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From: pbrown@tnclus.tele.nokia.fi
Subject: long TOC -- I was wrong!
Organization: Nokia Telecommunications.
Date: Wed, 7 Oct 1992 14:35:18 GMT

Hello again!

  A few days ago I posted with a problem concerning the automatic
table of contents generator of Word for Windows 2.0a.  Unfortunately,
I have now realized that the problem was actually occurring with 1.1,
and NOT 2.0a.  I have cancelled my previous post.  Sorry!

--Paul

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From: mcn@cfa203.HARVARD.EDU (Charley Noecker, Prec Astron)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.apps
Subject: Re: MathCad New Version?
Date: 14 Oct 92 01:28:58 GMT
Reply-To: noecker@cfa.harvard.edu
Organization: Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, Cambridge, MA,  USA

From article <1992Oct13.105608.13810@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>, 
	by gfini@nyx.cs.du.edu (Gianluca Fini):
> Does anyone know about a 3.1 version of WinMcad wich should suppport
> Ole and  fix bugs???

Yes, they've been pushing it by mailings, and we've already had our
copy for a couple of months :-) They're asking about $90 for an
upgrade from v3.0, but that depends on which mailing you get :-( We
find a lot fewer UAEs, but still some funny business here and there;
the symbolic manipulation, which we're heavy into, is still
frustrating and disappointing, considering they started aggressively
by getting the Maple kernel.

Try calling them: MathSoft, in Cambridge, MA 

Charley Noecker                                  POINTS Group
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics      Mail Stop 63 
60 Garden St                              Cambridge, MA 02138
Email: noecker@cfa.harvard.edu
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From: 5916rahmank@vms.csd.mu.edu (K. M. A. Rahman)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.apps
Subject: Re: Error bar in scatter plot with Excel 4.
Date: 7 Oct 1992 17:11:47 GMT
Organization: Marquette University - Computer Services
Reply-To: 5916rahmank@vms.csd.mu.edu
NNTP-Posting-Host: vmsa.csd.mu.edu

This is a repost

Hi all:
	I need to create a scatter plot with error bars along both
	x- and y-axis. If I try to this from the line graph options
	it makes a graph with error bars where the points are equally
	spaced, nomore a scatter plot!

	Would anybody show me how to do this? Any and all help
	greatly appreciated.

	-Anis.
From: furballs@sequent.com (Paul Penrod)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.apps
Subject: Re: W4W 2.0: "File too large to save" (bug?)
Keywords: Windows Word File Save Bug
Date: 9 Oct 92 18:46:56 GMT
Article-I.D.: sequent.1992Oct9.184656.13634
Organization: Sequent Computer Systems Inc.

In article <1992Oct8.045846.5736@panix.com> entropy@panix.com (Daniel Gross) writes:
>There I was, happily editing my nearly 4-Meg file -- lots
>of OLE embedding, other than that your pretty standard
>long document with about 25-30 styles (it's a manual).
>
>I *cut the file in half*, try to save, and I get
>"File too large to save. Cut some text and try again."
>So I quit (losing work of course), copy the file,
>and try to trim it to 1/3 its original size.
>"File too large to save." I delete chunks and
>chunks, and it saves only when I get down to
>something < 40K. This ain't right.
>
>Anyone else experience this? Know of workarounds?
>Is this bug fixed in 2.0a? I haven't called MS
>yet, if/when I do I'll post what I learn. Meanwhile,
>respond please if you can do more than commiserate.
>

If you do not have one, create a swap file and give it about 40
megs + in size if you can afford it. W4W wont use all of it, but it
will guarantee that you can save all your work without losing all
your system resource management in the process. This presumes you
are running Windows 3.1. If you are not, then I would recommend you
do so. This feature (disk VM swap file) alone is worth the $50
upgrade.

Also, W4W is now at level 2.0B. IF you call Microsoft, they will
send it to you free, if you are a registered user of the product.
They are supposed to be shipping the next batch of product on the
19th of October.


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Date: Mon, 12 Oct 1992 11:55:43 EDT
From: Christopher Sacksteder <CJS@psuvm.psu.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.apps
Subject: Re: FTP2.05 and Windows!
 <1992Oct11.165129.9099@xenitec.on.ca>
 <DAVE.92Oct12152739@bill.dhcs.demon.co.uk>

In article <DAVE.92Oct12152739@bill.dhcs.demon.co.uk>, dave@dhcs.demon.co.uk
(Dave Hodgkinson) says:
>   But then you will also have to get Hummingbird to give you an upgrade to
>   Exceed/W.

The 3.1.1 version of HCL-eXceede/Windows, which I got a few months ago,
works ok with FTP Software's VxD version 2.11 (for me).

I didn't even try Hummingbird's version of VPCTCP.386 (which they said
*must* be used).
From: mcn@cfa203.HARVARD.EDU (Charley Noecker, Prec Astron)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.apps
Subject: Re: telnet for windows?
Date: 11 Oct 92 03:24:15 GMT
Article-I.D.: cfa203.1992Oct11.032415.19703
Organization: Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, Cambridge, MA,  USA

From article <1b4tsnINN5fn@agate.berkeley.edu>, 
by sag@hera.Berkeley.EDU (Steve Goldfield):
> A few people sent me Email about the anonymous ftp site
> where NCSA Telnet could be obtained. I'm looking at the
> NCSA Telnet manual and don't see the full address of the
> anonymous ftp server. However, you could probably get it

ftp.ncsa.uiuc.edu
Also wuarchive.wustl.edu in mirrors/msdos/ncsatelnet

> by sending Email to telbug@ncsa.uiuc.edu. That's the bug
> report/suggestion address. (I hope they aren't upset if
> they get a flock of Email.) 

AAAAAHHHHH!!!!  (echoing from NCSA)  :-)

Charley Noecker
noecker@cfa.harvard.edu
Xref: sparky comp.os.ms-windows.apps:3623 comp.os.ms-windows.misc:3708
From: thomas@datamark.co.nz (Thomas Beagle)
Subject: Re: Winword -- changin licensed to name
Date: Tue, 6 Oct 1992 19:59:17 GMT
Organization: Datamark International Ltd.

In article <16878803B.PRAETHE@YaleVM.YCC.Yale.Edu> PRAETHE@YaleVM.YCC.Yale.Edu (Ethan Evan Prater) writes:
>Word for Windows 2.0x modifies the program diskettes upon installation to
>include as part of their heart and soul the name of the user. This is not
>changeable in any way other than to reinstall the program from a set of disks
>that have never been used for installation. An easy way to illustrate this
>situation is to write-protect your disks before installation--Word will not
>let you install. Also, if you ever reinstall from a set of disks you
>previously used, Install won't ask you your name or company. The one from
>before will just show up in the Help-About box.

This is not entirely true.

If you leave the disks write protected, the program will fail to write
to them twice, and then just proceed with the install.

Therefore I can reinstall as many times as I like, changing my name
each time...
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    Thomas Beagle | thomas@datamark.co.nz  or  thomas@cavebbs.welly.gen.nz
Datamark Intl Ltd | 
 Technical Writer | I don't need a disclaimer, I live in a sane society.
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.apps
From: plotkin@cs.stanford.edu (Serge A. Plotkin)
Subject: Re: pc to pc or pc to nb (= notebook)
Organization: Stanford, CS Dept.
Date: 7 Oct 92 09:06:04


--> I'd like to make communications (file transfer, light client-server
--> applications like printing or faxing, and something else) between two
--> pcs or between my desktop and my notebook using windows and possibly
--> a parallel port (the notebook has a seriel port (used) and a parallel
--> port (unused)): where can I find, if it exists a software like this?


Look into "Bridge" from "Fifth Generation Computers".
It allows you to run a program on the first pc and and install a driver on the
second pc such that the disks/ports/printers/etc of the first PC will be
"seen" by the second PC as if they are local. Works great for me.
I use it to back up files from a PC with no tape drive to a PC with a tape
drive. I just tell the tape software to backup this "additional" drive that
appears, and it all works with no problems.

you can both use a serial port or a parallel port for the communication.

-serge

Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.apps
From: vances@xenitec.on.ca (Vance Shipley)
Subject: GUI Builder for MS Win3.1?
Organization: SwitchView Inc., Waterloo, Ontario
Date: Sun, 11 Oct 1992 21:49:33 GMT

Are there any interface builders for windows?  I'm looking for something
which will allow me to easily build a user interface with only "scripting"
type programming neccesary.  Something like Dirt for X-windows.

-- 
Vance Shipley 
vances@xenitec.on.ca   vances@ltg.uucp   ..uunet.ca!xenitec!vances
From: vijay@moondog
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.apps
Subject: People Mgmt. software
Date: 9 Oct 92 19:50:30 GMT
Reply-To: vijay@moondog ()
Distribution: usa
Organization: BellSouth Telecommunications - Science and Technology

Several weeks ago I read the review of sw package that supposedly helped
you manage people (subordinates) better.  How to use them more efficiently
with tips on management styles.  
This is not scheduling or project
management software nor is it a  personal information manager (like packrat
or yourway).

I cannot recall the title or the manufacturer.
I am now interested in trying it out; does this ring a bell?
If any one knows what I am talking about please let me know the
title of the package and if you have used it, your opinion about
its functionality and ease of use.

I prefer email but I will monitor this newsgroup at least for the next 
couple of weeks.  Thanks...

Vijay Perumbeti

vijay@bss.com
gatech!blsouth!vijay
404-332-2167
From: brehonyt@ul.ie
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.apps
Subject: Looking for wysiwyg Postscript Viewer for Win3.1
Date: 8 Oct 92 16:19:41 GMT
Organization: University of Limerick, Ireland



I am looking for a good postscript viewer for Windows 3.x, wysiwyg ( what
you see is what you get) if possible. Is there a freeware/shareware PS
viewer available through anynomous somewhere ?. Thanks in advance.

Tom.

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Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.apps
From: kevin@edscom.demon.co.uk (Kevin Broadey)
Subject: Help required with NDW configuration
X-Disclaimer: These opinions are mine: others available on request.
Reply-To: Kevin Broadey <kbroadey@edscom.demon.co.uk>
Organization: EDS-Scicon, Milton Keynes, UK
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 1992 13:15:19 GMT

I'm using Norton Desktop for Windows version 2.0.

Ages ago I configured the drive windows so that directories only appear
in the directory pane, not the file pane.  I've decided I don't like it
that way and would dearly like directories appearing in the file pane
once more.  The problem is, I can't remember the magical incantation to
do this!!  I've looked through everything under the "Configure" menu
a zillion times.  I've even read the on-line help.  Will someone please
help me!

Please e-mail replies, and keep abuse you yourself!

Kevin
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Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.apps
From: badaglin@tsla.noava.lisc.lockheed.com (Larry Badagliacca)
Subject: Windows VMM
Organization: LISC Noava
Date: Sat, 10 Oct 92 17:53:52 GMT

Where can I find a thorough description of the Windows enhanced mode
Virtual Machine kernel, i. e. the code that manages virtual machine
setup and multitasking?

Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.apps
From: ntaib@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (Iskandar Taib)
Subject: Re: Error bar in scatter plot with Excel 4.
Organization: Indiana University
Date: Sat, 10 Oct 1992 04:32:04 GMT

In article <w2hpal=@lynx.unm.edu| tkeitt@algodones.unm.edu (Timothy Keitt) writes:
|In article <1992Oct8.114522.1@bigez|, dmmatt@bigez (Mike Mattix) writes:
||| In article <g7gp69+@lynx.unm.edu|, tkeitt@algodones.unm.edu (Timothy Keitt) writes:
||| | 
||| | Of course, for a large data set you'll need to write a
||| | macro (unless you really like copying and pasting cells :-)
||| | Better yet call MS and complain about the excel's
||| | ridiculously anemic plotting routines. Excel's great
||| | if you want to do silly picture graphs, but almost
||| | worthless for many scientific plots. I've found ways
||| | to overcome many of excel's limitations, but its getting
||| | old, quick!
||| 
|||  I have to admit amazement at the lack of scientific plotting
||| features in a business tool like a spreadsheet.  I guess the
||| thing does load too fast currently.  We certainly need to fix
||| that..
||| 
||| -- 
||| Mike Mattix
||| Agricultural Group of Monsanto
||| P.O. Box 174
||| Luling, LA 70070
||| INTERNET Address: dmmatt@bigez.monsanto.com
|
|Actually I really *do* like excel. I started using it version 1.0
|under windows 2.0, when my other options were 123 which at the
|time had really terrible plotting capabilities.
|
|I agree excel feels rather bloated in v4.0 and tacking on a
|bunch of extra stuff would be worse. Anyone know of a cheap
|(ie graduate student wages) scientific plotting package for
|windows? I'd really like to see MS strip out all of the
|'magazine add' wiz-bang buisness stuff and put out a
|science and engineering version of excel (with a free
|upgrade of course! :-).

While Excel (and earlier, Lotus 123) are primarily business tools
they provide an astonishing amount of scientifically useful fun-
tions. How many business users use trig.? I've used spreadsheets 
for some really hair-raising stuff, including iterative models 
(ever copy a row of cells down a thousand times, a row per ite-
ration? Its so quick and dirty and the output is practically al-
ready graphed...my biggest concern was running out of memory and 
calcs that took tens of minutes on XTs. Excel and 386s do this 
with ease.)

Actually what I'd like to see is a bunch of OLE graphing modules
for various purposes (eg. Geosciences would want rose diagrams,
ternary diagrams (with tie lines), stratigraphic sections, well 
logs, Zen diagrams, phase stability diagrams, contouring from 3-D
data, free energy surface plots, etc. etc.)

Even better would be a developer's toolkit with the ability to 
compile, so someone can actually distribute user-written graph-
ing modules.

But I must admit, just the addition of error bars would make it 
so much more useful to scientists..







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Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.apps
From: wood@havedash.aer.loral.com (Bill Wood)
Subject: Re: SuperBar version 1.2 is here...
Organization: Loral
Date: Mon, 12 Oct 1992 23:30:10 GMT
X-Posted-From: havedash.aer.loral.com
NNTP-Posting-Host: sol.ctr.columbia.edu

>     I have uploaded SuperBar to ftp.cica.indiana.edu.  It is 
>currently in /pub/pc/win3/uploads but will quickly be moved to
>/pub/pc/win3/util.  I'd like to get some feedback on this program.  
>I'd like to know if there is any interest in this program and if there
>are Windows applications or system configurations which are not compatible 
>with SuperBar.  It is shareware ($15 registration). 

I guess it would help to also include the file name.

sprbar12.zip

Sorry about that.
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.apps
From: wood@havedash.aer.loral.com (Bill Wood)
Subject: SuperBar version 1.2 is here...
Organization: J. Random Misconfigured Site
Date: Mon, 12 Oct 1992 15:18:02 GMT
X-Posted-From: havedash.aer.loral.com
NNTP-Posting-Host: sol.ctr.columbia.edu



               SuperBar Version 1.2 is now ready.  

     I have uploaded SuperBar to ftp.cica.indiana.edu.  It is 
currently in /pub/pc/win3/uploads but will quickly be moved to
/pub/pc/win3/util.  I'd like to get some feedback on this program.  
I'd like to know if there is any interest in this program and if there
are Windows applications or system configurations which are not compatible 
with SuperBar.  It is shareware ($15 registration). 

     SuperBar is a Windows program for creating and editing user 
configurable tool bars called  SuperBars. These tool bars are 
similar those found on newers Windows applications like Word 
for Windows, Excel, Word Perfect, etc.  A SuperBar consists 
of a gray area containing several buttons, each assigned to an 
application menu command.  A SuperBar can be added to any 
Windows application that is compatible with the SuperBar program.  
Most Windows applications which have standard menu bars are 
compatible with SuperBar.  SuperBar can be used to increase 
efficiency by placing commonly used menu commands on a SuperBar.

     In addition to providing SuperBars, this program also includes 
the ability to start Windows applications at the same location 
on the desktop every time they are executed.  The applications can 
be run normally, minimized, maximized or hidden.  A hidden 
application runs normally but cannot be seen on the desktop.  
This feature is useful for hiding utility programs which should 
run in the background.

     SuperBar may also be used as a replacement Task Manager.  SuperBar
includes all of the functionlity of the Windows built-in Task
Manager including switching between applications, terminating
applications and rearranging the desktop.

     Future plans include the ability to assign user-defined macros 
to buttons and more button customization options.

   Version 1.2 has many improvements over version 1.1, including:

-  SuperBar Icon Manager for user-defined icons.

-  SuperBars that wrap to new rows/columns if they won't fit in the window.

-  Replacement Task Manager.

-  Half spaces.

-  Improved context sensitive help.

-  Faster drawing of SuperBars.

-  Several more button icons.

-  Some minor bug fixes.

Please send any comments/suggestions/problems to:

wood@havedash.aer.loral.com

Thanks you in advance for any feedback you can give me.

William J. Wood



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From: cs90rwr@brunel.ac.uk (Richard W Rackham)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.apps,comp.os.ms-windows.misc,comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.misc
Subject: Re: VISUAL BASIC 2
Date: 9 Oct 92 17:49:28 GMT
Organization: Brunel University, Uxbridge, UK
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]

: Does anyone know about VISUAL BASIC release 2 ????
: 
: -Richard Smart.

Apparantly, VB2 will have better compilation routines making smaller .EXE
files, and faster programs.  Also, the need for VBRUN100.DLL should no longer
be needed.  There will also be strong links between VB2 and VB/DOS which
should be out soon as well.

Perhaps this will make VB a usuable program.

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Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.apps
From: shenoy@iastate.edu (Shiva Shenoy)
Subject: Re: WinWord question
Organization: Iowa State University, Ames IA
Date: Thu, 8 Oct 1992 03:10:01 GMT

In <1992Oct6.050914.22723@polari> skaiser@polari.com (Steve Kaiser) writes:

>toree@swix.ifi.unit.no (Tore Eriksmoen) writes:


>>I have two questions about WinWord 2.0:

>>1. Does a utility exist wich allows modification of the toolbar-icons?
>>   I have tried Borland resource editor but it seems that the icons
>>   are hard-coded in some of the files.

>    You would probably do better to wait until the next version of
>    Winword it out.  It is rumored to have totally customizable
>    toolbars, like Excel 4.0.

You can get the shareware program from ftp.cica.indiana.edu in the
pub/pc/win3/winword directory. It is wopr-20a.zip and wopr-20b.zip . Among
the macros in this package is a program called tbedit which allows you to
edit the toolbar icons.
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Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.apps
Subject: WP4W is SLOOOOW
From: edowdy@vax1.umkc.edu
Date: Wed, 7 Oct 1992 21:33:03 GMT
Organization: University of Missouri - Kansas City

Does anyone know why WP4W is so godawful slow? I bring up the navigator and
it takes 10-11 seconds to come up!! My gosh I am working on a 486 and that 
speed is unacceptable. It seems to have goten worse over time also.
Does anyone else have this problem with WP4W overall? If so can you improve the
speed?
Thanks..............
Eric D.
University of Missouri
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.apps
From: areid@med.unc.edu (Alfred Reid)
Subject: WINDOWS-BASED DBMS WANTED
Keywords: WINDOWS DBMS RELATIONAL
Organization: UNC-CH School of Medicine
Date: Mon, 12 Oct 1992 20:44:51 GMT

My department is looking for a Windows-based DBMS package that we
could use to support a variety of general purpose/administrative data
bases.  One immediate application is a (yet-to-be-developed) student
database that includes information on students and the faculty and
courses to which they've been exposed.  Ease of use in designing and
generating reports is important; relational capability and the
ability to reside and share data on a Novell LAN are critical.  We're
currently evaluating Approach (ver. 1.0) and have been favorably
impressed.  File/record locking is inadequate but I understand that
it has been substantially improved in version 2.

I'm interested in hearing about others' experience with Approach or
other Windows-based DBMSs -- particularly problems you may have
encountered that may not be evident at first glance.  If there's
interest I will summarize responses to the net.  Thanks.


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