HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: fischman@nynexst.com (Gary Fischman)
Subject: Re:Online services
Reply-To: fischman@nynexst.com
Organization: NYNEX Science & Technology, Inc
Date: Tue, 29 Dec 92 14:02:03 GMT

In article 38066@uflorida.cis.ufl.edu, sproles@pine.circa.ufl.edu (SPROLES) writes:
>
>
>I've noticed that hardly anyone mentions Delphi when they talk about online
>services.  I use Delphi and Compu$erve.  I've tried AoL, GEnie, and ProdGee.
>
>Delphi wins, period.
>It does have an old style interface (if you use internet and the vax, or
>unix, ie, if you are logged onto a system and you're sitting there reading
>THIS post, then you can use Delphi). And there are front end
>programs (both DOS and Windows) you can download to autoread, and allow
>offline message stuff etc..
>
>Main difference is what you get for your dollar.  On Compu$serve the interest
>groups are extra bucks and cost the extra for downloading files, etc. On Delphi
>almost everything is for the flat rate, SIGs, conferencing, downloads, bunches
>of stuff.  You can get Delphi for varying rates but I use the 20/20 plan of 
>20 HOURS use for $20.  Compare that to Compu$erve's $7.95/mo basic access BUT
>$12.80 an hour for any of the stuff that Delphi gives you in basic such as
>forums, conference, databases.
>
>Why do I post this. One months bill from Compu$serve, that why.  I spent just
>a bit of time downloading some gifs, and joining the science fiction SIG on CI$
>and was charged nearly $65.  CI$'s charge for 20 hours in science fiction SIG
>is $7.95 + 20(12.80) = $263.95.  Delphi's rate for 20 hours in the SF SIG is
>$20.00, period.  Go figure.  :)
>
>P.S. I don't work for Delphi, I use it.
>
>Judy Sproles
>
>SPROLES@PINE.CIRCA.UFL.EDU
>


Just a minute.  Were you using an autopilot program like TAPCIS, OZ-CIS, etc??  If
you use 20 hours of connect time with an autopilot, you must have downloaded every
item in the library at 300 BPS!!  I spend *significant* time on a couple of Compuserve
forii, and to read about an hour a day worth of messages, it costs me about $45/month.

---
	Gary J. Fischman
	NYNEX Science & Technology
	fischman@nynexst.com

Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
From: mccall@mksol.dseg.ti.com (fred j mccall 575-3539)
Subject: Re: DOES A 387 HELP WIN/3.1?
Organization: Texas Instruments Inc
Distribution: usa
Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1992 18:55:55 GMT

In <1992Dec22.194817.25666@kodak.kodak.com> thomas@acadia.Kodak.COM (Thomas Kinsman) writes:



>    "A Friend" told me that an 80387 would help Windows/3.1  run  faster
>    because there are a lot of floating point calculations involved.

>    Can anyone verify this?

No, because it isn't true.  A math coprocessor will do absolutely
nothing to improve Windows performance.

-- 
"Insisting on perfect safety is for people who don't have the balls to live
 in the real world."   -- Mary Shafer, NASA Ames Dryden
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Fred.McCall@dseg.ti.com - I don't speak for others and they don't speak for me.
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc,comp.dcom.lans
From: alex@grian.cps.altadena.ca.us (Alex Pournelle)
Subject: Re: W4Wg vs. ARCnet vs. NetWare?
Organization: College Park Software, Altadena, CA
Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 22:16:42 GMT

Thank you, Mr. Back.  I have been waiting for a reply from Technical
Support on this issue for the last 3 weeks; I'm glad that the engrg side
is not so inefficient.

Now, for max bonus karma points:  Could/should I use Novell's BNETX to get
burst mode access, or should I use the one that comes with W4Wg?  The
manual is singularly uninforming on this topic, and I've not gotten any
word from MS T.S. either.

	Thanks in advance,
		Alex
-- 
		Alex Pournelle, freelance thinker
		Also: Workman & Associates, Data recovery for PCs, Macs, others
		...elroy!grian!alex; voice: (818) 791-7979
		fax: (818) 794-2297  bbs: 791-1013; 8N1 2400/12/3
From: dcoleman@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Daniel M. Coleman)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
Subject: Re: 24-bit mode of ATI Ultra Pro ***VLB***
Date: 31 Dec 92 01:53:18 GMT
Distribution: na
Organization: The University of Texas at Austin, Austin TX

In article <1992Dec30.205208.25649@samba.oit.unc.edu> Brandon.Vanevery@launchpad.unc.edu (Brandon Vanevery) writes:
>1) Does the 24-bit, 800 x 600 mode actually work at all?
>2) Does the 24-bit, 1024 x 768 mode actually work at all?
>3) Do either of these modes work without crashing?
>4) How is the display quality of these modes?  Good?  Fuzzy?  Laughable?
>5) How fast is the display in these modes?  Zippy?  Pokey?  Sluggy?

Well, I have a Gateway 2000 4DX2-66V with the Local Bus Version of the ATI
Ultra Pro, and the upgrade to 2 megs RAM and 24 bit color.

1) 24 bit color does work in 800x600 mode, although the Windows Drivers for
   this mode are still in development.
2) No, there is no 1024x768x24 mode, as this cannot fit within the 2 meg limit
   for the card.
3) No.
4) The Display quality is nice and sharp in the 800x600 mode.
5) Damn fast.

The ATI Ultra Pro has the potential to be a groundbreaking graphics card, but
has not reached that step yet.  The release of this card is premature.  The
Windows drivers have bugs in them, some of them merely annoying, but some of
them quite serious (who needs to print, anyway????)  But the card is quite
fast.  In its mach 32 mode, in After Dark, the toasters streak across my
monitor, leaving ghost trails, but when I switch to mach 8 or 8514 modes (ATI's
previous generation of cards), the toasters take a more leisurely stroll.  I
would recommend this card for you, except the drivers are just too buggy.  I
would say you should wait a month or so, until ATI releases drivers that
actually work.  Otherwise, the only thing I could tell you is 'Good Luck.'


-- 
===============================================================================
Daniel Matthew Coleman			  Internet: dcoleman@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu
The University of Texas at Austin		Electrical/Computer Engineering
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Xref: sparky comp.os.ms-windows.misc:5826 comp.os.ms-windows.setup:2497
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc,comp.os.ms-windows.setup
Subject: Wanted: TCP/IP software
From: dskeeler@miavx1.acs.muohio.edu (Dennis S. Keeler)
Date: 1 Jan 93 12:44:35 -0500
Organization: Miami University

	I'm looking for suggestions on good TCP/IP software for Windows. I'm
particularly interested in connecting to NFS servers.
	Are there any free/shareware solutions? Are there any FTP servers I
could peruse for Windows software? (I'm mostly a Mac guy, so what I'm looking
for is a Windows equivalent of info-mac on sumex-aim.stanford.edu).
	Thanks. Sorry for my ignorance.
________________________________________________________________________________
Dennis S. Keeler                |  "Common sense is that thin veneer of
Miami University                |    prejudice we acquire before the
DSKEELER@miavx1.acs.muohio.edu  |    age of 17." - Albert Einstein
DSKEELER@miavx1.bitnet          |
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
From: charon@zephyr.cair.du.edu (Spaz)
Subject: Re: Online services
Organization: University of Denver
Distribution: usa
Date: Tue, 29 Dec 92 01:21:24 GMT

In article <38066@uflorida.cis.ufl.edu> sproles@pine.circa.ufl.edu writes:
>
>
>
>Delphi wins, period.
>Main difference is what you get for your dollar.  On Compu$serve the interest
>groups are extra bucks and cost the extra for downloading files, etc. On Delphi
>almost everything is for the flat rate, SIGs, conferencing, downloads, bunches
>of stuff.  You can get Delphi for varying rates but I use the 20/20 plan of 
>20 HOURS use for $20.  Compare that to Compu$erve's $7.95/mo basic access BUT
>$12.80 an hour for any of the stuff that Delphi gives you in basic such as
>forums, conference, databases.
>
>
  Would you mind posting, or e-mailing me, more info on Delphi?

  I've used AOL and I twernt very impressed (price wise at least).

  thanks,
  Spaz

  ========================================================================
  + I'm not CRAZY...My definition of reality just happens to differ from + 
  + everyone else!   charon@zephyr.cair.du.edu			         +
  ========================================================================
From: cording@sorokin.anu.edu.au (Dean Cording)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
Subject: Re: Superstor VS. Stacker...You Make The Call
Date: 27 Dec 92 04:43:13 GMT
Organization: Australian National University
NNTP-Posting-Host: 150.203.76.12

>In article <1992Dec3.151048.3038@rtsg.mot.com>, planger@mailbox.fwrdc.rtsg.mot.com (Paul Langer) writes:
>B
>> My hard drive is rapidly approaching zero free disk space. I would
>> like to purchase a compression program. So far, I mainly heard about
>> the two programs Superstor and Stacker. I would like to know which is
>> the best for the following setup. I have a 125 MEG hard drive. Half of
>> it is for work/school like Windows, Mathcad, Quicken, Word Perfect, etc.
>> The other half is for games like Ultima. Should I compress the 'work'
>> part of the drive and leave the game part alone (i.e. partition) ? I
>> know many games will not work with the compression programs like Ultima.
>> 
>>  Please give me your views and experience with these programs...
>> 

I have been using SuperStor v1.3 for twelve months now with no problems,
except doing an occasional del *.* in my root directory which makes
it difficult to mount the compressed disk. 

I was using it to compress two 40 meg drives on my system and I ended up
with 140-150meg of usable space.  Recently I have installed a 200meg drive
and it is compressed to give me about 360meg of usable space.  I compressed
everything including Windows and DOS programs and did not find any
incompatibilities.  The one exception is that you cannot have a Windows
permanate swap file on a compress drive.  I created a small 4meg partition
and placed it there.

In my opinion SuperStor has a much nicer method of mounting compressed drives
than Stacker does.  SuperStor's driver opens a file containing the compressed
drive and intercepts reads and writes on the drive, performing the operations
on the file instead.  Stacker goes through a messy business of installing
a new device driver to read its compressed file as a drive and then swaps
the new drive with the C drive which uses up another drive letter. You can 
still access the uncompressed drive by going to the D drive.  SuperStor is
also alot more transparent in it's operation than Stacker.  Version 2
of SuperStor is suppose to be very good but I haven't seen it yet.

-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
Dean Cording			The above opinions belong to me, myself and I
=============================================================================






Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
From: aga@Comtech.com (Alan G. Arndt)
Subject: Re: Superstor VS. Stacker...You Make The Call
Organization: Comtech Labs Inc, Palo Alto
Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 02:22:04 GMT

I too figured I should say that I have had no real problems with Superstore
2X or Now Superstore Pro.  Both worked fine and continue to.  I am very
pleased.  The one problem I had was that Smartdrv wouldn't cache my
compressed disk.  This turned out to be that I needed to mount the
uncompressed disk and then swap them(optional).  Then Smartdrv caches the
disk with the huge file representing the entire other disk.  This wasn't
mentioned correctly (if at all ) in the manual and it did take several
calls to tech support before I got through and then got someone who said:
"Oh that's easy, just do this..." and it did work fine.

----
Alan Arndt					Comtech Labs
415-813-4500					4005 Miranda Avenue, Suite 150
aga@Comtech.com					Palo Alto, CA   94304-1218
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
From: mccall@mksol.dseg.ti.com (fred j mccall 575-3539)
Subject: Re: Stac Software Customer Service (comments welcome)
Organization: Texas Instruments Inc
Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 15:25:15 GMT

In <1992Dec28.205954.14495@progress.com> leary@progress.COM (James Leary) writes:

>mccall@mksol.dseg.ti.com (fred j mccall 575-3539) writes:

>>In <BzxzA9.JyI@ucunix.san.uc.edu> dayja@ucunix.san.uc.edu (James A Day) writes:

>>>During the installation process it asks you how much to compress a
>>>file(ie 2:1, 3:1) but even if you say 3:1 it still only compresses to
>>>2:1 although the drive says differently install WordPerfect takes up
>>>twice as much to install on the hard disk(or at least enough to cover
>>>the fact that the compression of stacker doesn't work.)  Any suggestions
>>>for solutions to this problem?

>>I'm not sure what you're talking about here, but what it is asking you
>>for is ESTIMATED COMPRESSION, not how much it should compress.  The
>>file will only compress as much as it will compress, and that's all
>>there is to it.  What do you think they do, simply magically throw
>>away 2/3 of the data if you tell them you want 3:1 compression, or
>>what?

>>Since I don't see what your problem is, I'm not sure what you're
>>looking for in the way of a solution.  Why do you say "the compression
>>of stacker doesn't work"?  

>>Do you know what you're doing?

>By answering the way you did, do you?  If you cannot answer the person's
>question without insulting them, then shut-up and don't answer at all.

If they can't ask a coherent question, how can they get an answer?
Just when did we hold the election to vote you in as 'Miss Manners'?
I can answer his question if he can ask one that makes any kind of
sense.  Can you?

-- 
"Insisting on perfect safety is for people who don't have the balls to live
 in the real world."   -- Mary Shafer, NASA Ames Dryden
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Fred.McCall@dseg.ti.com - I don't speak for others and they don't speak for me.
Xref: sparky comp.os.ms-windows.misc:5722 comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc:16153
From: gt7692b@prism.gatech.EDU (Constantinos Malamas)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc,comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Continuing problems with Win 3.1. HELP !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Date: 26 Dec 92 18:23:56 GMT
Followup-To: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
Organization: Georgia Institute of Technology


	A couple of days ago, I posted an article asking for help on Win 3.1.
My problem was that I could not finetune memory management and that, because of
mem management problems --or so I suspected-- Win was acting up on me: 1 out of
6 or 7 times it would hang up on exiting...
	Basically, people told me to i) use qemm 6.0 or later (earlier
versions are not compatible with Win), ii) that I dont need to use
emm386.sys since Win needs extended mem and not expanded, iii) even if I
use emm386 and/or himem.sys to use the versions that came with the Win
package, and iv) to use smartdrive in the autoexec.bat. Some personal
comments: Now, I DO use the new himem.sys and I 've done away with emm386
and qemm (it was v5.0), and from time to time the system hangs on exit
from Win. Yesterday I got a new kinder and gentler problem: I could not run DOS
apps.. The whole mess seems to have started when I got a data error 
while unzipping a file in the DOS prompt: suddenly I got a DOS error 11 
(whtever that means), ProgMan __QUIT__ and I was left looking  at my desktop...
How's that for weird? After that every time I tried to run a DOS prog I got
the DOS error 11 prompt... After some searching I found out that the
winoa386.mod file in the windows/system dir had been modified, so I unpacked 
the original file from the Win installation disks, and reconfigured almost 
all .pif files... Now I _can_ run DOS apps, but the system is very unstable:
Telix 3.2 for DOS hang up while running thru Windows and hang the entire system
as well... O.K. netlanders, I am bummed! Any ideas??? I will appreciate any
input on the subject... I am suspecting that for some reason Win was unstable
to begin with and memory management has little or nothing to do with it...but
I am willing to give any wild guess/idea a shot... I am using a 486DX33 w/ 
4 MB mem and a Trident SVGA 1MB card....
Thanx in advance...

 
Costas Malamas________________________________________________________________
Georgia Institute of Technology
Internet: gt7692b@prism.gatech.edu
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
From: law30129@nusunix1.nus.sg (GNANASIHAMANI KANNAN)
Subject: Re: Superstor VS. Stacker...You Make The Call
Organization: National University of Singapore
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]
Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 07:06:16 GMT

Dean Cording (cording@sorokin.anu.edu.au) wrote:
: >In article <1992Dec3.151048.3038@rtsg.mot.com>, planger@mailbox.fwrdc.rtsg.mot.com (Paul Langer) writes:
: >B
: >> My hard drive is rapidly approaching zero free disk space. I would
: >> like to purchase a compression program. So far, I mainly heard about
: >> the two programs Superstor and Stacker. I would like to know which is
: >> the best for the following setup. I have a 125 MEG hard drive. Half of
: >> it is for work/school like Windows, Mathcad, Quicken, Word Perfect, etc.
: >> The other half is for games like Ultima. Should I compress the 'work'
: >> part of the drive and leave the game part alone (i.e. partition) ? I
: >> know many games will not work with the compression programs like Ultima.
: >> 
: >>  Please give me your views and experience with these programs...
: >> 
:    I've been using Stacker 2.0 for months without any problem.
     I have a 80 Meg HD which resulted in abt 150 Meg after stacking.
     If you've heard negative things about Stacker 2.0 - dont believe
     it.  Problems are probably due to stupidity of user.  Common
     mistake - defragging the HD using commercial software rather than
     the one provided by Stac.
     BUT dont get Stacker 3.0 - been hearing that its got muchos
     poblemos.


     KANNAN
     NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE



: I was using it to compress two 40 meg drives on my system and I ended up
: with 140-150meg of usable space.  Recently I have installed a 200meg drive
: and it is compressed to give me about 360meg of usable space.  I compressed
: everything including Windows and DOS programs and did not find any
: incompatibilities.  The one exception is that you cannot have a Windows
: permanate swap file on a compress drive.  I created a small 4meg partition
: and placed it there.
: 
: In my opinion SuperStor has a much nicer method of mounting compressed drives
: than Stacker does.  SuperStor's driver opens a file containing the compressed
: drive and intercepts reads and writes on the drive, performing the operations
: on the file instead.  Stacker goes through a messy business of installing
: a new device driver to read its compressed file as a drive and then swaps
: the new drive with the C drive which uses up another drive letter. You can 
: still access the uncompressed drive by going to the D drive.  SuperStor is
: also alot more transparent in it's operation than Stacker.  Version 2
: of SuperStor is suppose to be very good but I haven't seen it yet.
: 
: -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
: Dean Cording			The above opinions belong to me, myself and I
: =============================================================================
: 
: 
: 
: 
: 
:
From: finocchiaroj@merrimack.edu
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
Subject: Hayes: Smartcom for windows
Date: 31 Dec 92 14:59:16 GMT
Organization: Merrimack College, No. Andover, MA, USA

Does anyone know if Smartcom for windows is out yet and if so is it better than
Procomm plus for windows.
From: jer@pender.ee.upenn.edu (Joel Ratsaby)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
Subject: Microsoft Windows Tech support tel #
Date: 24 Dec 92 19:54:40 GMT
Reply-To: jer@pender.ee.upenn.edu (Joel Ratsaby)
Organization: University of Pennsylvania


does anyone have the microsoft windows tech support number ?
Do they have an email address ?
thanks

--Joel

email: jer@ee.upenn.edu, jer@eniac.seas.upenn.edu
Phone: (215) 898-1858
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
From: mccall@mksol.dseg.ti.com (fred j mccall 575-3539)
Subject: Re: How to install stacker
Organization: Texas Instruments Inc
Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1992 19:07:06 GMT

In <5678.1100.uupcb@satalink.com> john.will@satalink.com (John Will) writes:

>FF>The original poster was suggesting that you should not stack your C:
>FF>drive into a D: drive and then SSWAP the C: and D: drives.  This
>FF>confuses many install programs and many users as well.  If your original
>FF>uncompressed drive was C: and after installing Stacker your uncompressed
>FF>drive is still C:, then you have done yourself a favor.

>Gee, I've seen several systems configured that way, and I have one here.
>No problems, and I've yet to see a Windows or DOS install have a problem
>with the stacked drive.  While it's certainly true that it "could" cause
>a problem, it isn't an epidemic.  Coupled with the fact that if you have
>a lot of stuff installed, especially with Windows, it's a pain in the butt
>to change the drive, I don't see a significant problem with swapping 
>drives with Stacker.  The favor I did myself was not to have to 
>reconfigure each Windows application manually!

Well, you've been given good advice.  Feel free to do any silly thing
you please.  However, I hope you aren't going to come back to the net
and ask for help on the day when you do something wrong and can't boot
your machine anymore.  

Good luck.

-- 
"Insisting on perfect safety is for people who don't have the balls to live
 in the real world."   -- Mary Shafer, NASA Ames Dryden
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Fred.McCall@dseg.ti.com - I don't speak for others and they don't speak for me.
From: greg@turbo.atl.ga.us (Greg Montgomery)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
Subject: Problem with Pro Audio Spectrum / Win 3.1
Date: Sun, 20 Dec 92 17:16:12 EDT
Reply-To: greg@turbo.atl.ga.us
Distribution: world
Organization: Montgomery Consultants, Inc.

I just bought a NEC Intersect CD-ROM drive that was packaged with a Pro
Audio Spectrum card. The whole package is called the NEC Multimedia
Gallery.  The problem I'm having is getting the sound card to work under
Windows.  Previously I had a SoundBlaster Pro, but I took this out.  It
seems that NEC forgot to include the ProAudio diskette, so I don't have
any Windows drivers.  I saw there were some on ftp.uwp.edu, but I
haven't gotten them to work yet.  Does anyone know exactly what drivers
need to be installed for Windows to work with the sound card?
In my config.sys, I have the following lines, which were installed by
the nec installation program:

DEVICE=C:\NEC\NECCDR.SYS /D:NECCD
DEVICE=C:\NEC\MVSOUND.SYS D:3 Q:7
DEVICE=C:\NEC\SNDBK12.SYS 1 7 220 2

I assume the last two have something to do with the sound card. The
sound card works under DOS; I have gotten several games to work with
perfectly. But I can't figure out what I need for Windows.  If anybody
has a similar setup, please let me know.

Thanks!!

Greg


---
Greg Montgomery -                       |  Atlanta, Georgia, U.S.A.
greg@turbo.atl.ga.us                    |
{gatech|rutgers}!emory!turbo!greg       |