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From: aki@cruzio.santa-cruz.ca.us
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Re: Sony CD-ROM drives, any gotchas?
Date: Tue, 05 Jan 93 18:26:12 PST
Reply-To: aki@cruzio.santa-cruz.ca.us

In article <93005.43985.J056600@LMSC5.IS.LMSC.LOCKHEED.COM>, J056600@LMSC5.IS.LMSC.LOCKHEED.COM writes:
> In <1993Jan5.161014.7033@bcrka451.bnr.ca>, Roy Shepard writes:
> 
> >I am  thinking  of adding a SONY CD-ROM  drive to my 486SX.  Are there
> >any gotchas with this, especially with regards to conflicts with sound
> >boards or COM ports?
> 
> I'd look out for IRQ conflicts more than anything.  Often, CD-ROMs are set up
> on IRQ2 (the cascading interrupt to IRQ10-15?).  I don't believe that they
> need specific COM ports like a modem.  There will be no conflict with sound
> boards as long as they don't share IRQs (sound boards most often use IRQ7,
> and sometimes IRQ5 as well).  COM ports take IRQ3 and IRQ4.  Unless you are
> familiar with what IRQs are, your best bet may be to just set it to IRQ2
> and forget about it.


In fact most (read: I have yet to find an exception) CD-ROM drivers
DO NOT use the IRQ and DMA capabilities of CDROM adapters.  The data
rate from the drive is too low. Everybody does polled I/O and saves
a month in debugging.

What does this mean for the regular CD-ROM user?  Read the fine print.
If the driver manual seez that it doesn't use DMA or IRQ's, don't
worry about conflicts.

As far as user friendliness goes:  DO NOT buy a drive that uses
those CD cases (i.e. the things you need to stick the disk in to
get the disk into the drive).  It's such a waste of time and
money.  I made the mistake.

Aki.
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From: forrest.wright@tfd.coplex.com (Forrest Wright) 
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Serial-to-serial file tra
Date: 5 Jan 93 15:10:00 GMT
Distribution: world
Organization: Ky/In PC User's Group - Louisville, KY - 502-423-8654
Reply-To: forrest.wright@tfd.coplex.com (Forrest Wright) 

===========================================================================
 BBS: The Fifth Dimension (KY/IN PC User's Gro
Date: 12-18-92 (17:59)             Number: 401
From: DAVID A. SJOEN               Refer#: NONE
  To: ALL                           Recvd: NO
Subj: Serial-to-serial file tra      Conf: (135) IBMPC
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DAS>I need a PD program that transfers files between PCs via the serial
DAS>port. Any suggestions?

David, There is a shareware program "Serial File 3.1" of on the local
BBS it is "SFCOPY31". You connect a null-modem cable between PCs and
away you go. I have a commerical program called "XPORT" that does the
same. I bought it before the shareware became available. If it is not on
you BBS let me know and I will DL it and send it to you. (3.5 or 5.25
media?)

Good Luck, Forrest in Louisville, KY
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 . OLX 2.1 TD . I'm not dead. I'm electroencephelographically challenged.
From: stella@gandalf.rutgers.edu (Ricky ...suave... Stella)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Re: PKZip > 1.1: Why bother?!?!
Date: 6 Jan 93 21:38:26 GMT
Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J.

J056600@LMSC5.IS.LMSC.LOCKHEED.COM writes:


>   What wonderful new advances are in the newer versions (1.93, 2.04, 3.05)
>of PKZip?  Better compression, perhaps?  How much better?  Or is it just a
>desire to have the "latest release" regardless of its impact (or potential
>impact)?

>   I'm confused.

Some of the new features of PKZip 2.04c are, supposedly much better
compression, faster compression, multiple volumes capabilities, support
for XMS/EMS, autodetect of CPU type, a minimized version of pkzip and unzip
that takes less memory (fewer options though)...

To make this clear, 1,93a was the alpha version.  3.05 does NOT exist, so
it's a hack. 2.04c IS released from PKWare and my best suggestion is to
get it directly from PKWare BBS at (414)354-8670




>Tim Irvin
>****************************************************************************
>"In a free government the security for civil rights must be the same as that
> for religious rights." -- James Madison, Federalist #51
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Voice synthesis
From: pini1@chen.bgu.ac.il (pinchas tandeitnik )
Date: Sun, 10 Jan 1993 01:31:48 GMT
Organization: Ben Gurion University, Beer Sheva, Israel



  Voice synthesis through the internal speaker in the PC
  ---------------------------------------------------

  I'm interested to synthesis voice through the internal speaker
in the PC. I'll be glad to receive efficient algorithms
or good references.

	thanks

		Pinchas Tandeitnik

Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
From: J056600@LMSC5.IS.LMSC.LOCKHEED.COM
Subject: Re: Sony CD-ROM drives, any gotchas?
Organization: Lockheed Missiles & Space Company, Inc.
Date: Tue, 05 Jan 93 12:13:05 PST

In <1993Jan5.161014.7033@bcrka451.bnr.ca>, Roy Shepard writes:

>I am  thinking  of adding a SONY CD-ROM  drive to my 486SX.  Are there
>any gotchas with this, especially with regards to conflicts with sound
>boards or COM ports?

>Any feedback would be  appreciated.  Please post to this group though,
>as I don't have external email access.

I'd look out for IRQ conflicts more than anything.  Often, CD-ROMs are set up
on IRQ2 (the cascading interrupt to IRQ10-15?).  I don't believe that they
need specific COM ports like a modem.  There will be no conflict with sound
boards as long as they don't share IRQs (sound boards most often use IRQ7,
and sometimes IRQ5 as well).  COM ports take IRQ3 and IRQ4.  Unless you are
familiar with what IRQs are, your best bet may be to just set it to IRQ2
and forget about it.


Tim Irvin
******************************************************************************
"Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to
 teenage boys." -- P. J. O'Rourke
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc,comp.binaries.ibm.pc.wanted,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.misc
From: georgen@gpu.utcs.utoronto.ca (G. Ng)
Subject: Bar code software that outputs to Postscript file?
Followup-To: comp.sys.next.software
Organization: University of Toronto Computing Services
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 20:23:25 GMT

Is there any software for the PC or NeXT that can create bar codes and
output the barcodes as postscript (ps or eps) files, rather than just simply
printing them out on the printer?  I'd like to incorporate the barcode into
a document created by Adobe Illustrator or something similar.

any info. appreciated.
thanks
gn

Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
From: pgravel@nap.amoco.com (Philip L. Gravel)
Subject: Re: Are WordPerfect for Windows file portable to Macs ?????
Reply-To: pgravel@nap.amoco.com (Philip L. Gravel)
Organization: Amoco Chemical Company
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 18:42:45 GMT

In article <79777@hydra.gatech.EDU>, gt7692b@prism.gatech.EDU (Constantinos 
Malamas) writes:
 
> 	The subject pretty much says it all. I am using WordPerfect 5.1 for
> Windows, but I lack a printer. On the other hand, there is a very nice 
> Quadra cluster next door with WP for the Macs. Will the Mac WP read and
> accept a Windows WP file? If not, is there a way (perhaps a PD/SW program) 
> to get around this?? Thanx in advance....

Yes, if you're set up appropriately.  I have a PC at home and a Mac at work.  
I have WordPerfect for Windows on the PC and WordPerfect on the Mac.  I also 
have DOS Mounter on the Mac.

If I generate a WordPerfect file on my PC, copy it to a diskette, bring it 
into work, and put the diskette into the Mac, the icon appears as a plain 
document icon.  When I go into WP on the Mac and tell it to open that file, I 
get a message that it (WP for the Mac) is doing a WP 5.0, 5.1 Import and when 
the document comes up, all the formatting is present.

Now, in order for a WP document on a Mac to be readable on a PC, I have to 
tell WP for the Mac to save it as a WP 5.0, 5.1 Export.  When I do so, the 
icon on the Mac appears as the WP icon, but instead of the feather, there are 
the letters "PC" in the icon.

** Note: WP for Windows will not recognize a file saved in the native WP for
         the Mac format (WP 2.0) -- at least I haven't been able to get it to.

Phil

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Amoco Chemical Company, Chicago, IL        Phone:    (312)856-3553
----------
These opinions aren't worth the paper they're written on and
certainly don't reflect those of my employer.
Newsgroups: udel.wordperfect.users,udel.general,comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
From: tom@genie.slhs.udel.edu (tom)
Subject: Re: Printing to hp series 2 from wp51.
Organization: The Lab Rats
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 18:24:31 GMT

In article <C0G039.1Cy@news.udel.edu> william@bach.udel.edu (Wild William) writes:
}My dad is trying to print envelopes from wp51 using a hp series 2
}(laserjet).  Seems he can't get the landscape fonts to come to life.
}he only gets blank pages.

from the print menu (S-F7), hit select (s), then edit (3).

look at the built in fonts to see if the ones you want are being
initialized. sometimes wp is set up to trade-off some of the lesser used
fonts for more printer memory (ie faster printing)
-- 
tom@udel.edu                                        ...!{gateway}!udel!tom
tom@genie.slhs.udel.edu           UDel: School of Life and Health Sciences

"Themes were useless; Destiny was here, and the foot pedals were bleeding."
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
From: u8123096@cc.nctu.edu.tw (Steven Lee)
Subject: Re: searching a VESA driver...
Organization: National Chiao Tung University
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 14:10:36 GMT

sas@apap4.pap.univie.ac.at wrote:

: That's all you'll get!
: VESA does NOT support more then 256 colors (yet ?).

VESA DO support more than 256 colors......
At least mine can.... DCVIEW really supports hi-color
VESA...... It worked fine.

--
					u8123096
 			 		Steven Lee
					Dept. of Computer Information Science
					National Chiao-Tung University
From: dsartori@cac.washington.edu (Diana Sartorius )
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Logitech address
Date: 7 Jan 1993 19:37:52 GMT
Organization: UW Computing
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: redx.cac.washington.edu

Hi, 

I am trying to reach Logitech.  I have several of their mice with incredibly old drivers (1988).  I can't seem to find any of the original literature and was hoping some kind soul would share their address or phone number with me.  

Thank you for the help.
From: 20lim@gw.wmich.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Re: PKZIP V3.05 problems
Date: 8 Jan 93 12:24:56 EST
Organization: Western Michigan University
Summary: PKZIP  virus real

In article <1993Jan7.133737.19355@athena.mit.edu>, dmsilev@athena.mit.edu (Daniel M Silevitch) writes:
> In article <SLAMBERG.93Jan7150650@mato.cc.lut.fi> slamberg@lut.fi (Samu Lamberg) writes:
>>
> [deleted]
> Incorrect. Version 2.04c was officially released just a few days ago, and
> is now available at garbo, among other places. Features improved compression
> algorithm and support for multi-volume archives.
> 
> Daniel Silevitch                                dmsilev@athena.mit.edu
> Massachusetts Institute of Technology
> 
I got that yesterday too. But the self-extract .EXE was corrupted! It 
seems that a bbs called DELPHI [can I state BBS names here?] included
an "advertisement" in it. And it failed the AV check. I thought that 
comments wouldn't bother av codes but I guess it does. :)
C.

THIS IS A REEDIT
I was just reading another newsgroup and someone claims that the 
problems lies in using PKZIP 1.93 to unzip it. :)
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From: then@snakemail.hut.fi (Tomi  H Engdahl)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Re: weird cable
Date: 10 Jan 93 10:18:50 GMT
Distribution: inet
Organization: Helsinki University of Technology, Finland
NNTP-Posting-Host: lk-hp-17.hut.fi
In-reply-to: Jade@qube.OCUnix.On.Ca's message of 9 Jan 93 12:35:08 GMT

'EIn article <Jade.0s0o@qube.OCUnix.On.Ca> Jade@qube.OCUnix.On.Ca (Jade) writes:

>I have got this external 5.25 drive.  But with it I got this really weird
>cable that I haven't seen before.  It has 37 pins (or very close to that
>number) and they won't plug into any computer I have seen.  I don't know
>much about the external drive but I was wondering what it would take to get
>this hooked up to my system.  Has anyone ever run across a cable like this?

It is the standard PC/XT external floppy drive connector. It has all
the disk drive signal and the power leads to the external drive. The
data sheet I have does not list the power leads, but when I opened
one drive I saw that it got power through that cable. 
The signals are quite in the same way as in original disk drive, though
the numbering is different.



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From: sergei@upenn5.hep.upenn.edu (Sergei Borodin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: Zenon Computers
Date: 8 Jan 93 03:24:42 GMT
Followup-To: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Organization: University of Pennsylvania

In article <1ihof4INNlmu@gaia.ucs.orst.edu> schottd@ucs.orst.edu (Derek Schott) writes:

>Does anyone know anything about this company and their service.
>I recently looked over one of their adds, and they have some of
>the least expensive 486 VLB systems I have ever seen. They 
>appear to be made with quality components from the adds, and their
>warranty coverage is quite good too. If anyone has dealt with 
>them, please e-mail me or post a response. (Good and bad inquires
>accepted). Thanks!

  Yes, I almost bought a computer from them. It was on a computer
  show and the deal looked great - 486-50 4Meg 200M HD and LB
  S3 accelerated video. I wrote a check for $1975 (do you beleive
  me? - I don't beleive myself - it was 2 months ago) and got a
  receipt and was waiting when my monitor arrived from some storage
  place.

  Then the next part of the story started. Another salesrep came
  and said that she can't sell the computer for this price because
  it has 256 k cache instead of 64, she wanted another $75 plus
  tax. After a short conversation - well, I was kinda angry -
  I was ready to pay that damn money, but the b**ch discovered
  that I'm getting a NI monitor - what else would I buy with
  that machine?- she asked another $50 or so. This got me.
  Having said some unplesant words to her address I took my check
  and left.  Not that I mind to pay another $150, but we made the
  deal and good or bad for them they should have kept the word.

  These are people you will deal with in Zenon Computers.

  30 minutes later I bought 486-33 from Maximus. ($2,000 out the
  door). Funny, their salesrep also discovered 256 k cache instead
  of advertised 64, but when I said that if he would try to ask a
  dollar more he lose the deal - he agreed.

 
>* Derek Schott                                Mail:schottd@ucs.orst.edu     *
 
 S.B.


Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
From: jordi@scsun.unige.ch (Steve JORDI)
Subject: Re: Print Screen to HP Deskjet... How?????
Reply-To: jordi@scsun.unige.ch
Organization: University of Geneva	
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 08:16:13 GMT


|> >There is an easy solution if you use DOS 5.
|> >Just load "GRAPHICS DESKJET" in your autoexec.bat file. Then, the print screen
|> >function will work correctly in both text and graphic modes. 
|> >You can use it for several other printers. Just take a look at the GRAPHICS.PRO
|> >file provided with DOS 5, you have LaserJet, LaserJetII, ...
|> >
|> >Steve Jordi                
|> Is there also a way to print color graphics on the HP Deskjet 500C?  The
|> graphics I'm printing now is in 640x480 and prints in shades of grey on the
|> DJ500C but I would like to get it to work with color.  
|> 
|> Thanks,
|> 
|> Paul
|> 
|> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
|> psmedsha@ecst.csuchico.edu (Paul Smedshammer)
|> 
|> Graduate Student in Mechanical Engineering
|> California State University at Chico
|> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------

I think there is a better way. Just download a VGA screen capture utility such
the VGACAP available on several anonymous accounts. Then use the utility to 
convert the screen image to a PCX file. You can load it into a graphic editor
like PaintBrush and then print the picture in color on your DJ500C...

Good luck.

Sincerely,

Steve Jordi                

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From: traub@rtf.bt.co.uk (Michael Traub)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Re: Does PC Tools Backup support QIC-02 tape backup yet?
Date: 4 Jan 93 16:01:17 GMT
Organization: BT Customer Systems, Brighton, UK

In article <1764@emoryu1.cc.emory.edu> splee@pd.org (Seng-Poh Lee, Speedy) writes:
>Does anyone know if PC Tools (or any other of these types of packages) support
>tape backup with a Wangtek QIC-02 system? I know they support the QIC-40
>and QIC-80 and maybe even SCSI backup, but the last time I checked, they
>didn't support QIC-02. Does anyone have an update for me?

Yes, the following backup products do *NOT* support QIC-02:

	Norton Backup / Norton Desktop 2.0
	PC Tools 5/6/7/8
	Fastback / Fastback Plus



-- 
Michael Traub
BT Customer Systems, Brighton Systems Centre. traub@btcs.bt.co.uk

Joe, taxi driver: Unemployment will rise and sooner or later the masses
will revolt against it. There'll be civil disorder and the further
breakdown of civil society. The end result I hope will be the triumph of
the people over capitalism. I also wouldn't mind if a few more people
used taxis this year - '92 was rotten.

(Taken from "Hopes and Fears" in The Guardian, December 31st 1992, a
section which looked at what people saw 1993 bringing)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
From: fluet@ee.ualberta.ca (Kevin Blaine Fluet)
Subject: Re: Tape drive - do I need a controller too
Organization: University Of Alberta, Edmonton Canada
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 21:21:47 GMT

smp@cerc.wvu.wvnet.edu (Shailesh M. Potnis) writes:
>I am thinking of adding a tape drive to my PC.  I have 2FD 2HD controller.
>I have two floppy drives and one hd.  Can I use the controller slot for
>the second HD for a tape drive? or I need another controller?

Many QIC-80 and QIC-40 tape drives (the Colorado Memory Systems Jumbo 250
and Jumbo 120 for example) come with an extra floppy cable.  You connect
this cable to one of your floppy drives.  Essentially, you will have 2
drives (1 tape, 1 floppy) connected to one floppy controller.  You will
not need another controller if you buy one of these drives.  

I hope this helps...

----------------------------
Kevin Fluet
fluet@ee.ualberta.ca
----------------------------

Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
From: tmorris@bruny.cc.utas.edu.au (Tim Morris)
Subject: WANTED!  PC Editor
Organization: University of Tasmania, Australia.
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 09:39:29 GMT



I'm going to be writing some long assembly programs and I need a good editor.
The feautures I'm looking for:

  1.  Speed (this is important for when I need to page around a lot - I
      guess this means a text-mode editor of some sort).
  2.  Flexible tab stops so I can have long label names (poreferably
      "smart" tabs like most dedicated assemblers have).
  3.  Ability to support a large screen (1024x768).

Up until now I've been using Turbo Pascal 6.0, which scores an "A" on
speed but an "E-" on the other two.  Does anyone have any recommendations?
(Especially the names of any "dedicated" editors, but anything will do).

Thanks in advance,
Tim Morris,
University of Tasmania,
Australia.


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Date: Tue, 12 Jan 93 15:14:15 MST
From: haymoree@arizona.et.byu.edu (Edward Haymore)
Subject: Re: Norton Desktop and Norton Utilities
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL8]

Yoo-Shin LEE (spader@elmer.cs.mcgill.ca) wrote:
| I'd like to know why Norton Destop 1.0 for windows doesn't have a
| disk/file checker?  It has the "disk doctor" but this disk doctor
| doesn't check your whole disk or files.  Norton utilities on the other
| hand does.  Am I missing something?

Seems like my NU 6.01 didn't come with a file checker, just the disk checker
in NDD.  I still keep around my file-by-file tester from version 4.5 (not
that I get around to using it much).

--
Ed Haymore
ed@byu.edu
From: plantee@JSP.UMontreal.CA (Plante Eric)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Problem with battletech
Date: 4 Jan 93 15:27:27 GMT
Distribution: na
Organization: Universite de Montreal

My problem is that I lost my documentation for battletech and I don't remember
the password in the map's room(the one with the planets);if you have the game,
email me at 'plantee@jsp.umontreal.ca'
            
                  thanks!
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
From: esaffle@gmuvax2.gmu.edu (Ed Saffle)
Subject: Re: PKZip > 1.1: Why bother?!?!
Organization: George Mason University, Fairfax, Va.
Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 19:30:32 GMT

In article <Jan.6.16.38.25.1993.25219@gandalf.rutgers.edu> stella@gandalf.rutgers.edu (Ricky ...suave... Stella) writes:
>J056600@LMSC5.IS.LMSC.LOCKHEED.COM writes:
>
>
>>   What wonderful new advances are in the newer versions (1.93, 2.04, 3.05)
>>of PKZip?  Better compression, perhaps?  How much better?  Or is it just a
>>desire to have the "latest release" regardless of its impact (or potential
>>impact)?
>
>Some of the new features of PKZip 2.04c are, supposedly much better
>compression, faster compression, multiple volumes capabilities, support
>for XMS/EMS, autodetect of CPU type, a minimized version of pkzip and unzip
>that takes less memory (fewer options though)...

  I haven't had 2.04c very long, but it has so far gotten better AND faster
compression over 1.1 AND over arj2.30.  I started using arj because it did the
multiple volumes and got better compression, never did actually see which was
faster though.  But now I find that pkware has released something that does
compete with the options of arj.  Arj doesn't give the AV check that pkzip
does, but I don't use it because I only use it to archive my backup software.

Ed
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc