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From:         "Joseph T. Malloy" <jmalloy@ITSMAIL1.HAMILTON.EDU>
Subject:      Re: PCPlus/Win
              at Dec 23, 92 8:29 am

>
> I've been using ProComm Plus for Windows for a couple of months and
> I'm very disappointed in the package. So disappointed in fact that
> I have returned to using QMODEM 4.31 running in a windows DOS session.
>
[deletions: problems with Procomm Plus for Windows]
>
> I'd be interested in hearing from those who have had great success
> uploading to BBS systems using PC+/Win before I completely give up
> on the product.
>
> --Harry
>
> -------------------------------------------------------------------
> Harry M. Kriz            KRIZ@VTVM1.CC.VT.EDU  PHONE: (703)231-7052


I don't connection to a whole lot of different BBS's (I connect mostly
to our local server, Compuserve's local and long-distance nodes; Tymnet,
Sprintnet, and WordPerfect, Microsoft, Practical Perhipherals, ATi's
BBS's) but I have no real complaints with Procomm for Windows.  It
handles 14.4 kbps connections without complaint and I get good d/l
rates.  (My system: Gateway 386/33c, 12 MB RAM, Ati Graphics Ultra,
Practical Peripherals PM14400FX modem).

My two cents...

Joe
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From: norm.powroz@synapse.org (Norm Powroz) 
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Subject: SCSI PROBLEMS
Date: 25 Dec 92 21:11:00 GMT
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Reply-To: norm.powroz@synapse.org (Norm Powroz) 

Hi all, and Merry Christmas/Happy Hanukah. I realize that this is the
wrong place, but the best and brightest minds seem to live on this list,
and I figure I have a higher likelihood of getting an answer to my
problem.

Anyway, enough sucking up -- now the problem. As a Christmas present to
myself, I bought a new disc drive. For some oddball reason, DOS will not
recognize the presence of a second drive in my system. The controller
can see the drive, and I can run diagnostics on both the controller and
the drive without problem, including doing a full surface scan and
low-level format. However, DOS (FDISK, FORMAT, etc.) refuses to see the
drive.

The problem is likely related to the fact that this is a SCSI setup,
but someone out there has to have two SCSI harddrives running on a sigle
controller (I hope). What black incantation do I need to recite at
midnight on the moors to get DOS to see the drive and allow me to use
it??

Setup is as follows:
  -- 486DX-33, 20MB memory
  -- Future Domain TMC-885 SCSI controller, two attached drives, ID'd as
     units zero and one (Drives are a Toshiba 870MB unit, and a Maxxtor
     LXT200S, on a single daisy-chain cable)
  -- AMI BIOS, DOS 5.0, Win3.1

Is there a DOS parameter setiing needed for proper SCSI support, or some
magic needed on the controller or the drive that I haven't found in any
of the documentation?

Any and all help appreciated. My system is running fine, although on
only one drive. I really want to get two drives going, as it will give
me a gigabyte on-line, and I can use the space.

Cheers
Norm
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Date:         Thu, 24 Dec 1992 07:33:55 -0500
From:         "Mark Pizzinato" <PIZZINATO%XANADU@KINGSTON.ARPC.ALCAN.CA>
Subject:      Re: Help! Bizarre System Error!

I get that sort of message when the default drive is set to a network drive
that is no longer available.  Do you attach that particular drive during the
attaching to the network stage.  Before you run windows check your network
 connections, make sure you are on your c: drive and check the path.  If there
 is a
J: mentioned then it will try to read from it

Mark Pizzinato
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Date:         Wed, 30 Dec 1992 18:18:35 -0500
From:         Louis Jezsik <jezsik@PX2.STFX.CA>
Subject:      TSR's and Windows

OK, so I'm reading the messages about using the various memory
manager (Not very carefully, mind you, I'm not having any problems.)
and I keep noticing people pointing out '... if you want to load
your TSR's high ...'  and I think to myself 'WHY?'  Hey, I'm using
Windows, I don't NEED TSR's!  Am I missing something here?  Unless
you are still mucking about with some archaic DOS programs, why
the heck would anyone want a TSR?   ... or am I missing something.
Louis
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From: rryan@panix.com (Rob Ryan)
Subject: Re: Compu$erve and WIN3-L
Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 04:28:23 GMT
Organization: Panix, NYC

In <921222154831459-MTABWIDENER*William.C.Boyd@cyber.Widener.EDU> William.C.Boyd@CYBER.WIDENER.EDU writes:

>     Is it possible to subscribe to this list through compuserve? I assume
>that since you can email through the internet to compuserve it should be
>possible, but I'd like to verify it first. Secondly, are FTP and TELNET
>available through Compuserve? Thanks in advance.

You can subscribe to a list through Compu$erve, though it may not be cost
effective since Compu$erve charges for reading mail from Internet beyond
the $8 or $9 monthly allocation.  Usually, most of us don't get close to
exceeding our Compu$erve monthly mail allocations (upto which mail is free
and beyond which mail is expensive), but given the volume of a list like 
this, if you read a lot, you may end up paying a lot.  (Incidentally,
Compu$erve only charges you for what you read, not what you receive, so
judicious reading might be feasible, but I doubt it.)

You cannot FTP or Telnet from Compu$erve.  You can telnet to Compu$erve
(using hermes, I think), but I've heard it is expensive, but don't remember
the details.

If you're asking if you can use your Compu$erve account as an Internet/Bitnet
account, the answer is no.  They do provide a mail service (at a cost beyond 
a certain point) and the ability to telnet to Compu$erve, but that's it.

-- 
 Rob Ryan
    rryan@panix.com
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Date:         Sat, 2 Jan 1993 09:25:15 PST
From:         "Vance M. Gloster" <gloster@INFERENCE.COM>
Subject:      ProAudioSpectrum16-SCSI-Port
              2 Jan 1993 13:18:45 GMT+0100
              <9301021213.AA01614@fourier.inference.com>

  I'm planning to buy the MediaVision ProAudioSpectrum 16 sound card,
  which is said to have a build in SCSI-port made by Adaptec (PC
  Magazine). I would like to know if I can connect any SCSI-Device up
  to 7 to it and which drivers I would have to use. Are the drivers
  included or will Ihave to buy these from Adaptec?? Can I use the
  Corel SCSI software kit.
  I want to connect a CDROM-drive and my Bernoulli 90 Meg Transportable
  to this card.

The MV PAS-16 has a Trantor, not an Adaptec SCSI port.  In order to
connect your CD-ROM, you will need to get the cable kit (which
includes the CD-ROM driver disk) from MediaVision.  It is about $25.

Trantor makes other SCSI drivers for the card.  They make ones for
hard drives and for SCSI tape drives.  Unlike Adaptec, they do not
have a separate driver for each brand and model of SCSI device.  I
would expect that the hard drive driver would work with the Bernoulli,
but you should check with Trantor to make sure.  The other-than-CD-ROM
drivers are not available from MediaVision, you need to contact
Trantor directly.

The card has no trouble connecting to up to 7 SCSI devices.  Recently
Trantor improved its chip set which makes it much faster than it used
to be, but the performance is still not as good as the Adaptec with a
fast hard disk.  With a CD-ROM, the drive is so slow that you will
never notice the difference.  You might notice some difference with
the Bernoulli, but I would expect not much.

The maillist CDROM-L@uccvma.ucop.edu (or CDROM-L@UCCVMA.BITNET for
bitnet people) discusses these issues in excruciating detail for those
that are interested.

-Vance Gloster
 gloster@inference.com
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Date:         Tue, 22 Dec 1992 15:45:21 -0500
From:         William.C.Boyd@CYBER.WIDENER.EDU
Subject:      Reply to Re: Slow SCSI disk in Windows 3.1 Enh mode

Hi Netters,
     For any of you following this discussion on SCSI controllers and double
buuering, there is really good article in PC/Computing (Nov, 1992;p. 116) in the
Windows Superguide section of the magazine. It describes bus-mastering
controllers and their interaction with Windows. Vince Scarafino hit it
right on the nose. That is why I enjoy this list; because the wealth of
prompt and *correct* knowledge that comes through. BTW, this particular
issue of PC/Computing is a *must have* for those who want to know
exactly what files that come windows do exactly. It goes line by line
through win.ini and system.ini, with suggestions on how to modify the contents
to maximize perfomance.

~Chris Boyd
william.c.boyd@cyber.widener.edu
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Date:         Mon, 28 Dec 1992 07:01:41 EST
From:         Jim Charles <JIM@SAFETY.NWSCC.SEA06.NAVY.MIL>
Subject:      Cardnal Video

I just purchased a 16 bit Cardnal video card. Windows is fine with it,
but when I'm in dos, the "C:\>" looks as if my table-top is shaking.
The prompt is not steady. I've run VMODE, but this did not help. I
moved my video board in every slot, but this did not help. Defective
card maybe?? Help.......





Jim Charles
Computer Data Systems Inc.
Naval Surface Warfare Center
Crane, Indiana
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From: swesterback@tnclus.tele.nokia.fi (Sten Westerback, Nokia Telecommunications, FINLAND)
Subject: Re: Help! Bizarre System Error!
Organization: Nokia Telecommunications.
Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 11:03:37 GMT

In article <01GSUE7P37Y600010J@LIFE.UAMS.EDU>,         SJBUSH@LIFE.UAMS.EDU writes:
> I just reread your message,  and I realize that you are no longer
> running temp from drive H:.
> 
> Now that you are trying to run from drive c: you may not have enough
> contiguous space for your temp file. In fact you may have little to
> none.  The best place to start, would be to optimize your hard drive
> to make certain that you have as much contiguous space on your drive

As far as i know the temporary files are ordinary files and thus doesn't 
need to be continguous. But compressing the drive does usually free up some
more space. Anyway it isn't a good idea to, as someone suggested, set the 
temp environment variable to c:\ as that will fragment the disk. Also the 
setting setup by DOS isn't good (c:\dos) for the same reason.

If there isn't enough space you could think about installing stacker (or 
something similar).

If you have very small memory (4M or so :) you should have an as small as
possible smartdrv (or none) thereby freeing memory. If you have more than that 
i would suggest an rather large (2M?) ramdrive for the temp-files. On my 
486DX-33 with 16M i have a 2.5M ramdrive.

Sten
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Date:         Mon, 28 Dec 1992 23:58:44 PST
From:         Kuo-Chun Su <r9503151@HP850S.NTU.EDU.TW>
Subject:      Books on Windows Programming !

Hello All,

        I saw a book called "Graphics Programming in Windows" by Petzold,
  the same author as the book "Programming Windows."  Would someone have
  some comments on the former book ?  Is it of the same quality as the
  latter one ?  What about its contents ?

        Any information will be greatly appreciated !

        Thanks in advance !

Sincerely
Kuo-Chun Su
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Date:         Mon, 28 Dec 1992 10:04:05 -0600
From:         B_FERHAT@TRHUN.BITNET
Subject:      National language keyboard.

*I am looking for an alternate keyboard driver/DLL or any info on how
*to implement a keyboard DLL. I have a DOS TSR that works on 101/102 key
*keyboards that maps AltGr-c to c-cedilla, AltGr-s to s-cedilla etc.
*(the right-side Alt key is named AltGr). The Alt keys functions as
*the menu select key as usual.

*I have a keyboard with US layout instead of the Turkish layout, so it's
*rather inconvenient for me to use the KBDTR.DLL supplied with Windows.

*I am willing to develop a DLL and supply the source to willing parties,
*I just need to know the structure of GETKBDTABLE in the keyboard DLLs.

I forgot to ask in the previous message: there was a Cryllic keyboard
and company in win3/fonts on wuarchive, does anybody know where it is?
The two zips were named cw-distr and cw-src but I don't have access to
an archie...

        b_ferhat@trhun aka Ferhat Savci (BSc. Computer Science)

Time is nature's way of making sure that everything doesn't happen
at once.
From: michael@glia.biostr.washington.edu (Michael)
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Subject: Re: print problem in procomm for windows
Date: 3 Jan 93 06:19:41 GMT
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In <01GT1Y8JY89C0001MV@CC.DENISON.EDU> Michael Gordon <GORDONM@DENISON.BITNET> writes:
>Michael Stanley (michael@glia.biostr.washington.edu) writes:
>>On the older ProComm 2.0 for DOS, I could use the dedicated print mode
>>for vt100 emulation.  This mode would temporarily "lock me out" while
>>the remote system would access my printer.
>>
>>This doesn't seem to work properly now that I'm using ProComm for Windows.
>>As soon as the remote system attempts to use my printer, I'm locked out
>>totally.  The printer prints garbage, and before even a minute is passed
>>the carrier is lost and my connection is closed.
>>
>>Any idea what's going on or how I can fix this?
>        The maintenance release (1.01 available as maint1.exe from Datastorm
>and at cica) allows better remote printing. At least, it fixed a somewhat
>similar problem for me in vt100 emulation. Take a look.

Datastorm sent me maint1.exe and I've already installed it.  Any other ideas?

    Michael Stanley (michael@glia.biostr.washington.edu)
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Date:         Mon, 21 Dec 1992 06:22:26 -0600
From:         B_FERHAT@TRHUN.BITNET
Subject:      3.1 Smart (?) Drive...

My CheckIt! shows 792K/s transfer rate with the 3.1 smartdrv.exe and
16640K/s with the DOS 5.0 smartdrv.sys, both with 2048K DOS and 1024K
Windows extended memory. I am waiting to lay my hands on Norton's
SystemInfo in a few days but I doubt if the benchmark will change
drastically.

Not that I always think that a new version should be more efficient
than the old but...

Have we been had?

        b_ferhat@trhun aka Ferhat Savci (BSc. Computer Science)

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Date:         Wed, 30 Dec 1992 22:52:50 +0100
From:         Gert.Klein@BURO.IEND.WAU.NL
Subject: Re: Solved: Slow SCSI disk with Win 3.1 in Enh. mode

>In <01GSWMOGQSHE00165L@NET.WAU.NL> Gert.Klein@BURO.IEND.WAU.NL writes:

>Hello,

>Two weeks ago I posted a question about the performance of SCSI disks
>under Windows 3.1 running in enhanced mode. There has been an
>interesting discussion on the list regarding different aspects of this
>problem (double buffering, SMARTDRV etc.) My problem however has been
>solved in the meantime. Bernstein_Phil@LANMAIL.NCSC.NAVY.MIL gave me
>the correct solution. In his mail from 17-dec-1992 he writes:


>> You need the Adaptec SCSI driver ASPI4DOS. I think the software that
>> includes this driver is ASW1410.
>> ...

Vic Chapman <vchapman@VICTOR02.CARLETON.CA> writes:

>>> Is this software available through Compuserve or another anonymous ftp
>>> site? I wasn't aware that I could speed up my SCSI disk!

I don't think it is free software. I couldn't find it either on any ftp
site. The company that sold me the PC gave me a copy of the software.
However, they didn't know if it should be delivered with each 1542B board.
Later, somebody else told me it must be bought seperately.


Gert Klein
Systemmanager
Agricultural University of Wageningen
The Netherlands
mail: klein@rcl.wau.nl
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Date:         Wed, 23 Dec 1992 13:37:29 CST
From:         MISS004@ECNUXA.BITNET
Subject:      Re: pc phone messaging
              at

>
>On Mon, 21 Dec 1992, K119GG%TAMVM1.BitNet@pucc.PRINCETON.EDU wrote
>
>> Is there a windows package that acts as an answering machine when installed o
>> your pc? Names, prices, and reviews greatly appreciated. A friend of mine has
>> a mac and has a product called DOVE - I think. It is outstanding. Takes
>> messages, leave messages, password protection, send/receive fax, foreward
>> phone, etc... I would like a package like that for my pc. Is it feasible to
>> install such a package on a server and allow multiple users to share it or pu
>> it on a dedicated PC and allow multiple users to share it through the network
>I do know of such software/hardware for the PC:
>
>        BIG MOUTH       price ~350.00 (?as I remember)
>
>There were also other products from the same company with even more
>features.  As I remember, they advertised in the major computer magazines.
>Look there for updated info and pricing.
>
>Darryl
>
We are trying to use BigmOuth from Talking Technologies.  For the
price, it's a good system.  The disadvantages:  DOS based, not windows.
A windows version may be in the works, but I haven't heard of it.  The
phone book structure uses a proprietary flat text file which makes it
difficult (but not impossible) to import data from our DBMS.
The advantages: It offers phenomenal voice digitizing and supports
incoming and outgoing call management.  If you have the disk space,
you can set up voice mail for your staff, and telemarketing systems.
One word of caution, the cheaper version needs it's own analog telephone
line.  Running it through a PBX or digital phone network requires
an upgrade to the more expensive hardware and software.

Talking Technologies (according to the manual) can be reached at...

        1125 Atlantic Ave.
        Alameda, CA 94501
        (415) 522-3800     Fax: (415) 522-5556

John Millard  --->>> miss004@uxa.ecn.bgu.edu
                     Financial Aid Office, Western Illinois University
                     121 Sherman Hall, Macomb, IL 61455
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From:         "Mark Pizzinato" <PIZZINATO%XANADU@KINGSTON.ARPC.ALCAN.CA>
Subject:      Re: running a dos app. in a window

If you hit ALT-ENTER it will change your dos application to one in a windows
unless the application is graphical.  Such programs as Lotus in wysiwyg will
not work in a windows but programs such as your communications package will.

Mark
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Date:         Tue, 22 Dec 1992 14:03:03 -0500
From:         Joe Morris <IS480P02@WCUVAX1.WCU.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Win3.1 memory handling and EMM386.EXE

Date: 22 Dec 1992 14:42:43 +0000 (GMT)
From: "Sten Westerback, Nokia Telecommunications, FINLAND"

>I'll try! First of all you should have both the RAM and the NOEMS parameters
>to enable Windows in 386Enh mode to emulate EMS memory.

Isn't that counterproductive?  Aren't the switches RAM and NOEMS
opposite from each other?

>The /Y= parameter is totally new for me. At least smartdrv /? doesn't tell
>me anything about it and nighter does the Windows manual. Is that some new
>version of smartdrv? What does it mean?

It is an "undocumented feature" of Win3.1--it helps Windows locate
the driver.

>> I'm currently using to provide memory to Pdox to run in protected
>> mode in DOS (since it doesn't under Win3.1)

>If Paradox really uses protected mode you can't run it under Windows,
>at least not in 386Enh mode.

It can run in either mode depending on how I configure it.

>> System:  386sx@16MHz, 4 MB RAM, 12,444 KB permanent swap file.

>Then the explanation ... assuming you are using devicehigh and/or lh ...

>>               EMM386.EXE installed   EMM386.EXE not installed
>> -------------+---------------------+---------------------------+
>> Win3.1 enh   |  6,752 KB available |  10,688 KB available      |
>> -------------+---------------------+---------------------------+

>The 256kB converted to EMS by EMM386 is taken from the physical memory leaving
>3840 kB. According to the postings here last week the maximum virtual memory
>would then be 3*3840 kB=11.25MB. Subracting some reserved basememory it would
>leave about 11 MB. Near 10688kB isn't it?

Uhhh, take a look at the chart again--that 10,688KB is when emm is NOT
installed.  My main point is why is there a 4MB drop!  What you said
makes a lot of sense though.

>You are probably better of using the Windows EMM instead as the memory can
>then be used by Windows when not used for EMS.

For some reason I couldn't get Pdox to recognize the EMS as provided
by Windows--that is, when it used to run under Win.

>> Win3.1 std   |  1,832 KB availble  |   2,082 KB available      |
>> -------------+---------------------+---------------------------+
>                                  =======>
>                              256kB EMS freed

Okay, that makes sense.  Now what about enhanced mode?

Joe Morris
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