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From: jegm@cody.esd.sgi.com (Jim Morris)
Subject: Re: Ctrl-D as first&last char in Word for Win PS print file??
Reply-To: jegm@esd.sgi.com
Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc.
Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1992 18:53:09 GMT

To disable Ctrl-D in PS printout:-

Put CtrlD=0 in win.ini after the [Apple LaserWriter Plus,LPT2] heading.
(Or whtever PS printer name you are using.

This is documented in the printers.wri file in the windows directory.

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Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: ricker@garfield.catt.ncsu.edu (Patrick Lyerly)
Subject: Re: ATI Ultra Pro vs. #9GXe
Keywords: ati ultra pro #9gxe number nine video accelerators
Organization: North Carolina State University
Distribution: comp
Date: Sun, 8 Nov 1992 06:10:54 GMT

dhess@Xenon.Stanford.EDU (Drew William Hess) writes:

>prall@seas.gwu.edu (David C. Prall) writes:

>>In article <dhess.721001807@Xenon.Stanford.EDU> dhess@Xenon.Stanford.EDU (Drew William Hess) writes:
>>>

>Maybe we should write PC Magazine and others who use the Winbench suite
>to warn them of this possibility.  Hopefully they'll develop a benchmark
>that reflects real system performance, say by taking a couple of 
>applications and timing how long it takes to perform everyday operations.
>Even if the hardware vendors are not skewing their WINMARK results,
>a benchmark like this one would give the consumer a more accurate picture
>anyways.

I think they already do this.  They usually show benchmarks with programs
such as Lotus and Microsoft being shown.  Just look at some of the
graphs when they review a product.

Hope this helps too.

RickeR

ricker@garfield.catt.ncsu.edu
From: hedley@ee.su.oz.au ()
Subject: ATM Fonts in Windows 3.1
Reply-To: hedley@ee.su.oz.au ()
Organization: Electrical Engineering, The University of Sydney, Australia
Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1992 00:04:05 GMT

I installed the Adobe Type Manager (ATM), which was included with
FrameMaker for Windows, and have a couple of questions.

Can other windows applications use the postscript fonts? If so how?

Secondly, FrameMaker can use both ATM and Windows fonts, but has two which
not included in either, they are
        CG Times (WN)
        Univers (WN)
Does anyone know where they come from, or know how I can find out?


Thanks in advance for any help,

Mark Hedley
hedley@ee.su.oz.au
From: khamer@sumax.seattleu.edu (Little Kenny Hamer)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
Subject: Re: MICROSOFT IS STACKING THE DECK!
Date: 12 Nov 92 04:27:33 GMT
Article-I.D.: sumax.5728
Organization: Seattle University

In article <1992Nov12.012903.2351@spock.UUCP> roland@spock.uucp (David A. Braun) writes:
>
>Only Microsoft would abuse it's customers like that...
>
>Roland.

That statement shows that you are potentially a target for every
software/hardware manufacturer there is...  Do you really think that
Microsoft has any sort of monopoly on taking advantage of customers? 
Pretty much any corporation will do what it can get away with.

One example that comes to mind is an interesting fact about processor
speed. It seems that some old (HP or IBM, I believe) mainframe came in a
fast and slow version...  The fast was more expensive.  If a customer
wanted to upgrade, the sales rep would come out and remove a jumper on the
machine.  Talk about abuse...

I suggest you learn to view all people who want your money with suspicion.

-Ken Hamer
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
From: nelson_p@apollo.hp.com (Peter Nelson)
Subject: Jobs programming Windows?
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 19:03:26 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: Hewlett-Packard Corporation, Chelmsford, MA


    [ Note to anyone from HP reading this:  I checked with
      Human Resources to verify that all this information
      (e.g., the downsizing, the VSI, etc) *is* information 
      I'm allowed to mention outside the Company  ]
 

    My company, like many in this industry is forced to 
    reduce the size of its workforce.   They're offering
    a very generous voluntary severance incentive package
    to groups of employees with the hope that enough of them 
    will accept it to eliminate the need for layoffs.

    Although I like working for HP and think is has an excellent
    future, it would be foolish of me to not at least *consider*
    other possibilities if I'm one of the people eligible for
    this program (I expect to be but I won't know for sure
    until the end of November.)

    I've been programming 3D graphics in C and Pascal on 
    Unix workstations and similar enviromnents for the 
    last 9 years.  (prior to that I programmed in assembly
    language) 

    But if I left this job I would be interested in Windows
    programming.   I've been doing that at home (along with
    C++) and am currently taking a Windows programming course
    at Boston's Northeastern University and I really enjoy it.
    I will have NT set up on my PC in December and long-term,
    that's where I want to concentrate.  

    The question: is there any likelihood of getting a job
    doing Windows?  The impression I get is that employers want
    to see work experience in Windows programming.   Since I
    don't have any, and it's a tight market, how do I get some? 
    
    Should I just stay put or is there a way to get into Windows
    programming with my background?

    Thanks in advance.


---peter
From: jkubicky@cco.caltech.edu (Joseph J. Kubicky)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
Subject: Ctrl-D as first&last char in Word for Win PS print file??
Date: 9 Nov 1992 04:47:38 GMT
Organization: California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
NNTP-Posting-Host: punisher.caltech.edu


When I print to a file from Word 2.0 for Windows, it produces a file
with a first and last character of ^D (4).  I then have to go in and
manually remove these characters before sending the files to my printer.
Happens for both generic Postscript printer and Apple Laserwriter IINT
(what I'm actually printing to).  Does anyone know why this happens and
how I can fix it?

Jay Kubicky
From: davei@comp.lancs.ac.uk (Mr D Ingles)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
Subject: Re: Adaptec SCSI Device Driver for Win3.1
Date: 11 Nov 92 10:14:22 GMT
Organization: Department of Computing at Lancaster University, UK.

In article <rick.721329114@sundance> rick@sundance.SJSU.EDU (Richard Warner) writes:

>Geez, have you tried something revolutionary like trying the WinASPI
>driver from Adaptec?  ASPI4DOS is a *REAL* mode driver, and has to
>deal with CPU mode and a lot of other crap.  WinASPI is a protected
>mode interface ....  

Is WinASPI available on the net anywhere ?

Davei
From: rlw@atlanta.dg.com (Richard Wright)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
Subject: Wanted: Slideshow with Sound
Date: 12 Nov 92 15:56:06 GMT
Organization: Data General Corp. ASSD, Atlanta, GA

Greetings. I am looking for some sort of Windows utility (although I will
settle for a DOS app) that runs a slide show (preferably of GIF files, but
that is negociable) synchronized with digitized sound file(s) (preferably
WAV). Does anyone know of such a beast? I have a DOS utility that
came with the SoundBlaster Pro called MMPLAY but it uses FLI files for the
video and I don't know how to create FLI files. Suggestions? 

					Richard

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Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: dhess@Xenon.Stanford.EDU (Drew William Hess)
Subject: Re: ATI Ultra Pro vs. #9GXe
Keywords: ati ultra pro #9gxe number nine video accelerators
Organization: CS Department, Stanford University, California, USA
Distribution: comp
Date:  7 Nov 92 18:04:34 GMT

prall@seas.gwu.edu (David C. Prall) writes:

>In article <dhess.721001807@Xenon.Stanford.EDU> dhess@Xenon.Stanford.EDU (Drew William Hess) writes:
>>
>>What really caught my attention was a graph that shows the ATI Graphics
>>Ultra Pro clocking in at 25.5M WINMARKs (which is what ATI advertises for it),
>>and the #9GXe getting 40.5M WINMARKs!  I find this number amazing.
>>
>>I looked hard at the ad to try to find some sort of "fine print" that would
>>show that Number Nine had done some creative benchmarking to achieve their
>>claimed 40.5M WINMARKs, but I found no such caveats.  The only benchmark
>>qualifications given were "WINBENCH 2.5 on 486/ISA at 1024 x 768 at 72 Hz."
>>

>	I called Number Nine to check on this claim.  They said that the board
>would not be shipping until the first of 93.  Also, that these were preliminary
>figures for a pre-production board.  It also does 64K colors at 1024x768.

Since seeing this ad, I've read somewhere (sorry, can't remember where) that
accelerator manufacturers are beginning to design their accelerators with
WINMARKs in mind.  In other words, they're building special hardware into
the accelerator that recognizes the Winbench suite and artificially enhances
performance.  Generally, these are probably enhancements that you couldn't
use in actual applications; their sole purpose is to bolster their benchmark
claims.

I'm not sure whether or not this is true, or even possible, but if it is
this is a very dangerous trend.  Things like WINMARKs are probably not good
indicators of actual performance anyways, but for now it's all the consumer 
has to rate performance of video boards for Windows.  If board designers
start "fudging" their WINMARK claims using specialized hardware that can
only be used to speed up Winbench, and nothing else, then we'll no longer
have a believable benchmark.  This trend would be akin to the trend in 
compilers on workstations, where some vendors have gone so far as to
enable the compiler to recognize benchmarks like Dhrystone and perform
special optimizations for that benchmark alone.  Enhancing performance for
toy benchmarks doesn't buy the consumer anything....

Maybe we should write PC Magazine and others who use the Winbench suite
to warn them of this possibility.  Hopefully they'll develop a benchmark
that reflects real system performance, say by taking a couple of 
applications and timing how long it takes to perform everyday operations.
Even if the hardware vendors are not skewing their WINMARK results,
a benchmark like this one would give the consumer a more accurate picture
anyways.

>	Hope this helps,
>		David Prall
>		prall@sparko.seas.gwu.edu

-dwh-
dhess@cs.stanford.edu

Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: tim@fsg.com (Timothy Hunt)
Subject: High Resolution Monochrome Displays
Summary: Need Recommendations
Organization: Fusion Systems Group, Inc.
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 03:04:32 GMT

Recently my high resolution (1280x960) monochrome display failed and
I'm not hopeful of fixing it.

I'm looking for recommendations for a good high resolution, 768x1024 or
greater, monochrome or grey scale display system with 19" or greater
monitor, for use with MS/Windows.

The application is mainly desktop publishing, and the user does not
want color, and does want a full page display.

Any recommendations, suggestions etc will be appreciated.

P.S. A monochrome Sun workstation display would be ideal but Sun's
     don't run MS/Windows! (yet...)


Tim Hunt
tim@fsg.com
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
From: tmc@spartan.ac.BrockU.CA (Tim Ciceran)
Subject: Re: Windows Screen Capture Facility
Organization: Brock University, St. Catharines Ontario
Date: Sun, 8 Nov 1992 17:56:14 GMT

In article <1992Nov7.163237.2190@spartan.ac.BrockU.CA> tmc@spartan.ac.BrockU.CA (Tim Ciceran) writes:
>Does anyone happen to know if there are any public domain programs for
>capturing Windows screens to a file? If so, could you please drop me
>a quick line and let me know where they can be found.

I overlooked the obvious and then discovered the PRT SCR/clipboard
combination. Thanks Daniel!

Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
From: varkki@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (Varkki George)
Subject: Re: TrueType Palatino font anywhere?
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Date: Sun, 8 Nov 1992 15:28:04 GMT

In article <16898CDA7.PRAETHE@YaleVM.YCC.Yale.Edu> PRAETHE@YaleVM.YCC.Yale.Edu (Ethan Evan Prater) writes:
>In article <721082529snx@apusapus.demon.co.uk>
>tfj@apusapus.demon.co.uk (Trevor Jenkins) writes:
> 
>>So does anyone know if there is a TrueType version of this font anywhere
>>that I can ftp?
> 
>I don't know if there's a FAQL for this group, but this should be at the top
>if it.
> 
>Palatino is called Book Antiqua; I have Adobe's
>Type 1 Palatino and the Microsoft equivalent -- there is virtually no
>difference. What difference there is, as far as can tell, is just in a few
>letter stylings, not actual quality.

i am not so sure. while the two fonts *look* a lot like each other, i
found that the length of large documents vary quite a bit if these
fonts are used. that, of course, throws pagination off, realigns
tables, and causes a number of other unpleasant outcomes.

varkki george


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Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
From: 020ELVIN@Witsvma.wits.ac.za (Elvin Kan)
Subject: Re: Windows 3.1 and Calcomp
Organization: Wits University
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 92 23:48:49 RSA

I'm looking for a Calcomp driver for use under Windows 3.1. It seems that
there isn't one readily available. Could someone help shed some light on
the subject ?
 
I've got a thermal Calcomp and usually I'd use it from Harvard Graphics but
now I'd like to use it from Windows 3.1
 
Thanx in advance
 
Elvin
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
From: elee969@elroy.uh.edu (Brown, William J.)
Subject: DECNET and 386MAX  
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41    
Organization: University of Houston
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 23:29:00 GMT

We load the Pathworks 4.1 at bootup, which consumes a lot of memory.  Recently,
we got the memory manager 386MAX, but we can't get it to load the network
high.  Has anybody done this?  I know some people use QEMM and apparently have
success loading the network high so I believe we should be able to do it with
386MAX.

bill
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
From: mark@ocsmd.ocs.com (Mark Wilson)
Subject: CA_Realizer
Organization: Online Computer Systems, Inc.  Germantown, Md., 20874
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL5
Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1992 13:43:52 GMT

--
OOPS!
My earlier note referred to "CE_Realizer", whereas it's really
"CA_Realizer", from Computer Associates... (to repeat, it's a
competitor to Visual Basic)... They say it's a lot better
than VB 1.0, but what about VB 2.0?   CA_Realizer is on sale
for "only" $99 "for a limited time only", so if this is really
a good deal I'd like to get in on it... ANY EXPERIENCE WITH
THIS PRODUCT OUT THERE???

Please email me or call the 800 number below and (if I'm not in)
leave a message.  THANKS!

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From: c60b-1hy@web-2a.berkeley.edu (Albert Wu)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
Subject: Word 2.0 blues
Date: 11 Nov 1992 23:02:19 GMT
Organization: University of California, Berkeley
NNTP-Posting-Host: web-2a.berkeley.edu


There are  2 problems that I am experiencing with MS Word for Windows 2.0
One is concerning the view of the page.  When I click on the button on
the toolbar that lets me view the entire page of my document, it doesn't 
show the justification correctly.  My text extends beyond the boundaries
on the right side.  I have the driver for my video card installed 
correctly and it is running in 600x800 mode.

The second problem is concerning the fonts.  I had just helped a friend
install in Windows 3.1 and Word 2.0.  When we ran Word, the little box
that displays the font name said "Tms Rmn" instead of the default
True Type "Times New Roman."  When we clicked on the down arrow to see the
rest of the list, it was blank.  Nothing was there.  The funny thing was
that if we type in the name of the font that we wanted like, Arial, for
example, we would get it.  The document would be typed in Arial.  Word
was recognizing the fonts but not displaying them on the list.  The same
thing occurred in Character under the Format menu.  We checked MS
Write and the fonts showed up there.  We checked the fonts under the 
Control Panel and they were all installed.

I would appreciate any suggestions or help.  Thanks.

Albert Wu
UC Berkeley
c60b-1hy@web.berkeley.edu
From: john.will@satalink.com (John Will)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
Subject: The non-windows app windo
Date: 12 Nov 92 03:04:00 GMT
Reply-To: john.will@satalink.com (John Will)
Organization: Datamax/Satalink Connection * Ivyland, PA (215) 443-9434

TO: kbourque@MtHolyoke.edu
KM>Does anyone know how to (or if it's possible) to enlarge the non-window's
KM>application window that's created when you run a non-windows app IN a window?
KM>I can't seem to get it to stretch past a certain (too small) size.  I can
KM>enlarge it lengthwise, not heigthwise.

Have you changed the font by pulling down the menu from the upper left
hand corner?
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Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
From: kra@cunixa.cc.columbia.edu (Kenneth R Aron)
Subject: Re: 32 bit multiplication not reliable ???
Keywords: 386/16, processor faults
Reply-To: kra@cunixa.cc.columbia.edu (Kenneth R Aron)
Organization: Columbia University
Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1992 16:25:09 GMT

This is just a guess, but I have a vague recollection that there
are problems with a math co-pro faster than the CPU.  Your post
says you have a 16mhz CPU and a 25mhz co-pro.  Is this conflict
Windows-specific?  If not, this may be your problem.

Ken

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From: kpm8447@tesla.njit.edu
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
Subject: 2 Page up Word for Windows
Date: 5 Nov 92 13:38:41 GMT
Organization: New Jersey Institute of Technology

Does anyone know of a program (or macro for word for windows 2.0) that
allows the laser printing of 2 pages up on one.  So that the paper would
be viewed in landscape (11x8.5) but it would have to portrait pages shrunk
down on it.  My computer lab here at school prints like that to conserve
paper and I figured it would be nice to do when printing documentation.
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From: syy@ElSegundoCA.ncr.com (Sang Y. Yum)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
Subject: Re: Using Adlib to run waves on Windows
Date: 13 Nov 92 17:12:34 GMT
Reply-To: syy@ElSegundoCA.ncr.com
Distribution: world
Organization: Teradata/NCR

In article 1dpl2fINNnvr@MINERVA.CIS.YALE.EDU, han-esther@yale.edu (Esther Han) writes:
>I recently got an adlib card along with the program.  However, I'd like Windows
>to use the adlib card as a default.  I have a 386sx/16 with a 40 Mg HD, and
>Windows 3.1.  When I run a *.mid file on the Media player, it plays fine,
>but when I try to run the Sound Recorder, it says there is no sound driver
>installed and to go into the Control Panel and install it.  Well, the Adlib
>driver *is* installed.  If I go into Sound under the Control Panel, the *.wav
>files appear, but they are greyed out.  They do turn black when I install the
>PC driver (which I hate).
>
>Does anyone know what is wrong?  Can anyone tell me how to remedy this?
>
>Thanks!
>
>
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Get adlibw.zip file from ftp.cica.indiana.edu.  It's the adlib driver for wave file

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From: system@magman.mv.com (SYSTEM 0PERATOR)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
Subject: Re: DECNET and 386MAX
Date: 11 Nov 92 14:26:29 GMT
Reply-To: system@magman.mv.com
Organization: Pelican Enterprises

In <10NOV199217293108@elroy.uh.edu> elee969@elroy.uh.edu (Brown, William J.) writes:
>We load the Pathworks 4.1 at bootup, which consumes a lot of memory.  Recently,
>we got the memory manager 386MAX, but we can't get it to load the network
>high.  Has anybody done this?  I know some people use QEMM and apparently have
>success loading the network high so I believe we should be able to do it with
>386MAX.


It is not supported to load DECnet high.  A couple of people have had luck
doing it, but most have not.  The documentation explicitly disallows it.

--bob
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
From: kevin@edscom.demon.co.uk (Kevin Broadey)
Subject: Re: question on ftp'ing and winqvt/net
X-Disclaimer: These opinions are mine: others available on request.
Organization: EDS-Scicon, Milton Keynes, UK
X-Newsreader: GNUS 3.14.1
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 13:43:52 GMT

>>>>> In article <6NOV199209125152@elroy.uh.edu>, elee969@elroy.uh.edu
>>>>> (Brown, William J.) writes:

Bill> Also, I have a question on the mail utility on winqvt/net.
Bill> Whenever I try to send mail, I get "Error on XTND/XMIT" or
Bill> something like that.  Does anybody know what that is about?
Bill> Needless to say the mail is not sent.

The problem is with the POP3 server on your mail host.  The original
POP3 (Post Office Protocol, version 3) definition (RFC 1081) described a
protocol for reading messages from a maildrop.  The only thing it said
about sending mail is that the client could use SMTP (Simple Mail
Transfer Protocol) if it wanted to!  Later POP3 definitions added
extended commands to do various clever things, including XTND XMIT which
is used to send mail.

You need to upgrade your POP3 server.  If your mail host is a UN*X box,
get hold of "popper" from your favourite archive server.
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