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From: roy%cybrspc@cs.umn.edu (Roy M. Silvernail)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Re: File called "SUICIDE.IBM"
Date: Sat, 12 Sep 92 11:39:55 CDT
Organization: Villa CyberSpace, Minneapolis, MN

drice@ponder.csci.unt.edu (Keith Rice) writes:

> NEVER TYPE AN UNKNOWN FILE!!!!!
> 
> Using TYPE to display the contents of a file could turn out to be a BIG
> mistake.  Usin TYPE on a file with imbedded ANSI strings could remap
> your keyboard (i.e. remap F3 (or any other key) to enter
> "echo y | del *.*", causing deletion of an entire directory).
> 
> Use a utility like LIST.

And use an ANSI driver to which you

    a)  have the source

    b)  have disabled that pesky redefinition

That way, you simply don't have those problems.
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
From: ntaib@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (Iskandar Taib)
Subject: Re: Those Intel Processors (what is SX/DX)
Organization: Indiana University
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1992 04:07:35 GMT

In article <18qmjkINN6b@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu> dab6@po.CWRU.Edu (Douglas A. Bell) writes:
>
>In a previous article, David.Norman@ttlg.UUCP (David Norman) says:

||I would like to know what the "DX" and "SX" stand for. I know how they work in hard ware, but what dos DX really stand for ?????

|I don't think these two terms mean anything.
|If it does, intel has not made the meanings very well known.

|The joke for a while was that sx stood for 'sucks'.
|I guess that means that dx stands for 'ducks'.
|If there is any meaning in this, it is very cryptic.


I've posted this several times before but I find 
people usually find it humorous:


SX = SuX.
DX = DeluXe.




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Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
From: shoham@enel.ucalgary.ca (Idan Shoham)
Subject: TRIDENT VGA chipsets
Date: Sun, 06 Sep 92 22:14:42 GMT
Organization: ECE Department, U. of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada

Hi all,

Does anyone out there have any idea on where to get specs. on the
chipsets used in trident vga cards?  I need register addresses, modes,
etc.  A BBS maintained by the company, e-mail or (gasp!) postal
address where I could reach someone to get this sort of info would
be helpful too.  8)

Thanks!

Idan
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From: norm@bnr.ca (Norm MacNeil)
Subject: WANTED: Low-level disk formatter
Originator: norm@bcrks122
Reply-To: norm@bnr.ca
Organization: Bell-Northern Research Ltd.
Date: Tue, 8 Sep 1992 13:17:52 GMT


My brother's hard disk with stacker installed took a turn for the worst (FAT
destroyed).  Anyway, I want to do a low-level format since the 100MB disk has
two partitions on it and he wants to instead just have one big disk.  Apparently
the "FORMAT" command doesn't do this.  So the question is, where do I get a
low-level hard disk formatter?

Thanks,
  Norm.

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From: storm@uriel (Marc WANDSCHNEIDER)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Re: Opinions on Stacker
Date: 11 Sep 92 01:20:28 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: SOCS, McGill University, Montreal, Canada

In article <Gordon.Edwards.54.0@AtlantaGA.NCR.COM> Gordon.Edwards@AtlantaGA.NCR.COM (Gordon Edwards) writes:
>What are people's opinions on Stacker?
>
>Are there many horror stories or is it generally pretty stable software?

	I used it for quite a long time, and had absolutely NO problems 
with it that were unreasonable.

	QEMM's Optimize didn't like it all that much, but apart from that,
things worked great.  I now have oodles of disk space, so I don't run it,
but my girlfriend does, and it's quite reliable.

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
From: riqn@zombie (Riku Nieminen)
Subject: HELP: Tdebug in high mem w/ 486
Organization: University of Oulu, Finland
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL4
Date: Wed, 9 Sep 1992 12:30:00 GMT

I'm trying to get Turbo Debug (3.1) in hig mem on a 486 with no avail. When
I run td386 it just reboots the machine. 
I think that the keyword is _386_, so is there any fixes/patches/anything to
get Tdebug work on a 486.

-RN

Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
From: liberato@dri.com (Jimmy Liberato)
Subject: Re: DR DOS EMM386 Error
Reply-To: liberato@dri.com (Jimmy Liberato)
Organization: Novell/Desktop Systems Group, Monterey Development Center
Distribution: na
Date: Tue, 8 Sep 92 16:45:53 GMT

kmcvay@zoo (ken mcvay) writes:

>I've been running into an error with a DR DOS 6.0 system which seems to
>have something to do with the way EMM386 is loaded.
>
>
>EMM386.SYS isn't loaded directly. Here's config.sys:
>
>...

What you probably mean is that it loaded from DCONFIG.SYS on the uncompressed
portion of your drive. DCONFIG.SYS is the primary configuration file which then
chains to CONFIG.SYS after the SuperStor driver is installed and drive 
designations are swapped.  We would need to see your DCONFIG.SYS on drive D:.


>Here's the error message:
>
>EMM386: Write attempted to relocated BDOS from 02C1:1B45 CR2=00103000

If you can't determine what the offending program is, you can disable the
kernal relocation by using the /BDOS parameter.  Alternately, you can try
to use QEMM in place of EMM386 and then use HIDOS.SYS /BDOS=FFFF for the
kernal relocation.  You will most likely still get an error but it will be
from QEMM which might be a bit more verbose.

Good luck!

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
From: davef@cs.ubc.ca (David Finkelstein)
Subject: Printing problem
Organization: Computer Science, University of B.C., Vancouver, B.C., Canada
Date: Sat, 5 Sep 92 01:40:56 GMT

My mother is having a problem printing from her 386 to her HP LaserJet
III from WordPerfect 5.1 (well the latest WP; she's pretty sure it's
5.1).

Although documents print fine, they have to wait up to 45 seconds
after asking for the printout before anything will print.  These are
fairly simple, small documents (legal letters and notes, often only a
page).  The problem has gotten worse with time -- letters used to
print quickly, but now take time before printing.

Has this problem been noticed by anyone else?  Any thoughts as to what
the cause might be?

Supposedly there have been some problems with the WP print drivers (my
mom had to upgrade to the LaserJet III because she was told WP didn't
work well with the II she had).  Disk fragmentation was suggested by
someone; but for small documents, shouldn't they be entirely in
memory?

Thanks for any help you can provide.

--- Dave


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From: Scott.Johnson@FtCollinsCO.NCR.COM (Scott Johnson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Re: Stacker vs. SuperStor
Date: 11 Sep 92 08:06:48 GMT
	<sheldon.716047316@pv141b.vincent.iastate.edu>
Reply-To: Scott.Johnson@FtCollinsCO.NCR.COM
Distribution: usa
Organization: NCR Microelectronics, Ft. Collins, CO
In-reply-to: sheldon@iastate.edu's message of 9 Sep 92 14:01:56 GMT

>>>>> On 9 Sep 92 14:01:56 GMT, sheldon@iastate.edu (Steve Sheldon) said:

>> In <BuA1Eu.480@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu> ezachris@cochiti.ucs.indiana.edu writes:


>I (too) am running out of diskspace and Stacker and SuperStor came to  
>mind. SuperStor will give you compressed floppies, which Stacker won't.

>Which is better?
>Any difference in performance (compression ration/speed)?


	Um, Stacker does give you the ability to write compressed floppies.
Probably the difference here (and I could be wrong, but...) I think that
the latest SuperStor gives you the ability to write compressed floppies that
are readable by any machine, even without superstor, whereas the Stacker
compressed floppies require that Stacker be running in order to read them.
	In any case, I have only used Stacker 2.0 and it works just fine for
me.  Dunno what my current compression ratio is, but it's been as high as 1.8:1
Either choice seems o.k. (though there are definitely some people on this
net that take this whole thing rather religiously, so watch out :-)  I'm sure
the developers of both really love the fact that they've got so many devoted
worshippers ;-)

-Scott

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From: exuptr@exu.ericsson.se (exuptr@exu.ericsson.se)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Re: Upgrade 286 or Junk it.......
Date: 15 Sep 92 20:57:21 GMT
Organization: Ericsson Network Systems, Inc.

In article <1992Sep15.174015.25903@csx.cciw.ca> hcp@csx.cciw.ca (H.C. Pulley) writes:
>In article <9132@ncratl.AtlantaGA.NCR.COM> gedwards@ncratl.AtlantaGA.NCR.COM (Gordon Edwards) writes:

>>I recently upgrade from a 286 to a 386-40 and got the motherboard for $199.

>I did too.  Mine was $450 Can$ with 4MB RAM.

Pretty good prices, in all.

>>You'll probably need a new case, most of the 286 cases (I think) are not
>>built in such a way that the 386 board would fit correctly.  A new case with
>>power supply is abour $75.

>My case is a baby-AT.  The 386 motherboard is for a baby-AT.  It fits just
>fine.  As long as you buy a motherboard compatible with your case you should 
>be fine.

I concur with the second person, here.

>>You might also consider getting Stacker or something similair to increase 
>>your disk space if you're going to be running huge applications like Windows.

>I agree; Stacker 2.0 is a good idea.  With a 386-40 I don't even notice any
>de/compression lag.

Stacker actually *improves* your speed on faster machines.  Turns out 
decompressing is faster than reading the extra data off the disk.

Don't be afraid to trash a 286.  I'm going to have to do this myself, since
my 286 will not support IDE drives.  Crap.  But it's a good excuse ;-)

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
From: umrobe57@ccu.umanitoba.ca (Ken A. Roberge)
Subject: help in sorceror's university
Organization: University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada
Distribution: World
 
Date: Sat, 12 Sep 1992 17:15:19 GMT

	I'm at the part in the game Spellcasting 101 when you get clubbed
over the head and there's no one left on campus..I don't know what to do
now..can anyone give me some help?? Please reply via e-mail..thank you
very much
 
                     Ken

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
From: jeremy@lion.inmos.co.uk (Jeremy Thorp)
Subject: Re: Flight simulators
Followup-To: comp.sys.ibm.pc.games 
Organization: INMOS Limited, Bristol, UK
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1992 12:57:20 GMT

In article <1992Sep14.202313.8118@spartan.ac.BrockU.CA>, bross@spartan.ac.BrockU.CA (Brian J Ross) writes:
|> 
|> 
|> Can anyone recommend a half-decent WWII flight simulation for the PC?
|> I've seen two in stores, "Secret weapons of the Luftwaffe" and
|> "Aces over the Pacific" -- recommendations? I'm interested in one
|> with a measure of realism, and not just a shoot-em-up game.
|> Something equivalent to the Mac's Hellcats would be great.
|> One compiled to 386/486 chips would be ideal.

I have Secret Weapons of the Luftwaffe and it is very good (on a 486 - I wouldn't recommend
it on a 286).

I have seen a good review of Aces of the Pacific (again it needs a fast PC), but I've not
played it.

I have played Battle of Britain: Their Finest Hour (same people as did SWOTL, but slightly
older game).

|> 
|> By the way, why isn't there a comp.sys.ibm.pc.games newsgroup,
|> similar to the one for Macs?  Not all of us are word processing fanatics.

There IS a group called comp.sys.ibm.pc.games

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From: bill@solaria (Bill Neisius)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Re: Q: Are the Baud Rate and BPS same?
Date: 15 Sep 92 22:32:29 GMT
Reply-To: bill@solaria.hac.com
Distribution: usa
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL5

OK, so what's the highest BAUD rate?  I think the answer is
1200.....
From: smp@cathedral.cerc.wvu.wvnet.edu (Shailesh M. Potnis)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Is there an FTP site with ATI ALTRA crystal fonts for win3.1
Date: 14 Sep 92 16:22:32 GMT


	I would like to know if an anonymous ftp site exists for downloading
the crystal fornt of ATI Graphic Altra compatible with win 3.1

	Thanks in advance

	Shailesh
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
From: sheldon@iastate.edu (Steve Sheldon)
Subject: Re: Suggestions Wanted
Organization: Iowa State University, Ames IA
Date: Mon, 7 Sep 1992 19:10:17 GMT

In <1992Sep6.182117.17817@news2.cis.umn.edu> mmoore@donald.cs.umn.edu ("None of ya Bizness") writes:

>In article <lakg3gINNic6@aludra.usc.edu> jjung@usc.edu (John Jung) writes:
>$(I am not an IBM nut, so if I say something vague that is important, please
>$tell me, so I can clarify it.)
>$
>$  A friend of mine has (from what I can tell) an old IBM compatible. He already
>$has a 20 meg hard drive, a mouse, a (semi-broken) printer, and a modem (he
>$has a Prodigy account). However, my friend would love to be able to do WYSIWYG
>$word processing and maybe a little programming.
>$
>$  So my question is:
>$
>$	What computer set up do you recommend for me friend?
>$
>$  Please try to be as economical as possible, since I don't know how much he
>$wants to spend.

>Well if he wants to do any serious type computing he's gonna need at
>least a 386 or better.  He could slied with a 286 but that's gonna be
>slow as all hell.

>$(I was personally thinking of recommending a PS/1 with Windows 3.x and an Epson
>$compatible printer.)			      ^^^^

>Yiiiikes! No!  This may not be the group to say this but DON'T BUY a
>PS/1!!!  Get a clone.  If you wanna stick to the IBM nbame then at
>least get a PS/2.

 I'd generally avoid the IBM line up if at all possible.  We have a PS/2 
Model 70 here at work.  For one thing peripheral cards are more expensive
because of the MCA not being well supported.  And everything about them in
general is non-standard, thus expensive.  They use modified harddrives, and
our 60 Meg drive is dying, but a new 120 Meg drive for the PS/2 costs around
$800-900.

 Stay away from Packard Bell, or Leading Technology.  They both make junk.
You could buy a mail order clone from some place like Gateway, Dell, Zeos, etc.
and do well.

 For what it sounds like you friend wants to do I'd recommend this:

 386SX-25 with around 4 Megs of RAM.
 120 Meg harddrive
 VGA color monitor

 Looking thru Computer Shopper you can buy a setup something like this for
around $1200.  Actually it looks like Digital Direct is offering one of the
best deals on these.

 You ought to be able to find something locally besides IBM or Packard Bell.

 My rule is: If it looks cheap mechanically it probably is cheap electrically.


 All of the above are just opinions.



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Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
From: hunter@quake.sylmar.ca.us (James Collins)
Subject: Dr. Watson
Organization: Quake Public Access, Sylmar CA
Date: Sat, 12 Sep 1992 17:11:49 GMT

I was just fooling around in the windows directory of my harddrive and I 
found a program called drwatson.exe in it (I have win 3.1, and it was 
pre-installed).  However, when I looked through the manuals, I couldn't 
find anything on this program.  So, what exactly is it?  When I run it, 
it says something about no windows errors or something like that.  Thanks 
in advance.

James Collins
hunter@quake.sylmar.ca.us
james.collins%bbs@quake.sylmar.ca.us
From: 6500boo@ucsbuxa.ucsb.edu (William Bushing)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: P24T... What is it???
Date: 12 Sep 92 21:37:36 GMT
Distribution: comp

Okay... I've been "stuck" out in the boonies with my girlfriend
away from newspapers, television and (most importantly!) the
INTERNET. What is the P24T? Do I need to know about it? Thanks
in advance!

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
From: Frank Hoffmann <fh.pad@sni.de>
Subject: Re: CPIO and or TAR UNIX com
Organization: Siemens Nixdorf Info.Sys. AG, Paderborn, Germany
Date: Tue, 8 Sep 1992 11:23:22 GMT

To: hjanssen@cbnewse.cb.att.com (hank janssen)

> From: hjanssen@cbnewse.cb.att.com (hank janssen)
> Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1992 21:15:02 GMT
> Organization: AT&T
> Message-ID: <1992Aug26.211502.21756@cbnewse.cb.att.com>
> Newsgroups:
> comp.sys.ibm.pc,comp.sys.ibm.pc.programmer,comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
>
>
> Is there a cpio version, compatible with the UNIX cpio, available  for
> the PC. Also is there maybe a TAR for the PC compatible with the  UNIX
> tar available.???
>
> If  so  can some kind soul please tell me where i can get  a hold (ftp

> site or something) for these programs.????

Yup!

I have tar and cpio for DOS running here free.

Send me a short email, if you're interested.

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From: alumni107@camins.camosun.bc.ca
Subject: Re: Borland C++ vs Turbo C++
Summary: BC++ = optimizing compiler + support products
Organization: Camosun College
Date: Mon, 7 Sep 1992 20:28:17 GMT

In article <1992Sep7.010713.973@galaxy.gov.bc.ca>,
tklancar@galaxy.gov.bc.ca writes: 
> In article<1992Sep6.184924.3701@cc.umontreal.ca>, rahmanqi@ERE.UMontreal.CA
(Rahman Qazi Ibadur) writes: 
>> Hello, 
>>   I am thinking of buying TC++ or BC++. Can anyone tell me the diffrence 
>> between these two borland products. 
>> 
>> Thanks
>> 
>> rahmanqi@brise.ERE.UMontreal.ca
> 
> 
> I believe that Borland C++ includes the ability to create Windows programs,
> whereas Turbo C++ does not.
> 
> Tony 

No. 
There are two versions of Turbo C++; Turbo C++ for Windows and Turbo
C++. The Windows version includes Windows support (obviously), a
Windows-only IDE, and the ObjectWindows application framework. The DOS
version does not include support for Windows, has a DOS IDE, and comes 
either with or without the TurboVision (DOS app) application framework. 

Borland C++ can come either with or without BOTH application 
frameworks. Regardless, it includes support for Windows applications. 
It has both a DOS and a WIndows IDE. It also includes goodies like 
Turbo Assembler and Turbo Profiler. More significantly, it is an 
optimizing compiler, and Turbo C++ is not.

Jeff Johnson; .sig agnostic
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
From: brown-sh@news.cis.ohio-state.edu (shawn c brown)
Subject: Substitute for XCOPY
Organization: The Ohio State University Department of Computer and Information Science
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1992 17:48:11 GMT

	Does anyone out there know of a substitute for XCOPY that uses as
much memory as is available (or even a hard disk)?

Shawn Brown
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware,comp.os.msdos.desqview,comp.os.msdos.misc
From: burge@qdeck.com (Bill Burge)
Subject: Re: Need Expanded Memory Driver for VLSI 286 PC
Organization: Quarterdeck Office Systems, Santa Monica CA
Distribution: usa
Date: Tue, 08 Sep 1992 15:32:12 GMT
Keywords: Expanded Memory, 286, QRAM, 386MAX, VLSI, chip set

In article <1992Sep4.200316.18619@otsc.eds.com> snyde_sl@otsc.eds.com (Steve Snyder) writes:
>A colleague has a 286 PC clone with a motherboard made by VLSI.
>He believes the chipset is also made by VLSI, but is not certain.
>He has 4 MB of RAM installed on the motherboard.  
>
>He tried a driver called VEMM.SYS but that did not work.
>I know Quarterdeck has a package called QRAM that works on 286s
>with Chips & Technologies NEAT, LEAP, and SCAT chip sets.  I
>believe Qualitas's 386MAX also works with the C&T chip sets on
>286s.  Anyone know for sure if these or any other expanded memory
>drivers will works on a VLSI 286 motherboard?  Commercial 
>software, shareware, or freeware would all be of interest.
>

There is a lot of cunfusion over the "286 based" products that you have 
referred to above.  They do not require a 286, they DO require that EITHER
a LIM 4.0 hardware compatible EMS board or a shadow RAM chipset.  They use
the capabilities of these two types of hardware (that are capable of making
unused areas between 640 and 1024 mappable to RAM) to load programs high.
They DO NOTR enable EMS support in these systems.  Some shadow RAM chipsets,
like the one in ALR 286's, also support making EMS via the chipset.  This
requires a driver provided from ALR.  You friend should contact VLSI.  If
the chipset (I can't see VLSI using someone else's chipset for their MB's
when they make their own) is capable they could provide a driver.

There are some EMS emulators, like Turbo EMS, but I think he would find
them woefully inadiquate.

Bill	burge@qdeck.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
From: carlf@panix.com (Carl Fink)
Subject: Re: File called "SUICIDE.IBM"
Date: Wed, 16 Sep 1992 00:45:00 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: PANIX Public Access Unix, NYC

  Of course, if you don't load ANSI.SYS (like I don't) then you
can safely TYPE the file.
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