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From: kurtk@ee.ualberta.ca (Kurt Klingbeil)
Subject: Re: Good PC diagnostics software
Organization: University Of Alberta, Edmonton Canada
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1992 15:01:41 GMT

lio@ornl.gov (MILLION D L) writes:

>I received, I bought Checkit V3.0 from Touchstone.  It seems to be a
>fairly extensive set of diagnostics--it does memory, CPU and co-processor,
>disk drives, serial and parallel ports, mouse, video, and so on.  It also

One thing we've found with Checkit is that it has never correctly
identified/diagnosed/found any problems with any machine which has come
into our area with some kind of 'operational difficulties'.
Particularly in the area of memory testing.  Machines would come in with
sporadic parity errors, or sporadic hangups which would eventually be
resolved by replacing some or all of the memory.  If checkit would run 
at all, it was virtually guaranteed to say the memory was perfect.

AMIDIAG (from the BIOS-makers...) does a lot better at finding memory
errors, but it is a lot more clumsy to use, and limited in what it tests.

THE KIT from Supersoft is massively overpriced and overrated.
It is copy protected, relying on a specially damaged floppy as a key.
This 'protection' has often prevented it from running at all on 
semi-stable ailing systems we were attempting to diagnose.

Its memory test has located defective memory in quite a few cases.
However, of all the goofy things, when one selects 'Do ALL of the
aforementioned tests' and specifies an iteration count, the iteration
count applies to each test rather than to trips through the loop,
and the program pauses for confirmation to proceed to the next test!!

We certainly haven't stopped looking for good diagnostic utilities
(ones that tell you something you didn't already know), but have
given up on finding a single program/package.   We've got a box full
and hop from one to another depending on the perceived nature of the
problem...

kk
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
From: mccall@mksol.dseg.ti.com (fred j mccall 575-3539)
Subject: Re: EISA Board Compatibility
Organization: Texas Instruments Inc
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1992 18:33:39 GMT

In <1992Sep8.173226.10860@scott.skidmore.edu> mfrazer@scott.skidmore.edu (Matthew Frazer) writes:

>EISA Boards have faster bus speeds to the card slots, but do I need to
>buy all new EISA compatible cards, or can I use my old
>cards in the EISA slots?

They are not significantly faster (8.33 MHz vice 8 MHz).  The whole
idea behind EISA was that you could plug all your old cards into it
and they would work.  They do.  There are, in fact, some things that
you would be hard pressed to find an EISA card for.


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Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: storm@cs.mcgill.ca (Marc WANDSCHNEIDER)
Subject: Re: Uninstalling Stacker.. grrrr...
Organization: McGill University, Montreal, Canada
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1992 14:41:20 GMT

In article <RUSSELL.92Sep14164133@csd475a.erim.org> russell@csd475a.erim.org (John Russell) writes:
>>   Installing Stacker takes a long time.  De-installing it shouldn't take
>>   any less time.
>
>It sounds like de-installing requires a backup, removal of stacker volume and
>restoration of the backup. 
>I don't own stacker but from what I've heard it can be installed with data
>already on the disk. Or it can be installed from scratch on a new drive.
>Everyone has said it is much, much faster to install it from scratch.

	My method of deinstalling Stacker:

	Copy everything off the disk onto another.

	Reformat the disk.

	Works fine, and is rather quick.

	I've found the stacker utilities, while reliable, rather difficult
to work with, so I just didn't bother.

	Toodlepip!
	Marc 'em.
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
From: erisande@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (Kryst the Philosopher)
Subject: Procomm+  I need help.
Organization: Quitters Inc.
Date: Mon, 7 Sep 1992 06:52:10 GMT

	IN procomm +, I sometimes have a problem with editors through
the system.  I log in, and when I edit something, pressing the arrow
keys to get to a section on the file erases the text.  It is not
permanent, but it is annoying to have to redraw the screen everytime I
move with the arrow keys.  Is there anyone who could help me out here?
I thank you.  Please Email.				Erin -
-- 
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but she just drops her pearl-black eyes
and prays to hear him say 'I love you',
but he tells no more lies.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
From: carlos@garfield.cs.mun.ca (Carlos Borges)
Subject: Stack a ramdisk? How?
Organization: Kilbride Liberation Organization, the KL0
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1992 21:51:12 GMT

I hav memory to spare on my machine.  I already have a 2meg disk cache,
and I want to have a 2meg ram-drive.  My question:

Can I use stacker on this drive?

I get screate to make the stacvol.dsk file on the disk (E:, since
physical drive C: is stacked), but when I try stacker e:   or stacker @e:
it tells me I have no more available drives or something.

Any clues?
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From: robl@hpnmdla.sr.hp.com (Rob Laddish)
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1992 02:19:18 GMT
Subject: Re: ATI Graphics Ultra Pro/+
Organization: Hackers Headquarters
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc

In comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc, ram@en.ecn.purdue.edu (Robert A McGowan) writes:


>I recently called ATI about the Ultra Graphics Pro and the Ultra Graphics +.
>Both of these adapters are not going to be shipped until the last week
>in September.  Here is a summary of features that apply to both cards:

Thanks for the update! Please post any more information as you hear it, as
I am very interested in the Pro & in the gateway system.

Rob
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc,comp.os.msdos.misc
From: nmiller@starbase.trincoll.edu (norman miller)
Subject: Handling keyboard macros in Telemate
Organization: Trinity College, Hartford, CT.
Date: Tue, 8 Sep 1992 16:31:06 GMT

I've been trying out Telemate lately and I must confess that it
beats MS-Kermit in one crucial respect: I can shift keyboard
maps in midstream, something I have to do when shifting from the
Vax (VT102) to our Suns (which seem to prefer ANSI--at least as far
as the destructive backspace is concerned).

Question: is there a way, when I do a rlogin from Vax to Sun, of
shifting keyboard maps without going through the somewhat awkward
procedure of Alt-M (twice) followed by choosing a new keyboard file?

Thanks in advance.

Norman Miller
nmiller@vax1.trincoll.edu
From: keith@hpfcso.FC.HP.COM (John Keith)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Re: DC2120 tapes: mail order advice needed
Date: 5 Sep 92 20:26:39 GMT
Organization: Hewlett-Packard, Fort Collins, CO, USA

> >I'm looking for a good mail-order source of 3M DC2120 tapes in small
> >quantities. If anyone has any experiences to the good or bad, please
> >let me know.
> >-- 
> >Steve Aliff (swaliff@afterlife.ncsc.mil [144.51.1.1])
>
MEI/Micro Center has them for 15.97 (min 2) plus small shipping charge. 5 or
more are 14.97. I've had no trouble. MEI 800-634-3478.

JK 
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: estasic@engws10.ic.sunysb.edu (Edward Stasic)
Subject: Seiko 17" monitors
Keywords: Monitors, Seiko
Organization: State University of New York at Stony Brook
Date: Sun, 13 Sep 1992 18:01:53 GMT

This is sort of a follow-up to a posting I made last week. I had asked for
opinions on different models of 17" monitors. I got a few e-mail responses,
some of which suggesting that I should post my findings from all of these
responses. Unfortunately, I haven't gotten enough responses to be able to
post anything meaningful.

Anyway, I went to a local Queens, NY PC clone dealer to see what their prices
were for different 17" monitors. For the Mag 17F, they were asking $1275,
while the Viewsonic 7 would cost around $1300 although the salesman said he
would have to get in touch with his supplier for an exact price quote.

However, he did say that he can get good deal for a Seiko 17" monitor for
$1150. The monitor has .25" dot pitch and can do 1280*1024 resolution. He
said that he could FAX me the specs if I needed them, since he didn't have
them handy, but I don't have a FAX machine.

Now here's the irony. While looking through Computer Shopper, I see that
there are mail order hops that carry the Viewsonic 7 for $1100 but sell a
17"  Seiko monitor for about $1300, the reverse of the prices quotes above.

How many different 17" monitors, if more than one, does Seiko manufacture
and how good are they compared to other monitors in the $1150 range?

Thanks,
Ed Stasic

estasic@mathlab.sunysb.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
From: wiegand@rtsg.mot.com (Robert Wiegand)
Subject: Re: Upgrade 286 or Junk it.......
Reply-To: motcid!wiegand@uunet.uu.net
Organization: Motorola Inc., Cellular Infrastructure Group
Distribution: "world"
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1992 14:41:53 GMT

v4194rvc@ubvmsb.cc.buffalo.edu (RON C. HAMILTON) writes:

>I am pretty sure this question has been beat to death already but as a student
>I want to make the best decision....

>I am currently running a 286 (which has been outdated for some time).  I was
>wondering if I should upgrade it (if at all possible) or junk it completely?

>I am running VGA with 40 meg and two floppies (3.5 and 5.25) and they suit me 
>fine but new softwares such as Windows doesn't like it...

>Any help??

>Ron C. Hamilton
>V4194RVC@ubvmsc.cc.buffalo.edu

If your case and power supply are good it would be worth looking into
getting a new motherboard (you can't replace just the processor).
This would cost less than an entire new PC.

Its generally less painfull to the wallet to upgrade a piece at a time than
to replace the entire PC at once.

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From: franks@hpuamsa.neth.hp.com (Frank Slootweg CRC)
Date: Mon, 7 Sep 1992 12:33:53 GMT
Subject: Re: Help Needed for Generating NEW Lines by batch file
Organization: Hewlett-Packard, The Netherlands
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc

  Use "ECHO." (without the quotes and *no* space between ECHO and the
dot) to generate a blank line. I don't think this is in the manual.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
From: wiegand@rtsg.mot.com (Robert Wiegand)
Subject: Re: Borland C++ vs Turbo C++
Reply-To: motcid!wiegand@uunet.uu.net
Organization: Motorola Inc., Cellular Infrastructure Group
Distribution: "world"
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1992 20:13:36 GMT

mbb@cbnewsb.cb.att.com (martin.brilliant) writes:

>From article <1992Sep8.170415.24800@bluemtn.COM>, by gregp@bluemtn.COM (Greg Philmon):
>> ....
>> BC includes more powerful, standalone tools for developing, such as the 
>> excellent Turbo Debugger, profiler, etc.  BC is an optimizing (sp?) compiler,
>> TC is not.

>I'm confused.  Maybe that only applies to the current release.  I bought
>a used copy of Turbo C++ 1.0 which includes debugger, profiles, and
>assembler, and I think it has optimization in the compiler.  I know
>it's "Turbo," not "Borland," because I have to change "bcc" to "tcc"
>in makefiles.

>							Marty
>marty@hoqaa.att.com		hoqaa!marty
>Martin B. Brilliant		(Winnertech Corporation)	

When Turbo C++ first came out it included all the exra stuff. However,
when Borland C++ came out I think they stopped including it with Turbo
to seperate the products (TC for the low end and BS for the high end).


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From: runyan@cup.hp.com (Mark Runyan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Re: Opinions on Stacker
Date: 11 Sep 92 15:27:48 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: HP, Cupertino, CA, USA
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL3

Gordon.Edwards@AtlantaGA.NCR.COM (Gordon Edwards) writes:
>What are people's opinions on Stacker?

Well, I wasn't happy with the virtual disk approach that it uses, but
it gets the job done (providing what appears to be a little more disk
space).  I think I prefer the method of PKLITE, but for general use,
Stacker hasn't caused any problems.  Of course, any diskettes that I've
stacked can't be taken to another system unless the other system is
running Stacker...

>Are there many horror stories or is it generally pretty stable software?

I was put off by the way you had to reserve disk space and it would
create a `virtual' disk (e.g. my C drive is now C: and D:, with D: being
the `Stacked' disk).  Of course, the friendly warnings about being
wary of Windows 3.1 and Stacker is very important.  Now, with a
combination of Stacker, QEMM, DOS 5.0, and Windows 3.1, I can still
access all my information, but I'm being very cautious!

Mark Runyan
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
From: egge@hsr.no (Hans Petter Egge)
Subject: Re: SUPERSTOR
Organization: Rogaland University Centre
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1992 10:10:50 GMT

In article <1992Sep12.175249.11648@galileo.cc.rochester.edu>, gwni@troi.cc.rochester.edu (G. Wayne Nichols) writes:
> In <Jim_Johnson.08ju@abcd.Houghton.MI.US> Jim_Johnson@abcd.Houghton.MI.US (Jim Johnson) writes:
> 
> >Until I recently purchased a much larger HD, I ran the version of SuperStor
> >included with DRDOS 6.0.  In fact, I was running it on a 20meg parallel
> >port connected HD.  It ran just fine.  DRDOS 6.0 documentation does warn
> >you against using any disk optimization software other than DISKOPT (comes
> >with DRDOS 6.0) on the SuperStor partition.  I personnally like Norton, but
> >it was a small price for what I gained in disk space.
> 
> While totally ignoring such warnings, I have successfully used
> PC Tools' COMPRESS utility on a SuperStor'ed drive many times.
> I imagine Norton's SPEEDISK would be equally successful.

If there are enough free space on the disk, such utilities could work fine, 
but when there's little free space, and the average compression ratio is
(much?) less than 2.0, there may be problems. That is because these programs
usually reads the FAT directly to get the amount of free diskspace. On a
SuperStor'ed disk the FAT is of a constant size capable of storing a compression
ratio 2.0 (i.e it's always twice as big, regardless of compression ratio).
The size of the actual data area is not constant, i.e. dependant of the data it
may fit twice as much or less. Therefore these optimization programs may read
more free clusters than there actually is, and may cause some problems with the
disk (I got so called 'Superstor reserved units').

So take care when the disk is close to filled up.

And besides all that DISKOPT do (I think) is just move all used clusters to the
beginning of the superstor'ed disk.

(The above information is based on what I've discovered myself and some guesses
and may not be 100% accurate, but it's fairly how it works).

                        --------------------------
Hans Petter Egge                            |  I'm so busy wasting time,
HSR,                                        |  that I've got no time to waste
Stavanger, Norway



Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
From: gmribeir@david.wheaton.edu (Glauber)
Subject: Re: Borland C++ vs Turbo C++
Organization: (n.) Body of persons united for a specific purpose.
Date: Mon, 7 Sep 1992 14:52:02 GMT

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 think it is mostly price. BorlandC is supposed to be the
"professional" compiler, while TurboC is the entry level.

If i am wrong, i'd like to be corrected.

						Glauber

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                  glauber@david.wheaton.edu 
                  glauber@vpnet.chi.il.us
From: peter@citr.uq.oz.au (Peter Klavins)
Subject: Re: ----- i8051 --- Need To Find Assembler ----------
Organization: Prentice Centre, University of Queensland
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1992 05:07:28 GMT

mag7351@tamsun.tamu.edu (Michael Goodlett) writes:

>What we are trying to find is a cross assembler for the i8051 that
>will run on a PC or compatible.

markh@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (Mark William Hopkins) has posted the following:

comp.archives from comp.sys.intel in May:
=========================================

Archive-name: auto/comp.sys.intel/Free-8051-software-available-by-FTP

A while back I mentioned the availability of some 8051 related software by
E-mail.  You can now access it by anonymous ftp at csd4.csd.uwm.edu, in the
directory /pub/8051.  Also in /pub, the entire contents of the 8051 directory
have been packaged as 8051.zip.

I've packaged the following items:

     C source for 8051 Disassembler.  Reads input in Intel Hex format.
     Arbitrary Precision Arithmetic library for unsigned integers
        including Multiplication, Division, Square Root
     Rudimentary Debugger
        needs client software at the host in order to be useable.
     PC-based COM software for RS-232, RS-422, RS-485.
        8 bit mode, 9 bit mode, baud rates up to 57600.
     A stripped-down Multitasking Kernel, with 8051 demo software for:
        Serial Communications
        Intel Hex download
        CRC Check Summing Demo
        Interrupt Input Processing, for the 8051FA.
        LCD Display/Keypad Input library
        Open-loop Stepper Motor Driver
        Pulse Counting/Data Collection
            elaborate multi-tasking control used to concurrently
            process the 6 timer-capture interrupts of the 8051FA

   In addition, I'd be interested in hearing any input you may have on what
you'd like to see in an assembler.  I'm looking for good suggestions to
include in the assembler before I finish it.

and a snippet from comp.sys.intel in July:
==========================================

Also some advance notice: there WILL be a (almost) full-featured 1-pass 8051
assembler and linker released in the public domain in the archive at
csd4.csd.uwn.edu in /pub/8051 on August 1 or sooner.
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
From: edgarm@rs6112.ecs.rpi.edu (Marc Edgar)
Subject: QBasic: Including Libraries.
Keywords: QB 4.5, Quick Basic, Basic
Reply-To: edgarm@rpi.edu
Organization: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY.
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1992 15:43:50 GMT

Greetings, 

I hope I am not ataking up too much bandwidth to ask a question
about Quick Basic 4.5, I could not find a better newsgroup 
to post to.

I have collection of subroutines (SUB 's) and FUNCTIONS
in one program that I want to be able to call from a 
second program.  At the moment I have combined them into 
one large program.  I have read the manual on $INCLUDE files
but command does not work if the program that you want to 
include has any subroutines.

Surely there must be an easy way to call the subroutines of the first
program from the second without having to combine them into
a single program?  

If you have any experience with this sort of thing I would 
like to know how you solved it. 

Thanks for your help.
Marc Edgar
edgarm@rpi.edu

PS - I know Basic is not a REAL language to many of you but it works
     for me.
From: sproles@pine.circa.ufl.edu (SPROLES)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: fuzzy monitor
Date: 5 Sep 92 16:43:27 GMT
Reply-To: sproles@pine.circa.ufl.edu
Organization: University of Florida  (ufl.edu)
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.3-4


The new CTX .28 monitor that I received will sometimes go fuzzy
in that its in and out of focus.
Is this a problem with the refresh rate? Is this a usual problem?
After a few minutes, it seems to make me dizzy. 
The vendor that they would send another monitor, but what makes 
this focus problem?

Thanks for info, my previous main computer was a laptop,
with a LED screen  --NO FLICKER.
                            -Judy Sproles
SPROLES@UFPINE
SPROLES@PINE.CIRCA.UFL.EDU
From: halvorsen@nbivax.nbi.dk
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: wanted:latex printer drivers
Date: 8 Sep 92 10:14:26 GMT
Organization: Niels Bohr Institute and Nordita, Copenhagen

I would like to know of ftp sites with (la-)tex drivers. IBM laser printer 4019 or 4029 in particular.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: tsand@vipunen.hut.fi (Tapio Sand)
Subject: Re: Uninstalling Stacker.. grrrr...
Reply-To: tsand@vipunen.hut.fi (Tapio Sand)
Organization: Helsinki University of Technology
Date: Tue, 8 Sep 1992 14:22:35 GMT

In article <9-PCNews-120beta@hart.actrix.gen.nz> graeme@hart.actrix.gen.nz (Graeme Hart) writes:
>ntaib@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (Iskandar Taib @ Indiana University) once wrote....
>>Is there a quick, approved way of un-stacking a drive?
...
>If it's anything like Superstor (as shipped with DR Dos 6.0), you back up
>the partition, delete it, remove the software, and restore from backup.
>
>Simple isn't it (if you've got a tape drive, or a spare hard disk you 
>can hook up).

Yeah, real easy until you realise you are trying to restore
60MB of data to a 40MB hard disk.... :(
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From: mccall@mksol.dseg.ti.com (fred j mccall 575-3539)
Subject: Re: Borland C++ vs Turbo C++
Organization: Texas Instruments Inc
Date: Mon, 14 Sep 1992 21:54:52 GMT

In <1992Sep11.034115.21253@cbfsb.cb.att.com> mbb@cbnewsb.cb.att.com (martin.brilliant) writes:

>From article <1992Sep10.182949.18662@mksol.dseg.ti.com>, by mccall@mksol.dseg.ti.com (fred j mccall 575-3539):
>> 
>> Yes, you are confused.  Note the use of the phrase "stand-alone"
>> above.  He's not talking about debugging from inside the IDE.  Also,
>> Turbo C++ does indeed have SOME optimization -- BCC++ has a lot more. 

>Not that confused.  I've never used it, but I have a User's Guide for
>a standalone Turbo Debugger with its own UI.  Don't knock the Turbo
>product any more than it deserves.

I wasn't aware that anyone was 'knocking' anything; merely trying to
help the poor guy understand what the current product line looks like.
What version is that User's Guide you have?  I have one like that,
too, that shipped with the Turbo C++ 1.0 PROFESSIONAL package (but the
debugger is Turbo Debugger 2.0).  This is the package that is called
BORLAND C++ 3.1, in its current incarnation.

[Presumably the Turbo Pascal line has a debugger -- do they share the
same one?  In fact, they may still call it Turbo Debugger when it
ships with the Borland C++ bundle -- my docs for that are at home, and
I never paid any attention before.]

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