HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: pynq@quads.uchicago.edu (Jeremy Mathers)
Subject: Re: QDPMI101.ZIP - Quarterdeck's DPMI Host for use with QEMM-386
Reply-To: pynq@midway.uchicago.edu
Organization: D. J. Dougherty & Associates
Date: Sat, 9 Jan 1993 18:13:00 GMT

In article <9301091738.kp9367@tacom-emh1.army.mil> garyrich@qdeck.com (Gary Rich) writes:
>I have uploaded to WSMR-SIMTEL20.Army.Mil:
>
>pd1:<msdos.qtrdeck>
>QDPMI101.ZIP    Quarterdeck's DPMI Host for use with QEMM-386
>
>This is the latest version (1.01) of Quarterdeck's DPMI shim to work with
>QEMM386.  It is a full implementation of the 0.9 DPMI spec, including
>MS-DOS extensions and virtual memory.

(This is really more of a reply to your other post about DPMI, but anyway...)

You (I.e., QOS) *could* do a version that supports both 0.9 and 1.0,
option/switch selectable - then you would be compatible with both
Windoze (0.9) and OS/2 (1.0).

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From: rdippold@qualcom.qualcomm.com (Ron Dippold)
Subject: Re: Telemate 4.00 terminal emulation
Organization: Qualcomm, Inc., San Diego, CA
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 23:19:12 GMT

chaim@linc.cis.upenn.edu (Chaim R. Dworkin) writes:
>my dismay.  While we're on the subject, can someone tell me what the correct
>code is for a backspace?  I'm getting really tired of accidently pushing the
>backspace while editing in emacs, using Telemate, and having the key send a
>ctrl-h which ends up in having the help screen pop up.  What code should I
>reprogram the key to send?

In your keyboard remapper, change 8 to send 127.
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From: jabuck@diamond.nswc.navy.mil (Jerald A. Buck (N62))
Subject: Re: PKZIP v2.04c
Keywords: pkzip
Reply-To: jabuck@relay.nswc.navy.mil
Organization: NAVSWC DD White Oak Det.
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 14:06:31 GMT

In article <jjins00.726629147@mik.uky.edu>, jjins00@nx40.mik.uky.edu (jun jinsok) writes:
|>       Ignore this message if it's just my silly mistake...
|> 
|>       Anyone tried to use new pkzip2.04 with -$ ? 
|>       I was trying trying to compress one disk as zip file with volume
|>       label.. I tried pkzip -$a disk.zip a:*.*  and couldn't get the volume
|>       label.. is this another bug? or is it just me? 
|> 

I had the same problem, no matter what I tried I couldn't get the label
to be stored or restored.
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From: ts@uwasa.fi (Timo Salmi)
Subject: Re: Delay to Mirror Sites
Organization: University of Vaasa, Finland
Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1993 17:02:40 GMT

In article <1993Jan5.140526.20079@uwasa.fi> ts@uwasa.fi (Timo Salmi) writes:
>> Does anyone know how long I should wait before attempting to FTP an archive
>> from a mirror site?
>
>I do not know about SIMTEL20 -> wuarchive, but I can tell about some
>of my cursory observations on Garbo -> 3 mirror sites.  Judging very
>perfunctorily from our logs it would seem that the usual lag before
>a newly uploaded package is at all the three sites is below two
>days, but over one.

Here is how I make a guess.  This is an extract from today's (19
hours') Garbo's top download statistics of my own files.  I made
moder18.zip available yesterday and now we have

  27 moder18.zip
   7 tsfaq31.zip
   6 timo01v.gif
   5 tspa3160.zip
   5 timo01e.gif
   4 INDEXTS.ZIP
   3 news-pd2
   3 /pc/pd2/moder18.zip   <----- see this
   2 tspa3140.zip
   2 bestpr24.zip
   2 QLINDEX
   2 0news-ql

Of course it could ocasionally be something else, but 
 3 /pc/pd2/moder18.zip  
format is a typical imprint of a mirroring site getting the file. 
This means that now after a little over one day, all the three Garbo
mirrors should have this file.

This is somewhat tentative, and of course one could check for sure. 
But this gives a general indication of the likely turnaround time
for Garbo mirroring.

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Moderating at garbo.uwasa.fi anonymous FTP archives 128.214.87.1
Faculty of Accounting & Industrial Management; University of Vaasa
Internet: ts@uwasa.fi Bitnet: salmi@finfun   ; SF-65101, Finland

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From: mcacc@ptdcs2.intel.com (Mark Cacciacarro ~)
Subject: Re: XV221EXE/SRC - GIF/TIFF/JPEG/PBM viewer for DESQview/X
Organization: Intel Corporation -- Aloha, Oregon
Date: Sat, 9 Jan 1993 15:49:07 GMT

In article <9301081507.kp11570@tacom-emh1.army.mil> tjb@s-word.Stanford.EDU (Thomas J. Brosnan) writes:
>I have uploaded to WSMR-SIMTEL20.Army.Mil:
>
>pd1:<msdos.dv-x>
>XV221EXE.ZIP    GIF/TIFF/JPEG/PBM viewer for DESQview/X. EXEs
>XV221SRC.ZIP    GIF/TIFF/JPEG/PBM viewer for DESQview/X. SRCs
>
>Tom Brosnan
>tjb@s-word.Stanford.EDU

Is there a way to access this without FTP. I do not have FTP ability, but I
remember seeing something about an e-mail way to access data. I don't
remember seeing a FAQ, if this is in it, I apologize, and will keep my eyes
peeled for the next posting of the FAQ. It is amazing how unimportant the
FAQ is until you realize you need it. Any info is appriciated.

			Mark Cacc.
From: Brian.Milner@brunel.ac.uk (Brian D Milner)
Newsgroups: comp.archives.msdos.d
Subject: Microsoft Mouse Driver - SUMMARY *******************************
Date: 6 Jan 93 10:14:46 GMT
Organization: Brunel University, West London, UK


Microsoft Mouse driver v8.20 - command line switches - Summary

I recieved some very prompt replies to my post, all via email. I include
the text from a couple of them below. 

It seems that the driver only supports the switch /Y - which is explained 
below. The driver contains text stating:

		/i /z /c /b invalid

		Parameters /U /E /X no longer supported

Also the driver repeats all its instructions in 9 languages - English, 
French, Dutch, German, Swedish, Finnish, Spanish, Portugese, and Italian.

My warmest thanks to everyone who responded to my post.

-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
Response #1 of 2
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

If you find out, let me know.  Microsoft issues those mouse drivers with
just about everything, and doesn't include any documentation.  I've
figured out that 
/Cx => on comx
/Sxx  => sensitivity from 10 to 100
/Hxx
/Vxx  => horizontal and vertical sensitivity, if you want different
values.

The strange thing is that the Microsoft driver sometimes (rarely) loads
and runs with my Chicony trackball, and sometimes it doesn't.  Also, have
you ever looked inside the driver?  It has instructions in about 20
different languages.  Strange.  I have no idea how to get them to work.
Setting country= doens't do it.  Not that I really need my mouse to send
me error messages in Norewigan.
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
Response #2 of 2
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

There are no switches for the 8.20 ver of MOUSE.COM except for the "/Y" one
which means "no hardware cursor". This switch is needed on some Video 7
and a few other graphics cards because the card uses a graphic cursor
(sprite) instead of the standard block cursor in DOS programs. This messes
up mouse support for DOS programs under Windows.

To control the mouse program make changes in the MOUSE.INI file, normally
contained in your C:\WINDOWS directory. This file controls the mouse program.

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From: syny@crux3.cit.cornell.edu (R Craig Stevenson)
Subject: Re: A better way to entice registrations
Keywords: Shareware registration Cyrillic editor Russian UK Thomson Cyril
Organization: Cornell Information Technologies
Date: 10 Jan 93 21:15:02 GMT

> What is the difference between disabling a feature and offering an
> additional feature upon registration, just a few words?

Let's put semantics aside.  There are (at least) 3 methods commonly
used to encourage/coerce payment for shareware.  The differences are
more than just words!

1) disable a central feature.  For example, you can try our editor,
but you can't save and files; you can try our database, but your
limited to 50 records per database.  The goal is to allow you to try
the software out, but to render it useless for any *real* work.

2) disable an optional feature.  For example, disable spelling checker
in an editor or the broadcast FAX feature in a fax program.  Allows full
use of the base product and gives access to additional *non-essential*
features once you pay for the product. [if you think that the spell
checker is an essential feature, fine---think of a different
non-essential feature and please don't quibble over wording]

A variation on this method is to start and or end the application with
a screen prompting the user to register the package every time it is
run.  An alternate would be to always display the "keyboard layout" on
the bottom of the screen (eat up precious screen space) until you
register the package an get the code to allow you to toggle on/off the
keyboard.  Point is to make it slightly annoying to run the package
until you pay for it, but allows for full testing of the package
before you are forced to pay for it.

3) give a *gift* item once the package is paid for.  E.g., the keycap
stickers which by no means are required to fully or fluently use the
package.  A nice way of saying "thank you" for your business.

-----------------

*Personally*, I think number 3 is the nicest, kindest, gentlest and
politest of the methods but is probably the least effective at gaining
payment from the *majority* of shareware users/abusers (i.e. not you,
but the other guys).

*Personally*, I think number 2 is best option since it allows for full
use of the program w/o any hinderences yet encourages payment since
people also want the use of the non-essential features or they want to
get rid of the annoying "please pay up" screen everytime they run the
package.

*Personally*, I think number 1 is very ineffective since a) it won't
really allow for a complete test of product since a central feature is
disabled and b) comes across as rude and condescending when they think
I can adequately test their program without ever saving and rediting a file.





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From: lars@ramsey.cs.laurentian.ca (Mr. L. Singleton)
Subject: How to get around NAV alert to pkz204c?
Organization: Dept. of Computer Science, Laurentian University, Sudbury, ON
Date: Sat, 9 Jan 1993 01:07:16 GMT


Does anyone know if there is any way at all to get around the 
false Norton virus alert to PKZ204C???

P.S. (Besides not using NAV)

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* me in watching Star Trek." - Camille Paglia *  Laurentian University
***********************************************  Sudbury, Ontario, Canada
From: dherity@cs.tcd.ie (Herity D.)
Newsgroups: comp.archives.msdos.d
Subject: Re: DPMI (Re: pkz204c.exe is available)
Date: 11 Jan 93 12:37:15 GMT
Organization: Computer Science, Trinity College Dublin

jdcarmack@miavx1.acs.muohio.edu (March Hare) writes:

>OK, I can't find this one.  What does DPMI stand for?

DOS Protected Mode Interface. It permits a 386 running DOS to be used as
a 386, not a go faster 8086, as is normal.
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From: drv@cbnewsj.cb.att.com (dennis.r.vogel)
Subject: PKUNZIP 2.04c Problems With QEMM?
Organization: AT&T
Distribution: na
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 02:28:55 GMT
Keywords: PKZIP compression QEMM memory management

Has anyone seen problems with the new PKUNZIP that
are associated with QEMM?  I've had a 386 lock up
tight on several files running in this environment.
If I juggle the config to a rather simple setup,
it seems to work fine.  Needless to say the old
(1.10?) version works fine.

If it will help, I'll post my config.sys and autoexec.bat.

Dennis R. Vogel
AT&T Bell Laboratories
Middletown, NJ
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From: jkearns@ssd.intel.com (Jerry Kearns)
Subject: Re: DPMI (Re: pkz204c.exe is available)
Organization: Supercomputer Systems Divison, Intel Corp.
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 17:17:44 GMT

In article <1993Jan11.123715.10856@cs.tcd.ie>, dherity@cs.tcd.ie (Herity D.) writes:
|> jdcarmack@miavx1.acs.muohio.edu (March Hare) writes:
|> 
|> >OK, I can't find this one.  What does DPMI stand for?
|> 
|> DOS Protected Mode Interface. It permits a 386 running DOS to be used as
|> a 386, not a go faster 8086, as is normal.
|> -- 
|> -----------------------------------------------------------|"Nothing travels   |
|> | Dominic Herity,  dherity@cs.tcd.ie,                      |faster than light, |
|> |Computer Science Dept, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland.|except possibly bad|
|> | Tel : +353-1-6772941 ext 1720 Fax : +353-1-6772204       |news"-Douglas Adams|

A PC running DOS can be "used as a 386", i.e., run in 386 mode, without using
DPMI.  DPMI is a multitasking spec (replacing VCPI), used by programs like
MS Windows and DESQview.

Jerry
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From: ts@uwasa.fi (Timo Salmi)
Subject: Re: 'split' for MSDOS?
Organization: University of Vaasa, Finland
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 05:55:59 GMT

In article <1igbe5INNicb@shelley.u.washington.edu> yoichi@carson.u.washington.edu (Yoichi Ii) writes:
>Is there any way to split a large file into smaller pieces?
>I'm thinking of something like the "split" command in unix.
>I have "cat"-like command, but not the reverse.

There are several utilities for this purpose my own SPLIT.EXE
included.  Its whereabouts can be ascertained for example from

garbo.uwasa.fi:/pc/INDEXTS.ZIP

To get more filelist information, you might wish look at the
following index files

garbo.uwasa.fi:/pc/INDEX.ZIP
wsmr-simtel20.army.mil: PD1:<MSDOS.FILEDOCS>SIMLIST.ZIP

and in this case also the contents file

   9906 Nov 12 10:57 garbo.uwasa.fi:/pc/unix/0unix.zip

   All the best, Timo

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Faculty of Accounting & Industrial Management; University of Vaasa
Internet: ts@uwasa.fi Bitnet: salmi@finfun   ; SF-65101, Finland
From: rdippold@cancun.qualcomm.com (Ron Dippold)
Newsgroups: comp.archives.msdos.d
Subject: Re: pkz204c.exe is available (??)
Date: 8 Jan 93 02:08:28 GMT
Organization: Qualcomm, Inc., San Diego, CA

hui@apaturia.trl.OZ.AU (Alvaro Hui) writes:
>I find that it will CRASH the system if you do the zipping under
>windows........ Can anyone verify??

Numerous people have reported crashes running it under Windows.  Try
disabling DPMI ("-)" on the command line) and see if that works.
-- 
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From: beezer@cc.utah.edu (BEEZER)
Subject: [WANTED]:  SLIP and FTP
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.4-b1  
Organization: Salt Lick, UT
Date:  7 Jan 1993 14:24 MST  


I do nearly all my online activities via university dial-up.
This includes downloading.  Our site will be offering the
students/staff/etc dial-up SLIP access to the INTERnet.

I would like to locate SLIP and FTP for MSDOS installation.

Pointers?  --  SIMTEL20 appears to have neither.
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Subject: Re: [WANTED]: SLIP and FTP
Date: Fri,  8 Jan 1993 09:44:25 -0500 (GMT)
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Try slipdial from the University of Minnesota. There is a bootable disk
containing slipdial, the slip driver slip8250.com, Ray Gwinn's serial
I/O package, NCSA Telnet, ftp, and other neat apps like gopher, popmail
etc. Look in pub/slipdial in boombox.micro.umn.edu.

Vijay
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From: blunden@ccu.umanitoba.ca ()
Subject: PHYSCSXA "tutorial" program
Organization: University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 08:41:11 GMT

The file PHYSCSXA.ZIP which was recently uploaded to SIMTEL in the
msdos/education directory is supposedly a tutorial on physics.
It is in fact a forum for the propagation of some rather unorthodox
theories (I'm being kind) of the author's construction.  Going through it
brought to mind a remark once made by the famous physicist Wolfgang Pauli:
"It isn't even wrong"!

A sampling of the contents:

On Charge and Length:  

  Charge and length are intimately bound together.  A fundamental length
  can be associated with a unit charge.  The separation between charges
  is always a multiple of this length.  The charges seem to be "creating"
  length in multiples of "charge-lengths" or arranging themselves along
  harmonic nodes in space.  Charges seem to move in discrete steps, perhaps
  displacing zero charge entities as they do.

On Length:

  Space between interacting bodies seems to be harmonic multiples of
  FACTOR ENTITY diameters.  Space appears to have three mutually
  perpendicular length-like components ...  Finer measurements, in
  the future, might reveal differences in each of the space components.

On Energy:

  An isolated, homogeneous body cannot possess energy, EVEN IF IT HAS MASS.
  Energy can only exist when there are multiple bodies separated by distance.

I must admit I found it hard to keep a straight face while reading this.
I'm not inclined to get drawn into a debate over these ideas, but I
would like to make these points:

*  Physics is an empirical science.  Most of the armchair philosophers
   who rail against "traditional" physics seem to forget this.  As a
   result, their "alternatives" are generally constructed in complete
   disregard for observation and experiment, and make no tangible new
   predictions.

*  Before new ideas in physics (and all other sciences for that matter)
   receive wide circulation, they are generally subjected to the peer
   review process.  This scrutiny ensures the integrity of the scientific
   method and of a minimum standard of competence. 

*  If I were to write a mathematics tutorial program which claimed that
   1 + 1 was really 3, should I be able to get it installed on various
   sites and distributed over a worldwide computer network?  (And if so,
   then should it have a warning label:  "The contents of this tutorial
   could be dangerous to your mind --- exercise extreme caution!"?)
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Subject: Re: pkz204c.exe is available (??)
From: jdcarmack@miavx1.acs.muohio.edu
Date: 7 Jan 93 22:58:37 -0500
Organization: Miami University Academic Computer Service"

In article <1993Jan8.002836.17349@trl.oz.au>, hui@apaturia.trl.OZ.AU (Alvaro Hui) writes:
> rdippold@cancun.qualcomm.com (Ron Dippold) writes:
> 
>>antony@werple.apana.org.au (Antony Suter) writes:
>>>PKZip version 2 is out now? Why use such a wierd number as 2.04c ?
> 
>>It's almost guaranteed to not be the same number as any hack that
>>might be out there.  Also, there are a number of bugs already found
>>(such as that it won't store labels) so the final release might have a
>>more reasonable number.
> 
> I find that it will CRASH the system if you do the zipping under
> windows........ Can anyone verify??

I've only used it twice thus far, but once on a VERY large wallpaper
file I keep.  It has given me no problems [Windows 3.1, DOS 5.0, 486/33]

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From: gorokho1@husc10.harvard.edu (Zhenya Gorokhovsky)
Newsgroups: comp.archives.msdos.d
Subject: Re: Telemate 4.00 terminal emulation
Date: 11 Jan 93 23:59:25 GMT
Article-I.D.: husc10.GOROKHO1.93Jan11155925
Followup-To: comp.archives.msdos.d
Organization: Physicists for Poetry
In-reply-to: 72070.3515@CompuServe.COM's message of Mon, 11 Jan 1993 09:45:45 GMT


72070.3515@CompuServe.COM (Tsung Hu) writes:
Me:
>>there is an annoying bug
>>introduced: I like to use bright white on blue terminal screen, now,
Winfred:
> That is actually a bug fix. Previously there is no way to show 
> low intensity attribute.
I realize that. There is a problem however:  emulation never switches
back to a regular (high) intensity. Most probably this is what
happens:
I am running high intensity as my regular
Host says: low intensity
Telemate switches to low (normal) intensity
Host says: back to regular
Now here TM does not return to regular (high), it returns to 
a 'normal' intensity, the same as 'low' and I never get my colors
back. The bug looks to be  the piece of code which does the 
"switching back" part, and which assumes "the back" to be the
normal intensity, instead of what was stored in TM.CFG

Another bug (or feature) is that TM never deletes virtual memory
files, so I have to clean them up manually, this is present in both
v3.10 and v4.00

> Winfred
> 72070.3515@CompuServe.COM
Zhenya
(this may be of the general interest and I send both private e-mail
and a public posting)
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