
Distribution: world
From: wagner@luthien.in-berlin.de (Olaf Wagner)
Organization: 
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 13:13:19 GMT
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL4


Has anybody tried to install TeX and LaTeX on his/her Coherent system yet?
If so, with any success? 

I'm very interested in getting TeX working on my system, but I would
rather download some compiled binaries than starting to compile those
megabytes of source code myself. I know that at the moment there is no 
real graphical support, so one won't be able to preview the documents,
but it should be possible to produce some dvi-files and even to print
them.

BTW, I ventured to try the COFF binries from the TeX binary distribution
for pc-unices (runnable under SCO), but the very first test produced 
a system trap and a panic-message...

If nobody has done this task yet, perhaps there are some interested
people who would like to cooperate.

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From: udo@umunk.GUN.de (Udo Munk)
Newsgroups: comp.os.coherent
Subject: Re: hack
Date: 4 Nov 92 22:15:23 GMT
Organization: Udo Munk's private BBS
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]

Robert Chalmers (d10590@tanus.oz.au) wrote:
: Does anyone have a port or re-write of the old Xenix 'game hack that I am
: addicted to. It must have SCO system calls. It wont run on Coh. So I guess hte
: source needs re-making for Coh. Anyone know the authors?

You'll find and already ported hack on raven and MWCBBS, it does run under
COHERENT 4.0 only (to large for 3.x).
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From: magus@drktowr.chi.il.us (Louis Giliberto)
Newsgroups: comp.os.coherent
Subject: W-News Help Needed
Keywords: wnews history help
Date: 6 Nov 92 10:01:03 GMT
Organization: DarkTower Software
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]


Sorry if you saw this before, but I wasn't sure my post got out...

I'm having trouble with W-News (the previous COherent port, not the
latest).  My history file is out of control (like 2 megs now...).

I thought expire was supposed to prune it as it went along...Or
do we track it and prune it ourselves like the log files?

The problem is that if a "cancel" message comes in, it takes it like
4 minutes to process the message since it has to go through 1 meg of
news (on the off-the-cuff-average).

Does everyone else prune it by hand/cron/on a regular basis, or is
something wrong with my setup?

Thanks...
-Louis
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From: magus@drktowr.chi.il.us (Louis Giliberto)
Newsgroups: comp.os.coherent,comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: rz problems at 9600 baud
Date: 9 Nov 92 10:11:42 GMT
Organization: DarkTower Software
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]

John D. Boggs (jboggs@news.weeg.uiowa.edu) wrote:
:      Garbage count exceeded
:      Got ERROR
:      Bad data subpacket
:      Bad escape sequence
: 
: With Bad CRC as the most prevalent.  Any help anyone can give is greatly 
: appreciated.  I paid 300 bucks for this modem and I want to be able to
: use it!
: 
: Modem is a Practical Peripherals 9600SA.

This is a problem when the modem is pumping stuff in too fast for
the computer to handle.

1) Make sure your port is interrupt driven, and not polled.
2) Make sure your port is using RTS/CTS flow control.

How do you know this?

I'm using com2 with these features:
com2fr
    ^^
    ||
    | ------- r = remote (modem)
    -------------- f = flow controlled

If it had a "p" as well it would be polled.  You don't want this (you could
do it, but not recommended with high speed modems).

Also make sure the port is set to the highest baud rate for your chips.
If you are using 16450's, you should be set at 9600 max in general.  If
you are using 16550NFA's or the equivalent, you can crank up to 19200 or
better.

To see what type of chip you are using, watch at bootup.  It reports
what it's set up for.

If you don't have 16550NFA's you should get them.  They only cost like $20
or so.  You can replace the 16450's on the card with them, or buy a new
card with the 16550NFA's already in place.  I have a v.32/v.42bis modem,
but I have to run it locked at 9600bps since my computer just has 16450's,
and I lose too much data at higher rates.

The difference in case you're curious is basically that the 16550's are 
faster, and the 16550NFA's contain internal buffers.  They are designed
to accept a faster load.

I hope that helps...
-Louis
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From: ralf@ark.abg.sub.org (Ralf Stephan)
Newsgroups: comp.os.coherent
Subject: Question
Date: 06 Nov 92 11:08
Organization: Not Very Ltd.

Why is it that the output of 'set' when invoked from a script, has
a first line 'LASTERROR', and there is no such line when 'set' is
started in the main shell (bot sh and ksh)?

And:  This is not 'LASTERROR=anything', just 'LASTERROR'.

--ralf
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From: adair@eggo.csee.usf.edu (Jonathan Adair)
Newsgroups: comp.os.coherent
Subject: Mark Williams Co. Address/Phone
Date: 9 Nov 92 23:18:00 GMT
Followup-To: dpb@sdchemw2.ucsd@chem.UCSD.EDU
Distribution: usa
Organization: Evil Geniuses for a Better Tomorrow


Could someone send dpb@sdchemw2.ucsd@chem.UCSD.EDU the
address and phone # of Mark Williams Co.?  I don't
have it laying around.

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From: michel.renaud@synapse.org (Michel Renaud) 
Newsgroups: comp.os.coherent
Subject: dBMAN V for Coherent 4.0 
Date: 8 Nov 92 09:38:00 GMT
Distribution: world
Organization: SYNAPSE BBS - GATINEAU, QUEBEC - 819-561-4321
Reply-To: michel.renaud@synapse.org (Michel Renaud) 

TO: comp.os.coherent 
FROM: michel.renaud@synapse.org 
 
I've just read an ad about the availability of dBMAN V for Coherent  
4.0.  Has anyone tried this yet?  How good is it? (performance,  
limitations, etc...) 
 
Michel 
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