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From: aa699@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Tony Thomas)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
Subject: Re: Corel Draw 3.0 CD-ROM Edition (Reviewed by Tony Thomas)
Date: 7 Sep 1992 03:20:49 GMT
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
Reply-To: aa699@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Tony Thomas)
NNTP-Posting-Host: thor.ins.cwru.edu


In a previous article, varkki@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (Varkki George) says:
>
>amen to all your comments. i acquired corelDRAW very recently, and
>nothing seems to have changed. it has tremendous potential, but lousy
>user-interface design, documentation, and customer support make it
>really frustrating to use.
>
>
That's interesting.  I found it very easy to use and found the
documentation to be quite good--quite a bit better than many other
complex programs.  There are several excellent books that will also help
you with Corel, especially if you don't understand graphics and printing
processes.

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From: ccavers@ersys.edmonton.ab.ca (Cam Cavers)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
Subject: Re: Is GATES gay? Only a Fag could make windows
Date: 9 Sep 92 23:05:24 GMT
Organization: Edmonton Remote Systems #3, Edmonton, AB, Canada

dave@frackit.UUCP (Dave Ratcliffe) writes:

- This is tame. Wait till they find out about making new alt groups.
-
- I HATE September - October :(

Hmmm... that Windows-hater didn't even know that he is supposed to post to an
advocacy group...

BTW- I was a freshman last September; some of us do understand how to behave on
the net. Unfortunately, a lot of the high school BBSers don't grow up fast
enuff. :)

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From: jinli@gpu.utcs.utoronto.ca (Jin Tonic Li)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
Subject: Re: Looking for a good application bar
Date: 14 Sep 92 05:00:28 GMT
Organization: UTCS Public Access


I believe that one of the reasons why users want application bar is to have
instant access to a Windows task and be aware what else is running in Windows.
It's difficult to quickly switch to another task given the utilities in Windows.

TITS provides fast task switching and awareness of the Windows computing
environment.  I have just uploaded TITS(shareware) to ftp.cica.indiana.edu under
/pub/pc/win3/uploads dir.  Try it and I think you will like it.


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Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
From: sedwards@mcs213e.cs.umr.edu (Shawn Edwards)
Subject: Win 3.1 Driver for Epson AP3250?
Date: Tue, 8 Sep 1992 23:47:59 GMT
Organization: University of Missouri - Rolla

Howdy-
Does anyone out there have a driver for an Action Printer 3250?
My printer came without a driver disk, and I'm sick of my margins being
screwed up from using an incorrect driver.

Epson tech support has ben about as helpful as a Senator in an election year:
they've been patronizing me 'til I'm blue in the face and they still get 
nothing done.

HELP!

-- 
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                shawne@umrnuc.nuc.umr.edu         If progress means go forward, 
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From: fox@rei.com (Fuzzy Fox)
Subject: Re: FileManager Horror Story
Date: Sat, 12 Sep 1992 00:09:06 GMT
Organization: Recognition Equipment, Inc.

asher@qtp.ufl.edu (Robert L. Asher) writes:

>The approximate actions which caused this to happen were:
>1)  In file manager SEARCH for *.exe to find the file to delete
>2)  In a seperate window the *.exe's came up.
>3)  Minimized that window.
>4)  Went into the WINDOWS directory.
>5)  Selected and deleted a single file.
>6)  Pandamonium, Panic and Dispair.

I think it is a major leap in logic to assume that just because you did
the above steps, Windows decided to wipe itself out.  More likely it was
a coincidence dependent upon what other tasks were in memory, what
drives you load in CONFIG and AUTOEXEC, and yes, the phase of the moon
as well.

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From: stecker@gn.ecn.purdue.edu (Scott D. Stecker)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
Subject: WFW 2.0 Equation Editor Problem Solved
Date: 15 Sep 92 15:02:20 GMT
Organization: Purdue University Engineering Computer Network

Due to all the request for any replies I received as far as fixing the equation
editor in W4W 2.0 I will post the solution to my problem:
 When upgrading Win v3.0 to 3.1 , 3.1 doesn't update the printer driver for
the Deskjet 500 (it may not update any of them, but this is only one I have
any experience with) It is a very subtle point in the problem. What I was told
to do (and did) was to install a new printer in the control panel, and install
the new Deskjet 500 driver that came with Win 3.1, and install it as the 
Default printer. From there on reinstall the equation editor. This solved my
problem, and added the capability of True Type Fonts for W4W 2.0. It really
was a pretty simple process that only took about 15-20 minutes to complete
once I knew what I had to do. I hope this helps.
  Many thanks go out to all those who mailed me solutions to my problem I
really apreciated it.
   
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From: s_fuller@iastate.edu (Steve Fuller)
Subject: Re: NT on a Mac???
Organization: Iowa State University, Ames IA
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1992 12:38:10 GMT

In <BuBnsA.Iw@chinet.chi.il.us> dhartung@chinet.chi.il.us (Dan Hartung) writes:

>sammy@anagld.analytics.com (Sam Blackburn) writes:
>>din@gradient.cis.upenn.edu (Clarence Din) writes:
>>
>>>Anyone know if Microsoft has any plans for putting NT on a Mac?
>>>Now that would be neat!
>>

>Microsoft (no plans to make it a viable product yet, though); and b)
>the new ability of SoftPC for the Mac (the PC emulator) to run Windows
>in standard mode.  Not quite what you want but interesting nonetheless.

SoftPC Windows has a recommended platform of a Mac Quadra 700 or
950. I've used Macs for over three years and I would hardly call
this a viable solution, though I am sure they aren't aiming at a
big market segment with the product anyway. For the price
difference, you're better off buying a IIci and taking the extra
money and buying a decent IBM compatible system.

>-- 
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>has had an affair."  -- Gennifer Flowers!
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From: ballerup@diku.dk (Per Goetterup)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
Subject: Weird problem with PC-SPEAKER...
Summary: problems!
Keywords: pc-speaker
Date: 10 Sep 92 09:20:28 GMT
Organization: Department of Computer Science, U of Copenhagen

Being the owner of a PC without a sound board, I had almost accepted
to live without sound in Windows - but then I heard of the PC-SPEAKER
driver on ftp.cica.indiana.edu, I fetched it, installed it and hit the
test button. SOUND!. Wow!. I then proceeded to assign sounds to
various events - all of them actually.

Now on to the problem.

I get my tada sound when starting windows and my chime sound when
exiting windows - otherwise nothing!. As I understand it, I should get
my assigned sound (chord) when for instance a dialog box appears with
an exclamation mark in it, but nothing happens. Am I misunderstanding
something fundamental or what?

Help please!

Reply via e-mail if possible... otherwise please post.

	Thanks in advance!!!!






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Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
From: aperrin1@cc.swarthmore.edu (Andrew Perrin)
Subject: Re: Help reading Mac Disk
Organization: Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, PA, USA
Distribution: usa
Date: Mon, 14 Sep 1992 21:01:11 GMT

In article <BuJpvA.6xs@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu>,
ntaib@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (Iskandar Taib) writes:
> 
> In article <1992Sep11.182416.7034@draco.macsch.com> bnc@portia.si.macsch.com (Brian Casey) writes:
> >Apple just started marketing a package called PC Exchange that lets Mac's
> >use DOS diskette just like MacOS diskettes.  If you insert a DOS diskette
> >into the Mac, the DOS directories become folders, and you can drag files
> >to and from the diskette, just like it's a Mac disk.  There have also been
> >variations on this theme from other companies - I know my local Egghead
> >sells a couple of them.  The Apple package is $69 from MacConnection.
> 
> Theres been something called Access PC out for a couple years 
> now that does the same thing.

There's also a PC-based program called Mac-In-Dos that tries to do it on a
PC with a 1.44Mb drive.  I'd characterize its performance as
fair-to-middlin', but it does work.

--Andy
Perrin
From: alansar@ccs.northeastern.edu (Mohammad Al-Ansari)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
Subject: Re: Looking for a good application bar
Date: 11 Sep 92 02:27:02 GMT
Organization: Comp. Sci. @ NU

In article <1992Sep10.173649.13246@cs.mcgill.ca> storm@uriel (Marc WANDSCHNEIDER) writes:
>	It's called windock.zip and is available from cica in util or misc
>(I forget)

I think it's in desktop, or at least that's where other similar apps reside.

>
>	At 10$, it's a steal.
>
>	Toodlepip!
>	Marc 'em.
>-- 
>  storm@cs.mcgill.ca           McGill University         C program run.  Run  
>  Marc Wandschneider           Montreal, CANADA          Program run! PLEASE!
>      "When 900 years old you reach, look as good you will not." - Yoda
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From: darrylo@hpnmdla.sr.hp.com (Darryl Okahata)
Date: Tue, 8 Sep 1992 19:01:39 GMT
Subject: Re: TSENG ET4000 Drivers & DOS windows that don't work
Organization: Hewlett-Packard, Santa Rosa, CA
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc

In comp.os.ms-windows.misc, aga@Comtech.com (Alan G. Arndt) writes:

> Has anyone else noticed this problem and/or found a solution??  I imagine
> there is some sort of setup difference between machines as I have some that
> DO seem to work correctly all the time.

     While it may be a driver problem, check out the Windows manual
regarding PIF files and the "monitor ports" section (I think that it's
called "monitor ports" -- the options you want are in the advanced
options dialog, and has buttons -- if memory serves -- for "text", "low
graphics", and "high graphics").

     -- Darryl Okahata
	darrylo@sr.hp.com
From: albert@cs.uq.oz.au (Albert Ng)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
Subject: Re: Weird problem with PC-SPEAKER...
Keywords: pc-speaker
Date: 15 Sep 92 04:41:07 GMT
Reply-To: albert@cs.uq.oz.au

In <1992Sep13.223530.15013@u.washington.edu> umeister@hardy.u.washington.edu (Eushuk Hong) writes:

>In article <1992Sep11.151829.4829@news.iastate.edu> rjhoffma@iastate.edu (Richard J. Hoffmann) writes:

>I've got a similar problem, even though I've got a Soundblaster 2.0.  It
>might not be as severe--I get the default beep sound--but not ever asterisk,
>exclamation point, stop sign or question mark dialog box is accompanied
>by the sounds I have assigned to them.  If anyone knows what's wrong, PLEASE
>post or e-mail!  Thanks!

>--
>Eushuk Hong
>Sophomore, Psychology
>Stanford University
>umeister@leland.stanford.edu
>umeister@hardy.u.washington.edu

I guess it was me started this pc-speaker business. So may be we should check
if the sound is enabled or not! (in the driver setup dialog box there is a check
box at the bottom says enble window sound) But usually there will only be sound
will you do something wrong as mentioned by others.

There is also a program call winsound in wuarchive which suppose to be able to
assign sounds to applications. I downloaded it but it didn't seem to work!
Anyone tried it?

Albert
From: aa699@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Tony Thomas)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
Subject: Re: Corel Draw 3.0 CD-ROM Edition (Reviewed by Tony Thomas)
Date: 7 Sep 1992 21:33:57 GMT
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
Reply-To: aa699@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Tony Thomas)
NNTP-Posting-Host: thor.ins.cwru.edu


In a previous article, doc@magna.com (Matthew J. D'Errico) says:

>In article <189docINN8eu@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu> aa699@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Tony Thomas) writes:
>>In a previous article, ken@minster.york.ac.uk () says:
>
>Alas, COREL is right now completely innundated with support calls...
>Methinks they released too early !  And with a Beta cycle that was second only
>to MSDOS 5.0 !
>
>The good/bad news is that they just told my wife a week ago that they've
>got a maintenance release being shipped on diskette...  As a CD user, 
>I find that annoying, but I thought you'd want to know about the release...
>
>-- Doc
>
Every computer program has bugs.  It is a question of whether or not the
bugs are ones you can work around or ones that paralyze you.  Alas, I
have found one bug in Corel that is very intermittent.  That is a far
cry from describing it as "buggy as hell"!  Corel Draw 3.0 is a massive
and very powerful program released on the heels of Windows 3.1.  When
you have a new release operating under a new operating system, you are
bound to have incompatabilities and problems.  The same thing happened
when PC Tools 7.0 was release concurrently with DOS 5.0.  That was *far*
worse since major portions of the program wouldn't run correctly.  It
will be interesting, however, to see how Corel addresses the maintenance
release situation with its CD-ROM users...

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"True riches is not what you have - It's the kind of person you are"

Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
From: siebeck@infoac.rmi.de (Wolfgang Siebeck)
Subject: Re: VT100 emulation
Organization: RMI Net INFO.box Systems - Aachen - Hamburg - Wien
Date: Sun, 13 Sep 1992 16:16:22 GMT

JOEL@jach.hawaii.edu (Joel Aycock) writes:

>PS- if you have any other tips on VT100/200/300/Tek4014 emulation, I'm 
>not above learning something new...

Give MSKERMIT a chance. It's the best emulation I have ever seen,
it's highly configurable, and - it's free.

-ws
--
siebeck@infoac.rmi.de (Wolfgang Siebeck)

Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
From: jcmorris@mwunix.mitre.org (Joe Morris)
Subject: Re: Environment Size for Non-Windows Applications
Organization: The MITRE Corporation
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1992 16:49:34 GMT

ELURONA@YaleVM.YCC.Yale.Edu (R. Elul) writes:

>Does anyone know how to increase the environemnt size available to DOS
>applications running under Windows 3.1?
 
Change the Program Properties or .PIF program name to specify COMMAND.COM
(with the desired program name as the command) and include the /E:size
switch to specify additional environment space.

An alternative (not a good idea for all users) is to patch COMMAND.COM
to specify a more reasonable default environment space.  A USENET
posting a while back summarized the procedure (other patches are
deleted from this listing):

=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=  begin included text  =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=

[header lines prefixed to keep mailers happy -- jcm]
==Subject: Larry Rainey's DOS 5.0 patches
==Date: 1 Jul 91 04:17:44 GMT
==Organization: North Carolina State University Computing Center

Below, I present sections of code from MicroSoft MSDOS 5.00, dis-assembled with
DEBUG so that those with versions of DOS other than the ones listed above
can find the offsets for their COMMAND.COM.

In every most DOS versions, most of the sections of code to be patched
are unchanged, they are simply shifted in position so it's just a question
of locating the correct offsets by searching for strings of bytes from the
sections of code listed below.  The main trick here is to avoid addresses
in the code which are likely to be different (most absolute addresses will
be different while relative addresses may or may not be different).  Assuming
you're handy with DEBUG or a similar debugger and know some 8088 assembly,
you should be able to pull it off.  If DEBUG's search command is too limited,
you might try Unassembling the whole COMMAND.COM to a text file and using
an editor or lister utility to search.

Here are the sections of code from MicroSoft MSDOS 5.00:

The environment size

-u 165b

1111:165B 58            POP   AX
1111:165C C706C01E5100  MOV   WORD PTR [1EC0],0051
1111:1662 C706BE1E1000  MOV   WORD PTR [1EBE],0010  <<default envir. size>>
1111:1668 BAD498        MOV   DX,98D4
1111:166B B104          MOV   CL,04
1111:166D D3EA          SHR   DX,CL
1111:166F 8916CE1E      MOV   [1ECE],DX
1111:1673 2BC2          SUB   AX,DX
1111:1675 A39802        MOV   [0298],AX
1111:1678 A12C00        MOV   AX,[002C]

Just searching for '10 00' should find this one.

Larry Rainey  6/11/91

Recapped in easy keyin format:


DEBUG COMMAND.COM
-E 1666 10 20
-W
-Q

will set your environment to 512 (x'20')

=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=  end included text  =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=

Of course, the best thing would be for Microsoft to fix the code in
COMMAND.COM to propagate the parent's environment space value.  Don't
hold your breath....

Joe Morris / MITRE
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
Subject: Single-sheet printing in Windows
From: trekkie@netlink.cts.com (Bryce Newall)
Date: Sun, 13 Sep 92 11:21:16 PDT
Organization: NetLink Online Communications, San Diego CA

Does anyone out there know how to make Word for Windows (or any other 
Windows program) know that my printer uses single-sheet paper rather than 
continuous tractor feed?  It gets very annoying having to tell Word for 
Windows to print pages 1 through 1, then 2 through 2, etc., especially on 
a 25-page document!  Any ideas?

Thanks in advance...

                                                -- Trekkie

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From: zappe@mikro.ee.tu-berlin.de (Harald Zappe)
Subject: Re: PKUNZIP v.2.0 ??
Organization: ZRZ/TU-Berlin
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1992 19:21:23 GMT

In <1992Sep11.181111.25179@wam.umd.edu> mmeltzer@wam.umd.edu writes:

>In article <1992Sep11.141252.3073W@lumina.edb.tih.no> ketil@edb.tih.no  
>(Ketil Albertsen,TIH) writes:
>> 
>> There is a file at ftp.cica.indiana.edu in the win3/sounds directory,
>> called muzika.zip, that requires PKUNZIP v.2.0 for uncompressing,
>> according to the info in the file.

>Unfortunately, I don't think that's possible, because version 2 has not  
>been released yet.  There were several hacks going around, but thanks to  
>all of those alert people out there, is was soon stopped.  There may be  
>some copies still floating around, but do not attempt to use them, because  
>they will destroy your hard drive.

>My suggestion is try using ver 1.1 or 1.93 and see what happens.  If they  
>don't work, then wait about a month until version 2 comes out!

>---------------------------------------------------------------------

The faster way would be using the public domain versions of ZIP/UNZIP.
ZIP has currently the version 1.9p1 (patch level 1) and UNZIP has the
version 5.0.

These programs are fully compatible with PKWares PK(UN)ZIP V1.93alpha,
AND they are available for several systems (not only PCs). The C-SOURCES
were distributed by Info-ZIP in the newsgroup comp.sources.misc some
weeks ago. (So it's not a commercial product, and they may not be used in
a commercial product).
)
It's also true that PKWare has annouced the version V2.0 for PKzip/PKunzip,
but looking at the work of Info-ZIP, I think that PKWare comes a bit late.
I don't know, which net-nodes are in your near, but have a look at the
following files:
  zip19p1.zip
  zip19p1.tar.Z
  unzip50.tar.Z (? .ZIP ?)

Surely they are on wuarchive.wustle.edu and garbo.uwasa.fi .

But I wonder that there are already files packed with V1.9 ???
My version of muSiCIa.zip had been packed with PK-version 1.1.
muSiCIa.zip // muZiKa.zip : do we mean the same ?


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From: john.will@satalink.com (John Will)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
Subject: wav files in PC-speakers.
Date: 7 Sep 92 20:42:00 GMT
Reply-To: john.will@satalink.com (John Will)
Organization: Datamax/Satalink Connection * Ivyland, PA (215) 443-9434

AN.Remember earlier I asked how to play the wav files armed
  .with only the PC-speaker. And I get a lot of replies on
  .that. But 99% said "if you find out tell me too!"
  .Luckly enough the 1% solved the problem!

Kinda' boggles my mind that 99% of the Windows users here haven't heard
about the speaker driver! :-)
---
 . KingQWK 1.05 # 97 . I have dynamic memory, it needs refreshing...
From: dave@frackit.UUCP (Dave Ratcliffe)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
Subject: Re: Is GATES gay? Only a Fag could make windows
Summary: You ain't seen nuthin' yet...
Date: 5 Sep 92 18:07:07 GMT
Organization: Data Factory Services, Harrisburg, Pa.

In article <BtuFyq.JHF@mentor.cc.purdue.edu>, jewell@mace.cc.purdue.edu (Larry Jewell) writes:
> In article <1992Aug31.031138.12213@ccu.umanitoba.ca> umsalte2@ccu.umanitoba.ca (Mystery) writes:
> 
> >Windows sucks!  All window lovers are suckers.....love OS/2 you fools.
> 
> >dont be sucker any more!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
> 
> Don't you love it when the Freshmen hit the net?

This is tame. Wait till they find out about making new alt groups. 

I HATE September - October :(


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