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From:         Mike Bitz <BITZM@COLUMBIA.DSU.EDU>
Subject:      Re[2]: UPGRADE

>      A friend told me that a 486SX is 32 bit, just without the math
> co-processor..... (T)rue or (F)alse? 486SX's aren't priced too badly. When
> P5 hits... they plummit!!

Yes, the 486sx chip is 32 bit.  There is a math coprocessor, but it
just is disabled.  (No, it's not possible to re-enable it...)  I have
a 486sx, as well as a couple of my friends, and we all are very
satisfied with the performance.  As an added bonus, most 486sx boards
have a socket for an Intel overdrive chip which effectively doubles
the speed of your 486 chip (i.e. from a 25MHz to a 50MHz).   486sx's
are very cheap right now (basically a steal), and as you said above,
when the Intel Pentium comes out the sx's will plummet.







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Date:         Sun, 20 Dec 1992 16:59:00 PST
From:         NAME <RBALLECER@SCU.BITNET>
Subject:      Sound Cards

Hey All,
     To Everyone that is asking about Sound Boards.

By far the best boards out there (Keeping the average Computer User) has to
be the products offered by Media Vision and Creative Labs. They both offer
first and second generation techonologies and different price ranges for
their products... here's a rundown

Media Vision Products
Thunderboard - 8 Bit Mono supports AdLib/SB/Thunderboard -
Audio Port - Sound peripheral for laptops
Pro Audio Spectrum Plus- 8 bit Stereo 44.1Khz sampling with MIDI and SCSI
Pro Audio Spectrum 16 - 16 bit Stereo 44.1 Khz sampling with MIDI and SCSI

Creative Labs
Sound Blaster - 8 bit Mono 22Khz(I think)
Sound Blaster Pro - 8 Bit Stereo (22 KHZ?)
Sound Blaster Pro ASP - 16 Bit Stereo

Overall Media Vision has far better second generation offerings. Aside from
the facts that both the PAS and SBP cards both have much of the same
features (i.e. Game Ports, MIDI) the MV cards do have a few advances. These
include MUCH better shielding to eliminate that annoying electrical whining
that you might be getting on a first generation sound card or even on a
SBP. They also have STANDARD SCSI interfaces which allow you to plug in any
SCSI devices with the appropriate drives. (The Sound Blaster Pro's port is
Proprietary).
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Date:         Tue, 15 Dec 1992 09:39:04 -0500
From:         "Wile E. Coyote" <BBHULSEY@LIFE.UAMS.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Saving Desktop when exiting Win 3.1

Greetings!

Edward Gomez writes:

>        I am having trouble saving a new program group. I create it and then
>when I exit it is no longer there. I exit using alt-f4. Save on exiting is also
>checked. I remember reading there was a command to save the desktop when
>exiting.  I just can't find it in the manuals. I appreciate any help. Thanks!

Windows should save your program groups automatically when you create them,
regardless of whether 'save on exit' is checked.  Chances are that your
progman.ini file is corrupted.  Use notepad or some similar text editor to
look at the progman.ini file (should be in your /windows subdirectory) and be
sure that there is an entry there for your new group under the [Groups]
heading.  Each group entry should be on a separate line.

Possibly what has happened is that you have installed some software which
created its own program group but which neglected to place a CR/LF after its
entry in progman.ini.  Consequently, other program groups which you now try to
create will end up with their progman entries merely tacked on to the end of
the previous entry, and windows won't find these entries when it starts up.
This happened to me once, and it drove me nuts.

Hope this helps!

.......
:  o/ : Bruce Hulsey
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Date:         Fri, 11 Dec 1992 11:15:50 PST
From:         "Vance M. Gloster" <gloster@INFERENCE.COM>
Subject:      Windows for Workgroups
              11 Dec 1992 10:49:41 EST
              <9212111645.AA15477@fourier.inference.com>

  Win for Workgroups it on par with netware lite, lantastic, and other
  peer to peer networks. I personally use it at work and at home. At
  work i use it to supplement our novell network, at home i use it to
  link my laptop to my pc. best thing to do is to buy the windows for
  workgroups starter packs and add on packs to get the adapters, AND
  buy a 5 or 10 user version of novell.

No, W4WG is not only a peer-to-peer system.  When NT comes out there
will be a package which includes the full LAN Manager.  Using the NT
machine as your server you can have a mixture of peer-to-peer and
server-based networking which does not require $8,000 of training to
install and maintain.  The NT/LAN Manager package will be less than
$1000 (a lot less than any but the smallest Novell system) and have no
limits on the number of users.  If you are heavily entrenched in
Novell, W4WG will work with it.  If not, wait for NT/LAN Manager.

-Vance Gloster
 gloster@inference.com
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Date:         Mon, 14 Dec 1992 10:24:02 EST
From:         "NATHAN BRINDLE" <NBRINDLE@INDYCMS.BITNET>
Subject:      Re: Windows is LAME...
              14 Dec 1992 09:54:32 EST from <bgates@MICROSOFT.CO M>

'Twould be interesting to see what Mr. Gates thinks of someone forging
mail in his name...too bad it's so easy to do.

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Date:         Tue, 15 Dec 1992 12:30:53 +0000
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From:         Jan Willem Fransen <JANWF%dutdfs2@DUTDFS1.CED.TUDELFT.NL>
Subject:      Re: Speed in Windows

> This sets a CACHE that helps writes and reads to be faster, and to speed up
> the system. Everything is based on loading from disk. The first 1024 is a
> meg when in DOS, and the second, for caching in Windows. You have enough
> memory to do so. And you probably have a SWAP file that is what 10-12 meg??
> I don't have my config here with me, but this is a start. Also, get QEMM
> Memory Manager.
>

Why do you need Qemm ??? Windows wil start with about 300 Kb base
memory. And what is must worse Qemm eats 25% of your processor
performance, so who wants that ...!!



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Date:         Tue, 15 Dec 1992 09:48:03 -0500
From:         "Wile E. Coyote" <BBHULSEY@LIFE.UAMS.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Re[2]: UPGRADE

Greetings!

Vance Gloster replies to a previous note:

>       A friend told me that a 486SX is 32 bit, just without the math
>  co-processor..... (T)rue or (F)alse? 486SX's aren't priced too badly. When
>  P5 hits... they plummit!!
>
>True.  However, 486SX systems usually do not have an external cache
>(all 486s have an 8K internal cache) which can make them significantly
>slower than a 486DX system which usually has a 64K-256K external cache.
>
>-Vance Gloster
> gloster@inference.com

Please pardon my ignorance, but I'm not sure I follow this.  Isn't this
external cache external to the chip itself, i.e., on the motherboard?  Please
feel free to reply direct as this is getting off the Windows track a bit.

.......
:  o/ : Bruce Hulsey
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From: oneil@cwis.unomaha.edu (Sharon O'Neil)
Subject: Re: Fonts
Organization: University of Nebraska at Omaha
Date: Sun, 13 Dec 1992 22:25:30 GMT

Louis Jezsik <jezsik@PX4.STFX.CA> writes:

>I am seeing more and more ads for share-ware Truetype Fonts, but no
>where do I see these fonts at FTP locations.  Are there any decent
>locations to find these fonts?
>Louis

A lot of ftp sites don't like to archive the so-called "shareware" fonts.
A good number of them are not shareware at all, but pirated fonts: fonts
converted from commercial sources into Truetype fonts using conversion
utilities like Alltype.  A number of "shareware" fonts on ftp.cica.indiana.
edu turned out to be commercial Adobe type 1 fonts that had been illegally
converted into Truetype fonts.

You can purchase Truetype fonts very cheaply anyway.  There are commercial
Truetype packages that sell for around thirty or forty dollars.  You might
as well purchase one of those: they usually carry the entire ANSI set of
characters, whereas those illegal conversions often lose characters in the
process.

sharon
oneil@cwis.unomaha.edu

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Date:         Wed, 16 Dec 1992 15:17:45 -0500
From:         STUGRGGS@EKU.BITNET
Subject:      Re: UART overrun and Procomm Aggravation

I download regularly from the Vax and the Unix computer here at EKU using the
Kermit protocol in Windows without any problem.  When I first started using the
program, I experienced numerous difficulties.  I discovered that turning off the
turbo button solved my problems.  I don't understand why, but I have to turn off
the turbo button or I have all kinds of problems with file transfers and not
just with Kermit.  You might want to try the turbo option to see if it helps.
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Date:         Wed, 16 Dec 1992 16:30:01 MET
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From:         Vladimir Kubak <KUBAK@RUPNW.UPOL.CS>
Subject:      Re: Ventura Publisher

> I am running ventura publisher 3.0 under windows 3.1 on a 50 mgz 486
> with 8mb of memory. The printer is an HP LJIII with an HP postscript
> cartridge. The printing performance from this combination is AWFUL!
> The first page takes about a minute and a half, and subsequent pages
> take over a minute. The printer has a 4mb of memory upgrade for a
> total of 5mb. Now I have spent a lot of money on this combination and
> the performance is terrible. What suggestions do you have to improve
> maters?
>
> We have tried a lot of things over the past three months without
> success.
>
> Any and all suggestions are appreciated.

As I know  Ventura 3.0 for Windows really prints very slow (although
I use 3.0 for GEM which prints pretty fast but has some other
problems). Try upgrading to Ventura 4, it should be better. I want
to do it as soon as possible.
Also the printer can be slow a little bit.
HTH, and merry Christmass.
Vlad

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Date:         Tue, 15 Dec 1992 09:46:09 -0800
From:         Tony Abo <tabo@HITECH.COM>
              15 Dec 1992 10:36:00 EST <9212151724.AA14249@uu4.psi.com>

   Has anyone noticed that if you run Win at a higher resolution (1024x768)
   that windows slows down? Maybe Im just Imagining it.

That doesn't surprise me.  If you consider the fact that the
display maps to memory, and higher resolution display requires
more memory to to represent the screen, and that "more memory"
takes longer to write than "less memory" it only follows that
screen updates will take longer.  You can bet that things running
in Windows do lots of screen updates.
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Date:         Wed, 16 Dec 1992 15:22:32 EDT
From:         LELIO@CCS.UOGUELPH.CA
Subject:      Re: Network Drives

Mike Bowling writes

> We're using Win 3.1 in a Netware environment and we want to keep users from
> seeing network drives while in File Manager, but still be able to
> manage their local disks.  Anybody know how to do this.
>


Im pretty sure that if the user has read,write or rw acces to a
network disk they will be able to see it in FileManager.

If they do not have this access these drives should not be accessible
to their FileManager.

If this is not the case.....please write back



Lelio Fulgenzi
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Subject:      Re: NWPOPUP.EXE

----------------------------Original message----------------------------
What is the proper setup for NWPOPUP.EXE ?

Our machines, win3.1  & ms-dos 5.0, all seem  to have LOAD=NWPOPUP.EXE
but the actual NWPOPUP.EXE  is located in  WINDOWS/SYSTEM/NWPOPUP.EXE.
Since  /windows/system  is not  on  the  PATH variable,  does  Windows
actually find/use NWPOPUP.EXE?

Thanks.

Steve

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Steve,

    The short answer is, "No, Windows will neither find nor use
NWPOPUP.EXE unless you move it into the windows directory.
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Date:         Wed, 16 Dec 1992 22:36:00 EDT
From:         "BRIAN W. HARRIGER" <BHARRIGE@SNYESCVA.BITNET>
Subject: re: Re[2]: Speed in Windows

You (or anyone else) wouldn't happen to have those benchmarks lying
around so you could post them.  This is the first time I have ever
heard of a serious performance hit using QEMM and would be interested
to see how it stacks up against other memory mgrs as well as DOS 5.0's
HIMEM.SYS.

Running a 386sx 16mhz, I can use every ounce of speed I can get.

BTW... It is really incredible the little things you can pick up on
the net.  I read every review I can find on a product b4 buying it....
I did sso with QEMM and nevver saw any mention of a performance hit.
Champion job folks!!!

Brian W. Harriger
BHARRIGE@SNYESCVAX.BITNET
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From:         Rene de Bie <CRISRB@RULCRI.LEIDENUNIV.NL>
Subject:      Re: .wav or .mid playing from an icon...

Hi, concerning playing wav files with MediaPlayer:
Is there some other param needed besides just the wav file?
It doesn't work for me, when I click the icon, I still get the
player in a window and have to click the play  button.

Greetings,

Rene de Bie
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Date:         Wed, 16 Dec 1992 18:12:23 CET
From:         Joern-Morten Innselset <VEI92001@NOBIVM.BITNET>
Subject: Re: How do I start Windows 3.1 ?
              16 Dec 1992 11:38:41 -0500 from <jezsik@PX4.STFX.CA>

On Wed, 16 Dec 1992 11:38:41 -0500 Louis Jezsik said:
>>I have tried everything :
>Uh, have you tried:
>        win
>?
>(I don't suppose you have a manual, do you?)

 Well, how come u care???
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Date:         Mon, 14 Dec 1992 12:00:21 EST
From:         CDICKERS <cdickers@IUS.INDIANA.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Speed in Windows

I have a 486sx/25 system with 4 megabytes of RAM.  I am sure there
are plenty of people on this list with the same configuration.  Could
someone please tell me how I should configure windows to run the
fastest on my hardware (i.e. virtual memory, ram disk, etc.).
Hard drive space won't be a problem.  Thanks in advance.
-Mike

First, make sure that you have

LH C:\WINDOWS\SMARTDRV 1024 1024 +A +B +C

This sets a CACHE that helps writes and reads to be faster, and to speed up
the system. Everything is based on loading from disk. The first 1024 is a
meg when in DOS, and the second, for caching in Windows. You have enough
memory to do so. And you probably have a SWAP file that is what 10-12 meg??
I don't have my config here with me, but this is a start. Also, get QEMM
Memory Manager.

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Date:         Mon, 14 Dec 1992 10:17:06 +0200
From:         Laurence Humblet <laurence@TINTIN.CSL.SNI.BE>
Subject:      thanks + question

Hi,

I want to thanks all the people who answered to my question about SERIAL
in Informix Database. The answer i received  is : SQLCA.SQLERRD[2], but the
problem is that i can't find how to access this structure from SQL Windows
(thats why i sent the question also to the WIN3-L).

Perhaps does anybody knows where i can find the way to acces SQLCA.SQLERRD[2]
from a SQL Windows application ?
Perhaps does anybody knows if there is a SQL WINDOWS list where I could ask
my question?

One more thanks to all the people who already help me :-)


                                              Laurence


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From:         Luciano Barragan UCV <lbarraga@CONICIT.VE>
Subject:      Re: Corrupted X-10 file
              "KNOPF%FNAL.BITNET@pucc.Princeton.EDU" at Dec 16, 92 4:13 pm

        Hi Walter!

        I'm sendig this to the list because maybe there are some persons
that doesn't know what X-10 do (I'm one of the group). So, can you
explain us what does this program do?

        Muchas Gracias.... ;-0
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From: dlanglan@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (super-dave)
Subject: Anyone know the features of PCPlus/Win 2.0??
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 00:23:34 GMT


Can anyone summarize the upgrades to PCPlus/Win 2.0 from version 1?  I'd
really appreciate it.  Please e-mail me or post whichever you prefer.

Dave

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