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Organization: The American University - University Computing Center
Date: Tue, 6 Oct 1992 11:04:23 EDT
From: <ZHAO@auvm.american.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
Subject: Help ! How to disable mouse ballistic control?


Does anyone there know how to disable the ballistic control of MS-mouse?
I can do that under DOS but not under Windows 3.x. Maybe I need some
mouse driver instead the MOUSE.DRV supplied by Microsoft. I was told
by the mouse manufacturer that their mouse control program will be
override by Windows.

Please help if you know how.
Thanks in advance.


ChingHua
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
From: kudla@acm.rpi.edu (Robert Kudla)
Subject: TrueType fonts in Windows Draw?
Distribution: na
Date: Sat, 26 Sep 1992 17:02:34 GMT


The Windows Draw package, which sells locally for about $80 and looks
real good, with all kinds of scaling/rotating/bending/text wrapping
functions and comes with a bunch of "outline fonts", seems like a real
bargain, but before I buy it, I have to know: will it perform all its
neato text functions on truetype fonts, or just its own proprietary
ones?  The package, and all reviews I've seen to date (all of which
seem to like it) do not make this clear. 

I'd appreciate any money-saving insight. :)

Rob
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
From: h8915726@hkuxb.hku.hk (Chris Lo)
Subject: Re: slow exit from windows - getting worse
Reply-To: h8915726@hkuxa.hku.hk
Organization: The University of Hong Kong
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL4
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 1992 09:00:37 GMT

leary@progress.COM (James Leary) writes:
: jw@mdf.mitre.org (Joe Whalley) writes:
: 
: >Using windows 3.1 and Norton 2.0, I find that exiting windows is taking
: >longer and longer -
: >the screen goes black but the disk drive grinds for 30-60 seconds before
: >returning to the dos prompt.  What could be going on here?
: 
: >Is there any advantage to using smardrv.sys vs. smartdrv.exe ?
: 
: >Thanks - Joe
: 
: Have you had a look at your hard disk lately?  Could be that it is badly
: fragmented and needs to be optimzed - the other issue (possibly in concert
: with the former) is the swap file - do you have a permanent one defined,
: or not?  If so, how big is it?  If you do not have a permanent swap file
: defined, I would recommend that you do so (after de-fragmenting the hard
: drive).  That's all I can think of at the moment.
: 
	In fact, it's problem of NDW, because it always has to
	rewrite the program groups and .ini back to hardisk irrespective
	to whether any change has been made.

	I do like NDW, but I will not select NDW as my program manager
	for this reason, (and I can change font used for PROGMAN, can
	NDW? I don't know, looks unlikely...)

Chris
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
From: dj@ekcolor.ssd.kodak.com (Dave Jones)
Subject: Re: Where do the mouse pointer icons live?
Organization: :noitazinagrO
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 92 15:22:28 GMT

Arnaud.Wylie@bbs.actrix.gen.nz wrote:
: I recently bought a laptop on which I run windows. Unfortunately the lack of
: contrast and slow screen refresh rate on the LCD display make seeing the
: I-bar mouse icon a literal headache.
: 
: Does anyone know where the icon for the I-bar lives, so that I can edit it?
: 
In GDI.EXE probably, but have fun trying to locate it.  Its probably
only identified by a number.

There are cursor-enhancers around that are aimed specifically at
laptops.  Try one of those.

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Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
From: luis@informatik.rwth-aachen.de (Luis M. Garcia Suarez)
Subject: News Reader for Windows
Followup-To: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
Organization: RWTH Aachen
Date: Tue, 29 Sep 92 11:17:19 GMT


Does anyone know where I can find a news-reader for Windows 3.x?
It would just be fine if it comes together with a good installation guide!

So long!

==============================================================================
Luis M. Garcia Suarez                   e-mail:
luis@informatik.rwth-aachen.de
Aachen University of Technology                         tel.: ++49 241
8021434
Ahornstr. 55                                            fax.: ++49 241
8021429
D-5100 Aachen
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
From: ntaib@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (Iskandar Taib)
Subject: Re: Arggh! PC-Speaker doesn't even want to *load*...solved!
Organization: Indiana University
Date: Mon, 5 Oct 1992 19:15:55 GMT

In article <239@bsc835bsc.edu> ehunt@bsc835bsc.edu (Eric Hunt) writes:
>In article <1992Oct1.215621.19968@nwnexus.WA.COM>, osiris@halcyon.com (David Ruggiero) writes:
>> So were can I find some archives of cool .WAV files? Anyone got some
>> favorite ftp sources?

>I don't have favorite FTP sources, but a local BBS I call has an entire CDROM
>full of sounds and MIDI stuff. Lots of WAV files and VOC files (which can be
>translated into WAV files with SoundTool). The MATRIX here in Birmingham.

ftp.cica.indiana.edu (where else?  9-) )

At one time I downloaded the 87wavs file and had all kinds of funny 
beeps, etc... but this gets old fairly quickly  9-)

Why is it that Mac users (and now Windows users) go through a stage 
where they have to play with system sounds, icons, wallpapers, etc. 
then quit doing it after a week or so? I'm no different I guess..  9-)










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From: dj@ekcolor.ssd.kodak.com (Dave Jones)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
Subject: Re: QEMM-386 and windows 3.1
Date: 1 Oct 92 15:28:59 GMT
Organization: :noitazinagrO
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]

Gianluca Fini (gfini@nyx.cs.du.edu) wrote:
: Yes Qemm386 si fully compatible with Win3.1
: The only problem is that if You use it also as an EMS manager it slows down
: your PC (the scroll in text mode and memory management).

Yes, but if you disable EMS you can't have Stealth, and Stealth is
sooooo nice for getting back all that luvverly conventional memory
(he says, having a hard time remembering when he last used a DOS program
that cared anyway.  But fear not! Microsoft C++ v7 uses a DOS PWB and if
I have to revert to MSC++ it'll probably mean using PWB.  It was the MSC
v6 PWB that got me using QEMM in the first place.....)

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From: dyoung@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Donn C Young)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
Subject: Re: Undocumented Windows - the documentation
Date: 29 Sep 92 15:24:21 GMT
Article-I.D.: magnus.1992Sep29.152421.29091
Organization: The Ohio State University

Theres another book(s) containing info on undocumented features 
of Windows that contains a bunch of great tips like using 
sysedit to edit your .ini files, etc. The book is:

   Windows 3.1 Secrets by Brian Livingston of InfoWorld
   published by InfoWorld for around $39.95 which includes
   a disk of utilities and shareware programs like Zip Manager,
   PaintShop, WinGIF, WinPost, Chess, Unicom, and Desktop Navi-
   gator.

Donn Young, Biostatistics Unit, OSU Cancer Center
dyoung@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
From: gage@obelix.gaul.csd.uwo.ca (Darren Gage)
Subject: HELP: 386 enhanced mode/ Imprimis HD
Reply-To: gage@obelix.gaul.csd.uwo.ca (Darren Gage) 
Organization: University of Western Ontario
Date: Thu, 1 Oct 1992 19:35:39 GMT


	Here's a problem I just can't figure out.

	I recently installed Windows 3.1 on my system and I am unable
unable to run it in 386 enhanced mode.

	My relevant system hardware is as follows:

	386Dx 25Mhz with Math-Co
	   AMI BIOS dated ~ 1989   * possibly outdated?
	ATI VGA Wonder
	Genius serial mouse
	Imprimis Technologies
	  Hard Drive    	        * most likely culprit
	  111 meg

	Windows operates fine when forced into standard mode,
but hangs up when I attempt to use 386 enhanced mode. It will
put up the title screen and then perform hard disk functions.
It will read/write for 15 seconds and then pause for 45 seconds.
This cycles for an as of yet undetermined amount of time.
I allowed my system to continue overnight one time and there
was a "corrupt swap file" message when I awoke. It prompted me
as whether to delete the swap file or not, which I did, and then
started over again. I have attempted to repeat this, but the time
needed is > 45 minutes, thus > than my patience.

	In the above case, the hard drive was formated by dos
and never caused any compatibility problems over the last year.
I reformated my drive with the Online Disk Manager software
that was supplied by Imprimis, using the DMDRVR.BIN BIOS
supplement. This reduced the read/write to 3 seconds, and following
delays to 3 seconds, for a 6 second cycle, but got me no closer
to 386 enhanced mode.

	I have streamlined my config.sys, and autoexec.bat down
to bare bones, and have tried the WIN switches to no avail.
Another interesting note is that the /B switch fails to create
the BOOTLOG.TXT file it should, but will work when windows is
forced into standard mode.

	That is all I can say about the apparent results of
attempting 386 enhanced mode.

	As I feel it is the hard drive causing the problem, I will
give some more specs on it:

	Imprimis Technologies Inc Hard Disk

	  M/N: 94354-126

	     heads:     7              capacity: 111Mb
	     cylinders: 1072           interface: IDE 
	     prcmp:     N/A

	I would appreciate any help, or referrals to somewhere, where
I can get help on this matter.

				Thanks in advance,
				~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
					Darren Gage
					gage@gaul.csd.uwo.ca

 
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
From: ntaib@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (Iskandar Taib)
Subject: Environment space: how to adjust?
Organization: Indiana University
Date: Mon, 5 Oct 1992 19:26:35 GMT

Does each DOS session inherit the same environment space from
config.sys? I was having a problem with SAS - as it starts up 
it flashes the message "Out of environment space". Doesn't 
seem to cause any problems afterwards, but..

I increased the amount of e-space to 2048 and it still gave
the error message. I should have tried it outside Windows 
but I didn't - its on someone else's machine and I was run-
ning low on time. There isn't anything in the PIF editor 
about e-space. 

In any case: is there a way to give a DOS session more than the
amount specified in config.sys even if DOS sessions do inherit 
the amount? It would be nice.







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From: heathh@cco.caltech.edu (Heath Ian Hunnicutt)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
Subject: Re: Microsoft Error
Date: 28 Sep 1992 07:00:02 GMT
Organization: California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
NNTP-Posting-Host: punisher.caltech.edu

GJAMES@HUSKY1.STMARYS.CA (GJames) writes:

>I was reading my Win 3.1 manual the other day and noticed that Microsoft 
>called the VGA card a Video Graphics Adapter (Pg 264). Any 10th grade high 
>school student knows VGA stands for Video Graphics Array. Even my manuals 
>from the Far East get it correct.
My God, Nero must be notified.  Fetch me the manual writer, a cross,
some nails, and a hammer.  This is unspeakably evil.

>I am supposed to trust Microsoft to manufacture/market multi 
>media boards and the like if they cant even get the names correct. What 
>would I get if I did order a multimedia card from them.... an I/O controller?
Obviously, they are involved in a sinister conspiracy to confuse you,
thus to brainwash you.  Soon, their manuals will contain subliminal
suggestions that you apply for a job there.  But, if you do, you
will be kidnapped and stored in a vile dungeon.

>I think Microsoft is trying to be too many things to too many people. 
>Of course they do have the marketing muscle to drive a lot of good 
>innovative small companies out of business. 
Do we care?  Get a grip, man.  Some college intern screwed up.  So what?

Heath

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From: ehunt@bsc835bsc.edu (Eric Hunt)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
Subject: Re: Arggh! PC-Speaker doesn't even want to *load*...solved!
Summary: WAV sources
Date: 4 Oct 92 10:34:12 GMT
Organization: Birmingham-Southern College

In article <1992Oct1.215621.19968@nwnexus.WA.COM>, osiris@halcyon.com (David Ruggiero) writes:
> So were can I find some archives of cool .WAV files? Anyone got some
> favorite ftp sources?

I don't have favorite FTP sources, but a local BBS I call has an entire CDROM
full of sounds and MIDI stuff. Lots of WAV files and VOC files (which can be
translated into WAV files with SoundTool). The MATRIX here in Birmingham.
(205) 323-2016 for 2400bps access and (205) 323-6016 for V.32bis/HST access (no
2400 connects allowed).
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Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: weiss@wright.seas.ucla.edu (Michael Weiss)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
Subject: Re: Out of memory!?
Date: 4 Oct 92 19:13:20 GMT
Organization: SEASnet, University of California, Los Angeles

In article <749@idanm.pfbs.philips.se> pmod@pfbs.philips.se (Par-Mikael Odsater) writes:
>	MS-Windows 3.1 tells me that it has run out of memory when I try
>	to start a number of applications. If I look in the About Program
>	Manager under the Help menu I still have some 27 Mb of memory left.

I tried to e-mail you with the answer, but somehow it bounced (almost
immediately, I might add...less than 30 seconds to bounce).

This is a FAQ of sorts.
I would bet that your system resources are low.  Unfortunately, no matter how
much RAM you have free, you only have 128K of system resources (which is twice
as much as was available in Win3.0).  System resources are required to handle
the icons, windows, and things of that caliber.  When you run out of system
resources, it's as bad as running out of RAM.

In any case, the official solution is to shut down files and/or applications.
It turns out, however, that many applications are not polite about releasing
system resources when they are done with them.  As a result, even closing
down the offending application wouldn't help.  The only solution under those
circumstances is to exit Windows, and restart it.

As another point of information, wallpaper and various Windows TSR type apps
will consume system resources.  If you find yourself running out all the time,
you may want to limit the amount of those that you use.

Hope this helps.
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Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
From: ntaib@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (Iskandar Taib)
Subject: Re: Memory parity error
Organization: Indiana University
Date: Mon, 5 Oct 1992 17:50:59 GMT

*Flames deleted*

I happened to have saved this from the old comp.windows.ms:
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From bronze!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!cs.utexas.edu!asuvax!ukma!vlsi!ulkyvx.louisville.edu!amconn01
Mon May 11 22:29:47 EST 1992 Article 32483 of comp.windows.ms: Path:
bronze!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!cs.utexas.edu!asuvax!ukma!vlsi!ulkyvx.louisville.edu!amconn01
>From: amconn01@ulkyvx.louisville.edu Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: MS Memo on Memory Parity Errors Message-ID:
<1992May11.155102.1@ulkyvx.louisville.edu> Date: 11 May 92 19:51:02
GMT Sender: news@vlsi.louisville.edu (Network News System)
Organization: University of Louisville Lines: 18 Nntp-Posting-Host:
ulkyvx02.louisville.edu Status: OR

The following is a text of a memo that MS Tech Support faxed me:
(everything after this point is MS)

If you experience parity errors under Microsoft Windows operating
system version 3.1, you probably have a bad memory chip, even if you
didnt experience a Parity Error under Windows 3.0.

Windows 3.0 running in 386 enhanced mode ignores all parity errors.

If you experience parity errors in Windows 3.1 running in standard
mode, it is possible that Windows 3.1 is accessing RAM that it did not
access in Windows 3.0. Windows 3.1 allocates memory from the top down
(from the last RAM address toward the first), whereas Windows 3.0
allocates from the bottom up.

More Information:

Under Windows 3.0, if a parity error occurs while running in 386
enhanced mode, Windows ignores the error and continues. This can cause
unpredictable results such as system hangs and Unrecoverable
Application Errors (UAEs).

If you run a memory test utility and it reports that the memory is
fine, you should still have the machine tested. Memory tests, in
general, do not do a good job of detecting parity errors.

Some hardware can cause Windows to erroneously generate a parity
error. Windows will display a parity error if the hardware on the
machine generates a nonmaskable interrupt (NMI). Windows will only
display a parity error when a true parity error occurs or when a
system component such as an older autoswitching EGA card can generate
an NMI. It possible for a card such as this to cause a false parity
error. This only happens when changing video modes.

For example, if you get a parity error every time you start MS-DOS
Prompt in full-screen mode (the video mode will change from graphics
to text mode), the video card is probably causing an NMI, which causes
Windows 3.1 to display a parity error.


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From: tjonz@caliban.Corp.Sun.COM (Todd Jonz)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
Subject: COM3 woes
Date: 5 Oct 1992 20:28:48 GMT
Organization: Sun Microsystems, Inc.
Distribution: world
Reply-To: tjonz@caliban.Corp.Sun.COM
NNTP-Posting-Host: caliban.corp.sun.com


I'm a ham radio operator who uses the computer to control a number of radio
toys, so COM1 and COM2 don't go very far for me.  This weekend I installed a
two-port serial card in my Toshiba T-8500 (running DOS 5.0 and Windows 3.1)
with the intention of using these ports as COM3 and COM4.  After much
fiddling, I finally decided that the T-8500 doesn't appear to support COM4 at
all since  there's no reference to it anywhere in the documentation, and
whenever I try to use it the box reboots.  Oh well, at least I've still got
COM3, right?  Well....

Using the default address and IRQ for COM3, the output stream gets buffered
for incredibly long periods of times, and characters in the input stream are
dropped.  For example, if I send an "ATD" command to the mode six or eight
times, I have to wait from ten to thirty seconds before I see the characters
echoed back from the modem, and it takes that long for the modem to go
offhook.  When the modem originates messages, only a few characters actually
make it back to the application; a "K" might appear when an "OK" was expected,
or "ONNTE" where "CONNECTED" was expected.  At first I thought this might be
an interrupt sharing problem, but the mouse on COM1 didn't seem to suffer.

In addition to installing the hardware, I made sure all my ".ini" files had
the correct info, including the extremely poorly documented "CommIRQSharing=1"
(or whatever the heck it's called) statement.  For those of you familiar with
the T-8500 (unless I'm the only sucker who owns one), I tried installing the
card in the so-called "Toshiba slot" as well as one of the "IBM" slots and
dutifully twiddled the front panel DIP switches as appropriate.

Does it work on DOS without Windows?  Good question.  I'll let you know just
as soon as I find my old 5-1/4" ProComm diskette and a system that will
transfer it to 3-1/2" media.  You see, it doesn't pay to become too
Windows-centric.  ;-)

I finally gave up doing it the "right" way and reconfigured everything to look
for COM3 on IRQ5.  Aside from the fact that I'm now out of available
interrupts, everything is working fine now.  Still, I'd like to understand
what the heck went wrong, and if possible move things back to IRQ3 and 4
where God intended for them to be.  Any advice, wisdom, or commiseration will
be appreciated.


						-- Todd

P.S.  I'd also be interested in pointers to smart multiport serial cards that
      do NOT use the conventional COM port addresses and interrupts, can
      support four to eight ports, and will co-exist peacefully with a mouse
      on COM1 and a modem on COM2.  Extra points awarded for RS-442
      compatibility and 56 Kbps support.  Windows drivers mandatory, of
      course.
From: Louis.Egger@bota.unine.ch
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
Subject: Problem: Stacker / Smartdrive
Date: 27 Sep 92 17:23:29 GMT
Organization: University of Neuchatel, Switzerland

Hi!

I'm running into a real GREAT problem...

 Since a few days STACKER is turning me into a mad PC User. >:-[]

 Well i'm going to expose ( as clearly as possible ) my problem.

 I 'Stacked' my Hard disk ( 100 MB -> 200 MB ) and for many months had no 
troubles at all. Recently I put an erase-protect (The EP from Norton desktop
under Windows 3.1) on my stacked drive and a disk-cache (SmartDrv.exe 
from Microsoft) on my uncompressed drive.
 It all worked fine for several weeks BUT SUDDENLY my stacked drive get
Write-Protected by the program STACKER and since then i can only read my 
stacked drive (absolutely unpossible to write (or delete) a file on that drive)
8-o

 I re-booted my computer and STACKER reported that the Stackvol.dsk file was
damaged (and therefore write-protected the drive).

 I checked the stacked drive with SCHECK.EXE the answer was that there was just
one lost cluster in an EP file ( but no problems at all on the UNcompressed 
drive ) and that i should first correct CHKDSK /F but it wasn't able to repair
it ( the drive is always write-protected )....
 
 I also tried the Norton Disk Doctor the result was the same: unable
to correct the problem (can't write on that disk).

Help me, i don't want to format my Hard Disk and loose 200 MG of Programs!!

WHAT CAN I DO ????



Louis

  
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