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From: rusu@eniac.seas.upenn.edu (LMRusu)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.apps
Subject: Help with QEMM386, EMM386 and Procomm Plus
Date: 28 Aug 92 06:44:59 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: University of Pennsylvania

Hello everyone,
When I am connected to my school's Sun using Procomm Plus for DOS, I am
having the following problem: when I type in one or more keys while the screen
scrolls (for ex., after a dir command), the screen just freezes. To get it
back to normal, I have to open and close one of the Procomm windows (ALT P 
and then ESC).
The strange thing is that this occurs only when I am using QEMM386 or EMM386.
When I don't upload them, everything seems ok. Also everything is fine when
I use Procomm Plus in a DOS window under Windows 3.1 even with QEMM386 or
EMM386 resident. I played for hours with my TSRs until I made sure the 
problem is with QEMM386 or EMM386 and Procomm Plus. I also got the BIOS 
cursor patch for Procomm but the problem still occurs. 
I am getting desperate because I really need to use QEMM386 or EMM386, so
any suggestions are welcome. Please send mail and I will post a summary.

Thanks in advance!
rusu@eniac.seas.upenn.edu


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From: ardtlong@adam.adelaide.edu.au (Dale T. Long)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.apps
Subject: Help Needed with Qbasic
Date: 31 Aug 92 05:03:51 GMT


        I am using Qbasic, the one that comes with Microsoft DOS 5.00 for the
IBM PC. I have a problem in that the space allocated for strings is only
8000 bytes. In the old GWbasic I would have done a CLEAR xxx to free up xxx
amount of bytes. However Qbasic only has the ability to clear the stack using
CLEAR ,,xxx . Paramaters before the first two commas don't do a thing. Is there
a way to allocate more string space? I am using a two dimensional dynamic
string array. Help indicates that individual strings can be up to 32767 bytes
long but I can't even have a single string longer than the 8000 byte limit.
Help also says that a string array can be up to 64K in size. Is there any way
to over come this problem? Is the Qbasic (interpreter) just a sales pitch
that makes people need to buy the full Quick Basic (compiler) out of neccesity?
Has anyone else had this problem? How do I increase the amount of string space
from 8000 bytes?

Dale Long.
ardtlong@adam.adelaide.edu.au
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.apps
From: glee@glee-ss2.cisco.com (Glenn Lee)
Subject: Best Graphics Pgm Questions: Corel Draw & Designer
X-Disclaimer: The views expressed in this message are those of an
	      individual at SRI International, and do not necessarily
	      reflect those of the company.
Organization: cisco Systems, Inc., Menlo Park, Ca.
Date: Tue, 1 Sep 1992 17:03:34 GMT


Does anyone know what the best "graphics" drawing program is?  I've
heard that Corel Draw is very good.  Don't know about Micrographics
Designer, though.

Are there any PD/Freeware programs that provide similiar capabilites to
Corel Draw?  (e.g. text that curves in a circle, import clip art, etc.)

If you send responses directly, I'll post the reponses.

Thanks in advance,
Glenn
glee@cisco.com
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.apps
From: atreyus@lascar.puc.cl (Marcelo Vasquez)
Subject: New TTF for EQ. editor 
Organization: Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL5
Date: Fri, 28 Aug 1992 20:37:33 GMT

Hi netfolks: I need some information about extra fonts for the equation editor in WFW 2.0 I want to use some special mathematical symbols like "R" that denotes real numbers (you now the one with 2 lines) and many other special relations more "TEX like". Do you know if there are some public domain fonts to complement the EQ. Editor? 
	In the documentation of the manual it says that the company that developed the eq. editor sells another version more complete. Has anybody tried it?
Any suggestion is wellcome..
thanks a lot

Marcelo Vasquez
From: vmk@rand.mel.cocam.oz.au (Victor Kay)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.apps
Subject: Re: Problem:  MS Word locks randomly (DOS) Need Help.
Date: 28 Aug 92 03:10:14 GMT
Organization: Co-Cam Computer Group, Oz

In article <wwf1.714334391@Isis.MsState.Edu> wwf1@ra.msstate.edu (Bill Ford) writes:
>An friend of mine says that Word locks up tight randomly.  He didn't
>say he was using any utilities (gram checker, etc.), just doing "normal"
>stuff, or maybe changing directories in the file retrievel section.
>
>He had heard that other people had had probs like this.  Can anyone help?
>
What a coincidence. We have just discovered that Word 5.0 will lock up at times
if you are doing a 'Find/Search' and autosave tries to start saving. I have not
had the opportunity to fully test this but would be willing to believe that
this is the cause for seemingly random lockups of WMSWord. I guess if your
friend is not using autosave then that blows this hypothesis out of the 
water :-))

Regards

Victor Kay
Co-Cam Computer Group , Melbourne, Australia

E-Mail: vmk@rand.mel.cocam.oz.au
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From: rick@sundance.SJSU.EDU (Richard Warner)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.apps
Subject: Re: TrueType for DOS
Date: 4 Sep 92 15:23:20 GMT
Distribution: na
Organization: San Jose State University - Math/CS Dept.

drv@cbnewsj.cb.att.com (dennis.r.vogel) writes:

>I recently saw a press release-type article on another newsgroup
>announcing TrueType for DOS from MicroLogic Software.

>Is it shipping?  Do any retailers carry it, eg. Egghead?
>Does anyone have any experience with it?  I'd use it mostly
>with WordPerfect 5.1 but am curious if it would work with
>other DOS applications. (The article implies it would work
>only with WP, MS Word and MS Works.)

Something like this needs to do a couple of things.  First off, it will
need to provide rasterization of font outlines for both printer and screen
(although most DOS programs cannot use bit-mapped screen fonts as they
work in character, not text, mode).  The other thing that it will need
to do is to provide a new printer description file, or alter an existing
one.  A good guess is that such a program will work with any DOS program
for which you are willing to write a printer description file that will
(a) tell you application what fonts are available, and work out such 
mundane things as character spacing, etc., and (b) call the font rasterizer
at print time to convert the page description into the bit-map image for
your printer.  Easy, right?  That is why they will support only a few,
major apps - it is a lot of work to write this kind of stuff and how
many more sales will each supported program add?  Probably not many
relative to the programmer and technical support costs they will incur.


>Thanks.

>Dennis R. Vogel
>AT&T Bell Laboratories
>Middletown, NJ
From: lorenh@hpcvra.cv.hp.com (Loren Heisey)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.apps
Subject: Re: Wanted: redirect scrn output to file.
Date: 26 Aug 92 16:52:25 GMT
Organization: Hewlett-Packard Co., Corvallis, OR, USA

rwilliam@mozart.helios.nd.edu (richard williams) writes:
>In article <1992Aug25.144254.17504@almserv.uucp> s4uhkm@fnma.COM writes:
>>In article KFL@watserv1.uwaterloo.ca, jd@sunburn.uwaterloo.ca (John Donald x3821) writes:
>>>I'm looking for a dos program to redirect screen output
>>>from a standard .bat file to an output file.  Does anybody
>>>know of one that might help me out?
>>
>>When you run this BAT file, use the following syntax:
>>	runme.BAT > output.txt
>>This will create/overwrite the file "output.txt" -- 
>
>Not true.  At least on my system using dos 5, the above merely produces
>a zero-length file called output.txt.  You could, however, include the
>redirection commands within the .bat file, e.g.
>   dir c: > OUTPUT.TXT
>   dir d: >> OUTPUT.TXT
>
>Another alternative would be to get a utility like PC Mag's prn2file,
>which redirects printer output to a file.  Execute prn2file, then
>hit ctrl-prtscrn (or shift-prtscrn?) and then execute your bat file.

Still another alternative is to use a batch file compiler like the PC Mag
utility BAT2EXEC on SIMTEL20. When a standard .bat file is compiled, the
output of the resulting .com can be redirected to a file.

--
Loren Heisey
Internet: lorenh@hpcvra.cv.hp.com
UUCP    : {decwrl|rutgers|ucbvax}!hplabs!hp-pcd!lorenh
From: FWR100@psuvm.psu.edu
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.apps
Subject: Re: reboot w/dos5 emm etc
Date: 1 Sep 92 01:01:22 GMT
Distribution: na
Organization: Penn State University

In article <1992Aug31.210755.27192@scott.skidmore.edu>, pvonk@scott.skidmore.edu
(Pierre VonKaenel) says:
>
>I need a .exe or .com file that can be used in a batch file to reboot
>the system.  I've downloaded the reboot files at simtel20, but they
>don't seem to work with DOS 5 and EMM.  (It does eventually reboot,
>but somewhere before, I must respond to an error message - I think it
>may be from EMM.)  Anyone have or know of such a utility that does
>work under these circumstances?

Well, here's a simple .bat file that will work - all you need is DOS DEBUG.

Create this batch file, or add these lines to yours:
SMARTDRV /C                   (Only if you have Windows 3.1 and SmartDrive)
DEBUG < REBOOT.DBG > NUL

And, create this file, named REBOOT.DBG:
e 0040:0072 34 12       (This is for "warm boot".  Leave out for "cold" boot)
g=ffff:0000

This works for me, with MS-DOS 5.0 and EMM386 from DOS 5 or Windows 3.1.
The "SMARTDRV" line in the batch file makes sure your write-back cache is
emptied before rebooting.  If you don't use SmartDrive you can leave this out.
The e 0040...  line causes the computer to skip the usual self test routines -
this acts like a Ctrl-Alt-Del.  Leave this line out and you'll get a cold boot
similar to hitting the reset button (This takes longer and is unnecessary).

-Frank Racis
-FWR100@psuvm.psu.edu
From: hooven@hplvec.LVLD.HP.COM (Chris Hooven)
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1992 23:36:12 GMT
Subject: Re: PD/SW address book/card file?
Organization: Hewlett-Packard Co., Loveland, CO
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.apps

Info Select 2.0 is magnificent.  TSR (if you want), text-based, works quite
well with DESQview (if you're so inclined), etc.  About $90 street price.
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.apps
From: husak@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (Stephen R. Husak )
Subject: Picking Config.sys's during Boot
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1992 20:26:12 GMT

I know theyt exist. I need to know where and the names of them...

	Programs that allow you to pick a config.sys at boottime...

Please e-mail all responses....

Thanks!

-- 
"What am I trying to do, what am I trying to say, I'm not trying to tell you 
 anything you didn't know when you woke up today..."
				- Depeche Mode "Nothing" MUSIC FOR THE MASSES
-= Stephen R. Husak - husak@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu - Univerisity of Illinois
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.apps
From: giachino@ghost.dsi.unimi.it (luca giachino)
Subject: CASL scripts & CrossTalk: HELP
Keywords: CASL CrossTalk
Organization: Computer Science Dep. - Milan University
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1992 11:41:06 GMT


Hi,
I'm using CrossTalk as my pc-terminal emulator, which can automate
connection processe with the use of CASL. The associated manaul
doesn't describe the CASL language.

Does anybody know where I can find details on the CASL language?
It would be great to download something about CASL on anonymous
ftp sites.

Thanke you in advance


---------------------------------------
Giachino Luca
Computer Science Department
Universita' Statale di Milano
Milano, ITALY

EMAIL:     giachino@ghost.dsi.unimi.it
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Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.apps
From: alvino%Solomon.Technet.sg (Alvin Ong)
Subject: Harvard Graphics Query
Organization: National University of Singapore
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL5
Date: Thu, 3 Sep 1992 15:36:11 GMT

Help Needed !!!!

I have got some ".CHT" files created from Harvard Graphics 2.x. I want
to export/port these files so that it is readable from MS-Word for
Windows. I do not really want it in graphics (ie. PCX format) but rather
in text format of some sort so that further editing can be done on the
documents.

Are there any file format conversion programs available? Or does some
one or any one know a way of doing the conversion - if not 100% at least
60+% without having me retyping in the entire document...

Thank you in advance

Regards,

Alvino...


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Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.apps
From: husak@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (Stephen R. Husak )
Subject: XWindows
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Wed, 2 Sep 1992 19:51:20 GMT

Are there any sharware XWindows interfaces used for dialing in to a machine
that supports XWindows...???

Please reply via e-mail!


-- 
"What am I trying to do, what am I trying to say, I'm not trying to tell you 
 anything you didn't know when you woke up today..."
				- Depeche Mode "Nothing" MUSIC FOR THE MASSES
-= Stephen R. Husak - husak@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu - Univerisity of Illinois
From: rwilliam@mozart.helios.nd.edu (richard williams)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.apps
Subject: Re: Wanted: redirect scrn output to file.
Date: 25 Aug 92 18:29:15 GMT
Organization: University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame

In article <1992Aug25.144254.17504@almserv.uucp> s4uhkm@fnma.COM writes:
>In article KFL@watserv1.uwaterloo.ca, jd@sunburn.uwaterloo.ca (John Donald x3821) writes:
>>I'm looking for a dos program to redirect screen output
>>from a standard .bat file to an output file.  Does anybody
>>know of one that might help me out?
>
>
>When you run this BAT file, use the following syntax:
>
>	runme.BAT > output.txt
>
>This will create/overwrite the file "output.txt" -- 

Not true.  At least on my system using dos 5, the above merely produces
a zero-length file called output.txt.  You could, however, include the
redirection commands within the .bat file, e.g.
   dir c: > OUTPUT.TXT
   dir d: >> OUTPUT.TXT

Another alternative would be to get a utility like PC Mag's prn2file,
which redirects printer output to a file.  Execute prn2file, then
hit ctrl-prtscrn (or shift-prtscrn?) and then execute your bat file.
Simpler solutions are probably also around.

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Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.apps
From: mrbill@leland.Stanford.EDU (William Bowen)
Subject: Re: DR DOS vs 4dos+Msdos+Stacker
Organization: DSG, Stanford University, CA 94305, USA
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 92 17:33:30 GMT

In article <1992Aug23.182426.15031@husc3.harvard.edu> wong1@husc4.harvard.edu (Christopher Wong) writes:
>I have tried the 4dos/msdos5/stacker combo on other machines. Now it's time
>to upgrade my 286/12 clone. Unfortunately, the combo is pricy ($89 4dos --
>do they have academic discounts? -- along with $50 msdos and ~$100 for stacker). DR DOS seems to have their major points: improved command line, better memory
>handling and compression at a much better price. What do I give up going the
>DR DOS 6 route? I especially like 4dos's improvements.
>
>I welcome comments. Since flame wars may break out (DR vs MS) I recommend
>email or cool heads :-).
>
>Thanks.
>
>Chris

I've been using DR-DOS 6.0 for several months and am very happy with it.
I've compared Stacker to Superstor and the DR-DOS - Super PC-Kwik - Superstor
combination seems quite a bit faster than Stacker with either the latest
Smartdrive or Super PC-Kwik. The only features that I liked in 4-dos that
DR-DOS lacks are aliasing capability and filename completion. However there
is an excellent freeware program which supplies these features; I believe
the latest version is cmded2e6.zip available at Simtel in the keyboard
directory. DR-DOS gives you several more utilities than does MS-DOS, and better
support. I have yet to run into any compatibilty problems in testing and using
dozens of programs. So, my recommendation is obviously DR-DOS, especially
when one factors in price considerations.

Bill
mrbill@leland.stanford.edu

Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.apps
From: carym@sco.COM (Cary Morgan)
Subject: Win3.1 32-bit disk access
Organization: The Santa Cruz Operation, Inc.
Distribution: na
Date: Fri, 28 Aug 1992 14:38:32 GMT


Can someone offer an explanation as to the benefit of 
checking the 32-bit disk access box in Win3.1?  I've 
read the stuff in the manual, but it didn't seem to be of
much help to me.  The part about the laptop doesn't apply
to me.  I've got a 386-40mhz desktop machine with 4megs ram.

Thanks.
From: simion@iveuncc.unive.it (Marco Simionato)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.apps
Subject: info on PC-kwik Superpak
Date: 3 Sep 92 14:03:04 GMT
Organization: University of Venezia (Italy)
X-UserAgent: Nuntius v1.1.1d9X-XXDate: Thu, 3 Sep 92 15:06:22 GMTLines: 5

I read that, among othre things, PC-kwik Superpak speeds up
video mapping. Does this work - and how significant are the benefits -
with Windows or it's only useful in character mode?

Please reply DIRECLTY to me. Thanks.
From: prpst2+@pitt.edu (Paul R Perdeus)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.apps
Subject: MCA bus problem
Date: 27 Aug 92 20:26:50 GMT
Organization: University of Pittsburgh
Originator: prpst2@pmax1.cis.pitt.edu

Hello all,

      I'm sorry for the cross posts, but I can't remember where I got the
      answer from the first time!  A month or so ago I wrote in about a
      problem with Win3.1 and WFW 2.0.  One of the problems I was having
      was that any time I would run the dos prompt or any dos application
      I would get the following message:

                                  System Error

                   Microchannel bus timeout error detected.
                   System halted...

      I posted this (along with other problems) to these newsgroups and one
      of the responses I got told me to put a line in my win.ini or system.ini
      files that said something about MCAxxxxx=off or something like that.
      From what I remember (my system crashed shortly after that due to an
      unrelated problem and I lost everything!) it seemed to have done the
      trick.  I think it got rid of the error.  I am hoping to get someone to
      fill in the 'x' 's above.  I'm using a PS/2 model 55.  I would greatly
      appreciate it if someone could help me.  Any other suggestions on this
      problem would also be appreciated.

                                                thanks a lot!

                                                       Paul

      p.s. A reply to this group is fine or email at:

                                    prpst2@unix.cis.pitt.edu
From: wong1@husc4.harvard.edu (Christopher Wong)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.apps
Subject: DR DOS vs 4dos+Msdos+Stacker
Date: 23 Aug 92 22:24:25 GMT
Organization: Harvard University Science Center

I have tried the 4dos/msdos5/stacker combo on other machines. Now it's time
to upgrade my 286/12 clone. Unfortunately, the combo is pricy ($89 4dos --
do they have academic discounts? -- along with $50 msdos and ~$100 for stacker). DR DOS seems to have their major points: improved command line, better memory
handling and compression at a much better price. What do I give up going the
DR DOS 6 route? I especially like 4dos's improvements.

I welcome comments. Since flame wars may break out (DR vs MS) I recommend
email or cool heads :-).

Thanks.

Chris
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.apps
Subject: Re: Stacker and OS 2
From: jemenake@zeus.calpoly.edu (Joe Emenaker)
Date: Sat, 29 Aug 1992 05:58:56 GMT
Organization: California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo

sconlon@vms.eurokom.ie (Seamus Conlon) writes:
>
>Question, is there a driver for Stacker for OS 2 or some
>other way of acheiving this?  Also, same quesiton for Windows NT which
>I have just received the pre-release version of.

Well, the OS/2 CSD (aka "update") due this Fall will supposedly include:
Win 3.1 support
better performance (especially on 4MB machines)
and Stacker for OS/2!

Many of us in the OS/2 world have been anxiously holding our breath waiting
for stacker to come along with an OS/2 version... since OS/2 gobbles so
much HD space.
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From: tony2@prefect.uucp (21131-gozdz)
Subject: ProComm 1.1A does not show connection time on Compuadd 320
Organization: Bellcore, Livingston, NJ
Date: Tue, 1 Sep 92 14:51:48 GMT

ProComm 1.1A users: have you seen the above problem 
(Session time 0:00:00 after pressing Alt-T) on other 
systems? (it works fine on my office Compaq 386/25).

Tony

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Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.apps
From: barrett@terminus.gatech.edu (James Barrett)
Subject: PKUNZIP options
Organization: Georgia Tech College of Computing
Date: Thu, 3 Sep 1992 21:27:57 GMT

I have a ZIP file of my entire hard drive, zipped with a -rP option
in PKZIP.  Is there *any* way to unzip *just* the root directory
files?  If I don't use -d, I just get all the files dumped into
the root directory (it stops after 512, of course).  If I use -d,
I get the entire drive recreated.  

*HELP*!!!!
Thanks,

------------------OS/2 v2.0 -- Why settle for anything less?--------------------
James C. Barrett (barrett@cc.gatech.edu)| "If your so damned smart, why are
Georgia Tech College of Computing       |   you doing what your doing, and I'm
                                        |   president of the U.S.?" - G.Bush
From: dla@se05 (Doug Acker)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.apps
Subject: Procomm 2.01 and Windows
Keywords: bibliography, database
Date: 1 Sep 92 02:59:23 GMT
Organization: Western Geophysical Exploration Products


Is there any good way to run Prcomm 2.01 under Windows 3.1 .. so I can
-- 
Douglas L. Acker

Western Geophysical Exploration Products
Systems Engineer
From: rwilliam@bach.helios.nd.edu (richard williams)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.apps
Subject: Re: PKUNZIP options
Date: 4 Sep 92 13:35:28 GMT
Organization: University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame

In article <barrett.715555677@cc.gatech.edu> barrett@terminus.gatech.edu (James Barrett) writes:
>I have a ZIP file of my entire hard drive, zipped with a -rP option
>in PKZIP.  Is there *any* way to unzip *just* the root directory
>files?  If I don't use -d, I just get all the files dumped into
>the root directory (it stops after 512, of course).  If I use -d,
>I get the entire drive recreated.  

I would suggest getting one of the archive managers, such as Shez.  They
provide much easier interfaces and make it simple to pick and choose
between files.  You can find shez and other such programs on Simtel20 and
its mirrors.  (It'll be under a subdir with a name like arc or zip or
something else fairly obvious.)


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