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From: pquievre@ulb.ac.be (Quievreux Philippe)
Newsgroups: comp.os.xinu
Subject: PC-Xinu with 3-COM 3C501 Ethernet devices
Date: 1 Sep 92 15:45:15 GMT
Distribution: world
Organization: The Internet


     Hello,

        I would like to send the following message to Prof. Timothy Fossum.
Unfortunately, I don't have his Internet address.
Could someone give it to me, and/or forward the message ?

Thanks


   Philippe QUIEVREUX                        pquievre@ulb.ac.be


              --------------------------------


    Hello,


        I use PC-Xinu v7 with an WD8003EP network adapter and it works well.

However, I would also like to use 3-COM 3C501 boards.
It seems that the necessary drivers are available.
Furthemore, they should have been distributed with Xinu, as said in the
'readme' file:

<<
This is the source distribution for PC-Xinu Net, from the University
of Wisconsin-Parkside Applied Computer Science Department.
....
The network supports two Ethernet devices, the 3-COM 3C501 board and the
Western Digital WD8003E board.  In addition, serlial line (SLIP) support
is available for installations that do not have Ethernet capabilities.
As distributed, the code works for the WD8003E.  It will be necessary
to reconfigure and recompile to handle the 3C501 or SLIP interfaces.
(Work is in progress to support the packet driver specification.)
....
>>

Unfortunately, I can't find them !

If it is possible, could you send them to me ?


About other cards
-----------------

It becomes increasingly difficult to buy 8bits-cards like these above.
Most cards currently available on the market place nowadays are 16bits cards
(like the SMC 8013 EPC card ).
I would like to know if you are developping drivers for these new cards.


I thank you for your attention and look forward to receiving your response.


Best Regards,

Philippe QUIEVREUX                             pquievre@ulb.ac.be







Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
From: huot@cray.com (Tom Huot)
Subject: Re: Password protection
Summary: Try the Keylock
Organization: Cray Research, Inc.
Date: 1 Sep 92 13:36:12 CDT

[Line of complaints about password protection not secure enough deleted]

I am surprised no one has yet to mention this one. Use the Keylock to
lock the computer. Unless someone wants to go to the trouble of 
taking the system apart and rewiring it, I don't think you will
have any trouble with someone messing with your data.
Please ... no flames about the computers that are not equipped
with a lock.

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Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
From: fmag9694@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Fouad M. Abdel-Rahim)
Subject: Re: Trashcan
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Sun, 30 Aug 1992 21:46:13 GMT

v075hn54@ubvmsb.cc.buffalo.edu (Gary G Gassman) writes:

>Here's an easy one for someone (I hope).
>I downloaded TRASHCAN and installed it but I can't figure out how
>it works. If I double-click on it I get the box: TRASHCAN is 
>already running. There is no actual documentation with it.
>Any ideas?
>Thanks in advance
>g.g.                        E-Mail Please


    Just drag any file/s to the TRASHCAN'S ICON	 and drop.
	 ^^^^                                    ^^^^^^^^
	   It's that easy.

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Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
From: ntaib@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (Iskandar Taib)
Subject: Neat trick: Netware and Windows 3.1 
Keywords: HP deskjet win3.1 drivers
Organization: Indiana University
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1992 21:41:40 GMT


Try this.

Create a netware.ini file.

In this file write:


[Options]

NetWareHotKey=1


Save, then restart Windows. Press the F6 key.

Neat, huh?


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Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
Subject: re: Cica.Cica.indiana.edu
From: Stephen Gibson
Date: 3 Sep 92 10:48:03 PDT
Organization: Sonoma State University, Rohnert Park, CA 


In article <3SEP199204085389@zeus.tamu.edu> css0860@zeus.tamu.edu (Steve Suehs - Switzerland Bound!) writes:
>
>
>
>Can someone tell me what the deal is with cica.cica.indiana.edu?
>
>Thanks
>Steve
>
>---------------------------------------------------------------------
>C. Steven Suehs, a Texas A&M University Biochem/Computer Sci Major
>whose opinions probably are not shared by Academic Computing Services.
>Dick Clark did not say "I think, therefore I am!"  It was Descartes
>who walked into a bar and was asked "Have a beer, sire?"
>"I think not."  >poof< and he was gone.
> .signature.virus--.signature.reverse.transcriptase

It is now ftp.cica.indiana.edu. They had a system crash, or something like that earlier in the year.

Stephen Gibson

Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
From: macole@wam.umd.edu (Mario A. Cole)
Subject: Re: Speeding up Windows
Organization: University of Maryland, College Park
Date: Fri, 28 Aug 1992 22:24:36 GMT

In article <CMM.0.90.2.714995016.terjeh@maud.ifi.uio.no> Terje Holmboe <terjeh@ifi.uio.no> writes:
>
>
>  This might be a FAQ, but I'll chance it... :)
>
>  I've got a 386/25, 4 MB memory, running W3.0. I want things speeded up.
>
>  Apart from the NATURAL solution ( buy a 486/66 :) what can I do ?
>
>   - Install more memory ?
>   - Install a 387 ?
>   - Installl W3.1 ?
>
>
>   I am using a Tseng ET4000 1MB card, and especially the screen updates
>   are abit slow.
>
I can't pass this one up!!!

You may want to refer to a previous posting...

I was sadly in your shoes...I did all of the above and more..
I installed Win 3.1...increased to 8 megs...and install a 387 (for Falcon 3.0's
High Fidelity Mode)...but the best addition was my Diamond Stealth card (gee,
this sounds very familiar!)  Other pointers...don't put Windows on a Stacker
drive, trash Himem.sys, don't blame Smartdrv for everything, and most 
important of all...give Windows every bit of memory you can spare.

Or...buy a 486/66! :-)

Good luck
Mario

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From: tguez@jade.tufts.edu (Name)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
Subject: Re: Windows == OS
Date: 25 Aug 92 23:28:09 GMT
	<1992Aug25.163945.7613@mksol.dseg.ti.com>
Organization: Tufts University - Medford, MA

>   >Therefore, I hold my position, windows is not even close to an
>   >operating system.  True there are things that will make you think it's
>   >an operating system, for instance, the ms-dos time sharing is very
>   >nice compared to the windows apps "time BSing" but then you never hear
>   >of DesqView held as an operating system.
>
>   So, in other words, by your definition, for something to be an
>   operating system it must provide preemptive multitasking.  Sorry, but
>   that requirement simply doesn't make sense.  Given that definition,
>   practically nothing in the 'personal computer' world is running an
>   'operating system' except for those boxes running OS/2 or UNIX
>   variants.
Of course not!  The extraction you refer to should not be read without
the argument proceding it, otherwise you take it out of context.  My
whole argument against windows not being an OS is, in some ways,
against the deceiving nature of windows API.  I used the globalalloc as
an example because one of the first things that characterizes an
operating system is memory management.  I argue that in a true
operating system, that supports memory re-location, the programmer is
not even awhere (and should not be awhere) of such actions taken by
the OS.  If the OS decides to swap out my whole processes, that should
not be reflected in my code.

Now Windows does these things, and the argument goes that therefore it
is an OS.  My argument is that this is where the mistake lies, windows
does not do these things in the same fashion an Operating System does,
it will do it for you if and only if you use window's primitives, and it is
reflected in your code.  Now they advertise windows as having 
all these "features" of an operating system and let us reach
the conclusion.  In fact, I remember at the beginning when I just
started with windows 3.0, MS alwasy used the word "environment," and
yet now you can find MS Windows disks with the two magic words "operating
system" printed besides the word "Windows".  

Multi-tasking does not appear in DOS, at least ver 5.0, and since it
appears in windows that maybe an argument that windows is an operating
system having introduce this giant step.  To remove this point from
any oppositors to the view I presented I said that no one considers
DesqView as an opeating system.  If windows has A, and is claimed to
be an OP, and DesqView also has A but is not held as operating system,
then A is not a prerequisite to an operating system.  Now, that we
have removed mutli-tasking as an argument, we narrowed and focused the
problem, I hold that concepts of primitives, layered programming, and
information hiding are being confused here with an Operating System.

Cheers,
Tomer Guez
Tufts University
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
From: ayman@eecs.umich.edu (Ayman I. Kayssi)
Subject: Re: WinQVTNet and PC-NFS?
Organization: ACAL, EECS, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Date: Tue, 1 Sep 1992 14:03:22 GMT

 thomas@datamark.co.nz (Thomas Beagle) writes:
>Is it possible to run both programs such as WinQVTNet and PC-NFS
>together on the same ethernet card?

It is possible yes, but you have to use the pktmux packet multiplexor. It's
available from sunee.waterloo.edu, under pub/wattcp/pktmux11.exe as a self
extracting archive.
--
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EECS Department                               +------------------------
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Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
Subject: ram/video card
From: edowdy@vax1.umkc.edu
Date: Tue, 1 Sep 1992 23:15:35 GMT
Organization: University of Missouri - Kansas City


I have a 486/33 4mg ram, and a trident card. I use WP4W and procomm dos.
Usually at the same time. Now my question is, would I benifit more from 
4 more mg of ram or from adding an accelerator card? (I may switch to 
W4W and procomm for windows also) Secondly, would I see a marked improvement
over my trident card switch to an Orchid Prodesigner II series card?
Thanks in advance

Eric
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
From: jfreter@triton.unm.edu (The Myth)
Subject: Re: Speeding up Windows
Date: Fri, 28 Aug 92 18:54:17 GMT
Organization: University of New Mexico, Albuquerque

In article <CMM.0.90.2.714995016.terjeh@maud.ifi.uio.no> Terje Holmboe <terjeh@ifi.uio.no> writes:
>
>
>  This might be a FAQ, but I'll chance it... :)
>
>  I've got a 386/25, 4 MB memory, running W3.0. I want things speeded up.
>
>  Apart from the NATURAL solution ( buy a 486/66 :) what can I do ?
>
>   - Install more memory ?
Yes, the best way to speed up all windows apps is with more RAM to play with.
if you install a total of 6 (or more) MB RAM, you can run a sizeable cache,
a small (1 MB or so) RAM disk for temp space and still have room for working.

>   - Install a 387 ?
Not really significant.  Most of windows functions do not use the co-processor
unless the application was written specifically to use it (i.e. Excel, Word,
Mathcad) .  It doesn't do much for solitaire, but why should it?

>   - Installl W3.1 ?

You will notice significant speed and stability gains running 3.1.  It is
also the cheapest way to boost speed.  I'm not sure if 6 (or 8) MB will
run windows 3.0 faster than 4 MB will run 3.1, but I assume so.  Besides,
windows 3.1 has some features that make it attractive (TrueType, minesweeper,
better object linking, a better cache, etc.)

>
>
>   I am using a Tseng ET4000 1MB card, and especially the screen updates
>   are abit slow.

Try using Winspeed (commercial program, not free/share ware) and/or win 3.1
with the latest video drivers (cica, garbo, and other sites)

>
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
From: joelfire@leland.Stanford.EDU ( Firehammer)
Subject: Question: Start up WFW with Flipper?
Organization: DSG, Stanford University, CA 94305, USA
Date: Thu, 3 Sep 92 19:05:35 GMT

Is there a way to start up two programs from the same icon, i.e.,
when I open WFW I would like the program 'Flipper' (the landscape/portrait
printer setup util) to start up with it.
Thanks,
joel
From: john.will@satalink.com (John Will)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
Subject: Re: Speeding up Windows..
Date: 1 Sep 92 20:50:00 GMT
Reply-To: john.will@satalink.com (John Will)
Organization: Datamax/Satalink Connection * Ivyland, PA (215) 443-9434

TM.Almost true.  What you should do is set the TEMP environment variable (and
  .tmp, for some other programs) to a subdirectory on the RAM disk.  The reason
  .for this is some programs (COREL DRAW, Windows Print manager, etc.) create
  .and play around with temporary files that slow down the system...

Of course, too small a RAM disk is worse than none at all, since some 
applications don't recover gracefully from an "out of disk" error.
---
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Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
Subject: VT100 emulation
From: <EJR106@psuvm.psu.edu>
Date: Thu, 3 Sep 1992 22:32:14 EDT
Organization: Penn State University

   I'mm looking for a Windows program that is a VT100 emulation,
and also has Kermit.  The original Term with Windows is frustrating me to no en
d, as even with the scroll lock, I cannot use the PF keys.... at all!  I've
D/Led many different comm progs, and the only one I have so far is Yterm.
Yterm doesn't do file transfers well at all, when it does do them.  What PD /
shareware Comm program is there that could help me?  And you any of you poiny
to an FTP site where I could get this program?   Thanks.
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
From: skok@itwds1.energietechnik.uni-stuttgart.de (Holger Skok)
Subject: Re: Is GATES gay? Only a Fag could make windows
Organization: Inst. f. Thermodynamik u. Waermetechnik (ITW), U. of Stuttgart, FRG
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1992 08:45:44 GMT

In article <1992Aug31.031138.12213@ccu.umanitoba.ca> umsalte2@ccu.umanitoba.ca (Mystery) writes:
>
>Windows sucks!  All window lovers are suckers.....love OS/2 you fools.
>
>dont be sucker any more!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

What an intelligent comment - and full of originality!
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From: Neal.Sanche@ttlg.UUCP (Neal Sanche)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
Subject: Com port locking?
Date: 2 Sep 92 20:18:14 GMT

PS> Can I do something similar in Windows?  I don't like to see
PS> the device contention message -- I'd like UUPoll NOT to
PS> get use of the comm port until I'm done with the other program.

You're asking too much of Windows. A workaround would may be to NOT run
UUPoll in background mode while using your other Comm Package. Just flip
its Settings so that it isn't backgrounded for a while.

-Neal

 * OLX 2.1 TD * Is this guy boring you?

 * Origin: Paradigm BBS: A programmer's paradise. (42:100/11)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
From: ekkers@ph.tn.tudelft.nl (Rob Ekkers)
Subject: Re: WINSPEED DRIVERS LOCATION (not?)
Organization: Delft University of Technology
Date: Thu, 3 Sep 1992 07:28:08 GMT

>
>Now that we have established this, can anyone provide any reviews about
>their experience with these? What exactly do  these do? Are they worth paying
>the $60 for?
>
 I have bought these drivers, particularly to speed up text scrolling in
256-colour mode, which is unbearable slow. Unfortunately WinSpeed doesn't
give any speed increase in this respect, although other things become
faster indeed (e.g. drawing, area filling, etc.). This is also shown when
you run the PC-Mag Windows benchmarks.
My solution (which satisfies me up till now) is using an S3 accelerator.

Rob Ekkers
University of Technology, Delft, the Netherlands
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
From: glowe@nyx.cs.du.edu (Glen Lowe)
Subject: Re: SLIP & WinQVT
X-Disclaimer: Nyx is a public access Unix system run by the University
	of Denver for the Denver community.  The University has neither
	control over nor responsibility for the opinions of users.
Organization: Nyx, Public Access Unix at U. of Denver Math/CS dept.
Date: Tue, 1 Sep 92 07:25:47 GMT

In article <1992Aug31.235951.8313@usage.csd.unsw.OZ.AU> jayas@vast.unsw.e
u.au (Jayasooriah) writes:
>Could someone mail me on what I need on the PC end to run WinQVT/NET
>on a dedicated serial line?   The ethernet version was so good on the
>desktop that I have decided to run SLIP versio on my notebook.
>
>Many thanks.
>
>Jaya
>
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Before you get too excited...  I was able to get qvtnet to work at
speeds < 2400 baud...  But as soon as i move up to 9600+ qvt crashes
windows with a gpf...  Tracing through a winspectr post mortum dump
shows that it crashes on an lodsb with cx=f??? but ds is only 10k long..
How ever if you do get it to work... plz let me know...
   BTW you can find what you need via ftp to clarkson.soe.edu 
(i believe that is the name) it is also available from several mirrors.
Glen

Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
From: macole@wam.umd.edu (Mario A. Cole)
Subject: Re: Problems with WinFax Pro 2.0
Organization: University of Maryland, College Park
Date: Tue, 1 Sep 1992 21:59:09 GMT

In article <DEMILLO.92Aug31101837@egeus.juliet.ll.mit.edu> demillo@juliet.ll.mit.edu ( Robert DeMillo ) writes:
>>In article <18478.2a9f069a@levels.unisa.edu.au> xtdn@levels.unisa.edu.au writes:
>>
>>   I am interested in hearing from people who have purchased WinFax Pro 2.0
>>   and who have had problems with same.
>>
>>	... list of problems experienced...
>>
>>   I appreciate any assistance.
>>
>>   David Newall             * Life is uncertain: * International: +61 18 814 543
>
>David ---
>
>I have been using WinFAX pro 2.0 since it came out...I've used it with 
>both Win 3.0 and Win 3.1 and its never given me one day of trouble,
>let alone the problems you have described. I have a Hayes knock-off
>2400 baud modem with 9600 boaud fax send/receive ability. 
>
I haven't had any problems with WinFAX Pro 2.0, either....I have a Supra
14.4 Fax/Modem and not even a wince of trouble has appeared. 

>This may be God's way of telling you to buy a new fax modem.

Amen....go for a 14.4....truly awesome!
(another day...another plug)

Mario
"Is my gloating becoming obvious???"

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From: jld@datascope.com (Jay L. Davis)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
Subject: Re: Windows == OS
Date: 31 Aug 92 20:43:51 GMT
Organization: Datascope Corp.

In article <714728840.0@ttlg.ttlg.UUCP> Monroe.Thomas@ttlg.UUCP (Monroe Thomas) writes:
>
>The definition of an operating system is that it manages
>
>    1) memory   (I know, a special case of #2)
>    2) resources
>    3) processes
>    4) file system
>
>Windows 3.1 manages all except the file system, for which it relies
>upon DOS... except that in 386 enhanced mode with 32bit disk access,
>it even partially manages the file system.  In all other areas,
>Windows subsumes DOS services.
>
>Thus, accoring to the computer science definition of an OS, Windows
>does not completely fit the bill (because it does not mit criterion
>#4).  However, 90% of an OS is pretty fair description.
>
>Just because system calls are layered through an API has absolutely
>nothing to do with Windows being an OS or not.
>
>BTW, your concerns about memory movement are only valid for the old
>EMS versions of Windows 2.11 and 3.0.  In protected you can get the
>pointer without having to worry about the handle to the data.  Since
>the segment portion of the pointer is really just an entry in the
>local descriptor table of a 80x86, Windows can move memory blocks
>around without invalidating the pointer.  But again, this has nothing
>to with being a true operating system or not.  It was just one way of
>managing memory <albeit a little more kludgy than some>, and is just
>as valid a scheme as any other.  It's nice that we don't have to worry
>about it anymore in Win 3.1.
>

Who ever said that an OS needs a file system? Not true. I can
buy a number of operating systems with no file systems (or the
file system(s) is an option).

---Jay Davis
From: dlee@usc.edu (David J. Lee)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
Subject: mci driver for pioneer 4400 laserdisk
Date: 27 Aug 1992 11:50:05 -0700
Organization: The Island of Misfit Toys
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: aludra.usc.edu

Does anyone know where to find an mci driver for the pioneer 4400
video laserdisk?  I've poked around Compuserve, the MS bulliten board,
and cica.  Getting through to pioneer is proving to be a nightmare.

Thanks for any pointers.

david lee

.
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
From: jabbate@Ingres.COM (Joe M. Abbate)
Subject: Mouse drivers: mouse.com mouse.sys mouse.drv
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.4-b1  
Keywords: mouse drivers
Organization: ASK Computer Systems, Ingres Product Division
Date: 1 Sep 92 17:59:30 GMT

In a previous version (7.04), MS distributed mouse.sys and mouse.com,
but I was never able to find any discussion as to why would someone use
one vs. the other.  With Windows 3.1, there's mouse.drv and mouse.com
(version 8.20).  If I assume correctly, the .drv is used by Windows
and .com is for DOS use.  Can someone confirm this and/or point me to
anywhere in the documentation where the differences are explained?

Joe 
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Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
From: glowe@nyx.cs.du.edu (Glen Lowe)
Subject: Re: SLIP & WinQVT
X-Disclaimer: Nyx is a public access Unix system run by the University
	of Denver for the Denver community.  The University has neither
	control over nor responsibility for the opinions of users.
Organization: Nyx, Public Access Unix at U. of Denver Math/CS dept.
Date: Tue, 1 Sep 92 19:17:00 GMT

In article <1992Sep1.140011.19912@zip.eecs.umich.edu> ayman@eecs.umich.ed
 (Ayman I. Kayssi) writes:
> glowe@nyx.cs.du.edu (Glen Lowe) writes:
>>Before you get too excited...  I was able to get qvtnet to work at
>>speeds < 2400 baud...  But as soon as i move up to 9600+ qvt crashes
>>windows with a gpf...  
>
>I can run qvtnet over a serial line at 19200 bps with no problems at all
 That
>became possible after I upgraded the UART on the serial card to a 16550A
N. 
>--
>Ayman I. Kayssi                               |    ayman@eecs.umich.edu
>EECS Department                               +------------------------
>University of Michigan                        |          (313) 764-8033


That's funny... I have one also and it still crashes...