HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.apps

If you ordered Windows for Work Groups from Microsoft and haven't
received it yet, Microsoft Sales just confirmed that the product is
currently on hold and pending orders are NOT being shipped.

The reason: When the product was originally released about November 
2, the first FedEx shipments were made.  Within hours, however, an
incompatibility between WfWG and Access (the new Database) was
discovered.  Microsoft actually called up FedExpress and had them
return all undelivered product.  Sadly, my order was just minutes
from being delivered when the recall came out.

With no public announcement from MS about the delay, I had no idea why 
it was taking so long for my order to arrive.  I called Microsoft
sales several times and was assured that the orders were in the
pipeline and would arrive "soon".  Only after one of the account
reps accidentally gave me the FedEx tracking number, did I call
FedEx and find that my original order had shipped, then recalled.

Repeated calls to MS denied that anything was wrong, until last 
night (Nov 16), when I refused to hang up until I found out when
my order would arrive.  Under some pressure, the Supervisor told
me the following:

 *  A problem with WfWG compatibility with Access was the cause for
    the recall, and only a "few" of the packages had been delivered
    before the recall.

 *  It was not clear if product in the retail chain were recalled,
    or if deliveries were halted, since she only knew about
    mail-order sales.

 *  As of November 16, there still was no guaranteed release date 
    for the fixed product, but lots of Real Soon Now and Maybe Next
    Week responses.

Assuming the sales rep told the truth, don't hold your breath waiting
for Windows for Work Groups.  8^)

----
Jerry Schneider       
Disclaimer:  I am a consultant at HP, and I make no claim to speak for
them.  Issues raised in this posting are not related to my work at HP.
From: kcj@vulcan.anu.edu.au (Kate Juliff)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.apps
Subject: Postscript viewer for Windows... where is it?
Date: 17 Nov 1992 00:48:07 GMT
Organization: Australian National University, Canberra, Australia
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: 150.203.20.13
Originator: kcj@vulcan.anu.edu.au

Someone posted that there is a ps viewer for windows (GS252win.zip).
It is supposedly on cica.indiana.edu. Well I've done a pretty
thorough search in the obvious places, but no luck. Can
some kind soul please post the subdirectory this elusive file can
be found in?

Thanks,

Kate.

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Victoria University                   |
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Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.apps
From: mtrottie@emr1.emr.ca (Marc Trottier)
Subject: Question on Running Windows on Novell Netware?
Organization: MPS, Energy, Mines & Resources, Canada
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 12:33:04 GMT

I'm running Windows 3.1 on Novell Netware 3.11 and I'm trying to find a way 
to setup Windows File Manager in a way that when a user run his file 
manager, only his home directory (on the LAN) and his local drives will 
appears. 

Is it possible to hide Network drives in any way that Windows File Manager 
won't see them?

Thank in  advance.

-- 
Marc Trottier
mtrottie@emr1.emr.ca
----------------------------
From: psm@mullian.ee.mu.OZ.AU (Phil Malin)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.apps
Subject: Numbering equations in W4W
Date: 19 Nov 92 02:46:43 GMT
Article-I.D.: murlibob.psm.722141203
Organization: Computer Science, University of Melbourne, Australia

Hi.

I was wondering if anyone knows if it's possible to number equations
in Word for Windows 2.0 automatically.  I could number them manually
but I would much prefer it if it could be done automatically.

Thanks in advance.

Phil Malin.
psm@mullian.ee.mu.oz.au
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.apps,comp.os.ms-windows.misc
From: jcmorris@mwunix.mitre.org (Joe Morris)
Subject: How to distinguish WinWord from WorkGroups for Windows
Organization: The MITRE Corporation
Date: Sun, 22 Nov 1992 17:48:19 GMT

Not to sound like the net.police, but could we get some agreement about
what abbreviations to use when we are talking about the Microsoft products
Word for Windows, and Windows for Workgroups?  I've already seen numerous
postings using the abbreviations "WFW" and W4W" when referring to the
Windows for Workgroups product.  The abbreviations are obvious, but the
conflict with the older abbreviations for WinWord are confusing.

Given that WinWord has squatter's rights on both WFW and W4W, how about
using "WGfW" or "WG4W" when you mean "Workgroups for Windows"?

Joe Morris
From: djbpitt+@pitt.edu (David J Birnbaum)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.apps
Subject: AmiPro and ligature substitution
Date: 17 Nov 92 21:35:22 GMT
Organization: University of Pittsburgh

Can AmiPro be made to perform ligature substitution? That is, assuming I
have a font that provides fi, ffi, fl, ffl, and ff ligatures, can I type
individual characters and have AmiPro substitute the ligatures during
printing? I realize that I can enter the character cell number for the
ligatures manually, but I'd prefer to be able to type real letters and
let the software worry about ligating.

Thanks,

David
-- 
Professor David J. Birnbaum         djbpitt+@pitt.edu [Internet]
The Royal York Apartments, #802     djbpitt@pittvms   [Bitnet]
3955 Bigelow Boulevard              voice: 1-412-687-4653
Pittsburgh, PA  15123  USA          fax:   1-412-624-9714
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.apps
From: gottlieb@umbc8.umbc.edu (Robert Gottlieb)
Subject: Unix Windows for win 3.1
Organization: University of Maryland, Baltimore County Campus
Date: Sat, 21 Nov 1992 21:04:38 GMT

Hi all,

I'm looking for the server for Unix Windows for Win 3.1. 
I'm using an SGI based system.  Last I heard it wasn't sysv
compatible.  Does anyone know if a new version has come out
since then and if there is an ftp site where I can find it?

If there is an faq I could look this up in, plese just
send me email telling me where it is, so as not to waste bandwidth.

Thanks in advance,

Robert
-- 
Robert Gottlieb
gottlieb@umbc7.umbc.edu or robertg@cs.umbc.edu
"Not gonna do it.. wouldn't be prudent..."
Not umbc's opinion.
From: banshee@cats.ucsc.edu (Wailer at the Gates of Dawn)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.apps
Subject: Re: Paradox
Date: 18 Nov 1992 21:34:52 GMT
Organization: University of California, Santa Cruz
NNTP-Posting-Host: am.ucsc.edu


iedmon@csaadel.adl.csa.oz.au (Ian Edmonstone) writes:
>Has anyone used the latest version of Paradox for Windows. I am
>looking for a good windows database, and I have heard that Paradox
>is the way to go. Also, is it possible to produce royalty free run
>times.

No.  Paradox for Windows 1.0 is not yet shipping.  I'm not certain of the
projected ship date, but its "soon".

-- 
The Wailer at the Gates of Dawn              | banshee@cats.UCSC.EDU       |
Just who ARE you calling a FROOFROO Head?    |                             |
DoD#0667  "Just a friend of the beast."      | banshee@ucscb.UCSC.EDU      |
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Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.apps
From: martin@iastate.edu (Martin R Calsyn)
Subject: Re: For those with the NT beta... a question. 
Organization: Iowa State University, Ames, IA
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 01:40:50 GMT

In article <1992Nov17.235358.23725@utkux1.utk.edu> harp@martha.utcc.utk.edu (harp) writes:
>
>I have a few questions about the NT beta that I would like to resolve
>before I receive my copy.  [...]

>1) I have two hard disks right now (200MB primary, 120MB secondary). I
>would like to keep my normal stuff on the primary and put NT on the
>secondary. Will I have a problem booting NT if it isn't my first hard disk?

Nope.  I have a 132M IDE drive formatted as a single DOS FAT partition
(FAT being the default filesystem structure for DOS) and a second drive
(SCSI) that is 100M of DOS and 100M of Windows/NT.  The NT partition is
formatted as NTFS.

>2) If NT is on my first hard disk, have they supplied a little program that
>lets me choose whether to boot dos or NT?

It's called FlexBoot and it'll replace the current boot sectors on your
primary (bootable) hard disk.  Works well so long as you don't already
have an OS/2 boot switcher in place.  It'll give you a period of time to
select a boot option.  Once the time has expired it'll pick the default.
Both the time and the default are configurable.

>3) After popping the cd in the drive, will it appear just like another dos
>partition, or is there a special disk to access the data on the cd.  Reason
>being that I would like to dump the cd onto my hard disk to enable me to
>install NT away from a cd-rom drive (as well as faster).

The CD appears just like any other FAT volume.  Just having a CD-ROM
isn't enough though, since NT doesn't support all CD-ROM drives.  If you
have an unsupported CD-ROM, you can install from DOS using a BATch
script provided on the CD-ROM.  Haven't tried this myself, but it's
covered in the release notes.

Just FYI, I used a Future Domain 1680 SCSI card, Quantum PD210S drive,
and Hitachi 3750 CD-ROM all in a no-name 486/33 with 20M of memory.
Works like a charm.

-- 
Martin R. Calsyn                                   martin@iastate.edu
Software Innovations Incorporated                  voice: (515) 232-9196
P.O. Box 644                                              (800) 728-1525
Ames, Iowa 50010                                   fax:   (515) 233-6209
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.apps
From: al@col.hp.com (Al DeVilbiss)
Subject: Re: Procomm+ for Windows patch ftp site wanted
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 04:18:39 GMT
Organization: HP Colorado Springs Division

dittman@skitzo.dseg.ti.com (Eric Dittman) writes:
> I remember seeing a reference to an ftp site for the Procomm+ for Windows
> patch files, but I can't remember what the site name was.  Could someone
> send me the name of the site?
> 
> Thanks.
> -- 
> Eric Dittman                  Texas Instruments - Component Test Facility
> dittman@skitzo.dseg.ti.com    (214) 578-3575
> Disclaimer:  Not even my opinions.  I found them by the side of the road.

The files are on ftp.cica.indiana.edu in pub/pc/win3/misc.  maint1.exe is 
the patch that upgrades ver 1.00 to 1.01. wmodems.com gets you a copy of
wmodems.dat which is an updated modems list.

Hope this helps.

Al DeVilbiss al@col.hp.com
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.apps
From: spell@spell.demon.co.uk (Martin Glassborow)
Subject: PPP and QVTNet
Distribution: world
Organization: <What Work for a Living>
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 03:48:46 +0000

Is there any way of getting PPP and QVTNET working together.

At present I'm using KA9Q DIS v1.27 and very nice it is too but I hanker for
a Windows system.

Martin
--
You're never alone in the Twiglet Zone
Spell@Spell.Demon.Co.Uk
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.apps
Subject: Re: Quicken 2.0 won't install (problem found and corrected)
From: <MZBCC@CUNYVM.BITNET>
Date: Wednesday, 18 Nov 1992 12:02:01 EST
Organization: City University of New York/ University Computer Center

I have had Quicken 2.0 for about a week. I tried to install it several times th
is morning before leaving for work.  I kept getting "Sharing Violation on Drive
 C" then... LOCKUP.  I'll try to disable SHARE.EXE this afternoon. Thanks for t
he advice.
Xref: sparky comp.os.ms-windows.apps:5190 comp.os.ms-windows.misc:4818
From: udk@awd.cdc.com (Uday D. Kabe)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.apps,comp.os.ms-windows.misc
Subject: Re: Vi for MS-Windows
Date: 22 Nov 92 14:29:48 GMT
Reply-To: udk@awd.cdc.com
Followup-To: comp.os.ms-windows.apps
Organization: Memex, 8757 Hawthorne Dr., Eden Prairie, MN 55347

In article <BxvMCB.LMM@ansoft.com>, gupta@ansoft.com (Suvajit Gupta) writes:
|> Is there a good public domain UNIX-style vi editor that runs under
|> Microsoft Windows?  Ideally, it should allow resizing of the window
|> it runs in.  I currently have a PC vi that runs under DOS, but it
|> is limited to run in DOS windows (24 lines only!).
|> 
|> Please e-mail your response to gupta@ansoft.com
|> 
|> Thanks in advance,
|> Suvajit

I would also appreciate receiving info on a vi for Windows.  Thanx in
advance.
-- 
Uday D. Kabe

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From: aa699@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Tony Thomas)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.apps
Subject: Re: CorelDRAW! 3.0 user question
Date: 19 Nov 1992 12:08:23 GMT
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
Reply-To: aa699@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Tony Thomas)
NNTP-Posting-Host: thor.ins.cwru.edu


In a previous article, carllr@sluggo.sdsc.edu (Rich Carll) says:

>
>
>
>After lots of different experiments, I finally have CorelDRAW 3.0 running
>without locking up. Thanks for the pointers J.A., it turned out to
>be a video driver problem. CorelDRAW techs tell me to use the VGA driver.
>
>Does anyone out there use a SVGA driver without any problem?? I'd love
>to use my monitor in 256 color mode in SVGA.
>
>Thanks for any input.
>
>Rich Carll
>San Diego Supercomputer Center
>
I use the Trident SVGA driver with no problems whatsoever...

-- 
aa699@Cleveland.Freenet.EDU/GEnie=A.THOMAS16/Compuserve:71541,3456
TONY THOMAS - SIGop - Audio Arts SIG - Cleveland FreeNet
"True riches is not what you have - It's the kind of person you are"

Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.apps
From: harold@wam.umd.edu (James B. Harold)
Subject: Quattro Pro for Windows performance question
Organization: University of Maryland, College Park
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 14:30:08 GMT

Just got QP4W the other day...does anybody besides me think
this program is something of a hog when it comes to memory and 
resources? Starting the program (with an empty spreadsheet) sucks 
up about 25% of my available resources.  Opening a graph seems
to absorb another 6%, but I don't get it back when I close
the graph (did I load a DLL, or what?)  Does anybody have
some pointers for me that might help me minimize or at
least understand QP4W's memory and resource usage?  Don't
get me wrong...I think QP4W is a pretty slick program in
many respects, but these "Out of memory" errors are a bit
of a bore...  

Finally, wasn't there an address at borland.com that we could
send bug reports to?  I've got a couple for them :-) ...

Thanks...
-- 

James Harold                 "There is always an easy solution to
harold@wam.umd.edu            every human problem -- neat, plausible,
                              and wrong."    --  H. L. Mencken 
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.apps
From: snelling@fys.ruu.nl (Raimond Snellings)
Subject: Keep track of DLL's
Keywords: PCM DLL
Organization: Physics Department, University of Utrecht, The Netherlands
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 10:49:32 GMT

Hello,

I heard that there was a utility released by PCM which keeps
track of the files dumped by a installation program in the
windows or windows/system directory.

After the installation the program produces an asci file where
the location of each installed filed can be found.

I would verry much like to know where i can find this program
because my windows/system dir is over 10Mb already and still
growing each time i install a new program.






Greetings, Raimond Snellings
           snelling@fys.ruu.nl
-- 
         Raimond Snellings                |
     Subatomic physics department         |
         Utrecht University               |  ??????????????
  Robert J. van de Graaff Laboratory      |
From: iceman@sequent.com (Ian Evans)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.apps
Subject: Re: Excel 4.0 "gang screen"
Date: 16 Nov 92 23:04:10 GMT
Organization: Sequent Computer Systems Inc.

In article <law1y#h@rpi.edu> kimp@rpi.edu (Phil Kim) writes:
>In article <1992Nov16.193436.16903@polaris.utu.fi> jsakki@polaris.utu.fi (Jarkko Sakki) writes:
>>Is there any "gang screen" in MS-Excel 4.0??? If there is - how can it
>>be shown???
>
>If you love Lotus 1-2-3, don't try this at home.
>
>Open a blank worksheet and maximize it.  Then choose Option,
>Toolbars..., Customize...  Then choose Customs and drag Solitaire icon
>to your toolbar.  Then choose OK and close.  Now for some fun.  Hold
>down Ctrl-Alt and click Solitaire icon.

Interesting this works with solitare and not any of the other
custom icons like winword, powerpoint, ms mail, project, etc....

-- 
Ian C. Evans					Sequent Computer Systems Inc.
Senior Systems Administrator			15450 S.W. Koll Parkway
Architecture & Technology			MS=RHE1-895
iceman@sequent.com				Beaverton, OR  97006-6063
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.apps
From: floydb@rpi.edu
Subject: Postscript viewer for Windows - author
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 18:44:52 GMT

In article <1992Nov18.060157.760@bruce.cs.monash.edu.au> maurice@bruce.cs.monash.edu.au writes:
>Developers choose to develop for windows for many reasons:
>	1. More than 640K of memory is available using a standardized
>	   interface. 
>	2. DOS under windows is not as usable as a windows program.
>	3. Greater functionality under windows.
>	4. Pretty user interfaces.
>
>The major reasons for the development in Ghostscript for windows were
>1, 2, and 3. The user interface (4) is no worse than the user interface
>available in the DOS Version, in fact it is a slight improvement.
>
>		Maurice Castro
>-- 
>Maurice Castro                 |  "In hardware engineering, Ohm's
>maurice@bruce.cs.monash.edu.au |   law and Maxwell's equations pale
>                               |   in importance and influence next
>                               |   to Murphy's Law" Gordon Bell

I would like to thank Maurice Castro for posting his comments to 
the group. It is not often that the authors of programs openly
comment on their works (though some regularly do).
 
While I have never used Ghostscript in any of its incarnations I
have followed news of its development from Unix to DOS to 
Windows. It amazes me that there are NOT a number of competing 
applications in this arena and that the only application of
its kind has consistantly gotten horrible reviews. 

This makes me wonder that there MUST be some grueling programming
involved to get even a minimum of functionality (e.g. open native
PS files, display screen, send to printer, maybe convert to
EPS or some other TEXT format). Or is their licensing complications
with Aldus (or whoever holds the rights)?

Maurice, to the extent that you were involved in this process,
could you enlighten the non-programmer as to why their aren't as
many PS viewers as their are Program Manager replacements or
Calendar programs for Windows?

thanks,

barry

Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.apps
From: rryan@panix.com (Rob Ryan)
Subject: Re: Excel 4.0 question
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 14:41:35 GMT
Organization: Panix, NYC

In <37664@uflorida.cis.ufl.edu> hp0@cooder.cis.ufl.edu (Hyun Park) writes:

>I have tried to extract data items which satisfy the given criteria.!
>Everything other than the date data seem to work o.k.
>I tried several ways I could think of:
>
>      =date(1985,12,23) -> succeed 
>      > date(1985,12,23) -> couldn't find
>      > datevalue("12/23/85") -> couln't find
>      > 12/23/85 -> couldn't find.
>
>I think I can use the greater than (>) or less than (<) operator
>with date data but it didn't work. Then how can I find some data items
>which have date fields which satisfy the given criteria.

I don't know why it didn't work with just ">12/23/85".  Note that
there is no space between the ">" and the date.  I defined a database,
a criteria, and an extract range as follows:

--database----+--criteria--+--extract range--+
date     name   date        date     name
 11/9/92 rob    >11/10/92   11/12/92 fred
11/12/92 fred
 11/2/92 sam

When I extracted, it found it fine.  If you want, I could upload my worksheet
so that you could ftp it and take a look.

-- 
 Rob Ryan
    Internet:   rryan@panix.com or Robert_Ryan@brown.edu
    Bitnet:     ROBR@BROWNVM
    Compu$erve: 70324.227@compuserve.com
From: corvett@csa.bu.edu (Sungyeup Kim)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.apps
Subject: X window for window 3.1
Date: 20 Nov 92 23:30:20 GMT
Organization: Computer Science Department, Boston University, Boston, MA, USA

Thanks for any reply.
__
#include <stdsig.h>
main()
{
  char  *sig[] = { "Sungyeup Kim, corvett@csa.bu.edu",
		   "Computer Science, Boston University" };
  int  i; for (i = 0; i <= 1; i++) printf("%s\n",sig[i]);
}
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.apps
From: sjr@dartac.demon.co.uk (Simon Roberts)
Subject: Re: Looking for Windows EMail program
Reply-To: sjr@dartac.demon.co.uk
Distribution: world
X-Mailer: cppnews $Revision: 1.20 $
Organization: Dartacross Limited, Cambridge, UK
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 13:18:56 +0000

In article <1ear8lINNk0l@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu> ci229@cleveland.Freenet.Edu
(Andrew Miller) writes:

> I'm looking for a windows based email package that will work with FTP's
> PC/TCP software (SMTP would be a bonus!).
> 
> Anyone have any suggestions??


Yes.

Look for Cinetic Mail Manager. You should find it at the usual FTP sites
as file CMM21S.ZIP or CMM21F.ZIP (the 'F' version includes the Windows
3.1 help engine and common dialogue DLL that is required if
you need to use Windows 3.0, the 'S' version doesn't!). Mail me if you
can't find it.

CMM works well with FTP's PC/TCP. The documentation shows how to set it up
using FTP's SMTP server for receiving mail and using UNIX sendmail via
remote execution for sending mail. However, it is also possible to use
FTP's SMTP client to send mail with the right .pif files. Again, mail me
if you need details.

Regards,

Simon

--
Simon Roberts
Dartacross Limited - Open Systems Consulting
sjr@dartac.demon.co.uk (preferred) 
srob@cix.compulink.co.uk
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.apps
Subject: EXCEL!!! Simple yet lethal question...
From: yawcl@levels.unisa.edu.au
Date: 18 Nov 92 20:10:26 +1030
Organization: University of South Australia

Hi... this is for all those excel macro programming enthusiast out there...

How do you do an add texts from two cells into one cell....
( An actual formula for a macro would really be helpful... )

I know it sounds trivial... But I'm ripping hairs out over here....

I know that the same procedure can be done in Lotus with the 
string + string command.... But Excel doesn't have a string command...

And I haven't been able to find an inverse "parse" command....

If that hasn't got you yet... Does Excel's macro programming tool actually
have a limit on embeded "AND" and "OR" commands....
It got really stuffy at me once when I tried to "OR" two "AND" statements
together.... ( Although... the formula was getting a bit long... by this 
point...) Bear in mind they work brilliantly apart....

Paul Leong ..
E-mail : yawcl@ntx.city.unisa.edu.au

ps. Somebody should start a competition for finding the most puzzeling
questions for an application.....


From: Dave.Beaujean@davespc.mi.org (Dave Beaujean)
Sender: FredGate@davespc.mi.org
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.apps
Subject: Alphabetical prg
Distribution: world
Date: 22 Nov 92 15:44:00 EST

Hi All!

Does anyone know of a windows version of a program that
will take a list of words and put them in alphabetical
order? Thanks for any help!!!

Dave