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From: johne@tule.intel.com (John Elliott)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
Subject: Re: Problem: Stacker / Sm
Date: 30 Sep 92 19:56:11 GMT
Article-I.D.: aus.1992Sep30.195611.26989
Reply-To: johne@tule.intel.com (John Elliott)
Organization: Software Technology Group, Intel Corp.

In article <1992Sep29.124637.4082@mksol.dseg.ti.com>,
mccall@mksol.dseg.ti.com (fred j mccall 575-3539) 
> 
> In <3256.1100.uupcb@satalink.com> john.will@satalink.com (John Will) writes:
> 
> >FJ.>Help me, i don't want to format my Hard Disk and loose 200 MG of
Programs!!
> >  .
> >  .>WHAT CAN I DO ????
> >  .
> >  .Check the back of your Stacker manual in the Appendix containing Error
> >  .Messages.  Look for the one about "Stacker Drive Write Protected".  Do
> >  .what it says.
> 
> >That's great, but he tried what it told him, and it didn't work!  You
> >have to run SCHECK/F first, but that's not what the message says.
> 
> Now then, don't you feel silly?

On my system I got into a logic loop where stacker insisted that I had to run
chkdsk /f before I could recover lost clusters, but chkdsk said I did
not have any
lost clusters!

I Then tried Norton 5.0, at the suggestion of the stacker people.  At
first it could not
see the problem either, but one combination trashed the drive.  In the
process, the 
stacker people admitted that they had an upgrade (this was about june 92).
It didn't help either.

Moral - backup the software at all times.

PS anyone want to buy a stacker AT-16 board and software?
John Elliott
johne@tule.intel.com
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
From: sam4628@zeus.tamu.edu (MCCLUNEY, STEVEN ALEXANDER)
Subject: Re: Paradise drivers for 3.1
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41    
Organization: Texas A&M University, Academic Computing Services
Date: Fri, 16 Oct 1992 17:36:00 GMT

In article <1992Oct16.160432.15303@email.tuwien.ac.at>, bloeser@tron.kom.tuwien.ac.at (Friedrich Bloeser) writes...
> 
>File parad31.zip contains a corrupt 640x480x256 driver (other posters in
>this group have previously also come to the same conclusion) and
>file pvga1a31.exe contains just a 640x400x256 driver.
> 

In what way is the 640x480x256 driver in parad31.zip corrupt?  I've been
using it for quite a while with only one minor problem (small white
dots on certain GIF displays -- a problem I had under 3.0 as well).
Otherwise, it works fine with all my Win3.1 apps and my Dos apps under
windows... Is something waiting around the corner to bite me?

Thanks!

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Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
From: alanfink@javelin.sim.es.com (Alan Fink)
Subject: Re: MICROSOFT IS STACKING THE DECK!
Reply-To: alanfink@javelin.sim.es.com
Organization: Evans & Sutherland Computer Corp., Salt Lake City, Utah
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 1992 19:42:25 GMT

There is an investigation going on as we speak.  Refer to Business Week
October 5, 1992 (or a week or two earlier) which talks about an invesigation
against Microsoft.  Many companies are complaining about this 'performance
difference' issue.  Gates is not worried, however, as he feels he can easily
beat the wrap.
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
From: whitaker@netcom.com (Brad Whitaker)
Subject: Re: mscdex says 'incorrect version of DOS'?!
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services (408 241-9760 guest)
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1992 07:43:42 GMT

I haven't used Windows NT, but I had the same problem with DOS 5.0 and
Windows 3.1.  The solution is to install the "setver" device driver.
The default table for setver has an entry to tell mscdex that DOS 4.0
is running.

Brad Whitaker         whitaker@netcom.com  
"If the line wiggles, that's good" - Robert Pirsig 
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
From: phade@opal.cs.tu-berlin.de (Frank Gadegast)
Subject: Converting Mac TTF-Fonts to Windows TTF ?
Organization: Techn. University of Berlin, Germany
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 1992 16:06:00 GMT

Hi,

Is there really a True-Type-compatible font-format for the Mac's ?

So here some questions ...

1) Where to get those Mac-TTF-Fonts via ftp ?
2) How to convert them to use with Windows 3.1 (if needed) ?

PLEASE REPLY BY E-MAIL, I post a summary.


Thnx in advance ... Phade

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Inh. Frank Gadegast            Fon/Fax: +49 30 3128103

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From: desjarly@JSP.UMontreal.CA (Desjardins Lyne)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
Subject: Looking for a BRIDGE game (via ftp) ?
Date: 6 Oct 92 17:14:19 GMT
Organization: Universite de Montreal

Hi !

I'm new to this newsgroup and I was wondering if someone could help me.

I'm looking for a BRIDGE game (yes, the card game) with Windows.
Do you know an address (via ftp) that I can get it ?? 

Please, respond via e-mail !

Thanks a lot !

Lyne
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Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
From: WKWINKEL@ibm.rz.uni-passau.de
Subject: Re: Multimedia authoring tool
Organization: University of Passau - Germany
Date: Wed, 7 Oct 1992 08:50:08 GMT

In article <Bvprq7.Frp@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>
varkki@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (Varkki George) writes:
 
>
>Are there available any high-level authoring tools for creating multimedia
>Windows applications? Essentially, I am looking for the Windows
>equivalent of Supercard (for the Mac).
>
>R. Varkki George
>--
>Department of Urban and Regional Planning  | E-mail: varkki@uiuc.edu
>University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign | Tel:    217.244.7059
 
Varkki,
have a look at Toolbook from Asymetrix. It is more or less a close
adaption of hypercard + color support. It has an extra package called
multimedia extensions. I didn't work with these extensions, but
toolbook itself is very powerful.
Regards,
Olaf Winkelhake
University of Passau, Germany
Dept. of Economics
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
From: tomh@wes.on.ca (Tom Haapanen)
Subject: Re: ARGHH!-WFW2.0 Sucks big time!
Organization: Waterloo Engineering Software
Date: Thu, 08 Oct 1992 23:28:45 GMT
Keywords: Crashes problems wfw

mcdonald@aries.scs.uiuc.edu (J. D. McDonald) writes:
> True. But still it is clunky. Can you say too big for a floppy backup?
> That is too big!!

To back up Word itself?  Or the files?  Surely you can't fit a full TeX onto
a floppy, either?

> The output of TeX is clearly superior,
> especially in equations. The lack of a "bibtex" full equivalent is a
> serious lack (which, admittedly, can probably be fixed without Microsoft's
> help. But W4W is seriously buggy and in some ways seriously klunky. 

TeX is admittedly superior for equations.  Output quality?  Yes, maybe,
but it's a lot more work using a variety of fonts, combining graphics
or previewing output.

> W4W also lacks other seriously needed features - character and
> paragraph styles, for instance.

Word most certainly has paragraph styles.  No character styles, but what
PC word processor besides Word for DOS does?  

> One of the biggest ... in fact, I would say THE biggest ... flaws in
> W4W is that you can't read the intermediate files (modulo things like
> indluded bitmaps) and can't (the topic of the original post) #include
> other files. It is **very** possible to introduce bugs into a W4W
> file that simply **can't** be fixed, because you can't read the file
> and see what they are. People knock TeX because it is a "programming
> language". True, but W4W is too, in a sense, **and it prohibits you from
> reading the code to find bugs**!!!!

How about turning on field codes, and paragraph markers?  What else do you
need to see?  I can certainly debug my documents (up to 3 MB at times)  well
enough.

Seriously, TeX has its good points, and so does Word.  Both are excellent
tools, but you have to pick the right tool for your work.  If you prefer
batch formatting, don't need on-screen fonts, do lots of equations and
don't mind having to "program" the document, TeX may be a better choice for
you.  However, for millions of users out there, Word for Windows (or Ami
Pro or WordPerfect for Windows or ... ) is a better choice.

Me, I have gone from Script/DCF to GML to troff to Word for DOS to Word for
Windows, and I won't go back.  But I don't do many equations.  :)

[ \tom haapanen    "i don't even know what street canada is on" -- al capone ]
[ tomh@wes.on.ca                   "trust the programmer" -- ansi c standard ]
[ waterloo engineering software      "to thine own self be true" -- polonius ]
From: jyl@burgess.eng.sun.com (Jacob Levy)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
Subject: mscdex says 'incorrect version of DOS'?!
Date: 12 Oct 92 09:52:45
Organization: What?! Organization???
Reply-To: jyl@toss.eng.sun.com
NNTP-Posting-Host: burgess

This problem is a bit esoteric, but any help will be greatly appreciated:

I have a 486/33 with Win NT installed, doing dual boot. I am trying to
install a CD Rom for use with DOS and Windows 3.1, which is the second
alternative in my dual boot setup.

The hardware: I have an Adaptec 1542B with an external Sony CD Rom
(CDU-8something) and another disk. The CD Rom is unit 6, the external disk
is unit 1, and another internal disk is unit 0.

What I did: I have installed ASPI drivers for the Sony CD Rom no problem,
and I got the ASW-410 ASPI CD Rom module for DOS Version 2.1 Rev A P/N
481189-01 from the Adaptec BBS. The driver for the Sony CD Rom installs
fine and finds the CD Rom, but when I try to run MSCDEX (found in the same
package) it says

	'incorrect version of DOS'

and refuses to load.

Any clues? Any help would be appreciated, I have no idea what's wrong.
Anyone else seen this problem?

Thanks, --JYL
From: unixlan+@pitt.edu (Wei-ming William Lin)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
Subject: Wanted: MSC 6.0a (Yes, !! 6.0a !!) (Please read if you have
Date: 8 Oct 92 13:41:33 GMT
Organization: University of Pittsburgh


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Hi Folks,

I know this is not the best place to do so, but I need your help!!

Don't say I am crazy.  Yes, I need your olde version of MSC!!  My old libraries
can support nothing but MSC 6.0, so.....  If you have a copy of MSC 6.0a
gathering dust in your shelf, now is the best time to send it out.  It does not
have to be in the mint condition, but at least descent.  Manuals must be 
complete.  And if you still have your registration card, that will be perfect 
(although not necessary).  Just remember, IT MUST BE 6.0a, NOT 6.0.  Please 
reply by e-mail.  Thanx in advance. (One more: 3.5" is preferred,
although 5.25" is OK.)

Willie

"UNIX(tm), X & LAN --- The Promise of the Future!!"
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Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
From: luis@informatik.rwth-aachen.de (Luis M. Garcia Suarez)
Subject: Problems with Cinetic Mail Manager
Followup-To: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
Organization: RWTH Aachen
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 92 16:30:48 GMT

I have some problems using the Cinetic Mail Manager as a front-end to
Windows 3.1 (on a local site) for the Pegasus mail system weve installed
on a file server.

Sending mail is no problem, but I'm not able to read my received mail. In
the setup menu I only find a field to indicate the location of the mailbox
on the server. I did so, but without success.

I don't understand how Cinetic Mail Manager (CMM) should be able to read
the incoming mail only by the specification of the mailbox, because I think
you have to invoke the Pegasus system to understand the format of the mail,
and obviously CMM doesn't do this.

Can anyone tell if my consideration are right, and even better, indicate a
solution to my problem!


==============================================================================
Luis M. Garcia Suarez                   e-mail:
luis@informatik.rwth-aachen.de
Aachen University of Technology                         tel.: ++49 241
8021434
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Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
From: eandersn@mach1.wlu.ca (Niels Ejvind Andersen)
Subject: Re: SYSTEM.INI, WIN.INI settings
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL5
Organization: Wilfrid Laurier University
Date: Fri, 16 Oct 1992 14:13:54 GMT

Guenter Schwaninger (rb450@rbhp64.rbg.informatik.th-darmstadt.de) wrote:
  
: I'd like to get some detailed information on some INI-file settings.
: This includes description and allowed values.
: 
[ List of required settings ]

Have you had a look at the *.WRI files in your WINDOWS Directory?
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Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
From: rwh@moose.cccs.umn.edu (RICHARD HOFFBECK)
Subject: Re: MICROSOFT IS STACKING THE DECK!
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41    
Reply-To: rwh@moose.cccs.umn.edu
Organization: Colon Cancer Control Study, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1992 20:12:00 GMT

> I doubt it will happen.  Microsoft does not have a monopoly
> on small computer operating systems or in small computer
> applications.  

In fact MacWeek made the comment that the area that was getting the most FTC
attention was Microsoft's (70% market share or thereabouts) presence  in the
Mac software market where they haven't got the OS advantage like they do with
DOS.

Anyone waiting for the FTC to breakup MickeySoft better lay in a lot of
provisions because it isn't likely to happen anytime soon.  The Reagan-Bush
administrations have thoroughly emasculated the FTC from what it was in the
'70s when IBM sucessfully held it and the DOJ at bay for almost a decade.


>In operating systems, there are machines running
> Unix and the Mac OS.  If you don't like DOS, go to one of those.
> There are apps that compete with any MS app.  

Market definition alone should chew up a couple of years!  Is the market 
all computer software, microcomputer software, OS software?  You'd need a
pretty narrow definition of market to show anti-trust violations.  I 
suspect that the worst that may happen is that it will drag out over the
next few years (while WFW and NT gain market share) and then there will be
a trivial settlement to make the issue go away.  Agreeing to document any
OS calls used by MS products would probably be reasonably innocuous to
fill the bill.

--rick

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From: slc@a2.cim.cdc.com (Steve Chesney x4662)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
Subject: Creative Labs multimedia kit
Date: 15 Oct 92 21:19:09 GMT
Reply-To: slc@a2.cim.cdc.com (Steve Chesney x4662)

I'm interested in getting set up for the mpc multimedia stuff and the Creative 
Labs kit seems as good a place to start as any.  However...
I don't think I want the MIDI stuff, nor most of the software offered
(I have MS Windows 3.1, and don't want MS Works).  Can I get by cheaper
if I buy the components? Especially if I buy the SoundBlaster Pro Basic?
what model CD Rom reader works from it's port? Where are the better
places to buy the pieces?
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Metaphase Technology Incorporated                612-482-4662 (voice)
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From: Guy_Saffold@mindlink.bc.ca (Guy Saffold)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
Subject: Re: MICROSOFT IS STACKING THE DECK!
Date: 14 Oct 92 14:27:41 GMT
Organization: MIND LINK! - British Columbia, Canada
Distribution: world

One of the interesting features of this discussion is the apparent assumption
that Microsoft has an obligation to fully divulge all details of the software
it licences.  It's hard to understand where this assumption comes from.
Companies have trade secrets; they use them to gain competitive advantages.
These activities are subject to some limitations of law but are generally
protected legally.  I think it is reasonable to consider whether Microsoft
has used its rights to proprietary information unjustly, but there is no
ground for the assumption that they have an a priori obligation to disclose
everything.

The question could better be framed as "Under what conditions is there a
legal obligation to disclose proprietary information?"  General sentiment
that Microsoft is big, aggressive, and successful is not particularly useful.



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From: edowdy@vax1.umkc.edu
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
Subject: Re: Optimizing for windows (more ?s)
Date: 15 Oct 92 18:59:01 GMT
Article-I.D.: vax1.1992Oct15.125901.1
Organization: University of Missouri - Kansas City

In article <1992Oct14.223920.632@vms.huji.ac.il>, laurie@vms.huji.ac.il writes:
> 
> Hi,
> I could use some help optimizing my computer for windows.
> 
> I have read lots of materiel abut windows and the best set-up for
> it but there is a lot I feel is left to trial and error and I would like
> to benefit from others experience.
> 
> as far as hardware goes:
> I have a Zenith masters port 386SL (20mz)
> set up with 8 meg memory,
> 60 meg hard disk.
> and  a math Co-processor,
> for a mouse I use the Appoint mouse pen professional (I love it)
> 	
> the software that I use and could be relevant :
> Zenith DOS 5
> QMM386 memory  manager
> Stacker.
> And of course Windows 3.1  (with Hebrew support the best
> 	thing that has happened to Hebrew computing, that is if they get
> 	the bugs out)
> 
> The things I really need to know:
> 1.	how big a cache should I use?  should I use smart drive or a
> 	different cache (I also have Norton utilities 6.01)?
> 2.	Should I set up a ram disk for temp files?  If so how big?  Is
> 	the one that comes with DOS 5 good enough?
> 3.	In general is it better to maximize free memory or use devices
> 	that help windows?
> 4.	What size swap file should I use?  the manual for win 3.0
> 	recommends 2 meg's of swap file for every meg memory the
> 	computer has.  the manual for 3.1 doesn't say this or maybe I
> 	just didn't see it.  in any case clearly I can ill afford too big a
> 	swap file as every meg in a swap file is 2 meg's stacked hard
> 	disk space. and my hard disk is the most cramped part of my
> 	system.  when I tried to enlarge my swap file to 4 megs
> 	windows claimed it can't use more then the recommended
> 	size of 2 meg approximately.  What is the deal?
> 5.	are there any problems I should know about with stacker in
> 	general and especially with windows?
> 6.	is there any thing I need to do to take advantage of the math
> 	Co-processor?
> 7.	is the NDOS command shell a good idea with windows and
> 	stacker?
> 
> 
> I would appreciate any advice you have to offer.
> 
> please send reply's to me by Email as well as posting them as I
> don't always have time to wade through the news group.
> 
> thank you in advance
> 
> Joey Edelstein			Email: LAURIE@HUJI.VMS.AC.IL
> Hebrew University
> Jerusalem  Israel
> 

	Joey excellent questions, if I may I want to add to these:
I to just expanded to 8 mg, I use smrtdrv which automatically sets up a 2mg
disk cache, should we use emm386 as well as himem.sys, and should we use the 
noems switch?

If you all send joey answers could ya post them here as well, I would be
interested in them. THanks!

Eric
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc,comp.protocols.tcp-ip.ibmpc
From: hodge@iccgcc.decnet.ab.com
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
Subject: Re: MICROSOFT IS STACKING THE DECK!
Date: 13 Oct 92 08:08:37 EST

In article <1992Oct12.185104.1@vax1.umkc.edu>, edowdy@vax1.umkc.edu writes:
> MICROSOFT IS STAACKING THE DECK!!
>  
>  [ paragraphs of paranoid delusions deleted...]

  I just love the fall, when the freshmen find the netnews...

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From: laurie@vms.huji.ac.il
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
Subject: Optimizing for windows
Date: 14 Oct 92 22:39:20 GMT
Distribution: world
Organization: The Hebrew University of Jerusalem


Hi,
I could use some help optimizing my computer for windows.

I have read lots of materiel abut windows and the best set-up for
it but there is a lot I feel is left to trial and error and I would like
to benefit from others experience.

as far as hardware goes:
I have a Zenith masters port 386SL (20mz)
set up with 8 meg memory,
60 meg hard disk.
and  a math Co-processor,
for a mouse I use the Appoint mouse pen professional (I love it)
	
the software that I use and could be relevant :
Zenith DOS 5
QMM386 memory  manager
Stacker.
And of course Windows 3.1  (with Hebrew support the best
	thing that has happened to Hebrew computing, that is if they get
	the bugs out)

The things I really need to know:
1.	how big a cache should I use?  should I use smart drive or a
	different cache (I also have Norton utilities 6.01)?
2.	Should I set up a ram disk for temp files?  If so how big?  Is
	the one that comes with DOS 5 good enough?
3.	In general is it better to maximize free memory or use devices
	that help windows?
4.	What size swap file should I use?  the manual for win 3.0
	recommends 2 meg's of swap file for every meg memory the
	computer has.  the manual for 3.1 doesn't say this or maybe I
	just didn't see it.  in any case clearly I can ill afford too big a
	swap file as every meg in a swap file is 2 meg's stacked hard
	disk space. and my hard disk is the most cramped part of my
	system.  when I tried to enlarge my swap file to 4 megs
	windows claimed it can't use more then the recommended
	size of 2 meg approximately.  What is the deal?
5.	are there any problems I should know about with stacker in
	general and especially with windows?
6.	is there any thing I need to do to take advantage of the math
	Co-processor?
7.	is the NDOS command shell a good idea with windows and
	stacker?


I would appreciate any advice you have to offer.

please send reply's to me by Email as well as posting them as I
don't always have time to wade through the news group.

thank you in advance

Joey Edelstein			Email: LAURIE@HUJI.VMS.AC.IL
Hebrew University
Jerusalem  Israel

Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc